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using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;

namespace EPocalipse.Json.Viewer
{
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            get
            {
                return _pos;
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Home Latest News Girl, ten, is crushed to death when 440lb wooden sculpture topples onto...
Girl, ten, is crushed to death when 440lb wooden sculpture topples onto her
Girl, ten, is crushed to death when 440lb wooden sculpture topples onto her as she climbs on it at Ukrainian amusement park
Anna Zhdan was left with broken skull after statue of a bear and child fell on her
She visited Dubovy Gai park in Zaporizhia, Ukraine, with her parents on Sunday
Anna was rushed to Zaporizhia Regional Children's Hospital but died next day
Police launched criminal case for negligence which caused the death of a minor
By Roksana Panashchuk For Mailonline
Published: 04:52 EDT, 10 March 2020 | Updated: 11:35 EDT, 10 March 2020
A ten-year-old girl was crushed to death by a 440lb wooden sculpture after she climbed on it at an amusement park in Ukraine.
Anna Zhdan was left with a broken skull and died in hospital the morning after the chainsaw-carved statue of a bear and a child toppled onto her.
The youngster was visiting Dubovy Gai park with her parents to celebrate International Women's Day on Sunday.
Ten-year-old Anna Zhdan was rushed to hospital on a stretcher (right) when a 440 pound wooden sculpture fell on her at an amusement park in Ukraine. She tragically died the next day
Anna was playing in a children's park while her parents were in an outdoor cafe 300 yards away.
She climbed onto the 441lb wooden bear – which was not firmly fixed to the ground – and it fell on top of her.
A video filmed by a witness shows Anna lying motionless on the ground minutes after the crash while her father calls her name.
Anna climbed onto the 441 pound wooden bear (pictured) – which was not firmly fixed to the ground – and it fell on top of her
A video filmed by a witness shows Anna lying motionless on the ground minutes after the crash while her father calls her name
Anna was playing in a children's park when the tragedy occurred. Her parents were just 300 yards away in an outdoor cafe
Police launched a criminal case for negligence of duty which caused the death of a minor after the bear – which was not firmly fastened to the floor – fell on Anna
A crew of paramedics can be seen putting the unconscious girl, bleeding from her head, on a stretcher as the distraught father is begging them to save her life.
Anna was rushed to the intensive care unit of Zaporizhia Regional Children's Hospital in critical condition.
She had an open head injury, internal bleeding and multiple bone fractures to her legs, arms and ribs.
A spokesperson for the hospital said to local media: 'The girl's condition was extremely grave. She died without regaining consciousness the following morning after the incident.'
A crew of paramedics can be seen putting the unconscious girl, bleeding from her head, on a stretcher as the distraught father is begging them to save her life
Police launched a criminal case for negligence of duty which caused the death of a minor. There have been no arrests so far.
The facility administration was aware of the sculpture danger a long time ago but did nothing to remove it from the park, local media reports.
Oleg Komarenko, the director of the park said: 'There were warning signs banning children from climbing the sculpture.'
The amusement park's administration was aware of the sculpture danger a long time ago but did nothing to remove it from the park, local media reports. Pictured: The entrance to the park
Residents said the wooden bear was installed in 2013 and has fallen several times since then.
Nadiya, who often visits the popular amusement park, said: 'The bear fell not for the first time.
'Children toppled it over several times during the last few years and it was a miracle that nobody was killed back then.
'After each collapse, the park workers just put the sculpture back in its place without even fixing to the ground.'
The park workers have removed all wooden sculptures from the scene after the tragedy, reports said.
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/**
 * Custom Variables admin controller
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class Mage_Adminhtml_System_VariableController extends Mage_Adminhtml_Controller_Action
{
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     * Initialize Layout and set breadcrumbs
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     */
    protected function _initLayout()
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the expert speakers
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He was deputy to the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation (parliament), and served as first deputy minister for economic development and trade. He also was a member of the scientific council of the Moscow Carnegie Center. Until 2014 he directed the Center for Strategic Research, an institution established by the government mandated to elaborate major policy documents and programs. At this point, he is president of the Partnership "New Economic Growth" which was in its turn founded by former minister of finance Aleksey Kudrin.
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Building solar-powered lights, Chicago Booth alum's company marks a growth milestone
By Gina Potthoff Kacik
LuminAID, which won 2012 SNVC, seeks to grow social impact following recent acquisition
Millions of people around the world live without electricity, and thousands more can be affected when natural disasters strike, damaging electric grids. But what's the easiest, safest way to provide light when grids aren't available?
Since 2011, Andrea Sreshta, MBA'16, and Anna Stork have built their solar-powered light company on the idea of providing relief from darkness. The company they founded, LuminAID, has brought thousands of lightweight, easily packable lights and phone chargers to people in more than 100 countries and counting. They have collaborated with humanitarian nonprofits around the world—including during multiple natural disasters—and also sold eco-friendly products to hikers visiting remote areas.
LuminAID has strong ties to the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where in 2012 it won the John Edwardson, '72, Social New Venture Challenge (SNVC), a competition that jump-starts nonprofit and for-profit ventures with a social mission. In 2022, the company is looking to grow its impact after being acquired by Adventure Ready Brands, which markets a variety of first aid and outdoor recreation products.
