White painted cages. One animal for each. Shaved, stripped, washed, re-clothed. They brought us clean into a den of filth. Irony could be willfully cruel. I wondered the reason; why not let us die? But I remembered people had a knack for keeping alive what should be dead.
We would have perished by choice but they made us live. Willful starvation wasn't an option—refusal would be penetrated by a clear plastic tube.
We dreamed of death, and it of us. It suffered along, wishing to enter, but the walls of this place, too thick for even it to intrude. On occasion a finger slipped in, on long nights when no one was looking. Most hoped to be chosen, at least those of mind.
Those in the shallow, unmarked soil were the luckiest. The field barely visible, we knew it was there. The quiet place, land without screams; absent of cruelty and electric pain. The lack of names on stone was irrelevant, for all here had already been forgotten.
Others lost their souls, bodies still lingered. Where spirit went, I could only imagine. Maybe they occupied dreams, out of focus objects wailing in distortion behind flittering eyes. Most would call that a haunting; for us—absolute communion.
I knelt before his body, the divine man we all once worshiped. He remained exposed; no one bothered preparing a grave in his honor. My hands tightened into fists. The rage of their vile act upon the Master seethed in my blood. How could they betray their faith?
I'd become a stray sheep among wolves.
Looking up at the night, I prayed for answers. The sky returned my grief with thundering tears. I welcomed the sorrow of rain as it drowned my lament and washed the blood from my clothes. I laid my hands upon his rotting flesh, hoping to feel some remnant of warmth. But nothing radiated from his lifeless heart. Death had exhaled its cold breath upon his soul.
I remembered the first thing he said to me. I'd asked him why God allows bad things to happen to good people—the question everyone asks.
Those words changed me, molded me into his disciple with the hands of a savant artist. Not long after, we gathered a flock the savior himself would have been proud of. Each Sunday we convened in an old barn at the edge of my property. The handmade pews would be seated by familiar faces, those of friends and family. They awaited his words with great anticipation in desperate eyes. All sought salvation, but all had turned on Master in the end.
I put my head against his chest and remembered his gospel.
They followed his words, mourned lost loves, loathed their own vices and those of others, reveled in the toil of daily life. But a small town, a peaceful hamlet not prone to crime or violence, has only so much to suffer.
After that, the town of Angleton became something else.
Those who followed took his message and spread suffering like a plague. Violence became desired, harm welcomed. There were no victims during the time of awakening. Only loyal servants. They gave themselves to the cause, some even came begging. Master gave it willingly. The barn became a house of torment, howls of agony its chorus. They lined up waiting to feel the hand of Master scar their flesh.
They wore those marks with pride. Hung blood-stained clothes on walls, glorified shrines to Master. They honored the Lord, loved Him, more than they loved themselves. But now those offerings burned in a pile of despised memories, still glowing within the remnants of my barn, the church we all once shared. And the wounds for which they pleaded were covered by clean, fresh laundry—an affront to Master's gifts.
I tried to make them see. But the mob came, torches aflame. I stood between them and our house of worship. The Master never left, didn't try to run. He welcomed their blasphemous deed, laughed with arms raised as they set the fire. They stood and watched it burn, Master still inside. I wanted to dash into the blaze and die with him. But I couldn't perish yet. I had to avenge the greatest man who ever lived. My fate was to spread the gospel of Edgar. He told me so himself.
I was then a wolf among sheep, bringer of redemption. Attempts to rekindle their faith futile, pain only closed their eyes. They could not be forgiven. They were not absolved.


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Over a third of tenants affected by the bedroom tax are now in rent arrears reveals a survey.
The survey has been released by the National Federation of ALMOs, the Association of Retained Council Housing and the Councils with ALMOs Group found that 33.3% were in arrears, reports Inside Housing.
The survey had a response from 52 arm's-length management organisations and councils with a wide geographical split. It discovered regional variations with the southwest of England experiencing the highest proportion of households affected by the under-occupation penalty and in arrears with the northern region seeing the highest increase in the level of arrears for those affected by welfare reforms.
The survey also found that 12.6% of households were affected by the bedroom tax when it was first introduced but saw it decrease to 10.5% by the end of December 2013.
It was also revealed via the survey that there has been a significant rise in the number of landlords resorting to court action, 55% compared to just 2% when members were last surveyed in June 2013.
Alison Freeman, CWAG policy adviser said: "The striking regional differences highlighted by this survey give weight to calls for a more flexible approach, particularly in parts of the country where there is a shortage of smaller properties. For many in these areas, downsizing to a smaller property isn't an option. "
It examined the extent to which tenants were able to move to a smaller property and found that in the first nine months, only 4.6 per cent of tenants affected by welfare changes had moved to an alternative social housing, on average 13 per cent of those affected by the penalty have registered on the transfer list but not moved as yet and the majority, 60 per cent, choose to 'pay and stay'.


