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Today's construction firms have implemented drone technology to incredible effect. They've enjoyed a broad spectrum of benefits, using unmanned aerial vehicles to improve safety and security measures, update traditional land surveying techniques and streamline management methods.
Let's take a look at those benefits in greater detail, exploring the many applications of UAVs in the construction industry.
- Improvements to Safety and Security
Construction workers have to remain diligent when they're on a site. Their awareness is essential to avoiding hazards, and even a minor distraction can prove dangerous if a laborer is momentarily negligent. Whether it's an unsteady scaffold or a falling object, the risks are very real, and caution is critical.
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Construction firms also use drones to protect against theft and vandalism. Their "eye in the sky" can take pictures of criminals as they engage in unlawful activity, collecting evidence to bring these offenders to justice. More than that, a drone serves as an effective deterrent to malicious individuals.
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Traditional methods of land surveying have taken a back seat to modern technology. A construction project is generally a complicated, labor-intensive process, but drones have reduced the effort involved in planning and organization. They can produce accurate surveys far more quickly than a worker could.
Surveyors have to participate in both fieldwork and office work, making precise measurements of a property's boundaries before recording the information for later use. They often have to stand for extended periods and walk long distances, trekking through inclement weather. Project managers with access to drones, however, can cut down on labor costs and survey a piece of land with speed and efficiency. They can also make use of 3D laser scanners, which provide high-quality images of terrain, making note of variations in dirt patterns and other minuscule details to inform their approach.
- Improvements to Management
A construction project has a set schedule, and deviation can harm a company's bottom line. Project managers have to make educated decisions to keep their team moving in the right direction, correcting their trajectory if they notice they're off-track or over the allotted budget. It's a difficult balance to strike.
With structural building sites and civil engineering operations, project managers also have to account for earth-moving and excavation equipment. If they mishandle this heavy machinery, it could jeopardize their plans, but fortunately, drones can help these tools perform with greater precision through careful surveillance.
As a drone monitors a site, it provides a crew with real-time information, lending managers and supervisors more control over the variables that determine a build's success. They can prevent problems before they happen, and if the problems are unavoidable, they can attend to them quickly to limit losses.
- High Expectations for the Future
As more construction firms adopt drone technology for use in the field, they'll enjoy benefits beyond those detailed here. While it's true that fewer injuries, less criminal activity, updated land surveying methods and improved management practices are all important, the advantages of aerial equipment don't end there.
Project managers will also see simplified transportation and inspections. Drones have no shortage of applications in the construction industry, and firms are only scratching the surface of what they can achieve with recent innovations in robotics. No matter how they choose to implement these innovations, they can only go up from here.
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New Delhi, Sep 28 (IANS) Gharib Nawaz Skill Development Centres, to be set up across the country soon, would also offer a training course for sanitary supervisors, Union Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi announced on Thursday.
Naqvi, who participated in 'shramdaan' or voluntary service at Maulana Azad Education Foundation campus under "Swachhta Hi Seva" (cleanliness is service) campaign, said the course of about three-six months duration will create job opportunities for the poor youth from minority communities.
It will also help strengthen 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan', Naqvi said.
The course will include training in use of latest technology and machines in cleaning and preparation of compost from biodegradable garbage.
Naqvi said 100 Gharib Nawaz Skill Development Centres will be established across the country, where the youth belonging to the minority communities will be provided job-oriented skill development training.
Speaking on the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Campaign), launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 2, 2014, Naqvi said that for the first time after independence, cleanliness has "not remained just a matter of habit but has become a passion" and that cleanliness has become a people's movement.
The Minister said that his Ministry has been constructing toilets in a large number of madrasas and other minority institutions and connecting them with the cleanliness campaign.
He said that the Ministry for Minority Affairs is organising "Swacchta Hi Seva" campaign from September 15 to October 2 at its headquarters, the Antyodaya Bhawan, offices of National Minority Development Financial Corporation, Maulana Azad Education Foundation, and state waqf boards across the country.
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When writing a will that determines who gets the house and the good china, take a moment to consider what happens to our online possessions too after the final curtain
When London resident Matt Thompson committed suicide in July 2015, he left 4,500 family photos and 900 videos on his Apple iPhone. When his widow, Rachel, asked Apple for access to these photos and videos to help their young daughter, Matilda, remember her father, the tech giant refused, stating that Matt had not left any instructions about what should happen to his account in the event of his death.
