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Talking to G. Willow Wilson - Air, Vixen and More
by Sarah Jaffe
Date: 21 August 2008 Time: 02:58 PM ET
Talking to G. Willow Wilson
G. Willow Wilson has an impressive resume behind her before coming to comics, but she's not just another writer looking for a vanity project. A longtime comic fan, Wilson's debut Vertigo graphic novel, Cairo, has led to an ongoing original series, Air, with Vertigo, as well as a venture into superheroes with Vixen: Return of the Lion.Wilson's biography is impressive—born in New Jersey, educated at Boston University, where she studied history and Arabic and converted to Islam. After graduation, she moved to Egypt, where she wrote for Cairo Magazine. Her work has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly and The New York Times Magazine, and now in your local comic shop. Air takes all of Wilson's life experience and synthesizes it into a story about travel in the age of terrorism, and about identity and nationality, starring Blythe , one of the few real female leads in comics.


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2009 was the International Year of Astronomy as the world commemorated the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's use of a telescope to study the skies, and Johannes Kepler's publication of Astronomia Nova. In celebration of modern astronomy's quadricentennial, the Museum and the George P. and Cynthia W. Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics are joining with BRASS and the Brazos Valley Astronomy Club in inviting the whole community to share a magnificent evening of night sky viewing.
Regular admission for the star party is $5 for adults, $4 for seniors and students, 3 and under (and current Museum Friends) are free. The Museum will also be open for viewing and if you bring your own telescope, you get two dollars off admission!
The Star Party is located at the Brazos Center, 3232 Briarcrest Drive, Bryan, Texas 77802. A map of the location is on the Museum's website at: www.brazosvalleymuseum.org
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SHOOTS: Left
BIRTHPLACE: Almonte, ON, CAN
DRAFTED: CHI: 1998-156 overall
|ECAC First All-Star Team (2000, 2001) NCAA East First All-American Team (2001) Signed as a free agent by Florida, August 14, 2003. Signed as a free agent by Manitoba (AHL), September 16, 2004. Signed as a free agent by Anaheim, August 30, 2005. Traded to San Jose by Anaheim with Travis Moen for Timo Pielmeier, Nick Bonino and San Jose's 4th round pick (Andrew O'Brien) iun 2012 NHL Draft, March 4, 2009. Signed as a free agent by St. Louis, July 2, 2011. Missed majority of 2011-12 due to ankle injury at Calgary, October 28, 2011. Signed as a free agent by Norfolk (AHL), January 17, 2013. Signed as a free agent by Detroit, January 22, 2013. Traded to Philadelphia by Detroit for future considerations, March 30, 2013. Signed as a free agent by Utica (AHL), November 4, 2013.
|Kent Huskins was born May 4, 1979 in Ottawa, Ontario. Drafted by the Chicago Blackhawks in the sixth round (156th overall) in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft, Huskins is a graduate of Clarkson University.
A durable and stay-at-home defenseman, Huskins spent five seasons in the American Hockey League competing with Norfolk, San Antonio, Manitoba, and Portland before he made his NHL debut with the Ducks on December 23, 2006. Huskins remained on the clubs blue line after February 25, 2007 and saw action in 33 games with the Ducks that season. He went on to play in all 21 playoff games during the Anaheim Ducks rout to a Stanley Cup championship. In the off-season, Huskins signed a two-year contract extension with Anaheim on June 23, 2007.
In 2009, Huskins was traded by Anaheim at the NHL trade deadline alongside Travis Moen to the San Jose Sharks in exchange for forward Nick Bonino and goaltender Timo Pielmeier.
On July 2, 2011, as an unrestricted free agent, Huskins inked a deal with the St. Louis Blues. He would suffer an ankle injury early in the season and was limited to just 25 games in which he notched two goals and five assists.
Huskins would begin the lockout shortened 2012-13 season at the AHL level with the Norfolk Admirals where he would suit up in a pair of games before reaching a deal with the Detroit Red Wings in January 22, 2013. He would go on to appear in 11 games for the Red Wings before finding himself on the move again. He was traded to the Philadelphia Flyers on March 30, 2013 in exchange for future considerations.
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If you live in a country outside the United States (Usa) you might be at loss on how to reach and access Google.com website which is nothing else that the official version of Google Usa. In fact, if you live in France for example and you try to reach Google.com you will be automatically redirect to the local Google version which in our case is Google.fr. This trick will show you how to get access to Google.com in a couple of steps!
- Open your favorite browser.
- Go to Internet Options. If you are on Firefox, click Tools – Options – General tab. If you are on Microsoft Internet Explorer, go to Tools – Internet Options – General tab.
- Change the default home page to one of these two addresses:
- www.google.com/ncr (ncr stands for No Country Redirect)
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EMS treats approximately 25-30 million patients per year with annual expenditures of about $5 billion.1
In 2011 there were more than 826,000 licensed and credentialed EMS personnel in the country.2
There are four nationally defined levels of EMS professionals: Emergency Medical Responder (EMR), Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), Advanced Emergency Medical Technician (AEMT) and Paramedic.3 Some states may use different titles and many have additional licensure levels.
Over 90% of nationally certified EMS professionals said that they had access to at least one Helicopter EMS (HEMS) service, while slightly fewer said that they had the authority to request HEMS (86%).4
75% of nationally certified EMS professionals are male, 85% are of non-minority status and 45% have a college degree or higher.5
About 6% of nationally certified EMS professionals were classified as stressed on the DASS-21 scale, which was lower than the average for other health care professionals including nurses, physicians and medical students.5
Over 55% of nationally certified EMS professionals reported having participated in a multiagency disaster drill that included biological, chemical or nuclear scenarios within the past 24 months.6
63% of nationally certified EMS professionals agreed or strongly agreed that they felt adequately prepared to treat patients involved in incendiary or explosive exposures while 47% felt adequately prepared to treat patients involved in biological, chemical or nuclear exposures.6
83% of nationally certified EMS professionals believed that they would be asked to report for duty during a pandemic flu emergency and 93% said they would be willing to do so.7
1 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Department of Transportation, Maternal and Child Health Bureau. National EMS Research Agenda. December 31, 2001.
2 Mears G, Armstrong B, Fernandez AR et al. National EMS Assessment. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. 2012.
3 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. National EMS Scope of Practice Model. February 2007.
4 Crowe RC, Levine R, Bentley MB. An Assessment of Prehospital Helicopter EMS Access and Training. Poster Presentation at Texas State EMS Conference. November 2014.
5 Bentley MA, Crawford JM, Wilkins JR et al. An Assessment of Depression, Anxiety, and Stress among Nationally Certified EMS Professionals. Prehospital Emergency Care. 2013, 17:330-338.
