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Fort d'Aubervilliers is a fleeting and temporary space for Street productions with some 40 artists exhibiting there, and it opened up its gates to our whole team.
Big thanks to Olivier, who runs the space, for chaperoning us on this journey few get the opportunity to take.
Make no mistake, zonefranche will certainly not let the energies pacing through these two hectares of exhibition space fade away into thin air!
Scroll through this page to follow along on our journey. Let this magical place captivate your imagination, just as it did for us.
What could be better than a two hectare urban wild space to showcase all of the talents of LOS GOLFOS, our creative team who also happen to be the Street Golf Champions of France!
Under the thumb of our high-flying team, here we are battling it out in an unforgettable 5-hole outing, up against the Aubervilliers temporary course!
12 cases of spray paint, 2 boxes of Posca markers, 8 white tables, and 10 people who have never tried their hand at such a thing!
Luckily, Michael (aka Beerens) gave us a very informative flash demo. A half an hour later, there is an intoxicating aroma of paint solvents in the air, liberated by the frenetic energy of our creative souls at work. The results weren't always "amazing", but nobody will ever forget the moments of unbridled mirth we shared together!
First it was a military barracks, then an auto scrap yard, and now it is an open-air exhibition space, tucked away in the North of Paris, with lots of life ahead of it. Captivated by this moment in time, zonefranche will not allow #InSitu to pass into oblivion. That's why we'll soon be setting the date for the release of a review issued by our team, telling you everything you need to know about this unique place!
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Ok so this thread is for debating the question "should you have gronked up senses in Thrive and if so should their be a clean third person view available?"
In this context gronked up means something like that you only have a low resolution eye with red receptors so you can only see red in the world and it is very hard to hunt (and probably difficult to play) because your senses are so poor.
We have had this debate on slack an it would be nice to move it forward here.
A. Only gronked up senses are available
Advantages:This makes the game very interesting and abstract, it will certainly get us a lot of attention.It will make people think a lot about perception.It's very interesting and gives you a deep experience of what it is like to be a mud crab or something like that.It raises a lot of challenges to do with how to display different senses and modes of perception (how do we encode smell for example?).
Disadvantages:It will make people make creatures which have human style senses just because they are unbearable not to have.It's not at all accessible.A lot of people are going to hate it and say it's unplayable.It raises a lot of challenges to do with how to display different senses and modes of perception (how do we display smell for example?).It doesn't really fit with the microbe stage where the decision to let you see is already taken.
B. Gronked up and Human senses are available
Advantages:It allows players to pick the experience they want. It has a lot of the depth that gronked up senses provide.
Disadvantages:It doesn't put any pressure on the player to develop their senses because they can just use the human style senses for hunting.People may not use the gronked up senses and we may waste a lot of time building them in.
C. Only human senses are available.
Advantages:Much easier to program and understand and play.Fits with the microbe stage.
Disadvantages:Much less interesting.Gronked up senses have been a part of thrive for quite a while so it is a shame to throw them out.
My opinion is that we are moving slowly as it is and I think making good gameplay with gronked up senses is going to be super hard. I think if we can show that we can make epic gameplay in the microbe stage then it might be worth tackling but there is a huge risk gronked up senses will often be largely unplayable and we will put a lot of work into it for someone to use it for 5 minutes and then switch to human view and never look back.
If we dilute the game, what do we gain?
Alternately, if we ignore the potential of gronked-up senses, what do we lose beside some fans? Unless you're aiming for big money with a mass-market game, it's always better to focus on pleasing your core group of fans. We don't really have a core group, though, so I guess that point can be used to argue against anything.
I know I, for one, would very much enjoy working on gronked-up senses, but I agree that preliminary work should always be using simple renderers etc.
With a lot of gronked-up senses, you can easily get something simple prototyped quickly, I think -- an eyespot could increase the amount of ambient lighting based on how much light it sees, lateral-line tremorsense could work by drawing, say, faint red glows wherever something moving nearby is, for smell everyone can leave behind particles which you render, etc.
Not all are more complicated than sight -- for sight, you need to actually build the meshes for everything, which is a lot of work, enough work that we might even release the first version of multicellular without sight cuz it works better for us, for example. Of course, when a prototype is simple enough, it hardly matters if it's sight or echolocation, for example.
Sight is good to start with, because it's been done before, pretty much by every game. But I'm still inclined towards aiming for realism here.
Of course, you already know my stance, so I'll leave it at this.
@moopli What is your stance exactly? That there should be two viewing modes or just one?
Having thought some more about I think gronked up senses are extremely interesting and unique but raise massive problems. The first is how to display the senses to the player but the second is gameplay. We already have difficulty because of the amount of gameplay we are making (stationary microbes, herbivores, photosynthesisers, predators in just the microbe stage). Trying to make a fun game out of lots of different types of animal while those animals have radically different senses is a huge challenge.
Maybe I am looking at the game wrong though, maybe it's more about exploration of the possibilities. Maybe we should offer a whole load of options where 80% of them are garbage (being an animal with too few senses, for example) but allowing the player to discover what they are like. Maybe it's cool to be a mud crab where everything is brown and you inch along looking for worms. The problem is that if there is a third person view then it's going to be really hard not to use it.
I suppose one option is to disincentivise it, by offering achievements for not using it, for example.
And then the strategy stages? Does that switch to a normal human looking map? What if I have different colour receptors in my species? Does the map always look different?
Maybe a solution would be for human senses to be the basic, low res version of senses, and allow the player to evolve senses better than humans, like eagle's eyes and bat's ears. We could even add sonar and togglable thermal vision. While this isn't scientifically accurate, It would make the game easier to play, program, and add a new evolutionary trait that you don't necessarily have to evolve, but can if you want too.
So, in short, no gronked up senses, but better than human senses.
That does sound pretty reasonable.
I was talking with some people about this problem last night and it was interesting how quickly the group broke down into different opinions. Some said "just gronked up" because it's really interesting and unique. Some said just human because it's a game. Some said both.
One suggestion was that hardcore mode should shut off human senses so the player can choose at the beginning to be forced into the gronked up senses, which sounded decent.
Maybe we should just go with programmer autocracy on this one. If anyone wants to put the work into building gronked up senses then that's cool.
I think at the minimum, we can agree that a creature with no eyes should not be able to see (because if not why would anyone evolve eyes?), or as TheCreator suggested only see within a tiny radius (especially when they are a large multicellular organism). Then if we do this, this gives some room to have mutations to improve the eyes either with field of view, zooming, clarity, etc. We could even include things like infrared or UV vision as a toggleable mode in the UI (if you evolved it).
Things like sonar/sound could be a combination of what you hear from the speakers coupled with some visual indicators. Echolocation specifically should use visual indicators to show where things are. Smell could use visual cues as well, while taste and touch could be text cues for the player.
This way there is purpose to sensory evolutions, but it doesn't totally mess with the player's head.
Also for the strategy stages it would be human looking because you technically are some semi-omnipotent force flying around and issuing commands to your civilization, so there's no need to be constrained by their vision (except in the case of fog of war).
So are you saying there should be no 3rd person view and we should only have gronked up senses? Or do you mean the creature can't see but you can switch to 3rd person if you want?
I'm undecided as to whether we should go with 1st or 3rd person, and I think we should have partially gronked up senses (if I'm using that term right), in that they should be represented but not directly as they would appear in real life, but rather through visual or textual cues.
What if echolocation looked like this
That's a pretty cool visual of what echolocation could look like, but it doesn't really pertain to the debated topic.
I think instead of just avoiding picking an option, I'll list the different options that I think would work but am conflicted between:
A) The player can play in either 1st or 3rd person, both views having the limitations of partially gronked senses (i.e. visual cues for smell, textual for taste and touch, etc.)
B) The player can only play in 3rd person and has partially gronked senses.
C) The player can choose at the beginning of their playthrough whether they will play in 1st or 3rd person, with 1st person offering partially gronked and 3rd person being no gronk.
I'm leaning the most towards B even more now that I think about it. You are controlling your microbe in the 3rd person, as with your multicellular colony, so it doesn't make sense how you would seamlessly transition into 1st person with the 2D-3D transition.
