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There's a never-ending — and problematic — discussion about the "best show on television." In my mind, the best television show is the one that's superior to all others in terms of narrative arc, character development, writing, cinematography, acting, originality, and so on. You know: the best. However, a lot of critics seem to think the "best" means "my favorite," which is the only possible excuse for the egregious, putrid, and moronic claims you're about to read.
Because there are certain shows that are okay to call the best: "Mad Men" and "Breaking Bad," certainly. "Friday Night Lights" and "Parks and Recreation," sure, those aren't unreasonable opinions. "Community" and "Louie"? Totally defensible. Everyone, of course, is entitled to their opinion—but not if they claim that "Chuck" is better than "Justified." There's a line. There are certain shows — some good, some truly awful — that various critics and bloggers have deemed to be the Best Show on Television. On the following pages are ten of the worst selections, with excerpted quotes to damn them.
Kristi Gustafson (Times Union) for "Parenthood"
Subject Title: "The best show on television"
I like my TV. You know that. Thing is, I am not a channel-surfer and do not turn on the tele just to see what's on. Instead, I have my prime time "must sees," including "Desperate Housewives," "90210," "HIMYM," "One Tree Hill," "Private Practice" and "Parenthood." (I also love "House Hunters"—International and otherwise, "Flip This House," "Giuliana & Bill," "The View" and the fourth hour of the "Today Show" with Hoda and Kathie Lee). But, out of that list, my all-time, absolute favorite is "Parenthood." I love this show. Love it.
Disclosure: I used to intern for the Times Union, located in Albany, NY (I finished 513 out of 551 in their Race for Literacy charity marathon!). Disclosure: I enjoy "Parenthood," particularly the work of Peter Krause and Lauren Graham. Disclosure: nothing Gustafson wrote in her article about "Parenthood" should be taken seriously after she included "Desperate Housewives" as one of her "must sees."
Matt Singer (IFC) for "The Bachelor"
Subject Title: "The Bachelor" is the Worst and Best Show On Television
"The Bachelor" is more than just a television show. It is the television show, the show that exemplifies all that is terrible and wonderful about our celebrity-obsessed culture…the show is all contradictions, the best and worst show on television all at once, and all the things that make it a crime against humanity are the same things that make it essential viewing.


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Started all 12 games ... Ranked third on the Crimson with 15 goals and 23 assists ... Collected 26 ground balls and led Harvard with two game-winning tallies ... Netted two goals and had one ground ball against Canisius (Feb. 27) ... Notched a career-high three goals and collected four ground balls at Georgetown (March 3) ... Had one ground ball and caused a turnover at Holy Cross (March 6) ... Scored a goal, handed out an assist and picked up a ground ball in win at Massachusetts (March 13) ... Had a hat trick and an assist against Colgate (March 16) .. Netted a goal and grabbed two ground balls against Brown (March 20) ... Scored a goal and dished out an assist in win over Dartmouth (March 27) ... Picked up three ground balls against No. 7 Duke (April 2) ... Collected three ground balls, scored a goal and handed out an assist at No. 10 Cornell (April 10) ... Picked up a ground ball at Penn (April 17) ... Had a hat trick, scored the game-winning tally and picked up four ground balls in victory against No. 6 Princeton (April 24) .... Tabbed COOP Student-Athlete of the Week April 26 ... Assisted on a career-high four goals, grabbed a career-best six ground balls and caused a turnover at Yale (May 1).
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Played in 12 games in rookie season, starting 11 ... Scored five goals and handed out seven assists for 12 points ... Grabbed 20 ground balls ... Tallied first two collegiate goals and had a ground ball in victory at Stony Brook (Feb. 28) ... Handed out an assist and collected three ground balls against Massachusetts (March 7) ... Had a career-high two assists and grabbed a ground ball in win over Hartford (March 13) ... Assisted on a man-up goal and grabbed two ground balls in Ivy win over Penn (March 21) ... Scored a goal six seconds into the game and collected a career-best four ground balls at Georgetown (March 25) ... Handed out an assist and snared three ground balls at Cornell (April 4) ... Scored a goal, added an assist, snared two ground balls and caused a turnover at Princeton (April 11) ... Netted a goal in win over Yale (April 25) ... Assisted on a goal and picked up three ground balls in victory at Dartmouth (May 2).
Before Harvard:
Three-time letterwinner in lacrosse at Ridgewood High ... Captained squad as senior ... First-team All-American midfielder ... New Jersey Attackman of the Year in 2008 ... Earned New Jersey Independent School Athletic Association (NJISAA) Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award ... Selected to all-state first team in 2008 and all-state third team in 2007 ... Two-time Team New Jersey and All-Gibbs Division member ... Helped Ridgewood to Group III championship in 2006 and 2008 ... Scored 90 points as a senior, the second most in school history.
Father, Jim Vaughan, played lacrosse at Georgetown and served as the team captain during senior season ... Grandfather, Jim Vaughan, played baseball at Georgetown ... Grandfather, Kelly McGlaughlin, was the captain of Fordham's squash team.

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What are the benefits of space exploration?
- Global Positioning System: The mankind depends on the sea trade for transportation of food grains, fossil fuels, metal ores, etc. Global navigation system, GPS helps in timely delivery of these essential goods by providing the ships with essential navigation information. The GNS services are made available using networks of satellites which also enables satellite Internet and satellite phones.
- Weather Forecast and Agriculture: Gone are the days, when we used to take an umbrella with us while going out if there were black clouds in the sky. Now we can rely on the weather reports updated on an hourly basis. The accurate weather forecast is possible only because of the satellites in the space. The satellites also help us in predicting the crop yields, pest infestation and the area under cultivation.
- Natural Calamities: It is easy to predict natural calamities such as floods, storms, tornadoes, hurricanes and to locate wildfires and their extent with the help of satellites.
- Minerals and Mining: Minerals buried deep under the Earth's surface can be located using satellites. Precious fossil fuels can be found with the help of satellites.
- Electronics: The field of electronics and computers have also benefited from the space exploration. The astronauts have manufactured miniature electronic parts that could only be produced in the space during their experiments in the space stations and space shuttles.
- Asteroids: It is believed that an asteroid strike eliminated the dinosaurs on the Earth. One of the benefits of space exploration is that we know about the thousands of asteroids and we can also be vigilant about their "drifts". May be we could prevent 'dinosaurian death of mankind', if and when an asteroid is positioned to repeat history. If it happens, it would be because of the knowledge which is the direct benefit of space exploration.
- Energy Source: The scientists and researchers all over the world are attempting to harness the power of nuclear fusion. The process which enables the Sun to produce energy in abundance. It is believed that quantity of electricity generated using 1kg of hydrogen would be equivalent to that of 11,000 metric tons of coal.
- Medicine: Another field to glean the benefits of the satellite exploration is that of medicine. Metal alloys that are manufactured to be used in spacecraft and space shuttles are also used in the health care industry. Nitinol, an alloy is used to make braces. The miniature electronic components which were developed for the space program can be used in electronic pain-control device that some patients need to use. The implantable insulin pump is based on the mechanical robot arm developed for the Mars Voyager probe.
The space exploration benefits also encompasses the field of communication which needs no explanation. The applications of knowledge and the technologies, that are the outcome of the man's efforts to explore space, are making his life easier indeed!


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Posted by Anonymous99 on 2013-08-06
We have had a positive experience of working with Ariadne - at odds with the (dated) comments below.
