Richard Bernstein Advisors employs a macro-driven, top-down style to construct a suite of global dynamic asset allocation portfolios. The investment team uses quantitative indicators and the firm's macro-economic analysis to invest in global equity and fixed income asset classes and several sub-asset classes and sectors using only US listed ETFs. Typical broad macro-economic factors and indicators include: global valuations; global yield curves; asset class, regional, and country correlations; profit cycle analyses, style and sector rotation; earnings analysis; investor sentiment and other factors.
RBA offers several asset allocation ETF-driven separately managed account portfolios through select broker-dealers and RIA platforms.
Asset allocation and implementation decisions are made by the investment committee led by Richard Bernstein. Exposures among asset classes will be based on the team's assessment of proprietary and non-proprietary quantitative indicators, and the firm's macro-economic analysis. After assessing numerous models and indicators, the final allocation decisions* are made by the team.
Structural asset correlations are an integral part of RBA's diversification strategy. These tend to be longer term in nature, and thus less affected by short-term market volatility and fluctuations. RBA also seeks to balance portfolio risk with investment themes and opportunities not yet fully recognized by the market.
Shorter-term tactical strategies, 12 - 18 months, are formulated within the framework of the firm's core concepts of long-term asset allocation. The team makes tactical allocations based on market mis-pricings relative to changes in the global economy, geopolitics and corporate profits. The strategic allocation is based on a each strategy's long-term neutral policy.
These strategies have the ability to invest in any global asset class - essentially "go anywhere" strategies and can invest in any sector, market cap, duration, credit, style or country/region. Individual ETF selection to implement the asset allocation decisions will be based on quantitative screening, risk-analysis and qualitative review.
Annual turnover is typically expected to be 50% or less, except in cases of unusual economic or market volatility, which could increase turnover.


Unlocking Innovation through InsurTech: The proliferation of data, analytics, and technology (DAT) driven capabilities in the form of InsurTech solutions has made employing these new innovations more compelling than ever before. Matching a business's needs and objectives with the right capability accelerates strategic growth.
Chart: The Matrix of Cyber and Property Lines Insurance Coverage: Chart examines the policy coverage matrix between cyber and property lines of insurance coverage.
The Life Insurance Industry Needs a Lifeline: The life insurance industry appears healthy enough with plenty of capital and booming sales. A quick look under the hood, however, and it becomes clear that the industry's profitability has been declining for some time.
The Regulatory Landscape of Data Privacy: Here we bring together all the elements of our recent GC Capital Ideas series on the regulatory landscape of data privacy.
Revisiting War Exclusion in Cyber Policies: With two cyberattacks labeled as being state-supported – NotPetya and WannaCry attributed to support from Russian and North Korean governments, respectively – insurers and insurance buyers should begin a discussion about the wording of war exclusion in cyber insurance policies.
Here we bring together all the elements of our recent GC Capital Ideas series on the regulatory landscape of data privacy.
From the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Model Law and the New York State Department of Financial Services Regulation (NYDFS), to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018; the eight-part series reports and analyzes the junctures of consumer privacy demands, commercial pursuits and businesses' responsibilities.
What Capital Modeling Delivers: Capital modeling helps insurers meet the ever changing expectations of their stakeholders, from regulators to rating agencies to board members and policyholders. Since no two insurers are alike, companies need customized solutions to develop effective capital modeling.
Guy Carpenter Partners with RPC Consulting to Deliver Powerful Analytic Platform to the (Re)insurance Industry: Guy Carpenter announced a multi-year, global strategic partnership with Reynolds Porter Chamberlain Consulting LLP (RPCC) to license and develop proprietary applications to run within RPCC's Tyche software. As part of the agreement, Guy Carpenter will have exclusive access to Tyche among all insurance and reinsurance brokers, as well as certain other parties in the industry.
Does Asset Recycling Actually Work? Global infrastructure investment needs between now and 2040 are likely to top USD 94 trillion. While governments must take the lead to meet this massive infrastructure need, they cannot fund this level of infrastructure investment alone.
Global Insurance Prices Rise for Third Consecutive Quarter: Global commercial insurance prices rose, on average, in the second quarter of 2018, marking a third consecutive quarter of increases, according to the most recent Marsh Global Insurance Market Index. The increase in the index was driven largely by pricing for property and financial and professional insurance lines.
Being Prepared for Cyber Terrorism: Cyberattacks backed by hostile governments are increasingly a reality; companies should adopt strategies to strengthen cyber resilience.
With two cyberattacks labeled as being state-supported – NotPetya and WannaCry attributed to support from Russian and North Korean governments, respectively – insurers and insurance buyers should begin a discussion about the wording of war exclusion in cyber insurance policies.
Guy Carpenter announced a multi-year, global strategic partnership with Reynolds Porter Chamberlain Consulting LLP (RPCC) to license and develop proprietary applications to run within RPCC's Tyche software. As part of the agreement, Guy Carpenter will have exclusive access to Tyche among all insurance and reinsurance brokers, as well as certain other parties in the industry.
Capital modeling helps insurers meet the ever changing expectations of their stakeholders, from regulators to rating agencies to board members and policyholders. Since no two insurers are alike, companies need customized solutions to develop effective capital modeling.


Can Leicester City join the big guns in the Champions League quarter-final draw?
Leicester City will be looking to overturn a 2-1 1st leg deficit against Sevilla on Tuesday and book their place in Friday's draw alongside Champions League heavyweights Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund.
Since the 1st leg in Spain, the Foxes have pulled off back-to-back Premier League victories against Liverpool and Hull City, with last season's PFA Player of the Year Riyad Mahrez producing his best WhoScored rating of the campaign in the latter.
Craig Shakespeare has been confirmed as Leicester manager until the end of the season and while they seemed to have found their teeth again in attack, it's likely to be their defensive resolve that determines whether they progress to the next stage or not.
In Tuesday's other tie, Juventus will be looking to preserve the 2-goal cushion they established over Porto in Portugal. The Old Lady left it late at the weekend, needing a stoppage time penalty to get the job done against Milan but the midweek goal projections suggest that they have a good chance of securing a clean sheet against the Portuguese outfit, even though they have the luxury of knowing that they can afford to concede once.
On Wednesday, Atlético Madrid, beaten finalists in 2 of the last 3 years, are expected to book their place in the next round by completing the formalities of their return match with Bayer Leverkusen, having won 4-2 in Germany.
The other tie looks far more unpredictable though. Manchester City came from behind to defeat Monaco 5-3 at the Etihad in the 1st leg and the Citizens will be buoyed by the fact that they have kept 3 successive clean sheets in all competitions. However, things could quickly turn sour on the French Riviera. Monaco have scored 52 goals in 15 Ligue 1 home matches and have a 3 point cushion over champions' Paris Saint-Germain in the race for the league title.
Radamel Falcao had an eventful evening on his return to Manchester in the 1st leg, scoring twice and missing a penalty but he limped off with a hip injury in Saturday's 2-1 win over Bordeaux and faces a race against time to prove his fitness ahead of the return clash with Pepe Guardiola's City side.
If the Foxes really have rediscovered their bite, we could be set for another chapter in one of football's greatest stories!


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Phresher On How It Felt To Get A Phone Call From 50 Cent [EXCLUSIVE VIDEO]
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Headkrack caught up with Phresher at Birthday Bash! They talked about the New York lifestyle, and whether he would be open to moving to Atlanta. Phresher talks about what he would bring to Atlanta from New York if he could, and his love for the city's diversity. He also talks about how it felt to get a phone call from 50 Cent, collaborating with Remy Ma, and why he likes to see things (like the controversial "All Eyez On Me") for himself rather than taking the critics' word for it.
Plus, he laughs about fans being shocked by his appearance based on his raspy voice. Check out this exclusive video to hear more in this interview on "The Rickey Smiley Morning Show."
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Thunder guard Andre Roberson will miss at least two months after a setback in his recovery from left knee surgery.
Roberson suffered a ruptured patellar tendon in January and missed the second half of the season.
The Thunder suffered without one of the league's best perimeter defenders, and was eliminated by the Utah Jazz in the first round of the playoffs.
JJ Redick made all 10 of his shots and scored 28 points, Joel Embiid finished with 22 points and the Philadelphia 76ers downed the Dallas Mavericks 120-114 in Shanghai in the opener of the NBA China Games.
Redick made all seven of his shots from three-point range for the 76ers, who trailed by 15 points early. Ben Simmons finished with nine points, nine rebounds and 10 assists for Philadelphia.
Dennis Smith Jr. had 15 points in the game's first 8 minutes and finished with 20 for the Mavericks. Dallas star Dirk Nowitzki sat out the game while continuing to recover from left ankle surgery, though he was presented with a guitar during a second-half stoppage in play by former NBA player Wang Zhizhi of China.
Dallas was also without China's Ding Yanyuhang, who sat out with knee soreness. He addressed the crowd in Mandarin before tip-off. So did Embiid, who capped his remarks with "trust the process," and Nowitzki, who drew loud roars when he greeted the fans in Shanghai with "Ni hao" — or hello.


