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var Holodeck = require('../../../../holodeck');  /* jshint ignore:line */
var Request = require(
    '../../../../../../lib/http/request');  /* jshint ignore:line */
var Response = require(
    '../../../../../../lib/http/response');  /* jshint ignore:line */
var RestException = require(
    '../../../../../../lib/base/RestException');  /* jshint ignore:line */
var Twilio = require('../../../../../../lib');  /* jshint ignore:line */

var client;
var holodeck;

describe('Notification', function() {
  beforeEach(function() {
    holodeck = new Holodeck();
    client = new Twilio('ACXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX', 'AUTHTOKEN', {
      httpClient: holodeck
    });
  });
  it('should generate valid fetch request',
    function(done) {
      holodeck.mock(new Response(500, {}));

      var promise = client.api.v2010.accounts('ACXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX')
                                    .notifications('NOXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX').fetch();
      promise.then(function() {
        throw new Error('failed');
      }, function(error) {
        expect(error.constructor).toBe(RestException.prototype.constructor);
        done();
      }).done();

      var accountSid = 'ACXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX';
      var sid = 'NOXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX';
      var url = `https://api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/Accounts/${accountSid}/Notifications/${sid}.json`;

      holodeck.assertHasRequest(new Request({
        method: 'GET',
        url: url
      }));
    }
  );
  it('should generate valid fetch response',
    function(done) {
      var body = {
          'account_sid': 'ACaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa',
          'api_version': '2008-08-01',
          'call_sid': 'CAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa',
          'date_created': 'Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:02:01 +0000',
          'date_updated': 'Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:02:01 +0000',
          'error_code': '11200',
          'log': '0',
          'message_date': 'Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:02:00 +0000',
          'message_text': 'EmailNotification=false&LogLevel=ERROR&sourceComponent=12000&Msg=&httpResponse=500&ErrorCode=11200&url=http%3A%2F%2Fvoiceforms4000.appspot.com%2Ftwiml',
          'more_info': 'http://www.twilio.com/docs/errors/11200',
          'request_method': 'get',
          'request_url': 'https://voiceforms4000.appspot.com/twiml/9436/question/0',
          'request_variables': 'AccountSid=ACaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa&CallStatus=in-progress&ToZip=94937&ToCity=INVERNESS&ToState=CA&Called=%2B14156694923&To=%2B14156694923&ToCountry=US&CalledZip=94937&Direction=inbound&ApiVersion=2010-04-01&Caller=%2B17378742833&CalledCity=INVERNESS&CalledCountry=US&CallSid=CAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa&CalledState=CA&From=%2B17378742833',
          'response_body': 'Response body from your webhook URL as a string.',
          'response_headers': 'Date=Mon%2C+13+Sep+2010+20%3A02%3A00+GMT&Content-Length=466&Connection=close&Content-Type=text%2Fhtml%3B+charset%3DUTF-8&Server=Google+Frontend',
          'sid': 'NOaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa',
          'uri': '/2010-04-01/Accounts/ACaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/Notifications/NOaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.json'
      };

      holodeck.mock(new Response(200, body));

      var promise = client.api.v2010.accounts('ACXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX')
                                    .notifications('NOXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX').fetch();
      promise.then(function(response) {
        expect(response).toBeDefined();
        done();
      }, function() {
        throw new Error('failed');
      }).done();
    }
  );
  it('should treat the first each arg as a callback',
    function(done) {
      var body = {
          'end': 0,
          'first_page_uri': '/2010-04-01/Accounts/ACaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/Notifications.json?PageSize=1&Page=0',
          'previous_page_uri': null,
          'next_page_uri': null,
          'notifications': [
              {
                  'account_sid': 'ACaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa',
                  'api_version': '2008-08-01',
                  'call_sid': 'CAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa',
                  'date_created': 'Thu, 30 Apr 2015 16:47:33 +0000',
                  'date_updated': 'Thu, 30 Apr 2015 16:47:35 +0000',
                  'error_code': '21609',
                  'log': '1',
                  'message_date': 'Thu, 30 Apr 2015 16:47:32 +0000',
                  'message_text': 'LogLevel=WARN&invalidStatusCallbackUrl=&Msg=Invalid+Url+for+callSid%3A+CAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa+invalid+statusCallbackUrl%3A+&ErrorCode=21609',
                  'more_info': 'https://www.twilio.com/docs/errors/21609',
                  'request_method': null,
                  'request_url': '',
                  'sid': 'NOaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa',
                  'uri': '/2010-04-01/Accounts/ACaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/Notifications/NOaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.json'
              }
          ],
          'page': 0,
          'page_size': 1,
          'start': 0,
          'uri': '/2010-04-01/Accounts/ACaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/Notifications.json?PageSize=1&Page=0'
      };
      holodeck.mock(new Response(200, body));
      client.api.v2010.accounts('ACXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX')
                      .notifications.each(() => done());
    }
  );
  it('should treat the second arg as a callback',
    function(done) {
      var body = {
          'end': 0,
          'first_page_uri': '/2010-04-01/Accounts/ACaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/Notifications.json?PageSize=1&Page=0',
          'previous_page_uri': null,
          'next_page_uri': null,
          'notifications': [
              {
                  'account_sid': 'ACaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa',
                  'api_version': '2008-08-01',
                  'call_sid': 'CAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa',
                  'date_created': 'Thu, 30 Apr 2015 16:47:33 +0000',
                  'date_updated': 'Thu, 30 Apr 2015 16:47:35 +0000',
                  'error_code': '21609',
                  'log': '1',
                  'message_date': 'Thu, 30 Apr 2015 16:47:32 +0000',
                  'message_text': 'LogLevel=WARN&invalidStatusCallbackUrl=&Msg=Invalid+Url+for+callSid%3A+CAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa+invalid+statusCallbackUrl%3A+&ErrorCode=21609',
                  'more_info': 'https://www.twilio.com/docs/errors/21609',
                  'request_method': null,
                  'request_url': '',
                  'sid': 'NOaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa',
                  'uri': '/2010-04-01/Accounts/ACaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/Notifications/NOaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.json'
              }
          ],
          'page': 0,
          'page_size': 1,
          'start': 0,
          'uri': '/2010-04-01/Accounts/ACaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/Notifications.json?PageSize=1&Page=0'
      };
      holodeck.mock(new Response(200, body));
      client.api.v2010.accounts('ACXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX')
                      .notifications.each({pageSize: 20}, () => done());
      holodeck.assertHasRequest(new Request({
          method: 'GET',
          url: 'https://api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/Accounts/${accountSid}/Notifications.json',
          params: {PageSize: 20},
      }));
    }
  );
  it('should find the callback in the opts object',
    function(done) {
      var body = {
          'end': 0,
          'first_page_uri': '/2010-04-01/Accounts/ACaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/Notifications.json?PageSize=1&Page=0',
          'previous_page_uri': null,
          'next_page_uri': null,
          'notifications': [
              {
                  'account_sid': 'ACaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa',
                  'api_version': '2008-08-01',
                  'call_sid': 'CAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa',
                  'date_created': 'Thu, 30 Apr 2015 16:47:33 +0000',
                  'date_updated': 'Thu, 30 Apr 2015 16:47:35 +0000',
                  'error_code': '21609',
                  'log': '1',
                  'message_date': 'Thu, 30 Apr 2015 16:47:32 +0000',
                  'message_text': 'LogLevel=WARN&invalidStatusCallbackUrl=&Msg=Invalid+Url+for+callSid%3A+CAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa+invalid+statusCallbackUrl%3A+&ErrorCode=21609',
                  'more_info': 'https://www.twilio.com/docs/errors/21609',
                  'request_method': null,
                  'request_url': '',
                  'sid': 'NOaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa',
                  'uri': '/2010-04-01/Accounts/ACaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/Notifications/NOaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.json'
              }
          ],
          'page': 0,
          'page_size': 1,
          'start': 0,
          'uri': '/2010-04-01/Accounts/ACaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/Notifications.json?PageSize=1&Page=0'
      };
      holodeck.mock(new Response(200, body));
      client.api.v2010.accounts('ACXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX')
                      .notifications.each({callback: () => done()}, () => fail('wrong callback!'));
    }
  );
  it('should generate valid list request',
    function(done) {
      holodeck.mock(new Response(500, {}));

      var promise = client.api.v2010.accounts('ACXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX')
                                    .notifications.list();
      promise.then(function() {
        throw new Error('failed');
      }, function(error) {
        expect(error.constructor).toBe(RestException.prototype.constructor);
        done();
      }).done();

      var accountSid = 'ACXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX';
      var url = `https://api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/Accounts/${accountSid}/Notifications.json`;

