Former Oregon basketball star Chris Duarte is beginning to hit the team workout circuit with just under a month remaining until the 2021 NBA draft.
While evaluating which teams are working out certain players is not a foolproof way to determine a player’s projected draft spot, it does help get a sense of what teams may or may not be thinking come draft time.
For Duarte, who has primarily been mocked as a mid-to-late first round pick, his first two workouts indicate he is getting some attention from team’s picking higher than that.
A tweet from Sports Illustrated’s Rod Boone indicated Duarte’s first team workout was in Charlotte with the Hornets, and he is headed out to San Antonio to workout with the Spurs next.
Oregon's Chris Duarte said he thinks he had a good workout with #Hornets today. It was his first one and he now has a better idea what to expect. Asked him where he's headed next and he said he has a workout scheduled with the Spurs.
— Rod Boone (@rodboone) July 3, 2021
The Hornets hold the 11th overall pick in the upcoming draft, while the Spurs pick one spot later at No. 12.
Again, this doesn’t necessarily mean Duarte is going to be a lottery pick, but it is no doubt encouraging that teams picking in that range are going out of their way to see him in person.
Duarte’s age (24) is considered his biggest knock heading into the draft, but his ability to play right away as a three-and-D wing is going to be very enticing for teams who are in win-now mode.
It’s not hard to see how he could fit as a secondary playmaker alongside LaMelo Ball in Charlotte, or as a much-needed three-point specialist for the Spurs – who were lowest in the league three-pointers made last season.


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2012 was cannabis’s biggest year ever and with that naturally came tons of great literature covering every angle of marijuana in the United States
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) January 31, 2013
San Francisco medical marijuana news source Smell the Truth recently named their picks for the best non-fiction literary works related to the marijuana industry in an article titled “Best Buds of 2012”. The list covers books with topics ranging from cookbooks using marijuana, the history of cannabis in America, a tell-all from a music legend, the many health benefits of using the wonder plant and of course cannabis plant porn.
“2012 was cannabis’s biggest year ever and with that naturally came tons of great literature covering every angle of marijuana in the United States,” said David Downs. “Every piece of literature we selected added something special to the ongoing conversation on the topic, some serious, some not at all.”
The list, in no particular order is as follows
1. “Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know” -as told by “the best policy analysts of our time” as quoted from Smell the Truth. This is a guide for everyone to be armed with the facts about what to expect in these changing times.
2. “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die: Musings from the Road” by legend Willie Nelson is “A tour diary from outlaw country music legend Willie Nelson is heavy on jokes, tokes, and wisdom. With a foreword by Kinky Friedman”.
3. “The Official HighTimes Cannabis Cookbook” covers a range of munchie pleasing, sugary confections to more healthy options. Either way, the recipes were given the stamp of approval from High Times editors. Enough said!
4. “Home Grown: Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico’s War on Drugs” by historian Isaac Campos documents the often overlooked Mexican history of marijuana, dating back to the Spanish Inquisition.
5. “Legalized It!” by David Bienenstock is a compilation of his best writing for High Times surrounding exactly how Colorado and Washington made the seemingly impossible possible in 2012.
6. “Marijuana, Gateway to Health: How Cannabis Protects Us from Cancer and Alzheimer’s Disease” by Clint Werner is a summary of his research on the well documented medical clout marijuana holds.
7. “Cannabis Indica Volume 2: The Essential Guide to the World’s Finest Cannabis Strains” edited by S.T. Oner and with an introduction by Mel Thomas, Indica Volume 2 is the ultimate guide to the most exquisite strains of ganga the world has to offer. Along with that vital information are stunning photos of what can best be described as pot pinup models. Indica Volume 2 is published by San Francisco’s own Green Candy Press.
8. “Cannabis Sativa Volume 2: The Essential Guide to the World’s Finest Marijuana Strains” also edited by S.T. Oner and introduced by Mel Thomas, this is a manual for the stronger, more otherworldly species of pot.
9. “Heart of Dankness: Underground Botanists, Outlaw Farmers, and the Race for the Cannabis Cup” chronicles the true story adventures of Los Angeles professor Mark Haskell Smith as he discovers the many elements of growing and celebrating marijuana in America.
10. “Pot Inc.: Inside Medical Marijuana, America’s Most Outlaw Industry” Colorado author Greg Campbell researches what the United States has to gain from legalizing medical marijuana and ending the war on drugs.
11. “Too High to Fail: Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution” by Doug Fine, an investigative comedic journalist who spent a year in Mendicino County on a crusade for marijuana legalization.
12. “Smoke Signals” by California historian Martin A. Lee who tells the stories of the first power players in the marijuana industry in the Golden State.
These are all highly regarded pieces of literature that promise to educate and entertain. Click here for the SF Gate article and for Smell the Truths helpful commentary.
For more information about Smell the Truth or TruMedia, or visit http://blog.sfgate.com/smellthetruth/
About Smell the Truth:
San Francisco Cannabis Information hub Smell the Truth, syndicated for distribution by TruMedia, is a news source committed to exposing the truth within the fast-growing cannabis media space. TruMedia is a leading content provider, aggregator and marketing channel focusing on the “new-age pop culture” demographic, providing advertisers, entrepreneurs, grassroots organizers and innovators access to a targeted network of cannabis users and advocates. TruMedia is based in San Francisco and Los Angeles, but also has offices in Colorado and Washington state.

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We had wanted a dog since we moved out after the divorce, and we moved into our second rental with that in mind. But I think it was my brother who finally sealed the deal.
"I want a dog that doesn't jump," he proclaimed, at 4 years old. "And likes to cuddle, and she'll be named Molly."
"What if it's a boy dog?" I pointed out. I was 11.
He jutted out his little chin and said confidently. "She'll still be named Molly."
The Rescue Organization we visited was run by a woman named Lisa straight out of her home. It was overcrowded and loud, with a dozen happy balls of fur tramping over each other. She said she thought she had the perfect dog for us. I didn't quite know what she meant. I thought all dogs were perfect.
We sat on the floor while she put all the dogs in a back room behind the child-gate. Then she brought her out.
She was a mutt, distinctively part labrador, but her dusty brown coat had white flecks through it-- like a porcupine. She looked at us with big, sad brown eyes, and sniffed us. Her tail lifted in a slight wag, and she trotted over to the door and stared at it, almost as if to say "Take me home, please." And suddenly, I knew what the perfect dog meant.
Lisa told us she was only 2 years old, rescued from a kill-shelter in South Carolina. She had had multiple litters of puppies, but they had all been adopted. My brother and I decided she was ours right there, but we went back to the car alone. My mom said we weren't ready for a dog yet, and we had to think about it. Later, she would tell me that she already knew she was ours, too.
We visited three more times, and each time she seemed happier and happier. The third time, my mom signed the adoption papers.
On December 1st, she picked me up from my best-friend's pool party. At home, there was a plush dog bed and a basket of toys under a hand-drawn Welcome Home sign my brother and I had made. We drove to the shelter with a new leash and collar in hand.
My brother was right, we named her Molly. Somehow, it just fit.

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Vancouver-based PeaceHealth and Catholic Health Initiatives said Wednesday they’ve suspended their discussions about forming a partnership to create a vast new regional health care network in the Pacific Northwest.
PeaceHealth, Clark County’s top private employer, had signed a nonbinding agreement with Colorado-based CHI in mid-August to explore the possibility of a 50-50 venture intended to boost both organizations’ ability to expand and to provide more care to growing populations.
