Throughout my young life, I have been waiting for this moment to arrive. The sensation of flying in a small airplane is one I shall feel today, a sense of freedom, of soaring not unlike Eagles. It will be grand.
But the path here has been torture. For what seemed like forever today, my DooDah, Mommy and Daddy have been driving around the airport in Katy, with everyone waiting for me to scream "Let me out!" But I did not. They have tried to see if anything about flight scares me, they tried to remove me from my comfort zone, and they have failed miserably.
As I sit here about to take off on the most exciting adventure I have ever encountered, it seems so natural, this concept of flight. Some of my earliest memories are of watching birds hover in our bird feeder, their tiny wings moving in a blur as they hover to a stall before landing gracefully on the minuscule edge of the tray holding their bird seed lunch. I'm mesmerized as they then depart in an effortless ballet of movement, and catch the wind to glide off into the distance. Each time I see another small creature soar through our yard, I become hypnotized in the familiarity of it all.
DooDah has just said those words I have been waiting to hear, and we are cleared for takeoff. He again twists the very important white knob before him and Katy begins a tip-toe towards the large number one-six painted on this big road-like strip of tarmac. We line up in the center of the big numbers, and things start happening extremely fast. The anticipation inside me is about to reach explosive levels as I know we are about to...fly.
I am fixated on the capable hands of the pilot in the left seat directly in front of me, his hands moving everywhere now. But his right hand settles on that white knob, and he gingerly starts rotating it, screwing it in with a gentle, calculated touch. As he does, Katy's engine begins to come alive, and we lurch forward swiftly. As the white knob continues moving towards the panel, the engine's roar gets louder and louder, and we pick up speed quickly. As the white knob reaches the full-in position, Katy is racing forward, and as the speed increases, I can clearly feel something changing under the plane. It is the wheels, protesting as if they do not want to leave the ground. We seem to be stuck momentarily in a metamorphosis between rolling and flying. In a very short time, I see Katy's nose rise, and the angle of the plane changes dramatically, pushing me solidly back into the seat. Underneath the plane, the rolling sensation I have been experiencing soon vanishes, and as if lifted by the hand of God himself, Katy's big wings grab the air with enough force to lift us skyward and as we climb, I am amazed at how fast the ground falls away.
Yes, I have flown in big jets, but the sensation was one of a flying living room, boring and without any real adventure. But as Katy takes us upwards, away from the tarmac, I am stunned at how cool this feels, how fantastic this adventure has just become. Inside the big airliners, I am usually fast asleep before the plane leaves the ground, but on this glorious ride through the sky, I am awake, alive, and feel privileged to be one of the lucky few humans on this day to be able to enjoy the freedoms that come from flying your very own airplane.
This freedom is something I treasure as each second of this flight takes place. Like the birds outside my window at home, we are now gliding through perfectly blue sky, no tethers of any kind keeping us from chasing this day's dream. I let my mind race on what a person could achieve with the freedom of flight, of the accomplishments that could be completed with such a magical flying machine at your disposal.
The houses below are getting smaller, the cars look like toys as they slip slowly beneath Katy's wings, which look to be shaped a bit like a Hershey Bar, square in design but sturdy in build. Down below, I see parks full of kids playing, and can only imagine that like me so many times before, they are looking up as Katy slips through the sky, wishing they could fly like I am today. I might be the luckiest girl in the world at this very moment, those kids are stuck on the ground while I get to dance elegantly through the sky like a feather.
This flying stuff is something I could get very used too. For some reason, I seem to be attached to it in some strong way, linked to aviation in what feels like a perfect relationship. As we move across the sky, my mind races at what I could do with my life if I too had a freedom machine like Katy waiting to take me skyward. There would be wonderful trips with friends to discover the best airports with the tastiest airport food. For some reason, it sounds splendid to enjoy a hamburger at a cafe overlooking a runway. There might be important trips to do environmental work on behalf of my community, getting there quicker so I can have the opportunity to do more good on the ground. In times of need, I could use my airplane to fly supplies to those suffering through a disaster, or maybe take some kids up – they would be like young Eagles looking to be set free as I have been today.
But that is tomorrow, and this is today. Now, I am smothered in glory and immersed in sweet emotions as the four of us are taken through the air inside a craft that seems content with providing a supple ride on invisible rails. As the city slips by below, all is right in my world. What troubles there are in the streets below are not welcome here inside Katy, she is my shield from the harsh realities of life, if only for the few moments that we are airborne.
Up here, there is abundant joy because we are flying, and angels have my back, this I know.


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To understand buffers, their buffering regions and the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation.
Buffers work by resisting changes in pH. Only weak acids and bases, which can form conjugate bases and acids respectively can be buffers. A pH meter is used to measure the H+ concentration in any given solution, the result is temperature dependent, as such, the machine must be calibrated at a known pH and temperature.
Various buffers, namely, Histidine Monohydrochloride, Potassium Phosphate and Tris-HCl, are used in 3 separate experiments. Titration was used not only to determine buffering capacity but also Ka values and the effect of temperature.
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Q: Complement of $c_{0}$ in $\ell^{\infty}$ How can I show that $c_{0}$ cannot be complemented in $\ell^{\infty}$?
Complement in the following sense
$$c_{0}+V = \ell^{\infty}$$
And the projections are continuous.

A: Here is my proof.  The weak topology in the space $l^\infty$ is realcompact.  The weak topology in the space $l^\infty/c_0$ is not realcompact.  Therefore $l^\infty/c_0$ is not isomorphic to a closed subspace of $l^\infty$.
Reference for the "weak realcompact" material:
Corson, H. H. The weak topology of a Banach space.  Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 101 1961 1–15.
Edgar, G. A. Measurability in a Banach space. II. Indiana Univ. Math. J. 28 (1979), no. 4, 559–579.
I showed this to W. B. Johnson once, he thought for a minute or so and came up with the more conventional proof.

