First African American to serve as the Frances A. Matsuda Chair Scholar in Women's Health at the University of Hawaii at Monoa, School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene. First Director of the International Council of Nurses, Global Nursing Leadership Institute and the Leadership for Change Program in Geneva, Switzerland. First Deputy Director of the World Health Organization Global Network for Nursing and Midwifery Collaborating Centers. In March 2016, she became the first African American to be the Chair of the American Academy of Nursing's National Advisory Council for their Institute of Nursing Leadership.


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HSE restores dissolved roofing firm ahead of £160k fine
The Health and Safety Executive has ordered the restoration of a roofing contractor to the Companies House register ahead of a court hearing which saw the firm fined £160,000 following a fatal fall.
Basildon Crown Court heard how on 25 February 2018 Jonathan Moore, an employee of R4 Industrial Roofing Cladding Systems Ltd, was undertaking repairs on a large warehouse roof in the Port of Tilbury when he stepped on a fragile rooflight which gave way.
He fell more than 10 metres to the concrete floor below sustaining fatal injuries.
An HSE investigation found that the repair work was carried out without appropriate safety precautions in place.
The planning and supervision of the work was completely inadequate, which also put a self-employed worker assisting with the repairs at risk.
Companies House records show R4 Industrial Roofing Cladding Systems Ltd was dissolved in September 2019.
But the HSE applied for a court order to restore the firm to the register which was actioned in February 2020.
R4 Industrial Roofing Cladding Systems Ltd of Wickford, Essex pleaded guilty to safety breaches and were fined £165,000 and ordered to pay costs of £20,957.
Speaking after the hearing, HSE inspector Glyn Davies said: "Falls from height remain one of the most common causes of work-related fatalities in this country and the risks associated with working at height are well known.
"Companies should be aware that unsafe work at height without suitable and sufficient controls in place is not acceptable and HSE will not hesitate to take appropriate enforcement action against those that fall below the required standard."

