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PRE-READ DISCLAIMER: This is my wrestling space thinking & I know that I am not alone in it, hence my sharing. This isn't an answer. This isn't I have it all figured it out. This is I am hurting for friends whose stories are slowly being revealed to me. This is I am sore for my country at the moment. This is I wish I knew how to engage in this space better. This is I wish that collectively we had more sway in influencing healthy change and new ways of doing things. This isn't party politics as much as it is about where does the power sit. This is about my wrestling. This is the context of my wrestle. If you want to wrestle with me in faith and hope and love. Grateful for grace to cover where I get it wrong.
'Faith makes hopelessness forbidden' – part of a WhatsApp that a friend sent me last night. I have been wrestling with what it means to have relentless, unfailing HOPE and what that looks like for us as South Africans. Beyond just for us as South Africans – what does us it mean for me as a believer in Jesus – the giver of hope and a different way? How do I live hope? How do I speak hope? How do I encourage hope?
So I started thinking about what is taking up energy – not just in terms of my focus but also of taking away hope.
• I realised it's the lack of engagement – the lack of skills being imparted to people to know how to engage in this space, to be invited into this space at times by people already in it and also skills to know that saying sorry for something doesn't mean I maliciously hurt you or are carrying shame. It's about saying I am sorry that you are hurting, were hurt and have been hurting still despite the fact that things are said to be changing.
• I realised it's the lack of listening from all of us – especially those of us with a history of speaking first and loudest. Yes, we also have feelings and opinions about what is going on, but I am so used to speaking up and out that sometimes I forget that others might be quiet simply because of what was my normal rather than what I would prefer to be OUR normal way of engaging where we both get a chance to be heard and understood.
• I realised it's the slowness of change, but not being sure how to see practical change implemented as MANY people who have power to ensure these changes in our country are more concerned with their own positions of power and gain than they are with ensuring that people move from absolute poverty to a place of opportunity because the basics are being met (as a simple starting point)
• I realised it's the language that is being permitted without looking at what do these words mean – my focus and energy and hope gets drained when I hear calls for revolution without looking at what revolution has done in other communities – without asking what will this mean for the children and vulnerable in all our communities. It gets drained when the language we all use from 'get over it already, its 20 plus years' to ' revolution is now and the white oppressors must realise this' to a nation whose leader orchestrated exploitation, violent revolution and murder and mayhem and political intimidation being honoured in our own country without recognising that under his leadership people lost everything, feel still live in the knowledge that you can't speak out against him and that despite his language use publicly, the exploitative nature of his regime continues.
I get tired and struggle when the word revolution is seen as interchangeable with resurrection.
Revolution is about one world system replacing another world system.
Resurrection is about overcoming a world system with a new way of life system. It's about hope.
Sitting with these realisations makes me want to weep. It makes me want to wail and lament and cry out loud 'Can't you see we are simply repeating a system from the past which on the surface looks to benefit the many but experience not just here, but elsewhere has shown us that it simply serves to repeat a cycle'?
I know I sit in a position of privilege. Not only am I historically advantaged, I am protected financially by virtue of being married.
I know that I sit in a faith community that is striving to engage in this space.
I know that I sit in the midst of people working this out. Where we can talk and speak and make mistakes and listen and say '' I am sorry'' on a micro inter-personal level. Not just where things went wrong in the past, but also where we get it wrong in the present. When I get it wrong with you.
In faith what do I wish and pray for?
• I pray that we will become comfortable with being uncomfortable so that we can have the discussions and engagement as individuals and collectively that we need to have.
• I pray that we will start looking at what we are inviting or engaging people to be a part of through how we speak and what we do: whether we are imparting life giving hope or simply providing a space where energy and a lack of hope finds a space to be expressed.
• I am more and more convicted that within our faith circles as in the pre-90's faith circles when the church as a body was part of calling to account, that not only do we need to be calling to account our leaders, but also each other as we respond from places of passion, purpose, but also places of fear and hurt. We need to be mirrors to each other in this else the bigger image of what we are wanting to see happen is never going to happen.
• I pray that each and every person who is passionate about this country will see that they have a role in it, beyond simply being nice to people – but actually to ask questions and invite understanding through listening.
• I pray that we will actively choose hope and that this hope will determine our actions, our engagements and our responses.


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[reuters] New technology and falling equipment prices will sustain profit margins at mobile telecom operators even if data traffic over their networks grows twentyfold, a study said on Tuesday.
Mobile operators in many developed markets face growing investment bills to keep pace with surging data traffic from laptops with data cards and smartphones like Apple's iPhone.
Telecoms consultancy Rewheel said upcoming rollouts of fourth-generation (LTE) mobile networks will enable operators to modernise their entire networks and keep operating profit margins and capital expenditure (capex) to sales ratios steady.
"While the revenue upside potential in mature markets is limited, on the cost side LTE, multimode networks and the falling gear prices open a window of opportunity for substantial savings," the consultancy said.
Rewheel said its study was based on the financial results of an incumbent European mobile network operator and its growth projections for the next five years.
Mobile telecom margins safe in data surge - study
see also Rewheel study
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Mobile - study shows surge in mobile broadband usage will ensure margins are safe
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ASU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This collection includes most of the ASU Theses and Dissertations from 2011 to present. ASU Theses and Dissertations are available in downloadable PDF format; however, a small percentage of items are under embargo. Information about the dissertations/theses includes degree information, committee members, an abstract, supporting data or media.
In addition to the electronic theses found in the ASU Digital Repository, ASU Theses and Dissertations can be found in the ASU Library Catalog.
Dissertations and Theses granted by Arizona State University are archived and made available through a joint effort of the ASU Graduate College and the ASU Libraries. For more information or questions about this collection contact or visit the Digital Repository ETD Library Guide or contact the ASU Graduate College at firstname.lastname@example.com.
- Miller, Lisa Lynne
- Nakagawa, Kathy
- 1 Arizona State University
- 1 Romero, Mary
- 1 Swadener, Elizabeth B
- 1 English
- Education policy
- educational policy
- Education
- quality
- 1 Early childhood education
- 1 best practice
- 1 discourse analysis
- 1 early childhood
- more
- 1 linguistic framework
- Mobile Crowd Sensing in Edge Computing Environment
- The Effect of Disability on Subjective Well-Being across the Adult Lifespan: The Moderating Roles of Age at Disability Onset and Disability Type
- Mechanically Active Heterogeneous Polymer Matrix Composites
- Attribute-Based Encryption for Fine-Grained Access Control over Sensitive Data
- 并购背景下教育行业品牌价值研究
This study sought to analyze the messages being conveyed through the discourse utilized in presenting the public face of The Arizona Early Childhood Development and Health Board, popularly known as First Things First (FTF) and to reveal how the different discourses and ideologies within FTF have been in the past and currently are "contending and struggling for dominance (Wodak, 2007)." FTF is located within the policy realm of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). The people and the system have been very influential in guiding the course and policies set forth in Arizona since the citizen initiative, Proposition 203, passed …
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There's one thing the people closest to Jodi Henrickson all agree on: she loved to hang out with friends.
That was exactly what the Squamish teen was doing three years ago when she went missing — she hasn't been seen since.
At the age of 17, she went to Bowen Island to hang out with friends for a few days to celebrate the end of the school year. Police believe her life ended in the early days of that summer three years ago.
Her brother Rob said his sister would go around town and just hang out with people she knew. When she wasn't hanging out she loved to draw. Today, many of those drawings decorate her family home.
"We have quite a few of them around the house," said Rob, adding that though Jodi's room is redecorated the house is filled with mementoes of her.
"There's pictures of her all over the house still. I guess it was pretty hard on my mom to have to see all of her clothes and different things."
Chelsea Armstrong and Tiffany Sweet, two of Jodi's closest friends, both have drawings Jodi created for them as well.