A: This is usually called Phillips's lemma and was proved in 7.5 on page 539 of Phillips, On linear transformations, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 48 (1940), 516–541 (it was also discovered by Sobczyk around the same time).
A somewhat different proof was given by Whitley in Projecting $m$ onto $c_0$, The American Mathematical Monthly
Vol. 73 (3) (Mar., 1966), pp. 285–286. The proof given there is as follows (I'm following the exposition of Albiac–Kalton, Topics in Banach space theory, pp 45f with some minor modifications):

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Let $S$ be a countable infinite set. Then there is an uncountable "almost disjoint family" of infinite subsets of $S$: more precisely, there is a family $\{A_i\}_{i \in I}$ of subsets of $S$ such that $\# I = \# \mathbb{R}$, that $\# A_i = \# \mathbb{N}$ for all $i$ and the intersection $A_i \cap A_j$ is finite whenever $i \neq j$.

Identify $S$ with the rational numbers in $[0,1]$ and let $I = [0,1] \smallsetminus S$. For each $i \in I$ choose a sequence $a^{(i)}_n \xrightarrow{n\to\infty} i$ from $S$ and set $A_i = \{a^{(i)}_{n}\,:\,n \in \mathbb{N}\}$ — an infinite set because $i$ is irrational. Then $\# I = \# \mathbb{R}$ and $A_i \cap A_j$ is finite whenever $i \neq j$, as desired.

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Let $P: \ell^\infty \to \ell^{\infty}$ be an operator such that $P(x) = 0$ for all $x \in c_0$. Then there is an infinite subset $A$ of $\mathbb{N}$ such that $P(x) = 0$ for all $x$ supported on $A$.

To see this, consider a family $\{A_i\}_{i \in I}$ of almost disjoint subsets of $\mathbb{N}$ as in 1. Assume that for each $i \in I$ we can find $x_i \in \ell^\infty$ supported on $A_i$ such that $P(x_i) \neq 0$, in particular $x_i \notin c_0$. Normalizing $x_i$, we may assume that $\|x_i\|=1$ for all $i \in I$.
Since $I$ is uncountable there must be $n \in \mathbb{N}$ such that $I_n = \{i \in I\,:\,(Px_i)(n) \neq 0\}$ is uncountable. Since $I_n$ is uncountable, there must be $k$ such that $I_{n,k} = \{i \in I\,:\,|(Px_i)(n)| \geq 1/k\}$ is uncountable.
Now fix $n$ and $k$ such that $I_{n,k}$ is uncountable. Let $J \subset I_{n,k}$ be finite and consider $y = \sum_{j \in J} \operatorname{sign}{[(Px_j)(n)]} \cdot x_j$. Note that
$$
(Py)(n) = \sum_{j \in J} \operatorname{sign}{[(Px_j)(n)]}\cdot (Px_j)(n) \geq \frac{\# J}{k}
$$
by our choice of $y$. Since $A_i \cap A_j$ is finite for $i \neq j$, we can write $y = f + z$ where $f$ has finite support and $\|z\| \leq 1$. Thus $P(y) = P(f) + P(z) = P(z)$ by hypothesis on $P$ and therefore $\|P(y)\| \leq \|P\| \|z\| \leq \|P\|$. This yields
$$\# J \leq \|P\| k$$
whence the absurdity that $I_{n,k}$ must be finite.
It follows that there must be a set $A = A_i$ such that $P(x) = 0$ for all sequences supported in $A$. Since all sets $A_i$ are infinite, $A$ is infinite and we are done.

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The subspace $c_0$ of $\ell^\infty$ is not complemented.

If $c_0$ were complemented in $\ell^\infty$, there would be a continuous projection $Q: \ell^\infty \to \ell^\infty$ with range $c_0$. Applying 2. with $P = 1-Q$ we would find an infinite set $A$ such that $(1-Q)(x) = 0$ for all sequences supported in $A$. But this means that $Q(x) = x$ for all sequences supported in $A$. This is absurd since $A$ is infinite; not all bounded sequences supported in $A$ belong to $c_0$.

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I love to study and ponder the life of Him who gave everything for me and for all of us.
I believe that starting a tradition of telling the stories of Jesus to our children and families is a very special way to keep the Sabbath day holy in our homes.
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Doctrine and Covenants 20:77, 79.
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World Council of Churches Endorses Palestinian Protests Over Temple Mount Security Measures
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Catholic Churches in Jerusalem Blame Israel for Muslim Violence, Deny Biblical Roots of Temple Mount
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American Jewry–on the path to self destruction
By Michael Laitman, JPost— If the Arabs learned from the Romans, whose legions destroyed Jerusalem 2,000 years ago, we would not be sovereigns in Israel today. Palestinian terrorism, however painful, does not pose an existential threat to the State of Israel. The hatred that Jews feel for their coreligionists, on the other hand, poses a…
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New letter explains updates to bond referendum
By Andrew Turco November 14, 2019 to The Sun Newspapers
A letter that was recently sent to district parents/guardians explains new information about the bond referendum, including changes to the previously estimated bond amount.
The Mantua Township School District recently sent families a letter regarding the proposed $11 million bond referendum scheduled to be voted on in January. It marks the start of the district's public information campaign for the construction projects designed by Garrison Architects of Bellmawr.
Superintendent Robert Fisicaro's letter introduced readers to two separate questions on which residents will vote.
The information detailed in the letter is not only new to the public, but is different from previous information about the referendum at recent board of education meetings.
A significant update was made to how much debt the district could handle without impacting residents' taxes.
In the September board meeting, Fisicaro said due to an expiring bond, the district had a range of $10.2 million to $11.5 million available without impacting property taxes. But according to information in the parent/guardian letter, the total amount of money in questions one and two is $11,035,250, a little less than the original maximum amount available without a tax impact.
Residents are now asked to vote on two separate questions. Question one has a total amount of $9,650,000, with no tax impact. The second question has a total amount of $1,385,250, with a tax impact of $9.87 per average assessed home value of $205,881.
The district says the change from previous estimations is due to a reduction of interest rates and debt service aid.
"Interest rates fluctuated in the last several months and the debt service aid from the state originally estimated at 34 percent was reduced to 19 percent, which reduced the amount of money that the district could borrow without a tax impact," Fisicaro said in an email statement.
He reiterated the fact that the numbers are estimates until the New Jersey Department of Education reviews the projects and issues its findings.
If both questions do not pass in January, voters will see an annual tax decrease of approximately $86.68, based on an average home value of $205,881, according to the district.
From other past statements made by the district, one of the major improvements it wanted to address was its Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance issues. The most significant work related to ADA compliance is in question one, with the reconfiguration of the school entrance and parking lot at Sewell School, according to Fisicaro. He said proposed security vestibules at all three schools also address compliance.
Besides the addition of a new ADA compliant playground surface at Sewell School, many of the projects that address ADA improvements are only included in question two, which has a tax impact and is subject to a vote.
The ADA compliant projects in question two on the referendum includ the construction of pre-kindergarten ADA accessible bathrooms at Sewell Elementary School and a new compliant playground surface at both Centre City and J. Mason Tomlin elementary schools.
"The board prioritized projects based on greatest need and impact at each school," Fisicaro said.
The district said the highest priority items are the removal of the mercury emitting gym floors, school safety and security upgrades and interior ADA accessibility. The purchase of new school furniture to replace some outdated equipment is a very small fraction of the project plan, but it aims to assist students in occupational health and agile learning spaces, according to the district..


