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Insurance associations are applauding New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal for a multi-pronged approach to combating auto insurance fraud. The initiative was outlined in the 2014–2015 executive budget proposal released Tuesday.
The executive budget briefing book describes proposals under the purview of the state's Department of Financial Services aimed at strengthening consumer protections through reforms. The administration aims to curb no-fault automobile insurance fraud by prohibiting payments to health providers engaged in fraudulent activity, levying civil fines for violations and authorizing the Department of Financial Services to perform unannounced facility audits and inspections.
"The governor's proposal to crack down on auto fraud appears to have great promise," said Ellen Melchionni, president of the New York Insurance Association (NYIA) in Albany, N.Y. "Fraud is a huge problem in New York. The current laws contain gaping loopholes that allow criminals to exploit New Yorkers."
NYIA said Gov. Cuomo's plans include expanding the state's Department of Financial Services' ability to audit healthcare providers participating in the no-fault auto insurance system, prohibiting fraudulent providers from receiving payment and fining providers for engaging in illegal activities.
"Our healthcare system has been held hostage for too long by corrupt individuals posing as medical professionals," Melchionni said. "Patient safety needs to be restored. Medical mills that have no interest in treating people seeking medical care need to be shut down."
These enhanced consumer protections will make New York a safer place, Melchionni said. "Auto insurance fraud makes our roadways more dangerous, diminishes the quality of health care in our state, and adds financial burdens to New York families," she said. "These additional fraud fighting measures are a definite step in the right direction."
Melchionni said legislative action is also necessary to effectively fight fraud in the state. NYIA is calling for legislators to pass the following measures this year: make staging an auto accident a felony, end fraudulent billing from fly-by-night durable medical equipment providers, permit retroactive cancellation of fraudulently obtained auto policies, and require providers to prove that a treatment is medically necessary.
The American Insurance Association (AIA) in Washington, D.C., also welcomed Gov. Cuomo's proposal.
"AIA applauds Gov. Cuomo for his ongoing commitment to combat fraud in New York's no-fault auto insurance system," said Gary Henning, AIA's Northeast region vice president. "Working in coordination with the insurance industry, the Cuomo Administration has already made considerable strides in addressing no-fault fraud." Enhancing the Department of Financial Services' powers will further curtail fraudulent practices, he said.
"The proposed measure builds upon this past success by making it easier to remove fraudulent medical providers from the no-fault system. Removing these unscrupulous actors will remove unnecessary costs and abuse which will ultimately benefit New York State's honest drivers," AIA's Henning said.
Source: New York Insurance Association, American Insurance Association
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Southern Queensland Country is one of the state's great gourmet destinations. Follow a food and wine trail through the region, taste cool-climate wines at cellar doors in the Granite Belt, pick your own fresh cherries, apples or strawberries from local growers, and learn from the experts at a cooking school.
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Has it been forever since I last posted, or does it just seem like it? We've survived torrential rainfall, a resurgence of the Ohio stinkbug menace, and all the steamy heat that North Carolina and Georgia can inflict upon us. This is the first campground in about ten days where we've had any cell service or internet availability. Most have been remote enough that we can't even pull in a radio station. We have no TV. Yes, this is camping. And we are still finding stinkbugs everywhere inside the camper. It's creepy.
We wanted to visit Raleigh NC, primarily because it's the State Capitol, and we do love to visit these places when we can. After a very frustrating, (missing keys!) but mercifully short drive, we arrived at William B. Umstead State Park. We were the only campers in the small (25 sites) campground. And it would have been peaceful perfection if not for the fact that the campground seems to be located adjacent to the Raleigh Airport. From 5:30am to 11:30pm, jets brushed the treetops. They say that you don't hear these things after a while, but I guess we just weren't there long enough for that to happen. Surprisingly, jet noise is less aggravating than all of the people-generated sounds of camping, so we got along just fine. I would camp here again in a minute – the Park is cris-crossed with hike, bike, and horse trails, and was immaculately maintained. We felt privileged to have it to ourselves.
With a bit of help from The Google, John plotted a bicycle route into Raleigh. Holy shit! We found ourselves on roads where no one with any sense would ride a bike. It was a hair-raising 15 mile ride to town. On the plus side, we passed by the Raleigh Arboretum, and stopped for a quick tour. This fleece-wrapped tree was my favorite sight.With a bit more aggravating effort, we finally rolled into Raleigh and located the Capitol building, where we freely wandered around. Stately would be the word I would apply here – not overly embellished or ornate, but very historical and governmental looking, if you can relate to that. Perhaps the most surprising thing we learned is that North Carolina claims George Washington as their own – I had always assumed that he was a Virginian. This startling sculpture of GW made us both smile – crafted by the leading Italian sculptor of the day, it definitely has a Roman 'feel' to it. I would have passed right by if the George Washington inscription hadn't caught my eye.And then, there was this other wacky George Washington….All this history and cycling made us hungry and thirsty, so we wandered into one of the most interesting brewpubs we've ever visited. A combination brewery, dim sum restaurant and bookstore, Bhavana Brewery was the perfect stop. Excellent beer paired well with seafood dumplings and bbq pork bao (steamed buns). If I lived near Raleigh, this would be a frequent stop – so many intriguing items on the menu.We fortunately found a better route back to the campground, involving the Raleigh Greenbelt, and had a terrific ride home – touring through the sculpture park of the Raleigh Museum of Art. Why didn't we find this in the morning?
Moving on, our next stop was a campground we have enjoyed in the past – Lake Powhatan in Asheville, NC. We grabbed a fantastic campsite, and eagerly awaited the arrival of the bear which had reportedly been stalking the campground. We never saw Charley (as he had been named by the camp hosts) in the three days we were there although our neighbors reported that he strolled right behind our camper shortly after we left on the first day. Bummer!
Our short list of necessary stops in Asheville included a visits to two of our favorite breweries, who have opened large-scale operations in Asheville – Sierra Nevada and New Belgium. These two breweries could not be more different in their style. I love Sierra Nevada beers. Their brewery sits outside of town in a spectacular setting. We self-toured, since all the guided tours were booked for the day. Brewing equipment is beautiful – all gleaming and sexy. It was interesting, even though we had no tour guide.Friends had told us that the onsite restaurant at Sierra Nevada was amazing, and they were correct. We enjoyed appetizer portions of scallops, Mongolian beef skewers, and duck fat french fries. Happy campers rolled back home.
The vibe at New Belgium couldn't be more different than at Sierra Nevada. It's much smaller to begin with. Located near downtown in an old brownfield area, it's now a very hip-looking spot, with a huge outdoor patio, filled with folks and their dogs enjoying a beer. They're located directly alongside a bike path. Sustainability and employee-ownership are their big stories. Plus, they have a serious connection to cycling. Can you imagine getting a custom-made bicycle on your one-year anniversary? For a moment, going back to work, seemed like a good idea. I've got a warm spot in my heart for New Belgium, as they have contributed thousands of dollars to bicycling in Grand Rapids via their film festival which visited our town for four years. Proceeds from the festival have gone to the Greater Grand Rapids Bicycle Coalition. Although I don't like their beer as much as Sierra Nevada, they sure have won my heart.
