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Death In Practice
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Women, Birth, and Death in Jewish Law and Practice
Women, Birth, and Death in Jewish Law and Practice by Rochelle L. Millen Book Summary:
A sensitive exploration of the development of pivotal life cycle rituals as they touch Jewish women's lives.
Neuroethics in Practice
Neuroethics in Practice by Anjan Chatterjee,Martha J. Farah Book Summary:
Neuroethics is concerned with the wide array of ethical, legal and social issues that are raised in research and practice. The field has grown rapidly over the last five years, becoming an active interdisciplinary research area involving a much larger set of academic fields and professions, including law, developmental psychology, neuropsychiatry, and the military. Neuroethics and Practice helps to define and foster this emerging area at the intersection of neuroethics and clinical neuroscience, which includes neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry and their pediatric subspecialties, as well as neurorehabiliation, clinical neuropsychology, clinical bioethics, and the myriad other clinical specialties (including nursing and geriatrics) in which practitioners grapple with issues of mind and brain. Chatterjee and Farah have brought together leading neuroethicists working in clinically relevant areas to contribute chapters on an intellectually fascinating and clinically important set of neuroethical topics, involving brain enhancements, brain imaging, competence and responsibility, severe brain damage, and consequences of new neurotechnologies. Although this book will be of direct interest to clinicians, as the first edited volume to provide an overall comprehensive perspective on neurethics across disciplines, it is also a unique and useful resource for a wide range of other scholars and students interested in ethics and neuroscience.
Preventing Sudden Death in Sport and Physical Activity
Preventing Sudden Death in Sport and Physical Activity by Douglas J. Casa Book Summary:
5 Stars! Doody's Review Service "Not only will this book educate readers on current concepts and techniques, it also will serve as a valuable reference for developing strategies, policies, and procedures for practicing clinicians." Published in Cooperation with the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), Preventing Sudden Death in Sport and Physical Activity examines the etiology, prevention, recognition, treatment, and return-to-play protocol of the common causes of sudden death in sport. Chapters are written by content area experts, offering a blend of clinical, scientific, and research expertise regarding each medical condition that is discussed. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images or content found in the physical edition.
Medical Ethics in Practice
Medical Ethics in Practice by Terry R. Bard Book Summary:
Interdisciplinary group of clinicians at Beth Israel Hospital convened to review ethical issues.
Judaism in Practice
Judaism in Practice by Lawrence Fine Book Summary:
Collects a wide range of writings, from autobiographical sketches and legal codes to folk literature and liturgical poetry, to provide a sweeping view of medieval and early modern Jewish ritual and religious practice that considers many lesser-known aspects of Jewish culture. Reprint.
Essentials of Autopsy Practice
Essentials of Autopsy Practice by Guy N. Rutty Book Summary:
Essentials of Autopsy Practice: Innovations, Updates and Advances in Practice is the fifth volume in the Essentials in Autopsy Practice series, covering topics of current and future interest. Designed to keep all involved in the investigation of death abreast of changes within the field, this volume covers a wide range of topical areas which can be encountered around the world. Essentials of Autopsy Practice: Innovations, Updates and Advances in Practice covers death by drowning; deaths from extreme temperature; the radioactive autopsy; chemical contamination and the autopsy; blast injuries; forensic odontology identification; and determination of the force used to cause an injury. Useful to both trainees and consultants in all specialty areas within pathology, including forensic pathology, Essentials of Autopsy Practice: Innovations, Updates and Advances in Practice also serves as a guide to all those involved in death investigation, i.e. nurses, lawyers, paramedics and police officers.
Textbook Of Forensic Medicine And Toxicology: Principles And Practice
Textbook Of Forensic Medicine And Toxicology: Principles And Practice by Vij Book Summary:
The book is a comprehensive and authoritative exposition of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology. It provides precise and useful information on relevant legal provisions and forensic anatomy, and promotes interdisciplinary understanding of issues where law an medicine converge. The text is oriented towards the practical problems ncountered during day-to-day medicollegal work. About the Author : - Krishnan Vij, MD, L.L.B. is Professor and Head, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Government Medical College & Hospital, Chandigarh, India.
Pursuing Death
Pursuing Death by S. Settar Book Summary:
On various aspects of death found in Jaina religious thought and in epigraphs, canonical texts, Kannada literature, etc.
Principles and Practice of Child and Adolescent Forensic Mental Health
Principles and Practice of Child and Adolescent Forensic Mental Health by Elissa P. Benedek,Peter Ash,Charles L. Scott Book Summary:
When care of younger patients raises thorny legal questions, you need answers you can trust: that's why this book belongs on every clinician's reference shelf. Principles and Practice of Child and Adolescent Forensic Mental Health is a timely and authoritative source that covers issues ranging from child custody to litigation concerns as it walks clinicians through the often-confusing field of depositions and courtroom testimony. The book expands on the 2002 volume Principles and Practice of Child and Adolescent Forensic Psychiatry winner of the 2003 Manfred S. Guttmacher Award, to meet pressing twenty-first-century concerns, from telepsychiatry to the Internet, while continuing to cover basic issues, such as forensic evaluation, psychological screening, and the interviewing of children for suspected sexual abuse, that are important to both new and experienced practitioners. Many of its chapters have been entirely rewritten by new authors to provide fresh insight into such topics as child custody; juvenile law; abuse, neglect, and permanent wardship cases; transcultural, transracial, and gay/lesbian parenting and adoption; and the reliability and suggestibility of children's statements. It also includes significant material not found in the previous volume: Two chapters on special education offer an introduction to screening instruments and help practitioners determine a child's potential need for special education programs and services. A chapter on cultural competence helps readers improve the accuracy and responsiveness of forensic evaluations and minimize the chance of an unjust outcome resulting from misguided expert opinion. The section on youth violence features three new chapters -- Taxonomy and Neurobiology of Aggression, Prevention of School Violence, and Juvenile Stalkers -- plus a newly written chapter on assessment of violence risk, offering guidance on how to confront problems such as bullying and initiate effective family interventions. A chapter on psychiatric malpractice and professional liability addresses these legal concerns with an eye toward cases involving minors. A chapter on psychological autopsy covers evaluation of the circumstances surrounding pediatric suicides, describing various types of equivocal deaths and discussing legal issues such as admissibility of the autopsy in court. A newly written chapter on the Internet expands the previous book's focus on child pornography to help practitioners deal with issues ranging from online threats to emotional and legal consequences of interactions in cyberspace. This is a valuable reference not only for practitioners in psychiatry and the mental health field but also for attorneys and judges. It opens up a field that may be too often avoided and helps professionals make their way through legal thickets with confidence.
Heritage of Death
Heritage of Death by Mattias Frihammar,Helaine Silverman Book Summary:
Today, death is being reconceptualised around the world as heritage, replete with material markers and intangible performances. These heritages of death are personal, national and international. They are vernacular as well as official, sanctioned as well as alternative. This book brings together more than twenty international scholars to consider the heritage of death from spatial, political, religious, economic, cultural, aesthetic and emotive aspects. It showcases different attitudes and phases of death and their relationship to heritage through ethnographically informed case studies to illustrate both general patterns and local and national variations. Through analyses of material expressions and social practices of grief, mourning and remembrance, this book shows not only what death means in contemporary societies, but also how individuals, groups and nations act towards death.
Neurocritical Care, An Issue of Critical Care Clinics,
Neurocritical Care, An Issue of Critical Care Clinics, by Cherylee W.J. Chang Book Summary:
This issue of Critical Care Clinics focuses on Neurocritical Care and covers topics such as: The Evolution of Neurocritical Care, Update in management of acute ischemic stroke, Intracerebral hemorrhage, Subarachnoid treatment, Intracranial pressure monitoring and management of intracranial hypertension, Status Epilepticus, Brain Resuscitation and Prognosis after Cardiac Arrest, Neuromuscular complications of Critical Illness, Adverse Neurological Effects of Commonly Used ICU medications, and Brain death and management of a potential organ donor.
Death and Changing Rituals
Death and Changing Rituals by J. Rasmus Brandt,HÎkon Ingvaldsen,Marina Prusac Book Summary:
The forms by which a deceased person may be brought to rest are as many as there are causes of death. In most societies the disposal of the corpse is accompanied by some form of celebration or ritual which may range from a simple act of deportment in solitude to the engagement of large masses of people in laborious and creative festivities. In a funerary context the term ritual may be taken to represent a process that incorporates all the actions performed and thoughts expressed in connection with a dying and dead person, from the preparatory pre-death stages to the final deposition of the corpse and the post-mortem stages of grief and commemoration. The contributions presented here are focused not on the examination of different funerary practices, their function and meaning, but on the changes of such rituals _ how and when they occurred and how they may be explained. Based on case studies from a range of geographical regions and from different prehistoric and historical periods, a range of key themes are examined concerning belief and ritual, body and deposition, place, performance and commemoration, exploring a complex web of practices.
Buddhist Rituals of Death and Rebirth
Buddhist Rituals of Death and Rebirth by Rita Langer Book Summary:
In Buddhist thought and practice, death has always been a central concept. This book provides a careful and thorough analysis of the rituals and social customs surrounding death in the Theravada tradition of Sri Lanka. Rita Langer describes the rituals of death and rebirth and investigates their ancient origins, analyzing social issues of the relationship between monks and lay people in this context. This aspect is of particular interest as death rituals are the only life cycle ritual in which Theravada Buddhist monks are actively involved. Drawing on early Vedic sutras and Pali texts as well as archaeological and epigraphical material, Buddhist Rituals of Death and Rebirth establishes that Sri Lankan rituals are deeply rooted in their pre-Buddhist, Vedic precursors. Whilst beliefs and doctrines have undergone considerable changes over the centuries, it becomes evident that the underlying practices have largely remained stable. The first comprehensive study of death rituals in Theravada Buddhist practice, this is an important contribution to the fields of Buddhist studies, indology, anthropology and religious studies.
Clinical and Genetic Aspects of Sudden Cardiac Death in the Practice of Sports Medicine
Clinical and Genetic Aspects of Sudden Cardiac Death in the Practice of Sports Medicine by Lynne Millar,Nabeel Sheikh,Sanjay Sharma Book Summary:
Sudden cardiac death is the leading cause of non-traumatic mortality in young (
Death and the Afterlife in Japanese Buddhism
Death and the Afterlife in Japanese Buddhism by Jacqueline Ilyse Stone,Mariko Namba Walter Book Summary:
"For more than a thousand years, Buddhism has dominated Japanese death rituals and concepts of the afterlife. The nine essays in this volume, ranging chronologically from the tenth century to the present, bring to light both continuity and change in death practices over time. They also explore the interrelated issues of how Buddhist death rites have addressed individual concerns about the afterlife while also filling social and institutional needs and how Buddhist death-related practices have assimilated and refigured elements from other traditions, bringing together disparate, even conflicting, ideas about the dead, their postmortem fate, and what constitutes normative Buddhist practice." "Death and the Afterlife in Japanese Buddhism constitutes a major step toward understanding how Buddhism in Japan has forged and retained its hold on deathrelated thought and practice, providing one of the most detailed and comprehensive accounts of the topic to date."--BOOK JACKET.
