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NARPAC GRADES THE ACEP NATIONAL REPORT CARD
The newly released ACEP report card model in not adequate to provide meaningful comparisons in the capabilities of the states or DC to provide access to emergency medicine. It certainly could not be used to justify the need for a large new hospital in DC. It does not provide much useful fodder for the opponents of the new hospital either, but it does confirm that DC is competitive in view of its much higher poverty levels, abnormal per capita use of emergency rooms, and below- average provision of preventative medicine. Future report cards need to be substantially improved over this first fledgling effort.
In January, 2006, the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) released their first "National Report Card on the State of Emergency Medicine", stating that "this effort would be the first of a series of report cards" providing "an assessment of the support each state provides for its emergency medicine system". The Washington Post noted sagely that both proponents and foes of the SE Hospital Plan (NCMC) were citing the report's findings. Foes claim it shows DC has enough hospitals while advocates read into the scores a message to "stay ahead of the power curve". Virginia health officials, reacting to their very low grades, said they "would take a hard look at the perspective being shown to us".
In view of the continuing clamor over whether or not to build an expensive new National Capital Medical Center, NARPAC decided to take a hard look at the scoring system itself, and see whether in fact the report card accomplished its purpose. Our conclusion is that the grades themselves are probably meaningless, but that the underlying data can provide some useful insights. The user does have to accept the validity of comparing one relatively small city with all fifty US states, and should try to understand the peculiarities of the methodology itself. NARPAC, with considerable familiarity in, and skepticism of, complex weighting systems and performance measuring systems, reluctantly concludes that this methodology, like the camel, was designed by a committee. We seriously hope that the summary "grades" will not be flaunted by either NCMC's advocates or foes as a basis for deciding on a $400M new hospital.
First we will describe the parameters of the scoring system;
then offer NARPAC's rather extensive negative comments; and
finally, offer a few positive comments and suggestions.
defining the components of the scoring system
The complicated chart below attempts to summarize all the various contributing aspects to this first-round ACEP scoring system. And the sections which follow try to explain the various problems inherent in this approach:
Basically, this methodology gathers data on 50 (count 'em, fifty) separate parameters considered germane to the provision of emergency services. These include some 24 quantitative performance measures (e.g., fully-staffed hospital beds per capita) and 26 yes/no questions (e.g., does the state have a motorcycle helmet law?), plus one bonus question (!). These contributing factors are clumped under four different, and quite disparate, headings, each of which has a certain weighting factor:
o 40% for "#1: Access to Emergency Care"; (11 quant. items)
o 25% for "#2: Quality (of medical personnel) and Patient Safety" (5 quant., 5 Y/N items)
o 10% for "#3: Public Health Care and Injury Prevention" (6 quant., 13 Y/N items)
o 25% for "#4$ Medical Liability Environment" (2 quant., 8+1 "bonus" Y/N items).
Within each heading, each item is also assigned a weighting to assess its relative important to that category. Hence under Access (#1), "ER visits per ER doctor" is weighted at 5 points (out of 40), while "registered nurses per capita" gets 3 points. At the other end of the spectrum, under Medical Liability (#4), a "yes" answer to "does the state have a $250K 'hard' cap on non- economic damages?" wins the lucky state 14 points (out of 25). But if a state has a very high percentage of its kids receiving pre-natal care (under Public Health (#3), it is rewarded with 0.5 points(out of 10). Note that all the weighting factors within all four categories add to 100.
converting data values into scores
In a rather interesting, but questionable, next step, the quantitative measures provided by all 51 "states" are ranked from "best" to "worst" for each of the 24 relevant items. Note that in some cases "best" is the highest value (e.g., trauma centers per capita); while in a few cases, it is the lowest value (e.g., annual rise in doctors' medical liability insurance). But the next step is the more dubious one. Once the data are ranked by value, a score of 51 is given to the "tallest" and a 1 to the "shortest". The rationale given is to make each measure relative to the best, rather than absolute. Well and good, but this approach also eliminates any proportionality between the contestants. If the "best" has 18.3 ER doctors per 100K population, it is scored as 51 times as good as the "worst" state, even if it has 15.7 ER doctors per 100K population.
The yes/no questions are scored differently, with each "yes" getting 51 points, and each "no", zero. Each score is then multiplied by its weighting factor (out of 100). The distribution of scores is unavoidably quite different between the "relative" scores (between 51 and 1) and the "absolute" scores (51 or 0). It is not insignificant to note that the median composite score in the latter two categories with the predominance of yes/no answers (#3, #4) is well below the average score, while the median and average for the entirely or predominantly quantitative categories (#1, #2) are very close together. This is shown below where the states' rankings are shown for Categories #2 and #4 (clumsily reproduced by NARPAC from the ACEP report):
converting the scores into grades
The next complicating step is that the individual parameter scores are then aggregated into each of the four categories (headings) and those results are then aligned again from "best" to worst", with the "best" being ranked at 100%, and all the others lined up in decreasing relative order, as shown immediately above. In a rather uneven conversion, these percentages are converted to letter grades as follows: States that reached at least 80% of the best score get and 'A'; 70%, a 'B'; 50%, a 'C'; 30%, a 'D'; and below 30%, an 'F". (You'd better hope your kids aren't graded this way!).
converting four category grades into a single state grade
The four grades (one for each category) are then converted to a single letter grade by weighted averaging. The same result would be achieved by aggregating the four (weighted) categories and using the same equivalency rules. Given the composite ranking methods used, it is not surprising that the overall national average is a 'C' or 'C-'. Mathematically, it would have to be a 'C' if there were not the large number of yes/no questions (most of which turned out to be negative).
NARPAC Commentary (Negative):
This first-pass ACEP methodology is seriously flawed for a variety of reasons, and there is little point in flogging each one to death. Nevertheless, those tempted to use these scores to prove their points will do well to understand that:
o There is no attempt whatsoever to compare the resources provided to the resources needed by that state. For instance, there is little doubt but that states with higher poverty rates (minority or not) use more emergency medical services than those with good insurance and family doctors. This is not considered here, but it is the essence of DC's NCMC issue. Note on the chart below how much higher DC's poverty burden is than any of the other nine "states" finishing in the "top ten" (just about double the average, shown in blue). This pattern will be evident in several of the subsequent charts:
o The weighting given to preventive medicine seems farcical (at only 2% total weighting). The parameters considered involve only pre-natal care and various vaccinations, and no consideration is given to primary care facilities and local clinics, another fundamental NCMC issue;
o The notion of purely additive component scores implies the existence of trade-offs between various parameters (more nurses, fewer doctors??), and can generate very erroneous grading. For instance, California wins the jackpot (as the best overall state) solely because it has a "hard cap" on medical liability payments, even though it devotes only 58% as many resources per capita to emergency care access as DC does. This is indicated on the chart below which "stacks" the four weighted categories to show their contributions to the total. Leave the yellow (liability) tops off, DC becomes #1 and California drops to #9; leave the blue (prevention) bands off, and DC becomes even more outstanding:
o The lack of multiplicative factors, which would indicate that the absence of a certain factor would be a "deal-breaker"(i.e., no doctors, zero score) is a serious shortcoming. In this methodology, DC could improve its relative standing (already probably too high) by eliminating all ER's, ER doctors, and nurses (-13 points) but adopting a $250K liability cap (+14 points);
o The unspoken fact is that if the capabilities in one certain area (say access to ambulances) varies by only 20% from top to bottom among the 51 "states", its impact on scores is artificially exaggerated. The top state gets an 'A+', the middle state a 'C', and the bottom state, an 'F' (in that specific category);
o In this model, there is no limit to having more of a good thing. If DC had four times as many fully-staffed hospital beds as it has now (already twice as many as the nearest contender!), its overall rating would stay the same, but it would drive down the grades of all 50 other states, because their standing relative to the top dog would decline. Shouldn't DC be penalized for having too many beds instead?
o There is another hidden assumption in this analysis to the effect that 40% of all ER visits are for trauma cases. Hence, lowering traffic accidents, occupational accidents, and substance abuse is scored higher than treating asthma, diabetes, or high blood pressure in normal clinics/hospitals. NARPAC has not yet uncovered comparative data on this issue, but we are certain that, say, Michigan and DC have very different reasons for visiting an ER!
o Though there are indicators for access to ambulances and minor mention of ambulance diversions, there is no geographic factor whatsoever to indicate the average distance/time from any point in a state to the nearest ER/trauma center (whether in that state or a neighboring state). NARPAC cannot believe that (total) ambulance time en route is not important, or that the availability of helicopters vs ground vehicles should be ignored. Try to explain DC's need for an NCMC to a Texan! Surely there is a geography factor;
o NARPAC commends the ACEP on the one hand for including considerations of disaster- relief but doubts the wisdom of subsuming its value within other more routine ER tasks. For the "Beat the Game Gang" (including NARPAC), it seems unwise to suggest a realistic trade-off between these disparate emergency needs. Tongue-in-cheek, NARPAC notes that DC would be better off with NO trauma centers and NO fully-staffed hospital beds, as long as it can say "yes", or even just "uh-huh", to a) offering citywide training in disaster responses, and b) having a so-so reporting system to itself on ambulance diversions.
o In addition to disaster-relief as an "outlier" for gauging access to emergency care, so certainly is the whole matter of the medical liability environment. Addressing these issues is of substantial importance (NARPAC might well have ignored them!), but stirring, if not baking, them into the mix of day-to-day emergency medicine is probably inappropriate. ACEP would do well in the development of future score/grading systems to keep separate those elements that deserve independent treatment.
