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House Passes Bill to Avert Government Shutdown
— WASHINGTON -- The House of Representatives has voted 335-91 to extend funding for the federal government by two weeks.
by Emily P. Walker, Washington Correspondent, MedPage Today March 1, 2011
WASHINGTON -- The House of Representatives has voted 335-91 to extend funding for the federal government by two weeks.
Senate Democrats said they'd pass the stopgap bill quickly -- in the next two days -- to avert the government shutdown that is poised to happen on Friday.
Unlike the seven-month spending measure passed by the GOP-controlled House last week, the current two-week stopgap doesn't tread into the politically toxic waters of cutting funding for Democratic-supported programs, including Planned Parenthood and the healthcare reform law.
The continuing resolution that passed the House on Feb. 19 -- which would fund government spending for the next seven months -- contained hundreds of amendments, including one that would have cut off all federal funding for Planned Parenthood for the rest of fiscal 2011. Other amendments would have blocked funds for implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
But that bill never would have passed the Democratic-controlled Senate, so House Republicans put together the two-week stopgap measure. The Obama administration pushed for Congress to turn the two-week measure into a bill that would keep the government funded for a full month, but that idea was rejected.
The seven-month continuing resolution passed by the House would have shaved off $60 billion in federal spending for fiscal 2011; the stopgap bill would keep most federal agencies operating at their current levels, while cutting $4 billion from spending.


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Jennifer Lyman, a long time public defender in the DC court system shares her perspective on the growth of mass incarceration during the Regan era and beyond.
DPA radio crew: Owen Lyman-Schmidt, Leana Cabral, Dave Onion, Hakim Ali, Ana Martina.
Art Factory collaborated with Decarcerate PA and PhillyCAM for six weeks to make three short stop-motion videos to help people realize the grand actuality of the Prison Industrial Complex.We interviewed Art factory folks you can enjoy their amazing clips and powerful poetry, tune in Decarcerate PA radio!
DPA radio crew: Hakim Ali, Leana Cabral, Owen Lyman-Schmidt, Dave Onion, Ana Martina.
The following three images were created to mark the begining of the school year and the state's continued divestment in public education at the same time as millions are being spent on prison construction. We are asking people to share these images on facebook, tumblr, and twitter.
PSA Decarcerate PA radio show!!!
Listen to DecarceratePA radio broadcasting every Saturday at noon on WPEB 88.1 FM West Philadelphia community radio.
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Approximately 50 people marched 113 miles from Philly to Harrisburg to demand a people's budget, not a prison budget. Why did they do it? Listen to the audio to hear from each marcher explain in their own words.
Listen to this short 2:50 min audio piece of interviews with marchers on their way to Harrisburg who are demanding a People's Budget and a stop to prison expansion!!!


In the summer of 2014, we initiated an Education Committee with representatives from Winona State University, Saint Mary's University, Cotter High School, and Riverway Learning Community to strategize a more comprehensive educational plan for Mid West Music Fest. Sounds Like School was the result of these original discussions and represents the first step toward more fully engaging and cooperating with local educational institutions to co-sponsor activities that expose students to live performances, connect students with musicians, and foster a general appreciation for music.
Minneapolis duo Har-Di-Har perform at Riverway Learning Community as part of the Sounds Like School initiative.


Information is the lifeblood of any modern-day business. Companies succeed and falter based on the reliability, availability and security of their data.
A corporation's capacity to handle information depends upon a variety of factors, including engaged executives and a company culture that supports collective ownership of information. However, strategically created enterprise-wide frameworks that define how information is controlled, accessed and used are arguably the most critical elements in a successful information management programme. For the purposes of this report, those frameworks, and the mechanisms that enforce them, are referred to as information governance.
Are most companies properly governing how their information is used, shared and analysed? At first glance, it seems that firms have a solid handle on this. Worldwide, nearly 73% of respondents report that their company's overall ability to provide access to critical business information when needed is good or very good, and 65% say that their firm's ability to protect sensitive information is good or very good.
However, only 38% of all respondents say that their companies have a formal enterprise-wide information governance strategy in place. In fact, fewer than half of all respondents believe that information governance is important or very important to their company's success today. This suggests complacency among some companies about the true strategic importance of managing corporate information.
There are several reasons why proper information governance remains elusive, but the biggest challenge worldwide is identifying the cost/risk/return tradeoffs of managing information company-wide (40%). Enforcing policies company-wide (39%) and gaining support from department heads and line-of-business managers (35%) are also obstacles.
More positively, 77% of respondents expect information governance to be important or very important to their company's success over the next three years. As a result, many firms have begun building the foundation for information governance policies. A majority (65%) have defi ned policies around how information is to be stored and shared among employees and stakeholders. Furthermore, some organisations are forming formal governance bodies to create strategies, policies and procedures surrounding the distribution of information inside and outside the firm. This is a good start, but considering that 68% of respondents also expect that the complexity of their company's information governance issues will grow over the next three years, there is little time to waste.
Only 46% of respondents report that their company's organisational structure around information governance is somewhat or very effective. Furthermore, only 54% of respondents worldwide say that their firm regularly reviews and revises information backup and retention policies. Moreover, when asked about managing the cost of collecting, storing and securing information throughout its lifecycle, only 47% of respondents rate their firm's ability in this area as good or very good.
As a result, sharing data across a company remains difficult. Only 43% of respondents rate their firm's ability to integrate and share information across departments and necessary third parties as good or very good; 21% say that it is poor or very poor. This is particularly significant as it pertains to sharing customer information: 57% of respondents acknowledge that they do not have a single view of the customer.
Those that have a formal information governance strategy report significant benefits. Eighty-one percent of firms with a formal information governance strategy in place report that "information can be better shared between departments, allowing for better decision-making". Nearly half (47%) of respondents from these firms also say that "integrated information and business intelligence about our customers, products and resources can be leveraged for greater business results".
For firms without a governance strategy, the risks may be signifi cant. Only 51% of respondents at companies that do not have a formal information governance strategy rate their firm's overall ability to protect sensitive data as good or very good, compared with 85% for those whose companies have a formal strategy. Similarly, 92% of respondents at firms with information governance strategies rate their company's ability to provide access to critical business information when it is needed as good or very good, compared with only 57% of companies that do not have governance strategies in place.
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iPad 2 Rumored for April so Should you Wait?
iPad Quandary: Buy Now or Wait for 2.0?
'Tis the season for rumors about Apple's next iPad, and it's only going to get worse as the expected release date draws closer.
The latest report from DigiTimes says Apple will launch the iPad 2 -- or whatever it's finally called -- in April, with mass production and shipping from factories in China to begin in February. Component makers reportedly expect Apple to sell up to 15 million next-generation iPads in 2011.
Do you care about video chat?
Rumors of a front-facing camera for the next iPad were flying around pretty much immediately after Apple announced the first iPad. Apple will, in all likelihood, bring Facetime to its tablet, but you may not need it so badly despite what Apple's marketing suggests. Think of it this way: If your laptop has a webcam, how often do you use the video chat on it now?
Are you interested in tablets from other companies?
The PlayBook. Click to zoom.
With the exception of Samsung's Galaxy Tab, the tablet market was all about Apple this year. Next year's going to be different. Android tablets are coming from Motorola, Acer, LG and countless others. Research in Motion will launch the BlackBerry PlayBook. Tablets are going to get pretty interesting in 2011, and you may want to wait to weigh all of your options.
Do you plan to travel a lot in the next few months?
Once you've used an iPad on an airplane, there's no going back to a laptop. It's the ultimate time-waster, especially if you're willing to pony up for in-flight Wi-Fi. And unlike a laptop, with a tablet you won't have to worry about the person in front of you leaning back too far and cramping your screen. Bottom line: If you get good use out of an iPad over the next four months, it's a worthwhile purchase.
How much you care about nonfunctioning features?
Some rumors suggest that the iPad 2's features will include screen resolution on par with the iPhone 4 and a gyroscope for better motion-sensing. Chances are the hardware will also be lighter and thinner. All these things would make for a superior product, but they don't bring any new functionality to the device. Still, if you crave the latest and greatest tech, getting an iPad now is going to make you bitter.
How comfortable are you with eBay?
Apple products tend to do nicely on eBay. As I write, there's a 16 GB Wi-Fi iPad on auction that's going to sell for almost full retail value, even though you can walk into an Apple Store and get a brand new iPad right now. Of course, the value of first-generation iPads will fall when next year's model arrives, but if you're comfortable selling items on eBay, you'll probably be able to trade up without spending much extra.


