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We have huge and a big amount of trees is there any good solution as far as gutter guards go that would work for us.
Click on the Home > Gutters link right below your question and you can find a lot of comments on gutter guards - some bu users, some by contactors, some by sellers/installears of them. Lot of variety of opinions and experiences.
My personal experience - I have never seen one that keeps the leaves out of the gutter AND does not cause water and icing backups that can rot the roof/eaves/fascia AND that lets the water flow down into the gutter rather than off the front when loaded up with leaves or when it rains hard - so my recommendation is always go with large gutters and downspouts, and buy or make a gooseneck hose attachment to wash them out periodically before they get blocked.
Walking on the roof (if composition shingles) and using a leafblower or hose with jet spray nozzle is actually quicker and also allows you to blow the leaves off the roof to prevent moss and decayed leaf buildup, but is a bit harder on the roof material especially when it gets older and brittle - but if you have a heavy leaf issue the roof needs cleaning at LEAST yearly anyway unless you have a LOT of wind to keep it blown free.
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Unfortunately the drama started before we even managed to get to the
circuit. When we were around 10 miles from the circuit, I smelled burning
and decided to stop at a service station to investigate. When we got there,
I discovered that I had five tonnes of motorhome, two tonnes of trailer and
no brakes – the pedal went straight to the floor! Luckily, we were only
doing around 15mph at the time, so we didn't hit anything. Nevertheless, it
is not an experience I would like to repeat!
There followed a long saga which I won't bore you with involving many calls
to the RAC, the eventual upshot of which was that they recovered the
motorhome and we arrived at a hastily booked hotel towing the trailer behind
my father's pickup truck (thank goodness they decided not to come in
Sallie's Audi!) at around 1am.
The car has had a fair bit of work done on it over the winter in an attempt
to cure some of the problems we had last year. It has new 6-pot front brakes
(very smart!) and had a full chassis setup at the Jedi factory (on the
assumption that I'd got something wrong which was the cause of the handling
problems I had last year). It was slightly out – but not really by enough to
explain the problem – so we also uprated the front springs (on the theory
that if I was fast in the wet but slow in the dry and therefore probably
running the car too soft).
The test day demonstrated that the car basically worked, but was suffering
from clutch problems. A bit of bedding in improved things considerably,
although it's still not quite right.
The race was an event which I, and most of the grid, were particularly
looking forward to as it was on the Grand Prix circuit (club racers normally
only get to race on the shorter Indy circuit). It would be the first time
that any of us had a chance to drive it (which made for a very well attended
drivers briefing in the morning 🙂
Learning the track and qualifying at the same time was fun – with me ending
up 6th on the grid. The car behaved itself very well indeed, although the
brakes weren't quite what I hoped they might be. After some advice from
Jedi, we tried winding the bias further toward the rear for the race.
I managed to make up one place on the grid before the race even started –
Russell Small who qualified just ahead of me didn't manage to get off the
line and had to start from the back of the field. My start wasn't great (I
still haven't got the hang of getting the car off the line with flatslide
carbs!) and I dropped down to sixth. I managed to get fifth back before the
end of the first lap, however, but by this time there was something of a gap
to David Cameron in fourth. Over the next few laps, I did my best to hold
onto his tail, but he was consistently edging away. I was determined that I
wasn't going to just trail around by myself, so decided that I was going to
try to find a bit more speed somewhere. Unfortunately I tried a little too
hard, and ended up in the gravel on the outside of Druids hairpin, and that
was it – race over 😦
On the plus side, it did mean that I could watch the fantastic battle for
the lead between Frazer and Felix – Felix pushing Frazer very (very!) close
So, not a great weekend, but not too bad either. The car is working well and
should be a good platform to develop for the rest of the season.
The next race is at Castle Combe this weekend, and then it's Silverstone GP
the following weekend 🙂
(Oh – the race calendar has "evolved" a few times since the calendar I sent
out a while ago – the final version is [here](http://www.formulajedi.com/calendar.php)


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It's easy to predict boffo box office for "Iron Man 2" and the next "Twilight" movie this summer. But what will the big sleeper be?
Surprise hits like "The Devil Wears Prada" are by their very nature tricky to forecast: They defy or exceed expectations, showing legs at the box office as more moviegoers discover them. Usually, there's a good reason why they aren't considered obvious hits from the outset. Maybe the genre is considered limited, the story too quirky or the stars not big enough.
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"MacGruber," a bigscreen adaptation of the "Saturday Night Live" parody of "MacGyver," stars Will Forte as the special operative. Originally slated for April, the Rogue picture will compete head to head with "Shrek Forever After" as counterprogramming. "MacGruber" is a known commodity thanks to "SNL," but box office success is by no means a foregone conclusion considering the uneven performance by previous "SNL" adaptations.
"Dinner for Schmucks" features even more comedy firepower: It stars Paul Rudd as an exec that brings Steve Carell to his boss' "dinner for idiots."Jay Roach directed Paramount's July 23 release. But the source material? A 1998 French film — a fact that could be held against it.
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As my wife said while we were walking out of the Fry's, "It blows my mind that you can buy a whole computer in a little box like that." I don't think I can or want to add anything to that.
