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January 12th, 2022
Any company or other organization, such as a hospital or school in York, PA has a common issue; visitor management. Many organizations have a policy to allow visitors, but the ways that visitors come in, interact and leave needs to be controlled, both for operational and safety concerns. Unauthorized personnel stealing medicine from a hospital, for example, is one of the reasons why a visitor management system needs to be implemented.
These days, visitor management systems are implemented throughout York, PA, but some are older, less efficient, and less satisfactory in results than others. If you're wondering whether your visitor management system needs an upgrade, here are the signs you should be looking for to make your decision.
Lack Of Data Management
"Bloat" is a term used when extraneous, unnecessary, or outdated information is present in a system and slows down ease of access. For example, if your database has a list of authorized users that are no longer valid—such as indicating deceased or ex-employees are still authorized visitors—this is a good example of bloat. Trying to determine who is active, authorized personnel when the data is filled with unnecessary information slows down work processes.
If your system has no active data management or is so cumbersome that staff does not even attempt data management, that's a clear sign that things need to be overhauled.
Task Inefficiencies
How visitor management is managed can play a big role in whether or not effects like bloat occur. For example, if a visitor management system has two databases that need to be separately updated, this creates redundancies that don't need to exist, and this, in turn, impacts efficiency.
Visitor management should be fast, accessible and streamlined. Having systems that waste time, or repeat tasks more than once to no effect are all warnings that your system needs improvement. If people are wrestling with your visitor management system, or it's slowing them down, something is wrong.
Security Breaches
The biggest indicator that your visitor management systems need a serious reassessment is if it's not providing you with the intended result of accurately managing visitors. If your property is regularly encountering visitors that are not listed on your visitor management system, this is effectively a security breach. And for the security breaches you do catalog, you are left wondering about the ones you didn't catch at all.
If you have lost cards, lost keys, or other systems that are reported, but no changes are made to locks or changing access codes, these are all symptoms of a failing visitor management system. A lack of responsiveness to changes in the system indicate a problem with being able to efficiently update and make the necessary changes to maintain good levels of security.
Organizations in York, PA should consider the use of "active directories" as one way to keep visitor management systems up to date. Active directories are more proactive types of visitor management software that track permissions, supervise permanent or temporary authorization, and other activities that take some of the burden of managing people and automate the process.

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A Florida vascular surgeon bilked the government and health insurers of more than $26 million to possibly finance his political ambitions in his native country of Ghana, federal authorities said.
Earlier this month, a federal grand jury unsealed a 58-count indictment alleging that Dr. Moses deGraft-Johnson falsely billed insurers, including Medicare and Medicaid, for work he did not actually perform.
Investigators within the federal Department of Health and Human Services said that deGraft-Johnson claimed to have performed over a five-year period more than 3,600 atherectomies, a minimally invasive procedure that clears potentially dangerous buildup in arteries. Authorities said the doctor's practice in Tallahassee, Florida, also filed claims for angioplasties that were never performed.
In court documents filed by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Florida, prosecutors argued to keep the doctor in custody, asserting that he was a flight risk because his "ultimate long-term professional goal" was to one day become the president of Ghana.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Charles A. Stampelos agreed and ordered deGraft-Johnson held until trial, set for March 23.
The government said it was "not in a position to evaluate the feasibility of such an endeavor" but saw evidence that he had "been hard at work using the proceeds of fraud in the United States to establish an empire in a foreign country."
Investigators said they looked into the doctor's bank accounts and discovered at least $1.8 million in international wire transfers to entities and associates in Ghana, a country of 29 million people situated along the western coast of Africa.
Authorities said one of the doctor's relatives served as the country's vice president in the 1980s.
He also said he aspired to run for president of Ghana one day, a dream his wife confirmed during testimony Friday.
"He's a wonderful doctor, and I will defend him vigorously," said William Bubsey, the attorney who represented deGraft-Johnson during Friday's detention hearings. Bubsey said it was still uncertain who will represent deGraft-Johnson because the doctor does not have access to his assets.
Bubsey disputed the government's allegations, saying that any money deGraft-Johnson might have sent overseas was meant to help the impoverished people of Ghana and not to enrich himself.
Indicted along deGraft-Johnson was Kimberly Austin, who prosecutors said served as the office manager of the Heart and Vascular Institute of Northern Florida owned and operated by deGraft-Johnson.
Together, they poached patients from a local hospital in which deGraft-Johnson had access to medical records, according to the government.
"He used his access to the hospital's daily census to poach patients for his scheme to defraud, instructing his staff to cold call patients from the hospital so that he could use their presence to fraudulently bill health care programs," prosecutors said in court documents.
In some cases, prosecutors said, deGraft-Johnson was not even in the country when some of the procedures were supposed to have been performed.
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We seem to really get a kick out of complaining about work. We hover around the water cooler, confide in our friends, and even share our workplace horror stories with our spouses.
But recounting all the things that made us miserable one day doesn't help us enjoy our workday more tomorrow. A better strategy is to actually address the negative feelings we have.
When annoyance, self-doubt, or the blues surface at work, we can learn to work through these feelings. Here are three emotion regulation strategies you can use—and how to put them into practice for a happier work life.
- Mindful acceptance: Let the things you cannot change be.
Negative emotions exist. Pushing them away or ignoring them does more harm than good, even if we might be tempted to do so.
Instead, try acknowledging your emotions and giving them a seat at the table. Maybe you feel bad because your boss plays favorites—and you're not the favorite. Or maybe you're frustrated because your teammates are always running late. It's okay to feel these negative emotions. You don't need to judge yourself.
To learn how to practice acceptance at work, start at home by writing out a list of the things you can and cannot control. First, focus on the things you cannot control. Let any emotions you have rise to the surface. Work on accepting these emotions, and yourself, just as you are—saying things like, "I am angry that I didn't get a promotion, but that's okay. I am allowed to feel angry." Experience these emotions, but don't hold on to them or ruminate on the causes. Just let them fade in their own time.
A word of caution: You might be better served by actually changing your situation if you have the ability to do so, rather than accepting an abusive boss or unhealthy work environment. Use that list of things you can control to take action.
- Self-distancing: Observe your situation like a fly on the wall.
We all experience unpleasant situations, especially at work. You may ruminate about a meeting that went poorly, a coworker who slighted you, or a lack of acknowledgment for a project you poured your heart into. But the longer you feel bad, the more that bad feeling compounds.
To calm these negative emotions, mentally removing yourself from the situation is a helpful trick. Research suggests that a more distanced, third-party perspective can reduce the intensity of the negative emotions you feel. To try it, imagine that you're a fly on the wall, observing your situation. How do you see the situation? How do both people look—you and the other person? By cultivating a broader perspective, you'll often discover that the situation is not as bad as you thought it was.
