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There are a number of issues that threaten the Chesapeake Bay's health. Some of the major issues facing the Chesapeake Bay are:
Many natural geographic factors also influence the Bay's health. The Bay watershed – the area of land that drains to the Bay – covers 64,000 square miles across six states and the District of Columbia. Combine this with the fact that the Bay's average depth is just 21 feet, and that means a lot of water – and pollution – drains into a narrow, shallow estuary.
Cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay is a difficult task. However, with a dedicated effort by government, businesses and the region's 17 million residents, we can achieve a healthy, restored Bay for future generations to enjoy.


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I joined this site a little while back. I use to own a 2000 Impreza RS but just recently sold it and just bought a bugeye.
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-Full Turbo XS WS exhaust with STI axleback
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Learning and Growing Together is more than a slogan in Bloomfield; it is a fact of life. From early childhood to adult life, the district tries to meet the educational needs of its residents. The Board of Education employs approximately 260 certified staff and administrators and an additional 210 non-certified staff and food services workers in its facilities. The range of educational opportunities for students extends form early childhood programs to adult education. The Wintonbury Early Childhood Magnet School was established to enable preschool and kindergarten children in Bloomfield, and the surrounding towns, to learn at high levels in a school that employs the most current, research-based practices. The Early Childhood Magnet School population represents the cultural, ethnic and socioeconomic diversity of the participating districts. The program integrates special education services, child care and human services for families. The Laurel (K-2) and Metacomet (3-4) Elementary Schools provide education in the district. Each school is dedicated to developing the fundamental skills necessary for the students to move on to the next level of education in the district.The Carmen Arace Campus has been recently divided into two schools, the Carmen Arace Intermediate and Middle Schools providing 5 - 6 and 7 - 8 grade education respectively. The educational decision to divide the Middle school was based on the desire to provide appropriate educational environments for age groups that are quite different. The High School Campus consists of Bloomfield High School and the Harris Agri-Science Center. Each provides education for grade 9 - 12 students. The High School is a comprehensive learning environment preparing all students for post secondary educational opportunities including a variety of opportunities in vocational fields. The consumer arts program includes automotives, business education, computer technology and graphics arts, culinary arts, and family and consumer science components. The Harris Agri-Science Center, which is a state and town funded vocational education facility accepting students from Bloomfield and the greater Hartford towns, directs its students to post-secondary education institutions specializing in natural sciences, animal and plant science, aquaculture, and technology. Approximately 85 percent of Bloomfield students move on to higher education institutions.The Global Experience Magnet School (GEMS) offers a well-rounded, college preparatory education that will ensure readiness to compete in a fast-paced, global economy. GEMS will provide a customized education, deeply rooted in experiences, which will allow each student to reach their maximum social and academic potential. Each GEMS student will be provided with local, national, and international experiences throughout grades 6-12. Each student will receive a Personalized Learning Plan, small-group instruction, multi-age classrooms, and the ability to participate in local, national, and international community service experiences.
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WATCH: Trailer of horror movie 'Mumbai 125' starring Veena Malik as a deadly ghost
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New Delhi: Pakistani siren Veena Malik, who fizzled out after doing a few item numbers in random B-grade films, will now be seen haunting and hunting humans in a literally deadly avatar in her upcoming horror flick titled 'Mumbai 125'.
The project is helmed by Hemant Madhukar and also stars TV star Karanvir Bohra, Vedita Pratap Singh, Vije Bhatia and Rajeev Anand in lead roles.
Going by the trailer of the film, there are ample shots of sex and other paraphernalia associated with typical Bollywood horror films. The movie is about a group of friends who take a road trip to Mumbai but in an untoward turn of events they realise that even after an hour long travel, they come across the same milestone that reads '125 km' . Veena Malik has played an evil spirit in the movie.
Director Hemant Madhukar spoke about the movie with a Mumbai-based entertainment website: "It was a great experience shooting a film in 3D as it is for the first time I have worked on a concept like this. The entire film is shot in nights as the film is a one night story."
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Systems for Action (S4A) is a program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that studies novel ways of aligning the delivery and financing systems that support a Culture of Health. Building on a foundation of scientific progress from both health services research (HSR) and public health services and systems research (PHSSR), S4A uses rigorous methods to test strategies for improving the reach, quality, efficiency, and equity of services and supports that promote health and well-being on a population-wide basis. S4A uses a wide research lens that includes and extends beyond medical care and public health systems to incorporate sectors such as housing, transportation, social services, community services and supports, education, criminal and juvenile justice, and economic and community development. This is a two-phase application process: Applicants must first submit a three-page letter of intent (LOI) through RWJF's online system by January 12, 2016. Only those projects that align with the CFP will be invited to submit a full proposal, which will be due March 11, 2016. Please see full timeline below. Studies funded through this CFP will identify system innovations and interactions that drive collaboration and integration across the multiple financing and delivery systems that support a Culture of Health. Investigators will generate and disseminate rigorous scientific evidence on ways to optimize delivery and financing systems for sustained improvements in health and well-being.
Systems for Action: Systems and Services Research to Build a Culture of Health
2015 Call for Proposals
Eligibility and Selection Criteria
Applicants must be either public entities or nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Applicant organizations must be based in the United States or its territories. Awards will be made to organizations, not to individuals. Multi-organizational consortia are encouraged to apply as long as a single eligible organization is designated as the primary applicant responsible for maintaining consortium agreements with other participating organizations.
Key Dates
December 18, 2015 (1-2 p.m. ET)
Informational webinar for applicants. Registration required.
January 12, 2016
Deadline for receipt of Letters of Intent.
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Finalists notified of funding recommendations.
June 15, 2016
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Total Awards
Two types of awards are available through this solicitation:
- Type One: studies to be completed within a 12-month period with up to $100,000 in total funding.
- Type Two: studies to be completed over a 24-month period with up to $250,000 in total funding.
Up to six S4A studies will be selected for funding through this solicitation. Each study will be expected to distribute its resources for research and stakeholder engagement in the most productive and equitable ways among partnering institutions and collaborating investigators based on the division of effort, expertise and capabilities. Study teams also will be expected to work closely with the National Coordinating Center and RWJF to disseminate and translate findings to targeted knowledge users to maximize real-world impact. Funded investigators are encouraged to leverage resources from other sources to support both research and engagement activities.
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Welding is the most common way of permanently joining metal parts, and welders learn the characteristics and properties, such as melting points of steel, aluminum, and other commonly used metals. Persons interested in becoming welding technicians should possess basic skills in vocational math and reading. Good hand-eye coordination and a desire to learn are also important in this field.
The majority of graduates from the Bevill State Welding Technology program move into the field as technicians with particular areas of expertise. Among the various occupations our graduates are qualified to seek are welders in various occupational fields, welder's helpers, flame cutters, and pipe welders.
A certificate in Welding Technology can provide you with the foundation on which a rewarding career can be built. According to labor statistics, the number of technician positions is expected to grow faster than average due to the increasing demand for skilled labor in the welding job market.
The placement rate of graduates of the Bevill State Welding Technology program has been higher than 80% in recent years, with many students obtaining employment prior to graduation.
