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Dungeons & Dragons Insider (DDI) was Wizards of the Coast's subscription method of digitally delivering periodic content and information about Dungeons & Dragons to the game's players from 2007 to 2017.

History
DDI was announced at the 2007 Gen Con as a subscription-based electronic supplement to Dungeons & Dragons. The demo included a short video of a virtual "dungeon" (called the Game Table) in which some D&D adventures take place, containing virtual miniatures based on your character as created in the Character Visualizer (a 3D full-body portrait program).

A DDI subscription included an online character builder (which required the now-defunct Microsoft Silverlight), archived Dragon and Dungeon web content, and a compendium of rules elements for the 4th edition of Dungeons & Dragons. Additionally, a beta version of a monster builder (as part of the Adventure Tools suite) and the Virtual Table were released.

It remained unclear if the Character Visualizer was slated for completion as originally advertised. This caused some degree of backlash within the customer base, as this tool (and the currently-in-beta Virtual Table) were scheduled to launch when the 4th edition core books were released mid-2008; an additional source of anger was the litigious approach of Wizards of the Coast towards third-party developers who created tools to fill the gaps left by these unreleased tools.

An August 2014 subscription renewal email from Wizards of the Coast indicate that DDI subscription would no longer include new issues of Dragon and Dungeon magazines (only archives), and the online resources would no longer be actively supported. In 2017, Wizards of the Coast announced similar online tool-set for 5th Edition D&D dubbed D&D Beyond.

See also
 List of role-playing game software

References

Dungeons & Dragons


Place olive oil, garlic and chilli in a large frypan and heat over low heat.
When the garlic begins to turn golden, increase heat, add calamari and cook until it turns white.
Add the spinach, salt and pepper. Cook for a minute or two until the spinach is soft and wilted.
Divide into serving dishes. Garnish with lemon wedges.


Starz is partnering with the Weinstein Co. and Electus on new original series "Marco Polo," with an eye toward a premiere in the second half of 2013.
Harvey Weinstein developed the idea through conversations with Starz prexy/CEO Chris Albrecht, presenting it to Electus topper Ben Silverman and bringing on John Fusco ("Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron") to write the pilot.
The series will have elements of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" elements.
"Clearly this is a powerful story that has European roots and Asian components and is inherently a global story," Silverman said.
It falls into the wheelhouse of Starz, which has featured such shows as "Spartacus" and "Camelot." A 10-hour first season, including a two-hour premiere, is planned.
Silverman and Albrecht added that combining that with martial arts and an exotic location that television has rarely explored helped seal the deal.
Fusco, Weinstein and Silverman will exec produce alongside Bob Weinstein.
Producers are aiming to begin principal shooting this summer in China at two main locations. The Marco Polo role is the only series regular who will be Caucasian.
Starz Entertainment will own the exclusive license to the domestic premium pay TV rights and certain digital rights to the series for the Starz network, while Starz's Anchor Bay arm will distribute the property in the United States in homevideo. The Weinstein Co. and Electus Intl. control all remaining rights.
Starz' next series premiere is another period piece, albeit a more recent period: 1959-set "Magic City," which bows April 6 with Mitch Glazer exec producing.


New research shows that taking 600-900 mg of elderberry extract (BerryPharma, Iprona AG, Lana (BZ), Italy) daily, starting 10 days before traveling overseas and continuing for 4-5 days after traveling, does not reduce the risk of catching a cold while traveling. However, in those that develop a cold, it does seem to reduce the duration of symptoms by about 2 days. Taking elderberry also seems to reduce the severity of cold symptoms.
Tiralongo E, Wee SS, Lea RA. Elderberry Supplementation Reduces Cold Duration and Symptoms in Air-Travellers: A Randomized, Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial. Nutrients. 2016 Mar 24;8(4).


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The Spin Cycle
Candy runs a Laundromat and has a fetish for guys in wheelchairs.Candy runs a Laundromat and has a fetish for guys in wheelchairs.Candy runs a Laundromat and has a fetish for guys in wheelchairs.
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It Must Be Love
Written by McDill (as Bob McDill)
Performed by Don Williams
Under license from Universal Music Publishing Group
Under license from Universal Music Group
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A film student's experiment?
OK, on the technical side of things and from a film school aesthetic, the film was nicely shot. The drab green hue from the fluorescent lights painted the scene nicely with a pallor of typical lower-income, middle-of-nowhere pathetic. This is due - I'm sure - in no small part to cinematographer Jim Eastburn's growing skill lensing several projects most people will probably never see.
However, the editing was strange. Not strange in an artsy, trendy "Oh look, the filmmaker is being avant garde" kind of way. It was more like a "what the hell was the point of THAT?" feeling.
After reading the script, I honestly don't know who to blame here. Writer Jamie Preyer clearly was attempting to be funny with the short story, but what's in the script and what's on the screen seemed like two different things. It's one thing to go off script, but it's entirely another to dispose of all the elements that tell the story. What you are left with is a head-scratching, well-lit, mess that makes no sense.
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Dr Sara Bernardini's why
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Dr Sara Bernardini | Senior Lecturer | Department of Computer Science
"My why… is artificial intelligence, a uniquely powerful and transformative technology that can change lives."
My research is around Artificial Intelligence (AI), with interests in designing and building intelligent and autonomous agent and multi-agent systems through automated decision-making techniques. I came to AI after studying Computer Science and Engineering when I developed a keen interest in robotics and intelligent systems.
I had an early opportunity to work with NASA Ames Research Center (USA) on autonomous planning agents for space mission operations, contributing to the development of the reasoning capabilities of two rovers sent to Mars – Spirit and Opportunity. I've continued my collaboration with NASA developing technology for search and tracking drones which can support with search and rescue and disaster responses.
My research experience covers AI task planning, specialising in autonomous surveillance technology, both in aerial and underwater vehicles. Used for reconnaissance and spotting threats, this technology could help with the safe passage of ships. I have also worked as part of an interdisciplinary team that focused on autonomous and intelligent agents for children on the autistic spectrum to create an 'intelligent companion' supporting the development of social skills.
As an expert in automated decision-making, I know first-hand that AI is a uniquely powerful and transformative technology. AI can have a significant impact not only to further the progress of the wealthy countries but also to foster the advancement of developing nations. For example, AI can teach people new skills and support lifelong learning. At the same time, the development of AI raises ethical and societal challenges for AI experts and policy-makers, who share the responsibility to deploy an AI technology that is safe, reliable and fair. Studying Computer Science at Royal Holloway
As a Computer Science student at Royal Holloway, you'll have the opportunity to discover what makes AI so unique. AI is a tool different from any other because of three crucial aspects.
Firstly, AI is a universal tool, which will soon be incorporated in all other technologies, eg self-driving cars, smart homes, robotics, personalised medicine.
Secondly, AI can accelerate its own development, besides the development of other tools, eg machine learning is an AI tool that can improve itself as well as other AI algorithms.
Thirdly, AI agents are autonomous, ie they make and implement decisions without constant human intervention.
In addition, AI is based on data, which are often collected from people and contain sensitive information about them.Considering all these factors together, it becomes clear why AI generates excitement but also concerns. It is an exciting technology to study because it makes a very tangible and positive impact on our lives.
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After crossing 25 of April bridge, we'll stop at Sesimbra, a well known village, with its beaches and fish restaurants. Later on, in Azeitão, we're going to visit one of the oldest and most important wine cellars in Portugal ( Caves José Maria da Fonseca ), and taste the traditional Moscatel of Setúbal. Panoramic view of the beautiful Arrábida Mountain Range and stop at Setúbal to get to know its city center. Return to Lisbon by Vasco da Gama bridge.


