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Assessing academic attainment : a brief, psychometrically sound measure for use in middle childhood
Johnson, Samantha J., Marlow, Neil and Wolke, Dieter (2011) Assessing academic attainment : a brief, psychometrically sound measure for use in middle childhood. In: 52nd Annual Meeting of the European Society for Paediatric Research, Newcastle, UK, 14-17 Oct 2011. Published in: Pediatric Research, Vol.70 (No.5s). p. 124. ISSN 0031-3998 . doi:10.1203/01.pdr.0000403893.61640.b6Research output not available from this repository, contact author.
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1203/01.pdr.0000403893.61640....
Background: Assessing educational outcomes in high-risk populations is crucial for defining long term functional outcomes. Standardised tests are costly and time-consuming for large-scale investigations. A valid and reliable teacher-report measure would be advantageous.
Aim: To assess the psychometric properties of the 'Teacher Academic Attainment Scale' (TAAS).
Methods: Participants comprised 340 children aged 10-11 years (n=187 born extremely preterm [< 26 weeks] and n=153 born at term) were assessed using the reading and mathematics scales of the Wechsler Individual Achievement Test-II (WIAT-II), a Gold Standard measure. Class teachers completed the TAAS, a 7-item questionnaire for assessing academic attainment. The TAAS was also completed at 6 years of age for 266 children.
Results: Cronbach's alpha=0.95 indicated excellent internal consistency, and a significant correlation (r=0.77, p< 0.001) between TAAS scores at 6 and 11 years indicated good long-term test-retest reliability. Significantly higher TAAS scores for term vs. preterm children demonstrated discriminative validity. TAAS scores at both 6 and 11 years were significantly correlated with WIAT-II reading (r=0.69 & r=0.75, p< 0.001) and mathematics (r=0.75 & r=0.82, p< 0.001) scores demonstrating good predictive and concurrent validity, respectively. TAAS scores < 2.5 were good predictors of learning impairment in reading (sensitivity 93% specificity 78%) and mathematics (sensitivity 90% specificity 87%).
Conclusions: The TAAS is a brief, psychometrically sound teacher-report of academic attainment that yields both continuous and categorical outcomes. It provides a highly reliable, valid, cost- and time-efficient outcome measure for large-scale multi-site studies both within and across countries.
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|B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
|Faculty of Science > Psychology
|Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):
|Psychometrics, Academic achievement -- Research
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|Pediatric Research
|Nature Publishing Group
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|November 2011
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|p. 124
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|Newcastle, UK
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马丁·伊斯特,Martin East was born in London, England in the spring of 1967. He has appeared in various British television shows and movies throughout the 1990s but he is most noted for his performance as Lookout Lee in James Cameron's blockbuster hit, Titanic (1997). He left the film and television industry in the late 1990s to follow his true passion, music.
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|Visser Base - Recon
|Raptor Recon to the Visser Base
|Related Logs:
Ready Room Genesis - Deck 11
72 ACH 23817 Souls
The Ready Room is for pilots to get their assignments for the daily CAP. Rows of seating line six deep and back to the wall. At the front of the room there is a whiteboard, star maps and a podium for the CAG or Squadron Leaders to address the room. The flags of the colonies stand along the starboard wall as well as plaques of recognition. One plaque stands above those who have lost their lives and reads:
Captain Ide 'Screamer' Kolis
May he rest in peace among the stars.
So Say We All.
'Star Screamers' - Fighting 58th
----< Condition Three - Duty Area >----—-
Contents: Reed Training Log Wireless 1244
Exits: [O] Corridor
Jocasta comes in from Corridor 11D.
Jocasta has arrived.
Reed is at the Ready Room display computers, slotting a datacard and flipping switches, watching the download progress.
Jocasta arrives in her flightsuit without much fanfare. Just another day on the job over here.
Reed turns from the computers, taking the display remote and clicks it a couple of times, seeming satisfied at the action on it.
Rue has arrived.
Reed moves to the front screens, Remote in hand. He turns to look and see who showed up for this little party.
Rue is settled into Sloane's usual seat, defiling it with her presence, no doubt. She's got a notepad and a pencil.
Jocasta, meanwhile, occupies her typical front-row seat, chin cradled in the palm of her hand.
Reed smiles, "Major." He says to Rue, then to Jocasta, "Ensign." He nods, "Today you're going to be jaunting to the Tyrus cluster." He clicks the remote a long range Chart coming up, showing fleet position, and a three sectioned line to a system. He points to the system. "Here. Triple jump from current fleet position." He clicks the remote and images come up of a gas giant, a lovely creamy opalescent color, actually. "GVR-443 Pretty boring gas giant. the Alpha satalite, GVR-443 Alpha is a rock, captured comet with all the ice burned off it, a rock of silicone and of very little noteworthy about it. You will be investigating that moon." He clicks again and an image of the moon comes up overlayed with a grid pattern. He points, "This is the area of most interest. You will be making slow passes over this area focusing geo scans on the area, looking specificly for artificial carbon composite materials."
Rue slants a glance Jocasta's way, before eyeing Reed again. Some notes are scrawled on the notepad. "Are we expecting any company or is this a milk run?"
Jocasta's attention appears to be pretty occupied by looking over the sectioned projection display and trying to visually memorize the features thereon. Her gaze momentarily flickers between Reed and Rue when a question comes up.
Reed looks to Rue, nodding, "You will be going in dark. Radio silence, electronic emissions on absorbtion. You will be sitting till you are satisfied that you are alone, then moving to the moon to take your scans. If you find evidence of battle damage in the area, wreckage, large radioactive holes in the moon, mission is over, jump out. If you detect Cylon presence, mission is over, jump out. you are going in Snake, not Bull. Stealth, silence, and no contact. If you are hailed, you do not respond. No contacts are expected, though it is possible this was the site of a fight during the attacks. If you find any evidence of such a thing happening, take what scans you can, but no risks. This is as milk run as I can give you. Get the data from the Moon, and jump out. Other questions?"
"Not from me," Rue answers, seemingly satisfied with Reed's explanation. She looks to Jammer expectantly.
Jocasta shakes her head. "No, sir. I get you, sir." Loud and clear. She then turns to give Rue a look over her shoulder accompanied with a pair of raised brows.
Reed nods, spreading his hands, "Alright. Raptor is prepped on the flight deck. Last thing, when you return, the Raptor data is downloaded, and locked classified, NAV and scan systems on the bird are flushed, scrambled, and her software reinstalled. Data will be analyzed on the Hera for future Op viability. High security on this, no discussion."
"Should we land her on Hera? Might be best to keep things in house there," Rue offers.
Flushed and scrubbed? That's a little bit more… tidy than usual, eh. Jocasta turns back 'round in her seat and eyes Reed now.
Reed nods to Rue, "Landing clearance on the Hera and debriefing will be handled there." He smiles, "I'll get your Raptor back to her home barn as soon as we give her the flush and fill, electronicly speaking." He gestures, "Alright, then, nothing else? Good hunting."
Rue smiles at Reed before pushing to her feet. The notepad she brought is tucked into a pocket in her flight suit and she starts down her aisle. Presumably, she's headed down to the hangar bay, post haste.
Reed nods, moving to the display computers, typing and the screens switch to a system monitor layout. 'Data purged. System restart.' And a progress bar on the screen.
Hangar Bay B (#1110RXaFJ) Genesis - Deck 7
72 ACH 23817 Souls
The hangar deck is where the Genesis' Viper squadron, and its Raptor detachment are stored, repaired and maintained between missions. Ships land on the flight deck, one level above, and are brought down via massive elevators. Tow vehicles move the ships around the deck, their shrill alert beeps causing an almost constant cacophony of noise. The floor itself is a light gray in color, but wear and tear has left marks and scratches everywhere. Numbered sections are marked off with paint to house the various spacecraft.
The place is surprisingly tidy, with tool chests, machine parts, diagnostic equipment, and even the occasional spare engine or chassis scattered all in their appropriate place. Stairs lead up to other parts of the ship. The fourth side has a large sliding door leading to the flight deck elevators. On the port wall, Vipers are loaded into the launch tubes to be catapulted into space. Raptors take off from the flight deck.