Additionally, say you just went through the 2D-3D transition and your colony now looks like a jellyfish-like organism. Where does the camera of the player's view go? Which direction does it face? What is it's field of view? Which ways can it turn? It just doesn't make sense how you could play that jellyfish like thing your colony first looks like going into 3D in 1st person.
Another point, the concept of organism mode always implied organism mode was 3rd person. The constant references to the combat as an organism in the Aware Stage and later stages referenced it to Mount and Blade (which is predominantly 3rd person). When vehicles are controlled they are controlled in third person.
I think we can work with the 3rd person perspective as if it was the first person, as in having the ability to zoom in on the distance if your organism has the appropriate mutations, having the field of view determined by the organism's eyes, as well as clarity/blurriness, and other features. Eyes on drastically different sides of the head could produce two or more displays.
This sounds pretty cool.
I think for me, from an Aesthetic position (as in how should the game feel to play) I think a big part of the game is discovering what sort of planet you are on and where it is in a solar system etc. For example when you discover a new continent or when your scientists discover a new planet in your solar system it should be a big moment. I think that's really cool in general and fits with the scientific theme of the game, as in science is about discovering more about the world you live in and going through Thrive's stages you discover more and more about your world.
So forcing people to see poorly through their gronked up senses and then allowing them clearer and clearer vision would fit well with that. For example if you play as a plant you can see yourself very clearly but everything around you is blurry chemical patterns. You can sense chemicals as they blow across you but nothing more than that. Crawling out of the sea and onto the land for the first time should be a revelation.
So we can assume that the single cell the player begins with has chemosensitivity thermosensitivity and photosensitivity. It (the player) can detect the presence of compounds, heat, and light, as well as other single cells.
This might be a bit out there, but what if the only thing the player saw on the screen were the compounds, light, and heat, as well as other cells? Everything else would be pitch black. It wouldn't necessarily remove the need for a background either as the background would be visible in the light spots.
What I'm saying is the majority of the beginning of the game begins with the single cell floating in a void with areas that are lit up and other cells and compounds, and it continues to be this pitch black nothingness up till the point where they begin to evolve senses. Primitive eyes? Boom we start to see the actual environment we're in (3rd and 1st person). Sense of smell? Bam we can have some random clouds of color to decorate our black screen, maybe even assign scents to certain things to give a sillhouette of the environment (example: prey would be colored blue and there'd be maybe a scent trail leading to it... Kind of like waypoints in other games). Sense of hearing and to an extent, echolocation? That video I sent would be perfect for it as you said.
Anyway that's my idea. Have the player start off in a void of nothingness, floating alongside compounds and other cells until it evolves proper senses which will affect the game in both 3rd and 1st person.
As for the issue where players will only choose human senses: I feel like we could turn players away from that by having it as an option, but once you turn it on, achievements are no longer obtainable. Alternatively, just have human senses and gronked up senses toggle-able as some players will possibly want to use it for... say cinematic purposes?
What do you guys think?
I think this is a good reference for how to draw gronked up senses.


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Million-year-old human tooth found in Spain
Scientists in Spain say that they have found a tooth from a distant human ancestor that is more than one million years old.
The tooth, a pre-molar, was discovered on Wednesday at the Atapuerca site in northern Spain's Burgos Province.
It represented western Europe's "oldest human fossil remain", a statement from the Atapuerca Foundation said.
It was not yet possible to confirm to which species the tooth belonged, it said, but initial analyses "allow us to suppose it is an ancestor of Homo antecessor".
Mr Bermudez de Castro said the tooth appeared to come from an individual aged between 20 and 25.
"There is no doubt, from the (geological) level where the tooth was found, that it belonged to the oldest European found to date," the French news agency AFP quoted him as saying.
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We have all heard about the shift that has occurred over the past several years in how people read. More and more people are setting aside their "old" paperback or hardback books in favor of digital e-books that they read on a computer, tablet, smartphone, or, perhaps most common, an e-reader. This shift may have just received a major boost of adrenaline.
Barnes & Noble CEO William J. Lyons, Jr. recently was interviewed and told a reporter for Bloomberg News that he no longer reads physical books. Instead he prefers the more modern concept when it comes to reading.
"I don't read physical books anymore," Lyons said. "I like to read digitally. My wife is reading a lot of physical books."
This public statement from the owner of a giant in the American corporate landscape is a bit curious. Although B&N has made no bones about the fact that it emphasizes digital reading, the company still takes in far more revenue on its print book sales than on its e-readers and e-books. In Q3 (third quarter) of 2012, B&N brought in about $1.1 billion in physical book sales through its store locations and its online store. As for the Nook and digital content, the company made $192 million, up only $1 million from a year prior to this figure in Q3 of 2011.
On the textbook front, more publishers are offering a greater number of digital e-textbooks as each semester goes by. Many students have jumped on the wave of learning digitally, but there has been research done to show that a large contingency of students still prefer using traditional textbooks for their classes. The main reasons mentioned by students for this is that physical textbooks are much easier to mark up, highlight, and take notes in. Doing so on a digital e-textbook like a PDF file may be impossible due editing restrictions that often get put on these kinds of files. In addition, students can re-sell used paper textbooks once they are done with them to recoup some of their money to buy more books for the upcoming semester. Re-selling digital textbooks is essentially not an option whatsoever.
Whether you fully agree with Lyons, the B&N CEO, or you are totally against his thinking and still maintain a large collection of paperbacks, this debate will likely continue for years to come. There may be a day when books as we've known them to exist are no longer around. But until the masses can all agree that e-books are the way to go, regular books will always exist.


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It may be a bit cliquish but it's true, sometimes life is not fair. Actually life can be really hurtful and not make sense. This is especially true when bad things happen to good people, people we love and care about. Then there's the times when God's own people find themselves in trouble and face their trials in faith, praying, fasting, even begging God to heal or help and sometimes seemingly with little or no response. This too doesn't make sense. We wonder (sometimes vocally) why doesn't God help? We read about all the times He helped in the Bible, miracles, signs and wonders, are all part of History. So what's up today? Doesn't God hear, doesn't he care? The answer to that is emphatically yes and yes. He does hear, he does care and He does answer. It's just not always according to what we think should happen.
I have personally been dealing with circumstances that could easily leave you asking why. I have friends that are strong believers who are battling cancer and other devastating circumstances. My good friend Ron Currington a very strong awesome man of God died recently from complications from Alzheimer's Disease. He was known for his gift of encouragement as well as his passion for sharing his faith. He led many to the Lord. Why Lord?
Before Ron began losing his memory we talked about this very thing. I shared with him this prayer I came up with and we both agreed no matter what may happen in life, God is good. It's a prayer I often go to when facing the unfairness of life.
"Dear Lord, today I confess by faith that you are good and I thank you for your goodness toward me. No matter what may happen today whether I understand it or not doesn't change the fact that you are good. I refuse to allow any circumstance, feeling, or lie of the Devil accuse your goodness to me. Let my speech and attitude give testimony of your goodness".


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Since 1 May 2015, temperatures have been exceptionally high in Western Sahara and water shortage problems began in the cities and towns occupied by Morocco.
The frequent cuts in tap water supply without prior warning by the National Drinking Water Agency (Office National de l'Eau Potable (ONEP)) in the cities of El Aaiún, Smara, Bojador and Dakhla force the local residents to purchase pumps to store this water in water tanks on their own roofs and to buy it from private vendors.
For those who can afford it, the drinking water delivered by a tanker vehicle is purchased at prices at least 10 (ten) times higher than tap water.
Tap water, called a'aiafa, is a desalinated water. A'aiafa water cuts last from one to four days and when the water runs again, it will be for no more than 3 or 4 hours at low flow, which forces every home to be provided with one or two storage tanks. The neighbourhoods mainly inhabited by Saharawi people, like Ma'atalah, Lahchicha, Erraha, El Quads, Erak and the 707 buildings face these frequent water cuts.
The neighbourhoods in the ancient city and the neighbourhood El Massira (the Green March) where the officials of the occupying authorities live, as well as royal Moroccan army officers or police officers, do not experience the same problems.