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Discovering Andalusia
March 9, 2017	Una Dimitrijevic	No Comments
Category Most Popular Destinations, On Location, Travel Inspiration
Although Tour Managers are usually the experts, sometimes we too travel into unfamiliar territory and get to feel the delight of discovering a place for the first time. For me, this meant a week-long trip to Andalusia this past holiday break. While I usually tour in France and Italy, I'm also familiar with the Catalonian region of Spain and can get by with some rudimentary Spanish. But this Southern region which had been under Arab dominion for 800 years was like nothing I had ever seen in Europe.
From the Alcazar royal dwelling in Seville to Granada's famed Alhambra (for which tickets are a precious resource) and Cordoba's Mezquita, Andalusia is awash with architectural treasures, buildings, and sites in which detailed Islamic decorative arts meet Renaissance and Baroque grandeur. It creates a fusion of form and color which can feel breathtakingly kaleidoscopic. When you close your eyes at night, a flutter of changing hues and geometries continues to project onto your eyelids.
This is why the numerous gardens come as such a welcome break. I have never seen such a profusion of orange trees growing everywhere I looked. In the heat of summer these provide much-needed shade, but in the fresh, blue winters, they bring a warmth of color to every street scene. In this hot region, water features also have a pride of place – gorgeous ceramic fountains and channels delineate the public parks and royal gardens.
And of course, there's tapas! What a wonderful way to try a little of everything. When you order 12 mini dishes between 4 people it gives you more of an opportunity to take a chance and try something new, like squid-ink pasta, fried anchovies or oxtail (to name just a few delights I tasted over the past week). Fresh orange juice is plentiful and can accompany just about every meal, but I don't think it comes from the city's trees – the orange I picked off its branch was about as sour as a lemon!
Andalusian culture is evident everywhere you look. There are museums dedicated to the art of Flamenco, the Corrida, and even a Museum of the Three Religions, located in the Calahorra Tower overlooking the Guadalquivir river in Cordoba. This was a region, after all, where Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived side by side for centuries, and it's fascinating to learn about the time of "la Convivencia" ("the Coexistence"). The signs of this cultural intermingling are still very present, and not always as obvious as a Church being built inside a mosque or a minaret turned into a bell-tower.
Personally, I didn't fancy going to see a Corrida, but I was lucky enough to witness how the Andalusians welcomed in the New Year in Seville. They have a wonderful tradition which you can try out in your classroom sometime. After dinner, everyone flocks to the town square with a bunch of grapes. As the clock on the town hall chimes for midnight, you must eat one grape for each chime, 12 grapes in total for the 12 months of the coming year.
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Marketing tools, free legal forms, software training: the public library has an abundance of tools for every type of business that can be accessed for free from your home or business. This program will highlight several resources such as ReferenceUSA and A to Z Database, which allow you to identify new sales contacts, create marketing plans, and scope out the competition. You'll learn how to utilize Legal Forms Library and Nuwav Legal Documents to find letter templates, contracts, and other common business forms. Finally, you'll learn how to use Lynda.com to train your employees and learn new skills.
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Plate and Glass Industries (PGI) a subsidiary of Press Corporation Limited (PCL) has been offered to be sold to any interested party.
In a press statement published Monday PCL indicates that the development was due to the ongoing positioning and restructuring of the Press Group.
"An opportunity has arisen to all those interested to purchase PGI, a household name in building and automotive glass, glazing, fabrication and installation of aluminium doors and windows.
"The sale has been necessitated by the vision of the Group to be more focused," reads part of the statement.
PCL says assets of PGI among others include machinery for processing glass, fabrication of aluminium, trellidors, Venetian blinds and picture frames and raw materials of glass.
"All interested individuals, groups of an individuals and companies are invited to express their interest to be considered and on appointment, view the assets and have access to any relevant information," says PCL.
The development confirms The Daily Times published two weeks ago that the company closed its business on Friday, February 6, a development that rendered scores of people jobless.
PCL promised the public that they would issue a statement regarding the closure of PGI together with an overall performance of the corporation.
The closure of PGI comes at the time when countries world over are experiencing the impact of global financial crisis.


The drone is a marvel of modern engineering as it houses an 8MP camera that records at 1080p from the air.
Gone are the days of the selfie sticks, and here's what replaced it. A high-flying photo-taking drone that is literally a smattering of the size of selfie sticks and more importantly, it fits right in your pockets.
Selfly, a smart autonomous flying phone-case has taken the tech world by storm, as it is the first camera to seamlessly attach to smartphones and fly by itself.
With a size of just 9 mm thick and weighing less than 70 gms, the rotors of the drone that fold inwards make it possible to pop the drone off the smartphone and launch it from the palm of your hand. The Selfly can then be controlled by a smartphone app.
The drone is a marvel of exceptional engineering as it can capture 8MP photos and can record videos of 1080/30p from the air. Moreover, the drone that houses an 8MP camera can swivel 30 degrees and is capable of face recognition too.
Hagay Klein, the founder and CEO and his team have launched a campaign to get Selfly off the ground and they're looking to raise $12500.
Selfly designs particular cases for most mobile phones, but it also comes with a universal flip cover that will fit any 4 to 6 inch smartphone. Also, the camera drone integrates with any and every of Selfly's cases. Even on the software front, Selfly works perfectly well with iOS as well as Android devices, effectively covering more than 98% of the smartphone market.
Needless to say, this is nothing short of groundbreaking.


Their state associated with Pa would go to scary measures to safeguard it's on line casino business, actually in the cost from the individuals who perform the job which makes it operate every single day.
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Following robbing $200 within potato chips as well as placing all of them within their suggestion container within The fall of 2010, Matthew Eisenberg, the previous worker from the Streams On line casino, had been captured as well as billed. He or she pleaded responsible, however below the Pa law Eisenberg had been strike using the mandatory- as well as minimum- $75, 000 good.
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More Dead Cats Found With Spines Removed in Washington
Death toll up to 12 for the year in Thurston County
By Kate Seamons, Newser Staff
Posted Aug 30, 2018 5:33 AM CDT
No harm was done to this cat. (Getty Images)
(Newser) – A $36,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of a Washington state killer—of cats. The New York Times revisits the situation in Thurston County, which in early August made headlines over the deaths of six cats, killed in 2018 in a manner that Animal Services Officer Erika Johnson described as "extremely horrific": The animals were sliced from their stern to their genitals, and their spines had been taken from them. The situation has only worsened: The toll now stands at 12, with a mutilated cat most recently found on Tuesday. The spines weren't removed in all cases, per the Times; in some, the organs were placed beside the body.
The continued deaths have spurred the county to assemble a 10-person task force, which includes a former cop who focused on animal cases and a homicide detective. KING5 quotes Johnson as saying the killings seem to take place between 11pm and 6am, leading officials to caution homeowners to keep their pets indoors overnight. The Olympian quotes a press release from the Thurston County Sheriff's Office as saying it "is extremely concerned that such a predator is lurking and committing such vile crimes in our community." The Times quotes a detective with that office as extrapolating that fear: "There have been past cases where perpetrators were caught that turned out to be serial killers. Is that the case in this? We don't know, but we're not taking any chances." (This man was shot dead trying to save an abused puppy.)


In the previous article, I made the important announcement that the new course is called "Unlocking the Grandmaster's Mind" and that it will be ready this month.
Today, I'd like to share with you much more information about the new course.
I hope you enjoyed it. If so, you can share your feedback below in the comments section and also share the video with your friends.
Secondly, as you might have noticed in the teaser video, the course has been prepared by the RCA team together with Grandmaster Maxim Dlugy.
I've some more interesting news for you, which I'll share in the forthcoming days. So stay tuned to catch our updates.
Finally, let me test how sharp your mind is.
In the above position, both sides are playing for a win and the position is double edged. White has just played h3 and is threatening to capture the bishop.
P.S. As I said, stay tuned – for I'll be revealing more interesting information in the following days.


The Territory's newly re-installed and upgraded National Emergency Broadcasting and Alert Network was activated in the just concluded annual earthquake and tsunami response exercise, Caribe Wave.
Training Officer with the DDM and the Exercise Controller, Ms Carishma Hicks said she was pleased with the diversity of alert modalities used during the exercise to disseminate messages to day cares, pre-schools, primary and secondary schools, the community college, government departments, statutory boards, accommodation providers, private sector businesses, financial institutions and individuals within the British Virgin Islands (BVI).
This year's exercise simulated a 6.0 magnitude earthquake associated with a submarine volcanic eruption and subsequent collapse of Kick'em Jenny. This event generated a tsunami causing the DDM to activate the newly re-installed and upgraded Emergency Alert Network using various notification modes including the Short Message Service (SMS), sirens, VHF Radio Communication, RDS Smart Radios, the DDM App, Social media, email and the DDM Website.
Ms Hicks said although several means were used to disseminate alert messages within the Territory, the public is reminded that each alert modality has a unique operating environment that could result in messages being sent at different times.
The exercise and the feedback from the participating public highlighted some major improvements in how information on imminent threats is shared with the public and how the alerts are issued. The DDM was able to fully assess the coverage of the re-installed sirens that are used for outdoor notification through the use of Siren Range Maps. The results proved that the coverage in some areas was much greater than the stipulated range.
The DDM wishes to convey thanks to all public and private sector agencies as well as individuals that participated in this year's exercise including the inaugural Tsunami Run/Walk that provided an opportunity for individuals to practice moving to higher ground using several of the tsunami evacuation routes throughout the Territory.
Thursday, March 14 also marked the tenth anniversary of the department coordinating the Territory's participation in the annual earthquake and tsunami response exercise, Caribe Wave.
The Department is encouraging the public to provide feedback on the exercise by visiting the DDM website at www.bviddm.com or Facebook page @BVI DDM and completing the feedback survey. The public's feedback will be collated and used to assist the Department and other agencies in improving their alert, preparedness and response capabilities.
CARIBE WAVE is the annual tsunami exercise of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). This exercise is coordinated together with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Caribbean regional emergency management stakeholders (CEPREDENAC [Coordination Centre for the Prevention of Natural Disasters in Central America], CDEMA [Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency], and EMIZA [French Inter-Ministerial for the Antilles Estate Major Zone]). The purpose of this exercise is to advance tsunami preparedness efforts in the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions.


