![]() The course uses a multidisciplinary approach to address speeding problems in states and local communities. To promote this strategy, NHTSA delivers a Speed Management Program course to state and local jurisdictions. Soliciting the cooperation, support, and leadership of traffic safety stakeholders.Effectively marketing communication and educational messages that focus on high-risk drivers.Applying enforcement efforts and appropriate technology that effectively target crash-producing speeders and deter speeding.Setting speed limits that are safe and reasonable.Applying road design and engineering measures to obtain appropriate speeds.Defining the relationship between speed, speeding, and safety.NHTSA works with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and the Federal Highway Administration to provide the roadmap, tools, guidance, and resources for state and local governments to use in designing and applying a balanced and effective speed management program. If it seems that there are more cases of rude and outrageous behavior on the road now than in the past, the observation is correct-if for no other reason than there are more drivers driving more miles on the same roads than ever before. Occasional episodes of aggressive driving–such as speeding and changing lanes abruptly–might occur in response to specific situations, like when the driver is late for an important appointment, but is not the driver’s normal behavior. For others, episodes of aggressive driving are frequent, and for a small proportion of motorists it is their usual driving behavior. Most motorists rarely drive aggressively, and some never do. This can lead to some people feeling less constrained in their behavior when they cannot be seen by others and/or when it is unlikely that they will ever again see those who witness their behavior. Shielded from the outside environment, a driver can develop a sense of detachment, as if an observer of their surroundings, rather than a participant. Some people drive aggressively because they have too much to do and are “running late” for work, school, their next meeting, lesson, soccer game, or other appointment.Ī motor vehicle insulates the driver from the world. Drivers may respond by using aggressive driving behaviors, including speeding, changing lanes frequently, or becoming angry at anyone who they believe impedes their progress. Traffic congestion is one of the most frequently mentioned contributing factors to aggressive driving, such as speeding. Several factors have contributed to an overall rise in aggressive driving: Speeding is a type of aggressive driving behavior.
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![]() An estimated 20 million Americans gained coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as of early 2016, 12.7 million of whom enrolled as individuals through the insurance marketplace ( source) ( source).The new care models will now be tested and refined by our fellows in partnership with health care systems across the United States, including Stanford.ĬERC is the first effort by a major research university to solve a problem of global concern, one that is especially huge here in the United States-health care that's unquestionably valuable but unaffordable to a growing percentage of citizens. In the past year, CERC has developed such care models for poor prognosis cancer care, chronic kidney disease, morbid obesity and colorectal cancer screening. Stanford's Clinical Excellence Research Center brings together experts in the fields of medicine, business and engineering to create new care delivery models that will substantially lower per capita health spending without impairing, and while frequently improving, the patient's health care experience. What role does the Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC) play in health care reform? Thus, a hospital-surgeon dyad requiring higher payment but whose patients suffered many fewer costly post-discharge complications was often disadvantaged in some forms of managed care. Managed care frequently attempted to squeeze down unit prices and service volume without consideration for quality distinctions or low total health spending. The Medicare payment structure under the Affordable Care Act is designed to better reward clinicians and hospitals that achieve the best possible measurable quality of care and patient experience for the lowest total spending. Doctors and hospitals that generate very high average total spending per patient per year or per episode of hospital treatment are less likely to be included in insurance plans that avoid the Cadillac tax. To be able to offer excise tax-free plans without cutting the plan's benefits, insurers will become more selective in selecting their provider networks. ![]() Patients covered under private insurance plans will begin to migrate into health plans that do not expose them to this tax. Starting in 2018, individuals who enroll in a health plan that exceeds a formula-based total cost per year will pay a 40 percent tax on the excess amount. As before, consideration will be given for hospitals providing GME, research and services to disproportionately high shares of uninsured and Medicaid patients.