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Healthcare Roundup: December 3, 2021
In the Lede
The House and Senate passed a continuing resolution (CR) to fund government operations through February 18. While a group of conservative Republican Senators had threatened to hold up the CR because of concerns with the President's vaccine mandate, they accepted a Senate floor vote on an amendment – that failed 48-50 – to bar funding to implement private sector vaccine mandate as well as requirements for federal employees, federal contractors, health care workers and the military. The CR did not include fixes to Medicare spending cuts starting in January, including a four percent reduction to Medicare reimbursements, a separate two percent sequestration cut, and reductions to reimbursements for physicians and clinical laboratory services. A temporary 3.75 percent increase to doctors' pay through the annual physician fee schedule is also scheduled to end in January. House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) said during a House Rules Committee hearing that lawmakers are working on "comprehensive bipartisan solution by the end of the year" for all of the outstanding health care provider issues.
The President announced new executive actions to combat COVID-19 as the United States heads into the winter months and with the emergence of the new Omicron variant. The President announced:
New steps to ensure that the nearly 100 million eligible Americans who have not yet received their booster, get one as soon as possible, including expansion of pharmacy availability for booster shots through December, and a new public education campaign to encourage adults to get boosters, with a focus on seniors through the AARP and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
New actions to get more kids ages five and older vaccinated and to keep our schools open, including launching hundreds of family vaccination clinics across the country, requiring Medicaid to pay healthcare providers to talk to families about getting their kids vaccinated, releasing findings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on quarantine and testing policies in schools, issuing a new "Safe School Checklist" to give schools a clear game plan for how to get as many of their staff and students vaccinated as soon as possible, and providing every resource to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to support timely review of applications for vaccines for individuals under the age of five.
New steps to ensure Americans have access to free at-home testing, including providing health plan coverage of no-cost rapid, over-the-counter (OTC) COVID-19 tests and expanding community distribution of free at-home tests through neighborhood sites such as health centers and rural clinics.
Additional steps to strengthen the safety of international travel, including strengthening global pre-departure testing protocols and extending the requirement to wear a mask on airplanes, rail travel, and public transportation.
Additional progress in protecting workers and keeping the economy growing and businesses open by calling on businesses to move forward with vaccination or testing programs.
New actions to help states battle any potential COVID-19 outbreaks this winter, including of the Omicron variant, including making 60+ Winter COVID-19 emergency response team deployments available to states and strengthening the national volunteer emergency medical response corps to support communities in need.
Ensuring that if and when any new COVID-19 treatment pills have been found to meet FDA's scientific standards, they are equitably accessible to all Americans by securing enough supply and ensuring pills are widely available in the hardest-hit, highest-risk communities.
Continued commitment to global vaccination efforts, including donating 1.2 billion doses to the world, accelerating the delivery of more vaccines to countries in need by pledging to deliver 200 million more doses in the next 100 days, taking steps to ramp up manufacturing here and abroad, and working with country partners to help their population get vaccinated.
Steps to accelerate the development and deployment of new vaccines and boosters if needed for the Omicron variant.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a memo indicating that it has suspended activities related to the implementation and enforcement of its November 4 interim final rule (IFR) which requires staff working in Medicare or Medicaid-certified providers to have the shots necessary to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by January 4, 2022, and to receive their first shot prior to December 6, 2021. On November 29 and November 30, 2021, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri and United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana issued preliminary injunctions against the implementation and enforcement of the IFR against Medicare and Medicaid-certified providers and suppliers. CMS has appealed both of these decisions, and has filed motions for stays of these orders. CMS indicated that it remains confident in its authority to protect the health and safety of patients in facilities certified by the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a presentation on potential effects to drug manufacturers, Medicare beneficiaries, Part D plans, and the Federal Government under proposed redesigns of the Part D prescription drug benefit. According to the CBO presentation, proposals to revamp the Part D benefit would generally make these changes:
Eliminate the coverage gap, extending the initial coverage phase to the catastrophic threshold.
Significantly increase plans' liability for spending that exceeds the initial coverage limit (that is, spending that occurs in the coverage gap and in the catastrophic phase of the current-law benefit).
Cap beneficiaries' out-of-pocket costs at a fixed dollar amount.
Shift some or all of the discount that manufacturers are obliged to provide from the coverage gap to the catastrophic phase (or, possibly, the initial coverage phase).
Capping enrollees' out-of-pocket costs would push up federal spending by shifting spending from enrollees to plans, according to CBO. The federal subsidy covers 74.5 percent of plans' expected spending, so an increase in those costs translates into higher federal spending. A cap also would increase prescription drug utilization by enrollees and thus raise the government's costs for the Part D program. That rise in spending would be partially offset by reduced Medicare spending on other healthcare services, such as hospital care and physicians' services. Extending the required manufacturer discount on brand-name drugs to other phases could either increase or decrease federal spending depending on how those changes affected total discounts as a share of that spending. If manufacturer discounts rose, then federal spending would tend to decline; conversely, if discounts fell, then federal spending would tend to rise because the government subsidizes the costs paid by plans but not the discounts extended by manufacturers. In 2020, about 47 million Medicare beneficiaries (or 75 percent) were enrolled in Part D. Roughly 13 million of them receive a low-income subsidy that pays most or all of their premium and cost-sharing requirements; as a result, those enrollees face only limited costs. The base Part D premium is about $33 per month. Part D plans receive a fixed payment per enrollee from the federal government and bear financial risk for part of enrollees' drug costs, so plan administrators have an incentive to control costs by managing drug utilization and negotiating lower prices. When enrollees reach a high level of spending known as the catastrophic threshold, the federal government reimburses plans for 80 percent of spending above that limit, which reduces plans' incentives to control costs.
CBO also released a presentation on the "Economic Effects of Expanding Home- and Community-Based Services in Medicaid", finding that if policies of the House-version of the Build Better Act (H.R. 5376) were enacted, the number of workers providing those services would grow, and their earnings would increase. Some people who are currently providing home and community-based services (HCBS) to family members would be paid for that work, and some would return to their primary occupations, according to CBO. However, in anticipation of lower costs for such services in the future, some people would save less money for future long-term services and supports (LTSS) needs and increase their spending on other goods and services. Under H.R. 5376, HCBS would be available to Medicaid beneficiaries living in participating states who have income and assets lower than their state's requirements for Medicaid and meet their state's functional eligibility criteria for Medicaid HCBS. CBO has estimated that new federal spending for HCBS provided through Medicaid would increase federal deficits by $150 billion from 2022 to 2031.
At the Agencies
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a report to show that increases in the use of telehealth helped maintain some healthcare access during the COVID-19 pandemic, with specialists like behavioral health providers seeing the highest telehealth utilization relative to other providers. The report analyzed Medicare fee for service (FFS) data in 2019 and 2020, which highlighted that telehealth services were accessed more in urban areas than rural communities, and Black Medicare beneficiaries were less likely than White beneficiaries to utilize telehealth. Other findings from the report:
The share of Medicare visits conducted through telehealth in 2020 increased 63-fold, from approximately 840,000 in 2019 to 52.7 million.
States with the highest use of telehealth in 2020 included Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Connecticut, while states with the lowest use of telehealth in 2020 included Tennessee, Nebraska, Kansas, North Dakota and Wyoming.
While overall healthcare visits for Medicare beneficiaries declined in 2020 as compared to 2019, telehealth was particularly helpful in offsetting potential foregone behavioral healthcare. In 2020, telehealth visits comprised a third of total visits to behavioral health specialists, compared to 8 percent of visits to primary care providers and 3 percent of visits to other specialists.
To help beneficiaries maintain some access to care amid stay-at-home orders to reduce COVID-19 related exposure, CMS used emergency waiver authorities enacted by Congress, as well as existing regulatory authorities to implement policies expanding access to telehealth services during the pandemic. These included waiving several statutory limitations such as geographic restrictions and allowing beneficiaries to receive telehealth in their home. Outside of the public health emergency (PHE), Medicare is generally restricted to payment for telehealth services in certain, mostly rural areas, and when beneficiaries leave their home and go to a clinic, hospital, or other type of medical facility for the service. Additionally, in response to the pandemic, the HHS Office for Civil Rights relaxed enforcement of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 privacy requirements for videoconferencing. To help protect access to care as informed by data, CMS recently announced that for the first time outside of the COVID-19 PHE, Medicare will pay for mental health visits furnished by Rural Health Clinics and Federally Qualified Health Centers via interactive video-based telehealth, including audio-only telephone calls. Additionally, CMS is permanently eliminating geographic barriers and allowing patients in their homes to access telehealth services for diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of mental health disorders, including via audio-only communications technology. While utilization of telehealth services increased and improved access to services for many beneficiaries, CMS acknowledged that more research is needed to understand the impact on quality of care and why certain beneficiaries used less telehealth than others.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a Request for Information (RFI) to solicit stakeholder and public feedback that will be used to inform potential changes and future rulemaking to improve the organ transplantation system and seek to enhance the quality of life of those living with organ failure, which includes 106,000 people who are waiting to receive a life-saving or life-enhancing organ transplant. CMS is focused on identifying potential system-wide improvements that would increase organ donations, improve transplants, enhance the quality of care in dialysis facilities, increase access to dialysis services, and advance equity in organ donation and transplantation. Critical to these system-wide improvements is the close, collaborative relationship among Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs), donor hospitals, transplant programs, and End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) facilities to ensure that organs are successfully recovered and transplanted. Despite the higher risks associated with kidney disease among minorities, data shows that Black and Latino patients on dialysis are less likely to be placed on the transplant waitlist and have a lower likelihood of transplantation. Because of inequities, CMS' RFI asks the public for specific ideas on advancing equity within the organ transplantation system, particularly on potential changes to the health and safety standards for transplant programs, ESRD facilities, and OPO operations. The RFI seeks feedback from those on organ transplant waitlists, transplant recipients, their families, living donors and those who sign up to be posthumous donors, families of donors, chronic kidney disease and ESRD patients. The feedback will help inform future regulatory requirements that transplant programs, OPOs, and ESRD providers and suppliers would need to meet to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Comments must be submitted by February 1, 2022.
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) announced the distribution of $7.5 billion in American Rescue Plan (ARP) Rural payments to providers and suppliers who serve rural Medicaid, Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and Medicare beneficiaries. The average payment being announced is approximately $170,700, with payments ranging from $500 to approximately $43 million. More than 40,000 providers in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and six territories will receive ARP Rural payments. Rural providers play an integral role in the Administration's focus on addressing health equity. Research has found that 47 percent of rural providers were operating in the red pre-pandemic, and this Administration has heard from providers on the ground that the pandemic worsened this reality. To help mitigate some of these pandemic-related financial losses, providers were invited to begin applying for this ARP Rural relief funding starting September 29, 2021 and asked to complete their applications by November 3, 2021. In just three weeks, HRSA processed nearly 96 percent of the more than 55,000 ARP Rural applications submitted. Many ARP Rural payment recipients will also be eligible for additional funding through the $17 billion Provider Relief Fund (PRF) Phase 4 opportunity that was also made available during the same time period. Providers could apply for both opportunities through a single application. To streamline the application and payment process as much as possible, ARP Rural payments are based on Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP claims for services to rural beneficiaries from January 1, 2019 through September 30, 2020, which was chosen as it represents the most recent comprehensive data available to HHS and takes into account both pre-pandemic and pandemic operations. To provide equitable relief to these providers, ARP Rural payment calculations were generally based on Medicare reimbursement rates, regardless of whether the service was provided to a Medicare, Medicaid, or CHIP patient. Every eligible provider that serves at least one rural Medicare, Medicaid, or CHIP beneficiary will receive funding.
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Contents: Animal café -- The Tortoise and the Hare -- Ludlow laughs -- Giving thanks.
Participant or Performer: Levar Burton, Martin Short, Gilda Radner, Phyllis Diller, Nicholson Earl Billey.
Summary: Take a look, it's in a book, a Reading Rainbow! For over 30 years, the beloved children's television series has been bringing stories to life. Hosted by acclaimed actor LeVar Burton, journey to exciting places and build a lasting connection with books.
Authors: Burton, LeVar, (host.). Short, Martin, 1950- (narrator.). Radner, Gilda, (narrator.). Diller, Phyllis, (narrator.). Billey, Nicholson Earl, (narrator.). PBS Distribution (Firm), (publisher.).
Alternate Title: Animal cafe / directed by Larry Lancit, Dean Parisot.
Citation: Burton, LeVar. Arlington, Virginia : PBS Distribution, 2015.