Wandering around town, and hiking took up most of the rest of our Asheville time. This is a very cool town, with a great bike culture. There are bikes (especially mountain bikes) everywhere. The only downside to our stay was that the heat was stifling. Our campsite did not have electric power, so we needed our solar panels to provide enough power to the battery to keep the lights on and the refrigerator running. Although there was lots of sunshine, our site was shady. After two days, we had to shut down our refrigerator and load everything into the cooler we always carry. Not a big problem, but an annoyance.
Hurricane Nate had blasted into Mississippi the day before, so we knew there would be rain problems on our next travel day, the 8th. We packed up and hit the road early, intending to be at our next stop, set up, and hunkered down by noon. Everything was fine until we arrived at Standing Indian Campground in the Nantahala National Forest. As we pulled into the immaculate campground, we were met by a ranger who informed us that the campground was being evacuated ahead of the storm. Looking back, I can see that it made sense, as the campground was located down a long winding road near the Appalachians, if not officially in them. Oh crap! Now where? Consulting our atlas, I see that there's a Georgia State Park about 30 miles away that has a camping symbol on the map. We've no cell service, so we just head toward the park, hoping for the best.
What luck! We landed at Vogel Lake State Park and registered for two nights as the skies opened up. Bam! Never have we set up in such a downpour. We got the Campsh@ck leveled, and dived back into the truck for a consult about our next step. We were both drenched, soaking the interior of the truck. The decision was that we should set up our big yellow awning (you've seen the photos), so that we would have a spot to leave our wet clothes and towel off before going inside. If you've never been inside a T@DA, you might not be aware that we just a few feet of floor space, and absolutely nowhere to put wet clothes and towels. The Crankshaws rose to the occasion and put up our awning in a downpour in record time. We coaxed Jezzy out of the truck into the camper, and peeled our wet clothes off under the awning. It was ridiculous enough to be funny. (Next day, the Rangers told us we got over 7″ of rain). Once inside with dry clothes and some cold chicken we had grilled the previous day, we hunkered down with books and waited out the storm through a very long night.
Vogel is a gorgeous park. The rain miraculously disappeared the next day, so we hiked out to view Trahlyta Falls. They were roaring! It was incredible to stand on the edge of the viewing platform so close to the foaming water.
We're moving on to an urban adventure next as we visit Atlanta for the first time. It's steamy hot here – with record temps of around 90, combined with a dew point in the mid 70s. More to come.


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Now that we have put the Barry Bonds/ Babe Ruth blah, blah, blah to sleep, I think it's time that we sat back and wagered a few bucks on our favorite MLB team. Parity is here and every one of the six divisions is up for grabs this year and handicapping these teams, takes patience and talent.
Let's start with the glamour division and of course I am referring to the American League East where the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox have been trading punches since the opening week of April and George's boys are now sitting in the penthouse.
Lurking down in the lobby are the Toronto Blue Jays who have fought off injuries to their starting pitching staff, with superb hitting and are 32-25 and are just three games back. Toronto has made it clear from the get go, that they will spend money during the season in order to contend.
In the AL Central my 9-1 betting bonanza and that would be the 2005 Chicago White Sox are scuffling a bit after a torrid start and presently trail the Motown Detroit Tigers. The Tigers began the first 50 games under Jim Leyland in spectacular fashion, but injuries are beginning to hit them, with the latest being to Pudge Rodriguez.
At 28-29 the Cleveland Indians will make a move at some point and placing a few bucks on them, could provide you with a nice return on your dollar. The AL West with Texas, Oakland, Seattle and Los Angeles is a crapshoot, with only 5.5 games separating the VIP section and the cheap seats. The first place Rangers incidentally are the only team in the West with a winning mark in games played within the division and against the powerful AL East and you cannot ignore that vital gambling statistic.
The New York Mets like their neighbors the Yankees like to throw the money around and they sit atop the NL East presently, but the Phillies and Braves can almost reach out and touch them. With 14 straight division titles, I certainly would think about a wagering a few bucks on them to win once again.
The Cardinals are suddenly trying to ward off the Cincinnati Reds who are getting healthy and pounding the ball. The Cardinals meanwhile have all kids of injury issues with Pujols and ace Chris Carpenter does not look stable.
Just like their counterparts in the AL West, the NL West Diamondbacks, Dodgers, Padres, Giants and Rockies are in a fierce battle for supremacy. Just six games separate the top and bottom, with Arizona leading the pack. The Dodgers are getting superb play out of Garciaparra and if their veterans can stay healthy, watch out!
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Wasn't it me that predicted that Twins manager Ron Gardenhire would be the first baseball manager to be shown the door in 2006? Yes I also think that Barry Bonds is being unfairly accused of using performance enhancing drugs? No Gardenhire is doing just fine these days as he and his troops prepare for a crucial three game set in the Twin Cities tonight.
Minnesota (59-41) has won 34 of 42 since June 8 to cut what was an 11-game deficit in the wild card to a half-game.
"We're just playing really good baseball," said manager Ron Gardenhire, whose team was 25-33 nearly seven weeks ago. "People keep talking about the streak we're on, but streaks don't last two months or a month and a half."
The Twins caught the struggling Chicago White Sox, who have led the wild-card race for most of the season, by completing a three-game sweep with a 7-4 victory Wednesday. Minnesota and Chicago are right behind the New York Yankees, who open a three-game home set against Tampa Bay on Friday night.
The Tigers under veteran skipper Jim Leyland have maintained their composure and now must deal with the newest phenom in the American League and that would be none other then rookie pitcher Francisco Liariano. The Twins look to keep rolling Friday behind Liriano (12-2, 1.93 ERA), who pitched poorly against the Tigers in two relief outings this season, allowing seven runs and 11 hits in 3 2-3 innings for a 17.18 ERA.
Since being moved into the rotation, though, the rookie left-hander has become a leading contender for the CY Young Award, going 11-2 with a 1.59 ERA in 13 starts. Minnesota is 2-7 this season against Detroit and has been outscored 64-25. In a three-game sweep from April 28-30 at Comerica Park, the Twins were outscored 33-1. The Tigers (68-33) have the best record in the major leagues, and their 30-13 mark against divisional opponents is also tops in baseball. Detroit leads the AL Central by 8 1/2 games over Minnesota and Chicago.
The question mark for all contending teams is the starting pitching and the Tigers send a struggling Zach Miner to the hill tonight. Miner has lasted only 6 2-3 combined innings and given up 10 earned runs in losing both of his starts since the break. In his first seven starts after being recalled in early June, the right-hander was 6-1 with a 2.57 ERA and didn't allow more than three runs in a game.
Detroit gave Miner a five-run lead after one inning Saturday against Oakland, but he surrendered five runs in the top of the second and was pulled after a season-low 2 1-3 innings of a 9-5 loss.
