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Born: 26 February 1893, in Bexhill-on-sea, England
Dead: 5 November 1955, Mombasa, Kenya
Married to: 1) David Euan Wallace in 1913 - divorced in 1919Occupation: Farmer
2) Charles Gordon in 1919 - divorced in 1923
3) Josslyn Hay in 1923 - divorced in 1929
4) Donald Haldeman in 1930 - divorced in 1938
5) Vincent Soltau in 1939 - divorced in 1945
Children: David John Wallace (1914-1944)
Gerard Euan Wallace (1915-1943)
Diana Denyse Hay (1926-1978)
2) Charles Gordon in 1919 - divorced in 1923
3) Josslyn Hay in 1923 - divorced in 1929
4) Donald Haldeman in 1930 - divorced in 1938
5) Vincent Soltau in 1939 - divorced in 1945
Children: David John Wallace (1914-1944)
Gerard Euan Wallace (1915-1943)
Diana Denyse Hay (1926-1978)
Idina is a woman that in many ways gives a face to the sinful ways of the roaring 20's - living a life that can only be referred to as scandalous.
She was the eldest child of Gilbert Sackville, 8th Earl de la Warr and Muriel Brassey. Later came the sister Avice, called Avie, (1897-1985) and brother Herbrand, called Buck, (1900-1976). Idina's father was of old English nobility, but her mother came from a middle class family that had made a lot of money. The couple was a part of the highest nobility, and so were their children. her father was notoriously unfaithful and eventually moved in with a cancan dancer. Muriel chose to divorce him - being unfaithful was common, leaving the family was quite another matter. This happened in 1902 and the children came to live with their very politically active mother.
In spite of this blemish Idina could be presented at court and join the debutantes, looking for a suitable husband. She would catch the eye of one of Britain's most eligible bachelors, David Euan Wallace and they married in 1913. They had two sons, David and Gerard, and everything should have wonderful. But there was the small matter of the First World War, and their inability to stay faithful. They were brought up in a culture that saw no problems with liaisons of this kind but it still meant the end to their marriage. At the end of the war Euan returned from France where he had been stationed, but the marriage collapsed when he showed no interest in his wife and turned to other women. Idina saw no reason to wait for her husband to leave (like her mother had). She left him, their children (that she would not see again till they were both grown up men) and their home. She married Charles Gordon as soon as she could, a man who happened to be available for the job at the right time and they moved to Kenya, the place that would henceforth be her home.
The second marriage soon fell apart. Idina had a great sexual appetite and had a hard time, not to say it was impossible for her, being with just one man - and in this case it was not even one she cared that much about to begin with. But she stayed in Africa, being a part of the 'Happy Valley Crowd' which the press had labelled her and her friends - people who spent far too much time partying, sleeping around and taking drugs. At the same time Idina worked hard on her farm (though the press did not report that). Idina was known to be not a great beauty but very charming and a great hostess and companion.
Her third marriage, to Josslyn, Joss, Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll, in 1923, had better chances of succeeding. Neither expected fidelity and they both liked to party. They had the daughter Diana, always called Dinan (who was sent to live with Avie in England when she was 12 to get a proper education - she would not meet her mother till she was an adult, married and had a child of her own). But Joss still left her for another woman.
Idina would move on from that in her constant search for her happy life. She married Donald Haldeman, which turned out to be a bit of a mistake - he was not prone to take lightly on infidelity and he threatened, several times, to shoot her lovers. The marriage ended in yet another divorce.
Idina's last marriage was to Vincent Soltau - it was the last time Idina would marry, and after that she took her maiden name back and once more became Idina Sackville. Life had been pretty good to Idina between the two world wars, though her family life was not the best she had her friends and her farm and her parties and her lovers. With the second world war, age and general decline this dwindled. Several of her friends passed away, through suicide, drugs and so on. Joss, still a part of the same crowd, was murdered. Idina also met both her sons, but even though they had some fun together, they were never reunited as a proper family, and they both died in the war.
Idina herself died in 1955, only 62 years old, from cancer. By her side was her last lover James, Jimmy, Bird. Her brother flew down to bury her, next to her son Gerard. Her rather outrageous behaviour would make her known as 'The Bolter' in novels by Nancy Mitford, and her great granddaughter, Frances Osborne, would write her biography with that name - it came out earlier this year.


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The widow of a former Crestwood resident who died of lymphoma in 2003 sued the village and its former mayor today, claiming that contaminated drinking water caused his death.John Maan De Kok, who lived in Crestwood from 1969 to 1990, received a diagnosis in 2000 of stage IV non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, according to the suit. He died three years later at age 39, leaving behind a wife and two young children, said attorney Michael Mertz.
"I think it's unconscionable that the Village of Crestwood and its leaders placed the health of their residents at risk, and I think this family paid the ultimate price," Mertz said.
A Tribune investigation published last month found that Crestwood leaders knowingly used the well to provide drinking water for more than two decades after the state Environmental Protection Agency found the well to be contaminated with toxic chemicals. While the village notified the EPA the well would be shut down and told residents that it was using only treated water from Lake Michigan, officials continued to use the well until December 2007, village records show.

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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is allowing researchers to create the most precise and complete map to date of the moon's complex, heavily cratered landscape.
Here LOLO captures a topographic map of the moon's southern hemisphere. The false colors indicate elevation: red areas are highest and blue lowest.
The Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) works by propagating a single laser pulse through a Diffractive Optical Element that splits it into five beams. These beams then strike and are backscattered from the lunar surface.
From the return pulse, the LOLA electronics determines the time of flight which, accounting for the speed of light, provides a precise measurement of the range from the spacecraft to the lunar surface. Range measurements, combined with accurate tracking of the spacecraft's location, are used to build a map revealing the contours of the lunar landscape. The five beams create a two-dimensional spot pattern that unambiguously reveals slopes.
This shot of the northern hemisphere is an example of how accurate the new maps are than ever before.
