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Today I had my yearly doctor's appointment.I was INCREDIBLY nervous about it. I had a headache, I even had stomach issues due to nerves. I was anticipating the worst.
Let me tell you why.
If you've been following my journey for some time, you know that the primary reason that I started this journey was because I was told that it wasn't recommended that I have a baby at my weight. Now, I wasn't WANTING a baby quite yet at that point in my life, but the doctor forewarned me. It was devastating because I knew it was something hubby and I wanted in our future.
This happened every year, even as recently as last year. Last year, I left the appointment in tears because the doctor recommended, once again, that I not get pregnant. (I wasn't ready yet anyways…) While my weight was finally getting under control, my blood pressure was too high and she told me I must do something about it.
Over this past year, I found a new primary doctor. She is WONDERFUL. She got me on a regimen to control my blood pressure and I am SO happy to say that every time I take my blood pressure it is NORMAL! Today it was 116/69. ME…the girl with WHITE COAT SYNDROME. So that was under control.
Well, hubby and I have some plans. We're ready to START THINKING about having a baby. *squeal* I know, right?!
Now don't get too excited yet. We aren't ready to start until next year. And God willing, we will be able to have a child.
My doctor told me that the birth control I am currently on is for people with high blood pressure, so it's not going to make a difference with my blood pressure. While my blood pressure is now under control, I am also taking meds that cannot be taken while pregnant.
I asked her straight forwardly, is there any reason that I am not healthy enough or that you don't recommend I have a baby? And she said, "Absolutely not. You will be just fine!"
Now that was good news. I don't know if she changed her mind because she finally saw good blood pressure numbers and knew that I cared? Or what?
She asked me if I still exercise. I said, yes I do, and you probably have noticed that I have gained weight, but I have not given up. She said, "Oh, some…but not that much! No biggie! You are at a transition point in your life. Graduating college, a new job. You're under stress. Totally normal!"
Now I have had two doctors tell me that. The first one, after I broke down and cried about it in her office. lol. That was really a relief to know that MAYBE, this is a response that NORMAL people have to stressful transitional points I life. I haven't given up.
So you can imagine how I left that doctor's appointment. I am flying high. I am so happy. And hubby is happy too. He told me he did not want me to get pregnant until the doctor said it was ok. And I understand that, he cares about me and MY health too.
So now I have to see my primary doctor to get the BP meds figured out that will be ok for me to take in the event that I am pregnant. She explained to me that I may have to take a pill 3 times a day versus once a day, but I can handle that.
Ok, Ok, Ok. Calm down. We're not starting one yet. I will continue my birth control until AT LEAST the blood pressure is figured out. We all know what a process that can be with finding the right doses, etc.
What I'm trying to say in this post is…while we're not ready QUITE YET, it's a POSSIBLITY! There's HOPE!
So for now, I am going to continue with this healthy lifestyle and weight loss. I want to lose as much weight as I can and be as healthy as I can until the day I find out I'm pregnant. We're not even TRYING yet, but it's in the future. And I'm so excited.
Today is the day that my hard work has paid off. I started this journey so that I would be healthy enough to have a baby someday. I'm not at my goal yet, but I sure am getting there. The healthy habits have been made. I am a different person. A totally different person. Thank goodness for that.
If you're wondering if this weight loss thing is worth it. It's TOTALLY worth it.


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Bank of England Prepares for Euro Collapse
David Cameron hosted a meeting with Mervyn King yesterday to prepare the Bank of England for the Collapse of the Euro and discuss contingency plans.
Measures could include cutting interest rates or launching more QE. A senior official for the Bank said the measures would "again play their part in mitigating the impact" of Greece or other countries leaving the single currency, the Telegraph reports.
The Prime Minister and Governor of the Bank also met with Lord Turner, the chairman of the FSA, and the Chancellor as fears grew Greece may be forced out of the Euro if a coalition government cannot be formed to back austerity measures.
In Britain, ministers have already overseen extensive contingency planning to prepare for the possible break-up of the Euro, the paper reports. These include asking banks to insure holdings in Greece and considering new border controls.
The head of the IMF suggested last week British interest rates may have to be cut to zero if the economic situation deteriorates. The Bank has already completed a £325bn quantitative easing programme and this may be extended again.
Yesterday, Dr Ben Broadbent, a member of the Bank's monetary policy committee and former Treasury adviser, said the Bank was ready to intervene.
He said: "Were the still unlikely worst case risks in the Euro area actually to be realized, then our own monetary policy would again play its part in mitigating the impact.
"While they are both necessary and effective, these domestic interventions have their limits. It remains the case that, for the time being at least, the most important policy decisions affecting the UK are being taken in other parts of the continent."
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Nearly 150 policymakers, researchers, program implementers, and representatives from farmers' organizations, civil society, donor agencies, and the private sector are gathering here from September 26-27 to examine how agriculture can play a better role in improving the nutrition and health of all Malawians. The conference, "Unleashing Agriculture's Potential for Improved Nutrition and Health in Malawi," brings together experts from all three sectors to discuss how agriculture can be strategically leveraged to reduce malnutrition and enhance human wellbeing. The event is organized by the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development (MoAIWD) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) with support from Irish Aid and the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Strengthening the links between agriculture, nutrition, and health has important consequences for people's lives, especially in Malawi, where more than 80 percent of the population is subsistence farmers. For these poor rural farming households, what they grow is what they eat. Diversifying agriculture would lead to more diverse—and nutritious—diets, which would in turn result in better health. Breeding and growing crops with higher levels of micronutrients, such as vitamin A and iron, a process known as biofortification, could also reduce death and disease, particularly among women and children.
"Food and nutrition security are already essential components of the Ministry's Agriculture Sector Wide Approach, which also focuses on diversifying food production," said Mrs. Erica Maganga, Secretary for Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development, MoAIWD. "To further exploit the links between agriculture, nutrition, and health and achieve greater impact, our ministry has joined forces with the Ministry of Health, as well as the Department of Nutrition and HIV and AIDS, to design policies and programs that are mutually reinforcing."
Toward this end, the conference will explores opportunities to incorporate nutrition interventions into smallholder agriculture and rural livelihoods programs, intensify biofortification efforts, and increase the yields of nutrient-rich, as well as staple crops eaten by poor people.
"Agriculture is much more than just producing food and other products and increasing crop and livestock productivity," said Ms. Rajul Pandya-Lorch, head of IFPRI's 2020 Vision Initiative and lead organizer of a pioneering international conference on this theme that was held in India earlier this year. "Agriculture is linked to people's wellbeing in many critical ways and has great potential to improve their nutrition and reduce health risks."
To unleash this untapped potential, conference participants will share lessons from international and local experiences, identify opportunities to catalyze action and enhance synergies among agriculture, nutrition, and health, and provide evidence to inform future policies, programs, and investments.
"Agriculture, nutrition, and health programs should be designed so that they reinforce each other," said Dr. Klaus Droppelmann, senior program coordinator of IFPRI's office in Malawi. "This can only happen if practitioners, researchers, and policymakers from all three sectors join forces to coordinate their efforts and find better solutions."
The conference outcomes will strengthen and reinforce ongoing efforts related to the Framework for Scaling-Up Nutrition (SUN), which was launched in Malawi in July 2011 under the theme "United to End Stunting." The SUN framework—implemented worldwide—was developed to reduce malnutrition (of which stunting is one indication), improve people's health, and help countries
to achieve the first Millennium Development Goal of cutting poverty and hunger in half by 2015. This conference will help support SUN goals and activities by finding new and better ways of integrating nutrition along the entire agri-food value chain.
"Malawi needs to advance a new paradigm for agricultural development so that agricultural growth not only leads to increased productivity and food production, but also results in improved nutrition and health," said Secretary Erica Maganga. "This conference provides an important road map to guide future agricultural investments, policies, and programs that will enable us to achieve these goals and ultimately improve the lives and livelihoods of all people in our country."