o Finally, it is clearly necessary to understand the inherent characteristics of the methodology that has been adopted. It is embarrassingly inappropriate to cluck about the US getting a 'C-' on its national report card when the grading methodology almost assures the average grade will be near the dividing line between a 'C' and a 'D'. The implicit assumption that "there's lots of room for improvement" doesn't apply if the grading system is relative rather than absolute, and requires that the average result be 50%. In this case, the overall national grade would be even worse if the grading methodology made the passing grade 60% while the scoring methodology dictates that the average score be 50%!
The above criticisms would be 100% true in this case if all the 50 chosen parameters had quantitative values ranked linearly from best to worst. It would also be true if the expected chances of answering "yes or "no" to (sometimes loaded) questions were even-Steven. In this particular methodology, the maximum "yes" score amounts to 36% of the total, and is an "absolute" score. The remaining 64% is made up of "relative" scores. Thus the "best possible" overall national score is 36 + 32 = 68, which (apparently) equates to a 'C+' (or possibly a 'B-?'). States seeking to "beat the game" should focus more on trying to earn "yes" points than pushing their way up the ranking line!
NARPAC Commentary (Positive):
o Despite these seemingly "sour grapes" comments, NARPAC strongly favors the development of quantitative criteria and measurement of government performance at all levels. The danger lies in getting "too cute by half" in trying to merge disparate factors into some sort of single grade. There is no harm in handing out consistent, properly weighted grades in several different "subjects". And there would certainly be no discredit in trying to develop proper independent measures for both the relative needs and the relative satisfaction of those needs.
o But there is also a genuine benefit in providing access to the input materials themselves, and letting independent analysts apply their own weighting factors to their own specific applications. The chart below shows how DC (green bar) stacks up quantitatively relative to the other nine "states" that made it into the select 'B'/'B-' Club (there were no 'A's). These eleven parameters are all the variables that comprise the Access to Emergency Medicine in the ACEP methodology. DC leads in six of them, comes in second in two; third or fourth in two; and is below the median only in per capita funding for "SCHIP", which stands for State Children's Health Insurance Program.
In comparison to the other "states" (and their light blue average), however, DC has twice as many staffed beds per capita, pays twice as much for hospital care per capita, and spends three times as much on Medicare for adults under 65. It also has more than its share of emergency doctors per capita, but they do not treat an unusual number of ER visitors per day. Whether DC deserves 'B' for this performance or needs a new hospital is certainly not clear from these comparisons.
The final chart shows four more comparative variables from other categories. Clearly, DC has an abnormal number of ER visits per capita, has way more than its share of substance abusers to cope with, supports a very high number of emergency medicine residents per capita, but lags somewhat in the provision of preventative shots and pre-natal care. The problem with these charts, of course, as with the ones above, is that there is no baseline provided that reflects the specific characteristics of DC, or any state for that matter, to rationalize their ranking or more basically, their needs.
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Google Shareholders Voted Down Plan To Recruit Conservative Board Members
June 13, 2018 by Shruti C
Shareholders and executives at Google's parent company, Alphabet, rejected a plan Wednesday to tie CEO and executive pay to diversity and inclusion efforts. They also voted down a proposal requesting the company seat conservative board members.
The two bids, which were presented at Alphabet's annual shareholder meeting, reflect simmering workplace tensions at Google, which faces multiple lawsuits from former employees, including one accusing the company of discriminating against women and another accusing Google of discriminating against conservative white men.
Four women who worked at Google are suing the company for violating equal pay laws, arguing that the company paid women less than men for the same work, assigned them to lower-paying jobs, and promoted them less often.
Google denies those allegations, but the Labor Department's findings seem to support the women's claims. Auditors for DOL said they found "systemic compensation disparities against women" across the entire company. The agency is investigating the company's pay practices as part of a routine pay audit it performs on federal contractors.
Conservative male employees accuse Google of discrimination too
The company is also facing a lawsuit from former engineer James Damore, based on allegations of "reverse discrimination," against conservative white men.
Damore was fired in August after an anti-diversity memo he wrote went viral. In the memo, Damore claimed that women are less biologically suited to be engineers than men. He pointed to these biological differences as a possible explanation for why few women work as engineers at Google, and to question the need for diversity programs.
Damore and another fired engineer have since filed a discrimination lawsuit against Google. The complaint, filed in January, claims that "employees who expressed views deviating from the majority view at Google on political subjects raised in the workplace and relevant to Google's employment policies and its business, such as 'diversity' hiring policies, 'bias sensitivity,' or 'social justice,' were/are singled out, mistreated, and systematically punished and terminated from Google, in violation of their legal rights."
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What Makes A Photo Tell A Story?
What Makes A Photo Tells A Story?
What Makes A Photo Tells A Story? https://www.visualstorytell.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/PERMUTH_YONKEROS_thumb.jpg 366 219 Shlomi Ron Shlomi Ron https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/906bcce31d9695cb030087534b5f0f6e?s=96&d=mm&r=g December 18, 2019 September 6, 2020
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In this episode, I chat with Jaime Permuth, an award-winning photographer and professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
With the tremendous growth in photo sharing – globally, people share 95 million photos on Instagram every day! – I am often asked how can you tell a story in a single photo? I have already shared my thoughts about the subject in my article "5 Easy Ways to Create Narrative Images." But for this episode, I decided to consult with an expert.
With video, it's much easier as it's, in essence, a sequence of images where you can tell a complete story with different characters and scenes. But what you do when you need to compress an entire story into a single scene? I discussed with Jaime about his storytelling approach, the key narrative elements he uses. Jaime also presented a few photos and discussed their backstories and the visual storytelling technique the photographer used.
What was the journey that led you to be involved in photography?
What are the key elements that constitute a visual grammar of a photo?
How can you use these visual grammar elements to tell a compelling story in a single photo?
How do you create an emotional connection between a photo and the audience?
Photo examples and the visual storytelling techniques photographers, including Jaime, use
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A bit about Jaime.
He is an award-winner photographer based in New York City. Jaime is known for his long-form documentary work and his photographs have been shown nationally and internationally, including NYC venues such as The Museum of Modern Art, The Queens Museum of Art, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Museum of the City of New York, The Jewish Museum, El Museo del Barrio, and The Brooklyn Museum of Art. He is also a Faculty Member at the School of Visual Arts, where I teach in the Master in Digital Photography and also at the New York Film Academy's Conservatory Program in Photography.
It was a fascinating discussion you'll learn a ton from. I really enjoyed discovering the stories behind the photos Jaime shared. You realize that unlike video where the visual storyteller serves you an explicit sequence of events, photos require the audience to infer from what they see in a single frame, and use the invisible parts to complete the story in their minds.
What the photographer chooses not to show in a frame is even more important than what she chooses to show.
In this light, unlocking the story behind a photo, is, in essence, an interactive mental experience where the eye of the viewer plays the role of a video camera, looking around, capturing meaningful key details in the photo, and then creating a narrative sequence of visible and invisible elements that finally build a story.
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Shlomi Ron is the CEO of the Visual Storytelling Institute (VSI), the primary think tank that brings the gospel of visual storytelling from the world of art into marketing. A digital marketing veteran with over 20 years of experience working both on the agency and brand sides for Fortune 100/500 brands such as Nokia, IBM, and American Express. He started VSI to combine his marketing expertise with his passions for visual stories stemming from interests in classic Italian cinema (cafePellicola.com) and managing the estate of video art pioneer, Buky Schwartz (BukySchwartz.com). At VSI, he helps brands rise above the communication noise through visual storytelling consulting, training, and thought leadership. Select clients include La Mer, RTI International, Cable & Wireless, Pearson Education – to name a few. He currently teaches Brand Storytelling at the University of Miami's Business School. Thought leader and speaker at key marketing conferences. He is also the host of the Visual Storytelling Today podcast, which ranks in the top 10 best business storytelling podcasts on the Web. His book: Total Acuity: Tales with Marketing Morals to Help You Create Richer Visual Brand Stories. What makes a good story? He always says "The magic happens the moment your brand story mirrors your customer's personal story." Outside work, he is a nascent bread baker, The Moth fan, and longtime fedora wearer likely to jive with his classic Italian cinema interest.
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All area high school students and their parents are invited to learn more about their college options at the Washington High School College Fair Wednesday, March 28, in the Washington High School Gymnasium. The college fair will be from 1:15 p.m. to 2:45 p.m., hosted by the Iowa Association for College Admission Counseling (Iowa ACAC) and the Guidance Department at Washington High School.
Representatives from approximately 60 colleges, universities, and military branches will be on hand to visit with high school students and their parents. Families have an opportunity to discuss admission requirements, housing, financial aid, scholarships, internships and specific majors with the college representatives.
The program is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact the counselor's office at (319) 653-4245.