      holodeck.assertHasRequest(new Request({
        method: 'GET',
        url: url
      }));
    }
  );
  it('should generate valid read_full response',
    function(done) {
      var body = {
          'end': 0,
          'first_page_uri': '/2010-04-01/Accounts/ACaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/Notifications.json?PageSize=1&Page=0',
          'previous_page_uri': null,
          'next_page_uri': null,
          'notifications': [
              {
                  'account_sid': 'ACaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa',
                  'api_version': '2008-08-01',
                  'call_sid': 'CAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa',
                  'date_created': 'Thu, 30 Apr 2015 16:47:33 +0000',
                  'date_updated': 'Thu, 30 Apr 2015 16:47:35 +0000',
                  'error_code': '21609',
                  'log': '1',
                  'message_date': 'Thu, 30 Apr 2015 16:47:32 +0000',
                  'message_text': 'LogLevel=WARN&invalidStatusCallbackUrl=&Msg=Invalid+Url+for+callSid%3A+CAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa+invalid+statusCallbackUrl%3A+&ErrorCode=21609',
                  'more_info': 'https://www.twilio.com/docs/errors/21609',
                  'request_method': null,
                  'request_url': '',
                  'sid': 'NOaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa',
                  'uri': '/2010-04-01/Accounts/ACaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/Notifications/NOaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.json'
              }
          ],
          'page': 0,
          'page_size': 1,
          'start': 0,
          'uri': '/2010-04-01/Accounts/ACaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/Notifications.json?PageSize=1&Page=0'
      };

      holodeck.mock(new Response(200, body));

      var promise = client.api.v2010.accounts('ACXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX')
                                    .notifications.list();
      promise.then(function(response) {
        expect(response).toBeDefined();
        done();
      }, function() {
        throw new Error('failed');
      }).done();
    }
  );
  it('should generate valid read_empty response',
    function(done) {
      var body = {
          'end': 0,
          'first_page_uri': '/2010-04-01/Accounts/ACaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/Notifications.json?PageSize=1&Page=0',
          'next_page_uri': null,
          'notifications': [],
          'page': 0,
          'page_size': 1,
          'previous_page_uri': null,
          'start': 0,
          'uri': '/2010-04-01/Accounts/ACaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/Notifications.json?PageSize=1&Page=0'
      };

      holodeck.mock(new Response(200, body));

      var promise = client.api.v2010.accounts('ACXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX')
                                    .notifications.list();
      promise.then(function(response) {
        expect(response).toBeDefined();
        done();
      }, function() {
        throw new Error('failed');
      }).done();
    }
  );
});


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Q: Flat-top Gaussian distributions I want to simulate microscope images (2D gray-scale pixel arrays) of fluorescent beads, which are tiny balls of polymer doped with fluorescent dye. I assume that an ideal image (neglecting out-of-focus contributions/depth information) would closely resemble a rectangle function - so the 2D intensity profile would be a rectangle, the 3D profile a cylindrical flat-top distribution. But due to the resolution-limited optics, the true image will be blurred.
For most practical cases, this blurring can be approximated by a Gaussian blur, i.e. by convolution with a Gaussian kernel that has a width equivalent to the Airy disk. Since the rectangle function is discontinuous, I was looking for a smooth alternative which approximates the blurred rectangle function and found the super-Gaussian or higher-order Gaussian:
$\displaystyle f{{\left({x}\right)}}={{f}_{{0}}{e}^{{-{\left(\frac{x}{{x}_{{0}}}\right)}^{{{2}{n}}}}}}$
However, there is one feature that is missing: Since I want to simulate fluorescent beads of different sizes, the model function should be scalable in width while keeping the slopes constant. The super-Gaussian will spread out with increasing width, which would corresponds to an unphysical increase in blur with larger bead sizes.
The question therefore is: How to modify the super-Gaussian so the slopes are constant for a wide range of width $\displaystyle{x}_{{0}}$? If possible, the modification should be as simple as possible in order to facilitate further image processing computations (e.g. further convolution operations; my laptop is kinda slow...).

A: It is important to understand what each of the free parameters does to $f$.  Specifically, $f_0$ scales the height of $f$; the maximum value attained corresponds to $(x,y) = (0, f_0)$.  The parameter $x_0$ is a scaling factor in the $x$-direction.  And for $n \ge 1$, the larger the value, the sharper the transition from $f_0$ to $0$ as $x$ increases.
What we would like to do is compute the slope of $f$ at its inflection point as a function of these parameters; that is to say, $f'(x_c)$ where $x_c > 0$ satisfies $f''(x_c) = 0$.  This corresponds to a extremum for $f'$; i.e., where the slope is steepest.  Logarithmic differentiation yields
$$\frac{d}{dx} \left[\log f(x)\right] = \frac{f'(x)}{f(x)} = -\frac{2n}{x_0} \left(\frac{x}{x_0}\right)^{2n-1} = g(x),$$ hence $$f''(x) = f'(x) g(x) + f(x) g'(x) = f(x) (g^2(x) + g'(x)).$$  Since $f > 0$ for all $x$, we need only consider the nontrivial critical points satisfying $0 = g^2 + g'$, which leads to the equation $$0 = 1 + 2n\left(\left(\frac{x}{x_0}\right)^{2n} - 1\right),$$ or $$x_c = x_0 \left(1 - \frac{1}{2n}\right)^{1/(2n)}.$$  Consequently, $$f'(x_c) = f(x_c)g(x_c) = -\frac{2f_0}{x_0} n e^{-1 + 1/(2n)} \left(1 - \frac{1}{2n}\right)^{1 - 1/(2n)} = -\frac{f_0}{f_c} (2n-1) e^{-1 + 1/(2n)}$$  If we regard $f_0$ as fixed, this establishes a relationship between $x_0$ and $n$ for which we have a desired slope at the nontrivial point of inflection of the curve.
For instance, if we want the peak to be $f_0 = 1$, and we originally have $n = 3$ and $x_0 = 1$, but we want to widen this curve so that we have the same slope when $x_0 = 2$, then we can numerically solve for $n$ that does this, yielding $n \approx 6.06782$.  In general, the choice $n_{\text{new}} \approx x_0 n$ seems to be a good approximation for $x_0 > 1$.

A: Complementing heropup's very nice solution, I just wanted to add that the convolution of a rectangle with a Gaussian is actually a known function. It's just the difference of two Error functions:

Solution on Wolfram Alpha

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James MacLehose (1857-1943), publisher and printer.
MacLehose became a partner in the family business of James MacLehose & Sons in 1881. The firm, run by his father James, was already "publisher and bookseller to the University of Glasgow". Its publications included numerous volumes on local history, such as The old country houses of the Glasgow gentry and Memories and portraits of one hundred Glasgow men, both edited by James MacLehose Snr.
In 1894, along with his brother Robert, James MacLehose Jnr acquired his uncle's firm, Robert MacLehose & Co, the official University printers. New printing and bookbinding works were built at Anniesland in 1904, to handle increased production. On Robert's death in 1907, James took over as chairman of Robert MacLehose & Co. He retired from his involvement in James MacLehose & Sons in 1919, to concentrate on printing. He edited the Scottish Historical Review, published at Glasgow University Press, from 1903 to 1928.
Reference: Mitchell Library, GC 052 BAI
bookbinders, bookbinding, books, editors, Glasgow University Press, James MacLehose & Sons, local history, printers, printing, publishers, publishing, Robert MacLehose & Co, Scottish Historical Review, University of Glasgow

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This unit describes the skills and knowledge needed to confirm requirements specified in a media plan, conduct negotiations when buying media, and compare actual media performance against media plan objectives.
It applies to individuals in an entry-level position in media planning or buying within an advertising team or media organisation, who are responsible for planning, buying and evaluating media selected to convey advertising communication messages.
This course is structured to provide students with the optimum learning experience in order to demonstrate the skills and knowledge required to confirm requirements specified in a media plan, conduct negotiations when buying media, and compare actual media performance against media plan objectives.
evaluate data to determine cost effectiveness.
outline ethical principles related to advertising.


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The MIFA, let's recall, is based on a risk-sharing principle. It aims to boost bank loans to the agricultural sector via related value chains.


