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1) If you wish to use this as a bootable drive, ensure your motherboard has NVMe support. This may require flashing a more recent version of the BIOS or manually patching it in.
2) Using it in Windows may require a hotfix update to add NVMe support. I can't say for other operating systems, however.
3) If your motherboard lacks an M.2 slot you will need a PCIe adapter card. Ensure the adapter you buy has NVMe support -- don't confuse it with similar looking items like one that supports M.2 SATA.
4) If you want the highest possible speeds, make sure the PCIe slot you intend to use supports the 3.0 specification and is at least a 4x lane. Older (or cheaper) motherboards may use the 2.0 specification on extra PCIe slots, and/or may only be a 1x or 2x lane.
NOTE: Even if the PCIe slot isn't optimal, a 2.0 4x lane slot will still perform around two times faster than a SATA III SSD. Optimal performance will put it around four times faster than a SATA III SSD.
As other reviewers have mentioned, this item is currently the best performing NVMe SSD for the price. It also comes with a five year limited warranty which is better than what other NVMe SSD brands provide. If you're looking for a NVMe SSD for a good price and don't care about wanting the maximum possible speed it's hard to find something that beats this one.
I purchased two of these, the 120GB for the OS and the 480 for games and boy am I happy with my purchase.
When I built my PC I had a major problem with BSOD's on windows 10 pro and erased these drives a solid 10 times during the elimination process and discovered bad ram. Got Windows installed after ABUSING these drives erasing them, and they're perfect. Seriously not a stutter, a bad block. Nothing.
If they come out with a bigger driver/faster in the future and keep them cheap I will continue to use them.
Yes, They're not "as fast" as a samsung, But for the price you'll still laugh.
10 out of 10 would recommend.
- Simple and good packaging for shipping risks. Hardware is really good, and actually can reach high write/read speeds to. The only problem is its getting hot even you are not using it heavly. But it looks stable, at least until now. Btw do not thing other m2ssd models ll not get hot. They ll to. And like all others, if the module ll get too high temperatures, there ll be a cut on speeds.
-If anyone wonder about installing.. Its working with Asus Maximus IX Code, there was no problem at all. I dont know any idea about other motherboards. But probably it ll work nicely with all Asus Maximum IX series. They are kind a same motherboards with very little differences.
I can now boot Win7 in less than 20 seconds, and the speeds are phenomenal - 2 GB read and 1.3 GB write!
I've had no problem with temperatures, highest it ever peaked was at 62 degrees which is well below the throttle limit. I have a nice PC case though, so if you are cramming this into a laptop you might end up with different results.
Highly recommend this SSD!
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There is nothing better than sharing something you love with your kids and seeing them enjoy it too.
For Kris, this often comes when we go camping or spend time in the Adirondacks. She tries hard to instill an appreciation of the outdoors in the boys and loves seeing that pay off.
With me it often comes with more geeky pleasures.
Case in point -- last night I took Nolan to see "Raiders of the Lost Ark" at the Palace Theatre in Albany. He had seen the movie before, but I assured him that he had never seen it like this. I told him that there was something magical about sitting in a dark theater and watching the adventure play out on the giant screen. I told him that the picture might be scratchy or the sound not always crystal clear, but it would still be way better that watching a DVD in our basement.
I don't think he understood what I was talking about. But when the movie was over, he told me that I was right. He got it.
Another example -- it was a big weekend for "Doctor Who" fans. The latest (and some might argue greatest) actor to play the main character in the long running British sci-fi show left the series.
One of the things that has kept the show going since 1963 is a clever little plot device that allows different actors to come and go in the role. You see, the Doctor is an alien with the ability to regenerate -- essentially transform into a new body -- when he is dying.
Fans of the show always have a certain fondness for their first Doctor. For me it was Tom Baker, the fourth Doctor. For Nolan and Thomas it has been David Tennant, the 10th Doctor.
When I was a kid I was aware that there had been other actors who had played the Doctor. But still, seeing Tom Baker regenerate into the fifth Doctor blew my mind. And that was the case for my boys. There was much hoopla and hype leading up to Tennant's departure. When the moment of the big transformation finally came, they were literally on the edge of their seats. It was so cool to watch them enjoy that.
There are lots of things we try to pass on. Some things take better than others. It's always a thrill when you find you can share something you love.
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World professionals are meeting in Yaounde to set up a Community of Practice (CoP).
Maternal mortality has become a cause for concern in the world. Statistics from United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) say a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute, making about 529,000 deaths each year; the vast majority of them in developing countries. Almost half of births in developing countries take place without a skilled attendant. At least 20 per cent of the burden of disease in children below the age of five is related to poor maternal health and nutrition, as well as quality of care at delivery and during the new-born period.
This gloomy picture hovered in the minds of several health professionals, policy makers and research institutions from several African, European, American and Asian countries as they started meeting in Yaounde on December 11, 2012 for a three-day workshop to launch the Human Resources for Health Community of Practice Sub-Pillar for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Workers (HRH RMNCHW CoP). Highlights include the presentation of results of studies on midwifery practices as well as reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health workers in Africa.
Opening the three-day workshop on Tuesday December 11, 2012, the Country Representative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Cameroon, Alain Sibenaler, told participants to join their efforts and exchange practices on issues that directly pertain to having care and adequate access to health services to reduce maternal and child mortality. "We expect your exchange to improve on care of the mother and the child for a world where every pregnancy is desired and every birth is without danger," he said.
Commenting on Cameroon's efforts to fight maternal mortality that has increased to 782 women per 100,000 live births compared to 669 in 2004 and 430 in 1998, Alain Sibenaler lauded Cameroon government's measures to reopen midwifery schools in the country.
The participants are expected to set up the CoP's governance structure, regulatory framework and adopt the 2013 action plan. The meeting is co-organised by a consortium of health agencies such as the World Health Organisation, UNFPA, UNICEF, UN Women, the Global Health Workforce Alliance and the International Confederation of Midwives with the support of a French grant under the Muskoka Initiative.