"The LOLA data also allow us to define the current and historical illumination environment on the moon," said Neumann. Lunar illumination history is important for discovering areas that have been shaded for long periods. Such places, typically in deep craters near the lunar poles, act like cold storage, and are capable of accumulating and preserving volatile material like water ice.
The landscape in polar craters is mysterious because their depths are often in shadow. The new LOLA dataset is illuminating details of their topography for the first time.
LOLA topographic map centered on the Apollo 15 landing site, highlighting the Apennine and Caucasus ranges and the fairly subtle wrinkling in Serenitatis.
In this scene taken from an animation created by the space agency, lunar craters larger than 12.5 miles in diameter "light up."
A topographic map shows Orientale basin (580 miles in diameter), the largest young crater on the Moon. This basin formed from a projectile that hit the Moon about 3.8 billion years ago and penetrated deep into the lunar crust, ejecting millions of cubic miles of material. These large basins show the effects of such impacts on early planetary crusts in the inner solar system -- including the Earth.
Data from the LRO spacecraft's Diviner camera has been superimposed on a mosaic of Hansteen Alpha, which NASA believes is a silica-rich volcano. Red and orange colors indicate regions highly rich in silica, a chemical compound found in quartz and known for its hardness.
During its mission, the Galileo spacecraft returned a number of images of Earth's only natural satellite. Galileo surveyed the moon on Dec. 7, 1992, on its way to explore the Jupiter system in 1995-1997. This color picture shows the moon as that craft captured it; on the upper-left is the dark, lava-filled Mare Imbrium, Mare Serenitatis (middle left), Mare Tranquillitatis (lower left), and Mare Crisium, the dark circular feature toward the bottom of the mosaic. Also visible in this view are the dark lava plains of the Marginis and Smythii Basins at the lower right.
A map of the western nearside of the moon. The blue smooth area on the right is known as Oceanus Procellarum, a relatively young and less cratered area flooded by lunar lavas mid-way through the moon's history. The area to the left is more heavily cratered highlands, colored red and white to indicate the highest elevations.
A lunar topographic map shows one of the most densely cratered regions on the Moon. The topography is derived from over 2.4 billion shots made by one camera aboard the NASA spaceship (called the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter [LOLA] instrument). These most heavily cratered areas are among the best candidates to study and explore to understand the earliest lunar history.
An outline of the craters mapped on the surface of the moon from Lunar Orbiter Laser altimeter (LOLA) data superimposed on a rendering of the moon's surface. The moon went through an intense bombardment around 3.9 billion years ago, before Saturn and Jupiter were somehow shifted, lessening the gravity that had been pulling meteors into the planets. This left the moon's surface scarred and cratered , and it's likely any water would have been scattered and evaporated.
What's the moon made of? This map shows variations in the composition of the moon, as measured by a radiometer. The map is centered on the lunar nearside, which is visible from Earth, between 90 W and 90 E. The iron- and magnesium-rich areas appear red, while the calcium-rich highland appear blue-green. Highland areas with high silica (labeled) and enhanced sodium regions (purple circles) appear dark blue.
On the left is part of the familiar part of the Moon observed from Earth (the eastern part of the nearside). In the middle left-most part of the globe is Mare Tranquillitatis (light blue) the site of the Apollo 11 landing, and above this an oval region (Mare Serenitatis; dark blue) the site of the Apollo 17 landing. Most of the dark blue areas are lunar maria, low lying regions composed of volcanic lava flows that formed after the heavily cratered lunar highlands (and are thus much less cratered).
Since June 2009, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been circling the moon, compiling data for the first full topographic map of its surface. The data implies that 3.9 billion years ago asteroids pounded the moon (and the Earth), likely evaporating water supplies.


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New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has attracted national attention for his public health policy reforms. The policy process behind the reform program has received less scrutiny, especially the use of research by policymakers. We show that the process used to develop, promote, and evaluate polices is heavily based on five types of data and research. New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene staff conducted in-depth appraisals of existing published research, used local health surveys and private laboratory surveillance data, engaged in "shoe-leather" field research, formed research collaborations within and outside government, and disseminated research to legitimize policy changes. The findings are based on 27 semi-structured key-informant interviews with individuals from a range of organizations engaged in implementing or influencing public health policies in New York City.
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By Cory Bilton
Numerous factors go into determining the value of an injured client's case. Initial injuries, cost and duration of medical care, long-term injuries, and the limitation of a person's activities are just a few of the factors to consider in determining the value of a personal injury claim. How about the injured person's FICO credit score? It's not a factor that we consider. However, the insurance industry is adopting new methods to search for just this kind of unconventional connection. They call it predictive modeling and it is Big Data's latest promise to the insurance industry. Since most personal injury cases involve insurance adjusters and defense attorneys hired by insurers, predictive modeling will have a significant impact on the future of personal injury law.
What is Predictive Modeling?
Predictive modeling is the process of using statistical methods and large sets of data to look for hidden connections in the data. The idea is that the hidden connections may be useful predictors of an individual customer or claim outcome. For example, an insurer can collect data on an individual driver through a telematics device, look for predictors of the likelihood of claims within that data, and then set the price of the policy. The same method can be applied to claims too. As data becomes easier to collect and analyze, insurers are learning to search for anything that would allow them to predict the outcome of claims quickly or reduce costs.
Haven't Insurers Always Looked for Predictors?
Since the very first insurance agreement, insurers have tried to predict the future to price the policy. Usually the information the insurer uses is easy to collect or is intuitively obvious. For example, auto insurers have long considered the amount of property damage to the car as a predictor of the severity of the driver's injuries. Predictive modeling aims to dig deeper. Instead of just focusing on obvious predictors, predictive modeling calls first for collecting a huge pool of data about your users. Newly developed statistical methods are then applied to find the connections in the data. The predictive factors are not initially known. Instead, they are discovered from the huge pool of data itself. The goal is to discover the less obvious, or hidden connection between a piece of information and an insurance claim outcome.
How Widespread is Predictive Modeling in the Insurance Claims Process?
