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The National Eye Institute (NEI) predicts that by the year 2050, 50.2 million Americans will develop cataracts. But don't worry. Cataracts are a normal part of the aging process, currently affecting more than 22 million Americans age 40 and older, and half of all Americans over the age of 80, according to NEI. In a healthy eye, the lens focuses "light onto the retina for clear vision" and "adjusts the eye's focus, letting us see things clearly both up close and far away," explains Gretchyn Bailey, editor in chief of Optometry Times. Over time, proteins begin to build up in the lens, forming protein clumps, which can obscure normal vision. These clumps, or deposits, prevent light from passing clearly through the lens, causing images to appear cloudy or blurry, especially at night.
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It's estimated more than 24 million Americans, age 40 and older, have cataracts, which can cause blurred or hazy vision, reduced intensity of colors, increased sensitivity to glare from lights, and difficulty driving at night. But what exactly is a cataract? Well, according to the American Optometric Association, "A cataract is a cloudy or opaque area in the normally clear lens of the eye," which is located behind the iris, the colored part of the eye. Normally, the lens focuses light on the retina; however, as we grow older proteins begin to build up in the lens, forming protein clumps, which prevents light from passing clearly through the lens. This causes images to appear cloudy or blurry, especially at night.
Most cataracts develop in people over age 55, but they can occasionally occur in younger adults and even children. But don't worry; cataracts are very treatable.
According to the National Eye Institute, "cataract surgery is one of the safest and most effective types of surgery performed in the United States today." But what does it entail?
When a cataract has progressed to the point that it is interfering with normal, everyday functions, such as driving or reading, surgery is often the recommended course of action. Cataract surgery involves moving the lens of the eye and replacing it with an artificial lens.
Approximately 90 percent of cataract surgery patients report better vision following the surgery.
A Nuclear Cataract t is the most common type of cataract, beginning with a gradual hardening and yellowing of the central zone of the lens, also known as the nucleus. Over time, this hardening and yellowing will expand to the other layers of the lens. Nuclear cataracts typically develop as the result of aging. This is why a nuclear cataract is sometimes referred to as an age-related nuclear (ARN) cataract.
A Cortical Cataract forms in the lens cortex and gradually extends its spokes from the outside of the lens to the center.
There are two types of Subcapsular Cataract: posterior subcapsular cataracts and anterior subcapsular cataracts. These cataracts develop slowly at first, and then once they start, they may change rapidly. This is why regular eye exams are so important.
Congenital Cataracts can be present at birth, or they can develop in early childhood.
A Secondary Cataract forms after surgery for another eye problem, such as glaucoma.
A Traumatic Cataract occurs as the result of trauma to the eye – blunt or penetrating ocular trauma, electric shock, chemical burns, or ionizing radiation. A traumatic cataract may present itself as an acute, subacute, or late sequela of ocular trauma.
Radiation Cataracts develop as a result of exposure to – you guessed it – radiation.
The Anne Arundel Eye Center, led by board certified ophthalmologist Dr. Samuel Boles, is a regional leader in the diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma and cataracts. Staffed by caring and knowledgeable professionals, AAEC's state-of-the-art treatment center is dedicated to making the best eye care accessible to everyone.


