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-- Each year, Kansas natural resource officers (NROs) check approximately 60,000 hunters in the field, and about 96 percent of them are found to be law abiding sportsmen and women. Although the vast majority of hunters are ethical, they have to deal with that small percentage who are not.
With 73 NROs to cover the entire state, so Kansas officers request the help of hunters - and anyone who enjoys the outdoors - to watch for those who don't take wildlife crime seriously.
The easy way to combat this problem is to call the toll free Operation Game Thief hotline at (877) 426-3843.
All calls received through the Operation Game Thief line are immediately relayed to the natural resource officer nearest the violation. The line is available anytime day or night, every day of the year. Callers remain anonymous.
Nothing spoils a good hunt more than that small percentage of unethical hunters.
Although they seldom describe themselves as such, unethical hunters are more properly called poachers. These are the people who trespass, road hunt, litter, take more than their bag limit, drink while they hunt, use illegal equipment, take game out of season, take wildlife for which there is no season or vandalize. While such behavior is the exception, poachers not only damage the natural resources they should be committed to conserving, they reflect poorly on all hunters in the eyes of the general public.
Operation Game Thief calls have resulted in arrests and convictions on violations ranging from public lands vandalism to deer poaching. In many cases, poachers have been arrested within minutes of the call. Even drug operations have been uncovered by alert hunters using the hotline number.
Officers advise callers to never confront suspects, but provide information such as vehicle descriptions and license tag numbers, descriptions of people involved, locations and the time and location the incident occurred will greatly aid law enforcement.
The more specific the information is, the easier it is for natural resource officers to investigate the case.
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Not everybody is born with good strength of self-discipline so a little help to keep one's activities controlled can be quite liberating. Something as simple as the NO Sign by Avichai Tadmor could undertake this task, by taking hold of your favorite effects and reminding your when it's no time to use them.
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The Indianapolis 500 is the most prestigious race on the open-wheel, or IndyCar, circuit and is contested annually on Memorial Day weekend at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. First held in 1911, the Indy 500 is now known as the "Greatest Spectacle In Racing."
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Last year's Indianapolis 500 set records for leaders, lead changes and average speed, making it a hard act to follow. But the 2014 edition of the race may have done just that, as Ryan Hunter-Reay beat runner-up Helio Castroneves by 0.060 seconds, ...Blog | May 25, 2014
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Police are searching a woman described as being in her early to mid 40s, 5-foot-8, with blond hair. But they don't know her name or where she lives. She's not wanted for a crime, but for her compassion. Innae Park has this story of the season.
GUILDERLAND, N.Y. – It's a story that even those who have decades of experience in law enforcement haven't seen before. A gift of $1,000 in cash given to a trooper anonymously, but he can't and doesn't keep it.
"I was so blown away by his integrity. He didn't have to. Nobody saw, you know what I mean? But he was great," said Carol Bohl, a Guilderland resident.
Captain William Keeler of the New York State Police said, "He has an excellence of character that he never even had a passing thought that this is something he could or would actually keep." They're talking about Trooper Christopher Maniscalco, who has been stationed at the Guilderland satellite unit for six years.
"Never in a million years would I have expected anything," he said.
The giving happened Sunday evening on Oak Tree Lane in Guilderland. Maniscalco was responding to a call when a woman pulled up in a van.
"She hands me a card. At that point, I said, 'I really appreciate this, you don't have to do that,'" he described. Maniscalco later opened it to find the cash. He immediately turned it in. State Police members are not allowed to receive gifts. Now the barracks hopes the good giver will come forward to take the cash back and donate it to another good cause.
However, if the money isn't collected within a year, State Police say it will be deposited into the state general fund. And the brave men and women for whom it was intended will not benefit from it at all.
Even so, Mansicalco is thankful.
"I received more than anybody could ever ask for during the holiday season," he said. "And that's knowing that I'm doing my job well enough that somebody feels that kind of a gift is acceptable."
Based on what many know about the man, they believe it's only fitting the Guilderland Trooper would be the recipient.
Resident Gina Spadaro said, "He's a nice guy, always coming around, a very outgoing, friendly guy."
"It made an impact on us," said Bohl, who witnessed the exchange Sunday. "We've been telling a bunch of people."
However, the Trooper refuses to take any credit.
"This woman is a hero to me," Maniscalco said firmly.
State Police would like the woman to come forward. They'd like to thank her and also have her donation be used for a better purpose. If you know her, you're asked to call Troop G in Latham, N.Y. at (518) 783-3211.
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Organizations may also use an assessment center to evaluate HiPos by putting them through higher-level scenarios to see how they perform. Once they have been assessed and their strengths as well as their areas for development have been identified, the organization builds its talent pool. This is done by creating an individual development plan (IDP) with each HiPo. These plans are designed to take the information gathered and develop a plan to help employees achieve their professional goals over the next several years.
The IDP details several elements:
1. The potential jobs the employee wants that are realistically achievable in the established timeframe (i.e., 2 to 3 years rather than 10 years)
2. A timeline to determine when the employee might move to the next level
3. The competency gap between where the employee currently is and the competencies needed at the next level
4. Measurable learning objectives
5. Strategies and resources needed to accomplish these objectives
6. Identified means of collecting evidence of accomplishment and a method for tracking.
Building the talent pool improves the quality of employees internally. However, there are both positive and negative aspects of developing and hiring within. Building from within can improve employee morale because employees see that they are being groomed for a higher level in the organization; the agency is hiring a "known quantity"; and institutional knowledge is retained.
On the other hand, there are downsides to developing and hiring within:
1. Sometimes it makes people feel there is a guarantee they will be hired for a higher-level position.
2. Internal competition among staff can escalate and must be monitored.
3. There is a heavy load on training and development.
4. Those not involved in the talent pool may need more nurturing.
Understanding these issues and controlling them can diminish their impact on the agency and staff.
