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IET Biometrics receives its inaugural Impact Factor
Now indexed in all the major bibliographic databases (IET Inspec, Scopus and EI Compendex), IET Biometrics has now received its first Impact Factor of 0.857.*
Since the Journal launched in 2012, IET Biometrics has published over 80 papers in the exciting interdisciplinary area of biometric recognition, positioning itself as an essential resource for the biometrics community.
Receiving its first Impact Factor is an important milestone for the Journal and is a reflection of the hard work of the IET Editorial team, the dedication of the founding Editorial Board members and the support from the international biometrics community.
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Co-Editor-in-Chief of IETs prestigious Electronics Letters, Professor Chris Toumazou talks about the impact of ICs on healthcare in "Electronics Weekly"
In the 2015 Gabor lecture at Imperial College, London, on June 23rd, Professor Chris Toumazou will present his ideas on using semiconductor technology in consumer devices for the early detection and therapy of human diseases.
Find out more about Professor Toumzou's work and read the full article here.
Editage partners with the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) to offer pre-submission editing and language services
Editage, a leader in English-language editing and publication support services, and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Europe's leading publisher of world-class digital and print engineering & technology content, have announced the start of a partnership that will provide discounted English-language editing services to authors submitting to the IET portfolio of journals.
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Author interview with Hubert Trzaska
We asked authors of our esteemed IET eBook publications, including Hubert Trzaska, author of Electromagnetic Field Standards and Exposure Systems, a series of questions ranging from their career, body of work, challenges – to their ideas on how to get kids interested in math and science.
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Access 6500+ engineering and technology videos on the new IET.tv platform
The IET has launched a brand new website containing the world's largest collection of engineering and technology video content. The new IET.tv platform includes over 6,500 multidisciplinary engineering and technology videos, with around 750 being added every year.
The new website aims to make it easier than ever before for engineers to share knowledge. Re-launched onto a new and improved platform, IET.tv provides an array of tools to manipulate, share and download videos, plus find related content through context-sensitive links. Webinar and webcast features will also allow users to take part in live Q&As. Read the full press release.
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IET and CIE Sign Co-publishing Agreement
|The Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET) has signed a co-publishing agreement with the Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE) for global online publication of the Chinese Journal of Electronics (CJE). The agreement, which excludes mainland China, runs for a five year period, starting this year.
This agreement, which will significantly extend the international influence of both organisations was negotiated with the CIE's Deputy Secretary, Forrest Lin, also Secretary General of China Cloud Computing Technology Association.
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IET and key publishers address need to improve conference content quality
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) together with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Elsevier has created draft recommendations for conference content.
These recommendations are designed to uphold the quality of published research presented at scientific meetings and conferences. The presence of low-quality papers in conference proceedings degrades the value and reputation of the author, conference organisers, their sponsors and commercial or non-commercial publishers, and any repository they are part of.
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New 2015 Publishing Catalogues now available
Showcasing a range of books from both the IET and SciTech Publishing imprints, the IET Books 2015 Catalogue lists our forthcoming titles for 2015, recently published titles and an extensive selection from the backlist
Covering 14 main topic areas, this new style catalogue is designed to provide you with the opportunity to conveniently browse our range.
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Microlithography techniques give arrays the nanoscale edge
A recent advance in nanotechnology could herald the widespread uptake of nanoelectrode arrays and the next generation of low-cost, high-performance nanoscale biosensing devices.
An interdisciplinary research team from the Schools of Engineering and Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh (in association with Nanoflex Ltd), has overcome some of the constraints associated with conventional nano-scale electrode arrays, to develop the first precision-engineered nanoelectrode array system with the promise of high-volume and low-cost.
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Growth in IET Journals
2013 Impact Factors from Thomson Reuters have shown growth for a number of journals published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) with eight of our of the journals improving their Impact Factor by more than 10 per cent.
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Healthcare Technology Letters to attend EMBC 2014, Chicago, USA.
Later this month, Healthcare Technology Letters will attend the EMBC Conference in Chicago. Together with many of the editorial board and the editor-in-chief, Professor Christopher James, the editorial team will be gaining submissions for future issues of this new journal and a special issue to be published early in 2015. For further information, contact the team on [email protected] or if you're in the area, please pop along to Stand 15 to say hello.
eBook Exclusive! - Design and Development of Multi-Lane Smart Electromechanical Actuators
Design and Development of Multi-Lane Smart Electromechanical is the IET's first eBook only title and is available on the IET Digital Library. Featuring all the benefits of a digital title, this newly published ebook in the control series can be downloaded by chapter or full text.
Design and Development of Multi-Lane Smart Electromechanical describes design concepts in electromechanical actuators by considering an actuator that has the capability to drive the aerodynamic and inertial loads of an aileron control surface similar to that of the Sea Harrier.
