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Govt. has been working working learning from the devastating 2015 earthquake: Prime Minister Oli
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Kathmandu, Nepal December 03 2018
KATHMANDU, Dec 3: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has said that the government has been working on preparedness regarding the disaster risk management along with national policy, learning from the devastating 2015 earthquake.
Inaugurating the 14th meeting of the Asia Pacific Regional Consultative Committee on Disaster Management here today, he said works on post-earthquake relief and rehabilitation as well as reconstruction is ongoing since the earthquake.
He said the government was pursuing the reconstruction works seriously with support from the community and the international sector by also taking in mind the experience of other countries.
"The Government of Nepal is committed to implementing the disaster risk management policy. Every disaster teaches regarding humanitarian preparedness for protection from natural disaster and the crisis of physical materials as well as how to make life adaptable for the future," the Prime Minister said.
He stressed on preparedness, information and decision based on science and technology since the natural disaster is not confined to any border or is predictable, saying the government has put in place the emergency management and relief management policy as a part of the preparedness while taking into account the varied disasters based on the country's geography.
Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa said that three people on average die daily in Nepal due to various disasters. He added that disasters also breed poverty due to the humanitarian, physical and environmental damage.
The Home Minister further said that snow-melting in the Himalayas and heavy rainfall also increased the chances of disasters.
Home Secretary Prem Kumar Rai said the disasters caused a GDP decrease of around two percent.
Representatives of various bodies and partner organizations related to disaster management from 26 countries in the Asia and Pacific region are participating in the meeting that will discuss sustainable development and disaster management issues.
RCC president Mohammad Idre handed over the RCC chairmanship to Nepal in the meeting.
The 14th meeting of RCC is hosted y the Ministry of Home Affairs. One hundred and fifty delegates from 30 countries including the member countries of the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center are attending the three-day meeting.
The overarching theme of the 14th RCC meeting is "Policies and Practices for Coherence between Global Frameworks." It is stated that the meeting will offer an opportunity to member countries to devise collective actions for coherence between Sen dai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SDRR), Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other relevant frameworks at the national and local level.
Member countries will also discuss strategies for the implementation of the global frameworks in line with national policies and priorities. In a bid to save people's lives and properties from climate change-related disasters and to protect development gains of national economies in the region, delegates will share best practices and lessons.
Before this, the RCC meetings were held in Thailand in 2000 and 2001, in India in 2002, in Bangladesh in 2004, in Vietnam in 2005, in China in 2006, in Sri Lanka in 2007, in the Philippines in 2010, in Cambodia in 2011, in Mongolia in 2013, in Myanmar in 2014, in Bhutan in 2015 and in Pakistan in 2016. RSS
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Original Vistas, A Conversation with Ingrid Arauco
Composer Ingrid Arauco
In celebration of her new CD of original compositions, I sat down to talk with my colleague Ingrid Arauco, who is a professor of music theory and composition at Haverford College, and whose work I often perform. Vistas is one of those albums that invites repeated listenings: the mix of styles and moods played by multihued, and sometimes unusual combinations of instruments, compels the ear. The CD is beautifully recorded, and the performances (by clarinetists Ricardo Morales and Paul Demers, cellists John Koen and Yumi Kendall, pianist Charles Abramovic, flutist Jeffrey Khaner, violist Burchard Tang, trumpeter Frank Ferraro, and violinists Barbara Govatos and Hirono Oka) are stellar.
I asked Ingrid about her concept for the album, her background, and about being a woman composer in today's world. Here are some highlights from our conversation.
DLH: The textures and sonic quality, particularly in your writing for ensembles that include winds, is quite startlingly beautiful. I especially love the poetic quality of the eponymous "Vistas" for flute and piano, in which three of the four movements are inspired by a work of art. Tell me a little about the interplay between visual arts and music in this piece.
IA: PCMS (Philadelphia Chamber Music Society) asked me to write a suite for flute and piano, and in thinking about the ways I might characterize the different movements of the suite, I found myself looking at a little card on my desk that a colleague of mine sent me years ago. I had always loved the picture reproduced on this card: Kawase Hasui's woodblock print Snow at Shiba Park. Perhaps because I had spent so long in the company of this image, I found that a musical complement came very quickly to me. As I mention in my program notes, there is a quality to this picture, a wonderful balance between energy and tranquility, that I found captivating. The second movement was inspired by another familiar image, that of Monet's Landscape: The Parc Monceau, which is such a joyful work. The choice of Josef Albers's Park was also an easy one to make– I had just finished reading a book about his glass pictures; this image was on the book cover, and I was fascinated by the pink rectangle in the midst of all the blue and green, how it centered the work and imbued it with spirit. In each case, I had strong feelings about the style I would use to render each image musically, and these musical styles are as different as the styles of the images themselves. The most interesting decision compositionally, however, was including the "Bagatelle" movement; it does not refer to any visual image, but I simply felt I needed a quick, tonally more spiky movement after the tonal warmth of the Monet movement, as a refreshment of sorts, and to set up the particular tonal mix of the Albers (fourth and final) movement. I would love to write another piece which directly relates to visual art or architecture.
DLH: Another piece on the album, your String Quartet Nr. 2, written in 1998, was performed just a few weeks ago at Haverford College by the Amernet Quartet. How did that live performance differ, in your ear, from the ensemble that performs it on the CD? Is hearing a live performance of your work, in which a performer brings his or her own interpretation to the piece, and which might be affected by many factors "in the moment," a satisfying or disconcerting experience? Or both?
IA: I've been fortunate to hear this piece performed live a number of times by different quartets. In each performance, there are fascinating differences in detail– it's always interesting to me, for instance, to hear how the musicians interpret a few passages which I mark "gruffly" in the score — I've discovered there is quite a range of "gruff" in terms of bow stroke and tone quality! But what matters is that the detail works within the larger interpretive concept of the piece. I also think that if the overall structure of a piece is strong, it not only withstands, but embraces variation in performance detail– by which I mean the sort of personal voice and creative response that I'd hope a performer would bring to music in any case, and which makes live performance endlessly interesting. The only time a performance of my work is "disconcerting," as you put it, is if there is a major disruption, such as might happen if someone totally loses their place in the music. But even then, there is something for me to learn– I always have to ask, could I have notated something more clearly, or simply? You learn what is difficult to put together, and why, and maybe keep that in mind for next time.
DLH: We've spoken a little about the phenomenon of giftedness in music, and how surprising it is that certain individuals can contribute so much to the world of music while coming from a "non-musical" family background (at least professionally non-musical.) Chopin, Tschaikowsky, and Artur Rubinstein spring to mind. Were there professional musicians in your family? When did you start learning to play the violin, and at what point did you know you wanted to become a composer?
IA: There were no professional musicians in my family, though my parents were avid listeners of classical music. I began piano at around six, and violin about a year later, in school. I was so incredibly fortunate to have a piano teacher who included the Bartok Mikrokosmos and selections from contemporary piano literature in my early musical "diet"– I was so captivated by the Bartok in particular; it opened up a whole new world for me. I spent way too much of my practice time sight-reading those pieces rather than practicing my other assigned pieces! My teacher also had me write a short piece each week; sometimes style studies, usually whatever I wished. Every week I began my lesson by showing her this piece. I was surprised to learn, many years later, that other piano students had not had a similar experience at their lessons! So just to say that writing music came as a natural form of self-expression. Through my teens I had many wonderful opportunities as a violinist, playing in chamber ensembles and in orchestras, where I was able to experience being inside the music in a powerful way. During college I encountered the music of Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, Stravinsky, more Bartok– which together made a profound, life-changing impression. Nevertheless, I did not make the move to composition until after graduation. I asked my theory professor, composer Robert Hall Lewis, if he would teach me, with a view to continuing my studies in composition. Thankfully, he accepted and after working with him for an intense two years, I had prepared a portfolio and was accepted into the composition program at Penn. So, I think I was preparing to be a composer from an early age, even though I did not consciously make the decision until years later.
DLH: When you studied for your doctorate in composition, at the University of Pennsylvania, you mentioned that your training under George Rochberg, Richard Wernick, and George Crumb was very rigorous. Tell me a little about each composer's teaching style, and how their teaching might now affect your own teaching style today.
IA: The composition program at Penn was indeed rigorous, but I'm so grateful for that, and for the opportunity to have worked with these great composers and mentors! As for teaching style, perhaps a story will convey something of the quality of Rochberg's teaching: I played for him on the violin one of a set of variations I was writing, which was very free and cadenza-like in nature. Afterwards he was silent a while, and then simply made a few cuts in my music, sometimes from mid-phrase straight into another phrase further on. As I played this new version, I felt the structure tighten…it was a great feeling, and a marvelous lesson. Dick Wernick worked in the trenches with me, so to speak, on things like harmonic progression, rhythmic shaping, and structure too. He had, and has, a critical stance which is unflinchingly honest, which I admire and respect so much. I worked with George Crumb on orchestration, and on a piece for orchestra. What can I say about that ear for timbre and texture? I remember once he suggested adding a harp harmonic to a particular chord so that the sound would not be "leaden." What a difference– with the addition of that touch the sound rose and bloomed! But I'd be amiss if I did not also mention an inspirational teacher, wonderful composer, and friend, Jane Wilkinson, who helped me out tremendously and gave me much invaluable practical advice, not only about composing but about teaching, that I continue to benefit from to this day.
From these teachers I learned to set high standards and to teach with integrity. And particularly from Jane, to do this with some measure of compassion for the student; just plain kindness, really.
DLH: Historically, women have been severely underrepresented in the world of classical music, in both composition and performance. Do you feel that's improving? Are there any roadblocks you've encountered in your career as a result of your gender, and how did you overcome them? Do you have any advice for any young female composers who might be following your path?
IA: I think the situation is vastly different and better for women composers than it was in the mid-80′s, when I was a graduate student. As for roadblocks, well, I prefer to think of these as opportunities in disguise, or opportunities to grow stronger and more confident. As for advice, I would simply say, be the artist you are, and be that absolutely as well as you can. And keep challenging yourself– that's the only way to move forward artistically, and probably in other aspects of life as well.
To hear Vistas and other works by Ingrid Arauco, please visit her Albany Records webpage.
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Home Politics Atiku, Tinubu, Hold Separate Closed Door Meetings With Obasanjo In Abeokuta
Atiku, Tinubu, Hold Separate Closed Door Meetings With Obasanjo In Abeokuta
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, on Friday visited former President Olusegun Obasanjo at his private residence on Presidential Hilltop Estate, Abeokuta, Ogun State, saying the "relationship" between him and his former boss is "extremely cordial".
Atiku, who is a presidential aspirant for the 2015 general elections on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), arrived Obasanjo's home by 2:56pm with his entourage, which included the Director of his Campaign Organisation, Prof. Babalola Borisade and Oyewole Fasawe, an associate of Mr. Obasanjo, among others, held a private meeting with the ex-president.
After a closed-door meeting which lasted for about 45 minutes, Atiku emerged from the chamber with his host, before they went to another wing of the expansive mansion where they had lunch together.
Earlier in the day, the National Leader of the APC and Lagos State former Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, accompanied by former governor of Ekiti State and National Vice Chairman of APC, Segun Oni, also visited Obasanjo in Abeokuta on Friday and had a separate closed door meeting with him.
It was not clear what was discussed at the meeting with Obasanjo as Tinubu and Oni declined to speak with reporters before they drove off by 12:30pm.
However, Atiku, while fielding questions from reporters shortly after his meeting with Obasanjo, disclosed that they discussed issues bordering on the state of the nation.
He also lamented the defection of former Governor Olusegun Odoba of the APC to the Social Democratic Party (SDP), saying it is "regrettable and unfortunate".
The former VP expressed the confidence that reconciliation between Osoba and incumbent Governor Ibikunle Amosun is still possible, even as he noted that the purchase of Presidential nomination form for Speaker Aminu Tambuwal by some people is a good omen.
Atiku said: "first and foremost, I came to pay my respect to my former boss, President Olusegun Obasanjo and we discussed the state of the nation generally and our relationship is extremely cordial.
"(On Osoba's issue) I'm the Chairman of the South West reconciliation Committee (of APC) but we also had to set up and elder sub-committee of that committee to try and see if there will be what I called an internal reconciliation before the bigger committee looks at the reconciliation process.
"(His leaving APC for SDP) is regrettable, unfortunate but I believe it is a situation that is still reconcilable. This is a situation that has been going on for some time and we have not given up".
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balogun olagunju November 15, 2014 At 8:13 am
I wonder if there could be reconcilation between amosun and osoba but let's wait and see. No harm in triai.
makei talk November 15, 2014 At 4:31 pm
Baba sege, no be you call Atiku ole before? Now d ole don become ya paddy abi? You dey play double standard oh!


