It's impossible to discuss the access crunch at Larkspur Ferry Terminal without the subject of shuttle buses. It seems like an easy solution to the seemingly intractable problem of how to get people to the ferry, but history shows it's not so straightforward.
As mentioned Monday, the shuttle was a monumental failure with riders, principally thanks to free parking. Though ridership would spike to 10 percent of ferry patrons during promotional periods, it would drop back down after the promotion was over. It's tough to compete with free and convenient.
Pay parking eliminates this concern. Thanks to a quirk in Clipper, riders will get a free transfer while drivers will not, replicating the situation during promotions. It is not unreasonable to assume that 10 percent of riders, the same number who used it during promotions, would use the shuttle. At that rate, the shuttle would actually make a profit, but not like a normal bus may.
Normally, fares paid directly for the bus service goes towards the route's bottom line. Greyhound makes a profit on its buses, while GGT wants to recover no less than 20 percent of its operating costs with fares. A ferry shuttle, however, would be a loss leader. The real money isn't in the fare paid for the shuttle ride; it's in the much higher fare paid for the ferry ride.
Since demand for the ferry already outstrips the ability of people to get to it, every ferry rider who switches from car to shuttle frees a parking spot available for someone new. If 10 percent of ferry riders switch to the shuttle, another 275 people can drive to the ferry. Our drivers would take round-trips, so GGT would earn $12 per day in fares from them. And, since they're driving, they'd pay out another $2 per day as a parking charge. Add it up and GGT gets nearly $3,000 per new passenger per year, a total of $785,000 in new revenue.
The shuttle program used in the past was a complicated and vast thing, with shuttle routes overlapping existing routes inefficiently while running long distances.
There's no need for that. While most ferry riders come from Central Marin, nearly all bus traffic runs through the San Rafael Transit Center. It's impractical for a shuttle to replicate all these routes, and why should it? If it wants to pick up more passengers up 101 or down Miracle Mile or out in the Canal, it has ceased to be a ferry shuttle and has become part of the wider bus system.
As well, running the shuttle outside of a very restricted 6-minute Transit Center-Ferry Terminal circuit opens the route up to delays from traffic or crash. Given the often long waits between ferry departures, a delay could force a long wait on riders. If ferries are held to wait for the bus, it would add delays for the rest of the commute hour.
Unfortunately, a dedicated shuttle would be rather expensive. At $660,000 per year, it would make a $125,000 annual profit, but there's a lot of waste. When ferry headways are long – up to 95 minutes – the shuttle wouldn't have anything to do. GGT could realize significant cost savings by extending an existing route to the ferry terminal instead.
By extending a short, frequent route, like Route 35, GGT would be able to operate a shuttle for only $340,000 per year. When ferry headways are long, the bus would be able to continue on its normal route and head to the ferry terminal for shuttle runs. When ferry headways are short, every run would hit the ferry terminal.
It's important to point out that, since GGT will charge for parking no matter the outcome of its parking expansion, it must implement a shuttle to take up the slack of those who don't want to pay the charge. If GGT rejects the shuttle but institutes the parking charge it will face a decline in ferry ridership rather than an expansion.
This kind of shuttle is not on the radar of GGT officials. They cite the old system's high cost, poor response, and ferry riders who said they want a shuttle for other people but not themselves. Though they want to time Route 29 to the ferries – a fantastic idea – they may miss an opportunity to add revenue to the system. Staff should draw up some shuttle options with projected ridership and combined ferry/bus revenue. The Board needs to see its options.
If reorganizing neighborhood parking is the "organization" side of ferry access, the parking charge is the "electronics" side of ferry access. The modest investment would add efficiency by segmenting the access market into those who really want or need to drive and those who would prefer to leave their car at home.
As we discussed Monday, there is no reason to invest in parking garages for Larkspur Ferry. Not only can GGT provide 520 more parking spaces for free but it can free up 275 parking spaces with a profitable shuttle service.
So we can accommodate plenty of Marin commuters, but GGT's ferry faces other problems, namely severely underused afternoon and reverse-commute capacity. And if the aim is to boost ridership, there's no more efficient way than increasing the number of people who walk. The next installment will tackle these issues with transit-oriented development.
SMART is actually working aggresively to secure funding to include the Downtown San Rafael to Larkspur segment as part of the project's Initial Operating Segment, rather than pushing it to the future as is currently conceived. This work remains ongoing, and is reliant on securing federal funds and other revenue sources. If they could pull it off, SMART service could be available at Larkspur Landing as early as 2016. That would at least solve the problem of getting people from the Transit Center down to the ferry, or at least reasonably close to the ferry since the Larkspur station will be located across Sir Francis Drake behind the movie theater. There's much work to be done with respect to making it easier for people to get from the future station over to the ferry. As currently conceived, its a real obstacle course and a bit of a walk. Not real safe, either.
One of my questions is how the ferry is going to handle the additional ridership that should result once SMART is completed. As a regular rider, I can say that morning departures regularly sell out, and that the terminal appears to be operating at near capacity under its current configuration. Are more boats and more frequent trips planned? Could use be made of the additional boat slip to conduct dual boat operations during peak periods? I have not seen any discussion of how that will be handled or how it will be paid for.
As for capacity, a follow-up post addressed exactly that. In short: yes, they're considering running an additional ferry, but legal and logistical barriers mean prevent GGT from boosting capacity more than that. GGT would need to change the EIR governing use of the catamarans, possibly purchase a new vessel, and shape development patterns at Larkspur to even out demand through the day. It may even be in their interest to pay SMART to put their station in the Marin Country Mart parking lot or within the ferry terminal itself, but that could cost upwards of $30 million.
Yes, I saw your followup post after I had already posted mine. Like most everything aorund here, the potential solutions are complicated and costly. Nevertheless, that's not an excuse to do nothing.


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Seventy-two local earthquakes were analyzed and the quality factor (Qc) was calculated for three regions of Georgia using the single-scattering model in the frequency range of 1–32 Hz. Standard International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior (IASPEI) routines for the coda Qc determination have been used. The coda window varied from 35 to 45 s and the lapse time was up to 63 s. The epicenter distances and the focal depths of the earthquakes were up to 50 km and 20 km, respectively. Local magnitudes ranged from 1.7 to 4.1. These earthquakes were recorded by three digital seismic stations equipped with broadband Guralp CMG40T seismometers. The Qc values show strong frequency dependence for three regions. The value of Qc at frequency 1 Hz varies from 35:1  5:3 to 83  8:2, and the frequency parameter, n, increases from 0:890  0:062 to 1:095  0:056 depending on the model of the coda generation and the considered region. Observed Qc values reflect the average attenuation property of the whole crust beneath each region and are correlated with the seismicity pattern and geology in the studied regions.