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Man City star Kevin De Bruyne has suffered a knee injury in training
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Man City star Kevin De Bruyne has suffered a knee injury
Kevin De Bruyne of Manchester City in action during the Premier League match between Arsenal FC and Manchester City at Emirates Stadium on August 12, 2018 in London, United Kingdom. (Aug. 11, 2018 - Source: Michael Regan/Getty Images Europe)
Kevin De Bruyne has picked up a knee injury during a Manchester City training session.
Kevin De Bruyne (27) has suffered a knee injury in training. Full extent not known as yet, but fears that he might be out for a while (as in +2 months). #mcfc pic.twitter.com/TNCbxGW7Qw
— Kristof Terreur 📰 (@HLNinEngeland) August 15, 2018
The injury may see the Premier League star ruled out for up to 2-3 months according to preliminary reports.
The Blues midfielder suffered an injury during training. #mancity https://t.co/kNnAjzw8cs
— Manchester City (@ManCity) August 15, 2018
The Belgium midfielder is one of the most important players in Pep Guardiola's squad, this is a big blow for the Premier League champions.
Kevin De Bruyne came on as a second-half substitute in City's 2-0 win away at Arsenal.
Manchester City will host Huddersfield in their next Premier League game this weekend.
Footballnus | Get the latest football news, highlights, videos, and transfer gossip: Man City star Kevin De Bruyne has suffered a knee injury in training
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Congratulations on your decision to become a North Carolina court reporter! In spite of what you may read in the media, digital recordings are not replacing court reporters and there is an ever-growing need for new professionals to join the field. If you're attending court reporting school while working full-time, you're going to need to have a good support system, stay organized, and communicate with loved ones that you need time to study so that you can meet or even beat that 225 wpm minimum requirement to become a Registered Professional Reporter (RPR).
Connect with your support team.
For some, you may be able to tell your employer or trusted colleague about your plans but for others, the risk of losing the stability of a job while going to school may be too great. Either way, you will need to rely on your support team. Whether that means hiring a babysitter to pick the kids up from school, a dog walker to keep your pooch happy, or a service to provide healthy meals, you will likely need to make adjustments on the home front.
It will be exceedingly important to communicate with your spouse, family, and friends about your schedule so they can support you and also distract you when you need a break from work and studying.
Research online court reporting schools.
Before signing up for the first program you find, research options, ask other court reporters for referrals, and use industry resources.
If you're going to attend court reporting school while working full-time, we recommend looking at online court reporting school programs or established online professional schools. The last thing you want is to pay to be in a program that isn't accredited or doesn't understand how to teach to students who are studying from remote locations. The National Court Reporters Association (NCRA) has a list of NCRA-Approved Court Reporting programs.
The key to staying sane and as stress-free as you can be, is to stay organized. How you do that is really whatever works for you and your family. My husband and I share a Google calendar so we can see when we each have appointments.. We use a grocery delivery service because we like having groceries but don't always have time. My brother and sister-in-law use grocery shopping as a day date activity which I think is pretty cool and accomplishes two things – time together and having food in the house – which are both important.
Find what works for you as you travel this amazing journey and attend court reporting school while working full-time. And don't be afraid to change whatever isn't working.


Sun Peaks is excited to announce Canadian eclectic rock group Big Sugar will headline the Canada Day weekend celebration this year with a free concert.
Big Sugar has multiple platinum albums and JUNO nominations to their name. Their popular catalogue of hits includes their signature song "Turn the Lights On", and other popular titles "If I Had My Way","Diggin a Hole" and "The Scene", which reached #1 on Canada's Alternative Chart.
Last year, an estimated 7,000 attendees pulled up a lawn chair for our free Canada Day concert. This year, we anticipate just as many concert-goers will be dancing slopeside, as our events team continues to build out an activity-filled weekend for the entire family.
Big Sugar is set to perform on Saturday, June 30 slopeside at The Annex.


Product liability concerns defective or dangerous products that cause thousands of injuries every year. Personal injury laws help people receive compensation for their injuries due to defective products.
Product liability refers to a manufacturer, retailer, or seller of the product to be held liable for placing a defective product into the hands of a consumer regardless of whether they were negligent or not.
Design Defect - A product has a design defect if the design (or blueprints) of the product is unsafe. For example, if a coffee cup is designed such that the bottom melts whenever there is a hot fluid in it, it has a design defect.
Manufacturing Defect - A product has a manufacturing defect if the product's design is sound but the method of making the product is unsafe. For example, if a desk is mistakenly assembled at the factory without several screws as called for in the design, it has a manufacturing defect.
Warning Defect - If a product does not have sufficient instructions or warnings about its use, and you are injured as a result, the product has a warning defect. For example, if you buy a lawn mower that doesn't have safety warnings about the blade, and the blade cuts you, then there is a warning defect.
Who Are the Responsible Parties in Defective Product Lawsuit?
The responsible party must actually use or sell the product in the regular course of business. A party cannot be held responsible if they were a casual seller such as a person selling the product at a garage sale.
How Can I Bring Defective Product Lawsuit?
The law for product liability is very confusing, and you may need a personal injury attorney to help explain your rights and protect your interests. An attorney can also file a lawsuit on your behalf against the designer, manufacturer, or seller of the defective product so you can recover for your injuries.
Vea esta página en español: Responsabilidad por Producto y Reemplazamiento o visita Abogados-Leyes.com para más información legal.


"I love working with people, and feel it is an honour to be part of a person's healing"
My journey into natural therapies started after I was ill a few years ago. I had insomnia, which was debilitating, making me feel terrible and affecting all areas of my life. I went to the doctors, who, without asking any questions, promptly prescribed anti-depressants for me - I threw the prescription in the bin and sought an alternative treatment!
After healing myself through a number of different therapies, I decided to study Reflexology and 4 days later I was sat in the class room of the London School of Reflexology!
Once I had started to have a greater understanding of how the body works and how beneficial natural therapies could be I was hooked! Shortly after my move to Australia I met my wonderful Reiki Master, Jacqui Bushell, and did my Reiki training in the Blue Mountains - a wonderful experience!!
As a practitioner I am constantly evolving and I'm now training to be a Nutritionist... who knows where I will go from there! I attend regular postgraduate seminars and training days to ensure my skills and expertise are constantly improving. Learning is a life long journey!
I love working with people, and feel it is an honour to be part of a person's healing. I am passionate about building a strong relationship with my clients to understand their needs and help them with their healing.
I strongly believe that it is imperative to be responsible for your own healing... knowledge is a powerful tool. Reflexology and Reiki can help you understand your body better. By being more aware of your actions and what can cause damage or disease will lead to a healthier, happier you!


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Council advises businesses to keep pavements clear
Published: Friday, 12th June 2020
Pavements and other pedestrian areas are to be kept free of goods and advertising, to ensure there is as much space as possible to support social distancing and queuing when businesses reopen.
With most retailers being able to trade from Monday 15 June 2020, Birmingham City Council is advising retail businesses to ensure that they do not display goods or advertising in front of their shops.
It is an offence to place things on areas of public highway without permission from the Highway Authority, however the council is concerned that it may also hinder safe queuing and other social distancing measures.
The council has identified key prioritisation areas where such hazardous activities may be occurring. Representatives from Kier are also out speaking to traders and asking for their cooperation in removing all unauthorised items from the highway immediately.
If traders deposit items on the highway such as to constitute a 'danger' then the Highway Authority is empowered to remove the items without notice, and to recover its costs in doing so.
Councillor Waseem Zaffar MBE, Cabinet Member for Transport and Environment at Birmingham City Council said: "We are asking for retailers' cooperation in keeping pedestrian areas clear, but to also understand that we may have to take action to remove goods where necessary.
"Keeping pavements clear will maximise the available space to queue and for social distancing. Partners from Kier will be monitoring key streets across the city and requesting the removal of any unauthorised items before they constitute a danger. If this request is not complied with then enforcement action may be taken.
"We appreciate that businesses are keen to reopen but it is key to remember that we must all still do what we can to keep ourselves and communities safe."
The council has provided further information to businesses in these areas, asking for their cooperation, and advising how they can help to achieve social distancing by their customers.
Eddie Fellows, Highway Network Director at Kier, added: "We are currently visiting priority areas and would like thank traders for their cooperative response.
Our Highway Stewards are there to help traders who wish to comply but will ask the Council to take enforcement action where they fail to comply. We do not want to take possession of traders' property but are ready to do so in the interests of public safety."
In usual times, businesses must always ensure that they contact their local authority for permission to use highway space. However, whilst the pandemic is still a risk to public safety, Birmingham City Council has taken a decision not to approve the use of pavements by businesses, that are required for public social distancing.


