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Neolithic humans about 10,000 years ago first used native copper
Copper is a reddish chemical element, an extremely ductile metal and is second only to silver as a conductor of electricity and heat. It has a pleasing color and luster, it takes a high polish, and it forms alloys readily with almost all metals.
Copper found in the free metallic state in nature is called "native copper." It is found throughout the world as a primary mineral in basaltic lavas. The greatest known deposit of copper is in porphyries formed by volcanic activity in the Chile's Andean Mountains. Copper was named for the island of Cyprus, where the Romans obtained their supply.
Neolithic humans about 10,000 years ago first used native copper as a substitute for stone. The Egyptians and the Sumerians invented metallurgy, first reducing ores with fire and charcoal about 4000 BC. Copper was intentionally alloyed with tin as bronze about 3500 BC, and this harder metal was so universal in early history that one period is known as the Bronze Age.
Copper is easily worked and is remarkably ductile. It can be cold-rolled down to one one-thousandth inch in thickness, and, by cold drawing, its length can be increased as much as 5,000 times. Hence it is an ideal metal for making wire.
Copper-bearing ores fall into two main classes: oxidized ores and sulfide ores. The oxidized ores, such as cuprite and tenorite, can be reduced directly to metallic copper by heating with carbon in a furnace. The sulfide ores, such as chalcopyrite and chalcocite, require a more complex treatment in which low-grade ores must be enriched before smelting begins. Sulfide ores are more important commercially. Half of the world's copper deposits are in the form of chalcopyrite ore.
Ores are removed either by open-pit or by underground mining. Ores containing as little as .15% copper can be mined profitably in open-pit mining, but underground mining is profitable only if an ore contains 6% to 7% copper.
For many years, Chile has been the world's largest producer of copper, with the United States a close second. Other major producers include Canada, Zambia, Russia, Poland, China, Mexico, Kazakhstan, and Indonesia. After Arizona, the leading copper-producing states in the U.S. are New Mexico, Montana and Utah.
Most of the copper produced in the world is used in electrical products. Another third is used in metal products such as pipe, tubing, plumbing fixtures, hardware, and machine tool products. Most is combined with other metals to form more than 1,000 different alloys. Important alloys in which copper is the chief constituent are brasses (copper and zinc), bronzes (copper and tin), and nickel silvers (copper, zinc, and nickel).
Copper is used in nearly all coinage and remained the second most utilized metal (after iron) until the 1960s when cheaper and more plentiful aluminum surpassed it in world production. Copper is also a trace element essential to the healthy life of many plants and animals, in which it usually occurs as part of oxidizing enzymes.
Copper Facts
- Copper is mankind's oldest metal, dating back more than 10,000 years. A copper pendant discovered in what is now northern Iraq dates back to about 8700 BC.
- Archeologists have recovered a portion of a water plumbing system from the Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt. The copper tubing used was found in serviceable condition after more than 5,000 years.
- When Columbus sailed to the Americas, his ships, Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria, had copper skins below the water line. The copper sheathing extended hull life and protected against barnacles and other kinds of biofouling.
- Paul Revere produced the bronze cannon, spikes and pumps for the famous ship, Old Ironsides. Revere was one of the earliest American coppersmiths.
- Each year in the U.S., nearly as much copper is recovered from recycled material as is derived from newly mined ore.
- An average single family home uses 439 pounds of copper:
- 195 lbs. building wire
- 151 lbs. plumbing
- 24 lbs. brass goods
- 46 lbs. Built-in appliances
- 12 lbs. builder hardware
- 10 lbs. misc wire and tube
- There are more than 50 pounds of copper in an American-built automobile.
- There are about 9,000 pounds of copper in a Boeing 747-200 jet plane.
- The Statue of Liberty contains 179,000 pounds of copper
Physical Properties of Copper
- Atomic number: 29
- Atomic weight: 63.546
- Melting point: 1,083 degrees C
- Boiling point: 2,567 degrees C
- Tensile strength: approx. 19,000 psi
& Luster
|- Color reddish
- Luster bright, metallic
- Streak is uncolored
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Data centre operator Colt Data Centre Services now has a direct connection to the Berlin Commercial Internet Exchange (BCIX) at its Berlin data centre.
Berlin has established itself as an important data hub for Europe, it says. Many global players, especially content service providers and carriers, see Berlin as an increasingly important location for exchanging internet traffic. As a result, BCIX has become the largest regional connectivity exchange point into Northern and Eastern Europe. The rise of cloud adoption, along with the growing presence of major public cloud providers in the Berlin market, have enabled BCIX to almost double its annual data volumes.
Christian Kröger, Managing Director of BCIX Management GmbH commented: "Our presence in Colt DCS' facilities is an important step for us to retain our market leadership as the neutral internet exchange point of note. With this eighth location established, we have now connected nearly all carrier neutral data centres to the BCIX platform. Having a distributed presence within Berlin ensures we continue to provide a broad accessibility for internet providers and peering partners. With the new POP at Colt (Datacenter Wiebestraße), BCIX can also be reached via the broad traffic routes provided by Colt, enabling a fast and reliable connection."
"The connectivity services available in our German data centres and more specifically the availability of internet exchanges within them have been significantly enhanced, driven in response to the demands of our growing customer base." said Matt Cantwell, Director of Product and Propositions at Colt Data Centre Services. "Direct connectivity to Internet exchanges can be important to many cloud and media service providers so we're delighted to have them present in our data centres."

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Original Star Wars Battlefront II Multiplayer Restored with Steam/GOG Crossplay
The original Star Wars Battlefront II game, the one made by Pandemic and released in 2005, just got its multiplayer portion restored. Not only that but the game now features crossplay between Steam and GOG.
There has been an awakening… have you felt it? The original Star Wars Battlefront II (Classic, 2005), the critically acclaimed shooter of massively entertaining warfare, has received a critical update. Powered by GOG Galaxy, the multiplayer function of the game has now been restored AND with added Crossplay support between GOG Galaxy and Steam to boot.
This long-awaited feature finally brings the entire Star Wars Battlefront II community together, no matter which part of the galaxy you come from, so go ahead and jump into the fray.
The original Star Wars Battlefront II, not to be confused with the one made by DICE and due to release on November 17th (with a beta opening later this week), can now be purchased for a mere $9.99 on Steam.
With brand new space combat, playable Jedi characters, and over 16 all new battlefronts, Star Wars Battlefront II gives you more ways than ever before to play the classic Star Wars battles any way you want.
- Enhanced Single-Player Experience – Join the rise of Darth Vader's elite 501st Legion of Stormtroopers as you fight through an all new story-based saga where every action you take impacts the battlefront and, ultimately, the fate of the Star Wars galaxy.
- All New Classic Trilogy Locations – Fight inside the corridors of the second Death Star, in the marshy swamps of Dagobah, and even aboard the Tantive IV, Princess Leia's Blockade Runner, as seen at the beginning of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
- More Classes and Vehicles – Now choose from six distinct soldier classes, plus bonus hero characters for each of the four factions: Rebels, Imperials, CIS and the Republic. Then jump into more than 30 diverse ground and space vehicles, including the clone BARC speeder, AT-RT and new Jedi Starfighter and ARC 170.
- PLUS Improved Online Features – Engage in massive online battles with multiplayer action for up to 64 players. Play five different online game modes including Conquest, Assault, one-and two-flag Capture the Flag, and Hunt.
Now for the first time, Star Wars Battlefront II lets you…
- Fight as a Jedi – Earn the ability to wield a lightsaber and use Force powers like Yoda, Darth Vader and many other heroes and villains.
- Battle in Space – Dogfight in X-wings, TIE fighters, Jedi starfighters and other classic starcraft, or land your ship on a star destroyer and fight it out on foot aboard enemy ships.
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I should post a picture of me in my hipster-wanna-be glasses. Instead, I'm setting the timer for 5 minutes for a brain dump. Once of these days I might start a topic list for these posts. Let me know if there is some thing you'd like to add. For now however, buckle up and get ready to ride!