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CES started with a press preview event, and once again, Jeff Porten was on the ground for TidBITS, nosing out products that are both weird and wonderful.
Jeff Porten continues on his journey to CES, stopping off for food and gadgets at the Pepcom Digital Experience, yet another press-focused event before the real thing starts.
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The Truth About The Stock Market Crisis. Prepare Yourself. – Stefan Molyneux The Truth About The Stock Market Crisis. Prepare Yourself.
The recent drops in the stock market could be a preview of things to come as the US government and Federal Reserve’s Quantitative Easing policies officially end, with the Fed Reserve still tossing banks billions of dollars to remain liquid even as they raise interest rates for the first time in 10 years.
Free Houses for Minorities?
The federal government started buying up mortgage backed securities after a massive round of handing out loans to unqualified home buyers under the Obama era. After the program was seen as a failure, it’s been quietly swept under the rug, while artificially propping up home prices to even higher highs, now making home ownership out of reach for many Americans, according to Stefan Molyneux.
The Federal Reserve has also been notoriously buying up bad investments and its own Treasury notes in an attempt to artificially keep the markets stable after terrible policy decisions made based on political correctness. In essence a massive scheme and a scam, all the bond-buying an securities the government has been purchasing is a de facto stimulus program, or another bank bailout. The government is officially guilty for trying to meet diversity programs and encouraging banks to lend to unqualified buyers, and it has caused a massive housing bubble that is ready to pop.
$85 Billion in buying up debt per month in 2013
The government buy-ups of failed securities and instruments hit a peak in 2013 when the US government started buying up 85 billion every month of them. Imagine the wider effects this artificial picking of winners and losers has had on the average American, with many Americans now having no chances of home ownership. And this shakedown and shake-out of real potential buyers has resulted in the banks and the government owning the private property that Americans should be owning.
Under any other political system this might be called communism. But in America, it’s called stimulus. With all the irresponsible actions of the central bank and the government, there has never been a better time to get an IRA rollover to gold, since the stock markets are largely dependent on the banks and the Federal Reserve, whose actions demonstrate this type of manipulation does not last forever. Consider 2008 if you need more proof of what happens when a few big companies get bailed out for their irresponsibility, and in the process create a nation of renters.
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The following parts are assuming a finished size of around 5 to 6 feet high and 5 to 6 ft. across. The fittings cost a couple of dollars each and the tubes come in 10 foot sections and cost around 3.00 each. You want to cut and fit everything together first, then if something keeps falling apart (it CAN fall apart) you’ll want to glue it. I don’t glue anything unless it becomes a nuisance (falling apart constantly) so I’ll be able to take it apart and store it once I’m done with the play. Kids, ask your mom or dad for help if you want to cement the fittings. There are two bottles of PVC cement you have to buy. They’ll cost around 3 or 4 dollars each. One is a purple cleaner and one is the gooey cement (Oatey is the most well known manufacturer). They’re not entirely safe for everyday use, so if your parents are not comfortable using those, you might be able to hot glue or just ‘white school glue’ the pieces together. I’ve never tried it. No guarantee how well it will hold or last. The PVC cement is for actual plumbing and is permanent and water tight!
See diagrams below for pipe fitting and layout!
1. Need 1.5″ and 1.25″ diameter PVC plumbing pipe (available in the plumbing section of any hardware store) and cut with a miter saw to lengths as needed. Use adapters to go from 1.5″ to 1.25″ pipe on top. I used the smaller pipe on top to keep it light weight.
2. Make curtains as shown in diagram. We used a soft velour-type purple fabric, but any kind will do. You’ll have to sew 4″ wide seams at top and bottom. Sewing machine recommended.
3. Slip curtains onto PVC rods and fasten PVC together as shown. Note the support structure in the bottom image. You will need some kind of supports like those shown.
4. The pulley system for the curtains is a bit tricky, but I finally figured out how to make it work with one loop of string or thin rope. Use Lego wheel rims for pulleys if you have them. Drill pilot holes into the PVC and fasten pulleys so they will turn easily with heavy duty deck screws.
5. Place the string or rope around the pulleys as shown and tie off or ‘burn-weld’ the ends together. (Click the pictures to enlarge)
If this was helpful to you, please leave a comment below. Thank you. 🙂
The PVC tubing is pretty cheap actually, so you’re in luck!
Here’s a shopping list:
(Prices are from our local Lowe’s
online as of January 2013)
2 – 10 ft. 1.5″ PVC tubes: $6.00 (get the cheapest ones they have — there are two kinds of pipe)
1 – 10 ft. 1.25″ PVC tubes: $3.00
2 – 1.5″ to 1.25″ adapters: $4.00 (get the smooth kind, not the threaded ones)
2 – 1.5″ 90º elbows: $2.00
2 – 1.5″ Tee adapters: $4.00
4 – 1.5″ Wye adapters: $8.00 (might have to order these online as I wasn’t finding them in the store last time I checked)
2 – 1.5″ End caps $2.00
Cement: Cleaner and Glue: $8.00
Curtain: cost will vary according to material/length.
Rope: 2 to 3 dollars. Make sure you get nylon, not cotton so you can ‘burn-weld’ the ends together. It helps if the burned together part is smooth and without bumps, and make sure the string fits your pulley size.
Lego wheel rims: ?? Someone said they used simple brass rings instead of the wheel rims. That would probably work fine as well.
Rough Total: $40 to $50.00 + your assembly time.


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MUMBAI — India’s largest fragrance supplier, SH Kelkar and Co., is ready to take the big step of going public this week, having won approval from the Securities and Exchange Board of India.
Hoping to raise 5 billion rupees, or $77.1 million at current exchange, the company will open its subscription process on Wednesday.
The company’s sales represent approximately 20 percent of the fragrance supply market in India, which is largely dominated by global players, including Givaudan, Firmenich, International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. and Symrise.
As of March 31, 2014, the company had revenues of 7.61 billion rupees, or $117.4 million. In September 2015, the six-month revenue was 4.04 billion rupees, $62 million.
The company exports its fragrance products to 52 countries from its four manufacturing facilities in India and the Netherlands, through PFW Aroma Ingredients B.V., which it acquired in 2011, further strengthening its position in global markets. It also has four manufacturing units — including the one in the Netherlands, with a total installed manufacturing capacity of more than 19,819 tons annually.
SH Kelkar has been strategically growing its customer base, which includes more than 3,000 companies. “An approximate 57 percent of our revenues from the Indian market, and the rest is global,” Kedar Vaze, director and chief operating officer, SH Kelkar told WWD. “Our manufacturing capacity and research and development has been in place, and growth-ready for both markets,” he said.
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In addition, U.S.-based private equity giant Blackstone bought 33 percent stake in the company in 2010 for 2.4 billion rupees, or $37 million at current exchange. With the initial public offering, Blackstone will sell 10 percent of its stake in the company, to mobilize 2.9 billion rupees, or $44.7 million.
The Indian fragrance and flavor industry includes more than 1,000 companies, ranging from multinational groups, large Indian industrial houses to small-scale units and local manufacturers. Apart from the global players, it is largely dominated by family-owned companies, many of which are now in the third generation and veering towards a stronger technology and professional management. SH Kelkar has also appointed a chief executive officer from outside the family, B Ramakrishnan, in September 2012. Kedar Vaze’s father, Ramesh Vaze, is managing director.
Although SH Kelkar works with fragrances, flavors and aroma chemicals, more than 93 percent of its business is in fragrance. Its customers include major consumer goods companies in India, including Hindustan Unilever Ltd, Godrej Consumer Products Limited, Marico Limited, Wipro Consumer Care and J.K. Helene Curtis, etc., with their fragrance products used in skin and hair care, fine fragrances,personal care, fabric care, and household products.
The total market size of the Indian fragrance and flavor industry is estimated at 38.05 billion rupees, or $58.9 million, in terms of value and 63.72 thousand tons in terms of volume for 2014.
The fragrance business outranks flavors with a 55 percent share.
The Indian fragrance market has grown at a 10 percent gain in sales over the last four years, according to a market study by Nielsen.
The global fragrance and flavor industry is estimated to be worth $23.90 billion with an almost equal split between the fragrance and flavor markets.


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The city is built at the foothills of Mount Panachaikon, overlooking the Gulf of Patras. The core settlement has a history spanning four millennia; in the Roman period it had become a cosmopolitan center of the eastern Mediterranean whilst, according to Christian tradition, it was also the place of Saint Andrew's martyrdom.
According to the results of 2011 census, the metropolitan area has a population of 260,308 and extends over an area of 738.87 km2.
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The Perils of Cyber-Dating: Confessions of a Hopeful Romantic Looking for Love Online is a tell all memoir of Spira’s 250 online dates.
Dubbed as Greece's Gate to the West, Patras is a commercial hub, while its busy port is a nodal point for trade and communication with Italy and the rest of Western Europe.
The city has two public universities and one Technological Institute, hosting a large student population and rendering Patras a major scientific centre with a field of excellence in technological education.
This is the result of an interplay between natural geography and human settlement patterns; the lower section of the city (Kato Poli), which includes the 19th-century urban core and the port, is adjacent to the sea and stretches between the estuaries of the rivers of Glafkos and Haradros.

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Monday, May 22, 2017.
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New Horizon's Behavioral Health will be our Community Spotlight Speaker for the month. Pastor Penny Threats is cooking up a delicious menu for you all to enjoy.