Predictive modeling has developed alongside other Big Data analytics. For the insurance industry, it's a new tool that is growing in popularity. A recent survey by Towers Watson found that 48% of large insurers "are either using, are in the process of using or are nearly ready to roll out predictive analytics for fraud detection . . . ." Further, 26% of large insurers are already using, or close to implementing, predictive modeling to triage claims for adjuster assignments. By comparison, 80% of large insurers are using predictive modeling in pricing, risk selection, and underwriting. So it's likely that predictive modeling will become a bigger part of the claims process over time.
How Will Predictive Modeling Effect Personal Injury Law?
1. Settlement Offers Will Become Less Predictable
Predictive modeling is all about the hidden, less obvious predictors of claim outcomes. Thus, an insurer's decisions will become increasingly opaque as it implements predictive models. In fact, newly found predictors in the claims process are likely to be closely held trade secrets by insurers. This will make personal injury cases less predictable. This unpredictability might not always be on the low end; some initial offers may be higher than expected. For example, if a personal injury case has a hidden factor that the insurer has identified as being a high-cost claim, then the insurer may offer more up front in an attempt to settle the claim quickly. But on the other hand, if an injured person's claim happens to possess the hidden factors that the insurer has determined indicate fraud, the adjuster may respond with extra suspicion and a low offer. Until these hidden predictors become known among personal injury lawyers, each side will fail to see eye to eye more often.
2. More Cases Will Result in Litigation
Juries won't give much weight to esoteric statistical connections discovered by predictive modeling. Even if the hidden connection is statistically demonstrable, if it defies common sense defense attorneys will not make the argument at trial. Therefore, while pre-litigation claims maybe increasingly controlled by statistical models, once a case goes into litigation, predictive modeling will go out the window. Jurors are human. If the hidden connection resulting from a predictive model is too hidden for intuition, then it's not going to help sway a jury. Therefore, initially at least, the antidote to predictive modeling is litigation.
3. New Public Policy Concerns Over Privacy and Information Use
What happens if predictive modeling finds a connection between the claimant's religious beliefs and claim outcome? How about a connection between a claimant's race or national origin and claim outcome? What kind of information may an insurer consider and what kind of information is off-limits? With statistical models that specifically attribute certain information as predictors of claim outcomes, should we, as a society, forbid the consideration of certain predictors? Are there certain types of information that are constitutionally protected? These are weighty questions. Since most insurance regulation is governed at the state level, these decisions will initially occur there. One state may permit the use of predictors that another state prohibits. As data becomes easier to get, can personal injury lawyers prevent certain information about their clients from being divulged? In this area, I can only posit questions, but it seems quite certain to me that these will be issues for public discussion.
Predictive modeling is happening. Insurers are finding new ways to use it each day. We may discover new determining factors to value personal injury cases. Or maybe not. Maybe we find that predictive modeling just produces a lot of correlations and no causation. But predictive modeling's long term use, and usefulness, is going to require more discussion and debate. Using hidden factors to determine the value of an injured person's case may ultimately cause more harm than good. But predictive modeling's current promise to insurers is too good to pass up.
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With the jubilation of American Kurt Caselli's win of Stage Seven in the 2013 Dakar Rally, there comes bad news regarding the passing of race competitor, Thomas Bourgin. Killed during the liaison section of the seventh stage's special timed section, the French rider was killed when his KTM race bike collided with a Chilean police vehicle.
No other details of the crash have been released by race officials, though the incident highlights the risks that riders undertake while racing The Dakar. At only 25 years of age, Bourgin was competing in his first Dakar Rally, and was in an impressive 68th position at the end of Stage Six. Our thoughts are with Bourgin's family and friends today.


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The Chronicle of Higher Education
December 9, 2005
Researchers are learning more about chronic dawdlers but see no easy cure for procrastination
Joseph R. Ferrari has a name for people who dillydally all the time. Sometimes, he spits out the term as if it were stale gum or a polysyllabic cuss word. When he dubs you a "chronic procrastinator," however, he does not mean to insult you. He is just using the psychological definition for someone who habitually puts things off until tomorrow, or next week, or whenever. The afflicted need not feel lonely: Research suggests that the planet is crawling with dawdlers.
Procrastinators vex Mr. Ferrari, a psychology professor at DePaul University, yet he owes much to the dilatorily inclined. Without them he could not have helped blaze a trail of inquiry into procrastination (the word comes from the Latin verb procrastinare — "to defer until morning"). The professor is as prompt as the sports car that shares his name, but he sees the symptoms of compulsive stalling everywhere.
Mr. Ferrari and other scholars from around the world are finding that procrastination is more complex — and pervasive — than armchair analysts might assume. And helping people climb out of their pits of postponement is not as simple as giving them a pill or a pep talk.
The task is particularly challenging in the hothouses of procrastination known as college campuses. Free time, long-term deadlines, and extracurricular diversions conspire against academic efficiency. Students are infamous for not tackling their assignments until the jaws of deadlines are closing.
Professors may call such students slackers or sloths; psychologists define them as "academic procrastinators." According to recent studies, about 70 percent of college students say they typically procrastinate on starting or finishing their assignments (an estimated 20 percent of American adults are chronic procrastinators).
Choosing to do one task while temporarily putting another on hold is simply setting priorities, which allows people to cross things off their to-do lists one at a time. Procrastination is when one keeps reorganizing that list so that little or nothing on it gets done.
For some students, that inertia has costs. Researchers say academic procrastination raises students' anxiety and sinks their self-esteem. The behavior also correlates with some of higher education's thorniest problems, including depression, cheating, and plagiarism among students.
Dozens of colleges have created counseling sessions or workshops for procrastinators. Yet Mr. Ferrari and other researchers say many institutions treat the problem superficially instead of helping students analyze their own thought processes and behavioral patterns in order to change them. Give a hard-core procrastinator nothing more than time-management tips, they warn, and you might as well hand him a page of hieroglyphics.
"Telling a chronic academic procrastinator to 'just do it' is not going to work," Mr. Ferrari says. "It's like telling a clinically depressed person to cheer up."