Okay that was dumb. Stopping the timer and starting again.
While I was on vacation (Maine, by way of Maryland), I auto posted a blog about the last hike I took with my family for my grandfather's 82nd birthday. I'm excited to do another hike with them this weekend. I'm thankful that my family is healthy enough to hike, even if they go very, very slowly. After all, its not about the hike but enjoying the view and the company.
(Expecting my mother to call in 3 - 2 - 1: "Gee thanks Brooke")
Tonight I'm heading to over to Gvan's aka Pink Runner Girl to slice and dice a few PRG special shirts. We're running the Ragnar Relay next week with 10 other ladies, team name Girls Just Wanna Go Run. We're gonna deck ourselves out in 80s gear, off the shoulder t-shirts included.
Between church and the Ragnar team meeting, I need to squeeze in a long run. I've got 2 back to back (Saturday/Sunday) half marathons the following weekend and I missed my long runs on vacation.
Heck - I missed most of my runs on vacation. In a 2 week time period, I ran once - which included the day we got back. Thankfully my shorter runs haven't suffered. I'm hoping I can say the same for my long ones!
Confession: I just cheated and looked at the clock. I didn't have something in my head to say and I wanted to see how much more I needed to come up with. 11 seconds. Just about time this perfectly!!
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So maybe you have started your journey. Maybe you are on your way to losing weight or getting out of pain. Maybe you have UnPlugged from the noise and have started changing some of your habits.
But how do you know if you are heading in the right direction? How do you know if you are really heading toward the thing you are trying to accomplish? Well, I'm glad you asked.
There is a very simple test.
Now before I tell you what it is, let me make a reference. In Proverbs 23:7 (KJV) it says "For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he…" This is important to note and the foundation for change. Because your thoughts are the seeds of your actions. If you don't think something to be true, you won't act accordingly. So why did I say that?
If you want to know if you are going in the right direction, look at how you react…especially when things don't go your way. If you don't believe you are going to ever get out of pain, you won't bother doing your stretches and exercises, or you will just quit when you don't see immediate results. If you don't believe you will ever be fit and healthy, you won't bother cleaning up your eating and taking time out to exercise…or you will just "try it" and see if it works. But as soon as you get stuck or gain a pound…"Well…I guess that didn't work!"
It is so important to guard your thoughts in all areas of life. Because like I said before…your thoughts are the seeds to your actions. And although some people can get away with more than others, there is one thing that successful people have in common. They think differently than unsuccessful people.
So whether it's your health, family, relationships, work, community, church, kids, fitness or any other area of life…if you want to be successful you have to first believe that you ARE that person and then start acting accordingly. Otherwise, your first reaction will be frustration and the desire to quit when the going gets tough.
That's not what you want. That's not who you are. So change your mind. Change your actions. Change your life.


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My room is "roomy enough" my love says. I told him that soon I will get rid of the television so we can have more room space, we have another TV downstairs anyway. I know how much he loves TV viewing so getting a wall tv mount would probably solve this simple space issue once and for all. Anything for my love's happiness when he gets here.
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Somtimes its good to spend time to arrange rooms so it will look peaceful to come home to from work. TV mount is a good idea. Thanks for sharing James
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The fundamental purpose, nature and scope of internal audit is defined in the Definition of Internal Auditing (IIA, 2017). It says, "Internal auditing is an independent, objective assurance and consulting activity designed to add value and improve an organisation's operations. It helps an organisation accomplish its objectives by bringing a systematic, disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of risk management, control, and governance processes."
Internal Audit works with services across the Council to make sure objectives are met and risks are well managed. They are also responsible for making sure alleged fraud and corruption is investigated and acted upon.
Further details regarding Internal Audit can be found in the Internal Audit Charter [147kb].
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The Editors | 65 Emory L.J. 197 (2015)
The 2015 Randolph W. Thrower Symposium, entitled The New Age of Communication: Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century, was held on February 5 at Emory University School of Law. The Symposium explored the changing doctrine of free speech in the United States. Recent Supreme Court decisions—including McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, Snyder v. Phelps, and United States v. Alvarez—have altered the landscape of First Amendment jurisprudence. Reflecting on these recent developments stimulated dialogue on the foundations, current doctrines, and future of free speech. This issue of the Emory Law Journal continues that conversation.Read More »
Copyright = Speech
Derek E. Bambauer | 65 Emory L.J. 199 (2015)
Expression eligible for copyright protection should be presumptively treated as speech for First Amendment purposes. Both copyright and the First Amendment share the goal of fostering the creation and dissemination of information. Copyright's authorship requirement furnishes the key link between the doctrines. This Essay examines where the two areas of law align and conflict in offering or denying protection. Using copyright law as a guide for the First Amendment offers three benefits. First, many free speech problems can be clarified when examined through copyright's lens. Second, this approach makes the seeming puzzle of non-human speakers understandable. Finally, it can help end technological exceptionalism in First Amendment doctrine.Read More »
Freedom from Thought
Jane Bambauer | 65 Emory L.J. 219 (2015)
This short Essay explores when ignorance can be supported or even coerced by law, and when it cannot. In the end, although freedom from thought has much to offer to the development of privacy and dignitary rights, interests in self-ignorance are better handled through norms than through law. Like other forms of privacy, First Amendment commitments are likely to frustrate legal efforts to support or coerce self-ignorance. If a speaker wishes to disclose information, the government is unlikely to be able to interfere with that disclosure unless the speaker's interests are demonstrably weak. However, when both the speaker and the listener prefer silence, government compulsion of information disclosure will offend privacy and First Amendment principles alike.Read More »
Speech or Conduct? The Free Speech Claims of Wedding Vendors
Caroline Mala Corbin | 65 Emory L.J. 241 (2015)
Is baking a cake for a same-sex wedding or photographing the bride-and-bride or groom-and-groom "speech" triggering free speech scrutiny? Or is providing wedding services better viewed as conduct that does not implicate the Free Speech Clause? In other words, do religious bakers and photographers have a compelled speech claim if the government forces them to render services pursuant to public accommodations law? For the speech claims, whether baking a cake or taking a picture counts as speech is pivotal. After all, the Free Speech Clause prohibits the "abridging of freedom of speech." The question for this Article is not whether public accommodation laws violate the Free Speech Clause but whether they even trigger free speech review. This Article concludes that the bakers do not have a free speech claim, and the photographers probably do not either.Read More »
Southern Dreams and a New Theory of First Amendment Legal Realism
Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic | 65 Emory L.J. 303 (2015)
When legal realism swept through the law nearly a century ago, spelling the end to what Roscoe Pound called "mechanical jurisprudence," one enclave that emerged unscathed is the First Amendment, where shopworn rules, hidebound doctrinal boxes, and thought-ending clichés still hold sway. We show how this is so and give examples of a number of areas where change is in order. An examination of federal court cases having to do with hate speech and cross burning, as well as the wave of nativist sentiment that swept the South in the wake of increased Latino immigration, show how an application of legal realism would improve society's ability to respond more quickly and flexibly to change.Read More »
Transparency in First Amendment Doctrine
David S. Han | 65 Emory L.J. 359 (2015)
The broad tension between rule-like categorical approaches and standard-like balancing approaches to doctrinal design has been a longstanding issue within First Amendment jurisprudence. This Article focuses on one particular dimension of this broad theoretical question: the idea of doctrinal transparency. When doctrine is transparent, it encourages or forces courts to analyze cases openly, in a fashion that elicits direct discussion of foundational speech value and speech harm issues. Such transparency is particularly valuable within the First Amendment context, where difficult or novel questions of speech value and harm are often avoided or distorted by doctrinal formalities and empty sloganeering. Through this lens of doctrinal transparency, this Article analyzes two distinct areas of First Amendment doctrine touched upon in recent Supreme Court cases: the historical test for low-value speech set forth in United States v. Stevens and its progeny, and the longstanding default rule that strict scrutiny applies to content-based speech restrictions that underlay the Court's decisions last Term in Williams-Yulee v. Florida Bar and Reed v. Town of Gilbert.Read More »
