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By Alexandre Mansur
5 October 2016
(Época) – One of the strongest arguments to end deforestation in Brazil is the existence of abundant land already cleared and abandoned. The area already deforested and abandoned in Brazil is equivalent to the states of Parana, Rio Grande do Sul, and Santa Catarina added. That is, we have a territory of South size already open country and not used. Most of it is abandoned pasture. These are called dirty pastures.
The latest survey by Embrapa and Inpe points to the existence of 10 million hectares of these pastures abandoned in the Amazon. The researcher Paulo Barreto made a survey of how this area means environmental damage. According to him, the abandoned Amazon pasture represented the burning of 1 billion trees. This put into the atmosphere carbon dioxide equivalent to 36 years of emissions of all cars in Brazil – using a fleet of 50 million cars in 2015 as a reference.
Another way to think of this abandoned pasture is that if it is recovered and regenerated by planting trees, even for the production of paper or wood, carbon taken from the atmosphere make up for those 36 years of cars running in the country.
Wasted pastures also cost habitat for the survival of 179 million birds and 5.8 million primates (not human, of course).
These comparisons are part of a very didactic presentation Barreto on challenges of combating deforestation.
After the farmer deforests (usually illegally using fire) and depletes the soil with oxen, the farmer leaves behind the abandoned land. Grasses grow arises either bush. But the forest does not return easy because the area is very vulnerable to accidental fire. After decades without major fires, the forest can grow again, but with less biological wealth than the previous vegetation. According to a study of the Goeldi Museum, are 66 years on average to recover 90% of biomass and 70 years to recover 35% of native tree species.
1 bilhão de árvores foram derrubadas na Amazônia para pastos hoje abandonados


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Community correspondent Mister Alam reports from Ganpati Vigha village in Hilsa block of Nalanda district of Bihar, on the lack of sanitation facilities in the village's middle school. CALL TO ACTION: Call the Block Education Officer for Hilsa Block of Nalanda district, on +91-9939712741, and demand that construction of toilets for the school begin at […]
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VV-PACS Correspondent Mister Alam reports from Juniyar village, Nalanda District in Bihar where an overflowing drain has become the breeding ground for illnesses jeopardizing the health and safety of families in 400 houses. You can help this community get a clean living environment today. Call to Action: Please call the Block Development Officer of Hilsa […]
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Kyusaku Shimada (Actor)
Kyusaku Shimada is a Japanese actor from Kanagawa Prefecture. His real name is Tetsuo Shimada.
- Native name
- 嶋田久作 (SHIMADA Kyusaku)
- Occupation
- Actor
- Birthplace
- Seya, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture
- Born
- April 23, 1955 (age 61)
- Height
- 5' 11" (180 cm)
- Blood type
- Genres
- Films, stage, TV dramas
Filmography as actor
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HUD Releases REO Portal to Pinpoint Foreclosed Properties
To attract private capital into neighborhoods that are recovering from foreclosure, the Department of Housing and Urban Development has launched a Web-based tool that displays the location of all foreclosed properties owned by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Housing Administration.
Currently, the government-controlled agencies own approximately 250,000 foreclosed homes nationwide. Fannie Mae has an REO inventory of nearly 136,000 properties, while Freddie Mac has about 60,600 and the FHA has almost 55,000 homes.
The purpose of the REO portal is to help homebuyers and investors acquire these bank-owned properties to accelerate efforts in stabilizing local housing communities. The mapping tool also enables users to search for a specific address or neighborhood and determine the estimated delinquency counts for a community.
"In this case, a picture is worth more than a thousand words," said HUD secretary Shaun Donovan. "This new mapping tool gives local communities a much clearer picture of where these foreclosed properties are so they, along with private investors, can focus their energies in especially hard-hit neighborhoods."
In addition to mapping individual properties, the portal provides a consolidated listing for user-defined neighborhoods with details such as list date, price, number of bedrooms, bathrooms, and links to the Homepath (Fannie Mae), Homesteps (Freddie Mac) and HUD Homestore (FHA) websites to connect potential buyers to the acquisition process.
"The HUD REO Portal gives buyers a terrific new tool for comparison shopping affordable homes, in the neighborhood of their choice," said Anthony Renzi, executive vice president of single-family business and information technology at Freddie Mac. "Freddie Mac is thankful for the opportunity to help develop the REO Portal, which underscores our mission to foster stable communities and support the nation's housing markets."
The REO Portal also allows for more efficient disposition of REO properties in order to support communities utilizing HUD's neighborhood stabilization program to allow investors to acquire, rehabilitate, and/or demolish these homes.
This Web portal was developed by the government-sponsored enterprises along with the Federal Housing Finance Agency and HUD's Office of Policy Development and Research.
"HUD's REO Portal gives prospective homebuyers, investors and local community development organizations a comprehensive view of housing opportunities in their desired neighborhood," said Ed Neill, senior vice president of credit loss management at Fannie Mae. "The REO Portal supports Fannie Mae's ongoing commitment to stabilizing neighborhoods by allowing buyers to search through a vast selection of houses and find one they can call their home."


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RELATIVE-MOTION ANALYSIS OF TWO PARTICLES USING TRANSLATING AXES Today's Objectives: Students will be able to: 1.Understand translating frames of reference. 2.Use translating frames of reference to analyze relative motion. In-Class Activities: Relative Position, Velocity and Acceleration Vector & Graphical Methods
APPLICATIONS When you try to hit a moving object, the position, velocity, and acceleration of the object must be known. Here, the boy on the ground is at d = 10 ft when the girl in the window throws the ball to him. If the boy on the ground is running at a constant speed of 4 ft/s, how fast should the ball be thrown?
APPLICATIONS (continued) If the aircraft carrier travels at a forward velocity of 50 km/hr and plane A takes off at a horizontal air speed of 200 km/hr (measured by someone on the water), how do we find the velocity of the plane relative to the carrier? How would you find the same thing for airplane B? How does the wind impact this sort of situation? When fighter jets take off or land on an aircraft carrier, the velocity of the carrier becomes an issue.
RELATIVE POSITION (Section 12.10) The absolute position of two particles A and B with respect to the fixed x, y, z reference frame are given by r A and r B. The position of B relative to A is represented by r B/A = r B – r A Therefore, if r B = (10 i + 2 j ) m andr A = (4 i + 5 j ) m, thenr B/A = (6 i – 3 j ) m.
RELATIVE VELOCITY To determine the relative velocity of B with respect to A, the time derivative of the relative position equation is taken. v B/A = v B – v A or v B = v A + v B/A In these equations, v B and v A are called absolute velocities and v B/A is the relative velocity of B with respect to A. Note that v B/A = - v A/B.
RELATIVE ACCELERATION The time derivative of the relative velocity equation yields a similar vector relationship between the absolute and relative accelerations of particles A and B. a B/A = a B – a A or a B = a A + a B/A
SOLVING PROBLEMS Since the relative motion equations are vector equations, problems involving them may be solved in one of two ways. For instance, the velocity vectors in v B = v A + v B/A could be written as Cartesian vectors and the resulting scalar equations solved for up to two unknowns. Alternatively, vector problems can be solved "graphically" by use of trigonometry. This approach usually makes use of the law of sines or the law of cosines. Could a CAD system be used to solve these types of problems?