Are your MANnerisms up to par? Do you follow the set rules of society in your everyday existence or will you soon find yourself on the receiving end of a conversation normally reserved for an 8 year old? Make sure you're up to code and following these rules before you find yourself in an awkward workplace situation.
There are a set of rules society has non-verbally agreed to that we should all abide by. We are forgiving of children who are still learning and rebellious teens who should know better but don't act better. By adulthood, a man should not only be aware of these rules but he should be following them without question. When a man breaks these rules, he needs to be told to straighten out, for his benefit and the benefit of all those around him. Unfortunately, I've often found myself in an official position of having to tell an employee that their behavior was unbecoming and inappropriate. Below is a list of obvious social rules that I have, in every instance, actually had to tell a guy they need to follow.
Clearly a sensitive subject, but when complaints about the smell of an employee are reported, action must be taken. Hygiene may mean showering more often, brushing your teeth, wearing deodorant, or dressing in clean clothing. In a compact and crowded world, we all need to be aware of our impact on those around us.
Being a man, urinating can be more than just something we have to do – it can be a fun, target shooting experience. That experience quickly turns sour if you're drenching the floor, or the toilet seat, in pee. On this note, a urinal is meant for you to stand at and urinate, where as a commode is not. Except in a crowded bar situation, you should not stand over and urinate at a toilet, as even the most accurate of shooters are bound to dribble on the floor, the same space where your pants may rest later that day.
Sandals and shorts are fine for the beach, but do not belong in the office or the clubs. Clothing, especially in the workplace, should be clean and free of holes and tears. No matter how casual the office may seem, the way you dress not only represents you, it represents the company and those above you. While we may appreciate your unique style, a stain-covered and hole-ridden T-Shirt is not appropriate in any work environment.
Most everyone likes a friendly guy, but there is a limit to how much chit-chat can go on. Talking can be disruptive, and in some avenues of work, it is entirely inappropriate. Even in social situations, there are times when someone must be taken aside and told to relax on the chatter. Excessive talking can easily lead you into saying something you'll regret, as well.
Perhaps the antithesis of the guy who talks too much is the man who doesn't know how or when to apologize. We all make mistakes at work and eventually we say the wrong thing and offend someone. The only way to make that situation worse is to remain quiet and not apologize. How embarrassing is it for the supervisor and the employee when one must be guided by the hand to apologize for something they've done?
Imagine my surprise at how few men know how to follow simple rules of proper etiquette in the bathroom. You'd think that I could easily go through my professional career without having to tell grown men to remember to flush a toilet after they've used it. There is no excuse for something of this nature – and for all our sakes wash your hands when you're done.
How many people have you seen take the office-garbage free-throw and miss, only to let the trash sit there? Spilled some cereal in the break room? Why on Earth would you let it sit there or, even worse, kick it under the shelf or refrigerator? If you're the guy who leaves a trail of paper and magazines from his desk around the office, be warned – someone knows and sooner or later you'll be on the receiving end of a conversation usually reserved for an 8 year old. Similarly, if you take the last bag of fruit snacks – throw away the box!
We all work in the same office and share the same things. If it is someone's job to replace some goods regularly, great. If not, it falls on you to be the one to take responsibility. Even if someone else has that job, if you've used the last coffee filter, let the person know. If replacing the coffee filters is as simple as opening the cupboard beneath the sink, then do it. Replacing napkins, paper towels, or sodas in the refrigerator is polite and to be expected. If you've ever been upset at an empty fridge or the lack of paper towels, you have even more reason to replace those items.
If you see yourself in any of these, you need to reevaluate the image you are giving others. These are simple, every day things that should be obvious to a grown man by now. Please don't leave me in the awkward situation of taking you aside and asking you to brush your teeth, as we've gotten several complains about your breath.
While most of these should go without saying…thanks for the reminders!
It must have been fun informing someone of number two on your list; I laugh to think of a boss telling a subordinate.
I'm printing this and giving it to my teenage sons. Thanks!
Wash your hands when you are done in the bathroom. Even if the Army taught you not to pee on your hands, you are not in uniform or living in a tent anymore. Use the provided sink to clean your hands.


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Pentamesa es un género de insecto coleóptero de la familia Chrysomelidae.

