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|A Study of Pastors, Their Leadership and the Results of Their Churches
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Unpublished doctoral dissertation: February 2012
The purpose of this research was to investigate any differences in leadership on the effectiveness among pastors who have earned a ministry related graduate degree from an accredited theological institution, and those who have not earned a degree.
The sample for this study was made up of lead pastors who have served at least three calendar years as lead pastors of their current church and serving in one of the following associations: Collin Baptist Association, Dallas Baptist Association, Denton Baptist Association, Ellis Baptist Association, Southwest Metroplex Association or Tarrant Baptist Association. These associations represent the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. The final sample included 150 pastors who had earned an accredited graduate degree and 72 who had not.
No statistically significant difference were found between the leadership behaviors and church results of pastors that earned a ministry degree from an accredited theological school and pastors that have not earned a ministry degree. The most frequently engaged in leadership practice from the former group were Enable, Model, Encourage, Inspire and Challenge; and the same rank order was found for the latter group. No differences were reported between the two groups in terms of numerical results (i.e., percentage change in church membership, percentage change in church receipts, and percentage change in church baptisms during the tenure of the pastor).


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If there is a list of artistes known for being pacesetters in music, then the trio of Drake, Ed Sheeran and Rihanna will definitely make the cut so it comes as no surprise that they top Spotify's list of most popular songs and artists of all time on the platform.
In celebration of its 10th anniversary, Spotify compiled a list of the most popular songs and artists of all time on the platform and Canadian rapper, Drake claimed the top spot as the most-streamed artist of all time.
British singer, Ed Sheeran claimed two number one spots with "Shape Of You" as the most-streamed song of all time and 'Divide' as the most-streamed album of all time. Barbados born songstress, Rihanna topped the list as the most-streamed female artist of all time.
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Melanie H. Muhlstock
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University of Wisconsin at Madison (B.A., 1994); Loyola University – Chicago School of Law (J.D., 1997).
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- New York State Bar Association
- New Jersey State Bar Association Member
- Discovery and Expert Sub-Committees of the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee for the Denture Cream Multi-District Litigation No. 2051
- Discovery and Expert Sub-Committees and Co-Chair of the Non-Party Discovery Sub-Committee of the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee for the Yasmin and YAZ (Drospirenone) Marketing, Sales Practices and Products Liability Multi-District Litigation No. 2100
- Law and Briefing and Discovery Sub-Committees of the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee for the Guidant Multi-District Litigation No.05-1708
- Ms. Muhlstock has also done work on behalf of the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee in In re: Bayer Corp. Combination Aspirin Products Marketing and Sales Practices Litigation, Multi-District Litigation No. 2023; In re Ortho Evra Products Liability Litigation, both in Multi-District Litigation No. 1742 and in the New Jersey Mass Tort No. 275, and the New York Plaintiffs' Steering Committee in the coordinated ReNu with MoistureLoc litigation before the Hon. Shirley Kornreich.
Publications and Speaking Engagements
- Co-author of "Liability for Off-Label Uses: Coordinating a Response with the Prescribing Physician", which was presented at the American Conference Institute's Drug and Medical Device Litigation Conference, December, 1998
- Frequent invited speaker on Mass Tort Litigation at national seminars including Mass Torts Made Perfect and Harris Martin
- Prior to joining Parker Waichman, Ms. Muhlstock spent seven years representing pharmaceutical companies and manufacturers of medical devices and consumer products. While in law school, she was also an extern for the United States Attorney's Office in the Northern District of Illinois where she tried petty offense cases and assisted in the prosecution of organized crime and narcotics felony cases.
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Summer Movie Clubhouse is the musical alias of Bobby Blake Monroe, a Charlotte, NC musician. Monroe's focus for Summer Movie Clubhouse varies greatly from his previous endeavors, focusing heavily on atmosphere and space rather than driving rock songs. Influenced by the freedom that film directors have in creating a vast body of work without a necessity of cohesion in meaning or style, Monroe is creating his own body of work that is not tethered to a specific genre or sound. Welcome to his Summer Movie Clubhouse.


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A mighty man of faith, Vujicic delivered one of most powerful, spirit-filled messages I've ever heard. I think the Australian-born evangelist the most inspirational Christ follower since Helen Keller.
Keller's life story was immortalized in the 1962 motion picture "The Miracle Worker." Born in 1880, Helen was 19 months old when she contracted "brain fever," as the Keller family doctor called it. She was struck blind, deaf and mute.
Nearly feral as a child, Helen's desperate family found her a teacher – Anne Sullivan, the miracle worker – who leaned in and, over time, got through to the blind, deaf and mute girl, teaching her to communicate.
One of those with whom young Helen communicated was Rev. Philipps Brooks, who introduced her to Christianity. He was renowned, in his time, for his preaching. He is best known today for writing the lyrics of the famous Christmas Carol, "O Little Town of Bethlehem."
In one of her letters to Rev. Brooks, Helen told the clergyman that, even before she could communicate, she knew about God. She felt His presence in her darkness; heard His still, small voice in her silence.
Helen didn't know what to call the presence that was always with her. The tender-aged blind, deaf and mute girl had no concept of names. But she knew God.
As an adult, Helen was able to share her testimony with millions of people throughout the world. "The only really blind," she said, "are those who will not see the truth – those who shut their eyes to the spiritual vision."
On the other hand, she also said, "Blind people who have eyes know that they live in a spiritual world inconceivably more wonderful than the material world that is veiled to them. The flowers they look upon are the immortal flowers which grow in God's garden."
I can't help wondering if Helen Keller might have been present, in spirit, on that recent Sunday when Nick Vujicic visited my church; if she might have been among that "great cloud of witnesses" of which the Apostle Paul wrote about in his Letter to the Hebrews.
Nick was born 31 years ago with tetra-amelia syndrome, an exceedingly rare disorder that consigned him to a life with no arms and no legs.
By age eight, Nick despaired that he was not like other kids; that there was no happy future awaiting him. And, two years later, he tried to end his misery by drowning himself in the bathtub.
But God had put a hedge around the boy. Nick's repeated attempts to take his own life failed.
Over the next few years, young Nick was awakened to the Holy Spirit working within him. And, at age 15, he gave his life to the Lord.
By immersing himself in God's Word, Nick learned that he was not cursed at birth, but "fearfully and wonderfully made." He learned that his being born without limbs was not purposeless, but "so that the works of God could be revealed" through him.
And the Lord has, indeed, done miraculous works through Nick and his global ministry, "Life Without Limbs," as the evangelist has traveled throughout the world sharing the Gospel.
Like the time Nick traveled to Mumbai, India. The Holy Spirit moved him to visit the city's red-light district; to go from brothel to brothel preaching Christ. At one brothel, a woman asked Nick to pray for her sister, an invalid who had not walked in four years.
The woman had previously prayed to her assorted Indian gods. She had bowed before their graven images. She had left offerings. All, to no avail.
So she decided to put the Christian evangelist to the test. "If your God is real," she challenged Nick, "pray for my sister to walk?"
So Nick prayed aloud, in Jesus' name. And, lo! and behold!, the woman's invalid sister stood and walked for the first time in four years.
The women of the brothel were dumbstruck, much like those who witnessed Jesus heal the blind, the lame and the leprous. They repented their lives of sin and declared Jesus their Lord.
Their chains were broken. They were set free. And it was because the work of God was revealed through Nick Vujicic, a man with no limbs, a mighty man of faith.