----< Condition Three - Duty Area >----—-
Contents: IC_Builder Charon_840 Fender_211 FireEater_702
Maintenance Control Nemamiah_109 RAPTOR_215 Raptor_1123
Shorty_1742 Skunk_772 Sula_337 Tempo_1741 VIPER_1137
VIPER_992 VIPER_994 Whiteboard Wireless 1118 Wrongway_101
Exits: [AS] Aft Stairwell [FS] Fore Stairwell
[A] Hangar Bay A [E] Land. Deck Elevator
[LT] Launch Tubes [SH] Shuttle Transfer
Rue comes in from Aft Stairwell.
Rue has arrived.
Jocasta comes in from Aft Stairwell.
Jocasta has arrived.
In the Deck, Raptor 1123 is sitting there, all set and preped in the launch cradle, humming away nicely.
"Fancy that," Rue comments as she comes up the steps and onto the hangar deck, fingers at her neck adjusting her collar. The Raptor is eyed a good long moment before she jams her helmet on her head and starts towards it.
Rue takes off.
Jocasta climbs into the Raptor after Rue, helmet on, seals checked, and second seat occupied in preparation for take-off. She's got very little to say right now except for, "All green, sir. Ready for launch."
"Sounds like a plan. Nice of them to run all the prep before we got down there," Rue comments as she runs her hands over the front instrument panel. Pulling back on the throttle, she tugs on the stick and urges the vessel up into the air and swinging out of the pod and into open space. "The only thing I don't like about Raptors are that they handle like pregnant bears."
No pun intended, right, Rue? The bear — er, Jammer slings the CAG a sidelong look before she says, "Jump coordinates input and confirmed. FTL drives spooled. Prepare for jump in three… two…"
[Raptor_1123: Rue] "One. Jump." Rue braces herself for that moment of disorientation as the ship blinks out of existence.
The flash of Jumping dissolves into a brilliant view of the Gas Giant from the briefing. Simply, it's a breathtaking sight. Less opalescent in person and more like a giant, flawless pearl hanging in space. In the distance, the moon in question hangs there, silent and placid. From Mark One Eyeball, and DRADIS, as well as all systems active in keeping the Raptor as cloaked as she can get, there's nothing. No signs of activity, no electronic emissions from anywhere. Scopes are clean, showing only celestial bodies. Data implanted in the Raptor shows information. Moon holds a 1/6 G gravity field, in stable orbit, marked by multiple meteorite hits. The outer layer of the moon is mostly rock and powder due to this bombardment. Magnetic field location of the area to be scanned is in the computer coordinates, but for the moment, it's simply quiet before the image of the lustrous planet in front of the Raptor.
[Raptor_1123: Jocasta] With the jump completed, Jammer then goes through the series of checks required to confirm position before the unusual part of the mission begins. Slowly but surely, she begins to shut down and close out every electronic system and emission that might betray their presence. It's a blackout.
Shrugging off the jump cooties, Rue blinks and stares out the cockpit window. "About as gorgeous as space gets. 'less you head into a nebula." She throttles the thruster heavily and adjusts the yaw of their heading. "Gonna do a coast and scope." Once they've built up a good amount of velocity, she cuts the engines.
The image of the planet swings by, as the Raptor cuts engines and rides out its SMASH, smoothly sliding through the night. It seems as if there is nothing here, save for the planet in it's orbit around the distant, bright white star, and the planet obediantly circling it. Nothing unusual. The feel of endless time passing here, with nothing disturbing it.
In a go-dark situation, there's very little for Jammer to do save play the sightseeing passenger. She peers out at the planet from the co-pilot's seat and allows herself to admire it visually for what it is instead of regarding it through a variety of electronic filters in some vain attempt to break it down into its component elemental pieces.
Jocasta has reconnected.
"So… Creepy eepy vibe?" Rue turns her head to look over her shoulder at Jocasta briefly. "Seems quiet. Don't see the site the Major detailed just yet… but it should be coming up." Facing forward again, she peers through the entire arc of the cockpit glass.
As the moon turns under the Raptor, the area that is designated as the place to scan does, indeed approach. The instruments and NAV coordinates programmed in show it coming up. It must be past the horizon.. noooo, the NAV says it's there. Though there seems to be nothing visible, just more rock, more powder.
"Nothing wrong with quiet, sir," says Jammer, climbing into the backseat as she prepares to resume power and begin the scanning portion of the mission. As the disparity between visual contact and technical readout becomes evident, the countermeasures officer asks, "This doesn't really look like the place, does it? Think he was off, sir?"
"Reed Carter off on a calculation?" Rue muses outloud. "I don't think so. That man does linear algebra and multivariable calculus equations as mind teasers before going to bed." She strains in her seat as she scours the ground that passes below them.
The ground passes by under the Raptor in a placid sort of indifferance. The NAV shows the Raptor leaving the target area as the general cruise past and look see goes off with nothing interesting at all. And the still, quiet of the area continues. Nothing here, but the rock and silicone based mass reported, it seems. Geo scanners still down, waiting to be activated.
Before she flips the switch which may or may not be the cue for their imminent destruction by Raiders waiting in the shadows and just out of visual range, Jammer looks to Wrongway for the go ahead. "Permission to engage power-up, sir?"
<Trait Roll> Jocasta rolls Awareness and achieves a degree of Good (4).
<Trait Roll> Jocasta rolls Intelligence and achieves a degree of Mediocre (2).
<Trait Roll> Rue rolls Awareness and achieves a degree of Superb (6).
<Trait Roll> Rue rolls Intelligence and achieves a degree of Fair (3).
Rue spends a good couple of seconds giving the visible arc around them a visual sweep, then says, "Fire it up. Scanners and jump drive. Grab what he wanted, then we're getting out of here. Something about this place is creepifying."
<Trait Roll> Jocasta rolls Comms and achieves a degree of Good (4).
As the Raptor slips around for a scanning pass and the systems power up, sensors and scanners lancing out at the moon, scanning for Geologic anomalies. Nothing. Non Metallic rock, and nothing interesting it-WHOA! A line, a straight line in the scanning data, seperating the rock from a complex carbon composite material making up the rough surface of the moon. Highly advanced, and only noticeable when you're looking for it specificly, which the Raptor is. The surface in this area is artificial. Man Made. Composite breakdown is Colonial, type 3-jj4 planiar camoflage amterial, sculpted into rocks, with some of the powder and rocks having fallen on top of it. And it's sizeable, might need a few sweeps to image the whole thing.
The switch gets flicked. The countermeasures station begins to warm up, coming out of hibernation with all manner of pleasantly-awoken beeps and twitters. Jammer gets down to business, eyeing the scanner displays and poking at one readout or another. She broadcasts the GEO scanner up front for Rue to see and says, "Take a look at this, sir. We've got… Colonial camouflage on surface."
"I guess that's what Reed wanted. No sign of battle either," Rue says, taking a deep breath as she considers her next words. Her gloved hand thumbs the maneuvering thrusters momentarily, just enough to change their course into an orbit. "Get a full scan. Then we'll head home."
"Aye, sir," says Jammer in that tin-canned voice that comes through on the comms. She begins to initiate the full scan with practiced precision but decides to strike up a little conversation alone the way. Why not, right? "You don't like flyin' without a wingman, do ya, sir?"
As the Raptor moves into an orbit of the area, scanners lancing down, the inevitable look 'Over the shoulder' shows nothing creeping up to eat the Raptor. The imaging scan defines the area of the camoflage. It's large. The size and general shape, indicates a couple of possabilities to the military mind. Supply cache, but only a large one. Landing facility, maybe. Smaller capital ships could use it to dock at. But the whole of the surface is intact and seems inert after a few minutes of orbital flying.
"These days, I always have a wingman," comes an equally tinny-sounding response. Rue keeps her eyes peeled on the front view. "Something about this place… or maybe it's just being this far from Genesis… whatever it is, the short hairs on the back of my neck are sticking up." Then she says, "But you're never alone on a mission. That has to be some comfort, working as a team in one of these birds."
Jammer allows herself an audible chuckle in response to Rue's reply. Another bun in the oven reference, well-received. She keeps her eyes on the readout displays and minds her work with a clinical affection. She likes her work; it's pretty much the only thing she's got left. "It is, sir. Team player, works well with others. That's me. S'just like the way it was back home." Before home went nuclear.
The Scanners begin to continue cycling through their scan, completing the imaging map of the camouflage area. They continue sniffing around, data still coming in, but repeating the already given information.