But the two Catholic-affiliated health care giants “were unable to develop an integrated model that would provide the desired benefits and serve the best interests of both organizations,” both nonprofit systems said in a joint news release. “CHI and PeaceHealth will remain actively engaged in exploring other opportunities to work together to strengthen their respective ministries in the Pacific Northwest.”
Jenny Ulum, a PeaceHealth spokeswoman, said PeaceHealth “is still moving forward with our growth strategies, and we’re still open to partnership discussions” with others, including Catholic Health Initiatives.
The two organizations were exploring a deal involving equal control over a total of 16 hospitals in Washington, Oregon and Alaska. The venture would have combined seven Catholic Health Initiatives hospitals in Washington and Oregon with nine PeaceHealth hospitals in Washington, Oregon and Alaska.
The new organization would have had revenues of nearly $4 billion, nearly 26,000 employees and about 950 employed physicians. The two nonprofits have said the new health care system and partnership were aimed at achieving several goals, including increasing efficiencies, cutting costs, delivering better care and broadening their access to capital markets.
The suspension of talks comes amid big changes in health care. Hospital consolidation has become the norm. Federal health care reform is prodding health care providers to coordinate and improve care, and to cut costs. It also will add tens of millions of Americans to the nation’s health-insurance pool.
The proposed partnership between PeaceHealth and CHI had its critics.
They included the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington Foundation. The group is concerned that hospital consolidations among religiously affiliated hospitals, including the partnership proposed by PeaceHealth and CHI, would significantly curtail reproductive and end-of-life services.
Ulum said the decision to suspend negotiations “had nothing to do at all” with the faith-based ethical policies of PeaceHealth and of Catholic Health Initiatives.
Englewood, Colo.-based CHI is bigger than PeaceHealth. It operates in 17 states. Its facilities include 78 hospitals; 40 long-term care, assisted- and residential-living facilities; two community health-services organizations; two accredited nursing colleges; and home health agencies. The organization, with annual revenues of more than $10.7 billion and with about 83,000 employees, ranks as the nation’s second-largest faith-based health system.
PeaceHealth, with facilities in Washington, Oregon and Alaska, operates nine medical centers, four of which are critical access hospitals; a multi-specialty medical group; laboratories; and Columbia United Providers, a Medicaid health plan.
Its annual revenues are about $2.3 billion.
PeaceHealth and Vancouver-based Southwest Washington Medical Center finalized a merger in December 2010 that transformed Southwest into a subsidiary of PeaceHealth and that renamed the hospital PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center.
That merger also brought with it the relocation of PeaceHealth’s corporate headquarters from Bellevue to Columbia Center at Columbia Tech Center in east Vancouver.
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Elie Milky, the Radisson Group’s VP of Business Development for the Middle East, Cyprus, Greece and Pakistan, shares hospitality sector trends
Elie Milky says resorts and serviced apartments have fared better than conventional hotel products during the pandemic
Could you please provide a brief outlook of how the UAE hotel market has changed over the past few quarters, in light of the evolving pandemic situation?
Despite the ongoing challenges, the Middle East thrives with opportunities. The region is a key development area and our ambitions across the region have remained the same. The post-coronavirus landscape may be as good or even better than it was pre-pandemic.
One key opportunity as the tourism and hospitality sectors continue looking to innovation is capitalising on emerging consumer trends to cater to changingneeds and demands. As from an investor’s perspective, also true to the UAE, the recovery is more prominent in certain types of hospitality models across various markets, with resorts and serviced apartments leading the way as we recover from the pandemic.
These two types of hospitality real estate have fared better than the conventional hotel product during the coronavirus era and over the past few quarters as we have seen in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Ras Al Khaimah and Fujairah.
You recent told Construction Week, an Arabian Business sister publication, of the rising interest in serviced apartments. Could you give us any information about which serviced apartment properties have been performing particularly well in 2021?
Examples of properties that performed relatively better than hotels within the same market include the Radisson BLUs in Dubai Marina and in Riyadh’sDiplomatic quarter, to name a few in this region. Not one of our serviced apartments operations lost money or closed for business over the course of the pandemic.
Over the past months we have continued to work towards becoming more relevant to changing owner needs and to remaining one of the best conversion-friendly partners in the industry. Radisson Individuals is our response to a market that is becoming relatively mature and as a conversion solution for unique, independent hotels and serviced apartments looking to benefit from a brand affiliation. Radisson Individuals represents an exceptional opportunity for hotels to enhance their visibility, nurture customer confidence, and access a wider audience through multiple distribution channels and a global sales structure.
You’ve said the Radisson Group aims to double its Middle East portfolio over the next five years. What factors will impact regional hospitality growth over this period?
Our focus remains on adjusting our short- and long-term plans to cope with the rapid changes and allow us to find proactive solutions for our owners and investors. Over the past months we have continued to work towards becoming more relevant to changing owner needs and to remaining one of the best conversion-friendly partners in the industry. Agility and flexibility, while still delivering the profitability needed, are going to be critical for everybodyto succeed. We believe the key is the execution and having the right people in place. We have a very proactive and engaging approach with our partners and investors, and we believe in building long-standing relationships with our owners based on trust and responsibility.
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The Seriousness of Senior Hunger
“Right now, it’s just hard to make ends meet.” Gregory explained while waiting to pick up a box of food from Second Harvest Heartland’s Maplewood facility. “By the time I pay my bills … pay for my medication … I got maybe 20 bucks to my name. This helps.”
The “this” Gregory refers to is a 32-pound box of nutritious food that he receives monthly through Minnesota’s Nutrition Assistance Program for Seniors (NAPS). It’s a part of the federal Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) and is specifically for seniors over 60 who meet certain income eligibility guidelines. Including our Maplewood facility there are 240 CSFP distribution sites throughout the state.
The unique challenges to ending senior hunger
Programs like CSFP work to reach the estimated 37,500 Minnesota seniors experiencing food insecurity. But the unique barriers to food access that seniors face leaves no single solution to meeting their hunger needs.
Increasing food prices when living on a fixed income means that the foods once affordable are now out of reach. According to a July 2020 study by the Food Industry Association, 43 percent of seniors are concerned about their food budgets, with 37 percent very or extremely concerned. Compounding financial realities are the very serious public health concerns many shoppers, especially potentially immunocompromised seniors, have in visiting grocery stores. And in rural communities, fresh and nutritious food might simply be out of reach.
Where there are food assistance resources, there is often a lack of participation among seniors, be there technology or terminology barriers or the concern that the benefit is not worth the effort. Many seniors who are eligible for programs like CSFP and SNAP are not participating.
The biggest barrier to food access might be the invisible barrier of stigma around receiving help or the misperception that there isn’t enough food to go around. The truth is that we will all have to give and receive help if we’re going to get through this pandemic and thrive on the other side.
Hunger-fighting resources for seniors
Seniors make up 10 percent of the people Second Harvest Heartland serves each year, and they represent the fastest-growing food shelf visitor accordingly to food shelf partners throughout the state. At the same time, participation in CSFP has declined since the onset of the pandemic. Efforts must continue to reach, educate and welcome seniors to the variety of food assistance resources available to them.
According to Randy, another visitor to the Maplewood CSFP food box distribution, “It’s easy to apply and the card lasts for three years, which is nice.” Without income, any resources Randy has needs to go to his house payment. And if he doesn’t happen to use all the food he’s provided in a month? “I bring it to the halfway house across the street, so it doesn’t go to waste.”
Download our brochure with income guide to learn more.
