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So this update is likely rather boring. Due to the holiday weekend we were informed prior to beginning training that this week would be fairly lax as a couple trainers would be out for the entire week. This was already factored into our training schedule. Since we had a limited number of instructors nobody could go out on the road and all training was simply continued practice in-yard.
DAYS 9-13 (Monday 4/10 - Friday 4/14)
Continued practicing all in-yard skills. Straight line backing, offset backing, 90˚ alley docking, parallel parking etc. Also continued working on both our in-cab and exterior pre-trip. My wife and I really nailed down the in cab portion this week and are pretty confident we could pass the whole pre-trip DMV exam without issue at this point. (I should mention this was all pretty overwhelming prior to training, so don't sweat it!)
As we had lots of study time this week we hit the books pretty hard for our hazmat endorsement. We're now able to pass virtually any online hazmat practice test we can find and are thinking that we'll go take the real deal at the DMV at the end of next week. Still nervous about it as we've heard many folks say they were doing great with practice tests and then went in and failed miserably due to receiving numerous questions they'd never seen before!
The big event this week was further confirmation from our chosen employer. Up until this point we've had a pre-hire from our prefferred company but it was solely based upon verbal communications. This past week they finished reviewing our applications and completed all the necessary background checks. Good news! They're still eager to have us join the team and will have us in for orientation shortly after obtaining our CDL's! (In the meantime we are still continuing to research and speak with other companies. Options are good!)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
Explosive, flammable, poisonous or otherwise potentially dangerous cargo. Large amounts of especially hazardous cargo are required to be placarded under HAZMAT regulations
The state agency that handles everything related to your driver's licences, including testing, issuance, transfers, and revocation.
Pre-hire letters are acceptance letters from trucking companies to students, or even potential students, to verify placement. The trucking companies are saying in writing that the student, or potential student, appears to meet the company's minimum hiring requirements and is welcome to attend their orientation at the company's expense once he or she graduates from truck driving school and has their CDL in hand.
We have an excellent article that will help you Understand The Pre-Hire Process.
The people that receive a pre-hire letter are people who meet the company's minimum hiring requirements, but it is not an employment contract. It is an invitation to orientation, and the orientation itself is a prerequisite to employment.
During the orientation you will get a physical, drug screen, and background check done. These and other qualifications must be met before someone in orientation is officially hired.
Hope I am not hijacking it, but I am in California and being trained as a WIOA Grant recipient. I am unemployed IT Manager that worked my way through the ranks, but I never attended a college or university, so I have no degree. All the IT Management jobs I ran across required a degree, and and when I applied for entry-level positions I was told I was over qualified for the position, and the mid and senior level positions all required a degree, and I would get the thank you but you don't meet the minimum educational requirements for the position. 20 years of experience does not count these days.
My experience was a bit different getting the grant. In the County I live in you don't visit EDD, I had to visit a Job Training Center of California (JTCC), the local EDD Office may have information on where to apply, but I would Google search WIOA and your county name, that would probably be faster, we don't have a local EDD Office, and they have limited phone hours.
Once I found where I needed to go, I walked in, was told I needed an appointment, made one, but it was 2 weeks away. When I finally had my initial interview, they filled out a form to see if I qualified for WIOA based on family income, then had to schedule taking the tests mentioned above (Reading, Math, Comprehension). Looking back, I should have asked for the interview and test appointments for the same day, the JTCC is not local, but a bit of a drive. Then I waited for a response, asked for a status when I was at 4 months of unemployment, and was told to wait longer.
When I exhausted my unemployment benefits and living off savings for 2 months, I was brought in for a second interview, and given a Grant Application, which was 12 pages. The first few pages were my past job history, then I had to write why I needed to be trained, and why it would benefit me. After that, I had to list the schools I had visited, who I had talked to, and I had to interview 2 people that are driving today. At that point I had to hand in my Grant Application and wait yet again.
It took another month, but I was told my training was approved, and it was at that point I found out they use the schools you visit, the first one I listed was the one they made the voucher out to. They gave me the start date, as well as who to contact at the school. My school is not local either, but a 30 mile drive each way. I am lucky as the school starts you out with computer based learning and practice tests, they allowed me to do those from home, so I did not have to commute. When I went to DMV they paid for the permit, as well as my DOT Physical, not all schools do this, so you need to ask when you are visiting the schools you want to attend.
Good luck, I see you are in Joshua Tree, you will probably need to go to Victorville or San Bernardino for testing and interviewing, or that would be my guess.
Formerly known as the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), the WIOA was established in 1998 to prepare youth, adults and dislocated workers for entry and reentry into the workforce. WIOA training funds are designed to serve laid-off individuals, older youth and adults who are in need of training to enter or reenter the labor market. A lot of truck drivers get funding for their CDL training through WIOA.
A department of the federal executive branch responsible for the national highways and for railroad and airline safety. It also manages Amtrak, the national railroad system, and the Coast Guard.
State and Federal DOT Officers are responsible for commercial vehicle enforcement. "The truck police" you could call them.
The state agency that handles everything related to your driver's licences, including testing, issuance, transfers, and revocation.
Yes, ChosenOne you are absolutely correct, sorry if I wasn't clear. The EDD does not handle WIOA. You have to go to your county career center and, in my area, that will be the same place in which you would go to meet with EDD or perform any of the required things necessary for your unemployment benefits. Multiple agencies within the career center.
Formerly known as the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), the WIOA was established in 1998 to prepare youth, adults and dislocated workers for entry and reentry into the workforce. WIOA training funds are designed to serve laid-off individuals, older youth and adults who are in need of training to enter or reenter the labor market. A lot of truck drivers get funding for their CDL training through WIOA.
Thank you very much for all the info. It sounds like it's worth a try for me and that it's a time consuming process, so I should get started ASAP. I have created such a weird situation where I have tons of education but none that's in demand and no recent, verifiable job experience. I take dispatch calls from home, but it's as an independent contractor. I can't even get hired at Walmart even though I have tons of customer service experience from my younger days. Which is how I remembered that for a long time I've occasionally thought I'd like to be a trucker, and here I am.
The Substance Abuse Professional (SAP) is a person who evaluates employees who have violated a DOT drug and alcohol program regulation and makes recommendations concerning education, treatment, follow-up testing, and aftercare.
Time for another update (days are flying by)...
Days 14-18 (Monday 4/17 - Friday 4/21)
We continued practicing all the skills we've learned up to this point. To this we added parallel parking to the passenger side as well as training on coupling and uncoupling trailers. Neither of the new skills turned out to be any big deal. If you can parallel park to the drivers side it's an easy transition to the passenger. Coupling and uncoupling is cake and simply one of those things in which you want to be dang sure you're diligently performing all the steps, as failing to do so may turn out ugly! We also got out on the road several times this week. I'm already feeling ready for the DMV test and the instructors agree. My wife, who had a much bigger nut to crack, is right on my heels. Boring as the training portion of the update may be there actually were a few major things to report this week.