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by John W. Rice, President Seacoast Board of REALTORS
CAMBRIDGE, MASS---More than 300 REALTORS attended this year's conference March 3-4 here. I was on-hand as well, representing the Seacoast Board of REALTORS. There were about seven of us from the Granite State.
The hot question was when will the "correction" end? The short answer seems to be 2009-maybe. In the meantime, the NAR sent 2008 President-elect Charles McMillan to help key note the program. McMillan is the highest level NAR official to appear at a NERC function in years.
"REALTORS are unaccustomed to this market," the affable McMillan said. "But we are family and family's work together. There's never been a time that this was so critical..."
McMillan explained that tough times often bring out our differences, rather than what we have in common. We have to work through that.
"Treat each other with respect and dignity," he said. "It's gonna be OK."
Taking that thought a step further, Keynote Speaker Richard Mendenhall, 2001 NAR president, reminded us that there is no national market. Just as we note dramatic differences in our New Hampshire markets, Mendenhall repeats the NAR mantra that all real estate is local. Half the U.S. markets, in fact, are doing better than last year.
"Don't get up tight about this market," Mendenhall said. "One-hundred years from now it won't matter what your bank account was."
Instead, the former NAR leader urged all to ask yourself, "What's new in your thinking? Refuse to participate in this recession. As Winston Churchill once said,' Never give up. Never never give up. Never never never give up."
Continuing the World War II theme, NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun assured everyone that, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Yun noted what most of us in the SBR have seen locally. There is pent-up demand, interest rates are at record lows and housing is becoming more affordable daily. While prices are moderating, if one owns a property three to six years, one usually make good money.
Yun sees prices and sales having already retreated to 2002 pre-boom levels. But, in New Hampshire and Maine our inventory decline-unique to the national market-helps to stabilize prices. New construction has sharply declined, though. Yun predicts further that subprime delinquencies will continue to rise sharply. Prices, he expects, will slide possibly another eight percent through the end of 2008.
While prices moderate, Yun sees affordability rising. The overall economy is weak, but New England's highly educated work force is likely to help us out of it sooner than the rest of the country. Corporate profits are at record highs and wages are rising-all positive signs. Only the financial and homebuilding sectors are weak. Oil prices, of course, are a wild card here.
"2008 will continue to be uncertain, though we should see stabilization by year's end," Yun said. "We should experience a slow recovery in 2009. It is unfeasible that this could go on."
Also speaking was Alicia Sasser, senior economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Sasser also predicted falling prices for a second straight year, but that we could see recovery late this year.
"Our over supply is not as dire as the rest of the country," she said. "It's still going to take some time to work through that inventory."
When markets do stabilize, she predicts 2.1% annual appreciation through 2011. New Hampshire, Sasser thinks, should have the fastest growing economy of all the New England states.
While on the subject of finance, NAR Senior Vice President of Legal Affairs Jerry Giovaniello trumpeted the NAR's role in pushing Congress to enact FHA reform. That action is currently in the Senate in conference. Already lending ceilings for Freddie and Fannie have been raised, but specific market increases are still a few weeks away. The new loan limit for the Boston area will likely rise from $417,000 to $538,000.
For a complete and more detailed accounting of the conference, go to http://www.nerc2008.com/.
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) endorsed Steve Lonegan (R), the former New Jersey head for the Koch Brothers' Americans for Prosperity, for U.S. Senate on Tuesday. Though Christie ran in 2009 promising a middle-of-the-road "common-sense approach," this move puts him squarely behind a far-right Tea Party candidate best known for his attacks on immigration and Spanish-language ads — and his own record of hiring undocumented immigrants.
In his unsuccessful 2009 gubernatorial primary campaign against the now-Governor, Lonegan remarked, "It's clear to me that Mr. Christie is in over his head," and ran as the more conservative candidate. But Christie's record closely mirrors Lonegan's on key issues:
1. Both ignore climate-change science. Lonegan, whose longstanding ties to Charles and David Koch make his position unsurprising, has called climate science "silly hysteria." His campaign site website boasts of his opposition to "the radical 'Green' agenda" and spending money to combat "alleged 'Global Warming.'" As New Jersey head for Americans for Prosperity, he strongly backed a 2011 New Hampshire bill to withdraw the Granite State from a regional greenhouse gas compact and urged New Jersey to do the same. Though Christie, who had been skeptical of climate science, conceded in 2011 that "climate change is real," he still followed Lonegan's advice and pulled New Jersey out of the successful Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. After Superstorm Sandy ravaged New Jersey, Christie incorrectly claimed there was no proof that climate change had had anything to do with it.
2. Both strongly oppose marriage equality. Lonegan's website makes clear that he does not support equal marriage rights for same-sex couples: "Steve believes in the long-standing definition of marriage as a union between one man and one woman and opposes the federal government forcing gay marriage on states." He bashes his opponent for supporting, "the federal government mandating gay marriage on all 50 states, including all government benefits," and has warned of "an all-out assault on the sanctity of marriage and the family in this country." Christie vetoed a marriage-equality bill last year, claiming that marriage equality is not about "gay rights." Though a super-majority of New Jersey voters support marriage equality, Christie's administration continues to fight a court challenge which to allow New Jersey families to have equal legal rights as guaranteed by the state's constitution.
3. Both have fought women's health access. Steve Lonegan, who says he his "pro-life" and won't apologize for it, wants to defund Planned Parenthood, saying since the women's health provider also offers abortion services, "I would defund it, absolutely." Christie, the first New Jersey governor to oppose abortion rights since Roe v. Wade, eliminated $7.4 million in family planning funds and rescinded a state application for federal family planning funds.
4. Both want to undermine Obamacare. Lonegan proudly proclaims that he was "one of the earliest opponents of the President's Health Care law and organized thousands of New Jersey taxpayers to fight it." Now he backs "full ObamaCare Repeal" and vows to "use his power as a United States Senator to block funding and implementation of this dangerous proposal." Christie twice vetoed a bill to allow New Jersey to setup a health insurance exchange under Obamacare and has called the universal healthcare law a "sad legacy" for President Obama.
5. Both opposed a state-level DREAM Act for undocumented youth. Lonegan, a fierce opponent of what he terms "amnesty" for undocumented immigrants, attacked a proposal by then-Gov. Jon Corzine (D) to offer in-state tuition to undocumented youth going to state colleges and universities as "chock-full of left-wing nonsense that would make this state a magnet for undocumented or illegal workers." Christie also panned the idea: "I do not believe that, for the people who came here illegally, that we should be subsidizing, with taxpayer money, through in-state tuition, their education."
6. Both want to funnel public funds in private and parochial schools through vouchers. Lonegan says the federal government's involvement in education has been "an overall negative" and that he is a "strong supporter of school voucher and tax credit ideas that put parents in charge of their children's education." He has criticized his opponent for not doing enough to implement school vouchers. Christie also strongly backs school vouchers, pushing to siphon public funds to private and religious schools. Both have claimed that this competition — and accompanying reduced funding — will somehow improve under-performing public schools.
7. Both oppose popular gun violence reduction measures. Lonegan says he "supports the individual right to keep and bear arms and opposes new federal gun control laws." In endorsing his candidacy, far-right icon Phyllis Schlafly praised him for his consistent support for the Second Amendment. Christie opposed New Jersey's one-gun-a-month limit and has been strongly critical of President Obama's approach, calling instead for "violence control." This week, he even vetoed a ban on military sniper rifles — that he had earlier proposed — and blocked legislation to expand background checks for private gun sales.
Christie, in his endorsement, reportedly pledged to appear again with Lonegan and help him raise money, noting that both stand for low taxes and small government.
Lonegan, a former Mayor of Bogota, NJ, and a two-time failed gubernatorial candidate, will face Newark Mayor Corey Booker (D) in an October 16 special election to fill in the remainder of the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg's (D) term. Christie's handpicked interim Senator, Jeff Chiesa (R), will also endorse Lonegan Wednesday.


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David Gorman checks out Glassland, Gerard Barrett's highly anticipated follow up to Pilgrim Hill. Glassland screened at this year's Galway Film Fleadh.