6 Fernandez AR, Studnek JR, Margolis GS et al. Disaster Preparedness of Nationally Certified Emergency Medical Services Professionals. Academic Emergency Medicine. 2011, 18:403-412.
7 Barnett DJ, Levine R, Thompson CB et al. Gauging U.S. Emergency Services Workers Willingness to Respond to Pandemic Influenza Using a Threat-and-Efficacy-Based Assessment Framework. PLoS ONE. 2010, 5:3.


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For as long as anyone can remember, the success rate of IT development projects has been poor. There is a slow but steady improvement, but the experience of most stakeholders is still that systems 'miss the mark' by some margin.
Our use of business language throughout requirements, development and testing assures consistency as well as correctness. The requirements knowledge base will be consistent with the delivered system and will significantly increase your chances of delivery success of the initial implementation and subsequent enhancements.
Capturing, understanding and stabilising the user requirements and delivering against them is very difficult. Most development projects encounter a mass of rework that cripples development and accounts for perhaps 50% of the cost of systems.
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Business cases for new systems usually understate the challenge of delivery and delivering on time. Progress in IT projects is often measured using IT-focused metrics that have little meaning to stakeholders. Business projects use business language to define business goals and manage progress and so should IT.
The same stories and scenarios used to example requirements can also be used to mark progress, to aid the production of training materials, to identify support requirements and to improve business acceptance. With all disciplines working from a single, accurate source of knowledge, your timelines will be far more predictable.
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Three cheers to the Texas Rangers' new tailgaiting rules, Gary Islett and the Trinity River Audubon Center
1 To the Texas Rangers' new tailgating rules — As a season ticket holder, I have had tickets to opening day for many years and have had great difficulty finding a place to park even when we show up several hours before game time. I am pleased that the Rangers are limiting the parking to people who have tickets to the game. If people do not want to attend the game, they should just plan a big party at home where they can watch the game on their big screens. I have never understood the draw to hanging out in a parking lot, drinking beer and watching the game on a portable TV or listening on the radio. My den is air conditioned. Isn't yours?
Liz Wilson, Waxahachie
2 To Gary Islett — Re: "City sends Big Boy to owner's backyard — Statue on Abrams had become a traffic hazard, officials say," March 30 news story
I congratulate Gary Islett on removing his Big Boy statue promptly and without a fuss when requested to do so by the city compliance code enforcer. For the people who are slowing down on a six-lane thoroughfare to photograph Big Boy, I can only wish that common sense were more common.
Elizabeth Chalmers, East Dallas
3 To the Trinity River Audubon Center — What an underappreciated marvel! Located only 10 minutes from downtown, it sits on 120 acres and is the home to over 200 types of birds and countless other animals and species of plants and flowers. The center is housed in a magnificent bird-shaped building. Many classes and guided tours are available for all ages, and the fee is small. Avoid the crowds at the more-mobbed Dallas attractions and give this jewel a try.
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By Anand Akela on May 22, 2013
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With public clouds users can now compare compute pricing pretty much like they would compare a car models. One could argue that compute power and services are different than a car but the fact is that users can compare costs.
Nothing has changed and everything has changed
Cost wise nothing has changed in a sense that the decision to implement a private cloud versus hosting on a public cloud is driven by the same factors than outsourcing or on-premise. It goes well beyond simple cost comparisons to touch upon key principles such as:- Control of costs
Everything has changed in a sense that there is now a cost "predictability" expectation from users derived from a notion of "unit of compute" (the equivalent of standard energy Unit of Work) from which you can predict your resources consumption and infer total costs (a 45mpg rating means that you can drive 450 miles with 10 gallons or $40 if $4 per gallon). This is a more fundamental change in a sense that IT needs to work with the finance department to rationalize the cost-of-compute(Infrastructure + SW platform) and link it to the cost-to-serve (incident, problem, change & configuration management), the end goal is to produce a standard unit of compute that can be applied to various products and services configurations.
In part 1 of this blog, we will highlight how a cloud chargeback system can help addressing the key principles mentioned above and in part 2 we talk about how to create a profitable cost recovery model.
Key Principles of Chargeback System
Control of Costs
is not defined cannot be controlled", "What is not controlled cannot be
measured", "What is not measured cannot be charged".
A cloud chargeback system provides a framework by which you can define a standard unit of cost for products and services. You can set unit of costs for resources based on hardware tiers or database high availability tiers, you can add fixed costs for on-going support costs or for facilities driven cost such as real-estate, power, HVAC,… but more importantly you can organized them by business units and cost centers so that you do have a cost structure hierarchy to report in aggregate or by business units. To define the right set of configurations, you need to baseline the current workloads utilization, characterize the patterns group of users and type of workloads and since you will use based compute metrics (CPU, memory, I/O,…) to measure utilization it is important for you to define which layers of computing ( Servers, Middleware, Databases,…) will reflect fairly the actual usage pattern of an application.
Visibility of Costs
Among all the features showing business units their VM consumption and allocations is the one that will start to change the relationship between IT and users more fundamentally. Actual utilization rate, historical trending, heat map displaying under and over utilized servers but also virtual environment configuration attributes such as high availability and regulatory compliance reports will contribute to a better cost-to-serve transparency. Another important capability to look for is how you can identify servers that cannot be part of a shared pool of resources due either to legacy applications or simply very high workload requiring dedicated machine this will help when you start sharing with the user the calculation of his charge plan.
Fairness of Costs
This the ONE difference with traditional chargeback models in a sense that metrics collected for charge calculation are actually "IT compute metrics" on top of which you add "services fee-based" metrics. In traditional chargeback direct or indirect model, the finance department tends to use non IT metrics such as # of users in a business unit as a % of aggregate IT costs or data center space taken by rack of servers,…this has led to a lot to the lack of transparency and the sense of "unfair" chargeback. As part of the charge plan calculation the characterization of fixed versus variable costs is essential to calculate the unit of charge.
Remember that in the cloud, users do not want to pay for resources they do not use and there is an expectation that they can dynamically request more resources, allocate and de-allocate resources. A cloud chargeback system will help you transition to a usage-based pricing of your IT resources will the key principles of control, visibility and fairness of costs. Last but not least, you do not need to go for the big-bang and turn chargeback right away you can implement showback and specific chargeback initiatives so that the business units can work with you on an efficient chargeback model.
