This Wednesday, Sept. 21, at 6:30 p.m., the Omaha Film Festival will screen a series of short films produced by local talents for the festival's 48 Hour Film Challenge. I participated in the contest during the weekend of September 9th, competing against 25 teams that were assigned genres, lines of dialogue, and peculiar props to incorporate into short films less than five minutes long. Short films often take months—sometimes years—to develop and produce, so completing a project in just 48 hours was a mammoth undertaking.
The challenge officially began with a drawing on the evening of the 9th, a Friday. Admittedly, I wandered around the event and eavesdropped to get a sense of my competition. Although I expected most teams to be competing purely for the fun of it, realizing how many experienced filmmakers were present was a sobering reminder that thousands of dollars in prizes were at stake. Festival officials reminded us that the point of the competition was to have a good time, but who were they kidding? We were in it to win it. Besides, no matter what project your producing under any circumstances, there's always a part of you that secretly hopes your film will change the world.
The drawing commenced and each team leader randomly picked one film genre out of a hat: comedy, drama, horror/thriller or romance. Each film would need to use the line of dialogue, "Ben knows how to get it done," and a picture of actor Steve Buscemi as a prop. Prizes would be awarded to teams who found the cleverest ways to incorporate the elements into their films. After I drew comedy, my brainstorming session felt more like torrential downpour than light showers. I'd already put together a team of five actors, so it was daunting to find the perfect concept that would give all of them exciting roles.
I completed a script later that night. It was a riff on hard-boiled detective stories that managed to give each of my actors at least one shining moment. The next morning, I shopped for costumes and props—keeping all of the receipts so that I could return the items as soon as the competition ended. Having worked on short film projects before, I learned that everything seems to go wrong during shooting. Considering a lack of preparation was part of the festival's point, I anticipated nothing but stress and catastrophe. However, I was relieved by how smoothly shooting went that afternoon.
After shooting wrapped, my team celebrated with dinner. I was so anxious to start editing that I could barely eat the cheese-fries I'd ordered—and that's saying something! I was embarrassed by how quickly I rushed home, even dropping off a teammate a few blocks from his apartment and forcing him to walk the rest of the way so that I could save myself time. Every second the short film was incomplete felt like torture. When I eavesdropped at the drawing, most teams planned on shooting Saturday and editing Sunday. Knowing that I'd be too antsy to sleep Saturday night, I chugged three cups of coffee just before midnight and finished editing sometime around 4 a.m.
Films were due Sunday by 8:00 p.m. After a few last minute tweaks, I was the first person to turn in a film—and the first person to win a secret prize: a nice bottle of wine that I've been trying to open for a week, but it has a funky cork so I'm having issues. I'm sure it tastes good, though… After turning in the film, all the exhaustion of the 48 hour challenge finally hit me. Sleep came easier than usual that night.
The 48 Hour Film Challenge screening will take place at the Marcus Village Point Cinema, followed by an awards ceremony. Throughout the challenge, teams posted behind-the-scenes photos of their films on various social media websites. I competed in a similar contest (not hosted by the Omaha Film Festival) years ago and was hugely disappointed by the final products. Judging the photos posted by competitors during the Omaha Film Festival's 48 Hour Film Challenge, I expect to see a program of short films with impressive production values and clever storytelling. You should consider checking them out, too.


