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Bachelor of Nursing
About this course
The Bachelor of Nursing provides students with a combination of foundational science, professional knowledge and clinical experiences to comprehensively prepare graduates for a career in nursing and health. The degree aims to produce graduates with the competence, confidence and flexibility to adapt to changes and contribute to innovation in the nursing profession and the health care system.
Graduates are equipped to apply sound evidence-based reasoning skills to their nursing practice, provide therapeutic care to patients, coordinate nursing care to individuals and groups, and work independently as well as collaborate in multidisciplinary teams for effective outcomes.
The Bachelor of Nursing includes a new Enrolled Nurse to Registered Nurse pathway program. The program is suitable for Enrolled Nurses (graduates of the HLT51612 Diploma in Nursing (Enrolled-Division 2 Nursing) or equivalent qualification. A specifically designed course of study acknowledges previous learning and enables Enrolled Nurses to complete the Bachelor degree in two years full-time or four years part-time. Students who qualify for admission will receive advanced standing (credit) in recognition of their diploma study and complete the equivalent of four specifically designed conversion units alongside the remaining second year units. Students will also complete 680 hours of professional placement. Due to the structure of the program, the intake for commencing students is only offered in the first teaching session of each year. Please note, all students in this pathway will be required to attend intensive workshops at the Gold Coast campus: One week full-time in session 1 (Week 1), and two weeks full-time in session 2 (Weeks 1 and 2).
Career opportunities
Graduates are suited to careers in a range of public and private health sectors, including but not restricted to, clinical settings such as paediatrics, community health and education, as practice nurse in GP clinics, mental health, child care, aged care, peri-operative care, Indigenous health, rural and remote area health and emergency departments.
Professional recognition
The degree is accredited by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia and provides the necessary qualification for graduates to be eligible to become a Registered Nurse in Australia.
Professional placement
Supervised clinical placements provide students with experiences of nursing (totalling 1 040 hours) in settings relevant to their areas of study in government and private hospitals and health agencies. This may include acute and low care health facilities; community settings; mental health facilities; extended residential aged care; GP practices; health promotion and education; intensive care; health clinics; accident and emergency; palliative care; primary health care settings and related nursing and health services within metropolitan, regional and rural areas throughout NSW and south-east QLD.
Major areas of study
The course is responsive to contemporary nursing practices and provides content and clinical experiences as follows:
Professional areas: critical thinking and analysis, provision and coordination of care, independent and collaborative care, primary health care, mental health, acute and complex care, chronic disease management, palliative care, leadership and care management, aged care.
Biological sciences: anatomy, physiology, patho-physiology and pharmacology.
Social sciences: Australian health care system, Indigenous studies, philosophy, psychology and sociology for health sciences, legal and ethical studies and research methods.
Assessment methods
A variety of assessment methods is used in this course including multiple choice examinations, short answer examinations, essay examinations, case studies, tutorial and workshop presentations, debates, written assignments and clinical skills testing. For each unit there are usually two to three assessment items.
Teaching methods
On-campus students experience a variety of teaching approaches including lectures, tutorials, online activities and video-linked or podcast virtual classes. The method of teaching may vary from unit to unit.
Some units in this course are also available by distance education. Our distance education study option is highly interactive and strives to promote collaboration and a sense of community. Students may receive a combination of podcast or video-linked lectures, electronic study materials, workshops, online discussion forums and virtual classes. The method of teaching may vary from unit to unit.
Advanced standing
Your previous learning experiences relevant to one or more units in this course may help you reduce the duration of your degree.
- Recognition of formal and non-formal learning
Credit may be awarded to a student for formal learning (gained through full or partial achievement of an accredited qualification or course) or non-formal learning (that takes place through a non-accredited course or program of learning) completed at Southern Cross University or in other learning settings in Australia and/or overseas.
To help you identify how much credit you may receive for your related prior learning visit SCU Pathways.
An application for advanced standing must be submitted so we can assess your prior learning. Please apply for advanced standing at the same time as you apply for admission into this course, because the amount of credit awarded will determine the sequence of units you will study.Go to course structure to see if specific advanced standing rules also apply to this course.
Learning support
Learning resources
MySCU is a student's point of entry to a range of online services and resources that support study and student life. The portal includes unit learning sites and information sites where students can access resources, communication tools and useful links that are integral to their studies.
The web-based study environment Blackboard Learn delivers an advanced online learning environment for students and lecturers to communicate and collaborate through virtual meeting spaces, classrooms, and discussion boards. They can share files, presentations and applications. If a tutorial or lecture is recorded, students can view it afterwards.
Learning materials include the provision of unit information guides, study guides and readings. Students may need to purchase or access prescribed text books.
The SCU Library provides a wide range of services that include face-to-face and online help, and access to print and electronic resources. To find out more, see the Library Toolbox.
The Academic Skills team supports student learning by offering online and on-campus academic skills workshops, assignment reviews and small group or one-on-one face-to-face, phone or Skype consultations during business hours 9am to 4.30pm. Appointments can be made via the MySCU Hub 'Connect Now' button or on the Academic Skills home page. Students can also book appointments online in Career Hub.
The YourTutor service provides online after-hours study support for SCU students. This service is available from 4pm to midnight Sunday to Friday via the 'Connect Now' button on MySCU Hub or from a link in nominated unit learning sites. The YourTutor service offers generic writing feedback and live online chat assistance for foundational concepts and study skills.
Equipment and facilities
Southern Cross University provides students with modern well equipped teaching spaces such as lecture theatres, classrooms, and studios or laboratories tailored to meet the needs of specific study disciplines. Contemporary audiovisual equipment is standard in most teaching venues, and students have access to computer labs for individual study purposes.
A range of online and electronic technologies are used to conduct and support the delivery of this course. Students have access to the clinical nursing simulation spaces which are fitted with state-of-the-art hospital and electronic equipment. Each campus has access to SimMan – an interactive model which can be programmed to simulate real life conditions and patient scenarios. Specialised science laboratories are also used.
Visit scu.edu.au/healthlabs
Course structure
See the University's Rules Relating to Awards, in conjunction with the Specific Award Rules listed below.
Table of contents
Admission requirements
- Applicants for admission to candidature shall normally have satisfied the requirements prescribed in Rule 2 Section 2 of the Rules Relating to Awards as deemed eligible for admission by the School Board and have obtained a level of achievement acceptable to the School Board; and
have an assessable level of English Language ability to the standard for Registration as a Nurse as set out by the relevant Australian Nursing Regulation Authority, from time to time:
- International applicants must be able to demonstrate proficiency of English deemed acceptable to the School Board, as set out by the relevant Nursing Regulatory Authority; and
- have achieved a minimum score of 7.0 in an International English Language Test System (IELTS) on each of the individual bands of reading, writing, speaking and listening on any one day.
- As an alternative to Rule 2 Section 2 of the Rules Relating to Awards, applicants for admission to candidature may be selected where the applicant is an enrolled nurse who holds the national training package qualification Diploma of Nursing (Enrolled) and who is registered with the relevant Australian Nursing Regulation Authority
- An applicant who has completed a Certificate III qualification will not be admitted on the basis of this qualification
Course requirements
To be eligible for the award of Bachelor of Nursing, a candidate:
- shall successfully complete not less than twenty-four (24) units comprising all units listed in Part A of the Schedule of Units attached to these Rules, and have satisfactorily met the requirements for all professional experience placement; or
- who is an Enrolled Nurse and admitted on the basis of Admission Requirements, Clause c, will be required to successfully complete 180 credit points, comprising all units listed in Part B of the Schedule of Units attached to these Rules, and have satisfactorily met the requirements for all professional experience placement.
Student Progression
- Candidates are not permitted to have an extended period of more than 18 months between study of any two (2) of the Formation Based Learning Units (Clinical or Professional Experience).
- Notwithstanding the above, candidates who have an Interrupted Study Sequence of more than 18 months will be assessed on a case-by-case basis and may be required to undertake a specified supported professional experience placement to ensure clinical currency prior to continuation with the course.
A candidate who has twice not satisfactorily met the requirements in a Formation Based Clinical unit or Professional Experience Placement will either be:
- excluded from the award; or
- subject to adequately demonstrated grounds of appeal (consistent with University Policy), permitted to re-enrol in a Formation Based Clinical Unit following approval by the Head of School.
A candidate who has failed the equivalent of thirty six (36) credit points within one academic year (three (3) study sessions) will either be:
- excluded for a maximum of one (1) study period. Students must provide evidence of having obtained study skills assistance during the period of exclusion; or
- subject to adequately demonstrated grounds of appeal (consistent with University Rule 2, Section 10), permitted to enrol following approval by the Head of School.
The maximum duration for completion of the award of Bachelor of Nursing is seven (7) years in total which includes any period for a leave of absence.
Inherent Requirements
Inherent Requirements apply to this course as defined on the Student Equity & Disability Services website. If you have a disability or health condition which may impact on your ability to meet these requirements please refer to the Student Equity & Disability Services website for further information and contact details.
Advanced standing
Candidates admitted under Admission Requirements, Clause c will be granted advanced standing following successful completion of:
- NRS20006 Foundations to Nursing;
- BIO20003 Intermediate Anatomy and Physiology;
- NRS20005 Nursing Practices.
Schedule of units
How to apply
Domestic students
International students
Confirm you meet the entry requirements including English language and academic entry and any specific pre-requisites.
Southern Cross University accepts applications directly through the International Application for Admissions form.
Additional information on how to apply is available at SCU International. Please note applicants from some countries need to go through an Education Agent.
The information on this page may be subject to change over time. Please check this page again before acting and see our disclaimer.
From the 1st of June, 2017, the term 'Distance Education' has been replaced with 'Online'


