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Hackney Council adopts Core Strategy to make the borough cleaner and greener
Hackney businesses and residents will be encouraged to generate more energy from lower carbon and environmentally-friendly sources over the next 15 years.
The environmentally-friendly plans have been revealed in the Council's Core Strategy, which was approved on Wednesday 24 November.
The Core Strategy forms part of the Hackney Local Development Framework (LDF) which will replace the Hackney Unitary Development Plan.
The planning strategy document calls for all new build throughout the borough to be more energy self-sufficient and incorporate a range of renewable and low-carbon technologies to reduce dependency on the National Grid for power.
There will also be a special focus on Hackney Central and Dalston town centres to develop a low-carbon economy by using local energy networks. The strategy will also prioritise accessibility to the town centres by public transport, walking and cycling and strengthen retail and leisure facilities.
The Core Strategy is now the Council's primary planning document and sets out the social infrastructure needed, services and amenities required to support the borough's growing population until 2025. Hackney Council is one of only eleven London boroughs which has had its Core Strategy approved.
Councillor Guy Nicholson, Cabinet Member for Regeneration and the 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games, said: "The Core Strategy is a very important planning document that describes how Hackney can develop and grow over the next 15 years.
"It ensures that as our community grows so does the social and environmental infrastructure that supports us and our quality of life. Its objective is to make sure that Hackney remains a great place to live and work in."
Key objectives within the Core Strategy, include:
•Improving the quality and public accessibility of open spaces
•Encouraging investment in the borough
•Encouraging sustainable investment in Hackney Wick
•Maximising opportunities from the Olympic Legacy
•Promoting growth and vibrancy within the borough's main town centres
•Tackling housing and affordable housing needs in the borough
•And attracting knowledge-based businesses to the borough like I.T and
For more information on Hackney Council's Core Strategy, please visit: http://www.hackney.gov.uk/core-strategy.ht
For more information, please contact Colin Joseph on: 020 8356 2869 or colin.joseph@hackney.gov.uk

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Theresa A. Canaday
Litigation Department Chair
Theresa is chair of the firm's Litigation Department, which houses seven litigation practice groups. Theresa also maintains an active practice. Her legal practice has an emphasis in complex business matters, including energy-related contract disputes, business torts, franchise disputes and related matters, construction disputes and unfair competition cases. She represents Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 corporations, as well as closely-held companies, startup businesses and entrepreneurs. She also has substantial experience representing energy-sector entities in state and federal litigation.
Theresa has a wide-range of experience in trying business dispute cases in federal and state courts around the country, as well as prosecuting and defending complex matters through arbitration. Over the course of her career, she has tried more than 15 cases in either court or arbitration, often involving many weeks of trial in each instance.
Theresa also has experience representing individuals and companies in federal criminal investigations, including health care fraud and antitrust investigations.
Other Info About Theresa
Firm Committees
Prior Work Experience
Prior to joining the firm she worked as an associate with Mayer, Brown & Platt in Chicago, Illinois (1995-2000). Immediately before working for Mayer, Brown & Platt, Theresa clerked for Judge Eugene Siler, Jr. of the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (1994-1995).
University of Kentucky College of Law, J.D., 1994, high distinction, Order of the Coif
Bellarmine University B.A., 1991, magna cum laude
Theresa served as a clerk for the court(s) and judge(s) below:
Law Clerk, Judge Eugene Siler, Jr., Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 1994-95
Theresa is licensed to practice in the following state(s):
Illinois, 1994
Kentucky, 2001
Theresa is admitted to practice before the following court(s):
Supreme Court of Kentucky, 2000
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, 2000
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, 2005
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, 2004
Supreme Court of Illinois, 1994
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 1995
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, 1995
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, 1996
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 2007
Benchmark Litigation: Top 250 Women in Litigation 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013
Chambers USA, Litigation: General Commercial, 2017-2022
The Best Lawyers in America®, Commercial Litigation, 2013-2023
Louisville Magazine: "Powerful People"
Selected for inclusion in Kentucky Super Lawyers®, 2007-2023
Benchmark Litigation®, listed among the "Local Litigation Stars" for Kentucky, 2011-2012
Benchmark Litigation®, listed among the "Benchmark Litigation Stars" for Kentucky, 2022-2023
Brandeis Inn of Court
Greater Louisville, Inc., Board Member
International Women's Forum, Board Member
Kentucky Derby Museum, Board of Directors, Secretary
St. Agnes Parish, School Board
St. Agnes Parish, Chair Elect, Parish Council
The Home of the Innocents, Inc., Chair, 2007-2009; Board of Directors
Junior Achievement, Board of Directors, 2008
21st Century Society of the Louisville Orchestra Board of Directors, Secretary
Leadership Kentucky, 2006
Leadership Louisville, 2004-2005
Selected Top 40 under 40, 2004
Theresa serves or has served in the following leadership role(s) at Frost Brown Todd:
Executive Committee, Member
Litigation Department Chair, January 2018
Business Litigation Practice Group, former Chair
Compensation Committee, Member
Women's Initiative Committee, former Member
Theresa Canaday Appointed Chair of Frost Brown Todd's Litigation Department
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced today the expansion of a partnership between City Colleges of Chicago and One Million Degrees (OMD) to provide support to an estimated 6,000 Chicago-area community college students over the next five years to reach their goal of a degree and further college or a career. One Million Degrees, a non-profit organization, supplements City Colleges' support services by providing one-on-one coaching, tutoring, skills training and career exploration to community college students enrolled in the program. These services help students navigate obstacles along their path to graduation and ensure a smoother transition to four-year institutions and the workforce.
One Million Degrees currently serves 100 City Colleges students, half of which attend Harold Washington College or Truman College. As part of its expansion, the program will grow from serving 100 students a year to serving 4,200 students a year by 2020 across all seven colleges, a nearly 40-fold increase. The program is projected to serve a cumulative 6,000 students over five years.
"Through our Reinvention, we vastly expanded our student supports and we have already seen results -- with nearly double the number of students each year reaching their goal of graduation," said City Colleges Chancellor Cheryl Hyman. "The One Million Degrees expansion will mean many more City Colleges students will benefit from mentorship and the targeted soft skills development our employer partners say is critical for professional success."
Among the 100 City Colleges students OMD selects each year, 70 percent graduate from community college within three years. The average OMD Scholar maintains a 3.0 GPA. The vast majority of OMD alumni, 94 percent, are working, continuing their education or both. For those working, the average salary reported by alumni is $50,000 annually.
City Colleges has significantly boosted its student supports since the launch of Reinvention, including the addition of: tutors, academic advisors, transfer specialists, career and transfer centers, veteran centers, and wellness centers, which have helped nearly double City Colleges' graduation rate and award the highest number of degrees in City Colleges' history.
The expanded partnership with One Million Degrees complements these efforts, since City Colleges students in the program receive coaching by dedicated volunteers who support the scholars in their academic, professional and personal goals. The scholars receive individual and small group tutoring provided by expert tutors. In addition, programs help students develop leadership, professional and skills so they graduate ready for success in the workplace.
Long-term, personalized one-on-one or small-group coaching with professional volunteers who provide ongoing support and training.
Immediate and individualized tutoring to support students academically.
Academic supports to ensure Colleges students take advantage of all City Colleges resources and supports.
Personal supports including ongoing intensive support from a dedicated staff and coaching from a team of Applied Behavior Analyst students.
Training and professional development, which includes a three-year curriculum of professionalism and communication skills, financial literacy training, and civic engagement and leadership development.
Tours of local companies and organizations introduce students to in-demand careers and the skills needed to succeed.
One Millions Degrees was founded in 2006 and has served more than 400 students since its inception. Among the many OMD alumni is Ashley Cordova, who always wanted to become a Chicago teacher but had struggled academically. With the help of One Million Degrees, Ashley received intensive tutoring, advising, transfer counseling, and a caring coach who mentored her, and she began to excel in her classes. Ashley graduated from Harold Washington College in 2009 and transferred to National Louis University where she earned her Bachelor's of Education. Now Ashley is a teacher for the Chicago Public Schools and has also enrolled part-time in a Masters of Education program.
City Colleges of Chicago is the largest community college system in Illinois and one of the largest in the nation, with 5,700 faculty and staff serving 115,000 students annually at seven colleges and six satellite sites citywide. City Colleges of Chicago is in the midst of a Reinvention, a collaborative effort to review and revise City Colleges programs and practices to ensure students leave City Colleges college-ready, career-ready and prepared to pursue their life's goals.
City Colleges of Chicago includes seven colleges: Richard J. Daley College, Kennedy-King College, Malcolm X College, Olive-Harvey College, Harry S Truman College, Harold Washington College and Wilbur Wright College. The system also oversees the Washburne Culinary Institute, the French Pastry School, two restaurants, five Child Development Centers, the Center for Distance Learning, the Workforce Institute, the public broadcast station WYCC-TV Channel 20 and radio station WKKC-FM 89.3. For more information about City Colleges of Chicago, call: (773) COLLEGE or visit www.ccc.edu.


