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UnitedHealth Buys Large Doctors Group as Lines Blur in Health Care
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NY Times – By REED ABELSON DEC. 6, 2017
In another example of the blurring boundaries in the health care industry, UnitedHealth Group, one of the nation's largest insurers, said on Wednesday that it is buying a large physician group to add to its existing roster of 30,000 doctors.
UnitedHealth's Optum unit will acquire the physician group from DaVita, a large for-profit chain of dialysis centers, for about $4.9 billion in cash, subject to regulatory approval. DaVita operates nearly 300 clinics across a half-dozen states, including California and Florida.
With the purchase, UnitedHealth is increasingly moving into the direct delivery of medical care.
"Combining DaVita Medical Group and Optum advances our shared goal of supporting physicians in delivering exceptional patient care in innovative and efficient ways," Larry C. Renfro, Optum's chief executive, said in a statement.
Analysts praised the move as keeping with UnitedHealth's broader goal of building a large ambulatory care business.
"The asset is strongly synergistic" with the company's overall "mission and strategy," Ana Gupte, an analyst for Leerink, told investors after the deal was announced.
The proposed acquisition comes after the announcement that another big insurer, Aetna, planned to merge with CVS Health. That transaction, if approved, could transform CVS's 10,000 drugstores into community-based health care "hubs," where people could get blood tests or help managing a chronic disease like diabetes. Executives at Aetna and CVS said that this new model would result in better care and lower costs for patients.
At a time of growing uncertainty in the health care marketplace, doctors, drugstores, hospitals and insurers are looking outside their traditional businesses to join forces. The tax overhaul proposed congressional Republicans could cut payments to federal programs like Medicare sharply and upend the Affordable Care Act, and employers and consumers are increasingly worried about the high cost of medical care.
The potential threat of new competitors like Amazon entering the pharmacy business and technology companies delivering medical care through cellphones has led former adversaries to become partners, driving insurers to team up with hospitals and doctors' groups. They are seeking to deliver care in novel ways, outside the expensive setting of a hospital. While the combination with CVS allows Aetna to experiment with providing medical care in a retail setting, insurers are also looking to partner directly with doctors and health systems.
To change how people receive medical care, particularly when managing chronic, and costly, diseases like diabetes and asthma, the parties "are going to have to reorganize," said Craig Garthwaite, a health economist at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
"There's no chance that the existing companies, be they hospital or insurers, have the right configuration of assets to be successful" at turning health care into a business where the parties are able to produce better outcomes at a lower cost, he said.
What is striking about the recent combinations, Professor Garthwaite said, is that insurers are the ones seeking to integrate the delivery of care into their operations, as opposed to a large health system like Kaiser Permanente, the health maintenance organization based in California, directing members to its hospitals and doctors. "For a long time, we thought there was a world in which Kaiser was the future," he said.
But Kaiser Permanente has proved to be mostly an exception to the rule. Several large systems began offering health plans under the Affordable Care Act, only to end up losing money and getting out of the business.
Aetna and UnitedHealth appear to be trying to develop their own in-house network of doctors to try to change how care is delivered. UnitedHealth, which already operates a large pharmacy-benefit manager and a variety of health care services through its Optum unit, is among the most diversified and most successful insurers.
The acquisition of DaVita Medical Group, which includes such high profile organizations as HealthCare Partners and the Everett Clinic, is the latest move by UnitedHealth to expand into the realm of delivering medical care as a way of reducing costs. The company already operates medical practices in Southern California and elsewhere, and it owns nearly 250 MedExpress urgent-care clinics. The company says the clinics offer much of the same care available at a hospital emergency room but at a significantly lower cost.
Last January, UnitedHealth also acquired a chain of surgery centers, a move the company said could lower the expense of having an outpatient surgery by more than 50 percent. The company expects to perform roughly 1 million surgeries and other procedures this year.
Insurers are also increasingly experimenting with different methods of paying for care and attempting to provide better oversight of potentially expensive chronic conditions like diabetes or heart failure. To date, Aetna and Cigna have favored joint ventures with large health groups.
While these new partnerships promise to change how people get care, by marshaling better information about patients and steering them to less expensive and more convenient places, whether an urgent-care clinic or drugstore, delivering on that promise may prove challenging. DaVita, which bought HealthCare Partners five years ago as a way to become a major player in the care of people with chronic conditions, found itself struggling to make money on its medical group. In describing the group's most recent quarterly financial results, DaVita's chief executive, Kent J. Thiry, said they were "extremely disappointing."
The sale, which is expected to close next year, return DaVita to its core kidney dialysis business, although Mr. Thiry said in a statement that the company expected "to pursue other investments in health care services outside of kidney care." DaVita has been under scrutiny for its relationship with a charity, the American Kidney Fund, that helps pay the cost of private insurance for patients receiving dialysis treatment.
Consumers could also see their choice of doctor or pharmacy sharply limited under these arrangements as insurers attempt to steer patients into the groups over which they have the most control. Both Aetna and UnitedHealth insist their goal is to develop a new model of care that will be available to people outside their respective health plans, and Optum says it now works with more than 80 health plans.
Even if insurers succeed in lowering medical costs as a result of the new ventures, economists and other experts warn that shareholders, not consumers, could benefit unless the lower costs yield lower prices for coverage. There must be sufficient competition among insurers for consumers to benefit, Professor Garthwaite said.
"You need three, four or five insurance companies trying to pull that strategy off," he said. "That's really hard to do."
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The Election Commission of Pakistan suggested the Supreme Court to postpone the local government elections in Sindh and Punjab and hold them instead on February 23 and March 13, respectively.
A three-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani, heard the case against the delimitation of constituencies in Sindh and Punjab.
The apex court also accepted the Sindh government's appeal against the Sindh High Court's verdict declaring the fresh delimitation 'illegal' right ahead of the polls. The bench sought details of the amendments made in the legislation by the Sindh government.
The apex court fixed the matter for hearing on January 27, whereas the hearing regarding LB poll in Punjab would be take place on January 13.
During the course of the proceedings, ECP's Secretary Ishtiaq Ahmed apprised the bench that Printing Press Corporation of Pakistan had asked for more time, adding that they needed three more weeks to complete the task of printing the ballot papers.
He told the court that in view of the current situation it was impossible to hold the polls in Sindh and Punjab on January 18 and January 30 respectively.
The counsel for the poll body Akram Shaikh pleaded that the local bodies elections be postponed. He argued that two high courts have halted the election process and thus the process cannot continue until the elections were delayed or the judgments were suspended.
Responding to this, the Chief Justice questioned Sheikh if the elections would take place if the court postponed the polls.
On this, the Secretary Election Commission pointed out that the task of printing the ballot papers has not been assigned to the Printing Corporation of Pakistan in Sindh which would take at least three weeks to complete. He added that another week will be required for the ballot papers to be distributed across the province.
He said that the holding of the local body elections in Sindh was not possible before 23 February and in Punjab before 13 March.
The Chief Justice observed that the application of the Article 140 will have to be examined but added that a delay in polls will not be acceptable under any circumstances.
Arguing against the nullifying of the amendments in the Sindh Local Body Act, Advocate General Sindh Khalid Javed said that since the legislation was made in a hurry to comply with the court's orders there was possibility of mistakes. He prayed the apex court to suspend the SHC verdict.
The CJP observed that there was no distinction of urban and rural areas in the Sindh Local Bodies Act while it is briefly mentioned in the local body act in Punjab.
Advocate General Sindh argued that the SHC decision would halt the entire process so much so that the elections of the national and provincial assemblies will come under question. He said that the process of delimitation has been completed across the province and electoral lists have been prepared accordingly, but if the court upheld the SHC decision the lists will have to be made again.
He said that the structure of the local body election in Sindh is the same as was adopted under the 1979 Act except for a few amendments which have been made to keep the election process free from any administrative influence. He said that under the new Act the authority to make the constituencies has been given to the election commission.
Meanwhile, Farogh Naseem, counsel for Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) pleaded that the Sindh High Court verdict was applicable and the electoral process should not be stopped.
The court also allowed Sindh United Front and Functional Muslim League to become parties to the case.


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Fontaine heads to Bristol City on loan
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Bristol City boss Gary Johnson today clinched his first new signing of the transfer window by recruiting Fulham defender Liam Fontaine on loan until the end of the season.
The 20-year-old left-sided player is well known to City's manager, who twice signed him on loan for Yeovil Town.
Fontaine goes straight into the squad for tomorrow night's Coca-Cola League One clash with in-form Colchester United at Layer Road.
Gary told bcfc.co.uk: "Liam was immensely popular at Yeovil and is a player I rate very highly.
"Other clubs have been chasing him, but he wanted to come and play for me again. He can play in central defence or at left-back and is a good distributor of the ball."
Beckenham-born Fontaine came through the youth ranks at Fulham and has represented England at Under-16 and Under-17 level.
He made his Premiership debut as a substitute in a 3-3 draw at Southampton last January and then started an FA Cup third round tie against Watford. Shortly afterwards he joined Kilmarnock on loan.
During his two loan spells with Yeovil, Liam formed a strong centre-back partnership with Terry Skiverton.
His contract at Fulham expires at the end of the season so he could be available on a free transfer in the summer.
Liam has been handed squad number 25 by City – the number allocated to striker Guy Madjo earlier this season before his move to Forest Green Rovers.