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PC Benchmark is a lightweight application designed to scan different areas your computer to determine if it is performing at its maximum potential. Based on the results, PC Benchmark will provide recommendations on how to achieve optimum performance, along with instructional videos and articles for the recommended actions. It will also allow you to compare your computer's speed score against others who have run the application.
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NEW YORK (Feb. 4)
A conference of some 400 representatives of landsmannschaften and fraternal organizations at the Hotel Astor last night, called to spur the Joint Distribution Committee's $5,100,000 drive, was told that the J.D.C. would match contributions by these organizations for relief of Jews in Eastern and Central Europe.
Dr. Bernhard Kahn, European director of the J.D.C., announced that the J.D.C. was willing to cooperate with home-town groups here in extending relief to Jews in localities in Europe, and would seek none of the credit for such work.


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Phyllis A. Lyle, 70, of Ravenna, died Thursday at Akron City Hospital.
Born June 20, 1927 in Youngstown, she was the daughter of George and Lila Robbins.
Mrs. Lyle worked as an elementary school special education teacher at Rootstown Elementary School. Prior to that, she taught at Athens Middle School and at Aurora Elementary School.
She was a member of Grace Episcopal Church in Ravenna and the National Organization of Women. She volunteered at the Center of Hope in Ravenna, at Planned Parenthood and the Ravenna Preschool. She was an avid gardener and belonged to several garden clubs.
Survivors include her husband, the Rev. William Lyle, to whom she had been married since 1949; son, Randall of Kent; daughters, Roxana Lyle of Ravenna, Nena Lalich of Cincinnati and Aimee Lyle of Kent; and 10 grandchildren. A brother and sister died previously.
Calling hours will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday at Shorts Funeral Home, Ravenna Chapel. Memorial services will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday at Grace Episcopal Church, Ravenna with the Rev. Gaye Jennings officiating. Private burial will take place.
Memorials may be made to Planned Parenthood, 34 S. High Street, Akron.


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Secondly. I give and divise unto the Trustees of Fairfax Meeting House Land and to their Successors for ever and for the use and convenience of said Meeting, so much of my Land joining to said Land as is contained from a forked black Oak standing near the northwest corner of the Stable Westwards from the Meeting House marked M running from thence nearly a northeast course passing by the Northwest Corner of the Stable on the East end of the House to a black oak marked M thence to a white Oak also marked M then a short distance same course to a line of said Meeting House Land, then with that line to the beginning
Thirdly, my will is and I hereby direct that all the residue of my Land be sold by my executors at publick Auction, immediately after my Decease, and that they or the Survivors of them do send and sufficiently convey the same to the purchaser or purchasers in parcels or the whole together as may appear most advantageous and that no unnecessary delay be made in the payment of my debts and Legacies hereafter mentioned. I also Will that all my personal Estate (save only such Articles as are otherwise bequeathed) be also sold in like manner, and that the whole amounts of the sales both real and personal be judiciously disposed of as is herein directed
Fourthly. I give and bequeath unto my Children the several sums mentioned with their names Viz To my Son Isaac the sum of Sixty....pounds [four dots, as shown, sic], and to my son Thomas Ninety...pounds and to my son Samuel one hundred and fifty pounds and to my daughters Ann, Mary, Rebeckah and Sarah, fifty pounds to each of them and to my daughter Hannah seventy five pounds and to my granddaughter Jane Janney twenty-five pounds current money of Virginia, to be paid to them or their legal representatives in Gold or Silver by weights or paper currency at the current exchange at the time of payment.
Fifthly. I give and bequeath unto my said daughter Hannah my best feather Bed of furniture, one Case of Drawers, one large Iron Pott, one Pine Chest, and one brindle Cow Sixthly. my further Will is that the remainder of the monies arising from the sale of my said Estate as also my Cash and outstanding debts (after the payment of my debts and legacies before mentioned) be equally divided and paid to my Children, namely Isaac, Thomas, Samuel, Ann, Mary, Rebeckah, Hannah and Sarah or to their Heirs, or Representatives in manner above directed Seventhly and lastly. I nominate and appoint my Sons Thomas Hague, Samuel Hague and Israel Thompson Executors to this my last Will and Testament
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Welcome to Franklin County History
Franklin County, named for Benjamin Franklin, was one of 33 original counties organized in 1855, and the county's borders remain the same today as originally laid out. It is nearly square, extending approximately 24 miles in each direction. The area is historically rich. A Santa Fe Trail cutoff angles across the northern part of the county. It is said that more Native American tribes were in Franklin County at one time or another than any other county in Kansas, and many of the geographical names in the county reflect this.
Franklin County was a hotbed of pre-Civil War tension in the late 1850s as proslavery and abolitionist settlers poured into Kansas in an attempt to influence which direction the future state would take. John Brown and his sons lived here and were responsible for the infamous Pottawatomie Massacre on May 24, 1856. This brutal act shone the national spotlight on Franklin County and plunged Bleeding Kansas further into a vicious civil war.
Ottawa quickly developed as the county seat and largest town in the county. Santa Fe and Missouri Pacific Railroads were major employers and brought many immigrants from Mexico to work on the lines. The Santa Fe main line, Interstate-35, and US Hwy. 59 bisect Franklin County today and contribute to the county's strong agricultural economy as well as many manufacturing businesses that use those routes.
History Mysteries
In 2010 Franklin County Historical Society staff formed a network of organizations in the county with historical interests to create a digital repository of large amounts of Franklin County historical information. The partners consisted of museum, library and university professionals whose institutions have existing collections and who have knowledge of individuals with additional pertinent materials.
Digital imaging provides both enhanced access and preservation. Users anywhere in the world may access the resources and online copies of rare and fragile documents may be used on a regular basis without damage to the originals.
Although this is an ongoing project, a goal was to have the site functioning by 2011 as part of Franklin County's celebration of the Kansas Sesquicentennial.


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Huntington North (1-0) shot lights out over Swanigan and Homestead's (0-1) height inside won 69-53 to open the season.
"Kids stayed within themselves tonight," Huntington North head coach Rob Irwin said. "Sometimes got a little out of kilter, but stayed within what we wanted to do. Guys were just staying patient and defensively, too, we kept them off kilter."
Swanigan may have scored 25 points to lead all scorers with 11 rebounds and four turnovers, but he wasn't enough to overcome the Vikings shooting 64.7 percent from three-point range. The Vikings shot 50 percent from the field for the game as they made 11 three-pointers.
"I mean, we couldn't have asked for a better start," Irwin said. "We shot the ball really well. Came in at halftime, thought we were fortunate shooting the ball and then third quarter came out shooting well again."
This was led by Keaton Irwin, who hit five threes as he scored 22 points to lead Huntington North, and Kyle Platt was perfect from deep hitting all four threes to score 20 points. The guards routinely found their way around screens to put the Vikings up early and keep them there.
"We haven't had a kid work as hard as (Keaton Irwin) has to get himself where he can play," Irwin said. "He didn't play in middleschool and was fat and overweight and decided he wanted to play, and that's his hard work paying off tonight. For the most part, he stayed within himself. He didn't try to do anything he couldn't do, and if he shoots the ball like that we're going to be good this year."
For Huntington North, the domination got started early as Homestead struggled to get good possessions at the beginning of the game. The Vikings opened the game on 11-0 and 21-3 runs. They used various zones including a box-and-one and full-court press tochallenge the Spartans. Homestead only had one shot attempt on its first six possessions, and it finished the game with 12 turnovers, eight in the first half.
"We just wanted to make sure we had pressure on the ball so it wasn't easy throwing it down low (to Swanigan)," Irwin said. "Just kept coming at them and hopefully (Swanigan) is the guy who had to come out to relieve pressure."
Homestead left the game with plenty of questions about its team. Without an experienced guard returning, it struggled to find shooting and players surrounding Swanigan. It's an issue head coach Chris Johnson is certainly concerned about.
"We just don't have that type of quickness out there to be able to create," Johnson said. "We don't have Nick Gamble anymore who can get up in people and get a quick steal."
It also didn't help that Homestead was without senior Joe Ault in the game, who did not dress for personal reasons Johnson said. Still, for the Spartans to be competitive they need their guards to grow up in a hurry.
"They took us out of everything we wanted to do," Johnson said. "We have two big guys and (Huntington North) came out and got hot and we get down 13 to zero and it's awful tough to come back from that. …With our guards, we have to figure out what varsity basketball is and tonight Huntington North took it to us."