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Winning the $1,500 award from Southern Cross Credit Union's Community Goals program will be a massive help to our organisation. This money will go directly into feeding and caring for the animals that we have rescued and are in our care. We currently have 14 sea turtles, one seabird and one sea snake in our care. With this kind of support we can give the best possible care to these animals so they can be released back into the wild.
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On behalf of Tweed Palliative Support and Wedgetail Retreat, we are delighted with our win! The fact that this was a community vote makes is very special to us and we are so grateful for their support. We commend Southern Cross Credit Union for their initiative in putting on this program to assist local charities. The $5000 Community Goals prize will greatly enable us to continue our service to the people of Tweed Shire via TPS and to maintain our world-class end-of-life care at Wedgetail Retreat. Thank you SCCU and our community!
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Southern Cross Credit Union announced as WINNER of the Business category at the recent Tweed Shire 2021 Sustainability Awards.
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SCCU Announce the 2021 Community Grants Recipients, Each Awarded a Share in $40k to see their Dream of a Better Tomorrow Brought to Life.
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Club Lennox & SCCU partner up to support largest regional mental health unit in NSW
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Thanks to the efforts of the annual Club Lennox Christmas Tree fundraising drive and Southern Cross Credit Union (SCCU), a cheque for over $3,800 has been presented to Our Kids - Northern Rivers Children's Health Fund. Receiving the cheque on behalf of Our Kids, Fundraising Coordinator Rebekka Battista said With restrictions...
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Piney Gir confirmed as support for Gaz Coombes on US tour!
You can listen to it HERE Piney has almost finished work on her next album which is due out in the summer.
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Happy Aviation Maintenance Technician Day 2019
May 24, 2019 | Aviation | 0 comments
Aviation Maintenance Technician Day
The world of aviation is an exciting aspect of man's history towards the skies. So, Aviation Maintenance Technician Day exists to give recognition for their efforts in keeping flight a possibility.
This holiday was created to thank the men and women who create safer skies for passengers. To honor the professional men and women who ensure the safety and security of our airborne aviation infrastructure; and recognizes the life and memory of Charles Edward Taylor as they travel internationally. This holiday also encourages aviation professionals to share their knowledge and show appreciation for the success they have done in their lives.
History of Aviation Maintenance Technician Day
Charles Edward Taylor, the machinist who built the engine used to power the airplane of the Wright Brothers, and father of aviation maintenance day. The date May 24 was selected to honor the birth date of Taylor. In 2001, the Federal Aviation Administration officially declared the holiday to honor the effort and innovation of Charles Edward Taylor. Who is considered one of the world's first successful aviation maintenance technicians that helped innovate the use of flight into our everyday world. Even though the Wright Brothers take the upfront credit for building the world's first successful airplane. Taylor's 12-horsepower engine propelled the Wright's airplane 20 feet above the wind-swept North Carolina beach. Allowing the aircraft to last 59 seconds for a distance of 852 feet.
Through the efforts of Richard Dilbeck, in 2001, the FAA created the prestigious Charles E. Taylor Master Mechanic Award to honor AMTs, who had served at least 50 years in aircraft maintenance. The following year, California Senator Knight introduced a resolution honoring Aviation Maintenance Technicians annually in honor of Charles Taylor's birthday.
According to the FAA, there are over 250,000 men and women working as maintenance technicians at major international airports across the United States.
In 2008, a congressional resolution dedicated the date in honor of Taylor, establishing National Aviation Maintenance Technician Day. While the "holiday" doesn't get anyone out of work (there are no days off from aviation safety). It's important to celebrate the commitment, integrity and skill of every aircraft mechanic and all those who support them. This is Taylor's legacy and our shared responsibility.
https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/aviation-maintenance-technician-day/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_Maintenance_Technician_Day


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The University of Louisville's Board of Trustees voted Wednesday to terminate the contract of athletics director Tom Jurich, just two days after basketball coach Rick Pitino was unanimously ousted.
The board voted 10-3 to fire Jurich with cause in the wake of a recruiting scandal uncovered by the FBI that has rocked college basketball, including Louisville, and continues to send shockwaves through the sport.
"We are disheartened by the actions taken by the University of Louisville Board of Trustees this afternoon against Athletic Director Tom Jurich," Jurich's legal counsel said in a statement. "We believe that their vote to terminate his contract was done in haste with inaccurate information that should have had no bearing on continuing his employment. Tom Jurich maintained a professional athletic department that was the envy of universities across the country. He has done nothing illegal, nor violated any NCAA rules. Tom has been a great steward for the University of Louisville Athletics brand."
In the FBI's findings released last month that implicated four college basketball assistant coaches and a total of 10 people, Rick Pitino was identified as "Coach-2" as an individual who took part in funneling $100,000 with the help of Adidas to the family of five-star prospect and current Louisville freshman Brian Bowen.
Neither Louisville nor Pitino was explicitly named in the findings, however interim president Greg Postel later confirmed the school was part of the ongoing probe into corruption within the sport.
In the aftermath of the FBI's findings, Jurich was placed on administrative leave. His termination on Wednesday ends a 20-year tenure with the school.


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Edward Vanhoutte is past Director of Research and Publications in the Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature - KANTL (Gent, Belgium) and past head of the Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies - CTB. He is also a Research Associate of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities (University College London). Edward is Editor-in-Chief of DSH: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, and member of the editorial boards of Digital Studies / Le champ numérique and TEI Extramural Journal-EJ. He publishes widely on (electronic) textual and genetic criticism, electronic scholarly editing, and humanities computing. Edward served as a member of several boards and councils such as the Huygens Institute - ING, the executive council of the ALLC, and the technical committee of the dbnl: Digitale Bibliotheek der Nederlandse Letteren. His research interests include text-encoding and markup of modern manuscript material, electronic scholarly editing, genetic editing, and the history of electronic editing and humanities computing. His latest book Defining Digital Humanities, co-edited with Melissa Terras and Julianne Nyhan, recently appeared in a Russian version. Occasional blogs on Humanities Computing can be found on The Mind Tool: Edward Vanhoutte's Blog .