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Students, faculty react to Bin Laden's death
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The capture and death of terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden on Sunday has captured the reactions of citizens across the country.
Victor Diaz
The capture and death of terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden on Sunday has captured the reactions of citizens across the country, including students and faculty from Cerritos College.
Frank Dussan, a student veteran majoring in criminal justice, said, "What we were doing in Afghanistan is finally going to be seen around the world."
Administration of justice major Joshua Villalta believes that despite the death of Bin Laden, the war in Afghanistan is far from over.
"It would be pointless to say, 'The war's over' because it's not. We just took down one of the major powers and it's going to continue," Villalta said.
International Students Association Adviser Danita Kurtz sees this event as a method for Americans to emotionally recover from the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
"Hopefully, this can start curing the country and can help bring it to the point to where we can stop this war and move forward as a country," Kurtz said.


Road Watch BC was developed in partnership with Wildsight, Western Transportation Institute, Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative and the Miistakis Institute to enable citizens living in Elk Valley region of Southeastern British Columbia to report wildlife sightings along major highways. Information on wildlife sightings collected by the public will enable us to better understand where wildlife are commonly crossing, involved in collisions, or moving adjacent to the highway. Ultimately this will lead to development of informed strategies to reduce wildlife vehicle collisions while ensuring the safe passage of wildlife across highways. The generated information will be shared with Government officials in Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MOTI) and Ministry of Forest Land and Natural Resource Operations (FLNRO).
Option 1: If you are a passenger in a vehicle driving in SE BC, download the RoadWatchBC smartphone app and record your sightings of wildlife along the highways.
Option 2: if you are a driver, remember where, when and what you saw while driving along the highways in SE BC and record your observation using the on-line mapping tool.
Option 3: If you are a passenger that regularly takes a consistent highway route in SE BC, consider signing up to drive a specified route (defined starting and end points agreed upon by local project coordinator). This option enables us to record volunteer effort because you record when you are on your specified route even when you don't see any wildlife.
To learn more about Road Watch BC, or have a question please contact info@roadwatchbc.ca.
If you experience any technical difficulties please contact info@rockies.ca.


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Q: Why does tmux ignore PATH when starting shell?
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*System: macOS 10.12

*Tmux version: 2.6

As a macports user, I have /opt/local/bin at the beginning of my PATH. However, when starting tmux, it uses /bin/bash instead of /opt/local/bin/bash, indeed, the SHELL variable also points there. This confuses me and causes some .bashrc settings to break because the version is outdated.
I know I can set the path to tmux's default shell set-option -g default-shell, but I use my .tmux.conf on different systems, so it should be OS-agnostic and simply use the shell one would get when executing bash.
I have all my settings in .bashrc and source this file in .bash_login und .bash_profile, so my PATH should be available to tmux.
How can I solve this?
It seems that SHELL is always /bin/bash, not sure why. My terminal is configured to start /opt/local/bin/bash -l at startup.

A: This is what man 1 tmux says about default-shell in Linux. I expect tmux in macOS to behave similarly:

default-shell path
Specify the default shell. This is used as the login shell for new windows when the default-command option is set to empty, and must be the full path of the executable. When started tmux tries to set a default value from the first suitable of the SHELL environment variable, the shell returned by getpwuid(3), or /bin/sh. This option should be configured when tmux is used as a login shell.

As you can see, none of these methods uses $PATH. Additionally from bash manual:

SHELL
The full pathname to the shell is kept in this environment variable. If it is not set when the shell starts, Bash assigns to it the full pathname of the current user's login shell.

Either way it's your login shell what matters and it's not /opt/local/bin/bash. You may consider overwriting SHELL with $BASH in your .bashrc:
SHELL="$BASH"

Note: I haven't tested this against side effects. There's one peculiarity (at least in my Kubuntu) with this. If tmux is already running for your user then changes to SHELL will not affect additional invocations. This is because an additional tmux invocation works along with the first tmux and it's the first tmux that handles everything (I can see this with pstree); its environment doesn't change when you invoke an additional one.
However this way of invoking tmux should honor your $PATH, regardless of $SHELL etc.:
tmux new-session bash

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It's time to give up our faint hopes that scientists have been unnecessarily gloomy about the rate at which the climate is changing. They were wrong. As the New Scientist asserts, it's even worse than we thought. We are not gaining ground on climate change; we are falling behind faster and faster. Our small steps toward efficiency and intensity do not bring us closer to our goal. As the Red Queen so famously put it, "It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place." And we are not running very fast. As the world began to gather in Doha for COP 18, scientists and investors attempted to make this starkly apparent.
By Roger Martin Professor Roger Martin is the former Dean and current Academic Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto in Canada.
It's time to give up our faint hopes that scientists have been unnecessarily gloomy about the rate at which the climate is changing. They were wrong. As the New Scientistasserts, it's even worse than we thought. We are not gaining ground on climate change; we are falling behind faster and faster. Our small steps toward efficiency and intensity do not bring us closer to our goal. As the Red Queen so famously put it, "It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place." And we are not running very fast.
As the world began to gather in Doha for COP 18, scientists and investors attempted to make this starkly apparent.
Three landmark reports were published in the last few days, all timed for the Doha meeting. The World Bank published a report entitled"Turn Down the Heat." The UN's World Meteorological Organization issued 2011 statistics on concentrations of atmospheric CO2. The World Resources Institute published a Global Coal Risk Assessment.
• there are 1199 new coal-fired plants being planned and developed.
The madness has never been more obvious than it is today.
While many politicians are loathe to abandon revenues from the oil and coal industries, investors are growing impatient. Business is willing to step up to the challenge, but it needs politicians and diplomats to create effective investment policies that encourage rapid innovation.
The Global Investor Coalition on Climate Change, which manages $22.5 trillion in assets, issued an open letter on November 20. In it, they call for governments "to phase out subsidies for fossil fuels, which remain six times higher than subsidies for renewable energy sources." Instead, they want to see "workable solutions that will enable deployment of private capital in climate solutions." Without government cooperation, investors simply cannot help generate the large and small-scale technology transformations we need so desperately and so soon.
Instead, governments seeking to encourage economic development have returned time and again to the solutions that built their economies in the past: oil and coal.
Since every tonne of coal burned puts 2.86 tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere, the correct response to the World Bank's warnings and the UN's measurement of 391 ppm of atmospheric CO2 is clearly not to build 1199 new coal-fired power plants.
We need vastly better solutions to the world's need for cheap energy, and we need them now. Our desperate and skyrocketing need for electricity has made us oblivious to the consequences of its generation. We continue to explore, plan, build and extract the materials and plants required to burn more carbon, underinvesting in the technologies that will allow us to survive.
Under these conditions, sustainable business is no longer about turning out the lights on weekends. It is about dismantling the economic structures of subsidies and investments in oil and coal. It is about accelerating and maximizing investment in green energy.
The Clean Air Task Force paper, "Four Policy Principles for Energy Innovation & Climate Change," supports this view. The paper synthesizes independent research from a variety of academic sources. They find that optimal energy innovation policies "recognize CO2 reduction as a public good, and pursue energy innovation through a public works model."
Governments can "stimulate demand using public procurement and regulatory mechanisms (including performance standards and carbon pricing) to encourage private sector innovation... [and] support late-stage development and demonstration projects, which are typically too risky for private corporations to undertake, through financing and incentives."
Already, Germany has figured it out. Investment in their Energiewende, or Energy transformation, has allowed them to produce 25 per cent of their electrical power from renewables. They are on track for 35-40 per cent by 2020 and 80-100 per cent by 2050. Such gains are possible elsewhere, given the right incentives for investors and innovators.
Business is ready to step up to the challenge. Investors are anxious to develop new technologies. Government has to unlock the doors to investment and innovation, and it needs to begin this week in Doha.


