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As we expand our services into a growing number of industries, we see commonalities in several areas. In addition to a desire for better data security, a more productive workforce, and processes and systems that free up IT time and resources, companies on the leading edge are paying close attention to how technology impacts company culture.
Regardless of whether you employ an older workforce, a younger one or a diverse mix of individuals, end-user technology can have a significant impact on employee engagement, loyalty and overall job satisfaction. Because VMware's Workspace ONE allows companies to manage multiple devices and operating systems in one seamless ecosystem, it's helping create a positive impact on company culture for many of our clients by enhancing the employee experience.
The following blog post from our partners at VMware does a great job of explaining this trend in more detail. Or, contact us for customer success stories that you can identify with when considering unified endpoint management for your business.
Impact of End User Technology on Employee Experience
Feb 28, 2019 | Shawn Bass, VMware Blog
When it comes to business these days, it's not just the customer who's always right—it's the employee, too. Prospective employees today are more selective than ever when it comes to deciding where they want to work, which means companies need to roll out the red carpet in order to attract and retain the top talent. That all starts with improving the employee experience, which is the intersection of employee expectations, needs and wants.
Prioritizing employee experience is crucial for any company looking for long-term viability and success. Author Jacob Morgan writes in his book The Employee Experience Advantage that organizations focused on employee experience have more than four times the average profits and two times the average revenue of companies that don't. Moreover, companies that prioritize the employee experience are included 11.5 times more often on Glassdoor's Best Places to Work and 28 times more often among Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies.
End User Technology for Employee Experience
So, what's an easy-win for a company looking to bolster their employee experience? End user technology. Morgan's research found that 30% of an employee's experience stems from their organization's use of technology. The Digital Workspace provides path forward for the future of work. It allows employees to access and manage all their digital assets and devices, both personal and professional to achieve productivity, mobility and flexibility. Without a Digital Workspace to securely deliver the devices and tools needed, it's very difficult for employees within a company to collaborate with one another or their systems of records. So, it should come as no surprise that companies who give employees anytime, anywhere access to the apps that they desire are nearly three times as likely to be rated leaders in digital transformation—and yet, only 24% of employees surveyed say their IT department does so.
Millennials in particular have high expectations for smart workplace technologies that increase efficiency, and catering to these expectations will be pivotal for many companies moving forward. By 2020, millennials are set to make up half of the workforce, expanding to a whopping 75% by 2025. Ninety-three percent of millennial workers report that a company having up-to-date technology is one of the most important factors when choosing where to work, with 42% stating they would leave a company that uses technology they find substandard. However, in the short-term, increasingly these expectations are permeating the workforce as employees of all demographics demand the flexibility to work from anywhere, on their own terms.
Evolving Requirements of our Current and Future Workforce
The question companies should be asking is can we meet the needs of the next generation of workers? How do we empower our staff to be productive regardless of location or device? The lifecycle of how people consume technology is fundamentally broken because of the legacy ways devices are provisioned for end users coupled with massive device proliferation. Today, a worker has 2.5-2.6 devices on average—this is set to increase to between five or six devices in the next year or two. Employees will expect the seamless use, management and integration of all of these devices, yet most IT departments simply aren't equipped to bear this weight.
As we look at the evolving requirements of our current and future workforce, the existing approach doesn't stand up to scrutiny. Top-down IT no longer makes the cut. The new model must deliver on the promise to put employees first. So how do we get there?
Improving the End User's Experience
Improving the end user's experience starts on Day One. When new employees onboard at VMware, IT isn't standing in the way. We want our employees to be productive from the get-go, and we do this through our own implementation of Workspace ONE. Our EUC team member Andrew Morgan explained that "In only a few clicks, my phone, personal iPad and work laptop were registered and enabled with Single Sign-On (SSO) to company email, data, Office 365, apps and intranet." The is the first step. When you let employees work in the ways they want and need to be successful, the technology you provide needs to be device-agnostic. Deployment needs to be quick and easy for a user that onboards in the physical office or logs in from their home across the world. Secondly, password management should not fall on the shoulders of your employees. A successful experience is one that allows every employee to go into their workstation and securely and seamlessly access to all of their applications. When employees only have to remember one password for all devices and applications, it saves time and headaches. Transforming your Digital Workspace for employee expectations around Day One onboarding and productivity, device deployment, and password management is a fundamental shift in how we manage IT's involvement in the workplace. The outcome is higher employee satisfaction and retention from Day One.
And lest you think this is something you can push to the wayside, consider the cost associated with losing and then replacing unhappy employees by not providing them with the technologies and experiences they desire. A 2017 employee retention report conducted by Work Institute found that companies spend as much as 33% of an employee's annual salary just to replace staff. This impacts a company's bottom line. On the other hand, investing in the employee experience creates happy, satisfied and engaged employees, and improves a company's bottom line.
Original source: https://blogs.vmware.com/euc/2019/02/employee-experience.html


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Every year I start a course on Modern History with a unit on the French Revolution. From August until October I meet my class, usually about ten students, three or four times a week and we study this earth shattering event. In early October we finish our unit by taking the train to Paris for a four day study trip. It is one of my rituals of the academic year, Paris in the autumn. We stay at my regular, small hotel, in the centre of the Latin Quarter. Each student takes a site strongly linked to the revolution and prepares a 15 minute presentation. We plot a route ahead of time and during the next three days we walk the length and breadth of Paris, and the students give their presentations, creating a self-guided walking tour to Revolutionary Paris. Of course we stop at many cafes en route.
The revolution proper was preceded by the Tennis Court Oath in June 1789, a revolutionary act in itself, when the representatives of the Third Estate, or commoners, declared that they no longer represented just their Estate, but all people of France. The moment was immortalized by David's famous painting The Tennis Court Oath – I usually get permission from the museum to have a student give a presentation on this event while standing next to the actual painting.
Most people associate the revolution with the fall of the Bastille. A student gives a presentation on the Place de la Bastille, noisy and heavily trafficked today; then we walk to a nearby museum to view these souvenirs hewn from the Bastille itself. The next photo shows a model of what the Bastille looked like. But it is a model with a difference, being made from a block of stone from the Bastille itself. Such models became bestselling souvenirs in the late 18th century, a must have for any truly ardent revolutionary.
This is followed by a presentation on The Rights of Man and Citizen, which was declared by the revolutionaries in August 1789. This photo shows a student giving a presentation on the influence of the declaration as she stands next to the original.
Outside the huge Pantheon, where the heros of the revolution are buried, a student gives a presentation on the architectural symbolism of the revolution.
Then we go inside the building and visit the crypt, where some of the heros of the revolution are buried. A student gives a presentation on the Enlightenment as we stand between the remains of Voltaire and Rousseau.
Some years ago I discovered the house where the radical leader Robespierre lived throughout most of the revolution. It was in this house that he was arrested, to be beheaded the following day, a stone's throw from the house. Despite being the most powerful man in France during the years 1793-'94, Robespierre maintained a simple way of life and he lived in a rented room in a carpenter's house. We stand in the courtyard of the house while a student gives an analysis of the importance of Robespierre's role in the revolution. This student is sitting on a staircase that leads from the courtyard directly to Robespierre's room.

