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35 Killed, Injured in Suicide assault in Helmand
Kabul (BNA) at least 35 civilians were killed and wounded in a suicide attack in Helmand province yesterday. This event occurred near PRT building of foreign forces in a crowded bazaar in Lashkargah city yesterday morning. According to reports, in this event the suicide attacker blew up his car full of exploded material in this bazaar. Daud Ahmadi spokesman for Helmand Governor said to BNA, armed Taliban wanted to target number of NATO forces who were passing in two vehicles from the area, but they had no casualties in this event. According to him in this incident, four civilians including of a child was killed and at least 31 others were wounded. Daud Ahmadi said that among the injured four women are included. It is said that 15 vehicles and some shops were damaged in this event. Meanwhile, Dr. of Central Hospital of Lashkarga city reported health condition of 8 injured critical.


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Keith Hernandez on his Cardinals career, the modern game and a Mets trade that never was
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As someone who has co-authored a recent baseball memoir, I can tell you that for a book of this kind to resonate with the audience, the author needs to accomplish four things:
— Provide enough pre-fame moments for the reader to identify with the subject;
— Provide enough nostalgia so the reader enjoys the ride;
— Drop in a "Holy Cow" moment once every few chapters;
— Admit to on-the-field faults, mistakes, errors in their life. Bonus points for owning up to off-the-field issues.
Does "I'm Keith Hernandez" meet these criteria? It sure does. The former All-Star first baseman, who starred on World Series-winning teams for both the Cardinals and Mets, paints a portrait of a 1960s kid under the extreme direction of what may be the first sports helicopter parent on record. Hernandez endured much pain, strife and pressure from his father, a former minor league player who shared the outfield with Stan Musial on a Navy team during World War II. Many of us have dealt with parents who pushed us to succeed, sometimes to exhaustion.
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Turned out that John Hernandez's assessments of his son's ability were well-founded. The ballplayer went through many growing pains in his early life, issues with unfair coaches, experimentations of youth, dalliances with women along the way, scared-straight moments occurring in strange towns on the road, all fueled by a strong affection for rock 'n' roll. It's an easily relatable story.
Hernandez chooses to focus on his upbringing, his minor league seasons and his initial years with the Cardinals. There's no talk about his reluctance to come to the Mets in 1983, hardly much mention of his time in a Mets uniform at all for that matter, no mention of the drug trials which interrupted his 1985 season for a short time. What does exist is a behind-the-scenes look at Hernandez's day-to-day in the Mets' broadcast booth as a starting point to express his current views on the game. Cardinals fans seeking nostalgia will also find a lot here, with ample stories and anecdotes on players like Bob Gibson, Reggie Smith, Ted Simmons and manager Ken Boyer, whose influence on Hernandez's career cannot be measured.
Hernandez talked with Sporting News about the book, his Cardinals career, and thoughts regarding baseball today, both on the major league diamond as well as 2018's version of the "prep" game.
SPORTING NEWS: I did a little research while reading the book and found some fascinating nuggets. The Oct. 14, 1974, St. Louis Post-Dispatch story on the Joe Torre trade had a great opening line: "Okay, Keith Hernandez. First base is yours." Did you have a sense that Torre, who won the NL Most Valuable Player award as well as the batting title for the Cards three years earlier, was going to be traded during the 1974 offseason?
KEITH HERNANDEZ: I was pretty certain that he would be, yes. I hit .351 that year at AAA Tulsa. They called me up and gave me a long look in September.
SN: Would you say going into 1975 spring training that the first base position was yours to lose?
KH: Even after the Torre trade I didn't feel it was mine to lose so much as it was mine to hold onto. I really wasn't ready emotionally at 20, I was still a little kid, you know, overawed by playing in the big leagues, facing guys like (Tom) Seaver.
SN: Was that because of Ron Fairly's presence? The former bonus baby's final statistics for '75 came out very similar to the type of numbers you would normally produce during your career (.301 batting average/.421 on-base percentage.) When the Cardinals acquired Fairly from the Expos in December of 1974, did you think he was going to eat into your playing time?
KH: I felt that, yeah, they got him as an insurance policy, but also a veteran bat off the bench. But at that age, I didn't have the brain to consider how St. Louis was molding the club. I learned a lot from Ron. He showed me how to break in my first baseman's mitt, even better than I knew how to break in a glove. He also taught me how to cheat around first base on defense. But at the same time, he was a no-nonsense guy, kind of a Marine, a rough and gruff guy. Look, he wanted the job, too, and I sensed his hunger to still want to play regularly — and why not? So when I started struggling, I felt his presence. It didn't help, but that's the name of the game — the game's full of competition.