Elon Musk is an incredible entrepreneur. From a young age he believed there were 3 things that would most affect the future of humanity: (1) The Internet, (2) Sustainable Energy, and (3) Space Exploration. He went on to revolutionize every one of those industries. A serial entrepreneur in every sense of the word, Elon has inspired a generation to take on the world's biggest challenges. The success of Tesla, combined with SpaceX's out of this world ambition launched Elon firmly into the public spotlight. Today, the smallest tweet from @elonmusk is reason for headlines.
We at DataFox believe in the great value of long form journalism, so today we are bringing you an intriguing PandoMonthly Fireside Chat with Elon Musk, who is co-founder/CEO of Tesla and SpaceX (where he is also Chief Designer), and Chairman of SolarCity. You can also call him Iron Man.
In 1999 Elon bought a one million dollar McLaren F1, which he used for his daily commute and trips between SF to LA. One day on Sand Hill Road, with Peter Thiel in passenger seat on their way to see (Sir) Michael Moritz at Sequoia, an incident happened.
● Elon to Sarah: "lets see how the story you tell compares to the reality, because the reality is pretty messed up"
Peter to Elon: What can this do? Elon to Peter: Watch this.
"I floored it and did a lane change on Sand Hill. The McLaren has no traction control, its massive power to the wheels. 640 horse power and it only weights a ton. It can break the wheels free at 80 mph... so the rear end broke free and it starts spinning. I was going straight, turned, and I remember seeing the cars coming towards me while I was going backward. Then we hit a 45 degree embankment on Sand Hill, which tossed the car in the air like a discus and it kept rotating with about 3 feet of air clearance according to witnesses. Then the car slammed down on the ground going the original direction."
The car was not insured.
The origin for SpaceX started from a conversation with Adeo Ressi, his college housemate and founder/CEO of The Founder Institute. Elon kept thinking that there would be a plan to send people to Mars, the obvious next step after the Moon, but space innovation basically peaked with the Apollo Program. So he decided to do something about it.
○ First questions investors ask are: (1) Tell us one of your prior successes in this field? and (2) What can we compare this to?
"The reason why we haven't advanced in space was that the cost of space transportation has become unaffordable."
"It's become more and more expensive to do less and less in space, and we really need to improve the technology of space transportation, so that's why I started SpaceX."
2008 was the most difficult period in Elon's life. It looked like all of his companies were about to die, SpaceX had its 3rd launch failure in a row, the Tesla financing round fell apart because of the financial crisis (hard to raise money for a startup car company when GM and Chrysler are going bankrupt), and he was going through a very public divorce.
Elon thought that the big car companies would start creating electric vehicles, and GM did, with the EV1. But when the federal tax credits changed less favorably, GM recalled all the EV1 and crushed them. That's when he knew that it would have to be a startup that brought an electric car into the market.
"To what degree is Tesla serving as a catalyst for the advent of electric vehicles?"
At some point when most cars manufactured are electric, the catalytic value of Tesla would have been realized, and Elon would no longer need to run the company.
The goal of Tesla is to serve as a catalyst for the advent of electric vehicles.
Elon's advice for raising money from venture capitalists is to optimize for the quality of the investor, not for valuation.
○ "It's sort of like getting married, although maybe I am not good at that"
○ Sarah: "and then they did Fisker instead"
"You only build value in a company if you're doing tough work to solve hard problems"
"Tesla does real manufacturing. For the Model S, coils of aluminum and plastic pods come in... and cars come out"
Tesla did all the vehicle engineering, powertrain engineering, software, styling, design, etc.
"Tesla will be an extremely valuable company in the long term"
Although he is a bit preoccupied at the moment running SpaceX and Tesla, while also being a father to 5 kids (twins and triplets), Elon can't help but think through an idea that could improve the world around him. Here are the four ideas he could see himself working on in the future, but not any time soon!
○ "You can get super efficient and super fast with an electric aircraft"
● "I think you could make fusion work, and by that I mean, magnetic confinement fusion, or relatively standard fusion"
What are the attributes that you would want in a new mode of transport?
● "The math is so super obviously in favor of batteries that it's like staring facts in the face and saying they are not true"
● "Not that bad to be a public company, unless you are going to get very concerned with the daily fluctuations of the stock price - you shouldn't worry about the daily fluctuations of the stock price too much"
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Q: What should I put in as business requirements where only improvements to existing processes are required I am writing system requirements for a tender.
Functional requirements consist of mostly improving the system (add/remove data fields, improve statistics and activity log, exchange more data with other systems) without adding any new processes.
What should I put in as business requirements? Can I leave that section empty if there is no new business process? It seems kind of pointless to describe processes which are already in production.
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Example.
Already existing business processes (BP):
BP1 - User opens application, enters data about applicant, application is approved.
BP2 - Select statistics about applicants data for local and international organizations.
In tender I add this Functional requirement (FR):
FR1 - add 200 new fields about applicant.
FR2 - add new data fields in statistics filters according to FR1.
BP1 and BP2 doesn't change from business perspective, only amount of data.
Is it necessary to include in tender business process requirements such as:
BPR1 - add new data fields to application because of digitalization.
BPR2 - add new fields to a statistics because now we have more data in application and therefore we need more stats for local and international organizations. I'm writing super basic example to understand if this is even necessary to include description of business process which doesn't change. If I was a developer, I just add new fields in already existing application form and add new filter fields in already existing statistics filter, since both those processes already exist as they are needed. Only improvements to existing stuff.

A: There obviously is a need to have those additional fields. Find out why they are needed and who needs them. That is a requirement. Write down why they need the fields and you are good.

A: I would say that if you are looking for a Fixed Price quote the most important things to include are:

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*The technologies used

*Test coverage of existing tests

*Overview of the process to be changed

*Overview of the new process required (ie extra fields added to step 5)

*Key non functional requirements. ie performance

*Value to business of the process, how many people use it, how bad if it goes down etc

Essentially you are asking vendors to estimate how long it would take them to implement the change. The risk to them is that the some overlooked aspect makes the job 100 times more difficult.
So they will need to:

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*Speak to developers who are experts in the technologies used AND who have done similar business processes before.

*Guess at what level of polish you require. ie will the software be running in a battleship where lives are on the line if it needs rebooting once in a year, or is it something bob in accounts runs once a month to make a report no-one reads


Finally caught Avatar at the cinema on Friday night. Booked the tickets a few weeks ago and wasn't expecting much but it has become the biggest grossing film of all time so it must be good, no? Also, it would be my first 3D film and seeing as the local IMAX was showing it in 3D it made sense to view it their. Firstly, was the film any good?
Well, yes it was. It was extremely predictable with no plot twist that I can remember. I won't post any spoilers but I will say that despite knowing what was about to happen throughout the film I didn't get bored and the time (a flabby 2hrs 40) passed pretty quickly. Performances are mostly good although the actual screen time for the real actors is pretty small. So it's worth watching but what about the two talking points – the CG and the 3D.
The CG is excellent and to the film's credit almost every shot probably has some CG in it and at times you won't notice it. Of course on the planet of Pandora it's 100% CG and some of the locations are amazing. The tree's, water and interaction between machines and the planet are superb. The motion capture and movement of the Na'vi (aliens!) is also well done but there's also a niggle. Your watching CG, not an actor, despite the advances in technology. It meant that sometimes the movie felt a little cold.
However the most interesting aspect was the 3D. This was my first 3D movie and at times the 3D worked really well and other times…it was absolutely rank. First issue – those glasses! At the IMAX the glasses were big and uncomfortable like the ones in the pic below.
With a half hour to go they really started to irritate me. They were big enough so that I could wear my glasses underneath but it was a pretty uncomfortable experience. Second issue was the 3D itself. In Avatar some of the scenes were truly impressive – some of the control room scenes were really well done, the flowing water and some of the early mess/ship scenes stick in my mind. What didn't work though was I think my eyes. Well, not just mine I suspect. As things were falsely thrown into the foreground you would naturally try and focus on them which is the wrong thing to do as you then lose focus on the film. At times it got pretty awkward, especially in scenes walking through the planet where plants and undergrowth were brought into the foreground.
I also felt the colour and definition were lacking and also there was a dullness to some of the scenes. Might have been the focus issue I've already mentioned but some scenes just looked a bit poor. One good thing is I didn't suffer any headaches or motion sickness but we did get a verbal warning before the film started that people may get motion sickness so it must happen quite often.
So a good film with great CG, some good 3D and overall worth catching at the IMAX just due to the size and scale that the screen offers. One thing I won't be rushing out and doing this year though is buying a 3D TV. I don't want to wear another pair of glasses to watch TV or play games and the experience, at the moment, doesn't match the expense. It's not like moving from SD to HD. I'll think about 3D at home when the technology doesn't rely on glasses which will be a few years away yet.
It's been a while since I've blogged on my tech and latest purchases. Over Christmas I picked up a Drobo and a Mac Mini. Recently I've been running out of disk space so wanted something that will grow with time. I also wanted an easy way to watch my ever growing media library. The PS3 and 360 just weren't cutting it when streaming from the iMac.
I'd considered an Apple TV for a long time but this would just be another compromise. Closed format viewing isn't for me and even though you can hack it to install Boxee, HD playback looked to be an issue. I thought about some cheaper options but in the end went for a Mac Mini. This gives me the choice I was looking for in a quiet neat unit. The only hardware it's missing is Blu-Ray which I'll use the PS3 for.
Disk space was a more difficult choice. I considered a variety of NAS units but I kept coming back to the Drobo. I bought the normal Drobo with 2 x 1.5TB drives. It's worked flawlessly hooked up to the Mini via firewire. My only doubt, and I hope it doesn't come back to bite me, is that the disks are now in a proprietary format. If the Drobo dies I can't use the disks in another device – it has to be a Drobo. Ouch. Despite the worries I'm really pleased with the new toys.
If your interested in how I've setup the Mini and what software I'm using you'll find more details in a series of blog posts at DigitalOutbox. I've been through the hardware setup and also the installation of Plex and Boxee. Future posts will look into running the Mini as a server, downloading media and remote access to the Mini and home media.
Favourite at the moment is the Macbook Pro and monitor. Easier to manage, everything on the one machine and increased real estate. Makes most sense and is least costliest option.
Then again, when did I ever follow that route?