LAWS OF SINES AND COSINES a b c C B A Since vector addition or subtraction forms a triangle, sine and cosine laws can be applied to solve for relative or absolute velocities and accelerations. As review, their formulations are provided below. Law of Sines: C c B b A a sin Law of Cosines: Abccb a cos Bac c a b cos C ab b a c cos2 222
EXAMPLE Given: v A = 600 km/hr v B = 700 km/hr Find: v B/A Plan: a)Vector Method: Write vectors v A and v B in Cartesian form, then determine v B – v A b)Graphical Method: Draw vectors v A and v B from a common point. Apply the laws of sines and cosines to determine v B/A.
EXAMPLE (continued) v B/A = v B – v A = ( i j ) km/hr hr km v A B ) ( ) ( 22 / where ) ( tan 1 Solution: v A = 600 cos 35 i – 600 sin 35 j = (491.5 i – j ) km/hr v B = -700 i km/hr a) Vector Method:
EXAMPLE (continued) Law of Sines: sin)145°sin( / A AB v v or b) Graphical Method: 145 v B = 700 km/hr v A = 600 km/hr v B/A Note that the vector that measures the tip of B relative to A is v B/A. Law of Cosines: 145cos ) 600 )( 700 ( 2 ) 600 () 700 ( / A B v hr km v AB /
READING QUIZ 1. The velocity of B relative to A is defined as A) v B – v A. B) v A – v B. C) v B + v A. D) v A + v B. 2. Since vector addition forms a triangle, there can be at most _________ unknowns (either magnitudes and/or directions of the vectors). A) oneB) two C) threeD) four
CONCEPT QUIZ 1.Two particles, A and B, are moving in the directions shown. What should be the angle so that v B/A is minimum? A) 0°B) 180° C) 90°D) 270° A B s ft v A 3 s v B 4 2. Determine the velocity of plane A with respect to plane B. A) (400 i j ) km/hr B) (1220 i j ) km/hr C) (-181 i j ) km/hr D) (-1220 i j ) km/hr 30
GROUP PROBLEM SOLVING Given: v A = 10 m/s v B = 18.5 m/s (a t ) A = 5 m/s 2 a B = 2 m/s 2 Find: v A/B a A/B Plan:Write the velocity and acceleration vectors for A and B and determine v A/B and a A/B by using vector equations. Solution: The velocity of A is: v A = 10 cos(45)i – 10 sin(45)j = (7.07i – 7.07j) m/s
GROUP PROBLEM SOLVING (continued) The velocity of B is: v B = 18.5i (m/s) The relative velocity of A with respect to B is (v A/B ): v A/B = v A – v B = (7.07i – 7.07j) – (18.5i) = i – 7.07j or v A/B = (11.43) 2 + (7.07) 2 = 13.4 m/s = tan -1 ( ) = 31.73°
GROUP PROBLEM SOLVING (continued) The acceleration of B is: a B = 2i (m/s 2 ) The acceleration of A is: a A = (a t ) A + (a n ) A =[5 cos(45)i – 5 sin(45)j] + [-( ) sin(45)i – ( ) cos(45)j] a A = 2.83i – 4.24j (m/s 2 ) The relative acceleration of A with respect to B is: a A/B = a A – a B = (2.83i – 4.24j) – (2i) = 0.83i – 4.24j a A/B = (0.83) 2 + (4.24) 2 = 4.32 m/s 2 = tan -1 ( ) = 78.9°
ATTENTION QUIZ 1.Determine the relative velocity of particle B with respect to particle A. A) (48i + 30j) km/h B) (- 48i + 30j ) km/h C) (48i - 30j ) km/h D) (- 48i - 30j ) km/h B A v B =100 km/h v A =60 km/h 30 y x B A y x VAVA VBVB V B/A Solution: v B/A = v B – v A = 100 i – (60cos30 i + 60sin30 j ) km/hr = (48i - 30j ) km/hr
2. If theta equals 90° and A and B start moving from the same point, what is the magnitude of r B/A at t = 5 s? A) 20 ft B) 15 ft C) 18 ft D) 25 ft A B s ft v A 3 s v B 4 ATTENTION QUIZ A B s ft v A 3 s v B 4 s v B/A 5 r B/A = ( v B/A ). t = (5)(5)=25 ft
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1. Putting It All Together - Managing Multiple Priorities Brian J. Zink, MD
Professor and Chair,
Dept. of Emergency Medicine,
Alpert Medical School
2. Objectives Participants will learn how to address and manage multiple priorities in the business and finances of an academic department of emergency medicine in a mission-based manner.
Participants will learn how to assess institutional priorities and align them with departmental priorities to achieve success in the business of emergency medicine.
Participants will review and participate in discussions of case examples of competing or conflicting priorities and solutions to these situations.
3. What Business Are We In? We are not in the banking business.
We are not a corporation looking to increase shareholder value through enhanced stock price and lower cost of capital ratios.
We are not even �just� a high quality healthcare delivery organization �
We are a part of a complex enterprise dedicated to pushing the margin � a balanced program of education, research and patient care.
David Bachrach � Physician Executive Coach, 2008
4. Sound Advice from the Coach The 3 Responsibilities of a Chair
1. Develop and Communicate the Mission, Vision and Values of the Department
2. Recruit, Develop and Retain High Quality Faculty Members
3. Be a Good Steward of Your Resources
David Bachrach � Physician Executive Coach, 2006
5. Mission - Possible? We have all heard � �No Margin, No Mission.�
But should a departmental mission be based and dependent on progressively increasing amounts of money?
If so, how will academic departments survive, much less thrive, when we face cuts to clinical, educational and research funding?
If your mission can�t guide you � what will?
6. Mission-Based Budgeting Introduced about a decade ago for medical education and academic medical centers.
Basic Premises:
ALL components of AMC mission are identified and assigned value and metrics (not just clinical).
Accounts for activity and quality of faculty effort in all areas � clinical, research, education and service.
Financial decisions based on a composite view. Non-revenue generating activities are on equal footing with revenue generating activities.
Mission-Based Budgeting: Removing a Graveyard, Robert T. Watson, MD, and Lynn J. Romrell, PhD Academic Medicine, Management Series: Mission-Based Management, 1999.
7. Beyond Budgeting Landmark article in 2003 by Jeremy Hope in Harvard Business Review, and subsequent book.
Application in a med school setting � Univ. of Michigan
Elger WR. Managing resources in a better way: a new financial management approach for the University of Michigan Medical School. Academic Medicine 2006; 81(4):301-305
Basic Premises:
Transparency and openness in governance and operations
Teams set up with high degree of accountability
Create goals with positive reinforcement
Continuous planning with all members of team
Controls and metrics � real time
Most academic EM departments are on a scale where �beyond budgeting� practices can be applied.
8. 12 Beyond Budgeting Principles (2011) Governance and transparency
1. Values - Bind people to a common cause; not a central plan
2. Governance - Govern through shared values and sound judgement; not detailed rules and regulations
3. Transparency - Make information open and transparent; don't restrict and control it
Accountable teams
4. Teams - Organize around a seamless network of accountable teams; not centralized functions
5. Trust - Trust teams to regulate their performance; don't micro-manage them
6. Accountability - Base accountability on holistic criteria and peer reviews; not on hierarchical relationships
Goals and rewards
7. Goals - Encourage teams to set ambitious goals, don't turn goals into fixed contracts
8. Rewards � Base rewards on relative performance; not on fixed targets
Planning and controls
9. Planning - Make planning a continuous and inclusive process; not a top-down annual event
10. Coordination -Coordinate interactions dynamically; not through annual budgets
11. Resources -Make resources available just-in-time; not just-in-case
12. Controls - Base controls on fast, frequent feedback; not budget variances
9. Before Budgeting, Before Allocating� There is the big picture.
Positive organizational change
Abundance Theory
Appreciative Inquiry
Adaptive Enhancement
10. 10
11. 11 Four Questions as You Craft Your Vision
12. Appreciative Inquiry A new paradigm for organizational development.
Pioneered in 1980�s by David Cooperrider at Case Western Reserve University.