My wife and I went into the DMV yesterday (4/20) and both took, and passed, our hazmat tests! As it turned out the horror stories we had been told were completely unfounded. The test was actually quite straight forward, had no surprise questions we hadn't studied for, and was actually relatively easy in the grand scheme of things. Unfortunately, we did end up with a bit of drama from later in the evening. The schools office lady calls us up, somewhat panicking, as apparently another student had taken an endorsement exam and the DMV cancelled the students skills test and forced him to reschedule. For those who don't know, in California you can not take the DMV driving test for a CDL within two weeks of receiving your permit. When you receive your permit the school immediately schedules your drive test as the appointment must be booked way in advance. Our test is exactly two weeks from yesterday morning and we took our hazmat yesterday afternoon. Our office lady was implying that this two week requirement applied to endorsements as well, and that our test may now get rescheduled. This could potentially throw us off by a month as appointments are difficult to get scheduled. I was pretty sure this was BS as the lady at the DMV was made well aware that our drive test was two weeks out and that we intend to go in next week for doubles/triples and tankers. Her response to this was simply to inform us that we needed to get them done prior to the drive test or we'd have to pay for them again. The clarification, as of today, is that I was correct, however the school is still tripping about this other student and requesting that we hold off on doubles/triples and tanker till after we obtain our CDL's. We're debating but at this point I'm thinking we'll go in next week as planned, verify one more time that this has no effect on our test date, and just get them done!
Our preferred employer changed this week! For months now, well prior to school, we thought we'd identified our top choice of companies. This was a very personalized decision based upon our wishing to drive as a husband/wife team, the type of trucking we're interested in, the obvious criteria such as pay and home time, and even the fact that being able to take our little fourteen pound dog was non-negotiable. This week we received yet another pre-hire from a company we were interested in. They fit all of our criteria and are offering better pay, guaranteed weekly minimum pay (essentially an advance but it's something) AND they will train my wife and I together as a team rather than separate us. (More about that when the time comes). Most importantly I'm getting a better vibe from them. They are far more responsive than the other companies we've spoken with and seem genuinely eager to have us on board. Don't get me wrong, this is a recruiter and I get that, but if a company can't manage to hire recruiters who aren't rude and short with us when their trying to sell us, then how will the company themselves or the fleet manager be down the road? (Pun intended) They also have generally better reviews. Again, don't get me wrong, EVERY company we've looked at has ten bad reviews online for every good one, giving one the impression that this industry is as shady as one that advertises "management positions" and turns out to be door-to-door knife sales! This particular company just happens to have a few less bad ones per good one. You'll have to take my word that my wife and I have zero background issues, zero drug/alcohol issues, we have a strong work ethic and we understand the concept of paying our dues. With that being said our greatest fear is that the horror stories will prove true and we'll end up stuck in a truck somewhere with no available loads and being financially starved for weeks or months. Short stints are anticipated as just part of hauling freight, but long term would obviously be an issue. Online chatter gives one a genuine concern for just such an outcome and gives the sense that this whole venture is a major gamble. If that's a concern for you...then stay tuned as I'll be telling you how it goes.
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
Explosive, flammable, poisonous or otherwise potentially dangerous cargo. Large amounts of especially hazardous cargo are required to be placarded under HAZMAT regulations
Refers to pulling two trailers at the same time, otherwise known as "pups" or "pup trailers" because they're only about 28 feet long. However there are some states that allow doubles that are each 48 feet in length.
The state agency that handles everything related to your driver's licences, including testing, issuance, transfers, and revocation.
Pre-hire letters are acceptance letters from trucking companies to students, or even potential students, to verify placement. The trucking companies are saying in writing that the student, or potential student, appears to meet the company's minimum hiring requirements and is welcome to attend their orientation at the company's expense once he or she graduates from truck driving school and has their CDL in hand.
We have an excellent article that will help you Understand The Pre-Hire Process.
The people that receive a pre-hire letter are people who meet the company's minimum hiring requirements, but it is not an employment contract. It is an invitation to orientation, and the orientation itself is a prerequisite to employment.
During the orientation you will get a physical, drug screen, and background check done. These and other qualifications must be met before someone in orientation is officially hired.
Another update and a lesson learned!
Days 19-24 (Monday 4/24 - Saturday 4/29)
As far as the training update goes it was a typical week. All of the above over and over. Practice, practice. We both received a significant amount of time out on the road and made several trips to and from the commercial DMV to deliver the truck for other students taking their tests. My wife is doing very well and it has been debatable for a week now as to wether she'd test on schedule or need an extra week or two. At this point it's looking like she'll get a reschedule just to make absolutely sure she's fully comfortable, but I'm blown away with her progress. (Incidentally there are several students, who had previous experience driving manuals and pulling trailers, who are also taking the extra time.) As far as significant events...
Hazmat Security Screening
We drove into San Jose on Thursday afternoon for the screening. The opportunity to finally get over and get it done was not anticipated so, while we planned to fill out the application online in advance, we ended up just being walk-ins. I have to say the whole process was both easier than we anticipated and completely bizarre. As we were making the hour long drive after school we were expecting to get there and find ourselves embroiled in a completely inefficient half DMV, half TSA, mess of a system. We had pictured a multi-hour long wait due to not having an appointment, followed by a 300 pound guy in a TSA uniform rolling our fingers in ink. What we got was something quite different. We arrived to find a small office appearing more like an upscale attornies office. The place was adorned wall-to-wall with sports memorabilia, including cases with signed jerseys, signed baseballs and even Super Bowl rings. Clearly it is a privately owned outfit contracted to perform this service. Adding to the unexpected atmosphere was the fact that every employee working there was a young girl who could best be described as a 12 on the ole 1-10 scale and was dressed to the nines. Yes, even my wife couldn't help but notice this! It was noticeably odd as it seems the management collects sports memorabilia while providing NFL cheerleaders with day jobs! Five minutes after getting there we're called into an office by a young woman dressed as if she were on her way to prom. We provide our drivers licenses and passports, get electronically fingerprinted, answer some questions and off we went. Odd experience but all-in-all, very quick and easy.
The Completely Unexpected DMV Test!! (And the lesson learned!)
So our original DMV test dates have been scheduled for this coming Thursday, May 4th, since starting school. I've been doing very, very well in school and the instructors have felt that I've been ready for a solid week now. Today I receive a call at about 8:00 am from the owner of the school. He tells me that there is a slot open to test immediately! Today! On a Saturday, which I didn't even know they tested on Saturdays! He says that he feels I am "more than ready" then asks if I want to come in and "take a crack at it" and explains that, if it goes south, I can just consider it a "free chance" as I'll still have my Thursday appointment. Next thing I know I'm in the car and on my way. I arrive at 9:15 am and discover that two of us are testing. The other guy is a reschedule and not there yet and, if he arrives, they're gonna give him the 10:00am and I'll sit around and wait till 1:00pm. Needless to say 9:50 rolls around and he's still not there. The instructor calls and the guy says he can't find his permit and won't make it in time (thanks for the heads up!). Just like that...I'm testing right now! My only concern was doing something stupid on the drive that would be an auto-fail, like stopping in a crosswalk or shifting on train tracks. The rest of it I've had down pat for two weeks, especially in-cab and pre-trip. So, as instructed, I'm to do the in-cab first and, of course, there can be no mistakes on this part. I begin with compressor/governor cut-out test...no problem. Applied pressure test...no problem. Low warning light test...no problem. Spring brake test...no problem. I then run through all equipment/gauges as I build pressure for the compressor/governor cut-in test...no problem. I then say "my compressor and governor should cut-in at 100psi and the needle should begin to rise" and then perform the test. Afterward the examiner say's "what pressure?". Thinking she actually didn't hear me I say "100psi". She then says "is that what the instructor taught you to say?". CRAP! Now I know somethings wrong! I think for a moment and, knowing damn good and well it's 100psi, I repeat "my compressor and governor should cut-in at 100psi". She says "is that what the manual says?". At this point I'm thinking "Great! I must have been taught the wrong psi!" because I've studied this a million times and I know it's 100psi. I say "yes, I'm pretty sure it says 100psi" to which she replies "okay, let's go talk to your instructor". Of course I know that's examiner speak for FAIL! My instructor comes over and she tells him my answers verbatim and then explains that I failed to say "NO LESS THAN"!! I said "at 100psi" rather than "at no less than 100psi". Auto-fail and, of course, I knew that all along! I simply got nervous and screwed up my terminology. So just like that I'm back to my Thursday test date! Don't get over-confident! (Won't happen again!!)
