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Trapeta B. Mayson (born 1967) is a Liberian-born poet, teacher, social worker, and non-profit administrator residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US. Her writing primarily centers on the experiences of  immigrants to the United States, the struggles of people dealing with conflict in Liberia, and the daily lives of average people, especially women and girls. She received a Master of Social Work from Bryn Mawr College and an MBA from Villanova University. She was selected as the fifth Poet Laureate of Philadelphia in 2019.

Education and early life

Born in Monrovia, Liberia, Mayson immigrated to the United States in 1975 with her family at the age of eight and settled in Philadelphia. She grew up in the North Philadelphia and Germantown neighborhoods. According to Mayson, she considers herself to be a "sum of two continents... two countries, two sets of powerful people: my birth country of Liberia, and my beloved Philadelphia."

She received her undergraduate degree in political science from Temple University in 1993. Mayson is a licensed social worker and received her Master of Social Work from the Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research in 1995. In addition, she holds an MBA from the Villanova University School of Business.

Career and writing

In the early 2000s Mason was the vice president of education and family learning at the Please Touch Museum, a museum focusing on creating tactile learning experiences for younger children via "purposeful play" that also correlates to local and state educational standards.

From 2014 to 2018, Mayson served as the executive director for Historic Germantown, an historic preservation collective that manages and promotes 16 historic houses in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia. During her tenure there, she worked with former Poet Laureate of Philadelphia Yolanda Wisher on various poetry events along with an initiative to bring artists into Historic Germantown with the goal of helping teens to engage with the historic properties and learn about Philadelphia and American history. The 2015 program, named Culture Keepers, partnered with the Parkway Northwest High School for Peace and Social Justice to pilot a program of historic site visits where students engaged in photography, captioning photos in Instagram, geocaching, and conducting oral history interviews with local elders. Later, local writers guided the high-schoolers in creating poems reflecting on their learned experiences, which the students presented live at a Historic Germantown open house.

Since 2019, concurrent with her poetry readings and outreach as Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, Mayson has worked as the program officer for a mental health service agency in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia.

Mayson is a member of the Green Street Artists Cooperative, a multicultural artistic community in Germantown. Her written work has been exhibited at the Colored Girls Museum in Philadelphia. Some of her poetic verses are part of a mural by artist Ife Nii Owoo at the Logan Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia.

The author has collaborated with jazz guitarist Monnette Sudler on the Sisters in Music project since 2000. They have multiple recordings, including two recent poetry and jazz pieces, "Scat" and "How we got through". In their spoken and sung word and music collaboration, Mayson extolls her female viewers to "Keep climbing" as "You can only go up from here." and to "Fly, girl, fly." despite their struggles against various oppressions, while Sudler encourages them to "Step up to the plate." in a softball-themed metaphor for life.

Mayson taught at the Art Sanctuary for 8 years, along with serving as an artist in residence at Art Sanctuary's after-school teen arts program, and Painted Bride Art Center's ArtLAB Youth Poetry Series.

Her experience as an immigrant and a social worker has directly informed her writing, where she focuses on social issues such as immigration and mental illness, often with a perspective on gender and race, using a first-person, "everyday voice" that sometimes utilizes Liberian English. Her second chapbook, She Was Once Herself, tells the story of her mother's immigration from Liberia to the United States, her struggles and triumphs in adapting to a new country, the family's problems obtaining citizenship, and later her nervous breakdown with subsequent diagnosis of schizophrenia.

In her poem "We Are All Trees Here", Mayson relates how immigrants to the United States feel as they are labeled as enemies in their new country and experience fear from being undocumented, using the metaphor of sapo trees for family members struggling for survival in forests that are threatened by clearcutting. In "Father", the poet creates a vignette of a nattily-dressed older man who was laid-off from his workplace after many years, and must now work multiple low-wage jobs to support his family. In "First Job Advice", an older Liberian immigrant gives advice to her recently arrived compatriot about how to serve as a cleaning woman for an upper-class family, so that the other woman can earn money and send for her children to come to the United States in order that they "won't have to know the first jobs we do".

Mayson's tenure at Historic Germantown provided background for some of her poetry honoring African-American slaves, such as her poem "Happy birthday Dinah" about a slave named Dinah who resided at the Stenton Mansion in the Logan section of Philadelphia, and was enslaved by family members of statesman and former mayor James Logan.

Her experience in mental health care has prompted Mayson to seek out new partnerships that use writing to educate the public about mental health issues, such as recognizing Mental Health Awareness Month, or considering suicide rates and creating "healing verse" for communities. In past workshops, the author has fostered the creation of toolkits for healing that she calls "Recipe For", in which participants reveal the key issues impacting their lives, and facilitators assist them to create a list of writing "ingredients" that they can use  independently to promote self-healing. In addition, she has conducted poetry and writing workshops with LGBTQ communities, undocumented immigrants, incarcerated people, women survivors of domestic abuse, and sex workers, among other marginalized groups, in which her purpose is to provide a platform to empower people to speak who often do not have the opportunity to have their voices heard.

In January 2021, Mayson launched the Healing Verse Philly Poetry Line, a toll-free phone number where callers can hear a 90-second poem authored by a poet connected with Philadelphia, as well as obtain information about how to access mental health care in the city.

