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By keeping your client fully informed of everything that is occurring with the referred prospect.
By continuing to deliver superior service to your client.
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SEATTLE'S SMART PLAN TO REMAKE ITS STREETS
Daniel Penner
Seattle: City of the Future
By Greg Hanscom GRIST
On Tuesday, March 24, an overturned fish truck turned Seattle into a parking lot, giving residents of this traffic-clogged city yet another reminder of the pitfalls of a transportation system built almost entirely around automobiles.
The truck was headed south on State Route 99 carrying a load of frozen cod when it tipped, blocking all southbound lanes of one of just two main north-south arteries through the city. (This is the same highway that will someday run underneath Seattle if the tunnel-boring machine Bertha can ever be repaired.) That was at 2:23 p.m., as people were beginning to leave jobs downtown and tailgaters were rolling in for a Sounders soccer game at the nearby CenturyLink Field — an event that was projected to draw 39,000 fans.
As city crews struggled to right the truck and move it from the road, traffic backed up as far as the University District, five miles away, snarling Interstate 5 and secondary streets throughout the city. By the time the highway was finally reopened, at 11:37 p.m., the wreck — plus three more accidents downtown, including one involving a bus and a pedestrian, and a police manhunt in the nearby International District — had stranded commuters in traffic for hours. Local media dubbed it the Seattle Standstill.
The fish truck incident may have been a particularly epic example, but the Standstill is a regular feature in this city, which, according to TomTom, a company that makes GPS devices, has the fourth worst traffic in the country, worse than New York, Miami, and Washington, D.C.
"What's surprised me most is the fragility of the system," says Scott Kubly, who took over as the city's transportation director last July. "Almost every day there's a crash that impacts our system, and ends up snarling traffic for everybody."
Part of the problem is simple geography. Seattle is sandwiched between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, and pinched by other lakes and water bodies as well. North-south travel bottlenecks at a handful of bridges, as does any travel to suburbs to the east. (To go west, you'll have to take a ferry, which creates its own set of challenges.)
The other issue is infrastructure, or lack thereof. "Look at San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Boston — they all have very big, strong rail networks, using dedicated or separated access," Kubly says. "Right now, we have one light rail line from the south, and a couple more on the way. There's probably not another city in the country that needs to make that kind of investment more than we need to."
An expanded light rail network is a decade away, at least. In the meantime, Kubly and his colleagues are left to make better use of the city's existing tangle of roads while tens of thousands of new jobs and residents rush in. To make matters worse, the funding mechanism that has paid roughly a quarter of the cost of maintaining the city's streets for the past decade is about to expire, leaving officials to wonder where the money will come from.
Seriously, who would want this job?
Ansel Herz, The Stranger
Kubly, 40, is a tall glass of milk — a lanky 6-foot-4, with a hairline that's beating a hasty retreat and a nose that looks like it's been broken. (It hasn't, he says. "My crooked schnoz is all natural.") He worked with transportation whiz Gabe Klein when Klein was getting the nation's first bikeshare program up and running in Washington, D.C., then followed Klein to Chicago to help with Mayor Rahm Emanuel's transportation revolution.
Kubly was working as the president of Alta Bicycle Share in early 2014 when he got the call to interview for the job in Seattle. "I hadn't spent any time in Seattle," he says. But the landscape grabbed him, and he was impressed with the city's commitment to addressing climate change. "Being in a place where elected officials talk about climate change in a positive way, in the sense that we need to do something about it, is really exciting," Kubly says. Vehicle traffic accounts for 40 percent of the city's greenhouse gas emissions, more than any other sector.
But it was Mayor Ed Murray who clinched the deal. As a state legislator, Murray played a key role in legalizing gay marriage in Washington. In 2014, his first year as mayor of Seattle, he brokered a deal to raise the minimum wage to $15. On transportation, Murray worked to regulate ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft without driving them out of the city completely, and installed a protected bike lane downtown — something that would have been unheard of even a few years prior.
"You have a mayor that may not have the bombastic style that you see around the country with other mayors, but at the same time gets things done," Kubly says. "As soon as I sat down with [Murray], I was like, yes, I want this job."
Under Kubly, the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has laid out an ambitious plan to overhaul the city's streets. The plan, called Move Seattle, is remarkable in many ways, but none more than this: While it includes maintenance and repair of existing roads, and upgrading bridges to make them earthquake-safe, there are virtually no new accommodations for cars. Instead, it is a plan to more efficiently move people around the city by bus, transit, bike, and on foot.
Here's a sampling of the initiatives contained therein:
Seven to 10 "multimodal corridor projects" — that is, travel corridors that incorporate designated space for bikes, buses, and other mass transit.
Seven new "bus rapid transit" corridors that will hustle riders in and out of the city in designated lanes, separate from car traffic.
Easy access to buses that arrive at least every 10 minutes, throughout the day, for three-quarters of city residents.
A build-out of half of the city's perpetually underfunded bicycle master plan, including 50 miles of protected bike lanes.
One hundred blocks of new sidewalks, new crossings at 225 intersections, and safe walking and biking routes to all of the city's schools.
Reduced speed limits on residential streets of 20 mph, and 30 mph on arterial streets.
"This is not ideological," says Hannah McIntosh, the SDOT strategic advisor who spearheaded the planning process. "It's purely geometry. It's purely pragmatism. There is simply no more space on our roads."
Murray's predecessor, Mike McGinn, a former state Sierra Club leader and avid cyclist, was often accused of bowing to the "bike lobby" and "waging war on cars." Murray is fond of telling people that "there is no war on cars." Instead, he talks about moving people around safely, affordably, and efficiently.
To do that, SDOT officials say, the city will need to designate separate routes for different modes of travel. A transit corridor, for example, might be placed on an adjacent, parallel street to a bike track, with freight relegated to a third route. "Every street is going to look different," McIntosh says. "You can't cram every single use onto every street."