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TOYOTA LINES UP ITS SPORTING HEROES FOR GOODWOOD FESTIVAL OF SPEED
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Goodwood Festival of Speed debut for new Toyota TS030 Hybrid Le Mans car, piloted by Anthony Davidson
BTCC star Frank Wrathall to return with the Dynojet Racing-prepared Toyota Avensis
Gazoo Racing LFA and GT86, stars of the Nürburgring 24 Hours
Road-going GT86 marks its official UK on-sale date as a leading attraction in the festival's Moving Motor Show
Further Toyota festival vehicles and activities to be announced
Toyota's groundbreaking TS030 Hybrid race car will be making its UK debut at this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed, arriving fresh from its first appearance in the Le Mans 24 Hours.
The all-new sports car will be one of the must-see attractions at this year's event, with Toyota Racing's British driver Anthony Davidson set to show off its turn of speed on Goodwood's famous hill course. The TS030 Hybrid sustains Toyota's long heritage of competing at the highest level internationally, while also demonstrating how its world-leading efficient hybrid power technology can be developed to meet the extreme demands of the race track.
The TS030 Hybrid heads an impressive line-up representing the strength-in-depth of Toyota's modern racing machinery. Flying the flag for the best of British motorsport, Frank Wrathall will return in his Dynojet Racing-prepared Toyota Avensis touring car. True to this year's festival theme of "Young Guns – Born to Win", 25-year-old Wrathall was one of the sensations of last year's British Touring Car Championship, racing to four podium finishes in his rookie season and winning the hearts of legions of fans who voted him BTCC driver of the year in an on-line poll.
Gazoo Racing, Toyota's established racing and performance partner, will be back at the Festival of Speed with its race-prepared Lexus LFA and GT86, both of which are due to be competing once again in the gruelling Nürburgring 24 Hours in May.
The GT86 – in road-going guise – will also figure as one of the leading attractions of the festival's Moving Motor Show, which neatly coincides with official UK on-sale date for Toyota's full-blooded return to the sports coupe market.
Toyota expects to announce details of further vehicles and famous faces for the festival in the coming weeks.
Note to editors: The Goodwood Festival of Speed will take place at Goodwood House, in Sussex, from 28 June to 1 July. For further details of the event visit www.goodwood.co.uk/festival-of-speed
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Regardless of how old and bumpy Cedar Point's Mean Streak was, the iconic wooden coaster remained a fan favorite.
SANDUSKY - Regardless of how old, rickety and bumpy Cedar Point's Mean Streak was, the iconic wooden rollercoaster remained a fan favorite among regulars throughout its lifetime with the park, which came to an end Friday night.
Mean Streak, which debuted in May 1991, opened at the time as the world's tallest wooden rollercoaster and one of the fastest and longest as well. After more than 25 years with the park, Cedar Point announced in August that after this season, Mean Streak would be closing permanently.
Since that announcement was made, fans had been flocking back to the old coaster for a chance to get one last ride before it was gone, creating lines for Mean Streak not seen in years.
Friday was the last day Mean Streak was opened to guests, and thousands of people turned out to bid farewell. The line to be one the final riders stretched clear around Frontier Town at the back of Cedar Point, where Mean Streak has stood for decades.
Those last rides Friday evening culminated in a special "Last Rites" funeral ceremony and procession for the wooden icon, marking the end of era but a fitting kick off to the start of Cedar Point's 20th HalloWeekends.
Mean Streak eerily seemed quite animated Friday night, frequently interrupting the ceremony with its old, familiar rattle and roar. At least a thousand parkgoers gathered to observe the "Last Rites" and procession, which stretched nearly a mile from the back of the park to the Dead Rides Cemetery just beyond the Raptor along Cedar Point Boulevard.
The funeral featured an amusing yet heartfelt eulogy delivered by the whimsically named "Dead Tony," played by Tony Clark, director of communications at Cedar Point.
Amid the laughter and playful tears, Mean Streak's final trains were still racing by directly behind.
Mean Streak was respected with a moment of silence before pieces of the rollercoaster followed behind HalloWeekend's hearse on their way to the burial site at the Dead Rides Cemetery, where it was finally laid to rest.


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Welcome to The Beat, a new TGE feature where our fave artists/bands/people give us tips on makeup! The most feature to ever me! Today we welcome Carmen of Remember Sports.
I'm on a month and a half long tour right now! My morning and night time routines are really important to me when I'm at home so I do my best to recreate a simplified version of them when I'm on tour. I never end up using half the things I bring (see the Glossier Lashslick and Cloud Paints I have yet to touch) so I'm trying to get better at packing. I got this toiletries case from Muji with lots of great pockets and compartments and I try to limit myself to just this.
It's winter time and I have pretty bad eczema and dry skin all over my body so the most important thing for my skin is making sure I moisturize and drink lots of water. I rinse my face with water when I wake up then use Cerave and some kind of oil on top (on this tour I brought Rosehip oil and Marula oil from the Ordinary and have been switching them out). I let that dry for a bit then I put sunscreen on! Since I'm focusing on getting as much moisture as possible right now, I've been using this La Roche Posay moisturizer with SPF 30 that I got at CVS.
For makeup, I use Glossier Boy Brow every day! There's no point in me wearing anything else during the day because I'm just sitting in the car for hours. I don't wear a whole lot of makeup when I play but using SOMETHING helps make me feel a little fancy and special! Usually the amount of makeup I put on before a show depends on if there's a green room and also a mirror. There usually isn't both!
I always use some sort of blush, my favorite is the Make Beauty Universal Stick in Bisou Bisou. I like putting a little on my lips too, but I don't like to do lipstick when I play because it just ends up getting all over the mic which seems rude to do. The Glossier Haloscope in Topaz is my go-to highlighter because it looks natural and it's really easy to use. I put it on my cheekbones and my eyelids. Then if I want to level up I'll use Marc Jacobs eyeliner in Sunset. I also keep two ColourPop eyeshadows (Glassbull and Backstage) in my bag if I'm feeling TRULY wild, but it hasn't happened on this tour... yet ;). I use this rosewater and glycerin spray before and after I put on makeup because it smells good and they're always spraying stuff on their faces on YouTube.
I keep things simple because I don't want to have to work too hard to take it off at night when all I want to do is fall asleep. If I wear makeup I'll take it off with a little of the aforementioned oils, rinse that off, then wash my face with my beloved Cerave hydrating cleanser. I'll put on more moisturizer and oil before bed, or if I'm having an eczema emergency I will use my medicated ointment.


