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Customs and Border Protection Skagway Land Port of Entry Director Monty Flores discusses water sampling with GSA's Steve Evans. There were questions with the staff at the station about the water quality. To ensure everyone's comfort with the situation until more water quality tests were completed, Evans brought bottled water to the site - just one of the many opportunities to meet GSA customers' needs.
GSA's Northwest/Arctic Region Building Management Specialist Steve Evans receives a cell-phone call on his way to the Alcan Border Crossing Station. They need him to bring a special part from Fairbanks to repair a broken piece of equipment.
Problem is, Evans is several hundred miles away from Fairbanks and in the middle of nowhere on the Alaskan Highway, already traveling to the border station where the part is needed. He's frustrated. If they'd only called earlier he could have helped them. Even more frustrating, there's no Home Depot or Ace Hardware to stop in at to get the part. In fact, there's barely anything between him and his destination. Time to get creative.
The Northwest/Arctic Region's team in Alaska often gets challenging and unusual requests to meet their federal partners' needs. From a small part and an 8,000 lb. rooftop chiller, to manned cruise missile flight tests and support during the COVID-19 outbreak, GSA is called upon for all types of needs in some of the harshest environments in the world.
"There are challenges everywhere with weather, but in the Arctic region it's difficult to find the right services sometimes to meet our requirements for our tenants because we have fewer resources available to us," said Chaun Benjamin, Region 10 Public Buildings Service Regional Commissioner.
Once the ask for help comes to GSA from a federal agency, it can get really interesting, because now the team has to figure out how to get a product there or a contractor to the site.
The November 2019 earthquake in Anchorage shook buildings so hard that rooftop equipment on the Anchorage Federal Building needed replaced. Seems simple enough, right?
Timing the arrival of a barge several thousand miles away with your chiller equipment with someone driving the state's largest crane to your site can be quite challenging in a state with limited ways of getting products to customers, but GSA pulled it off.
But in Alaska, getting equipment like 8,000-pound chillers to Anchorage proved to be a major challenge for GSA Northwest/Arctic Region teams. Careful and calculated coordination was required to ensure everything arrived and on time.
Unlike the contiguous United States, where products and equipment can be shipped to different destinations easily by truck or rail, Alaska poses some unique issues. The chiller unit was delivered to Seattle from Spokane, Washington, by truck, then barged to Anchorage from Seattle via ship. The 600-ton crane to lift the giant chilling unit on top of the building also had to be timed perfectly with the arrival of the chiller unit otherwise the small window of decent weather to complete the project would have been missed.
GSA got it done.
David Stone, the Store Manager for the GSA ServMart located on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) in Anchorage has the responsibility of keeping the supply store stocked and ordering items for the base and surrounding federal agencies.
"We receive two barges a week, weather permitting," Stone said. "We can always tell when one of the barges does not make it to Anchorage. The shelves start getting very bare."
Most of the GSA ServMart store's products arrive by barge. From there, Stone and his team have to get creative to ship products out to federal partners throughout the state.
Only a small portion of the state is accessible by road. The remaining portion is only accessible by boat or airplane. Using the state's river systems help some remote communities receive products while others rely solely on air service.
"The limited options on getting freight out, the remote vastness of Alaska, and the lack of a statewide road system does cause the cost of living to be more expensive," Stone added.
In addition to the store, GSA also works with the military in Alaska on some other unique projects - namely cruise missiles.
While GSA isn't in the business of testing military equipment, they are able to find specialized businesses who can help the military with their needs. In this case, the military officials at JBER needed someone to simulate guided missile performance in the Arctic Circle. That's not something you typically find in the yellow pages. But GSA found it for them.
Traveling by air to deliver products for GSA customers is not unusual due to the rough terrain, limited road system, and challenging weather. The Fairbanks Federal Building is managed by GSA and is home to several agencies who rely on GSA for a variety of needs. Some of GSA's requests come in the form of - can we use your tree. The city of Ketchikan asked GSA to decorate a tree on the federal property for the Holidays. Now it's become an annual event there. The Joint Base Serv Mart in Anchorage is managed by GSA and serves as a depot for a variety of items to either pick up or be shipped to locations throughout the state.
"We got the opportunity to support the Air Force with this very unique mission," said Kimberly McFall, a director with the Federal Acquisition Service for GSA. "We've never done this before - helping the Air Force determine how missiles perform in Arctic weather conditions."
Much of GSA's work in Alaska doesn't have national security implications like that. Most of it is meeting the needs of agencies and their staff at a more relational level.
The recent COVID-19 outbreak had officials in Anchorage wondering how to handle federal building access. Kerry Long, Regional Administrator for the Federal Aviation Administration in Anchorage, also serves as the federal building's designated official. It's a role that allows Long to make decisions about such things as building access. He said GSA's support and guidance was important as he was one of the first in Alaska to close a building to public access.
"I authorized a soft closing of the building to protect people," Long said. "They know their stuff at GSA and they provided a lot of support to do this when not everyone was in agreement early on this was the right thing to do."
From information about how to safely limit access to the building to getting regular updates on the progress of the virus in early March, Long said GSA went above and beyond to make the buildings safe for staff and general public.
"When we have a need in this building whether it's a safety issue or changes to our space, GSA really delivers," Long added.
Long isn't alone in his assessment of GSA during the pandemic. Frank Sherman, Deputy Forest Supervisor for the United State Department of Agriculture Forest Service office in Ketchikan recently praised GSA staff's responsiveness to the COVID-19 outbreak.
"Tim Garton, GSA Facility Manager, has done a great job of keeping us informed of COVID protocol changes and I would like to thank GSA's responsiveness to our request for additional cleaning and sanitization," said Sherman.
Jimmy Fox, United States Fish and Wildlife Yukon Flats Refuge Manager has worked at many federal locations over his tenure. Now stationed in Fairbanks, Fox has regular contact with GSA staff. He's almost apologetic for the odd requests he's made of GSA over the years, but adds that Fairbanks Federal Building Management Specialist Steve Evans always delivers.
From shops for welding and carpentry to storage safes for weapons to keep his staff safe from bears when they are working in the field, Fox said his Alaska operations are by far the most unique.
"Steve just rolls with it regarding our weird requests," Fox said. "But GSA is always trying to find ways to help reduce costs while still trying to help us meet our mission."
Back to Evans, who earlier was asked by the Alcan Border Station for a part as he was driving... he never gave up on the search. On a blistering cold morning in Tok, Evans rose with the sunrise and headed off to the only parts store in the tiny town, hoping he could find what they needed.
In the store, a traveling repairman overheard Evans' request. He asked Evans to come to his truck with him. He showed Evans equipment parts in his truck to learn if anything he had would work.
"He didn't have what we needed, but that's just the spirit of people here helping out," Evan said. "Even if that includes getting a part out of the back of someone's truck. GSA wants you to be innovative and creative. I just love that about working here."

