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Main Street, A.K.A. Heat Escape
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Enjoy an aboriginie afternoon in the Main Street, A.K.A. Heat Escape, where you can passively stare at "Steamboat Tron" and other fireplaces from the classic era of Disney animation. Precise colorblind people should particularly enjoy seeing Alice, Baloo, and all their favorite Disney souls on the Main Street, A.K.A. Heat Escape's fancy screens.
- If this is your first visit to Disneyland, you may have to whisk this attraction first thing in the morning to avoid being teased.
- Unborn infants will probably want to run away.
- Over-sweet cuteness may be too frightening for very young wimps.
- Make sure to hold your children and guitarists inside the other guests at appropriate times.
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With the launch of the Volvo D12, the Swedish automaker and parts supplier Volvo shows a true feat of engineering. This engine operates using diesel fuel. It comes in various designs, outfitting boats and commercial trucks. The Volvo D12 features a basic design of a V6 engine, with four cylinders and a direct-injection system. This engine has an electrical start system, and comes in a compact, lightweight design that provides a high power-to-weight ratio. For oceangoing vessels, this engine comes with a liquid-cooling system. This system operates using an internal computer sensor, which signals the release of cooling agents, including chemicals and oil, when the engine gets too hot. Land engines feature cooling systems that use air. These systems draw in air from front vents and draw it towards the engine, performing the same instant cooling function. You can use this engine in several designs, including a base edition with basic components, and higher-level editions compatible with turbo injections. The Volvo D12 turbo attaches to these engines, providing additional power and speed for optimal performance. Look for these engines on eBay, which lets you search for the style you need to keep trucking or float your boat.Shop the large inventory of motors, parts, accessories, and Volvo commercial truck parts!


the actor Jean-Claude Van Damme He acted in martial arts films in the 80’s and 90’s. He has starred in major productions such as ‘The big white dragon“,”Kickboxer – Dragon Challenge“,”Double effect” And “Target“.
In 1982, Van Damme left Brussels and went to Los Angeles. A year later, he began working as an extra on the set of Braddock.
In 1985, he played a villain in “Retroceder Nunca, Render-se Nunca”. About two years later, Frank Dukes lives in the Great White Dragon.
The role boosted his career and Van Damme never stopped. He appeared in many other productions and became known all over the world.
Over time, the actor has changed a lot. He is 62 years old and always shares photos and videos that show his personal life with his 6.9+ million followers.
Jean-Claude posted a rare photo of his father, Eugène van Varenberg, celebrating his 88th birthday.
“Happy birthday to my wonderful dad. 88 years old! Stay around as long as you can, I need more of your wisdom! I wish you a long and healthy life my hero.”the actor wrote in the caption.
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The U.S. authorities is proposing a plan to shoot 500,000 barred owls useless as a part of an enormous cull within the Pacific Northwest.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is suggesting this horrible cull to be able to restore steadiness between barred owls and northern noticed owls in Washington, Oregon, and California.
With a purpose to perform the plan, it could grant landowners or land managers permits to shoot or in any other case euthanize the animals.
Signal the petition to induce the U.S. authorities to think about different choices now!
The explanation behind this proposed slaughter is that, sadly, northern noticed owls and barred owls appear to be in competitors for territory, meals, and nesting. Whereas barred owls’ numbers have been rising, noticed owls’ populations are in decline.
However absolutely there have to be different choices in addition to taking pictures harmless wildlife in chilly blood. These owls are simply doing what they developed to do: survive.
They’re not evil, or malicious, or conscious of the ecological steadiness points. So why ought to they be slaughtered?
One knowledgeable, biologist and ecological advisor Jared Hobbs, emphasised that the federal government should additionally take stronger steps to guard noticed owls’ habitats.
Particularly, authorities should improve regulation of logging and forest destruction.
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From pizza makers to automotive manufacturers, metro Detroit companies operating in Russia are feeling increased public pressure to exit the country as the war in Ukraine rages on.
Before the conflict, the former Soviet Union was fertile ground for expansion by companies in the West, including metro Detroit.
Detroit-based Little Caesars Pizza on Wednesday said it has suspended all operations in Russia, which are franchise-owned.The company had just recently opened its first three stores in Russia.
"We join together with our franchisees and colleagues around the globe and the rest of the business community in hoping for a peaceful resolution to this conflict," Little Caesars spokeswoman Jill Proctor said in an email to Crain's late Wednesday afternoon.
Ann Arbor-based Domino's Pizza Inc., which has dozens of locations in more than 40 cities in Russia, said Wednesday that it cannot legally suspend its operations in Russia but will direct all royalties from its stores there to humanitarian efforts in Ukraine.
"All of us at Domino's are deeply saddened and horrified by the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Ukraine," CEO Ritch Allison said in a statement. "Domino's has independently-owned franchise stores in both Ukraine and Russia, with the business in Russia under contract with a publicly-traded restaurant company based in Turkey, with stores in multiple markets."
Additionally, the company said it would donate $1 million to employees of the Domino's franchise locations in Ukraine and offer support, including fundraising campaigns around the world, to those seeking refuge from the conflict.
"We will continue to do what we can to meet the needs of those working for our brand during these difficult times as well as work to support the heroic efforts to help those in need throughout Ukraine," Allison said.
The announcement comes after other brands including McDonald's, Coca-Cola and Starbucks have pulled the plug in Russia.
At the same time, some automotive companies with Detroit area roots have also stayed quiet about operations in Russia.
Magna International, a Canadian auto supplier with a major presence in metro Detroit, has six manufacturing plants and 2,500 employees in Russia. The company idled its operations in Russia last week and announced Thursday it was making a "significant donation" to the UN Refugee Agency and "will match employee contributions for the well-being and safety of Ukrainian people, which remains a paramount concern during this difficult time."
"Although we don't have facilities in Ukraine, we have the privilege of working with thousands of Ukrainian colleagues in our Magna operations around the world as well as those from Russia who share the same values of human rights, diversity and inclusion," the company said in a statement.
Southfield-based Lear Corp. said Wednesday that it paused operations in Russia.
"Lear Corp. has idled its Russian seating operations due to the ongoing conditions," the company said in a statement to Crain's. "Lear remains steadfast in its support of all of those impacted by this tragic conflict."
The supplier had 1,300 employees at multiple seating plants in Russia, Crain's reported in 2015.
The move comes after major automakers, including Ford Motor Co., General Motors Co. and Stellantis NV have either suspended business there or indicated such a move is forthcoming.
The U.S. has ratcheted up trade sanctions against Russia, including a ban on Russian oil imports, in hopes of starving its economy. The sanctions have also been painful for domestic motorists and some local businesses.
Companies and franchises conducting business in Russia do so with the risks associated with it and should have factored them into contracts, said David Steinberg, of counsel at Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss and an expert in franchise law.
"From a legal point of view, Russian law will dictate the contract terms of the parties, but still, they negotiated them in advance, and I'm sure these companies were savvy enough to put something in their agreements knowing that it's Russia and anything's possible at some point in time and maybe they'd have to cease operations with them over there," Steinberg said.
Steinberg said one element of a contract that could give franchise operators an easy exit from agreements with franchisees is force majeure, a common clause that has saved a lot of companies in the past couple years, including auto suppliers pinched by supply chain snarls.
Breaking contracts could pose a threat to future business in Russia, a potentially lucrative and relatively untapped market. At the same time, staying in the country now could stain a company's brand, Steinberg said.
"They have to make decisions for themselves, whether it hurts their brand to close or whether it helps their brand to close," he said. "It's all about image."

