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Opinion: Restoring gray wolves is good for Colorado
The myth of the gray wolf is strongly embedded in human culture. Through fairly tales like The Three Little Pigs and Little Red Riding Hood, many of us have been told since childhood that wolves are scary creatures to be feared. And in Colorado, in the 1940s, we killed our last gray wolves.
But thanks to the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone National Park and Idaho in 1995, and the subsequent quarter century of research that has taken place — in many cases by Colorado scientists — we know that the reality of gray wolves is quite different from the myth. We know that bringing back the gray wolf will restore the natural balance of nature, causing positive changes to ripple across our mountains.
With the return of the wolf, deer and elk will behave more naturally, avoiding browsing in the open along stream banks and stripping them of aspen and willows — a serious problem in places like Rocky Mountain National Park. By allowing aspens and willows to grow back, stream banks will be less vulnerable to erosion, songbirds will have better habitat and beaver will return, building dams, storing water in high elevation streams, and improving trout habitat. And we know that when wildfires rip through the mountains, often the only green vegetation left standing is around beaver dams.
All of this will help our mountains adapt to climate change, which is reducing snowpack, Colorado's natural high elevation water storage system.
And because wolves specifically target weak and diseased prey, they will play an important role in keeping elk and deer herds vibrant, healthy, disease-free, which is particularly important since so many of Colorado's elk and deer herds are now infected with always-fatal chronic wasting disease.
As to the myth of the big bad wolf, the last quarter century of experience in the Northern Rockies shows that wolves coexist well with people, livestock, deer and elk. In fact, where wolves and livestock share the range, wolves are responsible for less than one-10th of one percent of livestock mortality.
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After a quarter century of living with wolves, the Northern Rockies states elk herds have grown by 40,000 animals, and no one has been attacked by a wolf. Healthier elk populations, largely free of CWD, are well above state management objectives in Montana and Wyoming and in most of Idaho. Not surprisingly, elk hunting success rates in those states are substantially higher than in Colorado, which increasingly will encourage out-of-state hunters to spend their time and money to the north of us. And since wolves were reintroduced into the Northern Rockies in 1995, revenues from hunting license sales in each of those Northern Rockies states have roughly doubled. In contrast, Colorado's revenues from hunting licenses in the last quarter century have grown by an anemic 37%.
It is important to recognize that wolves will occasionally take livestock and, in some cases, can even have an impact on calf weight. Ranching is a tough business, and our ranchers deserve to be compensated for any losses. And under Proposition 114, they will be. In fact, I would hope and expect that they would have a prominent seat at the table when CPW designs its compensation program.
And it's clear from poll after poll that Coloradans want wolves. In 1994, a year before gray wolves were restored to Yellowstone National Park and Idaho, a Colorado State University poll found that 71% of Coloradans supported wolf restoration. A quarter century later, in August 2019, another CSU poll found 84% support for wolf restoration, including strong majorities on the rural Eastern Plains and West Slope.
Colorado has a proud tradition of wildlife restoration, including the successful reintroduction of Shiras moose in 1978 and Canada lynx in 1999. In 2019, 215,000 Coloradans signed a petition to put Proposition 114, which would require CPW to restoration of gray wolves to Colorado and to compensate ranchers for any losses, on the 2020 statewide ballot.
Some have claimed that it is not appropriate for Coloradans to decide this issue for themselves through the democratic process of voting on a ballot measure. Instead, they argue that it should be left to a handful of politically appointed game and fish commissioners.
For so many reasons, Colorado needs gray wolves now. But the only way that will happen is if the public takes the reins back from the politicians and makes the decision for themselves to invest in a healthier Colorado.
Eric Washburn is a fifth-generation Coloradan and big game hunter who lives in Steamboat Springs.
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As evidenced by a long list of commits made to the Chromium project, Google is working on adding support for native Windows notifications into its Chrome browser. It has been a long wait for users; the first feature request for this support was submitted way back in 2015.
The implementation is still a work in progress, meaning that it may change by the time the feature arrives for users on the stable Chrome version, but the commits indicate that the team is working on adding support for inline replies, images, lists, progress bar, and more.
Interestingly, a few of these features were not supported in Windows 10 Anniversary Update, which is what was initially used as the baseline for this implementation, per a comment made by Peter Beverloo, Senior Software Engineer working in the Chrome team at Google.
Although it's not clear when we can expect this feature to be available in Chromium – let alone Chrome's Canary builds –, a commit was merged with the project today, implementing a flag that would allow "users to opt into using Windows native notifications," indicating that the feature's arrival may not be too far. It's also not clear whether this implementation would support Windows 8.1.
Windows 7, and other supported operating systems that lack native rich notifications, will continue to use the browser's existing inbuilt implementation, per the commits.
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Racial/Ethnic Differences in Attitudinal Treatment Engagement Among Adolescents and Young Adults
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race/ethnicity, treatment engagement, mental health, youth, ethnic identity, racial identity
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Stephanie Milan, PhD
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Jeffrey Burke, PhD
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Diane Quinn, PhD
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Low engagement in mental health treatment is a problem across racial/ethnic, socioeconomic, and gender lines. Disparities in treatment engagement are particularly evident among certain racial/ethnic groups and may result in part from different beliefs about mental health and psychotherapy (Yasui et al., 2017). Despite evidence of engagement disparities, there is limited research on the attitudes that youth of color have toward mental health treatment. The current studies investigate racial/ethnic differences in beliefs about treatment among adolescents and young adults. Study 1 was a retrospective cohort analysis examining self-reported readiness for psychotherapy among adolescents admitted to a psychiatric inpatient unit. Results demonstrated no global racial/ethnic differences in readiness for psychotherapy, but there was a significant race by gender interaction with Black males reporting higher disinterest in psychotherapy. Study 2 was an experimental study of university students investigating the influence of mental health clinic diversity, ethnic-racial identity, and discrimination on treatment attitudes. Results again indicated few group differences, except that Black participants had significantly more negative expectations about the therapy process. Clinician diversity was not related to treatment attitudes. Discrimination and ethnic-racial identity were significantly related to attitudes and the relationship between Public Regard and attitudes was moderated by race/ethnicity. Overall findings indicate many similarities across racial/ethnic groups, but also highlight the need to identify individual factors, such as ethnic-racial identity, that may contribute to negative attitudes toward treatment for some youth of color.
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Oshin, Linda A., "Racial/Ethnic Differences in Attitudinal Treatment Engagement Among Adolescents and Young Adults" (2020). Doctoral Dissertations. 2526.


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Vitiligo is a spontaneous irregular depigmentation of skin. Patients with vitiligo have low catalase levels in their epidermis with high levels of hydrogen peroxide. Pseudocatalase cream is an externally applied UVB-activated product that can lead to recovery of the oxidative damage in the epidermis and remarkable repigmentation.
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Melanocytes may still be present in long-standing (>25 years) depigmented skin of patients with vitiligo. L-phenylalanine uptake and turnover in the pigment forming melanocytes is vital for initiation of melanogenesis. Phenylalanine hydroxylase activities increase linearly with inherited skin color yielding eightfold more activities in black skin compared to white skin.
