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30 Aug Influence
How many of you feel comfortable with calling yourself a leader?
It's a sad fact that many people seem unable to recognise their leadership capabilities. We appear to have made leadership something bigger than us, something beyond us. We identify leadership qualities in only a few, but the fact is we are all capable of demonstrating leadership in our day-to-day lives.
We commonly think of leaders as strong personalities who imprint their will on organisations. Today we are surrounded by people that we may call leaders – in government, in business, in education, but sadly we are suffering from a scarcity of genuine leadership. Having witnessed so much deceit and abuse of power over the last decade or so, many people have stopped trusting their so-called leaders.
Nevertheless, we do need leaders. On our own, we may lack vision and direction and the strength to reach our goals. A true leader understands the importance of creating new leaders. Instead of trying to blind us with their brilliance, true leaders reflect our own light back to us so that we can achieve our full potential. Being a leader requires you to be comfortable creating conditions that enable your team to excel.
In addition to having a solid sense of self-worth and self-confidence, a leader needs some essential characteristics:
- Caring – empathise with people's needs, concerns and goals
- Comfortable with ambiguity – willing to take calculated risks, can handle conflict & disruption, willing to change their minds
- Persistent – maintain positive, focused attitude in pursuit of a goal
- Good communication – know how to listen carefully, run meetings, make presentations, negotiate and speak in public
- Politically astute – know where to turn for support and resources
- Humorous – know how to inject a little mirth to relieve tension in a group
- Level-headed – amidst the turmoil & confusion
- Self-aware – know how their own patterns of behaviour impact others
- Future-focused – they organise short-term tasks according to long term priorities
These are not traits that you either have or don't have; they are capabilities that you can learn, acquire and develop over time.
Leadership is less to do with formal authority and the power of command and control, and more to do with using influence. In particular, communication, conflict-resolution, diplomacy and motivational skills, as well as being alert, agile and adaptive.
Adaptive leaders MUST embrace uncertainty and adopt new approaches if they are to chart a course in today's turbulent conditions. In an uncertain world, ridged rules are counterproductive. The best solutions will arise through learning and adapting to change. You can avoid chaos as you grow with engaged and productive people, not with rules. Adaptive leadership de-emphasises the need for hierarchy!
Adaptive leaders create a shared sense of purpose and vision and manage through influence rather than command and control. They see the world through the eyes of others. Their ability to empathise with colleagues, clients and competitors enables them to exert influence.
In an era that has become infamous for rewarding profit alone, employees are understandably sceptical when leaders talk about values. Because we need our teams to act autonomously and intuitively, often without explicit instructions or rules, a strong sense of shared purpose and values is more important than ever. Unless you focus on purpose, you cannot deliver performance!
Adaptive leaders reward people for what they accomplish, rather than tracking hours and tasks. They understand that REAL engagement and commitment comes from individual opportunities for Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose (as well as collaboration and recognition). They encourage, indeed insist upon experimentation. Ok, some experiments fail, but that is how we learn. There is no such thing as failure, only feedback!
They develop platforms that enable experimentation and learning, including opportunities to reflect on successes and failures. A process of continuous improvement. Adaptive Leaders allow decisions to be made at lower levels to reduce the time between need and response – they minimise the layers between management and the people on the 'floor'. Any complex task is more effective when you remove the hierarchy system as it gets everyone feeling like they are in the 'inner circle', so they develop a sense of ownership and engagement.
Adaptive Leaders ensure that their business is constantly looking forward and staying close to their customers and the best place to find the truth, is to listen to them. They will tell you what is good and what is wrong, which will give you your strategy!
There is no definitive checklist for becoming an adaptive leader, but by focusing on the areas I have described, leaders can better equip themselves for a turbulent and unpredictable business environment.
To gauge how adaptive, you and your leadership team are, ask these three questions:
- How many adaptive leadership practices do we currently employ?
- Do we have the right model for our practice environment?
- What changes could we make to develop a more adaptive leadership approach?
Leadership will flow to those whose vision can inspire members of the team to put their best abilities to the service of the team. These leaders will create, rather than demand loyalty and the best people will want to work with them. They will communicate effectively, with a variety of people and use conflict between diverse points of view to reach new insights and collaboration. They will exert influence by the values they choose to re-enforce. They will make leaders of their team members!
If you would like help in developing an Adaptive Leadership Culture in your practice, please speak to us about our 'Leadership Road Map'.
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Trendy New Perk (or Punishment?) for Law Firm Junior Lawyers: Business Education
Billing for work by junior lawyers at law firms has long been a major profit center for the firms. The average hourly rate for a non-partner associate lawyer at a law firm rose to $378 in the second quarter, from $338 three years earlier, according to data from Peer Monitor, a unit of Thomson Reuters.
But many companies are so eager to reduce their legal costs that they have built "no-first-or-second-year" associate provisions into their arrangements with law firms. (Click here for an earlier post on the so-called "first-year problem.")
So now, big law firms are responding with programs that promise to make their junior lawyers more valuable to clients faster, through training in business and finance.
Earlier this year, for instance, we wrote about this new program from Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, in which its mid-level associates participate in a seven-day business and law training program for four consecutive years at Harvard University.
This morning, Debevoise & Plimpton's presiding partner Michael Blair announced internally that the 675-lawyer firm has arranged for a group of 23 incoming . . .


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This page may reference and describe prescription drugs, steroids, or steroid-like substances that are not available without a prescription from a licensed physician, or sometimes, illegal in the United States. We are not under any circumstances endorsing or recommending you take such substances. We reference such substances for informational purposes or only to compare them with legal nutritional supplements. You can read up on the side effects of steroids to learn more.
Do you need to gain weight fast?
Do you eat all the food in existence, yet still remain skinny?
No problem, you're in good hands!
In this post I'm going to reveal the best steroids for gaining weight and putting on mass. I'll also give a value as to how much weight you can expect to gain from each steroid, based on a 4 week cycle.
Note: taking these steroids won't turn you into Arnold Schwarzenegger overnight…it takes decades of steroid-use, hard lifting and one in a million genetics to look like him. However, taking the following steroids will help you gain weight and bulk up a bit so you're not such a beanpole ?
Weight Gain: 20-30lbs
Dianabol, otherwise known as methandrostenolone, is typically used by bodybuilders in the off-season to gain as much weight/mass as possible. So by the time they start cutting again they'll be able to compete at a heavier weight due to additional muscle mass.
When it comes to gaining muscle, dianabol is probably the best anabolic you can buy. Not all of the weight will be muscle however, with dianabol causing some water retention inside and outside the muscle cells. This is why D-Bol is rarely used during cutting cycles as water retention isn't ideal when at a low body fat, as it can blur muscle definition.
In terms of gaining weight though, D-Bol is the real deal.
Weight Gain: 20-30lbs
Anadrol is an oral anabolic steroid that was first invented to help people overcome different weight loss related diseases – bingo! Not only does the steroid cause rapid weight gain by adding muscle mass, but it also stimulates your appetite considerably.
Thus it's a lot easier to eat more food and consume more calories when on A-Drol.
Anadrol shouldn't be cycled for long periods of time because of its toxicity on the liver. If you haven't ran it before, I would do a cycle no longer than 4 weeks and then see how you feel. As people react differently to anadrol, some people don't notice too much, then others feel sick and get bad migraines when taking the drug.
Weight Gain: 15lbs
Trenbolone is a very versatile steroid. It can be used in a bulking cycle in the offseason to help pack on mass, whilst limiting fat gain. Or it can be used during a cut to help retain as much muscle as possible, whilst burning fat.
Trenbolone doesn't come with any fluid retention and thus the 15lbs that is typically gained from a 4 week cycle is likely to be lean muscle weight. 15lbs doesn't seem like much but when this is in the form of muscle tissue and no fat or water, this can appear a if you've gained a lot of weight. But good weight, not the kind when everybody starts commenting that you're getting fat lol.
Deca Durabolin
Weight Gain: 15-20lbs
Deca is also similar to trenbolone in the respect that it doesn't cause you to retain excess water and thus the weight you'll gain will be muscle weight.