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LOS ANGELES, CA, Clinical stage biotechnology company announced today the completion of a $21M Series B financing.
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SAN CARLOS, CA, Developer of ultra-efficient engine designs announced closure of its Series C financing.
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The mental health sector is celebrating the announcement of a psychosocial stream for the National Disability Insurance Scheme, but advocates say more needs to be done for people struggling to access the NDIS in the first place.
The additional stream will employ specialised staff and planners, and focus on the episodic nature of mental illness.
Social Services Minister Paul Fletcher announced the additional stream on Wednesday to coincide with World Mental Health Day, and said it was a critical step to support 64,000 Australians with a psychosocial disability.
Fletcher said the reform followed recommendations from Mental Health Australia.
Community Mental Health Australia executive director Amanda Bresnan spoke to Pro Bono News following the announcement and said this was a good first step for the NDIS.
"This is something the sector and CMHA has been calling for for quite some time and it's great the government is doing something like this which will have benefits for people with psychosocial disability," Bresnan said.
But she raised concerns over those with psychosocial disability who weren't eligible for the NDIS, or those who missed out because they weren't engaging in the scheme.
"I think we've still got that specific issue of the people that are sitting outside of the NDIS. There is some additional funding there now but I think we need to know how many are left out and I don't think we've got real oversight of that," she said.
The sector has previously raised concerns over the number of people who would fall through the gaps when federal initiatives such as the Personal Helpers and Mentor program (PHaMs) closed, and funding moved to the NDIS.
It was found in July that only 10 per cent, or 2,030 people, from PHaMs had transitioned to the NDIS, out of the estimated 690,000 people living with a severe mental illness in Australia.
Bresnan said it was important to keep an eye on how services were rolled out over the coming months.
"We still need to see the details about how it will actually be implemented, how it will be applied exactly, and where the expertise is located," she said.


The other day someone told me that she wished everyone was like me. Her friend agreed. I was shocked. I'm not exactly sure who they know, but I surely felt it wasn't me. After all, I know myself and often times feel like my witness, the words I speak and my expressions toward others is less than perfect or desired by the Lord. I thanked them for their kind words and walked away. Oh oh....immediate conviction. I had forgotten to give credit where credit was due. I returned to them and said that I could not leave without telling them who they were seeing, who was Jesus Christ in me. Much to my surprise, it was well received. Their comment? Keep it up, it shows. I am so thankful Jesus Christ dwells in me and that people are drawn to what's inside of me and not my outward actions. ~ Susan B.


The website has been updated with the new newsletter today, and has also had a bit of a facelift with a new colour scheme. I hope it's given it a sharper look than the old pastel version but please feel free to comment.
The call for papers for this international conference has now been extended to 29 February 2008. See the pdf here for details.


Croatia has maintained a similar-sized district heating system over the past fifteen years, which supplies around 10% of the total population with district heating. There is a considerable requirement for refurbishment of the existing networks in order to increase customer confidence, energy efficiency and profitability.
Natural gas is the most dominant energy source for space heating and domestic hot water in Croatia. It is also the main competitor of district heating. District heating networks are found in larger continental cities and their share in the local heat market lies between 15% and 40%.
The district heating networks in Croatia are predominantly supplied with recycled heat, with 2015 levels at almost 77%. The main fuel source for district heat was natural gas (74.5%) and around 80% of the total fuel used for district heat was generated through combined heat and power. As shown in the graph below, 6.5% of the residential heat demand was covered by district heating in 2015. At present, there is no district cooling market in Croatia, but there is an estimated total potential of 10 TWh.
District heating has been set as a priority for Croatia's energy policy with a number of defined development guidelines, including the need to modernise district heating systems and to provide incentives for the development of new district heat customers. In the update of the Energy Strategy and the Implementation Programme of Croatia, it is stated that the construction of distributed energy infrastructure, as a complement to large energy systems, will be stimulated, as well as the application of heat pumps due to their high efficiency and lower environmental impact.