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It is an exciting and uncertain time now that many of us have received our first and second doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. There are many questions regarding what this means for American Baptist Homes of the Midwest's (ABHM's) residents, families, and staff. With the vaccination rolling out to our residents and staff, we are entering a promising new phase in ending this pandemic.
How COVID-19 response will change after vaccination:
Vaccines are powerful tools in the fight against COVID-19. We hope to see enough people vaccinated to greatly reduce the COVID-19 disease. Until that happens, everyone who has received one or both vaccine doses must continue to carry out the same preventive measures in the community as they did before vaccination. We will continue to encourage mask wearing, social distancing, cover your nose and mouth when coughing or sneezing, stay away from others when not feeling well and ALWAYS wash your hands.
Why infection control measures cannot change as soon as people are vaccinated:
Before the CDC or health department's recommendations can change, we need to learn more about the protection COVID-19 vaccines provide after a full vaccine series is completed. We do not know if, or the rate at which, people may still get infected after they are vaccinated, or if they can spread the virus without feeling sick or having symptoms. Because not all members of the community have had COVID-19 or been vaccinated, many residents and health care workers may still be at risk for infection. Until we know that vaccinated health care workers and residents cannot spread the virus to others, the following measures should be followed.
Do I still isolate or quarantine?
At this point, isolation and quarantine recommendations for health care workers and residents have not changed, even if the person has received one or two doses of COVID-19 vaccine. This includes quarantine for health care workers and residents after an exposure, and residents after admission to the facility.
Do I have to wear a face mask?
Until more data is collected and the CDC updates its guidance, all health care workers and residents must continue to take the same preventive measures they did prior to vaccination (i.e., wearing a mask in the community, social distancing, hand hygiene). These measures are intended to protect others as well as yourself. ABHM Staff must continue to follow current state and federal guidelines for use of personal protective equipment when working.
If I had my vaccine do I still need to test?
Testing will continue as currently recommended by state or federal guidelines, regardless of vaccination status for individual residents or health care workers.
➢Test all residents and health care workers with symptoms.
➢Continue routine testing of health care workers at the frequency dictated by the percentage of people in the county who test positive for the virus among those who have been tested overall (positivity rate).
➢Perform outbreak testing when a new COVID-19 infection is found in a resident or health care worker to help stop the spread.
Will I still be screened for COVID-19?
Screening residents, health care workers, and visitors for signs and symptoms of illness will continue after vaccination. There have been no changes to recommendations for screening for signs and symptoms of COVID-19 in health care facilities.
Will visitation still be restricted or limited?
Visitation with friends and family is very important. We are hopeful that the local, state and federal health departments, as well as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) decrease the restriction and change the guidance around visitation.
Remember to encourage everyone to get vaccinated!
Please feel free to contact the administrator and/or ABHM at COVID-19Vaccine@abhomes.org
Update 12-31-20:
We are preparing for the COVID-19 vaccination and details are rapidly developing. Please see the information including Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about the vaccine below. Our campus is registered for the vaccine, which includes the nursing home, assisted living, and all staff.
-Healthcare workers and residents of long-term care facilities.
Walgreens will be our provider of the COVID-19 Vaccine for residents and staff. The vaccine we are receiving is Pfizer.
Elm Crest Update:
➢ January 8th, 2021 vaccine clinic (first dose) starting at 9 am in the McKee Room.
➢ January 29th, 2021 vaccine clinic (second dose or initial dose) starting at 9 am in the McKee Room.
➢ February 19th, 2021 vaccine clinic (second dose) starting at 9 am in the McKee Room.
Our nursing home and assisted living residents will be receiving the vaccine first, then the staff.
ABHM has set up a designated email address to best respond to any questions, comments, or concerns specifically related to the COVID-19 vaccine. COVID-19Vaccine@abhomes.org
We are preparing for the COVID-19 vaccination and details are rapidly developing. Please see Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) flyer for more information about the vaccine. Our campus is registered for the vaccine, which includes the nursing home, assisted living, and all staff.
What We Know from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC):
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) announced their recommendations for the initial phase of the COVID-19 vaccination program (1a):
– Healthcare workers and residents of long-term care facilities (LTCF).
As part of this program, which is free of charge to facilities, the pharmacy will:
➢ Schedule and coordinate on-site clinic date(s) directly with each facility.
➢ Conduct three visits over approximately two months will likely be needed to administer both doses of vaccine and vaccinate any new residents and staff.
➢ Order vaccines and associated supplies (e.g., syringes, needles, personal protective equipment).
➢ Ensure cold chain management for vaccine.
➢ Provide on-site administration of vaccine.
➢ Report required vaccination data (approximately 20 data fields) to the local, state/territorial, and federal jurisdictions within 72 hours of administering each dose.
➢ Adhere to all applicable Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) COVID-19 testing requirements for LTCF staff.
Walgreens will be our provider of the COVID-19 Vaccine for residents and staff and will provide an on-site clinic once the vaccine is made available.
Elm Crest is preparing for these clinics by doing the following:
➢ Working with our pharmacy to implement the vaccine clinic
➢ Gathering permission from our staff and residents who want to receive the vaccine
➢ Educating on the vaccine
Residents, Staff and Families,
There have been a lot of questions, comments and concerns from residents, families, employees, and those in our communities about the COVID-19 Vaccine. This vaccine is important in saving lives and reducing the transmissions of the virus.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is actively reviewing the COVID-19 vaccine for Emergency Use Authorization in the United States. ABHM operates in six states and those states have told the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) they want nursing home/assisted living providers to be a priority.
ABHM's mission is to create caring Christian communities that empower older adults, families, and people with disabilities and receiving this vaccine for our residents, members, and staff is a priority. We, as an organization, support the federal vaccine effort for COVID-19.
It is important residents, members, staff, and families know that ABHM has registered, on behalf of all of our nursing homes, assisted living communities, and homes for the developmentally disabled to receive the COVID-19 vaccine that the federal government will be disbursing in the near future. Please note, this does include all of our employees working at all of our locations across ABHM.
Distribution of the vaccine has yet to be determined.
Individual states will decide how to roll this large initiative in the healthcare sector
We will use our ABHM website, each community's website, Facebook pages, and other methods to communicate changes and updates as they occur.
ABHM has set up a designated email address to best respond to any questions, comments, or concerns specifically related to the COVID-19 vaccine.
COVID-19Vaccine@abhomes.org
It is our duty to stay focused on our residents, members, staff and loved ones during this time of uncertainty. All of us have been impacted by the pandemic but we will continue to persevere. We urge you to join us in getting the COVID-19 vaccine, influenza vaccine, wear masks, avoid large gatherings, and stay six feet apart-especially through the holidays.
Thank you for your understanding, kindness, and prayers for those we serve.
There will be more information related to the vaccine as it is released by the government.
Jeff Hongslo
ABHM President/CEO
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Reginald Hudlin
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that education is the key to economic success. Everyone knows that the jobs of the future will require ever higher levels of skill. That's why, in an appearance Friday with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, President Obama declared that "If we want more good news on the jobs front then we've got to make more investments in education."
But what everyone knows is wrong.
The day after the Obama-Bush event, The Times published an article about the growing use of software to perform legal research. Computers, it turns out, can quickly analyze millions of documents, cheaply performing a task that used to require armies of lawyers and paralegals. In this case, then, technological progress is actually reducing the demand for highly educated workers.
And legal research isn't an isolated example. As the article points out, software has also been replacing engineers in such tasks as chip design. More broadly, the idea that modern technology eliminates only menial jobs, that well-educated workers are clear winners, may dominate popular discussion, but it's actually decades out of date.
The fact is that since 1990 or so the U.S. job market has been characterized not by a general rise in the demand for skill, but by "hollowing out": both high-wage and low-wage employment have grown rapidly, but medium-wage jobs — the kinds of jobs we count on to support a strong middle class — have lagged behind. And the hole in the middle has been getting wider: many of the high-wage occupations that grew rapidly in the 1990s have seen much slower growth recently, even as growth in low-wage employment has accelerated.
Why is this happening? The belief that education is becoming ever more important rests on the plausible-sounding notion that advances in technology increase job opportunities for those who work with information — loosely speaking, that computers help those who work with their minds, while hurting those who work with their hands.
Some years ago, however, the economists David Autor, Frank Levy and Richard Murnane argued that this was the wrong way to think about it. Computers, they pointed out, excel at routine tasks, "cognitive and manual tasks that can be accomplished by following explicit rules." Therefore, any routine task — a category that includes many white-collar, nonmanual jobs — is in the firing line. Conversely, jobs that can't be carried out by following explicit rules — a category that includes many kinds of manual labor, from truck drivers to janitors — will tend to grow even in the face of technological progress.
And here's the thing: Most of the manual labor still being done in our economy seems to be of the kind that's hard to automate. Notably, with production workers in manufacturing down to about 6 percent of U.S. employment, there aren't many assembly-line jobs left to lose. Meanwhile, quite a lot of white-collar work currently carried out by well-educated, relatively well-paid workers may soon be computerized. Roombas are cute, but robot janitors are a long way off; computerized legal research and computer-aided medical diagnosis are already here.
And then there's globalization. Once, only manufacturing workers needed to worry about competition from overseas, but the combination of computers and telecommunications has made it possible to provide many services at long range. And research by my Princeton colleagues Alan Blinder and Alan Krueger suggests that high-wage jobs performed by highly educated workers are, if anything, more "offshorable" than jobs done by low-paid, less-educated workers. If they're right, growing international trade in services will further hollow out the U.S. job market.
So what does all this say about policy?
Yes, we need to fix American education. In particular, the inequalities Americans face at the starting line — bright children from poor families are less likely to finish college than much less able children of the affluent — aren't just an outrage; they represent a huge waste of the nation's human potential.
But there are things education can't do. In particular, the notion that putting more kids through college can restore the middle-class society we used to have is wishful thinking. It's no longer true that having a college degree guarantees that you'll get a good job, and it's becoming less true with each passing decade.
So if we want a society of broadly shared prosperity, education isn't the answer — we'll have to go about building that society directly. We need to restore the bargaining power that labor has lost over the last 30 years, so that ordinary workers as well as superstars have the power to bargain for good wages. We need to guarantee the essentials, above all health care, to every citizen.
What we can't do is get where we need to go just by giving workers college degrees, which may be no more than tickets to jobs that don't exist or don't pay middle-class wages.
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Re: Degrees and Dollars
ah.. college needs to be cheaper (and in the distant future, "free").. but to address more immediate employment, there should be a federally-initiated infrastructure-jobs training program, aimed at the unemployed and underemployed.. skilled-labor organizations should be adopting public schools especially in inner-city districts, teaching students in their respective disciplines, recruiting after graduation.. blue-collar positions may not be 'sexy' for many but they are/were a big part of middle-class expansion, especially in the context of african-american communities..
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Altiphrynoides — род бесхвостых земноводных из семейства жаб, обитающих на юге центральной Эфиопии в горах провинций Арси, Бале и Сидамо. Представители ранее входили в состав живородящих жаб, пока не выяснилось, что данные виды являются яйцекладущими.