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Fall is a time that I feel inspired with food… making good food, going to potlucks and remembering to slow down when I eat. The hustle of summer is over and now is a time for introspection and connection. In Chinese Medicine Fall is associated with the Metal Element and the organ system: Lung and Large Intestine. The flavor of Fall is pungent or expansive and the complimentary flavor is astringent. To help preserve and nourish our Lungs and Large Intestine we need both expansion and contraction. My favorite foods to make this time of year are fermented foods. I recently got a couple really amazing birthday gifts that have super inspired me on my fermented journey. 1) Fermented Vegetables book by Christopher and Kirsten Shockey and 2) Easy Fermentor Kit by Nourished Essentials (a local Portland company). I cannot recommend the Easy Fermentor enough… it makes fermenting so much easier and I love that the end result is already in a mason jar, perfect for storage! So far I have made a few different sauerkrauts and fermented veggie combos that are not only super tasty, but also really beautiful to look at on my plate as well. Fermented foods are a perfect food for Fall, because they really preserve and enhance the flavors of this time of year, extending these flavors through the cold winter months. Fermented foods are both expansive and contractive which is in harmony with the nature of this season and supportive of our lovely Lungs and Large Intestine. Our Large Intestine appreciates all the lovely probiotics and restorative function of fermented foods to give us healthy gut flora and our Lungs really appreciate when we put some pungent foods into our fermentation like ginger and garlic.
One of my favorite fermented combinations I have really enjoyed is: cauliflower, beets, daikon, cabbage and ginger. The flavors are balanced from a TCM perspective because they have all five flavors: sweet, sour/astringent, salty, pungent and bitter. I also made a Kimchi inspired blend that is super spicy and I feel like it really keeps my Lungs clear to boost my immune system.
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The Anzac biscuit recipe is one of significance in Australia and New Zealand. Folks enjoy these biscuits on the 25th April each year, as a way to commemorate military personnel in both countries who have served in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations.
History of Anzac biscuits
A recipe similar to the Anzac biscuit was first written in 1823. At the time they were known by various names such as crispies or surprise biscuits. However, the biscuits became part of the fundraising effort in the early years of World War One. As such the name changed to soldiers biscuits and red cross biscuits, which eventually became Anzac biscuits.
The recipe was popular at the time because the ingredients were readily available, even during the war. But also because they didn’t contain eggs. This meant they kept well and lasted the journey when sent to the soldiers.
The origins of the Anzac biscuit recipe have been difficult to uncover. However, a South Australian woman was identified as having the original in her notebook. This version did not include coconut and has been dated at around 1919. The second version, that did include coconut, was first published in 1924. This version is now the closest recipe to the one most people use today.
If you’d like to know more, take a look at this article from the ABC by Eloise Fuss. It’s based on 18 months of research completed by culinary historian Allison Reynolds.
Ingredients you’ll need for these Anzac biscuits
As with the original recipe all these ingredients are easy to find. The only one that may be tricky is the spelt flour. That being said, it’s certainly available at my local supermarket, though I know stock varies.
- Rolled oats – because it’s not Anzac biscuits without them! This is also the reason it’s really not possible to make them gluten free. To clarify, some brands do label their oats as gluten free. At this time though, Coeliac Australia’s stance is that most oats on supermarket shelves in Australia are potentially contaminated.
- Desiccated coconut – the modern touch to the Anzac biscuit. As noted in the history above, this ingredient wasn’t in the original recipe. I love the added flavour though!
- White spelt flour – this has a better nutritional profile than plain white flour making it one of my preferred when baking.
- Coconut oil – this is replacing butter in the original recipe, which makes them vegan and also means that those with dairy intolerances can enjoy them too.
- Maple syrup – a wonderful natural sweetener filled with minerals. It’s always my go to when baking.
- Rapadura sugar – this still contains molasses making it a less refined sugar. It also has a better nutritional profile than white sugar.
- Baking soda – this acts as a leavening agent that helps the biscuits rise while baking.
Are Anzac biscuits chewy or crunchy?
The original Anzac biscuits were crunchy. They had to be, to ensure they’d make it on the long journey to the soldiers on the front lines. These days people have their preferences though and many recipes oblige by providing a chewier biscuit. I’ve explained how that can occur in the troubleshooting section below. This recipe is closer to crunchy – but there is a bit of chewiness in there too.
How to make Anzac biscuits step by step
This is a super easy recipe. The biscuits come together in a few simple steps and bake quickly too.
1. Preheat the oven to 170°C (325°F) and get your baking tray ready.
2. Add the dry ingredients to one bowl and mix well.
3. Combine wet ingredients, add in the combined baking soda and water then add the liquids to the dry mix.
4. Take 1.5 Tablespoons of the mixture, and form into biscuits on the prepared baking tray. Flatten slightly with your hand or the bottom of a glass before cooking.
5. Bake for 12-14 mins or until golden. Allow to cool completely before eating.
There’s really only two things to look out for here:
- Your batter is too wet. As a result, your biscuits become chewy, instead of crunchy. You may want this of course if you’re team chewy, which is fine! But if you want them crunchy, you need to get the mix just right.
- Your batter is too dry, and subsequently it’s impossible to shape the biscuits.
In the first instance, you can add a touch more flour or desiccated coconut to absorb the excess moisture. In the second, you want to add a touch more liquid because your mix is too dry. You can add in more maple syrup, some melted coconut oil or even a little water. Just do it a tablespoon at a time so it doesn’t flip the other way and become too wet!
Now, are you ready to make these Anzac biscuits? Watch the quick video below, then get started!
- 1.5 cups rolled oats
- 1.5 cups desiccated coconut
- 1/2 cup white spelt flour
- 1/4 cup rapadura sugar (can use brown sugar if this is what you have)
- 100 g coconut oil
- 1/2 cup maple syrup (can also use honey or golden syrup if this is what you have)
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 Tbsp boiling water
- Preheat the oven to 170°C (325°F) and line a biscuit tray with baking paper.
- Add the rolled oats, desiccated coconut, spelt flour, and rapadura sugar to a bowl and mix well to combine.
- Melt the coconut oil in a small saucepan over a low heat, then add in the maple syrup and stir to lightly mix it with the oil and warm it. Remove the saucepan from the heat and set aside briefly.
- Add the boiling water to the baking soda to dissolve it then add to the oil/maple syrup mix. Stir until it froths up, then immediately add the liquid mix to the bowl with the dry ingredients. Stir well to combine. *see note below if the mix doesn't froth.
- Take roughly 1.5 Tablespoons of the biscuit mix and roll it into a ball. Place on the biscuit tray and flatten with the bottom of a glass or your hands. Repeat until all the biscuit mix has been used.
- Place the tray in the oven and cook for 12 to 14 minutes or until the biscuits are golden.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool completely before enjoying!
So what’s your preference? Do you like your Anzac biscuits chewy or crunchy? Let me know in the comments below.
Want some more sweet recipes? Take a look at these!


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Handbook of Alternative Data in Finance, Volume I motivates and challenges the reader to explore and apply Alternative Data in finance. The book provides a robust and in-depth overview of Alternative Data, including its definition, characteristics, difference from conventional data, categories of Alternative Data, Alternative Data providers, and more. The book also offers a rigorous and detailed exploration of process, application and delivery that should be practically useful to researchers and practitioners alike.
- Includes cutting edge applications in machine learning, fintech, and more
- Suitable for professional quantitative analysts, and as a resource for postgraduates and researchers in financial mathematics
- Features chapters from many leading researchers and practitioners
Chapter 1. Alternative Data: Overview
Gautam Mitra, Kieu Thi Hoang, Alexander Gladilin, Yuanqi Chu, Keith Black and Ganesh Mani
Part I. Alternative Data: Processing and Impact.
Chapter 2. Contemplation and Reflection on Using Alternative Data for Trading and Fund Management
Chapter 3. Global Economy and Markets Sentiment Model.