This may sound basic, but the suggestion that cars are not the first and best use for every street, while other uses are to be shoehorned in where it's convenient, is something of a revelation here, as it would be in many American cities.
"In a lot of ways, SDOT is way out ahead of [bike and transit] advocates," says Tom Fucoloro, founder and editor of the Seattle Bike Blog. "We got used to compromising away the dream. Here we have some leaders who just want to go for it. That's huge."
Fucoloro also praises the department's willingness to try new things, and correct course as they go — as it did with the protected bike lane downtown. "Previously, there was a fear of changing the status quo quickly — that you'd create a backlash," Fucoloro says. "Oddly enough, we've found that if you really go big, and if you convince people that you're going to fix it if it doesn't work, they'll support you. People don't want half-projects."
But there is one huge hitch to the Move Seattle plan: Over the course of its nine-year lifespan, the city estimates that it will cost roughly $3 billion.
The Second Ave. protected bike lane in downtown Seattle.
SDOT
Roughly two-thirds of the cost of this citywide street overhaul will come from the general fund, commercial parking and real estate excise taxes, and grants, McIntosh says. To make up the difference, Mayor Murray and SDOT have proposed a nine-year property tax levy that will raise an estimated $930 million. The levy, which would add roughly $275 to the annual tax on an average home, will need the approval of voters this fall. And while Seattleites have recently shown a willingness to pony up for better transportation — last fall, voters approved a $60 annual car tab to fund additional bus service — signing off on a billion dollars in new taxes will require a leap of faith.
The Transportation Levy to Move Seattle, as the mayor calls it, would replace an existing levy approved by voters in 2006. That levy, called Bridging the Gap, was roughly a third the size of Move Seattle, and billed largely as a pothole-filling measure. It was sold to voters with signs posted next to battered roadways that read "Fix This Street." Many of those streets have yet to be fixed.
And then there are Move Seattle's outsized goals. Pedestrian and bike advocates, for example, say that the Safe Routes to School program needs $40 million; the Move Seattle levy earmarks just $7 million. The bicycle master plan says it will cost $200 million to build out half of the city's bike network; the levy calls for just $85 million. McIntosh says SDOT will save money by including bike infrastructure with other road improvement projects, and by rolling out bike lanes and other projects using temporary, or "less than final" materials.
"There's an element of trust here," says Fucoloro, the bike blogger. "You're basically trusting them that they can roll out all these bike lanes at reduced cost — but also that we can get all the [matching] grants that are built into the [Move Seattle] plan."
And keep in mind that Move Seattle is something of a stopgap, designed to keep the city humming along until a real solution — a rail system — arrives. On that front, funding becomes even more tricky, because plans for a light rail system are regional, and will therefore require buy-in not just from Seattleites, but also from the residents of surrounding suburbs.
The region has a spotty record on approving funding for mass transit. In 2007, King County, which encompasses Seattle, and adjacent Snohomish and Pierce counties voted down a measure that would have funded light rail and streetcars. Supporters got a measure passed the following year, but it was scaled back. There was a similar miss, then hit, in the mid-1990s. In 2011, after more than a decade of bickering, even Seattle voters supported the $2 billion car tunnel under the city, knocking out more transit-centered proposals.
Sound Transit, the authority that oversees regional rail development, is queuing up for its next big push, called Sound Transit 3. The $15 billion plan will expand the light rail system connecting the city to surrounding communities, and build critical lines within the city itself.
Martin Duke, editor of the Seattle Transit Blog, is confident that voters will approve Sound Transit 3. While there has been much debate over what led to the demise of various transit measures over the years, Duke says they tend to succeed during presidential election years, which bring out younger and more progressive voters.
But to raise that kind of money, Sound Transit will need approval from not only the voters, but the state legislature as well, which limits the amount that the region is allowed to tax itself. Particularly troublesome is the state Senate, which is dominated by Republicans who are often hostile to the interests of the state's largest, distinctly left-leaning urban area.
The legislature is currently hammering out a transportation package, which may or may not give Sound Transit the necessary taxing authority.
In the meantime, Seattle transportation officials are cramming more and more bodies into an increasingly cramped space, clown-car style. So far, somewhat miraculously, it has worked. Since 2010, the city has added 26,000 jobs downtown, but thanks to increases in transit ridership, walking, and biking, the number of cars on the roads has remained essentially flat.
And there are more tricks where those came from. Coming this summer: a new streetcar line, two new bus rapid transit lines, and a 15 percent increase in bus service paid for by the new car tab. The Car2Go car-sharing service recently announced that it is expanding its range to include more of the city. And those not inclined to drive what my kids call "Snoopy cars" will soon have the option of rocking a BMW or MINI Cooper, when DriveNow arrives in Seattle later this year. Bikeshare is taking off, too.
Still, without a rail network, one wonders how long the city can hold back the tide. And even at current traffic levels, all it take sis one overturned truck, or one crash, to bungle the entire system.
Scott Kubly tells the story of a recent visit to Seattle by former New York City transportation chief Janette Sadik-Khan, who oversaw a dramatic reshaping of that city's streetscape. Sadik-Khan was scheduled to talk that evening, but had some time to spare beforehand, so Kubly took her for a tour of the Seattle. By car.
He was driving her back to her hotel so she could prepare for her talk when traffic downtown slowed to a standstill. "We stayed on same block for like 15 minutes," Kubly says. "I got on the phone, called in, and said, 'What's going on?'" Near as SDOT could tell, there had been a crash on I-90 in Bellevue, 10 miles from where they sat. That wreck had clogged both I-90 — the main route out of the city to the east — and I-5 through town, blocking all the on-ramps in the city, and thus all the streets downtown.