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 Dubois, 1987 "1986" : Miscellanea taxinomica batrachologica (I). Alytes, vol. 5, p. 7-95.
 Stuart et al., eds. (2008). Threatened Amphibians of the World. IUCN. Pp. 156 and 204.
 Wells (2007). The Ecology and Behavior of Amphibians. P. 487.

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Lansing, MI - January 12, 2015: The Michigan Chapter of the Society of Industrial & Office Realtors (SIOR) is hosting the Inaugural SIOR Excellence Awards Banquet on January 22, 2015 from 5:30 pm to 9:00 pm at the Country Club of Lansing and ASTI Environmental will be a Sponsor. Among the ASTI clients expected to receive an award at this exclusive event are Ashley Capital, CBRE, Kirco | Manix, Kojaian, and The Eyde Company. The award categories include largest industrial, office, investment, co-brokerage and total volume transactions as well as smallest transaction, best re-use of space, most referrals, longest standing active member and newest member.
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"Footnotes: Reflections on the Research Process" with Professor Sara Brenneis
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Frost Library, 2nd Floor
Join us for a conversation with Associate Professor of Spanish Sara Brenneis about her new book, Spaniards in Mauthausen: Representations of a Nazi Concentration Camp, 1940-2015. In this book, Brenneis provides a historical, critical and chronological analysis of a virtually unknown body of work by examining narratives about Spanish Mauthausen victims over the past 70 years. Leah Kim '19 will interview Professor Brenneis about the project and her approaches to the research process. Coffee & tea will be provided.
"Hawks, Doves and Arms Control": Talk by Sarah Kreps
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Science Center, E108
The Department of Political Science, along with funding from the Stanton Foundation, welcomes Sarah Kreps to present "Hawks, Doves and Arms Control."
Does it really take a Nixon to go to China, as pundits often claim? Does it take a Trump to get Russia to reduce their production of nuclear weapons? Sarah Kreps will explore these timely questions. Challenging common wisdom, Kreps will discuss when and why leaders with a reputation for preferring peace to war (so called "dovish leaders") can overcome disadvantages at the negotiating table.
Sarah Kreps is a professor of government and adjunct professor of law at Cornell University. In
2017-2018, she was an adjunct scholar at the Modern War Institute at West Point. She is also a Faculty
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City. Kreps is the author of four books, including, most recently, Taxing Wars: The American Way
of War Finance and the Decline of Democracy.
This event is free and open to the public.
The 2018-2019 Hugh Hawkins Lecture: "Against the World: Deglobalization in Interwar Europe"
4:30 pm Beneski Earth Sciences Building, 107 (Paino Lecture Hall)
Tara Zahra, the Homer J. Livingston Professor of History at the University of Chicago, speaks on the transnational history of modern Europe. In 1914, the First World War ushered in a quarter century of anti-global retrenchment in Europe. Why did so many Europeans reject globalization after the First World War? What relationship did these anti-global movements have to the rise of radical political movements on the far right and left? And to what extent do the anti-global politics of interwar Europe resemble those of our own time? This lecture is free and open to the public.
Talk by Governor John Kasich
8:00 pm Johnson Chapel
John Kasich served as the 69th governor of Ohio from 2011 to 2019 and was a Republican presidential contender in 2000 and 2016. As governor, his priorities included restoring fiscal stability to Ohio, driving economic growth and job creation, modernizing infrastructure, developing a model to fight drug abuse and addiction, and seeking bipartisan solutions on key national issues such as health care.
Prior to serving as Ohio's governor, he was a member of Congress for 18 years, where he served as chairman of the House Budget Committee and worked to balance the federal budget. Kasich also served as a member of the House Armed Services Committee.
He left Congress in 2001 and served as a managing director of Lehman Brothers, as well as a commentator for FOX News and a presidential fellow at The Ohio State University, from which he graduated in 1974 with a degree in political science.
He is the author of four New York Times best-selling books: Courage is Contagious; Stand for Something: The Battle for America's Soul; Every Other Monday; and, in 2017, Two Paths: America Divided or United.
The talk is free and open to the public. Amherst students, faculty and staff will receive priority seating. Tickets are required for admission.


What a crazy day I had yesterday! My father was leaving to go back to the East Coast on Friday, and of course which airport does he have a connecting flight into yesterday afternoon? LAX. Talk about me having a near heart attack! Luckily his terminal was no where near terminal 3 but his flight was still delayed by the terrible events that happened. I'm very grateful that he's ok and my heart goes out to the families and workers that were affected by the incident.
Onto better news, my swatch today is from the newest collection by Maybelline Color Show called the Brocade Collection. And much like brocade, there is a rich saturated color intermixed with metallic shimmer and lots of texture. I picked up Amethyst Couture, a blackened plum with purple hex and gold and purple microglitter suspended in a blackened jelly base. Application was a bit tricky because the formula was thick and chunky, so thinner would be beneficial here. I used two slightly thick coats which dried with some texture as you can see in the shots below.
This screamed for some topcoat so I used a layer of my trusty Gelous and finished with my Poshe and NYC GCS mix. You can see the gold shimmer more easily here.
I love the complexity of this polish and I think there's lots of dimension to it once the topcoat is applied. Without topcoat, it looks too flat and gritty for my taste. From what I've observed, I think most of the polishes from this collection have a similar finish so expect to have your thinner nearby and lots of topcoat if you're like me. Fortunately, the results are worth it! Have you seen these at your local drugstore yet?


