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Check the temperature and wind conditions before you go out, and do not exercise if conditions are dangerous. Keep your head, hands and feet warm . Dress in layers that can provide a trapped layer of dry air near the skin (avoid cotton sweats and other similar materials ). Warm the air you are breathing if temperatures are below your comfort level (usually around 0° F).
The biggest concern when exercising in the cold is the risk of hypothermia, or too much heat loss. When you exercise in a cold environment, you must consider one primary factor: How much heat will your body lose during exercise? Heat loss is controlled in two ways: 1. Insulation, consisting of body fat plus clothing; and 2. Environmental factors, including temperature, wind and whether you're exercising in the air or in the water. Each of these factors plays a role in the body's ability to maintain a comfortable temperature during exercise.
Although many people aspire to have a lean figure, people with a little more body fat are better insulated and will lose less heat. Clothing adds to the insulation barrier and is clearly the most important element in performance and comfort while exercising in the cold. One study showed that heat loss from the head alone reached about 50 percent at the freezing mark and that by simply wearing a helmet, subjects were able to stay outside indefinitely. Clothing is generally a good insulator because it has the ability to trap air, a poor conductor of heat. If the air trapped by the clothing cannot conduct heat away from the body, temperature will be maintained. Unlike air, however, water is a rapid conductor of heat, and even in the coldest of temperatures, people will sweat and risk significant heat loss. With this in mind, you want to choose clothing that such a layered barrier, it is important to avoid heavy cotton sweats or tightly woven material that will absorb and retain water. Because these materials cannot provide a layer of dry air near the skin, they can increase the amount of heat your body loses as you exercise. Keeping the hands and feet warm is a common concern when exercising in the cold. Lower temperatures cause blood to be shunted away from the hands and feet to the center of the body to keep the internal organs warm and protected. Superficial warming of the hands will return blood flow to prevent tissue damage. Blood flow will not return to the feet, however, unless the temperature of the torso is normal or slightly higher (.5 to 1.0 degree Fahrenheit above normal). So, to keep your feet warm, you must also keep the rest of your body warm at all times.
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Always check the air temperature and wind chill factor before exercising in the cold. Data from the National Safety Council suggests little danger to individuals with properly clothed skin exposed at 20° F, even with a 30 mph wind. A danger does exist for individuals with exposed skin when the wind chill factor (combined effect of temperature and wind) falls below minus 20° F. That can be achieved by any combination of temperatures below 20° F with a wind of 40 mph and temperatures below minus 20° F with no wind. If you are exercising near the danger zone for skin exposure, it also is advisable to wear a scarf or mask over your nose and mouth to warm the air being inhaled.
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Nanticoke Memorial Hospital will hold a diabetes support group from 5-6 p.m. on Monday, March 14, in the Medical Staff Conference Room. This support group is free and open to the public. As a person with diabetes, are you struggling to make positive behavior changes in your life? Would you like to meet and share with others who are also coping with diabetes? Join this free support group where attendees will hear stories of success and struggles from fellow diabetes patients. Registration is required. To register or for more information, contact Nanticoke Memorial Hospital's Diabetes Education department at 629-6611, ext. 2446.
Heart & Sole Run Walk
The 6th Annual Heart & Sole 5K Run/Walk will take place at 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 26, at Trinity Logistics in Seaford. This year, 100% of the proceeds will stay local, benefitting Nanticoke Hospital's Cardiac Rehab Unit. For more information, contact Greg or Jill at 253-3900. To sign up online, visit www.trisportsevents.com/index.cfm?ref=50200&ref2=41.
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Safe Sitter Class
Nanticoke Memorial Hospital will host a Safe Sitter class on Saturday, March 12 from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., for children ages 11-13, who are interested in learning child care essentials and safety.The course is designed to train teenagers how to be safe baby/child sitters. Components include infant/child development and care, safety, injury prevention, first aid, accident management, rescue breathing and choking management.
Cost is $35 per student, which includes the class and all materials. Advance registration is required.
DBCC seeks award nominations
The Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition (DBCC) seeks nominations for the 2016 Shining Light Awards. These awards recognize individuals, businesses and healthcare institutions who have made a significant contribution to the advancement of the early detection and treatment of breast cancer in the Greater Delaware region and who have served to motivate and inspire others to be champions of the cause. Nomination forms are available online at www.debreastcancer.org and due by March 4. Award categories include: Spotlight on Philanthropy, Spotlight on Survivorship, Spotlight on Healthcare Delivery and Research, and Spotlight on Business or Organization. Winners will be selected by an independent selection committee this spring. More than one winner may be selected in each category. Recipients will be honored at an Annual Recognition reception. Proceeds from the Shining Light Awards will benefit DBCC's programs that increase breast cancer awareness, promote the importance of early detection, provide access to mammograms, and provide support and resources to men and women in the local community who are newly diagnosed or facing a recurrence of breast cancer. For more information about the Shining Light Awards nominations, upcoming reception, and sponsorship opportunities, call 302-778-1102.
Walk for Autism is April 16
The 10th Anniversary celebration of the Walk for Autism will begin on Saturday, April 16, at Cape Henlopen State Park in Lewes. The Wilmington leg of the statewide event takes place Saturday, April 23 at Fox Point State Park. Walk for Autism organizers hope to attract 800 walkers in Lewes who will walk to the Cape Henlopen State Park parade field to form the world's largest human puzzle piece for entry into The Guinness Book of World Records. The puzzle piece serves as a symbol for autism. The funds raised at the Walk for Autism support Autism Delaware's statewide programs and services, which address the range of services that people on the spectrum need to live full lives as members of their communities. 'The Lewes walk seeks to promote and highlight services in Kent and Sussex counties, such as family support, adult employment and community resources, advocacy at both the state and local levels, and awareness,' said Autism Delaware executive director Teresa Avery. 'To meet the growing need in southern Delaware and around the state, we need to continue to grow. The goal for our tenth anniversary is $220,000.'

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Councils have increased their pressure on Michael Gove to re-grade disputed GCSEs after the education secretary refused to agree to an independent inquiry, the Times reports. Cabinet members in Kent and Suffolk CCs both made the call, with Kent's Mike Whiting (Con) saying exam papers should be regarded rather than making students re-sit tests.
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The number of people in work has risen to its highest level since May 2008, whilst unemployment rose slightly to 8.1% in the three months to July, the Financial Times reports. The paper described the figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) as a "mixed set of data" that "deepened Britain's productivity puzzle."
Labour leader Ed Miliband yesterday accused the government of "failing its own tests", after prime minister David Cameron failed to confirm the coalition would stick to its target to reduce the deficit by the end of this Parliament. The Daily Telegraph writes that Mr Cameron's failure "to rule out breaking a promise to start curbing the national debt" has left Conservative MPs "concerned about the government's commitment to balancing the books".
