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Heirs of the American Experiment: A Legal Challenge to Preferences as a Violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution and the Civil Rights Act of 1866 (with Shadowen) in AFFIRMATIVEACTION FOR THE RICH (Kahlenberg, ed., Century Foundation Press 2010)
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If you are living in the EU, you need the Game Genie: Save Editor for PS3 (EU) which is available from http://www.gamegenie.eu.
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By Mitch Lyons
Mitch Lyons is an Assistant Coach for Men's Basketball at Lasell College. He is also the President and founder of GetPsychedSports.org, Inc., a nonprofit corporation, based in Newton, Mass.
Coaching Management, 12.11, November 2004, http://www.momentummedia.com/articles/cm/cm1211/focus.htm
In most athletic programs, coaching is more of an art than a science. Every coach has his or her own strategies, style, and methods of motivation. The common understanding is that there is no "one right way" to coach a team.
But there is one area of coaching that could benefit from more science and less art: teaching athletes the mental skills necessary to succeed in sports. To fully reach their potential, athletes need to be taught how to "think to win" in a structured way.
Through research and trial and error with my own teams, I've developed a program for teaching the mental side of sports that I'd like to share with other coaches. Its premise is actually pretty simple: If you teach athletes how to be aware of their thinking process and remain positive in all that they do, their performance will improve.
Most mistakes made by athletes are mental mistakes. When a player botches a serve, it is not because she can't put the ball in play, but because some mental lapse caused her to not execute at that point in time. When an athlete is not concentrating during practice, it is a mental problem, not a physical one. If you can teach your athletes to recognize this, corrections become more permanent.
As a result, practices are more efficient—players end up learning more in a shorter period of time. And athletes are more effective during competition. I've used the program with teams at many different levels—youth, high school, and college—and I've watched these squads consistently give the most effort they can, have fun, and perform better than anyone thought possible.
Here's the best part: You will also be teaching skills that will help your student-athletes succeed in life. Teaching athletes how to think inside and outside the classroom setting and to be positive even when faced with a pervasive negativism in our society can help them be leaders as adults.
The Game of Life
The program I describe in this article aims to make athletes winners both on and off the court. Most of you probably already subscribe to this ideal. We all want to win, but any good coach also thrives on seeing an awkward freshman mature into a confident senior leader.
And we certainly aren't the first generation of coaches to think this way. For example, today, we take the concept of teamwork for granted, but 100 years ago it was a new idea. Back in 1906, Luther Halsey Gulick, the first Physical Activity Director for New York City, started high schools operating sports programs (for boys) because, in his words, "Through the loyalty and self-sacrifice developed in team games, we are laying the foundations for wider loyalty and a more discerning self-devotion to the great national ideals on which democracy rests."
Gulick was amazingly successful. Today, not only do players and members of educational institutions understand "loyalty to the whole," but entire communities support their home teams with abandon. We regularly pepper our speech with sports metaphors because the teamwork lessons in sports are clearly what we experience in our everyday lives.
Gulick's vision also included teaching morals through sports. And while most coaches would agree with the idea that we should be teaching life skills on our teams, this concept has proven more difficult. One hundred years later, we still don't have a standard method for teaching these type of lessons. We point out right from wrong during teachable moments, and we hold our athletes accountable to a code of conduct, but I think we can do more. I think we can teach life skills—through mental skills training—in a systematic way. I think the time is ripe to fulfill Gulick's ideal of using sport to shape society.
Studies in sports psychology say that performance can be improved through building an athlete's self-worth. Our program combines self-talk, goal-setting, visualization techniques, and a positive environment to help athletes enhance their performance in any sport.
These same mental skills help today's young people find the right path and succeed in life. My belief is that low self-worth contributes to many of our adolescents' problems (violence, addictions, eating disorders). We must teach young people how to find success by building their own feelings of value in our society. If our society's negative attitudes promote feelings of hopelessness, we must teach young people how to create a positive atmosphere in which people flourish and are empowered. Mental skill training fills those needs for your team, your school, and our society as a whole.
The Program
A main tenet of the program and sport psychology is that people who engage in positive thinking and feel good about themselves will probably perform better in anything they do. But what is not so obvious is that self-worth and positive thinking need to be taught. Helping your teammates, focusing, and even working hard are all skills. They may seem like simple skills to adults, but to youngsters they can be difficult. Thus, we need to teach them, just as we teach sport-specific skills.
Here are the six major skills we teach in the program:
• Give maximum physical effort because when we do we feel good about ourselves.
• Be positive with ourselves and with others because people perform better and learn faster in a positive environment.
• Set written goals because they promote preparedness, which leads to feeling confident.
• Be task-oriented and not outcome-oriented, because our own performance is all we can control and success is more likely when we think about the details than when we focus on the final product.
• Visualize performing tasks successfully outside of practice.
• Meditate to learn how to change harmful thoughts to helpful ones.
You may already talk about these things, but are your athletes getting the message? Is there a text that your players follow? Are they absolutely certain what they are trying to accomplish through sports? Do all players on your team understand the concepts?
On the teams I coach or advise, the program starts with a 90-minute workshop where we introduce the principles of the curriculum. Athletes are also given a text to read and are tested on it with a short open-book quiz. By reading and writing about the skills, the athletes better understand their meaning and importance. We then apply those skills at every practice and game, without fail. We push ourselves as coaches the way we ask players to push themselves.
Of the six major skills, the three we concentrate on most are effort, goals, and creating a positive environment. We work as a team on these areas and also ask each athlete to think about them individually. In the following sections, I'll elaborate on these three points.
Maximum Physical Effort
Giving maximum physical effort is a mental skill, not an emotional event. While emotion may aid us, we must make the conscious choice to give all the effort we can muster for as long as we can sustain it. The following points are what we tell our athletes and show them in writing:
Accept that each practice is a game in itself. The game is, "How long can I keep up my maximum physical effort?"
Identify maximum physical effort as if it were a separate goal so that you know how it feels kinesthetically, how it feels emotionally, and what it looks like visually. Identify maximum effort in practice when it is happening so you know what it is.
Demand that you make a choice whether to give all you have—or not. Don't kid yourself with your answer.
Expect consequences for bad choices that do not fit the identity of the team. Each person on the team has been asked to give something they have complete control over: their effort.
Ask, before each drill, "What am I thinking about?" (Answer: My level of effort.) During the drill, when the effort level sags, ask, "What am I thinking about?" Sometimes we just forget to give maximum physical effort as our thoughts go elsewhere, especially during long routine drills.
Rate your effort after each drill, individually and as a team, until maximum effort is the rule, not the exception. This means completing each drill all the way through without shortcuts. (Shortcuts do not improve self-worth, but drive it downward.)
Work all sides of a practice drill, so it is truly game-like (e.g., the defense on an offensive drill should play as if it were a real game).
Stop and reflect on how confident and prepared you feel when you work as hard as you can all practice, every practice. Stop to reflect on how good you feel as a person after you've worked as hard as you can.
Notice each physical letdown and consciously try to reduce the number of letdowns.
Support teammates, whether you are on or off the court. During games, bench players should help the players in the game achieve the level of effort everyone practices daily.
Naturally, athletes who spend the time and have the commitment toward maximum effort in every practice will play better in games. But more importantly, each member of the team learns how to raise his or her self-worth. They feel more confident and prepared and have learned that hard work has more dividends than just playing better. They respect themselves.
Writing Goals
Setting written goals is another way to gain self-worth. Before practice every day, each athlete must write down three goals to be worked on that day. Why should you insist that players construct written goals?