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Construction Industry Women Seek Strategies, Allies To Boost Impact
Women seeking to advance in construction-sector professional and craft careers have new levels of opportunity, but challenges remain, nearly 700 women's conference attendees learned.
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Balfour Beatty US unit president Brian Cahill said the firm aims to have 50-50 gender parity in leadership by 2025.
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Panelists said women of color faced unique industry career challenges because of stereotypes and fewer role models.
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Researcher Romila Singh noted company culture issues as a key catalyst for women leaving engineering careers and its "cascading" industry impact.
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KEYWORDS Construction Workforce / diversity and inclusion / gender pay gap / GWIC / women in construction
Construction sector growth and staff shortages are opening career floodgates for women in craft, professional and executive roles, but stubborn issues in workplace cultures still hinder their advancement and their long-term commitment to industry-sector work, researchers and professionals shared at the Groundbreaking Women in Construction conference (GWIC) as they weighed solutions.
Romila Singh, a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee business school professor, shared details with the nearly 700 attendees of the May 14-16 conference in San Francisco—presented by ENR and law firm Peckar & Abramson—of government-funded research she co-authored on why technical professionals depart the field that focused particularly on women.
"You cannot fix any issues of gender equity without addressing the elephant in the room— workplace culture."
– Romila Singh, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Singh noted that while there was little difference in technical-skill confidence between those who left and those who remain, "women still encountered hurdles in terms of having to prove their competency over and over again."
Women study respondents pointed to workplace "sabotage" and lack of training opportunities or promotion transparency, she said. "Their voices were not being heard," added Singh. "You cannot fix any kind of issues in terms of gender equity without addressing the elephant in the room, which is the culture."
Panelists discussing how to keep women engaged and leadership-ready urged attendees to communicate a willingness to take on new career challenges and to take credit for achievement.
"We just need to be a little more proud of ourselves and honest about what we did," said Denise Berger, engineering operations chief for the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey.
Erin Slayton, HDR associate vice president, told attendees she was "willing to do whatever it takes to continue advancing my career. I cannot stress enough for you to tell people what it is that you want to do, or they will make assumptions for you." But panelists also said it was key to make time for needed work-life balance, family-related or not.
A panel of women company owners and senior project executives shared insights on effective leadership and team empowerment.
"I'm still working on an over-reliance on my contracts and trying to think that everything is black and white," said Jessica Chen, project executive at Suffolk Construction. "Nothing is black and white. There is no such thing as perfect."
Joanna Slominski, a Mortenson Construction project executive in North Dakota, advised attendees that, as their roles evolve from management to team leadership, they need to be aware that they "can't do everything; saying yes can put [you] in a tough situation." She advised them to "say yes with the right people around you."
Click link below to see video of GWIC speakers and participants in action.
'Bring a Man Along'
A joint panel of male and female industry executives noted the importance of engaging more men to recruit and help retain skilled women.
"A women's leadership strategy is a baseline expectation of what great companies do nowadays," said Jeffery T. Halter, a leadership consultant and former diversity strategy manager at Coca-Cola. "You are actually at a competitive disadvantage if you don't have one. Engineers find problems and you fix them. Do you put the same rigor into the recruitment and advancement of women as you do in to the rest of your work? That's where we want to go with this."
Fluor Corp. has a global program that connects men and women to boost recruitment and advance women that now involves 20 company units, said Anna Farokhi, Fluor commissioning director. She said firms need to include diversity as a necessary component in executive succession planning.
Chuck Hebert, vice president at industry technology firm PlanGrid, which has a woman founder and CEO, noted its broad diversity efforts that include the "Bring A Man Along" program to women-focused events. "It allowed the conversation to open up that it was okay for a man to participate," he said. "Once you create that and you open that door, we found that a lot of men would actually participate, mostly to start just listening."
Added Hebert: "I have a nine-year-old daughter and don't want her to have the same struggles and challenges because of gender."
Brian Cahill, president of Balfour Beatty's California operations, noted the new mandate in the UK, where its parent is located, for firms over 250 employees to report the company gender compensation gap. He said the firm's 27% male-female pay gap is on par with the UK construction-sector average, reflecting the traditional cluster of men in higher-level positions.
But, said Cahill, Balfour Beatty is committed to 50-50 gender parity in leadership by 2025. "We are going to be talent starved. We need every woman we can get to come into the business and grow them into the future leaders," he said.
While technology offers new career directions for women, Emily Tsitrian, PlanGrid director of consulting services, said the sector overall "hasn't been progressive in terms of women in leadership roles."
Discussion participants suggested that tech and construction can learn from each other, with women moving up the ranks in tech firms and in construction firm technology roles . Technology "needs to learn how to do real-world things," said Jit Kee Chin, chief data officer at Suffolk Construction.
Roz Buick, vice president of Trimble, noted the firm's recent experience in building its own project. "You're supplying your own technology, so we saw the payoff," she said, noting how after an employee accident, jobsite managers could immediately link to personnel records. "There are lots of examples of applications to workforce management," she added.
Women of Color: Too Few Role Models
Women of color noted some additional obstacles in their push for visibility and advancement.
Tiffany Millner, a black architect and affiliate director for the ACE Mentor Program, said people of color make up less than 2% of architects."A lot of our clients are really becoming more diversified and multicultural and as a business issue … we need to be able to respond … with the sensitivity and cultural competence they will be looking for," she said.
"Sometimes I literally have to stand up and say something that I had said twice already to be heard," said Minneapolis-based architect Damaris Hollingsworth, vice president of Thor Design Plus, who also is black and was born in Brazil. "It's very painful to adjust to in the beginning. You have to be assertive."
California High Speed Rail Authority structural engineer Noopur Jain added: "Growing up in India, a woman as an engineer, wearing a hardhat with boots on the ground was not the norm." She advised attendees to "create that awareness of different colors, backgrounds, cultures." noting that "what really helped me was standing strong with a high level of drive and not worrying about what people are saying or thinking about me."
Jacqueline Glover, president of a Washington, D.C project management consultant, urged all industry women to "intentionally reach out and connect with one another" across all demographics.
Industry veterans urged career-minded attendees to hang in and speak out.
Susan Rozakis, project executive at Google with four decades of industry experience, advised attendees to seek out mentors and sponsors, and not be deterred by setbacks. "We will all be better off for having a wide range of perspectives, not merely token representation," she said.
Vicki O'Leary, a general organizer in the ironworkers' union and 32-year industry veteran, touted its outreach effort to male union members to "teach women the tricks of the trade rather than assuming that because of gender, they will not be here long." Even so, drywall finisher Ayesha Calloway said she has "rarely worked with another woman finisher on the job in 13 years" of her career as a craftworker.
O'Leary urged women architects, engineers and managers on jobsites to better support site tradeswomen. "There's a divide between us," she said. "We need a cultural shift and it's going to take all of us collectively to make that difference."
Ginger Evans, Chicago Dept. of Aviation commissioner and the executive who led construction of Denver's new airport in the 1990s, offered this advice: "You are going to stub your toe. You're going to say something you regretted. But don't start your answer by saying 'I'm sorry.' That's an old habit we should give up. Just move on. Perseverance is the key."
With additional reporting by Aileen Cho and Alisa Zevin
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As ENR Editor-at-Large for Management, Business and Workforce, Debra K. Rubin has a broad vantage for news, issues and trends in global engineering, architecture and construction—from corporate finance and executive management to regulation and risk, next-generation workforce and developing markets such as offshore wind energy.
Debra also launched and manages ENR's Top 200 Environmental Firms ranking, which defines a $51-billion global market; is editor of ENR WorkforceToday e-newsletter on industry talent management; and supervises content for the Industry Buzz page, which leads ENR's monthly Contractor Business Strategy report. She also is an organizer of ENR's annual Groundbreaking Women in Construction conference, a major AEC industry forum for talent management and women's career advancement.
Click here for more detail on the 2019 conference in May in San Francisco and plans in formation for the 2020 event.
Debra's reporting for ENR on the 2001 Ground Zero attack damage, response and recovery earned a Jesse B. Neal award from B2B media giant Connectiv and is featured in the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City.
As editor-in-chief, Jan Tuchman leads Engineering News-Record's high-powered editorial team in creating content for the enterprise—online, in print and at live events. "We search for stories that can help readers in some way do their jobs more effectively," she says, "And we tell those stories with words, photos, drawings and video to make them engaging and clear." Active in many construction organizations, Tuchman has developed a broad network of industry sources, who help keep ENR on top of the latest trends and innovations. She has traveled the world to visit outstanding projects and speak to groups and universities.
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Communio: A Program
Joseph Ratzinger Benedict XVI
"Communio was founded to attract and bring together Christians simply on the basis of their common faith."
When the first issue of the International Catholic review: Communio appeared at the beginning of 1972, there were two editions, one in German and one in Italian. A Croatian edition was also conceived at the outset. A preface by Franz Greiner served as the introduction to the German edition. Common to the two editions was the fundamental theological contribution of Hans Urs von Balthasar's "Communio: A Program." When we read these pages twenty years later, we are astonished at the relevance of what was then said. Its effect could still be explosive in the contemporary theological landscape. Of course, we could ask to what degree the review retained its guiding principles and what can be done now to do greater justice to them. An examination of conscience of this sort cannot however be the topic of my talk. I will only try to refresh our memory and strengthen the resolve which was present in the beginning.
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Q: Designing a REST API for native mobile apps and browsers AS WELL AS 3rd parties OAuth2 I have an idea for an application whose backend serves both native mobile apps and desktop browsers using OAuth2.
After reading the OAuth2 reference, I realized that I just needed to use a simple Resource Owner Password Credentials Grant because these clients aren't 3rd party clients. In other words, I'm just using OAuth2 as a simple login protocol that can serve both native mobile apps and the browser rather than using sessions for the browser and tokens for the apps (I'd rather keep it straightforward by using OAuth2's password grant).
However, I figure I'd want to release an API to the public for 3rd parties in the future. How would I manage to serve 3rd parties as well as the mobile app and browser mentioned above?
My main concern is that I'll end up with a server that has two different roles: One for 3rd parties and one for the mobile app and browser it directly supports. How should I go about doing this? I guess I can use a single Authorization Code Grant, and set apart 3rd party apps from the mobile/browser app, and the mobile/browser app will have full functionality by providing it with the entire scope resources from the API.

A: If I would do what you have described, I would go with two API endpoints that might have similar functionalities but could serve the intended client in a more optimized way.
E.g rate limiting and other security aspects is very good to have early for 3rd parties, but might be a bit redundant for you internal clients.
Versioning and backwards compatibility could also be very different for your internal clients than your 3rd parties.
But, on the other hand, you could get a lot of benefits by dogfooding your own system and use the Oauth scopes.
It might be more of a philosophical architectural decision.
But in the long run I definitively see a good reason to separate internal API's from external due to the fact that the data might be different and the usage might diverge.

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Q: odoo mod_wsgi schedulers not working When I deploy openerp/odoo using mod_wsgi, I found my schedulers stop working, can any one help how can I get my cron/schedulers working. If I deploy it using mod_proxy it will solve the issue but I want to deploy using mod_wsgi.