SN: Let's skip a few years forward and talk about one of the great managers you ever played for, Whitey Herzog. Do you think his experience managing a "turf team" played into the decision to hire him in St. Louis? Was it proximity to the Royals, the other Missouri-based ballclub?
KH: Whitey had success in Kansas City and when you read Whitey's book, he says it quite blatantly, he wanted full power, and to do that, he had to befriend and become close with Auggie Busch. Whitey didn't want a general manager over his head — he just took over. He was general manager and the manager. I could just imagine Whitey with Auggie Busch, cigars, whiskey, playing poker and tossing the bull around. Whitey brought great years to St. Louis. He was a great manager, best I ever played for.
SN: Did you have any expectations as to what he his managerial style would be like?
KH: No. I never followed the American League at all back then. Whitey set the tone when he joined the team (in the middle of the 1980 season); things were in flux at the time. He managed for like three weeks and then had Red Schoendienst handle the team in the dugout for the last 35-40 games. He went into the front office for the rest of 1980 to observe from above and make his evaluations of the ballclub. When it came to first base, Whitey had to make one choice: Leon Durham was coming up, and he was wildly talented, or keep me. I was gonna be 27, just about to enter my prime. I had a big contract at the time, and Whitey chose to stay with me and I think it was the right choice. Wound up trading Bull Durham to Chicago and getting Bruce Sutter.
Here's where the conversation got interesting. One of the most prominent moments in Cardinals history was the 1980 offseason, when Herzog traded away nearly 40 percent of the big-league roster (nine players total, including six starters and Rollie Fingers, who was a Cardinal for less than a week.) Rumors were published every day. One article, buried deep in the Daily News archives, was revealing.
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SN: Did you know that Whitey offered you to the Mets and asked for Tim Leary, Doug Flynn and Neil Allen?
KH: I didn't know that. Who did he ask for?
History and sabermetrics haven't been kind to Flynn, the Mets' 1980 starting second baseman, and only the most diehard Mets fans of the day remember what great hopes the franchise held for Leary. Neil Allen was a valuable trade chip but not crucial to the team's success, with rookie Jeff Reardon, who could've easily slid into the fireman role in the Mets' bullpen (Reardon would go on to pitch 16 seasons and is currently 10th on the all-time saves list.)
SN: Neil Allen, Tim Leary, and Doug Flynn.
KH: He offered to trade me in 1980? Wow. If he wanted that deal, Whitey was out of his mind. Interesting.
What makes this a truly compelling "what-If" scenario is that three days after the winter meetings ended, the Mets signed Rusty Staub to play first base. The ironic aspect is that, considering Hernandez's well-known friendship with Staub, had the trade been completed, "Le Grand Orange" probably does not return to Flushing and his former team. At least, not for the 1981 season.
SN: Not only that, but according to an Associated Press article from a week earlier, Herzog had this to say about the state of the Cardinals in December 1980 in relation to his trading plans.
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KH: Oh, my God. Are you serious? Do you think he was BSing?
Most baseball fans can understand this reaction — not to mention Cardinals fans of the past 38 years. The following season, Herzog traded Templeton to the Padres in exchange for Ozzie Smith, who would become a beloved Hall of Fame player in St. Louis.
KH: Garry was a great player, but Whitey liked to toss the BS around sometimes. I can't imagine when he was getting Sutter and Rollie Fingers that he was pursuing Neil Allen, too.
SN: He must have been mightily impressed, as Herzog pursued Allen in 1980, 1982 and then finally sending you to the Mets in June 1983 for the reliever and pitching prospect Rick Ownbey.
KH: Neil Allen had good stuff and some good years, but … wow.
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SN: Here's another question: The 1982 Cardinals led the National League in on-base percentage and stolen bases, were fifth in runs scored and last in home runs. Only (Darrell) Porter and (George) Hendrick hit more than 10 dingers. Can you even build that team today?
KH: The teams don't want to. I'd like to go up against them. The artificial turf aspect is irrelevant. Today's grass is just like turf. We'd run circles around them. They don't know how to hold runners on anymore. It's not their fault.
SN: Funny you bring up holding runners on. I remember you often positioned yourself in front of the runner at first. I recall John Olerud playing the same way. I don't understand why infield coaches in 2018 don't emulate the fielding strategies of arguably two of the top three statistically finest first basemen who ever played the game.
KH: I only did that with slow runners. I never did it with someone like Vince Coleman, guys like that. Only slow runners that I knew weren't gonna steal. It gets tiring coming on and off the bag and covering the hole. It was taking away a step.
SN: Do you see players doing this much in today's game?