The announcement marks the second exit or merger of a startup that's gone through the SNVC: Late last year, 2018 winner AIM Clinics announced plans to merge with Hopebridge to scale up the autism therapy services it provides in underserved areas across the country.
The SNVC is the social impact track of the University's business launch competition, the New Venture Challenge, run by Chicago Booth's Rustandy Center for Social Sector Innovation and the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. As the acquisition unfolds, Sreshta will stay on in her current capacity until sometime in 2022, at which point she will transition to a role focused on expanding and supporting LuminAID's work with NGOs and humanitarian aid organizations.
"Since 2010, LuminAID has been a passion-driven project led by our mission to make safe light and energy accessible for all," Sreshta said in a press release. "Partnering with Adventure Ready Brands brings with it the capabilities to scale our business and humanitarian work to reach more people around the world. We couldn't be more excited for this next step for the brand we've poured our lives into for more than a decade."
Sreshta and Stork created LuminAID in response to the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti. The founders—then both studying architecture in New York—observed that while many valuable supplies were distributed to the island, victims didn't have light because most portable options were unwieldy and usually required batteries.
Their solution: a lightweight, inflatable light that's waterproof, shipped in bulk and powered by the sun.
After handcrafting the first 50 lanterns for testing, the two filed a patent and field tested their prototypes in India. They raised more than $50,000 through a successful Indiegogo campaign—exceeding their original goal by 500 percent—and went on to win the SNVC. In 2015, they found a powerful ally in investor Mark Cuban when they appeared on TV's Shark Tank, earning a $200,000 investment.
LuminAID's founders filed more patents to create solar lanterns with phone chargers—items Sreshta said are incredibly valuable in disaster situations when people not only need light but also the ability to communicate with family and relief organizations as soon as possible. Now with 12 issued patents worldwide, LuminAID has also branched out to selling eco-friendly, lightweight products that are popular among outdoorsy crowds who like to hike and camp. People also keep LuminAIDs on hand for power outages and other inconveniences, Sreshta said.
In response to disasters across the globe, LuminAID has supplied products to several humanitarian aid organizations, including the Red Cross, the United Nations' International Organization for Migration, and ShelterBox. In February 2020, LuminAID's global impact was recognized again on national television, this time on ABC's 20/20 as one of Shark Tank's "greatest of all time" companies.
"It's incredible that Andrea and Anna came up with an idea that has global impact and strikes a chord across sectors. Their early success lent credibility to the growing work of the SNVC and the Rustandy Center," said Robert Gertner, the Joel F. Gemunder Professor of Strategy and Finance at Booth and the John Edwardson Faculty Director of the Rustandy Center.
Since 2011, the SNVC has launched more than 100 social ventures that have gone on to raise more than $45 million. Other notable alumni include online voter guide BallotReady, Nairobi-based tractor leasing company Hello Tractor, autism therapy provider AIM Clinics, Chicago-based nonprofit Debate it Forward, and the 2021 winner, SAEF Legal Aid.
"The preparation for the SNVC competition was outstanding, and the feedback from teachers and peers was hugely helpful," Sreshta said. "They didn't just prepare us for the competition; we got our pitch stress-tested before we went on Shark Tank. Mentors and competition judges asked such great questions and poked holes to prepare us really well."
In a press release, Adventure Ready Brands CEO Chris Heye said investing in LuminAID continues the company's commitment to growing its portfolio of consumer-driven brands that inspire outdoor adventure. The company, based in Littleton, New Hampshire, and Kallispell, Montana, reported that the transaction closed on November 19.
"As a strong brand with a great product portfolio, driven by a powerful mission, LuminAID fits the mold perfectly for the company we are building," Heye said. "We are strong believers in the LuminAid mission to make safe light and energy accessible for all, and we think that our brand-building and selling strengths will help bring its solar-powered products to more people across the world."
—A version of this story was first published by the Rustandy Center for Social Sector Innovation.
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EyeDetect uses eye behavior data collected while taking a computerized true/false test to determine if a person is lying. This automated computer test, which is up to 90 percent accurate, is currently used by more than 500 customers in 40 countries.
Mickelsen adds that since there are no cables or sensors attached to the examinee in an EyeDetect test, this lie detection method is nonintrusive.
After initially releasing EyeDetect to the Spanish Latin-America market in 2014, Converus followed with the U.S. market in 2015. Since the test is automated, the potential for human bias is eliminated. EyeDetect is currently used by more than 500 customers in 40 countries in 40 different languages to screen potential and existing employees for involvement in drug use, robbery, sexual assault, infidelity, murder, sabotage, espionage, terrorism and other criminal and unethical behaviors.
An EyeDetect test starts with the examinee sitting in front of an EyeDetect computer with an infrared eye-tracking camera mounted below the monitor. The eye-tracker takes 60 measurements per second of involuntary eye behaviors — including pupil dilation, blink rate, and other eye movements — to detect deception while the examinee answers a series of true/false questions. At the conclusion of the test, the data are uploaded to a secure cloud server and analyzed by computer algorithms. In less than 5 minutes, the person is scored as either credible or deceptive.
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A 9-Year-Old Psychopath?
All kids scream and throw tantrums every now and then, but Michael is different. When he was 5 years old, the boy developed a disturbing ability to switch between full-blown rage to calm rationality in a blink of an eye.