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David Bowie Producer Says We Can't Tell How Much Adele's Voice Has Been "Manipulated"
"You turn the radio on and it's fluff, you are listening to 90% computerized voices,"
Today's pop music is riddled with over produced vocals, manipulated to sound almost perfect. Former David Bowie producer Tony Visconti is aware of this and thinks it's a shame, but he also recently called out Adele, who is likely one of the greatest voices of our time according to many, saying her chops might very well be just like the rest of the industry, "manipulated".
"You turn the radio on and it's fluff, you are listening to 90% computerized voices," said the producer, now 72-year-old, speaking with Daily Star. "We know Adele has a great voice but it's even questionable if that is actually her voice or how much has been manipulated. We don't know."
He's right, we really don't know how much of her voice has been manipulated. Although, she has given some very stunning performances that lead us to think she has natural talent. Adele's range is impeccable and her voice is filled with soul, which is why many tend to gravitate to her sound.
Visconti's main argument is not focusing on Adele at all, but rather pop music in general. "There's a sound to pop now that is so perfect it's boring," he goes on to say, "because everything is fixed."
Watch Adele's performance below and judge for yourself if her voice is manipulated.
In the interview with Daily Mail, the former Bowie producer was discussing a new show called Guitar Star, aiming to find the next Jimi Hendrix or even David Bowie.
"No-one can mistake me for Simon Cowell. Today is the worst time ever in the music industry, but Guitar Star is a step in the right direction."
Look for the show to air on Sky Arts, June 14th.
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or contact the Archdiocesan Office for Youth on 03 9287 5565 or wyd2019@cam.org.au.
We are pleased to announce that the 2019 Summer School of Evangelisation will be your World Youth Day at Home, hosted by the Disciples of Jesus in partnership with the AOY. The 2019 Summer School will take place in Kyneton so save the dates 20-27 January 2019 (the same dates as the international World Youth Day) and stay tuned for more details!
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Australian priest Fr Rob Galea has recorded the official English-language version of the theme song for next year's World Youth Day in Panama. Source: The Tablet.
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Simona Halep Withdraws From Tokyo Olympics
Romania tennis player Simona Halep has confirmed she would not be participating at the Tokyo Olympics. "Nothing brings me more pride than representing Romania, but sadly the recovery from my calf injury requires more time and I have made the decision to withdraw from the Olympic Games this summer. After the disappointment of missing the French Open and Wimbledon," said Halep in a tweet. In another tweet, Halep said: "Having to skip the Olympics is incredibly tough to digest, but I am determined to come back stronger I will be watching and cheering on the Romanian athletes from home."
Earlier, defending women's singles champion Halep pulled out of the upcoming Wimbledon 2021 due to a calf injury.
Halep retired from a second-round match against Germany's Angelique Kerber at the WTA clay-court event in Rome in mid-May and hasn't competed since.
She was subsequently forced to miss Roland-Garros, the second Grand Slam of the season.
Earlier, 23-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams, world number three Rafael Nadal, and last year's US Open winner Dominic Thiem had announced their withdrawal from the Tokyo Olympics.
Tokyo Olympics will go ahead from July 23-August 8 this year. It was slated to be held last year, but it had to be postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Adam Douglas Driver (born November 19, 1983) is an American actor. He is the recipient of various accolades, including the Venice Film Festival Volpi Cup for Best Actor, in addition to nominations for a Tony Award, two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, four Primetime Emmy Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. Martin Scorsese has called Driver "one of the finest, if not the finest" actors of his generation. Driver made his Broadway debut in Mrs. Warren's Profession (2010) and subsequently appeared in Man and Boy (2011). He rose to prominence with a supporting role in the HBO comedy-drama series Girls (2012–2017), for which he received three consecutive Primetime Emmy nominations. Driver began his film career in supporting roles in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (2012), Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha (2012), and the Coen Brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis (2013). He won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor for his lead role in the drama Hungry Hearts (2014) and starred as a poet in Jim Jarmusch's Paterson (2016), the missionary in Scorsese's religious epic Silence (2016), and Steven Soderbergh's heist comedy Logan Lucky (2017). Driver gained wider recognition for playing Ben Solo / Kylo Ren in the Star Wars sequel trilogy (2015–2019). In 2019, he returned to theater in the Broadway revival of Burn This, for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play. He garnered consecutive Academy Award nominations; Best Supporting Actor for Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman (2018), and Best Actor for Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story (2019). In 2021, he starred in the musical Annette and two films directed by Ridley Scott, the medieval drama The Last Duel and the crime drama House of Gucci. Driver is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. He is also the founder of Arts in the Armed Forces, a non-profit that provides free arts programming to American active-duty service members, veterans, military support staff, and their families worldwide. Description above from the Wikipedia article Adam Driver, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Anti-Gunners Sounding 'Taps' Over the NRA as Florida Battle Looms?
November 29, 2018 by Dave Workman 6 Comments
Buried in a Tuesday Politico story about the National Rifle Association's (NRA) declining revenues, and possibly failing political influence, is a stunning acknowledgement that just might account for the organization's ability to cheat the undertaker.
NRA's Chris Cox and Wayne LaPierre flanked President Donald Trump when he appeared at the NRA convention.
"Unlike the NRA's grassroots operation," Politico reported, "which can be mobilized to turn out voters and lobby lawmakers, Everytown relies heavily on big donors."
The NRA's strength has always been in its members, a truism that has oft been repeated during speeches at the organization's annual conventions.
On the other hand, it cannot be denied nor underestimated that wealthy elitists including those who provided the lion's share of financial support for gun control Initiative 1639 in Washington State—which the NRA is now challenging in federal court along with the Second Amendment Foundation—have weaponized their wealth to push their agenda. Less than a dozen people, including the late Paul Allen, donated most of the $5.3 million raised by the Safe Schools Safe Communities gun control group sponsoring the initiative.
According to Politico:
"Revenue at the National Rifle Association fell by $54 million in 2017, a 15 percent decline that coincided with a record number of mass shootings in the U.S. and a rise in spending by gun-control groups.
"The gun-rights group posted an even steeper drop in membership dues, which fell 22 percent, or $35 million, to a five-year low, according to documents the NRA filed with the Internal Revenue Service this month.
"The group directed $27 million to its political arm, the Institute for Legislative Action, down from 2016, a presidential election year in which the institute spent more than $76 million."
There should be no mystery, with Donald Trump in the White House and Republicans controlling Capitol Hill, a lot of gun owners saw no threat to their rights, so they folded up their tents and closed their wallets. It's a pattern that has been followed for decades.
But that could change in the aftermath of I-1639's passage in Washington and an even more threatening anti-gun effort now underway in Florida. The Tampa Bay Times reported this week that the Miami-based "Ban Assault Weapons Now" is pushing hard to get a state constitutional amendment on the 2020 ballot to outright ban so-called "assault weapons." And how does this measure define "assault weapons?"
Here's the language:
"Assault Weapons – For purposes of this subsection, any semiautomatic rifle or shotgun capable of holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition at once, either in a fixed or detachable magazine, or any other ammunition feeding device. This subsection does not apply to handguns.
"Semiautomatic – For purposes of this subsection, any weapon which fires a single projectile or a number of ball shots through a rifled or smooth bore for each single function of the trigger without further manual action required."
Among some Evergreen State gun owners who worked against I-1639 earlier this month, there is a feeling that NRA and even the firearms industry let them down by not pouring more money into the resistance effort. That may be displaced with the SAF/NRA legal challenge, but a win at the polls could have set back gun control efforts in Washington by several years. On the other hand, the consensus is that the victory emboldens anti-gunners to reach for more all over the country.
Their analysis may be somewhat unfair, too. One Washington gun shop operator noted that some of his customers are still asserting that they didn't even know about the measure, suggesting they may not have voted at all. That is also a pattern for which there is no easy solution.
The NRA, it was once written, fights best from behind circled wagons, and that principle extends essentially to all Second Amendment organizations. If the establishment media keeps reporting about the organization as being on the ropes, and Congressional Democrats launch their promised push for more gun restrictions, watch for the NRA and other gun groups to once again "miraculously" recover from the brink of mortality.
As Sam Clemens—aka Mark Twain—once wrote, "The report of my death was an exaggeration."
Do you support the NRA and Second Amendment Foundation? What gun control measures are pending in your state.
Filed Under: Politics, Second Amendment Tagged With: National Rifle Association, Second Amendment Foundation
Dale2 says
Fortunately in Florida it takes 60 percent to pass a constitutional amendment. As a Floridian I like ballet voted state constitutional amendments. Sometimes it is the only way to get issues past the politicians. But I do think that 60 percent is to low a threshold. 66 and 2/3rds would be better, if not 70 percent. And the signature process to add an amendment should be higher. Also amendments should have to be single issue and not 2 or more related issue on one amendment. Some people vote for an amendment because they like one part of the amendment and don't have strong feelings for or against the other parts.
Wade Sheperd says
I sincerely agree to having 1 amendment to vote on . That is exactly why Congress and the Senate can not get nothing done. Too much on 1 ticket.
Rangemaster11B says
I'm a Benefactor Member, so I am not blaming the NRA, but after having the Presidency and boyh Houses of Congress, we should at least have seen CCW reciprocity or 2A protection, if not repeal of NFA and GCA infringements.
Dee Lindsay says
This all sounds good but did any one think maybe the down fall of NRA is not because of REP control of everything but because the NRA is not doing it's job…I hate the NRA but like a lot of folks keep giving them money because they are just about the only game in town. Back when they were pushing the AR as a hunting weapon I did not like their stand. The AR is a freedom weapon for all Americans and that is how it should be pushed. Most of these politicians don't care about America. They only care about getting more money for themselves. Americans had better wake up or American as some of us have bleed for will be gone.
dava golino says
looks like Nevada will be the next Calshitehole.why are we not doing any thing. the Democrats are a Trojan horse for the EU. gun control is a soft sell from the EU controlled UN. they started the sell with," THE UNIVERSAL BACKGROUND CHECK". the UN controls the data which means a foreign agency is setting up the data collection for registration, then on to confiscation. look at how they are doing this to the Dutch farmers in South Africa. when are we going to do something about the enemies of our country that claim to be a political party. the democrats are a Trojan horse for the EU Agenda. they need to be expunged.what I do not understand is why sane nations do not join with the Visegrad group and END the EU. TERMINATE THE HEADS OF THAT GROUP, TAKE THEIR MONEY. Why wait for them to form an Army. they are a threat. simply stop the threat. no one is talking about las vegas Nevada?? California communists totally took the state, so say goodbye to the shot show,this may be the last year, I WOULD BET, and a nice place to be a sport shooter or a gun store business. FROM LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, now that the Criminals, Sisolak and Jacky Rosen which are champagne socialist, communist PIGS. WORST OF ALL they are sell-outs to the EU agenda,which is anti second amendment, anti constitutional and anti-American, do you think 2019 shot show will be the last show? keep your eye on the Prize…they want the 2nd amendment! if you look at Clark county and Washoe County the NP People took just enough so the communist, EU sell outs could win. dead people, unions and morons killed Nevada, guess they will do away with the state border. We should have had a civil war when we had the chance. now we march to the EU agenda, make America a brown, border less shite hole with no Constitution. slow, slow death by stupidity (infectous californious).7 November 2018. all part of the EU agenda. stop the common man from self defense…. period. these types of anti gun people do not care about human life or crime. all they care about is taking the ability away from people to be able to stop their communist, EU Agenda, UTOPIA THAT THEY THINK WILL WORK. end the borders, let foreign brown criminals have free rain of major cities, burn down the forests. inject babies with mercury, kill babies and sell the body parts on the tax payers dime, allow a dark barbaric religion and it's Sharia law the over ride the constitution. then disarm the population… who said that the democrats do not have a platform
AMEN to that speech , no one else has the balls to tell the truth