I got Ubuntu Lucid Server up and running on without really any trouble at all, even with the configuration I chose, of booting the installer from a thumb drive and installing to an SD card. (I'm trying to keep it as low power as possible; we'll see if the SD card pans out.)
My plan is to write some server code for this thing (in Go!) and hook up some peripherals like a web cam, door opening monitor circuits, etc. My aim is somewhere between home automation and a homebrew security system. Most likely I will just end up spying on the cats. Heh heh...
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Enric Rodríguez and Antoni Arola's 'Bamboo' lighting for Vibia owes its name, its structure and its ability to adapt to the surroundings to the bamboo plant.
Enric Rodríguez and Antoni Arola's 'Bamboo' lighting for Vibia owes its name, its structure and its ability to adapt to the surroundings to the bamboo plant.
Arik Levy's 'Wireflow' is lighting that plays with viewer perspective, materializing as a two dimensional line drawing suspended in mid-air and giving life to an innovative and thoroughly modern version of the pendant light.
The wait is over! VIBIA, in cooperation with Architonic, are excited to announce the three winners of the CREA AWARDS 2012 edition. Creative minds from 40 different countries have participated in this contest, providing ideas for lighting applied to architecture and interior design.The main goal: to create inspiring and convincing photo collages of spaces illuminated using Vibia's new modular lighting collections.The winners were selected on the basis of the conceptual interaction of the light setting with space, their creativity and the architectural and visual quality of the projects. The decision wasn't easy for jury members Sevil Peach, Ulrike Brandi, Lars Krückeberg, Martin Gran, Francesc Rifé and Tobias Lutz. Congratulations to all participants for their creativity and thinking beyond conventional. And with that said, here are the winners: (more…)
The French-Israeli multidisciplinary creative Arik Levy has collaborated with the Spanish lighting specialists Vibia on this modular, minimalist pendant light design called 'Rhythm'. Composed of 10 modules of horizontal, short stickers, the lamp can be adjusted and configured into virtually infinite number of patterns and it is available in two different colours and finishes: off white lacquer or matt dark brown. (more…)
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The CREA AWARDS from VIBIA, in cooperation with Architonic, is an ideas competition that invites the best and most creative minds to discover the potential of Vibia's new modular lighting products through applying them to their own architecture or interior design projects. (more…)
Ameba is a new pendant concept by Spanish manufacturer Vibia and adaptable and adjustable to every space thus allowing selecting and creating compositions according to every need and preference. Designed by Pete Sans this light fitting is made of 5 different basic shapes that fit perfectly and can be combined among themselves to offer an unlimited range of compositions. Ameba is tempting for interior designing professionals in that it stimulates the creation of unique projects.
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Mumbai: Young and gorgeous but more keen to let her work speak for her than her appearance, actress Shraddha Kapoor agrees "beauty lies in the eyes of beholder" and she will not hassled if she is photographed without make-up. Asked if she is scared to go out without make-up now that she is one of most sought-after actresses in Bollywood, Shraddha said: "All the shutterbugs have got the picture of me without make up already." "There were many times when I am out and I don't know whether there is a photographer or not and I am caught without make-up. I am comfortable being shot without make-up. I think you have to be comfortable with your own skin and then make-up or no make-up, it won't bother you much," added the �Ek Villain� fame actress who walked for Lakme Absolute Sculpt Show on the first day of Summer-Resort 2015 edition of Lakme Fashion Week . The five-day fashion extravaganza is taking place at Hotel Palladium here. The 26-year-old actress, who is also the face of cosmetic brand Lakme, looked ravishing in off shoulder gown matched perfectly with pink lip shade. Shraddha feels that "make-up is very special moment in every girl's life" and recalls the time when she put on it first to attend an annual function during her childhood days. "I was very young when I tried make-up for the first time. I was in junior KG class when I attended an annual function. There was a qawwali song with bunch of girls and I saw the pink shade of lipstick that my mom always used to wear. I was waiting to wear that lipstick and have some make up and blush. I have the picture too of that day and that's when I was allowed to wear make-up," said the daughter of actor Shakti Kapoor. Shraddha, who began her Bollywood journey with films like �Teen Patti� and �Luv Ka The End�, made it big with �Aashiqui 2� and �Ek Villain�. On whether she gives make-up inputs during shoots, the actress said: "Absolutely. If I see something, I definitely give my input. But, there are so many talented make-up artist out there with so many ideas that it is always great to work with them." IANS
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Advocates for prescribing authority for psychologists (RxP) have advanced the following major arguments:
A. Psychotropic medications have become a major class of interventions that can help psychologists' clients. There is, to be sure, considerable controversy over the actual degree of efficacy and over the biological and psychological mechanisms responsible for their apparent effects. Nevertheless, it is an undeniable fact that they seem to benefit a substantial percentage of their target populations. This includes people who lack access to psychosocial treatments, or who have refused or cannot be counted on to respond adequately to them.
B. Prescribing authority is a natural, desirable, and attainable extension of the practice of clinical and counseling psychology. Psychological science has long recognized the role of biological factors in psychological and behavioral functioning. Graduate programs in clinical psychology already offer at least some instruction in psychophysiology, behavior genetics, and psychopharmacology. Research psychologists routinely work side-by-side with biomedical professionals hi studying interactions among anatomy, physiology, psychological processes and behavior. We are no strangers to neurons and their workings.