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This article blew my mind. Warning: Math ahead.
"So what's the probability of your existing? It's the probability of 2 million people getting together – about the population of San Diego – each to play a game of dice with trillion-sided dice. They each roll the dice – and they all come up the exact same number – say, 550,343,279,001."


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Because that's hard. It's too hard, I think.
I wish I could write every day. I know people like that, who can sit down and just consistently get words down on the page. Day in and day out, week after week, month after month.
I can barely sustain that for longer than a week at a time. I'm constantly taking breaks. Constantly letting those breaks drag on into months or years, which is why I have more abandoned novels than I do finished ones. I've probably written 300,000 words total stretched over thirteen or fifteen different novels that are in extremely different states of completion. Some never get more than 1,000 words before my attention or time gets pulled away for the day. And then I don't find the time to get back there until months and months later, by which time I know I'm probably never doing anything with those words.
Those are the good kind of abandoned novels.
But I have one that's over 130,000 words. A few others that are around 30,000 words. Novels where I've put in 50%-90% of the work and something happened that caused me to just never get back into it.
All of those abandoned novels still kind of eat at me, though. I convince myself a few times a year that I'm going to go back and finish this one or that one.
It never happens.
My lack of discipline is why I write fast. It works for me. If I can knock out a novel in a week or maybe even just over a weekend, I know it'll work out. Some of my best work's been written over extremely short time periods. Because if I take a day off, I'll probably never get back to it.
Of course, this current novel has been plagued by breaks. I've tried to be very workmanlike about it. Sit down and pound out a couple thousand words a day. Maybe just 2,000 because that's not so much. It's very doable. If you write 2,000 words a day for a month, you end up with a 60,000 word novel by the end of the month!
It's easy! You should be able to write a novel every month!
There's a reason most of us aren't that productive. And a lot of it just goes into the individuality of the creative process.
Even those writers I know who write every day, most of them are lucky to finish a novel every year, which, in the grand scheme of things, is more or less the same rate I go at it. The difference is that I usually only put about a week of solid work in that year to writing the novel. The rest of the year is spent doing whatever it is I'm doing when I'm not writing.
But I think about how fast I can write a novel a lot. Because it should not be difficult for me to write, like, six short novels a year. If I spent a week every other month writing a novel, this would be how it happens. And it's not lack of ideas! For every novel I've written or abandoned, I have a dozen more novels I hope to some day write.
The problem is a bit of laziness, a bit of procrastination, but also just the way I'm wired, I think.
A novel is draining. Whether it takes you six months or six days. It takes a lot out of you. It's full of ecstasy and agony. It consumes bits of your life and exhausts you. But when you finish or when you finally get that scene written just right–it's glory. You're full of beauty and perfection.
I've tried to write every day. Often.
It never works for me. I've had to be the most persistent with this current novel. I mean, I've been working on it since January (kind of), which is a staggering amount of time to me. Even if we just put the start date at May, which is when I really started putting words down, that's still five months of writing.
Some people will roll their eyes at that and say something flippant like, Five months is nothing! I've been working on my novel for five years!
Those people are dicks.
Thing is, five months is an eternity for me. If I averaged out the lengths it's taken me to finish every novel that I have finished, I'd probably come out around six days. So me going into my sixth month of writing the same novel is a huge jump.
Imagine you've written several novels. Let's say more than five. Each novel has taken you about six months, give or take a few months. Now imagine you start a novel today and don't finish it until 2021.
It would feel like a big deal, probably.
And so even though I haven't written every day of these five or six or twelve months (depending on how you count), there have been stretches where I have. Like, month long stretches. But then I look at last month. I wrote 120,000 words and probably took off at least two days of every week.
That's just how things work for me.
I don't know. I don't have a real point here. I'm just thinking about something J David Osborne and I talked about recently. About productivity.
My novel is, at this moment, at 270,000 words. Most of my novels are between 40,000 and 50,000 words. This novel, by itself, represents the work of five novels. By the time it's finished, it'll be more like six or seven novels. But instead it's only one.
I remember when I challenged myself to write 52 stories in a year (this was 2013). I ended up writing probably 70 stories that year, but it still felt like a really unproductive year. Partly because I didn't know what to do with them. My short stories are not great (in my opinion) and so I had a bunch of little nothings finished, but no whole of something.
Maybe that doesn't make sense to you, but it felt like I had a year's worth of fragments with no complete project. Forget that I wrote a novel, three poetry collections, and two graphic novels that year as well.
The novel was too weird. Too…everything. The poetry collections are–well, I simply don't know what to do with them. No one really wants a poetry collection written by me. Or at least I assume as much. And then the graphic novels will never see the light of day because of reasons that are strange to explain. But they just won't.
So even though I had a lot of content, it felt like a year where I had done nothing.
Oddly, this year is the year I feel best about the work I've done. When I finish this big giant stupid novel, I'm going to be ecstatic! I'm already so excited to share it with people that I have to keep fighting the urge to send it to friends. But when I have a complete draft that I'm happy with, I'm going to be reaching out for readers.
The first draft should be finished this month. I have a hard time believing it won't be. But then I need to add a few scenes to Part Two, a lot of scenes to Part Three, and who knows what Part Four will need.
I passed 1,000 pages today. I think the novel will end up being fewer than 1,200, but not by much, and possibly more than that. At this point it's kind of silly for me to guess, because I've been consistently wrong on every prediction going back to before I even started writing it.
I thought I was going to write a trilogy! The first book (this one) would be around 80,000 words. The second book would be around 30,000 words. And the third would be around 80,000 words.
I still plan on writing those other two books, but it's just ridiculous that this book is already bigger than what I thought the entire trilogy would be.
I think the second book will still be around 30,000 words, but the third book is probably more like 140,000 words. Unless, you know, they both balloon on me.
Anyrate, just some nightly rambling.


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The state of IndexTank ecosystem is a bit outdated, so we decided to refresh the list with new names.
First important information it is that IndexDen as IndexTank did support Free unlimited plan which fit very well for small business, startups and development needs.
If we forgot something, let us know!
- Tanker gem by kidpollo (Here are the slides from his talk at RailsConf 2011 and tutorial )
- Zencoder's IndexTank gem.
- IndexTank ActiveRecord extension
- IndexTank client