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Category: aggressive authors
Second Chance Series; Readers Writing Reviews; Wrestler Tweets Anti-Gay on Michael Sam
Second Chance Series
I'm about to finish the third book in the Glendora Hill series, and then I'm getting back to the Second Chance series with another novella. But I've had a few people ask about the order in which the Second Chance books were written, and how they should be read so I figured I would post something here for future reference.
The first book in the series is just "Second Chance." You can find it here on Amazon, and if you do a search with Ryan Field Second Chance you'll find it in other places, too. Sometimes it's hard to list all links because I try to distribute these books in as many places as my publishers distribute my other books.
The second book in the series is Second Chance: The Littlest Christmas Tree. Here's the Amazon link.
The third book is Second Chance: His Only Choice. Here's the Amazon link.
At this point, all books are priced @ .99 and will remain that way for at least the next few months.
And, all of the books are stand alones and don't have to be read in any set order.
Readers Writing Reviews
There aren't any links to this part of the post because I'm trying to appeal to readers in a very cautious way. You've seen many of us (established authors) post about authors who aggressively hock readers and other authors for reviews, you've seen many of us rant about aggressive, sneaky authors who pay for reviews and ratings that may or may not be accurate, and you've seen many of us get into discussions about whether or not these aggressive street teams so many pushy authors use now to get attention is fair to readers who don't know any better. This happy, phony brand of marketing/promotion has become an epidemic and I won't even get into the ethical aspects of this because these authors have only one ethic: sell that book no matter what they have to do. Period. It's only about the money, the Amazon sales rank, the Amazon bestseller list, and shoving what is usually something that's poor quality down the consumer's throat. Whether or not most of what they do is legal remains to be seen. And I mean that literally because I know for a fact that authors who don't do these aggressive, questionable things are getting tired of dealing with it and they are investigating behind the scenes. The FTC has gone after companies for writing aggressive fake reviews and fined them heavily.
But this pushy author issue is not the point of this part of the post. Many authors like me don't pay for reviews, we don't lie to our readers, and we try to keep it real. We don't have street teams and we don't put on an act for you. For us, it's all about the reader, and respect for the reader. And the only thing we ask is that if you buy our books you leave a short review or even a rating. It's not about five star reviews, or five star ratings. Just an honest review or rating about what you thought of the book is fine and we will all appreciate it more than you'll ever know…especially those of us who write erotic romance.
One of the drawbacks to writing erotic romance, historically and now, is that the books are as discreet as the readership. In other words, authors like me often get private messages and e-mails about our books and we love this. We really do. We love that personal contact with readers. We also respect and appreciate the fact that our readers are discreet and they don't like to leave public reviews for erotic romance because it could be awkward for them. Writing erotic romance is an act of discretion for many authors, too, which is why you see so many pen names. So we all know and respect the discretion factor with erotic romance and we all know how important it is to maintain this privacy in a world where privacy is becoming less important as each day passes.
In the same respect, all authors are now dealing with different circumstances as publishing continues to change almost daily as well. Established authors are now facing these newer aggressive authors who will stop at nothing to get their books to the top of every bestseller list there is and it's getting harder and harder to compete in honest ways. And one of the ways we can compete is through readers who take the time to leave us reviews and ratings for books they've read. We know it's a pain in the ass sometimes, we know a lot of people don't even like leaving reviews with fake names, and we know most of all the fact that you purchase our books should be enough for us. But if you can take the time out of your lives to just leave one short review for each book you read we would also be more grateful than you'll ever know. In doing this you as the reader can take control of these liars and fakes so other readers can read what you've written and know that it's honest and wasn't paid for in large quantity by people who write reviews for five dollars a shot.
It might not stop the most notorious authors out there, but it sure would help. I actually believe that if every single honest reader left just one review for each book he or she read it might even cancel out all the fake reviews no one can trust. Because if this continues authors who are established and don't aggressively go after reviews are going to have to either stop writing altogether or rethink their own approach to marketing and getting reviews. And I would hate to see that happen. Just think about what the book world would be like if we all faked it and we all paid for our five star reviews. Who could you trust?
I hope I didn't offend any readers with this post. We really are thankful for the fact that you're buying our books and keeping in touch with us in private. If you don't feel comfortable leaving a review, that's okay, too. Don't feel pressured to do it. This was just a quiet request and an appeal to help give readers more control, too.
Wrestler Tweets Anti-Gay on Michael Sam
I posted about Michael Sam, high profile football player, coming out recently, here. In the wake of his disclosure, there's been a lot of discussion and one wrestler at Kent State, Sam Wheeler, decided to bash Michael Sam and all "Queers" with anti-gay comments on Twitter.
Following the historic coming out of Division I college football player Michael Sam, the social media backlash was both predictable and horrifying. However, one college athlete is now experiencing the repercussions of what can happen when you choose to be homophobic on Twitter.
They say Wheeler's been suspended and his Twitter account deleted.
You can read more here, where there are screen shots of his vicious tweets.
I've read a few comments about free speech regarding these hate tweets and comments and what people fail to realize is that free speech was not designed to harm people. With free speech you take on a responsibility and if you fail to live up to that responsibility you may have to face certain consequences. As far as I know, Wheeler is still free to spew all the gay hate he wants. No one is going to lock him up and put him away. It's just that the school he attends is not going to put up with it because his free speech is so offensive to so many other people.
Authors & Paid/Fake Reviews; Maulik Pancholy Comes Out
Authors & Paid/Fake Reviews
I've posted a few times on the topic of authors paying for book reviews, and not always in a negative way. And I think there's an important distinction to make here. In other words, it's been a fairly standard practice in publishing to pay for reviews at known places like Kirkus since as far back as I can recall and there's nothing unethical about it. But these types of paid book reviews are costly and you are never guaranteed the proverbial five star rave review. There are other places that have been doing this for years, too. And when an author pays for and makes one of these reviews public, with full disclosure, there's nothing about which to be ashamed. But I've also posted about a different kind of paid/fake book review that has been popping up in recent years some find highly questionable at best, punishable with jail at worst.
I've posted on this topic before, too. If you follow that link you'll see there's even a web site now that's dedicated to the topic of aggressive authors allegedly paying for reviews and quasi literary awards in mass quantities, at low cost, in order to boost their books and brand on Amazon. The problem with this web site is that they name names but remain anonymous themselves. Which in turn makes them as questionable as the authors they name. In other words, if as a blogger I have solid proof that someone is doing something unethical or illegal, I'll use my own name and back up my arguments with facts I know are solid. Otherwise I won't do it. There's enough subterfuge on the Internet already and I don't want to add more to it. So far, this hasn't happened with the web site that claims these authors are paying for reviews and awards.
However, some authors have been "outed" for paying for reviews or writing their own fake reviews in mass quantity to boost their sales, and some have even admitted it. And then there is Fiverr.com, which blatantly states they will review books…or anything…for five dollars. I posted about them here once. And there are many other web sites popping up each day that will offer to write glowing reviews for aggressive authors (and books) at a relatively low cost to boost sales, like this article discusses. In fact, in that article it talks about how someone made 28K a month just writing fake book reviews…which naturally leads us to believe a lot of authors are doing this. It's not just one or two.
A huge problem with paying for reviews could be as pragmatic as it gets. They may or may not be legal, depending upon how the law is interpreted.
Paying for reviews, even when the payment comes in the form of a discount or other incentive, may actually be illegal.
In 2009, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission updated its endorsement and testimonial guidelines to better reflect the modern, digital world. A relatively broad reading of those guidelines would indicate that any relationship between reviewer and the reviewed company — even an incentive relationship — should be disclosed. Doing otherwise could be illegal.
In New York the practice of fake reviews was investigated and 19 companies paid fines.
Eric Schneiderman announced agreements with 19 firms Monday that commissioned fake reviews and several reputation-enhancement companies that helped place reviews on sites like Citysearch, Google, Yahoo and Yelp. They were fined a total of $350,000.
This article talks about sending people to jail for putting up fake reviews.
Because fake reviews make it impossible for consumers to make informed choices, most right-thinking people abhor the practice. But when it comes to punishing the practitioners we lapse into fatalism. What can we do, that's way of the world, right? But if it's against the law, sooner or later there will be a test case. Bring it on!
I try to make that subtle point all the time with *anything* Internet related. We're still living in the Wild West days of the Internet, but as more and more people become familiar with online purchasing and the out of control aspects of working online that people like me have been experiencing for years some of these lawless practices are now being questioned more than ever before. And I agree there will be test cases that will bring a good deal of the abuse out in the open in ways we never expected to see. It's already starting now. This article, with direct quote below, was written by an author who seems to be wondering about some of the reviews she sees nowadays. She doesn't name names, and it's a fair, honest post. And it's a topic a lot of people have been discussing behind the scenes for a while now because some things just don't make sense. And like Judge Judy (I love her) says, paraphrased, "If it doesn't make sense it's most likely not true."
For those authors who are buying reviews to boost sales, don't kid yourself. Us aged ones see what is going on. Our readers cannot possibly wade through a hundred reviews, most resembling one another, in that they give no story detail nor do they give an opinion on the book or characters other than "Wow, what a great 5 star book! Buy this now and read it!" You guys are playing a dangerous game of Russian Roulette and you will lose your credibility among your peers. Our peers are incredibly and increasingly supportive to each other, especially within the Indy community, where we do not have a traditional publisher to hawk our wares. We do all of it ourselves, putting our work out there for honest opinions and feedback, hoping that what comes back is a candid critique of our books and using said critiques to improve on our craft for the next book. A storm is brewing for you who take advantage of your own readers, by paying for false reviews and trying to fool your readers in this manner. Your readers are smarter than you think. They are for the most part, as loyal as they come. They come back time after time, wait for your new releases and pay good money to authors that they adore. You review purchasers… will be found out and I am glad that I can side step the missile that is aimed at your career. Beware…
I have a feeling we'll be hearing more on this topic in the months to come. Readers don't like it, and authors who don't do it want these fakes exposed. It bothers me personally with respect readers because I basically think most readers are good, right-minded, decent people who take for granted that authors are being honest and up front with them. And I hate to see readers disappointed when this is not the case. At least by talking about this openly in a general sense I hope readers will understand that not all authors, self-pubbed or trad pubbed, are in the habit of paying for fake book reviews in mass quantity.
Maulik Pancholy Comes Out
As being openly gay is becoming more acceptable in the mainstream, more gay people with high profiles are coming out of the closet. Though I've never seen the TV show 30 Rock, it's refreshing to see that Maulik Pancholy recently admitted he's gay, and that he's been in a long term relationship.
The 39-year-old actor made the magazine's annual "Out 100" list, and told the publication, "I just celebrated my nine-year anniversary with my partner."
He went on to note that his mood was particularly celebratory "on the heels of the DOMA and Prop 8 decisions."
You can read more here, where they list other high profile people who've come out.
This is just a side note. But for all you high profile types who haven't come out yet, you'd better get moving or you'll miss the celebrity coming out bandwagon and the shock value won't be the same.
Sean Hayes Apologizes; What Is a Book Blogger? A Book "Influencer?"
Sean Hayes Apologizes
I love when LGBT people with high profiles back me up this way. I've often posted about how I'm not fond of National Coming Out Day, and how coming out is such a personal thing no one should ever feel pressured about it. And now actor, Sean Hayes, from Will and Grace, made a few recent comments about how difficult it was for him to come out, and why he didn't do it sooner.
"I was so young," Hayes said. "It made me go back in the closet [with the media] because I was so overwhelmed at 26 or 27. I didn't want the responsibility, I didn't know how to handle the responsibility of speaking for the gay community. I always felt like I owed them a huge apology for coming out too late. Some people in the gay community were very upset with me for not coming out on their terms. They don't stop to think about what's going on in somebody's personal life, and the struggles that they're having. It was all very scary. We got death threats. It was a really rough time for me, but I was also having the time of my life."
For me, that's heart wrenching. If I were in the room with Hayes when he said that I would need a box of tissues. But that's not all. It gets even deeper when Hayes talks about how gay news organizations like The Advocate slammed him for not coming out sooner. And what really bothers me the most about this is that those who scream for tolerance the loudest always seem to be the most intolerant. I don't think Hayes owes anyone an apology.
In any event, I hope Hayes knows how much good he did for the LGBT community. And this is the absolute truth: I sometimes post about getting letters and e-mails from closeted gay men who can't come out…or aren't ready to come out. One of these people lives a truly closeted life because of his religion/culture, his family circumstances, and his background. And he's recently been telling me that he has been watching old reruns of Will and Grace and it's helping him a lot. So the things actors like Sean Hayes did for the LGBT community continue to evolve in many different ways so many years later.
You can read the full article here.
What Is a Book Blogger?
Someone asked me this question a few weeks ago and I've been wanting to post about it for a while. First, I looked all over for one set definition of what a book blogger is and couldn't come up with anything definitive. In fact, the places where I'm linking today even state they don't know the definition and it's only their opinion. So it's important to keep in mind not all things have set definitions, at least not at this point.
This web site discusses what book blogging means to her. She makes no claim to define book blogging:
When I began book blogging six years ago, I had no idea just how much of a community there was out there. Suddenly I found myself among likeminded people—people with a passion for books and writing—for talking about those books and other bookish tidbits. While we share in our love for books, our experiences with those books can vary widely. It gives me the chance to hear a different perspective, think a little differently, and branch out to try something new.
This next web site talks about something more definitive, and yet makes no claims to give a set definition of a book blogger. They've also created a book blogging directory, which is discussed with what I thought was a very open-minded approach.
So, what do we all think? Is an author a book blogger, or do they need to at least be chatting about other people's books as well as their own to qualify? What about other types of bloggers who occasionally talk books? What about blogs that are attached to bookstores? Often there are reviews amongst their posts, but really the aim is to try to get people to buy from the store.
I find that interesting because I don't consider myself a book blogger, not with this blog. I'm an author and I present information about my books to readers. I also review books on occasion here. I often discuss books I like. But I keep this blog more focused on pop culture, LGBT issues, and publishing in a general sense.
I even discovered there is a book blogger week, and this web site gives the most definitive answer of what a book blogger is that I've found so far.
Let's step back, first, and ask, what is a book blogger? The answer is simple: it's someone who blogs about books. About the books they love, the books they like, the books they hate. It's someone who usually does it all on their own time: the reading, the writing, the posting, the commenting, the (insert all the stuff it takes beyond reading and posting to be a blogger).
But then what's the difference between a book review site and a book blogger?
I won't even try to define that because I think it's vague at best. But I have always considered book review site more geared toward criticism…good and bad…than actual book discussion. But even then there's a certain amount of book discussion on book review blogs, so it gets even more confusing.
A Book "Influencer?"
Now this was something I'd never seen before: a book influencer. And the blogger I'm linking to here asks the question, "What's the Difference Between an Influencer and a Book Reviewer?"
I'm not exactly sure where or when the term Influencer originated. But in the publishing world Influencer is often used to refer to a reader who signs up to help in the promotion of a book in exchange for a free copy of that book. The author puts together a list of interested Influencers (a limited number), along with their addresses. The publisher then sends the book to those people (usually a couple weeks before the release).
The piece goes on to state that influencers are fans of the author, their goal is to promote the author and the book, and they do it in a variety of ways that may or may not include a book review. Then the term "Launch Team" is mentioned, which is a group of influencers who are strictly out to promote the author. I take this to be the same thing as a Street Team, but don't quote me on that.
Essentially the terms are synonymous, except that an author may choose to keep a Launch Team ongoing via a Facebook Group or Email Loop.
Ultimately, this means that when you…the reader…see your favorite author on facebook getting tons of comments and photos posted to his or her timeline there is a good chance they aren't coming from actual facebook friends or fans, at least no in the literal sense of fandom. There's a good chance they are coming from influencers and teams of people who are only interested in promoting the author as much as they can so they can receive something in return. I don't do this. Whatever you see on my timeline is coming from people that I didn't solicit with gifts and free books. But it is common nowadays with many authors, and it's getting easier to spot the more I see it. I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with it because in most cases the influencers are fans in a twisted ethical sense. But I do wonder what would happen if the authors who do this didn't offer the influencers anything in return. In an offhanded way it reminds me of circus people who plant shills in audiences.
But this is a very honest article and I found it highly informative, especially the part where the author discusses the difference between a book reviewer and an influencer. She's up front and totally honest, and I think this is one set definition we can trust.
In other words, a Book Reviewer's goal is to help the reader make wise reading choices. An Influencer's goal is to help the author with promotion.
As an author and a blogger it's often hard to get into topics like this because one of my goals as an author is to promote my books and my publishers, and the other as a blogger is to provide honest objective information to readers with regard to any topic. Sometimes I'm not that objective. But when I do post about things like this I tend to lean more toward being a blogger than an author and I also tend to piss a few people off (other authors). A lot of authors don't want you to know they have influencers or launch/street teams. Some of these authors are so promotion oriented they will cut your throat to sell a book that may or may not be a very good book. But in the spirit of full disclosure, as a blogger, I think it's important for readers to know these things, and to understand what these terms mean so they can decide for themselves.


