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Founded in 1995, the Universidad Europea has an above-average number of international students in our student body. With Universidad Europea, you'll experience a multicultural atmosphere. We have more than 300 agreements, and you can take part in an international exchange at prestigious universities around the world. Learn more here.
To provide our students with comprehensive education, educating leaders and professionals who are prepared to respond to the needs of a global world, to contribute value in their professions, and to social progress through an entrepreneurial spirit and social commitment. To generate and transfer knowledge through applied research, likewise contributing to progress and positioning ourselves at the cutting-edge of technical and intellectual development.
At Universidad Europea, we consider academic excellence to be one of our strategic pillars. Thus, our educational model has embraced the principles of the European Higher Education Area based on the individual's holistic learning. In this model, the professor is a mentor as well as an adviser who supports the student throughout their university life. The student, on the other hand, maps out their own educational journey, developing the knowledge, competencies, skills, and values demanded by society at the moment.
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More than 70% of the world's population tune in to the Olympics, it's no surprise that the event is ranked as the most common shared experience on Earth. We know the world is well informed of the quadrennial event held and are patiently waiting for August 5th. I backtracked nearly 3,000 years on Gale resources to uncover some knowledge and history most fans are unaware of.
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Originating in 776 BCE, the Olympics began as a festival to honor the mythological Greek god, Zeus. As the son to the supreme god of time, Cronus, and goddess of fertility, Rhea, Zeus was the leader of the heavens and earth. After overthrowing his father through a tremendous war with a few devoted Titans and his destructive thunderbolts, Zeus proceeded to take control of the universe. Ruling from their court on Mt. Olympus, Zeus, as well as the other Titans, became known as Olympian gods. As the story goes, religious festivals developed on the foot of the mountain to worship Zeus and approach his strength. In order to commemorate the greatest of all gods, the Greeks believed they should offer him the best of everything , which included dexterous athleticism. Thus, the Olympics were born.


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Why Your Credit Report is Important
Your credit report is the sole source of information for your credit score — a number that lenders sometimes use instead of or in addition to your credit report. A variety of businesses may also view your credit report to make decisions related to you. Banks check your credit report and use it to evaluate your applications for credit cards and loans, including a mortgage or auto loan.
Especially for homebuyers who plan to apply for a mortgage loan, you must have an idea of your status in terms of credit based on your credit score. For renters, even landlords may review your credit report to decide whether to rent you. Hence, your credit report affects many parts of your financial life, so it's important that the information included is accurate and positive.
Right To Dispute Errors
However, it's very common for credit reports to contain errors, and these occur for a number of reasons. Some of the information that could mistakenly end up on your credit report can be anything from inaccurate late payments to even a falsely reported bankruptcy.
As of 2017, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) had handled approximately 185,700 credit reporting complaints. Some of those submitted by consumers include problems disputing complaints on their credit reports, complaints about inaccurate information on credit reports, and reports of confusion about credit scoring.
The federal Fair Credit Reporting Act gives you the right to an accurate and complete credit report. If you find any outdated, incomplete, or inaccurate information on your credit report, you have the right to dispute it and have it deleted or updated.
Steps On How To Dispute Inaccurate Information On Your Credit Report
1. Check and Review Your Credit Report for Errors
The best way to find any inaccurate information on your credit report is to check a copy of it. There are several ways that you can get a copy. You can even get a free annual credit report from each bureau through the AnnualCreditReport.com, or order one directly from the bureau.
Once you have your credit reports, you should review all three of them to be sure that the information in each is complete and accurate, since you'll never know which credit report will be used in a lending decision. Take some time to look through them and highlight the items to include in your credit report dispute.
Credit Report Errors You Can Dispute
You can dispute credit report items that are inaccurate, incomplete, out of date, or that cannot be verified. It can vary from minor and innocuous errors such as a misspelled name, an old address, birth date, or your social security number. However, other errors could be detrimental to your credit score and could potentially cost you tens of thousands of dollars.
Negative items should only appear on your credit report for seven years, except for bankruptcy, which can remain for ten. Thus, you can dispute any negative entries you have that are older than seven years. Other specific things you can dispute include but may not be limited to: payments reported late that were actually on time, accounts that aren't yours, inaccurate credit limit/loan amount or account balance, inaccurate creditor, and inaccurate account status.
Options for Disputing Credit Report Information
- The credit bureau is the company responsible for compiling your credit report based on information received from your creditors. The three major credit bureaus are Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion.
- Directly with the creditor or business who provided the information to the credit bureaus (also known as the information provider). You may do this when the credit bureau responds that the error you disputed was verified by the creditor.
2. Place Your Credit Card Dispute
Here are 3 ways to place your credit card dispute:
- Online - Disputing credit report errors online is probably the most convenient way. You can dispute inaccurate information directly on the credit bureau's website. Each credit bureau should provide a way to upload, fax, or email documentation supporting your dispute. You can also check the status of your dispute online by providing your confirmation number. However, you can only get the results online and not by mail.
- Mail - Placing your dispute by mail takes more time, but it provides you with the paper trail you'd need if the credit bureau doesn't respond in a timely manner. You must write a dispute letter explaining the information that should be removed and specify the reason why it is inaccurate. Also, include a copy of proof of the error and other supporting documentation (not the original copies). Send the letter via certified mail with the return receipt requested so you'll have proof of when you made the dispute and when the creditor received it.
- Phone - To dispute by phone, you need to have ordered a copy of your credit report within the past month and also provide your credit report number. However, you'll still have to mail in any documentation or proof that supports your dispute.
3. Wait for the Response of the Credit Bureau or the Creditor to Your Credit Report Dispute
Businesses and credit bureaus have the same amount of time to investigate a dispute — 30 to 45 days from the date they received it. Once the investigation is complete, the credit bureau should provide you with the results, along with a free copy of your credit report if there have been some changes. If they don't respond in that time frame, you have the right to sue in Federal court for up to $1,000.
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Make sure your disputes are legitimate and that you provide enough information to investigate them. Be careful not to do anything to make the credit bureaus think your credit report disputes are frivolous. Don't dispute everything on your credit report and don't send all your disputes at once. Also, avoid disputing an item multiple times. The credit bureau or the creditor can determine that your dispute is frivolous or irrelevant if you don't give them enough information to investigate the dispute. They also have every right to reject it.
Check your credit reports periodically. Financial advisors and consumer advocates suggest that you review your credit report periodically to make sure the information is accurate, complete, and up-to-date before you apply for a loan for a major purchase like a house or car, buy insurance, or apply for a job. Likewise, when applying for a mortgage loan, improving your credit score will give you a better chance to get pre-approved, which is the first step in purchasing your dream home.


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Throughout this day, we are reporting on a surprise about a new COVID vaccine. Yesterday, AstraZeneca reported positive outcomes for thousands of people who had received its vaccine. Then early this morning, we learned that a government affiliated oversight board has expressed concern. The board questions the way the company is describing its test results. This is an evolving story. And NPR science correspondent Joe Palca has been talking with us throughout the morning. Joe, welcome back.
JOE PALCA, BYLINE: Thank you, glad to be here.
INSKEEP: So remind us, what originally were we told about the AstraZeneca vaccine and its tests here in the United States?