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Just after 3:00p.m. on August 29, 2015, members of the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office were dispatched to 32085 Burgess Rd in the Denham Springs area of Livingston Parish in reference to a shooting.
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Employment in small companies vs large companies: What's the difference?
Home>Advice>Career advice>Career progression>Employment in small companies vs large companies: What's the difference?
The professional services employment market in Canberra is lively and competitive, giving candidates plenty of choice when they seek new roles.
A consideration for many recruits is whether they're better off working for a small to mid-sized organisation or a large multinational one.
While the answer will be different for each individual, companies should play to their strengths to ensure new hires fit the culture of a workplace, which can lead to better morale, staff retention and productivity.
In a competitive employment market like Canberra's, salaries for professional services staff at every level tend to be more generous than in other cities.
If quality candidates are in short supply large companies might tip the balance in their favour and outperform smaller organisations with excellent benefits packages. Private health care, company vehicles, salary sacrificing and discounted services can all be put on the table to sweeten an offer to a sought-after candidate.
Smaller businesses may sometimes seem to offer less up front but can be more open to flexible remuneration such as bonus or commission structures, profit sharing or an ownership stake in the company.
Offering a work-life balance which maximises both productivity and the needs of staff is an issue faced by businesses of all sizes.
Traditionally smaller companies have been able to offer more agile solutions, but many large organisations have introduced measures to bring about greater flexibility and benefits for parental leave, return-to-work and part time arrangements. Thanks to Canberra's booming employment market, employers at all levels have had to step up and ensure they're able to attract the best candidates through better overall working packages.
Larger companies might have clearly defined policies and contract clauses such as allowing an employee to work a certain number of hours per week from home, or altered start and finish times to accommodate childcare arrangements. They may also tend towards requiring a fairly consistent number of hours from employees each week, with extra hours paid as overtime. The down side can be less flexibility outside the agreed parameters of a contract or an HR policy, so altered requests for flexible hours are harder to accommodate.
Smaller organisations might require more flexibility from their staff at times, but a closer working relationship with employees means they're potentially able to give more in return when it's needed. A smaller team naturally has to band together to meet deadlines when the workload is high, so staff may find themselves working many hours some months but able to take time off or reduce hours when things are quieter.
Ultimately, work/life balance is something which will vary significantly between companies, with an organisation's size not always an indicator of their approach to the issue.
Discovering what a potential employee's long-term career plans are can be a great indicator of whether they'll be a good company fit.
Candidates who aspire to partnership or senior management in large organisations will be more inclined to value working for a company with a respected and well-known name. In large national or multinational firms, it can be easier to see a path for progression and promotion up the ranks. Plus, larger businesses may offer structured mentoring programs to develop less experienced staff and expose them to networking opportunities with the senior members in their industry.
Being a small cog in a big machine isn't for everyone, though, even if it's a well-known one. Canberra's small and mid-sized professional services companies may not have brand names to offer, but they are frequently headed up by people who've come from large company or government backgrounds. This means they'll have a wider range of experience to pass on. Smaller organisations can foster an employee's broad business skills which could be transferable to business ownership or consultancy later in their career. They may also be appealing to candidates who want to be on the front line, watching the outcomes of their work on a project.
Job descriptions in small and mid-sized companies sometimes blur the lines and staff can end up performing multiple roles for the business. This is something which naturally occurs less in larger teams where roles are more narrowly defined and filled according to specific experience and qualifications.
For some staff, working to a broad job description in a smaller company is a positive. It can offer more learning opportunities as well as heightened overall responsibility, because they'll have a greater stake in the success of their employer's business.
A narrower job description working within a large organisation can have benefits for employees who want to grow and specialise in a specific area or role. Having a more defined job description can fast track career progress, as staff have the potential to be given more responsibility within their field as they master different tasks.
For recent graduates who aren't yet certain of their career path, large companies can provide a range of different role opportunities which allow an employee to try out other jobs while maintaining continuous employment with one organisation.
There is a fairly clear-cut difference between small firms and large ones when it comes to employee location.
Multinational companies can present excellent opportunities for staff to change cities or even countries to experience different roles and responsibilities. There is a negative, though: in some organisations, relocations are expected if an employee wants to climb the career ladder, or if it benefits the company. If a candidate isn't keen on leaving Canberra they may be a better fit with a boutique or small business which operates from the ACT and has no plans for expansion to other states.
Assessing the overall fit between an employer and a candidate, whether the recruitment is for a large organisation or a boutique firm, requires consideration and openness between both parties. In the ACT market, where competition for quality candidates is a given, employers must understand the benefits their company can offer, and use these to attract not just the most qualified people, but ones who are likely to fit in and thrive.
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Meteorologist Joe D'Aleo: 'COVID19 models – a lesson for those who trust climate scientists'
By: Admin - Climate DepotApril 17, 2020 5:09 PM
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COVID19 models – a lesson for those who trust climate scientists
The models used to estimate U.S. deaths from COVID19 had projections that ranged from over 2 million a few weeks back to 100,000-240,000 a week ago down to 60,000 this week. Hopefully the projections and reality will converge on an even lower number.
The media seemed perplexed about the large changes in the models and questioned their concept and value. Welcome to the world of modeling (see this comparison).
We in the weather business use models as a tool and they present special challenges. We have a plethora of models to choose from which run 2 to 4 times a day or even on a smaller scale hourly. Operational model forecasts go out to as far 16 days into the future. The models are subject to large errors especially in the latter periods when storms are coming inland from data sparse regions like the Pacific. We have a favorite phrase – garbage in, garbage out.
The climate model story is even worse. The climate models overstate the warming from greenhouse gases by a factor of two or more.
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Climate model forecasts versus the satellite and balloon observations
The models projected the greatest warming in the tropical high atmosphere (called the Tropical Hot Spot) where air in the mean rises due to convergence of air from both hemispheres. But the models warming results mostly from the release of heat from condensation of water vapor (95% of the greenhouse effect). CO2 is a trace gas, just 0.04% of the atmosphere by volume.
See no warming trend in the upper atmosphere since 1979 where models predict it.
The lack of warming also holds for the tropical Pacific ocean down to 300 meters depth from 160E to 80W.
HOW THEY DEAL WITH LACK OF REAL DATA AT GROUND LEVEL
The climate cabal portray the output from their models as gospel, and the believers confuse the model projections with measured data. The data centers make unsubstantiated claims that a given month or year is the warmest back to the beginning of the record (1880 or even 1850) often by the tiniest of margins (0.05C for example).
But the data is just not there to make those claims.
71% of the earth is oceans, and data before the satellite data became available 40 years ago, ocean data was reliant on ships which travelled along specific routes mainly in the northern hemisphere near the land.
A large percentage of land surface was erratically covered with observing sites and the data too often spare and intermittent.
To create an apparent agreement with their sacred models, the data centers manipulated real data or even generated with their models data for 95% of the planet that had poor coverage before the satellite era.
MIT's climate scientist Dr. Mototaka here exposed the phoney claims that most years are the warmest ever since the 1850s of 1880s.
"The supposed measuring of global average temperatures from 1890 has been based on thermometer readouts barely covering 5 per cent of the globe until the satellite era began 40-50 years ago. We do not know how global climate has changed in the past century, all we know is some limited regional climate changes, such as in Europe, North America and parts of Asia."
The world's greatest scientists in the 1970s knew that and created the first view of global trends by using land temperatures where available in the Northern Hemisphere. It showed a 2F warming from 1880s to around 1940 and then a cooling that by around 1970s cut that by more than half. Further cooling until the late 19870s virtually eliminated the rest.
These early measurements were erased when models and global land (and ocean) data was 'created' in the following decades. The models cooled the early data and enhanced the warming to create an apparent steady warming during the eras when fossil fuel use increased. Our conclusion is that there is man made global warming but the men are in NOAA, NASA and Hadley.
By the way, the ocean data coverage and accuracy did not really become reliable until the implementation of the ARGO buoys in 2000 designed to accurately measure temperatures and ocean heat content. Like the satellite used to measure sea level changes (which showed no changes – until artificial adjustments were made), the early results were disappointing – showing no warming. The ARGO data supported the inconvenient near two decade pause in the warming that started in the late 1990s.
Eventually in desperation ahead of the Paris Accord, they made this go away by adjusting the buoy data to match to inferior ship data.
The models are tuned to manipulated (fraudulent) data. In addition to what we have shown above, this can be seen when you examine all the extremes of weather that these models and the theories predict. See here how each of the claims have failed.
COVID19 has shown how major the impact on the global population a pandemic can bring. A Green New Deal wasn't developed in a lab, but is as bat shit crazy and would have a major impact on life as we know it. The effect on our economy would not be as sudden but just as serious. The government would not be sending you checks in the mail to help but driving up the cost of energy, and the cost of living and the choices you make (cars you drive, where you can live, how much you can make and keep). Because it is based on junk science, we need to dispatch it as quickly as we can the COVID19.
See much more on this issue in this presentation in front of New Hampshire Taxpayers.
(See this comparison of climate models to COVID19 models). And go to this must see video on the fraud behind COVID19,
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SMCC Condemns Racism, Works to Reduce Inequality
From the St. Michaels Community Center's Trustees and Executive Committee:
The St. Michaels Community Center, whose mission is to serve, empower, and connect our community, is committed to combating discrimination and racism through its actions, partnerships and programs. We stand with St. Michaels Town and its Police Department in condemning the senseless killing of George Floyd, whose death was a stark symbol of how much more work we all have to do to achieve a just society.
The Center's programs of food distribution, neighborhood engagement, family activities, and more, aim to bring our neighbors together and reduce inequality. Our partnership with the police department's SMYLE program helps introduce youths to community law enforcement. And our work with churches in the Bay Hundred area tries to foster greater understanding.
As the Center begins to celebrate its 30th anniversary this year, SMCC renews its pledge to be the expression of the heart of the community.