The Moroccan National Drinking Water Agency never warns the Saharawi neighbourhoods of the water cuts, which are not objectively and credibly justified. In 2009, ONEP promised to solve the problem and to meet 90 % of the water requirements of the inhabitants but 5 years later nothing has changed in those homes. On the contrary and paradoxically, the occupying municipal council had lush fountains built which do not have water shortages.
Since the Moroccan occupation in 1975, the water supplied by the authorities through individual network and connections to the inhabitants of the occupied territories is this non-drinking water called a'aiafa, a brackish water produced by seawater desalination. The a'aiafa, besides being distributed on an irregular basis, is poor quality water. It is used for washing and bathing, except in the homes of the poor, who use it for drinking and cooking.
A home of 9 people should be able to store about 1300 litres to overcome the periods of shortages.
To have access to safe drinking water, the inhabitants of El Aaiún, Bojador and Dakhla are compelled to buy water that comes by tanker vehicles from Tan Tan, located 320 kilometres north of El Aaiún.
For general information, the a'aiafa is invoiced on a monthly basis by ONEP, consumption and sanitation, 10 dirham per m3.
When sold by means of a tanker vehicle, it costs 6 dirhams per 100 litres, i.e. 60 dirhams per m3. The owners and drivers of the tanker-vehicles who thus resell the a'aiafa are Moroccans.
Each tanker purchases the water at 5,5 dh per m3 from ONEP, Catalunia square. The payment terms consist of a monthly advance of 10 000 dh, settled according to the actual water withdrawal.
The sanitary inspections depending on the municipal council do not appear to be very stringent, given the state of certain tanker vehicles on the road.
A 100 l barrel of water from Tan Tan costs 60 dh; the tankers are equipped with long pipes and with pumps to get the water to the rooftops. The owners of the water sources and of the tankers are also Moroccans. They are private companies.
A 5 litre can of mineral water costs 12 dh in food shops.
To make their tea, the Saharawi traditionally use lghadir, rainwater mixed with clay collected in the desert.
It is clear that drinking water distribution infrastructures are insufficient in Western Sahara and that the Moroccan occupier has no intention to improve living conditions in the territory where it plunders natural resources, including water for agriculture and the propaganda.
In El Aaiún, the local residents remember the great difficulties and health problems in the summer of 2014, when they found themselves without water for several days during Ramadan and are concerned as they see the same problems approaching.
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06 June 2015
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Rooms, services Guests looking for accommodation in Columbia are welcome to book 86 nicely furnished rooms at Comfort Suites Columbia - University Area Columbia. In case you'd like to have a meal or a drink on the spot, you will be provided freshly prepared dishes in the restaurant every day. For recreational purposes you may try the wellness services provided by the hotel, an indoor pool will also be waiting for you. The local gym will provide a great opportunity to do sports and exercises. The hotel is offering wireless Internet connection (WiFi) without charging extra fees, so you may go online anytime with your laptop during your stay. You can find the exact list of services provided by Comfort Suites Columbia - University Area Columbia (including those for extra fees) and the exact equipment of the rooms on the information sheet below.
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ESTERO, Fla. – Florida Everblades President & General Manager Craig Brush along with Head Coach Brad Ralph announced that the team has agreed to terms with forward Michael Kirkpatrick for the 2016-17 season.
Kirkpatrick joins the Everblades after leading the Adirondack Thunder in scoring with 60 points (29g-31a) in 72 games last season. In addition, the 26-year-old center recorded nine points (2g-7a) in 12 playoff appearances with the Thunder this past spring.
Prior to his professional career, Kirkpatrick accumulated 102 points in four seasons at St. Francis Xavier University from 2011-15. The North Sydney, Nova Scotia native also totaled 251 points (108g-143a) during his four seasons with the Saint John Sea Dogs of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. Kirkpatrick was a member of Saint John's 2011 Memorial Cup championship team.


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We help you be smart in giving and investing. Align your money and values.
Catalytic Women offers education, tools and training to donors, investors and advisors who want to align money and values. We empower individuals to engage in social impact investing, gender lens opportunities and strategic giving.
Why women? Simple answer.
Women now own 51% of stock and 60% of private wealth in the US, and will be disproportionately affected by the generational transfer of wealth. Women are the fastest growing demographic of wealth, make values-based financial decisions, and determine most charitable gifts.
Women own most assets in the U.S. and women make financial decisions differently.
Founded in San Francisco in 2011, Catalytic Women has hosted dozens of online and offline events and trainings in the Bay Area, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles and Boston. Through education and training, we use social impact as a lever to build financial confidence and create change in our world. Our name recognizes women's leadership in financial decisions. Our content and expertise absolutely apply equally to women and men who influence wealth, as well as the trusted financial and philanthropic advisors who work with them.
Melanie Hamburger
Melanie Hamburger founded Catalytic Women to change how billions of dollars of capital flow to social solutions. Engaging women's wealth and financial confidence is the key to democratizing access to philanthropy and mainstreaming impact investing.
She is a passionate, tenacious visionary focused on mobilizing individuals who want to align values and money—at any level of wealth. Philanthropy is not about million-dollar gifts or legacy giving, and ordinary investors should be able to invest with social impact.
As the author of Making Micro Mighty: Impact Investing with $20-$5,000, Melanie enjoys speaking and blogging on the influential role that women now play as majority asset owners in the U.S. Her specific expertise is giving, impact investing and creating impact with a gender lens. As a major gift officer, she helped connect local, regional and global nonprofits with leaders in business and philanthropy. Melanie's expertise spans nonprofit fundraising for The Nature Conservancy, brand management for Procter and Gamble, and corporate finance for Levi Strauss and Co.
Her own children are a reminder of the legacy she wishes to create. Melanie holds a BA cum laude from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She and her family live in Mill Valley, California.
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There are many different instances where pregnancy discrimination can occur - hiring, promotion, maternity leave, dismissal, health insurance benefits, etc. It is important both the employer and the employee understand the laws before making any decisions.
The Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 requires employers with 15 or more employees to treat pregnant workers the same as they would any employee with a medical disability. In other words, this law provides protection for pregnant employees in several important areas.
First, if you are pregnant and interviewing for a job, the interviewer cannot ask if you are pregnant or ever plan to have children. Pregnancy must not be a factor in the hiring decision as long as you are capable of performing the duties of the job.
Second, you must be allowed to work as long as you are capable of performing the job. Your employer cannot require that you take maternity leave. If you are temporarily unable to complete your tasks, the employer must treat you as any other disabled employee.
Third, if you have a pregnancy related disability, you must be treated the same as any other temporarily disabled employee for accrual of seniority, sick leave, pay increases and other benefits.
Finally, health insurance benefits must cover expenses for pregnancy related issues on the same cost basis as other medical conditions. Maternity expenses must be paid the same as other conditions, whether on a fixed basis, or percentage of customary charge basis.
The Family & Medical Leave Act of 1993 states that any employee, after one year of service with their employer, may take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave in any 12-month period for the birth of a baby. This benefit is available to both the mother and father and may be taken intermittently or all at once. Under the law, the employee must be restored to an equivalent position with equal benefits upon their return. However, this law is only applicable to companies that employ 50 or more people within a 75-mile radius.
Interviewing situations
What should you do if you are pregnant and looking for a new job? It is illegal for any employer to ask about pregnancy. Questions must only establish that the applicant is capable of performing the work required in the position. Additionally, the law does not require a woman to disclose her pregnancy.
However, an employment relationship is one of the most important relationships in your life. Your credibility is your most valuable asset. It is inevitable that your employer will learn of your pregnancy, and the employer may be resentful you didn't advise the company in the beginning.
If you need to reveal your pregnancy to accurately answer a question, then disclose it. For example, if your job requires an intensive six-month initial training program, then you are best advised to discuss it up front.
It's a good idea to research how a potential employer's health insurance handles maternity benefits. If you've not revealed your pregnancy, ask for copies of the health insurance plan and company policies. Verify the waiting period before health benefits begin, pre-existing conditions clauses, coverage for prenatal, postnatal, and pediatric care, and company policies on time off with or without pay.
Grievance procedures
If you feel you've been discriminated against, the first step is to document every conversation, phone call, and memo. Be specific on the content and include the date, time, and any participants or witnesses.