A word of caution: Be careful not to mentally remove yourself from the situation permanently. There are many benefits to staying mindfully present for your work life.
- Reappraisal: Find the positives in negative situations.
Finding the positive in negative situations is an especially useful regulation strategy when something happens at work that you judge to be undesirable.
To begin to change your perspective, learn to pause in the face of something negative and think of or write down at least one positive. For example, did you get critical feedback on a recent presentation you gave or a report you wrote? Might you reappraise this as helpful information for your career growth—an opportunity to learn how to do better next time? The more frequently you challenge yourself to find the positives, the easier it will be for your brain to start noticing them on its own.
By Tchiki Davis, Ph.D.
Tchiki is a consultant, writer, and expert on well-being technology. Over more than a decade, she has helped build happiness products, programs, and services for non-profit and for-profit businesses, for children and adults, and for online as well as in-person audiences. Tchiki is currently working with Silicon Valley tech companies and UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center to build more effective well-being technologies.


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The grand mahogany table of the White House State Dining Room was set with white roses, fine china, silver platters stacked with Big Macs and pouches of fried chicken sandwiches, and bowls of extra sauce.
The champion North Dakota State Bison football team was in town, and McDonald's and Chick-Fil-A were on the lunch menu.
"We could've had chefs, we could have, but we had fast food -- because I know you people," President Donald Trump said to laughter.
He referenced the chicken sandwiches set before the podium.
"Chick-Fil-A, they say? Chick-Fil-A," he said.
Earlier this year, the President personally paid for a fast food spread for the Clemson University football team , citing the government shutdown as justification for a feast he described at the time as "great American food."
"Because the Democrats refuse to negotiate on border security, much of the residence staff at the White House is furloughed -- so the President is personally paying for the event to be catered with some of everyone's favorite fast foods," White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley said in January.
But on Monday, Trump, who has a well-publicized penchant for the Golden Arches, suggested the decision was aimed at supporting American business.
"We like American companies, OK?" he said.
Trump encouraged the team to "go and eat up," noting that he would have a sandwich at the podium himself, but it would cause "too big a stir" with the reporters present.
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Black Holes in Distant Galaxy Points to Wild Youth
Chandra's image of the lenticular (an elliptical-type galaxy with a disk of old stars) galaxy NGC 1553 reveals diffuse hot gas dotted with many point-like sources. As in the elliptical galaxies, NGC 4649 and NGC 4697, the point-like sources are due to black holes and neutron stars in binary star systems where material pulled off a normal star is heated and emits X-radiation as it falls toward its black hole or neutron star companion.
Black holes and neutron stars are the end state of the brightest and most massive stars. Chandra's detection of numerous neutron stars and black holes in this and other elliptical galaxies shows that these galaxies once contained many very bright, massive stars, in marked contrast to the present population of low-mass faint stars that now dominate elliptical galaxies.
The bright central source in NGC 1553 is probably due to a supermassive black hole in the nucleus of the galaxy. The nature of the spiral feature curling out from either side of this source is not known. It could be caused by shock waves from a pair of bubbles of high energy particles that were ejected from the vicinity of the supermassive black hole.


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I am an ecosystem ecologist and member of the Environmental Studies Program faculty interested in how rapid environmental change affects ecosystems and society. My emphasis is on understanding how climate change alters vegetation and soil and the ecological services they provide. My current research examines carbon and nitrogen cycling in the polar deserts of Antarctica and in the tundra of western Greenland. I am also interested in the relationships between the disciplines of ecology, ecosystem science, and environmental law. I am active in Arctic policy and global environmental issues as director of Dartmouth's Institute of Arctic Studies, Dickey Center for International Understanding, and as co-director of the University of the Arctic Institute for Arctic Policy. As one of two distinguished lead scholars for the U.S. Department of State Fulbright Arctic Initiative I am excited to bring together thematic teams of researchers from the eight Arctic nations to focus on issues of community resilience and sustainability under rapid social, political, and environmental change.
Gooseff, M. N., J. E. Barrett, B. J. Adams, P. T. Doran, A. G. Fountain, W. B. Lyons, D. M. McKnight, J. C. Priscu, E. Sokol, C. Takacs-Vesbach, M. L. Vandegehuchte, R. A. Virginia, and D. H. Wall. Decadal ecosystem response to an anomalous melt season in a polar desert in Antarctica. Nature Ecology and Evolution (2017) doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0253-0
Heindel, R. C., L. E. Culler, and R. A. Virginia. Rates and processes of aeolian soil erosion in West Greenland. The Holocene (2017) 1-10, DOI: 10.1177/0959683616687381
Bradley-Cook, J I, and R A Virginia. Soil carbon storage and respiration potential across an age and climate gradient in western Greenland. Polar Biology 39:1283-1295, (2016) DOI 10.1007/s00300-015-1853-2
Heindel, R C, J W Chipman, and R A Virginia. The spatial distribution and ecological impacts of aeolian soil erosion in Kangerlussuaq, West Greenland. Annals fo the Association of American Geographers (2015) 105(5):875-890, DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2015.1059176 Press release
Fulbright Arctic Initiative. Dartmouth Now coverage.
US State Department DipNote on Iqaluit Meeting, May 2015.
Dartmouth takes on US leadership of the NSF funded Joint Sceince Education Project (JSEP) joining students from the US, Denmark and Greenland for field study in Greenland. Award details. PI: R. Virginia, with L. Culler, M. Ayres and M. Albert
Understanding rapid polar environmental change in Greenland. Dartmouth's NSF IGERT Ph.D. training program.
Gatekeepers of the Arctic. Documentary film in production by Corina Gamma and shot in Greenland
Nutrient cycling and soil biodiversity in an Antarctic polar desert. McMurdo NSF Long Term Ecological Research Program (LTER)
Ecology and Law in Modern Society book series.
University of the Arctic Snowy Owl Series. In this short video I describe my research on climate change and the Arctic carbon cycle and give an overview of Dartmouth's Polar Environmental Change Graduate Program.
Discovery made below Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys. Video produced by the NSF to highlight results from our study reported in Nature Communications 6, Article number: 6831 doi:10.1038/ncomms7831
Arctic health and wellness- A conference hosted by the Institute of Arctic Studies and the Fulbright Arctic Initiaitve, January 2016. Dartmouth NOW Story.
Climate change in Antatarctic's desert invovles breathing microbes too. Nature World News, July 2, 2015.
Virginia Valley, Antarctica: An upland valley E of Wall Valley in Olympus Range, located between the N part of Mount Electra on the W, and Mount Circe and Mount Dido on the E. The valley opens N to McKelvey Valley. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (2004) after Ross A. Virginia, Environmental Studies Program, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; U.S. Antarctic Project (USAP) soils biologist in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, 13 field seasons, 1989-2002.