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'The Bold and the Beautiful' Spoilers: Taylor's Not Here For Sheila's Shenanigans
Bernadette Giacomazzo
The Bold and the Beautiful fans love them some mess. And they're getting their wish granted this week when Taylor and Sheila face off. You can do a lot of things wrong to Taylor, but messing with her beloved daughter Steffy is not on that list. And she's had all she's ever going to take from her arch-rival messing with her kid.
[Spoiler alert: Potential spoilers for upcoming episodes of The Bold and the Beautiful are ahead.]
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On 'The Bold and the Beautiful,' Taylor is ready to fight for her daughter — and grandchild
"After Krista Allen makes her first appearance as a Taylor Hayes recast on December 10, there'll be some great family bonding going on," reveals Celeb Dirty Laundry's The Bold and the Beautiful spoilers. "Taylor will have an opportunity to reconnect with Steffy Forrester (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood), Thomas Forrester (Matthew Atkinson) and Ridge Forrester (Thorsten Kaye), so she'll naturally want to hear what's going on in all their lives."
Steffy and Liam strategize about Hope and Deacon. Watch all-new episodes of #BoldandBeautiful on @paramountplus: https://t.co/s0qFeGRvnM pic.twitter.com/xybWelkWWB
— Bold & The Beautiful (@BandB_CBS) November 29, 2021
As you might imagine, Taylor will be less than pleased to hear that Sheila Carter is making Steffy's life miserable. Not only that, but the looming threat to her grandchild — and her namesake — will make her go into full Mama Bear Mode. And nobody likes Taylor when she's angry!
She'll go head-to-head with Sheila
The problem with Sheila Carter is, she just doesn't know when to stop. According to SoapHub, this week's episodes of The Bold and the Beautiful will feature Sheila going to Finn's job to see her beloved baby boy. Can the man even work in peace? No, of course not. This is Sheila Carter we're talking about here.
While that certainly "respects Steffy's boundaries" (we guess), there's still the looming threat of Taylor going after Sheila for making everyone around her miserable. Look for Taylor and Sheila to pop off during the week of December 10th. And yes, we fully expect this to get down, dirty, and messy.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in Los Angeles
Taylor and Sheila aren't the only ones who are going through it. Other The Bold and the Beautiful spoilers suggest that Brooke and Ridge are also coming to a head in their relationship (thanks, Deacon!). According to Soaps.com, today's episode will feature Ridge fighting desperately for his wife and letting her know how much he loves her.
Could Deacon cause problems for #Bridge? Find out this week on all-new episodes of #BoldandBeautiful on @CBS. Watch the latest on @paramountplus! pic.twitter.com/SvDaTo5feR
Of course, it's not just the strain of Deacon that's causing trouble in their relationship. Ridge and Brooke have been so focused on Quinn, Carter, and Eric that they forgot to focus on each other. That'll certainly do a number on your relationship, and not in a good way. Too bad it took Ridge and Brooke to find out the hard way.
Can Brooke and Ridge get it together before it's too late? Or will they fall apart now that Deacon is back in the frame? We'll just have to tune in to upcoming episodes of The Bold and the Beautiful to know for sure.
RELATED: 'The Bold and the Beautiful' Comings & Goings: Katrina Bowden is One of Many Familiar Faces Returning!


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Volcano Watch — Kīlauea's south flank seismicity
By Hawaiian Volcano Observatory May 5, 1995
Sitting at lunch on Wednesday, many residents of the island of Hawaii might have thought that someone or something had kicked their chairs. Of course, they were feeling the ground shaking generated by the sequence of small earthquakes beneath the south flank of Kīlauea Volcano that was reported in other news stories.
This sequence included three earthquakes of magnitudes greater than 3, as well as a number of smaller earthquakes that would not normally be felt by humans. The largest of the earthquakes was magnitude M3.9, but even this earthquake would only be felt if people were within quiet surroundings or in otherwise stable conditions.
Detailed analysis of the data recorded by the U S Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory seismographic network pinpointed the locations of these earthquakes to be roughly 4-1/2 miles beneath the Earth's surface, about 8 miles southeast of the Observatory. The first of Wednesday's felt earthquakes occurred at 11:49 a.m. This earthquake was M3.2, and it was preceded by two smaller earthquakes in the same location.
A second M3.2 earthquake occurred there at 12:08 p.m., and the largest earthquake (M3.9) occurred at 12:28 p.m. Based on the earthquake locations and the distributions of the ground motions, we interpret the sequence to reflect shallow crustal adjustments beneath Hilina Pali. We were able to locate 13 earthquakes in all in this sequence.
The south flank of the island of Hawaii is one of the most seismically active regions in the United States. Each year, HVO records thousands of earthquakes occurring beneath the flank. The many earthquakes that we record form part of the fundamental process of island-building through the active volcanic processes. Magmaenters into the volcanoes and is either stored within the volcanoes or erupted onto the Earth's surface. As the island's land mass builds up, strain energy accumulates and is subsequently released, often as earthquakes. At times, these earthquakes can be quite large, like the M7.2 earthquake in 1975 or the M6.1 earthquake in 1989 beneath Kalapana.
We are often asked whether even the small earthquakes like this week's have any direct relation or effect on the current Kīlauea East Rift Zone eruption. There were no immediately obvious effects on the eruption. As we have said earlier, the earthquakes are part of the active volcanic processes in Hawaii, but much further investigation is required to fully understand the details of the relationships, and of the effects of individual earthquake events or earthquake sequences, to observations of the eruption. These investigations are part of the mission of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.
Lō'ihi Activity
On the evening of Thursday, April 27, we were reminded of the continued activity of Lō'ihi, the youngest of the Hawaiian volcanoes. At 7:59 p.m. we started to detect a flurry of small earthquakes from Lō'ihi Seamount, some 22 miles southeast of the Big Island. Over the next two days, we recorded over 75 Lō'ihi earthquakes on the HVO seismographic network. This is the most recent of a series of Lō'ihi earthquake swarms that we have recorded at HVO.
Each recorded swarm adds to the body of information we are building on the growth and evolution of the Hawaiian volcanoes. The opportunity to observe the activity of such a young volcano as Lō'ihi is unique and should provide valuable and important insights.
Lō'ihi's present submarine position also presents considerable challenges to scientists interested in documenting the growth of the volcano. Our colleagues at the University of Hawaii are pursuing an innovative research and development program for establishing HUGO - a permanent undersea geophysical observatory at Lō'ihi. On Tuesday May 9, Professor Alex Malahoff of UH-Manoa, the leader of the HUGO team, will be presenting a report of the progress and results of the HUGO project in the "After Dark in the Park" lecture series of the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. The presentation is scheduled for May 9 at 7:00 p.m. in the National Park Visitors' Center. The public is invited to attend and learn about Professor Malahoff's exciting program.
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Court strikes out unlawful nomination suit against Ize-Iyamu
Ugandans re-elect Museveni president amid allegations of massive rigging
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The Federal High Court Abuja, on Tuesday, struck out a suit filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) seeking Osagie Ize-Iyamu's disqualification from the Sept. 19 governorship election in Edo.
Delivering judgment, Justice Ahmed Mohammed, struck out the suit on grounds that it had become academic.
The judge also said that he saw no legal benefit that would accrue to the plaintiff if the suit succeeded.
The PDP had dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Ize-Iyamu to court praying for an order disqualifying Ize-Iyamu from the elections on the grounds that he was unlawfully nominated by APC.
The PDP alleged that he was unlawfully nominated because APC did not conduct proper primaries to nominate candidates for the Sept. 19 election in Edo.
The party based its allegation on the grounds that Mr Adams Oshiomohle, who conducted the "purported" primaries that nominated Ize-Iyamu was no longer national chairman of the party and had no right to conduct the primaries.
The PDP held that the APC, having failed to conduct a valid primary election, was not entitled to participate in the election.
Objecting to the suit, the APC held that the election had already been conducted and the candidate of the PDP had won the election.
The APC also submitted that it had not challenged the outcome of the election, neither did it petition the winners at the election petition tribunal.
On the last adjourned date, Mrs Wendy Kuku, arguing on behalf of INEC, had urged the court to dismiss the suit for lacking in merit.
Similarly, counsel to the APC, Mr Akinlolu Kehinde, SAN, had prayed the court to dismiss the suit on the grounds that the suit was tantamount to "Mr A taking panadol for Mr B's headache''.
Ize-Iyamu's counsel, Roland Otaru (SAN) had also prayed the court to dismiss the suit on the grounds that it had become academic since the election had already been conducted and won by Gov. Godwin Obaseki.
We will wrestle food inflation in 2021, Buhari assures citizens
Biden accuses Trump of damaging critical security agencies
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...be aware that Financial Analyst, Financial Adviser (Advisor), Financial Consultant, Financial Planner, Investment Consultant or Wealth Manager are generic terms or job titles, and may be used by investment professionals who may not hold any specific designation.
Consumers in the process of vetting financial advisors should include training, certifications, and continuing education among their selection criteria. After all, the most well-meaning and client-centric fiduciary advisor is only as good as his/her knowledge base, experience, and skill set.
Unfortunately, many of the designations and certifications floating around the financial services industry are nothing but marketing ploys requiring a minimum of study, an open-book test, and a membership fee. Thankfully, various states are beginning to crack down on bogus certifications, especially those aimed at misleading seniors.
...financial advisers are brandishing a baffling array of new credentials - some of which can be earned with minimal or no study and a few hundred dollars. Increasingly, say regulators, financial advisers are using these dubious designations as marketing tools to win the trust of older, wealthier clients, in hopes of selling high-fee investments that aren't appropriate for them.
some 36 percent said they believed they were not fully qualified to do their job.
The article rightly goes on to conclude: "Why haven't firms addressed this issue? The leading suspect is the industry's focus on advisers who can bring in clients with lots of assets as opposed to advisers who can actually counsel clients."
The biggest challenge the industry faces today is asset allocation. Advisers need to be qualified to do this. There might only be 10% of advisers that are qualified to do it today. That's not where it needs to be....we have a long way to go to get the average adviser qualified.
The vast majority of life insurance companies have no formal education requirements for becoming an agent.