If you are a member of a union, discuss it with your union representative. Otherwise, discuss it with your supervisor or HR Department. Your employee handbook will likely address company policies and grievance procedures. As a last resort, contact the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Hopefully, armed with the proper knowledge on both sides, arrangements can be handled pleasantly and Mom can focus on celebrating the birth of her child.
Nat Carmack is vice president of BOS Temporaries, a locally owned staffing service. www.bostemps.com
Published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Sunday, February 15, 2004.
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A new School of Liberal Arts Honors Program will allow admitted students access to additional academic resources and classes. The program is an extension of the IUPUI Honors College, but while the Honors College only admits freshmen, all Liberal Arts students will be eligible for the school-based honors program if they meet the requirements.
"The program is a natural extension of the Honors College by which the various schools establish their own honors program to be coordinated with the Honors College," says Professor Thomas Davis, associate dean of academic programs in the School of Liberal Arts.
To be eligible, liberal arts students must have completed at least 15 credit hours at IUPUI (but no more than 72) and have a 3.5 GPA or higher. The program is looking for students who not only meet the academic requirements but also are self-aware in their goals and work ethic. Students accepted into the program have access to the Honors College activities, an honors advisor, and can partake in special Liberal Arts honors programming.
Eric Saak, associate professor of history and the School's advisor for the Liberal Arts Honors Program, says the program will offer students great flexibility. "Students will craft their programs for their own plans, goals, and desires, and helping them do so is my job," he says.
Once in the program, students must maintain continuous enrollment, full-time status, and their GPA. Students must also take one honors class each semester. Davis says the program will help keep students on track to graduate on time.
Students admitted to the program must earn 24 credit hours in honors courses. Davis says the students can also take a standard course with an 'honors contract,' which means students will complete regular class assignments but also do additional work. Students will have opportunities to work closely with professors and strengthen critical thinking and analytical skills.
"I benefited greatly from the departmental honors program I had as an undergraduate, and ever since I came to IUPUI I have wanted to do something with honors here," says Saak. "School honors programs offer opportunities to students who did not begin in the program as freshman, but have proven they are indeed honors students. This program offers honor students opportunities to excel in ways otherwise not available."
Davis says an honors notation on diplomas "points to the fact that students worked hard in their college program. They've completed their classes at an exceptionally high level. For employers it points to drive—students are dedicated and take on additional responsibilities."
Saak says, "This is an opportunity for the students to develop themselves, to discover themselves, to challenge themselves uniquely, and in turn, to become a part of the School of Liberal Arts history."
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Waffen-SS "Nordland" Division EM/NCO´s BEVO Cuff title.
Waffen-SS BEVO 11.-SS Freiwilligen-Panzer-Grenadier-Division "Nordland" BEVO cuff title. Full-length (44cm) unused title with sewn ends, textbook example. Bevo-Wuppertal text still readable at one end of title. Machine woven black rayon construction cufftitle with BeVo machine woven script "Nordland". The cufftitle is bordered at both the top and bottom. The cufftitle has the typical "salt & pepper" patterned reverse with over machine sewn ends.
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Thursday, December 12
Stockings Upon the Fireplace
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Nice interpretation of the song! nice project! thanks for joining us this week at 613 Avenue Create!ReplyDelete
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Ganz wundervoll! Danke daß du bei den AF mitmachst.ReplyDelete
LG Dreja
Nice card based on that song! Love the little dog with ribbon in his mouth! Thanks for playing this week at 613 Avenue Create!ReplyDelete
I'd like to be sitting in that chair by the fire enjoying the cosy Christmas spirit that you have created in this lovely card Deanne. Good luck in our challenge this week. Ingrid xx ( OSAAT Team )ReplyDelete
What a great scene.. Awww.. so Cozy!ReplyDelete
Thanks for joining us at All That Stickles linky party.
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wonderful Christmas card. Thank You for Playing and sharing your creation with us at Here Come The Boys! Good Luck from Woo, Sharon, Teresa, Donna, Jacky, Ginny, Becky, Mojca, Mandz, Stacey & Helen xReplyDelete
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Thanks for joining in at One Stitch At A Time this week
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Fabulous Deanne, just love how you incorporated so many parts of your chosen song into your card, a masterpiece :) Good luck in this weeks 'Seeing Red' OSAAT challenge. Hugs Jane OSAAT DTReplyDelete
Beautiful holiday scene. What a delightfully sweet card! The design is eye catching and I love the color palette on your design. Thanks for playing in our neighborhood at 613 Avenue Create. We look forward to seeing you again.ReplyDelete
Eine wunderschöne Karte hast du gestaltet. Vielen lieben Dank für die Teilnahme an der Animal Friends Challenge. Liebe Grüße SilviReplyDelete
Such a Fun Holiday card, Love the Image you have used too!! Thanks for joining us at Hiding in my Craft RoomReplyDelete
Cheers Jennie DTM
Great Christmas card! That little dog looks like it might have a naughty streak!ReplyDelete
Thanks for taking part in this month's Natalie and Amy challenge.
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Pork and Hops Announces 2017 Headliners
The 2017 Pork and Hops artist lineup has been announced and it is outstanding.
The award-winning country cross over band Restless Heart will be the Saturday headliner this year as Pork and Hops moves to Las Colonias Park, and the new amphitheater September 8 and 9.
Restless Heart is known for such hits as "Why Does It Have to Be Wrong or Right," "When She Cries," "Bluest Eyes of Texas," and "I'll Still Be Loving You." Two years ago the band played up at a special event at Powderhorn and they were fantastic! I can't wait to see Restless Heart again.
If that news isn't exciting enough, also appearing on Saturday night at Pork and Hops will be the Eagles' tribute band The Boys of Summer. These guys are no strangers to Grand Junction, having played here numerous times, featuring two band members who live in the Grand Valley. Also appearing on Saturday will be local favorite the Desert Flyer Band.
Friday night's headliner at Pork and Hops will be American rocker Kip Winger, of the band Winger, which rose to fame in the 80s and 90s. In 1990, Winger was nominated for an American Music Award Best New Heavy Metal Band.
The opening act for Kip Winger is yet to be announced.
Tickets for this year's Pork n Hops Event are available at Fisher's Liquor Barn and Fisher's Market in Grand Junction. You can get more information about the festival on the Pork and Hops website.


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Hello Readers
As always for myself and the rest of the UC Day Team its a very busy time of the year were we have read all sessions submissions update websites, mobile apps, contact successful speakers submissions etc.. This year has been no difference with a largest pool of sessions ever!! In the space of two months we have received over 105 sessions from all the global and selecting the very best sessions is such a difficult task.
This year I have handed this task Tom Arbuthnot, Steve Goodman and Ed Baker who have done an amazing jobs picking 25 excellent sessions. This year we welcome back;
- Ben Lee
- Stale Hansen
- Jan Vidar Elven
- Tom Morgan
- Tony Redmond
- Dave Stork
- Michael Van Horenbeeck
- Jaap Wesselius
- Brian Reid
- Alan Richards
- Gary Steere
- Ingo Gegenwarth
and myself as I will be delivering a panel discussion about the IT Pro role in the future.
We welcome a whole host of new speakers
- Johan Delimon
- Adam Jacobs
- Matt Hurst
- Mustada Toroman
- Mike Martin
- Sam Cogan
- Walter Wong
- Jennifer Stirrup
- Lyndon-Jon Martin
- Nathan OBryan
- Michel de Rooji
- Andrew J. Price
Now would you like to know the sessions ???