Although they're a small fund, Ariadne moved quickly and efficiently through the investment process, were fair and reasonable with the negotiation of terms, and were sensible with the scope of the due diligence they undertook. No complaints.
More generally, Julie Meyer puts a considerable effort into the creation of a more enterprising society in the UK - efforts which should be applauded - and in my experience her motivation is genuine and sincere. It also clearly frames the way Ariadne seeks to work with us - I feel we're aligned on both the vision for our business as well as our values.
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Recreation Vehicle Industry Association (RVIA) members elected two incumbents and four new members to the board of directors in the association's annual elections, which concluded on Monday (Aug. 24), according to RVIA Today Express.
Andrew Baer, vice president of sales and marketing at KZRV LP; John Draheim, president of Fleetwood RV Inc., and Tim Tiffin, general manager of Tiffin Motor Homes Inc. were all newly elected to three-year terms as manufacturer representatives. Jeff Hanemaayer, chairman of Roadtrek Motorhomes, was re-elected to a three-year term manufacturer seat.
Jeff Rutherford, president of Carefree of Colorado, was newly elected for a three-year term as an at-large representative. Incumbent Garry Enyart, director of RV business for Cummins Power Generation, was re-elected to three-year term at-large seat.
Supplier Seat Election to End Sept. 5
The special election for the three-year term supplier seat continues through Sept. 5. The candidates running in the special election are John Juliano of Al-Ko Kober Corp. and Kevin Phillips of Thetford Corp. The official representatives of all RVIA eligible companies were sent instructions regarding voting in this special election.
Each of the newly elected board members will begin serving on Oct.1. The RVIA board has the highest level of authority in the association organizational structure. It is responsible for association matters on a broad policy basis.


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The Berlin DefenceProduct Code: B0084EU
Book Description
A thorough examination of the popular Berlin Defence (1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5 Nf6). The book is divided into two parts; the Anti-Berlin which contains comprehensive coverage of all lines after 3...Nf6, and the Berlin Endgame (4 0-) Nxe4 5 d4 Nd6 6 Bxc6 dxc6 7 dxe5 Nf5 8 Qxd8+ Kxd8.
Both authors are experienced exponents of the Berlin Defence and have clearly put a huge amount of effort into the analysis produced. Large amount of recent material (2010-11) is included.
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Roman Ovetchkin is an international grandmaster and an experienced coach and trainer. He was in the team which enabled Ekaterina Kovalevska to become a vice-champion of the world in 2004. In 2007, he coached the "ABC" team and they shared 1st-2nd place in the European Cup for women. He was the winner of numerous international chess competitions.
Igor Lysyj is an international grandmaster. He won many times the students' championships and the Russia Universiades, both as an individual and as a member of the team of the Ural University. He participated in the team of Russia which won the World Students' Championship in 2008. He was the winner of numerous international chess tournaments.
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Images that provide a glimpse into one of the world's most intense military training courses, the Submarine Command Course, have been released.
Known in the Royal Navy as Perisher, due to its high failure rate, the course is mandatory for any naval officer wishing to command a submarine – with those who fail having to immediately leave the Submarine Service forever.
The Royal Navy is a world leading provider of Perisher for prospective commanders of nuclear submarines, with the Dutch and Norwegian Navies specialising in diesel-electric boats. All three nations regularly work with each other and a variety of international partners, including the Australian, Canadian, French and US Navies.
The UK's Lieutenant Commanders Ian Shropshall and James Collie took part in the Dutch run course which took place in the Norwegian Fjords in February 2016 on board the HNLMS Bruinvis, ahead of their fourth and final stage of Perisher on board a Royal Navy nuclear submarine in June.
The images show Lt Cdr Shropshall conducting visual safety drills, called 'eyes only', where he had to successfully locate and evade fast moving warships that were charging towards his boat.
Commander Justin Codd, the Royal Navy 'Teacher' who is in charge of the UK Perisher programme, said: "Understanding how other nations' navies and types of submarine work makes Royal Navy warfare officers better submarine captains. Conducting visual safety drills is pretty much the same on all classes of submarine and requires our commanders to have exceptional mental arithmetic and spatial awareness abilities as they look to avoid up to four warships that are aggressively trying to hunt them down."
Lt Cdr Shropshall added: "Although the drills were conducted in English, I quickly learned that issuing the Dutch command of 'vek targen' (to dive away) worked best as we looked to remain at periscope depth for as long as possible before diving under a 5,000 tonne warship coming at us at more than 30 knots!"
Following the April course, the remainder of the Dutch students have continued with their tactical training in Holland and at sea. Lt Cdrs Shropshall and Collie have re-joined their fellow students prior to their final tactical assessment at sea in the summer.
The UK Submarine Service conducts operations around the world where their stealthy qualities are used to support the UK's national security by conducting range of tasks including war fighting, maritime security and international engagement.


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Gay Army Ranger Ken Yasger Invites Katy Perry to Army Ranger Ball [VIDEO]
We think Katy Perry needs to clear her dance card when she sees this adorable video in which openly gay Army Ranger Ken Yasger invites her to his upcoming Army Ranger Ball.
Don't roll your eyes, since military folks asking celebs to accompany them to their dress up, formal events via YouTube videos is so commonplace. Yasger explains how much Perry's music means to him in this heartfelt video.
The ball is on Oct. 10 and Perry has an album out Oct. 22, so it might be cutting it close. But still, Yasger extended a charming invite.
He invited her since she is an inspiration. He revealed, "I am the first openly gay ranger in the unit I am with" and added that along with friends and family, it was Perry's music that helped him get through tough times.
He reveals that her hit 'Wide Awake' is used as his phone alarm and it wakes him up, and puts him in a good mood every day. He also says 'ROAR' is one of the most inspirational songs he has ever heard.
Yasger is an uber fan and he's not looking for romance, so Perry's BF John Mayer has no reason to feel jealous or threatened. He should give Perry his blessing to go to the event since this invite really is sweeter than a cherry pie with Reddi-Wip topping.


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IDW Publishing have announced a new Doctor Who Annual to be released in the United States in 2010. Revealed at the Gallifrey One convention at the weekend, editor Denton Tipton explained:
The U.K. annuals are always reprints, oversized stuff, where this will be something new and different that hasn't been done before. The annual is a Tardis-centric issue - it's not really a Doctor Who book, it's more of a Tardis book, so we've got some pretty cool ideas there."The annual will be written/drawn by three established writers for IDW's Doctor Who range - Tony Lee, Al Davison and Matthew Dow Smith - plus Hollywood screenwriter Jonathan L Davis who has written the main story.
The annual also features a short story by Matthew Smith and Tony Lee that leads into IDW's final arc of their ongoing Tenth Doctor range of comics (issues 13-16, entitled Final Sacrifice). The comic series itself continues from March with issue 9 starting the Don't Step on the Grass story by Tony Lee; the new story will also feature the Doctor's companion Martha Jones.
You can read more about IDW's Doctor Who range in a report by Comic Book Resources from the convention.


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Monday, June 10, 2013
Bianchi Unveils Retro Racing and Leisure Clothing
The jersey has pockets with button closures on both the front and back, a collar with button closure, Bianchi on both sides and sleeves. The shorts, have white embroidered logo in relief, a pocket in the back with button closure and buttons for suspenders. In Bianchi celeste...of course. The material is "Wool Yam Heritage".
The new clothing line will be available for purchase in the near future.
The L'Eroica 2013 is scheduled for Oct. 6; registration is full for this year.