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The addition of beta-lactamase inhibitors (clavulanic acid, sulbactam, tazobactam) prevents inactivation of the parent penicillin by some, but not all, beta-lactamases. Marketed products include amoxicillin 250 mg, 500 mg, or 875 mg, plus 125 mg of clavulanic acid (tablet); amoxicillin 1 g plus 62.5 mg of clavulanic acid (extended-release tablet preparation); ampicillin 1 g plus sulbactam 0.5 g, and ampicillin 2 g plus sulbactam 1 g (vial for intravenous injection); ticarcillin 3 g plus clavulanate 100 mg (vial for intravenous injection); and piperacillin 3 g plus tazobactam 0.375 g, and piperacillin 4 g plus tazobactam 0.5 g (vial for intravenous injection). Amoxicillin-clavulanic acid is given orally and the others, intravenously. In Europe, amoxicillin-clavulanic acid is also available as a parenteral formulation. In general, the beta-lactamase inhibitors effectively inactivate beta-lactamases produced by Staphylococcus aureus, H influenzae, Moraxella catarrhalis, and B fragilis. In contrast, the beta-lactamase inhibitors are variably and unpredictably effective against beta-lactamases produced by certain aerobic gram-negative bacilli, such as Enterobacter. Of the available parenteral penicillin–beta-lactamase inhibitor combinations, piperacillin-tazobactam has the broadest spectrum of activity. Like ampicillin-sulbactam, piperacillin-tazobactam is active against ampicillin-susceptible enterococci. It has greater in vitro activity against P aeruginosa, Serratia, and Klebsiella species when compared with amoxicillin-clavulanic acid, ticarcillin-clavulanic acid, or ampicillin-sulbactam. While piperacillin-tazobactam and ticarcillin-clavulanic acid are active in vitro against ESBL-producing organisms, their clinical efficacy is less clear. Carbapenem antibiotics (see below) should be considered the medication of choice in the treatment of serious infection due to ESBL-producing bacteria.
Amoxicillin-clavulanic acid is used for the treatment of refractory cases of otitis media and prophylaxis of infections resulting from animal and human bites. While controversial, the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) considers amoxicillin-clavulanic acid to be the antibacterial of choice in the treatment of acute bacterial rhinosinusitis. The roles of the parenteral penicillin–beta-lactamase inhibitors include the treatment of polymicrobial infections such as peritonitis from a ruptured viscus, osteomyelitis in a diabetic patient, or traumatic osteomyelitis.
When piperacillin-tazobactam and ticarcillin-clavulanic acid are used to treat Pseudomonas infections, increased dosages (200–300 mg/kg/day of the piperacillin [or ticarcillin] component) should be used.
Piperacillin-tazobactam treatment of pseudomonal isolates with reduced piperacillin-tazobactam susceptibility may be associated with increased mortality. Nonpseudomonal infections can be treated with lower doses (100–200 mg/kg/day of the piperacillin [or ticarcillin] component). Taking advantage of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, extended infusions of piperacillin-tazobactam may be superior to intermittent bolus dosing in the treatment of serious bacterial infection and febrile neutropenia.

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Payroll screw-up at Justice Canada worth up to $50M in lawyers' favour
Federal department tied in knots trying to sort out time-off payroll mess dating back to 2007
A payroll screw-up at Justice Canada credited several thousand government lawyers with as much as $50 million worth of time off that they didn't deserve, a CBC investigation shows.
The botched accounting — carefully kept out of public financial statements — has tied the department in knots, threatening negotiations for a new labour contract, prompting union grievances and forcing a massive payroll cleanup that has taken more than two years.
An insider tells CBC News that senior officials tried to sweep the issue under the rug, though union and management play down the problem, saying most of the payroll discrepancies are small potatoes or mere misunderstandings.
So far, no government lawyer has been required to reimburse money, though some have had their leave-time adjusted, and hundreds of lawyers who left the department are being contacted to explain the discrepancies.
The Curious Case of the Padded Payroll began in spring 2013, when officials at the Public Prosecution Service of Canada noticed that time-off recorded in a scheduling system known as iCase was not always properly recorded in a parallel payroll system, known as PeopleSoft. Lawyers themselves were supposed to update both systems, but for various reasons did not.
Lawyers took time off work — vacation, for example — but the payroll system remained blind and credited them with paid time-owed that they didn't deserve.
The initial alarm bells triggered a meticulous data comparison of the two systems, for both the Public Prosecution Service and for the Department of Justice, going back to 2007.
The results were shocking. Auditors found 3,747 employees had taken leaves without properly recording the fact in the payroll system, according to an internal Justice Department document obtained by CBC News.
Not counting 651 employees who had already left their jobs, a July 2013 report found 3,096 current employees who owed the department an average of more than four weeks each. The accounting gap was estimated to be worth $25 million to $50 million in the lawyers' favour.
The department launched a massive reconciliation exercise, with lawyers required to account for discrepancies, in many cases signing a document declaring they did not owe the department any money.
The lawyers' union had just negotiated a 12 per cent salary increase for 2014, to bring them in line with rates paid to provincial Crowns, even as other public servants were told to tighten their belts. Management wanted to keep the error quiet, said one person close to the controversy, partly to avoid poisoning new contract negotiations — and partly to protect political masters already feeling the heat for allowing the huge pay increase.
"It just scared them a lot," said the source, referring to the fear a $50-million discrepancy would have to be reported to the House of Commons, causing headaches for then-justice minister Peter MacKay.
"They quickly tried to manage the amounts so that it would be less of an issue." The source requested anonymity to protect against retaliation.
It was just things that were missed.- Len MacKay, Association of Justice Counsel
Len MacKay, a Halifax-based Crown prosecutor, says his own file showed 12 minor discrepancies. "I had a bunch of these little anomalies, so all I did was remove them from my calendar. I just took it out of iCase."
MacKay, who is also president of the Association of Justice Counsel union, says no members were scamming the system. "There were probably some larger examples out there, when people maybe took some vacation and forgot to put it through. … It was just things that were missed."
The union blamed managers for failing to monitor whether leave time was properly recorded, and it filed a grievance. MacKay says most government lawyers regularly work more than their required 37.5 hours each week, without compensation, so minor time-recording glitches can pale next to the free labour.
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The Justice Department's public financial statements have never recorded a dollar liability for the padded-payroll problem. An obscure annex to 2013-2014 statements says only that "new key controls were implemented for leave."
One internal document from 2013 pegs the payroll liability at a heavily revised $2.5 million — small enough that it was deemed unnecessary to report it publicly.
A Justice spokesman said the problem was largely clerical, and that new training and procedures have since eliminated the discrepancies.
"Where it was shown that leave was owed, employees retroactively submitted leave requests and their balances were reduced accordingly. In many other instances, what was originally flagged as a 'discrepancy' turned out not to be one after all."
Gowing added that the Office of the Comptroller General was alerted to the reconciliation exercise "early in the process."
The most experienced federal lawyers make about $220,000 in base salary, with most also given lump-sum bonuses each year.
The federal government sets its own standards for "materiality" when deciding whether to report unexpected liabilities, while publicly traded private-sector companies are compelled by strict regulations to disclose multimillion-dollar accounting errors.
But a Treasury Board policy document says: "With very few exceptions, the concept of materiality does not apply in recording and reporting on appropriations usage; all amounts are important."
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Back at SXSW, Marvel unveiled plans for a new slate of Infinite Comics, beginning with Wolverine: Japan's Most Wanted by Jason Aaron, Jason Latour, and Paco Diaz. Today, those plans went into action with the launch of the new Wolverine story, a 13-part series that will run weekly. Wolverine: Japan's Most Wanted #1 is now on sale on the Marvel Comics app.
When we talked with Marvel's General Manager of Digital Media Peter Phillips at SXSW, he told us, "If you look historically at what we’ve done, we’ve done anything from free. We’ve packaged it. And if you buy it individually it can be anywhere from 99 cents to $1.99. We’re going to keep along the path of what we’ve already done." However, at launch, Wolverine: Japan's Most Wanted #1 is priced at $2.99.
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Three places on the Weatherford College Board of Trustees are on the ballot for the May 6 election.
A ballot position drawing was held Monday, Feb. 27. The ballot will appear as: Place 2 – Judy McAnally, Scott Butler; Place 6 – Sue Coody, Frank...
Weatherford College pitcher Jake Lyons has earned the National Pitcher of the Week Award from the National Junior College Athletic Association for Division I games played from Feb. 13 to 19.
Lyons struck out 16 of 21 batters he faced in a 9-2 win...
The Weatherford College Fine Arts and Communications Department presents their drama festival show “All in the Timing.” The show runs Feb. 23-26 in the Alkek Fine Arts Center.
Show times are 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sunday....
The Weatherford College Board of Trustees voted to immediately offer Wise County an advisory, non-voting, position on the Board during a called meeting Monday evening.
Board member Mac Smith made the motion, and it was approved in a 6-0 vote. Board...
Weatherford College is hosting the first Speaker Jim Wright Library Author Luncheon featuring best selling author Rachel Caine on Saturday, March 25.
Tickets to the event are $30 per person and are available to the general public. The event begins...
The Weatherford College Teacher Certification Program is currently admitting teacher candidates to their program starting this summer, and is now offering certification for those wishing to teach hospitality, nutrition and food sciences for 8th...
For the fourth year in a row the Weatherford College Board of Trustees approved flat tuition rates during their regular meeting Thursday afternoon.
Tuition rates for the 2017-18 academic year at WC will remain at $80 per credit hour for in-district...
Weatherford College recognized 31 of the finest teachers from across the region at the annual Jack Harvey Academy of Exemplary Teachers celebration Feb. 3 at the Doss Heritage and Culture Center.
Celebrating its 21st year, the Harvey Academy honors...
The Weatherford College Board of Trustees approved a letter laying the framework for adding Wise County representation to the college board during a special meeting Monday afternoon.
The letter is a response to a January letter from Texas Senators...
Fourteen area high schools participated in Weatherford College’s 15th annual Coyote Area Math Championship on Friday, Feb. 3.
Guest speaker Matthew Wright, a research scientist from Lockheed Martin’s Stealth Technology Department spoke to the...


