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Mental health could halt execution of killer who cut baby from womb
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MARYVILLE, MO - DECEMBER 20: A police line still remains outside the home of Zeb and Bobbi Jo Stinnett December 20, 2004 in Skidmore, Missouri. Bobbi Jo was murdered December 16, 2004 and her unborn baby Victoria Jo Stinnett cut from her womb and tra
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - A judge has temporarily stopped the U.S. government's plans Tuesday to carry out the first federal execution of a female inmate in nearly seven decades, finding that the Kansas woman who killed an expectant mother, cut the baby from her womb and tried to pass off the newborn as her own was likely mentally ill and couldn't comprehend she would be put to death.
When other executions by the Trump administration were similarly stayed in days or even hours before the scheduled execution times last year, the Department of Justice succeeded in getting a higher court to reverse them. Government lawyers also quickly appealed the stay issued Monday for Lisa Montgomery.
Montgomery was convicted of killing 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett in the northwest Missouri town of Skidmore in 2004. She used a rope to strangle Stinnett, who was eight months pregnant, and then cut the baby girl from the womb with a kitchen knife. Montgomery took the child with her and attempted to pass the girl off as her own.
Demonstrators protest federal executions of death row inmates, in front of the US Justice Department in Washington, DC, on December 10, 2020. - US federal authorities have scheduled five executions starting on December 10 through January 15, 2021. Fo
A federal judge in southwestern Indiana handed down the order Monday less than 24 hours before the 52-year-old Montgomery, the only female on federal death row, was set to be executed at a federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Any delay of Montgomery's execution beyond Joe Biden's inauguration next Tuesday would likely mean she will not be executed since a Biden administration is expected to oppose carrying out of federal death sentences.
One of Montgomery's lawyers, Kelley Henry, told The Associated Press Tuesday morning that her client arrived at the Terre Haute facility late Monday night from a Texas prison and that, because there are no facilities for female inmates, she was being kept in a cell in the execution-chamber building itself.
"I don't believe she has any rational comprehension of what's going on at all," Henry said.
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Montgomery has done needle-point in prison, making gloves, hats and other knitted items as gifts for her lawyers and others, Henry said. She hasn't been able to continue that hobby or read since her glasses were taken away from her out of concern she could commit suicide.
"All of her coping mechanisms were taken away from her when they locked her down" in October when she was informed she had an execution date, Henry said.
Montgomery's legal team says she suffered "sexual torture," including gang rapes, as a child, permanently scarring her emotionally and exacerbating mental-health issues that ran in her family.
At trial, prosecutors accused Montgomery of faking mental illness, noting that her killing of Stinnett was premeditated and included meticulous planning, including online research on how to perform a C-section.
Henry balked at that idea, citing extensive testing and brain scans that supported the diagnosis of mental illness.
"You can't fake brain scans that show the brain damage," she said.
Henry said the issue at the core of the legal arguments are not whether she knew the killing was wrong in 2004 but whether she fully grasps why she is slated to be executed now.
In his ruling on a stay, U.S. District Judge James Patrick Hanlon in Terre Haute cited defense experts who alleged Montgomery suffered from depression, borderline personality disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Montgomery, the judge wrote, also suffered around the time of the killing from an extremely rare condition called pseudocyesis in which a woman's false belief she is pregnant triggers hormonal and physical changes as if she was actually pregnant.
Montgomery also experiences delusions and hallucinations, believing God spoke with her through connect-the-dot puzzles, the judge said, citing defense experts.
"The record before the Court contains ample evidence that Ms. Montgomery's current mental state is so divorced from reality that she cannot rationally understand the government's rationale for her execution," the judge' said.
The government has acknowledged Montgomery's mental issues but disputes that she can't comprehend that she is scheduled for execution for killing another person because of them.
Prosecutors told the jury Montgomery drove about 170 miles (274 kilometers) from her Melvern, Kansas, farmhouse to the northwest Missouri town of Skidmore under the guise of adopting a rat terrier puppy from Stinnett. She strangled Stinnett performing a crude cesarean and fleeing with the baby.