Related L'Eroica stories and videos previously published here:
2010 L'Eroica video
2010 Le Coq video series
2009 L'Eroica video by Brooks of England
L'Eroica adventure in three parts: Part I, Part II, and Part III
Riding L'Eroica on a 3 speed Pashley (includes a link to a video)
Riding L'Eroica on a fixed gear
2009 L'Eroica photos by Blufreccia
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Way back in 2009, when Syfy was spelled "Sci Fi" and DVICE was spelled "device," Tesla Motors promised us all that their forthcoming Model S electric sedan would cost $49,900 after federal tax credits. Now, it's nearly 2012, and the final price might shock you.
$49,900. Yep, it's been a couple years worth of tanking economy, but Tesla has somehow managed to keep their word and the price of the base model Tesla four door electric car hasn't gone up at all. You should bear in mind that this is the base-base-base model, though, with a 40 kWh battery (160 mile range) and not that much of the cool stuff that comes along with some of the pricier versions of the Model S. A few examples:
- All-glass panoramic roof: +$1,500
- Extra rear-facing trunk seats: +$1,500
- Tech package with navigation system: +$3,750
- Twin chargers and high power connector: +$2,700
- 85 kWh battery (300 mile range): +$20,000
The top of the line, ultra-premium "signature performance" edition of the Model S (which comes with the stuff listed above and some other niceties) will run you $97,900, and all of these prices are after that $7,500 electric car tax credit. Check out this link to see all of the additional options available with the Model S, and let yourself fantasize for a little bit before you suck it up and go buy a Leaf, Prius or Volt instead.
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If you're a boater, it might have hit home when you scraped the bottom off your vessel. As a beachcomber, you might have noticed more nooks to explore around rocks and piers.
And if you're a lakeside homeowner?
You might have realized your beach is now bigger.
A whole lot bigger.
That's what happened to Richard Zanett, who has lived in his family's home in Grandview Bay in Angola-on-the-Lake for 66 years.
Zanett and his wife, Donna, now watch sunsets over a beach that's roughly double the size it used to be.
"More beach to maintain," Donna Zanett said pragmatically.
Here's the situation about the water level of Lake Erie, which had dropped every month in 2012 before rebounding slightly this year.
Lake Erie's water level measurement in Buffalo is down about a foot and a half from where it was in January 2012.
That's an equivalent of the water from about 4.7 million Olympic-sized swimming pools being taken out of Lake Erie.
Low levels are occurring throughout the Great Lakes, and for two main reasons: an underwhelming previous winter of 2011-12 followed by last year's early spring and prolonged hot and dry summer.
And while Lake Erie has rebounded somewhat this year, the lake level does matter and will affect you.
That's the opinion of environmental experts and lake industry professionals who point out that the depth of the lake drives international commerce, recreational opportunities and more.
"Mother Nature giveth," said Glen Nekvasil, vice president of the Lake Carriers Association in Rocky River, Ohio, "and Mother Nature taketh away."
Up to this point, the drop in the water level has seemed to amount to more of an economic conundrum than an ecological one, according to scientists.
That's little consolation for folks who rely on the water for commerce, science or recreation.
Watercraft aground
It's not unusual these days to watch boaters jumping overboard to push their watercrafts over a sandbar and into the lake, said Rich Davenport, a fisherman from North Tonawanda.
"Trying to get out of Sturgeon Point was a joke," Davenport said of last year's combined low water level and a lack of harbor dredging. "Unless you had a 14-foot canoe, you weren't getting out."
No matter where you travel along the shore, the stains from days of higher water levels are marked everywhere.
Timbers in the pier at the harbor in Dunkirk. The shoreline riprap in Angola. The concrete wall at Hoak's Lakeshore Restaurant in Hamburg. And the side of the Union Ship Canal in Lackawanna.
At SUNY Buffalo State's Great Lakes Center at the foot of Porter Avenue, scientists often can't even launch their new 28-foot boat, Privateer, into the Black Rock Channel.
"We're having problems getting our boat out," said Mark D. Clapsadl, the center's field station manager.
Waters once lapped over the concrete launch's descent into the canal.
Now, that pad, along with a couple of feet of stone at the end of the launch, is dry as a bone. Then, there's a steep drop-off toward the bottom of the canal that on many days is making it impossible to get the Privateer out into the water without damaging the vessel, Clapsadl said.
"It certainly makes our work more difficult," he said.
Unprecedented drop
In December 2011, Lake Erie was about 18 inches above its "long-term average" level since the Corps began taking measurements in 1918.
For 12 consecutive months after that, however, the water level declined – a statistic that was unprecedented in the 95 years that the Corps has kept depth records for the lake.
Things seem to be slowly rebounding.
So far in 2013, the lake has regained a half a foot of water from where it started in January, thanks to a soggy early spring in parts of the Midwest. As of May 26, the water level stood at just over 571 feet.
Some of the newly exposed boulders and sand from last year's drop are at least being slowly retaken by the water.
It's a trend that the Army Corps forecasts will continue, at least over the next six months.
But the drop has still been noticeable to homeowners like the Zanetts at Angola-on-the-Lake, along with people who make their business on the lakes.
An American flag bears testimony to that fact.
Residents along a point at Lakeside Drive in Angola-on-the-Lake, not far from Mickey Rats club, installed an American flag on a wooden timber that once was the end of a pier, and which juts tens of yards out into the lake waters.
The reason was simple: too many boaters were tearing up the bottoms of their vessels on the rocks. Between the timber and the shore is now a graveyard of boulders.
"It happens all the time," Zanett said, lauding his neighbors for taking a lead in helping steer boaters free from the zone with the flag. "It's a good idea – it draws their attention to it."
Theories for decline
Some have suggested water being diverted from the lake has gobbled up enough volume to make a difference in lake levels. The bottled water industry along with municipal water supplies and industry up and down the lake on both sides of the border divert millions of gallons of water every day.
Experts doubt that theory.
The "biggest drivers" for changes in lake water levels are evaporation and precipitation along the surface of the lake and the feeder streams, according to Keith Kompoltowicz, the chief of watershed hydrology for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
"Those factors, by far, outnumber any of the other factors," Kompoltowicz said.
A few major climatic factors in 2011-12 contributed to the historic drop in water levels, including the third least snowiest winter on record in Buffalo.
There were 36.7 inches of snow for the winter season, which led to little snowmelt from the watershed to run off into the lake. The average seasonal snowfall: 94.7 inches.
Then, the abnormally dry, hot summer followed. There were also moderate drought conditions across the state of Ohio, which forms the largest part of Lake Erie's watershed.
In Buffalo, there was a total of 5.69 inches of rain from May through August 2012, nearly eight full inches below the normal of 13.61 inches.
"That, probably, in the scheme of this, is the biggest factor," said Kirk Apffel, National Weather Service meteorologist.
Lighter loads for freighters
Many will continue to grapple with the consequences of a shallower lake.
Shallower waters mean shippers are forced to lighten their loads of cargo for transport around the lakes so their vessels don't run aground. There's a lot more strategy involved in Great Lakes shipping nowadays – in both mathematics and geography.
"Water levels are critical to our industry," said Nekvasil, of the Lake Carriers Association. "Depending on the size of your ship, you lose 50 to 270 tons of cargo for every inch" of lost water depth.
On average, depending on where the cargo is traveling, freighters are moving 12 percent to 13 percent less in every load to compensate for the lower water levels across the Great Lakes, Nekvasil said.