"She drew all the time," said Sweet. "Always drawing."
Both Armstrong and Sweet want people to know more about Jodi and her disappearance because, like Jodi's brother and family, they want closure for the missing person case that police are treating as a homicide investigation.
According to Rob, police investigators check in with the family regularly. Recently, he was given early notice when a body was discovered on Bowen close to a home once inhabited by Gavin Arnott, Jodi's ex-boyfriend.
"It was a relief but at the same time (getting the call) is still pretty negative," said Rob of the police call. "It was a relief in that it wasn't my sister's body."
Rob, Armstrong, and Sweet say Jodi became friends with a new set of people who lived on Bowen Island once she started dating Arnott, who also lived on there.
And she continued to visit the island even after the pair broke up — despite the fact that a restraining order was in place to keep Arnott away from Jodi. The police believe Arnott was the last person to see her that weekend.
As the months turn into years, Jodi's friends still recall the times they dressed up for Halloween and pranked their friends.
"She loved to dress up," said Sweet. "She was very particular with make up and hair."
One year, Henrickson and a group of friends celebrated Halloween by dressing up as the members of the musical group The Pussycat Dolls.
As the friends chat about Jodi there are so many memories — the walks she took with her dog Panda, the crazy stuffed dog she would take on walks too, that she just couldn't tell a lie and, said Armstrong, "she liked English but she didn't like math."
Once, recalled Armstrong, Jodi had a teacher convinced her name was Katy and that she had been missed from the official class list.
Jodi loved to give people nicknames, calling Armstrong "Chelseakins." They got in on the fun too referring to Jodi as "Jodinator," a name they came up with while working at Wendy's when the Baconator was featured at the restaurant.
Sweet was "Tazman" and she nicknamed Jodi "Choda."
Armstrong and Jodi also worked together, and down time would find them on different extensions at work chatting even though they were only two aisles apart.
Like any teen she dreamed of her future, said Sweet, adding that Jodi loved to cook and had thought about pursuing work in foods once she graduated. "She wanted to cook," said Sweet.
The weekend Jodi disappeared Sweet said Jodi tried to convince her to go with her to Bowen Island.
"She was upset I wasn't going," said Sweet.
When it was apparent to Jodi that Sweet wasn't going, and wouldn't be convinced, Sweet said they hugged and went on their way. It wasn't a big deal that Jodi was going to Bowen on her own as she had been going every weekend, said Sweet, the bittersweet memory of that last hug is still powerful.
The summer solstice weekend of June 2009 marked the last time Jodi was seen. Anyone who knows anything about the disappearance is asked to contact the police or Crimestoppers.
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Sometimes we are not able to manage or reduce the size of the file with the help WHM's cPanel Log Rotation Configuration interface (WHM >> Home >> Service Configuration >> cPanel Log Rotation Configuration). So, there are other steps to efficiently clean or manage the bunch of unmanaged log files.
Step 1:
Check Disk Space Usage In Compressing Old Log Files
We all know that cPanel and WHM helps in creating and maintaining log files smartly. What the log files actually does is- it allows one to get acknowledged about the errors and other significant occurrences on the system.
However, after certain period of time, the size of the log files grow to a significant large size consuming the system's storage devices. Though cPanel and WHM archive the files with cpanellogd daemon, but, this daemon is not that capable to archive all log files. Hence, to reduce the extreme disk space that these log files occupy, one should compress these log files.
Step 2:
Delete Log Files In cPanel
Check The Disk Space From Command Line
Use du command du -h/var/log/ to see the most space-consumed files and directories inside /var/log
Select The Log Files To Clear
We can clear individual files in directory itself.
Empty The Files
Empty the log files and directory by using cat command (concatenate).
cat/dev/null > munin-update.log
du -h* command.
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Log Rotation
The log rotation system of cPanel and WHM compresses and stores the old log files in /usr/local/cpanel/logs/archives/ directory. With the help of these actions, one can manage as well as reduce the amount of disk space that the hard drive utilises.
With the help of WHM's cPanel Log Rotation Configuration interface, one can enable and configure log rotation (WHM >> Home >> Service Configuration >> cPanel Log Rotation Configuration). This system stores archive log files in abundance. So, care should be taken in removing them manually. For help, use rm command to remove older log files.
Unmanaged log files are a big burden in system's storage. It must be checked from time to time and cleaned accordingly for a healthy working of the device and system.


text: The World Health Organisation is warning that West Africa's Ebola outbreak, which has killed more than 700 people since February, is spreading far quicker than efforts to contain the disease. The WHO's chief, Margaret Chan, urged the presidents of Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast at a meeting in Guinea's capital Conakry to step up efforts to avoid "catastrophic consequences", after the global health organisation announced a $100m plan to combat an epidemic. "This outbreak is moving faster than our efforts to control it. If the situation continues to deteriorate, the consequences can be catastrophic in terms of lost lives but also severe socioeconomic disruption and a high risk of spread to other countries." Inside Story: 'Out of control' outbreak? "This meeting must mark a turning point in the outbreak response," Chan said. The outbreak is by far the largest in the 40-year history of the disease, with 729 deaths so far, including more than 60 healthcare workers, and 1,323 cases overall, she said. Experience showed that the outbreak could be stopped and the general public was not at high risk of infection, but it would be "extremely unwise" to let the virus circulate widely over a long period of time, she said. Epidemiologists say the pathogen is relatively difficult to catch and is not airborne. The virus, which requires contact with the bodily fluids of a victim, their blood, urine, faeces, vomit, saliva or sweat, to leap into a new host, is also treatable Cultural setbacks Chan said cultural practices such as traditional burials and deep-seated beliefs were a significant cause of the spread and a barrier to containment and needed to change. People's assumption that isolation wards were "a sure death sentence" led them to care for loved ones at home or consult traditional healers, defeating attempts to contain the disease. "Moreover, public attitudes can create a security threat to response teams when fear and misunderstanding turn to anger, hostility, or violence." Despite alarm by some in the US, two American aid workers infected with the virus while in Liberia were set to arrive back home on Saturday. Health officials said bringing the sickened aid workers into the country would not put the American public at risk. On Thursday, Sierre Leone ordered a state of emergency over the Ebola epidemic and began setting up quarantines in parts of the country. Sierra Leone's president, Ernest Bai Koroma said that the police and the military would restrict movement between affected areas, and would provide support to health officers and NGOs following a number of attacks on health workers by local communities. Koroma also said that house-to-house searches would be implemented to trace Ebola victims and quarantine them. He added that new protocols had been established for passengers arriving and departing Lungi airport outside Freetown. SOURCE: Agencies Health Africa World Health Organisation Ebola Guinea


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LBJ and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara
As the carriers of Lyndon Baines Johnson's torch prepare to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his landmark Great Society legislation, they are asking us -- or people like myself of a certain age, anyway -- to do the impossible: Reconcile the Vietnam War, an atrocity that wasted nearly 60,000 American lives and millions more Vietnamese lives that he never understood and from which he never backed down, and achievements like the Civil Rights Act, Medicare, Head Start, and the Clean Air Act.
The torch carriers, including daughters Luci Baines Johnson and Linda Bird Johnson Robb, are not asking Americans to put aside memories of the war as the LBJ Presidential Library prepares for a year of celebrations, but rather judge their father for more than the quagmire that sank his presidency, ushering in the nightmare era of Richard Nixon, and has indelibly tarnished his legacy.
To which I say, let's revisit that in another few decades when the history of the era will be easier to rewrite.
That is when I and other Baby Boomers will be gone and the wounds of Vietnam have begun to heal, while nevertheless celebrating in the here and now the extraordinary domestic agenda that LBJ pushed through in the five years after the Kennedy assassination -- an agenda that has withstood the test of time, as well.