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US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales resigned today, largely because of how he mishandled the firing of nine Assistant US Attorneys last year. We covered the story last March in "Attorneygate moral: Don't fire stupidly," where we sagely predicted that Gonzales would be out by Opening Day. (Missed it by this much.) For comprehensive background on the firings and their aftermath, read the excellent summaries at Peter Lattman's ever-fabulous Wall Street Journal Law Blog here and at the Washington Post's site here.
The moral is: Fire who you want to fire, own the decision, and then shut up about it.
It's hard to fire someone, if you're any kind of a real human being. And it should be, because it's someone else's life your messing with. You should struggle with the decision. But once you've made the decision, you have to act on it and own it. Resist the temptation to make explanations and excuses that (you hope) will get you or your company off the hook.
In the Attorneygate case, who is to say whether firing the AUSAs was fair? Doesn't matter (except to the AUSAs, their families, and the decisionmakers who pulled the trigger). The law says that they are subject to removal by the President. Period. They are — like most American workers — employees at will.
After-the-fact explanations for why you fired someone rarely tell the whole story. The real answers are usually incredibly complicated, and don't sound as clean as a better-manufactured reason. But the manufactured reason isn't the truth. And people will generally learn the truth, eventually. And when people start to see the holes in your just-right story, they're going to think you're covering up something more nefarious, like discrimination, or politics, or favoritism.
The Attorney General could have said this: "We fired these prosecutors because we wanted to make a change and put some other people in those spots. And the law says we can." It might not make for a pretty story, but it was probably the truth. The story would have died in a few days, and Alberto Gonzales might still be running the Justice Department and waiting for Justice Stevens to retire. Instead, it's Monster.com for him.
Don't fire stupidly. Fire smartly, quickly, and honestly. And then shut up.
So it's Sunday and it's hot and I'm taking the family to the local pool. But I need my caffeine fix, and I'm trying to figure out the mechanics of sneaking a triple venti latte into the pool area without getting caught. I decide it's worth the risk, so we stop at the nearby Starbucks en route to the pool.
While I'm waiting for the barista to make my order, I notice a small table with a little sign and a pad of employment applications. As an employment lawyer, I'm always interested to see how businesses go about hiring new employees. I'm curious, especially with national employers, to see how many violations of state law (in my case, Massachusetts) the application has. I counted just two.
But here's what the application does right. More than right. Better than just about every other application form I've ever read.
Have you ever visited a Starbucks Coffee location? Where? Describe your experience.
What do you like about coffee?
Why would you like to work for Starbucks Coffee Company?
Describe a specific situation where you have provided excellent customer service in your most recent position. Why was this effective?
Now the first and third questions are pretty basic. They probably get a lot of lame answers, which help weed out the barista pretenders.
But the second question and the fourth question are brilliant, and should be emulated by all employers.
Starbucks is all about two things: coffee and customer service. To attract the best employees, Starbucks looks to hire people who get coffee and get customer service. Judging from the top-quality service I get every day at the Starbucks near my office (the School Street store in Boston) — where Gregg, Meg, Theresa, Roger, and the other "partners" (as the company calls all its employees) make an extra effort to remember my name and my order — it seems to be working.
What questions can your company put on its job applications to make sure you attract employees who get what your company is all about?


UDAR leader Vitali Klitschko urged Kiev citizens to defend the capital, which authorities convert into a stage of violence and bloodshed.
"Today, the city is besieged. The government of Yanukovych has actually implemented the state of emergency without its formal declaration. And now, having announced a so -called "anti-terrorist operation", they try to spread it throughout Ukraine," Klitschko pointed out. "Because of limited traffic and further aggravation of the situation people are sent for home arrest. Every Kyiver has become a hostage of a bloody dictator. Kyiv metro is blocked and does not work. For the first time since Nazi occupation, buildings are being destroyed, Khreschatyk is on fire. A newly appointed Donetsk protégé of Yanukovych abolished the Constitution for Kyiv citizens," UDAR leader said.
He noted that Makeenko will bear criminal responsibility for unlawful decisions and actions.
Vitali Klitschko also urged men to come to Maidan, and women and the elderly who want to help to arrange logistical support at Mykhailivska Square.


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Bulls Keep the Faith in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Verizon Communications
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (WMT) and Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) calls are popular today
Dow components are really struggling today on overseas news. Among the 29 blue chips sitting in negative territory are Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE:WMT) and Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ), but option bulls continue to seek upside for both stocks.
WMT is currently sitting on a 1.4% deficit at $78.14, but the retailer's calls are being exchanged at more than double the usual intraday rate. Seeing likely buy-to-open activity are the May and June 80 calls, with buyers gambling the shares will muscle atop $80 by the respective expiration dates.
Looking at the charts, the underfoot $78 level has been crucial for WMT in the past. The area contained a number of rallies in 2014, and could now switch roles to act as support. Should this happen, the stock could benefit from a potential round of upgrades, as 16 of 21 analysts rate WMT a "hold" or worse.
Meanwhile, VZ is off a modest 0.5% at $49.04, amid news of a new pay TV plan. Longer term, the shares are up nearly 5% year-to-date.
On the options front, VZ calls are trading at 1.2 times what's expected at this point in the afternoon. Potential buy-to-open activity is detected at the in-the-money June 46 call, as speculators bank on the stock to resume its uptrend by June options expiration.
Analysts are far more bullish toward Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ) than they are toward Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE:WMT). In fact, 17 of 23 brokerage firms rate VZ a "buy" or better, compared to six "holds" and not a single "sell."


