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Shape-Reconfigurable Architected Materials
by Ana V. Almeida | Sep 12, 2016
Researchers propose an architected material that can be constructed from virtually any base material.
Researchers from the University of California, Irvine and Los Angeles, propose an architected material that can be constructed from virtually any base material (metallic, ceramic, polymer or composite), at any length scale and dimensionality (1D, 2D and 3D), enabling complex shape morphing patterns. In addition, this material is fully reversible which means it can be infinitely recovered wih no compromise on the efficiency, integrity or life of the structure. This new material could pave the way for manufacturing of highly adaptable components that are fully reconfigurable based on functionality. Some of the specific possible applications include portable structures, impact absorbers, devices with tunable phononic response and vibration isolators.
Multi-stable shape reconfigurable architected materials with dynamic hinges that enable different combinations of strength, volume and complex shape morphing. The proposed architected material can be constructed from virtually any base material, at any length scale and dimensionality.
Many strategies towards this goal have been proposed before. Among those are foldable origami, tension controlled tensegrity structures, shape memory morphing materials and structures, shape-shifting jamming materials and modular self-assembled structures. In most of these material systems, the ability of the material to morph is very limited in terms of direction and amplitude of deformation.
In order to overcome this, Haghpanah et al developed an analytical model for the behavior of bi-stable structural elements. This model provided valuable insights on the mechanical response (including failure) of shape reconfigurable materials and it was used to explore a multi-parameter design space. All the analytical and numerical investigations were validated by experiments to characterize the mechanical behavior of building blocks and their integration in architected materials. Complete design maps were produced towards a specific unit cell topology, which was shown to have remarkable energy absorption capabilities not seen before for fully reconfigurable structures. Not only the researchers showed a shape reconfigurable material that is orders of magnitude stronger than previously published concepts, but also can be applied to many materials.
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I recently switched from Windows to Mac. One of the things that's really ingrained in my muscle memory is hitting Alt+D in a browser to go to the address bar. On Mac browsers, ⌘+D creates a bookmark, the equivalent to move to the address bar is ⌘+L.
I've used the Keyboard pref pane to remap ⌘+D to the "Open Location..." command in Safari, Chrome, and Firefox. In Safari this works great. In both Chrome and Firefox, hitting ⌘+D now goes to the address bar and creates a bookmark. Is there any way to get this to work properly in Chrome and Firefox?
You can achieve this using the keyboard prefs just as you were trying. You simply need to create one more shortcut.
By setting an explicit shortcut for Bookmark This Page... you get rid of the conflict an ensure there aren't two menu options with the same shortcut.
Unfortunately none of the extensions I have work. However, there is a way to do this in the version of OSX I'm using, at least. Go to Settings->Keyboard->Shortcuts, and then from the list on the left select "App Shortcuts". Click "+" to add a new app shortcut and then select Google Chrome from the list of Apps.
Now, you must assign "Bookmark This Page..." to something else first so that you can truly override command+D. I chose to select shift+command+B.
After that click "+" again, and assign "Open Location..." to command+D. Now it should work.
I can't believe how long it took me to find this answer, I guess everyone else uses Alt+L or Firefox. Thanks to Pysis for their answer here.
Edit: This was so frustrating I made an account just to respond to this.
Here's an article on remapping keyboard shortcuts for Firefox. You'll need the keyconfig extension.
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Q: MATLAB- How to plot a single "packed" variable so in MATLAB, when using ODE45 for multiple ODEs, you can "pack" as my professor calls it, terms into a single term like so
function [dYdt] = HW3_P2_ftn(t,Y)

%Unpack the state variables
D = Y(1);
CA = Y(2);

So now Y is made up of two vectors of different variables.
At the end of my code, after ODE45, I want to plot only Y(2) without Y(1).
Can someone explain to me how I may do that?

A: My fault guys, over complicating it.
Best option is to slice the matrix using
CA= Y(:,2);

Plot(t,CA)