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Q: cannot import name 'detail_route' from 'rest_framework.decorators' I'm trying to run longclaw, but i get an error
$ python manage.py makemigrations catalog home

Traceback (most recent call last):
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 File "/lib/python3.7/site-packages/longclaw/basket/api.py", line 1, in <module>
   from rest_framework.decorators import detail_route, list_route
ImportError: cannot import name 'detail_route' from 'rest_framework.decorators'

A: Its because detail_route has been deprecated from DRF 3.8. You can check their change-log as well. Alternatively, you can use actions decorator. For example:
from rest_framework.decorators import action

@action(detail=True, methods=['post'])
def set_password(self, request, pk=None):
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O-gauge layout featuring trains operating in a winter scene. Also trains for children to operate, models, artifacts and photos. 1 to 5 p.m. today. Hagerstown Roundhouse Museum, 300 S. Burhans Blvd., Hagerstown. $4, adults; 50 cents, ages 4 through 12; free for ages 3 and younger. Call 301-739-4665.
Soprano Jessica Hanel and pianist Joseph Satava will perform a Hamilton Memorial Recital. Reception follows. 2:30 p.m. today. Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, City Park, Hagerstown. Call 301-739-5727.
Meet artist Trudy Coody from 1 to 5 p.m. today. Mansion House, City Park, Hagerstown. Free. Call 301-797-6813.
Valley Art Association's all-member show is on exhibit through today, at Mansion House Art Gallery, City Park, Hagerstown. Call 301-733-5320.


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«Незнайомець на третьому поверсі» () — американський художній фільм, знятий в 1940 році Борисом Інгстером. Часто іменується першим «справжнім» фільмом нуар класичного періоду (1940—1959). Даний фільм має ряд рис притаманних в майбутньому фільмам в стилі нуар: важкі тіні, діагональні лінії, голос за кадром, кути низькою камерою зйомки, багатоповерхові сходові клітини, а також безневинний герой, який помилково звинувачений у злочині і відчайдушно намагається очистити себе. Проте деякі фільмознавці вважають, що до фільмів у стилі нуар можна віднести і такі стрічки як «Ребекка» і «Вони їхали вночі», які були випущені раніше.

Сюжет
Репортер Майк Ворд (Джон Макгвайр) — головний свідок у справі про вбивство. Він бачив обвинуваченого Бріггса (Еліша Кук-молодший), що стояв біля тіла вбитого в кафе, і це ключове свідоцтво для визнання провини Бріггса. Джейн (Маргарет Толлічет), наречена Ворда, сумнівається в безсумнівності його показань, і ці сумніви починають переслідувати репортера.

Несподівано сусід Ворда виявляється убитий так само, як і людина в кафе. Ворд повідомляє про це поліції, і його заарештовують. Щоб врятувати нареченого, Джейн відправляється на пошуки незнайомця, якого Ворд бачив на сходовому прольоті.

У ролях
 Пітер Лорре — Незнайомець
 Джон Макгвайр — Майк Ворд
 Маргарет Толлічет — Джейн
 Чарльз Волдрон — окружний прокурор
 Еліша Кук-молодший — Джо Бріггс
 Чарльз Голтон — Альберт Менг
 Етель Гріффіс — місіс Кейн, квартирна господиня Майка
 Кліфф Кларк — Мартін
 Oscar О'Ші — суддя
 Алек Крейг — захисник Бріггса

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 Lyons, Arthur (2000). Death on the Cheap: The Lost B Movies of Film Noir. New York: Da Capo. ISBN 0-306-80996-6
 Server, Lee (1998). «The Black List: Essential Film Noir» in The Big Book of Noir, ed. Ed Gorman, Lee Server, and Martin H. Greenberg. New York: Carroll & Graf. ISBN 0-7867-0574-4

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Harrisburg, Pa. (October 15, 2018) — Advocates for bullying prevention gathered today at the state capitol to take a stand for the commonwealth's 1.7 million students as Governor Wolf proclaimed October as Bullying Prevention Month. Students, parents, teachers, law enforcement, legislators and community partners rallied in support of bullying prevention efforts.
More than one in four children in the U.S. report experiences with bullying, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Bullying is an important public health issue known to have negative effects on children's physical and emotional well-being, social development and learning. With this proclamation, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania acknowledged the vital importance of bullying prevention efforts to each child's learning, health and success later in life.
The event also recognized the launch of the online Bullying Prevention Toolkit, a website that provides centralized, authoritative, easy-to-use information and resources to help families, schools and communities identify, understand and prevent bullying, and support children affected by it. The new toolkit was developed by the Center for Safe Schools and the Highmark Foundation.
The Highmark Foundation and the Center for Safe Schools are working to put more adults in a position to help children and intervene appropriately in bullying situations. The online tool includes specific information about how to differentiate between bullying and conflict, how to respond to cyberbullying and potential legal implications of bullying-type behaviors. It contains a guide for connecting children to relevant assistance, a sample letter informing the school of a bullying incident, and a list of vetted resources on bullying intervention and support.
"Together, the partners in this work are changing attitudes, behavior and practice through cultivating safe schools and communities for Pennsylvania's children," Morris said.
For more than two decades, Center for Safe Schools has been committed to providing training and consulting to help schools identify and implement effective programs and practices and maintain safe, productive learning environments. It serves as a statewide clearinghouse for educators, parents, law enforcement and others on school safety and youth violence prevention. Center for Safe Schools is an initiative of the Center for Schools and Communities. For more information, go to Safe Schools.


It is a procedure by which the upper or lower jaw is surgically moved forward or backward as per need to attain a harmonious relationship between the upper and lower jaws and improve the appearance of the patient.
The surgery will be done under general anesthesia and you will be required to be admitted for 5 to 7 days There is no scar formation on the face as the surgery is done from within the mouth. It does not involve any incision on the facial skin.


Since the inclusion of e-safety in the section 5 inspection briefing, schools now risk missing Ofsted outstanding ratings due to poor e-safety strategy.
With indicators of inadequate e-safety provision including a lack of staff training, stating that "staff training is consistently the weakest area of a schools online safety provision", along with no planned curriculum content amongst others, it is clear that Ofsted are looking for schools to see e-safety as a whole school issue.
To find out how your school would fair against the Ofsted standards considered outstanding or inadequate, start by asking yourself these 5 questions.
How would your school respond?
The e-safety part of the review left the inspector with no matters for concern or improvement; she said that 'we didn't seem to realise how good we actually were as a school'. She loved our parental engagement ideas and other things that I have in the pipeline. In the final report she wrote against the 'E-safety' section that we 'exceeded Ofsted e-Safety requirements by far' and the last word was 'Congratulations'. We've obviously done some good work, but thanks and congratulations should go in part to your good selves also.
We would love to hear how your school would respond to the Ofsted 5 question - Complete our anonymous 5 e-safety questions survey to let us know.
This is the fourth and final of a series of articles looking at the demands of the Ofsted's e-safety framework first published to inspectors in September 2012. The document has since seen a number of amendments, the latest of which was in April 2014.
In the last post, we focused at two areas of the framework policy document; Policies and Education. In this last blog we are going to look at the final two areas for consideration, those being Infrastructure and Monitoring & Evaluation.
This part of the Ofsted e-safety framework concentrates on the aspects concerning the facilities, duties and responsibilities with regard to the school's IT infrastructure.
The school's infrastructure includes a 'Recognised Internet Service Provider' or Regional Broadband Consortium'.
The school has age-related filtering in place and that the filtering allows choice with regard to what staff and students can access and when that access is allowed.
- It is advisable that a school should analyse their web traffic at the very least once a month, preferably more often.
The filtering is pro-actively monitored in order that inappropriate sites that come to the attention of staff can be actively filtered.
1.	Are there clear reasons, associated with the school curriculum, for the site to become unfiltered?
2.	Is there any contentious content contained within the website?
3.	When logging on to the site, do users have to register?
4.	If, by allowing access, it could appear that the school is endorsing the site, does this create any problems?
5.	Are there any age-restrictions stated on the web site?
6.	If it is a site where students could upload content to it, what is the situation with regard to ownership of such material?
7.	If students can upload content to it, who can view the material?
8.	Are there any facilities for social-networking on the site that allows users to communicate?
9.	If this is a site is unfiltered so that students could use it outside of school hours, are there any issues with unsupervised access?
10.	Is there any evidence or content to suggest that the website has been created by a reliable organisation?
When checking sites, it is doubtful that all the questions above would be answered positively and so schools would have to employ their own judgement as to whether the benefits of using the site outweigh any issues.
Whether the e-safety risk assessment is taken seriously within the school.
- An example of this could be in the context of social networking, where the risk is foreseen that some situation could occur identified and a process put in place to alleviate it.
- The use of monitoring software can help identify potential e-safety risks.
That the risk assessment is used to good affect to promote excellent e-safety practice both within and outside of the school environment.
- There is a common misconception that the stories in the media of students getting into problematic situations when using technology won't occur in our schools, unfortunately this is just a case of 'burying our heads in the sand'. Good or outstanding practice demands that risk should to be comprehensively identified by schools and mitigation processes implemented (if it can be) to deal with it.
Evidence that formally gathered data is used effectively to assess what impact e-safety practice is having on the school community and procedures and the manner in which this informs the strategy.
- It is suggested that any school should have a formal reflective process which is recorded, for example documented records of any issue that has occurred in school, whether the relevant policies and procedures were effective and whether they needed updating or modifying. Did the issue identify a need for additional staff training in the area concerned etc.
This was the final article in the Interpreting Ofsted series. If you would like to add your comments or suggestions to help other schools, please use the comments section below.
The Naace Strategic Conference 2014 takes places in Nottingham on 27-28 March and will see Naace celebrate its 30th anniversary. The conference is open to both Naace members and non-members and is suitable for teachers, school leaders, advisors and consultants working within and across all phases of UK education.
The conference will address how to be outstanding in a world full of technology and the implications of this. Areas such as school improvement and raising standards, meeting technical challenges and e-twinning are hot topics for those involved in technology education. We'll be addressing these issues, whilst providing plenty of opportunities for you to network with colleagues and discuss the latest developments in educational technology.
Is outstanding teaching possible without good use of technology? What does a school need to put in place to enable all the teachers to be outstanding?
Is the 'flipping' of learning something every school should be working on, enabling pupils to extend learning and time in school to be used more productively?
Does proper demonstration of progression and achievement require online access to pupils' work and teachers' records?
How can schools best capitalise on the communication, collaboration and access to learning opened up by Internet?
Every school leader, and every teacher in all subjects, needs to know the answer to these questions. If you want to advance education, this is the conference to advance your understanding of how best to do it.
Alongside the Keynote Sessions and Naace Impact Awards presentations, visitors will be able to network at NaaceShare and discover top new products at the exhibition.


