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Deal activity with targets in Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) decreased in the second quarter of 2011 to 11 deals totaling $2.20 billion, compared to 19 deals worth $3.83 billion in the second quarter of 2010. However, as the global economy continues to recover, BRIC nations are expected to sustain greater growth levels, more market opportunities, and higher capital availability, resulting in rebounding deal activity and significant growth, according to PwC.
"With ever-increasing global M&A activity comes an uptick in reputational and business risks, as more and more business takes place in emerging and expanding markets. Added to that, a dramatic rise in U.S. and international regulatory environment actions have made corruption due diligence a high priority," said Goetjen. "Dealmakers will need to develop a strong anticorruption program that effectively understands, addresses, and resolves these concerns to embrace important growth and compliance demands."
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In the latest Engineering Growth, PwC includes a special report entitled, "Does Your Company's M&A Strategy Mitigate Corruption-Related Risks and costs?" to provide insights into best practices to mitigate corruption risks, including how engineering and construction companies achieve success in anticorruption efforts.
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Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology
versión On-line ISSN 1445-7377
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Indo-Pac. j. phenomenol. (Online) vol.14 no.2 Grahamstown oct. 2014
Darkening Scandinavia: Four Postmodern Pagan Essays
Bruce Bradfield
Francisc-Norbert Örmény (2013). Darkening Scandinavia: Four Postmodern Pagan Essays. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Hard Cover (165 pages). ISBN 10: 1443852910 & ISBN 13: 978-1443852913 Cost: USA £39.99
Writing a review of this recently published book by the thirty-year-old Dr Francisc-Norbert Örmény has, as intuited at the outset, proven to be as difficult as was reading it. Extraordinary in its display of the author's erudition and linguistic dexterity, the book demonstrates an uncannily broad and thoroughgoing understanding of a complex variety of intellectual and creative landscapes. It extends far beyond the breadth and depth of the reviewer's theoretical knowledge and understandings, and was read with constant fascination and surprise. I found myself struggling to grasp much of the work on the first reading, and had to work hard to capture the expressive and conceptual complexities which the work offers.
With this in mind, let me begin this review by acknowledging my own discomfort with the experience of reading, thinking about, and responding to the author's offering. This discomfort stems primarily from my engagement with the aesthetic of terror and disruption that seems to colour the subjects explored in the book. The author, in a manner that is as abstruse as it is skilful, elaborates the innards of works of art - musical, cinematic and literary -considering these in the light of a conflation of philosophies, ranging from the metaphysical universe most centrally, through the phenomenological, and into the psychoanalytic most peripherally. The obscure profundity of the work is fitting, however, as it seems to enact through the text a worldview that is important to the author, in which truth is seen as indecipherable, recondite and asyntactic.
Writing this review as a psychoanalytically informed psychotherapist with a history that is richly informed by phenomenological thinkers, I found my attentions turning to the referencing of psychoanalytic fabric, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, listening to the author's voice as a potential reflection of his internal world. At this level I am fascinated by what the book has to offer in terms of the almost brazen freedom with which it has been written. I couldn't help but think of Freud's method of free association, in which psychic integration is facilitated through a movement towards liberation of the mind from an internal censor. In his seminal text Civilization and its Discontents (1930), Freud examines the tensions inherent in psychic life. The self, for Freud, is divided along the lines of instinctual life, and the demands placed on the socialized individual by the imperative to conform, leading to the repression of sexual and aggressive drives. The repression of instinctual life is linked in Freud's mind with the notion that unrestrained libidinal impulse, driven purely towards the satisfaction of basic desires, can be fundamentally damaging to others in the world. Freud's secular humanism is seen in relation to this in his consideration of culture, tradition and the social fabric as a regulation of human behaviour that is necessary for the development of a climate of safety in the individual's experience of being in the world. It is in the light of this basic Freudian thinking that I felt surprised and fascinated by Örmény's thesis. In this book, in a manner that is cloaked in a beautifully crafted veil of academic discourse, there is an apparent encouragement to abandon socio-culturally elaborated forms of self-regulation in favour of the chthonic, visceral impulses of the embodied self.
Having gone all awry in this review by opening with an expression of my own response, rather than reflecting first on the author's actual contribution, let me return to what is important. Darkening Scandinavia is framed as an inter-disciplinary (or, as the blurb would have it, "trans-disciplinary") gesture which explores the music of Norwegian black metal band Burzum, the cinematic offering of Danish film director Nicolas Refn, Valhalla Rising, and the "charmingly evasive" book written by Per Petterson, Out Stealing Horses. These creative gestures are used to elaborate an ethos of darkness, in which there is an invitation to consider the life-giving potential of a return to a primordial and visceral way of being. As such, the book is written so as to inspire a new way, in which being can be felt to emerge from chthonic and inchoate bodily and darkly spiritual impulse. Although in constant danger of proselytism, this book, through locating itself with utter intellectual sophistication in a vast range of ideologies, manages to give the reader almost enough room to hold on to his own mind whilst engaging with the ideas being presented. At the level of my own being I found the ideas expressed here unstomachable, and felt a constant desire to turn away. As a gay man, relatively firmly located in secular humanist thinking, committed to sexual, racial and sociocultural equality, and heavily influenced by the psychoanalytic imperative to facilitate the movement of the human mind towards its own chosen freedoms, I wrangled with the author's emphasis on the value of masculinity, finding this to be alienating and isolating, and reading into the book a disturbing irreverence in its framing of women. That masculinity is the domain of men and femininity the domain of women is not a proposition that I can identify with. As such, the author's apparent idealization of masculinity and manhood evoked in me a defensive disconnection which rose and fell as I moved through his book's meanders.