Microsoft Build kicked off in Seattle this week with Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella leading an on-stage charge into new cloud services. Azure received a number of new products during the keynote, including new support for MySQL and a world-spanning database called Cosmos DB.
Nadella kicked the show off with a demonstration of Microsoft's industrial Internet of Things solutions for developers, Azure IoT. Using Azure's IoT tooling, developers can build reactive applications to do things like kicking off an emergency shutdown or predicting maintenance of factory devices. The Azure IoT Edge system also allows for easier management of edge devices and the ability to push updated software to them through a web interface.
"When you have lots and lots of devices in the same place, an ad hoc data center gets created nowadays, on a factory floor or in the home. For that, we have Azure Stack so you have the computation, the storage capability. You have the ability to run the cognitive services, things like computer vision on a commodity camera," said Nadella.
Behind all of these new devices, of course, is a lot of data. Microsoft has a solution for that data, as well. Rimma Nehme took the stage during the keynote to demonstrate Azure's latest database addition, Cosmos DB. This multi-function datastore is a globe-spanning distributed database capable of handling key-value pairs, documents, graphs and column family data.
"Imagine you want to build a planet-scale intelligent app with users worldwide. It has to be super fast, it has to be incredibly elastic, and it has to be available all over the world," said Nehme during the keynote. She then went on to demonstrate building an application around the Marvel comics universe, demonstrating the numerous interpersonal connections between characters.
Creating a new Cosmos DB, said Nehme, can be done through the same point-and-click interface used to launch most Azure services. Upon launch, developers can choose from two APIs: MongoDB's or SQL. Nehme said that Microsoft is also releasing preview APIs today for graph and key-value storage.
The Azure Portal includes further controls and tools for Cosmos DB. This includes a web-based data exploration tool, which allows developers to visualize the connections between information.
Cosmos DB can be spread across nine data center regions, and users can target reads and writes each to individual regions. "I can answer any of my graph queries worldwide with less than 10 milliseconds read latency guaranteed. The key message is that regardless of the data model, regardless of the API you are using, regardless of the data distribution or even the failures, we continue providing you with a single system image for all of these globally distributed resources worldwide, so that you developers can concentrate on your applications, not on the database behind them," said Nehme.
Consistency is another big strong point for Azure Cosmos DB. Nehme said that, instead of offering only strong or eventual consistency models, Cosmos DB offers five different consistency models. This includes three intermediate consistency models: Bounded Staleness, Session, and Consistent Prefix.
Microsoft also broke some cloud provider traditions by announcing that its service level agreements around CosmosDB will cover more than just availability. In fact, Cosmos DB guarantees latency, throughput, consistency, and availability to 99 percent uptime through a set of new SLAs covering all of these factors.
Bolstering its database offerings were two new Azure services, as well: MySQL and PostgreSQL as a Service. These two database offerings are now available for Azure users, broadening the options for developers who might not yet be using SQL Server.
To top it all off, Microsoft announced the availability of the Microsoft Azure SQL Database Migration Service, which allows developers to move their existing databases into Azure SQL Database. This service covers Oracle and other SQL-compatible databases.


Regarding a recent letter, "Red tape is the weapon of the ruling class," the state is not a de-facto landlord, nor is the municipality. Yes, we do have certain ordinances to abide by. Why the letter writer believes that's wrong is something he must conclude on his own. I doubt any municipal resident has had to beg for anything regarding making changes, or keeping something that violates ordinances.
The letter writer's quote from Thomas Jefferson is taken completely out of context and regarded one incident while he was out of the country. The tyrants aren't the zoning officers, building inspectors, sewage enforcement officers, or others affiliated with a township. Tyrants can be found in other countries, however. Our elected and appointed officials do their jobs. I'm not sure if the letter writer has ever worked, but most employers have rules to follow, too. Maybe he thinks he's above rules and laws.
My biggest concern is the writer's implication that it's acceptable to kill people in positions of authority because a resident doesn't want to abide by ordinances. As a matter of fact, he implies enough that I believe municipalities and the State Police should be aware that he's a threat to municipal employees. If, in fact, local authorities have fear of repeat incidents such as Ross, and now Paradise Township, it's because of people like him, espousing that it's within the right of every landowner to protect their free will of their property no matter the cost.
Lastly, it's egregious to shrug off Mr. Tripus' murder in the writer's offhanded comments. He seems more concerned about the murderer than the victim, and Mrs. Tripus doesn't deserve that.
I would suggest the letter writer move to a place where laws are not in place. I'll be happy to help him pack.