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Apple goes greener, adds more suppliers to its clean energy program
Cupertino giant Apple has announced that it has nearly doubled the number of suppliers that have committed to run their Apple production on 100 percent clean energy, bringing the total number to 44. Because of this partnership between Apple and its suppliers, Apple will exceed its goal of bringing 4 gigawatts of renewable energy into its supply chain by 2020, with over an additional gigawatt projected within that timeframe.
This comes one year after Apple announced that all of its global facilities are powered by 100 percent renewable energy.
"Every time one of our suppliers joins us in our efforts to address climate change, we move closer to a better future for the next generation," said Lisa Jackson, Apple's vice president of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives. "We've made it a priority to hold our suppliers accountable to the same environmental standards we observe and hope that our collaboration will show others what is possible. While we are proud of our announcement today, we won't stop driving change within our industry to support the clean energy transition happening globally."
Apple reduced its comprehensive carbon footprint for the third year in a row in 2018, in large part due to the company's Supplier Clean Energy Program. Manufacturing makes up 74 percent of Apple's carbon footprint, so the program helps its suppliers increase energy efficiency and transition to renewable energy sources.
Just last year, Apple and its suppliers participated in clean energy generation that roughly equaled the electricity needed to power over 600,000 homes in the US.
Apple has further expanded its supplier education and support initiatives, including through its Clean Energy Portal, an online platform to help suppliers identify renewable energy sources globally. Over 100 suppliers have already registered to participate in the site.
It also launched a first-of-its-kind fund with 10 of its suppliers last year to help finance renewable energy projects in China.
The company also announced major progress to address environmental solutions by allocating all $2.5 billion in green bonds it previously announced, the largest of any US corporation. Through its now-completed $2.5 billion Green Bond allocations, the company has contributed to 40 environmental initiatives around the world. That includes projects Apple has created to cover its entire electricity load — as of January 2019, approximately 66 percent of the renewable energy Apple uses comes from such endeavors.
Apple's Green Bonds are also notable for the number of areas of environmental research and innovation they support. Projects include solar rooftops in Japan, an aquifer to conserve water in Oregon and the creation of a custom alloy made of 100 percent recycled aluminum that is now found in the newest MacBook Air and Mac mini.
The list of newly committed suppliers includes: Advanced International Multitech, Arkema, AT&S, Bemis Associates, Biel Crystal (HK) Manufactory Ltd., BOE, Catcher Technology, Compal Electronics, Corning Incorporated, COSMO, DSM Engineering Plastics, ECCO Leather, Fastway Creation, Finisar, Goertek, Golden Arrow, H.B. Fuller, Hon Hai Precision Industry, Ibiden, Jabil, LEALEA Enterprise, Lens Technology, Lishen, Luxshare-ICT, Mega Precision, Nidec, Pegatron, Primax Group, Qorvo, Quadrant, Quanta Computer, RRD, RyPax, SanHuan, SDK, Solvay, STMicroelectronics, Sunway Communication, Sunwoda Electronics, Taiyo Ink Mfg. Co., tesa SE, TSMC, Wistron and Yuto.
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Q: What does this piece of code do and what does each of the symbols used mean? The language used is C and I am just a beginner to coding Came across a code of which I couldn't understand what these two lines are doing. Can't even get the syntax. Please specify what type of functionalities have been used like for eg I am guessing that there has been a use of conditional operators in the first line.
unsigned long long base_size = b >= 2 ? (b-2)/2:0;
printf("%llu\n",(base_size*(base_size+1))/2);

A: As per the operator priority is c, the first line is effectively
unsigned long long base_size = ( b >= 2 ? (b-2)/2:0 );

Now, the expression inside ( ) uses a ternary operator or Conditional operator.
As per the C11 standard, chapter 6.5.15, the syntax is
conditional-expression:
                    logical-OR-expression
                    logical-OR-expression ? expression : conditional-expression

and the semantics is [follow my emphasis]

The first operand is evaluated; there is a sequence point between its
  evaluation and the evaluation of the second or third operand
  (whichever is evaluated). The second operand is evaluated only if the
  first compares unequal to 0; the third operand is evaluated only if
  the first compares equal to 0; the result is the value of the second
  or third operand (whichever is evaluated) converted to the type described belowNOTE.
NOTE: A conditional expression does not yield an lvalue.

So, following that, your case,
b >= 2 ? (b-2)/2:0

first, the first expression, b >= 2 is evaluated. if b has value greater than or equal to 2, it returns 1, otherwise, 0.

*

*if it evaluates to 1, the second operand, (b-2)/2 is executed and the final result of the conditional operator is the value of the expression.

*similarly, it evaluates to 0, the third operand 0 is returned as the result of the conditional operator.
Finally, the return value of the ternary operator is used to initialize the unsigned long long base_size variable.
About the second line, printf() is a standard C library function, prototyped in stdio.h. You can find more on this here.

A: What is used here is the conditional operator ( Also called ternary operator because it uses 3 expressions) The format of the conditional operator is
expression1 ? expression2 : expression3.

Now let me explain this.
If expression1 evaluates to true, then the value of the whole expression is the value of expression2, otherwise, the value of the whole expression is expression3.
Now take this simple example
result = marks >= 50 ? 'P' : 'F' ;

result will have the value 'P' if the expression marks >= 50 evaluates to true, otherwise, result will get 'F'.
Now let us move on to your case
unsigned long long base_size = b >= 2 ? (b-2)/2:0;
printf("%llu\n",(base_size*(base_size+1))/2);

It checks if b >= 2, if it is, then assigns base_size the value (b-2)/2 else it assigns base_size the value 0.
It is also the equivalent of
if( b >= 2 )
   base_size = ( b - 2 ) / 2;
else
   base_size = 0;

Now, just in case you don't know
printf("%llu\n",(base_size*(base_size+1))/2);

What this does is outputs the value of base_size * ( base_size + 1 ) / 2 onto your output screen.

A: This is called the ternary operator
x = condition ? value : another_value;

means
if (condition)
    x = value;
else
    x = another_value;

it's evident that value and another_value should have the same type as x and that condition must be an expression which can evaluate to a truth value.
The code you posted though doesn't look good because it's hard to read, it would be way better this way
unsigned long long base_size;

base_size = (b >= 2) ? (b - 2) / 2 : 0;
printf("%llu\n", (base_size * (base_size + 1)) / 2);

and this would be equivalent to
if (b >= 2)
    printf("%llu\n", (((b - 2) / 2) * (((b - 2) / 2) + 1)) / 2);
else
    printf("0\n");

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// Copyright (c) 2011, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
// for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
// BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.

package org.jetbrains.kotlin.js.backend.ast;

import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;

/**
 * One independently loadable fragment of a {@link JsProgram}.
 */
public class JsProgramFragment extends SourceInfoAwareJsNode {
    private final JsGlobalBlock globalBlock;

    public JsProgramFragment() {
        globalBlock = new JsGlobalBlock();
        initDebugTag();
    }

    public JsBlock getGlobalBlock() {
        return globalBlock;
    }

    @Override
    public void accept(JsVisitor v) {
        v.visitProgramFragment(this);
    }

    @Override
    public void acceptChildren(JsVisitor visitor) {
        visitor.accept(globalBlock);
    }

    @Override
    public void traverse(JsVisitorWithContext v, JsContext ctx) {
        if (v.visit(this, ctx)) {
            v.acceptStatement(globalBlock);
        }
        v.endVisit(this, ctx);
    }

    @NotNull
    @Override
    public JsProgramFragment deepCopy() {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
    }
}