KH: Ken Boyer always told me that you're gonna get hurt more in the hole than down the line, so get out and cover as much as you can. Take away the hole. That requires extra effort, and I see a lot of first basemen today — and I keep my mouth shut — but they don't even move and it's just lazy.
SN: You talk a lot about your father's efforts to relentlessly push you in sports after witnessing your native ability at age 11. You must have some thoughts on the travel baseball craze happening in this country right now. You reference how teams are fed all this data about high pitch counts ruining arms. I've always thought it was the year-round throwing of high school pitchers in their teens at max effort that's the problem.
KH: I don't believe in playing just one sport. I believe it results in burnout and each sport trains your body in a different way. I played football in the fall when I was in high school. Then basketball, a different conditioning — you're running up and down the courts. Then you come into baseball, you're doing a sprint to hit a triple. We had enough kids to have town leagues back then — the baby boomers — it was very competitive. I think now with these travel leagues, it's greed. People are making money and they've got their little niche in there now. The great thing about Little League was that anyone could play it. With travel, it literally costs a fortune, the parents are paying for it, and for kids and families without those resources, they're getting shafted. I don't like it, I don't like it one bit.
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SN: According to my own research, wild pitches are at an all-time high and have been for the past three years. What do you think is the explanation there?
KH: I only have a theory, but I talk to scouts and they have these "combines" like the NFL and all they're looking for is the kid who can hit the ball the farthest and the kid who could throw the ball the hardest. There are no pitchers anymore, just throwers. I see so many 0-2 counts turn into 3-2 counts and it just drives me crazy — they don't know how to put a hitter away and they miss badly. Whitey will confirm this, we had a long conversation over the winter about the amount of pitches. It's outrageous, but with all the 3-2 counts, the way the game is today, you're not going to be able to go seven innings. There's not the guy out there today who's not a hard thrower who knows how to pitch. It's all raw power now. It just is what it is.
SN: I loved how in the book you discussed the Ron Darling/Davey Johnson AAA story about how he left Ronny out there to "take care of his own mess." I specifically remember Tim McCarver referencing this during a game in Philly in 1984 where Ron stayed out there and took a beating — gave up six runs in five innings. Do you see managers allowing their starters to "learn through pain" anymore?
KH: No, they're babied and it's wrong. I absolutely despise when the pitcher gets to his prescribed pitch count, and not someone coming off injury, but someone over the course of another start. Whatever the limit is, even if he's throwing well, he'll have runners on base with two outs and they'll pull him. Let him get out of the inning. Then they'll say, "We want him to feel good about himself." He'll feel better about himself if he gets out of the jam. Drives me nuts. It's such a paradox. "I wasn't gonna give in to the hitter 2-0," so he throws a breaking ball or a secondary pitch. In our day, that was giving in to a hitter. When he fell behind 2-0, he threw the fastball, he went after him. It's completely upside down, a whole new philosophy.
SN: Let's end on this note. You retired from the game in 1990 and basically took a complete break from baseball for many years. Once you returned in 2002, 2003 and entered the broadcast booth, what had changed in your mind from when you walked away?
KH: Coming back to the game, it was the height of the steroid era. The difference was that Tony La Russa and Bobby Cox brought in the one-inning pitchers era. I didn't like that, and because they were successful, which says something, people started doing the same thing and all of a sudden the middle reliever was becoming lost. It's starting to come back a bit. The Mets have two guys that can pitch three or four innings. Over the course of a season you're gonna need that. But I miss the complete game. I don't think pitchers should throw 300 innings anymore, but from 200 to 250 should be fine. But those days are gone. It's all about protecting the investments. It's a different game.

