Sometimes a blend of textures jump out at me that I'm just dying to emulate. Like this one, for example. It's just stellar! A somber, bold and impactful grouping of emerging Eucomis surrounded by an airy cloud of Capsella bursa pastoris – or Shepherd's Purse – which is quite the persistent little weed. Isn't it fabulous? Now the trouble is of course to find something that's not so weedy to replace the weeds with, that will still provide the same airy texture. Baby's breath is too tall. Maybe some kind of Saxifraga? Ideas, anyone?
Same here, in this one. Maybe it was just how the light was falling, but good dog – this Vetch winding its way through the grass, displaying its opened, blackened seed pods as pointed points of interest across the linear structure of the grass… well, I just thought it was glorious! I have yet to think of an even remotely possible replacement for that vetch. You think Sweet peas would work? The problem is that flowers don't really give me that angular, sexily, almost reptilian patterned goodness – all I would get is the winding habit. Maybe if I waited until they were spent Sweet peas…? After all, they are both legumes.
Anyway, you would be absolutely forgiven if you think I'm a little crazy. I am. And I get my inspiration from the most mundane things – like weeds. What inspires YOU to garden the way YOU do?
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It's the surrounding coutryside that inpires me Anna, I have lots of wild flowers in the garden, deliberately, and also their cultivated relatives. Living in the countryside, I hope the garden then blends almost seamlessly into the neighbouring fields.
That sounds wonderful, Pauline! I wish I lived in the country too… fell pretty done with city life. I grew up in a very small town. I feel ready to return to that, or even better – right outside of it.
Well, I have enough weeds to be inspired. Today's amazing surprise was a thick yellow coat of pollen on EVERYTHING. Wow. Pollen power!
Wow! What did the pollen come from – do you know?
Oak. It will be my next post.
Ok, I'll check it out. Glad my husband isn't there – he would be constantly sneezing!
Right now I'm getting my inspiration from the need to simplify — mostly simplify the amount of work. That's the darkest Eucomis I've ever seen, it's really beautiful. Although even if I could find one that dark, it wouldn't come back in my garden with any vigor, they just seem to peter out here. I love the contrast of the seedpods too. Isn't there a grass similar to Bouteloua, but with dark horizontal inflorescences? Something like that might work.
Do you know the name of the grass you're thinking of? The regular species Bouteloua is a bit darker… There is also a grass called Carex pendula I really like. Not perpendicular to the stalk, but very droopy and elegant.
Whoa – that's FANTASTIC, Alison! I've never seen that before. That's VERY cool – thank you for that!
I find garden inspiration everywhere, as I imagine you do too.
Yeah, in the most unexpected of places… which I love. You just never know where the next big idea is going to come from.
The texture of the Capsella reminds me of the foliage of Lotus berthelotii, which I use as a groundcover. In my climate the Lotus is very aggressive and would climb up and over the Eucomis if you didn't manage it but then, in your climate, I suspect the Lotus wouldn't be quite as exuberant.
Those Vetch seed pods reminds me of Baptisia australis.
Ooh, that sounds like a good one, too! That fluffy texture is just great! It was SOOO nice to see you yesterday, Rickii!
My gardens are just a few miles apart, but may as well be on different planets. In the Santa Clara Valley, the garden is sunny, fertile and flat! It is ideal for growing any of the stone fruit trees, as well as pomme fruits. In the Santa Cruz Mountains, the garden is shady and steep. I must do my gardening around the redwoods. There is less usable space in ten acres than there is in a small city lot in town.
Wow, I can only imagine gardening around redwoods… It must be absolutely otherworldly! How on earth do you have time for both???
Well, it part of it is my job. I do not work the steep home garden up the road now, but I do work a garden at work, and will be working it more in May.


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Did Western Digital Corp. Overpay for SanDisk Corporation?
Is SanDisk really worth $19 billion?
Western Digital (NASDAQ:WDC) recently agreed to acquire SanDisk (UNKNOWN:SNDK.DL) for $19 billion, or $86.50 per share. WD controlled 43% of the market for traditional hard disk drives (HDDs) last year. However, WD only has a small market share in solid-state drives (SSDs), which are smaller, faster, and don't have damage-prone moving parts. Despite their higher cost, SSDs have displaced HDDs in higher-end tablets and PCs over the past few years.
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Did Western Digital pay too much?
WD's offer of $86.50 per share values SanDisk at nearly 35 times trailing earnings, compared to the industry average P/E of 15 for the data storage industry. Therefore, investors might be wondering why WD didn't wait for SanDisk's price to drop further.
There are three explanations for WD's timing. First, it wanted to take on $18.4 billion in debt when interest rates were low. A potential hike later this year could cost WD hundreds of millions in extra interest payments. Second, SanDisk shares have been rebounding since September, thanks to several analyst upgrades that championed SanDisk's growth potential in the enterprise SSD market. Lastly, SanDisk's $1.1 billion acquisition of Fusion-io just started to become earnings accretive. If Western Digital waited longer, it could end up paying higher interest rates on an even higher total price tag.
By merging its manufacturing operations with SanDisk, WD can take advantage of economies of scale and manufacture more SSDs and memory chips at lower prices. This would help it compete more effectively against Samsung. This strategy also complements WD's acquisition of Hitachi GST, which boosted its HDD market share against industry rival Seagate (NASDAQ:STX).
It might take a while for Western Digital to fully integrate SanDisk's business, but after that integration concludes, Seagate could be in trouble. Seagate bought Samsung's HDD unit four years ago to counter WD's purchase of HGST, but its only defense against WD's acquisition of SanDisk is a multi-year NAND supply alliance with Micron.
WD needed to buy SanDisk to boost its lead over Seagate and improve the balance between SSDs and HDDs in its portfolio. The price tag might seem high, but considering the favorable interest rate environment and SanDisk's potential rebound, I believe Western Digital made the right move.