At this stage in the writing of the review I feel that I must remind myself that this is not about me; it is about the book. I find, however, that I can't commit to writing a review of this book that is academic in the usual sense. Firstly, I don't feel equipped to do so, having experienced a constant sense of being out of my intellectual depths when reading the book.
Secondly, I believe that an academic review would exclude an essential aspect of the experience of reading the book: the reader's relationship with the work and with him or herself, as this relationship shifts during the course of reading. Thirdly, my relationship with this book changed considerably after reading it, when I began to engage with the art that it examines. As such, I feel that a review of this book would be incomplete without some reflection on the art that it explores.
At the level of my own self, I found that I was happily drawn into the author's exuberance and vigour, as he extends to the reader an invitation to experience life in a manner that is located in a bodily, primitive and, ironically, wordless space. I found, in response to this, that I was sickened by what I perceived to be the ideological underpinnings of the work. It was in response to this that I experienced the call to darkness as a sophisticated proselytizing. At the level of my internal world, I found that a final assault came through my engagement with the cinematic and musical offerings. The veritable rabbit hole that is YouTube shows black metal band Burzum's location inside a wild, violent and irreconcilable sociopolitical battle. The movie Valhalla Rising, much like Örmény's text, interacts with the watcher in a manner that enacts its communications. It is a gore into the self, a piercing into the gut, that may or may not leave an impression, depending on the person of the reader.
It is no fault of Örmény's that his book is being reviewed by a "wuss". But, unfortunately, this is the case. I could not, and would not, take the art in, neither the musical nor the cinematic. I reacted with disgust, horror, and defensive resistance to the darknesses on display, and found that I could not reflect on my feelings enough to maintain an attentive connection to the book. The destabilizing impact which the music and movie had on me formed an important part of how my relationship with the book developed. Taking the reading experience as a personal one in which I was engaged as an emotional being, I found this book unendurable, for all its intellectual allure. In taking the book as an invitation to enter a new kind of bodily and psychic life, I felt relieved in being able to decline. I felt challenged, exhilarated, repulsed, confused, deeply stimulated, and, ultimately, disinterested.
I gauge from the intensity and variety of my responses that this book lives and breathes in the precise manner as I imagine does its author. It is dark, vehement, rage-fuelled and adventurous.
Referencing Format
Bradfield, B. (2014). Darkening Scandinavia: Four postmodern pagan essays [Review of the book Darkening Scandinavia: Four postmodern pagan essays, by Francisc-Norbert Örmény]. Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology, 14(2), 3 pp. doi: 10.2989/IPJP.2014.14.2.6.1245
Freud, S. (1930). Civilization and its discontents (J. Riviere, Trans.). London, UK: Hogarth Press. (Original work completed 1929 and published 1930) [ Links ]
Petterson, P. (2005). Out stealing horses (A. Born, Trans.). London, UK: Harville Secker. (Original work published 2003) [ Links ]
Refn, N. W. (Director). (2009). Valhalla rising [Motion picture]. Denmark: IFC Films. [ Links ]
About the Author
Dr Bruce Bradfield holds both a research Master's degree in Psychology and a Master's degree in Clinical Psychology (Cum Laude) from Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, and a PhD in Psychology from the University of Cape Town. He is registered as a Clinical Psychologist with the Health Professions Council of South Africa. Before commencing clinical training in 2006, he worked for two years in the field of psychiatric rehabilitation in the United Kingdom (Oxford), with his internship served at the Fort England Psychiatric Hospital in Grahamstown. Dr Bradfield is currently practising as a clinical psychologist in Cape Town, and also lectures part-time at the University of Cape Town.
While the focus of his research for his Master's degree was on the impact of psychiatric labelling on an individual's intersubjective experience, his doctoral dissertation explored the intergenerational transmission of trauma from mothers to their adult children from a relational psychoanalytic perspective. Currently Dr Bradfield is conducting post-doctoral research through the University of Cape Town on the intergenerational transmission of trauma as it pertains to the children of victims of apartheid. The research involves a reappraisal of Holocaust literature, considering this material within the South African context, through the lens of contemporary Freudian theory.
Dr Bradfield's published research includes work on the interpersonal or relational implications of living with mental illness, with specific focus on schizophrenia and childhood bipolarity, as well as in the field of his trauma-related studies. E-mail address: email@example.com


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2 The party vote threshold
2.1 As a matter of principle, I favour the lowest possible threshold consistent with good government in New Zealand, because proportional elections should lead to proportional outcomes unless there is very good reason to do otherwise.
2.2 I note that a number of other submitters have expressed concern that if the party vote threshold drops below either 5% or 4%, then the result could be fragmentation of the New Zealand party system leading to increased political instability that ultimately stands in the way of effective government. In almost all cases, this claim is made as an assertion, without much evidence. When evidence is produced, it is often in the form of a supposedly exemplary case, such as Israel or Italy.
2.3 There is not rigorous evidence to support the claim that a lower threshold is likely to lead to instability in New Zealand.