Prosecutors said Stinnett regained consciousness and tried to defend herself as Montgomery used a kitchen knife to cut the baby girl from her womb. Later that day, Montgomery called her husband to pick her up in the parking lot of a Long John Silver's in Topeka, Kansas, telling him she had delivered the baby earlier in the day at a nearby birthing center.
KANSAS CITY, KS - In this handout photo provided by the Wyandotte County Sheriff's Department, Lisa Montgomery appears in a booking photo released December 20, 2004 in Kansas City, Kansas. Montgomery, of Melvern, Kansas, is accused of murdering the p
The U.S. has executed 10 people at Terre Haute since the resumption of federal executions after a 17-year pause started on July 14. Anti-death penalty groups said President Donald Trump was pushing for executions prior to the November election in a cynical bid to burnish a reputation as a law-and-order leader.
The last woman executed by a state was Kelly Gissendaner, 47, on Sept. 30, 2015, in Georgia. She was convicted of murder in the 1997 slaying of her husband after she conspired with her lover, who stabbed Douglas Gissendaner to death.
Lisa Montgomery to die Tuesday for killing woman, cutting baby from womb
Lisa Montgomery, awaits execution Tuesday, just eight days before the presidential inauguration of death penalty opponent Joe Biden.


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Any of a set of numbers to be added.
any of a group of numbers or terms added together to form a sum.
Here, the students used the different representations and the connection to the doubles fact (4 + 4) to note the relation between the addends and the sum–when one addend is increased while the other is decreased by the same amount, the sum remains the same.
This perspective (even among health workers) may in the long run contribute to the bypassing of lower levels of health care and the resultant increased turnout of self-referrals in tertiary healthcare facilities; and addend overstretching and overwhelming of their services and facilities.
The theme of this excellent collection of essays becomes immediately apparent with the cover art, where the two words "text" and "field" stand around the plus in an uneasy relationship: While "text" has a certain pride of place in coming first, it is "field" in all caps that demands attention and dominates the frame, nearly threatening to overwhelm its purported addend.
This method is used in multi-bit parallel adders where the carry into an individual element of the adder shall be predicted by a smaller delay that is required to produce the carry by rippling through previous adder stages as the result of adding the less significant addend and augends bits.
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For example, using a school-based instructional program, Cihak and Grim (2008) initially taught participating students (n = 4) a skill-purchasing strategy involving "counting on," or adding sums beginning from the larger or smaller addend (e.
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The first addend represents the 'within effect' and the second addend the 'reallocation effect'.
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In mathematics, an addend is any number that is added together in an addition problem. This lesson will define the term addend in greater detail as well as explore some examples.
0:00 What Is an Addend?
Addend is a mathematical term that refers to the numbers being added together in an addition problem.
Addends are sometimes referred to as summands, and the first addend in a sequence is also called the augend.
Any term can be an addend, it does not have to be a number. Variables can also be addends.
Here are some addition problems that show the different things that can be considered addends.
For this example, even though it looks big and messy, the addends are still just each term being added together. 5x^2yz^3, 2xyz and 7xy^2z^2 are the addends.
There are certain rules and properties that need to be followed when solving problems involving addends.
4.) The Distributive Property: This property lets you multiply a number to a sum by multiplying each addend separately and then adding the products.
5.) Adding Negative Numbers: If both of the addends are negative, the sum will also be negative.
If only one addend is positive and the other is negative, you can treat the problem like a subtraction problem.
6.) Adding Variables: When adding two terms that contain variables, they can only be added together if the variable portion of the terms are exactly the same. Then, you add the coefficients, leaving the variables the same.
In this problem, only the y terms are the same, so only they can be added together. The others must remain as they are.
Let's review. An addend is a number or variable involved in an addition problem. There are specific mathematical rules that govern the addends, including the Commutative Property, the Associative Property, the Additive Identity Property, the Distributive Property and other rules governing adding variables and adding with negative numbers. If you follow these rules, no addition problem will be too big to handle.