Detroit has lost 9 of the past 12 in Minnesota and will be a dog tonight!
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Lessons from the epic pursuit of the perfect records management system.
Texas had big plans for its new health and human services application and eligibility program. After investing heavily to get the new system off the ground, officials looked forward to processing Medicaid, food stamps and other public aid claims more efficiently. Data would be stored more reliably. It would be a technological leap.
When it came time to roll out the program in the 1970s, however, employees were up in arms. They were accustomed to the old system; they knew all the tricks. Adjusting to this new program was just another burden atop their already heavy caseloads. Why bother with all this hassle?
With that unceremonious debut, the System for Application, Verification, Eligibility, Referral and Reporting (SAVERR) was implemented.
"Of course, we've all forgotten that," said Stephanie Goodman, spokeswoman of Texas' Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC). "That was 30 years ago."
Modern Trouble
Now the HHSC is in the middle of another rocky rollout, this time replacing SAVERR and various other eligibility programs with a new program called the Texas Integrated Eligibility Redesign System (TIERS), designed to integrate the application and eligibility process for at least 50 public assistance programs.
TIERS will link nearly 25 government agencies - as opposed to the old systems, which required case workers to enter information for each program separately.
Official reports issued this year, however, as well as state legislative hearings and widespread media coverage, contend that the switch to TIERS wasted hundreds of millions of dollars. Worse, the death of a 14-year-old boy, whose health insurance was mistakenly withheld, according to newspapers around the state, has been connected in the public memory to the agency and its beleaguered program.
For TIERS, evolving demands, an inflexible regulatory and contract framework, and aggressive implementation timelines combined to snarl its rollout. The story of the system's implementation holds lessons for agencies across the nation that are working to integrate complicated systems.
There's just no easy way to introduce a new eligibility program, Goodman said, and tackling the number of records her agency handles doesn't make it any easier. Even as auditors and legislators continue to probe the agency, the HHSC stands by its new program.
An Aging System
Texas' Legislature asked for a replacement 10 years ago for SAVERR, which was implemented in the late 1970s. The program is still used in all but a few counties, Goodman said.
Written in COBOL, a programming language that dates to 1959, SAVERR was built to run on old machines with black-and-green screens and noisy keyboards. Intended for use during face-to-face consultations with aid recipients in government offices, SAVERR requires employees to enter data a few fields at a time before moving on to the next screen. Data is batched overnight and printed periodically for hard-copy records. When people change their address, or enroll or drop out of any program, the old entry is overwritten, and no historical record is left in the program. To access historical data, employees must search through electronic and paper archives. The Austin American-Statesman reported the monthly cost of running SAVERR on HHSC computers at $1 million.
In 1999, the agency was ready with a blueprint for a new system. Where SAVERR processed records for each benefit program individually, the new system, called TIERS, was designed to handle Medicaid, food stamps and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families benefits in an integrated database. By 2003, TIERS was ready to roll out in two Texas counties: Travis and Hays.
At the same time, however, policy changes were brewing that would significantly complicate deployment of the new system. First, the Texas Legislature reorganized the state Department of Human Services - which was responsible for developing TIERS - under a much larger umbrella agency that became the HHSC, which accounts
for one-third of the state's annual operating budget. Then, the Legislature directed the HHSC to explore using private call centers, rather than walk-in government offices, for processing requests for social services benefits.
Signs of Trouble
As the call center plan moved forward, HHSC needed a data management system to support its new phone-based eligibility operations. The situation put HHSC officials on the horns of a dilemma: They could revert to SAVERR, a 20-year old program that was never designed to work in a call center environment. They could adapt TIERS, which already had cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars, but also wasn't designed for call-center operations. Or they could use proprietary software provided by the company chosen to operate the newly privatized call centers.
SAVERR worked, but the agency had already been directed to find a replacement, and the technology was quickly becoming outdated and unsupportable. HHSC managers decided against letting the call-center vendor use its own eligibility software because they didn't want to be locked into a proprietary solution, according to a report from HHSC Inspector General Brian Flood.
TIERS - developed for the state by Deloitte Consulting LLP - remained a work in progress, but the HHSC already had invested a substantial amount of money and time in the new program. Therefore, the HHSC decided to stick with TIERS and try to get it running smoothly in time for the call center rollout. TIERS needed to be tweaked to fit this new task, however. For example, the data entry fields were shrunk to fewer pages because the condensed format makes more sense for taking information over the phone.
Even before being adapted for call center use, TIERS was very complicated. During pilot deployments, TIERS encountered problems that led to longer case-entry times and an inability to create certain case history reports needed for federal compliance. A report by HHSC Inspector General Brian Flood and a separate federal audit found that the program had serious design flaws as an eligibility-processing tool.
Based on what HHSC officials were learning from the TIERS pilot, the agency already had a full plate, and the move to call centers complicated the program further. Still, when the HHSC submitted its call-center plan to the federal Food and Nutrition Service - which provides the state money for food stamps - the state commission said it would push ahead with TIERS.
A Benefits Behemoth
Despite the problems, officials continued to add functions to the program. When the HHSC was reorganized to include a handful of other state services, management decided to let TIERS power as much of the agency's work as possible, according to Flood's report, which was released in April.
TIERS grew into a benefits-calculating behemoth. "The project was so large and tech-driven that some of the business needs were not properly designed into the system," Flood said.
Goodman contends the HHSC has handled deployment of the sprawling program just fine, but agrees it's a big job. "It's like remodeling a house with 4 million people, and they're still living in it," she said.
When Accenture won the call center contract in 2005, the HHSC handed the company the job of running TIERS as well. The program still needed work, but to speed things along, the HHSC cut its contract with Deloitte and handed Accenture the job of fixing TIERS, along with starting up the call centers. Accenture eventually contracted some of the work of fixing and modifying TIERS back to Deloitte, at a hefty cost to the HHSC, according to Flood's report.
Accenture Senior Executive Dave McCurley said the project's biggest problems didn't arise from the scale of the program, but from how little wiggle room the company had - due to detailed laws at
the state and federal level, and a very specific contract with the HHSC.
"The challenge from our perspective was that the contract vehicle was very detailed and prescriptive," he said. "It was very inflexible."
The HHSC built the call centers into its plans with the federal government so it wouldn't have to start a separate approval process for the call centers, according to the report.
"We spent a lot of money on the application, so we just didn't want to throw it away," said Gary Gumbert, the HHSC's CIO. "Why go out and have to go through certification again? It's a waste of money."
Deadline Pressure
The first call centers were scheduled to open in late January 2006 - a pace that became a problem when TIERS wouldn't cooperate with another program slated to power the call centers, according to Flood's report. Instead of pushing back the schedule to allow more time for getting the programs working together, managers stuck with the original timetable and had call-center workers enter enrollment data into TIERS and SAVERR concurrently.