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I was born in the USSR and was once a dedicated communist.
I would love to be able to trace my conversion to a single, defining point in my life. I would love to be able to say that at a certain cliché gathering of friends, I was staring at a certain plate of oranges when suddenly all of time and space came together to strike the opening chords of some brilliant socioeconomic revelation. I would love to say that this symphony even materialized via a James Horner piece. Unfortunately, my life is not a Ron Howard film. No, this conversion to conservatism was a culmination of several psychological battles that played out over the course of a year.
Realism v. Idealism
An English professor of mine once defined tragedy as "an event which occurs when a perception of reality does not correspond with reality itself." At some point, I started asking myself: could we really have equity-driven policy, altruistic leaders, and homes and jobs for everyone? The economic reality is that we cannot.
People are not driven by altruism; they are driven by incentives. People seek to maximize their own good – or, as economists term it, utility. Everyone having everything is impossible. There is scarcity in the world because we have fixed resources. This scarcity implies the existence of trade-offs; you cannot have one thing without giving up another.
You are reading this right now, but you are giving up the time that you could spend doing the laundry, studying, or watching television. In short, I realized that I'd been working towards a utopia in a world with no hope of attaining it. My idea of reality was faulty. I concluded that a workable system must accept imperfection as a premise. It must accept the truths of scarcity, opportunity cost, trade-offs, and incentives. Economic equality is just not natural. I concluded, then, that it could only be achieved by coercion. That was strike one for communism.
Reason v. Sense
I saw a collapsed housing market. The United States was on the brink of a "Great Recession." People were losing their jobs and their homes. Corporate greed, government bailouts, golden parachutes, and rising inequality were everywhere I looked. The genius of science is that it makes reason conquer sense. The world looks flat when looking at the horizon, yet mathematicians as far back as ancient Greece proved that it was not. Time, experienced by everyone, seems to be an absolute. Yet, physics has revealed that it is purely illusory.
Capitalism looked pretty bad during the recession. However, the charts told a different story. They told the story of free markets gifting us with a higher standard of living. The ubiquity of television, refrigeration, telecommunications, and transportation is unparalleled. Even in the midst of harsh economic times, we are undoubtedly better-off now than we've ever been.
I looked at the nations I glorified. The former USSR, China, North Korea, and Cuba could not hold a candle to the progress of free markets. That was strike two. I allowed reason to tame my biased senses. If I was going to disparage capitalism, I would have to admit that humanity was better off 150 years ago than it is today. Despite the recession all around me, reason gave me a sense of proportion. Just look at the data. Look at all that growth in just half a century! And look how puny the last recession was in comparison with capitalism's accomplishments.
Humility v. Conceit
I used to talk haughtily of equality, virtue, and the common good. At one point, I had to accept that there is no consensus on these terms. People define equality, virtue, and the common good in different ways. However, these are the goals of communism. If consensus can't be reached, then any party or leader coming to power preaching these values is assuming that they have the "right" definitions. Naturally, some will not agree. The ruling party will dub the dissenters' definitions as "wrong" and demand that they submit to what they perceive are "true" equality, virtue, and common good.
Rapidly ascending to power and preaching absolute values is a slippery slope to oppression. We've seen this before. This fanatic preaching of seemingly altruistic values will only end, and has ended, in tragedy. My own conceit dawned on me. I actually thought I knew what was best for someone living in Utah, Florida, or Texas. I learned to be humble and accept that my definitions are no better or worse than others' so long as they do not clash. Communism is oppressive because it forces its definitions on a population. Strike three.
A system which avoids oppression must be humble and adopt policies in which individuals can develop their own definitions, not be coerced into following some party's definitions.