Still, it is the 36th president's polarizing image -- a tragic consequence of which was the echo chamber in which only LBJ's sycophantic aides were listened to as the war became an unmitigated disaster -- that has resonated most loudly down through the decades since his premature death at age 64 in 1973 of a broken heart, as some people will have it.
Beyond Johnson's daughters and surviving inner circle, some historians believe that acknowledging his achievements is long overdue.
"I absolutely think the time has come,"Doris Kearns Goodwin, a Johnson biographer, told The New York Times. "When he left office, the trials and tribulations of the war were so emotional that it was hard to see everything else he had done beyond Vietnam. The country fundamentally changes as a result of L.B.J.'s presidency."
Indeed, it is easy to forget that Johnson was a true populist who believe that it was government's responsibility to reach out to and help Americans, a concept that today's Republican Party has thrown under the bus and even many Democrats seem to shy away from.
All of this begs a couple of questions:
First, while the Civil Rights Act empowered African-Americans, weren't they disproportionately the victims of Vietnam? Absolutely, and in that regard the war was a deadly discriminator.
Second, if Kennedy had lived, would he have become as unpopular as Johnson because of Vietnam and his own more modest domestic achievements would have gone unrecognized?
Yes, but this assumes that Kennedy would have expanded the war as LBJ did, and on this note the record is mixed. Some historians believe that he would have and others do not, noting the great reluctance with which he supported the modest buildup of then infinitesimal American presence, which followed his Bay of Pigs disaster.


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I kept thinking, "I can't believe we got all the way across the country for just 15 bucks, wow, not a bad deal!"
So we were able to stop in New England and see some historical places along the way as we started on our latest mission trip to Europe before we ministered in Scandinavia, England, and France.
One place we visited was in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where the Pilgrims from the Mayflower ship landed in 1620 and started the first sustaining colony in the New World.
A couple of other colonies had been attempted, one in Jamestown that ended with most of the colonists starving or freezing to death and the colony folding. There was also another attempt at a colony by the French actually, at a Protestant colony called Fort Caroline in what would later become the area of Florida.
That French colony was planted and financed by an influential French Protestant Huguenot sympathizer. However, rabid Spanish Catholic fanatics got wind of it, and led by Don Pedro Menendez De Aviles, they went in and put to the sword and massacred every last person, including women and children.
So, one was facing some pretty stiff odds to attempt another colony: possible starvation, death by freezing, or massacre, none being attractive prospects. That, along with the dangers of crossing the Atlantic, surely would give one pause about leaving the homeland to go and found a new place to live in a wild land across the sea.
Persecution, however, was increasing against those who were fully embracing the Protestant Reformation in England.
The English Church had made some reforms: First under Henry the VIII, but especially under his son Edward when he took the throne; however, when Bloody Mary rose to power, she returned with a literal vengeance back to Catholicism and had Protestants hunted down and executed. Included in her massacres was the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer, amongst many others.
The country would turn back Protestant under her half sister Elizabeth, daughter of Anne Boleyn, but her successor King James from Scotland was indifferent to reform. Even though he had authorized a new translation of the Bible into English, King James was no friend of the Puritans and had no tolerance for them, even though many were beginning to win seats in Parliament.
Those, like the Puritans, who wanted a full reformation, found themselves on the outs (the word Puritan came from their desire to purify the church back to New Testament design).
So, in spite of the grim prospects, the Mayflower set off from England in 1620 after its occupants had tried Holland for a time as a refuge from persecution. These Puritans, Separatists, and Independents aboard the Mayflower, were products of the Protestant Reformation and were under threat as Reform-minded believers in England, who wanted a full Reformation and not half measures.
They were part of the Reform movement, which was a return to biblical faith that was going on in Europe in their day, sparked originally by the influences of people like Martin Luther in Germany. It is remarkable what a chain of events were set in motion when that little unknown monk in Germany named Martin Luther found peace with God and set out to communicate about that. The History Channel recently said in a program on the Reformation and its worldwide impact "without Martin Luther and the Reformation there simply would be no America."
The Reformation's influence finally came across the channel to England and grew with William Tyndale, Thomas Cranmer, and others on England's soil, when those reformers were touched by the Holy Spirit and given revelation of the Gospel.
The Puritans had been a revival movement in England that was sparked by the Reformation. They held to the main principles of the Reformation: salvation by faith through grace, through Christ alone, the Scriptures as the sole authority for matter of faith—no pope nor priest had the right to contradict God's word.
The Puritans, however, also felt that Christ must touch the heart; mere head knowledge alone about God was not sufficient in their view. Mere cerebral acquiescence to a set of doctrines could not substitute for the reality of experiencing God's touch in the heart. As stated by historian Sydney Ahlstrom, they could be seen as some of the early Protestant mystics.
They sought to purify and return the church back to a New Testament model like in Acts. There were those Puritans that wanted to reform from within the English Church, and those that wanted to separate (Separatists) or be completely independent (Independents). All of these Puritans though, sought as they put it, to "avoid the errors of popery in the new world."
Like most movements and denominations, they did get formal later in their history; however, early on, they were vital, alive, and revived!
Those that came across the Atlantic were heavily influenced by the Puritan preachers in England and their focus on the Great Commission. They were thus inspired and willing to face starvation and brutal winters even with the knowledge of how miserably those before them had suffered and how so many had died.
They were taking quite the huge step of faith. Imagine leaving everything to go to a desolate wilderness where most before you had either starved, or frozen to death, or been massacred.
A quick look at the winter Boston experienced last season with all that snow dumped every few days will give you an idea of just how rough it really could get. We happened to grab a few waves in Maine, and man, that is some very cold water and air over on the East Coast of America and that was not even in winter!
The Puritans came in spite of all the dire prospects, moved by the Great Commission and the hope for freedom to worship as they desired. Another large group of Puritans came across later to what would become Boston, as well as other areas a decade later, making up large parts of the population of the early colonies.
Thus, the Puritan revival movement and its influence loomed large in the early colonies. Their influence would continue to be visible in later revivals through people like Jonathan Edwards in the Great Awakening. Benjamin Franklin himself would be baptized in a Puritan church in Boston.
Coming across the Atlantic, these Puritan Pilgrims, contrary to what you may have been taught in school, actually sought to advance the Gospel in the new world and spread the Christian faith.
In fact their written statement on the Mayflower, which they called a Compact that they drew up and signed aboard the Mayflower declared that they were undertaking the new colony: "…for ye glorie of God and advancement of ye Christian faith…"
"…advancement of ye Christian faith…" is pretty straightforward. The earliest settlers came here and founded the first sustaining colony as believers with a prophetic intention that it would work in God's design as a place that would advance the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
That original purpose and prophetic intention still remains over this land in spite of all the attack to undermine, and obscure, and blind people, from that truth.
Through the Holy Spirit's power we are still to carry that prophetic intention forth and see this land, that has experienced so much revival in the past, be revived again!
Video: Plymouth's Pilgrims and their Christian Faith
Direct link to video: https://youtu.be/xRM3-jqexe0
(We shot this video on location in Plymouth, MA.
It is packed with some good information. Check it out!)
Video: Plymouth's Pilgrims and their Christian Faith
Direct link to video: https://youtu.be/xRM3-jqexe0
(We shot this video on location in Plymouth, MA.
It is packed with some good information. Check it out!)


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As the publishing world develops, there is a good argument for getting more than printed material values compared to digital publications. Right now we are in an exciting time in the history of publishing.
How Publishing Changed when The Internet Came in
When the Internet first appeared, it was not clear how big the impact was. Many people in the older generation at that time (50 and up) are resistant to the Internet reality and the seemingly big changes are going to happen. For a long time, many companies and public institutions accommodate those who do not know how to use the Internet.