Earlier this year I had the pleasure of speaking with guitarist Félix Rodríguez and keyboardist Jesper Anderberg of The Sounds before their show at the Avalon in Hollywood. I waited for a few minutes under the stage that was already pulsing with energy from the opening DJ.
While The Sounds takes up most of their time, the guys keep busy with side projects as well.
"We have been writing for a few artists; we've been producing more, too. We're into more hip-hop or with rappers. It's a different genre, but we bring the beat to him and he adds his stuff. It's fun to get into other music genres," says Rodríguez. Word of mouth brought more and more artists who wanted to work with them.
Listening to the guys talk about the inspiration for their music, it was clear that the fans are a great source of inspiration for, not only their writing, but also their performances. The night before I spoke with the guys, they had spoken to some of their fans.
Previous records were produced by someone from outside the band, but the band's latest, Something to Die For, took a turn in a different direction. They decided to self-produce and are happy with the result.
With the work done, and the album out they seem relieved.
Of course like most artists, they are their own worst critics.
Like their fan said the night before, "Everything will be OK." The day that I sat down with them was at the birth, if you will, of their new album, and they were happy with the response it had gotten so far.
For now, the band is back on tour in support of Something to Die For and is visiting Los Angeles again. With the energy and level of performance that I saw at their last L.A. show, I can assure you, it will be one not to be missed.
The Sounds perform Nov. 15 at the Glass House and Nov. 16 at the Wiltern. For more information, visit the-sounds.com.
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Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening [Summary & Questions answers]
Name Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
Author Robert Frost
Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening Summary
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Rewrite theses phrases and sentences by replacing the underlined words
Write these sentence in reported speech
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"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is a famous poem written by Robert Frost, an American poet. The poem is a simple and elegant depiction of a man who stops to appreciate the beauty of a snowy forest on a quiet evening. The poem is filled with imagery and symbolism that explores the themes of nature, solitude, and responsibility.
The poem begins with the speaker describing the beauty of the woods and the snow, and how he has stopped his horse to take in the scene. He describes how the snow is "deep and crisp and even" and how the woods are "lovely, dark and deep." The speaker expresses his desire to stay in the woods and enjoy the peaceful solitude, but he is aware that he has responsibilities that he must attend to.
The speaker then reflects on the fact that he has "promises to keep" and "miles to go before I sleep," which serves as a reminder of the obligations he has to fulfill. The phrase "miles to go before I sleep" is often interpreted as a metaphor for the speaker's responsibilities and the journey of life.
The poem concludes with the speaker reluctantly leaving the woods and the peaceful solitude, knowing that he must return to the world of responsibilities. The final lines of the poem, "And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep," serve as a reminder of the journey of life and the responsibilities that one must fulfill.
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Answer the following questions:
Q1: How is "woods" different from "frost"?
Ans: Woods is different from Forest, because woods refers to an area of tress, smaller than a forest.
Q2: Where does the rider stop?
Ans: The rider stops by the woods.
Q3: Why does he stop?
Ans: He stops because he wants to enjoy the beauty of the woods fill up with snow.
Q4: "He will not see me stopping here"- what does this expression mean?
Ans: The expression "He will not see me stopping here" means the owner of the woods living in the village will not see the poet stopping by the woods.
Q5: Why does the horse give his harness bells a shake?
Ans: The horse gives his harness bell a shake to ask whether his master has stopped there by mistake.
Q6: What is "the only other sound" besides that of horness bells?
Ans: The only other sound is the sweep of easily flowing wind and falling snow.
Q7: Why does the poet use the expressions "dark", "deep", "darkest"?
Ans: The poet use the expressions "dark", "deep", "darkest" to express that he is fascinated by the natural beauty of the snow covering woods.
Q8: How do the speaker, the author of the woods and horse react to the beauties of nature?
Ans: The speaker is attracted by the beauty of nature but the horse thinks that safety is more important than the beauty and for the owner the woods is only a property.
Q9: What picture of natural beauty do you get from the poem?
Ans: The beauty we get from the poem is natural. It is a lonely snow covered forest in a dark evening. The sweep of the wind and the sound of the falling snow make the silence of the place more prominent.
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Q10: In the final stanza, the speaker says that he is not yet ready to "sleep". What does he to do before he can take rest?
Ans: The poet perform his routine duties and responsibilities before he can take rest.
Q11: What does the expression, "The darkest evening of the year", suggest? Does it mean the "longest night of year" or "the most depressing state of his mind"? Give a reasoned answer.
Ans: The darkest night of the year suggests the most depressing state of mind because the speaker was very depressed due to his long journey.
Q12: Identify lines in the poem which show that the
a) horse was impatient.
Ans: He gives his harness bells a shake.
b) woods were silent
Ans: The only other sound's the sweep.
Q13: What do you think the line "I have promises to keep" means?
Ans: This line means that the poet has many duties and obligation to fulfil.
Q14: What do you think the phrase "miles to go before sleep" means?
Ans: This lines means that the poet has a lot to accomplish in his life. He has no time for leisure.
Q1: I have promises to keep.
Ans: I have promises to fulfil.
Q2: And miles to go before I sleep.
Ans: And miles to go before I laze around.
Q3: To watch his woods fill up with snow.
Ans: To look at his woods collect with snow.
Q4: He will not see me stopping here.
Ans: He will not perceive me here.
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Q1: The woods are lovely, dark, and deep," the poet says.
Ans: The poet said that the woods are lovely, dark and deep.
Q2: "I have to go before I sleep", said the traveller.
Ans: The traveller said that the he had miles to go before he slept.
Q3: The villager said, "I saw a man coming this way with his horse."
Ans: The villager said that he saw a man coming that way with his horse.
Q4: "I was sleeping when you called," Rahul told Reena?
Ans: Rahul told Reena that he was sleeing when she called.
Q1: Our teacher told us that Robert Frost is one of America's most loved poets.
Ans: "Robert Frost is one of America's mpst loved poets," our teacher told us.
Q2: Rishabh told Veera that he wished to own a cottage in the woods.
Ans: Rishabh told Veera, " I wish to own a cottage in the woods."
Q3: We told Mrs. Chugh that the trek was very tiring, and that we would like to stop and rest.
Ans: "The trek is very tiring. We would like to stop and rest," we told Mrs. Chugh.
Q4: Mother asked me if I could help her with her housework.
Ans: "Can you help me with the housework?" Mother asked me.
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State fires hazmat company involved in Diamantis investigation
By Dave Altimari // CT Mirror
Cutler Middle School in Groton, one of the school construction projects under investigation by a federal grand jury. Officials there said they were notified to accept bids from AAIS.
The state has terminated the contract of a West Haven hazardous waste remediation company ensnared in the federal investigation into former state official Konstantinos Diamantis.
The state did not offer any explanation for why the contract was ended other than "it would be in the best interest of the state."
AAIS Corp. was one of two companies named in a subpoena by a federal grand jury investigating Diamantis, who ran the state Office of School Construction Grants & Review until he retired in October 2021. Municipal officials have said Diamantis pressured them to hire specific contractors, construction managers and hazardous waste and asbestos removal companies, including AAIS.
A CT Mirror investigation last February revealed that AAIS and a second company, Bestech Inc. of Ellington, got all but 15 of the 284 purchase orders issued by the state for hazardous waste disposal and demolition from fiscal year 2017 through February 2022.
The same day the CT Mirror asked questions about the contract in February 2022, the state Department of Administrative Services cancelled the contract. Months later, DAS created a new contract that included six vendors, including AAIS, and later amended it to limit its use.
In a letter dated Jan. 9, 2023, Robert E. Burk, the Director of Procurement Programs and Services for DAS, informed AAIS officials they were terminating them from state contract 20PSX0154 effective immediately.
"DAS has determined that it would be in the best interest of the State of Connecticut to terminate the Contract," Burk wrote. "I am taking this action pursuant to the authority granted to me under the Connecticut General Statutes and, more specifically, the provisions of Section 33 of the Contract."
The letter said the termination would take effect the next day and that there were no jobs left that AAIS needed to complete.
A man who answered the phone at AAIS offices in West Haven said that the company would have no comment on the state's decision or whether they planned to fight it.
The state's decision to disqualify AAIS comes at a time when the state Department of Administrative Services is waiting to receive an audit report about the demolition and abatement contracts that the state authorized in recent years.
DAS hired Marcum LLP, an independent auditing firm, in early 2022 to look into those contacts. It paid the firm to review several dozen abatement contracts and to analyze some of that work to ensure the contractors didn't improperly bill the state.
DAS officials told the CT Mirror this week that audit report was not complete yet.
From the 2017 fiscal year through February 2022, the state paid about $29.2 million for hazardous waste and asbestos abatement work under DAS contract 16PSX0110. AAIS received $20.6 million of that and Bestech $8.2 million, purchase orders show — about 98.8% of all the money spent through the contract.
The state issued 284 purchase orders under the emergency contract. AAIS was named on 214 purchase orders, including exclusive agreements to do work at all state colleges and vocational schools. Some of the work was assigned by other state agencies, such as the Military Department, but the majority were assigned by DAS.
One of the contractors, Haz-Pros, got five jobs. Environmental Services Inc. got 10. Bestech Inc. got the remaining 55.
DAS contract 20psx0154 added more contractors to the emergency list. In addition to AAIS, Bestech and Haz-Pros, four new companies are included: Manafort Brothers Inc., New England Yankee Construction, Omni Environmental and Stamford Wrecking Company, which had been battling the state for nearly a year.
The new contract soon included guidelines that placed restrictions on when towns can hire the companies on the state's approved list, including that they can be used only for minor rehabilitation projects that cost less than $500,000 and "emergency projects," defined as work that needs to begin within 24 hours. Demolition projects were explicitly excluded from the contract.
The original DAS contract was designed to be an on-call emergency list for towns to use for hazardous waste abatement ranging from asbestos removal to mold remediation in state buildings.
But under Diamantis, many municipalities started using the list to bid for hazardous waste removal and demolition on school construction projects.
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Pro female Italian footballer 'fired' for falling pregnant
Pro female footballer is 'FIRED' for falling pregnant: Italian goalkeeper, 34, says 'I feel hurt as a woman, mother and athlete' and like 'an old toy to be thrown away'
Alice Pignagnoli, 34, said she was sacked from her club after falling pregnant
Pignagnoli was a goalkeeper for Italian women's third-division side Lucchese
The pro goalkeeper said she felt like she was 'an old toy to be thrown away'
By Christian Oliver For Mailonline
Published: 16:29 GMT, 21 December 2022 | Updated: 17:24 GMT, 21 December 2022
An Italian professional footballer says she has been fired from her club for falling pregnant.
Alice Pignagnoli, 34, who was a goalkeeper at Italian third-division side Lucchese, based in Tuscany, said she was sacked by her club because she had a child on the way.
'I'm pregnant and my team has stopped paying my wages,' Pignagnoli told Italian newspaper Il Resto del Carlino.
Across her sixteen-year career, Pignagnoli has played for AC Milan, Torres, Mantua, and Reggiana.
Alice Pignagnoli, 34, an Italian professional footballer says she has been fired from her club after falling pregnant. The goalkeeper posted a message to her Instagram page, writing it as a letter to her unborn child
Alice Pignagnoli, 34, who was a goalkeeper at Italian third division side Lucchese, based in Tuscany, said she was sacked by her club because she had a child on the way. She is pictured training in 2021
Pignagnoli said: 'I felt hurt as a woman, mother and athlete. And also very alone, incapable.' She is pictured in a post to her Instagram page in July 2022
In 2011 she won the Italian Super Cup with Torres, a club in Sassari, Sardinia, before going on to with the league later that season.
Pignagnoli said: 'In mid October I found out I was pregnant for the second time. I told Lucchese manager Mario Santoro, and I was told that a deal made last summer had to be respected, and that they no longer intended to pay me what I'm due.'
The goalkeeper posted a message to her Instagram page, writing it as a letter to her unborn child.
In the long post, Pignagnoli said: 'I felt hurt as a woman, mother and athlete. And also very alone, incapable.'
Across her sixteen-year career, Pignagnoli has played for AC Milan, Torres, Mantua and Reggiana. Pignagnoli is pictured in her goalkeeper kit for Censa in 2019
Pignagnoli said she felt like 'an old toy to be thrown away'. She is pictured preparing for training in 2021
In her Instagram post, Pignagnoli said: 'I dream a world of love where the women come from supported in one of the biggest and yet difficult tasks they face
She said she felt like 'an old toy to be thrown away'.
When she was seven months pregnant with her first child, her then club Cesena had renewed her contract.
'After what happened two years ago with Cesena, I would never have expected this to happen,' she said.
In her Instagram post, Pignagnoli added: 'I dream a world of love where women can be supported in one of the biggest and yet difficult tasks they face: not only generating life, but not feeling 'wrong' about their choices.
'A world where women are valued by their worth and not by the amount of children they have or don't have.'