2.4 To look for such a relationship, I used data from the University of Berne on the number of changes in the makeup of a government that happen each year in the OECD, a good measure of government instability. I combined these data with Arend Lijphart's data about the national-level legal thresholds and effective thresholds for party representation. The total number of countries under examination is 23 and the total number of country years is 826. The chart below shows that there is no obvious relationship between the threshold for party representation and instability in government, either in all years or in non-election years.
2.5 Further analyses show there is not a statistically significant relationship between the threshold for party representation and the level of government instability, measured using annual changes in government composition. For the technically-minded: simple bivariate correlations between thresholds and instability in PR countries were only significant at 0.514, and this significance drops further to 0.952 if election years are discarded from the analysis to give an estimate of between-election instability. In non-technical terms: for every unstable low-threshold country like Israel, there is a stable low-threshold country like the Netherlands (where there were only thee between election changes in government composition over almost forty years).
2.6 The data do show, however, true that as the number of political parties goes up, instability also tends to rise. And it is also true that decreases in the threshold tend to increase the number of parties. What, then, explains the lack of a relationship between the threshold and instability?
2.7 The answer is that many things other than the electoral system threshold cause the number of parties to rise and fall, and some of those other reasons are also causal of government instability. Religious fragmentation, for example, frequently causes the number of political parties to rise and is also an indication of a divided society, often linked to government instability. Multi-ethnic societies have the same issue.
2.8 These relationships can jointly give the misleading impression that the number of parties is a prime cause of instability, whereas in fact deeper divisions in the community are causing both more parties and more instability at the same time. The parties-instability correlation is likely spurious.
2.9 As a result, I recommend a substantial lowering of the party vote threshold, down to 2% at most.
3 Electorate seat thresholds
3.1 Like the majority of submitters, I favour abolishing the rule that allows parties full proportionality if they win one electorate seat.
3.2 These so-called "electorate lifeboat" rules are often designed to protect the interests of regional parties that have deep appeal to a small, regionally concentrated proportion of voters. In the New Zealand case, such regional parties have seldom emerged. Indeed, where parties really are successfully targeting a narrow slice of voters – for example the Maori Party and Mana – our experience is that these parties have done well enough in electorate contests not to need any list seats to achieve proportionality. Put simply, the problem that this rule was designed to solve has simply not arisen.
3.3 Instead, the rule is protecting the interests of some parties that seek broad nationwide appeal, but that fail to win more than a couple of percent support. I think it is hard to make a normative case why a party with 3.7% support including an electorate seat (ACT in 2008) should receive five seats in Parliament while a party with higher party vote total but no electorate seats (New Zealand First in 2008) should receive none. If this kind of anomaly were the cost of protecting a vibrant set of parties representing small, otherwise-easily-forgotten regions of the country, then we would have to seriously consider the appropriate tradeoffs. But at the moment we have the anomalies without the resulting benefits, which is very hard to defend.
3.4 Further, the issue of inadequate representation for a sub-5% party with an electorate seat will become less important if the 5% threshold is lowered, as I recommend.


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As they always do, the Cardinal and Gray started the game forcefully, claiming possession of the ball early on and putting keeper Rachel Chazin-Gray to work. Within two minutes of the game starting, MIT had already taken three shots on goal. Freshman goalie Lauren Ullmann (Princeton, N.J.), who is now 4-1 for her first collegiate season in net for the Engineers, saw a lot of action early in the half, saving two shots within two minutes of each other.
Just 10 minutes in, it looked as if the Jumbos might score the first goal of the game when Anya Kaufmann had a great run down the left side of the field, closing in on Ullmann, but her shot was intercepted before it got too close to MIT's goal. Thirty seconds later, a corner kick that was fired by Amanda Neveu went deep into the box and into dangerous territory but it was quickly cleared with one swift kick by junior Faith OBrian (Raleigh, N.C.). At the 27 minute mark, Kaufmann broke past defenders and shot right at the center of the goal but the ball was saved by a diving Ullmann.
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With a 2-0 lead, MIT started the second period confidently, yet aggressively. At 49:21, however, Tufts' Brooke Fortin scored the Jumbos' lone goal of the game and her first of the season when she took a shot at the right corner of the net, just over the hands of a jumping Ullmann. With the game suddenly a lot closer than before, both teams turned up the intensity. At 63:45, Catharine Greer sent a rocket at the net following an MIT foul and the ball was pushed just over the crossbar by Ullmann with the fingertips of her right hand. With 15 minutes remaining on the clock, Battipaglia took a shot that hit off the right post of the Jumbos' goal. With 14 seconds left, Kaufmann took one last shot at the net, a ball that was easily saved by Ullmann. The game ended with an Engineers' victory over the Jumbos, the first in MIT women's soccer history.
MIT outshot Tufts 29-20, with nine of those being saved by the Jumbos' goalkeepers, compared to the 11 that Ullmann saved. Senior Samantha Fleischmann (Eastchester, N.Y.) led MIT with her five shots on goal, while Battipaglia and fellow junior Ambika Krishnamachar (Darien, Conn.) were right behind her with four apiece.
Having played at home for the last three consecutive games, the Engineers will now have a two-game road trip, first traveling down the road to Lesley University on Saturday, Sept. 14 and then heading to Roger Williams University on Tuesday, Sept. 17. They will return home the following Saturday, Sept. 21st to open New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) play against WPI.


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Hi Super SA's !