PALCA: Right. Well, these are the results from a study of 30,000 or 32,000 people, some of whom got the vaccine, some of whom got the placebo. And there's a committee that oversees the results of the study called the DSMB. We love acronyms here in Washington. Or at least...
INSKEEP: Apparently.
PALCA: Yeah. So DSMB watches the study. And, in fact, they're the only ones from the get-go who know who got what because everybody else is what they call blinded. They don't get told. But the DSMB...
INSKEEP: Oh, you don't get told if it's a placebo or which vaccine or anything?
PALCA: That's right. You don't want to influence the results one way or the other by knowing what you're getting or by the researcher knowing. So DSMB is the only one that knows. They looked at the data. And they have certain rules for stopping when the efficacy reaches a certain measurement. And they said, yes, we see a sign of efficacy here. You may stop. And they handed the data - or they handed the key to the data to the company. The company looked at the data and said, whoa, this is good. We have a 79% efficacy that our vaccine is protecting people from COVID.
The trouble is that the DSMB said, whoa, hold on a second. That's not what we saw. And they put out a statement, or at least the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease put out a statement quoting the DSMB as saying, we express concern that AstraZeneca may have included outdated information from that trial, which may have provided an incomplete view of the efficacy data. And we urge the company to work with the DSMB - that's us - to review the efficacy data and ensure the most accurate, up-to-date efficacy data can be made public as quickly as possible. So...
INSKEEP: Those are such long sentences that I feel we need to translate a little bit here. So we were told yesterday 79% efficacy, which is pretty good for a vaccine. So that sounds good. But then there is this concern expressed, suggesting that maybe if you look at the test results a different way, you don't see 79%.
PALCA: Exactly.
INSKEEP: What is AstraZeneca saying in response to that?
PALCA: Well, that's exactly right. So they're - so the DSMB is saying, look at all the data. Look at the newest data. And the company just put out a release that said the numbers published yesterday were based on a prespecified interim analysis with a data cutoff of February 17. So they're looking back at data that was collected as of February 17. And the DSMB seems to be saying that between then and now, we have more data, which makes your efficacy numbers not look as good. That seems to be what's happening here. And...
INSKEEP: I think we can interpret that as well. That would mean, does it not, that a few more people in this study got sick, got COVID, and so the 79% rate didn't quite hold up?
PALCA: Right. They got sick. And they got sick in the vaccine arm of the study, not the placebo arm of the study. That's why the numbers don't look as good.
INSKEEP: OK. So we still think this is a pretty good vaccine, but maybe not 79%. What are the implications for actually getting this approved in the United States?
PALCA: Exactly. It's still a good vaccine. It may be not quite as good. And this is just a strange turn. And it'll be up to the FDA to analyze the data themselves and come up - or itself - and come up with a decision about granting an emergency use authorization. That may happen in a month or so.
INSKEEP: I guess that means we'll be coming back to you again for more updates. Joe, thanks.
PALCA: (Laughter) Yep. You bet.
INSKEEP: NPR's Joe Palca. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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DENVER – Colorado will end coverage for routine circumcisions under Medicaid next month, adding to what's become a national debate over the once widely-accepted procedure.
The change, which takes effect July 1, is expected to save the state $186,500 a year.
The issue has been contentious in California, where San Francisco is set to be the first city to hold a public vote on banning circumcision.
Supporters say male circumcision is a form of genital mutilation that parents should not be able to force on their young children.
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A Pentagon study has found high rates of cancer among military pilots and for the first time has shown that ground crews who fuel, maintain and launch those aircraft are also getting sick.
The data had long been sought by retired military aviators who have raised alarms for years about the number of air and ground crew members they knew who had cancer. They were told that earlier military studies had found they were not at greater risk than the general U.S. population.
In its yearlong study of almost 900,000 service members who flew on or worked on military aircraft between 1992 and 2017, the Pentagon found that air crew members had an 87% higher rate of melanoma and a 39% higher rate of thyroid cancer, while men had a 16% higher rate of prostate cancer and women a 16% higher rate of breast cancer. Overall, the air crews had a 24% higher rate of cancer of all types.
The study showed ground crews had a 19% higher rate of brain and nervous system cancers, a 15% higher rate of thyroid cancer and a 9% higher rate of kidney or renal cancers, while women had a 7% higher rate of breast cancer. The overall rate for cancers of all types was 3% higher.
There was some good news reported as well. Both ground and air crews had far lower rates of lung cancer, and air crews also had lower rates of bladder and colon cancers.
The data compared the service members with the general U.S. population after adjusting for age, sex and race.
The Pentagon said the new study was one of the largest and most comprehensive to date. An earlier study had looked at just Air Force pilots and had found some higher rates of cancer, while this one looked across all services and at both air and ground crews. Even with the wider approach, the Pentagon cautioned that the actual number of cancer cases was likely to be even higher because of gaps in the data, which it said it would work to remedy.
The study "proves that it's well past time for leaders and policy makers to move from skepticism to belief and active assistance," said retired Air Force Col. Vince Alcazar, a member of the Red River Valley Fighter Pilots Association, which had lobbied the Pentagon and Congress for help. Alcazar serves on the association's medical issues committee.
The study was required by Congress in the 2021 defense bill. Now, because higher rates were found, the Pentagon must conduct an even bigger review to try to understand why the crews are getting sick.
Isolating potential causes is difficult, and the Pentagon was careful to note that this study "does not imply that military service in air crew or ground crew occupations causes cancer, because there are multiple potential confounding factors that could not be controlled for in this analysis," such as family histories, smoking or alcohol use.
But aviation crews have long asked for the Pentagon to look closely at some of the environmental factors they are exposed to, such as jet fuels and solvents used to clean and maintain jet parts, sensors and their power sources in aircraft nose cones, and the massive radar systems on the decks of the ships they land on.
When Navy Capt. Jim Seaman would come home from a deployment aboard an aircraft carrier, his gear would reek of jet fuel, his widow Betty Seaman said. The A-6 Intruder pilot died in 2018 at age 61 of lung cancer. Betty Seaman still has his gear stored and it still smells of fuel, "which I love," she said.
She and others wonder if there's a link. She said crews would talk about how even the ship's water systems would smell of fuel.
She said she and others have mixed feelings about finally seeing in data what they have suspected for years about the aviation cancers. But "it has the potential to do a lot of good as far as early communication, early detection," she said.
The study found that when crew members were diagnosed with cancer, they were more likely to survive than members of the general population, which the study suggested was because they were diagnosed earlier due to regular required medical checkups and were more likely to be in better health because of their military fitness requirements.
The Pentagon acknowledged that the study had gaps that likely led to an undercount of cancer cases.
The military heath system database used in the study did not have reliable cancer data until 1990, so it may not have included pilots who flew early-generation jets in the prior decades.
The study also did not include cancer data from the Department of Veterans Affairs or state cancer registries, which means it did not capture cases from former crew members who got sick after leaving the military medical system.
"It is important to note that study results may have differed had additional older former service members been included," it said.
To remedy that, the Pentagon is now going to pull data from those registries to add to the total count, the study said.
The second phase of the study will try to isolate causes. The 2021 bill requires the Defense Department not only to identify "the carcinogenic toxicants or hazardous materials associated with military flight operations," but also determine the type of aircraft and locations where diagnosed crews served.
After her husband got sick, Betty Seaman asked him if he would have chosen differently, knowing his service might be linked to his cancer.