Azure Track
|Jan Vidar Elven
|Mastering Azure Active Directory v2!
|Azure AD has been around for many years, for most users it started with an Office 365 or Azure subscription, and managed in the Classic Azure Management Portal. In the fall 2016, Azure AD was announced as Public Preview in the new Azure Portal (Ibiza), and most functionality was GA now before summer 2017. The old Classic Portal will be discontinued. Many new services are now only available in the new Azure AD portal, and new management scenarios bring identities and devices together, like the new Conditional Access, and the upcoming integration of Intune and Azure AD, and many more will come. In this session your Azure AD knowledge will be upgraded to Azure AD v2 and you will learn all about how to master your Azure Active Directory in the new portal, and how you get started with the Azure AD v2 PowerShell Module replacement for the old MSOL Module.
|Mike Martin
|Monitoring is relevant, but mostly only done … after the facts. Azure provides in a lot of good monitoring tools on several levels. Using this correctly and getting a good overview is something you need to learn. This session will explain what the features are out of the box, how to build custom dashboards and how one can use correlated intelligence (and even automate on that). Topics handled are at Azure , OMS , and more …
|Mustafa Toroman
|Azure networking – everything you need to know
|Azure networking is important part of Azure IaaS and even more important when building hybrid cloud. Learn all Azure networking concepts (like what is VNet, types of IPs, gateways, S2S, P2S…) and how it all comes together. Extend your datacenter to cloud and build hybrid cloud on your terms.
|Sam Cogan
|Azure Resource Manager Templates Tips, Tricks and Advanced Techniques
|A technical discussion of some more advanced techniques to take your Azure Resource Manager templates to the next level. Covering areas such as conditions, T-Shirt sizes, functions, outputs as well as tooling and testing. Intended for IT Pro's or Devops who have used basic ARM templates to deploy Azure resources but now want to learn more advanced techniques.
|Walter Wong
|Performance Tuning Tips and Tricks for PaaS Solutions with Microsoft Azure
|Hosting an application in a cloud environment is becoming commonplace in the industry. With Microsoft Azure's PaaS offering, applications can be deployed in a matter of minutes. With the wide variety of PaaS package offerings from Microsoft Azure, the fine art of striking a balance between requirements, performance and budget has now become easier. Come and join Walter for this session as he shares his experience supported by statistics.
Office 365 Track
|Jaap Wesselius
|Backup and Restore in Office 365
|In your on-premises environment you're used to creating backups on a daily basis, and if you have a disaster recovery plan you restore services in a test environment on a regular basis. Maybe you also restore services on end-user demand.
But what if you are moving to Office 365? How about backup in Exchange Online, or even worse, how about restore in Exchange Online? And now you've moved your user's home drive to OneDrive for Business, what are your options?
In this session we'll discuss backup, restore and disaster recover in several Office 365 solutions. Stuff you can do (have to do) and stuff that Microsoft will do for your.
After this session you should have a good understanding about restore services you can offer to your end-users.
|Brian Reid
|Limiting Access to Office 365
|This session will look at how to limit access to the different Office 365 applications so that you can control access to your data, from the device or location or based on the individual user. For this session we will look at a whole range of different ways to achieve this aim, including support for newer and older clients, mobile devices, and then extending this conditional access to other SaaS and on-premises applications
|Nathan OBryan
|Idenity and Authenication Management for Office 365
|In this session we'll dive into the Identity and Authentication Management for Office 365. We'll cover everything you need to know about Azure AD Connect, AD FS, MFA, and more!
|Gary Steere
|Express Route and Office 365 Performance – Myth or Miracle?
|Microsoft's website takes a very neutral position on Express Route, simply explaining what it is and how it connects to Azure and Office 365. Luckily the Internet has many forums containing a lot of information about Express Route and how it helps with Office 365. And, as we all know, the Internet never lies. It would seem that Express Route could help in select use cases, after all one could logically assume that the Express Route connection is Azure is closer to the Office 365 endpoint. Many people suspect that Express Route helps with Skype for Business performance.
|Alan Richards
|PowerApps and SharePoint Integration
|In this session we will look at how we can use PowerApps to build custom forms for lists in SharePoint online. The forms will be built without the use of code and then used to enhance the user experience in SharePoint Online by running inline with modern pages.
Skype for Business Track
|Adam Jacobs
|Building a scalable Azure video interop service for Skype for Business
|A year ago both Microsoft and Polycom agreed to deliver a global, scalable and resilient video interoperability service – with just software running within Azure. This session will go over how we delivered on these goals, the architecture and some of the challenges along the way.
|Ben Lee
|Microsoft Teams: Your Collaboration "Desktop"
|Microsoft Teams is one of the new kids on the block in the O365 productivity space pulling together the best elements of OneDrive, Skype, SharePoint and Exchange as well as integrating other platforms and technologies. Teams represents the next evolutionary step in Microsoft's collaboration roadmap. It has the potential to "revolutionise" how organisations work and collaborate on projects by becoming one of the most important & frequently used tools in the workplace. Log into your computer (or smartphone), launch Teams and have immediate access to 90% of the information and documents needed for the working day.
In this talk Ben Lee (Principal Consultant for Modality Systems) will recap on what Teams is, how it builds on existing Microsoft platforms and how it can integrate with other services as well as covering recent Teams developments. We will also look at how you can build and apply a collaboration strategy placing Teams at its core.
|Johan Delimon
|The Secrets of Media Flows in Skype for Business
|This session will take you down the details how to troubleshoot Skype for Business Media Flows. How does the STUN, TURN and ICE process work and what happens when media sessions are setup, all about networking to fully understand how Skype for Business works on various networks. This session covers both Skype for Business Online as well as Skype for Business Server
|Matt Hurst
|Advanced Cloud PBX Topology Considerations for Centralized CCE Deployments
|Customers looking to deploy Microsoft's Skype for Business Cloud Connector Edition (CCE) have more options than ever to find an optimal solution for complex environments. Recent enhancements, such as support for media bypass and co-existence, provide new benefits that require specific architectural considerations. In this session learn how to optimize RTP media flows to give employees the best user experience while minimizing costs. We'll drill down into various use cases that have regulatory and fiscal impacts. We'll also share practical lessons from the field, highlighting CCE topologies that drive customer adoption, increase security, and simplify the migration to the cloud.
|Ståle Hansen
|Everything you need to know about succeeding with Skype for Business Call Quality
|The Call Quality Dashboard and Advanced Call Analytics gives insight in to trending quality per site and the ability to look in to details about individual calls. Learn the effect of importing subnet data in both dashboards and how you can check headsets, client versions and even get feedback from the Rate my Call survey. After this session you are ready to get more insight in to your own solution when you get back home
Microsoft Exchange Track
|Ingo Gegenwarth
|Exchange Hybrid in a complex environment
|Azure AD Connect supports synchronization of multiple forests. But what when you have multiple Exchange Organizations with different SMTP namespaces in addition?
This session covers some areas in a complex scenario and highlights the main pitfalls in the following topics :
Azure AD Connect
|Michael Van Horenbeeck
|Exchange hybrid in large and complex environments: How to avoid creating a Frankenstein monster!
|In this session we'll go over the most common challenges when configuring a hybrid (Exchange) deployment.
|Dave Stork / Jetze Mellema
|Migrating Exchange
|Migrating mailboxes. Something every Exchange admin has done. Whether it be from legacy to a more modern version of on-premises Exchange, Cross-forest, to the cloud or even from other groupware solutions. But even if the process has been improved over the years, there are still things to consider. Such as:
• Inter or Cross-forest?
• To the cloud with Hybrid, Cutover, Staged or Express: Which approach do I choose?
• Third party tools or native?
• What will the user impact be?
• What about AutoDiscover
|Tony Redmond
|Ten Ways Your Life Changes When You Move from Exchange On-Premises to Office 365
|Details to be provided
|Michel de Rooij
|Managing Exchange Online using PowerShell, Tips & Tricks
|Managing Exchange Online using PowerShell – Tips & Tricks every admin should know.
Microsoft Cloud Track
|Andrew J. Price
|What is the future of the IT Pro
|In this panel discuss I will ask fellow MVP to join me and share their thoughts on the IT Pro role. We will discuss what makes a good IT Professional, what does the next 5 years look like with regards to career path and take questions from the audience. This will be a completely different style of session and expect a lot interaction from the audience.
|Jan Vidar Elven
|Information Protection 360 – Admin and User Perspectives for protecting your information in the Microsoft Cloud
|In this session we will dive into the full 360 degree view of implementing Azure Information Protection, including how Admins set up and manage AIP, and how End-Users get started with classifying, protecting and tracking sensitive and confidential documents. This session will be full of demos, and real useful for planning your EU GDPR compliance!
|Jennifer Stirrup
|Power BI for your CEO
|Digital Transformation is much more than just sticking a few Virtual Machines in the cloud; it is real, transformative, long-term change that benefits and impacts the whole organisation.
