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Given that natural immunity has been found to be up to 13 times better than vaccine immunity, it could be argued that the most selfless thing for a person to do is to contract the virus naturally and recover
The arguments given by those supporting vaccine passports sound impressive,
agrees Kurt Mahlburg "trapped [down] in Ozcatraz" (thanks, mate, to Mark Tapscott),
but do they really hold water?
As James Morrow asks in bewilderment, Do Australia's leaders really know what they're doing?, and as the rest of us wonder how we could ever have believed that the spirit of the fellow (?) frontier nation was embodied by one Crocodile Dundee, the author of Cross and Culture responds on his blog (as at the Daily Declaration) to a dozen of the most common counter-arguments to his (to Kurt's) 5 Reasons Why Vaccine Passports are an Ethical Disaster.
Related: Here Is the Key Question Regarding the Coronavirus
• And here are the 7 Basic Points about Covid-19 that You Need to Know
• Is the Yellow Star Really an Inappropriate Reference for the Vaccine Passport?
And from the March 2020 and April 2020 archives:
• Is There 100% Irrefutable Proof that the Covid19 Pandemic Is Overstated?
• Anti-Americanism in the Age of the Coronavirus, the NBA, and 1619
Kurt Mahlburg:
1. "But we already need vaccine passports to travel to some countries."
It is true that to visit some countries, you are required to present proof that you are immunised against diseases like smallpox, yellow fever or cholera.
But visiting the far-flung jungles of Africa or South America is worlds apart from visiting your local cafe, museum, church, workplace, or a nearby Australian state or territory. This is what the current vaccine passport debate is about.
These are apples-and-oranges comparisons. One is about the right of sovereign nations to determine who enters their borders and under what circumstances. The other is about freedoms that every Australian was born with, such as freedom of movement, association and assembly.
Advocates of vaccine passports are yet to explain why Australians should have these inalienable birthrights held hostage until they give up their medical autonomy.
2. "But flu vaccination is already mandated for entry into nursing homes."
In some parts of Australia, people wanting to visit a loved one in a nursing home must show proof of an influenza vaccination before entry. Given that the primary purpose of a nursing home is to house and care for the elderly—who are on average much more vulnerable to influenza—there are obvious merits to such policies.
The same is true for 'no jab, no play' rules in childcare facilities. You don't have to agree with these policies (I don't) to see that the logic is to protect young children who are particularly susceptible to childhood diseases.
But to use this as the rationale for Covid-19 vaccine passports at all venues in the nation—which provide goods and services to people of all ages—is an extraordinary stretch. As such, an extraordinary amount of evidence must be provided by those arguing for it.
We know that while Covid-19 is a deadly disease for some, it is nowhere near as fatal to the general population as influenza is to the elderly. In fact, for the vast majority of people, both the original virus and its variants are no more (or less) dangerous than the flu.
Moreover, we know that while the Covid-19 vaccines reduce hospitalisations and deaths, they do not prevent transmission of the virus.
These facts do not constitute extraordinary evidence for forcing people to take a Covid-19 vaccine.
3. "But privately-owned venues are already allowed to ban smokers."
Yes, privately-owned venues are allowed to ban smokers, but the minute a smoker removes the cigarette from their mouth, they can enter the venue. A patron visiting a particular establishment without shoes, a collared shirt or ID can likewise tidy themselves and freely enter.
Taking a vaccine is different. Vaccination is a medical treatment that, like all other medical treatments in Australia, is governed by the principle of informed consent.
Even if we entertain the comparison between taking a vaccine and disposing of a cigarette, privately-owned venues are still regulated by the government. A pub or restaurant cannot, for example, decide to exclude people who have HIV/AIDS. In NSW, 'infectious diseases discrimination' is against the law: this includes treating someone unequally on the assumption that they have or may acquire an infectious disease.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has so far indicated that the Federal Government won't force venues to require proof of Covid-19 vaccination for entry: a welcome announcement. What is in question is whether the government should allow this kind of discrimination at all.
A strong case can be made that they should not. Renowned legal scholar Professor Augusto Zimmermann argues that vaccine passports "unconstitutionally impinge on the democratic principle of equality before the law and the free movement of Australian citizens within their own country."
Whether we turn to Australia's Constitution and subsequent case law, our nation's anti-discrimination legislation, or even the 'tolerance' and 'inclusion' rhetoric that has dominated our airwaves for the last five years—Australian governments should be acting to prevent this kind of medical discrimination.
4. "But the government already mandates other safety measures."
It has also been argued that since the government has the right to make us wear seatbelts or stop at traffic lights, they should also have the right to make us get a vaccine.
Once again, these situations are chalk and cheese. One of them involves obeying momentary directives; the other requires handing over one's medical autonomy to the State without any assurance that the State will hand it back again.
Other nations such as Israel are already mandating a third booster shot and planning a fourth. These passports come with no sunset clause. It takes immense—one might argue naive—trust in government to assume that this infrastructure won't be broadened by present and future governments.
5. "But other countries are already using vaccine passports."
Other nations are indeed already using vaccine passports. But this has been met with considerable unrest, with mass protests breaking out in cities across Europe—even if corporate media outlets are being deliberately silent about these historical events.
Representative democracy was established so that a nation's laws would reflect the will of its people. But when political leaders make unilateral decisions under emergency health orders, they effectively bypass the people's will. Mass protests are an indication that a leader's decisions may not accurately reflect the will of those who elected them.
The use of vaccine passports elsewhere does not mean Australia will inevitably follow suit. By speaking up on this issue, Australians can and should seek to influence the decision-making of their leaders.
It is also a flawed argument to suggest that Australia should mandate vaccines because other countries are doing so. Other nations allow grown men to marry child brides. Should we do the same? A nation's laws should not be shaped by global groupthink but by the will of its citizens—ideally guided by God's moral law.
6. "But vaccine passports will bring us greater freedom."
The idea that vaccine passports will somehow grant us 'greater freedom' is a semantic trick that some political leaders have used and that many have believed and repeated.
It is a semantic trick because what is meant is not greater freedom but greater safety. Driven by exaggerated panic, people hope that vaccine mandates will deliver them freedom from fear or freedom from death. But to be clear, these are functional synonyms for safety.
The civic freedoms endangered by vaccine passports—such as freedom of movement and the right to bodily integrity—have precise definitions. More safety is always possible when we give up civil liberties. After all, one of the safest places in the world is solitary confinement; but that doesn't make solitary confinement an optimal life choice.
In every case, we must ask whether the freedoms we give up—freedoms that our ancestors bled and died on foreign soil to protect—are worth the safety promised to us in that exchange. And we can hardly have a rational debate about such weighty matters when words are used to conceal rather than reveal someone's true intent.
7. "But vaccine passports are just temporary."