After a three-year legal battle, in May of this year a judge finally ordered Apple to give Rachel access to her husband's account. She was only able to take Apple to court because the lawyers fighting her case agreed to work for no fee.
Accessing the 'digital assets' of loved ones who die without leaving instructions about what do with them is becoming an increasing problem.
When we say 'digital assets', we're not talking about things like online bank accounts; those funds can be inherited like any other financial assets. We're talking about a library of digital photos that reside behind a computer password, sitting in a data centre owned by Google or Microsoft. A music collection worth thousands of pounds on Apple's iTunes. A library of books on an Amazon Kindle, a gambling account, a Bitcoin wallet, frequent flier miles, a personal website, an Instagram account that makes money from advertising, or a Facebook account that's just for friends and family.
Only 13% of us have made plans for our social media accounts after death, according to the Digital Legacy Association, and only 23% have made plans for our purchased digital assets.
But the technology companies that often hold our digital assets won't just pass on the data to a spouse or parent without clear instruction – to them, user privacy is paramount. Tech companies have usually complied with court orders such as the one awarded to Rachel Thompson, but as a digitally minded population starts to age, this will become an increasingly common problem, and we can't all go to court.
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A tangible asset can be passed down in a will under the law, regardless of whether it has value. People assume the same will be true for digital assets, but it's not.
"This is an emerging area of law," says Gary Rycroft, Partner at Joseph A Jones & Co in Lancaster and Chair of the digital assets working group at the Law Society.
Commenting on the Thompson case, he says: "The point Apple is making is that they're [holding] data for someone who they have a contractual arrangement with. They don't want to breach that contract without having either express permission of the person, or a court order."
Rycroft doesn't think we'll all end up in court over this, as long as we catch on to the fact that we need to leave instructions. "Making a will is key," he says. "Make it clear what you want, and then Apple or whoever will know that they have your blessing to pass on your digital assets to [your nominated person]."
Several digital services now have procedures to formalise this process: Google's Inactive Account Manager and Facebook's Legacy Settings page both allow you to nominate a trusted contact to handle the account should you pass away.
But the nature of ownership is changing. While one photo storage service will let users rent storage space and retain ownership, others will not. Anything you upload to Facebook becomes theirs, for example. And anything that you buy on iTunes isn't actually yours; it's just something you have the right to access – and that right dies with you.
Donna Withers, Head of Probate and Wills at Bedell Cristin in Jersey, says that the matter of digital assets is so new that clients who come to see her don't often have a good grasp of it.
"It's something that we bring up with people whenever they're making their ordinary wills. We will ask them what [online] accounts they have," says Withers.
Like most modern day will and probate lawyers, Withers finds herself having to tell people about what is and isn't possible to cover in a standard will.
The fate of people's digital assets will come down to the terms and conditions of the service in question, and it can vary widely: air miles or flight status will vanish when the user dies, for example. Instagram will memorialise or close down an account on receipt of a death certificate, while the only option Twitter offers is to delete an account.
With Bitcoin, there's only one password and if that's lost, the money is too – that's what happened earlier this year when $190m in cryptocurrency was permanently lost following the death of the person who held the key.
A simple solution to all this is to write down all your online accounts and passwords, alongside instructions for what you want to happen to them when you die.
"But that goes against digital advice that you should never write down your password. Not to mention that you could be in breach of the terms of your contract," says Withers. As a lawyer, she cannot recommend this course of action, but she says it's common for people to leave sealed envelopes alongside their wills to be handed over after death.
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There will be as many as two billion dead Facebook accounts by the end of the century, according to the Oxford Internet Institute.
Some people like the idea of living on in digital form, whereas others find it distasteful. Leaving behind instructions will likely be reassuring both for you and your family, but a will governing the fate of digital assets may not be legally binding as people are ultimately bound by the individual user contracts with the companies that issued the service.
The Digital Legacy Association has templates for a 'social media will', noting this is a 'statement of preferences' and not something that can be enforceable in court.
Elisabeth Ferrara, a Legal Assistant who specialises in wills and probate at Viberts in Jersey, recommends printing wills and adding physical signatures from you and two witnesses, even for assets that exist in digital form – the law has yet to recognise a digital signature.
She also points out that there's a difference between digital assets and digital presence, and you can only leave provisions in your will for the former. While you can argue that a social media account has value, the problem is that the user is probably still bound by the provider's terms and conditions.
"In Jersey we have [two] types of assets: immovable estate is property and land, and movable assets, which tends to be pretty much everything that isn't land," Ferrara explains. This broad definition is helpful, as a social media account that earns advertising, for example, could count as a movable asset under the law.