Mini-Blocks sit in a tray (flat) without support for easy starting of seeds and cuttings.
These Mini-Blocks are individually wrapped in white plastic to minimize algae growth.
Remove wrapping and transplant into any loose medium such as Growcubes or coconut fiber or leave wrapping on and set on top of a larger Gro-block.
Packed in easy tear away strips and the wrapping is labeled with instructions.
These 1.5" x 1.5" x 1.5" blocks are sold by the case in packages of 45 blocks.
A case contains 50 packages (2250 blocks).


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East of England Respiratory Programme
NHS given timetable for Home Oxygen reprocurement
South East Coast Respiratory Programme
Yorkshire & Humber Respiratory Programme
IMPRESS IMProving and Integrating RESpiratory Services in the NHS
The Department of Health has sent out a letter to SHA & PCT Chief Executives to update them about the progress of the Home Oxygen reprocurement and to remind them of the important role that they play in the process.
As we head in to an important stage of the reprocurement of Home Oxygen services, Professor Sue Hill, as Senior Responsible Officer for the Home Oxygen reprocurement, sent out a letter out on 11 August providing an update on the progress that has been made so far. The letter also reminds senior NHS managers of the important role that they will play in ensuring the smooth delivery of the improved Home Oxygen services.
Alongside the letter there was a separate document identifying the intended timetable for the changes in each region and giving details of the Home Oxygen leads in each region. The documents can be read below and are also available from the DH website.
Home Oxygen Procurement Update August 2010
Home Oxygen timetable and contacts August 2010


That's right ladies and gentlemen, it's done. Enjoy! See you in Greensboro tonight at the Blind Tiger!
0 Official Trailer for Crankshaft – New Music Video To Be Released Tomorrow!
That's right folks, peep that stanky dope trailer above for our new music video being released tomorrow. The video is for Crankshaft, from The Most Peculiar Thing, and was shot, cut & directed by our own Noah Adams. You can find it on our YouTube Channel or right here at http://www.DirtyBourbonRiverShow.com.
Since recording finished up last week, we have been hard at work building sets and shooting a new music video for Crankshaft. It should be out in a couple of weeks. We have been pretty productive since we got back home but it's time to get back on the road.
1 Tonight! Most Peculiar Thing CD Release Party!
Come celebrate the release of our 6th studio album – The Most Peculiar Thing – at the Blue Nile tonight! Local Brass Wizards Magnetic Ear opening at 10pm, DBRS to follow round 11.
P.S. Just in through the wire – we're playing for the president next year! Details to come!
Album drops this Friday exclusively on dbrs.bandcamp.com and in person.
That's right folks, in our tradition of giving you 2 albums a year, it's that time again… Ladies and gentlemen, it is our proudest of pleasures to present to you our 6th studio album: The Most Peculiar Thing. And for one day & one day only – 12.21.2012 – this album will be made free for the world.
On this day – when Mayan calenders predict the world will be ending – put the url "dbrs.bandcamp.com" into your browser and download this new album for free! No strings attached! Just good ole fashioned music!
Live in New Orleans? Even better: Come grab a free copy of the album in person – We'll be playing a CD release party w/ Magnetic Ear at the Blue Nile on Frenchmen Street at 11pm. There's a Facebook event for it HERE if you would like to rvsp & stay posted with release details.


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Blowin' in the wind: Clyde Wind Farm, 2003 to date
10 Jan Blowin' in the wind: Clyde Wind Farm, 2003 to date
How many roads must an archaeologist walk down before we can say that the archaeological potential of the site has been adequately characterised? And how many turbines does it take to ensure that the renewables target will be met by 2020? Whilst the answers to these questions may be blowin' in the wind, there is no denying the fact that wind farm development in Scotland has made a major contribution to the UK target on renewables. It has also been a key part of Headland's own story over the past 15 years or so.
Clyde Wind Farm is renewable energy on an epic scale. Officially opened on 14th September 2012 by Scotland's then First Minister, Alex Salmond, it is one of the largest consented on-shore wind farms in Europe. Straddling the A74(M), the western gateway into central Scotland, the site is a familiar landmark to travellers by road, rail and air. Everything about the site is big: including the recently constructed extension, it extends across an area of over 50km2, with 206 turbines and an installed generating capacity of 512mW. Joining up the turbines are some 105km of access tracks and around 150km of cable trenches; not forgetting the two substations, an operations building and various compounds. So, how many archaeologists does it take to build something on this scale?
Not surprisingly, it's not easy to say since the project has included elements of consultancy, multiple stages of field evaluation and mitigation-phase excavation, as well as survey, post-excavation assessment and analysis by a wide range of specialists and, ultimately, reporting, with publication to come. What we can say, however, is that the project, including the recently consented extension, involved 84 members of staff for a total period amassed of some 5,000 person-days. Of the 84 who have worked on Clyde over the years, just under half are still in the company, including the consultants who worked on the original Environmental Impact Assessment, Dr Stephen Carter and Paul Masser. Having this sort of continuity in the Project Team is one of the reasons that we have been able to service the contract so efficiently and effectively over the course of its design and build, having ready access in-house to a depth of knowledge about the project and its archaeology.
Like all major infrastructure projects, it started (2003) with an EIA. Like many it was refused, like some it was then overturned at appeal (2006). With the original study area containing some 235 known archaeological sites – ranging from henges, hillforts and cairns, to Roman camps and fortlets, to medieval bastle houses and fragments of post-medieval rural settlement – it was clear that cultural heritage would be a key topic to be addressed in the design of the wind farm. Understanding how setting contributes to the significance of the various assets was of paramount importance. Dr Carter's evidence at the appeal, concerning the settings of designated assets in the area, was a critical turning point, not only in the context of gaining consent for Clyde Wind Farm itself but also in the wider field of cultural resource management. For the first time we had a clearly-defined, explicit and reproducible methodology for the study and analysis of setting that was distinct from and independent of criteria employed by consultants working in landscape and visual assessment.
With the wind farm consented, internal management of the project passed from the consultancy team to the contracting side of the business.
Site investigations began in 2007 with monitoring of geotechnical test-pits throughout the consented layout. The results of the test-pitting, along with walkover surveys to identify new sites within areas of tree felling, were integrated within the archaeological constraints map for the development. Managing the impacts on the archaeological resource over such a large area presented a real challenge, which we resolved by developing a series of zoned risk or 'trigger' maps for the entire wind farm, which quickly and easily indicated what level of archaeological response was required in any given location. Equally key to the success of the construction phase of the project was the creation of a team of Archaeological Clerks of Works (ACoW). The ACoW formed part of the Environmental and Ecological Protection Group (EEPG), so that any archaeology issues could be addressed on an equal footing along with those concerning peat, ecology, water and drainage.
Construction on the original consented scheme started in 2009, with Headland providing archaeological support throughout the 4-year construction programme. Post-excavation analysis on a number of key excavations is still in progress but the excavation at Whelphill of a substantial part of a later prehistoric unenclosed platform settlement will almost certainly form a new benchmark study of this ubiquitous feature of the local landscape for years to come.
excavation, Headland highlights, project management, renewables


How does ultrasonics for plastics work? Francesco Gobbo and Mauro Sgarbi welcomed a great number of participants for the first basic seminar at the newly opened Tech center in Modena..
The theoretical part "Ultrasonic Welding Systems for Plastics" was followed by several practical application examples shown at the local ultrasonic laboratory.
In addition, Marco Rossi lectured on ultrasonic welding technology for nonwoven materials, particularly interesting for participants from the medical industry.
There was a lot of positive feedback regarding the seminar content as well as the capability and reliability of the Herrmann HiQ welding machines and components.