Explosive, flammable, poisonous or otherwise potentially dangerous cargo. Large amounts of especially hazardous cargo are required to be placarded under HAZMAT regulations
The state agency that handles everything related to your driver's licences, including testing, issuance, transfers, and revocation.
Operating While Intoxicated
If you're testing in California, especially if at the Salinas commercial DMV , you may want to read this one...
Days 25-29 (May 1st - May 5th) ...yes May 5th is actually tomorrow...read on
So training is more practicing all of the above. My wife's test date was set for the 23rd, so not much to say there. This update will be about testing and what has evolved since my first unexpected test opportunity last Saturday.
In the past week I've been tasked, numerous times, with driving the truck to the DMV testing yard for others to use for their tests. Of course, we are not the only school there for testing. Because of this I have literally watched a dozen or more people take their CDL's. Of that dozen I think I've seen ONE pass in a week, with the majority not making it beyond in-cab, and the remainder failing at skills. Each time I've sought to learn from the mistakes of others by questioning as to what happened and storing that as a mental note for my own knowledge. Today was my official "first" test date aside from my "freebie" opportunity last Saturday. Just prior to me today I watched a person from our school fail for a second time, but he made it to the alley dock prior to doing so this time (we've been studying together). Then I watched as a person from another school failed at in-cab. Then it was my turn.
I walked into today with one thought in mind, there was NO WAY I was going to give them even the slightest excuse to fail me. At every step I reiterated what needed to happen and what I was going to do to perform that given test. It went beautifully...at first. In cab went off without a hitch. I made sure to both word things and perform things in such a manner that it couldn't have been judged anything other than passing. Then came the walk-around. I've had this down pat since the first week of school and did the worlds most thorough walk-around. (The examiner even enthusiastically said "good job".) Then came straight line backing. Again, got it down and backed straight through the cones without issue....easy peasy. Next offset backing. Again, I've got it down, I backed into the other lane without a pull-up or any issue whatsoever. Finally I was randomly selected for an alley dock rather than parallel parking. I pulled into position and began to perform the maneuver before realizing that I hadn't judged my starting position properly and would exceed the outer boundary (my perception was a bit different than at our yard). No problem, I took a go-around and started from a little further forward. Pulled it right into the "dock" with two pull-ups (one just to be extra safe) and utilized both my get-out-and-looks, again, just to be safe. All is well I'm thinking as we head out for the on-road portion.
So out we go and I gotta say everything seemed perfect on the drive as far as I was concerned with the exception of the route being all screwed up today! Heavy traffic, construction forcing awkward merges and a standstill on the freeway. None the less I handled it fine. Shifting smoothly, up and down, watching mirrors...all good. Now a couple pre-cursors here. The truck I'm using has had the clutch going out for two weeks! We've repeatedly reported this and it was "adjusted" last week, then again last night. Also, upon returning to this DMV yard there is a crosswalk in mid-road (meaning nowhere near a light) and you must stop before the crosswalk if you do not have a sufficient gap in traffic to make the left into the yard. EVERYBODY knows about this as it is an auto-fail, right at the very end of the course, if you stop in that crosswalk! So on the second half of my drive the clutch is beginning to slip very badly! So badly in fact that I can barely get moving in 4th if starting on any upward slope whatsoever (with a 53', but empty, trailer). The last light is at the top of a relatively steep hill and I'm forced to stop on the worst part of the slope with several vehicles between me and the light. I'm so worried about wether or not the truck is gonna move I debate starting in a lower gear than 4th but decide to do as I was taught and PRAY. Sure enough the dang thing barely moves and I slip my way up to the light at 3mph to catch the red light again. Finally we approach the yard with oncoming traffic so I stop prior to the crosswalk to wait for traffic (it's heavy). I get what I would consider a huge gap and begin pulling forward to turn. At that moment the examiner says "stop, there's not enough room to make the turn", with an oncoming car WAY down the road in a 35 zone. So now I'm stopped in the crosswalk and know that it's over as that's an auto-fail. We stop in the yard and the examiner begins to go over, what I already know, was a failed drive because of that final stop. She also points out that I was "doing some weird lugging while releasing the clutch at several points" and points were lost. Uh NO, the freaking thing is on it's last leg and it had nothing to do with me or my driving! I would have otherwise passed if not for the final turn into the yard. (I swear I had more than sufficient room in that gap!) So, re-test scheduled for 19 days from now with a hope I can slide into an earlier date!
Moral of the story. If you see a school truck sitting in the middle of the road in Salinas waiting for a two mile gap in traffic before making a turn...yeah, that's just me taking my next test. (No school tomorrow as the truck is supposedly getting fixed this time. We'll see!)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
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Maybe you scared her by repeatedly 'slipping the clutch' and feathering the throttle when she wanted you to just go. (you weren't riding the clutch, but it sounds like she didn't know that) And then, on that final turn into the yard, you were slipping the clutch again so she stopped you.
I can think of three things you could have done there, were all three automatic fails?
1. Stop when she told you, right in the crosswalk. Autofail seems to have been the result, but you obeyed a safety order from the licensed driver in charge of the vehicle.
2. Complete the turn she just ordered you not to take (autofail, right? or worse than autofail, if that's possible?)
3. Abort the turn and stop after the crosswalk. Is this a fail too?
Unfortunately, if she tells you to stop, it's all over with and you auto-fail. The crosswalk crosses the road and intersects with the sidewalk about five feet prior to the gate entrance to the yard. If the truck were fully on the far side of the crosswalk you'd have missed the entrance, which is why you must stop prior to the crosswalk if there is not a sufficient gap in traffic to make one fluid turn into the yard. I genuinely felt I had more than ample space to turn in without cutting off the oncoming car (and with traffic the way it was, the gap was about as good as it was gonna get). She explained to me that if your turn so much as requires an oncoming driver to lift their foot off the throttle for you, then you didn't have sufficient space. The only correct DMV answer is to wait for one enormous gap! Easier said than done in heavy traffic and certainly not the norm as I can't get through the industrial area of Salinas in a four wheeler without routinely slowing for maneuvering trucks. That being said the DMV route takes a turn around a very congested truck stop. Today it was busier than I've ever seen it and we actually got stuck there for about ten minutes as trucks were literally stopped in the road waiting for others to exit so they could enter. As we sat there she kept pointing out driver after driver who "should be ticketed" or shouldn't have a CDL. A bit disconcerting when in the middle of testing for your CDL. To be completely fair I had to agree with her on one guy who tried to make a left at a light into the completely stopped traffic and ended up stuck at a 45˚ angle across the entire intersection, blocking everyone for two full light cycles until trucks were finally able to move. He also attempted to backup and nearly hit the guy behind him. She made me promise I'd never drive like him. Lol.