After years of trying to diagnose Michael's condition, her parents were referred to Dan Waschbusch of Florida International University, who came up with "callous-unemotional" syndrome. Basically, Michael was diagnosed as a psychopath ... at age 9.
For this intriguing article over at the New York Times, Jennifer Kahn visited the family:
When I first met Michael, he seemed shy but remarkably well behaved. While his brother Allan ran through the house with a plastic bag held overhead like a parachute, Michael entered the room aloofly, then curled up on the living room sofa, hiding his face in the cushions. "Can you come say hello?" Anne asked him. He glanced at me, then sprang cheerfully to his feet. "Sure!" he said, running to hug her. Reprimanded for bouncing a ball in the kitchen, he rolled his eyes like any 9-year-old, then docilely went outside. A few minutes later, he was back in the house, capering antically in front of Jake, who was bobbing up and down on his sit-and-ride scooter. When the scooter tipped over, Michael gasped theatrically and ran to his brother's side. "Jake, are you O.K.?" he asked, wide-eyed with concern. Earnestly ruffling his youngest brother's hair, he flashed me a winning smile.
If the display of brotherly affection felt forced, it was difficult to see it as fundamentally disturbed. Gradually, though, Michael's behavior began to morph. While queuing up a Pokémon video on the family's computer upstairs, Michael turned to me and remarked crisply, "As you can see, I don't really like Allan." When I asked if that was really true, he said: "Yes. It's true," then added tonelessly, "I hate him."
Glancing down a second later, he noticed my digital tape recorder on the table. "Did you record that?" he asked. I said that I had. He stared at me briefly before turning back to the video. When a sudden noise from the other room caused me to glance away, Michael seized the opportunity to grab the recorder and press the erase button. (Waschbusch later noted that such a calculated reprisal was unusual in a 9-year-old, who would normally go for the recorder immediately or simply whine and sulk.)
So, can you call a 9-year-old a psychopath? Read more of this intriguing article over at the New York Times: Link (Photo: Elinor Carruci for the New York Times) - via Boing Boing
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BLACKLISTED: Katiekatiekatie • 14May12 4:13pm • 0
I definitely think you can call a 9-year-old a psychopath. I've worked with one from the time he was 5 up to 11. It's extremely unnerving, and I hope he gets help that works before adulthood or I know I'll see his name in the news eventually.
BLACKLISTED: RachelCH • 14May12 6:29pm • 0
I disagree. I think you can watch them, but I think it's unwise to diagnose such a serious and life-long personality disorder until the child is finished developing socio-emotionally. But you should definitely keep an eye on. That kid sounds creepy.
We Need to Talk About Kevin, anyone?
BLACKLISTED: Doc • 14May12 8:19pm • 0
I recommend a career in corporate upper management or politics he'd fit right in.
BLACKLISTED: ernest • 14May12 11:18pm • 0
Recording a conversation in Florida without permission is a felony.
Children have a sense of privacy and trust, and should be protected by laws. I don't think these adults are looking out for this kid, and I don't think this kid is that weird.
BLACKLISTED: Sugarimp • 15May12 3:58am • 0
Voldemort?
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A Primal Struggle for Dominance
Status ambiguity across social structures has heightened the likelihood of violence in the United States.
In his 2019 book Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society, Yale sociologist and physician Nicholas Christakis describes research led by evolutionary biologist Jessica Flack, who ran studies with 84 macaques at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. Flack's team identified the group leaders in this monkey community, removed the highest-ranking members, and observed the resulting interactions. Chaos ensued. When high-ranking monkeys were "knocked out" (as the scientists called it), conflict and aggression soared. After the leaders were removed, the group had fewer grooming interactions and played less frequently. Social ties disintegrated. "This suggests that stable leadership promotes peaceful interactions not only between leaders and followers," Christakis writes, "but also between followers and other followers."
When the leaders were in place, they intervened between status-seekers and regulated social connections. Lower-ranking monkeys knew that if conflict arose, the higher-ranking monkeys would step in. The presence of leaders allowed lower-ranking monkeys to interact with one another without fear of attack. When the leaders were removed, the macaques began jockeying for power, which resulted in mayhem and violence.
Such findings echo a theory outlined by the late Yale sociologist, Roger V. Gould, that status ambiguity increases the likelihood of conflict. When a clear and understood social hierarchy is in place, conflict is less likely. Gould, examining data from U.S. cities as well as villages in India, found that an individual is four to eight times more likely to commit homicide against a person of equal social status compared with a person of higher or lower status. Conflict between peers was more likely to escalate into violence. Status symmetry giving rise to conflict even occurs within families. Gould cites research showing that brothers are more likely to kill brothers than sisters. And sisters are more likely to kill sisters than brothers. A son is far more likely to kill his father than his mother, while a daughter is more likely to kill her mother than her father.
In hierarchical relationships—between employer and employee, parent and child, or teacher and student—social rank is understood and bolstered by social norms. In contrast, symmetric relations—between friends, neighbors, classmates, or coworkers— are equitable. One party can't claim dominance over the other. But when ambiguity persists about who holds the upper hand, the likelihood of conflict increases. Animal research yields parallel findings, suggesting that when two animals of the same species are similarly sized, conflict is more likely than when there is a size disparity.