With quality educational training and experience, former students of the Welding Technology program at Bevill State can make up to $45,000 per year. Depending on the location of employment, graduates generally start at $15 per hour and with a few years of experience can earn up to $50 per hour.
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David and Valissa are born again, baptized and filled with the Holy Spirit and have dedicated their lives and ministry to the edification of God's people by preaching Gods Word with simplicity, speaking words of inspiration, and teaching life applicable lessons so that the lost might be saved, the saved might be transformed and God glorified! In 1998 at the leading of the Holy Spirit, Moore and Moore Ministries International was established and God has been enlarging its territory every since. David and Valissa Moore are powerful teachers, preachers of the word of God. In addition Valissa is an anointed and powerful minister in song. Moore and Moore Ministries sends out a weekly devotional called "Proverbial Moment" which has recipients on the continents of Asia, Africa and North America. MNM Ministries also host an annual couples' conference called BTV (Beyond the Veil) Couples' Conference.


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Effective date: 8/17/2016
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- Brief Overview
- Descriptions and Definitions
- What and When to Promptly Report to the IRB
- What Not to Promptly Report to the IRB
- Assessing Whether an Event is Expected
- Assessing Whether an Event is Related
- Assessing Whether an Event Places Subjects or Others at Increased Risk
- Investigator Responsibilities
- Other Reportable Events to Track and Summarize at IRB Continuing Review
- Tracking Logs and Forms
- References and Additional Guidance
Brief Overview
The Principal Investigator (PI) is responsible for informing the IRB of any reportable events or problems that may increase the subject's anticipated risk or decrease the anticipated benefit by participating in the research. These events include local and external events or other problems that are unexpected and at least probably related to the research interventions, procedures, or assessments.
NOTE: PIs of protocols reviewed and approved through a non-UT System IRB must report local events to the IRB on which they are reliant.
Descriptions and Definitions
Adverse Events
An adverse event is any untoward or unfavorable medical occurrence in a human research study participant, including any abnormal sign, symptom, clinical event, or disease that occurs during the subject's participation in the research, whether or not it is considered related to the subject's participation in the research. Adverse events encompass clinical, physical, economic, social, and psychological harms. They occur most commonly in biomedical research, although they can also occur in social and behavioral research.
Non-Adverse Events
A non-adverse event is any event that results in an increased risk of harm (physical, psychological, social, etc.), but did not result in actual harm to the subject. New information or other errors may represent a non-adverse event which would require reporting. For example: the research pharmacy inadvertently administers 10 times the study dose of investigational medication and the subject does not experience any adverse effects from the increased dose. This is a situation where there was an increased risk; however, the subject did not experience any adverse reactions. A breach of confidentiality is another example of a possible non-adverse event.
Local Events
In the context of multi-center research projects, events are characterized as either Local or External. When investigators are participating in multi-center studies, Local events are those experienced by subjects enrolled by the investigator(s) under the UT Southwestern IRB jurisdiction. In the context of a single-center research study conducted by an investigator under the UT Southwestern IRB, all events would be considered local.
External Events
External events are those experienced by subjects enrolled by investigators at another institution(s) or in a related study. Examples of external events include:
- Information from related studies
- Literature searches
- IND/IDE Safety Reports
- Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB), Data Monitoring Committee (DMC), and Data Safety Committee (DSC) reports
- FDA Black Box Warnings
- Safety holds due to new or unexpected risks
- New information or publications
- External audits or monitoring reports with findings
Serious Adverse Event
A "Serious Adverse Event" is by definition an event that meets any of the following criteria
- Results in death
- Is life-threatening (places the subject at immediate risk of death)
- Results in inpatient hospitalization or prolongation of existing hospitalization
- Results in a persistent or significant disability/incapacity
- Results in a congenital anomaly/birth defect, or
- Based upon appropriate medical judgment, may jeopardize the subject's health and may require medical or surgical intervention to prevent one of the other outcomes listed in this definition.
NOTE: Serious adverse events may or may not be related to the research project. A serious adverse event determination does not require the event to be related to the research. That is, events completely unrelated to the condition under study and events that are expected in the context of the condition under study may both be serious adverse events. As examples, a car accident requiring overnight hospitalization would be a serious adverse event for any research participant; likewise, in a study investigating end-stage cancer care, any hospitalization or death would be a serious adverse event, even if the event observed is a primary clinical endpoint of the study. As shown below in the table, not all serious adverse events must be reported to the IRB.
Unanticipated Problems Involving Risks to Subjects or Others (UPIRSOs)
The term "unanticipated problem" is found, but not defined, in the regulations for the Protection of Human Subjects at 45 CFR 46, and the FDA regulations at 21 CFR 56. Guidance from the regulatory agencies considers unanticipated problems to include any incident, experience, or outcome that meets ALL three (3) of the following criteria:
- Unexpected in nature, frequency, or severity (i.e., generally not expected in a subject's underlying condition, or not expected as a risk of the study; therefore, not included in the investigator's brochure, protocol, or informed consent document, AND
- Definitely or probably related to participation in the research, AND
- Suggests that the research places subjects or others at a greater risk of harm (including physical, psychological, economic, or social harm) than was previously known or recognized.
- Not all UPIRSOs are adverse events
- Only a small subset of adverse events occurring in human subjects participating in research will meet all three (3) criteria above and be determined an unanticipated problem.
- If an adverse event is determined to be an "unanticipated problem," consideration will be given to the necessity for commensurate changes in the protocol and/or informed consent document/process or other corrective actions in order to protect the safety, welfare, and/or rights of research subjects.
Noncompliance consists of conducting research in a manner that disregards or violates rules, regulations (state or federal), and policies and standards of conduct that govern human subjects research, and/or failure to follow the requirements and determinations of the IRB. Noncompliance may be minor or serious and sporadic or continuing.
Serious Noncompliance
Serious noncompliance consists of conducting research in a manner that adversely affects subjects' safety or the safety of others, increases risks to subjects, or violates the rights and welfare of participants (any of which may also be an unanticipated problem). Serious noncompliance may affect the subject's willingness to participate in research or may affect the integrity of the data (which may also be scientific misconduct).
Continuing Noncompliance
A persistent failure to adhere to the laws, regulations, or policies governing human research is considered continuing noncompliance. Continuing noncompliance is a pattern of recurring (in one or more protocols simultaneously or over a period of time) or ongoing instances of actions or omissions (noncompliance) which indicate:
- An underlying deficiency in knowledge of the regulations and/or IRB requirements, or
- A possible inability or unwillingness to comply with regulations and/or IRB requirements. Instances may or may not constitute serious noncompliance.
NOTE: Unanticipated problems and serious or continuing noncompliance invoke additional reporting requirements (i.e., NIH, Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP), FDA, etc.). The IRB will assist the investigator in documenting and reporting unanticipated problems and serious/continuing noncompliance to the appropriate federal agencies and other authorities.
