text:
Hard News: Staying Alive
347 Responses
First ←Older Page 1 … 7 8 9 10 11 … 14 Newer→ Last
People should get vehicles like this:
nzlemming, in reply to
Stephanie, in reply to
It has been and it will. But the irony is that also means that lead acid batteries are improving and being driven down in cost, and they're still the battery of choice in electric bikes, for the vast majority that are actually being used. ie in China.
Not sure how long ago your EV ventures were Ben but I've just bought an electric bike and spent a fair bit of time looking at the various brands available here - all had lithium ion batteries, all were made in China. Maybe they are still too expensive for many Chinese, but seem to be what importers are providing here in NZ. One advantage is the power output profile - reasonably steady until the battery is nearly empty then a sudden drop in power, rather than a steadily decreasing output as the battery is used. This means I (ok, husband) can bike from work at sea level to our house at 180m-ish with plenty of charge to make getting up the hill a breeze even with pre-schooler on the kid seat. I reckon this makes commuting Wellington/Hutt distances completely acheivable, though the acid test (so to speak) on whether it's a good option long term will be how long a useful life the battery has. Heh, and I'm just plain loving the rush.
Sad to see the hatey comments on this article about a cyclist injured in Chch. How many deaths and injuries will it take for NZ to decide we have to do better for cyclists?
The wife of the injured man has started this FB page.
BenWilson, in reply to
I came off sounding like I'm down on electric bikes. I'm not - they have their place, and one of mine served me very well. I know there are higher end bikes than I used, but the prices put me off quite a lot. Also, I was never using it for commuting myself - I work from home. Two of mine would have served for any commute less than 15km unless it was all uphill, so long as it could be recharged at work. I frequently took my son for rides up to 20km.
I'm not convinced you could commute in work clothes easily on any bike with less than a 300 watt motor. Which is more than is legal, I understand. Practically, you'd get away with it. If you're going to change clothes, then the advantage over a simpler pushbike is pretty much around how daunting you find the exertion of the commute. If you're elderly or haven't ridden for a while (this was my situation), or have to be careful about your heart rate, then they're a good thing.
But I got a normal pushbike to compare with, and found that the exertion overall wasn't much less, and my range went up hugely - both bikes weren't good for much more than an hour, so any ride longer than that wasn't feasible. After all three bikes sitting side by side in the garage for 6 months I realized I simply wasn't using the electrics any more - I'd become accustomed to pushbiking again, and the convenience of not having to ever think about the battery, or any other points of failure, meant I sold the EVs. I actually made money on both of them, amusingly.
What kind of bike did you get?
Kumara Republic, in reply to
too hard? #notfrickengoodenough
Hell, GetAcross successfully invoked civil disobedience on the Auckland Harbour Bridge, to put pedestrian-friendliness on the agenda.
Sacha, in reply to
I'd say it might take community-led action unless enough of the politicians get their shit together.
Sacha, in reply to
Sad to see the hatey comments
Reaping the leadership we tolerate.
Lilith __, in reply to
it might take community-led action unless enough of the politicians get their shit together.
I think unless we agitate, nothing will change, except more cyclists will die. The Dutch got there by mass protests.
Stephanie, in reply to
I'm not convinced you could commute in work clothes easily on any bike with less than a 300 watt motor. Which is more than is legal, I understand.
You are probably right about the clothes - but motors up to 300W are legal in NZ. We haven't had a chance to test how many times we can get up and down the hill before a recharge is needed - stated range for my bike (an Ezee Sprint with a 300W motor) is 50-80km with pedalling but the hills will reduce that and we don't yet know by how much. I plan to cycle some days into Wellington for work and am looking forward to thumbing my nose at the prevailing northerly as I head for the Hutt Valley, and then sail up the hill with said nose in the air. That's the plan, long may it live.
But yes, they are expensive - we swallowed hard before buying one. OTOH, less expensive than almost any car...
BenWilson, in reply to
50-80km with pedalling but the hills will reduce that and we don't yet know by how much.
I'd be interested to hear, when you get a better idea. It's really hard to get a straight answer on mileage because "with pedaling" is inspecific. But more importantly, your weight/load is a huge factor, when you hit the hills, and what grade those hills are. My gut feeling is your bike will be sufficient to the task if you charge it at work. The road to the Hutt is flat for most of the way, isn't it? Nice scenic ride too.
Nice bike, btw. Stylish, with most of the add-ons you want for commuting.
That's the plan, long may it live.
Indeed. The worst that can happen is you'll get fitter. Watch out for cars...
On that note, I think electric is marginally safer, because you tend to ride it in a less grim way - losing momentum isn't such a concern, and you accelerate faster, so you spend less time in that wobbly state. The bike is stabler because it is heavier. But a flipside to watch out for, get in the habit of checking the brakes - they seemed to wear out faster, probably because they are stopping more load and from higher speeds than other commuter bikes.
Carol Stewart, in reply to
Sad to see the hatey comments on this article about a cyclist injured in Chch.
Yes, we've just moved to Christchurch and are cycling a lot more as part of our daily routines (to school and work) than was the case in Wellington. It's nice to see a reasonable network of cycle lanes, but boy, some of those motorists are shockers.
James Butler, in reply to
IMO if there is an adjacent cycle lane on a footpath it should be illegal to be riding on the road.
For that to work we'd need to agree on a high minimum standard for such lanes. Using the one dedicated footpath/cycle lane on my commute I'm pretty sure would increase my risk; Tamaki Drive is another terrible example.
As a car driver it is enough to be worried about other cars, trucks and busses on the road without worrying about cyclists when there are also cyclists riding along the footpath next to you amongst others.
No, you need to be able to do all these things at the same time. That's pretty fundamental I think.
BenWilson, in reply to
Using the one dedicated footpath/cycle lane on my commute I'm pretty sure would increase my risk; Tamaki Drive is another terrible example.
I'd almost go so far as to say that the very presence of a lane like that increases your risk, because it makes car drivers angry at cyclists who don't use it. But it's a Catch-22 - the lane clearly is useful to some cyclists, and you're not meant to ride on footpaths that don't have such lanes. On Tamaki Drive there are a lot of cyclists who are just dawdling along looking at the scenery, riding with their children, etc. Good on them, that's what it's really for. But it's useless for anyone using the bike to get from A to B.
There are some good stretches on the city-bound side, but they peter out in all the worst places.
Stephanie, in reply to
But a flipside to watch out for, get in the habit of checking the brakes
Good tip, will watch.
To add a note from a Wellingtonian perspective: the waterfront along Oriental Parade has a similar problems. You can ride on a shared path, where pedestrians wander and safe speed is probably not much above walking at busy times; or you can ride on the road, where there is angle parking and cars back out without warning or cut you off suddenly. The continuation along Evans Bay isn't much better. On the landward side, at some points it seems less than half a metre wide and it's choked with gravel and detritus.
To date, the council's response has been to put large signs on the footpath asking cyclists to be considerate. (I would love to know why on a similar principle all the road surfaces aren't plastered with signs asking car drivers to be more considerate...).
I don't know to what extent people at the council have thought about the way their own design choices created the incentives for cyclist-pedestrian-motorist disharmony. I doubt very much that anything useful will arise from signage though. Human behaviour needs more cues to change.
I think councils are still struggling with the distinction between cycling as a sight-seeing recreation, and cycling as a normal mode of transport..
I agree with Ben that the presence of even an unusable cycle lane is likely to lead to resentment of cyclists on the road. Likewise, another problem with riding on the footpath is that it encourages motorists to believe that's the right and only place for bikes.
merc, in reply to
I think councils are still struggling with the distinction between cycling as a sight-seeing recreation, and cycling as a normal mode of transport.
I think Councils see cycling as competitive to their (Council, Govt.) revenue model.
Carol Stewart, in reply to
Likewise, another problem with riding on the footpath is that it encourages motorists to believe that's the right and only place for bikes.
My lad aged 12 has been happily scootering or walking to school by himself in Wellington for two or three years now, but here in Christchurch I am really struggling with the idea of him cycling by himself as the traffic alarms me. I don't want him to ride on the footpath because of the driveways and what you said, but I'm also not relaxed about him riding on the road because of the cavalier way in which the bike lanes are treated. Current compromise is that I ride with him all the way there and back which does erode my working day somewhat.
James Butler, in reply to
To date, the council's response has been to put large signs on the footpath asking cyclists to be considerate.
Indeed. There's a sign on the corner of Wheturangi Road and Green Lane saying something like "Cyclists please dismount and cross to use the cycle lane". So if I'm heading east, I stop, dismount, wait for the privilege of crossing twice to get to the lane which I can ride for 100m dodging reversing cars and pedestrians the whole time? Then I want to turn south, and Great South Road has a handy cycle stop box in the right-turn lane. So how am I supposed to get to it, if I'm on the other side of the street? Dismount and cross to the middle I guess... #yeahright
Going the other way is less of an issue, until you have to merge from the on-footpath cycle lane to the on-road cycle lane at Wheturangi Road, while cars are turning left across your path. I'll stick to the road, thanks, because at least then I'm visible and my progress is predictable.
Stephen Judd, in reply to
Gotta say that one of the things I've been looking foward to about our impending move to Chch is a flatter landscape more conducive to cycling. This thread is rather giving me pause.
Stephen Judd, in reply to
Gah, I used to live nearby. I hated Wheturangi Road -- especially the pedestrian crossings with their effective pinch points that came out into the cycle lane, so you'd have to stop or swing into a car's path.
merc, in reply to
It's in the sacred schools pickup and dropoff zone, lot of clout Epsom, it even has it's own motorway lane, arguably.
BenWilson, in reply to
That sounds like a frustrating death-trap. I know how I'd get to the stop-box. I'd ride on the road to it, amongst the traffic. If I couldn't do that, due to car speeds being too high at the time to allow a cyclist to take the right lane, I'd stay in the left lane, and do a hook turn onto Gt South Rd.
Current compromise is that I ride with him all the way there and back which does erode my working day somewhat.
Hard one. It's the most dangerous age - physically competent to go fast, so the footpath is not safe, but with very little practical awareness of traffic. Again, the idea of available courses in defensive cycling spring to mind. Maybe if you take his route with him, and labour to point out the main hazard points and coping strategies, he'll develop good road-sense, so that you'll feel safer letting him go.
But it's very hard to give advice when my own method of learning to ride on roads was just to do it - parents didn't consider the dangers anywhere near so much, and there were less cars on the road. From the age of 11, I was riding to school solo, and on weekends would often ride up to 10km from home. Once, I foolishly talked a mate into taking the 50km bike route, which passed right by my house, saying it was a loop and would get us home. We lost the route somewhere in Onehunga, at least 20km from home. The other kid was super staunch, poor guy, he was riding a heavy old fixie. His respect for me went up a whole lot when I was able to negotiate our way back to Herne Bay after being lost in South Auckland. I phoned my mum just to tell her why we we'd been away for so many hours, but even then, I insisted that we were fine to get ourselves home, despite being totally lost. And we were.
Things just aren't like that any more. I'm not lamenting it, just noting that people of my generation or older don't really have a clear model in mind for teaching kids how to use bikes that is actually viable today
As a car driver it is enough to be worried about other cars, trucks and busses on the road without worrying about cyclists when there are also cyclists riding along the footpath next to you amongst others.
No, you need to be able to do all these things at the same time. That's pretty fundamental I think.
TXTing is a hell of a lot easier on a bike.
Pecking order in New Zealand. From most respect given to least. (We divide and attempt to kill rather than conquer)
Trucks (big)
Trucks (small)
Ford Falcons
Black cars
Pedestrians (Any)
Any car smaller than yoursIn the rest of the civilised world
Pregnant women on cycles
Children on cycles
Women on cycles
Men on cycles
Any car smaller than yours
Everyone else except...
Trucks (any) - Thrown off the road for sunday too!!!! -
Matthew Poole, in reply to
I'd be pretty surprised if the judge is correct in that reading of the passing on the left rule. For one thing it only applies to drivers.
Not sure if anyone has pointed this out yet, but the regulations say:
driver means a person driving a vehicle; and includes the rider of an all terrain vehicle, a motorcycle, a moped, a cycle, a mobility device, or a wheeled recreational device
Which means that it includes cyclists. The judge's reading is absolutely correct.
Post your response…
This topic is closed.


