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Episode # 11-18 / 1743rd Show
To Be Aired : Monday 5/2/2011 through
Sunday 5/8/2011
"A Lion At Night And Plenty Of Planets In The Dawn's Early Light"
Dean; Hey there star gazers. I'm Dean Regas, outreach astronomer from the Cincinnati Observatory and I'll be your guide to the sky this month on Star Gazer. Now that the weather is warm enough for you to spend a little time outside in early evening without your long johns I'd like to suggest that sometime during this lovely month of May you go out and get a look at the most famous constellation of spring which for thousands of years has been associated with royalty and regal majesty, Leo the Lion. Plus the two brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter will meet in the pre-dawn sky next week and they'll be joined by two more. Let me show you.
O.K., we've got our skies set up for any clear night an hour or two after sunset during may facing south where approximately 2/3 of the way up from the horizon you will see the stars which make up the very ancient star pattern we call Leo. He is frequently shown as a reclining sphinx with his two paws out in front of him and I'm sure that many an ancient Egyptian drew a correlation between this heavenly sphinx and their earthly monumental statue. A very bright backward question mark or sickle shaped group of stars marks his head and mane plus a bright triangle of stars marks his rear. Leo's brightest star Regulus, which means the little king, marks the place where his heart should be. in fact Regulus' second, though lesser known, name in Latin is Cor Leonis, which means the heart of the lion. The Roman Pliny referred to it as the royal one and in ancient Greece it was called the king's star.
But what our ancestors couldn't know about this royal heart of the king of the beasts and what modern astronomy tells us is that it is a fast spinning, which means bulging, star almost 4 1/2 times as wide as our million mile wide Sun. But Regulus is much hotter than our yellow Sun and it shines blue white hot and is 150 times brighter! And while it takes only 8 1/3 minutes for the light from our Sun to reach Earth, Regulus is so far away that it takes its light 79 years to reach us. How's that for royal grandeur? The second brightest star of Leo is in the triangle that makes up his rear end. It marks Leo's tail and is appropriately named Denebola, which means the lion's tail. It too is a great star although not as great as Regulus being only 1 1/2 times the size of our Sun and 12 times brighter. But it is only half as far as Regulus and Denebola's light takes only 36 years to reach us.
And about two fists down and to the left of Denebola is a strange looking double star. It's not really a double star but it's the planet Saturn close by a star named Porrima. Saturn is about two Moon widths away from Porrima now and by early June will be half that distance from it. so keep an eye on Saturn and Porrima over the next few weeks. I'll be telling you more about them in upcoming shows.
Meanwhile for you early birds, there will be four planets that you might see in the early morning sky before dawn, if you have a clear flat horizon and the clouds cooperate. This will be a toughie and if you miss it you'll have to wait until Sept. 2040 to have a chance like this again so let me show you. Sunday morning May 8 about 45 minutes before sunrise look east just above the horizon. The brightest planet Venus will be about three degrees to the right of the biggest planet Jupiter. Mercury will be just below Venus and dimmer Mars will be off to the left of Jupiter. Look every morning next week and they will move closer with Jupiter and Venus at their closest on Wednesday the 11th.
Once again Sunday the 8th, Monday the 9th, Tuesday the 10th and Wednesday the 11th, then they will separate and Venus and Jupiter won't be nearly this close again until May of 2013. Mercury and Mars will be especially tough to see, binoculars might help, give it a try. The regal lion Leo in the evening and a planet party in the morning sky next week. Keep looking up!
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Dean: Have you ever seen the royal sphinx of the heavens? Plus four , count'em, four planets in the pre-dawn sky next week. Look south after sunset and you'll see Leo the Lion. A backward question mark of stars marks his front and a triangle of stars, his rear. His brightest star Regulus is Latin for little king but little it's not. It is almost 4 1/2 times the size of our Sun and 150 times brighter and it takes 77 years for its light to reach us. Its second brightest star Denebola marks his tail. It is 1 1/2 times our Sun's size, 14 times brighter and it takes its light 36 years to reach us. There are four planets close together in the morning sky next week, Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Mercury. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Keep looking up!
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Episode #11-19 /1744th Show
To Be Aired : Monday 5/9/2011 through Sunday 5/15/2011
"Take The Seven Day Star Gazer Astronomy Challenge"
Dean; Hey there star gazers, I'm Dean Regas, outreach astronomer for the Cincinnati Observatory and I'll be your guide to the sky this month on Star Gazer. I know that observing the night sky can be kinda intimidating at first. With so many stars and so many planets. Where do you begin? This week I want you to get to know three stars, the Moon and the planet of spring. I call it the Star Gazer 7-day challenge. I guarantee that if you watch the sky every night for seven days, you'll not only get to know the major stars but some minor workings of the heavens as well. And once you get a foothold in the stars, the sky's the limit! Let's get started.
Okay, we have our skies set for Friday night May 13 looking high in the south- east. Let's start with the Moon, which is in its waxing gibbous phase. This means that the Moon is almost full. From night to night the Moon will shift ever eastward across the stars. What I mean is that on Friday night the Moon will be just to the right of Saturn, but by Saturday night, at the same time, it will have moved closer to the bright blue star Spica, each night the Moon shifts closer to the eastern horizon. Here it is on the 15th, 16th, and 17th.
In fact the Moon rises about 50 minutes later each night. In other words when you find the Moon tonight, it will take about 24 hours and 50 minutes to return to a similar place in the sky. The stars and planets won't move that fast. And one of the stars of spring is bright, orange Arcturus. Arcturus is the brightest star in the constellation called Bootes. Take special care when pronouncing Bootes, because he is not amused if you mispronounce his name.
Although Bootes looks more like a really wide necktie, the ancients pictured a guy chasing after a big bear. Well, where's the big bear? You might better recognize it as the Big Dipper which stands almost straight overhead. The Big Dipper is the rear end and tail of the Big Bear, Ursa Major. In fact the Big Dipper makes a perfect pointer to locate Arcturus in the sky. Just use the stars of the Big Dipper's handle to guide you. Follow the arc of the handle to Arcturus. Pretty catchy, huh?
We're not done yet. After you follow the 'arc to Arcturus' continue and straighten the line out from Arcturus and you'll come to a bright blue star called Spica. Spica is the brightest star in the constellation Virgo the maiden. Even though Virgo is one of the largest constellations in the sky, her starry outline is tough to imagine. But Spica makes up for Virgo's obscurity as it twinkles radiantly in the southeast. So to find Spica, start with the Big Dipper again. Follow the arc to Arcturus and then hit a spike to Spica. Okay, that's not quite as catchy, but maybe it'll help anyway.
Finally let's get back to the planet I mentioned earlier: beautiful, ringed Saturn. Saturn shines with a steady yellow light in the May evenings about 13 degrees higher in the sky than Spica. Saturn and Spica are almost identical in brightness, with Saturn just barely edging out the big blue star. Saturn has to be the most amazing planetary system we know of. With a dynamic surface full of swirling storms and auroras, 61 known moons, and oh, those rings these pictures were taken by the Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn. But you have got to see Saturn for yourself in a telescope. It will definitely make you say "wow!"
Keep an eye on Saturn this month because it will wander near another star in the constellation Virgo - a dimmer star named Porrima. The retrograde motion of Saturn will move it to within half of a degree of Porrima in June. You'll be able to see Saturn, some of its brighter moons like Titan and Rhea along with Porrima in the same view of a small telescope. You gotta check it out!
So follow the arc to Arcturus and hit a spike to Spica tonight and you'll see two super spring stars. During the week, watch the Moon move steadily across the sky from day to day and find sensational Saturn near the dimmer star in Virgo, Porrima. Remember to take my seven day Star Gazer challenge and I guarantee you'll Keep looking up!
5/9/2011 thru 5/15/2011
Dean: This week I'm issuing you a challenge. Watch the skies every night for the next seven nights and I guarantee you'll not only get to know two major stars and one planet but you'll get hooked on watching the heavens. Let's start with the Moon. Each night this week, the Moon will move across the much farther background stars. By the weekend it'll be below a long skinny triangle of stars high in the east. The bright orange star to the far right is called Arcturus. The dimmest and lowest of the three is a blue star called Spica. And the third "star" is actually a planet! Let's zoom in with a small telescope to reveal the magnificent rings of Saturn. And for an even better view check out some pictures taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn. Simply amazing! I'm Dean Regas from the Cincinnati Observatory and I hope you take my astronomy challenge and remember to keep looking up!
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Episode # 11-20 / 1745th Show
To Be Aired : Monday 5/16/2011 through Sunday 5/22/2011
"Half A Dozen Planets And A Load Of Moons"
Dean: Hey there Star Gazers, I'm Dean Regas, outreach astronomer for the Cincinnati Observatory and I'll be your guide to the sky this month on Star Gazer. You have a great opportunity to use the Moon to help you find half a dozen planets next week and a rare chance to see the four Galilean moons lined up in their right sequence. Let's get this sky show going.
O.K., next Monday May 23rd about 45 minutes before sunrise drag your star gazing bones out of the sack and look east around 4:30 or so. The reason I'm asking you get up at that ungodly hour is that the Moon will be perfectly placed to help you find the most distant planet Neptune. You'll need binoculars and a dark sky to spot bluish Neptune, about 15 degrees down and to the left of the 21 day old Moon. The next day Tuesday May 24th will be even better as the last quarter Moon will be much closer, only 5 degrees above the 8th planet Neptune. Remember you'll need binoculars to find Neptune.Now don't sleep in on Monday and put all your Neptune eggs in Tuesday's basket because the clouds may be different from one day to the next.
Let's talk about the sizes and distances involved here. The 2,000 mile wide Moon will be 248,000 miles away and its light will take 1 1/3 seconds to get here. Neptune is another thing all together. It is so far away that its light will take over 4 hours to get here! Neptune is a gas giant planet 4 times the diameter of our Earth, almost 31,000 miles wide.
The next day Wednesday the 25th the Moon will be a bit skinnier and heading away from Neptune. The next day Thursday the 26th an even skinnier Moon will be approaching another gas giant planet Uranus. The best day will be Friday May 27th when the Moon will be only 5 1/2 degrees up and to the left of Uranus. Uranus is not as far from the Sun as Neptune so its light will take less than three hours to get here compared to Neptune's 4 hours. Uranus, like Neptune, is a gas giant planet completely different from our rocky planet Earth and 1,000 miles wider than Neptune.
The Moon will be getting really skinny the next day Saturday the 28th as it heads toward a really bright spot of light in your morning sky the king of the planets Jupiter. Sunday morning the 29th a very skinny Moon will be 5 degrees up and to the left of Jupiter.
Now you can see the Moon and Jupiter plainly with your naked eye. And take a good look at the Moon and you may see a grey ghostly image of the Moon's disk to the right of the thin crescent. If you get out around 4:30 you'll have a better chance of seeing it before the Sun washes it away as dawn approaches. This grey light is what's known as earthshine. This pale ghostly image of the Moon is lit up by sunlight that has traveled from the Sun to the day time side of the Earth then reflected off the Earth up to the dark side of the Moon and then back down to Earth for you to see, quite a trip for a little sunbeam.
Usually Star Gazer is about naked eye star gazing but with Neptune and Uranus binoculars will be necessary. And binoculars or a small telescope will be essential for the next thing we're going to tell you about. Jupiter has over 50 Moons but it's the four biggest ones discovered by Galileo that we're talking about now. Their names from left to right are Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. An easy way to remember their names is to say to yourself, "I Eat Geen Caterpillars". Yucckkkk!
Well on Sunday morning May 29th these four Galilean moons will be lined up on the right side of Jupiter in order of their distance from Jupiter. Io, first then Europa, then Ganymede, then Callisto. Be sure to see this, it doesn't happen every day. There are three more planets down to the left of Jupiter, which you might see but it will be iffy. On Monday May 30th a super skinny Moon will be above Venus. Mars will be up to Venus' right and Mercury will be even lower and left of Venus. You'll have to have a lot of luck and a really clear horizon to see this though, but what the heck, give it a try. You'll never know unless you keep looking up!
Dean: Next week the Moon can help you find six, count'em six, planets next week and you get a rare chance to see the four Galilean moons lined up in their right sequence. Let me show you. O.K., next Tuesday May 24th before dawn you'll need binoculars and a dark sky to spot bluish Neptune about 5 degrees below the last quarter Moon. Then Friday May 27th the Moon will be only 5 1/2 degrees up and to the left of Uranus. Sunday morning the 29th a very skinny Moon will be up and to the left of Jupiter. Use your binoculars to see the four Galilean moons lined up beside Jupiter in their correct order: Io, first, then Europa, then Ganymede, then Callisto. There will be three more planets, Venus, Mars and Mercury down to the left of Jupiter, which you might see but it will be iffy. Remember to keep looking up!
"The Horse On The Handle Of The Big Dipper"
Dean: Hey star gazers. Have you ever heard the story about the horse on the handle of the Big Dipper? Well it's a good one.
O.K., we're facing due north any spring evening before midnight. And depending on the exact hour, and whether it's March, April, May or early June, the Big Dipper will be high up off the horizon either to the east of the North Star or west of the North Star or directly above it. Four stars trace out its cup and three stars make up its handle. But we're going to pay attention to what looks like to most people the one star at the bend of the handle, a star named Mizar.
Now although you have undoubtedly seen this star many times, have you ever looked at it really close? Because if you do look at it really close you will see that it is not just one star but two. Indeed right next to Mizar you can see a slightly dimmer star, a star named Alcor, which in Arabic means "the lost or friendless one". Now centuries ago it was said that these two stars, bright Mizar and dimmer Alcor were used as a kind of ancient eye exam for a famous sultan's army. If a recruit could see both stars he was in, but if he couldn't he was out. I kind of question the validity of that story, however because most people can see both stars. Although admittedly I have to use my glasses, so maybe the test was for older recruits.