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PRFC inked Puerto Rican international Jackie Marrero and NASL veteran Pedro Mendes for the 2016 Fall Season
Puerto Rico Football Club announced the signings of midfielder Joseph "Jackie" Marrero and forward Pedro Mendes as the first players for the club's inaugural season. The club is scheduled to begin play at Juan Ramon Loubriel Stadium July 2nd 2016.
"We are extremely happy to introduce Jackie and Pedro as our first players," PRFC owner Carmelo Anthony said. "Both of these gentleman will bring something special to the club and I'm looking forward to them having a great season."
Marrero, 22, also played with the Conquistadores de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico Islanders, and Academia Quintana in Puerto Rico. He made his senior debut for Puerto Rico in 2011, and has appeared in FIFA World Cup qualifying matches.
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Chelsea FC takes on Paris-Saint Germain on Sunday in the inaugural soccer match at new Yankee Stadium. The field at the Stadium is being converted to a soccer pitch. Credit: New York Yankees
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No CC Sabathia fastball or Phil Hughes curve. There will be a different kind of pitch at Yankee Stadium on Sunday.
That's when Chelsea FC takes on Paris-Saint Germain in the inaugural soccer match at new Yankee Stadium. The game is part of the Herbalife World Football Challenge, taking place across North America from July 18-Aug. 11.
The Stadium is currently being converted into a soccer pitch for the event, with the image giving an idea of how things are progressing thus far.


When people see why we are different from the world, maybe we can lead them to Christ.
The way I conduct myself will either help people grow closer to God or help them justify their distance from Him.
What about the thief on the cross? Is his salvation a pattern for mine today?