"Once you have a clear picture, spin up the FTL," Rue is eager to leave, it seems. "And, it makes sense. We're all that's left of home. Any traditions that are going to be preserved, have to be preserved through us."
Again with an "Aye, sir." from the backseat driver and Jammer begins to spool up the Faster Than Light drive as ordered. "We'll be out of here in five, sir." Meanwhile, there's a button to push here and a switch to flip there and a countdown clock to stare at.
"Remind me to ask the deck chief to give you guys better chairs." Rue shifts in her seat and goes through her mental pre-jump checklist. Fuel. Check. No red warning lights. Check. DRADIS clear. Check. "Hope Reed likes what we got him."
The Raptor banks and pulls out of the Gravity well of the Moon, angling as the red/Blue flash of the FTL drive goes off. And the Colonial ship is gone, leaving the endlessness of space, and the lovely pearl in its place.
Minutes later..
A small black dot slowly appears from around the planet, continuing it's slow, watchful orbit around the planet. Nothing unusual seen.
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Situation Room Hera - Deck 2
72 ACH 23817 Souls
This area is an open room with circular stadium seating for 20, the middle of the room holds a large illuminated projection board with models of all known Colonial and Cylon ships, crafted by hand on Virgon, and a matched set. On one wall is a set of screens designed to display tactical information, internal ship cameras, porn, videogames, and sports events. There are enough screens to do all at the same time.
----< Condition Three - Duty Area >----—-
Contents: Reed Wireless 1914
Exits: [O] Out
Reed is standing in back of the situation table, looking at the screens which are displaying Data for his perusal. On the situation table is a coffee service, and the air holds the scent of high quality coffee, real coffee, brewed from real freshly ground beans. On the tray are a collection of small fruit tarts. Filling inside a light, crumbly cup shaped crust. Lemon, Cherry, Raspberry. Several mugs are out, waiting for the pouring.
Jocasta arrives for the debriefing with her helmet held under one arm, hair pulled back but still slightly askew. Those flightsuits are air-tight, you know. No wonder pretty much every pilot you see is thin and trim; they lose all their water weight on the job.
Rue leads the way, helmet tucked under one arm as she enters the room. The coffee and pastries have her perking an eyebrow, but from the way she's eyeing those tarts… She moves to a seat and sets the helmet to the side, tugging off her gloves and setting them next to the helmet. "Major."
Reed turns at the pilots enterance, "Major." He nods, then to Jocasta, "Ensign. How'd things go?" He asks plainly, then nods to the service, "Please, help yourselves." He gestures.
Food that isn't eel-derived and something that might actually be real coffee to wash it down with? Jocasta's all over the offering like white on rice. She stacks up a pair of fruit tarts in the palm of one hand while pouring herself a mug 'o joe with the other. "I think we brought back something pretty interesting, sir."
"There weren't any signs of a battle," Rue adds, reaching for two tarts. One is bitten into, while the other is kept carefully within her personal bubble. "And the Ensign was able to get some excellent data."
Reed looks from Jocasts to Rue and smiles crookedly, "Really?" He turns, tapping a few keys on a control panel, "Soon as they get the data off the Raptor-" He turns, the screens filling with the data taken off the Raptor, looking at the imaging data, and nods, "Godsdamn." He breaths, "It is intact."
Even though Jo knows she isn't apt to get an answer to her next question, she feels uncontrollably compelled to ask it anyways. "What is, sir?"
Reed smiles once more, "You'll be briefed in time, Ensign. For now, it's just a classified moon with a strange landscape that you're not permitted to talk about." He turns back around, looking at Jocasta. "Anything else? Anything unusual at all?"
Rue glances aside at Jocasta as she polishes off that first tart. Nibble.
Jocasta blinks once or twice, perhaps not having fully expected to become the center of attention so suddenly. It would figure that this is the precise moment she'd chosen to shove a little tart whole into her mouth. Ha. Embarrassing. Give her a second to chew; she isn't about to open her mouth and spew crumbs everywhere. That would be rude. Momma Maru didn't raise no fool.
Reed looks at Jocasta, patiently, let her take all the time she likes.
With a pair of fingers pressed against her lower lip to act as an impromptu failsafe increase what's left of her hastily gobbled tart tries to make a break for it when she speaks, Jocasta finally swallows sufficiently and then says, "Nothing unusual so far as we could tell. Except for that piece of Colonial camouflage there, sir."
Reed nods, looking back to the screens, and then back to Jocasta, "Good work, Ensign. Feel free to take a look around the Hera, while she still has all the bells and whistles before Engineering gets around to the refits. Dismissed."
The other tart is lifted to her mouth and she bites it, chewing with her eyes closed. Savory! Rue opens her eyes at the dismissal and gives Jocasta a nod, indicating the pastries with a slight jut of her chin.
Well, okay then. Jocasta acknowledges Reed's dismissal with an, "Aye, sir." but makes a brief return to the refreshments table in order to abscond with a few more fruit tarts before heading out of the room. Juggling a helmet, three tarts, and a tall cup of coffee might seem a precarious combination just cruising for an uncomfortable calamity of burning but Jo makes it look easy. "See you back on the Genesis, sir," she says to Rue and then… she's gone.
"See you later, Jammer," Rue says, before polishing off the second tart. Yessss. Delicious. Wiping her mouth with the back of her hand, she asks, "Is it too much to hope for a large fleet of brand new Vipers and Raptors to be sitting underneath that camo? Or perhaps a superweapon of some sort that we can use to destroy the Cylons?"
Reed nods at Jocasta goes for the tarts. He's not going to be stingy about the goodies. And it seems that Air Wing reflexes serve well enough. As she leaves, he lets out a sigh. "Well hot damn, we're in business." He looks to Rue, and smiles, "No, I'm sorry, That's Visser Base. the sister project to the PAS. And in her databanks.. is a Map of the Galaxy. Tyllium, water, and maybe, just maybe, a new home for us."
"That, at least, is a bright spot," Rue allows, "Though, if the Cylons keep turning up, it's going to be hard to live, let alone settle and move on… If we're going to pick a home, it needs to be easy to protect. Once the Cylons find us, they won't stop til we're all dead." She's so full of sunshine as she says that: she smiles.
Reed smiles at Rue, "Colonial space encompasses less than one billionth of the Galactic Area. The Galaxy is big enough to hide in, and we'll have a map, and they won't. We'll get the Map, and find the resources we need to make the trip. It's going to be long and hard, but we're going to vanish, and rebuild away from them. The other option is more battles, more memorials till we're finally snuffed out." He smirks, "See what you miss in staff meetings?"
"And here I thought all I missed was more testosterone injected chest thumping…" Rue fires back, smile brightening. "It's a good idea. But, we'll still have to make it secure. As large as the galaxy is, the Cylons have the advantage. They've had it from day one. And they'll have it long after we're dust between the stars."
Reed nods, "Agreed, but first." He looks at the screens, "We have to secure the Map. Get on the base, download the map, then blow that base to hell to keep it out of the Cylons hands. If they got it." He shakes his head, "We are truly frakked."
"Conventional explosives'd work, but I reckon the fastest and cleanest way to ensure the base won't have anything left picking through is a nuke." Rue reaches for another pastry, but keeps it in hand, rather than eating it. "Reckon we can get in and out pretty easily. I don't think they even know it's there."
Reed smiles, nodding, "I got better than that, the base itself has self destruction capabilities." He sighs, "I got maps, locations in the base, everything. We can go in, download, loot, and get out then watch the fireworks. And No, it seems they don't, same as they didn't know about the TER system where the PAS was constructed." He looks at the screens, "I'll have a tactical workup for the Commander soon."
"Air wing will be ready when asked." Rue starts to push to her feet then, eyeing that wall of screens. "If you don't mind a change of topic… The Hera would make an excellent training base for the nuggets of the air wing. In the next few weeks, we're going to be recruiting fairly heavily to make up for numbers we've lost since the Attack."
Reed nods, "As soon as we get the damn refits for the Hera, she'll have a-" He stops, "Well, come on, let me show you. I've got all kinds of plans. It'll be a playground for training new Pilots."
"Ideally, I'd like to station a Training Officer here on the Hera and create a seperate squadron for the purposes of training, based here," Rue says conversationally as she moves over to Reed. "Essentially a Flight Academy."