At any rate, long ago these two stars became popularly known as "The Horse and the Rider", bright Mizar being the horse and dimmer Alcor being the friendless rider. And you can see them for yourself any night you can see the Big Dipper. And there our ancient eye test ends. But it doesn't end for modern eyes of a different kind, the eyes of telescopes and spectroscopes, because if we look at Alcor the rider with a spectroscope we would see that this so-called friendless one is not so friendless after all. In fact Alcor has a companion rider, another star invisible to the naked eye thus making Alcor two riders on Mizar the horse. But that's not exactly true either because if we look really close at Mizar we discover that Mizar is also not just one star, not even two stars or three stars or four stars but is in fact a rare quintuple star. Wow!
In other words when we look at this ancient Arab representation of a solitary horse with a solitary rider we are in reality looking at two horsemen driving a team of five horses across the night sky on the bend of the handle of the Big Dipper. Seven stars all told! Two double stars and one triple. Six of which are twice as big as our own million mile wide Sun and at least 50% brighter.
Incredible isn't it? What modern astronomy reveals about objects that generations of mankind have seen for thousands of years. So get outside some spring night, and gallop across the heavens with the horse and his rider, Mizar and Alcor, two visible stars which are in reality seven! Keep looking up!
Dean: Ancient Arabs used the Big Dipper for an eye test and you can too. Face north inn early evening and if you look closely at Mizar, the star at the brnd of the handle of the Big Dipper you'll see a dimmer star named Alcor right next to it. These two stars are known as "The Horse and The Rider". And the ability to see both got you into the sultan's army. But if you look closely through a telescope we see Alcor is actually two stars and Mizar is actually five stars. So inreality we have two horsemen driving a team of five horses across the night sky, seven stars where we see only two. Two double stars and one triple, six of which are twice as big as our Sun and 50% brighter. Keep looking Up!
"Let The Moon Lead The Way"
Dean: Hey there star gazers. I'm Dean Regas outreach astronomer at the Cincinnati Observatory and I'll be your guide to the sky this month on Star Gazer. How about using the Moon next week to lead you past Leo the Lion to a weird double light in the sky that's not always there? Let me show you.
O.K., our skies are set up for Monday June 6th about an hour after sunset facing southwest. Look a third of the way up the sky and you should have no trouble spotting a five-day-old crescent Moon. You might be asking, " What does he mean, a 5 day old Moon? I thought the Moon was billions of years old." Well, you're right about that billions of years bit. I was talking about how the Moon's appearance changes as it goes through its cycle of phases from new Moon, which means no Moon, then a couple days of crescent Moons to first quarter Moon, then a couple more days of gibbous Moons to full Moon, then gibbous Moons again to last quarter Moon and then crescent Moons again until we reach new Moon once more. This cycle averages about 29 1/2 days from new Moon to new Moon. So when astronomers talk about a 5 day old Moon they mean it has been 5 days since the Moon was new. A 7-day-old Moon would be near first quarter, a 14 day old Moon is near full Moon. The days and the phases don't line up exactly. So what would a 21-day-old Moon look like?
Anyway, let's get back to the sky. The 5-day-old crescent Moon will be there to greet you in the evening sky on Monday and will be down and to the right of the bright blue star Regulus. Regulus is the brightest star in one of the brighter constellations of spring, the famous Leo the Lion. Regulus marks the heart of the lion and a backwards question mark of stars draws out the head and mane. A triangle of stars up to the left marks the lion's hind quarters. On Tuesday the 7th at the same time the Moon will be to the left of Regulus and will be a bit wider. Wednesday the 8th the Moon will be at first quarter and even farther to the left.
The next night Thursday the 9th the Moon will be closing in on a tight little pair of lights in the sky. The brighter one is the ringed planet Saturn and its companion is a star named Porrima in Virgo the virgin. Porrima is named for a pair of female deities in the Roman pantheon. This is kind of neat because Porrima is a binary star, a pair of stars that orbit each other very closely. The stars are very close to each other now and it takes a good-sized telescope to see them as separate stars. So right now we have the unique situation of a double star Porrima looking like it's a double star to the naked eye because the planet Saturn just happens to be close by.
Saturn has actually been going backwards across the sky since the beginning of this year to get close to Porrima. At the beginning of the year Saturn was almost 7 degrees away from Porrima and will be at its closest, less than 1/2 degree away from Porrima, in the middle of June. Saturn will then turn around and move away from Porrima and by the time we lose Saturn below the horizon in September it will once again be almost 7 degrees away from. So the double star-like light you'll see next week won't be there long so be sure to catch it while Saturn is right next door to Porrima.
Then the next night Friday June 10th the Moon will be closing in on Spica the brightest star in Virgo. And on Saturday June 11th will be just past Spica. One more time, Monday June 6th the Moon will be down and to the right of Regulus, Tuesday June 7th, a slightly wider Moon will be left of Regulus. The next night, Wednesday the 8th, the first quarter Moon is farther left of Regulus. Thursday the 9th a waxing gibbous Moon will be closer to Saturn and then on the 10th will be past them and be just to the right of Spica. Saturday the 11th a brighter and wider Moon will be to the left of Spica.
So that's what you have to look forward to next week, a growing Moon showing you Regulus and the lion and then leading you closer to a pair of lights that are a planet and a star. This is Dean Regas and I hope you keep looking up!
Dean: Hey there star gazers. How about using the Moon next week to lead you past Leo the Lion to a weird double light in the sky that's not always there? Let me show you. O.K., our skies are set up for Monday June 6th an hour after sunset facing southwest. A third of the way up the sky you should have no trouble spotting the Moon. It will be down and to the right of the bright blue star Regulus which marks the heart of the lion and a backwards question mark of stars draws out the head and mane. A triangle of stars up to the left marks the lion's hind quarters. Thursday the 9th the Moon will be closing in on a tight little pair of lights in the sky. The brighter one is the ringed planet Saturn and its companion is a star named Porrima. The Moon will show you Regulus and the lion and then lead you to a pair of lights that are a planet and a star. Keep looking up!
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How the Senate's Cyber Bill Could Affect Health Sector
If Bill Gets Signed Into Law, Who's Affected and What Are Their New Challenges? Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • March 3, 2022
Among other provisions, a Senate cybersecurity bill passed on Wednesday calls for critical infrastructure entities to report to federal authorities significant cyber incidents within 72 hours and within 24 hours when a ransomware payment is made. If the bill passes in the House and gets signed into law, what is the potential impact on healthcare and public health sector organizations?
The Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act bundles three critical cybersecurity measures, including the 72-hour reporting mandate for "major" cyber incidents and 24-hour reporting of ransomware payments by critical infrastructure owners and operators to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
The bill also requires all civilian agencies to report all cyberattacks to CISA and updates the requirements for agencies to report cyber incidents to Congress.
The bill's other two key components include an update to the Federal Information Security Modernization Act and authorization for the governmentwide program standardizing security assessment, authorization and monitoring for cloud services.
Potential Healthcare Sector Impact
The Senate bill says the types of critical infrastructure organizations covered by the legislation include entities for which a cybersecurity disruption or compromise could cause consequences to national security, economic security or public health and safety.
So what sorts of entities within the healthcare and public health sector might potentially fall under cyber incident reporting mandates? That's not entirely clear yet, some experts say.
"The scope of who will be required to report and what they will be required to report is likely to evolve," says privacy attorney Kirk Nahra of the law firm WilmerHale. "A doctor losing a laptop likely won't trigger under this. A hospital being attacked by ransomware that shuts down the whole hospital record system would," he says.
Regulatory attorney Rachel Rose says entities that contract with the Department of Defense, the Veterans Administration and the State Department, for example, would be required to comply. Also, if creating, receiving, maintaining or transmitting protected health information, HIPAA breach reporting would also still apply to those organizations, she says.
Entities and their business associates covered under HIPAA would continue to have their 60-day reporting obligations for breaches of PHI affecting 500 or more individuals, according to Rose. But not all of those organizations will necessarily fall under the critical infrastructure entities that could be required to report incidents more quickly to CISA under the Senate's cyber legislation.
"There also needs to be a strategy behind what organizations would need to report and what the actual outcome of the reporting would be to make sure it is effective and not just a 'check box' exercise."
—Denise Anderson, H-ISAC
Certain electronic health record vendors, cloud service providers and medical services contractors also are examples of potential entities that would not only have their usual HIPAA breach reporting obligations but also possibly fall under the Senate's cybersecurity bill, if it advances, she says.
"Having said that, the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights is tasked with enforcing civil liberties, as they relate to a person's PHI. And protecting the 'civil liberties or public health, and safety of the people of the U.S.' is expressly stated [in the Senate bill]. The key is to watch for the developments and guidance regarding the term 'major incident.'"
Additional Burdens
Privacy attorney David Holtzman of the consulting firm HITPrivacy says the legislation could apply to any healthcare organization that maintains an information system accessible to the internet, as well as a vendor to a healthcare organization that has electronic access to the entity's information system or data.
"The bill passed by the Senate does not exempt HIPAA-covered entities or their business associates from the obligations to report cybersecurity incidents or make ransomware payments," he says. "The legislation does not preempt or modify the existing HIPAA breach reporting requirements established in the HITECH Act."
Denise Anderson, president of the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center, says that while it is too early to know what the final legislation will look like, it is "commendable" that Congress is working to tackle the issue of cybersecurity around the critical infrastructure sectors.
But "there are many nuances to defining incidents as well as what should be reported," she says.
"When you have short time periods like this, entities often find that they have to report while they have limited facts, which may result in over-reporting suspicious activity that does not end up qualifying as a cyber incident."
—Adam Greene, Davis Wright Tremaine
Also, fast reporting requirements put additional burdens on entities that may be working hard to mitigate an incident if it occurs, Anderson says.
"We'd like to see Congress leverage what already exists and support the work that the ISACs do where relevant, actionable information is shared daily around incidents so that organizations can immediately benefit."
Quick Turnaround
For many HIPAA-covered entities and their business associates, the 60-day deadline under HIPAA to report large PHI breaches is already challenging. So, how realistic is it for entities to report "major" cybersecurity incidents within 72 hours to federal authorities?
"When you have short time periods like this, entities often find that they have to report while they have limited facts, which may result in over-reporting suspicious activity that does not end up qualifying as a cyber incident," says privacy attorney Adam Greene of the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine.
But entities that end up needing to report cybersecurity incidents under the Senate bill proposals "will still have time under HIPAA to investigate and confirm facts before making a final decision as to whether it is reportable to affected individuals and HHS OCR," Greene says.
Also, entities likely will need to make reports based on limited information that is initially available, so such reports may not always prove accurate or comprehensive, he says. "For example, in a ransomware incident, the entity may be able to report that their systems have been compromised but may not yet know whether data was exfiltrated."
Anahi Santiago, CISO of ChristianaCare, the largest healthcare provider in Delaware, says another important consideration is "when does the clock start?" - in the countdown to 72-hour reporting of cybersecurity incidents.
For instance, "does the clock start when we have an indicator of compromise … or is it when we know for a fact that we have a breach?" Even if the bill advances and gets signed into law, Santiago says, "we will need guidance from CISA and other regulatory agencies to help us navigate. But I do think it will be a challenge for a lot in the healthcare sector to comply with such an aggressive timeline."
Attorney Rose says that the shift toward shorter reporting periods for security breaches is not brand-new.
"States have begun requiring shorter time periods for reporting. My clients have a list of states and the relevant time frames in their respective policies and procedures to ensure that they are meeting the shorter time frames," she says.
"The key is assessing breach notification policies and procedures, as well as updating business continuity and disaster recovery plans to reflect the shorter time period if it applies. Training is also critical and should be updated accordingly. "
If the statute is interpreted too broadly, "I would expect potentially hundreds if not thousands of reports a day," says privacy attorney Iliana Peters of the law firm Polsinelli. "This creates significant additional burdens not only for the regulated community - healthcare and otherwise - but also for our law enforcement partners."
Peters says it is also important for HIPAA-covered entities and business associates to refer to HHS OCR's guidance on the sharing of PHI with law enforcement agencies regarding cyber incidents, "and the fact that such sharing of PHI is not permitted without an otherwise applicable permission under the HIPAA Privacy Rule, or a HIPAA authorization from the affected individual."
Peters also says entities need to consider concerns pertaining to sharing personally identifiable information under applicable state law and the preemption issues associated with such sharing.
The Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act was sponsored by Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., the committee chairman, and its ranking member, Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio.
In a joint statement Wednesday following the Senate passage of the bill, they said that the legislation is "urgently needed in the face of potential cyberattacks sponsored by the Russian government in retaliation for U.S. support in Ukraine."
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Q: Checkout page error 'Email template '' is not defined' On checkout page I am getting error 'Email template '' is not defined'. I would like to know how can I debug this error to find out which email template is not defined.