The Tribute returned from their 1.5 Day trip with limits of bluefin for their 32 anglers.
The Aztec returned from their 2.75 Day trip with 60 bluefin for their 24 anglers, including a 175 pounder and a 250 pounder.
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Richard James Norton, Ph.D.
Professor National Security Affairs
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Dr. Rick Norton is a graduate of Tulane University and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He is also a retired United States Navy commander. While in the Navy, he served extensively at sea on cruisers and destroyers, as well as shore tours in the Navy's Office of Legislative Affairs and the Navy Staff. Dr. Norton is an authority on 'Decision Making'. His regional areas of expertise include Africa and South America. His work on the concept of "feral cities" is considered groundbreaking.
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The New Anglia LEP assisted is in obtaining grant funding via the Small Grant Scheme using funding from the EU European Regional Development Fund which has been a valuable contribution to our plans. The overall refurbishment project cost over £150,000, so receiving support of £25,000 was a very welcome vote of confidence in recognising what we are trying to achieve here in making CSSCloud the leading provider of I.T. support services in the region.
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Also the Sudo Terminal or console for command prompt is not visible in Ubuntu.
I need to check the IP address assigned to server.
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P.S. We found that plugin that replaced default links by the ids is WPML Sticky Links plugin. So, contact WPML support to solve the problem.
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Medical and public health scientists are using evolution to devise new strategies to solve major health problems. But based on a 2003 survey, medical curricula may not adequately prepare physicians to evaluate and extend these advances. This study assessed the change in coverage of evolution in North American medical schools since 2003 and identified opportunities for enriching medical education.
In 2013, curriculum deans for all North American medical schools were invited to rate curricular coverage and perceived importance of 12 core principles, the extent of anticipated controversy from adding evolution, and the usefulness of 13 teaching resources. Differences between schools were assessed by Pearson's chi-square test, Student's t-test, and Spearman's correlation. Open-ended questions sought insight into perceived barriers and benefits.
Despite repeated follow-up, 60 schools (39%) responded to the survey. There was no evidence of sample bias. The three evolutionary principles rated most important were antibiotic resistance, environmental mismatch, and somatic selection in cancer. While importance and coverage of principles were correlated (r = 0.76, P < 0.01), coverage (at least moderate) lagged behind importance (at least moderate) by an average of 21% (SD = 6%). Compared to 2003, a range of evolutionary principles were covered by 4 to 74% more schools. Nearly half (48%) of responders anticipated igniting controversy at their medical school if they added evolution to their curriculum. The teaching resources ranked most useful were model test questions and answers, case studies, and model curricula for existing courses/rotations. Limited resources (faculty expertise) were cited as the major barrier to adding more evolution, but benefits included a deeper understanding and improved patient care.
North American medical schools have increased the evolution content in their curricula over the past decade. However, coverage is not commensurate with importance. At a few medical schools, anticipated controversy impedes teaching more evolution. Efforts to improve evolution education in medical schools should be directed toward boosting faculty expertise and crafting resources that can be easily integrated into existing curricula.
Evolutionary biology is emerging as a useful tool for insight into major medical and public health challenges of the 21st century [1-3]. The evolutionary perspective of cancer initiation and progression as an ecologic process of clonal selection  has led cancer researchers to treatment approaches for advanced disease aimed at controlling the replication of the most malignant cells rather than total eradication [5,6]. In the study of autoimmune disease, epidemiological studies have revealed increased risk from the loss of co-evolved parasites ; intestinal worms (helminths) are being tested as treatments for allergic rhinitis , inflammatory bowel disease , and multiple sclerosis . In antibiotic treatment, providers are recognizing how medical practice influences pathogen evolution and are implementing antibiotic stewardship programs  to combat rising resistance to antibiotics [12,13]. Metabolic disorders and nutrition are increasingly being understood in a historical perspective that considers the mismatch between our genes and modern environment [14,15] which helps to explain why diabetes and obesity have become global health crises  and may have important implications for clinical management of type 2 diabetes . These are just some of the ways that evolutionary principles are being used to better understand and manage human health [18,19].
The current study investigates the extent to which medical curricula provide physicians with the evolutionary knowledge needed to apply and extend these advances, while identifying obstacles to and opportunities for enhancing medical education. Understanding evolution deepens a physician's understanding. As the scientific foundation of modern biology, evolution provides a conceptual framework that connects and organizes the often fragmented mountains of minutiae that medical students must memorize . Understanding evolution allows physicians to view the human body not as an engineered machine, but a network of compromises. It also encourages asking, investigating, and answering why? questions about vulnerability to disease [21,22]. Why does a gene for a lethal disease (e.g., sickle cell anemia) exhibit a high prevalence in some human populations ? Why is asthma more common now ? Why does fetal undernourishment lead to an increased risk of adult metabolic disease ? Why do we age [26,27]? Physicians who learn the principles of evolutionary biology are in a better position to tackle these and other fundamental questions in medicine and public health.
Previous work evaluating the status of evolutionary biology in medical education has been limited [3,28-30]. In a 2001 study of medical schools in the U.K., 37% of the heads of medical schools reported covering evolution . In a 2003 survey of North American medical school deans, 48% agreed that evolutionary biology is important knowledge for physicians , but they reported sparse coverage of core evolutionary concepts: 20% of deans reported 0 hours devoted to teaching evolutionary biology . Here, we follow up that 2003 study with a revised survey of North American medical school deans intended to (a) measure current coverage of core topics in evolutionary medicine in curricula; (b) identify factors that are associated with coverage; and (c) elicit from curriculum deans the teaching resources that would be most useful to address the gaps in evolution education in medical schools.
Survey packets were mailed to curriculum deans at all 153 North American schools that award either a doctor of medicine or doctor of osteopathic medicine degree. Recipients were identified by information on institutional websites and clarified by telephone if needed. McGill University's Ethics Review Board approved all aspects of the study on September 25th, 2012 (File # 52–0712). Confidentiality of respondents was promised and protected.
After receiving an email alerting them to the survey, participants were sent envelopes via certified mail containing a cover letter that included support from the Institute of Medicine, a 36-item questionnaire (Additional file 1), and a stamped addressed return envelope. Non-respondents were sent a replacement packet and then up to four follow-up emails with a link to an electronic version of the questionnaire, then a follow-up phone call.
Each of the items below consists of a topic, a related evolutionary principle, and an example of a learning objective. Please indicate your personal assessment of the importance of teaching the topic/principle, and the amount of coverage of the topic in the current curriculum at your school by circling one response for each question.
How natural selection shapes defenses: Many medical complaints are about averse but protective defenses such as pain, cough, vomiting, diarrhea, and anxiety. Explain how to distinguish symptoms that are defenses from those that arise from bodily defects, and the importance of making this distinction.
Schools also rated 13 potential teaching resources as: not useful, possibly useful, likely useful, or definitely useful. The survey concluded with open-ended questions about the utility of evolutionary principles in medicine, why evolutionary biology has not been fully applied in medicine, and suggestions for better incorporating evolution into medical education.
General characteristics of each school were determined by the survey (e.g., priority of training future researchers) or Internet searches of each institution (location, state voting record – Democrat versus Republican – from the 2012 presidential election, public versus private, and ranking quartile by National Institutes of Health funding).
We compared responses to identical items from the 2003 and 2013 studies to assess change in these variables. These comparisons were limited to medical schools (a) with evolutionary biology faculty, (b) reporting that they taught certain evolutionary topics, and (c) indicating that teaching evolutionary topics would raise controversy. In the previous survey, the coverage of topics was queried by a yes/no response to a topic without an explanation of what the term meant. Although the schools participating in the two surveys were not identical, the differences in responses to these items provided insight into national trends.
All analyses were performed using JMP version 9.0.2 (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC). Global coverage among groups was compared by t-test or analysis of variance. Characteristics of responding schools were compared with the total population of 153 using chi-squared tests. Correlations between mean curricular coverage of evolution topics and factors potentially influencing coverage were assessed by Spearman's rank correlation coefficient. Potential influences included the mean importance of the topics, curriculum hours devoted to evolution topics, curriculum hours devoted to teaching how to apply these topics to medical problems, number of faculty with a Ph.D. in evolution, number of faculty whose research is based in evolutionary biology, presence of a student club or interest group in evolutionary medicine, anticipated controversy of adding evolution content to the curriculum, and general medical school characteristics. Acceptable Type I error (α) was set at 0.05 without adjustment for multiple comparisons.
Three reviewers independently read all responses to the open-ended questions. Reviewers met and formed a consensus on common themes and categories (sub-themes). After agreeing on a coding scheme, reviewers independently coded all data into themes and categories. Reviewers reconvened to discuss discrepancies and unanimously classify responses. Quotes that illustrated themes and categories were selected.
Sixty (39%) medical school curriculum deans responded to the survey. The responding medical schools' general characteristics are described in Table 1, compared to the full sample of 153 schools in North America. There was no evidence that the sample differed significantly from the population of medical schools on geography, public or private, or political environment. There were several incomplete responses. All percentages were calculated from the number of schools that responded to each question and the denominator is presented when it is not 60.
aP-values comparing characteristics of study sample with those of the complete population of medical schools were calculated using Pearson's chi-square test.
Forty percent (18/45) valued an undergraduate course in evolutionary biology for admission, but a course in evolution was not required by any school and was recommended by only 2 (4%). Two schools (4%; 2/53) had an evolutionary medicine student club or interest group. Forty-eight schools responded to whether adding evolution content to the curriculum would arouse controversy, 25 schools (52%) responded no; 11 (23%) said yes, but it would not pose any problems; 7 (15%) said yes, it would pose problems but they would not influence curriculum decisions; and 5 (10%) said yes, controversy could make it more difficult to add more evolution content to the curriculum.
The number of faculty at the medical school and hours in the curriculum related to evolution are shown in Figures 1A and B, respectively. The median (IQR) number of faculty with a PhD in evolutionary biology was 0 (0, 2), with 57% (25/44) reporting none. Forty-nine percent (22/45) reported having at least one faculty whose research is based on evolutionary biology, with a median of 0 (0, 2). Responding schools reported a median of 6 (4, 16) hours allocated to teaching specific topics in evolutionary biology and 5 (2, 15) hours devoted to teaching applications of evolutionary principles to specific medical problems. One school claimed to devote 102 hours to teaching how evolution applies to specific medical problems.
Faculty and time for teaching evolutionary medicine. A: Evolutionary biology expertise among North American medical school faculty in 2013 B: Reported time spent teaching evolution in North American medical school curricula in 2013. One school that reported 102 hours is not shown here.
Figure 2 illustrates the proportion of schools that rated topics as at least moderately important and moderately covered. The three evolutionary topics most covered were antibiotic resistance (how it is shaped by natural selection), mismatch (how our bodies are ill-adapted to modern environments and how this increases the risk of chronic disease), and somatic selection (how diversity and competition among cells within a tumor influences growth and treatment outcome). The overall mean rating of all 12 topics' importance at a medical school was highly correlated with the school's mean reported coverage (rs = 0.76, P < 0.01).
Rated importance and coverage of evolutionary medicine topics by fifty-one curriculum deans of North American medical schools.
In comparison to the 2003 survey, we found an increase in the proportion of schools in 2013 with faculty trained in evolutionary biology, devoting at least some time to teaching evolution, and reporting that adding evolutionary content could arouse controversy (Table 2). More schools reported teaching coverage for all nine of the evolution topics asked about in both survey; mean (SD) increase of 44% (26%). However, if coverage of topics is restricted to "moderately" or "in depth" (excluding a response of "covered briefly," the mean [SD] increase in coverage of a topic drops to 6% [24%].
a19/44. b36/37. c23/48. dPercentages for 2003 results include topics reported as covered (vs. not covered). Percentages for 2013 results include topics reported as covered briefly, covered moderately, and covered in depth (vs. not covered). eDenominator = 51. fDenominator = 50.
A school's global rating of evolution coverage was correlated with the number of hours devoted to these topics (rs = 0.59, P < 0.01), hours spent teaching how to apply evolutionary thinking to specific medical problems (rs = 0.46, P < 0.01), and the number of faculty whose research is based in evolutionary biology (rs = 0.38, P = 0.02). Having an evolutionary medicine student interest group was associated with higher coverage (t = 2.1, P = 0.04). The association between coverage and the number of faculty with a PhD in evolutionary biology at the medical school was moderate and not significant (rs = 0.29, P = 0.07). Global coverage of evolutionary medicine topics was not associated with any other school characteristics measured, including country, region of country, source of funding, NIH ranking, priority of research, voting record in the 2012 presidential election, or the anticipated controversy from adding evolution to the school's curriculum.
Ratings of potential usefulness for 13 teaching resources are reported in Figure 3. The three resources that curriculum deans reported would be most useful were model test questions and answers with explanations, model curricula for adding evolution content to existing courses and rotations, and case studies with facilitator guides. Resources viewed as least useful were having an evolutionary biologist on rounds, a textbook, and a summer course for faculty.
Rated usefulness of resources for teaching evolution by fifty curriculum deans of North American medical schools.
The 60 responses from busy deans that provide the data for this report appear to be an unbiased sample. Compared to a similar study in 2003 , this survey of North American medical schools revealed that the proportion of medical schools reporting coverage of key evolutionary medicine concepts in their curriculum has increased over 10 years. Although evolutionary content has increased, large gaps remain between the perceived importance of core evolutionary topics and the extent of their incorporation into medical school curricula. The key barriers to teaching evolution in medical school are few evolution scientists on the faculty, a lack of educational resources, and insufficient time in the packed curriculum. In addition, a few schools anticipated that adding more evolutionary content to their curriculum would arouse controversy.
When comparing results from the survey of medical school deans a decade ago , we found substantial expansion of teaching key evolutionary topics. To avoid confusion over terminology reported by responders to the previous survey, our survey defined the evolutionary concepts and gave a sample learning objective. This change in methodology may be more responsible for the large range in increased coverage (4 to 74%) than actual changes in curricula. The number of medical schools reporting at least one faculty member trained in evolutionary biology more than doubled- from 16% to 43%. However, since the surveys do not involve the same schools, these trends should be interpreted cautiously.
Despite calls from the AAMC and others for a strong undergraduate education in evolutionary biology for future health professionals , we found that less than half (44%) of schools reported valuing or recommending an undergraduate course in evolutionary biology for admission. Nonetheless, interest in such courses among applicants is likely to increase, because the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT), administered by the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC), will begin incorporating more questions on evolutionary biology in 2015. This change in the MCAT will help meet a recommendation presented in the 2009 Scientific Foundations for Future Physicians report from a committee commissioned by the AAMC and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute .
The number of faculty whose research is based in evolutionary biology was associated with the school's current coverage of evolutionary topics. These individuals may be directly responsible for higher coverage at their institutions; a few role models have reported a warm reception from medical students given an opportunity to learn evolutionary biology [3,28,30]. Medical school curricula are already overflowing with content, so it is not surprising to find limited time commonly reported as a barrier to adding evolutionary content. Deans reported little interest in new courses, but considerable interest in strategies for infusing evolution into existing curricula. The three most popular teaching resources were model questions and answers with explanations, case studies, and additions to existing courses and rotations. Few were interested in having an evolutionary biologist join clinical rounds, although feedback from such experiences at the University of California Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, and the University of Michigan School of Medicine have been positive [personal communication from Stephen C. Stearns, Randolph M. Nesse, and Andrew F. Read].
A 2013 poll found 1 in 3 American adults rejects evolution as an explanation for human origin , so it is not surprising that almost half (48%) of responders anticipated igniting at least some controversy at their medical school if they added more content about evolution. One in 10 reported that controversy could make it more difficult to add more evolution at the curriculum. A survey of medical students in the U.K. found that religious beliefs were the most commonly cited reason for rejecting evolution . We found that medical school is not immune to the social forces that stymie teaching biological science at other education levels [34-36].
Our survey has limitations. First, the sample may be biased by self-selection. If responders were more interested in evolution than those that did not respond, then our results would be overly optimistic about the status of evolutionary education in North American medical schools. The low response rate in itself may indicate a low priority of the subject. Secondly, we did not directly measure the evolutionary content of medical curricula. Our data reflect the reports of curriculum deans' offices and questions may have been interpreted differently among responders. For example, our questions regarding time in the curriculum intended to ask about total time throughout the four years of medical school. Future surveys should be more specific.
Research on evolutionary biology in medical education could advance in several ways. First, sponsorship of a similar study by the AAMC or another major medical education organization would likely improve the response rate. A more detailed review and coding of actual curricular materials, rather than potentially subjective reports, would deepen understanding of the curricular emphasis on evolution in North American medical schools. Controlled studies would enable comparisons of how medical practice and research are different in physicians who learn evolutionary biology compared to those who do not. However, this is a high bar to set, one not required for teaching biochemistry, physics, or embryology. Evolutionary biology is a basic science whose contributions to medicine are still being explored . Organic chemistry is required for medical school admission because it arms students with principles for understanding how molecules react and interact to create structure and function, not because it makes a physician better in a direct way. Analogously, evolutionary biology gives students the tools to understand why our bodies seem so exquisitely designed, yet susceptible to innumerable maladies.
We live in a rapidly changing world with emerging infectious diseases, evasive cancer cells, and novel environments. Teaching medical students about our evolutionary legacy and the biological forces that shaped our past will help them to be better prepared for our future. And the interest expressed by curriculum deans indicates that opportunities for infusing evolutionary thinking into medical education are within reach.
The authors thank the staff of the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) in Durham, NC for hosting the working group, and all other members of the group for their helpful feedback: Gillian Bentley, Peter Ellison, Stephen Stearns, Chris Reiber, William Aird, Cynthia Beall, Magdalena Hurtado, Joseph Graves, Barbara Natterson, Anna Thanukos, Andrew Read, and Peter Gluckman. The authors also wish to thank the respondents that took time out of their busy schedules to complete the survey. The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) sponsored the study. The funding source had no role in the design, conduction, analysis, or reporting.
Additional file 1: Survey packet including cover letter and questionnaire.
BHH, AA, CAA, RMN, TMW, and MDS designed the study and crafted the survey packet material. AA, KJB, and MDS obtained ethical approval. AA implemented the study. NKS, KJB, and MWB analyzed the qualitative responses. NKS collected information on the total population of medical schools. BHH analyzed the data and wrote the original draft. All authors contributed to improving subsequent drafts and approved the final manuscript.
BHH is an MD/PhD student in the Department of Dietetics & Nutrition at the University of Kansas Medical Center. AA is an Associate Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University. CAA is the Director of Human and Social Evolution and the Center for Evolution and Cancer at the University of California San Francisco and a Research Professor in the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University. RMN is a Foundation Professor of Life Sciences and the Founding Director of the Center for Evolution and Medicine at Arizona State University. TMW is the Vice Dean for Educational Affairs at the Penn State College of Medicine. NKS is a Research Data Associate; KJB is a Program Manager; and MWB is a Research Coordinator in the Department of Medicine at the New York University School of Medicine. MDS is a Professor of Population Health and of Medicine in the Departments of Population Health and Medicine at the New York University School of Medicine.