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The Federal Trade Commission today issued its annual report, "Consumer Fraud and Identity Theft Complaint Data" on fraud complaints consumers have filed with the agency. For the seventh year in a row, identity theft tops the list, accounting for 36 percent of the 674,354 complaints received between January 1 and December 31, 2006. Other categories near the top of the fraud complaint list include shop-at-home/catalog sales; prizes, sweepstakes and lotteries; Internet services and computer complaints; and Internet auction fraud.
This year, one major data contributor changed the way in which it codes complaints, and did not code many of its complaints, so comparisons with previous years' complaint categories are difficult.
Consumers reported fraud losses totaling more than $1.1 billion; the median monetary loss was $500. Eighty-five percent of the consumers reporting fraud also reported an amount lost.
The percentage of fraud complaints with wire transfer as the reported payment method continues to increase. Twenty-three percent of the consumers reported wire transfer as the payment method, an increase of eight percentage points from calendar year 2005.
Credit card fraud (25 percent) was the most common form of reported identity theft, followed by phone or utilities fraud (16 percent), bank fraud (16 percent), and employment fraud (14 percent).
Audio files available to download are linked to this press release on the FTC's Web site, http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2007/02/topcomplaints.htm. These MP3 files, to support news stories on radio and television, include quotes in both English and Spanish on the overall announcement, as well as advice on what consumers can do to avoid fraud.
Copies of the report, Consumer Fraud and Identity Theft Complaint Data - January-December 2006 are available from the FTC's Web site at http://www.consumer.gov/sentinel and also from the FTC's Consumer Response Center, Room 130, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20580. The FTC works for the consumer to prevent fraudulent, deceptive, and unfair business practices in the marketplace and to provide information to help consumers spot, stop, and avoid them. To file a complaint in English or Spanish or to get free information on any of 150 consumer topics, call toll-free, 1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877- 382-4357), or use the complaint form at http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/complaint.htm. The FTC enters Internet, telemarketing, identity theft, and other fraud-related complaints into Consumer Sentinel, a secure, online database available to more than 1,600 civil and criminal law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad.


A digital contents advertisement display system using auction includes: a contents outline disclosing part for disclosing an outline of contents distributed through a digital medium to an indefinite number of audience including sponsors; an advertisement tenant bidding part for allowing a sponsor to bid for an advertisement tenant contained in the disclosed contents; a sponsor determining part for knocking down the advertisement tenant to a sponsor that has bid a highest price; a contents creating part for correcting the advertisement tenant contained in the contents in accordance with requests from the sponsor, and completing the contents; and a contents distributing part for distributing the completed contents, wherein the contents have a function as an advertising medium.
For example, FIG. 10 shows a model for providing advertisement by TV broadcasting in the prior art. In FIG. 10, in order to provide advertisement by TV broadcasting, etc., an advertising agency  102 is always required. This makes it difficult for the intention of an advertisement sponsor 101 to be exactly passed to a contents creator 103, and in most cases, there needs to be considerable amount of time and cost for attaining contents that satisfy the advertisement sponsor 101.
For example, as shown in FIG. 11, in a display region that is not overlapped with a contents display region  112 on a display screen 111, an article name, a service name, or the like is often emphasized by using a banner 133 or the like, or a link function to a corresponding home page is often set.
FIG. 11 illustrates a conventional banner display.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a digital contents advertisement display system using auction in Embodiment  1 of the present invention. In actual implementation, components shown in FIG. 1 may be composed of dedicated devices. It may also be possible that processing steps are described as computer software using a CPU, a memory, and the like.
In FIG. 1, reference numeral  1 denotes a contents outline disclosing part for disclosing digital contents on a network. It is intended that a contents creator (generally, a contents creating company, etc.) invites advertisement sponsors with respect to its own contents, and the advertisement sponsors pay an advertising cost to the advertisement sponsor, whereby a cost for distributing advertisement to a general audience is suppressed.
Herein, the contents disclosed by the contents outline disclosing part  1 are not the entire contents, but only an outline such as a digest. More specifically, the contents outline disclosing part 1 merely announces what kind of contents are to be distributed. Because of this, advertisement sponsors can be widely sought without particularly setting the limit of an audience. Further, contents are not rendered obsolete to a general audience, and the audience may be more interested in the contents during distribution thereof, so that the enhancement of advertising effects can be expected.
Reference numeral  2 denotes an advertisement tenant bidding part for presenting a price at which an advertisement sponsor desires to provide advertisement with respect to an advertisement tenant shown in the disclosed outline of contents. Herein, an advertisement tenant refers to a billboard shown in the outline of contents, articles such as a car and a magazine used in the contents, or a character used in the contents.
For example, a car  21 and an artificial creature 22 used as tools of the a contents are displayed on a screen as shown in FIG. 2. In this case, the car 21 and the artificial creature 22 are advertisement tenants. For example, in the case where a car provided by an advertisement sponsor, which has won the car 21 by bidding, is a car 23, contents in which the car 21 is replaced by the car 23 will be distributed.
Next, reference numeral  3 denotes a sponsor determining part for determining an advertisement sponsor, which has bid the highest price for the advertisement tenant, to be a sponsor of the advertisement tenant, and notifies the advertisement sponsor of the determination. More specifically, the sponsor determining part provides the right of user of the advertisement tenant to an advertisement sponsor that has bid the highest price among those which have bid for the advertisement tenant during a predetermined bidding period.
Further, reference numeral  4 denotes a contents creating part for studying how to use an advertisement tenant knocked down among advertisement sponsors, and updating display contents to those which are desired by the advertisement sponsor that has won the advertisement tenant. In general, an advertisement tenant is present in various manners. More specifically, it is a billboard displayed in the background, a building structure, a character, and the like. Thus, for example, an operation of updating display contents, such as providing an article name of an advertising object of a sponsor in the billboard displayed in the background, and changing a character to an article character, is required.
For example, in FIG. 2, the artificial creature  22 is changed to a prominent character owned by an advertisement sponsor, or in the case where an advertisement sponsor is an automobile company, an operation of changing the car 21 to a car owned by an advertisement sponsor or the like is performed.
Reference numeral  5 denotes a contents distributing part for distributing contents, obtained by completing the adjustment with respect to an advertisement sponsor, regarding the advertisement tenant thus knocked down, and updating display contents, to a general audience. The contents may be distributed on the Internet, by digital broadcasting, or the like. More specifically, there is no particular limit to a distributing method, as long as it is capable of distributing digital contents.