C. While most psychiatrists no longer offer psychotherapy or behavior therapy to their patients, they are legally permitted to do so. There is no good reason why, given appropriate training, applied psychologists cannot and should not join their psychiatric colleagues in providing the full spectrum of efficacious treatments, at least to the extent of prescribing psychotropic medications.
D. Adequate training in drug prescribing can be accomplished in a time frame and at a financial cost accessible to many, if not most psychologists. There is a precedent for such supplemental training in the field of optometry. APA's model program (at Level 3; see below) sets forth the parameters for such training as it would apply to psychologists.
E. Many people in this country lack access to psychiatrists and must look to under-trained general practitioners for psychotropic medications. RxP would go far to full this gap. In addition, prescribing psychologists' clients would have a more complete array of treatment options available to them through a licensed practitioner without the complications of interprofessional collaboration.
F. Applied psychologists as a group cannot survive in today's competitive, oversupplied, care-managed mental health field. Lacking prescribing authority, we are progressively being driven from the arena. RxP is a matter of economic survival for our profession.
We understand the above points (A-F) to represent the case for RxP, as it is commonly made. It is the consensus of the leadership of SSCP that these arguments do not hold tip to careful examination.
In addition to the specific points set forth below, a further and more comprehensive objection is that RxP would dilute the existing scope of clinical psychology practice with the addition of RxP responsibilities. In an historical context, it is our belief that such a shift is short-sighted:
In the long run, it will be at the expense of the broader areas in which psychologists contribute knowledge.
In the short run, it will skew the clinical contributions made by psychologists away from those areas from which they have consistently arid historically made unique contributions (i.e., assessment, behavioral programming and analysis, and psychotherapy).
While the foregoing philosophical positions underlie this statement, the resolutions below are chiefly based on the practical ways that RxP is not viable. These resolutions grow out of the following objections:
There has never been a full debate on RxP that was open to all interested members of APA. The only consideration of RxP that has taken place has been within smaller groups of individuals within APA that cannot be assumed to represent the membership at large.
Council has received pro-RxP presentations and passed enabling resolutions without the input or even the physical presence of APA members and contingents who oppose or question it.
The APA central office has been aggressively pushing RxP without adequate consideration of the broader membership of APA and without using well-established procedures such as peer review. Over $800,000 from the APA budget has been spent advancing the RxP campaign during the past five years, despite widespread opposition in the ranks.
During the 2000 APA Annual Convention Program, APA headquarters sponsored a "mini-convention" devoted to RxP. The views presented there were strongly biased in favor of RxP, and they had not been subjected to peer review by the broader APA membership.
The RxP proposal may be the most radical proposal the APA organization has ever faced. Without a semblance of informed consent from the membership, we are gravely concerned that a fundamental change of great historical impact will be enacted in the field of psychology without fully considering the reasons and implications.
SSCP accordingly resolves:
- That beginning immediately, there be a moratorium on all expenditures and advocacy by APA on behalf of RxP until the following resolutions have been carried out in full.
- That the 2001 convention feature a second mini-convention on a scale with the last one—but this time with equal planning access and "airtime" for RxP opponents.
- That a complete, evenhanded report of the proceedings of the mini-convention be published in the October 2001 editions of the Monitor and American Psychologist, with full opportunity for prepublication editorial oversight by representatives of both viewpoints.
- That by January 2002, an objective and comprehensive survey of members' knowledge, experience, attitudes and intentions regarding RxP and prescribing-related issues, developed with full participation by both sides, be put into the field.
- That the results of this survey, again with bipartisan prepublication review, be published in the May 2002 editions of the Monitor and American Psychologist.
- That by July 2002, a binding membership referendum be completed on this or a closely similar proposition, "Shall APA continue or not continue to advocate for prescribing privileges within the profession and in the state legislatures?"
- That APA immediately reserve funds sufficient to put resolutions 2-6 into effect, including all out-of-pocket costs plus stipends and travel allowances for a reasonable number of members from both sides who contribute materially to carrying out these resolutions.
The position taken herein by SSCP, including the above seven resolutions, are based on the following evidence and reasoning:
What is wrong with RxP
1. RxP would not fill unmet needs for service as claimed by proponents.
(a) The psychiatrically underserved population is not very large. Even in the aggregate, it is smaller than RxP advocates in APA's central office wish us to believe.
(b) The geographic distribution of psychologists largely follows that of psychiatrists. Thus, little net gain in coverage is even possible.
(c) Few psychologists have chosen to practice in places like rural Montana or the South Bronx. There is no reason to think that RxP would make an appreciable difference.
(d) Organizations of consumers of mental health services (e.g., NAMI) have not come forth to endorse RxP. At the last RxP bill hearing in the Hawaii legislature, several consumers testified against RxP but none in favor.
2. No satisfactory precedents exist, either for designing suitable training programs or for predicting psychologists' performance as prescribers.
(a) The definition of what would constitute adequate training remains highly speculative and controversial. APA's model program is far from being a final or even an authoritative statement of what would be needed.
(b) The Department of Defense program, with 10 graduates, was about twice as intensive as that envisioned by the APA model program. It cannot be reproduced on a broad scale. It is therefore not a meaningful precedent.