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Background: Studies evaluating and comparing the power of frailty, comorbidity, and disability instruments, together and in parallel, for predicting mortality are limited.
Objective: This study aimed to evaluate and compare the measures of frailty, comorbidity, and disability in predicting 1-year mortality in geriatric inpatients.
Patients and setting: A total of 307 inpatients aged ≥65 years in geriatric wards of a general hospital participated in the study.
Measurements: The patients were evaluated in relation to different frailty, comorbidity, and disability instruments during their hospital stays. These included three frailty (the seven-category Clinical Frailty Scale [CFS-7], a 41-item frailty index [FI], and the FRAIL scale), two comorbidity (the Cumulative Illness Rating Scale for Geriatrics [CIRS-G] and the comorbidity domain of the FI [Comorbidity-D-FI]), and two disability instruments (disability in basic activities of daily living [ADL-Katz] and the instrumental and basic activities of daily living domains of the FI [IADL/ADL-D-FI]). The patients were followed-up over 1 year.
Results: Using FI, CIRS-G, Comorbidity-D-FI, and ADL-Katz, this study identified a patient group with a high (≥50%) 1-year mortality rate in all of the patients and the two patient subgroups (ie, patients aged 65–82 years and ≥83 years). The CFS-7, FI, FRAIL scale, CIRS-G, Comorbidity-D-FI, and IADL/ADL-D-FI (analyzed as full scales) revealed useful discriminative accuracy for 1-year mortality (ie, an area under the curve >0.7) in all the patients and the two patient subgroups (all P<0.001). Thereby, CFS-7 (in all patients and the two patient subgroups) and FI (in the subgroup of patients aged ≥83 years) showed greater discriminative accuracy for 1-year mortality compared to other instruments (all P<0.05).
Conclusion: All the different instruments emerged as suitable tools for risk stratification in geriatric inpatients. Among them, CFS-7, and in those patients aged ≥83 years, also the FI, might most accurately predict 1-year mortality in the aforementioned group of individuals.