1. Scientific evidence shows that setting goals, with a coach's feedback, improves players' performance.
2. When players write down the little things they have to do to improve, they remember them better and make more progress.
3. Setting daily goals helps players transition to practice time. By handing in their goal books as they come into the gym, athletes think about their sport before they begin to practice and clear their minds of whatever they have just been doing.
4. The discipline required to run a play all the way through is the same type of discipline required to bring written goals every day. I have found that if you inform kids of what is expected of them, they see parallels between what they do off the court and what they can accomplish on it. As coaches, we establish discipline in a number of ways, and goal-setting can be one of them.
The type of goals set is very important. Goals should be challenging, yet realistic. They should be performance-related, specific, and quantifiable. And they should be short-term, as we want success every day so athletes can see their own progress.
For example, a goal of "making better passes," is not specific enough. Instead, the coach should work with the athlete to discover how to achieve that goal in a more detailed way. If the athlete is not getting her arms level during her passes, then that should be the focus. A better goal for this athlete could be, "Think level platform every time I am on defense."
Giving feedback on goals is also important. After the players drop off their goal books and start warming up, I, as an assistant coach, make the time to read their goals, make comments, and try to remember their goals during practice so I can see how they are doing.
Creating a Positive Environment
Being positive all the time is not easy—for coaches or athletes. Thus, the program actively teaches the mental skill of being positive and demands that coaches model it. Here is what we do to make a positive environment a constant:
• We make sure all athletes understand and accept that people learn faster and perform better in a positive environment.
• We make sure athletes understand that it is a skill to be actively positive. We agree to practice this skill every time we meet and model it for each other.
• We notice and correct negative behavior as soon as it happens in ourselves and others. We make sure it is corrected in a positive way, such as, "I understand your frustration, but stay positive." To encourage this, we notice impatience, sarcasm, negative tone, rolled eyes, and other body language in ourselves and others—then we say something about it.
• We frequently ask ourselves and others, "What are we thinking about?" to determine if we are having negative thoughts that hurt our performance. Everyone practices replacing negative thoughts with positive ones.
• We encourage loud and frequent support from those not in the drill during practice. Everyone practices being vocal in their support of others.
• We actively attempt and encourage others to see the good in people, getting past old differences for their own happiness and the unity of the team.
• We teach and model that constructive criticism from others is instruction—it is not about you as a person, but about your play. We recognize defensiveness and practice changing it.
• We acknowledge as a group that the bench has the most difficult job on the team. As coaches, we must take the time to teach them how to be positive without the self-worth gained from playing. For example, have them work on replacing negative thoughts ("Why aren't I playing?") with helpful thoughts ("How could we do that play better?). My teams have won many games with insights from the bench.
Too Much Time?
For those of you thinking this all takes too much time, I can tell you from experience that because players learn faster in a positive, hard-working, goal-oriented environment, the amount you can fit into a practice increases. More importantly, the quality of the practice improves.
What you will find over time is that you are not using more words, just different ones. You can concentrate your critiques on the cause of the error instead of the result, making corrections more permanent. And because the athletes are grounded in the material, they will respond to your coaching much more quickly.
But, beyond this program helping your athletes on the court, it can help create a society that Luther Halsey Gulick began to talk about a century ago, adding in what we now know about the mind-body connection. If we standardize coaching to include practicing the skill of being positive, millions of young people will become adults who know the power of positive thinking.
Ten years from now, the athletes you have on your team today will not remember the squad's win-loss record. They may not even remember your name. But if you teach them to be aware of how their thoughts affect their performance, they will remember that lesson in everything they do.
To request a copy of the curriculum offered by GetPsychedSports.org, the author can be contacted at email@example.com. The group's web address is: www.getpsychedsports.org.


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Game 1: Farmingdale State - 8, Mount Saint Vincent - 0
Game 2: Farmingdale State - 12, Mount Saint Vincent - 3
Farmingdale, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State softball team swept conference opponent Mount Saint Vincent (8-22, 0-10) with 8-0 and 12-3 victories on Senior Day for outfielder Kaitlin Keenan (West Islip, N.Y.), outfielder Amanda Maass (Mastic Beach, N.Y.), outfielder Rebecca Richman (West Islip, N.Y.), first baseman Aubrey Walker (West Babylon, N.Y.) and pitcher Hope Zino (Bay Shore, N.Y.). These five have now seen the Rams (20-8, 8-2) to 120 wins in their careers with two Skyline Championships and an ECAC Championship.
In game one, Zino pitched a complete game shutout allowing just two hits and striking out seven to improve to 9-4 this season. Seniors Maass, Richman and Walker all had two hits, while Keenan finished with two RBI's.
In the second game, freshman pitcher Taylor Tedeschi (Levittown, N.Y.) got the win allowing just four hits while striking out four. Junior catcher Lauren Nelson (Levittown, N.Y.) was 2-for-3 with five RBI's. Junior second baseman Jennifer Jarczynski (West Babylon, N.Y.) and freshman centerfielder Sam Johrden (Deer Park, N.Y.) both went 3-for-3.
The Rams will now face Old Westbury in a Skyline doubleheader on Sunday, April 15th at 12:00 p.m.
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Here's how it worked as the twenty first century opened. You bought a computer, it had Windows OS on it, and many of you would also buy a copy of Office. Microsoft received a cut on pretty much every consumer computer sold.
Fast forward and while the majority of laptops and desktops still carry 'the Microsoft tax' there's a whole strain of computing that Redmond doesn't get a slice from. The smartphone and tablet market is one that they would love to be heavily involved in and while they are doing their best, the old frenemy of Apple is nicely established with iOS (and OSX is capturing more 'large' computers as time passed) and Google are ruling the roost with Android.
Google, with Android, is the biggest threat to Microsoft. Apple operates on a similar principle to Microsoft - still taking a cut at the point of sale, although in Apple's case they count hardware and software together, where Microsoft focuses on the software side of things. But Google, with their 'free' software, is playing a completely different game. The recurring revenue from users through advertising is the key. The more users in Google's world, the better Mountain View's bottom line.
What would be a better way to expand their reach that claim not just the web browser, but the whole desktop?
At the moment Google does have Chrome OS, and a number of hackers, developers, and manufacturers are dabbling with it - Samsung's Chromebook is one obvious example here. But it is a separate OS to Android. Does Google really need two operating systems?
And here's the rub, and the worrying thing for Steve Ballmer and Microsoft. If Google rolled their OS efforts behind Android, and worked on a solid desktop distribution for Android, how many manufacturers would be ready to make a switch beyond a single alternative OS machine in their portfolio? How many IT departments would be ready to support the system? How many consumers would feel confident with their computer running the same operating system as their mobile phone?
And isn't a joint desktop/mobile strategy Microsoft's approach with Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 anyway?
Mainstream users won't make the jump until they can see that the option is viable, that an Android computer will fulfil all their needs, and that it's not a weird geeky option... in general people need to see other people using the OS to be confident in switching.
A manufacturer is going to need to bite the bullet and commit to Desktop Android, assuming Google go ahead with the project and give it corporate weight (as opposed to a few indie hackers in the company using the famed twenty percent time).
Microsoft are already feeling the pressure from Google as Google Docs reduced the demand for the Office product suite, and that pressure is going to continue. If Google was to go on the offensive and target the desktop and laptop market with the same reckless vigor that they went after the smartphone market and the mobile advertising dollar... that's going to put a serious dent in Microsoft's core revenue stream, while bringing in more eyeballs for Google.