Eventually, Sadik-Khan got out and walked the last block to her hotel. "It was going going to take 20 minutes," Kubly says.
"Ten years ago, 15 years ago, Seattle was at the forefront of transportation," Kubly says. "If you would have said 10 years ago that it would be more pleasant to bike in midtown Manhattan, or in downtown Chicago, than downtown Seattle, nobody would have believed you. Seattle, you know — it's like this little utopia in the Pacific Northwest, right?
"But people are catching on that we need to make investments in different types of transportation so people can make choices in how they get around," Kubly continues. "Houston has a huge light rail program. Dallas has a huge light rail program. L.A. is building more rail than any city in the country.
"Seattle is waking up and saying, 'Holy cow, we need to catch up.'"
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PHRD 725 International Pharmacy Clerkship (6, FaSpSm) Practical experience and training in the practice of pharmacy in the international setting. Students will visit an international pharmacy practice setting and complete a project. Open to Level IV Doctor of Pharmacy students only.
PHRD 726 Directed Clinical Clerkship Project I (6, FaSpSm) Directed educational opportunities not presently offered as electives, e.g., research projects or new and evolving clerkships.
PHRD 727 Directed Clinical Clerkship Project II (6, FaSpSm) Directed educational opportunities not presently offered as electives, e.g., research projects or new and evolving clerkships.
PHRD 728 Directed Clinical Clerkship Project III (6, FaSpSm) Directed educational opportunities not presently offered as electives, e.g., research projects or new and evolving clerkships.
PHRD 729 Directed Clinical Clerkship Project IV (6, FaSpSm) Directed educational opportunities not presently offered as electives, e.g., research projects or new and evolving clerkships.
PHRD 730 Acute Care Geriatrics Clerkship (6, FaSpSm) Pharmaceutical care principles applied to the acutely ill geriatric patient population. Emphasis on drug therapy problem solving, physiology, pharmacokinetics and compliance problems. Open to Level IV Doctor of Pharmacy students only.
PHRD 732 Pharmacy Administration Clerkship (6, FaSpSm) Principles and practices of hospital pharmacy administration, management and departmental relationships. Practical experiences and projects emphasized. Open to Level IV Doctor of Pharmacy students only.
PHRD 733 Anticoagulation Therapy Clerkship (6, FaSpSm) Management of patients requiring anticoagulation. Applied knowledge of disease pathophysiology, anticoagulant pharmacology, and laboratory methods toward safe and effective patient outcomes. Open to Level IV Doctor of Pharmacy students only.
PHRD 734 Antimicrobial Therapy Clerkship (6, FaSpSm) Antimicrobial therapy, including antibiotic selection, dosage adjustment, and outcomes assessment of patients in the health care setting. Open to Level IV Doctor of Pharmacy students only.
PHRD 735 Clinical Pharmacy Research Clerkship (6, FaSpSm) Drug research administration: research design; ethics; record-keeping; and institutional review. Practical experience and projects are emphasized. Open to Level IV Doctor of Pharmacy students only.
PHRD 736 Chemical Dependency Clerkship (6, FaSpSm) The psychiatric, social, and pharmacological management of chemical dependency. Emphasizes the inpatient, day treatment, and outpatient components of detoxification and recovery.
PHRD 737 Clinical Transplantation Clerkship (6, FaSpSm) Drug therapy to organ transplantation. Emphasizes pre- and post-transplantation therapy designed to minimize organ rejection, prevent infection, and improve survival.
PHRD 738 Pharmaceutical Industry Clerkship (6, FaSpSm) Train within a pharmaceutical company to develop an understanding of the drug development, research, marketing process.
PHRD 739 AIDS/Immune Disorders Clerkship (6, FaSpSm) A multidisciplinary approach to the management of AIDS and other immuno-compromised patients. Pharmacologic management is directed toward opportunistic infections, disease modifiers, and adjuvant therapy.
PHRD 740 Health Care Systems Administration Clerkship (6, FaSpSm) Practical experience and training in managed care settings and health care systems. Emphasis on administrative principles, management and health outcomes. Students will complete a project. Open to Doctor of Pharmacy students only.
PHRD 741 Advanced Primary Care Clerkship (6, FaSpSm) Advanced experience in disease state management in the primary care setting. Design drug therapy regimens using a team-based approach at an advanced level of practice. Open to Doctor of Pharmacy students only. Prerequisite: PHRD 704.
PHRD 790 Directed Research (1-12, max 12) Research leading to doctorate in Clinical and Experimental Therapeutics. Graded CR/NC.
PHRD 794abcdz Doctoral Dissertation (2-2-2-2-0) Dissertation research required for completion of Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical and Experimental Therapeutics.


Do you want to fill your plate with the freshest, juiciest fruits and veggies all year long, but live in an area where the seasons don't allow it? Hydroponics is your solution! It's the new alternative to traditional gardening that has been quickly growing in popularity. With hydroponic growing you can produce food right in your own home or backyard all year around, anywhere in the world. If you're interested in starting your own hydroponics garden but are unsure where to begin, you've come to the right place. Before you jump in, let's learn the basics of hydroponic growing.
Hydroponics simply means growing plants without soil. Plants grown with hydroponics have their roots in a water-based, nutrient-rich solution as opposed to soil. Soil provides support more than it does actual food for the plant and it can expose plants to pests and diseases. Hydroponics will sometimes use a medium like clay aggregate, gravel, peat moss, perlite, or rockwool to support the root system.
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By providing food and water directly to the roots around the clock, plants are getting exactly what they need more easily than plants growing in soil. Because they don't have to search out nutrients in soil, which expands their root systems, plants have a much smaller root system and can put more energy into growing their leaves and steams. Smaller root systems also mean that you can grow more plants in a smaller area, which is great especially if you're growing indoors.
What are the Disadvantages of Hydroponics?