Works by Trapeta B. Mayson
Books of poetry

2018: She Was Once Herself, OCLC 1055273795
2008: Mocha Melodies.
2004: By the Roadside: For Liberian Survivors of War. OCLC 1055273795

Contributor to periodicals and anthologies

2008: "Letter to my sister", The American Poetry Review, v37 n4 (20080701): 28,  OCLC 1049785850

Mayson has also published in periodicals such as Aesthetica magazine; the American Poetry Review; Aura: A University of Alabama Literary Journal; Cave Canem's Literary Review; Epiphany Literary Journal; Margie: The American Journal of Poetry and Strong Medicine: American Journal of Poetry.

Awards and honors

Mayson was chosen as the fifth poet laureate of Philadelphia in 2019, under the auspices of the Free Library of Philadelphia. According to the selection committee, the poet was chosen because of her ability to balance a full-time poetic writing practice with participation in many local Philadelphia organizations. According to the poet, in her role she aspires to "touch base with social service agencies, particularly those pertaining to mental health, in [Philly's] communities." She considers the role to be "...like a poetry ambassador for the city, ... Engaging communities, young people, people from all over the city, and engaging them in the creation of poetry, appreciation of poetry."

In 2019, she was awarded an Aspen Words Emerging Writers fellowship from the Aspen Institute. She also served as a juror for the 2019 Scholastic National Writing Awards from the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers in the category of Poetry.

The author was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2016.

From the Leeway Foundation, she received both an Art and Change Grant in 2014 and a Transformation Award in 2007.

The poet was a 2002 fellow of the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage.

She was a fellow of the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts in both 2000 and 2004.

See also

List of Liberian writers
List of African writers by country
Liberian Americans
List of Villanova University Alumni

References

External links

Selected Poems

Brother
First Job Advice
I Long to Be (From Mocha Melodies)
Stories Cure

Interviews

Getting to know Philly's new Poet Laureate - Trapeta Mayson, December 20,2019, Artblog

Performances and recordings

3 Poems by Trapeta Mayson - KYW Newsradio
Cecilia Too Soon
Trapeta Mayson - An Evening with Epiphany Magazine
We Are All Trees Here (Love Jawns: A Mixtape - We Are All Enemies)

Exhibitions

 Read: a Pathway to Hope (mural arts collaboration with artist Ife Nii Owoo)

1967 births
Temple University alumni
Bryn Mawr College alumni
Villanova University alumni
Liberian writers
American social workers
Poets Laureate of Philadelphia
Municipal Poets Laureate in the United States
Writers from Philadelphia
American women poets
American spoken word artists
Living people
Pew Fellows in the Arts
20th-century American poets
20th-century American women writers
People from Monrovia
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Q: Numpy matmul over object data-type explanation I am a bit confused when it comes to the operation of numpy.matmul over dtype=object.
Can someone explain how the following works? Particularly what is obtained in the last operation "total". I used this method (might be wrong) to replace matrix multiplication with loop iterations.
To give a rough idea what I am doing, the result of such calculation will be used to produce a 2 heat maps with the vertical being "z", horizontal being "g_in" and the color bars values would correspond each time to first/second element of values of "total". This is a dummy calculation for ABCD ray propagation with simultaneously variable distance "z" and input beam angle "g_in".
Edited Code;
z = np.linspace(0, 10, 11) # distance
g_in = np.linspace(-5, 5, 11) #input angle
f_0, f_1 = 1, 1 #some constants

A = np.array([[1, z], [0, 1]], dtype = object)
B = np.array([[1, 0], [-1/(f_0), 1]], dtype = object)
C = np.array([[1, 2*f_0], [0, 1]], dtype = object)
D = np.array([[1, 0], [-1/(f_0), 1]], dtype = object)
E = np.array([[1, z], [0, 1]], dtype = object)
F = np.array([[1, 0], [-1/(f_1), 1]], dtype = object)
G = np.array([[1, f_1], [0, 1]], dtype = object)

H = np.matmul(G,F)
I = np.matmul(H,E)
J = np.matmul(I,D)
K = np.matmul(J,C)
L = np.matmul(K,B)

M = np.matmul(L, A)

print('Matrix M=',M)

col1 = np.empty((2, 1),dtype=object)
col1[:, 0] = [0, g_in]

print('Matrix col1[:,0]=',col1[:,0])

total = np.matmul(M, col1[:,0])

print('Matrix total=',total)

y_out = np.transpose(total[0].tolist())
g_out = np.transpose(total[1].tolist())

y_out_ = np.expand_dims(y_out, axis=0)
g_out_ = np.expand_dims(g_out, axis=0)

fig, ax1 = plt.subplots(nrows=1,
ncols=1,sharex=True,sharey=True, figsize=(8, 6))
f1=ax1.imshow(y_out_, extent=
[theta_in.min(),theta_in.max(),z_f.min(),z_f.max()],
vmin=y_out_.min(),vmax=y_out_.max(), aspect="auto",
cmap='YlGnBu')
cb1=fig.colorbar(f1,orientation='vertical')
cb1.set_label(r'$y_{out}$',size=15)
ax1.set_ylabel(r'z', fontsize=20)
ax1.tick_params(axis='both', which='major', labelsize=20)
ax1.tick_params(axis='both', which='minor', labelsize=20)
ax1.autoscale(tight=True)

fig, ax2 = plt.subplots(nrows=1, ncols=1,sharex=True,figsize
(8, 6))
f2=ax2.imshow(g_out_, extent=