(c) Guam—small, remote, and atypical in other respects —requires medical oversight of its handful of prescribing psychologists. It is not a precedent for RxP in the form espoused by APA.
(d) APA's training model specifies three sequential levels. Current RxP training programs offer Level III (see section 3 below), but omit the prerequisite Levels I and II. They also omit the undergraduate prerequisites in biology (12-15 semester hours), chemistry (9-12 hours) and algebra (3 semester hours).
(e) Some programs claiming to meet APA standards are conducted via distance learning—quite unlike the Defense Department program or those offered to optometrists.
(f) In short, there is no existing program that meets even APA's scaled-down criteria.
3. Few existing psychologists would be able to complete any acceptable training program.
(a) The APA Level III model, skimpy as many believe it to be, entails 28 semester hours of didactic work, plus one year of closely supervised practicum experience involving at least 100 patients. This is equal to approximately two years of full-time work.
(b) This time requirement does not include prerequisite undergraduate-level work (see section 2[d} above), some or all of which most prospective candidates would need.
(c) The cost of APA-model training =- even when no undergraduate work is needed—is estimated at $5,000 to $20,000 per student if received in a university or professional school setting. This does not include up to two years' worth of job or practice income sacrificed in order to make time available for RxP training.
4. Graduate education in basic psychological science and psychosocial treatments would be severely diminished and distorted unless most or all biomedical coursework were at the postdoctoral level.
(a) Many currently practicing psychologists are already undertrained in psychological science and empirically supported treatments. Displacing traditional curriculum content in graduate schools with RxP-focused coursework would render this deficiency still worse.
(b) Making RxP training wholly postdoctoral would add two years and $20,000 to $30,000—plus the cost of any undergraduate prerequisites needed and the years of earning ability forever lost—just as it would for existing psychologists.
(c) By changing the prerequisites for doctoral programs, RxP would attract a different population of applicants and further diminish the emphasis on psychosocial/behavioral treatments.
5. In addition to the direct costs of RxP training, there are a number of externalities—so far, not widely recognized—that argue strongly against RxP.
(a) Malpractice premiums would go up for those who elect to prescribe, and possibly for all licensed psychologists, whether they prescribe or not.
(b) Should even a few malpractice suits against prescribing psychologists based on claims of inadequate medical training be successful, insurance coverage would become prohibitively expensive or disappear altogether. Legislatures that had previously authorized RxP would face an onslaught of pressures to rescind it, and those that had not yet authorized it would reject RxP bills out of hand. The damage that would be done to psychologists and to the profession is incalculable—much worse than the damage done to physicians and medicine when they are sued.
(c) Student loan debt would increase sharply as a result of additional borrowings and years of delay in commencing repayment.
(d) Adding faculty to departments of psychology to teach the RxP curriculum would cost an estimated $800,000 to $1,000,000 annually. Only schools wholly supported by tuition could hope to recover these outlays. Universities relying on state funds and endowments would have to absorb a large share of additional faculty costs without recourse.
(e) RxP would widen the existing gap between university and professional-school programs, and in effect create two divergent spinoffs of clinical psychology. It would be only mildly facetious to say that we would come to be seen, at least by outsiders, as either underpaid psychiatrists or overpriced social workers. In the process, the cross-fertilization between psychological science and practice—psychology's trump card in the mental health field would have been severed.
(f) If psychologists obtain RxP, master's-level social workers and counselors will almost certainly try to follow. (Pat DeLeon has in fact written in support of social workers seeking RxP.) Should they succeed, the market will be flooded with Rx-eligible personnel, and the competitive advantage sought by psychology's RxP advocates would quickly vanish.
6. Psychologists would be exposed to patients' demands for 'pill fixes" and the blandishments of the pharmaceutical industry, just as psychiatric and other medical professionals already are.
(a) It is naïve to assume that psychologists' background in psychosocial treatments would significantly "inoculate" them against such powerful pressures.
(b) By de-specializing psychologists in psychosocial treatments and their scientific underpinnings, their commitment and competence in this area is likely to be further eroded.
7. Contrary to claims made by key people in APA's central office, psychology is not united behind RxP. A series of surveys over the past 10 years has shown sentiment to be about equally divided.
(a) APA's much-cited 1995 data, which showed a majority in favor of RxP, relied upon a single, highly biased questionnaire item in the context of an omnibus survey on membership issues. More adequate studies suggest that a majority is actually opposed to RxP.
(b) Recent survey evidence suggests that many psychologists nominally classified as "favorable" to RxP are willing to endorse RxP simply out of an altruistic desire to help colleagues —while having little or no interest in pursuing such training themselves.
(c) There is reason to believe that few psychologists -even those who find the RxP idea attractive – are aware of and have given careful thought to the length and cost of any plausible training requirements. What their attitudes would be if they were fully informed remains unknown.
8. Organized psychiatry and medicine can be counted upon to oppose RxP in state legislatures far more vigorously and effectively than they have opposed previous expansions in our scope of practice.
(a) They have the financial and political ability to turn the RxP campaign into a rout for psychology and are fully prepared to do so if necessary.
(b) Faced with RxP bills in the legislatures, they are likely to seize the opportunity to roll back gains in our scope of practice that have been painstakingly eked out over decades.