I have been asked why I assume vaccine passports will be permanent. But I believe this is the wrong question. A better question would be, why do you assume vaccine passports will be temporary?
At the beginning of 2020, if I had told you that the Australian government would force people to stay inside their homes for months at a time and only be allowed to exercise for an hour a day, would you have believed me?
What if I told you there would be mass unrest with police firing rubber bullets at unarmed protesters? What about state borders being shut at the drop of a hat? Military patrolling the city streets? Governments requiring you to tell them your every move, including—if you are single—which other individual you were liaising with?
Of course, every one of these measures has been justified as being "for the greater good". But that's precisely the point. In the name of public health and safety, the government's role in our lives has only become more intrusive and onerous since the beginning of the pandemic.
It is not 'acting out of fear' to warn that the vaccine passports being rolled out now may end up becoming a permanent fixture of daily life. On the contrary, this is an entirely sober and realistic prediction—though one I would be delighted to be wrong about.
For context, in August, the World Health Organisation released an 80-page document providing 'implementation guidance' for vaccine passports. They aimed to equip all WHO member states to develop passports that are 'interoperable'—that is, passports that can be used within and between all of the world's nations.
Indeed, long before the Covid-19 pandemic began, the European Commission had laid out a roadmap to implement a standard vaccination passport for EU citizens.
There is a global mood for these passports. Governments are spending billions of dollars on them. Again, what would lead us to assume they are temporary?
8. "But no one is suggesting churches should ban the unvaccinated."
Once again, in response to the question "Who is seriously considering barring unvaccinated people from church?" one could reply, "Who was seriously considering locking Australians inside their homes before 2020 began?"
But in answer to the question, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, and Israel have all variously barred unvaccinated people from worship services.
Moreover, a recent Christianity Today article suggested that although limiting gatherings to only vaccinated congregants would be resisted by many churches, "the idea isn't new [and] the use of health passes could become commonplace in the coming months."
In an Australian context, the vocal and widespread opposition to The Ezekiel Declaration suggests that many Australian Christians are willing to exclude unvaccinated people from church services in the name of health and safety.
Before I could finish writing this article, the New South Wales government announced a soon-to-be-confirmed rule that places of worship must use vaccine passports to exclude the unvaccinated.
This eleventh-hour development is further evidence—if we needed it—that those still instinctively hoping for government leniency are letting themselves be led up the garden path.
9. "But the vaccines are safe."
The vaccines have proven safe for the majority of those who have taken them. But this does not mean they should be mandated. Many things are healthy for us—whether vitamins, exercise or vegetables—that governments have no business forcing upon us.
It is important to note, however, that the vaccines have not been safe for everyone. The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) reports that nine Australians have lost their lives as a direct result of taking a Covid-19 vaccine—one from Pfizer and eight from AstraZeneca.
(The TGA has received 490 further reports of death following a Covid-19 vaccination, but in these cases, a causal link to the vaccine was not explicitly confirmed).
Some 55,000 adverse events have been reported to the TGA in connection with the Covid-19 vaccines. Most of these were minor and short-lived, but some have been serious. Channel 7 reporter Denham Hitchcock, for example, has suffered debilitating complications since taking the jab.
In the United States, almost 14,000 deaths have been reported following a Covid-19 vaccination through the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). This number represents 60 per cent of all vaccine deaths that have ever been reported to VAERS since it was set up in 1990.
Not all VAERS data is bias-free or accurate since reports are made to it voluntarily. But it is also true that reporting a death is a time-consuming task that comes with no personal benefit—and possible scrutiny—for any medical professional who submits it. So 14,000 is likely to be a floor rather than a ceiling for Covid-19 vaccine deaths in America.
In addition to this, some 650,000 adverse events have been reported to VAERS following a Covid-19 vaccination. Most of these are minor, but thousands of miscarriages, heart attacks, and permanent disabilities are included in this number.
Similar data can be seen in the UK's Yellow Card reporting system and Europe's EudraVigilance database.
Given that lockdowns, travel bans, and mask mandates were so often justified on the basis that they might save "even one life", it is ironic if people now justify these deaths and injuries as mere collateral damage in the vaccine rollout.
It is also callous to suggest that any talk of vaccine deaths or injuries will harm the vaccine rollout. These are real people who have died or suffered in life-altering ways. Their lives matter as much as those we are seeking to protect from Covid-19.
10. "But the risk of Covid-19 outweighs the risk of the vaccine."
It is true that, on balance, the risk posed by the virus outweighs the risk of taking the vaccine. But this fact comes as cold comfort for the person who dies from a vaccine and for the loved ones they leave behind.
This point was well-argued in a recent Caldron Pool article.
Caldron Pool likewise pointed out that human beings are not robots: we approach risk in different ways. Some people are so risk-averse that they never travel by aeroplane; others live for the thrill of BASE jumping or motocross despite the significant dangers of these sports. We all agree that these are decisions people should be free to make themselves, not have imposed on them by others.
Additionally, if given a choice between being killed 'artificially' at the hands of another person or by an event of nature that may happen sometime in the vague, unknowable future, most people would choose the latter. This explains why many young, healthy people with robust immune systems prefer to take their chance with the virus rather than the vaccine. This choice should be left to them, not forced on them.
Covid-19 is a highly discriminatory disease that poses particular dangers to the elderly, the immunocompromised, and those with co-morbidities. For such people, taking the vaccine is a no-brainer. But this is an argument for vaccines, not compulsory vaccines.
Let the healthy 18-year-old man who has just a 0.003 per cent chance of dying from Covid-19—but who could die of a vaccine complication—assess his risks each way, free of coercive mandates.
11. "But the unvaccinated could end up killing people."
The Covid-19 vaccines have been shown to reduce hospitalisations and deaths significantly. But nations with high vaccination rates still see high rates of transmission and infection.
In other words, the benefit of the vaccine is almost entirely personal. It protects the person who takes it and may help slow transmission of the virus, but it cannot prevent them from passing it on to others.
Recent studies show that unlike immunity gained through natural infection, the vaccines do not give mucosal immunity; and that unvaccinated and fully vaccinated people carry similar viral loads.
So people should be encouraged to take the vaccine for their protection. But the idea that being vaccinated will render significant benefits to others is yet to be established. This is a wish; it is not a fact. Therefore, barring unvaccinated people from society is not only unethical; it is also ineffectual.
12. "But the healthcare system will be overwhelmed if you don't get vaccinated."
Now that most at-risk people have been vaccinated, the pressure on Australia's healthcare system is significantly reduced, though modellers and governments remain vigilant.
For someone likely to need hospitalisation if they fall sick with Covid-19, it is a selfless act for them to be vaccinated. But this doesn't mean it should be made mandatory for all people regardless of their risk profile.
13. "But Christians should give up their rights."