On the Distinction Between Speech and Action
Frederick Schauer | 65 Emory L.J. 427 (2015)
Does the First Amendment rest on a mistake? More specifically, is the First Amendment's necessary distinction between speech and action fundamentally unsustainable? The basic idea of this Article is that it is hardly clear that respect for an agent's autonomy ought to lead other agents, or the state, to tolerate autonomous communicative actions that are determined to be likely to cause harm to third parties any more than they should tolerate autonomous non-communicative actions whose consequences are equivalent. If the principle of freedom to engage in autonomous actions is one that is limited to cases of harm to others, then, at the very least, this limitation has more impact on standard autonomy views about freedom of speech than has commonly been appreciated. If there is a reason to protect autonomous speech that does not apply as well to autonomous action, then it cannot be a reason derived from the idea of autonomy itself, and instead needs to be based on a much greater empirical showing of the differential consequences of speech and action than has to date been provided.Read More »
Uncertainty Is the Only Certainty: A Five-Category Test to Clarify the Unsure Boundaries Between Content-Based and Content-Neutral Restrictions on Speech
Jay Alan Sekulow, Erik M. Zimmerman | 65 Emory L.J. 455 (2015)
The lines between content-neutral, content-based, and viewpoint-based restrictions on speech remain unclear in key respects despite the critical importance that these characterizations hold within First Amendment jurisprudence. This Article will analyze the law concerning the boundaries between these categories of laws with respect to speech activities in public and limited forums. The Article argues that five categories of laws are inherently suspect under the Free Speech Clause and should be treated as such. Formal recognition by the Court that laws of this nature should be subject to strict scrutiny would bring much needed clarity to this area of law and would help to ensure that freedom of speech receives the robust protection that it deserves, while affording the government ample room to enact reasonable, narrowly tailored laws that address legitimate concerns.Read More »
The Categorical Free Speech Doctrine and Contextualization
Alexander Tsesis | 65 Emory L.J. 495 (2015)
This Article discusses the impact of the Supreme Court's recently enhanced categorical approach to free speech analysis. It demonstrates that, contrary to the concerns of some other scholars, the Court should not be understood to be entirely averse to balancing interests. In several cases—such as those dealing with government employee speech, civil defamation, and fraud—the Court continues to rely on balancing approaches. This has created a seeming internal contradiction among precedents that appear only to recognize the constitutionality of content-based restrictions on low-value categories of speech that have historically and traditionally been unprotected. These two lines of cases can and should be reconciled for the sake of adjudicative predictability and stability. The Court's categorical free speech doctrine should be understood as a bar only against ad hoc balancing, but not as a total prohibition against a contextual analysis of expressive and countervailing social interests.Read More »
Excessive Corporate Risk-Taking and the Decline of Personal Blame
Steven L. Schwarcz | 65 Emory L.J. 533 (2015)
Government agencies and prosecutors are being criticized for seeking so few indictments against individuals in the wake of the 2008–2009 financial crisis and its resulting banking failures. This Article analyzes why—contrary to a longstanding historical trend—personal liability may be on the decline, and whether agencies and prosecutors should be doing more. The analysis confronts fundamental policy questions concerning changing corporate and social norms. The public and the media perceive the crisis's harm as a "wrong" caused by excessive risk-taking. But that view can be too simplistic, ignoring the reality that firms must take greater risks to try to innovate and create value in the increasingly competitive and complex global economy. This Article examines how law should control that risk-taking and internalize its costs without impeding broader economic progress, focusing on two key elements of that inquiry: the extent to which corporate risk-taking should be regarded as excessive, and the extent to which personal liability should be used to control that excessive risk-taking.Read More »
Redundant Prior Art References and Their Prejudicial Effects on Post-Issuance Review Petitioners
Bob High | 65 Emory L.J. 581 (2015)
The recent passing of the America Invents Act came with the creation of three brand new forms of post-issuance review: inter partes review, post-grant review, and covered business method patent review. Through the first three years, inter partes review has been widely utilized, while covered business method patent review has received considerable attention as well. However, the PTAB has created a procedural tool not explicitly included in either the statutes or regulations. The issue with this procedural tool is the costly estoppel effects it could have on the petitioner in the event of an unfavorable decision either at the PTAB or Federal Circuit level. This Comment suggests two potential solutions: (1) the PTAB could conditionally institute proceedings on all grounds it agrees show a reasonable likelihood of success, have the petitioner choose what it thinks are the strongest grounds for unpatentability, and continue the proceeding based on those grounds; or (2) interpret the statute so that determinations of redundancy are appealable to the Federal Circuit, allowing the petitioner to subsequently assert those grounds of unpatentability if it can demonstrate that they are not redundant.Read More »
A Troubling Collision: Overbroad Coercion Statutes and Unchecked State Prosecutors
Elizabeth Rosenwasser | 65 Emory L.J. 619 (2015)
Overbroad laws trespass on First Amendment rights of expression. Overbroad coercion statutes, which prohibit communication limiting a listener's legitimate options, exist in a variety of states and municipalities. By failing to narrowly prohibit unlawful coercive speech, these overbroad statutes criminalize a broad range of protected First Amendment speech. These statutes can be particularly problematic for political actors because they can criminalize political bargains and discussion characteristic of the American political system. As the crime control model has grown, state prosecutors' charging power and discretion have vastly increased. This Comment argues for a judicial and legislative response to this problem and explains why legislators and judges should have a strong interest in invalidating and narrowing these overbroad coercion statutes. Ultimately, this Comment proposes a framework through which judges should invalidate these statutes and describes why legislators have a duty both to the Constitution and to themselves to proactively narrow these statutes to avoid overbreadth.Read More »


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Stress is a part of life. However, just because stress enters your daily routine does not mean you need to let it control your life. Studies have shown a strong correlation between weight gain and stress. In this module your counselor will provide you with practical tips on how to avoid stress taking over your life.
Stress is anything that poses a challenge or a threat to our well-being. Stress affects both mental and physical health. Stress triggers certain hormones to be released due to work or life demands and the body will adapt hormonally.
Stress causes changes in mental health and also affects the body in other ways including: Increase in blood pressure, increase in heart rate, tense muscles, lack of sleep, decrease in immune system function and slowing of the digestive system. Some additional long term effects of stress are anxiety, depression, heart disease, and memory and concentration impairment.
Stress induces a hormone called cortisol to be released into the body. Higher levels of cortisol in the body will cause fat to be deposited in the abdominal area. Generally speaking, the more stress in your life, the more fat that may to be mobilized and deposited into the abdominal area.
Identifying the sources of stress in your life. Look closely at habits, attitudes, and excuses. Assess what caused feelings of stress, how you felt (physically and emotionally), how you responded, and what you did to make yourself feel better.
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Running Column: Track & Field doesn't dominate Olympics
For many people, especially many of my friends in the running world, the "real" Olympics have just begun. That's because for them, track and field is what the Olympics are all about, and the first week of the Games is just prelude and promotion for the really "important" events.
While that might have been true 2,000 years ago, and until as recently as the turn of this millennium, unfortunately, times have changed and track and field is no longer the tail that wags the five-ringed dog.
To be sure, track, or athletics as it's known in the rest of the world, is still a major Olympic attraction, and as one of the sports of the original ancient Games, it's unlikely to lose that status. But it's no longer number one, having fallen below swimming, gymnastics and perhaps a few other sports in terms of the air time it receives as well as the viewership it enjoys (and admittedly, those two go hand-in-hand in a chicken-or-egg relationship).
Part of that is a changing demographic. Women make up a higher percentage of Olympic viewers these days, and the networks will show what they prefer to watch.
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And track and field is somewhat to blame itself: the creation of the track World Championships in 1983, and doubling its occurrence to a biennial event not long after, cheapened the importance and magic of the Olympics for the sport.
The rise of big-money road races, especially marathons, also diluted the Olympics' stature: winning a World Marathon Major event such as Boston or New York can bring almost equal fame, and a lot more fortune, than a victory in the Olympic 26.2-miler.