As a final update. Got a call from the school right after making that last post. I'll be re-testing Monday as I'm taking another students appointment due to them not being ready. Third time better be the charm as this is getting embarrassing! Taking my private pilots exam wasn't this much of a pain in the butt!
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Operating While Intoxicated
Larry, your posts are full of great information, and well thought out. Thanks for all your efforts!
Don't worry too much about failing several times. There are a lot of professional drivers out here who failed their driving test three or four times. You're actually learning a lot from your multiple tests, and all of that will benefit you. It's frustrating, and maybe a little embarrassing, but ultimately not any big deal. Three or four years from now it will be a distant memory with absolutely no ramifications to your career.
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Club Notes: Dec. 24
Cary Newcomers Club
The Cary Newcomers Club will meet from 9:15-11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 7, at Kirk of Kildaire, Presbyterian, 200 High Meadow Drive, Cary. Representatives from Atlantic Tire of Cary will discuss winterizing cars and share safety tips. For more information, email email@example.com or go to www.carynewcomers.com.
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Holly Springs Masonic Lodge
The Holly Springs Masonic Lodge No. 115 meets at 6:30 p.m. every second and fourth Tuesday of the month at 224 Raleigh St., Holly Springs. A meal is served on the second Tuesday of the month following the meeting. For details, email firstname.lastname@example.com or go to www.hs115.org.
Rotary clubs
• The Apex Sunrise Rotary Club meets at 7:15 a.m. Tuesdays at Perkins Family Restaurant, 908 U.S. 64 West. Details:www.apexsunriserotaryclub.org
• The Morrisville Rotary Club meets at noon Tuesdays at Prestonwood Country Club. New members are welcome. Details:www.morrisville.rotary-clubs.org
• The Cary Rotary Club meets at 12:30 p.m. Tuesdays at MacGregor Downs Country Club, 430 St. Andrews Lane. Visitors are welcome. Details:www.thecaryrotaryclub.org
• The Downtown Fuquay-Varina Rotary Club meets at 7:30 a.m. Wednesdays at 405 Broad St., Fuquay-Varina. New members and visitors are welcome. For details, go towww.F-VdowntownRotaryclub.org
• The Apex Rotary Club meets at 12:30 p.m. Thursdays at Carrabba's Italian Grill, 1201 Haddon Hall Drive, Apex. Details: 919-387-1040.
• Cary Kildaire Rotary Club meets at 6 p.m. Thursdays at MacGregor Downs Country Club, 430 St. Andrews Lane, Cary. New members and visitors are welcome. Details:www.cary-kildairerotaryclub.org
• The Cary Page Rotary Club meets for breakfast at 7 a.m. Fridays at Woodland Terrace, 300 Kildaire Woods Drive. Details: 919-522-0104 orwww.carypagerotary.org
Women in Networking
The Cary chapter of Women in Networking meets from 8:30-9:30 a.m. Tuesdays at Mimi's Café, 115 Walnut St., Cary. For details, go to win-nc.com.
Cary Greatest Generation Club
The Cary Greatest Generation Club meets from 9:30-10:30 a.m. Tuesdays at the Cary Senior Center. For details, call Page Ott at 919-467-3534.
A group meets to play cribbage at 11 a.m. Tuesdays at the Fuquay-Varina Community Center, 820 S. Main St. For details, call Dale Schleiter at 919-552-5380.
Chess club
A local chess club will meet from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesdays or Wednesdays at a coffee house/bakery at the corner of Weston Parkway and Harrison Avenue in Cary. Any level of experience is welcome. For details, contact David at 919-901-2352 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Run club
Crossfit Embark and Brueprint Brewing Company host a run club with 1.5-mile, 3-mile and 5-mile routes at 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays. Runs start at Crossfit Embark, 1229 Perry Road, Apex.
Recovery International
Recovery International support group offers self-help for stress, anxiety, depression, anger and fear. The group meets from 7-8:45 p.m. Tuesdays at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Lower Peace Hall, 3313 Wade Ave., Raleigh. For more information, call 919-886-7768 or go to www.lowselfhelpsystems.org.
XYZ Seniors Club
The XYZ Seniors Club meets at 10 a.m. the second and fourth Wednesday of the month at the Cary Senior Center, 120 Maury Odell Place in Bond Park. For details, call Becky Furno at 919-467-8332.
Alzheimer's support group
An Alzheimer's family support group will meet on the fourth Wednesday of each month 6:30-7:30 p.m. at 901 Spring Arbor Court, Apex.
Holly Springs Community Band
The Holly Springs Community Band is looking for adult woodwind, brass, percussion, keyboard, bass and guitar musicians to practice with the band from 7-8:45 p.m. Wednesdays at the Holly Springs Cultural Center. Musicians must be able to read music. Some positions are available for aspiring, talented and mature junior- and senior-level high school musicians. Details: www.hollyspringsband.net.
Apex Kiwanis Club
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Open mic-Apex
Quarter Note Music hosts an open-mic event from 6-9 p.m. Fridays at 1583 Beaver Creek Commons Drive, Apex. Details: 919-387-3939.
Morrisville Community Garden
The Morrisville Community Garden is planning, planting and seeking members to join the garden. Anyone interested can visit the garden from 9 a.m. to noon Saturdays at 219 Church St. Details: email@example.com or www.morrisvillegarden.org.
Cary Multiple Sclerosis
People with MS lead monthly meetings of the Cary Multiple Sclerosis self-help group. Details: Call Mary Ann at 919-779-2101.
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MONTREAL – Haunted by the actions of former executives and with its reputation badly damaged, SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. is dogged by problem contracts that are hurting its financials.
The Montreal engineering multinational disclosed Friday that there are "a number of challenged projects" overseas hurting profitability that it is trying to close out with losing too much money. The project contracts, most of them dating from two to three years ago when former chief executive Pierre Duhaime was chief executive, are so problematic that SNC expects limited profit growth for 2013 despite having a near-record backlog.
Mr. Duhaime is now accused of fraud in a contract SNC won to build and maintain McGill University Health Centre's $1.3-billion superhospital in Montreal. Another senior executive, Riadh Ben Aissa, faces the same charges.
Attention on Friday's fourth quarter earnings call centred on why SNC expects only a 10-15% profit increase for fiscal 2013, far lower than the 39% gain analysts had previously forecasted. The guidance, combined with weaker-than-expected results for the quarter of 16¢ per share on its core engineering business, crushed the company's stock.
The shares tumbled as low as $42.16 on the Toronto Stock Exchange, the most in a year, before closing at $43.01.
In his second quarterly earnings conference call with analysts Friday, new chief executive officer Robert Card said bidding and delivery problems on projects won before he joined the company in October accounts for a major part of the company's poor performance. These include what SNC called "unfavour cost reforecasts" on an unnamed power project and a separate hydrocarbons and chemicals project.
Desjardins Securities analyst Pierre Lacroix said in a note that he believes the contracts in question are the Kharyaga oil and gas project in Russia and the combined-cycle thermal power project in Tunisia.
Mr. Card said there are also other contracts delivering less than expected returns.
"We have a number of challenged projects that are a significant drag on the bottom line," he said, adding that most of them date from 2010 and 2011 and before the new processes were implemented. "We're redoubling our efforts to close these out with minimum future exposure."