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The modern food and agricultural system requires enormous amounts of energy, mostly in the form of fossil fuels, to run.
About 17 percent of Americas energy resources go into producing and operating oversize farm equipment, center-pivot irrigation, chemical fertilizers and pesticides, food processing, food distribution, consumer shopping, food preparation and cooking, and other aspects of food production. The two largest energy users are the meat and meat products industry and the sugar processing industry, followed closely by soft drinks and beverages. This type of system is very wasteful of energy. For example, in the Midwest, farmers require from 5 to 12 calories of petroleum for every 1 calorie of food produced. In contrast, traditional societies using labor-intensive cultivation techniques and small, appropriate technological methods can produce 3 to 10 calories of food for every 1 calorie of energy expended. In addition, about 24 percent of all the food produced in the United States is later wasted due to poor and inefficient harvesting techniques, transportation, storage, processing, marketing, and kitchen and plate waste.
Under a more natural and organic system of food production and delivery, reduced processing and packaging of foods, independence from chemical, oil-based fertilizers and pesticides, and lessened need for heavy farm equipment would result in substantial energy savings. The consumption of local, regional, and seasonally grown food-in line with macrobiotic dietary principles-would further cut back on food imported long distances and from different climates, thus reducing transportation networks and their resulting pollution and other social costs. The need for less metals, chemicals, petroleum, and other raw materials would further ease international competition and crises.


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Pakistan's air pollution is nearly ten times higher than levels considered dangerous by the WHO.
Political instability, corruption and a lack of government measures to curb carbon emissions have led to a cloak of thick smoke over major cities like Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. In 2008, a government study revealed that every car in Pakistan, regardless of its age, generates 25 percent more carbon than one in the U.S.
Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city has a capacity for only 700 vehicles per hour, but according to the study, there are more than 11,000 vehicles per hour on the roads. The city, which already has more than half the country's 3.5 million vehicles, adds up to 400 new cars a day.
Water pollution from raw sewage and industrial waste has also become a major problem in the country. In addition, Pakistan's water supply is evaporating so quickly that it will become a "water-famine" country by the end of this decade, according to the country's Centre for Research and Security Studies.


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UMHS has been at the national forefront of one of the most important trends in medicine today: population health.
This quest for better care quality, better health for entire populations, and lower health care costs will only increase in importance in coming years.
We got in on this trend on the ground floor, by participating in a Medicare demonstration project that began in 2005 and became the prototype for the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) movement. We have also played leadership roles in efforts funded by private insurers and state agencies.
We have formed two ACOs, and helped launch a statewide patient-centered medical home effort. Below, you'll find more about each of these efforts and more.
In a Jan. 2, 2013 letter to JAMA, two Dartmouth researchers wrote, "If all institutions behaved like the University of Michigan under the system of ACOs, the potential savings would be enormous."
For the media: To arrange interviews with Dr. David Spahlinger (CEO of POM ACO and executive director of the U-M Faculty Group Practice), Dr. Tim Peterson (head of the U-M Population Health Office), Dr. Brent Williams (Complex Care Management Program) and other leaders involved in UMHS population health initiatives, please call Kara Gavin at 734 764 2220 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Learn more:
The forerunner of ACOs:
Medicare Physician Group Practice (PGP) Demonstration Project (2005-2011)
Summary of JAMA paper: independent analysis of project results (Sept. 2012, Dartmouth)
JAMA paper - 2012;308(10):1015-1023. doi:10.1001/2012.jama.10812
Summary of final results (Aug. 2011)
Fast facts: Involved all 1,700+ members of the U-M Faculty Group Practice and thousands of Medicare fee-for-service patients. U-M was one of 10 PGPs to take part nationally, and one of only 2 that both met quality goals and reduced costs. More than $22M in Medicare spending saved, highest savings seen in dual-eligible (Medicare/Medicaid) patients.
Pioneer ACO: U-M Faculty Group Practice and IHA - launched Jan. 1, 2012
Announcement (Dec. 2011)
Expansion to include Packard Health and Saline internist (April 2013)
First-year results & announcement of intent to transition from Pioneer to MSSP ACO model (July 2013)
Fast facts: One of 32 nationwide, involved the collaboration of more than 1,700 U-M, 310 IHA and 5 HVPA physicians caring for more than 23,000 Medicare fee-for-service patients. The Pioneer ACO ended at the end of 2013 and its members transitioned to POM ACO in 2014.
Physician Organization of Michigan ACO (POM ACO):
A Medicare Shared Savings Program ACO - launched Jan. 1, 2013, expanded 2014
Expansion announcement - to include Pioneer ACO members - March 2014
Original POM-ACO press release
Fast facts: Involves more than 5,700 physicians and other providers from 12 physician groups in 22 Michigan counties, and over 120,000 Medicare fee-for-service patients
Physician groups with members in POM ACO:
- Advantage Health/Saint Mary's Care Network
- Crawford Mercy Physician Hospital Organization
- Huron Valley Physicians Association (HVPA)
- Lakeshore Health Network
- MidMichigan Health
- Oakland Southfield Physicians
- Olympia Medical Services
- Physicians' Organization of Western Michigan
- United Physicians
- U-M Faculty Group Practice members and other U-M Health System clinicians
- Wexford Physician Hospital Organization
Patient-centered medical home initiative: MiPCT
Fast facts: Three-year multi-payer project involving 500+ primary care practices & 1,800 primary care physicians affiliated with 41 physician/physician hospital organizations (POs/PHOs). UMHS is the project manager and the Michigan Department of Community Health is the lead oversight agency.
Organizations within UMHS involved in population health:
The Faculty Group Practice, part of the Medical School, serves as the physician organization for all 2,000+ U-M faculty physicians, who care for patients at the U-M Hospitals & Health Centers, the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, and select partner locations. Founded in 1996, the FGP manages the UMHS ambulatory care network of health centers in Ann Arbor and surrounding communities. It has a longtime commitment to efforts to improve quality of care, and reports a number of its own clinical quality and patient rating measures publicly via the UMHS Quality & Safety site.
The Population Health Office was created in January 2012 to manage the various population-based patient care delivery, quality improvement and reimbursement pilot programs in which the UMHS Faculty Group Practice (FGP) participates. The office collaborates with the FGP Quality Management Program, and Ambulatory Care Services, as well as local and regional providers to develop and provide innovative ways to better deliver high quality, efficient care to specific UMHS patient populations.
The Complex Care Management Program was formed in 2005 to coordinate care for UMHS patients with the highest level of need, including physical illnesses, mental illness, homelessness, and lack of adequate health insurance. To date, the program has seen drastic reductions in hospital admissions, ER visits, and total costs for this specific population of patients.
Publications and news stories about our efforts:
Al Jazeera America TV - feature story on Complex Care Management Program and Pioneer ACO, November 2013:
Part 1 Part 2
The Association of American Medical Colleges has showcased our efforts in a case study of care management.
Case management keeps high utilizers out of hospital - Insurancenewsnet, July 2012
Caring for the Costliest - Hospitals & Health Networks magazine cover story, Nov. 2012