In January, NISSEM co-conveners Jim Williams, Andy Smart and Margaret Sinclair took part in a high-level workshop convened by the Conflict and Education Learning Laboratory (CELL), entitled Narrating our Violent Pasts in Curricula and Textbooks. This is the first of three posts, one by each, stimulated by the workshop.
One year ago, a workshop on textbooks and education materials was hosted and led by Prof James Williams at George Washington University (GWU). It followed a CIES 2017 workshop supported by USAID's Education in Conflict and Crisis Network (ECCN) and Education Above All, my then employer. After a session at CIES 2018 and another in New York, led by Prof Aaron Benavot of the University of Albany at SUNY, NISSEM was formed. The initiative – Networking to Integrate SDG 4.7 and SEL skills into Education Materials – focuses largely but not exclusively on education systems in low or middle income countries and post-conflict situations. As a NISSEM co-founder, I'm thrilled to help launch this NISSEM blog page, to share approaches to SEL and its application to SDG Target 4.7 themes around "learning to live together."
NISSEM caters to all sorts. I began as an education planner, and later worked for UNHCR. I saw enough of refugee camps to call on education decision-makers to support education for the prevention of crisis and conflict. As a planner, I saw a role for ministries of education and other education managers in using textbooks as a tool for prevention of conflict and violence. Even under difficult conditions, Ministries still have a role in approving textbooks and other education materials. As a retiree, wearing a NISSEM hat, I see the training of textbook writers in the basic intrapersonal and interpersonal skills or social and emotional learning (SEL), starting with empathy and respect for all, as a no-brainer. For adolescents especially, SEL can be linked to content in different subject areas that can help give them a sense of agency and ownership in building a more peaceful and inclusive society. And this must be done in-country, taking advantage indeed of generic guides, but with training workshops for national writers to develop contextualized and motivational materials.
This may seem like tilting at windmills: developing expertise for national textbook writers to contribute to peace is rarely given priority by ministries of education or international donors. Textbook development often sits in no-man's-land, or – to use a different metaphor – it falls into the crevice of the humanitarian–development divide. In times of peace, there is little impetus to use textbooks as tools for reducing societal divisions that threaten national security and prosperity. In times of crisis, existing textbooks continue to be used, whatever their limitations. In post-conflict reconstruction, who will champion funding for textbook renewal to promote local, national and global citizenship and sustainable development, and personal life skills, when donors and politicians want new classrooms to show their paymasters or to gain votes? The limited funding for textbook renewal is often insufficient and time-frames too short.
Textbooks have often contributed to divisions in society. How can we convince planners of their potential as a channel for peace, and the need to budget for developing and trialling new content to motivate young people to build an inclusive society? These and other issues emphasized by NISSEM in its early meetings and workshops were welcomed and discussed in January 2019 at a workshop on "Narrating our violent pasts in curricula and textbooks," organized by the Conflict and Education Learning Laboratory (CELL), in partnership with UNESCO and the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, and with support from ECCN. CELL's workshop underscored the potential for textbook renewal to constitute a nexus between education for development and education in emergencies. Speakers at the workshop called for investment in a new generation of textbooks devoid of negative stereotypes and biased, divisive accounts of the past.
I skyped in to the workshop to argue that prevention of conflict or its recurrence is the stage at which textbooks can help. NISSEM was represented in person at the event by Professor James Williams spoke on the prejudiced or biased depictions of real or imagined pasts in textbooks across the world. His take on the discussion and his recommendations are the subject of the next NISSEM blog post. NISSEM was likewise represented by co-founder Andy Smart, veteran textbook and education publishing specialist. His reflections, notably on inclusion and pedagogy, will complete this set of linked blog posts. Andy will consider how textbooks can embed pedagogies that lay the foundation for engagement in positive classroom behaviours, and how they can transmute these into positive citizenship behaviors help build social cohesion.
A quick glance around the globe shows many divided countries, with previously stable societies falling apart metaphorically or blowing themselves apart with explosives. Past conflicts have often subsided into under-reported insecurity with a real risk of large-scale conflict resuming – a 50 percent chance, according to some estimates. In the coming decades, huge numbers of youth will be seeking a meaningful life when workplaces are becoming more automated and with extremists selling false dreams or preaching hatred. All power to the elbows of CELL and NISSEM.
 Sinclair (2004) Learning to Live Together: Building skills and values for the twenty-first century. Geneva: UNESCO International Bureau of Education.
 NISSEM and local partners have developed proposals for development and trialing of sample lesson content incorporating SEL and SDG 4.7 themes, and are in search of interested donors. See also NISSEM's Position Paper.
 For previous explorations of these questions, supported by Education Above All, see UNESCO IIEP and EAA. (2015) Safety, Resilience and Social Cohesion: A guide for education sector planners; Safety, Resilience and Social Cohesion: A guide for curriculum developers. Paris: UNESCO IIEP; and for samples of supplementary education materials prepared jointly with the Uganda National Curriculum Development Centre, using this guidance, see Mainstreaming Conflict and Disaster Risk Management into the Uganda curriculum.
Margaret Sinclair, Independent Consultant with record of contribution to the establishment and development of field of education in emergencies, now with particular interest in conflict-sensitive education policies and SDG Target 4.7.