The Role of Death in the Ladder of Divine Ascent and the Greek Ascetic Tradition
The Role of Death in the Ladder of Divine Ascent and the Greek Ascetic Tradition by Jonathan L. Zecher Book Summary:
The Ladder of Divine Ascent, the work of an otherwise shadowy figure, John Climacus (meaning of the Ladder), abbot of St. Catherine's, Sinai (ca. 579-649 CE), is one of the most popular and enduring classics of Greek ascetic spiritual direction. Hailed as the great synthesis of early ascetic writings, the Ladder presents a spirituality self-consciously rooted in the literary and theological tradition of the Desert Fathers and the Great Old Men of Gaza. Despite its incredible popularity among monastic and lay readers, the Ladder is virtually unknown in scholarship. In this work, Jonathan L. Zecher offers a sustained study of the Ladder's spiritual vision, which is contextualized within an equally sustained genealogical survey of Climacus' own tradition. The Ladder is built up through the 'memory of death', a term referring to admonitions of early authors to remember one's inevitable but unknowable death and to contemplate the divine judgment which would follow to cultivate particular ascetic, Christian, lifestyles in their readers. In the literature that formed Climacus, every aspect of the 'memory of death' varied considerably, but Climacus draws these together in the Ladder so that death and the judgment which follows defines a symbolic framework within which monks reflect on their past and approach the future. Climacus also took up metaphorical practices of dying to oneself and others to craft an idea of spiritual progress in the imitation of Christ taking into account failure and frailty. At the heart of this study is the abiding question of how tradition forms, and in the Ladder is an outstanding example of how unflinching fidelity to tradition results in a creative, synthetic achievement.
Clinical Measurement in Drug Evaluation
Clinical Measurement in Drug Evaluation by Nimmo/Tucker Book Summary:
Clinical measurement of the therapeutic and adverse effects of a drug is an important part of drug evaluation and registration. This volume presents full coverage of the principles and practice of the measurement of drug effects in humans and its role in the evaluation and development of new drugs. Clinical interpretation and relevance of data, as well as the acceptability and accuracy of methodology are emphasized together with the special problems of the cardiovascular system and the central nervous system. Contributions are from an international team of scientists and clinicians from both academia and industry. Clinical Measurement in Drug Evaluation will be useful for clinical and research scientists, research-based pharmacologists, and the pharmaceutical industry.
Modernism in Practice
Modernism in Practice by Leith Morton Book Summary:
Postwar modernist verse has been rarely discussed in English-language works on Japanese literature, despite the fact that it has been the dominant mode of poetic expression in Japan since World War II. Now readers of modern Japanese poetry in translation have gained an impressive intellectual and linguistic companion in their enjoyment of modern Japanese verse. Modernism in Practice combines close readings of individual Japanese postwar poets and poetry with historical and critical analysis. Five of the seven chapters concentrate on the life and work of such outstanding poets as Soh Sakon, Ishigaki Rin, Ito Hiromi, Asabuki Ryoji, and Tanikawa Shuntaro. Several of these writers have only come into prominence in recent decades, so this work also serves to acquaint readers with contemporary Japanese verse. A significant dimension of this volume is the detailed and extensive treatment afforded two important areas of postwar Japanese verse: the poetry of women and of Okinawa. Modernism in Practice is noteworthy not only as an introduction to postwar Japanese poets and their times, but also for the numerous poems that appear in translation throughout the volume--many for the first time in book form.
Dying, Death, & Bereavement in Social Work Practice
Dying, Death, & Bereavement in Social Work Practice by Terry A. Wolfer,Vicki M. Runnion Book Summary:
Practitioners who work with clients at the end of their lives face difficult decisions concerning the client's self-determination, the kind of death he or she will have, and the prolongation of life. They must also remain sensitive to the beliefs and needs of family members and the legal, ethical, and spiritual ramifications of the client's death. Featuring twenty-three decision cases based on interviews with professional social workers, this unique volume allows students to wrestle with the often incomplete and conflicting information, ethical issues, and time constraints of actual cases. Instead of offering easy solutions, this book provides detailed accounts that provoke stimulating debates among students, enabling them to confront their own responses, beliefs, and uncertainties to hone their critical thinking and decision making skills for professional practice. *Please note: Teaching Notes for this volume will be available from Electronic Hallway in Spring 2010. To access the Teaching Notes, you must first become a member of the Electronic Hallway. The main Electronic Hallway web page is at https://hallway.org/index.php. To join, click Become a Hallway Member in the Get Involved category or point your browser directly to https://hallway.org/involved/join.php and provide the required information. After your instructor status has been confirmed, you will receive an e-mail granting access to the Electronic Hallway. Once logged on to Electronic Hallway as a member, click Case Search in the Cases and Resources category on themain web page. Enter "death, dying, bereavement" (without the quotation marks) in the search box, select "all of the words" in the drop down menu, and click Submit. The search process will generate a list of Teaching Notes for cases from Dying, Death, and Bereavement in Social Work Practice: Decision Cases for Advanced Practice.
A Nurse's Survival Guide to Drugs in Practice E-BOOK
A Nurse's Survival Guide to Drugs in Practice E-BOOK by Ann Richards Book Summary:
The 'Nurses' Survival Guide to Drugs in Practice' is a handy pocketbook designed to provide succinct information on a wide variety of drugs that nurses need to look up quickly. It provides an understandable and detailed account of common drugs and their actions. The level is suitable for all nurses in practice, including qualified and student nurses, as well as those taking Supplementary Prescribing Courses and will also be useful to other healthcare professionals . Pocket sized and easily transportable, it will become a constant companion both in ward and community environments. As well as the more routine use of drugs in clinical practice it covers emergency situations, such as cardiac arrest and anaphylaxis. • Comprehensive coverage of drugs in use to offer security in any clinical setting • Succinct and clear information in boxes, lists etc to facilitate assimilation of information 'on the spot' • Attractive page design and well signposted layout to enable quick access to the right information • Flexicover to maintain quality in a clinical setting and when frequently used • Covers basic pharmacology including drug absorption and metabolism as well as explaining how drugs actually work • Fully up to date with government guidelines e,g, from NICE, the Resuscitation Council and the British Thoracic Society etc. • Additional sections on the legal aspects of administering and prescribing drugs, drug calculations and paediatric doses
Religions of the United States in Practice
Religions of the United States in Practice by Colleen McDannell Book Summary:
A two-part anthology of documents and essays examines a wide range of religious behavior in Americaù from praying, singing, and teaching to dreams and fictional writingsùsetting each within its historical context and covering in the second volume the twentieth century. Reprint.
Sudden Cardiac Death by Patricia M. Owen Book Summary:
This book describes the incidence, mechanisms, pathology, and risk factors related to sudden cardiac death; noninvasive and electrophysiologic evaluation of sudden cardiac death survivors; sudden cardiac death in children; ethical considerations; the nursing process as it relates to modern cardiac life support; basic and advanced cardiac life support practice; nursing diagnosis with pertinent assessment factors and interventions; and much more. As sudden cardiac death continues to be a major health and ethical challenge, this outstanding new book provides the theoretical and practical background nurses need to care for sudden cardiac death patients.
Forensic Approaches to Death, Disaster and Abuse
Forensic Approaches to Death, Disaster and Abuse by Marc Oxenham Book Summary:
During the last 100 years infant mortality rates have improved dramatically, yet even in a developed country such as Australia the physical health of infants varies greatly, despite advances in science and technology. It has now become clear that emotional and physical development is affected by many different variables. Not only must physical development and health support be adequate, but the presence of factors such as good-enough parenting, and the absence of others such as substance abuse and domestic violence, are now becoming better understood. So how best to work with families where infants are at risk? This is the substance of this book: to understand how to achieve improved outcomes for infants growing up in situations of risk, mainly in the area of the parents' mental health, but also in other related psychosocial circumstances that may impair parental functioning. These include migration, substance abuse, and infant hospitalisation. Throughout this book, the authors examine the effects of adverse life circumstances on infant and family and, in most cases, also describe assessments and interventions. Several chapters have been written by people personally affected by mental illness, or mental illness of a family member. This provides in-depth and often poignant understanding of the perspective of those living with the effects of such illnesses, and helps to expand our knowledge and skills to work with at-risk families.
Angiology in Practice
Angiology in Practice by A-M. Salmasi,A. Strano Book Summary:
Arterial and venous diseases are major causes of morbidity and mortality in most of the world, especially in the western hemisphere. Not only of interest to angiologists, these illnesses are also of concern to most physicians in various fields ranging from cardiology, general medicine and cardiovascular surgery to physiology, pathology and clinical pharmacology. Specialists in diabetes, hypertension and epidemiology find these illnesses as challenging in their own fields of interest due to the gross interrelation of these diseases with their specialities. This book of 35 chapters contains an up-to-date discussion of various arterial and venous illnesses presenting major clinical applications ranging from basic pathology, haemodynamics and haemorheology to clinical features and management. Special attention has also been paid to epidemiology and prevention, discussing all the issues concerned. A special section on vascular emergency has also been included, thereby extending its usefulness to physicians and surgeons working in accident and emergency units.
Death and Philosophy
Death and Philosophy by J.E Malpas,Robert C. Solomon Book Summary:
Death and Philosophy considers these questions with different perspectives varying from the existentialist - deriving from Camus, Heidegger or Sartre, to the English speaking analytic tradition of Bernard Williams or Thomas Nagel; to non-wester approaches such as are exemplified in the Tibetan Book of the Dead and in Daoist thought; to perspectives influenced by Lucretious, Epicurus and Nietzsche. Death and Philosophy will be of great interest to philosphers, or those studying religion and theology, buts its clarity and scope ensures it will be accessible to anyone who has considered what it means to be mortal.
Nursing Knowledge and Practice E-Book
Nursing Knowledge and Practice E-Book by Maggie Mallik,Carol Hall,David Howard Book Summary:
Nursing knowledge and practice is a comprehensive textbook which forms an ideal basis for foundation nursing students. The core emphasis in the organisation and presentation of knowledge in this third edition remains focused on the in-depth knowledge required by nurses to deliver care in the practice setting. The chapter contents encompass knowledge that applies to all branches of nursing e.g. Communication, Confusion, Aggression and Rehabilitation Safety and Risk, Infection Control, Medicines etc. The structure of all chapters is unique in integrating knowledge from subject areas often taught separately in the nursing curriculum. This enables the foundation student to integrate this range of knowledge in making decisions about the delivery of nursing care to patients/clients in all fields of nursing. Exercises are included to encourage reflection on practice and develop critical thinking skills. It also promotes the expansion of professional knowledge through the development of portfolio evidence. Building on the outstanding success of previous editions the authors have drawn extensively on current best evidence, including research, policy and substantial internet based resources, reflecting UK and international perspectives. • Each chapter begins with an overview of the content and concludes with a summary to help evaluate learning • Case studies reflect the diverse range of client needs and care settings of the four nursing branches and help relate theory to practice • Reflective exercises and suggestions for portfolio evidence, along with decision-making activities, promote reflection on personal experience and links to nursing practice using a problem-based approach • Current research is highlighted throughout, demonstrating the evidence-base for practice decisions. • Key web sites, annotated further reading and references encourage readers to pursue contemporary evidence that underpins competency-based practice. Full colour throughout Content fully updated in line with developments in clinical practice, teaching requirements and the evidence-base Free electronic ancillaries on Evolve enhance the knowledge provided in each chapter with additional information, exercises and resources An introductory chapter on 'Nursing Knowledge and Practice' explores the role and context of nursing, nationally and internationally, providing foundation information on core knowledge areas common to all nursing curricula.