[theta_in.min(),theta_in.max(),z_f.min(),z_f.max()],

vmin=g_out_.min(),vmax=g_out_.max(), aspect="auto",
cmap='YlGnBu')
cb2=fig.colorbar(f2,orientation='vertical')
cb2.set_label(r'$g_{out}$',size=15)
ax2.set_xlabel(r' Angle, $θ_{in}$', fontsize=20)
ax2.set_ylabel(r'z', fontsize=20)
ax2.tick_params(axis='both', which='major', labelsize=20)
ax2.tick_params(axis='both', which='minor', labelsize=20)
ax2.autoscale(tight=True)

Above code outputs;

Many thanks,

A: Reducing the size of z:
In [154]: z = np.linspace(0, 10, 5) # distance
     ...: g_in = np.linspace(-5, 5, 5) #input angle
     ...: f_0, f_1 = 1, 1 #some constants
     ...:
In [155]: z
Out[155]: array([ 0. ,  2.5,  5. ,  7.5, 10. ])

and just one pair of arrays:
In [156]: A = np.array([[1, z], [0, 1]], dtype = object)
     ...: B = np.array([[1, 0], [-1/(f_0), 1]], dtype = object)
In [157]: A
Out[157]:
array([[1, array([ 0. ,  2.5,  5. ,  7.5, 10. ])],
       [0, 1]], dtype=object)
In [158]: B
Out[158]:
array([[1, 0],
       [-1.0, 1]], dtype=object)

Their matmul:
In [159]: A@B
Out[159]:
array([[array([ 1. , -1.5, -4. , -6.5, -9. ]),
        array([ 0. ,  2.5,  5. ,  7.5, 10. ])],
       [-1.0, 1]], dtype=object)
In [160]: _.shape
Out[160]: (2, 2)

this is the equivalent of:
In [162]: np.array([[1-1*z, 0+1*z],[0*1-1, 0+1]], object)
Out[162]:
array([[array([ 1. , -1.5, -4. , -6.5, -9. ]),
        array([ 0. ,  2.5,  5. ,  7.5, 10. ])],
       [-1, 1]], dtype=object)

All the other products are produced in the same way.
col1 is a (2,1) with array element.  E is same as A.  The rest have numeric elements, and don't need to be object dtype.
In [166]: np.array([[0],[g_in]], object)
Out[166]:
array([[0],
[array([-5. , -2.5,  0. ,  2.5,  5. ])]], dtype=object)
total is structurally like
In [167]: B@A@col1[:,0]
Out[167]:
array([array([ 0.  , -6.25,  0.  , 18.75, 50.  ]),
       array([ -5.  ,   3.75,  -0.  , -16.25, -45.  ])], dtype=object)

A (2,2)@(2,2)@(2,) => (2,), but with array elements.  Since the arrays have the same shape, it can be reduced to a numeric dtype:
In [171]: np.stack(Out[167])
Out[171]:
array([[  0.  ,  -6.25,   0.  ,  18.75,  50.  ],
       [ -5.  ,   3.75,  -0.  , -16.25, -45.  ]])