The atmosphere in the Town Hall Theatre, the epicentre of the Galway Film Fleadh, had an air of eagerness and excitement about it on Friday night. Two years ago, in the same venue, a young unknown filmmaker was about to emerge on to the Irish film scene with his debut feature, Pilgrim Hill.
Pilgrim Hill (2012) evoked critical acclaim from Ireland and abroad was the most talked about film of that year, resulting in writer/director Gerard Barrett winning Rising Star Award at the IFTAs. So the excitement and anticipation at this year's Fleadh for Barrett's second feature, Glassland, was justified. Barrett, who also wrote both films, is a self-proclaimed proud Kerry man, who was compared to the great Irish playwright John. B Keane when the film was being introduced by the former Minister of Arts. The irony of both of his films premiering in a theatre and not a cinema was not lost on me.
Barrett says about his second feature, "I come from a close family and I have never known anything else, but the reality is that there are plenty of broken families in Ireland and I wanted to explore that." It is never easy to follow a successful debut and the pressure that goes with that can distract the best of filmmakers. However, there is an air of confidence about Barrett and it is refreshing to see a young man (Barrett is still only 27) with such passion about storytelling and I am glad that he chose the medium of cinema to convey those stories and not the stage like the comparative Keane.
Glassland progresses at a slow pace and there is a certain amount of patience required, but it is well worth it. Jean (Toni Collette) is slowing killing herself with alcohol and John (Jack Reynor), her son, is her only hope of survival but he is on the verge of a breakdown himself. Reynor's character is obviously under strain and his family situation is making him sacrifice not only living his life, but possibly putting it at risk also. Reynor has a strong screen presence and can hold the attention of the viewer in long scenes without dialogue or a manipulating score. Toni Collette is unflinchingly raw, almost unrecognisable from the glamour of Hollywood that some might relate her to. She is 100% believable in the role. The strong, believable performances from the lead characters engage the viewer and there is an honesty and sincerity that pervades the film. The writing/dialogue is at times brutally frank but then this frankness is juxtaposed with moments of comedy that resulted in laugh-out-loud moments in the packed theatre.
There are certainly similarities with Pilgrim Hill, the sense of 'anywhere' shows why these films are so relatable, the only indication that both films are based in Ireland are the accents, brilliantly pulled off in Glassland by Australian Toni Collette and Will Poulter from England who plays John's friend. Poulter is responsible for the comedic elements that ease the palpable tension among the audience at times. There is an honesty about Glassland and, again, like Pilgrim Hill, Barrett is certainly not afraid to depict the harsh truth of life in modern Ireland. Another clear similarity between the two films is that the viewer is completely immersed in the main character's world, which in both cases are claustrophobic, repetitive and mundane.
This film is the type that grows on you as time passes; it dominated the conversation over breakfast the next morning. We need more films like this that explore the prevalent issues in contemporary Irish life – addiction, emigration, and a sense of isolation from mainstream society. It is fair to say that not everyone might enjoy the pace or visual style over a dialogue-driven narrative. Nevertheless, these are stories that need to be told in Ireland by Irish filmmakers and Barrett is telling them with compassion, subtlety and refreshing honesty. A well-made mature second feature.
Click here for our coverage of Irish Film at the 26th Galway Film Fleadh (8 – 13 July, 2014)


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Imagine a scenario where a robot and a human collaborate side by side to perform a complex surgery together. Robot assisted surgery began to be used initially for radical prostatectomy. Today this revolutionary approach involving highly advanced robotics is being used in an ever-increasing number of surgical cases by departments such as Gynecology, Bariatric Surgery, Oncology, Urology, and Surgical Gastroenterology.
The motivation to develop robotic surgery platforms emerged from the need to improve the precision of surgical techniques. The world's first surgical robot was the Arthrobot, a bone mountable hip arthoroplasty surgery robot, which was developed and used for the first time in Canada in 1983. In 1985 the PUMA 560, was used to place a needle for a brain biopsy using computed tomography (CT) guidance. Soon thereafter in 1988, the PROBOT was developed for the field of urology to perform prostatic surgery and the ROBODOC introduced in 1992 was used in Orthopedics to aid in total hip replacement. The only US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved surgical robot currently on the market is the da Vinci introduced in 2001 from Intuitive Surgical Inc.
Robotic surgery is the use of robots in performing surgery. Three important developments that surgical robots have made possible are remote surgery, minimally invasive surgery, and unmanned surgery. Major potential advantages of this cutting edge technology are precision and miniaturization.
Robot assisted surgery uses a minimally invasive procedure in which a surgical robot under the control of a specially trained surgeon operates with a 3D high definition (3D-HD) video camera and robotic arms. The surgeon controls these instruments and the camera from a console located in the operating room. The 3D-HD image can be magnified up to 10 times to allow the surgeon to see the surgical area up close and to access previously unreachable areas at once.
As compared to traditional surgery, robotic surgery offers a host of benefits to the surgeon and the patient, as well as society at large. In robot assisted surgery, there is improved patient quality of life. This advanced technology allows surgeons to perform a growing number of complex urological, gynecological, cardiothoracic and general surgical procedures with greater ease and more efficiency. For example, while executing the procedure, the robot reduces any erratic movements or tremors originating from the surgeon's hand. This feature is particularly useful while performing surgeries where fine suturing is required.
Some of the benefits of robotic surgery are:
The robotic systems are constructed to be fault-tolerant in the event of any error occurring during the surgery. One built-in safety feature is called graceful degradation. If one component begins to fail, the system slowly compensates or degrades to a lower level of performance rather than abruptly quitting or causing an erratic motion. In such a case, the system permits the surgeon to take over and complete the procedure using conventional surgical techniques.
The technology likely has a long, promising future in the medical field, but only if the makers of these machines can solve a few key problems, in particular high costs, and safety concerns. The day is not so far when instead of two hands your surgeon will be working with four hands.
Talk with your doctor about all treatment options, as well as the risks and benefits of each option. If surgery is the option you choose, talk with your doctor about whether Robotic Surgery is right for you. Your doctor's training, experience and judgment are important factors to consider when making this decision.
You'll have access to the most advanced technology, ranging from blood work to imaging services, ensuring a distinct advantage when it comes to diagnosis and treatment.
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Health and Safety within the workplace
In any organisation health and safety is an important factor to manage. When it comes to health and safety in facility management it is a legal requirement to initiate a Safety Management System that is designed around the diverse industries your company operates in. The Safety Management System should incorporate all aspects of safety from simplified employee information to regulatory safety statements and dealing with the public.
Risk Assessment
Conducting a risk assessment and creating a safety statement is a requirement of Irish Health and Safety Law. Some employers or managers are often put off by the task of risk management, thinking that it is too complicated and time consuming but once the process is simplified it can become a manageable process. Risk assessment includes 3 main steps, which are; identifying hazards, identifying the level of risk for each hazard and identifying how to avoid or reduce that risk. By following these three steps your risk assessment is completed. Each industry will have certain risks and hazards that are typically associated in that specific industry. The HSA (Health Safety Authority) have created a BeSmart programme for small businesses that help define the risks and hazards associated with a variety of industries
Safety Statements
A Safety statement outlines the management of safety procedures within the workplace. The safety procedures are defined by the risk assessment, detailing where the main potential risk hazards occur and how to deal with them. The statement will detail the specific safety aspects of your workplace and the specific arrangements, facilities and resources in relation to each specific risk. In line with having the statement openly available, you should also provide easily accessible information in relation to the first-aid officers, safety representatives and emergency procedures.
Informing employees
Your employees must be made aware of the contents of the safety statements and updated to change in arrangements and procedures as soon as they are implemented. The safety statement may be circulated in various forms such as annual distribution, electronically (on company intranet), verbally (in relation to specific risks), through inclusion in employee handbooks and through training. Ensuring the safety statement is accessible in a variety of ways provides an efficient distribution of information and increases interaction and awareness of safety within your site. While it is important for employees to be aware of the complete safety statement, there is a higher relevance attached to employees being educated on the safety aspects of their specific tasks.