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Q: Impute NA Values in a matrix using linear model I'm trying to write a function that will take a matrix of any size, find a single NA value, and impute that value based on a LINEAR MODEL of the other values in the matrix. I'm running into the issue that my linear model is not supplying me with a slope and an intercept to calculate the missing value, as I believe it should. If anyone can give me any pointers or help me find a more efficient way of achieving this, I would appreciate it.
Here's what I have so far:

rawVector <- c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, NA, 7, 8, 9)
testMatrix <- matrix(rawVector, nrow = 3, ncol = 3, byrow = T)

imputeMissingValuesHARD <- function(inputMatrix) {

  dimnames(inputMatrix) <- list(rownames(inputMatrix, do.NULL = FALSE, prefix = "row"), colnames(inputMatrix, do.NULL = FALSE, prefix = "col"))

  dependent <- ""
  colNumber <- -1

  for(row in 1:nrow(inputMatrix)) {
    for(col in 1:ncol(inputMatrix)) {
        if(is.na(inputMatrix[row, col]))
      {
        dependent <- colnames(inputMatrix)[col]
        colNumber <- col
      }
    }
  }

  otherCols <- colnames(inputMatrix)[-(colNumber)]

  myModel <- as.formula(paste(dependent, paste(otherCols, collapse="+"), sep="~"))

  fit <- lm(myModel, as.data.frame(inputMatrix))

  print(fit)

  return("OK")
}

imputeMissingValuesHARD(testMatrix)