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"Do you have any needles, sharp objects, or weapons in your purse?" The DEA agent's accusing tone and the grip of the handcuffs too tight around my wrists are still fresh ten years later. I'd never been in trouble with the law besides an occasional speeding ticket. I had a great childhood and knew I was loved. I grew up on a farm in Ohio. I showed steers in 4-H, sold Girl Scout cookies and competed in gymnastics with my best friend Stephanie, and twirled in tutus at the local dance studio where I also taught class. After college I moved to Chicago to begin a career as a modern dancer, where eventually I'd make a decision that would forever change my life.
In 2003, when the DEA knocked on the door of the real estate office where I was a manager and arrested me for trafficking marijuana, I knew I was guilty. In the beginning the trafficking had seemed innocent—not a big deal. I knew a lot of people who smoked marijuana—many, professionals who lived good, ethical lives. The truth was, though, it was never about the drugs: the money was the addiction. One year turned into two, until I was surprised when eight years passed. Frivolous spending turned into "purposeful spending" when I began to use the money for my spiritual search. By then, the trafficking simply felt like a job. It's just like any old business officer. When I was arrested I wished anything I could turn back time. He couldn't see inside, inside where I was frantically praying. I wanted to do my life over. I wanted to take it back and make a new "Jenny-plan".
When my attorney told me I was facing ten years my head dropped to my chest, stunned. I couldn't. I wouldn't survive. The Federal Sentencing Guidelines book on his desk disclosed the minimum mandatory guidelines that determined my sentence. "The judge's hands are tied by the guidelines," he said.
I'd disappointed my family. I'd disappointed myself. A bigger crime, though, was that the trafficking had kept me stuck in a pattern for 10-years that had created walls inside of my heart—a truth I couldn't see until after I was arrested. My situation was ironic: I was facing incarceration when "inner freedom" had been such a big part of my vocabulary for years. I can still feel the rough edges of peeling paint hugging my back as I sit against the white barn of my childhood and stare up at the sky. The world's so big. Even at nine-years-old I knew there was more to the world than what I could see.
The two and a half years I waited to be sentenced moved slowly. Time distorted. I couldn't move forward, or back. The flame of my life flickered and threatened to snuff out. I was frightened by what I didn't know. The fear consumed me: a beast I couldn't remove that twined inside and wrapped around my heart.
The fourteen months I spent at Federal Prison Camp Alderson opened my eyes to a new and frightening world. Located in the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains in West Virginia the compound was almost beautiful—chipmunks ate jolly ranchers out of our hands as swallows hopped on picnic tables. The large trees reminded me of the trees of my childhood. Yet, you leave everything and everyone you love outside the prison gates.
The women I met in lock-up—addicts, soccer moms, artists, high-level executives and low level workers—became my new family. They seemed as normal as I. Most had been locked up for non-violent crimes like mine. Most of them, unlike me, were mothers who'd left children on the outside. I watched families being torn apart as they tried to communicate from prison over 15-minute phone calls and weekend visits (if the woman wasn't placed in a prison too far away, which often happened). At the end of my visits, I'd cover my ears when the children cried as they reached for the mother they had to leave, over and over again.
When I was released, I made a vow to give back from my experience—an experience I refused to forget. I wanted to become a voice for the women I left behind, the women locked up. The "lost girls" I called them.
That's why I founded LA Myers Consulting, a prison consulting business that prepares men and women, and their families, for the experience of federal prison. That's why I'm working to develop My Bag is Your Bag, a vocational program for former inmates. And that's why I wrote Trafficking the Good Life, to be released by Bettie Youngs Books in October.
I think about the choices I made in my life. I think about the over 200,000 women locked up in the United States every year. I think about the people I know who are still incarcerated. I can't reverse my life, but I can make a difference. Maybe it's my "pay back". Maybe it's my karma. What I do know is it's my purpose. "I feel as if these past two weeks have flown and now I am down to days. I also know you are the only person I have to talk to who truly understands," writes one client a few days before her sentencing.
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J Cancer 2016; 7(9):1044-1048. doi:10.7150/jca.14815
Research Paper
Genomic Profiling of Metastatic Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor (GEP-NET) Patients in the Personalized-Medicine Era
Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
Kim ST, Lee SJ, Park SH, Park JO, Lim HY, Kang WK, Lee J, Park YS. Genomic Profiling of Metastatic Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor (GEP-NET) Patients in the Personalized-Medicine Era. J Cancer 2016; 7(9):1044-1048. doi:10.7150/jca.14815. Available from http://www.jcancer.org/v07p1044.htm
Background: We have conducted molecular profiling through a high-throughput molecular test as part of our clinical practice for patients with advanced gastrointestinal (GI) cancer or rare cancers including gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GEP-NETs). Herein, we report on the molecular characterization of 14 metastatic GEP-NET patients.
Methods: We conducted the Ion AmpliSeq Cancer Hotspot Panel v2 (detecting 2,855 oncogenic mutations in 50 commonly mutated genes) and nCounter Copy Number Variation Assay, which was designed with 21 genes based on available targeted agents, as a high throughput genomic platform in 14 patients with metastatic GEP-NETs.
Results: Among the 14 GEP-NET patients analyzed in this study, 8 patients had grade III neuroendocrine carcinoma (NEC) and 6 had grade I/II NET. Primary sites included pancreas (n=3), small intestine and ascending colon (n=3), distal colon and rectum (n=5), and unknown primary origin (n=3). The most common metastatic site was the liver. Of 14 GEP-NET patients available for mutational profiling, 7 (50.0%) patients had one or more aberrations detected. Common aberrations were as follows: SMARCB1 mutation (n=2), TP53 mutation (n=2), STK11 mutation (n=1), RET mutation (n=1), and BRAF mutation (n=1). Gene amplification by nCounter was detected in only 1 patient, showing CCNE1 amplification, and this patient also had a TP53 mutation.
Conclusions: This high throughput genomic test may be useful to identify new drug targets in metastatic GEP-NET patients. Currently, we plan to conduct further genomic analysis to develop predictive and prognostic biomarkers in a larger number of GEP-NET patients.
Keywords: molecular profiling, Gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumor (GEP-NET)


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2017 Art Of Building Photography Awards Shortlist
Art of Building is a photographic competition open to everyone, highlighting the work of architectural photographers. The winners are chosen by a jury of professionals and enthusiasts. Different urban environments, both rich in history and hyper-modern, approaching the architecture from a new perspective. Here, the selection of finalists.
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She had so much fun today...lots of presents, people, and her first time getting to eat cake. I haven't seen her since Christmas and boy has she grown. She says "hi" to every person she sees and calls every toy "oggie" which is supposed to be doggie. So close to walking all by herself but in the meantime booked it across the playground while I was helping her stay upright. I bought Roxy her Mom's favorite childhood movie The Little Mermaid dvd. At least if Amanda is going to have to watch it a thousand times it is something she once tortured me with...hee, hee
Saturday, April 7, 2007
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I first started writing letters when I was 7 years old. I had just moved to NJ from Canada and I wanted to keep in touch with my cousin, so we wrote a couple of letters back and forth. Our correspondence was fairly short-lived and we fell out of touch until a couple of years ago when I found her on Facebook.