Over the years, some applications offer an alternative to using the Internet in all areas. As time passes, however, no one denies the influence of the Internet. Because email has become an easier and faster way to communicate with people than "Snail Mail".
The Internet continues to grow as websites become more and more communicating information. Currently, many major media, such as Time Magazine and The New York Times are present through their website (available to subscribers via email). Even when they are still offering print editions that they circulate widely.
Very specific industry publications such as magazines. Discussing topics such as gas analysis systems and vacuum systems and components, still, offer digital and print versions of their works.
Book Stores and Newsstands are Still With Us
While several years ago many cultural prognosticators predicted that libraries and bookstores would soon become ancient relics. The fact is an experience when holding a book or magazine. This seems to be especially true for people who read longer works that require a time commitment. Many people love to hold a book or magazine and "take it in" while they read it. All of this is why the beloved bookstore still remains, and we still can have the pleasure of holding a publication as we take in its information.


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Student Health Insurance Program (SHIP)
We support the educational mission of Colorado School of Mines and the academic success of our students by offering high-quality health insurance at a reasonable cost.
Health Insurance for Students
Colorado School of Mines is committed to the health and well-being of all of its students. Good health is essential to academic success which is why we provide health care coverage to all enrolled degree seeking domestic students, and all international students, regardless of degree status.
Coverage requirements and option to waive insurance
Mines requires all students to have adequate health insurance as a condition of enrollment. No distinction is made for part-time versus full-time status. Degree-seeking U.S. citizens and permanent resident students who demonstrate coverage that meets Mines' requirements may waive the health insurance provided by Mines using the online enrollment/waiver system. Information on coverage requirements can be found the Measure Up page.
Annual Enrollment or Waiver Required
A student's enrollment into the Student Health Insurance Program is an annual selection. The enrollment selection that the student chooses is binding for the entire academic year, including summer. Please review this website for eligibility, benefits and termination information on the Mines Student Health Insurance Program.
Students who experience a "qualifying event" (such as losing their insurance due to change in employment status or age) may enroll in the the SHIP within 30 days of the qualifying event. The SHIP premium will be prorated for this type of enrollment. Please contact "email@example.com" with questions.
Unless otherwise specified in the current brochure, the following students, as a condition of enrollment, must have health insurance that meets or exceeds Mines' coverage requirements:
- All degree-seeking students, regardless of credit hours.
- All International Students (F and J visas), regardless of degree-seeking status, must purchase the SHIP, unless they meet specific requirements to waive.
The Waiver Period for the 2019-20 Academic Year is now Closed. The waiver period for Fall 2020 will open July 15, 2020.
Rates for the 2020-21 Academic Year are currently being determined.
Rates for the 2019-20 Academic Year
(Coverage through National Guardian Life-Cigna PPO Network)
- Annual $2600 (billed $1300 Fall and $1300 Spring Semester–coverage 8/1/19-8/1/20)
- Spring/Summer 2020 $1519 (coverage 1/1/20-8/1/20)
- Summer 2020 $583 (coverage 5/11/20 to 8/1/20)
Contact Us
Kathy Ebeling
Student Health Benefit Plan Coordinator
Student Wellness Center, #207
Find Network Providers
To find in network providers, you can go to either cigna.com and choose "find a doctor or hospital"or you can go to csm.myahpcare.com and choose "find a doctor or hospital". Either link takes you to the same place. You do not have a Cigna log in, so choose the "not a Cigna Customer Yet" (in the top right quadrant) and choose "plan through your employer or school". Put in your location, choose the PPO option (at the bottom of the list) and enter the provider's name you are checking on or type of care you want (dermatologist, cardiologist). It should give you all the providers in a set number of miles.
If you are looking for behavioral health, it is the bottom left quadrant-"Cigna Behavioral Directory" and choose "provider directory (second option on page). Scroll to the bottom and fill in the provider type, choose Behavioral Health, and radius from your location.
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Let me start this story with a huge disclaimer: I make no comment nor do I have any opinions on how others choose to potty train their children.
Now that's out of the way I can tell you why I decided to potty train my first child so early.8 reasons why mother and baby activity groups suck
My husband's favourite childhood story is about how he was potty trained by the age of one.
So really it's his fault.
I figured if he could do it, then so could his daughter.
I'd also seen some of my friends struggle to potty train a toddler while caring for a newborn and, given I wanted my kids close together, it scared the bejeebies out of me.
Lastly, we spend years training our babies to wee and poo into a nappy, and then suddenly expect them to reverse that.
I figured that had to be a better way.
I started by doing what I always do: research.
I discovered that, contrary to modern Western beliefs, children can be safely potty trained early and many countries all over the world routinely do so.
In non-industrialised societies, early potty training makes a lot of sense.
Disposable nappies are expensive and not as widely available.
In the western world, however, time is a huge obstacle and our overly processed diet often causes constipation, which can make early potty training difficult.
You need the time, energy and tools to do it right.
In the end I came up with a three-phase approach, with the goal of having my daughter out of nappies by 18 months.
Phase one: it's all in the cloth
Cloth nappies are not new; in fact the first disposable nappy was invented in 1948 and didn't become widely available until the 60s.
There are many reasons why cloth nappies were appealing to me.
They are cheaper, environmentally friendly and much more effective at containing those epic poonamies.
Most importantly, they allow babies to feel wet.
One of the biggest issues with disposable nappies is that they are so good at absorbing moisture; children can become disassociated from their bladder and bowel movements.
Did I also mention that modern cloth nappies come in the cutest patterns and colours?
Phase two: it's potty time
Elimination Communication is a 'gentle, non-coercive way to respond to a baby's natural hygiene needs, from as early as birth'.
Parents look for signals that their baby is uncomfortable and ready to go, then offer 'toilet' opportunities.
It wasn't until my daughter was six months old that I felt ready to try this.
The books The Diaper-Free Baby by Christine Gross-Loh and Early-Start Potty Training by Linda Sonna, became my main resources.
While I didn't follow the techniques in both books to the letter, they did give me confidence and a framework to work with.
So at six months old, once my daughter was comfortably able to sit upright and hold her head up, I put her on the potty for the first time.
I used the Strata Potty Chair as it is very sturdy and gave her some back support.
At this point my aim was merely to familiarise her with the idea of peeing and pooing in something other than her nappy.
About the time I knew she was likely to do a pee or poo, I put her on the potty then just sat with her and played until she either did something or started fussing.
It took about three tries and several minutes of playing before she did anything, and I immediately clapped and made a great big fuss of her afterwards.
She quickly cottoned on to what the potty was for and that Mummy and Daddy liked it when she used it.
I still used cloth nappies full-time, but tried to give her several potty opportunities each day.
Also, due to my daughter's dairy and soya allergies, her diet was free of processed food by sheer necessity.
Phase three: going cold turkey
As my daughter approached 18 months, I felt she was ready to move to using the potty exclusively as I didn't want her getting too entrenched in nappies.
I also felt the cold turkey approach would be best as she is an all-or-nothing gal.
I came across Becky Mansfield's Potty Train In A Weekend.
This book was exactly what I needed: quick and straight to the point.
You basically spend three days in a confined space with your naked toddler, gently teaching them to use the potty.
The first day was brutal; she pretty much scent-marked the whole living room.
Halfway through day two, however, she clicked into it; it was like a light switch went off, and she walked to the potty.
By the third day she was doing about 80 per cent of her bowel and bladder movements in the potty.
She did get a little confused when I put underwear on her for the first time, but we quickly got back into the groove of it.
After the initial three-day training period we only used pull ups at night and within five months she was fully dry.
I was lucky in that I work part-time and had the full support of my husband and nursery.
Early potty training is not for everyone but it certainly can be done.
It just requires planning.
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Good Morning, Everyone! Hope you enjoyed your Family Day Long Weekend!!