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Bolton Mansion
Bolton Mansion is a historic house museum that traces its roots to the very founding of the colony of Pennsylvania. It began as a simple fieldstone home built by Quaker and William Penn associate, Phineas Pemberton c. 1687 after he purchased 500 acres of land in Bucks County. The house was expanded as the years passed with the largest expansion occurring in 1790. Named for the town in Lancashire, England where the Pemberton family originated, Bolton Mansion passed through various owners until it was abandoned and neglected for decades in the late 20th century. It was acquired and restored by the Friends of Bolton Mansion beginning in 1997. It is now open to the public for community events and guided tours by reservation. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
The large, 2.5 story front edition was added to Bolton Mansion in 1790.
This side view reveals the true size of the 27-room Bolton Mansion.
The simple colonial kitchen within the mansion.
This image was taken while the Friends of Bolton Mansion worked on its restoration.
The nearby Bolton Farm Cemetery holds the remains of members of both the Pemberton and Morris families.
Phineas Pemberton, his wife Phoebe and their two children arrived in the American colonies in 1682, a year after King Charles II granted a land charter to William Penn in order to pay off debts he owed Penn's father. Pemberton fled England as a result of the religious persecution he and thousands of other Quakers suffered. He was twice arrested and had his possessions seized as well. The Pembertons arrived in Bucks County in 1683, shortly thereafter, Pemberton purchased 500 acres of land. The family's initial home was a wood-frame house near the Delaware River. The family soon sought a more suitable plot for a new home and Bolton Farm, with its simple fieldstone house that was built sometime around 1687, was the result.
Pemberton became integral to both the local and colonial governments. Locally, he was the Register of Wills and Recorder and Clerk of the Court. Within the colonial government, he was a member of the Provincial Council and the Pennsylvania Assembly where he served as Speaker for three years. Due to Pemberton's governmental involvement, William Penn was known to visit Bolton Farm as his home, Pennsbury, was located nearby.
Phineas Pemberton died in 1702 and left the home and 354 acres to his son, Israel. Bolton Farm then passed to James Pemberton who was a member of Ben Franklin's Abolition Society. James' daughter, Mary, wed Anthony Morris and the couple took control of Bolton Farm in 1790. It was also in that year that Morris constructed the largest addition to Bolton, which is now the large, front section. Morris served as a state senator, Speaker of the Pennsylvania House and Minister to Spain. Morris eventually passed his expanded home to his son James Pemberton Morris and it was enlarged again in in the early 19th century.
Bolton was later gifted to the University of Pennsylvania in 1938 and then served as a guest house for the U.S. Steel Company. William Levitt, the man largely credited with creating the modern suburbs, used Bolton as his headquarters while constructing the first Levittown just outside Philadelphia, in 1952. The home was then given to Bristol Township which used it as a municipal building until 1966, after which, it sat vacant for decades and suffered serious deterioration. The Friends of Bolton Mansion then formed in 1997 and spent many months and raised many dollars to restore the Pembertons former home.
Currently, Bolton Mansion is used to host numerous community and private events. It is open for private tours and the Friends of Bolton Mansion host open houses, afternoon teas, movie nights, cooking classes and paranormal nights throughout the year. Please call or visit their website for specific dates and times or to schedule a private tour.
Lippincott, Horace. "Bolton Farm." Bolton Mansion. July, 1946. Accessed March 27, 2018. http://www.boltonmansion.org/history-of-bolton-farms.html
"History of the Mansion: Dating the Structure." Bolton Mansion. Accessed March 27, 2018. http://www.boltonmansion.org/history.html
Pennsylvania Register of Historic Sites and Landmarks. "National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form for Bolton Mansion." United States Department of the Interior/National Park Service. August, 1971. Accessed March 27, 2018. http://www.dot7.state.pa.us/CRGIS_Attachments/SiteResource/H001660_01H.pdf
Martin, Erich. "Bolton Mansion Celebrates 330th Anniversary." Levittown Now. September 18, 2017. Accessed March 27, 2018. http://levittownnow.com/2017/09/18/bolton-mansion-celebrates-330th-anniversary/
Homepage for the Friends of Bolton Mansion.
A short bio on Phineas Pemberton from the PA House of Representatives.
History of Bucks County, from the Discovery of the Delaware to the Present Time (1905).
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Quotes tagged "Fearless"
"Each of us can be fearless and strong like this rock when we know, without a doubt, where we belong and what we should do. God helps us to know these things."
— Rush Limbaugh,	Rush Revere and the Brave PIlgrims
Tagged: Fearless, Strong, God, Doubt
"She does not seem to me to be afraid of making a mistake, or not saying it perfectly, and in the process says the most important—I think some of the most important—things anyone can be talking about right now, and she's freed herself from fear."
— Beto O'Rourke,	Riding Around with Beto O'Rourke as He Comes to Grips with a Presidential Run
Tagged: Fearless, Mistakes
"When you tell me that you want to be fearless, what I fear is that you'll lose your real-ness."
— Amber Rae
Tagged: Fearless, realness
"The things I was afraid of were not real."
— Tulsi Gabbard,	Tulsi Gabbard
Tagged: Conquering Fear, Fearless
"Summer I was fearlessness."
— U2,	Every Breaking Wave
Tagged: Summer, Fearless, Brave
"You may be fearless in this world, but there are other worlds."
— Deputy Tommy "Hawk" Hill,	Twin Peaks, Season 2: Masked Ball
Tagged: Fearless, Other Worlds, Alternate Universes
"Haha, Yo you see they probably wonder why I don't smile
Cuz this cats need to get there own style
Hold the phone dial
I go miles, when I'm sprinting on the beat
You get lifted of yo feet
When yo spliffin up my trees
Quit givin me a speech
I really tryna hear this
See with these lyrics
I'm tryna run fearless."
— Mac Miller,	Barz For Dayz
Tagged: Fearless, Smile, cats, Phone, Sprinting, Spliff, Lyrics, Hip-Hop
"If you had been poor in your last life I would have asked you to be rich when you come again. But you were rich. If you had been a coward, I would have asked you to bring courage. But you were a fearless warrior. If you had died young, I would have asked you to get life. But you lived long. So I shall ask you to come again the way you came before."
— Chinua Achebe,	Things Fall Apart
Tagged: poor, rich, coward, Courage, Fearless, warrior
"I've always been fearless."
— Martha Stewart,	Martha Tells All
Tagged: Fearless, Self-Confidence
"The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function."
— Stokely Carmichael
Tagged: Secret, Life, Fearless, function, Living Without Fear
"I have sinned and must atone, must parade my shame before the eyes of every beggar in the city. They think that this will break my pride, that it will make an end to me, but they are wrong."
— Cersei Lannister,	A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire)
Tagged: Strong, boldness, Pride, strong mentality, Fearless
— Mary Shelley,	Frankenstein
Tagged: Fearless, Powerful
"Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it."
— Veronica Roth,	Divergent (Divergent Series)
Tagged: Fearless, Bravery, strength, Control, Freedom
"Inside of each day, we have 1,440 minutes. Fearless people maximize those little moments by leaning into discomfort and taking calculated risks. They know that fearlessness isn't just a mindset; it's about taking action."
— Molly Fletcher,	5 Things Fearless People Do
Tagged: Fearless
"So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren't afraid? And then go do it."
— Sheryl Sandberg,	Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Tagged: Life, Fearless, Courage
"It isn't being fearless that is sexy. It's having the fear, feeling the fear, and saying, 'I'm going to set this aside and go forward anyway.' That woman is sexy. She is truly living life."
— eHarmony Staff,	What Men Find Sexy About Women: The Top Ten List
Tagged: Attractive Traits, Fear, Fearless
"I'm unstoppable. I'm a Porsche with no brakes. I'm invincible, yeah, I win every single game."
— Sia,	Unstoppable
Tagged: strength, Power, Fearless
"I put my armor on, show you how strong how I am. I put my armor on, I'll show you that I am"
"You shoot me down but I won't fall, I am titanium."
— Sia,	Titanium(feat. Sia)
Tagged: Strong, Fearless
"I'm bulletproof nothing to lose. Fire away, fire away."