According to the Minnesota Department of Health, half of eligible seniors are not enrolled and participating in SNAP, the Supplementary Food Assistance Program formerly known as Food Stamps. This modest, monthly financial benefit comes in the form of an EBT card, used like a debit card, and can be used at farmer’s markets and even some online grocery delivery.
Our advocacy efforts focus heavily on SNAP, specifically the need to increase both the minimum and maximum monthly financial benefits. Minnesota’s current monthly minimum SNAP benefit for households of one or two people is $16.
Meals on Wheels
Meals on Wheels is a community-based service that provides fresh, nutritious meals delivered directly to the homes of seniors and individuals with disabilities.
Local food shelves and prepared meal distribution sites
There are more than 800 community food distribution sites throughout our region, from your local food shelf to prepared meal distribution sites at churches or community centers. An interactive map helps you see what food resources are available in your area right now.
No one should face hunger, especially our seniors and especially during a pandemic.
Explore immediate and near-term food resources available today: 2harvest.org/gethelp.


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What does the Taro's new compenstion policy means to minority investors?
Taro's new compensation policy may cost Taro additional $4.5 Mn to $6 Mn annually.
What does it mean to a Taro's minority shareholder?
It means a reduction of $0.1-0.13in EPS . If Taro would have been traded at its peer multiple (22), every share The minority owns would be discounted by $2.2-$2.93.
Also EBITDA would be reduced by $4.5 Mn - $6 Mn. if a decent multiple of a buy out is 15 xEBITDA, then the offer would be reduced by $67.5 Mn to $90 Mn. This money will come out of your own pocket if proxy items regarding management compensation will be approved.
Do you think Taro's management deserve a reward from minority after twice it tried to squeeze minority out ?


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Utilizing leading edge molecular strategies in rodent fashions, researchers are dissecting the neurobiological mechanisms impacted by adolescence adversity. The findings had been offered at Neuroscience 2022, the annual assembly of the Society for Neuroscience and the world’s largest supply of rising information about mind science and well being.
Childhood adversity, corresponding to abuse, neglect, poverty, lack of housing, or parental loss, can have a lifetime affect on the mind and habits. Proof means that adolescence adversity performs an essential function in shaping mind growth and is related to abnormalities of a number of neurobiological programs. Adults with extra adversarial experiences in early childhood usually tend to have well being issues together with despair and nervousness; in truth, childhood adversity has been estimated to account for 28% of the danger for later-onset psychiatric problems. With advances in molecular strategies, neuroscientists are utilizing rodent research to know the mind cells and circuits underlying the hyperlinks between adolescence adversity, mind growth, and later-onset psychiatric problems.
At this time’s new findings present that:
- Intercourse variations in nervousness problems could also be mediated by adjustments within the neuropeptide corticotrophin-releasing issue, which is launched in response to emphasize. (Camila Demaestri, New York State Psychiatric Institute)
- A novel connection between a mind space related to reward and one other mind space related to stress responses might mediate the results of adolescence adversity on motivated habits. (Tallie Z. Baram, College of California, Irvine)
- Stress throughout puberty ends in elevated sensitivity to restricted assets throughout being pregnant, and the mix of stresses has a destructive affect on maternal habits and offspring well being outcomes (Kathleen E. Morrison, West Virginia College)
- Ketamine has sex-specific results on behavioral responses to emotional vocalizations in rats which have skilled adolescence adversity (Jennifer A. Honeycutt, Bowdoin School)
“It’s recognized from epidemiological and scientific work that adolescence adversity is a significant threat issue for psychiatric problems, and neuroscientists are actually determining why that is on the degree of particular neural circuits,” says Mar Sanchez, a professor at Emory College College of Medication who research the results of early setting on the event of neural circuits controlling stress physiology and emotion regulation. “Importantly for the relevance to people, the analysis offered at the moment additionally focuses on the neurobiological mechanisms that result in sex-specific results of adolescence adversity.”
This analysis was supported by nationwide funding companies together with the Nationwide Institutes of Well being and personal funding organizations. Discover out extra about adolescence adversity and the mind on BrainFacts.org.

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Our major international client is looking to recruit on a permanent basis, a Production Engineer to their expanding team.
The Production Engineer will be responsible for devising and developing production and handling methods. Maintain the supply of tools, CNC programs & machinery for efficient manufacturing.
Production Engineer main roles and responsibilities
* Determine all manufacturing methods of new products together with the individual operational standard time.
* Create & amend programs for all CNC machines using (Siemens NX CAM) and produce set-up sheets & tooling lists.
* Examine new machine tools, cutting tools and associated media and processes through journals, visiting other users and attending exhibitions.
* Research & create business case for capital equipment.
* Management of suitable sub-contract sources, with accountability for quality, price and delivery.
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All eyes were on Prince William last month as he expertly secured his newborn son’s car seat in the back of his black SUV. In an interview with CNN, William admitted that it went so smoothly outside of the hospital because it wasn’t his first time putting the car seat in his vehicle—he practiced beforehand.
For every Prince William who has mastered the car seat, there’s a Kanye West who’s still confused by the safety device. The new dad revealed on Kris Jenner’s now-canceled talk show that he still couldn’t work his daughter’s car seat very well.
Luckily, there are plenty of online resources for befuddled dads like Kanye (and moms!) to research, choose, and install car seats. Click here to read my post on car seats 101 over on The Neighborhood!


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Prioritization, Delegation, and Assignment: Practice Exercises for the NCLEX® Examination, 4th Edition is the original and most popular NCLEX review book on the market focused exclusively on building prioritization, delegation, and patient assignment skills! Using a unique simple-to-complex approach, this best-selling text establishes your foundational knowledge of management of care, then provides exercises of increasing difficulty to help you transition to practice in today's fast-paced healthcare environment. This new edition features more than 60 pages of additional questions, a completely new pharmacology chapter and questions, a content re-alignment to match the latest National League for Nursing guidelines for delegation and patient assignment, increased inclusion of LGBTQ-related scenarios, updated infection control coverage, and much more! Answer keys offer a detailed rationale and an indication of the focus of the question to encourage formative assessment. Interactive practice quizzing on Evolve allows you to create a virtually unlimited number of practice sessions in Study Mode or Exam Mode. Emphasis on the NCLEX Examination’s management-of-care focus addresses the heavy emphasis on prioritization, delegation, and patient assignment in the current NCLEX-RN® Examination. Updated content throughout matches the latest evidence-based guidelines and treatment protocols. Improved navigation and usability with color tabs on the edges of the book's pages and with answers directly following each chapter. UNIQUE! Three-part organization establishes foundational knowledge and then provides exercises of increasing difficulty to help you build confidence in your prioritization, delegation, and patient assignment skills. NEW! More than 60 pages of new questions provide additional practice prepare you for the prioritization, delegation, and patient assignment questions on the NCLEX-RN® Exam. NEW! Pharmacology chapter and expanded pharmacology questions throughout prepare you for the strong pharmacology focus of the latest NCLEX-RN® Exam. NEW! Re-alignment of delegation and assignment content and answer key coding to reflect the latest National League for Nursing (NLN) guidelines on what constitutes delegation and what constitutes patient assignment. NEW! Increased emphasis on infection control addresses the growing problems of antibiotic resistance and the rapid spread of infectious disease resulting from our globally mobile society and from growing resistance to vaccination. NEW! Increased inclusion of LGBTQ scenarios and healthcare concerns prepares you for patient-centered care with LGBTQ clients.