Christina and I started writing notes and letters to each other a few years after we became friends. It didn't make much sense, really, considering we lived across the street from each other and hung out every single day, but it prepared us for when she moved 45 minutes away and we couldn't see each other as much. Notes turned into multi-page letters which turned into "notebook letters," which were just blank composition-style notebooks that we decorated with stickers and filled with anecdotes about our days and what was new in our lives (much like a diary). The notebook was given to the other person when it was full.
When I was in elementary school, during the Gulf War, my class participated in a pen pal program with the troops over in Kuwait. I was paired up with a woman named Claudia Pagan, and we became fast friends. We wrote each other often and even exchanged photos. Our letters became less and less frequent until we were only hearing from each other maybe once per year. I think I last heard from her sometime when I was in high school, and despite my best Googling efforts, I can't seem to find her anywhere.
I used to read Seventeen and YM magazine religiously, and one of my favorite parts of both was the advertisements in the back. There always used to be at least one for pen pals – you would send in $5.00 or whatever it was for one pen pal, $7.00 for two, etc. Does anyone remember those? I'm guessing they don't offer those programs anymore since hardly anyone actually writes letters these days. Anyway, I signed up for pen pals fairly frequently, which when I think about it now, was kind of creepy. I sent my information out there to some random company, who then sent it on to some strange girl (hopefully) who was also looking for someone to talk to through letters. Crazy. I know I had a lot of pals, but one that stands out to me was a girl named Katie Beers from Las Vegas – her name and location just seemed so exciting to me that I remember them to this day.
As the internet has gotten increasingly popular, I've naturally gravitated towards message boards and blogs and whatnot. When I was planning my wedding, I joined a message board aimed towards Disney brides. I met a lot of great and helpful women on there, and a bunch of us started a private board just to chat about other things unrelated to weddings and Disney. We became friends. A smaller subset of us eventually branched out and formed our own private board, which is active to this day. There aren't many of us – 9 actually – but we've been friends for several years and I've met all but two of them in person. We've been to each others bridal showers, baby showers. We've had sleepovers, dinner dates, and movie nights. We talk every single day, and although we don't receive physical letters in the mail (although we do send each other Christmas cards and just-for-fun cards sometimes), we would most definitely be considered modern-day pen pals. But we are so much more than that; these women are my friends – we trust each other with the most intimate details of our lives, we support each other during the difficult times, and are there to cheer each other on when we succeed.


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EVENT DATE: Jul 18, 2015
Please join me in supporting this unique and worthwhile campaign: MEALS4MANDELA.
This initiative supports the orphans and most vulnerable children of South Africa. It enables each child by way of healthy nourishment to not only survive, but to truly thrive and lead the meaningful, happy lives all children deserve. It is all in honor of International Nelson Mandela Day - July 18th - celebrating Mandela's legacy of justice, resilience, love for mankind and above all - hope.
In 2006, I had the unforgettable opportunity of volunteering with Ikamva Labantu, the NGO working in South Africa's most impoverished townships for over 50 years - that supports over 2,000 orphans and vulnerable children with all the care and support they need to flourish. Ikamva was founded by an extraordinary woman named Helen Lieberman, a dear friend of mine and human rights hero. As a young woman in 1960s South Africa, she risked her life and safety to begin working in the township communities on her own. Her work has blossomed into one of the largest and longest standing nonprofit organizations in South Africa today.
I experienced first-hand the burgeoning self-reliance developing in the townships of Cape Town. All generations were looked after by one another, creating close-knit communities of caring and productivity. I was truly inspired and I know you would all be too.
So please, I hope you will join me by supporting this vital campaign however you can -- $1 will provide a nutritious meal to a beautiful child. Can you think of a better use of your resources?? (All donations are 100% tax deductible!) We want to provide 10,222 meals by Mandela Day - one for every day Mandela spent behind bars.
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YOUNGSTERS are enjoying a new play area thanks to a home improvement scheme.
The park on the Pipebridge estate, Highfield, Gateshead, was opened by Mayor of Gateshead, Councillor Malcolm Brain,
Residents said they wanted to see a range of equipment suitable for younger children through to teenagers.
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Hi All
"Aye up" for our next meeting of JOC Northwest we are again heading over the boarder "up on th' Yorkshire moor.
We will be at Bolster Moor Farm Shop, Huddersfield for breakfast on Sunday 28th July 2018.
On the same day Colne Valley Lions are having a car and agricultural show at the farm shop 10 till 4. We have spoken to the organisers and there's plenty of space with no need to book simply turn up on the day. They do ask for £5 per car which all goes to Lions Club charities.
"Na' then" the cafe gets full very quickly so we suggest we aim to be there between 9.30 / 10 am
Sunday 28th July at 9.30 for 10am at Bolster Moor Farm Shop
Harden Road Farm,
1A Bolster Moor Road
Golcar, Huddersfield
"Where the Eck is it" http://www.bolstermoorfarmshop.co.uk/wh ... ster-moor/
We would especially like to see our Yorkshire Jensen folk "If theur can mek it".
A chance to catch up with all car news.
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Having been in India for about 3 years, we are now well aware of Indians' feelings about auspiciousness. There are auspicious colors that people wear on a weakly basis, and there are auspicious days for big events. Usually, people who are planning events like weddings consult an astrologer to decide when the event should take place.
So, no, we didn't consult our neighborhood astrologer about the conception and implantation of our little embryos. But we decided on the way home that today is an auspicious day for two reasons. First, there is a full moon tonight. And the moon is as close to earth as it will be for quite some time. Second, it is Holi weekend. For those of you who do not celebrate, Holi is a festival of color to mark the end of the winter season. It is also our favorite holiday. We will be gathering with many of our friends at our house tomorrow to throw colors on each other. Good times will be had by all!
But I'm sure that there will be a part of my mind that won't be able to escape pondering what is happening across the city inside the body of our surrogate. I will be sending my positive thoughts for sticky embryos. If you don't mind, I would appreciate if you would do the same.
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Happy Wednesday before Easter!
This week, my husband and I signed the rental papers on a gorgeous, spacious (well, at least after living in an apartment!) house. While we are excited to decorate (me) and get some extra space for ourselves (hubby)…I know the real winner is our dog. This house has a huge backyard, and from the first time we saw it, I could picture Buffy running, fetching, digging (don't tell the landlord!) and basically doing everything that comes natural to a dog.
I discovered a simple, shocking truth in the process of finding a new home (we explored apartment and house options) – Landlords don't like dogs….well, at least not dogs over 35 pounds…and only certain breeds. One management company sent us a document stating all that we would need to submit in regards to a pooch when applying for a house. These included "proof of weight when full grown" (what??), "breed documentation" (wait, what??), and "an additional pet deposit from $200-$1000" (A THOUSAND DOLLARS!?!) Then they gave us a long list of breeds that they would NEVER accept, which included Pit Bulls, Doberman Pinchers, Rottweilers, German Shepherds, blah, blah, blah. I was honestly offended by this. (We did not rent from these people!) We did still have to submit a ridiculous amount of paperwork for Buffy (more than for ourselves!) that included vaccination records (totally reasonable), pictures (can you tell if a dog is aggressive by looking at a pictures?), and a "letter of explanation" (explaining what the hell we had been thinking to get a dog over 35 pounds.)