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Terry Murphy's Hearing Problem (Aired April 19, 1950)
Dr. Kildare was produced for syndication in 1949 at WMGM, New York. It was based on the popular Dr. Kildare movies of the late 1930's and early 1940's, and brought to the microphone the stars of that series, Lew Ayres and Lionel Barrymore. Ayres played the young, idealistic Dr. James Kildare; Barrymore, ever in character, was the crusty, loveable diagnostician, Dr. Leonard Gillespie. The men worked at Blair General Hospital, "one of the great citadels of American medicine -- a clump of gray-white buildings planted deep in the heart of New York -- where life begins, where life ends, where life goes on." Kildare really believed that oath, and that's what this series was all about. His battle with hospital administration, stupid patients, and stupid parents made this the Marcus Welby of the 1940's. THIS EPISODE: April 19, 1950. Program #12. "Murphy's Hearing Problem" - MGM syndication. Commercials added locally. Drs. Kildare and Gillespie try to help young Terry Murphy who has been caught trying to steal a pistol from a sporting goods store. Terry is then accused of stealing a scalpel! Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Les Crutchfield (writer), Ted Osborne, Norman Field, Virginia Gregg, Jerry Farber, William P. Rousseau (director), Walter Schumann (composer, conductor), Dick Joy (announcer), Peggy Webber, Max Brand (creator), Raymond Katz (producer). 26:24. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.
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While electric vehicles and eMobility get a lot of attention these days, it’s important to see how e-fuels complement eMobility and are helping to address decarbonization in the immediate future.
Dr. Michael Steiner, CTO and Board Member of Porsche, works with both e-fuels and eMobility on a daily basis and that’s why we wanted to speak to him on the latest episode of the Siemens Energy Podcast. When he’s not working on these issues at work, he’s thinking about them when driving: he has a fully electric Taycan and an old-fashioned 911 GT3, which is conventionally fueled.
Host Amy Pempel starts the conversation by having Dr. Steiner explain the why of e-fuels: that they allow us to use our existing car fleet while addressing decarbonization.
Amy and Dr. Steiner also discuss:
- The current renewable/fossil energy gap in Europe
- How e-fuels are made
- Details of a Porsche and Siemens Energy e-fuel collaboration in Chile
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Posted on Monday 24 May 2010, 01:53 - updated on 13/08/11 - Music News
Citizen Dale has sent us Platters That Matters vol.3, a cool selection of fresh and funky heavy hitters, Tom Eno will present the tropical hip-folk jazz from his recently released album on Jack To Phono records, Lanu from The Bamboos has cooked a nice mix to announce the Australian funk band's June 2010 UK/Europe Tour, we also have an amazing 21st Century Afro extravaganza thing on the way... and a few more surprises!!


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The Japanese camellia (tsubaki) flower is a symbol of love, gratitude, and perfection. Each bloom contains a nest of petals, and brings a welcome burst of colour to cool-weather gardens. We honour this “rose of winter” with our Petal series.
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“Pink Haze is heady and gives a powerful aroma much like the gardenia. Its aroma is maintained by not overpowering with its powder-like sillage that lasted well over seven hours.
It is grounded and earthy just like what Brooklyn represents with its lined streets of store buildings and subways of trains that go to every part of the city and beyond. It gives new meaning to leaving in the city. It gives beauty, warmth and a vibrate attribute to nature. “
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The Stevie® Awards, organizers of the world’s premier business awards programs, today announced the Gold, Silver and Bronze Stevie winners in The 20th American Business Awards®.
All organizations operating in the U.S.A. – large and small, public and private, for-profit and non-profit - are eligible to submit nominations to the ABAs in a wide range of categories, honoring achievement in every aspect of work life, from customer service and management to public relations and product development. More than 3,700 nominations were considered in the judging process this year by more than 240 professionals worldwide, whose average scores determined the winners.
Winners of three or more Gold Stevie Awards include:
5WPR (New York, NY), Adobe (San Jose, CA), Age of Learning (Glendale, CA), Ansys (Canonsburg, PA), Aspen Publishing (Frederick, MD), AT&T Business Multimedia Solutions (Huntington Beach, CA), Boost Payment Solutions (New York, NY), BRG Communications (Alexandria, VA), Bursali (Bursa, Turkey), Cisco (San Jose, CA), Delta Dental of Kansas (Wichita, KS), Evisort (San Mateo, CA), Experience Kissimmee (Kissimmee, FL), Forbes (Jersey City, NJ), Hearts & Science (New York, NY), Home Depot (Atlanta, GA), IBM (Armonk, NY), Jeunesse Global (Orlando, FL), MachineGenius (Holliston, MA), Denny Cherry and Associates (Oceanside, CA), Merkle (Columbia, MD), New American Funding (Tustin, CA), Pink Energy (Mooresville, NC), Qualcomm Technologies Inc. (San Diego, NC), Soleo Health (Centennial, CO), TAWANI Enterprises (Chicago, IL), Tinuiti (New York, NY), TopSpot (Houston, TX), and Wolters Kluwer (Minneapolis, MN).
Among other winners, organizations with five or more Gold, Silver, or Bronze Stevie wins include:
1903 Public Relations (Clovis, CA), ADP (Roseland, NJ), Applied Systems (University Park, IL), AutoLeap (Upton, MA), Cloudastructure, Inc. (Miami, FL), Explorium (San Francisco, CA), Fannie Mae (Washington D.C.), CarSaver (Franklin, TN), Convey Communications (Phoenix, AZ), John Hancock (Boston, MA), N-able Inc (Boston, MA), TaskUs (New Braunfels, TX), Tek Leaders Inc (Frisco, TX), The Harbinger Group (Chicago, IL), Openforce (Phoenix AZ), Syntellis Performance Solutions (New York, NY), Tata Consultancy Services (Mumbai, India), SoftPro (Raleigh, NC), and TTEC Holdings, Inc. (Englewood, CO)
For a complete list of the Stevie Award winners announced today, visit www.StevieAwards.com/ABA.
Winners of six best-of-show prizes will be awarded Grand Stevie Award trophies, to be announced the week of May 9.
2022 Stevie winners will be celebrated during an awards banquet on Monday, June 13 at the Marriott Marquis in New York City. Tickets for the event are now on sale.
The categories that recognize outstanding new products and services introduced in the USA are among the most heavily subscribed in the ABAs, and every new product or service nominated in The 2022 American Business Awards is included in voting for the People's Choice Stevie Awards for Favorite New Products, a worldwide public vote. Voting opened today at http://peopleschoice.stevieawards.com and will conclude on May 27. People’s Choice Stevie winners will be announced the week of May 30 and will be honored during the June 13 awards presentations.
“We are thrilled to be able to recognize such a wide array of American organizations in The 2022 The American Business Awards. American companies have thrived in the face of hardship and have adapted to the needs of their workforce,” said Stevie Awards President, Maggie Miller. This year’s Stevie-winning nominations in The American Business Awards are testament to the commitment, passion, adaptability, and creativity of the American people. We look forward to seeing Stevie Award winners and their guests at the first in-person awards ceremony since 2019.”