Especies
Las especies de este género son:
 Pentamesa depressa Wang, 1992
 Pentamesa emarginata Chen, 1987
 Pentamesa fulva (Wang, 1992)
 Pentamesa gongana (Wang, 1992)
 Pentamesa guttipennis Chen & Wang, 1980
 Pentamesa inornata Chen & Wang, 1980
 Pentamesa parva Chen & Wang, 1981
 Pentamesa scripta Medvedev, 1997
 Pentamesa sophiae An, 1988
 Pentamesa xiangchengana (Wang, 1992)

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Allerton (Y-DNA)
1 Status summary
2 Paper trail
2.1 First Generation
2.2 Second Generation
2.3 Possible Y-DNA descendants
3 DNA Results TBD
3.1 Previous testing
3.2 Next Generation Sequence/Whole Genome Sequence testing
4 References and External Resources
As of November 21, 2020:
Recruiting Allerton Y-DNA descendants for NGS/WGS testing. Interested parties can contact Raymond Wing, email: wing(DOT)genealogist(AT)gmail(DOT)com
Paper trail
Isaac Allerton was born about 1587, son of Bartolomew and Mary (_____) Allerton of East Bergholt, Suffolk, England.[1] He died at New Haven (now part of Connecticut) between 1 Feb 1658/9 - 12 Feb 1658/9.[2] He was married twice: First at Leiden 4 Nov 1611 [NS] to Mary Norris[3] who died at Plymouth on 25 Feb 1620/1.[4] Isaac married second, New Plimouth between 1623 - 1627 Fear Brewster.[5]
By his first wife, Isaac had: Bartholomew, Remember, Mary, infant child, and stillborn son. By his second wife, Isaac had Sarah (apparently died young) and Isaac.[6]
Bartholomew Allerton[7] was born in Leiden about 1612.[8] and died in Barnfield, Suffolk, England between 15 Oct 1658 - 19 Feb 1658/9.[9] He is believed to have married twice: fist by 1640 to Margaret (____) who pre-deceased him, and second between Sarah Fairfax.[10] Isaac had four children[11]: Isaac, Mary, Dorothy and John.[12]
Isaac Allerton (II) was born in New Plimouth about 1628[13] and died sometime between writing his will (Westmoreland Co., VA 25 Oct 1702) and the will being proved (30 Dec 1702). Isaac was married twice: First prob. in New Haven, CT about 1652 to Elizabeth (_____) and second, in Virginia between 8 Sep 1662 - 30 Jan 1663/4 to Elizabeth Willoughby, widow of both Simon Overzee and George Colclough. By his first wife he had Elizabeth and Isaac. By his second wife he had Willoughby, Frances and Sarah.
Possible Y-DNA descendants
An Isaac Allerton with wife Elizabeth was living in the New Haven, Connecticut area in the latter part of the Seventeenth Century. They had sons John and Jesse. The identity of this Isaac is still unknown, but is likely either Isaac3 son of Isaac2 or Isaac3 son of Bartholomew2.
↑ NEHGReg 173:197-205
↑ Court appearance - date of inventory from Anderson, Mayflower Migration p. 26
↑ MD 7:129-30
↑ Anderson, Mayflower Migration, p. 26.
↑ not remarried in 1623 land division, but remarried in 1627 Cattle Division.
↑ MD 40:7-10
↑ Based on the assumption he was their first child.
↑ ibid.
↑ Still need to discover by which wife
↑ MD 40:8-9 from Probate records of the Archdeaconry of Suffolk, 1644-1700, W109/92, R73/208
↑ Not named in the 1627 Cattle Division. His father was in England until late Spring 1627. As such, the son could not have been born until ca Mar 1628 at the very earliest
DNA Results TBD
Currently, Family Tree DNA does not have an Allerton surname DNA Project, but has eight kits associated with the Allerton surname.
Next Generation Sequence/Whole Genome Sequence testing
NGS/WGS testing of Allerton descendants would further refine the haplogroup assignment for this family.
References and External Resources
Wakefield, Robert S. and Margaret Harris Stover, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, vol. 17:Allerton General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA 1998, reprinted 2018.
Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Passenger References: from contemporary records & scholarly journals, Stewrt Publishing & Printing, Canada, 2011. Second Edition 2015, pp. 30-74
Anderson, Robert Charles, The Mayflower Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth, 1620 New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA 2020 pp. 24-29
The Mayflower Quarterly vol. 47 (1981):14-18 "The Children of Isaac Allerton"
Johnson, Caleb, Sue Allan and Simon Neal, New England Historical and Genealogical Registervol. 173 (2019):197-205 "The Origin and Parentage of Mayflower Passenger Isaac Allerton in East Bergholt, Suffolk"
Hall, Newman A., The Mayflower Descendant vol. 40 pp. 7-10 "Bartholomew Allerton and the Fairfax family of Bramfield, Suffolk"
Pilgrim Isaac Allerton Society
wikipedia article on Isaac Allerton
joint NEHG Society & GSMD Isaac Allerton Profile
Caleb Johnson's MayflowerHistory.com profile of Isaac Allerton
Retrieved from "https://mayflowerdna.org/wiki/index.php?title=Allerton_(Y-DNA)&oldid=3009"