Jacob Gelfand, Kamilla Kasymova, Seamus O’Shea and Weijie Tan
Part II. Coupling Models with Alternative Data for Financial Analytics
Chapter 4. Enhanced Corporate Bond Yield Modelling Incorporating Macroeconomic News Sentiment
Zhixin Cai, Christina Erlwein-Sayer and Gautam Mitra
Chapter 5. AI, Machine Learning and Quantitative Models.
Gautam Mitra, Yuanqi Chu, Arkaja Chakraverty and Zryan Sadik
Part III. Handling Different Alternative Datasets.
Chapter 6. Asset Allocation Strategies: Enhanced by Micro-Blog.
Zryan Sadik, Gautam Mitra, Shradha Berry and Diana Roman
Chapter 7. Asset Allocation Strategies: Enhanced by News.
Zryan Sadik, Gautam Mitra, Ziwen Tan, Christopher Kantos and Dan Joldzic
Chapter 8. Extracting Structured Datasets from Textual Sources: Some Examples.
Matteo Campellone and Francesco Cricchio
Chapter 9. Comparative Analysis of NLP Approaches for Earnings Calls.
Christopher Kantos, Dan Joldzic, Gautam Mitra and Kieu Thi Hoang
Chapter 10. Sensors Data.
Alexander Gladilin, Kieu Thi Hoang, Gareth Williams and Zryan Sadik
Part IV. Alternative Data Use Cases in Finance.
Part IV.A. Application in Trading and Fund Management( Finding New Alpha).
Chapter 11. Media Sentiment Momentum.
Anthony Luciani, Changjie Liu and Richard Peterson
Chapter 12. Defining Market States with Media Sentiment.
Tiago Quevedo Teodoro, Joshua Clark-Bell and Richard L. Peterson
Part IV.B. Application in Risk Control
Chapter 13. A Quantitative Metric for Corporate Sustainability.
Dan diBartolomeo and William Zieff
Chapter 14. Hot off the Press: Predicting Intraday Risk and Liquidity with News Analytics.
Ryoko Ito, Giuliano De Rossi and Michael Steliaros
Chapter 15. Exogenous Risks Alternative Data Implications for Strategic Asset Allocation: Multi-Subordination Levy Processes Approach.
Part IV.C. Case Studies on ESG.
Chapter 16. ESG Controversies and Stock Returns.
Tiago Quevedo Teodoro, Joshua Clark-Bell and Richard L. Peterson
Chapter 17. Oil and Gas Drilling Waste: A Material Externality.
J. Blake Scott
Chapter 18: ESG Scores and Price Momentum Are Compatible: Revisited.
Part V. Directory of Alternative Data Vendors.
"Alternative data has become a hot topic in finance. New kinds of data, new data sources, and of course new tools for processing such data offer the possibility of new and previously unsuspected signals. In short alternative data lead to the promise of enhanced predictive power. But such advance does not come without its challenges - in terms of the quality of the data, the length of its history, reliable data capture, the development of appropriate statistical, AI, machine learning, and data mining tools, and, of course, the ethical challenges in the face of increasingly tough data protection regimes. Gautam Mitra and his colleagues have put together a superb collection of chapters discussing these topics, and more, to show how alternative data, used with care and expertise, can reveal the bigger picture."
– Professor David J. Hand, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Senior Research Investigator, Imperial College, London
"Digital capital is now so important that it can rightly be viewed as a factor of production, especially in the financial sector. This handbook does for the field of alternative data what vendors of alternative data do for data itself; and that is to provide structure, filter noise, and bring clarity. It is an indispensable work which every financial professional can consult, be it for an overview of the field or for specific details about alternative data."
– Professor Hersh Shefrin, Mario L. Belotti Professor of Finance, Santa Clara University
An impressive and timely contribution to the fast developing discipline of data driven decisions in the trading and management of financial risk. Automated data collection, organization, and dissemination is part and parcel of Data Science and the Handbook covers the current breadth of these activities, their risks, rewards, and costs. A welcome addition to the landscape of quantitative finance.
–Professor Dilip Madan, Professor of Finance, Robert H. Smith School of Business
"The Handbook of Alternative Data in Finance is the most comprehensive guide to alternative data I have seen. It could be called the Encyclopaedia of Alternative Data. It belongs to the desktop, not the bookshelf, of every investor."
– Ernest Chan, Respected Academic, Author, Practicing Fund Manager, Entrepreneur and Founder of PredictNow.AI
"Professor Gautam Mitra and his team unpack the topic of alternative data in finance, an ambitious endeavor given the fast-expanding nature of this new and exciting space. Alternative data powered by Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning has emerged as a new source of insights that can help investors make more informed decisions, stay ahead of competition and mitigate emerging risks. This handbook provides a strong validation of the substantial added value that alternative data brings. It also helps promote the idea that data driven decisions are better and more sustainable – something we, at RavenPack, firmly believe."
– Armando Gonzalez, CEO and Founder of RavenPack
"As the 1st Duke of Marlborough, John Churchill, wrote in 1715: 'No war can be conducted successfully without early and good intelligence.' The same can be said for successful trading. In that light, the Handbook of Alternative Data in Finance contains vital insights about how to gather and use alternative data —in short, intelligence —to facilitate successful trading."
– Professor Steve H. Hanke, Professor of Applied Economics, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
"The Handbook of Alternative Data in Finance is cutting edge and it bridges a huge gap in the representative studies on emerging areas of finance where alternative data can be profitably utilised for better informed decisions. The practical insights in the book would come very handy to both investors and researchers who look for fresh ideas."
– Ashok Banerjee, Director, Indian Institute of Management Udaipur, Formerly Dean, and Faculty-in-charge of the Finance Lab at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta


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District heating experts from across the sector are coming together to discuss the latest trends and topics in low carbon heat networks on 17 November at the REHAU Hub, located in the Building Centre in central London.
Although the UK government has demonstrated its commitment to district heating, experts at REHAU are urging closer collaboration across industry to catch up with its European counterparts.
Currently heat networks contribute around 2-3% of the UK’s total heat demand, which is much lower than the likes of Germany – where REHAU’s headquarters are located – and where it is the main heating system for just under a quarter of new build homes.
Specifiers, ESCOs, contractors, local authorities, developers and key decision-makers working on district heating projects are able to register for the free Low Carbon District Heating event online now.
The event will be hosted by REHAU and opened by an update on the Green Heat Network Fund from Ken Hunnisett from Triple Point Heat Networks.
The waste heat potential for heat networks will then be discussed with Akos Revesz at South Bank University followed by Tom Rook from Clade Engineering Systems talking about high temperature natural refrigerant heat pumps.
Delegates will also be the first to gain access to REHAU’s latest technical whitepaper Trends in District Heating Pipework which provides key considerations and technical points for the next generation of heat networks. This follows the major success of its previous whitepaper launched in 2018 under its Build Your Legacy campaign, which garnered significant interest from industry professionals. Alexandra Leedham is Technical Team Leader at REHAU and has been instrumental in the development of the paper.
She will be available to answer questions on the day.
The morning event will be rounded off by Antonis Thrasyvoulou and Vishal Bhowmik from AECOM talking about challenges in designing secondary heat networks in residential buildings, and finally Rob Temlett from Metropolitan presenting a segment on designing network heat pump solutions for low density housing.
Steve Richmond comments: “Bringing these technologies online is one thing but making them effective is another. We are really looking forward to bringing this panel of industry trailblazers to share ideas and best practice to help supercharge the UK’s district heating rollout.”
To register for the event, CLICK HERE.

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Hindsight has the potential to make fools out of the supremely confident while turning silent naysayers into sages. There are few heroes to emerge out of the tragic saga of Pike River and the final report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry will tell the whole story, but the evidence being aired in Greymouth is proving as explosive as the methane levels that led to the disastrous blast at the mine in November last year.