"I flat-out asked Jim. And he, without hesitation, said, 'I would have still done it.'"


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Lumpectomy and Radiation Therapy for the Treatment of Intraductal Breast Cancer: Findings from National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project B-17
Reviewers: John Han-Chih Chang, MD and Kenneth Blank, MD
Source: Journal of Clinical Oncology 1998; volume 16 (number 2): pages 441 - 452
With the use of screening studies such as mammograms and ultrasounds along with self breast exams, there has been a trend towards an increased incidence of finding breast cancers that are not invasive at the time of diagnosis (intraductal carcinoma or ductal carcinoma in situ - DCIS). These patients usually have a very good outcome. Standard of care in the past has been a mastectomy. In the recent decades, many have advocated a localized removal of the lump with a margin of normal breast tissue instead of mastectomy. This seemed to be fairly successful form of breast conservation surgery. The question remained as to whether adding radiation would increase the local control rates after breast conservation surgery and improve the outcome in such patients. The National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) B-17 trial attempted to address this very issue.
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Eight hundred and eighteen women were enrolled from 1985 to 1990. This article updated the results through a mean follow-up of 8.5 years. Women were eligible if there was a "sufficient" amount of histologically normal tissue around the tumor with the lumpectomy. This was a subject of criticism, because there was not a specified amount that was considered "sufficient." The recurrence rate in lumpectomy alone patients could be correlated to an inadequate margin. Randomization was after lumpectomy was performed. Patients either received no further therapy or ipsilateral (lumpectomy side) radiation therapy to a dose of 5000 centi-Gray or rads. Four hundred and five patients received no further treatment, while 413 were scheduled to receive radiation post-operatively. In this report, 4 patients were lost to follow-up and were not included.
Nearly 85% of all patients in this trial had non-palpable disease and only 5% were clinically greater than 2 cm. In the pathological specimen, over 50% of the cases had no gross tumor (able to be visualized with the naked eye). Another one-third had gross tumors equal to or less than 1 cm. Ninety percent of all the patients in the trial had their mammograms reviewed centrally by the NSABP B-17 group. Tumor masses were only seen in 15% of the cases with 45% of those being less than 1 cm.
Event-free survival at 8 years was improved with radiation post-operatively over lumpectomy alone, 75% versus 62%, respectively (p = 0.00003). The percent incidence of ipsilateral breast tumor (treated same breast) as the site of first failure was higher with lumpectomy alone patients versus the lumpectomy and radiation therapy group. Of those that had an ipsilateral breast tumor after treatment, nearly 85% had recurrence in very close proximity of their prior lesion. The cumulative incidence of an ipsilateral DCIS recurrence in the radiation therapy arm at 8 years was 8.2% versus 13.4% for lumpectomy alone. The cumulative incidence of an ipsilateral invasive tumor recurrence was decreased from 13.4% to 4% with radiation added after lumpectomy for DCIS.
Most patients that recurred locally had either another lumpectomy or a mastectomy. Only 3 deaths were noted in those that recurred in the ipsilateral breast. A total of 9 lumpectomy and radiation therapy patients and 6 lumpectomy alone had distant failures as first or subsequent sites of recurrence. No significant difference were seen in distant failures, local regional failures (other than ipsilateral breast tumors), or contralateral breast tumors between the two arms of treatment. Contralateral breast tumors were seen in 3.3% in the lumpectomy alone arm, while found in nearly 6% of the lumpectomy plus radiation patients. Second primary tumors (exclusive of a contralateral breast tumor) were seen in approximately 3% in both groups.
Overall survival was excellent for both groups. Ninety-four percent overall survival at 8 years for the lumpectomy alone group, while the combined modality arm had a 95% 8 year overall survival.
As the 5 year follow-up data revealed in the 1993 New England Journal of Medicine article, this 8 year follow-up continues to tout the effectiveness of post-lumpectomy radiation therapy in the setting of local control for DCIS. There is no significant survival advantage as expected, since the salvage of local recurrences is successful in a majority of cases. These data are consistent with the extensive retrospective experience published by Solin L et al in a 1996 Journal of Clinical Oncology article. This was a 15 year follow-up on over 250 patients with DCIS treated with breast conservation surgery (lumpectomy) and post operative definitive radiation therapy. Less than 20% had a local failure with the time to local failure being 5 years. The 15 year cause-specific survival was 96%, while overall survival was 87% at 15 years.
Radiation boost after was not discussed in this article, but was noted to be done in approximately 9% of those patients. The nearly 85% local failure rate at the same location of the initial primary in those that had an ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence lends some credence in utilizing a boost to the tumor bed.
A significant criticism of this trial is that it failed to include an arm of patients that were to be treated with mastectomy alone, which is the standard of care at certain institutions and a good curative option. Survival and local control data from retrospective reviews on the subject demonstrate near equivalence between mastectomy alone and breast conservation surgery and radiation therapy, but a substantial randomized trial has not been done concerning that subject.
New avenues of pursuit in the war against DCIS are underway. One such study is the NSABP B-24 trial focusing on the issues of large DCIS and utility of adding Tamoxifen to lumpectomy and radiation therapy.
DCIS is a very curable entity. Despite the limited shortcomings, NSABP B-17 has demonstrated that lumpectomy with the addition of post-operative definitive radiation therapy is more efficacious than lumpectomy alone for local control. Overall, though, the patient's prognosis in overcoming this disease is greater than 90% - 95%.


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While many students marked April 1 as the day they found out whether they were accepted or rejected to their first-choice colleges, many others were given a different response - placement to the waiting list. High school seniors are then faced with a tough decision. Should you take a risk and bank on placement at a school you're wait-listed at, even if you miss notification deadlines at schools you've been admitted to? Or should you cut your losses and inform the schools you've been wait-listed at that you'll be going elsewhere?
The waiting list generally benefits the colleges. The schools' administrators are able to wait until their own first-choice students make decisions on where they intend to attend, moving to those on the waiting list typically by May 1, once students' deadlines to notify the school of their choice have passed. The schools may also use the waiting list to fill gaps in their student population, according to The New York Times, offering eventual admittance to a student with a particular musical or athletic talent that the school had hoped to enroll in their first-choice pool.
Knowing this, it may seem like a risky endeavor to bet on a school choosing you out of the hundreds of other students on waiting lists. Still, many do choose to stay, especially at the most prestigious, private schools. At Yale University, for example, about two-thirds of students remain on the waiting list. (More than 900 were wait-listed at Yale this year.) Of those offered eventual admittance to Yale, a majority do choose to enroll there.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The mass shooting Wednesday at a Walmart in Virginia was only the latest example of a workplace shooting perpetrated by an employee.
But while many companies provide active shooter training, experts say there is much less focus on how to prevent workplace violence, particularly how to identify and address worrisome behavior among employees.
Workers far too often don't know how to recognize warning signs, and even more crucially don't know how to report suspicious behavior or feel empowered to do so, according to workplace safety and human resources experts.
"We have built an industry around how to lock bad guys out. We have heavily invested in physical security measure like metal detectors, cameras and armed security guards," said James Densley, professor of criminal justice at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minnesota, and co-founder of the nonprofit and nonpartisan research group The Violence Project. But too often in workplace shootings, he said, "this is someone who already has access to the building."
The Walmart shooting in particular raised questions of whether employees feel empowered to speak up because it was a team leader who carried out the shooting.