World Religions in Practice
World Religions in Practice by Paul Gwynne Book Summary:
World Religions in Practice introduces five of the world's great religions – Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – and explores how they are lived and expressed in custom, ritual, and symbol. A major new textbook exploring the world's great religions through their customs, rituals and everyday practices – by focusing on this 'lived experience' it goes beyond many traditional introductions to religious studies Adopts a directly comparative approach to develop a greater understanding of the nature of religion Each chapter engages with an individual theme, such as birth, death, food, pilgrimage and ethics, to illustrate how religious practices are expressed Broadens students' understanding by offering an impartial discussion of the similarities and differences between each religion Includes chapter-by-chapter opening themes and summaries, and will be accompanied by a website at www.blackwellpublishing.com/gwynne featuring additional resources and study questions.
Physician-Assisted Death in Perspective
Physician-Assisted Death in Perspective by Stuart J. Youngner,Gerrit K. Kimsma Book Summary:
This book is the first comprehensive report and analysis of the Dutch euthanasia experience over the last three decades. In contrast to most books about euthanasia, which are written by authors from countries where the practice is illegal and therefore practised only secretly, this book analyzes empirical data and real-life clinical behavior. Its essays were written by the leading Dutch scholars and clinicians who shaped euthanasia policy and who have studied, evaluated and helped regulate it. Some of them have themselves practised euthanasia. The book will contribute to the world literature on physician-assisted death by providing a comprehensive examination of how euthanasia has been practised and how it has evolved in one specific national and cultural context. It will greatly advance the understanding of euthanasia among both advocates and opponents of the practice.
Precolonial India in Practice
Precolonial India in Practice by Cynthia Talbot Book Summary:
The society of traditional India is frequently characterized as static and dominated by caste. This study challenges older interpretations, arguing that medieval India was actually a time of dynamic change and fluid social identities. Using records of religious endowments from Andhra Pradesh, author Cynthia Talbot reconstructs a regional society of the precolonial past as it existed in practice.
Principles and Practice of Grief Counseling
Principles and Practice of Grief Counseling by Howard R. Winokuer, PhD,Darcy Harris Book Summary:
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Deaths in Custody,Third Report of Session
Deaths in Custody,Third Report of Session by Great Britain Parliament - Joint Committee on Human Rights,Jean Corston Book Summary:
The Committee's report examines the causes of deaths in custody, and considers what may be done to prevent these deaths, and better protect the right to life and other human rights, of vulnerable people held in the custody of the state. Issues discussed include: human rights standards applicable under the European Convention on Human Rights; the scale of the problem and concerns relating to the wider penal system in which these deaths occur, including the issue of overcrowding in prisons and sentencing practice; risk assessment and management, including reception in police custody, immigration detention and the provision of physical and mental healthcare in detention; the use of physical restraint and seclusion; staffing and training issues; investigations into deaths in custody and inquiries. Recommendations include the establishment of a cross-departmental expert task-force on deaths in custody to monitor the topic, review good practice standards, publish information and to make recommendations to Government.
Development in Practice (Routledge Revivals)
Development in Practice (Routledge Revivals) by Doug Porter,Bryant Allen,Gaye Thompson Book Summary:
The Magarini Settlement Project in Kenya is typical of many large Third World rural development projects of recent years, not least in its failure to fulfil even minimum goals. First published in 1991, Development in Practice explores the reasons for this projects failure, and looks at the lessons to be learned from this experience for development in general. Challenging many assumptions and approaches, its provocative conclusions will generate much interest amongst development practitioners.
English in Practice
English in Practice by Peter Barry Book Summary:
Fully revised and updated, this new edition of English in Practice continues to be an essential practical guide to studying English at University. It is for all those who are about to embark on an English degree or are in the midst of completing one, and for those who want to re-engage with their reasons for teaching it. The second edition now includes new chapters offering practical advice on writing undergraduate dissertations and on taking your studies beyond undergraduate level, as well as a thoroughly updated chapter on getting the most of out of online resources. Written by an experienced writer and teacher, the book also covers such topics as: • Reading and interpretation • English and Creative Writing • Literary criticism and theory • The English language • Exploring historical contexts • Constructing an essay Including an annotated guide to further reading, English in Practice is an important resource for students keen to succeed in their study of English at University.
Clinical Research in Practice: A Guide for the Bedside Scientist
Clinical Research in Practice: A Guide for the Bedside Scientist by Academic Dean Rueckert-Hartman College for Health Professions Regis University Denver Colorado Janet Houser,Janet Houser,Joanna L. Bokovoy Book Summary:
Clinical Research in Practice: A Guide for the Bedside Scientist is a straightforward guide to reading, evaluating, and using research in these clinical settings. The text helps the bedside scientist take a study from question to design to practice.
Medieval Christianity in Practice
Medieval Christianity in Practice by Miri Rubin Book Summary:
Comprising forty-two selections from primary source materials, each translated with an introduction and commentary by a specialist in the field, this collection illustrates the religious cycles, rituals, and experiences that gave meaning to medieval Christian individuals and communities. The texts represent the practices through which Christians conducted their individual, family, and community lives and explore such life-cycle events as birth, confirmation, marriage, sickness, death, and burial. The texts also document religious practices related to themes of work, parish life, and devotions, as well as power and authority.--From publisher's description.
Violent Death in the City
Violent Death in the City by Roger Lane Book Summary:
Roger Lane uses the statistics on violent death in Philadelphia from 1839 to 1901 to study the behavior of the living. His extensive research into murder, suicide, and accident rates in Philadelphia provides an excellent factual foundation for his theories. A computerized study of every homicide indictment during the sixty-two years covered is the source of the most detailed information. Analysis of suicide and accident statistics reveals differences in behavior patterns between the sexes, the races, young and old, professional and laborer, native and immigrant, and how these patterns changed overtime. Using both these group differences and the changing overall incidence of the three forms of death, Lane synthesizes a comprehensive theory of the influences of industrial urbanization on social behavior. He believes that the demands of the rising industrial system, as transmitted through factory, school, and bureaucracy, combined to socialize city dwellers in new ways, to raise the rate of suicide, and to lower rates of simple accident and murder. Finally, Lane suggests a relation between these developments and the violent disorder in the postindustrial city, which has lost the older mechanisms of socialization without finding any effective new ones. Original and probing, Lane's combination of statistics and theory makes this a significant new work in social, urban, and medical history.
Principles and Practice of Surgery E-Book
Principles and Practice of Surgery E-Book by O. James Garden,Andrew W. Bradbury,John L. R. Forsythe,Rowan W Parks Book Summary:
Principles and Practice of Surgery is the surgical companion textbook to the international medical bestseller Davidson's Principles and Practice of Medicine. It is a comprehensive textbook for both the surgical student and trainee, guiding the reader through key core surgical topics which are encountered throughout an integrated medical curriculum as well as in subsequent clinical practice. Although sharing the same format and style as Davidson's Principles and Practice of Medicine, this text is complete in itself, thus enabling the student to appreciate both the medical and surgical implications of diseases encountered in surgical wards. . A three-section textbook of surgical principles and regional clinical surgery. Superbly presented with line drawings, high quality radiographic images and colour photographs. Presented in similar form to its sister textbook Davidson's Principles and Practice of Medicine. Full online text version as part of Student Consult The contents have been restructured into three sections – Principles of Perioperative care, Gastrointestinal Surgery, and Surgical Specialties. Two new chapters have rationalised and amalgamated information on the Metabolic response to injury and Ethics and pre-operative considerations to avoid repetition. Throughout the text has been altered to reflect changes in understanding, evidence and practice, and to keep the contents in line with undergraduate and postgraduate surgical curricula A substantial number of new illustrations have been added to give better consistency and improved image quality. The evidence-based revision boxes that focus on major international guidelines have been thoroughly updated.
Theory and Practice of Nursing
Theory and Practice of Nursing by Lynn Basford,Oliver Slevin Book Summary:
This title aims to cover the needs of the pre-registration nursing student, serving as a study guide and a foundation text. It emphasises the importance of community care and the social and cultural aspects of nursing. of Fitness for Practice, Fitness for Purpose and Fitness for Award.
Death, Contemplation and Schopenhauer
Death, Contemplation and Schopenhauer by R Raj Singh Book Summary:
The connections between death, contemplation and the contemplative life have been a recurrent theme in the canons of both western and eastern philosophical thought. This book examines the classical sources of this philosophical literature, in particular Plato's Phaedo and the Katha Upanishad and then proceeds to a sustained analysis and critical assessment of the sources and standpoints of a single thinker, Arthur Schopenhauer, whose work comprehensively pursues this problem. Going beyond the well examined western influences on Schopenhauer, Singh offers an in-depth account of Schopenhauer's references to eastern thought and a comprehensive examination of his eastern sources, particularly Vedanta and Buddhism. The book traces the pivotal issue of death through the whole range of Schopenhauer's writings uncovering the deeper connotations of his crucial notion of the will-to-live.
Algebra and Trigonometry
Precalculus: A Right Triangle Approach
Clifford Algebra to Geometric Calculus: A Unified Language for Mathematics and Physics
A Course in Linear Algebra with Applications
Introductory Algebra: An Applied Approach
Basic Algebra: Groups, Rings and Fields
Matrix Algebra From a Statistician's Perspective
Elementary and Intermediate Algebra: Graphs and Models
College Algebra : Enhanced With Graphing Utilities
Algorithms for Computer Algebra
Visual Linear Algebra
Differential Equations and Linear Algebra
The Linear Algebra: A Complete Solution Guide to Any Textbook
Basic Algebra I: Second Edition
Beginning and Intermediate Algebra
Commutative Coherent Rings
College Algebra and Trigonometry with Applications
College Algebra, Hybrid
Advanced Topics in the Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves
A First Course in Abstract Algebra: With Applications
College Algebra: Concepts and Contexts
Linear Algebra with Applications
Understanding Elementary Algebra with Geometry: A Course for College Students, 6th Edition
Elementary Mathematical Modeling: Functions and Graphs