Camacho and Mazuecos performed an uncontrolled retrospective survey of a group of 193 patients (171 participants after screening) with evolving vitiligo who were treated with oral (50 or 100 mg/kg daily) and topical (10% gel) phenylalanine plus sun exposure. When the study closed, 100% repigmentation was achieved in 122 patients on the face, 35 on the trunk, and 33 on the limbs. Patients who were treated during the months of high solar radiation (and therefore also used the topical phenylalanine) achieved greater repigmentation. No side effects were reported.
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Researchers concluded that "although hydroquinone showed a better response, ascorbic acid may play a role in the therapy of melasma as it is almost devoid of side-effects; it could be used alone or in combination therapy."
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Melasma is a circumscribed brown macular hyperpigmentation of areas of the face and neck that are exposed to light, and is aggravated by sunlight, birth control pills, and pregnancy. This study demonstrates that a cream containing hydroquinone, glycolic acid, vitamins C and E, and sunscreen is a safe and effective treatment therapy for melasma.
Safety and efficacy of 4% hydroquinone combined with 10% glycolic acid, antioxidants, and sunscreen in the treatment of melasma.
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The antioxidant N-acetyl cysteine (NAC) has an antiproliferative effect on human keratinocytes and NAC has been used topically to satisfactorily treat lamellar ichthyosis.
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Topically applied NAC can prevent skin irritation resulting from radiotherapy and protects from sun-induced erythema.
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But Chevy has yet to release an official time.
A rumor popped up on the web yesterday claiming the 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 had lapped the Nurburgring in less than seven minutes, 6:59.13 to be exact. A sub-seven minute lap time would put the Z06 in the same category as the likes of the Porsche 918 Spyder, Ferrari LaFerrari, and McLaren P1. But Chevy has now officially debunked that lap time rumor. "Chevrolet has not released a lap record for the Z06 at the Nurburgring," stated a company source, further adding "the claimed time of 6:59 is not accurate."
However, the rumor's origin was a site called HorsepowerKings.com, and just a few days ago this same source was the first to report (accurately) the new Shelby GT350R's Camaro Z/28-beating Nurburgring time. Chevy also claims that, due to recent bad weather, an official Nurburgring lap video hasn't been made yet. The Z06 video, also first posted yesterday, has now been removed. Based on previous Z06 tests at other tracks, it may be more realistic to expect a Nurburgring time of around 7:07 or so – exactly GT-R Nismo territory. More updates to come.


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Friendship Water System has a new address. Members of the water system can now send payments and any other correspondence to Friendship Water System, P.O. Box 93, Saline, LA 71070. Payments accepted at this time include check or money order. Please do not send cash. Online payment options are coming soon.
An emergency board meeting was held on January 19 to empanel new board members following the resignation of three of the five board members. After a discussion about what would be expected of potential board members and what would be needed to improve the water system, board members Rebekah Barnett, Quince Plunkett, and other members of the water system who were present voted and empaneled Ann Malone, Dewanna Durbin, and Brad Dison. All board members are volunteers and receive no financial compensation in connection with the water system. For more information, please visit http://www.MyFriendshipWater.com.


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As it seems to do every few years, the Supreme Court has again waded into personal jurisdiction waters. The Court issued Ford Motor Co. v. Montana Eighth Jud. Dist. Ct., 141 S. Ct. 1017 (2021), on March 25, 2021. Ford is significant for a few reasons.
Perhaps most importantly, a five-Justice majority expressly held in Ford that the exercise of "specific" personal jurisdiction over a defendant does not require that the defendant's conduct in the forum State caused the injury for which the plaintiff seeks redress. Ford is also noteworthy because it bucks a trend in the Court's personal jurisdiction case law. In most of its recent cases, such as Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Ct. of California, San Francisco Cty., 137 S. Ct. 1773 (2017); Walden v. Fiore, 134 S. Ct. 1115 (2014); Daimler AG v. Bauman, 134 S. Ct. 746 (2014); and Goodyear Dunlop Tires Operations, S.A. v. Brown, 131 S. Ct. 2846 (2011), the Court rejected attempts to force a defendant to litigate in a forum where it did not reside. Ford's new test, by contrast, expands the bases for jurisdiction.
Ford involved two unrelated products liability cases against the Ford Motor Company, one in Montana state court and one in Minnesota state court. With regard to personal jurisdiction, the facts were not complicated. There were car accidents in both cases involving Ford automobiles. One passenger died and the other was seriously injured. In both cases, the accidents occurred in the States where the victim plaintiffs brought suit. And in both cases, the victim plaintiffs were residents of the forum State.
Not surprisingly, Ford does considerable business in both States. Ford does substantial advertising, selling, and marketing in Montana and Minnesota. Ford also sells and services in both States the models of vehicles involved in the accidents. However, neither of the cars that crashed were first sold by Ford in the forum States – nor were they designed or manufactured in the forum States. Only later resales and relocations by consumers brought the Ford automobiles to Montana and Minnesota.
On these facts, Ford argued that it was not subject to jurisdiction in either Montana or Minnesota. Ford contended that the state courts only had jurisdiction if Ford's conduct in the forum State "gave rise" to the plaintiff's claims, and that this requisite causal link only existed if Ford had sold the vehicles at issue in the forum State – or at least designed or manufactured them there. Neither plaintiff, according to Ford, could make that showing.
All eight Justices who heard the case disagreed. (Justice Barrett did not participate.) Justice Kagan's opinion, in which Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Sotomayor, Breyer, and Kavanaugh joined, found that Ford was subject to specific jurisdiction in Montana and Minnesota. Justice Alito penned an opinion concurring in that judgment. Justice Gorsuch also wrote an opinion concurring in the judgment, in which Justice Thomas joined.
Justice Kagan's opinion quickly dispensed with general jurisdiction. All parties agreed that Ford was only subject to general jurisdiction in Delaware (where it is incorporated) and Michigan (where it has its principal place of business) – not in Montana or Minnesota. That left specific jurisdiction. Justice Kagan summed up the law on specific jurisdiction by reciting familiar principles.
"The contacts needed for this kind of jurisdiction often go by the name 'purposeful availment….' The defendant, we have said, must take 'some act by which [it] purposefully avails itself of the privilege of conducting activities within the forum State.'" Ford, 141 S. Ct. at 1024-25 (citations omitted). But "purposeful availment," standing alone, does not suffice. Even with purposeful availment – "because the defendant is not 'at home' – the forum State may exercise jurisdiction in only certain cases." Id. "The plaintiff 's claims, we have often stated, 'must arise out of or relate to the defendant's contacts' with the forum." Id. (citations omitted). This is where Ford hung its hat.
Ford conceded that it had purposefully availed itself of the privilege of conducting business in Montana and Michigan. Ford acknowledged that it did substantial business in both States, and actively sought to serve the market for automobiles and related products in them. But Ford argued that such "activities do not sufficiently connect to the suits … [because] the needed link must be causal in nature." Id. at 1026. According to Ford, "[j]urisdiction attaches 'only if the defendant's forum conduct gave rise to the plaintiff 's claims.'" Id. (quoting Ford's brief; emphasis in original). "On that view, the place of accident and injury is immaterial." Id. Ford would "locat[e] specific jurisdiction [only] in the State where Ford sold the car in question, or else the States where Ford designed and manufactured the vehicle." Id.
