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Socialization to professionalism in medical schools: a Canadian experience
Byszewski, A.; Gill, J.S.; Lochnan, H.
Bmc Medical Education 15: 204
Accrediting bodies now recognize the importance of developing the professionalism competency, by setting standards that require medical schools to identify where professionalism is addressed and how it is evaluated within the formal curriculum. The objective of this study was to compare how professionalism competency is formally addressed in the curricula of Canadian medical schools, and to better understand the Canadian approach to reporting and remediation of lapses. A literature review was performed and with the input of the AFMC(Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada) Professionalism group, questionnaires were generated. An electronic survey was circulated to key leaders across the country at all the medical schools. In-depth telephone interviews were used to further explore themes, and a subsequent focus group was held to discuss challenges, particularly related to reporting and remediation. The preponderance of formal professionalism teaching remains in the form of lectures and small group sessions in the preclinical years. Formal teaching declines significantly in the clerkship/clinical years. Evaluation is usually performed by a clinical supervisor, but OSCE, portfolio, and concern notes are increasingly used. Role modeling is heavily relied upon in clinical years, suggesting faculty training can help ensure clinical teachers recognize their influence on trainees. Formal remediation strategies are in place at most schools, and often involve essay writing, reflection exercises, or completion of learning modules about professionalism. Lack of clarity on what defines a lapse and fear of reprisal (for both trainees and faculty) limits reporting. This study provides an overview of how professional identity formation is supported in the Canadian context, guided by the standards set out by CanMEDS. Despite a rich literature that describes the definition, program design and evaluation methods for professionalism, in some areas of the curriculum there is still an opportunity to ensure programs embrace the suggested framework. Examples of teaching and evaluation methods, deficiencies in the clinical years of study (clerkship) and challenges in addressing lapses and organizational structure are identified. The results help identify the gaps that need to be addressed and some solutions that can be modeled at other academic institutions.
How Do Medical Schools Identify and Remediate Professionalism Lapses in Medical Students? A Study of U.S. and Canadian Medical Schools. Academic Medicine 90(7): 913-920, 2015
Nutrition education in medical schools: a Canadian experience. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 61(1): 161, 1995
Improving the social responsiveness of medical schools: lessons from the Canadian experience. Academic Medicine 74(8 Suppl): S81-S90, 1999
Achieving social accountability through interprofessional collaboration: the Canadian medical schools experience. Journal of Interprofessional Care 22 Suppl 1: 4-14, 2008
The "pyramid of professionalism": seven years of experience with an integrated program of teaching, developing, and assessing professionalism among medical students. Academic Medicine 83(8): 733-741, 2008
Approaches to improving the teaching of oncology in medical schools (based on the experience of medical schools in Siberia and the far East). Voprosy Onkologii 32(9): 57-60, 1986
Teaching and learning of professionalism in medical schools. Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore 33(6): 706-710, 2004
Canadian and landed immigrant applicants to Canadian medical schools for 1968-69. Canadian Medical Association Journal 102(2): 189-191, 1970
MCAT performance of Canadian and landed immigrant applicants to Canadian medical schools, 1968-1969. Journal of Medical Education 45(4): 210-219, 1970
Professionalism in the teacher-learner relationship in medical schools: mistreatment. Hawaii Medical Journal 68(4): 88-89, 2009
Standing out with Professionalism: How do Students and Faculty of two different Medical Schools perceive it?. Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences 33(5): 1248-1253, 2017
Global health ethics and professionalism education at medical schools. Virtual Mentor 12(3): 197-201, 2010
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Professionalism of teachers of theoretical and clinical disciplines in medical schools. Bratislavske Lekarske Listy 101(7): 412-414, 2000
Canadian applicants to Canadian Medical Schools for 1967-68. Canadian Medical Association Journal 99(13): 654-660, 1968


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Q: React Native fetch doesn't work in another fetch callback If I call my api function from POINT 1, fetch method inside the api method works well. When I comment it out and call the function at POINT 2 fetch method inside the addAccount() doesn't work. There is no exception, no rejection, no request on Reactotron, even I can't find request over Charles Proxy. What is the difference and what I have to know to figure it out?
I tried with RN 0.55.2 and 0.57.5
// Auth.js typical react native component

import * as api from '../actions/api';

class Auth extends Component {

    // first triggered function
    loginAccount(){
        // api.addAccount();  // POINT 1 - this line works well if I uncomment
        fetch('https://domain-a.com/login/',{
                method: 'POST',
                credentials: "same-origin",
                headers: {
                    'accept-language': 'en-US;q=1',
                    'Content-type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8',
                },
                body: encodeURIComponent(bodyParameters)
            }).then((response) => {
                console.log(response);
                return response.json()
            }).then(({ status, invalid_credentials }) => {
                if(status == "ok"){
                    CookieManager.get('https://domain-a.com')
                        .then((cookies) => {
                            this.fetchAccountData(cookies);
                        })
            })

    }

    fetchAccountData(cookies){
        fetch('https://domain-a.com/'+cookies.user_id+'/info/',{
            method: 'GET',
            headers: {
                'cookie': cookies
                }
        }).then((response) => {
            return response.json();
        })
        .then(({ user, status }) => {
            api.addAccount(); // POINT 2 - this line doesn't work
        });
    }
}

// api.js
// I repleaced fetch code with document example just to be clearify

export const addAccount = () => {
    console.log("fetch begin"); // always works
    fetch('https://facebook.github.io/react-native/movies.json')
    .then((response) => response.json())
    .then((responseJson) => {
        console.log(responseJson);  // won't works from point 2
    })
    .catch((error) =>{
        console.error(error); // never runs
    });
}

A: It looks like your first .then statement in the addAccount() function is missing a return statement. responseJson would be undefined without a proper a 'return response.json()' statement. Also adding brackets for better semantic formatting.
export const addAccount = () => {
console.log("fetch begin"); // always works
fetch('https://facebook.github.io/react-native/movies.json')
.then((response) => {
    console.log(response); //test this response
    return response.json();
})
.then((responseJson) => {
    console.log(responseJson);  // won't works from point 2
})
.catch((error) =>{
    console.error(error); // never runs
});

}

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Coral reefs occupy less than 0.1% of the ocean floor and yet they provide a home to 25% of all known marine species. Corals support an incredible diversity of marine species and form the foundation for complex food webs. Aside from their ecological importance, coral reefs capture the imagination in a way many environments don't. With their range of colours and forms, reefs often feel like an alien environment. Here, we've collected 9 of the most beautiful species you can find here.
Giant Clams are creatures out of legend. There are tales from the South Pacific of these mollusks lying in wait to snap up unsuspecting divers. In reality they live off passing plankton and food gifted to them. They form symbiotic relationships with algae, which produce the sugar and protein to feed the clam. In return, they provide a home for the algae. The huge creatures can grow to over a meter in length and weight up to 200kg.
The name 'slug' doesn't make anything sound beautiful. However, the sea slug is something of real beauty. There are more than 2,000 known species of sea slug and they come in a fantastic variety of colours and patterns. Their scientific name, Nudibranchia, means 'naked gills'. This is for the feathery or horny gills along their back that make them so beautiful and unique.
It's clear where Bubble Coral got it's name from. These ethereal globes are filled with water and protect the coral's hard skeleton. However, they are not all they seem: at night the bubbles retract and feeding tentacles emerge.
There are more than 80 species of marine angelfish. They are known for their intricate patterns and bright colours. The marine species, unlike their freshwater cousins, are omnivorous and live primarily on sponges. Queen Angelfish, like the one pictured here, are shy and often seen alone. They are named for their 'crown': the blue ring across their forehead. The most amazing adaptation found in this species might be its ability to change colour when under stress. Like chameleons, they can blend into their environment to help them hide from predators.
Seahorses are amazing creatures, but we thought this little fellow was particularly delightful. The pygmy seahorse grows to only 1.4-2.7 cm in length. There are seven recognised species of pygmy seahorse, six of which were found in the first decade of this century. There may well be many more waiting for discovery. Larger seahorses are rarely found on coral reefs but the species of pygmy seahorse have evolved perfectly for this habitat.
Despite the name, these creatures seem to define elegance and grace. They are found all over the world in temperate and tropical regions. They spend most of their lives in open water but the Great Barrier Reef is a vital nesting area for them.
This intricate coral comes from the biological order Gorgonacea, names for the snake-haired Gorgons from Ancient Greek Mythology. As with other corals, a sea fan is not a single organism, but a colony of polyps. This coral appears in many colours dependent on the algae living symbiotically with the polyp.
From Sea Slugs to Sea Snails. The Flamingo's Tongue Sea Snail. Though they do have shells, their vibrant pattern comes from the living tissue surrounding the shell. The shell itself is pale white. The snails feed on corals and only grow to around 30 mm long.
Cuttlefish are related to squid and octopus. Like squid, cuttlefish has ink to help them evade predators, but perhaps their most spectacular adaptation is their ability to shimmer different colours and patterns.