Providing the necessary theoretical background to design smart multi-lane electromechanical actuation systems, this new eBook provides a general methodology that engineers (electrical, mechanical, mechatronic, aerospace or chemical) will find useful. Read more…
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Electronics Letters Editor wins prestigious European Inventor Award
Professor Chris Toumazou, Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Institution of Engineering & Technology's (IET) Electronics Letters, has won the Research category of the 2014 European Inventor Award for his microchip for quick DNA testing.
Professor Toumazou's "lab-on-a-chip" technology decodes a patient's DNA in under 30 minutes, enabling testing for genetic disease and drug intolerances on the spot. His invention represents a major step towards illness prevention and targeted diagnosis, with enormous implications for societal and economic good, worldwide.
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New automatic sign language translator with groundbreaking potential developed
A new intelligent system could be set to transform the lives of deaf and hearing impaired people. International research published in the IET's The Journal of Engineering highlights an Automatic Sign Language Translator (ASLT) which uses advanced technology to capture, interpret and translate sign language into "readable language". With the potential for use in multiple languages and economical enough for mass production and for use on mobile devices, this (early stage) research could be set to help change the lives of deaf people worldwide.
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Submit your paper to the Special Issue of IET Wireless Sensor Systems
The IET welcome submissions for the special issue of IET Wireless Sensor Systems- 'Intelligent Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications' which focuses on topics such as: Architectures and protocols for intelligent WSNs, data fusion, aggregation and inference, emotion detection and real-time processing and WSNs for the Internet of Things.
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Submit your paper to the Special Issue of IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution
The IET welcome submissions for the special issue of IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution- 'Power electronic converter systems for integration of renewable energy sources' which focuses on topics such as: converter topology regarding system integration, use of energy storage technology and grid interfaces for DC Microgrids.
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The 3rd edition of Economic Evaluation of Projects in the Electricity Supply Industry is now available as an eBook.
This updated and expanded new edition takes a broad introductory approach, covering market and environmental issues, financial analysis and evaluation, clean environmental technologies and costs. Economic Evaluation of Projects in the Electricity Supply Industry, 3rd edition will be invaluable to engineers, economists and financial analysts tasked with evaluating the economics of power projects and their environmental implication, in order to comprehend and analyse investment proposals and decisions. Read more
The author, Hisham Khatib is Honorary Vice Chairman of the World Energy Council and a member of the World Federation of Scientists Energy Permanent Monitoring Panel. He is a founding member of the WEC Committee on Clean Fossil Fuels Studies, and the committee on Performance of Generating Plants.
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New Editors-in-Chief appointed for IET Power Electronics
The IET is pleased to announce the appointment of two new Editors-in-Chief to its journal IET Power Electronics. Professor Volker Pickert becomes the new Editor-in-Chief and Dr Mohamed Dahidah, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, as of March 2014.
Both of these acknowledged experts in the field will further enhance the standing of this already leading journal. Both editors will take the journal forward following the retirement of the existing Editor-in-Chief, Professor Brian Mellitt.
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Submit your paper now for the next issue of Healthcare Technology Letters
Healthcare Technology Letters is now available online with e-first publication and four issues in its first year. With the first issue published, the editorial team is looking forward to establishing and growing the journal. This is an exciting time for research in healthcare technology and if you are a prospective author, with a suitable paper that meets the editorial scope, the editorial team would like to hear from you. Authors and research groups, large and small, from across the globe are invited to submit papers on their latest advances.
With peer-review, constructive feedback to authors, and rapid publication, HTL aims to be at the cutting edge of high-quality research in its field. Open access options are also available that meet the requirements of all funding bodies.
Professor Christopher James, Editor-in-Chief: "I invite you all to be a part of HTL and to share your research outputs through this journal, so that together we can create a unique forum for the rapid exchange of the latest ideas and innovations and help shape the future of healthcare technology research."
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The first issue of Healthcare Technology Letters is now available to view
The first issue of Healthcare Technology Letters is now available to view. As its first Editor-in-Chief, Professor Christopher James of the University of Warwick says, "this new initiative from the IET comes at an exciting time within the field of healthcare technology, which has never before seen so many new developments in basic research as well as in the varied fields of application. The IET's journals have a pedigree in announcing to the world novel discoveries and developments in fields such as electronics, communications and all the other major disciplines within engineering. Healthcare technology, which can be seen as subset of the wider biomedical engineering field, is very much a multi-disciplinary endeavour – where basic research from various fields is brought together with novel applications, and domain specific knowledge, from a wide range of medical, biological and clinical specialties. HTL will provide a one-stop shop for researchers wanting to be kept abreast of the latest developments in this fast-changing field.
The letters format allows for quick turnaround of succinct papers reporting novel technologies, applications and studies. That, coupled with peer-review, constructive feedback to authors, and rapid publication, should help to keep HTL at the cutting edge of high-quality research in its field. The open access options that are also available will help submitting institutions to meet the requirements of their funding bodies."
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IET and KISTI announce agreement to disseminate scientific information in Korea
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to provide and disseminate scientific information, allowing 160 KESLI (Korean Electronic Site License Initiative) members in South Korea to benefit from perpetual access to the IET Digital Library Journals Archive, including instant access to over 97,000 articles.