However, deca won't burn as much fat as tren would, so you're likely to gain a little more weight in comparison.
Deca was one of the bulking steroids Arnold was thought to be taking in his off-season that helped him become crowned Mr Olympia, along with dianabol.
Weight gain: 15lbs
Testosterone is the ideal steroid for those looking to gain a fair amount of weight but don't want to balloon up too much.
Testosterone sustanon is the best form of testosterone and will pack on muscle mass at a similar rate to trenbolone.
It will also simultaneously burn fat stores (more so than tren), making test a great anabolic to use year round.
Is the Weight Gain Permanent?
Mostly yes.
All steroids that cause water retention will result in you gaining a lot of weight quickly but then when you cycle off you will also lose some of this fluid. For example, you may gain 30lbs cycling dbol, but then when you come off it you may only keep 15-20lbs of that due to the extra muscle you'll be carrying.
The two main steroids that come with water retention are:
- D-Bol
- Anadrol
Steroids that don't come with water retention, meaning you'll keep most of, if not all of the weight, are:
- Trenbolone
- Deca
Testosterone is a steroid that may come with a little water weight, but nowhere near as much as methandrostenolone (dianabol). But at the same time it isn't as cut and dry as deca or tren.
I wish you all the best on your weight gaining journey!
If steroids are 100% the route you've chosen to go down, don't abuse them and you'll be able to gain a good amount of weight easily and most importantly – safely.
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Llewellyn, William (2011), Anabolics. Jupiter, FL: Molecular Nutrition. pp. 478-488, 494-501, 525-533, 357-367, 494-501.


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Benefits of Non-Competitive Dance
Parents today are faced with many options when it comes to choosing a dance studio for their child. With all the options available, it is wise to make sure you choose a school with values and goals that match your own. Each dancer and family is unique, and any one school will not be right for every dancer. Some dancers thrive in a competitive situation and some do not. Here are some reasons why we believe a non-competitive dance school is the right choice.
• Students can focus on individual development - Students can revel in their strengths and focus on the skills they want to improve without the added pressure of perfecting specific tricks for the sake of choreography
• Dancers can focus on developing their art - Developing a lifelong appreciation for the art of dance and movement is as valuable as developing an appreciation for classical music, fine art and the dramatic arts.
• It is less expensive - Competitions can be costly. There are entrance fees, rehearsal fees and specialty costume fees. There can also be travel costs and missed time at work and school. All of this can add up quickly and really strain a family budget.
• Less drama and stress - When students are divided into teams there are bound to be ruffled feathers and hurt feelings. When the stakes are high, an honest mistake or error on stage can mean the cold shoulder after the performance. A non-competitive environment lessens these factors allowing dancers to bond over a shared love of dance.
• More time to be well-rounded - While consistent attendance is imperative for a quality dance education, having allowances for family vacations, special events and other activities is a luxury that noncompetitive studios can offer. With less time spent in extra rehearsals, non-competitive dancers will have more time for additional activities and sports.
• Kids can be kids Sometimes the lines between age-appropriate and inappropriate get blurry in the over commercialized world of TV and competition dance. In a non-competitive environment, it is easier for kids to just be kids who like to dance and not feel pressured by the commercial influences of dance.


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For millennia, philosophers and religious leaders (hereafter referred to as "wise guys") – one after another – have reminded people like you to go after the things that last.
Muscles? Bodily health? Beauty? Sex? Wealth? Ask many Christians, Stoics, Buddhists, or other practicing wise guys and you can expect to be told that "these [perishable] things will all pass away". That temporariness of good looks, well-functioning biceps, or a comfortable bank account is a big negative for the "things of the flesh."
There is a strict dichotomy in these wisdom traditions between the pursuit of these "perishable things" and the pursuit of imperishable ones like love, truth, enlightenment, or other virtues.
But what if the wise guys have got it all wrong?
I don't dispute the value in what Jesus said in his Sermon on the Mount:
"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."
There is raw truth here. But I do question if you can begin to store up treasures in heaven if you have no capital goods here on earth.
Let's talk about physical strength especially.
Many ascetic, spiritual people use this logic: "I'll get old and die one day, so why bother taking care of my body?" "Ah, those muscle-bound dudes will one day be weak old men – that'll show them how worthless bodybuilding is." Etc.
I used to use these excuses, too, despite being neither very spiritual nor ascetic at the time.
But I should have interrogated these assumptions. Yes, strength will go away. But if courage and goodness (among other "imperishable things") are worth having, how do you expect to get them if you won't get off the sofa?
All those seemingly "perishable" times spent working out are part of what you'll need to be prepared to seize the "imperishable" bits of virtue and spiritual uplift when difficulty comes.
The same principle applies elsewhere.
Sex: how do you expect to know the depths of human love if you don't experience intimacy with another human?
Money: how will you see the full possibilities of generosity if you have no resources?
Your imperishable things need the perishable ones, and vice versa. Don't accept the false dichotomy.
Photo by Marion Michele on Unsplash
Intellectual Influence: H/T to Jocko Willink and Dick Winters for making me ponder the connection between physical and moral courage.


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Chapter 3 Exercises
Creating an InfoSWMM SA Model
The exercises in this chapter will give you practice building a new model by importing data from different source types and making some default settings.
Exercise 3A
In this exercise, you set up the InfoSWMM SA toolbars, create an empty model, and initialize InfoSWMM SA.
1. Start InfoSWMM SA () Open up the file NewCrowmarsh.mxd
3. Click add data () from the ArcMap toolbar and browse to the folder: C:\Training\InfoSWMM SA\Ch3
4. Select 'Crowmarsh_Map.shp', and click
- NOTE: This feature class will be added to the ArcGIS table of contents
5. Save () the project as "Crowmarsh" in the folder: C:\Training\InfoSWMM SA\Ch3
Exercise 3B
In this exercise, you will set up base simulation options and project preferences.
1. Press the tab at the bottom of the InfoSWMM SA Browser
2. Expand the 'Options' folder, then double-click on 'BASE' to open the BASE simulation options
3. Under the tab, set the flow units to 'MGD'
- NOTE: This sets the units for the InfoSWMM SA project. If you pick MGD, an Imperial Unit, InfoSWMM SA will set all units as Imperial units (i.e., feet, etc.)
4. Notice that the option is selected for the Infiltration Model
- There are five options for Infiltration Models that can be used in the InfoSWMM SA simulations: Horton, Green Ampt, and NRCS Curve Number – this sets the default for the entire model, but you can set them individually by subcatchment
5. Select for the Routing Method
6. Notice that the Runoff Model drop-down menu is set to 'EPA SWMM /Non-linear Reservoir' for the runoff model
- There are eleven options for Runoff Models that can be used in the InfoSWMM SA simulations, though EPA SWMM and NRCS are the most commonly used
7. Select the tab and enter the following:
8. On the tab, set the dry weather time step to 1:00:00, the wet weather time step to 00:15:00, the routing time step to 20 seconds, and the reporting time step to 00:05:00
· The different time steps control how frequently certain parameters are calculated or reported
· Note that the routing time step is entered as seconds only.