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We guarantee that your old car is disposed of in the right way. Dishonest companies might sell your car on and never even had any intention of scrapping, sometimes the DVLA won't even be notified that the vehicle has changed ownership. This leaves you vulnerable legally, and can easily result in you being fined. We will take away your old car in East Peckham and ensure that the DVLA are aware that the vehicle has been scrapped and you are no longer the owner. Here at Scrap Car East Peckham we make sure that we recycle everything, so as you can tell we always do our bit for the environment.
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Today the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced proposed changes to Medicare Part D to lower prescription drug costs for beneficiaries.
From day one, President Trump has made it clear that lowering prescription drug costs is a top priority. In May, the President released his drug-pricing blueprint, which includes the most sweeping set of policies to lower drug prices ever put forth by an administration. HHS has been hard at work to make the President's vision a reality – because the status quo is simply unacceptable.
Today the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced proposed changes to Medicare Part D to lower prescription drug costs for beneficiaries. Part D uses private insurance plans to cover drugs that are picked up at a pharmacy. The program is driven by market competition: Plans compete for beneficiaries' business, and enrollees choose the plan that best meets their needs. Consumer choice puts pressure on plans to improve quality and lower costs. Part D premiums declined last year and are projected to decline again next year. But certain CMS regulations also constrain plans' full negotiating power and keep them from lowering costs for their enrollees.
As we designed these proposed changes to Medicare Advantage (MA) and Part D, foremost in our minds was the impact on beneficiaries and ensuring affordability and access to medications. The changes we are proposing bring tools to Medicare that are widely used in private plans. However, it's important to remember that if seniors don't like a plan that takes advantage of these new flexibilities, they are in the driver's seat. They have the option to choose a different plan that better meets their needs. These new tools will only become as common as beneficiaries want them to be.
One area in which Part D plans are constrained in their negotiating power is in the "protected classes." These are therapeutic classes for which Part D plans must cover all available products with very few exceptions. As a result, beneficiaries taking these drugs have not seen the types of discounts that beneficiaries taking other drugs experience.
The protected class policy was put into place 12 years ago, at the beginning of the Part D program, to address concerns about patient access when millions of beneficiaries were being transferred onto Part D from Medicaid, and Part D plans were still inexperienced at implementing the program's beneficiary protections. But the policy was never intended to be permanent.
Part D plans have since gained experience processing expedited appeals and making sure beneficiaries get the medications they need across all drug classes. However, the lack of any ability for Part D plans to manage drugs in the protected classes has allowed the pharmaceutical industry to command high prices on protected class drugs in Part D, without patients getting a good deal. Insurance plans in the private market do not face the same constraint. To give you a sense of the impact: Typical private market discounts for these drugs are in the 20 to 30 percent range, but the average discount across all protected classes in Part D is just 6 percent. The protected class policy is in need of an update to ensure that beneficiaries who depend on these drugs are getting the same discounts that other beneficiaries get.
Several protected class drugs have had especially large price increases over the past few years. For example, Part D spending on Latuda®, an antipsychotic used by more than 100,000 Medicare beneficiaries, grew at a rate of nearly 19 percent annually from 2013 to 2017. Today, there are 63 percent more individual drugs in the protected classes than there were when the protected class policy was created – this means more competition that plans could leverage to provide high-quality options at a lower cost. But because under the protected class policy nearly every individual drug has to be covered, competition is thwarted.
To modernize the program and empower plans to drive down costs for beneficiaries who need these drugs, today's CMS rule proposes to permit greater flexibility in the protected classes. Specifically, we propose allowing plans to exclude from their formularies protected class drugs with price increases that are greater than inflation, as well as certain new drug formulations that are not a significant innovation over the original product.
We also propose to allow plans to use prior authorization and step therapy for protected class drugs. Plans could therefore ensure that beneficiaries receive the most appropriate and lowest-cost option first.
To achieve even more savings for beneficiaries, we are proposing to codify a policy that closely matches one that we implemented for 2019, to allow step therapy for Medicare Advantage plans. This policy would allow MA plans to offer beneficiaries the drug in Part B, which covers physician-administered drugs, that is most cost-effective before progressing to other options. For example, a beneficiary could start on a low-cost biosimilar before moving to a more costly biologic. The resulting savings would lead to a decrease in MA premiums. And to ensure access to Part B drugs, step therapy requirements may only apply to new starts of medication and must be reviewed and approved by the plan's pharmacy and therapeutics committee.
Some say that allowing step therapy and prior authorization would restrict access to prescription drugs. However, these changes protect patient access, as the Part D program is embedded with strong patient protections. CMS reviews plan formularies to guard against discriminatory practices, and the agency has in place an expedited appeals process for cases in which a physician recommends an exception to prior authorization or other forms of management. There are also additional requirements for plans to cover at least two drugs per class, including in the protected classes. Ultimately, the changes we are proposing would reduce costs for protected class medicines and therefore expand access to these important medicines.
In addition to strengthening negotiating power and empowering patients, the proposed rule for Part D takes steps to increase transparency. In the commercial health insurance market, plans have begun to offer real-time prescription benefit tools that give patients and their doctors information on cost sharing for their drugs, at the same time as their doctors prescribe them. For example, patients seeking hepatitis C treatment could discuss with their physician all their options, fully understanding the cost of each one under their insurance plan. There would be no surprises, and patients would have the information they need to make the decisions that work best for them.
We seek to accelerate the use of these solutions in Part D by proposing that each plan adopt a real-time prescription benefit tool of its choosing by January 1, 2020. This policy would complement other administration efforts to increase transparency, including legislation signed by President Trump to end the practice of pharmacy gag clauses, a prohibition we are proposing to implement in this rule, and a CMS proposal to require pharmaceutical companies to disclose the list price of drugs in direct-to-consumer television ads. CMS has also advanced price transparency through a redesigned drug dashboard, and has taken action beyond the area of drug pricing by requiring hospitals to post their standard charges online in a machine-readable format.
In addition to these proposals, we are also considering a Part D proposal that would protect competition among pharmacies and lower costs for patients. Independent pharmacies have raised concerns that back-end deals with health insurance plans are eroding competition and making it harder for them to continue providing medications to beneficiaries. Plans can set performance requirements for pharmacies that may not be achievable, leading to large financial clawbacks from pharmacies and swings in revenues that pharmacies cannot manage. What's worse, beneficiaries are not benefitting from these discounts in the amount that they pay at the pharmacy counter—they are paying cost-sharing based on a price that is higher than the amount that pharmacies are actually reimbursed for drugs.
Therefore, CMS is considering for a future plan year, which could be as early as 2020, to require that the price a beneficiary pays at the pharmacy counter reflects the lowest possible cost, so beneficiaries receive the maximum benefit. If adopted, this change would lower cost sharing for beneficiaries by about $12 to $15 billion over 10 years.
We look forward to input on these proposals and other policies under consideration to modernize the Medicare Advantage and Part D programs, so we can ensure that we are achieving our goals of putting patients' needs first by lowering their costs and protecting access to the medications they need. Seniors deserve to benefit from tools to lower prescription drug costs that have been developed in the commercial marketplace in the 12 years since Part D was implemented.


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For generations of Americans, good nutrition means consuming a balanced diet from the four basic food groups, "layered" in an easy-to-understand scale within the U.S. Department of Agriculture's food pyramid. Today, however, we're seeing a multi-pronged attack on the famous food pyramid, with one activist group or another attacking nearly every layer for its own political gain.
The Oldways Preservation and Exchange Trust, which campaigns against modern agriculture technology, wants to replace the USDA's food pyramid with a bewildering array of four different food pyramids, each designed for people with Asian, Latin or Mediterranean ethnic origins; there is, of course, a purely vegetarian pyramid for everyone else. For those who want to eat meat, the Oldways pyramids allow for a very small portion… once a month.
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) recently initiated a lawsuit against the USDA. Straining credibility, PCRM's staff counsel claimed that the food pyramid "is a form of rationalized racism that overlooks minority people's health concerns to sell more products by the meat, dairy and egg industries." PCRM's legal action would also expel food science expert advisers at USDA who have any ties to the food industry.
In their public relations campaign to discourage consumption of meat and dairy products, PCRM went so far in 1999 as to publicly propose the U.S. Justice Department initiate tobacco-style class-action lawsuits against the meat and restaurant industries. Their claim? "[M]eat consumption is linked to serious illness and common causes of death."
Even Action on Smoking and Health is getting into the act, pushing an alternative "Unified Dietary Guideline" pyramid devised by its anti-smoking allies that would strictly reduce the top layers of dietary fat sources in the USDA pyramid.