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New Editors-in-Chief appointed for IET Computers & Digital Techniques
The IET is pleased to announce the appointment of two new Editors-in-Chief to its journal IET Computers & Digital Techniques. Professor Andy Tyrrell has been named Editor-in-Chief, and Prabhat Mishra Deputy Editor-in-Chief. Their combined expertise and standing in the scientific community bring a renewed impetus to this prestigious journal going forward.
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Hilcorp has dropped its bid to force holdout property owners in Pennsylania to accept drilling under their land, saying Friday the energy company wants to move beyond a protracted fight and begin producing oil and gas.
The Houston-based company had sought to use a 1961 Pennsylvania law to drill under the property of a few holdout landowners in New Bedford, near the Ohio border north of Pittsburgh. The concept, known as "forced pooling," means people who don't sign leases get bundled in with those who do, to make drilling more efficient and compensate all the landowners.
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Hilcorp said it will instead drill around landowners who refused to sign leases with the company.
The company said in a statement that while it believes it would have prevailed, "this protracted process has created uncertainty for the landowners that have leased to Hilcorp and are eager to exercise their right to develop their oil and gas."
Property owners holding 99 percent of the acreage in the 3,267-acre tract have signed leases, the company said.
Forced pooling laws exist in some form in about 40 states.

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text: Hi Toon: Here is the IO-Bench page (http://www.sdsc.edu/PMaC/Benchmark/iobench/). If you want to have my mpi version (or just a patch), send me a note offline. The b_eff_io is described at http://www.llnl.gov/icc/lc/siop/papers/ucrl-jc-143979.pdf . The two do rather different things. The MPI-iobench does not use the MPI-IO mechanisms, rather simple file IO to a shared filesystem and a single file on that file system (stresses the locking and other aspects of the system). The b_eff_io is a more general test. Joe Toon Knapen wrote: > Joe Landman wrote: > >> A little more than a year ago we use io-bench from HPCC which I did a >>quick MPI port with. We were showing 1.8-2.1 GB/s sustained to a >>Panasas disk (http://www.panasas.com) system from a cluster. We also >>used the oocore (see http://www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?org=OCI). Again, >>using the Panasas disk, we were about 5x the speed of the nearest SAN >>solutions on 32 nodes, and more than an order of magnitude faster at 128 >>nodes. >> >> If you want a copy of my rather naive MPI port of io-bench, let me see >>if we can redistribute it. If you want oocore, surf over to >>http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf0605 or grab it >>from http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf0605/oocore.tar.gz >> > > > > Not familiar with your MPI-ported io-bench nor b_eff_io, how would you > compare both? > > toon -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics LLC, email: landman at scalableinformatics.com web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 786 8423 fax : +1 734 786 8452 cell : +1 734 612 4615


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Ayane vs. C. Viper – Cosplay Clash
Ayane keeps going strong, defeating Litchi Faye-Ling almost effortlessly. Being a medic, Litchi can at least patch up her wounds. Can Ayane keep the streak alive against C. Viper?
Alexia Muller's Ayane is too lovely to be a fighter, but she proves that she's got the chops to make it in the Dead or Alive tournament. Will the same chops be enough to make it to the Arcade Sushi Hall of Fame?
KOCosplay's C. Viper is a sleek femme fatale who matches Ayane's graceful outfit with her own very professional-looking suit. She's a fierce fighter with many tricks up her sleeve, but does she have any gadgets capable of bringing down Ayane?
It's up to you to decide who will win this Cosplay Clash between these acrobatic fighting game vixens! Voting closes on May 15th 10AM PST.
Rules of Cosplay Clash:
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New Dannon Oikos Dips come in four flavors: Cucumber Dill, French Onion, Roasted Red Pepper and Vegetable and Herb. All the dips start with a base of Dannon Oikos Traditional Greek Yogurt and contain 25 calories, 1g of fat and 2g of protein per 2-tablespoon serving. Sold in 12-ounce plastic containers in the dairy dip case, the product retails for $3.99.


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I know pretty well what fat quarters and fat eights are. I know what Jelly Rolls are and what charm packs are, but can anyone give me a list of the various other pre-cuts.
What I am actually looking for is what the 1.5" strips are called and who sells them. I was pretty sure I had found what I wanted when I watched a tutorial for log cabin recently, but I can't find that now. 8-(
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Slaying Wild Boars Feeding on Mast
Livre de la chasse, in French
Bequest of Clara S. Peck, 1983
Wild boars would search for mast (acorns and beechnuts) in the woods, which they usually found by nightfall. Hunters, with their pack of dogs, were advised to approach against the wind in order to avoid detection. First, a single dog would be released to locate and bay at the herd of wild boars. When the other huntsmen heard the baying, they would uncouple the other hounds and chase them with spears, as in the miniature. The lead hunter, dressed in green with an oriental scimitar suspended from his waist, has already pierced a boar's side.