What and When to Promptly Report to the IRB
Please use the table below to determine which events and other research-related information requires prompt reporting to the IRB and the local IRB reporting timeframes. A printable version of this table is available.
|Type of Event
|When to Report
|Local Serious Adverse Event UPIRSO
(Life Threatening or Fatal events experienced by subjects enrolled by the investigator(s) under UTSW IRB jurisdiction)
|Within 48 hours of PI awareness
|Local UPIRSO
(Events experienced by subjects enrolled by the investigator(s) under UTSW IRB jurisdiction)
|Within 5 business days of PI awareness
|External UPIRSO
(Events experienced by subjects enrolled by investigators at another institution(s) or in a related study that is also being conducted at UTSW)
|Within 10 business days of PI awareness
|Anticipated events or other problems
(Expected events/problems listed in the protocol and informed consent document)
For anticipated events, track and summarize at continuing review
For unanticipated events that meet all 3 criteria for UPIRSO, follow either local or external (as applicable) UPIRSO reporting requirements
|Reportable events related to a Humanitarian Use Device (HUD)
|Within 48 hours of PI awareness
NOTE: DSMB/DMC/DSC reports do not require prompt reporting to the IRB unless they meet UPIRSO criteria. DSMB/DMC/DSC reports that do not meet UPIRSO criteria should be summarized and submitted to the IRB at continuing review.
Protocol Violations, Protocol Deviations, and Other Research-Related Incidents
|Type of Violation or Incident
|When to Report
|Protocol Deviation
|Any unintentional or accidental change to, or noncompliance with, the IRB-approved protocol that does not, or does not have the potential to, adversely affect the subject's rights, safety, or welfare, and/or the integrity of the data.
|Track and summarize at continuing review
|Protocol Violation (Possible Noncompliance)
|Any intentional or accidental change to, or noncompliance with, the IRB-approved protocol that does, or has the potential to, adversely affect the subject's rights, safety, or welfare, and/or the integrity of the data.
|Within 10 business days of PI awareness
|Protocol Change Without Prior IRB Approval
|Necessary to avoid immediate and apparent harm to participants (Local UPIRSO)
|Within 5 business days of occurrence (see Local UPIRSO above)
|Major Complaints
|A complaint made by a subject, subject's family, or others, which is unresolved by the research team, or which indicates increased or unexpected risks
|Within 10 business days of PI awareness
Additional Important Information on Prompt Reporting
- Investigators are responsible for monitoring all adverse events and non-adverse events according to the protocol data safety monitoring plan and reporting in summary format to the IRB at continuing review.
- Investigators may have adverse event reporting requirements (e.g., Sponsor, DSMB/DMC/DSC, FDA, NIH, etc.) in addition to IRB reporting requirements. It is the investigator's responsibility to know and comply with any additional reporting requirements.
- To maintain confidentiality, subject names should not be included on reports or in summary reports to the IRB. Instead, please redact the name and use subject ID numbers or other random code to identify subjects in these reports. You may use and submit the IRB local event tracking tool for tracking events.
What Not to Promptly Report to the IRB
- Individual adverse events or other problems that do not meet the criteria for reporting to the IRB. For example, adverse events that are expected and/or not related or possibly related to the research do not need to be promptly reported, but should be tracked and summarized to the IRB at continuing review. If the study sponsor requires submission of these events to the IRB, the events should be summarized and submitted to the IRB at continuing review.
- Routine DSMB/DMC/DSC reports (indicating to continue the study as planned), individual study sponsor IND/IDE safety reports, or other reports that do not meet the UPIRSO criteria. These are generally reports from sponsors informing researchers using the same drug or device in a different trial about adverse events or reactions occurring in trials not conducted by an investigator under the UT Southwestern IRB jurisdiction, or adverse experiences reported in the context of usual clinical use of the study drug/device. Individual IND/IDE safety reports on studies not conducted by an investigator under UT Southwestern IRB jurisdiction will not be acknowledged by the IRB without an analysis of the event, an explanation of how the event meets the regulatory reporting criteria, and a discussion of any planned modifications or other actions necessary to protect subjects. These types of routine reports should be summarized and submitted to the IRB at continuing review.
Assessing Whether an Event is Expected
An event occurring in one or more subjects participating in a research protocol is considered unexpected if the nature, severity, or frequency of occurrence is not consistent with either:
- The known or foreseeable risk of adverse events associated with the procedures involved in the research that are described in (a) the protocol-related documents, such as the approved research protocol, any applicable investigator brochure, and the current IRB-approved informed consent document; and (b) other relevant sources of information, such as product labeling and package inserts; or
- The expected natural progression of any underlying disease, disorder, or condition of the subject(s) experiencing the adverse event, and the subject's predisposing risk factor profile for the adverse event.
The vast majority of adverse events occurring in the context of research are expected in light of (1) the known toxicities and side effects of the research interventions/procedures; (2) the expected natural progression of subjects' underlying diseases, disorders, and conditions; and (3) subjects' predisposing risk factor profiles for the adverse events. Thus, most individual adverse events do not meet the first criterion and do not need to be reported.
Assessing Whether an Event is Related
"Possibly related" means there is a possibility that the incident, experience, or outcome may have been caused by the procedures or interventions involved in the research although the relationship is uncertain (i.e., there is not enough information to determine causality). Usually, events assessed as possibly related do not result in modifications to the investigator's brochure, protocol, or informed consent document.
"Probably related" means that it is likely that the incident, experience, or outcome was caused by the procedures or interventions involved in the research. In general, events that are determined to have at least a reasonable relationship to the research procedures or interventions would be considered probably related to participation in the research. Usually, events assessed as probably related would result in modifications to the investigator's brochure, protocol, and/or informed consent document.
"Unrelated" means that the incident, experience, or outcome was solely caused by the underlying disease, disorder, or condition, or by events that are clearly unrelated to the research project or condition under study.
Assessing Whether an Event Places Subjects or Others at Increased Risk
Events, incidents, experiences, or outcomes that are unexpected, related (definitely or probably) to participation in research, and serious suggest that the research places subjects or others at increased risk than was previously known or recognized. These events would warrant consideration of substantive changes in the protocol or informed consent document or other corrective actions in order to protect the safety of subjects, with consideration including but not limited to sponsor and DSMB/DMC/DSC oversight, IRB review, and investigator determinations. In rare occasions, it may be advisable to temporarily suspend research in order to adequately assess the event(s) and make any necessary changes.
However, events that do not meet the definition of "serious" may still suggest the possibility of increased risk of harm to subjects or others (i.e., an event, although expected, occurred at a greater frequency or severity that previously known or anticipated). It is important to recognize that greater risk of harm is not limited to adverse events that are "serious."
Investigator Responsibilities
Investigators are responsible for:
- Timely, accurate, and complete event reporting as described in this guidance.
- Safety monitoring according to the IRB-approved protocol data safety monitoring plan. This includes monitoring for, and maintaining documentation of, adverse events whether or not they meet the criteria for reporting to the IRB.
- Ensuring that adverse events are reported to the monitoring entity (e.g., the research sponsor, a coordinating or statistical center, an independent medical monitor, or a DSMB/DMC/DSC) as required under the monitoring provisions described in the IRB-approved protocol.