"It has a horrible impact on our efficiency," Nekvasil said. "When we leave cargo behind, that's cargo that's not going to be delivered that year."
The one-two punch of reduced depths along with cutbacks in channel dredging is hitting the Great Lakes shipping industry hard.
"There has been an instance where lake vessels approached a harbor and they were not able to enter because there was not enough water in the harbor," Nekvasil said about a recent situation on neighboring Lake Huron. "We come into port with inches to spare."
Commercial shipping was closed in Dunkirk harbor seven years ago because the harbor got too shallow. Once a dropping point for a half-million tons of coal per year for use in electric generation, Dunkirk stopped receiving cargo by lake freighter in 2006, Nekvasil noted.
Although not hit as hard by sand and sediment deposit due to protection from the series of breakwaters in the outer harbor, the port of Buffalo is not immune to impaired navigation from shallow water.
Every year, roughly 70 to 100 lake freighters deliver cargos of limestone, grain, cement and sand to the Queen City, Nekvasil said.
Lately, those vessels are traveling well below capacity.
"We lighten the load going into Buffalo," Nekvasil said.
The Great Lakes' largest commercial shipper under a U.S. flag is headquartered here. The 106-year-old American Steamship Co. of Williamsville lists 18 vessels that range in capacity from 23,800 to 80,900 tons. It's unclear the last time its largest vessel shipped at top capacity. Officials from the company didn't return several calls from The Buffalo News for comment on this article.
While the impact of low lake levels has been difficult in a sluggish economy, it hasn't proved catastrophic to the shipping industry.
"If our customers were going full speed, we'd be hard-pressed to meet their needs," Nekvasil said.
Federal legislation is in the pipeline to help Great Lakes navigation.
In recent weeks, the U.S. Senate passed the Water Resources Development Act, which is designed in part to provide funding for dredging actions in Great Lakes ports.
It's something that's necessary, but long overdue, according to shippers.
Nearly $1.6 billion annually in government taxes on cargo goes into the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund, which is designed to provide money for items like dredging. Only about half of the money collected has been allocated toward harbor maintenance, Nekvasil said.
Environmental effects
The effect of the lower lakes is marginal from an environmental standpoint. As time marches on, the water levels go up and drop down.
"We're not looking at significant impacts," said Don Zelazny, the Great Lakes Program Coordinator for the state Department of Environmental Conservation. "The biggest problem with lake water levels is from a boating standpoint."
Those boaters, like Davenport, are affected along with the recreational harbors like Sturgeon Point and marinas with fixed docks that can't account for the sudden water loss.
"Recreational access," said Kompoltowicz. "The recreational boater may not be able to put his boat in." And if he can, whether at Grandview Bay or Hideaway, there are new navigational hazards.
In the meantime, folks along the shoreline have new stuff to look at.
"There were all kinds of things sticking out of the water," Zanett said, "that I've never seen before."
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I don't think this is anything new but I'll say it: Birds are rarely depicted accurately in movies.
I'm not even talking about the usual, "oh that eagle/vulture/every hawk sounds like a Red-tailed Hawk," I'm talking about watching a film set in Minnesota and hearing a Tawny Owl, watching something set in Africa or South American and hearing a Kookaburra or watching a bunch of cowboys around a fire in the desert and hearing the lonely wail of a Common Loon.
But sometimes a movie surprises us. I'm kind of late to the Hobbit movie party and I'm only politely attending at that. I like the sci fi/fantasy genre but the Hobbit has never tripped my trigger. I couldn't get into it as a book or cartoon as a kid. I think it's a combination of already having gone through Lord of the Rings and getting tired of books being male centric, but that's a different topic for a different day. But my sci fi loving husband insist I give it a go on Netflix so here I am typing a blog entry for 10,000 Birding wondering how on earth I'll survive two more movies of this epic snail.
However, one thing caught my attention.
Wizard Radagast is running through the woods and a bird comes up to him:
Hey-o, that's an American Robin flying up to our boy. Not only that–its sound effect as he chirped was total American Robin! Since these things are filmed in New Zealand, I would have guessed they'd use a New Zealand bird but hey, the fact that they used the state bird of Wisconsin and even dubbed it over with the actual call totally impressed me. My husband took me to task for not getting mad that it's not a New Zealand bird, but I said, "Hey, it's Middle Earth, anything goes species-wise there."
P.S. The Hobbit ruins the bird goodwill by having the Giant Eagles at the end scream like Red-tailed Hawks. Come on, Peter Jackson, Golden Eagles or Wedge-tailed Eagles don't sound that bad do they? Sigh.
How about you, what birds have been surprisingly accurate in movies?
In the movie "a 5 years engagement", I was positively surprised when I heard a wood thrush in one of the scenes played in the woods. Action takes place in Michigan, so the range is completely all right, and the bird song is unusual enough that I was pretty thankful of the effort to include that song in the movie.
Only issue, of course, is the action takes place during the deer hunting season, and that no wood thrush is supposed to be there at that time of the year, or even sing at all anyway.
I remember reading that go-away-birds recorded in Entebbe Botanical Gardens in Uganda ended up being used as a substitute for monkeys and chimps in cinema for years.
Embarrassed to even mention the name of the movie-Charlie's Angels–but pygmy nuthatch was a painful stretch.
@david: yes, yes! The hand-clapping Cameron Diaz exclaiming "ouuuh, pygmy nuthatch" while they showed some oriole (if memory serves me right, which it might not as I tried real hard to forget this movie) was one of the low points of this movie – which is saying something!
I have no movie reference to contribute, I'm just delighted that bird appearances or calls caught your attention enough to decide whether or not they were accurate AND that you would even remember the name of the movie!
Haha, we just saw the (abominable) Lone Ranger and they added crow sounds to beautiful shots of a raven in flight. Then again, one of the consolations of being a birder is that you've got something fun to do while sitting through a bad movie!
Its so terrible that its much more remarbable when they get anything right at all. I cringed at the crow call when the raven was flying in the (agreed not so great) Lone Ranger as well. One instance where it pretty much ruined an otherwise good movie for me was Blood Diamond. Its supposed to take place in Sierra Leone (probably filmed in South Africa I am guessing) but all the bird sounds are standard U.S. eastern forest birds. The calls of Black-throated green warblers are especially and continually apparent, it was completely distracting to me and lowered my enjoyment of the movie.
For a long time Savannah Sparrow and Mourning Warbler were part of the sound track of every outdoorsy TV commercial. I haven't heard either one for a couple of years now- not on TV anyway.
"The robin feathering his nest" in the "Just a Spoon Full of Sugar" song segment in Mary Poppins (from the early 60″s, with Julie Andrews) is an American robin too.
Birdchick, so glad you posted this, because it irritates me to no end when the sound doesn't match the image (cf: Colbert Report). About the Red-tailed Hawk specifically, my ex was (and presumably still is) a recording engineer, and he pointed out that's one of the standard Foley sounds that movie/TV sound folks go to. Here's a neat thread on the topic with way more examples: http://soundandthefoley.com/category/red-tailed-hawk/
Actually, there's one I wanted to ask Jochen about: do you Europeans get Song Sparrows? A few weeks back, we were watching a special screening of a movie about the sesquicentennial exhibits of artist Edvard Munch's work, and ever time they did a re-enactment of old-timey Norway, that Song Sparrow was chittering away. Would that bird really be up around the fjords and boreal forests?