A specific structure will be described. Referring to FIG. 4, reference numeral  41 denotes an advertisement tenant attention degree control part, which has a function of controlling the degree of attention to an advertisement tenant in the contents. For example, by changing the display size of an advertisement tenant in the contents by adjustment of a camera position, the degree of attention to the advertisement tenant can be changed without changing a scenario. More specifically, for example, in a scene where a main character is looking for something, adjustment such as displaying the advertisement tenant in a larger size is made, whereby an audience naturally notices the advertisement tenant.
In FIG. 5, reference numeral  51 denotes a character control part, which controls the behavior of a character. Regarding how a character behaves under which conditions, advertising effects are varied depending upon respective contents, so that there is no particular limit to the control of the behavior of a character. In Embodiment 2, for example, by controlling the position at which a character is displayed, rendering the movement of a character active, and the like, the degree of attention to an advertisement tenant present in the vicinity of the character can be enhanced.
FIG. 6 is a block diagram of an advertising effect calculating part in the digital contents advertisement display system using auction in Embodiment 3 of the present invention. In actual implementation, components shown in FIG. 6 may be composed of dedicated devices. It may also be possible that processing steps are described as computer software using a CPU, a memory, and the like. In FIG. 6, reference numeral  61 denotes a character access log recording part, 62 denotes a character access log database, and 63 denotes an attention degree calculating part, respectively.
The character access log recording part  61 records statistical a information when a general audience gains access to a character, in the character access log database 62. The attention degree calculating part 63 calculates an index representing the degree of attention to an advertisement tenant, based on the information recorded in the character access log database 62.
As the simplest example, it is considered that information is recorded with a data structure as shown in FIG. 7 in the character access log database  62. More specifically, an access start time and an access end time are recorded on a character basis, and a period therebetween is calculated as an access period. At this time, the position of the character in contents is recorded at a virtual coordinate value in the contents, and an advertisement tenant in the vicinity thereof (closest thereto) is recorded, whereby it becomes possible to determine in which advertisement tenant the enhancement of advertising effects can be expected by access to the character.
First, an outline of contents to be distributed is disclosed on a network in the form of a digest or the like (Operation  81). A disclosed predetermined period becomes a bidding period with respect to advertisement sponsors.
If the bidding period is not completed (Operation  82: No), and an advertisement sponsor conducts bidding with respect to an advertisement tenant in the contents (Operation 83), a new bidding price of the advertisement sponsor is compared with the highest bidding price among the previous bidding prices (Operation 84). In the case where the new bidding price is higher than the previous highest bidding price (Operation 84: Yes), the new bidding price is determined as the new highest bidding price, and a bidder list is updated by including the new bidder of the new highest bidding price (Operation 85). If the new bidding price is lower than or equal to the previous highest bidding price (Operation 84: No), neither a bidding price list nor a bidder list are updated, and the process returns to Operation 82. Thus, in the case where the new bidding price is equal to the previous highest bidding price, a bidder who has conducted bidding earlier is given priority.
When the bidding period is completed (Operation  82: Yes), the recorded bidder of the highest bidding price is determined to be an advertisement sponsor of the advertisement tenant (Operation 86).
When the advertisement sponsor is determined, the contents of the advertisement tenant are updated while adjustment with respect to a contents creator is being made (Operation  87), and the updated contents are distributed (Operation 88).
A recording medium storing a program for realizing the digital contents advertisement display system using auction in the embodiment of the present invention may be a storage apparatus  91 provided at the end of a communication line or a recording medium 94 such as a hard disk and a RAM of a computer 93, as well as a portable recording medium 92 such as a CDROM 92-1 and a floppy disk 92-2. In execution, the program is loaded, and executed on a main memory.
A recording medium storing access log data and the like generated by the digital contents advertisement display system using auction in the embodiment of the present invention may also be a storage apparatus  91 provided at the end of a communication line or a recording medium 94 such as a hard disk and a RAM of a computer 93, as well as a portable recording medium 92 such as a CD-ROM 92-1 and a floppy disk 92-2. For example, such a recording medium is read by the computer 93, when the digital contents advertisement display system using auction of the present invention is utilized.
wherein the contents have a function as an advertising medium.
2. A digital contents advertisement display system using auction according to claim 1, comprising a function of receiving an input from an audience and allowing the audience to influence a scenario process of the contents.
3. A digital contents advertisement display system using auction according to claim 1, wherein, in a case where an advertisement tenant is not determined in the sponsor determining part, the contents distributing part distributes the contents by using the advertisement tenant in the contents provided by default.
4. A digital contents advertisement display system using auction according to claim 2, wherein, in a case where an advertisement tenant is not determined in the sponsor determining part, the contents distributing part distributes the contents by using the advertisement tenant in the contents provided by default.
wherein the character behaves so that an audience pays more attention to the advertisement tenant for which the bidding price is higher.
wherein advertising effects can be measured based on the calculated degree of attention to the advertisement tenant.
9. A digital contents advertisement display system using auction according to claim 1, further comprising an advertisement tenant attention degree control part for changing a display of the advertisement tenant so that a degree of attention to the advertisement tenant in the contents is changed in accordance with the bidding price.
10. A digital contents advertisement display system using auction according to claim 2, further comprising an advertisement tenant attention degree control part for changing a display of the advertisement tenant so that a degree of attention to the advertisement tenant in the contents is changed in accordance with the bidding price.
11. A digital contents advertisement display system using auction according to claim 9, wherein, in the advertisement tenant attention degree control part, a degree of attention to the advertisement tenant is changed by using the character.
12. A digital contents advertisement display system using auction according to claim 10, wherein, in the advertisement tenant attention degree control part, a degree of attention to the advertisement tenant is changed by using the character.
13. A digital contents advertisement display system using auction according to claim 1, wherein, in a case where the contents are redistributed, advertisement sponsors of the advertisement tenant are auctioned again.
14. A digital contents advertisement display system using auction according to claim 2, wherein, in a case where the contents are redistributed, advertisement sponsors of the advertisement tenant are auctioned again.