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This list would probably be slightly different if I hadn't stuck to the one artist rule. This was pretty difficult actually, especially post-2000. Also, I tried to pick what I thought was the best overall album instead of one that I may have listened to more, but that only had 2-3 good songs.
1989- The Stone Roses- The Stone Roses (One of the first bands I ever got into & The best debut of all time (IMO).
1992- Black Sabbath- Dehumanizer (I am now officially the 'King Of Controversy' by posting this and will even go on to say that it truly is my favourite Sabbath album and ****s on anything Ozzy ever did (IMO), not that I dont like the original Sabbath stuff but Dio's voice really does it for me. The track 'Computer God' has the best drum intro to a Sabbath song and is nothing short of phenomenal.
1994- Paul Weller- Live Wood- (Now I know this is a live album but I had Stanley Road for years but never really got into that much. When I heard this album, this was the turning point for me.
This is from my favourite period & is a real gem as most of his live shows now are drowned with the hits from the Stanley Road album). I love the sheer energy and fire if you like which is present on this record, I have other live albums where the same level of fire and aggression is not present (IMO).
Also I love how he uses Magic Bus amongst others to encore some of his little know songs at the end, also the song 'This Is No Time' is absolutely fantastic and if you listen to the original recording on his later released 'Fly On The Wall- B Sides & Rarities' album you can see it is a totally different song. I wanted to save this for when I do a live albums list but this really is the pinnacle of Paul Weller's live music (IMO).
[B]1996- Alice In Chains - Unplugged [/B](I know another Live album but had to include as this is the album which made me appreciate Alice In Chains as I hadnt in the past (only owning the 'Dirt' album for several years). I love how they have reinvented basically every song on the album (even the originally acoustic ones from 'Jar Of Flies') and it is like listening to a different band compared to 'Facelift' or 'Dirt'. Also Staley (RIP) & Cantrell's vocals are matched perfectley and sometimes you cant tell who is singing what part.
1997- Buena Vista Social Club- Buena Vista Social Club (I think this is truly legendary for musicians to bring back what was popular in the 1920s/30s and send it back to the mainstream already achieves a place in this list & thats even before we get to the music!) The 'Chan Chan' song is the pinnacle of this album & anything with Ry Cooder playing on it always interests me.
1998-Liquid Tension Experiment- Liquid Tension Experiment (This is the most exciting, enduring, creative & thoughtful piece of Instrumental Rock music I have ever heard in my life. Came across it by chance after somebody gave me a lend of it. Very accomplished musicians & I believe this may be one of the most underrated albums of all time). Also I love how on the back of the cd it reads: "CAUTION: "Three Minute Warning" is not for the musically faint-hearted, impatient, or critics of extreme self-indulgence. If you fall into any of the above categories, please hit the stop button on your CD player after track # 8."
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2001- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club- B.R.M.C- ( I was really struggling with this year as nothing really stood out in comparison to previous, but I have chosen this album from what I would define as a modern version of The Velvet Underground. I first came across them by mistake on Tv years ago playing a small intimate acoustic gig in what looked like an underground pub either in London or somewhere in America (sorry cant remember). Since then I have not been able to obtain any live material from them. Can anybody help us out?
2002-Johnny Cash- American IV- (Rick Rubin did a great job in re-creating Johnny Cash for the modern generation and won him a lot of new fans. Also the song 'Hurt' is so fitting to Johnny Cash's situation at the time that I thought he had actually written it himself (until I heard Nine Inch Nails originallty wrote it). Also 'The Man Comes Around' is a terrific song & one he wrote himself for the album.
2003- Blur- Think Tank- (I know Im copying the previous but nothing I have from that year compares to this album. Firstly it is nothing like Blur's previous work or even recognisable as Blur. To me this really is the peak of Damon Albarn's creativity.
So there you have it , I used Windows Media Player to find a suitable album for each year and tried to keep the one band one album rule.
Anyway let us know what you think.
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2005: Gyroscope - Are You Involved?
Let's see if I can limit one per artist...even though it's not a true best-of list if I did that. Man some years are tough!
I had to tie on a few.
The point is to break any ties...it's hard for everybody.
Nice stuff though, you've got a few that I nearly put on mine.
2001- The Strokes- Is This It?
Thats funny, I had a hard time thinking of one from 1988 as well. I'll post my list when I've got my music in front of me tonight.
If you use Windows Media Player you can just click 'year' and see all the albums youve got from a particular year. I hadnt done this up til now and is really interesting to see I had at least one album for each year from 1956 right through til 2009. Also so far for 2009 i have 24 albums, two of which are unofficial releases.


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Q&A: A River View Retrofit
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SageGlass dynamic glass was installed in the lobby of the Museum of Science, Boston, to solve sun glare issues while saving energy and improving the visitor experience.
Paul Ippolito, Director of Facilities at the Museum of Science, Boston, offers insight into how SageGlass helped the museum maximize its previously underutilized lobby space and maintain a connection to the iconic Charles River.
Q: What were the main challenges the Museum of Science, Boston, confronted before installing SageGlass?
A: The rear lobby space, one of the most prominent locations in the museum, which has been in place since 1968, suffered from severe southwest sun exposure. As a result, the space was underutilized due to glare and indirect light reflecting off the iconic Charles River. Visitors standing in the lobby looking out the window would experience intense direct sunlight as well as glare reflecting off the surface of the river.
Q: What solar control options did you consider before choosing SageGlass?
A: We commissioned Cambridge Seven Associates to conduct a glazing study to evaluate potential alternatives to solve the problem. This study evaluated a variety of solar control options, including mechanical rolling shades, retractable covers, canopies and architectural light shelves.
Since we wanted to use the Charles River as a backdrop to tell our story of human impact on the natural world, we needed a solution that eliminated the glare and improved building performance but did not block our iconic views.
Q: How has the SageGlass installation helped to improve the Museum of Science, Boston?
A: The SageGlass installation has really helped to improve the visitor experience by eliminating glare issues without compromising the iconic views of the Charles River. The installation also helps with the lobby's thermal efficiency.
Additionally, utilizing SageGlass' state-of-the-art technology is very much aligned with the museum's mission to transform the nation's relationship with science and technology. At the museum, we are always trying out new building technologies when we are able. At the time of the installation, the larger dynamic glass sizes were relatively new, and we were excited to get on board!
Q: Are there any exciting exhibitions/events that resulted from this installation?
A: With a solution to our glare issue in place, we were able to feature our newest exhibit in this space, the Yawkey Gallery on the Charles River. This world-class exhibit and program features the use of highly visible, cutting-edge interactive technologies. We would not have been able to position this gallery in the lobby without solving sun glare issues. The space is also utilized for nighttime events, including cocktail receptions. Additionally, we no longer hear complaints from visitors about glare, and donors love the SageGlass solution because they like seeing the technology in action.
Q: What was it like working with the SageGlass team on this installation?
A: We had a good experience working with SageGlass. We worked with our architects to determine the best solution and even visited the SageGlass manufacturing site in Faribault to see its capabilities in action. The SageGlass team supported us during the installation, working with installers, architects, engineers and general contractors to ensure a seamless installation process.
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Paul Ippolito is the Director of Facilities at the Museum of Science in Boston, Massachusetts for the past 10 years. Mr. Ippolito has responsibility for the strategic direction of the Museum's physical facilities, building renewal projects, building management systems, facility maintenance, engineering, grounds management, and for managing energy efficiency programs. Prior to joining the Museum, Mr. Ippolito was the Facilities Manager at MKS Instruments, Inc. a global provider of process control solutions that control and analyze critical parameters of advanced manufacturing processes to improve process performance and productivity.
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Peggy Wood (I) (1892–1978)
Actress | Soundtrack
Above all else, singer/actress Peggy Wood has endeared herself to both TV and film audiences with ...
Born: February 9, 1892
Died: March 18, 1978 (age 86)
The Sound of Music Mother Abbess (1965)
Mama Mama Hansen / Mama / Marta Hansen (1949-1957)
The Story of Ruth Naomi (1960)
A Star Is Born Miss Phillips - Central Casting Clerk (1937)
Turtle's Progress Mrs. Butterworth (1979)
One Life to Live Dr. Kate Nolan (1969) (1968)
New York Television Theatre (1966)
For the People Mrs. Murray (1965)
The Doctors and the Nurses Marcella Higgins (1963)
Dr. Kildare Katie Harris (1962)
The United States Steel Hour Lillian Granet (1959)
Mama Mama Hansen (1949-1957)
Zane Grey Theater Sarah Jolland (1957)
Omnibus Narrator (segment "The Story of Valentines") (1955)
Main Street to Broadway Peggy Wood - Theatre Guild Member (1953)
Pulitzer Prize Playhouse Gladys (1951)
The Philco Television Playhouse Florence McDavid (1948-1949)
Dream Girl Lucy Allerton (1948)
Magnificent Doll Mrs. Payne (1946)
The Bride Wore Boots Grace Apley (1946)
The Housekeeper's Daughter Olga (1939)
Call It a Day Ethel Francis (1937)
Jalna Meg Whiteoak (1935)
The Right to Live Nurse Wayland (1935)
Handy Andy Ernestine Yates (1934)
Wonder of Women Brigitte (1929)
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Another 3 nominations.
Known for her philanthropic work, she also wrote newspaper and magazine articles on theater and acting.
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In modern applications it's important that users can find data by typing in keywords. The entered keywords should search through one table, multiple tables or maybe even multiple tables that are not even related to each other. This Course shows how to build such a Search engine using the DataFlex Web App Framework.
Using an SQL database backend will result in a better performance of the application, because the searches will be done on the SQL Server. The technique used is called `database views'. This lesson shows the advantages of database views and how to build a database view.
The previous lesson showed how to create database views. DataFlex sees those views as tables. Creating column indexes to the table allows to sort on those indexes in the application. This lesson shows how to integrate the created database views into DataFlex and how to create indexes.
All columns of a view can be viewed in a list, or Select Type of view. This lesson shows how to create a Select View using the wizard.
The previous lesson showed a list of all the columns: track name, album title and track artist. This lesson shows how to make it possible to sort on the various columns.
The user should be able to type in a search value and search through all the columns (track name, album title and track list). This lesson shows how to add a search field to a view.
A search engine basically combines a number of result sets and presents them as a single, searchable result set. This lesson focuses on building a search engine with DataFlex.
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There's a story about Mark Twain where he received a telegram one day that said:
NEED 2-PAGE SHORT STORY TWO DAYS.
He replied to this by sending back:
NO CAN DO 2 PAGES TWO DAYS. CAN DO 30 PAGES 2 DAYS. NEED 30 DAYS TO DO 2 PAGES
Which highlights an important truth about writing, that often the shorter a piece of written fiction is, the more difficult it is. Especially to make it good. The shortest form of storytelling that people see all the time, and don't realize it's a form of storytelling, is the log line.
Here's a quick example of a log line for a movie that a few people probably watched:
When the chief general of Rome's army is betrayed and sold into slavery, the only way he can get his revenge is to rise to fame as a gladiator in the Colosseum.
I bring this up because it shows the problem I have with developing the log line for the novel I'm working on. Words like "Rome" and "gladiator" and "Colosseum" are familiar and carry a lot of information about the world, setting, and situation.
The world, setting, and situation for my novel are all odd, and there are no words out there to help me establish context. Imagine how much more clunky that Gladiator log line would be without all the familiar context.
In fact, here's an example. The movie Alien has a complex story that takes place in a very unusual setting, so the log lines for it can get pretty long (this one from IMDb):
After a space merchant vessel perceives an unknown transmission as distress call, their landing on the source planet finds one of the crew attacked by a mysterious life-form. Continuing their journey back to Earth with the attacked crew having recovered and the critter deceased, they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun.
So, you can see how it can get a little long-winded. Anyway, enough rambling. Here's what I have right now as a broad-strokes pitch for my novel:
MEBAR is a system of worlds created centuries ago by people who are now held by some to be gods. A detective looking for her family, a resurrected murder victim, a water-fey machinist, and a forgotten rogue god each start down dangerous paths to escape the arbitrary justice of the successors to MEBAR's creators.
Because it's a novel, it can get away with having four main characters. Movies usually can't. But, having four characters makes it even more difficult to boil down the story. This summary doesn't really explain the stakes or character goals.
I sort of need to do a log line for each of those characters mentioned:
After a homicide detective's family vanishes, she does everything she can to try and find them. She discovers that the answer is held by powerful beings she previously thought of as myth.
A young man wakes up in a white room moments after being murdered. He's told by a strange young girl that he's going to be brought back to life so he can tell everyone that the gods of MEBAR must be killed.
A disenchanted young woman wants nothing more than to become a machinist and have people overlook that she's a water fey. But when a new world leader rises rapidly to power, threatening chaos all over Pan, she sets her mind to smuggle outcasts like herself to another world.
After centuries locked in stasis, a normally easy-going man discovers that the worlds he helped create are as corrupt as he feared they would become. He'll have to be more careful this time if he wants to overthrow the successors of those that imprisoned him.
Not sure what the solution would be for a final, definitive log line. Maybe I need to pick one of the characters and combine that with the first half of the broad-strokes log long. Not sure, but I'll be working on it....
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Q: ajax - return only part of responsetext The below is just a bit of my ajax code, at the moment my variable 'resp' is returning an entire response from test.php. Is there any way I can just return the responseText between a specified tag? ie. just get back the responseText of the html inside test.php's div of id="xyz"?
var loc="test.php?myinput=apple";
ajax.onreadystatechange=function() {
        if (ajax.readyState==4  && ajax.status == 200) {
            var resp =  ajax.responseText;
        }
    }
ajax.open("GET",loc,true);
ajax.send(null);