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Spain Approves Self-Consumption Of Power Decree
Spain's Council Of Ministers Officially Sanction Royal Decree-Law 15/2018 Paving Way For Self-Consumption Of Power; UNEF Sees 400 MW Annual Installations In This Category Under New Regime
Spain has officially put in place measures that encourage consumers and promote the adoption of self-consumption of power in the country
The country's Council of Ministers have approved RDL 15/2018 through which consumers are eligible to deploy systems for self-consumption of power, and also export excess back to the grid and get remunerated for the same
End consumers, including SMEs and local authorities too are at liberty to become power generators
UNEF expects this model to encourage 400 MW of installations across the country on an annual basis
With the Spanish Council of Ministers approving the Royal Decree-Law (RDL) 15/2018, the self-consumption power mechanism has come into effect in the Southern European country. It will truly benefit solar rooftop operators, overcoming the dark era of the infamous sun tax that was applicable for grid connected behind-the-meter distributed generation and storage systems that kept Spain's distributed solar market a close to nil for many years.
The Ministry of Ecological Transition had sought consultation on proposals for RDL 15/2018 relating to self-consumption of electricity earlier this year (see Spain Seeks Consultation On RDL 15/2018).
Spanish Photovoltaic Union (UNEF) welcomes RDL 15/2018 which it says will create a stable and free market framework for the development of self-consumption. It expects this model to encourage some 400 MW of self-consumption installations across the country – annually.
Consumers, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and local authorities are now at liberty to generate their own power, consume, manage and store it. It also paves the way for a community self-consumption power model. There will be remuneration for exporting excess electricity back to the grid under the new rules.
Drawing comparisons between Germany that has more than 1.8 million self-consumption PV installations and even cloudier Great Britain where such installations have exceeded 800,000, Spanish daily newspaper El País points out sunny Spain was left far behind thanks to the 'punishment and persecution of solar energy' with the sun tax.
In 2018, Spain's cumulative installed solar power capacity reached 261.7 MW of which nearly all – 235.7 MW – was self-consumption capacity (see Spain Installed 261.7 MW Solar In 2018). However, this year the Spanish market is expected to exceed 4 GW though mostly due to tender related utility-scale systems.
"The new regulation provides for the elimination of economic barriers by eliminating charges and tolls for self-consumed energy and energy storage systems. In addition, it eliminates administrative barriers by simplifying the procedures for small-scale self-consumption facilities and introduces the economic compensation of surplus clean energy discharged to the network through net billing," said UNEF.
The new measures are in line with the Clean Energy for all Europeans package which was approved by the European Parliament in March 2019 (see European Electricity New Market Design Proposal Passed).
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Unlike other finches the bullfinch does not live in large groups but prefers pairings or small groups. The male has striking reddish pink and black markings, but you will probably locate it easier by its call: a soft whistling sound. Bullfinches inhabit mostly woods, parks and gardens and prefer to remain under cover. They will often perch still for minutes on end.


The U.S. — and North America as a whole — is becoming more and more dependent on the Middle East for a crucial resource.
An argument can be made that this resource is even more valuable than oil... because without it, mankind can't feed itself.
I'm talking about phosphate — the component in fertilizer essential for root and stem development in plants, and for which there is no agricultural substitute.
Some 200 million metric tonnes are produced annually worldwide. Just about 70% of that comes from the Middle East and Northern Africa.
For contrast, only about 40-50% of the world's oil comes from those regions.
About 7% goes toward animal food. And the rest is used in various food and sundry industries like preservatives, cosmetics, soaps, and fungicides.
Now, not all phosphate makes it to market. Of the 200 million tonnes produced annually, 85% is integrated with downstream production. By that, I mean a major company like the $25 billion Potash Corp. (NYSE: POT) will use the phosphate it produces to make final products.
Potash, for example, sells a dozen phosphate-based finished fertilizer products, and several more in the animal feed and industrial use spaces.
So only about 15%, or 30 million tonnes, of the 200 million produced annually make it to market.
They are all dependent on the Middle East and North Africa for that supply, especially Morocco, Syria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Tunisia, and Algeria.
There aren't too many friendly or stable names on that list. Again, I'd argue the situation is worse than with oil.
With so much supply coming from unstable places, rising population, and emerging markets requiring higher quality food and proteins (a chicken is corn with feathers on it, after all), demand for phosphate as well as prices are in an upward trajectory.
Phosphate rock demand grows at 2-3% (4-6 Mt/y) per year.
Phosphate rock can come from two types of geologic deposits: Sedimentary or Igneous.
Sedimentary rocks are formed by the deposition of material at the Earth's surface and within bodies of water. Before being deposited, sediment was formed by weathering and erosion in a source area, and then transported to the place of deposition by water, wind, ice, mass movement, or glaciers. These are called agents of denudation.
Igneous rock is formed through the cooling and solidification of magma or lava.
Over 90% of global phosphate comes from sedimentary rock. Less than 10% comes from igneous rock.
These are not equal in quality.
Sedimentary rocks contain higher-grade ore. But recoveries and the final concentration of Phosphorous Pentoxide (P2O5) are higher with igneous ore.
The most important distinction between the two is the presence of contaminates. Because of the way many sedimentary deposits are formed, they contain trace amounts of heavy metals, uranium, and cadmium. As such, many phosphates derived from sedimentary rocks are not ideally suited to be used in food industries.
If I had a giant phosphate deposit, I'd want it to be igneous.
The world needs tonnes of phosphate — some 200 million per year and growing. Most of this (70%) comes from the Middle East.
It's a critical element in food production as fertilizer, but also in many other industries.
Production in Tunisia is down from 8 Mt/y to 2.5 Mt/y since the Arab Spring. Russia exports the highest grade (39%) rock, but is under economic sanctions. Syria's civil war has led to a 58% drop in production from 2012 to 2013, and is likely not producing any at the present time.
U.S. phosphate production is expected to decrease by more than 25 Mt/y in the next 15 years. It currently produces around 30 Mt/y and consumes it all. The U.S. is also the world's leading importer of phosphate rock.
Where will the quality phosphate rock of the future come from? And how can we profit from it?
In that list just above of where new mine supply is going to come from, I omitted Canada.
It would fall just above Russia and just below China with 3 million tonnes of new supply expected to come online annually by 2023.
That will likely all be produced by one company: Arianne Phosphate.
In fact, in the most recent USGS Minerals Yearbook available, 2012, it cites Canada generally and Arianne specifically as potential new sources of phosphate for the world.
Canada.—Arianne Phosphate Inc. continued development of the Lac à Paul Project in Northern Quebec. An enhanced prefeasibility study was completed in May 2012 that showed measured and indicated resources of 348 Mt of apatite with an average grade of 6.5% P2 O5 that could be upgraded to a 38% P2 O5 . Arianne expected production to average 3 Mt/yr of concentrate for 17 years of projected mine life. The company expected a feasibility study to be completed in 2013 and mining to begin in 2016 (Arianne Phosphate Inc., 2012).
The only other countries to get a nod in the Yearbook were Australia, Namibia, Russia, and Saudi Arabia.
More recently, in its 2015 Mineral Commodity Summary for Phosphate Rock, Canada made the list of countries with top reserves and even got a special mention for the fact that it's igneous in nature.
The new mine under development it refers to is Arianne's Lac a Paul project in Quebec.
This is an absolutely mammoth project located in Quebec, Canada.
It covers over 96 square miles, or 61,440 acres.
More important than the land size, though, is just how much phosphate it contains.
A national instrument 43-101 shows proven and probably reserves of 472 million tons of ore grading 6.9% P2O5.
A 2013 Feasibility Study showed the mine producing 3 million tonnes per year for 26 years in a low-cost, open-pit using conventional truck and shovel, crushing, grinding, and floating with 90% recoveries.
That comes with a 4.4-year payback, a 21% internal rate of return pre-tax, and a net present value of $1.9 billion.
In other words, with a share price of C$0.85 and 111 million shares fully diluted, Arianne Phosphate is trading at a value of C$94.35 million — or just 5% of the intrinsic value of the phosphate asset it controls.
Remember the prior discussion about how phosphate from igneous rock is better than phosphate from sedimentary rock? Igneous produces higher purity concentrates of P2O5, which is the main phosphorous ingredient used in fertilizer. And it does this with a lower cost than sedimentary phosphate because of higher recovery rates and easier extraction that uses less sulphuric acid than traditional methods.
That's a 38% savings in finished product.
Well, you've seen the economics. They're robust and speak for themselves.
But Arianne has a few more things going for it as well.
For starters, there is already infrastructure for the project in the form of a power dam and access roads that lead to open sea ports.
There is also additional exploration upside. Drilling has already shown the potential for the Paul Zone to add an additional 260-390 Mt of reserves.
There are also 78 Mt inferred at the Nicole Zone, 17 Mt at the Traverse Zone, 146 Mt at the TraMan Zone, and 64 Mt at Zone 2.
These increased reserves allow operating costs to be reduced since mine life would be extended and the initial CAPEX can be amortized over a longer mine life. The Feasibility Study shows a 26-year mine life. Arianne is working, successfully, to upgrade that to 50 years.
A power deal with Hydro-Quebec allows for long-term discounted electricity rates, which also lowers costs.
There is also the possibility of using mining equipment and trucks with LNG engines to further reduce costs.
All this contributes to increased net present value, profitability, and decreased payback period.
What's more, the government and leaders of Quebec fully support the project, and have even invested $2 million directly into Arianne Phosphate.
Let me say up front that it's my opinion this project will be acquired by a major phosphate miner like Potash, Agrium, Mosaic, or possibly even an international player like Israel Chemical, which recently said it wants to double its specialty phosphate chemical business.
With a deposit of this size and quality, it only makes sense for a big player like that to be looking into acquiring it.
It just makes sense for those giants to be vertically integrated, meaning they own the upstream phosphate sources of their downstream products. With few other targets in safe jurisdictions with great economics, Arianne looks like a prime target.
The company already has the support of the First Nations, which is critical in Canada. A cooperation agreement was signed between Arianne and three Innu First Nations in June 2015.
Full permitting is expected in late 2015, and is expected to go according to plan.
Then all that remains in de-risking this quality project is officially reducing the OpEx and CapEx, and putting forth an optimized transportation plan to get its product to market.
The only real risk is securing the nearly billion dollars in CapEx this mine needs to get going. But given it's expected to generate $700 million per year in revenue with EBITDA of $300 million, and a payback of just 4.4 years... it shouldn't be hard to find an offtake partner or outright suitor.
Phosphate and related fertilizer peers are generally valued at 4-5.5x revenue, or 7-12x EBITDA.
Because this is such an early-stage play, let's cut those in half to remain conservative.
Arianne's Lac a Paul mine is expected to generate revenues of $700 million per year and EBITDA of $300 million per year.
At 2x revenue it would be a $1.4 billion company. That would make it a $12 stock.
At 3.5x EBITDA it would be a $1.05 billion company. That would make it a $9.50 stock.
It currently trades around C$1.00.