"The nature of assets is changing with the growth of electronic assets," says Ferrara – we actually rent a lot of the things we may think we own, she adds. But if the law changes to bring that ownership back into our hands, Ferrara believes the broad definition of movable assets under Jersey law means the jurisdiction should be reasonably well set up to respond to it.
Currently, she says, "it is very much up to the company to decide what's going to happen [to your data] after death".
As mentioned earlier, writing down your online passwords and putting them somewhere safe is technically not allowed, just like you're not supposed to log into an online service as someone else. But that may not be something that most people consider to be very fair – if you've paid for the music, shouldn't it be yours to do with as you please? And if you give your spouse your computer password, is that really a crime?
Rycroft expects the law might change to reflect the fact that people don't find this fair. "In the US, there's been much more activity in terms of law reform, [arguing] we should be able to pass these [assets] on." He thinks the UK will follow suit. "There's increasing awareness by consumers and there [will be] a backlash eventually."
Until then, the service providers will in all likelihood become better at dealing with the fact that customers die – and hopefully start prompting us to fill in the legacy information rather than hiding the form deep down in the settings. And until the law catches up, while it's technically forbidden, a lot of us are likely to leave a list of passwords somewhere safe, with instructions to our loved ones to download our assets or close accounts, without needing to go through the formalities.
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Emerging infectious diseases continue to pose serious threats to global public health. So far, however, few published study has addressed the need for manpower reallocation needed in hospitals when such a serious contagious outbreak occurs.
To quantify the demand elasticity of the major surgery types in order to guide future manpower reallocation during contagious outbreaks.
Materials and Methods
Based on a nationwide research database in Taiwan, we extracted the monthly volumes of major surgery types for the period 1998–2003, which covered the SARS period, in order to carry out a time series analysis. The demand elasticity of each surgery type was then estimated by autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) analysis.
During the study period, the surgical volumes of most selected surgery types either increased or remained steady. We categorized these surgery types into low-, moderate- and high-elastic groups according to their demand elasticity. Appendectomy, 'open reduction of fracture with internal fixation' and 'free skin graft' were in the low demand elasticity group. Transurethral prostatectomy and extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy (ESWL) were in the high demand elasticity group. The manpower of the departments carrying out the surgeries with low demand elasticity should be maintained during outbreaks. In contrast, departments in charge of surgeries mainly with high demand elasticity, like urology departments, may be in a position to have part of their staff reallocated.
Taking advantage of the demand variation during the SARS period in 2003, we adopted the concept of demand elasticity and used a time series approach to figure out an effective index of demand elasticity for various types of surgery that could be used as a rational reference to carry out manpower reallocation during contagious outbreak situations.
Citation: Tsao H-M, Sun Y-C, Liou D-M (2015) A Rational Approach to Estimating the Surgical Demand Elasticity Needed to Guide Manpower Reallocation during Contagious Outbreaks. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0122625. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0122625
Academic Editor: Nicholas G. Reich, University of Massachusetts, UNITED STATES
Received: July 22, 2014; Accepted: February 23, 2015; Published: April 2, 2015
Copyright: © 2015 Tsao et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
Data Availability: All relevant data are within the paper.
Funding: This work is supported by Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan, grant number (V103B-039). The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
In the past few decades, emerging infectious diseases, such as SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), have posed serious threats to global public health [1]. With rapid spread and high mortality rates, these diseases often lead to tremendous public fear [2, 3]. Ample studies have been reported concerning effective disease control in hospitals in such circumstances [4–7]. Nevertheless, to our best knowledge, there is few published study on how to reallocate manpower in hospitals when facing the disastrous contagious outbreaks [8]. While healthcare providers are at the high risk of infection, unnecessary staffing is inevitably to raise the risk of disease transmission. It is therefore mandatory for healthcare institutions to reallocate manpower from less in demand services to critical ones.
In this study, we adopted the concept of demand elasticity from economics in order to analyze demand elasticity for major surgery categories. In economics, "elasticity" refers to the degree of responsiveness to a specific factor and "demand elasticity" refers to the changes in demand quantity in response to a specific factor, such as price, income, or risk. Nevertheless, it is essentially difficult to estimate the demand elasticity of medical services since both supply and demand are usually quite stable in the healthcare market. One of the common exceptions to bring about fluctuations is a natural catastrophe (such as Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans). Once it occurs, both supply and demand may change. During the SARS epidemic in Taiwan, in contrast, however, the supply of medical services remained steady, while the demands for medical services decreased dramatically due to public fear [2, 9, 10]. Hence, medical claim data across the SARS period should be able to serve as the correct basis to estimate the demand elasticity of various types of medical services.