Digital Transformation is a hot topic with CEOs and the C-level suite, renewing their interest in data and what it can do to empower the organisation.
With the right metrics and data visualisation, Power BI can help to bring clarity and predictability to the CEO to make strategic decisions, understand how their customers behave, and measure what really matters to the organization. This session is aimed at helping you to please your CEO with insightful dashboards in Power BI that are relevant to the CxO in your organisation, or your customers' organisations.
Using data visualisation principles in Power BI, we will demonstrate how you can help the CEO by giving her the metrics she needs to develop a guiding philosophy based on data-driven leadership. Join this session to get practical advice on how you can help drive your organisation's short and long term future, using data and Power BI.
As an MBA student and external consultant who delivers solutions worldwide, Jen has experience in advising CEO and C-level executives in terms of strategic and technical direction.
Join this session to learn how to speak their language in order to meet their needs, and impress your CEO with proving it, using Power BI.
|Lyndon-Jon Martin
|Deploying Citrix (Cloud) Workloads in Azure and Beyond ARA
|How to take your Citrix workloads to Azure safe and securely on your own terms adopting an extend vs. host vs. cloud service deployment choice strategy to migrate vs. move on your own terms to Azure + Citrix Cloud. In this session we look at the right vs. relevant when choosing between Citrix Cloud vs. Azure marketplace services and finally going beyond ARA with XenApp and or XenDesktop Essentials Services.
|Tom Morgan
|Live coding! Build a bot in a session
|I'm almost certainly going to regret this. In exchange for coffee and pastries I'm going to attempt to build a working bot in the space of a session, from scratch, in front of you. The bot will be the Official Unofficial UCDay Session Bot, and will tell you what sessions are next, and what sessions are coming up. I'll explain what I'm doing as I go along, so if you think creating a useful bot is months of work, come along and see if I can get it done in the session time.
Really looking forward to this years event
Andrew J. Price


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Glory to the newborn King! The Very First Christmas introduces children to one of the most wonderful stories of all time, the birth of Jesus. Using the popular and vibrant artwork from The Beginner's Bible, children will learn the events leading up to Jesus' miraculous birth. By the end of the story, children will understand why we celebrate this special day. Recommended for ages 2 to 5.
In The Berenstain Bears and the Joy of Giving, Brother and Sister Bear can't wait for Christmas and all the presents they'll open. But during the Christmas Eve pageant, something special happens! The Bear cubs learn a very valuable lesson about the joy of giving to others.
Recommended for ages 4-7.
Settle in to another heartwarming story about the polar bear family from the author who brought you God Gave Us You, and God Gave Us Two! This time, the bears are getting ready to celebrate the most special day of the year: Christmas. In this enchanting picture book, you can help young children celebrate the true meaning of Christmas, and it offers the perfect opportunity for little ones to discover the awesome truth of how much God loves them.
In the midst of all the Christmas preparations, curious Little Cub asks one day, "Who invented Christmas?" Mama's answer only leads to more questions, like: "Is God more important than Santa?" So Mama decides to take Little Cub on an expedition to discover how God gave them Christmas. As their journey unfolds, the pair finds signs that God is at work all around them. Mama's gentle guidance helps Little Cub discover that Jesus is the best present of all! Recommended for ages 4 to 8.
Now with a new foreword by Billy Graham! In this heartwarming tale of a little lost boy and the grandmotherly woman who finds him, Ruth Graham spins a unique version of the Christmas story that begins with creation and ends with the resurrection. Richard Watson's captivating illustrations make it a treasure you'll cherish for years to come. 72 pages, hardcover from Nelson.
Wishing you and all your little readers a blessed Christmas.


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Systems Transformation
The Systems Transformation team oversees a wide range and growing portfolio of programs dedicated to transforming primary care via practice improvement efforts and team-based care. While the majority of the Systems Transformation team's programs are dedicated to facilitating collaboratives among the Harvard medical community and in the greater Boston area, new grant-based projects are extending the team's reach internationally. (more…)
The Advancing Teams in Community Health Program
The Advancing Teams in Community Health Program (ATP) is a five-year initiative (2016-2021), funded by a grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). The Center has partnered with the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers and the Kraft Center for Community Leadership to create this collaborative, which reflects the Center's aspiration to improve primary care at Community Health Centers (CHCs) across Massachusetts. (more…)
Abundant Health Project
The Systems Transformation team has partnered with nonprofit organization FHI360 to provide educational resources and training to improve primary care delivery at participating community health centers in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. (more…)
Primary Care Improvement Network
The Primary Care Improvement Network (PCIN) is a membership-based network that promotes continued practice transformation, focused improvement, enhanced leadership support and the dissemination and spread of best practices. The aim of the PCIN is to strengthen primary care as measured by improved staff and faculty experience, reductions in per capita cost and improved patient and family experience and outcomes. (more…)
Mental Health Integration (MHI) Initiative
The Alice Rosenwald Mental Health Integration—Improving Lives through mental health Integration into Primary Care.
There is a recognized need for the integration of mental health and primary care. Mental disorders affect nearly one in five adults in the US, and cause tremendous suffering and impairment. The majority of those affected do not receive proper, if any, treatment. Integration of mental health into primary care can help close the gap and ensure that patients get the care they deserve. (more…)
Leadership Academy
Throughout the two years of the AIC CARES Collaborative, a small, multidisciplinary subset of CARES participants known as the Leadership Academy attended alternating monthly calls and in-person "courses" on a variety of topics designed to improve their leadership skills. Providing professional development and leadership training to this cohort was a key element of the AIC's strategy for long-term sustainability.
AIC CARES Initiative
The Academic Innovation Collaborative (AIC) CARES Initiative was a network of 28 Harvard-affiliated teaching practices in the greater Boston area that leveraged team-based approaches for care to improve safety and reduce risk, and to improve the quality of care and patient and clinician experience in its participating practices. (more…)
Academic Innovations Collaborative
The Center's Academic Innovations Collaborative was a two-year program, running from 2012-2014, focused on fostering innovation in education and care delivery. The Collaborative was made up of 20 Harvard-affiliated primary care teaching practices that care for more than 275,000 patients. (more…)
The MHI Spring Retreat
Care providers joined together May 19th at HMS for the AIC's Mental Health Integration Initiative (MHI) spring retreat. MHI aims to improve patient care by integrating improving provider skills and confidence in providing mental health care at primary care teaching practices in the Boston-area. The Initiative fosters a team-based care approach for practices to better identify, track, refer and provide follow-up care for patients with mental health needs. Participating sites include practices at Boston's Children's Hospital, Cambridge Health Alliance, and Massachusetts General Hospital. (more…)
Improving Lives through Mental Health and Primary Care Integration
The Alice Rosenwald Initiative: Improving Lives through Mental health Integration into Primary Care
There is a recognized need for the integration of mental health and primary care. Mental disorders affect nearly one in five adults in the US, and cause tremendous suffering and impairment. The majority of those affected do not receive proper, if any, treatment. Integration of mental health into primary care can help close the gap and ensure that patients get the care they deserve.
To do this, primary care and mental health must be coordinated at various levels of care and supported by an encompassing health system development. Primary care providers must be adequately equipped to support mental health work, whether through assessment, diagnosis, treatment, or referrals. Investment is necessary to catalyze this change, which is why the Center has started the Mental Health Integration Initiative. (more…)
AIC Cares
The AIC CARES Initiative is the continuation of the Academic Innovations Collaborative (AIC), a two-year effort by the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care and Harvard-affiliated teaching practices. The AIC was designed to transform primary care delivery at local clinics and community health centers. This next phase of the AIC will leverage team-based approaches to care to dramatically improve safety and reduce risk, and continue improving quality of care and patient and provider experience, in participating practices. Led by the Center for Primary Care, in partnership with Qualis Health, the CARES Initiative is supported through a partnership with CRICO/Risk Management Foundation. Seven major Harvard hospital affiliates and 20 primary care practices are engaged in this next phase of transformational work.
Innovation in Education and Care Delivery
The Center's Academic Innovations Collaborative fosters innovation in education and care delivery at 20 Harvard affiliated primary care teaching practices that care for more than 275,000 patients.