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Durante i suoi tre anni al college, Trent guidò Alabama a due vittorie del BCS National Championship e a un SEC Championship. Fu selezionato come All-American, vinse il Doak Walker Award e fu finalista dell'Heisman Trophy nel 2011. Resosi eleggibile per il Draft NFL 2012, Richardson fu definito forse il miglior running back selezionabile dai tempi di Adrian Peterson.

Carriera professionistica

Draft NFL 2012
All'inizio della sua terza stagione al college, Richardson era considerato un dei migliori running back disponibili nel successivo Draft, fino a venire pronosticato anche come quarta scelta assoluta. Le sue solide prestazioni sul campo, in sostituzione di Mark Ingram, rafforzarono queste convinzioni. Nell'ottobre 2011, Tony Pauline di Sports Illustrated lo classificò al numero tre tra i prospetti di metà stagione , parlando della sua "eccezionale combinazione di rapidità, forza e velocità". Dopo aver subito un intervento minore al ginocchio nel febbraio 2012, Richardson non partecipò alla NFL Combine. In seguito decise di non partecipare nemmeno all'Alabama Pro Day il 7 marzo. Richardson tenne il suo personale Pro Day il 27 marzo.

Nel marzo 2012, Richardson fu largamente pronosticato come sesta scelta assoluta, mentre Cleveland Browns, Tampa Bay Buccaneers e St. Louis Rams furono considerate le squadre maggiormente interessate. L'ex vice presidente dei Colts Bill Polian descrisse Trent come uno dei "tre giocatori sicuri" del Draft 2012.

Il 26 aprile 2012, giorno del draft, Richardson fu chiamato come terzo assoluto dai Cleveland Browns che per salire di posizione nel draft scambiarono la loro quarta scelta assoluta e le scelte del quarto, quinto e settimo giro coi Minnesota Vikings in cambio della terza del primo giro.

Cleveland Browns

Il 23 luglio 2012, Richardson firmò coi Browns un contratto quadriennale del valore di 20,4 milioni di dollari, tutti garantiti, compresi 13,6 milioni di bonus alla firma. Il 9 agosto, Trent si sottopose a un intervento minore in artroscopia volto a ripulire la cartilagine del ginocchio che lo costrinse a rimanere fuori per un periodo di tre settimane, recuperando in tempo per il debutto stagionale del 9 settembre contro i Philadelphia Eagles. Nel suo debutto professionistico, Trent guidò i Browns con 39 yard corse su 19 tentativi, nella sconfitta punto a punto con gli Eagles. Nel turno successivo i Browns furono ancora sconfitti contro i Cincinnati Bengals ma Trent giocò la sua prima grande partita correndo 109 yard segnando un touchdown su corsa e uno su ricezione. Fu il primo rookie della storia dei Browns a correre per oltre 100 yard e segnare un touchdown su corsa e ricezione nella stessa partita. Per questa prestazione vinse il premio di rookie della settimana.