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I move:
That Dáil Éireann:
— noting that the Health Estimate in Budget 2012 was misleading given the fact that it was based on assumptions and targets that were not deliverable by the Minister for Health;
— highlighting that enabling legislation for measures announced in the 2012 Health Estimate have not been published 7 months after being announced and therefore will impact greatly on the sector's ability to meet its budget targets;
— agreeing that, 14 months after abolishing the Health Service Executive (HSE) board, the Minister has failed to take any legislative or other action in relation to governance in the HSE and that this has exacerbated the deficit;
— acknowledging that the income streams or expected savings from:
— the cost of public beds being charged to insurance companies;
— drug pricing; and
— reducing agency costs;
will not now be achieved;
resolves that the resulting €500 million overspend in the health budget will not have an impact on front line services and patient care; and
rejects any moves to close wards, theatres or hospitals as a result of the failure to properly plan the health budget.
The purpose of this motion is to ascertain the purpose of the budgetary Estimate last year and to consider how it has been implemented. If we consider the statements of the Minister for Health and other Ministers last year in the context of the formulation of the budget, they accepted there were challenging and difficult times ahead. At the time, we highlighted that we were very concerned about the budgetary process, the number of leaks and the intimidatory statements made by Ministers to their colleagues that Armageddon would arrive if they did not get their way at Cabinet.
It is clear now, seven months on from that budget, that much of what was said in terms of the health Estimate was a tissue of lies. It has transpired the health budget was based on false premises. For example, the programme for Government stated the restructuring of the HSE was a priority. This was to be one of the first acts of the Minister for Health. He was like Wyatt Earp going down to the OK corral, looking for a fight. He found the board of the HSE and summarily dismissed it and replaced it with an interim board. We asked at the time what was the purpose of dismissing the board and the Minister replied that he wanted to be a hands-on Minister, one who would roll up his sleeves and take charge of everything. Unfortunately, we are still waiting to see that legislation on governance of the HSE come to the Dáil.
This lack has created huge difficulties and there is now paralysis in the HSE and the Department of Health. Nobody is quite sure who is in charge. The Minister says he is in charge and is responsible, but he has abdicated his responsibilities. The CEO, Cathal Magee, was before an Oireachtas committee recently and he outlined clearly that there is no way the HSE will achieve the savings outlined in the budget last year. Therefore, the savings outlined last year were just figments of imagination. This has transpired to be the case and the service is already running at a budget deficit of over €280 million. Huge changes will be required and catastrophic damage will be done to services if the Department is to come in on target. We have highlighted this every month since February and have pointed out that the budgetary figures provided last year were not achievable. Later this year, we will see huge damage to services. We will see the closure of operating theatres and the downgrading of wards. The CEO, Cathal Magee, said at the Oireachtas committee that the HSE could envision the potential closure of hospitals to bring the HSE in on budget. This motion notes that the health Estimate in budget 2012 was misleading, given that it was based on assumptions and targets that were not deliverable by the Minister for Health.
Another key area in which there was a promise of huge savings was in reference pricing and generic drug substitution and figures were provided for these savings. However, nothing has happened and no effort has been made to bring forward legislation to enable generic drug pricing and reference pricing. This again was a stated priority in the budget, in order to bring about the savings required to bring the HSE in on target. Clearly, this is another priority on which the Government has failed. It has failed to ensure it had a budget over which it can stand. The Government also proposed to make significant savings in the area of private health insurance and planned to charge people the full cost of public beds. However, there has been no enabling legislation and no change. By failing in these two areas the health budget will be down €200 million. The Government committed in the House last year to ensuring the HSE would have an adequate budget to deliver services, but what will happen now is that we will have fire brigade action from September onwards. It will be a slash and burn policy, all because the Government was incapable of delivering on the priorities and policies outlined by the Ministers for Health and Finance in the budget last December.
It is now July and the HSE remains in a state of flux. The CEO is the Accounting Officer, the Minister claims he is in charge and the board is made up primarily of people appointed from the Department of Health. The Department says the HSE is responsible, but the CEO is the Accounting Officer, with the board. This state of affairs has caused damage and dislocation, particularly with regard to bringing forward policy, enacting it and ensuring services are provided.
With regard to the HSE service plans, last January we had more smoke and mirrors from the Minister when he sent back the service plan because he was not happy with it. Surely, he should have been involved in drafting the service plan as he has claimed that he is the one ultimately responsible. The HSE and the board signed off on a plan, but the Minister took a look at it and sent it back to the board saying he wanted substantial changes. What substantial changes did he want? As far as I am aware, no changes were made. That was just another spin by the Minister to show he was flexing his muscle in terms of being in charge. Unfortunately, he has not stood up to the responsibility of ensuring the HSE brings in its budget on time and within limit.
The fundamental issue is the delivery of services to the people. We have already begun to see hospital managers under huge stress and pressure. We have heard claims that trolleys are being moved to wards in order to reduce the trolley count. We have eminent consultants saying that lives are now being put at risk. Front line health service providers and nurses are stating that they are working in areas that are not fit for purpose in terms of delivery of emergency care. These issues are being raised continually, but that is nothing new. They were raised last December also. We have highlighted these issues regularly, but the Minister seems to be incapable of understanding or acting on these warnings. It is time for him to act because the CEO of the HSE has said that it cannot come in on budget unless there is massive dislocation to health services throughout the country. This is just the seventh month of 2012, but huge adjustments are required if the HSE is to come in on target.
The adjustments required will, unfortunately, affect vulnerable people most. We had a situation not long ago when incontinence pads being provided for patients in a nursing home in Kilkenny were being counted out to them. At the same time as this is happening, the Minister has failed to make the savings in the areas he proposed, agency staff, generic substitution and price referencing. He identified massive savings in these areas, but the CEO has stated that these savings have not been realised at all. I understand the challenges are difficult and we are all aware of the reality of the situation we face. However, the least the Minister should do is to try to bring forward the legislation that will allow him to make savings, that will allow him to substitute brand drugs with generic drugs and allow him to price reference and address the agency issue. More importantly, he must bring about proper corporate governance and ensure accountability at the highest levels to ensure Government policy is enacted. That is not happening now.
On the issue of community nursing homes, the Minister has stated that the most important issue with regard to acute hospital services is to ensure a throughput of patients and to ensure that people do not remain in intensive care or high maintenance units in hospitals when they could be in community nursing homes. At the same time, the service plan he rejected initially and then sought to implement has proposed closures of over 800 community nursing home beds in one year. Without any stretch of the imagination, that is contradictory to what the Minister is trying to achieve, namely, to move people who should not be in hospitals into the community setting. I never come into this House and question anybody's integrity but other Deputies have raised the issue of conflicts of interest in terms of private nursing homes and support for them and a slash and burn of our community nursing homes without any logical explanation as to why they should be closed. The Health Information and Quality Authority was used as a reason for closing them in some cases while in others, other reasons were used. However, there is a fundamental question we must all ask. What is the logical reason for closing community nursing homes which we all accept provide the highest standard of care to our elderly people in the community setting and which benefit, in every way, the transfer of people from the hospital setting to the community one which, as the Minister says, is stated policy and yet he reverts to type and closes them without any consideration for the residents or the community?
I refer to other areas causing huge dislocation. The Minister placed great store on his special delivery unit. This was the answer to all his difficulties and would resolve all the problems he faced. The special delivery unit is spending an awful lot of time dealing with people who are waiting more than one year for procedures. However, it is benefiting from the fact that people cannot get to see a consultant to be assessed and to find out whether they need to become inpatients. Hundreds of thousands of people are waiting to see consultants to be assessed but they are not being allowed into the system. I know of a woman in her 90s who is waiting more than four years for an audiology assessment. People are waiting ages for orthodontic services. What is happening to orthodontic services is shameful, in particular in regard to our young people who simply cannot get to see an orthodontist.
We must be honest with ourselves. The Government has failed to bring forward the legislation which would allow it to deliver the services our people need. I do not know the reason but the Minister promised three pieces of legislation. He also promised with great fanfare some time ago that he would renegotiate consultants' contracts but he has just thrown that aside. He said he might get more productivity out of them. At the same time, some consultants are continually in breach of their 80:20 public-private mix. There are contracts with a 70:30 mix but some consultants are even in breach of that. Nobody is taking them on. When he was on this side of the House, the Minister promised he would do the devil and all when he moved to the other side. He has moved to that side of the House but everything has almost stopped.
The Minister of State, Deputy Shortall, is as accountable as the Minister because she is representing the Government in this Chamber and in this debate on the budgetary process. The Government has quite clearly failed. When it is closing hospital wards, hospital theatres and nursing homes in the future, it might reflect on the fact that if it had been active in the legislative area to bring about the savings identified in the budget, we would not have to take the drastic action we may yet have to take. What exactly will the Government do at this late stage with one week remaining in this session to bring forward legislation to allow it to at least effect some savings between now and the end of December so that we will not have the dislocation of services which will inevitably happen if we continue on this path?
I refer to the issue of accountability and the HSE. We must find out once and for all to whom we speak. Is it the Minister, the Secretary General of the Department or the CEO or all three - the three wise men? At committees, I see the Secretary General of the Department, the Minister and the CEO of the HSE all defer to each other. The Minister must take a hands on approach at some stage.
I refer to the other commitments in the programme for Government. I only have 20 minutes to speak so it would be wrong of me to take up more time than that but we will have to revisit the issue of primary care. The Minister promised at the Irish Medical Organisation conference that he would transfer money from the hospital budget to the primary care setting. Has that happened? This is a key question to which we must know the answer. The Government cannot continue to spin its way out of this. The fact is that services are continually being downgraded by stealth and people will be waiting for longer periods, not necessarily on hospital trolleys, to see a consultant. People cannot get to see consultants for assessment.
This motion is an opportunity for us to highlight the Government's abject failure to address the budgetary problems which have been evident since early January. This was highlighted in the context of private health insurance and the fact that charges for public beds has not happened. The CEO of the HSE said last week that this did not transpire. In one fell swoop, the Government has lost millions of euro through inactivity on the legislative front and, as I said, people will suffer because of that.
I refer to the issue of agency staff. We highlighted the fact the Government did not have a plan for retirements on 29 February. The more I look at this the more I see that it is by pure accident rather than design that we have not had worse dislocation of health services. We have an issue in regard to agency staff and the Temporary Agency Workers Directive. A key component of the budget was to address the reliance on agency staff which would save more than 50%. The Government has made no effort to do that. The recent figures from the HSE, the Minister or the Department - I am not quite sure from where they came, although I presume they are accurate - state that the agency bill has increased. We are becoming more reliant on agency staff even though it is the Department of Health's stated policy, and it was stated in last year's budget, that this issue would be tackled and that the Government would address the issue of agency staff once and for all.
I hate to say it but after a short period time, the Government has driven the health services to the brink because of inactivity. It is not always about a lack of funding but rather inactivity and a deficit of ideas and action. That is the situation we face. When people must wait long periods of time to be assessed, to get medical cards and to get orthodontic treatment and when someone of 90 years of age must wait four years for audiology services, the Government can consider its abject failure to bring forward the legislation it promised the people and the Dáil when it passed the budget last year. I am convinced - it was said at the time - that it was aspirational at best or dishonest at worst. The jury is still out that particular issue. It gives me no joy to say - let it be conveyed to the Minister - that it is a very serious breach of trust when a Government passes a budget and fails abjectly to bring forward the legislative measures which would bring about savings so that people who require services will not have to carry the burden due to inactivity and its failure on the legislative front.