- Evaluating whether adverse events or other safety-related information may affect subject's willingness to continue participation in the study, and/or whether changes to the protocol or informed consent document are indicated to protect the safety and welfare of subjects.
- Conducting causality assessment and follow-up of all local study-related adverse events and other safety-related information (such as sponsor or DSMB/DMC/DSC updates, or study holds due to safety concerns).
- Providing the IRB with a progress report at continuing review as outlined in the eIRB continuing review smart form. The progress report should include a summarization of the investigator's overall assessment of any adverse events and any other new information that has become available in order for the IRB to determine if the risk/benefit ratio has changed. The investigator's assessment may be a statement that expected adverse events have not occurred at a greater frequency or severity than previously anticipated; and/or a report from a monitoring entity such as a DSMB/DMC/DSC, the research sponsor, or coordinating center.
Adhering to IRB reporting requirements will be monitored as part of the IRB's routine administrative monitoring activities. Findings of non-compliance will be handled in accordance with the UT Southwestern IRB policy on regulatory non-compliance.
Other Reportable Events to Track and Summarize at IRB Continuing Review
External Audits and Monitoring Reports
If notified that a study will be reviewed or audited by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP), or other external regulatory oversight agency, the PI must promptly notify the IRB office of the impending audit or review. If the PI is given advance notice of an audit by an external entity, the IRB staff can help the study team to gather essential documents and can be available to help answer the auditor's questions about human subject protections at UT Southwestern. The IRB also may wish to send a representative to observe proceedings of any "exit interview" which may occur. The written report of any audit findings by FDA or other regulatory agencies must be forwarded to the IRB for its records.
The PI also must notify the IRB office should the Sponsor, or any internal monitoring or compliance group, having findings resulting in a protocol modification or other corrective action(s) to protect subjects, indicate serious or continuing non-compliance, or involve other regulatory actions. Other activities, such as sponsor-initiated audits or monitoring visits, should be reported to the IRB if there are significant findings that could potentially affect the safety, rights, or welfare of subjects, and/or as required by the study sponsor. Routine site monitoring reports or data queries do not require prompt reporting to the IRB unless there are findings that meet the above reporting criteria.
Data and Safety Monitoring Reports
For ongoing trials, the IRB is responsible for considering new information arising from interim protocol data safety monitoring by the PI or a DSMB/DMC/DSC. Investigators are responsible for assuring that the IRB is made aware of significant new information that arises about a clinical trial. Such information may include recommendations to the sponsor. DSMB/DMC/DSC reports should be reported to the IRB at continuing review, even when no problems have been identified and it has been recommended to continue the trial as designed. In the absence of a formal DSMB/DMC/DSC, the PI should provide reports to the IRB in accordance with the approved protocol data safety monitoring plan to the IRB at continuing review.
Protocol Deviations and Minor Complaints
Federal regulations require that no changes be made to research protocols without IRB approval, except where necessary to eliminate apparent immediate hazards to human subjects. It is the responsibility of the PI to ensure that all individuals involved in the conduct of the research follow the IRB-approved research protocol. When changes to the protocol are necessary, a modification (MOD) request must be submitted to the IRB for review and approval prior to implementation of the changes.
A protocol deviation is an unintentional or accidental change to, or noncompliance with, the IRB-approved protocol that does not, or does not have the potential to, adversely affect the subject's rights, safety, or welfare, and/or the integrity of the data. Protocol deviations do not require prompt reporting to the IRB, but should be documented in the study records and tracked and summarized to the IRB at continuing review.
NOTE: If a change must be implemented immediately to avoid an immediate or apparent hazard prior to obtaining IRB approval, this must be promptly reported to the IRB within five (5) business days of the occurrence.
Minor complaints made by a subject, subject's family, or others which are resolved by the research team and do not indicate increased or unexpected risks do not need to be promptly reported to the IRB. Summarize minor complaints and their resolutions to the IRB at continuing review.
NOTE: Refer to the table for reporting requirements of major complaints, complaints that are not resolved by the research team, or complaints that indicate increased or unexpected risks for subjects or others.
IRB Tracking Logs and Forms
- Events (Adverse and Non-Adverse) and Unanticipated Problems (UPIRSOs) Tracking Log
- Unanticipated Problems (UPIRSOs) Form
- Protocol Deviations and Violations Tracking Log
- Protocol Deviation/Violation Form
- How to Use the IRB Tracking Logs and Forms with Examples
References and Additional Guidance
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
"Adverse Event Reporting to IRBs – Improving Human Subject Protection."
NIH Office of Biotechnology Activities (OBA)
"Reporting of Incidents Related to Research Subject to the NIH Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant or Synthetic Nucleic Acids to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Biotechnology Activities (OBA)"
Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP)
"Reviewing and Reporting Unanticipated Problems Involving Risks to Subjects or Others and Adverse Events."
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So with LaDainian Tomlinson opting to pout behind a dark green visor instead of a purple one in 2010, what will the Vikings do about backing up Adrian Peterson in 2010?
It's a good question.
Good enough for a PFTV segment.
So with LaDainian Tomlinson opting to pout behind a dark green visor instead of a purple one in 2010, what will the Vikings do about backing up Adrian Peterson in 2010?
It's a good question.
Good enough for a PFTV segment.
Florio, are you on the Vikings payroll??
lets- Chilly loves BWest. he needs a job. concusion. if Westbrook can pass a physical,, he'll be in MN on 3rd downs
I can't believe they haven't considered/won't consider Brian Westbrook. I know he hasn't been able to stay healthy but if he's getting the amount of touches that Chester was getting I think he could be very effective and would stay healthy. Not to mention I think he would be a very positive influence on Peterson and help him on his work ethic and intangibles such as HOLDING ONTO THE BALL…
Funny how PFT thinks they are the authority for this kind of analysis.
There is no question good enough for a PFTV segment, because they suck.
Just stick to writing blurbs.
Yeah, let's do a segment on a potential backup for the Vikings when there are probably a dozen teams who are looking for new starters at RB.
Not like I'm surprised.
Listen I'll tell you what you're going to do. Not pick up B Westbrook, didn't see his cousin ball hog the Gophers basketball team into a loss today? I'll tell you, you're going to hold tight. RB isn't their biggest weakness. They have a good fullback, and A. Young and a draft pick can compete for the spot. They need help on the O-Line, my buddy Barak can handle those duties, he'll just tell the opposition to lay down and roll over, he's know what's best. They also need some assistance at Safety, maybe they can get a Republican to fill the spot, Republicans generally play it safe. All I know is that I am the Queen of the World and Barak is my King.
It's gotta be hard to find people to play for you when you've never won a damn thing.
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"Florio, are you on the Vikings payroll??"
He's very close. He's a lifetime Vikings fan who's going to be in the booth with Paul Allen who is on the Vikings payroll. He's getting too close to their organization to be an unbiased observer. Just look at how he ripped "Lord Favre" until he became a Viking. Then he was 100% in Favre's corner . He needs to recuse himself from further Vikings coverage.
A huge problem with getting Westbrook is that the Vikings play AND practice on turf. There was a study that just came out and said that injuries are more prone on turf. So the organization knows you can't have a guy that is injury prone on an injury prone field…. Young is a good backup and has made tremendous strides in the last two years. But I can also see the vikes taking one of those USC backs.