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STS9 - Revolution Live, Fort Lauderdale - April 26
C. Townsend Rizzo April 29, 2013 10:16AM
When New Times sat down with STS9's David Phipps last week, the moral of the interview was that great music comes from a combination of talent and intention. The band's goal, as Phipps put it, is to make music that makes people feel like "this is the best life ever." On Friday, STS9, along with DJ Morale of San Francisco, performed for a combined four hours, spreading their cosmic sonic debris on a packed Revolution Live crowd, fully engaged in reciprocating that "best life ever" attitude.
- STS9's David Phipps Reminds Us That "Musicians Are Human Too"
The whole scene downtown is heavy in the depravity department. Parking in the six dollar lot, across from the eight dollar lot, and diagonal from the metered parking garage downtown, the side street outside of Off The Hookah is lit with the cleansing hellfire of production lamps capturing God knows what else other than the "dressed enough" bottoms of cocktail waitresses.
As the night finally drew back into focus, leaving the booty circus past peripheral, a hip character picked up a lazy jog heading from the same six-dollar parking deck. He resembled Adam Levine in stature and appearance -- though Adam Levine wouldn't be parking his own car. The character was wearing a tank top with the phrase "Part Wolf" scrawled across the chest. Suddenly he's a contender for "hipster of the evening" award.
An hour after doors opened at Revolution -- a place where they will never actually open the doors when they say they will and no one will ever have a real problem with that -- about ten o'clock, the same character took the stage. The Maroon 5 doppelganger's got a name of his own though, DJ Morale. He bopped around behind a table on a stage covered in Tribe's gear, spinning the sounds of Weezer's Blue Album, Radiohead and Atoms for Peace, Alt J and, by God, Blind Melon.
And boy, it isn't anything like actually listening to those albums. Morale took this mix of alternative tunes and lays them to bass tracks so heavy not one person in the room was standing still. The sound was undeniable, even for the folks posted up against the rails and especially for those in the cushy VIP seats.
Out of New York by way of San Francisco, Morale is masterful at choosing the music integral to the last great sound movement and introducing them to the latest scope of electronic and house funk. What translates is a humbling realization that no one is above this movement. The sound was too pliable and too fluent to definitively reject.
The same commentary can easily be applied to STS9 themselves.
In most cases, the big suspenseful moment comes when the lights are cut completely and everyone starts howling in anticipation of whatever band is about to take the stage. This wasn't so much the scene for Revolution that night, as all it took was a shift in lighting to capture everyone's attention. The stage faded to an ephemeral blue light, and the band took to their respective instruments to initiate the first set before greeting the crowd or even looking at them.
The really great thing about STS9, is they fluctuate between funky jazz and electro-rock, which makes the feel of their shows a bit unpredictable. They set out with "Really What?" -- a jazzy, bass heavy tune. Harmless enough. And then the mellow blue and green stage lights unleashed to match "Abcees" in an explosion worthy of Chris Kuroda.
Bands in the jam and electronic scene are starting to really pride themselves on the light shows they provide to match the sound of the live experience and STS9 knows how to get competitive in that respect. Though Revolution may have been too small to rig their most elaborate light display (other shows on the tour got a different set up), even the more scaled down representation of their show was enough to make the audience a bit dumb at times. A girl with glow sticks in her hair was caught standing slack jawed toward stage right, just letting the light consume her, and it seemed that everyone in the audience took a moment like this: The uncontrollable dancing came to a halt and the eyes widened to salute the illuminating madness.
The jazz route was temporarily abandoned in favor of post-rock dance driven tunes that are sample heavy. STS9 is doing this more and more these days, which shows some evolution of sound that strays away from repetitive instrumental to more rhythmic vocal samples, setting them apart from the typical drum and bass.
Behind the frontmen on the electronic and stringed equipment was a layer of noise that was as captivating as the light show, thanks to the forceful percussive efforts of Zach Velmer and Jeffree Lerner. Just as with the light show, it took a minute for it to set in, for the ears to really get it, but when they did, the realization that what makes this band so different is that they are actually making those danceable groove sounds live on stage, and that those beats aren't coming from a box. It was enough to stop and stare.
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Team A really shouldn't lose to Team B, but you know what? Trap game. What's the only thing that could derail the Blue Blood Express now? Trap game. How do I write about this matchup without being even more boring than usual? Trap game.
If there's one thing No. 3 Notre Dame (-10½) vs. No. 12 Syracuse (1:30 p.m., Ch. 5, 1000-AM) is not, it's a — say it with me — trap game. The 10-0 Irish have better players, more to play for and have long since proved they're a team that knows how to show up on Saturday ready to get the job done.
Then again, there's zero pressure on the upstart Orange. Come to think of it, the 8-2 Orange have scored 50 or more points in half of their games. And then there's the fact that the Orange are fired up as all get-out to take their swings at Yankee Stadium, whereas not everyone at Notre Dame is thrilled to have to travel to the Bronx for a game that originally was scheduled to take place in South Bend.
And isn't it possibly the case that some of the Irish are looking ahead to next weekend's game at rival USC, which sets up as the potential clincher in this drive toward the College Football Playoff?
OK, so maybe it's kind of a trap game.
Here's why I think Syracuse can hang in this game: Its passing attack is the best — by a mile — the Irish have faced all season. Eric Dungey is a prolific quarterback. He has three of the top 10 receivers in the ACC in Jamal Custis, Sean Riley and Nykiem Johnson. And not only that, but the Orange bring offensive balance with 32 rushing touchdowns and opportunism with a plus-13 turnover differential.
But, again, the Irish have better players, especially on the defensive side of the ball. They have no excuse not to be locked-in with the playoff so close they can smell it. And they should have quarterback Ian Book back from injury and raring to go. Irish win by a score of 4-3. (Sorry, just a little Yankee Stadium baseball joke.) Make that 40-30.
The ugly truth: Week 12 might be the worst of the season in terms of marquee matchups. Aside from Notre Dame-Syracuse, there are only two games in which ranked teams are playing each other — and neither of those games is a genuine needle mover.
No. 16 Iowa State (+3) at No. 15 Texas (7 p.m., Longhorn Network): It's Senior Night in Austin. It's the Longhorns, my preseason pick to win the Big 12. As it turns out, it's a league title elimination game for both teams. But I don't like how banged up Texas is, and I'm loving the rise of these pass-happy Cyclones. Upset alert.
No. 24 Cincinnati (+7) at No. 11 UCF (7 p.m., Ch. 7): To get to 23 wins in a row, the Knights will have to topple a tough Cincy team that's relishing a chance to go through Orlando en route to an AAC title. Sneakily, this could be one of the games of the year across the country. Knights in overtime.
USC (-3½) at UCLA (2:30 p.m., Fox-32): I refuse to apologize for including a game between the 5-5 Trojans and the 2-8 Bruins. I'm not saying I shouldn't apologize, just that I won't. Trojans, 24-17.
No. 20 Boston College (-1½) at Florida State (2:30 p.m., ESPN2): The Seminoles are 4-6, their 36-year bowl streak — the longest in the nation — at stake. Will they rise heroically to vanquish the Eagles before upsetting rival Florida to salvage the season? Sure, dudes. BC all day.
Miami (-5½) at Virginia Tech (2:30 p.m., ESPN): The 5-5 Hurricanes are the biggest flops in college football. The 4-5 Hokies have the next-longest bowl streak — 25 years — after FSU. Because of the Sept. 15 cancellation of a game due to Hurricane Florence, Virginia Tech is actually shopping for a 12th game in hopes of preserving the postseason run. Kind of sad, actually. The other Hurricanes by 14.
(6:30 p.m., Pac-12 Network): Cardinal make it nine in a row in the Big Game.
My favorite underdog: Nebraska (+2) vs. Michigan State (11 a.m., Fox-32): Scott Frost and the Huskers have been angling for a signature win all season. They're finally ready to pull it off.
Last week: 8-1 straight-up; 5-2-2 vs. the spread.
Season to date: 56-24 straight-up; 39-38-3 vs. the spread.
The facts: 11 a.m., BTN, 720-AM.
The records: Northwestern 6-4, 6-1 Big Ten; Minnesota 5-5, 2-5 Big Ten.
The storyline: No doubt, the Gophers turned heads with last weekend's 31-point blowout of Purdue in Minneapolis. But if they really want to impress us, they're going to have to start winning essentially every league game like the Wildcats do. There has been speculation that Northwestern might take its foot off the gas with a division title clinched and "nothing to gain," as the expression goes, but it's football — isn't there always something, even the symbolic or the perceived, worth scrapping for? If Minnesota had an "East" or a "West" before its name, or a "State" or a "Tech" after it, it might be cause to doubt Pat Fitzgerald's greater-than-the-sum-of-its-parts squad. But nope.
The facts: 2:30 p.m., BTN, 670-AM.
The records: Iowa 6-4, 3-4 Big Ten; Illinois 4-6, 2-5 Big Ten.
The storyline: It boils down to just how ready the Hawkeyes are to rumble. At their best, they're wicked defensively and explosive, with an underrated passing game led by terrific quarterback Nate Stanley, offensively. That Iowa team is too much for the Illini. But if Iowa comes in with its guard down, the Illini can get out of the gate fast with their own dangerous offense as they did two weeks ago in a blowout victory over Minnesota. Lovie Smith's team needs a lightning-bolt start and then a wave of emotion to carry it through the rest of the game. Yes, it's a lot to hope for.
The line: Hawkeyes by 14½.