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Q: find indices of values that sum up to a given value in R I've got a vector with observation intervals (in days) and would like to get the indices of the values that sum up to 30 days.
interval <- c(10, 12, 5, 5, 5, 5, 10)

so what I'd need is a vector like this. flag_endrow: 4, 6, 7
because:
sum(interval[1:4]) = 32
sum(interval[2:6[) = 32
sum(interval[3:7[) = 30

I tried doing this with a loop (see below), but failed. Any suggestions?
flag_endrow <- NULL
for (i in 1:length(interval)){
    for (j in i+1:length(interval)-1){
        if (sum(interval[i:j]) >= 30)
            {flag_endrow[i] <- j}
        break}
}

Thanks!

A: End indexes are in vector end :
interval <- c(10, 12, 5, 5, 5, 5, 10)
begin <- NULL
end <- NULL
for (i in 1:(length(interval)-1)){
    for (j in (i+1):length(interval)){
        if (sum(interval[i:j]) >= 30){
            begin<- c(begin, i)
            end <- c(end, j)
            break
        }
    }
}

A: This will work with only one loop if you use the cumsum() function.
interval <- c(10, 12, 5, 5, 5, 5, 10)

res <- c()

for(i in 1:length(interval)){
  v <- (cumsum(interval[i:length(interval)]) >= 30)
  val <- (which(v == TRUE)[1] + i - 1)
  if(!is.na(val)){
    res <- c(res, val )
  }
}

A: I think this is an Integer Knapsack problem, which has a recursive solution. I am not so sure that multiple for loops can solve it.

A: Here's a brute-force solution. It returns a list of all valid index vectors.
target <- 30

unlist(lapply(si <- seq_along(interval), function(x) {
  idx <- combn(si, x)
  idx_t <- which(colSums(matrix(apply(idx, 2, function(i) interval[i]),
                                ncol = ncol(idx))) >= target)
  lapply(idx_t, function(i2) idx[ , i2])
}), recursive = FALSE)

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Q: What's wrong with my code that extracts the frames from a video in my online cluster? Each video is 4 minutes in length. There are 10 files in the folder, and I want to do it all together. I am using a cluster, not a PC. I am trying to save them in the Untitled folder.
data_path=".."
videos = ["{}".format(i) for i in range(1, 10)]
videos_path = ["../X {}.mov".format(data_path, video) for video in videos]
count=1
for vid in videos_path:
    vid = r"{}/X {}.mov"+vid
    vidcap = cv2.VideoCapture(vid)
    def getFrame(sec):
        vidcap.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_POS_MSEC,sec*1000)
        hasFrames,image = vidcap.read()
        if hasFrames:
            cv2.imwrite("{}/Untitled Folder/"+str(count)+".jpg", image) # Save frame as JPG file
        return hasFrames
    sec = 0
    frameRate = 300 # Change this number to 1 for each 1 second

    success = getFrame(sec)
    while success:
        count = count + 1
        sec = sec + frameRate
        sec = round(sec,300)
        success = getFrame(sec)