Facilitating Development Opportunities
There are several different development opportunities an organization may provide, such as lunch-and-learn programs, in which the employees build knowledge and common understanding. There are also many leadership conferences and classes to which organizations can send employees.
Another choice is establishing a mentoring program. This can be a one-on-one program or a group program; it can also be peer-mentoring between employees of the same level or supervisory-mentoring between a supervisor and a respective subordinate.
Many different avenues may be taken, but it is important for the organization to initially understand individual learning styles–some employees respond better to a conference, while others learn more efficiently using a mentoring program. It is up to the organization to understand its employees' learning styles and select the program that will be most effective.
After completing these steps, an organization should be better prepared for the future loss of upper- and middle-level employees, and be able to move on seamlessly with a small learning curve.
Work cited:
Rothwell, W. J. (2005). Effective Succession Planning. New York: Amacom.
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I haven't had to use my Emergency Fund since 2010, when I was looking for work. But this week, I will have to take out about $1,000 to cover some costly (and unexpected) expenses.
First, my MacBook Pro's logic board died. The repair cost is going to be just over $600, and I'm going to be without my computer for a week. I really wanted to get a new laptop, but at this point, it's just not worth it. My current MBP is fine, and if I were to get a new one, I'd be paying over $3,000 instead of the $600 it would cost just to fix the one I have. Perhaps in 2014 I can look into getting a new computer.
Second, my car windshield cracked. I was moving a bed to a friend's house when the car in front of me made a sudden left-hand turn without using their turn signal. I had to slam on my brakes … and a piece of wood slid from the back of the car all the way to the front and cracked the windshield. My deductible is $500, and the quotes I have been getting for the repair are around $400.
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Understanding print quality settings
Print quality settings affect how light or dark the print is on the page and the style in which the graphics are printed. You can also use the print quality settings to optimize the print quality for a specific media type.
You can change the settings in the printer properties to accommodate the types of jobs you are printing. The following are the settings:
- ProRes 1200: This setting provides fine-line detail at 1200 x 1200 dpi. (LaserJet 1022 only)
- FastRes 1200: This setting provides 1200 dpi effective output quality (600 x 600 x 2 dpi with HP Resolution Enhancement technology [REt]).
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- EconoMode (Save Toner): Text is printed using less toner. This setting is useful when you are printing drafts. You can turn on this option independently of other print quality settings.
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NOTE:Not all printer features are available in all drivers or operating systems. See the printer properties (driver) online Help for information about the availability of features for that driver.
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Media type settings control the temperature of your printer's fuser. You can change the settings for the media that you are using to optimize the print quality.
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Approved list of apparel and equipment for use at IPF sanctioned competitions.
Updated: 21st November 2013
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Only costumes, support shirts, wraps and singlets from commercial manufacturers officially registered and approved by the Technical Committee shall be permitted for use in Powerlifting Competitions. This applies to all championships and records, from Local to World.
Only bars and plates, squat racks, bench racks and benches from commercial manufacturers officially registered and approved by the Technical Committee shall be permitted for use in World, Regional and Continental Championships. The setting of World Records must be made with Bars and Discs featured on this list.
The list here below is valid until 31.12.2014 and will be replaced with the new list above beginning with 01.01.2015
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Catalogue of IPF approved Gear:
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Scifres at the Chargers' practice in August 2008
No. 5 San Diego Chargers
Personal information
|Date of birth:October 8, 1980
|Place of birth: Metairie, Louisiana
Career information
|High school: Destrehan (LA)
|College: Western Illinois
|NFL Draft: 2003 / Round: 5 / Pick: 149
|Debuted in 2003 for the San Diego Chargers
Career history
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Career highlights and awards
Career NFL statistics as of Week 5, 2013
Scifres at the Chargers' practice in August 2008
No. 5 San Diego Chargers
Personal information
|Date of birth:October 8, 1980
|Place of birth: Metairie, Louisiana
Career information
|High school: Destrehan (LA)
|College: Western Illinois
|NFL Draft: 2003 / Round: 5 / Pick: 149
|Debuted in 2003 for the San Diego Chargers
Career history
|Roster status: Active
Career highlights and awards
Career NFL statistics as of Week 5, 2013
Michael T. Scifres (born October 8, 1980) is a punter for the San Diego Chargers of the National Football League.
Scifres attended Destrehan High School in Destrehan, Louisiana and lettered in football, soccer, and baseball. In football, he was an All-District selection. Scifres graduated from Destrehan High School in 1998.
While playing for Western Illinois, Scifres was the only punter from NCAA Div 1-AA (now called the Football Championship Division) to become a 2002 finalist of the Ray Guy Award, given to the nation's top punter.[1] He set a school and conference record with an 89-yard punt against Southwest Missouri State in 2000. Scifres also kicked a game-winning 56-yard field goal in his first career attempt in 1999. Two-time First-team All-American selection by Football Gazette, Three-time All-conference selection, Seven-time National player of the week, and Five-time Conference player of the week. His college nickname was Scabies. He graduated from Western Illinois University with a degree in Communications & Broadcasting.[2]
He was selected with the 14th pick of the fifth round of the 2003 NFL Draft out of Western Illinois University.
Scifres was drafted by the Chargers in 2003 at the recommendation of Kyle Smith, the son of former Chargers General Manager A.J. Smith. As a freshman at Youngstown State, Smith had returned punts against Scifres, who played for Missouri Valley Conference foe, Western Illinois. He spent his first season learning behind Chargers Hall of Fame punter Darren Bennett and then took over full-time punting duties in 2004. Since then, Scifres has become a member of the Chargers' 50th Anniversary All-Time Team, he has thrice been an alternate for the Pro Bowl, most recently as a 1st Alternate for the 2009 Pro Bowl and a two-time Chargers Special Teams Player of the Year.