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Alex Nichols may very well quietly storm The North Face Endurance Challenge 50 Mile Championships men's field. In this interview, Alex talks about the foot injury that made him drop from this event last year and his recovery, his first experience running and winning the Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile in September, what recovering from a 100 miler has felt like, and his short block of fast training in preparation for TNF 50.
By the way, Alex's interview is part of a pre-race men's interview show. Check it out!
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iRF-Hicks: We're here at the San Francisco Running Company. It's a little less than 24 hours before the 2016 The North Face Endurance Challenge 50 Mile Championships. We are with Alex Nichols. Good morning.
Alex Nichols: Good morning. Good to be here.
iRF-Hicks: How are you doing?
iRF-Bowman: Aside from the traffic jam?
Nichols: Yeah, travel was a little rough getting over here.
iRF-Bowman: Hopefully you won't get stuck in a traffic jam on the trails tomorrow.
Nichols: Yeah, could be at least for the first 10 miles or so.
iRF-Bowman: You've obviously had a great season. I feel like you're sort of one of the most quietly consistent people on the international circuit over the last several years. You had a fourth-place finish at Broken Arrow. You won the Pikes Peak Marathon for the second year in a row and were second at Speedgoat. You won Run Rabbit. How do you feel about your season? How do you think it helped set you up for TNF this weekend?
Nichols: I was pretty injured for the first part of the year. That's why my first real race was Broken Arrow. I feel like that's kind of a nice thing to push everything back since this race is so late. Yeah, I feel actually pretty good about that. It doesn't feel like a long season the way it did last year or the year before. I feel pretty good.
iRF-Hicks: Let's talk about your injury. You were here last year, and I interviewed you on the same day. You had some plantar fasciitis that you hoped would hold itself together during the race but it didn't.
Nichols: Yeah, that had started… Les Templiers last year was when it started getting bad. Then I trained for this race, and it just got super terrible.
iRF-Hicks: Inflamed during the race.
Nichols: Yeah, I tried to take time off beforehand to taper and also just to hope it could hold together but no.
iRF-Hicks: PF is a common injury for runners, and it's one that's really difficult to heal from for many people. What was the process like for you?
iRF-Bowman: Sleeping in the boot?
Nichols: Yeah you try everything because there's no specific thing that cures everybody. If there was, it wouldn't be such a bad injury. I did all the standard things. I went to physical therapy all the time. But I didn't run from December after the race… I probably didn't run more than 50 miles for the next three months. Even that didn't necessarily help that much. Eventually in May I started to have a good couple days here and there and it turned into more good days and it kind of went away. I have no idea how it went away.
iRF-Hicks: You just threw enough at it and took enough time off that eventually the inflammation went away?
Nichols: I guess. I don't know. I don't want to jinx myself.
iRF-Bowman: You've sort of been known for mostly Sky racing over the last few years, but this year you ran your first 100-mile race at Run Rabbit in Steamboat. You managed to win the race in a very impressive time. Talk about your experience stepping up in distance there. Do you think maybe you have strength in the longer-distance races? Did it give you more ambition to do races like that in the future?
Nichols: Yeah, it was obviously a huge difference running that race from… I've done the Limone Sky Race, and it's a whole different world. I think, yeah, I think 100 miles… I was pretty nervous about it because I just had no idea what to expect, but come race day I kind of realized it is still just another ultra race. Even though it's twice the distance of the 50, a lot of the same things happen. It's just more spread out. I think my racing strategy of being a little more conservative is obviously helpful with the 100 miles. I think it could be a race that suits me pretty well in the future.
iRF-Bowman: Were you surprised and satisfied with the day?
Nichols: Yeah, it's still just kind of a surreal experience. I felt really good for 80 miles, and then I felt kind of bad for 20. It was good.
iRF-Bowman: That's about as much as you can ask for.
iRF-Hicks: I think many people would die for that kind of day. I've got to be honest, I was really surprised that you signed up for a 100 miles. You have said before that you prefer the shorter stuff and the quicker recovery. Was it the money that called your name, or what drew you there ultimately?
Nichols: I think it was going to Broken Arrow, having a bad day, kind of feeling like I was stuck in this marathon-to-50k-Sky race rut almost. Then the rest of my season was pretty much up in the air. I didn't really have any solid plans, so it worked with my work schedule, and it worked nicely with Pikes Peak and the end of the summer. I was just like, Well, we'll try something new.
iRF-Bowman: How did you change your training between the Sky races like you mentioned leading into the 100 miler, and how has it adjusted since then leading into TNF?
Nichols: It was pretty different. I pretty much just focused on volume. With Sky running, I do quite a bit of vert and workouts, uphill workouts. For Run Rabbit Run, pretty much my mantra was, "When in doubt, run more." That was going through my head every day. Well, I can run tonight, might as well. I just ran more but not necessarily fast. I got a fair bit of vertical in, but Run Rabbit Run is not a super-steep race, so I didn't focus on that as much. My workouts definitely suffered. I didn't do as many of them, and when I did they were always slow because I was always tired. Then I had little rest period right before Pikes Peak. That kind of let me recover from all the training. Pikes Peak was the final long run and then recover from that and made it to the starting line.
iRF-Bowman: So, after Run Rabbit, what was the recovery like? How's the training been since then?
Nichols: It was pretty rough. I definitely came down with some injuries during the last 20 miles that were rough. I had some tendonitis in my knees and something in my left foot. I didn't do too much for the first four or five weeks just because I couldn't. I was in a decent amount of pain trying to run, which was good. A lot of people talk about that 100-mile fatigue that they feel for a long time afterward. I think I kind of got to bypass that just because I wasn't running enough to feel that.
iRF-Bowman: Yeah, that's probably a blessing.
Nichols: Yeah, so then it was getting closer and closer to this race and I was like, Oh, I don't know if I'll really run. I kind of got to the point where all my injury stuff cleared up. That was still only the end of October though. Since then I've focused back more on speed and not quite the volume I was doing before Run Rabbit Run and a much shorter period. I've only had three good weeks of training.
iRF-Hicks: You are the guy people are afraid of seeing late in the race because you don't go out necessarily aggressive. You hang back. Then you come blasting by people in the last third or quarter of races. It has been said more than one time in the last couple days that people are readily expecting you to employ this strategy. Are you?
Nichols: Yeah, I always try to run my race and try to run my best possible time. I coach cross country and track, and this is always what I tell them: The best finish in terms of position is always going to come from the best time. When you look at world records and best runs, people have run generally pretty even. It's not that waiting back and trying to blast by people, it's more like in those first 10 miles, I think, Whoo, 7:00 minute/miles? That's pretty fast. I'm not going to be running 7:00 minute/miles at mile 47. So, yeah, I'm just trying to run consistent.
iRF-Bowman: It's interesting because there's the Zach Miller approach and then there's the Alex Nichols approach. You guys both live in Colorado Springs.
iRF-Hicks: I think you run together sometimes, don't you?
iRF-Bowman: I'm curious, do you ever feel tempted when you see somebody like Zach spring off the line? A race like this when there's a lot on the line, do you ever feel like, Maybe this race I'll try to be more aggressive?
Nichols: Yeah, it's definitely tempting, but the few times I've tried it it hasn't worked out very well for me. So I'm just going to run my own race especially tomorrow since I haven't had the greatest training. I'll be pretty far back I'm guessing at the beginning.
iRF-Bowman: At the beginning—that's an important caveat. You just mentioned you coach at Colorado College. It seems like you all just had a successful end of the season. I'm curious to know a little more about that and the satisfaction you probably get from coaching.
Nichols: Yeah, our women's team ended up 12th at Division III [NCAA] Cross-Country Nationals, which ties their best finish that the program has ever had. It's really cool. The people we get in Division III, our number-two runner this year, she was a 19:45 high school 5k runner. In college, she really enjoys running, she works hard, and she got it down to 17:25.
iRF-Bowman: Great coaching, I guess.
Nichols: It's that, but it's also just working with people that enjoy running. That's a huge part of Division III, and to see it come to fruition like it did this year after four years in the making, it's really fun to do.
iRF-Bowman: That's your alma mater, too?
Nichols: Yes, there are a lot of stories like that that we have because a lot of people were undertrained in high school or they just didn't take it seriously. Then all the sudden they get to Colorado College and we have trails and altitude definitely helps. People just get better.
iRF-Hicks: Awesome. As Dylan said, the trails are looking good out there in his homeland. The weather forecast is actually looking brilliant.
Nichols: Yeah, it's like once every couple years.
iRF-Hicks: Things are lining up for a pretty fast race.
iRF-Bowman: Good luck. Hopefully we'll see you sweep a lot of carnage in the second half of the race tomorrow.
Nichols: Thanks, that would be nice.
iRF-Bowman: Alright, buddy, thanks for coming in.