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Prioritization, Delegation, and Assignment: Practice Exercises for the NCLEX® Examination is the only review book on the market with a focus on prioritization and management of care-just like the current NCLEX Examination itself! The workbook's unique approach establishes your foundational knowledge and then provides exercises of increasing difficulty to help you build confidence in your prioritization, delegation, and patient assignment skills. It offers unique preparation for the NCLEX Examination and effectively equips you to practice in today's fast-paced healthcare environment. UNIQUE! Emphasis on the NCLEX Management-of-Care Focus: LaCharity is the only workbook available that focuses on the NCLEX Exam's management-of-care focus No other book on the market addresses the heavy management-of-care emphasis - consisting of prioritization, delegation, and patient assignment - of the current NCLEX Examination (17-23% of the 2013 NCLEX-RN Exam). Graduating seniors report that LaCharity has been invaluable in preparing them to pass the NCLEX Exam and enter into practice. UNIQUE! Three-Part Organization: The book consists of three parts, each of which builds on the previous one: . Part 1: Introduction; Part 2: Prioritization, Delegation, and Assignment in Common Health Scenarios; Part 3: Prioritization, Delegation, and Assignment in Complex Health Scenarios. This organization establishes foundational knowledge and then provides exercises of increasing difficulty to help students build confidence in their prioritization, delegation, and patient assignment skills. It also helps students move from passing the NCLEX-RN Exam to "hitting the ground running" as they transition into clinical practice. Part 1: Introduction: Part 1, consisting of a chapter by delegation expert Ruth Hansten, provides guidelines for prioritization, delegation, and patient assignment decisions. The Introduction provides a concise, practical foundation on which Parts 2 and 3 build. Part 2: Prioritization, Delegation, and Assignment in Common Health Scenarios: Organized by body system, the chapters in Part 2 begin to give students practice in applying the principles from Part 1 to relatively straightforward scenarios involving single patients or simple patient assignments. Straightforward NCLEX-style multiple-choice, multiple-select, ordering, and short-answer questions help students develop and build confidence in prioritization, delegation, and patient assignment skills while working within the confines of relatively simple health scenarios. Part 3: Prioritization, Delegation, and Assignment in Complex Health Scenarios: Unfolding cases in Part 3 gradually immerse students in realistically complex clinical situations involving patients with complicated health problems or challenging assignment issues. These unfolding cases build on the skills learned in Part 2 to equip students to make sound decisions in realistic, complex health scenarios involving complicated health problems and/or challenging patient assignment decisions. The "unfolding" nature of each case realistically demonstrates the progression of typical health scenarios and helps students learn to "think like nurses" by developing what Benner (2010) calls "clinical imagination." Answer Key: The in-depth Answer Key at the back of the book provides not only the correct answer but also a detailed rationale and an indication of the focus of the question, whether prioritization, delegation, supervision, or patient assignment. Detailed rationales encourage formative assessment, in which students learn as much from answering incorrectly as they do from answering correctly. Expanded content focus to include psychiatric/mental health, OB/maternity, and pediatrics along with med-surg areas New chapters on infection control and obstetrics
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With more than 5,800 test questions, Saunders Q&A Review for the NCLEX-RN® Examination, 5th Edition provides the practice you need to succeed on the NCLEX-RN exam. To enhance your review, each question includes a test-taking strategy, rationales for correct and incorrect answers, and page references to major nursing textbooks. The companion Evolve website adds a pre-test to help in identifying any areas of weakness, and lets you answer questions in quiz, study, or exam mode. Written by NCLEX review expert Linda Anne Silvestri, this book organizes questions to match the Client Needs and Integrated Processes found in the most recent NCLEX-RN test plan. This review is part of the popular Saunders Pyramid to Success, which has helped more than 1.5 million nurses pass the NCLEX exam! A detailed test-taking strategy is included for each question, providing clues for analyzing and selecting the correct answer. Rationales are provided for both correct and incorrect answer options. Questions categorized by Cognitive Level, Client Needs area, Integrated Process, and clinical content area help you focus on the question types you find most difficult. All alternate item format questions (multiple response, prioritizing, fill-in-the-blank, figure/illustration (hot spot), audio, video, and chart/exhibit) are included. Chapters organized by Client Needs simplify your review and reflect the question mix in the NCLEX-RN® test plan blueprint. A 85-question comprehensive exam represents the content and percentages of question types identified in the NCLEX-RN test plan. Preparation for your NCLEX-RN review includes chapters on nonacademic preparation, test-taking strategies, the CAT format, and a view of the NCLEX-RN from a new graduate's perspective. Page references to Elsevier textbooks direct you to remediation material for any question answered incorrectly. A companion Evolve website includes a pre-test to help in identifying any areas of weakness, and lets you answer questions in quiz, study, or exam mode. Automatic updates of the Evolve site allow you to check for changes to content or functionality throughout the life of the edition. Content from the most recent NCLEX-RN® test plan covers the newest topics you could see on the exam. 600 questions are added, for a total of 5,800 in the book and on the companion Evolve website. Hundreds of new alternate item format questions provide even more opportunity for practice. A Priority Nursing Tip is included with each question, providing important patient care information. A full-color design and over 20 new figures enhance understanding and increase the book's visual appeal. Review format includes chapters on how to study for and take the NCLEX examination, and includes a test for each Client Need category, a test on Integrated Processes, and a comprehensive test for practice in answering questions from all areas. A new content-area index makes it easier to find questions and review a given disorder/topic.
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An essential resource for any nursing student, this invaluable guide gives you the tools you need to overcome text anxiety and develop effective study habits. Key topics include time management, critical thinking, and problem solving, with tips to help you tackle any nursing test — from a routine quiz to the NCLEX® examination. You’ll learn how to confidently evaluate and identify the correct answer for a variety of test question types, including alternate item formats, with chapters on the nursing process, prioritization methods, and safety strategies. This title includes additional digital media when purchased in print format. For this digital book edition, media content may not be included. Coverage of detailed critical thinking methods offer valuable clues to help you analyze and uncover the correct answer option for all question types, including multiple-choice, true-or-false, and alternate item-format questions Chapters on specific question content, such as prioritization, pharmacology, management, and delegation, provide numerous examples to prepare you for higher cognitive level questions A fun, two-color design features cartoons and bold designs to help visual learners become better overall test-takers. Linda Silvestri’s hallmark Pyramid Points in the margins highlight the most important concepts you need to learn for exam success. Refocused content emphasizes comprehensive test preparation to help you develop, refine, and apply the reasoning skills you need to succeed throughout nursing school and on the NCLEX® examination. A new chapter on reducing test anxiety offers simple strategies you can use to control test-induced stress and gain the confidence you need to pass exams. A new chapter on developing a structured study plan provides helpful tips for improving time management for more efficient exam preparation.

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March 17, 2015
Peter Kalb, Cynthia L. and Theodore S. Berenson Associate Professor of Contemporary Art Dept. of Fine Arts, Brandeis University, Author, Art Since 1980: Charting the Contemporary
Dr. Kalb will address the ways in which undergraduate art history textbooks are researched, written, and published, within a larger contextual discussion of how contemporary art is taught at the university level. Who is represented by those texts and why? He will also address the ways in which the traditional art history model of the survey is responding and adapting to digital resources and online courses, which are increasingly accompanying, and perhaps eventually replacing, print textbooks. He will also be advising students on best practices.
Ellison Lecture, Watson Fine Arts, 6:00 p.m.

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Flipkart to convert 40% of its fleet to EVs by March 2020
The company says what began as a pilot project in Mumbai in 2017 has become a major sustainability program for Flipkart.
