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YWCA Toronto is a respected voice in the media on issues that impact the lives of women and girls. Below you can find the Association's latest press releases and highlights of related media coverage.
'The hidden homeless': Downtown Toronto gets new women's shelter in wake of 2 deaths.
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Common Ground: How First Nations and newcomers are building relationships in Canada – featuring interviews with Dolores Montavez-Ruz, Settlement & Pre-Apprenticeship Programs Manager and Nicole Sutherland, JUMP Scarborough Manager.
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How Ottawa is trying to breathe new life into a 22-year-old policy for gender equality – featuring an interview with Colette Prevost, Director of Advocacy and Communications.
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Gun Control is a Women's Issue -- op-ed by Heather McGregor, YWCA Toronto CEO.
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GTA women's shelters feeling housing market pressures – featuring an interview with Nina Gorka, Director of Shelters and Girls and Family Programs.
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Toronto Coach Terminal mural to help build community through art – featuring interviews with tenants from Winona's Place.
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A $15 Minimum Wage Is A Feminist Issue – op-ed by Etana Cain, Senior Advocacy and Communications Officer.
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Look To Women's Shelters To Help Shape Mental Health Conversations – op-ed by Nina Gorka, Director of Shelters and Girls and Family Programs and Etana Cain, Senior Advocacy and Communications Officer.
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Housing Plan Can Help End Hidden Crisis Of Women's Homelessness – op-ed by Danielle Nakouz, Manager of the Elm Centre Supportive Housing program.
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Yale Wimps Out Again
It was the source of an athletic taunt that could only have originated in the Ivy League:
"I want to go to Princeton," said Amory. "I don't know why, but I think of all Harvard men as sissies, like I used to be, and all Yale men as wearing big blue sweaters and smoking pipes."
Monsignor chuckled.
"I'm one, you know."
"Oh, you're different -- I think of Princeton as being lazy and good-looking and aristocratic -- you know, like a spring day. Harvard seems sort of indoors --- "
"And Yale is November, crisp and energetic," finished Monsignor.
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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Princeton X '17, This Side of Paradise
Take a look at that passage. Can you identify the part that was recently deemed too offensive to repeat on an American college campus? Look hard.
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The [Freshman Class Council] has decided to change the design of its shirts after the original design, which was submitted by students and voted on by the freshman class, sparked outcry from members within the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community. ...
The original design, which won out over five other entries, displayed an F. Scott Fitzgerald quote in the front -- "I think of all Harvard men as sissies" -- in bold white letters. The back of the long-sleeved, navy blue T-shirt said "WE AGREE" in capital letters, with "The Game 2009" scrawled in script underneath it.
That's right -- a T-shirt calling Harvard men "sissies" proved too offensive for Yale students and administrators, who seem to have somehow come by the impression that a college football game is an occasion for behavioral civility that the rest of us would reserve for a funeral. One student, who would clearly be beside himself were he to attend a Philadelphia Flyers game, pointed out that the word "sissies" was "offensive" and "demeaning," and added that he considered the word to be a "thinly veiled anti-gay slur."


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True grit
In Lush Life, Richard Price captures the Lower East Side in all its grimy glory.
Wed Mar 5 2008
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Richard Price is one hell of a raconteur. Whether it's the 1992 drug-dealing opera Clockers or the new Lush Life, a polyphonic murder tale set on the Lower East Side, opening any of his books means getting hooked—you turn the first page on the commute back from work and next thing you know, it's 4am and you've polished off both the novel and an entire bag of Milanos. (No wonder he's written episodes for The Wire, one of the most addictive—pun not intended—TV series ever aired.) Talking to Price, 58, in his comfy and very lived-in home office near Gramercy Park feels pretty much the same way, minus the cookies: The guy likes telling stories.
The first way Price's books lure you in is through the particular cadence of their dialogue. He's often praised for having a great ear, though few of his reviewers (myself included) could vouch firsthand for the authenticity of his cops-and-robbers slang. "If you're paying attention to glossary—if you're putting on your pith helmet like Margaret Meade—by the time the book is out, that stuff is going to be like Run-D.M.C.," he says. "A great ear for dialogue has nothing to do with being a human tape recorder. If you truly wrote down how people speak, it would be like a bad Andy Warhol movie. The thing to good dialogue is the illusion of how people speak. You try to squeeze things together a little bit when nobody's looking."
Things do get squeezed—and shots are squeezed off—in Lush Life. A young white hipster named Ike is gunned down in a botched mugging on Eldridge Street, and the book registers the aftershocks of his death. The focus ricochets from the investigating cop, Matty, to the main witness and potential suspect, Eric, and to Tristan, a kid from the local projects. Price's control of a conversation's flow is in full display in an elaborate interrogation—one of the writer's specialties, as fans of Clockers well know—that goes on uninterrupted for 29 pages. "A lot of long dialogue scenes are a little bit like scat singing for me," Price explains. "It's like improv: I just know I have to get from A to B, and I'm going to bebop my way over there. I just have confidence in my own bullshit, you know?"