Derived from experiences and observations at the Cleveland Clinic � physician leadership success.
Has been utilized with positive results by many businesses, organizations, the Navy, etc. to reshape the perspectives and approach of leaders and workers.
13. What is Appreciative Inquiry? �It is the discovery for the best in people, their organizations, and the relevant world around them. It is an art and practice of asking the unconditional positive questions that strengthen a system�s capacity to apprehend, anticipate and heighten positive potential. Instead of negation, criticism and spiraling diagnosis, there is discovery, dream, design and destiny. It works from accounts of the �positive change core�. AI links the energy of the positive core directly to any change agenda and changes never thought possible are suddenly and democratically mobilized.�
David Cooperrider, PhD., 2008
14. What is Appreciative Inquiry? Appreciative Inquiry is a collaborative and highly participative, system-wide approach to seeking, identifying, and enhancing the �life-giving forces� that are present when a system is performing optimally in human, economic, and organizational terms.
�AI is the ability (a kind of intelligence) to perceive the positive inherent generative potential in the present.� � David Cooperrider
16. A Non-Traditional Approach The abundance culture and philosophy.
A core of �positive energizers� who are free to do their work.
Investing in our People:
�Human relationships and leadership are more important than ever before. The speed and sophistication of technology and information have made human capital the key competitive advantage for most organizations.� Kim Cameron
17. The Power of Positive People The 5:1 positive rule for high performance teams.
Unless marriage partnerships, families, or work teams have a ratio of 5 positive comments to every 1 negative comment, the quality of the relationship deteriorates.
Try this out at home!
18. Positive energizers tend to enhance the work of others. People who interact with or are connected to energizers also perform better.
High performing firms have three times as many positive energizing networks as low performing firms. Positive Energizers
19. Positive Performers in the Work Place Externally focused, advocates.
Solution-finders, well-connected with good networks.
Willing to take on challenges in an innovative way. Adaptable.
All of these are core characteristics of �
20. High Performance Teams (source: Losada & Heaphy, 2003)
21. Approaches to Organizational Improvement Approach #1
What problems are we encountering?
What are the major obstacles to success?
How can we close the gap between our problems and effective solutions? Approach #2
What is working here?
What is the best we have ever done?
What are our peak experiences?
How can we close the gap between our highest aspirations and sustainable achievements?
22. Comparing Approaches to Improvement PROBLEM SOLVING
Problem Identification:
Identify problems or needs
Cause Analysis:
Analyze symptoms & root causes
Identify Solutions:
Generate alternative that address problems
Action planning:
Design interventions that address or solve problems
Our job is to overcome major problems. APPRECIATIVE CHANGE
Appreciating and Valuing:
Identify peak experiences
Explaining Success:
Identify elements of the best past successes
Creating Sustainability:
Identify what should be continued in the future
Designing a Destiny:
Design interventions that create an ideal future
Our job is to embrace and enable our highest potential.
23. The Heliotropic Effect Focusing on abundance gaps, compared to deficit gaps, leads to the organization turning toward the positive, instead of reacting to the negative.
24. Capitalizing on Strengths Identifying people�s strengths and building on them creates more benefit than identifying weaknesses and trying to correct them.
Managers who spend more time with their strongest performers achieved double the productivity.
In organizations where workers have a chance to �do what they do best everyday,� productivity is 1.5 X greater than in normal organizations.
People who are given feedback on their strengths are significantly more likely to feel highly engaged and to be more productive than people who are given feedback on their weaknesses.
Students who are given feedback on their talents have fewer days of absenteeism, less tardiness, and higher GPAs than students who get no feedback on their talents.
25. If you see your cup as half full, it may one day runneth over; if you see it as half empty, it never will.
26. Yeah, but� Aren�t most organizations fraught with problems?
Can any leader or manager afford to ignore difficulties?
Is a positive approach to change just a white-wash of serious challenges?
Won�t any organization fail if it doesn�t focus on its weaknesses and liabilities?
In light of major challenges faced by most organizations and leaders, what is the relevance of virtues and an abundance approach to change?
27. Why Don�t Positive Factors Get More Attention? A systematic bias exists in people - negative factors are more powerful and influential than positive factors.
People are:
More upset by losing $50 than elated by winning $50.
More affected by one traumatic or negative event than by one positive or happy event.
More affected emotionally & do more mental work from a single negative piece of feedback than from a single positive piece of feedback.
Therefore, the abundance model faces some stiff resistance.
28. Associations Between Organizational Virtuousness & Performance An abundance culture, virtuousness and positive dynamics are significantly and positively related to organizational performance.
A long term view is part of the abundance culture.
A study of the airline industry after 9/11.
29. Approach to Downsizing - Southwest
Despite losing $1 million per day in the weeks following the attacks, Southwest refused to lay off employees. CEO Jim Parker said: �Clearly we can�t continue to do this indefinitely, but we are willing to suffer some damage, even to our stock price, to protect the jobs of our people.�
30. Why Does Virtuousness Enhance Performance? Virtuousness has an amplifying effect.
Virtuousness perpetuates more virtuousness (psychological broadening & building effects).
Builds social capital (trust, information sharing, learning, etc.)
Fosters pro-social behavior (inherent disposition toward helping).
Virtuousness has a buffering effect.
Virtuousness serves a protective function against trauma.
Resiliency is developed (strengthening, limbering and replenishing).
Negative effects of downsizing are mitigated (psychological, emotional, psychological and social effects).
31. The Competing Values Framework
33. 33 Organizational Leadership Profile
35. Organizational Culture � Congruence, Strength and Type 35 There is no best or right culture, and balance is not necessarily advantageous.
Outcomes, strategies, culture and competencies should be congruent to achieve high performance.
Key metrics will be different, depending on the values and culture of your organization.
Culture change occurs through crisis, evolution, or leadership.
36. Achieving Spectacular Performance � Deviating from �Normal� Over time, most organizations tend to settle in to a normal, �fallen� state characterized by routines, conformity, hypocrisy, and with a palpable gap between what is and what might be.
�They became what they beheld.� William Blake
37. Organizational Culture Profiles An Example of Life Cycle Development in Organizational Cultures
38. Dept EM Culture Previous Compared to Today
39. 39 Competing Values Framework � for the Department Recognition that subgroups in the Department may have their own subculture.
Most team efforts will require �competency� in all 4 quadrants.
The tendency is to get �bottom heavy�, so we need to maintain our good qualities in the Collaborate and Create quadrants.
40. The Hedgehog Concept in the Social Sectors
42. Balance and the Long Term View Positive organizations with an �abundance theory� approach achieve long term success by:
Having well-developed MVV, with each member of the team �buying in� and helping to develop and achieve the MVV.
Encouraging high quality work and performance with clear expectations, but avoiding high stress or burn out.