In today's era, Cloud Computing is becoming integral to the vision and corporate strategy of leading organizations and is often seen as a key business driver to achieve growth and innovation. Headquartered in Chongqing, China, CISDI Engineering Co., Ltd. is a large state-owned engineering company, offering consulting, engineering design, EPC contracting, and equipment integration services to steel producers all over the world. With over 50 years of experience, CISDI offers quality services for every aspect of production for projects in the metal industry and the company has evolved into a leading international engineering service group with 18 subsidiaries providing complete lifecycle for E&C projects.
CISDI group delegation led by Mr. Zhaohui Yu, CEO of CISDI Group, Mr. Zhiyou Li, CEO of CISDI Info, Mr. Qing Peng, CTO of CISDI Info and Mr. Xin Xiao, Head of CISDI Info's R&D joined Oracle OpenWorld 2012 and presented a very impressive cloud initiative case in their session titled "E&C Industry Solution in CISDI Cloud - An Industrial Cloud Computing Platform Based on Oracle Products".
CISDI group plans to expand through three phases in the construction of its cloud computing platform: first, it will relocate its existing technologies to Oracle systems, along with establishing private cloud for CISDI; secondly, it will gradually provide mixed cloud services for its subsidiaries and partners; and finally it plans to launch an industrial cloud with a highly mature, secure and scalable environment providing cloud services for customers in the engineering construction and steel industries, among others. "CISDI Cloud" will become the growth engine for the organization to expand its global reach through online services and achieving the strategic objective of being the preferred choice of E&C companies worldwide.
The new cloud computing platform is designed to provide access to the shared computing resources pool in a self-service, dynamic, elastic and measurable way. It's flexible and scalable grid structure can support elastic expansion and sustainable growth, and can bring significant benefits in speed, agility and efficiency. Further, the platform can greatly cut down deployment and maintenance costs.
CISDI delegation highlighted these points as the key reasons why the group decided to have a strategic collaboration with Oracle for building this world class industrial cloud -
- Oracle's strategy: Open, Complete and Integrated
- Oracle as the only company who can provide engineered system, with complete product chain of hardware and software
- Exadata, Exalogic, EM 12c to provide solid foundation for "CISDI Cloud"
The cloud blueprint and advanced architecture for industrial cloud computing platform presented in the session shows how Oracle products and technologies together with industrial applications from CISDI can provide end-end portfolio of E&C industry services in cloud.
CISDI group was recognized for business leadership and innovative solutions and was presented with Engineering and Construction Industry Excellence Award during Oracle OpenWorld.
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Oracle recently announced Oracle Enterprise Manager Plug-in for Amazon Web Services (AWS) allows you to achieve that goal. The on-premise Oracle Enterprise Manager (EM12c) acts as a single tool to get a comprehensive view of your public AWS resources as well as your private cloud resources. By deploying the plug-in within your Cloud Control environment, you gain the following management features:
Users of this Plug-in can leverage the rich Enterprise Manager features such as system promotion, incident generation based on thresholds, integration with 3rd party ticketing applications etc. AWS Monitoring via this Plug-in is enabled via Amazon CloudWatch API and the users of this Plug-in are responsible for supplying credentials for accessing AWS and the CloudWatch API.
This Plug-in can only be deployed on an EM12C R2 platform and agent version should be at minimum 12c R2.Here is a pictorial view of the overall architecture:
Here are a few key features:
AWS instances can be added to EM12C either via the EM12c User Interface (UI) or the EM12c Command Line Interface ( EMCLI) by providing the AWS credentials (Secret Key and Access Key Id) as well as resource specific properties as target properties. Here is a quick mapping of target types and properties for each AWS resources
AWS Resource Type
Target Type
Resource specific properties
EBS Resource
Amazon EBS Service
CloudWatch base URI, EC2 Base URI, Period, Volume Id, Proxy Server and Port
EC2 Resource
Amazon EC2 Service
CloudWatch base URI, EC2 Base URI, Period, Instance Id, Proxy Server and Port
RDS Resource
Amazon RDS Service
CloudWatch base URI, RDS Base URI, Period, Instance Id, Proxy Server and Port
Proxy server and port are optional and are only needed if the agent is within the firewall.
Here is an emcli example to add an EC2 target. Please read the Installation and Readme guide for more details and step-by-step instructions to deploy the plugin and adding the AWS the instances.
./emcli add_target \
-name="<target name>" \
-type="AmazonEC2Service" \
-host="<host>" \
-properties="ProxyHost=<proxy server>;ProxyPort=<proxy port>;EC2_BaseURI=http://ec2.<region>.amazonaws.com;BaseURI=http://monitoring.<region>.amazonaws.com;InstanceId=<EC2 instance Id>;Period=<data point periond>" \
./emcli set_monitoring_credential \
-set_name="AWSKeyCredentialSet" \
-target_name="<target name>" \
-target_type="AmazonEC2Service" \
-cred_type="AWSKeyCredential" \
-attributes="AccessKeyId:<access key id>;SecretKey:<secret key>"
Emcli utility is found under the ORACLE_HOME of EM12C install. Once the instance is discovered, the target will show up under the 'All Targets' list under "Amazon EC2 Service'.
Once the instances are added, one can navigate to the custom homepages for these resource types. The custom home pages not only include critical metrics, but also vital configuration parameters and incidents raised for these instances. By mapping the configuration parameters as instance properties, we can slice-and-dice and group various AWS instance by leveraging the EM12C Config search feature. The following configuration properties and metrics are collected for these Resource types.
Resource Type
Configuration Properties
EBS Resource
Volume Id, Volume Type, Device Name, Size, Availability Zone
Response: Status
Utilization: QueueLength, IdleTime
Volume Statistics: ReadBrandwith, WriteBandwidth, ReadThroughput, WriteThroughput
Operation Statistics: ReadSize, WriteSize, ReadLatency, WriteLatency
EC2 Resource
Instance ID, Owner Id, Root Device type, Instance Type. Availability Zone
Response: Status
CPU Utilization: CPU Utilization
Disk I/O: DiskReadBytes, DiskWriteBytes, DiskReadOps, DiskWriteOps, DiskReadRate, DiskWriteRate, DiskIOThroughput, DiskReadOpsRate, DiskWriteOpsRate, DiskOperationThroughput
Network I/O : NetworkIn, NetworkOut, NetworkInRate, NetworkOutRate, NetworkThroughput
RDS Resource
Instance ID, Database Engine Name, Database Engine Version, Database Instance Class, Allocated Storage Size, Availability Zone
Response: Status
Disk I/O: ReadIOPS, WriteIOPS, ReadLatency, WriteLatency, ReadThroughput, WriteThroughput
DB Utilization: BinLogDiskUsage, CPUUtilization, DatabaseConnections, FreeableMemory, ReplicaLag, SwapUsage
As mentioned above, we have custom home pages for these target types that include basic configuration information, last 24 hours availability, top metrics and the incidents generated. Here are few snapshots.