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Tax Dollars: 'Six Porsches, Six BMWs, Two Mercedes-Benzes, a Ferrari, and a Tesla'
Posted on | March 25, 2022 | Comments Off on Tax Dollars: 'Six Porsches, Six BMWs, Two Mercedes-Benzes, a Ferrari, and a Tesla'
Remember "free" COVID-19 testing? Kind of like the "free" vaccine? All of that "free" stuff was actually funded by taxpayer money, as the federal government ran up trillions of dollars of new deficit spending for the pandemic emergency. Whenever government makes something "free," it's always taxpayers footing the bill, and you can trust that well-connected people are getting rich from the transaction:
The owner of a lab that made hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer money for running COVID-19 tests has amassed a fleet of luxury cars and at least two private planes, WGLT has learned.
Aaron Rossi of Bloomington is CEO at Reditus Labs in Pekin. Rossi was recently indicted on federal tax fraud charges and faces a lawsuit from a business partner who accuses Rossi of "pillaging" Reditus to fund a "nouveau riche over-the-top lifestyle," court records show.
Rossi's vehicle collection certainly points to a spending spree.
There are 28 vehicles registered in Rossi's name or that of his company, AJR MD Consulting, according to state records obtained by WGLT through the Freedom of Information Act. That includes six Porsches, six BMWs, two Mercedes-Benzes, a Ferrari, and a Tesla, records show. Almost all of them are model years 2020, 2021, or 2022, suggesting they were purchased recently.
Separately, there are 59 other vehicles registered to Reditus Laboratories, which Rossi owns. That includes nine BMWs, a Porsche, and a Tesla. . . .
Public records also show that Rossi or his companies own at least two private planes.
One of those planes is a Beechcraft King Air B200GT, registered to AJR MD Consulting – the same Rossi company that many of the luxury vehicles were registered to, according to FAA records. The second plane is a jet (a Mystere Falcon 900) that's registered to Pekin-based RLL Aviation LLC, another Rossi company. . . .
Rossi, a 39-year-old entrepreneur who grew up in the Morton and Peoria area, rose to prominence during the pandemic. Rossi quickly became a high-profile businessman in central Illinois — even appearing alongside Gov. JB Pritzker in 2020 — when Reditus won hundreds of millions of dollars in state contracts to run COVID-19 tests, including from a testing site in Bloomington.
Keep this in mind if the question ever arises why politicians sought to make COVID-19 vaccine mandatory. Pharmaceutical companies made billions off the "free" vaccine. They make big contributions to politicians, and employ obbyists in Washington. "Follow the money."
(Hat-tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.)