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Does Britain need a Minister for Digital Government?
By Derek du Preez June 7, 2017
With the results of the general election due on Friday, should the new government - in whatever form - appoint a new Minister for Digital Government?
As Britain heads to the polls today to decide who will be the next Prime Minister - in what has been a rather volatile and unpredictable campaign - a blog by the Institute for Government caught my attention, which proclaims in its headline: "We need a Minister for Digital Government".
The author Daniel Thornton, states the the "consequences of the lack of leadership are clear", citing the recent effective shutdown of many parts of the NHS, because computers using out of date Windows software were infected with the WannaCry ransomeware (amongst other points).
The post got me thinking about how little we have heard about digital government in recent months. Yes, we've had an election and purdah to deal with, but I don't believe that's the main cause. Months prior to the announcement of the snap election, things were feeling eerily quiet.
And as we know, it has been a turbulent couple of years for the Government Digital Service, with a number of senior leadership changes, the departure of valued staff members, and rows with departments over digital change. Not to mention a rather lacklustre Transformation Strategy, which didn't exactly set the world on fire.
There's been a feeling of slowdown amongst observers, with many beginning to feel that perhaps the system was a bit too resistant to change (although, please don't take this as a criticism of the many dedicated civil servants doing their best to make that change happen).
As Thornton notes, the political leadership at the beginning of the coalition government has yet to be replicated. He says:
The new government that is formed after 8 June should include a Minister for Digital Government, whose job is to drive changes in the way government works, to save money and provide better public services.
As Minister for the Cabinet Office from 2010-2015, Lord (Francis) Maude provided visible political leadership for digital government. After his departure, and for the past two years, there has been a lack of political leadership for digital government from the centre of Whitehall.
Big decisions, such as about which system to use for verifying citizens' identity across government, have been ducked. Unlike their predecessors, Theresa May and Chancellor Philip Hammond have not spoken about digital government. Together with comments by Amber Rudd about "necessary hashtags," it seems that senior ministers are not taking a keen interest in digital government.
All of this is true. Thornton goes on to say that prioritisation requires leadership from the centre of Whitehall so that key services get the resources they need.
There has been some progress in online services like paying car tax and registering to vote, and government has started to open data, so, for example, anyone worried about flooding can get alerts about local rivers. In 2016 the UK came top of a United Nations survey on digital government.
However, much remains to be done.
People are used to steady improvements in how they search for information, shop and bank online. These improvements are provided by companies that have embraced digital technology and new ways of working. Government needs to do the same.
Is the answer a new Minister?
It's fair to say that the political savvy of Maude has been missed. But is what is required a new Minister for Digital Government? There are arguments both for an against the idea, both of which are compelling. I myself am unsure whether or not this would be effective - largely because it depends who ends up with the job.
Pondering this I took to Twitter to ask my followers, many of which have worked in government or who work closely with government, their views on the idea. And the response was interesting. Take a look:
No. Maybe 20 years ago, but digital is just too ubiquitous now.
— Alec East (@AlecEast) June 7, 2017
Kind of. If digital is dealt with in isolation then it won't become the norm. Needs a Minister for Redesigning Service Delivery, or similar.
— Phil Rumens (@PhilRumens) June 7, 2017
not just government, not just public services. Govt role is to get 21c tech + data across whole economy/society.
— Peter Wells (@peterkwells) June 7, 2017
But we also need a way of holding No 10 / CO to account on their literacy too… (that is constitutionally more complicate!)
— Eliot Fineberg (@eliotfineberg) June 7, 2017
Does the ship need a captain? Yes. Does it want a bad captain who doesn't know how to sail and leaves before voyage over? No. ??✈
— Lindsay Smith (@InSadly) June 7, 2017
The trouble is, a minister would feel the need to 'do' things, without knowing enough. I think innovation is best done flying under radar.
— Steve Parks (@steveparks) June 7, 2017
Yah. It was raised on the NS Podcast: one thing for Govt to talk about the Internet & code but do they understand it enough to make law.
— Nell Griffiths (@nellgriffiths) June 7, 2017
It's a good start. We need as many as possible to understand principles, but with zero STEM degree-holding MPs in Commons...
— Russell Garner (@rgarner) June 7, 2017
As you can see, even though social media is described as an echo chamber, the response on Twitter is varied. There is concern that a Minister for Digital Government will result in someone that doesn't actually know what they're talking about, leading to decisions being made just for the sake of it. Equally, there is an argument that if you spin off digital into its own silo, then it won't ever just become the new norm. And there is a general consensus that politicians don't generally know what they're talking about when it comes to technology.
However, others feel that putting someone in place could help take on the system that seems so reluctant to change, whilst also becoming an evangelist for digital across government - such as Maude once did. And it was rightly pointed out that this shouldn't just be about civil service change, but also the impact of digital and infrastructure across the broader society (I see a particular need here for legislation to catch up).
I like the idea of a Minister that focuses on service delivery, rather than digital itself (it's just the medium by which service delivery will happen). I've argued time and time again that, much like companies that have traditionally dominated and are being challenged by the likes of Uber, it's not enough for government to just apply 'digital' to the way that it did things previously. It needs to rethink its whole approach.
And that requires political will, which currently is lacking - because the consequences will likely mean having to answer difficult questions e.g. job displacement, retraining, structural reform. It's for that reason that I do think we need some sort of senior political figure that is driving such agenda. Whether that post carries the title 'digital', I'm ambivalent. However, someone with authority needs a mandate to make change happen - otherwise I fear that a grass roots approach to innovation won't be enough.
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Fearless film aficionados! We have selections for the eighth annual New Art Film Festival, taking place at The Art Theater, 126 W. Church St., downtown Champaign, IL, two weeks from tomorrow on Sunday, October 29, from 6-11:20 p.m. Please keep an eye on this here Web site in the next week for a more fleshed out schedule to entice you and visual samplings to tease you. Our Facebook will also guide you in our activities this fall, which include the Radio Maria meet-and-greet and a special speaker to be announced.
Reporters and editors may set up coverage of the NAFF by contacting us at newartfilmfestivalcu@gmail.com.
We hope to see you filling those seats to partake in the media of your multi-talented neighbors!
October 29, 2017, 6 p.m.-11:20 p.m.


Western food in Taiping. Yesterday we were at Nagaria to do a round of western food tasting in Taiping during our long break here. Nagaria has been in Taiping for more than 20 years, an established restaurant in Taiping with enhanced cleanliness and standard after the recent change. Food is not too bad. The waiter and waitress were ok, and we got a very friendly waiter who serve us with our orders. We ordered the Bombay steak, chicken chop oriental, chicken chop chambertin that was supposed to be marinated or cooked with red wine, fish and chip (looked too dry) and oriental fried rice(looked too plain). Will give it 9/10 for ambience and pricing. Taste and presentation of food only earned 6/10.
My personal preference are the chicken chop at Restaurant Wan Li at Kota Road or the Western corner at Glutton Corner (Padang) though. They come with better sauce.


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Researchers at MalwareHunterTeam have discovered a new strain of ransomware called RansSIRIA that encrypts victim's files and then states it will donate the ransom to Syrian refugees.
Unscrupulous cybercriminals try to exploit every situation, even the most dramatic incidents. In the past, crooks attempted to exploits the media attention on dramatic events such as the Boston Marathon, the MH17, and the Hurricane Matthew Marathon.
Now security experts at MalwareHunterTeam have discovered a new strain of ransomware called RansSIRIA that encrypts victim's files and then states it will donate the ransom to Syrian refugees.
So, there is a "WannaPeace RansSIRIA" ransomware.
According to the experts, the RansSIRIA ransomware is a variant of the WannaPeace ransomware the campaign spotted by the researchers aimed at Brazilian users.
Once the ransomware is executed, it will display a fake Word window while the malware encrypts victim's files.
When the encryption process is completed, the ransomware will display a ransomware note containing the instructions for the payment.
The ransom note also contains a singular message to explain the ransom will be used to help Syrian refugees.
Please introduce us as Anonymous, and Anonymous only.
We are an idea. An idea that can not be contained, pursued or imprisoned.
All as victims of a war that is not even theirs !!!
Contribute your contribution from only: Litecoins to wallet / address below.
The ransomware will show a gallery of cruel images that show the dramatic situation in Syria and will play a YouTube video of the "Save the Children" organization that shows the suffering of Syrian children and the effect of a stupid war that someone don't want to stop.
If the victims chose to pay the ransom, the malware will decrypt the files and then open the short URL https://goo.gl/qNxDFP, that is the Google-translated version of the article published at Worldvision about Syrian refugee children.
Statistics on the short URL shows the RansSIRIA ransomware was created on March 15th and at the time of writing it was opened 64 times, a circumstance that suggests that the threat is currently not widespread.
Unfortunately, ransom paid by the victims will never support the Syrian refugees.
"The ransomware developers, though, are not donating the ransom payments to the Syrian people and are only trying to benefit from others pain and suffering, which makes it that much worse." explained Lawrence Abrams from Bleeping Computer.