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June the 3rd was the day I finished planting all of my seeds! My garden is now done and it's all up to the weather now.
This is "Green bean, yellow bean and cucumber land"; and I planted more cilantro since we are nearly finished the one pot I started in April, it goes fast!
This area will be the Moon Garden. It's fenced really well because Morning Glories are toxic to animals and we have curious pups. I colour-coded the labels, the blue labels are for the Moon Garden; and the pink ones will eventually be up on the porch, various pretty flowers to see and smell. :) I'm very excited about the Moon Garden, I've never done something like that before and I chose flowers that would look nice during the day and Moonflower that blooms at night. I also chose Blue Fescue ornamental grass because it shines silver at night too. I would love to find time to add some fairy garden elements to this area too!
Now that everything is planted and safe from the critters, I can kind of take a bit of a break, at least from planting! :) Yesterday was mowing and weed-whacking day. Today it's supposed to pour rain again, so the neglected housework should will finally get done!
For dinner on Saturday, I made a Cobb Salad with Worcestershire and Dijon Vinaigrette from my "Salad" cookbook that Alex got me last week. I made the salad and he made the dressing. The entire meal was delicious and we enjoyed our homegrown greens so much! I have to make sure we always have a steady supply of lettuce going because we do eat a lot of it now.
This is my plate minus the eggs which I can't handle too often anymore! The original recipe called for watercress which I didn't have; and avocado which would put us both in the hospital so they were omitted. The recipe calls for a Blue cheese and I also added some goat cheese. It was so good and satisfying!
my lettuce is very slow to grow this year. it's so great to be able to just walk outside and harvest stuff. we've been hot but finally we are getting some cool weather so i am very happy! rain here today!
How rewarding to have your own first harvests . . . all from your own hard work and planning! My salad greens are getting there but still too small to harvest. We had an inch of rain yesterday and now much sun today so that should give everything a boost.
Lettuce should grow good in your climate, you might be able to plant some in the ground along a fence out of the way. Looking good.
yummeh - that salad looks delicious - and anything with bacon is a friend of mine! i am very happy that you are harvesting your own food - sooo good for you!
Hi Joyce :) I can't wait for the rest of the harvest...I hope my winter garden will be just as successful!
Thanks Dawn :) I really can't wait to see the Moon Garden develop too!
Wow, look how wonderful your lettuce greens are! Delicious too, I bet.
I remember picking my own lettuce for the first time many years ago ... garden lettuce is sooo good. I just saw mine peaking through the ground today and am very exited :) your garden looks already wonderful and will be even more when everything is green and blooming. I am almost done. I still need to move some more cow poop ... plant some squash and my beans and peas. Will take some pics tomorrow :) bravo sis, I am proud of all your work and how awesome it turned out ... now to your garden ... happy growing !!!
It's been raining here quite a bit so I still have things to plant and I have almost used up my flat leaf parsley...I should plant more of that. I only have one of that and one of cilantro. I love your weather proof signs...you're genius! Plus, the fact that you put the planting date on them...genius! The Cobb Salad looks delish!
Thanks Nik :)) The lettuce was the most delicious I've ever tasted, lol...at least because it was mine!!! I'm looking forward to having a real in the ground garden in the future so I can plant more things too.
We've had so much rain there I'm pretty certain every thing I planted is just going to rot. Last year it was the drought, this year too much water.
Look at that!!!! YAY for you!!!!!!! That plate looks delicious!
Hiya! We love Cobb salad....very filling and good for a summer dinner.
All your hard work that you've done is going to make your garden just shine! I can't wait to see the Moon Garden. I had one years and years ago and it was so pretty in the moonlight. Loved it! Lettuce is so nice when you grow it yourself and the taste is second to none!
If you have rabbits around your parts watch them around the fescue. Rabbits think fescue is what chocolate is to humans. Delicious. I had so lovingly planted a bunch of fescue plants in my one main garden, by the weekend they were all shorn down. And they did not come back. Darn rabbits!! So now my main flower garden is mostly shrubs and flowers they do not eat - but will still try. Because they are rabbits.
I hope the start of summer has finally found you. We have been anywhere between 22 and 30. Crazy heat and humidity already and its only June. I shudder to think what July and August will bring.
I am so glad that you plannted all of your seeds and I am pretty much sure that all will grow gloriously front of your eyes and give you true happiness and sense of achievement as gardening is soul building process that what I believe. Your salad and harvesting looks just delightful to me and as I used to harvest parsley and some others vegetables form my mom's and then later from my own garden I can imagine well you excitement!
Hi Harry :)) We've had a lot of rain too, way more than usual, but I covered all of my newly planted seeds with poly tarp, I was so paranoid. I didn't want my first garden to be a flop. There has been sun the last few days, so fingers crossed that'll get the seeds to germinate!!
Thanks 1st Man! :) It's so delicious! We're having more tonight with spinach from the garden too. Wonderful to harvest from your own garden isn't it? :) I still have a lot of catching up to reach your harvest though!!
Hi Dianna! :)) Thank you! :) I love how things are turning out and I'm proud of my hard work. I think we have radishes ready to be picked tonight! And more lettuce and spinach too. It's wonderful. Oh thanks for the tip on the wabbits :) We LOVE fescue...I'll have to keep an eye out because I certainly don't want to attract them. Mind you right now everything has chicken wire, but once the fescue is growing, the chicken wire will come off. It's times like this I'd love to have a really expensive trail cam!!! Oh yes, summer arrived! I'm on the porch in my bathing suit right now! :) Humidity, I can take or leave right now though!
Beautiful! And how amazing how much our salads look alike. Love that you put Worcestershire sauce in the dressing, brilliant! I will probably do that next time.
Hi Suzie :) I was trying really hard to make it look like a real Cobb! :) The Worcestershire sauce is fantastic in the dressing.