Dartmouth Now story. In a recently co-authored editorial in The National Interest and in a published report following meetings with Arctic experts and governmental and NGO representatives, Virginia and his colleagues detail a number of issues the Arctic Council should address. April 23, 2015
How America can step up its role in the Arctic. The National Interest. April 20, 2015, Opinion Editorial
The U.S. and a Peaceful Arctic Future, The Hill, August 8, 2014
Hands Across the Melting Ice, NY Times OP-ED, May 13, 2013
Welcome to the State of Virginia, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine faculty profile, July/August 2012
Report urges action on Arctic protection. Dartmouth and its partners in the University of the Arctic Institute for Arctic Policy and the Carengie Endowment for International Peace have issued a report urging the adoption of new shipping rules, improved safeguards against oil spills, and the creation of environmental and safety standards in polar waters. May 2013.
CNN Digitial Life Podcast on Arctic Science Summit Week hosted by Dartmouth at the start of the International Polar Year, 2007.


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A luxury Doha resort that exemplifies the perfect fusion of contemporary and traditional, Sharq Village & Spa places guests in the heart of the Qatar capital, yet within the tranquil confines of an idyllic coastal retreat on the Gulf Bay. Featuring an exceptional spa, world-class dining, including the only Persian fine dining restaurant in Qatar, and 300 meters of private beach, our luxury resort in Doha Qatar is perfect for families of all ages, and envelops guests in a world of time-honoured hospitality in surroundings that embrace Doha's newer opulent vision
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Two relatively minor decisions were issued in polygamy-related legal cases Tuesday, giving a man access to his own land and preventing FLDS bishops from intervening in the administration of the United Effort Plan.
The first decision was issued in St. George and grants Richard Holm access to a piece of land in Hildale. According to his attorney Benjamin Ruesch, Holm purchased the land in 2006 from the United Effort Plan - which controls the FLDS church's land and was taken over by the state in 2005.
However, Holm was challenged by the city of Hildale as well as Wayne Jessop and Kelly Fischer, both members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Holm previously resolved his disputes with the city and with Jessop. According to Ruesch, Fischer failed to respond to the case and didn't show up to a hearing Tuesday. As a result, the judge ruled that Holm could take possession of the land.
Holm did not immediately eturn calls seeking comment, but Ruesch described him as pleased with the decision.
"He's definitely elated. He's ecstatic," Ruesch said.
Bruce Wisan, who was appointed by the state to manage the trust, said Holm's case wouldn't have an impact on broader efforts to distribute assets.
But Wisan did say he was happy about a decision issued by the Utah Supreme Court.
The unanimous decision states that members of the FLDS church can't intervene in the administration of the trust. In December 2010, lawyers representing FLDS Church members asked to be able to intervene in the case after they argued that Wisan shouldn't be able to sell the Berry Knoll Farm. The farm - which has never been sold - is owned by the trust and the FLDS lawyers argued that it was a site of religious significance.
"This was an effort by bishops and other members of the FLDS church and the FLDS organization to try to intervene in the trust proceedings," Utah Solicitor General Bridget Romano said.
Wisan and the states of Utah and Arizona disagreed with FLDS members' position, saying they didn't have legal standing in court.
The supreme court decision states that the FLDS members can't intervene. According to Jeffery Shields, Wisan's attorney, the ruling upholds a lower court decision that denied standing to the FLDS members.


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In the immediate aftermath of the illegal capture of the Freedom Waves flotillas, Israel's public image has been tarnished, as reports of violence at sea surface to counteract its claims of a peaceful takeover, and as human rights cyber-resistance group Anonymous retaliates by shutting down Israeli government web sites.
As Israeli naval soldiers boarded the Tahrir and Saoirse Friday afternoon, the IDF released a statement saying that the ships were intercepted peacefully, and that no activists were harmed in the takeover. In addition, in an attempt to portray its own reasonable benevolence, the IDF released a video of soldiers contacting the ship and offering to reroute its humanitarian aid by land or through Ashdod, shortly before releasing another video which seemed to show Israeli soldiers peacefully and non-threateningly boarding one of the flotillas.
When Egyptian journalist Lina Attalah, an activist aboard the Tahrir, wrote an account of Israel's seizure of the boats after her release on Saturday, however, the world began to see a different picture.
Towards the early afternoon, we saw three Israeli warships in the horizon. . . Soon after, the Israeli presence in the waters around us intensified. We counted at least 15 ships, four of which were warships, and the rest a mix of smaller boats and water cannons. From inside the smaller boats, dozens of Israeli soldiers pointed their machines guns at us. This is when our communications system was jammed and we lost contact with the world . . . the Israelis sent radio messages to our boat, asking us to stop sailing because they would board the boat and take us to the Israeli port of Ashdod. When our boat refused to surrender, they aimed their canons at us, showering us with salty water. The boat had become highly unstable and panic was in the air. . . Israeli ships hit our boat and soldiers started boarding. Dozens of masked soldiers screamed "on your knees," and "hands up."
The violent nature of Israel's takeover of the Tahrir and Saoirse became more apparent with a statement released mid-Sunday by Fintan Lane, the National Coordinator of the Irish Ship Saoirse, in a hurried phone call made from an Israeli prison.
The whole takeover [of the Saoirse by Israeli naval authorities] took about three hours. It began with Israeli forces hosing down the boats with high pressure hoses and pointing guns at the passengers through the windows. I was hosed down the stairs of the boat. Windows were smashed and the bridge of the boat nearly caught fire. The boats were corralled to such an extent that the two boats, the Saoirse and the Tahrir, collided with each other and were damaged, with most of the damage happening to the MV Saoirse. The boats nearly sank. The method used in the takeover was dangerous to human life.
The same day, Saoirse activist Paul Murphy, Socialist Party and United Left Alliance MEP for Dublin, related in a 3-minute phone call, monitored by Israeli prison authorities:
Our boat was almost sunk by the manner in which it was approached and boarded by the Israeli navy. People were shackled and deprived of all personal belongings. In Givon prison the authorities tried to disorientate us through sleep deprivation and the removal of our watches and the prison clock recording the wrong time. We have been given no time frame as to how long we will be kept here before the deportation trial. We were denied our right by Israeli law to contact our families within 24 hours of our arrest.
Also on Sunday, Greek captain of the Tahrir Giorgos Klontzas, after his release from jail, told Greek Omnia TV that, during interrogation, Israeli forces handcuffed him tightly and stuck fingers in his eyes.