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Angrathar – Part 8
This is Part of Angrethar, the story of The Battle for the Wrathgate from Aelflaed's point of view. You can see all of the posts in this story on the Story Archives page, by searching for the Wrathgate category, or through this link.
It felt like the first time in months that Tarquin ap Danwyrith had stopped to breathe. Two days up here at Angrathar, he knew, but he felt like he had been born in that icy gulch, beneath that broken hill. Maybe this was hell. He rubbed his knuckles into the corners of his eyesockets, as if to scour away what he'd seen, aware all the while of the absurdity of it. Just more petty defiance, more useless-
He put a collar on his thoughts and dragged them back from the abyss. Going to be doing that a lot, murmured the part of his mind that had regained its balance. First things first, the living. He had a responsibility. Ceil was with Sonya, of course; she wouldn't say two words to the girl, but she'd hover over her as if she could will her back to health. It was typical.
The Riders were ranged about the point where their headlong flight had stopped, in various states of breathless disbelief. Tarquin fancied that he could have seen the same reflection in all their eyes had he bothered to look, heard the same thunderous echoes of – fucking come off it! They were alive, that was what mattered. Wounded, exhausted, terrified beyond measure in some cases, but alive. That was where everything started.
He began a headcount, matching things up against the mental list he carried with him at all times, noting the gaps with a heavy heart. Bellesta, Feliche, Aelflaed –
The monstrous gas probably wouldn't have gone that far, but even still, Bolvar's death had routed the Alliance, all the way back to the reserves. She could be anywhere. She could be a twitching shell half-buried in snowdrifts, a torched and mangled body on one of a hundred heaps, a shambling carcass taking up the Bloody Prince's new guard outside the gates. There were thousands of them out there. Tarquin indulged himself in maudlin thoughts for a moment longer, then turned to his family and surveyed for a moment before calling out. "Jolly! Kaidos! 'Larra!"
Of the Riders, those were three of the most coherent. Ulthanon had seen it all before, more or less, and Ilarra could always stand to see more. As for Jolstraer, dead-eyed and battered as he was, the old knight simply had too many years of momentum behind him to fall to despair. They all wandered over with the same air of distraction – trying, most like, to keep the horror from creeping in. "We've still Riders out there," he told them. "Aely wis sent wi' the Legion medical at the start. I want yeh three ta find her, or her body." Ulthanon winced. "Kaidos, check the field. 'Larra, go an' check wha's left ay the Legion. Jolly, go south, 'mong the scatters."
Ilarra cleared her throat delicately. "Lotta dead folk out there, boss. Not that I won't be positively thrilled at findin' her, o' course, but – well, how soon you want us back?"
"When yeh find her." Tarquin caught Ilarra's gaze. "Find any in the colors. Bellesta an' Feliche're missin' too. Mair, might be. I'll have yeh a count in a tick. Get yirselves ready." He turned back to counting.
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|Kate Karniouchina
Education | Courses Taught | Research Interests | Professional Experience | Publications | Presentations | Service | Awards
Marketing/Finance/Strategy Interface Issues
Academic Positions
Associate Professor of Business, Lorry I. Lokey Graduate School of Business, Mills College (2013-present)
Visiting Assistant Professor of Business, Lorry I. Lokey Graduate School of Business, Mills College, (2012-2013 academic year)
Assistant Professor of Marketing, Chapman University, August 2008-2013, promoted to Associate Professor of Marketing with tenure in 2013
Industry Employment
2011-present, Boston Consulting Group, Research Team Collaboration
2001-2003, Lantern Communications, Inc. (acquired by C-COR, Inc.)
2000-2001, General Electric Company
1998-1999, First Republic Bank, Moscow, Russia
Journal Articles
Dixon, Michael, Ekaterina V. Karniouchina, Bo van der Rhee, Rohit Verma, and Liana Victorino (2014), "The Role of Coordinated Marketing-Operations Strategy in Services: Implications for Managerial Decisions and Execution, Journal of Service Management, forthcoming.
Karniouchina, Ekaterina, Stephen Carson, Jeremy Short and David Ketchen (2013), "Extending the Firm vs. Industry Debate: Does Industry Lifecycle Stage Matter? Strategic Management Journal. 34(8), 1010–1018.
Karniouchina, Ekaterina, Can Uslay and Grigori Erenburg (2011), "Do Marketing Media Have Lifecycles? The Case of Product Placement in Movies," Journal of Marketing, 75(3), 27-48.
Karniouchina, Ekaterina (2011), "Impact of Star and Movie Buzz on Motion Picture Distribution and Box Office Revenue," International Journal of Research in Marketing, 28(1), 62-74.
Karniouchina, Ekaterina (2011), "Are Virtual Stock Markets Efficient Predictors of New Product Success? The Case of the Hollywood Stock Exchange," Journal of Product Innovation Management, 28(4), 470-484.
Karniouchina, Ekaterina, William L. Moore and Kevin Cooney (2009), "Impact of Mad Money Stock Recommendations: Merging Financial and Marketing Perspectives," Journal of Marketing, 73(6), 244-266.
Karniouchina, Ekaterina V., William L. Moore, Bo Van der Rhee, and Rohit Verma (2009), "Issues in the Use of Ratings-Based Versus Choice-Based Conjoint Analysis in Operations Management Research," European Journal of Operational Research, 197 (1), 340-348.
Victorino, Liana, Ekaterina Karniouchina and Rohit Verma (2009), "Exploring the Use of the Abbreviated Technology Readiness Index for Hotel Customer Segmentation," Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, 50(3), 342-359.
Brazell, Jeff, Christopher Diener, Ekaterina Karniouchina, William Moore, Válerie Séverin, and Pierre-Francois Uldry (2006), "No Choice Option and Dual Response Choice Design," Marketing Letters, 17(4), 255-268.
Karniouchina, Ekaterina, Liana Victorino, and Rohit Verma (2006),"Product and Service Innovation: Ideas for Future Cross-Disciplinary Research," Journal of Product Innovation Management, 23 (3), 274-280.
Reports and Conference Proceedings
Karniouchina, Ekaterina V., William L. Moore and Kevin J. Cooney (2008), "Consumer Response to TV Stock Recommendations: Merging Financial and Marketing Perspectives," Marketing Science Institute special report [08-206].
Karniouchina, Ekaterina, William L. Moore, Debra L. Scammon, and Dan Fuller (2009), "Exploring the Effectiveness of Public Lender Foreclosure Auctions as a Real Estate Disposition Channel," Proceeding of 2009 Marketing and Public Policy Conference.
Karniouchina, Ekaterina, Mishra, Himanshu and Rohit Verma (2008), "Exploring Consumer Reactions to Tipping Guidelines: Implications for Service Quality," Cornell Hospitality Report, 8(8), 4-16.
Verma, Rohit, Liana Victorino, Kate Karniouchina and Julie Feickert (2007), Segmenting Hotel Customers Based on the Technology Readiness Index," Cornell Hospitality Report, 7(13), 1-16.
Book Chapters
"Sport Related Subculture as a Useful Basis of Market Segmentation: Insights for Ski Area Managers" in Consumer Behavior Knowledge for Effective Sports Marketing, Routledge/Psychology Press. (2010), Author(s): Debbie Scammon, Dan Fuller, Ekaterina Karniouchina, and Tamara Masters Co-Editor(s): Lynn R. Kahle and Angeline Close
Projects in Progress
Karniouchina, Ekaterina, Stephen Carson and William Moore, "Note on Motion Picture Profitability," dissertation-based paper, being revised for resubmission to Management Science.
Karniouchina, Ekaterina, Stephen Carson, William Moore, and Can Uslay "Examining the Roles of Innovation and Distribution in Determining Product Level Profitability," under revise and resubmit at Journal of Management Studies.
Uslay, Can, Ekaterina Karniuchina, Ayca Altintig, and Martin Reeves, "Why and How Can Firms Get Stuck in the Middle?"under review at Strategic Management Journal.
Victorino, Liana, Ekaterina V Karniouchina and Rohit Verma, "Evolution of Technology Readiness," data collected, manuscript is being prepared for submission to Journal of Services Management.
Cooney, Kevin, Ekaterina Karniouchina and Christine Moorman, " Honor and Guilt by Association: How Celebrity Endorsers and Their Indiscretion Affect Firm Value," data collected, manuscript is targeted at the Journal of Marketing.
Shields, Timothy and Ekaterina Karniouchina, "Can Consumers Resist Listening to Biased Advice? Focus on Financial Industry."Presentations
Conference Presentations
Uslay, Can, Ekaterina V. Karniouchina, Z. Ayca Altintig, and Martin Reeves (2013), "(How) Can Firms Get Stuck in the Middle? An Explanation via Efficient, Marketing, and Optimal Scale," American Marketing Association Educators' Winter Conference, Las Vegas, NV.
Uslay, Can, Ekaterina V. Karniouchina, Z. Ayca Altintig, and Claes M. Hultman, "Entrepreneurial Chasm: An Empirical Examination of the 1% Share Threshold," Global Research Symposium on Marketing, Entrepreneurship, and Entrepreneurship Education, Rio de Janerio, Brazil, 2011.
"Do Marketing Media Have Life Cycles? The Case of Product Placement in the Movies," 2011 Marketing Strategy Meets Wall Street Conference, Boston College, Boston, MA.
"The Roles of Producers and Distributors in Creating Product Level Profitability: the Case of Motion Pictures," with William L. Moore, Stephen Carson and Can Uslay, 2010 Marketing Science Conference, Cologne, Germany.
"Invariance of Screening Rules," with Bill Moore and Joel Huber, 2010 ART Forum, San Francisco, CA.
"Exploring Consumer Reactions to Tipping Guidelines: Implications for Service Quality," with Himanshu Mishra and Rohit Verma, 2009 INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
"Evolving Techno-Ready Customer Segments in the Hospitality Industry," with Liana Victorino and Rohit Verma, 2009 Art and Science of Service V, Bentley University, Waltham, MA.
"Exploring the Effectiveness of Public Lender Foreclosure Auctions as a Real Estate Disposition Channel," with William L. Moore, Debra L. Scammon, and Dan Fuller, 2009 Marketing and Public Policy Conference.
"Investor Response to Mad Money Recommendations: Merging Financial and Marketing Perspectives," with William Moore and Kevin Cooney, MSI Conference, 2009 Marketing Strategy Meets Wall Street Research Competition, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
"Analysis of White Space: Risky Behaviors When Skiers, Snowboarders, and Others Have to Play Together," with Debra L. Scammon, Dan A. Fuller, and Tamara Masters, 2008 Summer AMA, San Diego, CA.
"Stability of Cut Offs," with William Moore, 2008 Marketing Science Conference, Vancouver, BC.
"When Do Firms and Industries Matter? Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Firm vs. Industry Debate," 2006 Marketing Science Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.
"Screening Rules and Consumer Choice: A Comparison of Compensatory vs. Non-Compensatory Models," with William Moore, 2006 Marketing Science Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.
"When Do Firms and Industries Matter? Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Firm vs. Industry Debate," 2006 Mittelstaedt Doctoral Consortium, Lincoln, NE.
"No choice option and dual response choice design," with Jeff D. Brazell, Christopher G. Diener, William L. Moore, Válerie Séverin and Pierre-Francois Uldry, 2005 Marketing Science Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Invited Talks/Presentations
Mills College, 2012
Excellence in Scholarly/Creative Activity Award, Chapman University, 2009
ASBE Student Grant for faculty sponsored research (Christopher Goodrich), 2009
MSI grant for the research proposal "Consumer Response to TV Stock Recommendations: Merging Financial and Marketing Perspectives," with William Moore and Kevin Cooney, 2008
ASBE summer research grant, 2010, 2009, 2008
Doctoral Student Teaching Excellence Award, David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah, 2005
AMA Sheth Doctoral Consortium Fellow, 2006
Marketing Science Doctoral Consortium Fellow, 2006, 2005
George and Delores Dore Eccles Foundation Scholarship, 1999-2000
International Education Forum Scholarship, 1994
Silver Medal for Personal Academic Excellence, at graduation from School #228, Moscow, Russia, 1994Service
Mills College
Chapman University
Academic Participant, Marketing Science Institute,
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University of Utah
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Early Saturday morning Binghamton city police raided the off-campus residences of Alpha Chi Rho and Tau Alpha Epsilon fraternities, resulting in the arrest of three Greek life students, including Interfraternity Council President Zach Stein.
Members of the Binghamton Police Department's community response team dressed in plain clothes and, posing as Binghamton University students, arrested Stein—along with Claude Fong, president of Tau Alpha Epsilon, and Matthew Opramolla, a member of Alpha Chi Rho—after paying money to enter each house and consume alcohol. The three arrested students were charged with prohibited sale of alcohol, a class A misdemeanor, according to a statement from BPD.
In a press release Tuesday, Binghamton University spokesperson Ryan Yarosh acknowledged the arrests and said that the University is conducting its own investigation into the matter.
"The University will refer to the Student Code of Conduct and the Fraternity and Sorority Governance documents to hold both individual students and the organizations accountable under University disciplinary procedures, in addition to whatever action may be taken to address criminal charges," Yarosh said in the press release. "The University will also notify the organizational offices/representatives of the two fraternities involved."
BU President Harvey Stenger said administrators are waiting for more information before taking further action.
"We can't say, 'Well, what if?'" he said. "I would rather we just be patient and we wait to hear exactly what happened rather than just what's in the newspaper. And after we hear exactly what happened, then we'll have conversations about what to do next."
At an Oct. 4 meeting of campus officials, representatives of the mayor's office and various bar owners, Binghamton police said they would "step up enforcement activities," according to Vice President of Student Affairs Brian Rose.
"A few different safety and behavior issues were discussed including public urination in Downtown…multiple noise complaints on Riverside Drive and concerns about off campus parties where door prices were being charged and alcohol provided," Rose wrote in an email to Pipe Dream.
Several students involved in fraternities accused State Street bar owners of encouraging police to step up their investigations of fraternity parties that are perceived as competing for business.
As a result, Bobby Ayars, president of Zeta Psi fraternity, said the members of IFC are boycotting JT's, Tom and Marty's and Uncle Tony's.
"We're boycotting those three bars," said Ayars, a senior majoring in psychology. "We felt like we had a good business relationship with these people, and we feel we got betrayed by them."
Larry Shea, co-owner of Tom and Marty's, denied that the bars pushed for the parties to be raided.
Shea noted the irregularity of students arrests following police raids on fraternity parties.
"Our implication in it is frustrating to us … All of this change in policy, or in address of it, has absolutely nothing to do with the bars," he said. "There's always gonna be frat parties. You know, we've got our niche; they've got their niche. We overlap a little bit, but that's just the college landscape."
Shea, along with representatives from several other State Street bars, met this week with Stein and Panhellenic Council President Samantha Vulpis to relay what was said at the Oct. 4 meeting.
"We not only asked but we insisted that, any more of these meetings, obviously we want them to be in attendance," Shea said. "It does put us in an uncomfortable position that frat parties are being discussed without them there if the results of those frat parties are going to now result in what resulted this weekend — arrests."
Vulpis said she and Stein talked to bar owners about the points made at the meeting, including the lack of bathrooms Downtown and overpopulation on State Street.
"Zach and I have been meeting with the bars, and no one really anticipated it going to the point where individual people would be getting arrested," Vulpis said. "That wasn't anyone's intentions, and no one really expected that to happen."
Vulpis stressed the importance of students and bar owners collaborating.
"If we're butting heads with the bars, then it just gives the police all the more reason to arrest more people," Vulpis said. "If we move together, forward as a unit, we think there's a better chance of us being able to work things out and survive, which is pretty much what everyone's just trying to do."
New York State's Alcoholic Beverage Code defines prohibited sale of alcohol as selling, delivering or giving away alcoholic beverages to "any person, actually or apparently, under the age of 21 years."
According to BPD's press statement, "officers observed what appeared to be hundreds of obvious underage college students inside consuming alcohol" at the parties. Violations of the statute generally result in a fine. BPD declined to provide further details beyond the press statement and suggested that Pipe Dream's freedom of information law request for the official report would be denied.
"What happened on Friday night was very unfortunate," Stein said in statement to Pipe Dream. "I hope we can put this behind us quickly so we can get back to improving the Greek community."
Stein declined to elaborate on the weekend's events until his legal matters have been settled. Fong and Opramolla refused to make any public statements. The Dean of Students Office referred all media inquiries to Rose.
Rose suggested the University would not ask Stein to step down as IFC president based on the arrest.
"With regard to Zach Stein, his role as IFC President is determined by the members of the IFC and Zach himself," Rose wrote in an email to Pipe Dream. "Zach has been a valuable contributor in our interactions with Greek leadership this year and we were both saddened and disappointed to learn of his arrest."
Zeta Psi President Ayars said Stein should remain IFC president.
"I think he really wants to give us a good image and he's been working diligently to accomplish that," Ayars said. "You don't change horses in the middle of the race."
According to Vulpis, support for Stein's continuation as IFC president is unanimous among Greek Life council presidents.
Stein said he does not plan to step down.
The arrests mark yet another public black eye for BU Greek Life, dampening the efforts of its members and University officials to recreate its image.
"We recognize that the process of trying to create a Greek system here at Binghamton University that we can all be proud of and that makes a significant and positive contribution in student life is going to be a long-term project," Rose said. "I think we have a lot of work to do."
— Daniel S. Weintraub contributed to this report.