(c) There is evidence from New York that medicine's sabotage of scope-of-practice legislation sought by NYSPA was intended as a shot through our rigging to head off RxP.
(d) Fruitful collaboration between psychologists and medical professionals would be undermined—and possibly damaged quite seriously—by the battle over RxP.
(e) APA has spent over $800,000 pressing its RxP agenda, and has recently escalated its efforts still further. Yet all that it will take to defeat RxP bills in state legislatures is for psychologists opposed to RxP to expose its lack of solid support among psychologists. (This has already happened in Hawaii.)
9. RxP opponents fully recognize the need for psychologists to have education and experience relevant to biomedical treatments. But this does not imply a need for prescribing authority. Good alternatives exist that have few or none of the drawbacks cited above.
(a) For psychologists who want to prescribe drugs on their own, nurse practitioner (NP) training would prepare them far better than any RxP program that has been seriously proposed. It would provoke less opposition from the medical establishment. No new legislation—costly, time-consuming and dangerous to pursue—would be required. And it would probably be supported by the nursing profession, which as matters now stand is likely to join organized medicine in opposing RxP.
(b) For psychologists who do not want to prescribe, or who cannot afford the time and money to obtain the requisite training, well designed CE offerings would enable them to participate collegially and knowledgeably in collaboration with medical professionals. A large percentage of psychologists are already so equipped, and they collaborate routinely and effectively with their medical colleagues.
(c) Training is particularly needed for collaboration with primary care physicians—who write about 75% of the prescriptions for psychoactive medications in this country, yet often have skimpy knowledge of the proper use of such drugs, and are even less well acquainted with the advantages of psychological treatments. Such collaboration would also do more than RxP to meet the needs of underserved areas and populations.
(d) APA can play a vigorous and constructive role in enhancing psychological practice via these alternatives. It can take the lead in arranging NP training at an affordable cost, and it can develop and promote CE modules to advance interprofessional collaboration. These things can be done at much less cost and risk than pursuing the present quixotic campaign for RxP—and they would do away with the divisive atmosphere that APA's unilateral promotion of RxP has needlessly brought upon our profession.
In July 2001, the SSCP membership approved the statement in the form of a resolution by a vote of 98 to 6. The timetable is being revised to reflect the need for more time to implement its provisions.
This article was posted on April 15, 2002.


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- "Are Natural Selection Explanatory Models A Priori?" (escrito con José A. Díez), Biology & Philosophy 30(6) (2015): 787-809. DOI: 10.1007/s10539-015-9498-7. ISSN: 0169-3867 (Print), 1572-8404 (Online).
The epistemic status of Natural Selection (NS) has seemed intriguing to biologists and philosophers since the very beginning of the theory to our present times. One prominent contemporary example is Elliott Sober, who claims that NS, and some other theories in biology, and maybe in economics, are peculiar in including explanatory models/conditionals that are a priori in a sense in which explanatory models/conditionals in Classical Mechanics (CM) and most other standard theories are not. Sober's argument focuses on some ''would promote'' sentences that according to him, play a central role in NS explanations and are both causal and a priori. Lange and Rosenberg criticize Sober arguing that, though there may be some unspecific a priori causal claims, there are not a priori causal claims that specify particular causal factors. Although we basically agree with Lange and Rosenberg's criticism, we think it remains silent about a second important element in Sober's dialectics, namely his claim that, contrary to what happens in mechanics, in NS explanatory conditionals are a priori, and that this is so in quite specific explanatory models. In this paper we criticize this second element of Sober's argument by analyzing what we take to be the four possible interpretations of Sober's claim, and argue that, terminological preferences aside, the possible senses in which explanatory models in NS can qualify, or include elements that can qualify, as a priori, also apply to CM and other standard, highly unified theories. We conclude that this second claim is unsound, or at least that more needs to be said in order to sustain that NS explanatory models are a priori in a sense in which CM models are not.
Keywords: Natural selection – Sober – A priori explanatory models
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"The time has come, the Chancellor said
To talk of many things
Of discount rates and damages
And the cost of buying things." (Apologies to Lewis Carroll)
On 27 February 2017, UK Lord Chancellor Truss exercised her statutory power to change the multiplier for calculating damages for the victims of personal injuries from 2.5 percent to -0.75 percent. This caused furious fluttering in the dovecots of the insurance companies and much shouting that it was an unjustifiable change. Though a little confusing, the multiplier is often referred to as the "discount rate".
A neutral rate would be a multiplier equal to the actual number of years of lost income whereas a negative percentage increases the number of years required to produce the same revenue stream.
Unquestionably, the change will make a profound difference to the damages awarded for loss of income and the cost of providing for future needs, the two heads of damage that require financial projections, together classified as pecuniary loss.
A study of judicial decisions demonstrates the importance of ensuring that as economic data changes, so the courts must have a practicable machinery to reflect those changes lest claimants are over or under compensated.
