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Former Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs launches wireless connectivity startup
Jacobs may have his hands full with XCOM, but this does not mean his plans to take Qualcomm private are dead in the water.
By Charlie Osborne for Between the Lines | June 8, 2018 -- 10:22 GMT (03:22 PDT) | Topic: Tech Industry
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The former chief executive officer of Qualcomm Paul Jacobs has launched a new company dedicated to ironing out problems in next-generation wireless technologies.
The new startup is called XCOM. The company describes itself as an organization which is "inventing and investing in wireless technologies to propel the next mobile revolution."
Alongside Jacobs, co-founder Derek Aberle -- formerly president of Qualcomm -- is acting as president and COO of XCOM, and Matt Grob, Qualcomm's former chief technology officer, has been appointed as CTO at the new firm.
Aberle and Grob have previously spent 17 and over 25 years at Qualcomm, respectively.
In an interview, as reported by CNBC, Jacobs said the trio are currently toying with ideas such as providing software and designs for semiconductor vendors or potentially licensing proprietary 5G wireless technologies.
Job openings are expected to appear in the near future.
"There's still a fair amount of work that needs to be done to prove out the applicability of 5G through various Internet of Things (IoT) applications," Aberle added. "We feel we have some better ideas for how to do some of that stuff."
While no formal business model is yet in place for XCOM and there is likely a substantial amount of work required in pushing the startup off the ground, Jacobs has by no means abandoned his designs on Qualcomm -- the desire acquire the chip maker.
In March, reports first surfaced which suggested Jacobs wished to take Qualcomm private. The theoretical acquisition requires Jacobs to raise billions of dollars in funds to make a suitable offer, and this has reportedly resulted in meetings with global investors, such as SoftBank's Vision Fund.
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Jacobs owns less than one percent of Qualcomm, and an acquisition offer would have to trump Broadcom's rejected proposal of roughly $146 billion.
Broadcom's aggressive acquisition scheme was destroyed when US President Trump stepped in to prevent the deal on the grounds of national security.
Aberle says there has been some interest from investors in funding a potential buyout, and both he and Jacobs have been "engaged in discussions with a number of potential funding sources."
Qualcomm has previously said that should Jacobs make an acquisition proposal, "the board will, of course, evaluate it consistent with its fiduciary duties to shareholders."
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Should the potential takeover happen and Qualcomm goes private, Aberle believes XCOM's to-be technologies could be included in Qualcomm chip lines, or potentially, XCOM could become part of the greater whole.
However, such a proposal may also need to wait until Qualcomm's acquisition of NXP has been approved by Chinese regulators. The buyout timeline has been continually extended due to the delay, but now that the US has reached a deal with ZTE, it is possible that a decision will be made soon.
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Q: Get index of element in array jQuery I has an array of objects $('selector'), I want to get index() of each element and append  it to the html of each elemt. I can get index of first element just write $('selector').index(), but how I can get other, and append them to they DOM-objects. Help, I am new in Javascript and jQuery.

A: Try this...
$("selector").each(function(i) {
    $(this).html($(this).html() + " " + i);
});

i will be the index of each selected element and will be appended to the html.
Here's a jsfiddle example...
http://jsfiddle.net/54bcn68j/

A: You can pass a function to the .html() jQuery method. This function will conveniently be called with two parameters, the element index and the current HTML, so what you want is easy:
$elements.html(function(i, v){
   return v + i;
});

JSFiddle
Which will give you the index relative to the selection made. If you wanted the index relative to each elements siblings, you would need .index():
$('ul li').html(function(_, v){
   return v + $(this).index();
});

JSFiddle

A: Use JQuery.each:
$('selector').each(function(index) {
  console.log(index);
});

Example:
Html:

My Div

My Div

My Div

My Div

My Div

My Div

My Div

My Div

My Div

JS:
$('div').each(function(index){
    var newHtml = $(this).html() + " - Index:" + index;
    $(this).html(newHtml);
});

Output:
My Div - Index:0
My Div - Index:1
My Div - Index:2
My Div - Index:3
My Div - Index:4
My Div - Index:5
My Div - Index:6
My Div - Index:7
My Div - Index:8

JSFiddle.

A: Use .each() to select each element, get each index and append each index to all elements matching the selector.
$("selector").each(function(index) {

   var eachIndex = $(this).index();

   $(this).append(eachIndex);

});

A: Try:
$.each($('selector'), function() {
    $(this)append($(this).index());
});

A: You can also use eq:
$('selector').each(function(){
  $(this).html('index for this html is ' + $(this).eq());
});

A: You should iterate using .each
Sample Code:
$("selector").each(function(i, v) {
  $(this).append(i);
});

A: Just cycle through them and the iterator will tell you it's index.
var array = $('.someClass');
for(var i=0; i<array.length; i++){
    console.log('Element #' + i + ': ' + $(array[i]).text());
}

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Justia Patents Nicholas D. Cosford Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications
Patents by Inventor Nicholas D. Cosford
Nicholas D. Cosford has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
Thiazolyl mGluR5 antagonists and methods for their use
Abstract: The identification of a unique series of compounds which possesses special advantages in terms of drug-like properties due to their possessing advantageous properties in terms of potency and/or pharmacokinetic and/or selectivity and/or in vivo receptor occupancy properties. Specifically, the selection of a 1,3-thiazol-2-yl ring member linked by an ethynylene to the 3 position of a pyridyl ring or the 5 position of a pyrimidinyl ring, wherein the ring is substituted with selected substituents, results in a compound having superior drug-like properties. The invention includes pharmaceutically acceptable salt forms of these heterocyclic compounds, in particular chloride salts and trifluoroacetate salts.
Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
Inventors: Nicholas D. Cosford, Thomas J. Seiders, Joseph E. Payne, Jeffrey R. Roppe, Dehua Huang, Nicholas D. Smith, Steve F. Poon, Chris King, Brian W. Eastman, Bowei Wang, Jeannie M. Arruda, Jean-Michel Vernier, Xiumin Zhao
Inventors: Nicholas D. Cosford, Thomas J. Seiders, Joseph Payne, Jeffrey R. Roppe, Dehua Huang, Nicholas D. Smith, Steve F. Poon, Chris King, Brian W. Eastman, Bowei Wang, Jeannie M. Arruda, Jean-Michel Vernier, Xiumin Zhao
Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
Phenyl ethyne compounds
Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a novel class of heterocyclic compounds. Compounds of the invention contain a substituted or unsubstituted six membered heterocyclic ring that includes at least two nitrogen atoms. The ring additionally includes four carbon atoms. The heterocyclic ring has at least one substituent located at a ring position adjacent to a ring nitrogen atom. This mandatory substituent of the ring includes a moiety (B), linked to the heterocyclic ring via a carbon-carbon triple bond. The mandatory substituent is positioned adjacent to the ring nitrogen atom. Invention compounds are capable of a wide variety of uses. For example heterocyclic compounds can act to modulate physiological processes by functioning as agonists and antagonists of receptors in the nervous system. Invention compounds may also act as insecticides, and as fungicides. Pharmaceutical compositions containing invention compounds also have wide utility.
Inventors: Nicholas D. Cosford, Thomas J. Seiders
Pyridazine, pyrimidine and pyrazine ethyne compounds
Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
Inventors: Nicholas D. Cosford, Jeffrey R. Roppe, Lida R. Tehrani, Nicholas D. Smith, Brian Stearns, Dehua Huang, Bowei Wang, Thomas J. Seiders
Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a novel class of heterocyclic compounds. Compounds of the invention contain a substituted, unsaturated five, six or seven membered heterocyclic ring that includes at least one nitrogen atom and at least one carbon atom. The ring additionally includes three, four or five atoms independently selected from carbon, nitrogen, sulfur and oxygen atoms. The heterocyclic ring has at least one substituent located at a ring position adjacent to a ring nitrogen atom. This mandatory substituent of the ring includes a moiety (B), linked to the heterocyclic ring via a carbon-carbon double bond, a carbon-carbon triple bond or an azo group. The mandatory substituent is positioned adjacent to the ring nitrogen atom. Invention compounds are capable of a wide variety of uses. For example heterocyclic compounds can act to modulate physiological processes by functioning as agonists and antagonists of receptors in the nervous system.
Inventors: Nicholas D. Cosford, Jeffrey R. Roppe, Lida R. Tehrani, Nicholas D. Smith, Brian Stearns, Dehua Huang, Bowei Wang
Substituted pyridines useful as modulators of acetylcholine receptors
Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a class of pyridine compounds which are modulators of acetylcholine receptors. The compounds of the invention displace acetylcholine receptor ligands from their binding sites.
Inventors: Nicholas D. Cosford, Jean-Michel Vernier
Substituted pyridines useful as modulators of acethylcholine receptors
Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, there provided a class of pyridine compounds which are modulators of acetylcholine receptors. The compounds of the invention displace acetylcholine receptor ligands from their binding sites.
Assignee: SIBIA Neurosciences, Inc.
Modulators of acetylcholine receptors
Abstract: The present invention provides a class of pyridine compounds which are modulators of acetylcholine receptors, i.e., compounds which displace acetylcholine receptor ligands from their binding sites.
Date of Patent: March 3, 1998
Inventors: Ian A. McDonald, Jeffrey P. Whitten, Nicholas D. Cosford
Inventors: Ian A. Mc Donald, Jeffrey P. Whitten, Nicholas D. Cosford
Methods for the preparation of modulators of acetylcholine receptors