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The M23 is a motorway in the United Kingdom, running from the south of Hooley in Surrey, where it splits from the A23, to Pease Pottage, south of Crawley in West Sussex where it rejoins the A23. The northern end of the motorway starts on what is effectively a 2-mile (3.2 km) spur north of junction 7 of the M25 motorway (junction 8 on the M23). From Hooley it runs for 17 miles (27 km) past Redhill, Gatwick Airport and Crawley. A spur runs from junction 9 to Gatwick Airport.
The motorway was constructed between 1972 and 1975, at the same time as the southern section of the M25 from Godstone to Reigate (M25 junctions 6 to 8).[1] The current northern terminus at junction 7 uses the original sliproads to meet the A23 and a flyover above the junction built for the onward northern continuation remains unused.[2]
Junction 9, looking north
The cancellation of the unbuilt northern section from the M25 in towards Central London has resulted in the A23 carrying the majority of traffic through South London to the motorway. This is largely a single carriageway route, with many level junctions, traffic lights and awkward interchanges. It travels largely through residential areas and is inadequate for the level of traffic it carries.
A new junction (J10a) was opened in 1997,[3] between J10 and J11, for access to the new Crawley neighbourhood of Maidenbower.[4] It was financed as part of the development of Maidenbower by the construction consortium. It has only a northbound slip road, no southbound access.
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Unfinished junction 7 at Hooley
Stack interchange at Junction 8 with the M25 near Merstham
The M23 was planned to relieve congestion on the A23 through Streatham, Thornton Heath, Purley and Coulsdon in south London and was originally intended to terminate in Streatham Vale at a junction with the controversial London Ringways Plan's Ringway 2 (the intended replacement of the South Circular Road (A205)).[5]
In an earlier version of the Ringways Plan it would have continued into central London where it would have met the Balham Loop spur from Ringway 1 (the London Motorway Box) at Tooting.[6] This was dropped in 1967 when the northern terminus was changed to Ringway 2. While a definite route had not been chosen at that time for the northern section, approval was met for the route south of the Greater London boundary at Hooley.[7]
By 1972 the southern section of Ringway 2 had been dropped from the plan,[8] with an alternative proposal that the M23 continue further into London to end on Ringway 1. This was immediately countered in the same year by the GLC, who announced they would not be building that Ringway,[7] which meant that had the M23 continued north into inner London it would not have had the motorway required at its northern end to distribute traffic to the east and west. The M23 plan was gradually scaled back further to omit the section across Mitcham Common and end the motorway at an unsuitable location on Croydon Road (A232)[7] before the plan was postponed indefinitely. By the late 1970s, the area along the proposed line of the motorway had become affected by blight,[9] and while the proposals were finally dropped in the mid-1980s, much of the land reserved for the route was not released by the Department for Transport until the mid-1990s.
The missing section of motorway and the missing six junctions north of Hooley were not constructed due to the refusal of the GLC to finance the project, having encountered large scale opposition to the construction of Ringways elsewhere in London.[7] However, the scale of the four-tier junction between the M23 and the M25, one of only three stack interchanges in the UK, is indicative of the importance attached to the M23 at that time.
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Gatwick Airport is near the M23
Between July 2018 and July 2020 works took place to upgrade the M23 between J8 & J10 to an all-lane-running motorway. The upgrades took place mostly for more reliable journeys to Gatwick Airport and increase the overall capacity of the route. The upgrades include an all-lane-running motorway, 12 new emergency areas, a new concrete central barrier replacing the current steel one, new roadside sound barriers, variable speed limits and two new emergency access slip roads. Changes were also implemented on the M23 J9 Spur, with the hard shoulder west bound converted to a running lane, and static 50 mph speed limits implemented in both directions.[10]
In January 2020 all Smart Motorway Projects were put under review due to concerns about their safety, during this period no new Smart Motorways could open. The review was published on 12 March 2020 and required no immediate amendments to the design or construction, however new technology to detect static vehicles is required to be fitted within 3 years, and a review on spacing of Emergency Refuge Areas was to be carried out.[11]
The fourth lane was opened to traffic on 2 April 2020, however with a temporary 50 mph speed limit. Works were scheduled to take place until July 2020 to finish installation of equipment, followed by testing and commissioning, before the project is completed and can run at the National Speed Limit.[12]
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Data from driver location signs are used to provide distance and carriageway identifier information.[13] Where a junction spans several hundred metres (yards) and start and end points are available, both are cited.[14]
M23 motorway junctions
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Southbound exits (A carriageway)
17.0 27.4 Road continues as A23 to Croydon
Croydon A23 J7 Crawley, Gatwick A23
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19.0 30.5 Heathrow Airport, Watford, Dartford Crossing
(M4, M1, M20, M11), M25 J8 Heathrow Airport (M4), Stansted Airport (M11) Maidstone (M20) (M3, M40, M26) M25
26.5 42.7 Gatwick Airport, Redhill A23 J9 Gatwick Airport, Redhill A23
28.5 45.8 Crawley A2011
East Grinstead A264 J10 Crawley A2011
East Grinstead A264
30.3 48.8 No exit J10a Crawley B2036
33.1 53.3 Start of motorway
Crawley A23
Pease Pottage services J11
Services Brighton, Crawley A23
Horsham A264
Pease Pottage services
Road continues as A23 to Brighton
Distances in kilometres and carriageway identifiers are obtained from driver location signs/location marker posts. Where a junction spans several hundred metres (yards) and the data is available, both the start and finish values for the junction are shown.
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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The rivalry between Brighton & Hove Albion and Crystal Palace football clubs is often referred to as the M23 Derby.
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^ "1:50 000 Landranger map". Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 18 December 2012.
^ "The M23 Motorway (Balcombe Road Interchange) Connecting Roads Scheme 1996". legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
^ "M23, Crawley". 23 February 1987. Retrieved 18 December 2012.
^ Fred Mulley (9 December 1969). "M23 Northern terminals Inquiry". Retrieved 18 December 2012.
^ "Balham Loop". Roads.org.uk. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
^ a b c d William Shelton (12 November 1974). "M23 (London)". Retrieved 18 December 2012.
^ Geoffrey Ripon (19 February 1973). "Greater London Development Plan". Retrieved 18 December 2012.
^ William Shelton (26 July 1978). "Motorway (London)". Retrieved 18 December 2012.
^ "A Highways England road project | M23 junctions 8 to 10: smart motorway". Highways England Improvements and major road projects. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
^ "Smart Motorway All Lane Running Overarching Safety Report 2019". gov.uk. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
^ "New moves in M23 'smart motorway' upgrade". midsussextimes.co.uk. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
^ Traffic England Live Traffic Condition Map Archived 10 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine Highways Agency – Locations extracted from Traffic Camera Popup identifier text
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                              RawAddr* addr,
                              SocketOpKind sync) {
  ASSERT(fd >= 0);
  socklen_t addr_len = sizeof(addr->ss);
  ssize_t read_bytes = TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY(
      recvfrom(fd, buffer, num_bytes, 0, &addr->addr, &addr_len));
  if ((sync == kAsync) && (read_bytes == -1) && (errno == EWOULDBLOCK)) {
    // If the read would block we need to retry and therefore return 0
    // as the number of bytes written.
    read_bytes = 0;
  }
  return read_bytes;
}

intptr_t SocketBase::Write(intptr_t fd,
                           const void* buffer,
                           intptr_t num_bytes,
                           SocketOpKind sync) {
  ASSERT(fd >= 0);
  ssize_t written_bytes = TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY(write(fd, buffer, num_bytes));
  ASSERT(EAGAIN == EWOULDBLOCK);
  if ((sync == kAsync) && (written_bytes == -1) && (errno == EWOULDBLOCK)) {
    // If the would block we need to retry and therefore return 0 as
    // the number of bytes written.
    written_bytes = 0;
  }
  return written_bytes;
}

intptr_t SocketBase::SendTo(intptr_t fd,
                            const void* buffer,
                            intptr_t num_bytes,
                            const RawAddr& addr,
                            SocketOpKind sync) {
  ASSERT(fd >= 0);
  ssize_t written_bytes =
      TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY(sendto(fd, buffer, num_bytes, 0, &addr.addr,
                                SocketAddress::GetAddrLength(addr)));
  ASSERT(EAGAIN == EWOULDBLOCK);
  if ((sync == kAsync) && (written_bytes == -1) && (errno == EWOULDBLOCK)) {
    // If the would block we need to retry and therefore return 0 as
    // the number of bytes written.
    written_bytes = 0;
  }
  return written_bytes;
}

intptr_t SocketBase::GetPort(intptr_t fd) {
  ASSERT(fd >= 0);
  RawAddr raw;
  socklen_t size = sizeof(raw);
  if (NO_RETRY_EXPECTED(getsockname(fd, &raw.addr, &size))) {
    return 0;
  }
  return SocketAddress::GetAddrPort(raw);
}