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London mayor Boris Johnson's alleged hopes of becoming Conservative Leader have received a boost, with a YouGov poll revealing him to be more popular that David Cameron, Ed Miliband or Nick Clegg, the Independent reports. The poll found that Mr Johnson outscored the three main party leaders on qualities including charisma, sticking to what he believes in, strength, and being a natural leader.
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Math Up! 14th general meeting of European Women in Mathematics (EWM). Novi Sad (Serbia), 25-28 August 2009
MATH UP! is the 14th GENERAL MEETING OF EUROPEAN WOMEN IN MATHEMATICS (EWM) to be held in Novi Sad, Serbia, during August 25-28, 2009, at the Department of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences.
For more than 20 years EWM has organized biennial conferences, open to members as well as non-members of EWM. In 2007, the 13th general meeting took place at the University of Cambridge, UK, gathering more than 100 women mathematicians from various fields of research.
2009 invited speakers are : Ingrid Daubechies (Princeton University, USA; 2009 EMS lecturer), Nalini Anantharaman (Centre de Mathématiques Laurent Schwartz, Ecole Polytechnique, France), Barbara Lee Keyfitz (University of Houston, USA), Jelena Kovačević (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Cheryl Praeger (School of Mathematics and Statistics, Univ. of Western Australia), Marta Sanz-Sole (Barcelona University, Spain), Tatiana Suslina (St. Petersburg State University, Russia), Reidun Twarok (University of York, UK), Brigitte Vallee (CNRS, France).
The 14th general meeting of European Women in Mathematics (EWM) is supported by : UNESCO Office in Venice, European Mathematical Society, London Mathematical Society, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, the Board of the Foundation Compositio Mathematica, University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, Service de l'egalite entre femmes et hommes, Universite de Fribourg, and Australian Embassy in Belgrade.
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23 August 2015 – Dallas, TX, USA and Milan, Italy – PM World has announced that Prof Antonio Calabrese has joined the organization's academic advisory board for the PM World Journal and PM World Library. Prof Calabrese is director of the masters in project management degree program at Politecnico di Milano in Milan, Italy. He joins an international team of academic leaders who provide advice and feedback to the PM World editorial team.
Antonio Calabrese is Associate Professor of "Industrial Plants" and "Industrial Plants Management" at Politecnico di Milano (Italy). He is Faculty member of the School of Management and Director of two masters degree programmes in project management offered by MIP, the graduate School of Business of the university: the MSPME (Master in Strategic Project Management European, for international students) and the MPM (Master in Project Management, for Italian students).
Director of the MBA and Executive MBA programmes of the School (2013-2015) and of the Corporate Division (customized programmes for companies, 2010-2013), his main research interests are in project management and industrial engineering. Within project management he is mostly interested in project control, risk management, strategic project management, program and portfolio management, stakeholder management and the effects of cultural differences on the project success.
Since 2006 he cooperates with some universities (Shandong University – China, Heriot Watt University – UK, Umea University – Sweden) both in master and PhD programmes. He is member of the Executive Board of IPMA Italy (International Project Management Academy – Italy) since 2008 and is the Editor of the IPMA Italy Journal of Applied Project Mnagement. Reviewer at many congresses and chairman or co-chairman, he is author or co-author of 11 books and more than 70 publications. He consults for large, medium and small private companies in the field of management, project management and industrial engineering.
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Owerri – The Former Governor of Imo state, Chief Ikedi Ohakim and his successor, Governor Rochas Okorocha, have taken swipe at each other concerning the ongoing demolition exercise embarked by the present government.
While Ohakim, alleged that the original master plan laid down has been destroyed by the present government and that the ongoing demolition exercise was not captured in the state budget, Governor Rochas Okorocha, described Ohakim as one of those politicians in the state, who do not see anything good about his administration and that his regime has come to correct the maladministration of Ohakim in 4 years upon which he said, he was voted out of power in 2011.
In a letter addressed to the Imo State government, titled "Current Trends of Events in Our State" and signed by Ohakim, he said, Your Excellency, your present road expansion in Owerri Municipal is not in conformity with the master plan and any know element of road design. For example, the huge economic losses from the present exercise will far outweigh the few meters to be from the proposed expansion."
" To worsen matters, no public right of way is left for the replacement of pipes and cables, as your proposed expansion will end at the foundation of peoples houses. I have it on a good authority that the ongoing exercise were captured in any of the state budget in the last five years. This, therefore makes it fiscally wrong to embark on such projects because it negates the essence of good governance."
Responding, the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha through his Commissioner of Information, Hon. Vitalis Ajumbe, said, "this government as a very responsible and people – oriented government has restrained itself from demolition of buildings that contravened the stipulated distance of about 15 meters from the road; rather what we did was to remove fences and other structures built within 10 metres from the affected roads as well as those that blocked water ways. After all construction is not completed yet. We are getting there and this government appeals to Imo people to remain patient."
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- Saturday, June 08, 2013
- make.share.give said...
So glad to hear I'm not the only person with quilt tops draped over a chair.
- Saturday, June 08, 2013
- Margaret said...
While full backs are lovely, I think pieced backs are the most fun!
- Saturday, June 08, 2013
- Ellen said...
Way to go!! Looking forward to seeing them quilted.
- Sunday, June 09, 2013
- Amy said...
YEAH is right, girl!
I'm thinking we need to have an incentive for each other.... something like..... The person who quilts off the most flimsies by the end of the month should gift the other some fabric, or gift certificate, etc. I have SO MANY FLIMSIES that I want to add to the finished pile!!! I, too, have plenty ready to go, but just as many waiting for backing to be made. LOL.
Great progress!
- Sunday, June 09, 2013
- Sheila said...
Cool strip backing. Very modern! Like two quilts in one. Now three quilts ready to finish up! You are working through your ufo's
- Sunday, June 09, 2013


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A Virgin Australia flight was forced to turn back to Perth early on Wednesday because of a technical fault.
A spokeswoman for Perth airport said the plane, bound for Windarling, took off at 7.15am (WST) but returned to Perth as a precaution after the pilot was alerted to the fault.
It landed safely at 7.40am (WST).
A Virgin spokesman said the fault had since been cleared by engineers and the plane was ready to take off again.
The incident would mean a two hour delay for the 44 passengers - all fly-in, fly-out workers at an iron ore mine.


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After slogging through a challenging 2016, HollyFrontier's (NYSE:HFC) results in 2017 have been a stark improvement. Not only did the company's refining business produce outstanding results, the contributions from its other businesses were respectable in their own right.
Even more important than these results was the announcement of a significant ownership change for its subsidiary partnership Holly Energy Partners (NYSE:HEP). Let's take a look at the company's most recent results and what this structural change will mean for the parent organization.