By that time, however, hundreds of HHSC employees who were proficient in SAVERR had taken new jobs because their offices were being replaced by call centers staffed by the contractor's personnel. The low cost of operating and staffing phone bays rather than lots of small local offices was one of the call center plan's most attractive parts. The Texas Legislature hoped to save hundreds of millions of dollars from the switch.
In practice, however, losing that much institutional memory may have come at a heavy cost. "The amount of training was different for the contractor staff, who were brought on in great numbers," Flood said, "but had almost no background knowledge."
Gumbert said getting staff - new and old - comfortable with the new program, when some had been using SAVERR for 30 years, has been a huge challenge, but an unavoidable one.
"I wish I could make it easy, but it's just painful for the current staff," he said, adding that the agency is hoping to set up new training labs to help bring employees up to speed.
Things You Can't Plan For
Any large program like TIERS runs within some margin of error, McCurley said. For instance, SAVERR had an error rate of 5 percent to 7 percent. But TIERS was under the microscope because of the hype associated with the call center switch. When the pilot indicated there were problems with the application, public outcry was swift because social services are of such vital importance and under such close watch by the media.
Furthermore, it's difficult to predict how employees will adapt to new programs and which mistakes they will make, McCurley said, explaining that those factors are why an agency starts with a pilot and makes adjustments to employees' actions.
"No matter how good a job you do of drawing up the process in a lab, [employees are] going to do what they're going to do," he said. "You really have very little control over their behavior."
The HHSC cut off its call-center contract with Accenture in March, and the controversy around TIERS and the push for private call centers came to a boil in April, with the release of Flood's report and a series of Legislative hearings. House committees questioned Albert Hawkins, executive commissioner of the HHSC, on management decisions and ultimately put the program under closer Legislative oversight.
"When you're doing a project this massive, it's a best practice to be sure you have a single point of oversight," Flood said. "That oversight makes sure that the technology side of the house communicates with the business side of the house. So it's not a tech marvel that produces
nothing, and it's not a tech flop that produces everything the business side wanted. It's a mixture of the two."
The oversight committee will hold public hearings to get input on the program, and come up with recommendations for the next Legislature by December 2008, according to a bill passed in May by Rep. Patrick Rose, D-Dripping Springs.
The state rehired Deloitte to manage TIERS, and HHSC personnel handle call center operations. Deloitte declined to be interviewed for this article, citing a company policy against commenting on projects while under contract. Today, TIERS handles about 5 percent of the HHSC's cases, according to Goodman, with pilot deployments in Hays, Williamson and Travis counties accounting for most of that.
In January, the HHSC began a new Women's Health Program and uses TIERS for enrollment. The commission also converted the state's foster care records to the program in March. Still, the federal government is withholding approval of TIERS rollouts for food stamp programs in additional counties until new functions can be built into the program, including the ability to track historical records of food stamp fraud.
Despite the struggles involved in launching the call centers, Texas officials remain convinced that their efforts eventually will pay off.
"I think the future is going to continue to move in this direction, to more and more distance encounters and distance enrollments. It's just getting the technology to a reliable state," Flood said. "We were the test state."
People forget how big Texas is, and what a strain it can be when large numbers of citizens call in at once, Gumbert said, adding that he's prepared to work on the program for a long time.
"We're taking small steps," he said. "That's the only way to do something like this."
To venture so far into uncharted waters, with so many people's critical benefits on the line, is an inherently touchy proposition. As other states move ahead with similar programs, Goodman said all managers can do is prepare themselves to face inevitable challenges.
"When you have a system that serves 30 million people and approves critical benefits," Goodman said, "there is no margin of error."
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Montreal: Thousands of people fled their homes in western Canada over the weekend as strong winds fanned forest fires that have ravaged British Columbia province for more than a week.
The inferno's progress prompted authorities to take new emergency measures, ordering the evacuation of 24,000 people in the region including the town of Williams Lake which is home to some 11,000 people, reported public broadcaster CBC.
Some 60 percent of affected residents have already left their homes.
The province's transport minister, Todd Stone, told a news conference Sunday that between 36,000 and 37,000 people have so far been forced from their homes since the wild fires sparked by hot dry weather prompted a state of emergency to be declared on July 7.
Local authorities said there were currently 162 wildfires active as of Sunday, including around 15 that posed a threat to residential areas. Some 3,000 firefighters, including 415 sent in from surrounding provinces, were battling the flames.
A firefighting helicopter crashed in the region on Saturday, and its pilot — who was alone on board — was being treated in hospital.
Further to the south, fire crews equipped with aircraft in the US state of California were making steady progress against 11 active blazes fueled by searing temperatures and high winds.
"Great news! All evacuation warnings for the #AlamoFire have been lifted. There is fire equipment still in the area working – use caution," the official account for Cal Fire tweeted.
The Whittier fire, which began on July 8 and stretched across 18,015 acres and has burned down almost 2,000 structures was 36 percent contained, according to the agency.
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Oh god. I can't. This is almost too painful. Cal women's basketball held a team retreat last week, apparently in my grandfather's finished basement. Assistant coach Daron Park, with the rest of the coaching staff on backup, entertained the players with an altered Montell Jordan routine that really speaks to their demographic.
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Wot I Think: Civilization V
It's out in the US now, but in Europe we've got another two days on the clock. We have a different internet here, you know. It tastes of tea, bad teeth and snootiness. Perfectly understandable that they wouldn't want to see its like in America. Anyway, it's Tuesday, it's five o'clock UK time, and that means I'm going to tell you what I think of the latest slice of history-spanning turn-based strategy. I haven't made any Ghandi gags, though. Sorry about that. I know you were expecting them.
Perhaps the biggest perk of this job: getting to spend double-digit hours with a new Civilization game every few years, and not being made to feel guilty about it. If I sound too snarkily celebratory, that's because this in stark contrast to the original Civ, a title which caused my parents to criticise how long I spent playing games when I should instead be having my very soul drummed out of me by endless homework. Little did they know, those fools, those sensible fools, that I'd somehow go on to making a living (or something approximating it) from games, while incomprehensible graphs and a few basic Latin phrases have since been as useful to me as nipples on a jar of peanut butter. And also that I surely know far more about military and socio-political history as a result of playing Civ than that weird teacher with the dirty pockets and the hair like a badger could ever have taught me.
So here I am again, for what's roughly the eighth spin on the wheel of time, if you count Call to Power, Alpha Centauri and/or Civilization Revolution (a lot of people wouldn't). Civ V manages the perplexing trick of simultaneously spinning that wheel further than ever before, but also backwards. It switches around some pretty fundamental wiring, but at the same time feels less progressive and less game-changing than the justly revered Civilization IV.
I'm not going to re-document all the new stuff, as I've already done that here and here and it's really not fair to subject you to a four thousand word tour here. It adds up to a mix that works, that is inarguably Civ but encourages different thinking alongside more established tactics. You're still riding the same bike, but now it's got some cool new spokey-dokeys and bell that plays Little Spanish Flea.