The Morgan's lavishly illustrated Phoebus was made in Paris about 1407, as was one in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Of the forty-six surviving Phoebus manuscripts, these two are the most magnificent. This presentation includes forty-five images from Phoebus and five other images depicting the noble hunt.
Hunting was an important part of medieval life; kings and noblemen were expected to excel and take pleasure in the pursuit. Some famous hunters wrote books on the subject, whereas others collected and commissioned them. Three of the most popular French treatises were written during the fourteenth century, but others were also written in Spanish, English, and German.
Gaston III, Count of Foix (1331–1391), called Phoebus on account of his golden hair or handsome features, wrote his hunting book late in life (1387–89), sharing his knowledge in a field in which he claimed supremacy, unlike in his two other pleasures in life, arms and love. The work, dedicated to his fellow hunter and warrior Philip the Bold (1342–1404), Duke of Burgundy, comprises four books: On Gentle and Wild Beasts, On the Nature and Care of Dogs, On Instructions for Hunting with Dogs, and On Hunting with Traps, Snares, and Crossbow.
This manuscript may have been commissioned by Philip the Bold's son, John the Fearless (1371–1419), as a gift for Louis d'Orléans (1372–1407). If so, it would date before 23 November 1407, when Louis was assassinated in Paris. Years later it fell into the hands of a duke of Brittany, probably Francis II (r. 1458–88), who added his arms on folio 4. Before 1492 it was acquired by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, who added their magnificent full-page arms to the book (folio 1v).
In 1928 Dr. Rosenbach of Philadelphia bought the book from Thomas Fenwick, heir of Sir Thomas Phillipps, the "vellomaniac,", for £10,000 and offered it to J. P. Morgan, Jr., at the special price of $165,000, which Morgan declined. There is no evidence that Fenwick ever offered it to Pierpont Morgan, but Morgan might well have been interested. Morgan was a breeder of collies, and in 1893 he entered ten collies in the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden, winning the silver cup for the best collie, Sefton Hero.
The book remained unsold until 1943, when Rosenbach sold it to Clara S. Peck, who was a breeder and rider of horses, for $65,000. Three years later she lent it to the Morgan for an exhibition on Sports and Pastime. Thereafter, through the continued efforts of the Morgan's first three directors, Peck decided to bequeath it to the Morgan, which she did on 20 April 1983.
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The brutal flu season may have peaked in other parts of the United States, but it"s just now arriving in California.
On the East Coast, it"s been among the worst flu season in a decade, resulting in more serious illnesses and hospitalizations than usual. Whether that will be the case here remains to be seen, but certainly the potential exists.
On the other hand, reports about the serious effects of this year"s flu strain elsewhere might prompt more Californians to get a flu shot. That, in turn, could result in fewer cases — or at least less intense illnesses for those who catch the virus despite being vaccinated.
It"s hard to understand why more people don"t get a flu shot. Many health plans cover them without requiring a co-pay, and for those without insurance, low-cost and sometimes free vaccines are widely available.
Influenza causes high fever, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, muscle or body aches, headaches and fatigue. For some, a flu shot is urgently needed because they are at greatest risk of becoming seriously ill if they come down with it: Children under age 5, the elderly, and patients suffering from asthma, certain neurological conditions, chronic lung disease, heart disease, blood, liver, kidney and metabolic disorders, diabetes, weakened immune systems and morbid obesity.
The shots are also recommended for otherwise healthy adults and children. Not only does the vaccine benefit the individual who receives it but reducing the number of flu cases helps protect those who cannot have it: people with certain medical conditions — allergies to eggs, for instance, or a history of Guillain-Barré syndrome — and infants under 6 months.
For those still considering a flu shot, now is the time to get one. It takes two weeks for the immunization to kick in, and the influenza virus has already arrived in Solano County.
But flu shot or not, everyone should take the steps that health professionals advise to prevent disease spread: Wash your hands often; avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth; use a tissue or the crook of your arm to cover coughs and sneezes; and stay home when you are sick.
Not only do these steps help reduce the spread of influenza, they are equally effective at staving off the more common, if less deadly, diseases for which there are no vaccines: norovirus (also known as stomach flu), respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and the common cold.
Flu season is here. Now is the time to minimize its potential damage.
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An academy set up three years ago to train Colorado's child welfare workers will undergo an overhaul in the hopes of improving protection for abused and neglected children, state officials said.
The state suffers from a lack of "consistent training" in key areas and also needs to dramatically improve training of foster parents, caseworkers and managers at all levels of experience, Colorado Department of Human Services executive director Reggie Bicha recently told a key legislative committee.
The state will push forward with a plan to break up the new training academy into four regional centers, devise new curricula and create a rigorous evaluation system to determine what caseworkers are learning. The move, along with other changes, could require additional money beyond the $6.1 million annual budget for child protective training and the academy, Bicha said.
"We're building this ship as we move forward," he said. "2009 was the first time we developed a training academy. We had training before that, but it was not formal and standardized across the state of Colorado."