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Transportation Advisory Committee Meeting10:00 August 7, 2012
3rd Quarter GCMC Transportation Advisory Committee
The meeting was called to order by the Chair, Mr. Jed Dunkerson at 10:00 am on August 7, 2012 in the Medical Center Conference room. Members and advisors present were Ms. Lynne Moore, Mr. Robert Todorovich, Mr. Loran Hines, Mr. Joe Gilboy, Mr. Pat Sanders, Mr. Joel Lankford and Mr. Carl Sundstrom. A quorum was present.
Mr. Sundstrom read the minutes from the second quarterly meeting. A motion was made by Mr. Todorovich and seconded by Ms. Moore to accept the minutes.
The motion was unanimously passed.
Old Business:
The old van has been repaired to include the air conditioning. There still remains the issue of replacing the driver's side door panel but this is not a safety issue. Mr. Sanders recommended calling Harlows to ascertain if they have a replacement part in their salvage inventory. Mrs. Moore will contact them and if a part is available, it will be purchased and used in correction of the existing door panel.
Monies are yet to be determined for transportation services within the state. The new van schedule has resulted in a decrease of one ridership in comparison to last year's data. Utilization of the van will continue to be monitored. It was suggested to republish the schedule in the local newspaper as well as posting in the key areas of Granite County.
New lettering and the identification of the transportation number has been placed on the new van. The Granite County Medical Center logo was also attached in accordance with DOT requirements.
Mr. Sanders stated that there will be a transportation meeting in regard to "Ride Share" initiatives. Meeting will occur on August 9th. The goal of the group is to increase ridership and improve coordination.
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It was decided to potentially remove the radio from the old van and install them in the new van if a similar radio could be found. Mr. Dunkerson will check with Dunn Communication to determine if a replacement for the old van radio could be purchased. If the radio is available, purchase and replacement will occur. Band wave lengths were discussed to determine if they could be incorporated in the radios to improve communication. Tucker transportation and the county schools will be contacted.
The grant application for continued operational funding should be started soon. The application form is available online from Montana Department of Transportation. It was recommended that Mrs. Caroline Reel be contacted to initiate preparatory work on the grant. Mr. Sanders stated that the pending highway bill, federal, might affect on line grant applications. It was also discussed by the committee that next year a new grant should be submitted for a vehicle which should be a seven passenger mini-van.
Mr. Gilboy indicated that area five should receive approximately 25 thousand dollars from the state.
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Since the dental trailer is fully owned, there was discussion regarding selling that trailer and placing the monies from the sale into the same cost center. Discussion also was related to utilizing the trailer for EOP. Mr. Lankford summarized the components of the grant application and will insure that timelines are satisfied as well as accurate data.
The fourth quarter meeting will be held on November 13, 2012 at 10:00 am in the medical center conference room. A motion for adjournment was made by Mr. Sundstrom and seconded by Mr. Todorovich. Meeting was adjourned at 10:40 am.
Mr. Jed Dunkerson, Chair
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Enrollment Insights: With the announcement that more than 8 million Americans ultimately signed up for coverage on the exchanges, the Administration was able to close the books on the Affordable Care Act's first open enrollment period. Or, so it thought. While the final tally exceeded original projections of just how many would sign up, it took a dramatic, last-minute surge to carry the ball across the goal line. But, even as supporters quietly celebrated the accomplishment, opponents were quick to point out that, unless those 8 million sign-ups could be tied back to 8 million first premiums paid, those final numbers don't provide an accurate narrative. Accordingly, the House Energy & Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Oversight & Investigations convened a hearing of its own this week specifically on the issue, inviting a handful of insurers to discuss their enrollment experiences. The hearing came on the heels of the full Committee having released a report last week claiming only two-thirds of enrollees had paid their first premiums. Witnesses at Wednesday's Subcommittee hearing, however, painted a different picture, attesting that as many as 90 percent of customers had, in fact, made their first payment. As experts continue to debate the successes and failures of the rollout, and whether or not it's working as intended, there's no denying that there's room for improvement heading into next year.
Mandate Exemption: A central component of the health care law, the individual mandate was meant to encourage full participation in the newly created health insurance exchange marketplaces. While some have objected to the tactic as being more stick than carrot, the actuarial argument behind the provision is sound – the more enrollees in the pool, the more evenly the risk gets spread out for everyone. Nevertheless, exemptions were quietly made available to millions of Americans looking to be excused from the mandate ahead of the open enrollment period closing last month. Surprisingly, though, relatively few have taken the Administration up on the offer. To date, around 77,000 families and individuals had requested exemptions; as of late last month, tens of thousands of them had been approved, with none being rejected. And, just last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it was widening the exemption for people purchasing coverage off the exchange retroactive to last Thursday (May 1st).
Another Vacancy: The first confirmation hearing for Sylvia Mathews Burwell was held yesterday before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions (HELP) Committee. While opponents of the President's signature law believed her nomination to replace outgoing Health & Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius provided them with the perfect opportunity to redirect the national conversation to what they think is wrong with the Affordable Care Act, more pragmatic observers felt her ability to perform under pressure wouldn't really be put to the test until after she's been confirmed. In either case, her hearing marked the beginning of a regime change at the top of the Administration's health care leadership team. In addition to Secretary Sebelius' resignation, CMS Deputy Administrator Jonathan Blum has also announced that he would be leaving his post. And, late last week, Mike Hash added his name to the list, announcing his retirement as head of the Office of Health Reform (OHR), the HHS unit charged with overseeing implementation of the health care law.
Medicare Advantage: Last month, ahead of CMS making final its proposed payment changes to Medicare Advantage, a good deal of coverage was devoted to the impacts that those cuts would have had on the millions of seniors and persons with disabilities currently enrolled in the popular program. Despite the final rate notice being less than originally proposed, the changes that were ultimately enacted, when taken in combination with the cuts already imposed under the Affordable Care Act, meant that beneficiaries would, nonetheless, still be exposed to higher out-of-pocket costs, reduced benefits, and fewer choices, as more plans are forced to exit certain markets. You'd be excused, though, if you dismissed these warnings as more political angst than what's actually happening, especially as enrollment updates for Medicare Advantage paint a very different picture. Already this year, the number of Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans reached an all-time high of nearly 16 million enrollees. (In fact, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) now projects that that number will reach 22 million by 2020.) So, given that the program seems to be attracting new members at an historic rate, why all the doom-and-gloom? While some would point to the enrollment numbers as evidence that Medicare Advantage is thriving under increasingly difficult conditions, others maintain that the program is only doing so because of the better model-of-care it embodies. Further, as cuts to its underlying payment structure continue to chip away at the program, plans will be less able to insulate beneficiaries from feeling the impact of these cuts.
Connectivity: Earlier this week, Karen DeSalvo, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at HHS, joined a panel of experts on connected health to talk about the intersection of technology and the enhanced delivery of health care. The event, hosted by POLITICO and Philips, was particularly timely in light of the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) having adopted a new set of guiding principles for telehealth late last month. That policy, however, has drawn considerable opposition from patient advocates and some provider groups, who take exception to the model definition for "telemedicine" which was drafted to be intentionally aspirational to allow for the inclusion of new technologies, beyond just telephony and email. Speaking at the event this week, DeSalvo spoke of the importance of a national embrace of these technologies (electronic health records, related systems, and devices), lest we miss out on the opportunity to vastly improve the delivery of – and access to – care in this country. That all depends, she elaborated, on the development of a policy framework.
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KPOP and me: Defending FNC's CEO
The FNC Entertainment CEO, Han Seong Ho, has come under fire for his favor of CNBLUE and Jung Yong Hwa in particular.