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Why The Talk On The Aid Invoice Will Be Shorter Than The Gop Hoped
Under the procedural rules, at least one Republican senator needed to be on the Senate ground in the course of the bill studying. If not, a Democrat would movement to finish the time-wasting stunt and there'd be no objections. As a outcome, Johnson spent a number of hours on the ground last night so as to protect his pointless gambit, occasionally being relieved by GOP colleagues. In that case, as in Wisconsin, the Republicans known as a special session particularly to drive via extensive laws, prepared nicely in advance, which gravely limited the ability of the incoming governor. Throughout American historical past, each Republicans and Democrats have used lame-duck sessions to hamstring an incoming administration when power switched events.
And, of course, political memories are long. If and when circumstances are reversed, it's likely that Democrats will respond in type. The GOP-led Michigan legislature is likewise utilizing its outgoing governor and legislative majority to curtail the incoming governor's intentions to reform marketing campaign finance within the state. Political norms like these have power only as a result of everybody agrees that they do. Without that settlement, norms are straightforward to break and troublesome to revive.
The bill still appears to be on monitor for passage, however in all probability not until someday tomorrow. Once Senate Republicans left. Maryland's Chris Van Hollen stuck around, asked to shrink the ground debate on the reduction package deal from 20 hours to three. Republicans supposed to use as a lot of the 20 hours as potential, partially to pull this out, and in part to attack the favored legislation. The Senate wrapped up its work for the day a little after 2 a.m.
The newest came visiting Gableman's evaluation that a city of Milwaukee IT employee was probably a Dem as a result of she had a "weird nose ring," colored her hair, appreciated snakes, lived along with her boyfriend and liked to play video games. Still, there are also some within the GOP base who not solely wish to see the probe proceed, but to dig deeper. And that goes for Trump as nicely. Vos has regularly saved Trump apprised of the efforts to evaluate the 2020 election. Still, insiders observe it hasn't exactly gotten the previous president to back off. Vos signed an amended contract with Gableman earlier this spring that had a cutoff of April 30, although the deal additionally envisioned the two sitting down as soon as a collection of court instances are over to see if an additional investigation was warranted.
But as a end result of no senator desires that, everyone understands that such energy should not often, if ever, be used. We'll cease these sanctuary cities, stop catch-and-release, end visa lottery, the worst. A lottery for people coming to the United States.
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"You must be in there too. That's freedom of the press. That's truth and transparency. Open, sincere authorities and proper now, we're witnessing that's not the case." "He has by no means mentioned those words … so we received the needle to go from right here to here," Jefferson Davis, a former Menomonee Falls village president who met with Vos in the Capitol, advised the Plover rally crowd. "There's no question who sang hallelujah at covid memorial that a few of this is catering to Donald Trump in order that he doesn't stick his nostril into these main campaigns," Scholz said. The grievances over the 2020 election also have spilled into the battle for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. Donald Trump didn't name names in his recent statement, demanding that a taxpayer-funded probe of the 2020 election in Wisconsin continue previous its expiration date.


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Peter J. Morgan III
Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
Peter Morgan is General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for The Charles Schwab Corporation, responsible for the Company's legal department and its corporate governance and government affairs functions.
Morgan began his career at Schwab in 1999, most recently serving as the head of the bank regulatory legal group where he served as general counsel to the Company's subsidiary banks and trust companies. Morgan also led the regulatory liaison office which facilitates the interactions between the Company and its prudential supervisors. Morgan had previously served as legal counsel to the Company's brokerage operations, electronic brokerage and wireless business units.
Before joining Schwab, Morgan served as counsel with Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, LLP, and Keesal, Young & Logan in San Francisco. He began his legal career by serving as an Assistant District Attorney in the County of Santa Cruz, CA.
Morgan received a J.D. degree from the University of Connecticut School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts from Hamilton College. He is admitted to practice law in California, Nevada, New York and Connecticut.
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Q: Gaussian copula and independence It is well-known that Gaussian copula has parameterizations of a correlation matrix.
Let us say there are $n$ continous marginal random variables equipped in a Gaussian copula with an identity matrix. Dose this copula structure implies that these random variables are independent?

A: If all off-diagonal elements of the correlation matrix are 0, then the Gaussian Copula takes the shape of the independence copula (i.e. the copula density is 1 in $[0,1]^n$). Hence, the random variables are independent.
Be aware, that uncorrelated does in general not go along with independent. The Student t-Copula, which is also parameterised by a correlation matrix, does only approximate the independence copula for a degree of freedom $\rightarrow \infty$ (see the plot below for the 2-dimensional case and a small degree of freedom). Note, that even the upper and lower tail dependence coefficients achieve a value of 0.3 while the correlation is 0.


Visitors to the Mississippi Polymer Institute's (MPI) 25th anniversary open house were treated to a fun-filled agenda packed with interactive workshops, company demonstrations, facility tours and more. The day-long open house was held on Thursday, Nov. 15 at MPI's headquarters in The University of Southern Mississippi's Accelerator.
Established in 1993, MPI was originally housed within USM's Department of Polymer Science with the goal of assisting polymer and advanced-material businesses and entrepreneurs in their growth efforts. The Institute has since grown exponentially with capabilities that include, but are not limited to, several aspects of material science: polymer synthesis, composite manufacturing, testing, compounding, extruding, molding, design, CAD modeling, 3D printing, workforce training, and educational outreach.
MPI Director Monica Tisack welcomed attendees by noting that the institute had compiled impressive credentials over the past 25 years.
It was through the initial work of MPI that the University's business incubator – The Accelerator – was developed. Today, there are 17 different business entities occupying space in the facility covering a variety of technically-based product offerings and skills. The sustained growth and success of these companies helps bolster the scientific job base in the immediate area.
Additionally, with the expansion at PGT Technologies in Ellisville, MPI has been able to expand its workforce training scope to include high-tech ceramic coating while training the company's new hires as part of its onboarding process.


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Agr has introduced a new lightweight option to enable manufacturers of PET bottles get closer to their goals of more sustainable bottles.
Equinom, a seed technology company, has launched a new patented sesame variety. The high-yield, high profile, sesame seeds provide advanced organoleptic characteristics plus a shatter-resistance trait that makes them suitable for mechanised harvesting.