4) Extensibility Programmer's Guide
One of the key attractions of the general session "Managing Enterprise Private Cloud" at Oracle OpenWorld 2012 was an interactive role play depicting how to address some of the key challenges of planning, deploying and managing an enterprise private cloud. It was a face-off between Don DeVM, IT manager at a fictitious enterprise 'Vulcan' and Ed Muntz, the Enterprise Manager hero .
Don DeVM is really excited about the efficiency and cost savings from virtualization. The success he enjoyed from the infrastructure virtualization made him believe that for all cloud service delivery models ( database, testing or applications as-a-service ), he has a single solution - slap the app on the VM and here you go .
However, Ed Muntz believes in delivering cloud services that allows the business units and enterprise users to manage the complete lifecycle of the cloud services they are providing, for example, setting up cloud, provisioning it to users through a self-service portal , managing and tuning the performance, monitoring and applying patches for database or applications.
Watch the video of the face-off , see how Don and Ed address some of the key challenges of planning, deploying and managing an enterprise private cloud and be the judge !
During my ongoing tenure at Oracle, I have met all types of DBAs. Happy DBAs, unhappy DBAs, proud DBAs, risk-loving DBAs, cautious DBAs. These days, as Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) becomes more mainstream, I find some complacent DBAs who are basking in their achievement of having implemented DBaaS. Some others, however, are not that happy. They grudgingly complain that they did not have much of a say in the implementation, they simply had to follow what their cloud architects (mostly infrastructure admins) offered them. In most cases it would be a database wrapped inside a VM that would be labeled as "Database as a Service". In other cases, it would be existing brute-force automation simply exposed in a portal. As much as I think that there is more to DBaaS than those approaches and often get tempted to propose Enterprise Manager 12c, I try to be objective. Neither do I want to dampen the spirit of the happy ones, nor do I want to stoke the pain of the unhappy ones. As I mentioned in my previous post, I don't deny vanilla automation could be useful. I like virtualization too for what it has helped us accomplish in terms of resource management, but we need to scrutinize its merit on a case-by-case basis and apply it meaningfully.
For DBAs who either claim to have implemented DBaaS or are planning to do so, I simply want to provide four key questions to ponder about:
1. Does it make life easier for your end users?
Database-as-a-Service can have several types of end users. Junior DBAs, QA Engineers, Developers- each having their own skillset. The objective of DBaaS is to make their life simple, so that they can focus on their core responsibilities without having to worry about additional stuff. For example, if you are a Developer using Oracle Application Express (APEX), you want to deal with schema, objects and PL/SQL code and not with datafiles or listener configuration. If you are a QA Engineer needing database copies for functional testing, you do not want to deal with underlying operating system patching and compliance issues.
The question to ask, therefore, is, whether DBaaS makes life easier for those users. It is often convenient to give them VM shells to deal with a la Amazon EC2 IaaS, but is that what they really want? Is it a productive use of a developer's time if he needs to apply RPM errata to his Linux operating system. Asking him to keep the underlying operating system current is like making a guest responsible for a restaurant's decor.
2. Does it make life easier for your administrators?
Cloud, in general, is supposed to free administrators from attending to mundane tasks like provisioning services for every single end user request. It is supposed to enable a readily consumable platform and enforce standardization in the process. For example, if a Service Catalog exposes DBaaS of specific database versions and configurations, it, by its very nature, enforces certain discipline and standardization within the IT environment. What if, instead of specific database configurations, cloud allowed each end user to create databases of their liking resulting in hundreds of version and patch levels and thousands of individual databases.
Therefore the right question to ask is whether the unwanted consequence of DBaaS is OS and database sprawl. And if so, who is responsible for tracking them, backing them up, administering them? Studies have shown that these administrative overheads increase exponentially with new targets, and it could result in a management nightmare.
That leads us to our next question.
3. Does it satisfy your Security Officers and Compliance Auditors?
Compliance Auditors need to know who did what and when. They also want the cloud platform to be secure, so that end users have little freedom in tampering with it. Dealing with VM sprawl is not the easiest of challenges, let alone dealing with them as they keep getting reconfigured and moved around. This leads to the proverbial needle in the haystack problem, and all it needs is one needle to cause a serious compliance issue in the enterprise.
Bottomline is, flexibility and agility should not come at the expense of compliance and it is very important to get the balance right. Can we have security and isolation without creating compliance challenges? Instead of a 'one size fits all approach' i.e. OS level isolation, can we think smartly about database isolation or schema based isolation? This is where the appropriate resource modeling needs to be applied. The usual systems management vendors out there with heterogeneous common-denominator approach have compromised on these semantics.
If you follow Enterprise Manager's DBaaS solution, you will see that we have considered different models, not precluding virtualization, for different customer use cases. The judgment to use virtual assemblies versus databases on physical RAC versus Schema-as-a-Service in a single database, should be governed by the need of the applications and not by putting compliance considerations in the backburner.
4. Does it satisfy your CIO?
Finally, does it satisfy your higher ups? As the sponsor of cloud initiative, the CIO is expected to lead an IT transformation project, not merely a run-of-the-mill IT operations. Simply virtualizing server resources and delivering them through self-service is a good start, but hardly transformational. CIOs may appreciate the instant benefit from server consolidation, but studies have revealed that the ROI from consolidation would flatten out at 20-25%. The question would be: what next?
As we go higher up in the stack, the need to virtualize, segregate and optimize shifts to those layers that are more palpable to the business users. As Sushil Kumar noted in his blog post, " the most important thing to note here is the enterprise private cloud is not just an IT project, rather it is a business initiative to create an IT setup that is more aligned with the needs of today's dynamic and highly competitive business environment." Business users could not care less about infrastructure consolidation or virtualization - they care about business agility and service level assurance.
Last but not the least, lot of CIOs get miffed if we ask them to throw away their existing hardware investments for implementing DBaaS. In Oracle, we always emphasize on freedom of choosing a platform; hence Enterprise Manager's DBaaS solution is platform neutral. It can work on any Operating System (that the agent is certified on) Oracle's hardware as well as 3rd party hardware.
As a parting note, I urge you to remember these 4 questions. Remember that your satisfaction as an implementer lies in the satisfaction of others.


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The Reichmanns: It's In The Blood
Can a new generation restore the family's stature?