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Mr. Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the OECD, was in Lima from 7 to 10 October 2015 to attend the World Bank / International Monetary Fund Annual Meetings. The Secretary-General delivered two major reports in Lima: the final package of the OECD/G20 BEPS Project, during his participation at the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting; and the OECD report on progress on climate finance, to participants at the Climate Finance Ministerial taking place ahead of the COP21 Paris meeting.
The visit to Lima also had a very strong bilateral component to signal the growing collaboration between Peru and the OECD. The Secretary-General met with President Humala and various members of his government, and presented an OECD Multidimensional Country Review of Peru (read the Secretary-General's remarks in Spanish). On the occasion of his visit, Peru also solicited its adherence to the OECD Green Growth Declaration, at a ceremony taking place at the Presidential Palace.
During his stay in Lima, Mr. Gurría participated in various other events, including the Deauville Partnership Finance Meeting. He also held several bilateral meetings with participants at the annual meetings.
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8 October 2015 - OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría presented the Multi-Dimensional Country Review of Peru to Peruvian President Ollanta Humala. The Secretary-General and the President also discussed the progress in the implementation of the OECD Country Programme with Peru, launched in December 2014. Lima, Peru.
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Civilization V puts history into perspective, all within its beautifully encapsulated experience. It perfectly captures the glee of discovering a new world, and the horrors of finding it already settled. It replicates the paranoia of being surrounded by strangers, and the thrill of conquering their lands. With Civilization V: Gods & Kings, Firaxis expands on the formula established with the 2010 release with a hefty helping of new additions, and while they don't prove to reinvent the experience, they certainly give fans an excuse to start some new expeditions through history.
Gods & Kings brings with it nine new playable civilizations, over two-dozen new units, and a slew of buildings and wonders. There's also a completely new scenario called Empires of the Smoky Skies, which veers away from reality in favor of a Victorian-era steampunk future filled with airships and men in top hats. These additions are all wonderful, and flesh out the minute-to-minute gameplay with new options, but they're completely eclipsed by the two largest bullet points on the box: the return of Religion and Espionage, both of which found homes in previous incarnations but were left out of the initial release of Civ V.
Religion finds its roots during the early years of founding a new society, allowing civilizations to specialize in faith – a new resource pool tied to many of the new abilities. After enough faith is gained you're able to form a full-fledged religion, which comes with customizable bonuses to let you build the belief-system around your play style. Those looking to win a game through might can buff their holy warriors and purchase units with faith, whereas those interested in scientific or cultural victories can adapt their religion to those.
But besides picking and choosing the passive buffs you want, you're also able push your religion onto others with Great Prophets and Missionaries, who can be placed outside of cities to spread the good word. Cities, too, passively spread it themselves, creating "pressure" on nearby towns that slowly converts their people. This can have a nice domino effect, and there is some fun strategy to attempting to convert a rival's people to your religion in hopes of being able to use your passive buffs against them.