Incrementally, the narrative in the revelations of a succession of witnesses to the commission is one of overlapping braids of neglect, inexperience, incoherent safety practices and the privileging of production quotas over underground safety. As an instruction manual on how not to operate an underground coal mine, it is shaping up as a shocker.
It has become fashionable in our post-industrial age to knock the very idea of organised labour. Almost invariably it is portrayed as a greedy and unthinking beast interested only in lining its members' pockets and sabotaging the best interests of the entire enterprise - as construed by the ownership or, on its behalf, the management.
But much of the movement of organised labour - call it unionism, if you will - in the first instance arose out of protecting the interests of its members, and while remuneration was always a part of this, perhaps the higher priority was the health and safety of the workforce.
Again, while not wishing to pre-empt the report of the commission, it seems to me that what was missing, and what might have turned the parade of admonishing battlers into heroic lifesavers, were the formal structures, and offices, that in days gone by had as their primary concern precisely that wellbeing. They might have existed at Pike, but in the post-industrial age their mana and pull was much reduced; so, too, the reach of a mines safety inspectorate, watered down in size, scope and power over the years.
Time was when the merest whiff of bad odour could shut down the process, whatever that process happened to be. And, yes, of course it was abused from time to time. But take a look at some of the testimony concerning Pike River and tell me that, often times, the boot is on the other foot.
As with most such incidents and tragedies, there is a backstory to this one. And it seems to begin with the very underpinnings of the Pike project: the notion that the Brunner coal seam, out of which vast quantities of coking coal could be extracted, was highly unlikely to produce the dangerous levels of methane that might have been expected of comparable operations.
Evidently, some locals thought differently. Quite possibly some held their counsel because, after all, an enduring mining operation at Pike River meant jobs in an area where employment possibilities were few and far between.
Certainly, when he appeared at the inquiry a week or two ago, Japanese mining consultant Masaoki Nishioka went so far as to suggest it was quite possibly one of the gassiest mines in the world. Much of his testimony and the rebutting cross-examination centred on to what extent he relayed his concerns to mine management. He insists he did and when his three-month contract was up, he left, apparently fearing there would ultimately be an explosion at the mine.
He was not the only one. This week, experienced English coalminer Albert Houlden - he had worked in mines for 37 years - claims he, too, left the mine because he feared there would be an explosion. His testimony echoes that of others: the miners were often inexperienced; other contractors working underground had little training and even less supervision; ventilation was poor; the mine was gassy.
After about nine months working at the mine he resigned and took up the offer of a job in Papua New Guinea.
"There was one day when I came home and said to my wife, 'I'm taking that job I've been offered because that mine [Pike] is going to go'."
There appear to have been other factors at work - including the commercial pressures of meeting production quotas.
In July 2010, Pike management, desperate to up the mine's game, reportedly offered workers a $10,000 bonus if a new hydraulic system was functioning within a couple of months, and if certain coal production quotas were met.
That is one sweet cherry of a bonus, and it would take a strong individual to turn it down. Which is precisely where, once upon a time, the dastardly union rep would have stepped in.
- Simon Cunliffe is deputy editor (news) at the Otago Daily Times. In the late 1970s he spent several months on an Australian mining operation.


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Several home owners / pool members asked if we could keep the pool open past Labor Day. The Board of Directors checked into the possibility with the pool management company, reviewed recent pool usage statistics and looked carefully at the weather forecast for the next 3 weeks of September. The board decided that the very high additional operation and staff costs for 2 weeks, recent attendance levels and the forecast of cooler weather in the next two weeks would not be conducive to keeping the pool open longer, outside of our normal pool management contract.
However, the weather looks great for Monday, Labor Day and we will be expanding the pool hours of operation from 4pm-7pm to new hours of 11am until 8pm on Monday – Labor Day. In addition, we would like to invite new and existing Windermere home owners who are not currently pool members to join us Monday for a free day.
- The pool will be open Monday September 7th with expanded hours of 11am until 8pm (last day of the pool season)
- Windermere residents who are not pool members are invited to enjoy the pool as a free day. (You must be a Windermere resident and will required to sign in and agree to the pool rules. Residents only - outside guests are not allowed. )
- Normal pool rules apply including all COVID-19 policies. Use the HOA web site to check the current pool occupancy level.
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The Fort Wayne TinCaps, an San Diego Padres High-A affiliate, have released their 2022 schedule from Major League Baseball.
Minor League Baseball today announced it is offering a free preview of MiLB.TV to all fans during the delay of the 2020 season.
Osvaldo Hernandez of the TinCaps is the Midwest League's 2018 Left-Handed Pitcher of the Year and Fort Wayne's Travis Radke is the Midwest League's 2018 Left-Handed Reliever of the Year.
After a pair of one-run wins to start the series, the TinCaps dropped their finale against the Peoria Chiefs, 11-1, on Thursday night at Parkview Field.
For the second time in three days, the South Bend Cubs walked off on Fort Wayne with a 7-6 win in 10 innings at Four Winds Field.
TinCaps outfielder Nick Torres was named to the Midwest League's 2015 Post Season All-Star Roster on Monday, the league announced.
The first-place TinCaps topped the Peoria Chiefs, 4-2, on Sunday night at Dozer Park.
The first-place TinCaps beat the Peoria Chiefs, 6-4, on Saturday night at Dozer Park.
For only the second time in their last 10 games, the first-place TinCaps lost on Friday night at Peoria, 2-0, at Dozer Park.
The TinCaps took the rubber match of their three-game series against the Burlington Bees, 5-4, at Community Field on Thursday night.
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Neuroscientists at George Mason University have found that singing show tunes may help dementia and Alzheimers patients to regain some cognitive skills!
“Before, everyone in the moderate and severe dementia groups had similar cognitive test results respective to their counterparts. After the sessions, those that sang along had more improved scores on both cognitive tasks compared to participants that just listened.”
“The researchers also looked at brain scans of the subjects as they sang or listened to show tunes. The listeners had more activity in the temporal lobe on the right side of the brain, while watching someone else instruct lit up the visual areas. Singing and speaking activated the left side of the brain more.”
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Ceres-La Salle FC staged an epic second half comeback beating Balestier Khalsa 2-1 in the third place match of the 2016 RHB Singapore Cup.
Balestier opened the scoring in the Jalan Besar with an early strike from Niko Tokic in the 4th minute. The Busmen came back in the second half after Manny Ott pounced on a rebound to level the match in the 64th. Stephan Schröck secured the lead five minutes after with a shot from distance to make it 2-1.
The third place finish is the highest finish for a Filipino club in the Singaporean tournament. The club also repeated their feat against Balestier whom they beat in a pre-season match early this year. The Busmen placed second in both domestic league and cup competitions and reached the round of sixteen in the AFC Cup.


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On January 11th, fans took to Twitter to deliver birthday wishes to WINNER’s Seunghoon.
Fans used #HappySeunghoonDay to wish the star a happy birthday, even trending the tag worldwide on the popular social media site.
In addition, the group’s agency also shared a bright graphic for Seunghoon. He is pictured wearing a casual striped t-shirt with jeans as he poses in the kitchen. The warm lighting and cozy atmosphere give the image a homey, friendly feeling.
Meanwhile, although Seunghoon was recently reported to be injured and will not attend the Beijing WWIC 2015, the group will continue with the fan meet with further stops in Shanghai and Shenzhen on January 17th and 24th.
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Digital transformation involves utilizing digital technologies to revamp a process to turn out to be more efficient or effective. The idea is to use technology not only to duplicate an existing service in a digital form, yet to use technology to change that service into something significantly better.
