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I am a British born, living in Canada since May of 1989. My blog is about all aspects of my daily life.
Monday, July 4, 2011
The story behind the 26,000 emails.........
30 years today me and dh went out on our first date. I would think we went to the pub, can't really remember anything else about it. It is also one of my niece's birthday's today she is 15 years of age, just seems like yesterday when she was born. Time is certainly flying by fast.
I have just read the book, "Jesus, My Father, The CIA, and Me, A memoir of sorts," by Ian Morgan Cron
"When I first discovered the grainy picture in my mother's desk—me as a towheaded two year old sitting in what I remember was a salmon-orange-stained lifeboat—I was overwhelmed by the feeling that the boy in the boat was not waving and laughing at the person snapping the photo as much as he was frantically trying to get the attention of the man I am today. The boy was beckoning me to join him on a voyage through the harrowing straits of memory. He was gambling that if we survived the passage, we might discover an ocean where the past would become the wind at our back rather than a driving gale to the nose of our boat. This book is the record of that voyage."
Reading the excerpt of the book, I must admit I didn't know what to expect exactly, but the title intrigued me so I thought I would give it a go. Will admit to it being slow going at first but once you get into it you will be pleasantly surprised.
You go through an array of emotions, from laughing out loud at the funny stories he tells you, to being sad and angry at the way his alcoholic father treats the author. He also takes you through the ups and downs of his love/hate relationship with the church and God.
Its well worth the read and not overly hard.
Stars out of 5: 3.5 it wasn't the best book out there but a pretty interesting read, which will make you appreciate what you have in life.
"Book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc.
Available at your favourite bookseller from Thomas Nelson".
6 comments:
- Sandi McBride said...
I love reading and right now am really into the Stepanie Plum mystery series by Janet Evanovich...she's funny and fun! Will be looking for this book from your review...sounds interesting.
- July 4, 2011 at 8:18 AM
- Karine said...
That certainly does sound like a different sort of book! I am still reading Edward Rutherfurd's 'London' and will be for a while! It is an amazing book though!
As for the e-mails, I had no clue you had to deleted them from a server before they were really gone? I would never even bother, like you!
- July 4, 2011 at 10:08 AM
Hi Gill- I am one of your faithful readers from Long Island, New York. I've been reading and enjoying your blog for some time now. I just saw that you and your hubby started dating 30 years ago today-same as me and my hubby! What a coincidence! Happy 'Anniversary'!! And from the US, Happy 4th of July! ~Liz K
- July 4, 2011 at 10:36 AM
- Grumpy Old Ken said...
I throw computers away when they're full, cant get the hang of deleting etc!
- July 4, 2011 at 11:03 AM
- Stella Jones said...
You've prompted me to go check my other email accounts. I bet I've got a stash of rubbish waiting to be deleted too!
The book sounds bizarre. You did a good review on it.
- July 4, 2011 at 2:36 PM
- DeniseinVA said...
That sounds like a wonderful book review. My first date with hubby was a drive over Dartmoor in my rusty old mini that had a leaking radiator problem :) I loved that old grey mini, rust and all.
- July 4, 2011 at 4:58 PM


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I've just updated my Keeping Score page for November. …finally an up month!
Category Archives: Constructing a Portfolio
tariffs and the stock market
The Trump administration has just triggered the latest round of tit-for-tat tariffs with China, declaring 10% duties on $200 billion of imports (the rate to be raised to 25% after the holiday shopping season). China has responded with tariffs on $60 billion of its imports from the US. Domestic firms affected by the Trump tariffs are already announcing price increases intended to pass on to consumers all of the new government levy.
It isn't necessarily that simple, though. The open question is about market power. Theory–and practical experience–show that if a manufacturer/supplier has all the market power, then it can pass along the entire cost increase. To the degree that the customer has muscles to flex, however, the manufacturer will find it hard to increase prices without a significant loss of sales. If so (and this is the usual case), the company will be forced to absorb some of the tariff cost, lowering profits.
From an analyst's point of view, the worst case is the one where a company's customers are especially price-sensitive and where substitutes are readily available–or where postponing a purchase is a realistic option.
Looking at the US stock market in general, as I see it, investors factored into stock prices in a substantial way last year the corporate tax cut that came into effect in January. They seem to me to be discounting this development again (very unusual) as strong, tax reduction-fueled earnings are reported this year. However, the tax cut is going to be "anniversaried" in short order–meaning that reported earnings gains in 2019 are likely going to be far smaller than this year's. The Fed will also presumably be continuing to raise short-term interest rates. Tariffs will be at least another tap on the brakes, perhaps more than that.
Because of this, I find it hard to imagine big gains for the S&P 500 next year. In fact, I'm imagining the market as kind of flattish. Globally-oriented firms that deal in services rather than goods will be the most insulated from potential harm. There will also be beneficiaries of Washington's tariff actions, although the overall effect of the levies will doubtless be negative. For suppliers to China or users of imported Chinese components, the key issues will be the extent of Chinese exposure and the market power they wield.
PS Hong Kong-based China stocks have sold off very sharply over the past few months. I'm beginning to make small buys.
Keeping Score for July 2018
I've just updated my Keeping Score page for a surprisingly strong (to me, anyway) July. Sector rotation is the main message.
going back up?
As far as US stock are concerned, I don't know.
As/when the correction is over, however, it's very important to look for signs of a leadership change. At a minimum, one former hot industry/sector typically grows ice cold; at least one former laggard heats up. Figuring this out and tweaking/reorienting your portfolio can make a big difference in this year's returns.
~$70 a barrel crude oil
prices equity investors watch
Investors who are not oil specialists typically use (at most) two crude oil prices as benchmarks:
—Brent, a light crude from under the North Sea. Today it is selling at just about $70 a barrel. "Light" means just what it says. Brent is rich in smaller, less-heavy molecules that are easily turned into high-value products like gasoline, diesel or jet fuel. It contains few large, denser molecules that require specialized refinery equipment to be turned into anything except low-value boiler fuel or asphalt. Because it can be used in older refinery equipment that's still hanging around in bunches in the EU, it typically trades at a premium
—West Texas intermediate, which is somewhat heavier and produced, as the name suggests, onshore in the US. It is going for just under $64 a barrel this morning.
What's remarkable about this is that we're currently nearing the yearly low point for crude oil demand. The driving season–April through September–is long since over. And for crude bought, say three weeks from now, it's not clear it can be refined into heating oil and delivered to retail customers before the winter heating season is over.
Yet WTI is up from its 2017 low of $45 a barrel last July and from $57 a barrel in early December. The corresponding figures for Brent are $45 and $65. (Note that there was no premium for Brent in July. I really don't know why–some combination of traders' despair and weak end user demand in Europe.)
why the current price strength?
Several factors, most important first:
–OPEC oil producers continue to restrain output to create a floor under the price
–they're being successful at their objective, as the gradual reduction of up-to-the-eyeballs world inventories–and the current price, of course–show
–the $US is weakening somewhat.
My Lighting class is calling, so I'll finish this tomorrow. The bottom line for me, though: I think relative strength in oil exploration and production companies will continue.
Keeping Score for September and year-to-date
I've just updated my Keeping Score page for September, 3Q17 and year-to-date. IT continues its remarkable run. Utilities et al continue to falter.
yesterday's S&P 500 stock price action
Yesterday may have marked an inflection point in the US stock market. Today's potential follow through, if it happens, will give us a better idea.