The Court was not impressed. Justice Kagan stated that "Ford's causation-only approach finds no support in this Court's requirement of a 'connection' between a plaintiff's suit and a defendant's activities…. That rule indeed serves to narrow the class of claims over which a state court may exercise specific jurisdiction. But not quite so far as Ford wants. None of our precedents has suggested that only a strict causal relationship between the defendant's in-state activity and the litigation will do." Id.
Kagan then turned to the most glaring flaw in Ford's theory: its failure to parse the language of the Court's oft-repeated standard for specific jurisdiction. "[O]ur most common formulation of the rule demands that the suit 'arise out of or relate to the defendant's contacts with the forum….' The first half of that standard asks about causation; but the back half, after the 'or,' contemplates that some relationships will support jurisdiction without a causal showing." Id. (citations omitted; emphasis in original). Justice Kagan and four other Justices found that Ford's activities easily satisfied this part of the test.
"By every means imaginable—among them, billboards, TV and radio spots, print ads, and direct mail—Ford urges Montanans and Minnesotans to buy its vehicles, including (at all relevant times) [the] Explorers and Crown Victorias [at issue in these cases]. Ford cars—again including those two models—are available for sale, whether new or used, throughout the States, at 36 dealerships in Montana and 84 in Minnesota." Id. at 1028. "In other words, Ford had systematically served a market in Montana and Minnesota for the very vehicles that the plaintiffs allege malfunctioned and injured them in those States. So there is a strong 'relationship among the defendant, the forum, and the litigation'—the 'essential foundation' of specific jurisdiction." Id. The majority concluded that "the connection between the plaintiffs' claims and Ford's activities in those States—or otherwise said, the 'relationship among the defendant, the forum[s], and the litigation'—is close enough to support specific jurisdiction." Id. at 1032.
Despite the Court's unanimity on the ultimate jurisdictional question, there were divisions in the Justices' rationales. The divisions stem from the uncertainty inherent in the majority's decision to ground its holding on "relatedness," as opposed to strict causality. Indeed, Justice Kagan recognized that determining whether a defendant's contacts with a forum are sufficiently "related to" a particular dispute is – to some degree – in the eye of the beholder. The majority assures us that, nevertheless, "[t]hat does not mean anything goes. In the sphere of specific jurisdiction, the phrase 'relate to' incorporates real limits, as it must to adequately protect defendants foreign to a forum." Id. at 1026.
This did not satisfy Justice Alito. Justice Alito thought that this case was easily decided based on precedents like International Shoe and World-Wide Volkswagen. In his view, nobody could "seriously argue that requiring Ford to litigate these cases in Minnesota and Montana would be fundamentally unfair[.]" Id. at 1032. "Their residents, while riding in vehicles purchased within their borders, were killed or injured in accidents on their roads." Id. (emphases in original). And "Ford has long had a heavy presence in Minnesota and Montana. It spends billions on national advertising. It has many franchises in both States. Ford dealers in Minnesota and Montana sell and service Ford vehicles, and Ford ships replacement parts to both States." Id. These salient facts should have ended the matter.
Justice Alito's "only quibble [wa]s with the new gloss that the Court puts on our case law." Id. at 1033. Alito felt that the majority "parse[d] th[e] phrase '[arise out of relate to]' as though [it] were dealing with language of a statute[.]" Id. Alito stated that it was a mistake to "recognize[ ] a new category of cases in which personal jurisdiction is permitted: those in which the claims do not 'arise out of ' (i.e., are not caused by) the defendant's contacts but nevertheless sufficiently 'relate to' those contacts in some undefined way[.]" Id.
In Justice Alito's view, this was "unnecessary and … unwise." Id. Instead of thinking of the two concepts as "two discrete grounds for jurisdiction," Alito wrote that "[t]he phrase 'arise out of or relate to' is simply a way of restating the basic 'minimum contacts' standard adopted in International Shoe." Id. Justice Alito predicted that applying the phrase "relate to" in future cases "is a project doomed to failure." Id. After all, in a quote attributed to Justice Scalia, "everything is related to everything else." Id.
Justice Gorsuch likewise chided the majority for parsing the phrase "arise out of or relate to" so finely, and for "build[ing] its entire opinion around" "the disjunctive conjunction 'or.'" Id. at 1034. And like Justice Alito, Justice Gorsuch questioned what the "assortment of nouns" in the majority's test – i.e., "affiliation" and "relationship" – are supposed to mean. Id. "Loosed from any causation standard, we are left to guess." Id. Gorsuch also opined that "[t]he whole project seems unnecessary." Id. at 1035. Justice Gorsuch speculated that, had the majority searched for a but-for causal link between the plaintiffs' injuries and Ford's activities in the forum States, it likely would have found them. Id. at 1035-36.
In the end, Justice Gorsuch cast doubt on whether "the old International Shoe dichotomy" between general and specific jurisdiction still makes sense. Id. at 1036-38. Gorsuch surmised that "[p]erhaps it was, is, and in the end always will be about trying to assess fairly a corporate defendant's presence or consent. International Shoe may have sought to move past those questions. But maybe all we have done since is struggle for new words to express the old ideas." Id. at 1038-39. It is interesting that, although Justice Gorsuch asked whether it is time for a reset on the International Shoe framework, only Justice Thomas joined his concurrence.
Ford creates a new standard for specific personal jurisdiction. Although the case arose out of a product liability dispute, the majority's logic applies to all types of civil litigation. Ford may thus have a widespread effect on litigation. As the two concurring opinions point out, the new standard adopted in Ford is vague. In light of that ambiguity, only time will tell whether lower courts interpret Ford broadly. If they do, defendants may face suit in forums they had previously thought unlikely.
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The list of things Prevelo stickers can stick to is endless. Some examples: bikes, helmets, car bumpers, toolboxes, windows, mirrors, ketchup bottles, dressers, and the outside of your microwave.
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This video features select scenes from many of my animations, including (in order shown) Joust!, Dragon Treasure Antiques, Snap!, The Book of the Dead and Field Guide: Allosaurus.
Field Guide: Allosaurus
For this animation, I created an educational "field guide" featuring the Late Jurassic dinosaur, Allosaurus. My husband, Taylor Bartholomew, generously provided the voice over.
The Book of the Dead
This animation illustrates ancient Egyptian funerary texts, and is based on the finest example to survive, the Papyrus of Ani. In order to bring the archaic scrolls of The Book of the Dead to a modern audience, I focused on a museum-like approach to education.
Dragon Treasure Antiques
An overview of a building I created in Maya.
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Achieve your physique & sporting goals! Whether you're new to training, a personal trainer, or a seasoned athlete, Gym Workouts - Maps to Success provides the proven guidance to take your (& your clients) training to the next level (even the top!).
Ever wonder where your training's going or why you're not improving? Wonder no more. This easy-to-follow eBook (pdf format) features progression process maps (for various goals/ physique endeavours), periodization plans for 10 sports*, articles, advice, & over 170 weight training gym workouts. Gym Workouts - Maps to Success is the training book you've been waiting for!
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Typically writing on behalf of others regarding gym equipment and supplements, I've been asked to write books on gym and diet related subjects for as long as I can remember.
Although I've enjoyed reading some excellent novels (not gym related), I favour reference manuals (DIY books, car guides etc.) to pick up time and time again (& the simpler, the better).