Identified by Walmart as 31-year-old Andre Bing, he opened fire on fellow employees in the break room of the Chesapeake store, killing six people and leaving six others wounded. Police said he then apparently killed himself.
Employee Briana Tyler, who survived the shooting, said Bing appeared not to be aiming at anyone in particular. Tyler, who started at Walmart two months ago, said she never had a negative encounter with Bing, but others told her that he was "the manager to look out for." She said Bing had a history of writing people up for no reason.
Walmart launched a computer-based active shooter training in 2015, which focused on three pillars: avoid the danger, keep your distance and lastly, defend. Then, in 2019 after a mass shooting at an El Paso, Texas, store in which an outside gunman killed 22 people, Walmart addressed the threat to the public by discontinuing sales of certain kinds of ammunition and asked that customers no longer openly carry firearms in its stores. It now sells only hunting rifles and related ammunition.
Walmart didn't specifically respond on Wednesday to questions seeking more detail about its training and protocols to protect its own employees. The company only said that it routinely reviews its training policies and will continue to do so.
Densley said that employers need to create open channels for workers to voice concerns about employees' behavior, including confidential hotlines. He noted that too often attention is focused on the "red flags" and workers should be looking for the "yellow flags" — subtle changes in behavior, like increased anger or not showing up for work. Densley said managers need to work with those individuals to get them counseling and do regular check-ins.
In fact, the Department of Homeland Security's active shooting manual states that human resources officials have a responsibility to "create a system for reporting signs of potential violence behavior." It also encourages employees to report concerning behavior such as increased absenteeism and repeated violation of company policies.
But many employers may not have such prevention policies in place, said Liz Peterson, Quality Manager at the Society for Human Resource Management, an organization of more than 300,000 human resources professionals.
She noted that in a 2019 SHRM survey of its members, 55% of HR professionals said they didn't know if their organizations had policies to prevent workplace violence, and another 9% said they lacked such programs. That was in contrast to the 57% of HR managers who said they did have training on how to respond to violence.
A recent federal government report examining workplace violence over three decades found that workplace homicides have risen in recent years, although they remain sharply down from a peak in the mid-1990s.
Between 2014 and 2019, workplace homicides nationwide increased by 11% from 409 to 454. That was still down 58% from a peak of 1,080 in 1994, according to the report, which was released in July by the Departments of Labor, Justice and Health and Human Services. The report found that workplace homicide trends largely mirrored homicide trends nationwide.
But the country's spike in mass public shootings is raising awareness among employers of the need to address mental health in the workplace and prevent violence — and of the liabilities employers can face if they ignore warning signs, Peterson said.
In one high-profile example, the family of a victim filed a wrongful death lawsuit earlier this year against the Northern California Transportation agency, alleging it failed to address the history of threatening behavior of an employee who shot and killed nine co-workers at a light railyard in San Jose in 2021.
The transportation agency released more than 200 pages of emails and other documents showing the shooter, Samuel James Cassidy, had been the subject of four investigations into workplace conduct, and one worker had worried that Cassidy could "go postal." That expression stems from one of the deadliest workplace shooting in U.S. history, when a postal worker shot and killed 14 workers in Edmond, Oklahoma, in 1986.
"Workplace violence is a situation that you never think is going to happen to your organization until it does, and unfortunately, it's important to prepare for them because they are becoming more commonplace," Peterson said.
This story has been updated to correct the location of Metropolitan State University. It's in St. Paul, not DePaul, Minnesota.


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I'm traveling to Columbus, Ohio for the Secular Student Alliance conference, and CaitieCat has written a guest post so that you're not too bored in my absence!
I was thinking about Schrödinger's Rapist, the concept that to a woman faced alone with a man she does not know, it is rationality in action if she decides to be careful about how she interacts.
Now, this concept makes MRAs lose their NUT, and I can't help but think it's got to do with an inability to understand how reasoning works. That's the charitable answer; the uncharitable ones are, I think, obvious.
So here's an analogy: You're walking down the street. You see a dog, loose, no collar. You don't know whether the dog is escaped from someone's house, or feral. You know nothing about the dog or its history.
Would you go over and start petting its muzzle?
Probably not. Why? Because you don't know. It could be that this dog is feral and rabid, or it could be a sweet-natured lap dog. Basic rationality says that there's little to be gained by treating the dog as anything but a possible object of fear at this point. You don't know the dog, you don't know its habits, you don't know its mind, you don't know if it's been trained as an attack dog. You just don't know.
Now, that rationality? That's not in any way saying "all dogs are trained attack dogs which will bite you if you give them any chance at all". That would be irrational; many dogs you encounter will be with people who love them, people who care about them, people who would help that dog not be a dog who bites people.
So you act as though any dog you don't know could bite you, because it's basic common sense, no?
Now go back up there, and change the concept of "dog" to "man", and "bite" to "rape".
THAT is Schrödinger's Rapist. Not a belief that every man WILL rape. Simply a common-sense approach that any man you don't know could rape, and when alone with such a person, taking a reasonably cautious approach.
How can men interact with this belief? By putting themselves in the mind of someone who doesn't know what a wonderful person they really are, and thinking – hey, how would I as someone else know that I the real person aren't a rapist? Well, they don't. So you make a little effort to show the ways you're not: you try not to walk close behind her, you don't stare at her, you visibly involve yourself in other things, whatever.
It's a simple issue in formal reasoning, the difference between:
– all dogs are dangerous animals which bite
– ANY dog could be a dangerous animal which bites.
One is an argument from the specific to the general, and is bad reasoning. The other is of an unknown-truth-value situation, where caution is obviously the prudent and rational answer.
And if you can't see the difference between those two, maybe consider taking an intro course in reasoning.
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text: Hello LaTeX folk. Oren (Patashnik) has expressed a desire to do "whatever seems useful" (given that compatibility is paramount) with a future BibTeX release -- not that anything is going to happen quickly, but he wanted to start gathering information at this point. For instance, clearly it would be nice to have a url field in the base styles. But, what to do in the .bbl file? Assume \url{...} works? But there have been different versions over the years and they don't all accept the same thing, e.g., bare "#" and "%" in the url, not to mention \url{...} vs. \url|...|, etc. And it induces a new dependency (to load url/hyperrref/something) on the document, though maybe that is not a big deal. Or maybe use a new macro, \btxurl, whose definition is output by bibtex itself? That doesn't sound right. A doi field is another glaring candidate. But there there isn't even a commonly-available \doi command in the first place. So what to do? \btxdoi? Maybe BibTeX could provide a core file bibtex.sty which is (implicitly?, if available) loaded to define all such macros, probably mostly by loading other packages? Sounds fraught with possible problems, but I guess it's the most general solution. Another idea is to add new entry types. That at least doesn't have the same compatibility issues as fields, but maybe isn't that interesting, either. Another "modern" idea is to support Unicode sorting, but having core bibtex depend on ICU does not sound good, nor does reimplementing the sorting algorithm. (And there is bibtexu for people who are gluttons for such punishment.) People can already put UTF-8 characters in their .bib files if they want to, I believe, and they just get output literally. Overall, it somewhat seems to us that although bibtex has zillions of limitations and deficiencies, they have already been worked around, one way or another (e.g., using biblatex). So imposing fixes in the core code may be a solution that's worse than a problem, meaning the best thing to do is ... nothing. Which doesn't sound right either :). Reactions, ideas? --thanks, karl.