As the child of an alcoholic, chain smoking mother and a workaholic father during a time period where mother's natural instincts were superseded by male doctors, to the point that breast feeding was abandoned, I grew up in an environment where there was little to no consistent palpable connection.
The current field of psychology with its Attachment and Affect Regulation Theories labels this lack of "attunement" to an infant and young child, along with other ongoing adverse child hood experiences as "Developmental Trauma". Due to this I had underlying on going depression, insecurity and many miscellaneous health issues.
This history along with my natural inclination, (as my mother told me when I was 9 that "I really understand people"), is what spurred a lifelong quest to understand "what makes people happy?" This quest was also motivated by my own deep level of discontent and sense of not enough, unloveable and other core states of defectiveness that come from an underlying shame that exists as a result of this lack of initial Self building connection. These feelings of inadequacy (no matter how successful I was in the outer world) were only enhanced by many poor choices I made in relationships.
So much has changed since these first challenged beginnings. I not only researched what creates change but I applied myself whole heartedly. My first book Express Yourself: Discover Your Inner Truth, Creative Self and the Courage to Let it Out, took me 7 years to write and was my first attempt at expressing all that I had learned and discovered up to that point, to help me move beyond the inherent sense of inadequacy that was lodged deep within my cellular memories. That was published in approximately 2000. When I did radio interviews for this book I had distilled what was in this book down to 4 Keys at first.
The Antidote to all this is contained within this new book.


The Poyner Spruill family remembers the many years of devotion and service John MacKethan gave to our firm. Our thoughts are with his family through this difficult time.
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Three new fires were reported in the Northwest Region by mid-afternoon yesterday.
Dryden Fire #75 was located on an island on Pickerel Arm of Minnitaki Lake, about 50 km northeast of Dryden.
The other fires were located in Thunder Bay District and Red Lake District.
There currently are 39 active fires in the region, one of which was listed as "not under control" at last report.
Four fires were declared "out" yesterday.
The fire hazard is predominantly "low" to "moderate" across the region, with pockets of "high" hazard in the northern portion of the Thunder Bay and Nipigon districts.
Clear skies are expected to usher in a drying trend over the next few days, which should drive a rising fire hazard across the region heading into the weekend.