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Stresses and depression are among the most topical social problems in our modern society, along with the issues of obesity, AIDS or drug dependence. People feel stressed, worried or depressed very frequently and in many different situations. The majority of anxiety and stresses are connected with our activities at workplace, family matters or emotional connections. Depression is a regular psychological effect of stresses. Long lasting chronic stresses can cause permanent anxiety, settled melancholy and depression, which can bring to real clinical mental disorders.
For decades it was a usual practice to recommend such treatments as psychological therapy, traditional antidepressants, serotonin reuptake inhibitors and relaxants for coping with depression. However, recently a number of herbal remedies, including Valeriana, Lavandula, Melissa, Passiflora, Matricaria, Hypericum perforatum and many others, which can help to treat anxiety and depression in a natural and safer way, appeared at the market. It is especially advantageous for those who have different allergies or contraindications for taking antidepressants.
In particular, Hypericum Perforatum or St. John's Wort extract, is a proven effective herbal remedy which has been used for many years to facilitate the effects of depression by European specialists. The experiments proved that this natural treatment works as well as modern medications like Prozac and others. Another remedy containing extract of Ginko Biloba is also used to help patients ease depression as it stimulates blood circulation, improves memory and mood.
Natural amino acids extracted from Griffonia Simplicifolia are also used as effective remedies for depression. Besides, there are a number of herbal supplements (including Amoryn, etc.) created for those who suffer from chronic depressions. Finally, there are herbal treatments that can be recommended to those people who need to calm down their emotions or physical symptoms of depression. For example, extracts of Passion Flower or Valerian root are very popular herbal remedies which have great tranquilizing effects, help to relax and improve the quality of sleep.
For effective treatment of anxiety and depression, it is very important to combine herbal therapy with other stress and depression management techniques. The most popular methods suggested by modern psychologists include talk therapy, diet, rest, entertaining activities, relaxation, therapeutic massage, positive thinking and visualization, meditation, yoga and many others.
Good post!! And really St John's wort is proven to work among with other herbs..
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Here I go again guys! 'Rest & Recovery' was very welcome on Saturday, as I was pretty jaded – but as we entered Sunday I felt revived.
I have to admit to feeling a touch apprehensive this morning. 2 days rest – would it be like starting from scratch again? Have I remembered everything I'd learnt from last week? Although I was quite strict with my diet over the weekend – I did have a sneaky glass of red wine (okay, it might have been 2 glasses :)).
Back to basics. Well, these aren't exactly 'basics' for me. A week ago I was starting from zero with no boxing training experience. But today the routine started to feel more familiar. I wasn't overwhelmed. I had a bit more time to think – to set myself up for the combinations. Double Jab, Cross, Hook, Cross. I was getting it – felt more fluid and I even started punching harder.
I'm also more comfortable pushing forward to the bag – judging the correct distance I need to get in a shot. Last week I was approaching either too close or too far away – I'd Jab > Slip > Left Body Hook and then be too close for the Right Cross. 2 smaller steps forward rather than 1 big one is working better.
The speed work section is the killer but good. 20 straight punches, then 20 uppercuts. Then repeat. But you get out what you put into it – if it feels easy, make it harder. It's your chance to shine – stop thinking and hit the bag as fast as you can.
Sorry Corney. I ignored you here. "Keep yourself moving around during your minute rest". I opted for a little lay down instead, but it was purely in preparation for the 5 to 1 (press ups, crunches, burpee jumps, star jumps). I'm a 'work in progress' but I feel the tide is turning. No lying down tomorrow.
I'll say it again. "This isn't boring".


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24 Teachers Selected For New Teacher Leadership Advisory Council
LANSING – Twenty-four teachers have been selected from a pool of more than 300 applicants to serve on a new panel to help guide the state's plan to implement the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the Michigan Department of Education (MDE) announced today.
The two dozen teachers, from K-12 public schools across the state, will serve on the newly-created Michigan Teacher Leadership Advisory Council (MTLAC), developed with a $10,000 grant from the national Council of Chief State School Officers.
"Their collective talents and experience will be an asset to the council as we collaborate on the state's plan to implement Michigan's ESSA plan and work to become a Top 10 educations state within 10 years," State Superintendent Brian Whiston said. "Based on the leadership these educators have demonstrated in our schools and communities, we know that Michigan's students are in great hands."
ESSA is the new federal law that replaced the previous No Child Left Behind Act. Every state is to develop a plan that it will use to improve educational outcomes for children and hold schools accountable and transparent for that success.
The MTLAC members and their school districts are:
Chris Woods
Gina Pepin
Jane Porath
Nikky Willison
Kymberli Wregglesworth
Heather Gauck
Amber Kasic
Andrew Neumann
Bay-Arenac
Michael Whalen
Kearsley
Aimee Torok
Jeff Croley
Robyne Muray
Laura Chang
Jonathan Starkey
Early College Alliance, Eastern Michigan University
Rez Kayto
Becky Godin
Beth Gonzales
Wayne Regional Educational Service Agency
Matthew Homrich-Knieling
Cesar Chavez Public School Academy
Ciera Searcy
Jasmine Bates
The new MTLAC members were selected from a pool of more than 310 applicants from 10 Prosperity Regions across the state, following an application process open to all Michigan teachers. A competitive preference was given to those with experience or interest in teacher leadership positions.
The members will attend the panel's only mandatory, in-person meeting, Aug. 9 in Bath. Otherwise, they mostly will participate in online meetings, where they can provide feedback on the state's ESSA and Top 10 in 10 plans.
Council activities will be held outside of school hours. Members receive a $500 honorarium for the 2017-18 school year.
Members also will serve as ambassadors of the #proudMIeducator campaign (www.michigan.gov/proudmieducator).
The U.S. Department of Education (USED) currently is reviewing Michigan's ESSA plan, submitted to USED on April 17.
To read Michigan's ESSA Plan, and an Overview of the plan, go to www.michigan.gov/ESSA.