To put his career into historical context, Scifres has punted 573 times and among punters with at least that many attempts, his gross average (45.3) ranks fourth and his net average (38.5) ranks fifth. Complete punting statistics that include opponent returns and touchbacks only date to 1976, but since those statistics have been kept, Scifres' 244 returns against are the second-fewest and his 52 touchbacks are the third-fewest.[3]
In the Chargers' 2009 Wild Card Playoff versus the Colts, Scifres kicked a 67-yard punt and averaged 51.7 yards with six punts. Also, all his punts during the game were inside the Chargers' own 20-yard line, with 4 inside their 10-yard line.[4] Perhap Scifres's best punt of the game was the last, a 52-yard kick launched from the San Diego 47 yard line that bounced out of bounds at the Colts' 1, pinning Indianapolis deep and allowing the Chargers' defense to force the Colts to punt the ball away from the back of their own end zone. Scifres said after the game, "I don't know if you can dream a game like this." [5] Scifres also made some clutch punts near the end of the 2007 Charger's AFC Divisional Playoff Game that pinned the Colts back deep in their own territory and ultimately helped thwart the Colts' QB Peyton Manning's come back attempts. In week 11 vs the Denver Broncos Scifres completed his first NFL completion to Mike Tolbert for 28 yards.[6]
The 2011 season was another that turned out to be memorable for Scifres. Just days before the regular season began, the team signed him to a five-year contract extension that will run through the 2016 season. When he put pen to paper though, little did Scifres realize that within a few days, his workload would also include kickoffs, field goals and point after tries. That happened in the '11 season opener against Minnesota after Nate Kaeding suffered a season-ending knee injury on the opening kickoff of the season. Scifres, who on paper always had been the team's backup kicker but had never actually been called upon to do so, coolly responded by hitting three extra points and a game-tying 40-yard field goal early in the fourth quarter en route to a 24-17 victory. It was his first made field goal in a live game since his sophomore year in college when he kicked a 56-yard game-winner in overtime against Northern Iowa for a conference title.
Scifres boomed his way into the Chargers' record books in 2012. Already the team's record-holder for career punting average (45.3), Scifres was voted the team's Special Teams Player of the Year last season after setting a new team record with an average of 48.3 yards per punt, a mark that shattered the previous high of 46.7, which he set back in 2010. And thanks to the Chargers' outstanding coverage units, Scifres posted a 40.6-yard net average in 2012, second in the franchise's 53-year history.[7]
Scifres also maintained his grip as the NFL's most accurate punter of all time. In 2012, he dropped 30 of 81 punts inside the 20 (37.0%) and heads into 2013 as the most accurate of all-time among punters with at least 500 career attempts, landing 227 of 573 (39.6%) inside the 20.[8]
A native of Destrehan, Louisiana., one of Scifres' prep teammates was Baltimore Ravens' safety Ed Reed. When the two were high school teammates, Reed was actually the superior punter and as a result, Scifres was relegated to kickoffs, field goals and extra points. The two have remained good friends.[9]
Scifres' hobbies include golf, weightlifting and Pilates. He and his wife, Stacie, have twin daughters Berkeley and Bristyn, and a son, Brodyn.
|Current punters in the National Football League (as of Week 1 of the 2014 NFL season)
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Jordan Gay (Buffalo Bills)
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Sam Koch (Baltimore Ravens)
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Shane Lechler (Houston Texans)
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|NFC East
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Pat O'Donnell (Chicago Bears)
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Dave Zastudil (Arizona Cardinals)


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Sept 18 - The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has launched an online tool to provide consumers with easy access to public mortgage information collected under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act. The tool enables greater transparency by helping inform people of trends in their local mortgage markets.
Just as the real estate motto location, location, location was true before the recent financial crisis, it was true for the crisis. Every community was affected differently, said CFPB Director Richard Cordray. Our tool puts valuable information into the hands of the public in an accessible way, so they can understand what is happening in their local mortgage markets. A more transparent mortgage market will lead to a better marketplace and better outcomes for consumers.
The CFPBs online HMDA tool is available at www.consumerfinance.gov/hmda.
In 1975, Congress passed the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act requiring most mortgage lenders to make loan information available to the public. In 2012, there were approximately 18.7 million HMDA records from 7,400 financial institutions. This information includes the majority of the countrys mortgage applications and mortgages made known as loan originations by banks, savings associations, credit unions and mortgage companies. The public information is important because it helps show whether lenders are serving the housing needs of their communities; it gives public officials information that helps them make decisions and policies; and it sheds light on lending patterns that could be discriminatory.
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act transferred HMDA rulemaking authority from the Federal Reserve Board to the CFPB on July 21, 2011. While the CFPB has the rulemaking authority, other federal banking regulators and the Department of Housing and Urban Development still share other authorities. Each year, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, comprised of the federal banking regulators, releases the full public HMDA data set to the public.
The CFPB tool focuses on the number of mortgage applications and originations, in addition to loan purposes and loan types for 2010 through 2012. It looks specifically at first-lien, owner-occupied, one- to four- family and manufactured homes. Using the tool, the public can see nationwide summaries or they can choose interactive features that allow them to isolate the information for metropolitan areas. The public can easily explore millions of data points with these user-friendly graphs and charts.