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What Were You Thinking? Biases and Rational Decision Making
by Ted Thomas and Robert J. Rielly
In general, we expect people to think and act rationally. Market theories, negotiations, and other human endeavors are based on people reacting and thinking in sane, rational ways. It is based on an assumption that we are logical and can make good decisions. But are people really that rational? Dan Ariely, a noted scholar, wrote a book on how we are all "Predictably Irrational." Numerous authors have pointed out how psychological traps, cognitive biases, and world views cloud our thinking and lead us to irrational choices. Decision making is the realm of the leader. Leaders make decisions and our assumption is they are making good, rational decisions. However, in our rush to make a decision we forget that psychological traps and biases affect them just as they do the rest of us. This article will use the Bay of Pigs invasion as a case study to examine how these human characteristics often cause us to act in counterproductive ways and what a leader can do to offset them.
The 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion provides a fertile example of poor thinking and decision-making. In 1959 Fidel Castro completed his overthrow of the corrupt Batista government in Cuba. In the spring of 1960 Castro formally aligned himself with the Soviet Union, establishing a communist regime. Many of those in Batista's regime and those who did not want to live in a communist country left Cuba for the United States. In the era of the Cold War, the U.S. did not relish the idea of having a communist country 90 miles off its coast, much less a nation closely allied with the Soviet Union…
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Ted Thomas is director of the Department of Command and Leadership in the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Thomas graduated from the United States Military Academy and served in various command and staff positions before retiring. He received a master's from the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. from Missouri University of Science and Technology.
Robert J. Rielly is a retired Army lieutenant colonel and currently serving as an associate professor in the Department of Command and Leadership, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
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Looking for a place to belong, Erin Silvestri arrives in the small mining town of Argent Springs to visit her long-lost aunt's Victorian brothel-turned-Bed & Breakfast. But she soon discovers it's not the former madam of the house who haunts her the most. Instead, it's the B&B's handsome yet mysterious handyman waylaying her plans for a homey reunion.
Stalwart, hardworking Rick Hartigan wants nothing more than to do his job and be left alone while he awaits the return of his former love. But as his former love balks, his current employer seems hell-bent to pair him with her too-tempting niece.
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Amanda Everitt takes helm for revitalizing downtown
LANCASTER - David Scheffler is leaving his position of Destination Downtown Lancaster/Special Improvement District executive director as the Republican candidate for mayor takes on Democrat Greg Russell and independent Clayton Lunsford on Nov. 7.
The winner will serve former Mayor Brian Kuhn's unexpired term until December 2019. Kuhn resigned this year after pleading guilty to two counts of attempted failure to file an income tax return, both first-degree misdemeanors.
Amanda Everitt will replace Scheffler, although he said he'll stay around for a couple weeks while Everitt gets acclimated to the job. Scheffler has held the position since October 2014. DDL/SID is a non-profit organization that focuses on downtown revitalization.
"I'm just incredibly excited," Everitt said. "I love downtown, I play downtown. I love the walkability of this community. I've always loved this community. So now to be in the heart of downtown where I can live and work and play, I could not be more thrilled."
Everitt formerly worked at the Fairfield Medical Center Foundation as its annual giving specialist and was the campaign manager for the United Way of Fairfield County. She said she's developed good relationships within the community that she said will benefit her on the new job.
Everitt said she wants to increase sponsorships for DDL events and will continue with its various events throughout the year. She also said Michelle Storts will remain as program coordinator.
One of Everitt's goals is to fill all of the downtown storefronts along the DDL territory of Main, Columbus, Broad streets with a diverse mix of restaurants and shopping. She said the downtown also needs more entertainment options.
Scheffler said his resignation is a practical consideration.
"The election is on Nov. 7, and whoever wins the mayor's race becomes mayor as soon as the election is certified (by Nov. 28)," he said. "If you wait until Nov. 7 to start looking for a replacement and go through the interview process, notices, it would probably be the end of January before the new director was in place."
Scheffler said such a scenario would leave the position vacant for about two months.
"And I really don't want to see that happen," he said. "So I've decided that if I don't win the election, I will be retired again as I was at one time for five years. This is permanent."
Scheffler said his biggest accomplishment in his three years was filling up several vacant downtown storefronts.
"That's great," he said. "Just all the activity downtown. Businesses are thriving downtown. The downtown looks great. It's like a different place than it was three years ago."
Everitt said Scheffler laid a good structure for her to follow.
"And I think with my energy and enthusiasm, I'll be able to continue to get people excited about the work that we're doing down here," she said. "And what's great about David is he's agreed to mentor me."
jbarron@lancastereaglegazette.com


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Gives limits on the amount of CO2 that can be present in the atmosphere to maintain habitable conditions. Earth-like values would allow for habitability.