Support balance in personal-professional lives of the team
Responding to periodic crises and change in an effective manner, but stay on track in MVV � long-term view.
Having plans for leadership growth and succession
44. Managing Multiple Priorities If you can use mission-based management, and positive organizational change approaches in your day-to-day departmental leadership, balancing and tending to multiple priorities becomes much less onerous.
Priorities and bubble up from the organization as high performance and opportunities.
45. ALIGNMENT OF COURSE we need to be aligned with our hospitals, academic medical centers, medical schools and community.
As the nexus, intersection, and enabler of much in health care and medical education, EMERGENCY MEDICINE is naturally positioned to be essential, at the table, and given a voice.
But, there is an ART to ALIGNMENT.
46. The Art of Alignment Possess Institutional Situational Awareness. What are the:
PRIORITIES (if articulated!)
Where Are the Win-Win�s?
What are We Both Good At? AI Approach
47. Case One: Clinical � What Are We? Your hospital system is forming a new outpatient network and wants to partner with your EM Department to open an Urgent Care with you providing the staffing. Initial analysis suggests that it would be financially neutral for the Dept to staff it with an EP/midlevel team.
Some members of your leadership team feel that urgent care is not really in the realm of EM, and are concerned that this initiative will distract from your educational and research activities.
The hospital system wants an answer in a week and will consider outsourcing the staffing to other EM groups or urgent care entities.
48. Managing Multiple Priorities First, take a deep breath and recite or chant your MISSION, VISION AND VALUES.
Assess: do you have enough objective information, data, points of view, and understanding of the options or paths you can follow? If not, take the time to get it.
Discuss: open dialogue; knowledge transparency; input from ALL stakeholders, not just your own people
Decide a Course: use the tools of positive organizational change as a guide; �dream the answer�; find the Win-Win
Communicate the Decision: reference MVV; explain but do not reopen
49. Case Two: Clinical v. Educational Needs You and your hospital are concerned about your ability to manage increasing ED volumes. Wait times are up, attending physicians are stressed. The hospital wants to provide three PA positions to help the situation, BUT in return they are requesting that you surrender two of your residency slots so they can expand their neurology and neurosurgery residencies.
Your residency director is apoplectic, but some attending physicians and nurses are supportive.
How do you manage this?
50. Case Three: Educational v. Clinical Needs Your Residency Director wants to nix the current Orthopedics rotation for your interns, citing poor education, lack of procedures, and resident dissatisfaction. An ED-based rotation is planned with some Orthopedics involvement.
The Orthopedics faculty members believe the EM Ortho rotation is strong, and are upset that EM wants to change it. They are making some veiled threats about responsiveness to consults in the ED if you do this. Orthopedics consults are already a problem, and you don�t want it to get worse.
How do you manage this?
51. Case Four: Research v. Clinical Faculty Your Department offers seed grants to stimulate research activities in junior faculty members.
Some clinically-oriented faculty members want you to use one half of the seed grant money each year to support clinical QA projects (non-research) for clinical faculty members. They argue that departmental revenue is almost totally derived from clinical activity, and they contribute the most to this, so they believe they should be able to get seed money as well.
How do you balance your research v. clinical priorities?
52. Case Five: Research Outlier Your leadership team has established two main research areas of focus and support within your department - cardiovascular emergencies and infectious diseases � and support goes to these areas.
A bright and energetic young faculty member has gone out on her own and secured a small research grant in interpersonal violence against women. She wants to grow in this area and requests more protected time so she can do the research and apply for a K Grant.
How do you manage this conflict between the departmental stated areas of focus, and this faculty member�s interests and desires?
53. Case Six: IP Opportunity An enterprising faculty member has developed some innovative, patented software for the ED and wants to form a small company to commercialize it. He is requesting that his commitment to the department be reduced to one shift a week while he starts up the company. With his intellectual property and patents, the venture could return a million dollars to the Department if it is successful.
Some of your Departmental leaders think this is a very risky proposition, and do not feel that a �special deal� should be made for this faculty member?
How you manage this opportunity while being fair and open?
54. Case Seven: International EM You have a successful and growing international program in Africa. More and more faculty are requesting time to go for month long clinical and educational experiences at the Africa site. The department is covering at least half the costs of these international experiences.
Some faculty members who do not do international work resent the fact that their schedules are altered to allow the international EM faculty to go to Africa, and feel that it is too costly and diverting funds from other areas.
How do you manage this tension between the IEM program and your �stay at home� faculty members?
55. What Will Be Different When We Go Home? After this SAEM Bootcamp, we hope that you have better sense of:
Cost accounting, Reimbursement
Funding for GME and Research
Revenue Generation
Strategic and Business Planning
Risk Management
Human Resources
And, an approach that emphasizes positive organizational change and appreciative inquiry.
So, MARCH on out of here and APPLY WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED!


text: Science, Technology & Society - Ph.D. / Sc.D. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7913 2017-02-22T01:41:08Z Governing the shark : predators and people in the twentieth century and beyond http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106749 Governing the shark : predators and people in the twentieth century and beyond Thompson, Michaela Jane This dissertation examines the history of shark-human interactions in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It argues that the mid-twentieth century onward saw a series of conjunctures -technological, cultural, and scientific -that thrust sharks and humans into unprecedented levels of contact. This led to both a rise in preoccupation with sharks, and an emergence of new stakeholder groups that sought produce knowledge about them. The conflicting definitions, attitudes, and responses to sharks presented by these various groups are linked to greater trends in science, culture, and society. In particular, the way humans write and think about sharks and other man-eating predators has deep links to the position we see ourselves occupying in the environment. Further, anxieties about sharks are strongly tied to the complicated cultural relationships that people have with the marine environment, both as a place of wonder and terror. Lastly, sharks also allow us to examine the technologies we use to tame and navigate the ocean, as the shifts that brought humans and sharks into closer proximity were intertwined with new technologies that changed the ways humans interacted with marine spaces. Each chapter presents case studies from the United States and South Africa, juxtaposing the responses by each region. The opening chapter charts the rise of shark attack numbers in the mid-century. It traces the impact of highly publicized shark attacks in the U.S. and South Africa in the 1950s, which resulted in differing approaches to combat the threat of shark attack. Chapter Two explores the intersections between popular depictions of sharks and changing perceptions of shark behavior, centering on the ur-text of shark literature: Jaws. Chapter Three traces the advent of shark tourism, and examines the controversy surrounding white shark cage diving in South Africa. Chapter Four explores the response of Cape Cod communities to an influx of white sharks into the region, drawing parallels with earlier historical examples of predator eradication and conservation. The dissertation thus argues that studying shark-human interactions allows for the interrogation of divisions between myth and science, experts and laypersons, popular culture and scientific knowledge, humans and the environment. Thesis: Ph. D. in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society (HASTS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology and Society, 2016.; Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.; Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-261). 