That doesn't mean track and field has become a minor or unimportant Olympic sport. I'm sure thousands of runners woke up early this morning and delayed their own workouts to watch the women's marathon live, and will repeat the process next Sunday for the men. And with American athletes poised to win medals in the majority of events, that interest level should continue throughout the week.
It occurred to me last week that other sports have fallen far lower on the Olympic viewing radar, although part of that is due to the multi-channel presentation method that NBC has undertaken. Boxing, for example, used to be a signature Olympic event, with American boxers occupying a huge spotlight.
So, enjoy track and field's week in the spotlight, try to get through the inevitable human interest tales that will precede each event, then celebrate the Olympic creed by going out for a run of your own.
Jim Gerweck is editor-at-large at Running Times magazine and organizes area races
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I started reading it a few days after publishing my book, and it was weird to read similar stories to the ones I covered. (I am not sure of Charles was reading my mind or blog, but it was nice to be in good company :)
In the book, Fishman hits a lot of important points: water management is local, the problem is not water "use" but slow natural recycling, the importance of politics/power/security in management, abundant water doesn't need to be managed or priced like scarce water does, there's little incentive to conserve free water, and so on. His business writing background is handy for adding context, e.g., each tanker bringing water to Barcelona supplied sufficient water for 32 minutes of demand.*
Here are notes that I made while reading, by chapter:**
- Gives an overview and manifesto for the book, i.e., the new era of water scarcity requires that we recognize its value and discard old cliches.
- Covers the physics and physical properties of water.
- Covers water management in Las Vegas. Fishman is awed by Pat Mulroy's "results" there, but I am not. Per capita use may have dropped by 31 percent between 1989 and 2009, but it's still (using his numbers) 240 gallons/person/day. That gigantic number would spin heads in Asia, Australia or Europe, where 930 liters per capita per day is perhaps 400-600% of local averages. The chapter has good stories of how businesses facing higher prices or shortages reduce their water use and an interesting profile of the head-in-the-sand attitudes of Georgia's politicians towards impending doom. (Although they appeared to be right, given their recent victory in claiming water from Lanier.) Mulroy also seems a bit unhinged, as she rants against Great Lakes residents who do not want to export their water to people like her who "need" it more.
- Contains a great profile of the destruction and post-hurricane rebuilding of Galveston's water supply and other "modern" cities that face engineering supply problems.
- Looks at how businesses reduce their process water demands at a wool shed, hotel, a Coca Cola plant, cruise ship, bottling plant, IBM fab, etc. The chapter goes well until he claims that "tap water is much more tightly regulated and monitored than bottled water" [p. 134 in final version], repeats an unjustified claim that bottled water undermines our willingness to pay higher prices for public water systems, and makes a false equation between retails sales of bottled water and money spent on maintaining the public water system in the US. I argue against all three of these opinions in my book, but I doubt that your average bottled water drinker is unwilling to pay $5 more per month (10%!) to increase the reliability or quality of his water.
It gets worse. When discussing drinking water services, Fishman says "The global economy has contrived to deny the most fundamental element of life to 1 billion people" [p. 136 in final version]. This is just a total failure of a statement (it's the politics!) from a business reporter. He recovers a bit when saying that less bottled water drinking in Maine isn't going to help someone in India, but then he goes on to blame "the market" for "failing to find any solutions for real water problems."
These three pages are a pity, and they reveal a flaw in an otherwise excellent book: Fishman appears to be more nervous of competitive, for-profit companies that deliver value (GE selling a glass of water to you in the desert) than the monopolistic and corrupt politicians who don't care if you die in the desert or down the street from their offices. Moving right along...
- Describes an Australian town's emotional (and ultimately futile) rejection of recycled water. His conclusion from the tale of Toowoomba's dry taps is that times are changing (End of Abundance!), and American would be wise to watch and learn from Australia's experience. I agree with that, but add the hopeful thought that America's 52,000 water systems mean that there are 52,000 managers with the opportunity to do the "right thing" (manage scarcity) without waiting for permission to make necessary changes.
- Ventures into the bush to look at Australian agriculture. He spends time with a farmer facing drought and does a good job explaining the ignorance of city folk who call farmers "water wasters" without understanding either agronomy, irrigation or economics. He uses the idea of "water envy" to describe how some people think others are wasting, but I think "water ego" is more appropriate. The presumption that one person deserves water more than another is not based on some objective measure of consumption (my car, your salary) as much as a subjective decision that my use is more important than yours. It's not like you need a car like mine -- you need MY car. That's the case with water. The end of abundance means there's not enough to please everyone, so some people think they should have yours. Fishman's discussion misses this point, I think, because he mixes up water as a natural resource and water as an environmental good.
Later in the chapter, Fishman makes a good point (not for the first time, not for this idea): "Our water systems are anything buy robust. They are durable...[but] they have no adaptability, no flexibility. Our water habits rely on... assumptions of water availability." Exactly. That's why I wrote my book, to extend the story from situations Fishman describes to an analysis of why those situations arise and how to address them. The Wall Street Journal's review on Fishman's book clued me in on this part one-part two quality: The Big Thirst describes the issues; The End of Abundance explains how they arose and how to correct them.
- Moves to India to describe a place with less than 24/7 service and unsafe water. This chapters is really good. It describes water management (and failure) from urban to rural, from industrial to agricultural uses. The lessons there offer useful parallels to the successes (and failures) in the developed world.
- Discusses the problem with "free" water. Fishman rightly points out that water in Las Vegas is quite cheap, but then overshoots in claiming that much cheaper water in Imperial Valley (which also draws from the Colorado River) is "exactly the same water." That's not true when you consider the importance of pressurized and treated water; property rights; and the fact that the price of water service doesn't reflect the price of (free) water as much as the cost of running the system (Fishman later says this, but his reason for cost pricing -- "people need water" -- is not my reason: water is provided by regulated utilities or agricultural cooperatives). These missing factors mean that Fishman's outraged text (a penny for the water in a bag of carrots!) is misplaced. That said, I found these passages quite fun to read, since I discuss nearly identical material (Vegas vs. Imperial) in my book.
In a later discussion, Fishman absolutely blows apart one water manager fantasy: higher prices do nothing to reduce demand and hurt the poor. (Mulroy claims that higher prices in Vegas will not make sense "because the Sultan of Brunei will not use less." But she forgets that they WOULD impact other customers.) Fishman then advocates a version of "some for free, pay for more" water pricing. (No, he doesn't quote me or this blog. He does talk to Mike Young, so there's something in the air.) The rest of the chapter on pricing, markets and monopolies gives an excellent summary of these ideas.
- Concludes with good illustrations of the ways we enjoy water, the political role of leading the fight to improve water service and how our ignorance can lead to mismanagement. He hits two good points: water management is local and management failure is political. Unfortunately, he then makes a few too many shortcuts (e.g., end "silly" practices) in assuming or advocating greywater systems, more crop per drop, mandatory water footprinting, and so on.
Fishman temporarily backs away from pushing certain ideas; he claims "we need to change our relationship with water;" but then he returns with two pages of [paraphrasing] "we must change silly attitudes." I agree with that, to a point. In my book, I take attitudes (silly, cheap, green or traditional) as givens and spend more time on setting incentives to reach economic and environmental sustainability. I do not worry as much as Fishman about the black box of human behavior. (I am guessing that we'd agree on this in conversation, but I've only the book to read!)
* But his journalistic style can be too breezy:
- "Statistical alliteration" -- repeating the same numbers, ratios, etc. three times in the same paragraph -- slowed me down as I tried to understand non-existent differences.
- It's not true that a "flat screen TV... needs its own water supply." Sure, power generation requires water for cooling, but the implication is that a flatscreen TV needs a rooftop reservoir.
- I am not sure that "we think of places like Barcelona as water wealthy," or that our emotional relationship to water explains why "water pipes beneath our streets are poorly maintained." I don't like having thoughts attributed to me that I do not possess.
- He says that "IBM's new water division reaches other companies" when he means it SELLS to other companies.