Nella settimana 3 i Browns furono nuovamente sconfitti dai Buffalo Bills: Trent corse solamente 27 yard su 12 tentativi ma segnò il secondo touchdown su corsa in carriera. Nel Thursday Night Football della settimana 4 i Browns persero contro i loro rivali di division, i Baltimore Ravens: Richardson corse 47 yard e segnò il suo terzo touchdown consecutivo, oltre a ricevere 4 passaggi per 57 yard.

Nel turno successivo i Browns scesero per la prima volta a un record di 0-5 dopo il ritorno della franchigia nella NFL nel 1999: contro i Giants il running back corse 81 yard e segnò un touchdown oltre a ricevere 5 passaggi per altre 47 yard. Nella settimana 6, finalmente i Browns vinsero la prima gara della stagione contro i Cincinnati Bengals con Richardson che corse 37 yard prima di uscire dal campo per un infortunio . La squadra tornò a perdere nella gara successiva contro gli Indianapolis Colts con Trent che corse solamente 8 yard su 8 tentativi venendo condizionato da un infortunio alla costola.

I Browns vinsero la seconda gara stagionale nella settimana 8 contro i San Diego Chargers con Trent che trascinò la squadra con 122 yard corse e il touchdown decisivo per l'esito della partita. Nella settimana 9 i Browns persero contro i Ravens col running back che corse 105 yard . Dopo la settimana di pausa Cleveland mise in seria difficoltà i Dallas Cowboys ma finì per perdere ai supplementari. Il rookie corse 95 yard su 28 tentativi.

La terza vittoria stagionale per i Browns giunse nella settimana 12 contro i Pittsburgh Steelers: Richardson corse 85 yard e segnò un touchdown. La domenica successiva Cleveland vinse la seconda gara consecutiva col rookie che corse 72 yard e segnò un altro touchdown. La terza gara vinta di seguito dai Browns contro i Kansas City Chiefs fu la striscia positiva più lunga dal . Richardson contribuì segnando due touchdown su corsa.

La serie positiva di Cleveland si concluse contro i Washington Redskins nella settimana 15. Grazie ai due touchdown segnati nella partita, Trent batté il record di franchigia di Jim Brown per TD segnati da un rookie che resisteva da 55 anni. Trent saltò l'ultima gara della stagione per infortunio, concludendo la sua annata da rookie con 950 yard corse e 12 touchdown totali, 11 su corsa e uno su ricezione. A fine anno fu classificato al numero 71 nella classifica dei migliori cento giocatori della stagione.

Indianapolis Colts
Dopo due gare dall'inizio della stagione 2013, il 18 settembre i Browns scambiarono tra la sorpresa generale Richardson con gli Indianapolis Colts in cambio della scelta del primo giro del Draft NFL 2014. Partito dalla panchina nella prima gara con la nuova maglia, Trent segnò un touchdown nel suo primo possesso coi Colts, contribuendo alla vittoria sui San Francisco 49ers. Un altro TD lo segnò la settimana successiva in cui i Colts si sbarazzarono facilmente dei Jacksonville Jaguars. Seguirono settimane su settimane di prestazioni deludenti in cui Richardson non corse mai più di 56 yard, fino a un minimo di 2 yard corse nella settimana 10 contro i Rams, portandolo infine a perdere il posto da titolare in favore di Donald Brown all'alba della settimana 13. Due settimane dopo tornò a giocare una discreta prestazione correndo un massimo stagionale di 64 yard e segnando un touchdown su ricezione nella vittoria sugli Houston Texans. Nell'ultima settimana della stagione, Richardson segnò il suo primo touchdown su corsa dalla settimana 4 nella vittoria sui Jaguars.

Richardson, nella prima corsa in carriera tentata nei playoff, commise un fumble contro i Kansas City Chiefs nel turno delle wild card. Gli avversari recuperarono il pallone perso e lo convertirono in un touchdown.

Nella settimana 2 della stagione 2014, Richardson corse 79 yard, una cifra mai raggiunta nella stagione precedente, con tre corse da oltre 10 yard, ma la sua prova fu macchiata da 2 fumble, di cui uno perso. Il primo touchdown giunse due settimane dopo nella netta vittoria sui Titans e il secondo nella settimana 6 contro i Texans.

Il 12 marzo 2015, dopo che i Colts acquisirono Frank Gore, Richardson fu svincolato. In quel momento, tra tutti i running back ad avere avuto almeno 500 possessi dalla fusione del 1970, il giocatore aveva la seconda media più bassa di yard per corsa (3,3).

Oakland Raiders
Il 17 marzo 2015, Richardson firmò un contratto biennale con gli Oakland Raiders. Tuttavia venne svincolato solamente dopo la terza gara di pre-stagione, il 31 agosto 2015.

Baltimore Ravens
Dopo avere passato l'intera stagione 2015 lontano dai campi di gioco, il 28 febbraio 2016 Richardson firmò con i Baltimore Ravens. Il 2 agosto 2016 fu svincolato, optando inizialmente per il ritiro.

Birmingham Iron
Nel 2018, Richardson firmò con i Birmingham Iron della Alliance of American Football per la stagione 2019.

Palmarès
Rookie della settimana: 1
2ª del 2012

College
Campione NCAA: 2
Alabama Crimson Tide: 2009, 2011
Doak Walker Award - 2011

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GTA v VS Watch dogs 2: What's the difference?
If you're looking to get into the open-world game genre, two options are consistently vying for the top spot of most popular in the category: Grand Theft Auto V and Watch Dogs 2. Both games have garnered high praise from critics and gamers alike, and both have loyal followings who defend their favorite game with fervor. So what exactly sets them apart? Are there differences between GTA V and Watch Dogs 2 that make one superior to the other? To give you an idea of where each game shines, this article will compare them in categories like graphics, gameplay, story, and more.
Differences Between GTA V and Watch Dogs 2
Gadgets & Special Abilities
HUD & UI Elements
In Grand Theft Auto 5, you play as Franklin, a repo man working for a shady organization in Los Santos (the game's stand-in for Los Angeles). The city is huge and open-ended, allowing you to explore however you see fit. You can drive or walk around, take part in missions or just cause mayhem on your own. That said, there's a lot of freedom here: You can also choose what missions you complete—or ignore them altogether.
Pros & Cons: The jury is still out on whether or not Watch Dogs 2 is an improvement over its predecessor. Some people love it, while others hate it. And no matter what your personal opinion is on these video games, you can't deny they're both extremely different experiences. Let's take a look at some of their similarities and differences.
GTA V is an open-world game, meaning it takes place in a vast city that you can explore however you choose. It gives you total freedom over how to approach your objectives, as opposed to Watch Dogs 2's tighter mission structure. You still have freedom of choice—you can tackle missions stealthily or with guns blazing—but it's limited compared to GTA 5. If you're into free-roaming, watch Dogs won't be for you.
The map in both games is expansive. In GTA, you have an entire city of Los Santos (based on Los Angeles) at your disposal. Though it's set in San Andreas, that state spans from Red County in-land down to Bayside; from Vinewood Hills up north down past Del Perro Pier. As for Watch Dogs 2, you have a huge Bay Area at your disposal, complete with San Francisco (the real city), Oakland, and Silicon Valley.
Both games are considered open-world games, but there are a few differences here. With Watch Dogs 2, players take on a more active role in taking down enemy factions. The gameplay places more of an emphasis on combat, too. This isn't so much true with Grand Theft Auto V—though there is combat, it's often just not as prevalent as it is in other titles.
For example, one of my favorite features in Watch Dogs 2 is car customization. When you're driving a customized vehicle that you've tricked out with a giant spoiler, upgraded brakes, and flashy rims, it's impossible not to feel like a badass.
You can play through GTA V with a gamepad, but you'll be missing out on a lot of features. At its core, it's built for keyboard+mouse. For example, you have to map everything manually—there are no presets.
In comparison, GTA V has more weapons than its predecessor. There are more than a dozen types of guns you can use in both first-person and third-person perspectives. That said, only three—pistol, machine gun, and shotgun—are effective.
GTA's traditional real-world analog is full of gadgets that you can use to travel around. In addition, you're able to take control of just about any vehicle in an open world that looks like Los Angeles, including planes and helicopters—but it isn't realistic. The game has a lot of imagination when it comes to weapons, clothing, vehicles, landmarks, etc. It even includes special abilities for characters that let them run faster or swim faster than their human counterparts.
One of my favorite things about Watch Dogs 2 is that it doesn't hold your hand when it comes to controls. You can use a controller or a keyboard & mouse, but either way, you have access to various features and abilities on your HUD. I appreciate that they aren't hidden away, so I can switch weapons easily, change my settings, or even modify my vehicle.
At their core, both games are about hacking into a city's systems. But that's where their similarities end. If you're new to one of these games or haven't played either in a while, you might be wondering which game is better for you. Should you get Grand Theft Auto 5 or Watch Dogs 2?
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Un aforisma, oppure aforismo (), è una breve frase che condensa un principio specifico o un più generale sapere filosofico o morale.