Aboard the Disney Dream Pt. 3 - Super Inky!
Hi everyone! It's me, Inky! I keep forgetting to finish my posts about my spring break trip with my friend Brooke and her family. On the last day of our cruise, Brooke was very, very excited for Officer Pin Trading night. We each had a lanyard with pins on it to trade. Brooke's had a big Elsa charm and mine had a big Moana one. I had never been to a pin trading event before, but Brooke definitely made me feel included and excited too!
We had a long day at sea to enjoy first though! We played Jenga in our stateroom in front of our big porthole window.
Then we went and saw Beauty and the Beast in the theatre on board the ship. It was so cool! I had never been inside a movie theatre on a ship before. Plus, Beauty and the Beast is one of my favorite fairy tales. I loved all the songs in the Disney version. After the movie, we posed with a big statue of Mickey.
It was finally time for the pin trading event after dinner. The officers wore their clean white uniforms. They looked great! I had so much fun, even though I didn't know much about pins. Brooke knows how to spot the counterfeit pins and she was showing me lots of little tricks and telling me facts about the pins.
After the busy event, it was time to head to bed. The next morning, we would arrive in Florida again.
I had a great time on my first Disney cruise! I didn't blog about it, but Brooke and I had fun playing at Castaway Cay and swimming with dolphins at Atlantis in the Bahamas. I'm so glad Brooke invited me to join her family! It was sad to roll our bags off the boat and into the big arrival building. After a bus ride, we were already back on the plane to New York. See you again soon, Disney Dream!
That sounds like soooo much fun Inky! My Grandmother says you're a great writer!
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08.02.17NewsSupraSkytop
ARTICLE BY Shay Colley
Chad Muska Introduces The Supra Skytop V
2017 is a significant year for Supra. With a decade of game-changing history under their belt, the California-based skate company is undergoing a creative transformation under new stewardship. Lauded for his pioneering spirit and creative charisma, Chad Muska's signature Skytop line has defined Supra's existence since the first model launched back in 2007. Bootie-calling from his art studio in Los Angeles, Chad talked us through his new vision for the Skytop V.
What are you doing today Mr Muska?
I've been running around town all day, I had to get a lens adapter for my camera because we did some test shots last night. Then it's back to the studio to film, it's going to be pretty crazy. I built a little light installation with fluorescent lights and concrete to do a simulation video for the upcoming Skytop II 'Transitions' drop. Going to finish that up with my boy Rick Kosick and we'll probably end up working until late, pass out, wake up and edit, then continue the process.
I can't believe it's been ten years for Supra.
It's gone by in a flash, but in a weird way, it almost feels like Supra has always been there too. For a brand to stay in business for that amount of time, it's always an achievement. So far, so good – we'll see. I don't want to jinx it!
Last time we talked, the Skytop IV had just come out. Now we've got the V. On first inspection, the new direction definitely deviates from what we'd normally associate with the Skytop family.
At first glance, it is a totally different direction. But when you really start to look at it, the heritage of all the Skytop models is within the new shoe in some aspect or another. The Skytop V was a real partnership with Supra's lead designer, Adam Contreras. We really wanted to bring something new to skate footwear together.
Going back in time, the first Skytop was kinda high for its time, but now it's a pretty standard shoe when you look at it. The Skytop II went ultra-high, and then when we originally released the III, I think everybody was like, 'What the hell? This shoe is going to go to your knee if you guys keep going up, up, and up!' The new Skytop has the futuristic little rubber cage from the Skytop III and the height is similar too. The IV was a rad shoe in my eyes, but I'm ultimately excited about the V, because that's personally where my style has gone. My goal was always to make skateboarding shoes that stood out and were different to everything else that was happening.
I'm wondering if they're tough enough to skate?
This material is a lot tougher than it looks! I wanted to experiment with new materials instead of using just leather and canvas. I always liked how neoprene felt as a supportive, comfortable, flexible material and Adam came across an abrasion-resistant TUF coated Lycra that worked perfectly. The whole toe-piece is padded and flexible and then strengthened by a bonded layer of rubber to add protection in the ollie and 'flick' areas. So yeah, they are totally skateable. The whole idea of the Skytop V was to completely shift the idea of what a skateboard shoe is. I wanted to make something that you really wanted to wear when you weren't skateboarding.
We love a neoprene bootie.
I've always been really interested in ankle support and that feeling of being invincible on a skateboard. The whole idea for the Skytop V, right from the start, was always going to be a neoprene and Lycra-based bootie. All of the shoes I was doing with Circa at the end of my time there had a bootie interior built into the base and I was really thinking back to those ideas the whole time I was working on the V.
When I put the Prestos on back in the day, I was bummed because I couldn't really wear them because I had a sponsor. I was like, 'This is the most comfortable, best slipper-sneaker shoe ever!' To see the resurgence of the Presto, and Yohji Yamamoto (adidas Y-3) really playing off the bootie idea and taking it to a high fashion aesthetic, has been really interesting. I tried to capture all these elements and put them into a skateable version. There's some changes finally happening in the skate world, Koston had a really cool and exciting shoe that came out.
'You have to understand the way sneakers are made in order to master the design process. If you don't understand how these things are produced, then you're going to go in there with unrealistic expectations. You could be arguing about something that might not even be possible to make. The more you know about the technology employed in manufacturing, the more you'll be able to apply it to achieving your vision.'
The Koston 3 with the Flyknit upper?
It's not for everybody, but for me, it confirmed that the time was right to put the Skytop V out now. At the last trade show I attended, I saw a few brands were starting to integrate booties, although most weren't willing to totally sacrifice the idea of a traditional skate toe.
Do you think we'll ever see the resurgence of experimentation in skate sneakers like we saw at the start of your career?
I feel like we're always within some sort of cycle. I saw the technological boom in footwear in the late-90s and early-2000s, when everybody was going crazy with sonic welding and air bags. Everything we could think of was just thrown at a shoe just to totally tech it out. It was over-designing for sure, but it was fun. Then all of the sudden, we saw that shift. Everything went retro, vulcanised and simple.
The Skytop I to me was innovative at the time, but it was still a vulcanised shoe that just had a little bit more height and an interesting design on the panelling. It wasn't really pushing the limits of footwear by any means. For the last ten years it's been the same exact thing, over and over. It was getting boring. And that's what's really exciting about right now – we're seeing a surge with things like this new breed of runner-based designs. It's always kind of been the way for the basketball sneaker industry, but in skate, the willingness to do something bold has been lacking. This is a great time for footwear design.
What type of schemes can we expect initially?
The initial Skytop Vs will be tonal. I've always been a fan of all-black and all-white. There's a lot of stuff we can do with this shoe, just on the sole alone there's all these different colour blocking options. We even have the ability to use woven materials within the elastic centering strap too – you can run words like the band of Tommy Hilfiger boxers! There's a hot melt around the stitching in the circular tongue hole so you can use it with the heel strap to slide the bootie on. Then there's a rubber cage that brings structural support to stop your ankle from rolling. On some booties, they're so slipper-based that your ankle will roll over the top of the foot bed.
It sounds like you're getting involved in all aspects of the design process.
Fully. You have to understand the way sneakers are made in order to master the design process. If you don't understand how these things are produced, then you're going to go in there with unrealistic expectations. You could be arguing about something that might not even be possible to make. I love seeing the factories and I love seeing the production process. The more you know about the technology employed in manufacturing, the more you'll be able to apply it to achieving your vision.
The Decade X releases celebrate ten years of Supra with special editions of the four current Skytops. The 'Layers' colourway references your studio space. What else is coming?
I've been getting a lot more hands-on within the company, developing marketing projects and initiatives. Each Skytop will release with a video that brings a theme to life. To me, the shoes are an extension of my artwork and artistic expression, they're more like little sculptures. The Layers colourway speaks to the roots of my artwork, stuff I did with pop art and street art. The second drop, 'Transitions', focuses on light and space and the different transitions of life. The Skytop III is based on 'Reflection', which uses reflective materials and resin. The fourth will be based around texture and will reference wood and concrete.
You obviously love concrete.
That's my medium, 100 percent. Obviously we have a unique relationship. I spent a lot of my life kissing the concrete. You have tree huggers, well I'm a concrete hugger! I always thought of skateboarding as being an extension of art, like a form of performance art. Everybody can do the same tricks, but we all do them in our own individual way. My idea is to take the polyurethane resin of the wheels, the steel of the trucks, the wood of the board and the concrete that we ride on. Subconsciously, my artwork naturally just happened to combine all those things.
How often are you in the art studio these days?
As much as I can be. I had a back injury recently and they want me to get surgery, and that scares the shit out of me. It's really taken skateboarding away unfortunately. That's a major thing for me that I'm still trying to figure out and come to terms with. I'm not sure if it's ever going to be there like it once was. The studio has become the ultimate expression of my energy and a place to create not only art, but to provide the platform for my creative process. When I'm there I see visions of other things – products, shoes, t-shirt graphics, photography and advertising layouts.
It seems like both you and Supra have been through a similar cathartic process?
It's an interesting time for Supra to regroup and figure out what the future holds, and what the game-plan is moving forward. I think that every company needs a period of reflection to find a new way to continue evolving. Supra is moving into a new office soon and it's exciting to have a creative space within the heart of downtown Los Angeles. Apart from that, for me personally, I'm really just focused on day-to-day creativity and allowing all these processes to lead me in the direction I need to go. And just enjoying this life. I can't wait to see the Skytop V finally hit the street!
The Supra Skytop V will be available from February 16.
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As Christians, we are always challenged to be on the move. The stories of our tradition testify to a life of faith spurred to action, called out of comfort, inspired to cross borders, and compelled to press forward.
We recall the voice of God to Abraham, inviting him to move faithfully to a strange land; or to Sarah, promising that she would bear a child in old age. We think of the prophet Isaiah, who challenged Israel to "enlarge the place of your tent" to facilitate the enormity of God's blessing that was promised to come; and Jonah, commanded to travel to the land of his enemies and call for repentance (with the terrifying prospect that they might be saved!). And, of course, we always lift up the witness of Jesus Christ, God Incarnate, who "did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited but emptied himself...being born in human likeness...and became obedient to the point of death," as St. Paul proclaims to the Philippians.
To walk this life of faith, and especially to follow our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, is to walk a path fraught with change and transition and difference, through a landscape dotted with promise and hope and renewal. We walk this path for a purpose – that we may, more and more, accept God's dream for our lives and enact God's dream for this world.
The year 2018 was one full of promise and new life. You called a new Vicar, appointed by Bishop Doyle to lead this community. We worried about falling attendance and low school enrollment, and we prayerfully strategized to reverse those trends. We said goodbye to beloved staff and called several new individuals to support us in our ministry and life together. We experimented with new worship forms, with outreach programming, with new community groups and classes, with new liturgies, language, and music. We explored new ways of inhabiting interior and exterior spaces on our campus to facilitate connection, outreach and worship. We worked to strengthen the church's bonds with our school as a ministry and outreach of Grace.
All of this only scratches the surface. Our journey in 2018 was fun and exhausting, joyful and frustrating, hopeful and irritating, invigorating and challenging, inspiring and stretching and exciting. And there is more to come!
Welcome to the life of faith in Christian community. And, welcome to Grace.
As I reflect joyfully on our Annual Meeting last Sunday, my prayer is that we will wholeheartedly celebrate the joys and accomplishments of 2018, honor the legacy of this congregation on which today's good work is founded, and be inspired by God's vision for this community in 2019 and beyond.