I am happy my school is going with an open-source course management tool like EDMODO.
Here is my dilemma. I have used both BLACKBOARD and MOODLE. So, I am somewhat spoiled here!
EDMODO, does not have a "Forum" feature, a "Chat" feature or does it have two distinct Assignments that would allow for "Offline or Online" assignments.
So, as the software engineers continue looking for ways to improve EDMODO, will there be any consideration in adding these features?
Thank you very much for listening!
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I would love to become a support Ambassador next term.
I asked this question during my Certified Edmodo Trainer webinar last month.
I've noticed a few times that the same type of questions come up in the community posts.
Although here in the UK we don't yet have access to the App store. I'm sure I can be of some help to the Edmodo community as a whole.
My sharing code is quite good despite the fact that due to working a in a very small community special school I use Edmodo for ALL of my lessons.
I believe I could help those get Google Apps for Edu setup so they can follow what I've done for my school and get Google Docs integration working well for them. This is THE best value added part of Edmodo.
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For the forum feature, this in fact possible in an Edmodo group but it requires a little work to set up.
1) create a group that you want to use as your forum, or simply add the additional forum topics you need to your existing/other groups-see step 2
2) the topics are made by using small groups- the trick is to include all members of the group in each one- thus the mini groups act as topic based filters
3) the third step is to get your fellow coworkers to start posting in the appropriate way using the topics in order to organize your discussions and resources.
I have an entire guide on this that was the subject of a PD given to an international school community as it was intended mainly for us domain users but it works for anyone. If you find me on Edmodo, I'd be more than happy to send you a copy. My ID is Edmodo.com/stewartwilliamh.
I love EDmodo and we are just getting started with it, do I am fumbling around 😉 and enjoying every minute of it. As a middle school
art teacher many of the videos/documents I save in my library are relevant to future classes. When each class ends and gets archived does that mean that I need to repost these things as I get new classes?
Is there a way to maintain these and pass them on to new classes?
I'd like to become a support Ambassador, too, and I may possibly help with Spanish speakers' doubts and questions. Many teachers don't speak English and sometimes they get lost. If you think I may help, I'll be in.
Hi Martha – Thanks for volunteering. If you're interested in becoming a support ambassador, please send an email to support [at] edmodo.com
Hi, we are a school which is currently rolling Edmodo use out throughout the departments in the school. I would be interested in becoming an Edmodo ambassador
Is there an online forum or Edmodo group for technical questions about how to use Edmodo?
You can post all your questions in the Support community on Edmodo. Select the red question mark on the bottom left panel of your homepage. This group is monitored 24/7
Does anyone know where I can access tech support or where can I find online forums for developers for Edmodo apps ?
Every app developer has a community on Edmodo. You can use the search bar at the top of your Edmodo homepage to search for it.


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My cat gave birth to seven kittens 10 days ago. They are all doing really well and obviously getting enough milk. Poppy is have several meals a day - giving her kitten food. Just wondering what else I could give her while she is feeding them to help build her up?
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I'm afraid I dont know anything about caring for cats, but I would love to see them please!
"He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."
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Hi, fresh meat would be good for the protein etc and fish if she will eat it. She will need plenty of water too.
Why are you feeding her on kitten food, sorry if I have got that wrong.....
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Hi Gwen. I was advised to feed her kitten food as there is more protein in that than the ordinary cat food. She has been having fish - she loved that.
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Ours had kitten food and then I used to leave dried food for her as well so she could snack on that as she needed.
Great aren't they (we kept all of ours even when she had a second litter because I was told we'd fix her when she had weaned them and didn't wean them till they were 14 weeks old by which time she was pregnant again !! ) Still have her and 4 of the girls left
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I really can't keep 7 kittens Manda! Will have to find homes for them but it will be hard.
I am trying to post a photo of them but having problems. Not keen on Photobucket and not sure what else to use.
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Oh what a wonderful bundle of cuteness!!!
"He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."
--Immanuel Kant
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Why oh why don't pet (dogs and cats especially) owners get their animals neutered. This is why there are so many unwanted kittens and puppies around. So many owners have this stupid notion that it is better to let your pet have one litter before neutering......ridiculous and so untrue. Sorry if this offends but it is fact.
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Well. that is your opinion.
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Sadly not just my opinion but that of the various animal rescue groups as well.
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If all caring owners took that view the only kittens / puppies would have neglected mothers.
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Granny that is my opinion as well. It is totally irresponsible to to let a female cat roam free when it is not neutered. It's obvious what is going to happen. Also irresponsible to let a male cat roam free when it hasn't been neutered. That one cat will be responsible for hundreds of offspring in a short space of time. I can't understand for the life of me why people don't get their pets neutered. Cat's don't need to have just one litter, they also can become impregnated while they are still kittens themselves.
Cat rescues are full to the rafters, and I suspect it is the same with dogs as well. I help two friends run a cat rescue in our village. We get swamped with calls asking us to take cats in, usually because they didn't understand the responsibilities of getting a kitten. All sorts of selfish reasons why they can't look after the animal for the whole of it's life, and they want to palm it off on someone else.
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I am sorry if my post upsets some people but I am not irresponsible. My cat will be neutered after this litter. My previous cats have had one litter and I have always found responsible homes for the kittens. It took me months to find a kitten when I wanted another one and I already have several homes for these kittens. Everyone to their own. I am not an irresponsible pet owner.