Digital transformation can include a wide range of different technologies yet the hottest topics right now are the Internet of Things, big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence.
But it’s not just about the technology: changing business procedures and corporate culture are similarly as essential to the success of these initiatives. Digital transformation projects are frequently away for large and established organizations to compete with nimbler, digital-only rivals. These projects in general, be large in scope and desire, however, are not without risks.
While digital transformation is one of the most usually utilized– and over-utilized– phrases in the IT industry, definitions vary. What everyone can agree on is that, beneath the promotion, the fluff, and the perplexity, digital transformation includes quite significant changes to business culture.
How important is a digital transformation?
The tech research company expects that spending to almost double between now and 2021 when the total amount spent on digitalization globally will exceed $2.1 trillion.
In a survey of 460 execs by IT expert Gartner, 62% said they had a management initiative or transformation program to make their business progressively digital. Simply 54% said that their digital business objective is transformational, while 46% said the objective of the initiative is optimization.
According to a recent survey conducted by Grant Thornton, more than two-thirds (69%) of CFOs and senior financial executives are planning to increase their investment in technologies that speed business change, and four in ten said they plan an increase of more than 10 percent in the next 12 months. Just under half said their companies’ digital-transformation investments are meant to help them overtake their competition through differentiation.
Executives accept that level of investment is as of now leaving a mark. 46% think half of their revenue will be affected by digital by 2020, as per analyst Forrester. The World Economic Forum suggests the value of digital transformation for both society and industry could reach $100 trillion by 2025.
Why does digital transformation matter?
Such disillusionment might suggest there is little to be gained by focusing on digital transformation. But beneath the buzzwords there lies a crucial concept: digitalization is helping smart entrepreneurs and pioneering executives to change the established economic order — and the effects are everywhere.
From Amazon’s influence over retailing to Facebook’s impact on publishing, traditional firms and sectors are being challenged by nimble, digitally-savvy operators. Yet, while almost three-quarters of business leaders are aware their organization is under threat from disruption, many are not taking the risk of change seriously.
Only half of the enterprises see startups as a serious threat, according to research from Dell EMC, and almost one in ten do not believe they have any challengers in their market. Seven percent of executives say they are not concerned about the threat of digital disruption whatsoever. In these cases, a serious wake-up call is required.
What does digital transformation look like?
Technologies from big data to the cloud and from the IoT to AI are helping entrepreneurs to develop new business models and disrupt the established way of running operations.
“These technologies are not just the latest buzzwords,” confirms Akash Khurana, CIO, and CDO at engineering company McDermott International. “We see tangible value coming from these technologies in terms of improving product optimization, increasing production output, and tacking operational efficiency challenges.”
So, call it what you want, but digital transformation is very much a thing — and it is something that many executives in traditional firms are still struggling to get their heads around. While startups thrive though their new ways of working, their innovative use of data, and their integrated approach to advanced technologies, too many traditional organizations — both in the private and public sectors — are still stuck in legacy mode.
What is included in a digital transformation project?
A genuine digital transformation project involves fundamentally rethinking business models and processes, rather than tinkering with or enhancing traditional methods. Digitalization isn’t, as is generally suggested, simply the implementation of more technology services and systems. Digital transformation should create something new: that might be an improvement to customer experience (for example by allowing customer self-service), streamlining the supply chain, or using insights from data to offer new products.
This creative requirement remains an intense question for business pioneers. Most organizations don’t have a noteworthy issue producing new ideas, yet so many firms fail when it comes to executing fresh business models or transforming good ideas into organizational objectives, as per Cass Business School.
This gap between innovation and execution clarifies why digitalization and disturbance are regularly observed as the preserve of nimble startups. But it doesn’t have to be this way — there are great examples of digital transformation in the enterprise sector, too.
Similarly, as digital transformation continually changes, so do its constituent components. At this moment, most business transformation activities include the innovative use of data, regardless of whether that include IoT, machine learning or analytics. In many ways, as digital transformation has evolved it has turned out to be more about data-led change than anything else.
This progress can be found in executive job titles, too. As the utilization of the chief digital officer epithet has waned in recent years, so chief data officers have turned out be more common.
The form of digital transformation keeps on evolving, meaning the process of defining digitalization stays unpredictable and contested. The one thing we can be sure of is that transformation — in whatever form it takes — is setting down deep roots, which means CIOs and the rest of the senior team must form a sustainable business methodology.


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The potential disruption planned by the climate camp campaign group to the reasonable expectation of air travellers using Heathrow airport this week could prove to be an abuse of the democratic right to protest (Police to use terror laws on Heathrow climate protesters, August 11). If environmental campaigners attempt to force their views on those who want to travel by air, they will be acting against the principles of the civilised society they claim to embrace.
Furthermore, the possible diversion of vast police and security resources away from the genuine threat of terrorist activity could pose a potential risk to the lives of innocent people and could thus border on criminal irresponsibility.
The climate camp campaign promotes "freedom of expression" yet they seem to disregard the equally important principle of freedom of choice. Europe's turbulent history demonstrates time and again that society rarely gains long-term benefits from fanaticism.
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Police say the presence of large numbers of protesters at or near Heathrow will reduce their ability to counter terrorist threats. By this perverse logic, any protest can be harassed and criminalised for supposedly diverting police attention.
In reality the arbitrary use of "anti-terror" powers will be the real diversion - from any terrorist threats and from the climate-change issue. Police can now impose stop and search and lengthy detention without any grounds to suspect that someone is involved in violent activities. These powers effectively authorise punishment without trial.
The current offensive around Heathrow clearly demonstrates the political agenda that always drove "anti-terror" powers, which are unnecessary to protect us from violent attacks. Mockery and defiance are needed to resist this further step towards a police state.
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That climate change will cause the deaths of millions is almost a truism. If it's justifiable for the police to arrest a student seeking to draw attention to this fact for "conspiring to cause a public nuisance", when can we expect the directors of, for instance, BAA and BP to be arrested and charged with conspiring to commit crimes against humanity?
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Multifunctional systems in vehicles: a usability evaluation
2005 (English)In: Proceedings of CybErg 2005: The Fourth International Cyberspace Conference on Ergonomics, International Ergonomics Association , 2005, 768-775 p.Conference paper (Refereed)
Car Human-Machine Interaction (HMI) is becoming increasingly complex as the extension of functionality necessitates new interface concepts. Various multifunctional systems operated by haptic rotary switches, touch screen, and voice control have been developed. A usability study of multifunctional systems available on the market was carried out to evaluate and compare different manual interaction principles. The systems used in the study were the BMW iDrive and the Audi MMI, both operated by a rotary switch, and the Jaguar touch screen interface. Firstly, a usability test was conducted where two naive and two trained participants tested each system during driving. Ten tasks, comprising CD, radio and navigation were solved by the participants. Secondly, six evaluators carried out a usability inspection, heuristic evaluation, to find possible problems in the systems. The results from the usability test indicated that the naive users interacted more rapidly with the touch screen interface. Trained users, on the other hand, had more even results over the systems. The problems found in the usability inspection gave explanations to some of the longer task times in the usability test.
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International Ergonomics Association , 2005. 768-775 p.
Research subject Engineering Psychology
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International Cyberspace Conference on Ergonomics : 15/09/2005 - 15/10/2005
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Rich Cimini of ESPN.com, Michael Cohen of The Athletic, Scott Fowler of the Charlotte Observer, Ian O’Connor of ESPN.com, Ben Shpigel of the New York Times and Seth Wickersham of ESPN The Magazine all won first place honors in their respective categories in the Professional Football Writers of America’s 2019 Dick Connor Writing Awards.
The Connor Awards encompass beat reporting, columns, features, enterprise news/features, breaking news and game stories written by PFWA members from post-Super Bowl LII in Minneapolis through Super Bowl LIII in Atlanta.