When grandiose vision collided with vicious real estate downturn five years ago, the $10 billion real estate empire built by Paul Reichmann and his brothers collapsed in a humiliating bankruptcy. The family held on to only the shreds of a Toronto-based empire, Olympia & York Developments Ltd., that once had stretched to New York and London. Massive projects, most notably London's Canary Wharf complex, were all but lost as creditors took over.
Now, a new generation of Reichmanns is attempting to resuscitate the family name while building fortunes of their own. Determined to avoid the sins of their fathers, they collectively bring the same peculiar mix of methodical, hardheaded business sense and bold vision. As one young Reichmann focuses on the management of commercial office towers and another fashions a nursing- home empire, a third plans huge sports-entertainment complexes that would rival such attractions as Universal Studios Florida. Others are venturing further afield, into sporting-goods retailing and computer consulting.
Abraham, the 34-year-old son of Ralph Reichmann, is laying claim to the visionary mantle for the family. He is attempting to build mammoth theme parks, first in Toronto and then in New York. His "Destination: Technodome" project in Toronto would house such operations as an indoor, 500-foot-high ski hill, facilities for whitewater rafting and rock climbing, a 30-screen multiplex cinema, virtual-reality rides, and 300,000 square feet of shops. "I do think big. It's part of my nature," he says.
ALL WINNERS. Abraham declines to say where he'll get the money for the projects, though he plans to break ground in Toronto in April. The bill for the Toronto spot would top $536 million. While Canadian authorities have awarded him the right to build the project--he had to put a nonrefundable $714,000 down--he has yet to make arrangements for leasing or buying the 70 or so government-owned acres near the city.
But with billions of dollars being poured into entertainment complexes worldwide, the idea may be viable. Industry consultants say the individual pieces are all proven winners. "It's all about repackaging good ideas and putting them together," says Gordon E. Dorrett, executive vice-president of Forrec Ltd., a design consultant for projects such as Universal Studios Florida who is advising Reichmann. And Abraham's plan for a New York dome is generating interest from Governor George E. Pataki, who has directed state authorities to help in any way they can to develop a dome on a 304-acre urban renewal site in Rockaway, N.Y.
Despite the hurdles, Abraham is confident that the Toronto project will fly. He says he has studied the economics of entertainment for years and knows what will work. While he is chief operating officer of Heathmount Arts & Entertainment Corp., his 68-year-old uncle Albert is the company's no-nonsense CEO. Albert's experience in real estate development may keep the project on solid ground--something he ultimately failed to do when he worked with his brother Paul on Canary Wharf.
Other second-generation Reichmanns are investing in what the family knows best. While his uncle Paul is venturing back into the U.S. market by bidding on such properties as New York City's Chrysler Building and is managing Canary Wharf, which is finally leasing up, Philip, the 39-year-old son of Albert, is building a new Canadian real estate management company. In late July, he and Paul's son-in-law, Frank Hauer, merged their own small property management company and publicly traded Camdev Corp., a commercial office-building outfit, to create O&Y Properties Corp., which has a market capitalization of $163 million. The company manages some 24 million square feet of commercial office space and owns buildings housing another 3 million square feet across Canada, putting it among the top half-dozen management companies in the country.
By naming the company O&Y Properties, Reichmann wants to trade on the cachet of the old family firm, Olympia & York Developments Ltd. "It definitely opens doors for us," he says. "To create the franchise value and name recognition that O&Y has would cost millions of dollars and many years. It's a name that reflects quality management and quality service." Philip, Frank, and other family members own 60.9% of the company.
Philip admits that the O&Y name may be a negative among bankers who lost billions betting on the elder Reichmanns. Indeed, the backers who have helped O&Y build its capital base for such deals as its midsummer $58 million purchase of three Toronto towers are life insurance companies and other nonbank financial institutions. "The banks are less willing generally," Philip says, noting that bankers are only slowly reentering real estate as memories of the last crash fade. But he contends that younger bankers may be more inclined to deal. And there are always the public markets: In May, through Camdev, he raised $36 million to fund the merger of Camdev and O&Y and acquire a 550,000-square-foot office complex in suburban Toronto.
Some analysts fault Philip for moving too slowly. The handful of midrange Canadian office towers he owns don't compare to the trophy properties being bid for by the likes of Oxford Properties Group and GE Capital Corp. Reichmann recently passed on a $285 million package of properties owned by Prudential Insurance Co. of America as overpriced and ill-suited to O&Y's office orientation.
Reichmann does have a toehold in some trophy properties, such as the management contract at 72-story First Canadian Place, the first landmark development for the elder Reichmanns in the 1970s and a tower that Paul Reichmann is slowly repurchasing. Philip and an as-yet-unnamed financial backer are now bidding on an estimated $360 million worth of Canadian buildings owned by Confederation Life Insurance Co.
While building skyscrapers was the elder Reichmanns' forte, the younger Reichmann is loath to even talk about development, though when pressed he admits development will likely be on the company's agenda over the next few years. For now, he's limiting his interests to Canada but expects to move into the U.S. and elsewhere eventually. Noting that he visited New York on Sept. 8 to talk with investment bankers about Canadian investments, he says: "If something extremely attractive comes up south of the border, we would probably take a look at it."
Paul Reichmann, the driving force in the older generation, seems to be taking a more direct role in guiding his son, Barry. While Paul is chairman of Central Park Lodges Ltd., a company that manages nursing homes across Canada, he has set up Barry, 31, as president of the CPL Long Term Care REIT, a firm that owns such homes. The real estate investment trust, with a market cap of $90.5 million, is in the midst of purchasing a Canadian health care company, Versa-Care Ltd., that will make it the second-largest nursing-home operation in the country. After a $61 million IPO last May, the REIT is now making a secondary offering to finance the Versa-Care deal. The Reichmanns own 70% of Central Park Lodges, which in turn has a 13.7% stake in the REIT.
VIRTUAL REAL ESTATE? Real estate doesn't excite all the second-generation Reichmanns. After working for the Reichmann-controlled Trizec Corp. development company and for his father, Ralph, at Olympia Floor & Wall Tile, 36-year-old Steven Reichmann now heads computer consulting company Bridge Technologies Inc. It operates the Canada affiliate of an Internet membership marketing service called International Commerce Exchange Systems. Jokes Reichmann: "Isn't the Internet virtual real estate?" Perhaps the biggest maverick among the cousins is Philip's 33-year-old brother David, who runs a chain of in-line skate shops.
It's hard to imagine that the younger Reichmann generation will come close to building an empire on the scale of their fathers. But the history of the family shows that it can be folly to underestimate a Reichmann.