Learning About Loafers
Laggards have always been tough cases. Even God could not inspire St. Augustine of Hippo, the fourth-century philosopher and theologian, to act right away. As he slowly came to accept Christianity, Augustine wrote in Confessions, the future bishop wavered. Clinging to temporal pleasures, Augustine famously asked of God: "Give me chastity and continency — but not yet."
Late in his life, Leonardo da Vinci, the genius who missed deadlines, lamented his unfinished projects. Shakespeare's Hamlet pondered — and pondered — killing his uncle Claudius before sticking him in the final act. Grady Tripp, the English professor in Michael Chabon's novel Wonder Boys, couldn't finish his second book because he refused to stop writing it.
In a world of unmade beds and unwritten essays, the postponement of chores is commonplace. Now and again, humans put aside tasks with long-term rewards to savor immediate pleasures, like ice cream and movies, through a process called "discounting." For chronic procrastinators, however, discounting is a way of life.
The scientific study of procrastination was (appropriately enough) a late-blooming development relative to the examinations of other psychological problems. Only in the 1980s did researchers start unlocking the heads of inveterate loafers, who suffer from more than mere laziness.
Mr. Ferrari, a co-editor of Procrastination and Task Avoidance: Theory, Research, and Treatment (Plenum Publications, 1995), has helped clarify the distinction between delaying as an act and as a lifestyle. Not every student who ignores assignments until the last minute is an across-the-board offender, known to psychologists as a "trait procrastinator." Many students who drag their feet on term papers might never delay other tasks, such as meeting friends for dinner, showing up for work, or going to the dentist.
As Mr. Ferrari explains in Counseling the Procrastinator in Academic Settings (American Psychological Association, 2004), a book he edited with three other scholars, there is no typical profile of an academic procrastinator (though family dynamics may influence the behavior). Studies have found no significant relationship between procrastination and intelligence or particular Myers-Briggs personality types.
Research does show that academic procrastinators tend to lack self-confidence, measure low on psychologists' tests of "conscientiousness," get lost in wishful thoughts, and lie low during group assignments.
In one study, Mr. Ferrari found that students at highly selective colleges reported higher rates of academic procrastination than students from less selective institutions. In another, the motives for academic procrastination among students at an elite college differed from students' motives at a nonselective one (the former put off assignments because they found them unpleasant, while the latter did so because they feared failure or social disapproval).
Mr. Ferrari identifies two kinds of habitual lollygaggers. "Arousal procrastinators" believe they work best under pressure and tend to delay tasks for the thrill. "Avoidant procrastinators" are self-doubters who tend to postpone tasks because they worry about performing inadequately, or because they fear their success may raise others' expectations of them.
Other findings complicate fear-of-failure theories. Some researchers say an inability to control impulses explains procrastinators best. And a recent study by Mr. Ferrari and Steven J. Scher, an associate professor of psychology at Eastern Illinois University, suggests that people who are typically negative avoid assignments that do not challenge them creatively or intellectually, whereas people who are typically positive more easily tackle less-stimulating tasks.
Science is not likely to resolve the mysteries of procrastination anytime soon. After all, among researchers a debate still rages over the very definition of procrastination. Mr. Scher suspects there are different types of the behavior, especially if one defines it as not doing what one thinks one should do.
"A common thing that many people put off is doing the dishes," Mr. Scher says. "But there are also times when those same people will all of a sudden find that doing the dishes is the most important thing they have to do — thereby putting off some other type of task."
Homework-Eating Dogs
Psychologists do agree on one thing: Procrastination is responsible for most of the world's homework-eating dogs. Where procrastinators go, excuses follow.
Students who engaged in academic procrastination said more than 70 percent of the excuses they gave instructors for not completing an assignment were fraudulent (the lies were most prevalent in large lecture classes taught by women who were "lenient"), Mr. Ferrari found in one study. In another, procrastinating students generally said they experienced a positive feeling when they fibbed; although they did feel bad when they recalled the lie, such remorse did not seem to prevent them from using phony excuses in the future.
Mr. Ferrari has also experimented with giving bonus points for early work. In a study published in the journal Teaching of Psychology, he found that such incentives prompted 80 percent of students to fulfill a course requirement to participate in six psychological experiments by a midpoint date. On average, only 50 percent had done so before he offered the inducement.
Mr. Ferrari believes that academe sends mixed messages about procrastination. Most professors talk about the importance of deadlines, but some are quick to bend them, particularly those who put a premium on being liked by their students. In one of Mr. Ferrari's studies, 90 percent of instructors said they did not require the substantiation of excuses for late work.
"We're not teaching responsibility anymore," Mr. Ferrari says. "I'm not saying we need to be stringent, strict, and inflexible, but we shouldn't be spineless. When we are overly flexible, it just teaches them that they can ignore the deadlines of life."
Ambivalence about deadlines pervades American culture. People demand high-speed results, whether they are at work or in restaurants. Yet this is also a land in which department stores encourage holiday shoppers to postpone their shopping until Christmas Eve, when they receive huge discounts. And each year on April 15, television news reporters from coast to coast descend upon post offices to interview (and celebrate) people who wait until the final hours to mail their tax returns.
"As a society," Mr. Ferrari says, "we tend to excuse the person who says 'I'm a procrastinator,' even though we don't like procrastinators."
But do all people who ignore assignments until the 11th hour necessarily suffer or do themselves harm?
One of Mr. Ferrari's former students, Mariya Zaturenskaya, a psychology major who graduated from DePaul last spring, says some last-minute workers are motivated, well organized, and happy to write a paper in one sitting. Although students who cram for tests tend to retain less knowledge than other students, research has yet to reveal a significant correlation between students' procrastination and grades.
"Some students just need that deadline, that push," Ms. Zaturenskaya says. "Some people really are more efficient when they have less time."
Treating the Problem
Before Jill Gamble went to college, she had little time to waste. As a high-school student, she had earned a 3.75 grade-point average while playing three sports. Each night she went to practice, ate dinner, did her homework, and went to bed.