A: Seems like error comes from the file vendor/magento/module-email/Model/Template/Config.php line 225:
/**
 * Retrieve value of a field of an email template
 *
 * @param string $templateId Name of an email template
 * @param string $fieldName Name of a field value of which to return
 * @return string
 * @throws \UnexpectedValueException
 */
protected function _getInfo($templateId, $fieldName)
{
    $data = $this->_dataStorage->get();
    if (!isset($data[$templateId])) {
        throw new \UnexpectedValueException("Email template '{$templateId}' is not defined.");
    }
    if (!isset($data[$templateId][$fieldName])) {
        throw new \UnexpectedValueException(
            "Field '{$fieldName}' is not defined for email template '{$templateId}'."
        );
    }
    return $data[$templateId][$fieldName];
}

I think somewhere in your code you (or someone else) forget to pass template id when calling a method.
How to debug:
xDebug is best choice :) But if you not familiar with it try this:
Temporally update the code from:
if (!isset($data[$templateId])) {
    throw new \UnexpectedValueException("Email template '{$templateId}' is not defined.");
}

to:
if (!isset($data[$templateId])) {
    $e = new \UnexpectedValueException("Email template '{$templateId}' is not defined.");
    echo $e->getTraceAsString();
    die();
}

then check trace on the checkout page, detect which method calling with empty $templateId and from where (it will be clear by trace). Update custom code from where error comes.
Trace can be seen in the Network tab of your browser and looks like this:

Another place to debug is vendor/magento/module-email/Model/Template.php line 360 (method processTemplate()). Seems like some template have no id, so you can update code:
$templateId = $this->getId();
if (!$templateId) {
    $e = new \Exception('');
    echo $e->getTraceAsString();
    die();
}

Perhaps somewhere is a custom event handler in which magento try to send email with empty template.
Another hint: try to check the email_template table data, maybe some records is broken (has no id or something similar).

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I went to Carmine Boutique (2708 N Orange Blossom Trail, Orlando, Florida) to sketch auditions for Dracula. If you haven't been to Carmine Boutique, you need to experience it for yourself. They have a wide assortment of the odd and macabre. Behind me were pickled baby pigs in jars, a skeleton in the corner was of Siamese twins. In the back of the store is this stage along with an Edwardian fetish bar. A large poster behind the stage had an average man and a tiny woman, no taller than the penguin pictured. The poster announced, "They are married" My own marriage was crumbling. It was pouring rain outside. The loud thunder rattled the oddities adding to the mood.
I got to see how different actors fleshed out the same parts. I don't know how a director decides with so many talented options. Yet in some moments, an actor no longer seems to be acting. They are the character. I always fall in to I always fall in love with certain performances and I am hopeful to see them in the final production.
Jeremy Seghers will breathe new life into Bram Stoker's Gothic horror classic with Steven Dietz's critically acclaimed adaptation of Dracula. Set exclusively at Carmine Boutique - an antiques, oddities, and taxidermy shop featuring an Edwardian fetish club - this immersive staging will bring the count, his brides, and the blood dangerously close to the audience. Due to the intense nature of the production, no one under the age of 13 will be permitted without a guardian.
If you are a Halloween fanatic like myself, then this is the perfect way to warm up to the horrors of the season.


The Specific Workshop "RECAT" had been held in Berlin. It took place on 20th and 21st of June, 2011 and was hosted by TU Berlin.
The agenda as held and the minutes of the workshop can be found here.
The presentations itself can be found below.
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Ladies Consider Female Competition Energy as the Enemy, Not Men
http://www.usatoday.com/money/workplace/2005-12-29-women-bosses-usat_x.htm
Do women compete in unhealthy ways at work?By Stephanie Armour, USA TODAY
As founder and president of a fitness training enterprise, Beth Shaw used to deal with management issues at
her fitness training and education company, which is largely composed of women.
But Shaw says she soon got weary of dealing with all the competition between her female staff.
"Women complain that they're not getting what they need, but are nice to each other's face. Everything is behind the back, (and) nothing is on the up and up," says Shaw, whose company, YogaFit, is based in Redondo Beach, Calif.
"Women really need to be trained to be assertive and outspoken so it's not passive-aggressive."
The feminist movement that took root in the 1960s embraced the concept of women as standing shoulder-to-shoulder in their effort to open new doors in male-dominated businesses.
But today, with the number of women in the labor force at record numbers, another question is being raised: In the workplace, are women sometimes their own worst enemies?
It's the topic of a book, I Can't Believe She Did That! Why Women Betray Other
Women at Work, which was released in October and has attracted articles in
international publications. The book by journalist Nan Mooney, based on
interviews with more than 100 women, concludes that women often shy away from
direct conflict and instead engage in unhealthy competition — talking behind
one another's backs, sabotaging success, feeling threatened by other women --
that can be detrimental to all women in the workforce.
"It's been such a taboo subject. To say women have problems with each other is seen
as anti-woman, but it's not," Mooney says. "Women are afraid to raise
a problem, so it goes underground, and it comes out in a twisted way. Why is it
so hard to work with other women? Why are we so nasty to each other?"
Mooney's research looked only at the way women compete with each other, not at the ways
that men compete. She says women aren't more competitive than men, but that
they compete differently.
Other research has also probed the topic, including a survey that found that more
women would rather work for a man than another woman. Thirty-two percent of
women prefer a male boss, compared with 23% who would rather have a female
boss, according to a 2002 Gallup Poll, the most recent year in which the
question was asked. From 1982 on, men have consistently been more accepting
than women of female bosses, according to Gallup polling.
Perpetuating a stereotype?
Some consultants and researchers, however, say the debate about whether women
compete more passive-aggressively than men is misplaced. Employees compete
differently based on their personality, not on their gender, they say, and
debating the issue perpetuates a negative and untrue stereotype.
"While there is a negative, stereotypical view that women compete with each other in
the workplace, the reality is that each woman or man in the workplace is unique
in terms of how he or she competes with others," says Brendan
Burnett-Stohner, a vice chairwoman at executive search firm Christian & Timbers.
Research from Catalyst, a New York-based research and advisory group that focuses
largely on women, shows that senior female executives consistently point to
gender-based stereotyping as a major barrier to their advancement. Men consider
women to be less adept at problem solving, according to the October report.
Research also has found that female leaders have a different leadership style that is often more effective than a man's in some areas. Female leaders scored higher than male leaders in persuasive
motivation, assertiveness, willingness to risk, empathy, flexibility and
sociability, according to research from Caliper, a Princeton, N.J.-based consulting firm.
Female leaders also have an inclusive, team-building leadership style of problem
solving and decision-making, according to the study. The study included
interviews with 60 female leaders from some of the top companies in the United
Kingdom and the USA, including Accenture, Bank of America, IBM, Molson Coors and Morgan Stanley.
But the issue of women's support for one another — or lack of it — in the workplace
is a critical issue, especially with more women moving into the labor force and into leadership roles.
More women today are business owners: There were 6.5 million female-owned businesses
in 2002, up 20% from 1997, according to the U.S. Census. Their revenue totaled
$951 billion, up 16% from 1997. More women are working. In 1970, about 43% of
women age 16 and older were in the labor force. In 2004, women's labor force
participation rate was about 59%, according to the Department of Labor. They
hold about half the management, professional and related positions. About 68
million women were working or looking for work in 2004, according to the Department of Labor.
Why women compete
There are several theories given for workplace friction among women:
•Few top spots for women. Many industries and professions are still largely
dominated by men (for example, 14% of architects and engineers were women in
2004, according to the Labor Department, and 29% of doctors and surgeons were women).
While women hold more than half of all management and professional positions, they
make up less than 2% of Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 CEOs, according to Catalyst.
Ellen Kirk of Sunnyvale, Calif., is marketing vice president at Tropos Networks, a
provider of wireless broadband. But she says she used to work in investment
banking, where she says the competition among women was fierce.
"It was not what I'd call healthy. It was a lot of sniping," she says.
"It took the form of backstabbing. They were publicly supportive, but they
were insidiously, privately not supportive. It's behind the scenes. It's nasty
things said behind closed doors."
•The "nice" syndrome. From an early age, girls are generally taught to
get along and encouraged to be nice to others, while boys are often encouraged
to compete openly and vigorously.
In the workforce, that manifests itself as women who feel uncomfortable in direct
competition with others — and are more likely to develop subversive tactics, author Mooney says.
"The message women get is that the only healthy relationship is to have a positive
relationship and be nice. Then we get into the workplace, and it's competitive," Mooney says.
"Women tend to compete but act like they're not competing. So we get a reputation for backstabbing."
And being too nice might be a detriment to advancement. Women give more help to
co-workers than men do but get less credit for it, according to a research report by assistant management professor Frank Flynn at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business. The help women give to co-workers on the job tends to be significantly underappreciated, he says.
•Different communication styles. Women tend to form interpersonal relationships by sharing intimate details or experiences about their lives. But this can come back to haunt them if a female confidante is then promoted or becomes their boss. That can lead to bitterness, jealousy and lack of trust, Mooney says.
Women need to be assertive
Some women say they have experienced the competition first hand. Kimberly Charles says she has three sisters and knows the value of good, supportive female relationships.
The problem, she says, is that relationships can also sour. When she worked in the wine importing industry, an early boss was a mentor who gave her high praise and encouragement. But Charles says as she became more established, her mentor became her competitor.
"I found myself uninvited from meetings, social occasions, memos gone unanswered and generally a slow ebbing of decision-making taken away since I was no longer a protégée, but now a competitor in her eyes," Charles, 42, says in an e-mail.
In the end, Charles says she determined that her boss had insecurities that ultimately prevented her from promoting success in her staff. Today, Charles owns her own San Francisco-based marketing and public relations business
specializing in the wine industry, adding, "I've had a number of experiences in the workplace, working with women, which interestingly have led me to start my own business in order to get free from the perplexing, often
duplicitous environment I've experienced."
But other businesswomen say focusing solely on women's competition styles is misled.
Lois Wyse, co-founder and now chair of Cleveland-based Wyse Advertising, is the
author of more than 60 books including poetry, fiction, non-fiction and
children's books. As a pioneer who paved the way for other working women, she
doesn't believe that women compete differently than men.
But she does believe women today are more competitive with each other than they
were in the 1960s and '70s, when the business world was dominated by men.
"The women in business now aren't aware of the fact that women used to bring in
coffee and not reports," Wyse says. "Because of that, they're more competitive
instead of working together."