But Price's self-deprecation only goes so far: His improvisational approach is so gripping because it's built on documentation and field trips. Asked if he walked around below Houston Street a lot to soak up the atmosphere, Price replies, "There's walking around and then there's walking around with somebody who knows more than you do, and all you do is walk in their shadow and keep a conversation going. That's become my M.O.; it's a sort of an OCD-type thing."
Setting the new book in a real-life neighborhood (novels such as Clockers, Freedomland and Samaritan took place in the fictional Jersey town of Dempsy) didn't simplify matters for Price, now confronting a more personal subject. "Eric obviously was the most autobiographical for me," he says. "I was just imagining what I would be like if I didn't luck out."
Eric and his Losaida friends and neighbors belong to a particular group Price hadn't really written about so far: the young, white, urban bohemian. The eye he casts on them is both affectionate and resolutely unsentimental—the eulogy for Ike by his narcissistic buddies has got to be one of the cruelest indictments of hipsterdom committed to page. But what gives that scene a larger resonance is its matter-of-fact juxtaposition with snapshots from project life. "At one point, Eric starts thinking about the difference between the kids who did the shooting and the young white kids who are floating around, and what they have in common is self-centeredness," Price says. "The kids in the projects are focused on what they want and what they need in the moment—there's no center to their self-centeredness. The other kids have a center because they've been loved all their lives. They think they're grieving but the center of the grieving is 'me, me, me, me.' They're not monsters, they're babies."
In Lush Life, the procedural structure allows Price to portray people from vastly different backgrounds—a much wider cast of characters than can be found in most literary fiction. At the same time, he is prompt to undermine some of the expectations linked to genre. "I'm not ever interested in who did it but rather in why they did it," Price specifies. "I don't like when the good get rewarded and the bad get punished—that makes it a genre book. I don't want any rules."
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Is there a trick to writing good dialogue?
People speak in a very chaotic way, but they still understand each other—you can't do that on paper. John Gotti's Ravenite Social Club was bugged by the FBI. The transcript looks like gibberish, but that's how people really talk. So you try to squeeze things together a little bit when nobody's looking. Basically you try to make everybody's personality distinct, and it comes through in the way they string their thoughts together verbally. It's not a conscious thing I do. Can you learn how to run fast? No, either you do or you don't. Either you have a good ear or not, and I guess I have one. I have an affection for just letting people go on. It's instinct. There's no conscious strategy on my part.
You write particularly good interrogation scenes—there's a couple of them in Clockers and a particularly long one in Lush Life.
I have no idea if a cop would read that interrogation scene in Lush Life and think, Boy, that's exactly how I'd do it. More often than not, interrogations are easy conversations in which you know certain things and you're setting up that person to lie about the things you do know, so then when they're exhausted halfway down the line, you confront them with the lie and then you crank it up. The first half of an interrogation is the accumulation of door openers: You let it accumulate, and then you hit him with everything he lied about.
There's a particular flow to those scenes. Do you say the lines aloud as you write them??
Yeah—well, I sort of mutter them. Actually I got in trouble doing that once when I was writing Clockers. I have two daughters; when they were little, we were living in a loft, and I had an office there. One of my daughters was four years old and I was sitting there writing dialogue. Every other word was motherfucker this and cocksucker that. I looked up and my daughter and her playdate were standing in my doorway, looking shell-shocked. The next day I got an office outside. [Laughs]
It's not that surprising you wrote for The Wire; as a novelist you often deal with larger institutional problems, which is what the show is really about. Would you consider your writing political?
If you want to send a message, go to Western Union. The whole point is, How do you get this across without people feeling like they're getting a lecture? You create pawns on a chessboard that people fall in love with, and you watch them get knocked over. For [The Wire creator] David Simon, it's about institutions that break down or never worked to begin with. But you do it through creating people that you care about, and whom other shows would give a pass. It's almost like the subtitle for The Wire is "When good things happen to bad people." It makes no compromises. David's insane. His whole thing is that as soon as a character got too popular, he just killed him. He's nuts. When Stringer Bell was killed, the next day on all the federal wiretaps and all the Baltimore narcotics taps on drug dealers, all the dealers talked about was, "They killed Stringer! What's wrong with those people? That's some cold people!" They were so upset.
Many of the references in Lush Life are closely linked to the actual Lower East Side—Berkmann's, where Eric works as a manager, sounds like Schiller's.
Oh it is. I mean, Schiller's is where I was given access to hang out with the managers.
What about the whole bit where Eric steals from the tip pool?I was coached. The managers at Schiller's taught me how to do that, with Keith McNally's permission. The managers really got into the hypothetical…and then a couple of hours later I got a call from Keith McNally saying, "I understand you've been having some interesting conversations with my staff." [Laughs]
You said in an interview that you didn't want to be filed in crime books—which is where people who write about cops or criminals usually end up, whereas writing about victims or the grieving process can get you in the literary section.