Recently, about 4 weeks ago actually, I was fortunate enough to have been able to land in Kenora on Bearskin just in time for my phone to start ringing, non-stop…the caller being our 17 year old son Aoedan. Now, I am not an expert on teenagers (although attempting to raise one and also having being a former high school principal does give me some insight), but when your 17 year old son (who coincidentally also has your vehicle) is calling you steady until you pick up, it can only mean a couple of things right? In this case, he was considerate enough to call me to tell me that Celias' SUV was sitting on a precarious incline with one rear tire actually not touching the ground. How did it get there? Well, that is for him to share, but I don't mind telling you that as I pulled up to the accident scene, two cruisers with flashers going, I had enough information already to know that Aoedan had experienced his first "fender-bender". Having established that no one was seriously hurt, other than pride, one of the OPP who attended to the scene after I got there, asked me "anyone hurt Sean?". My response was a quick negative, followed by my in-jest comment as I looked at my son, "well…not yet at least!". However, and this really is the only reason I am sharing this with all of you, because hearing of another person's side-swiped collision I suspect for you is neither newsworthy or warranting of your time; but the response from the officer was: "You never did the same when you were his age, were you any different?? You've lived a bit haven't you?"
Which brings me to my whole purpose of writing this, this Family Day weekend, as many, many thoughts have been going through my head these last few weeks. As. I was driving home from the accident scene, with Aoedan alongside me, no worse for the wear, a song came on the radio that I had heard several times, but this time taking on a purpose I think. I am going to send you the link to the video at the end of this Blog, and I am going to ask all of you to click on it and watch it, and most importantly listen to the words. Now I am not at all an American Top 40 listener and I don't spend a lot of time on YouTube, unless I am watching fishing videos posted from anglers working the waters of Lac Seul during summer months. But you will likely have heard the song "I Lived" by One Republic, these last few months. When you travel around the region as much as I do in your vehicle, you make lots of phone calls and you listen to lots of radio music. However (and I assure you I am not benefiting from royalties in any way by promoting this) this particular song, and more specifically its lyrics obviously were telling a story. I kept listening to it while driving: its words about living, doing it all, no regrets….and it had a message. When I finally went on You Tube to watch it, it did make an impact as I am sure it will on you. After driving home from my son's accident, it took on a meaning that I felt many of you could appreciate. Why?
Because in essence what was being pointed out to me by the officer, who I have known a long time, through his question was "haven't you lived Sean?"
Over the past number of weeks, I have been fortunate enough to really put on some serious miles across the District visiting schools and staff. Last week, I was lucky enough to attend a joint staff meeting of all Sioux Mountain Public School and Queen Elizabeth District High School staff together and updating them on progress made to date with the new high school on its way! That night I had dinner with the "four guys" as I call them, the administrators of our schools in Sioux Lookout. As I sat there having a ginger ale and wings, I listened to them continue to tell me how proud they were of their staff, and the work that their colleagues accomplish every day. The next morning I attended an Honour's Breakfast at QEDHS for students, parents and staff; an event that many schools hold to celebrate academic achievement. However, what many don't or wouldn't know is that the staff had come into the school and started cooking breakfast as early as 4 AM that morning! Not for fanfare or recognition, but because they wanted to celebrate.
On my way home to Kenora later that day, I called several principals to return messages and check in with them as I frequently do; and I can tell you unequivocally that everyone I spoke with, said the same thing to me: "Sean, people are working so hard for kids, for our school, for this organization. It is impressive!" In the case of Liz Sidor (RLDHS Principal), she added, "I am so proud of my staff of this Board, of what we are doing and where we are going!" Another principal (Heather Mutch, KPS) shared with me the day before the work we are doing, is "becoming legendary for kids". I would add, the work and the freedom to encourage this work from all staff, is because OF the staff. It is because of a burgeoning sense of family, of pride, of a belief that regardless of who you are or where you work, we are into this enterprise together, united.
Which brings me to another unfolding event that his been occupying my thoughts in recent weeks; and it has to everything to do with living, and having lived to the fullest extent possible. Last year in one of my posts, I referenced the incredible work that teacher Patti Boucha and education assistant Shelley Sabeski were doing in the Section 23 Class, otherwise known as Firefly, at Evergreen Public School in Kenora. Maybe you will recall that blog. Anyways, in the last few weeks, Shelley has been given some news and information that she was neither expecting nor I think it safe to say, wanted to hear. In fact, it is that kind of news that, you know, "only ever happens to someone else, not me or my family." However, this time it happened to Shelley, a member of our KP family and one of our colleagues, enjoying life, the future, and her grandkids. You get the picture. I also assure you, that her news is not news anyone wants to hear. I say this, because I have a favour and a reminder too. My favour is to ask of you, to let her know that this journey she undertakes (and as feeble as it may feel for us) we enter this journey with her, as we keep her and her family in our thoughts. Last week her own kids all came home for a family picture, on a cool Sunday afternoon, to be taken together.
The reminder now, is to ask you to click on and watch the video, and listen to its words, because it's message is universal to all of us. Do it on your prep, it is worth it!
I am in Pickle Lake and Savant Lake this week meeting with the staff and the schools there, and of course the kids. I will see extraordinary work going on in little classrooms with staff as dedicated as any could ever be. I look forward to having dinner Wednesday night in Savant Lake with the SLPS staff at the Four Winns Motel, and hearing of how proud they are of their kids, and how proud they are to be part of the KPDSB. I will see actions in motion, underlying the feeling that we are here to live and make the lives of those around us extraordinary, to live every day making sure that we have given it our all. It is a choice to look back and say, "I wish I had done that?" or "Why didn't I take that chance or opportunity, when I had it?" Maybe we want to take that chance or not lose an opportunity, any opportunity, before it is gone.
As I see everywhere I go, there is an intertia (thanks Wayne) that is underway across the entire Board, a surging energy and pride for taking on tough issues, and not backing down from the adversities we face. Following the recent events in Kenora and across all of our schools, the NorWOSSA incident seems to have reenergized folks to believe we are incredibly strong, and advocates for all students, essentially for public education. We are the best chance for kids. I would suggest that the recent Kindergarten campaign was more than successful; why? Because we are at our Kindergarten enrollment projections for next year….ALREADY!!!! And we have 7 months to go, before the start of school this September!! Unprecedented, I would argue. Why the draw?? Well, I think parents are looking for a breadth of programming and vast opportunities, that any parent would want for their kids. They like what the see, and they recognize what I think we are all seeing now, and that is our staff have pride and care; they are about kids and they definitely care about our success and future. We are surging indeed!!
When I was asked by a colleague from another board recently, why I "took it so seriously" and in fact took our KPDSB "future to heart so personally", I replied that I didn't know any other way how to take our future. I indicated that to not take our future, our schools, our programs and our staff personally, I didn't think would be doing my job necessarily. I then asked back, "don't you want your own leadership taking your future seriously and to heart too?" So I want to echo what I am hearing everywhere, and that is I too am also very proud of this Board, the Keewatin-Patricia District School Board, and all who come here every day, be they students, staff or community members. And as far as the future goes, and to those who want a challenge and feel that we are a Board that they are competing with, my message is this….it's game on, and it's a game were going to win, because everyone of my staff is invested as much as I am in its success….make no mistake, we are going to win this. We win together, experience set-backs together, and we hold each other together when we are called on to do so. Shelley's email is email@example.com
I will meet with staff Efficacy group next week, and we will take empowerment and advocacy for us, and the KPDSB to a whole new level!! And P.S. We have winter licked!
Link to watch: http://youtu.be/z0rxydSolwU
Call or email if I can be of any help, and take care,


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The Court of Appeal ruled yesterday on some interesting costs aspects of patent litigation in SmithKline Beecham plc and others v Apotex Europe Ltd and others [2004] EWCA Civ 1703.