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Journalism's struggle with infographics: The facts behind omnipresent images
Originally published in the King's journalism review. Halifax, NS.
By the end of today you will have seen hundreds, if not thousands, of infographics.
They are everywhere—street signs, weather forecasts, the icons on your phone, littered in your social media alerts and your grandmother's cookbook—omnipresent in your everyday life. In short, they are everywhere text is integrated with pictures.
When reading a long article, your mind is constantly looking for traces of these graphics.
Up, down, left, right, left again, now up again. Looking for pictures, charts, graphs and maps, anything but the endless stretch of text that disappears beyond the bottom of your screen.
The human mind is not an easy thing to please, and journalists know it.
Newsrooms are constantly bombarded with a demand from readers for infographics. But even though journalists want to deliver on this, and know they should, they often can't. And the very same programs that allow social media sites to cash in on quick and dirty infographics act as a curse in the newsroom.
A real piece of visual journalism is not quick and dirty—it's expensive and time-consuming, and most newsrooms just don't understand how demanding it is to create a good infographic.
The Coast's editor Kyle Shaw is a long-time graphics promoter in journalism. (Photo: Katrina Pyne)
If infographics were like baseball, Kyle Shaw would be that one fan who always makes it onto the JumboTron, chest painted, blowing on a horn.
He is the editor of the Coast, Halifax's weekly alternative to its more strait-laced news rivals. He sits on the corner of his office desk in a room filled with artifacts from the Coast's history of visual journalism. On the shelf next to him is a dense stack of old Spy magazines, a snarky graphic-filled publication out of New York City.
On the top shelf, long, unplugged and buried in sticky notes, is a Macintosh Classic II, a miniature computer screen surrounded by 16 pounds of tinted yellowish plastic. It was one of two Classics used to design the layout and graphics of the Coast when it began in 1993.
After the Coast's infographic heyday in its first few years, the weekly lost its enthusiasm. You can pick up any issue from the early 2000s and there are only a handful of infographics.
In the last year, Shaw and his graphic designer have tried to go back to their roots. But they've run into a problem. They can't produce the number of infographics they want to—charts, maps, pie graphs timelines or interactives—without more designers.
Shaw estimates the Coast published 250 infographics in the last year. When it started almost 20 years ago it was averaging half that, but in a paper less than half the size. The years in between have been a desert of text.
They've got the spirit now, but the graphics are slow to sprout up. And the Coast isn't alone.
With the 2007 and 2010 redesigns, The Globe and Mail changed its reputation from the "good grey Globe" to a full-colour, high-gloss publication. They brought their team of seven print and digital designers together to combine forces.
The expectations went way up for infographics. But they still aren't anywhere near their competitors.
In a week, between its website and print edition, the New York Times and its graphic team of 25 are publishing two to three complex interactives, up to five medium-sized interactives, and between 20 and 40 printed charts, maps and diagrams. They've got the money for designers and, with that, the money to play.
"The reality is that we are doing a lot more with a lot less and the expectations are growing and the resources are shrinking," says Devin Slater, a graphics designer at The Globe. "That's happening everywhere, not just newspapers but magazines … So how can we deliver quality journalism and infographics? How do we maintain that high standard?"
At the CBC, journalists struggle to find the time.
John Gushue is the digital writer and editor for CBC News in St. John's. He says he is trying to be more creative in terms of visual journalism but often finds himself sticking with a more basic approach simply because he doesn't have time to play around.
"They are far more complicated than most people think," he says. "I get a bit of a chuckle when I hear people say 'oh, that's such a shallow graphic' and I'm thinking, do you have any idea how difficult it is produce these things? It's so much easier to just write 15 paragraphs of number-laden sentences than to produce an elegant and well-distilled infographic."
He says without a graphic designer to help him, the infographics he does produce are fairly rudimentary.
Click here to see a timeline on infographics in the media via Timeglider
For Halifax's Chronicle Herald, there just isn't an understanding of what goes into proper data visualization. They put together roughly 20 individual infographics per year, but when the only two-person graphic department was cut in half three years ago, things started to go downhill.
Matt Dempsey is the Herald's only designer left standing. In his job, he has to push for infographics to be a priority.
"You have to be at the first news meeting early in the day because otherwise you end up just playing catch-up and when the hours get short, people get antsy. They know that they've got a deadline and they'll pick simplicity over complexity every time."
With the 24-hour news cycle and stories breaking on the minute, no one's going to wait for an add-on.
"We always have the option of just running the story, too," says Dempsey, "and no one's going to miss something they never really saw."
Every once in a while the stars align and something big lands on Dempsey's desk. In 2012, it was the Titanic's 100th anniversary. The Herald wanted to put together special coverage and Dempsey took hold of the graphic reins. Over the course of a month he put in about 40 hours of work on this project alone—not as much as he would have liked—but in the end his work culminated in a timeline, an interactive map of Halifax's Titanic landmarks and several photo galleries.
The result was satisfying. But it's the kind of treat you only get once a year at the Herald. Because even when the money is there and time allows, infographics still face a huge problem in newsrooms. A problem so big it spans the physical length of the newsroom—communication between journalists and designers.
Terra Tailleur is a senior writer for CBC Halifax and long-time digital journalist. She has seen the best and the worst of infographics.
She says part of the problem is the disconnect between the designers and the journalists. Journalists are the ones who researched the data. They know where the story needs to go and what the graphic should say to the reader. For designers, there are other priorities, like making the graph or map or timeline look good.
"All too often designers and developers are shoved into the back room in a corner in a basement," says Tailleur. "Part of the challenge is to get journalists and web designers speaking the same language," or just speaking to each other at all.
At their best, she says, a graphic can bring data to life, making it accessible, beautiful and timeless.
"If (an infographic) doesn't explain the context it's in, then this information won't make sense to anybody and what's the value in that? There is no value," says Tailleur. A poorly produced infographic is not only a waste of space and effort, but a story-killer. If it confuses the reader they might leave the story altogether.
Then there are the freelancers.
The paid-by-the-word freelance model just doesn't take into account the massive amount of labour that goes into data visualization. And for the freelancer, it's an even bigger challenge to find meaning in a graphic while working from across the city, province, or even country.
Emily Davidson is a freelance graphic designer in Halifax, who doesn't have journalists looking over her shoulder as she whips out cross-country maps or interactive timelines for faraway clients.
She rarely gets a chance to work in person with the journalist who gathered the data. More often, she'll check her inbox and find a list of statistics, maybe a few introductory text paragraphs, and a note from an editor saying "make this into a spread."
It's hard to produce something that is accurate and persuasive when you're not sure what exactly it is you're producing. It takes time. And it costs money.
An intermediate freelance designer with three to four years of experience can charge $40 per hour. (The average infographic takes about six hours to produce.) As for senior designers, the sky is the limit—easily $60 per hour in Halifax. Or even $5,000 per hour, if you are good enough. For more involved graphics the price goes up exponentially.
Paying that is just not an option for many news organizations.
None of these problems are new. It was 1786 when William Playfair published the first ever samples of line graphs, bar graphs, area charts and pie graphs. His work was revolutionary, but slow to catch on.
In the 1970s infographics took a step forward with the invention of the desktop computer. Any doubts about the importance of graphics were blown apart in 1990 through research like Poynter's EyeTrack Studies, which used computerized headgear to record what a reader saw on a page. These studies verified that photos and graphics were viewed far more than text.
The invention of the desktop computer was almost 40 years ago. If data overload was a problem then, it's nothing compared to now. Designers agree that the need for infographics is more crucial now than ever.
Picking up on this, social media sites like Tumblr, Visual.ly and Pinterest have given readers a big appetite for infographics. Pinterest gained 10 million unique U.S. visitors faster than any independent site in history. More than one-fifth of Facebook-connected users are on Pinterest daily, according to TechCrunch, a technology news website.
Three of the four ingredients are there. News outlets need a tool to communicate massive amounts of data. The public craves visual journalism thanks to social media. And since the desktop computer, designers have had the ability to make quality infographics.
All they need is time and, if not time, money—and if not money, well, then a lot of spirit.
You can hear Kyle Shaw take a deep breath on the phone line.
"When we started the Coast, we were trying to make this paper's identity and trying to make ourselves different. You can compare apples to apples or you can print oranges. We were going to print these accessible funny, clever, snarky, unique oranges and then set ourselves apart."
When asked about the future of infographics, he lets out a laugh. He says the decline of infographics at the Coast has come with some angst.
"I'm a believer … yet my own paper doesn't do them anywhere near enough."
Sara Quinn, who teaches visual journalism at the Poynter Institute, has some advice for those looking to make infographics.
Parallel information: You wouldn't ask two different questions to people if you were comparing their answers, would you?
Avoid graphics that only decorate. Infographics should add depth to a story.
Pick a story with shelf life. Look for the bigger picture so the graphic extends beyond the context of the story.
Start interacting with living data: So-called 'living data' allows for users to plug information into the graphic to determine alternate results.
Include tablet storytelling: Users love physically moving through a story on their smartphones.
Multimedia: Add some emotion to your piece through audio, photographic and video elements.
Give context: All graphics need writing. One of the most important parts of visual storytelling is the context.
Must be a story with a hook: Like any news story, infographics should have a beginning, middle, end and a hook. Think, what's the point of this graphic?
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The snow is falling fast and you're looking for something to do. Relive a classic childhood activity.
Sledding and tubing down a steep hill go hand-in-hand with winter in the Lake George Area. From local parks to lit-up hills, sledding and tubing are still a cherished activity.
Look out below! Sledding and tubing are a timeless winter activity, and the Lake George Area has big hills to conquer all over the region. Bring your family to the West Mountain Tubing Park and fly down their upper or lower lanes. Enjoy Dynamite Hill Recreation Area in the town of Chester, where sledding is always free and the lights illuminate the hill. And of course, if you see children sledding in a Lake George Area park, feel free to join in. Even mom and dad will want to go for a run!
Get outside and have some fun at the Lake George Recreation Park! There's a ton to do at the Lake George Recreation Park! Enjoy baseball, softball, and soccer fields by reservation. There are also basketball courts and a dog park available for use.
A four-season recreation park in Queensbury.
Have some fun in the town of Warrensburg! The Warrensburg Recreation is a four-season park in the town of Warrensburg. The park offers athletic fields, tennis courts, a playground, basketball courts, and more. Winter fun includes cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, and a toboggan run. Contact the Warrensburg Town Office to reserve the pavilion.
West Mountain has been the perfect setting for your families' winter outing for over 50 years. West Mountain with a vertical drop of 1,010-feet has 31 trails across over 126 acres, ranging from easy, gentle learning slopes to challenging, expert terrain. Don't plan on leaving when the sun goes down!
Winter offers boundless fun and adventure in the Lake George Area.
While the others are battling the frigid weather, your winter vacation will be a walk in the sun.