Domestically, Mr. Trump appears to be moving on from pressing his social program to tax reform–and, maybe, infrastructure spending, both of which are issues of potentially great positive economic significance. At the same time, results of the first round of the French presidential election (which pollsters got right, for once) seem to suggest the threat that France might leave the euro, thereby reducing the fabric of the EU to tatters, is diminishing.
yesterday's S&P 500
How did Wall Street react to this news? The sector breakout of yesterday's returns, according to Google Finance, are as follows:
Staples +1.7%
Finance +1.6%
Industrials +1.4%
Materials +1.2%
Healthcare +1.1%
Energy +0.8%
Consumer discretionary +0.7%
Utilities +0.6%
Telecom +0.3%.
Staples led the pack, presumably because this sector has the greatest exposure to Europe–and a rising euro. Financials advanced significantly also, on the idea that stronger economic growth will lead to rising interest rates, a situation that benefits banks.
Industrials and Materials perked up as well. Again, these are sectors that benefit from accelerating economic growth.
Energy marches to the beat of its own drummer. The rest are consistent with the story behind the winning sectors, either defensives or beneficiaries of moderate (that is, not rip-roaring) economic performance.
My guess is that this pattern may continue for a while yet. Personally, I'm most comfortable participating through Financials and IT.


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Golf Courses Decreasing Water Use
According to a national survey containing information from nearly 2,000 superintendents- independently analyzed by scientists at PACE Turf and the National Golf foundation- golf course superintendents used 21.8 percent less water overall to maintain their courses in 2013, compared with usage data from 2005. In addition to this reduction, they used 33 percent more recycled water since the last study. Conducted by the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA) the study was funded by the United States Golf Association (USGA) through GCSAA's Environmental Institute for Golf (EIFG).
"This study shows us that the golf industry has been addressing water issues for some time and is realizing positive results. The numbers show that golf course superintendents across the country have reduced water consumption," said Wendy Gelernter, Ph.D., co-owner of PACE Turf, which has been providing data analysis for the golf industry for more than 25 years. "There is always room for improvement, however, and I think we will see even less water being used and fewer acres being irrigated in the years ahead."
The study also revealed, most likely not surprising for those in the green industry, that water usage is lowest in the Northeast and highest in the Southeast and Southwest (where year round turf growth and play are possible).
"The golf course superintendent profession is committed to science-based technologies and environmental stewardship," said Rhett Evans, CEO of GCSAA. "We hope that this national study will demonstrate our commitment to efficient water management and inspire the industry to continue to lead in the future. In the end, water management is about providing playing conditions that satisfy the needs of golfers today without compromising the needs of the future."
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Reducing health inequalities is a key objective for many governments and public health organizations. Whether inequalities are measured on the absolute (difference) or relative (ratio) scale can have a significant impact on judgments about whether health inequalities are increasing or decreasing, but both of these measures are not often presented in empirical studies. In this study we investigated the impact of selective presentation of health inequality measures on judgments of health inequality trends among 40 university undergraduates. We randomized participants to see either a difference or ratio measure of health inequality alongside raw mortality rates in 5 different scenarios. At baseline there were no differences between treatment groups in assessments of inequality trends, but selective exposure to the same raw data augmented with ratio versus difference inequality graphs altered participants' assessments of inequality change. When absolute inequality decreased and relative inequality increased, exposure to ratio measures increased the probability of concluding that inequality had increased from 32.5% to 70%, but exposure to difference measures did not (35% vs. 25%). Selective exposure to ratio versus difference inequality graphs thus increased the difference between groups in concluding that inequality had increased from 2.5% (95% CI −9.5% to 14.5%) to 45% (95% CI 29.4 to 60.6). A similar pattern was evident for other scenarios where absolute and relative inequality trends gave conflicting results. In cases where measures of absolute and relative inequality both increased or both decreased, we did not find any evidence that assignment to ratio vs. difference graphs had an impact on assessments of inequality change. Selective reporting of measures of health inequality has the potential to create biased judgments of progress in ameliorating health inequalities.
Citation: Harper S, King NB, Young ME (2013) Impact of Selective Evidence Presentation on Judgments of Health Inequality Trends: An Experimental Study. PLoS ONE 8(5): e63362. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0063362
Editor: Thomas Behrens, Universität Bochum, Germany
Received: January 24, 2013; Accepted: April 1, 2013; Published: May 16, 2013
Copyright: © 2013 Harper et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Funding: This work was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Operating Grant #107530). Sam Harper was supported by a chercheur boursier from Fonds de Recherche de santé du Quebec (FRSQ). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Reducing health inequalities is an important public health policy goal in many wealthy countries [1], [2]. However, measuring progress towards reducing health inequalities is rarely straightforward and involves a number of methodological considerations, including choice of reference points for measuring departures from equality, considerations of the size of social groups, and whether inequalities are expressed on the absolute or relative scale [3]–[5].
Whether inequalities are measured on the absolute (difference) or relative (ratio) scale can have a significant impact on judgments about whether health inequalities are increasing or decreasing [6]–[8]. In cases where rates of disease are declining for all groups, absolute and relative measures of inequality will diverge if the relative but not the absolute rate of decline is greater among the better off (i.e., healthier) group [6]. This suggests that empirical studies of health inequality trends that present only absolute or relative measures of inequality could bias judgments regarding progress in reducing inequalities. While reviews of measuring health inequalities [3], [9] typically recommend presenting both absolute and relative measures of inequality (consistent with the STrengthening the Reporting of OBservational Epidemiology (STROBE) guidelines [10]), many studies still rely exclusively on relative inequality measures [11]–[16].
Concerns about the scale of measures of health inequalities parallel those raised in the context of absolute and relative risks in clinical epidemiology. Previous research demonstrates that absolute risks are often not available in the abstracts or full text of reports of many clinical trials [17], and that health professionals' clinical decisions are influenced by the presentation of risks in absolute or relative terms [18]. However, to date there is little evidence on whether the selective presentation of absolute or relative health inequality measures influences judgments about the magnitude of health inequalities, or willingness to support health interventions. We used an experimental design to test whether judgments of the impacts of interventions on health inequalities may be influenced by the selective presentation of absolute or relative health inequality measures.
We recruited 40 students enrolled at McGill University (30 female, age range 17–37) to participate in this study in exchange for a $15 honorarium. Participants were recruited from on-line classified postings, were not restricted by course of study, and the only inclusion criterion was an ability to speak English with near-native fluency. Participants were orally briefed regarding the procedures of the experiment, and written consent was obtained from all participants. As this study involved minimal risk, per the Canadian Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans [19], we did not obtain additional consent from a caretaker, guardian, or next of kin on behalf of the 17-year old university student who participated in this study. The McGill University Faculty of Medicine Institutional Review Board approved this study, including the consent procedure, for university students of all ages.
Study Design
Upon arrival, participants were orally briefed regarding the procedures of the experiment, and written consent was obtained. Participants were asked to complete a custom computer-based task programmed using LiveCode (2009), in which they were asked to evaluate the impact of an intervention on the health of two populations. We used generic populations ("population A" and "population B") and fictional diseases [20] in order to limit the influence of participants' previous experience or information.
The present study was part of larger study of cognitive bias in the evaluation of health inequalities. In this study we presented individuals with graphical data on health inequalities in mortality (i.e. how many individuals to a maximum of 1,000 died) before and after a health intervention. For a given health intervention scenario, each of the 40 participants were randomized into one of two treatment arms, "difference" (n = 20) or "ratio" (n = 20). At Time 1 (pre-treatment) all participants were presented with "Raw Data": a single graph that displayed mortality rates for two populations (A and B) before and after an unspecified health intervention. At Time 2 (post-treatment) the "difference" group was shown the same "Raw Data" graph plus a graph that displayed a measure of absolute inequality (rate difference, Population A − B). Similarly, the "ratio" group was shown the "Raw Data" plus a graph that displayed a measure of relative inequality (rate ratio, Population A ÷ Population B). Figure 1 shows an example of the graphs used for a scenario where absolute inequality decreases but relative inequality increases. The order of the scenarios was randomized across participants, as were the fictional diseases. We hypothesized that the inclusion of either a difference or a ratio measure of inequality would affect respondents' judgments about whether inequality between the two groups increased or decreased.