I've no information on the likelihood if an Android OS will ever have an official desktop version, but then neither does Microsoft. But I'll put good money on them having considered the possibility, and what it would do to Microsoft's business model and what the loss of a decent percentage of the OS market would do to them.
Consumers switching away from Windows to Android? For Microsoft that's the stuff of nightmares.


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Legal Services Corporation Employees Vote to UnionizeLawyers and professional staff at a federal legal aid organization voted on Tuesday to form a union under the auspices of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers. "We welcome the union as a new partner and look forward to working together to advance the mission of LSC to provide access to justice for all," Legal Services Corporation President Helaine ...Published over 9 years ago |
House Votes to Prevent Postal Service ShortfallWASHINGTON (AP) - The House passed a bill Tuesday to let the struggling U.S. Postal Service cover a budget shortfall by reducing its annual payment to a health care fund for retirees by $4 billion. Under current law the Postal Service is required to transfer $5.4 billion to the Retiree Health Benefits Fund by Sept. 30, the end of the budget ...Published over 9 years ago |
Watchdog: Inadequate Staffing Hampers Oversight of DHS Tech ProcurementThe Homeland Security Department's ability to fully integrate its new IT procurement practices has been hindered by insufficient staffing in the Office of the Chief Information Officer and fragmented management practices, an agency watchdog testified on Tuesday. Deputy Inspector General James Taylor told a House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee that DHS has made significant progress in managing and overseeing its ...Published over 9 years ago |
Libraries on Frontline of Connecting Americans With Online Government, Job ResourcesCHICAGO, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With national unemployment topping 9 percent and many Americans seeking online information and new technology skills that can help keep them and their families afloat in hard times, U.S. public libraries are first responders in a time of economic uncertainty. "Libraries Connect Communities 3: Public Library Funding & Technology Access Study 2008-2009," a new report released ...Published over 9 years ago |
Labor Group Opposes Senate Pay-for Performance LanguageA coalition of 36 labor unions have rejected a Senate provision to repeal the Pentagon's National Security Personnel System, claiming that it wouldn't do enough to ensure that employees are paid fairly. The language, included in the Senate's 2010 Defense authorization bill (S. 1390), would eliminate the NSPS within a year. But it also would give the Defense Department the opportunity ...Published over 9 years ago |
WH Postponing Hard Calls on WarWASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is holding off major decisions that could put its military forces on a firmer war footing in Afghanistan even as doubts grow about whether the United States can win there. Many military and diplomatic leaders have urged President Barack Obama to send thousands more Marines, Soldiers and pilots to try to reverse Afghanistan's crumbling security situation. ...Published over 9 years ago |
TSA Workers Inch Closer To Obtaining More RightsThe people who protect airline passengers by stopping guns, knives and hijackers from getting on planes moved a step closer to securing the civil service protections they have long been denied with legislation approved Thursday by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The Transportation Workforce Enhancement Act, approved on a 19-to-10 party-line vote, would allow some 60,000 Transportation Security ...Published over 9 years ago |
A look at honors bestowed on Norman BorlaugAgricultural scientist Norman Borlaug, the father of the "green revolution," died Saturday at his home in Dallas at age 95. Here is a look at some of the honors he received: -Nobel Peace Prize, 1970 -Election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 1970 -Aztec Eagle, Government of Mexico, 1970 -Outstanding Agricultural Achievement Award, World Farm Foundation (USA), 1971 -Presidential Medal ...Published over 9 years ago |
Borlaug, Who Saved Millions From Hunger, DiesDALLAS (AP) -- Scientist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug rose from his childhood on an Iowa farm to develop a type of wheat that helped feed the world, fostering a movement that is credited with saving up to 1 billion people from starvation. Borlaug, 95, died Saturday from complications of cancer at his Dallas home, said Kathleen Phillips, ...Published over 9 years ago |
HHS Sec. Sebelius: Swine Flu Shots May Start Early Oct.WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation's first round of swine flu shots could begin sooner than expected, with some vaccine available as early as the first week of October, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Sunday. Sebelius said she is confident the vaccine will be available early enough to beat the peak of the expected flu season this fall and ...Published over 9 years ago |
Census Bureau Cuts Ties with ACORN in 2010 CountWASHINGTON (AP) - The Census Bureau on Friday severed its ties with ACORN, a community organization that has been hit with Republican accusations of voter-registration fraud. "We do not come to this decision lightly," Census director Robert Groves wrote in a letter to ACORN, which was obtained by The Associated Press. In splitting with ACORN, Groves sought to tamp down GOP ...Published over 9 years ago |
Lag in Filling Senior Policy Jobs at Treasury, HHSWASHINGTON — The White House has filled important policy jobs at the two departments essential to President Barack Obama's domestic priorities at a much slower rate than elsewhere in his administration after eight months in charge of the government. At the Treasury Department, which is overseeing one of the largest financial rescue plans in history, just 12 of the 33 high-level ...Published over 9 years ago |
U.S. Ag Dept Debuts New Online Learning PlatformA leading government online learning program that serves as a model for job training programs in China soon will allow federal employees to use more social media tools for training. The Agriculture Department's program, AgLearn, is scheduled for an upgrade to a new version of its supporting software, allowing it to provide its employees with blogs and wikis related to their ...Published over 9 years ago |
Manufacturers Ask for Feds to Help Re-tool FactoriesA group of manufacturing industry representatives--including the National Association of Manufacturers, American National Electrical Manufacturers Association, the Manufacturers Alliance, and Rockwell Automation--has gone on record noting that a federal strategy and support is critical if American manufacturers are to thrive in the post-recession global economy. This transformation to smarter, safer, and more sustainable manufacturing provides an opportunity for the federal government ...Published over 9 years ago |
Obama Picks Colorado Official to Lead U.S. Forest ServiceWASHINGTON (AP) - Congressional aides say the Obama administration has chosen a Colorado natural resources official to be the new agriculture undersecretary in charge of the U.S. Forest Service. Harris Sherman, executive director of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources, is to be nominated soon, they said. The congressional aides familiar with the decision spoke on condition of anonymity because the ...Published over 9 years ago |
Sex Complaints Against Prison Workers DoubleWASHINGTON (AP) - Accusations of sexual abuse at the hands of federal prison workers doubled in the past eight years, according to a new government report released Thursday. Justice Department inspector general Glenn Fine found that claims made against Bureau of Prisons staff members increased dramatically from 2001 to 2008. Claims of sexual misconduct more than doubled, rising 130 percent in ...Published over 9 years ago |
Pay and Benefits Watch: Back in SessionAs Congress returns from a not-so-relaxing August recess, health care reform tops the legislative to-do list. But lawmakers also face several pieces of legislation affecting the federal workforce, which were left unresolved at the end of July. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Thursday will consider H.R. 1881, a bill that would eliminate the Transportation Security Administration's special pay ...Published over 9 years ago |


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Doctors and lawyersComments
Steven Brill of The American Lawyer and CourtTV fame has a very long story in the new issue of Time on some of the more absurd financial dysfunctions of The Best Health Care System in the World(tm). In short, TBHCSITW has managed to do to society at large approximately what law schools have done to their students:
When we debate health care policy, we seem to jump right to the issue of who should pay the bills, blowing past what should be the first question: Why exactly are the bills so high?
This is same question that ought to be asked of the many law school apologists who treat the increase in the cost of legal education as something akin to a law of thermodynamics, as opposed to a fabulously successful exercise in
rent-seeking by people who have captured a regulatory process.