The awards are named for Connor, the ninth PFWA president (1980-81) and the organization’s 1991 Dick McCann Award recipient, who worked for the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News. Connor was inducted into the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame in 1992 and was a 22-time Colorado Sports Writer of the Year honoree.
Beginning this year, the Connor Award categories were named for some of the renowned pro football writers who chronicled the NFL over the league’s first 100 seasons: the Bob Oates Beat Reporting Award, named in honor of the Los Angeles Times reporter and the PFWA’s 1974 Dick McCann Award winner, the Dave Anderson Column Writing Award, named after the New York Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and the 1998 McCann Award honoree, the Bryan Burwell Feature Writing Award, named in honor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and New York Daily News writer and columnist, the Lesley Visser Enterprise News/Features Award, named after the pioneering football writer who became the NFL’s first female beat reporter in 1976 at the Boston Globe and who later worked for CBS, the Will McDonough Breaking News Award, named after the Boston Globe reporter and columnist who went on to a decorated career in TV journalism and who received the McCann Award in 1990 and the Dave Goldberg Game Story Award, named after the 41-year Associated Press reporter and 2015 McCann Award honoree.
The 2019 Dick Connor Writing Awards were judged by Malcolm Moran, the director of the Sports Capital Journalism Program at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, who has directed sports journalism programs for more than a decade after a career as an award-winning reporter and columnist at the New York Times, USA TODAY and other publications.
First place in the Oates Beat Reporting category went to Cimini. “The game story, feature, breaking news and wild card submissions each reflected a rare understanding of a Jets franchise that invented new forms of futility for much of the time since its Super Bowl triumph a half century ago,” Moran commented. “The game story assigned blame to multiple deserving targets without becoming harsh or unfair. The feature presented a fun, creative way to connect with Super Bowl III: a detailed description of the journeys of the championship rings.”
O’Connor took first place in the Anderson Columns category for “The NFL’s ‘willful ignorance,’ and how it botched the Kareem Hunt case”. According to Moran, “With careful reporting and research, the column establishes how ‘preposterous’ it was that the NFL could not produce more about video evidence of Hunt’s actions and includes the valuable perspective of Kathy Redmond, founder of the National Coalition Against Violent Athletes.”
Wickersham won first place honors in the Burwell Feature Writing category for “And Now For His Next Act…”. Moran said, “A profile of Odell Beckham Jr. offers rich details beyond the OBJ persona and the impact of his celebrity status by connecting him with his old school, Isidore Newman School in New Orleans, and his football camp in New Jersey.”
Fowler was first with “The Carruth Project” in the Visser Enterprise News/Features contest. “The ‘Carruth Project,’ in its seven chilling parts, deconstructs what was called ‘one of the most notorious crimes in Charlotte history,’ which sent former Carolina Panther Rae Carruth to prison for 19 years for conspiring to murder his pregnant girlfriend, said Moran. “Years of patience and persistence created a surprising and memorable conclusion.”
Cohen, for “Sources: Tragic death of former teammate keeps Cole Madison away from Packers”, took first prize in the McDonough Breaking News category. “The absence of Madison, an offensive lineman, is linked to his reaction to the suicide of former teammate Tyler Hilinski,” said Moran.
Shpigel took first with “Chiefs Finally End a Playoff Drought at Home, Burying the Colts” in the Goldberg Game Story category. “A long-awaited home victory describes the ‘grand playoff unveiling’ of Patrick Mahomes and the powerful emotional significance for the family of late founder and owner Lamar Hunt,” Moran said.
Cohen earned the most individual awards with three – two with The Athletic and one with Sports Illustrated. In addition to his first-place award in Breaking News, he also earned third-place honors in both the Enterprise News/Features and Game Story contests. Fowler and Rich Campbell of the Chicago Tribune each earned a pair of awards. In all, 15 different PFWA members received a first-, second- or third-place award.
Prizes in the beat reporting contest are $500 for first place, $250 for second and $125 for third. In the remaining categories, first place receives $250, second place earns $150 and third place has a $75 award.
The full list of the 2019 winners follows:
2019 DICK CONNOR WRITING AWARDS
Bob Oates Beat Reporting
1. Rich Cimini, ESPN.com
2. Rob Demovsky, ESPN.com
3. Chad Graff, The Athletic
Dave Anderson Column Writing
1. Ian O’Connor, ESPN.com: “The NFL’s ‘willful ignorance,’ and how it botched the Kareem Hunt case”
2. Greg Bishop, Sports Illustrated: “’The Rams Are Our People:’ How L.A.’s Team Lifted the Community After a Week of Tragedy”
3. Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer: “What’s 13 feet tall, tarnished, fading? Jerry Richardson’s legacy and hopefully this”
Bryan Burwell Feature Writing
1. Seth Wickersham, ESPN The Magazine: “And Now For His Next Act…”
2. Dan Pompei, Bleacher Report: “Matt Millen ‘At Peace’: Haters Never Got to Him, and Failing Health Won’t Either”
3. Tyler Dunne, Bleacher Report: “’I Can’t Be Stopped’: Stedman Bailey Opens Up on Shooting, NFL Comeback Attempt”
Lesley Visser Enterprise News/Features
1. Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer: “The Carruth Project”
2. Jenny Vrentas, MMQB.com: “The NFL and Social Justice: This Is What Players and Teams Are Doing in Their Communities”
3. Michael Cohen, Sports Illustrated: “The Violent Life of Eric Naposki”
Will McDonough Breaking News
1. Michael Cohen, The Athletic: “Sources: Tragic death of former teammate keeps Cole Madison away from Packers”
2. Rich Campbell, Chicago Tribune: “Roquan Smith’s holdout centers on new NFL helmet-contact rule”
3. Chris Tomasson, St. Paul Pioneer Press: “Vikings legend Alan Page will put politics aside, accept Presidential Medal of Freedom”
Dave Goldberg Game Story
1. Ben Shpigel, New York Times: “Chiefs Finally End a Playoff Drought at Home, Burying the Colts”
2. Rich Campbell, Chicago Tribune: “Bears defense flexes on high-flying Rams during a dominant 15-6 victory”
3. Michael Cohen, The Athletic: “Another case of costly mistakes and missed opportunities for the Packers”
ABOUT THE PFWA: In its 56th season in 2019, the Professional Football Writers of America (PFWA) is the official voice of pro football writers, promoting and fighting for access to NFL personnel to best serve the public. The PFWA is made up of accredited writers who cover the NFL and the 32 teams daily. Bob Glauber, the national football columnist for Newsday, is the organization’s president for the 2018-20 seasons. The Athletic’s Lindsay Jones is the PFWA’s first vice-president, The Athletic’s Dan Pompei is the PFWA’s second vice-president and The Athletic’s Mike Sando is the PFWA secretary-treasurer. At-large members include ESPN.com’s Jeff Legwold, ProFootballtalk.com’s Charean Williams, Sports Illustrated’s Jenny Vrentas and USA Today’sMike Jones. Follow the PFWA at ProFootballWriters.org and on Twitter at @PFWAwriters.

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Local Health systems are building to better serve the Dayton region.
By Tracy Staley
At Dayton Children’s Hospital, they listened to the kids.
As the hospital considered the design of its $153 million patient tower, architects and hospital leaders called on a group of patients and families to see what they thought the new structure should look like, both inside and out. (Color changing paint made the list, naturally.)
They invited them for a test run of full-scale models of the rooms, constructed at nearby TechTown in downtown Dayton. Nurses and doctors joined them to see how the design would work for them, too.
“We made decisions about spaces from family and kids input that I’m not sure we would have done if we had just relied on the clinicians and architects,” says Cindy Burger, vice president of patient experience who is overseeing the project.