And the reason is because people are reacting as fans of Lee Hongki and FTIsland. The comments I read stated that FTIsland was what put FNC on the map. And that CNBLUE has made mistakes. Jung Yong Hwa isn't any particular greater person than Lee Hongki. And Han Seong Ho is one biased man. Etc, etc, etc…
Okay, so I am totally CNBLUE biased.
However, I am not Jung Yong Hwa biased.
In CNBLUE, my eyes find Kang Minhyuk more often than Jung Yonghwa. And Lee Jonghyun more before Jung Yonghwa. Although I'll admit to the boy's talent in songwriting. I can't fault his acting either. I do fault his choices of drama, though. Because the story lines are just too… well… boring. His personality is also exuberant. His quick smile easy and engaging. You see a person behind the mask that all idols have to wear. This snake man is a consummate seducer of massive appeal. I swear he could probably sell you Brooklyn Bridge and there will be people lining up to buy it. Or a piece of it.
On the other hand, there is Lee Hongki. FTIsland's main vocalist. And truly, truly, Lee Hongki's voice is incredible. Really really nice, could probably outshine Jung Yonghwa's in some songs. However, Lee Hongki's talent was never in any doubt. Not even FTIsland's talent is in any doubt. Lee Hongki has presence. He has some very powerful voice. And he is charismatic.
The problem came because Han Seong Ho decided to say it like it is. If you had a company and you're about to give it away for someone else to take to the next level, between Yonghwa and Hongki, which would you prefer? If I was the CEO, I would trust Yonghwa with the growth of the company more than I would Hongki. And I'll tell you why.
Despite how the public sees CNBLUE, Jung Yonghwa holds them tightly. Regardless of the plagiarism scandal and all that.
Jung Yonghwa had always held himself to a different standard. Careful, almost meticulous, obsessive, a near perfectionist. And although the leader of the group, he also wants the other three to continually grow to be themselves. The color of their own music emerging, encouraged by a leader that will step back so as not to influence them unduly. His own group has said that he is a great support for all three of them. The man is the perfect example of what a leader should be. One that will sacrifice a little to reap the benefit of a future that has a lot more.
Hongki, more often than not, acts like a spoiled child. Perhaps it's only an image, but why cultivate that kind of image for yourself? A playful, fun loving person is what I see. There is a certain seriousness, but in truth, his leader Choi Joong Hoon is the one that creates the order in the group more than Hongki. And the quiet leader keeps that to himself. Hongki is the one that is known of all the FTIsland boys. His face, his words, his actions. But he's not the one that keeps it together.
If in the future, the CEO actually taps Jung Yonghwa for the position as CEO, I think that at that time Han Seong ho has thought about where Jung Yonghwa will take his company and in what kind of environment his stars will be nurtured in. Although, I see Jung Yonghwa reaching further than the music industry. Perhaps into the political arena. He'd be a perfect Ambassador, I think, to the US of A. Or Japan.
I like Han Seong Ho, actually, for the genius of the music he's composed. Well, considering that the kind of musical genius I'm looking for is someone like Sting, Han Seong Ho's 'ballads' are a contender for being ALMOST like Sting's. I have yet to let go of Sarang Bireul Tago – Love Follows the Rain – in my repertoire of music I listen to. And just to make it more perfect, the Korean tracks for his compositions are incredible when Lee Jonghyun sings them.
After all, to me, Lee Jonghyun's duets with Jung Yonghwa are sheer perfection.
Yes, yes, they're good on solos as well, but when they blend their voices together, I feel very good listening to them.
So, just my opinion. Don't roast the CEO because you're only thinking of your idol. It's not about that for the CEO. You asked between two of the most notable faces of two of his own band. But you forget that Hongki is not the leader of FTIsland, while Yonghwa is. Between the two, I too, would choose Yonghwa. It's like comparing apple pears to Mandarin Oranges. Really.
Had they asked the CEO to choose between Choi Joong Hoon and Jung Yonghwa, his answer may have been different. Now you're comparing two kinds of oranges. One could be better for juice, the other for snacking, still they're both oranges. If it was me, I'd prefer Joong Hoon. He allows his star to shine, not overshadowing Lee Hongki's star. Even though he's twice more handsome than the singer and that much more talented in composition and instruments. However, his hold and discipline with his group is more lax. Especially on Hongki's mouth which, unfortunately, likes to run too far.
Music: Sting
My love is a flame that burns in your name ~
~ Would North be true~
~encircled you in trenches and barbed wire~
~the moon's a fingernail and slowly sinking~
~how will she know if I'm damned or I'm free~
~There is no monopoly in common sense on either side of the political fence~
~…blood will flow when flesh and steel are one…~
~… whatever the sweetest wine that I've tasted…~
When did I start liking Sting?
It started when I was in High School. So, it must have been Fortress Around your Heart. With his character as Dr. Frankenstein in "The Bride."
Although he was first known in The Police, I wasn't too into The Police besides Wrapped Around your Finger and Every Breath You Take. Their famous Roxanne wasn't something my 10 year old self (at the time) wanted to know about. LOL!
But with Fortress Around your Heart, Russians also came in. And my heart went to Sting and haven't left. He has throughout all his years of music made some of the more versatile songs that I have listened to. In so many languages.
Fragile, I think, is his most translated work.
Off of the top of my head, Fields of Gold, Dessert Rose, Ghost Story, English Man in New York, Why Should I Cry for you, La Belle Dame Sans Regrets, I'm Mad about you….
That one… had me searching the internet for a Spanish version because I could have sworn I heard it in a Spanish version. I was wrong, it's Italian!
Fragil is the Portuguese version of Fragile. Fragilidad is the Spanish Version of Fragile.
I also like his Shape of my Heart, I love the Jazz pieces he does. Cuenca Solas, Whenever I say your name…. this one song became a dedicated song. I don't dedicate too many songs. But this one, one person comes to mind when I hear this. And that will always be that person's song. I think in all the years I've been alive only four songs I've listened to became dedicated to someone in my life. Passing or not. Oh, I forgot… five. There is that one song that when I hear it… I think of THAT one person… The title is "Gives you Hell." Not exactly a nice piece.
Back to Sting, Valparaiso…
Around the late 80's I discovered DUNE… and what did I see? Sting! In all his gorgeous glory!!! Okay, he was muscled and my goodness! I didn't quite fall in love with the man, but that was interesting!
All the songs that was compiled in Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984-1994 is hands down my favorite because it compiled all of my favorite tracks. Although I wish Moon over Bourbon Street was in it. Why are his songs so FASCINATING?
Why? Perhaps because of the way he phrases them. It's like he's telling a story. You see the West Wind moving through the fields of barley, the ships in the distance, the rising and rolling of waves, the dog star… The mines he's laid, the battlements… Who the heck even knows what the hell that is? How about that formal dance floor, do you see you dancing in a waltz around Sting in the song "When we Dance"? I could.
I have yet to find someone who has this style of songwriting. The fact that his songs are influenced from world music, but grounded in Jazz and Rock is too cool for me. And perhaps because he was first an English teacher, the way he phrases his song lyrics are too… beautiful. Poetic. Flowing like a river. Flowing like the wind around, lifting, carrying you into the world that Sting knows.
Under the dog star sail
Over the reefs of moonshine
Under the skies of fall
North, north west, the Stones of Faroe
Under the Arctic fire
Over the seas of silence
Hauling on frozen ropes
For all my days remaining
But would north be true?
This, I think, is the appeal of Sting. What the hell is the stones of Faroe again? No, it's not Stonehenge. And just in case you guys are still unsure about the Dog Star, it's Siruis. Yes, there is a star called Siruis. Not the satellite radio thingy. It is the brightest star in the night sky. People around the world navigated by it. They called it the dog star, the wolf star, the bear star, etc. Its rising marks the "dog days of summer." And you thought all those myths from long ago had no purpose. Sting found one!
I hope you feel a little Sting tonight or today. My thoughts, start with Fields of Gold, then segue into Ghost Story, calm down with the Italian version of "Mad about you," take a trip with Fortress Around your Heart, become introspective with Fragilidad, and take a dip with Valparaiso, and finally end with Whenever I say Your name. I would drink some sweet wine and think of that special someone. And just because, you should also think about listening to Englishman in New York with Why should I cry for you.