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Something's Amish: how COVID has affected Amish communities
Once the disease entered the community, health officials faced the task of restraining it.
by Ariana Haghighi
In an increasingly globalised world, connections between people and places have spawned like neurons stretching in a baby's brain. Experts have spoken of the world shrinking, or tightening, as countries are pulled closer together. This network spanning across the world was lauded. That is, until isolation unexpectedly became a coveted gift.
As COVID-19 began to seep through global nooks and crannies, countries shut themselves off from others, states adopted an individual identity to ostracise themselves from neighbours, and even communities built temporary gates encircling their people. For most, this was unprecedented and marked an about-face from the interconnection they previously strived for.
For the Amish, practically nothing was amiss.
The Amish have always drawn the intrigue of many, considering how they purposefully section themselves off from the world circuit. Outside media despairs for insights into their lifestyle, politicians ponder about potential outreach, and non-Amish make movies and write novels about their fantastical existence. Eliminating any connections to the modern world, the Amish live in a simulacrum of a former age: the use of telephones, automobiles, and power-line electricity is prohibited. The Amish are called to strip themselves of individuality and offer themselves to Christ, under the Gelassenheit doctrine. To yield their spirit, clothing is regulated and communities maintain a small and decentralised structure.
Prioritising the sanctity of the family structure above all else, the Amish justify their aversion to modern technology. Any appliance which tempts an Amish member to remain home, rather than interact with their community face-to-face, represents a harbinger of sin. Thus, they exist in an incredibly tight-knit community that boasts its separation to the outside world. Any proposed inclusion of modern technology is rigorously scrutinised until it is deemed necessary to maintain fruitful self-sufficiency, and divergent enough from modern practice.
Initially, this entrenched separation proved successful in the face of COVID-19. No cases were reported, and it was imagined they continued a peaceful life in their antique fantasy, undisturbed by the panic choking their neighbours.
However, the Amish are forced to maintain minor interactions with the outside world, often in the form of trade fairs where they sell their wares to finance their community. These minor interactions proved disastrous when a few members contracted the illness, soon engulfing the community in the disease's flames. Steven Nolt, an Anabaptist scholar, noted the difficulty in tracing the disease. "We don't know how many cases or deaths," he explains, "because public officials collect data on race and gender, but not religion." Additionally, the Amish would be averse to the intrusion of non-Amish public officials who wish to survey the region and assess impact, so the accurate state of the community is near-impossible to ascertain.
The CDC further illuminated why the Amish may be perniciously affected once the disease took hold in the community. It published that "rural residents might be at higher risk because they are older, have higher prevalences of underlying medical conditions and more limited access to healthcare services." The airborne pathogen also thrives in the cold environment that the Amish call home. Studies thus noted that there was an unfortunate 125% surge in the excess death rate of Amish members.
Once the disease entered the community, health officials faced the task of restraining it, made difficult by the incompatibility of modern health measures and strongly-held beliefs. Researchers found that the community harboured many misconceptions, such as that masks wrought harm on the wearer. The community also has a stronger aversion to vaccinations as they are perceived as a form of modern technology — as of June 2021, the Amish were lagging behind their non-Amish counterparts with a paltry 14% vaccination rate. For many, there is now a strong taboo; one Amish member asked a health official that he "not tell his family" after his dose.
In order to connect and communicate, health officials published newspaper ads and printed informative leaflets emphasising the importance of hand-washing and other preventative measures. As the Amish do not access electronic media, their medical understanding fully relies on communicating with their neighbours. Although health officials have dedicated outreach in Amish gazettes, non-Amish anti-vaxxers spread disinformation which plagues the community. In one example, a group advertised "Vaccines can have unintended consequences" paired with a photo of a smashed buggy.
However, one measure that was surprisingly adopted seamlessly was the shutdown. In May of 2020, the majority of Amish people observed state-mandated stay-at-home orders; the director of the Amish Heritage Foundation, suspected this was because the Amish are "concerned about maintaining an image of being law-abiding," lest the government intervene and revoke their religious freedom. In some ways, shutdowns were familiar to the Amish, as they employed them in the face of minor local health crises such as measles. The Lancaster County Amish even surprisingly cancelled Easter celebrations after advice from General Health Committees; this was particularly devastating given their core values of community bonding and rituals involving large gatherings.
Some Amish are adapting and harnessing the situation to espouse their values; at trade fairs, many Amish women have sewed masks to donate to the community. Clearly there is an opportunity for mutual co-operation; health officials should focus on understanding the Amish lifestyle in order to uniquely direct health resources and advice. This is a pertinent lesson for healthcare providers in developing skills of cultural competency and patient-specific care.
The Amish did not respond when Honi reached out for comment.


The Santa Barbara Police Department is doing a poor job at enforcing the statewide law against darkly tinted front windows on vehicles. Every day I see countless cars and trucks with illegally blackened out driver, passenger, and windshield windows. Drivers, pedestrians, and bicyclists need to be able to see each other to be safe. It would be far easier to drive drunk or high on drugs or do other illegal things behind such dark windows (which is probably one of the reasons for the law and one of the reasons so many people want blackened out windows). People can't be allowed to think they're "too cool" to be seen — every one of us has the right to be safe.
The Santa Barbara Police Department needs to know that allowing such law-breaking activities undermines their credibility in a big way. When rules get broken so obviously and ignored or inefficiently enforced by authorities we all suffer. We see that some people can break the law and get away with it. Also, this would have to go down as one of the easiest laws to enforce. Perhaps the fines and fix-it tickets need to be significantly stiffer, but heavy and consistent enforcement is at least the start. This is a solvable problem.
We need safer roads and the SBPD needs to do a far better job of making this happen for everyone's sake. Lives depend on it and we expect civility on the road.