Some of the drawbacks to hydroponic growing include the cost of the equipment you need to get started and the amount of work involved in the setup and management of your hydroponic system. With hydroponics, plant health is more scientific and involved, so you will have to monitor and balance your pH and nutrient levels on a daily basis.
How Do I Get Started with Hydroponic Gardening?
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The system will have a list of about 1-2 lakh Maths questions for classesI-XII. Questions will be multiple choice. I will later describe CHEAP administrative setup needed to create such a list of questions.
The list will be published and will be in public domain.
Depending on the resources DEO has, he will ask students to appear in 1-4 exams per month.
Each exam will have 30-120 questions randomly chosen from the list of questions. Duration would be 1-3 minutes per question.
There would be monthly cash rewards for students and teachers based on the student's performance in the exams.
The rewards may be as follows: Say Rs. 10 for each student and his teacher who gets above (Average - 10%) marks for each of the exam and Rs. 20 each student and his teacher who gets above (Average + 10%) marks.
These cash rewards will be the ONLY funding that maths teachers will get from the district government.
Now, I will go over the details.
how can so many papers be graded in a short time?
what will ensure that there is no rampant cheating? etc. etc.
I will answer these questions as I describe the examination's setup.
The DEO will arrange for the buildings, desks, computer terminals, servers, printing reports, allocating rewards etc. for the testing centers using the taxe revenue he obtained.
The DEO would appoint clerks, supervisor, assistants etc. to run test center. The citizens may expel an employee using Jury Trial.
The DEO, or his clerks, using random choice, will instruct a student to go to a perticular room/desk at perticular center near his home. For each month, the testing center can be different. This is to ensure that same group of students are never assigned the same room/desk and testing center again and again. Due to this, each students in the center will be a stranger to most other students around him in the room. This reduces chances of nexuses and hence reduces chances of cheating or disruption.
Each examination center will have 500-100 terminals connected to one server computer. Each student will get questions on a terminal. The server computer, upon the instruction of the supervisor or the assistant, will randomly choose say 50-60 questions from a list of lakhs questions meant for that age group whose students are scheduled for the test.
The server will not allow the student to change the answer to a question after he has answered it. The server will allow at most 5 minutes per question. After 5 minutes, the question will automatically change. This and the fact that students are getting questions in different order will make the exam cheat proof.
The terminal will stop taking inputs from the student when the exam ends.
Each student will get the list of questions he was asked, his answer and the correct answer by email. If the student does not have a computer, he may obtain the mail at a cyber-cafe.
The center would use cheap vt-100 terminals and attach them with heavy steel cover so that it does not have much market value and it be difficult to steal them.
I request the reader to note following shortcoming : say a district has 50000 students in class-X. Say there are 50-100 exam centers where the 50000 students have gone to give exams. Now ALL 500-1000 students in one center will get SAME questions, as their terminals are conncted to SAME server which selects the questions. But if the exam centers are NOT networked, the students at different exam centers will get DIFFERENT questions. Is this an injustice. NO. Why? Each group of 500-1000 students got questions from a computer server, which had selected 50-60 questions at random from the SAME list of 1000s of questions. So basically, each student got almost equally difficult question paper. even if not the same.
As resources become available, the DEO should network the exam centers using WAN anyway, so that students get SAME questions. Now the servers in exam center can work with following logic ---- they will take the list of questions from a centrally located server over the WAN ; and in case of WAN failure, the server will randomly select questions on its own.
With this setup, the students can get results within 5 minutes after the test. The DEO will pay the rewards to ALL students/teachers for all the tests of that month before say 10th of next month.
The DEO will decide the languages for the Maths test.
Questions will come from a specific syllabus and a set of formulae.
The questions would be on a CD-ROM and they will be freely available to anyone. Any one can print all or part of them and distribute it. Anyone can make textbooks based on them.
The questions of varying levels of difficulty.
Consider that the district has 20,00,000 citizens and 800,000 school students (class I -XII).
Suppose tests are 1 hr long. So a terminal will be able to accommodate 10 tests per day. If the center is operated 25 days a month, be able to test 250 tests a month. But lets not assume 100% efficiency. Say the DEO would conduct just 160 tests a month using 1 terminal.
So to conduct 1 test per month, for 800,000 students, the DEO would need less than 800,000/160 = 5000 terminals. A simple terminal would cost much less than Rs. 5000. Thus total cost of equipment will be Rs. 5000 * 5000 = Rs 2,50,00,000 = Rs 2.5cr.
Lets calculate the cost of building.
One center can accommodate upto 500-1000 terminals. So DEO will need to setup 3-10 testing centers, each consisting of 20-30 large rooms. I will NOT count the cost of land, and I will later explain why this will not upset my calculations. In general, one terminal will need less than 4 sq. yards of floor space. For a cheap but reliable construction, one needs Rs. 2500 per sq. yard. So the cost of the buildings will be Rs. 2500 * 4 * 5000 = 10,000 * 5000 = 5,00,00,000 = Rs. 5 crore.
So total cost of terminals and buildings is Rs. 7.5 cr, plus cost of land to conduct 1 test per student per month in a district with 800,000 school students. So cost per student is less than about Rs. 100 . Considering some other factors, it may go upto Rs. 150 per student (plus cost of land).
So DEO can start with infrastructure just sufficient to take 1 test per student per month, and the upgrade it to 4 tests per students per month. The infrastructure cost (land, buildings, terminals, servers etc) will NOT exceed Rs 600/student. This will be one time cost.
The salaries will be a very minor cost. 10 full time junior system administrator and 1 full time system administrator are sufficient for these 5000 terminals. At salary and benefits of Rs. 7,000/mo for junior and Rs. 20,000/mo for the senior, total salary is less than Rs 100,000/mo. Add travelling expenses of Rs 100,000/mo, as the exam centers are scattered all over districts. It is less than Rs 0.50 per student per month.