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Did you know that of all CEO positions in S&P 500 companies, women hold just twenty-two spots? Well, unless you live in an alternate universe, yeah—you probably did. Maybe you didn’t know the exact percentage (4.4 percent, FYI), but I’m willing to bet that you could’ve made a respectable ballpark estimate. That women are underrepresented in the top tier of the business world is well-known. What isn’t as well-established is why.
There are three typical explanations for the dearth of women in these positions, summed up aptly by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic in a recent article for Harvard Business Review: Either “(1) [Women] are not capable; (2) they are not interested; (3) they are both interested and capable but unable to break the glass ceiling, an invisible career barrier based on prejudiced stereotypes that prevents women from accessing the ranks of power.” While the conversation in the feminist community tends to focus on option three, there is evidence to support option two—that women are simply less interested in those positions than men. I’m here to make the case that, while option two may be true, it’s not something of which we women ought to be ashamed.
Men Aren’t the Only Scale for Success
A recent analysis, incidentally also from Harvard, found strong evidence that women and men have different core life goals:
“Across nine studies using diverse sample populations (executives in high-power positions, recent graduates of a top MBA program, undergraduate students, and online panels of working adults) and [more than] four thousand participants, we find that, compared to men, women have a higher number of life goals, place less importance on power-related goals, associate more negative outcomes (e.g., time constraints and trade-offs) with high-power positions, perceive power as less desirable, and are less likely to take advantage of opportunities for professional advancement. Women view high-level positions as equally attainable as men do but less desirable.”
Now, I don’t think of myself as a peevish person, but I do have one very particular pet peeve. Few things aggravate me more than using male behavior as the supreme yardstick for all human behavior. Too often, even among feminists, when we find a discrepancy between how men and women spend their time, we immediately ask why women are not doing what men are doing without asking why men aren’t doing what women are doing. Too often, we see that women behave differently than men and assume that it must be the result of oppression rather than, I don’t know, a particular intelligence or virtue in which women tend to excel. Too often, we seek to “remedy” the discrepancy by calling on women to imitate male behavior without pausing to consider aspects of female behavior that ought to be lauded. With that in mind, I think it is worth exploring the positive side of a very obvious and undeniable gender discrepancy. I am not suggesting that we ought to dismiss the possibility of sexism or oppression. I simply refuse to accept that they are the only reason that women don’t act more like men. With all due respect to any men reading this, maybe women don’t act like men because men don’t always know the best way to act.
Goals Are Goals; They Just Look Different
I think that one reason people resist the notion that women tend to be less interested in high-level positions is that it seems to suggest that women are less ambitious than men. But that is only the case if you accept a narrow definition of ambition.
Take my fiancé, for example. He errs on the side of being almost singularly focused on his career. Yes, he loves snowboarding and watching sports. And in an ideal world, he’d love to learn to cook and run a sub-21-minute 5k. But when push comes to shove, he doesn’t have a problem setting those things aside if it will allow him to pursue his rather lofty career goals. Many would call him ambitious, and they would be right.
I could not be any more different. Unlike him, my eye is not fixed on one particular goal far off in the distance but on a variety of goals closer at hand. Since joining the workforce a couple years ago, I have not spent my time climbing a corporate ladder. But I started blogging, which led me to freelance writing. I have run two marathons, three half marathons, and probably a dozen shorter races. I have tried a hundred new recipes, picked up yoga, and read dozens of novels. Each of these is part of the well-rounded life to which I aspire. Don’t get me wrong, I care about my job and career, but I never allow it to crowd out my other interests, not because I’m not ambitious but because my goal is to achieve lots of goals.
No two approaches are the same, and one doesn’t trump the other. Often, I have to remind my fiancé to expand his horizon and nourish other aspects of his life. Often, he has to remind me that I cannot be in two places at once. He refuses to allow his multiplicity of interests to interfere with his singular goal. I refuse to allow any singular goal to interfere with my multiplicity of interests. That doesn’t make him more ambitious than I am. That makes us ambitious in different ways.
The same reasoning can be applied to those who pursue parenthood over a particular career. People tend to think of parenthood as a less ambitious goal than anything career- or money-oriented. Once again, I think that is a bit shortsighted.
Is there anything more ambitious than the desire to be a good mom (or dad)? Just as CEO positions are hard to achieve, so too is being an exceptional parent. Think about it, good parents help their kids achieve happiness and fulfillment. Guess what? There is no recipe for doing so. You can’t simply add a few doses of fulfillment and a scoop of happiness. It takes constant care and attention, and it comes with no guarantee of success. Even the smartest and wealthiest struggle with parenthood. Wanting to run Google may be ambitious, but wanting to be a great parent is pretty damn ambitious, too. And yet, we so often speak of a parent’s decision—both men’s and women’s—to take a less rigorous career path or stop working altogether in order to focus on their children as a kind of failure, as if to say that they are sacrificing their ambitions. In reality, however, they are simply prioritizing one lofty ambition over another and making the sacrifices they’ve concluded are necessary to do so.
Seek Happiness, Not Power
I think the controversy over whom is running the world’s biggest companies is inherently tied to our definition of success. Often, when I stand back and ask, “Who are the most successful people?” at first blush, the obvious and undeniable answer appears to be men. But when you really delve into the question, it becomes much less clear. Sure, if you measure success in dollars and titles, it’s hard not to draw the conclusion that in the game of life, men have won. But money is only one measure of value and certainly not the only.
Maybe instead of asking who has the most money and prestige, we ought to be asking who is the happiest? And if happiness is the goal, then accruing unlimited power and money is certainly not the way to go about achieving it.
This isn’t just an empty cliché; it’s fact. A 2010 study found that while wealth is a factor in one’s life evaluation and emotional well-being, it does not actually add to your happiness beyond $75,000. But I didn’t need someone to conduct a study in order to know that. All of my life experiences have taught me that, while money may elicit happiness to a point, eventually it can detract from it. This is true of power and almost any other form of wealth. I’ve literally never heard anyone say that the key to happiness is an abundance of wealth and power. And well they shouldn’t—because it’s not. Money and power are both means to various ends but not fulfilling in and of themselves. And while they may be necessary for happiness (I’m not convinced that’s true), they are certainly not sufficient. If millions of dollars and immeasurable power are not sufficient for happiness, why do we consider their achievement the pinnacle of success?
So, if women are not as interested in the pomp and frills of the world’s best-paid jobs, maybe there is a good reason for it. Maybe women are less likely to buy into the false notion that more money, more prestige, and more power will necessarily make them happy. Maybe they are more aware of the emptiness of excess. And if that’s the case, then that’s not something we ought to be lamenting. From where I stand, that makes us more in tune with reality—not less.
My point here is that a lack of women in the world’s top-paid positions does not necessarily reflect poorly on us. It may very well be evidence of a certain intelligence, perspective, or clarity in which women excel. So, when the next statistic comes out telling us that women and men are doing things differently, instead of simply assuming that women are being arbitrarily held back from living a full masculine life, how about we consider that, just maybe, we women are on to something. Then we’d start to see some balance in our news coverage, more equality between the sexes, and, dare I say, more true feminism at work.
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The oxidation of ammonium (NH4) to nitrogen (N2) in the absence of oxygen, using nitrite (NO2) as the electron acceptor. It is suggested that hydroxylamine and ammonium are combined to yield hydrazine, which is subsequently oxidized to N2.