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Arsenal announce the signing of Zinchenko on a contract until 2026
Arsenal announced today, Friday, its fifth deal during the current summer transfer market, after signing the Ukrainian Oleksandr Zinchenko from Manchester City.
An Arsenal statement said Oleksandr Zinchenko joined the club on a long-term contract from Manchester City. The 25-year-old has extensive experience in the Premier League and international football, having made 128 appearances for Manchester City and played 52 times for Ukraine.
Press reports revealed that the Ukrainian left-back deal cost Arsenal 32 million pounds, and he signed a 4-year contract to run until 2026.
Zinchenko became the fifth signing of the Gunners during the current summer Mercato, after Gabriel Jesus, Marquinhos, Matt Turner and Fabio Vieira joined the club as newcomers.
The Ukrainian player has already joined the squad at their pre-season training camp in Orlando. His team number will be announced at a later time.


Promotions are granted on the basis of the whole year's work of the students, hence the importance of regularity in work, attendance and Parent-Teacher contacts.
Besides regular class tests, the school conducts three main examinations, tentatively in August, November and March.
The criterion for promotion is the average of the three examinations and particularly the performance of the students at the final examination held at the end of the academic year.
Normally no student will be allowed to appear for the final examination if she does not put in 90% attendance in Classes K.G. to VIII.
If a candidate fails to appear in both Half Yearly and Annual Examination (even on medical grounds) she will be treated as detained.
The minimum pass marks in each subject is 36% for classes K.G. to VIII, 33% for class IX and X. There will be grading system in K.G. and Primary in certain subjects.
Students who use unfair means during tests and examination will be given zero in the subjects. Repetition of the same will result in dismissal.
Students who fail twice in the same class will not be permitted to continue in the school.
Children who are ill or are recovering from an illness should not be sent for a Test/Examination. Their general performance in the subject will be taken into account. There will be no anticipation or postponement of any written Exam.