SocketAddress* SocketBase::GetRemotePeer(intptr_t fd, intptr_t* port) {
  ASSERT(fd >= 0);
  RawAddr raw;
  socklen_t size = sizeof(raw);
  if (NO_RETRY_EXPECTED(getpeername(fd, &raw.addr, &size))) {
    return NULL;
  }
  *port = SocketAddress::GetAddrPort(raw);
  return new SocketAddress(&raw.addr);
}

void SocketBase::GetError(intptr_t fd, OSError* os_error) {
  int errorNumber;
  socklen_t len = sizeof(errorNumber);
  getsockopt(fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_ERROR, reinterpret_cast<void*>(&errorNumber),
             &len);
  os_error->SetCodeAndMessage(OSError::kSystem, errorNumber);
}

int SocketBase::GetType(intptr_t fd) {
  struct stat buf;
  int result = fstat(fd, &buf);
  if (result == -1) {
    return -1;
  }
  if (S_ISCHR(buf.st_mode)) {
    return File::kTerminal;
  }
  if (S_ISFIFO(buf.st_mode)) {
    return File::kPipe;
  }
  if (S_ISREG(buf.st_mode)) {
    return File::kFile;
  }
  return File::kOther;
}

intptr_t SocketBase::GetStdioHandle(intptr_t num) {
  return num;
}

AddressList<SocketAddress>* SocketBase::LookupAddress(const char* host,
                                                      int type,
                                                      OSError** os_error) {
  // Perform a name lookup for a host name.
  struct addrinfo hints;
  memset(&hints, 0, sizeof(hints));
  hints.ai_family = SocketAddress::FromType(type);
  hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM;
  hints.ai_flags = AI_ADDRCONFIG;
  hints.ai_protocol = IPPROTO_TCP;
  struct addrinfo* info = NULL;
  int status = getaddrinfo(host, 0, &hints, &info);
  if (status != 0) {
    // We failed, try without AI_ADDRCONFIG. This can happen when looking up
    // e.g. '::1', when there are no IPv6 addresses.
    hints.ai_flags = 0;
    status = getaddrinfo(host, 0, &hints, &info);
    if (status != 0) {
      ASSERT(*os_error == NULL);
      *os_error =
          new OSError(status, gai_strerror(status), OSError::kGetAddressInfo);
      return NULL;
    }
  }
  intptr_t count = 0;
  for (struct addrinfo* c = info; c != NULL; c = c->ai_next) {
    if ((c->ai_family == AF_INET) || (c->ai_family == AF_INET6)) {
      count++;
    }
  }
  intptr_t i = 0;
  AddressList<SocketAddress>* addresses = new AddressList<SocketAddress>(count);
  for (struct addrinfo* c = info; c != NULL; c = c->ai_next) {
    if ((c->ai_family == AF_INET) || (c->ai_family == AF_INET6)) {
      addresses->SetAt(i, new SocketAddress(c->ai_addr));
      i++;
    }
  }
  freeaddrinfo(info);
  return addresses;
}

bool SocketBase::ReverseLookup(const RawAddr& addr,
                               char* host,
                               intptr_t host_len,
                               OSError** os_error) {
  ASSERT(host_len >= NI_MAXHOST);
  int status = NO_RETRY_EXPECTED(
      getnameinfo(&addr.addr, SocketAddress::GetAddrLength(addr), host,
                  host_len, NULL, 0, NI_NAMEREQD));
  if (status != 0) {
    ASSERT(*os_error == NULL);
    *os_error =
        new OSError(status, gai_strerror(status), OSError::kGetAddressInfo);
    return false;
  }
  return true;
}

bool SocketBase::ParseAddress(int type, const char* address, RawAddr* addr) {
  int result;
  if (type == SocketAddress::TYPE_IPV4) {
    result = inet_pton(AF_INET, address, &addr->in.sin_addr);
  } else {
    ASSERT(type == SocketAddress::TYPE_IPV6);
    result = inet_pton(AF_INET6, address, &addr->in6.sin6_addr);
  }
  return (result == 1);
}

static bool ShouldIncludeIfaAddrs(struct ifaddrs* ifa, int lookup_family) {
  if (ifa->ifa_addr == NULL) {
    // OpenVPN's virtual device tun0.
    return false;
  }
  int family = ifa->ifa_addr->sa_family;
  return ((lookup_family == family) ||
          (((lookup_family == AF_UNSPEC) &&
            ((family == AF_INET) || (family == AF_INET6)))));
}

bool SocketBase::ListInterfacesSupported() {
  return true;
}

AddressList<InterfaceSocketAddress>* SocketBase::ListInterfaces(
    int type,
    OSError** os_error) {
  struct ifaddrs* ifaddr;

  int status = NO_RETRY_EXPECTED(getifaddrs(&ifaddr));
  if (status != 0) {
    ASSERT(*os_error == NULL);
    *os_error =
        new OSError(status, gai_strerror(status), OSError::kGetAddressInfo);
    return NULL;
  }

  int lookup_family = SocketAddress::FromType(type);

  intptr_t count = 0;
  for (struct ifaddrs* ifa = ifaddr; ifa != NULL; ifa = ifa->ifa_next) {
    if (ShouldIncludeIfaAddrs(ifa, lookup_family)) {
      count++;
    }
  }

  AddressList<InterfaceSocketAddress>* addresses =
      new AddressList<InterfaceSocketAddress>(count);
  int i = 0;
  for (struct ifaddrs* ifa = ifaddr; ifa != NULL; ifa = ifa->ifa_next) {
    if (ShouldIncludeIfaAddrs(ifa, lookup_family)) {
      char* ifa_name = DartUtils::ScopedCopyCString(ifa->ifa_name);
      addresses->SetAt(
          i, new InterfaceSocketAddress(ifa->ifa_addr, ifa_name,
                                        if_nametoindex(ifa->ifa_name)));
      i++;
    }
  }
  freeifaddrs(ifaddr);
  return addresses;
}

void SocketBase::Close(intptr_t fd) {
  ASSERT(fd >= 0);
  close(fd);
}

bool SocketBase::GetNoDelay(intptr_t fd, bool* enabled) {
  int on;
  socklen_t len = sizeof(on);
  int err = NO_RETRY_EXPECTED(getsockopt(fd, IPPROTO_TCP, TCP_NODELAY,
                                         reinterpret_cast<void*>(&on), &len));
  if (err == 0) {
    *enabled = (on == 1);
  }
  return (err == 0);
}

bool SocketBase::SetNoDelay(intptr_t fd, bool enabled) {
  int on = enabled ? 1 : 0;
  return NO_RETRY_EXPECTED(setsockopt(fd, IPPROTO_TCP, TCP_NODELAY,
                                      reinterpret_cast<char*>(&on),
                                      sizeof(on))) == 0;
}

bool SocketBase::GetMulticastLoop(intptr_t fd,
                                  intptr_t protocol,
                                  bool* enabled) {
  uint8_t on;
  socklen_t len = sizeof(on);
  int level = protocol == SocketAddress::TYPE_IPV4 ? IPPROTO_IP : IPPROTO_IPV6;
  int optname = protocol == SocketAddress::TYPE_IPV4 ? IP_MULTICAST_LOOP
                                                     : IPV6_MULTICAST_LOOP;
  if (NO_RETRY_EXPECTED(getsockopt(fd, level, optname,
                                   reinterpret_cast<char*>(&on), &len)) == 0) {
    *enabled = (on == 1);
    return true;
  }
  return false;
}

bool SocketBase::SetMulticastLoop(intptr_t fd,
                                  intptr_t protocol,
                                  bool enabled) {
  int on = enabled ? 1 : 0;
  int level = protocol == SocketAddress::TYPE_IPV4 ? IPPROTO_IP : IPPROTO_IPV6;
  int optname = protocol == SocketAddress::TYPE_IPV4 ? IP_MULTICAST_LOOP
                                                     : IPV6_MULTICAST_LOOP;
  return NO_RETRY_EXPECTED(setsockopt(
             fd, level, optname, reinterpret_cast<char*>(&on), sizeof(on))) ==
         0;
}