text:
The MTV Movie & TV Awards gave Black Panther its first taste of awards glory, with Marvel's blockbuster taking home four honours including two awards for its star, Chadwick Boseman.
Boseman quickly handed off his best hero award to James Shaw Jr, who wrestled an assault-style rifle away from a gunman in a Tennessee Waffle House in April. "This is going to live at your house," Boseman told Shaw, giving him the show's golden popcorn award.
The actor said while it was an honour to be recognized for playing a superhero, it was more important to "acknowledge the heroes we have in real life."
Boseman, who starred as T'Challa in Black Panther, also won the award for best performance in a movie. Michael B Jordan, who played the villain Erik Killmonger, won best villain.
Stranger Things was the top television honouree, winning four awards including a repeat win for best show.
The awards were handed out Saturday and were broadcast on Monday night.
The show is known for bringing fresh talent to light, as well as acknowledging established celebrities in more quirky categories like best kiss and most frightened performance. Host Tiffany Haddish donned a variety of costumes throughout the ceremony, including nods to classic film and TV roles such as Holly Golightly from Breakfast at Tiffany's and Starlet from The Carol Burnett Show.
She kicked off the show with a Black Panther skit, foreshadowing the film's big night, noting in her opening monologue that is it the first African-American film to earn more than $1 billion at the box office. Throughout the night, Haddish also parodied other hit films such as Star Wars: The Last Jedi and A Quiet Place.
Black Panther, about a king and virtuous superhero of the technologically-advanced nation of Wakanda, broke barriers earlier this year as the first Marvel film to feature a black lead. Its massive popularity overshadowed competing films like Wonder Woman and Avengers: Infinity War.
Haddish, who also won an award for her breakthrough role in Girls Trip, noted that she is the first black woman to host the awards show, which is in its 27th year.
The gay teen comedy Love, Simon won for best kiss for a scene between Nick Robinson and Keiynan Lonsdale.
While Robinson wasn't there to accept the award, Lonsdale gave some encouraging words to LGBTQ youth.
"I just want to say to every kid," he said. "You can live your dreams and kiss the one that you love no matter what gender."
In addition to winning best show, kids of Stranger Things also won awards for most frightened performance, best musical moment and best performance for Millie Bobby Brown. The actress, who plays Eleven in the series, couldn't make the event because of a broken kneecap. Brown accepted the award for best performance via satellite.
Other winners included Madelaine Petsch as Cheryl Blossom in Riverdale for scene stealer, Gal Gadot for best fight as Wonder Woman and the young cast of "It" for best on-screen team.
Gaga: Fight Foot Two won the award for best documentary. The Netflix feature followed Lady Gaga during the production of her fifth studio album Joanne.
Common presented Lena Waithe with the trailblazer award for her activism, writing and "deeply honest art."
During her acceptance speech, Waithe paid tribute to Paris is Burning, the 1990 documentary released about the drag scene in New York during the late Eighties. She called those documented, many who aren't alive anymore, "the bravest human beings that ever lived"
"I'm doing what we as a society should have done a long time ago and give them the glory and shine that they deserve," she said.
Chris Pratt mixed humour and religious messages while accepting the show's generation award, telling the crowd to "breathe. If you don't, you'll suffocate."
He also urged fans to "learn to pray" and accept that they are imperfect.
The show also featured musical performances by Nick Jonas and Mustard, as well as rising stars and Beyoncé protégés Chloe x Halle.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Mortgage rates are one of those numbers that most people don't pay any attention to unless they happen to be trying to get a mortgage—a loan to buy a house. Then, mortgage rates become pretty critical!
In April 2022, the mortgage interest rate for a fixed-rate, 30-year loan rose to above 5%. It's the first time mortgage rates have climbed so high in more than a decade, since 2011.
So what does that mean if you're trying to buy a house? It depends on where you are in the process. To determine how mortgage rate shifts could affect your buying power, answer the following questions.
Are You Prequalified, Preapproved, or Approved For a Mortgage Loan?
When you're trying to buy a house, there are different stages of getting a mortgage loan. The first is prequalification, where you enter in different financial details (such as your income and any debts), but there's no verification required for what you're entering.
The second is preapproval, where you do have to submit proof that your income is what you said it is, and the same with your debts and assets. For preapproval, you'll need to provide documentation for the lender, backing up your ability to take on homeownership.
After you're preapproved for a loan and you find a house to buy, you'll need to submit the actual mortgage loan application, along with all of your documents, to your lender for underwriting. During the underwriting process, you will be asked if you want to "lock in" your mortgage loan rate. Locking in the rate is what it sounds like: This will be the rate you'll pay for your mortgage loan, whether rates go up, down, or stay the same before you reach the closing table.
When you're fully approved for a mortgage loan, that means you've found a house that you want to buy, made an offer on it, and the seller has accepted your offer. All the documentation you've submitted has gone through underwriting, and everything looks good. By this point in the process, you are essentially ready to buy the house—and you would likely have already locked in your rate.
Depending on where you are in the process, rates going up might not be a big deal (because you already locked your rate in) or a true cause for panic (if you didn't lock in your rate). A rising mortgage rate means you'll have to spend more money every month to pay your mortgage … and if you were already shopping toward the top of your approval range, suddenly, you might not be able to buy the house you were under contract to purchase. Not good!
Have You Locked In Your Mortgage Rate?
It takes anywhere between four to six weeks to close on a home sale transaction after an offer has been accepted by a seller. Mortgage rates are always shifting, so this can be quite a large window of time to wait for changes that you'll then try to accommodate!
Lenders will often offer buyers the opportunity to "lock in" their mortgage rate during underwriting so that buyers (and the lender) can have the security of knowing exactly what the interest rate on the loan will be. No surprises!
The benefit of locking in your interest rate as a buyer is peace of mind—and if interest rates happen to go up after you've locked in, then you can rest content knowing that you got a better deal than you would have otherwise!
The potential downside of locking in your rate, of course, is that mortgage rates might actually go down after you've decided to take the plunge and lock yours. And that could mean a worse deal for you!
If you're worried about rates falling after you lock in, you can also ask your lender about a float-down—an option some lenders will give buyers (usually for a fee) to "float down" their locked-in rate one time if rates happen to fall.
Are You Still Shopping For a House, or Have You Found One?
You can't lock in a mortgage rate until you have a mortgage application in to your lender, which requires an address for the house you want to buy. In other words: You can't lock in your mortgage loan rate until you have a house you're going to buy.
So if you're still shopping, then mortgage rates going up means your purchasing power is going to shrink. The top range of what you're preapproved to buy will fall, and you'll have to start looking at homes in lower price ranges (if you weren't already).
If you've already found the home of your dreams and you haven't yet locked in your rate, talk to your loan originator about your options. Ask whether rising rates are going to cause a problem for your current purchase, and ask about locking in a rate right now if you can.
Is the House You're Buying At the Top of Your Approval Range?
If the house you're buying is at the very top of your approval range, and your mortgage rate isn't locked in, then you're going to have to have a discussion with your loan originator as soon as possible to make sure that you can still afford to buy this house—and can get a mortgage to do it.
Still shopping for a home? This is a good lesson to give yourself some wiggle room financially if you can. The middle of your approval range with one interest rate could be the top of your approval range if rates rise, so sticking to the middle to low end of what you're approved to buy will be a good decision … just in case.
How Much Down Payment Wiggle Room Do You Have?
If you have some additional funds that you aren't putting toward your down payment, but could conceivably be used for that purpose, then you might want to think about leveraging those if interest rates go up.
Increasing your down payment will decrease the principal amount of the mortgage loan you're trying to get. In other words, when you put more money down, you'll need to borrow less from the lender. And that can help with rising interest rates because there's less principal to charge interest on in the first place. So if your monthly mortgage payment would become too unaffordable with rising interest rates, increasing your down payment could possibly bring those monthly payments back down to a manageable level.
Rising interest rates can be a challenge for buyers to navigate, and working with a real estate agent who understands how your negotiating power has changed and could continue to shift will be key to getting into the house of your dreams.