In short, the cost of tests is less than Rs 2 to Rs 3 per test (plus cost of land).
If over 95% students answered a question or if less than 5% students answered a question, the software in-charge of calculating average score will not count that question at all. This way, if a question was way too easy or way too difficult, it will be ignored.
Suppose 50000 class-X students took an exam. Say for example average score is 60. Then there will be 2 bench marks: (Average - 10%) and (Average + 10%) i.e. 54 and 66. The students and his teacher who got above 54 will get 10 points each. For the students who got above 66, the points for student and parent party will be twice i.e. 20.
Reason : It is better that each person competes with the average. This way the average will keep moving up. Now if the policy says that only 50% will get rewards, then the bottom 50% or bottom 20% will loose the motivation to even give the exam, as they know that they will loose. So if all students do "well", the mechanism would ensure that all of them get reward. This policy requires that they just stay above "below average" bottom line. Now will it de-motivate the smart ones? No because getting above average will get them more cash.
For a particular class-quarter, a student can take at most 50 exams in his life at any age. If the student was over 1 year older than the age group for which the exam was meant for, the reward will be half the points.
Reason: It is necessary to limit the number of exams as there are cash rewards with each exam. So that a student does not deliberately slow down, the reward would go down if the student slows down. But due to any reason, if he slows down, the rewards would not become zero otherwise he may loose interest completely.
The software will issue the students' points right after the exam.
Suppose DEO has obtained a fund for Rs 180 crore for rewards for Maths education. Than for each month, rewards are Rs 180/12 = Rs 15 crore.
For all the tests conducted, the DEO will add up all the points obtained by all the students/teachers. Suppose for a perticular month, ALL the points add up to say 30 crore points. Now amount allocated for that month is Rs. 15 crore. Hence monetary value of the point in that month is Rs 0.50. So if a teacher has obtained 20,000 points, he will get (Rs. 0.50 * 20,000) = Rs. 10000 from DEO for that month. And if a student has obtained 160 points, he will get Rs 80/- from the DEO.
Thus teachers and students know the approximate amounts that tests will fetch. But exact amount will be decided later. This will ensure that there is no over-commitment and zero deficit.
Today computer-terminals can be operated on ordinary car-battery so even in remote areas, the test can be managed. In extreme case, the students will be required to travel to a near-by testing center. The above system will certainly cover over 90% of population. The Exam-Administrator of the districts which have remote areas will have to think of some other options. In more remote areas, the students would be asked to walk to a near by center. This will reduce some efficiency, but still will work.
Over and above testing centers, private companies may establish the testing centers where students can test themselves on their own.
I will later publish procedure DEO can create a list of about 4000 questions per class for classesI-XII. It would cost Rs 10 per question, totalling about Rs 50 lakh.
Later, randomly chosen 100 students from top 5% in the city in each exam will be allowed to submit 10 questions for each of the 5 difficulty levels. They will get Rs 10 for each of their questions, if the qustions get selected.
A group of 100 students will be selected at random and asked to solve the new questions prepared. They will get Rs 1/- per correct answer they give.
question of difficulty level-1 should be answered correctly by over more than 70% and less than 90% of the students.
the question of difficulty level-2 is answered correctly by over 50% and at less than 70% of the students.
the question of difficulty level-3 is answered correctly by over 30% and less than 50% of the students.
the question of difficulty level-4 is answered correctly by over 10% and less than 30% of the students.
the question of difficulty level-5 is answered correctly by over 5% and less than 10% of the students.
There is no algorithm to make questions as stated above. But this will make students think carefully and thus they will make appropriate questions.
The questions which the above criteria will be entered into the question bank.
Thus the DEO can keep extending the list of questions till it is sufficiently large.
IN EDU.02, any person can register himself as a Maths teacher before DEO. And the parent of the child will decide which Maths teacher's class his child will attend. This way, a 10th standard student may resister himself as a teacher and start teaching students in lower (or higher) standards. This will drastically reduce number of teachers needed to be hired and teaching costs. The reward of teacher will go to the students' teacher as decided by the student's parents. The parents can change the teacher any month.
In the Saatya Procedures, the student or his parents pick the teacher they like and the reward system ensures full motivation of teacher and student. So that a student can learn at his own pace, the reward system allows student (and his teachers) of any age to get rewards.
This system will ensure that over 100% students and teachers are fully motivated to study Maths.
For each test, the list of questions is given. Students cannot possibly memorize answers 1000s of questions. But they will have a clear vision about what they will get in the tests. Likewise, teachers too will have clear goal before them. The cash and the prestige associated with getting rewards, will motivate students beyond imagination. The cash will motivate teachers.
Once the citizens have forced the DEO to install the system, the citizens should not give any salary to Maths teachers. The rewards are the only salary. If citizens feel that it is less, they should increase the amount associated with the rewards. But in any case, reward should be the only income teacher should get from the citizen/government. The teacher may or may not charge tuition fee to the student.
EDU.02 ensures that students/teachers get paid ONLY if student studies well. This ensure minimal waste and maximal efficiency.
EDU.02 gives direct cash rewards to students/teachers. This ensures maximal motivation.
One law needs to be passed in City Council (or District Panchayat) to enact EDU.02. To see the draft, please click here.
Now citizens can ask City Councilor to pass these Acts. But IMO, it will be wiser for citizens to first enact procedure LM.01 then use LM.01 to pass this EDU.02 draft WITHOUT any help from Councilors. To know about procedure LM.01, please click here.


IDW Publishing have released their comic solicitations for June 2008 and with it comes lots of Transformers titles, new and old.
After the announcements this week about Transformers Revelations, comes the confirmation that Transformers Spotlight: Cyclonus is coming. The title is likely to change to include the "Revelations" title. Also being released in the IDW G1 universe is Transformers Spotlight: Wheelie, the 15th Spotlight issue. The cover also features another character, so beware of spoilers.