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Dr. Feng Qian, Department of Health Policy, Management and Behavior, School of Public Health, University at Albany-State University of New York GEC, Room 169, One University Place, Rensselaer, New York 12144.
Objectives The purpose of this study was to determine whether there are racial differences in patient-reported health status as well as mortality and rehospitalization after hospitalization for heart failure (HF).
Background Little is known about whether racial differences exist in patient-reported outcomes after HF hospitalization.
Methods We analyzed data from 1,427 patients (636 non-Hispanic African Americans [45%]; 791 non-Hispanic whites [55%]) enrolled in the Tele-HF (Telemonitoring to Improve Heart Failure Outcomes) trial. Health status was measured with the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) at baseline and then at 3 and 6 months. Generalized linear mixed models and propensity score methods were used to adjust for clustering within sites and differences between races.
Results Although black patients reported better adjusted health status at baseline (black vs. white difference in KCCQ summary scores was 6.22; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 2.98 to 9.46; p < 0.001), after adjusting for patient demographics, comorbidities, clinical laboratory values, and baseline KCCQ score, we detected no significant racial differences in patient-reported health status at 3 months (black vs. white difference in KCCQ score: 2.28; 95% CI: −0.84 to 5.41; p = 0.15) or 6 months (black vs. white difference in KCCQ score: 1.91; 95% CI: −1.31 to 5.13; p = 0.24).
Racial disparities in cardiovascular disease have long been recognized. However, little is known about whether racial differences exist in patient-reported outcomes after a heart failure (HF) hospitalization. Despite pharmacologic and technical advances in the care of patients with HF, racial disparities in HF care and outcomes remain an enormous public health concern (1–4). Although HF is disproportionately present among African Americans (5–9), it is unclear whether there are racial differences in patient-reported health status outcomes after HF hospitalization.
Prior studies using Medicare data of older patients discharged after a hospitalization for HF have indicated that, compared with white patients, African American patients have higher readmission rates (1,2) and lower mortality (1). However, these studies did not include younger patients and focused on mortality and readmission, although health status (patients' symptoms, function, and quality of life) is a primary concern for patients. Illuminating racial disparities in outcomes is important because HF affects black individuals at a younger age than white individuals. It thus remains unknown whether racial differences exist in mortality and readmission in a younger HF population and whether there are racial differences in patient-reported health status after HF hospitalization.
To address these gaps in knowledge, we sought to compare a comprehensive set of HF outcomes including health status, readmission, and mortality in non-Hispanic white and non-Hispanic black patients enrolled in the multicenter, randomized controlled Tele-HF (Telemonitoring to Improve Heart Failure Outcomes) trial. A previous study reported that telemonitoring did not improve health outcomes among patients recently hospitalized for HF using the Tele-HF dataset (10). Our main goal was to determine whether there were short-term and long-term racial differences with respect to white and black patients' health status, mortality, and readmission rates.
The primary data source was the Tele-HF trial, which has been previously described (10,11). Briefly, the Tele-HF trial was funded by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (grant 5 R01HL080228) as a multicenter, randomized, controlled trial to assess whether daily, remote telemonitoring of symptoms and body weight would improve HF outcomes. The Yale University School of Medicine and each participating site (see the Online Appendix) approved the trial protocol.
An independent Data and Safety Monitoring Board was appointed to monitor adherence to the protocol, to evaluate the recruitment and retention of patients, and to assess the quality of the data and safety of the telemonitoring intervention.
Patients were recruited from 2006 through 2009 at 33 participating sites across the United States. Candidates considered for inclusion in the trial were patients hospitalized for HF in the previous 30 days. Exclusion criteria were residence in a nursing home, low expected probability of survival for the next 6 months, inability to stand on a scale, severe cognitive impairment (12), and a planned hospitalization for a procedure. There were no significant differences between the telemonitoring group and the usual care group in mortality and readmission rates (10). After excluding 226 patients who self-reported Hispanic or "other" race from the study, our analyses included 1,427 patients with HF of the 1,653 Tele-HF patients.
Self-reported race information was recorded when a patient was enrolled. The primary outcome measurements for this study were the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) overall summary scores (which are derived from the physical function, symptom, social function, and quality-of-life domains; range: 0 to 100 with higher scores reflecting better health status) (13) at baseline and at 3 and 6 months). Scores range from 0 to 100, where higher scores indicate better health status (e.g., fewer symptoms, less function impairment, and higher quality of life). A centralized call center was used to administer the KCCQ shortly after discharge (baseline) and again at 3 and 6 months. Patient readmission and mortality within 180 days of enrollment were analyzed as secondary outcomes.
We compared patient demographics, socioeconomic status, and medical history as well as clinical characteristics by race using means and standard deviations or medians and interquartile range for skewed data and percentages for categorical variables. Wilcoxon's rank sum test for continuous variables and the Pearson chi-square test or Fisher exact test for categorical variables were used to examine statistical significance of observed differences.
Multivariate linear regression analyses using generalized linear mixed models (GLMM) were performed to examine the relationship between race (black vs. white) and the overall summary score of KCCQ across time (baseline and 3 and 6 months) between these 2 racial groups. The GLMM models included a random intercept to account for clustering within a site and to adjust the covariance structure to account for repeated observations on subjects. Missing data at follow-up were assumed to be missing at random after empirical data checking. Maximum likelihood estimation method was used in all GLMM models. We first identified an overall model predicting KCCQ summary scores across all 3 time intervals by identifying those variables that were either clinically important or statistically significant (p < 0.05). Because black and white patients differ in numerous demographic, socioeconomic, and clinical characteristics, we sought to balance the groups by creating a propensity score to be black, as has been done in prior analyses (14). The propensity to be black was derived from a nonparsimonious logistic regression on all available variables at each sequential step. We estimated the propensity score and then included it as a covariate along with other covariates related to the outcome in the final fully adjusted model predicting black versus white differences in KCCQ's overall summary scores across time (15). The model was estimated sequentially. First the unadjusted model was fitted, and then we sequentially adjusted for demographics, insurance payer, medical history, and lab values each time fitting a new model. It is suggested that regression adjustment for propensity score has great balancing properties (16).
Likewise, multivariate logistic regression analyses using GLMMs were conducted to evaluate the association between race (black vs. white) and readmission and mortality rates (180 days). Models accounted for the clustering of patients within a site through the use of random intercepts. Similar model-building techniques, including sequential propensity score method and regression method of adjusting for propensity score, were used to test for racial differences for each outcome.
In addition, to ensure that racial differences detected in any outcome measure did not depend on the group assignment (telemonitoring vs. usual care), an interaction term between race (black vs. white) and group (telemonitoring vs. usual care) was added to each full model for readmission and mortality measurements, and a 3-way interaction term (i.e., race, group, and time) was added to the KCCQ model. Treatment assignment was not found to be statistically significant in any of these models and therefore was not included in the final models.
All statistical analyses were performed using SAS version 9.3 software (SAS Institute, Cary, North Carolina). A 2-tailed significance level of 0.05 was used for all tests.
There were 1,427 white and black patients with HF (636 non-Hispanic African Americans [45%]; 791 non-Hispanic whites [55%]) from 33 participating hospitals in the Tele-HF trial. The mean age was 61.5 ± 15.2 years, and 42.5% were women. There were significant racial differences in patient demographics, socioeconomic status, medical history, risk factors, and laboratory values (Table 1).
Compared with white patients, black patients were much younger, more likely to be in the Medicaid and self-pay categories, had lower annual household incomes and lower high school graduation rates, and were less likely to have a medical history of coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction, and ischemic cardiomyopathy. Blacks were more likely to have a medical history of hypertension, higher systolic and diastolic blood pressure, cognitive impairment (Folstein score of ≤24) (12), and reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF of <40%).
After accounting for clustering within site and correlation among repeated measurements, black patients with HF reported better health status at baseline, as measured by the KCCQ overall summary score (black vs. white score difference: 3.97; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.00 to 6.95; p = 0.009). However, differences in unadjusted KCCQ summary scores were not observed at 3 months (black vs. white score difference: 1.17; 95% CI: −1.93 to 4.27; p = 0.46) or 6 months (black vs. white score differences: 0.71; 95% CI: −2.48 to 3.91; p = 0.66). After further adjustment for all other patient-level factors, together with the propensity score, the racial differences in overall summary scores of KCCQ at baseline still persisted (black vs. white score differences: 6.22; 95% CI: 2.98 to 9.46; p < 0.001) (Table 2). To further understand this difference, we performed a post-hoc analysis of propensity score adjusted KCCQ baseline subscores to identify which domains might be most influential. We found that there were significant racial differences in almost all domains of the baseline KCCQ scores, except for self-efficacy and symptom stability (Table 3). By contrast, no significant racial differences were detected in fully adjusted models at 3 months (black vs. white score difference: 2.28; 95% CI: −0.84 to 5.41; p = 0.15) or 6 months (adjusted black vs. white score difference: 1.91; 95% CI: −1.31 to 5.13; p = 0.24). Importantly, both racial groups experienced notable improvement in mean quality of life scores during the follow-up period (Table 2, Online Table 1, Figure 1) ranging from 58.4 to 68.9 points for whites and 64.6 to 70.9 points for blacks (p < 0.01 for interaction of race and time).
A plot for estimated racial differences in the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) summary scores from the final model (adjusted for patient demographics, payer, medical history, and laboratory values).
We observed no significant racial differences in unadjusted 30-day (white: 18.3%, 95% CI: 15.7% to 21.2%; black: 16.4%, 95% CI: 13.6% to 19.5%; p = 0.33) or 180-day (white: 50.4%, 95% CI: 46.9% to 54.0%; black: 47.8%, 95% CI: 43.9% to 51.8%; p = 0.32) all-cause readmission and 30-day mortality (white: 2.3%, 95% CI: 1.4% to 3.6%; black: 1.3%, 95% CI: 0.5% to 2.5%; p = 0.15). Significant racial differences occurred in unadjusted 180-day mortality rates (white: 13.4%, 95% CI: 11.1% to 16.0%; black: 9.0%, 95% CI: 6.9% to 11.5%; p = 0.01) using the chi-square test. However, such racial differences were no longer statistically significant after fully adjusting for propensity score to be black, patient demographics, payer, socioeconomic status, medical history, risk factors, and laboratory values (adjusted odds ratio [AOR]: 0.85; 95% CI: 0.52 to 1.37; p = 0.49). Likewise, fully adjusted 180-day all-cause readmission rates were similar (AOR: 0.92; 95% CI: 0.70 to 1.21; p = 0.53) (Table 4). Due to a low number of events, we were unable to calculate propensity score adjusted models for 30-day mortality and readmission outcomes.