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People People everywhere… Just look at the number of people here. This is East Nanjing Road in Shanghai, a popular shopping street.
In another part of Shanghai you can find Antique Street. Here you can find an assortment of trinkets and antiques. Not sure if they were authentic or reproductions though.
The time of year was just perfect, with the leaves turning to yellow.


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Confusion about whether farmers will continue to be bound by Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) rules during any Brexit transition period has been building since the Prime Minister agreed a 'divorce deal' with the EU last week.
The agreement on the terms of the UK's exit from the EU has been widely welcomed because it paves the way for talks on trade, but the small print has thrown up a number of questions for agricultural policy.
Last month, Scottish Office Minister Ian Duncan said it was the Government's 'clear negotiating position' for the UK to ditch the CAP in March 2019 – meaning British farmers would not have to follow CAP rules during the two-year transition period proposed by the Prime Minister.
It is also Government policy to maintain farm payments at EU levels until 2022.
But under the terms of the divorce deal, the UK has promised to pay for the CAP – which is just under 40 per cent of the EU budget – for the year 2019, prompting questions about why Britain would continue to fork out for a policy it was not a part of, on top of paying for a new domestic scheme.
Asked whether the UK would stay in the CAP to draw down payments it is due during a future transition period, Defra seemed to suggest the possibility was up for negotiation.
A spokesman said: "Leaving the EU means we will leave the CAP.
"The next steps will be discussed in the next phase of the negotiations."
Status quo
The EU, like some cabinet ministers, is reportedly pushing for a 'status quo' transition period, which would see the UK continue to apply CAP rules.
But despite appearing to leave the option of staying in the CAP during transition on the table, Defra also insisted the Agriculture Bill would still be published next spring.
Farming Minister George Eustice has previously told Farmers Guardian the Bill would begin the move from an area-based system to 'something more targeted', but if CAP rules continue to apply up until 2021 – the end of the transition period – these changes would not be possible.
CLA president Tim Breitmeyer said: "The latest Brexit breakthrough is welcome progress for farming.
"However, Defra appears to be deliberately vague about the future of the industry, particularly whether it has committed the UK to remaining within the CAP during the transitional period after the UK leaves the EU. Farmers deserve more certainty.
"We need strong leadership from the Government rather than contradictions and platitudes."


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Southern Puget Sound is a boater's paradise. We have pristine moorages, many marine State Parks with inexpensive buoys and docks, miles of beaches to roam, and also fun towns to explore, including Olympia, Gig Harbor, Tacoma, and Seattle. Our 30-foot Catalina has everything you need for a day, week, or month on Puget Sound. If you bring your own groceries, cook your meals on the boat, and drop an anchor at night, the cost of your trip will be less than what you would spend on a car trip for hotels, gas, and 2-3 meals at restaurants.
It is also available with a Captain for afternoon, evening, day, and overnight adventures. I am an ASA certified sailing instructor and can help you improve your sailing skills.
During the past seven years we have outfitted Emma Lee to meet all our cruising needs for our annual trip to the San Juans and the Canadian Gulf Islands.
It has a refrigerator, an inflatable dingy, a barbecue grill, hot and cold water, a sun-shower (and a small inside shower), and all the dishes and utensils you will need. It sleeps five adults.
There are four state Marine Parks within three hours. Gig Harbor and Tacoma are a half-day away, and Seattle and beyond are fabulous destinations.
South Sound is known for our great views of the Olympics and Mt. Rainier, quiet inlets and harbors, warmer swimming water (in July and August), and many bays and destinations to explore.
If you live in Western Oregon or Southwest Washington, Olympia is the gateway to Puget Sound. Also, if you are visiting from out-of-state, chartering Emma Lee is a great way to enjoy Puget Sound and Western Washington. In addition, if you are thinking about buying a Catalina or other sailboat, I'd be happy to share my stories buying used sailboats and the benefits and pitfalls. In addition, I can help convince a reluctant significant other that sailing is fun and not a scary thing.
Also, you can rent Emma Lee with me as your Capitan. I have my USCG Captains License and American Sailing Association Instructor Credentials and can help you learn to sail.
If the weather forecast is not good on the day you reserve, you can postpone your reservation to a later date, subject to boat availability, or cancel it.
The prices on the Boatsetter website for a full day is for 8-hours. If you want to spend the night on it, the price for a 24-hour day is $350.
We hope that chartering Emma Lee will be a fabulous experience for you, your friends, and family, as it has been for us and our prior clients.
Captain Bob
Robert was a great owner to to rent from, responsive, reasonable.
We had a wonderful experience on Bob's boat. The boat is in exceptional condition and outfitted for any type of sailing you want to do. Doing business with Bob is also a pleasure and I highly recommend him and his boat. I cannot wait to return to the area and sail this boat again.
Robert was a wonderful captain for my family (and our little yorkshire terrier, too). My favorite part of the trip was learning the terminology of sailing and helping crew. I feel like I learned a lot since I hadn't been on a sailboat in over 20+ years. My husband had a chance to skipper and we were all smiles. We had a lot of fun and even stayed overnight at the Marina which was a memorable and fun part of our adventure.
Perfect Puget Sound sailboat. Boat is amazing, owner is amazing.
It was a fun day of sailing for our family of 6. Truly a wonderful experience. Thank you for a memorable afternoon Bob!
Terrific experience! Emma Lee is lovely, well maintained, extremely well appointed, and a pleasure to motor or sail. Sailing is all about the details and Bob & Emma Lee took care of everything; the boat had everything it should have (and then some) and we only needed to bring groceries and clothes. Bob met us at the marina on departure with fresh towels and linens, gave a great overview, made sure we had fluids, and was full of local knowledge about where to go when. He met us on the return and had us on our way quickly. A true pleasure.
Most excellent boat, host, port et al. Thank you Robert for making us feel completely comfortable at helm.
We had an amazing time on the boat. We were looking to try out sleeping on a boat, kind of a trial before we looked into getting a boat for ourselves. Knowing this Robert was extremely accommodating exchanging many messages and even rescheduling to a different day when the original scheduled day's weather was going to make it a bumpy night. When the day of the rental finally came Robert helped get us all set for the night and gave us a great suggestion to explore Hope Island the next day. Over all the boat was really nice, clean, comfortable, and Robert was very patient (many messages). Our experience couldn't have been better. It was such a great experience we just got our new to us sailboat in the water last weekend.
Had a great time! Great boat in great condition, would do it again.
Captain Bob was great! Great boat too! My wife and I chartered for a whole day with Captain Bob as the skipper. We also brought our two girls, ages 6 and 4. Bob was really great with the kids and made it comfortable and inclusive from the very beginning. We really enjoyed our adventure and it was a great and affordable way to introduce my family to sailing and boating. We definitely recommend!
We rented this sail boat for our friend's 30th birthday and we had a blast! The boat was in good shape with plenty of room to hang out above or below deck. There is seating and a table in the cabin, a cooler, and even a stove/oven to cook with. Bob, the captain, was incredibly hospitable and gave great instructions on how to sail the boat. We each got to take turns steering and operating the sails. The interactive approach Bob takes really made this a great adventure and one we will soon repeat! I highly recommend Bob and his sail boat, even if you have zero experience on a boat, you will have fun! Can't wait to go again!
We rented Emma Lee for two days and one night and found Bob to be a great host, very friendly and accommodating. His Catalina 30 is a fine ship and in great condition, she has everything you'll need and all equipment was operational!
We had 5 onboard during the day and 3 stayed for the overnight, we had plenty of room for us and our stuff.
Looking forward to renting from Bob again.
Bob had a very well equipped boat with all the navigation and safety equipment you could need. The boat is in great condition, and it really is perfect for Puget Sound. We had a great time sailing to Gig Harbor. We stayed overnight and sailed back the next day. We hope to rent this boat again next year.
This boat and owner are tops! Bob was very helpful, answered all questions promptly, and was willing to work with us on meeting times and supplies. He also provided excellent information about boating destinations and overnight docking. We rate the sailboat as superb--it was exactly as advertised, in excellent condition, had everything we could want on board and more...and was even more spacious "down below" than we expected. Our trip was wonderful and we highly recommend Bob and his boat.
Robert was very helpful and his boat is well maintained and just fantastic! Despite calm winds, we were able to sail in the vicinity and really enjoyed our time.
Robert was a great renter, and his Catalina 30 was a beautiful boat that was in excellent shape. We had a wonderful sailing experience. Also, the marina was in a nice, easy-to-find location, and lower Puget Sound was great for sailing and exploration. I highly recommend renting Robert's Catalina 30!
My wife and I had an amazing experience. Robert had everything ready to go and was more than helpful with planning the trip. The boat is really well equipped and sails beautifully. I would definitely recommend try this out if you like sailing!
We had a great time and as a family of 5 the boat had plenty of space. It is in excellent condition and very well maintained. Bob was extremely helpful, well organized and professional. The kayaks and tender were a very nice bonus. We would absolutely recommend the boat and its owner.
We had a great time on the Emma Lee. The boat is well equipped and maintained, better than other charter boats I have been on. Sails are in great shape since they are only 5 years old. Bob was easy to work with, a prompt communicator and interested that we had a good time. This was our first time in the South Sound and found plenty of interesting places to explore. - Steve
Great experience overall, pet friendly, sad we did not have enough wind.
Bob was extremely easy to work with and I will request to sail aboard his nicely appointed Catalina 30 again. My wife and our son and daughter-in-law enjoyed cruising up to Bainbridge and back to Olympia over the weekend. Bob did a great job of communicating with me when I had questions about where to eat and places to avoid and moorage. Great time and I would definitely recommend leasing from Bob!
We spent a day sailing in southern Puget Sound aboard the Emma Lee and had a great time. The boat is in extremely good condition and well equipped for a day or a week. Robert was more than helpful with information on local attractions and sailing conditions. We especially appreciated his flexibility with scheduling and his attention to detail during the boat check out. We'll charter this boat again the next time we are in Olympia.
We just got back from two wonderful days on the the South Puget Sound aboard Emma Lee.
The views were spectacular, we enjoyed the wildlife, both on and off shore, and took advantage of the opportunity to hike through the woods in two of the local State parks. The boat was clean and well appointed, the check out at the dock was smooth and efficient, and the boat handled well in a variety of conditions.
Bob was responsive and accommodating, providing kayaks and a dingy. He also had great suggestions about crushing destinations and routes of passage.
I can highly recommend this boat and would not hesitate to book her again.
My wife and I rented Bob's boat this past weekend. Bob met us at the boat and went above and beyond to ensure we had everything we needed. We spent 4 days exploring the South Sound. The boat was well equipped. We spent the days exploring the various islands, kayaking, and cooking on board for all meals. It was a great experience and we are already planning our next trip on Bob's beautiful sailboat!