Okay, before you get crazy angry with me about the title of this post and think that I am doing the Plant Based movement a disservice, just hear me out.
I hope that I can save a lot of people from a whole lot of self-loathing and sadness.In response to my last "veggies for breakfast" post, I received the following comment. Since it's a bit of the elephant in the room for me, like, ALL of the time, I want to address it once and for all.
Please tell us about gaining 50 pounds on a vegan diet. I became raw vegan and gained about 50#, also. I couldn't (and can't) figure out why since I was eating so "healthy" and no matter what I do now, the pounds won't budge. I would love to hear your story. Also, I'm assuming that you don't use oils or salt when cooking. Have you eliminated them altogether or only use occasionally? I love the VFB concept that you talk about here and will definitely be trying it. This morning, I had roasted okra from my garden, but I used some olive oil and salt. Tomorrow is another day, as Miss Scarlett said. Where can I get more detailed information about this program that you follow…Chef AJ? I can't wait to learn more!
First off, I want to say that it's not Rip's fault.
It's not Neal Barnard's fault.
Not Dr. Joel Fuhrman's, Dr. John McDougall's, nor Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn's.
It's not their fault that I'm a food addict and that I am highly susceptible to the effects of sugar and flour on my brain. The plant based diets of all of these pioneers (and many more that I haven't mentioned) are successful for countless numbers of folks out there who commit to them.
So was it my fault that I gained 50 pounds on a whole food plant based diet?
I didn't choose my genetics or my particular brain chemistry any more than an alcoholic chooses his. Nobody wants this brain chemistry, so if you are overweight and trying your darndest to lose weight, you can stop blaming yourself and start loving yourself.
And for all of those a-holes out there who pass judgement on you for being overweight, saying things like, "she could just shut her mouth and eat less if she really wanted to," well, they're just stupid, ignorant idiots.
It takes a lot more than desire to lose weight and keep it off.It takes a hell of a lot more than willpower to lose weight and keep it off.
It takes a stable brain chemistry.
But back to the question. Just how did I gain 50 pounds over the course of about 5 years on an otherwise healthy whole food plant based diet?
A few extra calories at a time.
Let's do the math. You need to consume 3,500 extra calories in order to gain one pound. Fifty of those equals 175,000 extra calories over the course of 5 years, which is 96.1538462 extra calories per day, to be exact.
So I gained 50 pounds over 5 years because I overate, on average, less than 100 extra calories per day.
Was that difficult for me to do?
Not at all. First off, I'm a pretty good cook and baker, if I say so myself. I love delicious plant based, oil-free food and I wasn't shy about making recipes that delighted me. Decadent smoothies, cakes, pies, date/nut balls, muffins, nut based sauces and dressings and other high calorie treats were a regular thing in my kitchen.
Of course, there were also loads of vegetables, fruit, whole grains and beans as well.
But I was just one small muffin, or one extra date/nut truffle, on average per day away from fifty extra pounds over five years.
So can you see how it can easily happen?
It wasn't so hard to do. I wasn't gorging on food. I was trying so hard to lose weight. I was following the best advice of Fuhrman, Esselstyn, Barnard, McDougall and the rest.I was so embarrassed by my failure. I wanted so badly to be an excellent role model of health for the plant based movement that I so strongly believe in for ourselves, the animals and our planet.
(2) adhere to the principles of calorie density. Basically, eat the vast majority of your diet from foods that are low in calories but high in water and fiber (volume).
Both methods arrive at a calorie deficit (restricted calories).
I chose to try #2, because #1 was something that I had done so many times in the past (Weight Watchers) and I was hungry most of the time. Being hungry that often leads a lot of people to fall off the wagon and binge, myself included. That's why the rate of long term success on Weight Watchers is abysmal.
#2 works for me. This is why I chose to keep blogging. I have something to share with you if you are interested in healing your brain. Your body really will follow.
Still wondering whether or not food addiction is real? Wonder whether or not you are a food addict? Here's a fantastic interview with Dr. Pamela Peeke to listen to.
After listening to Dr. Peeke on food addiction, I'm very interested in reading her book on the subject.
I gained 50 pounds over 10 years. Mostly vegetarian, a little meat (less than 5 pounds a year). It was through overeating, and including carbs in the overeating. You may want to share the link.