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The Document, presented today at the Barcelona Science Park, which houses the Bioethics and Law Observatory, provides arguments and recommendations to minimize the physical, psychological and financial risks for the donor.
Barcelona, Tuesday, 13 December 2011. Today, December 13, the Barcelona Science Park has hosted the presentation of the "Document on Live Donor Organ Transplantation" prepared by the Opinion Group of the Bioethics and Law Observatory (OBD) of the University of Barcelona (UB). The authors of the document provide arguments and recommendations to minimize the physical, psychological, social and financial rights of donors and also put on the table for discussion whether this type of donation needs to be promoted and, if so, under what conditions this must be done, in order to promote transparent and effective dialogue within society to guide decision making in this scope.
The event was atended by: Albert Royes, professor and coordinator of the Master´s programme of Bioethics and Law at the UB, secretary of the Committee on Bioethics of the UB and member of the Healthcare Ethics Committee of Hospital Clínic of Barcelona; and the coordinators of the Document: Lídia Buisan, professor of Medical Ethics at the UB and head of the Department of Anesthesiology, Reanimation and Pain Treatment at the General Hospital of Hospitalet, Monica Navarro, associate dean of the School of Law at the UB, chair professor of Civil Law; and Ricardo García Manrique, professor of Philosophy of Law at the UB.
A large number of moral issues raised by live organ donation have a lot in common with those raised by deceased donor organ transplantation (such as organ trafficking). However, live donor transplantation raises specific issues, as physical, mental, work, and legal entitlements (in the form of property and assets) must be taken into consideration, which, obviously, do not converge when the donor is deceased.
In addition to the inherent risks of surgery and possible somatic and psychological implications that may arise in each case, the donor is not entitled, for example, to have any sick leave or receive any financial compensation benefit, since the General Law of Social Security does not expressly establish organ donation as a cause of temporary disability; on the other hand, the donor may also be faced with increased insurance premiums when signing up for health coverage or life insurance policies, bank loans, etc.
Yet, - and despite the fact that it is an activity that has been taking place for over 50 years, studies on the physical, psychological and social consecuences of live organ donation are scarce, have not been prospective and often their reliability is compromised, as they have been carried out by professionals that are not involved in the transplantation process.
Through the elaboration of the «Document on Live Donor Organ Transplantation" », the Opinion Group of the Bioethics and Law Observatory aims to help alleviate this lack of information. The document has been coordinated by a multidisciplinary team, led by Maria Casado – director of the Bioethics and Law Observatory, head of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics at the University of Barcelona and a member of the Bioethics Committee of Spain and of the Bioethics Committee of Catalonia, -composed by Buisan Lídia, Doctor of Medicine; Ricardo García Manrique, Ph.D. in Phylosophy; Monica Navarro, Ph.D. in Law and a specialist in Health Law and Liability; and Mariela Mautone, Doctor of Medicine. The opinion document has also been enriched with the input provided by reknown specialists in several areas of knowledge.
On the one hand, the document identifies the potential risks for living donors, and secondly, it proposes a number of specific recommendations to minimize such risks, such as, for example, the review of consent protocols to ensure that the decision to donate is fully informed and voluntary; that the live donor transplantation is considered a subsidiary practice to that of deceased organ donations; that the figure of the "Good Samaritan" (ie, the donor does not know the recipient) is not promoted publicly; that the removal of an organ for donation purposes is regarded as a specific cause of temporary disability under labor legislation; that the donor's healthcare provision is guaranteed for life; and that the changes in health circumstances that may arise as a result of being a donor do not involve any penalties for the signing of insurance policies or loans of any kind.
In the past years, live donor organ transplantations have experienced significant growth due to several factors, such as: better results due to the minimal time of anoxia (lack of oxygen to the tissues) suffered by organs; increased demand of organs; improved surgical techniques , and the shortage of deceased donor organs. This increase has been stimulated successfully by the National Transplant Organization (NTO), as part of the Donation 40 Strategic Plan. It is worth pointing out that in Spain renal transplantation from living donors in 2012 represented 10.7% of the total number of transplantations (in Catalonia, 25%), a figure very close to the goal of the NTO, which is to reach 15%.