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While filming on a set in New Orleans, actor Brad Pitt became seduced by the powerful image of a pink-clad CGI house within the lush Louisiana surroundings. He saw the pink structure as a metaphor, representing the future of renewed housing for those displaced by the recent disasters.
With the vision fresh in his mind, he picked up the phone and described the concept to the Los Angeles office of Graft . A hurried telephone conversation was followed by a lengthy brainstorming session over a number of bottles of Pinot Noir. The master plan was confirmed, and work began the next morning.
A relatively large proportion of residents in the Lower Ninth were homeowners. The area was devastated by hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Make it Right is a non-profit organization, founded by Brad Pitt, to act as a catalyst for redevelopment of the Lower Ninth Ward. The organization emphasizes Cradle to Cradle ideals, healthy living, and quality design. Pitt assembled a team of experts to expedite the process:
THE PINK PROJECT: Art Installation
150 randomly scatted pink-clad structures have been erected to occupy 14 city blocks within the Lower 9th Ward, symbolizing the vision for future housing for the areas residents. Over the course of next six weeks, beginning today, December 3, at the unveiling of the installation, the structures will gradually organize themselves, symbolizing the renewal of the Ninth, making right what the devastation made wrong.
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Rendering, daytime. Graft
Rendering, nighttime. Graft
Perspective rendering. Graft
Prototype, structure.
Prototype, clad during daytime.
Prototype, clad and lit at night.
THE PINK PROJECT: Architectural Realization
The ultimate goal of The Pink Project is to transfer the attention received via the bold art installation into a fund raising effort to build actual homes to replace the 150 structures, rebuilding the Lower Ninth Ward community. The Make it Right website has implemented an innovative donation tool allowing visitors from anywhere in the world to visit the site, virtually, and maneuver a house to purchase specific elements to donate to the community, eventually building up the inventory required to construct all 150 homes. For the homes, Graft and Pitt commissioned designs from 13 architects representing local, national, and international perspectives.
Design by KieranTimberlake Associates, Philadelphia
Design by Concordia, New Orleans
Billes Architects – New Orleans, LA
Eskew Dumez Ripple – New Orleans, LA
Concordia – New Orleans, LA
Trahan Architects – Baton Rouge, LA
John Williams Architects – New Orleans, LA
BNIM – Kansas City, MO
Kieran Timberlake - Philadelphia, PA
Morphosis – Santa Monica, CA
Pugh + Scarpa – Santa Monica, CA
Adjaye Architects – London, England
Constructs – Accra, Ghana
Graft – Berlin, Germany
MVRDV – Rotterdam, Holland
Shigeru Ban Architects – Tokyo, Japan
Over the course of the next six weeks, while this installation is in place, we will dig deeper into the various layers of this project. Look forward to interviews with some of the key players and details on the installation and home designs. For now - Donate
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Thank you for sharing this. I think from an artistic standpoint the installation is beautiful and accessible, and overall I'm incredibly impressed with the humanitarian vision. Those illuminated pink structures do indeed seem so hopeful.
(And more pictures of Brad Pitt on Archinect can only be a good thing.)
I look forward to the coming installments!
Outstanding. I think one of the major obstacles preventing people from contributing to the rebuilding efforts in New Orleans is just a way of doing so.....people see a need for contributions, but no one knows quite how or where to go. This project is bold enough to attract attention and when it draws you in, it then gives you a specific direction as to how you can help.
You know what would be really great, eventually? Is if this could evolve into a Habitat-style building process as well. I'd love to see interaction with architecture students all over the country, maybe organize groups of students to volunteer on-site for a week at a time over break or something. What an incredible learning experience this could be for everyone involved!
I'm going to go blog about this :o)
interesting idea. how do you get into the houses if you are in a wheelchair or just really old? does everyone get a cadillac as shown in the concordia fancy graphic?
vado - universal accessibility was one of the requirements for the new home designs, so each house requires a ramp. this will be detailed further in an upcoming installment on the different home designs.
vell if ya got a 1 in 12 slope for a ramp thats about 120 ft of rampo.
the entire project of mir is skillfully made to look simple operational model for a donation based venture. certainly i'd love to say "i am a make it right architect!"
my favorites are graft, shigeru ban and concordia house.
for example; shigeru ban model is nicely planned around community open spaces, a model that is time tested and brings community responsibility, sharing and pride together all at once.
it also creates most space with smaller structure, partly due to incorporating cabinets as structural elements as he does with his earlier projects and creation of a courtyard within the foundation footprint.
there is a semi obvious vulnerability to stormy conditions in morphosis overhangs in their otherwise fine plan.
ship's hull like portion under the ridge must be the part of the boat apparatus, a soft alternative to a hard problem of stilts. house rises with water, like marina slips. only project that needs to be further tested, perhaps in a flw's mushroom column manner. i'd go.
i thought MVRDV model was un-necessarily thickened and i didn't get the joke and the experimental nature of the 'shape. however, they treated open space well.
in general, i liked the less self conscious ones and i liked the plans that incorporated communal spaces, whether on stilts or not.
as a stoop grown child of a different version, i love the tradition of stoops found itself in the overall requirements, altough a few designers still have to educate themselves in the area of 'social psychology of stooping.'
and, couple observations on the pink fundraiser set;
if pink shroud was pulled up a garage level, to represent the stilted models, i would have like the effects better.
again, a ground level shared open space could be suggested easily with this installation.
maybe they will do alternative uses with it and perhaps roll it up the skirt and demonstrate a communal concept of 'permeable gardens' space during the fund raising events for the love of kee klamps.
definitely the most colorful disaster re-build project i have seen lately. the conception of pink idea on the movie set is hilarious.
i mean it in a nice way.
it is a very photogenic marketing imagery that can be interacted with. it works as that. i like to see it installed and developed into an actual dwelling. we made a school out of the hardware back in sci arc.
according to my calculations, 15-20 milion dollars would make 150 homes built. that's like a great deal.
i conclude my technical design review at this point.
i'd like to commend some dedicated steps taken by all involved against all odds and trying another fresh model within the donation based house financing. it is like habitat for humanity going mtv, or, mir as wild and enabling org.
this is a highly do-able project that has everybody feeling at home regardless of the diaspora in between.
some of the possibilities of this project will include lessons on community building on a donation based structure.
will the new ninth ward work? i believe it will, as long as it is expediently and justly administered.
it has a big potential of bringing many happy endings.
who do you love?
Orhan, you are such a genius - of course it would be better if the pink houses glowed from atop stilts!
Maurice Cox did a great home for the Biloxi Model Home Program (which this has borrowed from). It integrated a ramp system and landscaping.
i guess for the price you could just spring for a residential elevator.
we help concordia with the architectural images :)
the Cranbrook Students behind the Orange Project in Detroit could have used that kind of sponsorship!
i may be living in louisiana by this time next year. boy howdy.
Thank you, meta, I totally agree. Brad Pitt has done a lot more to make people aware of the possibilities of good architecture than any other celebrity, certainly, and one could argue even more than the AIA.
I have to say: I count myself as a connoisseur of Brad Pitt photos, and I actually preferred the other front page feature image, with the giddy lady hugging Brad. I mean this one is nice too, of course - perhaps there was a release/use issue with the other one?