We created 10 scenarios: 5 sets of 2 scenarios each. In 3 sets of scenarios absolute and relative measures were "inconsistent" – i.e., they disagreed with respect to whether inequality was increasing, decreasing, or staying constant (decreasing absolute inequality and increasing relative inequality; constant absolute inequality and increasing relative inequality; decreasing absolute inequality and constant relative inequality). In the other 2 sets of scenarios, absolute and relative measures were "consistent" – i.e., they agreed with respect to whether inequality was increasing, decreasing, or staying constant (both increasing; both decreasing). Within each scenario set, we varied the magnitude of the effect of the intervention to assess whether participant judgments were sensitive to smaller vs. larger changes in inequality. Table S1 lists the hypothetical mortality values and measures of relative and absolute inequality for all 10 scenarios.
For each scenario, at both Time 1 and Time 2 participants were asked to indicate their judgment regarding the following statement: "The inequality between population A and population B has: (a) decreased, (b) increased, (c) stayed the same, (d) don't know." Participants were also asked: 2) "How successful was the program in reducing inequality between population A and population B?" (7-point scale where 1 = not at all successful, and 7 = very successful); 3) "A $100 tax increase has been approved to fund various health initiatives, however how that increase will be used is still under debate. Remember that if you choose to dedicate some (or all) of that $100 to this health intervention, it will not be available for other interventions. So, of that $100 increase, how much would you dedicate to support the continuation of this health intervention?" (100 point scale from $0–100); and 4) "Should this intervention continue?" (7-point scale where 1 = Should definitely not continue, and 7 = Very definitely should continue).
Statistical Analysis
We used chi-square tests and regression to analyze the impact of selective exposure to graphs containing measures of absolute vs. relative inequality. For chi-square tests where expected cell sizes were less than 5 we used Fisher's exact significance test. For the main question of how inequality changed after the intervention we used logistic regression and defined the outcome as the response that was consistent with the measure of relative inequality. That is, for the scenarios where the ratio increased we estimated the likelihood of concluding that inequality had increased vs. any other response; for scenarios where the ratio decreased we estimated the likelihood of concluding that inequality had decreased vs. any other response; and similarly for scenarios where the ratio was constant. For respondent assessments of program success, willingness to donate money, and whether the intervention should continue we used linear regression. Because for each the 5 scenarios we also varied the magnitude of the intervention effect, in all the regression analyses we tested whether the treatment effect differed by the magnitude of the change in inequality (larger vs. smaller) by including a product term between treatment and the scenario variation in magnitude. For the logistic regression analysis we tested for heterogeneity on the absolute probability scale [21]. If there was evidence of a differential treatment effect by scenario magnitude we estimated separate treatment effects for larger vs. smaller inequality changes; if not, we pooled the larger and smaller scenarios and adjusted for magnitude using an indicator variable. Finally, using regression models adjusted for scenario magnitude we estimated marginal effects of the treatment on the probability of agreement with the relative inequality measure, holding constant scenario magnitude. All analyses were conducted using Stata 12 software (StataCorp, College Station, TX).
Table 1 shows the proportion of individual assessments of the post-intervention change in inequality for both treatment arms at Time 1 (raw data graph only), and at Time 2 (raw data graph plus a graph with an inequality measure). Chi-square tests for equality of proportions are also shown for differences between treatment groups. At Time 1 (raw data only) there were no differences across treatment groups in the proportion concluding that inequality had decreased, increased, or stayed the same. At Time 2 (raw data plus inequality graphs) assignment to seeing either difference or ratio measures of inequality alongside the raw data affected individuals' judgments of the direction of change in health inequality for the 3 inconsistent scenarios, but there was little variation by treatment arm for the 2 consistent scenarios. Table 1 also shows some evidence that in cases of inconsistent relative and absolute inequality trends individual assessments (regardless of treatment) tend to reflect absolute inequality trends. For example, with decreasing absolute and increasing relative inequality, roughly 60% of both treatment groups concluded that inequality had decreased when viewing only the raw data.
For judgments of inequality change we found no evidence of treatment heterogeneity by scenario magnitude, with p-values of 0.236, 0.152, and 0.400 for the 3 inconsistent inequality scenarios, and 0.573 and 0.471 for the 2 consistent inequality scenarios. Thus we pooled across larger and smaller magnitudes of inequality changes, and adjusted for magnitude using regression.
Figure 2 shows, for each set of scenarios, marginal estimates from logistic regression models of the probability of the respondent agreeing with the ratio measure of inequality, holding constant the magnitude of the inequality change. For the first set of inconsistent scenarios, in which absolute inequalities declined but relative inequalities increased, individuals randomized to be shown graphs including ratio or difference measures of inequality did not differ in their assessments of whether inequalities had increased when shown only the raw data (32.5% vs. 35.0% at pre-treatment). After exposure to scenarios that included both the raw data and graphs displaying a ratio measure of inequality, the proportion of individuals concluding that inequality had increased rose to 70% (95% confidence interval (CI): 55.5 to 84.5). In contrast, among those exposed to the same raw data and a difference measure of inequality, the proportion concluding inequality had increased fell to 25% (95% CI 11.5 to 38.5), which was not statistically distinguishable from their pre-treatment assessment. Selective exposure to ratio versus difference inequality graphs thus increased the difference between groups in concluding that inequality had increased from 2.5% (95% CI −9.5% to 14.5%) to 45% (95% CI 29.4 to 60.6).
For scenarios in which absolute inequality remained constant, while relative inequality increased, we found a similar differential effect between presenting difference versus ratio measures of inequality (Figure 2). Exposure to difference measures had little impact on participants' estimations of whether inequality increased, but exposure to ratio inequality measures increased the proportion concluding that inequalities had increased from 30% to 65%, and increased the difference between treatment groups in concluding inequality had increased from −5% to 30% (95% CI 1.8% to 22.6%).
We found a similar pattern for scenarios in which absolute inequality decreased and relative inequality remained constant (Figure 2). When exposed to the raw data only (pre-treatment), 42.5% of both treatment groups concluded that inequalities had stayed the same. However, exposure to both raw data and a ratio measure of inequality (post-treatment) increased this percentage to 82.5% (95% CI 70.6 to 94.4), whereas exposure to raw data and a measure of absolute inequality had little impact (32.5%, 95% CI 17.8 to 47.2).
In contrast to the above patterns for scenarios with conflicting absolute and relative inequalities, scenarios in which both relative and absolute inequalities changed in a consistent direction (both increasing or both decreasing) produced no evidence of differences between treatment groups.
In supplementary analyses of the other three outcomes we also found some evidence that, for scenarios where absolute and relative inequality trends were inconsistent, selective presentation of ratio vs. difference graphs altered individuals' assessments of the impact of the hypothetical intervention (Figures S1, S2, S3). For example, for scenarios where absolute inequality decreased but relative inequality increased selective exposure to ratio measures of inequality decreased individuals' assessments of program success by 0.88 points (7 point scale, 95% CI 0.03 to 1.72, Figure S1). A similar decrease in assessments of program success was seen for scenarios where absolute inequality decreased but relative inequality was constant (1.53 points, 95% CI 0.67 to 2.39). Exposure to ratio measures of inequality also suggested some impact on decreasing the amount of money respondents would pay to continue the intervention (Figure S2) and decreasing their likelihood of concluding that the intervention should continue (Figure S3). Regression estimates for all four outcomes are provided in Tables S2, S3, S4, S5.