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Rotary Cogwheel | 10.02.2014
Today: Tom Bisell, Trials of a Bike Shop Owner
Birthdays: Laurie Williams (9/28), Robert Bierman, Michelle Lasswell and Kurt Larson – Yes, THE Kurt Larson — (9/29) and Tom Durkin (9/30).
Next Week: Meet the Exchange Students (V. Dilley)
iPads are changing the face of education.
Kim Briske, Director of Technology at Northfield School District, calls the new technology "transformative." In her estimation, it will advance the four tenets of 21st century learning: communication, critical thinking, creativity and collaboration.
The iPads bring several game changers to the field, she said. First, they make the Internet available to every student and increase students' comfort level with digital technology. They are vehicles for creating and sharing new content. They invite teachers to learn new skills, and their presence in an educational setting help students learn to use iPads for productive purposes, not just entertainment.
Every child in grades 6-12 now has a dedicated iPad . Each elementary classroom has six common iPads. "Schoology" is the base software application, and to smooth the transition to the new technology, the schools have adopted the SAMR model — Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, and Redefinition.
Kim offered a few examples of how the iPad technology has been used in Northfield Schools:
The band teacher can teach and quiz music theory on the iPad which frees up more time for playing instruments during class;
Interactive exercises such as a pizza parlor game apply math skills to real life and incorporate critical thinking;
Syrian refugees were brought into the classroom via Google Hangout for a live interactive discussion about their plight.
Kim grew up in Northfield and now lives here with her husband and two children. She taught in Farmington for nine years before taking her position in Northfield.
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Mini Classification:
Matt Hillmann is the Director of Administrative Services for the Northfield School District. Matt and his wife, Mary, have three children: Jackson, a 10th grader; Grace, an eighth grader; and Peter, fifth grader.
Matt grew up in the Finger Lakes region of New York. He moved to Minnesota 20 years ago and has held many educational positions over the years, both classroom and administrative. He came to Northfield from Belle Plaine to be the Director of Human Resources & Technology. He took on the finance position as well and is now the Director of Administrative Services.
Matt handed off the technology responsibility to Kim Briske, who was chosen from a pool of 42 applicants. She is responsible for overseeing the management of the school district's 2,200 iPads.
Lisa Havelka (Estenson), our new director of the Northfield Convention & Visitors Bureau; Susan Quinnell (Quinnell); Charlie Duarte (Halverson) from Apple's Education Unit; David Rod (Lawlor), Leo's son-in-law and an American Airlines pilot; Sten Johanson (Willgohs), from Denmark with Delfi, which was owned by our former exchange student's (Nico) father
Scholarship Enhancement: Matt Hillmann
First Job: Scott Richardson worked for a canning factory during the summer. It encouraged him to attend college.
Past Northfield Rotary Club meeting videos on Youtube: NorthfieldRotaryVideos
— District Foundation Event in Oakdale on Saturday, Nov. 1.
— Our fall fundraiser, the Turkey Trot, needs sponsors – $1000, $500, $200. The event will be held Thursday, Nov. 27, starting at Weitz Center this year.
—John Ophaug reported that Bob Lampe, a member of Rotary since 1961, has moved to assisted living in Roseville.
— Matt Rich presented Chris Weber with a pin from Rotary International for sponsoring two new members for 2013-14.
Oct. 16 — Wokie Daboh, Project Blackboard (Maus)
Oct. 23 — Char Carlson, chair of the Northfield Library Board (B. Carlson)
Oct. 30 — Sam Daly, Sniffing for Bombs in Afghanistan (Fossum)