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Every once in a while, the stars will align for a refining company. This was the case for HollyFrontier this past quarter as every part of the business performed well. While its Petro-Canada Lubricants (PLCI) and equity interest in Holly Energy Partners are a critical part of the company, this quarter was all about the refining business.
The refining industry, in general, was starting to benefit from some trends in the oil & gas market lately. A wider price difference between international and domestic crude oil prices and lower inventories of refined products across the U.S. led to more favorable margins for refiners in the quarter. HollyFrontier's management took advantage of the situation as it ran its facilities at a high rate -- refinery utilization for the quarter was 99.5% -- and was able to keep costs down. The net operating margin across all of its facilities in the third quarter was $8.88 per barrel compared to $4.34 per barrel this time last year.
A great indication of management's focus on improving operations is the turnaround of its Rocky Mountain refineries. These two plants have underperformed for several quarters in a row. In the prior quarter, though, we started to see the impact of a turnaround program that has improved results. That success continued this past quarter as refinery utilization for the region improved to 82.7%. While there is still work to be done to get these facilities to perform like the rest of HollyFrontier's portfolio, it is indeed trending in the right direction.
Aside from the favorable refining environment this past quarter, the other big news event had to do with HollyFrontier's ownership of Holly Energy Partners. HollyFrontier was the general partner of Holly Energy Partners, and with that stake, it had incentive distribution rights over its payout. At first, these rights encouraged management to grow its subsidiaries' payout. Over time, though, it made the cost of capital too high to realistically grow the business.
So on October 19, management announced it was going to do an exchange with Holly Energy Partners where it would trade its general partner stake and its distribution rights for 37.25 million shares of common units that values the equity stake at $1.25 billion. HollyFrontier now owns 59% of the company's limited partner units.
What management had to say
Here's CEO George Damiris' statement on the most recent results:
HollyFrontier's strong financial results reflect our ability to capitalize on the margins available during the third quarter. Additionally, PCLI operations performed well and we are reaching the conclusion of our integration project. To date, fourth quarter refining margins have held steady and we are looking forward to a strong finish to 2017.
Also, here's Damiris' statement from the press release where HollyFrontier announced the general partner exchange with Holly Energy Partners:
Eliminating the general partner's IDRs [incentive distribution rights] and the economic GP [general partner] interest will strongly enhance Holly Energy's ability to pursue growth opportunities and manage its business over the long-term by decreasing its cost of capital, and providing increased transparency on the value of HollyFrontier's ownership in Holly Energy.
What a Fool believes
Quarters like these don't happen that often for refiners, but HollyFrontier was in an ideal position to profit from the situation as it was able to keep its refineries running at a high rate and keep operating costs low. There's no guarantee that these market conditions will continue in the fourth quarter, but some trends such as a wide price difference between domestic and international crude are still around.
The deal to change the ownership structure at Holly Energy Partners may prove to be a temporary hit to HollyFrontier's results, but it was the right move to make if management wants the business to grow much further. With that business on a better platform for growth and the continued efforts to integrate its recent Petro-Canada lubricants business, there is a lot more room for this company to grow regardless of the refining environment.
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The term "departmental unit," appearing in G. L. c. 31, s.s. 1 & 39, was not restricted by the provisions of 104 Code Mass. Regs. s. 2.10(1) & (2), as promulgated by the Commissioner of Mental Health, so as to deprive employees of the Department of Mental Health of the protections afforded by the civil service law; consequently, a senior employee whose position was lawfully eliminated retained "bumping" rights across all of the department's regions and was not restricted in such privilege to the particular facility or region from which he had been laid off. [838-841]
CIVIL ACTION commenced in the Superior Court Department on November 21, 1995.
The case was heard by Robert A. Mulligan, J.
John F. McCarty for the plaintiff.
Mary Murphy-Hensley, Assistant Attorney General, for the defendants.
GREENBERG, J. This case requires us to construe the Commonwealth's civil service law as it defines "departmental unit" for purposes of replacing less senior employees (a practice commonly known as "bumping") when budgetary constraints so require. During the spring of 1994, the director of the Department of Mental Health's (department) southeastern area decided to eliminate all twelve psychologist II and III positions at the Pocasset Mental Health Center at Bourne (center). As none of
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the persons holding these positions was generating income from third-party payors, a decision was made to eliminate the positions and reallocate those duties to mental health coordinator and social worker slots that were pegged at lower salaries.
On August 5, 1994, the department gave the affected employees notice of the pending layoffs pursuant to G. L. c. 31, s. 41. A list of other employees holding similar positions as psychologists in other geographic areas, whose jobs were not involved in the realignment, showed that some of them had less accrued seniority rights than the center employees, but the center psychologists were not allowed to bump them. To this, the plaintiff, Michael Herlihy, the most senior psychologist III working at the center, objected.
Herlihy, a disabled veteran, joined the department in 1977. Disabled veteran's preference provisions contained in G. L. c. 31, s. 26, gave him an artificial appointment date of February 7, 1970. After eight years of actual satisfactory service within the department, he was promoted to psychologist III and was assigned to the center. That move occurred in 1985, at a time when his salary and benefits were, in part, determined by a contract negotiated by the Massachusetts Nurses' Association Unit 7, a union that represented the psychologists, nurses, and certain other mental health professionals. [Note 2]
After an unsuccessful attempt on Herlihy's part to block his layoff as a psychologist III at a hearing before the department's local hearing officer in Brockton, the department gave Herlihy a list of bumping options of less senior employees in similar positions whom he could "potentially" displace. There was, in fact, an employee with less seniority in a psychologist III position at the Worcester State Hospital. However, the department's area director determined that this position was outside of Herlihy's "appointing authority," leaving Herlihy with no other viable bumping options.
Herlihy, conformably with G. L. c. 31, s. 43, appealed to the State Civil Service Commission (commission). After a hearing on June 13, 1995, an administrative magistrate prepared a
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recommended decision in which she concluded that the department's area director had acted properly in functionally eliminating all of the psychologist II and III positions at the center because of bona fide fiscal concerns. Herlihy's senior status made no difference, because he was not bumped by any other employee. The magistrate found that Herlihy's bumping rights were limited to the center, which she concluded fit the definition of a "departmental unit" under G. L. c. 31, s. 1. The commission adopted the findings and recommendation of the magistrate. Having decided that Herlihy (and other center employees) had no bumping rights whatsoever outside the center, the commission affirmed the layoffs. Thereupon, Herlihy took the next step of lodging an appeal under G. L. c. 3 1, s. 44, and the State Administrative Procedure Act, G. L. c. 30A, s. 14A. A judge of the Superior Court affirmed the decision of the commission. Herlihy appeals from that judgment.