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Intimate cartographies : body maps and the epistemic encounter in China and Britain, 1893-1985 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/104562 Intimate cartographies : body maps and the epistemic encounter in China and Britain, 1893-1985 Li, Lan Angela This dissertation explores how body maps served as a site for theoretical, experimental, and cultural entanglements between "Chinese medicine" and "biomedicine." It explores how body atlases produced under varying social and cultural conditions involved similar ontological questions with diverging social and cultural implications. These ontological questions set into motion disparate theories about the body that continue to destabilize contemporary medical practice. I explore the fate of maps that medical practitioners in China and Britain traced on paper and on people. Rather than representing what could be directly observed, these maps made visible what could be felt. Body maps offer a unique approach to transnational histories of science and medicine because they existed as meticulously crafted artifacts of visual perception and material evidence that carried social and political currency. In particular, I follow how Chinese physiologists re-presented meridian paths for acupuncture moxibustion practice and the conceptual friction that these maps introduced once they were compared with sensation maps that British neurologists produced to identify peripheral nerve clusters and distinct areas of pain. Amidst state-building efforts in the early twentieth century, medical practitioners in China reproduced meridian maps to emphasize the technical and systematic virtues of acupuncture moxibustion. Yet, meridian maps presented an ontological problem, as standardizing its paths required fixing locations along courses that shifted in living bodies. This dissertation picks up where political historians leave off, examining transformations in medical theory and tracking how individuals concerned with constructing the legacy of medicine in China eventually came to resurrect abandoned neurophysiological maps produced in late nineteenth century Britain. Through a careful excavation of image and text, I demonstrate how efforts to locate shifting areas on the surface of the body conflicted and cohered with discourses of science. I argue that "intimate cartographies," or maps based on individual encounters of the body, challenged standards of visualizing and describing unseen physiological systems. These maps sat at the intersection of epistemic practices, where the circulation of images, ideas, and individuals contributed to the complex convergence of body maps across regimes of knowledge. Thesis: Ph. D. in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society (HASTS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology and Society, 2016.; Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.; Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-300). 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Economy electric : techno-economics, neoliberalism, and electricity in the United States http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/104559 Economy electric : techno-economics, neoliberalism, and electricity in the United States Özden-Schilling, Canay This dissertation is a study of emergent economic forms of life. It investigates recent remakings of economic existence and modes of disseminating these forms of life, and does so with particular reference to the crafting of electricity markets in the United States. It draws on more than a year of fieldwork among experts and users involved in electricity exchange. The experts and users among whom I conducted participant observation include computer programmers who assist companies that trade in electricity markets by collecting information and making trading suggestions, electrical engineers who design new infrastructures such as electricity markets for buying and selling electricity in bulk, psychologists and social scientists who study people's electricity consumption behavior to generate economic technologies to save money to users and providers of electricity, and citizen groups based in West Virginia and rural Illinois that organize against electricity markets' exclusion of consumers from decision-making mechanisms. Bringing questions of economic anthropology to bear upon the emergent literature of the anthropology of infrastructures, I propose that new economic forms of existence often come to being though infrastructure building and maintenance. For the last 20 years, experts of diverse technical backgrounds have been reprogramming the electric grid to allow for enhanced calculative choice and competition - principles at the core of the neoliberal agenda. I demonstrate that people who do not necessarily concern themselves with the formal study of economics often take the lead in creating and propagating wide-ranging economic emergent forms of life, such as neoliberalism, across the social field. To zero in on their work, I develop the concept of "techno-economics": an approach that understands commodities, whether they are living nonhumans such as livestock or inorganic processes like electricity, as more than passive receptacles of human design, and locates humans within their efforts to commoditize and marketize unruly objects, like electricity - a commodity that cannot be stored in warehouses or shipped on highways. Anthropological studies of the techno-economic, I suggest, are best equipped to make connections in ethnographic representation between otherwise disparate nodes of social life, like expertise and wires, law and steel, and finally, economics and electricity. Thesis: Ph. D. in History and Social Study of Science and Technology (HASTS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology and Society, 2016.; Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.; Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-285). 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Salvage cartographies : mapping, futures, and landscapes in northwest British Columbia http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/104558 Salvage cartographies : mapping, futures, and landscapes in northwest British Columbia Özden-Schilling, Thomas Charles This dissertation examines how the proliferation of digital mapping technologies and the contraction of government research institutions have reformatted contests over resources, sovereignty, and local belonging in the neoliberal era. The two groups at the heart of this multilocale ethnography, government forest ecologists and Indigenous Geographic Information Systems (GIS) specialists, share entangled histories throughout rural North America. This is particularly true on the Gitxsan and Gitanyow traditional territories in northwest British Columbia. As climate change and emergent forest diseases destabilize both Indigenous and settler communities' abilities to predict and plan for environmental shifts, disparate experts are learning to leverage marginalized maps and ecological succession models to reconstitute modes of professional succession rendered precarious by government reforms and internal tribal conflicts. The opening chapters of the dissertation examine two experimental institutions - an independent forest ecology research center in Smithers, B.C., and a defunct GIS analysis team based on a nearby Gitxsan reserve - to examine how rural scenes of collaboration complicate the modalities of influence and organizational coherency often attributed to professional scientific networks. Later chapters explore experimental forest and traditional territories where ecologists and Indigenous GIS specialists have sought to articulate risks and project landscape futures by producing technical knowledge. For both communities, transects, grids, and other techniques of marking space have forced them to negotiate tensions between the temporal decay of these spaces and the lifespans of individual researchers. The concluding chapter examine the agencies of archives and simulations produced by two separate long-term forestry modeling groups. By treating their discarded models as anchors of a kind of professional legitimacy no longer stably recognized by a changing provincial government, I argue that senior forestry modelers are struggling to frame their work within longer historical narratives which supersede the temporalities of the state. Twentieth century conservationism drew heavily on essentialized discourses of "nature" and "culture" to construct old-growth rainforests and other contested spaces as objects worthy of protection. This dissertation examines the destabilization of these classification systems, and the palimpsest of legal definitions and lived concepts of territory left behind as regulatory responsibilities devolve and dissolve. Thesis: Ph. D. in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society (HASTS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology and Society, 2016.; Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.; Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-394). 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z


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text: Home > Entertainment Reese Witherspoon gives birth to baby boy ABS-CBN News Posted at Sep 28 2012 02:02 PM | Updated as of Sep 28 2012 10:02 PM Share Save Facebook Twitter GPlus LinkedIn Pinterest Reese Witherspoon has given birth to a baby boy. The 36-year-old actress - who has two children, Ava, 13, and Deacon, eight, from her marriage to Ryan Phillippe - and her husband Jim Toth welcomed Tennessee James into the world on Thursday (September 27). A representative for the couple said: "Reese Witherspoon and husband Jim Toth welcomed Tennessee James into their family today. Both mom and baby are healthy and the entire family is thrilled." No other details have been released at the time of writing. Last month, the 'Legally Blonde' actress spent a couple of days in a Los Angeles medical facility after it was feared she was going into early labor. After being discharged doctors told her to take it easy at home and get plenty of rest. Witherspoon - who married Jim in March 2011 after a year of dating - recently admitted she was planning a career break to raise her baby. In June, she said: "I'm feeling very round tonight. After I finish [filming] 'The Devil's Knot', I'm going to take a little time off - and go have a baby!" -- Bang Showbiz Share Save Facebook Share on Twitter GPlus LinkedIn Pinterest Read More: Reese Witherspoon /news/02/22/17/pag-grado-sa-field-trips-ipinagbabawal-deped/sports/02/22/17/five-star-manchester-city-edge-thriller-with-monaco/sports/02/22/17/atletico-close-in-on-last-eight-with-4-2-leverkusen-win/news/02/22/17/excl-ina-ng-bus-driver-sa-tanay-tragedy-umapela-ng-pagpapatawad/business/02/22/17/shares-open-flat-on-lack-of-leads


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'We'll see who comes out on top': Okoye ready to hit and be hit as he braces himself for San Francisco 49ers training camp
Lawrence Okoye has made a habit of keeping his feet on the ground since moving to the San Francisco 49ers, but he can't wait for his NFL career to take off as he prepares to put on the pads for the first time.