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Tours stands on the lower reaches of the Loire river, between Orléans and the Atlantic coast. The surrounding district, the traditional province of Touraine, is known for its wines, for the alleged perfection (as perceived by some speakers and for historical reasons) of its local spoken French, and for the Battle of Tours(732). The historical center of Tours (Also called "Le vieux Tours") is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.Tours stands on the lower reaches of the Loire river, between Orléans and the Atlantic coast. The surrounding district, the traditional province of Touraine, is known for its wines, for the alleged perfection (as perceived by some speakers and for historical reasons) of its local spoken French, and for the Battle of Tours(732). The historical center of Tours (Also called "Le vieux Tours") is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.Tours stands on the lower reaches of the Loire river, between Orléans and the Atlantic coast. The surrounding district, the traditional province of Touraine, is known for its wines, for the alleged perfection (as perceived by some speakers and for historical reasons) of its local spoken French, and for the Battle of Tours(732). The historical center of Tours (Also called "Le vieux Tours") is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.Tours stands on the lower reaches of the Loire river, between Orléans and the Atlantic coast. The surrounding district, the traditional province of Touraine, is known for its wines, for the alleged perfection (as perceived by some speakers and for historical reasons) of its local spoken French, and for the Battle of Tours(732). The historical center of Tours (Also called "Le vieux Tours") is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.Tours stands on the lower reaches of the Loire river, between Orléans and the Atlantic coast. The surrounding district, the traditional province of Touraine, is known for its wines, for the alleged perfection (as perceived by some speakers and for historical reasons) of its local spoken French, and for the Battle of Tours(732). The historical center of Tours (Also called "Le vieux Tours") is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Q: Help with understanding $L^2(\mathbb{R},\mathbb{R}^n)$ manifolds (?) I've recently started studying the square root velocity function representation of real functions and curves. Authors of the papers I have do not explain the underlying mathematical concepts and I couldn't google any relevant texts. For example they consider a certain subset of $L^2(\mathbb{R},\mathbb{R}^n)$ (the vector-valued analogue of the standard $L^2(\mathbb{R})$), namely a unit sphere under a certain norm. Now they take a manifold-like structure of that subspace for granted and start constructing tangent spaces, providing Riemannian structure and talking about geodesics.
I don't understand how the manifold structure here is obvious as the commonly known differential geometry theory applies only to finite-dimensional spaces. This one is clearly infinitely-dimensional. Could you suggest me any introductory reading that could help me understand it?
EDIT: After seeing that there is a very similar questions with answers I have one thing to add: the accepted answer gives a link to an interesting book but it's unclear to me if $L^2(\mathbb{R},\mathbb{R}^n)$ is convenient.

A: Some suggestions you may want to check (assuming there is a math library available to you):
Abraham, Marsden, Ratiu: Manifolds, Tensor Analysis and Applications.
Deimlings Nonlinear Functional Analyis.
Serge Lang: Real Analysis
Klingenbergs Differential Geometry. The deGruyter book.
Each book covers different aspects. There may be more recent introductory texts, but regardless of that: judging from what you explain you already know: a lot of time and patience.

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Allen Walter Wiese, 91, of Festus entered into rest Thursday, February 27, 2014 at Crystal Oaks Nursing Center in Crystal City, MO. He had worked as an automotive body man; he was a member of Elks Lodge 1721 and enjoyed reading, fishing, crossword puzzles and watching "Jeopardy" on TV. Born August 20, 1922, in St Louis, MO, to the late Walter T. and Ethel L. (Opfer) Wiese.
Survived by his loving family which includes a son, David (Joyce) Wiese of Camdenton, MO; daughters: Susan (Donald) Hicks of Ste Genevieve, MO, Regina (Robert) Heer of Scottsdale, AZ and Donna (Baxter) Cockerell of Ballwin, MO; sisters: Arline (Al) Hankins of St Louis,MO and Carol (Louis) Matustik of St Louis, MO. In addition to his parents he is preceded in death by his wife, Anita (Miller) Wiese.
Mr Wiese wishes were to donate his body as an anatomical body gift to St Louis University School of Medicine.
He will be remembered as being a wonderful father, grandfather, great grandfather, brother, uncle, friend and neighbor.


Liverpool looks to build on a pair of clean sheets when it visits the London Stadium to face Slaven Bilic and desperate West Ham United on Saturday (Watch live at 1:30 p.m. ET on NBC and online via NBCSports.com).
Jurgen Klopp's Reds blanked Huddersfield Town last weekend before shutting out Maribor in the UEFA Champions League. West Ham has scored more freely than either opponent this season.
The Irons haven't won in three-straight Premier League matches, but did pick up a significant League Cup win over Spurs last week. That win made a late concession to draw Crystal Palace on Saturday sting even more.
Klopp said Philippe Coutinho is out but Sadio Mane may be able to come off the bench. Georginio Wijnaldum could also make an appearance if need be.
If West Ham's men are still playing for their boss, they stand a good chance at getting a point or better against a banged up Liverpool. If the effort's there, the Hammers just may scoot away with a 2-1 win.


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Supreme Court asked for a second time to block restrictions in Tony Evers' order to stay home
MADISON - The state Supreme Court is being asked for a second time to weigh in on Gov. Tony Evers' orders to limit gatherings, this time by two southeastern Wisconsin residents who argue the order violates their constitutional rights to practice religion and politics.
Jeré Fabick, a prominent GOP donor and policy adviser at the conservative Heartland Institute who lives in Waukesha County, and Larry Chapman of Walworth County are asking the court to take up their suit against the governor's order a day before the justices will begin arguments in another lawsuit brought by GOP lawmakers.