After matriculating at Ohio State University, however, her life lost its structure. At first, all she had to do was go to classes. Most days she napped, spent hours using Instant Messenger, and stayed up late talking to her suite mates.
As unread books piled up on her desk, she told herself her professors were too demanding. The night before her Sociology 101 final, she stayed up drinking Mountain Dew, frantically reading the seven chapters she had ignored for weeks. "My procrastination had created a lot of anxiety," Ms. Gamble recalls. "I was angry with myself that I let it get to that point."
She got a C-minus in the class and a 2.7 in her first quarter. When her grades improved only slightly in the second quarter, Ms. Gamble knew she needed help. So she enrolled in a course called "Strategies for College Success."
The five-year-old course uses psychological strategies, such as the taking of reasonable risks, to jolt students out of their bad study habits. Twice a week students spend class time in a computer lab, where they get short lectures on study skills. Students must then practice each skill on the computer by using a special software program.
Instructors use weekly quizzes to cut procrastination time from weeks to days and to limit last-minute cramming. The frequent tests mean one or two low scores will not doom a student's final grade, ideally reducing study-related stress.
Students complete assignments at their own pace, allowing faster ones to stay engaged and slower ones to keep up, yet there are immovable dates by which students must finish each set of exercises. Enrollees learn how to write and follow to-do lists that reduce large tasks, such as writing an essay, into bite-size goals (like sitting down to outline a single chapter of a text instead of reading the whole book).
Each student must also examine his or her use of rationalizations for procrastinating. The course's creator, Bruce W. Tuckman, a professor of education at Ohio State, says he also teaches students to recognize the underlying cause of procrastination, which he describes as self-handicapping.
"It's like running a full race with a knapsack full of bricks on your back," Mr. Tuckman says. "When you don't win, you can say it's not that you're not a good runner, it's just that you had this sack of bricks on your back. When students realize that, it can be easier for them to change."
Many of the worst procrastinators end up earning the highest grades in the class, Mr. Tuckman says. And among similar types of students with the same prior cumulative grade-point averages, those who took the class have consistently outperformed those who did not take it.
After completing the course, Ms. Gamble says, she stopped procrastinating and went on to earn a 3.8 the next semester. Since then, she has made the dean's list regularly, and now helps counsel her procrastinating peers at Ohio State's learning center.
"In workshops, we'll say, 'How many of you identify yourselves as procrastinators?' and they will throw their hands in the air and giggle, even though procrastination is a very negative thing," Ms. Gamble says. "Why do we do this so willingly? The answer is that let we let ourselves procrastinate. If someone was doing it to us, we wouldn't be so willing to raise our hands."
A Universal Problem
Psychologists generally agree that the behavior is learned and that students choose to procrastinate, even though they may feel helpless to stop. Mr. Ferrari, the DePaul professor, describes the behavior as a self-constructed mental trap that people can escape the same way smokers can kick the habit.
Mr. Tuckman qualifies his optimism by saying one cannot hope to cure procrastination so much as reduce it.
"It's very hard to go from being a hard-core procrastinator to a nonprocrastinator," says Mr. Tuckman, one of many researchers who has developed a scale that measures levels of procrastination. "You're just so used to doing it, there's something about it that reinforces it for you."
Scholars are learning that procrastination knows no borders. At a conference of international procrastination researchers this summer at Roehampton University, in England, Mr. Ferrari and several other scholars presented a paper that compared the prevalence rates of chronic procrastination among adults in Australia, England, Peru, Spain, the United States, and Venezuela. They found that arousal and avoidant procrastinators were equally prevalent in all of the nations, with men and women reporting similar rates of each behavior.
That is not to say all cultures share the same view of procrastination. Karem Diaz, a professor of psychology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, has studied the behavior among Peruvians, whose expectations of timeliness tend to differ from those of Americans.
"In Peru we talk about the 'Peruvian time,'" Ms. Diaz writes in an e-mail message. "If we are invited to a party at 7 p.m., it is rude to show on time. ... It is even socially punished. Therefore, not presenting a paper on time is expected and forgiven."
Few Peruvians are familiar with the Spanish word "procrastinación," which complicates discussions of the subject. "Some people think it is some sexual behavior when they hear the word," Ms. Diaz says. Yet the professor has been intrigued to find that some Peruvians identify themselves as procrastinators, and experience the negative consequences of the behavior even though social norms encourage it.
Strategies for helping people bridge the gap between their actions and intentions vary. A handful of colleges in Belgium, Canada, and the Netherlands have just begun to develop counseling programs that draw on cognitive and behavioral research. The early findings: Helping students understand why they dawdle and teaching them self-efficacy tends to lessen their procrastination — or at least make it more manageable.
Timothy A. Pychyl, an associate professor of psychology at Carleton University, in Ottawa, Ontario, says group meetings are a promising approach, particularly those in which students make highly specific goals and help each other resist temptations to slack off. "For many people, it's an issue of priming the pump ... as simple as making a deal with oneself to spend 10 minutes on a task," Mr. Pychyl says. "At least the next day they can see themselves as having made an effort as opposed to doing nothing at all."
Clarry H. Lay, a retired psychology professor at York University, in Toronto, who continues to counsel student procrastinators, uses personality feedback to promote better "self-regulation" among students. In group sessions, he discusses the importance of studying even when one is not in the "right mood" and of setting aside a regular place to work. Some participants become more confident and efficient. Others see improvements, only to experience relapses.
Each semester one in five students miss the first session. Some sign up early but never show, while others arrive late or attend sporadically. But Mr. Lay understands. The counselor is a chronic procrastinator himself.


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"Moving Forward in Sisterhood" on TDOR
- November 19, 2013
The following post comes from Joanna, a young woman who divides her time between her job for a local hotel chain and promoting awareness of transgender issues as a volunteer with the D.C. non-profit, Casa Ruby.Joanna and her family are featured in Before God: We are all Family, a new short film from the HRC Religion and Faith Program's A La Familia project.