Walmart-owned Indian e-commerce company Flipkart may have set the ball rolling for Indian electric vehicle manufacturers, in what is seen as a much-needed boost to the sales of green vehicles. The e-commerce major has announced that it will replace nearly 40 percent of its fleet of last-mile delivery vehicles with EVs by March 2020.
The company says what began as a pilot project in Mumbai in 2017 has become a major sustainability program for Flipkart, as it continues to add more e-bikes and e-vans to its delivery fleet, a move that makes it the first e-commerce platform in India to adopt this initiative.
The company says by March 2020, it aims to replace nearly 40 percent of its fleet to be EVs, starting with 160 e-vans by the end of 2019.
In the past 6 months, Flipkart says it conducted multiple pilots for EV deployment in its supply chain and witnessed improved performance results. The company has also set up the necessary charging infrastructure at its hubs to deploy EVs in large scale and ensure seamless operations. These, the company says, will help it reduce its carbon emissions by over 50 percent. At present, Flipkart has deployed 8 e-vans in Hyderabad, 10 e-vans in New Delhi, and 30 e-bikes in Bangalore.
Commenting on the pilot project in Mumbai, Rohit Pitale (above), senior manager of Supply Chain Design at Flipkart, says that the eBikes project was initially envisioned as a solution to the traffic problem in big cities. “In large metros like Mumbai, where there are many small lanes, regular motorbikes sometimes can’t deliver the order. The eBike can go into these lanes with ease.”
Amitesh Jha, senior vice-president, Ekart and marketplace at Flipkart, said: “The induction of EVs across our supply chain is one of the major steps towards sustainability. We see tremendous growth opportunity in electric freight mobility from a greener supply chain perspective, which will play a key role in building a robust supply chain for the future. These efforts will help us meaningfully contribute towards electric mobility by reducing our dependence on conventional power sources, while bringing cost efficiencies for the business. In this process, we also hope to create an ecosystem for adoption of electric mobility in India.”
Kalyan Krishnamurthy, Group CEO, Flipkart, said: “We at Flipkart understand our responsibility regarding the environment and running our business in a more sustainable manner. Our vision is to replace a significant portion of our last-mile delivery vehicles with EVs in the coming years and also contribute towards clean and sustainable mobility. Our team is working with local ecosystem partners to help them co-design concepts for electric vehicles best suited for the growing e-commerce industry. We believe these small but meaningful steps in this direction will go a long way in paving the way for larger adoption of EVs in the country.”
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s of yesterday, Coastal still had not finished filing the necessary paperwork for interim casino authorization, which is required for casino acquisition in New Jersey. "The application is not complete," Casino Control Commission spokesman Dan Heneghan said yesterday regarding Coastal's application for the interim authorization.
All talks between Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc. executives and Coastal over the Marina deal came to a standstill yesterday when violence erupted at another Trump property, the Taj Mahal. A casino manager at the Taj was shot to death, apparently by a customer, about midafternoon.
The manager, Ray Kot, described as a veteran casino employee in Atlantic City, was pronounced dead about 5:30 p.m. "He was the loveliest man," said Mark Juliano, CEO of Trump Entertainment, which owns the Trump casinos in Atlantic City. "He did not have an enemy in the world."
Over the last year, the Marina deal has been beset by problems, including the troubled economy and lending markets' effect on the property's price and the closing date. Charlie Leonard, the spokesman for Coastal Marina L.L.C., which is an affiliate of Coastal Development, said the company would issue a statement today on the deal's status.
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So you’ve bought a quart of buttermilk for your pancakes, and wonder how long is the buttermilk good for once opened.
Or maybe you have a carton that sits in the fridge for a few days already, and you need to know if unopened buttermilk can go bad.
Buttermilk isn’t one of those dairy products like milk or butter that we use daily. Many of us it sparingly, sometimes only for pancakes or baking.
Because of that, you might be looking for ways to preserve the product once it’s opened, or maybe even substitute it whatsoever.
In this article, we talk all about buttermilk. We go through things like spoilage, shelf life, freezing, and even buttermilk substitutes.
No matter what you’re looking for, we’ve got you covered.
Can Buttermilk Go Bad? How Do You Know When Buttermilk Is Bad?
Even though buttermilk is technically fermented milk, it can still go bad.
To tell if buttermilk has gone bad, there are four things to check: texture, color, smell, and taste. If it’s very thick, has any signs of mold or other discolorations, smells funny, or tastes off, discard it.
Let’s expand on each of those a bit.
The texture of buttermilk is fairly smooth. If you notice that your buttermilk has thickened or is super lumpy, discard it. When it’s difficult to pour, you know it’s spoiled.
Is buttermilk supposed to be lumpy? Yes, some small lumps here and there are normal, and you can stir them away if needed. But if it consists of a bunch of clumps, it’s bad.
If the buttermilk sits open in the fridge for more than a few days, check for mold growth. If it comes in a paper carton, cut it open to see if there aren’t any growths on the sides or the neck.
Sour smell or taste is another sure sign of spoilage. I mean you almost certainly won’t be sick from drinking sour buttermilk, but that’s not how it’s meant to be enjoyed. And definitely not good for your pancakes.
If your buttermilk is open for longer than recommended, err on the side of caution and throw it out.
How Long Does Buttermilk Last?
Before we cover the shelf life of this fermented dairy product, let’s talk about how to store buttermilk.
Like pretty much all dairy products, like butter or feta cheese, it needs to be in the refrigerator. Speaking of which, the door is where the temperature changes the most, so if you can, keep the opened buttermilk in the far corner.
Don’t keep buttermilk on the counter while making pancakes. Just pour as much as you need in a glass, and put the carton back in the fridge.
Once you open the container, remember to always keep it sealed tightly.
Each container comes with a use-by date on the label. And that date is a reasonably good indicator or how long, at the very least, the product should keep quality. You can often get away with keeping it a week or so past that date, but that’s about it.
Once you open the container, it’s best to use its contents within about a week. Some sources mention two weeks, but I wouldn’t stretch it that far.
If you open the container on the last day, finish it within a couple of days tops.
If you aren’t able to use the leftovers within that period, freeze them.
Can I Freeze Buttermilk?
If you’re buying buttermilk only for pancakes, and you often discard the leftovers, freezing is definitely worth trying out.
The first thing you should know is that most producers advise against freezing buttermilk. You can often see a “Do not freeze” label on the container.
That’s for a reason: frozen and thawed buttermilk changes in texture. Milk solids separate, and the whole thing is somewhat lumpy. That’s definitely a no-go if you plan on drinking the buttermilk as-is.
But if you’re using it in a cooked dish, like pancakes, that slightly altered texture doesn’t matter that much. You mix in a bunch of other ingredients anyway, so there should be little to no difference in how your delicious breakfast turns out.
How To Freeze Buttermilk
You can freeze buttermilk in a muffin tin. Here’s how to do it:
- Pour as much as you need for a single batch of pancakes into each cup.
- Put the tin into the freezer and leave there until the liquid freezes.
- Transfer the frozen blocks into freezer bags, so they don’t take as much space.
If you don’t have a muffin tin, use a a bunch of small freezer-safe containers or freezer bags.
Whenever you plan on making pancakes, just put a single block in the fridge the night before. It requires some planning ahead, but thawing in the refrigerator is definitely the best option. Plus you can refreeze the leftover buttermilk if need be.
Refrozen buttermilk will be even worse in terms of texture, so you should avoid it if you can help it.
If you have frozen buttermilk, but no time to thaw it, you can still make your pancakes if you can substitute the dairy product.
How To Substitute Buttermilk?