Reed nods, "That's easy enough. I'll be honest, I don't know the first frakking thing about piloting. I'll be in command of the Hera, and in CIC, but most of her facilities are going to be largely used by whatever training structure you like. Her Berthings at the moment are set up for her actual crew, but there's room enough for nuggets and instructors." He moves on out.


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Mark Leung: Revenge Of The Bitch might be old news to hardcore indie / JRPG fans as the title was released late last year, but what with the incredible amount of triple-A titles released around that time, you'd be forgiven for having missed it. Don't make the same mistake twice though, ML:ROTB is perhaps the oddest JRPG in years, featuring crude humour, references aplenty (a Pikachu epilespy attack, a tribal Grimace from McDonalds, a face violating C3PO), plus plenty of swipes at traditions in JRPGs including an insta-kill beam entitled "WTF BBQ Deathray", all presented in a surprisingly solid looking Dragon Quest 8 style engine.
Check out the trailer below for pianos falling on crocodiles, copius amounts of small animals vomiting blood and more cartoon violence than you can shake an oversized Gunblade at.
When you're done, hop on over to the official website to give the demo a go.


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When you sign up to be a TrustedPartner, you receive the following benefits for your company:
- Access to marketing materials, competitive sales information and your dedicated Entrust sales representative for your territory
- Discount on Entrust products and services, presales technical support, and RFP Response Assistance
- Monthly subscription to the PartnerConnect e-newsletter that contains partner deal win information, product info, sales updates and notification of upcoming events
- Access to our monthly webinars that provide useful information to provide to your clients
- Ability to receive not for resale and internal use software for your company 1
- Protection for your deals with our deal registration process 2
- SPIFF opportunities 3 and customer promotions to help you boost your business
- Press release of your partnership with Entrust
The Value Added Reseller classification was designed for resellers who currently have an expertise with Internet security solutions or provide complementary products and would like to add Entrust Enhanced Security products to their portfolio.
These resellers typically have a specific horizontal or vertical focus such as providing VPN or Web solutions. Value Added Reseller (VAR) Partners are trained and motivated to resell Entrust software. VAR Partners also provide customers with value added services such as pre-sales consulting, installation, integration and training services. These partners may operate in specific verticals or geographies.
Value Added Reseller Partner Membership Criteria
- Derive at least 30% of total revenues from professional services.
- Have a professional, outbound, trained sales, business development and/or consulting services organization.
- Have the infrastructure and technical expertise to provide front-line, pre-sales support for Entrust software products.
- Have the ability and infrastructure to resell Entrust Maintenance Agreements, or the infrastructure and technical expertise to provide installation and administration post-sales support services for Entrust software products.
- Provide programs for lead generation and awareness.
- Offer value added services such as pre-sales consulting, installation, integration and training services.
- Operate within a focused regional/country.
Entrust Referral Partners are organizations that may or may not have a strategic presence in the digital identity security space. Our referral partners identify new opportunities and are compensated for their involvement in the selling process, based on their participation. All business is sold through Entrust with the referring partner receiving a commission upon Entrust receiving payment from the customer.
Become an official reseller of Entrust digital certificates to maximize revenue opportunities. Entrust's reseller program is the smart approach to providing your customers with digital certificates from one of the most trusted brands in security. Entrust certificate services resellers are backed by the support, leadership and expertise of Entrust!
Technology Partners leverage Entrust toolkits and products to address customer's business needs. Technology Partner solutions are integrated, tested and qualified to help deliver successful working solutions to customers. This self-service and web-driven program provides tools that assist third-party vendors as they develop and test their own commercial applications with the goal of achieving interoperability and compatibility with Entrust software.
Program participants have access to development and testing tools that may assist the Partner in adding Entrust enhanced security to their applications and may allow them to verify interoperability and compatibility in order to earn the Entrust Ready designation.
The Entrust TrustedPartner Program helps to provide Technology Partners with various opportunities to win and increase the loyalty of new and existing customers through enhanced or expanded product capabilities.
Technology Partner Benefits
- Access to Entrust Sales Organization
- Marketing Resources (Partial)
- Partner and Solutions Directory
- Press Release Support
- Customer Wins Template
- Relationship Management (Partial)
- Not-for-Resale (NFR) Software
- Technical Support
- Developer Templates and Tools
Expanding distribution channels through partners is key to Entrust's strategy for reaching the global market place. Distribution Partners are organizations with an established track record of building and maintaining two tier Distribution networks in specific geographies. These partners provide product access, inventory management, marketing, financing, training and support services to its reseller community. Distribution Partners typically have a national presence.
Distribution Partner Membership Criteria
- Derive at least 75% of total revenue from a core business of software product distribution through formal distribution agreements with a reseller community.
- Obtain and maintain Entrust, Inc. credit approval
- Have demonstrated inventory management capabilities
- Provide financing options to its resellers
- Have an inside and direct-to-reseller sales force
- Have the infrastructure to provide pre-sales technical support, technical training and sales training for its resellers
- Have the ability to provide monthly and quarterly POS reports on sell-thru
- Capacity to execute sales promotions and campaigns for security related solutions in designated geographical regions designed to create awareness and generate revenue for Entrust products.
- Have a minimum of one named marketing specialist on staff who supports the marketing and sales of Entrust software.
Distribution Partner Benefits
- Access to Entrust Sales Organization
- Marketing Resources
- Partner and Solutions Directory
- Press Release Support
- Relationship Management
- Relationship Plan
- Jump Start Plan
- Market Development Fund
- Not-for-Resale (NFR) software
- Internal Use Software
- Training
- Technical Support
- Professional Services Hours
- Professional Services Mentoring
- Professional Services Job Shadowing
- Professional Services Templates & Best Practices


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How Does ChnLove Deal With Frauds?
In modern society, online dating is becoming more and more popular, because it's definitely a fast and effective to find a lifetime partner if you use the right way to go! This uprising dating method does bring convenience and benefits; meanwhile, it hides risks of being scammed. ChnLove, as the #1 trusted online dating platform in Asia, quite understands the significance of safety and security, and has adopted an effective system to keep its members away from scams. Below, we will get further into this topic.
ChnLove Anti-Scam Policy
First of all, all the lady profiles on ChnLove.com are strictly confirmed. Ladies' profiles marked with 'Verified' icon mean they have finished the 'Identity Authentication' and 'SMS Verification' processes. This is no doubt an effective step to keep the potential scammers away at the initial stage. For those ladies who can't be reached or suspected by the male members, their profiles would be defined as suspicious profiles and will be closely monitored.
Apart from the strict control on the ladies' profiles, ChnLove also adopted a series of Anti-Scam measures toward its cooperated dating agencies. The best testimonial is that ChnLove has built a feedback rating system which allows male members to assess the performance of the agencies. Periodically, ChnLove will check the quality of translated correspondences and related services offered by the local agencies. Besides, ChnLove regularly conducts phone interview with the ladies for the manners their corresponding agencies serving them. This process is to make sure the agencies completely comply with our practice and procedures.
In the following paragraph, I will cite an typical example about online dating scam and see how we deal with it.
We always encourage our male members to inform us immediately when a scam is suspected. Receiving the feedback, our Customer Service Team will try all the best to figure out a satisfactory solution once they confirmed the scam issue really exists. The lady and relevant agency would be disciplinarily punished and the male members who are the victim of such scam issue will be compensated accordingly.
Recently, we have received a message from one of our gentlemen, complaining that the photos of the Chinese girl who he is communicating with are taken from the internet. Upon receiving the scam reporting, our related staff make thorough investigation accordingly. Before we come to a solution, the lady's profile is taken off from the international site. Our staff later contacted the lady and asked her for recent photos so as to confirm her identity. However, this lady rejected to cooperate with us. Therefore,we remove her profile from our site permanently. Two credits were refunded to the male members for the EMF Mails spending.
ChnLove is trying its best to make sure the safety of the male members; however, we can't 100% guarantee the true intent of every individual. Thus, we need you, our gentlemen members, to actively cooperate with us and raise the attention to avoid online dating scams.While when the scam issues are confirmed, we will adopt necessary measures to rectify the situation immediately.


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Discover Cuts Back Credit Card Travel Benefits on August 1
Discover cardholders will have a little less to smile about on August 1st, when the credit card company discontinues some of its travel benefits. Specifically, Discover will no longer offer 24/7 travel assistance, emergency roadside assistance and baggage delay insurance. Other services being eliminated are MyConcierge, travel delay insurance and lost luggage insurance.