Because really…
I'm an alien, I'm a legal Alien should go with "I loved you in my fashion…."
By the way, that line reminds me so of a line in a poem called Cynara. "I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! In my fashion.


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Sudan Not Afraid of the ICC
According to the Washington Post, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is now seeking an arrest warrant for the Sudanese dictator, Omar al-Bashir, charging him with crimes against humanity for his role in the mass killings that engulfed Darfur during the last five years.
The move in itself, and the symbolic pursuit of morality and justice it represents, are commendable. Any research and evidence that can shed more light on the butchery that took place in Sudan's western region is more than welcome.
Nevertheless, once all the warm and fuzzy feelings vanish, we are left with the reality and the negative consequences that such moves can cause.
First of all, what on earth does the ICC's chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, plan to do after he gets his warrant? Walk into Khartoum and handcuff the Sudanese president? Let's get real. If people in such influential positions are going to make such inflammatory rhetoric, then they better have the ability to act upon it. Otherwise they should avoid making such empty threats in the first place, because such foolishness can carry a high price.
The very lives of Darfur's innocent women and children could face increasing danger as a result of this warrant. Khartoum will very likely react aggressively, by stubbornly stirring up more trouble than already exists. This is already being foreshadowed by the UN's very recent security tightening in Sudan.
Al-Bashir is currently scrambling after the Arab League to hold a meeting of foreign ministers in order to discuss the ICC matter. However, this panicky attitude shouldn't be mistaken as a positive development, because the goal of the effort isn't to annoy Sudan's president or force him into a corner. The final goal is peace and security for Darfur's people -- and pursuing a well-meaning but ultimately unhelpful strategy won't achieve that.
The ICC -- which got the green light to conduct its Darfur investigations from the UN Security Council -- can't do much on its own in terms of enforcement. It needs the support of the UN, but the UN has mainly been the source of disappointment after disappointment. Its clumsiness in this context is self-explanatory. All one needs to do is look at the UN's history in the matter.
What is ironic is that the UN insists on deploying all peacekeepers and pushing the peace process forward, yet at the same time it is coordinating badly with the ICC initiative, which in turn will only hurt the UN's peace agenda for Darfur.


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The American Heartworm Society recommends that animals living in all parts of the U.S. be given heartworm preventive medications on a year-round basis. But which are the best heartworm meds for dogs and cats? While there isn't necessarily a "best heartworm medication" there are certain types of meds that may be more convenient for you and effective for your pet (if given in the proper dose on a regular schedule). Here are three of most common types of heartworm preventive medications to discuss with your veterinarian.
Adapted from an article by Jennifer Kvamme, DVM
The heartworm preventives you are probably most familiar with are the once-a-month tablets or chewables. Many of the various oral heartworm medications available today contain either ivermectin or milbemycin as the active ingredient and many serve more than one function— not only killing heartworm larvae but also eliminating internal parasites such as roundworms and hookworms. You do, however, need to watch your dog or cat to be sure he/she chews the entire piece or tablet and doesn't spit any of it out. Otherwise, the heartworm medication loses its effectiveness.
These heartworm medications are applied monthly to the back of the dog or cat's neck, or between the shoulder blades on the skin. Not only do these preventives protect against heartworms but there are some with active ingredients that work to eliminate such things as fleas, ticks, mange mites, and roundworms. These heartworm preventives are toxic if ingested, so be sure to isolate your pet for a time after application — both to prevent your pet from coming in contact with children or other animals and to prevent them from rubbing the medication off on furniture, carpet, etc.
Along with being used in other forms of heartworm preventives, Moxidectin can be administered as an injection for up to six months protection from heartworms. The injectable heartworm medication does come with restrictions on its use. Veterinarians must administer this heartworm medication to their patients, and this is only after intensive training in its proper use. Your veterinarian is also required to record the lot number of the product used for your pet and must report any adverse effects that may arise.
No matter which medication you choose for your dog or cat, read the medication's label closely and follow its instructions. Additionally, tell your veterinarian if your pet shows signs of illness after administration and be sure to have your dog or cat tested yearly for heartworms.
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There are two types of pictures and movies stored onto iPhones, iPads or iPods: the ones that have been captured with the device itself and the ones that have been imported via an iTunes sync.
Depending on the type of pictures and videos you want to transfer to your computer from the device they will be located in different places in the device and hence you will access them via different buttons in the right navigation pane in DiskAid:
Click on the Camera Roll icon
To transfer pictures that have been captured with the device itself using it's internal camera.
Thumbnails will appear in the browser window in DiskAid directly.
Select them and click "Copy to computer" or simply drag your selection to the desktop.
Click on the Photos app icon
To transfer photo album contants that have been synced to the device.
Folders containing the image files will show in the browser.
Select the folders or individual image files and click "Copy to computer" or simply drag your selection to the desktop.
Note: Devices not running iOS 5 need the free PicsAid to copy photos that have been imported via an iTunes sync.
Camera Roll Display Errors
In case the Camera Roll volume is not mounting properly, you might obtain an erroneous error massage claiming that it is empty. This can be solved quickly:
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ID: VH17 Renovated large stone built house
Situated in the traditional mountain village of Vrahassi, a large village renowned for it's friendly people, that has some tavernas and kafenions and a few mini markets.
This stone built house is ready to move into.
At the front of the property is a parking area. One of the attractive entrances leads to the hall, living room, dining room and kitchen. All rooms have natural tiled floors.
The dining room provides access to the lovely courtyard at the rear, which has another entrance from a different side street as well. There is a storage room and a shower room and an external staircase to the roof.
Upstairs there is a large lounge with the bathroom with bath, one single bedroom and a double bedroom. The second main double bedroom has a fitted wardrobe and French windows to the roof terrace.
The whole building has central heating and the water is heated by energy-efficient solar heating and back-up immersion heater.
The other beautiful entrance door at the front of the building leads to a very large storage room that used to be a mini-market.
This room with beautiful marble floor can easily be connected with the main building or kept separate and converted into an independent guests accommodation.


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Australian Parti Sapphire Shield Elevate Ring
Melanie Katsalidis
"This beautiful Australian parti sapphire came from a gem dealer in South Australia who also cut the stone. It's an excellent example of the beautiful banded colours you find in these gemstones. The cut is like a shield or kite and really shows off the green, blue and yellow in the gem. Set in my signature Elevate style."
18ct yellow gold set with a freeform shield cut Australian parti sapphire
This is a one-of-a-kind sapphire and once sold out, cannot be exactly replicated. However please enquire if you are interested as our artist may be able to make something similar with a different stone.
This item will be made to order by the artist. Please allow approximately four weeks.
If there are any changes to the estimated delivery time, we'll contact you within two business days to confirm.


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DUIs are expensive!
This post is about the costs of being convicted for a Georgia DUI. A DUI will cost you time and thousands of dollars upfront. Additionally, there are hidden costs that may take years to pay off. The average DUI in Georgia costs more than $10,000.
Court Costs
There are:
Fines: $1,000
Surcharges: up to 50% more
Supervision fees: $50 per month for the duration of your probation
Treatment fees: around $200 to $500 or more depending on how much if any treatment is recommended.
Class tuition costs: $210
Increased insurance premiums: this depends on your insurance company and may last for years after you are convicted for DUI.
These costs will balloon the amount of money you will have to pay in order to get your life back to normal. In all, you could be looking at $10,000 to $20,000.
For the most part, the biggest cost for a DUI conviction in Georgia is the loss of your driver's license. If you are convicted for a Georgia DUI your license will be suspended for a year. You may be eligible for a limited driving permit after 120 days. If you have to drive for work, you would need to find a ride or face losing $15,000 or more.