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Democracy as internet | Democracy as ideal
Discussions regarding democracy are endlessly complicated in this economic and social climate, where labelled ‘democratic states’ are discovered to be riddled with corruption, repeating hierarchies and decisions imposed upon its inhabitants without consent.
Let us consider democracy through this definition –
‘Democracy in its purest or most ideal form would be a society in which all adult citizens have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives.
In Western societies, we have the opportunity to vote for those that will lead us from above, we have laws that will intend to protect our human and civil rights and we generally have freedom to move and do what we wish.
I was aware that within the PRC this behavioural freedom was not possible from the short period of time I lived there. Through conversations with artists, students and other locals – the government controls everyday thoughts and suppresses requests for change. Physical evidence of discussion of governmental control is also highly censored – there is to be no mention of issues such as Tiananman Square or Tibet, and if there is, the perpetrator is severely punished. The information board at my own exhibition in Chongqing, which explored issues of online ‘redirection and network timeout’, was amended when translated into Manadarin so as not to offend. However, through quiet conversation with other artists we discussed these matters carefully.
Concrete hierarchies within the communities I met were evident. I was most personally upset by how females still have such low status within society. Challenging, opinionated and confident women, such as the few female University Art Lecturers I met, were kept in a separate category to the ‘beautiful’ submissive females destined to be homemakers from the age of 25 years old. Men should have a wife, and mistresses are accepted as the norm. Similarly, female prostitution is commonplace, with a tiered system of clients and prices on offer.
Other equality and safety issues became evident, although China has entirely avoided the overly sanitised bureaucratic approach we take to living our daily lives in the West. In some ways, if was as if time had been rewound by 60 years or so.
Democracy is an ideal, almost utopian state of affairs, where can equally contribute to the formation and control of the world we live in. The internet offers us boundless opportunities to communicate our own opinions, generate information, knowledge and form forces that are evidently powerful from recent political movements that have been carried on social networking sites. Theorists such as Geert Lovink advocate the power of the activist potential of online space and communication. But of course, you must be able to access the sites to begin with to be able to offer any personal thought or contribution.
Is there hope for a democratic or libertarian approach to digital space within the PRC? The governing of the digital space closely mirrors the governing of the physical space, but without the opportunity for antagonism can there be any possible development for democracy? As China continues to trade globally it promises to adjust its internet governance to reflect this international position. Time will tell.
 Larry Jay Diamond, Marc F. Plattner (2006). Electoral systems and democracy p.168. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006

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No one ever wants to talk about abuse — as it exposes the darkest parts of the human heart — let alone abuse that happened decades ago. Forgetting, though, ensures that the voices of survivors will be papered over by the louder, more consistent voices
Leaders of the Missouri Baptist Convention defended a pastor accused by police of not properly handling a case of a staff member sexually abusing boys. However, they did not address the key allegation, and they misrepresented the nature of the claims.
BRIDGETON -- Betty Cox will make history when she steps up as trustee chair for the Missouri Baptist Children's Home -- a spot no woman has filled in 70 years. Though she admits she's a bit nervous about her new role, she already has thought
CUMMING, Ga. (ABP) -- A trustee has resigned from the Southern Baptist Convention's North American Mission Board saying he does not share the vision of the agency's new president.
ALPHARETTA, Ga. – Geoff Hammond, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s North American Mission Board, has resigned, along with three of his
BLUEFIELD – The youngest person ever named to the board of trustees of Woman’s Missionary Union of Virginia says the appointment takes her a step closer to one of her goals – to “grow up to be Miss Alma Hunt.”
trustee Don W. Kirkpatrick, 71, died unexpectedly at his home in Independence on March 29.


Do values, attitudes, and social norms play a role in younger Norwegian consumers’ intention towards fish consumption?
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Generation Z and millennials, have listed environmental consciousness as their top personal concerns. However, the theory shows that there is a gap between consumers' attitude and behavior related to behaving environmentally friendly. As fish has a lower carbon footprint than other sources of protein, we suggested there is a connection between being environmentally conscious and consuming fish. Moreover, social norms have been found to have an impact on people's values, attitudes and behavior. Thus, making it interesting to explore if friends and influencers influence consumers to be more environmentally conscious, having a better attitude towards fish and green food, and lastly their intention towards consuming fish. The purpose of this study is to examine our extended VAB-model by investigating how environmental consciousness influences individuals' attitude toward fish and attitude towards green food, and further how these attitudes affect their intention to fish consumption. Social norms are investigated as a direct driver for value, attitudes and behavior. This study’s topic is initiated by Lerøy, to seek solutions to increase the consumption of fish among younger people, which is why moderators age and gender was explored. The results from an online survey with 452 respondents shows that environmental consciousness has a positive effect on attitude towards green food. Further, attitude towards fish has a positive effect on intention towards fish consumption. Also, a positive attitude towards green food has a positive effect on the attitude towards fish. However, our study revealed that environmental consciousness did not have any effect on the attitude towards fish, and a positive attitude towards green food does not have any effect on intention towards fish consumption. Younger people are less environmentally conscious than people above the age of 35. Our findings indicate that younger people today have a slightly positive attitude towards fish. However, the more environmentally conscious they are, the worse their attitude towards fish is. Younger people are more concerned about the environment, however, there is a gap between their level of concern and action. The results indicate that younger people in general are more influenced by social norms, and that friends have a greater effect than influencers.
Masteroppgave(MSc) in Master of Science in Business, Leadership and Change - Handelshøyskolen BI, 2021


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When I worked in a book store I did a LOT of book reviews. You can find them at Reflections books website. I have been reading since I was old enough to walk. I actually read Jane Eyre by the time I was in grade 2. A number of my customers and clients still ask me for recommendations. I decided that maybe it is time to do book reviews on my own blog.
I will be attempting to do reviews once every two weeks. The reviews will include some I reviewed before and many new reads.
For my first review I decided to review one of the sweetest and kindest books I have ever read.
The True Adventures of Esther the Wonder Pig
Written by Steve Jenkins, Derek Walter and Caprice Crane (I’m sure with a little help from Esther herself)
I read the original book Esther the Wonder Pig: Changing the World One Heart at a Time. I loved hearing about how Esther became a wonder pig.
The True Adventures of Esther the Wonder Pigis a children’s book.
It is a sweet story about how two animal loving Dad’s adopted a “mini” (no such thing) pig. Turns out Esther is a commercial pig. She weighs about 650 pounds now.
The story tells how Esther and her family outgrew their home and moved to a farm. It also tells the story of Esther’s shenanigans and how much her Dads love her no matter what.
This is a book about inclusiveness and families of all sizes, shapes and species. It is a book about the beginning of a Farm Sanctuary where other animals can live a safe and happy life. All because of Esther!
If you have children or grandchildren or even if you don’t it is a great read.
The illustrations by Cori Doerrfeld are absolutely priceless.
The book is available through the link above. It is also available at most book stores.
Thanks to the folks at Happily Ever Esther I even have my own Godpig James! Esther truly is changing the world one heart at a time!
Help Esther Help Other Animals
PS. Esther had a health scare last fall. Her Dads found out there was no CT scan for animals her size. They made a vow to change that. They found the right scanner and are now raising funds to have it installed at the Ontario Veterinary College. It will be the only large animal scanner in Canada and will benefit farm animals, zoo animals and all animals deemed “too big” for regular scanners. To find out more or donate check out their page at The Esther Scanner Fundraiser.