Mr. Card said SNC now has two specific criteria it uses to decide whether to bid on a specific contract. It has to like the potential profit and risk profile of a project. And it needs to have the confidence in the management plan to deliver it.
"Neither of those got adequate attention in the previous years, or so it seems to me," Mr. Card said. "The results certainly don't imply they got it. Now we have a much more rigorous process that should have stopped the vast majority of [these problem contracts]."
Mr. Card replaced Pierre Duhaime as CEO last October.
The Quebec police investigation that led to the former CEO's arrest stemmed from SNC's own internal probe into irregularities in certain contract payments. The company said Friday that the internal probe continues, with the same scope as last year.
"I'm optimistic about putting this issue behind us," Mr. Card said. "[But] it will likely mean the continuation of some extra costs and management distraction for the balance of the year."
SNC has hired Andreas Pohlmann, who helped Siemens navigate similar ethics issues, to help it on compliance issues. The goal of the effort is to "wall off" the past, Mr. Card said.
SNC is also being investigated by Quebec's securities regulator, the RCMP and other authorities. The World Bank is probing a separate project involving SNC in Bangladesh. Two of its former managers have been charged under Canada's anti-bribery laws in that case.


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There is hardly a person around in our society today that is not caught up in the fast paced, stressful environment in which we live. You would think that all the modern advances - cell phones, e-mails, twittering, GPS travel help, would take the pressure off but it's just the opposite. The faster we move, the more we do. The more we do, the more we demand of our self and others, the more stressed out we become.
Where can we find help? Is there anything that can give us some relief? What can release us from the stress and worries of our everyday life? The answer is Jesus.
Jesus knows what it means to suffer from stress. When Jesus went to the Garden of Gethsemane, shortly before his arrest, trial and crucifixion, Jesus said; "My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death." Matthew 26:38. Mark says that he "began to be deeply distressed and troubled" (Mark 14:33). The knots in the stomach, the sweaty palms, the lightheadedness, the tense muscles in the back of the neck and head, he knows them because he experienced these things.
One big difference was that Jesus' stress was not related to his sin but the result of ours. It was not related to worry about what might happen but his concerns were over what he knew would take place as he felt the wrath of the Father because of our sins.
The relief that Jesus found was not in taking R-O-L-A-I-D-S or Goodies Headache Powder. He went to his Father in prayer. He knew that all was well for his heavenly Father was with him. He found that comfort and strength by speaking to his Father in prayer.
I read that years ago a pioneer aviator was making a flight around the world. Two hours out from his last landing he heard a noise in his plane, which he recognized as the gnawing of a rat. For all he knew the rat might gnaw through some vital cable and cause his plane to crash. At first he didn't know what to do. Then he got an idea. He began to take the plane higher and higher. He went up a thousand feet and then another and another until he reached 20,000 feet. The gnawing ceased and the rat was dead. He could not survive in the low atmosphere of those heights.
For us, worry and stress are like rodents. They will ruin our life if we let them. They cannot, however, dwell in the secret place of the Most High. They cannot survive in the atmosphere of prayer and faithful reliance on God's Word. When Jesus died for our sins, when he was punished in our place, when he died so that we might live, he took away the cause of worry and stress. Through him all is well and we have peace.


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Haidara with his manuscripts in 2009.Brent Stirton/Getty Images
I´m sharing an excerpt of the great article by Yochi Dreazen that tells us the story of the old Timbuktu´s manuscripts salvation from Al Qaeda´s linked Islamist group, Ansar Dine, which for most part of last year ruled Timbuktu through terror.
¨When Abdel Kader Haidara was 17 years old, he took a vow. Among the families of Timbuktu with manuscript collections (and the Haidaras had one of the largest), it's traditional for one family member from each generation to swear publicly that he will protect the library for as long as he lives. The families revere their manuscripts, even honoring them once a year through a holiday called Maouloud, on which imams and family elders perform a reading from the ancient prayer books to mark the birth of the Prophet Mohammed.
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"Those manuscripts were my father's life," Haidara told me. "They became my life as well." That life came under serious threat last year, when a military coup ousted Mali's democratically elected leader just as a loose alliance of Tuareg separatists and three Islamist militias began conquering broad swaths of the north. The rebels quickly routed the Malian army, and Timbuktu fell in April 2012. As the militias poured into his city, Haidara knew he had to do something to protect the approximately 300,000 manuscripts in different libraries and homes in and around Timbuktu.
Haidara had spent years traveling around the country negotiating with Mali's ancient families to assemble thousands of texts for the Ahmed Baba Institute, which was founded in 1973 as the city's first official preservation organization. "When I thought of something happening to the manuscripts, I couldn't sleep," he told me later.
The initial wave of invaders were secular Tuareg, but quickly the Islamist militia Ansar Dine asserted control, imposing a harsh regime of sharia in Timbuktu and other northern cities. The Islamists didn't know, at first, about the manuscripts. But their indiscriminate cruelty and their tight-fisted control over the city meant that the texts had to be hidden—and fast. Haidara thought the manuscripts would be most secure in the homes of Timbuktu's old families, where, after all, they had been protected for centuries. He assembled a small army of custodians, archivists, tour guides, secretaries, and other library employees, as well as his own brothers and cousins and other men from the manuscript-holding families, and began organizing an evacuation plan.
Starting in early May, every morning before sunrise, while the militants were still asleep, Haidara and his men would walk to the city's libraries and lock themselves inside. Until the heat cleared the streets in the afternoon, the men would find their way through the darkened buildings and wrap the fragile manuscripts in soft cloths. They would then pack them into metal lockers roughly the size of large suitcases, as many as 300 in each.
At night, they'd sneak back to the libraries, traveling by foot to avoid checkpoints on the road, pick up the lockers, and carry them, swathed in blankets, to the homes of dozens of the city's old families. The entire operation took nearly two months, but by July, they had stowed 1,700 lockers in basements and hideaways around the city. And they did it just in time, because not long after, the militants moved into the Ahmed Baba Institute, using its elegant rooms to store canned vegetables and bags of white rice. Haidara fled to Bamako, hoping the Islamists' ignorance about the texts would keep them safe.¨
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I forget what compelled me to write it but I instantly enjoyed it. Not sure if it works with the rest of the album in that it is a very cool and confident line that i think is very much a character that only exists on that song or maybe one other. The album is kind of insecure lyrically if you look at it.
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Three attorneys in a three-year-old lawsuit involving a Berkeley, California, senior housing cooperative gathered today for a case management conference with the judge and agreed on a date for a trial.
Judge George C. Hernandez, Jr., of the Alameda County Superior Court set 13 May 2016 as the trial date in the suit against 7 former directors and a former manager of Berkeley Town House, a 60-unit cooperative housed in a 9-story building south of the University of California campus. In his complaint, filed in March 2012, Jonathan Pool, a member of the co-op, claimed that the defendants had illegally wasted over $200,000 in co-op funds, neglected warnings of seismic risks, and violated numerous rights guaranteed to co-op members. Pool asked the court to make the defendants pay back the co-op, deal with the suspected seismic hazards, and stop their governance violations.
The conference marked a resumption of proceedings in Judge Hernandez's court after a 17-month interruption caused by the defendants' unsuccessful appeal of an order issued by the judge.