The clearest testament to the abuse suffered by the activists at the hands of the Israeli military has come from British activist David Heap, in a letter smuggled out of his prison cell.
I write to you from cell 9, block 59 Givon Prison near Ramla in Occupied Palestine. Although I was tasered during the assault on the Tahrir, and bruised during forcible removal dockside (I am limping slightly as a result) I am basically ok. . . [We] were transported in handcuffs and leg shackles. . . [We have created] a political prisoners' committee in order to press our collective demands — association in the block, i.e. open cells; adequate writing and reading material; free communication with outside world — i.e. regular phone calls; [and] information about shipmate women held at same prison.
In response to the shortage of information regarding the female activists currently behind bars, the Women's Organisation for Political Prisoners (WOFPP) offered Sunday night to send a lawyer free of charge to visit the female prisoners.
As reports of Israeli military violence leaked throughout the weekend, an international group of hackers named Anonymous released a video threatening retaliation against "a clear sign of piracy on the high seas." The 'Open Letter from Anonymous to the Government of Israel' was pointed in its critique — "your actions," it claimed, "are illegal, against democracy, human rights, international and maritime laws," and an example of "justifying war, murder, illegal interception and pirate-like activities under an illegal cover of defense" which "will not go unnoticed by us or the people of the world." Anonymous, which has temporarily disabled many web sites in past publicized acts of moral retribution, further threatened that "if you continue blocking humanitarian vessels to Gaza or repeat the dreadful actions of May 31st 2010 against any Gaza Freedom Flotillas, you will leave us no choice but to strike back, again and again, until you stop . . . we do not forget, we do not forgive. Expect us."
A day later, Haaretz reported that "the websites of the IDF, Mossad and the Shin Bet security services were down," likely due to an Anonymous cyber-attack. Hours later, however, the Israeli government released a statement on Facebook claiming that the websites were down "due to a systematic malfunction of the servers," denying that Anonymous was behind the crash. It is highly unlikely, however, for this shutdown to follow so soon after Anonymous's threat as a matter of pure coincidence.
As the international community rises in condemnation of Israel's illegal takeover of a ship in international waters, 21 of the 27 activists captured by Israel remain in prison awaiting deportation, and the whereabouts of one, PressTV journalist Hassan Ghani, remains unknown. The Irish activists have refused representation by a lawyer in the Israeli court system, on the grounds that they do not acknowledge the legitimacy of Israel's legal system. In addition, they refuse to sign a waiver which would forfeit their claim to legal representation before a judge and allow for their immediate deportation, because the offered waiver claims that they came to Israel voluntarily and entered illegally, statements which are patently untrue in light of the fact that Israeli naval boats seized the activists from the Tahrir and Saoirse and forcibly transported them to Ashdod. They will therefore, according to Israeli law, be detained for 72 hours and then brought to court, where they will almost certainly be deported — though, because they refused to sign the waiver, the deportation will occur without their consent.
As Israel unsuccessfully attempts to save face in the aftermath of its illegal and violent seizure of innocent civilians on a humanitarian aid mission in international waters, the international community once again bears witness to the fact that, in the words of a Saturday press release by the Canada Boat to Gaza team, "there is no legal justification for stopping or in any way impeding the passage of the totally peaceful Freedom Waves boats from the international solidarity movement with Palestinian people." What is clear to all, in spite of Israeli repression, is that the recent aid mission is only the first of many Freedom Waves bound for Gaza's shore. "Whatever the Israeli Occupation Forces do to us," said David Heap and Ehab Lotayef, steering committee members of the Tahrir, from behind Israeli prison bars, "this flotilla marks the launching of the Freedom Waves. It is the continuation of many efforts over the years to bring the plight of Gaza and Palestine to the world's attention. We will keep coming again and again, until the closure of Gaza is ended and Palestinians have been able to achieve liberation and justice. . . Expect us. Again and again. The Freedom Waves are just beginning."
Ben Lorber is an activist with the International Solidarity Movementin Nablus. He is also a journalist with the Alternative Information Center in Bethlehem. He blogs at freepaly.wordpress.com.
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Algorithms were around for a very long time before the public paid them any notice. The word itself is derived from the name of a 9th-century Persian mathematician, and the notion is simple enough: an algorithm is just any step-by-step procedure for accomplishing some task, from making the morning coffee to performing cardiac surgery.
Computers use algorithms for pretty much everything they do — adding up a column of figures, resizing a window, saving a file to disk. But all those things usually just happen the way they're supposed to. We don't have to think about what's going on under the hood.
But algorithms got harder to ignore when they started taking over tasks that used to require human judgment — deciding which criminal defendants get bail, winnowing job applications, prioritizing stories in a news feed. All at once the media are full of disquieting headlines like "How to Manage our Algorithmic Overlords" and Is the Algorithmification of the Human Experience a Good Thing?"
Ordinary muggles may not know exactly how an algorithm works its magic, and a lot of people use the word just as a tech-inflected abracadabra. But we're reminded every day how unreliable these algorithms can be. Ads for vitamin supplements show up in our mail feed, while wedding invitations are buried in the junk file. An app sends us off a crowded highway and lands us bumper-to-bumper in local streets.
OK — these are mostly just inconveniences. But they shake our confidence in the algorithms that are doing more important work. How can I trust Facebook's algorithms to get hate speech right when they've got other algorithms telling advertisers that my interests include The Celebrity Apprentice, beauty pageants and the World Wrestling Entertainment Hall of Fame?
It's hard to resist anthropomorphizing these algorithms — we endow them with insight and intellect, or with human frailties like bad taste and bias. Disney actually personified the algorithm literally in their 2018 animated movie Ralph Breaks the Internet, in the form of a character who has the title of Head Algorithm at a video-sharing site. She's an imperious fashionista who recalls Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada, as she sits at a desk swiping through cat videos and saying "no," "no," "yes."
Tech companies tend to foster that anthropomorphic illusion when they tout their algorithms as artificial intelligence or just AI. To most people, that term evokes the efforts to create self-aware beings capable of reasoning and explaining themselves, like Commander Data of Star Trek or HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
That was the aim of what computer scientists call "good old-fashioned" AI. But AI now connotes what's called "second-wave AI" or "narrow AI." That's a very different project, focused on machine learning. The idea is to build systems that can mimic human behavior without having to understand it. You train an algorithm in something like the way psychologists have trained pigeons to distinguish pictures of Charlie Brown from pictures of Lucy. You give it a pile of data — posts that Facebook users have engaged with, comments that human reviewers have classified as toxic or benign, messages tagged as spam or not spam, and so on. The algorithm chews over thousands or millions of factors until it can figure out for itself out how to tell the categories apart or predict which posts or videos somebody will click on. At that point you can set it loose in the world.