So your buttermilk is old or frozen, but you’d kill for a batch of delicious pancakes.
Fortunately, there’s an easy way to substitute this dairy product. You see, we use buttermilk in pancakes for its acidity. The acid is required to activate baking soda, so any other acidic substance should help you with that.
The first acidic food that comes to mind is vinegar, but I don’t think you’re interested in tasting pancakes with vinegar. The second option is lemon juice, and that’s our winner. Enter “clabbered” milk.
“Clabbered” milk is dairy milk with lemon juice added. The proportion is 1 tablespoon of lemon juice per 1 cup of milk [CI], and that’s what you use instead of the buttermilk. Adding the acidic substance to milk causes the proteins to coagulate and form clumps.
Clabbered milk won’t thicken as much as buttermilk does so you might need to reduce the amount of clabbered milk you use in your recipe.
Once you make the mixture, it’s ready to be mixed into your batter immediately [CI].
If the clabbered milk doesn’t quite cut it for you, there’s another option available. And one that doesn’t make your pancakes lemony.
Dry Buttermilk Powder
If you don’t use buttermilk that often and usually need just half a cup of it for your pancakes, try using dry buttermilk powder instead. The powder lasts around a year [KA], and you can store it at room temperature.
Like with other powders such as baking powder or baking soda, make sure it’s away from moisture, and that’s it.
With buttermilk powder, you can make pancakes all year round without buying quarts of buttermilk only to discard the leftovers a couple of days after opening the container.
- If buttermilk turns lumpy, thickens, or becomes sour, discard it
- Keep it refrigerated and observe the date on the label, it lasts only a few days past it
- If you aren’t able to use the leftovers within about a week, freeze them in a muffin tin
- Substitute buttermilk with “slabbered” milk or dry buttermilk powder if you like

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Characteristics and Kinetics of Gaseous Hydrocarbon Generation from Pyrolysis of Crude Oil under High Pressure and High Temperature
The pyrolysis of three oil samples from Tarim Basin was carried out under 390°C and high pressures formed by injecting N2 in the closed system and the influences of temperature, time and the oil compositions on the pyrolysis reaction of oil to gas were discussed. The gas generation ratio increased and average activation energy decreased with the content of polar compositions in oil, and the gas generation ratio changed intensively with reaction time for high content of polar compositions under the experimental conditions. The effect of pressure on pyrolysis of oil was tightly related to oil composition. High pressure was beneficial to the pryolysis of oil with more polar compositions. The calculated value of the gas generation ratio fitted well with experiment value as the parallel first order reaction model containing 11 reactions with different activation energies and different preexponential factors was used for simulating the pyrolysis reaction of oil to gas by minimizing objective function with MATLAB optimization module.
Qunjie Xu, Honghua Ge and Junxi Zhang
Q. X. Zhang et al., "Characteristics and Kinetics of Gaseous Hydrocarbon Generation from Pyrolysis of Crude Oil under High Pressure and High Temperature", Advanced Materials Research, Vols. 361-363, pp. 579-583, 2012

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The term “algorithmic sovereignty” has been gaining traction in recent years, but what does it actually mean? And why is it important? In this blog post, we’ll explore what algorithmic sovereignty is, why it’s important, and how individuals and organizations can achieve it.
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What Is Algorithmic Sovereignty.
What Does It Mean to Be Sovereign
To be sovereign is to have supreme power or authority. In the context of algorithmic sovereignty, it means having the power and authority over one’s own algorithms. This includes the ability to develop, control, and use algorithms without dependence on or subordination to external actors.What Is an Algorithm
An algorithm is a set of instructions for carrying out a task or solving a problem. It is typically implemented as code that can be executed by a computer. In the context of algorithmic sovereignty, algorithms are used to make decisions about data and automate processes.
Algorithmic sovereignty is the idea that individuals and organizations should have the power and authority over their own algorithms. This includes the ability to develop, control, and use algorithms without dependence on or subordination to external actors.
The Importance of Algorithmic Sovereignty.
Why Is Algorithmic Sovereignty Important
There are a number of reasons why algorithmic sovereignty is important. First, algorithms play an increasingly important role in our lives. They are used to make decisions about everything from what we see on social media to whether we get a loan from a bank. As such, they can have a significant impact on our lives. Second, algorithms are often opaque and difficult to understand. This lack of transparency can lead to unfairness and bias in the decisions that algorithms make. Finally, algorithms are often controlled by large corporations or governments. This concentration of power can be dangerous if it is not properly regulated.What Are the Consequences of a Lack of Algorithmic Sovereignty
There are a number of consequences that can result from a lack of algorithmic sovereignty. First, individuals may be subject to unfair or biased decision-making by algorithms. Second, large corporations or governments may abuse their power by using algorithms to manipulate or control people. Finally, a lack of algorithmic sovereignty may lead to a loss of privacy as data collected by algorithms is used for harmful purposes such as targeted advertising or mass surveillance.
How to Achieve Algorithmic Sovereignty.
What Steps Can Individuals and Organizations Take to Achieve Algorithmic Sovereignty
There are a number of steps that individuals and organizations can take to achieve algorithmic sovereignty. Firstly, it is important to be aware of the ways in which algorithms can impact one’s life and work. Secondly, one should seek out alternatives to the use of algorithms where possible, and work to create or support such alternatives where they do not yet exist. Thirdly, when using algorithms, it is important to ensure that as much control as possible is retained over how they are used and what data they have access to. Finally, it is also important to stay up-to-date on developments in the field of algorithm studies, so as to be better informed about potential risks and opportunities.
What Are Some Strategies for Achieving Algorithmic Sovereignty
There are a number of strategies that can be used in pursuit of algorithmic sovereignty. Firstly, individuals and organizations can strive to use algorithms in a way that maximizes transparency and accountability, for example by making sure that data collected by algorithms is made available publicly. Secondly, it is important to push back against the use of algorithms in situations where they may have harmful effects, for instance by campaigning against their use in areas such as employment or credit scoring. Finally, it is also possible to work towards the development of new algorithm-based systems that are more democratic and decentralized in nature, so as to reduce reliance on existing systems controlled by powerful actors.
Algorithmic sovereignty is a term that is becoming increasingly important as we become more reliant on algorithms. Algorithmic sovereignty refers to the ability of individuals and organizations to control their own algorithms. This is important because algorithms are increasingly being used to make decisions that impact our lives. A lack of algorithmic sovereignty can have serious consequences, such as decreased privacy, increased surveillance, and biased decision-making.
Individuals and organizations can take steps to achieve algorithmic sovereignty by understanding algorithms and taking control of the data that they generate. Some strategies for achieving algorithmic sovereignty include developing your own algorithms, using open source algorithms, and collaborating with others to create community-owned algorithms.
It is important to be aware of the implications of algorithms in our lives and to take steps to ensure that we maintain control over them.


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Samosa By zigzac
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Samosa is a popular Indian fried snack recipe which has been made simple and quick to prepare with this samosa recipe. The potato based mixture is stuffed in the maida patties and then fried after sealing the edges in the traditional samosa shapes.
- Heat oil. add hing a pinch. in a vati take out garam masala, corriander pwdr,chilly pwdr, jeera pwdr, haldi.
- Add the above ground green masala to the oil and fry well.
- Then take off from fire and add potatoes (mashed) and return to fire.
- Add amchur pwdr and fry well.
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At a time when TRS feels the Centre is misusing central investigation agencies such as ED and I-T for targeting its ministers, legislators and leaders, TRS MPs have decided to raise the issue during the Parliament sessions beginning December 7.