In an email sent to explain the changes, Discover told customers, "[We] periodically review the valuable benefits that are built into your Discover card. We have decided to retain some benefits–like purchase protection and price protection–and discontinue others."
Some of these benefits came at a price. For instance, roadside assistance may cost more than what you would pay through your vehicle manufacturer or third-party provider.
Many cardholders may not even know they have these soon-to-be-discontinued benefits, but for frequent travelers, this may be a significant loss. There is no information at this time to indicate whether Discover will be canceling its flight accident assistance or auto rental insurance, the only two services left in its travel Member Benefits.
The changes will take effect on all Discover cards.


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Doce D'ocê entrepreneurs, Carlos and Noeli Bazanella, are a self-made couple from Brazil. Through the use of ultra-freezing technology and agreements with equipment suppliers, Doce D'ocê has helped boost the revenue of stores throughout southern Brazil. The baked goods market throughout the country is sizeable, and is growing every year.
Life has not always been easy for these entrepreneurs. They were born and raised in the countryside of Rio Grande do Sul, receiving only a middle school education before dropping out to work for their families. They were really struggling, and Noeli began cooking pizzas, lasagnas, and cakes, which turned out to be a great success! Carlos took a United National course, where he studied entrepreneurship.
The courses completely changed the couple's worldview and introduced them to innovative ultra-freezing techniques. They realized they had to be the first mover, and met an Italian company willing to export the necessary machinery to Brazil. The company officially launched in 2000.
After years of selling ultra-frozen goods, the duo realized they could add value at later stages of production by supplying their clients with the equipment necessary to rehear their frozen products.
Operating in a country where the annual per capita brad consumption is less than recommended by the WHO, there is great potential for Doce D'ocê to grow.
Carlos and Noeli's story is nothing short of inspiring: the couple has shown that two driven entrepreneurs, regardless of their backgrounds, can take an idea and turn it into a multi-million dollar operation.
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For anyone who was unable to attend the Clio Cloud Conference, I hate to say it, but you missed out. Fortunately, I can give you a quick recap of my presentation and a few others' I thought were extremely helpful to any practicing lawyer:
Clio CEO Jack Newton's Keynote
$60 billon of legal bills run through Clio every year. Clio uses this data to provide insights to lawyers. Rest assured, they only use non-personally identifiable data (i.e. your client's information and yours is safe and cannot be seen by Clio). They will publish their Legal Trends Report on October 17, but here are a few insights that lawyers may find useful:
- The Legal Trends Report can give lawyers information on the average hourly rate by practice area and state so they know how their practices is doing against local and national benchmarks
- Legal Trends Report will explain how the practice is evolving & how lawyers can use the trends to better their practice.
- Here are a few data points:
- For every 8 hours worked, 1.4 hours are collected by lawyers.
- Average collection rate for lawyers from Clio's clients is 86% for the bills they send out.
- Utilization Rate for solo attorneys is the lowest at about 20%, which comes out to 2 hours per day. For every 8 hours you work, only 2 of those hours are actually billable. Only 1.4 of those hours are actually collected.
- The average lawyer is making less today than what they were in 2010.
Mastering the Intake Process by Lexicata
I've reviewed Lexicata before, and I can't emphasize how important their software is. Lexicata helps with the intake process for your clients. I know it doesn't seem that important and even my initial thought was, well I just input their info and I'm good to go. However, here are the key takeaways and realizations that I or you may not have had about the intake process:
The #1 place malpractice suits happen is during the intake process and it is what leads to the # 1 reasons clients complain about lawyers to the bar: communication.
If you miss a detail during the intake process that's extremely relevant to your case, that will likely … how do I say this nicely… bite you in the rear down the line. So get your information at the onset of your relationship, and keep tabs on it with Lexicata. Also, keep in touch with your clients. If you forget to keep in touch, your clients will not be happy. Lexicata automates the communication with your client for you and makes it easy to stay in touch.
The intake process is where you lose your potential clients. Lexicata's founder, Michael Chasin, talked about the Rule of 7: it takes 7 interactions with your potential clients to get a sale. The takeaway is: keep in touch with your leads!
You know that what I am about to say is true: Lawyers have a tough time following up with leads. We get caught up in our work, a week flies by like a minute, and we simply forget to email the potential client back and we lose their business. Lexicata automates this for you. It sends follow up emails and reminds you and your lead to keep in touch, to complete important intake forms and meet deadlines. Visit Lexicata for more information.
3 Reasons to be Excited about Technology
During my session, I spoke about 3 reasons to be excited about technology and mentioned several tools that lawyers can use to improve their practice of law and their work life balance so they don't burn out (like I did).
Here are the 3 reasons and the tools that can help you:
I. Minimize Risk for Your Law Firm
A. Research. If you are relying on expensive and outdated tools (that shall not be named) to do your research, you pose a serious risk to your firm and your client. Technology is much easier, more comprehensive and more affordable today for a firm of any size.
Here are the tools you can use for research:
casetext – Caselaw, interpretation, blogs, and opinions (and it's free!)
CARA from casetext – Upload your document to CARA and it automatically finds relevant case law & citations for you
Ravel Law – Know your judge and their decisions.
Lex Machina -Legal analytics, patterns in litigation & data, and information about judges, lawyers, parties and the subjects of the cases themselves.
B. Readymade Templates. Having ready-made templates can save you a ton of time and prevent you from re-inventing the wheel every time you draft a document. Here are a few resources you can use to get templates for your practice.
- LegalZoom / RocketLawyer
- Features: Ask your clients to complete their templates, and review them once they're complete.
- Great for: All lawyers.
- Docracy.com
- Features: Provides templates for startups, everything from convertible notes, to founders' agreements.
- Great for: Startup lawyers, entrepreneurs.
- legaltemplates.net
- Features: Find standard legal templates like leases, NDAs and more.
- Great for: All lawyers.
- Bar associations / Legal organizations (ACC)
- Features: Bar associations and legal organizations like the Association of Corporate Counsel provide templates for lawyers to use free of charge (if you are a member of course).
- Great for: Depends on the organization.
- Law Insider
- Features: Any and every clause you can imagine for a contract. Type what you're looking for, and see several samples and versions.
- Great for: Contract managers, in-house counsels, corporate lawyers, startup lawyers.
C. Document automation. Automating your client intake process, management of your case files and billing is another way to minimize risk. You'll never have to use another client's file as a template, you'll have "smart" contracts that you customized to your practice that you and your team can use risk free, and you will have all your files in one place, keeping them secure and handy whether you're at home, in the office or in court. Try these tools to automate your documents:
- Clio
- Features: Clio offers all you need to run a law practice from intake to invoice, with powerful features to manage cases, clients, documents, bills, appointments, time-tracking, reporting, and accounting.
- Great for: Solos to mid-sized law firms.
- MerusCase
- Features: Cloud-based law practice management software that works seamlessly across all your mobile devices and lets you pick up right where you left off. Integrates with Microsoft Word and your email systems, has time tracking and billing capabilities all in one place. Also great customer support, document automation and seamless on-boarding.
- Great for: Solos to mid-sized, multi-office firms. Workers' Comp, SSA/Disability, Bankruptcy, Family, Personal Injury, and more. MerusCase works for you and the specific needs of your firm.
- Smokeball:
- Features: Easy-to-use case management software. Every matter you work on is created as a digital file, with the important details saved as you go. From within the file, you can see all correspondence related to the matter, access the contact details of relevant parties, and create documents and emails in a flash. Also tracks time for you every time you open a client's file and has great ready-made fillable templates for various practice areas.
- Great for: Solos to mid-sized firms.
- Aderant:
- Features: Law practice management allows you to manage operations across your entire firm and make key decisions with a comprehensive, agile and user-friendly financial and practice management system. Includes business intelligence allowing you to analyze and act on real-time performance information. Case management allows you to centralize your case information including documents, financials and contact.
- Great for: Mid-sized to big-law firms.
- Concord:
- Features: Contract management platform that allows you to build your own templates and automate the contract negotiation process.
- Great for: Contract manager, startup-lawyeres, in-house lawyers.
- LawGeex:
- Features: Review contracts to find missing, redundant, or problematic clauses. Their Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) technology reads, reviews and understands your contracts and provides a plain English report that lets you know exactly what you're signing.
- Great for: In-House Lawyers, corporate lawyers, contract managers, personal use to review agreements.