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2022 Eddies Awards: Best Collaboration
Organization: Advance Illinois, Center for Black Educator Development, Colorado Succeeds, DC Charter School Alliance, DFER Colorado, DFER District of Columbia, Educators for Excellence-Chicago, ExcelinEd, GeorgiaCAN, Illinois Network of Charter Schools, Kids First Chicago, League of Education Voters (LEV), Mississippi First, myFutureNC, PAVE (Parents Amplifying Voices in Education), redefinED Atlanta, Rodel, Stand for Children Illinois, Teach Plus, Teach Plus Illinois, Teach Plus Mississippi, Tennesseans for Student Success, Tennessee Charter School Center, Tennessee SCORE, TennesseeCAN, The Education Trust in Tennessee, The Education Trust-Midwest, The Education Trust-New York
State: Colorado, Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, Mississippi, National, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Washington
Program: Annual Summit & The Eddies!
The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature outstanding policy and advocacy wins from the past year.
This Eddies category features coalitions of leaders and organizations who worked together to achieve a significant impact for students and families. Working in coalition can be incredibly powerful—and incredibly challenging. This category honors the hard work of coalitions that organized artfully to respond to unique opportunities or challenges in their states and communities, contributed to a policy win, and inspired others to take up similar efforts. Leaders and organizations in this category not only advanced or protected critical policy to impact students—they did it in partnership and across lines of difference.
See a complete list of 2022 nominees in all Eddies categories. Staff at PIE Network members and partner organizations, check your inbox for a link to vote in each category. Don't see it? Email [email protected].
Best Collaboration Winner
TennesseeCAN, Tennessee SCORE, Tennesseans for Student Success, The Education Trust in Tennessee, ExcelinEd, Tennessee Charter School Center: Coalition For Tennessee Education Funding Reform (TISA)
Best Collaboration Finalists
Advance Illinois, Teach Plus Illinois, Educators for Excellence-Chicago, Stand for Children Illinois, Illinois Network of Charter Schools, & Kids First Chicago: Strengthening and Diversifying Illinois Educator Pipeline
Colorado Succeeds, ExcelinEd, DFER CO: $100 Million Investment in Colorado's future workforce leveraged through federal stimulus dollars
Mississippi First & Teach Plus Mississippi: Teacher Pay Raise
PAVE (Parents Amplifying Voices in Education), DC Charter School Alliance, DFER District of Columbia: DC Students Succeed
Teach Plus & Center for Black Educator Development: Increasing Teacher Diversity in PA
Best Collaboration Honorable Mentions
League of Education Voters, Open Doors for Multicultural Families, OneAmerica, Washington State Coalition for Language Access: Language Access in Schools
myFutureNC, John M. Belk Endowment, North Carolina State Education Assistance Authority: North Carolina First in FAFSA
RedefinEd Atlanta & GeorgiaCAN: Goals and Guardrails Policy Campaign
Rodel, Michael Bloomberg Foundation, Walton Family Foundation, ASA Foundation, Delaware Business Roundtable Education Committee, virtually all of Delaware's public high schools and higher education partners, and Governor John Carney's Administration: Career Pathways 2.0
The Education Trust-MidWest & Michigan Partnership for Equity and Opportunity: Advancing Equitable Funding in Michigan School Aid Budget
The Education Trust-New York & ReachNY: Aiming Higher: How investing in postsecondary education attainment will put New York State on the path to a bright future
Thomas B. Fordham Institute & Democrats for Education Reform: Building Bridges: Finding Common Ground on Emerging Issues in K–12 Education
Advance Illinois, Teach Plus Illinois, Educators for Excellence-Chicago, Stand for Children Illinois, Illinois Network of Charter Schools, & Kids First Chicago
Strengthening and Diversifying Illinois Educator Pipeline
This collaboration was a multi-year effort by many to successfully restructure and increase funding for investments to support strengthening and diversifying Illinois educator pipeline, including Illinois' anchor scholarship program to support more candidates of color entering and staying in the teaching profession. The coalition successfully advocated for diversity policies, with an increased investment of $3.6M, including: the restructuring and expansion of Minority Teachers of Illinois (MTI) scholarships (from $1.9M to $4.2M), updating MTI eligibility to include high school students of color who completed education CTE "pathway" program/certificate, raising the annual award amount per teacher, and creating a set aside for bilingual teaching candidates. Other policy changes include the investment of $1M to establish Illinois Affinity Groups Network to support educators of color, $400k for Educators Rising, and increased transparency around retention of diverse teachers on the Illinois Report Card.
A key component driving Illinois' educator pipeline work is the Educator Pipeline Group (EPG) of 55+ partners and growing (includes several PIE members, state agencies; civil rights, advocacy and teacher voice organizations; unions; higher education; district leaders; teachers). EPG is a forum by which we can mobilize coalitions and engage partners willing to move on specific issues, and allowed the collaboration to quickly move on a policy development/policy action that was data-informed, research-informed and targeted a significant need in our state.
Colorado Succeeds, ExcelinEd, DFER CO
$100 Million Investment in Colorado's future workforce leveraged through federal stimulus dollars
In its 2021 legislative session, Colorado established a taskforce to determine how to invest $100 million in one-time federal stimulus dollars to improve college and career pathways. To support this goal, Colorado Succeeds, DFER and ExcelinEd, and other key state and national partners, collaborated with policymakers to provide in-depth briefings and discussions with taskforce members on integrating data, high-quality programs and local workforce needs in their decision-making processes. This partnership, across multiple business partners and other advocacy partners, including student-facing organizations, led to the drafting and enactment of five bold bipartisan bills in the 2022 legislative session that put timely workforce data into the hands of students and educators and provided incentives for employers to support work-based learning, invest in talent and create flexible paths from career training to college degrees.
Specifically, this package of legislative initiatives authorized a $91 million fund to create the state's first-ever "Regional Talent Development Initiative Grant" to fund innovative regional partnerships across school districts, higher education, and industry focused on industries experiencing significant workforce challenges. In addition, legislation creating a new statewide student success data system passed, which will include both postsecondary and workforce success measures like employment and earnings as well as data on non-traditional students, including transfer students. With this additional information we will better understand the pathways of all students. Legislation also passed to support more stackable credential pathways in high-need, high-demand, high-value fields, including $1.8 million for non-degree credential programs. Finally, this coalition supported an effort to continue to blur the lines between high school, college, and career preparation by creating a state taskforce to focus on early college high schools that reimagine the connections between high school, postsecondary success and career readiness. Recommendations expected in 2022 and 2023 will help to sustain the important work and political momentum of this coalition.
Mississippi First & Teach Plus Mississippi
Teacher Pay Raise
Earlier this year, Mississippi passed what is considered to be the largest teacher pay raise in our state's history: as a result of House Bill 530, Mississippi teachers received an average raise of $5,151 going into the 2022-2023 school year. The new statewide salary schedule increases the average starting salary to surpass the southeastern regional average, implements immediate yearly step raises, and also provides a raise for teaching assistants. Over two years in the making, this success resulted from a collaborative effort between Mississippi First and Teach Plus Mississippi to center teacher voices and experiences in the conversation around how to address the state's critical teacher shortage.
This effort goes back to 2020. Prior to the 2021 legislative session, Mississippi First published Nothing in The Pipes: Educator Crisis in Mississippi, a report that included policy recommendations and teacher stories, collected in partnership with Teach Plus Mississippi. The research findings in the report fueled the initial commitment the legislature made to teacher pay raises. Though legislators passed a modest $1,000 raise, it was not enough. To continue building the case for a meaningful teacher pay raise, Mississippi First conducted a comprehensive survey of Mississippi teachers to better understand financial well-being, policy preferences, and motivations for leaving the profession. In the Fall of 2021, we surveyed 6,496 teachers (1 in 6 teachers statewide!) to establish the state's most comprehensive resource for understanding Mississippi's critical teacher shortage.Using the subsequent research findings and a contact list we created of over 30,000 teachers across the state, TeachPlus Mississippi and Mississippi First could build out advocacy strategies to mobilize Mississippi teachers and send a clear message to the legislature. Legislative leaders soon committed themselves to provide a substantial raise, but the work was not finished: when the resulting bill found itself on the chopping block near the end of the legislative session, we leveraged our list of over 30,000 Mississippi teachers to communicate to legislators that teachers needed this pay raise to enable them to stay in the classroom. Utilizing our email list allowed Mississippi First and Teach Plus Mississippi to effectively connect with teachers to provide a call to action that ultimately moved the pay raise across the finish line, ensuring a historic win for Mississippi teachers!
PAVE (Parents Amplifying Voices in Education), DC Charter Alliance, DFER DC
DC Students Succeed
The D.C. Students Succeed (DCSS) coalition is a partnership of more than 40 community organizations, schools, and allied groups. DCSS members believe families must be able to choose the public school that meets their unique needs, education leaders need flexibility to do their best work, and students always come first–especially Black and Brown students.
Through a coordinated media and advocacy strategy that leveraged the unique voices and strengths of its members, DCSS notched more than a dozen major wins in DC's FY23 budget including:
a historic 5.9% increase in per-student funding,
a new poverty-concentration funding weight providing high-need schools >$10M annually,
increased rates for mental health clinicians by 33 percent,
annual increases in charter facilities funding,
inclusion of charter & traditional public school educators in DC's Employer Assisted Housing Program,
$15.3 million expansion of Out-of-School-Time grants, and
3 vital new studies on funding adequacy, school boundaries, & mental health services.
This "big tent" coalition works to center the public education narrative squarely on equity, students and community, and away from the usual political divisiveness. As a result, media interest in the campaign was robust with positive coverage in the Washington Post, local TV, and more, driving DCSS's advocacy.
Additional partners: D.C. Students Succeed Coalition members
TennesseeCAN, Tennessee SCORE, Tennesseans for Student Success, The Education Trust in Tennessee, ExcelinEd, Tennessee Charter School Center
Coalition For Tennessee Education Funding Reform (TISA)
A politically diverse coalition of education partners advocated for a new funding formula that better serves Tennessee students. Working together, Tennessee SCORE, TennesseeCAN, The Education Trust in Tennessee, Tennesseans For Student Success, Tennessee Charter School Center, and ExcelinEd helped pass the Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement (TISA), Tennessee's new K-12 funding formula. Coalition members leveraged relationships with leaders and stakeholders to develop and build support for a shared set of reform principles to the 30-year-old resource-based formula. Organizing early around a core set of objectives and priorities, the coalition was unified in its advocacy on the proposal and through constant communication with the administration was able to weigh tradeoffs between funding reform and other legislative priorities, strategize on legislator engagement, and influence and support the legislative outcome. Tennessee now has a formula centered on student need that will invest an additional $1 billion in recurring state funds in K-12 education and advance key priorities to improve student opportunity and outcomes. Core to the coalition's collaboration was alignment on key funding reform principles – grounded in rigorous data analysis, financial modeling, and research – while each member pursued additional policy priorities that reflected their organizational goals. TISA passed on a bipartisan basis in April 2022, reflecting the coalition's diversity.