Fabick and Chapman argue in the latest lawsuit that the order has infringed on their constitutional rights to practice religion and exercise free speech because of its limits on travel and gatherings.
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"No one doubts the seriousness of the COVID-19 pandemic, or that it poses life and
death risks to Wisconsin's citizens, especially those who are elderly or otherwise infirm. But the actions Respondents have taken to combat those risks, no doubt in good faith, have gone too far, needlessly infringing our most basic constitutional liberties — to an extent that is without precedent and that would have been virtually unimaginable in a free society just two months ago," the petition to the Wisconsin Supreme Court says.
Fabick, who is president of Caterpillar equipment dealer Fabick Cat, would have participated in a protest at the state Capitol on April 24 that drew about 1,500 people if Evers' order limiting non-essential travel was not in place — a restriction that violated his rights to free speech and assembly, according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit also argues the order imposes "a discriminatory nine-person cap on gatherings for religious worship, even as it allows numerous other similar activities
to take place without any similar numerical restriction."
Chapman, a member of Lakewood Baptist Church in Pewaukee, said in the lawsuit his church is no longer able to hold regular, in-person Sunday worship services because of the order.
He argues virtual services "are not an adequate substitute" and could prevent elderly members with little or no access to technology from participating.
"Mr. Chapman believes that Scripture calls for regular in-person worship, not regular worship at home in front of the computer," the lawsuit says.
The suit asks the state's highest court to take up the lawsuit, bypassing lower courts, and block provisions of the order that violate constitutional rights.
Spokeswomen for Evers did not immediately have a reaction to the new lawsuit, which was filed against Department of Health Services officials, Attorney General Josh Kaul, Wisconsin State Capitol police chief David Erwin, and officials in Dane, Walworth and Waukesha counties.
Evers extended his order putting restrictions on business operations, gatherings and travel until May 26 — a move that prompted Republican lawmakers who control the Legislature to sue to block.
The governor has said the restrictions are in place to limit outbreaks of a highly contagious virus for which there is no vaccine and can cause serious respiratory illness or death, especially for the elderly or people with underlying health conditions.
More than 8,000 people have contracted the virus since it began spreading in Wisconsin in early March. Of those, 340 people have died.
Evers has proposed a plan to begin lifting restrictions, which would be triggered only after the state sees fewer new diagnoses of coronavirus, fewer new reports of flu-like symptoms, and a lower percentage of positive coronavirus tests for 14 days.
Republican lawmakers and business leaders have criticized the plan, saying businesses must be able to open up more quickly and perhaps in regions to avoid further harm to the state's economy.
Nearly 500,000 people have filed unemployment claims in Wisconsin since Evers' issued his order limiting business operations to essential services.
Contact Molly Beck at molly.beck@jrn.com. Follow her on Twitter at @MollyBeck.
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Riis defends Contador's right to ride the Tour de France
Saxo Bank manager looking forward to Contador against Andy Schleck
Alberto Contador (Saxo Bank) (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Bjarne Riis has defended Alberto Contador's right to ride the Tour de France following a postponement of his Court of Arbitration for Sport hearing from June until later in the summer.
Riis hopes for speedy decision from CAS in Contador case
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CAS postpone Contador hearing
Prudhomme surprised by delay in Contador hearing
The International Cycling Union (UCI) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) have appealed against the Spanish Cycling Federation's decision to clear Contador of doping after he tested positive for Clenbuterol during the 2010 Tour de France.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport had set a hearing date of June 6-8 but and had promised to try and issue a verdict before the start of the Tour de France on July 2. However, all parties have now accepted the case requires further time and have yet to set a new date for the hearing.
Riis said Contador has the right to take part in the Tour de France.
"At the moment there's no reason why Alberto can't ride the Tour de France," he said while at the Giro d'Italia.
"It's always been logical to me. He was declared innocent and he's been cleared to race. We've got to respect that right. Nobody talked about it (his right to race) before the Giro d'Italia or the other races he rode, so why is it problem now?"
Respect for the judicial process
Riis agreed that it would have been better for everyone involved, and for the wider good of the sport, if the case had been resolved before the Tour de France. But he called for people to respect the judicial process.
"I think everybody, including Alberto, would have liked the whole thing to be sorted out before the Tour de France. But there's nothing we can do about it. It's a complicated case that needs time to resolve," Riis argued.
"Things haven't changed in the last few days with the case. We've all got to respect the speed of the judicial process. It's not nice for anybody, for us, or for the Tour de France but things have to be done right for justice to be done."
Riis is convinced the public can understand the reasons for the drawn out legal process.
"I think the public can see the real problem here," Riis claimed, insinuating that the delays in the case were not caused by Contador.