Home Forum Benefits for contractors?
I work as an intern for NPS through the Greening Youth Foundation. I believe that the contract is with them and then I am subcontracted. An executive order by Obama says federal contractors are entitled to paid sick leave. Am I covered? Should I be compensated for health insurance?
Executive Order 13706 signed September 7, 2016, established paid sick leave for covered employees up to 7 days per year. This new EO did not become effective until January 1, 2017, and having a new president, I do not know if this is something that might change. Having said that, here is a link for the EO. https://www.dol.gov/whd/govcontracts/eo13706/ The final rule describes the categories of contracts and identifying which employees are covered by the EO; accrual and use of paid sick leave; obligations of contracting agencies, the DOL, and covered Federal contractors and much more. As for health insurance, the Affordable Care Act dictates that employers provide, depending on the number employees, health insurance coverage. Not knowing exactly your situation, I cannot respond to your question of whether you should be compensated for health insurance, but as a former federal employee, I was not compensated for my health insurance, it was a benefit offered, I elected the plan best suited for my family and I paid for coverage with the employer contributing towards the overall cost of the premiums.


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About The 4 Deserts
MARY GADAMS
Founder, RacingThePlanet and the 4 Deserts Ultramarathon Series
United States, Resident in Hong Kong
Mary Gadams resides in Hong Kong after having lived in the United States, Spain, China, France, United Kingdom and Korea. Mary received an undergraduate degree from Creighton in the United States and a master's degree as an Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Fellow from the London Business School in the United Kingdom. Her previous work experience is in investment banking and strategy. Shortly after the Asian financial crisis, Mary worked as a global strategist in the chairman's office and restructuring office of The Samsung Group in Seoul, Korea where she worked on special projects including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, venture capital and global strategy. Mary began her career in investment banking in the United States and left as a vice president to pursue language and graduate studies in Europe.
In the mid-90s, Mary saw a need for a global event series that captured the best aspects of all the events in which she had competed. Her vision was to create a series of events that would encourage people to push themselves beyond what they ever dreamt possible. In 2002, she created RacingThePlanet - now known as the 4 Deserts Race Series - a world-class footrace series taking place in the most challenging, pristine and culturally-rich locations in the world. The four annual events would take place across the world's most varied terrain and would be located in the driest, windiest, hottest and coldest deserts on Earth. The races were named the Atacama Crossing (Chile), Gobi March (China), Sahara Race (Egypt) and The Last Desert (Antarctica). The series has since been named by Time magazine as one of the world's Top Ten Endurance Events, alongside such races as the Tour de France, Dakar Rally and Vendee Globe. In addition, there is a fifth event known as the Roving Race that moves to a new location each year.
The 4 Deserts Race Series has donated more than US$750,000 to various charities as part of its events, with competitors raising millions more for charities of their choice. The 4 Deserts primarily supports education and healthcare initiatives in the areas where its races are held.