Recently, an unknown number of first-revision Santa Rosa MacBook Pros began exhibiting issues with their onboard video cards. After a reboot, or on wake from sleep, the machine refuses to acknowledge the presence of a display, either internal or external. From that point on, the computer never regains its displays — not after a reboot, etc. Subsequent debugging indicates that the machine is misidentifying its NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT card as the MacBook's Intel X3100 card. This issue is known to affect at least 50 people — a group of affected users has formed a Google Spreadsheet in order to document and organize cases.
AppleCare is recommending replacing the logic board, which some have gone through with, only to have the machine return to an unusable state shortly afterwards. Compounding the issue is the fact that this problem has arisen only shortly after the expiration of the default warrantee on these machines (this issue seems to only affect machines shipped around June, 2007), thus causing the logic board replacement to cost upwards of 400$ for those who did not purchase extended warranties. If you are experiencing the issues detailed below, please add yourself to the spreadsheet and visit our thread on the Apple Support forums, so we can get a reasonably accurate count of affected users.
Someone has mentioned the disabling/deleting Boot Camp might fix things. Replacing my machine's logic board seems to have worked, at least so far!
I'm not entirely sure what "known" means, as Apple hasn't admitted to the problem yet.
In my limited experience, Apple is loath to step up to the plate, at least officially. The graphite Airport Base Station (ABS) was a thermal disaster and eventually Apple agreed to replace defective ABS', if you called them with a magic case number in hand for the phone drones to look up. Even that program got discontinued eventually.
I imagine that it will be no different with the current Santa Rosa NVIDIA issues- that is, unless NVIDIA agrees to reimburse CPU manufacturers for their incurred costs (unlikely that this will happen in full). So, I am disappointed, knowing that the MBPro I am typing this on could very well be a ticking time bomb and there is nothing I can do about it but smile and wait for it to happen.
I had the same issue. Apple replaced the logic board. Apparently this is a known issue with the June 2007 models.
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Do we really want to handle these in community.ubuntu.com?
If we don't, who should police it? Moderators (flagging)? Or users (recommended reply text)?
I seem to remember reading a post in here where @popey had mentioned that this is not to be a support forum. That is likely better handled over on the ubuntu forums, etc. Maybe a disclaimer (or the like) needs to be more prominent?
I know for example a support request came in on the thread about todays On Air Hangout.
Great topic, thanks for raising it Ian!
Support requests landing here is not unexpected. When you search online for Ubuntu Support (and similar phrases) there are results returned from the old static site. When the static site was live, visitors were forced to read the page and follow the external links to AskUbuntu, IRC, Forums etc. However now this is a dynamic forum-looking site, I imagine the thought process is "Hey, this looks like a forum, and it has the Ubuntu branding, it's official, I'll ask here!".
I think we can do a few things to help here.
Setup redirects so anyone coming here to an old url which implied support is here, gets sent to a post which is more direct about how this site isn't for support.
Modify the new-user welcome message to make it clear this isn't for support.
Modify existing messaging in the banner to make it clear this site isn't for support.
In the meantime, yes, users can flag and moderators could move/close/hide posts which are support related and reply with a useful comment directing them to the right place.
For drive-by feature requests, I don't have a problem with these so much. It's interesting content to see how people use the system and how they expect it to work. It's also a direct hotline to the desktop team who hang out here. We'll get more teams over here as time goes on.
Bug reports are interesting. I think we need a new/refreshed page in the documentation category which summarises how to file a bug and more importantly where to file a bug. We could potentially link to that more prominently? Would be great to have a nice list with each of the core components linked directly to the launchpad (and/or upstream) bug trackers. A bit like the old Avengers page on the wiki for Ubuntu Touch. But prettier.
Seems a couple of pages were missed in the migration from the old static site to this new one. Apologies for this, I'm ressurecting them now.
One more crucial one was in fact the "Community Support" page, now located at Community Support.
We could certainly make that more prominent (pinned site wide) and link to it when people as support questions, rather than link to a separate list of pages, one per resource, make sense?
Hmmm. The 'Finding Help' page (Finding Help) seems like a stub duplicate of the 'Community Support' page (Community Support). Do we really need them both?
There's (broadly) two types of users who stumble into this site. Those who need help and those who are equipped to give it. The Finding Help page is for the former, the Community Support is for the latter.
The Ubiquity installer actually links directly to this site (well, the old static one) on one of the slides, suggesting users needing help come here. That's a good reason why we're seeing a bunch of people asking for help here.
If you (or anyone) has ideas for improving that (or indeed any) page in the Documentation category, go right ahead. I made all the posts there 'wiki' posts so they're editable by us all. I welcome edits to these pages as they have been static for some years now!
When we set the site up initially, myself and @nhaines high-level reviewed the pages just to remove references to Ubuntu Touch, Unity8 and some other outdated content. But at any point they can be reviewed again. It's one of the reasons we chose this platform, to make it easier for our community to help keep these documents current and relevant.
I have also set redirects for all the old pages to the (hopefully) right pages on the new site. I just looked at each of the pages on the wayback machine and set the right targets for any inbound links to those pages, to topics in the documentation category.
Here's the mapping I did. As with everything on this site, if anything doesn't look right, let me know or change it yourself.
Seems like I'm flagging an average of about 2 support requests each day. Sometimes more, sometimes less.
I am concerned that (frustrated, ranting) users told nicely to "go over there and start again" may not be the great experience we want these users to have.
Curiosity: How many support requests are getting closed daily (average) on the Community site?
Thinking about some kind of automated solution, the first thing that leaps to my mind is a copying the thread --appropriately reformatted-- over to AskUbuntu or UbuntuForums, and a helpful explanation sent to the user. Better, simpler solutions are welcome.
However, a bit of poking around in Discourse Meta indicates that they have never conceived of anything like that, so what should be our threshold or trigger to revisit an automated or technical solution?
Thank you for keeping on top of these. I think we need to be clearer on our messaging, so people know this isn't a support site, and know where the best place to get support is.
One of the by-products of using Ubuntu SSO for sign up is that it's very easy to get in and creating posts quickly. I wonder if there's some prompt / text in discourse which we can tailor for first time users (because they're all first time users really) to let them know the house rules?
Perhaps there's a setting we can twiddle that will make it slightly harder for new users to post support questions, while making it easy to post real conversational community posts. @Wimpress I know you've got more experience of discourse than I, have you any ideas here?
We'd like to see something like this on the Ubuntu Forums too, before being forced to log in via SSO, new members had to read and agree to follow the Forum Code of Conduct, now they create an account, and are blisfully unaware of the Forum rules.
If it is feasible, a Personal Message from the Admin Group to any new account indicating the Forum Rules would reverse this bliss.
There was a welcoming message sent to each new user, but again SSO bypasses that.
At one point we did send an email to each new user, but even though the email said not to reply, it became an almost full time job checking the mailing list to see what the emails were about.
I agree that support requests and bug reports belong elsewhere.
Maybe community.ubuntu.com could have a "Feature Requests" category, where users could post these?
This is not to say that users shouldn't be encouraged to post feature requests directly in appropriate threads (such as "we need your input" threads). But where such a thread doesn't exist (or can't be found), the "Feature Requests" category would be a good catch-all.
Like how Brainstorm Ubuntu (or whatever it was called)? I might work but how would judge if the request is good or not? Via "Likes"?
A "Feature Request" category telegraphs to casual readers that developers are soliciting features from users, which is broadly not the intent.
It's an implied promise that somebody will listen to their idea and respond. Let's not make that commitment lightly.
Users get frustrated when their brilliant idea languishes, seemingly ignored. Users also get frustrated when a highly-voted idea seems to be ignored by developers.
Developers get frustrated by the generally low quality of most ideas. Developers also get frustrated by the (often unintentional) sense of user entitlement.
I'm not opposed to such a category, but suggest we work out the likely workflow for such posts to avoid the known potholes.
Well, those who recall Ubuntu Brainstorm will also recall how it progressed.
Well, although I liked (and miss) Ubuntu Brainstorm, I wasn't really suggesting any sort of voting system. Or even a guarantee that submitted requests would be reviewed.
Just to clarify, I'm suggesting a designated destination for the "drive-by" feature requests that this site will inevitably receive, so that such suggestions won't clog other categories, and so that those team members who want to review them, can find them.
Whether a team member replies or not would be up to the team member. Indeed, in view of your comments, maybe an auto-generated "we gets lots of suggestion, sorry if no one replies" type of message could be sent in reply to all submissions made in the "Feature Request" category (which auto-generated message may be inappropriate if sent after submission to other categories).
I'll be in this camp.
That assumes they post in that category.
The trouble with expecting people to actually bother to look for a category - read descriptions etc etc is why this thread was started.
People do not read much - especially when there's a big + New Topic button right there on the tool bar on the from page, which allows one to leave it Uncategorised.
This may end up making more work for the staff, especially as the site gains more traction. It might be worth it to create some canned replies like we use on the Forums.