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Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus Hospitalization 12/18/2008 Male 218 lb 1/22/2009 Other Health Professional United Kingdom
Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus Hospitalization 12/18/2008 Male 218 lb 2/5/2009 Other Health Professional United Kingdom
Hepatic Infection Bacterial Hospitalization 11/23/2007 Female 134 lb 3/9/2009 Other Health Professional United States
Hepatic Infection Bacterial Hospitalization 11/23/2007 Female 134 lb 4/21/2009 Other Health Professional United States
Upper Gastrointestinal Haemorrhage Hospitalization 68 Female 8/10/2009 United States
Therapeutic Agent Toxicity Hospitalization 68 Female 8/13/2009 Consumer United States
Therapeutic Agent Toxicity Hospitalization 68 Female 8/23/2009 Lawyer United States
Product Taste Abnormal Death 1/1/2009 Male 179 lb 9/4/2009 United States
Pulmonary Fibrosis Other Serious Female 9/10/2009 Other Health Professional United States
Incorrect Storage Of Drug 6/15/2009 Female 127 lb 9/19/2009 United States
Injection Site Pain 9/1/2008 Female 180 lb 9/19/2009 Consumer United States
Product Quality Issue Death 1/1/2009 Male 179 lb 9/28/2009 Other Health Professional United States
Pulmonary Fibrosis Other Serious 10/14/2007 Female 10/7/2009 Other Health Professional United States
Sarcoidosis Other Serious 1/1/2007 Female 175 lb 11/20/2009 Physician United States
Nervous System Disorder Other Serious 9/17/2009 Male 12/14/2009 Physician United States
Nervous System Disorder Other Serious 9/17/2009 Male 187 lb 1/8/2010 Physician United States
Hypertension Hospitalization 1/4/2010 Male 220 lb 1/20/2010 Physician United States
Nervous System Disorder Other Serious 9/17/2009 Male 187 lb 1/26/2010 Physician United States
Hypertension Hospitalization 1/4/2010 Male 220 lb 2/6/2010 Physician United States
Wound Infection Staphylococcal Other Serious 8/1/2005 Male 2/22/2010 Physician United States
Sepsis Hospitalization 1/31/2010 68 Female 176 lb 3/5/2010 Consumer United States
Cardiac Arrest Death 4/6/2007 58 Male 231 lb 4/1/2010 Physician United States
Hypertension Hospitalization 1/4/2010 48 Male 220 lb 4/26/2010 Physician France
Vomiting Death 1/18/2008 70 Female 185 lb 5/7/2010 Lawyer United States
Nausea Hospitalization 4/19/2010 51 Male 5/13/2010 Physician United States
Stomatitis 1/1/2007 66 Female 7/13/2010 Other Health Professional United States
White Blood Cell Count Increased Hospitalization 3/6/2010 69 Female 165 lb 7/26/2010 United States
Oedema Peripheral Other Serious 8/21/2008 51 Female 8/3/2010 Physician United States
Urinary Tract Infection Pseudomonal Hospitalization 12/9/2006 70 Male 187 lb 8/4/2010 Other Health Professional United States
Pancytopenia Hospitalization 3/6/2010 69 Female 165 lb 8/10/2010 United States
Therapeutic Response Decreased Other Serious 8/1/2010 11 Female 10/7/2010 Other Health Professional United States
Obstruction Gastric Hospitalization 10/13/2010 49 Female 155 lb 10/18/2010 United States
Pancreatitis Hospitalization 1/4/2010 48 Male 220 lb 10/29/2010 Physician France
White Blood Cell Count Increased Required Intervention 1/4/2010 48 Male 11/29/2010 Physician United States
Decreased Appetite Hospitalization 1/1/2011 69 Male 3/16/2011 Other Health Professional Switzerland
Asthenia Hospitalization 1/1/2011 69 Male 3/21/2011 Other Health Professional Switzerland
Agranulocytosis Death 2/28/2011 52 Female 4/1/2011 Other Health Professional Switzerland
Oedema Peripheral Other Serious 1/1/2010 51 Female 160 lb 5/17/2011 Consumer United States
Febrile Neutropenia Death 4/26/2010 60 Male 163 lb 5/18/2011 Other Health Professional United States
Drug Ineffective Other Serious 3/3/2011 65 Female 148 lb 6/21/2011 Other Health Professional Canada
Septic Shock Hospitalization 2/19/2011 Male 7/8/2011 Physician France
Cerebrovascular Accident Hospitalization 3/10/2010 74 Male 8/9/2011 Physician France
Neuritis Hospitalization 2/1/2011 76 Female 166 lb 9/12/2011 Physician United States
Lung Disorder Other Serious 4/21/2011 61 Male 154 lb 10/18/2011 Other Health Professional France
Plasma Protein Metabolism Disorder Other Serious Male 11/24/2011 Physician United States
Death Hospitalization 11/28/2011 36 Male 204 lb 11/30/2011 Physician United States
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Rash Other Serious 9/10/2011 50 Female 114 lb 12/2/2011 Physician United States
Death Death 11/28/2011 36 Male 204 lb 12/3/2011 Physician United States
Blindness Hospitalization 12/8/2011 Lawyer United States
Sepsis Hospitalization 7/22/2011 58 Female 265 lb 12/9/2011 Other Health Professional Australia
Leukopenia Other Serious 2/26/2007 68 Male 173 lb 12/20/2011 Consumer United States
Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome Life Threatening 11/14/2011 50 Female 12/27/2011 Other Health Professional France
Left Ventricular Dysfunction Other Serious 2/26/2007 68 Male 173 lb 12/27/2011 Consumer United States
Left Ventricular Dysfunction Other Serious 2/26/2007 68 Male 173 lb 12/29/2011 Physician United States
Sinus Tachycardia Other Serious Female 160 lb 1/4/2012 Lawyer United States
Cardiac Arrest Life Threatening 11/28/2011 36 Male 204 lb 1/23/2012 Physician United States
Cough Female 1/28/2012 Other Health Professional United States
Upper Respiratory Tract Infection Bacterial Female 1/28/2012 Consumer United States
Nausea 1/1/2011 51 Female 124 lb 1/27/2012 Consumer United States
Drug Dose Omission 2/1/2011 61 Female 1/28/2012 Consumer United States
Injection Site Pain 65 Male 1/29/2012 Other Health Professional United States
Disease Progression Death Female 2/7/2012 Consumer United States
Acute Febrile Neutrophilic Dermatosis Hospitalization 8/5/2011 48 Female 117 lb 2/24/2012 Other Health Professional France
Atrioventricular Block Complete Hospitalization 11/14/2009 32 Male 2/29/2012 France
Drug Rash With Eosinophilia And Systemic Symptoms Hospitalization 12/26/2011 44 Male 2/29/2012 Physician France
Multiple Myeloma Other Serious 1/1/2012 57 Female 145 lb 3/20/2012 Canada
Cough Hospitalization 2/1/2011 76 Female 166 lb 3/21/2012 Consumer United States
Colitis Hospitalization 10/12/2011 49 Male 205 lb 3/30/2012 Physician France
Mental Status Changes Death Female 140 lb 3/30/2012 Consumer United States
Hypocoagulable State Hospitalization 1/26/2012 79 Female 4/10/2012 Consumer Italy
Cardiac Arrest Hospitalization 11/28/2011 36 Male 204 lb 4/17/2012 Physician United States
Anaemia Hospitalization 1/26/2012 79 Female 4/18/2012 Physician Italy
Coronary Artery Disease Death Female 140 lb 5/7/2012 Consumer United States
Conjunctivitis Other Serious 3/2/2012 41 Female 5/23/2012 Physician Italy
Myocardial Infarction Hospitalization 12/1/2011 77 Female 220 lb 6/4/2012 Consumer Canada
Acute Pulmonary Oedema Life Threatening 6/24/2011 56 Male 6/6/2012 Consumer France
Renal Failure Chronic Other Serious 4/1/2011 83 Female 6/14/2012 Physician United States
Pain Other Serious 1/1/2009 45 Female 216 lb 6/14/2012 Consumer United States
Hypocalcaemia Other Serious 12/9/2010 89 Male 127 lb 6/14/2012 Physician United States
Erythema 1/3/2012 70 Female 117 lb 6/14/2012 Physician United States
Eating Disorder Hospitalization 5/17/2012 49 Female 6/14/2012 Other Health Professional United Kingdom
Coronary Artery Occlusion Other Serious 71 Female 180 lb 6/15/2012 United States
Vomiting Hospitalization 1/11/2012 57 Female 143 lb 6/15/2012 Other Health Professional Australia