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It is said that the popular editing software DaVinci Resolve works with everything in real time, ranging from Quick Time, ProRes, DNxHD, MXF files to AVI, JPEG2000, HQ and HQX in MOV,JPEG,TGA and BMP. However, MTS with DaVinci Resolve is such a pain.
My friend got an 30sec ama sequence of an commerical shoot on sony fs700. Resolve cannot handle MTS files and now he needs to deliver the sequence for grading so what should be the best way to do this. He said he is not familiar with this MTS workflow because most of the time he is working with red footage cut it offline and relink it back to raw.
Do you know what suggestions did I suggest to him? Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac / Windows, a strong program which can get rid of this trouble well. How does it work?
See also: Top 5 MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac Reviewed
First, download it for a preparation and we'll come to the step-by-step process.
Other Download:
- Pavtube old official address: http://www.pavtube.com/mts-converter-mac/
- Amazon Download: http://www.amazon.com/Pavtube-MTS-M2TS-Converter-Download/dp/B00QIE3U0Y
- Cnet Download: http://download.cnet.com/Pavtube-MTS-M2TS-Converter/3000-2194_4-76177029.html
Run DaVinci Resolve video converter on your Windows PC or Mac, and click the 'Add vdieo' to load them in a correct way. As is mentioned above, Avid DNxHD is well supported by DaVinci Resolve 11. So just click the format bar to follow "Avid Media Compose" > "Avid DNxHD 720p (*.mov)" or "Avid DNxHD 1080p (*.mov)."
Before importing MKV, MTS, MXF, AVI, MP4, and FLV videos to DaVinci Resolve 10/9 for professional and further editing, you can use the video editor designed in this video converter to edit your MKV, MTS, MXF, AVI, MP4, and FLV videos. Click "Edit" to get to the "Video Editor" interface, and edit your videos by trimming (get/cut off video clips), cropping (remove unwanted areas), adding text/image/video watermarks, inserting subtitles, adding special effects, etc.
With all the preparation work done, click the "Convert" to start your work. For more related guides, you can take the following as the reference. Also, welcome to show your own opinions below.
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Catweazle is a magician from the time of the Normans. In an attempt to
escape from his Norman pursuers he tried out a spell, however instead
of flying as a bird he was casted 900 years into the future. With the
help of two boys he uses magic in an attempt to return to his own time.
Shot on location in England it became equally popular in England, Australia,
Germany and the Netherlands.
There was also a dutch release of Catweazle (with subtitles in dutch),
I don't know how many of the episodes were released (known is the first
6 episodes on 3 videos). I also don't know when they came out. Anyone
out there who knows?
From both books there appeared also a dutch translation: 'Catweazle,
de Tovenaar van Saburac' (1971) & 'Catweazle, de Tekens van
de Dierenriem'(1972), a publication from Van Holkema & Warendorf,
Bussum (see illustrations elsewhere on this website or click here).
Catweazle poster:
A Catweazle poster is advertised in 'Look-in 23 Jan 1971'. Printed
on heavy cartridge paper, size 30' x 20'. Price: 30 pence.