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West Round 2 Preview: (2) Oklahoma City Thunder vs. (3) Los Angeles Clippers
There are four All-Stars in the series, but Scott Brooks might be the pivotal character.
By Jeremy Conlin (@jeremy_conlin)
Oklahoma City:
59-23 (34-7 Home; 25-16 Road)
PPG: 106.2 (5th); PPG Allowed: 99.8 (12th)
+6.3 Average Scoring Margin (3rd)
Off Rating: 108.1 (7th); Def Rating: 101.0 (5th)
+7.1 Net Efficiency Rating (3rd)
PPG: 107.9 (1st); 101.0 (14th)
+7.0 Average Scoring Margin (2nd)
Off Rating: 109.4 (1st); Def Rating: 102.1 (7th)
+7.3 Net Efficiency Rating (2nd)
Season Series: Tied 2-2
Los Angeles 111, Oklahoma City 103 (November 13)
Oklahoma City 105, Los Angeles 91 (November 21)
Los Angeles 125, Oklahoma City 117 (February 23)
Oklahoma City 107, Los Angeles 101 (April 9)
Does this seem reductive to you? It probably should. Yes, I'm telling you that Oklahoma City's best player and the soon-to-be-announced Most Valuable Player of the league is going to be a key guy in this series.
Here's why - The Clippers do not have a soul on their roster that can guard him. Matt Barnes and Danny Granger are going to be the two that spend the most time on him, but neither have the athletic ability any longer to stick with him for 48 minutes (or even 24 minutes each). J.J. Redick is a good team defender, but doesn't have the size or the skill to deal with Durant one-on-one. Jamal Crawford would get torched. Jared Dudley has fallen out of the rotation and probably wouldn't even be a good matchup anyway. If worst comes to worst, we might even see Blake Griffin or (gulp) Hedo Turkoglu try to check Durant. There's a real possibility that Durant averages 40 per game in this series, even more so if Oklahoma City spends time playing small and Serge Ibaka is pulling DeAndre Jordan away from the basket.
The Clippers' only real hope of containing Durant is to double-team and trap him every time he comes off a screen and hope that you can win the 4-on-3 behind the play by swarming the rest of the defense towards Westbrook and praying to God that nobody on the team can knock down a three.
Again, if this seems reductive, it's because it is.
Like Los Angeles with Durant, Oklahoma City doesn't have a great defensive matchup for Griffin. He's stronger than Serge Ibaka and could cause a lot of problems on the offensive boards, he's quicker than Kendrick Perkins and could cause a lot of problems facing up from the wing, and he's too crafty for the rookie Steven Adams. When Oklahoma City goes small with Durant at power forward, Griffin should be able to bully his way to the basket whenever he wants.
The Thunder's best bet is Nick Collison, who fell out of favor towards the end of the Memphis series - he played just seven minutes in Game 6 and did not appear in Game 7. Griffin struggled at times in Round 1 against Draymond Green, a similar defender with quick hands and feet but also some size to prevent being pushed around too much.
The one concern for Griffin is foul trouble. He fouled out in Game 1 and Game 6 (both close losses) and had five each in Games 5 and 7. When he committed four or more fouls in Round 1, he averaged 19.2 points and shot 45.7 percent from the floor. When he had fewer than four fouls, he averaged 33.5 points and shot 66.7 percent from the floor. A bit of a disparity. Small sample size, yes, but it suggests that when he's able to be more aggressive going to the basket and fighting for rebounds, he's a different (read: more effective) offensive player.
The Case For Oklahoma City
They have the highest ceiling of any team in the Western Conference, and maybe the highest ceiling of any team in the league. Scott Brooks still totally hasn't cut loose the riff-raff at the bottom of his rotation, but when (if) he does, this team will be deadly. The Clippers play a small backcourt fairly often - Chris Paul and Darren Collison shared the court for 638 minutes during the regular season. If Brooks responds with a backcourt of Westbrook and Reggie Jackson (as opposed to Westbrook and Derek Fisher), Oklahoma City will have a scoring punch that the Clippers will have trouble containing.
Kendrick Perkins might actually have value in this series, if only to keep DeAndre Jordan off the offensive glass and to dole out a few hard fouls to Griffin and Jordan to deter them from their inevitable aerial assault on the rim. But any time that one of Griffin or Jordan is off the floor (namely, any time the Clippers turn to Glen Davis), Oklahoma City needs to go small (with Durant at the 4), or play Ibaka and Collison up front (their best offensive big man combo).
Best-Case Scenario: The Clippers have nobody to guard Durant and he explodes like he did in Games 6 and 7 against Memphis, only for the entire series. Russell Westbrook is too physical for Chris Paul and bullies his way to the rim repeatedly. Perkins is able to deter Jordan and Griffin away from the basket when he's on the court; when he's not, Oklahoma City's best lineups blitz an over-matched Clippers defense. Los Angeles is able to steal a game but the Thunder win the series in a gentleman's sweep.
The Case For Los Angeles
Plain and simple, Doc Rivers has to coach circles around Scott Brooks. Given the coaching aptitude of the two men, that's not entirely unreasonable.
Brooks has to stick to his moderately to incredibly poor lineups (three of OKC's top five most-used lineups this season had negative +/-, including a mind-blowing -16.2 points per 100 possessions for the Westbrook/Sefolosha/Durant/Ibaka/Adams unit - they played 105 minutes together this season), and Rivers has to take advantage of them. When Perkins is in the game, the Clippers need to attack him in the pick-and-roll, and they'll need to take advantage of Griffin's passing from the high- and mid-post, especially the quick tick-tack-toe passes from Paul to Griffin to Jordan for lob dunks. Oklahoma City has a speed advantage at pretty much every position except center, so Jordan needs to have another monster series. He grossly out-played Jermaine O'Neal in Round 1, he'll need to do the same to Perkins in Round 2.
The two key perimeter players for the Clippers, at least offensively, are Darren Collison and Jamal Crawford. Oklahoma City is a much better defensive team than anyone seems to give them credit for (they were 5th in defensive rating this season), so if they're able to bottle up Chris Paul, Collison and/or Crawford need to be ready and able to make plays off the dribble. J.J. Redick and Matt Barnes also need to knock down their spot-up jump shots to ensure that Paul, Griffin, and Jordan have enough room to operate in the middle of the floor.
Best-Case Scenario: Redick, Barnes, and Crawford are on the mark from three. Griffin's passing from the high post slices and dices Oklahoma City's unprepared defense. Brooks remains insistent on playing a sub-optimal rotation, and the Clippers steal a game or two. Barnes and Granger contain Durant to the point that he's just another guy averaging 30 points on 46 percent shooting, as opposed to 38 points on 54 percent shooting. Westbrook is a volume shooter and not a volume scorer, but Jackson and Ibaka can't pick up the slack. Jamal Crawford is the best bench player on either team and carries the Clippers offense when Paul isn't on the floor. They're all close games but the Clippers surprise in five games.
Clippers in 7.
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Web Site Menus - Which Section Am I In?
One way to increase the usability of your website is to use a navigation design that web users are familiar with. For example, a navigation bar just below a website's header is a common design used today. Clicking on a button in the navigation bar takes the user to a different web page or different section of the website.
You can increase usability further by highlighting the button of the current section in the navigation bar. This helps the user understand where they are within the structure of your website. In this article you'll learn how to create a navigation bar, and how to use a simple Java Script function to highlight the button of the current section.
Let's design a navigation bar with three buttons: "Home","About", and "Contact". The navigation bar will be constructed using an html table. If you want to get some "hands-on" experience, open your favorite basic ASCII text editor, like Windows Notepad, and type in the html code shown below.
This code creates a basic webpage with a table. Save the file with the name "homepage.htm" and then double-click on the filename to open it in your Web browser. Not too impressive? Let's work on it some more. Edit the code to add a link so that it looks as shown below.
This time when you open the page in your browser, it will look more like a table, and when you click on the home button it will reload the home page. To test the menus, you should create two more webpages, one named "about.htm" and one named "contact.htm". Add links to their respective menu buttons.
Two attributes have been added to the <td> tag, bgcolor to give the button a light blue background, and width to make the button 80 pixels wide. You should specify the same width for each button so that they will all be the same size, giving the navigation bar a more uniform appearance.
So far we have a basic navigation bar, but with html alone we cannot achieve the effect of highlighting the current section's button. We will now use a bit of Java Script code to add that effect. Create a Java Script code block in the head section of your webpage and move the code of the navigation bar into that Java Script code block as shown below.