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Getting Diplomats to Lie Down with Devil Dogs
No one would dispute the need for the United States to have a coherent foreign policy. However, such a policy requires that the United States speak with one voice; currently, it speaks in a cacophony. The primary pillars of American foreign policy, the Departments of State and Defense, have never worked well together. Even when the relationship between Secretaries was amicable, the multiple factions within each organization have often placed their own parochial concerns above the common good. Often, they are not even aware of each other's activities and frequently work at cross purposes. In recent years, this confusion has led foreign policy to increasingly become dominated by the Department of Defense. While often unsuited for these tasks, its massive budget and expeditionary capacity have left it as the tallest pygmy. This creeping militarization has naturally led to concern, but not, it seems, at the State Department, which has done almost nothing to oppose its traditional rival. In recent years the loudest and most public advocate for a larger State Department has not been any of its Secretaries, but Robert Gates, the Secretary of Defense. When bureaucratic rivals advocate more loudly for expanding your budget than you do, something is clearly amiss.
The modern world clearly requires the full integration of military and civilian efforts, but how is that to be achieved? Fortunately, this is not the first time that a changed world has required the unification of diverse organizations. A substantial precedent exists in the post-World War Two effort to create a unified Department of Defense out of the Departments of War and Navy. The National Security Act of 1947 officially unified the Army, Navy, and newly independent Air Force under a single Department of Defense. But below that level the separate services remained highly independent, often jealously so, and utterly failed to integrate. The prestige and collegiality of the World War Two era generals managed to paper over the system's flaws during the Korean War, but by the time of Vietnam the rot had begun to cripple the armed forces.
Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV) was battered in bureaucratic battles from literally the moment it was conceived. Its predecessor, the Military Assistance Advisory Group, had been largely an Army organization. General Paul Harkins initially tried to keep MACV under army control as a specified command[1] but the other services insisted on a unified command; that is, one where no service was subordinated to any other and each had "equitable representation and equal rank in key staff positions."[2] Having forced MACV to adopt a unified command and ensured their services' representation in it, the Navy and Air Force immediately proceeded to run as much of the war as possible without it. MACV was officially subordinated to Pacific Command (CINPAC), and that organization, long dominated by naval officers, first insisted on the continual involvement of substantial naval forces in the conflict, then insisted that said forces remain under the command of the 7th fleet, not MACV. Pacific Command also managed to secure much independence for the III Marines (and their air component) despite their nominally being under MACV.[3] CINPAC also provided most of MAVC's logistical tail, which gave CINCPAC great influence in any question concerning planning or troop deployments.[4] The Air Force, always keen to limit Army control of air assets, managed to restrict MACV to direct authority only over the 2nd Air Division (later 7th Air Force), and only for those operations directly over South Vietnam. Strategic Air Command's bombers and most of the Pacific Command's other air assets remained outside MACV's control. Were this not enough, MACV lacked complete control even over the units officially assigned to it. A unified commander had control over the operations of his units, but his component commanders, which ultimately meant the service chiefs, were responsible for administrative issues, substantially diluting MACV's authority. Over time, things only grew more complicated, as MACV repeatedly became a battleground for doctrinal and policy disputes that had nothing to do with Vietnam.[5] Even before considering the enemy, it is hard to see how this Kafkaesque construct could do anything but fail.
Unfortunately, the politics surrounding the war made an honest assessment of that failure impossible. It would take the dramatic failures on the much smaller battlefields of the early 1980s to make clear the need for organizational reform. Of these, the most well-known is undoubtedly the failed rescue attempt of the US hostages in Iran. Operation Eagle Claw repeated all of the problems of Vietnam in miniature. Again, each service insisted on its own role, leading to the plan to have Marine helicopters fly off of Navy ships for a rendezvous with Air Force planes and Army Rangers. Again, a titular "unified" command proved anything but. Unable to agree on a single mission commander, the services placed a Naval officer in charge of the helicopters, an Air Force officer the landing at Desert One, and an Army officer the ground assault.[6] And again, these complications led directly to an embarrassing catastrophe. The services together were adding up to considerably less than the sum of their parts.
These and other failures led to realization that the military's perpetual problems were structural, and the response was the Goldwater-Nichols Defense Reorganization Act of 1986(GWN). Under this act, the Departments of Army, Navy, and Air Force and their service chiefs were stripped of all authority over actively deployed forces. Their job would be restricted to training and equipping combat units to be deployed under the command of regional or functional Combatant Commanders (CCs). These CCs (then called Commanders in Chief) existed prior to GWN, but the act considerably strengthened their authority. Additionally, promotion systems were reshuffled to require the cross posting of senior officers between services. The virtues of this new system were clearly demonstrated by the overwhelming victory in the Gulf War. The CC for the Central Command, Army general Norman Schwarzkopf, was able to exercise complete command of Army, Navy, and Air Force assets under his control with a minimum of squabbling from either within his own command or from the Service Chiefs.
The Defense Department's relationship to the State Department today bears a striking resemblance to that between the military services before the passage of GWN. As with the military services, there is a clear need to unify State's and Defense's efforts, despite their very different cultures and competing world views. As with the services, it is clear that those different perspectives are valuable, so this unification must be achieved without damaging the identity or esprit de corps of either department. And as with the services, the initial solution of unification only at the very highest levels, the National Security Council, has largely failed to integrate the departments. Considering the similarity of the problem, and the success of GWN, does it not make sense to apply the lessons learned from of defense unification more broadly?
The first lesson of defense unification was that clear chains of command are essential at all levels. The military, after much toil, has managed to achieve these. The State Department, however, has not, and thus requires some specific reforms. The heart of State has always been the Ambassador and the national mission, organized on a country by country basis, with direct access to the Secretary of State and the President. The modern world, however, often requires multilateral perspectives and action, for which this structure is ill suited. Previous secretaries realized this problem, and created a number of bureaus with authority over either geographic regions or specific areas of foreign policy (e.g. arms control). Unfortunately, these bureaus failed to achieve the desired results. Already in the 1930s, Dean Acheson's description of the Department reads like a list of bureaucratic clichés. He complains that "obscurity in the line of command of the Assistant Secretaries permitted division chiefs to circumvent them at will" and that "the greater part of the day was devoted to meetings…which gave the illusion of action, but often frustrated it by attempting to reconcile the irreconcilable."[7] Acheson would devote much effort to establishing clearer lines of command, as would some of his successors, but the problem has only gotten worse. In 2001, the Hart-Rudman Commission, a review of national security policy conducted by the Clinton Administration, concluded that:
The Department of State, in particular, is a crippled institution, starved for resources by Congress because of its inadequacies, and thereby weakened further. The Department suffers in particular from an ineffective organizational structure in which regional and functional policies do not serve integrated goals, and in which sound management, accountability, and leadership are lacking. [8]
The need for the coordination of diplomatic efforts above the national level is clear, but the current structure simply does not provide it. However, what the military accomplished through strong CCs, the Department of State could accomplish in similar fashion. Instead of more than a hundred national missions weakly overseen by dozens of competing bureaus, primary responsibility for representing America abroad could be vested in a small number of powerful Regional Ambassadors (RAs). Unlike the current Assistant Secretaries who run regional bureaus, these RAs would need ambassadorial status, exclusive authority over the national missions in their region, and direct reports to the Secretary of State and President. These RAs could absorb both the existing regional bureaus and the various functional bureaus at the Assistant and Under Secretary levels, which would shorten and clarify the chain of command as well as give the RAs the large and coherent staff they would need to be capable of both directing the national missions in their region and conducting projects independent of those missions. These RAs and their staffs could be posted in their regions, leaving the Department at home free to focus on longer range planning, training, and general administration, much as the military service chiefs now do.
While clear chains of command at State would be a great boon to the practice of American foreign policy, they would do little to integrate military and diplomatic efforts. Defense unification has taught that true integration requires unity at the operational level. Since RAs would resemble civilian CCs, it would be natural to have one RA for each geographic military command. This would allow the RA's bureau and CC's staff for a given region to work together, ideally even in the same building, to issue a joint budget (subject, of course to approval by the National Security Council(NSC)), and to make recommendations to the NSC when requested to do so. Cross posting between bureau and staff should be strongly encouraged even at low levels and mandatory for senior postings, with as many senior postings as practical open to both military and civilian appointees. There could even be a special combined military and civilian promotion board responsible for staff and bureau postings.