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Torres Cave Archaeological Site
The Torres Cave Archaeological Site is a rock shelter in the wall of a canyon south of La Junta. Excavated in 1977 by the Denver chapter of the Colorado Archaeological Society, the site was probably occupied over several centuries as a seasonal Plains Woodland (350–1000 CE) hunting and foraging camp with a possible later Apishapa phase (1050–1450 CE) component. The artifacts recovered from the site have the potential to shed light on the transition from Plains Woodland to Apishapa in southeastern Colorado.
In 1974 the Louis Torres family notified the Colorado Archaeological Society of an archaeological site on the family ranch near Villegreen. The site was a rock shelter about halfway up a steep canyon wall. About 100 feet across, twenty-five feet deep, and up to eight feet high, the shelter sometimes protected ranch workers during storms. No prior professional archaeological work had been done at the site, but it had seen significant disturbance: several years earlier a human burial had been removed but then returned and reburied, and the soil had been dug up enough to bury a soft-drink bottle cap many inches below the surface.
In 1974 the Denver chapter of the Colorado Archaeological Society did a test excavation at the site, followed two years later by another test trench. Despite the disturbances, the Denver chapter decided to do an intensive excavation in the summer of 1977 with help from a Colorado Historical Society Local Assistance Program grant. The field crew worked for twenty-eight days and excavated about half the shelter.
The Denver team found hundreds of stone artifacts, including metates and manos as well as drills, cores, knives, scrapers, and projectile points. One large boulder in the shelter had grinding basins and sharpening grooves worn into its surface. There was also a sandstone slab the size of an ironing board buried a foot beneath the surface, but its purpose was uncertain. In addition, the team found a few shallow cord-marked pottery sherds, bone tools and beads, and eleven human bones (perhaps a portion of the skeleton that had been removed and reburied). Most of the identifiable bones in the shelter were from small mammals, suggesting that its inhabitants were hunter-gatherers.
Projectile points proved especially helpful in dating Torres Cave, which contained no perishable materials other than bones because its floor was often damp from spring seeps and heavy storms. The site's small, triangular, corner-notched points indicated that it was inhabited by Plains Woodland peoples. The shallow cord-marked pottery sherds suggested that the site was occupied at least once around the transition from the Developmental period to the Diversification period that took place between 900 and 1050 CE. It is possible that the shelter was used seasonally throughout the two periods, perhaps as long as from 350 to 1400 CE.
Steven D. Hoyt, "Archaeological Investigations of Torres Cave (5LA1310), Las Animas County, Colorado, 1977," Southwestern Lore 45, nos. 1–2 (1979).
Marcia J. Tate, "Torres Cave Archaeological Site [5LA1310]," National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form (May 18, 1978; revised December 14, 1979).
E. Steve Cassells, The Archaeology of Colorado, rev. ed. (Boulder, CO: Johnson Books, 1997).
James H. Gunnerson, Archaeology of the High Plains (Denver: Bureau of Land Management, 1987).
Mark R. Guthrie, "Mammal, Bird, Amphibian, and Reptile Bone from the Torres Cave Site (5LA1310), Southeastern Colorado," Southwestern Lore 45, nos. 1-2 (1979).
Ray D. Lyons, "Floral Resources of the Torres Cave (5LA1310) Vicinity," Southwestern Lore 45, nos. 1-2 (1979).
Fred C. Rathbun, "Archaeological Geology of Torres Cave (5LA1310), Las Animas County, Colorado," Southwestern Lore 45, nos. 1-2 (1979).
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– Between 2005 and 2015, STEM employment grew by 24.4 The company improves student engagement and learning outcomes by providing educators the products they need for the 21century classroom. percent, over five times more than non-STEM employment over the same period.
Last summer, the San Francisco-based company invited several dozen educational publishers and organizations to create and sell materials to Quizlet users, as part of a closed beta program. Today, the company announced it is inviting any content creator, including individual educators, to apply for its Premium Content program. Founded in 2005, Quizlet has become a popular source among students for its user-generated digital flashcards. Content may be king.
Next Generation Science Standards and 2005 Alabama Course of Study: Science. Depending on the number and level of detail of submissions, some additional communication with companies may be required before making a decision.
Since 2005, Y Combinator has funded 1,430 companies and nearly 3,500 founders. featured 124 companies from 18 countries—marking the largest class in the accelerator's history. The company will not take more than $30,000 over the two years.) Both my co-founder and I come from small towns, where we were surrounded by brilliant people who don't have the opportunities that we enjoyed," Austin Allred, the company's co-founder and CEO, tells EdSurge.
During her time there, the company tripled in size and she earned a promotion. When it launched in 2005, the idea of a $100 laptop for the world's poorest children captured the backing of Google, eBay and UNDP. Edtech companies entering low-income countries are noticing some of these challenges and are working towards solutions. The company also reduced the size of the app and redesigned math exercises to work better on phones.
Cementing its reputation as an innovation hub, it now serves as a regional headquarters for some of the world's largest and most innovative companies, such as BMW, Roche, Novartis, Microsoft, and Apple. The MFA, which set the rules for worldwide trade in textiles from 1974 to 2004, expired on January 1, 2005. Exports are often seen as a solution to the problem of sustained economic development, and indeed they can be.
On the homepage of the health technology company Akili Interactive , there sits an intriguing line of copy: "Time to Play Your Medicine." That tagline serves as something of a futuristic mission statement for the Boston-based company, which focuses on bringing brain-training video games to market and is seeking to produce the first FDA-approved game treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. Since its founding in 2005, the lab has tested a variety of games.
One in eight couples married in 2005 met online.". So I always need a graphic design company to step up and help with the graphic part.
Our colleagues at ASCD have also verified Grant's death, as has Grant's professional development company, Authentic Education. Sometime around 2005 I think, I was walking through the booths at a major conference. Grant Wiggins, Champion Of Understanding. by Terry Heick.
More than 780 breaches in schools, resulting in the disclosure of more than 14,790,000 records, have been reported since 2005, according to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse , a California-based nonprofit consumer advocate. Credit: Frazer Hudson/Getty Images.
Adaptive' is just one feature of good learning design," the company's founder and CEO tells EdSurge. The Australian company, now based in San Francisco, has signed on 150 universities, along with another 50 companies and organizations, for its "digital courseware platform," the term that Ben-Naim is much more at ease with. More than 20,000 online courses have been created by over 8,000 educators, the company claims. The company does offer pre-made courses, too.).
automakers' market share of cars and light trucks reduced from 87% in 1970 to a mere 57% in 2005? The forces in any company push executives towards the former conclusion. Undoubtedly, Toyota is one of the most formidable automakers in the world today. How did a Japanese automaker make an indelible mark on the U.S. automotive landscape?
Digital Promise and other nonprofit organizations including EveryoneOn and The Learning Accelerator have been working with companies and schools to ensure these programs and offers are making their way into the hands of teachers, students, and families across the country.
In the 1980s, researchers developed an adaptive-tutoring math system used in high schools and colleges, and the tool was spun out as an independent company in 1998. Since then the company has swapped hands between other private-equity firms and private investors. The company also provides professional development services, which he says account for roughly a third of the company's business. He declined to share whether the company is turning a profit.
Nearly four years later, the Utah-based company is taking another business leap, with a $10 million investment from edtech venture capital firm Owl Ventures. The Kuali Foundation formed as a community source nonprofit around 2005 by a group of universities who wanted to create an affordable and customizable alternative to the millions of dollars campuses spend on administrative software systems that dominate the market, such as Ellucian or Oracle's PeopleSoft.
Only a few weeks after getting her cosmetology license in 2005, she was hired at a local Great Clips. Shaw left in 2014, saying the company's owners looked at students "as dollar signs.". "I Mr. Becher said the company had sued to "protect the students" from a subpar education.
The charging document states that Carolyn Starkey Darden, 69, of Detroit stole the money between 2005 and 2012. Starkey-Darden cheated the students of Detroit Public Schools out of valuable resources by fraudulently billing for her company's services," said David P.
The company aims to improve learning and engagement in classrooms and to help educators enhance student outcomes, by developing the products they need. OnPoint Established in 2005, OnPoint was created to provide exceptional service and support to education-based institutions.
He was the first investor in the social media company in 2004.) Peter Thiel's entrepreneurial and investment history, in brief: He co-founded the online payments company PayPal in 1998 with Max Levchin. PayPal merged with Elon Musk's financial transaction company X.com the following year, going public in 2002 and then sold to eBay later that year. In 2005, Thiel launched his investment firm Founders Fund.
By far the fewest blog posts I have written since I started the blog in 2005. For better or for worse there are now four different companies that I am a part of and each of those have me creating and producing content in some way shape or form for them. Who starts four companies?
Some low-income students may already qualify for a $31 test fee reduction via The College Board, the company that designs AP curriculum and exams. State superintendent Dr. Carey Wright says the grant will help create equitable opportunities for students to earn college credit in high school.
February 2005: Bellevue, Washington. So Slivka decided to launch a new company partly inspired on long-ago science fiction reading, such as Enders Game by Orson Scott Card and The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson—books that weave futuristic education tools into the narrative.
Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S. The movement manifests itself in corporate tax breaks, which don't require companies to contribute their fair share to state taxes, a significant part of districts' budgets. Striking Tacoma Teachers walk a picket line, Thursday, Sept.
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American Catholics Overwhelmingly Approve of Pope Benedict""And Other Handy Statistics
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With 1.18 billion followers, the Catholic Church has an enormous worldwide footprint, which makes Monday's news that Pope Benedict XVI will resign all the more significant. Plus, the move is mostly unprecedented: The last time a pope resigned, the Earth was still the center of the known universe.
Of those 1.18 billion, approximately 77.7 million are Americans. The Catholic Church still represents the largest single denomination in the country, although the majority of Americans (51.3 percent) are affiliated with a Protestant sect.
Let's break down the numbers a bit further.
♦ Twenty-four percent of Americans call themselves Catholics. Massachusetts has the highest concentration (43 percent of the state's population); Arkansas has the lowest (5 percent). Source: Pew.
♦ Twenty-four percent of that 24 percent attend Mass on a regular basis.
♦ A third of American Catholics are Hispanic, and that percentage will only grow. According to Pew, "About half of all Catholics under age 30 are Hispanic (45 percent)," however, "the vast majority of Catholics age 70 and older (85 percent) are white."
♦ Pope Benedict XVI is very popular, but not as popular as John Paul II. Seventy-four percent of Catholics are at least "somewhat satisfied" with current papal leadership.
♦ Even among the less observant Catholics, the pope is popular — 68 percent approve.
♦ Catholicism has seen high rates of attrition, despite the influx of immigrants from Latin America. "While nearly one-in-three Americans (31 percent) were raised in the Catholic faith, today fewer than one in four (24 percent) describe themselves as Catholic," a Pew report states.
♦ 30.6 percent of the 133th Congress is Catholic; in the early 60s, Catholics accounted for 18.8 percent.
♦ Of freshmen in Congress, 36.5 percent are Catholic.
♦ There are slightly more Catholic Democrats in Congress than Catholic Republicans (93 to 70).
♦ The number of priests in the country is declining (58,000 in 1965; 39,000 in 2012). Worldwide, the number of priests has remained stable during that time period at around 400,000. Source: Georgetown University.
♦ President Obama's approval rating among Catholics more or less tracks that of the population at large.
Brian Resnick is a former staff correspondent at National Journal and a former producer of The Atlantic's National channel.
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Robert R Livingston - Klos Family Project - Patriot
Robert R Livingston, son of Robert R Livingston, statesman, born in New York city, 27 November, 1746; died in Clermont, New York, 26 February, 1813, was graduated at Kings (now Columbia) college in 1765, and studied law with William Smith and his kinsman, William Livingston. He was admitted to the bar in 1773, and for a short time was associated in partnership with John Jay, who had been his contemporary in college. Mr. Livingston met with great success in the practice of his profession, and was appointed recorder of the city of New York by Governor William Tryon in 1773, but lost this office in 1775, owing to his active sympathy with the revolutionary spirit of the times.
In 1775 he was elected to the provincial assembly of New York from Dutchess county, and sent by this body as a delegate to the Continental congress, where he was chosen one of a committee of five to draft the Declaration of Independence. He was prevented from signing' this document by his hasty return to the meeting of the provincial convention, taking his seat, in that assembly on 8 July, 1776, the day on which the title of the "province" was changed to that of the "state" of New York, and he was appointed on the committee to draw up a state constitution. At the Kingston convention in 1777 the constitution was accepted, and he was appointed first chancellor of New York under its provisions, which office he held until 1801.
Chancellor Livingston continued a delegate to the Continental congress until 1777, was again one of its members in 1779-'81, and throughout the entire Revolution was most active in behalf of the cause of independence. As chancellor he administered the oath of office to George Washington on his inauguration as first president of the United States. The ceremony took place at the City Hall where the present S. S. sub-treasury building stands, then fronting on Wall street. It had been specially fitted up for the reception of congress, and the exact spot where Washington stood is now marked by a colossal statue of the first president, which rests on the original stone upon which the ceremony took place. The statue was designed by John Q. A. Ward, and unveiled on the centennial celebration of the evacuation of New York, 25 November, 1883. Immediately after administering the oath Chancellor Livingston exclaimed in deep and impressive tones: "Long live George Washington, president of the United States."
He held office of secretary of foreign affairs for the United States in 1781-'3, and in 1788 was chairman of the New York convention to consider the United States constitution, whose adoption he was largely instrumental in procuring. The post of minister to France was declined by him in 1794, and he also refused the secretaryship of the navy under Thomas Jefferson, but in 1801, being obliged by constitutional provision to resign the chancellorship, he accepted the mission to France. He enjoyed the personal friendship of Napoleon Bonaparte, who, on Livingston's departure in 1805, presented him with a splendid snuff-box containing a miniature likeness of himself, painted by Isabey. It is said that "he appeared to be the favorite foreign envoy."
He was successful in accomplishing the cession of Louisiana to the United States in 1803, and also began the negotiations tending toward a settlement for French spoliations on the commerce of the United States. Subsequent to his resignation he traveled extensively through Europe. While in Paris he met Robert Fulton, and together they successfully developed a plan of steam navigation. Mr. Livingston had previously been impressed with the advantage that was to be derived from the application of steam to navigation, and he obtained from the legislature of the state of New York the exclusive right to navigate its water-ways by steam power for twenty years. He then constructed a boat of thirty tons burden, with which he succeeded in making three miles an hour, but the concession was made on condition of attaining a speed of four miles an hour, and other duties intervened to prevent success. He made numerous experiments with Fulton, and finally launched a boat on the Seine, which, however, did not fully realize their expectations. Later, on their return to the United States, their experiments were continued until 1807, when the "Clermont" succeeded in accomplishing five miles an hour.
After his retire-meat from public service, Livingston devoted considerable time and attention to the subject of agriculture, and it was through his efforts that the use of gypsum for fertilizing purposes became general he was also the first to introduce the merino sheep into the farming communities west of Hudson river. He was the principal founder of the American academy of fine arts in New York in 1801, and its first president, for some time president of the New York society for the promotion of useful arts, and a trustee of the New York society library on its reorganization in 1788. In 1792 the degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by the regents of the University of the state of New York. He published an oration that he delivered before the Society of the Cincinnati on 4 July, 1787, an address to the Society for promoting the arts (1808), and "Essays on Agriculture" and "Essay on Sheep" (New York, 1809, and London, 1811). Benjamin Franklin called him the "Cicero of America," and his statue, with that of George Clinton, forms the group of the two most eminent citizens of New York being placed by act of congress in the Capitol in Washington. See " Biographical Sketch of Robert R. Livingston" by Frederic De Peyster (New York, 1876).
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Why Do I Love Quora So Much!
Greetings Reader! I became a part of this forum now almost three years back. However, I began to get prolific about writing here only over a year ago. And, hitherto then, I had managed to had about some 150ish followers most of which comprised of my college mates. And, here I am, amazed by the … Continue reading Why Do I Love Quora So Much!