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DAAC Home > Get Data > NASA Projects > Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (BOREAS) > User guide
BOREAS TE-10 LEAF CHEMISTRY DATA
The BOREAS TE-10 team collected several data sets in support of its efforts to characterize and interpret information on the reflectance, transmittance, gas exchange, chlorophyll content, carbon content, hydrogen content, and nitrogen content of boreal vegetation. This data set describes the relationship between sample location, age, chlorophyll content, and C-H-N concentrations at several sites in the SSA conducted during the growing seasons of 1994 and 1996.
A guide document which includes more information about this data set can be found at https://daac.ornl.gov/data/boreas/TE/te10lfch/comp/TE10_Leaf_Chem.txt.
ORNL DAAC maintains information on the entire BOREAS Project.
Cite this data set as follows:
Middleton, E. M., and J. H. Sullivan. 1998. BOREAS TE-10 Leaf Chemistry Data. Data set. Available on-line [http://www.daac.ornl.gov] from Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/345.
Anderson, C.P., S.B. McLaughlin, and W.K. Roy. 1991. Foliar injury symptoms and pigment concentrations in red spruce saplings in the southern Appalachians. Can. J. For. Res. v21 n7: 1106-1110.
Chappelle, E.W. and M.S. Kim. 1992. Ratio analysis of reflectance spectra (RARS): an algorithm for the remote estimation of the concentration of chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, and carotenoids in soybean leaves. Remote Sens. Environ. V39: 239-247.
Kharouk, V.I., E.M. Middleton, S.L, Spensor, B.N. Rock, and D.L. Williams. 1995. Aspen bark photosynthesis and its significance to remote sensing and carbon budget estimates in the boreal ecosystem. Water, Air and Soil Pollution. V82: 483-497.
Lichtenthaler, H.K. 1987. Chlorophylla and carotenoids: pigments of photosynthetic biomembranes. Methods in Enzymology, v148: 350-382.
Middleton, E.M., E.W. Chappelle, and A.DeLuca. 1995. Evaluating photosynthesis in Boreal forest species with fluorescence measurements. IGARSS 1995.
Middleton, E.M., J.H. Sullivan, B.D. Bovard, A.J. DeLuca, S.S.Chan, and T.A. Cannon. 1997. Seasonal variability in foliar characteristics and physiology for Boreal forest species at the five Saskatchewan tower sites during the 1994 Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (BOREAS). J. Geophys. Res. 102 (D24): 28, 831-844.
Schneckenburger, H. and W. Schmidt. 1995. Time-resolved chlorophyll fluorescence of spruce needles after different light exposure. Plant Physiol. V148: 593-598.
Sellers, P. and F. Hall. 1994. Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study: Experiment Plan. Version 1994-3.0, NASA BOREAS REPORT (EXPLAN 94).
Sellers, P., F. Hall, and K.F. Huemmrich. 1996. Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study: 1994 Operations. NASA BOREAS REPORT (OPS DOC 94).
Sellers, P., F. Hall, H. Margolis, B. Kelly, D. Baldocchi, G. den Hartog, J. Cihlar, M.G. Ryan, B. Goodison, P. Crill, K.J. Ranson, D. Lettenmaier, and D.E. Wickland. 1995. Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (BOREAS): an overview and early results from the 1994 field year. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. V76: 1549-1577.
Sellers, P.J., F.G. Hall, R.D. Kelly, A. Black, D. Baldocchi, J. Berry, M. Ryan, K.J. Ranson, P.M. Crill, D.P. Lettenmaier, H. Margolis, J. Cihlar, J. Newcomer, D. Fitzjarrald, P.G. Jarvis, S.T. Gower, D. Halliwell, D. Williams, B. Goodison, D.E. Wickland, and F.E. Guertin. 1997. BOREAS in 1997: Experiment Overview, Scientific Results and Future Directions. Journal of Geophysical Research 102 (D24): 28,731-28,770.
Sullivan, J.H., B.D. Bovard, and E. M. Middleton, 1996. Variability in leaf-level CO2 and water fluxes in Pinus banksiana and Picea mariana in Saskatchewan. Tree Physiol. V17: 553-561.
Data Format:
For information on Parameter/Variable Names, Variable Description/Definition, Units of Measurement, and Data File Format see this companion file https://daac.ornl.gov/data/boreas/TE/te10lfch/comp/te10lfch.def
Document Information:
07-Dec-98 (data citation revised on 25-Sep-2002)
Document Review Date:
07-Dec-98
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NEW DELHI: IT hardware industry hailed the government's move to scale down goods and services tax rate for printers to 18 per cent but expect business to be impacted because of high 28 per cent rate imposed on computer monitors and projectors.
"We thank government for considering request on computer printers by keeping the GST rate at 18 per cent. However, the proposed rate of 28 per cent on monitors, projector and data cable will adversely impact value chain. It is going to hit dealers and manufacturers alike. We expect a slowdown in business once GST regime starts," MAIT President Nitin Kunkolienker told PTI.
"As per Legal Metrology Act, a dealer cannot increase price beyond MRP. He can only reduce it. Customers have to effectively pay around 14 per cent tax. When government has fixed GST rate of 28 per cent on monitors etc, then who will pay rest of the 14 per cent? The GST rate at 28 per cent becomes draconian at 28 per cent. Government should consider this situation on urgent basis," Kunkolienker said.
"It will be difficult to sell standalone monitors as they will be expensive than the ones purchased with a set of personal computers. This will adversely impact manufacturers of monitors. The price of monitors, printers, data cable will go up in the same proportion as hike in taxes," Kunkolienker said.


Conor McGregor Vows to Return to Octagon: "I Am Fighting Again. Period."
Conor McGregor said on Instagram that he will fight again and that he put his name forth for UFC 222, but the logistics didn't work out.
Make no mistake about it: Conor McGregor will fight in the octagon again.
McGregor, 29, said as much in an Instagram post on Thursday, adding that he submitted his name as a potential replacement for Max Holloway to face Frankie Edgar in UFC 222 on March 3. McGregor will not take part in UFC 222, however, as Brian Ortega will be the fighter subbing in for Holloway as the co-main event alongside Cris Cyborg vs. Yana Kunitskaya.
"I am fighting again. Period," McGregor wrote on Instagram, perhaps a direct response to UFC president Dana White's claim that McGregor may not return to the octagon because of how wealthy he is now.
"I am the best at this. I put my name forward to step in at UFC 222 to face Frankie Edgar when Max Holloway pulled out, but I was told there wasn't enough time to generate the money that the UFC would need.
"I was excited about bouncing in last minute and taking out the final featherweight, without all the rest of the stuff that comes with this game. Please respect the insane amount of work outside the fight game that I have put in."
There has, of course, been speculation that McGregor could fight Floyd Mayweather in the UFC after the two faced off in a mega boxing match last August, which Mayweather won by 10th-round TKO. The two big personalities have traded barbs through social media with both men acknowledging the potential for a rematch on McGregor's MMA turf.


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Why orchids could be the future of mosquito repellants
By James Holloway
An Aedes mosquito feeding on Platanthera orchid nectar. (Those are pollen sacs on its eyes)
Kiley Riffell
Even through canvas bags, the mosquitoes were attracted to the orchids in question
Mosquitoes are infamous for their apparent predilection for blood: notably, from a human perspective, human blood. In many parts of the world this brings with it the unwelcome possibility of the transmission of disease.
Trivia buffs may also know that it's only female mosquitoes that feed on blood. Perhaps less well known, though well-understood in the science community, is that females only consume blood for a few days of their lives. The rest of the time they feed on flower nectar, which also happens to be the sole source of food for male mosquitoes.
New research shows just how potent the allure of flowers can be to mosquitoes, as well as, interestingly, a deterrent. The findings hint at the possibility that more effective, less toxic mosquito traps and repellents could one day be made, based on chemicals in flowers to which mosquitoes are attracted or averse.
The team looked more deeply into mosquitoes from the genus Aedes, and their attraction to Platanthera obtusata, commonly called the blunt-leaf orchid. The mosquitoes' preference for the orchid had already been observed, but by covering the orchids with canvas bags, the researchers demonstrated that it was the orchid's scent that proved irresistible. This prompted the researchers to set about recreating the scent in the lab, which is where things get interesting.
"We often describe scent as if it's one thing – like the scent of a flower, or the scent of a person," supervising author Jeffrey Riffell says in a University of Washington press release. "Scent is actually a complex combination of chemicals – the scent of a rose consists of more than 300 – and mosquitoes can detect the individual types of chemicals that make up a scent."
The team used gas chromatography and mass spectroscopy to identify the chemicals present, finding two in particular which stood out as different from similar orchids to which the mosquitoes in question aren't attracted. The compound nonanal, or nonanaldehyde, was more prevalent; while the compound lilac aldehyde was less prevalent.
By measuring electrical activity in mosquito antennae, the researchers could see that several species of mosquitoes respond to these compounds, and not only those native to the high-altitude climates in the Northern Hemisphere where blunt-leaf orchids occur. This was despite those species having diverged over 100 million years ago. The scent proved attractive to both females and males.
The mosquitoes preferred the compounds to appear in the same ration present in the orchid. Interestingly, with no lilac aldehyde, they became less keen. However, with more lilac aldehyde than occurs naturally, the mosquitoes were sometimes repelled by the scent.
This makes sense, since there's more lilac aldehyde in other Platanthera orchid species to which mosquitoes aren't attracted.
Examining the brain activity of Aedes increpitus and genetically-modified Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, the researchers could see that nonanal and lilac aldehyde stimulate competing parts of the brain, with activity in the one capable of suppressing activity in the other. It seems to be the precise ratio of these compounds, and hence the nature of this chatter across the brain, that makes one orchid compelling and another repellent.
This raises the compelling prospect of improved human-made repellents and traps based on the chemical makeup of orchid scents. But it's too early to say that for sure. "Lilac aldehyde could be a potential repellent," Riffell tells New Atlas, "but this needs to be verified in future experiments, both in the laboratory and the field."
The team is going on to research other sources of sugar attractive to mosquitoes that may one day prove useful in developing traps that could fight the spread of disease.
The research team comprises members of the University of Washington, Virginia Tech, and UC San Diego. Its lead author is Chloé Lahondère. The research was recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and is free to read online.
Sources: University of Washington, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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James writes about science and technology from his home in rural East Anglia. Whether it's the internet, nature, video games or AI, he pays particular heed to the flash points with culture, society and the planet.