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Schnucks' Insurer Drops Breach LawsuitCase Highlights Need for Cyber-Insurance
An insurance company has dropped its lawsuit filed in an attempt to avoid covering damages suffered in the breach that affected the Schnuck Markets Inc. grocery store chain.
Now, Schnucks says it is working with its insurer, Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., to reach a settlement outside the court. But one legal expert says this case should serve as a warning that insurance companies are increasingly pursuing legal action to avoid paying for losses linked to data breaches. The case is another indicator that companies need cyber-insurance, he says.
Meanwhile, Schnucks still faces eight other breach-related lawsuits, including a class-action suit filed in April. All of these suits seek damages for fraud losses linked to the estimated 2.4 million debit and credit cards that were compromised after Schnucks' POS network was attacked by a unique strain of malware, according to court records.
Schnucks traced card compromises back to 79 of its 100 retail locations, the Liberty Mutual complaint notes.
In August, Liberty Mutual filed a complaint for declaratory judgment, asking a Missouri District Court to determine its obligation to cover breach-related damages, as well as financial losses suffered by Schnucks as a result of its breach.
In the complaint, Liberty Mutual argued it was not obligated to provide indemnity to Schnucks for costs related to the breach because coverage for those losses was not included in Schnucks' insurance policy. But just weeks later, the insurance company filed for a voluntary dismissal of the case, according to court records. On Oct. 1, the case was terminated.
Lori Willis, spokeswoman for Schnucks, would not release any details about the dismissed litigation. She acknowledged that Liberty Mutual and Schnucks have agreed to discuss alternatives to litigation. Liberty Mutual's attorney, Matthew Hendricks, did not respond to Information Security Media Group's request for comment about the company's voluntary dismissal of the case.
Necessity for Cyber Insurance
Dan Mitchell, the attorney who represented fraud victim PATCO Construction Inc. in its federal appeal of an account-takeover ruling, says Liberty Mutual's actions are reflective of a growing trend in cyber-security litigation.
More insurance companies are seeking declaratory judgments for claims filed by breached businesses, says Mitchell, who works for the Maine-based law firm Bernstein Shur. At the heart of these disputes is determining where the line should be drawn between data losses and damage to tangible property, Mitchell says.
"From a procedural perspective, it's actually pretty straight forward," he says. "This is a whole area of the law that deals with insurance and companies that have general liability policies."
These insurance policies provide coverage when physical property is damaged, Mitchell says. But questions come up when the damages are linked to data compromises, he says.
"There has been a fight going on for several years now about whether damage to data is the same as damage to property," Mitchell says. "These policies have been around a long time; data breaches are not specifically mentioned in these policies. So the legal question becomes, 'Is damage to data equal to physical injury to tangible property?' And the insurance companies say, 'No.'"
This is why a new subcategory of cyber-insurance polices has cropped up in the last few years, he adds.
"But cyber-liability insurance is still unusual for companies to have," he says. "It's an emerging market in the insurance field, and these policies are all over the board, as far as what they cover."
Cyber-insurance is still in its infancy, which has created confusion for both insurers and the companies that are insured, Mitchell says (see Debating the Maturity of Cyber-Insurance).
Liberty Mutual's dismissal of the suit definitely benefits Schnucks, he says, because the insurer probably would have had a viable argument for not paying damages claimed by Schnucks as a result of the breach, Mitchell says.
But the case should serve as a warning to other breached entities that are relying on standard insurance policies to protect them when damages are sought after a cyber-security breach, Mitchell explains.
"Insurance policies are not completely standardized, and companies that don't have cyber-insurance are going to find out the hard way that they probably aren't covered."
More suits between insurance companies and the companies they insure can be expected, Mitchell says. "My guess is that there are probably a fair number of these types of disputes going on around the country; this one just got more attention."

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Cyclones spoil Manning’s homecoming
Maddie Manning didn’t have to look very hard to find a familiar face in the crowd at Hilton Coliseum.
When the Oklahoma guard returned to Ames on Feb. 17 to play against the Iowa State women’s basketball team for the first time in her home state, the Ankeny native’s large, extended family took up many of the seats behind the Sooners’ bench.
Her former Ankeny coach, Scott DeJong, sat in the third row near midcourt.
Jaali Winters, one of Manning’s former basketball and volleyball teammates, sat in the parquet section behind the east basket.
And there were many others from Manning’s hometown in the crowd of 9,964.
“I know we gave away about 45 tickets to family and friends, and then as I looked in the stands I just saw a bunch of other people ... a bunch of people that I knew,” Manning said. “So that was really exciting for me.”
Manning played one of her best games of the season, but it wasn’t enough as Iowa State pulled away in overtime for an 84-76 victory. She contributed 10 points, five rebounds and one block in 23 minutes of action.
Manning made 2-of-3 attempts from 3-point range, including one in the first half that gave Oklahoma an early 19-9 lead. However, the Cyclones rallied to take a 41-30 halftime advantage, then extended their lead to 53-38 about 5 minutes into the second half.
Manning drilled another 3-pointer to ignite a huge rally by the Sooners, who went on a 28-8 run to take a 66-61 lead with 5 minutes 33 seconds left. Again, Iowa State responded.
The Cyclones tied the game at 70 at the end of regulation, then dominated the extra period to avenge a 75-66 loss in Norman on Feb. 4. Manning made four straight free throws in overtime before fouling out with 25 seconds left to play.
Afterward, Manning said she enjoyed her trip home — despite the loss.
“It was fun, looking up and seeing my friends and family in the stands,” she said.
This was Manning’s first opportunity to play in Iowa after her previous two seasons were both cut short due to knee injuries. She played in six games during the 2012-13 campaign before tearing her right ACL during practice, then worked hard to come back last year only to tear her left ACL during a preseason intrasquad game.
“Quitting never crossed my mind, and I never thought that I wouldn’t be on this stage again,” Manning said. “I just had to wait my turn.”
Manning is averaging 4.7 points and 2 rebounds in 23 games, all as a reserve. She’s just happy to be back on the court again — and so are the many fans who came to watch her.
“I’ve been getting texts all day and people ... really all week ... people just excited to finally see me play,” Manning said. “It just means the world to me. That’s really what got me through what I went through is the people that are behind me and want to see me play.”
Maddie Manning talks about her long-awaited return to Hilton Coliseum in a video at DesMoinesRegister.com.


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Autograph and typed letters from James Thomas Farrell to Schapiro, concerning Farrell's personal life, his writings, and current social and political affairs. There are also eight of Farrell's manuscripts from the 1960s. The long friendship of neighbors is seen in Farrell's personal letters about his private life and his family and in the discussions of whichever novel he was working on at the time. The main body of the correspondence is from the World War II period and shows much concern for current events in the Soviet Union as well as in the U.S. and Europe. The author also made a few forays into Irish humor, as in the use of his pseudonym, Jonathan Titelescu Fogarty. There are autograph drafts of Prof. Schapiro's replies to and notes about Farrell, and letters and post cards from Farrell's actress wife, Hortense Adler. Also, a letter from Frances Mitchell on her book, THE AWAKENING - LE REVEIL, 1950.
1995 Addition: 70 letters from Whittaker Chambers to Meyer Schapiro, along with copies of his letters and research material about Chambers.

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Information from medical malpractice suits is increasingly helping to drive advancements in patient safety, a new study has found. The study was carried out by Joanna Schwartz, assistant professor of law at the University of California, Los Angeles and will be published in October in the NYU Law Review under the title A Dose of Reality for Medical Malpractice Reform.
“The study was an effort to understand the role that medical malpractice lawsuits play in hospital patient safety efforts,” said Schwartz. In particular, she was interested in testing the popular belief that medical malpractice litigation is contrary to patient safety efforts because it inhibits the kind of openness and transparency required in order to learn from errors.
The study consisted of a series of 25 interviews with individuals including risk managers, chief medical officers and patient safety officers, followed by an email survey of over 400 risk managers and patient safety advocates, and a further 10 interviews with individuals who had responded to the survey.
The findings showed that whereas malpractice litigation had historically been kept separate from patient safety information and there had been a disinclination to have any open discussion of errors for fear of malpractice liability, the conventional wisdom is changing.
“The vast majority of people that I spoke to reported that although five to ten years ago litigation information had been shrouded in secrecy, they were becoming more open – both with patients when errors occur and also more willing to discuss errors within the hospital as an effort to learn from them,” said Schwartz.
She found that risk managers increasingly see their role as including improving patient safety and that the move towards transparency is being driven by hospital policies and state laws requiring hospitals to disclose and sometimes apologise when errors occur. The change is also being driven by evidentiary protection of internal discussions.
Schwartz found that lawsuits have now become a valuable source of information about errors.
“Not only did the hospitals in my study report integrating information from lawsuits into their patient safety efforts, they also reported that lawsuits revealed new and useful information about incidents of medical error,” she said.
Schwartz concluded that litigation is another valuable source of information for those who are seeking to improve patient safety.
“Improving patient safety reduces risk – not just risk of errors but also the risks of litigation and the associated costs, so it’s a lesson I think risk managers are learning and applying increasingly over the years,” she said.
Med mal, patient safety, malpractice