Discount Rate in Operation
If the actuarial discount rate is not synchronised with current economic data, damages for pecuniary loss will be critically out of kilter with reality. The stark difference can be seen by comparing the outcome if such a change as Truss proposed in the UK were applied to a Hong Kong case of a notional 30-year old male earning HK$180,000 per annum as at the date of trial and rendered unable to work to his pensionable age of 65. Using the Personal Injury Tables for Hong Kong, the current rate of 2.5 percent and its associated multiplier of 23.04 produces HK$4,147,200. By contrast, a discount rate of -0.75 percent would yield a multiplier of 39.21, so producing a total of HK$7,058,700.
The objective in both the UK and Hong Kong is to maintain the balance between the real economy and pecuniary loss awards. As proposed below, Hong Kong must introduce a suitably flexible mechanism into its tort law.
Court's Rationale
To understand the judicial rationale behind awards for pecuniary loss, the speeches in the decision of the House of Lords in Wells v Wells [1999] 1 AC 345, are highly informative. Lord Hope of Craighead stated the underlying principle:
"...the object of the award of damages for future expenditure is to place the injured party as nearly as possible in the same financial position he or she would have been in but for the accident. The aim is to award such a sum of money as will amount to no more, and at the same time no less, than the net loss ..."
Lord Hope defined the discount rate as:
"the rate of interest to be expected where the investment is without risk, there being no question about the availability of the money when the investor requires repayment of the capital and there being no question of loss due to inflation."
An important practical consideration is the necessity to create an investment that will produce such a revenue stream yet be accessible from day one to meet existential needs. It is this latter characteristic that makes the typical pension fund wholly inappropriate.
Underlying these principles is the fact that the calculations are, necessarily, projections, which insurers like to castigate as mere speculation, forgetting that the entire insurance industry is premised on economic projections. The principal difference is most probably that insurers prefer to have the freedom to set their discount rates on the industry's in-house figures rather than having them imposed upon them by government.
The parallel argument raised against a mechanism that tracks inflation is cost. Can the insurers, and the public who have to pay the premiums, afford to pay for such a system? The answer can be found in Chief Justice McLachlin's compelling reasoning in the Canadian Supreme Court decision in Bazley v Currie 174 DLR (4th) 45, where it was held that the tortfeasor, having created a risk which results in the injuries, must bear the cost if the risk is realised.
Discount Rate's Chequered History
The chequered history of the discount rate is remarkably revealing. The rate of 4 to 5 percent set in 1979 in Cookson v Knowles [1979] AC 556 remained unchanged for 20 years in the UK and 34 years in Hong Kong, despite the wide fluctuations in both economies over those periods.
The UK Parliament recognised the inadequacy of this seemingly inflexible figure and in s. 1 of the UK Damages Act 1996 gave the Lord Chancellor power to set the rate. However, for three more years the UK courts adhered stubbornly to an arbitrary discount rate that bore little relation to reality.
Hong Kong courts followed, some might say slavishly, the UK practice. But in Chan Pui Ki v Leung On [1996] 2 HKLR 401, Mr. Justice Peter Cheung grasped the compelling merits of linking the rate to the retail price index in an ill-fated attempt to blow away the judicial cobwebs that had led to serious under-compensation of accident victims. Regrettably, a five-man Court of Appeal rubbished the use of actuarial tables. Inasmuch as the court was not referred to the widespread use in the UK of the Ogden Tables to calculate damages, its belief that a 4 to 5 percent rate had quasi-biblical provenance is marginally forgivable.
UK Welcomes Economic Evidence
The decision in Wells v Wells opened the UK's doors to the admission of economic evidence upon which to set the discount rate. In so doing they were adopting the recommendation of the Law Reform Commission (Cm. 2646)
"... Our provisional view was that courts should make more use of information from the financial markets in discounting lump sums to take account of the fact that they are paid today."
The full effect of admitting financial data into the process also meant that the irrational prohibition on taking inflation into consideration had to go.
The judicial analyses in Wells v Wells show how the court settled upon government index linked bonds ("gilts") as a model financial vehicle which met the criteria for a safe investment, sheltered against inflation yet enabling the victim to draw down on the fund as necessary.
Implementing Wells v Wells
Section 1 of the UK Damages Act 1996's mechanism for regular review by the Lord Chancellor was essential if frequent recourse to the courts to re-set the discount rate was to be avoided. It empowered the Lord Chancellor from time to time, to set the discount rate for future pecuniary loss. History proved that the vague draftsmanship in "from time to time" left the mechanism blowing idly in political winds.
The position in Hong Kong remained in the Cookson v Knowles strait jacket until the meticulously crafted decision of Mr.Justice Barwhaney in Chan Pak Ting v Chan Chi Kuen & Anor [2013] HKEC 202 in February 2013.
Taking as a starting point the necessity to take financial information into account, the judge was faced with the critical distinction that Hong Kong had no financial instrument equivalent to UK gilts but he still had to devise a model portfolio that met the criteria for being relatively risk free, inflation sensitive and accessible to be drawn down on during its life.
In the course of argument before him, it was submitted that inflation is measured against both the Retail Price Index ("RPI") and the Retail Wage Index ("RWI"). Thus to fairly reflect economic change, if the indices differed, there should be two separate discount rates, one for the cost of providing future goods and services and the other for loss of income as was done in the Privy Council decision in Simon v Helmot [2012] UKPC 5. Bharwaney J rejected dual rates because the difference between RPI and RWI indices was minimal. Nevertheless, he cleverly leveraged the principle to set different discount rates for plaintiffs with different future needs.