The City States remain a particularly fascinating addition, offering the choice of running your tongue along a whole new strategy leg or giving you something to practice stomping to death while you gear up for a full-on global conquest. Not everyone's trying to rule the world, and the city states are Civ's first real reflection of that. At the same time, I totally welcome the option to turn the off, lending more of a land-grab feel to proceedings.
I've warmed hugely to the revised, semi-hex-based combat too. While in early sessions I was a mite frustrated by just how costly it became to assault a city, thanks to its built-in defence, I'm now a big fat fan of the more tactical approach. Civ battles are no longer about clumping units and rushing; they're about picking the best spots on the map, balancing close combat with ranged and using upgrades that boost other units' usefulness rather than simply to buff a single soldier. I've got a catapult safely back there lobbing rocks at that city, and in front of it is a line of longswordsmen who physically prevent an enemy just wandering over and trashing it. On that hillside, I've got an archer with a rough terrain bonus, in that field there's another with an open terrain bonus, and somewhere in the middle of this cluster of death I've arranged is a dude with a medic upgrade, churning out just enough health bonus per turn to stop enemy archers from quite killing off any of my units. I've read the terrain, I've mapped out the hexes surrounding my target, and I've turned it all into a weapon.
Oh, you're so going down, York. It's brutal chess deluxe, and as a result it feels that much more like an orchestrated war. By turn, when it goes wrong it tends to be in uexpected ways, a result of your military planning being a bit dicky rather than simply a question of might makes right.
Combat's probably the most developed system in the game, and that extends all the way out to even the graphics. For instance, probably the most charming thing I've seen in Civ V is the animation on the helicopter gunship. It's a dramatic-but-tiny barrage of machine gun fire and high-powered rockets, a 3-second loop that looks like a profoundly destructive act, whether or not it's happens to be achieving much. I didn't notice it for ages, having become accustomed to playing in maxi-zoom mode. An errant flick of the mousewheel eventually framed its delicately-rendered death-strike front and centre-screen, and I had a moment of awe about how much time, effort and gun-lust had gone into incidental visual touches. Someone made that helicopter machinegun firing animation and went home proud. Probably grinning like this, probably convinced it was the greatest helicopter machinegun-firing animation ever created. He's probably right. And he did all that for something that 90% of players will probably never notice, let alone think about.
That's Civ V's thing- lavishness. It's dangerous to kick off any game write-up harking on about how pretty the graphics are, but in Civ V's case it's genuinely integral to the game's appeal. It's not that it's hyper-graphics. It's that it's meticulously detailed, a crafted world rather than merely a glossy one. The units are on the fuzzy side, for instance, but as a whole it's this wide world of tiny, moving parts. Boardgame roots it might have, but this is Civ moving into being a living thing.
On the surface, at least. Underneath, this is as mechanical and inorganic as the series has ever been, thanks to a combination of streamlined systems, the vaguest vagaries excised, and AI so robotic that I swear I could hear the cogs ticking.
Case in point: It's not easy being peaceful. Civilization V does not entirely live up to its name, in that the last thing it wants to let you do is be civilised.
Even on the lower difficulty settings (sue me, I like to break myself in easy), other Civs will declare war on you, regardless of how aggressive you've been. They will do this without warning, they will do it without explanation and they will do it whether or not they're actually equipped to win it. Sometimes it's just a little pathetic, this angry little puppy snapping at the doors of your towering fortress. Sneer at it, then boot it into the sun. Sometimes, though, it's two armed-to-the-teeth megaCivs declaring war on the same turn when you're far from prepared for even one war, forcing you to turn your entire economy to muscle and totally disrupting any long-running plans for peace, space and politics.
Clearly, in any Civ you need to be adept enough at the game to have a fighting force ready to go at any time in the event of an argy-bargy, because pursuing a purely scientific or cultural path without diverting any gold, production and research into military resources makes you a big white bottom just begging to kicked. If a Civ scents weakness, it's going to take advantage. Totally fair. You would too, right?
Here though, the sheer scale of the aggression and moreover its opaque, unexplained randomness can on occasion force reloading an autosave from several turns back and preparing a bigger army. This is because the AI is so fixed/broken/cheaty/sadistic that the game appears to decide WAR! will happen on a certain turn. No matter how much you reload, savagery will be unleashed on that turn. No matter how many gifts you ply your rivals-to-be with, no matter how many open borders or trading agreements you set up, war will happen on that turn. Strategy doesn't matter. They can't be bargained with. They can't be reasoned with. They don't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And they absolutely will not stop, ever, until you've nobbled enough of their troops that they panic and offer you all their Incense and horses.
It's a serious crimp on pursuing the other victory conditions, because you always need to be funnelling a ton of resource into a what-if army. A what-if army that summarily eats up massive maintenance costs. The cultural, scientific and political victories can, of course, be met – but only once you've crushed the most persistently bitey Civs under your heel, not because you've charmed them. This, coupled with a bug that caused another game to crash on a given turn, meant I've had to give up on a couple of games and start afresh.
Random spikes and machine-like behaviour are no strangers to Civ, and like spearmen being able to kill tanks, it's one of those classic wobbly bits that the series has always had – and always failed to fix. I think it's worse this time around – or at least more blatant. The blame for this I lie partially at the feet of the AI and partially at the feet of the watery Diplomacy system. While billed as Extreme Diplomacy, in fact it's a dramatic reduction of international politics – only the most feeling engagement with your rivals/allies/slightly surly neighbours. Trade yes/no, fancy a fight with that other guy yes/no, WAR. That's pretty much it, with the important exception of the Research Agreements – wherein you both throw some cash at a mutual scientific discovery project to be awarded in ten turns time, rather than directly trade tech tree branches.
I don't know what these guys are thinking about anything most especially about me. Gone is any useful designation of their current attitude towards you, outside of reading cheery or angry implications from their vague, bland greetings. No stats to say you've camped too close or you've spent too long nibbling France's earlobes. Just neutral trading, occasionally switching to sudden, unexpected murderousness. It's this aspect of the game that most requires improvement, for it gives no sense that the other Civs are Civs and, to be honest, it's so dry and streamlined that it's not particulary appealing an endeavour. I found myself far more prone to doing my own thing and keeping a bare minimum level of contact up with my sometime neighbours. Maybe that's why they kept declaring futile wars on me. But I doubt it.
There are several expansion pack-shaped holes in Civ V, and diplomacy's the largest of them. The next is religion, and then there's a smattering of smaller ones for social policies. With these, Civ veers ever so slightly towards RPG – defining your Civ as a build that much more, rather than pushing onwards to a silent target of your own . The effects of picking a policy are huge, and instant- a third more gold, or happiness, or a dramatic slowdown in the cooling of allied city state's ardour, or a huge boost to the effectiveness of soldiers on home turf.
The right policy or two can change the game, and while there aren't all that many ideal combinations (with some policies even blocking access to others) there's a whole lot of scope to make your nation a character, a favoured load-out that you err towards.