Sometimes on Madden Young gets subbed in, and I call a time out and rearrange the depth chart so he goes away again.
He lumbers like a fullback and has the tackle-breaking ability of a punter, probably.
Now it's entirely possible that madden has his numbers all wrong, after all, what could they even be going by? It's not like he's really played at all.
As a Minnesotan and a Vikings fan, I'm ashamed to watch my team pretend to be the Colts, by having a good running back and no running game, and rely on our basketball-playing skills to carry the offense.
Black and blue division member indeed. -_-
His work ethic? Are you insane?
GridIron says:
"Florio, are you on the Vikings payroll??"
He's very close. He's a lifetime Vikings fan who's going to be in the booth with Paul Allen who is on the Vikings payroll. He's getting too close to their organization to be an unbiased observer. Just look at how he ripped "Lord Favre" until he became a Viking. Then he was 100% in Favre's corner . He needs to recuse himself from further Vikings coverage.
Sorry, I fell asleep during the commercial.
However, the Vikings need to go out and get DeDe Dorsey (if someone hasn't already signed him). Dorsey's versatile and a hard runner who is excellent on special teams too. And he hasn't had 58 concussions like Westbrook.
Nothing more obvious could have been said in this segment.
They tried to get Dorsey…and he went to the Lions.
He should enjoy that.
I heard Jimmy Smith is replacing the 2nd best cashier at McDonalds.
Congrats, Jim!
Somebody put a call into Brent's Mississippi compound to see what he has up his sleeve for this most important question. Its too bad Brent came up short in his quest to sign LT, I suspect it wasn't Brent's fault but more due to the fact that Chilly went to dinner with LT and LT left thinking that Minnesota's hire the handicap law has gone so far as to affect the hiring decision of a head coach.
No worries, Brent will recruit someone else to worship at this throne. Someone who appreciates his HOF credentials, someone who will work hard all season and not complain when Brent pisses all over another season with a post season choke job.
Does Ian Johnson have to propose to Brett Favre to get some consideration? Why sign some washed up has-beens? IAN JOHNSON!
Nothing wrong with Albert Young. You guys should read up on what he accomplished at Iowa.
He may not be a starter, but he's more than adequate as the back-up.
I really like Best out of California, but think Corner, safety, DT, OL, and a young QB for the future are bigger needs.
Why not Brian Westbrook?? yeah I know tha guy has injury problems but playing behind AP wont command as much out of him as there was in Philly plus tha dude is a great receiving back something AP though he's gotten better at it is still not exactley great at or they should draft 1 in the 3rd round or something like say Toby Gerhart or Stanford if he is still there or Jahvid Best if he's still on the board
How about the Ex Bear Adrian Peterson. He plays special teams and would confuse everybody when they announce Adrian Peterson and the other Adrian Peterson.
@Mattchew… I agree. I know this sounds strange but the Ex Bears AP would compliment their run, especially on third downs with a back that can actually hold the ball.
PULL&SEAL says:
March 19, 2010 3:33 PM
It's gotta be hard to find people to play for you when you've never won a damn thing.
Packer fan? They last won "something" 14 years ago.
Try to stay current.
all this hate floating around concerning favre and albert young reminds me of the hate surrounding percy harvin before last years draft. if you guys need to hate favre and albert young maybe you need to look at your childhood to see where it went wrong. Harvin did fine this season. Favre did great this season. Albert young has the potential to fill in for taylor. I do agree that Taylor left a hole. He was very valuable. Congrats Chicago. Its not the most pressing issue with the vikings at this time…. Will Favre come back? Our OL needs help. Safety help is needed. whos that safety from USC Taylor Mays? I would like to see him in purple this season.
pull and seal…. do you mean to say if you haven't won a SB then your nothing? were your parents super critical of you when you were growing up? The Vikings had a great season this year. Everyone was waiting to see if Favre could come in and not wear down like the year before. No one guessed he would have one of the best…….. i repeat BEST year of his career.. sounds like your either a hater or a victim of being severely criticized as a child
Also I have been pleased with the off season the Vikings have had over the course of the last few years…. Look at it…. Adrian Peterson, Jared Allen, Percy Harvin….. It's like the Vikings sorta know what to do? Too many haters that just spout off at the mouth
Adrian Peterson 2 is a good one other than he sucks, but I love the name confusion slant.
I agree that Ian Johnson will be the answer, he would have beaten our Albert last year if he had know the offense.
Sorry but I think Ian Johnson is the guy.
He's bigger than Albert Young, faster than Albert Young, more illusive than Albert Young and he can catch the ball out of the backfield better than Albert Young. I'm a huge Hawkeye fan, and I'm saying this… so you've got to believe that the Vikings coaching knows it too. The only knock on Ian Johnson is his injury history in college.
Westbrook got a concussion. First game back, he got another concussion. Concussions are different than ankle injuries etc. I wouldn't take the risk unless I was really desperate.
Boxers and MMA fighters always say that after you get KOd, it becomes easier and easier to get KOd in the future.
The other AP also has fumbling issues so no way there. Ian and Albert are both adequate but not proven. I think they should go after Pierre Thomas at the 2nd round tender he's a great 3rd down back.
@USA I love your idea of bringing in Pierre Thomas but I think New Orleans would match any deal the Vikings put together. I don't think I'm going out on a limb when I say that Jahvid Best will be the Vikings #1 draft pick this year. He can back up AD, who will become the rare everydown back, and he can replace Percy Harvin in the kick return game, who has become to "valuable" as a receiver to risk injury in the kick return game i.e. Devin Hester. Vikings fans check out Jahvid Best on youtube and let me know what you think. Ill try and post the link later.


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Welcome to the world of automotive sales.
Dealerships typically look at their basic sales people much like Civil War generals looked at their infantry soldiers - expendable cannon fodder.
Seriously, most sales managers are looking for a person who is self-motivated, able to follow directions, and most of all, has good communication skills. That's the type of salesman who will tell the customer what the SM wants him to, and will follow the "road to the sale" as set out by the dealership.
This is not necessarily the guy who is going to succeed in this business, though. As some of the responses before indicate, these jobs are long on hours, heavy on internal competition, and mostly short on training. I've found, over the years, that the long-term, successful salesman is an independent, self-reliant businessman who can readily evaluate his customer, succinctly communicate the terms of a transaction, and who will motivate that customer to make a purchase decision in his favor. This person looks at his sales job somewhat as a separate "dealership" unto himself, and takes that responsibility seriously.
These folks don't require a lot of supervison, and normally will either train themselves, or let you know exactly what training they need. Unfortunately, a lot of sales managers (and often, dealers) don't really like to deal with these types - mainly because this salesman is so independent in his sales approach, and doesn't fit into the "company" profile for their sales staff. There aren't a lot of them around, either - sometimes one or two per dealership.