Anyway - Brad has excelled as a proponent of archiecture in a way that we would be fools to disavow.
brad's "people" requested we use this one instead.
most of the times, I would like to donate alot but I can't as there no budget for that. and there so many things that needs it. an other problem is that most of the donations goes to other cost then the real project. some don't reach at all, which is a rip off.
I do think this one wont rip you off, well I hope not. :-D
how does one get to be one of brad's "people?" cuz i am sure lb would join up pronto...
I can't be a "people", vado, as I've already got my own. In fact I think you're one of them, no? ;-)
When you can finance your own projects and have fame and fortune it is far easier to get recognition for about any type of profession out there. If Brad decided to be a doctor he would have a line of patients even before entering med school let alone ever changing a bed pan. I'm sure he will never know the likes of running blue prints or processing pages of red-lines. The fact that he has found his own niche in the world of philanthropy and is giving firms work along with making public some very important housing issues/deficiencies is commendable. However, having architecture as a hobby does not make one an architect. You got to put in your dues. Now, he could play an architect on TV.
i wonder if brad knows about this aspect of architecture? whether he feels he hasn't paid his dues makes him less of an architect? or whether he percieves his "architectness" in a different sense?
honestly the profession is so vague, and people take all kinds of crazy routes to architecture, what we define as a good architect is entirely irrelevent to the industry. so we won't respect his knowledge of material, attention to detail, his perfect eye... we have all these skillz but play less of a role in built form, who is to blame...
ok, not sure if that had a point at all, but IF BRAD is REALLY passionate about architecture... THEN he will be perusing this very article! There in lies the proof. Are we your colleagues or just some crazy online community. Answer me, Brad. Damn you Brad Pitt and super powers!
focus on the pink. that's my motto...
anywho, after Mr. Pitt's interview with Larry King last night, i understand more clearly how he sees his role in this project, and how he respects the experts around him. more power to him. he should be commended for his efforts and his overall (non-superficial) interest in architecture and the betterment of the built environment, among other things.
Well said AP, my sentiments exactly. Frankly, before all the talk of him becoming an architect, I was dismayed, but I think that maybe be was just excited, and now we are seeing how his influence can generate change, and that's fantastic. Kudos to Brad, I know that he will gain more respect in our community by being involved in this way. I know he's got my vote now.
....Aint that america, home of the free
Little pink houses for you and me....
Interesting how he does have some of the qualities that I have heard others gripe about when talking about when having an architect as a significant other. Jennifer Aniston was interviewed in some magazine a while back saying how relieved she was to be able to select her own furniture when she got her own place after separating. She could finally get some comfortable cushy chairs and sofas after having to live with designer hard-edged uninviting pieces and Brad's uncompromising selectiveness about his furnishings and surroundings. That alone illustrates the anal retentiveness that most of us "designer folk" have with regards to our domicile. I remember my girlfriend at the time showing me an article in Cosmopolitan magazine about ten years ago that nailed architects as the most difficult partner to have in a relationship - that you had to be prepared to have no say in anything with regards to the domicile. Anyway, sorry about the tangent thoughts and sorry Brad if you are indeed reading this but we have the tabloids to thank for our second hand knowledge of what went on behind closed doors in your past relationships. Maybe Angelina likes bauhaus furniture. Looks like New Orleans can call the suburb New "Pitts"burgh. Some plastic pink flamingos on the front yard may actually be appropriate for the region and architecture.
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Brad seems like quite a great guy! I think there has been confusion and some uneasiness over how to re-construct New Orleans until Make it Right came along. The pink structures also adds a nice appeal. I heard recently that there's a new program that requires inmates in Texas to wear pink uniforms, even their cells are covered in pink wallpaper. As a result, there's been a dramatic decrease in crime and having a community that is "pink" can possibly lower the crime rate.
Whatever, Aviators are old, everyone is wearing Wayfarers now.
despite all his good intentions, the project is unecological and a grave design mistake. unfortunately, no one here nor his 'experts' are able to discern good environmental design. in other words, one does not build on virgin land in a flood-prone area that has been stripped of its wetlands. one does not build at the crossroas of the mississippi river and industrial canal where there is a vulnerable levee and a historically dysfunctional government in charge of such infrastructure. one does not build two feet below sealevel unnecessarily. there is a reason this real estate was left to the poorer residents. i lived six years in new orleans and have a masters in architecture and a masters in environmental studies. all the celebrity-ness and ill-informed donations in the world cannot make this right. so let's really MAKE IT RIGHT and stop the greenwashing nonsense.
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3 November 2017
Life in the Universe doesn't necessarily mean aliens – it could mean us.
So far, no extraterrestrial life has visited the Earth, but humans haven't traveled out into the Universe either. Will we ever have the chance to leave our Solar System and explore deep space?
If we did, the obvious destination would be the nearest star to our Solar System, Proxima Centauri.
With current rocket technology, it would take us tens of millions of years to reach the star. But a new project, called the Starshot Project, plans to lower the travel time to just 20 years.
Using dozens of powerful lasers scientist plan to propel miniature space probes towards the star at speeds of about 60,000 kilometres a second. At that speed it would take less than 7 seconds to get to the Moon!
But is Proxima Centauri even worth visiting?
With every new picture, it seems the space around this star grows more interesting and exciting. Last year a rocky planet similar to the Earth was discovered orbiting the star. Recently, we discovered that the star was surrounded by loops in space called "dust belts", filled with fragments of rock and ice.
Dust belts are surprisingly familiar, our own Solar System is home to two such regions called the Asteroid Belt and the Kuiper Belt. These areas contain the spare parts of our Solar System, material that did not form into larger objects such as planets or moons.
These rocky belts tell us that Proxima Centauri is probably home to more than just a single planet, even though that's all we've been able to detect so far.
The discovery will also help with the future Starshot Project. A precise knowledge of the space around the star is essential for planning a safe and successful mission.
The pieces of rock and ice in the dust belt around Proxima Centauri are very similar to those in our Asteroid Belt and Kuiper Belt. They vary in size from the tiniest dust grains up to rocks many kilometres across.


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From Plos by Caren Cooper
Many of you have had summer fun with citizen science at the beach, intertidal zone, and ocean.
What do your efforts contribute to?
In a new chapter, Martin Thiel and colleagues tallied the contributions of citizen science to marine research.
Thiel is known for his research relying on volunteers who clean up beaches, but for this chapter they looked at over 200 studies on topics that ranged from algae to vertebrates.
About 40 of the studies were local, 122 were regional, and 65 involved larger geographic regions (28 national, 28 international, 9 global).
Most commonly projects involved surveys, transects, and opportunistic sightings.
Marine scientists often depend on non-scientists, from general public to fishermen to ship crews to beachgoers.
Thiel reviewed papers published within the past 30 years, but some of the research papers were based on decades of citizen science; one was based on over 150 years of continuous data collection.
This is not a new phenomenon. I first learned about the history of citizen science when I read about the father of Oceanography, Matthew Maury.
In this context, I felt that modern citizen science is actually quite retro, which inspired my post about Maury (below), originally at Scientific American.
My area of research, citizen science—a term applied to data collection methods that engage the public in scientific research—is not a newly invented style, either.
It's rather retro fashion.