bool SocketBase::GetMulticastHops(intptr_t fd, intptr_t protocol, int* value) {
  uint8_t v;
  socklen_t len = sizeof(v);
  int level = protocol == SocketAddress::TYPE_IPV4 ? IPPROTO_IP : IPPROTO_IPV6;
  int optname = protocol == SocketAddress::TYPE_IPV4 ? IP_MULTICAST_TTL
                                                     : IPV6_MULTICAST_HOPS;
  if (NO_RETRY_EXPECTED(getsockopt(fd, level, optname,
                                   reinterpret_cast<char*>(&v), &len)) == 0) {
    *value = v;
    return true;
  }
  return false;
}

bool SocketBase::SetMulticastHops(intptr_t fd, intptr_t protocol, int value) {
  int v = value;
  int level = protocol == SocketAddress::TYPE_IPV4 ? IPPROTO_IP : IPPROTO_IPV6;
  int optname = protocol == SocketAddress::TYPE_IPV4 ? IP_MULTICAST_TTL
                                                     : IPV6_MULTICAST_HOPS;
  return NO_RETRY_EXPECTED(setsockopt(
             fd, level, optname, reinterpret_cast<char*>(&v), sizeof(v))) == 0;
}

bool SocketBase::GetBroadcast(intptr_t fd, bool* enabled) {
  int on;
  socklen_t len = sizeof(on);
  int err = NO_RETRY_EXPECTED(getsockopt(fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_BROADCAST,
                                         reinterpret_cast<char*>(&on), &len));
  if (err == 0) {
    *enabled = (on == 1);
  }
  return (err == 0);
}

bool SocketBase::SetBroadcast(intptr_t fd, bool enabled) {
  int on = enabled ? 1 : 0;
  return NO_RETRY_EXPECTED(setsockopt(fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_BROADCAST,
                                      reinterpret_cast<char*>(&on),
                                      sizeof(on))) == 0;
}

bool SocketBase::SetOption(intptr_t fd,
                           int level,
                           int option,
                           const char* data,
                           int length) {
  return NO_RETRY_EXPECTED(setsockopt(fd, level, option, data, length)) == 0;
}

bool SocketBase::GetOption(intptr_t fd,
                           int level,
                           int option,
                           char* data,
                           unsigned int* length) {
  socklen_t optlen = static_cast<socklen_t>(*length);
  auto result = NO_RETRY_EXPECTED(getsockopt(fd, level, option, data, &optlen));
  *length = static_cast<unsigned int>(optlen);
  return result == 0;
}

bool SocketBase::JoinMulticast(intptr_t fd,
                               const RawAddr& addr,
                               const RawAddr&,
                               int interfaceIndex) {
  int proto = (addr.addr.sa_family == AF_INET) ? IPPROTO_IP : IPPROTO_IPV6;
  struct group_req mreq;
  mreq.gr_interface = interfaceIndex;
  memmove(&mreq.gr_group, &addr.ss, SocketAddress::GetAddrLength(addr));
  return NO_RETRY_EXPECTED(
             setsockopt(fd, proto, MCAST_JOIN_GROUP, &mreq, sizeof(mreq))) == 0;
}

bool SocketBase::LeaveMulticast(intptr_t fd,
                                const RawAddr& addr,
                                const RawAddr&,
                                int interfaceIndex) {
  int proto = (addr.addr.sa_family == AF_INET) ? IPPROTO_IP : IPPROTO_IPV6;
  struct group_req mreq;
  mreq.gr_interface = interfaceIndex;
  memmove(&mreq.gr_group, &addr.ss, SocketAddress::GetAddrLength(addr));
  return NO_RETRY_EXPECTED(setsockopt(fd, proto, MCAST_LEAVE_GROUP, &mreq,
                                      sizeof(mreq))) == 0;
}

}  // namespace bin
}  // namespace dart

#endif  // defined(HOST_OS_ANDROID)