Some might fear that such reform would lead to even greater military influence over foreign policy, especially considering State's apparent disinterest in protecting its turf in recent years. However, these changes are likely to enhance, not diminish, State's influence. While State's attitude seems to fly in the face of the traditional Weberian model of bureaucratic behavior, James Q. Wilson has shown that the impulse towards budget maximization is powerfully moderated by institutional culture and sense of identity. Confronted with missions that lie outside their sense of self, the desire to say "not my job" is stronger than the impulse towards budget maximization. The State Department, and especially the Foreign Service Officers that dominate it, have a very strong, but also very narrow, sense of mission focused on the Embassy and maintaining relationships.[9] Thus we have a department that actively opposed being given control of national intelligence in the 40s,[10] but which in the 80s would devote immense efforts to fighting to preserve its practice of having embassies built by foreign nationals instead of the Army Corps of Engineers, despite repeated security failures. The embassies were theirs; spycraft was someone else's business.
This culture, however, emerges out of State's structure. A system where national ambassadorships are the dominant position is bound to focus attention too narrowly, just as a military dominated by service chiefs focused efforts on service disputes. A department centered around powerful RAs, however, would naturally tend towards a broader view, as increased influence of the CCs did in the military. Genuine authority over and involvement in activities other than traditional diplomacy cannot help but attract interest in such activities. USAID, for example, employs a great many Foreign Service Officers, and reports to the Secretary of State but has long been shunned by the department. Were that aid money flowing through the hands of RAs, there would be considerably more interest in bringing it into the department proper, perhaps as a 6th career cone for FSOs. Joining the RAs and CCs at the hip only furthers this broadening. Simply working together on a daily basis cannot help but broaden perspectives, but there is more to it than that. Giving each some authority over the other's budget gives an RA and CC a great deal of incentive to work together and help each other. Even were they to disagree on every point, they would nonetheless be forced to cooperate at least enough to protect their own rice bowls, and their great authority would ensure that their subordinates share their motivation.
Of course, the existence of dual chains requires some entity to assign tasks between them, a responsibility that would naturally fall to the NSC. Currently responsible for both long range planning and daily management of the interagency process, the NSC does neither job well. It does not have the authority to compel the agencies to cooperate, and is too battered by short term issues to focus on the long term. However, were operational control handled at RA/CC level, the NSC would be free to focus on its primary duty, "to assess and appraise the objectives, commitments, and risks of the United States."[11] Its task would be to look at the big picture and set broad policy goals and resource levels, as well as to resolve any disputes between regions or RAs and CCs. Of course, the exact delineation between military and civilian responsibilities is an enormously complicated issue that cannot be fully addressed here, but there are some basic principles that follow naturally from this structure. First, maintaining clear chains of command requires that operations be under the exclusive authority of either the RA or CC. Civilians assigned to military operations or vice versa, like FSOs assigned to Provincial Reconstruction Teams or Marine Security Guards at embassies, must remain under the exclusive control of their temporary master. AA and RA might share dual control over some staff agencies, but any interaction between Americans and the outside world ought to be under a single executive agent. Second, there should be a basic presumption in favor of civilian control. Stamping camouflage paint on all of the United States' interactions abroad would do little for its image, and without such bias the Defense Department's massive budget might tend towards excessive influence. Third, authority should be given on the broadest practical level. The entire purpose of these reforms is to enable and encourage the State Department and the Defense Department to work together on a large scale, not to divide the world into tiny fiefdoms. Taken in total, these changes hold the promise of a foreign policy establishment that is more unified, more streamlined, and better able to carry out its duties.
[1] Luttwak, The Pentagon and the Art of War, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985, 27.
[2] Luttwak, 28.
[3] Graham Cosmas, MACV: The Joint Command in the Years of Escalation, 1962-1967, Washington D.C.: Center of Military History, 2006, 312
[4] Cosmas, 308.
[5] Cosmas, 62.
[7] Acheson, Dean. Present at the Creation, New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 15-17
[8] U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century, Road Map for National Security:
Imperative for Change, Washington: GPO, 2001, 47
[9] Wilson, James Q., Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It, USA: Basic Books Inc, 1989, 40
[10] Acheson, 158
[11] 50 U.S.C. § 402 (b)(1) (2012)
Categories: State Department - interagency reform - interagency - Goldwater-Nichols - foreign policy - diplomacy - defense reform - Defense Department
Michael Tint
Michael Tint holds a degree in political science from Haverford College specializing in organizational politics and foreign affairs. He is a former congressional campaign staffer who has just returned to the US after more than a year spent teaching English and learning Spanish in Mexico.
The Ambassador is always in charge ! An embassy is a huge fishbowl with no one sprinkling food on the surface. The goldfish are starving for credit and the too often embellished awards doled out with every turnover of minions. In two years the average soldier moves on and the average junior political officer? Ah, let's leave that one alone!
We can't even control two completely separate military offices under one Senior Defense Representative. You can't have a spy (Defense Attaché) and candy man (SAO) under one hat. Didn't work, even as far back as 84 and lately has been a real PITA.
Ironically, when the Ambassador is a political appointee the shop runs like a well-oiled business. But when the Ambassador, in most cases, is a career SFSO, politics takes front seat and the Administration pulls at your hamstrings and the embassy turns into a fiasco. All the decisions are made based on what Foggy Bottom and the Administration wants to see on paper. The local situation is not relevant as it does not jibe with POTUS babble.
The military does not belong in the diplomatic kit bag. The common political or economics officer has not a clue what the military do for a living and has no business even trying to comprehend what is up.
Working in an embassy as a soldier is a waste of time and energy. We show up when they evacuate and clean up their mess. That, actually works well.
Diplomacy is not in the soldier's manual and we suck at it !
We do not belong in an embassy just as much as a State political officer does not belong on an Army base.
Furthermore, I have never seen Post One function as more than wallpaper. The annual Marine Ball with all the diplomats and senior military officers telling the rest of us how great we are. What a bunch of Bravo Sierra as they pass the canapes at the behest of the Ambassador at parties in their dress blues !
Sparapet
Having worked in both agencies at the HQ level, my instinct is to scoff at any suggested merger. Perhaps the very existence of such an instinct is in fact a symptom of the problem. But all considered, I had the following initial thoughts:
1. What you are proposing is 1 step away from a "Viceroy" type model. At the moment, the CC's, by their nature, have become the regional extension of American power. The regional bureaus within State are in fact focused on country-mission support. At the end of the day you will have 2 senior leaders with a direct line to their secretary and the President. Whom do you privilege in decision making? Who has the authority to decide how and when anything happens? Eventually you may advocate that 1 regional leader be in-fact in charge, in the interests of unity of command.
2. The CC's are organized along a geographic logic. That logic has little to do with anything else. US foreign policy, however, deals with distinct entities, the other countries. By adding this rather ahistorical/nontraditional layer of leadership you will signal clearly that the country-missions are little more than over-staffed consulates. Remember, the Ambassadors don't actually "take orders" from Washington per se. The most active of them, shape how US policy is implemented with a level of executive authority the CC's would be envy.
3. Diplomacy doesn't always require regional coordination. The regions are our mental constructs for administrative purposes, they aren't entities. While very many programs and efforts may in fact benefit from a regionally coherent strategy and implementation, what defines a region, what defines the relationships of countries to each other, and what defines a program's regional interest are all concepts that are fundamentally divorced from a notion of a static region. A regional policy may mean 2 countries or 30. It may span several regions. A regional policy on the Red Sea would require coordination between Africom and Centcom...because the region is a mental construct.
A region is not a thing to be influenced. It exists only in our minds. While country-focused myopia does dominate the minds in DoS; a narrow-minded, hardened, geographical region concept dominates DoD. Neither is right, and they won't necessarily compliment each other just by sticking two officials together. This is a geo-political, strategic, and philosophical perspectives issue. It's not a process issue at heart.
Although I do agree that the MACV and similar examples the author examines do demand a high level of complimentarity between DoD and DoS efforts, the issue is scratching at a rather disturbing implication. Foreign Policy is the purview of the President, to execute as he sees fit. DoS is the place of diplomats, a traditional concept that has professionalized along with many other things since Industrialization. DoD is the place of the warriors who too have professionalized since the middle ages.
But neither is an inherent owner of anything except skill sets and delegated authority in their domains. The owner is the President. Those domains cross often, but they do not cross purposes. A military officer has the authority to employ the organization he commands on behalf of the President. A Foreign Service Officer has the authority to speak on official policy on behalf of the President. In other words, one acts, the other speaks. The important part is that they act as they speak. That requires a lot more than a reorg at the CC level.
(PS. I am not a fan of the latest trend of the "operationalized FSO". Additionally, inserting anyone aside from the President and SecDef into the idea of civilian control of the military makes no sense. Civilian control of the military isn't civilian command of military organizations. I find this concept a rather naive misinterpretation of the principle. But that's another post :) ).
dos pesos
Would it make sense to assign a COCOM commander as a regional ambassador (RA)? Or a senior Foreign Service Officer (FSO) as COCOM Cdr? Should the military make postings to DoS a routine part of a career timeline, or create a functional area for "political officer" (in the tradition of the Imperial British model, not the Soviet model) that focuses on political-diplomatic--military issues?
I'm in favor of an organization (created through reorganization of existing organizations, bureaus, & departments, not government expansion) that does more than diplomacy but less than military action.....a synthesis of DoD and DoS. Would something like this achieve the unity of "command" discussed in this article?