Trends and highlights from the information shown by the tool include:
Heat map shows that mortgage applications and originations were up: One way to measure the strength of a local mortgage market is to look at the number of mortgage applications and originations. The CFPB tool contains a nationwide heat map showing that applications and loan originations increased in most local mortgage markets in 2012. This tool allows users to drill down to see this information by metropolitan area. The data shows:
Interactive graph shows that mortgage volume increased, driven by refinancing: A significant driver of the increased mortgage numbers in 2012 was a rise in the number of refinancings. An interactive graph in the CFPB tool, which breaks down the number of loans by purpose and by metropolitan area, shows:
Interactive graph on loan type shows the prevalence of FHA and VA lending: Since the housing crash, homebuyers have been heavily reliant on mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration or guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs. An interactive graph in the CFPB tool, which breaks down the number of loans by type and by metropolitan area, shows:
The CFPB is committed to further enhancing the functionality of its online HMDA tool and plans to release additional features over time.
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Outdoors writer Karen Sykes' death traced to hypothermia
Karen Sykes, missing last week on Mount Rainier, died of hypothermia, with heart disease as a secondary cause, according to the Pierce County Medical Examiner's Office.
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The well-known hiker whose body was found on Mount Rainier over the weekend died of hypothermia, the Pierce County Medical Examiner's Office said Monday.
Karen Sykes, 70, of Seattle, had been reported missing late Wednesday when she failed to meet up with her boyfriend as planned during a day hike in the Owyhigh Lakes area near Mount Rainier.
Mount Rainier National Park officials suspended a three-day search for her on Saturday when they discovered the body of a woman in their search area near the eastern branch of Boundary Creek in rough, steep terrain.
Sykes' daughter Annette Shirey said Monday that park officials had informed her they'd found her mother's body, according to The Associated Press.
A secondary cause of Sykes' death was heart disease, according to the Medical Examiner's Office. She did not have other injuries, and officials ruled her death accidental.
Despite the autopsy finding of heart disease, Sykes' daughter and others said she was healthy and fit, and often hiked twice a week.
While not certain of the circumstances of her death, those who knew Sykes said earlier that it could have happened to anyone, no matter how experienced in the outdoors.
"The mountains are big. There's a lot going on. She was extremely experienced, but experience has nothing to do with any of it," said Kim Brown, who hiked with Sykes.
Sykes was well-known in the Northwest hiking community. She wrote stories about hiking for online publications and newspapers, authored a guide book about Western Washington hikes and co-wrote another book about hikes in wildflower areas. She wrote a popular trail column in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and produced additional stories about Washington treks for The Seattle Times.
She kept a blog called "Karens Trails" where she posted hiking-related stories, photographs and trail reports. Her last post was on June 4, when she wrote about the Lime Kiln Trail in Snohomish County.
"Though I'm not young I still enjoy the challenge of rugged trails, obscure trails, abandoned trails and looking for artifacts even if the price is a losing battle with Devil's Club, salmonberry, rotting stumps and nettles," Sykes wrote. "Sometimes it just feels good to tussle with Mother Nature; it builds character."
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HOUSTON – HH (Honghua) Group, the largest exporter of drilling rigs in China, has signed a three-year memorandum of understanding with GE Power & Water's Distributed Power business. Under the agreement, GE will supply its Waukesha VHP gas engines to power drilling rigs used in new shale gas projects in China.
The HH Group will demonstrate multiple solutions for bi-fuel motors, land drilling, shale gas exploration and offshore platform construction at the 2014 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston.
HH will particularly highlight its new partnership with GE as well as solutions for land and offshore drilling, including the 1500HP Beyond Drilling Rig and the TIGER Series. Also displayed in the booth will be the company's solutions for shale gas and offshore platform construction. Built on its own research and development, HH's products allow for improved safety and efficiency, while reducing risks and costs during land and offshore drilling.
"HH offers more than 650 units of all kinds of drilling rigs to customers, and around 80 percent of them are sold to markets outside of China in the past seven years. The U.S. continues to be one of the most important markets for us," said Zhang Mi, chairman and president of HH. "We are showcasing the TIGER Series at OTC, as it responds to our customers' need for affordable, easy-to-use offshore drilling platform."
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Author: Dr. Harvey E. Bale, Director General of the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations, IFPMA.
What Are the Gains From Public-Private Partnerships for Health?
Health status of poor populations in developing countries has attracted significant attention of key policy makers, international community, different advocacy groups, and public opinion.
The problem is complex and multifaceted because of multiple links between health and different components of the natural, social, political and economic environment. Over time, key stakeholders have realised that in order to improve health outcomes in developing countries, a large-scale mobilisation of resources, capacities and skills is required, which go beyond the capabilities of any individual player from the public or private sector.
Such broad collaboration, if it is to be effective and sustainable, needs to be based on a set of specific principles such as mutual trust and respect, shared objectives and responsibilities, and true, long-term commitment. Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) combine these principles, enabling partners with different, often hostile philosophies and missions to work together to achieve one common goal. PPPs have now become a distinctive feature of the global healthcare landscape, offering veritable solutions to complex health problems of developing world and thus contributing to the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals. The pharmaceutical industry has played a pivotal role in establishing numerous PPPs, providing strategic resources, but also acting as an integrator, bringing together players from different environments and settings.
The Pharmaceutical Industry in Public-Private Partnerships
The pharmaceutical companies are among the pioneers and the unquestionable leaders of voluntary private sector contributions, which significantly complement public funds devoted to improve health outcomes in developing countries. Since 1998, ten major companies in membership of the Partnership for Quality Medical Donations (PQMD) have donated products worth $2.7 billion. It should be noted that product donations constitute only a portion of total contributions made by the pharmaceutical companies. In general, three categories of PPPs may be distinguished which imply different types of contributions, as summarised in Table 1 below.