If you can't tell by my rant – I get so frustrated with some people's view of dogs. I think it's completely acceptable for a landlord to want to ensure that there isn't a trouble-makin', aggressive, up-to-no-good dog moving in, but to think that all or even most German Shepherds are bad news? IGNORANT! And trust me, I've seen my fair share of 35 pounders that can tear up a baseboard and make a whole lot of noise.
So these weeks Wags & Whiskers Wednesday is dedicated to all the "aggressive" breeds I've dealt with over the years. It seems to me they all go out of their way to be extra sweet to prove the stereotypes wrong!


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Website of the Day: Tuesday 28th June 2005
>> Pepys Diary.com
Today we salute the original blogger – Samuel Pepys, whose daily diary combined details of his own life with a personal view of a fascinating period of British history. This site republishes the text of Pepys' original diary in the form of a contemporary weblog, with a new entry appearing every day. The site is currently at June 1662, which means the momentous events of the plague and the Great Fire of London are still a few years off but you can already read Pepys' comments on the restoration of the monarchy. See also:
>> Samuel Pepys biography on Wikipedia


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'All the Good Girls Go to Hell' immediately caught our eye from video clips all over social media. Her album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? is gaining new fans at a rapid rate. As Halloween approaches, the video is perfectly timed for this release. Who doesn't love a demon dripping in black liquid of evil? Well we certainly do! Directed by Rich Lee and filmed in LA, the darkness is real and produced perfectly. Billie is injected by a number of syringes, falls to earth into a tar pit, slowly crawling out displaying a new set of beautiful black wings. Dark and hypnotic vibes scream out as flames engulf all around her including scorched burning wings and buildings. There's a strong message of climate change, declaring the urgency our planet is facing as stated below by the artist herself…
A note from Billie: right now there are millions of people all over the world begging our leaders to pay attention. our earth is warming up at an unprecedented rate, icecaps are melting, our oceans are rising, our wildlife is being poisoned and our forests are burning. On September 23rd, the UN will host the 2019 Climate Action Summit to discuss how to tackle these issues. The clock is ticking. On Friday September 20th and Friday September 27th you can make your voice be heard. take it to the streets.


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About Chris:
Service Rank: E5 Sgt.
Age: 27
Years of Service: 3
Served in: Iraq and Afghanistan
Looking forward to:
Helping other veterans by opening a homeless shelter and living a normal life with my wife and kids.
Warriors Story:
I grew up part of a really big family in Bogalusa, LA. I was a very happy kid. I enjoyed sports, I played basketball, football and baseball. I joined JROTC in high school as part of the rifle team, which led to my decision to join the Army. Three months after graduation, I started my military adventure in Ft. Drum, NY (The 10th Mountain Division, Climb to Glory!)
I served over three years in the Army as part of the Airborne Infantry. I was required to complete a lot of training, in many locations. I eventually deployed two times. The first was in 2004 to the Afghanistan/Pakistan border, then again in 2005 to Iraq. The long hours and intense heat were grueling and psychologically draining. But as an Infantryman, my job was to be ready to defend our country.
I received many awards for my tour and in some ways I consider myself lucky that all of my war wounds are invisible. I am now a 100% disabled veteran with PTSD. I suffer from anxiety and panic attacks, extreme nightmares, loss of appetite and depression. I know a service animal will be hard work and a big responsibility. It will not be a cure all, but I know it is a step in the right direction to help me take back my independence.
About Seal:
Seal is a beautiful black Labrador Retriever. At only 8 months old, he is one of the youngest dogs to make it through the program. Seal was surrendered by his owner, a college student who didn't have enough time for a new puppy and school. Seal is now a loved member of the family.


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The main trend for black men hairstyles is the use of texture. Whether you have curls, long or short hair, including the texture of your hair will help you get your desired black men haircut. You can also improve your style by adding a high, medium, or low face to your hair.
However, there are hairstyles for men that work better for black hair such as stepped haircuts. High top fade and modern afros. Lastly, if you need a unique look, consider adding some colours for a truly vibrant look. Learn here more about these fresh black men hairstyles trends in 2019.
- Stepped High Top Fade.
Everything concerning this high-top fade has an interesting aspect. The hair at the top is styled flat and incorporates shapes and steps that are then dyed in multiple shades. The hair is then faded at the sides and include some cute geometric patterns that are best if you wear this style with the beard.
- Hair and Beard Design.
This is one of the coolest black men hairstyles in 2019. The trend involves styling the hairstyle together with the beard. It is especially great if you have curly hair since you can style jagged lines to create contrast with the rounded beard shape.
- Short Dreadlocks and Temple Fade.
This beautiful style proves that gentleness is all about attitude. The temple fade at the top creates a mohawk using the short locks. This hairstyle is going to look great if you rock it with a suit, stylish shirt, and a designer scarf.
- Curly Mohawk.
It seems mohawk is among the most preferred black men hairstyles. Here is yet another temple fade mohawk but styled using curly hair rather than the locs. The shave clean line pushes the tape up and offers a uniform contrast to the rounded style.
- Medium Length Curls and Low Fade.
This cool style brings together shaved geometry and some medium length spiral curls. The line up is also cut to make the edges clear. You can complement this style with a full beard.
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This hairstyle for black men presents an entirely different combination of shaved line and a curly mohawk. The mohawk is maintained at the crown and come to a peak in the front. A shaved clean line adds some section on the side, and the drop fade is created to the skin at the back and around the sides.
- Medium Locs And Mid Fade.
Many mid-length black men hairstyles are effortless to manage with a fade, and this is a good example. With the clean line cut at the forehead, and the medium fade at the back and the sides, you can wear your locs loose or tie them at the back.
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General Sports RIP Deadspin
RedSoxFan9 posted a topic in The Locker Roomgood job capitalism
You - the coach/manager - get one challenge each game/match. You can challenge whatever you want - there are no limits on what you may challenge. But you only get to do it once. No automatic challenges based on scoring plays, time, etc. One voluntary challenge to any call you want. And if you waste it or don't use it? Tough bananas.
While not recent news, I personally wasn't aware of SB 206, a California bill dubbed the "The Fair Pay to Play Act." The bill allows student athletes at public or private schools that earn more than $10M in media rights revenue (Division I) to profit from their name, image, or likeness. It would not allow the NCAA or anyone else to stop a student that is being paid from participating in athletics nor would it allow schools to change their scholarship. Schools would still not be allowed to pay athletes. The bill has already passed through the CA Senate, and is now going through the state assembly. If it is signed into law, it would take effect in 2023. It's back in the news thanks to some supportive tweets from Lebron. I've long been in favor of college athletes getting paid, and anything that takes power away from the NCAA is alright in my book. It could be an interesting world if CA schools are the only ones where athletes are allowed to get paid. I imagine other states would follow, but there would likely be holdouts. Imagine the recruiting dynamic if you know you can get paid directly if you go to USC but Alabama still has to pay you under the table.