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Assistant Professor in Human Centered Design
Cornell University Department of Human Centered Design
Human Centered Design - Tenure Track Assistant Professor
As part of the university's comprehensive vaccination program, all Cornell employees are required to have and provide proof of an FDA-or WHO-authorized or approved COVID-19 primary vaccination or have obtained a university-approved disability/medical or religious exemption, regardless of their role and work location.
For additional information on Cornell's Vaccination Compliance Program click here.
The Department of Human Centered Design (HCD) brings multi-disciplinary perspectives together to improve health and well-being through design. Through transdisciplinary thinking and expertise, we bring arts and design, material and social sciences, and the humanities to innovate, investigate, and address real-world challenges by using analog and digital knowledge, tools, rigorous research methods, and creative processes. Our faculty includes scientists, artists, anthropologists, historians, architects, engineers, psychologists, and experts in apparel, interiors, business, material sciences, and technology. We work together and collaborate externally with colleagues from across the university, as well as industry and non-profit community partners, to conduct research and enhance students' learning. Using state-of-the-art lab and studio spaces, we conceptualize, prototype, and evaluate products and processes that enhance human potential, health equity, social justice, sustainability, and community flourishing. (https://www.human.cornell.edu/hcd).
We are seeking an exceptional scholar to join our faculty in the area of Material Science. We welcome scholars who approach their respective area of expertise from a multi-disciplinary range of perspectives. Research, teaching, and engagement/outreach interests may include, but are not limited to:
Exploring and critiquing the role of design, management, and material science in producing, expressing, and shaping human identities, cultures, and communities.
Generating and translating novel solutions in apparel design, manufacturing, and material science across a spectrum of products, practices, and policies to enhance the lived experience and improve daily life.
Creating and exploring the potential for new materials to improve the health of users and the environment.
Developing and refining new materials, technologies, and embodied environments to produce novel innovations where physical and digital components interact with humans across scales, from on-the-body to the inhabited world.
Creating, evaluating, and applying rapidly renewable materials and exploring circular, reuse, and/or disposal processes and their impacts.
The successful candidate will demonstrate the potential to develop a world-class research and design program that engages with current issues in one or more of the above areas and must provide unequivocal evidence of excellence in teaching and advising at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Responsibilities include creating a successful research program; teaching undergraduate and graduate courses; advising B.S., M.A., M.S., and Ph.D. students; and providing service to the department and university community. A Ph.D. is required.
HCD has strong connections to several other units on campus. These relationships support the department's aim to address real-world challenges and opportunities through critical, creative, and collaborative engagement with design. We seek a colleague who is committed to social and environmental justice and will advance scholarly and real-world understandings of how design shapes environments, humans, and the interaction between the two.
Cornell has an ongoing commitment to its founding principle of educating "any person…in any study," and the university offers a collegial and supportive campus atmosphere and high quality of life. Beyond campus, Ithaca is in the heart of the Finger Lakes region which boasts a vibrant cultural life amidst breathtaking natural beauty. A wide range of outdoor activities is close at hand in all seasons. Cornell also seeks to meet the needs of dual-career couples, with both its own Dual Career program and membership in the Upstate New York Higher Education Recruitment Consortium to assist in dual career searches
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Women's March on Washington: Standing in Solidarity
by Catherine Trifiletti · January 23, 2017
Photos by Erin Schaff
Hundreds of thousands march for equal rights on Washington and across the world.
In an atmosphere that can only be described as electric, massive crowds of women and men of all ages and color swarmed the National Mall on Saturday January 21 to celebrate freedom and denounce hate, just a day after Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States.
Race, gender, religion and political views aside, the Women's March of Washington, and in cities across the country and world, were about the fellowship between humans and the simple notion that all individuals are equal. A slew of signage ranging in sentiment from comical to profound represented the varying agendas of the marchers. Some centered on threats to reproductive rights ("Don't Throw Shade on my Roe v. Wade") while others addressed Trump's plan to repeal Obama's Affordable Care Act ("Keep Your Tiny Hands Off my Healthcare"), the Black Lives Matter movement and equal pay. Although the protests were peaceful and optimistic, marchers took the opportunity to take direct digs at Trump: "We Shall Overcomb," "I've Seen Sturdier Cabinets at IKEA," and "There will be Hell Toupee," to name a few.
Whatever the cause, the strong showing was an undeniable display of democracy in motion after a divisive election. Actress America Ferrara addressed the march: "But the president is not America," she said. "We are America." Other supporters from government and Hollywood rallied the massive groups to keep defending America's most fundamental rights. Big names like Ashley Judd, Madonna and Gloria Steinem spoke fervently about rising up to make their voices heard. Judd was praised for her raw, uncensored speech which in large part, quoted 19 year old Nina Donovan's spoken word poem. The message was anchored by Trump's early comments that his opponent Hillary Clinton was a "nasty woman," which feminists have since spun into a positive trait. Judd channeled Donovan: "I am not as nasty as a swastika painted on a pride flag" and went on to say "I AM nasty like Susan, Elizabeth, Eleanor, Amelia, Rosa, Gloria, Condoleezza, Sonya, Malala, Michelle, Hillary." To the surprise of news agencies publicly broadcasting the march, Madonna used expletives to express her disdain for the new administration "The revolution starts here… the fight for the right to be free, to be who we are, to be equal."
The way forward for activists is unclear, but the march proved an inspiring start to a movement that favors the very fabric of democracy: equality.
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Timothy Bednarski
Director of Athletics & Co-Curricular
Promoting good health and wellness is one of the objectives of the North Syracuse Central School District and is fundamental to the achievement of all other objectives. School health services are an essential component of the total school program. Therefore, provisions for school health have become important for all students.
The health office's main functions are to:
Attend to the daily medical needs of students
Complete medical screening of students' vision and hearing
Supervise athletic and school physical examinations
Administer medication prescribed by a physician or dentist
Process physical education, medical and daily absence excuses
Maintain student medical records
Issue working papers and school lunch forms
Attend to all accidents and emergencies
Contact parents concerning student health problems
The school nurse is available to talk with parents regarding any health problems or to discuss community resources. The telephone numbers for each school nurse's office are listed below. Additionally, links to individual school webpages are provided by clicking on the school name.
Allen Road Elementary School - (315) 218-2303
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Early Education Program at Main Street School - (315) 218-2203
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La Convención internacional sobre la protección de los derechos de todos los trabajadores migratorios y de sus familiares es un tratado de la ONU que busca el respeto de los derechos de los trabajadores migrantes y de sus familias, tal como el nombre de dicha convención lo indica.

Esta convención, que fue adoptada el 18 de diciembre de 1990, tiene como base los textos 97 y 143 sobre los trabajadores migrantes de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo. El tratado entró en vigor el 1 de julio de 2003, luego de ser ratificado por al menos 20 Estados según lo dispuesto en el artículo 87 del convenio (Guatemala fue el país 20 en ratificarlo, el 13 de marzo de 2003). Entre los países que ratificaron el convenio no se encuentra ninguno perteneciente a la Unión Europea ni a América del Norte (con excepción de México), principales países beneficiarios de dicha mano de obra. En diciembre de 2018, el texto había sido ratificado por 54 países.

Prioridades

 La convención internacional sobre los trabajadores migratorios da un marco jurídico mínimo, sobre las condiciones laborales de los trabajadores migratorios, quienes sufren, a menudo, difíciles condiciones laborales e incluso ser víctimas de redes de trata de personas.

 La convención busca implantar medidas para erradicar los movimientos migratorios clandestinos, castigando principalmente a traficantes, pero también a empleadores de migrantes en situación irregular.

Estado de las ratificaciones y firmas

La Convención requiere un mínimo de 20 ratificaciones antes de que pudiera entrar en vigor, alcanzándose dicho umbral el 14 de marzo de 2003.