"A lot of the things that have been said and written have only complicate the issue. There's a lot of speculation of how it will all end but we've all got to wait for the outcome of the case."
"I think everyone can also understand the problems that Alberto is facing. If he's really innocent that it's a really difficult situation for him to handle."
Riis is already looking forward to a battle between Contador and Andy Schleck at the Tour de France.
"Alberto is different to Andy Schleck but I'm not interested in comparing them. I just hope we can see a great fight between them at the Tour de France. It'll be great for cycling," he said.


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Émilie Girard-Charest (1987)
Émilie Girard-Charest is a cellist, composer and improviser.
She has numerous recordings to her credit, including Émilie préfère le chant (2016, Ambiances Magnétiques), Race with time (duo with Mart Soo, 2016, Improtest Records), Avec (2016, Kohlenstoff Records), Musica in camera (Quatuor d'occasion, 2014, &records) and Bruit court-circuit (Ensemble SuperMusique, 2012, Ambiances Magnétiques).
Émilie has taken part in festivals in Canada, the United States (Avant-Music Festival), Belgium (Ars Musica), Austria (Klangspuren Schwaz and Impuls), Germany (Darmstadt Ferienkurse for Neue Musik and Donaueschingen Musiktage), Chili (Encuentro Internacional de Compositores), Argentina (Sonido Presente), Estonia (Autumn Festival), Finland (MuTe Fest), Spain (Mixtur) as well as Macedonia (Journées de la Musique Macédonienne). She has also given concerts in France, Russia and Uruguay.
Emilie regularly collaborates with theater, dance and performance productions. Her stage appearances include, notably, performances in Couloir et Chambres by Philippe Minyana and La fête à Jean by Pierre-Luc Lasalle (théâtre l'Instant, Director : André-Marie Coudou), ADN by Dennis Kelly (Director: Sylvain Bélanger), The Sticks (Andrew Tay) as well as Le frottement du monde (Sarah Bronsard).
Émilie is a graduate of the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal in cello (under Denis Brott) and in composition (under Michel Gonneville). She also holds a Master CoPeCo (Contemporary Performance and Composition) degree from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg and is currently pursuing studies under the direction of Philippe Hurel and Laurent Pottier at Conservatoire national supérieur musique et danse de Lyon, where she began doctoral studies in September 2016 on the development of an ergonomic notation of microtonality for the cello.
She was the recipient of the Career Development Award from the Fondation du Conservatoire de musique de Montréal in 2014 and in 2015, she was awarded the Prix d'Europe de Composition Fernand-Lindsay.
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A groundswell of research and regulations followed the Institute of Medicine's landmark 1999 report, To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System. Leaders, clinicians, educators, researchers, and health payers continue to explore the possible causes of medical errors and preventable harm. A major challenge has been gaining insight into how teams, individuals, and unit cultures influence employees' productivity and the delivery of high-quality care.
The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) provides a structure to support significant care improvements. This innovative program partners frontline staff, physicians, unit managers, and executive leaders to tackle patient hazards. A study of CUSP across Michigan intensive care units (ICUs) found it brought unprecedented reductions in central line–associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) as well as improved unit safety-climate scores. Similar results have been replicated in ICUs and organizations across the United States and abroad. Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD, brought CUSP to Johns Hopkins Hospital in 2001.
CUSP is a five-step intervention. At its foundation is the work of unit-based teams guided by the wisdom of frontline caregivers to support early identification of system defects while empowering unit staff to identify risk-reduction strategies. The unique partnership between frontline staff and senior leaders is mutually beneficial: Staff benefit from the executive's high-level decision-making, experience, and access to resources; the executive benefits from staff members' invaluable insight into patient care.
The following scenario below shows how the impetus to create a CUSP might arise: Nurses on a 30-bed inpatient general medical unit that admits patients from multiple subspecialty services are frustrated over ineffective teamwork and poor communication. They express their feelings to Sallie, the nurse manager, telling her these problems are impeding their ability to provide safe care. They also state that their workloads seem to have increased.
Sallie holds a meeting with staff nurses, who say they don't feel empowered to take steps to improve these problems. Recent unit safety-culture scores from a valid and reliable safety-culture survey validate their concerns. The scores show that staff think their safety concerns are being ignored and that nurses and physicians don't work as a well-coordinated team.
Sallie takes these concerns to the hospital's director of patient safety, who recommends starting a CUSP team on her unit. To get a sense of what CUSP entails, Sallie attends a CUSP team meeting on another unit. She comes away impressed with the safety work being done, team members' relationships with the assigned executive, and staff's engagement in the program. Heeding the hospital director's advice, she forms a CUSP team on her unit by following a step-by-step implementation guide.