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William de Uffington was a Priest in the Roman Catholic Church.

Career
In 1288 William de Uffington is recorded as presenting the post of Vicar of St Nicholas' Church in Pilton, Rutland to Robert de Pilton, and presenting it again in 1309.

Was presented the post of Vicar of St Mary the Virgin's Church, Aylesbury in May 1315 possibly by Richard de Havering, Prebendary of Aylesbury. He appears to have either died, swapped or resigned from this post the same year.

William de Uffington, was then presented the post of Vicar of St Nicholas, Pilton from 1414 to 1433, and was made a Justice of the Peace in 1434.

References

 British History Online, Parishes: Pilton

13th-century English Roman Catholic priests
14th-century English Roman Catholic priests

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GUN BARREL CITY is incorporated.
Our records indicate that GUN BARREL CITY currently exists.
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package org.openbakery.racecontrol.plugin.penalty.web;

import java.util.List;

import org.apache.wicket.request.mapper.parameter.PageParameters;
import org.apache.wicket.markup.html.form.Form;
import org.openbakery.racecontrol.data.Driver;
import org.openbakery.racecontrol.plugin.penalty.data.Penalty;
import org.openbakery.racecontrol.plugin.penalty.service.PenaltyService;
import org.openbakery.racecontrol.service.ServiceLocateException;
import org.openbakery.racecontrol.service.ServiceLocator;
import org.openbakery.racecontrol.web.RaceControlPage;
import org.openbakery.racecontrol.web.bean.Visibility;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

public class PenaltyPage extends RaceControlPage {

	public PenaltyPage(PageParameters parameters) {
		super(parameters);

		Form<Driver> form = new Form<Driver>("form");
		add(form);

		List<Driver> driverList = getPenaltyServiceService().getDrivers();
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			error("Internal error!");
			log.error(e.getMessage(), e);
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		return null;
	}

	@Override
	public String getPageTitle() {
		return "Penalty";
	}

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		return Visibility.AUTHENTICATED;
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}

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There are always at least two amounts in every xact because of double-entry bookkeeping. 2 Because ledger entries can get more complicated than this, we can't just assume the simplest case. Instead, we can let the user specify it for us!
By now, you probably realized why I didn't turn this into a library: the implementation of ledger-airtable-post-expense is too dependent on the schema of the Airtable base it wants to talk to. I could factor this out to accept some function that allows one to build out the "fields" data structure, but at that point, we go back to the implementation we came up with here.


The Lacny or Lacny cycle is a chess problem theme named after �udov�t La�n�, the first person to demonstrate the idea.
It is an example of lines of play being cyclically related: in one phase of play, the Black defences a, b and c are answered by the White mates A, B and C respectively; in another phase, those same defences a, b and c are answered by the White mates B, C and A respectively.
As well as in set play (as in this example) the theme can be shown in tries, more than one solution or twins.
The scheme can be expanded to include more defences; in a five-fold Lacny, for example, the defences a, b, c, d and e are met with the mates A, B, C, D and E respectively in one phase and B, C, D, E and A respectively in another. The cycle can also be extended over three phases to make a complete Lacny cycle; here, the defences a, b and c are answered by the mates A, B and C respectively in one phase; by B, C and A respectively in another; and by C, A and B respectively in a third. This is considerably harder to achieve than the "simple" Lacny, and there are relatively few examples.
In the related threat Lacny, short-cut Lacny or Dombro-Lacny, in one phase A is threatened, and defence b leads to mate B while defence c leads to mate C; in another phase B is threatened and defence b leads to mate C while defence c leads to mate A. Once, problems following this scheme were also called Lacnys, but now a distinction tends to be drawn between the two (Peter Gvozdjak in Cyclone suggests this scheme should be called the Shedey cycle after its originator, Sergei Shedey). There are a number of other themes featuring cyclic play in different phases, including the Kiss and Djurasevic cycles.
This article is based on the article Lacny from the free encyclopaedia Wikipedia and stands under the GNU-Licence for free documentation. In the Wikipedia a list of the authors is available.