Or you could ignore them entirely; if you pick the military route you'll probably have to, because you won't be chucking out enough Culture to access new social policies. There's a lot more of that in this fifth Civ – features both small and large that are almost locked out if you don't pursue the relevant path. It makes it a bigger game in its way, more friendly to repeat play and exploration.
With arguably over-fussy complications removed, such as having to build separate boats to ferry units across seas (some folk love their ship-building, but I'm so much happier knowing that I don't have to wait another 14 turns just so I can tell my soldiers to go over there), it's also a more focused game than Civ IV became after two expansions. Despite the changes, there's a more classic Civiniess to this one, but not wholly in its favour. There is a vaguely sterile air to it, a greater sense that it's defined by maths. Which leads me to repeat my former feeling that this is thought of as a companion to the still-fresh Civ IV, not a replacement. It's trying out different directions rather than continuing along Civ IV's path. Directions very much worth exploring, and which push this firmly into "of course you're bloody going to buy it" territory, but I'm left wanting something a little more… meaty. Surprising. Organic.
I suspect that's going to happen anyway, thanks to the built-in mod browser/downloader. It's been next to useless in this review code, as there's no community out there pushing new content at the game, but give it a few weeks, months, years and there'll be a constant churn of new, wild stuff: new Civs, new maps, new rules, new units. All downloaded and installed into the game, from within the game. I suspect it'll quickly require better filtering systems, as the handful of categories and the most popular tab are going to damn a lot of good stuff to never see daylight, but if it goes to plan I can have a different Civ V experience every time I load the thing up.
Once players are around, the multiplayer will clearly fix my major reservations with the AI too. At least if someone's random, it's because they're a random psychopath or don't know the game – not because an invisible die has decided it's time to die.
Civ V's reliably done what every Civ game has ever done (with the possible exception of III): eat my time as unashamedly as a dog in a pork pie factory. I laugh a little when I look back at my complaints a few paragraphs up. I say those things because they must be noted, but it's not like they ever put me off playing. It's not like they stop me from being profoundly glad and satisfied that there's another Civilization icon winking cheekily at me from the desktop. I want it to be better, I want it to be bolder, I want it to address and improve the very foundations of Civilization, but it's sure as hell going to sit on my hard drive for months anyway. Yeah, this'll ultimately be remembered as one of the filler tracks on Civ's best-of LP, one of the ones you never quite felt had real heart, real soul – but it's a tune I'm more than happy to hum.
Think I'll play a bit more RUSE for now, though.


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England held to 1-1 draw by Poland in qualifier
England stumbled for the second time in World Cup qualifying on Wednesday, with Poland holding the dreary visitors to a 1-1 draw in a match delayed by a day due to a waterlogged pitch.
Kamil Glik headed in Poland's equalizer in the 70th minute in Warsaw after goalkeeper Joe Hart floundered as he attempted to punch away a corner.
''I didn't get there and the lad has done a good header,'' Hart said. ''It's my fault, I probably should have punched it or stayed in goal. I didn't do either and it's probably cost us the three points.''
Wayne Rooney put England in front in the 31st, when captain Steven Gerrard's corner bounced off his shoulder and was helped into the net by Lukasz Piszczek.
But as England became increasingly sloppy, Rooney squandered a chance to extend the advantage before Glik's equalizer on a lackluster afternoon for the English in the Polish capital.
''I don't think Wayne was having one of his better days and he was also tiring,'' Hodgson said.
England, which was also held to 1-1 by Ukraine at Wembley, has a one-point lead in Group H over Montenegro but has played an extra game. Roy Hodgson's side has won two and drawn two.
''We are disappointed not to take three points today,'' Gerrard said. ''Our points tally could be a lot better ... we are not going to grumble.''
The team had been forced to wait another day to play after heavy rain on Tuesday - and the failure to close the stadium roof - left pools of water on the field at the 1.8 billion zloty ($600 million) National Stadium.
Hodgson didn't think the surface had fully recovered.
''The pitch was quite difficult, it was a soggy pitch, the ball wasn't moving well,'' Hodgson said.
England was guilty of needlessly giving the ball away too often when in possession and lacking in creativity, leaving Jermain Defoe isolated up front.
Poland exploited space down England's right flank and Hart had to be alert early on to clear the ball away from the feet of Piszczek.
A poor clearance from Hart straight to Kamil Grosicki also presented the Poles with an opening. Grosicki released Robert Lewandowski, who skipped past the challenge of Cleverley and into the penalty area before firing a cross-shot wide of the post.
But Rooney silenced the fans who managed to attend the delayed match.
''We had a failed cover at one corner kick and that led to a mishap,'' Poland coach Waldemar Fornalik said. ''But in the second half we forced the English into defense.''
At the start of the second half Ludovic Obraniak was denied by Hart's only good save, while Piszczek's half volley went wide.
But the equalizer finally came when Hart and Lescott were exposed by Glik.
''We toiled very hard,'' Glik said. ''It was a very tough game, especially when we were losing 1-0 ... (but) our game was consistent, we had a good pace from the start and we kept it in the second half and we scored. England did not create clear scoring situations.''


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Serbian House of Studies to be Founded at Seminary
12 February 2013 • On–Campus • Deborah Belonick
St. Vladimir's Seminary (SVOTS) and the Faculty of Orthodox Theology at the University of Belgrade have made a formal agreement to work together with the aim of establishing a Serbian House of Studies on the campus of St. Vladimir's Seminary. The House of Studies has several goals, including the promotion of sustained dialogue and educational exchanges between Orthodox Christians in America and Serbia.
The Serbian House of Studies is one of many endeavors outlined in the Seminary's newly crafted "SVS Strategic Plan 2020," and the first to be implemented. The Strategic Plan—which sets forth the Board's vision for St. Vladimir's Seminary for the next decade—actually calls for several such foreign houses of study, together comprising "The International Center of Orthodox Christian Studies," eventually to be located in the historic stone "Germack Building" on campus.
The agreement between SVOTS and the University of Belgrade had been in negotiation for some time, including review and reception by the Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church. An opportunity to formally sign the agreement came when His Grace, The Right Rev. Maxim, bishop of the Western American Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church in North and South America, and a member of the Board of St Vladimir's, together with Protopresbyter Stauvrophor Dr. Predrag Puzović, dean of the Faculty of Orthodox Theology, University of Belgrade, and their colleague Dr. Bogdan Lubardić, visited St Vladimir's for the Feast of the Three Hierarchs.
"There are many advantages to our envisioned 'International Center,' said The Very Rev. Dr. John Behr. "Firstly, these houses of study will 'formalize' our existing relationships with other Orthodox schools around the world; ultimately, St. Vladimir's will be the only place on the planet where Orthodox Christian faculty and students are living, working, and studying while fostering international dialogue.
"Secondly, student exchanges between two countries will enrich the whole student body," he continued. "In this case, American Serbian seminarians will get to experience church life in the country of their home jurisdiction, while foreign students will train here and get to understand the American Orthodox scene. This will help our American students better understand and incorporate their heritage, including Serbian history and liturgical practices, into their ministry.