Mathematical modeling suggests that animals of roughly equal size and strength fighting one another can incur more damage than when fighting a larger opponent, because when a smaller animal fights a larger animal, the smaller one is likely to submit faster. Thus, both parties will incur less damage than when two similarly sized animals fight. Contests between physical equals are prolonged, heightening the likelihood of severe injury. Size might be a factor in dominance disputes between humans, too. Researchers observed people trying to pass in opposite directions on a narrow sidewalk. They found that when two people of the same sex walked in opposite directions, the shorter person yielded to the taller person 67 percent of the time. When they controlled for estimated age, the shorter person gave way to the taller person 75 percent of the time.
In his book Collision of Wills, Gould offers a simple example. Typically, in employer-employee relationships, the boss is the older one and the employee is the younger one. But imagine a situation in which the boss is younger and the subordinate is older. It is easy to understand why this situation might lead to more awkwardness and potential conflict than a situation where the boss is the older one. The older subordinate might feel that he isn't being treated with proper respect, or he might see the boss as an upstart. The younger boss might believe that he needs to convey authority or feel that the older person isn't taking him seriously. Both will be more sensitive to status injuries than if the employee were younger. The ambiguity increases the likelihood of conflict. As Gould says, "disputes are not about what they seem—disputes are about social relationships." He observes that violence often erupts over small matters like a parking space, a trivial sum of money, or a casual insult. He describes research showing that "altercations of relatively trivial origin" account for more than one-third of homicides in the U.S.
Researchers studying Formula One racers found that pairs of drivers roughly equal in status were more likely to end up in collisions. They examined F1 Championship seasons from 1970 through 2014, finding that drivers with similar competitive histories (i.e., they won and lost to the same drivers) were especially prone to goading each other into fast and reckless driving, and subsequently crashing.
By contrast, hierarchical relationships are less likely to erupt into conflict. Examples include formal hierarchies: militaries, organized tournaments in sports, and monarchical succession. Indeed, militaries offer a prime example, with their explicit allocation of rank, formal titles, uniforms, physical gestures (saluting), and an indoctrination process that involves learning the rank structure. Cohesion is key for military organizations, and absence of within-group conflict is crucial. If one military (or any group in competition with another) has no internal conflict and another one does, then, all things being equal, the one without internal conflict (the more cohesive group) will win.
When social cues for settling a status dispute are unavailable or ambiguous, the chances of conflict increase. Both parties are more likely to endure long disputes because no clear way exists to settle the matter. This raises the probability that violence will break out. The more clearly that rules specify status—"ladies first," "respect your elders"—the easier it is for people to agree about how decisions should be made. But when no such appeals are available, or when they are available but contradictory (as in the case of the younger boss and older subordinate), disagreements become more likely. Equal claims to superior rank (or the absence of methods to determine rank) heighten the likelihood of conflict.
This appears to be what has happened on college campuses, and especially at elite universities, where students are indoctrinated in the cult of status and told that they are future leaders, that they are brilliant, and that the campus is designed for their comfort and needs. When they have a dispute with a professor or a guest speaker, a dominance struggle ensues. There is no straightforward way to adjudicate status conflicts between undergraduates and professors. In the past, it was easier for people to agree about who should prevail in these contests. Now, such disputes are often protracted and sometimes escalate into violence, as was the case in 2017 when left-wing activists at Middlebury College attempted to assault Charles Murray, and succeeded in their physical attack on Allison Stanger, the Middlebury College professor interviewing him.
A similar phenomenon may be happening with demonstrations against the police. Anarchists have called into question the collective understanding that police, as representatives of the state, hold a monopoly on violence. Many political activists do not view the status of police as legitimate, and status ambiguity has been introduced into the relations between civilians and the police, making the possibility of violence more likely.
It's possible that conflict will intensify not only between citizens and police, but also between fellow citizens. If no intervening force exists to prevent violence between us, then such violence will likely increase; the rise in murder rates across the country may reflect this development. The decline in trust in our institutions has unsettled the landscape of relative status. We may be witnessing a primal struggle for dominance playing out on a national scale.
Robert Henderson is a doctoral candidate at the University of Cambridge. You can follow him on Twitter @robkhenderson.
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Amtrak service resumes in Northeast, five days after deadly crash
Amtrak service from Washington to Boston resumed Monday morning for the first time in almost a week following a deadly crash in Philadelphia.
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Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter takes a photo with his cell phone as Train 110 leaves Philadelphia's 30th Street Station, Monday, May 18, 2015. The train bound for New York's Penn Station was the first northbound train from the city since a May 12 derailment killed 8 people and injured dozens.
By Michael R. Sisak Associated Press
Amtrak trains began rolling again between Philadelphia and New York early Monday, the first time since a train derailment almost a week ago killed eight people and injured more than 200 others.
Amtrak resumed service along the corridor with a 5:30 a.m. southbound train leaving New York City. The first northbound train, scheduled to leave Philadelphia at 5:53 a.m., was delayed and pulled out of 30th Street Station at 6:07 a.m. Both trains arrived at their destinations about 30 minutes behind schedule.
About three dozen passengers boarded the New York-bound train in Philadelphia, and Mayor Michael Nutter was on hand to see the passengers and train off.
All Acela Express, Northeast Regional and other services also resumed.
Amtrak officials said Sunday that trains along the Northeast Corridor from Washington to Boston would return to service in "complete compliance" with federal safety orders following last week's deadly derailment.