Teach Plus & Center for Black Educator Development
Increasing Teacher Diversity in PA
While our nation's students are continually more diverse and multicultural, our teaching workforce does not reflect this reality. In Pennsylvania, only 6% of educators are people of color, compared to 36% of students, and teacher certifications have declined by two-thirds in the past decade. As students voice their need for teachers who look like them, solutions are urgent. Over the past two years, Teach Plus and the Center for Black Educator Development, along with partners at Research for Action and the Pennsylvania Educator Diversity Consortium, have taken this issue from one that most policymakers, journalists, and members of the public didn't even know to one that is a bipartisan priority in Harrisburg. Because of Teach Plus-CBED efforts, students and teachers will benefit from:
Legislation that creates youth pathways into teaching (dual enrollment & CTE),
Data transparency that highlights gaps and progress towards educator diversity,
Multiple new educator recruitment grant programs,
Fewer barriers to certification that previously kept excellent educators out of our classrooms,
A new Chief Talent Officer role at PDE dedicated to educator recruitment and retention,
New teacher certification regulations that require future educators be trained in culturally relevant and sustaining education using competencies we helped develop,
A new educator workforce strategy, which incorporates many of our specific recommendations and explicitly prioritizes educator diversity, and
A new statewide coalition, the Pennsylvania Educator Diversity Consortium, to support these efforts.
League of Education Voters, Open Doors for Multicultural Families, OneAmerica, Washington State Coalition for Language Access
Language Access in Schools
One of the biggest wins for families across Washington state this past legislative session was the legislature's commitment to increasing language access in K-12 schools. The passage of House Bill 1153 ensures that multicultural and English-language learner families have tools to effectively communicate and engage with teachers, administrators, and other school staff. The bill requires the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Washington State School Directors' Association to develop language access technical assistance programs and a model policy for effective implementation at schools, it provides technical training and credentialing to interpreters in education and special education settings, and it also mandates the data collection of languages spoken by students' families. LEV partnered statewide with students, community representatives, and community-based organizations leading language access work this session, such as Open Doors for Multicultural Families, OneAmerica, school interpreters, and the Washington State Coalition for Language Access, and we helped galvanize individuals to send nearly 10,000 emails to legislators on this issue through our action alerts, social media channels, and a statewide LEVinar that featured students, interpreters, partner CBOs, and HB 1153's prime sponsor. Ultimately, this win strengthens culturally responsive family engagement across districts and improves multicultural families' ability to be active partners in IEP and 504 planning meetings. It also especially helps students with disabilities whose families speak languages other than English advocate for their interests and feel valued at their school.
myFutureNC, John M. Belk Endowment, North Carolina State Education Assistance Authority
North Carolina First in FAFSA
The coalition of myFutureNC and partners including the John M. Belk Endowment and the North Carolina State Education Assistance Authority set out to increase North Carolina's completion rate for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Working collaboratively, the coalition launched the FAFSA Tracker tool to simplify and support FAFSA completion by providing schools with targeted data. Upon proving the tool's effectiveness, the coalition secured permanent state funding for the FAFSA Tracker. Since inception, the coalition has seen North Carolina's FAFSA completion rate rise above the national average, and the state's completion rate now ranks 18thin the nation, a significant step toward meeting the state's ambitious educational attainment goal of 2 million North Carolinians ages 25-44 with a postsecondary degree or credential by 2030.
This coalition's work highlights the importance of cross-sector leadership. While state agencies play a vital role in elevating awareness of issues and in linking resources to individuals and families, private and nonprofit partners can act alongside systems to incentivize, study, and improve upon outcomes.
The coalition's extraordinary achievements resulted from constant and open communication across sectors—something worth emulating no matter the context.
RedefinEd Atlanta & GeorgiaCAN
Goals and Guardrails Policy Campaign
We passed the Goals and Guardrails policy through the Atlanta Public Schools (APS) Board of Education (BOE). This is the first time in my experience with APS over the past 22 years where the BOE has set true academic achievement goals and targets (in literacy, math, post-graduation preparedness, and college and career readiness) to hold themselves accountable. The BOE also set a series of guardrails that the district is required to measure against in the categories of:
equity,
stakeholder engagement for significant decisions,
not allowing or fostering a culture of fear or intimidation, and
setting a timeline by which schools must act to support student growth by implementing a high-impact intervention.
We partnered with grassroots and grassroots organizations (Atlanta Thrive, LAPPS, and GACAN) to mobilize parent support for this policy change. In addition, we:
generated media coverage to keep the narrative around accountability and urgency top of mind,
informed grasstops leaders of the opportunity through one-to-one engagement,
supported parent and stakeholder engagement at school board meetings and through phone banking strategies, and
worked with school board member allies to draft the policy together.
Ultimately, this win was a culmination of our three-year partnership efforts. It has since prompted work and discussions around piloting innovation schools or zones in the district and the school board shifting to a student outcomes-based governance model. The updated governance model design is to ensure that the BOE consistently focuses on student achievement in their future board meetings and that they monitor progress against the goals and guardrails. In addition, we have grown a coalition of more than 20 community-based nonprofit partners and allies to serve as a "watchdog" group to ensure that the BOE is accountable for implementing the goals and guardrails.
In terms of emulation, I think this is an example of how coalitions that are sharing power and grounded in trust can work in partnership together on mutually agreed upon goals to build the influence, expertise and allyship needed to stay the course and ultimately get to a win. There were many progressive stages, strategies and milestones that I think could be informative on how we got this passed.
Rodel, Michael Bloomberg Foundation, Walton Family Foundation, ASA Foundation, Delaware Business Roundtable Education Committee, virtually all of Delaware's public high schools and higher education partners, and Governor John Carney's Administration
Career Pathways 2.0
Our initial work on career pathways (2017-21) involved a massive public-private partnership that led to the growth of this work from 27 students to 20,000. Harvard's Bob Schwartz called it the "best pathways system in the US".
In fall 2021, Rodel worked with the state and a mix of local and national funders to launch Pathways 2.0. We helped catalyze a $15.8 million public-private expansion of Delaware's Pathways program that includes more than 20 local, national and federal funders and links education and workforce development. This three year plan is a bold, multi-faceted blueprint that will expand our work to middle school, redesign our vocational schools, broaden our reach to more high schoolers, and help upskill and reskill adults in high growth sectors like IT and healthcare.
Proposed impact by 2024:
Middle school pathways standards to be piloted with 6,000 middle schoolers (and ultimately scaled statewide) to help them make smarter choices;
Number of high schoolers in pathways will increase from 20,000 to 32,000, from 50 percent of high schoolers to 80 percent.
Doubling number of employers offering work-based learning opportunities from 100 to more than 200.
The Education Trust-MidWest & Michigan Partnership for Equity and Opportunity
Advancing Equitable Funding in Michigan School Aid Budget
In July 2022, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed into law the largest school aid budget in state history: $19.6 billion, a 15% increase over last year. This year's budget also prioritizes spending for traditionally underserved students and is the most equitable budget the state has passed in several years, including:
Ensuring at-risk students receive an extra 11.5% in funding ($1,052 per at-risk student)
Eliminating the auto-cut language that allowed at-risk funding to be tapped when the state budget is in a deficit
Increasing funding for students with disabilities by $312 million
Increasing funding for English Learners by 5%
The Education Trust-Midwest (ETM) is a backbone organization to the Michigan Partnership for Equity and Opportunity (MPEO), which has been integral to advancing equitable funding over the past two years. The MPEO is a coalition of civil rights, social justice, civic and business leaders working to promote educational equity for all Michigan students, especially the most underserved. The racial makeup of the MPEO is diverse, comprised of Black, Latino, Arab and White leaders. The MPEO is nonpartisan and is represented by Democrat, Republican and Independent members.
Two major leadership voices of the MPEO are Alice G. Thompson (Chair of the Education Committee, Detroit Branch NAACP, and Chief Executive Officer, BFDI Educational Services, Inc.), a Black Democrat female, and Mike Jandernoa (Founder, 42 North Partners), a White Republican male. Alice G. Thompson shared with Governor Whitmer (a Democrat) ETM's data of the auto-cut language that had been in Michigan's state budget and asked her to support its removal, while Mike Jandernoa shared this same data with the State Senate Majority Leader and Speaker of the House (Mike Shirkey and Jason Wentworth, respectively, both Republicans) and asked them to support the removal of the auto-cut language.
The Education Trust-New York & ReachNY
Aiming Higher: How investing in postsecondary education attainment will put New York State on the path to a bright future
The Education Trust-NY worked in collaboration with the REACH-NY network of civil rights, student-serving, veteran, education, and civic organizations to secure the adoption of a statewide attainment goal for New York. The network's strategy was rooted in data-driven analysis of inequities in postsecondary outcomes from New Yorkers across racial groups and strong arguments of how a statewide attainment goal is crucial to the state's economic recovery after the pandemic. Members of the network promoted the campaign on social media and in meetings with elected officials, including the governor and members of the state legislature. In a true victory, Gov. Kathy Hochul included the attainment goal that two thirds of all New Yorkers would earn a postsecondary degree or credential by 2030, and invested significant resources into supporting students on their path to and through college.
Thomas B. Fordham Institute & Democrats for Education Reform
Building Bridges: Finding Common Ground on Emerging Issues in K–12 Education
This year, in collaboration with Democrats for Education Reform (DFER), the Fordham Institute kicked off a brand new coalition to bring groups across the ed reform movement back together. The "Building Bridges" coalition aims to depolarize existing conversations and find common ground on race and equity issues in education to create a more positive agenda that can be picked up by state policymakers across the ideological spectrum. It aims to advance equity and excellence for students of all backgrounds to close racial achievement gaps that prevent students from reaching their full potential and participating fully in our society. The diverse group (comprised of many PIE Network member organizations) has met once already in 2022, with another convening planned for this fall. Over the course of six total meetings, the group will finalize a list of policy priorities for the next phase of education reform (What's our North Star in education reform? What binds us together across left, right, and center?) It is a huge win to have motivated and influential individuals from a wide range of diverse organizations, from across the aisle, come together to have discussions about areas of common ground so we can begin to make progress in so many areas, and as we recover from the pandemic.
See a complete list of 2022 nominees in all Eddies categories.