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Legalizing Inexpensive Housing
A Duplex, a Triplex and a Fourplex Can Cut a Block's Carbon Impact 20%
The carbon savings from 'middle housing' are voluntary, self-financing and immense. So why are they illegal?
A duplex in Portland. Photo by Michael Andersen, used with permission.
Author: Michael Andersen
(@andersem) on June 7, 2019 at 5:00 am
This article is part of the series Legalizing Inexpensive Housing
To understand why housing policy is climate policy, consider two city blocks with 18 homes each.
On one of those blocks, suppose something happens that's currently legal almost everywhere: Three relatively old, disintegrating homes are torn down and replaced by three 3,400-square-foot homes.
Newly built homes in Southeast Portland. Image courtesy of Google Street View.
Let's call this the McMansion Block.
But on the other block, suppose we do something that's currently illegal on most of the land in most cities, but would be legalized by reforms like Oregon's House Bill 2001 or Portland's residential infill project: we replace the three old homes with a fourplex, a duplex, and a triplex, respectively.
Let's call this one the Plex Block.
Let's also suppose that, due to new local caps on total building size, each home in the fourplex is 1,000 square feet; each home in the triplex is 1,150 square feet; and each home in the duplex is 1,500 square feet. (In other words, assume the city has decided to roughly follow Portland's current proposal and require triplexes to be a bit smaller than fourplexes, etc.) Let's also assume that each home holds 2.5 people on average, as in the rest of the United States and Canada.
On the McMansion Block, about $2 million has been spent on new construction, but the number of homes on the block hasn't changed. On the Plex Block, it's more like $2.1 million on construction, but the block just added six more, smaller homes.
If we compare these two blocks after all the new homes are complete, the housing-related carbon emissions per household of the Plex Block will be about 20 percent lower.
Figures are extrapolated from a 2010 study by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality.
In this scenario, we haven't put a price on carbon. The local power company hasn't shut off its methane plant. Those things should happen as soon as possible, of course—and those things become politically easier when energy consumption per household is lower. But these things haven't happened yet on Plex Block.
Just one thing is different on Plex Block. Instead of three households living in big homes, nine households are living in smaller ones. The other households don't change at all. And that, only that, is enough to get Plex Block well on its way to the 90 percent decarbonization it will need to achieve by 2050.
It's almost as if the Plex Block should be something we're legally allowed to create. Sadly, on most urban land, we aren't.
But how are these big carbon savings possible?
The short answer is that keeping a bunch of big, usually-empty rooms warm in the winter and cool in the summer burns a truly massive amount of carbon.
"No other sector offers a higher potential for a single source of reduction than residential efficiency," the Natural Resources Defense Coalition concluded in 2017.
"A typically sized new single-family home built to industry standards is responsible for nearly 60 percent more emissions than a home approximately half its size," my colleague Margaret Morales wrote last year.
Duplexes, triplexes and quads can also reduce driving—and save everyone money
If you were allowed to live here, you'd be home by now. Photo by Madeline Kovacs, used with permission.
The climate benefits above grow further when we include the potential transportation savings of letting people live closer to each other, to jobs and to shops.
When more people live within walking distance of any given street corner, that corner is more likely to get a frequent bus line, a local shop, a shareable car. Boosting the number of homes on residential blocks by one third (as on the Plex Block) correlates with a drop of about 1,000 miles driven per year per household, Margaret estimated last year—a 5 percent drop even after correcting for household size and income. If we'd assumed these new homes would otherwise have been built on the urban fringe instead of a close-in neighborhood, the contrast would be even sharper.
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This density effect is probably strongest if it's creating new options for living in a transit-rich, walkable area specifically for people who want to live a low-car life but couldn't previously afford that sort of neighborhood. This, too, is exactly what duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes allow. By letting a few households split the high cost of land, they cut the minimum price for newly built market-rate homes and they boost the number of below-market, subsidized homes per public dollar.
Of course, the same people also save money by living in small, energy-efficient homes and driving less. Enough money, in fact, that many of them are willing and able to cover the transition costs themselves.
"Millions of Americans want to spend billions of their own dollars to cut their carbon emissions in half, if only local zoning would let them," green housing advocate Payton Chung wrote in January.
Infill housing is no substitute for keeping fossil fuels in the ground, modernizing power grids, switching car trips to transit. We desperately need to do all those things, too. But infill housing makes all those measures go further, and it eases the transition to them.
Small attached homes aren't right for every household, and they shouldn't be mandatory. But they should at least be legal for anyone who does want them.
House Bill 2001, which advanced to a Ways and Means subcommittee with four weeks left in Oregon's legislative session, is poised to set a national example by making Oregon the first US state to re-legalize middle housing in urban areas statewide. With its local "residential infill project" reform, due late this year or next, Portland could become one of the first large cities to enshrine these options in code.
As surely as a windmill or a solar array, every fourplex we build improves the lives of our children and grandchildren. We should all cheer for laws that legalize them—loud enough for everyone to hear.
Note: The rough calculation of home energy efficiency gains here assumes the other detached houses average 1,633 square feet each and have energy efficiency equivalent to a new house. It also assumes all structures will last 70 years; if the structures last longer, then total carbon savings of infill will be even greater. Some of the energy savings estimates here were extrapolated from per-square-foot efficiency gains from a larger attached home compared to a larger detached home. Here's the spreadsheet I used.
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Amy Turnbull
I enjoy reading well-written articles like this that help us understand the benefits of living within a smaller footprint and sharing land more equitabily.
The problem with your analysis is that we shouldn't be building any new homes that aren't net zero. Net zero homes make the carbon savings from the higher density homes compared to the single family home mostly disappear but for the transit benefits of higher density.
Also you don't discuss where the folks moving into the new smaller units are coming from. If they've lived in shared housing -either with parents or roommates before- then the actual space occupied by each person may well increase.
The point is that while there are lots of solid reasons to support higher density housing in single family neighborhoods CO2 reductions are hardly guaranteed. And that real life – and reducing Co2 – is much more complicated – alas -than the simplistic example you give.
Michael Andersen
Herb, I agree that in some cases, household formation leads to more emissions, and that lower housing costs would probably raise the rate of household formation. So one question is: Are we willing to use bans on attached housing to raise everyone's housing costs in the name of incentivizing people to remain roommates, because roommates are carbon-efficient, even when they would prefer not to be? Also: Is this likely to be a politically viable solution?
For me, the answer to both of these questions is "no." Especially when a very carbon-efficient course of action that allows more people to live how they like, with lower costs and/or preferred locations, is staring us in the face.
Meanwhile, if we consider a scenario where banning or allowing attached housing has little effect on the rate of household formation, then the tradeoff is between some attached homes in a high-value area some more carbon-intensive detached homes on the exurban fringe. So there's a clear carbon winner there.
As for net zero, let's talk again after we've mandated universal net-zero construction. Until that happens, let's find ways to minimize the carbon impact of everything we build.
Ben Paulos
Here in Berkeley we call this "missing middle" housing. See missingmiddlehousing.com.
Katie Jones
As an owner-occupier of a triplex I agree whole heartedly to this piece! At the same time, I have to toot a horn for Minneapolis. Though I know Portland is super hip and progressive, Minneapolis actually is the first city to effectively outlaw single family zoning. The story has been covered twice in the last week in the NYTimes (here's one story: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/15/opinion/sunday/minneapolis-ends-single-family-zoning.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share).
One amendment to this piece is that it is really thanks to two women, Council President Bender and city planner Heather Worthington. We are a weak mayor City and Mayor Frey had little to do with it, though he was supportive.
Yep, any progress we're making here is definitely thanks in part to leaders like Bender, Worthington and other wise folks in Minneapolis. Interestingly, the zoning reform movement in Oregon has also been largely woman-led…
Two quibbles for the sake of the PDX/MSP rivalry, though:
– Oregon's statewide action would affect *many* more people than Minneapolis's also awesome and extremely important action.
– Minneapolis has yet to approve the fine print that will be all-important in determining whether anything in Linden Hills actually changes. Portland may well get the code of its local reform on the books first!
Terra Wheeler
It would be great to include the carbon footprint of the new construction. You are probably aware of the Preservation Green Lab Study which concluded for example here in Portland it would take 20 years for a new multi family housing to overcome negative climate change impacts related to the construction process. Also, many of the "disintegrating" houses are made of high quality materials all of which carry embodied energy. I strongly believe that reuse of existing housing is an essential part of carbon reduction. Historic Preservation in its modern form considers existing historic materials and includes energy efficiency, they are not mutually exclusive. Rather than demolishing first I'd like to see how old buildings are actually a valuable asset in the urgency of climate change. Not to mention the fact that existing housing is often the most affordable. There are no protections for residents here in Portland who are on limited budgets and have been historically marginalized. This very real fear of displacement while not directly related to carbon reduction are an important part of the sustainability lens.
This analysis does include the carbon footprint of the construction process and the carbon impacts embedded in the new and old materials. Those are the blue and red bars in the charts above.
The carbon costs of construction are meaningful, but they're dwarfed by the energy consumption of a building's residence over the life of the building. That's why, as you say, a new multifamily building (whose material-related carbon impacts are much greater than the low-rise wood-frame situation discussed here) becomes net carbon positive after 20 years. New apartment buildings will definitely last longer than 20 years!
Note that I'm not arguing here in favor of demolition … I'm arguing that every demolition that does happen should result in an energy-efficient outcome.
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What Is Capital Expenditure and How Is It Different From Routine Revenue Expenditure?
Money & Debt
By Tiffany C. Wright
Will a Capital Expenditure Have an Immediate Impact on Income Statements?
5 Largest Income Tax Deductions
How to Handle Inventory in a Tax Basis Compilation
List of Accounting Terms
How to Depreciate a Dog Kennel Business
As a business owner, you incur costs as a regular part of your company's daily operations. This includes maintenance or usage costs on equipment and machinery. However, you also incur costs to acquire, build or improve assets you use for your business. The difference between these two is the difference between revenue expenditures and capital expenditures.
Capital Expenditure as Investment
Capital expenditures are made for the purpose of capital investment. The purchase of large, long-term assets that depreciate over time is a capital expenditure. You make these purchases to provide the assets or infrastructure your company needs to grow its business and generate more profits. As such, you must use a sizable portion of your company's capital to acquire or install these assets. Many companies use debt financing or retained earnings to finance capital expenditures, but some use equity financing. Hence the use of the term "capital" to describe the expenditure.
Capital Expenditures on Statements
Because of the purpose, size and cost of capital expenditures, you do not record them on the income statement as an expense. Instead, you record them on the balance sheet as an asset with any offsetting liability -- for example, the loan used to acquire the asset. Capital expenditures typically appear as property, plant and equipment -- or PP&E -- in the long-term assets section. The cost then appears over time on the income statement in the form of depreciation of the asset.
Revenue Expenditures
Revenue expenditures are usually just called "expenses." Expenses are the costs your company incurs doing its normal business, and they are recognized immediately. In accrual accounting, you recognize revenues when they're earned and expenses when they're incurred. When you immediately record your expenses, you are matching them with the revenue those expenses helped produce. For example, labor and materials are expenses incurred to provide the services reflected in the revenue they are matched against.
With regards to assets, revenue expenditures are those that simply maintain an asset for regular use in company operations. For example, maintenance and repairs are expenses that show immediately on the income statement. Even if you hire someone to do an extensive repair, the cost is considered an expense. Capital expenditures are for new assets or major improvements that extend the life of an asset. For example, an extensive repair on a computer server is a revenue expenditure. However, if you replace your computer server with a reconditioned server that now has two additional years in its life span, that is a capital expenditure.
Accounting Coach: What Is a Capital Expenditure Versus a Revenue Expenditure?
Business Dictionary: Capital Investment
Internal Revenue Service: A Brief Overview of Depreciation
Tiffany C. Wright has been writing since 2007. She is a business owner, interim CEO and author of "Solving the Capital Equation: Financing Solutions for Small Businesses." Wright has helped companies obtain more than $31 million in financing. She holds a master's degree in finance and entrepreneurial management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Definition of a Revenue Expenditure in Accounting
What Is Capital Outlay?
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INFOGRAPHIC: Breaking Down 66.5M Oscar-Related Interactions On Facebook
The 85th Annual Academy Awards were handed out Sunday night, and film fans took to Facebook during the ceremony to the tune of 66.5 million Oscar-related interactions, with the term "Oscars" tallying three times as many mentions as during the 2012 event, and the nominees for best picture totaling 20 times more mentions than the previous year.
The 2013 Oscars scored a 7.17 on the Facebook Talk Meter, besting the 2012 event, and it generated the most buzz in the Northeast (New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Connecticut) and in California.
Facebook offered more details on its users' activity during Sunday night's Oscars show:
Les Miserables had the most likes among the top films, with its largest body of fans located in London, and it was the top film among women and users aged 13 to 17.
Django Unchained earned the most mentions among its peers, and it was the top best picture choice among men, with Facebook users who liked the film also likely to have liked an earlier effort from best original screenplay winner and director Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction.
Lincoln was the top choice among users of the social network aged 45 and up, and those who liked the film were also likely to like cable network The History Channel.
Lincoln star and best actor winner Daniel Day-Lewis drew the most buzz in New York and Los Angeles between the nomination announcements and Sunday night's ceremonies.
Best actress winner Jennifer Lawrence was the most-talked-about actress during the period between the nominations and Sunday night's awards, and the leader among men, while women favored Jessica Chastain of Zero Dark Thirty.
Best picture winner Argo was the most-talked-about winner of Sunday night, with mentions of the film skyrocketing 2,460 percent and mentions of director, star, and producer Ben Affleck soaring 23,500 percent during his acceptance speech.
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A Collaborative Exploration of a Thriving Economy that Serves and Sustains.
The next in a series of monthly meet ups is coming up in 2 weeks. At this event, we will be focusing on crypto-currencies like Bitcoin: how they work and what this new technology implies about possibilities for our economy.
Crypto-currencies, built on the open communication medium of the internet and secured with advanced cryptographic algorithms, stand poised to revolutionize the financial industry the same way that the internet revolutionized the publishing industry. We'll review, in layman's terms, how crypto-currencies operate and what makes them different from the financial instruments that we use currently. Then we'll have an open discussion to explore the implications of this technology and imagine possibilities for the future.
What comes after Bitcoin? Distributed Autonomous Organizations take the concept one step further. Many information-based organizations can be run entirely through the internet already. These businesses facilitate personnel and customer interactions, workflows, measurable and accountable results, customer payments and worker compensations, and even governance decision making, all performed via digital channels among geographically distributed workplaces. Typically the software that runs these businesses is cloud-based so it's accessible to customers and workers from anywhere. What if the rules of that organization – encoded entirely in software – could be created and managed in a distributed and democratically-controlled process?
Check out this article from Shareable magazine: Are you ready to trust a Decentralized Autonomous Organization? for a preview.
*UPDATE* The slides used in this presentation are available here: Crypto-Currencies: How do they work?
This entry was posted in Meetups on August 1, 2014 by benjamin.