II. Work Less, Bill More
While I used data from various bar associations, Clio had the raw data to show that for every 8 hours a lawyer works, only 1.4 of those hours are actually billed. So where does your time go and how can you recover it and bill for it?
A. Law Practice / Client Relationship Management
- Business Intelligence. Use your CRMs and LPMs to keep track of your billable and analyze them to determine what are your most profitable cases and tasks, whether you're giving too many discounts, and what your most profitable days are. Use this data to make informed business decisions on how to allocate your time, predict your budget for the year, and tailor your practice to generate more revenue.
- Billing & Tracking Your Time – In addition to analyzing your billables to make informed business decisions, your CRMs and LPMs allow you automate the billing process. You can send out invoices automatically, get paid through your CRMs, and track all your activities. Some even track your time for you every time you open a client's file or email (see Smokeball and MerusCase).
B. Communication Automation
- Google Voice – It is difficult to track every single phone call, especially when you are on the go. Opening a separate app to enter the time you spent on the phone with your client is a hassle, but Google voice can help. Google Voice allows you to have a separate phone number for your firm that redirects to your personal phone. No more separate lines or separate phones! You can even set when your clients can or cannot reach you, see transcribed voicemails that you can reply to by text, and best of all have every phone call tracked including the time and the length of the call. You can even add the Google Voice widget to your firm's web site and have clients call you directly from your site. And… it's free!
C. Get More Clients. The data has spoken: only 7% of people seek legal assistance. Of those people who do seek legal assistance, 69% will talk to you ONLY if you are on social media. That is a huge loss in potential clients if you do not have a Facebook page, a Twitter account, or LinkedIn profile.
Here's how to get clients and how to keep them through technology:
- Get on social media – It seems simple because it is. A recent New York Times article said that a person spends 50 minutes per day on average on Facebook. If you are already on there, build a page for your firm and get all your friends to like it. It's a great way to get your name out there, and it will get you that 69% of the potential client base that you would otherwise be missing.
Here are the quick instructions on how to build your Facebook page: https://blog.bufferapp.com/how-to-create-manage-facebook-business-page
2. Build a web site. Only 45% of lawyers have a web site. This is a 2015 statistic, but I doubt it has increased drastically. If you do not have a web site for your firm, how do people know how to contact you, what your practice areas are, or who the lawyers in your firm are? This is the bare minimum information you should have on your site, and it is extremely easy and affordable to build one these days.
Here are 3 easy-to-use platforms for building web sites without knowing a single line of code:
Also, if you need a step-by-step plan on building your site, visit my previous post on building your firm's site here.
As always, I do not endorse any of these products. Use at your own risk please. For my full disclaimer, click here.


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Hi-ho, hi-ho, it's off to work you go. Are you looking forward to it? Does the thought of sore feet and an aching back make you dread the retail life? No question, retail workers are some of the most long-suffering people in business, being on their feet for long hours, and eventually it can take a toll. If you work in a retail setting or are the owner of a retail establishment, we've got a solution for you.
You probably spend most of your time on hard floors, either concrete or hardwood, but the good news is that even with that kind of floor as a foundation, our EVA foam mats can make them feel like a walk on the beach. Really. Because EVA foam mats are made from the same material that your summertime flip-flops are made from! Soft, shock-absorbing, and anti-fatigue, these mats will turn the dreaded 9 to 5 into something you look forward to every shift. Take a look at the different styles of mats we have to offer and you'll be a believer.
Some retailers like that elegant, classic look and nothing says this more than our Classic Oak wood grain mats. These mats are so realistic, you won't believe they're foam until you step on them. They interlock with puzzle-like tabs for a seamless, hardwood look, but the feel is anything but hard. Comfort is the key to an energized, outgoing sales force, and our Classic Oak mats will give that to you in style.
If you kind of like the idea of using your company colors in your flooring application, take a look at our multi-purpose mats. These mats come in varying thicknesses, so if you just want to take the edge off or really provide some serious cushioning, there's a mat that's right for you. Order a pack of one solid color or mix a couple of colors to create eye-catching patterns. All our mats are suitable for island applications or wall-to-wall, so no matter the mat you choose, you'll have a seamless, finished look that will have you relaxed in no time.
Guiding you to a comfortable flooring solution for your business is our job, and we're confident you'll find the answer in our EVA foam mats. Not sure how many to get for your configuration? Give us a call – our customer service folks can help you determine exactly what you need and get your gorgeous, comfy floor shipped out right away so you can start selling instead of aching.


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Vacutainer is a registered brand of test tube specifically designed for venipuncture. It was developed in 1947 by Joseph Kleiner,[1] and is currently marketed by Becton, Dickinson and company.[2]
The vein is first punctured with the hypodermic needle, which is connected to a translucent plastic holder. The needle actually has a second, smaller needle, and when a Vacutainer test tube is pushed down into the holder, its rubber cap is pierced. The vacuum in the tube causes blood to move though the needle and into the tube. The tube is then removed and another can be inserted and filled the same way. It is important to remove the tube before withdrawing the needle, as there may still be some suction left, causing pain upon withdrawal.
The test tubes are covered with a color-coded plastic cap. They often include additives that mix with the blood when collected (see below), and the colour of the tube's plastic cap indicates which additives that tube contains.
The plastic caps are opaque for tubes with a normal vacuum. Translucent-topped tubes contain a weaker vacuum in the same sized tube, and will obtain less blood. The weaker suction makes them more suitable for smaller sized veins. Because of the standardised suction of the tubes, they may cause the veins of elderly people, or those with delicate veins, to collapse. In this case a syringe should be used instead.
Contents of tubes
The tubes may contain additional substances that preserve the blood for processing in the medical laboratory. Using the wrong tube may therefore make the blood sample unusable.
The substances may include anticoagulants (EDTA, sodium citrate, heparin) or a gel with intermediate density between blood cells and serum. Additionally, some tubes contain substances that preserve certain chemicals or substances within the blood, such as glucose. When the tube is centrifuged, the blood cells sink to the bottom of the tube, are covered by a layer of the gel, and the serum is left on top. The gel enables the tube to be tipped upside-down and transported without the blood cells remixing with the serum. When a tube that does not contain gel or a clotting agent is centrifuged, the clear liquid is plasma, which contains platelets.
The meaning of the different colors are standardized across manufacturers.[3][4][5]
The order of draw refers to the sequence in which these tubes should be filled. The needle which pierces the tubes can carry additives from one tube into the next, and so the sequence is standardized so that any cross-contamination of additives will not affect laboratory results [5].
Containers containing coagulants
- Gold or 'Tiger' Red/Black top: Clot activator and gel for serum separation
- Red top PLASTIC tubes: Contains a clot activator an is used when serum is needed.
- Orange or Grey/Yellow 'Tiger' Top: Contain Thrombin, a rapid clot activator, for STAT serum testing
Containers containing anticoagulants
- Green - Contains Sodium Heparin or Lithium Heparin used for plasma determinations
- Light Green or Green/Gray 'Tiger': For plasma determinations in chemistry
- Purple or lavender - contains EDTA (the potassium salt, or K2EDTA). This is a strong anticoagulant and these tubes are usually used for full blood counts (CBC) and blood films. Lavender top tubes are generally used when whole blood is needed for analysis. Can also be used for blood banking
- Grey - These tubes contain fluoride and oxalate. Fluoride prevents enzymes in the blood from working, so a substrate such as glucose will not be gradually used up during storage. Oxalate is an anticoagulant.
- Light blue - Contain a measured amount of citrate. Citrate is a reversible anticoagulant, and these tubes are used for coagulation assays. Because the liquid citrate dilutes the blood, it is important the tube is full so the dilution is properly accounted for.
- Dark Blue - Contains sodium heparin, an anticoagulant. Also can contain EDTA as an additive or have no additive. These tubes are used for trace metal analysis.
- Pink - Similar to purple tubes (both contain EDTA) these are used for blood bank purposes.
- Red (glass)- Contains no additives. Tests for antibodies and drugs often require these.
- Light yellow - Used in HLA phenotyping. Also contains Sodium polyanethol Sulfonate (SPS), which is used for blood culture specimens or acid-citrate-dextrose (ACD), used for blood bank studies, HLA Phenotyping, and paternity testing.
- Tan (glass or plastic): These tan top tubes are used for lead determinations. The tube contains either sodium heparin (glass) or K2EDTA (plastic). These tubes are certified to contain no lead.