Backstory: A California bill, if passed, would allow collegiate athletes to make money off the use of their name, image, and likeness. Some pro athletes have said they support the bill: Tebow says no, he could have gotten a lot of money of his shirts but he didn't want it because college football is all about pride of the university and where you and your parents wanted to go: The pushback: "[Raiders running back] Josh Jacobs famously lived out of a truck with his four siblings and father while growing up in north Tulsa, and didn't start at Alabama until his junior season. Meanwhile, Alabama reported a $10.9 million surplus in the athletic budget for the 2018 fiscal year, which is actually down $5 million from the year prior." I don't know how rich/poor Tebow's parents were, but I know both his parents went to UF, which meant he could benefit off legacy admissions. Seems like he doesn't get much of what these athletes grow up in, the amount of money college football makes, and many who are supporting him have no idea how many college athletes have no scholarships/small scholarships and don't get free rides or anything close to it.
General Sports Copa America
Zaku3 posted a topic in The Locker RoomI want to cordially invite D1P to the Copa America Brasil 2019. The tournament starts tomorrow at 8:30pm eastern. First game is Brasil vs Bolivia. Bolivia is terrible right noe I expect a slaughter. It is available on ESPN+ and Telemundo. I recommend telemundo even if you don't speak spanish since I have no clue if ESPN's broadcast team won't be committing crimes against humanity. The Saturday features Venezuela vs Peru which finishes group A's matchday 1. The 2nd game on Saturday is Argentina vs Colombia (<3) which starts Group B's match day 1.
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General Sports UFC's Conor McGregor is retiring (maybe)
SaysWho? posted a topic in The Locker RoomHe's done this before so I'm seeing a lot of skeptics in the tweets.
General Sports 2019 Formula 1 Season
TwinIon posted a topic in The Locker RoomThis will only be my second year of watching F1, but I'm excited for the season to start this weekend. Drivers have been shuffled all around, including two drivers in top teams (Leclerc in a Ferrari and Gasly in a Red Bull). Red Bull switched engine providers (from Renault to Honda) which could push them in either direction. Renault supposedly put a good deal more money in this year (and certainly paid a pretty penny for Riccardo). Racing Point was over performing their budget while in the process of going bankrupt, and now have more money behind them. Alfa (formerly Sauber) were also over performing with Leclerc driving, and now have fan favorite Kimi alongside a new Italian kid. Speaking of which, there are now 4 new drivers, plus one returning. This is all happening after a significant rules change that may or may not change the racing, but will likely have some effect on how well everyone performs, especially at the beginning of the season. It seems there are a lot of variations on the front wings in particular, and I expect some pretty rapid development cycles through the early parts of the season while everyone copies the designs that seem to be working. Last season had (at least for the first half) an exciting battle at the very top as well as some real infighting in the midfield. With all the shake ups this year I'm hoping for an even better season. In particular I'd love to see one of the mid teams to step it up to Red Bull at least, and I'm hoping that Leclerc can really give Vettel a run for his money. I've also been watching the new netflix documentary series. While little of it is new information for anyone that was paying attention last year, it's kinda fun to get a better sense of some of the characters behind the scenes. Anyone else excited for F1 to start up again?
General Sports After 40 years, Bob Costas parts ways with NBC
SaysWho? posted a topic in The Locker Roomhttps://deadline.com/2019/01/bob-costas-leaving-nbc-after-40-years-sports-olympics-1202535909/
I cannot find any details, but this note was published on Deadspin a few hours ago.
The national anthem kneeling controversy is NOTHING compared to this.
General Sports Live MMA Discussion
SoberChef posted a topic in The Locker RoomTonight is UFC 226: Stipe Miocic v. Daniel Cormier for the HW Title. Anybody watching other than me!?
Let's just drop this one right here... Or, you know. These schools could just get their unpaid employee/athletes to just stop raping girls.


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Adam Sopp graduated from the Bristol Old Vic in 2007. Theatre includes: We'll Live And Die In These Towns (Belgrade Theatre Coventry); The Dog Beneath The Skin (Jermyn Street Theatre/Proud Haddock); 946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips (Kneehigh/Shakespeare's Globe); Sunny Afternoon (Hampstead Theatre/West End); The El Train (Hoxton Hall); Symphony (Nabokov/Waterloo Vaults); Backbeat (West End/World Tour); This Place Means (Greenwich & Docklands International Festival); Naked Soldiers (Warehouse Theatre); The Daughter In Law (New Vic); A Chorus of Disapproval (Mercury Theatre/Ipswich Wolsey); All Quiet on the Western Front (Nottingham Playhouse/UK Tour); (In Parenthesis) (Churchill Theatre/ATG); Les Miserables (West End) and Oliver! (West End).
Television and film includes The Capture, Call The Midwife, Casualty, Stan Lee's Lucky Man, Lost Honour of Christopher Jeffries, Father Brown, WPC 56, Holby City, Expectation Management, Doctors, Casualty 1907, Teenage Kicks, Abroad and Grange Hill.
Adam is also an accomplished musician playing for various bands including allthingsmata, Oh Brother, Paperlands, Lauren Spiteri and George Maguire. His main band allthingsmata opened British Summer Time last year at Hyde Park supporting Richard Ashcroft and Roger Waters of Pink Floyd.


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Dorset Cereals believe life begins at breakfast and as breakfast is an important thing here at Daisies & Pie they thought we'd like to try out some of their delicious cereals. They sent over Simply Delicious Muesli packed with raisins, nuts and sunflower seeds. Tasty Toasted spelt, fruit and nut muesli and some rather gorgeous and convenient sachets of Raspberry Porridge, chunky jumbo oats with real raspberries and pumpkin seeds and ready in just 3 minutes.
We liked all three breakfasts – the muesli we preferred with yogurt and honey and we did make them up into some tasty little muesli & yogurt packed lunch snacks for school. The porridge was a real hit with the older children, it was nice and the raspberry flavour was very punchy, we loved the addition of pumpkin seeds too. Dorset Cereal have challenged us to come up with our top 5 happiness actions, the little things that make life better.
- Eat well – quite simply put good stuff in and you feel better!
- Laugh – a lot, belly laughs, chuckles, little smirks they all count – find the funny even if you're cross.
- Fresh air – everything feels better if you get outdoors and do stuff – walk up hills, go to the park or run across beaches, whatever the weather rain or shine.
- Chat – talk to each other, pass the time of day, share a joke, talk about what you've been up to – try to sit down around the table all together for at least one meal a day and chat!
- Relax – take time to relax and wind down, nice bubble baths, a well earned cup of tea, a cheeky glass of wine, 10 minutes sat outdoors in the sun or even an early night in a freshly made bed with line-dried sheets. Be kind to yourself.
These are the things that make us happy here at Daisies & Pie.
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Some Thoughts on Practitioners' Premature Deaths
(Minghui.org) Master said:
"Disciple: What can Dafa disciples do to help another disciple who is on his death bed?
Master: The best thing is to read the Fa to him. Regardless of whether he was supposed to depart at this time, it is all up to him." ("Fa Teaching at the 2007 New York Fa Conference" from Teaching the Fa at the Conference VIII)
After reading Master's Fa, it suddenly occurred to me that the premature deaths of some Falun Dafa practitioners came about because they decided they were ready to leave this world. This wish could arise because the old forces deceived them, they were persecuted in the form of illness, or they could not let go of their fundamental attachments.
The above paragraph from Master has infinite connotations. When looking only at the superficial meaning of Master's words, I gained the following understandings.