We took advantage of the medical claim data across the period of SARS outbreak in Taiwan and applied time series analysis in order to estimate the demand elasticity of surgery. Time series analysis is used in various scientific fields to uncover hidden patterns or to forecast future values; it requires a sequence of data points that are collected at consecutive uniform time intervals. Thus, we used monthly surgical volumes as the time series data and calculated mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) to serve as an index of demand elasticity.
In this paper, we created an indicator for demand elasticity that addresses three goals: (1) to identify the demand elasticity of selected major surgery categories; (2) to categorize different surgeries according to their demand elasticity; and (3) to create guidance for manpower reallocation during contagious outbreaks. According to the results of time series analysis, we categorized the resulting index values, based on demand elasticity, into three groups, namely low, moderate and high demand elasticity. Surgeries with low demand elasticity refer to those always in a consistent service demand. In contrast, the service demand of surgeries with high demand elasticity fluctuates dramatically. Next, we used demand elasticity to categorize the various types of surgery. The demand elasticity indices for each surgical category can be applied to properly reallocate staffing during contagious disease outbreaks in the future.
Materials and Methods
The National Health Insurance (NHI) program in Taiwan was launched in 1995. It covered 93% of population in Taiwan in 1997 and kept increasing thereafter to 99% by the end of 2010. The National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD) is a nationwide database extracted from the claim data of the NHI program for research purposes [11]. This anonymous database contains information regarding inpatient and outpatient medical claims, including prescription records. In this study, we used a longitudinal cohort dataset (Longitudinal Health Insurance Database, LHID2005) that contains claim data of one million randomly sampled individuals who were insured in 2005 [12]. This dataset has been confirmed as having no significant differences in either age, gender or health care costs from its whole population composed of all beneficiaries under the NHI program.
In this study, we used inpatient claim data retrieved between 1998 and 2003 from LHID2005. Inpatient records comprise administrative information including admission month, year, admission type, and various demographic information such as age, gender, and medical costs as well as medical information such as diagnosis and procedure carried out. ICD9-CM procedure codes are used to code procedures and surgery in this database. The first two digits represent general procedures, followed by two digits that describe in more detail the specific subtype of the general procedure. For example, ICD9-CM procedure codes 47.0, 47.01 and 47.02 represent appendectomies, laparoscopic appendectomies and other appendectomies, respectively. Thus the last two codes provide detailed information about the specific surgical technique employed. Based on our research purpose, we used the first three digits of the ICD9-CM procedure codes only; thus in the example above, 47.01 and 47.02 were represented in our study by 47.0X.
We conducted ARIMA analysis to estimate the demand elasticity of various selected major surgery categories performed by obstetricians, urologists, orthopedists, gastroenterologists, colorectal surgeons, neurosurgeons and general surgeons as listed in Table 1. For each surgery type, we first used the monthly surgical volume from 1998 to 2001 as time series data to identify the best ARIMA model, namely the one with the lowest AIC (Akaike information criterion). Then, a Q-test was performed to see if the error was autocorrelated. Next the dataset for 2002 was used as an out-of-sample dataset for model selection and evaluation, and MAPE was used to estimate the prediction power. MAPE is the average difference between observed volume and predicted volume, divided by observed volume. For all out-of-sample evaluations, the MAPE values for all models were less than 25%. The augmented Dickey–Fuller (ADF) test is a unit root test performed to examine whether the data were stationary. Lastly, after model evaluation, the time series data from 1998 to 2002 were used to forecast surgical volume in 2003. The observed data and expected data were plotted along with their 95% confidence intervals. The SARS epidemic in Taiwan started in March 2003 and lasted until July 2003. During this period, the needs for medical services decreased dramatically, particularly in May [10]. Therefore, we defined the MAPE value for May 2003 as an index of demand elasticity. All p values of <0.05 were considered to be statistically significant.
All claim data in the research database, which we applied for this study, were anonymized and de-identified before its release. According to the local regulations, informed consent is not required in this situation. This study was reviewed and exempted from full review by the institutional review board of Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
During the study period, the surgical demands grew steadily with the expanding and aging population of Taiwan. The surgical volumes of the selected surgery types either increased or remained steady over time, with the exception of total abdominal hysterectomy (ICD9 code 68.4X) (Fig 1). Several studies have reported that vaginal hysterectomy is safer and has fewer complications than abdominal hysterectomy, thus, the route for carrying out hysterectomy is shifting toward the vaginal approach. In fact, the total volume for hysterectomies showed a growing trend over the study period.