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Stark Choices: People's budget vs. Republican plan
Published Tuesday, Mar. 31, 2015, 7:51 pm
Front Page » News » Breaking News » Stark Choices: People's budget vs. Republican plan
By U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky and Lawrence Mishel
The annual federal budget debate typically doesn't excite many folks outside the Washington beltway. And with good reason – the Republican budget process is intended to lull the public to sleep by staying short on details and long on damaging provisions that will hurt low-income and middle-class families.
But folks should pay attention to the debate because budgets have consequences – and if done right, they can truly move our country forward. The "People's Budget," which we both helped prepare, is a bold and responsible alternative to the Republican plans that take from working families while giving more to corporations and the wealthy.
The GOP budgets proposed in Congress would cut about $5 trillion over the next decade. The overwhelming burden would fall on programs that boost working families: education, Medicare and Medicaid, college aid, job training, medical research and rebuilding roads and bridges. Tens of millions of Americans would lose health insurance and millions more would lose food stamps or be priced out of college.
Republicans push these devastating cuts as a path to a balanced budget. But their budgets have been widely panned by experts as being based on "magic asterisks." While they're comfortable putting the squeeze on working families who will be most affected by these cuts in benefits and services, they refuse to ask corporations and the wealthy to contribute one thin dime to the effort. In fact, not one tax loophole is closedby their budgets.
Instead, the House GOP's proposed budget would give bigger tax cuts to the wealthy, blowing a $1 trillion-plus hole in the budget over the next decade, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Not surprisingly, neither Republican budget details their top priority: tax reform that would result in an even bigger giveaway. That's because the public doesn't support their wish list and because their numbers don't add up.
Their goal of reducing the top tax rates paid by the rich and corporations by about one- third will cost another $3 trillion, based on the plan they offered last year. Republicans have proposed no credible plan to pay for those tax breaks. The average millionaire would cut his tax bill by $200,000. And it would do nothing to end the scandal that hugely profitable corporations – General Electric, Boeing, Verizon and scores of other companies –paid no federal income taxes over a recent five-year period.
In stark contrast, the "People's Budget: A Raise for America"—authored by the Congressional Progressive Caucus with assistance from the Economic Policy Institute Policy Center—invests in our nation in a robust, straightforward way. It would create millions of- jobs, repair our crumbling roads and bridges, make college affordable, improve our schools and other community services, and get us to full employment in two years.
Where does the money come from? No "magic asterisks" here—wealthy households and big corporations are finally asked to pay their fair share.
Corporations would no longer get a tax break when they shift jobs and hide profits offshore. Income generated from investments primarily owned by the wealthy would no longer be taxed at a lower rate than income earned from weekly paychecks. Wall Street gamblers would pay a tiny tax on all their wheeler-dealer trading. Millionaires and billionaires would pay somewhat higher tax rates (but still lower than they did during most of the Reagan Administration).
Average Americans are hungry for this kind of responsible reform. They know the tax code is stacked against them in favor of the well-off and well-connected. In a recent Pew Research Center poll, over 60 percent of respondents said their top complaint about the tax system was that corporations and the wealthy don't pay their fair share, while only 27 percent were most concerned about their own tax bill.
Budgets are about choices. Republicans have chosen in their budgets to further enrich the wealthy and corporations at the expense of workers, children, veterans, seniors—the whole broad American family. In contrast, the People's Budget gives all of us a reason to mobilize around a vision for our future that will expand opportunities for everyday Americans.
U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) is a Vice Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Lawrence Mishel is president of the Economic Policy Institute. This article previously appeared in The Hill.


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The fed'rul gummint may shut down in the next two days, but voting on which games will be featured in 2012's "The Art of Video Games" won't. It's been extended another 10 days to April 17. Winners still will be announced May 7. The show will open March 16, 2012 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington.
The Art of Video Games Comes To The Smithsonian In 2012
Video games? In the Smithsonian? It could happen sooner than you think, if "soon" for you …
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Moby-Dick
Etymology & Extracts
Chapters 93–101
Chapters 102–114
Chapter 133–Epilogue
Starbuck, Stubb, and Flask
Further study Context
Herman Melville was born in New York City in 1819, the third of eight children born to Maria Gansevoort Melville and Allan Melville, a prosperous importer of foreign goods. When the family business failed at the end of the 1820s, the Melvilles relocated to Albany in an attempt to revive their fortunes. A string of further bad luck and overwork, however, drove his father to an early grave, and the young Melville was forced to start working in a bank at the age of thirteen.
After a few more years of formal education, Melville left school at eighteen to become an elementary school teacher. This career was abruptly cut short and followed by a brief tenure as a newspaper reporter. Running out of alternatives on land, Melville made his first sea voyage at nineteen, as a merchant sailor on a ship bound for Liverpool, England. He returned to America the next summer to seek his fortune in the West. After settling briefly in Illinois, he went back east in the face of continuing financial difficulties.
Finally, driven to desperation at twenty-one, Melville committed to a whaling voyage of indefinite destination and scale on board a ship called the Acushnet. This journey took him around the continent of South America, across the Pacific Ocean, and to the South Seas, where he abandoned ship with a fellow sailor in the summer of 1842, eighteen months after setting out from New York. The two men found themselves in the Marquesas Islands, where they accidentally wandered into the company of a tribe of cannibals. Lamed with a bad leg, Melville became separated from his companion and spent a month alone in the company of the natives. This experience later formed the core of his first novel, Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life, published in 1846. An indeterminate mixture of fact and fiction, Melville's fanciful travel narrative remained the most popular and successful of his works during his lifetime.
Life among these natives and other exotic experiences abroad provided Melville with endless literary conceits. Armed with the voluminous knowledge obtained from constant reading while at sea, Melville wrote a series of novels detailing his adventures and his philosophy of life. Typee was followed by Omoo (1847) and Mardi and a Voyage Thither (1849), two more novels about his Polynesian experiences. Redburn, also published in 1849, is a fictionalized account of Melville's first voyage to Liverpool. His next novel, White-Jacket; or The World in a Man-of-War, published in 1850, is a generalized and allegorical account of life at sea aboard a warship.
Through the lens of literary history, these first five novels are all seen as an apprenticeship to what is today considered Melville's masterpiece, Moby-Dick; or The Whale, which first appeared in 1851. A story of monomania aboard a whaling ship, Moby-Dick is a tremendously ambitious novel that functions at once as a documentary of life at sea and a vast philosophical allegory of life in general. No sacred subject is spared in this bleak and scathing critique of the known world, as Melville satirizes by turns religious traditions, moral values, and the literary and political figures of the day.
Melville was influenced in the writing of Moby-Dick by the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne, author of The Scarlet Letter, whom he met in 1850 and to whom he dedicated Moby-Dick. Melville had long admired Hawthorne's psychological depth and gothic grimness and associated Hawthorne with a new, distinctively American literature. Though the works of Shakespeare and Milton and stories in the Bible (especially the Old Testament) influenced Moby-Dick, Melville didn't look exclusively to celebrated cultural models. He drew on sources from popular culture as well; whaling narratives, for example, were popular in the nineteenth century. Melville relied on Thomas Beale's encyclopedic Natural History of the Sperm Whale and the narrative Etchings of a Whaling Cruise, by J. Ross Browne.
By the 1850s, whaling was a dying industry. Whales had been hunted into near extinction, and substitutes for whale oil had been found. Despite its range of cultural references and affiliation with popular genres, Moby-Dick was a failure. Its reception led Melville to defy his critics by writing in an increasingly experimental style and eventually forsaking novels in favor of poetry. He died in 1891.
Moby-Dick remained largely ignored until the 1920s, when it was rediscovered and promoted by literary historians interested in constructing an American literary tradition. To these critics, Moby-Dick was both a seminal work elaborating on classic American themes, such as religion, fate, and economic expansion, and a radically experimental anachronism that anticipated Modernism in its outsized scope and pastiche of forms. It stands alongside James Joyce's Ulysses and Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy as a novel that appears bizarre to the point of being unreadable but proves to be infinitely open to interpretation and discovery.
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American Songwriter Podcast Network
Bringin' It Backwards Podcast
Bringin' it Backwards: Interview Stacy Jones (American Hi-Fi, Letters to Cleo, Atwater Punx, etc.)
by Bringin' It Backwards July 22, 2020, 6:00 am
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We had the pleasure of interviewing Stacy Jones (American Hi-Fi, Letters to Cleo, Atwater Punx, etc) over Zoom video!
A blood-pumping hybrid of late-70's British punk and 90's alt-rock, Atwater Punx is defined by the music that inspires husband and wife duo, Stacy Jones and Kristen Wagner Jones. The songs are the first collaboration of its kind for the couple who have spent the entirety of their careers creating music apart. After the birth of their son, Waylon, the time finally felt right to team up sonically. Spending toddler nap times and post-bedtime putdowns in their home studio, they began to craft a new set of songs that encompassed their love for bands like The Clash and Bikini Kill. While Stacy, a full- time drummer and in-demand musical director for artists like Miley Cyrus, 5 Seconds of Summer and Troye Sivan, was filling his days with show production and rehearsals, Kristen had switched gears from fronting her indie band, Bullet & Snowfox, to life as a stay-at-home mom. The two would chip away at new tunes whenever feasible, but when Coronavirus hit and the world came to a grinding halt, the couple finally found the time and inspiration to hunker down and finish the songs that had become a true labor of love. The result is their debut EP 'The Flea Draws Blood.'
MORE ON STACY JONES
Stacy Jones got his start as the frontman and main songwriter for American Hi-Fi, who had the 2001 hit "Flavor of the Weak." After the peak of the American Hi-Fi days, his career took the most unlikely of turns into being a touring and studio drummer and a Music Director. Thirteen years in Jones is one of the most in-demand music directors in his field – working with chart-topping artists like Miley Cyrus, Noah Cyrus, 5 Seconds of Summer, the Chainsmokers and Troye Sivan among others.
In addition to the MD work, he still works as a drummer, writer, musician, producer (Bob Rock was his mentor) and tours consistently. He is an active member of his band'S American Hi-Fi, and Letters to Cleo, has been the touring drummer for Matchbox Twenty since 2012, and even has a great story about recording vocals with Mötley Crüe. Last year he did double duty on the Letters to Cleo fall tour, opening with his band American Hi-Fi then playing drums with the headlining act, Letters to Cleo. He has a great routine and story about getting into shape for that tour.
STACY JONES ADDITIONAL DRUMMING CREDITS: Madonna, Ariana Grande, Everclear, Avril Lavigne, Joan Jett, The Jonas Brothers, Billy Ray Cyrus, The Flaming Lips, Lily Allen, Cobra Starship, Sheryl Crow, The Cab, Hey Monday, Veruca Salt, Dia Frampton, Aimee Mann, Butch Walker, The Dollyrots and more.
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I got a lend of this guitar from a friend of mine. It's a rad little guitar and it feels great to play.
Put a P-Rails pickup in a Triple Shot mounting ring, attached it with a piece of pickguard to make it look like a dog-eared P90, added a tone control, black witch hat knobs, and a momentary kill button. And shaped the neck to be rounder on the back.
you didn't roll around on the floor, or throw it into your amp, though.