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Pak anti-terrorism court jails Hafiz Saeed's 3 aides in terror financing case
The three convicts were present in the court when the judge announced the verdict
by Press Trust of India January 23, 2021 Updated February 23, 2021
With Friday's sentencing, the collective imprisonment of Mujahid and Iqbal has climbed to 80 and 56 years respectively Credit: Representational image
Lahore: A Pakistani Anti-Terrorism Court has sentenced three leaders of Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed's Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) terrorist organisation to six months in prison in a case of terror financing.
Saeed's brother-in-law Hafiz Abdur Rehman Makki, JuD spokesperson Yahya Mujahid and Zafar Iqbal were handed down the six-month imprisonment each by the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Lahore.
With Friday's sentencing, the collective imprisonment of Mujahid and Iqbal has climbed to 80 and 56 years respectively.
The verdicts against them will run concurrently in the terror financing cases registered by the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of the Punjab police.
ATC-II Presiding Judge Arshad Hussain Bhutta announced the verdict in FIR No 32 of 2019 against Zafar Iqbal, Abdul Rehman Makki and Yahya Mujahid, a court official told PTI.
The three convicts were present in the court when the judge announced the verdict, he said.
The CTD had registered as many as 41 cases against the leaders of the JuD in different cities of Punjab, the court official said, adding that the trial courts have so far decided 37 cases.
In a recent verdict, operations commander of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror group Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi was given a 15-year imprisonment on three counts in a case of terror financing.
Early this week, the ATC handed down a 14-year imprisonment each to Iqbal and Mujahid while a six-month sentence to Makki in another terror financing case.
The ATC has sentenced Saeed for a collective imprisonment of 36 years on terror finance charges in five cases so far. His jail terms will run concurrently.
The LeT, led by JuD chief Saeed, is responsible for carrying out the 2008 Mumbai attack that killed 166 people, including six Americans.
Saeed, a UN designated terrorist whom the US has placed a USD 10 million bounty on, was arrested on July 17 last year in the terror financing cases. The 70-year-old JuD chief is lodged at Lahore's high-security Kot Lakhpat jail.
The US Department of the Treasury has designated Saeed as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. He was listed under the UN Security Council Resolution 1267 in December 2008.
The global terror financing watchdog Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is instrumental in pushing Pakistan to take measures against terrorists roaming freely in Pakistan and using its territory to carry out attacks in India and elsewhere.
The Paris-based FATF placed Pakistan on the Grey List in June 2018 and asked Islamabad to implement a plan of action to curb money laundering and terror financing by the end of 2019 but the deadline was extended later on due to COVID-19 pandemic.
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Indianapolis - Ralph E. Davis, 72, passed away January 2, 2019. He was born August 18, 1946 in Blackford County, IN, to the late Thomas E. and Fern Marie Davis. Ralph was a graduate of Montpelier High School. He proudly served his country in the U.S. Air Force and was a truck driver for 36 years, retiring from Ruan Trucking in 2012. Ralph married Joyce Phillips, December 29, 2012 and was a member of Blackford Baptist Church.
A graveside service will be held Monday, January 7, 2019 at 2:00 p.m. at Marion National Cemetery, 1700 E. 38th St., Marion, IN.
Ralph is survived by his wife, Joyce R. Phillips; children, Tina Davis, Deonna "Dee" Ramsear, Thomas F. Davis, Christine Davis and David Davis; eight grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. Memorial contributions are suggested to the . Final care and arrangements are entrusted to Shirley Brothers Irving Hill Chapel, 5377 E. Washington St., Indianapolis, IN 46219. www.shirleybrothers.com.
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The Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith is an enclosed launch steel roller coaster ride at Disney's Hollywood Studios at the Walt Disney World Resort. The coaster has 3 inversions, goes from 0 to 57 mph in 2.8 seconds, and lasts 1 minutes 22 seconds.
Enjoy the story that unfolds while you wait in line to board The Rock 'n' Roller Coaster. Tour G-Ford Records, where Aerosmith is finishing a recording session. When the band realises everyone is late for the concert, they invite you to come along in their super-stretch limo. Once you board the ride, a radio DJ presents an informational safety talk followed by Steven Tyler from Aerosmith counting down for the ride. Your car will launch from 0 to 58 mph in 2.8 seconds before reaching the 3 inversions. Neon signs light up the dark track to mimic road signs of the darkened freeway of Los Angeles as you speed to the big show.
The Rock 'n' Roller Coaster plays a special soundtrack produced exclusively by Aerosmith and Disney Imagineers for the ride. The songs contain new lyrics to commonly known Aerosmith songs like "Walk This Way", "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)", "Sweet Emotion" and "Back in the Saddle". The classic song "Love in an Elevator" was specifically rewritten to "Love in a Roller Coaster" for this attraction. To join this ride, you must be 122 cm or taller.


Reason For Hope: When we die, are we going to become angels?
When we die, are we going to become angels?
No. This verse reveals that in heaven you see that God has come to two distinct groups: "thousands of angels" and "the church" or people who once lived on earth. So angels and men are two distinct creations.
Angels are workers, soldiers, messengers, God's assistants in the heavenly/spiritual realm. Men are physical creatures that live on earth then die and become resurrected, eternal beings in heaven. Both angels and men have freewill and decide whether to have a relationship with God. Angels who decide not to follow God are called demons. Men who decide not to follow God are called unbelievers or the lost.
When man dies, his spirit leaves his body. While in the spiritual state, man dwells in a place where angels exist, yet man is not an angel fulfilling any duties of an angel. Jesus, talking about the resurrection, said we will be "like" angels, but not angels. People will not marry in heaven just like angels don't marry.
We remain in a spiritual realm with other believers, waiting for Christ to resurrect us into a physical form once again. Then, according to Revelation, we will co-exist with angels throughout eternity in a resurrected body, much different (and better) than that of an angel.