In the months leading up to CUSP implementation, much work must be done to ensure the program and team will succeed. Called pre-CUSP, this work can take weeks or even months to complete. While Sallie is eager to get the team started, she recognizes the importance of establishing a strong foundation for the program.
First, Sallie must assemble a core unit-safety team to implement, manage, and sustain the program. The core team should include a unit-based champion, nurse manager, physician champion, safety or quality officer, infection preventionist, and any other role relevant to that particular unit (such as a point-of-care pharmacist, respiratory therapist, or physical therapist). Sallie must ensure the team is multidisciplinary, includes professionals of different levels of training and experience, and allows members to join at any phase of the program.
Sallie selects Jamal as the unit-based champion. Jamal has been a nurse on the unit for 3 years, is respected by all staff members, has asked for more responsibility, and has shown an interest in problem-solving. Sallie realizes that giving him dedicated nonclinical time each week to work as the CUSP champion may increase the chance for success. Ideally, he should have about 4 hours each week to create a strong and sustainable program. When staffing demands prohibit providing this time, Sallie works with Jamal to ensure his additional duties don't compromise patient care.
Sallie then approaches Lee, a physician who frequently admits patients to her unit, in the hope of recruiting her as the team's physician champion. Respected by her peers, Lee is collaborative and an excellent communicator with good relationships with the unit staff. She recently helped the unit solve a patient-flow issue.
The next task of the CUSP team is to work with hospital leaders to choose an executive champion. This executive should be a member of the senior leadership team who is able to meet with the CUSP team on the unit 1 hour each month and is approachable and comfortable with conversations on sensitive topics. This executive should receive an overview of CUSP and meet with unit leaders and the unit-based champion to get to know the unit.
Hospital leaders select Heon-Jae as the executive champion for Sallie's unit. The hospital's chief operating officer, he is highly skilled in communication.
Evaluating the unit's safety culture comes next. Understanding the context in which CUSP will be implemented is an important precursor to starting the program. The unit's safety culture should be assessed rigorously using a valid, reliable instrument. Safety-culture questionnaires elicit frontline providers' attitudes about various domains that link to safety.
Sallie measures her unit's safety culture before implementing the first step of CUSP, and she uses the same instrument for periodic culture reassessments (recommended every 12 to 18 months). The hospital already measures safety culture every 18 months using a valid instrument. Her unit has had an excellent overall response rate (83%) from nurses, physicians, residents, case managers, social workers, technicians, housekeepers, and clerks.
The last pre-CUSP step is to gather unit-based information for the initial meeting with the executive champion. The data should include the most recent safety-culture assessment results, bed size, staffing ratios, incident reports, patient-satisfaction scores, patient complaints, sentinel events, and available rates of preventable harm, such as CLABSIs, catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs), venous thromboembolism (VTE), and ventilator-associated events.
Jamal works with Sallie to assemble this information. This is a general medical unit, so data are available for CLABSI, CAUTI, VTE, incident reports, patient satisfaction scores, patient complaints, bed size, staffing ratios, and safety-culture assessment scores. Jamal, Sallie, and Heon-Jae review this information before the unit's first CUSP team meeting.
understand that teams make wise decisions when they receive diverse, independent input.
Please describe how you think the next patient in your unit or clinical area will be harmed.
Please describe what you think can be done to prevent or minimize this harm.
Jamal asks each team member to complete this two-item assessment immediately after the science-of-safety training. He combines this data with the unit-based data he gathered during pre-CUSP step 4.
Heon-Jae, the senior executive, opens lines of communication, works to improve frontline providers' attitudes about leadership, educates leaders about clinical issues and safety hazards, provides staff resources to mitigate hazards, and holds staff accountable for reducing patient risks. When he and the unit team hold their first formal meeting, they review the results of the staff safety assessment, set priorities for their work, and identify strategies to address the defects.
Before that kickoff meeting, Heon-Jae, Sallie, and Jamal gather to review survey results and unit-specific information. Heon-Jae is enthusiastic to start "fixing" the unit's problems. Jamal reminds him that an important part of CUSP is involving staff in the process to prioritize the work, investigate defects, and find solutions. This is best accomplished in the first meeting.
nurses' lack of participation in rounds.
The CUSP team and unit staff also find quick fixes for some longstanding problems. For instance, many staff members have been worried that one of the mounted TVs might fall and injure patients, visitors, or staff. So far, their requests to reinforce the TV have failed, but Heon-Jae makes a phone call, and repairs are made that afternoon.