Where Do I Find FR-44 Insurance After A Florida DUI Arrest?
In Florida, driving under the influence (DUI) is the criminal offense of driving under the influence of alcoholic beverages, chemical substances or controlled substances, proved by the unlawful presence of alcohol at or exceeding .08 BAC/BAL. When a person is arrested for a Florida DUI, there are two separate cases that arise: the criminal court case, which is held to determine a person's liberty, and the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FDHSMV) case, which is held to determine the eligibility to operate a motor vehicle.
If you are convicted of DUI charges in Florida on a first offense, you can expect to pay substantial fines and be subjected to varying penalties, depending on the circumstances. If you are convicted of your first Florida DUI, you are subject to court fines reaching into the thousands of dollars. If your Breath/Blood Alcohol Level (BAC) is .15 or higher, or if you were driving with a minor in the vehicle, the DUI fines and fees significantly increase. If convicted of your first DUI you are also required to complete community service, or, pay additional fines for each hour of community service ordered. Your first Florida DUI may also result probation.
Florida DUI attorneys defend DUI offenses and drunk driving cases in Florida. A Florida DUI attorney or criminal defense attorney will be able to assist you with the two separate cases that you're facing and offer DUI defense strategies. They will be able to handle both the criminal DUI charges and the administrate case with FDHSMV regarding a license suspension or revocation.
If you are convicted of DUI in Florida, in addition to the above-mentioned DUI fines and penalties of the state, you will also be required to complete DUI school in order to restore your by the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. If this is your first Florida DUI conviction you are considered to be a Level 1 entrant in Florida DUI school. Level 1 DUI school courses in Florida require a minimum of 12 hours of DUI school classroom instruction and aim to deter those convicted of Florida DUI to not become repeat offenders through the use of interactive educational techniques.
Hey Buddy!, I found this information for you: "The Penalties For A Florida DUI Conviction Can Be Steep". Here is the website link: https://www.duiauthority.com/florida-dui/. Thank you.


Reserve your spot for Thursday's Ladies Lounge event on Financial Wellness. We'll hear from the founders of Society of Grownups and Happier App on career, entrepreneurship, and leading a fulfilling life.
If you've been following JUGs for a while, you know we love books and book clubs. Did you know that the ICA has its own book club, ICA Reads? This month, the book is Men We Reaped. Read, and then head to the museum on March 20th or April 3rd for book discussions in the gallery.
The defense attorneys from 'Making a Murderer' are coming to town on April 16! Grab tickets now.
This terrifying glass slide will hang 1,000FT about dtla.
"Revolutionary" crosswalks are coming to Santa Monica to help make the city more walkable.
In almost any career it is important to understand the fundamentals of storytelling. Skillshare has a new free class on using photos to tell your stories.
Levo shares 5 ways to squash your public speaking nerves.
Working at a small startup or getting ready to launch your idea into a business? Here are 5 pep talks every entrepreneur should keep in their back pocket.
Congrats to 'Who's That Gal' alum, Gianne Doherty, on having her brand, Organic Bath Co. featured in The Improper Bostonian. Also featured in the article is our new fav urban getaway, Balans Spa.
Gals living in Middlesex county should be super-diligent with filtering their water. The county is one of the places where PFOA (aka teflon) was found in drinking water supplies. ew.
Loved this post from Lenny Letter (Lena Dunham's blog) on being a socially responsible consumer.
Yasss it is almost time to put those white kicks back on. Yay spring!