*Table 1. Different Contributions of Pharmaceutical Companies to PPPs
Involvement of the pharmaceutical companies in PPPs also differs subject to "representation". This means that in some PPPs it is the entire pharmaceutical industry partnering with other actors, while in other cases these are individual (or groups of) companies collaborating with multiple partners. In the former case, IFPMA has served as a "bridge" between the pharmaceutical companies and other organisations from the public and private sector, initiating or facilitating constructive dialogues among key policy and decision makers, which led to the establishment of highly successful PPPs. Examples of such initiatives include Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) and Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) which are among the most successful PPPs to date.
Practically all vaccine-producing pharmaceutical companies are involved in GAVI, and their collaborative effort with numerous partners representing the international community (WHO, UNICEF), technical experts in the field of immunisation (US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - CDC, Children's Vaccines Programme - PATH), and the donors' community (the Gates Foundation, key bilateral aid agencies) have produced spectacular results. Since its establishment in 1999, GAVI has supplied vaccines to over 30 million children, and its total commitments through 2004 have reached $1.2 billion.
MMV is another promising example of a partnership whereby the pharmaceutical industry is represented both in the governing structures (Board of Directors, Scientific Advisory Board) and on the operational level (11 biopharmaceutical companies, including 3 from developing countries). By developing and sustaining close collaboration among partners from international organisations, donors, public academic institutions, research institutes and pharmaceutical companies, MMV as a "virtual R&D organisation" has managed to create the largest antimalarial drug research portfolio since World War II, with 15 projects in its pipeline.
There are many other successful PPPs in which individual companies collaborate with different partners in order to deliver health-related interventions where needed. In most cases such partnerships have not developed their institutional independence (such as MMV or GAVI) but nevertheless they have proven a vital component of efforts to improve health status in developing countries. A spectacular example comes from the Accelerating Access Initiative (AAI) - a PPP established in 2000 to help increase access to HIV/AIDS care and treatment in developing countries. This joint initiative between five UN organisations and six pharmaceutical companies aims at improving access to affordable HIV-related medicines, and its key component consists of substantial price reductions offered by the companies involved. This country-led process, which responds to the priorities and needs identified at the national level, has benefited over 75,000 HIV-infected Africans, making for the most important contribution to improving access to HIV/AIDS medicines in Africa so far.
It should be noted that great majority of PPPs engage individual companies rather than the entire industry. Certainly, this fact should not be considered as disadvantageous and it simply reflects the competitive nature of the pharmaceutical industry. Pharmaceutical companies significantly differ one from another in their disease focus, strategies, philosophies, etc. This implies that each company has its own vision regarding its societal roles and responsibilities, and consequently developing an industry-wide position may encounter certain level of disinterest or opposition. Most importantly, only a limited number of the pharmaceutical companies have adequate strategic resources within a given therapeutic area (i.e. products, relevant R&D expertise, etc.). Given a narrow focus of PPPs, this should be considered as a "natural" limitation of the number of potential industry partners in such initiatives.
Value of Public-Private Partnerships for Health
PPPs are widely recognised as a vital contribution to improving health outcomes in resource-poor settings, and the World Health Organisation itself is involved in at least 16 such collaborative initiatives with the pharmaceutical companies and other actors. The particular feature of PPPs is that they embody the principle of "win-win" solutions, i.e. they create benefits both to contributors and recipients. This provides for an important impetus for organisations from different settings and with divergent values to be mobilised around one common objective which is, broadly speaking, health improvement in developing countries.
PPPs are also unique for their capacity of risk and responsibility sharing. Since health problems of developing countries may not be sufficiently addressed by the "western" model of healthcare, i.e. the one based on developed healthcare infrastructure, existing efficient markets for medicines, intellectual property protection to secure innovation, etc., there is a need for some complementary interventions. In the case of pharmaceuticals this implies the responsibility of public sector to compensate for the lack of the market mechanism, on which the pharmaceutical industry depends. PPPs enable such responsibility sharing whereby the public (or donors') funds are combined with skills and expertise of the pharmaceutical companies, thus harnessing innovation for the benefit of the poor. This is exactly the case of MMV and other product-development PPPs, which can employ state-of-the-art pharmaceutical technologies and laboratories, and best industry and academic researchers to conduct R&D into diseases primarily affecting developing countries. Similar logic underpins the PPPs targeting access to medicines and vaccines, such as GAVI, which also trigger innovation in less "economic" therapeutic areas by offering a guarantee of large-scale purchases of new products designed for developing countries.
Positive experience from existing PPPs proves that public-private collaboration is not only possible but also it generates substantial benefits which would be difficult to produce by either public or private sector working in isolation. The pharmaceutical industry, by virtue of its unique role in public health, has been one of the central components of such initiatives. Due to its invaluable contributions and strong commitment many of the challenges facing developing countries have been addressed, and the increasing tendency among the companies to be involved in PPPs creates good prospects for the future.
Dr. Harvey E. Bale
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Python Gotcha, Nested Lambda to the Rescue
*Note: This has been sitting sitting around as a draft for quite awhile. I'm finally posting it because it came up recently; luckily this time I was prepared.
This was brought to my attention by Jason Yan of Disqus.
Consider the following code fragment. What's is it's output?
num_funcs = []
for i in xrange(0, 101):
num_funcs.append(lambda x: x + i)
print num_funcs[10](20)
If you guessed 30, look again and consider the value of i during the print statement. It's value will be 100.
What is num_funcs[10]? Clearly it is a lambda function. More importantly, it is a lambda function which has not yet been evaluated. Now consider again, the value i. What's the the output? Hopefully you see that it is not 30, but rather 120. If you're still unsure why that is true, let's code the loop in such a way which will produce the expected output. Namely we would like num_funcs[n](20) to evaluate to n+20.