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NIU baseball: Huskies take 2 of 3 from Bowling Green in home opener
Head coach Mike Kunigonis wants baseball to win every weekend, and it did in its home opener Friday and Saturday.
The Huskies (13-13, 4-2 MAC) took two out of three from the Bowling Green Falcons (6-16, 1-5 MAC) on Friday and Saturday at Ralph McKinzie Field.
The Huskies totaled 23 runs on 30 hits in the first two games of the series with the highlight of the weekend coming in the fourth inning of game one on Friday. NIU batted around the order as it scored nine runs on eight hits.
"Hitting's contagious," said junior Johnny Zubek. "It always is. You see somebody else getting a hit, you want to get a hit. It rolls down the line. It makes you a little confident seeing the guy in front of you get a hit. You want to keep it rolling. You see it can be done."
Seniors Ben Neumann and Dirk Ormsby continued to be effective at the top of the rotation. The Falcons scored just five runs through the first two games before crossing the plate eight times in the series finale Sunday.
The Huskies finished the series with just one error, which is their lowest three-game total since a Feb. 27 series against Tennessee Tech.
"We've been playing pretty well defensively all year," Kunigonis said. "We just take a million ground balls. Our guys are working at it, being aggressive to the baseball. Sometimes that bites you in the butt because you're too aggressive. Overall, it's a little bit of a different approach for our infielders, and they seem to be taking to it."
The Huskies won the series opener Friday, 12-3, as they took a 3-0 lead to open the game and kept piling on.
Already up 3-2, NIU broke the game wide open in the fourth inning. With one run already in and the bases loaded, Zubek cleared the bases with a triple to left-center. After Zubek scooted home on a passed ball, junior Brian Sisler kept the rally going with a single that drove Falcons' starter Andrew Lacinak from the game. After redshirt senior Nate Ruzich and redshirt junior Tony Brandner reached to load the bases, junior Stephen Letz got his second hit of the inning, doubling down the left field line to drive in two more runs. Junior Justin Fletcher doubled in Brandner and Letz for the Huskies' eighth and ninth runs of the innings.
Letz finished the game with four hits and four runs batted in. Zubek went 4-5 with three RBIs and two runs scored.
"The last couple days, I've just been seeing real well," Zubek said. "I've made a couple adjustments with my hands, mostly just sticking to my approach, and it's finally starting to work out."
Neumann scattered three runs and five hits across seven innings to pick up the win in his first career start at home. Despite not having his best stuff, he managed to get some timely double plays to get himself out of a few jams.
"Let them put it in play," Neumann said. "Let the defense take care of it. They've done well all year. We didn't have any errors today, either."
The hitting parade continued for the Huskies on Saturday as they picked up an 11-2 win.
It was a pair of big innings that got NIU the win. In the fifth inning, the Huskies put up five spot on the scoreboard courtesy of a two-run double from Sisler, an RBI single from Brandner and a two-run single by freshman Brad Wood.
Sisler picked up two more RBIs in the Huskies' four-run sixth inning. The Huskies were able to put another run on the scoreboard in the seventh. Sisler finished the game with five RBIs and two runs scored.
Ormsby threw seven innings, allowing five hits and two runs, and picked up the win.
The Falcons were finally able to get their offense going in the series finale Saturday, taking an 8-2 win.
Bowling Green's Trey Keegan went 3-4 at the plate with a pair of RBIs and a solo home run. Sisler continued his strong weekend, going 2-3 with an RBI.
Falcons' starter Zac Carey kept the Huskies off balance, allowing just one unearned run, which came in the first inning. The Huskies were held to six hits in the series finale after recording 17 and 13 hits in the first two games, respectively.
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Lawsuit: Mission Health purchase enabled HCA to create monopoly in North Carolina
HCA Healthcare is being accused of anti-competitive behavior in a new class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday.
The Nashville, Tennessee-based hospital operator purchased Mission Health in 2019 to gain monopolistic control in Western North Carolina, according to the suit filed by a group of six state residents.
Mission Health, a six-hospital system based in Asheville, North Carolina, allegedly operated as a monopoly from 1995 until 2019. HCA's decision to buy the health system was driven by Mission's "outsized ability to dictate prices and other contract terms to its customers," the plaintiffs claim.
Since the purchase was completed, HCA has used improper restraints in its arrangements with commercial health plans and third-party administrators of self-insured plans, "including tying, all-or-nothing arrangements, gag clauses, and…other anticompetitive terms and negotiating devices" to drive up prices, according to the lawsuit.
The document cites Rand Corp. data from 2020 showing that the defendants charged commercial insurers 372% on average over the Medicare price for inpatient and outpatient services and an average of 393% above the Medicare price for only inpatient services. This was far higher than the mean of 262% and median of 277% above Medicare prices charged by other hospitals in North Carolina included in the Rand study.
Along with raising prices, HCA has allegedly been cutting costs and reducing staff, resulting in poorer quality healthcare for those in Mission Health's service area.
"Today, HCA holds an approximate 90% market share…for inpatient [general acute] hospital care in Buncombe County, the most populous county in Western North Carolina, and in nearby Madison County," the lawsuit states. "Because insurers and consumers in the region have no choice but to use HCA, HCA has free rein to dictate the prices it charges insurers and consumers while at the same time undermining quality to cut costs."
Further, HCA has refused to fully comply with the hospital price transparency rule enacted at the beginning of the year, the lawsuit claims.
The plaintiffs are seeking damages and injunctive and declaratory relief to prevent HCA from engaging in anti-competitive in the future. They are also seeking a jury trial.
In a statement provided to MedCity News, HCA affirmed its commitment to the people of Western North Carolina.
"Once we have been served with the lawsuit, we will respond appropriately through the legal process," said Nancy Lindell, Mission Health/HCA Healthcare N.C. Division spokesperson, in an email. " We are committed to caring for Western North Carolina as demonstrated through more than $330 million in charity care and uninsured discounts we provided in 2020, expansion of hospital services…Further, we have invested in our colleagues with onboarding nearly 1,200 new members this year."
The lawsuit comes about a month after President Joe Biden issued an executive order taking aim at anti-competitive behavior, including in the context of hospital consolidation. Biden urged the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission to review and revise their merger guidelines through the lens of preventing patient harm.
But how the government agencies will act on the executive order remains to be seen.
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A Return to In-person and a Return to the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Posted byabbynshea March 17, 2022 Posted inUncategorized
The World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a global pandemic on March 11, 2020. In the wake of this declaration, many schools shifted to "distance learning" with hopes to curb the spread of the disease. Two years later, most states have relaxed Covid precautions, and most schools have returned to in-person learning. Since the return to in-person learning, an examination of school-based complaints in North Carolina suggests that remote learning highlighted the systemic issues with the school-to-prison pipeline.
The "school-to-prison pipeline" channels children from public schools into the criminal justice systems. School infractions met with zero-tolerance policies have resulted in the "suspensions, expulsions, and arrests of tens of millions of public school students." Student suspension is directly linked to a higher likelihood of dropping out, which in turn exposes children to extreme risks of incarceration. And children who get involved with the juvenile justice system at an earlier age because of zero-tolerance policies are more likely to be involved with the criminal system as adults.
The tendency to remove children from school and push them into juvenile justice programs—like all issues with the criminal justice system—disproportionately affects Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities, LGBTQ+ communities, lower socioeconomic communities, disabled persons, and persons struggling with mental health.
Since the start of remote learning, North Carolina has seen drastic decreases in the number of school-based juvenile delinquency claims. Elizabeth Thompson wrote on this statistical trend for North Carolina Health News, and the following is a summarization of her findings:
Though the total number of school-based complaints did decrease over the past decade, thanks in part to reforms aimed at disrupting the school-to-prison pipeline, school-based complaints remained roughly half of overall complaints.
But in the 2019-2020 school year, when children in North Carolina shifted to remote learning, school-based complaints dropped "to about 30% of total complaints." And "over 70% of North Carolina counties saw a decrease in school-based complaints." In 2020-2021, the first full year of remote learning for some schools, "school-based complaints sank to just 7% of overall complaints."
Virginia Fogg, attorney for Disability Rights North Carolina suspects the complaints dropped because children "haven't been in school, they couldn't get suspended. They couldn't get referred." Thompson created an incredibly telling chart to visualize this trend.
A decrease from nearly half to 7% suggests that remote learning had a definite impact on school-based complaints.
When children were sent to remote learning they were also sent away from "School Resource Officers" (SRO) and other disciplinary policies. SROs are law enforcement officers located on school campuses. Statistically, SROs are more discipline focused than school administrators. Students that attend schools with SROs are more likely to be "arrested and referred to the criminal justice system." When children participated in remote learning, SROs did not have the same access they did to students compared to an in-person environment. Children were also removed from "zero-tolerance" policies that the majority of public schools utilize. Zero-tolerance policies predetermine consequences for specific actions, without any consideration for "why" a student did what they did. When students attend classes in-person, referrals for punishment under the umbrella of a zero-tolerance policy may lead to suspension, expulsion, or a referral to an SRO, thereby taking a child out of the classroom and exposing them to the criminal justice system. Originally, zero-tolerance policies aimed to prevent only the "most serious" criminal behavior: firearms and illicit drugs on school campuses. But over time, these zero-tolerance policies have devolved into absolutely ridiculous suspensions—such as twirling a pencil or "finding" a pocket knife and turning it into a teacher.
Clearly, taking children away from this system of punishment significantly impacted their school-based exposure to the criminal justice system. But sending children home for remote learning is not a long-term solution. As in-person learning becomes the default again, many children return to school with an increased risk of entering the school-to-prison pipeline. The same pandemic that cut school-based complaints for a few years also exacerbated risk factors such as food and housing insecurity as well as increased stress and anxiety levels in children. Additionally, across the nation, legislatures target LGBTQ+ and BIPOC communities.
Children already at a statistical disadvantage will face even more challenges in schools and consequently school punishment tailored to disproportionately affect them.
The pandemic's freeze on school-based complaints should glaringly demonstrate that a major factor to the school-to-prison pipeline is the current system of student punishment within schools. To fix this issue long-term requires a serious reassessment of zero-tolerance policies and the use of SROs.
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As Harold Greenberg Fund president John Galway told delegates at Whistler Film Festival on Thursday, the funding available for an indie-film project in Canada begins to "tap out" at around the $4-million mark, and that's when domestic producers must turn to the international market to source additional funding.
But, with international markets changing as quickly as Canada's, finding partners and securing financing is more challenging today than perhaps ever before.
Knowing which markets to target – whether for talent, production expertise or funding - formed the basis of the "Crossing Borders: Finding and Financing Stories That Travel" panel on day one of Whistler's Content Summit. The discussion was moderated by Galway and featured Telefilm feature film executive Stephanie Azam, Sepia Films co-founder Tina Pehme, Rhombus Media producer Kevin Krikst and XYZ Films' head of international acquisitions Todd Brown.
While Canada's total film-coproduction output has fallen in recent years (according to Telefilm, the combined budgets for Canadian film copros fell to $110 million in 2017, from $151 million in 2016 and $235 million in 2015), panelists emphasized that the need for Canadian companies to coproduce has never been greater.
China, Europe and South Africa were among a number of territories discussed.
For domestic film producers, the Chinese market represents almost boundless potential, said Brown, who also spearheads the strategic partnership between XYZ and Toronto prodco Impossible Objects. Canada and China have long had a treaty copro on the film side, with the agreement being renewed last year. However, while the potential upsides of a China-Canada coproduction are many, there come with it a multitude of challenges, noted Brown.
"China is the golden goose in the industry – it's where all the money is. But be aware of what you're walking into," he said of the country's censorship laws.
Pehme added that Sepia had run into troubles of its own during a multi-year development cycle on a China copro. "What we found as we got in deeper and deeper with a copro partner was that the script was going to need to be changed significantly to meet censorship [requirements] – it wasn't going to end up being the same movie," she told delegates. Sepia ultimately did not move ahead with the project.
Another aspect to consider, noted Brown, is whether the Chinese company is able to move capital outside of the country. "Your Chinese company might have a good history, track record and creative taste, and obvious success in making things and distributing them within China, but can they get their money out of China? A great many of them cannot," said Brown. "There are very hands-on currency export laws right now in terms of how much money people can put out of the country without direct government approval," he added.
Panelists also discussed the viability of partnering with European territories, especially in light of Canada's entry to the Eurimages film fund last year.
"It can be a really key piece [of financing]," said Brown, noting that the fund is currently under-subscribed in terms of Canadian applicants. Telefilm makes an annual contribution of $1.5 million to the fund each year. The process sees copro applicants putting together proposals which are then pitched to the Eurimages board by Telefilm.
However, it can be hard to predict which projects will receive funding through the fund, said Telefilm's Azam. "I always tell producers, your guess is as good as mine whether you're going to get it. It could look super obvious that this movie has to be funded, and it doesn't, and others really surprise us, so it's worth trying, if you meet certain criteria," she said.
The most recent Canadian feature to secure Eurimages support is Andrew Cividino's Furies. The Canada/Belgium copro, produced by Rhombus and Belgium-based GapBusters, netted CAD$541,000 (€360,000).
Because Cividino's script is set in a completely fictional European town, Krikst said Rhombus wasn't beholden to shooting in one particular country. As a result, the Rhombus team explored the possibility of coproducing the project with countries such as Germany, Austria and the U.K. While the research gave them a broader knowledge of the opportunities in Europe, they eventually landed on Belgium due to its government-approved tax shelter for audiovisual works, as well as the option to apply for Eurimages. Brown also said XYZ had produced its recent feature Mandy, written and directed by Panos Cosmatos and starring Nicolas Cage, out of Belgium.
Elsewhere, Brown highlighted South Africa as a country boasting a burgeoning local industry, with XYZ in development on a number of projects originating there. "There is an incredible talent base, literary community and material to tap that has largely been overlooked," he said, adding that cheap labour costs make it a financially savvy shooting location.
"This current literary generation are the freedom generation. They're the people that were 10 to 12 years old when apartheid ended, and so they had come of age and been aware of that system and lived the entire transition, and now they're living with the disillusionment of it not working. There's a lot there that's incredibly relevant," said Brown.