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<p>Feeling lost when it comes to digital transformation? There are actionable steps you can take now to forge a clear path. </p>
Decoding Digital Transformation: What it Means for IT Pros
Digital transformation is a vague concept with various definitions. But what does it actually mean for an IT professional?
Nicole Henderson | Jul 17, 2017
If you have been to a tech conference within the past year, you have no doubt heard the term digital transformation more times than you can count. It's not a new concept, per se, but it seems to have taken on a life of its own more recently as marketing departments and high-level executives have used it to describe a vague approach to how their organizations are adapting and working with customers in the face of rapid technological advancements.
Cisco wants to be the "solid foundation for digital transformation"; Dell EMC wants to help customers realize their goals for digital transformation; while HPE has four key transformation areas for companies to transform to a digital enterprise. And recently at Microsoft Inspire we heard CEO Satya Nadella break digital transformation down into four pillars: empower employees; engage customers; optimize operations; and transform products.
Confused, yet?
The overuse of "digital transformation" is reminiscent of the days when cloud was the prefix for every new technology – whether it was actually cloud or not. Researchers and analysts called this cloud-washing. So is what is happening with digital transformation more of the same? IT Pro wanted to find out so we talked to CompTIA Senior Director of Technology Analysis Seth Robinson to understand what digital transformation means for IT professionals in their job now and their career in the future.
Robinson, who has been at CompTIA since 2011, has tracked digital transformation initiatives for the past three years through his research for the IT trade association based in Illinois. Earlier this year CompTIA released its report on Building Digital Organizations, which started out as a report on cloud and mobility technology before morphing into research on what the technology actually means from a business perspective.
"We had this growing sense that as much as the technologies were interesting to companies, that they had to reconfigure their workflow, they had to build new processes, and that's what we were seeing more of," said Robinson.
So what exactly is digital transformation? It's a question Robinson gets a lot.
Essentially, he says, digital transformation is the "way that a business behaves and the way that they are structured in order to get the best use out of technology."
"When you say digital transformation I think there tends to be an automatic focus on the technology, but what we see and what a lot of other firms are seeing is that it is more about the structure of a company. We're talking now about not taking things that have always sat on the IT domain and putting them in a different model or using a different tool to do them. We're talking about things that have traditionally sat in a business domain and digitizing them – this is where IoT, AI comes in."
For True Digital Transformation, IT and Business Units Work Together
What Robinson has observed through his research is a much more collaborative effort between IT and business units, which takes away silos of operation, and creates an "environment where everyone is on the same page and technology is really tightly integrated into overall business objectives."
But what is important to note is that in order for digital transformation to be successful there must have buy-in from different units and stakeholders. Robinson said that while IT pros play a part in digital transformation strategies and objectives, it is a difficult thing for IT to drive on its own.
That's not to say that IT pros cannot or should not get involved in initial conversations around digital transformation. But it takes a business-savvy approach that many IT pros may not be used to.
"IT continues to play crucial role in company plans going forward, but that role is different than in the past," Robinson says, moving from a highly-tactical one to one where they are required to work side-by-side with business units.
"IT is not going away, even specific job functions aren't going away, they're transforming and being rethought or reimagined, maybe some routine tasks are going away but creates bandwidth for more strategic activities," he said.
For the first couple eras of enterprise technology the IT team was critical for its specialized knowledge, Robinson said.
"They were the ones making those decisions because they were the only ones that knew what specs they should be looking at or exactly how the equipment was supposed to operate," Robinson said. "So that specialized knowledge was what created value for them in the company, and that specialized knowledge is very important but only at a tactical level. To be strategic it has to be paired with business knowledge."
Actionable IT Goals for Digital Transformation
If digital transformation still sounds too vague, Robinson points to some specific responsibilities IT will have in the digital organization. These include: overall security; exploration of new technology; and the creation of an environment where business units can have the greatest degree of independence, for example, creating an internal company store for applications.
What's interesting according to Robinson is that along with digital transformation and this more collaborative working environment between IT and business comes less rogue IT. Yes, really.
"What we have seen through several studies is that rogue IT - if it's defined as business units acting completely defined from the IT function and keeping them out of the loop - that really seems to be declining," he said. "There are still some independent actions and behavior inside the business units but that happens within a context and an environment that IT is a part of."
So what are some easy ways for IT pros to get started in becoming more business-savvy and developing more of these soft skills to aid in digital transformation?
According to Robinson, IT pros should start to develop some understanding of business tradeoffs, and why businesses make decisions, as well as understanding some of the goals around customers, expanding in new geographies, and more.
"Then you can start to apply technology to it," he said.
For IT pros looking for a timeline of when they need to know digital transformation inside and out, Robinson said unfortunately it's not that simple.
"Over the past few years as an industry we've probably overestimated the rate of change, we've seen things coming very fast, but when you're talking about transforming a business, it's not something that's going to happen overnight," he said.
"I think that cloud in particular helps to skew that perspective; cloud was very unique in the way that it was usable and creating value right out of the gate, for so many other trends we see a longer adoption curve and more of a bell-shaped adoption curve, people on the cutting edge, and people on the sidelines."
"We are on the spectrum of digital transformation and every company is going to be coming from its own starting point," Robinson said.
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HomeIndiaULFA(I) abduction of Quippo staff 'desperate' yet dark reminder of Assam's insurgency...
ULFA(I) abduction of Quippo staff 'desperate' yet dark reminder of Assam's insurgency past
ULFA(I) abducted two 2 working with oil firm Quippo on 21 December last year. It has since demanded Rs 20 crore in ransom, issued threats, and extended deadline for payment.
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P.K. Gogoi (left) and Ram Kumar of Quippo Oil and Gas Infrastructure Limited | By special arrangement
Guwahati: The kidnapping of two employees of the New Delhi-headquartered Quippo Oil and Gas Infrastructure Limited by insurgents has come as a reminder of troubled times in Assam, when the 'kidnapping-for-ransom' strategy spread terror in the state.
This time though, the crime is being seen as one of desperation.
The two men — drilling superintendent Pranab Kumar Gogoi, 51, and radio operator Ram Kumar, 35 — were abducted by the United Liberation Front of Assam-Independent (ULFA-I) on 21 December from Arunachal Pradesh's Changlang district, which borders Myanmar.
Last Sunday, the banned outfit's commander-in-chief Paresh Baruah called up journalists in Assam to say that it has "deferred action" against the two officials and that the "deadline set for their release has been extended". This came after it had threatened to take the "ultimate action" against the hostages earlier in the week.
On Friday, however, Barua told ThePrint from an unknown number "the negotiation is going on a good stead" with authorities at Quippo, where the two men are employed.
"Maybe after two to three days, we can inform the media. We are hopeful to get some positive results," Barua said.
The sequence of events has brought the focus back on ULFA(I), a breakaway faction of the militant outfit ULFA, and its commander Paresh Baruah.
The last time ULFA(I) was in the news was for several low-profile kidnappings in 2019. The outfit had been lying low since.
Experts say these latest abductions are a desperate attempt by Baruah and the ULFA(I) to appear relevant.
"I feel that ULFA is already dead. They are trying to dig out the body and blow some life into it," a former army officer, who was involved in operations against ULFA in the 1990s, told ThePrint. "But the method selected is most inappropriate. The biggest mistake they have made this time is to kidnap an Ahom guy."
Former Assam Director General of Police Harekrishna Deka said the ULFA is back to using ransom as a source of revenue, and the present kidnapping seems to be motivated by a need for funds.
"ULFA seems to be in desperation and is a weakened outfit today. They are short of finance and have resumed extortions from companies," Deka said. "The kidnapping of employees as soft targets is their old practice. But they miscalculated the reaction and threatened execution of the kidnapped persons. Instead of the government and the company being alarmed, this threat has invited public condemnation from different quarters."
"These are not high-profile employees but the ULFA knows that the company with the consent of the government will negotiate their release so that their work in the region does not suffer," Deka added. "Even earlier, kidnappings were mainly for money only. It was an easy way to raise funds."
Also read: Why microborrowers in Assam are refusing to repay their loans this poll season
The kidnapping
Pranab Kumar Gogoi and Ram Kumar were kidnapped from the Kumchaikha hydrocarbon drilling site near Innao in Arunachal Pradesh.
While Gogoi is Assamese from Sivasagar district, Ram Kumar hails from Bihar. Kumar's five-year-old son, who is battling blood cancer, has made an emotional appeal for his father's release.
ULFA(I) reportedly demanded Rs 20 crore for the men and had initially set 16 February as the deadline for the ransom payment.
A video appeal of the two employees released by the outfit in January confirmed that they are in the custody of ULFA(I) and the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN).
While it is not clear which faction of the NSCN is involved in the incident, the Changlang Police had earlier suspected the Myanmar-based NSCN-K to be behind the abductions. The NSCN(IM) in Nagaland, which is currently negotiating a peace deal with the Modi government, denied allegations of being involved in the incident.
On its part, Quippo has so far not issued an official statement on the matter though it is in negotiations with ULFA(I) over the phone.
News channel News18 Assam Northeast, however, recently quoted a Quippo spokesperson as saying that the company is still negotiating with the banned outfit.