Next are two Transformers movie titles, Transformers Movie Sequel: The Reign of Starscream #3, continuing the official comic book sequel to the movie and Transformers Movie Prequel Special, which collectors together the Theatre exclusive comic that was sponsored by Target and the DVD exclusive comic that was available at Target, Play.com and in some other countries.
There is also some more reprinted Marvel material, Transformers Best of the UK: Space Pirates #4 and 3 different Art of books.
This special edition with a full 32 pages of story and art offers two titanic TRANSFORMERS MOVIE tales never before offered for sale. In a special lead-in to the movie, BUMBLEBEE finds himself beset on all sides. And in a full-length tale, STARSCREAM and other DECEPTICONS experience "Earthfall." Courtesy of Simon Furman, Chris Ryall, Don Figueroa (all three veterans of the Transformers Movie Prequel), and Andrew Wildman. Available with 50/50 covers by Figueroa, one portraying AUTOBOTS, the other showcasing the DECEPTICONS.
Continuing the reprints of the best TRANSFORMERS sagas from across the pond! In the aftermath of the AUTOBOTS driving off the Quintessons and saving Autobot City, the stage is set for the prelude chapters to the upcoming epic Time Wars! How will the stunning final moments of Space Pirates set the wheels in motion for the legendary tale that sends the story across the galaxy and through time itself? Check out these classic reprint issues and find out! From longtime TRANSFORMERS scribe Simon Furman, with a new cover by breakout TRANSFORMERS artist Dan Khanna!
A second Transformers Spotlight this month finally showcases one of the most underrated of all TRANSFORMERS, the Autobot Wheelie! Cover artist Klaus Scherwinski teams up with TRANSFORMERS über-scribe Simon Furman to introduce Wheelie to the IDW generation of readers. Trapped, alone on a hostile, faraway planet, the diminutive Autobot must dig deeper than ever before just to survive, running a gauntlet of pain and self-sacrifice that leads, ultimately, to a choice that will test not just his allegiance, but his very soul! Featuring two special covers from Scherwinski.
Re-offered for the first time! THE TRANSFORMERS have featured some of the best, most technically proficient comic book art to ever grace the printed page. Some have been hard-to-secure variant cover images, others only saw limited runs, but all of them deserve to be showcased. And now they are, in this deluxe hardcover-with-dustjacket volume. Inside, you'll find cover images, pin-ups and rare sketches from the best of the best!
This special edition, limited to 250 copies, comes with a tip-in plate signed by artists Don Figueroa, Guido Guidi, Nick Roche, Klaus Scherwinski, E.J. Su, and Andrew Wildman.
If the signed & numbered edition isn't premium enough for your tastes, here comes an even more rare edition—limited to stock on hand—featuring a hand-drawn sketch by artist Don Figueroa in every copy!


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Ship Zone [Spoilers] Shamy: Season 9
The Mushroom Log replied to Tensor's topic in Season 9
Well, he bought 25 cats in 'The Zazzy Substitution'...and that's before they were even in a relationship. But yeah, I think because Amy is the one that asked for the break, she'll cope with it better than Sheldon. Sheldon doesn't seem to fully understand why Amy has taken a break and so I think he'll struggle a lot more than she will. I'm looking forward to seeing them pining for each other, even if it's only for a couple of scenes.
Actor Jim Parsons
The Mushroom Log replied to Tripper's topic in The Cast & Crew
I know a few people on Tumblr that are "attempting" to go spoiler free (key word "attempting"). I myself could never go spoiler free, not even if my life depended on it. Spoiler free people essentially have an extra six weeks of hiatus...I would literally go insane.
jim parsons
They've confirmed Season 9 and 10...they haven't confirmed Season 11. Thus I, along with many on this forum, am operating under the assumption that there are only two more seasons left. I agree. Coitus is their cash cow, even more so than an engagement, marriage or cohabitation. I think we'll have to wait but hopefully not too long because as you said, there is so much post-coital comedy to be explored with Shamy. I agree with this too. Michy asked the question in two parts - when he got the ring and when he was planning to propose. A partial answer would mean that only one of those is answered in the premiere. I'm really interested to see how we get this "partial answer" in the premiere though...like, will it be revealed through a discussion with Leonard/Penny/Howard/Raj...or will it come up in a discussion with Amy? Only time will tell, I guess... I don't mind what answer we get...as long as a proposal actually happens at some stage in the remaining two seasons (preferably Season 9).
What If A Chinese Character Is Added In The Next Seaon
The Mushroom Log replied to Bill's topic in Season 8
We've already had a few Asian characters on the show, although none of them were really recurring. Just off the top of my head: - Dennis Kim (1x12, 'The Jerusalem Duality') - Joyce Kim (3x22, 'The Staircase Implementation') - Sheldon's previous roommate (3x22, 'The Staircase Implementation') - Chinese restaurant manager (1x7, 'The Dumpling Paradox' and 1x17, 'The Tangerine Factor'). It's too late to introduce any more main characters. At best, we'd get a new recurring although even that's leaving it a bit late...
Could not be happier for him
Season 9 Wish List
The Mushroom Log replied to bigbangsheldon's topic in Season 9
YES TO ALL! Actually maybe not number 8...I can't resist a bit of Shamy But hell yes to everything else!
Ship Zone [Spoilers] Other Ships: Season 9
CinnaRaj is long overdue. I also like Amy and Raj, or "Koothrapamy", if you will...but only platonically I find it really sweet how Amy calls him "Rajesh", while everyone else simply calls him "Raj". I'd also love to see Stuart get a girl, even if it only ends up being temporary.