"Go play outside!" my mother barked to which I replied "I don't want to sweat." This was a frequent conversation between my mother and I in her constant effort to get me to do more "masculine" activities. In turn I would escape to my neighbor Alini's house. There I would find solace in her room where I could play with her dolls and brush her hair. Oh how I longed to have a sister, someone to go shopping with and do each other's nails.
In high school I gravitated to girls living bi-curiously through their femininity. Shortly after high school I started to grow out my hair and though all my cis-gender girlfriends were supportive they could not relate to what I was going through. I was a woman alone on an island.
In my effort to find someone to relate to I turned to the internet. That's where I met Dayana. She was a beautiful young trans Latina 3.5 hours away in nearby Miami. We were the same age and in the very beginning stages of transitioning. To the outside world we probably looked like cross-dressers but we didn't care, we felt fierce. In Dayana I found that sister I so longed for, and even though we hadn't met in person we slowly began to develop a sisterhood.
Months went by and I noticed stores that displayed "help wanted" signs wouldn't even entertain the idea of allowing me to fill out an application. I started to find the emotional and financial burden too much to take on and eventually I gave in to the pressure and cut off my hair. I told my new sister that I was going to hold off transitioning until I felt more stable. Being the friend that she was she supported my decision.
A few years went by and I found myself in DC. No longer plagued by joblessness, I was living in a city that not only granted me rights previously denied to me but fought relentlessly to protect them. I realized that the moment I was waiting for had arrived. I had a good job in an amazing city and I was living on my own and nothing could hold me back. Inspired by the young trans-women from a local community center that I volunteered at I decided it was time. I could no longer deny myself the privilege to be the true me, the me that I suppressed for far too long. I called Dayana and told her I was going to begin taking hormones. She was pleasantly surprised and told me she didn't think I was ever going to do it.
As I began to come out to my friends and family it was Dayana and these newly formed friendships that helped me along the way and celebrated with me the minor milestones of my transition. I started hormones in October of 2012. In February I would go full time and in March I would legally change my name and gender.
Unlike Florida, DC was a great place to transition; starting hormones was as easy as picking up the phone and scheduling an appointment. Even the local university's law school held free clinics to facilitate in name changes.
But not everything in DC was roses. Just two weeks after my arrival to the District a young Deoni Jones was brutally murdered while waiting for the bus on the streets of our nation's capital. Since then there have been many other incidents of trans-women being harassed and beaten, one was shot another one was stabbed repeatedly. The thought that one my newly beloved sisters, that I so badly wished for growing up, could be taken away from me at any point was a reality that was often too real.
Every Transgender Day of Remembrance we reflect upon our sisters that have been taken away from us all too soon, but this year I want to celebrate my sisters that have enriched my life in countless ways. From Dayana, who lets me go on and on about guy problems; to Ashley and Anahomi who fill my days with laughter; to Ruby and Consuela who fill me with their invaluable wisdom and guide me through my transition; to Laverne Cox and Janet Mock who constantly inspire me to be much more than what society expects from me. To say that I have been profoundly blessed for having known these women would be a vast understatement.
I was told a few months ago "Joanna, you don't have to tell people you're trans, no one would know." I thought to myself I suppose I could just keep living my life below the radar and not have to worry about the harassment that permeates our community, it's not like I owe anyone anything. Boy, was I wrong. The more I educated myself on the trans-women that came before me the more I realized the debt to which I owed them for laying down the ground work so that I could live my truth. And to sit idle and keep my mouth shut while another one of my sisters is attacked and murdered later to be disposed of as if her life did not matter would be a disgrace to the courage in which these women so fearlessly lived their lives.
So this year as we reflect upon our sisters lost and celebrate the sisterhoods we've forged, let's renew our commitment to lifting up our voices; if not for Deoni, then for the countless women that came before her and the countless to come, because to do otherwise would be a disservice to their legacy. Lets move forward in sisterhood embracing and encouraging one another, because there is still so much work to be done.
Tomorrow, November 20, is Transgender Day of Remembrance. Find details on events in your area by visiting hrc.org/tdor.


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Lesson Summary
In this activity, students learn some of the pitfalls of doing surveys.They also learn to examine the shape of data, including data clusters,the range and typical values. This Cyberchase activity is motivated by a video segment in which the CyberSquad searchesfor Hacker's castle based on a survey of where town residents have lastseen him.
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Suggested Time
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Media Resources
Using Data Clusters to Find Hacker QuickTime Video
Handout: "What's Typical, Based on the Shape of Data Charts?"
Assessment: Level A
Assessment: Level B
Answer Key
The Lesson
Part I: Learning Activity
1. Tell the students that the CyberSquad is trying to locate Hacker'scastle, where Dr. Marbles is hidden. In Castleblanca, there are toomany castles to check, so the CyberSquad conducts a surveyasking people to put a mark on a map where they have seen a tall manwith a pointy chin and cape. Based on the data, they find Draculanot Hacker.
2. Tell the students that they will see a video segment in which theCyberSquad tries to figure out how to find Hacker instead of Dracula.
3. Show the Using Data Clusters to Find Hacker QuickTime Video, andask students to keep track of as many things as they can, which canmake one's data set lead to the wrong predictions or conclusions.
4. Discuss the students' ideas.
5. Distribute the Handout: "What's Typical, Based on the Shape of Data Charts?".
6. Ask students to examine the data collected by Inez and Matt and to answer the questions.
7. Discuss their answers, noting that the two data sets differ onlyby one inch, suggesting perhaps that one kid measured the band memberswith their shoes on and one kid measured them with their shoes off.This is a systematic error in data collection.
Part II: Assessment
Assessment: Level A (proficiency): Students are asked to examine a table of data showingthe average number of hours of sleep for males and females in differentage groups, and to identify the range, mode, and some othercharacteristics of the data set.
Assessment: Level B (above proficiency): Students are asked to examine a scatter plot ofdata showing records of the speed of cars and the time of day they wererecorded along a certain stretch of road, to identify clusters of data,and to decide when it would be best to set up a speed trap.