Public involvement in science is a time-honored tradition that is enjoying a hip resurgence as it combines with today's sophisticated and increasingly commonplace technologies, like GPS units and smart phones.
In an earlier Guest Blog post I suggested that citizen science in the US dated as far back as 1776, with Thomas Jefferson's vision of a nationwide weather monitoring program.
Afterward, people wrote in to tell me about their own favorites.
Though many of these, such as Henry David Thoreau or Charles Darwin, were naturalists or lay scientists rather than citizen scientists per se, two suggestions particularly intrigued me: Mathew Fontaine Maury, an American naval officer, and William Whewell, a British scholar.
Both men spearheaded citizen science in the mid-1800s with large-scale, accurate and systematic science projects.
The projects were carried out by rank amateurs, and led to discoveries that had great societal importance.
The two men differed in their nationality, vocation, and perspective on the role of science in society. Their stories illustrate that we are in an exciting era where history is indeed repeating itself.
Matthew Fontaine Maury Statue
In 1825, Matthew Fontaine Maury was a 19-year-old when he left home and joined the U.S. Navy. Maury began his naval service as a midshipman on a frigate (the Brandywine), rose through the ranks of lieutenant, commander, and commodore, and culminated his career as Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Observatory.
Over the course of his distinguished naval career, Maury contributed to our understanding of astronomy, oceanography, and meteorology.
He carried out much of his research by crowdsourcing dispersed and historical observational records and through the establishment of a global citizen science project that continues to this day.
Matthew Fontaine Maury is the father of modern hydrography in the United States Navy.
He served as superintendent of the U.S. Naval Observatory from its founding to the start of the Civil War, when he resign to supervise maritime defenses for the Confederacy.
This chart pays tribute to his leading role in establishing the charting and scientific studies that were critical to the ascendancy of the United States as a maritime economic and military power in the nineteenth century.
From the start, Maury showed an interest in engaging the public in exploring the world.
Soon after returning from his first voyage, he became the first U.S. Naval officer to write a book on nautical science, which was later used by the Naval Academy.
Edgar Allan Poe was impressed by it, writing,
"This volume, from an officer of our Navy, and a Virginian, strong commends itself to notice…The spirit of literary improvement has been awakened among the officers of our gallant Navy. We are pleased to see that science is gaining voteries from its ranks."
Maury's later writings are lyrical praises of the cosmos that can make Carl Sagan's writings appear retro. In 1849, Maury presented to the Virginia Historical Society about his work at the National Observatory, writing:
"At the dead hour of the night, when the world is hushed in sleep and all is still; when there is not a sound to be heard save the dead beat escapement of the clock, counting with hollow voice the footsteps of time in ceaseless round, I turn to the Ephemeris and find there, by calculations made years ago, that when that clock tells a certain hour, a star which I never saw will be in the field of the telescope for a moment, flit through and then disappear. The instrument is set; the moment approaches and is intently awaited—I look—the star mute with eloquence that gathers sublimity from the silence of the night, comes smiling and dancing into the field, and at the instant predicted even to the fraction of a second, it makes its transit and is gone. With emotions too deep for the organs of speech, the heart swells out with unutterable anthems; we then see that there is harmony in the heavens above; and though we cannot hear, we feel the 'music of the spheres.'"
Andriveau-Goujon / Matthew Fontaine Maury: Courants De L'Atmosphere
d'Apres Le Lt. F. Maury (source : raremaps.com)
Maury embarked in crowdsourcing data in 1842 when, as a lieutenant, he was placed in charge of the Depot of Charts and Instruments of the Navy Department.
Sailors followed a strict routine and were systematic in recording very specific observations around the clock. Ships were mobile weather stations, accumulating a standardized set of weather variables with the strictest regularity at 15 minute intervals.
As much as sailors emphasized these routines, once a voyage was completed, the logs were practically viewed as rubbish.
But when Maury saw the Navy's stockpile of old ships logs, he quickly realized the collective information could improve navigation.
Maury developed a method to systematically extract key information from each log book.
Today, in an era of climate change, the information from old logs are valuable again.
For this reason, people across the globe transcribe old ship logs in a project called Old Weather, one of several on-line citizen science projects in Zooniverse.
Maury didn't have the help of an online network of volunteers, but he still assembled the resulting information into the colorful publication of a "Wind and Current Chart" of the North Atlantic in 1847.
[Matthew F. Maury. Whale Chart. Washington, D.C.: Naval Observatory, 1851. Color lithograph. Geography and Map Division, G9096s. C7 var. M3, series F (8). Source: Library of Congress.]
It was a natural progression for Maury to develop a system that streamlined his ability to continually improve navigational charts.
Maury developed standardized data forms that could function as specially formatted logs.
He sent these forms, along with instructions and up-to-date charts, to mariners.
Some data may have come from Navy ships, but the notable data were voluntary contributions from merchant vessels.
Within four years, over one thousand ships were sending reports to Maury from across the seven seas!
Maury quickly incorporated the data to make new charts of trade winds, thermal charts, whale charts, and more.
The increased speed of travel across all the oceans saved millions for ocean commerce.
Before Maury's charts, passage from New York to San Francisco took over a year.
With the help of Maury's full color charts, the trip could be taken in a swifter vessel and reduced to a speedy three months.
Overview of Sailing Directions coverage.
The numbers in the squares indicate the individual Planning Guide coverage areas.
Maury's brainchild ended up in the NGA, the same organization credited with gathering the intelligence that allowed the U.S. military to raid the hiding place in Pakistan of Osama Bin Laden in 2011.
Yet, because Sailing Directions is based on data contributed by cooperating merchant ships, I categorize it as citizen science.
Maury's Wind & Current Chart . . . (Atlantic Ocean & Coast of West Africa)
source : raremaps.com
In the late 1840s, Maury urged farmers to start a similar global system of meteorological observations on land, using the telegraph to aggregate reports in one location where his office could formulate weather forecasts.
When Thomas Jefferson envisioned this, the Revolutionary War made it difficult if not impossible. For Maury, the Civil War had the same effect.
Yet Maury continued to see uses for large piles of otherwise overlooked observations.
In 1847, Maury saw a way to use historic observations to aid astronomy.
That year, European astronomers discovered Neptune.
This was the first time a planet had been found through mathematics: perturbations in the orbit of Uranus could not be mathematically resolved unless another large object beyond it was assumed to exert influence on its orbit.
The key element of a planetary discovery is the computation of its orbit, but for Neptune, the mathematical rather than strictly visual nature of the discovery meant that computation would take 50 years or more.
Maury realized that instead of waiting 50 years, he could search archived records for clues in the past 50 years.
He and an assistant found that Neptune had been seen in 1795 but misidentified as a fixed star, and this enabled immediate computation of Neptune's orbit.
When Matthew Maury saw a problem, he used scientific observations to find a solution.
Maury's ability to express his curiosity and delight with the natural world inspired others to join his scientific pursuits and gave them a more reliable way of understanding the world.
Sailors' lives were full of risks because they didn't fully understand the oceans.
To deal with the risk, they believed in omens, superstitions, and good and bad luck.
The maps Maury produced immediately dispelled some of the misunderstanding and allowed mariners to benefit from collective knowledge.