I've always had a hard time with plot, and I feel to follow a criminal investigation is a lazy man's way of having a plot. So I sort of discovered that if I have a very complex landscape such as the Lower East Side and with so many subdivisions of worlds, following the natural progression of how a crime is investigated is a very easy and linear way of taking in the whole world, because of six degrees of separation. If this man was murdered, what you do is examine similar crimes in that area and look for a pattern: It didn't look like an intentional murder, but like a robbery gone wrong, so you got your elements—black or black and Hispanic, robbing victim, certain time of night with certain type of gun, said certain type of things. And it gives me a perfect excuse if you look at the pattern robberies: Well, you got two Chinese guys who were robbed like that, you got this Israeli who was robbed like that. Voilà: You get your access into the Chinese world and the world of the European middle-class immigrant, the hustler trying to make it in New York, etc. It feels effortless because this is naturally who a cop would talk to right now. I tend to let the procedural do the plot for me.
You've written for film as well. Do you feel you've done something in that medium that you're happy with?
I feel there are parts of movies that I like. But it's in the nature of being just a screenwriter: When I write a book, I'm the author; when I write a screenplay, I'm not the author—the director is, and I'm the writer who serves the author. It's an entirely different circumstance. You do it because you hope, you hope, you hope that one day you're going to write a movie and it's going to be Raging Bull because all the stars are aligned and everything came together. The basic frustration of screenwriting is the constant surrendering of the work for others to execute. It's as if you were a novelist but nobody got to read the novel: Some actor got up there and synopsized the novel. On the other hand, it pays for this, [Opens arms to embrace office] so… What can I tell you?
Are you working on more TV projects now that The Wire is over?
I'm writing a pilot for FX. It's about this thing in the city that I've been involved with as a witness. There are no active detective squads between 1 and 8am, but there is a pool called the Night Watch. There's a probably a full-time staff of four guys and a volunteer complement of maybe five or six others coming from any precinct. The full-time guys look like vampires, they never see the sun. Even the black guys have that pallor. Then the rest are guys that can be from anywhere, from the Central Park precinct to Lower East Side to Washington Heights. They want to make some overtime, so they volunteer for Night Watch. Basically what they do is they go to sleep with their cell phone and if it rings they've got to respond. So they're there with their cell phone like a Teddy bear, going "Please don't ring, please don't ring." Because they get paid either way. What I loved about that is you have to respond to anything from the Cloisters to Wall Street, from Tudor City to Port Authority. Anything that's a potential felony, the call goes to Night Watch: "We have a shooting," or "We have a break-in." Anything that looks like a felony, you got to haul your ass out of bed and you gotta respond.
Did you just stumble into this?
I heard about it in conversation. It's fascinating: "You respond to anything in Manhattan? Where do I sign up?" [Laughs] I went out with them on what I thought were the three most interesting nights of the year: St. Patrick's, New Year's eve and Halloween. You go from a drunk trying to mug a cop on the subway to a shoot-out to three drunk girls in front of NYU, where the report that came in said there were girls swinging axes at each other. You run to it and it's three drunken coeds, all dressed up like Xena Warrior Princess having a catfight with foam axes. All you do is yell at them: "Get on the subway—now! You, upstairs!" But then next thing you know, you're in Harlem and there's a body, then you're in midtown and there's a tiny jewelry store in the atrium of a Park Avenue place and somebody grabbed everything. You have a person called "the Wheel" who's the dispatcher. All calls from uniformed cops come through the Wheel, and he gives them to the guys in charge at Night Watch. He's like a hockey goalie, fending off everything. I heard a conversation like this, where the guy said: "Okay, so you just found a dead woman in a bathtub. How old? Ninety-seven? Anything suspicious like strangulation marks around her neck? Sarge, do me a favor: It's 6 o'clock—can you rediscover her at 8:30?" I love that. It's about the grades, about the nuances."
It feels really plugged in to a particular locale as well. Is this part of a current trend for you, since you moved away from the fictional Dempsy of your previous books to a real setting in Lush Life?
This is the first time where the place was the main character. When you make up your own city, it needs to be a stand-in for whatever city is nearest the reader. After spending so much time in New York and Jersey City, I had to go down to Baltimore [for The Wire] just to get a feel for it, and I realized with crime-and-punishment dynamics, power and economic dynamics, there's so much more in common than there are disparities. You look for something singular, but sometimes it's like looking for a needle in a haystack. So I ran around with Baltimore cops. It's a more primitively violent city. The one thing that struck me about Baltimore is the typography: It's a city where alleys are very important, there's alleys everywhere. Frankly that to me was the difference between Baltimore and New York. At some point I was doing a script for Tom Hanks that involved Cleveland and I told David Simon I was going to ride around with the Cleveland police. He looked at me and said, "Why?" I told him it had already been decided; what I didn't say to him is, "It's because I like to!" He's right though: What am I going to find in Cleveland? That they have a lake?


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1. Toao.net, ATAs vs. IP Phones: Which should you choose? September 2009
2. Gary Shouldis, thesmallbusinessplaybook.com, The Essential VoIP Guide For Small Business


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Poás Gets Our Attention!