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EZLaw Survey Finds Most Americans Recognize the Importance of a Will or Estate Planning, Yet Few Have Necessary Documents in Place
Results Show Less Than Forty Percent of Parents with Minor Children Have Wills
NEW YORK, July 19, 2011 - A new national survey commissioned on behalf of EZLaw, an online legal document creation service from LexisNexis, finds the majority of Americans (60 percent) believe that all adults should have a will or estate planning documents in place, yet only 44 percent report that they currently have any such documents. In stark contrast, more than one third (36 percent) of Americans with minor children do not believe that wills or estate plans are among the most important documents to have on hand. Rather, adults with minors in the household rank birth certificates (76 percent) and titles/deeds for property and vehicles (70 percent) as the most important. In addition, although the majority of parents with minors in the household (75 percent) understand that a court will decide who the children's legal guardian becomes if there is no will at the time of both parents' death, only 39 percent have any estate planning documents in place.
"The 2011 EZLaw Wills & Estate Planning survey shows parents may not be taking the necessary steps to ensure their wishes for the care of their children and estate are followed in the event that both parents were to pass, for example due to an accident," said David Palmieri, vice president and managing director of Marketing and Consumer Solutions at LexisNexis. "Additional research conducted by EZLaw earlier this year indicates that many parents consider wills to be more appropriate for those with significant wealth and as a result, they risk leaving the fate of their children in the hands of the courts instead of being directed by an enforceable legal document."
Reasons given for not making a will or estate planning a priority vary widely. According to the survey, 37 percent of Americans cite a current focus on "essentials," such as paying bills and buying groceries, as the top reason they don't have any estate planning documents. Other reasons cited by survey respondents include:
Other findings indicate that age and gender play a role in whether a person has a will or estate planning documents. For example, the majority of Americans report that they are most concerned about preserving their health (70 percent) and having enough money to retire (50 percent) as opposed to protecting their financial assets (43 percent), while women are more likely to be concerned about maintaining their weight (47 percent) than protecting their financial assets (44 percent).
Additionally, Americans 18-34 years old are more likely to report that they are most concerned about preserving their health (64 percent), having enough money to retire (52 percent) and maintaining their weight (51 percent) rather than protecting their financial assets (44 percent). Interestingly, one in five Americans 18-34 years old (22 percent) believe it is becoming less important to have wills because people are living longer, healthier lives.
"One finding from the EZLaw survey indicates that three-quarters of consumers would be more likely to create or update their will if there was an easy, valid way to do so online," continued Palmieri. "EZLaw.com can deliver that solution."
Developed by LexisNexis, the EZLaw online service enables users to create a living will, last will and testament, and/or power of attorney and have those documents reviewed by a qualified lawyer for a fixed cost per document. EZLaw is the first online legal document creation service of its kind that pairs people with a qualified attorney who will review their documents and consult with them by phone to finalize them. Currently available to Pennsylvania residents, EZLaw will be introduced in more states soon.
DComplete findings from the 2011 EZLaw Wills & Estate Planning survey are available at EZLaw.com
About the Survey
The 2011 EZLaw Wills & Estate Planning survey was conducted online by TNS on May 19-22 among 1,000 U.S. adults ages 18 and older. The margin of error for the total sample is +- 3.1 percent at the 95 percent confidence level. This means that if we were to replicate the study, we would expect to get the same results (within 3.1 percentage points) 95 times out of 100.
About LexisNexis
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Definition of biopharmaceutical in English:
noun(usually biopharmaceuticals)
A biological macromolecule or cellular component, such as a blood product, used as a pharmaceutical.
Example sentences
- The second area where we have enormous strength is in our core technical competencies, which enable us to conduct effective product development in pharmaceuticals, biopharmaceuticals, and devices.
- Biotechnology is expected to contribute massively to the global economy, largely through the introduction of recombinant DNA technology to the production of biopharmaceuticals.
- These new GM crops, known as biopharmaceuticals, or biopharms for short, produce industrial and pharmaceutical chemicals within their tissues.
Relating to biopharmaceuticals, or their preparation, use, or sale: biopharmaceutical proteins the biopharmaceutical industry
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- SmithKline Beecham decided on Singapore, rather than Australia, to build a $100 million biopharmaceutical plant.
- Nationally, approximately 1,400 biopharmaceutical companies are developing - by the industry's own count - perhaps 350 drugs.
- The firm plans to construct a biopharmaceutical manufacturing centre in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork, creating an estimated 330 jobs.
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- First Applied to All-new Fit Model -
TOKYO, Japan, September 5, 2013 - Honda Motor Co., Ltd. announced a new design concept, "EXCITING H DESIGN!!!," that will be applied to all Honda automobiles globally to promote a more unique character and stronger presence around the world.
The three exclamation marks in "EXCITING H DESIGN!!!" represent three design factors, namely "High Tech." which represents an innovative spirit, "High Tension" which represents the pursuit of a beautiful body structure and layout, and "High Touch" which represents finely-honed surfacing and texture. By incorporating these three factors into exterior and interior design, more unique and exciting Honda designs will be realized. This new design concept has been first applied to the all-new Fit model, with the application to be expanded in stages to other Honda vehicles around the world.


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A collapsing garage building forced owner Larry Hagberg to take his service business on the road. He bought a trailer and in March launched Mobile Motorcycle Repair in northern New Jersey.
The biggest hurdle to the business has been getting vendors, suppliers and insurers to recognize a business that does not have a fixed address. "Anytime I'm recognized by a supplier, it is phenomenal," he said.
Hagberg told NorthJersey.com that his business model focuses on the new way to contact customers -- by bringing the business to them. "We want our food delivered. We want dealerships to pick up our cars. We want people coming to us to detail our cars," he explained.
Using the tools and diagnostic machines he acquired running a shop in Emerson N.J., Hagberg has built a clientele of about 150 home customers. He works in Bergen, Passaic and Morris counties. Sometimes his visits lead to teachable moments.
"I don't have a problem teaching someone who wants to learn," he said. "You sometimes get that guy who says, 'Mind if I watch?' And I say, 'Sure, come on over.' "
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Vipers Softball out of Knoxville will be holding tryouts on Sat. March 9th, at 11:00AM at Badgett Field on field #1. I am looking for utility players and pitchers, I'm not looking for bad attitudes or superstars, coachable commited TEAM ballplayers only. All positions are open. If interested please go to the Vipers message board and leave your contact info. The Vipers are also on facebook under Vipers Softball. Please feel free to text or call. Thanks
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There's nothing like giving away something that you made as a gift, whether it is for Christmas, Hanukkah or a birthday! The washcloth travel roll has to go down in history as one of the simplest homemade gifts ever. It only requires five seams, perfect for the beginning seamstress or tailor, or simply for us busy adults that have too much on our plates already. One great thing about it is that you can just throw it into the washing machine to sterilize it in between trips. Also, it's free. Read on for instructions!