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SAINT INGLEVERT, France (AP) — The man who wowed the crowd in Paris on Bastille Day, whirling over France's leaders on his flyboard, was undertaking final checks Wednesday for his biggest challenge yet: Soaring across the English Channel.
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In response to changing shopping habits and their expanding online business, Waitrose have introduced hotel-style welcome desks where consumers can collect online orders, order new groceries, have products gift-wrapped, hire glasses and much more.
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Extractions: ANNOUNCEMENTS The Australasian Society of Zookeeping (ASZK) Annual Conference is being held 16-18 May 2003 in Canberra ACT. MISSION STATEMENT: ANZCCART will provide leadership in developing community consensus on ethical, social and scientific issues relating to the use of animals in research and teaching. To achieve its Mission, ANZCCART will promote: ANZCCART seeks to achieve these objectives, first by providing an ongoing focus to the social, ethical and scientific issues involved, second by providing a forum for discussion of these issues and third by facilitating access to relevant specialist advice and resources. Further, through its publications and activities ANZCCART is a source of information for the general public about how animals are used in research and teaching in Australia. ANZCCART operates on a purely advisory basis and its membership represents the interests of government, funding organisations, research and teaching institutions, professional organisations and the community.
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Year of the Outback, and zoos of the of Australia's rivers, and an outline map ofNew zealand. Other information available includes australian fauna and flora
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com.au/ MOVIEGUIDE has a listing of australian movie cinemas It has toured overseasto Russia and new zealand. zoo.org.au VICTORIA'S THREE GREAT zoos Welcome to
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A TRIP TO AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
rattled to spend any more time in australian traffic rare in the world, yet both ofNew zealand's largest cities Both zoos had a Kiwi house that was completely
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Extractions: by Ben Best cryonics life-extension room parties. Weeks earlier I had made many e-mail arrangements with cryonicists for meeting including a gathering of Australian cryonicists at my room parties. Dealing with the organizers of AussieCon was difficult. Charles Taylor, who was in programming, was the only person who ever responded to any of my e-mail messages of all the people I tried to contact from e-mail addresses on the AussieCon website. After several exchanges I got Charles to put me on the Nanotechnology panel and to create a Y2K panel, of which I would be moderator. The Y2K panel took some arguing, but I convinced him that speculating about events in 100 days is similar to speculating about events in 100 years. (For my essays on the Y2K computer bug see the Computer section of my website.) It was Charlie who finally informed me that room parties were not allowed in the hotel where the events were being held and this was only after the hotel allowing parties was fully booked. It was not possible to contact the hotel directly since a booking agency was being used. Most of those at the booking agency were not very helpful either, but I finally found one helpful woman who put me on a waiting list. When she let me know of an available room from a cancellation, I took the room and sent her a personal money order for Aus$50 as a token of my appreciation. September 1st, 1999 disappeared from my life when I flew across the International Date Line (although I had a 40-hour September 12th on my return which could have been 43-hours had I not flown from Los Angeles to Toronto). In Melbourne, I shared the hotel room with Keith Lynch, who had also been my WorldCon roommate at Winnipeg, Glasgow & Los Angeles. Despite archiving CryoNet, receiving a Transport Training from Mike Darwin and more recently being President of the Life Extension Society in the Washington, DC area, Keith has still not signed-up with any cryonics organization and remains a "fellow traveler".
Zoos Worldwide - Zoo Review - Oceania
this point of time , there are mainly australian animals , but is the most comprehensivezoo in new zealand and has and cages that was so common in most zoos.
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Extractions: This "zoo" is exclusively of Australian fauna only, set in a large area of native bushland . There are many displays throughout the day telling visitors more of the finer points of the inhabitants. The enclosures are very roomy, with several walk through enclosures. There is a main pathway with smaller paths running off this which leads to the animals. There is a cafeteria on site. Healesville is located about 120 kilometres from Melbourne. Last visited: 1998 Submitted by Nigel Foster nigelwfoster@hotmail.com Just browsing through your review pages, I was surprised by Nigel Foster's under-appreciation of Healesville Sanctuary, Victoria, Australia. To say that Melbourne has pretty much everything that Healesville would have is very misleading. To be sure, nearly every Australian collection these days has a large section on Australian animals, and Melbourne has upped this in recent years (I've been three times since 1992, most recently late last year) but Healesville not only specialises in Australian animals but in endangered Victorian animals such as Leadbetter's Possum, Helmeted Honey-eater, Superb Lyrebird and, of course, the Platypus where they were the first to breed it (and had twins in 1999!). Yes, Melbourne is excellent and getting better. When its master plan is complete it will compete with the best in the world. Already, I think the gorilla exhibit is the best I have seen, and that includes San Diego. But Healesville Sanctuary to me is the complete zoo, the only one I have ever visited where the visitor can actually see the three aims of zoos in practice; conservation with their breeding of endangered species, research - for example into the causes of bush die back and education with their excellent educational centre.
Other Sea Lions And Fur Seals
Occasionally some animals are captured for zoos or for research. Walker, GE, Ling,BJ (1981) australian Sea Lion, Neophoca cinerea (Péron new zealand sea lion.
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Extractions: Last modified: Thursday September 24th, 1999 Otaria byronia (Blainville, 1820) There is some confusion about the correct scientific name of this species. Although Otaria byronia is now widely accepted, still Otaria flavescens (Shaw, 1800) is used as an alternative (Vaz-Ferreira, 1982). Rice (1998) argues, that O. flavescens is the correct name. Common names that are used instead of Southern Sea Lion include South American Sea Lion and Patagonian Sea Lion. Males measure on average 260 cm and weigh around 300 kg. Females are usually about 200 cm and weigh 150 kg. Pups measure around 80 cm and weigh from 10 to 15 kg. Male pups are usually bigger. The Southern sea lion has a dark brown dorsal side and a yellowish brown ventral. Males have lighter coloured manes. Females have no manes, but have a lighter coloured fur in the head and neck area. Pups are born with a black coat. After a few months they have a grey coat which at the age of one year is reddish brown. The Southern sea lion can be found on both the Atlantic and Pacific shores of South America. On the Atlantic side the range stretches from Rio de Janeiro at 23S down to the southern tip of the continent at 55S. At the Pacific side it ranges as far north as Zorritos in Peru (4S). There is no obvious migration.
Churchill Trust Fellows Reports _M9
reference to openrange zoos and breeding and learning, particularly within museums- new zealand, Canada, USA. Mr David ACT 1998 The australian War Memorial
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Links australian Conservation Sites; australian Wildlife Care professional associationof the zoos and aquariums of Australia, new zealand, Fiji and
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Horny Immigrants Quarantined - AFFA
The animals, from South African National Parks, were part of a groupof 12 rhinos destined for australian and new zealand zoos.
http://www.affa.gov.au/corporate_docs/publications/media_releases/quarantine/arc
Extractions: 19th October 1999 Two horny travellers that arrive at Perth International Airport tonight for Perth Zoo's Southern White Rhinoceros breeding program will undergo at least 30 days Quarantine before going on public view. The Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS) and Perth Zoo have combined forces to ensure Australia's Quarantine integrity was upheld during the rhinos' exciting arrival. The animals, from South African National Parks, were part of a group of 12 rhinos destined for Australian and New Zealand zoos. AQIS Western Australian senior veterinarian John Johnston said the large size of the import project saw an extensive AQIS operation launched to monitor the task. "South Africa is considered a high risk country by AQIS. It is the exact opposite of Australia - a wide host of exotic pests and diseases are found there that we just haven't seen here," Dr Johnston said. "Perth Zoo's project is vitally important to ensure the continuation of the species but we worked together to ensure the health of Australian animals and other zoo animals were not put at risk in the process."
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Asia History And Cultural Guide .. The History Beat
Electronic Journal of australian new zealand World War One World War II zoos Japan Korea Malaysia Nepal new zealand Pakistan Philippines
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Extractions: Financial Institution Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ) is one of Australia's leading banking and financial services groups. ANZ offers a full range of financial products and services in Australia and New Zealand and has overseas representation predominantly in greater Asia. With total assets of AUD 150 billion. ANZ bank selected CDT's ActivePayment following an extensive evaluation process. ANZ Project Today Deutsche Bank, as a universal bank with its group companies and affiliates, offers the full range of modern banking services. Apart from deposit taking and lending and issue business, this includes numerous forms of corporate finance, securities and asset management business and trading in foreign exchange and derivatives. Additionally the bank offers advisory services for small and medium-sized companies, the products of a building loan association and a wide variety of insurance products, in particular life insurance. Project
Wildlife Of Australia - Web-links, Books Etc.
Ecotours, national parks, zoos etc. to see them plus links to other useful sitesWeatern australian wildlife. Australia's neighbours (new Guinea, new zealand).
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Miller used the tale of the infamous witchcraft trials that had been held in Salem, Massachusetts during the late 17th century to illustrate the devastation that can be wreaked on the innocent by the misuse of one or more of these forces.
The hysteria that occurred in Salem after a series of events that appeared to be inexplicable by other than supernatural means was used by Miller to indict the excesses of McCarthyism that was sweeping the United States in the 1940s and 50s. The climate of fear created by the accusations of communism at that time cost many of his friends their careers - and some their lives. Truth was the casualty, as always in such circumstances.
The young girls in Salem, innocent – and not so innocent –start playing games that turn into something dangerous, both to themselves and those around them. To disguise what they have been doing they tell lies and soon begin to believe those lies. What is real and what merely appears to be real? Some know but not all are telling…or listening.