A: You could use jquery shorthand function  load() to do this in a swift
$('#result').load('test.php' #container');

here result is the div where you want to place the response text and
container is the your specified source element location of test.php
is this what you want?

A: change your ajax code to:
if (ajax.readyState==4  && ajax.status == 200) {
   eval(ajax.responseText);
}

then in the test.php page, write for response like this
echo "document.getElementById('xyz').innerHTML='abc';";

A: If you are willing to switch to jQuery you could do the following
$.ajax({
    url: 'test.php?myinput=apple',
    method: 'POST',
    success : function( data ) {
        var content = $(data).find('#xyz').text();
        // alternativly the HTML
        // var content = $(data).find('#xyz').html();
    }
});

A: Are you trying to update some portion of your HTML with that response?
If so, you can use jQuery and call the load method that accepts a special URL parameter to load a portion of the returned HTML:
Working example: http://jsfiddle.net/marcosfromero/P5KTv/

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Spatiotemporal distribution and insecticide resistance status of Aedes aegypti in Ghana
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Owusu-Asenso, Christopher M., Mingle, Julius A. A., Weetman, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5820-1388 and Afrane, Yaw A. (2022) 'Spatiotemporal distribution and insecticide resistance status of Aedes aegypti in Ghana'. Parasites & Vectors, Vol 15, Issue 1, e61.
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Background: Vector control is the main intervention used to control arboviral diseases transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes because there are no effective vaccines or treatments for most of them. Control of Aedes mosquitoes relies heavily on the use of insecticides, the effectiveness of which may be impacted by resistance. In addition, rational insecticide application requires detailed knowledge of vector distribution, dynamics, resting, and feeding behaviours, which are poorly understood for Aedes mosquitoes in Africa. This study investigated the spatiotemporal distribution and insecticide resistance status of Aedes aegypti across ecological extremes of Ghana.
Methods: Immature mosquitoes were sampled from containers in and around human dwellings at seven study sites in urban, suburban, and rural areas of Ghana. Adult Aedes mosquitoes were sampled indoors and outdoors using Biogents BG-Sentinel 2 mosquito traps, human landing catches, and Prokopack aspiration. Distributions of immature and adult Aedes mosquitoes were determined indoors and outdoors during dry and rainy seasons at all sites. The phenotypic resistance status of Aedes mosquitoes to insecticides was determined using World Health Organization susceptibility bioassays. The host blood meal source was determined by polymerase chain reaction.
Results: A total of 16,711 immature Aedes were sampled, with over 70% found in car tyres. Significantly more breeding containers had Aedes immatures during the rainy season (11,856; 70.95%) compared to the dry season (4855; 29.05%). A total of 1895 adult Aedes mosquitos were collected, including Aedes aegypti (97.8%), Aedes africanus (2.1%) and Aedesluteocephalus (0.1%). Indoor sampling of adult Aedes yielded a total of 381 (20.1%) and outdoor sampling a total of 1514 (79.9%) mosquitoes (z = − 5.427, P = 0.0000) over the entire sampling period. Aedes aegypti populations were resistant to dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane at all study sites. Vectors showed suspected resistance to bendiocarb (96–97%), permethrin (90–96%) and deltamethrin (91–96%), and were susceptible to the organophosphate for all study sites. Blood meal analysis showed that the Aedes mosquitoes were mostly anthropophilic, with a human blood index of 0.9 (i.e. humans, 90%; human and dog, 5%; dog and cow, 5%). Conclusions: Aedes mosquitoes were found at high densities in all ecological zones of Ghana. Resistance of Aedes spp. to pyrethroids and carbamates may limit the efficacy of vector control programmes and thus requires careful monitoring. Graphical abstract:
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presented in partnership with The City of Atlanta Tree Conservation Commission
Some recurring themes include
Change the way we allow developers to clear-cut lots.
Think regionally. Do not limit a tree canopy preservation plan to the City of Atlanta. Include the entire metro area.
Improve and strengthen regional tree ordinances. Make them consistent.
Increase recompense fees so developers receive genuine incentives to save old trees and pockets of forest.
Put dollar values on the services and benefits trees provide.
52 audience comments
Please bring suburban cities to the table of the Atlanta City Design Project. Have a plan that brings in the whole city and metro area, at least the Perimeter. Too many trees are being cut in Chamblee and Brookhaven. Need environmental economics that include the dollar value trees provide to clean the air and water, regulate water storage and release, and improve health and well-being of people. Plan for paths and parks, and citizen advocates will be there. Thank you for all you do.
The city needs to change the tree ordinance so it costs a lot more when an old tree is destroyed. Developers in our neighborhood (Morningside) cut down 50 inch trees to make room for a McMansion because it's cheap to do so. They can plant a few trees to "mitigate" the loss. There should be a BIG, HUGE penalty for destroying our tree canopy. Since so much of our canopy is in backyards, can we limit the size of building apartments and condos that eliminate backyard canopy? That should go into the evolution of how zoning takes this into consideration.
If the forest to be preserved is in private hands, we need to educate homeowners by making water runoff an issue in any zoning adjustment. In a simple, one-pager, info on the importance of tree canopy, water runoff mitigation, impervious surface, etc. can be provided. If part of the ordinance is that the owner must discuss mitigation of harm before approval can be given, education will happen fast. Also, we could create a certification of Creek-keeper Homes and encourage self-report and compliance of new expectations. Robert Reed of Southface has designs for Creek-keeper Homes.
I live in Virginia Highland-Morningside. The loss of trees in this area due to tear downs in recent years is substantial. The existing tree ordinance needs major revisions to truly protect Atlanta's irreplaceable tree canopy. Tree recompense is a joke. Arborist fines are a joke. Builders and developers don't care; they just pay what is basically a minimal fee. Raise the fees, make buildable area smaller and do not allow removal of large trees, period. Piedmont Hospital is heart breaking. Quit talking and walk the walk. The canopy is being lost every day.
Can neighborhoods do a tree designation to protect trees and prevent homeowners from taking down trees on their property? Like a historic designation for trees. Need an alliance to quickly mobilize when developers come in. There are no laws to stop developers from clearcutting. Need people to pressure commissioners and lawmakers. Compel developers to plant canopy trees in parking lots and other spaces on their property in addition to the existing requirements. Form a metro- wide municipal tree alliance. Have Decatur, Sandy Springs, Stonecrest and others come together with strong requirements protecting trees.
Make native plants and trees a prerequisite for new construction. Make native plants more available at local nurseries who could market the trend. Change county codes to mimic City of Atlanta about limiting the number of trees that can be cut. For instance, DeKalb County doesn't enforce the five-tree maximum to cut per year.
Eliminate the sale of non-native, invasive species by law. Educate, educate, educate about the value of native species and that we don't really own our properties. We share them with many species and borrow them for a short time. Bring back recess and learning on the law in elementary schools. Require developers to also pay into a public transportation fund to create more space for nature, not for roads. Educate on the negativity of lawns. Plant trees and natives instead to benefit the animals and protect our water supply.
How will changes in the watershed management and zoning be used to protect trees? Current storm water regulations are removing trees on every lot where large houses are replacing small houses. Zoning variances are loopholes and lax enforcement simply allows more trees to be removed.
Share the Atlanta City Design Project's plan more widely. Host booths at festivals similar to how the Beltline did it. Protect old growth trees with property tax incentives. Preserve more green space with wider buffers and watersheds. Educate the public on conservation easements. Publicize the work of the City of Atlanta's Tree Fund.
How can we get Atlanta's billionaires to save forests instead of build stadiums? Bernie Marcus. Ted Turner. Haverty. The Woodruffs and Candlers. Mail Chimp and other high-tech moguls. Rappers.
Will the city's resiliency department actively support startup projects like vertical organic farms? Is there some effort to use urban agriculture to offset the pressure on traditional farmland, perhaps returning it to Florida's? Could you incentivize farmers to become an urban farmer in a low-impact facility? How can West and Southwest Atlanta be protected from becoming the next fashionable area for redevelopment?
Use the groomed office park green spaces for urban agriculture. There's the land, the crews of people to work the land and then we can figure out distribution of the food. DeKalb County school board is building a 1,100-student elementary school at Skyland Park. Skyland Park will be destroyed. Brookhaven profited from the sale. Green space disappearing sucks!
What investment support is being given to groups like Park Pride that are getting community-led input on how to improve access to beautiful places like our old growth forests? Does Atlanta have any cost-benefit data that quantify resources like forests are providing to the city, e.g. this tree provides X services because it's 180 years old which would cost Y amount of dollars. Do we have any incentives and plans to incorporate trees into buildings like vertical forests in Singapore and China? How can we become involved as volunteers with the food forest efforts in and around Atlanta?
We need to derive an economic system that saves trees. You cannot allow trees to be removed at $30 an inch and allow development at $250 a square foot. High-value trees cannot be removed unless developers pay the value of the land they stand on. This way an equal amount of undisturbed land can be bought. Use arborists to let people get educated about trees. Help subsidize having people look at their trees. Find public funding similar to Governor Barnes' greenspace fund.
Woodlands Garden in Decatur would be a good addition to your network. Contact Kate Baltzell, Executive Director at 404-373-2222 or kate@woodlandsgarden.org. It's an excellent space for "eco-walks" and environmental/forest education.
How can we broaden our planning from the City of Atlanta to metro Atlanta and the surrounding area? Many green spaces including old-growth forests exist outside the City of Atlanta. Metro communities and leaders need to be included in the planning to save these green spaces and old growth forests. Regional planning is needed. Have schoolchildren plant trees as part of an educational/community program. This could be done in conjunction with Trees Atlanta. Use the sign-up list for this program to help build a movement to preserve forests.
Is it possible to limit or outlaw selling known invasive species such as English ivy, bamboo, privet and Nandina in nurseries? Or have a way to discourage homeowners and landscapers from using these plants. Thanks for your work!
The single most important thing we can do is cut English ivy at the base of trees. Educate the public and landscapers that this is an excellent way to save trees in people's backyards and on public property.
How can a layperson see the Atlanta City Design Project components? We need funding and restoration money not just buying forests!
A developer has purchased 1609 South Ponce de Leon. The backyard is heavily wooded with lots of old-growth trees. The parcel is approximately 1.4 acres. The developer plans to clear-cut this site to build six 3,500 – 3,800 square foot "cottages" plus sidewalks, driveways and two-car garages for each unit. There is wildlife on the plot, owls and hawks and at least one deer. The area has been undisturbed for about 50 to 70 years. We need to stop this massacre! It is zoned multi-family so zoning and landmark district regulations won't help us. Can you give me some ideas on what to do next? We already have organized concerned neighbors and members of the community. Our group intends to either stop this completely or minimize loss of trees and wildlife habitat.
Why must the City take out huge City-owned trees on Department of Watershed property so we can "expand" (rather than cleverly think about reengineering) a roadway? An example is at Moores Mill and Bolton Road. Hint: they are still there and could yet be saved.
Establish a dedicated funding source for open space. Conduct a thorough study of natural resources and open preservation precedents. How can we apply those to stream buffers? Look at Fort Collins open space and natural areas. City of Boulder. Tucson preservation of saguaro cacti. New York City has committed to having a park within 10 minutes of every resident. Denver has many mountain parks. 3.4.1 land use code in Fort Collins has standard buffer distances and quality performance standards and enhancements to offset degraded resources. One-on-one mitigation for eliminated resource such as prairie dogs and wetlands. Preserve and restore intact ecosystems. I have more ideas and want to participate in any way I can.