Master's Systemic Arrangement
Even if one has reached the end of one's original life span, if the practitioner refuses to go, he or she will not meet with a physical death. Master's systematic arrangements will come into play only when one does not accept any type of persecution.
Master said:
"What's important for cultivators is righteous thoughts. When you have strong righteous thoughts, you are able to withstand anything and do anything. That's because you are a cultivator: someone who is on a divine path and who is not controlled by the factors of ordinary people or low-level principles. (Applause)
I told you early on that I removed the name of every single Dafa disciple from Hell's list. Every ordinary person is listed in that registry. I have removed the names of Dafa disciples from Hell's registry. I had their names removed from Hell. So your names are not there. In other words, you are not in any way beings of the Three Realms, and you are no longer ordinary persons. That is why when your righteous thoughts are strong you can resolve any problem." (Teaching the Fa in the City of Los Angeles)
Given Master's requirements for Fa-rectification cultivation, a practitioner who has gained the righteous way will gradually depart from a human state of being.
Master said:
"Lay down your human, mundane mind,The Fa gained, you now stand divine" ("Salvation Far and Wide" from Hong Yin)
Divine beings are not governed by the karmic law of "old age, illness, and death." Practitioners should understand that their physical body will not die like an ordinary person's if their righteous thoughts are strong.
Dafa practitioners were formerly great kings of different universes who have come down to assist Master in saving sentient beings. So they must be clear that, as long as their thoughts are righteous, they will be able to extend their lives.
Surviving Mortal Danger
The 91-year-old mother of a practitioner was admitted to a hospital in Handan, Hebei Province, in the winter of 2015.
She began to see family members who had died and would tell her children that their father, grandfather, and grandmother were there. Most of her children were too scared to stay and left. There is a local saying that people who can see the dead are about to die.
Only her practitioner daughter stayed. She held her mother's hands and said, "Mother, don't be scared. I will teach you something so that you won't see them."
She told her mother to repeat, "Falun Dafa is good." Her mother thought, "Why not?" and started to repeat, "Falun Dafa is good, Falun Dafa is good." After saying it twice, she laughed because the ghosts from her past left.
Her daughter said, "Since this sentence is so good, you should keep reciting it." Her mother agreed and has since returned to good health.
This means that if an ordinary person, at a critical moment, can validate Dafa, Master can help them with a benevolent solution and extend their life. Master can do much more for his practitioners!
Old Forces' Arrangements Come Into Play
When a practitioner no longer wants to suffer and agrees to leave this world, he might have been deceived by the old forces. This is most likely because he lacks a clear understanding of the Fa principles. This could also negatively affect his family.
No matter what, if a person agrees to be persecuted, by acquiescing, the system of the old forces comes into play.
If a practitioner is deceived by the old forces, they may face a very dangerous situation, which could appear in the form of sickness karma and even death. If he does not understand the situation based on the Fa and loses his righteous thoughts at that crucial time, then he might have given in to the old forces' arrangements.
Master said:
"If there were no deaths among Dafa disciples, wouldn't that be a miracle? No deaths among Dafa disciples—think about it, everyone, what state would that be? Everyone would come to learn Dafa, and the veil would have been lifted. "There is no death in Falun Gong!" It would be the largest protective shield for humankind, and all would come to learn it. So the old forces do not allow it, and they want this group of people to be in a state like that of ordinary, normal people; they want you to grow old and to show sickness karma." ("Fa Teaching at the 2016 New York Fa Conference")
It's not time to leave the world, but the old forces do not want practitioners to succeed in cultivation, so they take away a practitioner's body. If practitioners can let go of self and the human heart, and realize that what he sees or is told are illusions and not what Master wants, then it should not be difficult to deny the old forces.
Only if one walks on the path arranged by Master, has a clear mind and righteous thoughts, and realizes that all practitioners worldwide play a role of saving sentient beings, then nothing can make him leave this world prematurely. Only when one disagrees with being persecuted can Master's systematic arrangements come into play.
Warning for Practitioners
Master said:
"...during the Fa-rectification period, disciples must not depart until the Fa-rectification is over." ("Fa-Rectification Period Dafa Disciples" from Essentials for Further Advancement II)
This is a warning to practitioners who wanted to let go of their flesh bodies because of tribulations! Haven't they acted contrarily to Dafa and Master's requirement?
The myriad of gods in the celestial bodies envy Dafa practitioners because they cultivate and validate the Fa.
There are more than 100 million Falun Dafa practitioners, but when compared to the seven billion people in this world, they are still but a drop in the ocean.
Practitioners need to save the world's people. This responsibility can seem imposing and create difficulties. Thus, every Dafa practitioner in this world is extremely precious.
Therefore, from the perspective of saving sentient beings, practitioners' surface bodies should also be in line with Dafa's principles and saving grace.
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No one knows how long Missouri has until another earthquake rumbles from the New Madrid Seismic Zone, but the state's seismic preparedness officials are using whatever time there is to guide school districts in reinforcing as many school buildings as possible.
Schools and other institutions across Missouri took part Oct. 18 in the annual "Great Central U.S. Shake Out" earthquake drill — a reminder there's a 25-40 percent chance of a magnitude 6.0 or greater earthquake in any given 50-year time period in Missouri — and a 7-10 percent chance of a magnitude 7.0 or greater in any given 50-year time period.
Small quakes in the range of magnitude 1-2.5 happen all the time in Missouri's Bootheel area and across state lines in Arkansas and Tennessee.
On average, a damaging 6.0 or greater quake occurs about once every 80 years in the New Madrid Seismic Zone, according to the Missouri State Emergency Management Agency. The last such event was a magnitude 6.6 with an epicenter near Charleston in 1895.
Given that 123 years have passed since that temblor is not much cause for concern though, according to SEMA Earthquake Program Manager Jeff Briggs.
"You can't say you're overdue" for an earthquake, Briggs said.
He said to think of the probability of an earthquake striking like flipping a coin — an example in which the timing of past events has no bearing on the probability of future outcomes.
"One could happen tomorrow, or one could not happen for another 100 years," Briggs said.
The unpredictable upheavals of the ground in an earthquake zone are a given, but people have a certain amount of power over the extent and severity of the damage those tremors can cause — if communities use the time between quakes to prepare.
Briggs said all of the school buildings in Missouri that might be vulnerable to a quake won't be able to be examined, but the Missouri Seismic Safety Commission's free rapid visual screening program "is making a difference" by alerting school officials to possible structural issues, as well as giving them information that can be used to prioritize future investments in structural improvements.
The commission's screening program has used the services of volunteer assessors including architects, engineers and code enforcement professionals to look at more than 100 buildings in 12 districts over the past four years, Briggs said — most recently Maries County R-2.
The Blair Oaks R-2 district is also in the process of scheduling a seismic review of its buildings through the program.
Many school buildings in Missouri are of a design that's especially vulnerable to the forces of an earthquake's shaking — including parts of buildings at Maries County R-2, according to the district's preliminary evaluation report.
Older buildings constructed with bearing walls made of unreinforced masonry — usually bricks or hollow concrete blocks — will almost certainly be the first to be damaged whenever the next destructive quake strikes Missouri and its neighboring states to the east and south, according to a guide on improving schools' natural hazard safety, published last year by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Not all buildings with brick exteriors have bearing walls made of unreinforced masonry — it's about whether the bricks have to carry the structural load of the building's floors and roof without any other reinforcing material to support the walls.