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To avoid that stress of "rebound" are discharged within the knee, It is essential to anchor all the lower limb to the machine (the thigh to the seat and the leg to the movable arm) so that this "damaging" stresses are absorbed by the mechanical organ.
This operation, however, is not possible with current leg extension because there is a further problem related to the difference in machine / knee trajectory, also highlighted by the biobliographic analysis.
The movable arm moves, in fact, only with a rotary motion around a fixed center while the knee, after the 30 degrees, performs a roto-translational motion.
This implies that if the leg is anchored to the movable arm, it will drag the knee on its trajectory with fixed center.
The resolution of the problem, therefore, must necessarily provide that leg extension proposes a roto-translational movement of the movable arm, similar to those of the knee so that we can anchor the whole lower limb to the machine (the thigh to the seat and the leg to the movable arm) without causing removal situations between the articular heads and at the same time to discharge the "rebound" on the machine structure.


text:
var fs = require('fs');

var test = require('../test');

var ScheduleFactory = require(process.cwd() + '/lib/schedule-factory');

describe('ScheduleFactory',function() {

    var client = null;

    beforeEach(function () {
        test.mockery.enable();
        test.mockery.registerMock('then-redis', test.mockredis);
        test.mockery.warnOnUnregistered(false);
        test.mockredis.reset();
        client = test.mockredis.createClient();
    });

    afterEach(function () {
        test.mockery.deregisterMock('then-redis');
        test.mockery.disable();
        test.mockredis.snapshot().should.eql([]);
        test.pp.snapshot().should.eql([]);
    });

    it('should load a valid file', function (done) {
        test.mockredis.lookup.hgetall['m2m-schedule:test:periods'] = {result: 'OK'};

        var factory = new ScheduleFactory(client);
        factory.loadSchedulesFile('test','test-server/data/example-schedule.json',function(result){
            result.should.eql({result: 'OK'});
            test.mockredis.snapshot().should.eql([
                {del: 'm2m-schedule:test:periods'},
                {hmset: ['m2m-schedule:test:periods',
                    600,'["i20100","i20200","i20700","i20B00","i21200","i30100","i30600","i31500","i34100","i34600","i35100","i37300","i38800","i40100","iB7E00","iB7F00","i&1400"]',
                    240,'["i@5500"]',
                    60,'["i11300","i11400","i&1200"]',
                    45,'["i@C300"]'
                ]},
                {hgetall: 'm2m-schedule:test:periods'}
            ]);
            done();
        });
    });

    it('should detect an invalid file', function (done) {
        test.mockredis.lookup.hgetall['m2m-schedule:test:periods'] = {result: 'OK'};

        var factory = new ScheduleFactory(client);
        factory.loadSchedulesFile('test','unknown.file',function(result){
            [result].should.eql([null]);
            test.pp.snapshot().should.eql(['[sch-fact  ] load error: Error: ENOENT, no such file or directory \'unknown.file\'']);
            done();
        });
    });

    it('should detect an invalid json', function (done) {
        test.mockredis.lookup.hgetall['m2m-schedule:test:periods'] = {result: 'OK'};

        var factory = new ScheduleFactory(client);
        factory.loadSchedulesFile('test','test-server/data/invalid.json',function(result){
            [result].should.eql([null]);
            test.pp.snapshot().should.eql(['[sch-fact  ] load error: SyntaxError: Unexpected token .']);
            done();
        });
    });

    it('should allow an empty schedule to delete a hash',function(done){
        var factory = new ScheduleFactory(client);
        factory.loadSchedules('test',[],function(result){
            [result].should.eql([null]);
            test.mockredis.snapshot().should.eql([
                {del: 'm2m-schedule:test:periods'},
                {hgetall: 'm2m-schedule:test:periods'}
            ]);
            done();
        });
    });

    it('should export an empty schedule',function(done){
        var factory = new ScheduleFactory(client).exportSchedules('test',function(schedules){
            schedules.should.eql([]);
            test.mockredis.snapshot().should.eql([
                {hgetall: 'm2m-schedule:test:periods'}
            ]);
            done();
        });
    });

    it('should export a schedule',function(done){
        test.mockredis.lookup.hgetall['m2m-schedule:test:periods'] = {"100": '["TEST1","TEST2"]',"200": '["TEST3"]'};

        var factory = new ScheduleFactory(client).exportSchedules('test',function(schedules){
            schedules.should.eql([
                {period: 100,commands: ['TEST1','TEST2']},
                {period: 200,commands: ['TEST3']}
            ]);
            test.mockredis.snapshot().should.eql([
                {hgetall: 'm2m-schedule:test:periods'}
            ]);
            done();
        });
    });

    it('should export a schedule as JSON to a file',function(done){
        test.mockredis.lookup.hgetall['m2m-schedule:test:periods'] = {"100": '["TEST1","TEST2"]',"200": '["TEST3"]'};

        var factory = new ScheduleFactory(client).exportSchedulesFile('test','tmp/test-schedule.json',function(){
            var json = fs.readFileSync('tmp/test-schedule.json').toString();
            json.should.eql('[{"period":100,"commands":["TEST1","TEST2"]},{"period":200,"commands":["TEST3"]}]');
            test.mockredis.snapshot().should.eql([
                {hgetall: 'm2m-schedule:test:periods'}
            ]);
            done();
        });
    });

});