Critiquing that exercise highlights how the law school cartel has managed to do something which has completely eluded the bar as a whole. A question well worth investigating is why the licensed members of The Best Legal System in the World(tm) have, in comparison to their medical brethren, been so unsuccessful at using their own cartel to protect the economic position of lawyers, as opposed to that of law schools.
Consider some numbers:
In 1989, legal services accounted for approximately $157 billion, in 2005 dollars, of US GDP. In 2011 that same figure (again in 2005 dollars) was $156 billion. Over this time GDP increased by 68% in constant dollars, which means that, as a share of the economy, the legal sector shrank by approximately 41% over the past two decades.
Meanwhile law schools have increased graduate output by 24% over this same time frame, while the cost of private law school tuition doubled in real terms, and that of resident public law school tuition increased by a factor of nearly five. In other words, we've radically increased both the price and the supply of something (a license to practice law) whose relative economic value has been collapsing.
The situation in the medical profession has been the precise opposite. After medical school admissions
rose rapidly from the mid-1960s through the 1970s, the AMA reacted to warnings that there would soon be a "glut" of doctors by essentially freezing medical school graduate totals for three decades (Medical schools graduated around 16,000 to 17,000 people every year between 1980 and 2008. Finally, in reaction to new warnings that the country is facing a severe shortage of doctors, medical school admissions began to rise again about five years ago).
The most striking contrast between the situation in law and medicine is, that while economic demand for legal services has, relatively speaking, been contracting radically (note to law school administrators: economic demand = people having enough money to pay for something they're willing to use that money to pay for), that for medical services has gone through the roof. Between 1980 and 2008, the proportion of American GDP devoted to the health care sector increased by an astounding 77.8%.
Now of course doctors only captured part, and perhaps a relatively small part, of that increased demand in the form of their direct compensation. But what the AMA has been remarkably good at ensuring is that, with trivial exceptions, everyone who graduates from medical school gets to be a practicing physician for more or less as long as they want to be. That is, in the context of capitalism's gusts of creative destruction, an extraordinarily valuable benefit — and it's why comparisons between the "average" compensation of doctors and lawyers, or, more far more accurately, between graduates of medical schools and law schools, are essentially meaningless.
Here's Brill's description of the plight of large numbers of patients within the contemporary American health care system: "They are powerless buyers in a seller's market where the only sure thing is the profit of the sellers." That would also make for a good description of large numbers of law students within the contemporary system of legal education. Of course law school apologists would respond that buyers of legal education are not powerless in comparison to, say, buyers of health care who are suffering a medical emergency or from a serious illness. And that's true — which is precisely why, now that the power of better information has been placed into their hands, applications to law school are collapsing even faster than the economic demand for legal services.


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Despite rising Swiss exports in 2016, export-oriented businesses production costs had risen relative to their export prices, squeezing profit levels.
The insolvency environment
Corporate insolvencies expected to increase further in 2017
Since 2015 Swiss business insolvencies have recorded annual increases due to a more difficult economic environment. Despite a rebound of GDP growth, this trend is expected to continue in 2017, with business failures rising 1%, to 4,700 cases of bankrupt and over-indebted businesses.
Economic situation
Growth expected to remain below 2% in 2017
In 2017 the gradual rebound is set to continue, with export growth forecast to continue and private consumption growth expected to pick up slightly. Consumer price inflation is forecast to remain below 1%.


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- Sep 14:
- Boulder County seeks to force Red Lion to build new bridge
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- Boulder County OKs new Red Lion bridge, construction to begin in weeks
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- Boulder's Red Lion to stay open past April 1
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- Boulder County sues to close Red Lion's temporary bridge
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- Red Lion to build permanent bridge over Boulder Creek, stay in business
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- Red Lion neighbors fight for access to their homes after Boulder Creek bridge washout
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- Red Lion closed this weekend, will lose $30,000 in wedding business
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- Boulder Creek bridge collapse threatens Red Lion's business
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Boulder County officials sent a letter this week to the owners of the Red Lion Restaurant, warning that the county is prepared to take legal action if a permanent bridge that meets its standards isn't in place soon.
The 47-year-old Boulder Canyon restaurant's private bridge washed into Boulder Creek in June under the pressure of high water levels in Boulder Creek.
Restaurant owners erected what was meant to be a temporary bridge shortly after and agreed to replace it with a permanent bridge by December. That hasn't happened, prompting the county to consider asking a judge to issue a restraining order and close the bridge.
County officials said Red Lion owners have 10 days to address the county's safety concerns.
"We've tried to be flexible with the Red Lion," said George Gerstle, the county's transportation director. "The Red Lion owner has not followed through. We have no choice but to take action. I really hope that the owner manages to figure this out. The Red Lion is an iconic establishment. It would be a real shame if it had to close. But it can't be unsafe."
But Red Lion owner Chris Mueller said the current bridge is safe and can serve as a permanent bridge.
"My engineers so far say the bridge is strong enough," he said. "We did a fantastic job to keep everybody mobile."
County officials said their main concerns include that the bridge wouldn't survive flooding, which is more likely to happen this summer because of the Fourmile Fire. The current bridge sits on concrete blocks from the original bridge's foundation.
"We want to make sure we don't have bridge collapse into the creek," Gerstle said.
Another concern is that the bridge is only one lane, 10 1/2 feet wide, limiting emergency access. Boulder County requires a two-lane bridge to access businesses. The county also hasn't received a report from an engineer verifying that the bridge could support a fully loaded water tank to fight a fire.
Mueller originally said his historic restaurant might close if Boulder County didn't share the cost of a new bridge. He later changed his mind, saying he would pay $100,000 for a permanent two-way overpass to keep the restaurant in business.
He said he's been stuck with the cost of replacing the bridge, though people who live behind the restaurant also use it, as do open space rangers. He also said the county hasn't provided enough detail on the specifications that the bridge must meet.
A wider bridge, he said, increases the danger that restaurant patrons will drive too fast and go over the railing, creating a liability, he said. He also said Four Mile Fire Department officials have agreed it's safe.
Four Mile Fire Chief Bret Gibson said a fire truck can get over the bridge. But, he said, without two lanes it's not possible for people to leave in a crisis as emergency equipment comes in.
Mueller said he still plans to work with the county on a solution despite his concerns.
"We will solve this problem," he said. "I just wish I could get more help."


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This post is more evidence that bullying is a national tragedy affecting young people across America and throughout Pennsylvania.
We all need to take action against the source of bullying and let kids, parents, teachers, principals and politicians know that bullying is NOT okay. We all need to do something to make a difference.
An amazing young singer-songwriter named Becca Levy is doing just that.
She has started a music based anti bullying group called Right Now.
Here's a link to her video for a cover of "Right Now" by Van Halen. The purpose of the video is to promote awareness to kids using both music and the Internet. The video begins with a public service announcement and is full of statistics that people of all ages need to see.
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IDB launches cartoon and illustration contest on the future of work
Monday, February 25, 2019 - 21:33
The competition seeks the most creative cartoonists and illustrators in Latin America and the Caribbean; entries accepted through March 31, 2019 The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) announces the launching of its third edition of the Cartoon and Illustration Contest under the theme The Future of Work.
Quality expenditure and digitalization, priorities for Central America, Dominican Republic
Friday, February 15, 2019 - 23:41
The IDB brings regional Governors to its Washington, D.C. headquarters to consider policy options to speed up growth and reduce poverty The Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank's (IDB), Central American Isthmus and the Dominican Republic held their 33rd Annual Meeting to discuss options to achieve higher growth rates and foster productive activities in the years to come. The region grew 3.8 percent in 2018, way above the 1.1 percent average for Latin America and the Caribbean as a whole. In addition, it is expected to grow 4.2 percent in 2019.