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Filling the Rural Gap With Good Recruiting, Telemedicine
February 12, 2019 04:34 pm Sheri Porter Washington, D.C. –
The National Rural Health Association (NRHA) held its 30th annual Rural Health Policy Institute here Feb. 5-7 to focus on the growing health care divide between America's urban and rural communities. It's no secret that rural America is facing a serious physician shortage at a time when, according to NRHA statistics,(www.ruralhealthweb.org) populations in rural communities are older, sicker and poorer than at any time in recent history.
During a presentation on rural workforce shortages at the Rural Health Disparities Summit, family physician Michael Kennedy, M.D., tells the audience that medical students want to go back and serve in communities like those they grew up in. "They also need to pay off their loans … and they want to practice medicine, not paperwork," he added.
Family physicians are on the front lines. According to an AAFP position paper titled "Keeping Physicians in Rural Practice," family physicians comprise 15 percent of the U.S. outpatient workforce but handle 23 percent of those outpatient visits overall -- and a whopping 42 percent of those in rural areas.
For that reason and more, the AAFP partnered with the NRHA to host, on the final day of the policy institute, the Rural Health Disparities Summit. It was a morning filled with speakers versed on topics critical to the future health and well-being of rural America.
During this final event, Julie Wood, M.D., AAFP senior vice president for health of the public and interprofessional activities, hosted a panel discussion on workforce shortages and their impact on rural health.
Recruiting Rural Physicians
As part of that panel, two family physicians working in very different rural environments -- one in Alaska, the other in Kansas -- spoke about the challenges of recruiting family physicians to their communities.
The AAFP recently partnered with the National Rural Health Association (NRHA) to host the Rural Health Disparities Summit in Washington, D.C.
The summit, scheduled on the third day of the NRHA's 30th annual Rural Health Policy Institute, featured speakers well-versed on issues related to health care in rural America.
Two family physicians, AAFP President John Cullen, M.D., of Valdez, Alaska, and Michael Kennedy, M.D., of Wichita, Kan., tackled the topics of how to recruit rural physicians and utilize telemedicine.
They agreed that giving students an up-close and personal view of the joys of rural practice is the best approach.
"That's how you recruit residents, by having them in your clinic, because it's a really important way to get them excited about what we do," said AAFP President John Cullen, M.D., of Valdez, Alaska.
"I use all of my medical education every single day. Rural family medicine is an absolute challenge, and it requires you to use all of your faculties," he added.
Cullen's practice in his frontier town of 4,000 has just recently grown to include five family physicians who provide all the outpatient, inpatient and emergency physician care for this population.
Except for the two founders of the practice, all the physicians, Cullen included, first visited Valdez as residents.
"I was my senior partner's resident, and that tradition has continued. We've never been able to recruit anybody who didn't come through that process. You have to grow your own if you're going to do this," said Cullen.
And it helps to have an older physician there as an anchor, because without that anchor, it's very hard to start things up, he added. "If you have older physicians in your community, make sure they stay. Do everything you can to keep them," advised Cullen.
Michael Kennedy, M.D., associate dean for rural health education at the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita, tells a similar tale, but with a twist.
He started out in a rural practice in Burlington, Kan., population 2,500, and for nine years practiced full-spectrum family medicine alongside two FP colleagues. "We built our practice and did some amazing things. We had students come out with us on a frequent basis, and that led to a love of teaching," said Kennedy.
Kennedy left private practice to return to his medical school and make an impact, or, as he put it, "to take this rural family doc and get in front of as many medical students as I possibly could. So that's what I do now for a living, and it is extraordinary."
Kennedy noted that Kansas has some major workforce challenges. Thirty-four counties in the state have two physicians or fewer, a situation he called "unsustainable, long term."
His job, simply put, is to get students out to the rural areas for hands-on experience.
"I go around and talk with the docs in this region and I've heard some incredible stories," along with disheartening ones about practices that have been recruiting for a new physician for 10 years and come up short, said Kennedy.
But what does get results is hosting medical students in the community. "It's magical because students fall in love with the place," said Kennedy. That hosting has become all the more important as rural hospitals facing financial crisis cut budgets -- including housing allowances for visiting medical students.
During the recent Rural Health Disparities Summit, broadcast journalist Ted Koppel serves as moderator for a panel discussion on chronic disease challenges in rural America. At one point, Kopple said to panel members, "As I listened to all of the speakers who've been up here today, I realize there is a limited supply of funding, and it is not equitably distributed; diseases come in conflict with one another. How do we deal with that?"
The physician shortage in Kansas is set to worsen because 254 rural Kansas physicians are age 55 or older. "In the next 10 years, we'll need close to 300 new doctors," said Kennedy.
In response, his medical school has deviated from the standard pipeline program to something called rural medicine training.
"We have a rural track with 'destination rural,' but we have cars on the train that represent various programs, and the students can safely get on, test it out and get off -- or they can ride the whole train. About two-thirds of the students on this rural track are students who are dedicated to rural," said Kennedy.
And, ever the teacher, Kennedy brought five of those students with him to D.C.