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Immigration and citizenship firm Henley & Partners reported that Filipinos can visit 61 countries without applying for a visa.
Henley & Partners placed the Philippines in 76th place in its Visa Restrictions Index on February.
Based on information from the International Air Transport Association (IATA) through its Timatic application as of December 2015, the 61 countries are as follows:
Brunei Darussalam (14 days)
Cambodia (21 days)
Indonesia (30 days)
Laos (30 days)
Malaysia (14 days)
Myanmar (14 days)
Singapore (30 days)
Thailand (30 days)
Vietnam (21 days)
Azerbaijan (30 days)
Taiwan (30 days) (If holding valid visa for Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Schengen countries, UK and US)
Georgia (90 days)
Hong Kong (14 days)
India (30 days)
Iran (15 days)
Israel (90 days)
South Korea (30 days) (If arriving at Jeju Island only)
Macau (30 days)
Maldives (30 days)
Mongolia (21 days)
Nepal (90 days)
Sri Lanka (30 days)
Timor Leste (30 days)
Cook Islands (31 days)
Fiji (120 days)
Marshall Islands (30 days)
Micronesia (30 days)
Niue (30 days)
Palau (30 days)
Samoa (60 days)
Tuvalu (30 days)
Vanuatu (30 days)
Costa Rica (30 days)
Dominica (21 days)
Haiti (90 days)
Nicaragua (90 days)
Saint Lucia (42 days)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (30 days)
Turks and Caicos Islands (30 days)
Bolivia (90 days)
Brazil (90 days)
Colombia (90 days)
Ecuador (90 days)
Peru (183 days)
Suriname (90 days)
Burundi (30 days)
Djibouti (30 days)
Gambia (90 days)
Kenya (90 days)
Madagascar (90 days)
Morocco (90 days)
Mozambique (30 days)
Seychelles (30 days)
Tanzania (30 days)
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Zambia (90 days)
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I'm glad you like it Don. Thank you very much for the feature in the group "Coastal Waterbirds - Shorebirds."
This is a little blue heron that I found in John Sargent Park, Tampa, Florida. Little blue herons�(egretta caerulea) are birds of quiet waters from estuaries, marshes, and tidal flats, to streams, swamps and flooded fields of the southeastern United States, coastal Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and northern South America into interior Brazil. Most birds are resident. This small, dark, slightly built, slatey blue heron measures from 22" to 29.1" in length with a wingspan between 39.4" and 41.3." It has fairly long dark blue legs and feet, a straight pale blue spear like bill with a black tip, and rounded wings. The slender neck and head are a purplish blue.


I was invited to a BLOCK SCREENING to STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS at Gateway Cinema 6 by Pizza Hut. We got to sample the new Pizza Hut Cheese Burger Pizza before the movie starts. Cheese burger patties in the crust with your favorite pizza toppings mouthwatering that made me want for more.
The new out of this world combination that I advice for you to try! Cheese burger or pizza? You decide! Is the New Cheese Burger Pizza more of a burger or more of a pizza? Why?
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Fancy a job in biosecurity controlling pest species?
My mate Dr Brad Page — Principal Biosecurity Officer (Pest Animals) at Biosecurity SA — asked me to post the following jobs he's advertising for pest-animal control. Now, I'm near-completely opposed to 'wild dog' (i.e., dingo) control in Australia, but I've agreed to post the third position as well, despite my ecological misgivings. Brad has a different perspective.
We have exciting opportunities for three new pest animal control coordinators, who will be working to support and reinvigorate control of deer, rabbits, and 'wild dogs'.
All three coordinators will be part of our Biosecurity SA Division within PIRSA. These new positions will report to our Principal Biosecurity Officer, Pest Animals.
Deer and Rabbit Control Coordinators (two positions)
The Deer Control Coordinator and the Rabbit Control Coordinator will provide tailored professional support to natural resource management (NRM) staff and community groups doing control programs. These coordinators will aim to increase the impact of deer and rabbit control programs to support primary producers and biodiversity managers. The position will connect and empower existing community and industry groups, maximising impacts of their efforts to control feral deer and rabbits in agricultural landscapes. Read the rest of this entry »
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What's in a name? The dingo's sorry saga
The more I delve into the science of predator management, the more I realise that the science itself takes a distant back seat to the politics. It would be naïve to think that the management of dingoes in Australia is any more politically charged than elsewhere, but once you start scratching beneath the surface, you quickly realise that there's something rotten in Dubbo.
My latest contribution to this saga is a co-authored paper led by Dale Nimmo of Deakin University (along with Simon Watson of La Trobe and Dave Forsyth of Arthur Rylah) that came out just the other day. It was a response to a rather dismissive paper by Matt Hayward and Nicky Marlow claiming that all the accumulated evidence demonstrating that dingoes benefit native biodiversity was somehow incorrect.
Their two arguments were that: (1) dingoes don't eradicate the main culprits of biodiversity decline in Australia (cats & foxes), so they cannot benefit native species; (2) proxy indices of relative dingo abundance are flawed and not related to actual abundance, so all the previous experiments and surveys are wrong.
Some strong accusations, for sure. Unfortunately, they hold no water at all. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Australia, CRC, dingo, dingo fence, dingoes, dog fence, pest management, poison, predator management, predators, wild dogs, xenophobia
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En pleno amanecer del punk, el hip hop y la música disco, Richie Finestra, presidente de un gran sello discográfico, intenta salvar su compañía y sin lastimar a nadie en su camino.