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On Friday the 31st of October we had our two Halloween Parties.The children got to experience our haunted house with gunge pits, dooking for apples, magic man and got to meet the animal man who had brought snakes, a spider, cockroaches and Iggy the Iguana!!!
Both parties were a great success, and fun was had by all the children, parents and even the staff.
We also announced the winners to our raffle, First prize went to Claire Munro who won a £100 shopping voucher for Braehead and a box of chocolates. Second prize went to Nicola Nisbet who won a £50 shopping voucher and a box of chocolates and third prize went to L Rae who won a £25 shopping voucher and a box of chocolates.


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Apara Mehta
Full Name Apara Mehta
Name Apara Mehta
Other names Savita, Apara
Role Television actress
Occupation Actress
Children Khushali Mehta
Born August 13, 1960 (age 55) (1960-08-13) India
Residence Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Spouse Darshan Jariwala (m. 1980)
Parents Mandakini Mehta, Ushakant Mehta
Nominations Indian Telly Award for Best Actress in a Comic Role
Movies and TV shows Jamai Raja, Sajan Re Jhoot Mat Bolo, Kya Huaa Tera Vaada, Chori Chori Chupke Chupke, Just Married
Similar People Achint Kaur, Darshan Jariwala, Amar Upadhyay, Ravi Dubey, Sudha Shivpuri
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Apara Mehta (born 13 August 1960) is an Indian television and Bollywood actress known for her supporting roles like Savita Mansukh Virani in iconic show Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi.
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Theatrical career
Television career
Apara Mehta was born on 13 August 1960 to Ushakant Mehta and Mandakini Mehta in Bhavnagar (Saurashtra), Gujarat. She is the only child of her parents.
Apara learnt Classical Music from Ghulam Mustafa Khan and also learnt Kathak at a young age.
In 1980 she married Indian television and film personality Darshan Jariwala with whom she has one daughter. The two have separated now. Excerpts about their personal life were shown in the reality show "Maa Exchange", which aired on Sony Entertainment Television.
Mehta has work on stage since 1981. She has acted in over 150 plays in various roles. She has found a constant career in plays.
Apara started her television career anchoring a children's programme called Santakukdi for Mumbai Doordarshan at the age of 15.
Her first major break was in Ek Mahal Ho Sapno Ka in which she played Paro.
This was followed by Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi in which she played Savita Mansukh Virani (mother-in-law of Tulsi).
She then appeared in a negative role as Kukki Kaaki in Saat Phere and other soaps like Parrivaar, Dhak Dhak In Dubai, Dillagi, Alpviram, Hum Hain Anari, Love Marriage and Chandan Ka Palna....
She also did comedy roles in Sajan Re Jhoot Mat Bolo as Damini Devi Diwan, Golmaal Hai Bhai Sab Golmaal Hai as Pari on SAB TV and as Leela in Hamari Saas Leela on Colors TV.
She also played supporting roles in some Bollywood films.
Currently she seen in the show Kya Huaa Tera Vaada on Sony TV in which she played role of Suhasi Alok Singh (mother-in-law of Mona).
She played a role in Firangi Bahu on Colors TV.
Currently she can be seen in Jamai Raja as Nani.
She used to appear in Tu Mere Agal Bagal Hai as Basundi on SAB TV.
Ek Mahal Ho Sapno Ka (1999)
Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi (2000-2008) As Savita Mansukh Virani
Khichdi (2004) Guest Appearance
Saat Phere as Kukki Kaki (2006)
Karam Apnaa Apnaa (2006)
Parrivaar (2007)
Dhak Dhak In Dubai (2007)
Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat (2009)
Sajan Re Jhoot Mat Bolo as Damini Devi Diwan(2009-2012)
Hamari Saas Leela as Leela(2011)
Kya Huaa Tera Vaada as Suhasi Alok Singh (2012-2013)
Golmaal Hai Bhai Sab Golmaal Hai as Pari (2012)
Firangi Bahu (Sahara One)(2013-2014)
Jamai Raja as Nani(2014-2016 )
Tu Mere Agal Bagal Hai as Basundi(2014)
"Woh Teri Bhabhi Hai Pagle"as Mrs.Dilwale on Sab TV(2016)
Naya Mahisagar as Dadi Saas
Brahmarakshas (TV series) as Jasmit/Jassi/Dadi Bua ( 2016)
Bakula Bua Ka Bhoot on &tv as Rekha (2017)
Yeh Teraa Ghar Yeh Meraa Ghar (2001) - Dayashankar's elder sister
Chori Chori Chupke Chupke (2001) - Prostitute
Devdas (2002 Hindi film) (2002) - Badi Aapa
Just Married (2007 film) (2007)
Tees Maar Khan (2010) - Tabrez Mirza Khan's (Tees Maar Khan) mother
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Supreme Court Passes on Striking Down Assault Weapons Ban in Mass
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Today the Supreme Court declined on the reviewing the Massachusetts ban on some semi-automatic firearms and large-capacity ammunition magazines in their next term.
The Supreme Court also declined on hearing a number of other challenges to other state bans and gun regulations. This is considered to be a big win for gun control advocates as it effectively kills nearly a dozen challenges to state gun control measures. The NRA and others have been pressuring lawmakers to expand gun rights by challenging the restrictions placed on firearms passed at the local and state level.
The Massachusetts ban on some semi-automatic firearms was enacted in 1998 as was a model for the federal assault weapons ban that expired in 2004. Many believe that because of the heat placed on Republicans in Congress by the National Rifle Association, the federal law was allowed to expire in 2004.
For 22-years these guns have been banned in Massachusetts, primarily because they fall within the category of a semi-automatic firearm or have key components that are interchangeable with assault weapons.
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Since the law went into effect over two decades ago copy-cat type assault weapons have been an issue. This is the what appears on the mass.gov website pertaining to "what type of weapons are prohibited as copies or duplicates of the assault weapons ban in Mass…
Under Massachusetts law, Assault Weapons are defined in several ways. Among other things, the law sets out a list of weapons, by make and model, that are prohibited. The law further states that "copies or duplicates" of the listed weapons are also banned. Separately, there is a list of features that make certain guns Assault Weapons.
The Attorney General's Enforcement Notice describes two tests the AGO uses to identify guns that are "copies or duplicates" because those guns are sufficiently similar to be considered "copycats" of the listed guns.
As explained in the Notice, "copies" or "duplicates" of banned Assault Weapons include semiautomatic weapons that can accept a detachable ammunition magazine and that meet one of the following tests:
The weapon's internal functional components are substantially similar to the construction or configuration of a weapon that is expressly banned under the law (such as a Colt AR-15 or a Kalashnikov AK-47);
The weapon has a receiver that includes or accepts key operating components that are interchangeable with those of a banned weapon. The relevant operating components may include, but are not limited to:
1) the trigger assembly;
2) the bolt carrier or bolt carrier group;
3) the charging handle;
4) the extractor or extractor assembly; or
5) the magazine port.
You can get more information on Mass gun laws by clicking this link at mass.gov.
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Menstrual attacks of migraine are mostly without aura. These criteria for A1.2.0.1 Pure menstrual migraine with aura and A1.2.0.2 Menstrually-related migraine with aura are included to allow these uncommon subforms to be better characterized. Criteria for A1.2.0.3 Non-menstrual migraine with aura are included for completeness.
The mechanism(s) of migraine may be different with endometrial bleeding resulting from the normal menstrual cycle and bleeding due to the withdrawal of exogenous progestogens (as occurs with combined oral contraception and cyclical hormone replacement therapy). For example, the endogenous menstrual cycle results from complex hormonal changes in the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis resulting in ovulation, which is suppressed by use of combined oral contraceptives. Therefore research should separate these distinct subpopulations even though the diagnostic criteria do not.