Īs 2018 approaches, physicians will begin to feel a different method of rewarding cost-effective practice from private payers when the "Cadillac tax" provision of the Affordable Care Act comes into play. Doctors and hospitals that are more cost effective will gradually receive higher payment by Medicare. How much Medicare pays will be closely tied to their quality-of-care scores and the total cost of the resources consumed by patients whose care they heavily influenced. What changes will physicians begin to feel?ĭoctors who treat more Medicare patients will feel these changes the most. Doctors who achieve the best outcomes with the lowest total insurer and patient spending – including spending for services such as hospitalization and drugs – will be paid more favorably than other physicians. It will gradually shift incentives and payments away from rewarding volume of services to rewarding value. How will Medicare payment change for physicians? Its primary beneficiaries are non-affluent Americans who previously made too much money to qualify for Medicaid, but didn't earn enough to afford health insurance coverage. It gives non-affluent Americans a means of affording health insurance, and it sets into motion changes in how physicians and hospitals are paid by Medicare. The ACA was created for two primary purposes. ![]() What is the purpose of the Affordable Care Act? We sat down with Arnold Milstein, MD, MPH, who has been at the forefront of federal health policy changes over the past 15 years, to understand how physicians at Stanford will be affected in the years to come. But now that the Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of the health care reform law, what does it mean for the physicians and hospitals charged with delivering medical care under this new payment system? The Affordable Care Act has given them exactly that. There is nothing the news media like more than an ugly bipartisan debate. ![]() But it really only determines how good your vision is in a very static way. Using the letter chart is one way, and the simplest way of assessing a person’s quality of vision. Well on a day to day basis it may not be as important as we think it is. Just like America is one of the only nations still using Fahrenheit rather than degrees Celsius to record temperature.Ī standard Snellen vision testing chart with measurements from 6 meters and 20 feet. 20/20 and 6/6 represent the same sized letters, they just use different measuring systems to document the results.Īmerica hasn’t switched to the metric system, so it still uses charts based on feet, rather than on meters. So instead of the chart being 20 feet away, the chart is 6 metres away. In most other nations, like New Zealand and Australia, we use the metric system for recording distances. American or British?Ģ0/20 is actually an American measurement. Or at 20 feet they can see something that someone with normal vision can only see if they move closer to the chart, 10 feet. Someone with 20/10 vision, means that on the standard letter chart they can see three lines of letters smaller than someone with normal vision. ![]() There are quite a few people who can see better than 20/20, and their vision might be documented as 20/10. Someone whose vision is worse than “normal” may have their vision documented as 20/30, meaning at 20 feet they can identify letters that someone with normal vision would see at 30 feet. So if your eye care practitioner says you have 20/20 vision, it means at a distance of 20 feet, you can accurately identify the same sized letters as someone with “normal” vision. Visual acuity is the clarity or sharpness of vision when measured on a standard letter chart. People use the term 20/20 vision a lot, and they tend to think it means “perfect vision”, but it actually means “normal visual acuity”. But what does it mean to have 20/20 vision? The year is 2020, there are vision related puns and memes all over the internet. To stay up to date on the WW tour plus all things Oprah, sign up for our newsletter. All of the work can be done individually at your seat.Īnything you're comfortable in! There's some movement / dancing that you can join in on from your seat (or not!) so we suggest whatever will feel good during an engaging day. Do we have to split into groups to participate? I hear there's a workbook plus some activities. There are some pretty irresistible photo booth installations set up-all perfect for Instagram. The lunch break lasts approximately one hour and you are free to roam, use the bathroom, take selfies, and relax. Is there a break for lunch, or do we eat at our seats?