- 36 million visitors to Las Vegas, 86 percent of them from the US, does NOT translate into
2010 percent of the US population when you count repeat visitors. There were other examples of lazy statistical inference.
- Reductions in water use do not automatically increase profits if they come with heavy capital expenditures. Fishman knows this, but sometimes he does not emphasize the importance of that trade-off.
- The Murray-Darling is not "running out of water" -- there's too much demand for the annual supply. He then confounds various demands exceeding supplies with "no wonder there's a water shortage." False explanations lead people to pursue the wrong remedies.


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This is great data Julian, very useful. On Nov 18, 2005, at 8:52 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: > > Proposal: > > 1) Describe lock token discovery after successful LOCK in exactly one > place in the spec, and make sure examples are correct > > 2) Remove the requirement to return the <lockdiscovery>, and mention > that change in the "changes" section, including rational and suggest > servers continue to return it when backward-compatibility with older > clients is an issue. > What about clients learning the lock timeout? I know some clients use the <lockdiscovery> in the response body to learn what timeout the server chose, and use that to know when to refresh the lock. LisaReceived on Friday, 18 November 2005 17:00:00 UTC
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Abortion Safety: Doctors V. Nurses & Physician Assistants & Midwives—Part II
Update 4
Too late. 10 October 2013.
Update 4
Moved this to top because the bill allowing non-doctors to perform abortions is on Gov. Brown's desk. He'll likely sign, but those who care about "women's health" should be careful what they wish for. I tender this critique on the very rare chance it will cause Brown to change his mind.
Be sure to first read Part I where the language used in the study and in this analysis is explained. (It will be obvious in your comments whether you have done so.)
Today we analyze the paper, "Safety of Aspiration Abortion Performed by Nurse Practitioners, Certified Nurse Midwives, and Physician Assistants Under a California Legal Waiver" in the American Journal of Public Health (2013 March; 103(3): 454–461) by Tracy A. Weitz and others (link).
Executive Summary
Knowing that many won't or can't read everything below, my main findings are provided here for ease. I wish this could be shorter, but not everything is easy.
The study stinks and can't be trusted. There is every indication the work was done sloppily. Peer review failed to catch some pretty glaring mistakes, a not-rare occurrence. The protocol was a mess. The actual complication rates reported by the study were deflated because of an unwarranted, extremely dicey assumption about missing data. It appears that non-doctors have complications rates about twice that of doctors, even though the authors claim they are "clinically" the same.
Update New readers interested in commenting may also enjoy this article on the genetic fallacy.
Sample Size
The paper reported that 13,807 women agreed to participate in the study. Of these, 2320 were excluded because they were used to train the non-doctors. The complication rates for the training were never given—peer review should have insisted they were. How many mistakes are made by non-doctor trainees as opposed to doctor trainees? We never learn.
That left 11,487. The authors next report "[a]s a result of a protocol violation at 1 site, 79 patients in the physician group were excluded." This should leave 11,408, yet the authors say "The final analytic sample size was 11 487; of these procedures, 5812 were performed by physicians and 5675 were performed by NPs, CNMs, or PAs." It appears that it should read 5733 for physicians.
Now 5812 + 5675 = 11,487. Keep these numbers in mind. They were used for all subsequent calculations.
The authors' concern was whether the killing of lives inside the uteri of women by "doctors" or "physicians" (see Part I for definitions) or by "nurse practitioners," (NPs) "certified nurse midwives," (CNWs) and "physician assistants" (PAs) resulted in greater or lesser rates of "complications."
What is a "complication"? The authors never fully say. There are two parts to any such definition: the time span over which complications occur and the specification of what counts as one. For the time span they say this:
Each patient received $5 and a follow-up survey about medical problems after the [killing] to capture any delayed postprocedure complications. If patients did not return the survey, clinic staff made at least 3 attempts to administer the survey by phone. If the patient experienced post[killing] problems, she was asked a defined set of questions to obtain medical details. Additionally, staff conducted patient chart abstractions 2 to 4 weeks after [killing] to ensure delayed complications were captured.
It appears—but only appears—from this that immediate, i.e. on-site, post-procedure complications were recorded. Others were self-reported by some of the patients from "2 to 4 weeks" after. This is a sloppy protocol. A rigorous one would have specified the exact time window for follow ups. As it is, there could have been complications after two weeks but before four which would be missed by the lax protocol. All these (potential) complications went unrecorded, thus the study underestimates the true complication rate at 4 weeks.
As is typical in medical trials, there was significant loss to follow up, i.e. not every woman could be contacted. The authors say that only 69.5% of the 11,408/11,487 were measured.
Their next step was highly problematic: they decided to code each missing value as "no complication".
They explain this by assuming that any un-contacted woman who did suffer a complication would have gone to "the facility" where she had her killing and reported it. Indeed, 41 women did so. But to say that all 3479/3503 (depending on what grand total we use) did is completely unwarranted and even ridiculous: the women could have seen their own doctors or "rode out" the complications at home, not contacting anybody. This is a shocking error.
We also don't know how many of the women were lost to follow up in each group. Were most lost in the doctor group, perhaps because these women felt fine and because those in the non-doctor group had higher complication rates? We never learn. But, just to have some feel, assume the loss was (roughly) equal in each group. That leaves (ignoring round off) 7928/7983 in total, or 3984/4039 in the doctor group and 3944 in the non-doctor group.
Another error: we never learn whether the complications were ad hoc or whether they were pre-specified. If they were defined, as it appears, "on-the-fly" the authors' statistical findings are of no generality. Peer-review let us down here (as it so often does).
We can still learn some things, however. Minor complications, to the authors, are at least (from their "Outcomes" section):
- incomplete [killing],
- failed [killing],
- bleeding not requiring transfusion,
- hematometra (retention of blood in the uterus),
- infection,
- endocervical injury,
- anesthesia-related reactions,
- uncomplicated uterine perforation,
- symptomatic intrauterine material,
- urinary tract infection,
- possible false passage,
- probable gastroenteritis,
- allergic reaction,
- fever of unknown origin,
- intrauterine device-related bleeding,
- sedation drug errors,
- inability to urinate,
- vaginitis.
Major complications included:
- uterine perforations,
- infections (presumably worse than minor),
- hemorrhage.
To prove this list incomplete, some common complications like sepsis, septic shock, and death are not listed (presumably these and others were 0% for each group; "common" in the sense that these are tracked in other studies).
Whatever a "complication" was—and we must remember that the list was incomplete—the authors expected "rates ranging from 1.3% to 4.4%"; specifically, in their sample-size calculations they used the "rate of 2.5%, which was based on mean complication rates cited in the published literature." Keep this in mind.
Because of the way the study was designed (discussed below), the authors "anticipated a slightly higher number of complications among newly trained NPs, CNMs, and PAs than among the experienced physicians." Was this the case? Here are the complications given in tabular form with rates (percentages) for doctors (using the reported n = 5812 killings) and non-doctors (n = 5675 killings):
|incomplete [killing]
|failed [killing]
|bleeding not requiring transfusion
|endocervical injury
|anesthesia-related reactions
|uncomplicated uterine perforation
|symptomatic intrauterine material
|urinary tract infection
|possible false passage
|probable gastroenteritis
|allergic reaction
|fever of unknown origin
|intrauterine device-related bleeding
|sedation drug errors
|inability to urinate
|uterine perforations; infections; hemorrhage
The authors did not specify the breakdown for major complications for doctor and non-doctors, except to say there were 3 instances in each group. This is a mistake.
Now except for four minor complications the rates were higher for non-doctors. Where the doctors had higher complications, there was only 1 instance of each complication and two of these were uncertain (they might not have been complications after all). This result (the ordering) is the same if the not-guessed at data is used.
Overall, using the reported numbers, doctors' rates were 0.9%, and non-doctors were twice that at 1.8%, which also uses the unwarranted assumption that all those lost to follow up did not suffer a complication. Using just the observed and not guessed-at data, the rates were 52/(3984/4039) = 1.3%/1.28% (doctors) and 100/3944 = 2.5% (non-doctors). Note that these larger rates are more in line with what was expected from the literature.