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Flu Threat Continues in New Jersey, Along with Calls to Vaccinate
Lilo H. Stainton | March 4, 2019
With some time to go before flu season ends, health officials say it's not too late to get the vaccine
Credit: Wikimedia Commons
While not as severe as last year's extreme influenza epidemic, the flu continues to take its toll on New Jersey in the current season. And even with the worst of winter behind us, experts caution that the viral outbreak remains a threat to public health.
Their message to the public is it's not too late to vaccinate.
Flu shots are relatively effective this year and they are the best way to protect individuals and their families — and those who can't be vaccinated for medical reasons — from the potentially deadly disease, doctors and public health experts note. It's also important to wash your hands, cover your coughs and sneezes, and stay home from school or work when you are sick, especially with a fever.
"There is high flu activity in the state, so it's important for those who have not yet gotten a flu shot to get vaccinated, especially children, the elderly, and people with certain health conditions who are at high risk for serious flu complications," state health commissioner Dr. Shereef Elnahal said last week. "Influenza can cause severe illness and unfortunately can be deadly, especially in these vulnerable populations."
The state Department of Health announced in late February that an infant from northern New Jersey had died of influenza-related complications; it was the third pediatric flu-related death this season. The baby had several underlying medical conditions that made vaccination inappropriate.
Days earlier, the department confirmed the death of a north Jersey toddler connected to the disease. And a child in central New Jersey died in December as a result of the virus, according to the DOH, which did not release additional information for privacy reasons.
Taking precautions
To combat the spread of the virus — which can lead to a contagious respiratory illness with symptoms that include fever, body aches, chills, nausea and more — the DOH launched a multimedia public awareness campaign #fightthefluNJ in October. It continues to encourage people to get vaccinated and take other precautions.
In February, Elnahal joined leaders at Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center to talk to healthcare workers about the importance of these acts and to celebrate its own staff vaccination rate of 98 percent; the remaining two percent had medical or religious reasons for being exempt, the DOH said.
Dr. Uzma Hasan
Dr. Uzma Hasan, the division chief of pediatric infectious diseases for Saint Barnabas Medical Center, part of the RWJ/Barnabas healthcare system, agreed last week that it is still not too late to get a flu shot. "Flu transmission is ongoing and vaccination prevents severe illness, hospitalization and death from influenza. It also protects against other strains of influenza which may circulate later in the season," she said, urging that all individuals older than six months get a flu shot.
Experts note that, while often associated with winter, flu season technically extends into April or May. Reports in New Jersey show the state had also confirmed three pediatric deaths at this point last year. The 2017-2018 flu season peaked late and was particularly severe, driving high numbers of patients to the emergency room. When the final tally was in, by October 2018, five young patients had died for reasons related to the virus.
The risks of going unvaccinated
While this year may not share all the extreme characteristics seen last year, Hasan and others stress that we have yet to see the full impact of the current flu season; state data show that the disease is still taking a significant toll on public health. "I think cumulative numbers (for pediatric mortality) at end of season will be comparable to other years," Hasan said, noting that those who are unvaccinated are particularly at risk.
According to the latest weekly flu data for New Jersey, the outbreak appeared to be slackening in the northeast corner of the state, specifically Bergen, Hudson and Essex counties. But the remaining 18 counties all reported "high" influenza activity, a status that had been the norm for months in all areas of the state.
Several thousand people have tested positive for various strains of influenza in recent weeks, but the numbers are down from the 2017-2018 season. Flu-related absences at school are also lower this year, as is the number of cases reported among residents at nursing homes and other long-term care facilities.
At the end of 2018, emergency-room visits were running above the average for the three highest flu seasons, but the rates have since dropped below that trend line. Still, flu-related concerns accounted for more than 5 percent of all ER visits in the middle of February. Hospital admissions tied to influenza, which had been trending close to the three-year average for high-activity seasons, have also dropped, the mid-month report showed. These comprised over 3 percent of total admissions at that point.
Hasan, with Saint Barnabas, said much of the flu-related hospital traffic she has seen this year involves children who have other health issues that put them at greater risk for adverse impacts of the virus. "The majority of children we have seen in our ER who have required inpatient admission are unvaccinated, with secondary bacterial pneumonias, or children with chronic medical issues, who are at risk of overwhelming illness from influenza, particularly when unvaccinated," she said.
Effects on public health
Since children with compromised immune systems can't be vaccinated, experts stress that protecting public health depends on other individuals getting their flu shots. Studies by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest this year's flu virus is effective in reducing respiratory infection in nearly half of those infected and is more than 60 percent effective in children. (Influenza viral strains are constantly evolving, requiring new variants of vaccines each year, and making it essentially impossible to completely guard against all types of the disease.)
Vaccination is "the most important step in protecting against the flu since it can reduce the risk of hospitalization and serious health consequences," said Dr. Tina Tan, an assistant commissioner at DOH and the state epidemiologist, in a recent public video message. Covering coughs, hand washing and staying home when sick are also key factors, she said.
It's also important to "dispel the myth" that children get sick from the flu shot, Hasan added. While vaccinated children may get sick, it is likely they are picking this up from somewhere else, she said.
"We need to get the message across: Even if your child gets influenza after receiving the influenza vaccination their illness will be much milder, as the vaccine protects from overwhelming illness and death," Hasan said.
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What is Ortega Forest, Florida internet marketing?
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Santorum attacks Dutch euthanasia, what would he say about doctor-assisted suicide in Oregon?
Updated Jan 10, 2019; Posted Feb 27, 2012
By Jeff Mapes | The Oregonian/OregonLive
AP Photo/Eric GayGOP Presidential candidate Rick Santorum
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is now making waves on another hot-button social issue: doctor-assisted suicide.
Santorum is attracting media attention not only in the U.S. but in the Netherlands after making several assertions about Dutch euthanasia practices that critics say just don't hold water. Whatever the case, it's enough to make you wonder if Oregon's pioneering "death with dignity" law will become an issue if Santorum makes it to the state's May 15 GOP primary.
The former Pennsylvania senator, who has also been the most aggressive of the GOP candidates in taking on such issues as gay marriage and insurance coverage for contraception, charged that 10 percent of the Dutch are euthanized and that the elderly are afraid to go to hospitals in the Netherlands. He said the elderly there wear bracelets asking not be euthanized.
Santorum made his comments in a Feb. 3 forum in Missouri, but they've only started receiving wide attention in recent days as a video of his remarks has circulated on the internet.
According to The Washington Post's fact checker, Santorum's statistics are way off and he's wrong about the elderly wearing such bracelets. People there often do have living wills that express their wishes regarding euthanasia, the Post said.
A Dutch TV reporter who appeared on Rachel Maddow's show on MSNBC said Santorum's remarks have become big news in Holland, where they have been roundly denounce as untrue. Santorum's charges are "funny but insulting at the same time," said Erik Mouthan of RTL News.
Still, said Tim Worstall, a fellow at the Adam Smith Institute in London, Santorum is "sorta right" about the problems with Dutch euthanasia law. Although Santorum's statistics are off, Worstall said, Dutch doctors are euthanizing some patients who have not expressly asked to die at that moment.
Oregon's law (which has been copied in large part by Washington and Montana) is different. Terminally ill patients can receive a lethal prescription from a doctor but they have to personally ingest it. While the law has generated little controversy in recent years, it's not hard to imagine it being an issue if Santorum is still a viable candidate in May. There are many conservative voters who remain ardently opposed to the law and it's not hard to imagine them being a force in the GOP primary.