My back deck overlooks the Central Mountain Range that forms the northern boundary of the Central Valley where San José is located. When I first requested my place in early 2016 sight unseen, I asked for a unit overlooking these mountains, because their distinct shape has always represented "home in Costa Rica" to me. Little did I know I was getting practically a front row seat for the reawakening of one of Costa Rica's most famous volcanoes, the Poás.
If you've ever been to Costa Rica, chances are excellent you've been up to the Poás, because until this last April, it has been one of the most popular tourist destinations in the country.
I'd been looking at these mountains all my life and I had never seen them emit anything more than a rare puff of vapor. Around the 6th of April, I noticed the distinct smell of sulfur in the air, and the atmosphere seemed heavy with particulate matter that had a different look and feel from the occasional smog we see during a temperature inversion, or the ash clouds we occasionally experience from the Turrialba volcano.
Within days, visitors to Poás began to complain of feeling ill, and as a result, evacuations and park closings began. On Wednesday April 12, an explosion of rocks and water caused flash floods and mudslides (lahars) southwest of the crater as nearby rivers filled with sediment. The park was closed on Thursday, April 13 and warnings and evacuations of the area began in earnest.
Friday, April 14, 7:30 a.m. I was sitting on my deck having a leisurely cup of coffee while doing a little reading. And on this beautiful clear morning, I glanced up to see… the huge plume with which Poás announced its official awakening! Wow! What an awesome sight!
The almost 10,000 ft. high ash and vapor plume was impressive, but not scary. Of course I can say that because I wasn't in harm's way. Plus, everything billowing out was mostly white, which indicated more vapor and less ash, meaning this was more bark and less bite; at least for now. I couldn't hear anything if you're wondering. It wasn't like in the movies–I'm sure at the site it was hissing and bubbling and making all kinds of noise, but nothing alerted the rest of us further away.
Needless to say I started taking pictures for my family in the states and Facebook. It's not every day you get to watch a volcano erupt from your deck! I think I said Wow about a hundred times in 5 minutes!
A few minutes later there was another eruption, and by now pretty much everyone within miles of the central valley was watching and sharing their experience on social media sites. Videos reveal cars pulling over by the side of the road during the peak of the morning rush hours. Shot below is a still from one video that went viral–I was unable to track down the original person to credit.
The Turrialba, east of San José, has been erupting sporadically for several years, but now having two volcanoes erupting at the same time was just incredible! (Little did we know that Rincon de la Vieja would come to life a few months later, so now there are three!)
Two individuals captured amazing photographs that would become famous within hours. Scott Rovak, photographer, had just taken off on a flight out of San José that morning and caught a once in a lifetime moment, as the eruption billowed into the sky. A few months later, Laura Barboza Rodriguez would capture both the Poás and Turrialba in a single image from her own flight.
This initial show would be followed by continuing eruptions nearly daily. June and July 2017 eruptions included reddish colored ash and respectable chunks of incandescent rocks. Unfortunately, I really can't see any of this because the crater isn't visible from the central valley where I am; only those situated to the north of it can see it. I have been lucky to see the occasional red reflections in the plumes at night or early morning hours, and I enjoy watching those through binoculars.
The chemical gases and the particles of ash create the perfect recipe for incredible red skies at sunset. I don't have the knowledge to explain why this is so (perhaps some of you do), I only know it to be true.
Poás is approximately 34 miles north of San José near the western end of the Central Range. Visible from most of the central valley, the 8885 ft. high volcano had two crater lakes, the greater of which was notable for being one of the largest (a mile across!) and most acidic in the world.
The last time Poás really erupted was in 1956, so most Costa Ricans had not seen this highly visible volcano ever really do much. Not everyone even knew which peak was Poás, since it doesn't have the typical cone shape. It has remained quietly active however, for hundreds of years. Every now and then (1969 &1987) it would huff and puff a bit as if to stretch and yawn before going back to sleep.
I lived a little closer to it between 1986 and 1996, and will never forget the night it produced some of the strangest sounds I had ever heard—something like a giant's groaning or snoring that seemed to come from the bowels of the earth itself. We all expected an eruption, but none came. There were a few significant rumbles in 2014, but these were overshadowed by the newly awakened Turrialba volcano. I'll get to that one in a separate post.
Magma has been detected and Poás' sudden and accelerated return to an active eruptive state has resulted in increases in close monitoring of the area. Prevailing winds blow most of the ash and gases west and away from San José. At primary risk are those who live in the immediate vicinity, on the nearby rivers, or on the western side of the volcano. Whatever reaches me is so insignificant, it's unnoticeable.
As I write this in September of 2017, Poás is still doing its thing, albeit not as grandly most days. One of the first things I do when I pull open my bedroom curtains in the morning is look to see if it's clear or billowing vapor and ash. Its famous lagoon is gone and the crater has been totally transformed.