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The script was written before the game began. Leeds, rebounding from an embarrassing Good Friday home defeat by Wigan, would gain three points to maintain their contention for second place in the Championship, just as long as Sheffield United stumbled against Hull in an earlier kick-off. Trouble was that by the time Leeds took to the pitch at Griffin Park, the Blades had demonstrated that they hadn't read the script. And neither, it transpired, had Brentford.
Stewart Purvis sees ten Brentford men earn a point at an angry Den.
A goal down after 15 minutes, a man down after 35, Brentford's equaliser was one of their goals of the season and they hung on to earn a point and could, maybe even should, have won the game.
Stewart Purvis joined the Bees caravan down the M4 that came away with nothing.
Remember when Brentford used to go to Reading with a better than even chance of winning? When Woods and Canos scored two great goals at Christmas 2015. When Vibe got the winner in front of the Brentford end last season. For 2,000 Bees fans (1,954 to be precise) those memories were alive enough for them to travel to a game which had no real significance in Brentford's foreclosing season other than the search for an elusive third away win. The only memory they took away this time was another disappointing away game, not quite as bad as Swansea but not much better.
It was hardly a night to remember. Indeed, following the thrills of the high-scoring draw against Derby, the despairing visit to Griffin Park of the Tractor Boys might well have been forgotten before one reached the end of Braemar Road but for the spirited presence of 1,600 fans from East Anglia.
This is a tale of guts and nerve; a story of how the Bees, their season written off by many following a 3-0 drubbing at Swansea, resurrected it by three times responding to goals by play-offs contenders Derby and very nearly sent the Rams home like a flock of sorrowful sheep.
Stewart Purvis was one of the Bees fans who returned to Swansea hoping for revenge but only got a reprise.
Away at Swansea Brentford went down to their biggest defeat of the season since they were last away at Swansea. They conceded a goal in the first minute for the first time since they did the same at home against Swansea. Talk about 'deja vu all over again'.
Stewart Purvis reports on how Brentford came away with a point and were still disappointed.
A smell of manure wafted across the DW Stadium and got increasingly worse as the game went on. Nobody was sure if a spectator had walked through an extremely large cowpat on his way to the game or whether there was a more distant agricultural explanation caught on a high wind towards the ground. Either way the smell will probably last longer in the memory of the 542 Bees fans than the game itself.
Stewart Purvis was back in Sheffield for another Tuesday evening that fell flat.
On a windy wasteful night in South Yorkshire Brentford missed an opportunity to win away for the second time in four days and close the gap on the Championship play-off zone. After a frustrating game against one of the front runners for promotion, the only good news was that the gap remained at six points for at least 24 hours.
Stewart Purvis was one of the lucky Bees fans to witness a historic win.
This was something very special. Brentford earned their second away victory of this season and their first at Middlesbrough since 1938 by keeping their heads after an early setback and playing better football than a 'big club'. They even survived more than seven minutes of added time with a fourth choice goal keeper. Now in the top half of the table, six points off the top six, it seems a play-off place is not as impossible as we thought.


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Great exaptations: Most traits emerge for no crucial reason
Exactly how new traits emerge is a question that has long puzzled evolutionary biologists. While some adaptations develop to address a specific need, others (called "exaptations") develop as a by-product of another feature with minor or no function, and may acquire more or greater uses later. Feathers, for example, did not originate for flight but may have helped insulate or waterproof dinosaurs before helping birds fly.
How common such pre-adaptive traits are in relation to adaptive traits is unclear. SFI External Professor Andreas Wagner and colleague Aditya Barve, both evolutionary biologists at the University of Zurich, decided to get a systematic handle on how traits originate by studying all the chemical reactions taking place in an organism's metabolism.
Starting with the metabolism of an E. coli that can survive on glucose as its sole carbon source, they subjected the complex metabolic chemical process to a "random walk" through the set of all possible metabolisms, adding one reaction and deleting another from it with each step. They kept constant the total number of reactions and the bacterium's ability to survive on glucose alone, but allowed everything else to change. Every few thousand steps they analyzed the altered metabolism's reactions.
They found that most metabolisms were viable on about five other carbon sources – sugars, building blocks of DNA or RNA, or proteins – that are naturally common but chemically distinct compounds. To be certain that viability on these other carbon sources wasn't a natural consequence of viability on glucose, they tested metabolisms starting with viability on 49 other carbon sources, and each time found that exaptations emerged allowing the metabolism to survive on any one of several other carbon sources alone.
"We observed an incredible abundance of viability on carbon sources that these metabolisms were never even required to use," Wagner says.
By varying the number of reactions in a metabolic system, the team also found a relationship between the system's complexity (determined by number of reactions) and the extent of the exaptations, with larger networks having more of them.
The findings underscore the idea that traits we see now – even complex ones, like color vision – may have had neutral origins that sat latent for generations before spreading through populations, Wagner says.
"Our work shows that exaptations exceed adaptations several-fold," he says.
If exaptations are pervasive in evolution, he adds, it becomes difficult to distinguish adaptation from exaptation, and it could change the way evolutionary biologists think about selective advantage as the primary driver of natural selection.
Their work was published July 14 in the online edition of Nature.
http://phys.org/news/2013-07-simulated-metabolic-networks-exaptations-outnumber.html
Provided by Santa Fe Institute


Use your mouse to herd the sheep around the field, guiding them into their pens. Sounds easy... but can you do it when the field is full of mines?
Excellent idea for a game. I'd love to see some more variations... but the game has great gameplay!
Where is the blow-up-the-sheep mode?
I had more fun destroying the sheep in the mine game than doing what i was meant to be doing!
Good game though, just needs a bit more work.
All I ended up doing was positioning all the sheep around one mine and blowing them up. More of that please.
Hi there, the game was realy funny but i think its a bit to easy.
Ok ok the "Two-Colour-Sheeps" were totaly annoying, and the Mine Sheeps needed 3 tryes too, but you are able to beat the game within 5-6minutes.
The second part of this popular physics game!
A demo of a game that I eventually abandoned due to time issues. Graphics by Raz.


Clap Pushups – 10; From the toes or knees, you're going to do a push-up and clap your hands while airborne. Remember to get them back down quickly… gravity always wins this battle.
Pullups – 6; find a chin up bar and we're looking for 6 pullups, remember a pullup has your hands wider and palms facing away. If you're not just ready yet for pullups try a lat pulldown instead.
Up/Down planks – 15; from a plank position (forearms and toes) keep your core tight and come up onto both hands, by picking them up and placing them on the mat, and back down to start, think of it like a nasty little plank push-up!
Run 30 seconds; Feel the wind blowing through your hair for 30 seconds!
Burpies (with clap push-up) – 10; Remember that clap push-up 6 exercises ago? Well we're going to do that again but add a burpie at the end. So after your push-up, forcefully pull your legs up towards your chest, plant your feet and jump as high as you can. Rinse and repeat!
Sprint 15/15/15; this should put you on the ground, sprint hard (and I mean hard) for 15 seconds, jog for 15 seconds and sprint again for 15 seconds. If you do this correctly you should be out of breath and needing somebody to hold your hair back. If you haven't done hard sprints before, PLEASE don't over do it. This is a risky exercise and should be done only when you have worked your way up to it.