9. On the tab, check the 'Variable Time Step' option
· Allowing a variable time step means that that a variable time step will be computed for each time period to satisfy the Courant stability criterion for each conduit
10. Set the Time Step for Conduit Lengthening to 5 (seconds)
· This is used to artificially lengthen short conduits so they meet the Courant stability criterion under full-flow conditions
· A value of 0 indicates that no lengthening will occur
11. Under the 'Normal Flow Criterion' section, select
· This causes the model to consider both the Froude Number and slope information when determining if a supercritical condition has occurred
12. Set the 'Maximum Trials per Time Step to 8
13. Set the Surcharge Option to Extran
14. Press to close the dialog and save all changes
15. Open the Project Preferences
16. From the tab, check the 'Auto Length Calculation', 'Auto Area Calculation', 'Store Absolute Conduit Invert', 'Sewer Interface', and 'Store Absolute Junction Rim' options
- Auto Length Calculation – automatically calculates and updates length for conduits based on drawn geometry and coordinate system
- Auto Area Calculation – automatically calculates and updates area for Subcatchments based on drawn geometry and coordinate system
- Store Absolute Conduit Invert – when check conduit inverts are stored as an actual elevation rather than an offset of the node invert elevation
- Sewer Interface – uses and displays terminologies more commonly used in sanitary sewer system modeling (i.e., pipe and wet well rather than conduit and storage)
- Store Absolute Junction Rim – uses node rim elevation instead of node maximum depth
- Ignore any warnings about empty conduit layers
17. From the tab, change the settings to match the figure below (these rows are near the bottom off the table; do not confuse them with the "set" rows at the top of the table)
- This sets the default IDs when creating new InfoSWMM SA elements
18. Press to close the project preferences.
Exercise 3C
In this exercise, you will add custom fields to the Junction Information and Pipe Information tables.
2. Expand the Element Information Data folder and select the Junction Information table:
3. Press to open the Junction Information table
4. Launch the Fields and Display Aliases dialog () and click
5. Populate the dialog box as follows:
- NOTE: This will add a custom field with the properties specified to the DB table
9. Select the Pipe Information table
10. Press to open the Pipe Information table
11. Launch the Fields and Display Aliases dialog () and click
12. Populate the dialog box as follows:
Exercise 3D
In this exercise, you will create GIS Exchange Clusters for importing junctions, outfalls, and pipes and then import these features.
1. Press the add data button () and browse to the following folder: C:\Training\InfoSWMM SA\Ch3
2. Select the files 'nodes.shp' and 'pipes.shp', click , and press OK to ignore the message about spatial reference
- NOTE: Both files can be selected at the same time by using the Ctrl key on your keyboard
- NOTE: the shape files are added to the ArcGIS Table of Contents.
4. Click to create a new GIS Exchange Cluster
5. Name the cluster 'LOAD_OUTFALLS, import outfalls from GIS' and click
6. In the GIS Exchange Cluster dialog box, near the top-right corner under GIS Data Source, click
7. Browse to: C:\Training\InfoSWMM SA\Ch3
8. Select 'Nodes.shp' and click
9. In the GIS Exchange Cluster dialog box, near the top-right corner next to WHERE Clause, enter
"node_type" ='Outfall'
- NOTE: This will restrict the cluster to apply only to those entries in the node.shp that have 'Outfall' in the 'node_type' data field
10. Use the drop-down selection box under InfoSWMM SA Data Source and select Type as 'Outfall Tables'
- NOTE: This tells InfoSWMM SA which database to import data into
11. For the GIS ID Mapping Field (near the bottom center on the tabular join tab), select 'ID' as the field containing unique ID's
12. Switch to the Field Mapping tab
13. On the left under GIS Data Fields, click once on 'INV_ELEV'
14. On the right under InfoSWMM SA/GIS Data Field Mapping, scroll down, then click once on 'OFALLHYD->INV_ELEV'
- NOTE: The GIS field INV_ELEV is mapped to the InfoSWMM SA field INV_ELEV. During data import, data from this field in the GIS will be transferred into the InfoSWMM SA database.
17. Click on the LOAD_OUTFALL cluster, then press to create another cluster
18. Name the cluster "LOAD_JUNCTIONS, import junctions from GIS" and click
- NOTE: In this example the manholes and the outfalls are in the same GIS file. The cloning was done so that less setup is required – the correct GIS file will already be mapped
19. Select the LOAD_JUNCTIONS cluster, then press
20. Delete the statement in the WHERE Clause box on the top right
- No WHERE clause is needed because the intent is to bring in all elements that have not previously been brought into InfoSWMM SA. The outfalls will not be brought over again because an object with the same ID will already exist in InfoSWMM SA
21. Use the drop-down selection box under InfoSWMM SA Data Source and select Type as 'Junction Tables'
- NOTE: This tells InfoSWMM SA which database to import data into
22. For the GIS ID Mapping Field (near the bottom center on the tabular join tab), select 'ID' as the field containing unique ID's
23. Switch to the Field Mapping tab
24. On the left under GIS Data Fields, click once on 'SYSTEM'
25. On the right under InfoSWMM SA/GIS Data Field Mapping, scroll down, then click once on 'JUNCTION->SYSTEM'
- NOTE: The GIS field SYSTEM is mapped to the InfoSWMM SA field SYSTEM. During data import, data from this field in the GIS will be transferred into the InfoSWMM SA database.
27. Repeat steps 25-29 to map the following:
- INV_ELEV to JCTHYD->INV_ELEV
29. Click to create a new GIS Exchange Cluster
30. Name the cluster 'LOAD_PIPES, import pipes from GIS' and click
31. In the GIS Exchange Cluster dialog box, near the top-right corner under GIS Data Source, click
32. Browse to: C:\Training\InfoSWMM SA\Ch3
33. Select 'Pipes.shp' and click
34. Use the drop-down selection box under InfoSWMM SA Data Source and select Type as 'Pipe_Tables'
- NOTE: This tells InfoSWMM SA which database to import data into
35. For the GIS ID Mapping Field (near the bottom center on the tabular join tab), select 'ID' as the field containing unique ID's
36. Switch to the Field Mapping tab, map the following files from GIS to InfoSWMM SA using the same steps presented in 25-29:
GIS Data Fields to InfoSWMM SA/GIS Data Field Mapping
YR_INST to CONDUIT->YR_INST
SYSTEM to CONDUIT->SYSTEM
LENGTH to CONHYD->LENGTH
UP_INV to CONHYD->UP_DATA
DN_INV to CONHYD->DN_DATA
DIAMETER to CONHYD->GEOM1
39. Select all three clusters, then press
- NOTE: All outfalls, junctions, and pipes are loaded into InfoSWMM SA
40. Close the GIS Gateway
41. Use the DB Editor Right Mouse Click to see the Invert Statistics
42. Press the Refresh button () in the bottom left corner of the map to refresh the display (or click F5)
- NOTE: The junctions and outfalls will appear
43. Press the Selector () in InfoSWMM SA Browser, select a pipe on the map
- NOTE: Notice in the Attribute Tab of the InfoSWMM SA Browser that the Start Node and End Node field is not filled
- The selector tool (() is available in both the InfoSWMM SA Edit Network Toolbar and on the Attribute Tab of the InfoSWMM SA Browser
44. Select InfoSWMM SA-> Utilities -> Connectivity -> Fill Link Connectivity to launch the Fill Link Connectivity Tool
45. Set the Fill Conduit Connectivity dialog box so that it appears as below:
· NOTE: If the pipes were imported from a geometric network, the search tolerance should match the XY tolerance of geometric network.
47. Press the Selector (), and click on any pipe on the map
- Notice in the Attribute Tab of the InfoSWMM SA Browser that the Start Node and End Node field is filled
Exercise 3E
In this exercise you will use the Node Inference tool to infer invert elevations.
2. Expand the Element Hydraulic/Hydrologic folder (if necessary), click on the Junction Hydraulic (Modeling) Data file and click
3. Click on the 'Invert Elevation' column header, and then click
- NOTE: The invert elevations are listed in ascending order and you can see that two maholes are missing invert elevation data (i.e., the data points are 0.00)
4. Close the DB Editor
5. Select InfoSWMM SA -> Tools -> Invert and Elevation Tools -> Node Invert Inferring
6. Check the 'Add Processed Nodes into Domain' box
- NOTE: The model will run a straight-line interpolation of existing manhole invert elevations
- NOTE: The nodes that had their invert elevations populated by the tool will be added to the domain for visualization purposes
9. Click to zoom to the domain
Exercise 3F
In this exercise, you will use an elevation contour file to assign elevations to all junctions in the model.