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At one point I had 10 cats ...but we're on a farm so they are great for keeping the mice down...as I said numbers are low now but we still have 6 cats.
Not offended at all Granny ....In our case Frankie (who was initially called Frank as we didn't realise she was indeed a she) had been living in farms around us and then turned up in our barn....when I couldn't find anyone to say she was theirs we thought that maybe she had been dumped so decided to keep feeding her.....she moved into the house. After a couple of months Frank started to get very obviously bigger and became Frankie. She then gave birth in the spare bedroom.
A friend of mine who helps with a cat rescue in the city offered to neuter her as we had rescued her...as I explained above she didn't wean them soon and so had a second litter ...we kept them all and neutered them all....Just so we're clear.
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There is no Chomskyan grandeur anywhere in here (Chavez is now the most powerful media mogul of our history); there is no desire to create a true public service TV here (the new TVes, the ersatz to substitute RCTV on open signal has already established itself as a subservient Chavez propaganda tool); there is not even the slimmest desire to make a deal and let the opposition with a small space in the hertzian kingdom (the government has not offered any UHF to RCTV, nor to any other TV station that cannot be verified as a pro Chavez joint).
No, there is just the naked desire to shut up one of the only two TV systems where critics of the government can express themselves freely, even if only on cable or satellite. In a country where pay TV does not even reach 25% of the country, that 10% of the people at a given time might chose to watch something else than a Chavez speech is simply unbearable for our local kinglet wanna-be.
You doubt me? Look at today's speedy decision form the high court of Venezuela where it refuses to consider the petitions of RCTV. We read this gem:
...it is of public knowledge that the said business continues to operate as a broadcast station that can transmit its information and entertainment contents, using its its tools and technical material, which leads one to presume that it is fulfilling its contractual and financial commitments.That is right, you read it it perfectly: the high court of Venezuela, because RCTV TODAY is showing up on cable is saying that it has suffered of no prejudice and that its complaint against a CONATEL ruling has no basis. That for almost two months RCTV was off the air and still kept is staff did not cause any prejudice to RCTV coffers; that it cannot reach a quarter of its previous audience anymore because of its cable only presence does not affect its business performance; that its transmission equipment has being seized by the government without any form of compensation causes no financial loss to RCTV.
But what else can you expect form a judicial system where the president, Luisa Estela Morales, has been herself fired from a tribunal until recovered from chavismo to become the president of the judicial system of Venezuela? Such judges can only rule in favor of the daemon that allowed them to reach the top in a new Faustian bargain. On their work and merit only these judges would have never reached exalted positions where such merits are measured, evaluated and compared. No wonder the Venezuelan judicial system today is an active participant in the lynching of RCTV. But history is rich with examples of morally corrupt judges who erased with stupefying ease from their vocabulary words such as fairness, due process, impartiality.
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- The US FDA has dedicated section on its website that summarizes FDA's current thinking in how FDA regulates Software as a Medical Device. If your software falls under FDA's SaMD interpretation, you will need to comply with 21 CFR 11 Electronic Records; Electronic Signatures (e.g., Part 11), 21 CFR 820 Quality System Regulation, and 21 CFR 807 Medical Device Reporting (MDR).
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- The UK's MHRA released its own guidance and webpage early in 2014, Guidance on Medical Device Stand-Alone Software (including Apps), on how it will assess and regulate Software as a Medical Device, including smartphone apps. The guidance gives numerous, clear examples along with keyword functionality that the MHRA will look for which will cause MHRA to classify your software as a medical device. In addition, this guideline provides several situational clarifications for the EU's guidance document based on recent cases.
Step 2: Create a Yes/No Decision-Tree to Document Your Decision
Using information from the above guidance documents, draft a decision-tree diagram of a series of yes/no questions. This decision-tree has two immediate audiences: the software engineers developing your software and the firm's senior management. For both audiences, simplicity and straightforwardness is important as you should expect your initial assessment to be second-guessed.
Ideally the decision-tree will be used to help guide development and commercialization. For instance, firms may want to avoid a quick bit of functionality that will inadvertently tip an app from non-regulated into regulated territory. One yes/no question to ask might be: "Will the app perform a calculation on the raw health data and only present the results of the calculation (rather than the raw data as well)?" In such a situation, the app is likely to be regulated as a medical device. Thus, this decision-tree can be very helpful to developers and project managers looking at different functionalities and the impact to the software; just because a set of coding may be easy might obscure that adding the code will cause the app to suddenly become regulated.
Likewise, senior management (including venture capitalists) must be comfortable with an app's final functionality target(s) in order to decide its path of commercialization. Is the software unregulated and thus simply released, or will it require regulatory approval and/or costly compliance with 21 CFR 11, 21 CFR 807, and 21 CFR 820 in the US? This type of decision early in commercialization is critical to help executives avoid costly mistakes and potential risky product liability situations.
As an example of what a straightforward yes/no decision-tree might look like, review the EU's example yes/no diagram on page 10 of the PDF version of its guidance.
Finally, note that by the end of 2015, the International Medical Device Regulators Forum (IMDRF) has stated its intent to release an internationally harmonized regulatory guideline, so keep an eye out for that on the IMDRF website (www.imdrf.org).
Step 3: Clarify the Decision and Communicate
Document the decision-path taken to identify the regulatory status of the software. This record should be retained as part of the software development project documentation (or in the case of a Software as a Medical Device, its Design History File).