As the third guise of his sporting career gathers apace, the onset of training camp on July 19 will signal a new level of learning for the cerebral 21-year-old. Not that he's flinching from the challenges ahead.
'It's going to be a chance for me to get hit. And a chance for me to hit some guys. So we'll see who comes out on top,' he said with the steely-eyed look of understated determination that has become his trademark.
VIDEO: Lawrence Okoye goes back to his roots
'Rookie minicamp was probably the
hardest thing I've done so far because I didn't know what to expect
training-wise. It was tough. I got through the days though and I went on
to football school, OTAs and the last minicamp and things have picked
up. I'm learning every day and I'm looking forward to training camp when
we get the pads on. We'll really see what I'm made of.
'I'm not setting any goals or
targets, I'm just looking forward to training camp first and pre-season
games. That's going to be crazy for me. These are going to be the first
games I've ever played in, so I'm looking forward to getting stuck in,'
he adds.
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With an injury-hit squad, Okoye has
been the busiest lineman in the offseason, taking more snaps than anyone
on the 49ers roster.
'Justin Smith is a 14-year vet. He
doesn't really need to do all the stuff we're doing at the moment, so
I'm taking all his reps. Tank Carradine is recovering from an ACL
injury, so I'm doing his reps. And fifth round pick Quenton Dial has got
a toe injury, so it's great for me.
'They envisaged this before I came.
They realised these guys were going to be out. They knew it was going to
be a good chance for me to get a lot of reps in. And it's worked out
really well. I'm just looking forward to training camp where I can do
some more.'
'We've got a great team. We've got a
great roster. It's a hard roster to make even if you're a first round
pick or a starter from last year. You've got to start all again and make
the team. It's going to be tough, but I'm looking forward to the
fight,' he said.
Learning the ropes: Lawrence Okoye (No 78) warms up during the San Francisco 49ers rookie minicamp
The compliments have come thick and
fast since Okoye impressed in the super regional combine in Dallas. At
304lbs, the 6ft 6in Okoye was likened to an Adonis by 49ers coach Jim
Harbaugh, but defensive coordinator Vic Fangio added a cautious note for
the latest long-term project.
'He hasn't had anybody hit him yet.
He hasn't had a double-team yet,' Fangio told the Sacramento Bee. 'He
hasn't figured out if it's a run or pass, whether he should rush or play
the run. So it'll probably be a very slow process with him much more
than a normal rookie.'
The resolute Okoye is typically pragmatic when confronted with both quotes.
'My coach Jim Tomsula says: "Don't
worry, just work". That's what I'm doing. I'm not worrying about the
future. I'm just working and that's what I need to do.
'I'm not really worried about anything these days. I just turn up to the field and work. That's all I've got to do. Things will happen. I understand how this whole process works. I've been through it with the discus, so I know it's step one, then step two then step three. There's no point going to step 20 because you've got to get these down first. And once I do that I'm sure I'll be successful.'
Back to school: Okoye takes on JB in a friendly game of touch rugby with local primary school schildren
That's not to say that the journey from the home comforts of England to his new base in San Jose is an easy one.
'It's so different. It's the
transition from being in a different country, being in a different
culture, being in a different sport. No friends, no family about. Taking
everything into account it's pretty tough. But I'm really enjoying it.
It's hard but it's fun.'
But Okoye had a small taste of home on
the flight to the West Coast, meeting fellow Brit Menelik Watson soon
after this year's draft.
'I met him in Atlanta airport, we got
the same flight out to Pheonix. From Pheonix I switched to San Jose and
he went on up to Oakland. It was great to see him - it's another guy
that has got minimal experience playing the game, obviously a bit more
than me, but he's done unbelievably well for himself to be drafted in
the second round.'
Facing the future: Training camp can't start quickly enough for Okoye
While Okoye is focused on his American dream, he took a break from preseason to give something back to a cause close to his heart.
The former Whitgift pupil returned to his old school as part of the primary schools project - and his competitive
juices were flowing as he took on a fellow Old Whitgiftonian in the heat
of sporting battle.
Okoye and JB from JLS oversaw a friendly game of touch rugby with pupils
from Purley Oaks and St Francesca Cabrini schools, as he explained.
'It's a project the school has been
doing for the last 13 years, bringing in schools from all round London
and the south east to come in and use the school's facilities - not just
sporting facilities but music, teachers and getting the chance to
experience what it could be like to come to the school and get a feel
for secondary school life.'
See me after school: JB, headmaster Dr Christopher Barnett and Okoye took part in a fond reunion
'Whatever your interests are - it's not just
sport. JB is a prime example. He was a musician and a rugby player, so
it doesn't necessarily have to be sport. If you're an academic guy, you
can just come here, a musical guy you can come here. If you're a sporty
guy you can come here.
'Hopefully the kids have been inspired when
they see that anyone can come here. It doesn't matter what your
background is, where you're from, what your parents do, as long as you
have the desire to improve as a person, you're going to do well here.'
And after flourishing in the environs of the South Croydon school, Okoye is determined to do the same as his career begins an exciting new chapter.
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how can i stop breastfeeding my 28 month old ?????
My 28 month old just wants to breasfeeds all day and night , i have almost stoped breastfeeding during the day but in the night is very hard for me as he cries all the night if he doesnt drink and its very difficult for me to not give it to him because we are all tired and want to sleep and this is the easiest way , i just want to stop it completely because apart from this he doesnt eat anything , and i cook all the time and everything goes to the bin and i think it all comes from brestfeeding , he only likes to eat pizza and kfc and chips , what can i do ?!
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The easiest way is not always the best way, so you've got to put your foot down on this one if you're going to wean him. Maybe at first focus on eliminating the day time feedings, and once those are gone you can focus on getting rid of the night time feedings, since those seem to be his favorite. He should be eating fruits or veggies with every meal, so offer those first during meals and at snack times. Start slow - even if he just takes one bite of a new food, consider that a success and then he can have something he likes. Next time have him take 2 bites of a new food, and so on. It will happen, but he will protest at first. Stay strong and keep your eye on the prize. Good luck!posted 06/30/2013 by neneface
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I didn't ask for a sister. I didn't ask for any sibling. Unlike other kids, I just wanted to be an only child. Then, I wouldn't have to compete for attention. I wouldn't have to be jealous if she ever got better grades than me, or be embarrassed if she was a failure.
But I got Sally anyway, who is two years my junior. I don't like her, and she doesn't like me. Sure, she's the one who I talk about all my friends problems with, and the first one person I show everything I discover to. Overall, though, she and I are too different to be friends. While I was quiet and studious, Sally was immature and lazy.
Now, I have my wish. I'm an only child now. It's always impossible to imagine someone die, to imagine them eliminated from the world. You could never know what it would be like without them, so it's a blank shock at first.
It wasn't my fault that Sally passed away. She never took care of herself. It annoyed me to know end, but the consequences finally caught up to her when she died of a fatal illness. I had sighed irritably that day, seeing her unmoving corpse in the hospital bed, wreathed in white sheets and pillows I scoffed. If only she were actually that angelic when she was alive. I peered down at her, I closed my eyes, mentally chiding her carelessness. I told you so.