The Opinion Group of the Bioethics and Law Observatory wishes to put on the table for discussion whether it is possible to change this 15% target to the increase; whether this type of live donor donation needs to be promoted; and if so, under what conditions it should be done. Similarly, the authors of the document also highlight the need to promote the conductance of independent studies to establish all the implications and impact of live organ donation in a comprehensive and accurate manner; the creation of an official donor register and appropriate follow-up of the same, in line with European initiatives such as the ELIPSY project.


No one loves playing dress ups more than best friends and business partners Jacinta Emms and Hayley Stephen. Drawn together by a love of fashion, these local personal stylists are on a mission to help men and women look and feel their very best, starting with their wardrobe!
Hayley Stephen and Jacinta Emms bounce into the Profile office with boundless energy, looking every bit what you would expect from a duo who help people look good for a living. Rocking eclectic outfits that perfectly showcase their unique personalities and shapes, they are effortlessly chic and refreshingly down to earth.
I'm not the first person to suggest the energetic partnership bear an uncanny resemblance to famous British fashion advisors Trinny and Suzannah, and if their success so far is anything to go by, they could be heading for the same fate.
Despite hailing from very different backgrounds, Hayley and Jacinta have always had one thing in common – a love of all things fashion and style.
It was while working as volunteers at the Sunshine Coast Fashion Festival last year that the duo discovered their shared passion for "making others feel awesome through fashion" and their business, Style Edit Elite, was born.
"Ironically I was a bit of a tomboy growing up," says Hayley. "I have a science degree and was working in the medical field, but after I had my daughter; my sister and I started a swimwear line and I discovered fashion was a much more fun environment and I absolutely loved it.
After a short stint in banking, Jacinta decided she was not suited to a desk job, and it was while working in a marketing role, where she was part of the creative process to relaunch a business, that she discovered her true calling.
"I loved the photo shoots, the fashion, the styling … I knew I wanted to be part of that excitement, I just wasn't sure in exactly what capacity. I started a diploma in fashion design, then after falling pregnant with my second child, I met Jacinta at the fashion festival and the rest is history.
Specialising in one-on-one consultations, wardrobe reinventions and personal styling for men and women, the girls are all about helping people re-invent themselves, changing lives by changing wardrobes.
"If I'm running late and I go to work wearing something I am not 100 per cent happy in, I don't feel confident. If I'm wearing something I feel good in, I can conquer the world," says Hayley.
"We genuinely want to help people, we are women, we are mothers, we understand," says Jacinta.
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"Often people are a little bit scared initially, but afterwards we get text messages about how good they feel. There is no judgement, it's just a matter of getting rid of the daggy stuff you never wear and making use of what you have. People often have so much gold in their wardrobe that they don't even realise they have or don't know how to wear it or what to wear it with," says Jacinta.
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Bowman has successfully completed all requirements for the designation of Professional, Academy for Healthcare Management. She is also an alumnus of the American Health Insurance Plans' Minority Management Development Program. In this program, she traveled across the country to participate in National Health Care symposiums. She was elected as main speaker in Boston, Massachusetts where she spoke on the effects of Medicare on the aging population.
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Bowman holds a Master of Business Administration from Lawrence Technological University and a Bachelor of Business Administration from University of Detroit.


Vol XVI - #161 - Where Did Everybody Go?
Meggen ran the 59th Annual Mackinac Bridge walk this morning. Some 600 runners kick the day off early, finishing before the walkers. That's sunrise, above, from the middle of the bridge. Sunset, below, at Good Harbor, well after the holiday southbound traffic subsided. Happy end-of-summer from up north!
Great photographs (no surprise). I wish I were there. The one time I spent part of September in Leland was pure delight (as were the junes, Julys, Augusts between 1945 and 2005). Time for me to come back.