The trick here, is to force i to be the iteration value at the time of the append, rather than letting it persist as a variable until the print statement. To do this we simply close over the original anonymous function with another, thus establishing deeper scope and hence forcing i to be evaluated at the time of the append, like so.
num_funcs = []
for i in xrange(0, 101):
func = (lambda j: (lambda x: x + i))(i)
print num_funcs[10](20)
Note that I've the argument to the outer lambda is called j, but we are passing i.
This is a little tricky, because it is so subtle. Don't get burned.
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The Case for Babar: A Tool for Creating Hadoop Sequence Files
Mark Sands and myself have been tooling around lately with using Sequence Files in Hadoop jobs. In our case, a Sequence File contains many files which are to be processed as a single unit in a streaming job.
Trouble started creeping up during the creation of the sequence file when the input files were quite large. As you might guess, not only are they large, but we have a lot of them. We are using Hadoop after all. Stuart Sierra's Tar-to-Seq utility was working quite nicely until this new input set, as the testing set was comprised of much smaller files.
On some machines, the heap size had to be increased to even pack a single-image input tar into a sequence file. Once that problem was solved it was still glaringly obvious that we needed to find a better way.
And Babar was born.
With a heaping spoonful of help from Michael Armbrust we were able to fight through the Java and the first version was pushed to GitHub. Babar is still actively being developed, along with a few nifty features I won't mention here. If you want to know, ask Mark.
Babar takes a list of URLs and packs them into a sequence file. Then we can process each file in the existing streaming job just as before.
Tar-to-Seq is still useful, but with Babar harnesses MapReduce to grab each file (and you get automatic retries and the like for free). It also uses SequenceFileOutputFormat natively, so you don't have to worry about the details of writing a sequence file yourself, since Hadoop does that for free too.
Grab it from GitHub, or from my fork, also on GitHub.
Starting out with Django
I had started reading The Django Book a while back but couldn't get into it. I had been around a lot of Rails folks recently, mostly The Collective, and succumb to geek pressure to choose Rails over Django. Being a Python guy myself, it was a hard sell. I never did anything especially cool with Rails until recently (more on that to come sometime)
Less than a week ago I bought The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right. I prefer to read a hardcopy; for me hardcopy > HTML > PDF (in most cases).
I'm about halfway in and have noticed a handful of issues. Apparantly, I'm not the only one. Notkeepingitreal.com has covered the issues in the first few chapters.
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Not too long ago I wrote my first article for Edwardsville Scene about one of my favorite bands.
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Conference Talks and Poster Sessions
I think I might have more draft posts than published ones. That's kind of sad. I'm going to try and ease the pain, if only just slightly, right here right now.
I had started writing a post while I attended Big LAMP Camp in Nashville, TN back in early November 2009. The conference and camp were a lot of fun and well attended. I met a lot of great people. The list of speakers shows just goes to show how the traditional LAMP stack has evolved to include languages besides PHP (Ruby and RoR had a strong showing). Although I was the lonely Python developer. My talk was about how Galaxy Zoo is using Python and Hadoop to process large astronomical data sets.
More recently I traveled to Washington D.C. with other members of the Galaxy Zoo team to the 215th meeting of the American Astronomical Society. There I presented a poster on the same topic.
My Hadoop Gotchas
Hadoop and I have had our ups and downs lately. I have been accumulating personal notes about certain issues I've had and their solutions. This is a record of the things that have bitten me.
If your streaming job has a lot of dependencies that you want to ship along in your jar you might find it useful to jar them as well and throw a
-file my_deps.jar at hadoop. The gotcha is this: hadoop won't automatically unjarify for you. To get around this simply wrap your mapper/reducer with an other script to unjar and then execute your original mapper/reducer.
#!/bin/bash tar -xzvf my_deps.tgz . python ./mapper.py # You've probably already escalated the permissions to +x # since it were required previously by Hadoop, # but now we can be more explicit. # Just don't forget to do the same on mapper_wrapper.sh.
I was having a lot of issue with HDFS. I couldn't issue a
bin/hadoop dfs -mkdir,
-put, or
-copyFromLocal without all kinds of connection issues or cryptic java errors.
After copious amounts of frustration I finally seemed to fix the issue, or at least find a work-around.
Warning: the following commands will destroy your data in HDFS.
> bin/stop-dfs.sh > rm -rf hadoop-ryan/* > bin/hadoop namenode -format > bin/start-dfs.sh
Note that hadoop-ryan/* is my hadoop.tmp.dir.
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Lately, I have been spending a lot of time working with Hadoop (or should I say, trying to work with Hadoop). After bouncing between various versions, ranging from 0.18-0.20, and between the canonical Apache Hadoop to the patched and improved Cloudera Hadoop Distirbution I'm settling on Cloudera 0.18. Specifically, for the purposes of this article I will be using Cloudera version 0.18.3+76. You may find this, as well as additional releases at http://archive.cloudera.com/cdh/.
Let me start by pointing you toward the pages that helped get me to where I am.
- Installing Hadoop (Pseudo-Distributed Mode)
- Running Hadoop on OS X 10.5 64-bit (Single-Node Cluster)
You'll notice that Apache's Hadoop documentation doesn't (at time of writing) cover 0.20. Hence, I starting working with 0.18. What is missing are some details about the configuration files. If you are not aware, 0.20 moved conf/hadoop-site.xml to conf/core-site.xml, conf/hdfs-site.xml and conf/mapred-site.xml. The default configuration is stored in src/core/core-default.xml, src/hdfs/hdfs-default.xml and src/mapred/mapred-default.xml. Although these files should provide all the clues I needed to properly configure Hadoop 0.20, I didn't want to pour over them to try and weed out only the values needing to be changed. I turned to Google and found that many people were having the same issues as myself. I won't explain the problems in detail now.