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News and Items of interest
New Employment Compliance Bill is launched (18 March 2008)
Mr Micheal Martin, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment and Mr Billy Kelleher TD Minister for Labour Affairs have published the Employment Rights Compliance Bill, 2008, intended to completely overhaul the State's employment rights framework.
Overall its purpose is to: "modernise the labour inspectorate, strengthen enforcement of employment rights and work permits, promote greater compliance in the workplace and increase the penalties for those employers who seek to gain advantage by denying employees their entitlements under law".
This will be achieved by:
Establishment of the National Employment Rights Authority ("NERA") on a statutory basis
Strengthening powers in the area of labour inspection including greater access to premises, personnel and data and empowering NERA to prosecute summary offence
Empowering labour inspectors in NERA to examine employment permits and to prosecute offences and to conduct investigations jointly with other agencies including Revenue Commissioners, Social Welfare inspectors and An Garda Síochána
Provision for greater penalties for offences arising under employment law – in most cases up to €5,000 and/or 12 months' imprisonment for summary offences and €250,000 and/or 3 years' imprisonment for indictable offences
Protection of whistleblowers in the event of breaches of employment law being reported in good faith
Specification of a comprehensive list of documents which must be kept by the employer in respect of the most recent three year employment period and must be retained by employers for a further two years after the employment relationship ends
Click here for more details on the Employment Compliance Bill 2008