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Attorney Fees
Most attorneys charge between $2,000 and $5,000 for representation in a DUI case. It may seem like a lot of money to hire a lawyer but it is worth it and here is why. If you go to court and just plead guilty to a DUI charge you are looking at upwards of $10,000 to $20,000 out of pocket expenses. If you hire an attorney there is a possibility that they could get your charges reduced or even dismissed. No DUI attorney could or should guarantee an outcome.
In many cases, I am able to get your case reduced in some way. For example, if your DUI charge is reduced, you may still have a fine but most of the surcharges, costs for treatment, and loss of license would be avoided and your out of pocket costs would be in the ballpark of $4,000 to $7,000 instead of $10,000 to $20,000 or more.
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ILC Asia History
Launch of the ILC regionalization process
In 2007, ILC launched a regionalisation process in its three main regions – Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Since then the following steps have been taken. In March 2008, an Asia regional meeting was held in Bangkok to discuss ILC's institutional development and regionalisation; it was attended by 11 of the 15 civil society organisation (CSO) members of the Coalition at that time and two intergovernmental organisation (IGO) members, FAO and the World Bank. During the meeting, members set up a Working Group to conduct follow-up planning and resource mobilisation for the period 2008–2010
ANGOC, a network of CSOs in the region and an ILC founding member, was appointed to serve as host organisation of the ILC Asia platform from October 2008 to December 2010.
At the ILC Assembly of Members (AoM) held in Kathmandu, Nepal in April 2009, the first regional Steering Committee was constituted; it included CSRC, JKPP, ICRAF, and ANGOC. In December 2009, at the request of the civil society members, the Asia Division of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) agreed to participate as a member of the ILC Asia Steering Committee (ASC).


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Initiative Overview
Leading British academics and industrial practitioners have formed a consortium to establish a national strategic coordinated research and training initiative focusing on the science and engineering of Large-Scale Complex Information Technology Systems (LSCITS). Funds of approx £10m have already been committed by the EPSRC, the main UK funding agency for computer systems research. The LSCITS Consortium will work closely with industrial researchers and practitioners, and with workers in related research initiatives. The initial research programme involves an integrated set of work-packages that span a "stack" of complementary approaches to current and future challenges in the science and engineering of LSCITS.
The content on this webpage is also available in two pdf-format LSCITS publicity flyers:
Additional flyers, and related publications, are available here.
Rationale: An Urgent and Growing Problem
The motivation for the LSCITS Initiative is the on-going growth in the size and complexity of information technology (IT) systems. Our ability to develop, maintain and manage such systems is falling behind the growth in their complexity. There is a high risk that we will find ourselves reliant on IT systems that we don't fully understand and that we cannot effectively manage.
The roots of complexity in IT systems are their increasing size; the increasing involvement of many different organisations in their construction and use; and the increasing rate of business and social change that they have to accommodate. To manage and control complexity, we need better technical tools and methods of system development. We also need a better understanding of the human, social and organisational issues that affect the procurement, development, deployment and use of complex IT systems.
The Initiative will establish a coordinated international network of researchers in industry and academia with the skills and knowledge appropriate to dealing with the problems of current and future LSCITS across their life-cycles. The Initiative's Training Programme is intended to produce the next generation of systems engineers and technology innovation leaders.
Both the LSCITS Training Programme and the LSCITS Research Programme will bring together academic researchers and industrial practitioners. This flyer gives an overview of the Initiative's general structure and approach. There are additional flyers giving more details of the LSCITS Training Programme and the Initiative's Research Programme.
Overall Aim
Our aims are to improve existing technical approaches to complex systems engineering and to develop new socio-technical approaches that help us understand the complex interactions between organisations, processes and systems. We will tackle the following problems:
System Understanding. The principal functional and nonfunctional properties of complex IT systems cannot be completely understood by our existing 'reductionist' approaches.
System Interactions. Systems interact with their operational environments in many different ways.
Systems and Organisations. Complex IT systems are specified, developed, used and maintained within organisations that may themselves be thought of as complex systems. The development, deployment, evolution and use of the IT systems is thus influenced by human, organisational, business, social and political factors.
Conceptual Framework
The inherent tension between stability and change in LSCITS requires an approach to research that includes both of these perspectives.
Stability: The system's essential properties must be maintained, its key variables kept within the limits of system viability, and its goals must be kept in step with the goals of the organisation that it serves.
Change: Agile reaction and adaptation is desirable, reducing the time required to make appropriate changes in response to external pressures and perturbations, and to deploy these changes across organizations.
A key research question is then: how are essential large-scale complex IT system properties maintained in the face of change? There is no easy answer to this, but we must certainly reason at different levels. These include the detailed implementation level, the intermediate level of development and operational processes, and the higher level of organizational dynamics.
A Systems-of-Systems Approach
The complexity that is inherent in large-scale systems stems from a variety of causes. These systems are often designed to address problems which, by their very nature, cannot be completely defined: they have to meet the (rapidly changing) needs of diverse stakeholders; they must integrate with a range of other legacy systems, processes and policies; they may be critical systems that have to deliver both a high level of performance and dependability; and they are profoundly affected by political influences in the organisations developing and procuring the system, and in the broader system's environment.
While it would be simplistic to suggest that we can solve all of the problems, we believe that we can make significant progress by altering our perspective on the engineering of LSCITS. Rather than considering this to be a problem of specifying, developing, deploying and operating a large-scale system, we believe that we should look at the problem as being a system-of-systems problem. By examining the relationships between the different systems that make up and interact with each other, and the systems involved in procuring, deploying and operating IT systems, we believe that we can make headway in tackling the issue of complexity.
The LSCITS Stack
By considering the challenges of LSCITS engineering as a system-of-systems (SoS) problem, it becomes clear that there cannot be a single 'magic bullet' that will solve all the problems of LSCITS engineering. We need to understand and design, in parallel, radically different types of system: from systems of organisational change (which may operate on a timescale of years), to real-time control systems operating at millisecond timescales. We need to improve existing 'reductionist' approaches to systems engineering and combine these with socio-technical approaches that take into account human, social and organisational issues and how they affect the system design.
We will therefore work on a coherent integrated "stack" of techniques and approaches, some of which are already in existence, that can address the problems inherent in different types of system. We refer to this as the LSCITS Stack, as illustrated in Figure 1.
The Stack Explained
At the base of the stack is the foundational mathematics of nonlinear systems and of network science. The EPSRC has recently committed £8m to two Doctoral Training Centres (DTCs) for Capacity Building in Complexity Science (CBiCS). The two centres concentrate on the mathematical foundations of complex systems. Directors of these centres are involved in the LSCITS steering committees, and it is expected that some of the CBiCS PhD projects will be of direct relevance to Mathematical Foundations component of the LSCITS Stack. For this reason, the LSCITS Initiative's initial research programme concentrates on the remaining components of the Stack.
Predictable software systems (PSS) involves algorithmic methods for software construction and proof of correctness, based heavily on rigorous mathematics and formal logic, and also on the use of advanced simulation techniques. The focus is on developing techniques to evaluate the dependability and performance of adaptive software systems.
The PSS strand is undertaking foundational research, and the challenge will be to scale the technology to large-scale systems. The High Integrity Software Engineering (HISE) strand will be engaged in complementary research activities, taking an engineering approach to problems of safety-critical large-scale systems. Research activities will include adapting agile processes to safety critical software development, and approaches to certifying autonomous systems. The HISE activities will draw on the results of the PSS strand, as they mature.
In parallel to the techniques developed within PSS and HISE, the past two decades have seen the growing maturity of decentralised and massively parallel autonomic (or "self-star") approaches to managing LSCITS: such Novel Computational Approaches (NCA) are also accommodated within the Stack.
To address the challenges of current and future LSCITS, there is a need to move beyond the confines of traditional software engineering, to incorporate approaches and findings from sociology, psychology, and management theory, so as to integrate operational and organisational factors into the software engineering process. The Stack component labelled Socio-Technical Systems Engineering (STSE) seeks to do exactly that.