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Q: Is there any plugin that support fade in and out in Flutter I am working with the flutter_sound in Flutter. I simply want to fade in and fade out sound file in flutter

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If you want to fade you must enter this:
3 seconds to increase the volume from 0.0 to 1.0.
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The polls have consistently shown Hillary Clinton with a lead over Donald Trump, and yet, Trump just shocked the media, the polls, and the world with his victory. But it wasn't a shock to some. Especially Genic.AI – a company that specializes in AI's to solve complex problems. MogIA predicted his win months ago.
Genic.AI wrote a machine learning AI called MogIA that predicted the primaries and the last 4 elections perfectly. MogIA used 20 million data points from online platforms like Google, YouTube, and Twitter to come up with its predictions. It correctly predicted the past three presidential elections as well as the Democratic and Republican primaries. Now it's 4 for 4.
"While most algorithms suffer from programmers/developer's biases, MoglA aims at learning from her environment, developing her own rules at the policy layer and develop expert systems without discarding any data," Sanjiv Rai, the founder of Indian start-up Genic.ai who developed MogIA, told CNBC. In October, Rai declared that Trump's social media engagement had overtaken that of Barack Obama's in 2008 by 25%, foreshadowing a Republican victory on November 8th. The predictions are now true.
It is not just that AI's are doing complex tasks, it's that they increasingly doing complex evaluative tasks better than the best humans in the whole world. These AI's can be written by a few (or just one) persons using off-the-shelf compute. This makes it available to almost anyone – at prices far below the price of an average yearly employee salary. – Me 2014
Some are calling this the Truman defeats Dewey moment for our elections. What happens when several, or even one, cheaply made machine AI's can now predict the results of huge upset elections months in advance better than thousands of people working at polling companies and the most astute political campaign machines like Mrs Clinton's? Do those old companies and employees have any value anymore?
What would an election look like if we threw out the usual political rulebooks and went fully into AI guided campaigns? How will the face of online companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google that trade in your postings, opinions, and data shape our elections? How do we protect against their manipulation – such as the case where former Facebook employees admitted to regularly and actively censor conservative news? Or worse, protect against manipulation by domestic/foreign agents that might be able to write counter-AI's to manipulate postings.
I think we're very much on the breakthrough moment of AI's taking over these very kinds of decisions and jobs in our society. I also believe we need to start looking at how to protect ourselves from equally capable AI's that will attempt to manipulate results (such as we see today with AI bots writing product reviews) and companies that will attempt to skew data.
Interesting or Cool, Political musings

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Verizon confirms that it will no longer activate 3G phones
By Cal Jeffrey · 14 replies
Verizon is tolling the death knell for 3G phones. You don't have to bring out your dead just yet, but the service provider has confirmed that it will stop activating phones that do not support the 4G LTA standard.
The company had not officially announced the phasing out of the 3G phones, but rumors began to circulate when several customers reported to Droid Life that they had been denied activation because they're phones were not 4G-enabled. Verizon hinted at the depreciation when it stopped selling 3G phones and started pushing its LTE-only handsets a year ago (via Engadget).
When approached for comment, Verizon issued the following statement:
"For several years we've been publicly saying that our 3G CDMA network will remain available through the end of 2019. Virtually all traffic on our network is on our 4G LTE network. To facilitate a smooth transition to 4G LTE capable products and services, we are no longer allowing devices that are not 4G LTE capable of being activated on our network."
The move makes a lot of sense considering that most carriers are already at work building 5G networks. Furthermore, Verizon's refusal to activate older 3G-only devices is only going to affect a minimal number of users. Most customers already have 4G phones, and all newer phones on the market support the standard. Therefore, only those holding on to older 3G handsets will be turned down.
For now, it is still business as usual for the handful of 3G Verizon customers still out there. However, they will want to be thinking about a new phone for when Verizon decommissions its 3G network at the end of 2019.
https://www.techspot.com/news/75550-verizon-confirms-no-longer-activate-3g-phones.html
ikesmasher TS Evangelist Posts: 3,050 +1,384
Sucks for all of the people who like their niche older phones, like the blackberrys and the xperia play phone and pretty much any phone with a small screen except the iphone SE. Completely understandable, just also sucks.