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Cedar Rapids School Board raises questions about proposed $312 million bond issue
McKinley would no longer serve middle school students under a $312 million proposed bond issue for the Cedar Rapids Community School District in Iowa. (photo/Cindy Hadish)
By Cindy Hadish/Save CR Heritage
During their Jan. 23, 2023, meeting the Cedar Rapids Community School District's Board of Education asked for more information regarding plans for secondary schools.
Most notably, School Board members questioned how the closure of McKinley Middle School, in southeast Cedar Rapids, would affect students, at least one-third of whom walk to school.
Closing McKinley as a middle school, but using it for the new City View High School magnet school is among the proposals for the $312 million bond issue.
Several school officials and the leader of the "Vote Yes" campaign, Scott Drzycimski, told the School Board why new middle schools are needed, even as the student population has decreased.
Most centered around students needing to "compete" with other school districts in Iowa.
Jonathan Galbraith, the Cedar Rapids School District's director of operations, presents information on costs for the secondary schools plan during the Jan. 23, 2023 School Board meeting, including nearly $61 million to replace Wilson Middle School. (photo/Cindy Hadish)
School Board member Dexter Merschbrock asked that the board examine U.S. Census data for the neighborhood, including its Black population.
"It's almost like we're trying to gentrify the neighborhood by moving that middle school out," he said.
While few questions were asked about a plan to demolish the 1924-built Wilson Middle School, Merschbrock cited a letter to the School Board submitted by Save CR Heritage, which asked that the board consider carbon emissions and sustainability in upgrading the current school, rather than demolishing it.
"Think of the message we're sending to students," Merschbrock said, in encouraging the board to consider climate change and its impact on future generations.
Jonathan Galbraith, the district's director of operations, said after the meeting that the School District is asking OPN Architects and Solum Lang Architects to compare renovating Wilson vs. demolishing it. OPN has been leading the district's facilities master plan process, including the idea to build a new school on the Wilson site.
That study — something the task force had requested during meetings over the past year — could add another seven weeks to the process in determining the language for the bond referendum, which could potentially go before voters in September.
See the full text of Save CR Heritage's letter to the School Board, below:
McKinley would no longer serve as a Cedar Rapids middle school under the district's plans. (photo/Cindy Hadish)
Dear Board of Education,
As volunteer members of Save CR Heritage, we truly appreciate your service as volunteers and realize the many issues vying for your time. Still, we hope you will turn your attention to one of the most important aspects of our children's futures. As stated on the district's website, "the Cedar Rapids Community School District is committed to implementing sustainable practices to protect our environment and reduce our carbon footprint." Please keep that at the forefront in your decisions.
Save Cedar Rapids Heritage works to preserve our city's historic resources through education, assistance, advocacy and action, and our members are committed to environmental practices. Reusing existing buildings can help avoid significant environmentally costly new emissions, while also providing opportunities to reduce building operating emissions through energy upgrades. According to a recent Next City article by Patrice Frey and Vincent Martinez, reusing and retrofitting existing buildings can save 50 to 75 percent of the carbon expended to construct a similar building.
As you decide whether or not to demolish the landmark Wilson Middle School, think of the message you're sending our students. This solid, structurally sound building can be renovated to serve their future educational needs, while also demonstrating that the school district's commitment to sustainability – and to our children's future on this planet – is more than just lip service.
Given the dynamics in the state of Iowa concerning school vouchers and within the school district itself with a new superintendent being announced soon, we ask for a re-examination of not only the secondary schools facilities plan, but also the elementary schools plan, which is on-track to send untold tons of demolition debris to our landfill. While it would be nice to know how much of those buildings are recycled, the district is not keeping track of that amount, so perhaps the School Board could request those figures to give voters an actual scope of both plans' environmental impacts.
Save CR Heritage strongly supports what is best for our students, teachers and staff, which is why we advocate upgrading our schools. Based on the walkable neighborhoods, socioeconomic status of many students and use as community hubs, the facilities master plan task force supported keeping the four historic middle schools and adding one new school, if needed, in northern Cedar Rapids. As you consider what to include in the bond referendum, we urge you to think about the students, their families, and the neighborhoods, as well as the stewardship of our taxpayer dollars, given that a remodel is half the cost of building a new school, and demonstrates your commitment to sustainability.
Cedar Rapids, McKinley, School District, Wilson
Margaret Dumas
Great letter. Not too long. One page. Powerful final paragraph.


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It is worth to be noted that Indian Railway make big claims to provide comfortable ride to passengers and its platform lacks basic facilities.


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Cairo Truce Hopes Fading As Sides Stiffen Terms
J.J. GoldbergAugust 16, 2014Image by Getty Images
Indications are mounting that the indirect Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire talks in Cairo could be heading for failure, possibly resulting in renewed fighting when the current 5-day truce expires Monday night.
Early reports were that the two sides were close to agreement on an Egyptian compromise proposal for a long-term cease-fire. On Friday and Saturday, however, declarations on both sides indicated that positions were hardening as fierce internal divisions emerged, pulling the leaderships on both sides away from the center. The Palestinian side appears to be stymied by the refusal of the organization's Qatar-based political secretary, Khaled Meshaal, and the head of its military wing, Mohammed Deif, to go along with the compromise proposals laid out by the Egyptians and mostly accepted by both delegations.
On the Israeli side, meanwhile, chaos appears to be reigning. Prime Minister Netanyahu, who rode a wave of popularity during the military operation, has been facing a tsunami of criticism over the past week from the left, the right, the residents of Gaza-adjacent communities and his top coalition ministers. Two of his senior coalition partners, foreign minister Avigdor Liberman of the Yisrael Beiteinu party and economics minister Naftali Bennett of the Jewish Home party, have repeatedly attacked the prime minister's management of the Gaza conflict from the right, demanding a continuing assault until Gaza has been taken over and Hamas disarmed or dismantled. Broad circles on the right accuse him of giving away the store (i.e. lifting the blockade) in return for "nothing" (i.e. Hamas-Jihad agreement not to shoot, bombard or tunnel).
The other coalition partners, justice minister Tzipi Livni of Hatnuah and finance minister Yair Lapid of Yesh Atid, have been pressing Netanyahu from the left, demanding that he seek to end the fighting by convening an international Middle East peace conference in cooperation with the Arab League. The goal of the conference would be to negotiate an agreement for an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza. Netanyahu hasn't said no to either minister, by some accounts because he'll need their votes in the cabinet for the limited cease-fire he's aiming to obtain in Cairo.
Livni and Bennett have also attacked the Cairo cease-fire negotiations on principle, saying the process amounts to Israel negotiating with Hamas despite its international status as a terrorist organization and effectively gives the Islamist group diplomatic legitimacy. Both also complain that the Egyptian proposal for a long-term cease-fire, by guaranteeing Gaza's border, would constrain Israel's ability to reply to terrorist actions from Gaza while failing to prevent Hamas and other terrorist groups from rearming and mounting attacks.
Under the Egyptian proposal, the Palestinian factions in Gaza, principally Hamas and Islamic Jihad, would agree to refrain from all attacks on Israel by land, air and sea, and to refrain from digging tunnels into Israeli territory.
Egypt would agree to open the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Sinai on condition that Hamas accept troops of Mahmoud Abbas's Palestinian Authority as border guards on the Gaza side. Israel would agree to lift the blockade on Gaza and open its border crossings to people and goods including construction materiel, subject to controls by an unspecified third party to ensure that imported materials wouldn't be used for military purposes, including tunneling. European Union foreign ministers offered at a meeting on Friday to send troops to police the crossings and to train Palestinian Authority police to supervise construction materiel inside Gaza.
Both sides were to give up key demands: on the Palestinian side, demands for a seaport and airport serving Gaza, as well as release of prisoners arrested in June following the kidnap-murder of three Israel yeshiva students. And on the Israel side, demands for disarming of Hamas and return of the bodies of two soldiers killed in Gaza in July. Negotiations over those demands were reportedly supposed to begin a month after the implementation of the cease-fire.
On Friday, the head of the Palestinian delegation to the Cairo cease-fire talks, Azzam al-Ahmed of Fatah, was quoted by the Palestinian news agency Wafa saying that the two sides had agreed on the main points in the agreement. Later that same day, however, the Lebanon-based Hamas foreign press spokesman Osama Hamdan reportedly told a group of students in Sudan that Israel "must choose" between accepting all the Palestinian demands, including the sea- and airports, or facing a long-term "war of attrition."
And on Saturday, according to a report on Israel's News1, the top official of Hamas, political secretary Khaled Meshaal, who has not been participating in the Cairo talks, told Al Jazeera Television that Hamas won't accept a delay in reaching an agreement to open a sea- and airport.
"We want the passages opened, we want our own port, our own airfield and the central demand — ending the occupation and the settlement project," Meshaal told Al Jazeera in an interview from his home base in Qatar. "We want to defend our civilians and not use the residents' blood in order to conduct negotiations. We want our demands accepted, but the Israel is stalling and ignoring them."
Meshaal's comments came shortly after he had met with Palestinian Authority diplomat Saeb Erekat, who had flown to Doha at Egyptian urging to try and convince Meshaal to accept the Egyptian proposal.
The senior Hamas member of the Palestinian negotiating team in Cairo, Izzat al-Rasheq, reportedly told the Turkish news agency Anatol on Saturday that the three factions in the Palestinian delegation were meeting Saturday evening to try and work out a common position. Earlier, Rasheq had told the independent Palestinian news agency Ma'an that Hamas leaders were holding rounds of meetings in Qatar and Tunisia during the day on Saturday to try and work out a common position on the talks. There have been reports in recent days of a sharp split between Hamas's Cairo negotiators, who represent the organization's political leadership in Gaza and are eager to reach an agreement, and Meshaal and military wing leader Mohammed Deif, who are taking a maximalist, uncompromising position.
Netanyahu himself is widely described as behaving bizarrely under the pressure and crossfire. Members of his inner security cabinet, legally tasked with managing the country's defenses, say they learned about the current 5-day cease-fire, which began at midnight Wednesday night, from press interviews with Palestinian negotiators in Cairo. According to Yediot Ahronot (print only), Netanyahu and defense minister Moshe Yaalon, his closest ally, were paralyzed when Palestinian radical groups in Gaza opened fire Wednesday night just before the previous cease-fire ran out and the new one went into effect. They had vowed that any new fire would be answered with overwhelming Israeli fire, but they hesitated to return fire Wednesday night for fear of scuttling the upcoming cease-fire and reopening the bombardment of Israel's south, a political nightmare for the ruling coalition. As a result they waited until nearly an hour after midnight before returning fire with a light round, hoping not to start a new series of exchanges.
Netanyahu then waited until 6:00 Thursday evening before finally convening the security cabinet to discuss the terms of the cease-fire, the new talks and the Egyptian proposal. At 6:30, however, he announced that he was stepping out for a moment and went into another meeting room to meet with heads of Gaza-area regional councils, reportedly hoping that hearing them out would lessen the attacks on him that he expected at a Tel Aviv rally of southern communities' residents later that evening. The "moment" became an hour and a half, which left the cabinet ministers idle and furious. When Netanyahu returned to the cabinet room at 8:00 he found that Yaalon and Liberman had left and were not returning. At that point Netanyahu adjourned the cabinet until Friday evening, when it reconvened but again took no decisions.
Late Saturday, when the Israeli negotiating team returned to Cairo to renew talks Sunday morning, News1 reported that the delegation's sole civilian member, attorney Yitzhak Molcho, Netanyahu's personal representative, had quit the negotiations in anger over Netanyahu's inability to establish a firm position and control his cabinet.
As for Netanyahu himself, he's been described by those he's met with in the past week as appearing listless, exhausted and, repeatedly, "battered." Some speculate that he — along with much of the country — is beginning to absorb the shock of realizing that "defeating terrorism," the signature watchword on which he's built his career, doesn't actually work.
The views and opinions expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Forward.
Azzam al-Ahmed
Khaled Meshaal
Mohammed Deif
moshe ya'alon
Naftali Bennett
Yair Lapid
Yitzhak Molcho
J.J. Goldberg
J.J. Goldberg is editor emeritus of the Forward, where he served as editor in chief for seven years (2000-2007).