Legislative and Social Committee June / July Blog Post by Nancy L. Stevens, Ph.D.: Meeting the Text Complexity Standard: Room for Balance?
Meeting the Text Complexity Standard: Room for Balance?
by Nancy L. Stevens, Ph.D.
This quote, taken from the International Literacy Association Common Core Committee (2012) raises an important issue. Do we use rigorous, challenging reading materials that are often above (or below) the reading level of many students in a classroom in order to meet the end-of-year standards in reading or do we make an allowance for the varying reading levels in our classrooms so that the materials students are reading are appropriate for their various developmental levels? Politicians and members of think tanks such as the conservative Fordham Institute, and many other policy and political groups, both liberal and conservative, have debated this topic in schools and school districts, in webinars, on educational blogs. The implementation of the Common Core Standards (www.standards.org) has had an impact on the publishers of reading curricula and reading programs as they grapple with this issue.
It should be noted that the Common Core Standards do not require increased end-of-year text levels in kindergarten and grade one since students are working on foundational skills, learning effective decoding and word recognition. Complex texts at these grade levels can be introduced and shared through read alouds and think alouds that benefit students' language development and emerging comprehension skills (http://www.reading.org/general/AboutIRA/white-papers/ela-common-core-standards.aspx). However, as students move into the intermediate grades and then middle school, how do we address the paradox described above?
When considering the text complexity question, we must consider the balance between the use of challenging materials to meet the CCSS requirement of preparing students who are college and career ready and considering the developmental levels and capabilities of the students as they progress through school. For example, leveled literacy and reading workshops are popular in elementary schools. Some have reasoned that students' appropriate reading levels in leveled literacy programs are based on limited quantitative measures and underestimate the importance of a student's background knowledge in comprehending a specific text, thus, limiting the options and variety of texts for students who only have access to books based on such limited quantitative measures (http://edexcellence.net/commentary/education-gadfly-daily/common-core-watch/2013/common-core-v-the-false-promise-of-leveled-literacy-programs.html). An additional issue that was raised in the above-referenced blog was the assertion that teachers are so focused on teaching skills and strategies in an isolated manner that they neglect providing proper scaffolding and instruction that would allow students access to frustration-level texts. It is well documented that reading workshops engage students in reading self-selected, high-interest texts at students' appropriate reading levels. Through the conferencing process, specific reading behaviors are noted and become teaching points for future conferring sessions. Individual students are motivated to read the books they select because they have choice and are reading books that are at their appropriate developmental level. Is the Common Core requirement to read challenging texts by the end of the year making workshop classes harder to find? The workshop approach is based on teaching students to select books at their appropriate level – independent level and/or a combination of independent and instructional-level texts, depending on the organization of the workshop. Students in workshop classrooms select books of interest from a range of books at their reading levels, and they are taught how to find such books as part of the workshop structure. In my experience working as a middle school literacy coach, providing students with the opportunity to read, learn, and apply strategies to texts that they enjoy and have self-selected is beneficial for all students. This is particularly true for students who struggle with reading or for students who are reading well above grade level. A balanced approach to reading grade-level texts, which may be at the frustration level, along with texts students can read and understand with scaffolding and independently, may provide for the greatest improvement throughout the year.
Comments supporting both sides of the debate are common -- the sole use of frustration-level text or a combination of frustration-level text and easier text (independent/instructional); most agree, however, that at the end of the school year, the Common Core State Standards are clear in the expectation that students will be reading rigorous text at grade level. The question that remains is how to get students to the end-of year standard (http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2014/10/teaching_with_challenging_text.html). While much of the discussion surrounds leveled reading at the elementary level, the discussion should not stop there.
Motivation to read, particularly with middle school students who struggle with reading, is one factor that needs serious consideration in the development of literacy curricula because this is a time when achievement levels tend to drop off and motivation decreases. As a teacher of what used to be called "remedial reading" at the middle and high school levels prior to working with pre-service and graduate students at the university level, I am concerned about the interpretation that only grade-level text be used throughout the year in order to meet the end-of-year standards at the end of the year. While working with readers at the high school level several years ago, I was shocked when some of them expressed the fact that they had never read through an entire book. As the year progressed, many of them became readers in no small part because they were reading books that were high interest and accessible to them. Their need included working with grade-level texts, but their interest in reading and engagement with books increased because they were able to read books that they could understand without becoming highly frustrated. Because this course was designed for readers who needed extra support, part of this interest in reading appeared to be due to the fact that everyone was reading below level so they were not embarrassed to be reading middle-level books in high school, and they often engaged discussions and book recommendations to others in the class. If our interest is in getting students to be readers, they need opportunities to read all types of books and a variety of levels.
The International Literacy Association Common Core State Standard Committee published Literacy Implementation Guidance for the ELS Common Core State Standards in 2012 (http://www.reading.org/general/AboutIRA/white-papers/ela-common-core-standards.aspx). The issue of challenging texts is addressed in the resulting white paper, which points out that the CCSS require students to read more difficult texts than they have been required to do previous to the implementation of the standards. The contention is that the new, rigorous and challenging requirements will help students reach "more advanced literacy achievement levels" (p. 1)." Writing about the requirement to read challenging texts, they also highlight the instructional complexities inherent in meeting this outcome as one that will take careful consideration and planning to successfully accomplish. "Merely adding more challenging texts to the curriculum will not be a sufficient or effective response to this requirement" (p. 1). The authors make an important statement about the levels of text that students need to read – the requirement refers to reading levels at the end of the year. "However, this does not mean that all assigned reading should be at these levels. In order to help students to attain the necessary end-of-year levels, teachers need to establish an ambitious itinerary of rich and varied narrative and informational texts, including some texts that are easier than the Standards specify" (http://www.reading.org/general/AboutIRA/white-papers/ela-common-core-standards.aspx). This point is important for all students, and is essential for students who are reading below grade level.
Motivation to read, and the opportunity to read books at both the independent and instructional reading levels are important to the development of self-efficacy and confidence, fluency, and comprehension. Williamson, Fitzgerald, and Stenner (http://edr.sagepub.com/content/42/2/59) discuss the shift to more challenging texts in relation to adolescent readers. They highlight several studies that have documented this period as a time when students are less invested in school and are subject to declining motivation. These authors stress the fact that these dynamics are particularly true when schools fail to meet the needs of adolescents. At this critical juncture, it is imperative that students who have been successful in elementary school continue on this path, and that students who are struggling are supported to prevent school failure. While characteristically developing and advanced adolescents may benefit from the challenge required of the Common Core Standards, the consequences for struggling adolescents may be high in terms of disengagement and increased potential for dropping out of school altogether. Since adolescents' difficulties can vary widely, their problems may include word recognition, vocabulary, comprehension, knowledge of text structure or lack of strategic reading behaviors. Whatever the weaknesses, these students need to have instruction and scaffolding that is targeted to their individual needs and the opportunity to apply what they have learned to texts that are accessible to them.
Making room for reading workshop classes at the middle school level might help meet the unique needs of the many middle school readers throughout the country who currently struggle with reading. The National Center for Education Statistics determined that only 34% and 36% of U.S. eighth-grade students read at or above the proficient level in 2011 and 2013, respectively (http://www.nationsreportcard.gov/reading_math_2013/#/what-knowledge). As is illustrated by these statistics, there is a need to help the majority of the students who are reading below the proficient level, and more research may help identify the best way to accomplish this goal.
Students at the elementary and middle levels can and should have the opportunity to work with challenging texts, but some students will need support in reading these challenging (frustration-level texts); they will need to have sufficient scaffolding, including read alouds and think alouds, to learn how to engage with these types of texts. Whether in a disciplinary class or a reading class, all students will need the opportunity to apply what they are learning to texts that are accessible to them.
The widespread use of Readers' Workshop has, as one of its major components, independent reading of instructional-level texts, and chosen by the students. Particularly at the middle school level, where struggling readers often display a marked decrease in motivation to read (http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/pdf/practice_guides/wwc_rc_pg_rec05.pdf), workshops can help rebuild confidence and motivation to read. Does the Common Core Standards' focus on reading challenging grade level text put workshop classrooms in danger of extinction? Readers need experiences with a wide variety of genres, at a variety levels, as indicated by the International Literacy Association in a 2012 white paper.
The International Literacy Association Common Core Standards Committee (http://www.reading.org/general/AboutIRA/white-papers/ela-common-core-standards.aspx points out that in order to help students arrive at the end-of-year levels required by the Standards, "teachers need to establish an ambitious itinerary of rich and varied narrative and informational texts, including some texts that are easier than the Standards specify" [emphasis added]. As we move forward with the continued implementation of the Common Core Standards and contemplate how to address text complexity, there are continuing questions and debate surrounding the issues of challenging texts, rigor, and text complexity.
What research is available to support the position that more-challenging texts be taught and read throughout the year vs. a combination of challenging (frustration level) and independent and instructional text in meeting the year-end grade level standards?
Is it feasible to devise a way to continue or begin a Readers' Workshop with the essential elements of independent, self-selected reading at the student's independent level, conferring with individual students based on identified teaching points to help individuals progress in their ability to comprehend increasingly difficult texts?
Can a schedule accommodate both a workshop where students read and work with developmentally appropriate texts and a more traditional approach where some of the students' instructional time is devoted to instruction in reading and understanding challenging texts in order to meet the end-of-year reading requirements of the CCSS?
How effectively do state level continuing education/professional development policies support teachers' needs relative to instruction with complex text? How can we best prepare pre-service teachers to handle the text complexity required by the Common Core State Standards while also addressing the wide variety of reading levels and best instructional practices in meeting the end-of-year grade level standards? What roles do state credentialing policies play in this regard?
During the 2015 ALER Annual Conference, the Legislative and Social Issues Committee will host the symposium, Dream keepers and Gatekeepers: Examining Issues of Access, Diversity and Literacy in Teacher Education. This program will provide ALER members with a comprehensive examination of literacy instruction as it impacts teacher preparation and student learning. Please look for an announcement specifying symposium time, date and room assignment as soon as that becomes available.


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redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a landmark piece of legislation in the United States that outlawed racial segregation in schools, public places, and employment.
In order to circumvent limitations on congressional power to enforce the Equal Protection Clause imposed by the Supreme Court in the Civil Rights Cases, the law was passed under the Commerce Clause, which had been interpreted by the courts as a broad grant of congressional power. Once the Act was implemented, its effects were far reaching and had tremendous long-term impacts on the whole country. It prohibited discrimination in public facilities, in government, and in employment, invalidating the Jim Crow laws in the southern U.S. It became illegal to compel segregation of the races in schools, housing, or hiring. Powers given to enforce the bill were initially weak, but were supplemented during later years.


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