įor sure! Oprah will cue all guests inside the arena to head on over and pick up food before the momentum continues in the afternoon. In addition to an entire day spent with Lady O, your ticket will also include a voucher for lunch-there is a vegetarian option-plus a tote bag filled with goodies. That said, it's a live show, so plan accordingly in case of last-minute delays. And, more of your frequently asked questions, answered: And if you want a play-by-play of what the day is really like, check out Senior Editor Jonathan Borge's recap here. ![]() Lauderdale stop-and her reaction was so good it went viral. Hilariously, one woman got a chance to meet Oprah at the Ft. ![]() Great question! We've got you covered by simply clicking this link, where you'll find the latest news about Oprah's interviews with superstars like Lady Gaga, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Amy Schumer, and Tina Fey. ![]() (Vidcutter is a 175 MB download on Windows.) This strikes most of us as "poorly engineered", which for some is already enough of a reason not to use something. Windows users expect to have everything packaged as one gigantic binary with all the dependencies. I think, in fairness, that a lot of the anti-Electron criticism comes from Linux users like myself. For people who edit videos every day it's obviously not an issue, but I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of people who use tools like this don't use them every day. I can't afford for them to be Electron based on my 128 GB SSD. The thing is, I have dozens or hundreds of tiny little utilities like this installed that make one-off tasks that I do once a month or so much easier. After installation it takes 14 MB on my Linux distribution (it's a 4 MB download). Elsewhere in this thread I mentioned that I use vidcutter, a free and open source tool that does the same basic task. ![]() I'm a person who occasionally edits videos. ![]() I get this perspective from the developer point of view, but I'm not a video editor. Storage is cheap, and what is 500mb when working with 4K video anyways, so optimising for size is mostly a waste of time > It lets you easily build a cross-OS app on a super optimised, stable and secure platform. Storage is cheap, and what is 500mb when working with 4K video anyways, so optimising for size is mostly a waste of time and doesn't really benefit 99% of users. I think if you compare it to most other lossy video editors, you'll find that the CPU usage is much lower (especially per minute of produced video!), and the memory footprint is probably lower than many other popular video editors. CI, automatic building and releasing to all different kinds of channels is a breeze due to tools like `electron-builder`. I don't think I ever had the LosslessCut app actually crash on me. The web has all the big tech pushing new features and improvements all the time and it maintains really good backwards compatibility. It gives you all the features of the web, and it "just works" on almost any popular OS. It lets you easily build a cross-OS app on a super optimised, stable and secure platform that's being battle tested by billions of people around the world every day (Chromium). Somewhat unpopular opinion, but here goes: Developing an app using Electron gives such tremendous benefits that it far outweighs any downsides. I think the most common criticism is that the app is large and uses a lot of memory (compared to Notepad?:P) due to it being Electron based. I just discovered this post, and I'm really happy to see a lot of satisfied long time users as well as excited new users who recently discovered this. ![]() The JPG file size has nothing to do with it.Ī D300 has a 12 megapixel sensor with pixel dimensions of 4288 X 2848. You are limited by the D300's resolution. The BookWright application always gives me warning signals that my landscape format JPEG files, the largest of which are about 12MB won't print at high quality for a full bleed double page size - that is about 26" by 22" when the book is open.īetter yet, which processing app will give me the ability to choose the size of the various kinds of files I want to make from my RAW files? The BookWright software says it won't use image files larger than 15 MB so I assume that size will be big enough for the full bleed double page layout. Or, what size RAW files do I need to start with to be able to convert to JPEG files of at least a 15 MB size?īetter yet, which processing app will give me the ability to choose the size of the various kinds of files I want to make from my RAW files? Will larger JPEG files solve this problem? If so, how can I make larger JPEG files from my RAW files? What app/software will do that for me? The BookWright application always gives me warning signals that my landscape format JPEG files, the largest of which are about 12MB won't print at high quality for a full bleed double page size - that is about 26" by 22" when the book is open. The BookWright software says it won't use image files larger than 15 MB so I assume that size will be big enough for the full bleed double page layout. My JPEG files, generated by iPhoto '08, are about 5 megabytes up to about 12 MB. ![]() I'm finding, as I make my first photobook (using Blurb's BookWright), that the JPEG files created in iPhoto '08's Export window, from my Nikon D300 RAW files, are not large enough to allow me to choose full bleed double page spreads for 13" by 11" size pages. ![]() As such, mitigating the effect of motion sickness is particularly important for the widespread adoption of autonomous vehicles. This is because passengers are less able to anticipate - and therefore compensate - for the motion of a vehicle. For many people, motion sickness is aggravated when they’re riding as a passenger versus operating the vehicle as a driver. Subbiah spent an entire