In this study we experimentally manipulated the presentation of evidence on health inequalities in order to determine whether selective presentation of the same underlying data in exclusively absolute or relative terms might influence individual assessments of inequality trends. When presented with only raw data on the mortality rates of two populations before and after a hypothetical health intervention, individuals' estimations tended to be more consistent with the absolute measure of inequality. In cases where the absolute and relative measures changed in a consistent direction (either both increasing or both decreasing), showing them an absolute or relative inequality measure alongside the raw data had no differential impact on their assessments. However, in cases where the inequality measures were inconsistent individuals shown a relative inequality measure were more likely to alter their estimation of the inequality trend than those shown an absolute inequality measure.
To our knowledge this is the first study to experimentally demonstrate the impact of presenting selective measures of health inequality trends on judgments about the direction of change in health inequalities. However, a number of studies in other domains have suggested that selective presentation of evidence may have important consequences on the interpretation of results. In clinical epidemiology, for example, several studies have shown that presentation of relative risk reductions in the absence of data on underlying absolute probabilities leads to systematic overestimation of risks and/or benefits [18], [22]. In one study, 57% of patients opted for a medication when its benefits were presented in relative terms, versus 15% when presented in absolute terms [23]. Clinicians were also more likely to report that they would be inclined to treat patients, and to rate an intervention effective, when presented with information in relative rather than in absolute terms [24], [25].
Our results have implications for both producers and consumers of evidence on the magnitude of health inequalities. Selective use of exclusively absolute or relative measures, particularly in cases where these measures conflict, may lead to biased assessments of whether inequalities are increasing or decreasing, or of which social groups or health outcomes may demonstrate the largest health inequalities [6], [15]. Prior work has shown that substantive judgments about health inequalities may be dramatically different depending on the choice of inequality measure. For example, Keppel ranked nearly 500 diseases in the United States according to the level of inequality across race-ethnic groups [15]. For conditions measured on different scales relative measures may be the only choice, but across outcomes on similar scales such as mortality rates, outcomes with relatively small absolute risks (e.g., drug-induced deaths) ranked highly, whereas those with greater absolute risks (e.g., heart disease) failed to make the top 10.
Selective presentation of evidence may also have an impact on measuring changes in health inequalities, either for general monitoring over time or when evaluating the effects of interventions on health inequalities. In these cases, there are many examples where absolute and relative inequalities disagree. This has been demonstrated in the context of secular trends in social class gradients in mortality [26], [27], measuring progress toward the Millenium Development Goals [28], racial [11], [29] and socioeconomic inequalities [14], [29]–[31] in the impact of highly active antiretroviral therapy on HIV mortality, and the impact of traditional risk factors on socioeconomic and gender differences in cardiovascular disease [32], [33], among others.
Our results reinforce existing guidelines recommending that researchers studying health inequalities present, when feasible, measures of inequality on both the absolute and relative scale [3], [9], [34]. This is in keeping with general guidelines for reporting the results of clinical trials and observational studies in epidemiology. In the same way that presentation of absolute risks alongside relative benefits may help patients and clinicians better decide among alternative treatments, presentation of absolute levels of disease and measures of absolute inequality may help put relative inequalities in context for policymakers and the public. Additionally, presentation of both absolute and relative inequalities, or at the very least explicit discussion of the issue of scale, may help researchers avoid accusations of bias or presentation of misleading evidence. For example, in commenting on the large number of policy documents on health inequalities published in the UK during the 1990s, Oliver, Healey, and Le Grand expressed a particular concern that the evidence on health inequalities was being "selectively reported so as to have a greater effect," largely through the exclusive presentation of relative effects [35].
Finally, there is evidence that medical and public health literature exhibits a bias towards presenting empirical evidence of social inequalities in health in exclusively relative terms [16]. Given our findings, it is possible that consumers of medical and public health literature may be making systematically biased assessments of the magnitude, direction, and significance of social inequalities in health. This may, in turn, impact support for health interventions and public health policies.
Our study has limitations, the most notable being the restriction of our subjects to university undergraduates. Our study population was diverse in terms of courses of study, and predominantly composed of women. Having achieved admission to university, our population may be somewhat more numerate than the general population. Given the experimental design, characteristics of the study population are unlikely to create bias in our treatment effects, but it may limit the ability to generalize the results more widely. Our study also focused exclusively on scenarios for which all social groups experience improvements in mortality after our hypothetical intervention. Hypothetical interventions that may adversely affect health could produce different findings.
In conclusion, we found evidence that the selective presentation of a single measure of either absolute or relative inequality may substantially alter judgments about whether interventions reduce or exacerbate health inequalities. Researchers should follow existing recommendations to report both absolute and relative inequality measures whenever possible. Consumers of health inequalities research should be aware of the potential impact of selective reporting of health inequalities measures in absolute or relative terms.
Supporting Information
Figure S1.
Impact of presenting a difference or ratio measure of inequality alongside raw data on respondent's judgment of success of a hypothetical intervention.
Figure S2.
Impact of presenting a difference or ratio measure of inequality alongside raw data on amount of respondent's money for continuation of a hypothetical intervention.
Figure S3.
Impact of presenting a difference or ratio measure of inequality alongside raw data on whether a hypothetical intervention should continue.
Table S1.
Scenarios depicting inconsistent and consistent changes in absolute and relative mortality inequalities after a hypothetical intervention.
Table S2.
Logistic regression estimates for judgment of whether inequality increased or decreased.
Table S3.
Linear regression estimates for respondent's judgment of program success.
Table S4.
Regression estimates for amount of money respondent was willing to give to support continuation of the hypothetical program.
Table S5.
Regression estimates for respondent's assessment of whether the hypothetical program should continue.
The authors wish to thank all of the study participants, and Valerie Ishak for valuable research assistance.
Ethical approval: Participants received an honorarium in exchange for their participation. Participants were orally briefed regarding the procedures of the experiment, and written consent was obtained from all participants. As this study involved minimal risk, per the Canadian Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans, we did not obtain additional consent from a caretaker, guardian, or next of kin on behalf of the 17-year old university student who participated in this study. The McGill University Faculty of Medicine Institutional Review Board approved this study, including the consent procedure, for university students of all ages.
Participant consent: Participants' consent obtained.
Data sharing: Statistical code and data are available from the corresponding author's Dataverse: http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/samharper
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SH NBK MEY. Performed the experiments: SH NBK MEY. Analyzed the data: SH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SH. Wrote the paper: SH NBK. Critically revised the manuscript for important intellectual content: SH NBK MEY.
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I did Interview Lars Byström, I askd him about hes life and so on. Some of the question was;
– Hello!
What is your name?
– My name is Lars Bylund.
How old are you?
– Im 50 years old.
Are you married?
– No, Im not married.
What is your favorite food?
– My mothers spaghetti and meat sauce, thats really tasty.
What is you favorite movie?
– Its fast and furious. Or if that is to hard to spell the James Bond movies.
What do you like to do on your free time?
– I like to drive scooter, in Åre or hullsjön. Just if I can drive am I happy-
What was you favorite supkect in school?
– Hmm, thats an hard one, I didnt like music, not paint etiher. I though maths was pretty fun.
What do you work as?
– Im working as an site manager in NCC construction.