"Thirdly, our seminary campus will be the locus for further theological research by a faculty member from Belgrade University, who will remain in residence for one year and share his particular knowledge with our own student body, while overseeing Serbian exchange students.
"And finally," Fr. John concluded, "the Serbian House of Studies will act as a liaison and center for alumni of Serbian descent from theological schools around the world. We plan to run alumni events throughout the year from this new center, and we plan to publish a newsletter reporting on those events.
The Very Rev. Dr. Chad Hatfield, seminary Chancellor/CEO, also enthusiastically endorsed the agreement, saying, "This is only the first of many proposed Houses within the International Center for Orthodox Christian Studies. It should be noted that the long-term plan is to include various Oriental Orthodox Houses as well, and their inclusion will build upon our Seminary's history as a place of serious exchange between Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Christians."


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#Entry location
hive = Hive(0,0,50,480)
#drawing rectangle
cv2.rectangle(frame, (0, 0), (50, 480), (255,0,0), 2)
guyver2 wrote: it almost seems like the entry box is not at the right position
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# new bee, check if it came from the entrance
def append(self, pt):
# if a bee pops out from the hive entrance, then count it
print "new bee at ", pt, ':',
if pt[0] > self.x and pt[0] < self.x+self.w and pt[1] > self.y and pt[1] < self.y+self.h:
self.OUT += 1
print 'coming from the hive'
print 'not coming the hive'
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for i in xrange(len(freeKP)): # new keypoints
if freeKP[i]:
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import io
import time
import threading
import picamera
# Create a pool of image processors
done = False
lock = threading.Lock()
pool = []
class ImageProcessor(threading.Thread):
def __init__(self):
super(ImageProcessor, self).__init__()
self.stream = io.BytesIO()
self.event = threading.Event()
self.terminated = False
def run(self):
# This method runs in a separate thread
global done
while not self.terminated:
if self.event.wait(1):
# Read the image and do some processing on it
# Set done to True if you want the script to terminate
# at some point
# Reset the stream and event
# Return ourselves to the pool
with lock:
def streams():
while not done:
with lock:
processor = pool.pop()
yield processor.stream
with picamera.PiCamera() as camera:
pool = [ImageProcessor() for i in range (4)]
camera.resolution = (640, 480)
# Set the framerate appropriately; too fast and the image processors
# will stall the image pipeline and crash the script
camera.framerate = 10
camera.capture_sequence(streams(), use_video_port=True)
# Shut down the processors in an orderly fashion
while pool:
with lock:
processor = pool.pop()
processor.terminated = True
A small update on our project...gtoal wrote:I've posted the initial hardware part of our project to http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Electric-Hive/.
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pi@frankenputer:~/bin $ ./bmp280
Pressure: 1009.50hPa - Temperature: 26.35°C
pi@frankenputer:~/bin $ sudo ./dht22 22 22
Temp=25.7* Humidity=59.9%
Our hive is now live, and you are welcome to grab our video files to use for data:guyver2 wrote:when I said the code run real time last summer, it was for the very first version reading from a video stream and with downsampled images.
When I actually ran it on my raspberry with the camera I got a huge frame drop. Since I do not have a beehive to get proper image feed I just updated the code to use the picamera module instead of reading from a file. I did not perform extensive testing and benchmarking.
Using smaller images (not only for processing but also when reading from the sensor), reducing the background history size are two parameters that would increase framerate with a tradeoff for result's quality.
look at these parameters :
SCALE and HISTSIZE
https://github.com/guyver2/beehive/blob ... ra.py#L150


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HARRISONBURG, Va. (AP) Rayshawn Goins and Devon Moore each scored 14 points to lead James Madison to a 51-43 win over Drexel on Saturday in a poor shooting effort by both teams.
Taylor Bessick nearly had a double-double with nine points and 13 rebounds for the Dukes (9-8, 3-1 Colonial Athletic Association), who won their second straight game.
The score was tied at 38-all with 4:43 left in the second half after Dartaye Ruffins' 3-pointer. But James Madison pulled away with a 10-0 run to claim a 48-38 advantage, holding Drexel scoreless for four minutes.
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The RESTORE project
The RESTORE project (Rethinking Ecological and Social Theories of Restoration Ecology) is co-led by the Science Action Center, the Chicago Wilderness science team, and research partners at UIC, DePaul University, USDA Forest Service, and UIUC.
The RESTORE explores how perceptions of nature, types of knowledge, and collective decision making strategies affect ecological restoration practices in Chicago Wilderness, and how these different practices influence biodiversity outcomes. We selected 11 research sites in Cook, DuPage, and Lake Counties that represent a variety of organizations and ways of conducting restoration in oak woodland/savannas. RESTORE explores the following questions:
- Are there differences in decision-making processes involved in ecological restoration?
- Do they lead to differences in biodiversity outcomes?
- Do these outcomes influence the extent to which the public supports restoration decisions?
Research Activities
- Our social science team interviewed more than 60 land managers, researchers, and volunteers and observed restoration activities. We gathered information on the ecological history of each site and how and why different land management decisions were made. Now in our final year, our team is working together to synthesize the social and ecological data (including biodiversity indicators measured by our ecology team members).
- We used the Institutional Analysis and Development framework to analyze the social structure, processes, and institutions (rules, norms, and strategies) of the restoration organizations. This work is now under review for publication in two journals.
- Agent-based models were developed to simulate different interaction processes used in the restoration organizations. The results of this work can be found in a pdf article, and another article is under review for journal publication.
- Our social science team also conducted surveys on public attitudes and knowledge of restoration activities with onsite natural area visitors and surrounding neighbors. These data are currently being analyzed.
The end goal of RESTORE is to recommend models for restoration that result in the desired outcomes for the people and natural areas of the Chicago Wilderness region.
RESTORE is funded by the National Science Foundation


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What are the pros and cons of public schools? Should government run schools?
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Public-school education in the United States is provided mainly by local governments, with control and funding coming from three levels: federal, state, and local. Curricula, funding, teaching, and other policies are set through locally elected school boards by jurisdiction over school districts. The school districts are special-purpose districts authorized by provisions of state law.
Generally, state governments can and most, if not all, do set minimum standards relating to almost all activities of primary and secondary schools, as well as funding and authorization to enact local school taxes to support the schools -- primarily through real property taxes. The federal government funds aid to states and school districts that meet minimum federal standards. School accreditation decisions are made by voluntary regional associations. The first tax-supported public school in America was in Dedham, Massachusetts.
Public school is normally split up into three stages: primary (elementary) school (kindergarten to 4th or 5th or 6th grade), junior high (also "intermediate", or "middle") school (5th or 6th or 7th to 8th or 9th) and high school (9th or 10th to 12th, somewhat archaically also called "secondary school"), with some less populated communities incorporating high school as 7th to 12th. Some Junior High Schools (Intermediate Schools) contain 7th to 9th grades or 7th and 8th, in which case the High School is 10th to 12th or 9th to 12th respectively.