New vendors to run the revamped training system will probably be selected by April, but the full scope of the changes could take a few years and more money, Bicha told the Joint Budget Committee, which sets priorities on state budget spending that the full legislature considers.
"We have contracts in place, and we're not satisfied with where those dollars have been spent," Bicha said.
The new regional training centers probably will end up in Larimer, Fremont and Mesa counties, and metro Denver. The hours of classroom training that new workers receive is projected to drop from 22 to 14 days while Web-based and video training will increase.
The academy also will begin training more experienced caseworkers as "coaching pilots," and they will provide over-the-shoulder guidance to newer caseworkers in their county.
One change already has taken place. In October, the state started having county managers, overseen by state officials, look at the 36 on-the-job training tasks new workers must complete before they can handle cases on their own.
"This ongoing expansion of county staff training will ensure that all staff has a common understanding of current law, rule and best practice," according to a briefing document provided by the Colorado Department of Human Services to legislators on the Joint Budget Committee.
The academy, in Parker, was one of the top reforms to the state's child protection system put in place during former Gov. Bill Ritter's administration.
The academy was meant to bolster training for child protection workers by replacing a loose system that mostly delegated training to county officials, who relied on different standards and methods. With the creation of the academy, all new child protective workers in the state took part in a uniform training regimen that required eight weeks of classroom training, Web-based work and on-the-job exercises.
Over the past two years, nearly 4,300 workers have received training at the academy, statistics show.
A recent Denver Post/9News investigation found that despite the creation of the training academy, severe problems persist in the state's child protection system. Colorado is one of nine states that have county-run, state-administered child protection systems.
That investigation found that significant issues with caseworker training remain across Colorado, with caseworkers failing to follow state policy more than half the time in trying to protect children who later ended up dead. The state's own reviews showed caseworkers did not accurately conduct safety assessments or correctly develop safety plans most of the time when investigating allegations of child abuse.
State Sen. Irene Aguilar, a Democrat from Denver, pressed Bicha on another of the investigation's findings when he appeared Monday before the Joint Budget Committee. Aguilar questioned why referrals alleging child abuse have increased dramatically since 2007, while the number of investigations into those allegations has barely budged. Only about half of those referrals actually were investigated.
"Sadly, one of the areas we must improve is being more clear and consistent on the qualifications of the people who accept these calls as well as the criteria that they must use to decide whether or not to screen in a referral," Bicha told her.
He added that specific criteria do exist for when an allegation should move to the investigatory stage, but "what is lacking is consistent training on it across the state, and we're lacking the robustness on it, quality assurance, to ensure it's happening across the state."
Bicha said the state requires no training of child protection supervisors or managers and needs to improve training of foster parents and relatives who agree to take in abused children. Caseworkers investigating abuse allegations also need better training on how to analyze forensic evidence, he said.
The new push to overhaul child protection training in Colorado follows a nearly year-long review by Bicha's agency of the current training academy in Parker that sought the advice of national experts and child protection systems in Florida, Indiana, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Washington and North Carolina. A team of county and state officials also made visits to Ohio and California and reviewed curricula used in Utah.
The state will seek to launch the regional training centers and new curricula this year.
So far, the department has not asked for any more money than the $6.1 million budgeted for child protection training and the academy.
"I notice no suggested increase in the budget for the training academy, and that is making me very nervous," Sen. Linda Newell, a Democrat from Littleton, told Bicha.
Bicha said the department still is considering whether more money will be needed this year. He also told the Joint Budget Committee that his department soon will decide whether to seek a workload study of child protection caseworkers.
"The state has very limited information on caseloads and virtually no information on caseworker turnover," Bicha said. "Both of these things are obligations that counties have to manage, and the state has not historically gathered information or used it in any way to analyze or make strategic decisions. In both areas, we believe we simply have to bridge that gap and begin to gather that information and begin to make more strategic decisions."


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by Len Lear
As of June of this year, advanced brain and spinal care are now available in Chestnut Hill. At that time, Dr. Neil Malhotra, 38, a highly regarded neurosurgeon, came to Penn Medicine Chestnut Hill at 33 E. Chestnut Hill Ave.
Dr. Malhotra's expertise includes the evaluation of all brain, spine and central nervous system conditions. He treats brain and spinal disorders, including herniated disc repair, canal decompression, tumor treatment and alignment correction.
An Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Dr. Malhotra's primary research interests focus on restorative approaches to treat degenerative disc disease to reduce the need for invasive surgery and offer better treatment for those who do not meet rigorous surgical criteria.
Throughout his career Dr. Malhotra has consistently volunteered his time to develop methods to improve the care of neurosurgical patients. He has led committees to reduce hospital infections and patient falls and improve the patient experience. He has dedicated time to develop and assess all possible technologies employed by all specialties providing treatment for spine disorders.
As part of his service to the Chestnut Hill community, Dr. Malhotra agreed to answer the following questions:
Why was the decision made to move to Chestnut Hill?