We build the Santa yard sign in our workshop. Santa is hand painted red, white, green, and black.
The dimensions are approximately 17.50 inches tall by 13 inches wide by 1.50 inches deep. The yard art has a 20 inch stake. The item weighs approximately 2.75 pounds with packaging. For the continental U.S. shipping and handling is included in the listed price. For shipping outside the continental U.S. please contact us through our Contact Us page.
We build the Toy Soldier yard sign in our workshop. The Toy Soldier is hand painted red, white, green, and blue. The soldier is holding a candy cane.
The dimensions are approximately 33 inches tall by 14 inches wide by 2 inches deep. The yard art has a 28.50 inch stake. The item weighs approximately 5 pounds with packaging. For the continental U.S. shipping and handling is included in the listed price. For shipping outside the continental U.S. please contact us through our Contact Us page.
We build the Toy Stocking yard sign in our workshop. The toy stocking has many different toys hand painted in.
The dimensions are approximately 33 inches tall by 20.50 inches wide by 1.50 inches deep. The yard art has a 31 inch stake. The item weighs approximately 6 pounds with packaging. For the continental U.S. shipping and handling is included in the listed price. For shipping outside the continental U.S. please contact us through our Contact Us page.
We build the Christmas Tree in our workshop. The Christmas tree is painted green, white and yellow. The tinsel can be either red or blue.
The dimensions are approximately 30 inches tall by 22.50 inches wide by 2 inches deep. The item weighs approximately 4.75 pounds with packaging. For the continental U.S. shipping and handling is included in the listed price. For shipping outside the continental U.S. please contact us through our Contact Us page.
We build the Dog Stocking in our workshop. The stocking is hand painted red, green, and white. The dog is painted brown.
The dimensions are approximately 34 inches tall by 18.50 inches wide by 2 inches deep. The item weighs approximately 5.50 pounds with packaging. For the continental U.S. shipping and handling is included in the listed price. For shipping outside the continental U.S. please contact us through our Contact Us page.
We build the Cat Stocking in our workshop. The stocking is hand painted red, green, and white. The cat is painted a light brown or beige color.
We build the Santa With Candy Cane in our workshop. The arts and crafts item is hand painted red, green, white and yellow.
The dimensions are approximately 30 inches tall by 21 inches wide by 2 inches deep. The item weighs approximately 5.25 pounds with packaging. For the continental U.S. shipping and handling is included in the listed price. For shipping outside the continental U.S. please contact us through our Contact Us page.
We build the Santa With Jesus yard sign in our workshop. Santa is hand painted red, black, and white. Baby Jesus is painted in a white blanket on a pile of yellow-brown hay.
The dimensions are approximately 39.50 inches tall by 49 inches wide by 1.50 inches deep. The yard art has a 36 inch stake. This arts and crafts item is very large, and can only be picked up at our store or at one of our craft shows.
We build the Large Santa yard sign in our workshop. Santa is hand painted red, black, and white. He is holding a candle and a decorated Christmas tree.
The dimensions are approximately 53 inches tall by 46 inches wide by 1.50 inches deep. The yard art has a 63 inch stake. This arts and crafts item is very large, and can only be picked up at our store or at one of our craft shows.
We build the Reindeer Lights yard sign out of cedar in our workshop. The reindeer is hand painted with white wash (thinned white paint). The base is painted red with greenery wrapped around it. The sign is painted green and reads Seasons Greetings. The sign has 50 mini lights wrapped around its antlers and the base.
The dimensions are approximately 33 inches tall by 12 inches wide by 5.50 inches deep. This item is very delicate, and can only be picked up at their store or at one of their craft shows.
We build the Santa Boots in our workshop. The arts and crafts item is hand painted red, green, white and black.
The dimensions are approximately 19 inches tall by 12 inches wide by 2 inches deep. The Santa Boots has a 36 inch stake. The item weighs approximately 2.75 pounds with packaging. For the continental U.S. shipping and handling is included in the listed price. For shipping outside the continental U.S. please contact us through our Contact Us page.
We build the Jingle Bells sign in our workshop. The arts and crafts item is hand painted red, green, black, brown and yellow.
The dimensions are approximately 19 inches tall by 12 inches wide by 2 inches deep. The sign has a 36 inch stake. The item weighs approximately 2.75 pounds with packaging. For the continental U.S. shipping and handling is included in the listed price. For shipping outside the continental U.S. please contact us through our Contact Us page.
We build the Santa Wreath Hanger in our workshop. The arts and crafts item is hand painted red and white. It has a small wreath around the face of Santa.
The dimensions are approximately 42.50 inches tall by 19 inches wide by 1.75 inches deep. This item is very delicate, and can only be picked up at their store or at one of their craft shows.
We build the Merry Christmas Santa Hanger in our workshop. The arts and crafts item is hand painted red, white, blue, green, and yellow. It has small pegs in which you can hang a hat or scarf on. The sign reads: Merry Christmas.
The dimensions are approximately 10.50 inches tall by 16.50 inches wide by 1.50 inches deep. The item weighs approximately 2 pounds with packaging. For the continental U.S. shipping and handling is included in the listed price. For shipping outside the continental U.S. please contact us through our Contact Us page.
We build the Snowman Stocking in our workshop. The arts and crafts item is hand painted with a red sky, green Christmas trees, and a white snowman. The snowman is wearing a red and white scarf with a black and blue hat.
The dimensions are approximately 18 inches tall by 11.25 inches wide by 1.50 inches deep. The item weighs approximately 5 pounds with packaging. For the continental U.S. shipping and handling is included in the listed price. For shipping outside the continental U.S. please contact us through our Contact Us page.