Experts believe the explosive eruption potential of Poás is high, but are hopeful that the continued emanations of steam and gases are helping minimize that danger. For now, the greatest losses have been economical, as national and international tourism to the Poás National Park has now been at a standstill for months.
Background about Costa Rica's Volcanoes
Costa Rica is part of a land bridge between North and South America that owes it's characteristic landscape to the volcanic "ring of fire" it rests on, and researchers have identified over 200 volcanic formations in our mountain ranges. Fortunately, the vast majority are from this land's very ancient history, and although geologists aren't all in agreement, the modern day tally stands at approximately 112 identifiable volcanoes, with at least half of these considered totally dormant with no detectable sign of ever returning to life. Geological research reveals that only 10 different volcanoes are likely to have erupted during the last 10,000 years, and these are the same ten considered active today.
Miravalles, Orosí, Barva, Tenorio, Platanar occasionally belch a bit of vapor and gases, but only Poás, Turrialba, Rincon de la Vieja, Arenal, and Irazú have erupted since the Spaniards first colonized the country approximately 500 years ago.
One way I keep myself informed of any significant developments is via the Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Costa Rica (OVSICORI). While several other international agencies are closely monitoring all our active volcanoes, the above mentioned organization, affiliated with the National University of Costa Rica, usually provides the most up to date and comprehensive information.
I've included two links below for additional information and images.
As of this writing, Poás, Turrialba, and Rincón de la Vieja are in actual eruptive phases of activity. Rincón de la Vieja is hours north of San José. Turrialba and Poás are part of the Central Range—the mountains that form the northern limit of the central valley where San José is located. If you come to the capital, these are the two you'll most likely see. Now, back to the other volcano in my back yard…
Volcán Barva
The Barva volcano is directly in front of me when I sit on my deck and is only about 12 miles away. The five peaks in the image above, and everything in between is Barva. Yes, roughly everything above the line of fog! It includes the three peaks to the right known locally as the "Tres Marías" and the two on the far left.
Barva is the largest volcano in Central America as far as area goes—over 575 square miles. It contains at least a dozen points of eruption or emanation, with many active fumaroles and thermal lagoons. It's a sleeping monster that hasn't actually erupted in at least 5,000-6,000 years, but is a quietly active volcanic structure. If it should decide to come back to life, well… I'll be one of the first to know, for sure!
Two Volcanoes in my Back Yard
It's pretty amazing to be able to say my view includes volcanoes even if it's nothing special 99% of the time. The above photo shows you what I see most days. (I edited out the cell tower for this shot) Costa Ricans have been living alongside these giants for hundreds of years, and most of us go about our day scarcely remembering they're here. But I had my moment of excitement, so forgive me when I shout, "I have volcanoes in my back yard!"
Pura Vida!
Note: Some areas around Poás, Turrialba, and Rincon de la Vieja remain off limits to visitors and hikers. Evacuations of the immediate areas around all the active volcanoes have taken place from time to time. Persons exploring the rivers or mountains in the affected areas are advised to check with authorities and heed their recommendations. Under no circumstances should you enter restricted areas of the parks. Just because there doesn't appear to be any danger, it doesn't mean there aren't toxic fumes present. Risk of lahars may also be high.


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- As soon as positive results are found in the trial (for example, a drug shows statistically significant benefits), the trial is continued.
- As soon as negative results are found (for example, adverse effects), the trial is ended, so the trial could be stopped at any point in time.
An efficient group sequential design reduces needed sample sizes, while keeping the desired statistical power and controlling for the overall type I error rate.
Interim Analysis in Group Sequential Design
The circumstances under which the trial will be stopped or continued is specified in advance (Kelly et. al, 2005). A group sequential design includes a pre-determined number of stages, including interim stages (with the associated interim analysis) and a final stage. Each stage is specified by:
- The sample size,
- Critical Values,
- A stopping criterion to either support or reject the null hypothesis.
At the end of each interim stage, data analysis is usually performed or reviewed by a Data and Safety Monitoring Committee (DSMC). Interim analysis involves calculation of a test statistic. This is compared to the critical value to decide whether to stop or continue the trial.
Comparison to Fixed Sample Designs
The typical fixed sample design has patients entering the trial sequentially in matched pairs for two different treatments; Data is only analyzed once at the conclusion of the trial. Group sequential has patients entering in groups; Data is analyzed at a certain number of specified stopping points.
Kelly et. al (2005). A practical comparison of group-sequential and adaptive designs. J Biopharm Stat. 2005;15(4):719-38.
Pocock (1977). Group sequential methods in the design and analysis of clinical trials. Biometrika. 64, 2, pp. 191-9.
Chow & Lu. (2008). Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials: Concepts and Methodologies.
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It seems weird to say, but this is the first time in four years the Hawks will enter a season with a clear-cut No. 1 goalie. The last time they tried this was in 2007, and it was Nikolai Khabibulin only because of his paycheck and the fact that no one else wanted to come here to challenge him.
This was also the season that Corey Crawford made his first appearance. So to find the last time the Hawks went into a season with a No. 1 goalie they could actually be confident in, well, let's say that "grunge" was still a relevant term.