I don't know...I could see it going either way. They might resolve some of their issues and then progress slowly or, on the other hand, this could be like a kick in the pants for Sheldon to speed things up. Shamy are so unconventional as a couple and because of that, we never know what will happen next. Anything can happen and that's one of my favourite things about them As long as they don't break up Shamy for good, then I'm fine with whatever the writers decide to do! It was really quite strange, wasn't it?! I watched the panel the day it came out and I didn't even notice the "partial answer" comment but then I watched it again and it really stood out...I couldn't stop thinking about it for the rest of the video! The way I see it, a "partial answer" could mean one of a number of things: 1. The premiere will be a Lenny-focused episode so Shamy won't get enough attention to give a full answer. 2. They want to drag things out and are planning to give a more complete answer later on. 3. Sheldon reveals to somebody that he had a ring (or possibly even that he was planning to propose on their anniversary). This somebody could be Amy or it could simply just be one of the gang. 4. I only say this for the sake of covering absolutely all bases...there's going to be a premiere proposal. Sure, it doesn't necessarily tell us when he got the ring, but it does tell us when he planned on giving it to Amy...in a way. I know a few of you don't want this to happen but that doesn't mean it's not a possibility (however remote). 5. Or, they simply don't want us to know everything! They cut out like more than half of the makeout scene, so they can leave a few unanswered questions about an engagement ring... I agree with your point about expectation too. Because Shamy's relationship moves so slowly, there's a certain sense of anticipation that comes with being a part of this ship, whether that's anticipation of coitus, marriage, cohabitation, etc.
Debate Zone [Spoilers]Shipping Lanes: Season 9
It wouldn't surprise me at all if they used a mulligan for 9x1. Not one bit. As Cereal Apist pointed out, they've done it in 5x1 and 8x1 so what's stopping them from doing it in 9x1 as well? I don't necessarily want that to happen, I want to see how the writers progress from the cliffhangers without having to resort to a mulligan. It's a pretty sticky situation they've gotten into (particularly for Lenny) so I'm interested to see how they work out of it.
Platonically, yes. Anything else...hell no!
[Spoilers] Discussion Topic: Season 9
Sheldon having a fantasy about Amy would not be OOC. If he could do it in Season 5, he can do it now. Sheldon picking Amy up and carrying her in his fantasy...now that would be OOC!
I'd probably only be happy with kids on TBBT if it happened right at the end, like in the series finale or a few episodes beforehand.
I'm not worried at all. Even if we do have a few episodes of angst, it's pretty clear that everything will work itself out eventually and Shamy will be happy Also, there's the fact that this is only a break and is essentially a pause in their relationship. It's not an official termination and as far as we know, they are technically still together. It's only temporary and they'll eventually be fine! All in good time
The Big Bang Theory: Season 8 Dvd And Blu-Ray
The Mushroom Log replied to Tripper's topic in Season 8
True, and that's awesome. But I just find it amusing how even though they are in the same week, Australia is still last, as per usual haha
IMO that's one of the only times a dream sequence is acceptable. I really hope they don't use a dream sequence to resolve either of the cliffhangers from the finale. There is so much potential as to how they can unfold in Season 9, a dream sequence would kinda be throwing everything under the rug.
Absolutely! There was nothing good about that cliffhanger. The entire thing reeks of lazy writing.
Thank goodness it's not until 3 or 4pm for me...I wouldn't get any sleep at all if it was in the early hours of the morning! Actually, I probably won't be getting any sleep anyway, I'll be that excited...
Granted, it can be funny sometimes. But I think it's pretty lazy if it's used to resolve a major cliffhanger.
Worst Big Bang Theory Episodes Every-My List
The Mushroom Log replied to Dayton Lavon Kitchens's topic in The Show
IMO the only reason they had the Sheldon and Penny stuff in 'Intimacy' was to send a message once and for all that Shenny will never happen. It couldn't have been made any clearer so mission accomplished! That entire car scene is one of my favourite scenes in the whole series. Probably the only thing I don't like about 'Cruciferous Vegetable' is how uncomfortably skinny Jim is!
If Sheldon's the one having the dream then I highly doubt he'll be imagining himself carrying Amy. But you never know
Of course Australia is last!
Where Did Sheldon Get His Ring From?
The Mushroom Log replied to gwhh's topic in Season 8
I was just rewatching this year's Comic Con panel and Steve said we'll be getting a "partial answer" as to when/where he got the ring and when he plans to give it to Amy. I think it would be adorable if he got it from his mother/Meemaw but at the same time, I also love the idea of him going to a jewellery shop and picking one out himself
Finally saw 'Home' for the first time last night! What a movie. I can see why it's grossed over $350 million...
Agreed. I'm always a little sceptical whenever a writer decides to go down the road of "it was all a dream". It's a pretty lazy plot device, not gonna lie.
I'll be at uni on that day (and during the time the taping reports usually come out). I'll probably end up screaming (or fainting...) in the middle of a lecture or something but it will be so worth it. I am so excited I could actually cry...


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George Dixon National Historic Person (1870-1908)
George Dixon
© Photo courtesy of the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame
George Dixon (1870-1908) was designated a national historic person in April 2021.
Widely regarded as one of the top boxers of the late 19th century, George Dixon was renowned for his stamina, speed, and defence and was the first Black athlete and first Canadian to win a world title. Born in Africville, Halifax, and competing primarily out of the boxing hub of Boston as a bantamweight and featherweight, he became the first fighter to win world titles at multiple weight classes and the first to have multiple reigns with a world title.
Credited with inventing shadowboxing, his innovative training techniques improved in-ring performance. Dixon's technical approach was widely adopted among pugilists of his era and remains central to training regimens of modern boxers. He confronted racial prejudice throughout his life and career, using his platform as world champion to create opportunities for Black boxers and Black boxing fans and regularly used his in-ring earnings to contribute to causes combating discrimination.