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Maryland transportation officials lowered the bar when they set new goals for reducing pedestrian fatalities after the number of deaths continued to climb despite a nearly $50 million effort to make roads more walker-friendly.
The Maryland Strategic Highway Safety Plan set five-year goals in 2006 for reducing injuries and fatalities on Maryland roads to a maximum of 85 by 2010. There were 93 such deaths in 2006. In 2010, there were 101.
So last year, a new plan included a less ambitious pedestrian fatality goal for the state. Maryland officials now hope to reduce pedestrian fatalities to 92 by 2015.
Pedestrian safety has been a challenge for the state, but officials are "cautiously optimistic" they can meet their new 2015 goal, Young said.
"They want to set a goal that they can reach, and if they're too far away from their goal, then they make their goal less ambitious," said Michael Farrell, transportation planner for the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments.
Maryland has made strides in nearly every category examined by the strategic plan, such as reducing distracted and aggressive driving-related fatalities and injuries, but pedestrian deaths remain an anomaly, according to Maryland State Highway Administration spokesman David Buck.
The state's struggles can in part be traced to Prince George's and Montgomery counties, which rank first and third, respectively, for the number of pedestrian deaths between 2007 and 2011. Roads in Maryland's D.C. suburbs struggle to find ways to safely share space among drivers, bikers and walkers, according to Lora Rakowski, a spokeswoman for the State Highway Administration.
"Even though the driver has a right of way, that doesn't necessarily translate to, there should be crash -- especially a fatal crash," Rakowski said.
The state has spent $47 million in the past five years to improve pedestrian and bicyclist access to Maryland roads, according to Rakowski.
Montgomery County has shown signs of progress thanks in part to a county-funded pedestrian safety initiative, officials said, which saw $5 million initially set aside for the program.
Prince George's officials finally joined the Washington region's 10-year-old Street Smart campaign in March after remaining for years as one of the only jurisdictions to opt of the program. And the Prince George's County Council adopted a bill last week that states that all road, sidewalk and transit projects must include facilities for pedestrian and bicycle access.
"Obviously the goal in all this is zero [deaths]," Buck said. "But you have to make sure they're realistic too, and they do get adjusted in general based on the trends."
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Buel Young, spokesman for the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration, said Friday that the adjustment was based on the latest figures available on pedestrian fatalities, which climbed back above 100 annually after reaching a low of 93 in 2006.Source: Maryland State Highway Administration