The Patchwork Heart: Willow Blanket tadaa!
Beautiful. I've just treated myself to the "block" book, and can't wait to start making some.
Your squares are well done.
It's beautiful! I like the brown edging and join. It really makes the colors pop. So pretty!
Beautiful! I'm so happy looking through your blog - it is truly gorgeous.
This is a stunning project, the colours are lovely and the pattern looks so complicated. I do have the 'block' book, but I have other projects on the go and have to be so disciplined not to start anything new (I have already done this and made myself unpick the 'rounds') I am also keen to use the Stylecraft DK yarn, but am all too slowly working my way through my huge 4ply stash. You are truly inspirational, and I know the recipient will love this blanket.
Wow! That is a beautiful blanket Heather. The newly weds will be absolutely delighted. I will have to look up that pattern. I love it. Blessings, Trills.
Truly lovely how this turned out and as you say, it will hopefully bring you many new orders.
I absolutely love this - and the blues and greys Willow rug you have done. Shows I have a lot to learn about colours!! Do you mind if I link your blog to mine? For this beautiful inspiration?


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    <bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.velocity.VelocityViewResolver">
        <property name="suffix" value=".vm"/>
        <property name="prefix" value="/"/>
        <property name="exposeSpringMacroHelpers" value="true"/>
        <property name="requestContextAttribute" value="content"/>
        <property name="exposeRequestAttributes" value="true"/>
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        <property name="contentType" value="text/html;charset=UTF-8"/>
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Indicates jar is not available for the context to load.
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Please make sure that you have these dependencies added.
Also required vm files should be in classpath to load and execute.

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Mexico City, Nov 23 (IANS/EFE) Mexico's gross domestic product grew 4.5 percent in the third quarter, compared to the same period in 2010, and 4 percent in the first nine months of this year, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography, or INEGI, said Tuesday.
The figures, which are not seasonally adjusted, show GDP growing 1.34 percent, compared to the second quarter, the INEGI said.
The service sector grew 4.8 percent in the July-September period, while manufacturing expanded 3.4 percent and the primary sector, which includes agriculture and ranching, grew 8.3 percent.
The government expects Mexico's economy to grow by around 4 percent this year, while the central bank projects annual growth to come in at between 3.5 percent and 4 percent.
Mexico's GDP grew 5.4 percent in 2010, according to the latest INEGI revised figures, marking the strongest growth since 2000, thanks to 6 percent growth in manufacturing, 5 percent growth in services and 3.3 percent growth in the primary sector of the economy.
The GDP eked out growth of 1.3 percent in 2008, but Mexico's economy contracted 6.5 percent in 2009.


"After coaching with Jerry for only 2 minutes, I followed exactly what he told me to do and I closed my biggest deal ever." This is a success story submitted by a client of mine yesterday. You may be asking, "what does this have to do with building wealth?" That's a valid question. I help people build wealth so that they can solve the shortages in their life and be the fullest version of themselves. Wealth can only happen by making more money, keeping it, and multiplying it. This is an example of me helping a client make more money. The real question you should be asking is, "what did you tell him that created such a big impact?" I'm going to share with you how I coach.
Remind you of what you already knew. Fundamentally, I don't believe my clients don't "know" anything. I think they have native knowledge and this can get covered up, misinformed, or made wrong and it makes a person feel like he or she doesn't know. That's the first difference. I'm going to ask you questions and remind you of basic truths that you've always known and just haven't really been using or maybe you forgot about.
1. Ideal universe. I believe you live in your own universe. I live in my own universe. Its true! What this really means is we all live in an altered reality. If you're not winning, you live in an altered reality that causes you to not win. All we have to do is alter your reality so that you do win. Now, reality is only agreement. What is agreed upon is real. What isn't agreed upon considered a minority at best and at baseline, cognitive dissonance. Your mind won't do something it doesn't agree with. So we need to draw what you believe your reality should be. If you could make your ideal universe, what would everything look like? What? What would it do for you and those in your universe? We first need to identify that in a way that provides specificity and alignment.
2. Confront. We just went to skittles and rainbow land. Time to come back to your current altered reality. We will confront where you're at financially. Confront means to face without flinching. I am going to ask you to show me EVERYTHING. Income, taxes, expenses, assets, liabilities, and everything you do financially. You must trust me or you will not want to be this vulnerable. Consider this to basically be an audit. I'm going to help you confront, organize, and fix your finances, your mindset, your income problem, your wealth, and ultimately your life.
3. Targets. At this point we basically have a chasm. You are here and you want to be there. What do we need to do to get from here to there? We will set what are essentially checkpoints that you agree with. There is no magic here. It's as simple as deciding on a target and committing to it. There is no fancy math or special formulas. You will do what you think can be done and if I do a special formula and you don't think it can be done, you won't do it. The best plan is the one do execute on. I'm going to help you find out what that is.
4. Metrics. I'm not going to hold you accountable. Your numbers will. Accountable means numbers. It comes from account. I'm going to help you bring all of your goals and dreams for your life down into numbers. These numbers come down to activity. Activity is just the condition of doing. Did you DO what you were supposed to do? That isn't a conversation I'm going to have with you. Be ethical. If you don't do what you were supposed to do, you aren't being ethical. I won't punish you. But your numbers will. I'm just going to remind you of your numbers and let them do the rest.
5. Tactics. Now, my client from the success story above used the tactics I shared. Tactics are ground level, short term plans to achieve an outcome. He talked to me about a buyer he was trying to close with and he was having trouble with the objections he was getting. If he wants to hit his income targets, he needs to sell more. I directed him to a specific video in Cardone University, a program all of my clients get for free with their coaching, and then I spent 2 minutes with him. I helped him focus, observe what was really going on, and develop a tactic to confront and handle it. He did what I said, word for word, and the client called him that day to close. My client now has more income, which will financially fuel his plan and help him achieve his metrics, targets, and ideal universe.
I'm not a motivational coach. I'm not going to tell you you're special. I'm not going to make you feel good. Only you can do those things. I'm going to give you clarity, alignment, and a plan. If you're ready for this level of focus and the production that occurs as a result, I want to have you setup a call with my team. You'll be given a free 37 point assessment to determine where you're at and what level of coaching you need. This will take about 15 minutes. Click here and go to my contact page. If you're ready for a coach like me, fill out the contact form and submit it. We will contact you today and make it happen.