A fecha de 18 de diciembre de 2019, habían ratificado la convención los siguientes países: Albania, Argelia, Argentina, Azerbaiyán, Bangladés, Belice, Bolivia, Bosnia y Herzegovina, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Egipto, El Salvador, Filipinas, Fiyi, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Honduras, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kirguistán, Lesoto, Libia, Malí, Marruecos, Mauritania, México, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Níger, Nigeria, Paraguay, Perú, Ruanda, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, San Vicente y las Granadinas, Siria, Tayikistán, Timor oriental, Turquía, Uganda, Uruguay y Venezuela.

Además, varios países han firmado la Convención pero aún no la han ratificado. Esto significa que su gobierno ha manifestado su intención de adherirse a la Convención, pero no está obligado a hacerlo en el derecho internacional. Estos países son: Armenia, Benín, Camboya, Camerún, Chad, Comores, Congo, Gabón, Gambia, Guinea-Bisáu, Liberia, Montenegro, Palaos, Santo Tomé y Príncipe, Serbia, Sierra Leona y Togo.

Hasta el momento, los países que han ratificado la Convención son fundamentalmente países de origen de los migrantes. Para estos países, la Convención es un instrumento importante para proteger a sus ciudadanos en el exterior. En Filipinas, por ejemplo, la ratificación de la Convención tuvo lugar en un contexto caracterizado por varios casos de trabajadores filipinos que eran maltratados en el extranjero: tales casos lastiman a la población filipina y llevó a la ratificación de la Convención. Sin embargo, estos países son también países de tránsito y destino, y la Convención delinea su responsabilidad de proteger los derechos de los migrantes en su territorio.

Ningún Estado receptor de migrantes en Europa occidental ha ratificado el Convenio. Otros importantes países receptores, tales como Australia, los Estados Árabes del Golfo Pérsico, India, Sudáfrica y Estados Unidos no han ratificado la Convención.

La situación actual en el mundo con respecto a la inmigración deja entrever la posición de la gran mayoría de países con respecto a este tratado y con respecto a la recepción de inmigrantes.

Véase también
 Inmigración
 Organización Internacional del Trabajo
 Organización Internacional para las Migraciones
 Convenio sobre trabajadores domésticos
 Día Internacional del Migrante

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Texto de la Convención
 Firmas y ratificaciones (en inglés)
 Informe de migración internacional publicado por las Naciones Unidas en 2002
 Organización Internacional del Trabajo
 Organización Internacional para las Migraciones
 SIPI. Una mirada hacia la primera infancia en contextos de migración internacional.

Tratados sobre derechos humanos
Tratados laborales
Convenciones de las Naciones Unidas
Tratados de 1990

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7 ways life is more expensive today for American millennials than previous generations
Mikhail Goldenkov/Strelka Institute/FlickrWhile millennials have benefitted from higher incomes, the increase hasn't kept up with the inflated cost of living.
Millennials shoulder a different and bigger financial burden than Gen Xers and baby boomers.
While incomes have increased for millennials, many significant economic expenses, such as the cost of buying a home and college tuition, have increased at a faster rate.
The financial struggle millennials face may be making them more financially savvy.
It can be easy to gripe about millennials, but the truth is that, in some ways, millennials face a harder life than their parents did – largely because they're confronted with different financial struggles and increasing expenses.
While millennials have benefited from a 67% rise in wages since 1970, this increase hasn't kept up with inflating living costs. Rent, home prices, and college tuition have all increased faster than incomes in the US, according to research conducted by Student Loan Hero.
However, not all costs have soared.
While the cost of some consumer goods has risen, many have remained stable, and some – such as computers, televisions, and other electronics – have plummeted.
Gas is also cheaper. One gallon of regular unleaded gas was $US0.60 in 1976, but adjusted for inflation, it was $US2.65 a gallon, Student Loan Hero found. In 2016, a gallon was $US1.96.
And fun fact: A pint of beer in 1976 was $US1.12, or $US4.94 in today's dollars. Now it's only $US3.99.
While it's nice to save on these everyday purchases, The Atlantic points out that it's the most important parts of the economy that are getting more expensive, creating an even bigger financial burden for millennials to shoulder.
But it may be making millennials more financially savvy.
"Facing a stark set of financial circumstances, millennials started adulthood with less room for financial mistakes than previous generations," Shannon Insler wrote in an article for Student Loan Hero. "In response, they are managing their money differently. More millennials are refinancing student loans,delaying a home purchase, and looking for creative ways to earn more money through side hustles."
Here are the most significant ways life is more expensive for millennials.
Millennials are saving more money for a longer time to become homeowners.
Millennials are waiting longer to buy homes than previous generations, but that's because they have to spend more time saving money.
Millennials buying their first home today will pay 39% more than baby boomers who bought their first home in the 1980s, according to Student Loan Hero.
The value of homes has increased by 73% since the 1960s, when adjusted for inflation. The median price of a home then was $US11,900, which is equivalent to $US98,681 in today's dollars. In 2000, the median price of a home rose to $US119,600, more than $US170,000 in today's dollars.
And those numbers only continue to climb. As of April, the median US home value was $US210,200, CNBC reported, citing the real-estate company Zillow.
Millennials face soaring rents.
But saving up for a home can be hard to do when millennials are shelling out money for climbing rents in the meantime.
Rents increased by 46% from the 1960s to 2000 when adjusted for inflation. In 1960, the median gross rent was $US71, or $US588 in today's dollars. In 2000, that number rose to $US602, or $US866 in today's dollars.
The current median US rent, according to Zillow, is $US1,600.
Millennials have to pay more for a four-year college degree — and are left with higher student-loan debt.
Millennials have to pay to get paid down the road. And college tuition was more affordable for older generations, according to Student Loan Hero.
From the late 1980s to the 2017-18 school year, the cost of an undergraduate degree rose by 213% at public schools, adjusting for inflation.
Back then, average annual tuition for public college was just $US1,490, or $US3,190 in today's dollars, compared with today's price tag of $US9,970.
Private college tuitions fared a little better, with a cost increase in the period of 129% when adjusted for inflation. In the late 1980s, it cost $US7,050, or $US15,160 in today's dollars, for a private undergraduate degree. Today, the average cost is $US34,740.
Millennials spend more money on entertainment.
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If millennials want to experience some of America's favourite pastimes, it comes at a cost.
In 1976, it cost just $US5.50 for a top box seat to watch the New York Yankees play – $US24.27 in today's dollars. The same seat at a Yankees game in 2016 set fans back $US245.
In 1970, the average price of a ticket to the Super Bowl was $US91.52, adjusted for inflation. As of 2014, it was $US1,250.
Concert tickets are also becoming a luxury form of entertainment. In 1969, a ticket to a Rolling Stones concert cost about $US8. It was as much as $US350 in 2003, and 10 years later, the average price was $US624.
However, not all is lost on the entertainment front. In 1976, the price of a movie ticket was $US2.13, or $US9.40 in today's dollars. As of 2016, the average price was just $US8.65.
Millennial parents pay more for childcare than their parents did.
Kids have always been expensive, but it costs more than ever to raise a child in the US.
Adjusting for inflation, the average weekly childcare costs increased to $US143 in 2011 from $US84 in 1985, according to the US Census Bureau.
The cost of childcare and nursery school increased by an average of 2.9% annually from the end of the recession in 2008 to 2016, surpassing inflation of 1.6% during that seven-year period, The Wall Street Journal reported.
On top of that, childcare and pre-college education make up 18% of the total cost of raising a kid, compared with 2% in 1960,The Washington Post's Jonnelle Marte reported, citing a Young Invincibles report.
Millennials have to shell out more money for a set of wheels.
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While some cars have remained in the same price range as 30 years ago, many have not.
A Porsche 911 in 1965 was $US6,370, or $US46,795, adjusted for inflation. In 2012, it cost $US82,100.
Even some mass-market cars have gone up in price. In 1950, a Volkswagen Beetle was $US1,280, or $US12,290 adjusted for inflation. As of 2012, the price was $US19,795.
From November 2006 to November 2016, prices for new cars increased by 5%, according to the Bureau of Labour Statistics.
The upside is that these higher prices often come with higher quality and more extras than cars in the past.
The downside is that they also come with higher associated expenses. Costs for motor vehicle insurance have increased by 50%, and those for maintenance and repair have increased by 27% in the same decade.
Millennials are looking at pricier health insurance premiums.
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Millennials are lucky they can stay on their parents' insurance until they're 26. But when they hit that age, they're faced with higher health insurance costs than their parents were at the same age – even if their employer is footing the bill.
According to Bloomberg, the average worker shells out $US5,714 for a family health insurance plan, or 30% of the total $US18,764 cost – but five years ago, they were paying $US4,316 of the total $US15,745 cost, or 27%.
To put that into even more perspective, the average annual health insurance cost per person in 1960 was $US146, CNBC reports. In 2016, it hit $US10,345, nine times as high when adjusted for inflation. Costs are expected to increase to $US14,944 in 2023.
And because of uncertainty surrounding the future of the Affordable Care Act, some healthcare premiums were set to increase by as much as 50% for 2018.
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Az 1970-es Roland Garros az év második Grand Slam-tornája, amelyet május 25–június 7. között rendeztek Párizsban, és amely a Roland Garros 69. kiadása volt. Férfiaknál a csehszlovák Jan Kodeš, nőknél az ausztrál Margaret Court nyert.