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After two losing seasons, Ron Rivera is optimistic Washington can make a Year 3 leap
By Nicki Jhabvala
January 3, 2022 at 7:15 p.m. EST
Washington Football Team head coach Ron Rivera walks off the field after Sunday's loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. (John McDonnell/The Washington Post)
Despite two losing seasons, one brief playoff appearance, continued uncertainty at quarterback and a slew of on-field and off-field issues for the Washington Football Team, Coach Ron Rivera remains optimistic the team will see significant improvement in Year 3.
"I'd like to believe so," he told reporters during a conference call Monday. "To me, there's a lot of things that we've been working on. A lot of things that we feel good about. There are some things that were out of our control this year that really hampered us. But at the end of the day, if you map things out, you plan things out and this is really what we believe, I don't see why not."
Washington's 20-16 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday eliminated any remaining hope of a postseason berth and created even more questions about the team's future. After a slow start to the season, Washington returned from its Week 9 bye to win four consecutive games and appeared to be a team on the rise. But amid a coronavirus outbreak and after injuries to many key players, Washington fell apart when it began a critical stretch of divisional games, losing four straight.
Before the start of the season, even before the start of training camp, Rivera began to publicly question the "maturity" of his team and how it would respond to adversity.
Washington has faced plenty of it since Week 1, when it lost starting quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick to a season-ending hip injury. And it would face even more with an array of on-field errors and headlines away from football, including an ongoing Drug Enforcement Administration investigation into two of its trainers, the leaking of racist emails from years ago involving former team president Bruce Allen and pressure from the House Committee on Oversight and Reform for the NFL to release a written report from the investigation into the team's previous workplace culture.
Jamin Davis, struggling to turn skills into production, nears end of underwhelming rookie year
When asked Monday of the biggest challenge since he arrived two years ago to revamp Washington's football operations, Rivera chuckled and said, "Honestly, it just hasn't been what's been on the field but [what] has been off the field, and that's tough sometimes, too." He mentioned injuries to key players, a hindrance that many teams experience and have little control over.
But as focus shifts from this season to the next, Rivera cited player "fit" as a priority as he and his front-office staff evaluate the next steps.
"Well, I think part of it is … the offensive structure that was here when we got here was different from what we do," he said. "The defensive structure was different from what we do. You try to take those guys and see if they fit, see if they mesh with what you want to do. In some cases, they have. In other cases, they haven't."
In his first season, with a staff composed of many of the assistants he had with the Carolina Panthers, Rivera set out to determine how much of the roster he inherited in Washington would fit in the new schemes, as it transitioned to Scott Turner's Air Coryell offense and Jack Del Rio's 4-3 defense.
The finer details, Rivera indicated Monday, are developed early in the process.
In the spring, Washington had most of its roster, save for a few absences including defensive ends Chase Young and Montez Sweat, participate in its voluntary workouts. Rivera reminded that organized team activities were not required and told players it was a personal choice. He also rewarded those who did attend by ending the workouts a week early, an indication he valued players' attendance as the team sought to rebuild its roster.
"One thing that we have to understand is just how important the offseason is for us," Rivera said Monday. "Hopefully the covid situation will be in control. Hopefully it won't be a battle to get guys to be here when we're working together so we can develop this cohesion that you need to go forward. There's a lot of things that come about when you do get together during those nine weeks that you have as far as OTAs and minicamp are concerned. Those are valuable. … It's time I think that we see this team start to take that big step forward."
But the "fit" of some players may also require time. The hope, according to one person with direct knowledge of the coaches' thinking, is that player accountability and ownership will naturally start to show more in Year 3.
Rivera said Monday that his plan for Washington hasn't changed and that much of his optimism for Year 3 is born out of his experience with the Panthers. They went 6-10 and 7-9 in Rivera's first two seasons as head coach. In Year 3, Carolina jumped to 12-4.
Washington finished its first season with Rivera with a 7-9 record and sits at 6-10 this season.
Among the many differences between the franchises, however, is a major one: Carolina had an MVP quarterback in Cam Newton. Washington has had six different starting quarterbacks since Rivera arrived and is still searching for its future quarterback.
Svrluga: Taylor Heinicke belongs in the NFL, but he's not Washington's QB of the future
The team has one game remaining, against the New York Giants at MetLife Stadium on Sunday, and although it no longer carries playoff implications, Rivera said his goal is twofold: to win, and to further evaluate lesser-known players.
"I think that's one of the things that we talked about today as a coaching staff was: 'Hey guys, we want to try and go out and set a tone early on and see what happens,' " Rivera said. " 'But at some point, just understand, we'd like to see some guys, and if there's guys that you want to see specifically, make sure we plan that out and we map it out.' … You want to play to win, but you also want to play for the future."
Taylor Heinicke will start Sunday, but Rivera didn't rule out the possibility of giving backup Kyle Allen, a soon-to-be restricted free agent, some playing time too. And he didn't rule out additional moves in the future, such as moving first-round rookie linebacker Jamin Davis out of the "Mike," or middle linebacker position, to free him of the extra "pressures" of being the quarterback of the defense and finding more ways to "optimize the talents" of Young, who is recovering from an ACL injury, and Sweat.
"You'd like to think by the third year your first two [draft classes] are ready to be on the field all the time," Rivera said. "That's kind of what you hope. I also hope to be able to couple them with a few guys that were here before and then a few guys that you brought to add on.
"I know expectations will be high. I know people will say: 'Well, it's your third season. This is what happens in the third season.' And, again, I get it. At the end of the day, we have some holes that we want to fill. We have some players we want to make sure are the right kind of guys that are going to be out on the football field. But that's all part of the process I believe in."
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Kevin B. Blackistone: If NFL players care about social justice, why haven't they rebuked the Commanders' defensive coordinator?
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Castleford Forum Museum
Touchscreen interactive exhibits and games showcase the history of the Castleford area, from the Romans to rugby, making the most of a building where space is at a premium.
Community involvement was key to the success of this new museum, developed to showcase the rich history of the Castleford area, from the Romans, to Rugby, to the upbringing of artist Henry Moore.
The public were keen to use the existing Carnegie Building library as the museum's home and this was refurbished and extended to house some prize exhibits. But with such a wealth of history to showcase and space at a premium, a technological answer was needed to the challenge of displaying all that the museum has to offer.
We developed three touchscreen interactives to display images and games around the themes of Roman life, the history of Rugby in the Castleford area, and the life of Henry Moore.
An interactive game follows the journey of a Roman messenger as he delivers important news to the fort in Castleford. Along his way he encounters a number of objects which shed light on life as a Roman in England.
Photo Viewer
An interactive touchscreen displays a wealth of photographic memorabilia throughout the history of Castleford Tigers Rugby Club, their fans, and sporting exploits.
Interactive Timeline
Henry Moore's life is explained using an interactive timeline to explore key events in the artist's history. The display also includes a number of images from the 'Castleford Sketchbook' by his school friend Albert Wainwright, recording many of the places that Moore would have been familiar with when living in the town in the 1920s.
We worked very closely with the curatorial team and Wakefield Council's in-house graphics team who were keen to maintain control over the look and experience of using the interactives. Together we were able to create touchscreen exhibits that had great visitor appeal.
In fact, we were thrilled to see this as part of a glowing review on Trip Advisor:
"Also to hand is a small touchscreen gadget with the relevant facts about Henry Moore and his life – even his wedding picture with Irina is on here. I'm not really a fan of electronic gadgets in museums – but this is an exception and very worthwhile – especially if you are a Henry Spencer Moore fan! Visit!"
If we can please someone who doesn't like interactive exhibits, we must be doing something right!
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python3-utils Documentation
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This repository contains a useful collection of python3 utilities.

Installation
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To install the latest release, type::

    pip install python3-utils

To install the latest code directly from source, type::

    pip install git+git://github.com/micahhausler/python3-utils.git


Karolinska Institute, Sweden Sachs Children and Youth Hospital, Sweden .
OBJECTIVE: To describe the frequency of symptoms and associated conditions among screening-detected celiac disease (CD) cases and non-CD children and to evaluate questionnaire-based case-finding targeting the general population. METHODS: In a population-based CD screening of 12-year-olds, children and their parents completed questionnaires on CD-associated symptoms and conditions before knowledge of CD status. Questionnaire data for those who had their CD detected in the screening (n = 153) were compared with those of children with normal levels of CD markers (n = 7016). Hypothetical case-finding strategies were also evaluated. Questionnaires were returned by 7054 ( 98%) of the children and by 6294 ( 88%) of their parents. RESULTS: Symptoms were as common among screening-detected CD cases as among non-CD children. The frequency of children with screening-detected CD was similar when comparing the groups with and without any CD-related symptoms (2.1% vs 2.1%; P =.930) or CD-associated conditions (3.6% vs 2.1%; P =.07). Case-finding by asking for CD-associated symptoms and/or conditions would have identified 52 cases (38% of all cases) at a cost of analyzing blood samples for 2282 children (37%) in the study population. CONCLUSIONS: The current recommended guidelines for finding undiagnosed CD cases, so-called active case-finding, fail to identify the majority of previously undiagnosed cases if applied in the general population of Swedish 12- year-olds. Our results warrant further studies on the effectiveness of CD case-finding in the pediatric population, both at the clinical and population-based levels.