Finally, because LSCITS are frequently created (sometimes inadvertently) to serve large organisations or groups of organisations that are transitioning to electronic documents and automated workflows, there is a general lack of appropriate tools and methods for describing and reasoning about complexity in organisations, whether those organisations are private-sector or public-sector. Addressing this is the role of the Complexity in Organisations (CiO) component.
There are cross-cutting issues that affect all levels in the LSCITS Stack: the need to accommodate change, to maximise agility, and to deal appropriately with various forms of requirements. For example, from PSS we know that formal specification can help define and refine requirements; from HISE we know that testability requirements determine levels of certification and trust; STSE teaches us that requirements also reach out to affect deployment and operational management of systems, and findings in CiO increasingly reveal the impact of organisational influences and constraints. But there is a difficult balance to achieve between integration and exploitation. Industry often finds it easier to exploit point solutions to identified problems, rather than to adopt a new integrated approach. For this reason, while the results at each level in the Stack will be loosely integrated, we do not plan to deliver an integrated LSCITS "package". Rather, our integrated results will be process-based. There will be easy movement between the processes that address issues at different levels in the Stack. Prof. Ian Sommerville, one of the Initiative's co-directors, is managing integration across the Initiative, identifying new integration opportunities and ensuring that the work at the different sites does not diverge.
Set-Aside Funds
Approximately £1.25m of the EPSRC's allocation for the LSCITS Initiative's research programme has been "set aside", for allocation to work-packages to be specified later in the Initiative. Proposals for the projects funded from the set-aside will be peer-reviewed and decisions made so that additional work-packages can start in 2009. In allocating the set-aside funds, the LSCITS Consortium may add new academic and industrial partners. Inquiries from interested parties are welcome any time.
The LSCITS Consortium
A collaboration is required to tackle the problem because there is no single university in the UK which includes all of the expertise required to address issues of both stability and change.
The founding members of the LSCITS Consortium are each leading academics, internationally recognised for their research:
A unified collaboration offers significant advantages:
Industrial Partners
The Initiative is intended to be intimately coupled to the needs of industry, commerce, defence, and the public sector. The initial structure and content of the LSCITS Research Programme and of the LSCITS Training Programme are each the result of extensive consultation with researchers and practitioners in a wide variety of organisations. Over the lifetime of the Initiative, both programmes will be revised on the basis of feedback from ongoing consultation. It is expected that a range of companies and organisations will become involved as sponsors of research and training within the Initiative as it progresses. Links to our industrial partners can be found here.
Approaches and offers of involvement from prospective additional industrial partners and sponsors are always welcome.
Management Steering Boards
The LSCITS International Scientific Advisory Board (ISAB) advises on the scientific quality of the Initiative's research activities from a worldwide perspective. It is composed of leading researchers in the science and engineering of LSCITS drawn from academic and industrial organisations around the globe. The ISAB includes members from Carnegie-Mellon University, Hewlett-Packard Labs, IBM Labs, MIT, and the universities of Toronto, Queensland, and Dortmund. The founding ISAB Chair is Professor Cliff Jones, of Newcastle University, UK. A full listing of the members of the ISAB is here.
The LSCITS National Stakeholder Board (NSB) exists to ensure that the LSCITS Initiative best meets the national need, and is integrated appropriately with related organisations, programmes and initiatives in the UK. Members of the NSB include representatives from companies such as BAE Systems, British Telecom, and Rolls-Royce; from UK public-sector organisations such as the Ministry of Defence, the Department of Health, and the EPSRC funding agency; and from directors of related UK initiatives such as the two UK Complexity Science doctoral training centres, and the UK's defence Software Systems Engineering Initiative (SSEI). The founding NSB Chair is Dr Mark Thomas of IBM UK. A full listing of the members of the NSB is here.


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Modules for course N2AU | MBA/EM
MBA Environmental Management
These are the modules currently offered on this course in the 2019–20 academic year.
You can also view the modules offered in the years: 2018–19; 2020–21.
Year 1 Modules
Compulsory Modules
Semester 1
- ASB-4413: Int'l Strategic Management (15) The concepts of strategic management. The vocabulary of strategy; prescriptive and emergent strategies. Strategy, the organisation and the environment. The core processes: strategic analysis; strategy formulation; strategic choice. Vertical integration; make/buy decision; corporate parenting and internationalisation.
- ASB-4431: Organisations and People (15) Theories and models of management: classical and contemporary; Organisation structures: strategy, design and function, job design; Organisation cultures: values, ethics, norms of behaviour; Organisation processes: survival, change, growth and development; Organisational learning, and learning organisations; Individual differences: perception, learning, motivation, equality and diversity; Groups and teams in the organisation; Managing relationships: power, control and conflict resolution, communication; Managers as leaders, people developers, coaches; Managing and rewarding performance.
- DXX-4524: Strategic Environmental Manag (20) This module will cover the multicriteria principles and practice of environmental management, auditing, and assessment; including related policy and legislation. Specific monitoring tools will include Environmental Impact Assessment; Strategic Environmental Assessment; and Life Cycle Analysis. Real-life examples will be used as case studies to analyse the different techniques including scenarios from many different levels (local, UK, and international) so that comparisons can be made and the validity of systems assessed. The process of collection, collation, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of information in terms of auditing will be explored. The relevance and role of environmental legislation and auditing will be compared between the public and private sector. Issues of corporate social responsibility will be examined through a case study approach. The module will include field trips to contrasting sites where environmental monitoring, assessment and legislation play a fundamental role.
Semester 2
- ASB-4007: Finance for Managers (15) The different roles of accounting and its relationship to shareholder value and business structure; Measuring and reporting financial performance: the balance sheet and the profit and loss account; Management control and the use of budgets; The role of accounting information in marketing, operating, human resource and accounting decisions; Strategic investment decisions; The management of working capital; Sources of finance & financial markets.
- ASB-4115: Management Research (15) • Research methodologies and philosophy: positivism and interpretivism; • Qualitative research methods and the search for meaning; • The process: selecting a research strategy and design; • Data gathering, documentary records, triangulation and mixed methods; • Quantitative research design and methodologies; • Analysis of quantitative data; univariate and multivariate analysis, factor analysis, cluster analysis, and MANOVA.
- DXX-4518: Bus.planning for green economy (20) Entrepreneurs and small firms are the lifeblood of an economy, and make an increasing contribution to innovation, wealth creation and employment. However, there is a growing trend for corporate social responsibility to embrace environmental concerns and show conformity to a plethora of environmental standards. This module will provide a detailed insight into the concepts of entrepreneurship and the role of small firms within the economy; and how to engage with the environmental and sustainability agendas. This module encourages participants to develop a critical awareness of the nature and role of entrepreneurship and the environment in the economy and society. Candidates will learn about the process involved in new venture creation and be required to develop a sustainable business plan. Key themes include: 1. Exploring the nature of the entrepreneur, in a historical, economic and environmental context 2. An understanding of the development and complexities of other forms of businesses such as franchises, family businesses and entrepreneurship 3. Understand the purpose of a sustainable business plan 4. Learning to complete a business plan to a sufficient depth and standard and to tailor the business plan to differing reader interests
- DXX-4525: Green Technologies (20) This module reviews the environmental consequences of key energy and resource management activities, including energy generation, waste management, food and water supply, consumer goods (sustainable production and consumption). It then goes on to consider recent policy initiatives and drivers and examines key green technologies. Specific topics include: • Energy generation & its environmental impact • Innovation and deployment of emerging green technologies • Green technology policies and initiatives • Energy policies and initiatives • Resource management, policies and initiatives – waste management, cradle to grave • Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for green technologies • The contribution of green technologies to sustainable development
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- ASB-4901: MBA Dissertation (60) (Semester 3) Core There is no set syllabus. The dissertation encourages students to develop a critical awareness of the professional skills relevant to the strategic management of a variety of business practices. Students choose their research topic, provided that there is suitable and sufficient reading material available, and a member of staff is available to supervise in the chosen area of study.or
ASB-4921: MBA Dissertation J (60) (Semester 3) Core


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