Company President Joseph Boardman said Amtrak staff and crew worked around the clock to restore service following Tuesday night's crash that killed eight people and injured more than 200 others.
Boardman said Sunday that Amtrak would be offering a "safer service."
In Philadelphia on Monday, Nutter stood on the platform, greeting passengers and crew members. He pulled out his cellphone and took pictures as the train rolled out just after 6 am.
"It's great to be back," said Christian Milton of Philadelphia. "I've never had any real problems with Amtrak. I've been traveling it for over 10 years. There's one accident in 10 years. Something invariably is going to happen somewhere along the lines. I'm not worried about it."
Milton said he'd think about the victims and maybe say a prayer as the train navigated the curve where the derailment happened.
Tom Carberry, of Philadelphia, praised the agencies involved in restoring service.
"My biggest takeaway was the under-promise and over-deliver and the surprise of having it come back this morning when that wasn't expected," Carberry said. "That was a good thing for Amtrak."
At New York City's Penn Station early Monday, police with a pair of dogs flanked the escalator as a smattering of passengers showed their tickets to a broadly smiling Amtrak agent and headed down to the platform.
A sign outside the train flashed "All Aboard" in red letters.
The conductor gave a broad all-clear wave, stepped inside and the train glided out of the station at 5:30 a.m.
Passenger Raphael Kelly of New York, looking relaxed, said he was "feeling fine" and had "no worries."
Kelly, who takes Amtrak to Philadelphia weekly, said with a smile that if he did have any concerns, "I have to get over it."
Amtrak spokesman Craig Schultz said it was important to restore service, calling the Northeast Corridor "an economic engine here on the East Coast."
"There are a lot of stakeholders that have a say and a stake in the Northeast Corridor, so it's very important for our passengers, for Amtrak and, I think, all of us," Schultz said.
At a service Sunday evening at the site to honor the crash victims, Boardman choked up as he called Tuesday "the worst day for me as a transportation professional." He vowed that the wrecked train and its passengers "will never be forgotten."
Federal regulators on Saturday ordered Amtrak to expand use of a speed-control system long in effect for southbound trains near the crash site to northbound trains in the same area.
Federal Railroad Administration spokesman Kevin Thompson said Sunday the automatic train control system is now fully operational on the northbound tracks. Trains going through that section of track will be governed by the system, which alerts engineers to slow down when their trains go too fast and automatically applies the brakes if the train continues to speed.
The agency also ordered Amtrak to examine all curves along the Northeast Corridor and determine if more can be done to improve safety, and to add more speed limit signs along the route.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, interviewed Monday on MSNBC, noted the activation of automatic train control systems for the Northeast Corridor, and said that "we're taking a look at additional steps beyond what we've taken."
Foxx said the government aims to ensure that "intercity travel sets a high bar for safety."
"We are putting it (ATC) in place today with the northbound trains going in the Amtrak system," he said. "We are also taking additional looks to make sure we are doing everything possible" to promote safety.
"I promise you that we are looking into the entire (rail) system and we are not done yet," Foxx said.
Almost 20 people injured in the train crash remain in Philadelphia hospitals, five in critical condition. All are expected to survive.
Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board, meanwhile, have focused on the acceleration of the train as it approached the curve, finally reaching 106 mph as it entered the 50-mph stretch north of central Philadelphia, and only managing to slow down slightly before the crash.
"The only way that an operable train can accelerate would be if the engineer pushed the throttle forward. And ... the event recorder does record throttle movement. We will be looking at that to see if that corresponds to the increase in the speed of the train," board member Robert Sumwalt told CNN's "State of the Union."
The Amtrak engineer, who was among those injured in the crash, has told authorities that he does not recall anything in the few minutes before it happened. Characterizing engineer Brandon Bostian as extremely safety conscious, a close friend said he believed reports of something striking the windshield were proof that the crash was "not his fault."
"He's the one you'd want to be your engineer. There's none safer," James Weir of Burlison, Tennessee, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview on Sunday.
Investigators also have been looking into reports that the windshield of the train may have been struck by some sort of object, but Sumwalt said on CBS's "Face the Nation" program Sunday that he wanted to "downplay" the idea that damage to the windshield might have come from someone firing a shot at the train.
"I've seen the fracture pattern; it looks like something about the size of a grapefruit, if you will, and it did not even penetrate the entire windshield," Sumwalt said.
Officials said an assistant conductor on the derailed train said she heard the Amtrak engineer talking with a regional train engineer and both said their trains had been hit by objects. But Sumwalt said the regional train engineer recalls no such conversation, and investigators had listened to the dispatch tape and heard no communications from the Amtrak engineer to the dispatch center to say that something had struck the train.
Associated Press writers Verena Dobnik and Kiley Armstrong in New York City, Shawn Marsh in Trenton, New Jersey, and Ron Todt and Natalie Pompilio in Philadelphia contributed to this report.
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Taking the pain out of dental work
Dental patients with complex needs are able to receive care and treatment thanks to a partnership program between the University of Alberta Hospital Dentistry Program and the Grey Nuns Community Hospital.
Visiting the dentist is not an experience many people look forward to. However, for the more vulnerable patient populations in Alberta, visits can be much more than unpleasant: they border on impossible. To make treatment more bearable, the Grey Nuns Community Hospital and University of Alberta Hospital Dentistry Program have come together to provide an alternative to private dental clinics.