It was unclear from the attorneys' remarks whether to expect the case to proceed through trial or to end earlier with a voluntary settlement. David H. Schwartz, attorney for Pool, said that he hoped a companion suit filed yesterday to enforce a monetary settlement agreement would bring part of the case to an end without a trial on the alleged waste of funds. He and Dennis F. Moriarty, representing the co-op, also agreed that settlement talks under way between Pool and the co-op gave some reason for hope of success, and both attorneys indicated a willingness to consider involving a mediator at this stage.
But Fred M. Feller, representing the 7 former directors, offered a more caustic view. He said that opportunities to settle the case had been squandered and called Pool's enforcement suit "frivolous". Its only purpose, he said, was to prevent the court from scheduling a trial.
Feller asked for the earliest possible trial date, given the futility of a settlement. Schwartz and Moriarty, however, asked for a trial no earlier than April 2016, and Hernandez chose the May date.
Hernandez also discussed whether the case would remain in his court, which is dedicated to "complex" cases, or be transfered to a regular court. He concluded that he wanted to keep the case on his own calendar unless it was "wrested" from him.


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Despite the BBC and Warner Brothers both breathing life back into the Sherlock Holmes legacy, US TV network CBS believe there's still something to gain from yet another interpretation.
A couple of weeks ago, it was announced that Jonny Lee Miller would be taking on the lead role in the upcoming show called Elementary and now, Lucy Liu has been cast as his sidekick.
Taking a revisionist look at the classic tale, the Charlie's Angels star will be playing a character called Joan Watson (get it?!) who will join Holmes in New York to solve crimes and that. Her character will be an ex-surgeon who has lost her medical licence after a patient died.
According to the Daily Mail, the BBC are keen to spot for any similarities with their updated version.
Sherlock producer Sue Vertue said: "We have been in touch with CBS and informed them that we will be looking at their finished pilot very closely for any infringement of our rights."
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Germany's women stars must be feeling a strong sense of déjà-vu at the moment. Not for the first time, they approached the Olympic Women's Football Tournament as hot favourites, only for their dream of gold to fade and die in the semi-finals. The reigning world and European champions' 4-1 defeat to Brazil, their heaviest at a major tournament since the FIFA Women's World Cup in 1991, leaves Birgit Prinz and Co to contest bronze with Japan, defeated 4-2 by the USA in the second semi.
The unwritten law which states that the incumbent world champions cannot win Olympic gold thus refuses to be broken. It applied to the USA in 2000, to the Germans at Athens 2004, and to the same nation again this year in China.
"The team dug deep and gave everything, but it simply wasn't enough," commented Germany coach Silvia Neid after the defeat in Shanghai, turning straight to the unfinished business still at hand: "It would be great to come home with a medal, but we don't have it yet."
The play-off for bronze is certainly no formality for the Europeans. Japan were outstanding at times against the USA, and the final score undoubtedly flattered the North Americans. In a parallel to the Germans' semi-final, the eventual losers took the lead when Shinobu Ohno netted on 17 minutes, but the USA turned the game on its head before half-time and never looked in any trouble after the break. "We made a fantastic start and opened the scoring, but then we made a few mistakes and the Americans took full advantage," summarised Japan skipper Hiromi Ikeda.
Japan made no headway against the impressive USA defence in the second period, prompting a lament from coach Norio Sasaki. "My players lacked creativity. We needed to step up a gear and tackle much more aggressively." USA coach Pia Sundhage was more generous in her praise for Japan's efforts: "If you see how they kept possession of the ball, that could be a role model for women's football in the future."
But kind words have never scored goals, and the Japanese will need to up their game again when they meet the Germans, a team they have never beaten. The Europeans won 3-2 at Atlanta 1996 with a line-up featuring current coach Silvia Neid and a fresh-faced 19-year-old by the name of Birgit Prinz. And speaking of Prinz: after notching her first goal of the tournament against Brazil, the striker has become the only player to score in all four Women's Olympic Football Tournaments.
The teams now have two days to regroup ahead of Thursday evening's clash at the Workers' Stadium. Germany checked into the Olympic Village in Beijing on Tuesday, where the Japanese have been quartered since the semi-finals. The bronze-medal showdown kicks off at 18:00 local time, when Prinz intends to do everything in her power to secure a medal: "We need to make sure we win the match for third place, because we know from experience that winning bronze is a lot of fun too."


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Join the guys for a look at the Cannes 2019 lineup and reviews of Dragged Across Concrete, Greta and Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich and Class of 1984
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Despite the compelling question it seeks to pose, Red Joan lacks the charm to draw the spectator in and have them partake in the main character's dilemma. Character drama and historical commentary that could have made the film richer than its premise ended up bogging it down in what feels like a collage of familiar, underdeveloped plots that never became more than a sum of parts.
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by Drew Martin
If you are artistic and creative, and would not touch an MBA-type with a ten-foot-pole but still want to get some insight on the business world, then I would recommend picking up a copy of Fast Company. It has a personal side to the people who get ideas rolling into working businesses. On the cover of the May 2015 issue is a flawless picture of Marissa Mayer, the computer engineer who became the 20th employee at Google, and who is now the CEO of Yahoo!
Yahoo! won me over back in the day with their "quilting" commercial. In it a punk rocker is having some alone time in his band's practice room. We see him peacefully quilting until his three other band members walk in on him and start hysterically laughing. The next scene we see him searching "clubs" on Yahoo! and a moment later we see him on the porch of a southern mansion, quilting with fawning southern belles. As a guy who sews, it hit home, and it also captured what new communities the world wide web was forming at that time.
Yahoo! was good but then Google came along and buried it. I still have and use my original Yahoo! email address. I have two actually. I also have a couple Gmail accounts but I use my Yahoo! more for some reason.
So I have seen Yahoo! rise and fall, rise and fall. A lot of people have liked kicking it when its down, and predict its ultimate demise with or without Mayer on board. To sum up the Fast Company article, Mayer has done a stellar job, and the company has been catching up. Through their push for native apps, they have created a few nice to have but not need to have products.
I had never heard Mayer speak so I decided to do some catch-up myself. First I watched her keynote speech at the 2014 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. It was awkward, stiff and most things fell flat. But then I followed that with a video posted in 2006 of her speaking to a small group at Stanford, her Alma Mater, and it was fascinating. She is a clear, articulate, and intelligent speaker. Her Finnish (mom's side) pixie features are contrasted by a wacky laugh and a raspy voice that sometimes approaches Marge Simpson. Then I watched a 2012 interview with her by NPR correspondent Laura Sydell. In it she is just as fascinating to watch. When you hear her speak you know she got to where she is through her intellect, and hard work. Although she started out at Stanford to become a pediatric neurosurgeon, she ended up getting a BS, and then an MS in computer science for artificial intelligence by focusing on symbolic systems.
Mayer is a minimal sleeper and says shes used to pull an all-nighter once a week when she worked at Google. I appreciate her ability to keep a focused conversation on track. Multiple times Sydell tries to get her to speak about her female experience, and women in coding, but Mayer doesn't grant that angle. Instead, she talks about the need to have more coders and diversity in general, and talks about being gender blind. Likewise, she prefers the "clause" be dropped when others speak about her own achievements.
When asked about burnout, Mayer offers that she thinks burnout is really more about resentment, and she would rather focus on rhythm than work-life balance, and gives a few examples from her experiences where she had to deal with this issue as a manager.