Reinforced masonry walls have a grid of horizontal and vertical steel bars within the walls — in brick walls, the reinforcing bars are in a cavity between outer and inner stacks of bricks, and the space is filled in with grout — according to a unreinforced masonry risk-reduction document from FEMA.
The same document notes that based on the damage results of past U.S. earthquakes that exposed unreinforced masonry buildings to strong shaking, five out of every six unreinforced masonry buildings were damaged "to the extent that potentially lethal amounts of brickwork fell. One-fifth of those buildings either partially or completely collapsed."
Briggs said Missouri's Department of Elementary and Secondary Education told him the department does not keep track of how many schools have been constructed with unreinforced masonry.
"We do know that there are many older brick and unreinforced masonry buildings that are housing students throughout the New Madrid Seismic Zone," he said, adding many of schools the Missouri Seismic Safety Commission has structurally assessed were built with unreinforced masonry.
State law enacted in the 1990s requires all new construction, additions and alterations of public buildings meet a seismic code in areas of Missouri at risk from shaking equivalent to a VII on the Modified Mercalli scale — which measures a quake's intensity based upon its human and structural effects — from a magnitude 7.6 New Madrid earthquake.
There is no statewide seismic code standard, Briggs said, and a code for any particular building depends on where it is.
The state law does not apply to public buildings in which construction began or finished before Aug. 28, 1991, or to private structures with an area of less than 10,000 square feet — unless mandated by local ordinance.
Boone, Callaway, Cole and Osage counties are among the areas in Mid-Missouri at risk from shaking with an intensity equivalent to a VII on the Modified Mercalli scale from a 7.6 magnitude shock, according to SEMA.
A SEMA map shows some Mid-Missouri counties such as Maries and Gasconade a little closer to the Bootheel could experience less intensity — a level of VI — because more of an expected quake's intensity is projected to ripple northward through the Mississippi River's basin and then westward along the Missouri's from where the two rivers meet near St. Louis, mostly above the northern shore.
Intensity equivalent to a VI or VII on the Modified Mercalli scale is moderate — New Madrid, Pemiscot and Mississippi counties are projected in a magnitude 7.6 event to experience X out of a possible XII — but many people who experience level VII shaking probably would not think of it as moderate, per a description that accompanies SEMA's intensity map: "People have difficulty standing. Considerable damage in poorly built or badly designed buildings, adobe houses, old walls, spires and others. Damage is slight to moderate in well-built buildings. Numerous windows are broken. Weak chimneys break at roof lines. Cornices from towers and high buildings fall. Loose bricks fall from buildings. Heavy furniture is overturned and damaged. Some sand and gravel stream banks cave in."
Even in the lesser VI level of shaking, "Poorly built buildings are damaged slightly. Considerable quantities of dishes and glassware and some windows are broken. People have trouble walking. Pictures fall off walls. Objects fall from shelves. Plaster in walls might crack. Some furniture is overturned. Small bells in churches, chapels and schools ring."
That is what people in Boone, Callaway, Cole and Osage counties probably would experience in a magnitude 6.7 New Madrid earthquake.
The forces of acceleration in ground motion of even moderate shaking, though, multiplies the force of gravity acting upon unreinforced masonry walls in a structure and adds a burden of extra weight that can exceed the bricks' ability to carry it.
Unreinforced masonry walls are also vulnerable to quakes' flexing and shearing motions, and having the floor and roof of a building separate from the walls.
According to FEMA, two children in the United States have been killed at school in earthquakes over the past century — a number kept low because most damaging quakes so far have hit outside of school hours, though both students were killed by the collapse of unreinforced masonry walls. But even if damage to schools doesn't injure students, buildings that have to be closed for extensive repairs can deprive communities of emergency shelter space they might need.
Deb Hendricks, SEMA state volunteer coordinator, shared with Briggs that schools in Missouri are "among the locations pre-identified by the Red Cross (Missouri's shelter lead organization) for use as shelters in disasters," because school facilities are well-known and accessible to communities; have kitchen, bathroom and shower facilities, as well as lots of space for beds; and parents will go to schools if a disaster happens during a school day.
"This is a big part of why we do what we do," Briggs said of school buildings being "considered critical structures."
He said the seismic safety commission's screenings are not as detailed an assessment as an engineer could do with more time and details, but that is sometimes suggested that districts also do.
Maries County R-2's Superintendent Patrick Call said he didn't have any particular concerns that prompted him to request a screening of the district's buildings for seismic vulnerabilities, but the district wanted to know if there was anything of which they needed to be aware.
"You get to the point where you don't always notice little things. For districts, it's just nice to have another set of eyes," Call said.
Call gave Briggs permission to share the district's preliminary evaluation report from August with the News Tribune, and the report includes assessments of Maries County R-2's high school, middle school, elementary school, district office and bus maintenance buildings in Belle and Bland.
The more in-depth second of two structural reviews found two of the five parts of the high school, two of the four parts of the middle school, and two of the six parts of the elementary school scored as "life-safe" — estimated to have a 1 percent or less chance of collapse when shaken to the moderate level of ground motion expected at the schools' locations from a New Madrid quake. That's considered acceptable by the federal standards.
A 1973 addition to the district's middle school and the original 1959 gym and cafeteria section of the elementary school received the lowest ratings — estimated to have "roughly a 40 percent probability of collapse" if the buildings are exposed to the moderate level of shaking used in the assessment.
The rest of the areas of the district's school buildings scored somewhere in between — with two more areas of the elementary school rated to have a 10 percent probability of collapse in the estimated earthquake, "which is generally considered an unacceptable level of risk," according to the inspection report.
All of the most poorly rated areas in each of Maries County R-2's school buildings were constructed with unreinforced masonry. For other areas of the buildings, steel, light metal and wood framing, as well as prefabricated structures, were used; all scored better on the life-safe scale than the unreinforced masonry.
Call said the screeners didn't find anything "not within our ability to fix," but it's just a question of time and money in terms of what gets fixed and when. The district's maintenance director is working on prioritizing potential larger project needs identified by the seismic screening, he said.
The Maries County R-2 earthquake evaluation report also lists a few federal and state funding resources for schools to use to take steps to mitigate earthquake damage, but Briggs cautioned some are not always available, or only available after a disaster is declared.
There are also other seismic hazards for districts to think about beyond the core structural integrity of their buildings. Visual screenings like the one Maries County R-2 had can include looks at whether hallways would be clear of things that could block students' and staff's exit after an earthquake; whether there are unreinforced masonry chimneys or parapets that can collapse; whether light fixtures, suspended ceilings, bookcases and window air conditioning units can fall; and whether fuel tanks and connections for propane-fired equipment would be vulnerable to damage that could lead to spills, leaks and fires.
Briggs said the screening program gives free safety kits to districts that includes fasteners to secure furniture and other heavy items.
He said three more districts are scheduled to get visual screenings, and he hopes those inspections get done this year — with more schools on the waiting list behind them.
Blair Oaks R-2 Superintendent Jim Jones said his district doesn't yet have a date scheduled, but it too will get a seismic screening.