The Milwaukee Brewers, the hottest team in the major leagues, winners of eight straight games, will head to Chicago Thursday, to play the Cubs in game one of a four-game series. This matchup features two teams battling for the National League Central title this season. Four out of the five teams in the Central are above .500 in what is looking like what could be the most competitive division in all of baseball. The Brewers come in on a roll, having swept their last two series, and look to stay hot tonight with Chase Anderson (2-1 3.26 ERA) on the mound. The Cubs are starting to heat up themselves as they have won four of their last six games and will start Kyle Hendricks (1-1 4.09 ERA). The Cubs are big -156 home favorites. The game total over-under is set at eight and a half runs. First pitch is scheduled for 5:05 PM PST from Wrigley Field in Chicago.
I don't think the Milwaukee Brewers are as good as they are playing right now. But baseball is a game that is, as Yogi Berra once famously quipped, 90% mental and the other half is physical. The Milwaukee Brewers have the mental part of the game down right now. They are tied for the most wins in the National League at sixteen and are finding ways to win all of their close games. If you look at their stats it is hard to find something that sticks out to prove why these guys are winning at such a high rate, they just know how to win games and are doing it a lot.
One area they have had some solid statistical success is on the mound. The Brew Crew are sixth in the big leagues in ERA and are top ten in both WHIP and batting average against. Tonight's starter Chase Anderson is one of the guys leading the way for Milwaukee. Anderson exploded onto the scene last year when he went 12-4 with an ERA of just 2.74 in twenty-five starts for Milwaukee. He had been a solid pitcher before that, but last year he showed that he was finally fully matured and ready to be a guy the Brewers could count on in the starting rotation.
This season has started out well for Anderson as he is 2-1 with a 3.25 ERA. The one knock on Anderson has been his inability to get deep into games this season. He has yet to throw a hundred pitches in a game and has only gone past the sixth inning one time. Anderson had a quality start in his lone appearance against the Cubs this year as he pitched six innings and allowed just two runs on four hits and struck out seven. Anderson was a hard-luck loser in that game as his Brewers team offered zero run support.
The Cubs are such a strange team this year. When you look at the lineup and the rotation, it looks like an elite squad. They are chalked full of young talent and know how to win in the postseason. But they have struggled with consistency this season. They are just one game above .500 and have scored one run or less in almost a third of their games this year. They have managed to be top ten in the majors in runs scored as when they do hit, they hit. We saw that in the last two weeks as they erupted for eight runs or more six times. It is just really hard to put your finger on just what kind of production this team is going to give you on a given day.
Starting for the Cubs tonight is Kyle Hendricks. Hendricks is one of those young talented guys I mentioned above. He had a breakout year in 2016 as he went 16-8 with a 2.13 ERA. He regressed a bit last year as he only went 7-5 but still had a very strong ERA of 3.03. He has struggled a bit out of the gates this year as well and is 1-1 with a 4.09 ERA. One has to wonder what kind of season to expect from Hendricks this year. Will he look more like the guy that received MVP votes in 2016? Or the guy that struggled to win games in 2017?
The area that has been the most concern for Hendricks so far this season as his inability to keep runners off base. His WHIP is at 1.36, which is significantly higher than his career average and he is constantly having to work with runners on base. That is a recipe for disaster. If you play with fire, eventually you are going to get burned, and that has been what has happened this season to Hendricks.
Kyle Hendricks is really good. I will give the slight nod to the Cubs in the starting pitching matchup. But baseball is so much about momentum and how well you are playing, and you can't argue against the fact that Milwaukee is playing really well right now. Anderson is pitching his best right now, and the Brewers might have caught Hendricks in a bit of a slump. To me, this seems to be a very evenly matched game.
Yet the Cubs are pretty big home favorites. That is surprising to me, and that is where we find the value today. To me, this is a coin flip game, it could go either way. I have the opportunity to take the Brewers and get a bunch of dog money at +136 in what should be a close game, and I will take advantage of it tonight.
Give me the hottest team in the majors as big road underdogs tonight in Chicago!


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The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority will soon be selling additional SEPTA Key Cards.
The transit agency announced on Friday that a limited number of Key Cards preloaded with Weekly and Monthly TransPasses will be available beginning Monday, August 1 as part of the program's next phase.
Those passes can be acquired at 15th Street Station and SEPTA Headquarters at 1234 Market Street. On August 8, the agency will allow riders to reload cards at other major transit terminals.
The exact number of Key Cards that will be available was not disclosed.
SEPTA offered 10,000 passes when it launched the Early Adopters program in June. The passes sold out by the end of the month.
Riders are currently able to use SEPTA Key Cards on subway lines, buses, trolleys and the Norristown High Speed Line. Regional Rail and Paratransit will be added in a later phase.
SEPTA officials indicated that early feedback would dictate how quickly the next phase of the program would be implemented.
The full rollout schedule for the SEPTA Key program can be found here.
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Estimated survival rates for this year's spring-migrating juvenile fish passing through the Columbia and Snake river system show a mixed bag of results.
Paul Wagner of NOAA Fisheries shared 2016 preliminary survival estimates for 2016 with the Fish Passage Advisory Committee meeting Oct. 4, and at the Technical Management Team meeting the following day.
The 2016 report by the Northwest Fisheries Science Center covers juvenile spring Chinook, steelhead and sockeye moving downstream on the Snake and Columbia rivers April 1-June 15.
Wagner said most Snake River hatchery spring Chinook survived to Lower Granite Dam at higher levels than the 10-year average.
However, estimated survival to Bonneville Dam of the combined Snake River hatchery and wild-yearling Chinook fell slightly below the long-term average, the 22-page memo said. From the Snake River trap to the Bonneville Dam tailrace, the survival rate was 33 percent.
The survival study, based on PIT-tag data, started in 1993 and is funded by BPA.
It was a similar story for Snake River hatchery and wild steelhead. Their survival was above-average through the Snake system, but the combined steelhead survival estimate from the Snake River trap to the Bonneville tailrace was 44.4 percent below average.


Likes to establish the run. Does a good job of keeping you off balance by mixing it up with inside runs, outside zones, tosses, read option and even willing to hand it to the FB on first or second down. Will stay committed to the run if the game is within a score or two. Utilized both Matt Flynn and Kaep at QB but both had their struggles with consistency. Didn't really test the defense deep very often, in fact I think there may have only been one time I can remember a pass traveling over 20 yards in the air and it was a go route to Torrey Smith. However, that is to be expected with the deep ball inaccuracy of Flynn/Kaep.
Felt like he played mostly zone but did a good job of mixing it up and keeping me off balance. He will user the safety/corner on deep balls and do so with accuracy as he thwarted the couple times I tried to test him deep (even user picking a pass off). Also, does a great job of disengaging from blocks, in particular with the OLB as there were a coupld of times where I was positive that Bell had the edge and LOTS of room to run, only to see his click onto the OLB, get off the block and make the big tackle.
Nothing special to report other than he seems willing to return all punts if in bounds. There were a couple of punts I pooched into the corner that didn't quite make it out of bounds but he was more than willing to catch and run despite my gunner approaching fast (even waiting there for his returner to catch it).


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Idah Sithole-Niang (born 1957) is a Zimbabwean biochemist and educator. Her main area of research has been viruses which attack the cowpea, one of the major food crops of Zimbabwe.

Biography
Idah Sithole was born in Hwange, Zimbabwe, on 2 October 1957. She attended the University of London, on scholarship, earning a BS in biochemistry in 1982. When she was awarded a USAID Fellowship in 1983, Sithole chose to continue her education, studying plant and virus genetics. She earned a PhD in 1988 from Michigan State University (MSU) in Lansing, Michigan. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Plant Research Laboratory at MSU researching the genetics of photosynthesis in cyanobacteria on the first William L. Brown Fellowship, awarded by the Resources Development Foundation. Returning to Zimbabwe, she became a Lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe in 1992 on viruses which infect plants. Her chief area of research is the potyvirus, which attacks the cowpea, a legume which is a chief food crop of Zimbabwe. That same year, she married Sheikh Ibrahima Niang, a Senegalese professor of anthropology, whom she met at Michigan State University. They have a commuting marriage, as he works at the University of Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal. She was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship for careers in Biotechnology between 1992 and 1995. She has continued teaching and researching, publishing numerous papers. In 2006 she was made Associate Professor at the University of Zimbabwe.

Sithole-Niang is in favor of genetic modifications to make cowpeas resistant to disease and believes that GMO versions of traditional crops are beneficial to developing nations. Working with the Network for the Genetic Improvement of Cowpea for Africa (NGICA) as a coordinator, she has consulted with other international experts, in part because of the lack of funding available from within Zimbabwe. She has served as both a member and a board member of numerous organizations including: Steering Committee Trustee of the African Women for Agriculture and Research and Development (AWARD) Programme, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Society for Virologists, Oversight Committee of the Improved Maize for African Soils (IMAS), Selection Committee Chair of the Joshua Nkomo Scholarships, the New York Academy of Sciences, Vice Chair of the Research Council of Zimbabwe, Selection Committee for the Rhodes Scholarships in Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwe Academy of Sciences. Sithole-Niang is a Technical Advisor to the Program for Biosafety Systems for sub-Saharan Africa.