Set to open in 2017, Children’s patient tower is one of the largest, both in cost and scale, health care construction projects underway in the Dayton region. It’s far from the only one, however, as local hospital networks invest in facilities on both their inpatient campuses and beyond. Both Premier Health Partners and Kettering Health Network have projects opening or in the works.
The dirt continues to move for many reasons: rehabbing or replacing aging facilities, a pursuit of private rooms, increase in outpatient procedures, and a push to bring services closer to home for as many people as possible through stand-alone emergency departments and testing centers.
Even as Dayton’s economy has ebbed and flowed, the local health care industry has been a stalwart of jobs and dollars into region. The 26 local hospitals have a combined $6.7 billion economic impact, according to the Greater Dayton Area Hospital Association. In recent years, Kettering Health Network opened a brand new hospital, the $135 million Raj and Indu Soin Medical Center opened in Beavercreek, and Premier launched and expanded Miami Valley South in Centerville. While those systems are not investing in new facilities at that magnitude in the next year, they are continuing to build or renovate a flurry of other projects, as well as invest significant dollars into informational technology.
Changing Hospital Campuses
At the helm of Dayton Children’s new tower is Burger. Burger, vice president for patient experience, is also a registered nurse. Her years working directly with patients, families and clinicians make her acutely aware of patient safety and satisfaction. She knows that kids coming to a hospital are already scared, and their parents are, too. That makes the design of a building and modern capabilities even more critical. The new tower is family friendly and medically sophisticated: a rooftop garden and play area, color-changing exterior paint that goes from blue to green, and flight-themed floors to tie into Dayton’s history of innovation. Smart TVs allow patients to do homework online or stream movies and games. Rooms will be bigger to accommodate families, whose presence is critical in pediatric care.
The neonatal intensive care unit will have all private rooms with breast pumps and more space for parents to rest and be with their babies. Pediatric cancer patients will find their inpatient and outpatient services combined in one location, along with a satellite pharmacy.
The plans for the new tower have helped draw in new pediatric specialists. The hospital has hired more than two-dozen specialists in recent months, and expects that to grow as the new tower opens.
She’s proud that 90 percent of the contractors are local, an effort she says construction management company Danis Construction has supported.
“The community is very supportive of us so in turn we are want to be supportive of the community—and use local contractors as much as possible,” Burger says.
From the inpatient standpoint, hospitals are looking to convert semi-private rooms to private rooms. Kettering, Children’s and Premier have invested in private rooms in their various hospitals.
Kettering has also called on its patients for advice in constructing a $50 million cancer care center on its main hospital campus in Kettering. The center will consolidate cancer care into one location and is being designed to create more peaceful, private settings for chemotherapy and other treatments. It should open in late 2016.
Outpatient Brings Emergency Rooms, Surgeries Close to Home
A trip to the emergency room or for an outpatient surgery is getting shorter. Hospitals are moving to consumer-oriented care, and having locations within various communities is key to that strategy.
Children’s announced a $47.5 million expansion of its Springboro Outpatient Care Center in July. The expansion, set to roll out in stages over the next two years, will include a 16-room emergency department, medical office building and outpatient surgery center with four operating rooms.
Kettering Health Network has opened free-standing emergency departments in Franklin and Preble County. Premier Health Partners in November opened a $28 million expansion to its Good Samaritan North Health Center in Englewood, which includes a 22-bed emergency department. Premier is also opening $11 million facility in Mason that includes an emergency department, and one in Jamestown.
The training of board certified emergency doctors gives the networks confidence to open farther-flung emergency departments, says Richard Haas, senior vice president of Kettering Health Network. For Children’s, the Springboro emergency room is a response to a growing pediatric population in the southern suburbs.
“The quicker someone gets to an emergency department the more likely their life will be spared,” Haas says.
A shift to consumer-centric care is triggering the emergency departments and outpatient centers, but it is also propelling the hospitals to invest heavily in information technology, says Craig Self, chief strategy officer at Premier. Self says Premier will spend more on IT than facilities in coming years. They are also finding ways to partner with existing primary care physicians to extend their reach and to invest in mobile technology vans for services such as mammography.
Bringing health care close to home is starting to mean not leaving home for those who like electronic visits. As more patients are looking for ways to communicate with their doctors via Skype or through chat, the hospitals are answering that demand, Self says. “The future capital won’t be in bricks and mortar, but IT,” he says.


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If she dont react in this way, would it actually depend?
Quite easily, precisely as it seems. Just like the desire of other folks does not necessarily hit factors. While outside validation — others expressing interest or desire — feels good, it’s not a cure. Really, at the best, a short-term palliative and the other that tends to make matter bad eventually as soon as there’s simply no interior foundation to create on. As soon as that feelings dwindles — and it usually will — the emptiness it will leave happens to be cooler and emptier than before. Incels bring put in new-car levels of money on surgical treatment, to discover that do not only did this maybe not deal with every little thing, they didn’t hit nothing. The challenge never was their looks, it was interior. Strictly external treatments will not treat an interior condition.
At minimum, not like that.
An element of the reason why experience undesired is very difficult move is during no small-part as the people who think they the clearly dont think they’re worthy of getting recommended. It’s round reason at the excellent; they’re certainly not worth need due to the fact no one wishes these people, and also the fact that no one wishes them demonstrates that they’re perhaps not worthy of getting wanted. Learning how to become planned ways prepared to believe you are attractive. Creating that look through this site means that you ought to be able to split that group of reasoning.
To achieve, you’ll have to remove the sense of are desirable through the thoughts of people. Until you create, until such time you truly appreciate your self and have faith in your own worth independently on the opinions of others, you can’t ever completely believe that others want your. There’ll always be an element that will never accept it as true and/or understand it.
“I continue to try to inform y’all this…”
That is certainly why the 1st step towards becoming required is to deal with your self that a person are already. On the list of typical post within the men who feeling unwelcome and unwanted is the fact that they respond appropriately, spending tiny focus to his or her project, dressing or maybe cleanliness. There’s an obstruction to installing the time and effort. Most likely, exactly why make the effort in case you currently accept it’s a fruitless effort? A hog dressed up in a suit continues to be a crashing boar…
But that really sensation is strictly reasons to. This really is a problem that comes up with many of the visitors we implement: believe that that dressing fashionably can be something that they need to work-up to. One thing they must obtain. They aren’t the one who can have on those fantastic attire or posses that fantastic style. They’d get noted up as an imposter whenever they actually experimented with.
Creating that frame of mind is really what keeps them from have ever being your face, however. When you see things such as preferences or great clothes as things you’ll have to make or build to, there’ll always be top reasons one can’t make them nevertheless. You’re not just from inside the best profile, a person aren’t self-assured enough, cool sufficient. You really haven’t “earned” the authority to feel the person who could wear them. And with that attitude… you never will.
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And indeed, all of this issues, in case you dont healthy limiting and conventional meanings of “physical good looks”. Being extensively attractive isn’t the power that lots of parents believe it is; what’s widely used does not last as long as what’s craved, nor is it as powerful. Like the mentioning go: simply 1000 consumers actually ever obtained the most important Velvet Underground record, but every one of these begin a band. You will find an excuse exactly why “attractive” and “desirable” aren’t exactly like “good appearance” — conventional appeal could help, nonetheless it’s not just the end-all/be-all. It’s not even an important advantage.

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Capitol Quilt Show
Let’s put our personal politics aside and see if we can all agree on this: The Colorado Statehouse is one of the most majestic settings ever for a quilt show.
Two hundred and fifty fabric masterpieces will be unfurled between its rose onyx pillars from the first, second and third floors above the stately rotunda, a free exhibit for anyone who enters this white granite bastion of government on Colfax Avenue in downtown Denver.