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The Skin Palace
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A crime boss's son and an amateur photographer embark on a strange journey
Nothing matters to Jakob besides film noir. Ever since he was six years old, when his nanny first took him to the cinema, he has known that filmmaking is his future. His first script, Little Girl Lost, is finished, and as he prepares for production, he feels destiny within his grasp. Nothing stands in his way but his father, a boss in the Quinsigamond underworld who wants his son to be a killer, not an auteur. Aspiring photographer Sylvia Krafft is trapped as well, bound by her husband's rigid ambition and lack of artistic temperament. Undeveloped negatives inside a used camera lead Sylvia on a quest for the man who took the pictures, and she soon finds herself at Herzog's Erotic Palace, a porno house where Jakob works. As the duo attempt to realize their ambitions, they journey into a twisted world where art and death are endlessly intertwined.
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Jack O'Connell (b. 1959) is the author of five critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling crime novels. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, O'Connell's earliest reading was the dime novel paperbacks and pulp fiction sold in his corner drug store, whose hard-boiled attitude he carried over to his own writing. He has cited his hometown's bleak, crumbling infrastructure as an influence on Quinsigamond, the fictional city where his first four novels were set, and whose decaying industrial landscape served as a backdrop for strange thrillers which earned O'Connell the nickname of a "cyberpunk Dashiell Hammett." O'Connell's most recent novel was The Resurrectionist (2008). A former student at Worcester's College of the Holy Cross, he now teaches there, not far from where he and his family live just outside of his hometown.
Jack O'Connell (b. 1959) is the author of five critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling crime novels. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, O'Connell's earliest reading was the dime novel paperbacks and pulp fiction sold in his corner drug store, whose hard-boiled attitude he carried over to his own writing. He has cited his hometown's bleak, crumbling infrastructure as an influence on Quinsigamond, the fictional city where his first four novels were set, and whose decaying industrial landscape served as a backdrop for strange thrillers which earned O'Connell the nickname of a "cyberpunk Dashiell Hammett."
O'Connell's most recent novel was The Resurrectionist (2008). A former student at Worcester's College of the Holy Cross, he now teaches there, not far from where he and his family live just outside of his hometown.
By Jack O'Connell
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Copyright © 1995 Jack O'Connell
A woman's face appears on the screen. The face is as large as a house, as big as any three-decker in the city. Because of this enlargement, each wrinkle and fold in the skin becomes a dry riverbed, a crevice of incalculable depth. The woman's eyes are red and sunken, as if she's spent a lifetime weeping. After a time, her mouth opens and she looks out over the gravel parking lot and says, in the most wounded voice imaginable,
On October first, my daughter, Jennifer Ellis, disappeared while walking home from the Ste. Jeanne d'Arc elementary school on Duffault Avenue. Jennifer is ten years old. She is four and a half feet tall. She was dressed in her school uniform, a green plaid jumper and a white blouse. I implore you, if you have any information at all about what happened to my baby, please call the number on this screen. Please help me find my daughter. I beg you.
"God," Perry says, "I wish they'd stop showing that clip. It's on TV every night. I hear her voice on the radio driving to work every morning."
Sylvia takes a sip of wine and says, "Do you think they'll find her?"
"They've got to find her," Perry says. He takes a breath, uncomfortable with the conversation, looks across the parking lot and asks, "You think the line'll be bad at the snack bar?"
"No drive-in food," Sylvia says. "We'll both regret it in the morning."
Perry smiles, nods his agreement, lets his head fall back against the seat.
Sylvia would love to shoot his face this way. To frame it in exactly this light, exactly this expression. But she's learned. It makes Perry tense when she takes the camera out at moments like this. He smiles, but you'd have to hear the tone of his voice when he says, "Is it necessary to record everything?"
The answer is no, of course not. Most of life is more or less insignificant. But Sylvia's argument, her defense, would be that what she does with the camera has nothing to do with recording. Her intention isn't to nail down the image for some kind of documentation. She's not all that interested in that kind of history. She doesn't see things that way. And she'd have thought Perry would know that by now.
Anyway, Sylvia doesn't want an argument tonight. So she leaves the camera in the trunk of the car. But it's loaded with a fresh roll of Fuji. Just in case.
Perry had called her from the office around three. She was in the cellar, developing yesterday's shots from the Canal Zone. She was working on a print of Mojo Bettman, the guy without the legs who sits on his skateboard selling newspapers and magazines all day. Perry must have let the phone ring twenty times. Sylvia ran up the three flights of stairs and grabbed the receiver, pulling a little for air. Perry said, "The Cansino. Eight o'clock. Big News."
And then he hung up. He hates the phone. And he knew if he stayed on Sylvia would press for details.
She's not sure why he feels the need to be so dramatic. They've both been waiting for the big news for months. Perry's been aching for it. And Sylvia has been fearful of it. She doesn't like acknowledging that. It makes her feel vindictive and kind of spoiled, maybe mean-spirited. This news is what Perry wants. This is why he puts in all the hours. After she hung the receiver back into the cradle on the wall, Sylvia stood there for a second and tried to picture Perry as he heard the words. She's sure it was Ratzinger that took him to lunch. Probably at the top of the bank building, that restaurant that used to revolve. The firm has an open account there. Perry says Ratzinger eats there every day of the week.
She pictured them both holding club sandwiches in their hands, little leaves of purplish lettuce hanging over the corners of the toasted bread. Ratzinger dabbing mayonnaise off his lips with the rose-colored napkin. She pictured Perry nodding, that sort of slight, humble tilt of the head, as Ratzinger listed all the things they liked— the studiousness, the ease with the clients, the ability to work on the team.
She could see Perry clenching down on his back teeth, curling up his toes inside his wing tips, waiting for the moment when Ratzinger actually said the word, let it fall from his lips as the waiter cleared the coffee cups: Partnership.
They're in the backseat of the Buick and they've got the top rolled down. It's the same car Perry was driving on the day they met—a maroon '65 Skylark that guzzles gas. Last year they dropped a wad getting the floorboards replaced. Now, with Perry's big news, Sylvia is sure it's only a matter of time before he starts pushing for a Saab or a Volvo. For all she knows, Ratzinger may have already made the suggestion.
"This is the part I love," Perry says. So far there are about a dozen parts he loves.
"We're going down in the elevator," he says, "and Ratzinger waits for this guy to get out at the garage level, okay? And then he turns to me and he does this clap on the back, and the whole time there's no eye contact, you know. He's got his eyes on the floor numbers. And we get to the street level and before the doors open he says, 'and by the way, there'll be a little something extra come Fridays from now on.'"
He bites in on his bottom lip and slaps the driver's seat.
"A raise," Sylvia says.
He's nodding at the words. "This is the way these guys work, you know. He never mentions a figure, okay? Just a little something extra, you know. Make me guess. Make me wait for Friday so I can see the numbers."
"You deserve every dime," she says.
The Cansino Drive-in is one of the last of its kind in the country. In high school, Sylvia came here a handful of times with a packed carload of forgotten friends. It's gotten a lot seedier since then. The Buick is parked in the very last row of the lot where asphalt gives way to a scrubby dirt patch that dissolves into full-blown forest. The parking lot is half-filled with teenagers. Lots of pickup trucks with fat tires and skinny girls with blonde hair down to their behinds. The kids all sit in the truck beds around coolers of beer. They smoke cigarettes and make constant trips to the snack bar.
The movie's sound track is beamed at them over the radio. Those beautiful, ribbed-silver window speakers are long gone, but the white mounting posts they hung from still stand, circles of weed springing up through the posts' tear-shaped concrete foundations.
They're half-watching something called The Initiation of Alice. It's a pretty standard soft-core exploitation job by Meyer Dodgson. Lots of female nudity and beach locations, but nothing too explicit. Upon the screen, a topless coed is admiring her own reflection in an ornate, full-length mirror.
"I spoke with Candice, who got the same pitch," Perry says, "only from Ford. I knew Candice would be the other one they tapped."
"I remember. You said Candice."
"We both figure they'll run us around the track for a year, maybe a little less. Then they'll give us the title."
"Partner."
"Big day, Sylvia. I want to remember this day."
"You'll need some new suits."
He sits back, lets his shoulders slump a little.
"I want to buy you something, Sylvia."
"Okay, next movie's on you."
His voice goes lower and he reaches over and takes her hand.
"I'm serious. Something nice."
"A movie would be nice. I don't need—"
He waves away the thought. "I know you don't need," he stretches out the word. "This isn't about need. Isn't there something you want?"
She shakes her head, passes him the wine bottle and picks a licorice twist out of its bag.
"C'mon, I want to mark this occasion. If you don't help me out I'll pick out something on my own."
"Perry—"
"Some awful piece of jewelry you'll keep in the box in the dresser ..."
She nods and squints at him and bites the end off the twist. He's referring to this enormous silver bracelet he gave her last Christmas, which makes her arm look like it just came out of a cast. But she knows the thing cost a fortune and feels guilty every time she opens her drawer to take out a sweater.
She says, "I thought we were going to start saving."
"We are, believe me. Second check starts the down-payment fund."
Perry's all hot for buying a house this year, but Sylvia loves where they live now.
"C'mon, give me some idea. I'll go out blind and buy earrings. It'll be scary. Don't make me do it."
He can still make her laugh. And he usually gets his way when he's being funny.
"Okay, there is something ..."
He's thrilled. He does a drumroll on his knees with his fingers and says, "Bingo."
"I was down in the Zone last week ..."
Already, she's said the wrong thing. Perry hates the Canal Zone.
"Yes," he says, dragging out the s, trying to prepare himself for anything.
"There was this ad. On a bulletin board in the Rib Room—"
"God," he says, forcing a smile, trying to make his distaste into a weary joke. "I hate it that you eat down there. I just don't think it's healthy."
She cocks her head to the side, purses the lips a little.
"Sorry," he says, annoyed with himself for jarring the mood. "Go ahead. An ad."
"It was a good price. I checked the catalogs. And they said it was in mint condition."
"A good price on ..."
She takes a breath and lets it out, "An Aquinas."
"An Aquinas," he repeats.
She nods, not sure whether to get defensive or laugh at herself, like it's the same old Sylvia and some things never change.
He says, "Another camera?"
"It's an Aquinas, Perry—"
"What does that make? Four, right? Four cameras?"
"Four?"
"Yeah, four. The Canon, the Yashica, and the Polaroid."
She stares at him, her mouth crooked like he's been sarcastic, but still inside the margin of funny. A beat goes by and his expression remains unchanged and she realizes he's being serious.
"The Polaroid? C'mon, Perry, that's like a twenty-dollar camera. I just use it for proofs. I just use it for taking note of something I'll want to do later."
"A Polaroid isn't a camera? A Polaroid suddenly doesn't count as a camera?"
"Okay, forget it," she says, looking up at the screen as the young woman in front of the mirror starts to rub sunscreen into her shoulder. "It was your idea. You brought up buying something."
He reaches across for her hand again.
"I meant, like, diamond stud earrings or something, I meant—"
She squeezes the hand and lets it go.
"Diamond stud earrings, Perry? When would I wear diamond studs? They'd clash with the decor down at Snapshot Shack."
Perry has begun to hate Sylvia's job. She works in one of those tiny film booths you see at the edge of every mall parking lot in America. To a degree, she understands his feelings. Those little huts are about five feet square. Barely enough room inside for you to turn around. She thinks just the sight of them gives a lot of people a kind of unconscious jolt of claustrophobia. And the particular booth Sylvia works in is even worse. It was built as an enormous scale replica of an old Brownie camera. But she likes the job. Right now, it's exactly what she wants to do. Maybe it's this visible lack of ambition, this absence of a career that bothers Perry. Maybe he can't envision turning to Ratzinger over lunch and saying, "Sylvia? She sells film from inside of a big camera ..."
"There'll be all kinds of places to wear them," he says. "Believe me."
"Look, I said forget it."
His eyes narrow a little. He shifts over to sit next to her. He doesn't want the night to go bad.
"Okay," he says, smiling, being indulgent. "Tell me about the ..."
"Aquinas," she says.
"Doesn't sound Japanese," he says, putting on a shocked expression.
"It's made in Italy," she says.
"Good camera?"
"It's about the best you can get."
He says, "Why go for a used one? Isn't it like a used car? Like you're buying someone else's problem?"
She smiles at him. He's trying. He has to force the interest in cameras. She knows that he'd rather be talking about house hunting. Or maybe even wedding plans.
"You want to guess what a new Aquinas would cost?"
"Not a clue."
She takes a deep breath. "Try over ten grand."
This genuinely shocks him.
"You're kidding."
She shakes her head no.
He leans forward and says, "The house I grew up in? Okay? My parents bought it for around ten grand."
"Yeah," she says, "but the Aquinas doesn't get water in the basement."
"How much are they asking for this used one?"
She smiles and shakes her head no again, but says, "The ad said fifteen hundred."
He stares at her and starts a slow nod and at the same time tries to hold off from smiling. He can't manage it and the smile breaks and he turns his attention up to the screen as Alice starts a long jog down a supposedly deserted beach.