Through his life and teachings, Jesus made it clear that we are to give up our rights for the benefit of others. Theoretically, this could be applied to freely deciding to get vaccinated. But it certainly doesn't work for vaccine mandates: Jesus didn't teach us to demand that others give up their rights for us—which is precisely what proponents of vaccine passports are arguing.
In fact, this teaching of Jesus would only apply to being vaccinated if, by taking the vaccine, I could prevent deaths in others. We are yet to see clear evidence of this in the case of the Covid-19 vaccines.
Furthermore, Jesus taught us to die to ourselves, but this command has limits. It is not 'Christlike' for someone to endure abuse, violence or sexual predation at the hands of their spouse. A similar example is Communism, where your rights and property are fully surrendered to the State—but this philosophy led to 150 million deaths. There must be a limiting principle to giving up our rights.
If someone has a very low risk of dying from Covid-19, and if the vaccine will not prevent them from spreading the virus to others, it may not make sense for them to take it. It certainly doesn't make sense for us to force them to, nor would it be Christlike for us to demand this.
In fact, given that natural immunity has been found to be up to 13 times better than vaccine immunity, it could be argued that the most selfless thing for a young and healthy person to do is to contract the virus naturally and recover.
I often hear the criticism that Christians who disagree with vaccine mandates are selfish for demanding their rights. Actually, I have encountered very few Christians making this point.
Instead, I see Christians seeking to protect the rights and freedoms of those who, for a whole swathe of reasons, may not want or be able to take the vaccine. In making this stand, they are weathering a lot of opposition for the benefit of others; they are applying the teaching of Jesus to die to self.
Unfortunately, there are many today who are not conversant with history. We have had it so good for so long that we don't understand the importance of civil liberties.
Freedoms are a safeguard, not a luxury. Human liberties protect the weak by restraining the powerful. It is the defence of freedom that has long prevented tyrants from terrorising ordinary people. The worst abuses of history were only made possible when fundamental freedoms were cast aside.
If you shrug off freedoms in the name of 'loving your neighbour', know that the neighbours you have chosen to love are the world's powerful. And it is the powerless who will eventually pay the price. Instead, be like Jesus and sacrifice your popularity to defend the freedoms of others.
By all means, get vaccinated if you will. But don't force others to: that is a demand we should not make.
Regarding what turns out to be the Crocodile Dundee myth, let James Morrow have the last word:
Clive James once remarked that the problem with Australia wasn't so much that it was a nation of convicts as a nation of jailers. It's a good line, but jailers don't win in the long run without a deferential population happy to give up their lives to authority.
Update (from the Babylon Bee): Australian Hospitals Over Capacity With People Beaten By Police For Not Wearing Masks
Australian hospitals are bursting at the seams, having reached their breaking point after being flooded with patients during the pandemic. The Australians streaming into the hospitals don't have COVID, though, but instead are just bloodied and bruised from cops beating them up for not wearing masks, going outside for fresh air, and talking to other people.
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DIRECTOR-general of the BBC Greg Dyke was embroiled in controversy after the corporation broadcast a Christmas show made by a company in which he has a £1m stake.
The Nutcracker! - a racy reworking of Tchaikovsky's ballet in the style of a 1930s Hollywood musical - was shown on BBC1.
It was produced by ScreenStage, the television arm of the Ambassador Theatre Group in which Dyke owns a 3.7% stake.
The screening is expected to boost the value of ATG - and Dyke's shareholding - through sales of DVDs and tickets for the current Nutcracker production at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London.
Dyke has come under fire in the past over his stake in ATG. ScreenStage is a joint venture with Carlton Communications, one of ITV's main shareholders.
The corporation insists that Dyke is a 'passive investor' and had no part in getting Nutcracker! broadcast. But critics claim the screening shows an inconsistency in corporation policy following last week's crackdown on BBC journalists writing for newspapers.
Star presenters such as John Simpson, Andrew Marr and John Humphrys will have to abandon lucrative newspaper deals because the BBC has brought in new rules to maintain its 'impartiality'.
They cannot write about politics or current affairs, only on non-controversial topics such as fishing and cookery - as long as the BBC can vet the articles first. Dyke has admitted the journalists will be compensated for loss of income out of licence fees.
Dyke is a multi-millionaire and his private shareholdings in media companies have proved a thorny subject for the BBC.
Shortly after he joined the corporation in November 1999, it was disclosed that he held about £6m worth of shares in rival Granada. He sold his stake in Granada in January 2000, and a few weeks later paid £1m for shares in ATG.
In May this year, it emerged that he is a shareholder in Pearson - a rival media giant the BBC was in talks with over new business.
Last night, a BBC spokesman said Dyke's shareholding was fully declared in accordance with the BBC's conflict of interests procedure and has been examined by the BBC's Audit Committee.
He said Dyke was only a 'passive investor' in ATG and had no role in getting Nutcracker! screened on BBC1.
'Greg Dyke has not played any part in the commissioning process and we can confirm that no conversations or communication about this programme took place between Greg Dyke and Lorraine Heggessey, the controller of BBC1, or other BBC television staff prior to its commission,' he said.
'Greg Dyke registered this involvement on the BBC's Register of Interests in full compliance with the BBC's strict procedures.
'The involvement of Greg Dyke through his shareholding was fully declared in strict accordance with the BBC's conflict of interest procedure.
The spokesman said any link with the BBC's decision to tighten the rules on journalists writing for newspapers ' is extremely tenuous'.
'The decision to review the issue of journalists writing for newspapers was entirely based on our desire to maintain the BBC's reputation for impartiality and independence.


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Monterey Herald joins coalition to support California's new police transparency law
The California Reporting Project will work together to exam documents that come from SB 1421
By Thomas Peele, Sukey Lewis and Alex Emslie |
PUBLISHED: March 19, 2019 at 12:05 pm | UPDATED: March 19, 2019 at 3:36 pm
One police officer had sex in the front seat of his squad car. Another stole thousands of bullets. Others, while wearing a badge of authority, used force illegally, cavorted with sex workers, lied in police reports and concocted trumped up charges against citizens.
Revelations about these bad cops have been made public this year under California's new police transparency law, Senate Bill 1421.
To keep the records coming, more than 30 competing news agencies, including the Monterey Herald, have formed an unprecedented coalition to obtain police documents and share the information with each other and the public.
Dubbed the California Reporting Project, the effort announced today also includes the Southern California News Group, the Los Angeles Times, KQED, KPPC, the Press Democrat, the Sacramento Bee and other McClatchy papers, and the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley, among others. The news organizations' work is intended to expose rogue police officers and — in some cases — the extent to which their behavior has been tolerated by agencies sworn to uphold laws and protect the public.