Ah, but is Corey Crawford such a cinch that we needn't worry about what's backstopping the Hawks? I'd love to sit here and tell you that's the case, but I'd also love to tell you that mayonnaise makes you more attractive. But I only deal in full-truths.
The list of goalies who had a great rookie year and then flamed out their second year is a long one. Steve Mason in Columbus comes to mind. As does another Columbus goalie who Mason eventually replaced in Pascal Leclaire. Kari Lehtonen of Dallas is another, though he's rebounded somewhat. You could go back and find a whole lot of Andrew Raycrofts.
What separates Crawford is he's got more experience than those. What's that you say, how can a fellow rookie have more experience than other rookies? Think Sam has lost his ability to count? Well, the second part is true but what I'm referring to is that none of those goalies had five years of professional experience like Crow does. So the world of scouting reports and team adjustments shouldn't come as quite the shock. Secondly, none of them had the depth of defense in front of them that Crawford will, who should see at the very worst a competent player 1-6 protecting him.
That doesn't mean Crow doesn't come with some things to work on. First and foremost being his alignment with rushes coming from his left. More than a couple times last year Crawford left the top corner over his glove hand open like a yard sale, and teams are going to keep going back there until he closes it. The defense can help by not letting too many odd-mans against.
Crow could also use work on his puck-handling, but considering the way Duncan Keith and Nick Leddy, and possibly Sami Lepisto, want to wheel up the ice this isn't as big of an issue.
What Crawford has going for him is his style keeps his defense aware of where he'll be. He doesn't have to fly out to cut out angles as Cristobal Huet did, he doesn't have a high-wire act that panicks his defense like Marty Turco did. Because of this, everybody knows where possible rebounds might end up and can anticipate. A second season of playing together can only help.
The Hawks might not get the stellar numbers they got last season, but they shouldn't need them either. A return to Planet Useful from Duncan Keith should improve the defense and penalty kill greatly all by itself, without even mentioning the added depth that Steve Montador, Sean O'Donnell, and Sami Lepisto bring. We haven't even gotten to if Niklas Hjalmarsson bounces back. And there's still the idea that the offense may be better and more deep. Because the Hawks aren't asking Crow to improve upon a rookie campaign, they won't as disappointed as those teams that counted on one.
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Events Calendar
09 Apr 2020
Great Western Hospital have announced the death of a doctor who was working as a registrar in their Emergency Department (A&E), he was being treated in their Intensive Care Unit after testing positive for COVID-19.Read more
08 Apr 2020 Sue Round
Wiltshire libraries are encouraging children and families to create colourful Easter eggs to display in windows and they have even supplied a template.Read more
08 Apr 2020 Sue Round
Last month Marlborough LitFest launched its Love Books Competition in association with Bath Spa University. The competition, which aims to celebrate a love of reading amongst teenagers and adults, is perhaps even more important in these uncertain times. The original deadline of April 24 has now been extended to July 17.Read more
03 Apr 2020 Tony Millett
Clinicians at GWH are currently running a trial looking into treatment options for coronavirus (COVID-19). A statement from GWH reads: "It is important that we do all we can to help prevent this situation from happening again, and are asking for patients with confirmed COVID-19, who are currently being cared...Read more
02 Apr 2020 Sue Round
St John's Academy Design & Technology teacher and STEM Co-ordinator, Gary England, is coordinating the production of items to support the NHS during the COVID-19 crisis.Read more
02 Apr 2020
At this difficult time when most of us are confined to our homes staying healthy and occupied is important for us all. Marlborough College recognised this and have created a 'Wellbeing Resources' area on their website, where everyone - associated with The College or not - can find ideas, advice...Read more
02 Apr 2020 Eric Gilbert
A change in the month and thankfully a brief change in the weather as the beginning of March brought far less rain and a dry day on March 3. However by March 4 the unsettled weather returned with twelve consecutive days when rainfall was recorded. The wettest day of...Read more
01 Apr 2020 Sue Round
Today's reflections come from Sybil and Colin who live in Norwich and have an allotment.Read more
01 Apr 2020
Practice Nurse Full Time or Part Time Ramsbury & Wanborough Surgery is seeking a Practice Nurse Band 5/6 to join the friendly team.Online applications via www.jobs.nhs.ukReference Number A0657-20-8218The vacancy will close when sufficient applications received.. For an application pack please contact the surgery on 01672 520366 or via email firstname.lastname@example.com www.ramsburyandwanboroughsurgery.com Ramsbury & Wanborough SurgeryWhittonditch...Read more
31 Mar 2020
Nick Maurice writes: I very much regret that, owing to the coronavirus pandemic, we have had to cancel our next two recitals in the "Brilliant Young International Musicians in St Peter's Church" series. However, as I have written to Judith Choi Castro and JP Ekins who were to have played for...Read more


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Immersive technologies, coupled with superior virtual environments, artificial intelligence algorithms, faster processors, and biometrics, are launching a new era in virtual experiences. At the same time these technologies have the potential for invasive monitoring and control. What are the present and future artistic strategies that deal with this?