Back to getting things working with 0.18.
Some tutorials out there begin with creating a dedicated hadoop users. I did not do that. Rather, I simply stashed the tarball into my working directory and changed some configuration values appropriately. I shall call the directory containing the extracted hadoop-* directory HADOOP_DIR.
Here are the steps that should get you up and running (hopefully, and without pain).
- cd HADOOP_DIR
- Get you hostname by opening Terminal.app and running hostname
- open conf/hadoop-site.xml in your favorite editor and paste the following, replacing Ryans-MacBook.local with you own hostname and HADOOP_DIR with the directory you untared the tarball
A base for other temporary directories.
The name of the default file system. A URI whose
scheme and authority determine the FileSystem implementation. The
uri's scheme determines the config property (fs.SCHEME.impl) naming
the FileSystem implementation class. The uri's authority is used to
determine the host, port, etc. for a filesystem.
The host and port that the MapReduce job tracker runs
at. If "local", then jobs are run in-process as a single map
and reduce task.
The maximum number of tasks that will be run simultaneously by a
a task tracker
Default block replication.
The actual number of replications can be specified when the file is created.
The default is used if replication is not specified in create time.
The important changes I have made are replacing localhost with Ryans-Macbook.local. That's about it. Now you should be able to point your browser at http://ryans-macbook.local:50070 to get at your NameNode and http://ryans-macbook.local:50030 for you JobTracker. I am not sure what lives at http://ryans-macbook.local:50075. Be sure to change your hostname. You can probably just use localhost in the browser (but not in the configuration files!?). It is not clear to me why I cannot use localhost in the configuration files, but it is okay in the browser. A quick edit of /etc/hosts didn't seem to make any difference. Furthermore, it is still unclear why must use those ports over 9000 and 9001 for the NameNode and JobTracker, as those are the ports I specified in my site configuration.
Apparently I am missing something. If you know, please do enlighten me.
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But we passed the "easy part" (freezing our asses off in a suffocatingly-small swimming pool) and now just have to complete our check-out dives somewhere in Green Turtle Cay in the Abacos, where we're likely sitting at this very moment drinking pink drinks with matching umbrella stirrers–ha, fooled ya! (I just love that I can set up my drafts to post in advance!) And here you thought I was sitting behind a computer somewhere in the greater Bay Area. Hopefully, we'll both return with killer tans, a universal referral form allowing us to partake in recreational dives anywhere in the world (at the maximum of 100 feet, of course, because we follow the rules like that), and sans decompression sickness…but only time will tell (call this here post a cliffhanger if you please).
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|Tue, 11-22-2011 - 7:17pm
Ok...will some of you pro-charters go look at my chart please.
|Tue, 11-22-2011 - 7:30pm
I think FF said 21 b/c you had recorded EWCM for the 19th and 20th. You supposedly begin to "dry up" the day you O and also the LM under cervix position is no longer the preferred position and texture on the 21st. If you hadn't recorded EWCM those days I bet FF would have at least put it on CD20. They also said that you can have O pain before during and after you ovulate. I think that's right. I am sure others will correct me if I haven't got it right (as I am sort of a novice as well). I did take the FF online course and in it they teach you about all of this stuff... learning to read charts isn't so easy regardless :)
|Wed, 11-23-2011 - 9:29am
I agree with Michele, I see no other reason besides the CM that it is giving you an O on the 19th. That doesn't make sense to me either b/c you had such a jump in temps. Have you tried changing the CM and seeing if it changes back to the 18th?


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i am 41 and have an 11 yr old dd.she is spoiled,dearly loved and doted over.i have allways been very involved in her school (room mom ect..) girl scouts and all of her activities, she is the love of my life and we are VERY close.
so i find myself feeling that i couldnt possibly love another child like i love her.and allmost feel guilty like this child will take away from her and i.
i also kinda feel like maybe oncei hold it in my arms,ill be in love just like i was with her,and everything will work out,i mean after all,most moms have more than 1 child!
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I feel exactly the same way. I love my 3-year-old daughter so much it hurts, and we are very close. I sometimes feel guilty when I think with longing of meeting DS, I feel as though I am betraying her. I find myself hugging DD all of the time and reminding her of how much I love her. I dont know how my emotions can cope with this all twice over simultaneously!! I hope I can at least convince DD that my love for her will never diminish.
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There is one very important thing you have to remember....
So all that love you give to your daughter, you will still have that love! You will create more love to give to the new baby! I have 7 children and each one holds a special place in my heart... one is the first born, one is my baby boy one is my baby girl. one is my first girl, one is my little stinker... all different kids all love to death yet no one child love any more or any less..
and yes its normal to worry about how a new baby may change your relationship with your daughter, but I dont think it will if you are close now, you will be just as close when the baby comes.
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(A Mystery in Four Parts)
Part 1
On a mild fall day, I sped on my $35 Bdah-brand bike through narrow Gulou Xi Street, with its low-slung tile-roofed hutong homes lining both sides of the street. Though I was speeding dangerously fast down a Chinese street, I managed to notice a consternating character taunting me from the side of the street.
If nerdiness is not defined by having interest enough to make note of Chinese characters you don't recognize while you're speeding dangerously down a Chinese street shared by cars, bikes, pedestrians, buses, horses, and carts, then meditating on that same character for the remaining 10 kilometers of the bike ride should be more than enough to qualify. During the rest of the urban kilometers between me and my ancient Chinese lesson, the image of this character scrawled in dark spray paint on a house so dilapidated it looked as though it were about to cough and fall over kept its form in my mind.
Back in Guangzhou, my Chinese ability so astounded my students that I was often asked what the secret to learning language was. As far as I can tell, the secret involves the nerdy persistence to bring a dictionary wherever you go and to care enough to decode everything you see, from greasy menus to safety signs on buses.