Colombia issues first energy savings insurance policies
Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - 17:08
SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES ACCESS TO POLICIES TO GUARANTEE ENERGY SAVING IN INVESTMENT PROJECTS FOR MORE EFFICIENT TECHNOLOGIES With the support of the Inter-American Development Bank, and in collaboration with BANCOLDEX, Colombia has become the first country in Latin America and the Caribbean to issue energy saving policies under the Energy Savings Insurance Program (ESI) in benefit of five small and medium-si
Experts share best practices to improve the integration of migrants into labor markets
Tuesday, February 5, 2019 - 14:40
Authorities from Germany, the United States and Sweden are taking part in the workshop Public Employment Agencies and International Labor Migration in Latin America, organized by the IDB.
Eric Parrado appointed as new chief economist for the IDB
Wednesday, January 23, 2019 - 16:01
The Inter-American Development Bank announced today that starting March 1 Eric Parrado Herrera will take over as the new chief economist and general manager of the IDB's Research Department. A Chilean national, Parrado is Professor of Economics and Finance at the ESE Business School of Universidad de los Andes in Santiago, Chile, and visiting professor at the University of Oxford and the Central European University.
The IDB and Microsoft strengthen collaboration to expand transparency through technology
Tuesday, January 22, 2019 - 19:32
The partnership will extend the MapaInversiones platform throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. MapaInversiones allows citizens to access information regarding public spending as a means of encouraging transparency. In a new phase of collaboration that seeks to promote trust among citizens, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Microsoft have strengthened their partnership to accelerate the expansion of MapaInversiones
Latin American and Caribbean exports rise but at a slower rate
Thursday, January 10, 2019 - 12:13
Exports from Latin America and the Caribbean hit their highest level in six years thanks to a 9.9 percent increase in 2018, albeit amid growing downside risks in the future, according to a new report by the Inter-American Development Bank. The region exported $1.08 trillion last year. While this is the highest level since record exports in 2012, the rise fell short of the 12.2 percent growth rate for 2017. The region's performance also lagged a worldwide trade increase of 11.6 percent for the Jan-Sept period (compared to the same period the previous year).
Internet of things to improve productivity and sustainability of trout aquaculture in Peru
Friday, December 14, 2018 - 12:58
A US$2 MILLION PROJECT WILL IMPROVE AQUACULTURE PRODUCERS' PRODUCTIVITY AND INCOME IN LAKE TITICACA IN PERU WHILE IMPROVING ITS SUSTAINABILITY IDB Lab, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group's innovation laboratory, approved over US$2 million funding to support a project that will allow local small and medium-scale aquaculture producers in Lake Titicaca (Peru) to incorporate the benefits of Internet of Things (IoT) in trout farming.
Citizen Security Week in Chile will address the use of technology against crime
Monday, November 26, 2018 - 17:28
The IDB, the Government of Chile and countries of the region will discuss in Santiago, Chile, digital innovations and their application in the value chain in citizen security and justice The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Ministry of the Interior and Public Security of Chile will hold the Tenth Citizen Security Week, in Chile from November 26 to 30, 2018. It is the largest regional event dedicated to security and criminal justice issues in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Declining Export Competitiveness: Latin America Urgently Needs a Quality Leap
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 - 15:28
BUENOS AIRES—In the first quarter of 2018, the value of exports from Latin America and the Caribbean grew at a year-on-year rate of 9.7 percent in comparison with the same period in 2017, according to a new report from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). However, this growth has come amid signs that the region is becoming less competitive amid rising economic risks and global trade tensions.


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RALEIGH – NAACP protesters and other activists —including some from Chapel Hill— say the "wave of civil disobedience" won't stop until they feel their voices have been heard by the NC General Assembly.
More than 50 people have been arrested so far and more may follow.
NAACP NC State Chapter President William Barber led the rally Tuesday night at the Martin Street Baptist Church in Raleigh. Due to forecasted inclement weather, it was moved from outside of the General Assembly.
"In the face of 500,000 North Carolinians not getting health care, where is your voice now? In the face of unemployed workers getting hurt more, where is your voice now?" Barber said.
Participants prayed, held a candle lit vigil, and sang several songs together.
Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP chapter members will took part in the rally—including Bishop Larry Reid of Cathedral of Hope Mission Church in Carrboro.
Reid was arrested last Monday during a NAACP protest.
"Tonight was not only a re-gathering but a re-grouping. We have a better understanding of what we are trying to make happen," Reid said. "We have a lot of new faces in the audience and a lot of new faces that are coming out to support us and a ready to stand with us."
One of those new faces was Chapel Hill resident Bert Gurganus.
"It's not that hard to stand-up and say 'I've had enough,'" Gurganus said.
He was there as a concerned citizen and also to represent the organization Occupy Health and Wellness NC.
Gurganus is a general contractor in Carrboro—his business is Space Builders construction company.
"They are trying to roll back our environmental protection which to me are the foundations for good life," Gurganus said.
He also believes that this recent wave of state legislation is regressive.
"What I see happening in our state is antithetical to democracy and good sense," Gurganus said.
Reid says that with each protest—people from a wider range of backgrounds are showing up.
"People continually misunderstand what the fight is about—the fight is really about the people," he said.
Reid says state legislation—from restrictions on voting rights, to budget cuts in public education, to the rejection of federally-funded Medicaid expansion— could negatively affect a large number of North Carolinians.
"Take a strong look at what the legislature is putting out," he said. "When you look deeper and deeper, you'll find that it is cutting at the core of humanity."
Barber spent a good part of his speech talking about legislation like Bill 589, entitled the Voter Information Verification Act. It passed in the House in April and requires voters to show photo identification at the polls. Members of the NAACP view the bill as a form of poll tax.
"So you have a group in this general assembly that's going against their own progressive history—they are going against history where they agreed that we need to expand voting rights," Barber said.
Barber also spoke against Senate Bill 667, Equalize Voter Rights, that could prevent parents from claiming their kids as dependents for tax exemptions if their kids are registered to vote at any address other than the parents' home address.
A noteworthy attendee was one of the state legislator's own—NC Senator Earline Parmon of Forsyth County.
Reid and Barber say there will be another protest outside the General Assembly this coming Monday.


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(By Delegates Marshall and Moore)
(By Request of the Human Rights Commission)
[Introduced January 11, 2012; referred to the
Committee on the Judic
A BILL to amend and reenact §5-11A-3, §5-11A-5, §5-11A-6 and §5-11A-7 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, all relating to the West Virginia Fair Housing Act; adjusting the West Virginia Fair Housing Act to realign it with the federal Fair Housing Act with regard to support animals; and substituting the term disability for the term handicap.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §5-11A-3, §5-11A-5, §5-11A-6 and §5-11A-7 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted all to read as follows:
§5-11A-3. Definitions.