text:
Back in the days of Pope Gregory and Dante Alighieri, there were seven deadly sins, not one. Avarice, gluttony and pride were among them. Might we not have as much condescending solicitude for the souls of the rich as for those of the poor and middle class?
Summers argues that the policy impacts which matter most have more to do with health and opportunity for children than with income or wealth inequality. The subheading of his column is "The differences between the rich and everyone else are about health and opportunity." Along the way, though, he quietly substitutes educational achievement for opportunity and concludes:
It would be a tragedy if this new focus on inequality and on great fortunes diverted attention from the most fundamental tasks of any democratic society – supporting the health and education of all its citizens.Who could be against health or education?
Than depends. Is educational achievement really the same as opportunity for children? Not according to research highlighted by Thomas Edsall in an Op-Ed, The Downward Ramp, at the NYT:
...evidence produced by Paul Beaudry and David A. Green of the University of British Columbia, and Ben Sand of York University, demonstrates that the collapse, between 1980 and 2000, of mid-level, mid-pay jobs — gutted by automation or foreign competition (and often both) — has now spread to the high-skill labor market.
The U-shaped pattern of job growth characteristic of recent decades – strong at the top and bottom, but weak throughout the middle — has now become "a bit more like a downward ramp," according to David Autor, an economist at M.I.T. who documented the decline in mid-level jobs in the 1980s and 1990s.
"Many higher skilled workers have moved down the occupation ladder and accepted less challenging employment," Beaudry wrote in an emailed response to my inquiry about this development. "This movement down has been very detrimental to the low skilled, as higher skilled workers have taken many of 'their' jobs."Not to worry, though. Allister Heath cheerily reassures us in a column at The Telegraph, "Capitalism is a process of creative destruction... It's scary but it works."
The faster the mechanisation process, the more likely we are to see productivity – the amount of output each worker generates – starting to grow again and, with it, wages. A greater use of artificial intelligence throughout the economy will benefit, not hurt, the overall workforce. ...it will be vital to help individuals displaced by the new technologies to find work in new areas. Better education and training will become even more vital.
The lump of labour fallacy is the oldest myth in economics. There is no fixed stock of jobs; in a dynamic economy, millions of new ones are created every year to replace the equally large numbers that are lost. The luddites are as wrong today as they were two centuries ago.One reader asks, though:
Given that technology has replaced so many jobs the obvious question is why we are still working such long hours? We don't seem to have taken advantage of technology in the ways predicted by nineteenth century thinkers.As fate will have, Summers addressed both Luddites and long hours last July in his 2013 Martin Feldstein* Lecture, "Economic Possibilities for Our Children."
When I was an MIT undergraduate in the early 1970s, a young economics student was exposed to the debate about automation. There were two factions in those debates. There were the stupid Luddite people, who mostly were outside of economics departments, and there were the smart progressive people, who at that time were personified by Bob Solow. The stupid people thought that automation was going to make all the jobs go away and there wasn't going to be any work to do. And the smart people understood that when more was produced, there would be more income and therefore there would be more demand. It wasn't possible that all the jobs would go away, so automation was a blessing. I was taught that the smart people were right. Until a few years ago, I didn't think this was a very complicated subject; the Luddites were wrong and the believers in technology and technological progress were right. I'm not so completely certain now.One might quibble that it's more than a matter of "changing sides" in the debate about automation as framed by the economics departments. This was no debate but a set piece demolition by the "smart people" of straw man arguments that had little to do with the real issues. Incidentally, the smart people at MIT -- presumably Keynesian Synthesists like "Uncle Paul" Samuelson -- appear to have been teaching the vulgar version of Say's Law, "supply creates its own demand," that Keynes repudiated.
In his reflections on his undergraduate education, Summers didn't connect the dots between the Luddite mythology and what Keynes supposedly "got wrong" in his "Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren." Instead he offered the following anachronism:
But Keynes also got some things wrong. He predicted that as incomes rose eightfold, the workweek would fall to 15 or 20 hours. The reason he got that wrong is something that I hadn't previously reflected on.
When I took introductory economics, a big feature of the textbook was the backward bending labor supply curve, where it was explained that past a certain point, the income effect took over from the substitution effect and so the labor supply curve bent backwards. This does not get much attention in textbooks today. The reason is that people with higher wages now work more hours than people with lower wages. The time series tracks the cross section. Over time, as we have all gotten richer, the number of hours worked for many people has risen.
That backward-bending labor supply curve was indeed a big feature of the textbook when Summers took introductory economics. It wasn't in 1930, when the essay was first published, nor in 1928 when it was delivered as a talk to the Political Economy Club at Cambridge.
The confluence of mythology and anachronism in Larry Summers's education has more than pedantic relevance. As his casual reference to the platitude that Summers may not have even recognized as Say's Law suggests, his miseducation (or myth-education) on history of economic thought has theoretical consequences. And of course, Summers is not alone in his "delightful abundance of aberrations."
The creature that emerges from this anachronistic, mythological bend-over-backward Luddite lump-of-labor supply swamp is not "modern economics" any more than George Washington cutting down a cherry tree with a laser beam is "American history" It is that hoary old "magazine of untruth" masquerading as economics.
*Marty FeldSTEIN -- not to be confused with Marty FeldMAN as Igor ("it's pronounced eye-gore") in "Young FrankenSTEIN" -- was Larry Summers's mentor.
*Marty FeldSTEIN -- not to be confused with Marty FeldMAN as Igor ("it's pronounced eye-gore") in "Young FrankenSTEIN" -- was Larry Summers's mentor.


text:
16 May 2012
Bogota bomb attack reprehensible
The perpetrators of a car bomb attack on 15 May, which killed two people and injured more than 50 in the Colombian capital Bogota, demonstrated a complete and reprehensible disregard for human life and must be brought to justice, Amnesty International said today.
The explosion injured former interior minister Fernando Londono, and killed his driver and bodyguard, and more than 50 passers-by were also injured.
No group has yet claimed responsibility and the Colombian authorities have thus far refused to blame any organization.
"Whoever was responsible for these attacks should be identified and brought to trial. Any criminal investigation must be impartial and independent, and the results made public," said Marcelo Pollack, Colombia researcher at Amnesty International.
"Should investigations into yesterday's bombing uncover the responsibility of a party to the armed conflict, this would constitute a serious breach of international humanitarian law, which prohibits direct attacks on civilians and indiscriminate attacks which may result in civilian casualties," said Marcelo Pollack.


text:
Ombre Tape-In 50 cm 6/27 Chocolate Brown/Medium Golden Brown
A hair extension in just 20 minutes!
Tape-In hair extensions from Seiseta have a unique attachment system that makes it possible to apply the hair extensions without the use of specific machines. These hair extensions have an ultra-thin layer of reusable double-sided adhesive tape that is 4 cm wide and 0.8 cm high, making them easy and quick to install in the hair.
Seiseta uses exclusive Remy quality hair. This quality means that all hair cuticles run in the same direction. As a result, the hair will knot less, it will feel soft and smooth and is therefore easy to brush. Producers who work without the Remy quality use very strong acids to destroy the hair cuticle. As a result, the natural color, shine and structure of the hair is lost.
length 50-55 cm
Contents: 6 pcs
Colour: Chocolate brown/Medium golden brown
Choose options


text:
For information about how to use the Optimize Website feature in cPanel, please see this article.
Did you find this article helpful? Then you'll love our support. Experience the A2 Hosting difference today and get a pre-secured, pre-optimized website. Check out our web hosting plans today.
We use cookies to personalize the website for you and to analyze the use of our website. You consent to this by clicking on "I consent" or by continuing your use of this website. Further information about cookies can be found in our Privacy Policy.