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Therapy Source Named One of Fastest Growing U. S. Staffing Firms
PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA – July 2012
Although the staffing industry as a whole has decreased by 11 percent in recent years, as noted by Staffing Industry Analysts, Therapy Source continues to grow. This is the second time that Therapy Source was recognized as one of the fastest-growing U.S. staffing firms by Staffing Industry Analysts. Not only did Therapy Source make the list, but the company is also the number one fastest growing allied healthcare staffing firm.
Staffing Industry Analysts is the global advisor on contingent work known for its independent and objective insights, the company's proprietary research, award-winning content, data, support tools, publications, and executive conferences. In order to qualify for the list, staffing firms had to post at least $1 million in revenue in 2008 and have compound annual revenue growth of at least 15 percent between 2007 and 2011.
Therapy Source president, Stacey Cartagenova, is excited for another successful year of business. "I am extremely humbled to be recognized again this year," said Mrs. Cartagenova. "From starting this company in my basement to where we are today is astonishing."
From the beginning, Therapy Source has differed themselves from their competitors. "We go beyond simply therapy staffing. We serve as a proactive and attentive partner, offering many services, such as consulting on compliance and a hybrid therapy model," said Joshua Cartagenova, CEO. Therapy Source prides itself on five core values: respect, honesty and integrity, flexibility, leadership and direction, and customer dedication.
About Therapy Source, Inc.
Therapy Source, a premier therapy staffing provider, offers highly qualified speech, occupational, physical, psychological and related therapy services to educational and healthcare organizations.
Therapy Source, Inc. is doing business as TX Source, Inc. in Ohio, New York and New Jersey.
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Staffing Industry Analysts is the global advisor on contingent work. Known for its independent and objective insights, the company's proprietary research, award-winning content, data, support
tools, publications and executive conferences provide a competitive edge to decision-makers who supply and buy temporary staffing. In addition to temporary staffing, Staffing Industry Analysts also covers related staffing sectors. Founded in 1989, acquired by Crain Communications Inc in 2008, the company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with offices in London, England.
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Posted by David Mullich
I've worked in the videogame industry a long, long time. It often surprises people when they hear how long I've been developing games: thirty-six years. I made my first game professionally in 1979, when personal computers like the Apple II and TRS-80 were first entering the homes, although several years after the Magnavox Odyssey and Pong had already found their way into the living room.
Someone recently asked me what it was like working in the game industry before The Crash. Ah, The Crash. It still causes a shudder down the spines of those of us who lived through it. The Videogame Crash of 1983 was a massive recession of the game industry that actually lasted from 1983 to 1985. Revenues that had peaked at $3.2 billion in 1983 fell to $100 million by 1985, almost destroying the industry while it was still in its infancy.
I worked in the video game industry for six years before The Crash. However, I didn't work on console games, which were the primary casualties of this crisis. I worked on home computer games, which was one of the causes of The Crash.
There were actually three things that contributed to the Crash. First, there was a glut of poor-quality videogames on the market, including high-profile failures like the ET-The Extraterrestrial videogame, for which there was such high expectations but poor implementation that the poorly received title was over-produced and much of the inventory was buried in the New Mexico desert. Second, was an over-flooded console market in which just about every electronics manufacturer introduced their own videogame console, only to bail out after the fierce competition caused prices to be reduced to nothing. Third, the introduction home computer provided additional competition for families' home entertainment spending.
As I said, I first worked on games for home computers for much of my early career in the game industry. I remember it as being an exciting time, where there was a whole new world of interactive entertainment emerging, and as pioneers in a new medium, we were free to explore all sorts of crazy ideas before genres and game mechanics were being solidified — things that you couldn't do once the big publishers controlled the industry (until indie development came into being thanks to Steam, the App store, Kongregate, and other indie portals).
I worked for a very small publisher and designed/programmed games in a team consisting of only three people: me, myself, and I. I developed games about such bizarre things as colonizing planets while preaching religion and using mind-expanding drugs, running an oil company during the oil crises, programming a television network, and being a spy trying to escape his mind-controlling captors in an adventure game based upon The Prisoner television series.
Those of us who designed computer games saw our work as being much more sophisticated than the type of games being developed for arcade and console systems. I remember attending one of the first Computer Game Developer Conferences, and the big point of debate of whether videogames could be rightly considered "games" and should be given the same consideration at the conference. This snobby bias lasted for several years until the Conference dropped the word "Computer" from the title.
While working on computer games was very fulfilling creatively, I didn't make a lot of money. I made the meager sum of $800 a month when I got my first job after graduating college. The company, Edu-Ware Services, was run out of the founder's apartment. He and I worked on folding tables in the living room, while our sales rep worked out of the bedroom. Our fourth member would only show up occasionally while he was finishing up his bachelor's degree at UCLA.
We would churn out a new game or educational software in anywhere from three days to three months, depending on the scope and how badly it was needed to bring in revenue. When one of us made a product, the others would test it. When it was ready to ship, I would usually be the one to make copies, inserting 5-1/4 inch floppy disks on at a time into the disk drive. We would print out disk labels on standard mailing labels using a daisy-wheel printer, photocopy documentation at the nearest copy place, and then put everything in Zip-lock bags to ship off.
We did make a profit, and within a year we made enough money to move into a real office, and then a couple of years later, into an even bigger one. Our staff grew to sixty employees when Edu-Ware reached its height, and I was earning enough money ($35,000 a year) to trade in my Honda Civic for a Toyota Supra. Our growth was successful enough to attract the attention of a mainframe entertainment software company, Management Sciences America, to purchase us so that they could gain a foothold in the home computer industry.
And then there was The Crash. Our sales when to nothing, and MSA dissolved our company. Four of us got together to form a new company, Electric Transit, which specialized in 3-D simulations like Wilderness: A Survival Adventure and Lunar Explorer: A Space Flight Simulator. Our games were well reviewed, but alas The Crash was still in effect, and we never made enough in sales to keep the company going. We worked for two years without a salary, with only a collection of good reviews from the game magazines to show for it.
After The Crash ended, I joined The Walt Disney Company as its very first video game producer, but that's another story for another day.
About David Mullich
I am a video game producer who has worked at Activision, Disney, Cyberdreams, EduWare, The 3DO Company and the Spin Master toy company. I am currently a game design and production consultant, a game design instructor at ArtCenter College of Design, board member of the International Game Developers Association's Los Angeles chapter, and co-creator of the Boy Scouts of America Game Design Merit Badge. At the 2014 Gamification World Congress in Barcelona, I was rated the 14th ranking "Gamification Guru" in social media.
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Wearable gait exoskeletons
For the therapy of neuromuscular diseases
Maintaining walking ability is key for the survival of children affected by Neuromuscular Diseases (NMD). There is currently no etiological treatment for the majority of these affections, although several clinical trials on drugs are on the way, but at present with no definitive result. The current multidisciplinary treatment of NMD focuses on maintaining the physical state of the patient, delaying the onset of musculoskeletal complications derived from the progressive weakness and loss of mobility. Joint deformities, muscle spasms, osteoporosis and scoliosis – among others – contribute to decaying life quality and to accelerating the deterioration of the respiratory function, yielding a short life expectancy in most diseases.
Neuromuscular diseases affect 4 million children in the World, 800,000 children in Europe.
Wearable Gait Exoskeletons are the therapeutic solution that clinicians are demanding to improve the therapy of these patients, and they are simultaneously the technical aid that affected families are demanding to restore the life quality of their children. When attached non-invasively to the legs and trunk of the patient, the robotic device provides locomotion, neuro-muscular rehabilitation, and spatial mobility.
Marsi Bionics is the first Global Company commercialising paediatric wearable exoskeletons. Model ATLAS2020, ready for release, targets paraparetic children (having all four limbs paralysed). The exoskeleton is composed of 10 motors providing force and motion to the joints of the patient, a number of sensors acquiring the state of the user and of the robot itself, and an on-board controller ensuring adequate locomotion. Variable stiffness joints at the knee ensure efficient adaptation to the natural ground by mimicking the performance of the human musculotendinous system and minimise power consumption.
ATLAS2020 is assisted by a supporting frame that provides postural balance during walking, standing up and sitting down manoeuvres. Model ATLAS2030 is the evolution of ATLAS2020, targeting diseases that show a progressive deterioration of strength and mobility. The exoskeleton will assist the patient as needed, thus adapting to the variable symptoms of NMDs. EXO-TRAINER project, financed by ECHORD++ (an FP7-EC funded initiative, www.echord.eu), will demonstrate ATLAS has no negative impact on NMD-affected patients (not causing fatigue, nor skin-injuries or pain) and that it really allows them walking. For this purpose, Marsi Bionics is working together with renowned roboticists at the Centre for Automation and Robotics (CSIC) to optimise the robotic technology, and with children's hospitals of reference worldwide like Sant Joan de Deu Children's Hospital. Medical doctors are involved in the whole project work plan providing their knowledge, expertise, and assessment, and certifying the resulting exoskeleton in a clinical trial. The focus will be on children with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), the first cause of infant mortality in rich countries. Tests will involve 8 children for 3 months, taking us to technology readiness for CE labelling.