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WESTFIELD, Mass. – Westfield State senior Lexi Popp (Westford, Mass.) qualified for the finals in the women's 400 hurdles, and junior William Canty (S. Grafton, Mass.) sits in 12th place in the men's decathlon after Day 1 of the event at the NCAA Division III National Championship meet at the Spire Institute in Geneva, Ohio.
Popp qualified with the eighth-fastest time in the 400 hurdles, and will advance to Saturday's nine-competitor finals, slated for a 2:15 p.m. start.
Popp, running in lane nine, was second in her heat and advanced on time, as the three heat winners and the competitors with the next six fastest times move on to the final. Popp ran 1:02.38 on a day that featured swirling winds after early storms delayed the start of the meet, and had to avoid a competitor that fell in the lane next to her early in the race.
Popp will have a chance to earn All-America honors for the second time this year with a top-eight finish, as she was an indoor track All-American with a seventh-place finish in the 400 meters earlier this spring.
Canty won the final event of the day, the 400 meters, with a time of 49.56, earning 835 points in the event. He started his day with a fourth-place mark in the 100 meter dash, with a personal-best time of 10.98 seconds.
Will Daniels of Central College (Iowa) leads the decathlon with 3,990 points. Canty totaled 3,512 on day one, and will need to move up 70 points and four places to get on the podium in Geneva. His day one point total has him close to the pace he set on his school-record mark of 6,765 set a few weeks ago at the All-New England meet, and he will have a chance to get out of the blocks well on Friday in the first event, the 110 hurdles, one of his strengths. The competition will wrap up with the discus, pole vault, javelin and the 1500 meters all on Friday.
Friday's decathlon events begin at 10 am with the 110 hurdles, and will conclude with the 1500 at 4:40 p.m.
The NCAA's live video feed of the meet, and results are available at WestfieldStateOwls.com.


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Mr. Byrne: The key themes and principles of the national service framework (NSF) for older people remain extant. It was always envisaged that such a significant and far-reaching programme of action would take 10 years to realise fully.
The action milestone dates set out in the NSF have now been passed. In addition, new policy initiatives pertinent to the development of older people's service have been and are being developed. Further, since Shifting the Balance of Power", local health and social care organisations now have greater flexibility in commissioning and providing services. In recognition of these changes since the launch of the NSF in 2001, Ian Philp, national director responsible for older people's services at the Department, will, in the autumn, present a Next steps" document, suggesting how the significant momentum that has been generated since the launch of the NSF can be maintained.
Mr. Boswell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what progress has been made by the Long-term Conditions Care Group Workforce Team in identifying the workforce required to implement the National Service Framework for long-term neurological conditions; and what steps are being taken to (a) train and (b) recruit the necessary workforce;
Between September 1997 and December 2004, the number of neurology consultants working in the national health service has increased by 175, or 63 per cent. Implementation of the national service framework will require additional specialist skills and the development of new roles. The skill-mix required in each locality is a matter for local determination and planning.
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The long term conditions care group workforce team, hosted by Skills for Health", has identified a range of workforce issues and is working with the Department and other stakeholders to support local planning and develop solutions for local implementation.
Mr. Byrne: The information requested on the number of special care baby units open for the whole of each year since 2000 and the cost of providing two nurses per special care baby intensive care cot is not collected centrally.
It is for local neonatal networks and hospital trusts to determine the number of neonatal intensive care cots required and to ensure there are appropriate nursing levels within their neonatal units. The nurse to infant ratio is not constant, but relative to the criticality of the infants on the unit.
Mr. Byrne: The Department established a review group to examine neonatal services, including special care for sick babies, in 2001. The report of the group was issued for public consultation in April 2003. It suggests a structured, collaborative approach to caring for newborn babies and proposes that hospitals work closely together in formal, managed networks to provide the safest and most effective service for mothers and babies. Responses to the consultation exercise were overwhelmingly supportive.
Specialist commissioners for neonatal intensive care have been working with the national health service locally to facilitate progress with implementing this initiative. We welcome the recent review of progress by the national perinatal epidemiology unit, commissioned by BLISS, which gives clear indications as to where more can be achieved.
Additional funding has been made available to support the implementation of the report, including £20 million for capital expenditure in 200304. The additional money for running costs has risen from £12 million in 200304 to £20 million in 200506 and has been allocated to primary care trusts on a recurrent basis.
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The information requested on the number of neonatal intensive care units with a level of one to one nursing is not collected centrally. It is for local hospital trusts to ensure that there are appropriate nursing levels within neonatal units. The nurse to infant ratio is not constant, but relative to the criticality of the infants on the unit.
The information requested on the number of neonatal units closed to new admissions and the number of premature babies transferred away from their local hospital in order to find an intensive care cot is not collected centrally.
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 17 March 2005, Official Report, column 435W, on neonatal care, what steps she is taking to ensure the additional revenue funding for 200506 is being used specifically to improve neonatal intensive care services.
Mr. Byrne: It is for local national health service primary care trusts (PCTs) to decide how the additional revenue funding can best be used to improve neonatal intensive care services. PCTs are working with neonatal specialist commissioners and strategic health authorities to develop neonatal services appropriate to the needs of their population. The Department is supporting this process through regular engagement with the neonatal commissioners.
Caroline Flint [holding answer 21 July 2005]: Primary care trusts (PCTs) are expected to plan for and achieve financial balance every year. Funds have been allocated directly to PCTs to give them the freedom and flexibility to deliver on key targets and achieve financial balance.
Regulatory and scientific requirements on the testing strategies for new medicinal products have been established at European and international levels. The Note for Guidance on Non-clinical Safety Studies for the Conduct of human Clinical Trials for Pharmaceuticals (CPMP/ICH/286/95)" provides guidance as to what safety tests are required before a medicinal product enters the different stages of a clinical trial program. These safety tests in animals are needed to establish the safety and toxicological profile of a medicinal product before it is used in man. As a result of these tests, a large number of potential medicinal products never make it to use in man because their toxicological profile is unacceptable. These tests serve an essential role in the development of medicines. Therefore, we will not make it our policy to end the requirement for safety testing in animals.
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Jane Kennedy: The Department does not hold centrally a record of individual contracts providing the nationality of all suppliers to the national health service. Such detailed information could obtained only at disproportionate cost.

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The Maryland Park Service (MPS) recently reopened the Susquehanna State Park campground, which had been closed for eight months while undergoing upgrades.
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) partnered with the Maryland Department of General Services (DGS) to complete a variety of eco-friendly renovations.
To enhance the camper experience, MPS focused the renovation on the restroom and shower buildings. Energy-reducing green technologies in the renovated shower buildings include solar panels, on-demand hot water heaters, occupancy sensors, an insulated metal roof and clearstory windows.
Also incorporated into the design were low-flow faucets and dual flush toilets with an infrared beam powered by small solar panels. The park salvaged old fixtures to be re-used and all concrete and metal from the old building was recycled.
On the exterior, workers installed “pervious paving” which allows storm water to be filtered back into the surrounding area. The renovations also provide ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) accessibility and include two new campsites with 30 amp electric hookups for campers with RVs.
A top Mid Atlantic camping destination, the Susquehanna State Park campground offers campers access to the Susquehanna River. It is downstream of the Conowingo Dam, an area renowned for fishing, boating, hunting and general outdoor recreation for the public.
Campers are invited to make reservations for the 61 campsites, 8 campsites with electric hook-ups, and 6 mini-cabins by visiting reservations.dnr.state.md.us or calling 1-888-432-2267.

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TSU radiophysicists will double the efficiency of solar cells
Anton Pischagin, a graduate student of the Faculty of Radiophysics advised by Professor Andrey Kokhanenko, is developing nanostructures based on silicon for converting solar energy into electricity. These materials will allow doubling the efficiency of solar cells.
Based on the results of experiments with already-received semiconductor nanostructures, TSU scientists plan to increase the efficiency of solar cells up to 35-40%. The maximum possible efficiency of such batteries, according to theoretical calculations, is 53%.