The purple top tube became an issue in the O.J. Simpson murder case when the defense alleged that small droplets of blood found at the crime scene contained the preservative EDTA; had this been true, it would have meant that the droplet might have been taken from the purple top tube used to collect Simpson's blood and planted at the crime scene.[6]
- ↑ Rosenfeld L (2000). Full text "A golden age of clinical chemistry: 1948-1960" Check
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- ↑ "BD Vacutainer® Venous Blood Collection - Tube Guide" (PDF). Retrieved 2007-05-30.
- ↑ "Specimen Collection Tubes & Containers". Retrieved 2006-02-01.
- ↑ "Quick Collection List". Retrieved 2006-02-01.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Blood collection: routine venipuncture and specimen handling". Retrieved 2006-02-01.
- ↑ "Transcript of 1997 Simpson civil trial". Retrieved 2006-04-05.
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How To Control Your Herpes Outbreaks
Herpes is a virus that affects the human nervous system, modifying the DNA of the nerve cells supplying the skin through which the virus entered. Most patients suffer from recurrences that may vary in frequency from once in a lifetime to several recurrences a year. The average rate of recurrences is about four times per year. Recurrences usually take about a week or so to heal. People living with herpes face a sad reality. There is no cure for the disease yet. Although encouraging research is progressing […]More info


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Online Profits News
Daily Online Profits News – Issue #256
April 12, 2010 by Internet Profits · Leave a Comment
Tips For Conference Attendees
Rohit Bhargava says:
Every year in March I make my annual trek to Austin to be part of the South By Southwest Interactive show, one of the biggest gatherings of people working in all aspects of the web in the world. For those who have been, they might describe the event as a simultaneous assault of information, networking and back to back parties. It has become the Everest of social media events, and in my fourth year
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The workplace office is a shared space, but when someone breaks the rules, it can lead to unnecessary tension. Save yourself the stress and follow our rules:
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The office is maybe not our favourite place to spend our free time, just maybe. For most of us, chatting with colleagues and accomplishing targets is great but what we're all looking forward to is lunch time! The day is highlighted by Tea in the morning, toast and jam at 11 and microwaved leftovers for lunch. Here are our definitive rules on eating at work - and keeping everyone happy at the same time. Never ever eat food that is not yours Most office kitchens have a small fridge where you can store your lunch. You should always assume that a lunch box or other food belongs to someone else, and hence not for you to eat. Some items are understood to be shared - such as milk, salt or maybe jam, but it is always a good idea to check first. This rule also applies to condiments such as tomato sauce, Tobasco or mayonnaise. Think about spaceBe considerate about how much space you take up in the fridge. This is not the place to store your groceries, a bottle of wine or an large cake box full of goodies that you are taking home later.Clean up after yourselfSome large offices may have a helper who will wash the dishes and make sure the bin is emptied on a daily basis, but if there is no one with this job in your office, it is your own responsibility to clean up after yourself. It is not women's work and it is not the intern's job - it is your job to wash up your own dishes. Just because you're the boss, doesn't mean that you are too good to clean a coffee cup.
ALSO READ: How to start your own office lunch club
Let's talk about food with strong odoursThere is a lot of discussion about what is appropriate food to bring to work, and the fear is often that the smell of our foods will offend those around us. We firmly believe that you should be able to eat whatever the heck you want to without fear of shame or judgement, but there are also ways to be considerate about it. If you are eating at your desk, then you should consider avoiding foods with pungent odours such as boiled eggs, tuna fish or curry as others around you may be trying to concentrate on their work. If you love eating an egg and mayo sandwich for lunch (yum!) then the place to eat it is in the communal eating area, staff canteen or the area adjacent to the kitchen. On that note: Don't comment on what your colleague is eatingEveryone's food is their own business. We all come from different backgrounds and cultures, and peering into someone's lunch box is like looking into their home. Foods that are delicious for your coworker may disgust you, but you should never shame them for their food choices. Similarly, you should never shame colleagues about whether you think it is healthy or not, how much food they eat or how much (or little) their food costs. It has nothing to do with you.
When you use the second last of anything, tell someone
If the milk is almost finished, or the sugar is almost all used up then you should tell someone who is responsible for stocking the kitchen, usually the Office Manager. There is nothing worse than going to make a cup of coffee, and there is no milk left. Save waterThe benefit of this rule is that it also helps to reduce washing up later. Most of us can keep one coffee mug for the whole day, and use it 3 or 4 times over. Eat your lunch out of your lunch box instead of dirtying a plate or bowl unnecessarily.
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Growing in popularity is the annual Volleyball Tournament, featuring teams from all over Wayne and Holmes Counties. It's good clean fun, but serious competition, too. Both girls and boys teams want the title of Best of the Relief Sale.
With tournaments for both boys and girls, it's a visual treat to see the colorful Amish and Mennonite teams digging and spiking over the multiple nets. Tournaments start at 6:30pm and last into the night until there is a winner!
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Why Play Matters
CEO of Playworks, Jill Vialet, discusses why play matters. See the video at the link below.
What Can Be Done To Stop Bullying?
Blog post by Maurice J. Elias, Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University
"We know bullying is harmful. We know a lot about how to prevent it. But bullying is still common. Why is this and how can we change this?
There is a silent aspect to bullying. Victims and bystanders often do not want to come forward to say what is going on. They feel threatened. But if we think about this, it means that they don't trust the adults in their lives- teachers, other school personnel, parents-- to protect them. Kids need to be in a learning environment where they truly feel safe. And of course bullies are not advertising to adults that they are victimizing other kids..."
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Don't Feed the Bully
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Don't feed the bully.
That's the message Jim Bisenius hammered home to hundreds of elementary students sitting on a Lakota school's gym floor in rare, rapt attention.
Almost every young hand – boys and girls alike – had gone up when the anti-bullying expert asked who among them had been bullied.
"...a growing body of research suggests that this technology and the information overload it dumps on us undermine not only our ability and desire to interact directly with real human beings, but also our capacity to focus for long on much of anything—even our children."
Read more of the article by Ron Taffel in Psychotherapy Networker.
"Those who play rarely become brittle in the face of stress or lose the healing capacity for humor." ~ Stuart Brown, MD
"A person's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play." ~ Frederic Nietsche
"My childhood may be over, but that doesn't mean playtime is." ~ Ron Olson
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." ~ George Bernard Shaw
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Norwich — The popular Walktober series of walking tours, talks and events encompasses 35 towns in eastern Connecticut and Massachusetts, but this year, the calendar of events requires two close-up maps of Norwich just to show the 39 walks and five special events in the Rose City.
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"That's a novel way to handle that" is the way we here at Is It Really Cake? like to treat interesting subjects when creating cakes.
We like to keep humor and smiles coming when clients see their finished creations. Also, it's a good idea to have a positive approach because of some of the sensitivities our novel cakes are created from.
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Ever have a neighbor who has dogs that do strange things? Two adorable golden labs, one of which loved having water squirted into its mouth and as a result was obsessed with water. Hence a comical chocolate cake fashioned after the plant named Seymour of the movie "The Little Shop of Horrors."
The plant here is about to devour the lab while it is hilariously enjoying the water spray, depicted by spaghetti. The other dog looks on in a careless fashion. All edible except for the black water hose, which was created with black electrical wire. Colored fondant covered this cake that was quickly consumed.
For all you animal lovers out there, this dog was not harmed — or swallowed — in the making of this cake.
For garden growers, what about a trellis-covered chocolate cake with the vine of the kiwi fruit? A cookie bench to relax on and bread sticks for trellis posts. Yummy and crunchy.
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The first shot of the modern "Showdown at Gucci Gulch" was fired on June 24, 2016. That's the day Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives released their tax reform "Blueprint." A keystone of the Blueprint is the DBCFT, or destination-based cash flow tax. This is known publicly as the "border-adjusted tax." The tax is an inventive VAT-esque plan that would essentially replace the U.S. corporate income tax. It would allow business taxpayers to immediately expense capital assets instead of deducting them after amortization. It would also eliminate the interest deduction. But the completely new aspect of this tax would be to deny corporate tax deductions for imported goods or services while exempting corporate revenues from exports; hence the "border-adjusted" moniker.