In addition, distribute a copy of this highlighted, documented decision path to the developers and any future support engineers. It's important to communicate the need to stay within the agreed-upon functionality guidelines, not just in initial development but also in post-launch support, bug fixes, and product enhancements.
For new product enhancements and full version revisions (1.xx to 2.xx), consider reviewing and verifying the decision-tree diagram documentation; this will show a traceable path of informed decisions for each software revision.
For more on Software as a Medical Device, see several of my earlier blog posts:
- Poll: Should FDA Regulate Medical Apps
- Majority of Mobile Health Apps Class II Devices for FDA
- Medical Apps, FDA and Patient Data Integrity
And if you need to educate your team on the regulations affecting Software as a Medical Device, how to cost-effectively comply, or help drafting the policies and procedures required, consider contacting me through the Cerulean Associates LLC website.


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Before this happened today and quickly because The Greatest Feud of Our Time, Tardar "Grumpy Cat" Sauce (right) and happy mutated accident Lil Bub (left) have been able to co-exist as two very different ridiculous Internet time-wasters for everyone to enjoy.
Friend had a shitty day? Send her a Grumpy Cat meme! Friend had to bury her head in a yogurt container in order to eat yogurt? Send her this video of Lil Bub burying her head in a yogurt container in order to eat yogurt! There hasn't really a conflict of interest in terms of our consumption of the two Internet-famous felines.* And it was good.
(Trailer voiceover:) UNTIL NOW.
It turns out that TIME Magazine, who just shot a spread with Grumpy Cat, has flagrantly ripped off a shoot that smaller magazine Bullett did of Lil Bub back in October. While a rep from TIME calls the matching photos "a complete coincidence," it's hard to believe that the exact duplicate shade of pink backround, plus the identical staging and framing of Bub and Grumpy, was just a fluke. Click through for the shots.
Is it that hard to think of interesting ways to photograph the most interesting cats in the world? The feline equivalent of the Dos Equis man?! I guess so.
*Must resist urge to make "Montagues and Cat-pulets" joke because I want to keep this job.


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Operation Pit
We're Looking for a Few Good Dogs!
The Mission: To provide FREE wellness care to your family's Pit Bull
The Recruits: Healthy Pit Bulls and Pit mixes, ages 3 months to 6 years
Time & Place:
Every Thursday by appointment
Bergh Memorial Animal Hospital
424 East 92nd Street (between 1st Ave. and York St.)
New York, NY
The Rewards:
■Free spay, neuter or vasectomy
■Free vaccinations (optional)
■Free microchip (optional)
■Free K9 camo gear for all participating dogs
■"Honorable Discharge" and after-care instructions at the end of the day
How to Enlist: Call (877) 900-PITS
Operation Pit is the ASPCA's new canine health program specially designed to help Pits and Pit mixes be all that they can be! Operation Pit offers free spay, neuter, or vasectomy surgeries to Pit Bulls, along with free Distemper/Parvovirus vaccinations and free microchips. Vaccination and microchipping are optional, but dogs must receive spay, neuter or vasectomy services. Anyone may enlist their Pit Bull in Operation Pit—the program is not limited by income or place of residence.
On the morning of your dog's visit, you will wait while your dog receives a free physical exam. Once he or she has been examined and all paperwork has been completed, you may leave and we'll tell you when in the afternoon to come back. Your dog is in and out in one day, and goes home with gifts including a camouflage bandana and tank top.
Participation in Operation Pit is by appointment only—sorry, no walk-ins. Call (877) 900-PITS to find out more or schedule your dog's visit.


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Applying Reasoning and Proof
|Introduction | Using Venn Diagrams | Classroom Practice | Reasoning and Proof in Action | Classroom Checklist | Your Journal
Like the other Process Standards, Reasoning and Proof is just one integral part of effective teaching. Use the Classroom Checklist (an Adobe PDF document) to note things you think are important in Ms. Gayles's lesson.
You may also want to watch the entire video (duration 15:31), or review the segment you just watched.
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By Philip Rucker and David S. Hilzenrath
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, February 7, 2011; A01
House Republicans are scrutinizing a wide array of existing and proposed Obama administration regulations in areas as diverse as the environment and Wall Street, and they are taking guidance from industry groups that say the rules threaten jobs.
Responding to solicitations from Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), businesses have asked Congress to roll back or preempt more than 150 rules governing their industries, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.
In many cases, businesses are seizing the opportunity to reopen regulatory debates that they previously lost. In his new role as chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Issa will begin a series of hearings Thursday, an effort aimed at fulfilling the new GOP House majority's goal of making federal regulations friendlier to business.
The Post reviewed more than 200 letters and reports that businesses sent to Issa targeting regulations across the federal government. The rules under scrutiny include familiar issues suchas greenhouse gas emissions, health-care reform and the landmark Wall Street overhaul. But the committee also will examine more obscure regulations. For instance, makers of some cleaning products that remove mold and mildew have asked the committee to reconsider rules that require their products to be registered as pesticides under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act.
Among those pushing for changes are some of Washington's most powerful interest groups.
The Business Roundtable, a coalition of chief executive officers from major corporations, voiced concern about a swath of requirements, including executive pay disclosures. Smaller interests have also weighed in, such as the Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Association, which flagged a regulation restricting formaldehyde in pressed wood.