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This Open Fields volume presents artistic research that is located in the contested territory between academic knowledge production and independent creative practices. The book presents the interwoven histories of art and science in the digital age, by investigating the changing role of art in the network society. In previous volumes, we opened multiple conversations about how art can not only criticize and thereby provide a mirror for society, but how it can also more directly intervene in material and social structures. We are now continuing this discussion by asking: How can art and other creative practices meaningfully contribute to the environmental, technological and scientific challenges of our time?
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A selection of papers presented in the Media Art Histories 2013 Renew conference held in Riga, Oct 8–11, 2013, and visual review of the Save As exhibition (2013). The book also includes new texts, as it is being published in connection with the Renewable Futures conference and Data Drift exhibition in Riga Oct 8–10, 2015.
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Have been trying to find information about this through Telus for some time with much frustration. Anybody have any clue what this part of the sales pitch means? -"Also enjoy access to your files easily via the USB port" THANKS, N
yup, I'm also wondering what the USB port is for, and what I can use it for?
by any chance can I extract 2-channel stereo sound from it? (to get sound signal into RCA cables so I can hook into my old-school stereo)
So, can I play movies stored in a usb drive through this port? I connected a usb drive and installed a few apps to play movies, but cannot access the drive. Any settings to be changed?
Is the USB drive formatted in FAT32, EXT4 or NTFS? (Put in PC, right click, Properties)
I believe it was NTFS - currently at work and unable to confirm. So, which format it should be ideally for the PikTV box? It was playing fine from another streaming box - which I have now ditched for the PikTV.
NTFS is a Windows specific file system. It won't work on most non Windows boxes. Flash drives usually ship with FAT32 formatting and that should work on most platforms. It is possible to reformat a flash drive from one filesystem to another but you lose all data on it when reformatting it.
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I'm the Fundraising Coordinator for this year's Dignitas Team at U of T St. George. We held a Race for Dignity event last week, Feb 4th, to help fundraise and raise awareness for the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the MSB lobby. A 12-hour Bike-a-thon event. No, you don't bike 12 hours straight. You come in and book what time you want to ride with a team. We had an awesome bake sale, and those that bought something would know. The prizes were even more awesome. I pulled in some great donations from Lush (A Hat Box FILLED with soap and salt goodness), Umbra gift cards, a signed Maple Leafs Hockey Stick (I took a picture to remember my hard work for the stick), and more of course. Those who didn't participate, you truly missed out but don't FRET, there's still next year. Raised quite a bit of money and relieved to know it's going to the right place.
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Merry Christmas Eve!
No Christmas tree this year again, marking this the fourth year. House seems to be lacking more and more space. No gifts under the tree but Christmas came early in many ways. Sound of music, alice fazooli's, alexander mcqueen kicks, jbrand, hot chocolate, blue marlin, versace for the love, sushi, the almost dior ring (the DIY paper ring will do), some bubbly, quality time…. these are a few of my favourite things.
From: Secretleaves paperworks' flickr, La Bamboche
After two painful back aching hours of shoveling snow, my brother and I manage to successful plough through 30+ cm of snow. Opening the door was already a struggle but it was nothing compared to the amount of snow we were looking once we stepped outside. All I could say was "omfgosh, that's a crap load of snow". I will post up pictures to show much labour work was done and how long our driveway is. It didn't turn out as boring as I thought it would've been since we let our beloved dog, Lassie, out to join us on the fun. Her hopping, and swimming through the snow was quite cute and amusing. Although, it was frustrating when she would push more snow into the nicely shoveled area we just did. I haven't seen snow like this since I was a child. Definitely a white Christmas this year. I can't wait to put on my mitts and throw an unexpected snowball at Ted and of course, unleash a snowball fight between us. (:


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Note: I watched My Little Pony porn for the sake of research. It is not my thing, and I have Pony Traumatic Stress Disorder now (and can't even take credit for that phrase). You can honor my sacrifice by liking, sharing, tweeting, donating, or sending Tom Hiddleston to my house with a bottle of whiskey and a box of jelly doughnuts.
There is much to learn about Russian porn trends from Pornhub's 2015 year in review stats. We are first going to first zero in on the elephant in the room. No getting around it. It is too massive.
We must talk about My Little Pony (MLP) porn. Continue reading "Pornhub's 2015 insights on Russia: My Little Pony smut on the rise, "porn nationalism" is not a thing, MILFs are popular for a reason"


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This is not a boat ride, it's an experience!
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Welcome to the Riverfront! Three rivers converge in the heart of downtown Fort Wayne and we, in northeast Indiana, have gathered here for centuries. Experience the legacy and explore our natural river wonder on Sweet Breeze. Enjoy our community's new momentum! Travel Fort Wayne Rivers on Sweet Breeze, This is not a boat ride, it's an experience!