(A) Open reductions of fracture (B) Procedures related to hemorrhoids (C) appendectomies, and (D) total abdominal hysterectomies.
Table 1 shows the monthly volume and the demand elasticity of each selected surgery type. We arbitrarily classified the surgery types into three categories according to their demand elasticity indices. Indices below 30, in the range 30–190 and above 190, represented low, moderate and high demand elasticity, respectively. Appendectomy (ICD9 code 47.0X) was found to have the lowest elasticity index, followed in order by 'open reduction of fracture with internal fixation' (ICD9 code 79.3X) and 'free skin graft' (ICD9 code 86.6X) as having the next lowest elasticity indices. A low demand elasticity implies that the fear for SARS did not make any significant change in the elasticity and that the observed values for the relevant month, May 2003, fall into the expected range obtained using the ARIMA models. Fig 2A illustrates the monthly volume of appendectomies in 2003.
Monthly volume (y axis) is plotted against time (x axis). The solid line shows the observed values. The dashed line shows the predicted values and 95% confidence intervals (dotted lines). The vertical dotted line indicates the period with an outbreak of SARS in Taiwan. (A) During the SARS epidemic, the observed surgical volume for appendectomy remained stable. (B) The observed volume for transurethral prostatectomy during the SARS epidemic decreased dramatically, which implies that transurethral prostatectomy has a high demand elasticity.
The high demand elasticity group consisted of transurethral prostatectomy (ICD9 code 60.2X) and extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy (ICD9 code 98.5X). A high demand elasticity means that the needs for surgery were seriously impacted during the SARS period. Specifically, the observed monthly volumes, especially in April and May 2003, dropped much lowers than the expected values. Fig 2B illustrates the monthly volume of transurethral prostatectomies in 2003. The remaining surgery types all fell into the moderate demand elasticity group.
In a situation where an emerging infectious disease outbreak comes into an epidemic, hospitals need to reallocate some of their staff from their normal tasks to disease control and patient care. Since ESWL and transurethral prostatectomy have the high demand elasticity, relevant staff may be the suitable target to be reallocated., The manpower serving the surgeries with low demand elasticity should be maintained at least in a normal status. On the other hand, for surgical departments that fall into the moderate demand elasticity group, it will be necessary for institution managers to take additional factors into account before changing their manpower levels.
When facing an emerging infectious disease, we need to prepare ahead before the epidemic really out breaks, e.g. manpower reallocation planning and ward space preparation. The effect of traumatic events like a SARS epidemic is distinct from a natural catastrophe. Although the total casualties related to SARS were limited, the outbreak did cause tremendous panic in the public. In this study, we combined the concept of demand elasticity and the technique of time series analysis, and as a result were able to elucidate the demand elasticity for various specific surgeries. This provides us with information necessary to predict service demand during an infectious outbreak situation so that the real surgical demand elasticity based on quantitative evidence can be calculated. The strength of this study is that it was able to quantify surgical demand elasticity as a reference point for future manpower reallocation guidance.
From the general view of medical practice, our results are fairly rational. In essence, surgery with low demand elasticity is almost emergent in nature, as confirmed by our study that appendectomies, open reductions of fracture and free skin grafts are all the types of surgery present in low demand elasticity group. They are also emergencies needed to be done as soon as possible. In contrast, the types of surgery with high demand elasticity are usually elective in nature—the patients may go through quite a long period of time from occurrence of indication, being informed of the need for surgery, and the final action of surgery. Transurethral prostatectomy and ESWL, which are members of the high demand elasticity group in our study, are usually elective. The most common indication for transurethral prostatectomy is benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). Patients with BPH may have trouble with urination; for example, an urgency to urinate. Generally, the symptoms are tolerable without emergency unless there is urinary obstruction and infection. ESWL for urinary calculus is in similar case. Compared with the risk of contracting SARS, discomfort caused by BPH or urinary calculus is much less threatening. The patients would rather avoid receiving surgery during the SARS epidemic and thus decreased the demand for transurethral prostatectomy and ESWL.