That took away the blame I felt for myself. I don't know why it was there.
It's Monday, two days after my sister's death. I wake up and walk mechanically towards Sally's closed door. Turning the handle silently, I whip the door open and yell. "WAKE UP, SALLY!"
There's no response. Right. Feeling embarrassed, I go the bathroom by myself, and blearily squeeze the toothpaste onto my toothbrush, anticipating the moment my sister would interrupt me, and come barging in, plopping onto the toilet without bothering to close the door again.
It never came.
I walk downstairs, and prepare breakfast by myself, careful to fry one egg instead of two. I pour a single glass of milk, and sit alone at the kitchen table, staring at the empty space across from me. I check the time. 7:15 AM.
I instinctively stand up, but I sit back down. I have five free minutes before the bus comes. I'm always the early one to finish my food, and I always get ready at a quarter past seven so I can be out the door when I needed. The bus doesn't come until 7:30, but as Sally's the world's slowest eater, she usually ends up dragging out her breakfast until 7:28. The four minutes before the bus arrives is chaos, with me yelling "hurry up and grab your backpack and lunch-- and oh, don't forget your violin." Then, we would both fly out the door to where the bus driver is sitting there, already knowing the routine. We would puff onto the bus, and sit down, with me one row behind her. Our friends soon join us, and we would cease interaction.
Today, I wait the ten minutes silently. Then, at 7:25, I walk out the door, where the bus is just starting to turn in. It's chilly gloomy, foreshadowing a storm. I wave to the bus driver as I walk on. "Hi, Bryan."
"Sal still sick?" he asks. "She's doing better, I hope?"
"Actually, she passed away this weekend," I said delicately. Bryan's face turns blank, like mine when I first heard the news. Slowly, he puts his hands on the wheel again.
"Oh," he whispers, almost to himself. He and Sally got along well, better than with me. "I'm… I'm so sorry. You and your family must be…"
"Yeah," I said. My mother and father were devastated, yes. But me? I don't know. I still haven't cried. I don't even think I missed her. I walk past Bryan and sit in my usual seat, in the front, right behind him.
The bus roars to life again and drives down the road. A few raindrops splatters the windows, and within seconds it's pouring heavily, the drops' plopping sounds augmented by the unnerving silence inside the bus.
I can't help but feel that it sounds like an elegie.
Sally's friends come up to me during school, asking exactly what happened. Some didn't know her that well, but nevertheless look saddened. Some are in tears, and there are others in between. Still, I am the only one who isn't emotional. I relay the story of Sally's illness, which they are all aware of, from how she got it to her death. It isn't very interesting, and I tell it in a stoic, bored voice.
"Oh," the kids say emptily afterwards, then walk away. I glance their way, and then take my own path down the hallway. In the throng of students pushing through the English corridor, I see my sister's best friend Izzy trudging along, alone. Sally would usually be at Izzy's side, helping to clear a path by wildly swinging her violin case. Today, Izzy's just part of the crowd.
My own friend Tianne pushes her way through and meets me, like she usually does. "Hey," she puffed, and I brace myself for another condolence. "I heard about Sally. You okay?"
I relax a little. "Yeah, I guess," I say to her in that emotionless voice. "Yeah, I think I'm fine."
She gives me a look, but says nothing more about it, and instead starts talking about her upcoming calculus test next hour.
I know she has a sister, Winnie, and that she would be devastated if she died. I know Tianne would later be talking to her friends about my situation, if she couldn't talk to me about it. "I mean, I know how Rach is feeling right now. I would be in tears if Winnie died." I can almost hear her.
But she doesn't know.
Naomi, rude and tactless, comes up just as Tianne leaves. Tianne can't stand Naomi.
"Sorry about Sally," Naomi says bluntly as we head down the stairs. It sucks that we have the same biology class, where she always copies off of me. "It's too bad. I don't really know what to say, but you must really miss her."
"I don't," I growl, and speed up to walk alone. I don't know why I'm so mad all of a sudden. Maybe it's just because of Naomi. She has that effect on people.
The whole day is filled with Sally. Or rather, condolences about her death. After school, as I prepare to head onto the bus again, Sally's friend Jenni taps me on the shoulder
I know I'm being rude, but I roll my eyes and sigh. "Please don't talk to me about my sister. It's fine."
Jenni raises her eyebrows, but keeps her cool. She's one of the more mature ones in my sister's lollipop gang. I don't know why she still hangs out with them, considering that she tries harder than all of them combined. "I was just wondering when and where the funeral was."
"Next week Saturday," I grumble, turning away. "At the Chapman Memorial Garden, on Wayward Street."
"Okay, thanks." Jenni hurries away.
There is a peacefulness on the bus that's somehow brought by the usual rowdiness of the boys in the back. Izzy, who only rides the bus home, huddles with someone else instead of sitting in her usual seat, where Sally would sit with her.
I walk to my house alone, the raindrops drumming down on my head. My mom's at the kitchen table, an unusual sight. She's normally at the office until 10. The rainstorm outside matches the mood in the house.
"I took the day off," she explained, looking miserable. I give her a silent hug and take off to do homework. The serenity that I had on the bus is gone, and the air is once more cloaked in misery. For some reason, I am immune to that sadness.
"Do you want to talk about it?" mother adds, looking at me. "You must feel terrible."
I let out another sigh. I have to get this off my chest. "No, you are sad. Sally and I were never close. It's literally her own fault that she got sick and died. I mean, she never brushed her teeth. She never cleaned up after herself. She never put a coat on when it got cold. If we'd scolded her more, fine, maybe. But it's too late now, is it? Plus, she never listened! Every time we told her to do her homework, she just got all mad. So I don't understand why I'm supposed to be crying my eyes out over her."
"She's your sister," mom argued, looking disturbed.
"Didn't make a difference," I snapped. "It probably wasn't a good thing that she was in this family, anyway. What if she wasn't? She would've lived. I wouldn't even have had to know her. Or live with her." Again, that is impossible to imagine.
"Don't say that!"
"Whatever." I go to my room, slam the door, and sit down to wrestle with my stats homework. Anything to get out of this world until Sally's death blows over.
Am I the only one who doesn't miss her?
Dinner, at 9 in the night, is a quiet affair. My mom and dad stare down at their plates, and one of them occasionally has to reach for a tissue to wipe away tears. I still haven't used one.
Am I just emotionless? Am I just cold? I don't think so. My friends have gotten all sorts of injuries and illnesses, and I cry my eyes out for them. But nothing comes out for Sally.
I can't stand to see people sad. Maybe that's why I'm not usually sad myself. It makes me depressed that my parents are in such despair, and I take the liberty to take bake cookies after I finish my work. They're tiny, bite-sized, double chocolate cookies, ones that Sally begged my mom to buy. I carefully set out twelve, four for each of us. Twelve is the usual number, but then it would be three for each family member. Tonight, I ration Sally's share.
I resist the urge to call to Sally, who typically would be just starting her homework, and to taunt her about the cookies. It makes me sadder for some reason. I miss the yelling, but I don't miss her. I mean, I still haven't cried yet. And I am still annoyed at her.
If you didn't get sick and die, you could be eating these cookies, stupid, I silently thought, forcing myself to relish the thought of getting an extra cookie.
I mean, they didn't taste too bad. It was one of the smarter decisions in Sally's life. Tonight, I cannot taste anything. I bite into a cookie too quickly, and the chocolate burns my tongue.