We found that, compared with white patients, black patients with HF had better self-reported health status overall and in several domains (including physical limitation, symptom frequency, symptom burden, total symptom score, quality of life, and social limitation) early after discharge. However, such racial advantages were attenuated and no longer statistically significant at 3 or 6 months, although the health status of both racial groups improved during follow-up. Moreover, we did not detect significant racial differences in 180-day readmission and mortality rates from the fully adjusted models.
Although there is a pressing need to report patient-centered outcomes, including patient's health status (17–21), to the best of our knowledge, our study is one of the first studies to describe patients' health status (e.g., symptoms, function, and quality of life) by race for patients recently discharged from the hospital after HF exacerbation. To quantify patients' health status, we used the KCCQ questionnaire, which is a valid, sensitive, disease-specific health status measure for patients with HF. Compared with other health-related quality-of-life instruments for HF, the KCCQ questionnaire is more sensitive to clinical changes and thus is an ideal tool to demonstrate improvements in health status (22). Furthermore, unlike previous research using large administrative datasets to examine racial disparities in HF (1,2), our analyses were based on data collected from a multicenter randomized controlled trial (Tele-HF) with detailed clinical information (10,11).
Our finding that black patients with HF had higher KCCQ summary scores at baseline differed from that of another study recently reported (23). Using the HF-ACTION (Heart Failure—A Controlled Trial Investigating Outcomes in Exercise TraiNing) trial database (details of the trial design were published previously [24,25]), which included 2,175 patients with HF (black: n = 749 [34%]; white: n = 1426 [66%]), investigators showed that the unadjusted baseline KCCQ overall score was higher in white patients with HF than in black patients (white vs. black: 69 vs. 66; p < 0.001) (23). There are several possible explanations for the different findings between the 2 studies. First and foremost, we focused on hospitalized HF patients enrolled in the Tele-HF trial, whereas the HF-ACTION trial examined stable outpatients with diagnosis of HF. As expected, white patients in our study were older (67 vs. 62, respectively), tended to have had a history of myocardial infarction (63% vs. 51%, respectively), and were more likely to have hypertension (72% vs. 51%, respectively). In addition, the percentage of black patients was much higher in our study (45% vs. 34%). A recent study using the GWTH-HF (American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines) national registry reported an even lower percentage of non-Hispanic black patients with HF (23%) (26).
Moreover, we further limited the study to non-Hispanic white and non-Hispanic black patients to obtain a more homogeneous study population. Finally, we cannot rule out the possibility that black patients with HF admitted to hospitals might have lower admission severity than whites (e.g., risk factors that were not captured by the Tele-HF trail may have contributed to differential severity), which has been reported previously (27–29). Nonclinical factors such as being less well insured and less educated, inadequate outpatient follow-up, poor social support, and nonadherence with medications or diet are possible explanations for blacks being hospitalized at an earlier stage of HF (27). Also, this might reflect the racial differences in response to the HF treatment due to phenotype differences across racial groups (30,31).
We also found that there were no significant racial differences in readmission and mortality rates. These findings contrasted with the results from 2 prior studies using a national Medicare fee-for-service sample. Rathore et al. (1) reported that black Medicare patients hospitalized with HF had slightly higher risk-adjusted rates of 1-year readmission (relative risk [RR]: 1.09; 95% CI: 1.06 to 1.13) but had lower mortality rates up to 1 year (30-day mortality RR: 0.78; 95% CI: 0.68 to 0.91; 1-year mortality RR: 0.93; 95% CI: 0.88 to 0.98) (1). Joynt et al. showed that black Medicare patients with HF were more likely to get readmitted within 30 days (AOR: 1.04; 95% CI: 1.03 to 1.06) (2). However, the 95% confidence intervals in our study covered the point estimates reported from these prior papers; therefore, our findings are not significantly inconsistent. Importantly, the effect size in the studies by Joynt et al. (2,3) was quite small, indicating that the odds of readmission were only 4% greater for blacks versus whites. In addition, our study differed from these 2 studies with respect to the patient population and study design. Although prior studies used national Medicare fee-for-service recipients (which were elderly patients) with HF to study racial differences in mortality and readmission, our analyses was based on a randomized controlled trial (our patients were overall much younger) to study racial disparities in HF outcomes. As shown previously, using different types of datasets (large administrative datasets vs. randomized controlled trial database with detailed clinical and health status information) could arrive at different conclusions (32). Furthermore, we examined 180-day mortality and readmission after hospitalization for HF, whereas Rathore et al. (1) examined 1-year mortality and 1-year readmission, and Joynt et al. (2,3) reported 30-day readmission. It is likely that studying different outcome measurements and adjusting for sufficient clinical risks (e.g., LVEF) in our study might lead to dissimilar findings. This also suggests that future studies are needed to confirm whether the length of follow-up period can play a critically important role in evaluating racial differences in HF outcomes.
There are several clinical implications of our findings from this study. First, our results highlight how race is strongly associated with many features of patients with HF (e.g., demographics, baseline characteristics, clinical profiles, responses to treatment, and others), although we did not observe significant racial differences in the outcomes during the follow-up. This suggests the importance of clinicians being aware of the ways that race is linked to the manifestation of HF and the need for them to provide personalized HF treatment for different subgroups. Because the Tele-HF database did not include detailed clinical information for the recent hospitalization with HF, future studies are needed to improve our understanding of the mechanism of the race in the presentation and the outcomes of HF. Second, our findings of higher KCCQ scores at baseline and very similar KCCQ scores during follow-up supports the use of this disease-specific, valid and reliable, self-administered KCCQ questionnaire at different times to monitor clinical changes and better predict medium- and long-term outcomes in HF (33). Third, we cannot rule out the possibility of "self-report bias" (i.e., selective revealing or suppression of information by specific groups) in the Tele-HF database. Literature has consistently demonstrated that self-reports are at risk of reporting bias when assessing quality of care (34) and health status (35). In addition, a prior study reported that there were black versus white disparities in health literacy among patients with HF (36).
Our study should be interpreted in the context of the following potential limitations. First, the Tele-HF trial had specific inclusion and exclusion criteria so that our findings might not be generalizable to the actual patient population. We excluded patients with HF who resided in a nursing home, had low expected probability of survival for the next 6 months, were unable to stand on a scale, had severe cognitive impairment, or had a planned hospitalization for a procedure. In other words, the patients included in the study might be systematically less severe. Moreover, black patients were much younger than their white counterparts in the study. Given that quality of life and outcomes for patients with HF could vary across age groups (37), it is possible that our regression models did not account for residual confounding due to age or other factors. Although we adjusted for many patient-level variables of prognostic importance, residual confounding may still have influenced our findings. Second, Tele-HF's follow-up period was 180 days after enrollment. Therefore, we were unable to evaluate the racial differences in longer terms. Third, it is possible that this study was unable to detect very modest racial differences in these outcomes. Although we had non significant findings, we found that the confidence intervals encompassed ranges that included clinically meaningful differences. It is possible that modest racial differences could be detected with a high-powered study. Fourth, there might be racial differences with regard to the prior hospitalization for HF (e.g., number of complications, length of stay, and others), and such differences might explain some findings in this study. Unfortunately, we did not have detailed clinical information about the prior HF hospitalization and thus were unable to account for such differences in our analyses. Fifth, because we performed multiple statistical tests between black and white patients with HF, we cannot completely rule out the possibility of a false positive finding. However, the extremely low p value (<0.001) from testing racial difference in the KCCQ summary score at enrollment suggests that this is unlikely.
We found no differences in patient-reported health status, mortality or readmission outcomes by race in a multicenter randomized controlled trial of HF patients. We found that, compared with whites, black HF patients had higher self-reported health status early after hospitalization, but we failed to detect racial differences in health status at 3 and 6 months. No significant racial differences in 180-day readmission and mortality rates were detected after adjusting for clustering at sites and patient factors. These findings suggest that racial disparities in patients with HF are less likely to be evident after they are hospitalized for treatment.
COMPETENCY IN MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE: Compared with white patients, black patients with HF had better patient-reported health status shortly after HF admission but not at 3 or 6 months.
TRANSLATIONAL OUTLOOK: Future studies are needed to investigate the role of recent hospitalization with HF and thus improve our understanding of the mechanisms of race in the presentation and patient-reported outcomes of HF.
This study was funded by grant 5 R01 HL080228 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Dr. Spertus has received grants and contracts from the U.S. National Institutes of Health, Genentech, Eli Lilly, Gilead, Abbott Vascular, and Amorcyte; is a consultant for Janssen, United Healthcare, Amgen, and Abbott Vascular; owns the copyrights to the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire, Seattle Angina Questionnaire, and Peripheral Artery Questionnaire; and holds equity interest in Health Outcomes Sciences. Dr. Hannan has received grant support from Abbott through New York University. Dr. Krumholz serves as Chair of the United Health Care Scientific Advisory Board. All other authors have reported that they have no relationships relevant to the contents of this paper to disclose.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has promised that the electric car company will accept Dogecoin, and the merch store has followed suit.
The store displays pricing information in DOGE
The move comes nearly a month after Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced in December 2021 that the electric car company would accept Dogecoin as payment for its merch store. The store displays pricing information in both U.S. dollars and Dogecoin. The Giga Texas Belt Buckle costs 835 DOGE (≈$155.5), the Cyberquad sells for 12,020 DOGE (≈$2,296), while a Cyberwhistle is available for 300 DOGE ($57).
Tesla merch buyable with Dogecoin
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 14, 2022
Elon Musk has made no secret of his fondness for cryptocurrencies and DOGE he has invested in the meme coin and other cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ether. Tesla also began supporting bitcoin for car payments in March 2021 but stopped doing so in May, just a few months later. Still, the company currently holds 48,000 Bitcoin on its balance sheet, worth over $2 billion.
DOGE is currently up 15%
According to Coingecko, DOGE is currently up 15.29% and is currently the 11th largest cryptocurrency in the world, with a market cap of $25 billion. Dogecoin had skyrocketed nearly 12,000% from early 2021 through early May when it reached an all-time high of $0.74. Since the hype has cooled, it has fallen rapidly and sits at $0.19.
The DOGE payment option was added for testing a few days ago. A software engineer calling himself "Tree of Alpha" said that the source code showed that the company was "definitely" testing the option, which turned out to be true.