Applicable standards of review for decisions of administrative agencies focus on whether the agency's finding is one of fact or law. Here the question is one of statutory interpretation. In reviewing decisions involving questions of law, appellate courts review the issue de novo. Raytheon Co. v. Director of Div. of Employment Sec., 364 Mass. 593 , 595 (1974). See Protective Life Ins. Co. v. Sullivan, 425 Mass. 615 , 618 (1997). In the instant case the boundaries of a "departmental unit," established by the language of G. L. c. 31, s. 39, upon which permanent employees may exercise their seniority rights is not plain. [Note 3]
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The parties are at odds whether the center falls within the definition of a "departmental unit" because it is an administrative component of the department. The department relies on a portion of the definition of "departmental unit" provided in G. L. c. 31, s. 1, as inserted by St. 1978, c. 393, s. 11, which could encompass the center as an "institutional component, or other component of a department established by law, ordinance, or by-law." Taken out of context, that reading is plausible. When, however, the focus shifts to s. 39 of the statute, our analysis prompts us to conclude that the foregoing section does not support such a construction and that Herlihy is not restricted from bumping other junior employees outside of the center.
For its interpretation of G. L. c. 31, s. 39, the department relies on 104 Code Mass. Regs. s. 2. 10(1) & (2) (1993), the text of which is set out in the margin. [Note 4] The regulatory scheme from which this particular provision derives was promulgated pursuant to the authority granted to the department by G. L. c. 19,
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s. 18. [Note 5] The department argues, therefore, that because these regulations have the force of law, see Purity Supreme, Inc. v. Attorney Gen., 380 Mass. 762 , 768 (1980), it may designate the center as a "departmental unit" for purposes of the civil service law. What the department overlooks is that "[t]o the extent that the regulation seeks to impose restrictions on the clear language of s. [39] - which itself neither contains nor permits such restrictions - the regulation is invalid." Electronics Corp. of America v. Commissioner of Rev., 402 Mass. 672 , 676 (1988). See Morey v. Martha's Vineyard Commn., 409 Mass. 813 (1991); Massachusetts Mun. Wholesale Elec. Co. v. Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Council, 411 Mass. 183 (1991).
To be sure, the department has offered strong policy reasons why all bumping rights should be confined to the individual facilities under its regulatory control. The Superior Court judge noted some of these arguments. [Note 6] Nothing in G. L. c. 19 authorizes the department to limit eligible employees from obtaining similar permanent positions within the department's various hospitals and other facilities if they otherwise qualify under G. L. c. 31, s. 39. We think, therefore, that the department may not exert its regulatory power under G. L. c. 19 to deprive its employees of the protections afforded by the civil service law. To say that the department has designated the center as an administrative unit does not, therefore, answer the question posed by this appeal. The question is whether G. L. c. 31, s. 39, permits permanent employees separated from their civil service positions because of the abolition of those positions to replace less senior employees situated in other mental health facilities throughout the department. We conclude that the answer is yes.
General Laws c. 3 1, s. 39, creates a safety net for civil service employees who are separated from their jobs because of "lack of work or lack of money or abolition of [their] positions."
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G. L. c. 31, s. 39. Generally, length of service determines the order of separation. It is true that civil service provisions are not intended to, and do not on their face, preclude abolition of positions, or reorganizations of departments, or the contracting out of work. Debnam v. Belmont, 388 Mass. 632 (1983). Gloucester v. Civil Serv. Commn., 408 Mass. 292 (1990). However, in the instant case, by adopting a restrictive definition of the bumping area, the department contravenes the intent of G. L. c. 31, s. 39. The unit contemplated for reinstatement of separated employees must encompass any hospital or facility within all of the department's regions. So long as the employee is governed by the same organizational statute, rules, and regulations, transfer from one geographical area to another should not cause loss of a seniority rating.
From the definition of "departmental unit" contained in G. L. c. 31, s. 1, read in context with s. 39, for civil service purposes the area which a unit covers must be established "by law, ordinance, or by-law" rather than defined by regulations. For example, when the phrase "departmental unit established by law" was interpreted in context of a fiscal appropriation act, the Attorney General opined that the plain meaning of the statute would be "subverted" if the dozens of units referred to in the capital outlay act were "considered separate 'departments' for the purposes of the civil service law, a result Chapter 652 sought to eliminate." Opinion of the Attorney General, Rep. A.G., Pub. Doc. No. 12, at 80, 81 (1972). Cf. Newton v. Trustees of State Colleges, 359 Mass. 668 (1971).
Granting a more expansive reading to the term "departmental unit" is consistent with the legislative intent. The civil service system was established to create a pool of non-political appointees to provide continuous administration of governmental services and who are not always compensated at salary levels commensurate with the private sector. Hence, one benefit that flows from the statutory scheme is that employees, like Herlihy, receive the protection of a seniority system with respect to reemployment rights. See Fall River v. Teamsters Union, Local 526, 27 Mass. App. Ct. 649 , 653 (1989). "To achieve th[ese] purpose[s] the Civil Service provisions must be read as a harmonious whole without giving unmerited emphasis to any one section." Opinion of the Attorney General, Rep. A.G., Pub. Doc. No. 12, at 187, 189 (1964). By confining Herlihy's bumping rights to a single administrative entity within the department
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the department, in effect, affords Herlihy none of the protections earned as a result of his years of service. We do not think that the Legislature had that intent.
The judgment is vacated and the case is remanded to the Superior Court for entry of a judgment restoring Herlihy to his position as a psychologist III.
So ordered.
[Note 1] Department of Mental Health.
[Note 2] The record contains various references to the collective bargaining agreement; however, relevant portions such as the groups of employees represented by the union and their salary levels have not been provided by the parties. From the affidavit of John P. Sullivan, the department's southeastern area director, we infer that the department's budget for the fiscal year of 1995 contained a shortfall which resulted in the psychologists' job reclassification.
[Note 3] General Laws c. 31, s. 39, as inserted by St. 1978, c. 393, s. 11, states in pertinent part: "If permanent employees in positions having the same title in a departmental unit are to be separated from such positions because of lack of work or lack of money or abolition of positions, they shall, except as hereinafter provided, be separated from employment according to their seniority in such unit and shall be reinstated in the same unit and in the same positions or positions similar to those formerly held by them according to such seniority, so that employees senior in length of service, computed in accordance with section thirty-three, shall be retained the longest and reinstated first." (Emphasis added.) Section 39 does not explicitly mandate that the appointing authority reinstate senior "employees in the same or similar positions that exist throughout the state." Nor does the definition of "departmental unit" found in s. 1 of the statute assist other than to state that such unit comprises "a board, commission, department, or any division, institutional component, or other component of a department established by law, ordinance, or by-law." G. L. c. 31, s. 1, as inserted by St. 1978, c. 393, s. 11.
[Note 4] "Designation of Departmental Facilities
"(1) Authority. The Commissioner is authorized by M.G.L. c. 19, s. 7 to designate in 104 CMR the state facilities under the control of the Department.