The program allows students and residents to work with local clinics to transform how they deliver primary care and builds upon curriculum reform efforts to provide training for students.
In July 2014, the Center launched the AIC CARES Initiative, a continuation of the AIC which leverages team-based approaches to care to dramatically improve safety and reduce risk.


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The Oconee County Sheriff's Office reported the following incidents:
SHOPLIFTING: On Aug. 1, Capt. P.G. Gainey was working in an unmarked patrol vehicle at Butler's Crossing when he saw a Dodge pickup driven by a woman stop in a bank parking lot. He observed a man exit and pull a gray shirt over his white shirt, put on sunglasses, then walk across the parking lot to Bell's.
A short time later the man returned and got inside the truck. Gainey watched for almost 10 minutes, then pulled over to the pickup to identify the pair.
As Gainey questioned the pair, the man made a sudden move with his hand to his side and Gainey withdrew his pistol. Gainey had the man step out and he saw two cans of insect repellent in the vehicle and both were still cool while the day was hot. The man, who has a Watkinsville address, said the items were purchased several weeks ago at Walmart.
However, Gainey had the cans checked at Bell's and the bar codes showed they came from the store. The store declined to prosecute but asked Gainey to serve the man and the woman, who is from Statham, with orders prohibiting them from entering the store.
THEFT: On Aug. 3, a woman reported she drove her motorcycle to Walmart about 6:50 p.m. and placed a helmet and some gloves on the cycle while she went inside. Upon returning, she found where someone had stolen the items.
DUI: On Aug. 1, Deputy Byron Smith was dispatched to Ashtondale Road, Bishop, for a Jeep that had hit a sign post and two mailboxes. John Russell Murray explained he was on his way home from fishing when his Jeep's steering failed and he went off the road. Murray, 42, of Rays Church Road admitted he had been drinking some Budweisers. He failed some sobriety tests and was charged with DUI.
VANDALISM: On Aug. 4, a deputy was dispatched to Maxey Road, Bishop, where a man said two tires were punctured on his Jeep and two more on his Ford F-250 pickup.
THEFT: On Aug. 4, a deputy was dispatched to Thomas Peach Orchard on the 5000 block of Macon Highway, Bishop, where an estimated $5,000 to $7,000 worth of scrap metal was stolen.
THEFT: On Aug. 4, a resident of Windy Creek Drive, Watkinsville, reported someone entered his unlocked vehicle and stole a TomTom GPS valued at $150.
ROAD RAGE: On Aug. 4, a man reported that he was driving on Tallassee Road in Athens, when another motorist brandished a firearm and pointed it at him. The man was advised to contact Athens-Clarke County police.
FAMILY DISPUTE: On Aug. 5, a deputy was dispatched to Summit Oak Drive, Watkinsville, where a man said he had been attacked by his wife, step-son and another man. The man said the step-son came over after he and his wife had argued and that at one point, the step-son kicked in the door. The victim said he was held down by a third man and his wife while the step-son kicked his face and body. The victim declined to provide a written statement. Athens-Clarke police were radioed to look out for the car containing the suspects, but it could not be located.
DAMAGE: On Aug. 6, a deputy met with a woman who said some items fell off a pickup about 8 a.m. and damaged her car on Colham Ferry Road. The woman said the truck stopped and that some juveniles jumped out saying they were not getting involved and left walking. The man driving the pickup, then fled the scene on Rose Creek Drive, where he ran off the road and hit a fence before traveling in the direction of Watkinsville. Deputies searched but could not fine the pickup.
BLOCKBUSTER ROBBERY: On Aug. 6, an employee for Blockbuster on Experiment Station Road reported he went to his car carrying a bank bag shortly before 9:30 a.m., and a man walked up and demanded the money. The robber then pulled a pistol and repeated his demand. After getting the bank bag the robber ran toward the side and back of the buildings. Deputies arrived and set up a perimeter around the center. An employee at a nearby business said around 9:15 a.m. he saw the suspect standing at the corner with a white female, who was in a green Honda Civic with a cracked windshield. He said they seemed suspicious at the time. Deputies viewed video footage of the parking lot and it showed a car go to a side of the store, then leave again a short time later. Sheriff Scott Berry said Aug. 8 that investigators are developing leads in the case.
MEN ARRESTED: On Aug. 6, two Watkinsville men were arrested for stealing metal at Thomas Orchard on Macon Highway, Bishop. Deputies were called to the location and officer met the red Chevrolet pickup on a dirt road at the orchard.
The driver, Joshua Blaze Burgess, 19, of Wildwood Place, said he was there to pick up scrap metal. Burgess didn't have permission to take the metal and was charged with theft and trespassing. Later, the second suspect, John Andrew Dukes, 20, of Flat Rock Road, was located and arrested on the same charge.
The victim told deputies that several thousand dollars worth of scrap metal had been stolen in the past, most recently on Aug. 4.
BIKE STOLEN: On Aug. 6, a deputy was dispatched about 5 p.m. to Kroger's on Epps Bridge Parkway, where the store was having a welcome back to school event and were raffling off several gifts including a Sprite bicycle donated by Coca-Cola. About 5 p.m., employees noticed the bike was gone.
An employee at nearby Trader Joe's saw a suspect riding the bicycle through the parking lot. The man was described as a black male, in his late 30s or early 40s, wearing a peach-colored buttoned shirt and black shorts.
The man's head was shaved and he had goatee or mustache. The bicycle is labeled with Sprite in numerous locations.
FRAUD: On Aug. 7, a deputy met with a resident of North Rossiter Terrace, Watkinsville, who explained he made a business arrangement with a man for landscaping work. On July 29 he paid the man $750 and agreed to pay him $750 more when the work was completed.
However, the man, who cashed the check, never did any work and now cannot be found or contacted by telephone.
HOME BURGLARIZED: On Aug. 7, a deputy was dispatched to Woodlands Road, Watkinsville, where someone broke into the house by breaking a backdoor window and stole $5,600 worth of property. Among the items taken were a Ruger .22-caliber pistol, a Winchester 30.30-caliber rifle, a flatscreen TV, X-Box system with 30 games, a Dell computer, coin collection, knife, and three caps.
METAL STOLEN: On Aug. 8, a deputy was dispatched to the 2000 block of Greensboro Highway where a man said he had been out of town and upon returning found that more than $500 worth of scrap metal had been stolen on his farm.
The man said he learned from another person that a red pickup pulling a trailer was seen driving at a high rate of speed away from his farm on July 18.
The pickup was driven by a white male with blond shaggy hair and wearing a baseball cap backwards.
MAN ASSAULTED: On Aug. 8, a deputy was dispatched to Whippoorwill Road where a man said his adult son had attacked him without provocation. The son was gone when the deputy arrived.
MISSING PROPERTY: On Aug. 9, a man reported he stopped by Lowe's on Epps Bridge Parkway and went inside about 10 to 15 minutes. He said he found the First American Bank bag missing from his vehicle. The man said he felt sure he locked the vehicle even though no forced entry was found.
The bag contained mostly rental checks that totalled nearly $8,000.
DAMAGE: On Aug. 9, a resident of Spring Valley Way, Bishop, reported that a moving truck drove onto his lawn and damaged the water meter, a water line and the meter box. The truck driver provided his company's insurance information.
CHECK FORGED: On Aug. 9, a deputy met with an Athens man who said his Social Security check for $1,022 was stolen from his mailbox in Athens in early July. He then learned the check was forged and cashed at the Walmart in Oconee County.
PUPPY STOLEN: On Aug. 9, a resident of Sunshadow Lane, Bishop, reported someone went into his yard and stole a 3-day old puppy that was in a pen with its mother dog and litter of pups.
DUI: On Aug. 9, Deputy William Parks was on his way to work around 6:35 a.m. on Whitehall Road when he noticed a Ford F-150 weaving in the road ahead of him. When the truck crossed into Oconee County, Parks made a traffic stop.
Joshua C. Johnson, 31, of Whitehall Road, Athens, said he had been drinking around midnight, but now was tired. He was given some sobriety tests then charged with DUI and failing to maintain a lane.
The Watkinsville Police Department reported the following incidents:
DISPUTE: On Aug. 1, an officer was dispatched to a home on Thrasher where two adult siblings were arguing over their possessions. The problem was solved when one left the house.