Then he looks back and says, "All right, let's get it."
She starts to fight him. "Perry ...," she says with this small pseudo-whine to her voice that she can't stand.
He holds up a hand and says, "Listen, Sylvia, I want to get you something. I honestly do. And this is what you want."
She shrugs. "I'd have to check it out. I mean, I'd have to check the age and the condition. See what's included. Lenses. A case."
"You check it out. If it looks good, if it's what you want, write the check."
She stares at the side of his face, more excited than embarrassed.
"Really? I should really get it?"
She thinks she sounds like a teenager. Like her mother said she could use the car on Saturday night. But Perry seems suddenly delighted with himself. He turns to her, leans in and puts his arm around her.
"If it looks good," he repeats, "buy it."
"You're sure?"
He brings his mouth down to the side of her neck, kisses there a few times. Then he moves up to her ear and whispers, "I still want to get you the diamond studs."
In five minutes Sylvia's jeans are off and Perry's pants are down around his ankles and she's straddling him, riding him, her knees indenting the Buick's backseat as Perry watches the exploits of the surf-bimbette flashed up on the Cansino's huge and dingy screen.
And as Perry's breath starts to catch and Sylvia feels the muscles in his thighs buck and tense and release and tense again and he starts to make that suppressed-whine sound through his nose, she's thinking of the Aquinas. She's thinking of the first time she'll hold it up to her eye and pull something into focus.
She's thinking of the rush that will come when she presses down on the shutter release and opens the lens and imprints some flawless instant, some slice of life. Some instinctively chosen and absolutely perfect image.
She's wondering what it will be.
Until recently the Hotel St. Vitus served as a convent for a sect of Eastern European nuns known as the Sisters of Perpetual Torment & Agony, a cloistered Order always rumored to be on the precipice of papal destruction due to heretical word and deed. The nuns' catechistic practice somehow managed to splice their traditional Catholicism with a vague line of occultist teachings. No one in Bangkok Park knows exactly what the Sisters dabbled in, but there was loose talk of midnight rites during the equinox, a kind of earth-mother, druidic gloss layered over their prayers and chanting.
For their part, the Sisters almost seemed to encourage the dark rumors, never venturing out of the convent but for the weekly shopping trip to the all-night Spanish market. Even then they'd remain encased in a cloud of silence, their bodies wrapped head to toe in black wool habits, their faces obscured by hanging black-lace veils. They seemed to purchase bulk quantities of blood sausage, sweet red wine, and candles.
In public, Bishop Flaherty tolerated the Order with pleas for an understanding of the deeply spiritual quest the women had devoted their lives to, but during private lunches with his banker pals in the chancery dining room, Flaherty called them spooky old hags, and voodoo fanatics. And alone in his room, after his nightly prayers, the bishop looked out his window toward Bangkok Park and genuinely wondered if the witches had it in for him.
Officially, the Quinsigamond Police Department does not know what happened to the Sisters. The nuns no longer occupy their old convent. A week after their disappearance, the chancery released a statement that the entire flock had returned to Eastern Europe where their services were desperately needed. The statement made no mention of the rumor that the walls of the abandoned convent's chapel had been found covered with a mixture of human and animal blood. One of the Canal Zone's more hysterical news-rags offered speculation that all the sisters had been massacred and the FBI was blanketing the entire event. Another weekly announced there was no mass murder, but rather the nuns had splintered from the Church and become some kind of pagan-feminist terrorists, vanished into an undisclosed mountain region of South America for training and recruitment. The Spy never bothered to cover the story beyond the box ad in the real estate classifieds announcing that the diocese of Quinsigamond was offering the convent for sale at a very reasonable price.
(Continues...)
Excerpted from The Skin Palace by Jack O'Connell. Copyright © 1995 Jack O'Connell. Excerpted by permission of A MysteriousPress.com.
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Application: All claims.
Policy subject: Health care services – general
To establish the guiding principles of the Continuum of Care Model.
Continuum of Care Model means a framework for the efficient and coordinated planning and provision of health care and return-to-work plans appropriate to each stage of a worker's injury and recovery.
Medical aid, also referred to as health care, means "the provision of medical and surgical aid, of hospital and professional nursing services, of chiropractic and other treatment and of prosthetics or apparatus" (Section 2(1)(v) of The Workers' Compensation Act, 2013 (the "Act")).
Under Section 19(1) of the Act, the Workers' Compensation Board (WCB) has a duty to:
Arrange provision of any health care or treatment that may be needed because of a work injury.
Arrange to provide rehabilitation to injured workers.
Consult and cooperate with injured workers in the development of rehabilitation plans intended to return them to positions of independence in suitable productive employment.
Workers have a legislated responsibility to take all reasonable action to lessen earnings loss resulting from an injury and to co-operate with the WCB in a rehabilitation plan to return the worker to a position of independence in suitable productive employment (Section 51).
The WCB may request a worker to undergo a medical examination by one or more healthcare providers (Section 58).
Section 53 of the Act states "an employer shall co-operate with the board and the worker to achieve the early and safe return of an injured worker to their employment."
Saskatchewan human rights legislation requires that all employers make every reasonable effort, short of undue hardship, to accommodate injured workers, and allow them to return to work as soon as medically safe. The Saskatchewan Employment Act also provides job protection to certain employees who are absent from work due to a work injury.
Health care providers examining or treating injured workers are expected to furnish any reports the WCB may require, including recovery and return to work progress reports (Sections 55 and 56).
The WCB has established the Health Care Advisory Committee (HCAC) to evaluate and make recommendations to the WCB regarding the provision of health care for injured workers. The HCAC includes:
A chairperson appointed by the WCB.
Up to two members representing employer organizations.
Up to two members representing labour organizations.
And one member from each of the following health care provider areas chosen from their respective health care provider organization:
Physician.
Chiropractor.
Occupational therapist.
Other licensed health care providers may be invited at the discretion of the WCB.
The Early Intervention Program (EIP) model was implemented by the WCB in 1996. The program intended to ensure an injured worker's optimal recovery and resumption of normal activities, including work, in the most appropriate, timely and safe manner. The program was renamed Continuum of Care to better reflect the progressive levels of assessment and treatment available to injured workers.
The WCB has adopted an integrated partnership model of recovery and return to work with open communication between all partners – the employer, health care providers, the injured worker, union representative (by the injured worker's request) and WCB – and an awareness of the role each plays in achieving the most appropriate, timely and safe return to work.
The WCB supports the functional rehabilitation model that recognizes the importance of returning the injured worker to functional activities relevant to their life, including return to work, during the recovery period. The functional rehabilitation model encourages health care providers and workers to recognize that successful long-term recovery is associated with return to function, even in the presence of increasing subjective symptoms where there are no objective signs of harm.
There are three levels of assessment and treatment in the Continuum of Care model – Level I (primary), Level II (secondary), and Level III (tertiary). The levels graduate towards increased program complexity, scope and resources, depending on the needs of the injured worker. The goal is to ensure that injured workers receive the right care at the right time.
Level I Assessment and Treatment (Primary)
Level I assessment and treatment begins with the initial diagnosis and medical management by the primary health care provider.
Injured workers choose their primary health care provider and may also choose to see other providers, with whom the WCB has a relationship agreement, consecutively or concurrently. A referral from a licensed health care provider is required if the other provider is not licensed (for example, an exercise therapist or massage therapist). POL 18/2016 and PRO 18/2016, Health Care Services, establish the guidelines for the provision of health care services to injured workers.
Where requested by the primary health care provider, the WCB will arrange diagnostic tests, specialist appointments or surgeries, as needed. Where a waiting list exists, the WCB may arrange expedited appointments to ensure timely access to treatment. In-province services will be used unless unavailable within a reasonable period of time.
Return to work should be integrated into the treatment plan as soon as possible, preferably with the injured worker's first visit to the primary health care provider. POL 08/96, Return-to-Work Plans, applies.
The primary health care provider will assess the worker's condition and will provide the worker with a list of functional restrictions resulting from the work injury. This list is to be shared with the employer and updated as the worker's condition changes.
A physician, chiropractor, physical therapist, occupational therapist, psychologist or nurse practitioner may arrange and monitor the injured worker's return to work, with the cooperation of the primary health care provider. Where this occurs, progress reports will be provided to the primary health care provider.
Where a work injury results in restrictions that impair a worker's ability to perform their pre-injury duties, whether or not the employer has a return to work (RTW) program, the WCB will assist the worker and employer with a RTW plan that will enable a return to suitable productive employment.
Level II (Secondary) and Level III (Tertiary) – Advanced Assessment
At any time during treatment, the primary health care provider or WCB may request advanced assessment when:
There is no active treatment plan.
The worker is not working and has no confirmed RTW date.
Significant risk factors for chronic disability have been identified (see Appendix A).
The expected recovery date has passed (see Appendix B), or
The worker continues to work in employment but has not returned to full duties and/or full hours of work after the work injury as expected.
Assessment teams accredited by the WCB bring together a number of health disciplines to perform advanced assessment of a worker's medical, physical, functional and psychosocial condition.
The WCB will select the appropriate assessment team based on the length of time the worker has been away from regular job duties or the presence of psychosocial and pain management issues. Additional specialists may be added to the assessment teams at the discretion of the WCB, or other assessments requested (e.g., psychological or psychiatric), as required.
The assessment team will confirm a diagnosis and recommend a plan of treatment to assist the health care provider(s). The required reports and recommendation and fees payable for assessment teams are set out in PRO 51/2017, Health Care Services – Assessment Teams, and the Secondary and Tertiary Assessment Manual (http://www.wcbsask.com/care-providers/).
Level II (Secondary) and Level III (Tertiary) – Advanced Treatment
When the primary health care provider approves the assessment team's treatment recommendations, they may make a direct referral to a WCB approved treatment centre or ask the WCB to make the referral.
To prevent an actual or potential conflict of interest the WCB will avoid requesting assessment or treatment from a centre that has a financial relationship with the injured worker's employer. Where the primary care provider is being offered a choice of treatment centres, any such relationship will be disclosed to the primary health care provider and the injured worker to ensure the opportunity for an informed decision.
Once referred to the treatment centre, the primary care provider will continue to see the injured worker and monitor progress throughout the treatment. Other Level I therapies will stop and the recommended treatment will be provided by the Level II or Level III treatment centre.
The treatment centre will provide all recommended components of treatment to ensure cohesive health care and re-employment management. When a component of the treatment is not available in the centre, the WCB will locate an alternate provider for assistance.
Workers expected to make a full recovery from the injury and regain the ability to perform the pre-injury job will be referred to Level II treatment. Programs may include: biomechanical treatment, regional conditioning, global conditioning, work simulation, work hardening, psychosocial counselling, ergonomic consultation, education related to the injury and a monitored return to work.
Workers expected to make a full recovery from the injury but needing more extensive therapy, as well as those with permanent functional restrictions, will be directed to Level III programming. In addition to the physical conditioning at Level II, Level III treatment involves chronic pain management, lifestyle adjustment and stress management. Suitable duties and tasks will be arranged with the employer while the worker attends the program.
The worker will be expected to attend Level II or Level III programs up to five days per week. Where the worksite may be used to make functional progressions, less treatment time may be indicated.
Accreditation, practice standards of care and a schedule of fees payable to Level II and Level III clinics are outlined under PRO 51/2016, Health Care Services – Secondary and Tertiary Treatment.
Risk Factors for Chronic Disability
Expected Recovery & Referral to Advanced Assessment Guidelines
2(1)(v), 19(1), 51, 53, 55, 56, 58(1);
The Saskatchewan Employment Act
POL 04/96	Early Intervention Program
POL 08/96 Return-to-Work Plans
POL 18/2016 Health Care Services
PRO 51/2017 Health Care Services – Assessment Teams
PRO 51/2016 Health Care Services – Secondary and Tertiary Treatment