Early years as a boxer
Dixon started his boxing training after moving with his family to Boston, Massachusetts. Those around him noticed his natural skill, which included fast feet, a remarkable ability to bob and weave, and incredibly quick hands, all of which made him a very effective defensive fighter. Not the most physically-imposing boxer—he was 5'4" and weighed between 87 and 115 pounds while an active fighter—he used these skills to launch his career.
From Halifax to England
His first official fight was in 1886 in Halifax, where he knocked out Young Johnson. After fighting exclusively in Boston for the next four years, he travelled to England in 1890 where he knocked out Nunc Wallace in the 18th round to win the undisputed world bantamweight title. With the victory, he became the first Black boxer to win a world title in any weight class. Dixon, who competed primarily in the United States, confronted racism throughout his career, but used his popularity to challenge discrimination. For instance, he regularly got promoters of his fights to reserve seats for Black fans, a practice which was unheard of at the time.
World featherweight title
Given the nickname 'Little Chocolate', he resigned the bantamweight championship following his only title defence so that he could move up a weight-class. Less than a year later, he beat Australian Abe Willis in San Francisco to claim the world featherweight title, in the process becoming the first boxer to ever hold two different world titles. He would have three separate reigns as featherweight champion, making him the first fighter to lose and regain a title.
Shadowboxing
Outside the ring, Dixon was known for his innovative training style. His 1893 A Lesson on Boxing outlined many of his strategies, which included using hand weights, a speed bag attached to the floor to improve footwork, and hitting a heavy bag. Arguably his most important innovation, though, was shadowboxing. This technique involves punching and dodging an imaginary opponent, which both builds muscle and recreates fight conditions when training alone. Widely used by future generations, shadowboxing represented a significant innovation to the training regimen of boxers.


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I used to work in hospitals in the US, so I know why we should treasure our NHS
The year after qualifying from Aberdeen University Medical School in 1974, I went to work for a year in New […]
By Lesley Morrison
Updated October 14, 2020 3:18 pm
A patient is wheeled through a makeshift emergency room in New Orleans, Louisiana (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
The year after qualifying from Aberdeen University Medical School in 1974, I went to work for a year in New York City. The hospital was in an area of Brooklyn that had recently changed from being a well-to-do, middle-class area to one of poverty and deprivation. The patients on the upper floors were cared for by "attendings" (consultants). The patients on the lower wards were patients on benefits and they were cared for by people like me, who had qualified a few weeks previously, with minimal supervision.
I learned a lot, mainly about the devastating effect of poverty on health, and I returned to the UK deeply grateful for the NHS and passionate about its potential to reduce health and social inequality. During my 40-year career in the NHS, I have worked as a GP, public health physician and medical student teacher and have learned how working as a GP caring for individual patients gives you insight into the effects of social injustice and how, at a time of creeping privatisation and when so much attention is on the problems of the NHS, working in it is still an opportunity to make a difference.
Patients' stories are a precious gift
When patients share their stories with you it can feel like a precious gift. When Christine, who had had spinal tuberculosis since adolescence and was in permanent pain, was denied benefits because she was dignified and refused to look downtrodden, I attended the tribunal with her. We won and I learned about the iniquity of the benefits system.
I gained and understanding of immigration prejudice when I discovered Maria, a refugee patient doing shift work in the local fish-processing plant, turned out to be a highly qualified accountant.
When Meg, an alcoholic and depressed patient, finally trusted me enough to share the poetry that she had written about her life, I understood more about the acute alienation she had suffered and about how our care needs to include encouragement to keep our creativity alive.
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Darren, the son of a violent and alcoholic father, had himself sought refuge in alcohol and drugs and served several prison sentences where he was exposed to further drug-taking. When his baby daughter, Amy, arrived, he did not metamorphose into an angel but he did his best, despite his illiteracy, to change. When he proudly showed me how Amy was learning to read it was very moving. Darren taught me about the cycle of deprivation and why good healthcare in prisons is so important.
The NHS was revolutionary when it was introduced
When the NHS was introduced in 1948 it offered universal health care, free at the point of delivery, to all. It was revolutionary and it was the biggest step ever taken to address social injustice. Without the co-ordinated work of doctors, nurses and health visitors, the outcome for people like Amy would be very different.
So, what is different about healthcare in the US? Colleagues who have worked there recently say that the priority given to teaching junior doctors is impressive and that education is programmed into their working week in a way which is often lacking in a stretched NHS.
But what of the patient experience? In American society, the gulf between the very rich and the very poor is huge, and this is reflected in the quality of healthcare they can access. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, known as "Obamacare" or the ACA, which came into force in 2014, was the largest overhaul of the US health system since the 1960s.
Its aim was to extend health insurance coverage to some of the estimated 15 per cent of the US population who lacked it, the people who received no coverage from their employers and were not covered by the US health programmes Medicaid and Medicare, for the poor and elderly.
Healthcare in the US is a commodity
To achieve this, the law requires all Americans to have health insurance (choosing bronze, silver, gold or platinum cover), bans insurance companies from excluding people with pre-existing conditions, offers subsidies to make coverage more affordable and aims to reduce the cost of insurance by bringing younger, healthier people into the medical coverage system. But organisation of the system is at county level and there are increasing numbers of counties (often in poor southern states) where there are no Obamacare providers and where Medicaid expansion has not happened.
Premiums for average earners rose by 25 per cent last year to about $800 (£600) a month and more people are choosing, despite fines, to withdraw or to "game the system", to predict when they will require procedures or care and insure only for that period.
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Healthcare in the US is still a commodity to be bought and sold in the marketplace and, unless they are rich, patients have to spend a lot of time and endure a great deal of anxiety trying to ensure that they can access the healthcare they require.
We are very fortunate to have our NHS and we should never take it for granted, or stop being grateful for it.