Absent a Hong Kong equivalent of gilts, the judge held that depending on the period for which the pecuniary loss was being purchased, different considerations obtained. Thus a claimant with a five year purchase would need ready and regular access to his fund, and because it has a short life it cannot be invested in long or medium term instruments. A mid-range, between five and 10 years had to reflect the balance between risk on return and accessibility; therefore, it requires a different mix in the portfolio but still no equity element. Conversely, those with needs in excess of 10 years could load their portfolio with risk-free long and medium term instruments and need an equity element to provide against inflation.
This compartmentalisation of years of dependency on the fund meant that the judge had to construct different hypothetical model portfolios for each category. He recognised that in so doing, the validity of the composition of each model would change in line with the fluctuations in the market. But herein lies the problem. If the discount rate is to satisfy the judicial criteria, the constituent parts of each category of the portfolio will have to be reviewed regularly.
This is all the more important because of the need to invest in equities. Thus the three categories were given their respective rates -0.5 percent for less than five years, 1 percent for five to 10 years and 2.5 percent for purchase in excess of 10 years.
The judge's solution to future changes in the economy was to suggest that a review could be initiated by the judge in charge of the Personal Injuries List who would select appropriate cases to re-test the validity of the prevailing discount rate. To my knowledge, to date, no such review has been initiated.
The suggestion of Professor Chan Wai Sum, the Plaintiff's expert, was that a Working Party chaired by the Chief Justice and consisting of judges, lawyers, actuaries and economists should review the issue periodically or a Hong Kong equivalent of s. 1 of the UK Damages Act 1996 be put on the statute book. Again, no such Working Party has been set up nor do we have a statutory provision as yet.
A Practical Hong Kong Solution
To be effective, any formalised review body would have to adhere to fixed frequencies. The failure to activate s. 1 of the UK Damages Act 1996 in the UK demonstrates that the process should not be subject to political whimsy or external influence.
Lord Chancellor Truss's decision has re-awakened the question for consideration in Hong Kong. It would be costly and grossly inefficient to have to litigate the matter on a regular basis. Chan Pak Ting not having been appealed, we may safely assume that the governing principles are settled.
A Chief Justice's Working Party mandated to annual reviews would have the benefit of considering (a) the continued viability of the constituents of each of the three categories of years and (b) the ability of the 10 year plus category equity elements in the model portfolio to shelter against inflation. Within the boundaries established by Chan Pak Ting, the Working Party ought to be empowered to amend the models so as to meet the perceived needs that it identified.
Just as medical science eradicates diseases only to find them cropping up again in a modified form, unless prompt steps are taken to establish a regular review mechanism, the stasis of Cookson v Knowles could re-appear in a new mutation.
The picture would not be complete without mentioning s. 2 of the UK Damages Act 1996, which empowers the courts to order periodic payments instead of a lump sum award but only if both parties agree. To date, there has been little enthusiasm for this option and, in my experience, it would have very little attraction for most Hong Kong claimants. Quite apart from any cultural or psychological disinclination for such a system, it would always be inherently subject to the long-term financial liquidity of the insurer.
By contrast, a Chief Justice's Working Party composed of representatives of all those with the expertise and the vested interests, is far more likely to achieve a consensual modus operandi.


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|Susan Miller Barker, Joseph Belluck and Ralph Rossi
You can see the tepid discussion of the last-minute switch and vote by the charter committee to approve it at about 30 minutes in a video of the meeting at the SUNY website. You can also see that the committee members did not mention any of the public comment, or even appeared to have bothered to have read the summary beforehand.
The three members of the committee are Joseph W. Belluck, the chair, Angelo Fatta and John Murad; two lawyers and a retired corporate executive, none of them with any background in education. Also present sowing more confusion in their wake, were Susan Miller Barker, the head of the SUNY Charter Institute, and the Counsel Ralph Rossi.
Understandably, parent leaders from District 1 and 6 and their elected City Council Members were quite angry that there were no hearings or outreach in their districts before this vote. Despite the fact that SUNY considers this a "non-material" change -- switching the charter from one end of Manhattan to another -- it makes hash out of the public process, including district hearings, required by the law. Few would argue that Washington Heights and the Lower East side are the same in terms of student population as the more middle class areas encompassed by District 2. So these elected leaders, including Councilmembers Chin, Dromm, Mendez and Rodriguez , along with the presidents of Community Education Councils in Districts 1,2, and 6, wrote a letter to the SUNY board President Carl McCall, which is below, saying that their practice of switching districts and ignoring public input at the last minute reveals their "extreme and marked disregard for a transparent, democratic process." Here's an article in tomorrow's Daily News about the letter and the anger aroused by this switcheroo.
Meanwhile, the NY Times had reported earlier that SUNY had not made any changed but had approved the charter for District 2, as earlier planned: "The new Success charters are approved for Districts 2 and 3 in Manhattan; 9 in the Bronx; 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 22, and 23 in Brooklyn; and 24, 27, 28 and 30 in Queens."