"[Our dental patients] are often uncomfortable and fearful—not that different from anyone going for surgery! But sometimes they'll take it to the next level," says Trevor Small, Senior Director of Operations of Ambulatory Services and Rehabilitation at the Grey Nuns Community Hospital.
Joan and her four daughters. Jacquelyn (bottom right) is a patient of Dr. Preshing's through the dental surgery program.
"Some of our patients have not been able to get dental work because of their unique conditions," Trevor says. These patients often have complex medical needs or mental health conditions. Largely, these are patients who would be intolerant of receiving the same care in a normal dental clinic setting.
Joan Janeczko's daughter is just one of these patients. "She would not get anything done. They [can't] do it," says Joan. "I don't know what her teeth would be like if they couldn't do stuff like this program does."
Joan's youngest daughter, Jacquelyn, has Down syndrome and some autistic tendencies. She is also very fearful of doctors and dentists, which has made treatment in the past difficult. After turning 18 and moving to Edmonton from Hinton, she was referred to the Grey Nuns/University of Alberta Hospital clinic's Dr. William Preshing, who took over her care as an adult patient. She has been into the clinic and the Grey Nuns for two appointments: one to fill one or two cavities, and one to remove her four wisdom teeth.
Jacquelyn and her niece are all smiles.
"They cross that threshold into adulthood and families just don't know where to go. They bounce from one place to another and finally connect with us," explains William.
Without the option for sedation or general anesthesia that's provided by this program, Joan's convinced that her daughter would not be able to receive any dental treatment.
The program offers a wide variety of options for patients, and general sedation is suggested when all other options have been exhausted. "Treating patients under general anesthesia is always our last resort; there are still patients with special needs and behaviours where we're unable to avoid that."
Joan knows this struggle well. The first procedure her daughter underwent was difficult; after an adverse reaction to a sedative, Jacquelyn woke up combative and distressed. William's team noted this in her file and changed the treatment plan for her second visit to help keep Jacquie calmer.
Once a patient's teeth have been addressed, there's also an opportunity to finish other medical procedures or appointments. "In some cases, it is simple things like bringing in someone to cut their hair," says Trevor. "While they're sedated, there's an opportunity to get many things done that couldn't be done in any other way."
Jacquie Janeczko also takes advantage of this benefit. She must have an echocardiogram once every five years to monitor a heart condition, and these scans are taken while she's under general anesthetic to help ease her discomfort around doctors and medical equipment.
"They're there for us. They're always so calm, it's so nice! All the staff talk to our children or young adults as young adults. They don't talk to them like they don't understand or that they're not all there."
Joan Janeczko
As long as this program exists, families like the Janeczkos will be grateful. "It's best for Jacquie. It's just the best for her," says Joan. "She would not get anything done otherwise." Along with the much-needed medical care, Joan is also thankful for the respect all have shown for her daughter and other patients.
The program will be increasing its capacity within the Grey Nuns Community Hospital beginning in September 2017, from one day per week to two.
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Niels Bjerre
Photo: Lemvig Museum
The painter, Niels Bjerre lived from 1864 to 1942. He was born at the farm Nørrelund in Engbjerg Parish, West of Lemvig.
His childhood home was in the middle of a grand and varied landscape in West Jutland and Niels Bjerre found inspiration for his main motives here for the rest of his life. Most of Niels Bjerres paintings are painted in Westjutland.
He found that the light here was special combined with the rough nature. In the summer, he moved from Copenhagen to Westjutland, where he lived in long priods at family and friends or at the Bovbjerg Seaside hotel that belonged to his cousin, the painter Kristen Bjerre.
At Lemvig Museum you find paintings from the childhood home of Niels Bjerre and the landscapes surrounding it. In his late paintings, you will find strong tones of coulour. There is a series of paintings with motives from Lemvig, Bovbjerg and Harboøre. These have been painted over a periode of almost 50 years.
The painting of Lemvig Valgmenighedskirke and Lemvig Møllegård from 1891 is a pearl in the collection. You can still see the church as well as a part of Møllegården in the Station quarters. The open fields have been transformed into residential area.
Niels Bjerre and his family was attached to Valgmenigheden (A church congretion). As a boy he lived at Møllegården, while he attended school in Lemvig. There is a fine painting of the fisherman Josef Hav, who is painted in his living room in Harboøre in 1901 while he works focused on binding a fishing tool.
At Lemvig Museum you will find a small collection of the painters belongings. His easel stands with the last unfinished painting with a motive from Bovbjerg Lighthouse. His painters kit, his paintbrush jar and spatula is displayed with the wicker suitcase, he sent his luggage in, when he moved back and forth between Copenhagen and the West Coast.
He had a characteristic hat wit a broad shaddow and a walking stick that was used to frame the motive when he began a landscape painting. He would hold the stick horisontaly between his thumb and index fingers and in that way he could frame the motive between the shadow of the hat, the index fingers and the walking stick.
It was Niels Bjerre who introduced Jens Søndergaard to the landscape of Westjutland.
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By Diane S. Katz
More energy-efficient lighting is challenging the reign of the incandescent bulb. But the alternatives involve trade-offs, too.