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2014| November | Volume 7 | Issue 11
Online since June 24, 2015
Non-allopathic doctors can perform administrative duties, write medical records, and give clinical information in hospitals
November 2014, 7(11):161-162
Non-allopathic doctors cannot treat a patient with allopathic medicines, but can certainly perform administrative duties in a hospital. In this case, the court has further clarified that handling or writing medical records of the patient or giving clinical information to the patient by such doctors is permissible. (In this case, the allegation was that the junior doctor (OP), a homeopath, had treated the patient with allopathic medicines. The court accepted the defense that the junior doctor (OP) "was not a duty doctor, but was handling medical records and clinical information." The court found from the case sheets that he had signed all the medical records, as he was handling medical records and giving clinical information, but he neither treated the patient nor administered any allopathic medicines). ,
A suspicion raised or an advice given by a doctor involved with the patient, even a junior or resident, needs to be taken seriously. Further appropriate steps must be taken to act on the advice or to confirm or reject the suspicion. Ensure that if the advice/suspicion is not followed, then the reasons thereof are clear from the medical records. Failing to act on an advice/suspicion of a fellow doctor could be construed as negligence and the court would need no further evidence in this regard. (In this case, one of the allegations was that the junior doctor (OP) had suspected questionable gastrointestinal bleeding and advised referral to gastroenterologist, but no gastroenterologist attended the patient).
Patients may give incorrect history either knowingly or unknowingly and this may affect the course of treatment. It is therefore imperative that all efforts must be taken to elicit complete and proper history. (This case is an excellent example of the aforesaid. At the time of starting treatment, the patient's father had stated "no history of diabetes or hypertension" and this was duly recorded in the case sheet. Even during cross examination in the court, the patient's father clearly admitted that the doctors had asked him at the time of admission if his daughter (patient) was diabetic and he had informed in the negative. The court, therefore, did not hold the hospital (OP) negligent for not checking patient's blood sugar during the course of treatment). ,
In case of hospitalized patient, any advice of referral by doctor/s involved with the patient must be carried out immediately.
Appropriate investigations must be done and, that too, on time to arrive or confirm a diagnosis. (In this case, one of the allegations was that if the dengue test had been conducted by the hospital (OP) where the patient was first hospitalized, it would have been detected at an early stage and treated accordingly. The court rejected this allegation, as the dengue test done in the next hospital where the patient was shifted reported "borderline positive.")
Refer a patient to a higher center when the patient is not responding to treatment or is critical and needs better management.
Handwritten notings/additions on the consent form - Extreme precautions needed
In case any sentence has to be added in the printed consent form, ensure that the patient puts his/her signature below the newly added sentence. A new page can also be attached to a printed consent form, but the patient's signature must be taken on this additional page. All the pages/documents constituting consent must be serially numbered. (In this case, one of the allegations rejected by the court was that a sentence stating that the uterus could be removed if the necessity arises was added in hand on the printed performa after the patient had signed the consent form). ,
Confusion regarding the necessity of a doctor's signature on the consent form persists. Even in this case, the lower court (State Consumer Commission) had observed that the consent letter "was just a contract agreement between the parties and in the absence of signatures of the OPs (doctors), it cannot be stated to be a valid consent letter." The National Consumer Commission has neither specifically agreed nor disagreed with this observation.
Failure to take proper efforts, to advice appropriate investigations, or to arrive at a proper diagnosis are instances of negligence. [In this case, the court held the doctor (OP) negligent for not taking proper efforts to diagnose and ascertain the exact cause of collection of huge amount of fluid in the patient's abdomen, especially by performing intravenous pyelography (IVP)].
It is advisable to preserve letters/emails/cards sent by patients/relatives/attendants thanking/acknowledging the doctor, especially if any legal trouble is foreseen. (In this case, the doctor (OP) had very specifically pointed in defense that the patient's brother-in-law, who was a doctor, was in constant touch with him and had even sent a letter thanking him for his efforts).
Whenever a hospitalized patient leaves the hospital without proper discharge or simply disappears, the police must be informed about the said fact and this must also be duly recorded in the patient's medical records. (In this case, one of the defenses was that the patient had slipped away from the hospital without informing).
It is absolutely important that when the patient/attendants/relatives take away the medical records forcibly or otherwise, or fail to return the medical records, the same must be duly recorded in the medical records of the patient. (In this case, one of the defenses was that the patient had slipped away from the hospital without informing and had also taken away all her papers).
Perusing, procuring, producing licenses/approvals of implants in legal proceedings
Ensure that implants are from standard companies, have the requisite certificates/licenses, and are procured through official channels/distributors. (In this case, the patient's allegation that the implant used by the orthopedic surgeon (OP) was of inferior quality was rejected by the court as the implant was of a standard company having all the requisite certificates/licenses. The court has observed that "no liability can be cast upon the first opposite party (hospital) who used the certified orthopedic implant for the surgical procedures.")
Before purchasing/requisitioning an implant, confirm whether the requsite certificates/licenses have been granted or not. In case of legal proceedings wherein the quality of the implant is challenged, requesting the manufactures/distributor for attested copies of the requsite certificates/licenses and producing the same in the court is helpful. (In this case, the patient challenged the quality of implants and the hospital (OP) produced the attested copies of ISO certificate, EC certificate, and the license for manufacturing the orthopedic implants, proving that the implants were nationally and internationally approved. The allegation was obviously rejected by the court.)
Patient alleges doctor is spying on him and may kill him
Not only medical negligence cases are increasing with every passing day in India, but also newer types of allegations and, at times, absolutely weird ones are being made. In this case, the patient has gone to the extent of alleging that the gynecologist (OP) was spying on him and "in the case of an accident occurring to me (patient), be it considered unnatural." ,
Some patients look upon medical negligence cases as an easy way to make money and this tendency seems to be increasing. The court's observations in this case are a pointer to this tendency - "The claim is also imaginary without any basis. It is vague and evasive in nature. The complainants are trying their luck in a happy-go-lucky manner. It should be borne in mind that the Consumer Courts are not a lottery center or a game of Russian roulette."
Doctors/scanning centers/pathology laboratories must ensure that the patient's sensitivity and cultural preferences are kept in mind. (In this case, the surrogate mother alleged in the court that during treatment, she had to expose her modesty in front of at least four individuals, including two males, during the operation and during scanning.)
Doctors/hospitals must disclose in advance the estimated cost of treatment to the patient, especially in cases where treatment is of high risk, expensive, or newer technology/protocol/drug is used. (In this case, one of the allegations of the patient who had undergone 3 cycles of IVF was that the estimated cost of total treatment was not disclosed to him.)
Before taking consent, the patient must be explained and counseled in the language known to the patient. Taking signature of a witness in case the consent form is in a language not known to the patient is always advisable. (In this case, the surrogate mother had made a very specific allegation that she was made to sign on a set of consent forms which she could hardly read.)
Information related to patient received by the doctor/hospital must be kept confidential.
Whenever a scheduled surgery/intervention is postponed, the patient/attendants/relatives must be duly informed about the same, the reasons for postponing, and the next scheduled date.
Hospitals/Nursing homes not having in-house or round-the-clock working laboratories - Not entitled to any leniency for delay in performing investigations
Failure to perform investigations on time is negligence. Hospitals and nursing homes not having in-house laboratories or the ones whose laboratories do not work round-the-clock need to be extra cautious. Such hospitals need to have tie-up with nearby standard laboratories to get investigations done even at odd hours for critical patients and in emergencies. (In this case, the court rejected the defense of the hospital (OP) that they were unable to perform the requisite investigations as it was too late to send the specimens to an outside laboratory since the nursing home did not have indoor lab facilities).
Post mishaps/accidents/complications, it is always advisable to consult senior and experienced peers of the same speciality and if indicated, consultants of the other relevant specialities. Specifically record the aforesaid. This protocol is all the more necessary when such a demand is made by the patients/attendants/relatives. (In this case, the patient suffered complications during delivery and was unable to recover from anesthesia. Consultants called by the patient's relatives examined the patient and gave their opinion. This fact was very specifically stated in defense).
Whenever a hospitalized patient leaves the hospital without informing or following/completing the discharge formalities, the said fact must be duly recorded in the patient's medical records; the nearest police station must be informed in writing; and a letter recording the aforesaid must be sent by registered post to the patient's address.
In case the patient/attendants/relatives take away medical records forcibly or otherwise, the said fact must be duly recorded in the medical records and in appropriate cases, even a police complaint must be filed. (In this case, one of the defenses rejected by the court was that the pathologist's report was removed or taken away by the patient/attendants).
Doctors giving expert opinion in legal proceedings must be extra cautious. Allegations of bias toward fellow doctors are fairly common. Even in this case, the lower court (State Consumer Commission) had rejected the expert opinion observing that "After all, one cannot brush aside the fact that the two learned experts belong to the same medical fraternity as the three opposite parties (gynecologists)." But the National Consumer Commission while delivering this judgment has rightly disagreed with these observations.
Advise and perform appropriate, reliable, and more accurate investigations. (In this case, one of the allegations was that the gynecologists (OPs) had diagnosed pre-eclampsia based on a simple reagent strip test and not on the more reliable pathological tests).
Failure to take proper history or record the requisite patient-related information is negligence. (In this case, the court held the gynecologists (OPs) negligent and deficient for failure to record the patient's previous case history at the time of admission, which included information of the number of past antenatal visits, medical case history, important parameters pertaining to her height, weight gain, abdominal and pelvic assessment, and whether she had been screened for gestational diabetes, and so on, as "this was the minimum essential requirement expected of trained midwives, leave alone well-qualified doctors.") ,
Proper notings in medical records are of greatest help in cases of medical negligence. (In this case, one of the allegations was that the gynecologists (OPs) had wrongly diagnosed the patient with pre-eclampsia. The court rejected this argument relying on the bed head ticket wherein symptoms of pre-eclampsia were clearly noted).
Doctors can prefer one course of action over another, but every such course must be within the four corners of accepted medical practice. (In this case, the court rejected the allegation that after diagnosing the patient with pre-eclampsia, the gynecologists (OPs) ought to have immediately performed cesarean rather than waiting for normal vaginal delivery. The court observed that "merely because a doctor chooses one course of action in preference to the other one available, he would not be liable if the course of action chosen by him was acceptable to the medical profession.")
Information/history given by the patients, especially during the time of admission/first consultation, must be vetted and cross checked. Efforts must be taken to elicit correct and complete history. (In this case, the court clearly refused to rely on the history given by the patient to the other hospital. The court has very aptly observed, "the recordings in these two institutions were made on the basis of information supplied by the relatives/attendants of the complainant/patient and were not based on any independent medical record/examination.")
Failure to perform the requisite investigations is negligence. (In this case, the gynecologists (OPs) were held negligent for their failure to conduct the requisite investigations essential in a high-risk first pregnancy case detected with PIH and pre-eclampsia).
Failure to anticipate/caution a patient with a rare blood group about the need of blood in an unexpected emergency - Negligence, holds court
Inform the patient/attendants to arrange blood well in advance. This protocol is all the more necessary in high-risk surgeries or where the patient's blood group is rare. (In this case, the patient's attendants had alleged that it was difficult to arrange donors of a rare blood group "at the eleventh hour." The gynecologist (OP) was held negligent by the court as he had "failed to anticipate or to caution the patient or her relatives about the need of blood in an unexpected emergency.")
Delay in examining/reaching a patient, especially when the patient is critical, could be construed as negligence. (In this case, a very specific allegation was made that post delivery when the patient was bleeding, the gynecologist (OP) was called, but he arrived about an hour later.)
Failure to produce medical records in the court is always viewed adversely by the court.
If best option becomes impossible to perform, the next best option "acceptable to medical science" must be tried
If the requisite drug or blood is simply not available or waiting for the same could be counterproductive, then the next best option that is "also acceptable to medical science" must be tried. (In this case, the patient was critical due to low platelet counts and the patient's relatives were unable to arrange platelets. In such a situation, the hospital (OP) chose to transfuse whole blood and this was pointed as negligence. The court's pointed query, in fact, the first one, was "Whether the blood could be transfused in the event of non-availability of the platelets is the precise question?" Medical literature clearly permits transfusion of whole blood as the next best option, and therefore, the hospital (OP) was not held negligent). ,
Ensure while transferring a patient that the ambulance has oxygen, requisite equipments, a nurse or a doctor, emergency drugs or the drugs required by the patient in transit. The transfer of the patient in this case was legally perfect as the patient was sent in "ambulance alongwith oxygen, artificial ventilation, a medical attendant, and all the emergency drugs."
Failure or refusal of the patient/attendants to shift the patient to another hospital must be duly recorded.
Post accident/mishap - Taking corrective steps and duly recording the same in medical records is imperative
Post accident, it is important to take corrective steps and, that too, on time. Next, the incident as well as the corrective steps must be duly recorded in the patient's medical records truthfully. Courts draw favorable inference from both. (In this case, the patient admittedly suffered an injury when the patient's chin slipped from the chinrest of the slit-lamp microscope, but immediately thereafter, the ophthalmologist (OP) took the indicated corrective steps. The case sheets also recorded the accident as well as the corrective steps taken thereafter. The aforesaid was viewed favorably by the court).
Accidents may or may not be construed as negligence. Courts will not hold a doctor/hospital negligent merely because an accident/mishap has happened, if proper care and caution is taken and standard protocols are followed. In this case, the court has referred to the Supreme Court's statement on this aspect, "Care has to be taken to see that the result of an accident which is exculpatory may not persuade the human mind to confuse it with the consequence of negligence."