Termini
L'aforisma assume, secondo i tempi e gli attori, differenti nomi. "Anforismo" viene chiamato da Luigi Pulci (Vocabulista, 1464-65), dal medico Leonardo Fioravanti (Il reggimento della peste, Sessa, VE, 1571), da Tommaso Campanella e da Emanuele Tesauro; "ricordo" per Francesco Guicciardini; "avvenimento" per Giovanni Francesco Lottini; "proposizione" per Cesare Speciano, "Massimo" e "sentenza" per Giammaria Mazzuchelli, "pensiero" per Alessandro Tassoni, Francesco Algarotti, Niccolò Tommaseo, Blaise Pascal e Aristide Gabelli; "degnità" e "assioma" per Giambattista Vico.

Aforismi per antonomasia furono fino al 1769 quelli usati in campo medico, prima da Ippocrate e poi dalla Scuola medica salernitana, mentre verrà estesa all'astrologia da Girolamo Cardano e alla politica da Tommaso Campanella.

Nell'Ottocento filosofi come Arthur Schopenhauer, Giacomo Leopardi e Friedrich Nietzsche si sono cimentati in aforismi all'interno delle rispettive opere.

A partite dal Novecento aumentano, con carattere metaforico, i nomi dati al termine aforisma. Così troviamo in Giovanni Boine "frantumi" e "fosforescenze", in Federigo Tozzi "barche capovolte", in Umberto Saba "scorciatoie", in Camillo Sbarbaro "fuochi fatui" e "asterischi", in Ennio Flaiano "errori", in Giovanni Papini "schegge", in Alessandro Morandotti "minime", in Paolo Bianchi "lampi".

Tra i principali scrittori di aforismi italiani del Novecento possiamo ricordare, oltre a quelli appena citati: Gesualdo Bufalino, Arturo Graf, Leo Longanesi, Ugo Ojetti, Giovanni Papini e Giuseppe Prezzolini.

Tra i principali aforisti stranieri del Novecento si possono ricordare: Emil Cioran, Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Joan Fuster, Kahlil Gibran, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Karl Kraus, Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Paul Valéry, Ludwig Wittgenstein e Paavo Haavikko.

Temi
I temi trattati negli aforismi di tutti i secoli riguardano soprattutto i vizi e le virtù che cambiano, rimangono o scompaiono completamente secondo il periodo. Ad esempio il vizio della gola che fino al Cinquecento era assai trattato, in seguito scompare, così come la virtù della prudenza che fino al Seicento veniva messa in evidenza, sarà in seguito raramente trattata. Il tema della misoginia rimane invece, da Paolo da Certaldo a oggi, quasi intatto.

Nella seconda metà del Novecento, con il diffondersi dell'editoria di massa, è venuta a moltiplicarsi la pubblicazione di libri appositamente dedicati a raccolte di aforismi di autori diversi, spesso suddivisi su base tematica e che presentano modelli diversi, dall'affermazione al dialogo, dal racconto alla citazione e al saggio. Essi, a confronto dei libri di aforismi dei secoli precedenti, trattano temi differenti che alla base hanno comunque sempre l'uomo. Tra i libri sugli aforismi più noti di questo periodo troviamo Pensieri spettinati (1957) di Stanisław Jerzy Lec.

Stile
Per quanto riguarda lo stile con il quale va scritto l'aforisma, in tutti i secoli si raccomanda come qualità la brevità.

Già Bartolomeo da San Concordio, nel 1305 affermava nel suo libro Ammaestramenti degli antichi, che "'l dire breve è migliore che 'lungo" e Francesco Guicciardini, nel 1576, scriverà nella sua opera pubblicata dapprima con il titolo Più consigli e avvertimenti in materia di re pubblica e di privata e in seguito con il titolo Ricordi politici e civili, "Poco e buono" e che era meglio "uno fiore che accumulare tanta materia".

Gesualdo Bufalino ha scritto un aforisma ironico sulla lunghezza ottimale dell'aforisma: "Un aforisma benfatto sta tutto in otto parole".

Tuttavia non esiste uno stile ben definito, la brevità è la linea guida sin dall'antichità, ma esistono aforismi composti da poche parole (micro aforismi) come ad esempio "Soffrire è produrre conoscenza" di Emil Cioran, fino ad arrivare ad aforismi che potrebbero riempire intere pagine, come quelli di Arthur Schopenhauer.

Contenuto

Quanto al contenuto, Karl Kraus afferma in Detti e contraddetti che «L'aforisma non coincide mai con la verità; o è una mezza verità o una verità e mezza», e che «Un aforisma non ha bisogno di esser vero, ma deve scavalcare la verità. Con un passo solo deve saltarla».

Aforismi "cancrizzabili"

Umberto Eco, in un articolo dal titolo Paradossi, aforismi, stereotipi, pubblicato nel 2011 sulla rivista online Golem L'indispensabile, ha proposto la nozione di "aforisma cancrizzabile" (da cancer, nome latino del granchio, a indicare la sua reversibilità) per indicare un aforisma che può presentarsi sensato e condivisibile sia nella sua forma usuale sia in una forma rovesciata (ad esempio con soggetto e complemento invertiti).

Tentare di cancrizzare un aforisma significa quindi mettere alla prova la sua validità in quanto portatore di un nuovo punto di vista per chi lo comprende. Un aforisma cancrizzato con successo rivela infatti immediatamente al lettore che entrambe le sue forme (la usuale e la cancrizzata) sono in pari misura vere e che in definitiva l'aforisma in questione non è portatore di conoscenza ma è soltanto un'espressione arguta.

Aforisma post studio
Utile alla memorizzazione dei contenuti appresi durante lo studio è la ritualizzazione del processo di apprendimento. In questo senso efficace è un concedo in itinere che può avvenire in vari modi: dal compimento di un'azione stereotipata alla verbalizzazione/interiorizzazione del momento. Ad esempio si può recitare ogni volta terminato lo studio il seguente aforisma: "Riposi in me ciò che ho imparato e viva nel profondo del mio cuore, per darmi forza, saggezza e puro amore, perché io sia buono nel profondo, per tutti i bambini e per il mondo" (Bruno Angeli).

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Bibliografia
Scrittori italiani di aforismi, a cura di Gino Ruozzi, 2 voll., Milano, «I Meridiani» Mondadori, 1994-1996.
Configurazioni dell'aforisma. Ricerca sulla scrittura aforistica diretta da C. Rosso, vol. 2, a cura di Gino Ruozzi, Bologna, Clueb, 2000.
Aforismi e citazioni. Legge, diritto, giustizia, a cura di Fabio Fiorucci, Edizioni FAG, 2 ed., 2011.
Aforismi scelti Vol.2, Fabio Strinati, Edizioni Il Foglio, 2017.
Poeti e aforisti in Finlandia, a cura di Fabrizio Caramagna e Gilberto Gavioli, traduzioni di Antonio Parente e Laura Casati con una nota di Paula Loikala, Edizioni del Foglio Clandestino, Milano 2012. ISBN 9788890543432

Voci correlate
Epifonema
Greguería
Sutra
Proverbio
Motto
Wellerismo
Frammento (genere letterario)

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