1. Click on any junction on the map ()
- NOTE: Notice in the Attribute Tab of the InfoSWMM SA Browser that the Rim Elevation field is empty
2. Choose add data () from the ArcMap toolbar
3. Browse to C:\Training\InfoSWMM SA\Ch3, select 'elevation', and click
- NOTE: This will add the elevation raster to the map
4. Launch Elevation Extractor using InfoSWMM SA -> Tools -> Invert and Elevation Tools -> Elevation Extractor
5. Populate the dialog box as follows
- NOTE: For this exercise, do NOT check the 'Apply to Domain Only' box
· NOTE: Using a raster, the elevation extractor takes the value of the pixel corresponding to each junction and assigns it in the elevation field of the InfoSWMM SA Information Database Table
· NOTE: If the contour or spot elevation method is selected the value of the closest point is assigned unless Spatial Analyst is enabled. If Spatial Analyst is enabled, the value of each junction will be assigned by interpolation across the surrounding points.
6. Press to extract elevations. Close the Elevation Extractor once the process is complete
7. Click on any junction on the map ()
- NOTE: Notice in the Attribute Tab of the InfoSWMM SA Browser that the Rim Elevation field is now populated
Exercise 3G
In this exercise, you will fix the pipe invert elevations to match/be in line with the manhole invert elevations.
1. Click to zoom to the domain
- NOTE: Domain should still be active from Exercise 3E
2. Click on the enlarge domain button ()
3. Select the pipes on either side of the manholes in the domain, as well as the pipe between them
- NOTE: This area includes the two nodes that are in the domain. These nodes had their invert elevations extrapolated from existing data
- NOTE: there should be a total of three pipes added to the domain
4. Click , and select the 'Use Domain' option to create a profile plot of the elements in the domain. Then click Open.
- NOTE: The pipe inverts are not aligned with the manhole inverts
5. Click to hide the report manager
6. Open the Project Preferences
7. From the tab, uncheck the 'Store Absolute Conduit Invert' option
- NOTE: InfoSWMM SA will assume an offset of zero, though you can specify an offset in the Attribute tab, and will recalculate the pipe invert elevations based on the manhole invert elevations
9. Click and select the 'Use Domain' option
- NOTE: The pipe inverts are aligned with the manhole inverts
10. Click to refresh the graph
11. Close the report manager
12. Open the Project Preferences again (), and re-check the 'Store Absolute Conduit Invert' option
- NOTE: InfoSWMM SA will display all of the pipe inverts in elevation above datum in the Attribute Tab
In this exercise, you will review the model using the Network Audit tool.
1. Launch the Network Audit Tools using InfoSWMM SA ->Tools -> Engineering Validation Manager<Network Audit Tools
· A list of all the elements that have network audit errors will appear in the message window and the elements that have errors will also be added to the domain
3. Review errors in the message window. Double clicking on any error message will cause the map to zoom into the element that has the error
· All key errors will be fixed in upcoming exercises
· The zoom function is based on a percent of the full extent; you can adjust the maximum extent by right-clicking on 'Layers' in the ArcMap Table of Contents, selecting 'Properties', going to the 'Data Frame' tab, selecting 'Other' for the Extent Used by Full Extent Command, clicking the 'Specify Extent' button, and then selecting one of the options (usually setting it to the Outline of Pipes Feature is a good setting to use)
You have now completed the exercises for Chapter 3.
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does anyone know how to make a beer hat?? Answered
i wont drink beer though mabye coke or somthin.........
I am thinking about doing a version for Cinco de Mayo. Using a sombrero so it could also hold beer snacks (chips, nuts, pretzels etc.)
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yer thats bacically it but its hard to find the stuff
id say the hardest part would be the actual cup holders. You can probably use PVC Pipe or soemthing similar to get the desired affect.
take a construction workers hat.... go buy 2 car window cup holders... add combine them with superglue. Get those crazy bendy straws and connect em. or get some plastic tubing for a fish tank water purifier. Viola. Substitute other hats if you want to.
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Jerry Holthof, 92
After a lengthy fight against cancer, Jerry Holthof, 92, of Hastings died July 4, 2019.
He leaves wife Mary Ann; son Duane; daughter Laura; grandson Eric; two great-granddaughters, Britany and Sydnie; great-great-granddaughter Emberly; and sisters Henrietta, Evelyn, Carol, and Valerie.
Jerry was preceded in death by his parents; brother Ed; sisters Annette and Anne; son Bruce; and granddaughter Lana.
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So we don't have time to get parents on board the EHCRP, likewise because we were a late arrival, we don't have much in the way of buy-in from the school's staff of guidance counselors. To get the students to sign up and to keep them coming, the program has to make students want to come. In other words: the program has to be fun. The curriculum has to be fun. From my experience with the population I knew that even in their junior year, only a small minority of students coming into the program would already be thinking in mature terms, i.e. have the maturity to go out of their way to get involved with a program that is going to prepare them for college. I'm not being cynical; it's just the reality. Even in suburban districts with helicopter parents, the vast majority of high school students are not self-motivated. In a district with 95% single parent households, the student who would take on more work after school voluntarily is a rare bird indeed.
But these students do play video games. While less than 1% might be academically self motivated, 95% play video games and are motivated by them. Interestingly, as motivational structures, video games had managed to accomplish many of the things that we were aspiring to do in EHCRP. In my design document for "Locks & Keys" I made a list of what games can do with kids(and adults for that matter), and why we should use an MMO:
So here it is, in a nutshell: Why should we use an MMO (massively multiplayer online) style game structure?
1. MMO's inspire players(students) to perform repetitive tasks which would otherwise seem utterly monotonous. Ironically the same game structure also encourages independent and creative thinking. Thus curricula which involve both creative thinking and memorization are perfectly suited to this learning/motivational structure.
2. MMO's also inspire students to be very detail oriented, as completing tasks, quests, et cetera require meticulous preparation, and exact attention to detail. In many cases anything less than 100% is a fail. Success is only achieved through perfect execution.
3. Our program needs to motivate our students to be successful. The immersive nature of a real-life game provides a motivational structure absent from a traditional academic approach. This approach utilizes highly structured social interaction to maximize student effort through cooperation, peer pressure, and competition; in other words, as a social context, the MMO channels what could otherwise be distractions into motivational forces.
4. If we are successful, and the immersive game which informs the class is as addictive as I hope it will be, students will take the problems and puzzles from the class home with them, and will work on them outside of class on their own and within their guilds. This is a very common effect of using this structure for these classes.
5. We need the students in the program to sell it to other students. If our students love the experience we are giving them, then this will go a long way towards solving any recruitment and retention issues we might otherwise face.
6. Since the game designing is front-loaded, i.e. mostly done before the semester begins, classroom management is fairly easy. Students will have tasks and goals to pursue at all times which they will be encouraging each other to pursue. Front loading will be hugely beneficial to the program instructors as this means that the prep workload will occur at the beginning of the semester rather than at the end, freeing us up to manage the inevitable end of semester workload that we all face.
7. The biggest downside to using this curriculum structure is that grading and record keeping is very intense, and much in excess of what it is for a traditional curriculum.


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GRAY, La. (WVUE) - A Terrebonne Parish high school band director is accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a student, according to the sheriff's office.
Investigators said 28-year-old Michael Aucoin worked at H.L. Bourgeois High School for five years and did not have a criminal history in the parish prior to this incident.
Deputies arrested Aucoin at his home Monday (Aug. 6), which is less than two miles from the school.
Aucoin's arrest came after the parent of the 16-year-old student he was was allegedly seeing reached out to the department with concerns over text messages between the two.
After looking at the messages, detectives determined the two had a sexual relationship, as well as an encounter at his home over the summer. Detectives believe the relationship spanned over the course of six months.
Deputies said they have received calls from concerned parents, but have not found evidence that there are any other victims, Malcolm Wolfe, TPSO's chief of detectives said.
"The parents are concerned, because children don't normally go home and tell their parents something like this that they're involved in. So, I think out of curiosity, they want to know if there's any other victims," Wolfe said.
Philip Martin, Terrebonne Parish superintendent, said Aucoin has been suspended until the investigation is over.
"The charges are very serious and we take them very serious," Martin said.
Peyton Lebouf is a student at H.L. Bourgeois and said he didn't personally know Aucoin, but his friends did.