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Chinua Achebe Dies Aged 82: The Extraordinary Life and Work of an Extraordinary Man
Chinua Achebe will be sorely missed
In 2008, while studying for my Postcolonial Literature module at Manchester Metropolitan University, I read Chinua Achebe's "A Man of the People".
Finding the book a short but fascinating introduction to an author who my course tutors seemed to adore, I set about reading the better known "Things Fall Apart" over the following summer.
As "Things Fall Apart" has been described by Achebe himself as a 'spiritual predecessor' to "A Man of the People" and to several of his later novels, I found myself delving backwards through the work of a man who characterised African literature in the 20th and early 21st centuries.
On Thursday, Chinua Achebe died in Boston, Massachusetts after a short illness. Born in Ogidi in the Protectorate of Nigeria in 1930, Achebe spent the first 24 years of his life under British colonial rule, until the disbandment of the colony in 1954. By this point, Achebe had studied at Nigeria's first university – University College in Ibadan – achieving a second class degree.
While not excelling academically – not yet, anyway – Achebe did find the time to fall in love with literature at the university, something which we should all be thankful for.
Four years after Nigerian independence, Achebe published his debut novel, "Things Fall Apart", followed by "No Longer At Ease" two years later and then an extensive period of travelling. On returning to Nigeria, he set about creating the Voice of Nigeria network, nurturing and encouraging the cultural identity of this fledgling, independent nation.
Over the years that followed, Achebe produced three more novels, as well as countless short stories, poems and works of critical and political theory. The great man will be remembered as a novelist, but – amongst the fiction – it was one of his works of academia that resonated most greatly with me.
"An Image of Africa" is Achebe's essay on the depiction of his home continent in Joseph Conrad's 1899 novella, "Heart of Darkness". Often appearing in the upper reaches of those irritating "Best Books Ever" lists, Conrad's work has been held up as a stunning psychological study of the human mind as it retreats into a sort of Freudian 'other world'; heading, quite literally, for the heart of darkness.
Achebe instantly dismissed the legitimisation of Conrad's writing as a modern or pre-modern text. He pronounced that there was something altogether more disturbing about Conrad's work than what initially met the eye, and advocated that it was the author himself himself who should be subjected to psychological study;
"Conrad had a problem with niggers," Achebe wrote.
"His inordinate love of that word itself should be of interest to psychoanalysts."
Published as part of the 1988 collection "Hopes and Impediments", "An Image of Africa" could easily have become an interesting, if rather pedestrian, historical assessment of a hoary old Victorian writer and his problem with "those black chaps". However, Achebe's keen sense of social and political relevance ensured that the essay offered far more than this.
He maintained that, by simultaneusly holding up an outdated text like this one as a paragon of its literary movement, and apologising for its often less-than-salubrious messages, we are simply perpetuating support for prejudice, subjugation and segregation; attitudes that we like to think we have left behind.
When we cite works like these as foundation texts upon which modern literary schools of thought are based, this practice becomes all the more dangerous.
Achebe argued that, in Conrad's eyes, notions of African humanity should be dismissed, and the continent should instead be viewed as a sort of experimentation chamber within which the refined European psyche could be put to the test.
"Can nobody see the preposterous and perverse arrogance in thus reducing Africa to the role of props for the break-up of one petty European mind?" Achebe asked.
Who else could produce such a politically charged, powerful and contemporaneous analysis of a book written almost a century before?
Chinua Achebe will be sorely missed. Read his novels, by all means, but do not overlook "An Image of Africa", a text that did as much to promote African culture and literature in the international consciousness as the celebrated "Things Fall Apart" or "Anthills of the Savannah".
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Nicola Monaghan, Alan Sillitoe and Nottingham's Literary Soul
Nottingham on a rare sunny day
Nottingham is a city with soul.
This is a non-negotiable position, and one which is soon reached by anyone who has spent time in the East Midlands conurbation.
It's got its problems, like anywhere. But, time and time again, its positives outstrip its negatives, both in number and in weight.
Ask someone to describe Nottingham's literary soul in two words, and the answer that is likely to be fired back your way is: 'Alan Sillitoe'.
This is unsurprising: the author's scintillating work "Saturday Night, Sunday Morning" continues to reverberate in every drunken laugh that echoes out at 3am on Forman Street and Broad Street to this day.
To paraphrase the Arctic Monkeys – somewhat appropriately, given the Sheffield quintet's admiration for Sillitoe's novels – there is a certain romance in the next generation of Nottingham's youth emulating Arthur's adventures on the cobbles of Old Market Square each weekend. How accurate they make such emulations is up to them.
So, while Sillitoe is the undisputed grand master of Nottingham's literary scene, and is immortalised at the heart of the city's cultural soul; who are the young writers ready to take up that torch and forge on into the 21st century?
Writers like Ghanaian-born, Freddy Fynn have already helped to expand the traditional boundaries of Nottingham's literature.
His outstanding collection "Of Life and Love: Eight Moral Tales" retells traditional African short stories handed down by Fynn's grandfather, and could not be set further from NG1 if it tried. Despite this, Fynn's book instantly became part of the cultural fabric of the East Midlands city.
If writers like Fynn are taking Nottingham in new and exciting directions and introducing fresh perspectives, it is writers like Nicola Monaghan who are continuing the Sillitoe lineage and drawing influence directly from the city of Nottingham, from the ground upwards.
The influence of Alan Sillitoe is evident throughout Monaghan's work. Even the title of her blog "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Writer", owes a debt to the famous author, while her short story "Sunday Night and Monday Morning" offers more than just a gentle nod in his direction.
Published in 2006, Monaghan's award winning debut novel "The Killing Jar" follows young Kerry Ann Hill as she grows up on a council estate in Aspley, north-west Nottingham. Certainly not a love letter to the city, "The Killing Jar" contains some of the most hard-hitting writing and bleak subject matter produced by a British writer in recent years.
The book's central metaphor is its eponymous killing jar. Used by Kerry Ann's elderly neighbour, Mrs Ivanovich to kill butterflies for her collection, the jar becomes a symbol, not only for the drug-infested council estate, but also for Kerry Ann's poisonous relationship with her mother and, later, her abusive partner, Mark.
Tackling these issues head on makes "The Killing Jar" uncomfortable reading at times, but there is a thread of positivity that runs throughout the book that prevents the novel becoming an 'it's-grim-up-norf' caricature of itself. Without giving too much away, it is this antithesis of the positive, the uplifting and the downright horrible, that makes the book so readable.
With a keen eye and ear for what makes her city tick, Monaghan's "The Killing Jar" is a triumphant text that repeatedly lays bare the foundations of Nottingham's strong identity, for better or worse. With that identity brought under scrutiny so often over the last decade, we need texts like this to preserve and propagate it.
Monaghan followed up her debut by moving on to pastures new and producing "Starfishing" – a dark tale of corporate excess set in The City in the boom days of the late '90s – and "Okinawa Dragon". I have to admit that I haven't read either novel, although I will do someday. However, I go about my day with constantly crossed fingers in the hope that Nicola will return to our shared hometown for her next literary outing.
In the meantime, I continue to be quietly overwhelmed with civic pride.
Click here for an exploratory journey around Nottingham's oldest pubs.
Fellow readers; how much guidance do we really want? Or need?
It has little to do with the remainder of this post, but it is a fact that Russian literature is something I can get enthusiastic about.
Today I decided to search for my next literary fix from the former Soviet republic and found myself reading through the Amazon user reviews for Dosoyevsky's "The Devils" (aka – for the sake of accuracy – "Demons" or "The Possessed").
The only review I could for Dostoyevsky's 1872 novel which did not offer a glowing 5/5 write up was a one awarding the book a paltry 3/5. The main gripe that his reviewer had with "The Devils" was the reluctance of the author to give the reader any concrete details in terms of character development and back-story.
The discussion raged in the comments, with defenders of Dostoyevsky praising the literary maestro adoptions of narrative ambiguity as to the origins of the characters.
One supporter in particular seemed ecstatic about the way in which the author posed certain questions: how did such-and-such character get here? for example, what are they planning? what is real and what is not? These are questions which Dostoyevsky leaves for the reader to answer. Something that evidently rankled the poster of the 3/5 review.
This interesting point led me to pose a question of my own. As no novelist approaches a work with a completely open and objective mind, should the writer lead his or her readers through the novel, to the conclusion they intended? Or should they cede some degree of narratorial control to the reader themselves?
Acolytes of Roland Barthes' literary criticism will have a very short answer to this question: it is not up to the author, the author is metaphorically dead – or quite literally dead in the case of Dostoyevsky.
While I prescribe to this view to an extent, it is too neat to completely remove the author from the equation. Novelists are narcissistic by their very nature, and so are understandably reluctant to simply release their creation into the world with no guidebook to help a reader navigate its pages.
So it is interesting when a writer appears to be trying to do just that. Milan Kundera is a writer who has been described variously as narcissistic and even misogynistic – we won't go into that here, there's not time – but in his 1979 book, "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting", he appears to be willing to put his egocentrism to one side, opting to hand over elements of control to the reader themselves.
The narration takes the form of a series of discrete, seemingly unrelated components, which ultimately spiral in on themselves to form a whole. The novel has been described as 'a whirlwind dance' – a phrase which echoes the rings of floating dancers that appear at various points in the novel, whether in the skies above Prague or levitating above the floor of a classroom.
However, despite this apparently meticulous choreography, the breathing space given to the reader allows us to form our own connections, formulate our own back-stories and, crucially, draw our own conclusions.
While Kundera's work is at times dazzling (and at other times frustrating) his techniques are neither experimental nor extreme when compared to the work of certain other postmodern reader. Published a decade prior to Kundera's work, B.S. Johnson's "The Unfortunates" is one of the arch examples of a pure rejection of accepted narrative forms.
The novel follows a sports writer who journeys to an unnamed city in the English Midlands (a thinly disguised version of my beloved home town of Nottingham) to cover the match of an unnamed football team (it's Forest; not County).
Already scoring big in my book on the strength of the setting alone, "The Unfortunates" clinches the winner by virtue of its astonishing disregard for traditional convention. In a move that would have made Gustave Flaubert turn in his grave, Johnson published the novel as a box of 25 un-ordered chapters of various lengths.
The chapters were designed to be read in any order the reader desired, ensuring that any one reader's experience of the now infamous 'book-in-a-box' would be totally dissimilar to that of another.
A victory, then, for those Barthesian literary anarchists who believe that authorial jurisdiction ceases when the pen leaves the paper? Well, not entirely; "The Unfortunates" is packaged up with a proviso that, once again, casts everything into doubt.
B.S. Johnson designed his 'book-in-a-box' so that only 23 of the 25 chapters were to be read in the reader's chosen order. The novel's opening and closing chapters are clearly demarked as such, acting as carefully inserted bookends to this groundbreaking novel.
So, if even an arch-experimentalist like B.S. Johnson was reluctant to completely cede all control of his narrative, what hope is there for a work which completely eschews traditional for and structure? Can a novel ever be truly free of the 'tyranny' of its author? And – more pressingly – should it ever be released in this way?
I began this post with a question, and ended it with one. Sorry about that.
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Buy, Sell, & Trade sub-forum is more like for advertising your items for sale on eBay but then you know already the General subforum is not the correct place for same as indicated in your OP.
I reported it but it would not hurt for you to ask the moderators to move it as well.
I'm interested in the nitrogen laser. Can you ship to Canada? Also wouldn't mind some pictures of it actually running, seeing as it's listed as working. Loads of those units on eBay but rarely tested.
I'm only finding sport memorabilia with that ebay name??
Will take your word on the xtal Those little sets are nice for an entry into DIY DPSS. Have seen them come up multiple times over the years.
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I have a dataset with 500+ members in it. I need to unload the entire dataset to a text file and each member name should be the file name of the text file.
Is it possible to do by file transfer ?
Not that I'm aware. To the left, a Rexx script using ISPF services to get the list of members and tailor a skeleton should do it quite nicely.
but is it possible to unload to our local PC for all the members ?
Probably. You don't say what terminal emulator you use, but I use Rumba, and a PDS(E) member can easily be unloaded to a PC file by its Transfer feature. I have no need to do such a thing, and therefore haven't tried writing a macro to do it, but I expect it could be done.
ISPF Workstation Agent can do what you are asking for.
See option 3.7.2. If you specify the workstation file as say: P:\documents\*.txt the ISPF member name will be substituted for the asterisk.
Employees taking files from the system to their own PC? Why the flipping 'ell do they need those files on their PC? To take to a competitor? To set up their own business?
Most PCs have an ftp client installed - most are GUI these days.
Start the FTP client. Switch to the proper pc directory and on the mainframe, use the PDS name as the directory and it will show all of the members as though they were individual files. Select some or all of the members and transfer them (ASCII) to the PC.
Ed: I recommend toggling the PROMPT option so the FTP runs without the question about downloading each member.
that's what the '-i' does on the command line.
If you have FileAid on your system you can unload an entire PDS into a single flat-file with member name headings and the member contents following. I've found this very useful at times. The output file could be post processed to generate the separate text files from that.