Qingdao Smad Electric Appliances Co., Ltd. was set up in 1999 and rebuilt in 2003.
After many years of hard work, we have become a normalized and professional enterprise.
Now SMAD has a staff of 600 persons and an annual output of 350 million Yuan.


SEATTLE – In less than two weeks, people who use Interstate 90 between Seattle and Bellevue will see a big change. New around-the-clock HOV lanes will open in each direction on Sunday, June 4.
Once the new HOV lanes open to traffic, the I-90 express lanes will permanently close, and Sound Transit will begin to construct the 14-mile East Link light rail extension from Seattle to Redmond.
"We appreciate everyone's patience the past two years," said Washington State Department of Transportation Project Engineer Aleta Borschowa. "We are excited to wrap up work on the new HOV lanes that will provide transit, carpools and vanpools a more reliable commute that doesn't depend on the direction of the express lanes."
Eastbound I-90 will reduced to a single lane near Rainier Avenue. Eastbound traffic will be rerouted to the express lanes.
Westbound I-90 will be reduced to a single lane near Bellevue Way. Westbound traffic will be rerouted to the express lanes.
Drivers should plan their travels around several special events happening in the Seattle area.
Seattle Mariners vs. Tampa Bay Rays at Safeco Field, 7:10 p.m.
Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure at Seattle Center, 6 a.m.
Seattle Mariners vs. Tampa Bay Rays at Safeco Field, 1:10 p.m.
Seattle Sounders vs. Houston Dynamo at CenturyLink Field, 7 p.m.
Commuters are encouraged to give themselves extra time to get to their destinations on Monday, June 5. This will mark the first commute with the new HOV lanes and without the I-90 express lanes.
"Any time we make a change to the roadway, it takes time for things to settle into their new patterns," said WSDOT Traffic Engineer Mike Swires. "We expect it will take several months for new traffic patterns to emerge on I-90."
Before hitting the road, drivers can track their commute route with real-time traffic information on their phone with the WSDOT traffic app and checking out the WSDOT traffic Twitter feed.


Q: What happened to Binkowski?
When one watches this movie you need to keep in mind that not all war movies are the same and the focus of the movie depends on who made the movie, how it was made and who is watching it? Make sense...of course not but in a nutshell keep an open mind. Is it about war? Yes some of it is. It is about bonding and camaraderie? Yes of course, it highlights strained relationships in very stressful and violent situations. I enjoyed the movie and being ex military in the 3rd Armour Division you do tend to pick things out BUT I could do that in just about any military movie I have seen especially from WWII to date. Without being too specific I spotted armor and infantry tactical strategies which confused me a bit but other than that I did enjoy this movie. War is ugly and this movie does not miss that point.
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On November 1, 2018, the technology and client oriented akYtec GmbH opens a new technology center in Berlin.
Besides the innovative research and development activities, the company's new products will be presented there.
There is also integrated a department for technical support in the center. Our team provides you with qualified and comprehensive assistance including selection, installation, configuration and use of our products.
The technology center is located on Leipziger Platz 15, 10117 Berlin, which is in the immediate vicinity of Potsdamer Platz.


Renaissance defeated Cass Tech in an exciting three-set match, 25-23, 22-25, 15-9 to capture its fifth consecutive Detroit Public School League junior varsity girls' volleyball championship Monday at Western International High School.
Coach Earlander Taylor's Phoenix advanced to the finals with a 25-6, 25-10 semifinal victory against East English Village, while Cass Tech advanced with a 25-16, 21-25, 11 5-5 semifinal victory against Western.
The 2014 PSL varsity volleyball playoffs get underway today (Tuesday, Oct. 14) with the quarterfinals at two sites.
The championship game is slated for 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23, at Western International High, preceded by the 5 p.m. consolation game between the losing semifinalists. The 2014 All-City PSL players will be introduced prior to the championship game. Admission to the varsity playoffs is $5.


I caught my friends playing around in the sand which is a perfect timing of a silhouette shot. Taken same day I visited Moalboal.
Old Kasamahan barge wharf, linking Mandaue & Lapu-Lapu City. I used to travel by barge back then when I was young going to the City, avoiding traffic and expensive jeepney fair.
Among the best beaches I visited in Cebu province Bas Dako Moaboal. Its a long drive from the City but the trip is worth it.


Many smartphones have a pre-loaded voice recorder app which can be used in the field to record singing birds but for nocmig you're better downloading an app that allows recordings to be saved in WAV format (default MP3 may lose quality). Røde Rec offers lots of flexibility but appears to be available only for Apple.
As you'll be recording continuously from dawn to dusk you'll need plenty of in-built memory, or a large memory card to hold all the recordings. Plus you'll need to have the phone plugged in to the mains so it doesn't run out of juice half way through the night.
Many of the recommendations in this article on recording bird song with a smartphone also apply to recording nocmig.


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Eva Jessye (January 20, 1895 – February 21, 1992) was an American conductor who was the first black woman to receive international distinction as a professional choral conductor. She is notable as a choral conductor during the Harlem Renaissance. She created her own choral group which featured widely in performance. Her professional influence extended for decades through her teaching as well. Her accomplishments in this field were historic for any woman. She collaborated in productions of groundbreaking works, directing her choir and working with Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein on Four Saints in Three Acts (1933), and serving as musical director with George Gershwin on his innovative opera Porgy and Bess (1935).

Early life and education
Eva Jessye was born January 20, 1895, in Coffeyville, Kansas. She was educated at Western University, a historically black university in Kansas, and Langston University in Oklahoma. She later studied privately with Will Marion Cook in New York City.

In 1919, Jessye began work as the choir director at Morgan State College in Baltimore. She returned west for a time to teach at an AME Church school in Oklahoma. In 1926, she went back east to Baltimore, where she began to perform regularly with her group, the "Eva Jessye Choir". She had first named them the "Original Dixie Jubilee Singers", but many groups began to appropriate the name, Dixie Jubilee Singers, so she changed hers.

She and the group moved to New York, where they appeared frequently in the stage show at the Capitol Theatre, where Eugene Ormandy conducted the orchestra. They were also frequent performers on NBC and WOR radio in New York in the 1920s and 1930s. They recorded on Brunswick, Columbia, and Cameo records in the 1920s. In 1929, Jessye went to Hollywood as the choral director for the MGM film Hallelujah!, which had an all-black cast directed by King Vidor. She received praise from members of the black press when she spoke out against the discriminatory practices that she endured while on the set for this film.

In New York, Jessye worked with creative multi-racial teams in groundbreaking productions that experimented with form, music and stories. In 1933, she directed her choir in Virgil Thomson's and Gertrude Stein's opera, Four Saints in Three Acts, produced as a Broadway theatre work. According to Steven Watson, the Eva Jessye Choir's participation in Four Saints, represented a musical and economic breakthrough for African-American singers at the time. Watson quotes Jessye, describing Four Saints as "quite a departure, because up to that time, the only opportunities involved things like "Swanee River," or "That's Why Darkies Are Born," or "Old Black Joe." They called that "our music," and thought we could sing those things only by the gift of God, and if God hadn't given us that gift, we wouldn't have any at all....With this opera, we had to step on fresh ground, something foreign to our nature completely." Jessye also demanded that her singers be paid for rehearsal, "fighting a deeply ingrained system of discriminatory salaries, rampant kickbacks, and nonpayment of choruses during rehearsals," writes Watson. In 1935, George Gershwin chose her as his music director for his opera Porgy and Bess.

In 1927, Jessye published My Spirituals, a collection of her arrangements of spirituals, together with stories about growing up in southeast Kansas.

Jessye also composed her own choral works:
 The Life of Christ in Negro Spirituals (1931);
 Paradise Lost and Regained (1934), a folk oratorio; and
 The Chronicle of Job (1936).

These are combined spirituals, religious narrative or biblical text, and her orchestral compositions.

An active supporter of the Civil Rights Movement, Jessye and her choir participated in the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

Active into her 80s, she taught at Pittsburg State University (Pittsburg, Kansas), and the University of Michigan. She donated her extensive collection of books, scores, artwork, and other materials to the University of Michigan, which became the basis of the university's African American Music Collection. Dr. Jessye was a member of Sigma Gamma Rho sorority.

Legacy and honors
Shortly before her death in Ann Arbor, Michigan, she established the Eva Jessye African-American Music Collection at the University of Michigan. She left most of her personal papers to Pittsburg State University in Kansas.

References

Eva Jessye, My Spirituals. Robbins-Engel, 1927.
Eileen Southern, The Music of Black Americans: A History. W. W. Norton & Company; 3rd edition.

External links
https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/jessye/, Pittsburg State University.