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Upon first glance a fur trapper hat might bring to mind the type of gun-toting Russian minx that James Bond would have an affair with, or even a drab Marge Gunderson from the movie Fargo. On further inspection, however, you'll find that when done right, the trapper hat has the potential to make your winter wardrobe stand out from the crowd. It's also a particularly relevant choice right now, given that faux fur is a huge fall/winter trend.
As seen at the Michael Kors Fall 2009 RTW show (pictured top, left), the trapper hats on the runway were all about 80s neon. The bold pops of color are definitely the way to go if you don't mind standing out in a crowd. Kate Spade's Bisous Trapper Hat ($195) has a similar, hot pink shade and is made of a luxurious faux fur, while Topshop's Double Pom Pom Trapper Hat ($32) in fluorescent coral will give you a less showy, knit version of the look.
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Although we love the printed versions that are available right now, when it comes to styling your outfit around your trapper hat, a solid, neutral shade will definitely leave you with more options. Exhibit A? Both model Lily Donaldson and singer Lily Allen have gone for this look, although both girls have tried it in very different ways. Donaldson, who prefers a rock-chic edge when she is off duty, has paired her black fur trapper hat with a leather jacket and a slouchy white tee. Meanwhile Allen, who has become friendly with Karl Lagerfeld in recent months, rocked a more classic look, pairing her white fur hat with a Chanel jacket and a tried-and-true shade of red lipstick. We like both looks equally and luckily, Topshop's Faux Fur Trapper Hat ($44) comes in both a black and a white version, so you can try your preferred look with ease.
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These little guys are the newest things to roll out of the studio. They are found object sculptures that also function as pepper grinders.
The first lot of pepper grinders came out off the studio in 2008 for an exhibition at Craft Victoria in Melbourne. They started out as a bit of a joke.....as I get people asking 'is that art?' when viewing my stuff another question I have been asked more than once is 'what is the point in making those/that?'....I made these so if anyone asked those questions about these pieces I could answer 'they are pepper grinders' and to the question 'what is the point?' I could answer 'well, it grinds pepper'. I thought it was funny at the time and over the past two years I have continued making them (and continued finding them funny).
The essence of my art practise is play. Play is the way we learn about the world as we grow from baby to child to adult. But somewhere along the line we are told that playing is for children and not for adults. Play has no right or wrongs like art, its all about experimenting, exploring, using your hands and not being afraid to get messy. I think all adults should play more.
The ideas behind making these pepper grinders has evolved alongside the practical skills I have acquired through playing with different materials.
These pepper grinders have evolved into domestic gods/goddesses. They are made from found domestic objects (such as broken childrens toys, old bits of cutlery, shaving brushes, can openers etc). I source objects from things I find around my own house, houses of friends and family, tip shops (or op shops) and garage sales. I try to find objects that have been used in a domestic setting but are now being thrown out. I clean them up, crave them or fill them with resin and then bind them together using a mixture of contemporary craft and traditional wood working techniques.
When painting them up I reference pattern making and mark making from objects used in tribal worship ceremonies of early civilisations.
These pepper grinders are part art, part multifunctional kitchen accessory and part object of domestic worship.
These three pieces are on available through Masterworks Gallery in Auckland.


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Chamonix ski chalet Maison Jaune has just released its long-range weather forecast for Winter 2010/11 for the French Alps prediicting an early start to the ski season and abundent snow for higher ski resorts such as Chamonix, Tignes, Val d'Isere.
Chamonix ski chalet Maison Jaune has just released its long-range weather forecast for Winter 2010/11 for the French Alps. http://www.maison-jaune.com
The latest information appears to predict a "La Nina" and positive "North Atlantic Oscillation" (NAO+) which would forecast a colder than normal start to the season (which is great for freezing the ground so the first snowfall sticks) followed by a mild, wet winter which normally brings abundant snow to the higher ski resorts, such as Chamonix, Val d'Isere, Tignes.
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According to a synopsis, Elena will be back at Whitmore College and doing what college students do best – partying! With the help of Caroline, the pair will throw a big party. But like every previous party they're a part of, drama follows. This time the drama is Jesse, who "suddenly needs Caroline's help." (Looks like Jesse's new life will be exposed!)
While Caroline deals with her crush, Damon pays a visit to Dr. Wes Maxfield in order to get some answers … and makes a "terrifying discovery about a secret society." As Damon does the dirty work, Elena will continue to bond with Aaron after discovering they have a lot in common.
Back in Mystic Falls, Katherine will surprisingly be helping out the gang. By doing what, you may wonder? Besides a favor for Matt, she'll also be helping "get through to Stefan, who is still struggling to overcome the events of the summer." And unfortunately Stefan's not the only one having a hard time. Bonnie's also finding it difficult to "cope with her new reality."
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10 things you (probably) didn't know about PHP.
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PHP is simultaneously the most infuriating and joyful languages I've ever worked with. I say "infuriating" primarily because the function names are so inconsistant. Despite the fact that I use it almost everyday, I still have to think to myself "Is it str_pos or strpos? str_split or strsplit?" On the other hand, occasi …Read more
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mod_ext_filter: mod_rewrite's red-headed step sister.
Jamie Begin
Almost every experienced web developer who works with Apache is at least vaguely familar with mod_rewrite. It's most frequently used to reformat ugly URLs containing a lot of query values into a nice, search-engine friendly URL. Implementing mod_rewrite is generally one of the first steps to a SEO overhaul on a website with a lot […] …Read more


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Steven Littlehale, EVP and Chief Clinical Officer, PointRight Inc.
An admired colleague once said, "If you want me to be proficient in caring for a specific type of patient, I can … just give me a lot of them."
Practice doesn't necessarily make perfect, but it should improve your odds. This notion is compatible with the perception that to be successful in most markets, skilled nursing facilities need to specialize in areas that align with market needs. But how are specialization and volume reflected in the very outcomes that often define success?