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SendBlaster – An Offline Newsletter Manager For Your Small Website
Ryan Dube July 22, 2010 22-07-2010 5 minutes
<firstimage="//static.makeuseof.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/emailsign.jpg"> One of the things that I've been meaning to do ever since I started my blog is to offer readers a monthly or biweekly newsletter. Newsletters are great for a lot of reasons. They give you a one-on-one connection with your readers and a useful list of their email addresses that they've entrusted you with. Newsletters also give you an opportunity to dazzle readers that may have subscribed to your newsletter and then promptly forgot all about your website.
Attracting first time visitors to your site is certainly a major concern of many bloggers, but once you get them there, you really need a way to keep them coming back. If you can get your visitors to subscribe to your newsletter, you've got a hook that you can use to hopefully keep tempting them back to your site every time you issue one of your useful website newsletter managers filled with valuable and interesting content.
SendBlaster Simplifies The Newsletter Process
If you've ever gone out in search of a good website newsletter manager system, then you will know that there are several important elements to the newsletter process that not all applications cover. A good newsletter management system accepts and stores new visitor subscriptions. It also provides an easy GUI interface for creating, storing and sending your newsletter out to all of your subscribers. And finally, a good system should provide you with feedback and statistics about the success or failure of your newsletter campaign.
MakeUseOf has previously covered a number of different approaches that you could use, such as Dean's article about creating a PDF newsletter How to Create a PDF Newsletter the Easy Way With MS Paint How to Create a PDF Newsletter the Easy Way With MS Paint Read More . There is also Aweber (not free) that MakeUseOf uses for its own newsletter.
However, in this review I'm going to cover one of the most useful website newsletter managers for smaller sites I could find – SendBlaster.
I should point out right up front that while SendBlaster is free, there are some limitations that may eventually make it difficult to use once you grow beyond a certain size. With the free version, you're limited to two mailing lists with up to 100 subscribers each. Once you grow beyond that, you may want to consider buying the software or searching for some other paid system that suits your needs.
On the "Manage Lists" screen is where you can give your list a name.
SendBlaster is a desktop application, not an online service, so all email addresses in your subscriber lists are safely stored offline on your computer. You can manually add email addresses on this screen if you like. Fields are your typical contact information, but the only required field is just the email address. As your list gets populated with more email addresses, the subscriber details fill the table at the bottom of the screen.
Of course, the whole point of having an automated newsletter management system is so that you don't have to do very much of anything manually. The goal here is to set up a link on your website that visitors can click on, and it will automatically send an email to an email address you define in SendBlaster. SendBlaster checks your email inbox regularly, and when it sees a "subscribe" email, it automatically adds the contact to your locally stored mailing list.
The first step is to set up that email address on the "Manage Subscriptions" page.
Fill in your POP email server details for the email account you want to use to receive your subscription requests. When you're done, scroll down to the bottom of the page and you'll find the HTML code that you can copy and paste into your website. This code is the Subscribe or Unsubscribe link.
Copy this code, add an image or so to make it look acceptable, and paste it into your website. In the case of a WordPress blog, you can add it as an HTML text widget. Or you can try out the WordPress widget that SendBlaster offers which includes a cool auto-responder email for new subscribers.
Every time a visitor clicks on the subscribe button and sends you an email with the word "Subscribe" in the subject line, the SendBlaster application, upon checking your email, recognizes that you have a new subscription request and automatically adds it to your mailing list.
That's really all there is to setting up your automated subscription system to update and manage your mailing list without any effort on your part.
Creating & Sending A Newsletter
The next important feature of such a newsletter system is obviously creating and delivering quality newsletters that will keep your readers coming back to your site for more. In the SendBlaster software, to create a new newsletter, all you have to do is click on "Compose Message."
The setup is very much WYSIWYG, with some very cool features like the ability to add and correctly place and align images, insert hyperlinks and there's even a very cool list of premade templates to choose from if you want to save some time.
When you click on "Send" in the left menu, you'll see the page where you need to set up your SMTP email server settings for the email account you plan to use to send out your emails. If you scroll down to the bottom of the screen you'll see where you can configure the software so that your account isn't flagged for spamming. It does this by letting you set a delay between individual emails, or blocks of emails. While this may slow down the distribution process, the software allows you to send out massive volumes of emails without flagging yourself as a spammer.
If you want to create an assortment of newsletters ahead of time and schedule them out into the future, maybe every month or so, you can do this in the "Schedule" section of the software.
Overall, SendBlaster is easily one of the most versatile and feature-rich free newsletter management systems. With a current environment where most newsletter systems are asking for ridiculous fees, having the ability to create a couple of mailing lists with up to 100 subscribers each is a real life saver for small blog or website operators.
Do you run a newsletter from your website, and if you do, what solution do you use? Is SendBlaster potentially a solution for you? Share your insights in the comments section below.
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Apple Releases Tenth Beta of macOS Big Sur to Developers
Apple today seeded the tenth beta of an upcoming macOS Big Sur update to developers for testing purposes, two weeks after releasing the ninth beta and nearly four months after the new update was unveiled at the Worldwide Developers Conference.
The macOS Big Sur beta can be downloaded through the Apple Developer Center and once the appropriate profile is installed, subsequent betas will be available through the Software Update mechanism in System Preferences.
macOS Big Sur introduces a refreshed design to the Mac operating system, overhauling the entire look from the curvature of the window corners to the dock icons to the system sounds. Everything features a lighter and more modern appearance. There's a new customizable Control Center that mirrors the Control Center on iOS devices, putting key system controls right at your fingertips.
The Notification Center has been redesigned with iOS-style widgets that are available in multiple sizes, plus there are more interactive notifications that are now grouped by app to make it easier to see what's going on. Safari is faster and more battery efficient, plus there's a new start page that can be customized with wallpapers and sections that include Reading List and iCloud Tabs, which makes Safari more tailored to your individual usage needs.
Tabs now support webpage previews, there's a built-in language translation feature, Chrome and Firefox Extensions can be ported to Safari, and YouTube supports 4K video playback. There's also an option to choose which sites an extension works with for greater privacy. Speaking of privacy, a new Privacy Report feature lets users know the trackers Safari is blocking when you visit websites.
Messages has been brought in line with the Messages app on iOS with support for pinned conversations, mentions, inline replies, and Memoji creation, plus the built-in search feature has been overhauled to make it easier to find links, photos, and conversations in the app.
Apple redesigned the Maps app to add support for Look Around, indoor maps, and Guides, which are lists of notable attractions, restaurants, and more created by trusted sources. Maps can also be used to generate directions for cycling routes and electric vehicle trips that can be sent to iPhone, and shared ETA updates are now viewable on the Mac.
For more on everything that's new in macOS Big Sur, make sure to check out our roundup.
Update October 15: The update has also been released to members of the public beta program.
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mariusfanu
How far out do you think the GM is? I'm surprised that GM didn't drop yesterday.
I expect the GM to drop in November when they announce the new Apple Silicon Macs
Chris The Bipolarbear
over the last few years they have not released a GM Just A GM candidate with still showed beta. I am not one for second guessing apple I'd rather carry on with BETA's till they ge it right Not work to a time table
JuanArreguin
– New Backgrounds!
– "AirPod Switching" is LIVE!
Or are these from last version?
WaruiKoohii
This all looks new. I don't recall "On Hold", or "Will be charged by", or a "Charge to Full Now" option. Previously it would just hold at 80% and say Not Charging.
hmark8
And based on the last beta's, this one will introduce a whole bunch of new ones.
Regression testing isn't exactly a core competency for apple apparently.
I've tested each year, and many years they were dreadful where popular apps didn't work at all or major functionality broke which was aweful (but of course to be expected for a beta). Where this year it's been insanely reliable with the few bugs I've run into and reported have mostly all been cosmetic. Apple gets yelled out from both ends. If they focus some years just on bug fixes and reliability improvements, everyone says apple is doomed, and is boring and can't innovate, etc. On years they focus on new features, people say they shouldn't focus on new stuff until they fix what's broken. So no matter some people will never be happier, but for the rest of us, pretty happy with the balance of new features and bug fixes. Though some ui glitches or little bugs that sometimes I see don't get fixed for several years which is frustrating but I also understand there are probably a million small little things and they have to prioritize.
Can anyone else confirm this is New? I haven't seen this before.