"(2) Departmental Facilities. In addition to designations that may be made from time to time in other parts of 104 CMR, the following are hereby designated as facilities under the control of the Department:
(a) State Hospitals: Danvers State Hospital; Medfield State Hospital; Metropolitan State Hospital; Northampton State Hospital; Taunton State Hospital; Westboro State Hospital; Worcester State Hospital.
(b) Community Mental Health Centers: Corrigan Mental Health Center; Erich Lindemann Mental Health Center; Massachusetts Mental Health Center; Pocasset Mental Health Center; Quincy Mental Health Center; Solomon Carter Fuller Mental Health Center; Solomon Mental Health Center; Bay Cove Mental Health Center; and any mental health program for adults that is funded and operated as a separate facility by the Department, directly or by contract, in accordance with 104 CMR.
(c) Specialized Children's Facilities: Gaebler Children's Center; and any mental health program for children that is funded and operated as a separate facility by the Department, directly or by contract, in accordance with 104 CMR.
(d) State Hospital Psychiatric Units: Hathorne Unit of Tewksbury Hospital."
[Note 5] General Laws c. 19 governs the Department of Mental Health. Section 18, as inserted by St. 1986, c. 599, s. 8, provides that "[t]he department may . . . adopt such rules and regulations as it deems necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter."
[Note 6] The Superior Court judge recognized that a broader application of the term "departmental unit" "would frustrate the purposes of the underlying lay-offs creating a domino-style flurry of reassignment and retraining within [the department]. Moreover, although people hired as Psychologist III's are similarly qualified, idiosyncracies of training and operation in each location vary, and broad bumping rights would further render lay-offs impracticable."


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So yes, I am a little behind on my Mojo Monday card again. My goal next week is to have Mojo Monday on Monday.
Yesterday I found out one of my friends, who is due in January, is expecting a baby girl.
Although this is not a card for her, it put me in a "baby girl" mood.
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The DEWALT Cordless Screwdriver Includes A Two Position Handle
Owning a home of your own is a big step in the life of any individual. Along with the great pride that comes in owning your own home, comes a great deal of responsibility. Homes need maintaining and updating in order to remain livable. A good tool kit is a must for any homeowner, and the best tool kit starts with a screwdriver set. But why have any old screwdriver set when you can have the DEWALT Cordless Two-Position Screwdriver Kit. This cordless screwdriver set from DEWALT power screwdriver packs all the punch you need, providing 80 in-lbs of maximum torque output to help you overcome any screw.
The Dewalt electric screwdriver set features an adjustable two-position handle, variable speed and reversing trigger switch, and an industrial quick-release hex-shank chuck. The two position screwdriver has a 7.2 volt battery back can be recharged in just one hour and provides longer run time for users. Several companies provide good power tools for around the house and deciding between them will come down to needs and brand recognition. DEWALT is a leader in quality power tools and customers are not likely to find better options on the market, though equals to this set are out there.
The Positives
Comes with two batteries, a charger, bit, and kit box for storage and portability. Adjustable two-position handle allows for operation as both in-line and pistol-grip. Ariable speed and reversing trigger switch provides 0-500 rpm for fastening. Industrial quick-release hex-shank chuck allows for quick screwdriver bit change. Includes a 7.2-voly battery pack allows for longer run-time and charges in one hour.
The Negatives
Among the biggest negatives noted by reviewers was a low quality quick-release hex-shank chuck that is too easily engaged. Also, the power tool only has two modes that lock on the bent angle, straight mode, or the 75 degree angle.
So What's The Scoop?
Most online reviewers gave the DEWALT variable speed cordless screwdriver high marks for quality and reliable performance. Many reviewers commented on the remarkable combination of compact size and power the Dewalt features. Aside from a poor design feature, the DEWALT Power Screwdriver seems an ideal addition to any home tool kit.


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How do we best ensure that video delivered via email is reaching our audience? Let's look today at some best practices to adhere to when integrating video and email for customer outreach.
Dec 20, 2011
Skyword, a content farm, secured $6 million in funding from Cox Media Group, Inc., a broadcasting, publishing, direct marketing, and digital media company. According to paidContent, the investment will expand Skyword's business. Cox is the sole investor in the company, and a Cox representative, not yet publicly named, will join Skyword's board of directors.
Skyword produces content "for a search and social driven world," which it generates and distributes through its own platform. By way of the investment, Cox affiliates could potentially become alternative sources for distribution for that content.
Cox currently owns 15 TV and 85 radio affiliate stations in some 22 markets across the U.S. Cox has reportedly been looking to develop more interactive and rich content for its advertisers, particularly on digital platforms.
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From Goodreads: In June of 1778, the world turns upside-down. The British army withdraws from Philadelphia, George Washington prepares to move from Valley Forge in pursuit, and Jamie Fraser comes back from the dead to discover that his best friend has married Jamie's wife. The ninth Earl of Ellesmere discovers to his horror that he is in fact the illegitimate son of the newly-resurrected Jamie Fraser (a rebel and a Scottish criminal!) and Jamie's nephew Ian Murray discovers that his new-found cousin has an eye for Ian's Quaker betrothed.
Meanwhile, Claire Fraser deals with an asthmatic duke, Benedict Arnold, and the fear that one of her husbands may have murdered the other. And in the 20th century, Jamie and Claire's daughter Brianna is thinking that things are probably easier in the 18th century: her son has been kidnapped, her husband has disappeared into the past, and she's facing a vicious criminal with nothing but a stapler in her hand. Fortunately, her daughter has a miniature cricket bat and her mother's pragmatism.
The best of historical fiction with a Moebius twist, WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART'S BLOOD weaves the fibers of a family's life through the tapestry of historical drama.
My Thoughts: I had a really hard time time with this book at first. I started reading it on the day it came out, made it through a 100 pages and had to put it down. For some reason, I just couldn't get into it. I waited a month and picked it up again and was immediately sucked in.
The story was CRAZY at times. There was so many different things going on and so many unexpected twists and turns that it was almost overwhelming. There were times where I had to put it down and take a deep breath. I think if I didn't feel so connected to the books, it wouldn't have bothered me so much. Things finally calmed down some in the second half of the book and as a whole the book was great. I liked how it didn't get bogged down in details like book 7 did.
Jamie and Claire are wonderful. Even though he is now kind of old, Jamie still can make swoon. His and Claire's relationship is as strong as ever in this book and their relationship is probably my favorite in all fiction. There were two extremely sad events that just made cry. I won't go into detail here because I don't want to spoil it but OMG. So many tears! I loved how the book ended; book 7 had such a huge cliffhanger so it was nice that this one didn't. There are a lot of questions left unanswered so I'm curious to see where she takes the story and the characters in the future.