I know I wrote in my last blog entry that I was starting work this week, but I didn't. This week was a short week with Monday being a holiday, so my start date was pushed back to next Monday. Therefore, I had one more week of unemployed bliss before starting my new job.
The weather has been nice, so I've mostly been out wandering around. As I am moving away from the King's Cross area soon, I wanted a last few attempts to check out the area. This week included a trip to British Library beside St. Pancras station to see an exhibition on Maps.
There was a map from the 1680s - some 15ish years after the great fire - of London. You can see a zoomable flash version or a simple picture version online. What was interesting is that looking at the maps of the City of London and the southern part of Westminster, I was easily able to identify the streets. In fact, I could have taken the map down and very successfully navigated the streets using the old map.
My current home near King's Cross wasn't on the map (it would have been fields and small villages at the time), nor would me new home in Kensington, which also would have been outside of the urban area of London back in the 1600s.
After checking out the British Library exhibit, I headed to the local polling station to vote. Thursday was polling day in the local and national elections here in the UK (local elections only in England, but national in all four countries). As a Commonwealth citizen with residency in the UK, I was able to vote. Unlike the Euro elections last year, the national elections use a simple first-past-the-post system, where the person with the most votes gets the seat.
After watching 4 hours of election coverage on Thursday night, I went to bed at 2 in the morning with the result still being up in the air. Friday I woke up at 8:30 and picked up watching the coverage. The result was slightly less muddy in the morning, but still unclear. The UK woke up to a "hung parliament," with no one party winning a majority of the seats in the House of Commons. Coming from Canada, I'm used to minority governments, but its a very unusual situation here in the UK, and people are justifiably nervous about it at a time when the Eurozone is on shaky ground and the UK's debt load is historically high.
Come lunch, I went over to Chapel Market in Angel, Islington to grab lunch. I often head over to Chapel Market for lunch, both during the past 2 months of unemployment and during the previous 6 months of employment when I was working from home. Today as I walked through Chapel Market, I realized, starting work on Monday and moving out of the area in less than a month, this could be the last time I head over here for lunch.
I grabbed one of the best lunches available. First up a burger from the "Designer Burger" stall, where the proprietor calls his customer's agents - "Agent 2," he called out to me, being the second customer in line, "what would you like?"
"A burger - non-chilli - with cheese, please," I replied.
"Non-chilli with cheese," he confirmed, before moving on to get the order from Agent 3.
After my burger was prepared, I headed over to the Crown Fish and Chip Bar to pick up a large order of chips. Real, honest-to-God chips, with vinegar and salt. Ordered it for "take away," so they wrapped it up in brown paper for me.
Burger and chips in hand, which I have come to call my "Chapel Market Lunch," I headed home to see the rest of the election coverage.
I headed home and spent my last day of weekday freedom eating my last Chapel Market lunch and watching the leaders of the political parties discuss how to form the next government. How it will all shake out is still unclear, but what is clear that a minority or coalition government will be a change for the UK. Just like the change coming to my work life on Monday, and the change coming to housing situation in less than a month.
Days of upheaval are ahead, both for this country and me personally. I'm not scared, though. I'm excited.


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Hot cards and smoking guns
John SchroyerPost Independent Staff
Post Independent/Kara K. Pearson
On the streets of New Castle Saturday during the Burning Mountain Festival, the thermometer hit 106 degrees. One vendor described the day's business as "terrible," and blamed the heat. By mid-afternoon, the crowd at Burning Mountain Park was almost exclusively in the shade, despite a big open patch of grass in the middle of the park in front of the stage. It was just too hot to sit in the sun.But inside the Elk Creek Mining Co. restaurant, about two dozen patrons kept their cool and relaxed with a free Texas hold 'em poker tournament.Bryan Vashus, who won first place in the tournament, said he hopes the game becomes a weekly event."I enjoy the time with the other guys," said Vashus."The hundred bucks helps, too," he added with a laugh, referring to the first-place prize of a $100 gas card. The second- and third-place winners also received gas cards, for $50 and $25 respectively.
Monica Gilmore, a New Castle resident who also played in the game, said she thinks the game helped bring a number of people out that would otherwise have found something else to do, and she said she hopes Elk Creek considers hosting more games."If they had this every Saturday, I think a lot of people would come and play," said Gilmore.The tournament, hosted by the Denver Poker Tour, was only one of several new additions and changes made by the "significant other" team of Burning Mountain Days chairwoman Patti Reich and New Castle Chamber of Commerce President Bill Pugh.Probably the biggest change was that vendors were lined up along Main Street in New Castle instead of lumped all together at Burning Mountain Park. The switch was designed to get town visitors out into the community more and give local businesses more exposure, and also to simply give festival-goers a little more elbow room."This is much nicer because everyone can sit and enjoy the music instead of sitting on top of each other," said Reich.
"I think it's better for the businesses," said vendor Julie Samuelson. "As far as the town goes, we have more people walking around, whereas (in the past) they were all at the park.""The heat killed us, though," Samuelson added.Reich, however, doesn't believe very many people were deterred by the rising temperature. She guessed that upwards of 1,000 people came out for the festival."A lot of people came out this morning, and I think some have gone home, maybe to take a shower or cool off, but we hope they'll be back this evening for the music," said Reich.Another change in this year's festival that Reich was responsible for was the re-enactment of a 1910 gunfight that took place in downtown New Castle.
The gunfight was a smash, said Reich."Everyone loved it. It was a great time," said Reich.The gunfight is even going to get national airtime on PBS, which showed up to film the stunt. Reich said she even introduced the film crew to a woman in the crowd who had relatives who took part in the shootout. The show is slated to air Aug. 29.Another highlight of the day was the car show, which wound up with entries from as far away as Sterling. With the cars lined up along Main Street, all with their hoods open to show off everything from powerful V8s to incredible restoration jobs, the street looked like a veritable rainbow. There were vintage muscle cars, '40s-era pickups and pristine sportsters, in every conceivable color, make and style."We had a very good turnout," said Chappi Cook, owner of Cook's Auto Performance in New Castle. As the primary organizer of the show, Cook hailed it as the best show in New Castle yet.
"Three years ago we only had four cars," said Cook. "We built it up to 41 with the help of Patti and the new Chamber."Reich summed up the weekend with a simple phrase. "It's been wonderful," she said with an exhausted but happy grin.Contact John Schroyer: 945-8515, ext. 529jschroyer@postindependent.com


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News Sports turf
Fundraising campaign launched to help pay for Fort St. John artificial cricket pitch
By Energetic City
Northern climate not conducive for natural pitch
An artificial turf pitch (unlike the natural one pictured) has been installed for play by the North Peace Cricket Foundation in Fort St. John, B.C.
Now that the North Peace Cricket Foundation has found a place to play in Fort St. John, B.C., a fundraising campaign has been launched to help pay for an artificial pitch strip. Opting for artificial turf to be used as the pitch between wickets was crucial to cope with the area's northern climate. Volunteers were largely responsible for the turf's installation.
Montreal unveils new cricket pitch
Niagara's new cricket pitch ready for official opening
Committee approves grant to replace Grande Prairie's cricket pitch turf
Nova Scotia town excited about its new top-of-the-line artificial turf sports field
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North Peace Cricket Foundation
Several upgrades in store for historic Brantford Golf & Country Club
Vertical-lift, radial-lift skid steers added to MAX-Series lineup


In the Autumn of 2013 Vince Cable was the Tory/Lib-Dem Coalition minister who sold off the Royal Mail to a bunch of private profiteers at way below its market value. In 2017 he has the absolute brass neck to complain about the consequences of that sale.
Vince knew that he was ripping off the public by flogging the Royal Mail at way below its real market value, but he simply didn't care.
Vince knew that public opinion was dead set against the sell-off, with 67% of the public against to just 20% in favour, but he went ahead anyway.
Vince knew that Royal Mail sorting offices across the nation were sitting on prime bits of development land worth £billions, and that the sale of just a few of these sorting offices would recoup the entire £2 billion price he flogged the Royal Mail off for.
In hindsight the sale of the Royal Mail has been described as "crony capitalism at its worst" and the widespread predictions that the private owners would cash in on the property portfolio have come true.
When Vince Cable flogged off the Royal Mail in 2013 he valued the 6.25 acre Mount Pleasant sorting office at £29 million. Just a few years later in 2017 the private owners flogged it off to developers for £193 million.
A cool £164 million profit at the public's expense.
The same story in Battersea where 2.7 acres were sold off for £101 million, when the "book value" of the land was marked as just £12.9 million when Vince flogged it off.
The sale of just two London sites has raked in almost £300 million for the private owners of what was our public property just a few years ago, yet when Vince flogged it off he priced the entire Royal Mail property portfolio of over 2,600 sites at just £787 million!
Within five years the private profiteers Vince flogged our property to have recouped almost half of his total property valuation with just two property sales!
Anyone would have thought that the man responsible for inflicting such a brazen rip-off on the British public would disappear from public life in shame, but not Vince.
After losing almost all of their MPs as a result of their collusion with the Tories and their ruinous austerity agenda the Lib-Dems have been left with a rump of just a dozen MPs, and in their wisdom they decided to appoint the man responsible for this outrageous rip-off as their party leader!
And now Vince is on Twitter complaining about the planned closure of the Royal Mail sorting office in Hampton in his own constituency.
Vince Cable was responsible for one of the most brazen public swindles of the Coalition government, but he's so arrogant that he thinks that everyone will have just forgotten by now.
He's so confident that he's got away with this massive swindle that he's actually trying to score political brownie points for protesting against one of the consequences of the rip-off privatisation he carried out less than five years ago!