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andreafernandes
9 April 2016

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###Introduction and Background for Gapminder Problem Set 5 Exercise

```r
# https://www.udacity.com/course/viewer#!/c-ud651/l-770038733/e-867869590/m-901058638

# The Gapminder website contains over 500 data sets with information about
# the world's population. Your task is to continue the investigation you did at the
# end of Problem Set 4 or you can start fresh and choose a different
# data set from Gapminder.

# If you're feeling adventurous or want to try some data munging see if you can
# find a data set or scrape one from the web.

# In your investigation, examine 3 or more variables and create 2-5 plots that make
# use of the techniques from Lesson 5.

# You can find a link to the Gapminder website in the Instructor Notes.

# Once you've completed your investigation, create a post in the discussions that includes:
#       1. the variable(s) you investigated, your observations, and any summary statistics
#       2. snippets of code that created the plots
#       3. links to the images of your plots

# Copy and paste all of the code that you used for
# your investigation, and submit it when you are ready.
# ============================================================================================
```

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###My "Gapminder" project Aims and Objectives using the Antidepressant Dataset

####**Part 1: Antidepressant Use in Secondary Mental Health Care Patients**

The aim of this part of the project is to understand how antidepressants are used among depressed patients in this secondary mental health care setting. In other words, what are the common prescriptions of antidepressants in this secondary mental health care facility? How are antidepressants prescribed? Is the entire cohort receiving antidepressant treatment?

####**Part 2: Comparing Antidepressant users to Non antidepressant users**

All patients in this cohort have a diagnosis of depression. About half the individuals in this cohort are not on any antidepressants during the snapshot. Are there any differences in the patients using antidepressants compared to patients not using antidepressants?

####**Part 3: Antidepressant Use and Suicide Attempt**

There is some indication that one of the side-effects of antidepressant use is suicidality (i.e. suicidal ideation, suicdie attempt or death by suicide) [ref]. Conducting preliminary analysis, is there any indication that use of antidepressant may be associated with suicide attempts?

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###THE DATASET

**Description of the Antidepressant dataset.**

The dataset used here is a 6 month snapshot of antidepressant use among mental health patients with a clinical diagnosis of depression.

**Data Source**

The data is derived from a mental health clinical trust based in South London and covers an area with a population of around 1.4 million residents. The trust provides secondary mental health care to individuals who are referred by GPs, privately referred, A&E and self-referrals.

In 2008, a research facility was founded which used pseudonymised the electronic clinical records from the South London trust for research and clinical audit purposes. Currently there are ~250000 records within this research database. Within the database, there are around 70000 individuals with a clinical diagnosis of dperession, who were known to the trust (comorbid depression included).

**The Sample**

To investigate or explore AntiDepressant (AD) use I selected individuals who met both of the following criteria:

|_Inclusion Criteria_|
|:-------|
| 1) Patient had a clinical diagnosis of dpression but no other major mental disorder (such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder etc)|
| 2) Patient had some face to face contact with clinical staff at some point during the 1st of March 2014 to 31st August 2014. |

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The sample consisted of 4157 patients.

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|_**Acronym Key**_|  |
|:-------|:-------|
|AD | AntiDepressant |
|Snapshot period | Randomly selected 6 month period from 1st of March, 2014 to the 31st of August, 2014|
|LSOA code | Lower Super Output Area code (it's an area level address code) |
|TCA | Antidepressant class: TriCyclic Antidepressants|
|MAOI | Antidepressant class: Mono Amine Oxidase Inhibitors |
|SSRI | Antidepressant class: Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors|
|SNRI | Antidepressant class: Selective Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitors|

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###Part 1: ANTIDEPRESSANT USE
![](Antidepressants_files/figure-html/Chuck C-1.png)

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The plot above shows the number of patients within each antidepressant prescribed at the Trust. The tables below provide the corresponding numbers.

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**Number of patients on each antidepressant.**

AD_Type_and_Name   count
-----------------  ------
DOXEPIN            1
MIANSERIN          1
FLUVOXAMINE        3
MOCLOBEMIDE        3
TRANYLCYPROMAINE   3
NORTRIPTYLINE      4
PHENELZINE         4
TRIMIPRAMINE       4
IMIPRAMINE         6
REBOXETINE         6
LOFEPRAMINE        9
BUPROPION          14
AGOMELATIN         16
TRAZODONE          16
DOSULEPIN          18
CLOMIPRAMINE       26
PAROXETINE         54
AMITRIPTYLINE      99
ESCITALOPRAM       104
DOLUXETINE         109
VENLAFAXINE        333
FLUOXETINE         337
CITALOPRAM         391
SERTRALINE         544
MIRTAZAPINE        616

___What's the most common antidepressant prescribed?___

      - Mirtazapine, an atypical antidepressant with noradrenergic and specific serotonergic activity, is the

        MOST COMMONLY prescribed / used antidepressant within the 6-month snapshot period.

      - Followed by SSRI Sertraline, SSRI Citalopram, SNRI Venlafaxine and SSRI Fluoxetine.

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####Type of Antidepressant Users

Are patients being prescribed single antidepressant drugs or in combination?

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![](Antidepressants_files/figure-html/Chunk J5.1-1.png)

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Antidepressants are most commonly prescribed as single antidepressants.

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![](Antidepressants_files/figure-html/Chunk J6-1.png)

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Patients who are prescribed multiple antidepressants get prescribed different classes of antidepressants as opposed to antidepressants within the same class (e.g. SSRI in combination with an SNRI as opposed to another SSRI).

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Here's corresponding numbers to the graphs above.

####**Most Common Multiple Antidepressant user groups**

Type.of.multiple.AD.user       count
-----------------------------  ------
MAOI.SNRI                      1
OtherAD.Mirtazapine            1
TCA.MAOI                       1
MAOI.SSRI                      2
MAOI.class.AD.user             6
SNRI.OtherAD                   9
SSRI.OtherAD                   10
TCA.SNRI                       18
TCA.Mirtazapine                25
ThreeAndMore.classes.AD.user   50
TCA.SSRI                       53
SSRI.SNRI                      54
TCA.class.AD.user              55
SNRI.Mirtazapine               104
SSRI.Mirtazapine               142
SNRI.class.AD.user             234
Mirt.class.AD.user             291
SSRI.class.AD.user             980

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####**Most common Single antidepressant user groups**

Antidepressant                count
----------------------------  ------
SNRI_REBOXETINEFlag           1
SSRI_FLUVOXAMINEFlag          1
TCA_IMIPRAMINEFlag            1
MAOI_PHENELZINEFlag           2
MAOI_TRANYLCYPROMAINEFlag     2
REVERSEMAOI_MOCLOBEMIDEFlag   2
TCA_NORTRIPTYLINEFlag         2
OTHERAD_BUPROPIONFlag         4
OtherAD_TrazodoneFlag         4
OTHERAD_AGOMELATINFlag        5
TCA_LOFEPRAMINEFlag           5
TCA_DOSULEPINFlag             9
TCA_CLOMIPRAMINEFlag          13
TCA_AmitriptylineFlag         21
SSRI_PAROXETINEFlag           33
SSRI_ESCITALOPRAMFlag         51
SNRI_DOLUXETINEFlag           59
OTHERAD_VENLAFAXINEFlag       169
SSRI_FLUOXETINEFlag           222
SSRI_CITALOPRAMFlag           232
MirtazapineFlag               291
SSRI_SERTRALINEFlag           336

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___Are all patients with depression prescribed antidepressants?___

Table: Number of Patients on Antidepressants versus off Antidepressants

 PatientonAD    count    percentage
-------------  -------  ------------
     No         2118       50.95
     Yes        2039       49.05

There seems to be a 50:50 split, about half the patients are on AD and the other half not on antidepressants at the time of the study snapshot. Let's compare the two groups to see if they are different in any way...