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Coronavirus: how AI identified the outbreak and alerted people before the UN
On New Year's Eve a team of medics and computer scientists in Toronto had their digital ear to the ground and passed on vital information about a new viral outbreak developing in China
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam speaks during a press conference about the coronavirus outbreak, in Hong Kong. EPA
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On New Year's Eve 2019 at 10.00am EST, an artificial intelligence company in Toronto, Canada sent out a communication about more than 20 reported cases of a severe respiratory syndrome in Wuhan, China associated with the Wuhan South China Seafood Market "with no cause yet identified".
The notification landed in the inboxes of healthcare workers in Canada and the US, as well as clients in South-East Asia and some airlines, about a week before public warnings from the UN World Health Organisation about a novel coronavirus that had been identified in the massive capital of central China's Hubei province.
Coronavirus mapped: where has the disease spread in China?
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Coronavirus explained: Not as deadly as Sars or Mers but easily spread by air travel
"We didn't know it was going to turn into a global outbreak," Dr Kamran Khan, an infectious disease physician and founder and chief executive of BlueDot, told The National.
His company, made up of a team of about 40 physicians, veterinarians, epidemiologists, statisticians and computer scientists, determined that what they were seeing from the data they gathered on December 31 looked a lot like the origins of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) in 2002: a new pneumonia-like virus linked to an animal market in China.
How did they know that? By listening.
BlueDot uses machine learning and natural language processing methods (two subsets of AI) to monitor about 100,000 websites in 65 different languages from all over the world. The AI algorithms are trained to pick up chatter on infectious diseases from official local news channels, physicians' public web forums and government and NGO communications. BlueDot scans for this information every 15 minutes, 24 hours a day, every day of the year.
Infectious diseases pose a growing threat in an increasingly interconnected world as booming global travel, urbanisation and climate change make cases more frequent and severe.
The company, founded in 2013 and with nearly $10 million (Dh36.7m) in venture capital to date, is part of a new breed of public health response that relies on technology and open-source information to inform front-line responders and help them heal patients.
BlueDot is helping its clients like public health workers and airlines "anticipate rather than react", according to Dr Khan. He recalled that St Michael's Hospital in Toronto, where he still works, "didn't really know what Sars was until it showed up" in 2003. The outbreak "crippled the city" for four months, and killed 44 people there.
Since BlueDot first picked up on the emerging coronavirus, China has sealed off millions of people near the centre of the outbreak in an unprecedented quarantine effort as the death toll climbed to more than 100 and the number of confirmed cases jumped to almost 6,000 by Wednesday.
[ The UAE recorded its first confirmed case of the virus on Wednesday. ]
Part of BlueDot's work is predicting where outbreaks are likely to go internationally by looking at commercial air-traffic data.
Since most outbreaks happen halfway around the world, BlueDot assesses "if there is a sufficiently large amount of people coming to your backyard, in the 'pathway of the epidemic', we would notify you that that is something you should pay attention to", Dr Khan said.
In the days after the Wuhan coronavirus emerged but before the mandatory quarantine issued by Chinese authorities, BlueDot accurately said that the virus would travel from Wuhan to Bangkok, Seoul, Taipei and Tokyo, based on air-travel patterns from the Chinese province. They published their findings and a list of 20 destinations receiving the most passenger traffic from Wuhan, alongside a readiness score for a given city to cope with an outbreak, in the Journal of Travel Medicine.
Sydney and Victoria in Australia, and Dubai, were the only three destinations in the top 20 that are outside of East Asia, but every country on the list that received high volumes of passenger traffic from Wuhan had high readiness scores, "corresponding to relatively strong public health and healthcare capacity," they found.
"The UAE has grown a lot in the last 15 years and is a very important traffic hub," Dr Khan said. "Places that have that level of inter-connectedness are places that it's pertinent to have these kinds of insights to understand these kinds of threats."
The challenge is to not overwhelm healthcare workers or front-line responders with a deluge of information.
Location-specific insights are vital, according to Dr Khan. "So that a person in Dubai versus Singapore versus London is getting different information that is relevant to them and how they are connected to any outbreak."
John Oxford, emeritus professor of virology at the University of London and co-author of the textbook Human Virology, told The National on Sunday: "I think it could reach that [level of Sars], but not more," he said. "With all this attention and quarantine, and we have the experience of Sars so we know the public health measures – quarantine, social distance, hand washing – that should knock it on the head."
Dr Khan is putting his faith in healthcare workers as "the rubber hits the road in emergency departments". Although most clinicians only receive a day or two of tropical medicine training in school, their access to information as it is occurring day to day has never been better. BlueDot is helping them to "think global but act local". But they have their work cut out.
"It is an easy adage and far more difficult to operationalise," Dr Khan said.
But progress, he feels, is certain.
"When Sars was happening in Toronto back in 2003 I had my first BlackBerry. We've come a long way."
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Q: Exporting a filtered Grid data In Telerik RadGrid When exporting a rad grid data if the user has it filtered in any way the grid should just export the filtered data not the entire dataset - Any idea how to achieve this?
Regards - Hemant

A: Here is a solution that allows one to get a filtered, sorted list of data items using the current filter and sort settings from a Telerik RadGridView control (Silverlight version).
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IEnumerable<MyClass> itemsToDisplay { get; set; }  //The RadGridView is bound to this property

public void DoSomethingWithFilteredAndSortedDisplayItems(RadGridView rgv)
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    IQueryable<MyClass> iqItems = itemsToDisplay.AsQueryable();
    FilterDescriptorCollection filter = rgv.FilterDescriptors;
    SortDescriptorCollection sort = rgv.SortDescriptors;
    List<MyClass> fsItems = iqItems.Where(filter).Sort(sort).ToIList() as List<MyClass>;

    if (fsItems != null && fsItems.Count > 0)
    {
        DoSomethingWithDisplayItems(fsItems);
    }
}

public void DoSomethingWithDisplayItems(IEnumerable<MyClass> list)
{
    ... //Do something
}

A: I think that if you assign the filtered set of data to the grid before calling the export method (which internally rebinds it), you will get the filtered values in the exported file.