Thomas Edison's monumental gift to modernity, the incandescent light bulb, no longer will be sold in Australia, Canada, Cuba or Venezuela within five years. Similar phase-outs are pending in California, New Jersey and several other states as well as the European Union. Ban-the-bulb advocates contend that Edison's creation is inefficient and that fluorescent lights are far more environmentally friendly. While this is certainly true in some respects, it is not exclusively so. Moreover, lighting alternatives now under development may soon prove to be superior to both incandescent and fluorescent bulbs.[1]
New regulations on lighting carry enormous consequences for consumers. The average American home features 45 light bulb sockets, and lighting accounts for 9 percent of the electricity used in the average U.S. household. Americans spend $37 billion annually for lighting, which consumes 22 percent of all electricity generated domestically.[2]
The campaign to extinguish incandescent bulbs is fueled in large part by concerns over the environmental impact of electricity production — primarily emissions of carbon dioxide. Michigan Sen. John Gleason (D-Flint) introduced legislation on June 12 that would, if enacted, criminalize the sale of incandescent bulbs in the state beginning in 2012.[3]
Compared to some other lighting sources, the incandescent bulb is an energy hog; its light is a product of heat. The glass sphere of the bulb contains a tungsten filament. When electricity is introduced, the threadlike diameter of the filament creates resistance to the energy flow. The resulting buildup of energy creates heat, which makes the filament glow (incandesce). Consequently, only 10 percent of the energy used by the bulb actually produces light. The remaining 90 percent is released as heat. So, for every watt of input power, an incandescent bulb typically produces only 15 lumens (the measure of light output).[4]
A fluorescent light, by contrast, produces 50 to 100 lumens per watt, depending on the type of bulb. Thus, the fluorescent light is four-to-six times more energy efficient than the incandescent variety. As the chart to the right indicates, a fluorescent bulb uses much less electricity to produce the same amount of light as an incandescent bulb.
Source: General Electric
A fluorescent bulb works by transforming ultraviolet light into visible light. A fluorescent bulb is filled with argon and mercury vapors, and the inside of the glass is coated with a phosphor. When electricity flows to the bulb, a reaction between electrons and the gas vapors produces ultraviolet photons. The photons are then absorbed by the phosphor coating inside the bulb, which produces the visible light. Because the fluorescent bulb loses relatively little energy as heat — some 60 percent less than an incandescent bulb — it requires less electricity to achieve the same amount of light.
There is a cost to achieve the relative efficiency of fluorescent bulbs — they require about four times more energy to produce than incandescent lights and thus are far more expensive.[5] A fluorescent bulb can cost between three times and 10 times more than a comparable incandescent bulb.[6] Still, over the lifetime of an average bulb, consumers can realize a net savings in energy costs of about $30 to $40 per bulb if used as recommended.
The economics of fluorescent bulbs versus the incandescent variety are not fixed, however. The heat of incandescent lights — more than 341 Btu per bulb per hour[7] — can help to warm a room. Therefore, if the cost of electricity is low relative to the cost of home heating fuel, there may be an economic case for changing to incandescent bulbs in colder seasons.
For advocates of new lighting regulation, bulb economics are a secondary benefit. The more important advantage of fluorescent bulbs, they say, is the presumed reduction in CO2 emissions from reduced energy consumption.
Less than 6 percent of American households currently use fluorescent lights. In the minds of many consumers, fluorescent light is harsh; the bulbs flicker and buzz incessantly. But advances in lighting technology have improved their performance.
No longer do all fluorescent bulbs emit the cold, eerie blue light of their older cousins. The color differences among various types of bulbs are a function of temperature. Incandescent light appears warmer because it is hotter, while fluorescent lighting is cooler, and thus whiter. But fluorescent bulbs in "warmer" shades of white are now available thanks to an array of phosphor blends. The choice of light color does involve tradeoffs, however. Greater "warmth" in a fluorescent will diminish a bulb's efficiency and shorten its lifespan.
Source: Energy Information Agency, U.S. Department of Energy
Fluorescent bulbs were long relegated to the workplace largely because of their unfavorable "rendering" of color.[8] Under fluorescent lights, complexions can take on the dull, gray cast of a corpse. Fortunately, manufacturers have improved the rendering of fluorescent bulbs with the development of new phosphor blends.[9]
Rather than just the tubes of old, fluorescents are now available in a variety of shapes and sizes to fit lamps and ceiling fixtures. The tube design is a relic of the external "ballast" within a ceiling fixture that once was required for fluorescent bulbs to operate. The ballast regulates voltage; greater power is needed to turn on the light, but the current must be limited to sustain it. The development of an "integral ballast" contained within the bulb instead of in the fixture has allowed fluorescents to assume a variety of shapes.
Integral ballasts also have helped to eliminate the annoying buzz and flicker of fluorescent lights. Historically, these ballasts have been magnetic devices that operated at only 60 cycles per second, which produced a strobe effect. Newer electronic ballasts operate at 24,000 cycles per second, which eliminates the flicker. Moreover, there's little of the vibration that caused older bulbs to buzz.[10] Electronic ballasts are also smaller and lighter, which improves bulb efficiency.
Concerns have been raised about the use of mercury in fluorescent lights, which amounts to about 5 milligrams per bulb, on average.[11] In reality, consumers face a greater risk of getting cut by the glass of a broken bulb than being poisoned by the mercury within it. Manufacturers do recommend sealing a spent fluorescent bulb in a plastic bag before disposal, and the bulbs should not be incinerated. But only large commercial users of tubular fluorescent lamps are required to recycle them.