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La Vera valley is in Extremadura, where pimentón is dried by a smoking process which creates the taste so typical in soups and stews of León and Castile.
At harvest time, when the peppers have ripened, they are handpicked. Next to the fields are small, simple smoke houses, with concrete floors and wooden grids several feet above them. An oak fire is laid on the concrete floor, and the peppers are spread on the grid above the fire. The smoldering fire – only smoke, never flames – is maintained for ten to fifteen days, filling the surrounding countryside with the scent of smoking peppers.
Our pimenton is more flavorful and aromatic due to its artisan and totally natural processing.
La Dalia Pimenton de la Vera (Dulce/Sweet) is a registered and designated DOP product of Spain. Each colorful tin contains 800g or 28.2oz.


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Who Was Becca's Dad Steve Kufrin? 'The Bachelor' Contestant Had A Close Relationship With Her Father
By Kathleen Walsh
Things rarely get really serious on The Bachelor, but when they do, they do not hold back. For example, on the first one-on-one date in the entire show, Becca K. opened up to Arie about her dad's death when she was quite young. So who was Becca's dad, Steve Kufrin? The Bachelor contestant had a close relationship with her father. It's going to be important going forward because we've now gotten to the hometown portion of the show, where Arie will have to impress his final four contenders' families. This may be particularly difficult for Becca, whose dad can't be there to meet him.
From what I can tell from my research, Becca's father was truly an incredible and well-beloved man in Minnesota. He was diagnosed with brain cancer and five years later succumbed to the disease in 2009, leaving behind his wife Jill, and two daughters, Emily and of course Becca. According to the obituaries I found, Kufrin was a three and a half year Air Force veteran, an accomplished newspaperman, an avid outdoorsman, and dedicated wetlands and waterfowl activist. He was well known for his activism in the community and much missed after his passing. This is going to be a tough episode to watch.
According to Minnesota newspaper the Star Tribune, Kufrin was a onetime sports editor, columnist and photographer for the Swift County Monitor-News, as well as the editor of the Minnesota Waterfowl Association magazine. He began working for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) in 1990. He was passionate about conservation and all things ducks, pheasants, and wetlands. In 2005, the USFWS created the Kufrin Waterfowl Production Area, a piece of land for the protection of ducks and geese, in his honor. He was also granted the National Wetlands Conservation Lifetime Achievement Award.
After his death the outlet Outdoor News also profiled the titan for wetlands conservation in his home state. The magazine cited a 2005 press release in which Kufrin explained that his passion for conservation started when he returned home after his overseas service in the Air Force in the 1960s. "While in the Air Force, I'd get letters from friends and family that said, 'less ducks, less pheasants,'" he said. "When I got home and visited wetlands I used to hunt on, all I could find was a combine and drain tile. The wetlands were gone. Forty years later, we're still trying to recapture our wetlands and grasslands we lost in the 1960s."
In both profiles, friends and family members remembered Kufrin, sometimes called "Buckshot," was not just a dedicated outdoorsman, but a friendly, lovable man as well. "He didn't mind a gin and tonic, he didn't mind a beer, and he'd fish for bluegills," his longtime friend Paul Hanson said.
But of course, no one could possibly miss Kufrin more than his own family. In a heart-wrenching Instagram post, Becca put up a picture of herself as a little girl with her dad with the accompanying caption:
Not a day goes by that I don't think about the angel that is Steven Karl (with a K) Kufrin. He gets the Father-of-a-Lifetime award for putting up with me between the ages of 3-17. Happy Father's Day to the most suave man this side of the Mississippi has ever seen (see slide 2 for reference)
It's never easy to lose a father, and I can't imagine trying to discuss it on national television. So good on Becca for putting it all out there. All I can really say is that she deserves every happiness, and I'm sure her dad is proud of her.
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OverClock Checking Tool 4.5.2 development has started! It will have many features that are brand new primarily: Use of.NET Framework 3.5 ( out become appropriate for from the box Seven – XP will have to update their structure).
As of now, I am about two months behind in answering my contact emails. I'm placing the customer support email a priority that is to expect a reply within the just time that is per, as well as in giving purchases of OCCT Pro (often delivered the afternoon after I want to apologize to all or any of you who are waiting for a remedy on my part – I'm doing my best.
will likely be away throughout the beginning of 2015.
engine, but no features that are new be added.
aging, I feel like I'm able to devote time to you to OCCT again for me!
Programs how hot each core of 1's CPU gets when working at 100% CPU energy.
The user can pick light, medium or workload that is the size that is hefty.
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Balanced anxiety test uses both CPU and RAM to ensure performance that is stable.
The display is quite "busy" searching because it presents things which could soon be many as because.
Description or remark; consequently, it's perhaps not easy for novices to interpret the outcome. So, it's simpler to view the individual display even though the test is in progress, then make use of the report graphs/charts to ensure what you observed on screen throughout the experiment.
Naturally, this calls for the user's attention to a component that is least of the trial to see or watch precisely what's taking put on the display. But, you hardly ever have to run a test like this except to verify everything is operating regularly, so it's no deal that is excellent stay centered on it for a little that is little. A computer should be in a position to have its CPU and memory work hard for ten full minutes, or an hour that is full, etc. without overheating.
OCCT 4.5.2 Crack provides the computer a workout that is CPU that is equal energy, system RAM, together with computer's cooling fans. Regarding the user display, you shall commence starting to see the CPU "core" temperatures rise whenever test begins. You'll want to be using some cooling that is after-market is serious! Expect fan noise in your computer example to get louder than typical during these tests. Apparently, then chances are you realize there's a nagging problem if your computer decreases during the trial or shuts itself down.