These algorithms can be quite adept at specific tasks. Take a very simple system I built with two colleagues some years ago that could sort out texts according to their genre. We trained an algorithm on a set of texts that were tagged as news articles, editorials, fiction, and so on, and it masticated their words and punctuation until it was pretty good at telling them apart — for instance, it figured out for itself that when a text contained an exclamation point or a question mark, it was more likely to be an editorial than news story. But it didn't understand the texts it was processing or have any concept of the difference between an opinion and a news story, no more than those pigeons know who Charlie Brown and Lucy are.
The University of Toronto computer scientist Brian Cantwell Smith makes this point very crisply in a forthcoming book called, The Promise of Artificial Intelligence, arguing the systems have no concept of spam or porn or extremism or even of a game — rather, those are just elements of the narratives we tell about them.
... it's natural to be wary of our new algorithmic overlords. They've gotten so good at faking intelligent behavior that it's easy to forget that there's really nobody home.
These algorithms are really triumphs of intelligent artifice: ingenious systems that can mindlessly simulate human judgment. Sometimes they do that all too well, when they reproduce the errors in judgment they were trained on. If you train a credit rating algorithm on historical lending data that's infected with racial or gender bias, the algorithm is going to inherit that bias, and it won't be easy to tell. But they can also fail in alien ways that betray an unhuman weirdness. You think of the porn filters that block flesh-colored pictures of pigs and puddings, or those notorious image recognition algorithms that were identifying black faces as gorillas.
So it's natural to be wary of our new algorithmic overlords. They've gotten so good at faking intelligent behavior that it's easy to forget that there's really nobody home.
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Metal Gutter Job Materials and Supplies | 50 Linear Feet | $26.46 |
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By Chris Cox, Executive Director NRA-ILA
One of the things I have learned during my time with NRA is that when it comes to the mainstream media, they rarely get it right. In fact, it seems at times that they rarely "get it" at all.
A fundamental lack of understanding about firearms and gun owners prevails in news stories and editorials. Some "journalists," frankly, don't care to get it right and report on the issue only in the context of a pre-existing anti-gun agenda. Thus, it's a noteworthy occasion when someone files an accurate, relatively unbiased report.
A few months ago, a story by Paul Barrett was published in Businessweek entitled, "Why Gun Control Is Basically Dead." That story attempted to explain why gun control efforts have largely stalled, despite the fact that gun control proponents consider new restrictions "inevitable." Surprisingly, Barrett got it somewhat right.
We have been reporting for years that violent crime is down significantly over the past two decades. While most of the media fail to report this simple fact—or worse, give the impression that violent crime is on the rise—Barrett accurately reported that it is down 50 percent since 1993. Barrett also correctly pointed out one of the key fallacies of the anti-gun argument, "Apart from politics, dispassionate observers must question the simplistic liberal slogan that more guns equals more crime. The U.S. has seen a two-decade period during which private gun ownership has continued to soar (some 300 million firearms are now in civilian hands), while crime has diminished."
This simple truth escapes media coverage but is at the core of why gun owners know that gun control is not the answer to the violent crime that still occurs. Further, Barrett recognized what gun owners already realize about recent tragedies. "Newtown, and Aurora before it, were not ordinary instances of violent crime," Barrett writes. "Mass shootings by deranged young men present a special case, one painfully disconnected from the gun control proposals these atrocities inspire." In this vein, Barrett correctly described the ineffectiveness of expanded or universal background checks by noting that, "Mass murderers prepare meticulously and usually acquire their weapons legally."
Polls have long established that a majority of Americans support the right to bear arms. This fact is lost on the gun control community and Barrett describes how little the anti-gun types understand how dear gun owners, and many other Americans, hold our fundamental right to arms. This lack of understanding is shared by most in the media. It is why they are always surprised when gun legislation is defeated, or when the electorate rises and takes action in response to anti-gun legislation, as the voters did in Colorado this past fall when they recalled two state senators and forced another to resign. As Barrett wrote, "Gun control advocates often appear not to appreciate that their country, for better or worse, has a widespread and deeply rooted gun subculture that isn't going away. No lesser body than the Supreme Court, in decisions issued as recently as 2008 and 2010, has interpreted the Constitution as enshrining that reality."
Perhaps the most important element of Barrett's article was his recognition that the real solution to the issues surrounding high-profile shootings is not simply more gun laws. According to Barrett, activists and policymakers should refocus on "dangerously mentally ill people" and "identify and replicate the policies that have contributed to the drop in ordinary violent crime." Yet as he noted, reforming a broken mental health system "is a far more daunting challenge than holding an anti-gun rally."
It is ironic that Barrett's article appeared in Businessweek, owned by Bloomberg LP, the multi-billion dollar empire that is majority-owned by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the country's most prolific anti-gun activist. If only Bloomberg had the insight and understanding that Barrett displayed, he might actually be able to contribute to finding real solutions rather than simply vilifying gun owners and attacking basic rights.
Barrett quoted one anti-gun activist as claiming that she is engaged in a "war for the culture" and that firearms symbolize "an America she doesn't 'recognize.'" This, unfortunately, may be one of the article's most telling points. It's also the reason why the facts haven't swayed gun control ideologues and why we must be prepared to continue the fight through the 2014 midterm elections and well into the future.
Chris Cox is the Executive Director of NRA's Institute for Legislative Action. His column appears in America's 1st Freedom, American Rifleman and American Hunter. Join the NRA and receive a $10 discount on your annual membership and get America's 1st Freedom, American Rifleman or American Hunter delivered to your door – click here.


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In search of a sweet escape in Pennsylvania, I stopped in the picturesque region of Hershey Harrisburg.
I discovered an abundance of activities, food, wine and, of course, chocolate!
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My first destination in Chocolate Town USA was Hersheypark, where I delighted in speeding roller coasters, big dippers and water rides. A marching brass band toured throughout the park and played to visitors queuing up for rides, and life-size sweet characters came by to high-five everyone. As I walked underneath the mighty Skyrush®, I jumped out of my skin when it came whizzing and roaring over my head with screaming passengers. Making the experience at this family-friendly park even more convenient is the candy bar meter: Children near a height limit are measured and then given a wristband to identify which rides they are tall enough to ride to save time as the whole family explores the park.
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Before leaving, I hit Chocolate World to stock up on Twizzlers red licorice and got some exercise by carrying around two five-pound bars of Hershey Chocolate.
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Inside the ornate Pennsylvania State Capitol Building in Harrisburg
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After all the morning's activities, I was in need of a well-deserved lunch back in Hershey. Troegs Independent Craft Brewery was the perfect place for a pint and a bite to eat. This 100-barrel brew house combines English and American brewing techniques and offers a brewery tour and tasting as well as a scrumptious lunch. I had a braised beef brisket sandwich with mustard cole slaw and chips, washed down with a flight of beers and a cheeky little taste of sweet and creamy Troegenator Double Bock and Chocolate Stout.