Fluorescents are not without their drawbacks. Most require a warm-up period of up to three minutes before reaching full brightness. They are not recommended for use with ceiling fans or garage door openers, the vibrations of which can cause the bulbs to fail. Most are not suitable for use with dimming switches. Moreover, fluorescent bulbs may cause electronic devices to malfunction temporarily if they "misread" the infrared light.[12]
The efficiency and lifespan of fluorescents are diminished if the bulbs are switched on and off throughout the day, as in bathrooms and bedrooms, for example. They are best utilized for lighting that is left on for several hours at a stretch. But the average household has only 2.5 lights that are on four hours or more per day — typically in the living room and kitchen.[13]
Notwithstanding the benefits of fluorescents, research is underway to improve the energy efficiency of incandescent lighting. General Electric, for example, is preparing to market a "high efficiency incandescent" (HEI™) lamp to match the energy efficiency of a fluorescent bulb at a lower price.
Also gaining considerable attention is "LED" lighting, or light emitting diodes. Although widely used currently for decorative lighting, traffic lights, and in toys, appliances and keypads, researchers are developing LED technology for residential and commercial applications.
LEDs are composed of wafer-thin materials coated with a conducting el-ement such as gallium or industrial sapphires. The wafers are typically encased in glass. When stimulated by electricity, the LED emits light — the color of which depends on the particular coating applied to the wafer.
LEDs have the advantage of being easily integrated into a variety of building materials, and they can deliver light across multiple planes.[14] Unlike fluorescents, they reach full brightness in microseconds. LEDs also last extremely long, with a lifespan estimated to be as much as 1 million hours. Fluorescent tubes typically are rated for 10,000 hours, and incandescent bulbs at 1,000 to 2,000 hours.
"(W)e ought to be focusing more effort on using electronics to meet our lighting challenges and less on using mercury and phosphor to make light," wrote Nicolas Mokhoff for Electronic Engineering Times.[15]
The chief impediment at present is cost. The typical LED is composed of at least several diodes. An equivalent of a 25-watt incandescent bulb runs about $50. But the average price of a single white diode has fallen from $8 to $1.50 in the past year. Mass production could further drive down the price.[16]
The nature of lighting has changed dramatically throughout human history. Man first used wood fire to break the darkness, before discovering the utility of plant and animal oils. Next came candles of tallow and beeswax, followed by phosphorus and various gas lamps. Thomas Edison's incandescent bulb lit the late-1800s, and the twentieth century brought fluorescents and LEDs. What the future holds remains to be seen, but there's every reason to believe that human ingenuity will brighten the future.
[1] Fluorescent lights are now available in a variety of shapes and sizes, not just tubes. Bulbs that fit lamps and other fixtures are referred to as "compact fluorescent lights" or CFLs.
[2] U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration.
[3] As proposed, the legislation calls for violators to face up to 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fine.
[4] One lumen is the equivalent of the light given off by one candle.
[5] A compact fluorescent requires about 4 kWh of electricity to be made; an incandescent about 1 kWh.
[6] U.S. Dept. of Energy, "A Consumers Guide to Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy." Available on the World Wide Web at http://www.eere.energy.gov/consumer/your_home/lighting_daylighting/ index.cfm/mytopic=12050.
[7] A fluorescent bulb generates 92.18 Btu an hour.
[8] The accuracy of rendering is rated under the Color Rendering Index, which ranges from 0 to 100, with higher values closer to ideal.
[9] http://www.lightingdesignlab.com/articles/fluor/hatefluor.htm.
[10] http://www.lightingdesignlab.com/articles/fluor/hatefluor.htm.
[11] In comparison, home thermometers used to contain about 500 milligrams of mercury; manual thermostats about 3,000 mg.
[12] General Electric.
[13] U.S. Dept. of Energy, Energy Information Agency.
[14] Knisley, Joe, "Led Report," Electrical Wholesaling, Feb. 20, 2007, pg. 26.
[15] Mokhoff, Nicolas, "Let There Be Solid-State Light," Electronic Engineering Times, March 26, 2007, pg. 2.
[16] Svensson, Peter, "LEDs Gain Favor for Low Energy Consumption," The Ledger, May 11, 2007.


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Mount Early ist ein  hoher, solitärer Vulkankegel im westantarktischen Marie-Byrd-Land. Er ragt rund 21 km nördlich des D'Angelo Bluff auf der Westseite des Entstehungsgebiets des Scott-Gletschers auf.

Entdeckt wurde er im Dezember 1934 vom nahegelegenen Mount Weaver durch die geologische Mannschaft der zweiten Antarktisexpedition (1933–1935) des US-amerikanischen Polarforschers Richard Evelyn Byrd. Am 21. November 1962 besuchten Geologen des Instituts für Polarforschung der Ohio State University unter der Leitung von George Doumani (* 1929) erstmals den Berg. Das Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names benannte ihn 1965 nach Neal Edward Earley [sic] (1936–1982), einem Mitglied der Flugbereitschaft zur Unterstützung des United States Geological Survey für die geodätische Vermessung des Gebiets in den Jahren 1962 bis 1963.

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