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An analysis of the gifted and non-gifted students' creativity within the context of problem-posing activity
Duygu Arabacı 1 * , Adnan Baki 2
1 Düzce University, Education Faculty, Düzce, Türkiye
2 Trabzon University, Fatih Faculty of Education, Trabzon, Türkiye
The purpose of this study was to examine the mathematical creativity of gifted and non-gifted students through the indicators of creativity (fluency, flexibility, and originality). The study involved 12 secondary school students (six gifted and six non-gifted) from different cities in the Black Sea Region of Türkiye. The data were collected through clinical interviews regarding the solutions developed by the students for a problem-posing activity developed by Balka (1974). Each student was interviewed twice over a two-week period. Prior to the interviews, the students were asked to pose as many different and varied problems as possible. In the clinical interviews, the students' solutions were discussed deeply without evaluating their correctness. Using the theoretical framework developed by Taşkın (2016), data were analyzed using fluency, flexibility, and originality indicators of creativity. The results revealed no clear difference between gifted and non-gifted students in terms of fluency indicators, but gifted students generally pose problems more creatively and flexibly than their non-gifted peers. It has been suggested that problem-posing activities be used to compare the creativity of gifted and non-gifted students. The indicators of originality and flexibility can also be weighted differently for calculating students' final scores of mathematical creativity because they are more effective at distinguishing gifted from non-gifted students.
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Akgül, S. (2014). A model study to examine gıfted and talented students' mathematical creativty [Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation]. İstanbulUniversity, İstanbul.
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Depressed, anxious, and unfulfilled, Allie Bailey quit her stressful music industry career to pursue her dreams of adventure. Now, three years on, she's helping others fulfil theirs as Chief Test Pilot for Rat Race, a company specialising in epic adventures on a global scale
I discovered Rat Race in 2018 when I took part in the first test pilot trip to Mongolia, braving temperatures of -47C to run 100 miles across a frozen lake. Until then, I'd spent 12 years working in the music industry — a job I thought I loved, but in reality, it was killing me.
I've always been prone to depression, but the lifestyle and the environment that I was working in had only made things worse. I was anxious, lost, and deeply unhappy. It was only when I returned from Mongolia that I realised I wasn't living life — I was surviving it.
That Mongolia trip was my wake-up call. Spending time alone on the ice in such a remote place with nobody to talk to for hours and hours made me stop and listen to myself and refocus in a way I had never done before.
I quit my music industry job and started my own freelance company, working on my terms with bands and labels I loved. I was spending more and more time doing races and adventures.
Self-supported journeys on foot
I was the first woman to cross Mongolia's Lake Khovsgol on foot (a trip that later became Mongol 100), the first woman to cross the Namib Nukluft Park on foot (Race to the Wreck), and the first woman to not only run the entire length of the Panama Canal, but also to cross Panama (Panama Coast to Coast) via the jungle on foot, self-supported.
In Panama, I came face to face with myself: hungry, exhausted, and stripped of all distraction. It was there I properly found out who I was and what I was capable of. I decided this was the life I wanted to pursue, but I had no idea how to do it.
I spent a good 18 months recceing trips all over the world in places like Scotland, Greece, Spain and the Outer Hebrides – these would go on to become adventures that any member of the public would be able to do and that was great inspiration for me. I want other people to believe there is more to life than being sat behind a desk.
In October 2020 I was asked to join Rat Race full time as Chief Test Pilot. The first time we took 40 people out on the public Race to the Wreck trip through the Namib Desert was transformative for me. I realised I had a use — people trusted me, and I love people.
Life changing experiences
I saw participants change their lives and their perspectives, some even changed their central belief systems, and that was magical. I saw some breakdown and I helped build them back up. Every single one of those people found out something amazing about themselves on that trip and their lives changed for the better.
Rat Race adventures allow people to live how we were born to live — as travellers and explorers. Getting back to basics and doing things outside your comfort zone is such a vital human experience; fear is an important teacher and needs to be embraced.
People need to believe in themselves more and Rat Race gives them the opportunity to do that. It's a privilege and an honour to take people on these trips; it gives my life enormous meaning.
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There is a certain pressure that prevails in January. It affects virtually all of us and the question even takes over chit chat about the weather. Is there anyone who hasn't been asked what their New Year resolution is?
From Boxing Day to mid January, talk of New Year resolutions from all quarters is hard to avoid. January 17th is the most common day to give up any resolution so we are celebrating National Ditch your New Year Resolution Day. Let's take five popular resolutions and just say NO!
The most widespread New Year resolution is weight loss. People want those extra pounds which appeared with the excesses of Christmas gone, and look for magic diets to help them. Ditch the dream and check the research which has shown that sensible healthy eating in moderation, coupled with exercise or sport is really the best way forward.
Quitting smoking is another resolution of millions of people throughout the world and everyone agrees that stopping is a good thing. Success only comes with true determination, a lot of willpower and the genuine desire to stop. Struggling smokers, it is time to ditch it when you admit you don't want to stop, or complacency leads you to think that just one cigarette can't hurt now, can it?
We all know someone who has handed over a first hefty monthly payment by signing up to go to the gym after Christmas. Many hope the mere action of parting with cash is the kick start to fitness. It can be so intimidating to find a sea of lyra clad body beautiful's using all that complicated equipment and not even breaking a sweat. It isn't such a surprise that the percentage of new gym members who decide never to return is over 20%!
Getting out of debt – who are we kidding? Each one of us are in debt in some way, it happens to people, banks and nations alike.
The final New Year resolution we suggest throwing in the bin is getting organised. If your natural way has been one of cluttered chaos all your life, it can be highly stressful to attempt to change the habit. Having a tidy desk doesn't necessarily result in finding things sooner or make you work smarter. We say if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Maybe next year your resolution could be to not have a resolution. But if you have ever broken one, we'd love to hear from you.