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OOPSLA ArtifactsSPLASH 2013
Authors of OOPSLA research papers accepted in the first reviewing phase are invited to formally submit supporting materials to the Artifact Evaluation process. The high level goal of the Artifact Evaluation (AE) process is to empower others to build upon the contributions of a paper. The AE process, new this year, is run by a separate committee whose task is to assess how the artifacts support the work described in the papers. This submission is voluntary and will not influence the final decision regarding the papers. Papers that go through the Artifact Evaluation process successfully will receive a seal of approval printed on the papers themselves.
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CDSChecker: Checking Concurrent Data Structures Written with C/C++ Atomics OOPSLA Artifacts DOI | |
Effective Race Detection for Event-Driven Programs OOPSLA Artifacts DOI | |
Storage Strategies for Collections in Dynamically Typed Languages OOPSLA Artifacts DOI |
Call for Contributions
Authors of OOPSLA research papers accepted in the first reviewing phase are invited to formally submit supporting materials to the Artifact Evaluation process. The high level goal of the Artifact Evaluation (AE) process is to empower others to build upon the contributions of a paper. The AE process, new this year, is run by a separate committee whose task is to assess how the artifacts support the work described in the papers. This submission is voluntary and will not influence the final decision regarding the papers. Papers that go through the Artifact Evaluation process successfully will receive a seal of approval printed on the papers themselves.
Authors of accepted papers are encouraged to make these materials publicly available upon publication of the proceedings, by including them as "source materials" in the ACM Digital Library.
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Due on: | June 01, 2013 |
Artifact Evaluation Notification: | July 29, 2013 |
Camera-ready copy (of OOPSLA Research Paper) due: | August 05, 2013 |
Format: | As specified in the AE packaging guidelines |
Contact: | Matthias Hauswirth and Steve Blackburn (chair) |
The ACM International Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH) is sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN.
SPLASH is the home of OOPSLA Research Papers, Onward!, and the Dynamic Languages Symposium, among other events.
Artifact evaluation is open only to authors of OOPSLA research papers accepted by the first paper reviewing phase. Submission of artifacts is entirely optional for the authors and is absolutely independent from and has absolutely no bearing on the process of accepting papers. Since the goal of the AE process is to empower others to build upon the contributions of a paper, the artifacts should be of a quality that enables and simplifies reproduction and extension.
Artifacts should be:
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- easy to reuse, facilitating further research.
Authors intending to submit their artifacts for evaluation by the AE are encouraged to begin preparing their artifacts for evaluation as soon as practical, following the packaging guidelines below. Because the evaluation process is 'single blind' (the authors are blinded as to who has evaluated their artifact), we will ask the authors to provide their artifacts on a website, from where the AE committee (AEC) chairs will upload the artifact to a separate site accessible to the whole AEC. The authors should make a real effort not to learn the identity of their reviewers. If it is necessary for tracing to occur, the authors must warn the reviewers in advance.
This process is new to OOPSLA and was directly inspired by the artifact evaluation process established for ECOOP 2013 by Jan Vitek, Erik Ernst, and Shriram Krishnamurthi. The processes for ECOOP and OOPSLA are similar but not identical. We have borrowed from the ECOOP AEC heavily.
Packaging Guidelines
When packaging your artifact, please keep in mind: a) how accessible you are making your artifact to other researchers, and b) the fact that the OOPSLA AEC members will have very limited time in which to make an assessment of each artifact. The setup for your artifact should take less than 30 minutes or it is unlikely to be endorsed simply because the AEC will not have sufficient time to evaluate it. To expedite the evaluation process it may be appropriate to include a virtual machine image as part of your package.
You should make your artifact available as a single archive file and use the naming convention <paper #>.<suffix>, where the appropriate suffix is used for the given archive format. Please use a widely available compressed archive format such as ZIP (.zip), tar and gzip (.tgz), or tar and bzip2 (.tbz2).
The archive must:
- be self-contained (with the exception of pointers to external tools or libraries; which we will not consider being part of the evaluated artifact, but which we will try to use when evaluating the artifact);
- contain a HTML file called index.html, which shall fully describe the artifact and include (relative) links to the files (included in the archive) that constitute the artifact;
- include a Getting Started Guide (a section within index.html, see below);
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The artifact may include, but is not limited to code, executables, data, a virtual machine image, and documents.
Please use open formats for documents and we prefer experimental data to be submitted in csv format.
Within your index.html, you must include a section with a basic Getting Started guide. Reviewers will follow all steps in the Getting Started guide at the beginning of the evaluation period and if necessary we can relay questions if they run into difficulties. You should write your Getting Started guide to be as simple and straightforward as possible, and yet it should stress the key elements of your artifact. If well written, anyone who has successfully completed the Getting Started guide should not have any technical difficulties with the rest of your artifact. The Getting Started guide is your only opportunity to allow 'debugging' of your artifact. Once the reviewers have completed this phase, there will be no further opportunity for interaction with you, the authors.
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The AEC will endorse artifacts on the basis of the following criteria:
The artifact will be evaluated in relation to the expectations set by the paper. Thus, in addition to just running the artifact, the evaluators will read the paper and may try to tweak provided inputs and create new ones, to test the limits of the system.
Note that there can be different kinds of artifacts, such as software tools, data sets (such as raw data from experiments), proofs, or anything else that is relevant for supporting the paper. You may want to include multiple artifacts (e.g., a tool and the data set used in its evaluation) in your submission. Please bundle everything into a single archive file.
Please perform your artifact submission via this CyberChair link. Note that you can only submit an artifact if your OOPSLA research paper submission passed the first phase. In that case you are already known to the CyberChair artifact submission system, and the artifact submission will automatically be connected to your OOPSLA research paper submission. If you encounter any problems submitting, please don't hesitate to contact us.
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Monday, April 23, 2012
Spell it out...
Chevron cushions are done, that means the whole order is done...
I'm delivering them today...
... and then I won't know what to do with myself ;)
Hope you have a great day too :)
17 comments:
- Cath @ chunkychooky said...
they will fly out the door!!!
- April 23, 2012 at 10:13 AM
- Laura said...
Have fun discovering your next project! I'm sure you'll think of something! ;)
- April 23, 2012 at 11:38 AM
- belinda marshall said...
fantastic!! they look gorgeous.
i bet you have a heap of things waiting for you to get into now ) - April 23, 2012 at 12:18 PM
- Tania said...
I just can't imagine how much work went into those but I'm imagining MOUNTAINS of time. You have yourself a little party, sweetie!