@Meredith: A song sparrow in Norway would certainly cause a massive pan-European twitch, with listers from all over Europe flocking to Norway to add it to their WP list. There are records from Europe, but it is an incredibly rare vagrant.
I can't say much about the presence of song sparrows in German movies as I am not so familiar with North American bird songs anymore (it's been 6 years now that I last visited the US). However, I very often don't recognize the bird songs in movies that play in Europe, which essentially means they are not songs from European birds.
Hey, I just noticed that no one has mentioned the classic yet:
Macaws in Tarzan movies!
Get Low with Robert Duvall struck me as remarkably accurate. I think all of the bird sounds were appropriate.
@Jochen: Thanks for the confirmation. The movie I saw was made by Brits, not that that's any excuse since Song Sparrows don't really visit the UK either. 😉
@Meredith: maybe including a "yank" bird song was wishful thinking on the side of a British birder-gone-moviemaker! 🙂
Liked the movie "Failure to Launch" where Zooey Deschanel's character is being tortured by a late night singing Mockingbird. Then bonds with the guy who helps her deal with her problem. They end up becoming birding partners later. Nature of all types plays a supporting role in the film.
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Yasir Arafat (yäsēr´ är´äfät; –sər), 1929–2004, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the coordinating body for Palestinian organizations, and head of Al Fatah, the largest group in the PLO. He was born in Cairo, but spent most of his youth in Jerusalem. After smuggling arms to Arab forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Arafat entered Cairo Univ., where he became chairman of the Palestine Student Federation. He served in the Egyptian army during the Suez campaign (1956) and the following year moved to Kuwait, where he trained Palestinian commandos and edited Our Palestine magazine.
Arafat helped found Al Fatah in 1959 and in 1965 returned to Egypt to head Al Assifa, the military arm of Al Fatah. He went on to become leader of Al Fatah, and when the group gained control of the PLO (1969), Arafat was named the larger body's chairman. The PLO won wide support among Palestinians and third-world nations during the 1970s and 80s, although it was weakened by internal divisions. In 1983, after an Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the PLO was forced to move its headquarters to Tunisia.
In 1988 the PLO, under Arafat's leadership, in effect renounced terrorism and accepted Israel's right to coexist with an independent Palestine. A 1993 accord with Israel led to limited Palestinian self-rule in Jericho and the Gaza Strip in 1994, and Arafat became president of the Palestinian Authority. Arafat, Shimon Peres, and Yitzhak Rabin shared the 1994 Nobel peace prize for the 1993 accord. A 1995 agreement called for self-rule for all Arab cities and villages in the West Bank by 1996; Arafat was elected president of the Palestinian-controlled territory in 1996.
In 1999, Arafat and Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak signed an agreement to finalize their borders and determine the status of Jerusalem by 2000. The difficulty of resolving, however, those issues stalled negotiations and led (Sept., 2000) to renewed violence. In that fighting, Israel, which accused Arafat of responsibility for Palestinian attacks on Israeli civilians, at times endangered Arafat's personal safety and enhanced his support among Palestinians. Disillusionment with Arafat's leadership within the Palestinian parliament, however, led it in 2003 to establish the post of prime minister in a largely unsuccessful attempt to reduce his power in the months before his death. Although Arafat brought international attention and support to the Palestinian cause, he was ultimately unable to secure an independent state, and at his death left behind a PLO that was divided within and challenged from without by other Palestinian groups (especially Hamas). In 2013 foreign experts experts who examined his remains and effects disagreed over whether there were indications of deadly polonium poisoning, an issue that had been raised by his wife; French prosecutors ended an investigation in 2015 for a lack of evidence.


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- Australia in England 2012
Watson queries England batting depth
Australia have identified England's use of five specialist bowlers as a point of weakness to expose in the forthcoming ODI series, reasoning that the hosts' longer tail will place pressure on the middle order provided early wickets can be taken.
Shane Watson, the allrounder and vice-captain to Michael Clarke, pointed out that an England XI featuring Jimmy Anderson, Stuart Broad, Tim Bresnan, Steven Finn and Graeme Swann had tremendous depth in bowling but not so much in batting. This was particularly so as the top three of Alastair Cook, Ian Bell and Jonathan Trott had done the vast majority of the team's run-making in recent ODI matches against the West Indies and Pakistan.
Ravi Bopara, Eoin Morgan and Craig Kieswetter have had less to do in the wake of Cook's prolific efforts as ODI captain, while Bell's recent return has covered for the premature limited overs retirement of Kevin Pietersen. Watson said Australia's pace attack, likely to include the still slippery Brett Lee alongside the speedy 19-year-old Pat Cummins at Lord's on Friday, will be seeking to get them out into the middle early on.
"For England to be able to go in with four frontline quick bowlers is a very good thing for them against our batting line-up, but I suppose playing for out-and-out quick bowlers and one main spinner as well means if we're able to make inroads into their batting line-up early it means they might be one batsman short," Watson said. "That's something that we see as very important for us to have success here, to try to make early inroads.
"That's been one of England's strengths over the last period of time with their batting, being able to score heavily in the top three really, so we know if we're able to make inroads it might expose a part of the English team that hasn't really been exposed over the last little while as well. Hopefully that's something we're able to do, on the flipside of that we know England have got a very strong bowling line-up with no weaknesses there at all, so it's going to be a very good challenge."
In their 179-run pounding of Essex at Chelmsford on Tuesday, Australia opened with Watson and David Warner, leaving No. 7 in the highly capable hands of Matthew Wade. By contrast, England have promoted Tim Bresnan to accommodate the extra bowler, and Watson said that while he respected Bresnan's batting ability, he was happy to have someone of Wade's promise as his opposite batting number.
"I'll never sell Tim Bresnan short, I think he's an excellent cricketer, he's a very highly skilled bolwer and he got 70-odd against us in the semi-final of the Champions Trophy a few years ago as well, so I know he can bat," Watson said. "But there's no doubt it does put a bit more pressure on him batting at seven, and Matthew Wade has had some pretty good success in his short career anyway opening or batting at seven as well. That could be to our advantage."
Bresnan had earlier padded away the suggestion that he might be one place too high in England's batting order, saying he was comfortable with where he stood. He was more forthcoming about the circumstances in which he had been left out of the team for the washed out third ODI against the West Indies at Headingley, admitting that his training efforts had slackened in recent weeks.
"It's always difficult in training, you are a little bit lethargic but can always get up for game, but if you are not preparing as well as you can that's always to the detriment of the team which suffers," Bresnan said. "So I felt I was lethargic and saving myself in training for games and that's a bad habit."
"I wanted to play at Headingley, but I understand the other side of the coin which says there's a lot of cricket coming up. We're off the back of a lot of cricket, I've bowled a lot of overs and if Andy [Flower] and the medical staff think I looked tired and need a break I respect that decision. I would rather take one game out and rest than be forced to take an extended spell out because of injury.
"They have a lot of communication between themselves, Andy and Dave Saker and the medical team, and the walls have ears, so if you whisper to somebody that you are tired it's going to get back to the coach pretty quickly."
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Present: Bart Kawula (OCUL), Qinqin Lin (OCUL), Brian Gregg (Pitt), Jason Nugent (PKP), James MacGregor (PKP), Barbara Hui (CDL), Alec Smecher (PKP), Lisa Schiff (CDL)
Minutes: Alec (PKP)
Overall purpose of meeting: discuss our charge, structure and membership.