In December, as he prepared to assume the chairmanship of the oversight panel, Issa asked industry groups to identify regulations that "have negatively impacted job growth." He said the probe is "a starting point for the broader discussion that will unfold about the regulatory barriers to job creation.
These aren't judgments or recommendations from a congressional committee, but rather information from job creators about regulations they see as flawed and harmful to job creation and economic recovery."
In their responses to Issa, many of the industry groups broadly said that government regulations would cost jobs but did not back up their claims with evidence.
Issa's committee can turn a spotlight on the regulations, but it does not have the power to overturn or change them.
The regulatory scrutiny poses a test for President Obama as he prepares for a 2012 reelection campaign in which jobs and the economy will be major issues. The administration and congressional Democrats could choose to draw a contrast with Republicans by defending regulations intended to protect public health and safety, environmental quality and consumer and investor interests. Or they could seek common ground with the business community.
The White House has tried to strike a balance, as Obama and his new chief of staff, former corporate executive William M. Daley, have begun a campaign to patch up relations with the corporate world.
On Monday, Obama will deliver a speech at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. And the president recently issued an executive order calling for a government-wide "look back" to modify, streamline and eliminate excessive regulations.
"If there are rules on the books that are needlessly stifling job creation and economic growth, we will fix them," said Jen Psaki, deputy White House communications director. "But we have a responsibility to protect the health and safety of the American people, and rolling back regulations that ensure access to clean drinking water, protect children from lead poisoning and put in place a safe and secure financial system on the heels of the worst financial crisis in a generation is not a responsible approach to governing."
Over the past month, the administration withdrew proposals for two new regulations that businesses opposed. One would have strengthened workplace noise standards and the other would have required employers to record their workers' musculoskeletal injuries. Both were flagged in letters to Issa.
In their letters, business leaders express alarm about the slow pace of the economic recovery and what they characterize as the growing role government is playing in the private sector.
"Business owners remain on edge regarding the tidal wave of federal government regulation that has been advanced or proposed over the past two years. . . .The pain of the harsh recession was intensified and lengthened by this hyper-regulatory environment," Karen Kerrigan, president of the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council, wrote in a Jan. 12 letter to Issa.
Murray Energy, a coal-mining company in Alledonia, Ohio, that employs 3,000 people, told Issa that the Environmental Protection Agency's greenhouse gas and clean air rules, those existing and those proposed, "must be stopped immediately."
"Jobs and lives are being destroyed by Mr. Obama and his out-of-control, radical U.S. EPA and his appointees to it," chairman and chief executive Robert E. Murray wrote. He concluded: "America, our industry and jobs, are under siege by Mr. Obama and his U.S. EPA."
Issa did not solicit comments about government regulations from traditional critics of the corporate world, including environmental groups, consumer advocates and labor unions.
In an interview Sunday, Rep. Elijah Cummings (Md.), the ranking Democrat on the committee, voiced frustration that Issa's staff had not yet provided him with copies of the letters.
"We, too, are anxious to address regulations that might be out-dated or may be having an unreasonable impact on the production of jobs," Cummings said, but he added that Congress must weigh industry's desire to repeal regulations with environmental and public safety concerns.
"If just getting rid of regulations was the easy way to create jobs, it would've been done. These are very complex issues. . . .It's one thing to have a job, and it's another thing to know that there are regulations in place to make sure that you come home at the end of the day, that you're not harmed, and that American people are kept safe. That's the balance."
David Doniger, director of climate policy at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said Issa effectively asked companies: "Send me your Christmas list, and I'll see what I can do."
"They don't seem to be interested in finding out what's true, what's real," Doniger said. He added that if Issa "really wanted to know what was going on, you would ask both sides to come in and tell you the facts."
Issa's spokesman, Kurt Bardella, said Issa's outreach was directed intentionally only at job creators. The committee welcomes input from any other stakeholders, he said.
Many of the business groups zeroed in on existing and anticipated rules by the EPA. The long list of targeted environmental regulations include those limiting emissions from industrial boilers, pollution in the Chesapeake Bay and chemical discharges from Appalachian mountaintop coal mining.
At least 13 industry groups targeted the EPA's proposed first attempt to regulate coal ash, the waste created by coal-burning power plants. The issue gained national attention in 2008 when a coal-ash holding cell ruptured near Knoxville, Tenn., sending 5.4 million cubic yards of toxic sludge into a nearby river and countryside.
More than two dozen groups said a proposal to require utilities, manufacturers and refiners to use the most efficient technology with industrial boilers and solid waste incinerators would be unduly costly. The American Forest and Paper Association said the regulation would cost companies in the forest-products industry more than $6 billion and put "tens of thousands of jobs at risk due to mill closures."
Businesses also said new fuel efficiency standards intended to curb greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles were hurting their ability to create jobs. The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers wrote in a Jan. 11 letter to Issa that meeting 2012-2016 fuel efficiency standards would cost the industry more than $50 billion.
Shane Karr, a vice president of the association, wrote that other new regulations involving ethanol, fuel economy labeling and rearward visibility "have the potential to impose significant additional costs on the car-buying public, and therefore also bear careful scrutiny."
Other industries opposed changes stemming from the sweeping 2010 Wall Street regulatory overhaul passed in the wake of the financial crisis.