Döntők

Férfi egyes

 Jan Kodeš -  Željko Franulović 6-2, 6-4, 6-0

Női egyes

 Margaret Court -  Helga Niessen 6-2, 6-4

Férfi páros

 Ilie Năstase /  Ion Țiriac -  Arthur Ashe /  Charles Pasarell 6-2, 6-4, 6-3

Női páros

 Gail Sherriff Chanfreau /  Françoise Durr -  Rosemary Casals /  Billie Jean King 6-1, 3-6, 6-3

Vegyes páros

 Billie Jean King /  Bob Hewitt -  Françoise Durr /   Jean Claude Barclay 3-6, 6-4, 6-2

Források
 Hivatalos honlap

1970 a teniszben


If you like your marine life BIG, then this dive safari comes highly recommended with a WOW factor! This exciting itinerary includes encounters with whale sharks, manta rays and thresher sharks.
Covering three locations across the Philippines, underwater highlights include manta rays of Ticao, whale sharks of Donsol and thresher sharks of Malapascua. In between dives, enjoy the leisurely pace and privacy extended to you at each resort.
Read Dive Worldwide clients John & Hazel's account of their big fish encounters in the Philippines.
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676 Melitta eller 1909 FN är en asteroid i huvudbältet, som upptäcktes 16 januari 1909 av den brittiske astronomen Philibert J. Melotte vid Observatoriet i Greenwich. Namnet är en kombination av upptäckarens namn och den grekiska nymfen Melissa.

Asteroiden har en diameter på ungefär 78 kilometer och den tillhör asteroidgruppen Eos.

Referenser

Huvudbältesasteroider
Eos-asteroider
Småplaneter namngivna efter personer
Småplaneter namngivna efter mytologiska figurer
Astronomiska upptäckter av PJ Melotte
Astronomiska upptäckter 1909


Silently, the anger grew between them.
The tea slopped into the saucer.
"You're always so tempestuous," she said.
The fires cooled by soothing rains.
Who then promptly falls back asleep.
Outside I'm trapped. Inside I rest.
Waiting for your moment to strike.
The heavens are bawling so badly.
They have cause, just look around.
Indeed they make all life bloom.
The clouds display their silver lining.


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11 NEW CHARACTER POSTERS FROM "THE LION KING" RELEASED BY DISNEY
Walt Disney Studios Canada has released 11 new The Lion King character posters for the upcoming film featuring the most classic characters from the timeless story.
"THE LION KING" ROARS INTO THEATERS IN 50 DAYS
Check out a brand-new TV spot to catch a glimpse of Simba 's journey to be king.
Staying true to the classic story, director Jon Favreau utilizes pioneering filmmaking techniques to bring the iconic characters to the big screen in a whole new way. Featuring the voices of Donald Glover as Simba, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter as Nala, James Earl Jones as Mufasa, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Scar, Seth Rogen as Pumbaa and Billy Eichner as Timon, Disney's "The Lion King" opens in theatres on July 18, 2019.
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Space Recon
Emiliano Kargieman has big plans for Satellogic that involve launching a constellation of 300 satellites, and the Permian Basin could be a primary benefactor.
Al Pickett, special contributor
When I was a youngster, I remember visiting my grandfather on his farm and seeing a plane flying low over a pasture near his house.
He explained to me that the plane was flying over a pipeline that ran through his pasture, and that the pilot was inspecting the pipeline.
More than 50 years later, things haven't changed that much. Pipelines are still inspected by crews walking the rights-of-way or by planes, helicopters, and now even drones flying over the pipelines.
If Emiliano Kargieman has his way, that could be changing. Kargieman is the CEO of Satellogic, a multinational company that is building the first distributed satellite platform connecting a mesh network that will monitor the living earth in real time.
Although Kargieman admits he knows very little about the oil and gas industry and he has never been to the Permian Basin, his latest venture could have a profound impact on both the midstream and upstream business in West Texas. In fact, Kargieman was recently honored for his work with Satellogic with the "Most Likely To Impact The Lives Of One Billion People" award from NASA's Ames-based Singularity University.
Kargieman, who grew up Buenos Aires, Argentina, is a mathematician and has spent more than 20 years building technology and technology companies. He was named the Ernst & Young "Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year" for Argentina.
"I started my first software company at the age of 15," Kargieman said. "Most of my work has been in information security."
He co-founded Core Security, developing pioneering work in the information security and software industries.
"In 2009, I started thinking about deploying sensor satellites and applying some of the things I learned for data collection," Kargieman said. "The problem was the cost of a traditional satellite, which could be as much as $100 million per satellite."
Instead, Kargieman's new company Satellogic decided to build its own satellites from scratch with the latest available components and its own proprietary actuator, sensor, and camera technologies. Its platform is designed to allow for an unprecedented number of imaging and data streams for the agriculture and oil and gas industries, as well as government applications and solutions to monitor environmental changes on earth.
Satellogic launched its first prototype satellite, CubeBug1, in April 2103, and later that year launched CubeBug2 for orbital testing of the components and science. The company's third satellite, its first commercial-grade, high-resolution imaging satellite, was launched from Russia's launch base Yasny in mid-summer 2014.
"It was all experimental until this year," Kargieman said. "We were working with future customers. That will translate to actual contracts in the second half of this year. We will be living the experiment."
Satellogic launched its first two high-resolution satellites in May, and Kargieman says the constellation will grow to six later this year.
"We are looking at growing that number up to 25 in 2017," he says. Company officials say they hopes to eventually have 300 satellites in orbit by the end of 2020.
"This can be a real advantage for oil and gas companies that have upstream or midstream assets over a large area," he explained. "They can monitor those assets for environmental and security reasons. It will allow for more consistent monitoring of those assets in comparison to the traditional methods of having crews walking the pipelines or using planes or helicopters. It is a good opportunity for oil and gas companies to reduce costs. We have a more efficient and more affordable way to monitor their assets from space."
By the time Satellogic has six satellites in orbit later this year, they will have a revisit time anywhere on earth of approximately 1.5 hours, according to Kargieman, and that could decrease to around five minutes by the time the company reaches the eventual constellation of 300 satellites by 2020.
He claims the satellites have the ability to monitor oil and gas pipelines anywhere on earth and rapidly deliver valuable and timely insights to pipeline owners and operators spanning a wide array of critical information, such as change detection, and security breaches. The satellites may even prompt accident and disaster response.
"There are applications for not only security but also operations and planning purposes," he continued. "We are focusing on the oil and gas industry and agriculture."
The virtual telemetry will process the images and identify alerts and threats, anything that could trigger an alarm on the customer's computer or laptop, according to Kargieman. He claimed Satellogic's high-resolution satellite constellation can rapidly analyze the vast amounts of data it will collect, enabling the company to offer scalable and actionable decision-making solutions to the oil and gas industry at a fraction of the price of current solutions. Using a mesh network in which the satellites will have the ability to talk to each other as well as relaying information for Satellogic's customers, the company's final constellation will have the ability to deliver more affordable high-resolution images and video in an unprecedented rate of frequency, according to Kargieman.
Satellogic has manufacturing operations in Argentina, Uruguay, and Israel, as well as in the San Francisco Bay area. Kargieman currently lives in his native Argentina, although he says he is moving soon to San Francisco. Indeed, Satellogic has a presence around the world, but it is now offering the oil and gas industry a unique new solution from out of this world… space, that is.
For more information on Satellogic, or to reach Kargieman, go to the company's website, www.satellogic.com.
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Book Tours: Starter Day Party The Fierce Fellowship Games
I'm hosting the starter day party today for fantasy "The Son of Light Book 2.1: The Fierce Fellowship Games". The tour runs from May 23 to May 30. Enjoy the tour!
May 23rd: Starter Day Party @ I Heart Reading
May 25th: Character Interview @ The Book Daily
May 26th: Promo Post @ SolaFide Publishing
May 27th: Character Interview @ Bedazzled Reading
May 28th: Promo Post @ The Bookworm Lodge
May 30th: Book Review @ I Heart Reading
Title: The Son of Light 2.1: The Fierce Fellowship Games
Author: Chris Parker
Joshua Suzuki is once again in the loving arms of his older brother, Nick. Putting his concern for the Demon Lord, Hexen aside, Josh focuses on the exciting event that his brother has placed him in—The Fierce Fellowship Games. For once Josh can be a normal teenager and have fun. But he soon finds out that even in the M.B.S. Guild, fun comes at a price.
The 9 Lieutenant Governors all have their own idea of "fun" that involves dirty politics, sex, and an obsession for absolute power. And unfortunately for Josh, he's caught right in the center of the chaos. Get ready for this character driven novel by Chris Parker because The Fierce Fellowship Games are here.
My name is Chris Parker and I am the author of, The Son of Light. I suppose you want to know a few things about me. Why I'm a writer? How did I come up with the story? Well, let's wind back the clock to 2006.
In 2006, I began taking my writing more seriously when I wrote a four part book series called, Battle of the Gods. Battle of the Gods was based off my high school and community college years in fantasy form. I kept working on them until 2010 to 2011ish. During those years, I discovered that I really enjoyed writing, despite never publishing my stories.
Speaking of 2010 and 2011, that was when I was a film student. In 2009, I moved from Riverside, CA to Northridge and attended a private film school, Columbia College Hollywood. It was during this time where I began sowing the seeds for The Son of Light (even though I didn't know it at the time).
I was an insane student—obsessed with taking over the school, YouTube, and Hollywood (good times). In my obsession, I created Lord Hexen and Lord Damen—two Demon Lords bent on world domination. Later on, I would go on to created a short film series, War on CCH (Columbia College Hollywood), featuring these Demon Lords locked in a war with the defenders of the school, The Students of the Art of Energy (A long title, I know).
But in 2012, two things happened that changed the story of The Son of Light forever: I made a 20min film and joined an organization called Circle K International. By this time, I had dropped the title, War on CCH, and went with, The Son of Light. Well, really the script used to be called, Brotherly Hate, but that's a longer story. Basically, I took the characters from my previous story and, with some inspirations from Circle K International, made a new story.
Now here's why I chose to focus on my books rather than film. During the years of 2013, 2014, and early 2015, I worked as a freelance video editor. I got screwed over and found out that the film industry was an extremely shady and dirty place. By February 2015, I had had enough! I said, "Fuck this!" and went into writing novels again—which was the last thing I wanted to do. Since then, my life has improved and now I'm a full time writer. Now it's just my lovable characters, my story, and me. Well, that's my story.
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Grand Slam - Making Faces, by Lyphard | 2001 Gelding - (View Pedigree)
Ball Four - Photo © Equisport Photos
Ball Four - Photo © Equisport Photos.
BALL FOUR's Info:
Owner: Bruce Golden Racing
Breeder: B. D. Gibbs Farm, LLC & Grand Slam Farm LLC
Winnings: 31 Starts: 9 - 3 - 4, $730,470
At 4: 2nd Kentucky Cup Classic (G2,9F)
At 5: Won Kentucky Cup Classic (G2,9F), Tejano Run S. (TP,9F); 2nd Fayette S. (G3,9F)
At 6: 2nd San Antonio H. (G2,9F)
At 7: Won Fayette S. (G3,9F); 3rd Native Diver H. (G3,9F)
At 8: Won Mervyn LeRoy H. (G2,8.5F)
Foaled February 27, 2001.
Hip No. 838, 2001 Keeneland November, $140,000. $125K FTSAUG'02 At 3: NTR Belmont, 7 1/2f in 1:29 1/5
At 4: NTR Turfway Park, 9f in 1:48 1/5
08/02/10 claimed Saratoga 5th race $20,000
Retired from racing 3/5/2011. Sent to Old Friends retirement facility, Georgetown, KY. (courtesy pedigreequery.com)
Ball Four set a new track record at Belmont Park, going 7.5 furlongs in 1:29:38 when he broke his maiden. For the next six years, the bay son of Grand Slam kept delivering gutsy wins, among them the Kentucky Cup Classic (G2) in which he set another track record, 1 1/8 miles in 1:48:29 at Turfway Park, the Tejano Run S, the Fayette S (G3) at Keeneland and the Mervyn LeRoy H (G2) at Hollywood Park. When after a long career of giving his best the hard working gelding was still racing at bottom level, it was time to award him the secure retirement he'd abundantly earned.
Ball Four's future is assured thanks to many friends of Old Friends, including Laura Hillenbrand, Mike Repole and Maggie Moss. Special thanks go to Bruce Golden Racing and trainer David Jacobson, who took Ball Four off the track and donated him to Old Friends, and to Sallee Vans which—as so often—donated his transportation. And not least, to former New York Yankees pitcher Jim Bouton, author of the book, Ball Four, who has participated in events on behalf of the gutsy old warrior. Ball Four has settled in at Old Friends' main farm in Georgetown, where his outgoing kindness has made him popular.
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Here is the next instalment on the 'Krupa Around Town' YouTube Channel. I did a tag video- 'What's In My Bag?'. I really enjoyed filming this video and feel a lot more confident in front of the camera I have so many ideas and cannot wait to create more content. If you have any ideas on videos you would like to see, do get in touch. Please do SUBSCRIBE to my channel as it is a baby in the YouTube world and the support will not go unnoticed. Do follow all my social media, which are dotted at the top and bottom of this page.