With the above in mind, coupled with the most common theme I'm asked for advice on being gym workouts, for which there's a serious lack of clear & concise literature, the concept to produce this book - Gym Workouts - Maps to Success - was borne. This book was already more than just an idea - for years, as reference, I've recorded successful gym workouts for all sorts of physique and sports disciplines – whether these have been planned far in advance, or made up on the spot. Periodizing the training of athletes, I began placing all of these workouts within process maps to quickly identify (or simply remember) a sensible transition from one cycle to another & whether it was successful.
Everyone follows a set process of events in order to perform any activity successfully – the same reason for me to refer to my DIY manual when attempting a new task around the home. Even in business, process maps are commonplace to easily illustrate which path should be undertaken in order to achieve a successful outcome. It seems fairly foolhardy for weight trainers to go on guesswork, often performing unbalanced regimes (favouring chest & biceps) or attempting to perform workout routines far beyond their capabilities and experience.
Gym Workouts – Maps to Success provides an easy-to-follow guide to help you structure your own gym workout routines and those of others, in order to improve your physique and/ or sporting performance.
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Outdated policies can leave your organization at risk (Power DMS, 2020). Old policies may fail to comply with new laws and regulations (Power DMS, 2020). They may not address new systems or technology, which can result in inconsistent practices (Power DMS, 2020). Can you imagine a policy that still addresses whether you can bring in floppy disks from home or discusses the proper use of fax machines (Power DMS, 2020)? Yet there are probably policy manuals out there that still have this information in them (Power DMS, 2020). In the midst of policy review, nurses have the ability and experience to provide evidence-based information which in turn changes policies that need to be reviewed. With healthcare being everchanging, we must review policies which is one way we can help. Nurses' influence on health policy protects the quality of care by access to required recourses and opportunities (Arabi et al., 2014). This is a new and important concept for nursing; however, research studies on policy influence of nurses in health care sector are lacking a basic conceptual understanding of what this concept represents (Arabi et al., 2014). Nurses have individual views on health care issues and influence health care policies in different ways (Arabi et al., 2014). With a common understanding of nurses' policy influence as a concept, nurses will recognize the importance of policy making in the health sector and their influence on this process and also on patients' outcomes (Arabi et al., 2014). At the state and federal level, nurses can get involved in policy and politics by joining a professional nursing organization (Welliver, 2021). Professional nursing organizations offer a vast amount of resources to help nurses to participate in the policy review. These organizations often have lobbyists that bring nursing issues to Capitol Hill (Welliver, 2021). Nurses can also write their state representatives regarding healthcare policy (Welliver, 2021). There are several reasons for the limited nursing participation in policy and politics (Welliver, 2021). Lack of awareness, inadequate skills, and little opportunity for involvement are just a few factors. Another barrier is the limited formal health care policy education in nursing (Welliver, 2021). Time and resources are further obstacles to the nursing profession's participation in politics (Welliver, 2021). Additionally, studies show that nurses are not given sufficient support to generate the evidence needed to influence healthcare policy (Welliver, 2021). To better advocate for or communicate the existence of these opportunities, we must be involved in decision-making and the review of those decisions in our communities. But we first must allow ourselves to be a part of these processes. We often see ourselves as not educated enough or for a lack of better words good enough to be a part of these conversations, but we are. We are the ones who are at the forefront and we see it all. Having information like this gives us a seat at the table.
Arabi, A., Rafii, F., Cheraghi, M. A., & Ghiyasvandian, S. (2014, May). Nurses' policy influence: A concept analysis. Iranian journal of nursing and midwifery research. Retrieved July 18, 2022, from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4061635/
Welliver, M. (2021, March 10). The nursing profession's potential impact on policy and politics. American Nurse. Retrieved July 18, 2022, from https://www.myamericannurse.com/nursing-professions-potential-impact-policy-politics/#:~:text=At%20the%20state%20and%20federal,state%20representatives%20regarding%20healthcare%20policy.
Why it is important to review policies and procedures. PowerDMS. (2020). Retrieved July 18, 2022, from https://www.powerdms.com/policy-learning-center/why-it-is-important-to-review-policies-and-procedures
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The Role of the RN/APRN in Policy Evaluation
The role of a nurse in policy evaluation is vital in policy-making. Nurses at all levels of expertise are "well versed in evaluating and analyzing the effectiveness of their assessment, planning, and implementation efforts which includes the critical step of evaluation" (Milstead & Short, 2017, p. 117). This makes the evaluation process valuable at the federal, state, and local levels as meaningful decisions are made; it ultimately reflects healthcare. Policy evaluation is defined as "principles and methods of examining the content, implementation, or impact of a policy" (Centers for Disease Control, 2022). Understanding what is working and what is not is vital to making the proper changes to benefit healthcare.
As a nurse, many opportunities exist to participate in policy review actively. Starting small by getting involved in the healthcare facility one is employed in is a start. This allows the nurse to see changes made fast and be a part of this change in the employed area. Being on a committee within the department is an easy leap to get started. "Nurse involvement in policies that affect them and their practice is fundamental to establishing good public policy" (Wichaikhum et al., 2019). During policy reviews, nurses must look at current evidence-based practice models to determine the need to change or update a policy.
Another opportunity to be involved in policy review is by being a member of a professional nurse's organization such as the ANA. Meeting others within an organization and being able to follow one's lead can be very instrumental. Reaching out to those in advanced practice on social media is another way to meet people with the same level of healthcare interest. Frontline nurses may believe it is impossible to create policy change at a national or even local level; many think that their role is too small to make a difference in health policy, but with this engagement front line nurses have made them ideal health policy advocates" (Anders, 2020).
Many challenges and barriers come with these opportunities. Nurses at the bedside "rarely take the time to view issues faced through the socio-political lens" (Anders, 2020). Many nurses work long hours and being involved in a committee at work consists in coming in on your day off. This sends a negative tone when working long hours. Nurses may also lack knowledge of the political process and how to get to critical political leaders. Also, nurses are very educated and opinionated, so nurses must be open to other experts in the field to problem solve as a team, as all opinions are not the same.
Being open-minded to learning a new role as an advocate nurse is the start to better advocate for our patients in the policy reviewing realm. Policy review improves the quality and safety of our patients as evidenced-based practice changes, updating how we manage health care changes. Gaining competency, whether in the health care organization currently working or branching out into professional organizations, is a step forward. It is a learning process, but we must take the first steps.
Anders, R. L. (2020). Engaging nurses in health policy in the era of covid‐19. Nursing Forum, 56(1), 89–94.
Centers for Disease Control. (2022). Overview of policy evaluation.
Milstead, J. A., & Short, N. M. (2017). Health policy and politics: A nurse's guide (6th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Wichaikhum, O., Abhicharttibutra, K., Nantsupawat, A., Kowitlawakul, Y., & Kunaviktikul, W. (2019). Developing a strategic model of participation in policy development for nurses. International Nursing Review, 67(1), 11–18.
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In order to ensure that his idea would work, Trent built a prototype out of yarn. He spent many days making it, cutting yarn up and putting it together in the world's first car-boat. Once it was done, he filled up his bathtub and let the invention out on the water. It floated! His idea really would work! Trent was so excited that he immediately began working on the real car-boat. Unfortunately, he was a bit delayed, because, in his excitement, Trent had an accident on the road and had to wait for a damaged car repair, before he could get all the pieces he needed.