• Chestnut Hill has been without a covering neurosurgeon for some time. My colleagues and I have made ourselves available to a number of areas with limited access (Valley Forge, Cherry Hill, etc.), so when I was offered the opportunity to serve the Chestnut Hill area, it made sense to me. The way I view it is that it is somewhat of a hardship for patients to get down to Penn (especially my elderly patients), so if there are enough patients in need, I will come to them.
What services will now be available to area residents that were not available before?
• Opportunities for local evaluation for brain, spine and peripheral nerve disorders. Disorders that patients face include brain lesions such as tumors, aneurysms, neck and low back problems, sciatica and peripheral nerve disorders like carpal tunnel syndrome.
When exactly did your office open at 33 E. Chestnut Hill Ave.?
• I believe it was June 28. However, that practice, primary care, has been there for some time and is generously sharing space so that I can support the Chestnut Hill community.
What age range do most patients with brain and spinal disorders fall into?
• It is fairly diffuse. Some examples: Brain lesions, such as tumors, can affect all ages. Disc herniation and sciatica are usually found in the young to middle-aged. Spinal stenosis with leg cramping usually comes later in life. Hand problems from cervical (neck) spinal stenosis usually present themselves in patients in their late 60s to early 80s.
I know you have an interest in developing less invasive techniques. Do most of your patients require surgery?
• Most patients do not require surgery. About 20-30% will need definitive intervention.
Can most patients with a brain or spinal disorder expect a full recovery?
• It depends very much on what the disorder is, with some problems being curable, and with some problems we have a primary goal of inhibiting progression. At some point damage to the nerves become permanent, so early evaluation is critical.
For how many months or years do most of these patients require ongoing care?
• For those who require surgery, ongoing care is usually not required. For some disorders long-term therapy is sometimes needed.
What kinds of advances have been made in recent years in the treatment of degenerative disc disease, tumors, alignment corrections, etc.?
• Our surgical approaches and our medications have advanced significantly. Recovery from spinal surgery appears to be quicker and requires shorter hospital admissions. Some procedures can now be completed as an outpatient. Our imaging (ieMRI) has improved significantly. We can better predict critical brain function and use this to guide our resection of brain tumors.
What kind of success have you had in reducing patient falls, hospital infections, etc.?
• In some cases fairly dramatic. We know now that there are no easy answers, and we must always strive for improvement. However, we have nearly completely eliminated central line infections. We were told this would not be possible when we set out to do it.
Does Penn Medicine plan to stay in Chestnut Hill permanently?
• We will always have a relationship with the Chestnut Hill community.
I know you went to the University of Virginia. Are you from Virginia originally?
• Ohio originally. My family is mostly in D.C. and Virginia now. I have been married for more than 10 years to Rachel, a teacher, and have two children. We have been in Philadelphia for nearly 12 years and love it here.
For more information or to make an appointment, call 800-789-7366 (PENN), or visit PennMedicine.org/neurosurgery


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Extract and insert rectilinear views
One of the most problematic points when shooting spherical panoramas is the view straight down also called the nadir view. Either the tripod is visible or there may be alignment or color mismatches if shooting handheld.
Unfortunately neither the nadir nor the zenith (straight above) area can not be edited directly in the equirectangular image since it is very distorted. For this taske we need to extract a partial view - best in rectilinear projection.
There are basically four possibilities to extract partial rectilinear views:
- PTEditor
- Panotools Plugins
- PTStitcher
- PanoCube Plus
PTeditor is a Java application provided with the standard Panotools distribution. It should run on any OS where Java and the panotools runtime (pano12) is installed. There is a nice tutorial on How to use PTEditor. This is the most convenient way to extract and insert any arbitrary rectilinear view. The disadvantage is that it doesn't save 16 bit images.
Panotools plugins
The Photoshop compatible Panorama Tools Plugins are part of the standard Panotools distribution as well. There is an upgraded version available from Thomas Niemann that corrects some bugs and works for 16 bit.
The plugins contain the Adjust filter, which is capable of extracting and inserting any view in almost any projection. Any data (pan/tilt angle, size of view etc.) has to be inserted manually. Yaw, roll and pitch value have to be calculated or estimated which makes the usage a bit inconvenient.
(More text of an experienced plugin user needed here)
PTStitcher supports 16 bit images and can be used to extract and insert partial views in different ways.
- By directly scripting it.
- With PanoCube Plus
- By one of it's GUIs (PTGui, PTAssembler, hugin, PTMac...)
There are sevaral scripts or batch files available that extract 6 cube faces from an equirectangular image. One of the most convenient windows batch file is written by Eric Gerds and part of his DOS Utilities for Panoramas. A less convenient batch file is found on Erik Krause's page. PTStitcher scripts are found on Ben Kreunen's page
PanoCube Plus
PanoCube Plus can extract six cube faces (single, batch modes) for editing and then convert it directly into QuickTime cubic movie(s). Both 8/16 bits per channel are supported - dependend from pano12 library used the cube faces are the same bit depth as the source images.