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I'm looking for a good hard shootemup with great graphics, any recommendations?
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Removing ignition switch without key.
> lot of trouble. I'm no locksmith but I've done it lots of times.
>dash.? Avoiding drilling it out but maybe I have to.
: 0 ) Don't even need a key for a pattern.
Thanks for the info Spike and others. I will try a locksmith.
> >dash.? Avoiding drilling it out but maybe I have to.
> : 0 ) Don't even need a key for a pattern.
: Easier to jerk a couple of wires.
One - MAYBE two yanks on the slide and POW you are gone.
Provided the SOB starts right up and runs.
: lot of trouble. I'm no locksmith but I've done it lots of times.
Fords. In older GMs it was pretty easy much of the time.
: Thanks for the info Spike and others. I will try a locksmith.
> I own a 66 mustang but we did not get the keys when we bought it and I was wondering what the easiest way to get the key cylinder out without the key was.


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Gas to overtake coal as world's second largest energy source by 2030 - IEA
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LONDON (Reuters) - Natural gas is expected to overtake coal as the world's second largest energy source after oil by 2030 due to a drive to cut air pollution and the rise in liquefied natural gas (LNG) use, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Tuesday.
A brand new oil production facility owned by Oasis Petroleum in the Permian Basin oil and natural gas production area near Wink, Texas U.S. August 22, 2018. Picture taken August 22, 2018. REUTERS/Nick Oxford
The Paris-based IEA said in its World Energy Outlook 2018 that energy demand would grow by more than a quarter between 2017 and 2040 assuming more efficient use of energy - but would rise by twice that much without such improvements.
Global gas demand would increase by 1.6 percent a year to 2040 and would be 45 percent higher by then than today, it said.
The estimates are based on the IEA's "New Policies Scenario" that takes into account legislation and policies to reduce emissions and fight climate change. They also assume more energy efficiencies in fuel use, buildings and other factors.
"Natural gas is the fastest growing fossil fuel in the New Policies Scenario, overtaking coal by 2030 to become the second-largest source of energy after oil," the report said.
China, already the world's biggest oil and coal importer, would soon become the largest importer of gas and net imports would approach the level of the European Union by 2040, the IEA said.
According to Reuters calculations, based on China's General Administration of Customs data, China has already overtaken Japan as the world's top natural gas importer.
Although China is the world's third-biggest user of natural gas behind the United States and Russia, it has to import about 40 percent of its needs as local production cannot keep pace.
Emerging economies in Asia would account for about half of total global gas demand growth and their share of LNG imports would double to 60 percent by 2040, the IEA report said.
"Although talk of a global gas market similar to that of oil is premature, LNG trade has expanded substantially in volume since 2010 and has reached previously isolated markets," it said. LNG involves cooling gas to a liquid so it can transported by ship.
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The United States could account for 40 percent of total gas production growth to 2025, the IEA said, while other sources would take over as U.S. shale gas output flattened and other nations started turning to unconventional methods of gas production, such as hydraulic fracturing or fracking.
Global electricity demand will grow 2.1 percent a year, mostly driven by rising use in developing economies. Electricity will account for a quarter of energy used by end users such as consumers and industry by 2040, it said.
Coal and renewables will swap their positions in the power generation mix. The share of coal is forecast to fall from about 40 percent today to a quarter in 2040 while renewables would grow to just over 40 percent from a quarter now.
However, the world's coal plants make up one third of energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions today. Many of those are in Asia, where average coal plants are on average 11 years old with decades left to operate, compared with an average age of 40 years in the United States and Europe.
"We can create some room for manoeuvre by expanding the use of Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage, hydrogen, improving energy efficiency, and in some cases, retiring capital stock early. To be successful, this will need an unprecedented global political and economic effort," said Fatih Birol, the IEA's executive director.
Energy-related CO2 emissions could reach a record high this year, the IEA said, and will continue to grow at a slow but steady pace to 2040. From 2017 levels, the IEA said emissions would rise by 10 percent to 36 gigatonnes in 2040, mostly driven by growth in oil and gas.
But this is "far out of step" with what scientific knowledge says would be required to tackle climate change, it added.
Reporting by Nina Chestney; Editing by Edmund Blair and Louise Heavens


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Gilde Healthcare exits occupational health provider BlijWerkt to Mentha Capital
Utrecht (the Netherlands) – Gilde Healthcare today announced it has sold its majority stake in occupational health provider BlijWerkt to Mentha Capital, subject to approval by the Dutch Healthcare Authority. Led by Gilde, BlijWerkt has become a national player and challenger to the established occupational health providers. The successful growth of the company is the result of a differentiating proactive approach and expansion through acquisitions.
BlijWerkt is a fast-growing occupation health provider. Supporting both large organizations and SMEs in managing absenteeism by improving the vitality of organizations and their employees. BlijWerkt manages the process of employee sick leave and return to work.
Gilde Healthcare played an active role in the expansion of the company through the acquisition and integration of other occupational health providers such as Metaplanning, Re-on, Tredin and Immediator. "Gilde Healthcare is well entrenched in the healthcare market and has actively supported our growth trajectory. In a few years we have grown from a local SME service provider to a national player with large clients in our portfolio," says Ruud Pels, director of BlijWerkt.
Gilde Healthcare reflects positively on its collaboration with BlijWerkt: "as a sector specialist with an active growth strategy, we have been able to add a lot of value," says Hugo de Bruin, partner at Gilde Healthcare, "by investing in quality of service and the expansion of BlijWerkt towards a national player, we have created an alternative to the large incumbents. This is beneficial for both employees and employers."
After the acquisition, BlijWerkt will collaborate with the paraDIGMA group. "By joining forces, paraDIGMA and BlijWerkt can further improve the quality and service to its customers and lay a solid foundation for further growth," said Barend Rutten, partner at Mentha Capital.
In the sale of BlijWerkt, Oaklins acted as the exclusive M&A advisor to the sellers and Jacoline Gortzak, Legaltree, as the legal advisor.
About Gilde Healthcare
Gilde Healthcare is a specialized European healthcare investor managing € 1 billion ($ 1.2 billion) across two fund strategies: private equity and venture & growth capital. Gilde Healthcare's private equity fund invests in profitable European lower mid-market healthcare companies with a focus on the Benelux and DACH region. The private equity fund targets healthcare providers, suppliers of medical products and service providers in the healthcare market. Gilde Healthcare's venture & growth capital fund invests in health tech and therapeutics. The venture & growth companies are based in Europe and North America.
www.gildehealthcare.com
About BlijWerkt
BlijWerkt is the health and safety service that combines the power of the bigger players with the flexibility and personal attention of smaller players. With 120 staff, we are known as a vibrant leader, energizing employers and employees alike.
www.blijwerkt.nl
About Mentha Capital
Mentha Capital is an independent investment company that focuses on the lower-end of the mid-market in the Benelux. Mentha invests in established, medium-sized and profitable companies that have the opportunity to grow further through a buy-and-build strategy, expansion into new markets or an organizational transition. With more than EUR 400 million under management, Mentha works actively with entrepreneurs to support their companies in realizing their ambitious growth plans.
www.menthacapital.com
Related to: BlijWerkt
Gilde Healthcare is a specialized European healthcare investor managing EUR 1 billion (USD 1.2 billion) across two fund strategies: venture & growth capital and private equity. Gilde Healthcare's venture & growth capital fund invests in health tech and therapeutics. The venture & growth companies are based in Europe and North America. Gilde Healthcare's private equity fund invests in profitable European lower mid-market healthcare companies with a focus on the Benelux and DACH region. The private equity fund targets healthcare providers, suppliers of medical products and service providers in the healthcare market.
Gilde Healthcare invests in fast growing, innovative businesses delivering better care at lower cost.