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InVocation 2011
This weekend hundreds of young adults will gather at Oscott College in Birmingham for the second annual InVocation discernment festival.
Our Communications Director, Andrew O'Connell, will be speaking there.
Let's keep all the young people who attend in our prayers. Let's pray that the experiences and prayers of the weekend will make their path clearer and their decision easier.
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Matt Finch and Frog God Games has having a kickstarter to raise money for a hardcover edition of Swords and Wizardry (Complete). The kickstarter started this morning with a goal of raising $10,000. As of the time I started this post (less than a day later), $18,669 has been raised, blowing though the first four (of five) bonus goals. I don't think it will be long until they reach the final bonus goal of $20,000. Perhaps they need to add a few more bonus goals?
For more info on the kickerstarter, see Matt's blog post Tougher Books and More Monsters, YES! and, of course, the kickstarter page itself (Swords & Wizardry: The Actual 1st Edition Roleplaying Rules) where you can join the donors.
Congrats to Matt and Frog God Games on their very successful kickstarter. i can't want to see hardcover copies of Swords and Wizardry in game stores.


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Spike-timing dependent plasticity is a learning mechanism used exten- sively within neural modelling. The learning rule has been shown to allow a neuron to find the beginning of a repeated spatio-temporal pattern among its afferents. In this study we adduce that such learning is dependent on background activity, and is un-stable when in a noisy framework. We also present insights into the neuron's encoding.


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The greatest thing of all, I would say is the passive house school community. This is a great idea, and it will be really helpful in the future, not only to share information, and feedback with peers but also a way to connect with each other."
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I am glad I enrolled in the Passive House 101 course. It increased my understanding and desire to construct a passive home. I think PH building is the TESLA of the construction industry and everyone needs to adapt... It's not the future of building, it should be the NOW of building.
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Well, Hello There!
What can I say about Which Game First? Amazing! Astounding! Astronomical! Ok, that's enough of that!
Not all of the opportunities that I went questing for were as cut and dry as the Board Game Design Podcast. When I got in touch with Which Game First there was a lot of back and forth about getting a physical prototype of Hivernation to them. Unfortunately, because we had limited funds and limited means we weren't able to get one to them. But…
Since Hivernation is up on Tabletop Simulator (you can find it HERE) we decided to do a live play through with the whole crew from Which Game First and it was a blast! What a riot those four are. I can see why they like to game together.
Although we had a few technical issues at the beginning, we did get everything organized into a fun test play session. I got to be the referee which was a good position for me. It took me out of the game and allowed others to enjoy the full experience of Hivernation without having a seasoned player at the table. Want to see how it went?
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Europe's elite club competition returns this week with four tasty quarter-final ties – but which players are in danger of missing the second leg?
The latter stages of the Champions League often sees high-profile players absent through suspension, making a huge difference to their teams' chances of success.
Going into the first leg of this week's mouth-watering quarter-final ties, there are a number of stars who are one yellow card away from being ruled out of the return games.
Atletico Madrid have five players – Cristian Ansaldi, Jesus Gamez, Gabi, Mario Suarez and Fernando Torres – with that status.
Their opponents, city rivals Real Madrid, have Fabio Coentrao, Marcelo and Toni Kroos on the brink.
Juventus have Stefan Lichtsteiner, Arturo Vidal, Alvaro Morata and Roberto Pereyra one act away from missing the second leg of their tie with Monaco. Paul Pogba would also have been one of the players needing to watch out if he had not been struck down with injury.
Leonardo Jardim's men have three key players sitting one card away from a ban – Joao Moutinho, Layvin Kurzawa and Yannick Ferreira-Carrasco.
Porto have key figures Alex Sandro, Danilo, Maicon and Oliver Torres all one booking away from a suspension.
Bayern, on the other hand, only have one player walking the tightrope – defender Jerome Boateng.
PSG midfielder Blaise Matuidi and defender Gregory van der Wiel will need to ensure they are not drawn into a foul in their home game against Barcelona.
Luis Enrique's side, meanwhile, are the only team without any players in jeopardy of missing the second leg by picking up another booking.


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University program recovers food without getting sued
University of Arkansas and its law school work to pass fresh foods to the needy, reducing hunger without creating a legal liability.
In 2011, the University of Arkansas was reluctant to begin a food recovery program. The thought of diverting edible yet perishable food to hungry people conjured concerns of litigation. But times change.
Now, in 2014, the University of Arkansas has received an award from the EPA for our commitment to food recovery, starred in the 30-minute documentary "Tossed Out: Food Waste in America," and recently received $260,000 from a corporate sponsor to bolster food recovery efforts.
For many organizations, there is enormous perceived risk and little return to be found in food recovery — but this perception is far from true. The success of the University of Arkansas food recovery initiatives demonstrates, programmatically and academically, that food recovery has low risks and produces high returns.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, food recovery is the second most preferred method of managing food waste (after source reduction). Food recovery diverts edible yet perishable food from the landfill by feeding hungry people. Typically, as in the case of the University of Arkansas, dedicated volunteers work with food service providers to take edible food at the end of the workday and provide the logistics for delivering the food to hungry people via food banks, shelters and other charitable organizations.
To date, the University of Arkansas Razorback Food Recovery program (part of the national Food Recovery Network), has diverted nearly 20,000 pounds of food waste and provided thousands of meals to those in need since February.
Food recovery exemplifies the triple bottom line approach to sustainability: people, planet and profit.
The EPA's Hierarchy of Food Recovery ranks the desirability of various ways to prevent food waste.
Many benefits to food recovery
UN Food and Agriculture Organization states that nearly one-third of all food produced ends up being discarded due to inefficiencies in production and supply chains. In the United States alone, nearly 160 billion pounds of food is wasted annually. At the same time one in five families in America are food insecure.
Food recovery works to reduce food waste by connecting food surpluses to families fighting food insecurity. Recovering just 15 percent of total food waste could provide nutrition for nearly 25 million Americans.
In addition, food recovery programs foster goodwill and sense of community. For places such as Arkansas that have high rates of food insecurity statewide — and even on the U of A campus — food recovery acts as a temporary but timely solution for addressing hunger.
By engaging in food recovery, food waste is diverted from the landfill, where it contributes to the production of methane, a greenhouse gas 21 times worse than carbon. While some sanitary landfills engage in methane harvesting for the production of electricity, the EPA suggests sending organic material to the landfill as a last management resort.
Additionally, for those signatories of the American College and University Presidents' Climate Commitment, reduced emissions associated with landfill disposal helps achieve carbon reduction goals and provides an excellent talking point for bringing awareness to the dual issues of environmental sustainability and social justice.
Fine-tuning food usage
The economics of food recovery show a positive return on investment through avoided tipping fees and overages of food production, as well as possible tax credits for qualifying organizations. Tipping fees vary wildly by geographical location. In Arkansas, the tipping fees average around $120 a ton, but can be as high as $700 in some urban areas in America.
In addition, by food recovery data such as weight and items donated, food service providers can better understand their overages in food production. Once that data is analyzed and internalized, food service operations can better anticipate the amount of food that should be prepared and avoid surplus production, which decreases purchasing, production and servicing costs.