Wearable Gait Exoskeletons will have an impact on children's quality of life and life expectancy. Moreover, the new therapy can potentially reduce the welfare costs to families, estimated at €25,000 per year, per family and even reduce the cost to the National Healthcare Systems by an improved and personalised therapy.
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One Problem with Healthcare Data
By Mark Graban	 On Dec 14, 2011 Last updated Dec 14, 2011
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This article caught my eye recently: "Canada leads in surgical mishaps." By "leads," the article means they have a high number of mishaps (which is really more of a trailing position, not a leading one). I'm not here to quibble about language, nor am I here to bash Canada's healthcare system because I would suspect our healthcare delivery systems (including the way operating rooms function) are more similar than different between the U.S. and Canada, which would likely lead to similar results, you might think.
If you are scheduled for an operation, take note: Canada has the third-highest incidence of "foreign bodies" being left inside patients after surgeons sew them up, one of the poor performances noted in a report comparing health-care systems in developed countries.
Looking at another piece of data:
Canada was in the top spot for the number of accidental punctures or lacerations during surgery out of the 17 countries surveyed by the Organization for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD).
At 525 per 100,000 hospitalizations, its rate was more than three times as high as Britain (174) and the U.S. (166).
OK, so being three times worse than Britain or the U.S. seems like it might be a statistically meaningful difference? So what the heck is going on up there?
Again, from the article:
Ms. Tipper also said the reason Canada may seem to have more mistakes could be in the accuracy of its reporting.
Hmmm…. we know that the underreporting of medical errors is a major problem. It might be easier to avoid reporting an accidental puncture (where the harm to the patient might be chalked up to "complications"), while an item left inside the patient is more cut and dry, right? Could other countries really have such significantly lower error rates solely due to undereporting? I find it hard to believe that Canada could be 3x more dangerous, even in one area like this.
Canada is working to improve their healthcare quality culture, as we are in other countries:
Dr. Simpson, who has been working as a cardiologist for 20 years, said "the culture of safety is undergoing a renaissance in Canada, right now. When I first started, mistakes were something to be ashamed of, and you didn't talk about it. But now, it's completely flipped around."
Being ashamed of a process problem or human error leads people to hide and cover up their problems. This gets in the way of the improvement needed to prevent future systemic errors.
On the topic of "gaming the numbers" or skewing data (instead of actually improving the system), it's widely reported that the United States has abysmal infant mortality results (USA Today editorial: "No excuse for U.S. infant mortality ranking").
Twenty years ago, the United States was doing better than countries such as Cuba, Poland and Estonia in keeping newborn babies alive. Not any more. As other nations improved this key indicator of women's and infants' health, the U.S. lagged, dropping to 41st worldwide in newborn death rates, behind these three countries and 37 more.
Some argue that the U.S. ranks low because we are actually honest in how we report infant deaths after birth, while other countries might skew the data. From this opposing USA Today editorial ("Another view: Misleading neonatal data distort rankings"):
First, the U.S. strictly adheres to the World Health Organization's definition of live birth (any that "breathes or shows any other evidence of life"), counting even the extremely premature and most fragile. In contrast, theWHO Bulletin noted the "common practice in several (Western European) countries to register as live births only those infants who survived for a specified period."
Can we have meaningful comparisons and improvement without accurate, trustworthy data?
Bringing this back to more local healthcare decisions, how can you or I choose a surgeon or a hospital based on quality and cost (value) without widely-available and trustworthy data? What are your thoughts on this? Leave a comment…
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Mike Davidge says 8 years ago
As you know, the first thing to do when faced with any benchmarked measure is to check the definition. Are people measuring the same thing? I agree that it's unlikely Canada's rate of 525 per 100,000 admissions is due entirely to definitional issues (but it's possible) but it may play a part. And removing the data collection bias might reduce the rate sufficiently for us not to consider it an outlier.
And this brings me onto my second point. In a league table someone is always going to be at the top and someone at the bottom. We all know this but somehow we get caught up in the headline such as "CANADA WORST AT X!". I use caps deliberately. Better would be to place these rates in the context of an SPC chart where we can see whether the variation is special cause (they probably are an outlier) or common cause (they probably aren't)
Mark Graban says 8 years ago
Great points, Mike. We'd all be better served if data were presented that way. Let me see what I can dig up.
Here is the full set of OECD Data for surgical "never events" and sepsis rates:
It includes data from a number of countries and you can see there is a 10:1 spread from the best to the worst countries in those data sets. Feel free to chart away if you like :-)
Robert D says 8 years ago
Hi Mark
The numbers do not surprise me for several reasons, which I will list.
1. Culture, in Britain almost all doctors work for the government admitting mistakes can cost them their jobs; in the USA doctors can get sued with ease so admitting any mistake you can avoid, helps prevent law suits; while in Canada doctors are independent entities, that are virtually impossible to sue in our legal system, thus they can admit their mistakes far more freely, and have to because the others in the facility may will do it for them. It doesn't scare me because until mistakes are admitted you cannot find ways to prevent them.
2. Quailty of our doctors, yes we have some truly great doctors in Canada that have refused the high paying offers of the USA, however a large percentage of our best doctors have been hired away from us, by the US health care corporations. So on the whole our doctors skill sets are not as high as they once where, and Canadians for the most part appreciate those men and women who have stayed here to help us by doing the best they can. It is also almost impossible for a foreign doctor however qualified to move to Canada, our rules restrict their entering and working here are extremely tight.
3. Our health care system treats a far higher percentage of the population than does the American system, we have univerisal access for everyone, thus the numbers of people that get treatment is higher on a per capita basis, which will lead to more mistakes.
4. Our doctors often have to use older methods than in the USA, as our publicly funded healthcare restricts spending on equipment. It would surprise people just how out of date some of our hospitals are compared to others. In places like Toronto, Ottawa, and London, everything is state of the art, but when you get to smaller cities such as Windsor, Chatham, Kitchener, and Woodstock. The doctors have far more limited tools to do their jobs, thus they are forced to treat people in a fashion that is less than optimal. These doctors are doing their best to help people despite the limitations, but those limitations are going to result in more mistakes, but most of those mistakes can be fixed, so is not better to have gotten treated and sufferred an extra nick, than to not have been treated at all.
When you factor all these reasons together it is not hard to see why we would have a higher rate of mistakes, in fact I would be surprised if it was lower. On the whole Canada's healthcare system maybe be broken, but the big issue is not the mistakes of doctors, nurses, and others providing healthcare those will be solved, it is the politicians, and bureaucrats that have screwed it up, while lavishing themselves with luxury lifestyles, while trying to blame those that actually deliver healthcare for the problems.
One last point who pays for the Organization for Economic Co-operation & Development, like most international organizations, a handful of countries pay for it to waste millions doing research that proves nothing, and doesn't solve a single problem. Studying the number in a vaccum is worthless hot air, the moenby could have been used to help doctors develop procedures to help prevent mistakes, instead of paying math majors to play with numbers.
Anonymous Reader says 8 years ago
I did find this buried in amongst the small print of the article:
Other differences in data reporting across countries may influence the calculated rates of patient safety indicators. These include differences in coding practice, coding rules (e.g. definition of principal and secondary diagnoses), coding for billing purposes and the use of diagnosis type markers (e.g. "present at admission" ).
Which only goes to prove that you have to read the small print. With all these potentially confounding factors, I'm surprised that the OECD had the nerve to publish anything.
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Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japan during World War II, the U.S. government moved swiftly to develop policies for the internment of Japanese Americans, primarily those living on the West Coast. Review the articles on the internment, including specific actions taken by the government, as well as on the Bill of Rights and due process, and then analyze the primary sources to explain how civil liberties of Japanese Americans were violated by these policies.
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Bill of Rights: The Bill of Rights, a document listing the first 10 amendments of the U.S. Constitution, was created to address concerns that the Constitution did not name specific rights of individuals.
civil liberties: Civil liberties are citizens' legal protection against the government. The Bill of Rights lists the civil liberties held by U.S. citizens.
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Executive Order 9066: Executive Order 9066, a presidential order signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, authorized the relocation and internment of tens of thousands of Japanese Americans during World War II.
Japanese internment: During World War II, tens of thousands of Japanese Americans were forced to leave their homes and detained in internment camps. Japanese internment occurred because the U.S. government and much of the public feared that Japanese Americans would undermine the U.S. war effort and assist the Japanese.
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During World War II, Japanese and Japanese American individuals and families were uprooted from their everyday lives and forced to move into internment camps—sometimes called relocation centers—that were located in the western states. The federal government's internment policy—codified under Executive Order 9066—took place in the aftermath of Japan's December 1941 attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The attack stirred many Americans' fear that people of Japanese descent living in the United States (especially on the West coast) might actually be loyal to Japan and working to undermine the U.S. war effort through acts of espionage and sabotage. The government's stated purpose of Japanese American internment was to remove "dangerous enemy aliens" from ordinary society, and many Americans at the time approved of the policy.
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By district
Results of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maryland by district:

District 1

The incumbent is Republican Andy Harris, who has represented the district since 2011. Harris was re-elected with 67% of the vote in 2016.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee included Maryland's 1st congressional district on its initial list of Republican-held seats considered targets in 2018.

Democratic primary
 Michael Brown
 Jesse Colvin, Army Ranger
 Allison Galbraith, small business owner
 Erik Lane
 Michael Pullen, former attorney
 Steve Worton

Primary results

Republican primary
 Martin Elborn, law enforcement
 Andy Harris, incumbent
 Lamont Taylor, small businessman

Primary results

General election

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District 2

The incumbent is Democrat Dutch Ruppersberger, who has represented the district since 2003. Ruppersberger was re-elected with 62% of the vote in 2016.

Democratic primary
 Jake Pretot
 Dutch Ruppersberger, incumbent

Primary results

Republican primary
 Liz Matory, small business owner
 Hubert Owens Jr.
 Mark Shell
 Mitchell Toland Jr.

Primary results

General election

Results

District 3

The incumbent is Democrat John Sarbanes, who has represented the district since 2007. Sarbanes was re-elected with 63% of the vote in 2016.

Democratic primary
 Adam DeMarco
 John Rea
 Eduardo Rosas, U.S. Navy (Retired), Iraq War combat veteran
 John Sarbanes, incumbent

Primary results

Republican primary
 Charles Anthony
 Rob Seyfferth

Primary results

General election

Results

District 4

The incumbent is Democrat Anthony Brown, who has represented the district since 2017. Brown was elected with 74% of the vote in 2016.

Democratic primary
 Anthony Brown, incumbent

Primary results

Republican primary
 George McDermott

Primary results

Libertarian Party
Dave Bishop

General election

Results

District 5

The incumbent is Democrat Steny Hoyer, who has represented the district since 1981. Hoyer was re-elected with 67% of the vote in 2016.

Democratic primary
 Dennis Fritz
 Steny Hoyer, incumbent

Primary results

Republican primary
 William Devine III
 Johnny Rice

Primary results

General election

Results

District 6

The incumbent is Democrat John Delaney, who has represented the district since 2013. Delaney was re-elected with 56% of the vote in 2016.

Delaney later retired to seek the Democratic Party's nomination for President of the United States in 2020.

Democratic primary
 Andrew J. Duck, Democratic candidate for Maryland's 6th congressional district in 2006 and 2010
 George English
 Chris Graves
 Nadia Hashimi, emergency pediatrician and best-selling author
 Christopher Hearsey
 Roger Manno, member of the Maryland Senate for the 19th district
 Aruna Miller, member of the Maryland House of Delegates for the 15th district
 David Trone, businessman and candidate for Maryland's 8th congressional district in 2016

Primary results

Republican primary
 Kurt Elsasser, former U.S. Marine
 Amie Hoeber, former Deputy Under Secretary of the Army and nominee in 2016
 Lisa Lloyd, nurse practitioner
 Brad Rohrs, realtor

Primary results

Endorsements

General election

Debates
Complete video of debate, October 23, 2018

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District 7

The incumbent was Elijah Cummings. He had represented the district since 1996. Cummings was re-elected with 76.4% of the vote in 2018.

Democratic primary
 Anthony Carter Sr.
 Elijah Cummings, incumbent representative
 John Moser
 Charles Smith
 Charles Stokes

Primary results

Republican primary
 Ray Bly
 Richmond Davis, attorney
 Thomas Harris
 William Newton
 Michael Pearson

Primary results

General election

Results

District 8

The incumbent is Democrat Jamie Raskin, who has represented the district since 2017. Raskin was elected with 61% of the vote in 2016.

Democratic primary
 Utam Paul
 Jamie Raskin, incumbent
 Summer Spring

Primary results

Republican primary
 Bridgette Cooper
 John Walsh
 Victor Williams

Primary results

General election

Results

References

External links
Candidates at Vote Smart
Candidates at Ballotpedia
Campaign finance at FEC
Campaign finance at OpenSecrets

Official campaign websites for first district candidates
Jesse Colvin (D) for Congress
Andy Harris (R) for Congress
Jenica Martin (L) for Congress

Official campaign websites for second district candidates
Michael Carney (L) for Congress
Dutch Ruppersberger (D) for Congress
Liz Matory (R) for Congress

Official campaign websites for third district candidates
J. David Lashar (L) for Congress
John Sarbanes (D) for Congress

Official campaign websites for fourth district candidates
Dave Bishop (L) for Congress
Anthony Brown (D) for Congress
George McDermott (R) for Congress

Official campaign websites for fifth district candidates
Steny Hoyer (D) for Congress
William Devine III (R) for Congress
Patrick Elder (G) for Congress

Official campaign websites for sixth district candidates
Kevin Caldwell (L) for Congress
George Gluck (G) for Congress
David Trone (D) for Congress
Amie Hoeber (R) for Congress

Official campaign websites for seventh district candidates
Elijah Cummings (D) for Congress
Richmond Davis (R) for Congress
David Griggs (L) for Congress

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Jamie Raskin (D) for Congress
John Walsh (R) for Congress
Jasen Wunder (L) for Congress

Maryland
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Featuring some of the top local musicians and international acts including London-based bands BIG DEAL and Leave the Planet, Berlin-based Maltese musician Jim Hickey, as well as local acts Plato's Dream Machine, Fastidju and CHIN∆, the two-day festival will please the converted but also those who have never ventured into the niche.
The festival developed from the concept of Sofar Sounds Malta, an innovative model of intimate, secret pop-up gigs held within domestic spaces, introduced in April 2014. Bewildered Music Festival presents the Maltese audience with an opportunity to listen to non-mainstream musical genres which are not usually played on radio, resulting in more exposure to different art forms.
Bewildered Music Festival is part of the Valletta 2018 cultural programme being developed in the run up to the European Capital of Culture year. This focuses among other, on the commitment to providing Maltese artists with a platform to perform and showcase their talents while simultaneously organising high quality cultural events in Valletta as part of the run up to 2018.
Collaboration between the Valletta 2018 Foundation and Pjazza Teatru Rjal started earlier this year ahead of the first 'Bewildered Music Festival'. Through this project, Valletta 2018 is bringing together upcoming European bands, Maltese musicians and young audiences in a much loved social atmosphere.
Festival tickets can be purchased online from bewilderedmusicfestival.com. For further details email [email protected].