Utilizing Telemedicine
The use of telemedicine has become mainstream in remote areas such as Valdez. For instance, when Cullen first diagnosed a patient's malaria, he wanted confirmation.
"I just took a picture of the microscope through my iPhone and sent it off to an infectious disease specialist. She agreed it was malaria. This is the kind of stuff you do as a physician in a rural community," said Cullen.
"Telemedicine works really well when you have providers in the community who are able to access specialists in a metropolitan area. I have tried to talk people through the emergency procedures in other communities, and I can tell you that it's really hard."
AAFP Launches Rural Health Tool
At the close of a panel discussion during the Rural Health Disparities Summit -- recently hosted in Washington, D.C., by the AAFP and the National Rural Health Association (NHRA) as part of the NHRA's Annual Rural Health Policy Institute -- the AAFP introduced a new tool called the Rural Health Explorer.(www.healthlandscape.org)
The tool, developed by HealthLandscape for the AAFP, focuses on health outcomes and access to care in rural America. It includes, among other things, a rural population health mapper and a health care workforce mapper.
"The AAFP is excited to announce this, and we hope you can use this in your advocacy moving forward," said Shawn Martin, AAFP senior vice president for advocacy, practice advancement and policy. "We'll certainly use it in ours."
Ideally, Cullen would like to have telemedicine access to any subspecialist he needs -- straight from his office with his patient right there.
But telemedicine alone won't cut it. "I do worry a lot when people think of telemedicine as the solution without trained providers in those communities. You have to have people there who are interactive," he added.
Telemedicine can provide huge cost savings to patients. Subspecialists, said Cullen, often don't realize the financial hit patients take when they make that extra appointment.
"It costs my patients at least $1,000 every time they see a subspecialist, and most of the time, they don't need to seem them at all. If you look at subspecialties like endocrinology and pulmonology, that consult is more of a reassurance that we haven't missed anything, said Cullen.
And when a patient in Valdez is diagnosed with cancer, even chemotherapy is available right there in the community.
"I have a really good relationship with oncologists in Alaska, so we actually do provide chemotherapy, because when people have complications from that treatment, it happens here, not at the infusion center in the city," said Cullen.
With this kind of technology, "there is no reason why we have to accept a lower level of care in rural communities."
And, Cullen added, the same telemedicine capabilities that work for rural Americans also have potential in big cities such as Los Angeles -- where terrible traffic, more than geographic distance, can keep patients from accessing their physicians.
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Cruising to Nationals: Chaminade Crew Advances to National Championships with Outstanding Performances at the Stotesbury Cup
By Jay Iraj '17
Coming off of a strong showing at The New York State Scholastic Championships in Saratoga Springs, Chaminade's Crew Team traveled to Philadelphia, PA for the prestigious Stotesbury Cup Regatta. Consisting of 189 talented schools from across the US and Canada, participating in this regatta was a tremendous accomplishment for the team. The Flyers Crew Team had already beaten its record from years past by reaching this regatta, but with the opportunity to travel to Ohio for the National Championship in their sights, the team worked harder than ever to come out on top.
The annual two-day event in Philadelphia took place on Friday, May 20 and Saturday, May 21, with Chaminade entering seven of the 965 total boats in the Regatta. Each boat competes in a heat for its event the first day, with the top 18 boats in each heat advancing to three separate semifinal races. Then, the top two boats from each of the three semifinal races move on to the final race, which consists of six boats. As every event included several races and many boats, this was a different experience for the Flyers, and provided a challenge that they faced head on.
Rowers from the JV Eight Boat are awarded medals and a trophy for their dominant performance.
Coming off a dominant first-place finish at the State Championships, the junior varsity-eight boat entered this regatta with the goal of another top finish. The boat began the event by overcoming all 53 boats in their heat, and continued to show its excellence the following day. After claiming 1st place in its subsequent semifinal race, the junior varsity-eight boat knew the toughest challenge would come in the final. Competing against consistent powerhouses like Gonzaga College High School, the junior varsity boat achieved its best time of the event, a stunning 4:28.06 in a 1500-meter race. More impressively, the boat won each of its three races by at least two seconds, a remarkable accomplishment in a high-caliber regatta like the Stotesbury Cup.
On the tremendous performances at both The New York State Championships and the Stotesbury Cup, member of the junior varsity-eight boat Ben Addeo '17 commented, "We were able to carry the momentum from the states becauses our team never settles or gets comfortable."
Other notable performances in the regatta came from the freshman-eight boat and the lightweight-eight boat. The freshman-eight boat made it to the semifinal, where it earned a fourth-place finish, and the lightweight-eight boat made it all the way to the final to finish in sixth place.
The two varsity-eight boats, A and B, also achieved solid finishes. After a top-ten finish in the heat, the varsity-B vote ended up in 5th place in their semifinal round. Similarly, the varsity-A boat finished in 5th place in the semifinal round for its event, while recording a time of 4:30.49.
After great performances from the Chaminade Crew Team at both the State Championships and the prestigious Stotesbury Cup, the Flyers have a lot to be proud of. Congratulations on a great season!
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Cardiophorus miniaticollis is een keversoort uit de familie kniptorren (Elateridae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1860 door Candèze.