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Paul Ryan took to Twitter this weekend to brag about a secretary who will be making an extra $1.50 per week from his GOP tax plan — while the richest Americans make about 173 times more than that amount each week.
The House Speaker's ill-timed tweet came on Saturday morning in response to a story written by the Associated Press about the effects of the GOP tax cut for the average Americans. Ryan's tweet focused on Julia Ketchum, a secretary quoted in the story who said she will make an extra $1.50 per week thanks to the new tax plan.
For Ketchum, it was enough to pay for her annual Costco membership, plus another $18 or so left over.
"A secretary at a public high school in Lancaster, PA, said she was pleasantly surprised her pay went up $1.50 a week…she said [that] will more than cover her Costco membership for the year," Ryan wrote (via the New York Daily News).
The internet did not seem too amused with Ryan's boast. The tweet was flooded with responses ripping Ryan for bragging about a middle class worker being given such a paltry sum when millionaires see much bigger increases. According to the non-partisan Tax Policy Center, the top wage earners (those making between $308,000 and $733,000, putting them in the top 5 percent) would see an average of $259 extra per week in 2018. That is roughly 173 times more than the secretary that Paul Ryan bragged about.
Ryan would later delete the tweet under a deluge of criticism, but the damage was already done.
The tweet was immediately seized on by Randy Bryce, who will be opposing Paul Ryan in the upcoming election. Bryce used the tweet as a fundraising opportunity, the New York Daily News noted, and linked to a page suggesting people make $1.50 donations to his campaign.
The flap came after the GOP had tried to attack Democrats over allegations that they were tone-deaf to the plight of working Americans. This week, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said that workers getting payouts from their companies thanks to corporate tax cuts were getting "crumbs" compared to what the wealthiest Americans received, NyMag reported. Republicans had slammed her for the comment, saying that she did not understand the importance of a $1,000 bonus to the average American.
But Paul Ryan's tweet has turned the criticism back against Republicans again, even after the House Speaker deleted it.