The middle school format is increasing in popularity, in which the Elementary School contains kindergarten through 5th grade and the Middle School contains 6th through 8th grade. In addition, some elementary schools are splitting into two levels, sometimes in separate buildings: Primary (usually K-2) and Intermediate (3-4 or 3-5). Some middle schools consist of only 7th and 8th grades.
The K-8th format is also an emerging popular concept, in which students may attend only two schools for all of their K-12 education. Many charter schools feature the K-8 format in which all primary grades are housed in one section of the school while the traditional junior high school aged students are housed in another section of the school.
Some very small school districts, primarily in rural areas, still maintain a K-12 system in which all students are housed in a single school.
In the United States, institutions of higher education that are subsidized by U.S. states are also referred to as "public." However, unlike public secondary schools, public universities charge tuition, though these fees are subsidized, particularly for "in-state" students, and are usually lower than those charged by private universities. Community colleges are examples of public institutions of higher education, although there are many highly-regarded universities that are deemed 'public', both due to their subsidized tuition for "in-state" students, and because the administrations of many of these universities are elected via the general electoral ballot.
Some believe that public schools are an essential part of the infrastructure of the United States. They are available to all citizens regardless of income level. These schools meet a fundamental societal need by creating an informed electorate, and promote the general welfare by creating a more skilled workforce. Others believe that most, if not all, public-school users benefit from government subsidies in attending public schools, thus their parents incur a lower cost (if any) to attend public schools than do their tuition-paying private-school counterparts to attend private schools, and given the existence, support for, and proliferation of private schools, at present it remains indeterminate whether public schools are a government entitlement program, or a feature of the welfare state.
This debate asks whether public schools should exist.
Should all children be educated through the public school system?
Should people who avoid the public school system contribute towards it?
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Determinants of Injury Severity with Child Exposure to Passenger Air Bag Deployment.. Professional Engineering Publishing Limited; 1999.
Determinants of Injury Severity With Child Exposure to Passenger Air Bag Deployment. Barcelona, Spain: Professional Engineering Publications Ltd.; 1999.
Delta V as a predictor of significant injury for children involved in frontal motor vehicle crashes." Ann. Surg.. 2006;243(1):121-5."
The danger of premature graduation to seat belts for young children." Pediatrics. 2000;105(6):1179-83."
Children with special physical health care needs: restraint use and injury risk in motor vehicle crashes." Matern Child Health J. 2011;15(7):949-54."
Children with special health care needs: patterns of safety restraint use, seating position, and risk of injury in motor vehicle crashes." Pediatrics. 2009;123(2):518-23."
Child passenger safety: protecting your patients on every trip." J Pediatr (Rio J). 2012;88(4):283-5."
Child passenger safety." Pediatrics. 2011;127(4):e1050-66."
Child bicyclist injuries: are we obtaining enough information in the emergency department chart?" Inj. Prev.. 2002;8(2):165-9."
Characterization of interpersonal violence events involving young adolescent girls vs events involving young adolescent boys." Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2004;158(6):545-50."
Buckle up! Is not enough: enhancing protection of the restrained child." JAMA. 1999;281(22):2070-2."
Breathing difficulty and tinnitus among children exposed to airbag deployment." Accid Anal Prev. 2007;39(3):624-8."
Booster seats for children: closing the gap between science and public policy in the United States." Traffic Inj Prev. 2003;4(1):5-8."
Belt-positioning booster seats and reduction in risk of injury among children in vehicle crashes." JAMA. 2003;289(21):2835-40."
Associations between parenting styles and teen driving, safety-related behaviors and attitudes." Pediatrics. 2009;124(4):1040-51."
The association of weight percentile and motor vehicle crash injury among 3 to 8 year old children." Ann Adv Automot Med. 2010;54:193-9."
Association between weight and risk of crash-related injuries for children in child restraints." Pediatrics. 2011;128(6):1148-52."
Association Between New Jersey's Graduated Driver Licensing Decal Provision and Crash Rates of Young Drivers With Learners' Permits." Inj. Prev.. 2015;21(6):421-423."
Association Between NCAP Ratings and Real-World Rear Seat Occupant Risk of Injury." Traffic Inj Prev. 2015;16 Suppl 2:S146-52."
Assessing child restraint misuse by parental survey." Inj. Prev.. 2000;6(2):145-7."
Adult-supervised practice driving for adolescent learners: The current state and directions for interventions." J Safety Res. 2012;43(1):21-8."
Adolescent and adult drivers' mobile phone use while driving with different interlocutors." Accid Anal Prev. 2017;104:18-23."
Acute healthcare utilization by children after motor vehicle crashes." Accid Anal Prev. 2004;36(4):507-11."
Accuracy of self-reported data for estimating crash severity." Accid Anal Prev. 2003;35(6):833-40."


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Nord Electro 5D
Versatile 73-key stage instrument with drawbars.
The Electro 5 by Nord represents the further expansion and refinement of a design platform that has been a stalwart of stage musicians for more than a decade. The Electro 5 provides a wide comple... read more
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Versatile 73-key stage instrument with drawbars.
The Electro 5 by Nord represents the further expansion and refinement of a design platform that has been a stalwart of stage musicians for more than a decade. The Electro 5 provides a wide complement of piano, electric piano, organ and synth timbres with dozens of choices within each of those categories, all with a thrilling, robust presence and useful control features. Nord Electro is a natural choice for musicians in need of authentic emulations of classic electro mechanical and acoustic instruments in a portable and easy-to-use package. With greatly expanded memory, the added ability to split and layer and a live focused program section, the new Nord Electro 5 is a highly refined, focused yet flexible stage keyboard. This, an SW model, features semi-weighted organ type keys with a rounded "waterfall" tip, brilliant for rapid organ shredding and synthesizer licks, but also plays nice with piano sounds. Key range C-C on Electro 5D 73
Organ section
The Electro 5 Organ section features a new additional Principal Pipe Organ mode as well as the Tone Wheel simulation and the highly acclaimed Rotary Speaker simulation of a vintage 122 unit from the award-winning Nord C2D Combo Organ. This model features a physical drawbar set that can greatly enhance your organ playing.
The C2D B3 Tone Wheel engine is the result of over a decade of perfecting tone wheel simulations, a journey that started with the original Nord Electro and followed by the award winning Nord C1 and Nord C2 Combo Organs. Not only has Nord analyzed the signals from each of the 91 spinning tone wheels inside several original instruments - they have also paid years of attention to each and every one of the intricate details that make up the characteristics of the actual sound in a vintage organ.
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New DNA tests under way in Allenstown cold case
Bodies of woman, 3 girls found in barrels in woods
Investigators hope that new DNA tests and updated composite pictures will help them identify a woman and three children found decades ago in the woods of Allenstown.
In 1985, the remains of a woman and a young girl were found in a 55-gallon drum off Deerfield Road. Fifteen years later, the bodies of two younger girls were found about 100 yards away from the first barrel in another large drum.
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