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From 23rd May through to 27th May 2013, a special callsign, VI103WIA will be activated, to mark the national society in Australia, AGM and Conference being held in Fremantle, Western Australia for the first time on 24-26 May 2013.
Stations throughout Australia can request to operate and be allocated operating times to use the special callsign during this time which is intended to promote Amateur Radio and the WIA.
A local club, the Peel Amateur Radio Club, will be operating portable in Fremantle on the Saturday morning and part of the afternoon and no doubt the callsign will be used in various parts of Australia during the allocated slots. I have not seen a list of who is doing what and when. A special QSL card will be available.
The Fremantle 2m repeater VK6RFM on 146.950 MHz (output) is also equipped with Echolink via VK6DN-R (node number 170709) and IRLP (node number 6200).
An explanation of the callsign, V I is the special prefix allocated by the ACMA (same as OFCOM for you or FCC for the US) for special events, 103 is how many years the WIA has been going (Apparently the oldest Amateur Radio Society in the World) and WIA for Wireless Institute of Australia.


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Camp Guide Dogs for the Blind
A young adult takes us on her journey to Camp Guide Dogs for the Blind in Oregon. This week-long camp helped her gain an understanding of what it might be like to work with a guide dog in the future.
Family Wisdom
Exploring Origami Art: Feel It, Fold It, Fun!
Origami is an old art form in which beautiful creations are made from folding a single piece of paper. This article discusses how origami can be presented in an accessible format for people with visual impairments and how the author learned a new and entertaining hobby.
Art Activities at Home: It Does Not Take Vision to Make Art. It Takes Experiences
The art teacher from TSBVI shares ideas of projects that can be done at home by students with visual impairment.
I Believe Opportunities Matter
In a personal recount of Superintendent Emily Coleman's family vacation to Yellowstone National Park, she reminds us that students need the opportunity to not merely participate in a collective experience but to also "actively contribute" to that experience.
Music Class for Deafblind Students
deafblind, music, communication, intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, emotional development, incidental learning, observational learning
Providing VI Services Within a Charter School System
Laura Hampton is a retired TVI from Birdville ISD who currently provides contract services within the Fort Worth area. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Stephen F. Austin State University. In this article, she shares her experiences with contracting with charter schools as a TVI.
How Do We Use What We Have Learned During the Pandemic to Move Education Forward for Children with Visual Impairments?
In this article, Dr. Rosenblum describes the work of the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the education of children with visual impairments, including those with additional disabilities and deafblindness. She discusses some of the findings from the Access and Engagement studies and considerations as we move forward with education in the 2021-2022 school year.
What's Happening with Active Learning in Texas?
The authors provide an update on the expanding knowledge and use of Active Learning, a technique designed to provide education for students who are functioning within the developmental range of 0-48 months.
TSBVI Believes in Our Students
In this article, TSBVI Superintendent Emily Coleman welcomes staff to the 2021-2022 school year and lays out the school's vision for all 11,000 students across Texas who are blind, visually impaired, or deafblind. She also talks about not defining students with labels and shares thoughts from some of the school's staff.
Criss Cole Rehabilitation Center Prepares Young Adults with Lifelong Skills to Navigate Life with Blindness
This article introduces readers to the Texas Workforce Commission's Criss Cole Rehabilitation Center and the services that are available to young adults.
We Are Here to Help: HHSC Blind Children's Program Updates
This article describes the service delivery model that is now offered through the Health and Human Services Commission's Blind and Visually Impaired Children's Program (BCP) since the pandemic. There is also an update on their Futures Planning series.
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A way of return and taxation system will be changed widely within 10 years. For instance, the way of tax return will not be used papers and ought to be used Electronic Filing. Before why ought the way of tax return change, we must know what is actually occurred at the tax return. Tax office advertises taxpayers that tax return season are coming. Taxpayers who do not ask tax accountants to write them usually go to tax office and write themselves. Recently, pensioners' returns and returns of refunds have increased rapidly, and so the work. Nevertheless, personnel seem not increasing. It is impossible to increase from now on, too. Consequently, tax office lets taxpayers write a return form by themselves. This method is that few staffs can manage many taxpayers. The number of tax payments will increase from now onward. In addition, office workers adjust and determine amount of tax end of the year; however, some people do not agree with that.
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Morning Juice: Ex-Florida GOP Leader Faces Criminal Probe; BSO Deputy Was Speeding in Fatal Crash
Thomas Francis
Thomas Francis | April 1, 2010 | 8:04am
Local headlines for this Thursday morning:
Divers along Alligator Alley discovered a submerged minivan that contained human remains, apparently those of Nelta Jacques, a 27-year-old Tampa woman who disappeared along with her two daughters during a 1999 visit to her father in Fort Lauderdale. [Sun-Sentinel]
Jim Greer, former head of the Florida Republican Party, is under criminal investigation for allegedly funneling a party contract to a consulting company he owned. [Miami Herald]
The Broward Sheriff's Office deputy who struck a car on Oakland Park Boulevard in January, killing a teenager, was going 89 mph, according to BSO investigators. [Sun-Sentinel]
According to a family lawyer, Josie Lou Ratley's condition took a turn for the worse yesterday as doctors acknowledged that two weeks after she was attacked, she still couldn't breathe on her own, had sustained brain damage, and might lose some use of the right side of her body. [Sun-Sentinel]
Cities like Wellington that contract with the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office to police their streets will have to cut back on the number of officers due to a budget crunch. [Palm Beach Post]
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Keep enjoying juice! Life's too short to worry about those health reports about cancer
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IT can often seem like just about anything can give you cancer. The latest culprit is fruit juice, with researchers warning that just one glass a d
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IT can often seem like just about anything can give you cancer.
The latest culprit is fruit juice, with researchers warning that just one glass a day could raise your risk of the disease.
Researchers are now warning that just one glass of orange juice a day could raise your risk of developing cancer[/caption]
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Juice joins a long list of supposed cancer-causing nasties, with researchers putting everything from underarm deodorants to burnt toast on the naughty step[/caption]
Juice joins a long list of supposed cancer-causing nasties, with researchers putting everything from underarm deodorants to burnt toast on the naughty step.
The sheer volume of stories can be baffling; how on earth are you meant to live a life free from the risk of cancer?
It's even worse for us doctors. Just suppose there is an 18 per cent increased risk of developing cancer as a result of doing something or not doing something else. For the patient sitting with me, the risk is either 100 per cent or 0 per cent. He or she either has the problem or not.
I would suggest the healthiest thing to do is not to give too much credence to studies.
Scientific "facts" tend to remain true for about five years. Then someone discovers there was a flaw in the basic understanding of the problem.
I remember when cigarette smoking was considered healthy — how wrong that proved to be. I remember eggs being bad news because of their cholesterol content. Now they're good news. Even going outside is a battleground — should we be topping up our Vitamin D levels or protecting ourselves against the risks of melanoma skin cancer?
Time and again, studies will contradict each other.
As a result, it can be hard to know what to take seriously. A lot of the headline stats you will read in a newspaper are based on bad science.
BE CAUTIOUS
There is almost a double edged sword — scientists want publicity for their work, the media want a good a headline, and sometimes the full picture is not revealed.
Take the debate over burnt toast from two years ago. The Food Standards Agency launched "Go For Gold" campaign, raising awareness about acrylamide — produced by burnt foods — which it said could cause cancer.
Many experts hit back. They said there was not enough evidence that acrylamide causes cancer. Yes, there were studies that linked the substance to cancers in rodents, but not enough evidence that this held true for humans.
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We should be cautious about the results from one-off studies. Sometimes preliminary results, based on a small sample size, will be used to draw wider — and unconvincing conclusions. Or the conclusions can be oversimplified.
There was a study a few years ago which revealed that a chemical found in red wine might reduce the risk of bowel cancer. But that doesn't equate to "Red Wine Prevents Cancer" — because alcohol actually increases the risk of cancer, and could outweigh any potential benefits.
Researchers can also skew a study with their methodology.
WORRY ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE
In the recent juice study in the British Medical Journal, other known risk factors to cancer, such as age, sex, education, family history, smoking status and physical activity, were not prioritised.
This can mean that some studies exaggerate the signif- icance of their findings. In 2013, Dr Jonathan D. Schoenfeld, of the Harvard School of Public Health in the US, and his colleague Dr John Ioannidis of Stanford, randomly selected 50 ingredients from The Boston Cooking School Cook Book. Then they looked up the ingredients — from mustard to orange juice — in scientific literature and found 40 were listed in studies which claimed they were a cancer risk or prevention benefit.
The doctors concluded: "Associations with cancer risk or benefit have been claimed for most food ingredients. Many single studies highlight implausibly large effects, even though evidence is weak."
If something sounds too good, or too bad, to be true, it probably is. As a doctor, it would not be responsible to tell someone to cut out this or that when there might be far more significant risks in other areas of his or her life.
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There are important messages hidden among the confusion. Ten grams of sugar a day (100ml of orange juice or two teaspoons of refined sugar) is associated with, not necessarily directly causes, an 18 per cent rise in the overall risk of getting cancer. But is the effect solely because of increase in body weight from eating and drinking sugary foods?
The question is whether we really want to spend every day focusing on ensuring we spend a few extra years in a nursing home at the end of our lives.
According to Cancer Research UK, more than one in two people will develop cancer at some point. But four in ten cases can be prevented. Not smoking, keeping active, eating a balanced diet and not sitting in the sun without sunscreen will all cut your risk.
So have a glass of orange juice — and worry about something else.
A study revealed a chemical in red wine might reduce the risk of bowel cancer, but that doesn't equate to 'Red Wine Prevents Cancer' — because alcohol actually increases the risk of it[/caption]
We can remember eggs being bad news because of their cholesterol content — now they're good news[/caption]
CONFUSED? TAKE THIS LOT AS GOSPEL AND YOU WILL BE…
2018 RED WINE may prevent cancer, according to researchers at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the State University of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil. An antioxidant known as resveratrol, found in red wine, stops the formation of protein clumps found in 50 per cent of tumours.
2019 Drinking a bottle of wine a week is equivalent of smoking five to ten cigarettes a week for raising the lifetime risk of cancer, according to a study by researchers from the University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Bangor University and University of Southampton.
2014 ASPIRIN when taken regularly appears to increase the risk of pancreatic cancer after extended periods of use, according to a study published by the US-based National Cancer Institute.
2017 Researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong found long-term aspirin use reduces the risk of many cancers, including being 34 per cent less likely to develop pancreatic cancer.
2005 BEER may protect against cancer due to a mystery ingredient, according to researchers at Okayama University in Japan who studied lab mice.
2009 Drinking just a pint of beer a day could raise the risk of prostate cancer, following a review of 35 studies that investigated the relationship between drinking levels and the risk of developing that type of the disease.
2004 MILK when consumed in large amounts is linked to an increased risk of ovarian cancer, according to researchers from Karolinska Institute in Sweden.
2007 Researchers at Harvard Medical School in Boston and Brigham and Women's Hospital, claim younger women can cut their risk of breast cancer by more than a third by eating extra calcium and vitamin D.
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> I believe you've hit on a key issue "existence vs. use".  While this is debated, many on the industry side believe it's more appropriate to focus on use than on mere existence.  In my opinion this is a key divide in the debate for Permitted Uses vs. Unlinkability.
OK, interesting.  Is this what is behind the "do not create records about me" vs. "do not target me in ads"? It's hard to see what the *privacy* impact of being shown an ad for a dishwasher vs. a hang-glider is (assuming one is relevant to me and the other not), whereas there is a privacy impact in someone having detailed records of my behavior, vs. them not having it.
Is this the debate to which you refer?
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