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Poetry Prize: Reemergence
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Archive 2011 – 2014
Sat 15th Nov, 2.30 – 4.00, poems read by Imtiaz Dharker, with new voices Michael Conley and Sheila Wild; music by Chris Davies and Olivia Moore.
Saturday 11th Oct, 2.30pm – 4.00: poems by Lorna Goodison and Kei Miller; music by Mammal Hands
Saturday June 21st, 2.30 – 4.00 Poetry read by Vona Groarke and the winners of the Poets & Players Poetry Competition; music by Corey Mwamba and David Kane
Saturday 17th May, 2.30 – 4.00 pm. Poems read by Fiona Sampson, Nabila Jameel and Matt Bryden; music by Arian Sadr
Saturday 26th April, 2.30 – 4.00 pm. Poems read by Medbh McGuckian, Rebecca Audra Smith and Ian Marriott; music by Silence Blossoms
Saturday 8th Mar, 2.30 – 4.00 pm. Poems read by David Constantine, Marie Naughton and Joey Connolly; music by Rebecca Sharp on the harp
Saturday 8th Feb, 2.30 – 4.00 pm. Poetry by Jo Bell and Grevel Lindop; music by Chris Davies and Beth Allen
Saturday 9th Nov, 2.30 – 4.00 pm. Poems read by George Szirtes; music and poetry performed by Adam Strickson and Our Liberated Winter (Robin Bowles and Simon Prince)
Saturday 19th Oct, 2.30pm – 4.00: poems by Michael Schmidt and Michael Symmons Roberts, music by Nat Birchall, Adam Fairhall, Paul Hession and Michael Bardon.
Saturday 21st September, 2.30 – 4.00 in the Chinese Arts Centre. Poetry by Jane Yeh, music by Li Lu
Saturday 29th June, 2.30 pm – 4.00 pm, Poetry by Jackie Kay with music by Chris Davies, Sarah Moody, Andrew Mucha and Katy-Anne Bellis
Saturday 8th June, 2.30 – 4.00 pm. Reading of poems by Jacob Polley and prizewinners in the Poets & Players Poetry Competition, with music by Adam Fairhall (piano).
Saturday 27th April, 2.30 – 4.00 pm (doors open 2.00 pm) Poetry by Rachida Madani and Marilyn Hacker, with music by Jane Lawrence
Mar 5, 2.30 pm Mario Petrucci, Aileen La Tourette, JT Welsch & The Gondwana Orchestra
Saturday 20th April, 2.30 – 4.00 pm. Poetry by Olivia McCannon, Kirsten Irving and Jon Stone, with music by Gavin Barras (double bass), Ed Jones (tenor sax), Corey Mwamba (vibraphone) and Steve Plews (piano).
Saturday 16th March, 2.30 – 4.00 pm Poetry by Paul Batchelor and Frances Leviston; music by Sam Andreae, Corey Mwamba and Seth Bennett.
Saturday 2nd Feb, 2.30 – 4.00 pm Poetry by Luke Kennard and Sandeep Parmar with music by Luciano Gerber.
Events – 2011-12
Nov: Simon Armitage / Suzanne Batty / Matt Halsall, Taz Modi, Gavin Barras & Chris Davies
Oct: Leontia Flynn / Paul Callick, Dave Lim & Mick Rodden
Sept: Helen Ivory / Ian Pople / Janet Rogerson / Rachael Gladwin & Nick Blacka
May 5, 2.30 pm Menna Elfyn, Agnes Lehoczky; music by Yiddle Sticks
April 7, 2.30 pm – Marius Kociejowski, Janine Pinion and Jeremy Over, with music by Jinny Shaw and Friends
March 3, 2.30 pm – Jane Draycott, Andrew McMillan and Luke Yates with music by Rebecca Joy Sharp
Feb 11, 2.30 pm – Eric Ormsby, Adam Strickson and Tara Bergin with music by Our Liberated Winter.
Nov 26, 2011, from 2.30pm – Andrew Forster, Kim Moore, Rita Ray with Matthew Wilkinson
Oct 22, 2.30pm – Poet Sam Willetts with Glenn Sharp and Chico Pere
Oct 20, 7.30pm – 'Not Many Love Poems', Carcanet book launch for Linda Chase
Sept 28, 7.30pm Carol Ann Duffy and Jane Lawrence – A Tribute to Linda Chase
Jun 11, 2.30 pm Tiffany Atkinson, Robbie Burton, Carole Isis and David Simcock, with Wyllie Longmore reading poems by Linda Chase
Mar 5, 6.00 pm Mario Petrucci – 'Heavy Water – A Film for Chernobyl'
Feb 12, 2.30 pm Ann Sansom, Nina Boyd and Clive McWilliam with singer-songwriter Jo Rose
We are pleased to announce the 9th poetry competition run by Poets & Players, one of Manchester's leading organisers of poetry and music events.
Our judge for 2021 is Seán Hewitt
Seán Hewitt
Seán Hewitt lectures in English literature at Trinity College Dublin, and is a Book Critic for The Irish Times. He won a Northern Writers' Award in 2016, the Resurgence Prize in 2017, and an Eric Gregory Award in 2019. Tongues of Fire (Cape, 2020) is his debut collection of poetry, and was shortlisted for The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2020. His next book, All Down Darkness Wide, will be published by Cape in the UK and Penguin Press in the USA in 2022.
A video message from judge Seán Hewitt:
What previous judges have said about the Poets & Players Competition:
When Poets & Players asked me to judge their competition I happily agreed. It's an organisation I have long admired, from its earliest days with the inspiring founder Linda Chase, to today's impressive incarnation in the splendid Whitworth Gallery. (Pascale Petit, 2018)
Poets & Players is one of the most significant and impressive poetry organisations in the country: the quality of the readings it puts on, its presence in the city is remarkable, so I'm delighted to be part of it in judging this competition. (Michael Symmons Roberts, 2017)
What was electrifying about this year's entries … was not just the wide and eclectic range of subject matters … but also the range of forms and tones, the many tongues and registers that together created a resonating and distinct entry of poetry. (Jackie Kay, 2016)
What a fabulously organised competition… One tries to dissuade people from the idea of competitions but if you're going to have one have it like this. (Paul Muldoon, 2015)
It was actually really fun judging the competition because you get the sense of what is happening in poetry right now … it was fascinating to take the temperature, as it were, of contemporary poetry. I'd like to thank Poets and Players organisation for running the competition, for wanting to run the competition, but also in general for the work that they do in promoting poetry in Manchester and the broader area, it's a commendable organisation and I'm delighted to be associated with it. (Vona Groarke, 2014)
This competition was scrupulously organised, and I loved the fact that the anonymity of the entries allowed each poem to speak for itself. (Jacob Polley, 2013)
POETS & PLAYERS PRIZE
Seán Hewitt will read ALL poems. All poems will be judged anonymously.
1st Prize: £600 2nd Prize: £200 3rd Prize: £100
Commended poets at the judge's discretion.
Closing Date: 1 March 2021
Winners will be informed by 7 April 2021 and will be invited to read alongside Seán Hewitt at the prize giving ceremony (date to be confirmed). If you have not been notified by 7 April 2021, we are afraid you have not been successful.
RULES AND OTHER INFORMATION
The competition is open to anyone over the age of 16, except for members of the Poets & Players committee.
Poems can be on any subject, in any style or form, but must be the author's own original work (no translations). They should not have appeared anywhere before, online or in print. Please do not submit poems that are currently under consideration elsewhere.
Maximum line length for individual poems is 40 lines (excluding title). Please do not include photographs or illustrations.
No changes can be made to poems once submitted and we regret that we are unable to provide feedback or make any refunds.
You may submit as many poems as you wish, accompanied by the appropriate payment and Entry Form/s.
Please note that all competition entries must reach us by 1 March 2021, up to 12 midnight on this date (GMT); Entries arriving after this date will not be considered.
HOW TO ENTER BY EMAIL
ALL entries must be accompanied by a completed Entry Form (see the link below):
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Please email the completed Competition Entry Form and poems to
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All email entries will be acknowledged.
Please ensure that all poems are sent as a single attachment and not in the body of the email. Please use your name as the title of the document (poems and Entry Form can be in the same document but must be on separate pages). If you are submitting more than one poem you should include them all in the same attachment but please ensure pages are numbered and start each poem on a new page. Poems must be in English. Single spaced and font size 12. Please save documents as doc, docx or PDF.
You may enter as many poems as you wish but please ensure you add all poem titles to the Entry Form/s.
Please do not include your name or other identifying information on the same page as the poem/s. All poems will be judged anonymously.
Entry fee is £4 per poem or 3 for £10. Email entries must be paid by PayPal.
IMPORTANT please include the Paypal reference on the Entry Form.
Single poem £4
Three poems £10
CHECKLIST: Completed Entry Form including PayPal reference; poems on separate sheets (with no identifying information).
Entrants retain copyright of their poems, however, we will publish the winning poems on our website and/or in the Whitworth Art Gallery. We would also hope to receive permission to make a video recording of the winners reading for use on social media.
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Obesity among our children has become a growing problem with an estimated 34% of American children being affected with obesity. The prevalence of obesity diagnosed in children 6-19 years of age tripled from 2003-2006, while in children ages 2-5 years old it has increased from 5% to 12.4%. Findings of atherosclerosis are also being found in younger and younger individuals and Type II Diabetes is being diagnosed in children as young as nine. As a last resort, bariatric surgery is even occasionally being performed in 12 year olds.
Other medical complications of pediatric obesity are numerous. Diseases such as hypertension, high cholesterol, coronary artery disease, sleep apnea, fatty liver disease, reflux, and joint disease are also complications of obesity: not to mention that the mental health of a child is affected secondary to the social stigma of obesity and the effects it can have on self esteem. It is essential for us to identify and treat children at risk in order to promote healthy lifestyles and to circumvent the risks of obesity for our children.
One of the ways we identify obesity as pediatricians is to screen a child's BMI during well visits. The BMI is the Body Mass Index and is an indirect measure of weight status. It is plotted against age and gender specific populations. Being overweight is identified as a BMI >85% through 95% while being obese is a BMI >95%. If a child is obese, their risk of adult obesity increases dramatically as the child ages.
It is important to consider the preventive and damaging factors that affect a child's risk of obesity so that steps can be taken to circumvent the risks. Protective factors for obesity include: breastfeeding, active families, minimal TV use, and having non-obese parents. The risk factors are extensive and include: the demise of family dinner, eating fast food, use of prepackaged foods with high fat content, decrease in the intake of fruits/vegetables, sedentary lifestyles, and unsafe areas for exercise around the home. Excessive TV exposure and media advertisements for unhealthy food are also important risk factors.
As a part of our practice and based on recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Heart Association, if a child has an elevated BMI: we do screening bloodwork to look for complications of obesity. Otherwise, in all children between the ages of 9-11 years old and 15-17 years old, we perform cholesterol screening. We also will check younger children if certain risk factors exist in the child or family. i.e. If a child's BMI is >85%, depending on age and risk factors, we will screen for fatty liver disease and diabetes in addition to high cholesterol, if medically necessary. Beyond the screening tests, we want to work with you to help build a healthier future for your child. This is done in a nonjudgmental atmosphere, and it is our personal goal to ensure the child understands that his/her weight does not define his/her character and that they are a beautiful person inside and out.
Our true mission is to ensure the healthiest and happiest life possible for them. To makes changes, we will discuss working on portion sizes, limiting intake of unhealthy foods, making time for exercise, and eliminating a sedentary life style. We may even involve a local dietician for extra support. We want to work with you to create manageable goals so that the road to a lower BMI and healthier habits is not impossible. However, it is important to remember that the only time when these interventions are successful is when both the parent and child are ready for a change. If you feel this article is speaking to you and your child, we would love to see you in the clinic to help make positive changes. There is an attached form that can help you get started towards making healthy decisions.
Rome, Ellen S. "Obesity Prevention and Treatment." Pediatrics in Review. 2011;32;363.


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 Cathédrale d'Angra do Heroísmo
 Église de la Miséricorde
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 Église Notre-Dame-du-Carmel
 Chapelle de Nossa Senhora dos Remedios