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Generation Kill: Five Great Books Written About Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan
By Shane Danaher | November 12, 2013 | 1:40pm
Books Lists
The Great Game, historian Peter Hopkirk's account of Russia and Great Britain's nineteenth-century battle for Central Asia, reads like an argument as to why one should leave Afghanistan to its own devices. Whether by freezing in mountain passes, dying at the hands of tribal warlords or breaking against the walls of desert fortresses, the British and Russian armies spend most of their campaigns coming to grips with an ineluctable reality: regardless of which century you're living in, invading Central Asian countries is really, really, really hard.
Since 2001, the United States has expended billions of dollars and thousands of lives proving that it's just as difficult to subdue Kabul in the twenty-first century as it was in the nineteenth. By turns horrifying, engrossing and majestic, America's sojourns in Iraq and Afghanistan have shaped this nation's identity for the past decade and produced a body of literature as jaw-dropping and varied as the campaigns themselves.
1. Generation Kill, Evan Wright
Generation Kill, journalist Evan Wright's firsthand account of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, came about thanks to a bit of cosmic serendipity. A magazine journalist with a history of substance abuse and a résumé that included stints at Hustler and Rolling Stone, Wright proved a spiritual match for the combat marines with whom he embedded. Riding the tip of the American invasion, Wright produced an account that marvels at the destruction, courage and (occasionally) incompetence of America's invading forces.
Later adapted into an HBO miniseries, Generation Kill allows uncomfortable questions to form at its center: What does it mean to root for these brave, intelligent young men as they do combat with some of the most impoverished people on earth? What does it mean not to?
2. War, Sebastian Junger
Several of War's reviewers marveled that Sebastian Junger had managed to write an apolitical account of America's activities in Afghanistan. Indeed, Junger, best known as the author of The Perfect Storm, portrays war as a natural force akin to a typhoon, and the men and women involved in it as working stiffs, trying to ride it out with only the benefit of courage, gumption and luck.
In researching the book, Junger embedded for a year with soldiers at a remote outpost in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley. His account relates the stress of coming under daily fire, as well as the boredom, frustration and camaraderie bred by protracted isolation.
This material also served as the basis for the documentary Restrepo, which Junger co-directed with British photojournalist Tim Hetherington.
3. Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, Thomas E. Ricks
Thomas E. Ricks lays bare his intentions within Fiasco's first page, stating "the U.S.-led invasion [of Iraq] was launched recklessly, with a flawed plan for war and a worse approach to occupation." After traversing Ricks's exhaustive catalogue of willfully ignored intelligence, ideological bullheadedness and simple bungling, it's hard to disagree.
Ricks populates this executive summary of the Second Gulf War with a familiar cast of characters – Cheney, Franks, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, et al. – while also describing the bureaucracies, analysts and ground commanders who either added to or fought against the war's unraveling.
In 1967, Norman Mailer famously asked, "Why are we in Vietnam?" Fiasco answers a nearly synonymous question for a very different generation.
4. The Forever War, Dexter Filkins
The Forever War reads like a collection of postcards from a decade-long trip through hell.
Filkins, first as a reporter with the Los Angeles Times and later as a correspondent with The New York Times, spent years traveling through the Middle East, witnessing a never-ending concatenation of wars, conflicts and police actions.
Though told chronologically, The Forever War lacks a narrative in the traditional sense. Instead, Filkins relates his story through snapshots and anecdotes: Cops trying on coats inside the wreckage of a Brooks Brothers on 9/11; an Afghani butcher selling the carcasses of goats that wander into the minefield by his house; villagers burying their televisions to protect them from seizure by the Taliban. Filkins rarely tries to makes sense of what he sees. By the book's end, you get the feeling that it defies explanation.
5. Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles, Anthony Swofford
While most of the books on this list sprang from the labors of professional journalists, Jarhead owes its existence to Anthony Swofford – an ex-Marine Corps sniper and a combatant in the first Gulf War.
Swofford's narrative begins with a montage of his training that will sound familiar to anyone who has seen Full Metal Jacket or its ilk. However, when Swofford and his fellow Marines head to Saudi Arabia prior to the 1990 invasion of Iraq, things take an unexpected turn. Guided missiles, tanks and the threat of chemical weapons leave the warriors without access to the war for which they've trained.
Rife with boredom, bloodlust and fear, Jarhead makes modern war seem simultaneously hellish and a total letdown. The central tragedy of Swofford's memoir is that he didn't get to kill anyone, which is fairly compelling in itself.
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Contagious by Scott Sigler was released on December 30, 2008. My hardcover copy has 438 pages.
First, if you have not read Infected, you need to read it before you even read this review, the synopsis, or the quotes. Contagious is a sequel to Infected and even though Sigler tries to bring you up to date at the beginning, you really need to read Infected before Contagious to appreciate the continued story of Perry Dawsey and the alien invaders. Apparently Sigler is writing a trilogy so I can look forward to Pandemic later this year.
It could be said that action/adventure books combined with elements of science fiction are my guilty little pleasure. Sigler didn't disappoint me. Infected was one of my top books for last year so I've been looking forward to Contagious. I enjoyed Contagious very much and highly recommend it. It should be noted, however, that Sigler isn't the best writer in the world. This isn't a literary masterpiece and a careful reader will find a few technical mistakes, but it is among the best of it's kind. Very highly recommended. Rating: 5
Synopsis from cover:
Across America, a mysterious pathogen transforms ordinary people into raging killers, psychopaths driven by a terrifying, alien agenda. The human race fights back, yet after every battle the disease responds, adapts, using sophisticated strategies and brilliant ruses to fool its pursuers. The only possible explanation: the epidemic is driven not by evolution but by some malevolent intelligence.
Standing against this unimaginable threat is a small group, assembled under the strictest secrecy. Their best weapon is hulking former football star Perry Dawsey, left psychologically shattered by his own struggles with this terrible enemy, who possesses an unexplainable ability to locate the disease's hosts. Violent and unpredictable, Perry is both the nation's best hope and a terrifying liability. Hardened CIA veteran Dew Phillips must somehow forge a connection with him if they're going to stand a chance against this maddeningly adaptable opponent. Alongside them is Margaret Montoya, a brilliant epidemiologist who fights for a cure even as she reels under the weight of endless horrors.
These three and their team have kept humanity in the game, but that's not good enough anymore, not when the disease turns contagious, triggering a fast countdown to Armageddon. Meanwhile, other enemies join the battle, and a new threat — one that comes from a most unexpected source — may ultimately prove the most dangerous of all.
Catapulting the reader into a world where humanity's life span is measured in hours and the president's finger hovers over the nuclear button, rising star Scott Sigler takes us on a breathtaking, hyper-adrenalized ride filled with terror and jaw-dropping action. Contagious is a truly grand work of suspense, science, and horror from a new master.
"Symptoms begin with itching and small rashes that grow into large welts, then finally triangular blue growths. The disease also seems to create extreme paranoia in its victims..." pg. 2
"Dawsey is the only known survivor. He had seven parasites, which he cut out of himself, removing the final one five weeks ago." pg. 4
"Hatchlings tried to build and activate a construct that we believe is either some kind of gateway or weapon." pg. 5
"They called themselves the Exterminators.
The boys had even come up with a unit insignia: a lightning bolt hitting an upside-down cockroach. They wore it on the right shoulder. Under it they added small black triangle patches for each combat mission, and decorated the triangle with a white X for each monster killed." pg. 12
"It wasn't an ambush. He had a feeling it was something worse.
Not a trap... a decoy." pg. 34
"As the saying went, if you don't like the weather in Wisconsin, just wait ten minutes. Dew had heard the same kinds of jokes about Michigan, Ohio and Indiana - and they were all true." pg. 63
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Evaluation of the MACC operational forecast system – potential and challenges of global near-real-time modelling with respect to reactive gases in the troposphere
A Wagner, AM Blechschmidt, I Bouarar, EG Brunke, C Clerbaux, M Cupeiro, P Cristofanelli, H Eskes
The Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate (MACC) project represents the European Union's Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) (http://www.copernicus.eu/), which became fully operational during 2015. The global near-real-time MACC model production run for aerosol and reactive gases provides daily analyses and 5-day forecasts of atmospheric composition fields. It is the only assimilation system worldwide that is operational to produce global analyses and forecasts of reactive gases and aerosol fields. We have investigated the ability of the MACC analysis system to simulate tropospheric concentrations of reactive gases covering the period between 2009 and 2012. A validation was performed based on carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and ozone (O3) surface observations from the Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) network, the O3 surface observations from the European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (EMEP) and, furthermore, NO2 tropospheric columns, as well as CO total columns, derived from satellite sensors. The MACC system proved capable of reproducing reactive gas concentrations with consistent quality; however, with a seasonally dependent bias compared to surface and satellite observations – for northern hemispheric surface O3 mixing ratios, positive biases appear during the warm seasons and negative biases during the cold parts of the year, with monthly modified normalised mean biases (MNMBs) ranging between −30 and 30 % at the surface. Model biases are likely to result from difficulties in the simulation of vertical mixing at night and deficiencies in the model's dry deposition parameterisation. Observed tropospheric columns of NO2 and CO could be reproduced correctly during the warm seasons, but are mostly underestimated by the model during the cold seasons, when anthropogenic emissions are at their highest level, especially over the US, Europe and Asia. Monthly MNMBs of the satellite data evaluation range from values between −110 and 40 % for NO2 and at most −20 % for CO, over the investigated regions. The underestimation is likely to result from a combination of errors concerning the dry deposition parameterisation and certain limitations in the current emission inventories, together with an insufficiently established seasonality in the emissions.
A Wagner, AM Blechschmidt, I Bouarar, EG Brunke, C Clerbaux, M Cupeiro, P Cristofanelli, H Eskes. Evaluation of the MACC operational forecast system – potential and challenges of global near-real-time modelling with respect to reactive gases in the troposphere
published, Atm. Chem. Phys., 2015