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Optional: Attach a ribbon, Velcro or button on the front for tying and clasping, plus any other trimmings you want for a fun look.
This is a fun alternative to traditional toiletry bags, and best of all you can make it look however you want and hold whatever you want! A great project for kids, teens and adults alike. Makes a cute shower gift too!
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Gotta Love Break!!
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I love your pictures, you puppies are cute. The Unit looks fun. I know my son who I homeschool and he is in Kindergarten would love it.ReplyDelete
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Super cute Caitlin! I would also really love to win this unit. Glad you are having such a nice holiday.ReplyDelete
Okay... third time trying. I got a new computer and it doesn't seem to allow me to respond to you. So back to the old one. I would love to start using these types of activities for my early finishers and for when I need to spend time with a small group who needs extra help. My students would LOVE these!ReplyDelete
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Mitch Allen won the tournament with a six fish limit weighing 13 lbs. 15 oz. Ty Garrett was second with a six fish limit weighing 13 lbs. 14 oz. and also won the "Lucky Drawing".
Leven Cox was third with five fish weighing 13 lbs. even and Jim Sindle took big bass honors with a 4 lb. 4 oz. fish.
For the most part, the fish were pretty aggressive and most participants caught quite a few fish.
Ty Garrett leads in the Angler-of-the-Year race with 401 points. Mitch Allen is second with 389 points and Kenny Dement is third with 304 points.
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010 | The disclosure this week that Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido would receive a $500,000 "finder's fee" if a controversial sale of state properties were to go through raises significant ethical alarms and gives opponents of the sale new ammunition.
However, state officials say it remains unclear whether Pulido violated any state real estate or other laws by helping an influential consortium put together a winning bid for the properties.
"We'd have to investigate all of the nuances," said Tom Pool, spokesman for the California Department of Real Estate. He said he only learned of the situation Tuesday when Voice of OC asked questions; but, he added, "we routinely look into those types of things."
In very general terms, Pool said, anyone who acts on behalf of someone else for money in a real estate transaction or expects compensation for negotiating or soliciting buyers or sellers, needs a real estate license. Pulido isn't licensed to sell real estate in California, but it is unknown at this time how much he did for the consortium.
Pool said case law indicates that a finder's fee is legal for a person without a license if that person did nothing more than introduce two people and then walk away without participating in any discussions or doing anything more to advance the sale.
The legal issues "all would be driven by the facts," Pool said. "There's nothing wrong if it was a true finder's-fee situation."
Eric Lamoureux, spokesman for the state Department of General Services, which is selling the properties at the urging of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to help offset a major budget deficit, said the state never pays finder's fees for real estate sales.
"Absolutely not," he said. "We don't do that with our transactions."
The Los Angeles Times reported Monday that Pulido would get the finder's fee if the pending sale of 11 state properties goes through. The story came to light through a Dec. 3 deposition given by current state Treasurer Bill Lockyer as part of the San Francisco court case challenging the sale.
The $2.3 billion sale is supposed to close Dec. 15. It is intended to help offset the state's huge budget shortfall. Critics contend that the resulting leases will cost the state more in the long run and that valuable property, including the home of the California Supreme Court in San Francisco and the Ronald Reagan building in downtown Los Angeles, will be lost.
Good government experts say that although the possibility of Pulido getting such a fee doesn't point immediately to public corruption, it definitely raises ethical issues.
The key question, said Rick Drooyan, a former high-ranking prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles, is this: "Did he use inside information that came to him as a public official" for personal financial gain?
"That's big money," added Bob Stern, president of the Center for Governmental Studies. "You shouldn't be earning any money based on what you learn as a public official."
And beyond Pulido's $500,000, Stern said, "my biggest question is, Are they [the state] getting fair market value for selling all of these buildings? I see that as an even bigger problem. Is the state giving something away?"
Lockyer's Deposition
Orange County Democratic Party Chairman Frank Barbaro called Lockyer several weeks ago on behalf of Pulido and asked about the likelihood of the sale succeeding, according to Lockyer's testimony.
Lockyer described Barbaro as a "very good friend" and "the brother I never had" in the deposition.
Barbaro "said Miguel was concerned [about the state of the sale] because he was going to receive a $500,000 finder's fee if the transaction was consummated," according to Lockyer's depostion.
Lockyer said, "I asked, 'What did he do?'" And Barbaro replied: "'Well, he put the -- helped put the deal together.'"
Lockyer, through a spokesman, declined to comment further about the issue. Barbaro said Pulido is a legal client, so he couldn't speak without Pulido's permission.
When first contacted by the Times, Pulido acknowledged that he was in line for the $500,000 (which he called a "success fee") and said that he was justified in taking it. But then he called the Times reporter back and said the deal had fallen apart.
Yesterday, Pulido told the Orange County Register that the issue has been "blown out of proportion." He has not responded to Voice of OC's requests for an interview.
'There Was Never a Deal'
A spokesman for California First -- the consortium that is trying to buy the properties -- said the group never agreed to a finder's fee with Pulido or anyone else.
California First spoke to a number of community leaders and others as part of its "due diligence" in determining if buying the properties was a good idea, said Michael Bustamante, who was a spokesman for former Gov. Gray Davis.
"Does that warrant a cup of coffee?" Bustamante said. "Sure. A half a million? Not a chance. There was never a deal."
Regardless of whether a deal was ever in place, the fact that there might have been one is sure to impact the pending court case.
An attorney for those fighting the sale of the buildings said the issue would "absolutely" be added to the case.
"We think this is just the tip of the iceberg," said Anne Marie Murphy, a San Francisco Bay Area attorney whose firm, Cotchett, Pitre and McCarthy, is fighting the sale on behalf of two former building authority commissioners whom Schwarzenegger removed when they questioned the sale. A judge could rule as early as Friday on whether the sale should be delayed.
California First is a politically well-connected investment arm of two other firms, Hines and Antarctica Capital Real Estate. Antarctica's managing partner is Richard Mayo, who also is a partner in another investment firm, Spyglass Realty Partners.
Mayo's biography on the Spyglass website says the following: "As an appointee of former Governor Pete Wilson, Rich was responsible for overseeing the privatization of the State of California's 35-million-square-foot real estate portfolio. He directed all surplus land dispositions, leasing, acquisition, planning, construction and asset management activities."
Another Antarctica executive is Grover McKean, who was chief deputy state treasurer when Jess Unruh, one of the most powerful figures in California political history, was state treasurer in the 1980s.