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 Ancien palais épiscopal
 Hôtel de ville
 Palais des Capitaines généraux
 Obélisque Alto da Memória
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Slipped Disks
The Bar's botched custodianship over Lori Deveny's files
This week, one of the many victims/ex-clients of disgraced former Portland attorney and serial fraudster Lori Deveny received a package from the Oregon State Bar. The mailer contained apparently newly-discovered material from the file that Deveny kept for the client's legal matter, which the Bar claims it took custody of in late 2018.
However, the packet also contained four CDs scrawled with case numbers and client names which were not their own. The disks were accompanied by a note from the Bar's Deputy General Counsel, Nik Chourey, addressed "to whom it may concern."
This disturbing breach of another client's confidentiality amounted to just another act of ineptitude by the failing agency in a matter they had already thoroughly botched — that of their disastrous custodianship over the former law practice of their friend Lori Deveny.
Deveny's former client does not wish to be identified and has no comment, other than that they are attempting to reunite the disks with their rightful owner while taking care not to accidentally view any potentially sensitive information contained on them. If that plan fails, the four disks will be mailed back to the Bar. It is lucky that the Bar negligently dropped the disks into such caring hands.
Notwithstanding that inevitable positive result, the Bar's general incompetence (or worse) in the matter of their custodianship over Deveny's files cannot be overlooked any longer.
A little backstory: Deveny resigned her law license in May 2018 to avoid a Bar investigation into her theft, forgery, and fraud. For months after, Deveny failed to comply with the easy terms of her resignation from the practice of law — most notably by continuing to practice law, but also by refusing to turn over her client files to her successor. The Bar looked the other way for nearly half a year, but was finally triggered to act to protect the public in October 2018.
At that time, Multnomah Judge Stephen Bushong ordered the Oregon State Bar to take immediate possession of Deveny's former law practice, including her trust accounts and all client property and records.
But rather than take possession of those things, the Bar instead allowed Deveny to turn over those things, at her own speed, and only when it suited her own devices.
The Bar apoplectically denies this and demands that we believe them based on their word alone — even when their own records contradict their claims.
This is not conjecture. It is fact clearly shown in — and in fact epitomized by — the records of financial claims made by Deveny victims to the Bar's fund for attorney misconduct. Every one of those claims shows victims first learning about the situation from law enforcement, the media, or the google — not from the Bar tasked with contacting the clients and reuniting them with their stolen property.
Therefore, this latest incident — the Case of the Slipped Disks! — presents a very clear question which the Bar must be compelled to answer:
If the Bar took possession of all of Lori Deveny's files in October 2018 — as it claims to have done — and has been working diligently since then to return those files to her clients… then where the hell did these disks come from, three years after the fact?
If the Bar come across another seventeen boxes of "misplaced" Deveny files in their own basement (like they did in November 2019), that needs to be disclosed to the public like it was the last time.
The more (and perhaps only) plausible explanation — the one to which the Bar is apparently incapable of admitting— is that Deveny once again gave them a few additional table scrapings, which she no longer needed tight control over for whatever reason.
That is to say, it is certain that Lori Deveny is still withholding some number of files from the Oregon State Bar, despite being ordered to surrender them by four judges in four separate cases — including criminal cases in both state and federal court.
The Bar could have skated past this little problem — and probably tried to — by quietly slipping the disks into envelopes, addressing those envelopes to the correct clients, and mailing them with zero fanfare.
But the Bar literally cannot even mail an envelope without fucking it up. These are the people in charge of protecting the general public from bad attorneys, and they cannot even forcibly wrest client property out of the worst crime-spree attorney in Oregon's history, despite her disbarment and despite four court orders permitting them to do so.
Which is to say the Bar's ineptitude is not a bug but a feature. The bumbling fuck-uperry surrounding Deveny is deliberate. Nobody is this incompetent.
Again, this disk incident is just one small fragment of the far larger problem that is exemplified by the Oregon State Bar's overly-reverential handling of Lori Deveny — a problem of politics, failure to protect the public, case-fixing, retaliation, and even evident criminal conduct.
All of it amounts regulatory capture, compounded by looming antitrust concerns.
And it cannot be deliberately ignored any longer by those who oversee the Bar or enable their misconduct through their indifference, such as the Oregon Supreme Court and the Legislative Assembly. It particularly must not be ignored by the Bar's licensees, who pay their mandatory dues (not to mention mandatory malpractice insurance premiums) and get shockingly poor and unbalanced representation in return.
Every single day the Bar makes it harder for good Oregon attorneys — and there are many — to do their jobs and help their clients: the public.
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Motley Rice co-founding member Ron Motley (1944-2013) has been inducted into the American Association of Justice's Hall of Fame, reserved for attorneys who significantly impacted the civil justice system over the course of their careers, according to the AAJ.
"(Ron) was known for taking what were thought to be impossible cases and delivering justice to families devastated by harmful products such as asbestos, lead paint and tobacco," AAJ CEO Linda Lipsen has said of Ron's legacy. "He literally created an avenue of redress for thousands who otherwise would have been left without a remedy." Honorees are selected posthumously for the Hall of Fame Award and are considered based on their integrity, character, and positive contributions toward trial advocacy, the legal profession and AAJ's overall mission and growth. Ron was a devoted AAJ member until his death in 2013. Motley Rice attorneys accepted the award on his behalf on July 25 during the organization's annual convention.
Ron's legal career spanned more than four decades and cemented his reputation as an innovative trial lawyer. His role in challenging the asbestos industry in the 1970s shed light on the extent of public harm caused by occupational, environmental and household asbestos exposure. In pursuing the litigation, Ron, along with co-founder Joe Rice, pioneered a strategic, cutting-edge approach to mass torts that he later utilized to take on the tobacco industry in the 1990s, resulting in the $246 billion Master Settlement Agreement, the largest civil settlement in U.S. history.
In 2002, Ron was appointed lead counsel for more than 6,500 family members and survivors of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and championed their cause of bankrupting terrorism until the time of his death.
Ron was a member of AAJ for nearly 40 years, and served on its Board of Governors from 1977 to 2012, and was chair of its Asbestos Litigation Group from 1978 to 2012.
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Five UChicago Humanities Professors Receive Research Funding
The Division of Humanities at the University of Chicago announced that five professors will receive research funding of $32,000 each on July 1, 2018, to advance their work in specific humanities fields. Covering a broad range of interests and Humanities departments, the five professors are Orit Bashkin in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations; Alain Bresson in Classics; Laura Letinsky in Visual Arts; Larry F. Norman in Romance Languages and Literatures; and Eric L. Santner in Germanic Studies.
The Humanities Division recognizes these faculty members for years of scholarly productivity in their specialty, and dedicated and outstanding teaching and service to their department, the Division of Humanities, and the University of Chicago. "All of these colleagues have advanced the scholarship in their field both at home and abroad," says Anne Walters Robertson, the Dean of the Division of the Humanities. "This generous funding will allow them greater flexibility as they carry out the work related to their research, for example, travel, costs of publication, research assistance, lecturers or post-doctoral scholars, and attending conferences."
During the next three years, the five professors have discretion to determine how they will allocate the funds to support their work. The funds have been provided through the generosity of the Humanities Council.
Orit Bashkin Ascends to a Leadership Role in Her Field
Orit Bashkin's offbeat topics, such as how the Dreyfus affair in France affected the Arab world, make fundraising more challenging. So the professor was overwhelmed to receive $32,000 to support her ongoing scholarship efforts during the next three years.
"Having these funds to use at my discretion gives me a leadership role in my field," says Bashkin, professor of modern Middle Eastern history in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department in the Division of Humanities at UChicago. "I can advance my research faster, help to promote junior scholars, and raise the profile of my scholarly work."
For her current project about how the Jewish French army captain Alfred Dreyfus was first falsely condemned of handing secret documents to the imperial German military and later exonerated, she is exploring its aftermath. How did it affect Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East? How did they articulate their own criticisms of European anti-Semitism? To help research the complex topic, Bashkin plans to hire one or two UChicago graduate student interns who read Arabic.
During UChicago Humanities Day on Oct. 20, she will present a session about the Dreyfus Affair. The all-day event on UChicago's campus expects to draw about 1,000 registrants.
"These funds allow me to do great research and start conversations with other interested scholars across the world," Bashkin says.
Additionally, she hopes to enrich the lecture series for the UChicago's Division of Humanities by sponsoring presentations on Middle East cultural history, Iraq history, and the history of the Jews in the Middle East.
For the final 33 percent of the funds, Baskin expects to collaborate with UChicago organizations, such as the Franke Institute, Center for Jewish Studies, and the Center for Gender Studies, to discuss the relationship between gender, race, and colonialism in the Middle East, and how European race theory influenced the Middle East in their upcoming conferences. "Funding is so critical for conferences about humanities topics," she says. "The effects of our scholarship in the humanities are not seen immediately, but our work does change perspectives and tackles critical issues."
Alain Bresson Reveals Trade Connections in the Ancient World
Connecting ancient texts about trade with how coins circulated in the ancient world is one of the scholarly endeavors that Alain Bresson pursues. A recent database tracking how coins from various kingdoms and city-states moved throughout the ancient world expanded his studies of economic history. The $32,000 research grant allows Bresson to move forward more quickly on using this database to advance his scholarly work.
"By funding my work on the application of economic concepts to the ancient world, I can reach a more mainstream audience of historians and economists for my books and articles," says Bresson, Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor in the Classics Department of the Division of Humanities at UChicago.
To develop the database, Bresson and his assistants used methods also applied among others by biologists to analyze the interactions of proteins. The trade routes and coins are envisaged as a multidimensional space creating visual order from chaos.
"We are at the frontier of combining humanities and science," he says. "Even in the study of the ancient world, we have too much data to manipulate and sort it out by traditional methods. Thanks to network analysis, I can now extract the information I need to reveal the trade connections and financial transfers throughout the ancient Mediterranean and the Middle East."
Prior to this research grant, Bresson received a Guggenheim Fellowship, providing him with extra time to develop the database. "Obtaining these funds helps me think of more scholarly projects that I can develop and collaborate with colleagues nationally and internationally about the economic history of the ancient world," he says.
The multilingual Bresson also plans to travel, pursue ancillary scholarship work such as taxes and tributes in the Persian Empire, and engage a few UChicago post-doctorate Classics students to assist in editing his work. While he is French, Bresson now writes primarily in English and secondarily in German and French.
Laura Letinsky Opens Up New Artistic Vistas
Traveling to different countries opens new horizons in art. When Laura Letinsky was traveling through India a few years ago, she started to look differently at the indigenous art and became intrigued with textiles. While her primary medium is photography, Letinsky began an art project that morphed from photographs into tapestries and then architectural glass.
As the recipient of $32,000 in funding, she plans to travel to India or Germany with several students from UChicago. "Traveling to other countries is very vibrant and vital to discourse about art," says Letinsky, professor and director of graduate studies in the Visual Arts Department of the Division of Humanities at UChicago. "This will be a tremendous opportunity for these students to look at the world in different ways. Art comments on the culture where the art is produced."
In addition to traveling with more students to enrich their art experience, she wants to invest in a high-end digital camera, allowing Letinsky to experiment with digital photography and include this aspect in her teaching. She is now able to work with student research assistants to advance her artistic projects and to purchase materials for the students she teaches so they too can experiment with different art media.
"The art world is a different world from the sciences," she says. It may not be as apparently practical, but Letinsky thinks a life worth living necessarily engages aesthetics.
"As artists, we can use those zeros and ones in ways that open up possibilities for a richer, more meaningful, and better life," she says.
Larry F. Norman Finds a Wider International Audience for His Scholarly Work
As a leading scholar of French literature, Larry F. Norman collaborates with partners in France, international universities, and UChicago. With plans for an upcoming French translation of his award-winning book, The Shock of the Ancient: Literature and History in Early Modern France, the $32,000 research funding came at an opportune moment.
"Since my work is deeply transnational and requires active exchange with an international range of scholars that incurs expenses and demands resources, this research funding has an immediate impact," says Norman, Frank L. Sulzberger Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Department in the Division of Humanities at UChicago. "Working with a research group based at the Université Jean Monnet Saint Etienne on central arenas of my research, including the book's translation, the project's leader and her colleagues are seeking partners to advance the impact of its work. It is crucial for this effort to show UChicago is substantially helping to support his effort, and this funding allows me to contribute right away."
Leading the French side of the project is Delphine Reguig, a rising star in French 17th-century studies. The book's translation is part of a multiyear project she spearheads on "Ancients and Moderns," which includes a series of international conferences, providing a wider network for The Shock of the Ancient's dissemination and impact.
"It is important to note the target audience for the French translation of The Shock of the Ancient is quite broad: beyond France and extending to all non-Anglophone scholars working in French studies for whom French is more approachable than English," Norman says. "This research funding makes it possible for me to advance work with multiple partners in Europe."
Working on the topic of "comparative classicisms" across the cultures of Europe and beyond, he cultivates connections in France, Germany, England, and the Americas to advance his work. Norman, who has held visiting professorships at several French universities, also works closely with graduate students in Europe.
Published in 2011 by UChicago Press, Norman received the 20th annual Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies for The Shock of the Ancient: Literature and History in Modern France in 2011. The Scaglione Prize honors an outstanding scholarly work in its field.
Eric Santner
Eric Santner Cultivates More Intense Intellectual Dialogue
Despite being a Germanist, Eric Santner's recent scholarship has led him into deeper engagement with several Italian philosophers, particularly Giorgio Agamben and Roberto Esposito. Although many of their books have been translated into English, he desires to read the work in the original Italian to gain more insights.
"I have some proficiency in Italian, but I hope to be able to do more intensive language learning," says Santner, Philip and Ida Romberg Distinguished Service Professor in Germanic Studies at UChicago. "I want to enter into actual dialogue with this community of philosophers. These research funds will help make that possible."
In addition to the Italian philosophers, he has developed intellectual partnerships with scholars in German-speaking countries, as well as in England, France, Slovenia, Israel, and Australia. Santner cultivates close ties with a group of philosophers in Ljublijana, Slovenia, particularly Slavoj Zizek, Mladen Dolar, and Alenka Zupancic. These three philosophers have traveled to Chicago to attend conferences, present lectures, and teach seminars in a team.
"The $32,000 research fund will allow me to spend more time with this group from Slovenia on their home turf, present my scholarly work to the community, and, hopefully, teach a few compact seminars," Santner says.
Traveling to Israel is on his agenda to visit Paul Mendes-Flohr, a close colleague who recently retired from UChicago. "We have co-taught several seminars, and my own work has really depended on that shared pedagogical engagement," Santner says.
He plans to spend time with Mendes-Flohr in Israel, where his book, On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life: Reflections on Freud and Rosenzweig, was translated. This book grew directly out of his collaboration with Mendes-Flohr. Santner hopes to teach a compact seminar with his colleague there.
"This funding will allow me to sustain and even deepen the sort of intense intellectual dialogue that has nourished my work up until now," he says. "I also will feel less inhibited about purchasing books and materials needed for my research."