"For us there is no deadline. I know two of my colleagues are there, and we will work to ensure that they return home," the spokesperson said. "We have been in discussion with them since 21 December. We are not in a position to call them, they call us. In the past few weeks, we had talks multiple times a day, and on a daily basis also."
The spokesperson added that the central government was also helping the firm. "In addition to directly talking with them, we are also working with the intelligence agencies under the central government," the spokesperson said. "They are also guiding us on how to resolve this. We are also taking the help of a well-known person in the Northeast to reach out to them."
The Assam Police also said it is working to ensure the release of the two men. "We are in touch with the Arunachal Pradesh Police to ensure the safe release of the abducted persons," Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) in Assam, G.P. Singh, told ThePrint.
ULFA's history of abductions in past
ULFA owes its origins to the six-year-long (1979-1985) Assam Movement seeking detection of illegal immigrants, their deletion from the voters' list and deportation to Bangladesh.
The extremist faction of the movement, which was always skeptical about the much-hyped 'constitutional safeguard' for Assamese, metamorphosed into ULFA. The group's objective is "restoring Assam's sovereignty".
Baruah split from secessionist ULFA in 2012 after the outfit decided to suspend operations and sit with the Indian government for talks without preconditions. He now heads the ULFA(I).
The abduction of Quippo staffers is the latest in a long history of hostage-taking incidents by militant outfits in the Northeast.
The banned ULFA had made abductions a cottage industry in the early 1990s. The extremist outfit used the fear factor to extort money from business houses and tea gardens or would kidnap employees to pressurise the companies concerned.
At the very beginning of the Hiteswar Saikia-led Congress government in 1991, the ULFA simultaneously kidnapped 14 persons, including a Soviet engineer, Sergei Gretchenko, to secure release of its arrested cadres.
The state government had to hold secret negotiations and came to a compromise by releasing some of them. Gretchenko was later killed while trying to escape.
In 1994, ULFA members allegedly abducted Hemram Keot, the then Commissioner of Taxes in the Assam Administration.
Among these high-profile abductions, some hostages survived their ordeals while others were killed. In 1990, ULFA murdered tea planter Surendra Paul, the brother of UK-based businessman Lord Swraj Paul.
In 1997, Delhi-based activist Sanjay Ghose was abducted by ULFA because of differences of opinion with the outfit. Ghose was later killed, and his body dumped into the Brahmaputra, according to the police charge sheet.
In recent years, a manager-caretaker of a stone quarry in Tinsukia named Apurba Kakoti was abducted by ULFA rebels for ransom in 2018. In October 2019, Gauranga Sudar Deb, a staffer of Sankar Tea Estate in Talap area of Tinsukia district, was abducted. He was set free after 12 days when the company paid an unknown ransom amount.
Six persons were kidnapped between January 2015 and July 2019 by the ULFA, either on its own or in joint operations with other outfits, according to the Unlawful Activities Prevention Tribunal that upheld the central government view last year that ULFA is an unlawful organisation.
Experts say that apart from monetary gain, the abductions are used for political gains too.
"Kidnapping of high-profile government officers and politicians was to negotiate release of arrested cadres of the outfit," former DGP Deka said, referring to the kidnapping of Hare Krishna Das, the general manager of the public sector Guwahati refinery in July 1990 during the first term of the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) government.
"It was to seek release of Hirakjyoti Mahanta, the then second-in-command of ULFA," Deka added. "The AGP government wilted under pressure, had secret negotiations with the outfit and Hirakjyoti was not only released, but ULFA escorted him with armed guards from Guwahati to Chabua under the terms of these secret negotiations," he told ThePrint.
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ULFA-NSCN ties
The video appeal by the two Quippo employees revealed another aspect of the entire saga — the close ties between ULFA(I) and the NSCN, both banned outfits.
It is believed that the Myanmar-based Khaplang faction of NSCN (NSCN-K) is behind the abduction. "Since they have done this together, it's only obvious that they have to seek NSCN's consent," pro-talks ULFA leader and General Secretary Anup Chetia told ThePrint.
"If they take their own decision without discussing it with them, then the understanding between the two outfits will be affected. ULFA and NSCN have friendly relations," Chetia said.
In the early 1980s, ULFA formed associations with other Northeast rebel groups — NSCN and the Kachin Independence Army. By 1986, it had established contacts with agents of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence.
"We first got weapons after coming in contact with the NSCN in 1982," Chetia said in an interview published in 'Guerrilla', a book by journalist Biju Kumar Deka on insurgent groups of Western South East Asia. "We didn't have money then to buy arms and ammunition. NSCN gave us the weapons they used — the first one was an AK-series rifle. They helped us immensely, from the heart. ULFA will always remain indebted to them."
"NSCN trained us, gave us food, asking for nothing in return. Khaplang was more sympathetic towards us," Chetia narrated in 'Guerrilla'. "He always believed that people of Assam have a historical connection with the Burmese. The Ahoms came from that side and had resemblance with their Pangmi tribe. He considered us his own."
ULFA(I) has been conducting operations — individually and in alliance with other Northeast insurgent groups including NSCN(K) in the bordering areas of Assam and the neighbouring states.
On 19 November, 2016 ULFA(I) and NSCN(K) ambushed an army convoy in Assam's Tinsukia district, killing three security forces personnel. On 22 January, 2017, the two outfits carried out an ambush on security forces in Arunachal's Changlang district, inflicting casualties.
Analysts now warn that paying of ransom will set a bad precedent and might lead other militant groups or anti-social elements to employ this strategy in the future.
"While every citizen wants the safe release of the two Quippo employees, paying ransom and appealing time and again to militant groups to release kidnapped persons is likely to embolden the ULFA, which is not desirable," said Brigadier Ranjit Borthakur (retd).
"The government should devise appropriate measures to protect all citizens — whether employed by government or private companies involved in various developmental work, especially in militant dominated areas," he added.
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LAFAYETTE – Louisiana Athletics' expansion of its digital media efforts has been significant, with the newly minted broadcast productions department executing the Ragin' Cajuns partnership with ESPN and the Sun Belt Conference, as well as weekly installments of original programming on Cox Sports Television (CST). The ongoing plan, to build and spread the Louisiana brand across the country, has been the task of Assistant Director of Athletics for Broadcast Services Kevon Wilson.
"Building something from the ground up was the biggest draw that got me to the University of Louisiana," Wilson said. "It was an opportunity to take something from scratch and mold it, first with the support of our athletics department staff that is already in place, as well as recruiting a student staff that can help us achieve the vision we have for this department."
Already through 25 television broadcasts for football and basketball across both the ESPN? platform and nationally on CST, Wilson's broadcast team will also handle 12 primetime broadcasts during Louisiana's upcoming baseball and softball seasons. For CST, Louisiana produces weekly 30-minute "coaches show" programs highlighting the school's football, men's and women's basketball, baseball and softball programs.
Wilson's career background lends itself well to managing Louisiana's busy broadcast schedule, with his previous stops including three television stations and two universities. Prior to arriving in Lafayette, Wilson worked stints at Stetson University (2014-15) as broadcasting director and at Florida Atlantic University (2003-07) as station manager.
"Game One and Broadcast One for our department was the Louisiana Football season opener against Grambling," Wilson said. "There was a strong group of students already onboard, along with some freelancers. When we had that first meeting to go over the broadcast, and I was able to see the hunger in everyone's eyes, it was definitely a special moment for me in this process, so far."
Wilson's team includes Director of Broadcast Operations Jeff Schneider, who spent the previous seven seasons working within the Ragin' Cajuns' athletics communications office. The duo have cultivated a team of University students and local freelancers to deliver professional broadcasts, using the importance of teaching as a guiding factor.
"With the student workforce we've already recruited, the future is very bright for Louisiana Broadcast Productions," Wilson said. "It's an all-hands-on-deck mentality we take. Our students are excited and energized every game to come put on a great show."
Beyond the television screen and streaming devices, Louisiana fans have undoubtedly seen new video content arrive on social media. Feature videos to highlight the specific successes and background stories of Louisiana student-athletes and coaches have been a focus, as well as podcasts going in-depth with the many coaches and leaders of the Ragin' Cajuns.
Included in Louisiana's energized digital approach is Director of Digital Content Doug Domingue, who creates dynamic video and graphic elements for the Ragin' Cajuns' web and social media channels, as well as in broadcasts and in-venue on videoboards. His storytelling ability has been showcased in the weekly installments of the #cULture, an episodic take on the first season of the Billy Napier Era with Louisiana Football.
Assisting with Inside Louisiana Football, the weekly CST coaches program, was longtime football video coordinator Darren Walker. Recently promoted to Assistant Director of Athletics for Video Operations, Walker hosted the football-based program and will also lend his broadcasting and camera skills to similar CST programs for Louisiana's baseball and softball programs.
The cinematic approach of the #cULture episodes was just one way Louisiana helped fans connect with the Ragin' Cajuns. The familiar voices heard throughout Louisiana's ESPN? and CST broadcasts have been a welcomed addition, with former Ragin' Cajuns sports information director turned broadcaster Dan McDonald helming play-by-play duties across all broadcasts. McDonald paired with football alum (1984) and former coaching staff member (1984-98, 2008-11) Gerald Broussard for Louisiana Football television broadcasts, and has worked alongside former hoopers Eric Mouton (1992) and Lawana Stokes (1983) on broadcasts from the Cajundome. Additionally, 2016 University graduate Krista Toussant has served as host of the group's Inside Louisiana Basketball programs on CST.
"I felt it was important for pioneers and champions of our University to be a part of this incredible video movement we were undertaking," Wilson said. "These ambassadors are part of that Ragin' Cajuns foundation that exists in this community, which I've also been blessed to join. There isn't anything more gratifying than building this alongside all members of the Ragin' Cajuns family."
Stay tuned for much more from Louisiana Broadcast Operations in the spring months, as the Ragin' Cajuns' baseball and softball schedules begin at both Russo Park and Lamson Park.