What do you think about your work?
– Nah, I know funnyier things.
Are you the person that leads the big construction of the big apartment house in Skönsmon?
– Yes, Im the site manager there.
What do you think about that tehy build a big apartment there?
– I think its very fun to do something new, it was a long time ago we did something like in this city.
Which is your favoirte music style?
– Its probadly pop, as you younger persons call it.
Have you had any different jobs before?
– Yes I workd as a busss driver, I did sell news papper, as an kalkulator and on ICA.
If you had a superpower, which would you chose? And why?
– I would chose flying, its becuase the over blick and the freedom. Or maybe invissible, just so I can hear what other say when they dont see me.
What is your shoe size?
– Its 42…
Thank you Lars


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Everyone dreams of winning the lottery, but not everyone can handle the consequences of striking it rich. Time and time again, winners have squandered their jackpots, and the story of Todd Reichenbach is no exception: His life was completely ruined after he won $7 on a scratch-off lottery ticket.
Wow. Lucking into $7 sounds nice—until you learn what it can cost you.
The devastating story began earlier this year when Todd spontaneously bought a Pot O' Gold scratch-off ticket at his local gas station, only to match three shamrocks and watch his net worth shoot up $7 in one fortuitous instant. Overcome with excitement, Todd cashed in the scratch-off and immediately headed to his office to quit his data entry job, cursing out a group of his coworkers before urinating in his boss's parking space on the way out. After stopping at the bank to deposit his five-plus dollars in winnings, he filed for divorce from his wife, flush with his newly won $7 and ready to start a new life devoid of worries about work and money. Unfortunately, the celebration wouldn't last long—Todd's good luck had put him on the road to serious misfortune.
Todd soon made the mistake of bragging about his scratch-off win on Facebook, and it wasn't long before people from his past began pouring out of the woodwork to try to get their hands on some of his nearly $10 in winnings. Everyone from ex-girlfriends, to an old baseball coach, to classmates he hadn't spoken with in over a decade were stopping by Todd's home to congratulate him and then nonchalantly ask if he could spare $3 for a pack of Altoids, since after all, he could certainly afford it. Todd became unable to leave his house without an estranged acquaintance trying to befriend him for access to his $7—and sadly, things would only get worse.
With his trust worn thin, Todd turned to the one person he knew he could rely on: his older brother and lifelong best friend, Erik, who flew out from Florida to advise his brother on managing his $7 for the future. But money soon turned the relationship sour. By the end of the trip, Erik was behind bars for attempting to murder Todd for what he considered his "rightful share" of the $7 winnings, which he had planned to invest in a game of Texas Hold 'Em on one of Facebook's poker apps.
Just devastating. This is a cautionary tale if we've ever heard one.
The nail in the coffin came when Todd married an opportunistic young woman, who divorced him after just a month of marriage—but not before using every last penny of his $7 on a two-pack of Burt's Bees chapstick. Now a divorcé on top of the rest of his bad luck, Todd was single, jobless, and ready to file for bankruptcy.
With that, the "curse of the lottery" had taken its toll, and Todd's fall from fortune was complete. Today he is unemployed and living on his parents' couch—a far cry from the carefree life he imagined living out the day he won that ill-fated $7. It just goes to show that winning almost $10 on a scratch-off ticket can change your life, but that change can easily be for the worse if you aren't cautious. Be careful what you wish for, indeed.


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CUESTA SALIR DEL CLOSET/The price of coming out.
La energia Positiva no remuebe a la Policia de las calles./The positive energy will not remove the cops from the street.
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Tucson's Mexican American Studies Director Sean Arce Speaks at Mission High on the Banning of Ethnic Studies in Arizona..
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Today we'd like to introduce you to Brent Wellman.
Coach Brent Wellman Junior Program Director/USTA High-Performance Coach.
Brent is not only a Coach's coach but a player's coach as well. Coach Wellman has the unique ability to work with all age groups and has concentrated his passions to Educate, Enrich and Encourage (3E's).
A process is involved in becoming a Division I player or when shooting for professional ranks and that is a path Coach Brent is quite familiar with. This "process" is what Coach Brent is passionate about and enjoys combining knowledge, and experience using both "Old School" and 'Modern Coaching methods. Coach Brent has helped over a 100 players reach College scholarships by using video analysis and college player videos. Coach Brent enjoys helping players go down the serious path of competitive tennis in a positive way!
Brent has worked with and played a successful role in the development of numerous professional athletes in both tennis and basketball. Brent has coached Division I basketball and tennis and has coached players from all over the world. Coach Wellman was the Head Women's Coach at University of Central Florida, Pasco Hernando C.C. 1999-2002 and Hillsborough C..C.. 2002-2004. In 1987 named Division I, "Coach of the year," in the Sun Belt conference at UCF.
Back to the "Process" – Coach Brent has been around great coaches for many years in both basketball and tennis. "When I was around any Legendary Coaches I was not there to be awestruck, I was there to learn. I always took notes and now with the iPhones I'm always taking notes on my phone". I have notes from Rick Pitino, John Wooden, Dean Smith, Sam Alford, Steve Alford, Press Marivich, Pete Maravich, Guy Lewis, Gene Smithson, Lon Kruger, Denny Crum & Tom Crean, In Tennis Coach Brent worked with, Steve Smith, Vic Braden, Scott Williams and Robert Wocjik and spent time with Welby Van Horn and Jim Loehr. Coach Brent doesn't mention those names to impress people but to let people know he has studied these coaches and their techniques of successful coaching. " Often times, today's coaches want to be great without doing their homework. Coaching is a privilege and with today's young people you need to instruct them, guide & lead them through a culture that lies and misleads the youth daily".
Coach Wellman worked 8 years with the Tennissmith School in Tampa directing player strength and conditioning programs and player stroke analysis.
During the time with Steve Smith, Brent worked with legend Vic Braden on player development camps. In that program were numerous college players and a few pro's including 3 ATP players: Ryler Dehart, Raven Klaasen and Austin Krajicek and Connor Smith and numerous Division I players.
Coach Brent works with Delray Champions Competitive Program at the Delray Tennis Center. Besides Player Development, Coach Brent helps players with video analysis and College Prospect videos.
As tournament director, Coach Wellman runs many competitive USTA junior tournaments throughout the year.
Coach Brent Wellman – Kinesiology M.S. from Sam Houston State 1992
Physical Education from Indiana State 1982
Certified USPTA and ISSA Strength & Conditioning Specialist
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Overall, has it been relatively smooth? If not, what were some of the struggles along the way?
The Lord gives you challenges to shape your character and enhance your toughness. 60+ years of living and I've come to realize that life is not for sissys. So many hardships along the way, yet so much to be thankful for. I lost three of my best friends to cancer in three years.
Life is too precious to waste, that's why I purposefully aim at developing young people into young adults. When we were young we were filled with foolishness, it's my job to redirect the young people and help them make leadership choices. Live disciplined lives in order to reach your dreams. I'm a technician with tennis strokes but It's not about tennis it's about developing character and mentoring young people. Everyone will have adversity regardless of being rich or poor. The Lord tells us to 'To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly." This is a is what we have to share with the world. Everyone needs encouragement and inspiration. No one does live alone. We need each other, especially with the modern confusion and chaos that young people have to go through.
Alright – so let's talk business. Tell us about Brent Wellman Junior Tennis Director of Delray Champions Junior Tennis & High Performance – what should we know?