To begin to understand this, we identified SNFs (n = 4,041) that specialized in dementia care (67% of residents) and compared their success outcomes to those SNFs (n = 3,995) that cared for residents with dementia but in much smaller volume (21%). Rehospitalization rates were lower, suggesting that clinicians were more skilled at properly identifying and assessing acute changes — in contrast to their less-practiced counterparts.
However, length of stay was higher, which suggests rehab of dementia patients takes more time. It's an interesting finding when considering bearing risk or simply explaining outcomes.
"Practice makes perfect" was also apparent throughout the Five-Star Quality Rating System. Overall, and in the survey domain, facilities specializing in dementia had superior outcomes.
One could argue that dementia care, as opposed to other specialties, is better understood within our clinical and regulatory system. But could it be that a commitment to a specific cohort makes for a better organization?
Interestingly, the high-volume SNFs performed better on specific "dementia F-tags" (F-tags 309, 329, 222). Even with more opportunity to "get it wrong," these high-volume facilities got it right.
Admittedly, this analysis raises more questions than provides answers, and we look forward to continuing the exploration. Until then, practice does seem to lead toward proficiency — and that is a prerequisite for success in payment models rooted in outcomes, efficiency and satisfaction.


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It can be an ambiguous term especially as the displayed resolution is controlled by different factors in cathode ray tube (CRT), flat-panel display which includes liquid-crystal displays, or projection displays using fixed picture-element (pixel) arrays.720 x 1280 px Density:Medium Density, 294 Pixels per inch differentiable less than 40 cm away, Others:Capacitive, Dragontrail glass, Full Lamination Technology, Multi-touch, Scratch resistant Software Wileyfox Spark Operating System:CyanogenMod 13 (Android 6.0 Marshmallow) Performance Wileyfox Spark Model:MediaTek MT6735A CPU:A mobile processor is found in mobile computers and cellphones. A CPU chip is designed for portable computers, it is typically housed in a smaller chip package, but more importantly, in order to run cooler, it uses lower voltages than its desktop counterpart and has more "sleep mode" capability. 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richvh wrote:Do you realize just how bad you look, reviving a dead thread to flame someone about something said 6 months ago? And yes, Mike does post positive help, whether or not you notice it (or perceive it to be such.)
oh this thread is dead? it was like on the frontpage (or second) when i came across it. didn't mean to 'necropost' i didn't deep search this forum just to find a typical mike cash thread
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Dorset Council bus cuts are 'value for money exercise'
Campaign for Better Transport has claimed that just under 50% of local authorities in England and Wales have cut bus services in 2013, with further cuts due in 2014.
This is because, they say, councils no longer receive government funding to support non-commercial bus routes.
Spencer Flower, the leader of Dorset County Council - which needs to save £850,000 from its £2.8 million bus subsidy expenditure by April 2014 - told the Today programme that the removal of certain bus services in the Dorset area had been "a value for money exercise".
He explained that the routes removed are those that suffer from "significant under-utilisation", but that different approaches will replace them so that "no-one will be left in isolation, particularly in rural areas." These include a community car scheme.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Wednesday 11 December 2013.
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Wenchi Chen projects Digital Brilliance
VIA President and CEO Wenchi Chen opened the day with his keynote devoted to this theme, outlining the ways computing and personal electronics are merging. As a supplier of nearly every piece of technology that goes into a traditional PC system, VIA's vision for the long-touted convergence between PCs and consumer electronics is a little different from the standard view. The PC isn't a dinosaur or a second-class citizen in this vision. Instead, Chen predicted PC technologies would migrate into the heart of a whole range of consumer devices, from televisions to personal video recorders to handheld devices. x86, Chen noted, handles all kinds of video and audio formats, produces high-quality output, and offers unmatched expandability. Of course, VIA is well positioned to benefit from this vision of convergence, because its own processors and mini/nano-ITX solutions offer low-power capability, encryption acceleration, and very low costs.
At the high end of the convergence spectrum, Chen said VIA's new PC core logic chipsets should enable what he called "high-definition computing platforms," echoing a common chord of convergence optimists at PC hardware companies of late. He cited many of the new features coming to the PC platform as a part of this movement, including DDR2 memory, PCI Express, 1GHz HyperTransport, 24-bit/192KHz audio, 1080p resolutions, DirectX 9, Gigabit Ethernet, and 802.11g wireless networking. (The kitchen sink was notably absent.)
Chen dialed back the convergence rhetoric a bit and ears perked up as he talked about the transition to PCI Express. He noted that PCI Express is probably the first time we've seen a "hard switch" from one graphics standard to another, with few provisions for coexistence of dual standards. To address its customers concerns, he confirmed, VIA will be supporting both PCI Express and AGP on the KT890 and K8T890 chipsets. As far as we know, only VIA will offer this capability in its next-gen chipsets.


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If a person saved nothing for retirement that could, we'd call that foolish. The person could protest that to save for retirement would require them to give up some things that they want now. But what's the big picture?
Mark 8:36 "What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?"
James 4:14 "…What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes."
Philippians 3:8 "Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ."
The pleasures of the world are rubbish compared to the eternal riches of knowing Christ.


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Sixth Sense Huge is a huge version of the Sixth Sense puzzle ring, meant as big demo model. This six-part puzzle ring is a design by Bram Cohen, and developed by Oskar van Deventer. It is a "size 190", with an inner diameter of 60 mm and an outer diameter of nearly 90 mm. This big puzzle ring version will surely bring more delight and fun for you. You will better see how well this puzzle toy works and this is the purpose of Oskar for making a big model.
Sixth sense has a total of six rings and it also features nice zigzag shapes. You can start playing this puzzle toy by opening it and then you can scramble the rings. After making the rings look confusing, the objective of the game is to arrange back the rings into its original form. This is a puzzle toy that could be so fun to share with a friend and you can challenge the puzzle solving skills of each other. You can purchase this amusing puzzle toy at Puzzle Master.
Thank you so much Oskar for allowing us to use your videos. If you would like to see more of Oskar's videos, go to Oskar's YouTube Channel. Copyright (c) 2013, M. Oskar van Deventer.