SKB had a patent for paroxetine hydrochloride anhydrate which was substantially free of bound organic solvent. Following patent revocation and infringement litigation, SKB and Apotex sought apportionment of the costs between them in respect of the first instance and appeal proceedings. In earlier proceedings the Court of Appeal had upheld Mr Justice Pumfrey's finding that Apotex did not infringe SKB's patent but it reversed his findings that the patentwas invalid for lack of novelty and inventive step. The patent had itself been substantially amended and claims which SKB relied on until the start of the trial disclaimed were subsequently abandoned. It was impossible to disentangle the various issues and make a precise allocation of costs, so the parties agreed that an overall conclusion should be reached as to whether one side should pay the other's costs and that, if one party did indeed have to pay the other's costs, a proportion of those costs should be offset after taking into account any appropriate factors by way of reduction. It was also agreed that the costs of the first instance and appeal proceedings should be dealt with separately.
The Court of Appeal affirmed that the basic provisions of the Civil Procedure Rules applied as much to complex patent infringement cases as they did to any other type of case. That being so, an issue-by-issue approach should be applied, so far as it was reasonably possible, though even that approach should not be thought capable of achieving a precise figure for costs. On the facts, Apotex were entitled to 16 per cent of their costs at first instance on a standard basis: this reflected the overall justice of the case, given that they were the commercial winners. SKB were also entitled to 25 per cent of their costs of the appeal on a standard basis.
The IPKat says the cost of intellectual property litigation is so high that appeals to the Court of Appeal on the costs issue are made to look like a worthwhile proposition. In both this case and in Reed v Reed (dealing with trade marks) Lord Justice Jacob has sought to explain and clarify the bases on which costs are awarded. However, it is unfair for litigants to have to finance the cost of develeping costs jurisprudence out of their own pockets: clearer guidance should be made available, through legislation or a House of Lords ruling. Merpel says "I thought this was all about Cat Lit, not Pat Lit".


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Between 3 and 3.30 AM he would knock on the door of my room which was held in place delicately by a latch. He would call out my name. No, he would whisper it. For some time I would pretend that I couldn't hear anything.
The knocking would then become persistent. I would get out of bed and go close to the door, but not open it. He would plead, "Hit me on the head with a rod. I know you keep one under your bed. I know you can do it." Each time, I would tell him to get lost. I would treat him like the dog we never had.
Then on the morning of June 7, 2006, he went for a walk and never returned.
When we – my mother, my sister and I – were convinced that he was not coming back, there was a collective sigh of relief. There was almost a celebration.
"I hope we never see his face again," my sister said. I hoped so too. So did my mother who taught chemistry for a living but loved the arts (well, she could reproduce Husain well).
Swadesh Deepak's bipolar disorder was diagnosed in the 1990s. By this time he had become a disgusting and despised figure for everyone: family, friends and relatives. Lying in the queen-sized bed in his room, this famed writer who would receive the Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 2004, would stare for hours on end at the ceiling. I would peep in, pretend not to be scared and retreat to my room. There was no question of praying. After all, posters of Marx and Lenin ruled the walls of my room in those days, sharing space with Cindy Crawford in a bikini.
The first suicide attempt happened in the year 1999.
There was a lot of noise in the bathroom. Mother and sister rushed there. I was awake but did not move. It was night, after all; I should be asleep, I was not supposed to know.
My cousin, a doctor, was called. She came with her husband, also a doctor. Both were sleepy but they managed to do what they were supposed to do. They thwarted his bid to take his life. The whole thing lasted around two hours. I did not move. Not an inch.
My cousin decided that it was time to take him to a psychiatrist now. He was taken to the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGI, for short) in Chandigarh, about an hour's drive from Ambala, where we lived (where I still live, in the same house). They gave him pills. He took them and slept for hours through the day. A few days later, he stopped taking the pills. It was time to suffer again. And not just for him.
In 1991 he had written the widely acclaimed Hindi play Court Martial.
It was during the play's first show in Calcutta that he met a woman whom he called "Mayavani". He never forgot her.
I remember asking him once the English translation of the word. He looked straight into my eyes and said, "Do you really think English is rich enough to accommodate the power of Mayavani?" This from a man who taught MA English classes in a college in Ambala for twenty-six years. (I had to be content with my own loose and inadequate translation of Mayavani: the seductress of illusion.)
I also remember asking him why he was ill. What was actually wrong with him? Why didn't he take the medicines when doctors said that the disease could be treated? He said, "That's a good question, for a change. Do you think black magic can be treated? More importantly, should it be treated, that too with some darn pills? I am ill because I insulted her, because I refused to reciprocate her love."
"So I should never refuse to love a woman?"
"That can only happen if women show any interest in you. I mean your features are so beautiful, almost perfect, like your mother's. You don't have my rawness, my foul mouth, my imperfection, my charm. Only those women who are completely incapable of black magic will fall for you. You're lucky that way. But on a serious note, give your love to every woman who asks for it."
He laughed after that. I laughed too. I loved his cruelty. My mother and sister hated it.
He had stopped going to the college by this time, insisting that he was too exhausted. In the initial years, it seemed more like depression than bipolar disorder. The man known for his fiery temper and fine ability to hurt us would take insults without retaliating now.
Mother would make it a point to tell him exactly how things were the moment she came back from her school job: "So, enjoying yourself while your wife runs the house? What a shameless man!" He would go quiet. If, that is, he had been saying anything at all. His walk became slower and he retreated to his room, a dark space filled with the heavy smoke from his unfiltered cigarettes.
I would, of course, join my mother. His presence was poison to me. How could someone who seemed absolutely healthy physically pretend that something was seriously wrong with him?
I was in college now, the same college where he had taught.
I never wanted to join it. What if the teachers asked me about him? Moreover, it was so desi.
Most of my friends had moved to bigger cities. I didn't speak to many people in the college, not even the teachers. Most of them seemed like the students in my class – uneducated. Except the one man who didn't teach me.
One day, I went for a long walk to buy cigarettes. When I got back home a neighbour told me to go to Monga Hospital. Swadesh had tried to burn himself. I was composed. I just told myself, "Another mess."
I got on to my Enfield, took the longer route and rode right up to the gate of the hospital. Not because of any urgency, I cannot remember feeling any. I guess I just wanted to scare the people sitting there.
Mother was sitting with him. So were my doctor cousins. He was conscious. I asked him directly, "What happened?"
"I would prefer not to answer such a stupid question. You can do better."
The woman doctor there laughed. Then blushed, almost. I could have killed him for that.
He was shifted back home after a few days.
Excerpted with permission from the essay "Papa, Elsewhere", by Sukant Deepak, in The Book of Light: When a Loved One Has a Different Mind, edited by Jerry Pinto.


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Have a Happy & Healing Friday!
Happy Friday, friends! I, for one, am glad it's here. June has been a jam-packed month and I have a feeling that July is going to be even hotter. It's the prefect weekend to stay close to home and bask in the glow of the new moon in Cancer. Astrologer Chani Nicholas has affirmations for making the most of this healing passage. No matter what your sign, expect flashes of insight on what kind of nourishment you need, emotionally and spiritually, that you haven't been getting—or giving yourself. If you're new to moon cycles, this guide from sstones is captures them beautifully:
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What was Reported?
The Section 809 Advisory Panel, established under Section 809 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2016, issued January 31, 2018, their Volume 1 of 3 Report of the Advisory Panel on Streamlining and Codifying Acquisition Regulations (Report). The eight-section Report addresses various aspects of the Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition process and offers several conclusions and recommendations identifying opportunities for improvement across the overall acquisition spectrum.