text:
We are pleased to announce the general availability release of the Azure Storage client library for Xamarin. Xamarin is a leading mobile app development platform that allows developers to use a shared C# codebase to create iOS, Android, and Windows Store apps with native user interfaces. We believe the Azure Storage library for Xamarin will be instrumental in helping provide delightful developer experiences and enabling an end-to-end mobile-first, cloud-first experience. We would like to thank everyone who has leveraged previews of Azure Storage for Xamarin and provided valuable feedback.
The sources for the Xamarin release are the same as the Azure Storage .Net client library and can be found on Github. The installable package can be downloaded from nuget (version 7.2 and beyond) or from Azure SDK (version 2.9.5 and beyond) and installed via the Web Platform installer. This generally available release supports all features up to and included in the 2015-12-11 REST version.
Getting started is very easy. Simply follow the steps below:
- Install Xamarin SDK and tools and any language specific emulators as necessary: For instance, you can install the Android KitKat emulator.
- Create a new Xamarin project and install the Azure Storage nuget package version 7.2 or higher in your project and add Storage specific code.
- Compile, build and run the solution. You can run against a phone emulator or an actual device. Likewise you can connect to the Azure Storage service or the Azure Storage emulator.
Please see our Getting Started Docs and the reference documentation to learn how you can get started with the Xamarin client library and build applications that leverage Azure Storage features.
We currently support shared asset projects (e.g., Native Shared, Xamarin.Forms Shared), Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android projects. This Storage library leverages the .Net Standard runtime library that can be run on Windows, Linux and MacOS. Learn about .Net Standard library and .Net Core. Learn about Xamarin support for .Net Standard.
As always, we continue to do our work in the public GitHub development branch for visibility and transparency. We are working on building code samples in our Azure Storage samples repository to help you better leverage the Azure Storage service and the Xamarin library capabilities. A Xamarin image uploader sample is already available for you to review/ download. If you have any requests on specific scenarios you'd like to see as samples, please let us know or feel free to contribute as a valued member of the developer community. Community feedback is very important to us.
Enjoy the Xamarin Azure Storage experience!
Thank you
Dinesh Murthy, Michael Roberson, Michael Curd, Elham Rezvani, Peter Marino and the Azure Storage Team.


text:
Welcome to Hyperion Records, an independent British classical label devoted to presenting high-quality recordings of music of all styles and from all periods from the twelfth century to the twenty-first.
Hyperion offers both CDs, and downloads in a number of formats. The site is also available in several languages.
Please use the dropdown buttons to set your preferred options, or use the checkbox to accept the defaults.
Constant Lambert—like his colleague Peter Warlock—tends to be remembered more for his personal charisma and tragically early death than for his music. Yet the twenty or so extended scores which he did compose (The Rio Grande and Summer's Last Will and Testament being perhaps the most well known) are every bit as worthy as those of his more famous contemporaries.
The bulk of Lambert's output was directed at the ballet, and he was the first Englishman ever to be commissioned by Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes– quite an achievement for a twenty-year-old. As a result of this, Nijinska commissioned Pomona, a ballet rich in the atmosphere of neoclassicism and the French dance music of the 1920s. Pomona shares with Tiresias a thread of sexual intrigue, indeed the stage requirements of the latter suggest it as a particularly improbable ballet subject: the lead changing sex, two snakes copulating, an argument about which of the sexes enjoys the sexual act the most … The work enjoyed considerable success during the early 1950s, but then fell from the repertory. This is its first recording, and uses the reconstructed score commissioned by the BBC in 1995.


text:
Lotus to kill off Elise as it announces all-new model line-up
Lotus, one of the most iconic names in British motorsport and car production, has confirmed it will build a new 'Type 131' sports car this year at its newly refurbished £100 million Hethel headquarters.
The Norfolk-based carmaker has also confirmed production of its three current sports car models — the Elise, Exige and Evora — will stop this year.
Hide AdAdvertisement
Hide AdThe announcement means the end for one of Lotus's most important and iconic models: the Elise. Launched 26 years ago in 1995, it pioneered the use of an extruded-and-bonded aluminium chassis, which it still uses today.
The new-look line-up will see two more models joining the Type 131. Though there's not much else to see apart from three pairs of headlights, the new teaser image from Lotus shows the new three-car line-up alongside the all-electric Evija hypercar.
As part of its Vision80 strategy, Lotus has invested £100 million to upgrade Hethel. It also plans to recruit 250 new employees to help build the new car and outfit subsidiary Lotus Engineering's new base in Warwick. All this is in addition to the 670 employees who have joined Lotus since Chinese car-making giant Geely took ownership in 2017.
Though no official details of the Type 131 have been released, we know from previous reports that the new car will sit above the outgoing Evora. It will also be powered by a V6 powertrain mated to an in-house hybrid system.
Hide AdAdvertisement
Hide AdThe model is also expected to be " in the spirit" of the classic Esprit, though it's as yet unclear wether Lotus will revive the name. The new car will kickstart the modernisation programme instigated by Geely.
All three of the new cars announced by the carmaker will be built on a brand new lightweight platform. And peering at the silhouettes hidden beneath the sheets in the teaser image, it's fair to draw a conclusion that all three — with their distinctive headlight signatures — understandably take inspiration from the Evija. Expect the the hypercar's low, sharp-edged front fascia featuring large, open-mouth style ventilation to become the leading style cue across the new range.
The first new Lotus since the Geely purchase, the £1.7 million limited-run Evija hypercar, starts production later this year at Hethel.
"This year will be hugely significant for Lotus," Lotus CEO Phil Popham said, "with new facilities coming on stream, a new sports car entering production and new levels of efficiency and quality that only a new car design and factory can deliver.
Hide AdAdvertisement
Hide Ad"Despite the continuing global challenges, Lotus has emerged from 2020 strong and on track in the delivery of our Vision80 business plan.
"Lotus is all about looking forward, and our future is full of continuous innovation. In 2021, however, we will be reflecting on the legacy of our current range, starting with the Elise, a sports car that genuinely revolutionised the automotive industry, not only because it is a legend-in-its-own-lifetime but also for its impact on car design and technology."


text:
Bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, a coastal landscape stretches out south of the Labrador coast. It is in this part of the world that we find birds of the Alcidae family such as puffins, small birds that are as agile in the air as they are in the water. Their ballet is simply dazzling!
A world of birds living up in the heights
In a landscape that takes us to the rocky shores of Labrador, the steep cliffs of the Biodôme are home to some 60 birds of the Alcidae family, including two species: murres and puffins. Because of their large, colourful bills, puffins deserve their nickname of "sea parrot."
At the Biodôme as in the natural environment, the auks form colonies in the cliffs. In nature, living in groups has its advantages. It's easier to find a partner for the purpose of reproducing, to locate feeding areas and to better guard against predators. Since cliffs are hard for land mammals to access, they offer birds a well-protected environment for raising their young.
A northern summer at the Biodôme
In the Labrador Coast ecosystem, visitors are suddenly whisked away to eastern Canada. And to reinforce the feeling of immersion, the Montréal Biodôme has opened the habitat to allow visitors to experience cool temperatures between 12ºC and 15ºC all year round in this ecosystem. A real wall of ice has even been installed on the visitors' side for an even more immersive feeling. The observation of puffins and murres at the Biodôme is probably the most refreshing idea in Montreal during a heatwave!
A few facts and figures
- Puffins and murres belong to the Alcidae family.
- The length of the day follows the cycle specific to the Labrador coastal region.
- The rock formation reproduced in this ecosystem is shale.


text:
By Adriana Cuervo, Tracy Parish, Raquel Flores-Clemons, Jana Kelly, Jared Lofrano, Kimberly Sessoms, Florence Paisey, and Scott Schwartz
[Printer Friendly] | [ Email us about these papers]Title: William Herb Papers, Sousa Band Uniform and Travel Trunk, 1924-1980
Primary Creator: Herb, William
Extent: 3.6 cubic feet
Arrangement: The collection is organized in 2 series.
Date Acquired: 01/10/2006. More info below under Accruals.
Subjects: Bands, Railroad Accidents, Sousa, John Philip
Formats/Genres: Other Pictorial
Languages: English
Consists of black and white photographs and digital images*, newsclippings, concert programs, and Herb's band uniform, travel trunk and music stand that document Herb's career as a musician in and involvement with the Sousa Band and Allentown Band. Series 1, Photographs and Digital Images, ca. 1924-1936, is arranged in 4 subseries: Train Wrecks, Band Members and Musicians, Sousa Band, and Artifacts and Ephemera. Digital images have been placed at the end of each subseries. Series 2, Artifacts and Ephemera, ca. 1924-1980, includes concert programs, newsclippings, Herb's band uniform, travel trunk and music stand. Of particular interest are original photographs and digital images documenting three different railroad accidents that the Sousa Band was involved in while on tour through America. In addition many of the images illustrate the band members' leisure activities when not performing. William Herb's travel trunk, used throughout his time with the Sousa Band, contains numerous original travel stickers collected by Herb from hotels that the Sousa Band stayed in while on tour in both the United States and Europe. *Many of the digital images were acquired as low resolution scans, and may not be suitable for some forms of reproduction.
William Herb played tuba for the John Philip Sousa Band between 1924 and 1932. In addition, Herb was also a member of the Allentown Band from 1904 to c.1930, and continued to be involved with the organization following his tenure. According to an interview with Herb, he had never formally studied music but had played the tuba since the age of seven. In 1924 he stopped to hear Sousa perform at Willow Grove Park and after the concert he was told by a member of the ensemble the he was just the tuba player Sousa was looking for. Herb remained with the Sousa Band until Sousa's death.
Repository: The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
Accruals: A small selection of original photographs, a Sousa Band uniform (i.e., trousers and hat), a music stand and a travel trunk belonging to William Herb were donated on June 1, 2008 as part of Gary Herb's estate by Michael Denofrio.
Acquisition Source: Gary Herb
Acquisition Method: Gift.
Processing Information: Processed in July 2008.
Finding Aid Revision History: Finding Aid information revised July 17, 2008.