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Master builder: George Gilbert Scott
In his article "Master builder: George Gilbert Scott," written for The Telegraph, Giles Worsley spotlights the life of George Gilbert Scott Jr. with a focus on his style and how his buildings revived the Queen Anne style.
A talent tainted by tragedy
Giles opens with a few paragraphs about the life of Scott Jr, noting that he "lived in the shadow of his famous father," which is true. Giles is seemingly sympathetic of Scott, who turned to drink later in life and lived in obscurity.
A profound contribution to architecture
Despite his personal troubles, George Gilbert Scott Jr. carved an architectural niche of his own with his work with the Queen Anne revival style.
He designed several famous buildings. These include St John Baptist Church. His finest works, on the churches of All Hallows, and St Agnes, were destroyed by bombing in the Second World War. Scott Jr. rejected the opinion of his father that 13th-century Gothic was best for modern buildings. "Queen Anne" was his preference.
As Giles notes in his article, "Queen Anne" was a promiscuous style that ranged widely in its borrowings. The first country house Scott Jr. designed, for example, was Jacobean. It was only in time that Scott Jr. simplified his building designs, moving towards those popular in the 17th and even early 18th centuries.
You can find out more about the life of George Gilbert Scott Jr. on The Telegraph.


Vidmeter Incorporated has published an in-depth study of the number and type of YouTube videos that have been removed at the request of copyright holders. Importantly, the study analyzes not only the number of videos removed but the percentage of total YouTube views that such videos accounted for prior to their removal.
Videos removed at the request of copyright owners accounted for only 9% of total YouTube videos.
Removed videos accounted for only 6% of total YouTube video views. This finding is the opposite of consensus, which assumes that Big Media videos account for a small percentage of total videos, but a large percentage of views.
Of the removed videos, Viacom's accounted for the largest share of views (2% of total YouTube views), and the second-largest share of videos (1%). Time Warner topped the latter category, also with 1%.
Most of the videos removed (for Viacom and other Big Media companies) were music videos. Again, this is in direct contrast to the common assumption that they are Daily Show, Colbert, etc.
Vidmeter did find that a handful of full-length TV shows were removed, but relatively few. (These also received relatively few views before their removal).
Traditional media videos make up only a small percentage of YouTube views.
NBCFoxTube, the hypothetical consortium, even if successful, won't dent YouTube's growth.
Online video viewers usually watch short clips, not full shows.
Thanks for posting these stats. Very interesting stuff.
However, when reading it over, I noticed that these stats were based on "removed videos." The major problem with YouTube is the videos that have NOT been removed. So, if the removed ones constituted 9 percent of vides, and they have only removed (let's say) a fifth of pirated clips — this does not look good.
These stats, when looked at more closely, seem to suggest that Shelly Palmer's analysis (over on Media 3.0) we accurate — without the pirated videos, YouTube has no business.
Thanks for the thoughtful response. Tou are correct that the Vidmeter study did not account for videos that haven't been removed. This said, I think it is very unlikely that these videos account for a significantly greater portion of all YouTube views.
Right now, Viacom is presumably devoting enormous resources to searching YouTube with the aim of spotting copyright violations to use as ammo in the lawsuit. Other analyses, meanwhile, have shown that Viacom's traffic to its own video sites did not increase substantially in the weeks after Google removed 100,000 clips (which it presumably would have, if these clips were what YouTube viewers really wanted to watch). And, perhaps most importantly, Vidmeter's daily "top videos" do not show greater Viacom video popularity than the percentages here would suggest (and these surveys would catch popular copyrighted videos that weren't removed).
I think it's very unlikely that the remaining Viacom/Big Media content accounts for a big percentage of YouTube views. So I disagree completely with Shelly.
Great information. I'm not surprised by the numbers and actually view them as being pretty high, not low. Most mainstream TV watchers barely know about Youtube. Example: my wife watches 2-3 hours of TV each night but has never looked at a video on YouTube. She's a general Internet user – not a power user.
It also points to an ominous conclusion about how well Google will be able to monetize the traffic. Long tail video content will likely monetize like long tail AdSense content. I think Google is hoping to get a critical mass of "all" video so that they can auction video ads against a wide breadth of video searches. With all the big guys ripping out their content this will be difficult to accomplish.
Great post. That report has a ton of great info. I was surprised to see that 3 different corps has removed the same video.
The big issue for Viacom is that people like me who go to you tube 5 times a day to check fave videos and stats could not help but click a colbert report or stewart video perfectly served up.
I cant edxplain it but I could care less about going to Viacom's website – ever.
You know I could get into what I think is an extremely high, very troubling number for YouTube–nine percent–but this once again would be missing the forest for the trees in the whole debate.
One thing Henry touched upon is that people don't watch whole episodes of anything on YouTube, they watch clips. This is part of a more general part of the Laws of Online Video: it's a furniture problem. In other words, watching a TV program is a NON-interactive activity that involves passively watching while physically lounging. This is in sharp contrast to being hunched over a computer sitting on a desk with one hand on the mouse controlling the flow of an online video. Of poor quality. On a tiny screen. By yourself.
Clearly if there's a crossover play involved where Google can try to get YouTube into the living room then they might have something, but satellites and cables are still lightyears ahead of the Internet pipe when it comes to BROADcasting. Tivo (DVRs) checkmates any advantages the Internet might have in terms of convenience.
YouTube might be a MySpace-like phenomenon for online entertainment, and it's clearly provided a NEW kind of entertainment for millions (Mentos and Pepsi oh my), but nobody's going to throw out their real TVs anytime soon and the actual competition to watching TV shows on a PC will remain very tiny.
So… how then is GOOG supposed to make any money off of this thing? All people seem to be able to talk about is how they might, or might not lose a ton of money in lawsuits. The upside to all of this risk is just not there.
I appreciate this post but I think you're missing the point.
1. Choose any music video and look for it on YouTube. If it's been removed, chances are there is another copy of it if not 10 others. If only 6% are removed, that probably means another 18% are copyright violations and need to be removed.
Those are all copyrighted and those are the videos generating tremendous page views for YouTube.
As Mark Twain said there are three types of lies – true lies, damn lies, and statistics. Your statistics miss the point.
YouTube is still stealing value and while Viacom may be overclaiming, it has no choice as long as "experts" interpret such data at face value.
Go use YouTube like an average 20-year old before jumping to conclusions.
The long tail is there but it's not as big as you think.
Thanks for the analysis – it is clearly revealing.
What would be interesting to understand is the role copyrighted materials play in driving people to visit YouTube initially. It is possible that people watch a wide array of non-infringing materials once they get to YouTube, but the visit was initiated by a desire to see a particular "Daily Show" or "South Park" clip. I'm not sure how the courts would view the weight of non-infringing use if infringing use was shown to be a key driver for it.
Seeing the statistics grouped by visits, or by referrer search terms could probably shed some light on this.
Thanks again for sharing you insight.
a. Once the video comes off, it stops getting hits. Meanwhile the videos it is being compared to keep getting hits. Apples and oranges. Would like to see the extrapolated data based on hits received during first x hours that each video was on site pre-takedown.
b. The videos that are taken down go elsewhere.
c. Most big media videos are not taken down and are in the top 100. We are defaulting these to the "long tail" category, simply because they have not been requested to be removed. That is not accurate, and makes the "traditional media makes up small percentage of total YouTube conclusions" erroneous.
Good call gzino… survior bias!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i definitely agree that watching full length clips on the internet is not here yet and most clips that i watch at least are highlights only of portions of copyright material, highlights of sports clips or some viral user generated/uploaded clip which we all have been sent. maybe the solution is making users sign off on a model or property release form bf they upload like they do on stock photo/video sites. but that may be impossible and slow this content explosion. i'm not really for that but there may have to be some accountability/reprecussions that are passed on to the user who uploads content that is not his.
i think that we can all agree that video search, indexing and copyright detection is desperately needed to avoid all this confusion and make sure the royalties, if any are made, are tracked and paid to the rightful owner.