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No travel advisory issued for Jamestown, Valley City and surrounding areas
The North Dakota Department of Transportation along with the North Dakota Highway Patrol have issued a no travel advisory for Bismarck, Steele, Napoleon, Linton, Jamestown, Valley City, Edgeley, Ashley, Ellendale and surrounding areas due to blowing and drifting snow. Motorists in these areas should not travel.
The NDDOT previously closed the northbound and southbound lanes of Interstate 29 from Grand Forks to the Canadian Border due to near zero visibility and hazardous driving conditions.
A no travel advisory remains in effect for areas west of Bismarck, Center and areas in northeast North Dakota including Carrington, Devils Lake, Langdon, Grand Forks, Drayton and surrounding areas due to blowing snow creating near zero visibility and snow covered roads causing hazardous driving conditions. Motorists should not travel in areas included in the no travel advisory.
A no travel advisory means motorists should not travel due to hazardous conditions which mat make it unsafe to travel. Motorists should take no travel advisories seriously as those motorists who choose to travel at their own risk may become stranded and emergency responders may not be able to reach them safely, the NDDOT said. A no travel advisory can change to a road closed or blocked if conditions deteriorate.
All travelers are encouraged to monitor road conditions as weather conditions occur and use caution while traveling. For road information, call 511 from any type of phone or go to the website: www.dot.nd.gov. NDDOT releases information to inform the public about travel conditions throughout the state. The travel map is updated daily from 5 a.m. until 9 p.m.
If you are stranded, stay with the vehicle and call 911 for emergency assistance.


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Hell on Wheels
By CHARLES McGRATH
Published: March 26, 2005
''If I was watching something on TV about disability or wheelchairs, I would probably change the channel,'' Henry Alex Rubin said recently. David Adam Shapiro added, ''If you say 'wheelchair' and 'documentary,' most people yawn.''
Mr. Rubin and Mr. Shapiro, both 31, are the co-directors of ''Murderball,'' a film about paraplegics that, far from causing viewers to tune out, was an audience favorite at the Sundance Film Festival this year and won an award in the documentary category. The film will be shown in Manhattan today and tomorrow as part of the New Directors/New Films festival, and the directors are hoping for a commercial release later in the spring.
The movie concentrates on a sport now known as wheelchair rugby. The name murderball was retired back in the early 80's in an effort to make the game more attractive to sponsors, but the rules have altered very little.
The game is played on a basketball court by paraplegics, some of them wearing garden gloves smeared with pine tar for extra stickiness, who are strapped into armored wheelchairs that are hybrids of the dodge-'em car and the Roman battle chariot. To judge from all the coaches scribbling diagrams on their clipboards, wheelchair rugby must have a strategic, X's-and-O's aspect, although the film mostly shows players crashing into one another and toppling over. There is a Monty Python aspect to all this -- or there would be if the players did not also perform remarkable feats of wheeling and spinning, executing artful feints and lobbing courtwide passes to one another.
Mr. Rubin brought some actual film experience to the making of ''Murderball.'' In 1997, not long after graduating from Columbia with a degree in film, he made a documentary about the director Henry Jaglom, and he worked as a second-unit director on two feature films, ''Girl, Interrupted'' and ''Copland.''
Mr. Shapiro, on the other hand, was a novice. While working as an editor at Spin magazine, he had the notion of starting a film production company until someone suggested that perhaps he should try making a movie first. After reading about wheelchair rugby in a small Arizona newspaper, he wangled an assignment from Maxim to write about the 2002 world championship in Sweden and persuaded Mr. Rubin, a friend, to accompany him. They filmed what proved to be a major upset -- when for the first time the United States team lost the championship -- and decided to follow the team as it tried to make a comeback in the 2004 Paralympics in Athens.
''We're not sports guys, and we didn't want to make a sports film,'' Mr. Rubin says now. ''We wanted to make a movie about guys who had broken their necks.'' ''Murderball'' does indeed trace the rehabilitations of several players from severe cervical injuries, many of them sustained in freak accidents involving alcohol, but it's a sports movie all the same. It not only touches on just about every theme on the sports flick checklist -- teamwork, adversity, joy of victory, agony of defeat, etc. -- but also repeatedly makes the point that being wheelchair bound does not necessarily liberate one from the basic jock mind-set.
Not that the players in ''Murderball'' want to be liberated. They are genuine athletes, and delight in thinking and behaving like them. They guzzle beer. They love dumb practical jokes. (A favorite road-trip prank is to hide a legless guy under a carton and then summon a hotel employee and ask her to lift it up.) And they enjoy sex with groupies, of whom there are a surprising number. In case the viewer is curious about just how these hookups work, the movie includes some explicit scenes from ''Sexuality Reborn,'' an instructional video often shown to paraplegics in rehab.
The most curious figure in ''Murderball'' is Joe Soares, who for much of the movie appears to be a monstrous version of the crazed, over-compensating sports dad. Mr. Soares, who had polio as a child, was himself a wheelchair rugby star until 2000, when he was cut by the American team. Enraged, he defected to the Canadian squad, which he coached to victory over his former teammates, and as the movie progresses he is so obsessed with repeating the feat that he becomes a bumbling, self-absorbed husband (when his wife proposes a toast ''to us'' on their wedding anniversary, he raises his glass and says, ''To the Canadians!'') and a stern and uncomprehending father to his 12-year-old son, who would rather play the violin than play sports.
Then, in a moment that could never have been scripted, Mr. Soares has a heart attack. (''A lot of times, misfortune for the subject is luck for the filmmakers,'' Mr. Shapiro said.) And in the aftermath Mr. Soares is not changed, exactly, but softened. Much the same thing happens to the American team after a crucial defeat, when for the first time these tough and macho athletes seem frail and vulnerable. This was a scene the filmmakers almost missed. ''We were as crestfallen as they were,'' Mr. Rubin said. ''We were just walking around befuddled until we noticed that what was taking place between the players and their loved ones was much more powerful than anything we had been expecting.''
''Within days of meeting these guys, everything started to flip,'' Mr. Shapiro recalled about how his preconceptions changed in the early days of filming. ''We began thinking about what is loss, what is masculinity? In modern life the edges of masculinity aren't very clearly defined. But for these guys, the stakes are much higher. They're perpetually ignored and condescended to. What is it for them to be a man? It's to be listened to, to be paid attention to.''
''In the beginning we had this lofty goal to change people's minds about people in wheelchairs,'' he added.
Mr. Rubin said, ''Then, when we met these guys, another mission came to the surface, which was to show how cool these people are.''
Photos: Dana Adam Shapiro, top, and Henry Alex Rubin directed the film ''Murderball.''; Mark Zupan is one of the wheelchair athletes featured in ''Murderball.'' (Photograhs by ThinkFilm)(pg. B7); Members of the United States wheelchair rugby team, in ''Murderball.'' (Photo by ThinkFilm)(pg. B13)


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Vehicle code violation–On Oct. 15 at 9:32 p.m. on Blossom Hill Road. A man was cited for reckless driving.
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Burglary–On Oct. 15 at 3:36 p.m. on Los Gatos Boulevard. A commercial burglary was reported.
License violation–On Oct. 15 at 11:50 a.m. on Winchester Boulevard. A man was cited for driving with a suspended license.
Auto burglaries–On Oct. 15 at 10:32 a.m. on Dardanelli Lane. An auto burglary was reported. Another auto burglary occurred at 8:22 a.m. on Oka Road.
Warrant arrest–On Oct. 14 at 5:18 p.m. on Monterey Avenue. A woman went to a residence where she was not welcome. Police arrested her on an outstanding warrant.
Barking dog–On Oct. 14 at 6:41 p.m. on Escobar Avenue. Police received a complaint about a noisy dog.
Assault–On Oct. 14 at 3:48 p.m. on Oka Road. A woman was arrested for assault.
Vandalism–On Oct. 14 at 12:45 p.m. on W. Main Street. A man was booked on felony vandalism charges.
Burglary–On Oct. 11 at 1:05 p.m. on Withey Road in Monte Sereno. A residence was burglarized.