In the first part of this article, we talked about static members, non-static members, grocery carts and checkout lines. If you missed Statics & Thread Safety: Part I, you might want to start there.
Many of the classes in the .NET framework have the following remark in the "Thread Safety" section: "Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe."
Does this mean static methods are inherently thread safe? The answer is no. Classes with the above note will have thread safe static methods because the Microsoft engineers wrote the code in a thread safe manner, perhaps by using locks or other thread synchronization mechanisms (to allow only one clerk on a shared register at a time).
Now you might be asking: does this mean static members are never thread safe without locks? The answer is no. It's impossible to know unless the class comes with documentation or you can look at the source code, but a static method can be thread safe without using any locks whatsoever. Let's see how.
As an example, let's work with the following class that represents something to buy at a grocery store.
These items will be kept in a Cart class. The class, shown next, isn't very useful because we cannot add or remove items, but it works well for this example.
Finally, we will have a static method to total the cost of items in a cart. We will use a call to the Sleep method to slow the computation down and make sure there are multiple threads inside the for loop simultaneously.
Next, we run code below to see what happens. This code will create an array of three threads, and populate the array with three new Thread objects. Each thread is initialized to run the Sum method, and then each thread starts. Finally, we wait for each thread to exit with a call to Join. Inside the Sum method, a new Cart is created (and remember our carts will populate themselves with items), and the static GetTotal method is used to compute the total cost of the items in the cart.
So far, so good. There will be three threads executing inside this method at the same time. Each thread will have it's own Cart object that the thread created in the Sum method. Each thread will also have a local variable (total) to keep the sum. Local variables are variables declared inside of a method, and local variables exist on the stack, which is an area of temporary memory or 'scratch memory' reserved by each thread (note: for reference objects, the thread will store the value of the reference variable on the stack, but the value references an object on the heap). It's useful to think of local variables as being private to a thread of execution.
Let's slightly tweak the CheckoutLane class and rerun the program to see what happens.
The above code will produce the correct results again, because only a single thread is allowed inside the lock. The lock prevents two or more threads from overwriting each other's total. If you time the execution of the program, you'll notice it takes a little longer to execute. Since the threads are executing one at a time inside the method in this code, the extra time makes sense.
Will methods using locks, monitors, and mutexes be slower than methods that do not? The answer is: in general, yes. However, it is dangerous and almost impossible to eyeball a piece of multi-threaded code and determine the performance characteristics. You must test the code with your application and in your execution environment to determine the performance characteristics for your workload. Any other approach will be an educated guess.
I hope this article has been an enlightening view on the subject of static members and thread safety. Watch for thread safety when static fields are in play. You'll generally find static fields are put to use inside of static methods, which might be the reason static methods are always a concern in a multi-threaded application. Just remember it's not the static methods you have to watch for, it's the static data.