Despite being turned off by the CES Vegas speech, I looked into a couple of the apps discussed and installed some of them on my phone. Yahoo! Weather is quite brilliant actually because it pulls from their acquired Flickr database to serve up locally relevant images for the city locations, and gives credit to the photographer. Their reasoning is obvious; so you can take a look at recent images from that location, but I think people use weather searches for more social reasons, such as getting a bit closer to someone in a far away location. I have done this even when the weather report was just the high and low numbers. With the images of that place, it makes it that much more intimate.
The other app I downloaded is Yahoo! News Digest. It is a really slick and cool approach to serving up news. It shows seven or more stories, with additional reads and sources tucked nicely into the design. When you finish with the string of stories, a completion dial satisfyingly fills up and you are left with a takeaway quote. The stories are loaded/refreshed every morning and evening. I just went through tonight's articles and was left with the following quote from the photographer Diane Arbus, "Taking pictures is savoring life intensely every hundredth of a second."
While some people struggle to make connections between art and science, Mayer embraces the synthesis. Her mother is an art teacher and her father is an engineer. She sees her career as a continuing combination of those two fields, and encourages the serendipitous collision of ideas to create what she calls the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Effect. After spending some virtual time finding out more about Mayer I second the Fast Company heading Don't Count Yahoo Out - How CEO Marissa Mayer Will Defy Her Critics.


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Organizations are rapidly working to create and effectively deploy Accountable Care strategies in an effort to create closed systems that moderate costs and increase revenue from allocated ARRA funds. A critical piece of the Accountable Care continuum is the patient and more specifically how you engage the patient effectively.
Patient engagement is a phrase thrown around in the industry a great deal and has stemmed hundreds of start ups trying to find the "holly grail" of patient engagement and hoping to crack the nut of keeping patients engaged. Patient connectivity is the technical process of connecting to a patient, which is easy. What is tough is actually getting connected to the patient and more importantly keeping that patient connected. No patient wakes up thinking they need to connect with their provider and likewise most providers don't wake up wishing they could connect to their patients. Some providers polled even indicated patient communication is actually not what they want as they fear it would distract from patient care delivery.
If you were to ask any patient or general consumer, not a single one has initiated regular communications with their provider leveraging social networking style communication. However these same patients have hundreds of friends via Facebook, post on Twitter and share on Instagram. How is it consumers are so incredibly connected over the web but not to their care network? It comes down to context.
Contextualization is a phrase coined in the eCommerce industry as the ability to deliver the right experience to the right person on the right device at the right moment. The last modal of this concept, the device, is a newer dimension to engagement and potentially the most effective.
What Does Patient Engagement Mean To An ACO
The Accountable Care Organization concept relies on process and a system that can connect patients and consumers to their providers and the extended care team. Many of these systems are currently independent systems that rely upon an integration with an existing electronic medical record system or practice management system but regardless these systems must be core to the process.
Principles of Provider to Patient Centric Systems
1. Make It Actually Work For The Provider
So many times independent systems do not fully integrate or integrate without a focus on a user friendly, seamless integration that is job based (focusing on the clinician being able to finish a task or job easily) simply to check the box.
Creating a fully integrated, usability driven provider to consumer system must start with the job completion aspect in mind and should be driven by usability principles.
2. Design A System Based Upon Personas
Persona driven design relies upon creating core characters and the jobs they want to complete. Persona driven design allows software and web development teams build experiences that meet the needs of their end users. However, most (and I would bet all) clinical system integrations do not use design principles when trying to integrate disparate systems within a health system because most of the systems are "rip and replace" and often times are large, monolithic software stacks that themselves were built purely based upon functions and not based upon job completion.
3. A Unified Communication Strategy
In order to create a true patient communication strategy that enables an Accountable Care Organization a unified communication strategy must be designed and implemented. This UCS strategy overlays patient communication touch points with the technology solutions necessary to reach each patient. Although this is commonsense, doing this in a way that eliminates a fragmented experience can be challenging. Moreover, a high priority has now been placed on reaching the patient or consumer where they are at when they need the information so they feel it is contextual, relevant and value added.
Another important element of this UCS is the need to adhere to communication preferences and translate those preferences across each system.
5. Measurable Analytics
Analytics and outcomes are critical for measuring patient engagement and ensuring meaningful outcomes. This goes beyond the traditional clinical outcomes measurements that use PQRI and ARAQ measurements and moves more towards marketing analytics that focus on engagement and conversion. Conversion in this context means converting a patient to an engaged patient and keeping them loyal to the interactive experience.
A Focus On Acquisition
Acquisition is the word to describe how you either bring existing patients onto your platform or service or proactively recruiting new patients into your system. This is a concept that is somewhat new to the clinical system as in the past clinicians expected patients to come and find them. They patients would either find the provider via word of mouth or promote their offices through traditional offline channels. The new model is far different and potentially far more lucrative.
In order to succeed in this new world of Accountable Care and coordinated care, organizations must think holistically and choose systems that can be seamlessly integrated together focused on user experience and the end job or task in mind. Systems must adhere to design principles that are just common sense in other industry verticals and adopt concepts like the, "Don't Make Me Think" usability mantra coined be Jesse James.
Patients have evolved and so must health information technology if it wants to survive in this new era of connected care.


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"Big Ben" Rocket Strikes
Lewis Blake tells us in his book, "Bolts from the Blue" that:
The Ministry of Home Security produced two lists of V2 incidents. One listing omitting at least some of the offshore falls. The larger list contains 1,115 incidents, the smaller list containing 1,083 incidents.
We recently obtained copies of all the documents in AIR 20/4126 – "Big Ben": Enemy long range rockets: list of incidents, September 1944 to March 1945 from The National Archives, Kew. On the following pages you will find our interpretation of all the data we have collected so far:
We would like to suggest that you take a look at the excellent website compiled by Stephen Hendon: www.flyingbombsandrockets.com


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These pictures were taken during the 2nd year Studio & OB Production module on the BA Film, TV & Digital Media Production degree.
In year one students are trained in all the principle roles of studio production culminating in a live 15 minute broadcast at the end of the year.
In year two that pressure is increased with the OB, meaning students have to create another live studio piece this time with an insert filmed on location elsewhere (what was always known as a VT).
The Studio & OB module has included a diverse range of location pieces, from a concert at the Royal Albert Hall, to the Frieze Art Fare to the Indoor Skiing Championships.
The outside broadcast in this project was part of a magazine show called Diverse London, which explored the weird and wonderful that exists in the capital.


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Nor was I cooked and eaten by hungry people. What I was asked how our Black lives matter meeting went, that was my response. One and one half days have passed and I am still alive. We have begun the trip and are fairly civilized. The group includes people who are fairly active in matters of racial justice and me. For me, racial justice lately has been the ability to earn a living without fear of eviction and having the same benefits as my co-workers. For people who don't know, being a peer support specialist is my fourth or fifth career and it is the one the has lasted the longest. I have been a librarian, a cooperative developer, a grant writer and a day care worker. Since those other careers faded away, one can conclude that either I was not especially skilled or I am better suited for what I am doing now. These jobs sometimes paid decent money but unfortunately did not last more than a few years.
Peer support has often been a low paying career in which I had to fight to earn a living wage. I am wearing the first pair of glasses ever bought with company provided vision benefits. Either my previous jobs didn't have vision benefits or I didn't use them. Making my life matter meant a lot of pain and struggle to survive. There was also a lot of acting out and fairly embarrassing behavior that ruined relationships. My current life is the most stable I have felt for a long time.