Mainly through op-eds, scholars such as Martin Feldstein, Paul Krugman, Alan Auerbach, Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Michael Devereux have touted the tax as a simplification that should appeal to Republicans and Democrats alike. Their starting point is that the U.S. corporate tax system is broken and the border-adjusted tax is the solution. They have been persuasive in addressing criticisms of the tax from various camps, including importers, progressives and free-market advocates.
What they do not address in general are the market predictions necessary to make the tax revenue neutral. Many of these same economists predict the value of the U.S. dollar increasing 25 percent relative to foreign currencies almost immediately after instituting the tax. If the dollar experiences the 25-percent boom, there will be no price increases as a result of the tax's enactment.
That's a big "if."
Assuming the linear analysis is sound from "tax plan" to "dollar increase" in a paper model, what about the system of tax compliance in between these two points? There is evidence that we should regard tax compliance as a "wicked system;" one beyond merely the simple, complicated, or complex. Wicked systems are highly unpredictable in that results from controlled inputs often deviate from expected outputs that would otherwise result from linear systems. This in turn can collapse an entire enterprise. For example, if we place the initial condition X into a wicked system and our reasonable, linear expectations are that we get Y as a result, it is very possible that we will instead get Z (or more importantly, not Y). If we are depending on getting Y as the output that made developing X in the first place rational and cost-effective, getting Z might be disastrous for our project.
This notion of a wicked system springs from the now-ubiquitous concept of a "wicked problem." First introduced as a label in 1967 by West Churchman's publication discussing Horst Rittel's articulation of management problems without generally-applicable solutions, Rittel further developed the characteristics of wicked problems as they apply to social planning and policymaking with co-author Melvin Webber in 1973. In this paper, the authors note that every solution to a wicked problem is a "one-shot operation" since there is no opportunity to learn from trial and error. Also, wicked problems do not have well-defined solutions that one can list out or accurately calculate. A wicked system, then, is a social structure that generates systemic wicked problems.
To be clear, it is not the tax reform plan to have a border-adjusted tax that is the wicked system. It is tax compliance that is the wicked system in that the actions taken in between the tax reform plan's launch and its linearly-analyzed results can send these results wildly off course. Consequently, the best that we can predict in instituting the tax as policy is that certain results will take on various measures of probability, but all of the results will be far from certainty.
Another wicked system that has a similar aim of tax reform in that it attempts to solve a large-scale problem is cloud seeding. Cloud seeding is similar to tax reform in that the analysis from initial silver-iodine seeding to final precipitation yield (or hail intensity reduction) can be modeled linearly. Yet, it is the "in between" system of the weather that is the wicked system that can take the seeding as input and generate an output quite different than that expected from the models. In fact, it was our early attempts to control the weather after World War II that led to the discovery of what we now call chaos theory. Simple models that generated highly-predictable results changed wildly if the inputs differed, not significantly, but at the nth decimal place. Recognizing this, the cloud-seeding industry no longer seeks to predict the precipitation yield with anything close to certainty. In fact, the investment is profitable if the yield is only 10 percent of the projections.
Can we conclude the same about the border-adjusted tax as cloud seeders do about their precipitation yields? Most likely not. The economic analyses that predict the immediate 25-percent increase in the dollar fail to include the effects of the wicked system known as tax compliance; that "in between" reality of aggregate human action that is as (un)predictable as the "in between" weather systems for cloud seeders. The difference is that cloud seeding remains a profitable venture if the precipitation yield is only a fraction of the model's projections. Can the border-adjusted tax venture still produce revenue-neutrality if tax compliance reduces economists' projections to a fraction of the 25-percent increase in the dollar's value? Tax policy drafters have the public duty to at least ask and attempt to answer this question before implementing the new tax; especially since significantly different economic results can prove ruinous for the current tax reform project.
Proponents of the tax are correct in stating that our corporate tax system is broken. Still, it would seem wiser for tax policy makers to realize from go that long-term market results will most likely look different from a model's forecasts. We must be confident not in the economic predictions, but in the high probability of the realization of the tax reform plan's objectives even if/when these economic predictions prove inaccurate. This is true even under a White House "Plan B" that tweaks the proposed tax. Any Plan B will also face the same wicked tax compliance system if its constituent parts are enacted regardless of its exclusion of the border-adjusted portion.
The solution? By definition, that's not easily articulated. But finding a solution begins by neither rationalizing nor justifying any part of tax reform as "revenue neutral" based on the prediction that markets will respond to tax stimuli in a linearly-predicted fashion. Can we pay for the border-adjusted tax without a relative value increase of 25 percent in the U.S. dollar? In other words, can we pay for this tax in a way that doesn't rely on the market's actions (which include the wicked system of tax compliance) to be linearly predictable, much like the cloud seeding industry has done? If so, then the proponent economists are correct that the border-adjusted tax very well might fix the broken U.S. corporate tax, at least in part, by making U.S. corporations more competitive globally. But if the success of the tax depends on the 25 percent increase, the wicked compliance dynamic might very well deliver a drastically different result to the U.S. dollar's relative value. We would then have a new broken system to fix.
Given tax compliance as a wicked system, the choice between tax reform Plans A and B with a dependence on a very specific market reaction is most likely to result in Plan 3. The question that policymakers must attempt to answer is whether the Plan 3 result will still make the initial plans revenue neutral. If not, then we need to face the fact that the border-adjusted tax might very well increase the U.S. deficit.


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Anal atresia is a problem with the way the anus forms and the part of the intestine leading to the anus. It can make it hard or impossible for the child to pass stool. Your child may have:
Anal atresia happens when an unborn baby's intestines develop the wrong way. The reason why isn't clear.
Anal atresia is more common in boys. It is also more common in those with other health problems, such as Down syndrome and other birth defects.
If your baby has anal atresia, symptoms may include:
Milder anal atresia may not be found until later in life. It may show as a lack of bowel control by age three.
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Oh Hello Jackie O.
After almost two decades of drab skirt suits, finally there is some style in the White House. All during their campaign the Obamas have been compare to the Kennedy's and Michelle has had the the privilege of being compared style-wise to Jackie O. Well hello Michelle O. Everyone has noticed Michelle's style. Even a male friend of mine who wouldn't know a hemline from an empire waist commented, "That Michelle, I like her style, it's sassy!" Working at BCBG, I had the privilege of sending Michelle– I don't think she wore the looks, but still. While election night's Narcisco Rodriguez's number was a little questionable, Inauguration day and night outfits more than made up for it. (more…)
It's a New Day!
I've just returned from DC and needless to say, the energy there was amazing. My friend Callie, over in Buenos Aires summed it up best, "The whole world is soo ready for this." Just being in the streets of D.C., there was just a frenetic energy. Everyone was so excited, so positive, I've never seen anything like it. Even the attendants at the supermarket seemed to smile a little more. I know I may even be being paranoid, but people seemed to actually smile at Pat and I as a couple as well. D.C. has always been called the politicians Hollywood… I call it, the UGLY Hollywood, but Hollywood and politics combined. Obama's position as the rock star politician was confirmed as everyone from Beyonce– an inaugural favorite– to Sting flocked to D.C. for this event. The concert at the National Mall was amazing, James Taylor, B, Usher, Jack Johnson, to name a few. Too bad I couldn't go to the Obama girls' concert where Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers serenaded them. Jay-Z gave a free concert…. D.C. was also just a lot warmer temperature wise. As Brooke said, being there at this time is a must. It's almost the Woodstock of our generation. There were tears in my eyes watching Obama being sworn in. I'm still definitely in disbelief that this is the image of the Free World's first family.
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Go Amherst!
It's a new day and it is wonderful that an Amherst Alum and an honorary Amherst Alum, have a lot to do with it. Laura Jarrett '07, and her mom Valerie have been all over fashion bible Vogue these past few months, Valerie, earning the prestigious title of "Barack's rock" and Laura making Vogue 2008's Best Dressed List, placing right next to Anne Hathaway! (more…)
Separation of Church and State
JUST KIDDING! I'm definitely not going to tackle that serious issue. But that's how I explained my distaste for Obama-frenzy to my friend Heather, a reporter for NHK, which for those of you who don't know is like the CNN or BBC for Japan. As I am Heather's live source for all things poppy, she's mine for all things political, and I provide her with great outlandish quotes and soundbites. When you wake up in Heather's house, you wake up to MSNBC, and one morning, groggy, I said, "I'm sooo over Obama. I believe in a separation of church and state." (more…)