text:
But, the evidence goes beyond that. At the recent Health Foo conference of health care "techie" types, a preponderance of participants were from the West Coast. Strikingly, many of them had started out at MIT or other Boston universities but had chosen to move west as their careers developed. A story by Katie Johnson in today's Boston Globe documents this:
"The reality is that somebody graduating school in Massachusetts can basically double their salary by getting on a plane and going to San Francisco,'' said Jones, chief executive of the Boston social media analytics firm Buzzient.
Maybe it is the weather, and maybe it is the salaries, but I think it is something else. I was recently talking to an angel investor/venture capitalist and he said that when a business concept is brought to his peers in Boston, the focus is on what could go wrong if one part of the business plan fails to come through. In Silicon Valley, potential investors focus on what could go right if all the stars align. It is basically the difference between prudence and risk-taking, between pessimism and optimism.
Now, this can raise unreasonable expectations for twenty-something year olds in California who are convinced that their idea is the next Google and spin away hours of time in that pursuit. But Thomas Edison did the same thing a few years ago. It is that indomitable spirit of innovation, of trials and errors and repeated failures, that eventually leads to approaches that change the world. While he did not mean it in this context, Victo Hugo was correct when he said, "There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come." Who can blame a young person for thinking that s/he has that idea?
In the overall picture, there is probably a place for both approaches, but I just have a feeling that the Bostonians are missing the boat here.


text:
What Other Business Pros Are & Saying
You guys rocks! Recommended to all my clients!
-Tiffany Golden, Golden Age CPAs, San Diego, CA, October 2015
I am so happy with my decision to use iSanDiegoMortgage.com! I would recommend them to anyone and everyone!!!
-Jeremy Born, Allstate Insurance, San Diego, CA, September 2015
This was an EPIC loan experience. 3% rate w/ AMAZING service!
-Oliver Joyner, Joyner Law Firm, CA, August 2015


text:
In Chapel Hill, there are big doings in Big Data these days.
A new collaboration, known as the National Consortium for Data Science (NCDS) has been launched at RENCI, (Renaissance Computing Institute) at the University of North Carolina.
The consortium has ambitious goals according to a recent RENCI press release, which states that NCDS "…aims to make North Carolina a national hub for data-intensive business and data science research and education, a move that will help develop a national strategy to ensure U.S. leadership in the data-driven global economy."
NCDS founding members include industry leaders, top research universities, and nonprofit and government organizations.
Representing the private sector are Cisco, GE, IBM, NetApp and SAS. UNC Chapel Hill, RENCI, North Carolina State University, UNC Charlotte, UNC General Administration, Duke University and Drexel University comprise the founding academic members. Nonprofit and government sector members are The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences, MCNC, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, RTI International and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. All founding members have major facilities in North Carolina except Drexel, located in Philadelphia.
Those who harness the power of big data and use it to develop new data-intensive business sectors will be the winners in the 21st century economy," said Stanley C. Ahalt, Ph.D., director of RENCI and a chief organizer of the NCDS, and professor of computer science at UNC-Chapel Hill. "Our members understand that, want to find solutions to big data problems and put North Carolina on the map as a center of data science innovation."
The consortium is seeking to quickly consolidate its position as a major player in the evolving world of Big Data through a series of on-going initiatives.
For example, NCMS will be competing for federal research funding including the $200 million Big Data Research and Development Initiative announced by the White House last year, the National Science Foundation's BigData program, and the National Institutes of Health's Big Data to Knowledge initiative.
It will convene its first invitation-only NCDS Leadership Summit April 23-24 in Chapel Hill. This year the summit will focus on genomics. Other initiatives include public lectures, an internship program for students at member companies, and visiting scientists' positions at member universities for industry employees.
It is no longer enough for businesses to be big in order to be successful, now success is driven by the amount of knowledge a company possesses," said David Turek, vice president, exascale computing, IBM. "Ninety percent of our planet's data has been created within the past two years, and the demand will grow as businesses look to optimize big data analytics to improve decision making and expand their business operations into cloud, social and mobile environments."
Read the Full Story.


text:
Mahatma Gandhi Mission (MGM) Trust has been established in 1982 at Nanded (Maharashtra), which has its institutions at Nanded, Aurangabad, Navi Mumbai and Parbhani in Maharashtra State and at Noida in Uttar Pradesh (Delhi NCR). The aims and objectives of the trust are to contribute towards fulfillment of the task initiated by Mahatma Gandhi and based on its principle that, "Literacy Education is of no value if it is not able to build up sound character".
MGM is a charitable trust, registered under the Society's Registration Act and Bombay Public Trusts Act. MGM has long been a leader and innovator in professional education. Since inception, it has developed into an excellent academic society that is totally committed to human resource development and social welfare through 50 different institutes spread over 5 different cities.
MGM has achieved unprecedented growth and carved for itself a nice in the society for quality education and discipline in the institute. The trust provides a wealth of learning experience through the eminent faculty and well equipped laboratories. MGM believes in imparting the best education which is evident through the students' achievements, as they are employed in the best of the organisations all over the world.