"California residents have been waiting decades for information about how effectively cops do their jobs — and who the bad apples are," said Bert Robinson, the Bay Area News Group's managing editor/content.
"This coalition will get that information out far more quickly than any news organization working on its own. Ultimately, it will help the police do their jobs better, and help reinforce the community trust that the many good officers in California deserve," Robinson said.
The effort is only possible because of the new transparency law, which breaks through a wall of secrecy around law enforcement built up since the 1970s that blocked public access to police misconduct and deadly use-of-force information.
As of Monday, the coalition had made requests to 675 police agencies in all 58 counties since Jan. 1. This news organization and KQED together have filed more than 460 requests, including ones to all state agencies that employ sworn officers and all police departments in Northern California.
Overall, participating news organizations have combined to blanket the state with more than 1,100 requests — some directed to police agencies, and others specific to individual officers.
But police unions have resisted the new law, and squared off against the media and good government groups in courtrooms from San Diego to Sacramento.
The unions claim the law cannot be applied to records dated before Jan. 1 because lawmakers did not say specifically in the legislation that it applies to records regardless of when they were created.
David Mastagni, a lawyer who represents police officers, said records created before 2019 were never intended for a public audience, and that releasing those documents could expose sensitive information about both crime victims and officers.
"It's important to remember that both third party victims and law enforcement have important privacy rights that need to be balanced with these disclosures," he said. Some police, he said, have no no choice but to use deadly force after being shot at by suspects.
"Yet their families are subject to ridicule and threats," he said. "People will find social media photographs of the officers or spouses or their kids, even list where their kids go to school."
But the unions have so far had little success convincing judges that the records should stay secret. Even as Attorney General Xavier Becerra refuses to release any Department of Justice records until courts settle the matter, local police agencies are beginning to give up their secrets, some under court order.
Twice already, state Supreme Court justices have declined to take up cases on SB 1421, without opining directly on the argument over whether the law applies to previous years' misconduct records.
The Los Angeles Police Department, tied up in litigation since January, started providing records last week after courts rejected the union arguments. Judges in Contra Costa, Orange, Santa Barbara, San Bernardino and San Diego counties have also ruled for releasing the records. Similar cases are pending in San Francisco and Merced and Fresno counties.
"It's become quite clear through numerous court rulings now that the unions' arguments are totally groundless," said David Snyder, head of the San Rafael-based First Amendment Coalition, which is defending the law's application to past records in several cases around the state.
Perhaps no reason for delay can top the one made by Police Chief Chris Hughes of the city of Lindsay in Tulare County. Boxes containing the records were in an old storage container "stacked in such a manner causing it to be dangerous for an employee to enter the container to retrieve the records," he wrote in an email. The city later said it won't release anything until the court cases conclude.
But journalists are not the only ones asking for records. People who have lost loved ones in police shootings are also pushing for disclosure, saying the documents will contain answers that have been a long time coming.
"Every one of us has the same story," said Rick Perez, whose 24-year-old son Richard "Pedie" Perez was shot dead by Richmond Police Officer Wallace Jensen in 2014 outside a liquor store. The younger Perez was unarmed. Jensen claimed he thought Perez was reaching for a weapon and opened fire. The officer has left the department and is receiving a tax-free lifetime pension for an undisclosed injury.
Since the shooting, police have released little information about his son's killing to Rick Perez, citing the officer privacy laws that SB 1421 abolished. "The police will not release information. And then what little information they do release, it's basically the same story: 'I feared for my life," he said in an interview. "That gets them off every time."
The Richmond Peace Officers Association sued the city to block Perez's access to the records.
"It's not some dark secrets to be covered up," police union President Benjamin Therriault said. "It's just that the process is important to folks."
Rick Perez said he thinks the records will shed new light on his son's killing and confirm his suspicions that Jensen was unfit for police work, and hopes that new information that could lead to criminal charges in the matter. He also said he finds it troubling that agencies are waiting to delay releasing records until legal fights are over.
"You hear these cops talking about releasing this information, and once you release it you can't get it back," Perez said. "They should think about releasing that bullet out of that gun. Once they release it, and it strikes somebody, you can't get it back. So their priorities really hurt."
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Danger! Equipment Hits Overhead Lines
DOE Office of Environment, Health, Safety and Security
Summary Statement
This DOE report is an Operating Experience Level 3 document which is intended to inform senior headquarters and field management about an event involves health and safety issues important enough to warrant their attention and possible action. In this case, there were 3 separate incidents where equipment struck overhead lines. No one was injured, but the potential for fatal consequences was the impetus for issuing this two-page report that summarizes the incidents and draws lessons learned.
This Operating Experience Level 3 (OE-3) document provides information about a safety concern related to workers and operations at Department of Energy (DOE) facilities where equipment has struck overhead communication cables and energized power lines.
During a two-week period in Summer 2015, three events were reported to the Occurrence Reporting and Processing System (ORPS) that represented potential harm to workers when equipment hit overhead lines. Overhead dangers can be minimized by adequate work planning and the preventive actions discussed below.
On June 25, 2015, at Argonne National Laboratory-East (ANLE), while a driver was offloading soil from a project excavation into a lime sludge ravine, the front of the raised truck bed contacted the neutral and phase A of a 4160-volt AC overhead power system, resulting in arc damage to the truck's access ladder and tarp draw cable, and the overhead power conductors. The driver lowered the bed, releasing contact with the conductors, which remained intact overhead. (ORPS Report SC--ASO-ANLE-ANLEFMS-2015-0007)
On June 22, 2015, also at ANLE, an excavator at a construction site traveled under a nonenergized, inactive telephone communication cable, snagging it and causing the nearest utility pole -- to which the cable was attached – to break. (ORPS Report SC--ASO-ANLE-ANLEFMS-2015-0006)
On June 16, 2015, at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Technical Area 5, the bed of a tandem dump truck contacted an energized 13.2 kV overhead power line while work was being done to repair a deteriorated road. The truck bed brought down three phases of the circuit, but the driver stayed in the cab until the condition was mitigated. (ORPS Report NA--LASO-LANL-PHYSTECH- 2015-0004)
In the June 25, ANLE event, the scope had changed without work being stopped. In the three weeks before the event, more than 300 loads had been brought to and dumped in the planned/approved location (sludge ravine). However, the morning of the event, two loads were redirected to be off-loaded on the bumpy access road in order to smooth the road. This change in work scope should have resulted in work to be stopped and re-evaluated for hazards. The new hazard was energized overhead lines that presented an electrocution danger. After the truck bed contacted the power line, the driver remained in the truck cab, which was the correct response to avoid electrocution or injury. (See text box, If Your Equipment Contacts an Energized Line.) The Facilities Management and Services Manager called 911, and the site's high voltage distribution crew responded and assessed the scene. All work was suspended and a fact-finding was held. The event was categorized as failure to implement the prescribed hazardous energy controls and use a spotter.