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Eric Wieschaus (1947- )
Eric Wieschaus studied how genes cause fruit fly larvae to develop in the US and Europe during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, Wieschaus and colleague Christiane Nusslein-Volhard described genes and gene products that help form the fruit fly body plan and establish the larval segments during embryogenesis. This work earned Wieschaus and Nüsslein-Volhard the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Andrew Zachary Fire (1959- )
Andrew Zachary Fire is a professor at Stanford University and Nobel Laureate. Fire worked at the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Department of Embryology in Baltimore, Maryland, with colleague Craig Mello, where they discovered that RNA molecules could be used to turn off or knock out the expression of genes. Fire and Mello called the process RNA interference (RNAi), and won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2006 for their discovery.
Solomon A. Berson (1918-1972)
Solomon A. Berson helped develop the radioimmunoassay (RIA) technique in the US during the twentieth century. Berson made many scientific contributions while working with research partner Rosalyn Yalow at the Bronx Veterans Administration (VA) hospital, in New York City, New York. In the more than twenty years that Berson and Yalow collaborated, they refined the procedures for tracing diagnostic biological compounds using isotope labels.
Percivall Pott (1714-1788)
Percivall Pott was a physician in England during the eighteenth century who identified soot as the cause of chimney sweeps' scrotal cancer, later called testicular cancer. In the 1770s, Pott observed that scrotal cancer commonly afflicted chimney sweeps, the young boys sent up into chimneys to clean away the soot left over from fires, and he hypothesized that the soot inside chimneys might cause that type of cancer. Pott was one of the first doctors to identify some environmental factor as causing cancer.
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Christiane Nusslein-Volhard (1942- )
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard studied how genes control embryonic development in flies and in fish in Europe during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In the 1970s, Nusslein-Volhard focused her career on studying the genetic control of development in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. In 1988, Nusslein-Volhard identified the first described morphogen, a protein coded by the gene bicoid in flies. In 1995, along with Eric F. Wieschaus and Edward B.
Felix Anton Dohrn
Felix Anton Dohrn is best remembered as the founder of the Stazione Zoologica di Napoli, the world' s first permanent laboratory devoted to the study of marine organisms. Dohrn was born on 29 December 1840 in Stettin, Pomerania (now Poland), to a wealthy merchant family. Dohrn's paternal grandfather, Heinrich, trained as a surgeon and then established a sugar refinery, while Dohrn's father, Carl August Dohrn, who inherited the family business, became interested in natural history through Alexander von Humboldt, a family friend.
Chang and Eng Bunker (1811–1874)
Chāng (Chang) and Ēn (Eng) Bunker were conjoined twins in the nineteenth century in the United States, the first pair of conjoined twins whose condition was well documented in medical records. A conjoined twins is a rare condition in which two infants are born physically connected to each other. In their youth, the brothers earned money by putting themselves on display as curiosities and giving lectures and demonstrations about their condition. The Bunker brothers toured around the world, including the United States, Europe, Canada, and France, and allowed physicians to examine them.
Priscilla White (1900–1989)
Priscilla White studied
the treatment of diabetes in mothers, pregnant women, and
children during the twentieth century in the US. White began
working with children with Type 1 diabetes in 1924 at Elliott
Proctor Joslin's practice in Boston, Massachusetts. Type 1
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little to no insulin. Insulin is a hormone that allows the body
to use sugar from food for energy and store sugars for future
use. Joslin and White co-authored many publications on children
Conrad Hal Waddington (1905-1975)
Conrad Hal Waddington was an embryologist and theoretical biologist. His early experimental work investigated aspects of embryonic induction and the properties of the organizer first identified by Hans Spemann and Hilde Mangold, while his later studies focused on genetic assimilation. Waddington is probably best known for developing the concept of the epigenetic landscape, and he also held significant interest in many different areas ranging from the visual arts and poetry to philosophy.
The Case of Lydia Fairchild and Her Chimerism (2002)
In 2002, after applying for government assistance in the state of Washington, Lydia Fairchild was told that her two children were not a genetic match with her and that therefore, biologically, she could not be their mother. Researchers later determined that the genetic mismatch was due to chimerism, a condition in which two genetically distinct cell lines are present in one body. The state accused Fairchild of fraud and filed a lawsuit against her.
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Leo Loeb (1869-1959)
Leo Loeb developed an experimental approach to studying cancer and pioneered techniques for tissue culture and in vitro tissue transplantation which impacted early-to-mid twentieth century experimental embryology. Loeb received his medical degree from the University of Zurich in 1897. As part of his doctorate, he completed a thesis on the outcomes of tissue transplantation in guinea pigs. Loeb's thesis inspired a life-long interest in tissue transplantation.
John George Children (1777–1852)
John George Children described several species of insects and animals while working at the British Museum in London, England, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Children also conducted research on chemical batteries called voltaic cells and briefly studied and manufactured gunpowder. One of the species he described, the Children's python, or Antaresia children, was used in the twenty-first century as the subject of experiments that involved the biological cost of reproduction in snakes.