The focus of this paper is Section 2 – Contract Compliance and Audit. Summarized below are six selected recommendations of the total 11 recommendations identified in Section 2 of the Report. The 11 recommendations pertain to current regulatory requirements and associated business practices of the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) and Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) relative to current contract audit, oversight and administration activities.
Several of the findings and recommendations included in the overall 11 have been previously identified through prior fiscal years' NDAAs and/or the DoD rule-making process and the subject of public comments, discussions, or opinions. We have selected for discussion here six of the 11 recommendations that present somewhat of a new look and offer a different perspective to effect potential improvements to the DoD acquisition process compared to other initiatives previously vetted in prior NDAAs and/or DoD rules referenced above.
– DCAA's Annual Report to Congress (Recommendation 6) – The Report criticizes the content and metrics that the DCAA reports annually to Congress. The Report states "Congress's reporting requirement for DCAA lacks critical metrics to adequately measure DCAA's performance."
Substantive findings and recommendations noted in the Report include:
- Reduction of, as the primary emphasis, reporting of DCAA's questioned costs, sustained costs, and return on investment as it is misleading when not reported in conjunction with other performance metrics;
- Utilization of a balanced scorecard approach to report other aspects of DCAA's performance, including, among other things, i) on-time performance, ii) reasons for the differences between questioned and sustained costs, iii) survey results of buying commands' and the DCMA's views on the timeliness, quality and effectiveness of DCAA audits performed, and iv) costs to perform audits compared to sustained costs; and
- Amendment, by the Legislative Branch, of 10 U.S.C. §2313a requiring the DCAA to report additional key metrics.
– Statutory Time Limits for DCAA Activities (Recommendation 8) – The Report criticizes the overall timeliness of the DCAA audit activities performed and notes various activities take too long and are initiated too late. Timely receipt of audits under statutorily mandated deadlines will improve the DoD's effectiveness of various oversight activities. The Report states, "DCAA's work is untimely, which causes delays in contract awards, as well as other negative effects on the contract life cycle, through andincluding contract closeout."
Substantive findings and recommendations noted in the Report include:
- Existence of requirements for independent public accountants to submit final audit reports within required timeframes – including both audits of i) private entities under Securities Exchange Commission deadlines and ii) public agencies under Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990 deadlines;
- Existence of requirements for contractors to submit various reports and documents to the DCAA and DCMA within required statutory timeframes;
- Identification of 11 specific DCAA oversight activities, three on-demand and eight predictable, for which statutory deadlines should be established;
- Establishment of these deadlines by October 1, 2019; however, the DCMA and DCAA are encouraged to establish dates sooner;
- Extension of established dates is permissible by contracting officers within a narrow group of three categories – if the extension is due to the contractor requested or delayed category, the extension cannot be granted without the contractor's express knowledge; and
- Amendment, by the Legislative Branch, of 10 U.S.C. §2313b(g) to include required reporting deadlines related to the 11 specific oversight activities referenced above.
– DCAA's use of Independent Public Accounting (IPA) Firms to meet Time Limits (Recommendation 9) – The Report asserts the DCAA cannot eliminate its backlog of incurred cost proposal audits and meet its other oversight and reporting responsibilities without use of additional resources. The Report states, "DCAA needs additional resources to get and stay current with its oversight responsibilities."
Substantive findings and recommendations noted in the Report include:
- Establish use of IPAs by the DCAA to eliminate the incurred cost proposal audit backlog and allow continued support of other oversight and financial services activities;
- Request increases in appropriated funding by the DCAA to Congress to allow for the DCAA to contract with IPAs;
- Maintain availability of increased funding to the DCAA on a yearly basis, over a five-year period and starting in fiscal year 2019;
- Establish authority of contracting officers to request from the DCAA services of IPAs to meet contracting officers' needs;
- Provision, by the Legislative Branch, of additional appropriated funding beyond the current DCAA budget to allow the DCAA to retain IPAs; and
- Modification by the Executive Branch, of DoD Directive 5105.36 to enable the DCAA's use of IPAs.
– Replace Accounting System Administration Adequacy Criteria (DFARS 252.242-7006 with an Internal Control Audit (Recommendation 10) – The Report asserts use of the existing 18 adequacy criteria contained in DFARS 252.242-7006 for purposes of assessing the adequacy and effectiveness of contractors' accounting systems is inadequate. Rather, as prescribed in Section 893 of the NDAA for fiscal year 2017, the DoD should accept contractors' third-party auditor internal control audits performed using the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) integrated framework approach as the baseline. The Report states, "The DoD is not obtaining timely assurance that internal controls for defense contractors' accounting systems are properly designed and functioning. Ensuring effective internal controls is one of the most efficient ways to protect the government's interest, reduce risk, and improve performance."
Substantive findings and recommendations noted in the Report include:
- Recognition that the accounting system is the most critical business system to ensure the government's interests are protected;
- Use by third-party auditors the SOX integrated audit framework as a baseline to measure contractors' adequacy and effectiveness of internal controls to meet government contract audit objectives;
- Revision by third-party auditors the SOX framework to address specific and unique accounting system internal control objectives and establish an internal control audit program based on objective and measurable criteria;
- Replacement of the DFARS 18 adequacy criteria with the revised internal control audit program and conduct audits with use of third-party auditors, and
- Revision by the Executive Branch, of DFARS 252.242-7006 to allow use of contractor performed internal audits.
– Incentivize Contractor Compliance through Robust Risk Assessment (Recommendation 14) – The Report suggests the DCAA could be more efficient with performance of their overall audit and oversight responsibilities with utilization of a more robust risk assessment program pertaining to their overall audit and workload planning. The Report states, "DCAA uses a simple risk assessment to prioritize workload. Because DCAA bears all oversight responsibilities regarding contractor costs and related business systems, DCAA needs a more robust risk assessment approach."
Substantive findings and recommendations noted in the Report include:
- Implementation by the DCAA of a more holistic risk-based assessment approach based on assignment of numeric weightings to specific fact-based risk considerations;
- Addition by the DCAA of ten potential additional factors (beyond auditable dollar-volume (ADV) for consideration and analysis when performing contractor risk assessments, including, among other things, i) complexity of cost accounting structure, ii) government participation in indirect expense pools, iii) status of business systems, and iv) compliance with applicable Cost Accounting Standards requirements;
- Potential re-designation of contractors, based on the results of the numeric weightings developed from the criteria above, into high, medium and low-risk categories different than previously designated categories based on the current ADV focused approach, and
- Definitive recommendation by the Section 809 Panel regarding the potential ten additional risk assessment factors prior to its January 2019 sunset.
– Clarify Definition of an Adequate Incurred Cost Proposal (Recommendation 15) – The Report criticizes the DCAA's audit of direct costs as a required procedure in conjunction with the overall audit of contractors' final indirect cost rate proposals (also frequently known as final incurred cost proposals or incurred cost submissions). The Report asserts all the schedules currently 'required' and included in these proposals have no bearing on meeting the sole purpose of these proposals, which is, establishment of final indirect expense rates in accordance with FAR 42.702. The Report states "Many of the required elements of an adequate final indirect cost rate proposal have no bearing on calculating, understanding, auditing, and negotiating final indirect cost rates. This collection of unnecessary data has contributed to DCAA losing its focus on the purpose and scope of contractors' final indirect cost rate proposal and has created unnecessary work for contractors, DCAA, and especially contracting officers."
Substantive findings and recommendations noted in the Report include:
- Clarify in the FAR that an incurred cost proposal is the same as a final indirect cost rate proposal;
- Perform by DCAA audits of final indirect cost rate proposals in accordance with the intent of the FAR, and, exclude as a required procedure the audit of direct costs;
- Redefinition by DCAA which schedules are required for submission in the final indirect cost rate proposal, and, designate as optional those schedules that do not relate to establishment of final indirect expense rates; and
- Definition, by the Executive Branch, within FAR 52.216-7 that incurred cost proposal is synonymous with final indirect cost rate proposal and designate schedules I-M and O as optional.