Digitalzone and psycros like this.
psycros TS Evangelist Posts: 2,712 +2,509
ikesmasher said: ↑
It wouldn't be an issue if Blackberry would design a modern phone that doesn't throw away most of made Blackberry great. For some reason they just don't seem to understand that the keyboard was only half the equation: the other half was the superior user experience which emphasized speed and power over cumbersome UI elements and stupid gimmicks.
yRaz Nigerian Prince Posts: 2,891 +2,217
psycros said: ↑
I miss my blackberry
Danny101 TS Guru Posts: 768 +293
Does that mean we'll have an improved 4G signal? At&t shutdown 2G last year. I would have expected the band would have been re-purposed for 4G. So far...zilch improved service. Maybe we need new phones to use it that way. Why does 5G need new antennas when you can re-purpose older cell bands with newer software. Or am I misunderstanding the technology?
Evernessince TS Evangelist Posts: 3,995 +3,481
Danny101 said: ↑
It doesn't work like that. 4G is a completely different frequency than 3G, you can't just add them together. Ditto goes for 5G as well. 5G is very short range and will require entirely new towers or mini-towers. Current 4G towers are completely unsuitable for 5G as they are built too far apart for anyone to get good signal outside nor do they mitigate 5G's critical weakness of very poor penetration. There are other factors in the way as well but I think you get the point.
Maintaining 3G equipment at this point is just additional cost overhead.
Evernessince said: ↑
At&t did say in an article that they plan to re-purpose the 2G frequency range. I'm curious as to how that's going to work. Does band frequency and data speed go hand in hand, or does it even matter? I've seen charts that says 3G and 4G can run off of the 900mhz band. Which leads me to believe that no it does not matter.
I don't see the point in doing that. The maximum speed of 2G was 500 kbps but most of time you got 14.4 kbps.
"Does band frequency and data speed go hand in hand, or does it even matter?"
Yes frequency means everything. Frequencies used by 5G and 4G have less range and penetration but are more densely clustered to provide much more data.
2G and 3G towers are not designed for high bandwidth output nor could they provide that data over their designed service area.
https://opensignal.com/blog/2016/07/13/whats-in-a-megahertz-how-spectrum-impacts-our-4g-experience/
Re-purposing 2g or 3g cell towers to serve as part of their more data intensive network would only serve to the detriment of customers in more rural area who rely on more far reaching frequency bands used in 2g and 3g.
4G resides on a higher frequency band
https://www.diffen.com/difference/3G_vs_4G
although it can be used on lower bands as well because 3G and 4G are protocols.
Seems like to me is that 4G is basically a better compression and software protocol. WiFi for example started with 11 Mbits/s over 2.4 GHz and managed 54 Mbits/s over the same spectrum with just software improvement. I guess the main difference is wideband vs narrowband and WiFi doesn't require the wattage that cell towers need. Nor does it have to travel far, potentially losing bits of information. Going the longer distances and less capacity, hi-speed, though possible, would probably lend to a subscriber hogging the bandwidth, as narrow as it is.
So I'm guessing that even though 4G can work on the narrowband 900mhz, it won't have the capacity and would be inefficient. This would explain why radio and television could broadcast on those spectrums one way, but didn't have to contend with servicing connections.
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I live in Maine, where cell service in the norther part of the state is already non-existent. With most carriers you can't even get service - until a few years ago that included Verizon. 4G is a joke and 5G is non existent. So how do we benefit? Higher phone bills, same lousy service. I, for one, will NOT be transitioning, I will just stop carrying a cell phone.
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Everyone should read-up on 5G wireless https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G
Due to the frequencies involved, a 5G cell tower will be needed in every city block and thus is unsuitable for rural deployment.
I fail to see how they plan to offer phone service in areas that aren't suitable for anything below 4G LTE unless they plan on building more towers in rural areas, or they plan to just cut off rural residents after 2019.