- April 23, 2012 at 12:36 PM
- Christina Lowry said...
Hooray! Congratulations! They look fabulous. Quick, fit in a bit of crafting for yourself before you begin on the orders that I am sure will come from these cushions!! xx
- April 23, 2012 at 2:40 PM
- teddybearswednesday said...
WOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! they are amazing !!! So are YOU!!! xo
- April 23, 2012 at 2:54 PM
- Karen Lewis Textiles said...
Yahooooooooo!!! Well done Kylie, they look magnificent. I hope you had a lovely leisurely day today and enjoyed the reduced level of deadline stress. Make the most of it because it won't before they'll be wanting more!
- April 23, 2012 at 3:40 PM
- Flaming Nora said...
Amazing! But what to do next?
Sit back with a ice cold gin and tonic while you think about it. - April 23, 2012 at 3:55 PM
- Rie said...
You might have to focus on circles for a couple of days so you don't get tired of chevrons!! They look awesome I am sure the receiver is going to be very happy with them!
- April 23, 2012 at 4:18 PM
- mieke willems said...
nice feeling to have finished something! you sure will come up with lots of new ideas! but first: relax!
- April 23, 2012 at 5:34 PM
- ElisabethAndrée said...
Hello Kylie, I am impressed!!! Good job, girl, they look magnificent.
- April 23, 2012 at 7:29 PM
- flowerpress said...
They look fab Kylie and I know from my own treasured Kylie cushion that they are beautifully made too.
Pat on the back! - April 23, 2012 at 9:26 PM
- june at noon said...
Hooray! Well done. Now go relax for a bit!
- April 23, 2012 at 11:39 PM
- alessandra said...
More chevron? Only joking! :^)
Well done, enjoy the satysfaction of a completed work. x - April 24, 2012 at 12:35 AM
- Catherine said...
hooray! they look wonderful!
- April 24, 2012 at 11:50 AM
- blue moss said...
Kylie. .... They are amazing! :)
- April 25, 2012 at 9:13 PM
- Precious Crafts said...
These cushions look so yummy! You definitely have a knack for picking gorgeous colours! :D
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» Streetcar lines dominate the nation's new transit construction landscape, but this year only light and commuter rail lines will open for service.
Lest one think that investment in transit is a coasts-only phenomenon in the United States, the sheer quantity of spending planned for new public transportation projects across the country in 2011 indicates otherwise.
In almost every major city or metropolitan area in both the U.S. and Canada, major new rail or bus links are being readied for service. Over the course of the next year, five new light rail lines or extensions will open for operations, as will two new commuter rail corridors. Perhaps more significantly, there are a dozen projects that will enter the construction process — including many streetcar projects — in addition to the dozens already underway. In sum, these represent a continent-wide public sector commitment to the extension of transit offerings.
All of the corridors opening for service, entering the construction phase, or already under construction in 2011 are listed below.
To note: Many of these lines may not get off the ground as expected. A year ago, Cincinnati, Detroit, and other cities seemed on the verge of beginning construction on their respective rail transit lines — but they have yet to get started on them. In addition, I would be remiss if I did not point out that this information is updated throughout the year in The Transport Politic's Under Construction and Planned sections.
New Service Planned for 2011
» Eugene/Springfield Gateway EmX Extension bus rapid transit will open on the 9th from downtown Springfield to Gateway Mall and Sacred Heart. The 7.8-mile project cost a total of $41.3 million.
» Norfolk Tide light rail line, the first of its kind in Virginia, will bring service along a 7.4-mile route that will encompass 11 stations and attract between 6,000 and 12,000 riders per day. The project cost a total of $338 million.
» Denton County A-Train will open 21 miles of diesel commuter rail between Denton and North Carrollton, where there will be a connection with Dallas DART Green Line light rail. Construction costs totaled $191 million. This project was originally supposed to be completed in December 2010.
Mid-Year (No date yet specified)
» Los Angeles Expo Line Phase 1A light rail opens between downtown L.A. and Culver City, though the final station on the line will not be completed until 2012. The first, 8.5 mile phase cost $899 million and will share tracks with the Blue Line downtown. A further extension from Culver City to Santa Monica is planned and funded. This project was originally supposed to be completed in December 2010.
» Sacramento Riverfront District Green Line Extension opens, extending light rail an additional mile into a major development zone north of the state capital's downtown. The line is the first section of a larger program to bring rail transit to Natomas Airport.
» Salt Lake City West Valley and Mid-Jordan TRAX light rail will open on the 7th. The West Valley line will run 5.1 miles southwest from 2100 South Central Pointe to West Valley City Center. The $250-290 million project is expected to attract 10,500 riders per day by 2030. The Mid-Jordan line will run 10.6 miles from 6400 South to Daybreak and is expected to attract 19,000 riders per day.
» Rhode Island Wickford Junction Commuter Rail Extension will open between T.F. Green Airport near Providence and Wickford, where a large transit village is planned. Boston MBTA commuter rail service will offer service.
New Construction Starts
» Downtown Streetcar (2.6-mile streetcar) from Centennial Olympic Park to Martin Luther King, Jr. Historic Site, via downtown. $289 million project (including a second phase not yet funded) will open for service in 2013.
» Downtown Streetcar (4.9 mile loop streetcar) from the Banks to University Plaza, via downtown and Over the Rhine. $128 million project is expected to open in 2012, and is estimated to attract 6,400 daily riders.
» Woodward Avenue Corridor (9.3-mile light rail) from Hart Plaza to Eight Mile. $500 million project could be completed by 2016. Being built in cooperation with privately funded M1 group.
» Hartford-New Britain Busway (9.4-mile BRT) from Hartford to New Britain. $579 million project will open for operations in 2013.
» Honolulu Rail Project (20-mile metro rail) from Kapolei to Ala Moana Center. $5.5 billion project will open in stages between 2012 and 2018.
Los Angeles
» Crenshaw Corridor (8.5-mile light rail) from Exposition Boulevard (Expo Line) to LAX (Green Line), via Inglewood. $1.4 billion project will open in 2016 and serve between 15,200 and 21,300 riders a day.
New Orleans
» Loyola Avenue Corridor (1.5-mile streetcar) from Howard Avenue and Union Passenger Terminal to Canal Street. $45 million project will open in 2012.
» Sunrail Phase 1 (31-mile commuter rail) from DeBary to Orlando. $615 million project will open by 2013. 30 miles of additional extensions, north to DeLand and south Poinciana, expected to be completed by 2015, will produce 7,400 daily trips by 2030.
» Portland-Milwaukie Corridor (7.3-mile light rail) from Portland State University to Milwaukie and Oak Grove. $1.5 billion project will open in 2015 and is expected to attract 22,000 and 26,000 daily trips.