Identifying 'Big Picture' opportunities and threats in your business environment.
Apart from a company's internal resources and peripheral factors, there are several other macro-environmental factors that can have a profound impact on the performance of a company. Analyzing the entire external marketing environment of a business is an extensive task. Although, it is a complex process, understanding the framework of basic influences will allow maintaining an organized and strategic approach. One of the most popular and commonly used analytical tools for assessing external macro-economic factors is PESTLE Analysis.
P for Political Factor: The political factors take into account the variables which pertain to local political situation of a country and the world in context. A single amendment in the government policy could add a risk factor and lead to a major loss in the operations of a firm. Hence, companies should be geared to deal with the local and international legislations considering political drifts.
New technological platforms, innovations e.g., the progress of robotic engineering, etc.
L for Legal Factors: This aspect involves learning about the laws and regulations in the region. Legislative changes occur from time to time and many of them affect the business environment.
E for Environmental Factors: Government levies huge penalties or spot fines on firms for flouting environmental rules and regulations. Even consumers are willing to switch brands if they find a business is not adhering to its environmental duties. These, in particular affect the farming sectors, agri-businesses, etc.
In conclusion, PESTLE analysis is an invaluable business tool that analyzes six different groups of external factors, useful for organizations for analyzing and understanding the ground realities of the environment they have to operate in.
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My Story (Part 3)
I ended the last "episode" with a reference to my immaturity at the time that I went to college in my late teens, and that sense of not having properly, formally grown up has stayed with me ever since. I'll sometimes have a vague feeling, something like what is these days called imposter syndrome, as if I'm a child who has somehow managed to wangle a seat at the adult's table. Over the years, I've put it down to the idea of never having experienced the rite of passage from childhood into adulthood, the initiation and transition from boy to man.
The closest I came to a rite of passage was a night drinking with friends from college to celebrate my 21st birthday, a couple of months before our final exams. I still remember sitting in Conway's pub on Parnell Street in Dublin, when a couple of girls passed by. One was a former classmate from secondary school who at this time was a student at the nearby college of marketing and design. Recognizing me, she quipped, "Have you grown up yet?!" "Tonight's the night!" I replied with the cockiness of a few pints. Only afterwards did it occur to me that she was probably referring not to my newly acquired status as a grown up but to the fact that my immaturity at school had been all too apparent. At least, that's how I've interpreted it ever since.
Although I can still remember the early awakening of feelings about girls from my days in primary school, starting from maybe the age of 11, shyness and embarrassment ensured that my teenage years had been a total romantic washout. I had plenty of crushes but was so withdrawn that when a rare opportunity came my way, I didn't even recognise it as such. Only years later, looking back, could I see what I had been too immature and self-conscious to understand. I feel a bit sorry for the couple of girls I went out with in college, because I was a pretty useless date, a bundle of nerves and not very good company. It was only toward the end of college that I finally experienced the beginnings of an actual relationship.
But fast forward a few months and after graduation and the glorious summer of Live Aid I found myself, like much of my generation, headed overseas in search of opportunities that pre-Celtic Tiger Ireland was in no state to provide. Thanks to a family connection, I landed on my feet with a job in London and another chance to start my life over again. I worked for a year or so for an architect in south London before getting the travel bug and heading out for a couple of months in Sri Lanka – where my father was chief pilot and training Air Lanka crew – Bangkok and Hong Kong. Although I've travelled a lot in my life, that was one of the few trips I embarked on by myself. In hindsight, I wish I'd done it more. When you travel solo, I think you're more likely to meet new people and more free to be impulsive and go where the journey takes you.
Over the next few years, I got to know London pretty well. Which meant getting to know a lot of pubs well. But one that stands out, The Enterprise in central London, became a semi-regular for myself and friends from college because it was managed at the time by one of my father's best friends. And one night we were there when none other than my father was also behind the bar, which is where one of my favourite photos was taken. Displays of tenderness and affection are not something I strongly associate with our relationship, so I treasure this this photo from 1986 because I think it captures such a rare moment.
When I first moved to London I had started out house sharing with friends from college, but I soon found myself making new friends and drifting further away from my past. Through a stint of amateur dramatics, I made a new best mate, Tom. We had shared interests in football, music and travel, but his passions for each of them were turned all the way up to 11 and I just went along for the ride. It was also through am-dram that I met my first "proper" girlfriend.
K worked for the BBC and was a wonderfully warm and grounded person. I met her parents (Irish mum and Scottish dad), who didn't seem too upset about her going out with me. We also travelled to Ireland, along with Tom and his girlfriend, and she met my mum, who took to her straight away. But it wasn't to last. My unreliable memory doesn't serve me well here, but the gist of the situation was that K had plans to move to the continent and work for the European parliament while myself and Tom had slightly different plans.
We had working holiday visas for Australia and were planning to make the journey as epic as possible. The plan was to spend a month Interrailing, then head to Moscow and take the Trans-Siberian Railway across the Soviet Union and China to Beijing, and fly on from there to Australia. But the tragic events in Tiananmen Square put an end to any idea of travelling to China. As it happened, there was an alternative route, staying in the Soviet Union all the way across Siberia to the coast at Nakhodka, and then sailing for two days to Yokohama in Japan. We would stay in Japan for maybe a week or so of sightseeing before flying down to the southern hemisphere.
I know I really missed K when we left on our journey, and I had vague ideas of getting back together after a year on the road. But in those days before the Internet or even email, the letters between us became more and more irregular.
What's more, we never made it to Australia. Instead, I was at the beginning of what turned out to be a totally unexpected 22-year adventure in Japan.
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The South Carolina State Ports Authority joins 80 ports worldwide in becoming part of the Savi RFID network.
Feb 28, 2007—The South Carolina State Ports Authority (SCSPA) in Charleston is the latest port in the United States to begin deploying a Savi Networks SaviTrak RFID system. The installation will take place at its three terminals—Wando Welch, North Charleston and Columbus Street—allowing cargo owners to track containers traveling into and out of the port.
"This [participation in the Savi network] provides an additional service to our customers," says Byron D. Miller, spokesman for the SCSPA. Miller notes that one major shipper using the port had expressed an interest in employing Savi RFID tags to track its shipments throughout the South Carolina port, and that the port found other customers felt the same way, as well.
Therefore, sometime within the next two months, Savi will install tag interrogators at the Charleston terminals, and at the gates where containers are loaded onto and off of trucks and trains.
Containers employing the system will be tagged with battery-powered Savi ST-676 ISO Container Security Tags for RFID tracking, which transmit data at 433 MHz to readers deployed within a 100-foot range. When an ocean shipment arrives at the port, interrogators deployed at each terminal will capture the unique ID number of each tagged container, then inform the Savi Network server that the shipment has arrived. When a shipment is loaded by crane onto a truck or train, interrogators attached to the cranes will read the tag numbers once more. For shipments leaving the port by boat, the same system will read the tags as each container is removed from the truck or train, and again as it leaves the terminal by ocean vessel.
Operators can also have sensors connected to those tags to track whether a container door has been opened or closed, or whether there has been any shock to the container, as well as to record changes in humidity or temperature measurements. The SaviTrak network can then send that data directly to the involved parties via an e-mail alert. Built upon open technologies, the SaviTrak information service can receive and process data feeds from standards-based RFID technologies, bar codes, EPC-compliant passive RFID tags and GPS, though interrogators at Charleston will not use such technologies. In addition, SaviTrak provides customers with real-time status about scheduling and financial impacts on their in-transit inventory.
Miller says the port undertook an RFID pilot using Savi tags two years ago, adding, "We certainly saw returns [on the investment of RFID hardware]." That ROI was the result of greater efficiency and control of the containers in the port.
The Charleston port is joining more than 80 others worldwide in becoming part of the SaviTrak network, enabling cargo shippers with Savi RFID tags on their containers to track shipments. "The South Carolina Port, being a major hub of container cargo, is an important place for us to be," says Lani Fritts, Savi Networks' chief operating officer. "This connects South Carolina with all the other ports [participating in the Savi network]."
Last summer, the Port of Savannah deployed Savi's system (see Georgia Cargo Terminals Becoming RFID-Enabled). In October 2006, the Port Authority began deploying RFID systems from Savi and GE Security (see RFID Adds to Security at Virginia Port Authority).
In 2006, Charleston ranked as the fourth-busiest container port on the East and Gulf coasts. The port ships 2 million container shipments a year, Miller says, between the United States and Asia, North and South America, and Europe.


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Lawsuit: California hospital secretly filmed women, invading about 1,800 patients' privacy
Sharp Grossmont Hospital in La Mesa, Calif. A lawsuit alleges that hidden cameras were set up in three operating rooms at the hospital. Photo: Sharp Grossmont Hospital
LA MESA, Calif. (AP) - Dozens of women are suing a Southern California hospital, claiming they were secretly filmed during medical procedures including having surgery and giving birth, according to plaintiffs.
The lawsuit filed last week says female patients were recorded by motion-activated cameras set up in three operating rooms at Sharp Grossmont Hospital in La Mesa as part of an effort to catch a possible drug thief, several media outlets reported.
Eighty-one women are named as plaintiffs in the class-action suit. They're seeking unspecified damages.
"Although the cameras were intended to record only individuals in front of the anesthesia carts removing drugs, others, including patients and medical personnel in the operating rooms, were at times visible to the cameras and recorded," the hospital near San Diego said in a statement.
The videos show "female patients unconscious, undressed on operating room tables and undergoing medical procedures," the filing stated.
One woman says she was recorded while giving birth by emergency cesarean section, the lawsuit said. Other procedures caught on video include "birth complications, dilation and curettage to resolve miscarriages, hysterectomies and sterilization procedures," court documents said.
The hospital indicated patients consented to the video recordings through a generic patient admissions agreement since the issue involved patient safety.
The plaintiffs are being represented by Allison Goddard in San Diego.
KTVU contributed to this report.


So this is the end of my last week in Granada! Tomorrow, I leave with one of the groups to Matagalpa to get them situated in their hospital and then on to Somoto to visit the group there. After that, I will travel around between hospitals for 2.5 weeks before stopping in La Trinidad to work in a hospital for 2 weeks. This final week of classes has been great!
We worked on a bunch of equipment from a veterinarian clinic in Granada in lab which was good practice for all of the students. It was really weird walking into the clinic to collect the equipment because there were about 10 stray dogs in the process of being neutered or post-surgery just sitting there drugged out.
The English classes Whitney and Danni have been teaching for ~2 weeks after Lab. I went twice and was super tired. I'm not sure how they found the time/energy but it was really cool. They had a pizza party for the last day of classes. It's easy to take for granted how important English is for the rest of the world.
I finally decided to take a carriage tour that Granada is famous for. Was interesting learning new things and great practice for my Spanish.
So I don't have a lot of pictures from the hospital in Masaya because once we got there Kevin and I were asked to go to the directing doctor's house and take a look at a lot of donated equipment that is being stored there (for safety from theft apparently). Here is an aspirator we had just cracked open to work on (and when I got back was fixed).
His guest room is where the donated stuff was being stored.
Some of what was donated was seriously broken and often had labels from the people that donated it saying "broken." It is really frustrating running into this sort of thing that is doing more harm that good.
But thankfully a lot of the devices were salvageable and ready to be sent to the hospital. There were a lot of AEDs and one really nice patient monitor that was a really simple fix. A bolt was loose underneath a dial button that made it impossible to select options but after that it worked ok. This is the pile of things we tested and found working or were able to fix. Amazingly, there were a lot of consumables like bandages, EKG paper and pads, etc. which we really don't see a lot of in the hospitals.
The ride back was a series of Tuk-Tuks and Pickup Trucks (theres a song in there somewhere) and we got a driver to stop for this really nice view of Mombacho.
And then for the weekend we hopped on a ferry to go to the volcanic island: Ometepe.
We stayed at a really cool hostel called Finca Mystica (Mystic Farm) that was a magical place. There were monkeys and butterflies and hammocks all over the place and a ton of great views. The first day I did a 5 hour hike to this waterfall.
And the next day I did an 8 hour hike to the top of the volcano Maderas.