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Als Stilblüte bezeichnet man Formulierungen, die durch einen Missgriff in der Wortwahl oder Wortstellung, durch Versprecher oder durch Mehrdeutigkeit ungewollt komisch wirken. Viele angebliche Stilblüten sind Phantasieprodukte bzw. wenig gelungene Neologismen.

Eine spezielle Form der Stilblüten sind Kathederblüten.

Beispiele

 Falsche Wortwahl (lexikalischer Fehler) – siehe auch Kindermund:
 "Bevor der Mann seine Angel in den See warf, machte er am Haken einen dicken Köter fest." (statt Köder)
 "Er ist eine echte Konifere" (statt Koryphäe)
 "Freundliche Minen zu Beginn der Tarifrunde" (statt Miene)
 Bruno Labbadia: "Das wird doch alles von den Medien hochsterilisiert" (statt stilisiert)
 "Während des Krieges hielt er sich auf dem Balkon auf" eigentlich: "… hielt er sich auf dem Balkan auf"
 Unsinnig kombinierte Metaphern: "So pionierhaft sich diesbezüglich der amerikanische Pfad zu gestalten wusste, so eklektisch eigen wurde der europäische beschritten. Letzterer befindet sich wiederkehrend am Scheideweg."
 Falscher Satzbezug: "Wenn meine Mutter große Wäsche macht, helfen wir ihr, indem wir sie in einen Korb legen, auf den Speicher tragen und aufhängen."
 Falscher inhaltlicher Bezug: "Für solche faulen Ausreden müssen Sie sich einen Dümmeren suchen, aber den werden Sie kaum finden."
 Doppeldeutigkeit (Mehrdeutigkeit): "Leider bekomme ich keine Katze, weil meine Mutter einen Vogel hat."
 Groß-/Kleinschreibung fehlt in der Aussprache: "sie standen an den Hängen und Pisten …" (1959, Sportreporter Heinz Maegerlein)
 Übersetzungsfehler / Deutsch als Fremdsprache: "Eine Verkühlung hat uns alle ergriffen." Auch maschinelle Übersetzung kann zu Stilblüten führen.
 Ein sogenannter falscher Freund verleitet zu einer falschen, doppeldeutigen bzw. schiefen Übersetzung: z. B. engl. actually – eigentlich/tatsächlich, nicht "aktuell"
 Absicht: "Es ginge schon, aber 's geht nicht". (Karl Valentin) oder "Es muss was passieren, aber g'schehn darf nix." (1994, Theo Waigel) – siehe Wortspiel

Siehe auch
 Stilfehler
 Lapsus
 Paraphasie

Literatur
 Helmut Seiffert: Auch ein Mord ist ein Stück Leben – Das kleine Buch der Sprachunfälle, C.H. Beck, München 2000, ISBN 3-406-45933-1

Weblinks

 Übersetzungsfallen.de – Stilblüten
 SPIEGEL-Kolumnist Bastian Sick präsentiert und kommentiert von Lesern eingesandte Stilblüten
 Doppelt gemoppelt (Pleonasmen) & andere Stilblüten, Sammlung von Manfred Gärtner

Quellen

Stilistik
Humor


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Railways' Apr-Nov Passenger Segment Revenue Surges 76& YoY
The Indian Railways registered a 76 per cent increase in revenue from the passenger segment between April and November year on year to total approximate earnings of Rs 43,324 crore against Rs 24,631 crore achieved during the corresponding period last year.
In a statement issued on Friday, the Indian Railways said, in the reserved passenger segment, the total approximate number of passengers booked was 53.65 crore between April 1 and November 30 against 48.60 crore during the year-ago period. It is an increase of 10%. The revenue generated in this segment during the period grew 50 per cent to Rs 34,303 crore from Rs 22,904 crore from last year.
With the fear of Covid-19 on the wane, the passenger traffic on Indian Railways has returned on the track of growth. The increase was seen in the unreserved passenger segment as well.
In the unreserved passenger segment, the total approximate number of passengers booked during April 1 to November 30, 2022, is 35,273 lakh, as compared to 13,813 lakh during the same period last year, with an increase of 155 per cent. The segment registered revenue of Rs 9,021 crore during this period as compared to Rs 1,728 crores in the same period last year, with an increase of 422 per cent, the statement said.
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