Last of all, those interested in tax codes should consult their tax attorneys about Section 170 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1976, which encourages food donations by allowing corporations to earn an enhanced tax deduction for donating select surplus property, which includes food. The University of Arkansas has yet to finish a full year of food recovery, but we are hopeful that we our efforts are saving us money.
Too often, those who would donate perishable food must weigh the good it does versus the possibility of a lawsuit.
Food without legal complications
While food recovery embodies the ethos of a triple bottom line, many in the food industry have lingering legal concerns. At the University of Arkansas, those concerns were best addressed on our campus by an engaged group of lawyers with the School of Law's LL.M. Program in Agricultural and Food Law who publish easy-to-understand legal informational resources and practical guides to food recovery. Without their assistance, the University of Arkansas would not have overcome these legal barriers, both real and perceived, quite so easily.
The Law School's Food Recovery Project confronts the twin problems of food waste and hunger while advancing legal and policy tools to address both. One of those tools is "Food Recovery: A Legal Guide (PDF)." The guide outlines the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act (PDF), a law that protects organizations engaged in food recovery from civil and criminal liability. The guide provides information to the retail food industry about how to secure these important legal protections. The guide is an excellent reference for any food service provider, student leader or corporate officer interested in starting a food recovery program.
The FRP also works to educate stakeholders about the other legal aspects of food recovery including, food safety and labeling, federal tax treatment of food donations, regulation of recovered and salvaged food, laws pertaining to "garbage feeding" of livestock, and food product dating laws.
The FRP also consults with food businesses, charitable feeding organizations, and governmental agencies on the development of low-risk, high-benefit food recovery policies and protocols that balance interests of safety, sustainability, economy, charity and nutrition. Through this work, the FRP helps food businesses to capture the value hidden in what they might otherwise toss out and charitable feeding organizations to obtain wholesome food for clients in need.
There are, however, challenges that should be considered before deploying a food recovery program. Basic necessities, from storage containers to complicated logistics, must be addressed. Food safety training is also required for all volunteers. Partnerships among a wide range of campus and regional constituents is necessary for a program to succeed. There are also perceptions of risk and illegality, as well as cultural attitudes that landfill is an easier alternative to planning, training and oversight. But all of these barriers can be overcome.
Feast on the low-hanging fruit
Food recovery has less risk and more benefits than most institutions realize. It is also a common sense move for those organizations that recognize food recovery is good for people, planet and profit. The University of Arkansas School of Law will continue to be a resource for organizations interested in food recovery policies and programs and will build upon their successful publications.
As for that $260,000 corporate gift, Razorback Food Recovery will use it to launch a mentoring program to help other colleges and universities open pantries and food recovery projects by creating a training institute, and to support materials and mini grants for new programs. It's an exciting time to be engaged in food recovery at the University of Arkansas.


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Dr Fiona Calvert
Job Title:
Science Communications Officer
Place of work / study:
Alzheimer's Research UK
Tell us a little about yourself:
I completed my PhD in early 2020 at the Wellcome Sanger Institute where I used genetic data to understand microglia and their role in Alzheimer's disease. During my PhD I became passionate about science communication and became a UK Producer for The Story Collider – a non-profit organisation that shares true personal stories about science.
After completing my PhD, I wanted to stay connected to dementia research but knew that I would prefer to work outside of the lab! Being a Science Communications Officer at Alzheimer's Research UK is the perfect blend of the things I love – I get to spend my days talking and writing about dementia research!
Tell us a fun fact about yourself:
I'm a huge Arsenal fan, which to be honest a lot of the time isn't so fun!
Why did you choose to work in dementia?
I became fascinated about the complexity of the brain while studying my undergraduate degree. Alzheimer's disease is like a giant puzzle and I really enjoy how dementia research encompasses so many different areas of biology: neuroscience, immunology, the microbiome, genetics as well as social policy and psychology.


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Brian Dozier hit a two-run homer in the 11th inning to give the Twins a 6-4 victory over Miami at Target Field on Tuesday night. Combined with Wednesday's 7-5 victory over the Marlins, the Twins have now surpassed the magic .300 winning percentage with an 18-40 record (.310).
It was understandable the Twins celebrated Tuesday's winning home run by greeting Dozier wildly at home plate, sending a bat boy to dump water over Dozier's head during a postgame interview, and holding a smoke-filled dance party in the clubhouse.
It was understandable because this team and this organization appear to have lost all shame in the misery of a season that has captured huge momentum to stand as the most-disgusting in the 56 the Twins have played in Minnesota — now split equally between 28 indoors and 28 outdoors.
I spent the month of March in Fort Myers, Fla., and was impressed with what was witnessed from the Twins. Near the end of the exhibitions, I wrote a column with the theme, "What's not to like?''
I am embarrassed to have offered such a pathetic opinion. And it makes me wonder:
Why are the players, the on-field staff, the baseball department and the business operation not completely and apologetically embarrassed by the pathetic product they are offering to customers who are stuck with previously purchased tickets?
General Manager Terry Ryan keeps saying it's all on him, but if that's true, he already should have tendered a resignation. And if it's rhetoric, he already should have fired a few people, in his front office, in his scouting department, on his coaching staff or his conditioning staff.
You oversee this and repeat words that ring hollow to an outraged sporting public, and anger is not a strong enough description of the fans' reaction. It is hostility.
The hard-core baseball followers are hostile toward everything witnessed past the first one-third of this schedule, and they should be.
The Twins will be honoring David Ortiz when he makes an alleged final visit to Minnesota with the Red Sox on Friday. That opens an old wound the size of Judd Zulgad's head (to quote Brad Childress from days past).
Big Papi takes shots at Twins, fans, Metrodome
Last Sunday, the Twins gave away jerseys with the name "Rosario'' on the back. That reopened a new wound that reminded us of the Twins' growing ability to take significant talent and turn it into big-league futility.
There is nothing more damaging to the Twins' future than the ongoing difficulty in getting extra-talented players from the Caribbean to become fully invested in reaching stardom.
Kennys Vargas had a good stretch as the designated hitter to end the 2014 season. The Twins requested that he lose weight while back home in Puerto Rico. He showed up at TwinsFest weighing 293, more than 10 pounds heavier than at the end of the '14 season.
Miguel Sano was dangerous enough as a hitter in his rookie half-season with the Twins to become the team MVP. He also gained 10 pounds while serving as the designated hitter.
So, the Twins decided to find a place in the field — right field, as it turned out — and asked him to lose weight when back in the Dominican Republic. He went from 271 at the end of '15 to 278 at the start of spring training.
Rosario had one weakness as a hitter: swinging at everything, including pitches that couldn't be reached with a canoe paddle. The Twins worked with Rosario on this, and instead his swings got wilder, leading to a return to Rochester before his jerseys were distributed at Target Field.
The conditioning staff. The coaching staff. The people assigned to reach out to players in the Dominican, Puerto Rico and Venezuela in the winter.
Fail, fail and fail.
You can't turn a young player with athletic ability who can hit like Jorge Polanco into a competent infielder? That's another failure to this point.
Major League Baseball's draft starts Thursday, and you're still trusting a scouting hierarchy that had three picks from Nos. 30 to 55 in the 2011 draft and turned them into Levi Michael, Travis Harrison and Hudson Boyd?