A great number of reports have emphasized the need to increase the manpower supply and expand health services during contagious outbreaks, but these studies provide little recommendation or guidance on how such manpower reallocation can be achieved [4–7]. It is generally agreed that superfluous staffing should shift from the less demanding departments to the medical areas where extra manpower is urgently needed. In addition to the issue of surplus and shortage of manpower, the cost of resources repurposing should also be taken into account. As in our case, urologists are specialized for localized infection like UTI; they may not be competent enough to aid disease control. In order to help control the outbreak situation, they may need some specific training. This repurposing not only costs money but also takes time. Murphy et. al. have proposed a competency-based approach to health human resources planning. In their approach, the healthcare providers' competence is the key component for manpower reallocation regardless of the service demand of the original settings. We suggest that surgery demand elasticity can serve as another dimension to optimize the practice of manpower reallocation during an infectious outbreak.
There are some limitations to this study. Firstly, this is just an observational study. Inevitably, extraneous factors may have affected the findings. In addition, the existing data may be incomplete, inaccurate, or inconsistently collected over time. Secondly, the volumes of surgery were analyzed using claim data. Therefore, if the surgery was not coded as major surgery during inpatient episodes, slight deviations from the real volumes of surgery might exist. Finally, the results from Taiwan's medical claim data may not be directly applicable to the situation in other countries.
Taking advantage of the demand variation during the SARS epidemic period in 2003 in Taiwan, we used the concept of demand elasticity and the method of time series, to calculate elasticity indices for various types of surgery. The results are plausible from a medical point of view and therefore we believe that the demand elasticity index can be used as a rational reference for manpower reallocation during infectious outbreak situations.
We thank Przemyslaw Jura, MS, Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, for reviewing the manuscript and providing very helpful comments.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: HMT YCS DML. Performed the experiments: HMT. Analyzed the data: HMT YCS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HMT DML. Wrote the paper: HMT YCS.
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Close to the race track there is an area where spectators can put up their tents or park their motorhomes (against a small fee).
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The School Council discussed the lack of Clubs available to Y3. Mr Hargrave agreed to discuss the issue with the teaching staff and see what might be done to address this issue.
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Mr Hargrave agreed to ask Pete, who runs Chess Club, if it might be possible for some Y3s to join. Mr Hargrave agreed to report back.
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Syn. -- thong, merkin.
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Charlie Stewart
The right winger possessed an electric turn of pace and powerful right-footed shot. He was the 98th player to represent Australia, which he did on five occasions between 1947 and 1955, scoring three goals.
Stewart's defining contribution to the green and gold came during the Socceroos' three game series against New Zealand on home soil in 1954.
Having lost the first match to the All Whites, Stewart scored a brace in a man-of-the-match performance in Game 2 to help square the ledger. He backed up the effort, again finding the back of the net in the decider as the Aussies clinched the series with a 4-1 win in Sydney.
Stewart played his club football for Woonona-Bulli in the NSW State League from 1943-1959, making his Senior debut at just 15 years of age and going on to make 393 appearances, scoring 234 goals. He later coached the Senior team to the title in 1960 and was made a life member of Woonona Football Club.
During the club's 114 year celebrations in 2003 Stewart was named in Woonona's Legends Team and voted the Clubman of the Century.
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Hey there! Join me on my "Crochet and Conversations" adventures.
I've rekindled my love of crochet and thought this would be a great way to create an opening to some cool conversations with all kinds of people.
Every week, you'll come with me on a new Stitch Session journey as I mix in a few tutorials with some in depth conversations on life, crochet and everything in between. (So pretty much everything and anything;) Here guests are free to really get deep and express themselves.
I'm excited to get crocheting and chatting with my guests. You just never know who will agree to sit down and Stitch with me and I'm super glad you're tagging along for the adventure!
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Join us for a fun series called the 12 Gifts of Crochet. Each month we will be creating a crochet gift trying to keep in theme with that month. We're all about planning ahead and this will be a great way to get you ready for any occasion coming up this year.


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Congratulations to the following winners of the Bradford IHG sports Travel Competition. Major prize winners have scored themselves a $10,000 sports travel experience of their choosing; and runners up have each won a $500 debit card.
Major Prize Winner: Dave Carter
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1. Information on how to enter and prizes form part of these Conditions of Entry. Entry into this competition is deemed acceptance of these Conditions of Entry. Photos contained in materials used to promote this competition are for illustrative purposes only.
2. Entry is only open to all Australian residents over the age of 18 years. Employees of the Promoter and its agencies associated with this competition, and their immediate families, are ineligible to enter.