text:
Table of Contents
Gould's Methodological Critique: Off-Base and Misleading
In Jon B. Gould's recent attack on FIRE in The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription only)—already skillfully dissected by Robert (twice), Sam and Chris—Gould takes issue with FIRE's report, Spotlight on Speech Codes 2006: The State of Free Speech on Our Nation's Campuses, calling it "predictable" and "overly broad," and accusing FIRE of "exaggerat[ing] the facts to make political hay." These are bold statements indeed—but, like the rest of Gould's arguments, they are supremely misleading.
Let's look further at the basis for Gould's claims about Spotlight on Speech Codes 2006. Specifically, Gould compares the results of FIRE's study with data generated from his own empirical research, the findings of which were published in a law review article (The Precedent That Wasn't: College Hate Speech Codes and the Two Faces of Legal Compliance, 35 Law & Soc'y Rev. 345) in 2001. Comparing the two studies, Gould writes:
Several years ago, I conducted an in-depth study of hate-speech codes at 100 colleges, applying categories previously tested by Vanderbilt University's First Amendment Center. That project, using random sampling, found that 46 percent of four-year institutions had policies that could be used to restrict "hate speech," meaning verbal attacks that target others on the basis of their immutable characteristics. However, only 23 percent of institutions not FIRE's 96 percent [sic]—had rules that were inconsistent with the First Amendment. And even that number had to be narrowed: Only public institutions (and private colleges in California) are held to the First Amendment. Considered more precisely, just 9 percent of the institutions had unconstitutional speech policies, according to my study…
FIRE stands behind the results of our report unequivocally. Spotlight on Speech Codes 2006 is the product of thorough research and each determination about a school's speech policy is the result of careful analysis performed by trained attorneys specializing in constitutional law.
So why are our results so different from Gould's? He says only 23% of his sample maintained policies explicitly inconsistent with the First Amendment (9% after discarding schools not legally obliged to follow the First Amendment), whereas FIRE says 69% of schools do. (Gould's claim that we found 96% of schools examined maintained unconstitutional policies is obtained by combining the percentages of schools rated both "red light" and "yellow light" by FIRE. There is a distinct difference, explained below.)
The short answer for the discrepancy is that FIRE and Gould are employing different methodologies: our study examines more policies from more schools in a more thorough and legally exacting manner than Gould's research.
The long answer requires us to first compare the competing methodologies.
Examining the Research
Spotlight on Speech Codes 2006 relies on FIRE's general classification system for rating a school's speech code, using red, yellow and green "lights" to indicate the degree to which a school's speech policy comports with the First Amendment (for public schools) or the school's advertised commitments to free speech (for private schools). As Robert usefully explained earlier this week, FIRE doesn't assign a ranking to private or sectarian schools that make it explicitly clear that other values—like faith, for example—are held in higher regard on that particular campus than freedom of expression.
Schools assigned a "red light" maintain "at least one policy that both clearly and substantially restricts freedom of speech. A 'clear' restriction is one that unambiguously infringes on what is or should be protected expression. In other words, the threat to free speech at a red light institution is obvious on the face of the policy and does not depend on how the policy is applied." Schools assigned a "yellow light" enforce policies that, if enforced selectively, "could ban or excessively regulate protected speech." Finally, schools are granted a "green light" if, after reviewing the school's policies, FIRE cannot locate "any serious threats to students' free speech rights in the policies on that campus."
Comparatively, here's Gould's explanation of his rating system in his own words:
I borrowed categories from the Vanderbilt study to code the speech policies. Vanderbilt's researchers used six ordered categories to code university speech policies. The rankings were on a sliding scale, with each group intended to reflect decreasing comportment with First Amendment norms. Eliminating only their code for obscenity policies, the categories I employed are
0. Did not adopt speech policies
1. Punished fighting words
2. Banned verbal abuse or harassment
3. Forbade verbal abuse or harassment against minorities
4. Proscribed offensive, demeaning, or stigmatizing speech
Each system of categorization seems straightforward enough, to be sure, and perhaps not all that different at first blush. However, as is usually the case, the distinction—and the explanation for how Gould's research finds that nearly all schools maintain constitutional speech code policies, while ours shows that nearly 70% clearly do not—is to be found in the details.
FIRE Uses a Larger Sample
First, FIRE's Spotlight on Speech Codes relies on a far larger sample than Gould's research. Our study examined the speech policies maintained by over 330 schools. Gould's sample consists of 100 schools selected at random from the Carnegie Foundation's 1987 Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Further, Gould notes his sample was "was stratified to account for the higher frequency of speech codes among large research universities and top liberal arts colleges"—a claim that, while perhaps true, he never proves.
It stands to reason that a larger sample will yield more accurate results about the prevalence of speech codes in higher education.
FIRE Looks at More Policies, More Carefully
Next—and I suspect this crucial detail is the single most important factor behind the differing results—Gould and FIRE rely on different views about which policies employed by a college may be analyzed for their impact on campus speech.
FIRE strongly believes in offering students the most complete summation of threats to their constitutional rights at a particular school as possible; to do less would be to shirk our institutional responsibility as a watchdog organization. Thus, when analyzing a school's speech policies for constitutionality, we review any written policy maintained by the school with an impact on campus speech. That's why a "red light" school like, say, Texas Tech University earns its red light not just for its sexual harassment policy (which curtails protected speech by failing to track either Supreme Court jurisprudence or guidelines issued by the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR), resulting in a policy that would allow students to risk potential punishment for a single "inappropriate comment"), but also for its "Web Page Standards" policy (which infringes upon constitutionally protected speech by requiring that students "not use Web pages to transmit images, sounds, or messages that could create an atmosphere of discomfort or harassment for others.") While one policy may seem to be more "serious" that the other, and more geared towards "speech," the simple fact is that students can and will be punished for constitutionally protected speech under either policy. FIRE has seen many such punishments meted out, and we know from experience that administrators don't always cite a policy explicitly addressing "speech" when punishing protected expression. To imagine otherwise would be to turn a blind eye to clear violations of students' fundamental civil liberties.
Gould's study, on the other hand, is shockingly vague about what exactly constitutes a "college hate speech code" or a "speech policy," and proper definitions of either term are never supplied. Judging from both the purposes of his study—to "estimate the prevalence of college hate speech codes, calculating the percentage—and types—that were created between 1987 and 1992 and then measuring them again in 1997 following five court cases that rejected many of the speech policies," and to "find out why institutions behaved as they did"—and his failure to define the scope of his terms, it is safe to conclude that FIRE, whose institutional mission demands a comprehensive cataloguing of threats to speech on campus, has a broader understanding of "speech codes."
FIRE Knows Conflicting Statements Do Not Absolve Unconstitutionality
Another detail likely responsible for the discrepancy in results is Gould's apparent misunderstanding of the effect of what he calls "modifying words" on policies otherwise unconstitutional. In his article, Gould rails against FIRE's study by accusing us of "failing to distinguish enforceable rules from exhortative statements, confusing examples with definitions, and taking statements out of context." By way of example, he takes issue with our criticism of a University of Michigan policy that declares, "[i]ndividuals should not be unwittingly exposed to offensive material by the deliberate and knowing acts of others." By failing to include the sentence immediately following ("The University is a community of individuals with diverse values, beliefs, and sensitivities. Individuals must be allowed to choose what they wish to access for their own purposes"), Gould accuses us of misleading readers and inflating our results. But as Robert so clearly demonstrated earlier this week, it is Gould who confuses "exhortative statements" with "enforceable rules."
Gould here also ignores the fact that such "savings clauses" cannot rectify the unconstitutionality of prior conditions; rather, they serve merely to muddy the water. Instead of being void for overbreadth, the offending clause is now rendered void for vagueness. As FIRE has noted elsewhere: "What could be more vague (indeed, self-contradictory) than a policy prohibiting all sorts of protected speech that then claims not to prohibit anything that is protected by the Constitution?" Coupled with his failure to recognize the critical distinction between aspirations and rules, Gould's mistaken belief in the power of "savings clauses" cannot help but prompt yet further skepticism about the reliability of his study's findings.
FIRE Understands Harassment Law
The final detail responsible for the difference between FIRE's numbers and Gould's is that while FIRE regards any university policy that impinges upon protected speech a speech code, Gould does not. Indeed, the distinction between FIRE's understanding of unconstitutional speech codes and Gould's is pointed out by Gould himself in his article, but proves a point contrary to his intent. Gould writes that "[w]here FIRE's estimates are exaggerated, the reason can often be traced to the group's categorization of sexual-harassment policies as 'speech codes.'" Apparently, Gould believes that when a policy is labeled as a harassment policy rather than a "hate speech" code, any restrictions on protected speech contained therein are somehow legitimized. Luckily for students, this is not the case; one cannot lose the right to protected expression just because university administrators restrict it under sexual harassment policies. As Sam wrote this week:
The problem is that a large number of colleges and universities define sexual harassment to include speech that categorically does not meet the stringent legal definition of harassment and that is, by contrast, constitutionally protected speech. As Professor Gould must know, a university cannot prohibit otherwise constitutionally protected speech simply by defining it as harassment. But that is precisely what many universities do…Universities cannot simply make protected speech unprotected by deeming it "sexual harassment."
It is essential to note that when FIRE makes a determination about the constitutionality of a university's speech code, when the code in question is a harassment code, we still analyze the code's legality, tracking the university's definition of harassment against that promulgated and enforced by the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, the government agency responsible for enforcing federal statutes outlawing racial and sexual discrimination and harassment on campus. We often find, as in the Texas Tech example above, that university harassment regulations go far beyond their legal bounds and infringe upon a student's right to free speech. Indeed, as the OCR itself pointed out in a 2003 open letter to university administrators:
Some colleges and universities have interpreted OCR's prohibition of "harassment" as encompassing all offensive speech regarding sex, disability, race or other classifications. Harassment, however, to be prohibited by the statutes within OCR's jurisdiction, must include something beyond the mere expression of views, words, symbols or thoughts that some person finds offensive. Under OCR's standard, the conduct must also be considered sufficiently serious to deny or limit a student's ability to participate in or benefit from the educational program… No OCR regulation should be interpreted to impinge upon rights protected under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution or to require recipients to enact or enforce codes that punish the exercise of such rights.
By ignoring the fact that universities continue to punish students for protected speech under color of anti-harassment policies, Gould turns a blind eye to a very real threat to student speech. In fact, of the seven federal cases challenging speech codes at public universities that resulted in opinions from 1989 to today, six of them resulted in the successful invalidation of an unconstitutional harassment policy. As David French pointed out yesterday, FIRE's critics are certainly free to "argue about legal interpretations all day long, but federal judges make the ultimate decision, and so far FIRE hasn't gotten one wrong yet."
But Gould isn't concerned with such details; apparently, everything's peachy keen on the American campus. In Gould's view, remember, anyone concerned about free speech on campus should simply "t[ake] a deep breath" because universities are just "social institutions" "reflecting a popular norm"—so who needs the First Amendment, anyways? If a student is disciplined under a harassment policy for engaging in protected speech and voicing an unpopular political view on campus—well, hey, that student obviously just needs to get in line with the "large majorities" of freshmen who believe that their speech should be regulated beyond the boundaries of the First Amendment. Yes, in Gould's America, students don't need the First Amendment, because the popular majoritarian view will serve them just fine, thank you very much. In other words: sit down and shut up.
When examined and debunked, it seems Gould is the one exaggerating facts to score cheap political points. Because we examine more schools more completely with more attention to actual restrictions on student speech, FIRE's research is by far the more accurate reflection of the threats to free speech on campus. We at FIRE certainly hope that one day our estimates of the number of unconstitutional speech codes at our nation's universities will look as rosy as Gould's. But we also promise that when and if they do, they will be the product of real change on campus, not narrow definitions and legal misunderstandings.
Recent Articles
FIRE's award-winning Newsdesk covers the free speech news you need to stay informed.


text:
• $125
Accessories For The Leica Q2 perfectly extend its capabilities
The range of accessories for the Leica Q2 perfectly extend its capabilities. Constructed from highest quality materials, these functionally-designed accessories make the handling of the camera easier or add to its range of functions. The protectors, holster, and pouch assure ideal protection when carrying the camera and immediate readiness to shoot. Carrying straps and hand straps provide elegant connections between the use and the camera. The detachable thumb rest for the Leica Q2 ensures safe and steady handling and enhances its ergonomics.


text:
Quick Links
- General Laws Conversion Table (2023) [PDF]
- Florida Statutes Definitions Index (2023) [PDF]
- Table of Section Changes (2023) [PDF]
- Preface to the Florida Statutes (2023) [PDF]
- Table Tracing Session Laws to Florida Statutes (2023) [PDF]
- Index to Special and Local Laws (1971-2023) [PDF]
- Index to Special and Local Laws (1845-1970) [PDF]
- Statute Search Tips
2012 Florida Statutes
Department; powers and duties.
This act may not be construed to invalidate any existing department rule relating to mixing zones. The department shall cooperate with the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles in the development of regulations required by s. 316.272(1).
The department shall implement such programs in conjunction with its other powers and duties and shall place special emphasis on reducing and eliminating contamination that presents a threat to humans, animals or plants, or to the environment.
(41) Expand the use of online self-certification and other forms of online authorization for appropriate exemptions, general permits, and individual permits by the department and the water management districts if such expansion is economically feasible. The department shall report on the progress of these activities to the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Legislative Committee on Intergovernmental Relations by February 15, 2011. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a local government may not specify the method or form for documenting that a project meets the requirements for authorization under chapter 161, chapter 253, chapter 373, or this chapter. This includes Internet-based department programs that provide for self-certification.


text:
Social Studies
"For time and the world to not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who only look to the past or the present are certain to miss the future."
- John F. Kennedy
In a broader sense, students who can examine and analyze the events of the past have a powerful tool for understanding the events of today and the future to come. As students develop an understanding of how people, nations, actions and interactions among people and nations have led to the events of today students also acquire the skills to contextualize historical events. Not only does the department offer students the opportunity to delve into history, but the study of people through Psychology and Sociology, and economies through Economics, as well as a variety of electives.


text:
Gladwell on early- and late-blooming geniuses
Now that he has a book coming out on the subject of genius and high achievement, the New Yorker finally lets Malcolm Gladwell write about David Galenson's work on age and innovation. (A previous effort was Gladwell's first article to be rejected by The New Yorker.) For an overview of Galenson's work, check out my post from August.
The most interesting bit of Gladwell's piece is his discussion of the economics of the two different types of artist. The conceptual artist's talent is noticed and rewarded immediately. But conceptual innovators need more help to reach their full potential.
Sharie was Ben's wife. But she was also-to borrow a term from long ago-his patron. That word has a condescending edge to it today, because we think it far more appropriate for artists (and everyone else for that matter) to be supported by the marketplace. But the marketplace works only for people like Jonathan Safran Foer, whose art emerges, fully realized, at the beginning of their career, or Picasso, whose talent was so blindingly obvious that an art dealer offered him a hundred-and-fifty-franc-a-month stipend the minute he got to Paris, at age twenty. If you are the type of creative mind that starts without a plan, and has to experiment and learn by doing, you need someone to see you through the long and difficult time it takes for your art to reach its true level.
Gladwell discusses the article in a podcast and will be answering reader questions about it later in the week.