It usually takes a while to get to this point in a sales career. Talk to these guys, and you will find they almost all earned their stripes on the asphalt, and spent years building their own book of business. They usually find one dealership and stay there, and seldom will you find them walking the lot or standing guard over the main entrance to the store. They'll be in their offices prospecting their own customers and delivering vehicles. They almost always will be earning six-figure incomes.
Automobile sales is not for everybody. You won't get much training, support, or patience, much less sympathy from your managers, and very little comradeship from your colleagues. In most stores this is a "dog eat dog" proposition, and commissions are usually hard to come by.
Good luck on trying this business out. I was in your shoes fifteen years ago asking the same questions. If you really have it in you, you will be hard pressed to find a more rewarding career.


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Privilege in Australia, Part II
In part I the question was posed to the readers which privileges bothered them most about Australia and what they thought could be done to reduce them. In this part I want to start to consider the barriers by talking about the 'face' of any privilege and how this creates particular difficulties in tackling them.
The reaction to the first part though revealed a lot of people have pet hates when it comes to privilege. Apart from my own particular bones of contentions (mining chief amongst them), there were those bothered by welfare privileges (Mike Russell), the whole secret system of military expenses and PV subsidies (Ben), captured markets for GPs (Selzick), allocations of water rights (Sam Wylie), subsidies to private schools (Michael Stanley and Mary jenkins).
The proposed solutions were varied, including electoral reform (Alan), the use of taxation measures when it came to the subsidisation of elite education (conrad), better general education on these issues (Sam), or the removal of particular laws pertaining to this or that privilege.
Rather than discuss all these, I want to give you an idea of what one is up against when it concerns privilege and then re-assess what can be done.
What is not commonly understood by economists about existing privileges is that they invariably have a defensive story that surrounds them and protects them. This defensive story, its 'face' or 'cloak', has as its central tenet that the privilege is in fact a good thing for society and that one should expect nothing but bad from removing it. The particulars of the protective story are entirely dependent on the audience: whatever the audience is prepared to believe will be in the story so whatever the favourite ideals or delusions of the audience are, the protective cloak of privilege will cater for it. And invariably, many people are fooled by the cloak and turn into willing protectors of the privilege because they are so enamored of the cloak.
Let me give two examples. One concerns medical specialists and one concerns the mining tax.
On medical specialists, the basic economic story is of an almost childish simplicity; medical specialists have a legally guaranteed monopoly on particular medical activities (like heart surgery or providing anaesthetics). Moreover, the medical specialists have organised themselves into cartels wherein they as a group decide on the minimal requirements of new competitors, ie more specialists, via the number of training places. As a result of this legally guaranteed cartel as well as a deliberate policy of having few medical places at university, wages of medical specialists are now astronomical (though, of course, partially secret), easily close to a million a year for particular specialism like anaesthetists. It's a clear case of a privilege, perfectly well recognised by most economists and economic think-tanks. Solutions are debated and then resisted, such as when governments try to get more foreign doctors but the Australian Medical Association is uncooperative in recognising qualifications (or setting impossibly hard exams for foreigners) or checking them.
Now, whilst this reality is known by the insiders, this is not the public face of medical specialists at all. In the eye of the public, these are the heroes in Dr House and Gray's Anatomy. They are the saviours who have rescued a family member. The public image of medical specialists is hence very different from the grabbing self-interested behaviour as a cartel.
It is this face you continually have to battle when talking to the general public, politicians, or journalists. It creates an immediate hurdle to rationally debating it in the open.
A similar cloak surrounds the mining deal that Gillard struck to cement her elevation to the top political job. I am pretty certain that in reality the deal cost us many billions per year and is the direct cause for all the budget problems the commonwealth and the states now have. It was a humiliating climb-down that makes the commonwealth the protector of the mining industry vis-a-vis the States. Without the deal, royalty rates (which are set by the States) would probably have continued on their rising trajectory and many billions would have flooded the Australian treasuries.
But the 'face' of this deal is entirely different. The face is one of a necessary deal that ironed out the difficulties with the original proposal and that supposedly makes us billions. In order to hide what a botch-up it really was, many of the real figures on tax receipts are secretive, which protects both politicians and civil servants from accountability on this issue.
Now, in both cases will any civil servant or interested journalist or member of the public first have to pierce the cloak.
That is not easy to do because everyone in power has an interest in maintaining the cloak: it is not just the protected privileged group that benefits from the cloak. Politicians also perpetuate and support the cloak because it allows them to save face themselves as they can claim that there is no problem for them to address. Furthermore, it allows them a lubricant in their interaction with the privileged group: if they cannot mount a successful campaign against the privileged group, then to a certain extent they must join them up until the time they can betray them. So the logic of politics, which is that one makes no open enemies up until the moment you shaft them simply because until then you will need them, means they are forever framing everything in terms of the privileged cloak.
For the same reason will civil servants be forced to go along with the face of privilege: they too would face a moral obligation to fight the privilege if a privilege was de-faced and so many of them too want to go along with the face until such moment as there is an active campaign to undermine the existing privilege.
This need for policy makers and civil servants to go along with the facade of an existing (winning!) privilege spills over into the whole public sphere: in textbooks, official documents, research reports, etc., will you find people towing the official line, either because they do not wish to offend the politicians, bureaucrats, or the privileged themselves who benefit from the official line, or else simply because the official line has become the way they truly view things.
Taking the two examples above for instance, I would guess that few people really buy into the official cloak surrounding the mining deal: the journalists, politicians, and civil servants all pretty much know that the Rudd/Gillard government went up against the mining privilege and lost big time. This also means that the willingness of everyone to really go along with the cloak is diminished because it would mean adopting the language of the losers of the battle.
Yet, on medical specialists, there is no doubt that many ardently believe in the fairness of the current arrangements. Because little data is freely available on it (though the Melbourne Institute has unearthed figures), their wages are not widely known. And of course, there is the element of a lottery here in that it is possible for many to hold onto the hope that they or their kids will also be able to cash in on this bonanza by joining the medics. So aspirations, ignorance, and hero-worship maintain public support for medical specialists.
Now, this business of the cloaks is crucial for the whole question of how privilege can be tackled. It namely leads to several crucial points:
- Official support (from politicians and civil servants) to undermine a privilege can only come after another group has shown there is support in the population and semi-official institutions for going after a privilege. Until then, officialdom by necessity has to go along with the face of privilege. Simply put, politicians will only stick their necks out when they believe it is a vote winner, which means others must rustle support from the population and the intellectual and economic elite for change. It hence automatically means there is a role for civic society here. The state cannot itself be an anti-privilege champion for it would not itself rustle support against privilege until entrepreneurial politicians thought on the basis of what they hear and see that there is a real chance they can win.
- By design, one cannot go up against many existing privileges at once, simply because one needs the support of many to have a chance to win against a few. Once there are a few wins, there is the possibility of having a whole wave of reforms, but to set the ball rolling one would need to keep quiet about most privileges and focus on a few in particular. This in turn leads to a very difficult coordination problem: since those opposing privilege are often unorganised and less-informed, the question of which one to focus on is one of competition itself, where accidental champions successfully get issues on the agenda and crises force rethinks. For the vast majority of privilege reforms it must always be an issue of 'waiting in the wings'.