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import operator

def freeze_dict(dict_):
    """Freezes ``dict`` into ``tuple``.

    A typical usage is packing ``dict`` into hashable.

    e.g.::

        >>> freeze_dict({'a': 1, 'b': 2})
        (('a', 1), ('b', 2))
    """
    pairs = dict_.items()
    key_getter = operator.itemgetter(0)
    return tuple(sorted(pairs, key=key_getter))

class BoundTypeProperty(object):
    """This kind of property creates subclasses of given class for each
    instance.

    Those subclasses means "bound type" which be used for identifying
    themselves with blinker/Flask signals.

    e.g.::

        >>> class Foo(object):
        ...     pass
        >>> class Bar(object):
        ...     Foo = BoundTypeProperty('Foo', Foo)
        >>>
        >>> Bar.Foo
        BoundTypeProperty('Foo', Foo)
        >>> bar = Bar()
        >>> bar.Foo is Foo
        False
        >>> issubclass(bar.Foo, Foo)
        True
        >>> egg = Bar()
        >>> egg.Foo is bar.Foo
        False
        >>> egg.Foo.__bases__ == bar.Foo.__bases__ == (Foo,)
        True

    :param name: the name of this property.
    :param cls: the base class of all bound classes.
    """

    def __init__(self, name, cls):
        self.name = name
        self.cls = cls

    def __repr__(self):
        return 'BoundTypeProperty(%r, %s)' % (self.name, self.cls.__name__)

    def __get__(self, instance, owner):
        if instance is None:
            return self
        ns = vars(instance)  # the instance namespace
        if self.name not in ns:
            ns[self.name] = type(self.name, (self.cls,), {})
        return ns[self.name]