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The return of Pau Gasol and Steve Nash to the lineup is likely to mask most, if not all, the symptoms afflicting the underachieving Los Angeles Lakers. But the perennial all-stars will do nothing to address the disease lurking deep inside the foundation of the Lakers, the malady that will prevent the high-priced collection of veterans from getting past the Thunder, Spurs or even the Grizzlies come playoff time. The disease isn't bungling, overmatched executive vice president Jim Buss. It's not bungling, overmatched coach Mike D'Antoni. The root cause of the Lakers' dysfunction has been consistent for 15 years. It is Kobe Bryant's ego, his desperate pursuit of Michael Jordan's legacy. L.A.'s Dwight Howard experiment is going to explode and implode in spectacular fashion unless someone in the Lakers organization is bold enough to kill Kobe's Michael Jordan avatar so that Howard's Bill Russell avatar can emerge and lead the Lakers. You follow? The wrong player is driving the Lakers. Dwight Howard is the second-most talented player in the league. He's the single-most gifted defensive player the NBA has seen since Bill Russell. On a properly functioning, championship-chasing team, Howard cannot be a sidekick, a No. 2, Scottie Pippen. Can't happen. The Heat tried it with LeBron James in Year 1 of the Big Three, and we know how that ended. Dwyane Wade is an awesome basketball player and a terrific leader, but he had to surrender the soul of the Heat to LeBron in order for the Heat to win a title. Kobe has to let go and let D12. Has to. Kobe has to accept that he is not the 34-year-old Michael Jordan. You see, at 34 Jordan was taking his final victory lap in Chicago, completing his second three-peat, securing his sixth title, winning his fifth MVP award and 10th scoring title. Kobe wants to duplicate that feat. He's putting up MVP-like numbers. He leads the league in scoring. He's shooting a career-high .478 percent from the field. He's averaging five rebounds and five assists. He's knocking down 38 percent of his three-pointers. Oh, the numbers look great. The results? The Lakers stink. You can blame that on the injuries to Gasol and Nash. You can blame it on the incompetence of D'Antoni. I blame Kobe. He's the guy stopping Howard from eating. Kobe is the guy giving Howard room to lose himself in his immaturity and hide. Here's what Kobe has never understood about the Los Angeles Lakers. It's an organization built to house and nurture giants. From George Mikan to Wilt Chamberlain to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to Shaquille O'Neal, the Lakers function best when the once-in-a-generation big man the organization acquires is allowed to be the man of the house. Kobe emasculates his big men. Andrew Bynum politely admitted this week that Kobe stunted his growth. "I think Dwight is a great player, but he's going to have to get accustomed to playing with Kobe and not touching the ball every single play," Bynum said. The problem is deeper than touches. It's a mentality that a big man must have in order to lead his team. Dwight Howard must enter every NBA arena with this mindset: "If I don't hunt and kill, no one eats tonight." That's Kobe's mindset. But at 34, having played 1,186 regular-season games and 220 playoff games, Kobe doesn't hunt and kill as effectively as Howard. Kobe isn't the same as a 34-year-old Jordan. At this stage in his career, Jordan had played 873 regular-season games and 158 playoff games. Jordan was still a force of nature. Don't get fooled by Kobe's numbers. He's not Kevin Durant or Carmelo Anthony, and Kobe damn sure isn't LeBron James. James, Durant and Melo can impose their will on the opposition. Over the course of a seven-game playoff series, they can mentally bludgeon an opponent into submission. We saw James do it to the Pacers and the Celtics in last year's playoffs. Kobe is smart. He can be efficient. But he's trying too hard right now. That's why he leads the league in turnovers with 97. Kobe's days of imposing his will in a playoff series are over. Howard's days should just be beginning. But Kobe's ego is in the way. Howard can't be the man of the house with Kobe sitting at the head of the table eating the biggest plate of food. As long as everything revolves around Kobe, as long as Kobe is on TV sitting across from Stephen A. Smith speaking in hushed, dark tones about the state of the Lakers, Howard gets to hide, gets to feel like the Lakers family can eat regardless if he chooses to hunt. Kobe needs to fall back. He's Dr. J right now and he needs to let Dwight Howard be Moses Malone. That does not mean turn the offense over to Howard. It means building a strategy and philosophy that revolves around Howard's many gifts, which are mostly at the defensive end (and make the hiring of D'Antoni even more ridiculous). It means forcing Howard to mentally and verbally take full responsibility for the success of the team. Howard is immature. We know that. We watched him in Orlando. Put some pressure on his ass. Make Howard explain why this team is underachieving. I know this column will appear to many as hatred of Kobe. I don't hate Kobe. He's a wonderful player and terrific competitor. He simply has to make the mental adjustment that Dwyane Wade made last season. Come May and June, the Lakers are going as far as Dwight Howard can take them. Nash and Gasol might help the Lakers recover and get into the playoffs. And Kobe is certainly capable of continuing to put up big numbers. But the Lakers are not winning a title if their second-best player continues to stunt the growth of their best player.
PLAYERS: Pau Gasol, Steve Nash, Jim Buss, Kobe Bryant, Dwight Howard, Bill Russell, Scottie Pippen, LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Wilt Chamberlain, Andrew Bynum, Kevin Durant, Carmelo Anthony, Moses Malone, Stephen A Smith
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The treatment of rheumatoid arthritis involves medications and lifestyle changes.
Many drugs are used for managing the pain and slowing the progression of rheumatoid arthritis, but none completely cure the disease. It is likely that no single drug will ever cure rheumatoid arthritis because of the many factors that affect the disease at various times. The goals of drug treatment for rheumatoid arthritis include:
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The question of how early and how aggressively to treat RA has been the subject of great debate. Among patients with RA, some will go into remission and remain in remission for the length of their lives even in the absence of treatment, while others will go on to develop active, sometimes severe RA.
Current practice has moved towards treating the disease aggressively while it is in its early stages to help prevent it from reaching a more severe and chronic state. Studies have found less joint damage in patients with early, aggressive treatment, particularly with the use of DMARDs and TNF modifiers in combination with methotrexate. Intensive early dosing of methotrexate may help slow progression of rheumatoid arthritis. Early combination therapy with DMARDs and corticosteroids is also showing good results.
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This is the car that is going to save Toyota from death by boredom. Or so they say.
If you haven't already heard about the new 86, or GT 86 as it's known in other parts of the world, you will soon.
It's a shot of Tabasco to the rest of Toyota's range that could be described as, well, pap without the gravy.
It's got all the right ingredients too.
Rear-wheel drive, a short wheelbase, a clickety short-throw manual gearbox, built in agility and good looks. All the stuff that will instil happiness in people who really enjoy driving.
Then there's stuff that will make people that enjoy driving really fast happy too. A limited slip differential, an aerodynamic roof, built in roll cage mounts, a fancy two-stage fuel injection system, and a quick ratio steering rack. In other words, things that will make Mrs Robinson, who drives to church on Sundays, run in the other direction.
But here's the part that you might not read about in all the nitro-fuelled publications that are smitten with all the 86's go faster bits: Mrs Robinson shouldn't be scared of this car. It's not as ferocious as all of its boy racer gear suggests. At least it doesn't have to be.
This little sports car is just as happy doing donuts as it is doing the daily milk run.
Mrs Robinson can drive it to church and she'll never need to know that Torsen diff is able to lock up an inside wheel if it were to lose traction in a tight bend. She can drive it slow enough so that specially designed roof never offers any type of aero advantage, and she can work it up through the gears without ever getting close to the rev limiter.
She can even get it with an automatic transmission if she wants.
What I'm trying to say is, yes, the 86 is tuned in a way that would make the Stig smile behind his helmet but that doesn't mean it's only suitable for little Stig wannabees. It's a comfortable little daily driver that can double as a track tool if need be.
That said, the Stig might be disappointed a little by power outputs (147kW and 205Nm). Not that the 86 is painfully slow or anything, but with such a precise chassis underneath it, it's screaming out for more go. Good drivers will be able to extract enough from it to keep the adrenaline needle in the red zone, but there's certainly room for more guts here.
This car could easily become the car that fills a gap that Honda's S2000 once occupied if some more kilowatts could be squeezed from it. At the moment it's filling the gap where Hyundai's Tiburon used to be - albeit an infinitely sweet handling Tiburon with rear-wheel drive and much better build quality if that's imaginable. Actually, there's never really been a car like this, ever. Maybe Mazda's MX-5 is close, in driving pureness, but that's got a convertible roof and the 86 doesn't. It's also more expensive.
The launch route near Nelspruit where I drove the 86 was a short one, without as many flowing bends and hairpin curves as I may have liked, but I was still able to taste the 86's flavour.
The boxer four reverberates through cabin at all times.
The manual gear lever shakes, rattles and rolls in your hand, almost translating the engine's revs through it. The steering is perfectly direct and weighted, and the suspension, while still soft enough to cope with African roads, is set up in a way that encourages aggressive driving.
I look forward to spending more time with it in the future.
This is old-school motoring in as raw a form as possible in this day and age, and I approve fully.
I will approve even more fully when it comes out with more power in coming time. Toyota won't confirm it, but I can almost guarantee it will happen.
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Offensive line no longer Nebraska's strength
Nebraska no longer dominates the trenches, Kevin Jones is a legitimate Heisman hopeful and Michigan needs a tight end.
Both teams beat Nebraska last year, including an embarrassing 40-7 rout at Penn State, and winning those games would go a long way toward getting some of that Husker swagger back. And Nebraska will need all the momentum in can get going into the latter part of its schedule, which includes games at Missouri, Texas and Colorado, as well as visits from Texas A&M and Kansas State.
I like quarterback Jammal Lord, though. He can run the option and needs only to be adequate throwing the ball, and some of the criticism he has faced during his career has been unwarranted. I don't know if Lord is the next Tommy Frazier, but he can be better in the passing game than Eric Crouch and is a very underrated quarterback. If he can get the support he needs from David Horne at running back and Ross Pilkington at wide receiver.
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Cadbury's Roses Jigsaw Puzzle
- Cadbury Roses Chocolates 500 piece Jigsaw puzzle
- Pattern features a spread of cellophaned chocolates
- Full size picture in the box to guide you
- Comes in gift box resembling the real thing
- Dimensions when completed 49 cm x 35 cm
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Love Chocolate? Is it a challenge to resist having just one more when a box of chocolates has been opened? Then Cadbury has produced a new challenge in the shape of this Roses Box of Chocolates 500 piece Jigsaw Puzzle. It may look easy, but look again. Just try matching up the colours of those lovely cellophaned chocs and you'll be reaching for a box of the real thing in no time to give you that added boost!
The puzzle comes with a full size picture inside the box to help guide you. Once completed, measures 500mmx 350mm (approx 19.25 inches x 13.75 inches).
Makes a great novelty birthday gift for the chocoholic you know. As they unwrap their gift, the packaging will deceive them into thinking it's a REAL box of goodies! At least the contents are sugar free, calorie free and fat free, - no added inches or tooth decay - but be warned, it may cause frustration!