The raw conclusion is thus: that for these practitioners and at these locations and for these females, doctors had complication rates about half those of non-doctors.
Yet the conclusion of the authors was (from the Abstract):
Abortion complications were clinically equivalent between newly trained NPs, CNMs, and PAs and physicians…
Why the discrepancy? The miracle of statistics. But first, the study design.
Study Design
The study was not blinded. Those recording complications knew who did the procedures and knew the goal of the study. Never a good idea.
Women presenting to the 22 facilities were asked whether they wished to have their killing done by an NP, CNM, or PA. If she agreed, one of the 28 NPs, 5 CNMs, and 7 PAs did so. But sometimes—they never say how often; more sloppiness—she was sent to a doctor if "clinical flow necessitated reorganizing patients". Or she was sent to one of 96 doctors if she requested one.
This loose protocol is problematic. Could women who saw themselves as sicker or tougher to treat (or whatever) have requested doctors more often than non-doctors? It's possible. In which case, the complication rate difference between the two groups would be artificially narrowed.
About half the women (in each group) were "repeat customers", incidentally, with about one-fifth (in each group) having had two more more previous killings.
Statistical Interlude
One real question might be: "Which is less dangerous? Getting a killing from a doctor or a non-doctor?"
Now the evidence before us is that, in this study, (even assuming the reported numbers as accurate) non-doctors were associated with complications at about twice the rate of doctors. But what about future killings? Will they, too, have about twice as many complications for non-doctors?
To not answer that, but to give the appearance of answering that, the authors used two classical (frequentist) statistical methods: one called "noninferiority analysis" and another called "propensity score analysis."
Propensity scores are controversial (Yours Truly does not like them one bit) and are attempts to "match" samples over a set of characteristics. Suppose, for example, the doctor group had more smoker patients than the non-doctor group and so forth for other measured characteristics. Propensity scores would statistically adjust the measured outcome numbers so that characteristics were more "balanced." Or something. Anyway, even with this "trick", the authors found that complications were "2.12…times as likely to result from abortions by NPs, CNMs, and PAs as by physicians." Since this is roughly the same as the raw data, there is no story here.
Or so it would seem. For the authors next engaged a complex statistical model (for the noninferiority piece), once using the propensity scoring and once not, and reported no difference between the groups.
We fit a mixed-effects logistic regression model with crossed random effects to obtain odds ratios that account for the lack of independence between [killings] performed by the same clinician and within the same facility and cross-classification of providers across facilities. We included variables associated with complications in bivariate analyses at P < .05 in the multivariate model in addition to other clinically relevant covariates to adjust for potential confounders.
It is a mystery which "clinically relevant covariates" made it into the models: all of them (from Table 1)? Some? Others not listed? Who knows.
What they should have done is listed, for each practitioner, the number of killings he performed and the number of and kind of complications which resulted. We never learn this information. Site was in the model, as it should have been (some sites presumably have higher complication rates, some lower; just as some practitioners have higher rates, some lower), yet we never learn site-statistics, either. We also never learn if complication type clustered by practitioner or site.
We never see the model (no coefficients for any of the covariates, etc.). All that is reported is that the "corresponding risk differences were 0.70% (95% CI = 0.29, 1.10) in overall complications between provider groups." Well, this is all suspect, especially considering the model is using the dodgy numbers. While there are good reasons for posting the data by practitioner-by site, there is little reason to trust this (hidden) model. It is far too complicated, and there are too many "levers" to push in it to trust that it was done correctly.
In any case, it is the wrong model. What should be given is the prediction: not how many complications there were—we already know that—but how many we could expect in the future assuming conditions remain the same. Would future groups of patients, as did these patients, suffer more complications at the hands of non-doctors? Or fewer? We just don't know.
Wrapping Up
There were 40 non-doctors and 96 doctors doing the 5675 and 5812 killings. That's an average of 142 killings for each non-doctor and 61 killings for each doctor. In other words, the inexperienced non-doctors did more than twice as many killings than doctors. An enormous imbalance!
The study ran from "August 2007 and August 2011." This is curiously long time. Were the same practitioners in the study for its duration? Or did old ones retire or move on and new ones replaced them? We never learn. The authors report that non-doctors had a "mean of 1.5 years" of killing experience but that doctors had 14 years. Given the study lasted four years, and that training was part of the protocol, this appears to say that the non-doctors were not constant throughout the study. How could this affect the complication rates? We never learn.
All in all, this was a very poorly run study. The evidence from it cannot be used to say much any way: except that just because a study appears in a "peer-reviewed journal" it does not mean the results are trustworthy. But we already knew that.
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Let me check if I read the paper correctly.
They decided whether the two rates were similar by whether the absolute difference between them was less than 2%, regardless of what the relative difference was. So, for example, if the doctor rate had been 0.01% and the total rate had been 1.99%, they'd have declared the rates to be about the same.
They then counted all of the non-responses as non-complications, which will decrease the rates and reduce the difference between them, thus making it more likely the rates will be close enough to be within the absolute difference threshold, even if the relative difference is still large.
I might just be being naïve on the statistics involved, but that seems to me an extraordinary way to make a decision.
The great state of California Licenses Physician Doctors (those with a Professional Medical degree as opposed to "Doctors- those with an Academic degree) to kill human life in utero.
According to our US House of Representative, Nancy Pelosi (Dem-CA) this is in order to prevent women from being exposed to the unhealthy practice of shady characters who perform the abortions in back alleys with grubby hands and dirty coat hangers.
In fact she imposes this image to anyone who opposes any facet of abortion on demand.
This has some logic to it, albeit immoral on it's face since it involves the killing of "human life".
"If women are going to get the "procedure" anyway, then the state must provide them the best of care to reduce complications that threaten the woman's health", or so the reasoning goes.
Currently the California Assembly Bill 154 (AB 154) widely supported by Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, seeks increased scope of practice for Nurse Practitioners(NP), Physician Assistants(PA), and Certified Nurse Midwives(CNM) to perform 1st trimester abortion services solely to provide more expedient services.
Currently all women in CA have access to 1st trimester abortion services by physicians, access is not at issue. Since 1st trimester abortion is not emergent, expedient or emergent access to this "care" is not at issue either.
Interestingly, as Briggs has so well pointed out, NP's, PA's and CNM's have documented over twice the complication rate as physician performed abortions (Weitz, et al.)
In other words, The AB 154 supporters believe expedient abortion services by NP's, PA's and CNM's trump women's safety.
Consequently the only conclusion the supporters of AB 154 can have is that "The best medical care for women receiving abortion services" is no longer important, which
I think this is the same position of those grubby handed, coat hanger wielding, back alley abortionists all along.
If AB 154 is passed, over twice as many women receiving abortion services in California will be harmed than would have been.
Pseudo-ethics, pseudo-logic, pseudo-methods, pseudo-science. Real-killer.
This study is a masterpiece of sound science, compared to the Tran small particulate hatchet job for CARB. But you know all this….
I ripped this study (and many like it) apart some time ago. But no one cares. I work at a "great research university" but they don't give a flying f — I mean gee, it's not p. c. so we can't touch that!
These ignorant, narcissistic, brainwashed fem-fools will continue to stomp their feet until in-home aspiration machines are free.
Even under the best care–world class surgeons in full theatre, tragic late-term abortion complications abound. Not so long ago, "mom" found out her 6 month old in-utero twins were conjoined at the legs. Hmm, can't have that, so elective abortion(s)? scheduled.
World-class surgeon gets the twins dead parts out of the uterus of the newly unwilling to be a mom to deformed children, and guess what?
Legs never were conjoined. Nope. 1,2,3,4 separate perfect (now dead) legs.
Attending nurse asks legal friend " do you think they tell the pt?" A=Hell no, can you imagine the liability? From the maker if the US machine on up to the surgeon and the big mean corp hospital! A lawyer's dream case!