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When TMZ released a brutal surveillance tape last month of Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice beating his then-fiancé (now wife) unconscious in an elevator, too many cable news commenters sadly, yet predictably, questioned why she stayed.
Author Beverly Gooden decided she had enough. She turned to Twitter to take back the conversation.
Gooden wasn't the only one who took issue with the media's treatment of Janay Rice. Within two days, more than 100,000 tweets revealing the complexities of domestic violence were shared using the hashtag #WhyIStayed.
A hashtag movement like this is not unusual. According to Twitter data, conversations about "feminism" have increased by 300 percent over three years. It's hard to keep up with the various campaigns, from #EverydaySexism to #YouOKSis, a fight against street harassment, to #AskHerMore, a plea for more interesting questions to be asked on the red carpet.
#WhyIStayed gave a voice to domestic violence victims who are typically silenced. Over the past couple years, Twitter has proven itself a tool of empowerment for the marginalized.
In August of last year, feminist writer Mikki Kendall tweeted #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen in response to a rant by self-proclaimed "male feminist" Hugo Schwyzer. (Schwyzer admitted on Twitter that he mistreated women of color.) The hashtag quickly took off and started a nationwide conversation about white privilege among feminists, catching the attention of NPR, Al Jazeera and the Guardian, among others. One has to wonder how a topic like this would have been picked up by these outlets had it not been for social media. Social media reveals what the public wants, and what's important.
Hashtag feminism reached its peak in May following a shooting spree by 22-year-old Elliot Rodger, who killed six people after uploading a disturbing, misogynistic "manifesto" to YouTube. Started by an anonymous Twitter user as a response to #NotAllMen, women shared stories of everyday sexism to demonstrate that while not al men are bad, yes, all women experience misogyny.
The movement practically shut down the Internet. Within four days of its first use, #YesAllWomen had been tweeted 1.2 million times. And these women's voices – though they may have been quoted as anonymous – made the rounds across mainstream media.
The #YesAllWomen Twitter feed served to educate men on how women navigate misogyny in their day-to-day lives. But it also worked as a service to women: the stories reminded us of and helped us to realize the ways we might subconsciously alter our behaviors in the presence of sexism. Some of the changes – such as crossing the street to avoid a possibly threatening man – are subtle. But #YesAllWomen demonstrated that every instance of sexism matters. We didn't need experts weighing in; we learned from real people talking about real experiences.
In a commencement speech in June, Shonda Rhimes, creator of Scandal and Grey's Anatomy, called on Dartmouth College graduates to be "do-ers," not "dreamers." She felt compelled to remind them: "A hashtag is not helping. … A hashtag is not a movement." It's easy to write a tweet, she said, add some type of activist hashtag and feel good about yourself for a minute before going back to watching Netflix. This is true, and hashtags should not be the end-all, be-all.
Still, we can't forget that Twitter gives a voice to those who feel silenced, that it helps give the public the power to dictate the conversation and raises awareness. It's hard to look at the noise made by feminist hashtags over the last year and say it's not a movement.