Lok Sabha speaker om birla addressed students and others, as chief guest on the 175th year Foundation Day celebration of IIT-Roorkee on Friday. He said, "IIT-Roorkee has been doing a great job in shaping India since last 175 years. Today, India's emergence as a global financial power is remarkable and this, it has achieved through excellence in education, science, technology and airspace sectors.."
Terming them the saints of the new economic order Birla said the examination held to become a Chartered Accountant is an example of reliability. Till date not a single question has been raised over the examination system that produces CAs thus sets an example of authenticity and credibility for the institute of chartered accountants of India (ICAI), he pointed out.
A combination of ancient Indian culture and traditions with modernity will provide a basis for creation of a "new India" that Prime Minister Narendra Modi dreamed about, Lok Sabha Speaker om birla said in Haridwar on Tuesday.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has stressed upon the need for the chartered accountant (CA) community to ensure fairness and transparency of financial accounts.
Lok Sabha Speaker om birla on Saturday said democratic institutions should have a connect with doctors to keep the people of their respective areas healthy.
The 4-day 62nd session of the National Academy of Medical Sciences (NAMS) and convocation of newly-elected members and fellows will be held at Sawai Man Singh Medical College from Friday.
Calling upon the youth to participate in the democratic process, Lok Sabha speaker om birla on Thursday said people should ensure that the elected representatives work to the best of their abilities in formulating future policies and programmes for the country.
Lok Sabha Speaker and Kota-Bundi M P om birla inaugurated the genome sequencing unit worth Rs 3 crore at the microbiology department of Kota Medical College on Sunday. Now, accurate information on various critical viruses and their mutations will be available locally.
Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav was cremated with full state honours at his native Saifai village in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday afternoon. The former three-time Uttar Pradesh chief minister died aged 82 at a private hospital in Haryana's Gurugram on Monday.
Noted industrialist and Aam Admi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha member from Ludhiana, Sanjeev Arora visited Lok Sabha speaker om birla in Delhi on Saturday. During the meeting, Arora raised several issues, including those related to affordable health.
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LOWELL — The city conducted testing Thursday which may have caused water quality issues in the area of Middlesex Street near the Collegiate Charter School of Lowell, according to Phillip Geoffrey, a city spokesman.
“It is anticipated that any impact to residents in the surrounding area will be minimal, and that residents that observe water quality issues should be able to resolve the issue by flushing their systems, which should only require running their water for a short period of time,” Geoffrey said in an email.
Riverside Town Houses resident Troix Bettencourt said he was taking a shower Thursday morning, when “all of a sudden,” the water turned brown. When he flushed the toilet, dark brown water filled the bowl.
“It’s really nasty,” the 45-year-old said.
Outside, Bettencourt noticed a red fire hydrant gushing rust-colored water onto Middlesex Street, which prompted him to call the City Manager’s Office to find out what happened.
Bettencourt said he was given no advance notice of the water quality issues. He was initially told there was a water main break.
Leonor Camargo, 83, who lives nearby, was also given no notice. She said she noticed the brown water at about 10 a.m. She wasn’t able to wash her laundry. “And then later, the dishes,” she said.
Quintin Smith, 53, lives across the lot. On Thursday, he said his kids, who are home on school vacation, had not been able to take showers or baths. “Nobody’s said anything,” he said of the water issue.
The testing was “related to the Collegiate Charter School,” Geoffrey said. The school opened on Middlesex Street in September 2013 at the former site of Bradford Industries. Since then, it has expanded and added grades.
Water will be shut off in the area of Coburn Street as the Lowell Water Department fixes a water main break, Geoffrey said. Water is expected to be back Friday afternoon.
Residents are advised to run a pencil-width stream of water from faucets for 10 minutes. If discoloration continues, call 978-674-4242.


Intel SpeedStep is disabled, why is my CPU going stupidly slow?
i5 2500k My CPU was fine for a very long time and all of a sudden (after installing a new CPU fan recently) I have been having bad FPS and slow processor speeds. So I decided to do a 'quick' intel burn test. Here is what happened During: http://puu.sh/6IqTQ.png  (processor only going ~800MHz, should be going 3.3GHz) Post: http://puu.sh/6Ir0t.jpg  (224 seconds for 2 tests, it should be about 25 seconds) Notes; Intel SpeedStep is disabled. My CPU is going 1.6Ghz as I type this. I have a GTX 780 and I was getting bad FPS during CoD4 because of my processor going ~800Mhz
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The frequencies of extended X-ray absorption fine-structure (EXAFS)1 measurements, which are oscillations occurring on the high-energy side of an X-ray absorption edge, can be used to identify interatomic distances in materials. We have used a dispersive X-ray spectrometer2,3,4,5, which has no moving components, to make rapid measurements with minimal energy drift of the difference in EXAFS from the Fe K edge in an iron-cobalt thin film undergoing periodic strain through magnetostriction6,7. We show that magnetostriction can be detected by differential X-ray absorption. The magnitude of the recorded signal relative to the noise shows a sensitivity to mean differential atomic motion of one femtometre: a factor of 100 times more sensitive than that normally available8,9.
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We wish to acknowledge R. Weigel, S. Pasternak, A. Sheffield, A. Lovejoy, P. Pinel, M. Borowski and M.-C. Dominguez for their assistance in performing this experiment, or one of its precursors. R.F.P. thanks the ESRF for hosting a sabbatical leave from the University of Warwick and T. F. Jeranko, M. Ruffoni and R. Dupree for discussions.Authors' contributions R.F.P. conceived the idea, took part in all of the experiments, constructed the theory, performed the calculations and wrote the paper. O.M. took part in all of the experiments, including the unsuccessful precursors and operated ID24. S.P. stabilized ID24, took part in the final measurement and performed major editing of the paper. M.D.C. made the specimens and took part in some of the measurements. M.R.J.G. provided facilities for making the samples, provided magnetostriction expertise and took part in the final measurement.
The authors declare that they have no competing financial interests.
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(RxWiki News) Bipolar disorder does not increase the risk of committing violent crime in affected individuals, according to a new study from Sweden's Karolinska Institutet.
Prior research had indicated a link between bipolar disorder -- also known as manic depression, which is characterized by extreme mood swings that range from "manic" highs to debilitating lows -- and violent behavior. However it remained unclear as to whether violent outbursts were caused by the disorder or other aspects of patients' personalities or lifestyles.
The new study, carried out in collaboration with Oxford University, found no correlation between the illness and violent behavior. Researchers compared violent crime incidents in more than 3,700 bipolar disorder patients in Swedish hospitals between 1973 and 2004 with 37,000 individuals without the disorder in a control group. About 21 percent of bipolar patients with a history of severe substance abuse were convicted of violent criminal behavior, whereas only 3 percent and 5 percent of individuals with no diagnosis of bipolar disorder or a diagnosis of bipolar disorder without severe substance abuse were convicted of such crimes, respectively.
Niklas Långström, head of the Centre for Violence Prevention at Karolinska Institutet, said the finding is similar to what researchers have found among other serious psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia.
Långström said this kind of unwarranted mischaracterization and stigmatization contributes to the alienation many mentally ill people feel.
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HARRISBURG — “Students capable of learning, caught in a system that fails to meet their needs, cannot be considered ‘thorough and efficient.’ One system for one people. It’s time to keep that promise.”
Those concluding remarks were spoken by Katrina Robson, the attorney representing six school districts, four parents, the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools and the statewide Pennsylvania chapter of the NAACP. All filed a joint lawsuit in Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court against Pennsylvania’s legislative leaders, education officials, and the governor charging the state’s unfair school funding system violates the education clause of the Pennsylvania Constitution.