OC Weekly reported Tuesday that Belgravia Capital, one of the 10 firms listed as investors in California First, is owned by Orange County's R.J. Brandes, a donor to Pulido's political campaigns. The Weekly also reported that Pulido had earned between $10,000 and $100,000 working for other Brandes companies.
It's not clear what, if any, impact the deal may have on Pulido's political future. Rumors have been circulating in Orange County political circles for weeks that he was likely to get a state appointment from the incoming governor, Jerry Brown.
Brown spokesman Evan Westrup said Tuesday that the new administration is not publicly commenting on any potential appointments. "We're really not discussing who the candidates are and who's being discussed for positions," he said. "Any speculation on appointments is just that, speculation."
Correction: A previous version of this story misspelled the name of the law firm Cotchett, Pitre and McCarthy and the name of the firm's lawyer Anne Marie Murphy. We regret the errors.
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|547-Pediatric Sub-Internship TCH
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|SATISFIES THE REQUIREMENT FOR REQUIRED SUBINTERNSHIP. The student will demonstrate pediatric intern level knowledge, attitudes and skills. The student is assigned to one of the Texas Children's Hospital's Pediatric Hospital Medicine (PHM) teams, consisting of an attending, 1-2 supervising residents, 2-3 interns, 1-2 clerkship students, and sometimes a PHM fellow. The sub-I admits patients, evaluates all medical problems, and formulates a therapeutic plan under supervision. S/he is responsible for patient handoffs at the beginning and end of shifts. S/he writes and pends orders for co-signature prior to implementation. Admission orders stem from diagnosis specific EBM order sets. Sub-interns are on call an average of every fourth night and are directly supervised by a resident. A faculty member is available at all times. During call, the sub-I is responsible for cross-cover issues on all of his/her team's patients. Patient-family centered rounds (PFCR) are conducted daily at the bedside with the medical team. Attendance at educational conferences is highly recommended. The resident lecture series is held at noon on weekdays. Morning report is held Monday through Wednesday and Grand Rounds are on Friday. The exact time and location for these conferences varies and may be confirmed with the house staff office.
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|Your final grade is determined by the following: 90% Direct observation by faculty and supervising residents A three-point global "readiness for internship" scale is correlated with a nine-point performance scale to determine final scores. 10% Thoughtful and timely completion of a multi-step individualized learning plan (ILP) Incomplete or poorly executed ILPs will result in lowering of the final score. At the midpoint of the rotation, the Sub-I will select faculty (a minimum of 1) to evaluate his/her performance. At the end of the rotation, the Sub-I will select faculty (a minimum of 1) and supervising residents to evaluate his/her performance. A final grade (Honors, High Pass, Pass, Marginal Pass, or Fail) will be determined by a composite of the grades as well as the performance on the ILP. REMEDIATION OPTIONS: If you receive a final grade Fail, you may be given an opportunity to repeat the sub-I at the discretion of the course director. If you receive a Marginal Pass, you may be given the opportunity to repeat or remediate the sub-I at the discretion of the course director. MID-COURSE FEEDBACK: Sub-Is will meet with the Course Director or Associate Course Director individually at the rotation's midpoint to discuss progress toward knowledge, attitudes and skills of pediatric interns as specified by the sub-I's ILP and comments from the faculty and supervising residents. OTHER: Attending rounds will practice Patient-Family Centered Rounding technique.
|When and Where to report on first day of service:
|Texas Children's Hospital, Abercrombie Building, Suite A210 "Pediatric Emergency Medicine"
|For additional information regarding this elective contact:
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|TCH Ambercrombie Buildgin, Suite A210
|6621 Fannin St., Suite A210, Houston, TX 77030
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Two U.S. Senators have drafted a bill that blocks unsolicited text messages by increasing government oversight of commercial messaging, according to MediaPost.
Senators Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) have introduced the m-SPAM Act, which would give the FCC and FTC greater latitude in blocking commercial enterprises from spamming any wireless phone number that's already in the Do-Not-Call registry. That essentially amounts to an extension of 2004's (largely ineffective) CAN-SPAM act, which prevents businesses from sending unsolicited e-mail messages.
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There are 2 main definitions of stipulate in English:
stipulate 1
verb[with object]
Demand or specify (a requirement), typically as part of a bargain or agreement: he stipulated certain conditions before their marriage (as adjective stipulated) the stipulated time has elapsed
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- The requirement was stipulated in his bail conditions, a top prosecutor said on Tuesday.
- Among the requirements is an agreement stipulating the areas of collaboration between the foreign design firm and its mainland counterpart.
- The advice line has an automated system into which you input your holiday plans and by return get a tailored information pack stipulating both what is required and what advised.
specify, set down, set out, lay down;
demand, require, insist on, make a condition of, prescribe, impose;
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- The intention among the stipulators in the front line with the concept term 'inclusion' is to express a completely new dimension and a new way to understand this special education concept.
- As the stipulators and administrator of rules in mobile game industry, mobile operators haven't done enough in cooperation with other parties in industry chain and remain in a passive situation.
Early 17th century: from Latin stipulat- 'demanded as a formal promise', from the verb stipulari.
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(Of a leaf or plant) having stipules.
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Black Boy
by Richard Wright
Character Role Analysis
Richard and Other Black People
Richard has so many foils you could stab at the page with your eyes closed and land on one. But let's look at three examples:
- Granny. Granny is an uber-zealous religious lady, she believes books are evil, and she refuses to ask questions or to be questioned by anyone, let alone her bratty grandson. Richard, on the other hand, could care less about religion, loves books more than anything in the world, and asks questions so much that he irritates everyone around him.
- Harrison. Harrison is willing to believe his white boss even though he has no proof that Richard wants to kill him. He's even willing to fight just so he has enough to "pay down on a suit" (1.12.237). But Richard will only fight for his dignity.
- Shorty. Like Richard, Shorty dreams of going North. Unlike Richard, he's lazy and depends on white people to make his living. When he needs a quarter for lunch, he puts on a fantastic act, "smiling, rolling his eyes" (1.12.63), "drooling, drawling, [and] humming his words" (1.12.68) and eventually letting a white man kick him for two quarters. Guess who makes it out?
Here's the thing. Richard doesn't have any role models. What he has are anti-role models, people like Granny, Harrison, and Shorty showing him how not to be. It's not much, but it's enough for Richard.


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- Dr. Elizabeth A. Stanton is a senior economist with SEI and a research fellow at the Global Development and Environment Institute of Tufts University. An economist with a special interest in environmental policy and economic inequality, she has focused much of her work on the interplay between climate protection and development.