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SPACE TALKS with Lauri Kimmel: cybersecurity, satellites and startups.
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Welcome to another episode of Space Talks brought to you by Garage48, hosted by our long time mentor and space enthusiast - Kai Isand. Our guest is Lauri Kimmel, Co-Founder and CTO at Spaceit - a space tech company offering Mission Control as a Service, a single platform for satellite operations and ground station services.
Space talks are a series of interviews with influential people in the space sector to inspire ideas and motivate participants of SPACETECH EUROPE Online Hackathon.
Spacetech Europe Online Hackathon will take place on 3-5th December. Read more HERE. 🚀
Journey in space and Spaceit
Lauri's journey in space started in 2010 when he joined CGI Estonia and started working on different projects for the European Space Agency. In 2013, he participated in Mission Control System development and was a member of the satellite launch team of the ESTCube-1.
In 2015 Lauri with his friends founded Spaceit which is offering mission control services for the satellites.
"When you have a satellite, you need software to communicate with your satellite, monitor it and control it, all of it is done on ground by the people, for that you need software and connection to the ground stations which basically are antennas and radio transceivers."
Today Spaceit is developing its own product and has signed several agreements with the European Space agency. Since 2020 Spaceit has been participating in several cybersecurity activities.
Spaceit is hiring! Check out the opportunities.
What is exciting about working in spacetech?
Working in Space is not so different compared to the IT development on the ground. It is still needed to move data around, secure it, ensure that data ends up at the right place and is not visible to anyone from the outside, which is very similar to the work we do on the ground.
Interesting part about working in space is the communication with the satellites. When establishing a communication with the satellites, you have quite limited opportunities at the moment. If you have one ground station and one satellite, you have around 1 hour of communication per day. When you expand your ground station around the globe then you have more communication opportunities but it is more work to operate the ground station, so the process has a lot of space for optimization.
Visualize what would happen if all satellite communication would disappear one day. This helps realize what we are actually doing in space, see other opportunities and how important space is for our life on Earth.
Space sector in the next 10 years
Space used to be a playground for big countries and agencies and it is still opening up in some ways. We have many ways to improve our space ecosystem and there will be changes in the upcoming years, but it is hard to predict what exactly will happen.
However, some global trends are already visible. Downstream business - working with the data from satellites, will find a new way to utilize data from space. There will be more missions, satellites in space. Which means that there will be more space debris around in 10 years and that is a very pressing issue.
Space challenges to look into
Cybersecurity in space definitely is a big challenge at the moment. Not all decision makers think about security as much as they should.
"We have seen missions and companies that don't do mission control, a lot of focus is on the security pre launch, but not that many think about what happens after launch, all of the vulnerabilities of the communication, etc."
Security in space is no different from any security on the ground. To secure your data transmission, data storage and testing, you have to make sure that only authorised personnel are able to communicate with your satellite and send commands to your satellite.
One thing which is particular for space, if your satellite is taken over by a bad actor you're still reliable for the satellite. It is your responsibility for what your satellite is doing even if you are not in control. That's why it is important to have processes in place and take back control when someone is trying to attack your satellite.
"Even if you have the most secure satellite and you are doing everything right, you are still not protected from other satellites. It is like driving, you could be a careful driver and still get into an accident."
Why join a hackathon?
There are obviously many benefits in joining a hackathon and Lauri outlined the two main ones for him:
Meeting new people: it is always good to take part in hackathons to meet new people, you'll never know who you'll meet.
Learning new things: you work in your small world, then all of a sudden you see a lot more people working on different things. Tackling the same problem, but in different ways.
Tips for the participants:
Take a Monday off if you can, hackathon is a very intense weekend.
It is good if you come to the hackathon with something more than an idea. Sometimes it is hard to find the right people on the spot, make pre-arrangements and ensure that you have support already.
Do your research, brainstorm what you want to achieve in these 48 hours.
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Q: How to convert nested arrays into one-dimensional? Here i have nested arrays with multidimensional so how to get  arrays into one dimensional!
[[1,2],[3,4],[5,6],[[1,25],[9,0]],[[[21,2],[22,5]],"ruby",[58,96]]]