3. This promotion is a judged competition. To participate in the competition, each eligible entrant must, during the promotion period, purchase any Bradford Insulation product in one transaction from a participating IHG store, then complete an entry form at: www.BradfordSportsExperience.com.au Each eligible entrant must upload a clear image of the transaction invoice and fully complete the online entry form together with a submission of 40 words or less to answer the following: "What is the dream sporting event you would travel to if you win and why?" The submission must be received by the Promoter during the promotion period. Each entry will be judged based on the following criteria: originality and inspirational appeal. Multiple entries from the same eligible entrant are permitted but limited to one entry per transaction.
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Mistakes are something I find that my thoughts revolve around quite often. Naturally I am typically pretty hard on myself when I make a mistake. Maybe it's being a Virgo or maybe it's something else but I find it very easy to fall into a nasty judgmental and super critical state of mind when it comes […]Read More
I spent part of my evening today with the music turned up and dancing in the kitchen all by myself…and I was loving it. Last Friday, I enjoyed sipping a beer while watching everyone else buzz around me…I look forward to my time curled up on my bed with my laptop before I hit the […]Read More
Last night I stopped by a local brewery and grabbed a beer. It was a last minute decision after running to the store. This was a solo stop and I almost didn't do it. I almost let fear and society stigma stop me from doing it. But I pushed myself, it was something I wanted to […]Read More
Today's prompt is 'Challenges'. I have so many thoughts around this prompt that I struggled a little getting my thoughts organized and deciding which way I wanted to go with today's post. With everything that is going on in our world today, we are faced with challenges, both big and small, on a daily basis. […]Read More
So I'm sitting at the kitchen table snacking on some pretzel sticks and a new delicious dip I picked up yesterday while out running errands with my Ma, an Onion Horseradish Dip. It wasn't spicy to taste but after a few bites I noticed my sinuses started to get a burning sensation. I thought geez, […]Read More
Sundays are my favorite day of the week! Maybe it's because I'm a power planner and I look forward to prepping for the week ahead. Or maybe it's because I always squeeze a little lazy time into my Sundays to chill and refresh for the busy week I know is coming. Or maybe there's just […]Read More
It's Day 7 of the #loveblog2018! Today's prompt is 'Wellness' and this is a topic that has become a huge focus in I grew up with a mom in the medical field and a dad in safety management so I guess wellness has always been a part of my life in some way or another […]Read More
Guilty Pleasures. I'm sitting here eating my third piece of cake this weekend thinking about what I want to write for my #loveblog prompt, guilty pleasures. Yes, third piece of cake. Saturday it was a rollerskating birthday party for my son's step-cousin with a gorgeous unicorn cake with amazingly delicious fondant and icing, Saturday night it […]Read More


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(On DVD, October 2008) As sugary-sweet as it is lazily put-together, this unabashedly romantic fable is mistaken in thinking that the simple mechanics of a feel-good film can somehow compensate for contrived plot mechanics. The setup of the story clearly announces what's in store, as a fleeing relationship between a classical musician and an Irish rocker result in a kid whose existence is wiped clean by a overbearing grandfather. A decade later, all members of this separate family start looking for each other even as the child has become a musical prodigy whose music will be performed in Central Park, but only if he can avoid the clutches of a mysterious ragamuffin impresario. (Hey, I told you it was contrived.) The complications are as artificial as the way the story is resolved, with happenstance and chance glances. I admit that being overly critical of this film is like kicking an adorable puppy, but the alternative is encouraging films that are just as indifferently put together. Despite the film's interest in music as a transcending, perhaps supernatural force, there's little of that magic at play in the film. It ends abruptly, almost as if it realizes how ashamed it should be of itself. The DVD contains several deleted scenes that merely prolong the agony.
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Appaloosa (2008)
(In theaters, October 2008) This is an old-fashioned western drama with all the usual fixings (trains, horses, six-shooters, saloons, hats, villains, Indians, Mexicans and so on) and little in terms of radical genre re-interpretation. It's basically a tragic buddy-movie, or what happens when a woman comes in-between them. The dialogue is clipped and folksy, the tough guys remain tough guys, and the bad people get killed. There's enough here to please both the traditionalists and those who think that westerns are a fertile ground for slash fiction. Alas, there's a limit to the enjoyment such pictures can create, and Appaloosa remains too well-mannered and too conventional to take chances. Ed Harris' direction in generally unremarkable, while the short growled lines of dialogue can be hard to understand without subtitles. The two female characters are plot devices, which also goes to the film's villains and allies: only the two protagonists are really worth considering. In a way, charming throwbacks to classic westerns are nowadays unusual enough to be interesting, but there's a good reason why they don't make as many westerns as they used to: the genre's palette is limited, and it doesn't take much to touch upon all the essential points if you're coloring inside the lines.