This is a must read if you have read any of the Outlander series. 4 stars.


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NEWS: Blades sign prospect Randen Schmidt
The Saskatoon Blades have signed 2000 born defenseman, Randen Schmidt, to a standard player agreement this week.
A native of Regina, Schmidt is currently playing with his hometown Regina Pat Canadians of the Saskatchewan Midget AAA League. Through the first seven games of the season with Regina, Schmidt has posted 5 assists. Standing at 5'11" and 165lbs, Schmidt attended Blades camp on an invite basis this past Fall.
After playing forward most of his life, Schmidt made the transition to the backend last season making him a hybrid style defender. His natural offensive instincts give Randen an advantage, especially on the power play. In 2015, Schmidt represented Team Saskatchewan the Western Canada U16 Challenge Cup, posting 1 assist in 4 games.
"Randen is an intelligent, smooth skating and competitive defenseman who possesses a solid playmaking ability." explained Blades head scout, Dan Tencer. "He's shown an exciting development curve after switching to this position from forward less than a year ago. He's a high character young man, he puts in the work to get better and our scouting staff believes strongly in his upside and ability to contribute meaningfully to our team."
Schmidt is expected to remain with the Regina Pat Canadians for the immediate future.
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Hello and welcome! My name's Angela, I'm 31 years old and I'm about to start my journey to fix my smile!
I've searched all over the web for information about adult braces, and have come across some great websites with stories from a lot of inspiring people, but none of them are adult New Zealanders. I've decided to keep a track of my own progress not only for my own benefit, but to give other kiwis an idea of how things work in NZ. I don't discount those other peoples stories though, so please check them out! If you're thinking about getting braces, these stories really are inspirational and may give you the push you need.
About me:
To give you some background, my teeth have been slightly wonky my whole life. My parents were referred to an orthodontist when I was in my early teens and they suggested I get braces, however at that point it would have been too much of a financial struggle for them, and while they would have found the money if I wanted them, they never really bothered me so I decided against them. I got through the next few years very happily, making sure I tilted my head just right in photos so that the wonky tooth wouldn't show, and this served me well for years.
Unfortunately for me, my wisdom teeth started coming through about 8 years ago and because I didn't get them out, my wonky tooth turned into wonky teeth and the next thing I knew, my smile turned into the tangled mess it is today. About 6 years ago a friend of mine got braces. While his teeth looked great when they came off, he was in so much agony from the rubbing and movement, I was absolutely put off.
I've suffered from a terrible fear of dentists since I was around 11, the result of a school dental nurse who gave me fillings and pulled teeth without anesthetic (!?!?!) so while I've often thought of getting braces over the last 5 years, it really didn't take much to make me too terrified to even pick up the phone, and his experience was enough to do it!
Earlier this year I realised that if I didn't do something about my teeth now, I'd end up losing them down the line, as while I'm quite obsessive about dental hygiene (so that I don't need to go the dentist so much!) my upper and lower canines are now so turned in I find them really hard to brush properly. Also in the last couple of years my front teeth have started to cross, making it harder for me to hide the problem!
About 2 years ago, I was reading Fashion Q and saw an ad for a new product called Invisalign and became intrigued. In fact I went on about it so much that I inspired someone at work to go get them! Naturally however I became scared again, and for the third time in as many years, decided to put it off.
So the journey essentially started in February when I decided that I had to get over my phobia and do something about these darned teeth! First, I found a new dentist who specialises in anxious patients like myself and explained to her what my end goal was. The day after my dental check up, I had an appointment at an orthodontist to discuss the possibility of Invisalign. After meeting with the ortho, I started to get over my fears a little bit. He quoted me $8000 NZD for 2 years treatment, which would include a palate expander, then Invisalign, and finally up to 3 months braces to perfect the smile. This seemed all too good to be true, and I became extremely excited, so back to the dentist I went to get my current smile tidied up before I started treatment.
I had my amalgam fillings removed and replaced with composite (go me!), and then *gulp* finally had my wisdom teeth out! Naturally I happened to have a pretty bad set of wisdoms, with two of them right on nerves and one touching my sinus - but I got through it (go me again!!). While I was talking to my oral surgeon, I happened to mention to him that I was having this done so that I could eventually get braces. I repeated the orthodontists proposed treatment plan, which he listened to with great interest. After I finished, the OS asked me whether the ortho had advised me that I would need surgery in order to have a palate expander. Unfortunately he had not. The OS also advised me that $8000NZD seemed ridiculously expensive and he suggested I speak to another ortho for a second opinion. He gave me a stack of business cards he had and sent me out the door.
Three weeks ago I finally had my first appointment at second the ortho where he gave me a general idea of what to expect. The very first thing he said to me was.. "Well, unfortunately I don't feel you're a candidate for Invisalign. While you fit the description of someone who could be treated with it, I've done it too many times now, I can just tell straight away that they would not work well enough and you would not be happy with the results". His straightforward comments really gave me a lot of trust in him, especially as the Invisalign is the most expensive option. Instead, I'm going to be fitted with a combination of ceramic and metal braces.
Last Tuesday I had my records done and tomorrow I go back again to get my treatment plan! There's just one catch (and I knew this would happen) - it's looking pretty likely that I'll need to have all four second bicuspids out... I've worked through a lot of my dentist issues, so I guess this will be a good test of how far I've come.
So that's my story so far! Tomorrow I'll check back in with the treatment plan I'm given.
Check out my current smile below:
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The journey so far...
Hello and welcome! My name's Angela, I'm 31 years old and I'm about to start my journey to fix my smile!
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Bartlett, Arlington, Lakeland school districts oppose voucher bill
Editor's note: This opinion piece was provided on April 13 upon our request to the superintendents of education for Bartlett, Arlington and Lakeland's school districts.
The leadership of Arlington Community Schools, Bartlett City Schools, and Lakeland School System strongly oppose voucher bill SB 161/HB 126. The bill's proponents reason that the bill is needed to provide low-income students attending poor performing schools the ability to attend higher performing private schools. The fallacy in that reasoning is that low-income students attending poor performing schools are the least likely to take advantage of the vouchers due to issues such as transportation, convenience, and social issues. Hence, for every dollar that is removed from public schools, those public schools are forced to cut programs that are the most helpful to the students the proponents maintain will be helped by the bill. In addition to the ill effects that will be suffered by the students attending schools primarily within the City of Memphis, the bill will harm students attending the Shelby County municipal schools. Funding for municipal schools is based upon the total received from the county school system. Therefore, if the funding is cut from the county school system, the funding is likewise cut from the municipal schools.
The notion that the bill is limited just to Shelby County schools and/or to schools performing in the bottom 5 percent is another fallacy. In Arizona the same promises were made in 2011 when that state adopted a like bill that was to be limited in scope; however, just this week, the Arizona legislature expanded that bill to apply to every student in Arizona public schools by the year 2020.