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"Spaghetti code" is a well-known phrase for software with tangled logic, especially legacy code with goto statements.
The term "lasagna code" is not nearly as common. I first heard it used to describe code with too many architectural layers. Then I found the following older reference to lasagna code with a different slant on the term.
Since "lasagna code" has a different usage, I propose the term "baklava code" for code with too many layers.
Baklava is a delicious pastry make with many paper-thin layers of phyllo dough. While thin layers are fine for a pastry, thin software layers don't add much value, especially when you have many such layers piled on each other. Each layer has to be pushed onto your mental stack as you dive into the code. Furthermore, the layers of phyllo dough are permeable, allowing the honey to soak through. But software abstractions are best when they don't leak. When you pile layer on top of layer in software, the layers are bound to leak.
This immediately made me think of some of the WSGI apps I've been digging through lately. It's a useful and conceptually cool standard, but I'm finding that it's also very easy to abuse.
If spaghetti, lasagna, and baklava are metaphors for bad programming, then what food represents good programming?
And to answer my own silly question: How about Mexican food. Seven basic ingredients served up in a multitude of different ways depending on the dish to be served (or task to be coded).
I like the Mexican food analogy, but I immediately thought of a hamburger: You've got the meat (the interesting code that the program is all about), the buns (a convenient, portable UI), and the toppings (interchangeable functions for pre- or post-processing). It works really nicely for the kind of code that I end up writing (data analysis/machine learning), where there's one key idea that the whole algorithm is based on, with a whole lot of necessary but less-important code that wraps it.
One time, I had to work on some guy's web-based scheduling application that he wrote in Perl. I'm something of a Perl guru (although experiences with other peoples' Perl code have led me to avoid the language now), but wow. There were like ten layers of abstraction in the stupid thing, so it took me days to figure out where the real work was being done. The dude who wrote it was an eccentric genius, but his program was horribly over-engineered to the point of being unmaintainable. It felt like it was written so that if you wanted to, you could set it up to work on a completely different (non-web) interface, which was completely outside of the program's design requirements.
When talking to my students, I use the term of MacDo Code.
More international than Baklava, and more dangerous too.
A coworker coined the term ravioli code for systems without a recognizeable organization of its class structure: just plenty of objects in tomato sauce.
I think the pun about baklava leaking is a bit of a non sequitur. ISTM, leaks (a kind of bug) are orthogonal to the amount of abstraction of a given piece of code. If the code has "too much" abstraction, that doesn't mean that it is buggy, or leaks resources. I think the top-down approach can work well, depending on the objective, and the programming language of the implementation, although it sometimes results in (too) many layers of abstraction. It depends what you are doing.
VIPER may be a great example of this.