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People in this day and age seem to be a lot more comfortable with the idea of relationships being made through the internet. It's apparently the second most common way to meet your other half and parent meetups such as Mush and Mummy Social are becoming increasingly popular ways to meet other local mums. But there still seems to be an almost 'comedy' element attached to online friendships with people you've never met and people can think it's quite odd!
When I thought of online friendships, it was along the lines of MSN Messenger (ASL?) or the dodgy chatrooms of the late 90s/early 00s (why the hell was I part of a Buffy chatroom? Wasn't even that big a fan...). However, over the last few months I have definitely made some connections through Instagram and I would consider these women to be fast becoming friends.
I don't struggle to make friends and I am lucky to have a lot of wonderful friends in my life but the power of the internet opens up the opportunity to forge a relationship with groups that you might not otherwise be able to link to. Within my friendship group there aren't many who are divorced. That struggle with an at times disagreeable ex. That have been through the family court system. That are single parents. And sometimes you want to be able to chat to people who have had a similar experience to you and can fully understand the conflict and emotions you may be feeling.
And I feel this goes both ways. I've had women reach out to me and I've reached out to women. I have women checking in with me when they think I may be having a hard time and want to make sure I'm OK. I've laughed with women and shared their hard times just as they share mine. All online.
As a single mum who works full time, finding time to meet with friends can be tough. Not all my friends live locally, in fact a lot of my good friends live miles and miles away. And even those best friends I have that do live locally? They have their own lives. I can't get out easily without a shitload of planning and you can't only expect people to come to you. The evenings can be very quiet and lonely when the little one goes to bed and despite very much enjoying my own company and the ability to watch the soaps in peace, I do miss an adult connection. In an evening I do spend a lot of time on my phone or online and this does help to combat feeling alone. When you have people who want to know about your day, that you can moan to or laugh with, who you can bounce an idea off or chat shit with - it makes all the difference. WhatsApp groups and Instagram helps to keep me sane - and yes, some of the people I am chatting to are friends I have had in my life for years and others I have never met and may never meet.
Is online friendship real friendship? To me, yes. Someone who cares about you as a person, allows you to speak openly and can support you in times of need as you do with them. Seems pretty real to me.
Some people reading this will be nodding their head, totally getting where I am coming from. Others may think I'm an absolute weirdo sadcase. And that's OK. Some people may have no need for online friendship - but I know it's made a big difference to my life.
*Side note - it's not the oddest way I've ever made a friend... On my MAT leave a woman put a notice up in the post office looking to meet other local mums. I emailed her and seeing that our babies were a similar ahe and deciding that she didn't seem a total psycho I met her in a café. She was perhaps not the kind of person I would normally have been friends with however she seemed nice enough so we met up again. On the second meet up, she handed me some business cards for her boyfriend. Her naturist boyfriend. And invited me to check out his naked pictures on his website. We never did meet up again... And yes. I did look!*
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Highlights of my Career
(1990) Nostalgic old times. This is where my professional electronics career began. I worked as an Assembly and Calibration technician in HeathKit's dealer in Uruguay while beginning my studies.
At the PCB component level I used to assemble, solder and calibrate: Multimeters, Oscilloscopes, Packet Radio, LCD meters, HV meters, Function Generators, Weather Stations, etc
(1991) During a trip to Santa Rosa, a small town near San Francisco, (CA) I was lucky enough to meet an HP engineer who kindly invited me for lunch at the plant; in the outskirts of the city. He gave me a full tour of the facility and introduced me to his fellow colleagues. This had a deep impact on my future and career. (Thanks John Harmon and wife).
(1995) After 1 year of joining IBM as a Field Engineer I was offered the position of Chief of the PC Hardware Department.
(1997) Project Managed the Access Control systems in Zonamerica, one of the most High Tech Free Zones in South America (IBM).
(1997) I started producing MIDI cables as a hobby and entrepreneur for the country's largest music retailers from my home garage.
(1998) I applied for my first patent, inspired by the film "Back to the Future"and then produced a working prototype. Years later NIKE would patent a very similar model.
Around the years 2001 I helped to decode the communications protocol from the MZII PLC to the PC which allowed the company to develop a SCADA type of GUI (windows based). This was my first Reverse Engineering experience (Domotec Uruguay).
(2002) I joined the ERI (Electricity, Radio and Instruments) department at PLUNA- VARIG, working with Boeing airplanes.
(2004) I'm part of the first Sabre Generation in Uruguay. I trained the first Sabre Scribe support team.
(2005) Joined an RFID startup in Dubai (Tagstone) as a Technical Manager (later I was promoted to Engineering Director).
(2005) Implemented a pilot RFID Industrial Smart Shelf for DHL.Cool real time inventory !
(2005) My 2nd mathematical curiosity is published in MathWorld Encyclopedia, based on a research I started 10 years back, which was forgotten below a pile of papers for so long.
(2005) First RFID certification with Intermec (Reading, UK). In the following years I would get 3 more (Savi, Aeroscout and Axcess)
(2006-2007) My second Patent as a co-author is filed in US.
(2007) First RFID Kids tracking application in the Middle East (The Avenues Kuwait). We implemented a landmark project in the retail arena.
(2007) We implemented Container Tracking infrastructure in Pakistan for Savi Technologies and it's US government customer.
(2008) We implemented an RFID and Biometrics R&D project for Dubai Police.
Weapon Cabinet solutions were presented to the region's armed and civil forces
(2007) The best RFID booth in Gitex 2007 with 13 interactive applications we designed with the team. Oracle sent us an email congratulating us for the best Technology Partner booth.
(2008) We implemented the first RFID Emergency Evacuation System in the Middle East for ZADCO in Abu Dhabi (Upper Zakum, offshore).
(2010) Regional Technical Manager (MEA) at GE Security / UTC
(2011) Supported the security deployment in one of the phases of the New Doha International Airport (by the contractor Thales (France)).
(2012) Collaborating member of a prestigious team of Scientists, Engineers and Inventors under the guidance of Dr. Aya Seike (Japan), where we write solution reports on new products and inventions the market will use in 5 years.
(2013) I continue to work with Dr. Seike in amazing technologies and products and I'm also an independent Technology Consultant.


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Disappointment at Department of Health consultation proposals
ICUsteps would like to reinforce the disappointment expressed by the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine in the recommendations in the recent consultation document on the Regulation of Medical Associate Professions in the UK.
The consultation document concludes that Advanced Critical Care Practitioners (ACCPs), Physician Assistants (Anaesthesia) and Surgical Care Practitioners do not need statutory regulation. Statutory regulation is the most thorough form of assurance for patients and relatives.
The twelve UK regulatory bodies which regulate health and social care professionals are the gatekeepers to the professions which they regulate. They set the educational requirements needed to enter a profession and the standards required to practise safely and effectively in each profession.
ACCPs are an integral part of the critical care team providing timely care for patients and their families. All come from a background of critical care nursing or physiotherapy which keeps experience at the bedside. Trained ACCPs work on the ICU medical rota replacing medical trainees. The role has been developed in conjunction with the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine and is fully supported by the Intensive Care Society.
Regulation has been a long-term aim and ensures those calling themselves ACCPs have met the required standards and provides assurance for patients and their families of a clear level of knowledge and skill. The lack of statutory regulation could allow poorly functioning ACCPs to continue practicing and potentially put patients' health at risk.
We hope that the Department of Health will listen to the comments from the consultation. We urge patients, relatives and all healthcare professionals in the critical care community to make their voices heard to ensure that ICU patients and their families are given the protection that statutory regulation will give.