In the June 22, ANLE event, the excavator's extended arm snagged a communication cable, exerting sufficient pressure to break the utility pole to which the cable was attached. The driver was fortunate that the line was not energized. The spotter assigned to the job was 70 feet away. At that distance, it may have been difficult for the spotter to communicate quickly and effectively with the excavator driver in time to avoid a mishap.
In the June 16, LANL event, during work to repair a deteriorated road, the extended bed of a dump truck contacted an energized 13.2 kV overhead power line. The driver immediately called the foreman and remained in the truck. The circuit recloser operated as designed, de-energizing the affected circuit. Utility linemen isolated the affected power lines and grounded them to render the area safe. The Facilities Operations Director Designee subsequently categorized the event as a failure to implement the prescribed hazardous energy controls. The Integrated Work Document (IWD) for the job was not properly implemented. The IWD specified that a spotter was required and that equipment was to be kept 10 feet away from overhead power lines. However, no one involved in planning or hazard analysis realized that the height of the power lines (20 feet, 7 inches) was the same as the height of a fully extended truck bed.
Title 10 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 851, DOE Worker Safety and Health Program, requires that work be planned in advance so that hazards can be mitigated or eliminated. It also specifies that workers have the responsibility to stop work when they notice dangers. 10 CFR Part 851 is the overarching regulation for DOE, and incorporates 29 CFR Part 1926, Safety and Health Regulations for Construction.
The two sites that filed the three ORPS reports cited in this OE-3 stopped work and held factfinding meetings to determine causes and corrective actions. Immediate actions included isolating and grounding the affected power lines to make them safe; pausing work activities; and implementing a safety stand-down until work controls and pre-job briefings could be reviewed and revised. Remember to implement the Occupational Safety and Health Administration requirement that work performed within10 feet of energized lines be carefully planned, that spotters be assigned, and, if necessary, that utility departments be contacted so that they can deenergize power lines.
These overhead line occurrences serve as reminders of the need for careful work planning and analysis of hazards - including those situated above the work – and the responsibility to stop work when scope or conditions change.
SC--ASO-ANLE-ANLEFMS-2015-0007, Near Miss: Dump Truck Bed Contacts Energized Overhead Power Line
SC--ASO-ANLE-ANLEFMS-2015-0006, Management Concern: Excavator Struck and Snagged Aerial Communication Cable
NA--LASO-LANL-PHYSTECH-2015-0004, Near Miss to Personnel Injury: Dump Truck Operator Contacts Energized Overhead Power Line
10 CFR 851, DOE Worker Safety and Health Program and Appendix A, Construction Safety
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ANALYSIS OF MARKETING MARGINS IN THE U.S. LAMB INDUSTRY
Capps, Oral,, Patrick J. Byrne and Gary Williams
Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 1995, vol. 24, issue 2, 9
Abstract: Factors affecting marketing margins were identified and assessed using a relative price spread technique. Margins were disaggregated into slaughter-to-wholesale and wholesale-to-retail for a more complete understanding. Marketing costs, concentration, demand, and price were used to explain variations within these margins. Results showed that packer concentration had a significant effect on margins. Forces of supply and demand (as represented by production and market price) and changes in marketing costs also explained the variation in margins. A higher degree of price transmission from slaughter-to-wholesale level was observed in comparison to the wholesale-to-retail level.
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Journal Article: Analysis of Marketing Margins in the U.S. Lamb Industry (1995)
Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:arerjl:31582
DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.31582
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Home News Feds Assemble FTX Task Force to Retrieve Lost Customer Funds
Feds Assemble FTX Task Force to Retrieve Lost Customer Funds
An FTX Task Force has been formed by the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office to track down and reclaim the assets of crypto exchange victims.
FTX Task Force will include prosecutors from numerous agencies like the transnational Criminal Enterprises, Public Corruption, Money Laundering, and Securities and Commodities Fraud departments.
In response to founder Sam Bankman-not Fried's guilty plea, the Feds established an FTX task team to find misplaced customer assets.
The working group was put in place to safeguard people who suffered losses as a result of the disintegration of the platform, and it was legally coordinated by the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office.
What the US government has called an unprecedented scam at FTX may have an impact on more than 1 million clients. Sam Bankman-Fried, the company's former CEO, is charged criminally with transferring client cash from the cryptocurrency trading platform to FTX's sister trading arm Alameda Research.
Sam Bankman-Fried has arrived in court for his arraignment. We're told he will plead not guilty to all the charges against him. pic.twitter.com/yakSLkOus8
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The Manhattan attorney's office has accused Bankman-Fried of financial crimes, money laundering, wire and securities fraud, and conspiracy to carry out wire and securities fraud.
Williams stated in the declaration that they are establishing the SDNY FTX Mission Force to ensure that this immediate process will continue, operated by all of SDNY's capabilities and resources until justice has been served. "The Southern District of New York is working around the clock to respond to the implosion of FTX," Williams said.
The task team, which will include attorneys from the Securities and Commodities Fraud, Public Corruption, Money Laundering, and Transnational Criminal Enterprises departments, is being led by Andrea Griswold, Williams' senior deputy.
Similar action was taken by FTX; according to individuals with knowledge of the situation, the insolvent exchange's new management appointed a group of forensic investigators from the advisory firm AlixPartners to assist in locating the billions of dollars that have vanished from the defunct cryptocurrency exchange.
Since September 2021, FTX and key personnel such as Bankman-Fried, co-founder Gary Wang, and former CEO Caroline Ellison of Alameda Research have operated out of the Bahamas, where much of the wrongdoing is said to have been committed.
Looking at the daily developments in the FTX controversy, it is safe to conclude that in the fairly recent chronicle of the cryptocurrency industry, there has never been a fiasco on the magnitude of FTX.
It was once one of the largest and best-known cryptocurrency exchanges in the world but now stands bankrupt with fraud charges.
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New school year brings three new elementary principals to District
With three openings in elementary administrator spots last spring, Carbon School District has drawn three new people to head up schools from within its own ranks for the coming school year. The three vacancies, created by the retirement of John Thomas at Creekview Elementary, and two others, that happened because Chris Winfree from Castle Heights Elementary was moved to be the new principal of Carbon High School, and Jarad Hardy from Sally Mauro Elementary was named an assistant principal at the high school as well. In their place will be Wendy Fluckey at Castle Heights, Keith Palmer at Creekview and Blake Allen who will serve at Sally Mauro. The trio have vast teaching experience, and Fluckey was an elementary principal in Nevada for the Elko County School District before she came to Carbon District to teach at Creekview two years ago.