We are also concerned about the lack of accountability required of private schools that would receive state funds under this proposal. We believe any private school receiving public funds should be held to the exact same standards for assessment, teacher evaluation, reporting, and accountability to which public schools in Tennessee are currently held.


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Tom Anton, left, with Vice Adm. William Gortney in Bahrain.
Anton's first barbecue about two decades ago was followed by several more – just one man's personal expressions of appreciation for the military's sacrifices.
But after the terrorists' attacks on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, Anton's barbecues evolved into a loosely-knit group of about 60 people, called the Cooks from the Valley, traveling like an invading army, barbecuing steaks by the thousands to weary sailors, soldiers and marines, some deployed to the most dangerous and isolated regions of the world.
To understand how a simple barbecue could become such a big deal, you have to go back to their beginnings, which make Anton laugh when he talks about them.
Anton says the closest he came to having a military experience was spending some time in a military school as a kid. The 65-year-old attorney was born and raised in landlocked Bakersfield, Calif. But he developed a fondness for the ocean, an interest in boats and a respect for the U.S. Navy. That led to Anton's involvement in the local Navy League chapter, as its legal advisor.
"The most complicated issue I dealt with was whether or not we could have beer at an event," recalled Anton during a recent interview. He admitted he was a bit bored by the assignment and pestered to go out on a ship. His pestering landed him with a ride on a ship bound for Seattle.
A Navy officer he met on that ship later became the executive officer of the USS Chandler, a guided missile destroyer. He invited Anton to ride the Chandler home to California from Hawaii. An avid barbecue chef, Anton decided to arrange a taste of valley cooking for the ship's crew.
Before he flew to Hawaii to board the Chandler, he called a prestigious restaurant on the island and ordered 400 of its best raw steaks. But he hadn't quite figured out how to get the steaks from the restaurant to the ship at Pearl Harbor.
"I tried to rent a car, but that wasn't big enough. I tried to get a van, and that didn't work out either," he recalled. The solution was to hire a limousine.
Anton crammed boxes of steaks into every inch of the limousine, as Rocky, the driver, fretted that the steaks would bleed out of the boxes and onto the plush upholstery. "I told them they wouldn't leak. Hell, I had no idea what would happen."
The ship's commander, Robert Natter, cleared Anton through the base gate. When the limousine pulled up next to the ship, a senior chief came down to inspect the meat. He ripped into a box, pulled out a slab of meat, and slammed it back into the box, declaring: "It's not good Navy steaks; it's too thick."
A stunned Anton held back his anger. When he looked up at the ship's bridge, he saw his friend, the executive officer, and Natter laughing at their joke.
Anton and his steaks set sail in a calm sea and beautiful weather. The barbecue was scheduled for the third day of the journey. By then "the weather had turned snotty," Anton recalled, describing the strong winds and high waves that rocked the ship.
He thought the crew was kidding when they told him he would have to cook the steaks on steel plates in the galley. Instead, he went onto the deck and began preparing the barbecue coals. It was only after he asked to have the ship turned away from the wind that he was ordered to the galley. Anton's first attempt at barbecuing at sea turned out to be a disappointing steak fry.
That was in 1980. The amicable, fast-talking Anton would not be discouraged. He finagled his way into staging more barbecues – one-man events, 400 to 500 steaks, on ships and bases, every year or two.
Then the terrorists attacked New York and the Pentagon in 2001.
The Chandler's young commander had moved up the ranks. He was now an admiral, overseeing Atlantic Fleet operations.
Anton called his old friend and asked to do a really big barbecue on board a Navy aircraft carrier.
The admiral's initial response: "What the [expletive]."
"I told him that he had no idea about the need for private citizens to do something for the military," Anton recalled. But the admiral was doubtful about the logistics of hauling more than 5,000 steaks out to a ship and barbecuing them.
After some convincing, Natter and other reluctant Navy brass cleared the way for Anton's barbecue aboard the USS John C. Stennis, as it sailed from Pearl Harbor to San Diego, just eight months after 9/11.
The 12-ounce steaks served to the Stennis crew came from Fresno County's Harris Ranch. Most of the 50-plus cooks that Anton recruited to help came from Bakersfield. This eclectic group of lawyers, judges and business people paid for the steaks themselves and sweat over barbecue coals to bring a taste of home to the kids fighting the "war on terror."
"We buy the steak, cook them and clean up," explained Anton. "Anyone can give money. This is something we can do for the military that is allowing us to live today like it was Sept. 10, 2001. They are keeping us safe."
Anton recalled that a young woman on the Stennis came up to the cooks, with tears in her eyes. She asked why they had done such a generous thing.
Anton admits that his response to the woman was a bit lame. But he gets emotional when he recalls what a Bakersfield businessman told her.
Ron Surgener was serving in Vietnam, when he was suddenly given orders to return home. Still in his military uniform, he arrived at the airport in San Francisco to jeers. He was stunned and hurt by the reception.
Surgener told the young woman that he made up his mind that he would never let that happen to any other soldier. Surgener and his son, Lester, have participated in many of the Cooks from the Valley barbecues.
Since Sept. 11, 2001, the Cooks have barbecued more than 70,000 thick, juicy Harris Ranch steaks for soldiers, sailors and marines. The barbecues have been held aboard ships, in military hospitals and on bases in high profile areas, such as the Persian Gulf and Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, as well as stateside. On Christmas Day 2007, four cooks, including Anton, traveled to a medical outpost in Iraq to barbecue steaks.
This month, Anton's Cooks from the Valley flew to the Persian Gulf with about 16,000 pounds of steaks. Volunteer cooks barbecued on July 4 for U.S. and coalition troops in four locations – at the Naval Support Activity and at Shaikh Isa Air Base, both in Bahrain; aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Nassau in the Persian Gulf, and at Camp Lemonier, a base in Djibouti, in the Horn of Africa, where troops stand watch over Somali pirates.
"The need continues," said Anton. "We are asking enormous sacrifices from these kids. We are creating 'old young people.' We have exposed these kids to things no one has seen, as these wars have dragged on and the U.S. has become the 911 responder for the world."
Anton explained the barbecues are able to come together because "I just happen to know a lot of guys who won't hang up on me when I call them and ask for help."
With her husband, John Hardisty, freelance writer Dianne Hardisty traveled with the Cooks from the Valley to Bahrain. She wrote about Tom Anton's barbecue quests for The Bakersfield Californian.


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Jason Osder has a childhood memory with which few of us can relate.
He was 11 years of age in 1985 when an entire Philadelphia, Pa., neighborhood erupted in flames. A black-separatist group called MOVE had engaged in a standoff with police. The long-standing feud between MOVE and the city's police department ended very badly for everyone as the neighborhood caught fire — and it burned to the ground.