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###Part 2: COMPARING ANTIDEPRESSANT USERS TO NON ANTIDEPRESSANT USERS

**Demographic Differences**

Table: Antidepressant Use Status by Gender (Number of Patients)

          Not on AD    On AD
-------  -----------  -------
Female      1350       1278
Male         767        762

Table: Antidepressant Use Status by Gender (row percentage)

          Not on AD (%)    On AD (%)
-------  ---------------  -----------
Female        51.37          48.63
Male          50.16          49.84

```
##
## 	Pearson's Chi-squared test with Yates' continuity correction
##
## data:  ad.use.gender.diff
## X-squared = 0.51642, df = 1, p-value = 0.4724
```

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_No difference in AD users and non-users by gender._

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Table: Antidepressant Use Status by Ethnicity (totals)

         Not on AD    On AD
------  -----------  -------
Asian       82         128
Black       396        320
Other       326        227
White      1314       1364

Table: Antidepressant Use Status by Ethnicity (row percentage)

         Not on AD (%)    On AD (%)
------  ---------------  -----------
Asian        39.05          60.95
Black        55.31          44.69
Other        58.95          41.05
White        49.07          50.93

```
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## 	Pearson's Chi-squared test
##
## data:  ad.use.ethnicity
## X-squared = 35.312, df = 3, p-value = 1.047e-07
```

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_There is a difference in the proportion of patients on and off antidepressants by etnnicity. A lot more patients of Asian ethnicity are on Antidepressants compared to othe ethnic groups. There is some association between ethnicity and antidepressant use._

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**Age Distribution by Patient Antidepressant Use Status**
<img src="Antidepressants_files/figure-html/Chunk H-1.png" title="" alt="" style="display: block; margin: auto;" />

 Patient on Antidepressants    mean age (years)    Standard Deviation
----------------------------  ------------------  --------------------
             No                     39.58                16.76
            Yes                     45.09                18.13

```
##
## 	Wilcoxon rank sum test with continuity correction
##
## data:  age[PatientonAD == 1] and age[PatientonAD == 0]
## W = 2518900, p-value < 2.2e-16
## alternative hypothesis: true location shift is not equal to 0
```

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_Individuals taking antidepressants are older._

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Table: Antidepressant Use by (Residence) Area Deprivation (totals)

               Not on AD    On AD
------------  -----------  -------
(1.64,17.1]       214        309
(17.1,32.5]      1047        920
(32.5,48]         805        751
(48,63.5]         58         53

Table: Antidepressant Use by (Residence) Area Deprivation (row percentages)

               Not on AD (%)    On AD (%)
------------  ---------------  -----------
(1.64,17.1]        41.00          59.00
(17.1,32.5]        53.22          46.78
(32.5,48]          51.75          48.25
(48,63.5]          51.89          48.11

_Row labels_: (1.64, 17.1] - Least deprived area of residence ; (48,63.5] - Most deprived area of residence

```
##
## 	Pearson's Chi-squared test
##
## data:  ad.use.deprivation
## X-squared = 24.059, df = 3, p-value = 2.428e-05
```

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_The difference in deprivation quartiles by antidepressant use is significant. While there are similar proportions of individuals in each deprivation quartile on and off antidepressants, there is relatively less representation of patients from the extreme levels of deprivation._

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**Clinical Differences**

I used "Past Inpatient Status", "Number of prior Admissions to the Trust" and "HoNOS Total" to be proxy measures of _clinical severity_.

```
## Warning: Removed 3170 rows containing non-finite values (stat_bin).
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![](Antidepressants_files/figure-html/Chunk H1.2-1.png)

Table: Number of Past Admissions (Spells) To Trust by Antidepressant Status

                      Not on AD (%)   On AD (%)
-------------------  --------------  ----------
2 - 4 spells                  46.00       54.00
More than 4 spells            51.87       48.13

```
##
## 	Pearson's Chi-squared test with Yates' continuity correction
##
## data:  ad.use.spell
## X-squared = 2.973, df = 1, p-value = 0.08466
```

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_There is no association between number of admissions and antidepressant use._

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Table: Past Inpatient Status by Antidepressant Status

                        Not on AD (%)   On AD (%)
---------------------  --------------  ----------
Was an Inpatient                28.88       71.12
Was Not an Inpatient            53.09       46.91

```
##
## 	Pearson's Chi-squared test with Yates' continuity correction
##
## data:  ad.use.inpatient
## X-squared = 77.472, df = 1, p-value < 2.2e-16
```

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_More individuals who were inpatients in the past, are currently on antidepressants._

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Table: Recent HoNOS total by Antidepressant Status

            Not on AD (%)   On AD (%)
---------  --------------  ----------
Mild                49.28       50.72
Moderate            52.43       47.57
Severe              36.84       63.16

```
##
## 	Pearson's Chi-squared test
##
## data:  ad.use.honos.total
## X-squared = 1.5828, df = 2, p-value = 0.4532
```

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_Clinical severity doesn't seem to be associated with antidepressant use._

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###Part 3: Antidepressant Use and Suicide Attempt

There is some evidence that antidepressant use may lead to suicidal ideation and attempts. Here i will explore the suicide attempt variable and ascertain whether it is associated / correlated with antidepressant use.

If there is a significant association, can we pinpoint to a specific class of antidepressants?

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       Not on Antidepressants   On Antidepressants
----  -----------------------  -------------------
No                        959                  713
Yes                      1159                 1326

```
##
## 	Pearson's Chi-squared test with Yates' continuity correction
##
## data:  ad.use.suicide.attempt
## X-squared = 45.504, df = 1, p-value = 1.523e-11
```

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_What do the above tables and test tell you about patients attempting suicide and antidepresant use?_

      - About **two thirds** of my cohort have attempted suicide within the snapshot period.

      - There is a difference in the proportion of individuals who attempt suicide in

      antidepressant user versus antidepressant non user groups.

      - This difference is significant with a p-value < 0.005

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Robotnik's Pyramid Scheme
USA/France, 1993 TV
TV-series Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic's opponent Robotnik heads to ancient Egypt to get the Emerald of Immortality and to ensure Sonic's ancestors never meet so that he will never be born. Sonic and Tails go after him, prevent Robotnik from interfering with his ancestors' meeting, and then race to the crypt of Robotnik's ancestor Robotnikhotep, where the Emerald is kept. Robotnik successfully obtains the Emerald, but, Sonic steals it back with help from his ancestors and sends him, Scratch, and Grounder forward in time to a dogfight during World War II.
Episode from the animated slapstick comedy series "The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog" that ran for 65 episodes in only one season. It follows the escapades of the video game character Sonic the Hedgehog, and his sidekick Miles 'Tails' Prower as they attempt to stop the evil Doctor Robotnik and his array of vicious robots from taking over the planet Mobius.


For a girl who is always on the go, I try to be "Runway Ready". I always like to incorporate fitness & style together in my outfits.
Special thanks to Finish Line and Brandon for giving me a chance to try out the Nike Flyknit Lunar 2's!
Do not be afraid of brightly colored shoes.
In street wear & active wear, they are a huge eye popping addition to your wardrobe. Neutrals are your best friend if you are unsure what colors to coordinate with it. Not sure if you guys can tell, but my favorite color is black! Personally, I love wearing black bottoms so that my kicks can stand out even more. I'd even go for an all white look with these bright babies too.
HOW TO ADD "LIFE" TO YOUR "STYLE"
I believe every girl should own a classic leather jacket. I promise you ladies that you can wear it with a million outfits and it really does add style to your outfit!
I paired up an H&M Leather Jacket, Nike Crop Tank, Nike Tech Pack Pants, Nike Flyknit Lunar2s & Louro Leather Backpack. Add some minimal yet showcasing accessories to your outfit to finish it off!