A major change is occurring in the way states collect education data. This change has two critical elements: state collection of student-level data, and the ability to match individual student records over time. These changes give states the ability to create longitudinal student data linking records of student enrollment, program participation, test scores, course completion, and graduation over multiple years. By contrast, traditional snapshot data provide only disconnected information on students at a moment in time.
Matching student records longitudinally provides a rich store of data for evaluating the long-term impact of programs.
Why is this change important for educators? Simply put, longitudinal data are far more useful for examining school and program effectiveness and identifying promising practices. For this reason, the shift to longitudinal student data should make a significant contribution to school improvement.
Follow students from high school to college, to find out what high school programs and courses are most strongly associated with college success. With information on students' level of academic preparation prior to entering high school, it is possible to learn what programs and courses work best with students who walk into the high school ill-prepared, average, or well- prepared.
Identify the relationship between early achievement levels and later student success. This provides a basis for setting goals for school, district, or statewide early-intervention initiatives. For example, an analysis by our Texas-based nonprofit research organization, Just for the Kids, showed that students should reach the "proficiency" level on the state 8th grade mathematics exam to be well prepared for algebra in 9th grade. Further analysis showed that putting algebra off until 10th or 11th grade did little to raise scores, and that students who were not at least passing mathematics by 4th grade would probably not reach the required proficiency level by 8th grade. An analysis of longitudinal reading data found that only 27 percent of students who failed the state reading test in 3rd grade reached grade-level proficiency in reading by the end of 8th grade, and only 11 percent reached "mastery" levels in 8th grade writing. These analyses confirmed the importance of developing reading and mathematics skills in the early grades.
Analyze the effects of specific state policies. Matching student records longitudinally provides a rich store of data for evaluating the long-term impact of early-childhood, bilingual, or dropout-prevention programs. For example, by following students from prekindergarten into 3rd grade, analysts at the Texas Education Agency were able to show the benefits of statewide investment in prekindergarten programs.
Control for student mobility in reporting school test scores. Educators in high-mobility schools can benefit from knowing the success of students who have been exposed to their instruction for a significant period of time. Longitudinal data can address this issue by looking separately at the performance of students who have been enrolled in the same school for several years. If those students still haven't learned, that is likely to show the need for instructional changes at the school. Separate reporting on mobile and stable students can also direct attention to the special needs of mobile students.
Improve the accuracy of socioeconomic data for high schools. Many students sign up for free or reduced-price lunches in middle school, but drop out of the program in high school. This makes the free-lunch data almost useless as a socioeconomic indicator for high schools. A better indicator would link student records back to middle school and count as low-income those high school students who participated in the free-lunch program in 7th or 8th grade.
Create fair comparisons of middle and high schools. Having longitudinal data makes it possible to compare high schools' performance with students who walk in the door with similar levels of academic preparation. Comparing advanced-placement programs at two high schools, for example, may show that one school with an apparently lower success rate, but with students who are less well prepared at the beginning of 9th grade, may in fact have a higher success rate with comparably prepared students.
Improve the investigation of promising practices. These investigations require identifying consistently high- and average-performing schools so that the practices in the two groups of schools may be compared. Longitudinal student data greatly improve our ability to identify which schools belong in these two categories—especially for middle and high schools, where students' prior academic preparation must be taken into account.
Using the data, educators, policymakers, and researchers can improve the accuracy of socioeconomic data for high schools.
The Education Commission of the States and Just for the Kids have begun an initiative to encourage states to collect longitudinal student data. In addition, the Parents' Right to Know Act, recently introduced in the U.S. Congress by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas encourages states to collect longitudinal data as a way to satisfy their Title I reporting requirements. Eleven states already have the ability to match student records. Several other states are upgrading their data-collection efforts to acquire this capability. Business and political leaders in those states have been active in developing a vision of how education will benefit from better information.
Political invisibility. Most states now produce school reports using snapshot data. On the surface, these reports look similar to charts or tables constructed with longitudinal data. This makes it easy to overlook the vastly superior usefulness and power of the latter. It's like comparing two identical-looking computer boxes, one containing 1979-vintage computer chips and software and the other packed with the very latest technology.
Privacy. The creation of statewide longitudinal student data entails collecting and storing multiple years of student-level data at the state education agency and assigning each student a consistent statewide identification number that can be used to match records as students change schools and districts. Steps must be taken to safeguard student privacy. For example, when providing student-level data to researchers, states typically remove names, encrypt student IDs, and have researchers sign an agreement that they will not disclose results on groups of fewer than five students.
Cost. State legislatures must appropriate the money required to create the necessary databases. Typically, the cost of doing so is less than one-tenth of 1 percent of the state education budget—a small price to pay for better information on how to spend the other 99.9 percent.
What can individuals do to promote the changeover from snapshot to longitudinal data?
The Parents' Right to Know Act encourages states to collect longitudinal data as a way to satisfy their Title I reporting requirements.
Educators, parents, and school board members can discuss the value of research using the longitudinal data available in their own schools, and the time and effort that educators can save if records can be matched by computer, instead of laboriously by hand.
State policymakers can lead efforts to encourage their own states to collect the necessary data and to make good use of the data that are already being collected.
And researchers can point out the benefits of studies that have relied on longitudinal data.
Expanding the use of longitudinal data is a critical step in helping education become a research-based, data-informed enterprise. This step is vital to the success of school improvement efforts.
Chrys Dougherty is the director of research of Just for the Kids , a nonprofit data and research organization based in Austin, Texas.
"What if Research Really Mattered?," Dec. 16, 1998.


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Q: jQuery first of type selector? How would I select the first
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A: Assuming you have a reference to the div already:
$(yourDiv).find("p").eq(0);

If the first p will always be a direct child of the div, you could use children instead of find.
Some alternatives include:
$(yourDiv).find("p:eq(0)"); //Slower than the `.eq` method
$(yourDiv).find("p:first");
$(yourDiv).find("p").first() //Just an alias for `.eq(0)`

Note that the eq method will always be the fastest way to do this. Here's the results of a quick comparison of the eq method, :eq selector and :first selector (I didn't bother with the first method since it's just an alias of eq(0)):

A: $('div p:first')

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This is definitely a slow option.  After looking at Jame's speed test, it looks like jQuery selectors work best when they piggy back off of css selectors.

A: $("div p").first();
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Reference: http://api.jquery.com/first/
Keep in mind that first() matches only a single element, the :first-child selector can match more than one: one for each parent.

A: You almost know the answer (from your post title). There is a selector in jQuery called :first-of-type. Use it to find and add class to the first p tag automatically, like so:
$("div p:first-of-type").addClass('someClass');

A: $('div p').first()

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A: This should work
$( "div p:first-of-type" ).css( "font-size: 10px" );

The above code finds the first paragraph in the div as @Denver pointed and changed its fonts-size  to 10px
Here is an example that explains even more about jQuery first-of-type selector

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Vice President's Governors Briefing on COVID-19 Response & Best Practices
Washington, DC - Today, Vice President Mike Pence led a discussion with the chief executives of approximately 50 States, territories, and the city of Washington, DC, and the White House Coronavirus Task Force to discuss local, State, and Federal Coronavirus response and recovery best practices.
Vice President Pence provided an update on the modernization and enhancements to the Strategic National Stockpile and State efforts to build their own stockpiles of critical resources. Rear Admiral Polowczyk provided an update on the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) modernization efforts, supply chain stability, including replenishing State and federal stockpiles, and best practices from State, hospitals, and industry. Admiral Polowczyk highlighted California's efforts to improve their stockpile and supply chain coordination and the following governors highlighted their supply chain stabilization efforts and provide best practices: Governor Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas, Governor Phil Murphy of New Jersey, and Governor Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma.
The Vice President also provided an update on COVID-19 response and discussed best practices with our Nation's governors on limiting Coronavirus spread, including protecting our most vulnerable citizens in nursing homes, leveraging our testing ecosystem, safely reopening America's schools, Operation Warp Speed's efforts to safely develop and distribute a vaccine, and encouraging Americans to adhere to State and local guidelines and to wear face coverings when social distancing cannot be maintained. Vice President Pence encouraged governors to build public confidence in the eventual vaccine and to be ready to assist in distribution when a vaccine becomes available.
Ambassador Birx provided an update on data and trends from across the nation, and discussed her recent visits to college campuses in South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and Texas along with upcoming travel to additional college campuses this week.
Secretary Azar provided an update on Operation Warp Speed including Federal coordination efforts with State, local, and Tribal to plan for the distribution of a safe and effective vaccine. Secretary Azar reminded State executives to submit their vaccine plans to the Department of Health and Human Services is October 16, 2020. Director Redfield provided an update on the COVID-19 Vaccination Program Interim Playbook and State vaccination distribution plans. Dr. Fauci provided a tutorial on the stringent process to determine efficacy, and touched on the various independent boards and committees involved in that process.
Admiral Giroir provided an update on the purchase and planning for 150 million BinaxNOW rapid tests to be distributed across the country.
Participants from the White House Coronavirus Task Force:
The Vice President
Secretary Alex Azar, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS)
Ambassador Deborah Birx, M.D., White House Coronavirus Task Force Coordinator
Director Robert Redfield, M.D., Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), HHS
Administrator Pete Gaynor, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Rear Admiral John Polowczyk, Joint Chiefs of Staff, DOD
Admiral Brett Giroir, M.D., Assistant Secretary for Health, HHS
Administrator Seema Verma, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), HHS
Director Anthony Fauci, M.D., National Institute for Allergies & Infections Disease (NIAID), HHS
Since January 2020, the Trump Administration has organized and hosted 37 governors'-only briefings to drive effective communication and collaboration at every level of government.


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Home > Journals > Journal of Medical Entomology > Volume 41 > Issue 5 > Article
1 September 2004 Western Equine Encephalomyelitis Virus Infection Affects the Life Table Characteristics of Culex tarsalis (Diptera: Culicidae)
Farida Mahmood, William K. Reisen, Robert E. Chiles, Ying Fang
Farida Mahmood,1 William K. Reisen,2,1 Robert E. Chiles,1 Ying Fang1
1Center for Vectorborne Diseases, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis 95616
2Corresponding author: Arbovirus Field Station, 4705 Allen Road, Bakersfield, CA 93314 ( ) e-mail arbo123@pacbell.net
J. of Medical Entomology, 41(5):982-986 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1603/0022-2585-41.5.982
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The life table attributes of Culex tarsalis Coquillett females infected experimentally by feeding on 4 and 6 log10 plaque-forming units (PFU) of western equine encephalomyelitis virus (WEEV) per milliliter of heparinized chicken blood were compared with an uninfected control group. Females continually were offered 10% sucrose and an oviposition substrate and daily a blood meal through a biomembrane feeder. Mortality (dead females) and fecundity (female eggs per female) were monitored daily until all females died. Overall, 94% of 198 females in the two virus-infected groups were positive for WEEV at death when tested by plaque assay; the average body virus titer at death did not differ between groups. WEEV infection significantly altered the life table characteristics of Cx. tarsalis. Life expectancy at infection in days (ex), reproductive effort in female eggs per female per generation (Ro), and generation time (T) in days for the infected cohorts were significantly lower than for the uninfected controls, whereas the reproductive rate (rc) in female eggs per female per day was higher for infected than uninfected cohorts. In agreement with the WEEV infection data that showed similar body titers, there were few differences between the life table parameters for the 4 and 6 log10 PFU treatment groups. Greatest differences were observed for survivorship between days 17–40 when virus titers in infected dying females were greatest. Our data extend recent studies that indicate mosquito infection with encephalitis viruses has a cost of reduced life expectancy and fitness.
Farida Mahmood, William K. Reisen, Robert E. Chiles, and Ying Fang "Western Equine Encephalomyelitis Virus Infection Affects the Life Table Characteristics of Culex tarsalis (Diptera: Culicidae)," Journal of Medical Entomology 41(5), 982-986, (1 September 2004). https://doi.org/10.1603/0022-2585-41.5.982
Received: 7 March 2004; Accepted: 1 June 2004; Published: 1 September 2004
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Farida Mahmood, William K. Reisen, Robert E. Chiles, Ying Fang "Western Equine Encephalomyelitis Virus Infection Affects the Life Table Characteristics of Culex tarsalis (Diptera: Culicidae)," Journal of Medical Entomology, 41(5), 982-986, (1 September 2004)