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The cost-effectiveness of cotrimoxazole prophylaxis in HIV-infected children in Zambia.
Ryan, M; Griffin, S; Chitah, B; Walker, AS; Mulenga, V; Kalolo, D; Hawkins, N; Merry, C; Barry, MG; Chintu, C; +2 more... Sculpher, MJ; Gibb, DM; (2008) The cost-effectiveness of cotrimoxazole prophylaxis in HIV-infected children in Zambia. AIDS (London, England), 22. pp. 749-57. ISSN 0269-9370 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/QAD.0b013e3282f43519
https://doi.org/10.1097/QAD.0b013e3282f43519
OBJECTIVE: To assess the cost-effectiveness of cotrimoxazole prophylaxis in HIV-infected children in Zambia, as implementation at the local health centre level has yet to be undertaken in many resource-limited countries despite recommendations in recent updated World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines. DESIGN: A probabilistic decision analytical model of HIV/AIDS progression in children based on the CD4 cell percentage (CD4%) was populated with data from the placebo-controlled Children with HIV Antibiotic Prophylaxis trial that had reported a 43% reduction in mortality with cotrimoxazole prophylaxis in HIV-infected children aged 1-14 years. METHODS: Unit costs (US$ in 2006) were measured at University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka. Cost-effectiveness expressed as cost per life-year saved, cost per quality adjusted life-year (QALY) saved, cost per disability adjusted life-year (DALY) averted was calculated across a number of different scenarios at tertiary and primary healthcare centres. RESULTS: : Cotrimoxazole prophylaxis was associated with incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs) of US$72 per life-year saved, US$94 per QALY saved and US$53 per DALY averted, i.e. substantially less than a cost-effectiveness threshold of US$1019 per outcome (gross domestic product per capita, Zambia 2006). ICERs of US$5 or less per outcome demonstrate that cotrimoxazole prophylaxis is even more cost-effective at the local healthcare level. The intervention remained cost-effective in all sensitivity analyses including routine haematological and CD4% monitoring, varying starting age, AIDS status, cotrimoxazole formulation, efficacy duration and discount rates. CONCLUSION: Cotrimoxazole prophylaxis in HIV-infected children is an inexpensive low technology intervention that is highly cost-effective in Zambia, strongly supporting the adoption of WHO guidelines into essential healthcare packages in low-income countries.
Adolescent, Child, Child, Preschool, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Developing Countries, Drug Costs, Female, Follow-Up Studies, HIV, HIV Infections, HIV Infections: economics, HIV Infections: prevention & control, Humans, Infant, Male, Markov Chains, Quality-Adjusted Life Years, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic, Treatment Outcome, Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole Combination, Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole Combination: economi, Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole Combination: therape, Zambia, Adolescent, Child, Child, Preschool, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Developing Countries, Drug Costs, Female, Follow-Up Studies, HIV, HIV Infections, economics, prevention & control, Humans, Infant, Male, Markov Chains, Quality-Adjusted Life Years, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic, Treatment Outcome, Trimethoprim, Sulfamethoxazole Drug Combination, economics, therapeutic use, Zambia
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A Note from the Ernesto Coppel, Owner of Pueblo Bonito Resorts and Spas
I would like to take a moment to address the current situation in Cabo San Lucas. I am saddened by the damage caused by Hurricane Odile and destruction it caused in Los Cabos and the surrounding areas. My thoughts and prayers are with the local people that were affected by this natural disaster, including many of our Pueblo Bonito employees.
Our staff members are very important to us, as they are the most important asset to the company. I am very proud of our Pueblo Bonito staff, who maintained the utmost professionalism and worked very hard to take care of the more than 2000 guests who were staying with us during the storm. Even though the staff had been affected personally, and may not have had homes to go home to at night, they did all that was in their power to help the guests stay calm, fed, dry and safe. The Pueblo Bonito team is what makes the company the wonderful hotel group that it is, and we will be doing all that we can to assist our employees to rebuild in the coming months.
I have been personally committing myself to the efforts being made to restore the hotels as soon as possible. We are working hard to reestablish all services and to repair, even improve, aspects of the resorts. I have always insisted on having structurally sound , high-quality facilities, and because of this, our resorts were in relatively good condition after the hurricane. Our recovery time will be fast, and I will work to ensure that progress is made as quickly as possible.
I am happy to report that the authorities are making impressive progress with reestablishing services and with the reconstruction of the damaged areas in the destination. My team and I will continue working with these authorities to keep the Pueblo Bonito community up to date on the status of the restorations.
I very much look forward to being able to welcome guests once again to our Cabo San Lucas resorts, and I hope that you will all visit soon to see yourself that they are still as spectacular as ever!
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