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Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Originaltitel Babardeală cu bucluc sau porno balamuc) ist ein Spielfilm von Radu Jude aus dem Jahr 2021. Der Film wirft einen respektlosen politischen Blick auf das heutige Rumänien, wofür stellvertretend eine Racheporno-Geschichte steht. Der Amateur-Pornofilm einer Lehrerin wird von Unbekannten im Internet veröffentlicht, mit ungeahnten Konsequenzen.

Die europäische Koproduktion wurde in den Wettbewerb der 71. Internationalen Filmfestspielen Berlin eingeladen, wo sie den Hauptpreis gewann. Der Kinostart in Deutschland ist für den 8. Juli 2021 vorgesehen. Die deutsche DVD-Premiere erfolgt am 25. November 2021.

Handlung
Zu Beginn wird der von der Lehrerin Emi und ihrem Ehemann selbstgemachte Pornofilm gezeigt. Der anstößige Clip findet seinen Weg ins Internet und bald darauf auf die Handys ihrer Schüler und in die WhatsApp-Gruppe der empörten Eltern. Der Film teilt sich folgend in drei Kapitel:

Part I – One-way street (»Teil 1: Einbahnstraße«)
Emi läuft während der COVID-19-Pandemie unruhig durch Bukarest und tätigt verschiedene Einkäufe, unter anderem kauft sie in einem Antiquariat eine Ausgabe von Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology. Sie besucht die befreundete Schuldirektorin, die bei der abendlichen Diskussion mit den Eltern anwesend sein wird. Der Pornofilm wurde zum Entsetzen Emis in der Zwischenzeit von Unbekannten wieder auf die Website Pornhub hochgeladen. Sie ist gestressten Passanten, Kunden und falschparkenden Autofahrern in teilweise viel zu großen Fahrzeugen ausgesetzt.

Part II – Short dictionary of anecdotes, signs, and wonders (»Teil 2: Kurzes Wörterbuch der Anekdoten, Zeichen und Wunder«)
Der zweite Teil präsentiert als eine Art Essayfilm ein enzyklopädisches Kompendium verschiedener Begriffe, das als Collage historischer Dokumente mit zynischen Anekdoten inszeniert ist. Die Begriffe sind zum Teil der rumänischen Geschichte oder der Gesellschaft entnommen (u. a. "Ceaușescu", "Eminescu", "Haus des Volkes", "Rumänisch-Orthodoxe Kirche", "Rumänische Revolution"). Von A wie "Aborigini" bis Z wie "Zen" werden die Einträge mit Überlegungen zur Sexualität oder der Rolle des Kinos verknüpft. Es finden sich unter anderem Beiträge über Blondinen-Witze, Cunt, Familie, Fellatio, Gehalt, Geld, Jesus, Kinder, Krieg, Kultur, Liebe, Livecam, Luxus, Militär, Patriotismus, Penis, Politik, Pornografie, Rassismus, Social Distancing, Selfie, Vergewaltigung und Weihnachten.

Part III – Praxis and innuendos (Sitcom) (»Teil 3: Praxis und Anspielungen (Sitcom)«)
Während einer Versammlung, pandemiebedingt im Innenhof der Schule ausgerichtet, muss sich Emi vor den aufgebrachten Eltern rechtfertigen. Diese stehen für die verschiedensten Positionen der rumänischen Gesellschaft – vom strengen Militär und ehemaligen Ceaușescu-Anhänger über neureiche Ausländer bis zum liberalen Homosexuellen. Weil sie entgegen dem Rahmenlehrplan auch die Literatur von Isaak Babel behandelt hat, wird ihr "jüdische Propaganda" vorgeworfen. An Stelle von Argumenten hagelt es obszöne Beleidigungen und Vorwürfe gegen Emi. Die Elternversammlung kommt einem unfairen Schauprozess gleich. Zum Schluss werden drei alternative Varianten nebeneinander gestellt, wie die Versammlung für Emi enden könnte:
 Die Mehrheit der Eltern entscheidet sich per Handzeichen gegen Sanktionen für Emi.
 Die Mehrheit der Eltern votiert für einen Ausschluss der Lehrerin von der Schule.
 Die Mehrheit entscheidet sich für den Ausschluss Emis, daraufhin setzt sie vor Wut ungeahnte Kräfte frei. Sie verwandelt sich in Wonder Woman, nimmt die Elternschar mit einem riesigen Netz gefangen und stößt jedem von ihnen einen übergroßen Dildo mehrfach in den Rachen.

Hintergrund
Babardeală cu bucluc sau porno balamuc ist der neunte Spielfilm, bei dem Jude Regie führte. Sein neuestes Werk wurde noch vor der Veröffentlichung als "Zusammentreffen zwischen Immanuel Kant (das moralische Gesetz) und Emanuelle Cunt (das sterbliche Gesetz)" beschrieben. Der Kritiker Andrei Gorzo fasste den Film als "aggressiv, experimentell, voller Ideen und vor allem mit einem überaus prägnanten Sinn für die Gegenwart" zusammen.

Rezeption
Der Film schnitt im internationalen Kritikenspiegel der britischen Fachzeitschrift Screen International von allen 15 Wettbewerbsfilmen mit 2,4 von vier möglichen Sternen am achtbesten ab, während der japanische Spielfilm Das Glücksrad und die deutsche Dokumentation Herr Bachmann und seine Klasse die Rangliste mit je 3,3 Sternen anführten.

Andreas Kilb (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) schätzte Judes Film als eher unsicheren Kandidaten auf mögliche Berlinale-Preise ein. Schuld daran sei vor allem das am Anfang stehende Pornovideo. Babardeală cu bucluc sau porno balamuc greife ein "aktuelles Problem, den Status der Intimität in der neuen Streaming-Welt" auf. Dass die Schauspieler im Film Gesichtsmasken tragen, sei dem Corona-Jahr und dem Gestus der "grellen Sozialsatire" angemessen. So würden laut Kilb manche der Sprecher auf ihren Masken genau jene verzerrten Münder zeigen, die zu ihrem Gerede passen.

Laut Kathleen Hildebrand (Süddeutsche Zeitung) stach der Film "auf angenehm schockierende, offen politische Art aus einem Berlinale-Wettbewerb heraus, der ansonsten sehr viel Elegisches" geboten habe. Jude erzähle "Emis Geschichte nicht als persönliches Problem", stattdessen mache er "– sehr überzeugend – das ganz große Fass auf".

Auszeichnungen
Mit Babardeală cu bucluc sau porno balamuc gewann Jude erstmals den Goldenen Bären der Berlinale. Es war die zweite Wettbewerbseinladung für ihn nach 2015 (Regiepreis für Aferim!).