You're still trusting the folks who took Kohl Stewart — still, just a pitching suspect — with the No. 4 overall pick in the 2013 draft?
The Twins will deserve what they get in this week's draft.
As for ownership, the hostile hard-cores love to complain about the Pohlads, but they deserved a great deal more than they have gotten for the $170 million that Ryan committed to veteran starters Erv Santana, Ricky Nolasco and Phil Hughes.
Meantime, the Twins haven't developed a top-flight starting pitcher out of the draft in this century, and there is an absolute dearth of potential difference-making position players competing at Class AA and Class A at the moment.
And then there's this:
I'm told that it's now 10 bucks for a "craft'' beer at Target Field. And I noticed while walking past a concession stand that a Murray's steak sandwich has been goosed up to $16.
I looked it up: You can get a real steak sandwich at lunchtime at Murray's for $16.
Speaking of having no shame … concession prices for this lousy baseball team qualify.
Here's the bottom line:
I'm embarrassed, and can't do anything about it. I would like the Twins to be embarrassed, and to do something about it.
Immediately, if not sooner.
Patrick Reusse can be heard 3-6 p.m. weekdays on AM-1500. email@example.com


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Seven years after former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the mass surveillance of Americans' telephone records, an appeals court has found the program was unlawful – and that the U.S. intelligence leaders who publicly defended it were not telling the truth.
In a ruling handed down on Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said the warrantless telephone dragnet that secretly collected millions of Americans' telephone records violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and may well have been unconstitutional.
Snowden, who fled to Russia in the aftermath of the 2013 disclosures and still faces U.S. espionage charges, said on Twitter that the ruling was a vindication of his decision to go public with evidence of the National Security Agency's domestic eavesdropping operation.
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Listing Works
The Comeback by Blackcrystaly
Fandoms: Ocean's 11
22 Jan 2010
Title: The comeback
Author: Blackcrystaly
Fandom: Ocean's thirteen
Pairing: Linus Caldwell/Terry Benedict
Raiting: FRAO
Summary: Terry isn't happy about Linus working with the Ocean's Eleven once more, and he is even less satisfied when he is forced to watch his lover seduce and be seduced by a blonde assistant.
Linus is worried about the repercussions of the last job, but he is still going back to Benedict to face the music, because he loves the controlling mang.
Warnings: Not betaed, I hope it will be however.
Disclaimer: The characters and the movie don't belong to me but to Warner, the story is mine.
Feedback: I would love it, so if you have a minute leave a comment or write to me at: email@example.com
Back to Vegas by Blackcrystaly
Fandoms: Ocean's 11
08 Feb 2009
Pairing: Linus Caldwell/Terry Benedict
Raiting: NC-17
Summary: Terry had always been a man of obsessions and since he found the thieves of his casino he couldn't help but want Linus, so after he got his money, and the interest, back he went for the man with what seemed an innocent proposition: work for him as a security consultant. The son of Robert Caldwell couldn't even imagine the second intentions of the Bellagio's owner.
Disclaimer: These characters don't belong to me, I'm just playing around with them and the story is of my invention without any intent to make money out of it.
Bunking the Myth by orphan_account
Fandoms: Ocean's 11
19 Jul 2008
Fandom: Ocean's 11
Sequel/Series: No
Pairing: None, autoerotism
Archive: Yes, but tell me where
Disclaimer: I did not create and do not own these characters. I have no legal ties to them, or the Ocean's 11 concept, and make no profit from this fiction. It is strictly for entertainment, and the
actions of these characters bear no reflection on the actors who portrayed them.
Web pages: http://www.angelfire.com/grrl/scribescribbles
Summary: It's late at night before the caper, and Rusty and Linus have a little bet.
Notes: I guess I ought to say something about the title. You've heard of debunking, haven't you?
Rating: NC17


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Secure Bike Parking Matches With Polymer Fusion Label Durability
In Europe, it's extremely common to see people bustling along the streets or biking throughout their day. Whether it's to work, the doctor, or the grocery store, you will easily see hundreds of passerby each day anywhere you go, none of them behind the windows or steering wheel of a car.
If you've been to Europe, chances are you know why people choose simpler methods of transportation over the comfort and convenience of a car. European streets are often overloaded with hectic traffic and parking is a scarce commodity.
The car seems more "convenient" up front, but in the end, it turns out to be a more enjoyable and better option to choose your bike in order to get places more efficiently.
In the rural town where I live, it's rare to see someone using a bike as a regular means of transportation, but in many cities across the United States, metropolitan areas or bigger towns have seen a spike in bike travel recently.
With factors such as financial savings, increased physical fitness, emotional well-being, environmental awareness, and avoiding heavy traffic, many people are opting to bike when they can, and experiencing multiple benefits.
Although there is a lot of benefit to ditching the car keys, there is one giant problem facing bicyclists. THEFT. According to the National Bike Registry, about 1.5 million bicycles are reported stolen EACH year.
If you have a bike you just use for fun, having it stolen may not be a huge issue that impacts your life. But what if your bike is the ONLY way you get to and from work? What if biking to you is a huge part of what makes you happy, and you've invested thousands of dollars in making your bike fit your specific needs? Then having it stolen would be devastating to you.
Although there are many types of bike locks available in virtually every price range across the board, bike theft continues to climb.
This has created a problem. One company that is dedicated to solving this problem is BikeLid LLC. The BikeLid is a tough yet lightweight and graffiti resistant plastic polyethylene shell. Fitting up to two full-sized bicycles, the shell is steel-reinforced and provides "unrivaled protection from the elements, vandals, and thieves," stated Robin Duberow, CEO of BikeLid.
The polyethylene BikeLid bolts to any surface and can be manufactured in any color, seamlessly blending with the environment as needed, all while protecting your bike from the elements and thieves.
Places like apartment complexes, University campuses, places of employment, and other public settings opt to use products like BikeLid. Because even though it costs more money than a simple bike lock would up front, it saves money in the long run. The bike is protected and it encourages people and students to bike to work or class, which in turn helps alleviate traffic.
Robin Duberow says, "although the BikeLid product is itself distinctive and unique, brand image is important to us and we care that the graphic we use on their products remain intact for the life of the product."
Bikelid wants their product not only to be appealing, but to be easily identifiable out in the field for as long as the part itself will last. Mold In Graphic Systems is proud to have provided a durable and long lasting choice of a label technology for BikeLid polyethylene products for years to come.
View bikelid.com to learn more and view their products.
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Michael Mattera
Gudgeon (Prescott, AZ) Base member Michael Phil Mattera, 86, of Moorpark, CA (formally of Prescott, AZ and Hunter, NY) passed away on June 15, 2016. He is survived by his wife Inez, two sons Anthony and Joseph, and four grandchildren. A gentle soul dedicated to public service and devotion to family, he was born to the late Evelyn and John Mattera on August 2, 1929 in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated in 1947 from Windham High School and enlisted in the US Navy as a submarine sonarman serving on the USS Bergall, SS-320, from 1947 to 1951, and the USS Sablefish, SS-303, in 1951.