The front page story in the June edition of Australasian Science had the title "Lies, Damn Lies, and Science". It was written by three academics, Stephan Lewandowsky, Gilles Gignac and Klaus Oberauer, and was derived from research they had published about the psychology of conspiracy theorists. I've had an interest in this area for a long time, so it was nice to apply a bit of confirmation bias when I saw that research had confirmed one of the things I had noticed over the years - the fact that people rarely if ever confine themselves to belief in only one conspiracy, and that belief in one can be a useful predictor of the person's position on others. Anti-vaccination campaigners are quite often AIDS deniers and opposed to GM foods; 9/11 Truthers can be relied on to believe that the HAARP project is designed to control weather in conjunction with chemtrails behind airliners; climate change deniers know that it is just part of a wider government plan to destroy capitalism and enforce the hegemony of the UN over governments.
No, not the ongoing saga of the attempt to abuse the legal system in order to silence me, but a related case. You might remember that when Meryl Dorey from the Australian Vaccination Network (she was the President at the time) applied for an Apprehended Personal Violence Order against me she also applied for orders against two other people. Of the three cases, one was finalised when the defendant accepted the order (he did this without conceding or admitting to anything - he simply couldn't be bothered with the continual court appearances), the application against me was dismissed on April 26 (with that decision going to appeal on September 18), and the third application was dismissed on August 22, with Ms Dorey being ordered to pay $11,000 towards the defendant's legal costs.
What made this a more delicious irony is that Ms Dorey was offered the chance to withdraw her application a few days before and to pay a small amount of Mr Buzzard's legal bill. She countered with a suggestion that she would withdraw with each side bearing its own costs provided that Mr Buzzard promised to do even more than was demanded in her original application. This was obviously rejected, and she ended up being ordered to pay about four times as much.
I assume she will appeal the decision in order to drag the process out further, but the deadline for lodging an appeal is the day after the appeal hearing is scheduled in my case. That will be an anxious week for Ms Dorey.
You can see Mr Buzzard's narrative of his adventures here.
Purely coincidentally I'm sure, Meryl Dorey of the Australian Vaccination Network posted this appeal for funds to Facebook the day after she was hit with a big legal bill for the case she lost the day before.
What caught my eye, however, was the statement "Last week, our President addressed the QLD Parliament". As the Qld Parliament was not sitting in the week referred to, I wondered if this was another case of speaking "at" Parliament, not "to", as was once done by ex-Dr Andrew Wakefield. And I was right. Greg Beattie was speaking to a hearing of the Health and Community Services Committee. You can see the agenda at the right of the page.
Speaking to a committee of Parliament is not the same as addressing Parliament, but since when have we ever expected the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth from the AVN?
You can read Mr Beattie's amusing submission here. If you print it out you could put it in the bathroom in case you run out of toilet paper.
While people are remembering and celebrating the anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Had A Dream" speech, a committee member of the Australian Vaccination Network chose to vomit on his memory by comparing this pack of outrageous child-harmers to him, among others. What sort of hubris does it take to write something like this?
My brother reminded me that we can take heart from all those in history who have been mercilessly persecuted and never gave up; Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X, Mahatma Ghandi. Their principles and values burned within their hearts and gave them the strength to stand against overwhelming odds, and those same principles burn within you, the AVN and your supporters.
It actually goes beyond hubris, almost to the point of self-centred insanity. The person who wrote it, Tasha David, has a history of being loose with the truth, and you can see her (anonymously) inventing stories about me here. Her latest tirade can be seen here.
The picture at right (click for a larger view) is "The Mourning Of Icarus" by Draper Herbert James. Icarus suffered from hubris, but the difference between him and this vile organisation is that nobody will mourn the death of the AVN. It will be a cause for celebration.
Someone is very unhappy about something I had to say about some crooks who committed insurance fraud. They had the hide to sue the insurance company when it wouldn't pay them for submitting fraudulent claims for a service that it specifically said it would not pay for.
I am astonished at the last article on Cavitat Machines. It shows how much ignorance you have on jawbone work and dental expertise!!
I don't claim to be a dentist, but I can smell fraud, especially when it's as noisome as this one.
Cavitat machines reveal pockets of infection in the jawbone and other teeth root areas.
So do x-rays, as used by dentists who don't commit fraud. I had just such an x-ray a couple of weeks ago so that the dentist could treat an infection around the roots of a tooth.
If you do your research and have heard that a 5,000 year old science associating teeth meridians with every organ in the body, you would realize how much this infection in the jawbone area causes illness and affects organs in other parts of the body.
Teeth meridians? That's a form of nonsense that I haven't come across before. Thank you for letting me know about it, and I look forward to being amused when I read more about it.
When the infection is GONE in the bones, the illnesses clear up.
Yes, medicine is like that. That's why infection is treated.
I see you observe the Internet tradition by using the concatenation "alot". Tradition is good, even if this one doesn't go back 5,000 years.
I hope that your health journalism isn't published in any place where people might go to find reliable medical advice. If they follow your advice they could end up having all their teeth taken out and their health insurance claim rejected.
The British group Sense About Science have put out a booklet on this very topic, and you can read it here.
Yes, that's the boring title of something I wrote for The Skeptic about the recent public conversation between William Lane Craig and Lawrence Krauss in Sydney. This is a short version written to a word limit, but a longer piece might appear when I get time to write it. As you can see by the brevity of this week's update I haven't had a lot of spare time lately.
Physicist Lawrence Krauss and Christian philosopher William Lane Craig held a three-part public conversation in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne during August 2013. The series was promoted by the City Bible Forum under the title "Life, the Universe and Nothing". I attended the Sydney talk, promoted as "Why is there something rather than nothing?", and interviewed the speakers before the event.
Both have well-known public profiles so I didn't expect any surprises from either side, and this is very much what I found. In fact, in the interviews each was able to accurately predict what the other would later say on stage and the arguments that they would use to address the question.
Skeptics are supposed to look for evidence so I put the following question to both speakers: "What is the best evidence there is no God, and what's the best evidence there is a God?".
You can see the first discussion (Brisbane) here and the third (Melbourne) here. If a recording of the Sydney event becomes available I'll provide a link to that too.
World Suicide Prevention Day is September 10. A few friends and I will be walking around a section of the picturesque Nepean River in Penrith as part of Lifeline's "Out Of The Shadows" event on the Saturday before. As Lifeline says: "Suicide is the leading cause of death for Australians under the age of 44. Lifeline believes we all have a role to play in suicide prevention". We will be meeting at the old Log Cabin motel in Memorial Avenue at 11am. Please join us, but don't forget to vote.


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Antinociceptive effect of ten day administration of Ukrain in mice and interaction of the treatment with morphine.
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The present study shows that Ukrain, administered i.c. in doses of 9.5 and 19 mg/kg once daily for 10 days in mice, produced evident antinociceptive action in the writhing syndrome and hot-plate tests. Moreover, we found that as a result of 10-day treatment with Ukrain the antinociceptive action of morphine (0.1 mg/kg s.c. administered after the last dose of Ukrain) was significantly decreased. These results and the observed interaction between Ukrain and morphine seem to be contra-indications to their combined usage.


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Virginia Beach Woman Shines as City Seeks Second Amendment Sanctuary
On Tuesday evening, V. Kim Thumel shined as she spoke in support of the city of Virginia Beach's demand to become a second amendment sanctuary. The movement gained steam in the weeks following the Democrats' electoral victories in the Virginia Senate and House. The movement to increase the number of sanctuary communities in Virginia has been fueled, in part, by a group named the Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL). VCDL is an all-volunteer, non-partisan grassroots organization dedicated to defending the human rights of all Virginians. It has encouraged interested Virginians to reach out to their respective board supervisors and send them a link to a model Second Amendment Sanctuary resolution created by VCDL.
Prince William County Board of Supervisors Chairman Corey Stewart said many Virginia gun owners became worried when state Democrats began to voice their support to introduce more gun control bills in Richmond. Lobby groups are not the only ones who have worked to promote the effort. Some Virginia law enforcement leaders have joined the push for sanctuary status as well.
The Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was at the front of the minds of both elected officials and residents on Tuesday night. Virginia Beach City Council will now consider introducing a sanctuary bill soon. A massive turnout estimated at between 1,000 and 1,500 individuals filled the meeting room, down the hall, out the doors and flooded the area at the front of the building. So much so that the City Council Chambers and all of City Hall reached capacity, leaving even more people outside during the meeting. By 6:30 p.m. the crowd had swelled to the point that both the Virginia Beach Sheriff's Office and police department were on-scene to close down the road down in front of the building.
The gun-rights advocates wore orange stickers saying "Guns Save Lives" in the shadow of Building Two at the municipal center, where six months earlier a gunman killed 12 and injured 4 others. Due to the capacity of the crowd and because comments are not recorded during "open mic" nights it is unclear who all spoke before the council. However, one woman, who shined brightly, was Thumel, an NRA instructor who trains women from ages 18 to 80. Feeling the urge to step up and speak her mind, she spoke with clarity, grace, authenticity, and passion. A portion of the heart-felt message Thumel conveyed is as follows:
I had no intention of speaking tonight as I sat there and listened to everything that was going on, I had to stand up for the other 3500 women I've trained in the last three years. I'm an NRA Training Counselor and instructor, Well-Armed Women instructor and chapter leader who has trained all over the country. I have trained women who have been taped up and raped, car-jacked, shot, victims of home invasions, and domestic violence to name a few. These women are looking for options.
One of the first things that I, along with the other instructors I work with, tell them is this is NOT the first choice, it is a LAST choice. To use a firearm to defend yourself is when you have no other choice!
One of the things that concern me about the legislature at hand is the training aspect. We all know that knowledge is power. If we cannot educate people who don't have skills in this area, we are really limiting ourselves.
Also, shooting is a sport that is recognized in the Olympics and other things. I just needed to say this on behalf of the firearms training community. We want to instill the best safety skills that we can and stand up for the women in this city and across Hampton Roads. I am an active member of the community and this is something I am very passionate about.
As the founder of +P, Thumel is on a mission to dissolve the victim mentality many people have developed. Her classes are designed to replace fear and worry with awareness and preparedness. For the widow who is ready to pick up her first firearm, or anyone interested in firearms for recreation, self-defense or as a competitive sport, Thumel's students develop relevant safety and protective skills that reflect her advanced training, and access of the industry's rapidly changing intel. She works with each student in steps, at their own pace so they can focus on their goals and rewrite their story.
With a female student focus, Thumel has trained over 3500 women. She continues to enrich her various skills by entrusting her training to other professionals in the field as well as reputable organizations. These include The National Rifle Association, Gunsite Academy, TWAW, and other training facilities.
Virginia currently has 41 Second Amendment Sanctuaries and Virginia Beach is seeking to join the ranks. Over a thousand people stormed Virginia Beach City Council ask the Virginia Beach City Council to declare VB a Gun Sanctuary City. One was V. Kim Thumel who shined brightly as she presented facts, minus the presumptuous "God-given right" position than many second amendment supporters have voiced.
Opinion by Cherese Jackson (Virginia)
Wavy News: Hundreds descend on VB City Hall demanding a '2nd Amendment sanctuary'
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Virginia Beach Woman Shines as City Seeks Second Amendment Sanctuary added by Cherese Jackson on December 6, 2019