text:
An effective use of space-based information in all phases of the disaster management cycle requires access to data and tools as well as knowledge of relevant methods. When data and data products are accessible and the capacity to use or create resources is built, countries as well as national or international organizations can create space-based products tailored to their individual needs and conditions.
In this section, we provide entry points to a wide range of resources related to the use of space-based information for disaster risk management and emergency response. Each database referred to below allows filtering resources according to parameters such as hazard time and satellites or sensors used to obtain the data.
UN-SPIDER is mandated to act as a bridge between the space and disaster management communities. To facilitate the discovery of relevant institutions, the programme compiles relevant disaster management institutions, space agencies and international institutions. The organizations are presented briefly and links are provided to access their respective websites.
Data Application of the Month
UN-SPIDER regularly writes up information about how specific data can support addressing a particular hazard. These pages also include links to access the related data and products as well as information about tools that might be useful to process the information.
Data Sources
Access to data is key for making use of the benefits of space-based information in disaster management. For this reason, UN-SPIDER regularly adds links to a large variety of satellite imagery sources, elevation models, land use and land cover maps as well as near real-time data products for different hazard types. Users can search the database by data type, hazard or disaster management cycle phase, as well as other relevant factors including costs, temporal or spatial coverage, sensor or file types. The results of each search are connected to UN-SPIDER's database of GIS and remote sensing software suggesting links to adequate software for each data type.
GIS and Remote Sensing Software
To process space-based data, users require adequate software that allows them to create relevant information products. UN-SPIDER hosts links and descriptions of GIS and remote sensing software including both free and commercial applications. Users can search this database by different criteria, including software type, data format, scope or file types. In order to use or download the software, links to the specific provider are shown. The different software profiles also point to existing online tutorials to support users developing their skills in using these applications.
External In Person Training Opportunities
UN-SPIDER is a facilitator of capacity-building and regularly organizes training courses as part of its technical advisory support activities. To help users develop their GIS and remote sensing skills for disaster management, the programme also links to relevant training programmes organized by external providers that are not affiliated to UN-SPIDER. The entries in this database include in person short-term courses, workshops and academic programmes. The database indicates types of training events, schedule and duration, language and place where the events are conducted, topics, requirements, proposed target audience, and complementary information.
External Online Training Opportunities
In addition to linking to external in person training opportunities, UN-SPIDER also compiles a list of available online training courses such as MOOCs and webinars. These can be filtered according to the hazard type and software the training includes. Online training opportunities range from hands-on tutorials that explain how to develop a particular information product to series of videos that provide background information about using satellite data in disaster management. These courses are instructor-led live online courses, which take place at a specific time and require attendance in the live session.
Online Learning Resources
Similar to the External Online Training Opportunities, UN-SPIDER compiles a list of available online learning resources. These can be ongoing (on-demand) online courses, such as MOOCs and webinars. The courses usually are self-paced and can be taken at the user's desired time. Some of these courses may be former instructor-led live courses, which are made available after the respective course was completed.


text:
4 of the best Mac hard disk recovery tools
Rescue your precious data with one of these disk-savers
The hard disk at the heart of your Mac is a fragile tool. Not only can the data on it go awry, but the disk itself can also fail, leaving you with nothing.
There's not much you can do about a physical failure other than keep a regular backup, but the software side of things is a bit more manageable.
Disk tools for Macs have been around for a long time. Some (such as Norton) have gone, but others are still with us, protecting our data from corruption and optimising our drives for speed of access. But how do you choose which one to use?
We've gathered four disk utility tools and compared them with each other to see which offers the best performance, specification and value for money. We'll look at how easy they are to use and how well they perform.
Of course, hard-disk tools have to be able to recover, repair and make hard disks faster, but the extra features are important too, so we'll be awarding points for added functionality.
Bringing back a dead system might be priceless, but we'll be taking a stern look at what you get for your cash too. You need to know that when the data on your hard disk does stop working, the hard disk tool you've invested in can solve your problem – a one-stop recovery shop, as it were.
In essence, it should be the type of software you only have to use once in a blue moon, precisely because it does its job properly, and that's exactly what we'll be looking for here.
The test software
DiskTools Pro 3.0.2 - £49
DiskWarrior 4.1.1 - £99
Drive Genius 2 - £69
TechTool Pro 5 - £100
Test one: How much does it cost to rescue your precious data?
You might think that rescuing your data is priceless, but there comes a point where it's simpler to just format your disk and restore from a backup.
Obviously, if you don't have a backup then you'd probably be willing to spend a little more to get your precious data back, but, even so, there are limits.
PRICE: TechTool Pro offers a lot more for your money in terms of features and functionality
We're not simply giving the cheapest utility here the most marks, though DiskTools Pro is certainly a compelling buy at just £49. We're also assessing these utilities on what they do… over and above the call of duty. What else do you get from your cash?
Bottom of the pile in this respect is DiskWarrior, which offers few extra features other than the directory rebuilding and hard disk graphing. At nearly £100, we expect more from our applications.
TechTool Pro and Drive Genius certainly offer much more functionality for your money. Price may not be everything when it comes to rescuing the data on your hard disk, but it's certainly a consideration and here we have a clear loser.
Current page: Introduction and Test One: Price
Next Page Test Two: Ease of use and Test Three: FeaturesGet daily insight, inspiration and deals in your inbox
Sign up for breaking news, reviews, opinion, top tech deals, and more.


text:
HOUSTON, Sept. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- LyondellBasell (NYSE: LYB) today announced that Sergey Vasnetsov, Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning and Transactions, will address investors at the Credit Suisse 26th Annual Chemical and Agricultural Science Conference in New York on Tuesday, Sept. 17.
Webcast Access:
A live webcast can be accessed at www.lyondellbasell.com/investorpresentations on Sept. 17 beginning at 1:15 p.m. ET. The webcast will be provided in Flash and Windows Media formats.
A webcast replay will be available after 6 p.m. ET Sept. 17 until Sept. 24 at 11 p.m. ET on the LyondellBasell website at www.lyondellbasell.com/investorpresentations.
Additional Information:
Slides related to the webcast will be available within the Investor Relations section of the company's website: www.lyondellbasell.com/investorpresentations.
Related Disclosures:
Required reconciliations of certain non-GAAP financial measures to GAAP financial measures and any other applicable disclosures (including the slides) will be available at the time of the presentations and afterwards at www.lyondellbasell.com/investorpresentations.
LyondellBasell (NYSE: LYB) is one of the world's largest plastics, chemical and refining companies and a member of the S&P 500. LyondellBasell (www.lyondellbasell.com) manufactures products at 58 sites in 18 countries. LyondellBasell products and technologies are used to make items that improve the quality of life for people around the world including packaging, electronics, automotive parts, home furnishings, construction materials and biofuels.
SOURCE LyondellBasell Industries


text:
Tag: jakks pacific
Toy Insider's Got Game…
Between the recent New York City Comic Convention and Halloween approaching, Andy and I have plenty of information and photographs to share with you, and miles to go before we sleep.
Pete & Andy's Play Date…
On a gorgeous late October afternoon co-editor Adriana "Andy" Melendez (@sylverwhisper) and I joined other members of the press and blogger community on the 44th floor of New York City's Hearst Building for a grand event to kick off the coming gift giving season presented by the folks at The Big Toy Book.Com, in partnership with The Toy Insider and Woman's Day Magazine. Dubbed "The HoliDAY of PLAY" the gathering was aimed at affording social media and online reporters a jump on building buzz for the best toy options of late 2014.
Top Toy Tips…
Attendees enjoyed a couple of hours of hands-on experience and information gathering directly from manufacturers with a focus on the annual Toy Insider Hot 20 and Top Tech 12 lists. These lists (broken into age appropriate categories) and the entire 2014 Gift Guide can be found in the November issue of Woman's Day magazine, as well as at Toy Insider online.
Following an introductory period of play and networking Big Toy Book Founder Laurie Schacht (@toyinsidermom) addressed the group. She delineated emerging trends in the toy industry using onsite vendors' wares as examples punctuated by a video featuring highlights from last summer's Sweet Suite event and soundtracked by my favorite EchoSmith tune "Cool Kids."
Laurie called up several brave volunteers to participate in a couple of only mildly embarrassing competitions, one of which had participants emote their best Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle "Cowabunga Dude!" Winners walked away with nicely filled swag bags. She also treated attendees to the first announcement of the 2015 Blogger Bash and Sweet Suite, which will be held on July 16 and 17 at Pier Sixty in New York City. In a little over 3 hours attendees managed to spin up 16 million Twitter impressions for the #HotToys14 hashtag and hundreds of Instagram images.
SkeletonPete & Andy Say…
It's an anything goes marketplace, with tech and retro play products holding equal footing. We saw choices ranging from the robotics of the constantly expanding HEXBUG line to the return of the much loved 1980's Pound Puppies from Funrise. LeapFrog offers the movement motivating immersive screenplay of their new console system, while creative stalwart Crayola straddles the classic vs. digital worlds with their Virtual Designer Pro kits.
Those only represent a smattering of the multitude of possibilities which is why the helpful guidance of the annual Woman's Day/Toy Insider supplement and Toy Insider is so valuable.
Below is a list of the vendors who presented their wares at the event, with live links to their respective websites – you're welcome. 🙂
Andy and I will be giving you a closer look at some of our favorites in the coming weeks.
(representing Tech 4 Kids, Aliquantum International, Bravo Sports Corp. and Zuru Toys)
Cloud b
Funrise Toys
Jakks Pacific
Laser Pegs
Little Scholar
Makey Makey
Rubie's Costume Company
Spaghetti Headz
Thames and Kosmos
Toca Boca