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eLearning as an industry is growing, meaning that your battle for leads is only going to become more difficult. In this article I'll walk you through a step-by-step procedure for creating and beginning to develop your own eLearning content marketing strategy today.
eLearning content marketing is huge right now; 86% of B2Bs, 77% of B2Cs, and 61% of non-profits in North America are using content marketing in 2015 (Source: Various CMI Reports).
But why should your eLearning company develop its own content marketing? Well, how does this sound?
Appealing to your existing audience; but at an earlier stage in the decision making process.
Extending your audience, attracting new types of prospects.
Providing you're in the position to be able to hire suitable expertise, your content marketing will only cost their time.
Content marketing is truly valuable for increasing brand affinity. Why? Regularly expressing your thoughts on issues that matter using your own unobtrusive platform allows you to build a voice, without irritating anybody. Remember, with content marketing you are not asking anything of anyone; you have been found by visitors on their own accord. Those who share your voice will quickly form a fiercely loyal community.
With many traditional advertising methods, you've only got just one opportunity to communicate with your potential customers; how do you pitch it? Too little info and you've missed the opportunity, whilst too much sales-orientated content and you've pushed them away for good. With eLearning content marketing, you have as much time, media space, and opportunities as you need in order to deploy your message to perfection.
Raise awareness of your brand and what you do.
Now that you have an audience that are interested in what you have to say, you can say what you really want and need to be saying. That is, you can start talking more about you, and what your company has to offer. Don't be afraid to (gradually, of course) begin to weave some subtle prompts towards buying your products or services.
The best part of this strategy is that you are able to retarget this pool of already informed prospects with other channels; in time, you'll have converted at least a small % of this audience into buying customers - and it all began with your content marketing.
Yes, there are plenty of other customer acquisition strategies available to you. Okay, sure, advertising your brand has never been easier; your options have never been so plentiful.
But can you afford to not be content marketing?
I thought so. What follows is a step-by-step strategy for developing your content marketing strategy.
But wait, who are you and what authority do you have in advising me on Content Marketing in eLearning?
My name is Jordan and I work in digital marketing for High Speed Training, an innovative eLearning provider based in the UK. I'm responsible for developing and managing our content marketing strategy on the Hub.
Who uses your product/service and why?
Which groups of people would be interested in your offering?
These are the initial questions that you should be posing to yourself and your team before beginning the first stages of your eLearning content marketing strategy development. The answers to these questions will guide your keyword research.
Get comfortable with Google AdWords Keyword Planner; there are plenty of helpful (and free!) tutorials on how to use the Keyword Planner out there, and you'll be able to pick up the basics very quickly.
Now, with the above questions in mind, begin researching different keywords relevant to your businesses unique offering. Keep it pretty general at this point.
Have a quick browse of some of the suggested keywords; do they seem in line what your organization sells? If yes, download each list into a single spreadsheet.
Once you've compiled all this data into one spreadsheet (separate different product/service areas by tabs for ease of navigation), you can sort your keywords by metrics such as search volume to make your data easier to filter.
You're looking for search terms with sufficient search volume, but nothing too generic. Chasing broad search terms such as "Learning Management System" with high search volume is redundant.
Yes, even a small percentage share of that traffic will provide your website with a lovely traffic boost, but can you guarantee that you'll even rank on the first page for such a term?
Craft a unique article idea/title around.
Actually look at the SERP (Search Engine Result Page) for that specific term.
Which websites are listed there?
Of what quality and relevance are their posts?
Online learning courses for pupils.
Learning Management System for schools.
Now, manually look through your keyword data for opportunities that have sufficient search volume, and which you have the ability to create content that will rank for, using the methods I described.
So, now you've pulled all of your keywords that you've decided you can create content from, rank for, and subsequently receive a satisfactory return in relevant traffic as a result.
Don't worry, that time spent on those glorious spreadsheets will pay off!
Now you need to begin generating actual ideas around all this data. Crafting article titles around your targeted keywords is perhaps the most fulfilling aspect of your eLearning content marketing strategy development.
You'll start to see the actual forming of what your content might look like in this stage. Just keep in mind that you don't have to stick rigidly to the exact keyword that you're targeting; you can receive relevant traffic from keyword variants.
Example: Continuing the example used earlier, let's say you found the keyword "eLearning courses for schools" from your broad keyword research of the keyword "eLearning for schools".
Now, you could of course simply create content with the title "eLearning courses for schools", and then proceed to create content that lists and details the courses that you provide which are suitable for schools. However, this is likely to be a highly crowded Search Engine Result Page with little differentiation between results.
Instead, you could produce an article with the title, for example, "Why eLearning courses for schools is a growing phenomenon"; this is just an illustrative example of course.
In doing so, you would still have the ability to rank for the target keyword, but also enhance your content's ability to rank for keyword variations. Furthermore, your listing will stand out in the Search Engine Result Page because it will have a title with a different slant to your competitors.
In addition, your listing will also seem less sales-like, meaning that searchers may feel more comfortable clicking on your site in the Search Engine Result Page. Even if they're not quite ready to purchase yet, you now have the chance to write content that can convince potential customers of the benefits of your offering in a non-pushy way, which is a rare opportunity.
You have your list of article ideas and titles based on solid keyword data; so now you need to decide when you're going to publish all this content.
First off, get yourself a content calendar. You can make your own custom calendar yourself using familiar tools such as Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel, or Google Calendar. Alternatively, consider a free content calendar template or a more comprehensive paid solution such as CoSchedule.
Release of your courses, Learning Management System updates, etc.
Relevant seasonal and industry events, occasions, etc.
eLearning is a growing trend; and to keep up with all the developments in this digital industry, you'll need to post more than just once or twice each month. With a calendar you can keep track of posting frequency -including days and times- and measure this to understand at which times your content performs best upon release.
You need to be able to synchronize the release of your courses, Learning Management System updates or other important landmarks related to your products/services with complementary content.
A calendar allows you to monitor this calendar year's various seasonal and industry events that are relevant to your organization; see how they fit with your schedule and what you can do to incorporate them if appropriate. Think about what value you can add in terms of content to the buzz around each event.
Integrating your social scheduling with your content management calendar will allow you to swiftly identify whether there may be any clashes or conflicts of interest with what you have planned on your social platforms.
Finally, and importantly, time implications; scheduling assists you in making sure that you don't end up having no content available to post because it's just not yet ready yet.
As long as you are able to come up with reasonable timescale estimates per post in advance, you can then assign these posts to the most suitable members of in-house staff who are available and possess the suitable expertise to be able to produce the content.
It is beyond the capabilities of your organization's shared in-house knowledge.
It will provide better results to outsource.
It is cheaper and/or easier to outsource.
There is a lack of availability/resources to produce that content in-house at that particular time.
Whether you produce the content in-house or outsource it, in using a content calendar you'll be able to plan ahead with increased ease and put in place the necessary arrangements to ensure your content is produced in time to meet the demands of your schedule.
4. Post posting your posts.
Once your content has been published, there are a few final steps that you must take which are absolutely crucial in the execution of a successful eLearning content marketing strategy.
Use a website such as Ping-o-Matic! to let the search engines know that you've updated your blog.
Promote your content on social.
Okay, this is the obvious one; most companies do this, and I'm sure I don't need to go into why you need to share your content on your social networks! If you are in the small minority of companies that aren't doing this, then get on it!
Present your content to influencers.
Almost every field has experts, or influencers, who are recognized authorities on a specific subject, and as such usually have a significant following. Presenting your content to those relevant influencers increases the exposure of your content, and will add weight to your claims if backed by an expert.
Locate discussions, forums, etc. around the topic.
Your content might well have the ability to solve problems that people are talking about in forums and blogs online right now. Use BuzzSumo to identify any discussions going on around the topic of your content and get involved, sharing your content if it helps people or is relevant to the conversation.
Don't forget to track and measure the performance of your content! You should feed this data back into the earlier stages of your eLearning content marketing development strategy to establish the success of your efforts; you can then tweak your strategy accordingly. Is your content not receiving much traffic? Check whether it's a problem with how well your content ranked, or if the keyword simply isn't producing much traffic; this will help guide your future keyword research.
Following the advice on offer in this article will provide you with an excellent framework from which to develop and tailor your content marketing strategy to the needs of your organization.
Tweak and refine as you see fit, but don't forget the core principles covered here.


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Dr. Michael Hudgens is a professor in the Department of Biostatistics at UNC-Chapel Hill and is director of the Biostatistics Core of the UNC Center for AIDS Research (CFAR). He has experience in collaborative research and statistical methodology development related to studies of infectious diseases.
Professor Hudgens has co-authored more than 200 peer-reviewed papers in statistical journals such as Biometrics, Biometrika, JASA and JRSS-B as well as biomedical journals such as the Lancet, Nature and New England Journal of Medicine. He currently serves as an associate editor for Biometrics, JASA and JRSS-B. He is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association and has taught graduate level biostatistics courses at UNC for over ten years.
Edward G. McGavran Award for Excellence in Teaching
2015, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Elected Fellow
2012, American Statistical Association
Faculty Award
2012, Delta Omega
Charles C. Shepard Science Award
2011, Centers for Disease Prevention and Control
Research Mentor of Kupper Dissertation Publication Award
2011, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Developmental Award
2006, UNC Center for AIDS Research
Young Investigator Award, Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Distinguished Student Paper Award
2000, Eastern North American Region of the International Biometric Society
NIAID AIDS Training Grant Fellowship
1997-2000, Emory University
Representative Courses
Survival Analysis, Causal Inference, Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Clinical Trials
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Associate Editor, JASA
Associate Editor, Biometrics
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Gayl Taylor and I requested the rights back from Breathless Press for this short story. In checking, it seems this ebook has been removed from most third party sites, so we will be moving forward. It was released in Nov 2012.
So what are our plans for it? We will be renaming it, rewriting, editing, and hopefully, will find a new home for it.
This book was tagged ADULT by Amazon some months back, which in turn, affected sales. The cover was 'too suggestive'. In light of the recent crackdown by Amazon on certain types of covers, its a good opportunity for Gayl and I to re-do this on a lot of fronts. It wasn't worth changing the cover to suit Amazon, so we decided to wait until we could contractually ask for the rights back. No hassles with Breathless Press, we just feel this story deserves a second chance.
This ends my association with Breathless Press, but not Gayl's.


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