I contacted the reporter, Liz Harris, who assured me that SUNY had told her that there was no such change and that the school had been approved for District 2, though this might later be changed if Eva wanted. They told the same to the DNA Info reporter, who posted a correction to an earlier article that had reported on the last-minute switch:
However, SUNY did not allow Success Academy to change its application, said a spokesman. Instead, it approved its District 2 charter "after undergoing the legally required process, including a public hearing," he said."The Institute was notified that Success may pursue alternative arrangements in Districts 1 or 6, an adjustment which, for a variety of reasons, is not uncommon for a charter school," he said in a statement.
"Should they follow that course, under the law and well established practice the Institute can amend the charter accordingly, and there will be a process for additional public input."
But as the DNA info story noted, SUNY posted the following document tonight, showing the charter had been moved to District 1 or 6 after all. Check out the time stamp of 6:25 PM.
CM Chin saw the new document and tweeted it:
Now SUNY claims it didn't approve a Success charter for District 1 or 6. Let's look at the list of approved charters: http://t.co/XY6RotMhAV
Apparently noticing the article or CM Chin's tweet, someone at SUNY Charter Institute took down the document and revised their version of reality once again -- that the switch to District 1 or District 6 had not occurred after all:
— Margaret S. Chin (@CM_MargaretChin) October 14, 2014
It would all be a comedy of errors if it weren't so terribly sad.
Who knows what happened and how many ways back and forth the truth was revised? The indisputable reality is that these three men make such consequential decisions by authorizing and randomly siting 17 new charter schools, in such a cavalier fashion, without any knowledge or apparent interest in the views of the community or impact on their schools, and our public education system as a whole.


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Wimbley, a fourth-year veteran out of Florida State, has started for the Browns the last four years.
He was a first-round draft pick, 13th overall in the 2006 NFL Draft.
After racking up 11 sacks in his rookie season, many thought he would be one of the next great linebackers of the NFL.
But in the two years following, he only recorded a total of seven sacks.
Some Browns fans fault a lack of talent at the linebacker position and on defense in general, in preventing him from getting a chance to make big plays.
Wimbley set the Browns franchise rookie record with 11 sacks in one season.
In his career, he's recorded 129 solo tackles, twenty sacks, one interception, and six forced fumbles.
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The World Intrudes on Birth
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As an important chapter of her life soon comes to a close, Deborah McBain reflects on her time as a midwife and nurse.
Editor's Note: The opinions expressed in this blog post are solely those of the author.
Spoiler Alert: This post discusses events in Call the Midwife Season 5 Episode 6
This season's Call the Midwife has eerily mimicked my own life. Life and the world have intruded on the midwives in 1961 Poplar as 2016 life has intruded on my midwifery career.
During this episode, the somewhat offended Phyllis Crane tells the retired Dr. Godfrey that she will consider retirement if and when she reaches the appropriate age. Ha. What is the appropriate age of retirement?
That answer is different for everyone but after the birth of my grandchild last November, I decided the time was imminent. And after my father suffered a stroke in February, I knew I had made the right choice.
So now I find myself entering the final month of my 43-year nursing career including 20 years of midwifery practice. The stories I could tell.
For now, I offer a poem I wrote inspired by the strength and bravery of the women I have labored with.
I'll Journey With You
Oh yes, you may be silent.
It is fearful.
We will find voice.
Oh yes, you may moan.
It is humbling.
We will find dignity.
Oh yes, you may cry.
It is painful.
We will find comfort.
Oh yes, you may scream.
It is powerful.
We will find strength.
Oh yes, you may lose it.
It's not gone.
We will find it.
At last, you will laugh.
It is Joy.
We will share it.
Thank you to all the amazing women I have had the honor to care for and to work with. Below is a photo of my granddaughter, my father and myself during a visit in the hospital after his stroke.
The full-time care of my family is now where my heart lies and I am also hoping for some time to travel. The women at Nonnatus House would understand. Perhaps Nurse Crane will loan me her roof rack.
Deborah McBain (CNM, MS, BSN, RN) is a nurse-midwife who has practiced in Metro Detroit for nearly 20 years. McBain received her Bachelor's Degree in Nursing Science from Wayne State University-Detroit, Master's Degree from the Case Western University-Cleveland and midwifery education through Frontier Nursing Service.
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Study Title:Protocol for the Enrollment on the Official COG Registry, The Childhood Cancer Research Network (CCRN)
What is the purpose of the study?Registry study to obtain clinical information about every child diagnosed with cancer and other conditions that are characterized by abnormal cell growth in the US & Canada. The information is used by COG researchers to look at whether childhood cancer is increasing across the US or Canada, & whether there is a higher risk of cancer among some groups compared to others. It can also help researchers study the causes of childhood cancer.
Upstate Institutional Review Board (IRB) Number:252163
Study/Protocol ID:ACCRN07
Study Phase:N/A
Patient Age Group:Children
Principal Investigator:Melanie A Comito
ClinicalTrials.Gov ID:NCT01117168
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Every year, The Rock Springs Chamber of Commerce likes to honor the community and the many volunteers that have helped make so many things possible through out the year.
Join us for the annual community appreciation barbecue. There will be food, ice cream, face painting, and fire extinguisher demonstrations by JME Fire & Hoist Protection!
Date: August 30TH
Time: 4-7PM
Where: 1897 Dewar Drive (Chamber Park)