Fluckey was born and raised in Green River. After graduating from Green River High School, she attended the College of Eastern Utah where she graduated with her Associates Degree. She continued her education with Utah State University earning her Bachelor's Degree with a teaching certificate through the University's distance-education teacher program that was available at that time. Fluckey was awarded her Masters Degree in Educational Leadership from the University of Nevada/Reno.
"I started my teaching career in 1997 in Tooele County and taught for six years. At that point my husband's job lead our family to Nevada," she stated as she sat in her office. "I continued my teaching career in Nevada and taught in the middle school setting for 4 years before going into administration."
In Nevada, she spent one year at Mountain View Elementary as the assistant principal and then became the principal, a position in which she remained for six more years. Fluckey started teaching in 1997, and has worked in education ever since, except for three years, she worked as the office manager for her husband's company in Wyoming, a time which she called a "valuable and interesting" learning experience which she enjoyed yet found that she longed to return to her true passion, education.
Her excitement and enthusiasm to join the Castle Heights community is apparent with reading on the forefront of her mind.
"My teachers teach "bell-to-bell" with a focus in Language Arts of teaching students the building blocks to "learn-to-read' then moving them forward to think about their reading so that they can "read-to-learn" in all subject areas," she stated. "Our continued focus is to provide students with effective reading instruction and time to practice reading," she said. "Reading has always been a big focus of mine. I started off teaching first and second grade, then I went to Nevada and taught 7th grade geography at the middle school. I was shocked by the number of students who were still struggling readers. I saw that we needed to solve that problem in the elementary schools because students rarely catch up. Fortunately my focus aligns with our superintendents vision. Reading is my number one priority. If you can read you can excel in any other subject."
Fluckey is excited about the programs the district has adopted which provides teachers with the training and tools needed to enhance effective instruction (and this year for the aides in her school as well). The training, along with school-wide planned instruction and interventions, are geared to meet the various needs to excel growth for all students.
Fluckey has vast knowledge and experience in working with Professional Learning Communities (PLCs). She is pleased that Carbon School District has adopted and implemented this mind-set.
"I find that incorporating the Carbon Growth Cycle is a systematic guide for educators to use in using data to set goals and track growth," she stated. "It is a powerful tool to help us provide a better education for kids. It's based on data. We use the process to develop a plan based on needs. A plan to decide where we need to go from where we currently are. We implement our plan for 60 days, then use current data to evaluate the results and adjust as needed. This 60 day cycle continues throughout the year as we strive to achieve the year-end targeted results. It is a work in progress." Palmer has spent his whole life, with the exception of two years on a mission for his church in France, and some college years, in Carbon County. He got his higher education from CEU, then Southern Utah University and finally his masters from Western Governors University. For the past eleven years he has been teaching math at Mont Harmon Middle School. "When I got here some of the kids from the school interviewed me," he said with a smile amused by the feelings of rivalry that he saw. "They found out I went to Castle Heights as a child and that my kids go to Castle Heights and they were not too impressed by that."
He said that while he has never taught at the elementary level, he looks forward to the challenge of new things and a good place to come to work every day.
"I have to say the feeling here is amazing," he stated. "And what I am finding is that the staff here has is a real desire to get better at what they do. What I am doing is letting the teachers drive what they want changed. I have worked to make changes to accommodate what they want as well. No one wants to throw a lot of what has been done away, they just want to see things be a little different. It has been refreshing."
Palmer went through the turn around project at Mont Harmon Middle School and knows about fixing things and changing cultures in a school. He says that he was intrigued by coming to a school with such a strong STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math) program because he had taught math for so many years.
"One of the things I want to do is leverage STEM toward gains in reading," he explained. "The parents and kids here like STEM but I think some of them view reading and STEM as being separate things. We can use STEM to help kids to read better and at the proper levels."
The other thing that he wants to do is make the STEM school wide projects have real life effects. He wants them to do projects that they can see through to completion and to have achieved something by their efforts.
"We are looking for a partner in the business community that will work with us on this," he said. "We know that anything the kids do may have to have some things done to it, and a real engineering firm may have to change it, but we want the students to know that they had a real effect on the outcome of a particular project."
Allen is originally from Star Valley, Wyoming. The family later moved to Sioux Fall, South Dakota and then in 2000 his mother got a job in Price and he finished high school at Carbon High. As with the other two new principals, CEU became the choice for college.
"Toward the end of my time at CEU I had no idea what I wanted to be," he said. "I thought about counseling but in the end I needed one more elective to graduate. My counselor at the time put me in Introduction of Elementary Education, and I fell in love."
He attended Utah Valley University and finished the education program there. Then of all places, he ended up doing his student teaching at Sally Mauro.
"A couple of weeks into my student teaching they came to me and told me there was a job coming up at the school, so I applied for it and soon I was teaching first grade," he explained.
He said after a year, however, he decided to "start chasing money" and being a school teacher didn't lead in that direction. He went to work for Joy Machinery and worked on mining equipment.
"I did that for five years and then I went to a back to school night one evening with my boy at Castle Heights and I knew right then I needed to get back into education," he stated. "I just missed the kids and the everyday interaction with them. I can't explain it, but I knew that is where I belonged."
He got back in by volunteering at the school and then one day they offered him a job because one of the instructors had a medical situation and could not finish out the year. At that point he became a long term substitute because he had let his teaching license lapse. The next year he was hired as a fifth grade teacher. He knew too that he eventually wanted to be a principal so he began a masters/administrative program at Southern Utah University. He just completed that degree in May of this year.
"It's just crazy the way things work out," he said. "I am super excited to be here. The growth that has happened here with Jarad as principal was great and I am looking forward to continuing that. Helper is such a great community to work with and the staff is wonderful."
Again, as with the others, he said the big push with the reading is important. He said the growth in that area in the district has been "amazing" and for him it was personally rewarding as well.
"I had a student (in fifth grade at Castle Heights) last year that was reading at a second grade level when we started school and by the end of the year he was at a fifth grade level," he said. "It was an effort for all the students and everyone on staff bought into it. It was just proof to me that once a group of teachers put their mind to it, they can reach the goal they have set for themselves and for their students."
All three new principals expressed how lucky they feel to have the opportunity that has been given to them and they also said how supported they feel by the administration in the district and the way programs are being administered.