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College of Veterinary Medicine: Jennifer Barrett (Leesburg, VA); Sophie Bogers (Blacksburg, VA); Christopher Byron (Blacksburg, VA); Linda Dahlgren (Blacksburg, VA); Willard Eyestone (Blacksburg, VA); Jia-Qiang He (Blacksburg, VA); William Huckle (Blacksburg, VA); Paul Morton (Blacksburg, VA); Michelle Theus (Blacksburg, VA)
College of Engineering: Rafael Davalos (Blacksburg, VA); Aaron Goldstein (Blacksburg, VA); Blake Johnson (Blacksburg, VA); Mark Van Dyke (Blacksburg, VA); Eli Vlaisavljevich (Blacksburg, VA); Vincent Wang (Blacksburg, VA); Abby Whittington (Blacksburg, VA)
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Regenerative medicine (RM) is a new medical approach that seeks to restore both structure and function of tissues lost to injury, disease or congenital defects. This field incorporates use of stem cells, proteins that stimulate healing, and engineered biomaterials to help cure diseases from diabetes to osteoarthritis. Regenerative strategies are modeled on mechanisms drawn from embryonic development and naturally-occurring examples of regeneration. This field represents a paradigm shift in biology, medicine and biomedical engineering. Ethical and societal impacts need to be considered as this rapidly expanding technology is developed. Furthermore, the swift translation of these technologies to the clinical realm provokes a need for both public policy considerations and practical feasibility from a business perspective. Leaders in RM must have training, understanding and interactions across diverse disciplines. The Regenerative Medicine Interdisciplinary Graduate Education Program (IGEP) team aims to produce leaders in RM by training students in the broad complexities inherent to the field, beyond expertise gained in their specific disciplines. The IGEP will be among the first programs of its kind to equip students with a broad-based, graduate-level education in the field of RM.
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For more information please contact Principal Investigators Abby Whittington (awhit@vt.edu) or Linda Dahlgren (lad11@vt.edu) or visit our website.
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Regenerative Medicine is not a degree-granting program.
The program takes advantage of access to facilities within all of the four programmatic areas.
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Roughly 240 accelerometers attached to 136 sensor mounts throughout the building's ceilings will detect information on where people are within the structure, measure normal structural settling and wind loads, and track building movement resulting from earthquakes similar to the event that struck Virginia in 2011. A sensor array mounted outside the building will measure external vibrations, such as wind, the bustle of traffic on nearby Prices Fork Road, the thunderous boom of tens of thousands of Hokie fans celebrating a touchdown at Lane Stadium, and possible seismic activity.
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Opened in 2009, Kelly Hall houses the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science, which supports and promotes cutting-edge research at the intersection of engineering, science, and medicine.
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Marion duPont Equine Medical Center
The Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center is a premier, full-service equine hospital located in Leesburg, Virginia, and one of two hospitals of the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine. We offer advanced specialty care, 24-hour emergency treatment, and diagnostic services for all ages and breeds of horses. Our team of equine specialists in internal medicine, reproduction, sports medicine and rehabilitation, and surgery is committed to providing exceptional treatment for patients; superior service to clients; education for referring veterinarians, future veterinarians, and clients; and cutting-edge research to the equine industry.
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Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine
Established in 1978. The college is a leading biomedical teaching and research center and the in-state veterinary college for residents of Virginia and Maryland. Locations include the main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, the Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center in Leesburg, Virginia, and the Gudelsky Veterinary Center in College Park, Maryland.
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