Have logged a minimum of 20 /40 open water dives prior to entry into PADI Divemaster training, and completed and logged a minimum of 60 open water dives with experience in night, deep and navigation prior to certification as a PADI Divemaster.
Enroll in PADI Instructor level training.
Here's your chance to share your love of diving with others!
Preparing for a diving career is a considerable investment of time and commitment. The right preparation significantly reduces your IDC course load and allows you more time to assimilate and apply the information you learn (Note: A number of important PADI forms are downloadable in Adobe Acrobat .pdf Format. To read Adobe Acrobat files, download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader).
Be certified as a PADI Divemaster or PADI Assistant Instructor or as a current instructor member with another recreational diver training organization.
Submit medical clearance for diving signed by a physician within the last 12 months (PADI Medical Statement recommended).
Have been a certified diver for at least 6 months and logged at least 60 dives (IDC requirement).
Have been a certified diver for at least 6 months and logged at least 100 dives (I.E. requirement).
Candidates enrolled in five pre-and/or post-IDC courses (Pre-study, EFRI, Specialties etc.) OR candidates of a six-week career development program who successfully complete a PADI IDC, conducted by the CDC, may attend a PADI IE if they have been certified divers for at least six months, have logged 60 dives and are certified PADI Assistant Instructors (the AI course is part of the new IDC).
Please complete the Sign me up form. We will then reconfirm your reservation by e-mail within 24 hours.
Check that you have documentation of ALL your certifications from Open Water to Divemaster or Assistant Instructor. If some of them are missing please contact PADI prior to the IDC and ask for a fax or e-mail confirming your certifications and PADI Number (if available). Some of you may have certifications from other organizations. Please bring them so we can provide PADI with a photocopy.
Complete an IDC Application Form and fax it to us.
If you are planning on a diving career in South East Asia, please remember to transfer your PADI Membership to our local area office in Sydney, as soon as possible. This will save you valuable time when PADI processes your IDC Application. Please download the Membership Transfer Form, complete it and send it to your current PADI office and the Asia Pacific office in Sydney. You will find the appropriate addresses and fax numbers on the form.
All tourists are granted a 30-days tourist visa upon arrival in Thailand. If you plan to stay longer than 30 days we will recommend that you obtain a 60 Day Toursist visa or Non-immigrant B visa via your local Thai Embassy prior to entering Thailand. This will save you both time and money later.
Please bring (or purchase via us, at a special IDC Candidate price) the following required PADI materials: PADI Instructorcrew Pack (digital or paper version).
In addition the PPB, Project Aware & Coral Reef Conservation Specialty outlines. You will also need the RDP Wheel, Table and eRDP.
It is highly recommended that you purchase a PADI Knowledge Workbook and answer all the questions. This is the absolute best way to prepare for the IE Dive Theory Test.
Try to go out with an Instructor as his/her assistant as often as possible.
Join our IDC Pre-study program.
The PADI Instructor Development Program prepares you to function as a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor. In addition, it further develops your leadership and teaching abilities to the instructor level and prepares you to teach PADI programs.
Have been a certified diver for at least six months and logged at least 60 open water dives with experience in night, deep and navigation prior to beginning the Instructor Development Program, and have been a certified diver for at least 6 months and logged at least 100 dives prior to entering the Instructor Examination.
Submit proof of CPR training within 24 months.
Note: the IOC is an option available only if you're an instructor that is current with another certification organization and wish to become a PADI Instructor.
After successful completion of the IDC or IOC, you must successfully complete the PADI Instructor Examination (IE). You will be evaluated on; dive theory, academic teaching, confined-water (pool) teaching, open-water teaching and general diving skills and professionalism.
As a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor you can conduct the entire range of PADI experience programs and PADI diver programs, from Open Water Diver through Divemaster (except for specialties and PADI Emergency First Response, which require specific Specialty Diver Instructor and Emergency First Response Instructor ratings).
After successfully completing your PADI IDC/IOC and IE, you receive a certification card and certificate denoting this rating. You'll also become a member of PADI and receive benefits, including the ability to purchase professional liability insurance (which may be required to conduct some activities).
Advanced Instructor may enroll in a PADI IOC.
SSI Stress & Rescue Techniques = Rescue may enroll DM, must assess rescue skills!
SSI Master Diver = Rescue/MSD may enroll DM, must assess rescue skills!
To become a PADI Emergency First Response® (EFR) Instructor, you you'll need to be a PADI Instructor or Assistant Instructor who has satisfactorily completed an EFR Instructor Training program. As a EFR Instructor, you may conduct EFR programs for divers and non-divers who want CPR and first aid training including basic emergency medical care knowledge and skills.
To enroll in a PADI EFR Instructor Training program, you'll need to have successfully completed a EMERGENCY FIRST RESPONSE® program as a student. Training and Certification Teaching Status PADI Program Directors who are also PADI EFR Instructor Trainers may conduct PADI EFR Instructor Training programs. The EFR Instructor Training program teaches instructor candidates to conduct the seven modules of the EFR program including: Primary Assessment, CPR, Obstructed Airway, Control of Bleeding, Shock Management, Illness Assessment and Injury Assessment.
Once you complete the PADI EFR Instructor Training program, please submit to the appropriate PADI office a completed application signed by the PADI Program Director who conducted the training along with a photo and your processing fee. Only renewed PADI Instructors and Assistant Instructors may apply for EFR Instructor certification. If you're an instructor candidate, but not a PADI Assistant Instructor, you may apply for EFR Instructor certification only after becoming certified as PADI Instructor.
PADI Specialty Instructors have the best of both worlds. No only have the earned the qualifications to conduct main stream dive programs such as the PADI Open Water Diver, Advanced, Rescue Diver and Divemaster programs, they can also conduct PADI Specialty Diver programs. These programs help divers to hone their skills in specific area or facets of diving such as wreck, night and deep diving.
PADI has a variety of standardized specialty diver programs that you may conduct once you have earned PADI Specialty Instructors rating in that specific area. These each program is supported by outlines and a variety of other student learning materials. In addition to the standardized specialty programs, as a PADI Assistant Instructor or higher you may write your own distinctive specialty programs, which may be conducted once approved by PADI.
If you're already a PADI Assistant Instructor or higher and want to qualify as a PADI Specialty Instructor, you'll need to attend a Specialty Instructor Training Program (conducted by a PADI Course Director) or apply directly to PADI.
During the Specialty Instructor Training Program you'll receive valuable hands-on training, technique demonstrations, program marketing information, current PADI Standards information and, when applicable, instructor-level open water training. To enroll in a Specialty Instructor Training Program, you' need to must be a renewed PADI Assistant Instructor (certified/upgraded using the 1995 revised curriculum), a renewed PADI Underwater Instructor (or PADI Instructor with a higher rating) or have completed an IDC/IOC** within the past 12 months.
*After successfully completing specialty instructor training, PADI Assistant Instructors may apply only for PADI Specialty Instructor certification in nondiving specialties.
**Instructor candidates may apply for PADI Specialty Instructor certification only after becoming certified PADI Instructors.
All Instructors know the importance of providing oxygen at the scene of a dive accident. Shouldn't you be able to offer a student comprehensive training in the use of oxygen equipment?
Any PADI Assistant Instructor or Instructor, who has the DAN Oxygen Provider rating (and/or PADI Oxygen First Aid certification) and has current CPR training, is eligible to become a DAN O2 Instructor (and PADI Oxygen First Aid Specialty Instructor).
Offering the DAN Oxygen Provider course is a great way to add to student learning during Rescue / MFA programs and increase revenue. It's a fun and easy way to increase the number of Specialties you teach as well as an opportunity to get non-divers or local staff involved in dive training.
The one-day program includes review of Instructor and student Manual Materials, DAN O2 slides and DAN O2 video. Practice sessions include: Role model demonstrations and Micro Teaching Presentations.
Be a renewed PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor.
Be certified as a PADI Specialty Instructor for five or more specialty ratings.
Have issued at least 25 PADI Diver certifications.
To apply for certification, please submit to the appropriate PADI Office a completed Master Scuba Diver Trainer application with your photo and application fee. Upon approval of the application, PADI will issue an internationally recognized Master Scuba Diver Trainer certification card.
The PADI IDC Staff Instructor program is designed to provide you (PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainers) with the additional training necessary to staff PADI Instructor Development programs. This program builds upon your experience and abilities as a dive educator while concentrating on developing evaluation and counseling skills. Through independent study, classroom sessions, guided evaluation training and an internship, you'll learn to teach the PADI Assistant Instructor program and assist with instructor development programs.
Conduct specific IDC/IOC training segments under direct supervision of a PADI Course Director.
Evaluate, critique and counsel IDC/IOC candidates.
Assist with instructor level continuing education programs.
To enter into the PADI IDC Staff Instructor program, you'll need to be a current PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer.
After you successfully complete the PADI IDC Staff Instructor program, you'll receive an internationally recognized certification card and wall certificate denoting this rating.
Basically, the more time you have to take this program, the more experience and hands on training you will receive. We strongly believe that practical, real life training is far more interesting, practical and enjoyable than other approaches. We're sure that the time you spend with us will be prove to be some of the most rewarding of your diving career.
In order to maximize the efficiency of the dive center staff, you'll need to develop staff rosters for diving and maintenance duties in a way that is considered fair by all.
Dive Industry Overview: The environment in which this industry thrives: statistics, forecasts, and evaluation.
Business planning: Focused investing and financing, office automation, budgeting, taxes and business law.
Diver Education: Scheduling and pricing of diver training for profitable business.
Dive Travel: Determining and serving the needs of the traveling diver: business income potential.
Advertising, Public Relations and Marketing: The all too important skill of reaching out to your customers and informing them of the products and services you offer.
Dive Center Physical Operations: The nitty-gritty of the dream to own and operate a successful dive center. You'll need to know about the costs of equipment and maintenance, as well as facilities such as classrooms, pools and access to open water training sites.
Staff Management: Human resources can be your most important assets when job descriptions are clearly understood, agreed upon and performed.
Risk Management: Especially in our litigious society, an ounce of prevention is always better than a pound of cure. You'll learn techniques to safeguard yourself, your staff, and your customers against potential lawsuits.
This seminar is loaded with information, including numerous dive industry specific tips. These techniques and strategies will help you succeed in this extremely competitive industry. Whether you're a novice or an experienced professional, Positive Approach Selling is for you.