Sweet Breeze, Fort Wayne's authentic canal boat replica, offers tours every weekend (May – September) and by appointment. This fully accessible experience is fun for everyone! Both 45 and 90 minute tours are available to entertain riders with colorful river lore stories, Fort Wayne history, and muddy water tales as you cruise the rivers. You'll leave your voyage knowing more about Fort Wayne's heritage, and our river system.


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As I said in the previous post, I've passed the last weekend splashing around in the water thinking of irrelevant issues. One thought that has visited my beer fueled mind was linked to the next holiday of Sukkot (which starts today). It's widely known that Sukkot marks one of the stops in the desert of the Israelites after they left Egypt.
…On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the Festival of Sukkot, seven days for the L-RD. -Leviticus 23:34
The word Sukkot is the plural of the Hebrew word sukkah, meaning booth or hut. During this holiday, Jews are instructed to build a temporary structure in which to eat their meals, entertain guests, relax, and even sleep. The sukkah is reminiscent of the type of huts in which the ancient Israelites dwelt during their 40 years of wandering in the desert after the Exodus from Egypt, and is intended to reflect God's benevolence in providing for all the Jews' needs in the desert. More on Sukkot in Wikipedia
So I've thought to myself. If Moses&co could have had mobile phones with them in the desert how useful this could be. And then I started to think which services they could possibly use. Below is a short list
- Let's start from the basics. Voice services. I'm sure Moses would be happy to know what happened in the end of the column of marching Jews while he follows the pillar of cloud. So he needed a PTT device with unlimited plan, to talk freely to his men (e.g. Yehoshua Bin-Nun)
- Now, they would have surely needed roaming service as they traveled from one place to another. This of course in case that Egypt, Sinai and the Land of Canaan had the same standard of cellular network. Otherwise each one of the 600,000 Jews who left Egypt would have had to visit service centers and change his devices.
- Some kind of navigation service is "must" when traveling in the desert. It could be a built-in GPS or network based LBS. Such a service could for sure bring the people home faster then in 40 years.
- Content. When you are traveling for a long time, a source of relevant news and entertainment is a basic need. Some political news, games and weather forecast would be fine.
That's all for now. If somebody thinks of another useful services or marketing moves suitable for desert 3000 years ago, feel free to add a comment.


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Motif Investing creates new subsidiary called Motif Capital Management to deploy thematic solutions for institutional clients
NEW YORK — Motif Investing, a next-generation online broker that is pioneering thematic investing, and Ascent Private Capital Management of U.S. Bank, today announced a partnership where Motif Capital Management (MCM), the wholly-owned investment advisor subsidiary of Motif Investing, will serve as the exclusive manager of thematic portfolios for Ascent's advisors.
This key alliance brings together the long-term, strategic, personalized wealth management of Ascent Private Capital Management with the intuitive thematic philosophy of Motif Investing.
"We are very pleased to partner with Ascent Private Capital Management of U.S. Bank," said Hardeep Walia, CEO of Motif Investing and MCM. "We are working with Ascent to deploy our unique systematic approach to thematic investing and, in essence, bring the best of Wall Street and Silicon Valley together."
Motif will serve as the exclusive thematic manager to Ascent, which focuses on the long-term, strategic dimensions of multigenerational wealth. The partnership will carefully integrate thematic investing that identifies and acts on specific social, economic, technological and demographic trends into Ascent's wealth management process to preserve the multigenerational legacies of Ascent's clients.
"This alliance will expand and enhance our distinctive, purpose-based approach to investment management," said Michael Cole, president of Ascent Private Capital Management. "We are excited to partner with Motif Investing and integrate their unique investing philosophy into our investment process."
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Ascent Private Capital Management helps individuals and families with $75 million or more in net worth make an impact with their wealth by providing highly personalized tactical wealth management (wealth planning, investment management, trust and estate, private banking and family office advisory) and strategic wealth management (family education and communication, preparation of heirs, family governance and philanthropy). For more information, visit ascent.usbank.com.
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Motif Investing is a next-generation online broker that is pioneering thematic investing for individuals and financial advisors. The company, based in Silicon Valley, allows investors to trade "motifs"—intelligently weighted basket of stocks built around themes, investing styles or multi-asset models— for low fees. Motif Investing is a registered broker dealer and a member of SIPC. Motif was recently ranked number one on Fast Company's list of Most Innovative Companies in Personal Finance and has been recognized for two consecutive years on the CNBC Disrupter 50 list. The company's investors include Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and Renren Inc. Board members include former Securities Exchange Commission Chairman Arthur Levitt and former Boston Consulting Group Chairman Carl Stern. Motif Capital Management is the wholly owned investment advisory subsidiary of Motif Investing.
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It was wet and it was cold but nothing could dampen the sprits of these athletes participating in the 2017 Eastern Athletic Association for the Blind Track tournament held on the NYISE campus. Students from several states came to participate in the tournament.
Our students had an outstanding weekend by taking first place in both the boys and girls categories. Our athletes also represented the school well by being awarded the coveted Sportsmanship Trophy.