Salt Lake City
» Sugar House Streetcar (2-mile streetcar) from Central Pointe to McClelland. Project will open in 2013 and is expected to attract 4,000 daily riders by 2030.
San Francisco Bay Area
» Sonoma-Marin Train (SMART) (70 mile diesel commuter rail) from Cloverdale to Larkspur, via San Rafael and Novato. $590 million project will open in 2014 and is expected to attract 5,300 daily riders.
» First Hill Streetcar (2.2-mile streetcar) from First Hill to the International District, connecting areas on Capitol Hill. $140 million project will open for service in 2013.
» Tucson Modern Streetcar (3.9-mile streetcar) from Arizona Health Sciences Center to downtown, via University of Arizona. $197 million project will open in 2013.
» Evergreen Line (6.8 mile metro rail) from Lougheed Town Centre to Douglas College, via Port Moody. C$1.4 billion project will extend existing Millennium line in 2015 and is expected to attract 70,000 daily riders by 2021.
Already Under Construction, Opening After 2011
Opening in 2012
- Boston Fitchburg Line Extension to Wachusett (4.5-mile commuter rail)
- Calgary Northeast Line Extension (1.8-mile light rail) and West Line (5.2-mile light rail)
- Dallas Blue Line Extension (4.5-mile light rail) and Orange Line Phase 1 (9.3-mile light rail)
- Los Angeles Orange Line Extension (4 mile busway) and Expo Line Phase 1B (6.5-mile light rail)
- Miami Orange Line Phase 1 (2.4-mile metro rail)
- Montréal Train de l'Est (32-mile commuter rail)
- Pittsburgh North Shore Connector (1.2-mile light rail)
- Portland Eastside Streetcar Loop (3.3-mile streetcar)
- Seattle Sounder Lakewood Extension (8-mile commuter rail)
- Washington, DC Anacostia and H Street Streetcars (6.2-mile streetcar)
Opening in 2013
- Denver West Line (12-mile light rail)
- Salt Lake Airport TRAX (6 mile light rail)
- Toronto Sheppard Avenue East Line (8.7-mile light rail); Note that this project is a bit up in the air because of the election of anti-light rail Mayor Rob Ford in fall 2010
- Washington, DC Dulles Metrorail Extension Phase 1 (11.6-mile metro rail)
Opening in 2014
- Dallas Orange Line Phase 2 to airport (4.7-mile light rail)
- Edmonton North to NAIT (2-mile light rail)
- Houston East End Line (3-mile light rail), Southeast Line (6.1-mile light rail), and North Line (5.2-mile light rail)
- Los Angeles Gold Line Foothill Extension (11.3-mile light rail)
- Minneapolis Central Corridor (11-mile light rail)
- New York City 7 Line Extension (1.3-mile metro rail)
- San Francisco Bay Area BART to Warm Springs Extension (5.4-mile metro rail) and eBART (10-mile commuter rail) and Oakland Airport Connector (3.2-mile metro rail)
Opening in 2015
- Denver East Corridor (22.8-mile commuter rail)
- Salt Lake City Airport Line (6-mile light rail) and FrontRunner South (44-mile commuter rail)
- Toronto Spadina Extension (5.6-mile metro rail)
Opening in 2016
- New York City Long Island Railroad Eastside Access to Grand Central (4-mile commuter rail)
- Seattle University Link (3.2-mile light rail)
- Washington, DC Dulles Metrorail Extension Phase 2 (11.5-mile metro rail)
Opening in 2017
- New York City Second Avenue Subway Phase 1 (2-mile metro rail)


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Monitored vitamin d therapy safe for patients with high blood calcium levels
- Date:
- June 26, 2012
- Source:
- Endocrine Society
- Summary:
- Patients with a gland disorder that causes excessive calcium in their blood who also have vitamin D deficiency can safely receive vitamin D treatment without it raising their calcium levels, a new study has determined.
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Patients with a gland disorder that causes excessive calcium in their blood who also have vitamin D deficiency can safely receive vitamin D treatment without it raising their calcium levels, a new study has determined.
The results with one-year follow-up will be presented Tuesday at The Endocrine Society's 94th Annual Meeting in Houston.
Doctors often fear that raising vitamin D levels will further raise calcium blood levels in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism -- in which glands in the neck produce too much of the parathyroid hormone, which controls calcium levels. Yet without enough vitamin D, people are at increased risk of osteoporosis and broken bones. Vitamin D helps the body absorb calcium and is vital for bone health.
"These patients need close monitoring every three to four months during vitamin D replacement therapy," said Dima Abdelmannan, MD, an assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and an endocrinologist at Cleveland Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center.
Abdelmannan, who presented the research findings, said doctors should measure blood levels of calcium and parathyroid hormone along with vitamin D levels throughout treatment.
"Measuring vitamin D levels alone may not be helpful in the management of vitamin D deficiency in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism," she said. "The commercially available blood test for vitamin D level -- the 25-hydroxyvitamin D -- has limitations."
For this study, Abdelmannan and colleagues reviewed the medical records of 32 patients at the VA Medical Center who had both primary hyperparathyroidism and vitamin D deficiency. All 10 women and 22 men had hypercalcemia, or high calcium in the blood, defined as a level greater than 10.1 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL). They also had vitamin D levels below the cutoff for normal of 30 nanograms per deciliter (ng/dL) on the 25-hydroxyvitamin D test for vitamin D.
Patients received either vitamin D2 (ergocalciferol) or vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) at an average daily dose of 3,630 International Units, or IU. Most patients had their parathyroid hormone, calcium and vitamin D levels checked every three months for a year after vitamin D treatment.
Vitamin D levels returned to normal with treatment and remained normal at all intervals. Abdelmannan said the average calcium blood level "remained virtually unchanged" from the pretreatment level of 10.7 mg/dL. The calcium level was 10.8 mg/dL at three months after treatment, 10.6 at six months and 10.7 at 12 months, the authors reported. Despite calcium levels not rising, parathyroid hormone levels decreased, from an average of 124 picograms per deciliter (pg/dL) before treatment to 103 pg/dL one year after treatment.
Hyperparathyroidism develops in approximately 100,000 Americans every year and affects twice as many women as men, according to the National Institutes of Health. The risk increases with age. Although the disorder usually has no symptoms, if calcium levels are very high, it can cause bone aches, tiredness and kidney stones, Abdelmannan said.
The Endocrine Society, in its 2011 guideline on treating vitamin D deficiency, suggests that patients with primary hyperparathyroidism and vitamin D deficiency receive vitamin D treatment as needed and that serum (blood) calcium levels should be monitored.
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