As used in this article:
(a) "Commission" means the West Virginia Human Rights Commission;
(b) "Dwelling" means any building, structure or portion thereof which is occupied as, or designed or intended for occupancy as, a residence or sleeping place by one or more persons or families and any vacant land which is offered for sale or lease for the construction or location thereon of any such building, structure or portion thereof;
(c) "Family" includes a single individual;
(d) "Person" includes one or more individuals, corporations, partnerships, associations, labor organizations, legal representatives, mutual companies, joint-stock companies, trusts, unincorporated organizations, trustees, trustees in cases under Title 11 of the United States Code, receivers and fiduciaries;
(e) "To rent" includes to lease, to sublease, to let and otherwise to grant for a consideration the right to occupy premises not owned by the occupant;
(f) "Discriminatory housing practice" means an act that is unlawful under section five, six, seven or nineteen of this article;
(g) "Handicap" "Disability" means, with respect to a person:
(1) A physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more of such the person's major life activities;
(2) A record of having such an impairment; or
(3) Being regarded as having such an impairment, but such the term does not include current, illegal use of or addiction to a controlled substance, as defined in Section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act, Title 21, United States Code, Section 802;
(h) "Aggrieved person" includes any person who:
(1) Claims to have been injured by a discriminatory housing practice; or
(2) Believes that such the person will be injured by a discriminatory housing practice that is about to occur;
(i) "Complainant" means the person, including the commission, who files a complaint under section eleven of this article;
(j) "Familial status" means:
(1) One or more individuals who have not attained the age of eighteen years being domiciled with:
(A) A parent or another person having legal custody of such the individual or individuals; or
(B) The designee of such the parent or other person having such custody of the individual with the written permission of such the parent or other person; or
(2) Any person who is pregnant or is in the process of securing legal custody of any individual who has not attained the age of eighteen years;
(k) "Conciliation" means the attempted resolution of issues raised by a complaint or by the investigation of such the complaint through informal negotiations involving the aggrieved person, the respondent and the commission;
(l) "Conciliation agreement" means a written agreement setting forth the resolution of the issues in conciliation;
(m) "Respondent" means:
(1) The person or other entity accused in a complaint of an unfair housing practice; and
(2) Any other person or entity identified in the course of investigation and notified as required with respect to respondents so identified under subsection (a), section eleven of this article;
(n) The term "rooming house" means a house or building where there are one or more bedrooms which the proprietor can spare for the purpose of giving lodgings to such persons as he or she chooses to receive; and
(o) The term "basic universal design" means the design of products and environments to be useable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialization.
(p) The term "assistance animal" means any service animal or emotional support animal with or without specific training or certification, or both, which is kept and used by a person with a disability to perform one or more major life activities or to ease or ameliorate the effects of its master's disability.
§5-11A-5. Discrimination in sale or rental of housing and other prohibited practices.
As made applicable by section four of this article and except as exempted by sections four and eight of this article, it shall be is unlawful:
(a) To refuse to sell or rent after the making of a bona fide offer, or to refuse to negotiate for the sale or rental of, or otherwise make unavailable or deny, a dwelling to any person because of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex, familial status, blindness, handicap disability or national origin;
(b) To discriminate against any person in the terms, conditions or privileges of sale or rental of a dwelling, or in the provision of services or facilities in connection therewith, because of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex, familial status, blindness, handicap disability or national origin;
(c) To make, print or publish, or cause to be made, printed or published any notice, statement or advertisement, with respect to the sale or rental of a dwelling that indicates any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, blindness, handicap disability, familial status, ancestry or national origin, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination;
(d) To represent to any person because of race, color, religion, sex, blindness, handicap disability, familial status, ancestry or national origin that any dwelling is not available for inspection, sale or rental when such the dwelling is in fact so available;
(e) For profit, to induce or attempt to induce any person to sell or rent any dwelling by representations regarding the entry or prospective entry into the neighborhood of a person or persons of a particular race, color, religion, sex, blindness, handicap disability, familial status, ancestry or national origin; or
(f) (1) To discriminate in the sale or rental, or to otherwise make unavailable or deny, a dwelling to any buyer or renter because of a handicap disability of: (A) That buyer or renter; (B) a person residing in or intending to reside in that dwelling after it is so sold, rented or made available; or (C) any person associated with that buyer or renter.
(2) To discriminate against any person in the terms, conditions or privileges of sale or rental of a dwelling, or in the provision of services or facilities in connection with such the dwelling, because of a handicap disability of: (A) That person; (B) a person residing in or intending to reside in that dwelling after it is so sold, rented or made available; or (C) any person associated with that person.
(3) For purposes of this subdivision, discrimination includes:
(A) A refusal to permit, at the expense of the handicapped disabled person, reasonable modifications of existing premises occupied or to be occupied by such the person if such the modifications may be necessary to afford such the person full enjoyment of the premises, except that, in the case of a rental, the landlord may where it is reasonable to do so condition permission for a modification on the renter agreeing to restore the interior of the premises to the condition that existed before the modification, reasonable wear and tear excepted;
(B) A refusal to make reasonable accommodations in rules, policies, practices or services when such the accommodations may be necessary to afford such the person equal opportunity to use and enjoy a dwelling; or
(C) In connection with the design and construction of covered multifamily dwellings for first occupancy after the date that is thirty months after the date of enactment of the West Virginia Fair Housing Act, a failure to design and construct those dwellings in such a manner that:
(i) The public use and common use portions of such the dwellings are readily accessible to and usable by handicapped disabled persons;
(ii) All the doors designed to allow passage into and within all premises within such the dwellings are sufficiently wide to allow passage by handicapped disabled persons in wheelchairs; and
(iii) All premises within such the dwellings contain the following features of adaptive design: (I) An accessible route into and through the dwelling; (II) light switches, electrical outlets, thermostats and other environmental controls in accessible locations; (III) reinforcements in bathroom walls to allow later installation of grab bars; and (IV) usable kitchens and bathrooms such that an individual in a wheelchair can maneuver about the space.
(4) Compliance with the appropriate requirements of the American National Standard for Buildings and Facilities Providing Accessibility and Usability for Physically Handicapped People, commonly cited as ANSI A117.1, suffices to satisfy the requirements of subparagraph (3)(C)(iii) of this subdivision.
(5)(A) If a unit of general local government has incorporated into its laws the requirements set forth in subparagraph (3)(C) of this subdivision, compliance with such those laws shall be deemed to satisfy the requirements of that subparagraph.
(B) The commission or unit of general local government may review and approve newly constructed covered multifamily dwellings for the purpose of making determinations as to whether the design and construction requirements of subparagraph (3)(C) of this subdivision are met.
(C) The commission shall encourage, but may not require, units of local government to include in their existing procedures for the review and approval of newly constructed covered multifamily dwellings, determinations as to whether the design and construction of such dwellings are consistent with subparagraph (3)(C) of this subdivision, and may provide technical assistance to units of local government and other persons to implement the requirements of such that subparagraph.
(D) Nothing in this article shall be construed to require requires the commission to review or approve the plans, designs or construction of all covered multifamily dwellings to determine whether the design and construction of such the dwellings are consistent with the requirements of subparagraph (3)(C) of this subdivision.
(6) (A) Nothing in paragraph (5) of this subdivision shall be construed to affect affects the authority and responsibility of the commission or a local public agency to receive and process complaints or otherwise engage in enforcement activities under this article.
(B) Determinations by a unit of general local government under subparagraphs (5)(A) and (B) of this subdivision shall are not be conclusive in enforcement proceedings under this article.
(7) As used in this section, the term "covered multifamily dwellings" means: (A) Buildings consisting of four or more units if such the buildings have one or more elevators; and (B) ground floor units in other buildings consisting of four or more units.
(8) Nothing in this article shall be construed to invalidate or limit invalidates or limits any law of this state or any political subdivision hereof of this state that requires dwellings to be designed and constructed in a manner that affords handicapped disabled persons greater access than is required by this article.