To activate "equirectangular to 6 cube faces" mode copy the file
Script.txt to the folder where your source image is and set "1" as first character in this line using a text editor (notepad!):
1 # create tiles for editing ( 0 = NO, 1 = YES). Default NO.
in the file
Script.txt and put it into pano's folder. Next drag and drop your single pano or folder with panos onto the program icon. The source file name and path should contain no spaces. The source image must be exactly in 2:1 format (f.e. 2000x1000 or 6000x3000 pixels). Panocube calls PTStitcher 6 times and creates 6 files in the order front, right, back, left, top, bottom and replaces the last two characters of the name with 11, 22, 33, 44, 55, 66
After editing drag again any one (not all!) tile or folder with tiles to get QuickTime cubic movie(s). In batch mode important to have first six letters differ in filenames, otherwice PanoCube can skips "similar" files.
The disadvantage of this technique is that there is an additional interpolation step for the whole panorama (not only the edited part) and that the final product is a QT movie. If you need an equirectangular for PTViewer you can of course drag the .mov file on panocube plus to get it converted, but image quality suffers because of intermediate jpeg compression and decompression and another interpolation step.
All of the GUIs should be capable of extracting an arbitrary rectilinear view from a spherical pano. Use the equirect image as input (don't forget to set the correct FoV) and specify a rectilinear image with 90� as output "panorama". Set all lens correction parameters to 0.0. Then change yaw and pitch of the input image until you get the desired view. Note that the values work the other way round than when inserting an image.
PTGui offers an additional advantage: The panorama editor and numerical transform. To use it load your image as described above, open panorama editor and choose 'Numerical Transform' from the edit menu.
To pan along the horizon f.e. in 20� steps insert 20 into the 'Yaw' field and press 'Apply' repeatedly until you get the desired view. Positive values pan right, negatives left.
Do the corresponding for 'Pitch' and 'Roll' if needed. This way you can extract any partial view. Once your are done create the "Panorama" (which is the desired partial view) using output format TIFF. Note down or save the exact values for Yaw, Roll and Pitch as shown on 'Image Parameters" tab page.
Now edit the partial view to your need. Then add it to the project with your original panorama and on 'Panorama settings' tab change to equirectangular and 360�x180�. Choose individual lens parameters for the new image on 'Lens settings' tab and set 'Rectilinear' and 90� on 'Image parameters' tab. The image should fit now perfectly in the original panorama.
In order to move the panorama back to it's original position go to panorama editor again and choose 'Numerical transform'. Now Enter the exact values for Yaw, Roll and Pitch you previously saved or noted down. The panorama should move back to it's original position now.
You can create either the complete panorama or the partial view only. Choose the size of the original panorama for output.
--Erik Krause 18:30, 20 Mar 2005 (EST)


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I've just sent to the CPAN the 1.39 release of DBD::ODBC. This contains some bug fixes, one major enhancement to support TAF and one change in behaviour you should note.
=head2 Changes in DBD::ODBC 1.39 July 7 2012
Manifest mentioned 2 files in examples which do not exist - they
should have been execute_for_fetch.pl.
execute_for_fetch.pl example had not be changed since
odbc_disable_array_operations became odbc_array_operations.
=head2 Changes in DBD::ODBC 1.38_3 June 25 2012
Added encoding line to this file to stop pod test from complaining.
Added link to 64 bit ODBC article.
Fixed some typos in the pod.
Made pod.t an author test.
=head2 Changes in DBD::ODBC 1.38_2 May 24 2012
Added support for Oracle TAF (assuming your ODBC driver supports it)
- see odbc_taf_callback.
=head2 Changes in DBD::ODBC 1.38_1 May 19 2012
Fixed rt 77283. If you overrode the bind type as SQL_INTEGER in a bind_col
call AFTER previously binding as another type (or not specifying a type)
you would not get the right value back. This also fixes the DiscardString
bind_col attribute for SQL_INTEGER binds (however, see below as DiscardString
is no longer required for SQL_INTEGER).
Fixed some format specifiers in trace calls.
DBD::ODBC allowed you to change the bound column type in bind_col
after the column was already bound. It now does not allow this
and issues a warning.
You can nolonger override the bound column type (except with
SQL_NUMERIC and SQL_DOUBLE). All columns are now bound as either
SQL_C_LONG (integer columns) or SQL_C_[W]CHAR (all other columns).
If you are calling bind_col with a TYPE => xxx it most likely did
not do what you expected and you should examine it carefully with a
view to removing it altogether. As a result you no longer have to
override the bind type for MS SQL Server XML columns - these will be
bound as SQL_C_CHAR or SQL_C_WCHAR depending on whether Unicode is
Integer columns are now bound as SQL_C_LONGs and not as before,
SQL_C_CHAR. This should not matter to you but if you were adding 0
to your integer columns retrieved to make them behave like integers
you should nolonger need to do it.
Added some missing SQL_C_xxx types to S_SqlCTypeToString internal
function. This only affects tracing.