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New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo discusses central New York highlights of 2018 budget
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New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo touted the Middle Class Recovery Act and reduced taxes as he visited Syracuse on Wednesday to announce highlights in the state's 2018 fiscal year budget for the central New York region.
Cuomo addressed a group of central New York officials and leaders, including Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney, on Wednesday afternoon at the Syracuse Hancock International Airport. During his speech, Cuomo also discussed his initiatives to invest money in the airport and the State Fair in Syracuse.
Cuomo's Middle Class Recovery Act increases taxes on millionaires and cuts taxes on members of the middle class in New York state. In the plan's first four years, it will save central New Yorkers $207 million in taxes, with an average tax cut of $1,356, according to Cuomo's office.
"If you look at the people who have suffered, it is the middle class," Cuomo said Wednesday. "… You know we talk about middle class anxiety, middle class frustration, economic frustration, frustration of working families. Yeah, it's not hard to figure out. When you are basically flat in your earning potential for 20 years. And everything is going up around you. You get that sinking feeling. And that's what's happening to the middle class."
The state budget also includes $50 million for moving forward with the second phase of Cuomo's plan to redo the State Fairgrounds. That investment follows the first $50 million phase in the redo plan.
Cuomo said the fair "really, really needed" the upgrades and called the fair a magnet for tourism in the region.
"People come to central New York. Once you get them here and they see what you have, they will come back," he said. "That's what we're seeing in our tourism efforts. The trick is to get them to come the first time and using that State Fair as a magnet to bring people to central New York."
Cuomo on Wednesday also discussed plans to renovate the Syracuse Hancock International Airport. The budget includes $35.8 million for the $48.8 million renovation project that will seek to turn the airport into a state-of-the-art facility.
The project will include a redesign of the airport's grand hall, as well as the addition of a glass pedestrian bridge and an eco-friendly roof. Cuomo has said the project will create 850 construction jobs.
Cuomo said Wednesday that if a region wants a first class economy, then it needs a first class airport. He added that airports should be thought of as economic development centers and said he wants people flying into New York airports to be impressed with the airports.
"We want them to understand who we are," Cuomo said. "That we are the place of tomorrow and the economy of tomorrow, and the airports are going to say that and Hancock is going to say that. But not only are we going to do it but we're going to do it quickly and we're going to do it fast."
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6 bedroom detached house for saleOxton Road, Southwell, Nottinghamshire, NG25 0RP
Under Offer £1,100,000
Property Description
Key features
- 3 reception rooms
- 6 bedrooms
- 5 bathrooms
- gardens and paddocks
- extensive outbuildings
- approx 6 acres
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Tenure: Freehold
Bankwood Barn is located close to the popular market town of Southwell, which offers a full range of facilities and amenities which the town has to offer, these including shops of various types, schools of various grades, of which the Minster School has a particularly good reputation. From near by Newark, there is an excellent inter-city train service on the East Coast Line with London within reach on an average of around 1 hour 20 minutes. A further range of services and amenities can be found in the city of Nottingham. For those wishing to travel further afield, there is reasonable access to the Robin Hood International Airport to the North near Doncaster or to the East Midlands Airport as Castle Donnington.
Southwell has a leisure centre and there are two local golf courses.
The barn is built from locally sourced sandstone. It is believed that this barn is one of four remaining stone walled barns built from the stone which was stolen from Thurgarton Priory which was ransacked in the 1600's at the time of the Civil War.
Bankwood Barn is without doubt one of the counties finest examples of a skilfully converted barn. The property presents the perfect blend of original features from the original structure, combined with contemporary design, and state of the art technology from modern day construction. This impressive and striking home as been completely restored by the current owners to provide a stylish and flexible layout of accommodation arranged over four levels. The original stone beautifully compliments the use of glass and oak, to provide various 'wow factors' when viewing this stunning home.
The property represents a forward think achievement, having been created taking full advantage of the latest environmentally efficient construction benefits and ecological technology. The barns central heating is provided via ground source heat pump, providing under floor heating to all four floors and low energy LED lighting. A rainwater harvesting system provides filtrated rainwater which supplies and services the barns toilets and garden. The barn also benefits from high levels of insulation and features a heat recovery system.
Outside the property sits within generous open gardens and grounds, offering a rural retreat set amongst open countryside with far reaching views across the Trent Valley and beyond. There is a sweeping gravelled driveway providing ample off road parking and an extensive range of outbuildings which may offer further potential for an alternative uses, such as stabling, ménage, or leisure facilities subject to the relevant planning permissions.
Travelling from Southwell follow the A6386 (Oxton Road) for approximately two miles. At the signpost for Hollybeck Nurseries turn left and travel for approximately 1.5 miles along the lane, past the nursery and through Bankwood Farm yard. Bankwood Barn is located after a short distance on the right hand side, just past Bankwood Farm Cottages
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Street Vending Review
The City of Toronto is undertaking a comprehensive review of the street food vending bylaws in the City of Toronto. Existing bylaws include:
- Toronto Municipal Code, Chapter 545 Licensing
- Chapter 738 Street Food, Healthier of the Toronto Municipal Code
- Chapter 315 Street Vending of the Former Municipality of Toronto
- By-law No. 18-97 of the former Municipality of East York
- By-law No. 32-95 of the former Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto
- By-law No. 32100 of the former City of North York
The review will include in-depth research, analysis and extensive consultations on the street food vending experience in Toronto. It will also engage a wide variety of stakeholders, including food cart and food truck operators, local restaurants and businesses, and the general public.
The Street Food Working Group, which meets on a monthly basis, will play a key role in the review. The group includes representatives of the Toronto Street Food Vendors Association, the Ontario Food Trucks Association, the Ontario Restaurant, Hotel and Motel Association (ORHMA), the Toronto Association of Business Improvement Areas (TABIA), and staff from Toronto Public Health, Parks Forestry and Recreation, Economic Development and Culture, and Municipal Licensing and Standards.
As part of the review, the City facilitated a two-month Food Truck Program at City of Toronto park locations where both visibility and pedestrian traffic were high to assess the feasibility of an expanded street food experience in the city. The program ran from August to October 2013. During the program, food trucks were present at Allan Gardens, Canoe Landing, Roundhouse Park, Sherbourne Commons and Woodbine Park.
Data collected during the program has been used to inform the review and to help work toward the goal of creating a harmonized, city-wide street food vending bylaw that balances the interests of all stakeholders and encourages a vibrant street food experience. Recommendations related to improving street food vending for both food carts and trucks will be reported to the Licensing and Standards Committee in advance of the spring 2014 vending season.
Phases of the Review
The review will proceed in three phases:
- Phase 1: Research and Analysis – July and August 2013
- Phase 2: Stakeholder Consultations – September and October 2013
- Phase 3: Final Report – November 2013 to January 2014
Phase 1: Research and Analysis
July and August 2013
Staff will analyze existing by-laws and, in consultation with the Street Food Working Group, identify the key considerations and challenges associated with a harmonized street food vending bylaw in Toronto. Staff will research street food vending legislation in other Canadian and North American cities to understand where and how these considerations and challenges have been addressed.
Phase 2: Stakeholder consultations
September and October 2013
Based on the findings in the first phase of the review, staff will consult with various stakeholders to continue identifying issues associated with street food vending in Toronto and to explore potential solutions in the context of a harmonized street food vending bylaw. Staff will accept input through consultations, surveys, meetings, emails to , as well as written submissions.
Phase 3: Final report
November 2013 to January 2014
Based on the research and consultations, staff will develop and explore options for an expanded street food experience in Toronto, in the context of a harmonized street food vending bylaw. Staff will continue consulting with the Street Food Working Group in the development of these options and while completing the final report. The final report will be posted online and stakeholders and the public may depute at a Licensing and Standards Committee meeting, which is expected to be in the spring of 2014.
As part of the review, ML&S is engaging a variety of stakeholders for their feedback on industry practices, issues and possible solutions, both in consultation and by survey. A survey was conducted to obtain input which will be reviewed by staff as well as included and/or summarized in the final report.


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