- There is a need for a perennial back-ground fight against the existing face of privilege. Any book, article, theory, or discipline that has a core story going against a privilege is basically a means of de-facing a privilege. In large part, this is a role that academic economists and official 'privilege watchers' (like the Productivity Commission which by its very nature is charged with keeping tabs on inefficiencies in the economic system, such as privileges) have: to keep records of how the privilege really works, how costly it is, and what maintains it. They have little chance of winning all the battles and so there is a real issue as to whether they should leave 'advocacy to others', but as 'keepers of the knowledge of how the rest of society is impoverished by existing privilege' they are invaluable as a resource to those entrepreneurial journalists and politicians wanting to fight a good fight.
- Since information about what lurks behind the 'face' is often known to only a few and since it really often is very hard to pierce that cloak for outsiders (including myself on many areas!) there is a potential role for civic society in organising whistle blowing and aggregation of information. I would for instance love to know where I would have to look for a truly good opinion of what goes on with, say, the NBN or large land-owners. There are a couple of people whose writing on the subject I trust to reflect their real opinion but it doesn't mean I trust their opinion because it is damned hard in case of the NBN to know what really goes on behind the facade. Some sort of iterative weighing scheme of 'agrees' and 'disagrees' with what those people say about an existing privilege would certainly help me. Perhaps it is even worthwhile thinking about some kind of 'voting system' whereby one gets public signals as to what the real experts think about this or that issue.
Where does this leave us? It leaves us with the question which privileges people think are ripe for the challenging. Well, which ones do you think are up for grab? And, since I want to discuss electoral reform as one of the mentioned options, do people really expect it makes a difference if one goes proportional representation rather than first-past-the-post?
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"And, since I want to discuss electoral reform as one of the mentioned options, do people really expect it makes a difference if one goes proportional representation rather than first-past-the-post?"
Yes. Just ask Al Gore.
I hate to get back to this, but I don't really know what information you would like about the NBN, I still don't understand how you see it is a privilege in the same sense as say a tariff on imported goods is for local producers, where there is a clear winner (the trade protected industry) and losers.
As for how to combat these things. As a broad principle, how about this – for every legislated privilege, there must be publicly accessible data of the effect, so in the case of doctors, a database of salaries (with identifying information removed) perhaps. (Could probably add plumbers and electricians to this list too)
This is a magnificent description. I found it tremendously useful. I would add electricity to the list of privileges waiting to be popped.
The power of consumer info is very real. In Victoria, you can use YourChoice to compare utility prices. A similar service for GP consultation fees could be introduced. Also dentist fees, school fees, bank fees… Allow market pressures to push better behaviour. For a big sector like mining, a politician or journalist or the Productivity Commission should regularly publish the level of direct government assistance that they receive. Or for failing manufacturers (auto makers), put their government input alongside their (measly) sales output over time.
"Yet, on medical specialists, there is no doubt that many ardently believe in the fairness of the current arrangements." I think this is a big part of the story, that 'rent-seeking' and the 'public interest' are highly contested concepts, and that self-interesting politicking under-explains support for what economists regard as rent-seeking or 'privilege'. I've recently been reading about the rise of protectionism in 19th century Victoria, which was driven by 'nationalist' development ideas as much as sectional interests in industry. Polls (though of course not consumer behaviour) suggest that protectionism has significant support even after the costs are explained. It was the ability of Keating and others to tell a contrary story about national need that helped push protectionism back, though doing so was never popular outside educated elites.
The strength of party systems is probably more important than the electoral system itself (though PR tends to undermine 2-party systems). Strong party systems make it easier to push through big changes (for better or worse) and to undo them. Strong party systems focus on political issues of more national concern, weak party systems orient pollies to local (possibly sectional) issues. Weak party systems open up individual MPs to lobbying, as in the US. On the other hand, my memory of the pol sci literature is that it's hard to find robust relationships between economic outcomes and political systems within the democratic world. There are always too many other things going on.
Also on the NBN, the mantra that it should be subject to a cost benefit test is all very well, but a cost benefit test is meaningless if the benefits can't be measured. According to John Kay, London would never have been sewered in the 19th century if it had been subject to a conventional cost benefit test.
You're thinking about building another bridge in Brisbane? Fine, subject it to a textbook cost benefit test. You're thinking about a project whose major benefits will be realised in 30,40, 50 years time or longer and which currently don't exist? You need a different kind of analysis. That doesn't mean simply giving in to the political whim of the day, but it does mean taking your head out of the textbook (even the advanced textbook) and actually thinking about the problem.
Yes, the mantra 'we dont know so let us presume the best and spend a lot of money that benefits particular industries for sure anyway' is a familiar one on the NBN. Sounds very much like the cloak to me and in today's age it is a real cop-out even though you are right that it aint easy. As I said in the post though, it would be nice to hear some simple bottom lines by people who really know what is going. I have seen despairing comments made on it and its rushed nature looks very suspicious, but i am no expert on that one.
It's a bad example, IMO Paul, because it's not helping to clarify the discussion about privileges. It's obvious that there is some disagreement and that is muddying your argument rather than clarifying it which is the entire point of an example.
For starters, we still have no idea which particular industries you feel benefit from the NBN. It's not clear who loses, given the NBN is meant to pay for itself via line rentals, and for each of those consumers, if they feel that the utility they receive is less than the line rental, they have other options for data and phone. Further a CBA is meant to answer one question:do we proceed, which happens if the benefits exceed the costs. The benefits side of that is the hard part – as an economist, is there any way of modelling the effects of a suite of technologies that haven't yet been invented? What would be the magnitude of the error on such modelling?
How about this for an idea – you can put a lower bound on the
benefit by using the projected revenue of the NBN itself, as for every user the marginal utility benefit of access would exceed the cost of line rental (otherwise they wouldn't use it).
Anyway, it would make an excellent discussion for another post, but for now, it's not helping your thesis on this one.
Heres a question – can your privilege cloak exist outside of government too, for instance between large monopolies, or within industries with very few players? Two examples that spring to mind are media (for instance Gina Rinehart taking over Fairfax, presumably to allow her to influence public opinion in a particular group of voters, why else buy a newspaper these days?) and technological privileges, such as region encoded DVDs. In government we have at least some leverage, through FOI etc. Does this leverage exist elsewhere?
On the medical specialists, well of course the barriers to entry are outrageous.
But you exaggerate. You can get income data by profession from the ATO web site. For anaesthetists, mean taxable income in 2009-10 (the latest available) was $287540. So they are not exactly struggling, but it's not investment banking either, and a long way from "close to a million a year".
With all due respect, I guess this ACADEMIC paper is what you are looking for:
Broadband Infrastructure and Economic Growth
"Perhaps it is even worthwhile thinking about some kind of 'voting system' whereby one gets public signals as to what the real experts think about this or that issue."
Do you think it is interesting for people to vote it out on EVERY single case of parliamentary debate? Come on, just move on with this issue …. It has been published for several years!
Better be quick … Since you have put such a bold statement …. on your so-called "REAL EXPERT" claim.