Headwind, John J. Nance
Jove, 2001, 432 pages, C$10.99 mmpb, ISBN 0-515-13262-4
One of genre writers' most essential skills is the ability to cover one's traces. It may be the difference between acclaimed writers and the hacks. What separates a tired formula from a successful one. Robert B. Parker's Spencer books always work in roughly the same ways, for instance, but he does it so well that few fans will mind. Parker has perfected the formula for which he's known, and he's got the skills to play unobtrusive variations on it. (And when he gets tired of it, he writes something else.)
John J. Nance's place in the thriller ecosystem is very specific: He's the master of the civilian aviation thriller. Not only has he been a lawyer and a commercial pilot before turning to writing, he has also become a media expert in his chosen field, and his fiction has tackled everything from Cessnas to 747s. You may have heard about a few of his novels before: Both Pandora's Clock and Medusa's Child have been turned into made-for-TV movies, and some of his books have been acclaimed best-sellers: I've kept a particular fondness for Turbulence, for instance.
But the bag of tricks for a commercial aviation thriller writer can be a small one, and run-of-the-mill efforts such as Headwind can show how formulas can be limited if they're not handled carefully.
The premise of this 2001 thriller, ironically, is more interesting today than it was at the time of its publication: While traveling to Europe, a former American President is indicted by a War Crimes tribunal for ordering an operation that ended up killing hundreds of innocent civilians. Only the efforts of daring airline pilots stop him from being arrested in Greece, but it quickly becomes apparent that he's up against enemies who seem to have all of Europe's legal authorities on their side. The president is safe as long as he's up in the air, but one can't remain above it all forever…
The narrow field of civilian aviation thrillers only have a few subgenre-specific tricks up their sleeves: eventful take-offs, terrifying flights and difficult landings. The rest is just variations on a theme, and so it's amusing to see Nance hit every one of those recipes at some point during the narrative, even when it doesn't have much of an impact on the overarching plot. The novel starts with a bang as the president is flown out of Greece against the wishes of the departure airport. That's not a bad introduction, and it serves to highlight the seriousness of the situation. But the other thrill-rides are far less organic to the plot: A character seemingly lives in remote Colorado for no other reason that to present a rough small airplane ride, while a flight to England is spectacularly re-routed to Ireland in an excuse for nap-of-the-earth flying. The novel's climax is comfortably located on an empty loop as the characters try to fly somewhere, only to find out that then can't (tee-hee, oops): their return landing is just as difficult as we'd expect in the last fifty pages of any thriller.
More intriguing is the legal maneuvering necessary to extricate the president from his indictment. The novel may have been partially inspired by the Pinochet arrest, there's been some real-world discussions of forcible indictments for American executive orders in the years since Headwind was published: the actions of the Bush administration led a few to muse about trying the president and his executive for war crimes. Amusingly, those same discussions rob Headwind of some of its built-in assumption of presidential innocence: Today's readers would be far more willing to consider the possibility that any president could be indicted for valid reasons.
Regrettably none of this makes Headwind anything more than a routine milk run in the universe of thrillers, whether they're based on civilian aviation or not: the plot threads are showing a bit too clearly, and there's a sense that the novel is gliding in-between the expected plot beats. Nance's done better before and will almost certainly do better in the future. But his mastery of thriller mechanics isn't perfect yet, and it's books like Headwind that show why.


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In parallel to the White Paper on Colorectal Cancer Screening, we also present the Roadmap for Colorectal Cancer Screening. The first document is directed at policy-makers and highlights what needs to change in health policy to save hundreds of thousands of lives, the latter describes in a step-by-step approach how a colorectal cancer screening campaign should be set up. This approach is based on the experience of the three best practices in Europe: the Netherlands, Slovenia and the Basque region in Spain. All three examples have managed to achieve colorectal cancer screening participation rates between 62 and 72%, and at the same time significantly increasing the number of early stage diagnosis, resulting in better overall survival, and even reduction of the incidence (the number of patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer), because so many polyps were detected in a pre-cancerous stage. The Basque country demonstrated that colorectal cancer screening is not only cost-effective, but over time even cost-saving.
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