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struct MockMotionEvent : public MotionEventGeneric {
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  MockMotionEvent& CancelPoint();
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Working in Europe is very different from working in Asia. I have had the privilege to experience both places in a professional setting. One main difference I found, was a gender equality.
While in Germany I learned very early in my career, that men won't have a problem with fatherhood and work, I found majority of women who worked, were childless. In China I saw many women as my colleagues and many of them were mothers too. Of course, this has many reasons, such as maternity leave in China is three to nine times lower than in Germany. However, I draw the conclusion that it's still not by choice of the woman whether she comes back to her work or not.
All of the above questions have one main thing in common: a fathers wouldn't have gotten these questions at all.
After all these negative experiences, I came into my last interview and was extremely nervous. I tried to prepare myself for the questions that would hit me, anxiously thinking about how they could phrase them this time. I tried to prepare myself with good answers and tried to think about what I'll do if the questions again only resolve about me being a mother.
They didn't ask one single question about motherhood. All they were interested in, was my qualifications and personality and whether I would fit the job. I couldn't believe it. This made me happy and hopeful.
When I first started writing my CV and cover letters, I really wanted to stay professional and did not mention much about my private situation. I assumed that this is my part to take care off and this is none of anybody's concern but mine. A future employer wouldn't care less about how my child care situation could be.
Leave the kid completely out of your application.
Include your family status and daycare situation.
a) I couldn't explain my two-year work break without mentioning a kid.
b) Any HR person could count 1 and 1 together. A woman, recently married, two years break from work. All together really much sounds like a mother.
c) I didn't want to waste my time with companies that might have a problem with me being a mother.
d) I couldn't imagine how I could have bring that up in an interview or even later at the job without feeling weird for keeping it kind of a secret.
Additionally, it's a plus if you're not a single-mother. As hard as this sounds, what I want to say is that you can include this information in an interview.
Let me tell you one thing though: men don't have to go through this checklist above at all.
This might have been the most surprising fact to learn for me. The very first mom-question I got: "You are aware that this position is for a full-time employment, right?" And I knew in my guts that this was about motherhood. Later I learned from an HR-specialist that it is assumed mothers would only want to work in part-time jobs. It is kind of obligatory to ask the candidate if she's a mother, whether she really wants to work a full-time job.
In my perfect answer, I'd say that I'm not illiterate since I'm a mother but how to deliver this message without attitude?
The reason why, is probably that mothers are still perceived in german society as the first and sometimes only care-giver.
The first time I got mom-questions I wasn't prepared for them but I did, what I usually do in interviews: Answer politely. Afterwards I felt like I should have said something, I should have stood up for myself. Stand up for all women everywhere and fight these questions. Interview by interview.
So I started pre-phrasing great responses to bad questions. Sometimes I even had different versions, to increase drama when needed. When in the situation I still couldn't do it.
I realised that it always felt like something is on the line and I didn't want to screw up my chances. What if by the end of the interview, they say it was just a test? What if they would have told me after my answer that they think it is great and they want to support that?
So in the end, I learned that it is great to research a little bit about what the right answer for those mom-questions could be. I believe to make them hear what they want to hear -even if it's not your truth- is the best way to cope with these questions for now.
If you are in the position where you sit in an interview and the woman is being asked these mom-questions, that is your time to stand up against it.
In all of my interviews – in which I've been given the mom-q's- there was always a woman present, either looking away or even being the one who's asking.
My tip for you in general is to not talk or answer too long on these mom-q's. Reveal sufficient information and even if there's first an awkward silence you feel like you want to fill, resist and stay quiet.
If you have any more tips or want to share your personal experiences, please comment below. I'd love to hear your stories.