I direct the Delray Champions Junior Program at the Delray Tennis Center off of Atlantic Avenue. What separates our program from the rest is stroke efficiency and attention to details. Little things truly matter! Fortunately, I've been mentored by some high-level coaches in both basketball and tennis. In tennis working with Steve Smith and Vic Braden was like being in tennis classroom held on the court. Tennis is a game of skill and it's very important you learn the skills, Sometimes coaches fool students into thinking they just to have fun and hit some balls and maybe eventually you will become a top tournament player. Don't get me wrong, recreation tennis is fine. But if you want to be a competitive player don't be fooled by coaches who don't help young players transition from an inefficient technique. Becoming a tournament player isn't everyone's goal, but if you want to learn to hit the ball better, we want to help you!
Any shoutouts? Who else deserves credit in this story – who has played a meaningful role?
So many to thank and give credit along the way. Ed Kershner the Florida all-time winningest high school basketball coach hired me right out of college. He taught me the importance of building a program, creating a culture that works hard but laughs and has fun working hard! I worked with him for 4 years before I went to coach Division I basketball. I had three conversations with John Wooden whom I admire so much. He won 10 National Championships and the one thing I learned from him sticks with me today, "coaching talent isn't easy." Learning how to cope with success is very difficult because the bar is raised. In tennis, I learned from Steve Smith and Vic Braden that tennis can be developed successfully with a system based on physics and not on coaches opinion. Video is big in both basketball and tennis. Video is such a tool to show people their strengths and weaknesses. When I transitioned into tennis after coaching basketball, I knew how to break down video it's critical in your game plans. So, when Steve Smith and Vic Braden showed me video analysis for the first time in tennis, I knew this wasn't based on opinion, rather the truth was told through the picture.
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Spoilers ahead if you haven't watched 'Imperial Supercommandos.'
Aaron: Love them or hate them, Mandalorians seem to be here to stay when it comes to Star Wars storytelling. Ever since we were introduced to Sabine Wren, we have been curious to learn more about her history and her connection to the Mandalorians. With a couple Mando focused episodes of Star Wars Rebels out now, we have gotten a little more info. We know she is Clan Vizsla. We know her mother was part of Death Watch, and in this episode it was revealed her mother now stands with the Imperial Mandalorians. But maybe against her will? As much as they have revealed there is still so much to be answered.
I enjoyed the return of Fenn Rau. I was happy that by the end of the episode he decided to join the rebellion. Sadly he didn't have any other Protectors to bring with him since they had all been wiped out. An entire group of Mando Protectors fighting for the rebellion is something I would have really loved to see.
Teresa: Aaron pretty much summed up the story. I can only contribute that the team that wrote and created this episode did a great job with appealing to those of us who love Star Wars lore. I love getting backstory and more detailed information.
I love getting to hear that Sabine's mother is alive and I am hoping we get to dive into that mother daughter relationship this season.
I'm pretty sure Ezra should not have shown off his Jedi skills to Saxon. I feel like that was a dumb move.
Aaron: This season has split up the Ghost crew in most of the episodes. This one was mostly focused on Sabine, with Ezra and Chopper also getting significant screen time. Sabine was able to interact a lot with fellow Mandalorian Fenn Rau which led to some interesting revelations. It makes a lot of sense that Sabine joined the rebels. She has a desire to be loyal to her people, but her people are so fractured, there is no clear way for her to be loyal. And the faction of the Mandalorians that were not aligned with the Empire has now been wiped out. It seems she is doing the right thing, but she still feels guilt for abandoning her people.
Gar Saxon was a nice addition as a villain. He previously fought for Maul's regime and has now found power with the Empire. I am glad they allowed him to survive this episode and I hope we see him again.. in an episode with Sabine's mom.. and maybe Boba Fett. Why not? Boba's got to get that Mando armor somewhere.
Out of all the Sabine focused episodes we have had this was probably my favorite. It gave us the most content on her. I really liked diving into her family history and her loyalty to the Mandalorians. We have never really heard her talk about her home or why she became a Rebel, and I think that was super important. I also really like seeing her as a more mature woman that is able to keep a level head.
I did find it interesting that we saw our first all white Mandos. They reminded me of the original McQuarrie artwork for Boba Fett.
I also enjoyed the character development of Fenn Rau. It was nice to see him stay true to who he is and to not bend to anyone even Sabine. His coming around to join the Rebels was not a compromise of his character. He was simply able to view things from a different lens.
Outstanding Moments
Aaron: Every Mandalorian needs a jetpack. The entire flying scene was the highlight of this episode. Everything from Mandalorians zooming through the air, to Ezra deflecting bolts while standing on a jet propelled Chopper. Chopper telling Ezra that he saved him by accident was hilarious. Sadly, when it was all over, Sabine did not get to keep the jetpack due to the damage it sustained.
Chopper waking Ezra up by pulling his nose was great too.
Teresa: The battle between Gar Saxon and Sabine was an amazing thing to watch. We never really get to see her show off her combat strengths. I really enjoy seeing her this way and getting to see her lead.
I love when Sabine embraced Ezra in a full frontal hug and he reacted like any teenage boy caught off guard by a beautiful girl. He had these wide eyes and a shout of "WHOA!" It was so funny!
Favorite Quotes
- "I don't get the whole Mandalorian thing." – Ezra
- "Well I'm not after revenge. Just my friends." – Sabine
- "Hurry, Chop! Her evil cousins are coming!" – Ezra
- "Try not to wreck the Phantom 2. We just got that thing." – Hera
- "He shot my jet pack!" – Sabine
- "I was using strategy. It takes longer." – Sabine
- "Sorry Saxon, I like a little more color." – Sabine


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After Sunday's five-set loss to the St Thomas University Tommies, the UNB Saint John Seawolves men's volleyball team showed up to the game eager for a win.
The game, which occurred at the G. Elliot Forbes Athletics Centre, was played out in front of a full crowd of Tommies and Seawolves fans alike.
"I really thought that was the best we played as a team all season," said starting setter Patrick Kendall after the game.
UNB Saint John was able to take an early lead, thanks to a well-placed serve from rookie Ty Poore, although neither team was able to land a substantial lead. Service errors plagued both teams, a point that wasn't missed by Kendall.
"Everyone stepped up and played well despite a pile of missed serves."
After the Tommies went on a three-point run, UNB Saint John called a time-out, which brought some life back into them. Both teams continued to switch leads, until the Wolves were able to break away with a few back-to-back points, taking the first set 26-24.
The Tommies started the second set in search of vengeance, taking an early 11-7 lead before UNB Saint John took a time-out. Unfortunately, the Wolves weren't able to match the momentum of the Tommies, despite an energizing block from Luke O'Grady. The Tommies took the second set 25-18.
A service ace from Simon Anctil started off the third set, sending the Wolves on a brief run of their own.
"My takeaway from the game was all about the rookies. I'm really happy with how Simon played," said O'Grady. "He made the most of his opportunities. It's not easy to have your first career start be the Wednesday St Thomas game, but Simon really made it work."
The Wolves maintained their lead for the rest of the set, led mainly by Seawolves rookie, Ty Poore, adding a couple of kills, ending the night with 12 kills in total. The third set ended with a score of 25-19, and UNB Saint John took the lead 2-1.
Enthusiastic from their dominant third set, the Wolves took an early 12-4 lead. Again, through strong offense from the home team, the Wolves were able to take the set 25-20, and the game 3-1.
O'Grady led both teams with 14 kills, while teammate Poore chipped in with another 12 kills and one service ace. Christian Christie managed to respond with 10 kills for the Tommies.
With the win, the Wolves move to 5-3 on the season, while the Tommies drop to 4-5.