Expected output:
[[1,2],[3,4],[5,6],[1,25],[9,0],[21,2],[22,5],"ruby",[58,96]]

A: You can obtain the desired result by using recursion.
def recursive_flatten(arr)
  arr.each_with_object([]) do |e,a|
    if e.is_a?(Array)
      if e.flatten == e
        a << e
      else
        a.concat(recursive_flatten(e))
      end
    else
      a << e
    end
  end
end

arr = [[1,2],[3,4],[5,6],[[1,25],[9,0]],[[[21,2],[22,5]],"ruby",[58,96]]]

recursive_flatten(arr)
  #=> [[1, 2], [3, 4], [5, 6], [1, 25], [9, 0], [21, 2], [22, 5], "ruby", [58, 96]]

A: This is a simple implementation of what you're trying to achieve. I believe that this can be improved furthermore.
x = [[1,2],[3,4],[5,6],[[1,25],[9,0]],[[[21,2],[22,5]],"ruby",[58,96]]]
print(x, "\n")

def depth (a)
  return 0 unless a.is_a?(Array)
  return 1 + depth(a[0])
end

def custom_map (list)
    temp = []
    for i in list
        if depth(i) == 1
            temp.append(i)
        elsif depth(i) > 1
            temp.push(*custom_map(i))
        else i.is_a? String
            temp.append(i)
        end
    end
    return temp
end

y = custom_map(x)
print(y)


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Q: Applying logic to Flash (AS3)Objects my last question probably had to much code in it...so ill try to make it shorter this time! :P
My Problem is, that i create objects, save them in an array and check them for collision.
unfortunately the logic is only applied to the FIRST object... i have no idea why :(
(by tracing it i see, it actually saves all objects)
trace message: ,[object item_collider],[object item_collider],[object item_collider],[object item_collider]
help please !!! :(
// Creates Coins
var coin:item_collider;
var posx;
var posy;
for (var i2:int=1; i2<5; i2++)
{
posx = Math.round(Math.random()*(400)+1);
posy = 5;

coin = new item_collider(posx,posy);
stage.addChild(coin);
trace("Add Coin (foreach)");
Coin_Array[i2]=coin; // tried this with "push" as well didnt work...
}

function Gravity(_event:Event)
{

for each (coin  in Coin_Array)
{

if (char.hitTestObject(coin))
{
    if (coin.parent != null)
    {
        coin.parent.removeChild(coin);
        trace("Remove Coin");

        posx = Math.round(Math.random()*(400)+1);
        posy = 5;

        coin = new item_collider(posx,posy);
        stage.addChild(coin);
        trace("Add new Coin");
        trace(Coin_Array);
}
}

A: There's an amount of code missing here, so I'm having to guess somewhat. In future please include all relevant code: When is Gravity() called? I'm assuming from an ENTER_FRAME somewhere? What is Coin_Array? You have not included it's declaration and it's central to your code. What is char?
Anyhow...
You are only testing for coins within your Coin_Array object. When a collision occurs you seem to be removing the original from the stage, and adding a new one. You are only doing this for the stage and not the Coin_Array. The Coin_Array will have the old reference inside it still (to a now invisible coin), and the new coin you have just created will never be checked.
You need to write your new coin back to the Coin_Array, and do it in place of the coin you just removed (if that indeed is your intended logic?)


I love how I can shout "Drogba!" after each one of his goals. It is just such a good name to shout!
It's a really good name, isn't it?
You only do it after goals?
Love the "Lampard, DrogBAAA, GOALLLL!"
Only started watching football this year, I had no idea.
I knew I would get this reply.
As an Arsenal fan, you really wouldn't want to watch that video.
I noticed... pained me to appreciate just how good.
it's that thing in a car and you put your foot on it. or something.
Love how often Arsenal comes up on this list.
Drogba has been the bane of Arsenal since he's been at Chelsea.
And Liverpool. A testament to his class.
I'd say Liverpool and Arsenal can't wait for him to retire.
Truly amazing player. Always felt he never really gets the credit he deserves, mainly because his best season was also when Ronaldo made a joke of the league.


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This AANP initiative not only strives to raise awareness ofthe NP role, but also advocates that NPs be allowed to fully practice withintheir scope nationwide in an effort to resolve the shortage of quality primarycare health-care providers that the country is expected to face as the AffordableCare Act is implemented.
Currently, the role of nurse practitioners is decided by thestate where they practice. While formal and clinical education fully prepares NPsto practice autonomously, only 16 states permit NPs to practice independent ofa supervising physician. In addition, some states restrict NP's prescriptiveauthority.
Providing care to the underserved is challenging. Many of mypatients assume that I am a physician despite countless efforts on my part toinform them that I am an NP. A firm commitment to correcting these patientswhen they address me as "doctor" has been fruitless. I am hoping that theAANP's national campaign will strengthen my efforts to promote the role of the NPand enable my patients to recognize that it is, in fact, an NP that is deliveringthe quality healthcare they are receiving.
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