(9) Nothing in This section requires does not require that a dwelling be made available to an individual whose tenancy would constitute a direct threat to the health or safety of other individuals or whose tenancy would result in substantial physical damage to the property of others. The burden of proving such threat to health or safety or the likelihood of such damage shall be is upon the respondent.
(10) (A) For the purposes of this subdivision, rules, policies, practices or services regarding pets are subject to the reasonable accommodation requirements of subparagaph (B), paragraph (3), of this subdivision: Provided, That in connection with a request for reasonable accommodation to the rules, policies or services, a person with a disability may be required to provide supporting material documenting the need for the assistance animal.
(B) A person with a disability may be refused the accommodation of an assistance animal if there is credible evidence that the assistance animal would be a direct threat to the health or safety of others.
(C) A person with a disability who keeps or uses an assistance animal is responsible for seeing that the assistance animal lives in the dwelling of the person without disturbing the property or quiet enjoyment of the property owner or the person's neighbors and is liable for any damage caused by the assistance animal.
§5-11A-6. Discrimination in residential real estate-related transactions.
(a) It shall be is unlawful for any person or other entity whose business includes engaging in residential real estate-related transactions to discriminate against any person in making available such a transaction or in the terms or conditions of such a transaction because of race, color, religion, sex, blindness, handicap disability, familial status, ancestry or national origin.
(b) As used in this section, the term "residential real estate-related transaction" means any of the following:
(1) The making or purchasing of loans or providing other financial assistance: (A) For purchasing, constructing, improving, repairing or maintaining a dwelling; or (B) secured by residential real estate; or
(2) The selling, brokering or appraising of residential real property.
(c) Nothing in this article prohibits a person engaged in the business of furnishing appraisals of real property to take into consideration factors other than race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, blindness, handicap disability or familial status.
§5-11A-7. Discrimination in provision of brokerage services.
It shall be is unlawful to deny any person access to or membership or participation in any multiple listing service, real estate broker's organization or other service, organization or facility relating to the business of selling or renting dwellings, or to discriminate against him or her in the terms or conditions of such access, membership or participation on account of race, color, religion, sex, blindness, handicap disability, familial status, ancestry or national origin.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to adjust the West Virginia Fair Housing Act to realign it with the federal Fair Housing Act with regard to support animals. The bill also substitutes the term disability for the term handicap in the West Virginia Fair Housing Act.
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SoC2007 project Anti Ghosting
See SoC 2007 overview for usage hints and a page list.
High Dynamic Range (HDR) Panoramas are formed by taking numerous pictures of different exposures, tone mapping them to an exposure that provides the most detail for the human eye, and stitching them into a single image. Since there are multiple base images per area in HDR imags, moving objects, such as people, result in semi-transparency, blurring, or incomplete objects. This phenomenon is called ghosting. Some commercial products support ghosting elimination, but most of them only work with small variations in the camera. The goal of this project is to devise a robust blending algorithm to eliminate ghosting in an HDR panorama.
Deliverables and Details
The execution of the project involves 3 phases: research, implementation, and integration.
Phase 1 - Research This phase involves gaining a deeper understanding of the current challenges of anti-ghosting, taking a look at the methods used by current softwares and research papers, and devising a plan of attack.
Phase 2 - Implementation In this phase, the core funcionality of the anti-ghosting algorithm derived from phase one. This phase should take up a majority of the project timeline, and will probably encounter the most unexpected delays. At the end of the phase, the blending algorithm should be fairly robust (works on most if not all possible use cases), and should be able to produce the result within a reasonable amount of time.
Phase 3 - Integration During this phase, the algorithm will be integrated into the current HDR algorithm so it can be used by the general populace. This phase also accounts for optimization of the code and any final debugging to tie up the loose ends.
Detailed Schedule
Phase 1 - Research (2 weeks)
- Week 1: research different algorithms used in current softwares and proposed in research papers. Understand their pros and cons.
- Week2: design an efficient and robust algorithm and plan out the detailed schedule of the implementation and integration phases. Also design the main classes/functions that are involved in the algorithm and those that are needed to integrate.
Phase 2 - Implementation (7 weeks)
- Weeks 3-6 implement the merging algorithm and do any unit and incremental tests involved
- Weeks 7-9 time for general testing and debugging
Phase 3 - Integration (5 weeks)
- Weeks 10-11 integrate the algorithm with the rest of the panorama stitching process, testing as needed/possible
- Weeks 12-13 robust testing debugging of the whole process
- Week 14 optimization, documentation, etc.
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Saunders, Ackley power Mariners past reeling Jays
Toronto, ON – Michael Saunders had his second career two-home run performance at Rogers Centre, while Dustin Ackley smacked a grand slam as the Seattle Mariners defeated the Toronto Blue Jays, 8-1, Saturday in the second of a three-game set.
Saunders, a native of Victoria, British Columbia, also hit two homers in Toronto's home park on April 28 of last season and now has five along with 11 RBI in his last 10 games there dating back to Sept. 22, 2010. He added a run- scoring double and finished with three RBI in the victory.
Hisashi Iwakuma (3-1) tossed seven solid innings of one-run, five-hit ball for the Mariners, winners in six of their last seven games. Kelly Shoppach drove in one run with a double.
R.A. Dickey (2-5) suffered his third straight defeat after being tagged for seven runs and all three of Seattle's homers while striking out five over six innings. The Blue Jays, meanwhile, have lost four straight and 10 of their last 12 overall.
"We're kind of searching for a way to score runs, a way to pitch well," Dickey said. "We're doing a lot of things poorly, myself included."
Munenori Kawasaki plated the Jays' only run with a sacrifice fly.
Dickey quickly ran into some trouble, as Saunders -- the game's first batter -- deposited his 1-0 offering over the right-field wall to give the Mariners an early 1-0 lead.
Ackley expanded Seattle's lead in the fourth with his first career grand slam. With a runner on first and two down, Dickey issued consecutive walks to Raul Ibanez and Shoppach to load the bases. Ackley then made the knuckleballer pay with a shot to right-center for his first homer of the season that gave Seattle a 5-0 advantage.
With one out in the fifth, Saunders poked his second homer of the day over the right-field wall to make it 6-0. One inning later, Ibanez smacked a one-out triple in the right-center gap and scored on Shoppach's double to left.
Kawasaki finally put the Jays on the board with a sacrifice fly to center in the seventh that scored Rajai Davis.
Saunders rounded out the scoring -- and his stellar afternoon -- with a RBI double in the ninth that plated Robert Andino.
"He just brings a lot of energy and intensity to the top of our lineup," Seattle manager Eric Wedge said of Saunders.
Game Notes
Toronto fell to 6-12 at home this season ... Dickey had only given up one grand slam in his career, which came to the Blue Jays' Kevin Millar in 2009 while then with Minnesota. The righty already has three losses at home this season after dropping a total of three home starts for the Mets last year ... Saunders had the fourth multi-homer game of his career ... Iwakuma had received just one run of support from the Mariners in his previous three starts.