"I mean it's crazy to see. [People] that I'm friends with are good friends with him, and just to see that happen at the school is crazy," Lebouf said.
Aucoin faces one count of felony carnal knowledge of a juvenile, which is when an adult has a sexual relationship with someone under the age of 17, with more than a four year age difference.
If convicted, detectives said Aucoin could face ten years in jail or more.
Aucoin was held on a $30,000 bond, but jail records show he bonded out Tuesday afternoon.
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Marvel has released the official plot synopses for the first two episodes of its upcoming series Agent Carter, revealing a couple of intriguing plot details along the way. Meanwhile, they've also unveiled a very stylish, retro-cool teaser poster featuring Hayley Atwell's Peggy.
As some of you guys may already know, the first two episodes of Agent Carter are set to air back to back on ABC when the series premieres right after the new year on Jan. 6, 2015.
The first episode is titled "Now Is Not the End" and was written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely and directed by Louis D'Esposito. This is the official plot synopsis:
Peggy is contacted by old acquaintance Howard Stark when he is framed for unleashing his deadliest weapons and can trust no one else. To help Peggy clear Stark's name, he insists his butler, Edwin Jarvis, be at her beck and call -- whether she likes it or not. But the risk is great: If caught, Agent Carter could be targeted as a traitor and spend the rest of her days in prison … or worse.
The second episode, titled "Bridge and Tunnel," was penned by Eric Pearson and directed by Joseph Russo. Here's the synopsis:
Howard Stark's deadliest weapon has fallen into enemy hands, and only Agent Carter can recover it. But can she do so before her undercover mission is discovered by SSR Chief Dooley and Agent Thompson?
Marvel's Agent Carter stars Hayley Atwell as Captain America's former lady love Agent Peggy Carter, James D'Arcy as Edwin Jarvis, Chad Michael Murray as Agent Jack Thompson, Enver Gjokaj as Agent Daniel Sousa and Shea Whigham as Chief Roger Dooley.
Dominic Cooper is, of course, back as Howard Stark, and the premiere two-parter will also guest-star Lyndsy Fonseca as Angie Martinelli and fan fave James Frain as Leet Brannis.
Marvel also released a new teaser poster showing Peggy ready for some undercover action that's got a very stylish, pulp-fiction, noir vibe to it, and we totally dig it. Especially the red hat. Have a look:
So, are you guys excited for Agent Carter? Will you be tuning in?
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Member advisories have been issued by Engineers and Geoscientists BC and AIBC to registered professionals in both professions regarding these changes to the Letters of Assurance. This seminar will review the member advisory as well as other changes. In addition, there will be an overall review of the Guide to the Letters of Assurance in the BC Building Code. Finally, during this seminar those present will have the opportunity to identify issues and concerns with the current Letters of Assurance. This information will be used to provide input to the updating of the Guide to the Letters of Assurance in the BC Building Code which is to come in 2018.
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Harney warns over raising taxes to fund universal healthcare – The Irish Times – Thu, Apr 15, 2010
Fine Gael's leader Enda Kenny told the conference there had been a massive loss of faith in the health system following a series of spectacular failures.
He said his party, through its fair care policy, would change this. "FairCare will end the two-tier health system, so that everybody will have free or affordable health insurance and equal access will be on the basis of need," he said.
Such a system could be put in place cost-effectively but it could not be done overnight, he added.
Meanwhile, Labour's leader Eamon Gilmore said universal health insurance in Ireland was both feasible and affordable.
But he said that in Ireland we need to acknowledge that "the existing state of our public heath service could be one of the biggest obstacles to convincing people that more access to it can be better".
Sinn Féin's health spokesman Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin advocated a universal public health system that provides care to all free at the point of delivery, on the basis of need alone, and funded from a general, fair and progressive taxation policy.
There was this one time I got smacked in the face with a pool cue and I went along to the hospital and I got stitched up there and then. And then there was this other time when I knocked myself out, smashed my teeth up and got taken to hospital in an ambulance, got a load of stitches, they put some sort of mould around my teeth and then a couple of days later I went back to get the mould removed and get the smashed teeth repaired. And all this cost me nothing! Because it was the NHS and my treatment got funded out of general taxation. And then there was this other time when I split my head open against the lock of the boot of the car and had to go and get stitches. And I went along to the hospital and they put in staples and didn't cut my hair though they normally would, and instead they took extra care to not ruin my haircut because I had to go to my own wedding the following morning. And all this cost me nothing. Thanks, General Spanish Taxpayer! (And by the way, thanks for performing heart surgery on all those British and Irish ex-pat residents. For nothing! I know this because I was talking to a Spanish cardiologist the other day.)
See Sinn Féin appended to that report? It isn't on the Examiner report. And it isn't in the Independent report either. Now I know the establishment consensus in the Republic of Ireland is that Sinn Féin are nuts. But the establishment consensus in the Republic of Ireland is completely fucking nuts.
I'm guessing one of the reasons Sinn Féin is advocating a 'a universal public health system that provides care to all free at the point of delivery, on the basis of need alone, and funded from a general, fair and progressive taxation policy' is because it has lots of party members in the Occupied Six Counties who, like me, were born in NHS hospitals and had free doctor consultations and their families were treated in NHS hospitals and they never paid health insurance, and they think that free healthcare is just one of those things, like sewage, which is a basic entitlement and a fact of life, not some sort of pie-in-the-sky-world-turned-upside-down-bring-me-the-severed-head-of-a-paisleyed-unicorn fantasy.
Like, when I first moved to the Republic of Ireland, I didn't understand what paying for a doctor was. It was like moving into a well-appointed house and discovering there was no toilet. My girlfriend (now wife) at the time got sick, and we went to a doctor's surgery, and they said you have to pay, and I thought, you bastards! Does the government know you're ripping people off like this? Because to be honest, and I hope I'm not disappointing my readers here, I had very little interest in goings on in the Republic of Ireland prior to my being there on a permanent basis. Yeah, I knew Cadbury's chocolate tasted different, and I'd been to Donegal on holidays and to Castleblayney on Saturday nights and I'd learned a bit about it at school. But I'd gone off to England and hadn't paid it much attention for the preceding six or seven years, so I was happy to believe the stories circulating at the time that it was a reasonably decent place and I probably assumed you automatically had free health care because that was just the way things were.
But no.
So anyway, my late twenties passed without major health-related incidents, and I didn't give the health system that much thought. But then my wife became pregnant and she had to go to doctors and hospital consultations. And it was then I had to confront the reality that health care in Ireland is an absolute fucking joke.
But before I probe the specifics, let me say something about the patients. I'm talking about the Irish patients here. Most foreign people I have spoken to are well aware that the health system is a disaster area. But most Irish people, while they will acknowledge that there are general problems relating to health care, are so awed by the symbolic power of doctors and consultants, who are like the symbolic first cousins of monsignors and bishops, only ones who can kill you, that they cannot see the deficiencies when it relates to their own specific situation. They could get their piles treated with a splintery fencepost shoved up their ass and most of them would respond by saying that it was grand altogether and the doctor was lovely.
So anyway, maternity care. Call me old fashioned, but the fact that in the course of human history women have proven capable of giving birth in all sorts of straitened and desperate circumstances and their children have survived is not really sufficient justification for treating them like cattle. I'm talking here about the VHI semi-private care, which involves consultants. I went along a few times to the semi-private clinic in Holles Street, where my wife would see a consultant. It was conducted out of a set of mobile units, and there'd be a long queue down the stairs, the little reception area crammed with women 7, 8 months pregnant, on their feet, in various states of discomfort.
But fair play to the consultant, by Hippocrates he got through those women at an impressive clip. They'd get weighed, and then the consultant would see them for the best part of two minutes. I watched him. The way he wielded that blood pressure thing, the way he'd have a quick feel around. It looked like the sort of thing that someone on one-fifth his salary might be able to do. But ah! Would they have that consultantly gravitas and paternalistic chuckle? How could you be sure that they hadn't been out all night testing headshop products? What if they missed out on some vital detail and you ended up giving birth to a runt pig instead of a baby? That's the secret of the consultant, and the continued existence of private health insurance: a fear premium. People are primed to think that the system is shit, so they pay over the odds for some of that old time authority or marginally better quality to provide some assurance that the system is a little less likely to kill you. And then the consultant chuckles all the way to the bank, safe from the penuries of living on Mickey Mouse money.