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Carl NIELSEN (1865-1931)
Symphony No.1 in G minor Op.7
Violin Concerto Op.33
Henrik Hannisdal (violin)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Ari Rasilainen, conductor (Symphony)
Terje Mikkelsen, conductor (Violin Concerto)
Recorded at NRK Broadcasting Hall, Oslo in June and October 1996
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The timing of writing one�s first symphony has been crucial in the lives of many a composer, and generally those who left it as late as possible have fared better with their first essay in the genre; at least as a rule of thumb they have often reached their so-called mature style by the time they write it. Nor is it only a matter of age. Brahms, Mahler and Sibelius come to mind as examples of their first and last symphonies not being a million miles apart; Beethoven, Schubert and Bruckner where they certainly are not. Charles Ives, Schoenberg, Webern and Stravinsky all have early works stylistically a vast distance from what they then wrote immediately thereafter, and Carl Nielsen is a bit like them. His first symphony is very Brahmsian. He even took the opportunity to show it to the master when in Vienna in the mid-1890s and received a very encouraging response. Nielsen was 27 when his symphony appeared, no longer a student but an experienced orchestral player, significantly under the composer/conductor Johan Svendsen, whose two symphonies have also just appeared on the Teldec Apex label (0927 40621 2) with the same performers (see my current review). The Norwegian Svendsen was in Copenhagen at the time in charge of the Royal Chapel Orchestra, and it was he who conducted the premiere of the first symphony in March 1894 with its composer playing among the second violins.
By the time he came to write his Violin Concerto in 1911, his style had considerably matured (it was at the time of the third of his six symphonies). His place in Danish music had been established by now, much as Grieg�s had been in Norway and Sibelius�s in Finland, but his reputation was also beginning to spread abroad. Nielsen wrote three concertos, the others being one for the flute in 1926 and for the clarinet in 1928. Nielsen�s indebtedness to Grieg, who had just died in 1907, was underlined when he visited Nina Grieg, the composer�s widow at Troldhaugen in Bergen and began writing the violin concerto in the cabin where her husband produced his music. It was first played by Peder Möller but later taken up by the Hungarian Emil Telmányi, whose greater reputation did much for the work. Nielsen was less taken with producing a note-spinning work of virtuosity, �I am not terribly interested in vacuous scale passages�, nor a highly dramatic one as Sibelius had done (both men were players of the instrument), but rather one of a more laid-back, pastoral character.
Ari Rasilainen, conducting the Norwegian Radio Orchestra gives the symphony not only a good sense of pace but also draws out the kaleidoscopic moods of the first movement, to which Nielsen gives the curious tempo indication Allegro orgoglioso, not as one might at first sight assume to be an �orgiastic Allegro� but a �proud� one. Actually it is the second movement Andante which seems to be more inclined to such a mood with its dignified beauty, especially in the finely taken horn solo after the climax. The third movement is gentler than an expected scherzo (he could have learned a thing or two from Svendsen in this regard), while the finale has plenty of dramatic fire which Rasilainen exploits fully from his responsive orchestra.
The Violin Concerto shows just how much Nielsen�s harmonic language had advanced in the twenty years separating it from the first symphony, the opening slow Prelude is hardly recognisable as the same composer. Henrik Hannisdal�s playing is sweet-toned especially in the higher positions on the E string, bringing a Bruch like quality to the music, and in the more virtuosic passages rather surprisingly evokes Mediterranean tone colours. Just before the Allegro cavalleresco breaks out (another quirky tempo indication meaning �knightly� or �noble�), there is a repetitive motif rhythmically reminiscent of Elgar�s Enigma theme - now there�s a thought. Hannisdal always plays within himself, but there are some moments of suspect intonation in the tricky cadenza. He�s at his best in the charming finale.
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Janice Hoppe-Spiers
CDH Partners
CDH Partners plans to continue designing spaces that meet clients' needs and stay forward-thinking over the next 40 years.
By Janice Hoppe-Spiers
CDH Partners takes a client-centered approach to designing spaces that make a difference. Every church, school and hospital the firm designs embodies the vision of the client to suit the needs of the congregation, students and parents or the community as a whole.
"Something that differentiates us from some of the firms that have a national presence in some categories, and this is not to knock them, but people can look at their buildings and say this was designed by firm XYZ," Principal Mary Lindeman says. "They have a style you visually recognize. We intentionally don't go into a project to create a CDH style. We have fewer egos and go into it wanting to take the vision of our client. We go in and don't leave our footsteps behind because it's their building and their success."
The Marietta, Ga.-based firm was founded in 1977 and named after its three founding partners, Bill Chegwidden, Don Dorsey and Chuck Holmes. The company was incorporated in 1993 as CDH Partners Inc. and is a nationally recognized design firm consisting of a professional team of architects, interior designers, engineers and specialists.
"We have always been a firm that prides itself on having a personal relationship with clients, helping them imagine more for their facilities, overcome issues, solve problems and achieve their goals," Associate Principal Danny Mackey says. "We treat every client like they are the only one we have."
Lindeman is one of six principals at the firm, which includes a team of 61 professionals total. CDH specializes in hospitals, outpatient facilities, long-term care, places of worship, education and research buildings, and corporate office projects.
Healthcare, which includes long-term care and assisted living, makes up about 60 percent of CDH's business. Education and worship facilities make up the remaining 40 percent.
CDH has made a name for itself in Georgia by listening to what its clients want and taking a personable approach to every project. "We don't come in with a set solution," Mackey says. "We take the time to talk about the church or hospital and find out what their goals and objectives are, and what their perceived needs may be.
"We take that information, look at all the data and come up with solutions that may or may not have been what they thought was their primary solution to begin with," he continues. "We try to assimilate the data we have based on the needs the client has and come up with a solution that maybe a little more outside the box than what they had planned."
Healthcare with a View
CDH designed the new Mountain Lakes Medical Center in Clayton, Ga., a 56,000-square-foot, 25-bed critical access replacement hospital that includes outpatient and emergency services. "We developed relationships with InMed Group, the owner of the project, and we have talked back and forth about the project for years," Mackey says. "It took three years to get it off the drawing boards and actually get it completed this past summer."
The mountainous region provides the perfect landscape for the facility and CDH took every opportunity to accentuate that, Mackey says. "This piece of property is on the hillside, so you can see it if you are driving north," he adds. "The campus features a boardwalk that stretches from front to back that's open air. It serves as a plaza and vista lookout for visitors, and all patient rooms have floor-to-ceiling glass walls to accentuate the views. There is a lot of glass used to take advantage of the scenery."
CDH's biggest challenge on the Mountain Lakes Medical Center project was the site work and providing for future expandability. InMed has proposed adding a freestanding or attached nursing home and because of its location in the hillside, CDH had to ensure the site would allow for future growth.
Cook Medical Center (CMC) in Adel, Ga., is also a replacement hospital CDH is designing. CMC will have eight-inpatient med surg beds that will also feature an ambulatory surgical center with three operating rooms and a GI/Bronch endoscopy suite. The center will also include a 12-bed geriatric/psychiatric unit, and the Cook Senior Living Center, a 95-bed nursing home facility.
CMC will have outpatient ancillary services including medical imaging, laboratory, respiratory therapy, pharmacy, behavioral health services and physical, occupational and speech therapy. Cook Family Wellness Center and Cook Primary Care will also relocate to the new facility.