"Mozart!" I called loudly, sitting at the bottom of the stairs and grabbing the leash. Mozart the big Labrador comes trotting, but his tail isn't wagging like usual. Obviously, he has felt the grief in the house, and has sensed that a family member is permanently missing.
"Not you too," I say as I snap the rope onto his collar. We head out the door, the cool autumn breeze stripping me of the warmth I had felt in the house, and the air smells damp after the storm. The grass is still slightly wet. We always go for a walk right before I go to bed.
It's unusually black out; normally, the night would be a dark navy blue, the darkness chased away by light pollution. It feels like the whole world, except me, is grieving for Sally.
All the houses' lights are shut off, and it's just me and Mozart outside. Mozart sniffs around, then suddenly stops to examine something interesting at the edge of the grass. I walk past and try to jerk his leash to make him leave whatever's so enticing, but he stays, pawing at an object that I can't see. Without warning, he jerks his head back and lets out a surprised whine. Then, he goes back to playing with it.
"What is it?" I ask, turning on my pocket flashlight. It shines on a toad, and excitement courses through me, like always, when I spot animals crawling around. What kid didn't like to see toads and birds and snails?
Gingerly, I pick it up, and it remains motionless. I let go of Mozart's leash and let him run alongside me as I hurry back into the house, toad in hand, eager to show Sally. She was a fan of amphibians and reptiles.
"Sally, I found a toad!" I called, skipping the steps to reach her room. Shifting the toad to one hand, I place the other on the doorknob. I'm accustomed to entering without knocking. "Are you still doing your homework? I've got a toad. Mozart found him outside, and it kept jumping, and Mozart would get all scared, and--"
I jerk the door open, and it's empty. All of a sudden it hits me, with the full force of a punch.
Sally is dead.
She would never again be able to eat breakfast at our kitchen table, and then race outside, barely making it to the bus. She would never again be able to finish her freshman year of high school, shoving down the hallway, poking people with her violin case. She would never again be able to sit next to Izzy on the way home, chattering her head off about whatever plot twist occurred in her favorite anime. She would never again be able to taste the double chocolate chip cookies that she loved.
And she would never see this toad.
I stand there like a statue, staring at the emptiness. A sudden heaviness weighs down upon me. I walk to her bed, and sit on it slowly, but I don't feel anything. The lights are off, and the darkness is my only companion. Sal would be sitting across the room right now, at her desk, the lamp on, shining down on her half-completed history homework.
The toad hops away, and I bring my knees to my chest. She's not here anymore, and never will be.
I don't miss her.
I don't miss her.
I don't miss her.
The chant is empty and forced out. It's true. It's really true. Sally's gone. This room will be unoccupied forever. It feels cold.
The tears finally fall, hard and fast, like water flowing over a broken dam.


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We are vert pleased with the apartment. Everything worked fine, and the location was perfect
We arrived in Rome and Matteo helped arrange a driver from the train station. That was helpful since it had started to rain and we had lots of luggage. The apartment was renovated and lovely. Spacious with 3 bedrooms and three bathrooms. One shower was very small. There was no soap so bring your own amenities or buy from local store down the street. The air conditioning was great especially since it was around 88-90 degrees and humid out. The location was
Fantastic. So close to the Vatican which is crazy crowded but after 6:00 the area is quieter and the locals are out. Local restaurants were great and not expensive.
We did have a few issues. The beds were not that comfortable and I had to switch my bed with my son because I couldn't sleep in it. I did notify Matteo who said he would rectify this for next customer. I must say that all the beds were just average comfort. We also only received one towel per quest for three nights. So ask for more if that isn't enough or you can wash. Lastly this Homeaway was the only one we used that required a large security deposit and required payment in Euro upon arrival. We did receive security deposit back in cash the day we left. All in all a very pleasant stay. Would have loved to give it 5 stars but the beds were not that comfortable to warrant the highest rating.
We stayed in the property as part of a family vacation with our 4 teen and adult children. The communication before and during the stay was great, and despite a mix up on the payment terms (cash at check in) the owner and staff were accommodating and understanding. Transportation from FCO was arranged for us and was perfect as the driver was able to call ahead and we met the rep who showed us around the apartment just as we arrived on a hot Rome afternoon in August.
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It was great to be able to have cold drinks in the fridge after a hot day of tourist activities, and the location is perfect for seeing the Vatican - an easy 5-10 minute walk. And with the Metro just a short walk away on the same street as the apartment, the remainder of Rome is easily accessible or a taxi from the Pantheon area was about 20 Euro. The neighborhood surrounding the apartment was wonderful, with great cafes, restaurants, and Gelateria to keep you nourished and refreshed. We loved the little restaurant just a couple doors down "Pizza and Pollo" - they were friendly and welcoming and the food was unpretentious and fantastic and the ability to sit outside and enjoy a great meal helped make the trip for us.
We felt like we were staying in the home of a friend, with wonderful accommodation and a professional approach to business. We'd stay again if we were in Rome and I'm telling all my friends to do the same the next time they visit this amazing city.
Candia House was a lovely place to stay while in Rome. We had a party of 8 adults who fit comfortably in the house. My son and girlfriend used the pullout sofa in the "living room" which essentially converted to a 4th bedroom for them. The apartment was spotless and very comfortable. The air conditioning was very refreshing after walking around in the Rome heat all day. It is in a very safe building and in a nice area that is only 2 short blocks to the Vatican entrance. There was a metro stop (Cipro) that was about 3 blocks away that made it very easy to get to some key locations such as the Spanish Steps and Colosseum. There are plenty of great cafes and restaurants in the area around the apartment. Often, we would just walk around and found many selections of places to eat. We also found an ATM machine across the street that was handy. There is a small kitchen that we used every morning for breakfast and there is a nice market around the corner. Matteo was nice enough to leave us some Nespresso pods that we used every day. It was nice to eat breakfast and some snacks in the apartment and not have to go searching for a cafe or restaurant for every meal. There is also a small washer for clothes (no dryer though) which we could have used some instructions in English. We figured it out using Google Translate! We used the driver arranged by Matteo which was very helpful since we had never been to Rome. Overall, a wonderful Rome apartment. Thank you Matteo
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ab330 €
|Anmerkungen: Preise basieren auf 6 Gästen; pro zusätzlichem Gast werden 25 € pro Nacht berechnet.
3 Nächte Mindestaufenthalt
875 €
für 3 Nächte
ab265 €
|Anmerkungen: Preise basieren auf 6 Gästen; pro zusätzlichem Gast werden 20 € pro Nacht berechnet.
|Erstattbare Kaution
|250 €
|Final Cleaning
|80 €
|4 € pro Nacht, pro Person. Dieser Betrag ist fällig bei Anreise. Für Kinder unter 10 Jahren ist sie nicht zu entrichten.
-Pulizie finali Euro 80,00
-Contributo soggiorno a Roma euro 3,5 a persona per notte max 10 giorni (sono esentati dal pagamento i bambini fino a dieci anni di età)
-Check in si effettua tra le ore 16.00 e le 19.30
-Check out 8:30 - 10:00
Sarà possibile effettuare check-in e check-out oltre gli orari indicati con sovrapprezzo
Le tariffe sono da considerarsi ad appartamento per 6 ospiti al giorno
Ospite extra (oltre il sesto) 20 euro al giorno