Anyway, enough details. Point is that there is no good reason for the Irish health system to be the way it is, unless you consider its use as an instrument of terror by the rich against the poor as a good reason. As with many other aspects of the Irish oligarchy, in so far as there is a 'public debate' on such matters, the dice are loaded in the oligarchy's favour. So there won't be much 'debate' that deviates from the general theme of "Don't touch our taxes! Don't do any funny shit like try and redistribute income and wealth downward! You will be poor AND you will die! On the other hand, sit still and shut the fuck up while I confiscate a few billion for this zombie bank-cum-health insurance-cum-cement thing! Your life depends on it."
Well, I recommend a second opinion.


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The primary care expert advisory group has been replaced by the integrated advisory group.
The primary care expert advisory group (EAG) provided independent advice to the Commission and the Commission's other expert advisory groups. The advice informed the Commission's engagement with primary care and helped identify activities to improve the quality of primary care services, and health and disability services more broadly.
Terms of reference
The EAG terms of reference are available to download in word and PDF formats.
- John Wellingham
- Bridget Allan
- Elaine Brazendale
- Martin Carrell
- Brendan Duck
- David Grayson
- Rawiri Jansen
- Peter Jones
- Kieran McCann
- Allan Moffitt
- Leanne Te Karu
- Les Toop
- Sue Wells
- Virginia Willis
John Wellingham (Chair)
John's personal goal is to achieve effective and efficient team-based processes that support high quality patient-centred and evidence-based care in primary care. John has 30 years' experience in New Zealand general practice and is a consultant for 7/10. He is a Director of Healthcare of New Zealand Holdings Ltd., Apollo Medical Ltd. and ex Director of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners (RNZCGP). John chairs the RNZCGP working groups on the Aiming for Excellence review and the Foundation Standards, and is a member of the Cornerstone governance committee. He was also part of the Ministry of Health IPIF (integrated performance and incentive framework) measures working group.
Bridget Allan
Bridget Allan has worked in a wide range of roles in the New Zealand health care sector including research, planning, operational and strategic management, project management and governance in the public sector. During the 1990s, she was the Chief Executive Officer of Hauora Hokianga, an integrated primary health organisation (PHO) serving a rural population of almost 10,000 predominantly Māori in the Far North. From 2005–12, she was the Director, Planning and Funding at Hutt Valley District Health Board (DHB). She is currently the Chief Executive of Te Awakairangi Health Network, the PHO covering the Hutt Valley.
Elaine Brazendale
Elaine is a locally-elected district councillor and is Deputy Mayor of Carterton District Council. She has worked in local government for almost 20 years.
Her career began in health governance in 1986, elected on to the last of the hospital boards (Wairarapa) and was the Chair of a community health committee during the time of area health boards. She was then appointed for two terms to the Wairarapa Crown Health Enterprise board. Elaine was appointed to the Wairarapa PHO as a community rep and became chair. When the Wairarapa Community PHO ceased she was then was nominated to represent the Wairarapa GP practices who have a position on the Compass Health PHO and has almost completed three years.
She is a mother and grandmother, lived on a dairy farm for 30 years in partnership with her husband and now lives in town, retired from full-time work. Elaine and her husband have fostered children over a 20-year period. She is an officer in the order of St John and currently on the local area committee. She has also been involved with Red Cross for many years serving at regional and national board levels and is currently serving a second term on the Wairarapa Area Council.
Elaine represents the Carterton District Council on the Carter Society (community housing) and manages a 41 bed resthome, villa and soon to be community housing for the elderly. Elaine was born and went to school in the Wairarapa and was a bank officer before being married. She enjoys gardening, reading and knitting and helping out with her grandchildren in her spare time.
Martin Carrell
Martin is a quality programme manager with Pegasus Health assisting general practices with the achievement of their quality standard requirements and supporting the PHO with a range of continuous improvement initiatives. He has extensive experience contributing to the design and development of quality systems including assessment and moderation processes.
Martin is a current member of the Commission's patient experience survey governance group, chair of the PHO quality improvement network, and is part of the RNZCGP working group for the review of their 'aiming for excellence' quality standard incorporating Cornerstone and foundation standards. He has been a contributing writer for the aiming for excellence interpretation guide and is a current Cornerstone and foundation standard assessor.
Brendan Duck
Brendan has been a pharmacist since 2000, with a variety of experience in the Bay of Plenty and Taranaki. In 2010, Brendan furthered his study in clinical pharmacy, taking an interest in clinical pharmacy within a primary care setting. In 2013, Brendan completed a postgraduate certificate in pharmacist prescribing, and in 2014 registered as a pharmacist prescriber within the area of diabetes and cardiovascular risk management.
In 2011, Brendan joined the clinical pharmacist facilitator team at Health Hawke's Bay/Hawke's Bay DHB. He was part of the initial team developing the clinical pharmacist facilitator role within Hawke's Bay primary care, charged with incorporating clinical pharmacists into general practice. Currently Brendan is working with two general practice teams focusing on polypharmacy within aged residential care and patients >65 years, and medication utilisation within a high needs practice (65 percent Māori, Pacific Island and Quintile 5).
Brendan is a member of the Clinical Advisory Pharmacist Association and falls minimisation committee with Hawke's Bay DHB.
David Grayson
David is the Clinical Director of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery at North Shore Hospital, Waitemata DHB. He is also Waitemata DHB's Clinical Lead for patient safety and patient experience. David has a strong interest in systems approaches for safer care as well as the use of social media to enhance patient experience.
David was previously head of the Department of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery at Counties Manukau Health. He was also a senior clinician at Ko Awatea Centre for health system innovation and improvement where his focus is on curating improvement networks. David guided the formation of the Safety in Practice collaborative across the Auckland region. He has over 20 years' experience as a clinician with a focus on quality improvement and patient safety.
Rawiri Jansen
Rawiri is of Ngati Hinerangi and Ngati Raukawa descent. He is currently a GP in Auckland and an RNZCGP Fellow. He is the former Chairperson of Te ORA (Māori Medical Practitioners Association). Rawiri also serves the National Hauora Coalition as a Clinical Director of the ManaKidz and Director of OLA Coalition Ltd delivering the Auckland-wide healthy housing initiative.
Peter Jones
Peter is chief advisor in the office of the chief medical officer providing clinical leadership across various Ministry of Health work programmes and inter-agency initiatives. Peter combines this part time role with clinical rheumatology practice.
Kieran McCann
Kieran has over 20 years' experience in health services management and change programme management in both the UK and New Zealand. These initiatives include:
- integrated family health centre developments
- regional services planning and integration programmes
- model of care developments including hospital specialists, community mental health, district nursing and pharmacists working with and in general practices
- major capital development programmes including Auckland City and Wellington Regional Hospital rebuilds.
Kieran's recent roles have included General Manager of Integrated Services and Deputy Chief Operating Officer at Hawke's Bay DHB. He was previously General Manager of Clinical Services at Wairarapa DHB and held senior management roles at the Ministry of Health, and Capital & Coast and Auckland DHBs.
Allan Moffitt
Allan is an experienced clinician with nearly 30 years' experience in general practice. He currently works one day a week at a pacific (predominantly Samoan) practice in Otara, where he has worked for the past 10 years, having previously owned his own practice in Howick for 17 years.
He has had extensive experience in the health care sector at senior executive level from Director Primary Care at Counties Manukau DHB to Clinical/Medical Director of four PHOs including Midlands Health Network, Alliance Health Plus, East Health Trust and currently ProCare.