The Plate and Frame Heat Exchanger is a very efficient heat transfer device.
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Wholesale rates that banks use for funding are now the lowest I've ever seen. Check out this graph today of the 5 year fixed wholesale rate. It dropped another 0.20% to 1.72%. Its previous low was in 2016 when it hit 2.06%.
Based on wholesale interest rates today, short term rates could drop another 0.25% and it's conceivable that we could see longer term fixed rates fall below 4.00%. Kiwibank (who we broker for) has dropped their 5 year rate to 4.29%.
Most banks now have 1 and 2 year rates at 3.99% and I'd expect to see 3 year rates there shortly as well.
This will play out over the next few weeks and rates are likely to stay low for a while as I cannot see the Reserve Bank revising its forecast. That means lower rates, for longer.
Offsetting this medium term, the Reserve Bank is putting banks under pressure to increase capital and that will put mortgage rates under upward pressure. Hence, if we get longer-term rates below 3.99% then to me these are very, very attractive in the context of increasing cost pressure on banks.
The negative to this otherwise positive news is that we don't really want falling rates. It's a sign that global growth is stalling and that central banks around the world are struggling with the deflationary forces we've blogged about for past 3-4 years, let alone growing geo-political risks.
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IN 1967 Stanley Milgram, an American social psychologist, sent 160 packages to random people in Omaha, Nebraska. In a letter, Milgram asked each of them to forward the package to a friend or acquaintance who could deliver the package closer to a single individual, a stockbroker from Boston, Massachusetts.
Given the original 160 people knew only the stockbroker's name and address, they had what appeared to be an impossible task. Unexpectedly then, Milgram discovered that the very first package reached the stockbroker in just four days and amongst all of the following packages, averaged about 6 intermediaries to reach the target.
Thus, Milgram's "six degrees" theory was born.
With today's online technology, six degrees has become four and getting 160 people to work on a task has become much easier. So easy because a new crop of online platforms have sprung up to help companies harness their brand advocates (passionate customers) and motivate them to help the company with strategic tasks.
These online advocate platforms allow companies like ReadyTalk and iCompass to harness their most passionate customers to join them in a community to help further the company's goals. Essentially, these gamified platforms enable organizations to simplify the coordination of an entire community of unpaid brand ambassadors to help promote their product or service.
Both ReadyTalk and iCompass use an advocate platform called Influitive, so I decided to interview them and Mark Organ, Influitive's CEO about advocate marketing. As you know, I like to get into the 'hows' and the 'whys' of marketing subjects, and this interview doesn't disappoint. If you were on the fence about creating an advocate community, this interview will change your mind.
CEO Mark Organ, Bo Bandy of Readytalk and Paul Hetherington of iCompass explain how a culture of advocacy is the future of marketing.
How to get brand advocates to create great content.
How they will become an extension of the sales and marketing team.
How to get them to be references and help develop case studies.
How to maximize your customer referrals by challenging them to act.
Why one company's advocates become an extension of their social media team and boosted engagement and traffic by 30 to 40 times compared to what the company was doing on its own.


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Assessment of the late proliferative phase endometrium by ultrasonography in patients undergoing in-vitro fertilization and embryo transfer (IVF/ET).
This study reports on 330 women aged 29 to 45 years, who underwent 411 cycles of in-vitro fertilization and embryo transfer (IVF/ET). Vaginal sonograms were performed during the late proliferative phase of natural cycles and cycles of controlled ovarian hyperstimulation (COH) with gonadotrophins, to evaluate both the thickness and echogenicity of the endometrium. Findings classified as Grade I; characterized by homogeneous echogenicity of the endometrium, and Grade II; characterized by an outer peripheral layer of dense echogenicity surrounding a central sonolucent area (i.e. a 'halo pattern'). Grades I and II were subclassified on the basis of thickness into A (greater than or equal to 9 mm) and B (less than 9 mm). Grade IIA ('optimal') was associated with a clinical pregnancy rate per embryo transfer of 33% while Grades IA, IB and IIB ('poor') were associated with a rate of only 7%. Women aged 41-45 years experienced a 25% incidence of 'poor' sonographic grades while the incidence in women less than or equal to 40 years of age was 5%. The presence of various uterine pathologies was associated with 'poor' endometrial grades in 86% of cases while only 11% of normal uteri manifested 'poor' grades. 'Optimal' endometrial grades in natural cycles were consistently associated with 'optimal' grades in ensuing cycles of COH (96%). Women with 'poor' endometrial grades in natural cycles improved in 55% of cases during subsequent COH. The results of this study indicate that sonographic assessment of the endometrial lining in the late proliferative phase during both natural and COH cycles is a valuable method for screening and managing IVF/ET candidates.
G Sher; C Herbert; G Maassarani; M H Jacobs
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Title: Human reproduction (Oxford, England) Volume: 6 ISSN: 0268-1161 ISO Abbreviation: Hum. Reprod. Publication Date: 1991 Feb
Nlm Unique ID: 8701199 Medline TA: Hum Reprod Country: ENGLAND
Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology, Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 94115.
Cell Division / physiology
Embryo Transfer*
Endometrium / cytology, ultrasonography*
Fertilization in Vitro*
Menstrual Cycle / physiology
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Progress has slowed on the masts due to inclement weather (not having a covered shed to work in). Nevertheless things are coming together.
The mast cranes have been fabricated, painted and fitted on the masts but not finally secured yet. Th cranes have been designed incorporating Derek van Loan's lug design with a 5 point configuration detailed by Practical Junk Rig – a hybrid.
The masts are awaiting their final sanding, generous coats of raw linseed oil, and groves routered out to fit the lightening rod, navigation lights and VHF wires.
Back on the boat the mainmast partner has been fitted and glassed (picture taken before glassing). The foremast partners and step is going to be a bit more tricky due to the constricted space and 5 degree forward rake. I have considered using a steel tube with generous brackets through bolted to the deck but have now settled on a complete fiberglass/epoxy design I will construct and glass to the deck above and below. I hope to get it completed this week since it's forecast to rain and the completion of the masts will have to wait.
I hope to have the masts ready to be stepped by mid-August. And then the sails to build ….
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Kristi Larkin – Fargo born and raised, Kristi attended NDSU where she received her degree in Apparel & Textiles with a minor in Business. She worked at Laurie's during college from 1990-1994. After college she worked at Dayton's as an assistant buyer, then moved over to Sonnie's as an assistant manager. She took a break from retail and worked in outside sales, but later returned to to Laurie's to take over as owner in 2010.
Laurie's moved from 32nd Ave South to their new location on 45th Street in 2017.