- Reintroductions
- Each of the PKP committees is now being chaired by a non-PKP member, appointed by the Advisory Committee. This is the first Tech Committee meeting with Barbara (CDL) as chair, which is why we are reintroducing ourselves to the group at this point.
- Review and discuss membership
- PKP team: Jason and Alec primarily; James also welcome.
- 1 each from development partners
- Several partners have two
- Not certain who will participate from UBC yet (awaiting news)
- Stanford doesn't need specific inclusion
- 3 volunteers from Members Committee
- Alec (PKP) will send Members Committee membership and terms of reference for consideration in crafting our own terms
- 3 at-large members from the community:
- Is "appointed" too strong a word? Suggest considering "invited"
- Alec (PKP) suggests discussing some potential members before the next meeting or at an interim meeting.
- Concern about numbers.
- Perhaps some will watch minutes; not all need be on calls?
- Will start with current proposals and see if it becomes cumbersome.
- Alec (PKP) will follow up with Brian (PKP) to see if he's aware of this discussion amongst other groups.
- Meeting frequency
- Will meet monthly.
- Tuesday mornings 9am good for current participants and should work for European time zones.
- Suggest 2nd or 3rd Tuesday of every month; Barbara (CDL) will follow up.
- Suggest keeping the calls as short as possible.
- Review our charge
- Charge #1: Guide priorities and methodologies
- Priorities and practices currently not clear to the group.
- Alec (PKP) will send out some priorities and practices examples to the group.
- James (PKP) will summarize what's available for the group in time for the next meeting.
- Charge #2: Undertake specific tech assignments on behalf of PKP. What is everybody doing in this regard?:
- Waiting for OJS 3.0a for the review. Rachael will be doing UI/UX then.
- Barbara helping to do some back-porting with review forms.
- Bart: Figured out code management in github; went on back-burner. Looking forward to results of UI/UX review; will help in implementation.
- Qinqin: Getting code from github repo & running it; next week will tinker at bugs that she received. Has questions. Next week.
- Pittsburgh: personnel changes; up in the air.
- Contributed icons to OMP last year
- Evaluating OMP; 1 dev instance. Vanessa active on forum.
- OJS installs. Took over another host; have currently close to 70 journals.
- Default notifications; last names only, single-name authorities.
- No contributions to official PKP codebase currently; modifications not yet ready for distribution.
- Charge #1: Guide priorities and methodologies
Thanks to Barbara for organizing and chairing.


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Massaponax High School is probably the worst school one could ever attend. The white people are petty, judgmental, stupid and shallow, and the redneck ones are pregnant by 15. The black people are ignorant and rude, and wish they were Compton, but unfortunately will never know more than the suburbs. The Hispanics don't even really know how to speak English. To be found attractive a girl either has to be a hillbilly wearing camouflage, a bitch wearing athletic wear every single day, or a be a stuck up skanky ass ho wearing a flimsy skirt up to their nipples, and you must match every other girl in your clique. If you're a guy, the only way to be attractive is to have the IQ of a rock or a grapefruit if you're frisky, and be captain of the 'screw over every girl I've ever known' team. Everyone is fake. If you tell a 'friend' you kissed a guy, you'll probably be asked within the next 2 class periods when the baby is due. The people at MHS love to smile to a person's face and talk crap behind their back the second they're out of earshot. Even the guys are two faced bitches. To be 'cool' you have to 'party'. Partying includes and is limited to 4 bowls of weed and 2 beers. The most important part of fitting into MHS: You must not have a trace of a personality. If you even have a slight sense of humor differing from for example whoever provided the alternate entry of this definition, you will be lambasted. The kids are too stupid to accept anything else.
New Student: Hi, I just moved here to Massaponax High School. Nice to meet you!
Me: I was new here once too. Run. Save yourself. It will be the death of your personality.
Me: I was new here once too. Run. Save yourself. It will be the death of your personality.
by Ihateeveryoneatmhs October 23, 2011
This is the largest high school in its district. There are a wide variety of cliques ranging from your typical emo kiddie, to goth, to demi-gangster, to real gangsters. Though it is hard to find the real "gangsters" and real "goths". The school is highly obsessed in school spirit due to the very good football team. The school has somewhere between 1500 and 2000 students and desperately needs to expand its building. Though it is the largest school the overrate this incredibly to much and just need to live with it.
"I attend Massaponax High School"
by David Melone November 15, 2005
The worst druggy high school in the county. All there is are trashy teachers and drug dealers. the lunch is shit and the bathrooms have spider webs.
"Massaponax high school is so ghetto!"
by faded420 November 16, 2018
A drug dealing, pill popping, baby factory. That is all.
Massaponax High School sucks.
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Kahlefeldt, Hammond Light it Up
Hot runs on a cold, wet day proved the difference at IRONMAN 70.3 Cairns.
by Daniel Hoy
In cold and wet conditions Brad Kahlefeldt produced a trademark run to go one better than last year to win Flight Centre Active Travel IRONMAN 70.3 Cairns. Meanwhile, New Zealand's Candice Hammond capped off a stellar season to date with her first IRONMAN 70.3 win in the women's race.
Men's Race
The men's race saw a group of five athletes including defending champion Courtney Atkinson, Kahlefeldt, Clayton Fettell, Joe Lampe and Sam Appleton exit the water within seconds of each other. In persistent rain the group of five were joined by Melbourne professional Tom Rodgers on the bike.
A puncture at the 48 km mark ruined any chance Atkinson had of defending his title. That left Kahlefeldt, Fettell, Tim Reed, Sam Appleton, Sam Betten and Rodgers to fight it out on the run.
Kahlefeldt quickly stamped his authority on the race and finished with a 1:12:28 run leg to take the win, Reed ran strongly to take second, with Clayton Fettell rounding out the podium.
"I had some outstanding competition out there today and they really put it to me. This is a fast race and the boys swam and rode hard and I am very happy to come away with the win," says Kahlefeldt. "I just had to put my head down and go. It was non-stop adrenaline the whole way. It's a very testing course here in Cairns and I knew that from last year. My bike has improved a lot and all credit to my training partners. I am absolutely rapt with the win today. I knew I was in good shape on the bike. I have improved a lot in the last six months and today I knew I had to stick with it."
Women's Race
Hammond is enjoying her best year as a fledgling professional, adding the win here to her third place at March's IRONMAN New Zealand.
"It was definitely unexpected to get this win today," she said after taking advantage when IRONMAN Asia-Pacific champion Caroline Steffen punctured while leading with a comfortable margin. "I am really happy to get this result. Cairns is a great place. The temperature wasn't too bad. Despite the rain, it was actually quite good race conditions."
Steffen built a commanding lead late in the bike leg only to succumb to a puncture and pull out of the race.
From there it was Kiwi Hammond who took the win after an excellent run, getting home over four minutes ahead of Japan's Kiyomi Niwata with another New Zealander, Anna Russell, in third.
- Candice Hammond (NZL) 4:24:02
- Kiyomi NIWATA (JPN) 4:28:47
- Anna RUSSELL (NZL) 4:31:51
- Lisa MARANGON (AUS) 4:32:36
- Tineke STEWART (AUS) 4:34:59
- Brad KAHLEFELDT(AUS) 3:50:53
- Tim REED (AUS) 3:51:21
- Clayton FETTELL (AUS) 3:53:17
- Sam APPLETON (AUS) 3:54:33
- Sam BETTEN (AUS) 3:56:45
Check out more of the days action - ready the Cairns Airport IRONMAN Cairns recap.