text:
Get To and From Lithuania: Rail, Air, Bus, Car
Lithuania has three international airports. Vilnius International Airport is the largest one, frequented both by the regular and low-cost carriers. Kaunas International Airport is a Ryanair hub with few other services. Palanga International Airport offers several routes, however, flying from there is generally more expensive due to lower competition.
All the Lithuanian airports are connected to the city centers by public transport (from there you can catch inter-city buses). In Kaunas and Vilnius, you can catch inter-city buses to major other cities directly at the airport, but the options are limited. Unfortunately, nearly all the public transport comes to halt during the night (after some 00:00-01:00) and so it won't help you in the case of early departures or late arrivals. Each of the Lithuanian international airports has a car rental facility within its arrival hall.
Lithuanian airlines had been having bad luck as five of its carriers (Lithuanian Airlines, Air Lithuania, Amber Air, Star 1, and Air Lituanica) went bankrupt and were liquidated. There are no more national carriers in Lithuania.
Generally, Western Europe and Southern Europe are both well-served by air routes from Lithuania (the latter especially so in summer). A few Eastern European cities are also served but going anywhere beyond that (e.g. the Balkans, America, or Asia) you'll need a transfer via such major European hub airports as Istanbul (Turkish Airlines, convenient for Middle East, Asia, and Africa), Frankfurt (Lufthansa, convenient for America), Copenhagen (SAS, convenient for Europe and North America), Warsaw (LOT, convenient for Europe), or Riga (Air Baltic, convenient for Europe).
Lithuania boasts an extensive network of open general aviation airfields, with 25 of them available across the country (flights from the Schengen area countries are permitted to land in any of them without further hassle).
Entering Lithuania by car is trivial when arriving from the other countries that signed the Schengen treaty – Latvia and Poland. There are no customs or passport checks. However, the waiting times on the borders with Russia and Belarus may get long (several hours) and the easiness to cross them often depends on the political situation at the time.
You can also reach Lithuania (Klaipėda port) by DFDS car ferries from Germany and Sweden. The duration of the journey is at least 15 hours. Cruise ships also dock in Klaipėda during the Baltic cruise season (mainly summer, with some extension into spring and autumn).
The possibilities of entering Lithuania on railroads from the West are rather limited due to Lithuania using a broad gauge instead of a common gauge. As such, the inconvenient service to/from Poland is the only train service going westwards. There is also a train service to Riga (Latvia also uses broad gauge).
There still are international buses leaving for Western cities. However, with the advent of low-cost airlines, the number of them has severely dwindled. Buses remain a popular option for shorter distances, however, such as Vilnius-Riga or Vilnius-Warsaw.
Where can I contact or find minibus taxis to travel from:
1 Vilnius to Alytus to Akmeniai (close to the polish border)?
2 Vilnius to Riga.Thanking you in advance.
PS: Write me please to email@example.com
yes i read it is a good cuntry i want to visit
Leave a comment
No trackbacks yet.


text:
Tag: adult learner
How Adult Education Has Evolved for the Tech Sector
According to a 2019 study conducted by Indeed, nearly half of the people surveyed said that they underwent at least one major career change in their lives. The study also found that this wasn't an impulsive decision — the average age of respondents was 39 and the average time spent making ...
Read More
Corpus Christi Community Colleges
Why and Why Not to Go to a Corpus Christi Community College Corpus Christi community colleges can seem like a great option for students who want to continue their education, expand their employment opportunities, and receive additional preparation before entering the job market. Although community college certainly has several advantages, ...
Read More
Certificates, Certifications, Licenses, & SCI Badges — An Explanation
Recent high school graduates and mature career changers have something in common. New grads and job changers alike are exploring the training and education options they'll need to kickstart their future career. One of the most common questions asked by both is whether they need a certificate vs certification vs ...
Read More
Medical Assistant Programs
Online Medical Assistant Programs With the plethora of choice out there, selecting the right career path is not an easy decision. Have you taken a look at the health care industry? Careers in this field are prevalent and do not necessarily dictate that you must become a doctor or nurse. ...
Read More
HVAC Program
HVAC Program at our San Antonio North Campus Southern Careers Institute is excited to offer a our HVAC program at the San Antonio North campus! With the HVAC program, you will be trained for a career in the field of air-conditioning, heating systems, and refrigeration at both the commercial ...
Read More
Medical Billing Classes
Where to Find Medical Billing Classes in San Antonio, TX About Medical Billing and Coding Medical billers and coders organize and manage patient and procedure data by ensuring that it remains accessible, correct, confidential and secure. They use various classification systems to categorize and code that information for different ...
Read More
Medical Billing and Coding Jobs
Work From Home as a Remote Medical Billing and Coding Specialist In the United States, the search for medical billing and coding jobs has never been easier. Trained and educated medical billing and coding specialists are currently one of the most in demand groups of professionals in the medical industry. ...
Read More
Most Popular:
- About SCI
- Administrative Assistant
- Automotive Service Technician
- Blog
- Brownsville
- Business Accounting Specialist
- Business Administration
- Career Services
- Commercial Motor Vehicle Operator
- Computer Support Specialist
- Corpus Christi
- Cosmetology
- Data Science
- Electrical Technician
- Financial Aid Services
- Management Associates
- Manicure Technician
- Medical Assistant
- Medical Billing And Coding Specialist
- Medical Billing Coding Online
- Medical Office Specialist
- Mobile Application Developer
- Nurse Aide
- Online
- Pharmacy Technician
- Powered by WOZ
- Press Release
- Quiz
- San Antonio North
- San Antonio South
- SCI Spotlight
- Software Development
- Technical School
- Trade School
- Veterans & Military
- Vocational School
- Welding


text:
The 100 Greatest Neil Young Songs
From tender ballads to raging grunge, the songwriter's nearly 60-year career has produced some of rock's most enduring music
"I'd rather keep changing and lose a lot of people along the way," Neil Young told Rolling Stone in 1975. "If that's the price, I'll pay it. I don't give a shit if my audience is a hundred or a hundred million." Over the years, Young has turned that unapologetic sentiment into one of rock's most durable credos, following his ornery muse wherever it leads him. He's been a folk-rock superstar and a synth-rock pioneer, a country singer and a rockabilly revivalist, a left-leaning environmental activist and a Reagan supporter, a guy who's been filling arenas since the Seventies even as he drives his fans nuts with his maverick musical detours. But whether he's the tender soul singing "Heart of Gold" or the rangy crusader giving us a concept album about his awesome new electric car in 2009, Neil Young is always Neil Young – same creaky voice, same searching lyrics, placing him among the greatest songwriters in rock history.
Young first hit the scene with Buffalo Springfield in 1966, not long before Rolling Stone first hit newsstands. He's been a regular in our pages ever since. We've covered his music for decades — hundreds and hundreds of songs spread over studio LPs, live albums, bootlegs, and tapes that Young has only recently begun to release on his Archives website. Some of them are beloved folk-rock hits; some sound like the work of a cult artist with little interest in hooks or high fidelity; some are just really fucking loud. We've narrowed that down to his 100 greatest songs, and tell the inside stories behind each one. Our list draws from every point in his career, proving, among other things, that Young is part of an elite group of Sixties rockers who've kept making great music long after their supposed glory days.
All these years later, Neil Young has neither burned out nor faded away. Instead, he's built one of rock's great careers by doing whatever he wanted, whenever he wanted.
From Rolling Stone US


text:
HSA405 Week 10 Assignment 5 Public Health Preparedness
Assignment 5: Public Health Preparedness
You have just been hired as a new Vice President of quality and safety for a full-service 600-bed government healthcare organization. Within your first month on the job, the national security threat level has been raised to Imminent, which means there is a credible, specific, and impending terrorist threat against the United States, and your facility may be directly impacted. The Chief Executive Officer has requested an immediate six to eight-page report of your proposal for handling such a situation.
Note: You may create and /or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.
Click here to Find all Assignments for HSA405 Course Didn't find your answers? Don't worry we are here to help you! Ask Questions
Write a 6-8 page paper in which you:
- Examine the existing procedures related to at least four (4) of the ten (10) essential public health services. Focus on the principal effects that these procedures will have on your hospital during the emergency.
- Specify the importance of continuing to evaluate patients, as stipulated by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), during the emergency.
- Detail three (3) measures that you would use in order to maintain the electronic medical record system during the emergency.
- Defend your position on the decision to accept health insurance during the emergency as a potential source of income for the facility. Provide support with at least three (3) examples that illustrate your position.
- Analyze the extent to which this emergency might affect the quality of care provided to the patients and the unimpeded operation of the organization.
- Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
- This course requires use of new Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The format is different than other Strayer University courses. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.
- Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow SWS or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
- Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the professor's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
- Examine information management and health care records and how the legal reporting requirements impact health care.
- Analyze the impact of healthcare financing and health insurance on healthcare access, quality, and cost.
- Analyze the influence of health policy and health reform on healthcare access, quality, and cost in the U.S.
- Analyze tort reform and healthcare quality.
- Use technology and information resources to research issues in healthcare policy, law, and ethics.
- Write clearly and concisely about healthcare policy and law using proper writing mechanics.
Course: HSA405 Healthcare Policy and Law
School: Strayer University
- 06/06/2021
- 200