Who is responsible for the most destruction of trees happening today? What is creating the incentives for them to destroy forest? Is it possible to change those incentives so that they profit more from preservation? For example, it is easier, faster and therefore apparently more profitable for developers to clear-cut and grade a lot before building. However, if people value homes near trees, perhaps a number can be put to the value that trees add to the property. If houses with old trees and natural growth sell for 20% more, developers who know that would prioritize building around existing flora.
I am the founder of Friends of Memorial Drive Greenway – a proposed stretch of park space along Memorial Drive between the state capital and Oakland Cemetery. We have recently completed a visioning with Park Pride and are looking to better understand how this idea can be brought to fruition more quickly and how it can fit into the planned design and ecosystem of the City of Atlanta resiliency office and City planners.
Create maps and directions to Atlanta's oldest forests that can safely be visited. Photograph them all and share widely with everyone in Atlanta so we can take ownership in our hearts.
Take the City Council and mayoral candidates on walks through the old-growth forests and trees with Kathryn Kolb. How can neighbors and citizens identify old-growth trees in our backyards? Who do we contact for that?
My neighborhood, Peachtree Hills in Buckhead, is losing over 800 trees between two developments along Peachtree Hills Avenue near Peachtree Hills Park. In addition to the 800+ canopy trees, the two developers – Isakson Living and Ashton Woods – have proposed to cut trees and encroach on the stream in Peachtree Hills Park for a private storm water easement. This is the first time in the City of Atlanta that a public park will be used for private benefit. The ordinance is 17-0-1132 and will be voted on Monday, May 1. All parks will be subject to private development if it passes. How do we protect our parks and old-growth forests when the political process is turning a deaf ear? I think we must change the laws to protect our trees more than the current tree ordinance. We should not allow old-growth hardwoods to be lost so easily.
No top-down plans! They must be bottom-up from the community. Experts, vested interests and lack of transparency are the problems. Enforcement of existing ordinances. Acknowledge trade-offs (winners-losers). Openness about costs. Civic drive to raise appreciation of conservation through education. Consent of Governor. It is too easy and too cheap for developers to cut down all the trees on a lot and just pay a fine. When they are building a house that will sell for $1 million or more, the fine is not a deterrent for clearcutting the lot. The city needs to enforce its ordinances consistently. Enforcement is completely lacking.
Create pocket forests, woodlands and parks within denser urban development such as Midtown high-rises. Collaborate with the media to create and update social media with news you can use like tips on living green. Designate urban tree keepers among 10-year-olds. Every five years, a new group is designated. Work with APS and Trees Atlanta. Or each kindergartner gets a tree or forest to protect and follow throughout their lifetime. They will learn about, journal about and study the ecosystem there. Engage the arts community in creating awareness through performance, concerts and other engaging projects.
How can we find out who are the people we should vote for? Perhaps all the interested people in this room could act as a voting block. What commitment could be given from those who wish to be elected? Perhaps we need some hashtags such as #nature art. Thank you for a very special evening. It was not only educational but nice to see a community with a love and commitment to nature.
Is there a network to call to protest when an urban old-growth forest has been purchased by a developer? I want to be in this network! FYI – the southern part of Dearborn Park in Decatur, DeKalb County with a slope into a stream was just bought by Redwater LLD developers. This slope goes directly into a creek and has two champion trees designated by Eli Dickerson.
Identify and protect urban and old-growth forest by law. Acquire green space along streams and 75-foot buffer. Connect these green spaces for biological survival of ecosystems. Connect trails along streams from the City center to rivers like Chattahoochee and South Flint. Build cisterns to collect valuable storm water for community resiliency, to save energy and process less polluted water, less pumping. Use the water near where it falls.
What is a good method for restoring a clear-cut area, step-by-step? Who are some people to consult with about bringing an area back to native forest? I work for Kennesaw State University's sustainability department and am looking for advice for developing native tree canopy on campus. I would like to bring this initiative to Pickens County and the City of Kennesaw. I think it is important to look at areas surrounding the City of Atlanta as well, that might have fewer people who have such a vested interest. I would love to be an ambassador for my county or work with anyone already working in Pickens County. I am joining the Master Gardeners program this year and can hopefully generate more interest through my community involvement in this program. Thank you for all the information and inspiration tonight. I grew up in Chicago and am sad to see it at the bottom of the list for tree canopy of major cities. I will start educating people I know in Chicago as well.
Please do not allow development in fragments of old forest, not counting the trees, but keeping the land as is. DEMAND that newly developed land NOT be graded wholesale, but the lay of the land be maintained. Impose really big fines! Redevelop previously built or paved areas FIRST!
If most of the remnant forest of Atlanta is on private property, how can you protect it? No recompense is equal to the worth of the land. Elementary and other public schools are built on the same model without reference to the land, probably for political reasons. How do you change this? Buffers set aside for woodland protection in the metro area are degraded by erosion and invasive species. How do we fix this? There is almost no seed source left in the metro area of native plants yet streets are planted in double rows of Crape Myrtles. No wonder there is no rejuvenation! We need to change Atlantans' ideas about what is good citizenship. It is not tidy green lawns but reforestation and prairie plantings. There needs to be city services devoted to removal of invasive and tax incentives for people to reforest properly. City creek systems need to be tested, cleaned and restored but that will require working and helping individual property owners. Clearing invasives and restoration requires a lot of work and maintenance at the start. The City must support this work with funding, personnel and tax incentives.
We need a soil ordinance! Designate wildlife corridors using GIS integration with green space. Link English ivy control to homeowners' insurance. If you let ivy go up the tree past 4 feet, you PAY. Glyphosate aerial spraying control to integrate with agriculture department for healthy air, water and insect populations. Integrate with other environmental organizations at the City level like Georgia Native Plant Society, Sierra Club, National Wildlife Federation, Chattahoochee Riverkeeper and the NPU system. Integrate NPU system across all cities in the region. Storm water is key. We must base a storm water tax on usage to build our infrastructure.
Why is it so easy to get a variance to cut down trees in the City of Atlanta? A plan doesn't matter if it's so easy to get around it. Don't let developers break the rules so easily.
Are there some best practices that the real estate development industry can follow and be induced to follow to keep from clear-cutting forests in Atlanta? I'm producing a publication inspired by the old Sierra Club Battlebooks about the loss of tree canopy in Atlanta. What are some resources and people who may want to sponsor or get involved?
Understand each community and educate the community in a way that makes the community care. Activate the community to engage in the way alerts and raises awareness of whoever makes decisions so decision-makers are accountable. Form coalitions so the most important goals, as seen by experts in the community, are talked about and remain in the forefront of discussions. The Fox Theater was saved, so why not the forests? They have tremendous value.
Many people tend to resent government telling them what they can and cannot do with their property. I believe community-based education is a must. Ecological literacy is so important. Think about educating realtors and appraisers, perhaps even insurers. They can educate new buyers and sellers. Offer courses on the value of saving trees at realtors' and developers' conferences. Reduce people's fear of trees falling on their homes. Make this part of the education agenda.
Work with Trees Atlanta and other concerned citizens to strengthen the tree ordinances in Atlanta, Fulton and DeKalb. One speaker mentioned using tree bank funds to buy park space. That's an awesome idea! A hotline is needed to call to report tree destruction. If a neighbor is taking down a specimen tree, there needs to be a network or place to stop it as it is happening if a proper permit was not obtained.
How can we convince contractors and developers to not grade the entire lot or clear-cut it when they build a house on property with undisturbed earth and large trees? Why do we not have a system for using white oaks for lumber when trees are removed rather than chipping it for mulch? The current ordinances to protect huge specimen trees do NOT work. They are a joke.
Why not speak to all the counties surrounding Atlanta like DeKalb and Gwinnett, etc. and try to aggregate forests and build community support and engagement? Decision-makers include county planners, commissioners and neighborhood civic associations. Tree ordinances need to be much stronger. We intend to revise DeKalb County's ordinance. Education about trees and soil is critical, especially to control storm water and manage it for the future growth of the area.
I have lived in Decatur since 2003. I love what the City of Decatur recently did to purchase the United Methodist Children's Home (70 acres) on South Columbia in DeKalb County with the goal of preserving green space for our community versus development of more high-priced housing in an intensely developing community. I would strongly urge our City mayor and commission to educate itself to make the most of this rare opportunity. It would be amazing to see closer collaboration between Atlanta's new urbanists and conservationists with those leaders and others interested in preserving and maintaining our green spaces.
Emphasize what Joan Maloof and Maria Saporta said about building in the white space, i.e. the areas already built and preserving the green space, where forests still exist. We need to incentivize renovation, rehabilitation and preservation of older homes. As an architect, I encounter too many developers who prefer to clear-cut and build new homes because there are so many hurdles to renovating. The opposite should be the case. Expedite and encourage renovation of older homes and raise the bar for new construction.
How do we coordinate the progressive plans of the City of Atlanta with surrounding counties and their growing suburban cities? How do we make this a metro Atlanta plan?
Though this is not viable for every situation or forest, how can we bring back fire as a forest management tool in the urban landscape?
The tree ordinance must be improved. Some trees should not be allowed to be removed – period. The new water retention requirements seem to lead to greater tree loss. The land is completely stripped and the soil dug up to install those underground holds. It is disastrous. Leaving trees in place would process storm water more effectively and be a better overall solution. Tim Keane is a hypocrite. He and his staff don't practice what they preach. They claim there will be redevelopment on developed corridors like Memorial and DeKalb but then approve rezoning to allow 80% lot coverage of R4 properties that were previously contributing to those neighborhood canopies shown tonight.
Developers have known for many years the technologies available to protect large specimen trees during construction. After the 2008 crash, they have further ignored the ways to do this.
Please connect disparate neighborhoods with walking trails for example connecting cul-de-sacs to each other. This could be done through tax incentives for property owners; mandates during any large development; mandates after destructive events like storms or fires that destroyed homes and purchasing some strategic properties.
What can be done to get property owners to protect trees? Developers who buy a house in an old neighborhood for $300,000, clear-cut, grade, remove truckloads of dirt and build something that will sell for $800,000 +, don't pay any attention to tree ordinances.
We are combating developers who have a lot of money. I have screamed at previous Commissioner Chamblee about cutting old-growth trees (37+ in DBH). It is being done over and over. It has been my understanding 37+ on trees should be saved according to the Cobb County ordinances. But they are not. Money is the root of all evil. Eventually, they are going to be sorry. It's just immoral for future generations not to be able to enjoy these trees.
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\section{Introduction}
The deuteron being the simplest two-nucleon bound system is a powerful
instrument to study strong interactions. The reaction of elastic
electron-deuteron scattering provides information not only on NN
interaction but also on the electromagnetic structure of nucleons.
Such investigations at high energies are of great interest nowadays,
especially in the context of future experiments at being upgraded JLab
facilities.