The defendants are the Pennsylvania Department of Education; state Sen. Jake Corman, R-34th Dist., in his official capacity as President Pro-Tempore of the Pennsylvania Senate; state Rep. Bryan Cutler, R-100th Dist., in his official capacity as the Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives; Gov. Tom Wolf; the Pennsylvania State Board of Education, and Noe Ortega, in his official capacity as the Secretary of Education.
Since proceedings began before Judge Renée Cohn Jubelirer in November, the long-awaited and much-debated trial took 48 days, heard 41 witnesses, accepted 1,100 exhibits and generated 14,600 pages of testimony, Cohn Jubelirer said just before eight hours of closing arguments began Thursday morning.
But even despite all that, its far from over.
Legal briefs and replies will be filed until July 6 and Cohn Jubelirer’s decision will follow at an unknown date.
Still, the closing of the main phase of the trial represents an important milestone in a case that has been winding its way through the courts since 2014.
At its core, the case revolves around one sentence in the state Constitution: “The General Assembly shall provide for the maintenance and support of a thorough and efficient system of public education to serve the needs of the Commonwealth.”
With one of the most unequal school funding systems in the nation — one which relies heavily on local property taxes thus skewing resources in favor of wealthy, white school districts — Pennsylvania’s system for funding public schools is “a system of haves and have nots,” said Robson, and the case may well decide what is to be done about it.
Roughly 52 percent of Pennsylvania’s students get their education in underfunded school districts.
Tom DeCesar, who represents Corman, made the argument that “thorough and efficient are imprecise terms” and the phrase that matters in the education clause is “to serve the needs of the Commonwealth.”
Determining and serving those needs, he argued, is the responsibility of the General Assembly, not the courts. And if the people of the Commonwealth disagree with how the General Assembly is serving those needs, the solution is to vote them out of office.
The defense for the legislators did not deny that Pennsylvania’s school funding system is unfair, only that it meets the Constitutional minimum to “serve the needs of the Commonwealth,” and the burden of proving otherwise, falls upon those bringing the suit.
DeCesar argued that despite the mountain of evidence presented, no particular or specific law is being challenged. Instead, the suit charges “the system” with failing to meet its Constitutional responsibility. But the court was presented with just a tiny fraction of the entire system, which also includes technical schools, intermediate units and charter schools, to name a few.
There was no testimony, he said, to show that those aspects of “the system” violate the Constitution’s education clause.
The superintendents of all six school districts that filed the case — William Penn in Delaware County, Panther Valley in Carbon and Schuylkill Counties, School District of Lancaster, Greater Johnstown in Cambria County, Wilkes-Barre Area in Luzerne County and Shenandoah Valley in Schuylkill County — all offered testimony over the course of the trial. Multiple witnesses highlighted multiple examples of inequities and underfunding and how that leads to over-crowded classrooms, crumbling and inadequate facilities, teacher lay-offs, lower test scores and the absence of thorough course offerings, curriculum and opportunity.
But DeCesar argued the Constitution guarantees none of those things, and questioned expensive choices those school districts have made — like a “play deck” in Lancaster, or new stadium lights and a program helping gifted students take college course in high school in Greater Johnstown. Why, he asked, would those districts choose to spend money on those things while claiming they are under-funded?
“There is no doubt money can matter in education,” said DeCesar. “But the debate is better stated as this: Does money by itself matter, or is it the way money is spent that matters?”
Districts arguing that they are underfunded, he said, must first show they “have taken all plausible cost-saving measures.”
Sophia Lee, the attorney representing the executive branch, made it clear that in large part Wolf, a governor who has spent all of his two terms in office trying to increase state funding to education, agrees with the claims made in the case by the underfunded districts.
Despite technically speaking to defend Pennsylvania’s funding system, Lee called the legislators’ defense in the case a “tenuous position,” said testimony by their experts was “not credible,” but added that the enacting of the “fair funding formula” in 2016 “starts to fulfill the promise to children that their educational opportunities need not be dictated by their zip code.”
The fair funding formula, created by a bipartisan committee begun under Republican Gov. Tom Corbett, takes the needs and challenges faced by poorer districts and creates a formula by which funding to each district could be adjusted to help close resource and achievement gaps. The problem is that until last year, the fair funding formula has only been applied to “new money” added in any given year to the state’s existing basic education subsidy.
Last year’s budget also included $100 million in “level up” funding that was directed specifically to the most under-funded schools. The governor’s proposed budget for the coming fiscal year includes $300 million in level-up funding for the state’s 100 most under-funded school districts. Despite that addition, the districts the formula identifies as underfunded remain underfunded, just less so.
The enactment of the fair funding formula had an unexpected impact as well.
As far back as 2017, researchers applying that formula to every district, discovered that on a dollar-per-student basis, Pennsylvania provides more state funding to districts with majority white populations than to districts with larger Black and Latin student populations — even when the level of poverty is identical.
This case highlighted “unconscionable inequity,” Maura McInerney, Legal Director of the Education Law Center, said at a press conference held in front of the courtroom after the proceedings had ended.
It showed “Black and brown students are disproportionally harmed by this two-tiered funding system, the needs of children in poverty are the most and they get the least,” she said. “The impact of the General Assembly’s dereliction of their duty is profound, and it has consequences.”
“What has happened in the courtroom since November is a historic first — a comprehensive set of testimony and evidence presented about the problems with Pennsylvania’s school funding system,” said Deborah Gordon Klehr, executive director of the Education Law Center. “The court has heard detailed descriptions of the ways that underfunding results in students in low-wealth districts getting an inadequate education — and about extreme disparities between districts, especially affecting students living in poverty and Black and Brown students. We’ve also heard that there are programs and supports that could make a difference in reducing the disparities but aren’t being implemented due to lack of funding.”
Pitting school districts against each other, by funding some better than others, should not be a zero-sum game, for some to gain, others must lose, said Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg, staff attorney for the Public Interest Law Center. “It does not have to be this way,” he said.
As leader of the one of the 10 most under-funded districts in the state, and the president of the Pennsylvania League of Urban Schools, Pottstown Schools Superintendent Stephen Rodriguez has seen first hand the impact of the unfairness inherent in the state’s school funding system.
And he agreed with Klehr. Although he obviously would like to see the case decided in favor of a fairer funding system, the trial is important no matter the outcome if only because “Pennsylvanians are getting the real picture of the discrepancies and unfairness in the system and that’s really important,” Rodriguez said.
“Since I came to Pottstown from the suburban district where I worked before, the gross inequities in how Pennsylvania funds districts like ours was not only immediately evident, but morally wrong, and I knew I had the responsibility to say something,” Rodriguez said.
He has not been quiet. Rodriguez has spoken at multiple fair funding rallies in Harrisburg and in Pottstown and anywhere else he thinks he might find an ear willing to listen and a mind open to his arguments.
The General Assembly should consider a public education that produces useful, free-thinking citizens ready to participate in a republic to “serve the needs of the Commonwealth,” he said. “Without an educated citizenry, this Commonwealth, this country, will be in serious trouble.”
And defending a public education system’s inadequacies by splitting legal hairs begs the larger question: “is man-made for the law, or is the law made for man?” said Rodriguez. “Wining a legal argument may look good on paper, but it does not change the educational destiny of students in under-funded school districts.”
The court case is just the next step in trying to make the system fairer, he said. “One way or another, we’re going to have to pay the bill.”

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