The US is facing a significant shortage of doctor's in the coming decades. Around half of all current doctor's will be eligible for retirement within the next 10 to 20 years.
The choice here is not necessarily between the relative safety of Nurse Practitioners, Certified Nurse Midwives, and Physician Assistants vs Doctors, but between Nurse Practitioners, Certified Nurse Midwives, and Physician Assistants and black market providers.
I will accept your word that the paper is flawed, though I am not really in a position to have an independent opinion on the issue.
My point is that whether or not the paper is correct or not may not have any relevance to Gov. Brown's decision to sign or not sign the bill over which you have brought this discussion back to the top.


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By accident I missed the big election party in Stockholm so no drink like this tonight - this is a very good and cheap Strawberry Margaritha in Riga this summer. But I went to another, smaller, party here in my hometown where we enjoyed good food, wine and above all the victory. Not only did we win over the socialists in the parliament elections - we also won in our town together with some other parties and that my friends was totally unexpected. So I am celebrating now and will continue to do so for weeks. Everything is just glorious.
I just came home and turned on the computer to unwind. Hmm, no success. I keep reading the figures and statistics and get more and more excited about our results. For example we have had 1 Member of Parliament representing our party for the whole Stockholm region the last four years. Now we have - tadaaaaa! - 5. Five. I repeat, 5.
Oh gosh. And now when the elections are finally over I will try and concentrate on my cooking again and also I have a few new things to tell you about, like the red kidney bean bread rolls.
Good Night!
September 18, 2006
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Harmonization Documents
A Harmonization Document (HD) is a normative document made available by CENELEC in the three official languages.
The elaboration of a HD includes a public enquiry, followed by an approval by weighted vote of CENELEC national members and final ratification. The Harmonization Document is announced at national level and every conflicting national standard is withdrawn. Having fulfilled these obligations, a member is free to maintain or issue a national standard dealing with a subject within the scope of the HD, provided that it is equivalent in technical content. The number, title and date of each such national standard shall be notified to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre. A Harmonization Document does not conflict with any other EN and HD and is periodically reviewed.
During the elaboration and whole lifetime of the Harmonization Document, standstill applies.
The preparation, the approval and the review of an HD follow the same procedure as that given for an EN.


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For Cycle 18, we have implemented the following changes to APT that may be helpful in preparing Phase II Programs:
- Multiple units for proper motion - Units for proper motion given in catalogs have changed over the years. APT now supports multiple units for proper motion.
- Phase II Mosaic tool - There is a capability for building mosaics in Phase II proposals. See the demonstration movie for more information.
- Bright Object Tool can use GALEX - The Bright Object Tool now can use the GALEX AIS (All Sky) catalog for checking the sensitive UV detectors: ACS/SBC, STIS FUV/NUV MAMAs, and COS.
- WFC3/IR "Death Star" shown in Aladin - The WFC3/IR detector has a circular area of bad pixels near the edge (nicknamed the "Death Star"). This isn't a big deal for a compact object, but could be important in planning an observation of an extended object or creating a mosaic. Aladin now plots a circle to highlight this region.
- New WFC3 Apertures - New subarray apertures have been defined as well as several new apertures which allow for common fiducial points between IR and UVIS.
- Actual orientation for executed visits used in Aladin - If APT has a connection to the visit status information (so you see that some visits have executed) the actual executed orientation will be used in the Aladin display.
- Differencing Tool - Although it is not a new capability, most people were unaware of the tool in APT which can highlight differences between two proposals (or two visits, or two exposures). There is a training movie about the Differencing Tool available.
- Context Sensitive Menus - APT has context sensitive editing menus in the Tree Editor. For instance you can right click on a target to find options like "New Fixed Target" and "Delete" (instead of looking for these options in the menus or remembering the shortcuts/hotkeys).


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|Elvis Express Radio brings news of Elvis releases and provides free online entertainment & news to fans around the world. We DO NOT sell any Elvis products
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August 01, 2016 - By M. Scott Morris for the Daily Journal / Elvis Express Radio
|TUPELO – Two things are true: Elvis Presley, the undisputed King of Rock 'n' Roll, is dead, and his legacy continues to serve people in his hometown.
"When he died, I stood in line from about 12 to right before 6 for the viewing," said Barbara Mallory, 77, of Tupelo. "I got in. I saw him in the casket. It was him."
In the mid-1950s, she was a teenager in Endville when Elvis' version of "Blue Moon of Kentucky" came over the airwaves from WAMY in Amory.
"It was the first song of his I had heard," she said. "I just knew it was different. It was something that was different and I liked it."
A cousin went to school in Belden, so Mallory knew the exciting young singer was coming for a concert at the school gym.
"I grew up – we all did – poor. Our mothers worked at the shirt factory," Mallory said. "If I had any spending money, I had to earn it. The way I ended up making it was by hoeing and
picking cotton for my uncle."
She earned $3 for every 100 pounds of cotton picked. That took her all day, but she had plans for the money.
"My two cousins and I, we knew that his favorite colors were pink and black, so we got pink dresses with big bows," she said. "I only got two pairs of shoes a year. We tried to dye
our white shoes black. They turned out charcoal gray."
The concert was a night she'd never forget, and the fun continued after the music stopped.
"He was under the bleachers. That's where the boys dressing rooms were. We all lined up to get his autograph," Mallory said. "He had on a white lace shirt. I'll never forget that. He
didn't perform in it. There's one just like it in the museum at the birthplace, but it's gold-colored."
She's pretty sure she saw Elvis at the Belden gym again, but that could be a trick of memory. Some of her friends back up the idea of a second show, but people in Elvis world who
document such things need more tangible evidence.
Even so, she saw him at the Tupelo fairgrounds in '55, '56 and '57, then she traveled to Tuscaloosa in '71, followed by a concert in '74 in Memphis.
The last time she saw him was in a casket in August 1977.
When she was 17, Mallory and four others formed the Elvis Presley Sweethearts. They'd thought having a fan club would make it more likely for them to meet their idol at the
That meeting didn't happen, but the five of them got back together to celebrate Elvis' legacy after his death.
"The Sweethearts helped with a yard sale to raise money to build the chapel at the birthplace," Mallory said. "One of the stained-glass windows, we donated for that."
Fast-forward to 2006, and organizers wanted to create a Tupelo Elvis Presley Fan Club in connection with a 50th-anniversary concert in honor of Elvis' 1956 show at the
After the event, officials realized they no longer wanted to be in the fan club business.
"If we wanted it, they'd give it us," Mallory said. "We elected officers. I ended up becoming president because I was the original president. They turned over $2,000 to us. I said, 'The
only way I would be involved is if we could be a service club.'"
Members have been raising money to benefit children for nearly 10 years. The club provides financial support to Regional Rehabilitation Center in Tupelo, Boys & Girls Clubs of
North Mississippi, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Le Bonheur Children's Hospital.
Thousands have been invested into the Tupelo Aquatic Center and the Elvis Presley Birthplace, and $10,000 in scholarships are awarded each year.
"It is a lot of work, a lot of hard work," Mallory said, "but it's worth it."
The club has sold memberships to fans around the world, and money has been raised from sales of "Takin' Care of Cookin'" cookbooks, as well as the Mississippi license plates
that depict a dancing Elvis. In addition, members have sold bricks that surround the statue of Elvis at Fairpark.
The group also has scheduled concerts, like Saturday's show at 6:30 p.m. at St. James Catholic Church's Shelton Hall. Rockabilly hall-of-famer Ace Cannon and the Legends of the
Blues will perform. Tickets are $25.
Visit www.tupeloelvisfanclub.com for more about the concert and the club's ongoing philanthropic efforts. Keith Henley is the current president, but Mallory remains active.
"Anybody who's ever known me knows I'll always be an Elvis fan," she said.
In life, Elvis sang like no one Mallory had heard before. Since his death, Mallory's been part of a team making sure the King of Rock 'n' Roll's legacy lives on.
"Nobody knows how much that man gave away," she said. "No one will ever know."