Hi I'm Brigit, founder of Biddy Tarot. I'm here today with the Monthly Tarot Forecast for June 2017.
Our first card is the Seven of Swords reversed for our Blessing. I tend to see the Seven of Swords as a card of being quite strategic, and choosing what you will do and what you won't do. This guy has chosen that he's going to take the swords, but not these ones -- because he can get away with these ones, but if he carries all of them, he'll probably get caught by the guys in the background.
I see you starting to prioritize a lot more in the month of June, and becoming much more strategic about what you will and won't take on. Given that this is in the reversed position, this is a lot about aligning with your personal boundaries, and starting to get very clear about what your priorities are. It really is just about honoring you -- honoring your time, your energy -- and setting those personal boundaries around where you can realistically devote yourself and where you cannot.
Now, in terms of our Challenges, we've got the Eight of Wands reversed. This can play out in a couple of different ways. Typically I see the Eight of Wands reversed as a card of delays; things just are not moving along as quickly as you had hoped. Just make sure that you've got a little bit of extra time up your sleeve because it may take a little bit of extra time for it to actually manifest, and things might slow down during this month. Also if you are traveling you may find that you get delays as you travel, so don't leave things too close to the wire.
Our final card for June is the Four of Wands, and this is our Recommended Action for this moth. I love the Four of Wands, it's all about coming home. It doesn't necessarily mean coming back to your actual home, but coming back to a place where you feel comfortable and supported, and you're around friends and you can just relax and have fun. So think about what is your home that you can come back to. Where can you find a place to just relax and be yourself and enjoy? Maybe this is a great time to have some time off from work, or even to go on your own personal retreat somewhere. Just enjoy, have fun, make the most of it. You don't have to be working all the time, you don't have to be serving other people, you don't have to be busy all of the time; it's OK just to slow down.
Remember back with our Seven of Swords, you might just have to put a few things off until next month, so that you do have that time just to relax and slow down.


Tom Elliott over at the Ancient World Mapping Center announces a redesign of the site. Crisp and clean.
new Nashville Parthenon pics, et cet.
Ten days after it was begun, the Stoa Image Gallery at www.stoa.org offers 1023 publicly available images in 5 top-level albums (49 albums total).
APA Vice President Barbara McManus sends along some thoughts on the current state of affairs at the APA regarding electronic publication.
Although the American Philological Association was a very early leader in the publication of "machine-readable" texts and has supported the development of electronic editions of a number of research tools in Classics, the association has not really addressed the issue of electronic publication of scholarship in the field. In fact, the long-standing APA Committee on Non-Print Publications has languished in a state of suspended animation for the last several years–still on the books, but with no members and no mandate. I was therefore very pleased to see how many candidates in the upcoming election of APA officers and committee members brought up this issue in their statements (9 candidates for 6 different positions); one even referred readers to the online papers of the panel on Electronic Publication and the Classics Profession that Ross Scaife and I organized for the 2004 APA convention. This is a positive sign that e-publication will attain more prominence on the association's agenda and, I think, a tribute to grass-roots pressure from classicists and others in humanities disciplines. One of my last actions as Vice-President for Professional Matters will be to propose formation of a subcommittee with members from several APA divisions to actively address the issue.
I was somewhat troubled by one element in several of the candidates' statements, reflecting the opinion that electronic editions of research tools have made access "democratic" or "available to all." People at large research universities tend to forget that subscription-only services like the online edition of L'Année philologique or Project Muse are not available to scholars at the hundreds of smaller institutions that cannot afford such specialized services. When e-publication does get on the APA agenda, it is crucial that Open Access has a prominent place in the discussion, and I hope that continued grass-roots pressure from classicists will ensure that this does happen.
It's wonderful to see Barbara supporting OA so forthrightly. Alas, the APA (and a fortiori CAMWS) still appear to me to be some distance away from coming to terms with this topic effectively. Nonetheless, it seems likely that the field of Classics is eventually subject to the same trends and phenomena as affect modern society generally: the internet ultimately routes around and thereby makes obsolete organizations and institutions (including much of the creaky apparatus of traditional 19th and 20th c. academic publication) that don't always adequately serve people's needs for information and communication. It's just not a completely linear process (or easy).
Today we announce availability of the new Stoa Image Gallery, an Open Access repository for digital images and video related to Classics, Classical Archaeology, and the classical tradition. We have implemented this project on a dedicated server running Gallery image-management software, at http://www.stoa.org/. For much more information about the nature of this new site, please see its introductory page. Note that the Gallery includes an RSS feed (though I'm not sure it's working very well yet). Anyone with Classics-related images to archive and publish is welcome to an account on www.stoa.org — don't be shy!
UBIQUITY: So should everybody in the world have his or her own blog?
ITO: A lot of it has to do with what the definition of a blog is, but to generalize what a blog is, you might think of it as a content management system for micro content and standardized syndication, filtering format and notification format. That includes everything from how to post pictures from PhotoShop, to Alzheimer's patients talking to their families, to all kinds of things. If everyone is interested in sharing content with others, I think that everyone will end up, in some way, becoming a blogger, and part of what could be called the consumer publishing movement. A lot of it has to do with the fact that our computers and our phones are becoming so much more powerful that you can create and edit content, and you can post it and share it.
UBIQUITY: So it's not just for pundits.
ITO: No. The people who are leading the way are people who like to have opinions and share opinions, and talk. But at the end of the day I think that everyone has something to say. Blogging is for everyone.
…Our pilot project is to create an audiobook for Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, since most people like it and it is divided into small chapters convenient for reading.
Scholars should embrace the chance to work with archivists to build online research centers, which can provide "resources that would be impossible or extremely expensive to assemble and make universally accessible by any other means," says Rolena Adorno, a professor of Spanish at Yale University.
Ms. Adorno helped prepare a digital facsimile edition of an important manuscript from the early 1600s, El Primer Nueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno, by the Andean native Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, as part of a project by the Royal Library of Denmark's rare-books department to make its most precious documents available electronically.
The scholar's role in such a project is essential, Ms. Adorno says, if the result is to be useful to other scholars. In compiling a list of the nearly 400 illustrations in Guaman Poma's manuscript, for instance, a technician could have transcribed a list of titles and captions, but only a scholar familiar with the work could provide a descriptive menu to help other scholars more quickly identify illustrations tied to particular themes.
Electronic-resource collections can give unprecedented access to texts, she says, not only by making available documents that are rare and fragile, but by allowing scholars to reorganize texts and put them in context with related materials that are also available in digital form.
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DENVER (AP) - The playoff-bound Colorado Rockies are headed to Los Angeles for a tiebreaking game to decide the NL West title after routing the Washington Nationals 12-0 on Sunday behind Charlie Blackmon's cycle.
Nolan Arenado hit two of the Rockies' five homers and took over the National League lead with 37, one more than teammate Trevor Story - who also went deep. David Dahl homered for the sixth time in seven games.
Tyler Anderson (7-9) didn't look the least bit bothered by a sore shoulder that sidelined him for about a week. He scattered four hits over 7 2/3 inninhs for his first win since July 4.
Before the game, Story said he planned to do sneak peeks at the large scoreboard in right field to see how the Dodgers were faring. It wasn't pretty, as Los Angeles scored early and often.
Late in the game, the fans chanted "Beat LA! Beat LA! Beat LA!" The only cheer louder was the one Anderson received when he was taken out.
Asked if Harper remains in the team's plans, general manager Mike Rizzo said: "Of course he is in our plans. He's a guy that we would love to have."


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