Some tests in 08bind were skipped when they did not need to be.
sql_type_cast tests rewritten due to fixes above.


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I bet you haven't heard of the global movement that's demanding a democratic economy. The one that's unsatisfied with the corporate business model and the way banks dominate the system. The one that's been occupying the social change arena since 1844. They're the Co-Operative Movement.
From national associations, to a United Nations resolution, to a global database of co-ops whose total earnings rival Canada's GDP, the Co-op Movement demonstrates strong leadership and organized support. But despite this ability of co-operators to offer clear solutions and leadership (two areas where critics crap on Occupiers for sucking harder than an airplane toilet), the Co-op Movement admittedly falls short in one area where Occupy thrives: grabbing your attention.
"One of the problems co-ops face is their lack of visibility," says Donna Balkan, Communications Manager for the Canadian Co-operative Association. "The co-op business model is rarely taught in business schools or law faculties, and mainstream media rarely cover co-operatives as a distinct form of business."
That's not to say it's completely out of sight: Social entrepreneurship studies are infiltrating business schools from Simon Fraser University to Acadia University; studies show co-op survival rates far surpass that of conventional businesses; four out of every 10 Canadians are members of at least one co-op; co-op members make up about 70 per cent of the Quebec population; and thousands of people took part in Bank Transfer Day, which supported credit unions a.k.a. financial co-ops. The fact that you may unknowingly be involved in the co-op movement already underscores the visibility issue -- an issue that could be turned around if the Occupy Movement were to lend a hand.
And why would they do that, you ask?
"It's what they're yearning for, out there on the streets of the Occupy Movement," says Dame Pauline Green, president of the International Co-operative Alliance, in an interview with CBC radio, "...to have some active engagement in their community and in their economy. That's what they want."
Balkan agrees. She says Occupy protestors in Ottawa were so interested in the Co-op Movement that a co-worker who went down to distribute pamphlets was asked to give a full workshop on the co-operative business model, right there in the park.
Well, if you missed the impromptu workshop, here's a recap: The co-op model is an alternative to serving that single, profit-driven bottom line, the one that leads to the "centralization of capital in fewer and fewer people's hands," says Marty Frost, co-op developer and founding member with Devco, a co-op development and training firm. And "as a result, we relinquish control of economic, environmental and social issues that affect our communities," says Julie Mihalisin, a graduate of the Sustainable MBA program at Bainbridge who recently wrote a blog post for her alma mater on how innovative business models can offer solutions to the socio-economic imbalances at the root of Occupy Wall Street discontent.
How co-ops help restore that balance is by making every member an equal owner. This democratic 'one member, one vote' system sees profits distributed to members based on how much a member uses the co-op -- not in proportion to how many shares they own. Decisions are made democratically -- not by a minority with the share majority -- forcing the traditional profit-driven bottom-line to share a bed with social and environmental bottom lines (a ménage-a-triple-bottom-line, if you will - -rrraow).
And it's not just co-ops that flaunt a sexy alternative to the status quo. "There are also collectives, land trusts, and community-based enterprises... but what's important is that all these models are based on co-operation," says Dr. Ana Maria Peredo, director of the Centre for Co-operative and Community-Based Economy and a business professor at the University of Victoria. Peredo recently returned from New York City where she was a keynote speaker at the timely 2011 Conference on Social Entrepreneurship. Over the phone, Peredo tells me she was impressed with the degree of organization and democracy within the Occupy Wall Street protests and that she's "very optimistic. I feel that was the real university."
On the other hand, one less optimistic columnist called Occupy protestors a "virtuocracy" -- described as a group who are not just looking, but expecting to find jobs that make a difference in the world (the horror!). Narrow-minded columnists aside, if occupiers are searching for jobs with morals, they'll find them in co-ops. Co-ops adhere to seven governing beliefs (known as the seven co-operative principles) that include such 'virtuous' ideas as open and voluntary membership, education, training and information, and concern for community.
In fact, when the Canadian magazine Adbusters posted the original Occupy Wall Street tongue-twisting call to action "Democracy, not corporatocracy," it could easily have been mistaken for the fundamental co-op principle of democratic member control.
But it wasn't. Alas, the downside to this quietly confident, respected, 167-year-old movement is you won't see Mountain Equipment Co-op employees wielding tent poles as weapons, car-share co-op members being arrested for breaking into an auto dealership, or credit union directors vandalizing banks. And without such made-for-tabloid-TV moments, the Co-op Movement won't be cannon-blasted by the media into the public eye any time soon.
Balkan's hopeful that will change (well, minus the vigilante stuff). With the United Nations proclaiming 2012 the International Year of Co-operatives, she's optimistic that word will spread and the media and public will take notice.
But at the moment, Occupiers hold the media's fleeting attention. So, if you're an Occupy supporter and you feel co-op values align with your own, harness the positive side of all that negative media, grab the mother of all mirrors, and redirect some of the limelight onto a deserving cause that isn't getting any younger: the Co-op Movement.