This is Jillianne, the natural diva and soon to be soap opera star. I am almost 14 years old and in the 8th grade. I was diagnosed with Lupus 4 years ago.
Awareness is very important, because a lot of people don't know very much about Lupus. Lupus is an autoimmune disease, which can affect any part of your body, including your joints or internal organs. Lupus causes your body to see your joints and/or organs as "bad guys", instead of "good guys", and attacks them. Basically your body gets confused and instead of attacking infections or virus', it fights itself. This causes what is known as disease "flares". Lupus not only affects adults, but it affect children too, and their precious childhood.
Lupus affects me in a lot of ways. I get tired very easy and after a simple activity I will sometimes need to take a nap. When I am really fatigued, I might even sleep for 16-20 hours. I get joint pain all over. Sometimes I can't walk because my knees or ankles really hurt. Or, my fingers will hurt so badly that I can't write. I have to take a lot of medicine, sometimes as many as 20 pills a day. I also get a weekly chemo-therapy injections. I am lucky because Lupus can be much more serious.
On April 1, 2001 I'll be participating in "Step for the Cure". This is a walk-a-thon for Lupus, which is sponsored by the Dorough Foundation. Howie Dorough is from the pop band, Backstreet Boys. As you may know Howie's sister, Caroline, died from Lupus. Ever since, Howie has been trying to spread awareness about Lupus and he also has been working on raising money for this life threatening disease. I would like to help by joining "Step for the Cure."
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Another important ontological insight from quantum mechanics is the idea of entanglement. Entanglement is perhaps the keyword of quantum theory today. It refers to how particles continue to "influence" one another even after they have interacted with one another and moved apart. That non-local forms of connection exist and "travel" faster than the speed of light is one of the best-confirmed findings of modern physics. More vexing still, space and time appear not to exist inside the atom, raising the intriguing possibility of retroactive influence or correlation. For the past century, therefore, modern physics has been grappling with the profound and disconcerting fact that the ontology of matter is far less obvious or lifeless than it once appeared to be.
While most physicists have been reticent to discuss the ontological implications of quantum mechanics, the philosophers among them have offered an exotic buffet of quantum ontologies competing to describe the nature of quantum reality. Wendt helpfully navigates this daunting philosophical labyrinth, but he is not primarily interested in re-hashing classical epistemological debates. Instead, he seeks to develop a systematic replacement, going to the roots of intentional phenomena and identifying the quantum foundations of social life. The chapters of Quantum Mind review advances in quantum theory and apply them to biology, the brain, consciousness, decision-making and rationality, experience and memory, free will and agency, language, vision and perception, sociability, interaction, and macro-social structures like the state. In each area, Wendt reviews longstanding theoretical deadlocks and exposes the classical Newtonian assumptions responsible for them. He then weaves together research from multiple disciplines that demonstrates how quantum mechanics helps to make sense of observed behavior within each domain. Perhaps most ambitiously, rather than adopting a "weak" epistemological stance—that quantum formalism should be restricted to prediction—he instead advocates for a "strong" realist interpretation of the quantum systems at work. That is to say, he argues that quantum wave-functions—along with their weird, non-local, and time-symmetric effects—actually exist and operate at the level of social structures.
Wendt's quantum social ontology goes something like this: People are "walking wave-functions." In other words, the human brain is a quantum operating system, protected by organic boundaries and highly skilled in processes of quantum computing that we more commonly call memory and feeling (Experience), information-processing (Cognition), and agency/freedom (Will). Wendt's three quantum faculties, Experience, Cognition, and Will, are the constitutive components of his theory of "quantum mind" as highlighted in the book's title.
Other people, institutions, and objects who "measure" subjects in many different ways interfere with this quantum state of mind, thus effecting its wave-function collapse into everyday reality.
These are also the properties of proto-subjectivity that go all the way down to the subatomic level in Wendt's panpsychic universe. Human brains are capable of sustaining states of "quantum coherence," wherein multiple contradictory possibilities exist within an irreducible wave-function whole. Quantum coherence describes the human unconscious par excellence: in the unconscious, various contradictory potential vectors of meaning and action are held in superposition. But other people, institutions, and objects who "measure" subjects in many different ways interfere with this quantum state of mind, thus effecting its wave-function collapse into everyday reality.
As crisscrossing wave-functions, individuals are not fully separable with respect to meanings, feelings, and identities. Interlocutors may be entangled through language at the level of semantic contexts, which also display several quantum properties. We take turns reading each other's minds, gauging behavior, sizing each other up, thus continuously collapsing the shared wavy superposition of intentions into actual actions. We may also immediately impact one another thanks to the non-locality of light, direct perception, and our quantum-computational brain. Because con-sciousness and language operate in quantum fashion, social reality is essentially holographic: together we create mutual patterns of inter-ference that are processed by our quantum brains to give meaning and matter to the situation, materializing social structures into everyday practices. We are all shaped teleologically by social structures that are invisible, which we participate in making actual via their own wave-function collapse into concretely observable practices.
A major concern for sociologists will be how to do quantum social science empirically. Wendt does not expect social scientists to learn the strange mathematics of quantum mechanics. There are no equations even in the book, thankfully. Nevertheless, it is not pleasant to imagine submitting quantum-theory inflected ideas through peer-review precisely on this point ("…the author does not specify the probability of his or her wave-function…"). Another practical difficulty would be in utilizing Wendt's sophisticated terminology: are more theory articles going to appear that now represent some social practice as a "wave-function collapse" that initiates "temporal symmetry breaking" as experienced in "entanglement" with others? Redescriptions could quickly multiply as to which components of a social sequence are "classical" versus "quantum," "local" versus "non-local," "deterministic" versus "emergent," and so on. Some will surely cringe to imagine others appealing to the same quantum-theoretical framework as he for data analysis.
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More generally, the big cliffhanger here is whether under the default influence of Newtonianism and classical materialism, we have in fact ended up with a sociology sans subjectivity, a life science without the life force of quantum mind, and without the weird properties of consciousness and feelings that animate, enliven, and entangle the real subjects of social science. It may be the case that we have all been too unconcerned with the nature of consciousness and that, overall, the social sciences have done quite admirably in removing humans of will and experience from the equation—an equation worse in explanatory power because of this vital omission, the omission of the vital.
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"Quantum Mind and Social Science: Unifying Physical and Social Ontology" is really a great read for those who want to understand more about newtonianism. Also, the book tackles the way the human brain functions. Alexander Wendt indeed made a great job in the creation of this book. As a fan of scientific advances, I am deeply glad that this book turned out as good as it looks. I hope that Wendt will make a sequel to as good as this one.