It is necessary  to note that in order to describe the elastic form factors
of the deuteron at high momentum transfer ($Q^2=-q^2 > 2$ (GeV/c)$^2$)
the relativistic properties of the strong interactions should be taken
into account. Here, properties of core nuclear forces play a very important
role. From the physical point of view, elastic electron-deuteron
scattering at transfer
momentum up to 6 (GeV/c)$^2$ is an amazing phenomenon taking into account that
binding energy of the deuteron is very small (2.2 MeV). So the subject
of investigation has a great significance for the nuclear and particle physics.

Some approaches, based on the Bethe-Salpeter (BS)
equation~\cite{Salpeter:1951sz}, satisfy this condition, among them are the
light-front dynamics~\cite{karmanov}, the equal-time
equation~\cite{Pascalutsa:1997vk}, BS approach with separable
interaction~\cite{Bondarenko:2002zz} and so on.
In the last approach, one has to solve the system of linear integral
equations for both the NN scattered states and the bound state --
the deuteron. In order to find a solution of  a system of
integral equations, it is a good idea to use a separable
ansatz~\cite{Bondarenko:2002zz} for the interaction kernel in the
BS equation. Then, one can transform the integral equations
into a system of algebraic linear ones which can be solved.
Parameters of the interaction kernel are extracted from an analysis
of phase shifts for respective partial-wave states and low-energy
parameters as well as deuteron properties (bound state
energy, magnetic moment, elastic form factors etc.).
In the Refs.~\cite{Bondarenko:2008mm} and~\cite{Bondarenko:2010rv}
the latter approach was developed and applied to the reaction
of the deuteron electrodisintegration.

The electromagnetic (EM) structure of nucleons at high momentum transfer
is another topic of interest. In the paper, four models for the nucleon form
factors are used. First of them -- the dipole fit (DFF)~\cite{Pietschmann:1969mj} --
was widely used. The main feature of this model is that the ratio of electric
$G^{\rm E}_{\rm p}$ and magnetic $G^{\rm M}_{\rm p}$ proton form factors
is constant. Another one -- the relativistic harmonic oscillator model (RHOM)~\cite{Burov:1993ia} --
is the quark model with a relativistic harmonic oscillator potential.