Jones said "there was no specific event or thing that said 'we need to do this.' We don't necessarily have a specific concern," but he added it's "an opportunity with zero cost."
He said last week that inspectors were in the process of gathering materials like floor plans.
Frank Underwood — Jefferson City Public Schools' director of facilities and transportation — said the consultants the district has used to evaluate tornado shelters have examined buildings for seismic vulnerabilities, but they haven't issued reports.
Underwood said he was interested in using the state's seismic safety commission's free program, though, once he was made aware of it — and he promptly called Briggs and said he got JCPS added to the list of districts to be scheduled for inspections.
"That to me, that's a no-brainer," Underwood said, adding he couldn't see any reason not to pursue "anything we can do to make our schools safer."
Doug Loveland — an ACI Boland Architects partner and architect of record on JCPS' two high school projects — said there's not a substantial seismic retrofit being done of Jefferson City High School in its renovation, but any new additions to the campus will have to meet seismic codes.
Loveland said structural engineering is not his expertise, so he also did not know what, if any, seismic safety features the building's old design might have already incorporated.
He referred to the DLR Group — also attached to the JCPS high school projects — for more specific structural questions, but the News Tribune was unable Friday to immediately receive a response from DLR Principal architect Amber Beverlin, whose expertise includes K-12 schools.
The News Tribune also attempted to contact Cary Gampher, The Architects Alliance's principal architect, but he was unavailable.
"I don't know that there's a hard and fast answer to that," Briggs said of how and when a school district on the fringes of the most at-risk areas for a New Madrid quake should prioritize risks in its buildings that may be identified through screenings.
"You might be able to undertake some lower cost improvements in Mid-Missouri that might be all you need to be seismically resilient," he said — whereas in a place like Sikeston, more costly improvements might be needed because the risk of major damage is greater.
"I would say anywhere in the seismic zone, history says one of these days we're going to have a big one," so anything affordable that can be done is helpful to know about in advance, Briggs said.
School districts interested in more information on the rapid visual screening program can contact Jeff Briggs at 573-526-9232 or at [email protected]


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We were really pleased to read this article on the BBC today - it helped spread the message to a wide audience... and the soothing message should be shared!
Here is the link to an excellent article written by Stuart Hughes
And here is our favorite bits, for you so you don't need to jump across:
"Millions of copies of the "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster were printed on the eve of World War II, but never displayed. Now the message has taken on a new lease of life in our troubled peacetime.
The simple five-word message is the very model of British restraint and stiff upper lip. Keep calm and carry on.
In 1939, with war against Germany looming, the Government designed three posters to steady the public's resolve and maintain morale. These featured the crown of King George VI set against a bold red background, and three distinctive slogans - "Freedom is in Peril", "Your Courage, Your Cheerfulness, Your Resolution Will Bring Us Victory", and "Keep Calm and Carry On".
The message was all but forgotten until 2000, when a copy was discovered in a box of books bought at auction by Stuart Manley, a bookseller from Northumberland.
"I didn't know anything about it but I showed it to my wife. We both liked it so we decided to frame it and put it in the shop," explains Mr Manley.
"Lots of people saw it and wanted to buy it. We refused all offers but eventually we decided we should get copies made for sale."
The poster was just one of hundreds produced by the Ministry of Information during the war to influence public opinion.
"The poster was a major medium in a way that it isn't now," says Professor Jim Aulich, an expert in propaganda art at Manchester Metropolitan University.
"It wasn't competing with television. It was one of the main ways of reaching people, through billboards and on public transport."
Rescued from obscurity after 70 years, the Ministry of Information's appeal for calm has risen to cult status. Mr Manley's store, Barter Books in Alnwick, receives an average of 1,000 orders a month from around the world. Customers include 10 Downing Street and assorted embassies. The design has been reproduced on T-shirts and coffee mugs, shopping bags and cufflinks.
It has also spawned imitators. One company has given it a twist, replacing the original slogan with "Now Panic and Freak Out"
To some, the world in 2009 seems as uncertain as it was in 1939, even if modern-day anxieties focus on redundancy and recession rather than bombs and the Blitz. Perhaps this is why the message still seems so relevant.
Of course, it might be difficult for the current government to come up with a poster with quite the same appeal during this time of economic stress. Context is everything, says social psychologist Dr Lesley Prince.
"If the government is in tune with you, you will listen. If you think the government is working on your behalf, you will listen."
This was indisputably the case during WWII, but is less clear-cut even in the most troubled period of peacetime.
And a message of such powerful simplicity might not be so forthcoming these days. Today's government posters attempt to convince the public of an unappreciated danger and get them to modify their behaviour. The "Keep Calm" poster is merely an injunction to think another way and continue acting as you have always acted.
People are drawn to the calming Britishness of the message, says Mr Manley.
"It's interesting to look at the kind of places we often sell to; doctors' surgeries, hospitals, schools and government departments. It seems to strike a chord anywhere that works at a hectic pace."
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With the Inogen One G3 Portable Oxygen Concentrator from Oxygen Direct, your access to oxygen has become as convenient as a lightweight satchel that can hang from the shoulder or simply be carried like a case. Weighing less than five pounds altogether, the Inogen One G3 system and satchel is FAA approved for carry-on and use aboard U.S.-based airlines. This marriage of quality and convenience is the next step in PAP therapy technologies.
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The Inogen One G3 Oxygen Concentrator is a compact system weighing only 4.8 pounds and measuring roughly eight by three inches including the satchel. As portable as a laptop computer, the Inogen One is a high-performance oxygen therapy solution that's easy to carry, quiet, and fashionably inconspicuous.
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The Inogen One G3's five flow settings allow users to find their preferred pressure levels. This also accommodates a range of patients with varying air pressure needs.
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The Inogen One G3 is approved by the FAA both for carry-on luggage and therapy use during flights, making it ideal for travelers and those with therapy needs outside the home environment.
Color LCD Screen and Interface
The Inogen One G3 Color LCD Screen and Interface displays crucial therapy data such as the current battery power level, sleep onset data, and Breath Disruption Detection Alerts. The bright G-3 interface is designed for ease of use and readability, giving users quick access to the therapy and its accumulated session data.
Lithium-ion Double Battery
The Inogen One G3 Lithium-ion Double Battery is a compact 16-cell power system that lasts up to nine hours between charges. The batteries are charged whenever the system is plugged in for DC power access, and additional batteries and chargers can be purchased as a backup system.
Battery Charge: Up to 4.5 Hours Single/ 9 Hours Double
Power Supply: AC/DC
Weight: 4.8 lbs.
Warranty: 90 days
Measurements: Length - 8.75" Width - 3" Height - 8.25"
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A new CPAP machine or oxygen concentrator comes with a two-year in-house warranty, a used or refurbished unit - with 90-day. This warranty covers the machine and power supply only. Accessories such as water chambers or hoses are covered by a six-month warranty if they are sold with a new unit and 90-day warranty if sold with an used or refurbished unit. Masks, hoses and accessories are guaranteed against manufacturer defects for 6 months.
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Please note - masks cannot be returned based on the claim that they leak air or do not fit. Water chambers need to be changed every 6 months. If your water chamber has been used for 6 months or longer and starts to leak it is time to purchase a new chamber.
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