What does this Mean?
The six recommendations discussed above make sense and offer practical and reasonable approaches to accomplishing the overall objective of the Section 809 Panel, i.e., streamline the DoD acquisition regulatory process and move to a more effective and efficient framework. Further, use of industry leading and long-established commercial business practices makes good sense.
Unfortunately, there is a twofold reality. First, as many of the recommendations can only be accomplished as a result of statutory or regulatory change, the corresponding timeline(s) associated with the legal or regulatory processes to allow implementation of these recommendations are likely, a way down the road. Second, some of the recommendations may be received as somewhat controversial and attract resistance; see, for example, recommendations 6, 8, 9, and 15. Recommendation 9 is likely the most controversial as the DCAA, based on recent public discussions and comments and congressional testimony (April 2017), clearly object to the use of IPAs for incurred cost audit purposes, let alone engaging the IPAs directly as recommendation 9 suggests.
Implementation of the above recommendations would be a welcomed change to the current government contracting state however, contractors should realize any real or substantive change will likely not be seen in the near term.


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Tik'al may not be so much off the beaten track. Still it receives surprisingly less visitors than the majority of Maya and pre-columbian sites across Mexico and Yucatan. Arguably, Tik'al possesses some of the most impressive and iconic Maya architecture in Meso-America.
Accounts of a fabled city of stone somehow lost in the jungle of Petén began circulating in the early XVII century. However, it was not until 1848 that the site was formally discovered by an expedition led by Modesto Mendez and Ambrosio Tut. The site was extensively studied and excavated, amongst others, by Alfred P. Maudslay and Sylvanus Morley. Excavations on the site are still ongoing mostly supported by the University of Pennsylvania.
Covering 222 square miles of thick jungle and with 13 square miles of structures already unearthed, Tik'al is the largest excavated site in all of Pre-columbian America. Still, this is but a tiny portion of the whole site.
We arrived in Tik'al on the early morning of a sunny day in early May. Our flight from Guatemala City to Flores – some 70 Km away from the ancient site – had been somehow delayed because of the morning mist covering the mountain tops.
The road running from Flores to Tik'al runs through pristine forest along the shores of lake Petén Itza, one of the largest in Guatemala, until the gate to the national park. The site did not seem to receive many visitors this time of the year, so we could have whole areas of the site entirely for ourselves.
At the entrance of the park, one is greeted by a giant scale-model of the ancient site, complete with pyramids, causeways and reproductions of buildings. One can not but wonder at the complexity and overall grandeur of the ancient layout. When looking at it, one immediately realizes that one day is not enough to see all of Tik'al, especially if you don't want to miss also the minor ruins and pyramids that dot the landscape. My suggestion is you stay at the Jungle lodge Hotel, which offers some comfortable accommodation just inside the archaeological site (which is especially good for those who wish to watch at the sunrise or sunset from Temple IV – also keep in mind that after 3 pm the site is almost deserted, with nearly no tourists around, while most tours running from Flores usually end in the early afternoon).
Not much is known of the early history of Tik'al before the pre-classic period of Maya civilization. The earliest findings on the site date from the 6th and 4th century B.C. However, Tikal did not reach its peak until the Classic period, extending from 200 to 850 AD. The population of Tik'al is estimated at 100,000 at its height, making it one of the largest cities of Maya civilization (together with neighboring El Mirador).
Tik'al had strong ties and relationships with most sites in Meso-America, as far as Teotihuacan in distant Mexico. For some time, Tik'al even came under Teotihuacan's rule, which happened around 378 AD during the rule of King Siyah K'Ak (Fire is Born) who "came from the West" as reported in inscriptions portraying the King with the typical Teotihuacan armor and headdress.
After the period of Teotihuacan rule, an alliance of Maya states including Caracol and Calakmul fighted and eventually defeated Tikal in the mid 6th Century AD. This coincided with a near complete stop of all building activity at the site and a lapse in the writing of inscriptions lasting for all of the 6th and 7th Century (known as the Tik'al hiatus). During the 9th Century, construction work started again on Temple III, the last monumental construction to be built in Tik'al. However, by 950 AD Tik'al seems to have suffered a rapid collapse, with the majority of the city already deserted. The last inhabitants abandoned the ruins around the 10th or 11th century, with the rainforest claiming all that was left of the ancient city. One can not but wonder at the mystery of a once thriving city, with all its magnificent temples, majestic palaces and pyramids, suddenly abandoned and left to the jungle.
For almost one thousand years, Jaguars and monkeys would be the only inhabitants of this city of the dead.
[To be continued in Part 2]
Tik'al, Guatemala - The temple of the Great Jaguar (Temple I) on the great plaza of Tik'al - arguably one of the most iconic Maya architectures in Meso-America (Photo by Author)


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Motivation on Unpopular Assignments
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You are the chief prosecutor heading an office with a number of assistant prosecutors, support staff, including paralegals and interns. Your paralegals are well-trained in legal research and in building databases for trials. You have to compile data on cases relating to the death penalty as part of a new tracking program that has been implemented by the state's attorney general's office. This is an unfunded mandate that does not provide any additional funds or resources to your office to establish a database. The project requires that you analyze cases prosecuted by your office over the previous 50 years, focusing on issues of racial and economic disparity.
Your assistant prosecutors seem to feel that data collection is mechanical work, fit only for fresh interns. However, you view it as an activity that is too important to delegate to your part-time interns, or your paralegals without strong supervision.
Therefore, you decide to assign this duty to two of your senior prosecutors. They will have to devote 50 percent of their time to building the new database and performing the required analysis. You have chosen two prosecutors with the most experience prosecuting capital cases, knowing that they will be most familiar with the data. However, neither prosecutor has a strong background in data collection or computer-based statistical analysis. Both have expressed reservations about overseeing the project.
Which strategies do you think are most effective for influencing employees to undertake new tasks? Why? Assess the advantages and disadvantages of these strategies in the context of this scenario.
Should you use rational persuasion or the tactic of exchange strategy to influence the attorneys you selected for creating and maintaining the new database? Why? Explain how you might combine both, if necessary, to achieve the desired objective.
What are the inspirational appeals you could make to the attorneys? Explain. Will inspirational appeals work better than pressure tactics? Why?
As a leader, was it appropriate for you to select the two attorneys who would be assigned to this project? Would it have been better to request volunteers? Do you think this would lessen the need to persuade employees to take on this additional responsibility? Would the use of the paralegals change the dynamic as well as the work assignments?
How much credence should leaders give to employees' expressions of concern over assigned tasks? Under what circumstances might it be inappropriate for a leader to continue to apply persuasion tactics with employees who appear resistant to performing certain tasks?
Which combination of the various proactive influence tactics would be most successful in influencing the staff? Why?© BrainMass Inc. brainmass.com June 4, 2020, 5:06 am ad1c9bdddf
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Now, as it stands, the chief prosecutor has a terrible idea. That senior prosecutors should be doing this is a little strange, and they are correct in "expressing reservations." The assistants thought it beneath them, so its given to their superiors.
The rational approach would not work here, since the chief prosecutor is clearly in the wrong. It gets worse when a full half of their time needs to be dedicated to this. Thus, other methods are needed. One clear necessity is their input into the process. Given that they are getting an assignment that takes them away from the reason they were hired, at the very least, they should be able to structure and schedule the project themselves. If they can be made to feel like they are the authors of an important study, that might provide some motivation.
The initial pitch is also significant. Since they have already expressed opposition, chances are its too late for that. But empathy and compensation are critical. ...
Solution Summary
This is a case study where specific approaches to motivation are discussed. It is an unpopular task that a leader must impose on certain people, but how this is imposed and what is given in return is important.


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