However, recently there was an intensive discussion that the ratio
obtained by the Rosenbluth separation technique differs from the
one obtained by the recoil polarization method~\cite{Gayou:2001qd,Jones:1999rz}.
To describe the results of the latter method, it is necessary to use a
certain parametrization of the ratio as some linear function of the transfer
momentum squared. The model with described ratio for the electric proton form factor
and the Galster parametrization~\cite{Galster:1971kv} for the
neutron electric form factor -- modified dipole fit (MDFF1) - is also considered
(see also,~\cite{Egiyan:2007qj} and~\cite{Bondarenko:2010rv}).

Recently the Unitary and Analytic (U\&A) approach has been used to develop new
nine-resonance model~\cite{Adamuscin:2013zoa}. This model which includes
new experimental data on the nucleon EM form factors as well as a new method
of introducing the asymptotic behavior for the EM form factors also used
in calculations.

In contrast to the Ref.~\cite{Rupp:1989sg}, the influence of the new
parametrization of proton electric form factor is investigated, and
in the development of our previous papers~\cite{Bondarenko:2000yg}
and~\cite{Bekzhanov:2013yoa}, the deuteron form factors are calculated
at high energies where the analytic structure of the vertex functions
should be taken into account.

Also we have considered high-energy dynamics of the
poles contributions which arise from the analytic structure of the separable
kernel.

The paper is organized as follows: in Sec.2 we describe the models of the
nucleon form factors and consider analytic structure of the deuteron
EM current in the Sec.3. The obtained results are discussed in Sec.4. In Sec.5
the conclusion is given.

\section{Models of the nucleon form factors}
We calculate elastic electron-deuteron scattering in the relativistic impulse
approximation within the BS approach with the covariant Graz II (rank III)
kernel of the NN interaction~\cite{Mathelitsch:1981mr} and~\cite{Rupp:1989sg}.

Details of the calculations of the deuteron structure functions
$A(q^2)$, $B(q^2)$, charge $F_{\rm C}(q^2)$, quadrupole $F_{\rm Q}(q^2)$ and
magnetic $F_{\rm M}(q^2)$ form factors and tensor polarization
components $T_{20}$, $T_{21}$ of the final deuteron can be found
in~\cite{Bondarenko:2000yg}.

We use four models of the electromagnetic nucleon form factors
(see also,~\cite{Pietschmann:1969mj},~\cite{Egiyan:2007qj},~\cite{Adamuscin:2013zoa} and
~\cite{Burov:1993ia}):
\begin{itemize}
\item the original dipole fit for the proton and neutron form factors (DFF) is
\begin{eqnarray}
&&F_d = (1+Q^2/0.71)^{-2},\nonumber\\
&&G_{\rm E}^{\rm p}=F_d,\hskip 15mm
G_{\rm E}^{\rm n}=0,\nonumber\\
&&G_{\rm M}^{\rm p} = \mu_{\rm p}G_{\rm E}^{\rm p},\hskip 10mm
G_{\rm M}^{\rm n} = \mu_{\rm n}G_{\rm E}^{\rm p}
\label{dff}
\end{eqnarray}
\item the modified dipole fit 1 (MDFF1) is
\begin{eqnarray}
&&G_{\rm E}^{\rm p}=(1-0.13(Q^2-0.04))F_d,\nonumber\\%\hskip 5mm
&&G_{\rm E}^{\rm n}=-\frac{\mu_n\tau}{1+5.6\tau}F_d,\nonumber\\
&&G_{\rm M}^{\rm p} = \mu_{\rm p}F_d,\nonumber\\%\hskip 33mm
&&G_{\rm M}^{\rm n} = \mu_{\rm n}F_d
\label{mdff1}
\end{eqnarray}
In MDFF1 we take into account the latest JLab data~\cite{Gayou:2001qd}
for the proton electric form factor by the following ratio
$\mu_p G_{\rm E}^{\rm p}/G_{\rm M}^{\rm p}=1-0.13(Q^2-0.04)$,
while for the neutron electric form factor we use the
Galster~\cite{Galster:1971kv} parametrization.

\item the proposed nine-resonance U\&A model
of the nucleon has 12 free parameters. Their values were obtained from the
analysis of the existent experimental data and additionally new one measured
recently in Mainz. All details and formulas can be found in
Ref.~\cite{Adamuscin:2013zoa}.

\item the relativistic harmonic oscillator is
\begin{eqnarray}
&&I^{(3)}=\frac{1}{(1+Q^2/2m^2)^2}\nonumber\\
&&\times\exp{\frac{1}{2\cdot0.42}\frac{-Q^2}{1+Q^2/2m^2}},\nonumber\\
&&G_{\rm E}^{\rm p}=I^{(3)},\nonumber\\
&&G_{\rm E}^{\rm n}=Q^2/2m^2 I^{(3)},\nonumber\\
&&\frac{G_{\rm M}^{\rm p}}{\mu_{\rm p}}=\frac{G_{\rm M}^{\rm n}}{\mu_{\rm n}}=I^{(3)}.
\label{rhom}
\end{eqnarray}
The relativistic harmonic oscillator model is based on the quark model with the
relativistic oscillator potential. All the FFs calculated in this model
have the correct asymptotic behavior. The only free parameter in the model is
the oscillator parameter which was found from fitting of the experimental data.
\end{itemize}

Above $\mu_{\rm p}=2.7928$ and $\mu_{\rm n}=-1.9130$ are the magnetic moments
of the nucleons, $Q^2=-q^2>0$ is the transfer momentum squared,
$\tau=Q^2/4m^2$, $m$ is the nucleon mass, and all dimensional parameters
are in (GeV/c)$^2$.

\section{Analytic structure}
After the partial-wave decomposition the matrix element of the deuteron
current has the following form
\begin{eqnarray}
\langle D^{\prime}{\cal M}^{\prime} | j_{\mu} | D {\cal M} \rangle\nonumber
={\cal I}_{1\;\mu}^{{\cal M}^{\prime}{\cal M}}(q^2)\;F_1^{\rm (S)}(q^2)+\\
+{\cal I}_{2\;\mu}^{{\cal M}^{\prime}{\cal M}}(q^2)\;F_2^{\rm (S)}(q^2),\label{dcur-part}\\
{\cal I}_{1,2\;\mu}^{{\cal M}^{\prime}{\cal M}}(q^2)=i\int dp_0\;|\textbf{p}|^2\;d|\textbf{p}|\;d(\cos{\theta})\nonumber\\
\times \sum_{L\prime,L=0,2}\;
\phi_{L\prime}(p_0^{\prime},|\textbf{p}^{\prime}|)\phi_{L}(p_0,|\textbf{p}|)\nonumber\\
\times I^{L^{\prime},L}_{1,2\;{\cal M^{\prime}}{\cal M}\;\mu}(p_0,|\textbf{p}|,\cos{\theta},q^2),\nonumber
\end{eqnarray}
where the function $I^{L^{\prime},L}_{1,2\;{\cal M^{\prime}}{\cal M}\;\mu}
(p_0,|\textbf{p}|,\cos{\theta},q^2)$ is the result of the trace calculations.
The radial part of the amplitude is
\begin{eqnarray}
\phi_{L}(p_0,|\textbf{p}|) = S_{++}(p_0,|\textbf{p}|) g_{L}(p_0,|\textbf{p}|),
\label{phi2g}\end{eqnarray}
with $g_{L}(p_0,|\textbf{p}|)$ being the radial part of the vertex function and
\begin{eqnarray}
S_{++}(p_0,|\textbf{p}|) = \frac{1}{(M_d/2+p_0-E_{\textbf{p}})(M_d/2-p_0-E_{\textbf{p}})},
\label{Spp}\end{eqnarray}
being the positive energy part of the propagators and the
energy $E_{\textbf{p}}=\sqrt{m^2+\textbf{p}^2}$.

Analyzing the analytic structure of expressions~(\ref{phi2g}) and~(\ref{Spp})
we can write the following expression for the poles in the $p_0$ complex plane:
\begin{itemize}

\item initial deuteron

for propagator $S_{++}(p_0,|\textbf{p}|)$:
\begin{eqnarray}
{\bar p_0}=\pm M_d/2 \mp E_{\textbf{p}} \pm i\epsilon,
\label{p0spp}
\end{eqnarray}
for functions $g_{L}(p_0,|\textbf{p}|)$:
\begin{eqnarray}
{\bar p_0}=\pm E_{\beta_k} \mp i\epsilon,
\label{p0beta}
\end{eqnarray}

\item final deuteron

for propagator $S_{++}(p_0^{\prime},|\textbf{p}^{\prime}|)$:
\begin{eqnarray}
{\bar p_0}=-(1+4\eta)M_d\pm \nonumber \\
\pm \sqrt{E_{\textbf{p}}^2+4\xi M_d|\textbf{p}|\cos{\theta}+4\xi^2 M_d^2}\mp i\epsilon,
\label{p01spp}
\end{eqnarray}

for functions $g_{L^{\prime}}(p_0^{\prime},|\textbf{p}^{\prime}|)$:
\begin{eqnarray}
{\bar p_0}=-\eta M_d\pm\nonumber\\
\sqrt{E_{\beta_k}^2+2\xi M_d|\textbf{p}|\cos{\theta}+\xi^2 M_d^2}\mp i\epsilon,
\label{p01beta}
\end{eqnarray}

\end{itemize}
with the energy $E_{\beta_k}=\sqrt{\beta_k^2+\textbf{p}^2}$, $\eta=Q^2/4M_d^2$ and
$\xi = \sqrt{\eta(1+\eta)}$.