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Earth Prime - The Earth Girl Aftermath Stories #1
Publisher: Wallam-Crane Press
Earth Prime is the first of two collections of aftermath stories set in the distant future of the Earth Girl trilogy (Earth Girl, Earth Star, and Earth Flight).
This collection is set immediately after Earth Flight, and focuses on Jarra, Fian, and the other archaeologists before they head to excavate the alien ruins on Fortuna.
Full Contents List:-
The End, and the New Beginning – Jarra Tell Morrath (Revised collected edition of the serial previously published on the author's website.)
I Will Be Right Here Waiting – Fian Eklund (Novelette)
Twenty Seconds in Ark – Dalmora Rostha (Short story)
Full Circle – Lecturer Dannel Playdon (Novelette)
Raw Material – Krath Karman (Short story)
Balance of Power – Amalie Roche (Novelette)
The Real Jerez Rivera – Jerez Rivera (Novelette)
Year End 2788 – Lecturer Dannel Playdon (A related short story set eleven months earlier.)
Janet Edwards lives in England. As a child, she read everything she could get her hands on, including a huge amount of science fiction and fantasy. She studied Maths at Oxford, and went on to...
Vampires of Portlandia
Jason Tanamor
"Tanamor's Vampires of Portlandia is an entertaining vampire thriller with all the recognizable hallmarks of the supernatural genre, but two things distinguish this book from others: its focus on the aswang, a creature based on the author's research on Philippine folklore combined with his own inventions, and the book's beating heart, the family of aswang fleeing state violence in the Philippines and seeking refuge in the sanctuary city of Portland, Oregon. As a page-turner full of gory action, it also manages to be a touching story about family, love, and legacy." - Grace Talusan, author of The Body Papers"Here's a novel from Jason Tanamor that rocks Filipino folklore, shape shifters, vampires, and quick moving, tricksy, balls-out adventure, and it's a helluva lot of fun." - John Shirley, author of Black Butterflies: A Flock on the Dark Side "There are moments of storytelling that stand out... Those who enjoy the 'Twilight' books or TV series 'Grimm' may find this entertaining. Portland enthusiasts will also appreciate the references." - Library Journal"...creative world building of Portland's supernatural underworld...the most devoted vampire enthusiasts will find this rewarding." - Publishers Weekly
When Marcella Leones relocates her family of aswang vampires from the Philippines to Portland, Oregon, she raises her grandchildren under strict rules so humans will not expose them. Her only wish is to give them a peaceful life, far away from the hunters and the Filipino government that attempted to exterminate them. Before she dies, she passes on the power to her eldest grandchild, Percival. He vows to uphold the rules set forth by Leones, allowing his family to roam freely without notice. After all, they are aswangs. However, when the aswang covenant is broken, the murder rate in Portland rises drastically. Who is behind the murders? And who is behind the broken covenant? Along with sensie Penelope Jane, Percival must find the truth. It's then they discover that there are other breeds of aswangs-werebeasts, witches, ghouls, and viscera--who have been residing in Portland for years. Based on Filipino folklore (aswang), "Vampires of Portlandia" is a fantastical tale of different monsters coexisting in the weirdest city in America. RIYL Twilight Saga, the television show "Grimm", and "The Lost Boys".
The Starlight Quest
Cinderella retold: Fae, vampires, shifters, and a Godmother who'll grant you any wish—if you pay the price.
After finally receiving the one thing she's wanted for years, Elle sets out to pay the price demanded by the Godmother: she will travel through the Never Woods and complete a quest that will—if the Godmother's shocking story is to be believed—change her life.
And possibly the world.
This is episode 5 of 6 of a SERIALIZED Cinderella retelling. It is not novel-length. Expect cliffhangers! Approximately 21,000 words or 100 print pages.
**Prefer to binge-read all the episodes together? Look for City of Wishes: The Complete Cinderella Story**
In a world of fae, vampires and shifters, where wishes can be bought and bargained for, Elle is human, bound to her stepmother by a slave charm. Her only hope at freedom is to wish for it. But the Godmother rules the illegal wish trade, and the price she demands is steep. Is Elle willing to pay it?
The Eternal Night
Finding herself with some unlikely allies, Elle prepares to face the man calling himself the vampire king in an enchanted land of never-ending darkness.
The Curse of the King
Winnie Lyon
Laura Wilson is the heir to an ancient curse.
As a young witch descending from the very powerful trio of witches that had cursed Macbeth, the pressure she faces daily is non-stop. When Laura is forced to participate in her school's rendition of the classic play, she gives herself a single task. She must break the curse once and for all.
This task proves itself to be more difficult than she ever could have imagined when a miscast spell leads to the summoning of her dead ancestor, Cecily Wilson-- one of the very witches that cursed Macbeth.
As Laura attempts to send her resurrected relative back beyond the veil, she is faced with one of the harsh realities of high school: having a crush on her best friend, Holly. However things only get more complicated as Holly pines after Peter, a lonely, quick-witted vampire.
While she grows closer to Cecily, Laura sees first-hand the true horrors of being a witch in Elizabethan England as demonic forces arise in her little town of Shipley Hollow.
Can Laura break the curse and save her family name before the curtains rise on opening night?
Brought to you by Winnie Lyon, The Curse of the King is an action-packed novel with mysterious and magical twists at every turn.
The Play Underwater
Gregory Pentz
After committing a terrible betrayal of his childhood friend, Franklin Orion plunges into a lake in upstate New York and comes up on the other side in a strange and alien world. Here eldritch gods rule over teeming masses of people snatched from throughout history, citizens are forced to adopt specific guises or be persecuted by those same deities, and the non-Euclidian city they all dwell in appears and disappears like a mirage based on your status in it. With the help of his new guide and business partner, the enigmatic Wandering Davey, Frank must journey through this new world to find either his place in it or a way back across the water...
Simon Kewin
A hidden trail among the stars
The galaxy is in flames under the harsh theocratic rule of Concordance, the culture that once thrived among the stars reduced to scattered fragments. Selene Ada, last survivor of an obliterated planet, joins forces with the mysterious renegade, Ondo Lagan.
Together they attempt to unravel the mystery of Concordance's rapid rise to galactic domination. They follow a trail of shattered starship hulks and ancient alien ruins, with the ships of the enemy always one step behind.
But it's only when they find the mythical planet of Coronade that they uncover the true scale of the destruction Concordance is capable of unleashing…


The renovation also will increase staff workspace to accommodate staff relocated from off-site leased space. A small, 350-gross-square-foot addition on the west side of the building will create a new entrance.
Alumni Association gifts and resources will fund the $8.9 million project, which was designed by Integrated Design Solutions.
The project will include architectural, electrical and mechanical work and will provide an average of 12 on-site construction jobs. Construction is scheduled to be completed in fall 2020.
Constructed in 1982, the approximately 34,000-gross-square foot center was designed by architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen and is considered an iconic building on the Ann Arbor campus.
Yet four *years* later, even such a simple recommendation has yet to be implemented, let alone recommendations for on-site generation. How many millions have been spent on how many buildings since then? So many wasted opportunities, and ones we can't afford, given the rapid reduction in emissions necessary to curb catastrophic climate change [https://www.michigandaily.com/section/viewpoints/op-ed-time-lead-climate].


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Q: Display email, name from created session on a new page? I believe I have created A very simple login form of some kind. How do  I go about of displaying the name and email on another page? That's even if I am creating a session correctly.
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    $password = ($_POST['password']);

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CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `users` (
  `id` int(4) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `email` varchar(40) NOT NULL,
  `password` varchar(40) NOT NULL,
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A: You can simply print the session values in logged.php
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A: ITS EASY
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A: You've got $_SESSION['user']
Just start sessions at the beginning of your 2nd php file and you can use $_SESSION['user']
Now you want to do it with your name as well, (since $_SESSION['user']=Email).
Just do the same but instead of 'user' use something like 'name'


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EU Parliament recognizes Puigdemont, Junqueras and Comín as MEPs
Chamber to take note of their election as MEPs in the January 13 plenary sitting despite the Spanish electoral board's position
The European Parliament announced in a statement released on Monday that it recognizes pro-independence Oriol Junqueras, Carles Puigdemont, and Toni Comín as MEPs despite Spain's attempts to block them from taking up their seats in the chamber.
"Following the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union dated 19 December 2019, at the plenary sitting of 13 January 2020, the European Parliament will take note of [their election as MEPs]," the document reads, going on to state their status is "with effect from 2 July 2019" – the date of the parliament's constitution.
Exiled Catalan president Carles Puigdemont and former Catalan minister Toni Comín, in exile in Belgium following the unsuccessful 2017 independence bid, have picked up their definitive MEP passes on Monday. The two politicians had been provided with temporary passes on December 20, the day after the European Court of Justice ruled that Esquerra Republicana's jailed Oriol Junqueras had parliamentary immunity from the moment he was elected MEP in May despite being prevented from taking up his seat by Spanish authorities, with the same applying to Puigdemont and Comín.
This comes three days after Spain's electoral authority decided to veto jailed Junqueras from taking up his seat despite the December ECJ ruling stating that he had parliamentary immunity from the moment he was elected MEP in May.
Although the Esquerra Republicana leader remains in prison with a 13-year sentence for sedition and misuse of public funds for his role in the unsuccessful 2017 independence bid, Puigdemont and Comín have since been allowed entry into the chamber having previously been barred from doing so and were provided with MEP accreditation on December 20.