Allan is passionate about making a difference through a 'whole of system' perspective and integrated care. He was responsible for overseeing the integrated care programme at Counties Manukau Health including expanding the chronic care management programme and more latterly has been involved in developing the 'At risk individual' programme. He was involved in early work involving collaboratives in primary care relating to long-term condition management, and was national sponsor for the primary care arm of Optimising the Patient Journey (Year of Care).
More recently he championed patient safety and been a key driver in the 'Safety in practice' programme launched by Counties Manukau Health. He brings many perspectives including planning and funding as well as those of a grassroots clinician.
Leanne Te Karu
Leanne is a pharmacist prescriber based in Taupo. She is also a clinical advisor for BPACnz, an advisor for the Health Quality & Safety Commission, a member of the Ministry of Health-appointed Pharmacy Steering Group Committee, and she is on the Executive of the Māori Pharmacists' Association, having previously been their president for nine years. Leanne is passionate and driven to help whānau understand and negotiate the health system.
Les Toop
Les has worked as a principal in an inner city group general practice in Philipstown, South East Christchurch, since 1986. He trained in Bristol and Edinburgh and first came to New Zealand in 1978.
Les is also Professor of General Practice and Head of the Department of General Practice at the University of Otago Medical School in Christchurch. He is actively involved in undergraduate and post-graduate education, working both to promote and reduce variation in evidence-based clinical practice, within the context of enhanced shared decision-making. He has been actively involved in community-based and practical, useful clinical research for 30 years.
Les is also Chair of the Pegasus Health group of companies.
Sue Wells
Sue is an Associate Professor of Health Innovation and Quality Improvement at the School of Population Health, University of Auckland. Sue was a GP for 10 years before becoming a public health medicine specialist and moving into a research career. Her research focused on improving care for heart disease and diabetes via ehealth initiatives such as PREDICT (a web-based decision support system for assessing and managing cardiovascular and diabetes risk) and Your Heart Forecast (a CVD risk communication tool).
The PREDICT program has simultaneously generated a large primary care cohort (currently over 450,000 people) for CVD risk prediction research and monitoring gaps and disparities in care. In 2012–13, Sue had a Harkness Fellowship and investigated how delivery systems in the United States of America used patient portals to enhance engagement and interaction with health services for patients with chronic disease. In 2014, she was named one of seven e-health ambassadors for New Zealand, supporting the health sector to adopt patient portals.
Virginia Willis
Virginia Willis (Ginny) is a prescribing nurse practitioner with 21 years' experience working in primary health care. She has mainly worked in large practice's which are affiliated to a PHO.
Her experience includes: management (staff and patient), assessment, advocacy, integration of health services, developing and implementing health policies and protocols, nursing services, health protection and maintenance, health promotion, health education and professional development of self and staff. These responsibilities are undertaken as part of an integrated professional practice team.
Virginia enjoys extra workplace activities that include publications, having a voice at management and Ministry of Health-level in New Zealand primary health care and being an advocate for staff and nursing.
She has several governance roles within her PHO including: board member for the Pinnacle Executive Committee which governs the Midlands Health Network, Pinnacle Education Committee and Pinnacle Nursing Committee.
She works in a large urban general practice which is a concept site for the new model of care and the health care home. She is passionate about primary health care and enjoys her role as a prescribing nurse practitioner, increasing access to health care providers in primary health care.
Kate has also worked as Executive Director of Clinical Services at Wellington Free Ambulance. She is the former Deputy Chair of the Wellington South-East PHO, and currently sits on the Medic Alert Board.


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Discussions on insolvency have gathered momentum over the past few months and we see reams of newsprint being spent deliberating on this vital topic.
Amit Jain
Discussions on insolvency have gathered momentum over the past few months and we see reams of newsprint being spent deliberating on this vital topic. We are starting to see the resolution process coming to a close for the initially admitted cases with a mixed bag of results. A steel firm is acquired by a reputed Indian conglomerate for Rs 35,000 crore; another being acquired by a global conglomerate for Rs 5,000 crore; yet another Indian conglomerate bidding Rs 5,000 crore for a leading textiles firm. There is one concept pivotal to all these situations—the liquidation value. So, what is this liquidation value concept and what is its relevance to the insolvency process? How to determine liquidation value? Are other concepts like fair value of business relevant?
The liquidation value concept is central to most insolvency laws for settling dues of operational creditors and dissenting financial creditors prior to financial creditors who approve the resolution plan. The code defines it as "the estimated realisable value of assets of the corporate debtor if the corporate debtor were to be liquidated on the insolvency commencement date".
Assets that can be liquidated in such cases are primarily hard/fixed assets like real estate and plant and machinery. In case of plant and machinery, first the current new cost of the equipment has to be estimated based on parameters like model, capacity, whether imported or indigenous, adjusting for duties or tax structures, providing for installation or commissioning expenses or soft costs. Depreciation effect is then applied on the new cost of the equipment for ageing.
Soft costs like preoperative expenses or interest cost are not included. Adjustments are done for (1) repair costs, (2) dismantling costs, (3) dismantling loss, (4) cost of auctioning and time value of money. In general, the above mentioned adjustments make a dent in the fair value of assets to the tune of 60-70%. For land, various marketability and rush sale discount are applied on the market value.
During the various resolution processes under way in the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), many bids came in at various levels as compared to the liquidation value. Some came in at two times, others were closer to the liquidation value. Market participants looking at bidding for these companies look at various aspects including its status as operating or non-operating, quality of tangible assets, possible synergy with their existing business, and business assets (brand, customer contracts, goodwill, etc).
While bidding process is a way to discover the market value of business that bankers could get, they could possibly do with some help. The idea that a techno-commercial business valuation be done (of the business facing insolvency) in addition to liquidation valuation is worth a debate. While recent amendments to the IBC do refer to a need for fair value, but it still talks of fair value of assets and does not specify the need for an enterprise/business valuation. A business valuation range may come to the assistance of bankers who have to decide on the adequacy of the bids received.
Valuation is an important part of the corporate insolvency resolution process, and a proper understanding of liquidation value is crucial to protect the interest of stakeholders and to formulate a compliant resolution plan. Any errors in determining liquidation value in the corporate insolvency resolution process can have far-reaching consequences, including the effect of undermining of reversing any resolution plan that may be approved based on an incorrect liquidation value. Introduction of other valuation concepts like business value are worth a debate and may be of assistance to bankers in facilitating decision-making.
The IBC 2016 has been one of the far-reaching reforms of the Indian economy, and one must give it due credit for the impact it has made in a brief period of less than two years. These are early days and we are certain that amendments would be made, and new concepts introduced to make it even more effective in the times to come.
The Author is Partner, KPMG in India
(Urvesh Mehta contributed to the article.)
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Tips before Buying Health Supplements Online
You may be into bodybuilding or perhaps, just want to shed off that extra fat in your body and thinking of buying health supplements. And what better way of getting it than buying them over the web? Well, it seems to be an easy and convenient task. But it's ironic because the moment that you get into it, it simply feels daunting with series of questions as well as doubts running into your mind.
You may be thinking of which supplements are best to buy, does it have possible side effects, how fast the delivery is going to be and would it be an authentic thing? These are only few of the typical questions that are scaring a number of customers before clicking that "buy" button on any online store. This is the exact reason why we have compiled the basic tips that can give you peace of mind when searching for supplements online and have better transparency as well on the website where you are buying it from.
Number 1. Social Media
The business' Facebook page tells a lot about the brand and it can help you learn a lot of things from them as well. The most important thing is that, you check at how many people are following the brand. This can almost instantly inform you how popular that brand is among others.
Another thing that you have to take into account are the comments dropped on the comment section by customers. Basically, Facebook reviews are among the few genuine and verified reviews that you can ever get since they've come from active profiles.
Number 2. Return Policy
Among the vital things that you have to take into consideration is finding and reading on any website that you like to buy from. Having easy refund and return policy must be stated clearly together with the link in the site's footer. Make it a point that you have read every word on the document so by that, you know that you're covered in the event that you have decided to send back the supplement if you are not satisfied with it.