The Seawolves' next game will occur on Saturday, January 20th , when they take on the Université Sainte-Anne Dragons in a home and home weekend. Game time is scheduled for 6:00 pm on Saturday.


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Academy Supports APCA
The Board of Directors of the American Academy of Audiology (Academy) announces that it has voted to endorse the Audiology Patient Choice Act (APCA) on the condition that it include language to provide audiologists with the ability to opt-out of Medicare. The board feels that the modified legislation supports our long-term goal of professional autonomy and provides audiologists and patients with important protections given the uncertainty of future health-care coverage, payment, and reimbursement.
Over the past year, the Academy board has heard divergent views by members on the bill. We have listened to members' concerns about some of the uncertainties regarding the bill, and we also heard from our members who are strong proponents of the legislation. The board has done further review, and we sought member guidance through analysis done by our Advocacy Council, Government Relations Committee, Coding and Reimbursement Committee, and Practice Policy Advisory Committee. This broad level of review helped us to understand the complexities regarding implementation and what the profession of audiology would actually look like should the bill be signed into law. We wanted to be comfortable that what the bill offers offsets any risk to audiologists.
The board feels strongly that the opt-out provision is needed to protect audiologists from some of the uncertainties regarding how CMS would implement the APCA if enacted into law. The opt-out provision allows for private contracts between providers and patients to give beneficiaries the choice of seeing providers who do not accept Medicare, an important protection for patients. Audiologists are already familiar with the opt-out/not enroll feature through state Medicaid.
Members in the Academy have stressed the importance of unified voices and aligned efforts for the profession. The Academy's endorsement of APCA with the slight changes to the bill language represents our sincere desire to move forward on a path of collaboration with the Academy of Doctors of Audiology (ADA). We also will be open to working with ADA, as well as other groups, in supporting additional legislation and collaborative efforts that we believe to be in the best interests of the profession and the patients we serve. This legislation will be one component of a comprehensive legislative portfolio in the next Congress and certainly does not preclude the Academy from working on other areas of interest, like telehealth, VA issues, student loan forgiveness, and other access issues.
The Academy board has communicated the provisional endorsement to the leadership of the ADA, and we look forward to the opportunity to working together to reintroduce this legislation in the 116th Congress.


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Roman Huryk (Роман Гурик) was a student in the second year of his philosophy studies in Ivano-Frankivsk who was killed on 20 February 2014 in Kyiv. He travelled to the capital with his father initially in December then returned in February when he was shot dead by a sniper as he shielded a female medic on Hrushevskoho Street. His final words entered on a social media website were: 'It's now or never. Everyone to Hrushevskoho Street. To death.' Two memorial gatherings were held at the Prosvita Centre, the HQ of student resistance in the city, this weekend, gathering thousands of mourners. His funeral was held today in Ivano-Frankivsk, attended by tens of thousands on the city's streets. His body was laid to rest in the city's Memorial Square, close to the Franko Theatre in the city centre.
A video of his funeral procession and burial is available from 5 Kanal, while further links to reports and photographs from local media can be accessed here: videos, photos, more photos, including the one borrowed above, and more from the local newspaper Reporter.
The funeral procession began at Prosvita with Huryk's body taken to the front of the regional administration building a short distance away. The procession continued after a service lasting around an hour issued from the balcony of the administration building to the cathedral, where a shorter service was held. The coffin, with its lid still of, as is traditional here, was then taken past Huryk's home on Mazepy Street, then to the university nearby. From there the procession headed towards the Memorial Square, although – quite wisely – it did not take the most direct route, past the partly-burnt out offices of the police and security service. The procession at Prosvita started at 10 am. It was around 1:45 by the time it reached the Memorial Square. However, the procession was so long that some in the procession were still on the corner of Sakharova Street, near the security service building, by the time the burial was over.
This bus provided sound to the masses gathered with speakers tethered to the roof, with recent rallies having been plagued by poor audio equipment and volume levels.
It was announced today that a new road in Ivano-Frankivsk, an extension of Pivdennyj Bulvar currently called vul. Projektna (Project Street) will be named in honour of Huryk, while the square in front of the Regional Administration building (ODA, aka The White House), will be renamed Heroes of the Maydan Square. The collective term for all the anti-government victims killed in Kyiv is the 'Heavenly Company' or 'Heavenly Hundred' (Небесна Сотня). A sotnia is a term first used in Cossack military for a unit of 100 fighters, with the term subsequently applied throughout the history of Ukrainian military formations.
Huryk's burial place is symbolic, since it is the city's pantheon of national heroes and fighters for the freedom of Ukraine. As the university's website announced, Huryk will be buried 'alongside heroes of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) as a hero of Ukraine.' The Sich Riflemen were a unit formed of Ukrainian paramilitaries who were incorporated into the Austrian forces in the First World War before forming the core of the Ukrainian military in Western Ukraine which was an independent republic in 1918/19. UPA is a more controversial organisation, active in 1942-1949, fighting occupation of Ukrainian lands, meaning it was involved in ethnic cleansing of the lands during Nazi occupation before becoming an anti-Nazi force and then fighting against Soviet occupation. It seems, however, the university made a mistake in aligning Huryk with UPA, since the Memorial Square represents more the broader Ukrainian Organisation of Nationalists (OUN), formed in 1929 in western Ukraine before splitting into moderate and radical factions in 1941.
You will build a Ukrainian state or will die fighting for one. To the eternal memory of those who died in the name of a free Ukraine. The fighters of UPA, the First Ukrainian Division Galicia* and member of OUN.
* NB this was a division of the Waffen SS.
For Ukraine. For Freedom. For the Nation. – the emblem of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists.
This contains earth from symbolic graves of Ukrainian Sich Riflemen.
This is one of two sets of crosses dedicated to the Sich Riflemen. Huryk was buried at the end of this one.
It is clear to see how the tragic deaths in Kiev fit easily into a paradigm of western Ukrainian memory built around the idea of heroes who fought for Ukraine at various points in the twentieth century under various, contested nationalist banners.
However, what is intriguing about Huryk's burial place, the Memorial Square, is the broader symbolism that it holds. However, these other ghosts of the past are currently inevitably overlooked. The Memorial Square has been built on the site of a former Catholic, largely Polish, cemetery which was adjacent to a church knocked down in the communist period and replaced by the Franko Theatre. The current Memorial Square largely lacks any trace of the previous graves, although a few have survived and remain in place. The largest structure within the Square is a chapel which was consecrated in 2002 'in honour of the memory of participants of national liberation struggles for the freedom of Ukraine', according to the inscription.
There remains in the Memorial Square, however, this particularly interesting gravestone, whose inscription to some extent reflects the narratives of heroism albeit in Polish.
The grave is for Zygmunt Mroczkowski, a doctor of medicine, who died on 13 May 1888; his adopted daughter Helena Csiszarik and his wife, Ksawera Mroczkowska (née Wartersiewicz).
At the top of the headstone there is a plea to God for him to return Poles their fatherland, his grandchildren their family homelands and bless the Polish lands.
Below there is a plea taken from Polish Romantic poet Juliusz Słowacki's Testament: May the living not lose hope and bear before the nation the torch of education; and if necessary they head to their deaths one by one like the rocks thrown by God at the ramparts.
These words from Słowacki bear an uncanny resemblance to those placed on social media by Huryk before his death who is buried a few metres away.
Further Polish traces at the Memorial Square include this monument to Poles who died fighting in the First and Second World Wars, as well as to those whose remains rest in this space. It was donated by 'Rodacy', or fellow Poles, while Huryk's grave is visible behind it. This is a memorial to those whose traces remain barely visible in what was once a major Polish and Catholic cemetery, yet at the same time it reawakens those traces and raises the ghosts of the past, showing that these were for centuries shared Polish and Ukrainian spaces, where relations passed not without trouble. Indeed, those commemorated in this monument may well have died fighting against Ukrainians, as well as potentially alongside them against Russian incursion after World War One.