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Elaine Franklin
Director Kenan Fellows Program
Email: mefrankl@ncsu.edu
Office: James B Hunt Jr Centennial Cam NA
Elaine Franklin is the director of the Kenan Fellows Program for Curriculum and Leadership Development, affiliated with the Kenan Institute for Engineering, Technology & Science at North Carolina State University. The Kenan Fellows Program is an innovative model to promote teacher leadership, address teacher retention and advance K-12 science, technology and mathematics education. Public school teachers selected as Kenan Fellows participate in the prestigious fellowship while remaining active in the classroom.
Dr. Franklin brings years of experience as a teacher, researcher and educational leader. Most recently, she served as the executive director of the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT). She is also the former Director of the Center for Mathematics and Science Education (CMSE) at Western Carolina University. Dr. Franklin has dedicated her career to developing and empowering effective teachers and has worked with teachers from across the United States, all disciplines and grade levels. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from UNC-Asheville, an M.A.Ed. in Education from Western Carolina University and a Ph.D. in Social Foundations of Education from UNC-Chapel Hill.


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Drużyny z województwa olsztyńskiego, elbląskiego i suwalskiego występujące w ligach centralnych i makroregionalnych:
 I liga – brak
 II liga – Olimpia Elbląg
 III liga – Gwardia Szczytno, Stomil Olsztyn, Mazur Ełk, Wigry Suwałki, Orlęta Reszel, Sokół Ostróda, Jeziorak Iława

Rozgrywki okręgowe:

 OZPN Olsztyn:

 Klasa okręgowa (IV poziom rozgrywkowy)
 Klasa A - 2 grupy (V poziom rozgrywkowy)
 Klasa B - podział na grupy (VI poziom rozgrywkowy)
 klasa C(gminna) - podział na grupy (VII poziom rozgrywkowy)

 OZPN Elbląg:

 Klasa okręgowa (IV poziom rozgrywkowy)
 Klasa A - 2 grupy (V poziom rozgrywkowy)
 Klasa B - 4 grupy (VI poziom rozgrywkowy)
 klasa C - podział na grupy (VII poziom rozgrywkowy)

 OZPN Suwałki:

 Klasa okręgowa (IV poziom rozgrywkowy)
 Klasa A (V poziom rozgrywkowy)
 Klasa B (VI poziom rozgrywkowy)

OZPN Olsztyn

Klasa okręgowa

 Tęcza Biskupiec nie awansowała do III ligi
 zespoły z miejsc 1-5 przeszły do nowo utworzonej olsztyńsko-elbląskiej klasy okręgowej
 zespoły z miejsc 6-12 spadły do olsztyńskiej klasy A

OZPN Elbląg

Klasa okręgowa

 zespoły z miejsc 2-8 przeszły do nowo utworzonej olsztyńsko-elbląskiej klasy okręgowej
 zespoły z miejsc 9-13 spadły do elbląskiej klasy A
 zespół z miejsca 14 spadł do elbląskiej klasy B