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Q: How to compute the sum of orders over a 12 months period sliding by 1 month per customer in Spark I am relatively new to spark with Scala. currently I am trying to aggregate order data in spark over a 12 months period that slides monthly.
Below is a simple sample of my data, I tried to format it so you can easily test it
import spark.implicits._
import org.apache.spark.sql._
import org.apache.spark.sql.functions._

var sample = Seq(("C1","01/01/2016", 20), ("C1","02/01/2016", 5),
 ("C1","03/01/2016", 2),  ("C1","04/01/2016", 3), ("C1","05/01/2017", 5),
 ("C1","08/01/2017", 5), ("C1","01/02/2017", 10), ("C1","01/02/2017", 10),
 ("C1","01/03/2017", 10)).toDF("id","order_date", "orders")

sample = sample.withColumn("order_date",
to_date(unix_timestamp($"order_date", "dd/MM/yyyy").cast("timestamp")))

sample.show

 +---+----------+------+
 | id|order_date|orders|
 +---+----------+------+
 | C1|2016-01-01|    20|
 | C1|2016-01-02|     5|
 | C1|2016-01-03|     2|
 | C1|2016-01-04|     3|
 | C1|2017-01-05|     5|
 | C1|2017-01-08|     5|
 | C1|2017-02-01|    10|
 | C1|2017-02-01|    10|
 | C1|2017-03-01|    10|
 +---+----------+------+

the imposed upon me outcome is the following.
id      period_start    period_end  rolling
C1      2015-01-01      2016-01-01  30
C1      2016-01-01      2017-01-01  40
C1      2016-02-01      2017-02-01  30
C1      2016-03-01      2017-03-01  40

what I tried to do so far
I collapsed the dates per costumer to the first day of the month

(e.i. 2016-01-[1..31] >> 2016-01-01 )

import org.joda.time._

val collapse_month = (month:Integer, year:Integer ) => {
   var  dt = new DateTime().withYear(year)
                        .withMonthOfYear(month)
                        .withDayOfMonth(1)
   dt.toString("yyyy-MM-dd")
 }

val collapse_month_udf = udf(collapse_month)

sample = sample.withColumn("period_end",
           collapse_month_udf(
           month(col("order_date")),
           year(col("order_date"))
           ).as("date"))

sample.groupBy($"id",  $"period_end")
              .agg(sum($"orders").as("orders"))
              .orderBy("period_end").show

 +---+----------+------+
 | id|period_end|orders|
 +---+----------+------+
 | C1|2016-01-01|    30|
 | C1|2017-01-01|    10|
 | C1|2017-02-01|    20|
 | C1|2017-03-01|    10|
 +---+----------+------+

I tried the provided window function but I was not able to use 12 months sliding by one option.
I am really not sure what is the best way to proceed from this point, that would not take 5 hours given how much data I have to work with.
Any help would be appreciated.

A:
tried the provided window function but I was not able to use 12 months sliding by one option.

You can still use window with longer intervals, but all parameters have to be expressed in days or weeks:
window($"order_date", "365 days", "28 days")

Unfortunately window this won't respect month or year boundaries, so it won't be that useful for you.
Personally I would aggregate data first:
val byMonth = sample
  .groupBy($"id", trunc($"order_date", "month").alias("order_month"))
  .agg(sum($"orders").alias("orders"))

+---+-----------+-----------+
| id|order_month|sum(orders)|
+---+-----------+-----------+
| C1| 2017-01-01|         10|
| C1| 2016-01-01|         30|
| C1| 2017-02-01|         20|
| C1| 2017-03-01|         10|
+---+-----------+-----------+

Create reference date range:
import java.time.temporal.ChronoUnit

val Row(start: java.sql.Date, end: java.sql.Date) = byMonth
  .select(min($"order_month"), max($"order_month"))
  .first

val months = (0L to ChronoUnit.MONTHS.between(
    start.toLocalDate, end.toLocalDate))
  .map(i => java.sql.Date.valueOf(start.toLocalDate.plusMonths(i)))
  .toDF("order_month")

And combine with unique ids:
val ref = byMonth.select($"id").distinct.crossJoin(months)

and join back with the source:
val expanded = ref.join(byMonth, Seq("id", "order_month"), "leftouter")