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Richard Rich Joffe Esq
January 29, 2019 Woodstock Whisperer	3 Comments
Rich Joffe grew up in Maplewood, NJ and entered Columbia University in the fall of 1968. High school had not been the most enjoyable of years, he was more into folk at a time when rock had become king. Folk's dominance had slowly faded since its early 60s-Hang-Down-Your-Head-Tom-Dooley-Kingston-Trio-Hootenanny high point. Many booed in 1965 when Dylan went electric at the Newport Folk Festival . Folk-rock emerged.
Kingston Trio to Kingsmen
Joffe had joined Columbia University's a cappella group, the Kingsmen. Their repertoire was limited to standard pop songs, but an opportunity to record pushed them to expand that repertoire. They didn't have far to look: doo wop only needed a bit of dusting off and was a music that emphasized harmonies.
A 1978 Harvard Crimson article wrote how George Leonard, the brother of Kingsmen Robert Leonard, arranged a "nostalgia" show and suggested that the group dress in a '50s style.
Before the show, George also distributed a flyer that read: "So you think you're an Ivy Leaguer? Bullshit. Underneath your button-down shirt is the eighth grade greaser standing on the corner, whistling 'Duke of Earl' to yourself and watching the girls go by. Come down to Ferris Booth Hall where the Kingsmen will be reliving the old days. Come dressed up."
Joffe remembers: A big crowd came to hear us. We dressed up in what we thought were greasy clothes at the time–white shirts and turtlenecks. And this bunch of about 20 or 30 jocks were sitting in the corner, basically being rowdy during the first part of our show when we were singing all our usual corny stuff.
"When we did the five Oldies, these people went berserk. From then on, it was simply pandemonium."
The group used that night's energy to develop their act and costumes.
Kingsmen to Sha Na Na
Their local popularity grew, but their international fame came out of Woodstock. And their appeal crossed both sides of the political aisle. Hippies loved the nostalgia; older greasers loved the affirmations.
He remained a student and included study on Sha Na Na road trips. And while the band's appeal may have originally crossed the aisle, they gravitated toward peace activism. On August 8, 1970 they appeared on the bill of a peace concert at Shea Stadium in New York City sharing the bill with Dionne Warwick, Al Cooper, the cast of "Hair," Richie Havens. Poco, Ten Wheel Drive, Paul Butterfield and Big Brother, Creedence Clearwater, Miles Davis, the Rascals, Paul Simon, and Steppenwolf.
After most of the members graduated, each faced a choice: continue as a commercial entity or leave and get (back?) on their intended career path. Most chose the latter. Joffee was one of them, but at the same time he and some others felt that as founders of the band the commercial entity "Sha Na Na" owed them money for the band's ownership rights.
The suit was settled out of court. Joffe went to Harvard but took Woodstock with him. He And would take off semesters and go to auto mechanic's and welding school. He worked as a delivery boy and a police reporter.
He received his JD from Columbia Law School in 1993. He worked for the law firm Labaton Sucharow.
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Atractaspis magrettii est une espèce de serpents de la famille des Lamprophiidae.

Répartition
Cette espèce se rencontre dans le nord-ouest de l'Éthiopie, dans l'ouest de l'Érythrée et dans l'Est du Soudan et du Soudan du Sud .

Description
C'est un serpent venimeux .

Taxinomie
Cette espèce a longtemps été considérée comme une sous-espèce d'Atractaspis microlepidota.

Publication originale
 Scortecci, 1929 "1928" : Rettili dell'Eritrea esistenti nelle Collezioni del Museo Civico di Milano. Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milano, , n. 3/4, .

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Atractaspidinae
Serpent (nom scientifique)


PT's Gold on East Centennial Parkway is located in North Las Vegas, Nevada. Just like all of the PT's, the Centennial Pkwy location it is part of Golden Gaming, LLC, which is owned by Blake Sartini and family. There are 15 gaming machines in the pub, which in addition to some popular slot titles feature a variety of games such as Electronic Keno, Electronic Bingo, and Video Poker. PT's are also William Hill Mobile Sports Deposit Hotspots.
At PT's Gold on East Centennial Parkway there are 15 gaming machines featuring a variety of games such as Electronic Keno, Electronic Bingo, and Video Poker, as well as some popular slot titles. PT's Pubs' are also William Hill Mobile Sports Deposit Hotspots.
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