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Jerry A. Bell
Faculty Associate
For Iowa native Jerry Bell, an interest in
chemistry developed at a young age with his first chemistry
set. Because today's rigorous safety standards were not yet
in place, Bell was able to get a hold of what he calls "some
interesting and relatively dangerous stuff" from a supply house
in Chicago, and staged many at-home experiments. This, along
with many other professional and personal qualities, makes Bell
a perfect fit for the WISL.
After deciding on a career in science, Bell
earned a bachelor's degree, followed by a PhD in Chemistry,
both from Harvard University. During his time at Harvard, he
worked as volunteer tutoring students in math and science. He
quickly learned that they were struggling with visualizing the
concepts, because they had no lab or hands-on experience of
any kind.
This first foray into teaching stuck with him,
and Bell has gone on to hold teaching and research positions
at colleges across the country, including UW-Madison, the University
of California-Riverside, Brandeis University and Simmons College.
He served at the National Science Foundation as director of
the Division for Teacher Preparation and Enhancement (1984-1986),
as director of the UW-Madison Institute for Chemical Education
(1986-1989). He was director for Science, Mathematics, and Technology
Education Programs at the American Association for the Advancement
of Science (1992-1999), and was a senior scientist
with the Education Division at the American Chemical Society (1999-2009) where he continues to serve as a consultant.
Bell is widely recognized for his outstanding
contributions to science education by many major awards including
the ACS George C. Pimentel Award in Chemical Education (2000),
the ACS James Flack Norris in Chemistry Education (1992) and
the Chemical Manufacturers Catalyst Award (1977). Bell is an
excellent advocate, and for almost 40 years a collaborator with
Dr. Shakhashiri, of experiment-based education. In 2010, he was named professor emeritus by Simmons College.
Bell travels to Wisconsin monthly for his work
with WISL. His work on behalf of the WISL in the Washington,
DC area includes activities with educational groups and laboratory
research in the chemistry department at the University of Maryland-College
He lives in Silver Springs, MD, with his
wife Mary Ann, who is a cell biology professor at George Washington
University. They spend their free time attending as many intellectual
and cultural events as possible: plays, concerts, museums and
to the People of WISL


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Dear Parents and Students,
Just as each year in nature is marked by seasons, each year in school has distinct seasons too. So with summer long gone and autumn days growing shorter, eighth graders are focused on "high school application season". Members of the Class of 2015 and their parents have been thinking about high schools for at least two or three years. It also wouldn't surprise me to hear some of our students say that they decided on their first choice of high school way back in second grade. With great Catholic schools and several excellent private and public schools, some students really do make their choice at a very young age.
At any rate, Star helps students and families to make the best decision for each individual student. As early as sixth grade, I start asking the kids what high schools they are looking at. Catholic San Francisco publishes an edition every September devoted completely to the Catholic high schools in our Archdiocese. Star makes sure that every seventh and eighth grader gets a copy. Information regarding high school summer programs is shared with junior high students every spring. It has been our custom to give seventh graders a blank copy of the evaluation and transcript forms that Star sends to the high schools. This clearly shows what is expected of them. Admissions Directors from all the Catholic schools visit our eighth grade classroom every September. Eighth graders are allowed to miss three half days to "shadow" at high schools they choose. Finally, our junior high teachers give both time and guidance to students when they write their "high school essays".
For the students in the Class of 2015, all of that preparation is coming to an end. Soon, the applications will be due and all that will be left is for the junior high team to meet and fill out evaluations.
And then we begin the next season of the school year … "test and wait". From the application deadline until mid-March, students have to wait for someone else to decide their fate. At least that's how the kids feel. In truth, they have been working for those good evaluations and impressive transcripts for a few years. They have also prepared for the entrance exam over several years of taking the IOWA Tests.
The "waiting" season is tough. All too often our children (students) are used to immediate gratification. This can be a very stressful time or an opportunity to grow. I often wish we teachers could tell kids if they have been accepted (we learn about a week in advance) but that would be unfair to them. For many of our students, making the choice to apply to a particular school is the first choice they ever make that actually has long-term consequences in their life. I encourage parents to listen carefully to their daughters and sons when discussing their high school choices. I also strongly encourage parents to let the kids open that letter (or go online) to be the first one to know the decision. It was many years ago, but I remember opening that envelope from Sacred Heart and I remember the four years I spent there with great joy. My older brother has similar feelings about a different school (that school used to be on Stanyan Street now it's on 37th Avenue).
One thing that we can share with students is that historically Star students have been accepted to some great high schools at a very high rate. Over the last ten years our students have a better than 90% acceptance rate in Catholic schools. In the last six years, Star students who have applied to Lowell High School have been accepted at a 55% rate. That may not sound impressive, but the average rate for acceptance at Lowell is 33%.
For the eighth graders, this year will fly by faster than any other year of their lives so far. When they learn their fate, the next season is often called "senioritis". It is a very short-lived season during which some students forget that they have to finish eighth grade before starting ninth grade. Fortunately there are a lot of great teachers, a cranky principal, and loving parents to remind them to enjoy Star while they can.
Have a great week!
Terrence Hanley


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Prestige retailers are largely failing to keep pace with developments and consumer demand for mobile shopping capabilities, a new study from New York research firm L2 suggests.
In a ranking of 100 well-recognized fashion, beauty, hospitality, watch and jewelry, and retail brands, nearly half were deemed "feeble" in their efforts. Only two-thirds of indexed brands have mobile-optimized sites, and yet a full third of those don't allow consumers to shop from those sites, L2 noted. Many also fail to provide the full range of content available on their desktop sites, including product search and user ratings, to mobile audiences.
(As bad as those numbers sound, those in the study may be well ahead of the curve. Jesse Haines, group marketing manager for Google Mobile Ads, told Mashable that a survey of major advertisers in early 2011 found only 21% had launched a mobile site at the time.)
The survey also notes that app investment for the segment is dismal. While 70% of brands have apps, the study charges that these have been "blind investments in iOS apps that lack utility and 'stickiness.'" (We largely agree.) Of these, less than a third are commerce-enabled, and few take advantage of the unique functionality offered by smartphones, such as notifications, cameras and geolocation.
via High-End Brands Are Missing the Boat on Mobile, Study Finds.


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Chelsea had an active offseason this summer, saying goodbye to veterans Ashley Cole, Frank Lampard, Samuel Eto'o and David Luiz. They replaced that foursome with solid performers in Diego Costa, Cesc Fabregas, Filipe Luis, and the return of Didier Drogba.
In addition to those four, Jose Mourinho finally brought Thibaut Courtois to Stamford Bridge, the former Atletico Madrid keeper who led the La Liga club to the top of the league table and a runner-up performance in the Champions League. He spent the last three seasons on loan with Atletico.
Mourinho hasn't revealed who will be the top keeper for Chelsea to start the season, as both he and Petr Cech played 45 minutes in Chelsea's 3-0 defeat against Werder Bremen on Sunday.
Courtois started the first half, and many expect him to win the job given his form after playing in the World Cup with Belgium. He made his presence known right away in Sunday's match, making a phenomenal save in the first half, much to the delight of captain John Terry, who immediately congratulated him.
Check out the diving save Courtois made on Sunday in the video below…