Continuing the call of duty, Mike became a NY State Trooper and served the public from 1952-1972. It is during this time that he met and married his wife of 57 years, the former Inez Querin of Hunter, NY. A successful business career followed as owner of the Forester Motor Lodge in Hunter, NY from 1968- 1979. During that time he also served as a Greene County legislator and High School Board member. Retirement led the family out west to Prescott, AZ where he indulged his passion for golf, reading and antique furniture refinishing from 1981-2015. He moved to California last fall to be closer to family. A role model too many generations his positive quiet calmness will be greatly missed by his family and friends.
Services were held at Mission Santa Maria 12028 E. Turquoise Cir, Dewey, AZ. On Thursday June 23, 2016 viewing was from 10:00-10:30, with Mass at 10:30, burial followed at AZ Pioneer Home Cemetery in Prescott.
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Research from the Product Development Management Association showed that in 2012, 70% of U.S. product development organizations managed their work with phase-gate Product Development Processes (PDPs).
While Agile has started to eat into that adoption rate, almost all companies that I encounter still use phase-gate in some form, and when an agile implementation fails to deliver, organizations fall back to phase-gate because it has a long history of providing management with visibility and control over a product development program.
Agilists tend to describe phase-gate processes as obsolete or inherently "waterfall" and therefore evil — but this is more a reflection of how poorly the agilist coach understands the nature of product development outside of software. In the hardware world and in many other places, phase gates are ubiquitous because they work.
What is a Phase Gate Product Development Process?
In the diagram above, the arrows are separated with a white gate — a checkpoint the team must pass before proceeding to the next phase. Most phase-gate life cycles have five to seven phases, each separated with a gate.
Phase-gate life cycles promised to shorten time-to-market and reduce development costs by systematizing the chaotic world of innovation into clearly-defined phases with oversight at the gates, and by giving business teams distinct points where bad projects can be recognized and killed. When these were introduced in the 1990s, they made a step-change in the performance of most product development teams, which is why they have become so ubiquitous.
It is true that an organization with phase-gates is more productive than a completely chaotic product development process with no controls at all. But is it the best way to organize the flow of work in product development?
Stage Gate Life Cycles are Essential!
One school of thought says that phase-gate life cycles form the basis for a stable, predictable product development process that can then be continuously improved to improve the flow and eliminate waste. In practice, this approach has not worked all that well, leading to incremental improvements in product development performance but no dramatic accelerations. Merely tweaking a phase-gate life cycle does not address the systemic problems that cause late design changes, reinvention and overloaded resources.
At the same time, it is true that an organization with a phase-gate process is likely to be much better prepared to adopt the product development practices that do address these systemic problems. It is nearly impossible for rapid learning cycles, convergent decision-making and effective design thinking to take place in a product development process that is ill-defined or nonexistent. If there is no process at all, phase-gate is a good way to avoid reinventing the wheel just to put a workable product development process in place.
Phase Gate Life Cycles are Evil!
Phase-gate life cycles do flout several of the tenets of good process flow, and that has led some to believe they should be abolished:
- They are large batch processes. In many companies, some types of work cannot proceed until a product has made it through a specific gate. The hand-off of requirements from Marketing to Engineering, system integration and verification testing, manufacturing process engineering and procurement are all processes that become vulnerable to large batch dumps in a phase-gate PDP that is too rigid. The gates tend to get overloaded with deliverables and checklist items.
- They impose a linear flow on an inherently cyclical learning process. Phase-gate life cycles assume that once a product is past a certain development phase, there should never be any need to go backwards. The reality for most product developers is that requirements change, technology plans don't work out as expected and it is hard to invent on a schedule. While learning takes place mostly in the early phases of product development, it continues throughout.
- They drive teams to rush through early development only to get bogged down in late development, and make decisions earlier than they need to be made, limiting flexibility in late development. This is a natural consequence of the linear view of product development: if we want to cut time-to-market in half, then all of product development needs to go twice as fast. In reality, product development teams go faster when they spend more time in early product development to burn down technical risk before committing to specific solutions.
A Phase-Gate Life Cycle With Maximum Flow
While the "Phase Gate is Evil!" position makes a lot of good points, the reality is that product development needs a workflow model, and in most organizations, the phase-gate model is much better than the chaos that would break out if the PDP did not exist.
My experiences in working with organizations through the transition from start-up to maturity have shown me that a company with a good phase-gate PDP is much better prepared for rapid learning, platform development and design thinking than a company without one.
Fortunately, four adjustments to the typical phase-gate process mitigate the ill effects of phase-gate without losing the benefits:
- Decouple business decisions from other decisions. Executives and other managers like phase-gate because it gives them defined points in the process to review the business case and make good decisions. The key business decisions are easier to make if the information needed is not drowned out with a lot of other deliverables. These business decision points still act as gates, because the project may be cancelled at the gate. The organization accepts the small risk that the project will be cancelled to eliminate a whole lot of the waste of waiting. Downstream partners accept the waste of a small amount of rework to eliminate a whole lot of waste from redesign work across the whole system. Work becomes more concurrent and knowledge flows more easily across the teams. Learning proceeds throughout. With business decisions decoupled from the flow of work, all of the large batch hand-offs can be replaced with a more flexible release of information from one part of the development team to another. Downstream partners will get engaged sooner, when a little bit of their help will go a long way towards eliminating the root causes of late design changes.
- Establish a regular cadence of Integration Events for converging on Key Decisions at the point in time when they need to be made, so that these major decisions don't have to wait until the next Gate, or get force-fit into deliverables.
- Seek to understand the last responsible moment for the Key Decisions that govern the product's success and plan Integration Events so that the team converges on a solution just ahead of the last responsible moment.
- Blur the boundaries between phases so that work gets done when it needs to get done, and not when the phase-gate process says that it should be done. Chances are, this is how your team is already working but there may be some partners (Procurement, Finance) who may need explicit permission from management to "bend the rules" and start work earlier.
How to Modify Your Phase-Gate PDP To Maximize Value and Speed
- Reduce the checklists and deliverables for each gate down to the absolute minimum required for the managers to make the informed decision that is the reason for the gate.
- Move the rest of the deliverables to interim milestones that take place between the gates.
- Dissolve the rigid boundaries between phases: bring key suppliers on board earlier, get process engineering engaged sooner and map out decisions according to the last responsible moment for making them.
- Ensure that teams have a good handle on the Key Decisions that need to be made within a phase — they should lead up to the major business decision that will be taken at the end of the phase — and that the team understands the Last Responsible Moment for these major decisions.
- Establish a regular cadence of Rapid Learning Cycles that will structure the time within a phase.


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Rewati Shahani was born and brought up in Mumbai before moving to London to study Fine Art at Central Saint Martin's. She has lived in the capital ever since. Much of her early work focuses on the shared histories of her current and former home cities - as seen in her large-scale ink on kora cotton maps of the two metropolises.
Rewati's new collection of work furthers her exploration of nationhood and place, taking aim at the proscriptive nature of human geography in the 21st century. There has in recent times been a refocusing on the significance of national borders, fed by a pervasive anxiety over the movement of people who cross them - whether free, illegal or in seek of asylum. From America's travel ban to the Syrian and Rohingya refugee crises, national debates over 'who to let in' are being contested more hotly than for a generation.
In 2018, she returned to Mumbai for her first solo show in India, Tides, which was followed in 2019 by LAND, shown in London. Back in India for the new year, LAND 2020 is a continuation of this series.
Rewati Shahani lives and works in London, UK.