OZPN Suwałki

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Brian Kraut
Scott Stringer's deep expertise in New York Metropolis politics has but to translate into momentum within the mayor's race. Might an endorsement from the Working Households Celebration assist?
The New York Metropolis mayoral race is among the most consequential political contests in a era, with immense challenges awaiting the winner. That is the second in a sequence of profiles of the major candidates.
On a late February morning in TriBeCa, essentially the most seasoned politician within the New York Metropolis mayor's race was sitting exterior, futzing together with his fogging-up eyeglasses as he wrestled with an evaluation of an election that seemed to be slipping from his grasp.
For Scott M. Stringer, each chapter of his regular ascent by means of New York politics — serving on a neighborhood planning board as a teenager; turning into a protégé of Consultant Jerrold Nadler; transferring from district leader to state assemblyman, Manhattan borough president and eventually, metropolis comptroller — has laid the groundwork for a long-expected mayoral bid.
He has deep expertise, boasts a raft of endorsements and verges on jubilant when describing his ardour for his hometown. For a lot of the mayoral marketing campaign, none of that has been sufficient to generate a surge of enthusiasm round his candidacy, in line with polling and interviews with greater than 30 activists, lawmakers and different New York Democrats.
Mr. Stringer is working laborious to alter that.
"If I used to be a e book, and also you're in a bookstore and also you noticed the quilt of the e book, it's possible you'll say, 'I'm undecided I wish to learn that,'" Mr. Stringer stated, framing an image of himself together with his fingers, reaching from his head to his midline.
"What my job is, is to get folks of all totally different backgrounds to take that e book off the shelf, open up the e book, take a look at the totally different chapters of my profession and the problems I've championed."
Mr. Stringer, 60, would seem to have the assets, the résumé and the identify recognition to do exactly that, trailing solely Eric Adams, the Brooklyn borough president, in funds available thus far.
He's hoping that his rigorously cultivated political community and a temper of citywide emergency will assist him entice voters motivated by each his progressive pitch and his pledges of regular managerial competence.
On Tuesday, Mr. Stringer was endorsed as the first choice of the Working Households Celebration, aiding his efforts to emerge because the race's left-wing standard-bearer.
Nonetheless, in current months, it's Andrew Yang — embraced as a celeb from the 2020 presidential race — who has led polls and infused important power into the mayoral marketing campaign. Mr. Stringer, who started the race as a high candidate, has scrambled to model Mr. Yang as an unserious purveyor of "half-baked concepts" whilst he dominates information media protection.
Mr. Adams and Maya D. Wiley, a former counsel to Mayor Invoice de Blasio, beat out Mr. Stringer for a number of major labor endorsements. These candidates and others in the crowded field are additionally competing with Mr. Stringer for both the "authorities expertise" mantle or the title of left-wing standard-bearer.
And for all of his outstanding supporters, detailed coverage plans and bold concepts on points like climate and post-pandemic education, Mr. Stringer can be a white man who spent his profession rising by means of conventional political establishments. New York Democrats in a number of current races have preferred to elevate candidates of shade and political outsiders.
Now he faces his most difficult balancing act up to now, as he campaigns as a veteran authorities official whereas in search of to ally himself with the activist left.
"He's making an attempt to string this needle between new and outdated supporters," stated Susan Kang, a member of the steering committee of the New York Metropolis Democratic Socialists, in an interview late final month. "You know the way if you happen to attempt to make everyone pleased, you don't make anyone pleased? That's one thing that has given folks pause."
But with the Working Households Celebration's endorsement, Mr. Stringer discovered new trigger for optimism. It was a sign to deeply progressive voters that the group believes they need to unite round supporting Mr. Stringer's candidacy, at a time of growing left-wing concern about Mr. Yang.
Mr. Stringer stays in rivalry for different main endorsements, together with one from the United Federation of Lecturers. And he's conscious that many citizens have just begun to pay attention. Main debates don't start till Could, and the race to the June 22 major might not crystallize till extra candidates hit the airwaves with tv promoting within the closing weeks of the race.
Nonetheless, one supporter just lately in contrast Mr. Stringer to Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Mr. Stringer's choice within the 2020 presidential major. Like Ms. Warren, Mr. Stringer has an extended checklist of coverage plans and is considerate about governance. However Ms. Warren, the ally famous, didn't win.
Mr. Stringer stated his marketing campaign deliberate to be "very aggressive" within the coming weeks, "reminding folks of my report and who I'm and what I imagine in and what I might do as mayor."
"I want a message second," he stated.
A political upbringing
Any e book written about Mr. Stringer would have a standard theme: He's a political animal.
Mr. Stringer, born to a politically lively Jewish household, was raised in Washington Heights. His father was counsel to Mayor Abraham Beame, his mother was elected to the City Council, and his stepfather additionally labored in metropolis authorities.
He made his marketing campaign path debut at age 12, volunteering for Consultant Bella S. Abzug, his mother's cousin, who went on to run for mayor.
At 16, he was tapped for a neighborhood planning board place. His appointment made the front page of The New York Occasions, and whereas on the board, he honed a model of not less than one line that he still uses today: that the A prepare was his "lifeline." Quickly he was working for Mr. Nadler, serving on his meeting employees.
"He was a bit cocky," Mr. Nadler recalled. "He realized to restrain that and to work with folks very rigorously."
Mr. Stringer, who did a stint as a tenant organizer, additionally served as a Democratic district chief within the Eighties, constructing a base on the Higher West Facet, the place the political tradition displays a vibrant Jewish neighborhood.
Longtime observers have a tendency to achieve for Yiddish phrases of affection and derision to explain him. Admirers name the affable Mr. Stringer, a married public-school father of two sons, a "mensch." Detractors privately dismiss the nasal-voiced candidate as a "nebbish."
New York Metropolis voters have typically embraced politicians with extra boldly distinctive personas.
Mr. Stringer, who as soon as taught his parrot to say "Vote for Scott," is engaged on it.
Requested in a campaign video to share one thing about himself which may shock others, Mr. Stringer insisted, "I actually am humorous." After a reporter requested him to inform a joke, Mr. Stringer spent the remainder of an hourlong interview sprinkling his remarks with wisecracks.
"Scott, when he's not doing his work politically, he's really fairly humorous, he's received an important character" stated Michael Mulgrew, the president of the United Federation of Lecturers. "However I suppose due to his years of expertise, he's guarded when he's doing his governmental work."
Mr. Stringer was elected to the State Meeting in 1992, following failed efforts running bars. In Albany, he pressed for some reforms of the State Capitol's insular political tradition, together with a requirement that lawmakers be current to be able to forged their votes.
He mulled and deserted several options for larger workplace, together with a 2013 mayoral bid. As a substitute, he ran for metropolis comptroller. Within the biggest check of his profession, he confronted a late entry from Eliot Spitzer, the deep-pocketed and aggressive former governor who resigned after revelations of his involvement with a prostitution ring.
Many had anticipated Mr. Spitzer to steamroll Mr. Stringer. For awhile, he appeared on monitor to take action. However Mr. Stringer held his own in a brutally private race and overcame a polling deficit, although Mr. Spitzer beat Mr. Stringer with Black voters by significant margins.
"We weren't simply behind early, we had been behind on the finish," Mr. Stringer stated. "I fought again by means of the debates, by means of the campaigning, and I gained. So for me, this positioning is what I'm used to."
There are key variations, although: In 2013, Mr. Stringer had overwhelming assist from unions and the political institution. Now, labor endorsements are extra scattered.
And this race is unfolding in a pandemic. He had been cautious about in-person campaigning, after his mom died from Covid-related complications. Now vaccinated, he's in search of to match the extra frenetic tempo that some rivals, most notably Mr. Yang, have maintained for months.
As comptroller, Mr. Stringer dealt with points from housing authority audits to selling kosher and halal food in public faculties.
He additionally supported closing Rikers Island and was a key a part of the trouble to divest $4 billion in metropolis pension funds from fossil gasoline firms; he cited that initiative when requested to call the proudest accomplishment of his profession.
Individuals who have watched Mr. Stringer within the function say that he has been lively in issuing audits and stories on points very important to town's well-being, whereas embracing a time-honored comptroller custom of tangling with the mayor.
"Have there been contracts which have gone haywire? It doesn't appear so," stated State Senator John C. Liu, who preceded Mr. Stringer as comptroller and has but to endorse within the mayor's race. "Has the workplace performed audits that improved the efficiency of companies? I imagine there have been some."
On the entire, Mr. Liu dominated, "He has completed a effective job as comptroller."
Kathryn S. Wylde, who heads the business-aligned Partnership for New York Metropolis, stated that she believed Mr. Stringer had been "daring on company governance points, he's been daring in taking up the mayor."
Mr. Stringer has pressed for more disclosures about board range, and he has sharply criticized the de Blasio administration over points ranging from affordable housing to its handling of prekindergarten contracts.
"He's completed an aggressive job — and substantive — on all the important thing tasks of the comptroller," Ms. Wylde stated.
To many New Yorkers, Mr. Stringer retains a fame of being a conventional Democrat. He supported Hillary Clinton over Senator Bernie Sanders within the 2016 presidential race, and served as a delegate for Mrs. Clinton. In 2018, he supported Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo over his progressive challenger, Cynthia Nixon.
Mr. Stringer has since known as for Mr. Cuomo's resignation amid accusations of sexual harassment.
A progressive wager
Final September, a gaggle of New York's main left-leaning lawmakers, lots of them ladies and other people of shade, gathered at Inwood Hill Park to cheer on Mr. Stringer's announcement for mayor.
It was a scene years within the making.
In early 2018, Alessandra Biaggi and Jessica Ramos had been political unknowns, in search of to topple highly effective average members of the State Senate. Mr. Stringer heard out Ms. Biaggi over a facet of pickles on the Riverdale Diner; Ms. Ramos of Queens sought his assist at drinks in Albany.
He turned an early champion of a number of rebel progressives, cultivating real relationships over technique periods, telephone calls and meals. These endorsements had been an unsure political guess on the time.
By final fall, they appeared to have paid off: As he introduced his mayoral marketing campaign, he was flanked by a various group of progressive lawmakers — together with State Senators Biaggi and Ramos — who, to their admirers, signify the way forward for the occasion.
It's much less clear if their endorsements will translate into grass-roots enthusiasm for Mr. Stringer amongst voters who're skeptical of his left-wing bona fides.
In his 2005 borough president race, a rival ran an ad criticizing Mr. Stringer for taking actual property developer cash at a time when town's conventional energy donors had been searching for receptive politicians (the mayor on the time, the billionaire Michael R. Bloomberg, accepted no donations). It wasn't till much more recently that he stated he would cease taking money from massive builders, as outstanding progressives highlighted the issue.
He has become a pointy critic of segregated faculties, saying definitively that he needs to eradicate the admissions examination that determines entry to high metropolis excessive faculties, which some critics say perpetuates racial inequality. However he has not usually been related to main integration efforts in past years.
And he seems uncomfortable discussing points of the policing debate.
Amid protests over the killing of George Floyd, Mr. Stringer declared that it was time to defund the police.
However Mr. Stringer no longer emphasizes calls to "defund," a time period related to a selected motion — one other reminder that he's not totally a part of the activist left. Pressed on whether or not he believed the phrase was divisive, Mr. Stringer wouldn't reply immediately.
"I've used it," he stated. "I don't assume you need to be judged based mostly on, you recognize, one phrase or one other phrase. And I do imagine that while you're going to speak about these points, it's important to be ready to return forth with a plan."
He has proposed reallocating $1.1 billion in police funds over 4 years and has been extra particular on the matter than a few of his rivals, although Dianne Morales, maybe the race's most left-wing candidate, has pushed for much extra, urging $3 billion in cuts from the police price range.
No saga higher illustrates Mr. Stringer's political high-wire act than his 2019 endorsement within the Queens district legal professional race. His embrace of Tiffany L. Cabán, the selection of the New York Democratic Socialists, over Melinda Katz, a colleague from his Meeting days who narrowly gained, delighted progressive activists however shocked outdated allies.
Critics who spoke with him on the time say Mr. Stringer had privately described New Yorkers as transferring to the left, and so they sensed that he wished to embrace that shift. Mr. Stringer has stated he believed Ms. Cabán, who's now operating for Metropolis Council, was the extra certified candidate, however he also sounded testy when pressed on his determination in an interview with a Jewish outlet, to the irritation of some activists.
"Scott, you recognize, appeared to have modified a few of his positions through the years," stated Consultant Gregory Meeks, the chairman of the Queens Democrats. "That has prompted him, in Queens County not less than, which I can communicate to, to have some problem."
Competence over ideology?
From Mr. Stringer's earliest days in politics, he realized to assume strategically about relationships.
He has maintained communication with enterprise leaders, and his central message that he will probably be ready from Day 1 to "handle the hell out of town" is just not ideological.
Ms. Wylde stated that some enterprise leaders "know him as a gradual hand."
"After I assume he's going completely off the deep finish, we've got a dialog," she added.
Ranked-choice voting, which allows voters to assist as much as 5 candidates, will check Mr. Stringer's political expertise like by no means earlier than.
Even when he's not the favourite of deeply progressive voters, he hopes to be their second selection. That would additionally work with moderates who see him as extra of a supervisor than a firebrand. However first he should cement his standing as a number one candidate within the homestretch of the race.
Mr. Stringer is aware of that he has important work to do.
In a marketing campaign video he filmed to introduce himself to voters, he stated that his favourite film was "The Candidate," a 1972 movie that traced the arc of a blinding younger candidate, performed by Robert Redford, who had little understanding of presidency course of.
He has little in frequent with Mr. Redford's character. However Mr. Stringer, too, should show that he can win.
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Nato a Kiev, nell'attuale Ucraina all'epoca facente parte dell'Impero russo, si laureò in giurisprudenza all'Università di San Pietroburgo nel 1876. Nel 1886 divenne vice-governatore di Charkiv, carica che manterrà per due anni prima di diventare governatore di Curlandia (1888-1891) e di Mosca (1891-1893). In seguito entrò nel ministero delle proprietà statali e infine nel ministero dell'interno, di cui fu messo a capo nel 1900.