They plan to re-purpose 3G network to LTE.
https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/verizon-to-shut-down-2g-cdma-1x-network-by-end-2019
The article you referenced seems to apply to 2G. When they were upgrading to 3G around here we had several years where the service was so bad that even Verizon workers had to use U.S. Cellular phones in order to get service while out on jobs. I suspect those days will come again.
TheMedi8or said: ↑
In the article itself, it referenced 3G. I don't know why it says 2G in the headline. Typo, I guess.
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Ekta Kapoor's Kasautii Zindagii Kay 2 has been gaining a lot of popularity, thanks to the protagonists, Parth Samthaan and Erica Fernandes. However, we cannot ignore the fact that this time the character of 'Komolika', played by Hina Khan had also gained its own fan club. From her big nath to her nikah, Hina has won millions of hearts with her performance. (Recommend Read: New Mommy, Amy Jackson Is All Set To Marry Her Fiance, George Panayiotou Next Year)
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Well, it will definitely be a treat to watch Aamna back on screen. In a 2014 interview, Aamna had talked about her equation with Ekta and had said, "I get asked this a lot! But honestly speaking, public and media perception aside, I have never ever felt disconnected with Ekta. My journey and popularity in television could not have been possible without Balaji and Ekta. And the fact that she asked me to do Ek Villain gratifies the mutual faith I share with Ekta till date."
For those who don't know, Aamna Sharif had gotten married to producer, Amit Kapoor, on December 27, 2013. In the year 2015, she gave birth to her son, whom she lovingly named, Arain. Aamna had worked in a few Bollywood films like, Aloo Chat (2009), Aao Wish Karein (2009), Shakal Pe Mat Jaa (2011), but failed to make a mark in the Tinseltown. (Don't Miss: Karan Veer Mehra Reveals His 'It's Complicated' Relationship Status, Talks About Life After Divorce)
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However, one of the largest hurdles that these individuals face is finding a job in their field right after graduating college.
Business management graduate Henry Contich currently works for Bass Underwriters, an insurance firm based in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
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"[This] basically means I help my boss analyze what might be considered a high or low risk that the company might take on. For instance, if someone repeatedly has damaged property then they might be considered more 'high risk' than someone who doesn't if that makes sense." Contich previously interned for this company before he graduated, and they offered him a job right when he graduated because of this.
"Initially I didn't expect to go into insurance after I graduated," said Contich.
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Contich commented on how he responded to receiving the job he currently holds so early in the game.
"I didn't really expect to get a management position off the bat, which is what my degree really focused on, but the position I'm in now still uses a lot of elements that go along with management," Contich said.
Contich described what his job looks like on a daily basis.
"It's on a smaller scale…a large portion of my job day-to-day is filled with responding to emails and answering phone calls…but I still use a lot of things I learned."
Last week, Contich passed his first insurance exam out of three he needs to take to get his license.
Once he has his license, Contich plans on working at Bass Underwriters.
"I passed the first course and there are three courses total," said Contich.
"I plan on staying in insurance for a while…as of right now I see myself at least staying here another five years or so then after that who knows where I'll be with my career. I think that by then I'll probably know substantially more about insurance and will probably have a better idea of what my next step is going to be."
Contich originally got in contact with the manager there through his neighbor, who works at the same firm.
"I think the key to getting a job close to your chosen field is to be open minded," said Contich.
"I don't think you can really expect to get an amazing job immediately…it takes work and requires you to build connections which you kind of begin doing when you accept an entry level position."
Contich then went on to explain the importance of interning somewhere in your chosen field before you graduate.
"You learn way more out in the real world then if you were in a classroom," said Contich.
"I mean OBU gave me some valuable tools, but I think that the experience I gained from interning and working [at Bass Underwriters] is something that I couldn't imagine I would've learned in a classroom."
Contich reiterated the importance of internships.
"Hands on experience is in my opinion, something that can't be substituted," Contich said.
"Once you graduate school, I've kind of come to realize that you never stop learning, you just learn in a different way…and at a much quicker pace."
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