WRECK: On Aug. 5, a Chrysler Sebring struck a deer that ran into Whitehall Road at Second Street. The car was heavily damaged and the drive as injured.
HOME ENTERED: On Aug. 8, a resident of VFW Drive reported returning home from vacation to find the apartment burglarized. The intruder forced open a back door and stole a microwave oven, a computer and other items. The home was ransacked.
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There are plenty of new ICOs popping up daily. But alot of scams as well. Everytime you hear "worlds first" "the only" beware. Especially if they have NO PRODUCT made yet. I dont give a fuck what their whitepaper says. Most will never make it or designed by people that have no intention of producing. (Heres looking at you China).
I get asked all the time if something is a good investment. Sometimes yes, most the time no. FIrst thing is transparency. Who is behind it and the people involved.
VItalik Buterin (Co-founder of Ethereum) has had to come out several times about people claiming he was involved or part of an ICO project on their website and he has nothing to do with them. They approach him at conferences then take a picture of him and post it on their site.
This is not just with him but they do this with other companies, big names, etc with the hopes they will make people feel more comfortable and give them their money.
Always do your research. If something seems off, it probably is.


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Okay, people, I realize that it is not chili season. However, for this recipe I am willing to break any and all seasonal food rules.
My friend Vynette finds THE best recipes. Seriously the woman should write a cookbook. I've told her this, she doesn't believe me. I think she's being dumb (and you can tell her I said that).
Last weekend when Mark got baptized she was an angel as usual, and made two HUGE crock pots of soup for us to enjoy with our extended family afterwards. They went perfectly with garlic rolls from Wall Street Pizza and a lovely Caesar Salad with Buttermilk Brownies for dessert. (I'm drooling right now) They were both divine. But the chili was....PERFECT. It has some things in it that shocked me. And I was fairly skeptical about the whole olives, even thought I like olives (sorry Kelly I know that kills this one for you), but OH MY GOODNESS. I'm just going to stop now and type the recipe, and if you are smart at all you will make it and hide in a room and eat it all yourself. Oh and if you live anywhere near me you will invite me over to hide in the closet with you.
ETA: I've altered this recipe a little bit since I first got it, so now it's just perfect for us.
The BEST Chili
¼ cup olive oil
1 pound yellow onions, coarsely chopped
4 lbs extra lean ground beef
1 pound sweet Italian sausage
1 pound hot Italian sausage
¾ tsp freshly ground black pepper
1 can (12 ounces ) tomato paste
1 ½ TB minced garlic
1-2 TB cumin
2 TB chili powder
¼ cup Dijon mustard
2 TB salt
2 TB dried basil
2 TB dried oregano
3 quarts crushed tomatoes
1 (12oz) can tomato juice
¼ cup grape juice
¼ cup fresh lemon juice
¼ cup fresh dill
½ cup chopped fresh Italian flat leaf parsley
3 cans dark red kidney beans, drained
3 cans large olives, drained
Heat olive oil in large heavy pot. Add onions and cook until tender, about 10 minutes. Crumble the meat into the pot and cook until the meats are well browned. Spoon out as much excess fat as possible.
Add the pepper, tomato paste, garlic, cumin, chili powder, mustard, salt, basil and oregano. Add the drained tomatoes, grape juice, lemon juice, dill, parsley and kidney beans. Stir well and simmer, uncovered, for at least another 20 minutes, I like to let it simmer for a few hours.
Taste and correct the seasonings. Add the olives, heat through for another 5 minutes and serve.
Garnish with grated cheese, chopped green onions, and sour cream.
Makes a HUGE pot of chili, so you'll probably want to adjust the amounts or have your entire ward over for dinner. Seriously this will feed 20-25 people.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Labels: main dishes, soups
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It is a great scam....we borrow trillions of WE THE PEOPLE's money to pay the people barely enough to survive while those holding financial assets control the lives of the people.
In 2002...public borrowing was minimal....but today, we are borrowing over $1.5 Trillion dollars per year....enough to pay 50,000,000 $30K per year....not to mention our Foolish students borrowing billions to pay millions of teachers to teach them subjects that likely won't be relevant in a technologically driven economy.
Remember....a government deficit is borrowing WE THE PEOPLE's money.....and now only a few of WE THE PEOPLE are disproportionately benefitting from this tyranical ponzi scheme.....
Hang on....we are getting much closer to the collapse as WE THE PEOPLE want WE THE PEOPLE's money.
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At less than 3% for a 30 year bond, a long time.
I can think of a number of assets that may return more than 3% over thirty years. For one, we could invest in our children's education more. But regardless, we can always inflate that debt away. 3% inflation is quite reasonable and easy to live with.
As long as China and other foreign investors are looking to us to a safe haven at such low prices, we should give it to them.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: July 2006: Ex-'brother' Church's wages war for lovers of Popeyes' spicy chicken
Farnaz Wallace was interviewed by Leon Stafford for his article, Ex-'brother' Church's wages war for lovers of Popeyes' spicy chicken, in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Leon explains that "two years ago, Church's Chicken and Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits were friendly competitors owned by the same company, Atlanta-based AFC Enterprises. Today they are friendly no more. On Thursday, Church's threw down the gauntlet against its former "brother," launching an aggressive campaign to persuade fans of Popeyes' spicy chicken to switch to Church's offering." Download the PDF.


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Strong support for @BetterMS2015 amendment from Clinton parents-500 more signatures in 2 days! @Clintonschools #msleg pic.twitter.com/4tfKi2Rvmm— Nancy Loome (@ParentsCampaign) August 7, 2014
Strong support for @BetterMS2015 amendment from Clinton parents-500 more signatures in 2 days! @Clintonschools #msleg pic.twitter.com/4tfKi2Rvmm
1. Political activity may not be engaged in during school hours or on property owned by the Clinton Public School District.
2. The following activities are prohibited:
a. The posting of political circulars, petitions, or bulletins in buildings or on school property.
b. The distribution to employees, whether by placing in their school mailboxes or otherwise, of political circulars or petitions. (United States Mail being excepted)
c. The collection of and/or solicitation for campaign funds.
d. Solicitation for campaign workers
e. The use of pupils for inviting or addressing political materials or the distribution of such materials to pupils for further dissemination.
f. The use of class time for proselytize pupils or other staff for political purposes...
...4. Violation of this policy shall, at the discretion of the board, constitute cause for reprisal, demotion, suspension, or dismissal."
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Geek Fuel September 2016 Review + Coupon
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. I received this box for review.
Geek Fuel is a geek and gamer box that is always filled with awesome memorabilia and has a great value. Each box is $17.90 plus shipping, and they ship worldwide. Geek Fuel always includes a shirt with every box, and the value is always over $40.00.
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What's in the box? Every box will pack a t-shirt, toys, collectibles and more in their monthly boxes.
Geek Fuel ships in a red box and ships by USPS.
First Look
Geek Fuel always includes a magazine with articles about the companies in the box. This month, there was also a Geek Fuel sticker.
One side of the information card had the t-shirt.
The back of the information card had the rest of the items in the box.
X-Men Apocalypse T-Shirt My husband really liked this month's shirt, X-Men Apocalypse. I like the graphic and the shirt was comfortable too.
Mallet of Mischief Harley Quinn is one of the most popular female characters right now. It seems many people are going to be Harley Quinn for Halloween, so this will be a good prop. This is an inflatable mallet, and it's quite large.
The side of the mallet has the phrase "Your Face Here".
Exclusive DC Coloring Posters The were four large poster size prints to color of your favorite DC Comics characters.
DC Comics Coloring Posters
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Classic Cutting Board This cutting board was made to look just like a Nintendo game cartridge. I think this is a really cool item. I especially love getting items in my subscription boxes that I can use day to day.
Blacksea Odyssey Sticky Star and Downloadable Steam Game Blacksea Odyssey My kids will love playing with this sticky star and my husband will enjoy checking out Blacksea Odyssey.
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A 55-year-old Lawrence man reported the theft of a vehicle Wednesday.
According to police reports, a Ford Ranger valued at $5,000 was stolen from the 1900 block of Rhode Island sometime between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. Wednesday.
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