Lessons from broadband development in Canada, Japan, Korea and the United States
Internet & Learning: A Decade of Transformation in Learning Practices
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Entrepreneurship in Japan's ICT Sector: Opportunities and Protection from Japan's Telecommunications Regulatory Regime Shift
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Geez …. I am not a fully-trained economist. I am not working in a research institution either. I have read those publications for awhile already …. and somemore I don't have the broadband speed of yours …. I have waited for few hours …. and I haven't gotten a response yet …. Geez …. Isn't that 9.30 am Saturday morning …. You can't be busy shopping in the market, can you?
You still cannot see why you want to consider NBN?
"Perhaps it is even worthwhile thinking about some kind of 'voting system' whereby one gets public signals as to what the real experts think about this or that issue."
Have you thought about prediction markets for this purpose Paul?
I struggle to understand that there is privilege in subsidies to private schools a la Stanley and Jenkins. The private school fees I pay are offset by about 10% in total from State and Federal grants. So I am paying for positions in the government school system that I do not use (and someone else can for free) and recover about 20% of those in an offset.
Personally I am indifferent if it is removed as it is such a small amount (to save argument) but I suspect that if it is removed there will be people at the margin who will opt out and cost the taxpayer 500% more. It just sounds like a bit of class warfare with disinformation to me. Maybe Stanley and Jenkins would propose a voucher system?
With regard to NBN the government is going to pay a $108 bounty to Retailers to sign customers up on top of the 40 billion or so that hasn't been subject to a cost benefit. Apparently the uptake among the 12 or so already connected is so low (we apparently didn' learn from Foxtel) the poor punter is going to be bombarded by doorknockers and telemarketers to sign up for something he/she doesn't want or need even after he has paid for the privileged minority who want it and get it subsidised. Doesn't anyone understand we don't use computers that are "plugged in" anymore?
As far as I've read, no-one has mentioned the implicit threat that medical practitioners carry.
The public face(s) of any effort to remove the priviledge inherent in medical wages would have to live in constant terror of falling ill.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wyatt Earp was first into the water, followed by Captain America, the Statue of Liberty, a nun and a gorilla. As the surf barreled in, Superman, Beetlejuice and dozens of others followed, struggling through the white water, out to the waves.
The recovery from Superstorm Sandy's devastating passage a year ago is far from complete in New York City's Rockaway Beach, but celebrations like the annual "Nightmare on 90th" surf contest quicken the healing.
Watched by a crowd of spectators, costumed contestants paddled into the sunlit ocean last weekend accompanied by rock music blaring from speakers on the beach in south Queens.
In Rockaway and countless neighborhoods along the New York and New Jersey coastline, many residents remain displaced from their homes. Others have left the shore for good.
The gathering provided respite for tight-knit Rockaway, including many who have surfed here all their lives. It also gave them a reason to party.
"It brings some psychological recovery for the neighborhood," said Will Hallett, a stocky surfer who grew up in the area and organized the contest.
"This gives everyone an excuse to get out here and have fun," he said, standing between concrete pilings that had supported the beach's wooden boardwalk before it was washed away by the storm.
Around him, surfers prepared themselves for competition, making last minute adjustments to their costumes. A matador waved his red cape; Catwoman put on her mask. Continued...


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Finally they've halted the applause in the conference room over a promotion and those extremely small cupcakes. What more frightening than clapping in the office. Writing for Harriet during National Poetry Month? Perhaps! I shall now commence to getrightpast several of my concerns about this issue, so that the rest of my April posts might cause me fewer seraphims and you easier (optional, natch) reading. This is not meant to be mere provocation, but a consideration of how to approach poetry in a public space where the future feels known — I'm more comfortable with poetry as a disfiguring principle rather than a product. Essentialist thinking? Aware of that tendency. Would like to fight it out here, yield a future that is unknown. That said, the fast ramble:
1) My distaste for National Poetry Month — a wariness around anything you love coming at you from all directions, dressed in appeal. 2) Blogging (under my own name! you know I tendril daily news here, anyway, right) will undoubtedly be used to perform my own anxieties (check); C) Here they are (how many prefaces thus far) — I've written some notes on the backside of an article about Pierre Klossowski's Living Currency regarding authority — when might one acquire authority enough to write about poetry (who cares?) (full-length) (because psychic) (you teach) (when co-signers get abject); ****) The Q. Why the desire to do any of this publicly, Olson's notion of public and private being same; how for some of us it seems we are simply playing out, over the course of a lifetime, learning how to write (from Foul to Fair, that's what I always say!) in, as it so happens, a public space, enamored of the "shared mind" as Duncan thought of it — now wrought as a near-constant, almost nominal, affectionate sourcing — or beguiled by our own Elective Affinities (the blog is quite good) … a community.
I often reference this Miles Champion/Alan Davies correspondence when I consider community, but can never find the bit about flying the plane with no windows. Read it anyway if you'd like to live comfortably during your golden years. "Writing is an aid to forgetting. Only by voiding the mind (from time to time) can we go on (with) living. (Cf. dreams) Only forgetting staves off senility." –MC. Ah, here: "Literature is an action within a community. Therefore never obscene." –AD. Hmm.
I'm grateful for, and aware of, those here at Harriet who already look outward. One note back of the late painter (Klossowski's an inverted Denton Welch, career-wise?) is: "Those who are already looking outward are a) less self-obsessed and maybe carrying children and 2) are just different people."
For there is a tendency these days, if you think time exists, to make ourselves indistinguishable under various terminological umbrellas (how close to terminal, eh — Stephen Booth's breakdown of Shakespeare's Sonnet 59: "4. burthen burden. child! Q has 'child?'"), e.g., experimental, avant-garde, postmodern, innovative, alternative (remember when alternative referred to the Smashing Pumpkins? me neither) "to connote a poetics that is broadly located as using generically non-normative strategies for the purpose of counter-political or cultural critique," as Lewis Freedman has written. Where's Flaubert's Dictionary of Received Ideas when I need it? And still, we try to believe in this constellation of terms as safe difference. And then there's the inevitability of better accuracy. As if we've walked outside just as the rain stops, said Yves Bonnefoy, that's évident. Better repeated: "To a person who goes out in the morning into the rain just as it is stopping, it teaches that to be évident is to be 'sufficient.' It is what turns things into what I like to call 'presences.'"
But if my resistance to National Poetry Month is merely resistance as wan non-complicity (I decided this during the rewrites), then what really resonates is not the need to be distinguished by the right aesthetic identifier. It's that poetry as a marker itself contains every single argument. It's hard out there for a completist with a fraud complex. Anxieties, mania, modesties and pre-diminished authority as related to reading and writing rest in some latent fear that we're all expected to have the same cultural and literary knowledge banks, eventually. Padding our gaps with enthusiasm and opine. Could I leave my generic courtesies, objet darts, and in looking back, not turn into a pillar of sugar? Let's hope so. And if, as Goldsmith-cum-Place says Hegel noted, "Spirit is a bone," can that also float Pythagoras-cum-Nerval's "Everything is sentient!"? Am I a romantic? Next time: the tightly packed line that tells you it is tightly packed + an introduction to the pebble.
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