Notice is hereby given that the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) will meet on Friday, August 15, 2003. The meeting will be held at the Regent Hotel, 55 Wall Street, New York City, New York, beginning at 9 a.m.
The meetings of the ACHP are open to the public. If you need special accommodations due to a disability, please contact the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, 1100 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Room 809, Washington, DC, (202) 606-8503, at least seven (7) days prior to the meeting.


Our mission for the Hospice of the Good Shepherd is to provide the highest quality specialist palliative care for the people of Western Cheshire, Deeside and surrounding areas who have illnesses that no longer respond to curative treatment.
Our main activity continues to be the delivery of a specialist medical and nursing service to patients and their families by a skilled and dedicated multi-professional team.
Working with our Trustees, staff and stakeholders the Hospice of the Good Shepherd has identified a range of strategic aims and objectives which form part of our vision and philosophy.
Hospice of the Good Shepherd provides specialised palliative care for adults with incurable life-limiting illnesses and their families across Cheshire West and Chester and Deeside.
Hospice Care, Symptom Control, End-of-Life Care, Day Therapy, Bereavement Support, Complementary Therapies, Social Care and Education Services.
These services are currently provided through?
A 12 bedded In-Patient Unit and a Day Therapy Unit for up to 10 patients on 3 days per week.
How many volunteers do we have?
The Hospice has approximately 300 volunteers supporting us in our shops, through fundraising and in many places across the organisation from gardening to hairdressing and driving.
The Hospice has to generate its own income for 76% of the costs that all of our services need to run. Our funds come from donations and fundraising taking place in the local communities that we serve, from corporate communities, legacies, grants, events and activities, trading through our retail outlets, our own Hospice Lottery and through investment income.
How many people do we care for?
Service provision – Develop this as a solution to future challenges and anticipated changes in palliative and end of life care.
We will ensure that our staffing and volunteer profile is structured to meet the changing needs of our organisation and will recruit, train and develop our people to maximise the quality of care offered.
We will plan proactively for Change – Regulatory Requirements, Funding, Premises, Patient and Staffing needs.
We will develop an innovative service provision to meet the needs of our community.
Ensure our buildings are fit for purpose to meet future challenges and opportunities.
Relationships – Develop innovative partnerships with stakeholders, supporters and the local community it serves.
We will develop and build a strong corporate brand and communication strategy to strengthen and grow our profile.
We will actively collaborate, engage, participate and influence palliative and end of life care provision at a local and national level with other service providers, partners and stakeholders.
We will develop collaborative working and engagement with our stakeholders, partners, supporters, local community, corporates, agencies, networks and other providers.
Embrace technological developments to make us fit for current and future challenges.
Be recognised and share our education, learning and research opportunities.
People – Develop our leadership, management, organisational infrastructure and people in order to achieve our mission.
We will develop, implement and review, robust processes, policies and procedures to ensure our goals, activities and our people are aligned to our service needs.
Our people will understand the contribution they and others make to the organisation. They will have clearly defined roles, responsibilities and accountabilities and they will be developed in order to maximise their potential to deliver our mission.
We will ensure the people within our organisation are involved, consulted and informed.
We will develop clear organisational values to support a culture and ethos that underpin our mission.
Ensure that we build upon the excellent reputation that we have for our quality of care provision.
Financial stability – Secure sustainable income through innovative fundraising and commissioned services.
We will increase penetration, representation and participation throughout the community we serve in order to maximise existing and develop innovative additional income streams.
We will reduce the reliance on statutory funding, secure and build on reserves, plan to provide contingency funding.
We will maintain effective financial management and budget control to ensure best value for money.
We will invest in the resources now and in the future to deliver financial stability.


Many people have been using the Google Sync app to save their Office files straight to their Google Drive online storage, others still would like to see a more direct option. Google has now given us an plug-in app for Microsoft Office that I think many people will enjoy. Currently, this only works on the Windows version of Office – which means most of the computers in our school are in good shape!
Start by downloading the plug-in app here. Scroll down to the big blue DOWNLOAD button if you don't see it at first.
Once your download has finished, open the file that you downloaded and click RUN. This will install the plug-in.
Click on Allow at this sometimes scary looking warning.
Now, you will have Google Drive show up in your "Open" dialog and your "Save" and "Save As" dialog.
Becuase it's a plug-in, it also adds a tab to your familiar Office Ribbon for all of your saving and opening needs.
Either option – the FILE menu or the GOOGLE DRIVE tab from the Office Ribbon save your Office doc WITHOUT translating it to a Google Doc by default. This means the file can be shared around. However, Remember that Office files that are shared cannot be edited or commented on by other users. When using this method you are able to save your file to whatever folder you may already have on your Google Drive. The whole idea is that it works the way you're used to working in Microsoft Office.
Finally… did you know that we have Office 365 available for teachers with the brand-spanking-newest version of Office (for Windows, Mac, Android, and iOS).
https://products.office.com/en-us/student and enter your @masonohioschools.com email and follow the prompts for free Office 365 subscription – complete with 5 free downloads.
For more information, you can see Google's official "Google for Work" blog post on this topic here.
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You have a great website with responsive design and number of tables which fit the smaller viewports well.. say, like described in my post Responsive Tables. Every table has horizontal scroll for mobile-sized view, without breaking layout. It happens because of CSS settings for the table 'display:block;' and 'overflow-x:auto;'. A user can swipe right and left to horizontal scroll the table to see the content.


Rapp BMW wheels from Beyern are so profoundly evocative of the BMW spirit that we named them after Karl Rapp, the founder of Munich-based Rapp Motoren Werke engine shop which would later become Bayerische Motoren Werke: BMW. A spare, straightforward five-spoke design, the Rapp features a robust, heroic temperament, available in brilliant chrome, classic silver with a mirror cut lip and in elegant gloss black with a mirror cut lip. Every BMW looks freshly updated with the application of a set of Rapp wheels, in 17, 18, 19, 20 and 22 inches diameters, from 8 to 10.5 inches wide, with lips from 1.5 to 3.5 inches, and in seven different offsets. That assures that the Rapp wheels specified for your year and model BMW are a precision fit in every dimension.