text: Korean Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - interesting way of capturing prisoners Speak Korean Now! Korean Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in interesting way of capturing prisoners Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Current Events Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message sportsguy35Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 4:19 pm Post subject: interesting way of capturing prisoners I never new we did this until I read this story, kinda interesting. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050531/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/guantanamo_prisoners_for_sale Back to top DerrekJoined: 15 Jan 2003 Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 7:35 pm Post subject: Sounds like an excellent story to skew in order to stir up trouble. Maybe it would be more humane to simply cut off their heads? That's what AlQueda does to innocent people. Apparently that's not a big deal. Back to top sportsguy35Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 5:11 am Post subject: well, that is definitely another way to go about it. I'm not to sure it would work though. It kind of takes away from their worth if they don't have any heads. Back to top Ya-ta BoyJoined: 16 Jan 2003Location: Established in 1994 Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 6:10 am Post subject: Isn't this the same as the bounties that are offered to bounty hunters? About the heads thing: Heads are heavy to carry around. Inconvenient. Couldn't they just offer money for the scalps like several governments used to do? Much more portable. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Current Events Forum All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Forums:----------------FAQJob-related Discussion ForumGeneral Discussion ForumOff-Topic ForumTravel ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumBuy/Sell/Trade Forum You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group TEFL International Supports Dave's ESL Cafe


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DeMarco Murray isn't ready to think of himself in the same company as Tony Dorsett and Emmitt Smith.
Well, the second-year running back is already listed among the Dallas Cowboys' Hall of Fame running backs in the team record book.
Murray is now in camp as the No. 1 running back after recovering from a broken right ankle.
On the first carry in his first start last October, when Felix Jones was hurt, Murray had a 91-yard touchdown. The only longer scoring run in Cowboys history is Dorsett's memorable 99-yarder in a 1983 Monday night game.
Murray ran for a team-record 253 yards in that first start. His 601 yards in the first four starts was more than NFL career rushing leader Smith ever had over a similar stretch.


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Friday, January 22, 2010
A Very Fancy (Nancy!) Birthday Party
I had so much fun decorating for this party! The only Fancy Nancy specific items I bought were cardstock placemats, some big stickers (for the goodie bags), and a few Fancy Nancy mylar balloons. For the rest of the decor I just went with over the top fancy with lots of pink and some touches of purple. For the record, Fancy Nancy's favorite color is fuchsia...that's a fancy way of saying purple. (Or at least that's what the book says--to me it isn't the exact same thing as purple...)
Most of these decorations came from Dollar Tree! I bought wine glasses (we don't drink wine, so we didn't own any) to elevate the cupcakes and to use as glasses for the milk and water I offered the children. They felt very fancy using those and did lots of glass clinking! I also bought the little plastic "glass" slippers (they're at the base of the wine glasses) from the wedding section at Dollar Tree and filled them with pink M&Ms. And, of course, the flowers are direct from the dollar store. I put the flowers in a vase I already had and then stuffed some white tulle into the vase to cover up the icky stems.
See those "things" on sticks? Those were a HUGE hit! They're marshmallows that I poked a stick into, dipped in pink candy melts, and then dipped into sprinkles. The ones covered in pink sparkly sugar with the biggest hit. One of the little girls skipped eating her cupcake in favor of eating a LOT of these marshmallows! Oh and the nice little glass cup they're sitting in? That's a candleholder from my big Pottery Barn metal wreath candleholder that I took down before our addition was built and I haven't put back up yet. The candleholders worked great for this--especially after I put some white tulle in the bottom of the container.
The pink boa on the chandelier is one that I snagged out of the dressup box--I also draped some white faux pearl necklaces on the boa.
To dress-up the chairs, I used white plastic tablecloths cut in half and tied some pink tulle around them and added another Dollar Tree flower to the knot of tulle. White sheets would have looked even better, but those weren't in my budget.
The goodie bags contained a small glittery wand, additional jewelry (they also received some when they arrived), as well as a princess lollipop that I made using candy melts. I also made sure the bags were big enough to hold tiaras since that was one of the favors the girls received when they arrived.
The centerpiece on this table is the original Fancy Nancy book--I just used a plate display stand that I bought at the dollar store to hold the book up.
While we waited for everyone to arrive, the children had the opportunity to color Fancy Nancy pictures and then to make beaded bracelets. Then I read them Fancy Nancy--this was a hit! Then it was time for the girls (and my little boy!) to get fancy! This table contained everything they needed to do that--tiars, rings, necklaces, and feather boas! I found amazing deals on these items at a website called Halo Heaven. The prices were fantastic!!
After the children got fancy, it was time for a dance party! We did freeze dance as well as just dancing. It got some wiggles out and the girls had fun!
After a quick picture (the invitation instructed they should dress fancy), it was time for parfaits! (That's fancy for ice cream sundae!) Unfortunately there are no pictures of this. Boo! We cleared off the fancy table and put out bowls of sprinkles, mini chocolate chips, and mini marshmallows. Each girl got a bowl with ice cream and then could put on the extras herself before having chocolate/caramel sauce and squirty cream put on by an adult. Then they headed for the table!
We sang Happy Birthday to Princess and she blew out her candles. Then the children gorged themselves on sugar (usually a semi-restricted commodity in our house) before we did presents.
It was a wonderful time and Princess was so happy with her special day!
15 comments:
nice post. thanks.
- January 23, 2010 at 3:36 AM
- Jodee Leader said...
We love Fancy Nancy too! What a fun party! All of the little details were just perfect!
- January 23, 2010 at 5:10 AM
- Shannon said...
This looked like such a fun party! The decorations were so cute!
- January 23, 2010 at 7:53 AM
- Jessica said...
Will you plan my next birthday party???? LOL! I've given up on having birthday parties at home. Something about seven or eight boys in my house with two big dogs...*shudder*
- January 23, 2010 at 8:19 AM
- Wendy @ The Shabby Nest said...
What a great Fancy Nancy party...we too had a Fancy Nancy party for my daughter's 6th birthday! I think I loved it as much as she did!
- January 23, 2010 at 7:56 PM
- jenjen said...
What a fun party!!! My daughter also loves Fancy Nancy. Everything looks so pretty! I bet she had just a wonderful time!
- January 24, 2010 at 10:09 AM
- Susie from Bienvenue said...
What a perfect little sweet birthday! Love the cupakes on top of the wine glasses...too cute!
- January 24, 2010 at 12:32 PM
- Gail :) said...
What a great party!!! It looks like all of the guests had a blast!
- January 27, 2010 at 12:14 PM
- Michie said...
I love the cupcakes on the bottom of the wine glasses!! They look so cute! My daughter's birthday is this coming Wednesday...want to help me go to the Dollar store for decorations? :)
- January 30, 2010 at 8:12 AM
- Kristen Duke Photography said...
I was searching for fancy nancy party ideas and came across your fun crafty blog! Cute stuff!
- May 15, 2010 at 2:15 PM
I like your idea with the plastic table cloth on the chairs. My daughter is having an fancy nancy slumber party tomorrow night. I am going to attempt this myself! :)
- December 9, 2010 at 6:30 PM
- G. said...
I was searching for Fancy Nancy Party ideas and found your blog. So glad I did. Great ideas. I like that you found a lot of your items at the Dollar Tree. I'm planning a Fancy Nancy party for my little girl who will be 5! Thanks.
- March 5, 2011 at 9:15 AM
Great budget-friendly ideas - fancy too !!!Love the way you did the chairs and all the little details !I will be hosting my little girl's 5th birthday and this sure gives me a lot of ideas - thank you !
- April 24, 2011 at 10:54 AM
My daughter is turning 6 and wants to have a Fancy Nancy party..and so do I! Thanks for some ideas to get the ball rolling!
- September 15, 2011 at 5:37 PM
- Victoria Mische said...
Seems like everybody especially the kids had fun. I'll be trying some of your ideas on my daughter who is turning 8 this coming May! (Hope you don't mind! :)) She will be happy to see some of those cute decors on her birthday. Anyway, thanks for starting this up! I like this Nancy Fancy B-day Party!
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