TIFT Regional Health System owns CMC and has worked hard to replace the facility to be a positive addition to the community, Lindeman says. "The state of rural healthcare anywhere in America, but especially in southern Georgia has been an area of concern," she notes. "We are excited to see how this approach to rural healthcare can be a positive influence. Hopefully, [it will be] a successful model for healthcare in rural communities to bring healthcare closer to the areas that are underserved and to those who don't have access close to home."
CDH is about 50 percent completed with the design and expects construction to begin in late spring. "All material choices are made based on making sure we have smooth transitions and durable flooring to ensure we are making the safest holistic and healing environment," Lindeman says. "All of that heavily influences how we design the environment for the patients and staff."
Eye for Design
CDH has seen an increase in clients requesting it repurpose existing buildings. "Especially when the economy wasn't doing quite well, this was prevalent a few years back," Mackey says. "It depends on the location, available property in the area and how well the building could meet their needs. We have done a number of assessments on these types of building and if it looks to be a viable option to repurpose for whatever they want to put in there we will do it."
For example, CDH repurposed a former motorcycle shop in Dawsonville, Ga., that featured a mezzanine into a medical office and urgent care center. "We had challenges with this structure, but it turned out very well and to see the transition from one type of building to another use is pretty amazing," Mackey notes. "We are quite adept at repurposing existing facilities and converting them into a new use."
In addition to repurposing and designing facilities like Mountain Lakes Medical Center and CMC, which Lindeman says are on the smaller side, CDH has also taken on larger replacement hospital projects like the WellStar Paulding Hospital Replacement Campus, which completed construction in 2014 and the last phase of buildouts this past summer. "Our approach is completely different than doing a small, rural hospital like CMC," she adds. "It's an integrated process with the contractor and a BIM-coordinated effort where it was modeled and completely built electronically. All the trades built everything out in their warehouses and brought it together like a 3-D jigsaw puzzle. It was an incredible thing to watch, coordinate and see come together."
Whether large or small projects, CDH says creating physical mockups can be invaluable. "We have done virtual mockups using the CAD programs, but we have actually mocked up patient rooms and work stations so the client can touch, feel and place elements and devices in the room to work best for their needs so we can make changes prior to constructing it," Mackey says.
"We have done cardboard mockups to actual full-scale mockups using real material and equipment," he continues. "We found that being able to convey a design to a client who doesn't have construction experience helps translate the design to what it would actually become in reality."
Empowering the Youth
CDH rebranded last year when it celebrated its 40th anniversary. "We changed our logo slightly to be more forward-thinking," Mackey explains. "Our tagline is, 'Imagine More.' We want to be in business another 40 years at least and to do so we need the next generation coming out of school and taking advantage of their knowledge in technology and the latest trends in materials and techniques."
The company mentors its newcomers to allow them to understand the more practical aspects of architecture and real world techniques. "We empower them to step up and take leadership roles with some of the senior leadership or principals to take more active roles and not only get to sit at a desk," Lindeman says. "We collaborate and put them in more engaging roles so they can participate in how we want to approach our design or do cross-pollination between studios.
"We are synergizing and engaging internally with the staff so they get taken to meetings, site visits and are engaged early and active rather than sitting at a desk," she continues. "The younger team members react positively to this and we are starting to see them grow very quickly because they enjoy having early engagement and involvement."
CDH prides itself on having a family atmosphere where the principals and owners are approachable. "We look after one another and have each other's backs," Mackey says. "There are no predetermined egos that we have over others that prevent us from accomplishing the project as we see to be best fit. We are continually improving the firm and encourage all age participation in a group that we call the Nexus Group. The group meets periodically to look at firm processes and initiatives as well as team building and morale. The senior leadership addresses it by making recommendations and positive changes to help foster and create an atmosphere where people come and want to work for us."
Every other Friday, CDH holds a "wine and design" event for all employees, which gives them an opportunity to socialize and talk about projects from that week. "We have the project leader make a presentation on a project and we critique it and have fun that way," Mackey adds. "We throw out ideas that the design team may not have thought about or confirm something they have."
Moving forward, CDH plans to continue nurturing the firm's next generation of leaders while expanding its footprint. The company is looking to broaden the healthcare arm of the firm into Florida and Alabama, and eventually nationwide. "We work out of a single office here in Marietta, but our church work has grown nationwide into Ohio, Iowa, Illinois, Florida and places out west," Mackey notes. "We are trying to do the same thing with our healthcare ion sectors."
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Q: How to solve complex equation, all values? $(-81)^{1/4}$
The answer, I got was -3,3..but when I input it in the webwork, it does not work.
What is the method to solve this?

A: I'll assume you mean that you want to find all complex fourth roots of $-81$--that is, all $z\in\Bbb C$ such that $z^4=-81$, or all complex roots of the polynomial $z^4+81$.
Before we do that, there are a few important observations. It's a fourth-degree polynomial, so there are at most $4$ complex roots. If there's some $\zeta$ such that $\zeta^4=1$ (a fourth root of unity), and $z^4+81=0$, then $(z\zeta)^4+81=z^4\zeta^4+81=z^4+81=0$. Thus, noting that the solutions to $\zeta^4=1$ are $1,i,-1,-i$ (or $i^k$ for $k=0,1,2,3$)--then we need only find some $z$ such that $z^4+81=0$, and at least (and so exactly) four solutions will be $zi^k$ ($k=0,1,2,3$).
Our job will be easier if we write in polar form $z=r(\cos\theta+i\sin\theta)$. DeMoivre's formula gives us $-81=z^4=r^4(\cos 4\theta+i\sin 4\theta)$. Taking the modulus of both sides yields $81=r^4\sqrt{\cos^24\theta+\sin^24\theta}=r^4,$ so we'll need $r=3$. We'll need $\sin 4\theta=0$, too, so $4\theta$ is an integer multiple of $\pi$. We may as well take $4\theta=\pi$, so that $z=3(\cos\frac{\pi}4+i\sin\frac{\pi}4)=\frac{3\sqrt{2}}2+i\frac{3\sqrt{2}}2.$
Thus, our solutions will be $\frac{3\sqrt{2}}2\pm i\frac{3\sqrt{2}}2$ and $-\frac{3\sqrt{2}}2\pm i\frac{3\sqrt{2}}2$.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. jobs report for March delivered a mixed message Friday as hiring fell to its weakest pace in nearly a year. Yet at the same time, the unemployment rate reached the lowest level in nearly a decade.
Employers added just 98,000 jobs, the Labor Department said. That was barely half the previous month's gain and a potential sign of weakening growth. Yet economists largely downplayed the drop, attributing much of it to a snowstorm that hit the Midwest and Northeast just as the government was compiling its hiring data.
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