I read the second essay in this series and, after enjoying it a good bit, decided to take your advice and go back to read the first. What an excellent idea expressed in this essay! If we wonder why our numbers decrease as much as they have over the last couple of decades, we should consider returning to the rules of our heritage, when the craft was widely respected as one to follow by most men in society. That's not to insult the Craft as it is now, but it is a minority of fine men who aspire to freemasonry. In order to avoid over-stretching ourselves, limiting Master Masons to three apprentices at a time would not just avoid burning out the Masters who are self-motivated to mentor. It would also further develop those Master Masons who are hesitant to mentor. This should be seriously considered and discussed by Grand Lodges as well as the constituent lodge level, perhaps not necessarily as a 'rule' but more as a guideline that is highly encouraged and rewarded in some tangible sense by the Grand Lodge.


It's normal to be excited when buying real estate in Malta as this is not something you do every day. One may very well get carried away and purchase a property and realise later that they have overlooked the fact that the property had latent damages or hidden defects not visible to the layman's eye, which could, a year down the line, turn your life completely upside down.
What you thought might have been a house you'd like to settle in for a substantial number of years turns out to be a property you may want to get rid of just after a few years. And what's the cause for such a decision?
On purchasing a property, many – especially if they are first time buyers in Malta – fail to anticipate certain little defects that may turn out to be greater defects later on. This is due to lack of experience and the fact that you did not consult an architect which is always recommended when buying a property in Malta or anywhere else for that matter.
Rain water gradually seeping through your ceilings will eventually create humidity leading to mould, and as a result may ruin most of your furniture, and most of all can create health problems such as asthma.
There is at least one property owner I am aware of that had problems on purchasing his first property. It turned out later that the contractor responsible for laying the membrane did a nasty job, leaving repercussions for the new home owner to face. Although the building contractors are liable for any damages due to negligence, facing this scenario can be avoided by following a few simple steps.
• For starters, it is important that, when viewing the property, you don't just view it once or twice.
• Take friends or relatives along with you because, surprisingly enough, they might spot something you haven't noticed since you are so enthusiastic and excited to buy.
• Another priority should be that of hiring an experienced architect who has an eye for such defects as opposed to just walking through your apartment.
Bringing in a professional to make sure that the property is structurally sound is a common practice. Home owners or even a contractor may not even be aware of these defects and therefore you should never feel uncomfortable for looking after your own interests.
• One other thing you must look out for is that you have the necessary ventilation in every room of your home-to-be.
• Make sure that the membrane laid on your roof is appropriate. If you happen to be purchasing an apartment underneath a penthouse, for instance, you also must ensure that the the rain water gutters' surroundings are properly sealed to avoid leaks.
• Cracks in the ceilings are also a cause for concern. Some hair-line cracks might turn out to be of no potential danger but others may be of significant importance and worth following up.
• When a defect could have been discovered by the buyer through thorough inspection (a "patent defect"), the buyer cannot possibly succeed in a claim against the seller unless the seller actively took steps to hide the defect from a normal inspection.
• And last but not least, if it's an apartment you are purchasing, try to find out if any residents of the said block ever experienced any mishaps e.g. water leaks, or any structural damage.
• Enlisting the services of a professional inspector to assist in determining the condition of a property.


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Foundation grants $10 million to South Bay…
Foundation grants $10 million to South Bay hospitals, organizations
By The San Gabriel Valley Tribune | sgvtribune@dfmdev.com |
PUBLISHED: October 28, 2007 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: August 30, 2017 at 1:05 a.m.
By Melissa Evans
The California Community Foundation has awarded more than $10 million in grants to hospitals and health organizations in the South Bay.
The largest grant went to Little Company of Mary-Torrance, which received $2.1 million to extend a three-year program that provides specialty care for 5,000 uninsured clients of South Bay Family Health Care Center.
Thanks to the grant, patients who would normally have to wait up to a year for an appointment with a specialist at County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center can get in to see one at Little Company of Mary in about two weeks, said Jim Tehan, director of community programs for the hospital.
Little Company also received $130,000 to support community health workers who will be stationed at the new Vasek Polak Health Clinic set to open Dec. 3 in Hawthorne.
Another grant recipient was County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, which received $560,000 to provide home health visits, assistance with transportation and coordination of health care for up to 68 Latino and African-American high-risk infants.
Other programs that received funding included mental health and counseling services for high-risk youths at the Airport Marina Counseling Services Center in Westchester, health promotion at the Alzheimer's Association, and stroke prevention at Centinela Freeman Medical Center.
The grant money, announced late last week, is administered through the foundation as part of a settlement agreement reached between the state and Centinela Hospital Medical Center in Inglewood when it was sold to a for-profit corporation.
The Centinela Medical Funds must be used to promote health and wellness in areas that the hospital served, including Hawthorne, El Segundo, Lawndale and Inglewood.
The San Gabriel Valley Tribune


CROSS BORDER FORMS MUST BE COMPLETED FOR ANY MATCH BEING PLAYED AGAINST A TEAM FROM ACROSS THE BORDER. THIS APPLIES TO BOTH ADULT AND YOUTH.
Cross Border Tours (Youth and Adult) - Incoming and Outgoing.
If the Tour or Match is with a cross border side (this includes matches with Scottish, Irish and Welsh sides), all necessary paperwork must be completed otherwise insurance could be compromised. Incoming and /or outgoing cross border forms can found at the foot of this page.
Forms must be completed and sent in to the County Office for signing off.
Once completed forms are received, the Hon Secretary or another Senior County Offical will sign off and the completed document will be returned to you for your files. If playing a Scottish side, a copy of the form is also sent on to SRU for their files.
If hosting a cross border team, please ensure that all necessary risk assessment checks have been undertaken as you would on any other normal match day and ensure that paperwork showing the assessment has taken place has been filed as appropriate.
If you need assistance with risk assessments, Percy Park RFC Health and Safety (risk assessment) forms can also be found on this page. Percy Park are happy for clubs in county to use their paperwork as basis for your assessments, however you will need to alter club logos and some wording on pages used, as the examples below all contain reference to Percy Park.
If you need any advice on completion of the various tour forms, please contact the County Office.


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How does knowledge progress? What is our model for how different thinkers relate to each others work?
In short I guess what i want is for science to be more like the talmud.
— small needs infinite desires (@louispotok) September 28, 2019
The Paper DAG
Modern science proceeds mostly by papers, using citations for reference. That is, the unit of knowledge is the paper. It is meant to bring new knowledge into the world, in the form of new data, new results, a new synthesis or theory, or even raising questions about the previous literature.
But the paper stands alone. It can be read and understood by itself. The data structure is a directed acyclic graph with homogeneous nodes and homogeneous edges: a paper can cite any number of previous papers, and all those citations are "the same". Because papers can only refer to earlier papers, and are never edited, cycles are impossible. Citations are usually to the whole paper, but on occasion will refer only to a specific claim.
There is a threshold for what makes a paper, a minimum novelty.
An alternative
But there is another model: annotation. In this, there is still some notion of a base-level work, but contributors can raise comments or questions directly on sections of the original work, and whole conversations can happen branching off the original annotation. Given an ecosystem of annotators, and appropriate tools, it would require intention and be unusual to read a text without the annotations. You could imagine, too, adding different layers of annotations depending on your goals.
Annotations are a different data structure but also fundamentally a question of user experience, and they require some training in how to use properly.
The most successful annotation ecosystem I'm aware of is in Judaic scholarship. You have a canonical source text, and commentators write their comments on individual lines. These can be clarification of unclear language, or citations to other relevant sections of the text, or expositions of the greater lesson, or really anything that relates to that line from the text. Later commentators can add annotations on the source text or on the previous annotations! The most useful annotation layers became "canonized" on their own, you would really never read the Torah without Rashi's annotation layer. So when you buy a book with the source text, the canonical annotation layers come pre-included for you.
There is a place in the ecosystem, too, for "curators" who pick annotation layers and publish a work with a few selected layers. Similarly, for a specific talk or workshop, the presenter will create a "source sheet" with annotations plucked out from various layers.
The potential applications to digital media are staggering, but no one has made it work yet.
Google-docs style inline comments are the barest version of this and already incredibly useful for individuals and small groups.
Hypothesis is a system for web annotations, probably the major existing effort.
Factlink was trying to do something similar, and JP's website has a section on this.
Genius has a similar system, for music lyrics only.
Two other mechanisms for knowledge reference and arrangement are transclusion and bidirectional links, and in fact these are not separate categories so much as conceptual clusters in implmentation space. Think Notion, or Roam. Many systems could be considered a blend of all these. Yet another model is reddit-style comment trees, in which a conversation can splinter off from its parents but can only refer to one parent.


Notes: This is a deep and striking piece of the blue amber, unfortunately none of the fabulous color shows up in this photo! It is an historical copy of an amulet found in the 11th(?) century Gnezdovo Horde, and is thought to be an image of Odin. I believe the original was a metal pendant. This piece is sold on a cord, but it can take a jump ring and chain if desired. Half the amber is clear, and the other half shows many inclusions.