Matthew Maury at the origin of the Marine GeoGarage baseline
Marine GeoGarage, nautical charts web & mobile platform :
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Today, the benefits of collective knowledge are helping turn citizen science into a retro fashion.Marine GeoGarage, nautical charts web & mobile platform :
"just the mapping apps for the 70% of the world that Google Maps does not cover..."
see GeoGarage blog
It's growing in popularity, independently in many disciplines, and emerging under different names (Community-based Participatory Science, Participatory Action Research, Open Science, Street Science, Community Science, Crowdsourcing, and the list goes on).
An umbrella term, Public Participation in Scientific Research, now unites the field—and I've recently returned from a conference that brought together almost 300 people active in this field.
No matter what it's called, people participated in Maury's science to make their lives better, and to feel enchanted and curious through the process of discovery.
Maury could be a poster child for a time when citizen science embodied the democratization of science.
Maury's research was by the people, and for the people.
During the same period as Maury's work, another pioneer in citizen science was working to professionalize science and to distinguish the scientist from society.
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The majority of business sales include some form of seller financing. Typically, seller financing is when the seller provides a loan to cover part of the purchase price. The rest of the purchase price is covered by the down payment or often other financing sources are used as well. Summed up another way, the seller is essentially acting as a bank for the buyer.
When sellers offer financing, it often also helps them achieve a higher final sale price. Sellers who are not open to seller financing will likely limit their possibilities.
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When a seller opts for seller financing, it is necessary to do much of the work that a bank would usually perform, for example, checking a potential buyer's credit report, financial statements and other key financial information. After all, if you opt to offer seller financing, then you'll want to ensure that your buyer will not default.
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It should also be noted that seller financing is of considerable interest to buyers. Sellers looking to attract as much attention to their business as possible will want to consider this route. Offering this type of financing sends a very clear message. When a business owner is open to seller financing, he or she is stating that he or she has great confidence that the business will generate both short term and long term revenue. That level of confidence speaks volumes to buyers about the health of the business.
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Grocery shopping is a regular activity in our every-day culture. However, there seem to be different cultural aspects in our weekly shopping. At first, we will listen to Beate and Kati talking about the two opposite but equally strong movements in Germany: have you banned meat from your diet or do you buy big portions for your weekend BBQ? Javier from Spain reports how grocery shopping has changed through the generations in Spain. And finally, we will listen to Professor Scott Henderson from Canada, who talks about how the diverse cultures in Canada influence the choice of produce in supermarkets and how they differ from European supermarktes.
Tag: BBQ
Absolutely Intercultural 187 +++ Cultural Comparison +++ Learning German +++ Australian Culture
Maybe you will notice that we have a new editor on the show. Laura has left the Sunshine Coast, Australia, to come and take on a year here at RheinAhrCampus in Germany. We all think she is crazy to give up all that beautiful sunshine but are so happy to have her on our team. Thanks a lot to Younes Jaber who has helped us produce so many good shows in the past and is now about to finish his studies. Continue reading "Absolutely Intercultural 187 +++ Cultural Comparison +++ Learning German +++ Australian Culture"
absolutely intercultural 151 +++ Australia Day 2012 +++ multilingualism +++ patriotic celebrations +++ BBQs and Barbies +++
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Like my last show, episode 151 also comes to you from Australia. You can listen to how I get woken up by exotic birds outside my bedroom window every morning because I thought I should record my introduction at this time of the day to share this experience with you because this has become my regular Australian alarm clock. As I live just metres from the national park I assumed they must have some kind of noisy monkeys in that park but then I discovered, it was birds, such as cockatoos, kookaburras, and some very colourful small parrots that I cannot identify. After a month in the country I finally manage to sleep through this incredible noise, and if I didn't, I would have to get up at 4:30 every morning when this dubious concert starts. This week my class and tutorial at the University of the Sunshine Coast will not take place because of Australia Day 2012, a national public holiday. So I started asking people what this national day is all about and I received many, but sometimes contradictory answers because while this day is meant to promote and celebrate national unity it seems that every year it is accompanied by the criticism that instead of promoting multiculturalism this day commemorates the 26 January 1788 the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove where English settlers put up their flag. So opponents tend to call it "Invasion Day" and propose to change the national public holiday to another date. Let me share with you what some Australians told me about Australia Day. (If you want to find out more about Australian Identity you may want to revisit Anne's show 76 on "mateship" and if you want to check out what my own life in Australia sounds like, check out my own last show 149.
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I would like to introduce you to my neighbours here in Australia. Simone and Leonardo from Switzerland. Their background is so multicultural that it would perhaps be difficult for them to be nationalistic. I got interested when I noticed that mother and son were using several different languages even between them during an ordinary day.
Believe me I was very confused I when I saw Simone and Leonardo for the first time. From where I was sitting I thought I could distinctly hear about five or six people talking in three different languages but when I looked up I could see only two and had to realize that these two were actually using all three languages between them.
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Australia Day is an opportunity to celebrate what is best about Australia including vegimite, BBQs, and cricket but some people are also critical of the fact that the image which is projected on this day is a very "white perspective" where the indigenous people do not really play an important role. I took my microphone into the classrooms to find out what it means to be Australian and what the day actually celebrates. Let us first listen to Mark from England and Meredith and Josh who are Australians. I also asked three international students what they knew about Australia Day and whether they could draw parallels to national or patriotic celebrations and movements in their own countries. I talked to Daniel from Sweden, Martin from the Netherlands and Clement from France.
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My mate Len shares with me the secrets of the most Australian of all institutions which no Australia Day can do without. The BBQ or the "Barbie". I had never thought about the unifying factors of this very male-dominated cooking experience. It is true that every house I have seen so far had a fixed BBQ and there are even public BBQ places in every scenic spot on the coast so that families can have an outdoor experience and bring their own food and drink.
Our next show will be coming to you from Anne Fox in Denmark on 2 March
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When we first meet Elijah, God tells him to hide from King Ahab in the Kerith Ravine. Elijah had just declared there would be no rain in Israel until he said so, and Ahab wasn't a very forgiving ruler.
During his exile, Elijah drank from the brook in the ravine, and the ravens brought him bread and meat every morning and evening. We don't know how long God had Elijah down there, but verse 7 tells us, "Some time later, the brook dried up."
Have you ever had a brook dry up on you?
It happens when God's provision stops coming from a particular direction. He was supplying your needs in one way, but then He stopped.
He doesn't always tell you why, but He's giving you a signal. "It's time to move on. I've got something new for you to do."
Losing your brook can be frustrating. You were comfortable. Things were just beginning to work well. You were getting good at doing what you were doing. You were making plans to build a house near your brook so that you could stay there forever. Then, surprise! He took it away.
I think I know why God takes our brooks away. It's because we like them too much.
When we get comfortable, we are no longer growing or having an impact on our environment. By drying up the brook, He forces us to search out His provision in another place.
What if Elijah had never left the brook? What if he had kicked the dirt and moaned to God about how much he liked and deserved the brook?
What would have happened to the widow and her son? Who would have won the victory against Ahab's prophets? Who would have passed the mantle to Elisha?
It doesn't do much good to complain when God dries up our brook. It's OK to be sad, but the sooner we get up and get moving, the sooner He can show us our next assignment.
Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah: "Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan. You will drink from the brook, and I have directed the ravens to supply you with food there."
So he did what the LORD had told him. . . . The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook. Some time later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land. —1 Kings 17:2–7, NIV
Prayer: Lord, help us trust You when our brook dries up.
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