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After the post I made on Retinoids' use in skin treatments some time ago I came across an article in Marie Claire Magazine covering pros and cons of this well-known anti-aging treatment. I had to make a follow up post and talk about the flipside to Retinoids.
According to some skin experts, Retinoids can actually be damaging to the skin. First of all Retinoids can cause inflammation which in the long run can result in more damage as compared to the beneficial effect on wrinkles. As we all well know, inflammation actually accelerates aging.
Retinoids are also believed to thin the skin and make it "lose it's cushion".
Finally, overuse or misuse of retinoids can lead to chronic skin irritation, dryness and other problems, leaving your skin in a worse state than before the treatment.
However, the experts quoted in this article didn't give clear explanations supporting their anti-retinoids statements. For example, I am not sure why using retinoids leads to skin "losing its cushion". So, in the end, we all should just keep in mind that though there is a negative opinion about retinoids, the jury is still out on this popular anti-aging treatment till we get more information.


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Avco-Everett Research Laboratory, Everett, Mass.
The emission and reabsorption of thermal radiation within a semitransparent material provides a mechanism which supplements ordinary thermal conduction in transporting energy from hotter to colder regions. A method has been developed for the calculation of net radiative flux and temperature distribution within a semi-infinite body which emits, absorbs, and scatters this radiation and which allows some radiation to escape from its surface. This method has been applied to the problem of calculating temperature distributions within bodies in steady-state ablation. The bodies are characterized by their refractive index, surface reflectivity, absorption and scattering coefficient, ablation velocity, and surface temperature as well as by their heat capacity and thermal conductivity. Numerical results are presented for the temperature distribution with various values of these parameters. As a result of this analysis, simple formulas are presented for the temperature distribution very near the surface of an ablating body which are particularly useful in predicting the temperature distribution in the "liquid layer" of a glassy ablating body. These simple formulas are presented for two limiting cases: Case I, in which the liquid layer is so thin that it is almost completely transparent to radiation, and Case II, in which the radiation mean free path is so short that radiative transport can be completely neglected in determining the temperature distribution in the liquid layer. Also resulting from this numerical analysis is a simple relation between the ablation rate and the emissive power of a body in steady-state ablation. The concept of effective conductivity is extended to scattering media. It is noted that this concept fails whenever the temperature or optical properties of the medium change appreciably within one radiation mean free path. In particular, the optical properties change discontinuously at any boundary. Thus, in general, the effective conductivity concept fails near a boundary and results in completely wrong answers for the temperature distribution in the liquid layer.
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Accenture has inaugurated a North American innovation hub in New York for the finance and risk sector to help financial institutions to quickly develop and scale advanced data, analytics and reporting initiatives.
The center, part of Accenture's international innovation network, focuses on developing solutions for finance and risk (F&R) data management, data engineering, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence and reporting.
The center, which will offer consulting, development and operations services across the end-to-end data and analytics solution lifecycle, already has more than 20 industry partnerships with universities, fintech startups and global financial institutions.
Last month, Accenture announced that it is accelerating its investments in innovation in the US including opening 10 new innovation hubs and expanding its regional network of technology delivery centers by the end of 2020.
The company also will invest $1.4bn in training to ensure its people have leading-edge capabilities to serve its clients, while creating 15,000 highly skilled new jobs in the U.S.
The Innovation Center for Finance & Risk in New York will focus on helping financial institutions achieve cost-efficient growth and enhance regulatory controls as they implement a new generation of data and analytics capabilities, powered by big data, cloud and artificial intelligence technologies, to address regulatory reporting (including CCAR, CECL and FRTB), financial and risk reporting.
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June 24, 2012
If you've ever worked with children, you know that the worse age is Middle School or what we call Jr. High here in the city. I taught many grades, but the worst are grades 6-8 where puberty occurs and the onset of emotional problems are in full swing. I worked as a substitute teacher for one day in a Jr. High and vowed "Never again".
No one bothered me but all these kids could do was curse and be disrespectful toward each other. One boy, 14, who had been left back and was taller than the others, threatened to throw another boy out the window because he said something. I called security who couldn't control either boy -> they were both removed from the classroom by two burly male security guards as the rest of the class cheered them on ... and this was not a ghetto school. Thankfully the bell rang to signal the end of the period ... the end of the day ... and the end of my time as a Jr. High School teacher. From there I taught in High School where I enjoyed my time with the students.
Let's look at the saga of Karen Klein, a woman my age, who works as a bus chaperone in upstate NY, and the acts of disrespect and violence against her reported this month. This is far from an isolated incident in schools across the country especially in areas where children are abused and genetic patterning is at a low frequency of behavior. As this is June, I have been reading school teachers who can site similar stories about abuse towards other school employees not just bus drivers and chaperones.
Bullying of teachers more damaging in online era -- AP - June 24, 2012
The bullying that bus monitor Karen Klein endured on a ride home from an upstate New York school was painful and egregious, but also shows how student harassment of teachers and administrators has become more spiteful and damaging in the online era. Much attention has been paid to students who bully students in class, after school and on the Internet. Less has been given to equally disturbing behavior by students who harass instructors, principals and other adults.
Now let's shift to bullying and worse by teachers towards students and the horrific story of Jerry Sandusky also my age - and how he permanently damaged the lives of so many boys, perhaps others who never spoke out. On June 22, 2012, Sandusky was found guilty on 45 of 48 charges of sexual abuse. Did you ever doubt he was guilty?
Why are people surprised at these things, not to mention homosexual acts that many men desire and have to hide due to society. Yes a man can have gay sex outside the home then go home to his wife and have sex with her. Does anything in this reality make sense? No ... and it never did. Hasn't life taught us that humans are sexually driven - that people in power tend to abuse sex, and that having one partner in a lifetime is generally not the norm. From people who study metaphysics and seek their twin flame - to those who want to meet The One and have a normal life - to those who just want a fun night out - sex is a major motivating factor behind everything especially now that men can take a pill and have sex in later years. It is primal and often not about love and fun but about control, abuse, and bullying.
Bullying may start - and be mostly associated with childhood - but it needs to be understood in the bipolar pattern of abuse and victimization which is far more prevalent in the adult world. It's about children who are bullied and abused at home repeating the pattern outside the home and later into adult life. It's about mental illness undiagnosed and unchecked. Is it any wonder people look to metaphysics as a way of handling those who try to control them (bullying) and seek compassion and caring - love and light. We examine mental illnesses from an adult perspective, but the answers always go back to childhood.
Most often when I read clients who tell me they want to move forward but are burned out and blocked, we have to travel back not only to their childhood but to their DNA codes. They say, "I just want to talk about myself not my family," but herein lies the root cause of everything in one's life. We may know about genetic patterning and human disorders, but many people don't. A good psychic reading covers all bases ... for how else can one move forward... What makes me happy is I can cut through sessions of psycho-babble and cut to the chase in one session. If the client's emotional problems need medication - I always recommend seeing a professional. Going holistic ... organic? Why not ... if that works. Whatever it takes to get the brain (computer) to create some degree of balance to attract positive experiences.


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XTERRA Poland this Sunday in Krakow
The third annual XTERRA Poland off-road triathlon, the 12th of 16 events on the 2018 XTERRA European Tour, takes places this Sunday in Krakow. It's the second of six-straight weekend of races which continues next weekend at the XTERRA European Championship in Germany and culminates September 9 in Mons Klint, Denmark.
In the men's elite race XTERRA World Champ Bradley Weiss from South Africa will reignite his friendly rivalry with Kiwi Sam Osborne and a strong contingent of Euro Tour regulars. Arthur Serrieres from France comes in fresh off his win at XTERRA Romania last week, and super swimmers Ben Allen and Max Chane will certainly be pushing the pace early.
In the women's race five of the top six ranked elites will be on the start line, including current No. 1 Carina Wasle. She'll have her hands full with last year's Poland winner Brigitta Poor, who is also fresh off a win in Romania and having a stellar season. Helena Karasková, Morgane Riou, Samantha Kingsford, and Ania Tomica are also on the start line.