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The event brought into serious question the city's use of force policy. It put the mayor on the hot seat. Hearings took place. Angry words were exchanged. The fallout from that event nearly three decades ago resonates today.
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Washington: This one is straight out of the Transformers franchise!
MIT researchers have developed a new tiny robot that is able to change its shape to almost anything, using magnets to mimic molecules that fold themselves into complex forms.
The research by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) could lead to robots that could be reconfigured to perform many different tasks.
However, experts said a lot of work was still needed.
The research was presented at the 2012 Intelligent Robots and Systems Conference.
"It`s effectively a one-dimensional robot that can be made in a continuous strip, without conventionally moving parts, and then folded into arbitrary shapes," said researcher, Neil Gershenfeld, head of MIT`s Center for Bits and Atoms.
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The magnetic fields of each magnet either add up or cancel each other, making the robot move.
The prototype comes a year after the same team published a theory it was possible to create any 3D shape by folding a sufficiently long string of subunits.
The little device is called a milli-motein, a name melding its millimetre-sized components and a motorised design inspired by proteins, which naturally fold themselves into incredibly complex shapes.
This minuscule robot may be a harbinger of future devices that could fold themselves up into almost any shape imaginable.


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Waltz With Bashir *****
Waltz With Bashir is a documentary of the Lebanese-Israeli conflict of the early 1980's (specifically, the massacres of Sabra and Shatila). Its title refers to the dance of Frenkel, an officer, as he falls into a trance whilst shooting through a hail of gunfire at a contested crossroad. Bashir, whose assassination subsequently fuels the massacres committed by his followers, looks on from enormous posters and murals. As do the crowds who occupy the tower blocks that bear his image – "as if they were watching a movie". The Lebanese enemy, unseen, fires both at the entrenched protagonist, Frenkel, and a third figure. Celebrated war correspondent Ben-Yishai strides through the scene, as if "invincible", his cameraman cowering before him. This scene is constructed in animation and spoken recollection. All three men recall the event, but in different aspects. Shards of their subjective memories are reconstituted on screen. This is not a reconstruction, but it is a truthful imagining of an event which cannot be reconstructed – because it cannot be known other than through the imaginations of its participants. The scene is constructed as a truthful account, and a metaphor for the film. Participants in these events are also waltzing, and the audience watches from the balconies. The enemy remain silent (their bullets and "fizzing" rockets excepted) until their screams at the film's conclusion.
Silence is, unfortunately, little used in the film. To me, this is why it arouses only one deeply affective aesthetic experience. Sound is used more sparingly in the film's first half. So when we enter Folman's hallucination, its exquisite score in strings, coupled with moving imagery and oneiric quality, trigger an eruption of emotion and amidst the tears, an acute sensual perception. When we see the suffering of the Arabic horses, the horror of the slaughterhouse, the beauty of the film's animation before we become immune to it, no such experience emerges, for the lack of appropriate aural stimulus. It is perhaps my personal loss that images or sound can almost never excite apart as they do together.
After we hear the wailing of the bereaved, out of which follows deathly quiet, it is the complete aesthetic poverty of the horrific images of the mourning and dead which inhibits aesthetic experience. Such an experience is almost aroused by these aural qualities when coupled first with animated images of those mourners, and then thrust upon by the turn to film 'of the world'. Yet this first shock does not afford the satisfaction of a true aesthetic experience. It is essential, nevertheless, to show real footage of the central event which, though not experienced by the film's protagonist, has involved him inadvertently, and which haunts his dreams. Only Ben-Yishai saw first hand what Folman's dream describes. It is plausible that the dream was inspired by this very footage, taken by Ben-Yishai's crew and seen by Folman, his subconscious connecting it to his perceived role in the massacre. This point takes precedence over aesthetic experience, and in any case images, if not sounds, are wholly beautiful throughout the film. This beauty is temporally contextual, however, and it remains to be seen what remains when the novelty of rotoscopic and computer-generated animation subsides. And in some cases, the images are not primarily aesthetic, but stylistic. The Israeli soldier plays guitar on his rifle, as various weapons unload and pieces of violence unfold in time to the music; a macabre montage representing political statement and recalling imagery of war films past, visually arresting but not beautified.
The film privileges neither memory nor fantasy in the construction of events, and memory itself is understood as "dynamic". The stance that reality and fantasy are equally important to human experience, that truth lies in the subjective experience between the two, and that historical fact is constituted in collective subjective experience, is articulated in both the film's form and content. Waltz With Bashir is a film of the world, the cells of which have been shaded to create a world in itself, like that of a painting – and then interlaced with moving images from the computer-generated plain of Flash animation, itself inadvertently of the world. The distance between these worlds collapses in an instant by the turn to film of the world, and this collision has a violent affect for the audience. The footage is what forces recognition that the subjective experiences which precede it, which could only be expressed through such animation (a world, not of the world), were as much an expression of reality as the footage itself, and that a true account presents both, tied together inextricably. The footage is both what connects the subjective experiences of Folman (in his dream) and Ben-Yishai (in his memory) [aside from their connection through Folman's interviewing him to reconstruct his memory, in film and in mind], what connects subjective experiences to events and the objective world, and what connects the film's world to our world (more apparently than the ever-present rotoscopic images). Thus, subjective experiences are represented (in a manner acknowledging their validity as an expression of reality) by these filming and animation techniques; they are connected together by their editing into a narrative and presentation as a film, but also by shared experience and by footage of the world which represents one's dream and another's memory; and the result is as true an historical account as can be articulated.
It is in this last point that the use of film of the world constitutes a weakness – it is not instrumental to the connection of the subjective experience with reality (the animation is based on footage of the world, and the accounts are testimonial from the world); it is not the only, or the strongest, thing which ties together the subjective experiences; it is not required to provide a historically factual account, or present the truth of events. A true account need not present both footage and subjective experience, and they are not inextricable. Perhaps the footage needs to be present to make it obvious that it could justifiably be absent, given that it is no more true than the subjective experience, and its objectivity in recollection is alien to our human subjectivity (though the cameraman is showing us his subjective experience as it was then, it is recalled without distortion, as though we are looking through the lens then – an objective recollection, of a subjective experience). Truth lies in an a collective subjective recollection of subjective experience as much as in an objective recollection of subjective experience – this point is perhaps diluted by the insertion of real footage. But it can't be faulted, if neither is more important. And the shock of the turn certainly does it for some people. In any case, this is how that stance is manifest in the film's form and content.
There is much, much more to be said about the philosophy (phenomenology, epistemology, ontology) at work in Waltz With Bashir, but of course, even more about its politics. I'll leave all that to someone better equipped! Suffice it to say, this is one of the most remarkable films of this decade.
Waltz With Bashir, Dir. & Writ. Ari Folman, Bridgit Folman Film Gang, Israel, 2008