+---+-----------+------+
| id|order_month|orders|
+---+-----------+------+
| C1| 2016-01-01|    30|
| C1| 2016-02-01|  null|
| C1| 2016-03-01|  null|
| C1| 2016-04-01|  null|
| C1| 2016-05-01|  null|
| C1| 2016-06-01|  null|
| C1| 2016-07-01|  null|
| C1| 2016-08-01|  null|
| C1| 2016-09-01|  null|
| C1| 2016-10-01|  null|
| C1| 2016-11-01|  null|
| C1| 2016-12-01|  null|
| C1| 2017-01-01|    10|
| C1| 2017-02-01|    20|
| C1| 2017-03-01|    10|
+---+-----------+------+

With data prepared like this you can use window functions:
import org.apache.spark.sql.expressions.Window

val w = Window.partitionBy($"id")
     .orderBy($"order_month")
    .rowsBetween(-12, Window.currentRow)

expanded.withColumn("rolling", sum("orders").over(w))
  .na.drop(Seq("orders"))
  .select(
      $"order_month" - expr("INTERVAL 12 MONTHS") as "period_start",
      $"order_month" as "period_end",
      $"rolling")

+------------+----------+-------+
|period_start|period_end|rolling|
+------------+----------+-------+
|  2015-01-01|2016-01-01|     30|
|  2016-01-01|2017-01-01|     40|
|  2016-02-01|2017-02-01|     30|
|  2016-03-01|2017-03-01|     40|
+------------+----------+-------+

Please be advised this is a very expensive operation, requiring at least two shuffles:
== Physical Plan ==
*Project [cast(cast(order_month#104 as timestamp) - interval 1 years as date) AS period_start#1387, order_month#104 AS period_end#1388, rolling#1375L]
+- *Filter AtLeastNNulls(n, orders#55L)
   +- Window [sum(orders#55L) windowspecdefinition(id#7, order_month#104 ASC NULLS FIRST, ROWS BETWEEN 12 PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW) AS rolling#1375L], [id#7], [order_month#104 ASC NULLS FIRST]
      +- *Sort [id#7 ASC NULLS FIRST, order_month#104 ASC NULLS FIRST], false, 0
         +- Exchange hashpartitioning(id#7, 200)
            +- *Project [id#7, order_month#104, orders#55L]
               +- *BroadcastHashJoin [id#7, order_month#104], [id#181, order_month#49], LeftOuter, BuildRight
                  :- BroadcastNestedLoopJoin BuildRight, Cross
                  :  :- *HashAggregate(keys=[id#7], functions=[])
                  :  :  +- Exchange hashpartitioning(id#7, 200)
                  :  :     +- *HashAggregate(keys=[id#7], functions=[])
                  :  :        +- *HashAggregate(keys=[id#7, trunc(order_date#14, month)#1394], functions=[])
                  :  :           +- Exchange hashpartitioning(id#7, trunc(order_date#14, month)#1394, 200)
                  :  :              +- *HashAggregate(keys=[id#7, trunc(order_date#14, month) AS trunc(order_date#14, month)#1394], functions=[])
                  :  :                 +- LocalTableScan [id#7, order_date#14]
                  :  +- BroadcastExchange IdentityBroadcastMode
                  :     +- LocalTableScan [order_month#104]
                  +- BroadcastExchange HashedRelationBroadcastMode(List(input[0, string, true], input[1, date, true]))
                     +- *HashAggregate(keys=[id#181, trunc(order_date#14, month)#1395], functions=[sum(cast(orders#183 as bigint))])
                        +- Exchange hashpartitioning(id#181, trunc(order_date#14, month)#1395, 200)
                           +- *HashAggregate(keys=[id#181, trunc(order_date#14, month) AS trunc(order_date#14, month)#1395], functions=[partial_sum(cast(orders#183 as bigint))])
                              +- LocalTableScan [id#181, order_date#14, orders#183]

It is also possible to express this using rangeBetween frame, but you have to encode data first:
val encoded = byMonth
  .withColumn("order_month_offset",
      // Choose "zero" date appropriate in your scenario
      months_between($"order_month", to_date(lit("1970-01-01"))))

val w = Window.partitionBy($"id")
  .orderBy($"order_month_offset")
  .rangeBetween(-12, Window.currentRow)

encoded.withColumn("rolling", sum($"orders").over(w))

+---+-----------+------+------------------+-------+
| id|order_month|orders|order_month_offset|rolling|
+---+-----------+------+------------------+-------+
| C1| 2016-01-01|    30|             552.0|     30|
| C1| 2017-01-01|    10|             564.0|     40|
| C1| 2017-02-01|    20|             565.0|     30|
| C1| 2017-03-01|    10|             566.0|     40|
+---+-----------+------+------------------+-------+

This would make the join with reference obsolete and simplify execution plan.

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Q: mysql between and used via JDBC preparedstatement - getting Parameter index out of range exception From the select query parameterized the value (date value with BETWEEN , AND)
my query
SELECT COUNT(*) AS assignedtotalcount FROM ticket, ticket_data
WHERE ticket.`ticket_id` = ticket_data.`ticket_id`
AND ticket.`created` BETWEEN '?' AND '?'

from the above query parameterized the values in BETWEEN , AND
Java code
static String dateFrom = "2018-01-01";
static String dateTo = "2018-01-31";
String query = reportQuery.toString();
statement = connection.createStatement();
preparedStatement = connection.prepareStatement(query);
preparedStatement.setString(1, dateFrom);
preparedStatement.setString(2, dateTo);
resultSet = preparedStatement.executeQuery(query);

while execute i am getting the below exception
java.sql.SQLException: Parameter index out of range (1 > number of parameters, which is 0).

please help me to resolved

A: Do not quote the placeholders. You need to change the '?' to ?.
So the query become like this
SELECT COUNT(*) AS assignedtotalcount FROM ticket, ticket_data
WHERE ticket.`ticket_id` = ticket_data.`ticket_id`
AND ticket.`created` BETWEEN ? AND ?