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Flexibility means you're happier and more productive at work, which is why Shell believes that flexible working is in everyone's best interest. We encourage flexibility in how, where and when you work. This means you can balance the activities that matter to you while meeting your job commitments.
Shell understands your need for a flexible workplace.
The modern workplace is dynamic and technology has changed how and where we can work. This means you can respond to family and personal circumstances by, for instance, working part time, working from home or other options, such as job sharing (in which two or more part time employees share one full time position) or flexible start and finish times are also available. We offer flexibility of where you work, balanced with deliverables required for the role and Shell's duty of care, as well as maintaining the relationship between you and your team.
Work flexibility is deeply embedded into our culture; leaders are encouraged to talk to employees about the flexible working practices that are available. In providing a better working environment, some of our offices are equipped with a mother's room and childcare centre; supporting our aim to make Shell a great place to work.
Various leave options available to you
We offer market aligned levels of annual leave entitlements. We also accommodate career breaks and sabbaticals wherever feasible. In addition, employees are encouraged to step outside of purely work boundaries to participate in other areas of interest such as social responsibility projects, employee interest groups or campus recruitment, which offers the chance to meet with university students.
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When you are accessing SharePoint site anonymously, you can easily click on the Login link and based on your authentication type either you are prompted for credentials or will be redirected to the login page(if FBA authentication).
Let's say I have hardcoded the credentials in my code and want to do the same programmatically.
If I want to start from the beginning:
One of the SharePoint weakness is that you cant act for anonymous users, for instance you cant change or remove the permissions of a ListItem.
So I concluded that we have to use a user with as limited access as possible like Guest and when anonymous users in some specific page which has my Webpart in it, I hardcode credentials to login and redirect them to a page.
I know about impersonation and other stuff like it which is use in code behind world and it's not what i meant.
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Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants Share Subspecialization Trends Seen in Physicians
Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013
Leslie Champlin
Senior Public Relations Strategist
American Academy of Family Physicians
(800) 274-2237 Ext. 6252
LEAWOOD, Kan. — Health care policies that rely on non-physician health professionals to expand access to primary care probably won't solve the problem because nurse practitioners and physician assistants — like many of their physician counterparts — increasingly choose subspecialty practices, according to research by the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care.
The study, summarized in "Relying on NPs and PAs Does Not Avoid the Need for Policy Solutions for Primary Care," was published today in American Family Physician.
Graham Center researcher Stephen Petterson and his colleagues reviewed the National Provider Identifier that lists nurse practitioner and physician assistant clinic locations and the physicians working in those locations. Nurse practitioners and physician assistants who practiced without a physician were assumed to be providing primary care. Their results showed that fewer than half of physician assistants and slightly more than half of nurse practitioners were practicing in primary care.
"We know family physicians are all primary care physicians. We currently lack comprehensive national nurse practitioner workforce data and, until recently, we've had limited access to physician assistant workforce data," said Andrew Bazemore, MD, MPH, director of the Robert Graham Center. "However, using National Provider Identifiers and estimates that are based on whether nurse practitioners and physician assistants work in the same location as physicians, we are finding that the trends towards subspecialization we see among physicians are also occurring in the nurse practitioner and physician assistant communities. This finding corroborates recent federal studies of nurse practitioners and those of physician assistant organizations."
The findings might be seen as contradictory to a report from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing referenced in a July 2013 New England Journal of Medicine Perspectives piece, he added. That article suggested more than 80 percent of nurse practitioner graduates were entering primary care.
"That study differs from ours, however, in that it captured primary care degrees at graduation, not actual practice in a primary care setting," said Bazemore. "Many nurse practitioners graduate with family, adult or pediatric degrees but then go on to work in subspecialty offices, similar to the preponderance of physicians entering residency in internal medicine or pediatrics at the end of medical school who go on to further training and practice in subspecialties."
In fact, data from the 2010 report of the National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses showed 62 percent of nurse practitioners worked in subspecialty settings and 36 percent worked in primary care settings.
Physician assistants and nurse practitioners wishing to enter primary care may be facing the same pressures as medical students — including rising debt loads and sizable gaps in potential lifelong earnings — if they choose primary care over specialty practice. Graham Center and Macy Foundation research found similar pressures for physicians in a 2009 report. To better understand these trends, the Physician Assistant Education Association recently provided a grant to the Robert Graham Center to perform a similar study on the impact of student debt and other factors on physician assistants' career choices. The average total student debt for physician assistants was approximately $100,000 in 2008, according to the PAEA.
A four-year nursing degree can range between $25,000 for an in-state and/or public school to upwards of $100,000 for an out-of-state and/or a private school. Online nurse practitioner programs cost an average of $35,000.
"Some factors that influence physicians to choose subspecialty careers may have similar effects on NPs and PAs, including student debt and income gap disparities," the researchers wrote.
This study demonstrates the need for comprehensive primary care workforce policies that build the primary care physician workforce as well as the ranks of nurse practitioners and physician assistants, according to Bazemore.
"The future of primary care will depend on teams of providers from various disciplines and educational policies that foster those teams," he said. "Given what we know of primary care impact on costs, patient health and population health, we risk falling well short of our nation's health care workforce goals if efforts to increase the production of physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants aren't paired with efforts to further encourage trainees in each discipline toward careers in primary care."
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Family physicians conduct approximately one in five of the total medical office visits in the United States per year – more than any other specialty. Family physicians provide comprehensive, evidence-based, and cost-effective care dedicated to improving the health of patients, families and communities. Family medicine's cornerstone is an ongoing and personal patient-physician relationship where the family physician serves as the hub of each patient's integrated care team. More Americans depend on family physicians than on any other medical specialty.
To learn more about the AAFP and family medicine, visit www.aafp.org/media. Follow us on Twitter,(twitter.com) and like us on Facebook. For information about health care, health conditions and wellness, visit the AAFP's award-winning consumer website, www.familydoctor.org(familydoctor.org).
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Real Estate School
Interested in becoming a Realtor? Sign up for Dickerson & Nieman's Pre-licence Program.The September class is full, but please feel free to contact the instructor to be added to the waiting list.
Questions? Please contact the Instructor, Jane Eurek, at 815-544-8217 or firstname.lastname@example.com
Basic Broker's Pre-license Program (90hrs).
This is the class you need to qualify to take Illinois Real Estate Broker's license examination.
After you pass the state Exam, you may apply for an Illinois Broker License.
The 90 hour Pre-License Program is composed of two parts:
- 75 hour Basic Broker Principles Course
- 15 hour Broker Interactive Practice Course.
This course is set up to take the 75 hours as a home Self-Study and the 15 hours as classroom workshops.
Complete Broker Pre-License Program (Text Book Included)
Credit Hours: 90
Tuition: $500
Program Schedule:
5 Workshop Course-Meeting on Wednesday nights 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Please plan to arrive 15 minutes early for the first session.
Mandatory Meeting Dates: 9/11, 9/18, 9/25, 10/2, 10/9, 10/16
Final exam on 10/23
Must attend all sessions to qualify for state of Illinois licensing requirements.
Limited to 24 students max.