For example, the Business Roundtable objected to a requirement that corporations disclose how the chief executive's pay compares to that of the typical employee. Computing the ratio would be "very difficult and expensive," the group said, and warned that companies could shed jobs to game the system.
"It could potentially cause companies to take actions that result in less employment, such as outsourcing, to produce better ratios," the group wrote in its Jan. 7 submission to Issa.
Also under scrutiny is a Federal Aviation Administration plan to combat pilot fatigue by mandating more rest time between shifts. The proposal came after fatigue was cited as a likely factor in the February 2009 crash of Colgan Air Flight 3407 near Buffalo.
In a letter to Issa, Nicholas E. Calio, president of the Air Transport Association, an airline trade group, wrote that the FAA "failed to link their specific regulatory changes to targeted improvements."
But not every business group wrote to Issa with a wish list. The American Cleaning Institute, a trade association for manufacturers of soaps, detergents and household cleaning products, said that it already had addressed issues with regulatory agencies "through normal channels."
"We believe our concerns will be addressed," the group's president, Ernie Rosenberg, wrote to Issa on Jan. 13. "Toward that end, ACI does not have a specific matter to bring to the attention of the committee at this point in time."
firstname.lastname@example.com@washpost.com Staff writers David A. Fahrenthold and Steven Mufson contributed to this report.


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Atrium Cafe
This "grab and go" cafe features Starbucks Coffee, upscale bakery products, cold plates, sandwiches and desserts. The Atrium Cafe can be found at the back of the Main Lobby.
- Monday through Friday: 6:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.
- Saturday and Sunday: 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.
The cafeteria features breakfast, lunch and dinner options. While the cafeteria only accepts cash, an on site ATM is available for visitors. Find the cafeteria by entering WellSpan York Hospital at the North Entrance and taking the North Elevators to Floor 2. Cafeteria is located on Floor 2.
- Breakfast: 6 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.
- Lunch: 11 a.m. to 1:45 p.m.
- Dinner: 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
- Midnight Express Service: 11:30 p.m. to 3 a.m.
Corner Cafe
The Corner Cafe features quick options and take-out for visitors near the North Lobby. Enter WellSpan York Hospital at the North Entrance. Corner Cafe is located in the North Hallway, just off of the North Lobby
- Monday through Friday: 6 a.m. - 8 p.m.
- Saturday and Sunday: Closed


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Bill Murray inducted into SAL Hall
Beloved actor reminisces about his love of the game, Minors
By Danny Wild / MLB.com | June 20, 2012 4:41 PM
Bill Murray took the stage Tuesday afternoon in Charleston to accept his induction into the South Atlantic League's Hall of Fame, dressed in a green-and-pink plaid jacket combination.
Of course, he somehow pulled it off.
"I know when you get inducted into the Hall of Fame, you have to wear some hideous jacket," he said. "I have no prepared remarks, so if you've got a parking meter to get to, go ahead, 'cause I could go on."
Murray, a part-owner of the All-Star Game host Class A Charleston RiverDogs, told the assembled guests about his childhood growing up in awe of ballparks and Major Leaguers. He currently holds the title of "Director of Fun" with the RiverDogs, the Yankees' affiliate in the Sally League.
"I don't understand why I'm being inducted into the Hall of Fame," he said. "I'm not going to say no, no one's ever asked me to be in a Hall of Fame before. This is a first, so I'm going all the way with it."
Murray, who just last week entertained fans running around the tarp during a rain delay, spoke about his enjoyment of being involved with Minor League operations. The RiverDogs are just one club he partially owns, joining Class A Hudson Valley and a pair of independent league clubs.
"I've been lucky to be in the baseball business," said Murray, who told a story about riding the train with his father and brother past Wrigley Field as a child, yearning to one day go inside. During his first trip inside the antique ballpark, brother Brian made him cover his eyes as he walked up a tunnel toward the field.
"He walked me up the steps, and then he took my hands away, and I saw the most beautiful building I've ever seen in my life," Murray said. "A field of green and a wall of green and a scoreboard of green and fans of all colors. My heart just leaped, and I thought, 'Ahh, this is where I'm supposed to be, this feels like one of my homes, maybe I was at home here a long time ago.'"
Murray then told a story about his first step into baseball when he co-owned an independent league team in Texas which ran odd promotions offering free tickets to fans who brought "dangerous fish" to the ballpark.
"I've been lucky to get into this baseball world, because I was invited, and I've been lucky to make friends with people I've done it with."
Two such friends are RiverDogs president Mike Veeck and co-owner Marv Goldklang, who together own several clubs under the Goldklang Group. Sitting alongside Murray during the speech was Yankees general manager Brian Cashman.
Murray also had some messages for the players in attendance -- he deadpanned the Northern Division All-Star team, likening them to Civil War enemies from the North in hostile Charleston.
"You are invading, and you're not gonna be welcome at the ballpark tonight," he said, drawing laughs. "There will be no fans in your dressing room, there will be no running water or toilets in your dressing room."
Murray, the star of memorable films such as Groundhog Day, Ghostbusters, Lost in Translation and Caddyshack, said he's been involved with the Sally League club since 1984, noting the "still-rusting" nearby ballpark the RiverDogs moved out of.
"I don't know if any of you players were alive back then," he told the assembled All-Stars.
Murray told the All-Star team that, in his opinion, they are the most talented group of players to grace the league.
"You'll never have another night or day like today," he said.
Danny Wild is an editor for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More