Over a year into this battle plan, I was startled to see such a simple character that I couldn't recognize. By this point, most characters I couldn't recognize were so complicated that they hinted at their own useless erudition. So to see a character so simple was a challenge—an embarrassing gap in my Chinese equivalent to not recognizing a word as simple as also.
I arrived at school and sat down on the dirty tile hallway in the Fourth Classroom Building, home of the humanities department. I immediately scrawled the character from memory into my $200 electronic Chinese dictionary—the very dictionary whose advertisements had promised me the ability to "zhi tianxia," to know everything under heaven. The screen now hiccuped, processing my scribbled handwriting, and the character's entry came up blank.
It was the first thing not encompassed under my dictionary's promised heaven.
Part 2
Ask my 20-year-old classmates at Beijing's Language and Culture University, or any young Chinese person at that, and chances are they'll say Chinese language reform stopped with Mao's massive simplification movement in the 1950's. But if they'd ask their parents, they'd find out the fate of Chinese characters bounced much more radically than thought.
Staying true to my penny-pinching, corner-the-nearest-Chinese-person plan to studying Chinese, I took my mystery character to my classmates in ancient Chinese.
"Na zhi shi ge cuobie zi," I was told—just a "wrong character." A "wrong character" in English would be something like 'tyihv,' a word miswritten so badly that you cannot tell out of context what the writer could have possibly meant.
Thinking that there must be more behind this mysterious character, I persisted and asked two college-educated Chinese friends. "Cuobie zi," I was told again.
Exasperated, I turned to Dr. Luo, my professor of ancient Chinese whose encyclopedic knowledge encompasses the roots of nearly all commonly used Chinese characters.
The answer, it turns out, lies in the childhood education of my classmates' parents. In late 1977, about the time when most of my classmates' parents were in middle school, the Communist government published a second round of simplified characters (er jian zi 二简字), which unleashed several hundred new simplified characters to replace more complex characters. Soon, the nation's main newspaper, the People's Daily, was being printed in the new characters. Textbooks were changed and a generation of children grew up learning these second-round characters. The sweeping changes brought—says the Baidu encyclopedia entry—confusion and "chaos" into society.
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The characters unleashed confusion. Some newspapers and books were now being published in the new characters, while other editors and publishers continued to print books and newspapers in the older characters. Even ethnic Chinese countries like Singapore that had followed the mainland during previous reforms, decided to part ways and adopt a "wait and see" strategy for the new round of characters.
Yet despite the confusion, most of the second-round characters were just as logical as the first round of simplified characters. Just like the first round characters still in use today, some of the second round characters simply replaced complicated characters with ones that already existed. This created confusion at times, blending characters with different meanings into each other, like "dance" (舞) which was combined with the character for "noon" (午), making "stage" look like "afternoon platform" (午台) as seen on this propaganda poster:
Other characters were created anew, often combining existing characters, as in the new character for 'road' to replace '道':
These changes still seem sensible today, as with the character to replace "cai" 菜, food:
The original character consists of a "flower top" (艹) suggesting the character has to do with plants and a phonetic bottom (采) from the character for 'pick' or 'pluck,' which is pronounced "cai" as well. In this round of simplification, the bottom 7 strokes are replaced with the 3 strokes of 才, also pronounced "cai."
The plan was criticized by scholars and much of the public at large, but it turns out this controversial change was only a small conservative portion of the larger plan. The official plan contains a wildly more radical second half that was never implemented. In the more radical plan, some characters were changed to be more sensical, like the character for 'house' (家) which originally pictured a pig (豕) underneath a roof but was then changed to have a person (人) under the roof:
The most radical section of changes-never-implemented called for some characters to be based on their cursive form, as though someone were scribbling the characters without lifting pen from paper. This cursification would have changed "高" into the unrecognizable:
Although the movement was new, some characters actually existed long before, having been known before as "vulgar simplifications." Under the new proclamation, of course, the characters were officially no longer "vulgar," even though some Chinese today see the second-round characters as just that.
"I don't like the second-round characters," a Beijing friend of mine told me when I pulled up the list of the discarded characters. "They don't have that flesh-and-blood feeling. They don't feel full."
Part 4
Amid so much confusion and opposition, the new characters were officially rescinded in the mid 80's. A new government decree famously resolved that future change should, "from now on keep a cautious bearing."
Yet trying to get rid of characters once they've been released has proven harder than imagined. Many of the characters survive today, turning parking lots from "停车场" into "仃车场" and eggs for sale in local markets from "鸡蛋" into "chicken dawn: 鸡旦."
Beijing residents are used to seeing the occasional traditional character scrawled on the sign of bike repairmen (修車) and in the names of restaurants (餐廳), but the second-round characters can be even more mystifying. Oddly enough, some hand-painted signs now contain all three types of characters—traditional, simplified, and second-round simplified. The result is a strange mixture, as with this public-safety message in Kaifeng, Henan, urging citizens to attack crime and construct a harmonious Kaifeng:
Here, 7 months and an overnight train ride later, the same mysterious character that had set off my entire quest was staring right back at me. This time, I stared back with the confidence of certainty. The character was 建: to build, construct. "Build a harmonious Kaifeng."
The sign back on Gulou Xi Street was declaring the sorry-looking house an "illegal building," soon to be destroyed. I imagine the person who scrawled the character was a worker, perhaps a male migrant construction worker in his forties or fifties whose education had stopped before the new characters were given up.
The original mystery had taken me several days, a series of text messages, and a handful of interrogation sessions to solve. To prove that the key to learning foreign languages was the bookish persistence to decode anonymous signs on the side of the road took me 7 months.


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