Fu assassinato il 15 aprile 1902 davanti al Palazzo Mariinskij da Stepan Balmašëv, un membro del Partito Socialista Rivoluzionario.

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They breed on the Pembrokeshire bird sanctuary islands of Skomer and Skokholm as well as on Ramsey and St Margaret's Island off Tenby and the Stack Rocks off the Castlemartin peninsula. Indeed, the stack near that well-known coastal feature the Green Bridge of Wales, is called Elegug stack, and an elegug is either a guillemot or a razorbill to south Pembrokeshire folk, as they both look alike at a distance.
When the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority was established half a century ago and the authority was looking for an emblem, the chairman, Alderman Tom Scourfield of Carew, a true south Pembrokeshire gentleman with a strong local accent, looked at the candidates, which incuded the puffin, the guillemot and the razorbill, and plumped for "The Elegug," which he identified as the razorbill, so that was the seabird that won the day. The only difference between the razorbill and the guillemot is the latter's slightly greater size and the former's thicker beak with a white line on it to match the white horizontal eye-line.
Visitors to Skomer island will see during the 20-minute boat trip from Martin's Haven to the island's North Haven, large rafts of guillemots floating offshore, and when they land and walk to the clifftop overlooking The Wick, they will see a seething mass of black and white seabirds on the cliff ledges on the other side of the inlet. The guillemots densely pack the rocky ledges, incubating their eggs or feeding their fledglings, on what appears to be a rather precarious and potentially dangerous location. But they are well-adapted to the narrow ledges and their khaki-coloured, black-spotted eggs are so shaped, like smooth fir cones, that they can't roll off the ledges but, if knocked, simply spin in a tight circle and stay put. The scene is animated, noisy and slightly chaotic, the guillemots uttering a shrill, churring, growling chorus as they mill around, landing and taking off at regular intervals as they come and go to and from the feeding grounds with fish which they regurgitate down the gaping maws of their offspring. The norm is one egg, one chick each per season between May and June, and, unlike the puffins and shearwaters, the 'elegugs' are resident all year round. The northern guillemot is darker than the its brown southern cousin and occasionally, amid the multitude on the ledges, the keen observer may spot one with a white mark on its head, which is a bridled guillemot. The RSPB says the guillemot is "one of the most numerous birds in the great seabird cities," found all round the coasts of Britain and Europe, the European population being about 2.7-million pairs and the British number about 880,000 pairs. They dive down to 60-metres.