Number 3. Authenticity
In case that the above does not help, then ask questions if the health supplement is authentic and genuine. Customers are encouraged to download free barcode scanner application on their phones and scan the barcode all the time which is found at the back of the supplement. This is regardless whether they're buying it from an online store or a retail store. What's more, the product details do include the batch number as well as expiry dates and it can be directly sent to the brand in verifying its authenticity.
Number 4. Logistics Partner
It is your job to figure out who the store is in partnered with for their courier service especially if Cash on Delivery or COD is available. Majority of the good and respected courier partners ensure that there is a safe protocol and fast delivery of the health supplements to your doorsteps.


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The Age of Information
Will Durant became widely known for his early books, especially The Story of Philosophy.* My copy is from 1933, the 15th printing. A yelloeing newspaper clipping is inside; it is an interview with the Durants in 1963 by Jim Bishop, and includes a brief account of their 1913 marriage: Ariel was 15 years old; Will, her tutor, was 25; yet they obtained approval to marry. She rollerskated to the courthouse; a ring she wore ever after was donated by an attendant; the marriage lasted 68 years until their deaths two weeks apart. Ariel was a collaborator in all of the Durant's subsequent books, and co-authored the later ones; their commitment and devotion is palpable in the dedication of Story of Philosoply which reads:
To My Wife
Grow strong, my comrade… that you may stand
Unshaken when I fall; that I may know
the shattered fragments of my song will come
at last to finer melody in you;
that I may tell my heart that you begin
where passing I leave off, and fathom more.
The same features of Durant's book that made it popular were offensive to many formal historians: it is clearly written, and contains opinion, commentary, and humor. In other words, it was written to be read. understood, and enjoyed. As I open up my old copy again, the preface pages seem relevant to us in the 21st century; "Science teaches us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces the death rate retail, then kills us wholesale in war." .They argue that only wisdom, as revealed through "desire coordinated in the light of experience, ( philosophy) can tell us when to heal and when to kill." I will suggest that the world-wide chaos all around us in this new century is only another chapter in an imagined Story of Creation: There is no author other than humanity:
Book One, The Age of Agriculture is unfinished. It begins with the creation of farming and husbandry, which promote stable communities at the expense of hunter-gathering. Stable communities lead to social order, and in time, to science, art, land ownership, geometry, mathematics, commerce, architecture, rule of law. The chapter now being written in an increasingly urban 21st century is titled, Malthus, Speak.
Book Two, The age of Information, is also unfinished. Its dominant theme is that to create easy access to information can lead to chaos, which in turn, creates change in human behavior. How ironic and circular it is that humankind creates that which creates change in humanity! The chapter on the Biblical Genesis suggests that too much knowledge– information– is too much power; and power is something humans do not manage well. When the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge is eaten, God becomes enraged and expels Adam and Eve from Eden. Now we billions of tiny fleshy gods suffer from knowledge: Infomania, or infodynia.
The chapter on the creation of the Printing Press was about the time when printed information became available to the entire world, information formerly accessible only to Church, Wealth and Monarchy (one and the same). The result is a still evolving revolution in various degrees, and weakening of the three-in-one powers. Only Wealth seems still healthy; yet for how long? Perhaps we shall see. Many grotesquely wealthy people are divesting through charity already, aware that their life is finite, and wealth is anathematic when hundreds of millions of people, whose voices, unheard light years distant, are now loud and clear on Social Media.
The chapter on information is still being written but, Ready or not, Social Media is here now, vital and alive, making books, magazines, and TV Old Media; still of interest but mainly in retrospect. We might have noticed the change when Talk Radio heralded new media, but was less interactive. Social Media, in countries where not suppressed, is egalitarian, and remains in the hands of the limitless number of individuals whose collective voice is very loud even though each one by itself is– pipsqueak– unless it goes 'viral'. That Info-genie, is out of the bottle; it's body is made up of various aspects of the internet, browsers, email, skype etc.; social media is its mind and voice, where live information is instantly available to almost anyone, anywhere. Any image, any idea, can spread in minutes around the globe. Any single voice can be heard. Meanwhile traditional top down sources of information shrivel , snivel, and fail: newspapers shrink to the size of circulars, sirviving on snippets of local news, and remunerative misleading medical or cure-all ads. Information offered on TV remains stale, dull, repetitive, and uniform; talking heads are entertainers on the order of professional wrestlers or football players, but less entertaining; some are serial sexual predators, violent scofflaws and drug users, yet they foppishly foist political views on viewers who turn to free media, social media. However we face a tsunami of information which creates chaos, both internal and societal. We are unable to evaluate, filter and sort it all. And until we are able to live wisely, and adapt, or create new ways of dealing with all this information, we are likely to remain factionalized, frustrated, fragile, and furious.
The Durant position is that people gnerally lack wisdom, which they see as the realm of philosophy. They decry epistemology, as an analytic approach or scientification of philosophy. The introductory paragraph in The Story of Philosophy, titled To the Reader suggests that:
'epistemology has kidnapped modern philosophy'.
'the knowledge-process … (is) the business of science,
'philosophy (is) interpretation of … experience rather than (its) analytic description'
'Analysis belongs to science, and gives us knowledge, while
'philosophy must provide a synthesis… wisdom.'
The four and a half page extended introduction expands on these assertions. "… to seize the value and perspective of passing things, and …pull ourselves up out of the maelstrom of daily circumstance we need to know that …Science is analytical description, ( while) philosophy is synthetic interpretation. The philosopher 'tries to put together that great universe-watch that science has taken apart". The Durants claim that if we break philosophy down like scientists, into– logic: ideal method in thought; esthetics: ideal form; ethics: ideal conduct; Politics: ideal organization; and Metaphysics: ultimate reality, " it becomes dismembered, loses its beauty and joy. That is found by studying philosophers. We have had the same experiences they had but we did not suck those experiences dry of their secret and subtle meanings. So let us listen, ready to forgive errors, and eager to learn." So maybe this is a good time to hear the philosophers speak to us through a book that is clear, short, enjoyable, and perhaps can make us a bit more wise.
*The Story of Philosophy, 412 pp, focuses on the West, and excludes Asia. But the first volume of their 12 volume History of Civilization is devoted to Eastern Philosophy and History. Caution: 1150 pp. Both are free PDF on-line. But not without cost: that of mostly shutting down Critter, Glitter, Fritter, and to some extent, email, Siri and Browser. Enjoy!
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Akothee's daughter Celly Rue Brown, alias Rue Baby, has opened up on why she is not dating and why she won't date anytime soon.
Speaking to Massawe on Radio Jambo, the 20-year-old confessed that she fears her mothers reaction if she gets to know she is dating.
Even though she showed some interest in Kibaki's grandson, Rue said she has never dated.
"I don't know how she would react when she realizes I am dating. That was just crushing and I moved on.
I am not seeing anyone at the moment because I think in my state, it is not easy to find a man who is genuine because most men want to be associated with my mum's wealth.
I have never been in a serious relationship because I fear my mum, who still thinks that we are young and she does not want us to follow her path of getting children at an early age, as she did."
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Akothee is known for her dramatic life on social media, where she does not tolerate anyone who tries to troll her.
Growing up under a disciplinarian was not easy, Rue said.
"My mum was very rough and wanted us to be so disciplined. We did not start at the peak and we were hustlers from scratch, and she (Akothee) taught us to respect people," she said.
There was a time I even disagreed with her because I felt that she was discriminating us by favouring some of us. Like for me, I needed her attention, which she was not giving to me."
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Rue said her mother did not want her children to be in public. So how does Rue handle trolls?
"If we feel affected by trolls on social media, we tell our mother and she handles that. I have been trolled a thousand times but I talk to my mum," she said.
The worst troll that affected me was when people said I was walking naked because I was in a short. It affected me for a whole week."
Rue says she does not want her mother to get more children. "I feel we are so many and we all need her attention," she said.
Rue Baby has won several awards, including the Face of Nivea modelling competition, to become Nivea's ambassador for the year 2017-18, best model at the Diaspora Entertainment Awards, and Recognition (Dear) 2018 edition.


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