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Carole P. Kunstadt
Ovum
Sacred Poems
Fragmented lines of script from a New England journal dated 1858 -1863 provide flowing, curvilinear marks on paper - fluid human strokes, sepia tones and an implied history. While suggestive of anecdotes and insights these selected strips of paper visually weave in and out of the painted surface. Through the use of collage, letters and words form intriguing records of the past that we cannot decipher.
These purposeful marks are transformed into a new visual language when edited and juxtaposed with color fields of gouache. The linear repetition suggests a continued process leading us to another level of understanding and perception. Repetitive lines of stitching sewn into the handmade paper reinforce the newly established merger of these elements and reminds us of the persistence of time. Past and present meet in an intimate and delicate manner.
As this series progressed, the mark-making emerged as the primary focus. They evolved into eloquent, playful, layered graphite marks which dance across the surface as a fluid energetic record of the present moment. The transient and illusory is metaphorically suggested by the use of mylar drafting film as the drawing surface, replacing the paper used earlier in this series.
When multiple works are hung in tangent a narration takes place from one work to the next - a visual narration or choreography evoking the culmination of entries in a daily journal. Each work has its own individual presence yet together a fuller experience is presented.
"Flowing, curvilinear marks are interrupted by horizontal stitching recalling the scribe's horizontal guidelines that support the bi-linear text. The fluid, handmade strokes, soft sepia tones, and the personal history of the journal speak of hope, but also suggest anecdotes and insights - fragmented records of an indecipherable, but intriguing past. The faint image nestled in the background exemplifies the palimpsest effects."
–Kathrine Page, Scribes of Hope II, traveling exhibition, Christians in the Visual Arts
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Schulz Crag () is a rock summit (1110 m) in eastern Halfway Nunatak named after Thomas J. Schulz, United States Geological Survey (USGS) cartographer; member of the 1982–83 geodetic control team in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, the first joint US-NZ cooperative effort to establish mapping control in order to map the entire region at 1:50,000 scale.

Cliffs of the Ross Dependency
Hillary Coast

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Call for Mathematical Art Submissions
For the eighth year, there will be a Mathematical Art Exhibition during the winter Joint Mathematics Meetings. The exhibition will be organized and juried by the following: Robert Fathauer, Tessellations Company; Anne Burns, Department of Mathematics, Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus; Nat Friedman, Department of Mathematics, University at Albany; Reza Sarhangi, Department of Mathematics, Towson University; and Nathan Selikoff, Digital Awakening Studios.
This exhibition will be held in Salon A of the New Orleans Marriott, located next to the exhibit hall and registration. Over five thousand professional mathematicians typically attend this meeting, so this is an excellent opportunity to get your work seen by people who will appreciate it. Past exhibitions have been very well received, and the AMS and MAA feel the art exhibition has become a valuable addition to the meeting.
We plan to publish a catalog to accompany the exhibition. SIGMAA-ARTS, a special interest group of the MAA, has generously offered to underwrite the cost of doing so, as they did last year.
For the third year, there will be cash awards for the top three artworks picked by a panel of judges. This panel will be different and independent from the panel of jurors that selected this year's artworks. The Mathematical Art Exhibition Prize will be given and announced at the Joint Mathematics Meetings. First, Second and Third Prize winners will be awarded (US$500, US$300, and US$200 respectively) for aesthetically pleasing works that combine mathematics and visual art.
Mathematicians/artists interested in exhibiting their works should plan on registering for and attending the conference if one or more of their works are accepted. Note that there will also be a paper session at the meeting on connections between mathematics and the arts, organized by Douglas Norton.
If you would like to submit your work, please visit the submission website, http://jmm.submit.bridgesmathart.org/, where you will find detailed instructions. Please note that there will be a limit of two submissions per artist this year, in contrast to the three submissions allowed in previous years.
Submissions are due by October 15, 2010. Notification of acceptance will be made via e-mail by November 15.
Artworks will not be insured while on display, though there will be security provided by the conference. The artist must assume full responsibility for theft or damage.
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The American People are beginning to see the change we have long sought. The Trump/Russia scandal is nearing its close with no evidence against the President. The Clinton Email scandal and the Uranium One scandal investigations are now being opened. The Clinton campaign and the DNC appear to have paid for the fake Trump/Russia dossier. The dossier was used to obtain the FISA warrants, and was even included in the intelligence report on Russia attempting to influence the election. The Podesta Group and Fusion GPS are now being placed under the microscope. We are still waiting to find out which Republican candidate was the original purchaser of the dossier. We are still awaiting the appointment of a second Special Counsel. The conflicts of interest that now are apparent require this appointment. Mueller, Rosenstein, McCabe, and various others are now witnesses and/or suspects in these investigations therefore making it unacceptable that they continue working on these investigations. Attorney General Sessions needs to appoint a second Special Counsel, that will overtake the Uranium One investigation, Clinton Email investigation, and the Political Espionage investigation. The cleaning out of the Executive branch is now a priority, and the investigations that are now beginning, at least demonstrate that the Trump Administration is attempting to bring back the Rule of Law. The American People are seeing the tides of change, and should be happy that we are returning to a traditional United States of America.
The time to take back our country is now. American history and traditions need to be taught once again. The Pledge Of Allegiance, respect for our Flag, respect for our National Anthem, respect for our nation, and national pride, as well as the belief in God, Justice, and the rule of law, all need to return to the American People. The US military and veterans, are the keepers of these traditions and many know our American history as well. They are the proudest, bravest, and strongest, Americans that anyone will ever know. They keep this nation free and now it is time for them to teach the rest of the nation, especially the younger generation, what it means to be Americans, and how to love this great republic of the United States of America. The disrespect of our nation, military, law enforcement, President, God, laws, and values, must be ended. The American citizens must be taught once again what "by the people, for the people" means. The people, are the American people, not the illegal immigrants, not the legal immigrants, and certainly not the foreigners who visit our nation. Only US citizens can vote and determine who our elected officials are, and what laws will govern us. In the United States, the US citizen is the most important US asset. The children today are being taught that this is not so, and that the rights of others, whether they be foreigners, immigrants, or illegal immigrants, supercede their own rights. The time has come to teach our children that the US citizen is above all others inside the United States, and that no one is above them due to race, religion, or creed.
A time of great change is upon us and the American Spirit is about to be renewed. The United States of America is about to become 'Great Again'. God, morals, and rule of law are returning and gaining strength. Ignorance and evil, are being battled right now, and the righteous with the blessing of God shall overcome and win. God Bless America and give the American people the understanding needed to overcome the evil that sought to overcome us.