I now feel as though I have something to offer such as the value of my experience. I know what it means to feel ashamed that you need to depend on your family for support well into adulthood. I know about having your payroll check bounce. I know what bad and good employers are like. These are all things I bring to the struggle to making black lives matter in Milwaukee. I was the only African-American at the table for our first meeting at the First Unitarian Society, a situation I hope to change. I hope to venture out and become a part of some of the struggles my fellow members have been involved with and make a difference. I will share my vision, now that it is clear what I can see.


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Robots are pretty cool, but have you ever wanted to create your own iPhone controlled cyborg? Backyard Brains is banking that a lot of kids are interested in cyborg technology and neuroscience (ethical dilemmas be damned), so after three years of R&D they've come up with the RoboRoach – a small electronic surgery kit that lets you turn a real-life cockroach, into an iPhone-controlled cyborg for a few minutes.
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We extend our sincere appreciation to the sponsors of the Long Walk for their generous support, without whom none of this would have been be possible.
We invite you to support these businesses by visiting their websites through the links below.
The idea of this crazy adventure came about partly out of a thirst for adventure, and partly out of a very real need to raise awareness, and funds, for the vital work of schools in the School Club Zambia network.
The objectives of The Long Walk were two-fold:
- Firstly, to raise funding to secure the start-up capital needed to implement a new school run enterprise at Chisyabulungu Community School in the rural Sinazongwe District of Southern Zambia;
- And secondly, to create a greater awareness of the challenges schools in remote areas of Zambia face, and the vital services they provide to their local communities.
The Long Walk team was made up of: Katie & Hesther (SCZ UK Trustees), Lois (SCZ Founder & Country Director), Sarah & JJ (long-term SCZ supporters) alongside their support crew: Able, Bwalya, Francis and Dave. They were also accompanied by some four-legged friends, Mardy, Roberto, Hugo, Preggers and Nyami Nyami. Along the way the group were also guided by Tenford 1, Tenford 2, Timothly, Drumwell and Maxon.
The amazing group finished their epic 250km walk after just 11 days in the wilderness – 2 days ahead of schedule!
The team also visited a number of schools along the route and were able to gather information to help identify new schools that would benefit from joining the School Club Zambia network in the future.
Left to right: Sarah, Hesther, Dave, Katie, JJ and Lois
Not only did our amazing walkers complete their challenge, but they also more than DOUBLED their original fundraising target by raising over £15,000!
This funding will be used by School Club Zambia to launch a new project at Chisyabulungu Community School, as well as help SCZ widen their impact to more schools in Zambia.
"This is truly fantastic, we are all completely stunned & humbled by the generosity of you all. Not only can we now fully fund the carpentry workshop, but with the extra cash we will be able to help other schools to join the School Club Zambia network in the near future, and continue our mission to ensure some of the most vulnerable children have access to high quality, vocational and creative education. On behalf of the SCZ team, Chisyabulungu Community School and the many children whose futures will be brighter because of this walk - thank you!"
- Hesther, Long Walker and SCZ UK Trustee
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Sergey Kharyuchi talks about challenges of indigenous peoples of the Arctic
February 26, Moscow. The Presidium of Expert Council in Arctic and Antarctic under the Chairman of the Federation Council of Russia had a session today conducted by Artur Chilingarov, with main topic "Indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia and Far East of the Russian Federation: status of legal support, problems and solutions".
The session was attended by the Chairman of Yamal Legislative Assembly, Sergey Kharyuchi. According to press-service of Yamal Legislative Assembly, Sergey will report to the participants of the session about challenges of indigenous peoples of the Arctic, and will suggest possible solutions. In his speech Sergey Kharyuchi plans to focus on the issues of improvement of federal legislation in the field of indigenous peoples' rights development in line with current international principles, that, in his opinion, in the last few years are "stalled": "There is a persistent tendency to diminish indigenous peoples' rights. Many problems can not be solved for decades. They are raised and discussed, and for years they migrate from one progressive document to another. For example, the federal law on "Territories of Traditional Nature Use" is been 'lying without movement' for 30 years and it is not been implemented. At that time, whole families and even clans are been deprived of their ancestral territories, hunting grounds (and fisheries, pastures), sacred, ritual places and graves".
Also according to Sergey Kharyuchi's opinion, these issues require immediate solutions: the questions about documenting national identity of persons belonging to indigenous peoples; establishing procedures for granting the document confirming the maintenance of nomadic and semi-nomadic lifestyle; the constitutional rights to housing and a number of other important issues.
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Structured Cabling
Structured cabling is building of campus telecommunications cabling infrastructure that consists of a number of standardized smaller elements (hence structured) called subsystems. Structured cabling design and installation is governed by a set of standards that specify wiring data centers, offices, and apartment buildings for data or voice communications using various kinds of cable, most commonly category 5e (CAT-5e), category 6 (CAT-6), and fiber optic cabling and modularconnectors. These standards define how to lay the cabling in various topologies in order to meet the needs of the customer, typically using a central patch panel (which is normally 19 inch rack-mounted), from where each modular connection can be used as needed. Each outlet is then patched into a network switch (normally also rack-mounted) for network use or into an IP or PBX (private branch exchange) telephone system Patch Panel.
Overview of Data Cabling:
Voice and data cabling enable people around the world to communicate by phone, fax, and computer. It is the basis for virtually every network. Today's voice and data cabling is engineered to balance high performance with moderate expense. The quality of the service provided by the cabling is directly related to the quality of the installation. Properly installed cabling will provide years of service for networks, in most cases outlasting virtually every device connected to it.The other major user of cabling is the computer industry. Whereas the telephone companies dictated the type of cable to be used, early network systems were proprietary, that is, dictated by the company that developed them. In many cases, the choice of a computer dictated the allowable peripherals. This, in turn, dictated the cabling so that printers could only use printer cables, removable storage devices could only use removable storage cables, and terminals could only use terminal cables. The differences in cables were not merely ones that could be easily resolved by using adapters or other means. Thus, multiple types of cables (thick eco-axial, twin ax, and RS-232 cables, for example) were often required within the same office to connect computers, peripherals, and other hardware.
With the increase in popularity of the personal computer, networking hardware began to become standardized, particularly for cabling. The first popular type of cabling was a type of copper
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superior to earlier versions that it has become feasible to use one wiring system for both phones
and computers.The concept of using a single wiring scheme to handle all voice, data, and other services like video is called STRUCTURED CABLING. Structured cabling also includes all the devices that cable is pulled through, the equipment that cable is terminated at, and the electronic devices that connect users and resources. Now two previously separate technologies are being combined into one communications system. The result is more manageable wiring systems, lower maintenance costs, more flexibility, and more scalability.
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Cabling is the physical medium that connects modern communication and data systems together. Without proper cabling, communications could not exist. The job of the cable installer is to provide good, technically accurate cabling between all of the communications devices such as Telephones, fax machines, computers, or automated industrial equipment that keep businesses running Cabling will be in for years. It is more economical for customers to pay a little more up front to make sure the job is done right, conforms to standards, and is scalable.A network that cuts corners by using lower grade cabling, inexperienced installers, or does not conform to standards, will cost the customer more in the end when users complain about slow speed or connection problems. Network administrators' waste time troubleshooting problems caused by poor installation, and the network needs outgrow the cabling installed.