Also, three near-misses have occurred over the past month due to confusion between oxycodone and Oxycontin, a timed-release formulation of oxycodone. These two drugs have been stored next to each other in the automated dispensing cabinet. After the CUSP meeting, the point-of-care pharmacist who attended the meeting promptly moves the drugs into separate drawers to prevent more errors. Also, the housekeeper present at the meeting describes a shortage of supplies to clean isolation rooms; Sallie agrees to increase the stock of these supplies by the end of the day.
how to determine that the risk was actually reduced.
A practical tool to guide team members through the process of learning from defects is available at www.hopkinsmedicine.org/armstrong_institute/_files/cusp_toolkit_new/Learning-From-Defects-Tool.Dec.13.pdf.
To illustrate a problem involving interdisciplinary communication, Jamal shares an event in which a patient suffered harm from a communication failure between nurses and physicians. Completing the learning-from-defects tool helped them understand the root causes and implement interventions to address them.
To support the specific needs of unit-based teams, various tools are available to improve communication, clarify team members' roles, and build skills to improve interprofessional team performance. For example, the daily goals tool provides a structured format to communicate a patient's daily goals of care with the entire care team.
CUSP has led to improvements in safety culture and reductions in preventable harm. While it may look like a linear process with a beginning and an end, it's cyclical. Each step is important to the success of the program and can be repeated periodically to address the dynamic, ever-changing healthcare environment.
Everyone gains from CUSP: Frontline staff are empowered to identify and learn from defects. Nurses can improve their quality-care and patient-safety skills and demonstrate leadership on their unit. Executives receive unique and meaningful insight into their organization's operations. And patients get better care.
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Lori Paine is director of patient safety at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality in Baltimore, Maryland. Melinda D. Sawyer is assistant director of patient safety at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality.


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By Steven Stark Comcast Advertising InSites Archives
With the video advertising ecosystem undergoing constant change, how do marketers tailor their strategies to maximize preferred audience reach at scale? The answer to that question can be found in a new report from Comcast Advertising's Agency Leadership Council titled "A Powerful Duo: The Linear + Streaming Evolution." (Click here to download.) The report puts the current video advertising ecosystem into new perspective.
The report is based on a custom behavioral survey, Nielsen data and an internal analysis of campaigns by Effectv, the advertising sales division of Comcast Cable. Many of the data points may run counter to some perceptions.
For example, the report shows that 76% of viewers consume the vast majority of streaming content via their TV screens. But while most households have at least one streaming service, 70% of them still subscribe to cable or other forms of pay TV. Although viewers are watching more streaming content these days without ads, on average 58% of the time spent watching streaming services is with ad-supported content.
Linear Packs Big Punch
The report also showed that -- regardless of the number of streaming services they have -- households are still spending the greatest share of time with linear TV content. In fact, streaming households spend nearly twice as much time watching linear content as streaming content.
While TV offerings continue to evolve, the report found that viewing behaviors are slower to change. Yet at the same time, subscription video on demand (SVOD) is very popular with those who stream. More than 80% of SVOD households have two or more streaming services.
Overall, 44% of the survey respondents said they used their TVs to consume streaming-video content. They indicated that they chose their TV screens for the experience and choose their handheld devices for the convenience.
To further understand the importance of the TV screen to streaming viewers, the report analyzed ad-exposure data, which revealed that 76% of impressions happened on the TV screen.
The report also found that streaming perceptions differ widely across age groups. Younger audiences (18-24) were most likely to feel that "it takes too long to decide what to watch" while audiences 55-64 were most likely to think "subscriptions are too expensive."
Regardless of age, video audiences are using streaming as a complement to traditional TV. An analysis of more than 20,000 Effectv cross-platform campaigns across 29 million households demonstrated that this holds true for advertising campaigns, too.
An Effective Combination
The report made clear that streaming and traditional TV are a powerful combination. Among households that subscribe to streaming services, the greatest share of time spent is with cable, followed by streaming, then broadcast. It made clear that a significant number of viewers are using streaming and cable together as a whole.
However, the majority of reach achieved from streaming is incremental to the linear TV portion of the campaign. In addition to delivering incremental reach, streaming also helped to deliver those households that are "lightly reached" by linear TV.
According to the report, advertisers can achieve optimal reach by allocating 10% to 40% of their investment to streaming, with the remaining investment going to linear TV. But when more than 40% of a campaign's budget is allocated to streaming, there are diminishing returns on campaign reach.
The report concluded that linear TV is still the best way to reach a large amount of people in a short amount of time, while streaming helps to focus and extend that reach.
Steven Stark
Steven has over 20 years' experience working as an advertising copywriter and concept director. He has worked for hundreds of clients, brands, and agencies in the B2B and B2C space during his career. When he's not creating marketing he's…