These spaces were also inhabited extensively by Jews, but few traces remain evident in the city of their lives here. The Kosmos cinema a few dozen metres from the Memorial Square and Franko Theatre was built on a Jewish cemetery, although no traces of that fact remain evident.
Still, the fact that Huryk now rests in a space that may be currently overtly overwritten by a narrative of Ukrainian heroism associated with nationalist movements, yet still contains traces of the multinational past of the city, brings hope that such a vision of a "European" city and memory can prosper. However, the Memorial Square also reveals the drama currently manifesting itself in terms of Ukraine's future, its relations to its neighbours and the idea of Europe, as nationalist tropes become distinctly everyday features, intensified in the course of Euromaidan, here in western Ukraine.


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Another Friday passed with the closing of The Columbian Bank and Trust of Topeka, Kansas. Ben Bernanke is speaking in an amazing feat of poetry, comparing the economic storm in the United States to gale force winds that have not subsided. This is an almost startling admission from a man so conservative in his explanations. Bernanke is feeling confident about his strength and position.
The appearance of the economy has weathered well so far without truly significant collateral damage for the public to see. Bernanke admits to being challenged with the "softening in economic activity and rising unemployment." He readily admits that commodities boom is partly responsible for the dramatic rise in inflation instead of simply blaming inflation on energy futures.
The Fed is weathering the gale force storm by hanging tough and hoping for stability. Even "the experts" admit that the inflation outlook is uncertain, but will be a major concern through next year. If the Fed could find a way to control commodity prices, they would probably think they had it made. Bernanke hasn't devised a way to harness the commodities market yet. Undoubtedly, that is in the works soon.
The Fed continues to work with other central bankers to provide plenty of liquidity for needy banking institutions that are still fearful of interbank lending. Banks continue to use Fed auctions liberally, with demand in excess of supply.
Bernanke admits the need to somehow strengthen the financial system beyond the sustenance that has already been provided. Suddenly, Bernanke is speaking about thorny issues "raised by the existence of financial institutions that may be perceived as 'too big to fail' and the moral hazard issues that may arise when governments intervene in a financial crisis." In other words, Bernanke is expecting some large financial failures. Whether he is alluding to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac or holding banks like Citi isn't being admitted. He is sounding warning by his comments as the gale force winds blow. He also defended the need to cover for Bear Stearns almost six months ago. He apparently expects to do so again.
Bernanke has also admitted that the Fed is involved in finding a way to protect bankers from their own financial politics through automation and standards rather than avoiding the risk altogether. In other words, the Fed is seeking to minimize risk by continuing to engage in what has been discovered to be risky banking conduct. Hey, it's good for business.
Bernanke even discusses covering pools of securitized bonds while seeking more power from Congress to settle a crisis without government intervention. That is good for the Fed's business as well as the corporate oligarchy takes ever more responsibility for monetary policy and legal oversight from the hands of government. That is the idea in the eyes of the Fed.
Bernanke believes that the more power that the Fed has, the less risk that there is to the system. He is convinced that by having more regulatory power to monitor individual institutions, he can eliminate moral hazard and promote financial resistance, perhaps by increasing capital requirements for banking. He wants to conduct "stress tests" to monitor liquidity, risk exposure and adverse circumstances. He wants to build a new financial regulatory empire operated by corporate global banking. Who is watching the Federal Reserve while all this wonderment is going on? Not a soul is watching the Fed. The Fed monitors itself and as far as the government and Congress are concerned, is "above reproach."
The reality is that politicians have become thoroughly dependent on the International Society of Bankers. Fear should be firmed rooted in the hearts of politicians. World bankers have the nation of sheep by the private parts and are leading it down the primrose path of banking for sheering.
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Joint HCLS and USYD project on "Mapping learner pathways to improved English language writing performance"
|Office of the Chief Information Officer, CityU
Evaluation of the Language Companion Course (LCC) Project
|English Language Enhanced Fund from the University Grants Committee
|CityU Teaching Development Grant
|Joint HCLS and USYD project on "Mapping learner pathways to improved English language writing performance" (2008-2010)
The goals of this project focus on curriculum and pedagogy. As far as
curriculum is concerned we aimed to outline the systems of genre central
to undergraduate teaching and learning in the disciplines of biology and
linguistics at CityU, to consider the stages of each genre and outline
the key linguistic (and multi-modal) features of their realisation, and
to propose a learner pathway leading students from the first year program
through to their capstone thesis.
Figure 1: Secondary school science genre systems
Our work on learner pathway was also inspired by this tradition. An outline for genres of history is provided in Figure 2 below:
Figure 2: Secondary school history genres learner pathway>
Our work on teaching literacy was similarly inspired by a long tradition of work in functional linguistics on language learning and the development of a teaching/learning cycle for teaching reading and writing across sectors of schooling. One canonical model of this pedagogy, involving deconstruction, joint construction and independent construction stages is presented in Figure 3 below.
Figure 3: Teaching/learning cycle for teaching genre
Our main challenge in this project was to develop LCC tutor/student interaction so that students were given models of writing and sometimes an opportunity to write with their tutor before tackling an assignment on their own (thus emphasising 'prevention' rather than 'cure'). We also faced the challenge of moving the deconstruction and joint construction stages of the teaching/learning cycle from a face-to-face to an on-line environment, and to adapt them, were necessary, to a tertiary EAP literacy context. In addition the LCC comment bank needed to be extended to accommodate the text-based focus of these interventions, and reading activities had to be developed in relation to the challenges of English academic discourse for the CityU student cohort. Our work on both curriculum and pedagogy was conceived as an action research project, involving coordination with CityU biology and linguistics teaching staff and ongoing in-service of Sydney-based tutors in relation to assignment specific genre-structure and feedback cycles. Alongside Dr. Sally Humphrey and Dr. Shoshana Dreyfus the project involved Dr. Ahmar Mahboob and Professor J. R. Martin as team leaders, and related research by three PhD candidates (Szenses and Yilmas, USYD, and Pun, co-tutelle CityU/USYD).
|Evaluation of the Language Companion Course (LCC) Project (2007-2010) [previously known as 'CityUWill': City University's Web-based Interactive Language Learning Project']
The Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies has
been coordinated an evaluation of the LCC project since Semester A 2007/08.
The evaluation is aimed at determining how successful the LCC is in
improving students' writing ability in English by investigating language
tutors' comments and student progress and performance.
|Modeling Meaning in the e-learning Context (2006-2009)
Biggs and Collis (1982) describe learning outcomes in terms of verbs
ranging from the 'unistructural' - identify, name, state - to the
'extended abstract' - create, formulate, generate, hypothesize, reflect,
theorize. Each of these intended-outcomes-as-verbs represents a way
of speaking (i.e. way of meaning) which if successfully acquired by
learners must be evident in their linguistic repertoire. Investigations
of how these outcomes-as-verbs manifest themselves linguistically have
already been extensively reported on in the systemic-functional
literature, particularly in the work of Halliday and Martin (1993). Our
aim here is to look at the role played by collaborative learning in
a Blackboard(Bb)-mediated environment when it comes to, first of all,
expanding and developing the learner's linguistic repertoire (i.e. its
formative role), and second, providing a repository of performance data
as the basis for continual assessment of the learner's achievement of
those outcomes (i.e. its evaluative role).


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