To calculate the matrix elements~(\ref{dcur-part}) we should perform the
Wick rotation procedure. However, during the used procedure, the
poles~(\ref{p01spp}) and~(\ref{p01beta}) can get into the contour
of the $p_0$ integration. Additionally, the residue in these poles should
be taken into account. All contributions from the poles have
the threshold value on $Q^2$ which have the following form:\\

for the propagator $S_{++}(p_0^{\prime},|\textbf{p}^{\prime}|)$:
\begin{eqnarray}
Q_0^2 = M_d(2m-M_d),\nonumber
\end{eqnarray}

for the functions $g_{L^{\prime}}(p_0^{\prime},|\textbf{p}^{\prime}|)$:
\begin{eqnarray}
Q^2_k = 4M_d\beta_k.\nonumber
\end{eqnarray}

The Wick rotation procedure can be written as:
\begin{eqnarray}
i\int\limits_{-\infty}^\infty fdp_0 = \int\limits_{-\infty}^{\infty} fdp_4 \nonumber -\\
- 2\pi\sum_k{\theta (Q^2-Q_k^2)\; Res_k(f,p_0=\bar{p}_0^k)},
\label{wick}
\end{eqnarray}
where the threshold values $Q_k^2$ for the Graz II kernel are in table 1.

\begin{table}

\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|}
\hline
$k$ & $Q^2_k$ (GeV/c)$^2$ \\
\hline
 0 & 0.004 \\
 1 & 1.182 \\
 2 & 1.736 \\
 3 & 3.915 \\
 4 & 5.965 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}

\caption {Table 1. Threshold values for the poles of the kernel}
\label{tab:1}
\end{table}

It is seen that calculations with the $Q^2 > 1.182$ (GeV/c)$^2$ must take into
account contribution from the poles of vertex function.

\section{Results and discussion}
Figs. \ref{fig:1}-\ref{fig:6} show the influence of the considered models
of the nucleon electromagnetic form factors to the elastic electron-deuteron
scattering at high momentum transfer.

In Fig. \ref{fig:1} the deuteron structure function $A(q^2)$ is shown.
It is seen that the difference between considered models is significant and
at the $Q^2 = 10$ (GeV/c)$^2$ it reaches the value of about 2 orders for
the Ref.~\cite{Adamuscin:2013zoa} and
RHOM models. We can also see that the best model up to $Q^2 = 3$ (GeV/c)$^2$ is RHOM model
in context of experimental data coincidence, but in high-energy region the result is overestimated.
Also the results show interesting transition in MDFF1 behavior, it behaves like DFF
up to $Q^2 = 3$ (GeV/c)$^2$ and demonstrates the similar behavior with the~\cite{Adamuscin:2013zoa}
model past $Q^2 = 6$ (GeV/c)$^2$.

The deuteron structure function $B(q^2)$ is plotted in Fig.~\ref{fig:2}.
The DFF and MDFF1 results practically coincide till $Q^2 = 10$ (GeV/c)$^2$.
The RHOM and~\cite{Adamuscin:2013zoa} models are significantly differ
from previous ones and each other.
The~\cite{Adamuscin:2013zoa} have a node at approximately $Q^2=6.5$ (GeV/c)$^2$
which can be explained by the node in the proton electric
$G_{\rm E}^{\rm p}$ FF at $Q^2 \sim 11-12$ (GeV/c)$^2$.
Unfortunately there is no high-energy data for the $B(q^2)$ structure
function to make any suggestions about the physicality of such behavior.

In Figs.~\ref{fig:3} and~\ref{fig:4} the deuteron charge $F_{\rm C}(q^2)$ and
quadrupole $F_{\rm Q}(q^2)$ form factors are shown. Like for the $A(q^2)$ and $B(q^2)$
structure functions result of the RHOM model lies much higher than other results. The MDFF1 model
demonstrates the some specific feature in behavior of $F_{\rm C}(q^2)$ where
another one node appears at the $Q^2 = 8.5$ (GeV/c)$^2$ which corresponds
to the node in the proton electric $G_{\rm E}^{\rm p}$ FF. As for $F_{\rm Q}(q^2)$
MDFF1 shows the same transition like in the $A(q^2)$ structure function case.

The tensor component $T_{20}$ are shown in the Fig~\ref{fig:5}.
It is seen that all 4 models practically coincide up to $Q^2 = 4$ (GeV/c)$^2$
and~\cite{Adamuscin:2013zoa} coincides with RHOM up to $Q^2 = 8.5$ (GeV/c)$^2$.

The $T_{21}$ are shown in the Fig~\ref{fig:6}.
It is seen that all results are similar up to $Q^2 = 1$ (GeV/c)$^2$ only.
Let note that~\cite{Adamuscin:2013zoa} coincides with RHOM up to
$Q^2 = 5.5$ (GeV/c)$^2$ and DFF, MDFF1 up to $Q^2 = 4.0$ (GeV/c)$^2$

It should be noted that results for tensor components $T_{20}$ and $T_{21}$ can be
combined into two groups until the $Q^2=4-4.5$ (GeV/c)$^2$ where DFF and MDFF1
models in first pair and~\cite{Adamuscin:2013zoa} and RHOM in second pair
have a very similar behavior.
However in the region with higher energy all four models show very different trend.

Fig.~\ref{fig:7} represents the influence of the vertex function poles to the
full integral value. It is seen that past $Q^2 = 2$ (GeV/c)$^2$ the poles begin
to play an important role. It is surprising that for the $B(q^2)$ structure
function at the $Q^2 = 4.5$ (GeV/c)$^2$ contribution of the poles of the separable kernel become crucial,
while for the $A(q^2)$ their contribution hardly reach $25\%$
on the whole interval. The result for the function $B(q^2)$ is because
the contributions for the $3D$- and $2D_1$-integrals (see Eq.~(\ref{wick}))
have different signs and their sum become much smaller
then contribution of the residue in the poles of deuteron vertex function.

\begin{figure}[!htpb]
  \begin{center}
    \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{A.eps}
  \end{center}
\caption{
Fig.1.
The deuteron structure function $A(q^2)$ as a function of the transfer momentum
squared. Calculations with DFF (black solid line), MDFF1 (dashed red line),
~\cite{Adamuscin:2013zoa} (gray dotted line) and RHOM (blue dashed dotted line)
nucleon form factors are shown. Experimental data are taken from~\cite{data:A}.}
\label{fig:1}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[!htpb]
  \begin{center}
    \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{B.eps}
  \end{center}
\caption{
Fig.2.
As in Fig.\ref{fig:1}, but for the structure function $B(q^2)$.
Experimental data are taken from~\cite{data:B} and~\cite{data:B1}.}
\label{fig:2}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[!htpb]
  \begin{center}
    \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{Fc.eps}
  \end{center}
\caption{
Fig.3.
As in Fig.\ref{fig:1}, but for the charge form factor $F_{\rm C}(q^2)$.
Experimental data are taken from~\cite{data:T20}.}
\label{fig:3}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[!htpb]
  \begin{center}
    \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{Fq.eps}
  \end{center}
\caption{
Fig.4.
As in Fig.\ref{fig:1}, but for the quadrupole form factor $F_{\rm Q}(q^2)$.
Experimental data are taken from~\cite{data:T20}.}
\label{fig:4}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[!htpb]
  \begin{center}
    \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{T20.eps}
  \end{center}
\caption{
Fig.5.
As in Fig.\ref{fig:1}, but for the tensor polarization component $T_{20}(q^2)$.
Experimental data are taken from~\cite{data:T20}.}
\label{fig:5}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[!htpb]
  \begin{center}
    \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{T21.eps}
  \end{center}
\caption{
Fig.6.
As in Fig.\ref{fig:1}, but for the tensor polarization component $T_{21}(q^2)$.
Experimental data are taken from~\cite{data:T20}.}
\label{fig:6}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[!htpb]
  \begin{center}
    \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{poles_contribution.eps}
  \end{center}
\caption{
Fig.7.
$3D+2D_1$-integral contribution to the full result.}
\label{fig:7}
\end{figure}

\section{Conclusion}
In the paper the elastic electron-deuteron scattering in the relativistic
impulse approximation within the Bethe-Salpeter approach with the covariant
Graz II kernel of the nucleon-nucleon interaction is considered. Calculations
are performed at high momentum transfer up to 10 (GeV/c)$^2$. The analytic
structure of the vertex functions are taken into account. The result of
calculations with four models of the nucleon form factors are compared.
It is necessary to stress that considered high energies are required to take
into account relativistic properties of the deuteron.

As for the significant change between nucleon form factors models there is
a lack of experimental data to make any statements about which model is closer
to real physics.

The difference between presented theoretical calculations and experimental
data can be explained as it is necessary to take into account additional
contributions. Thus, the next step is to use the modern separable
kernel of nucleon-nucleon interaction~\cite{Bondarenko:2008mm}.
As an extension to the calculations, some effects should be taken into
account. Among them are the relativistic P-states in the deuteron, two-body
interaction currents and off-mass shell nucleon effects (see,
e.g.~\cite{Bondarenko:2002zz},~\cite{hamamoto:2005}).
As concerning off-mass shell effects in this approach, there is a possibility
to solve inverse task and to determine the behavior of nucleon form factors
of bound nucleon.

\section*{Acknowledgments}
Authors are grateful to the Professors S. Dubni\v{c}ka, A.Z. Dubni\v{c}kova,
Drs. C. Adamu\v{s}\v{c}\'{i}n and E. Barto\v{s} for providing data on
EM nucleon form factors (U\&A model).

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