Program Location: Dickerson & Nieman Realtors, 6277 E. Riverside Blvd., Rockford, IL 61114
For More Information or to Sign up, Stop in Office or Contact Instructor: Jane Eurek 815-544-8217 or firstname.lastname@example.com
Illinois Real Estate License Requirements
To qualify for a license you must:
- Be at least 21 years old
- Have graduated from a United States high school or obtained a GED
- Complete the required course work
- Must attend each class to earn all credit hours
- Be of good moral character with no felony convictions and no delinquent payments for child support, state income taxes or student loans
- Pass the written State License Exam
"I joined the Dickerson & Nieman family in 2005. I knew several agents, so making the decision wasn't difficult. One of the many reasons for choosing this company was the fact that the training and learning didn't stop when I passed the Realtor exams. D&N gives its agents support through a very experienced management team. They provide a training/mentorship program that not only helps you transition into the industry but provides ample opportunity to grow your new business.
From the first day, I felt like I was part of a large family. The President of the company makes the rounds in the office. He asks questions and provides industry wisdom. His open door policy and willingness to help is the reason this company is Number 1!
"I am so happy to be at Dickerson & Nieman Realtors for many reasons. First, as far as my business, I always have a confidence when dealing with a customer that we have the most to offer them as our client. Next, regarding the inner workings of the company itself...I am very glad to be with a company whose agents value each other; staff who always help us (even in a pinch) with grace and a smile; managers who offer their expertise and guidance with positivity; and last but not least...ownership who is always supportive, engaged, and something that many times gets overlooked today...genuine. I am proud to be able to say I work for Dickerson & Nieman Realtors."
~Christi Steines, Broker
"I have been a licensed Realtor for over 30 years and have worked for four different companies during that time. I have found my experience at Dickerson & Nieman to be the most rewarding both career wise and financially. The support the agents receive from top down is great. The ownership is always willing to go the extra mile to help the agents succeed. The company offers constant training to better prepare their agents to perform their duties in a professional and knowledgeable manner. The atmosphere I have experienced is one of a caring family of agents that are always willing to lend a hand. I plan to finish my career with Dickerson & Nieman and enjoy every day. I would highly recommend this company to any agent who is looking for the best real estate firm of all."
~Mike Long, Broker
|So, you want to be a real estate agent? Successful agents have certain traits in common.....skills that make them better at what they do. Some can be taught...some come naturally. How do YOU stack up?
- Are You flexible? Can you adapt to changes quickly? You'll need to in this industry. Working with buyers and sellers...anything can happen. You need to be able to handle a variety of changes on a day-to-day basis. Real estate sales do not always go smoothly and practitioners must routinely deal with set-backs and disappointments, as well as success.
- Are you comfortable with English language comprehension and proficiency? Real estate practioners play a fundamental role in ensuring that documents are correctly prepared and properly reflect the wishes of the parties. You'll need to be comfortable with and be able to understand, draft and explain real estate agreements, listings and other forms common to the profession.
- How are your Math Skills? Basic math fundamental skills are required. Multiplication, division, fractions, and factors are used when measuring structures and land, as well as appraising property and arranging mortgage financing.
- Are you Organized? Do you have the ability to organize your personal affairs as well as conduct business activity in a logical and efficient manner? These qualities are needed in obtaining listings, showing properties, handling offers and conducting negotiations.
- Are you comfortable with research? Do you know how to locate, read and understand legal documents? Are you familiar with basic document structures? You will need this skill when researching materials concerning property ownership.
- Do you have good problem solving skills? An ability to address difficulties and arrive at plausible, practical solutions given conflicting interest of parties involved. This attribute is especially useful in listing and selling activies. Often the success or failure of a real estate transaction will hinge on this skill.
- Are you comfortable with new technologies? An understanding of computer hardware and software is necessary. Computers are commonplace in internal brokerage operations, property searches and marketing. Your long-term success is directly tied to technological competencies.
- Negotiating ability - is an important factor in any real estate transaction. Sales people are routinely called upon to negotiate on behalf of the buyer and/or seller to arrive at mutually agreeable terms.
- Interview Techniques - a basic understanding of questioning methods. Real estate success often depends on asking the right question at the right time. This skill is most valued in situations involving buyers and the determination of their purchasing needs. It is becoming more important in dealing with sellers who may be on the brink of foreclosure or might only be able to sell with lender participation - a short sale.
- Rapport -is the hallmark of the successful sales person. Individuals must establish a trust level with buyers, sellers and other real estate agents. Rapport involves respect, good communication and listening skills.
A lot of these skills can be taught to a new licensee - the math required, researching, technology and interviewing and negotiating skills and techniques. What cannot be taught are the ethics and morals involved. Real estate agents are held to a higher degree of honesty in the handling of their business.....do it right, or don't do it. We swear to hold up the high standards of the Realtors Code of Ethics in dealing with the public and each other.
Real Estate is a People Business, involving one of the biggest, the most emotional and the most expensive decisions buyers and sellers will make. Liking people, wanting to help people, having patience and energy are good stepping stones for a successful real estate career.
Real Estate agents need to be available when their clients need them....at night, on weekends and/or holidays. The mind set here is: Entrepreneur, not employee or sales person. Learn the product (know the market). Take time to become familiar with concerns potential buyers might have: crime statistics, school information, health care, neighborhood amenities.
Real Estate offices are different. Some are franchises, some are multi-offices, and they go from 1 agent to hundreds. The best advice for choosing an office? Go where you can get the best training. Commission splits and advertising should not be WHAT you make your decision on. If you have the right training, everything else should fall into place for you. Interview agents at Open Houses and talk to the Broker for the office. But make your decision on WHERE YOU GET THE TRAINING!!!


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Zona Dalt Vila
07800 Ibiza (Balearic Islands)
Tel.:+34 971301900
- Autonomous region: Balearic Islands
- Province/Island: Ibiza
World Heritage, a certification granted by UNESCO.
The walled town.
The walls mark the perimeter of the oldest part of the town.
The old walls of the town, built in the 16th century to protect it from the attacks of the Turks, took forty years to build. The walled enclosure is in the shape of a heptagon and a defensive bastion juts out at each angle. Diverse accesses to the enclosure exist, with the Portal de Ses Taules being the most important. Other important gateways are the Portal Nou, the Portella de Sella and the Portal de Soto es Fosc. The walls enclose an important historic legacy in its interior which has been declared a World Heritage Site.
- Construction: Walls
- Artistic period: Renaissance
- Historic period: 16th century


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|Winnebago County Sheriff's PoliceNews Media Release
|News Release Number2008 - 040
|Information: Lifting of "NO WAKE" On The Rock River In Winnebago County
|Date: 08/01/08
|Time: 1:00 PM
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NARRATIVE:Winnebago County Sheriff Richard Meyers has lifted the "NO WAKE" restriction on the Rock River in Winnebago County. The Sheriff's Department has replaced the missing marker buoys and inspected the river conditions earlier today, and we feel the conditions that resulted in the restrictions are no longer such a significant hazard. Over the past several days, the Sheriff's Department has been working with the Winnebago County Highway Department to remove the large number of trees and other debris that is in the river, caught on bridges and other obstructions, from the recent floods. Additionally, users of the river should avoid the area south of the State Street Bridge as the safety cable at the Fordam Dam is missing due to damage from the recent flooding. Although the river is open with no restrictions, the Sheriff's Department urges recreational users of the river to please exercise caution and use good judgment. The debris in the water and along the shores may work free as boat traffic increases with the lifting of the no wake order. The presence of this debris in the river creates hazardous conditions, which are difficult to detect. Skill and experience levels are more the concern now than the water conditions as far as safety considerations. For current river conditions, and any further updates, contact the Sheriff's Office at (815) 319-6300, or the Rock River information telephone line at (815) 316-8888.