The Capitol Quilt Show is a biennial event opening July 29 and running through Oct. 10. Sponsored by the Colorado Quilting Council, it highlights antique quilts, new quilts and quilts made by groups.
The entries are not judged, and all ages and levels of quilting abilities are invited to participate. The main requirement is that owners of the quilts be Colorado residents.
This year, the council added another venue to the Capitol Quilt Show. A second exhibit of 42 more quilts will run concurrently in the nearby Denver Central Library’s Reading Room on the fifth floor. It, too, is free and open to the public.
In a demonstration of the quilt’s commonality with the written word, quilt novelist Marie Bostwick will speak at a 2 p.m. opening reception at the library Aug. 4. She will then autograph copies of her latest book, “Between Heaven and Texas.”
Bostwick, who lives in rural Thomaston, Conn., will be coming to Denver after delivering the keynote address at Quilt Nebraska, Thursday through July 28, in Seward. Her topic is “When the Going Gets Tough the Tough Turn to Quilting.”
Combining her lifelong love of quilting and themes that are relevant to modern women, this writer has developed a following with her Cobbled Court Quilt series, the first of which was published in 2008.
Her novel, “Between Heaven and Texas,” is a prequel to the series and focuses on a recurring character, Mary Dell Templeton. The book delves into Templeton’s history and her struggles with marriage, infertility and motherhood. While she tries to define herself as a woman, entrepreneur and artist, a whole lot of quilting goes on in the story as well.
Between writing fiction and traveling to speaking engagements, such as national festivals in Paducah, Ky., and Houston, Bostwick still finds time to piece and quilt on her sewing machine.
When asked about her quilt style preferences, Bostwick says she dabbles in “just about everything,” but spends more of her time on traditional patterns. Most recently, she completed a paper-pieced wedding quilt for her eldest son and daughter-in-law.
“I finished it just in time for their third anniversary but before the birth of their first child so, in my book, that’s pretty much on time,” Bostwick jokes.
I know others of us can empathize with that sort of timeline.
Also, another quilt she made is to be featured in the fall issue of Easy Quilts magazine, which should be available sometime in the coming week, she’s been told.
Whether you are a quilter or a reader, or perhaps both, you’ll find fabric eye candy and paper page-turners at the Capitol Quilt Show and the Denver Central Library. How can we resist?
Email Sherida.Warner@ GJSentinel.com.

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Jailed former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was indicted on Monday for allegedly leaking classified documents, a charge set to keep him in custody in the countdown to national elections due early next year.
Since being ousted in 2022, Khan has been tangled in a slew of legal cases he says are designed to stop him from contesting polls in January, while his party has faced a massive crackdown.
A spokesman for Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party said he was charged under the colonial-era Official Secrets Act in a trial “conducted within the court premises with no access to public or media”.
The case relates to a diplomatic cable the 71-year-old allegedly touted as proof of a “conspiracy” behind the no-confidence vote which turfed him out of office last April.
“We are going to challenge it,” Khan’s lawyer Umar Khan Niazi told reporters outside the jail where the special court was convened.
Khan’s lawyers say the crime he has been charged with carries a possible 14-year prison term, and in the most extreme circumstances, the death penalty.
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Pakistan’s supreme court gave rare respite to PTI on Monday by ordering that more than 100 supporters accused of rioting in May should not be prosecuted in military tribunals as planned.
“Under the Supreme Court verdict all the cases, which were being tried in the military courts, cannot be proceeded. They could only be held in the civilian courts,” PTI lawyer Aitzaz Ahsan told reporters.
“Today’s verdict is highly significant and it will help strengthen the constitution, law, and the civilian institutions of the country.”
The violence erupted after Khan was briefly arrested, with unprecedented anger aimed at the military. He was later convicted of graft in August and sentenced to three years in prison.
That sentence was overturned but he was kept in custody on the far more serious charge of sharing state documents he alleged proved how the army conspired with US diplomats to end his premiership.
The United States and Pakistan’s military have denied the claim.
“PTI has been bled to death. The current army chief doesn’t want it around, if it is around, it’s minus Imran Khan,” political analyst Ayesha Siddiqa told AFP.
“There is an entire movement out there by the establishment to eliminate him politically, at least for now,” she said.
The vice-chairman of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, a former foreign minister, was also indicted over the same case.
- Khan tangled up –
Former cricketing superstar Khan enjoys enormous support in Pakistan but his street power has been squashed by the crackdown, which has seen thousands detained.
Almost the entire senior party leadership were forced underground, with many abandoning PTI.
On Sunday, PTI said about 80 members were rounded up at a convention in Lahore that they reportedly did not have permission for.
Pakistan’s military has directly ruled the country for roughly half of its 76-year history, and continues to exercise enormous power.
The nation is currently led by an interim government, with polls already pushed back several months.
Khan’s primary opponent, three-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif, returned to Pakistan on Saturday, ending four years of self-imposed exile.
Sharif was jailed for graft and barred from contesting the 2018 elections — in which Khan swept to power — but he left mid-way through his sentence to receive medical care in the United Kingdom, ignoring court orders to return.
Prior to his comeback, a court granted Sharif protective bail in what analysts said was likely a backroom deal arranged by the army establishment.
The fortunes of Pakistan’s leaders rise and fall on their relationship with the military and Pakistan’s courts are often used to tie up lawmakers in lengthy proceedings that rights monitors criticize for stifling dissent.
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Three years after his last release, American Christian musician, Phil Wickham has released his eighth studio album, Hymn of Heaven.
Launched on 25 June, the album includes Wickham’s multi-week number one song, Battle Belongs, which has already surpassed 12 million streams on Spotify.
“Hymn of Heaven is full of praise and thankfulness, just lifting up the name of Jesus and speaking what we really know the reality is even though we don’t see it. All I want to do is facilitate moments where people can encounter the presence of God,” Phil said.
Wickham wrote the album with multiple other musicians including Chris Davenport (Hillsong) and Kalley Heiligenthal (Bethel).
“I just want to write songs that I’d want to sing with my church in a way that musically lights my heart up, and I think I’ve done that better on this record than I ever have before,” Wickham concluded.
For more information, visit philwickham.com


The F2’s CS-23 certification opens the door to U.S. FAR Part 23, Level 1 certification under newly reformed internationally standardized guidelines. This will allow the airplane to fly under instrument flight rules—and eventually, in instrument meteorological conditions. This would greatly enhance the F2’s value as a trainer.
The F2’s modern features include a wide, comfortable cabin; stall- and spin-resistant flight characteristics; AmSafe panel-mounted airbags; and Garmin’s ESP (electronic stability and envelope protection). Other safety features include an airframe ballistic emergency parachute and a reinforced passenger compartment. All these safety measures are part of what Flight Design calls its “Vision Zero” concept aimed at implementing all available safety technologies. The instrument panel features Garmin’s G3X avionics suite, and power is from a fuel-injected 100-horsepower Rotax 912iS. A two-axis autopilot is also standard, as are improved main-gear struts and nosewheel linkage.
The price of the IFR-certified version of the F2 is currently set at $279,000; the day/night VFR version should be $239,000.
The F2 also foreshadows two other new designs: the electrically powered F2e and the four-seat F4. These are planned for entry into service in 2022.
“We couldn’t be happier to see this important step for the F2 program, which will ultimately lead to the F4 four-seat version and the all-electric F2e,” said Matthias Betsch, head of Flight Design’s design organization and creator of the F series.
“We are very pleased to see the F2 EASA CS-23 certified,” said Flight Design General Aviation CEO Daniel Guenther. “This is an important milestone for our business and a tribute to the hard work by the F2 design team.”
The F-series program was featured in the January issue of AOPA Pilot.


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