summer working at MCity on a project addressing motion sickness in autonomous vehicles. “I was looking at the work happening with MCity and Michigan’s partnership with Ford, and I was very inspired.” Subbiah (center) and friends form a human ‘ECE’ during an ECE social event. “I chose Michigan, because I liked the research that was happening,” Subbiah said. She decided to pursue a master’s degree so she could develop her skills and gain experience in autonomous applications. While Subbiah enjoyed her time at the ISRO, she was becoming more and more interested in autonomous cars and vehicles. She worked on the realization and operation of checks for electrical, power, and control systems for rocket subassemblies. This type of engineering - designing equipment and systems to perform desired behaviors/functions - is known as “Control Systems.” Subbiah then followed her grandfather’s path and joined the ISRO as a control systems engineer. Swetha Sakunthala Subbiah, ECE Master’s student I want to make machines do what we can do. I want to make machines do what we can do.” “The fact that I could make a computer think like a human and play a game with you - it blew my mind,” she said. For one of her class projects, she was tasked with making a computer game similar to Battleship, and everything clicked into place. Subbiah’s passion for the space industry brought her to the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, where she earned her Bachelor of Technology degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. “That really sparked my interest to learn more about all of this.” “He was always talking about the satellites and the rockets and the launch vehicles,” she said. Her grandfather worked for the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), and he’d bring her pictures and miniature rocket models. For ECE Master’s student Swetha Sakunthala Subbiah, designing advanced transportation is a family tradition. ![]() Test takers who are married, or have reached the age of 18 do not need a parent or Guardian present,but must present the required ID before taking the test. ![]() Secondary ID - SS card or know the number, State ID number, Green card number or I-94 number.Photo ID - Valid passport, Alien registration card (green card), school ID.Campbell City Office: 4730 South Orange Blossom Trail Kissimmee, FL 34746. Use the Florida Safety Council testing vehicle, which is included in our testing price. Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway Kissimmee, FL 34744.(You may not test with any other out of state license or a permit application from teh Tax Collector's office) ![]()
![]() Raihan owns a Goodra, which first appeared in Stealth!! Infiltrate the Energy Plant. In PS604, Zinnia used a Goodra during her raids on Sea Mauville and the Mossdeep Space Center. In PS600, a Goodra was seen as a silhouette during Steven's explanation about the Draconid people. Goodra in Pokémon Adventures Pokémon - The Legend of the Dragon King In Hisui, Goodra has a regional form that evolves from Hisuian Sliggoo and is the final form of Goomy in the Hisui region. Goodra evolves from Sliggoo and is the final form of Goomy. Hisuian Goodra and its pre-evolved forms are the only known Pokémon capable of learning the move Shelter. Hisuian Goodra has a clingy disposition and hates being alone it will become angry and run riot if its closest companions leave its side. From its chin and arms drips a metallic gray slime. It has fewer gray spots than Kalosian Goodra, with one on each side of its cheek and two on each side of its shell. It can control the hardness of its shell at will. It sports a large, spiral-shaped metallic shell on its back, which it can tuck its body into to protect itself, leaving only its head outside of the shell to observe its surroundings. Hisuian Goodra has droopy, gray eyes and horns that are longer and thinner than Kalosian Goodra's horns. Goodra lives in plains and mountains, usually during rainy days. Its slimy coating in combination with a layer of fat causes attacks to slide off. ![]() It is also capable of throwing punches with incredible force. The horns can hit 100 times harder than the blow of a heavyweight boxer. Goodra can become uncontrollable once enraged. However, it will strike at its tormentors with its retractable horns and powerful tail. Despite this, many Trainers don't mind it, instead finding this behavior to be adorable. Goodra usually misunderstands instructions, appearing dazed or bewildered. If it is left alone, it will ooze gooey tears. When it grows close to someone, it will hug them and leave them coated in slime. It is known for having a great affinity for water, being able to live within water with no difficulty at all, as well as dive and surf all around the area.īecause of its meek, friendly nature, Goodra is often teased for supposed weakness. A pale green slime is usually visible dripping from its chin and arms. Along each side of its tail are three green spots. It has proportionally short limbs with two digits each and a large, thick tail with a curled tip. The tips of the larger horns are slightly curled. The foremost horns are small nubs, but the hind horns are longer, thicker, and curve down its neck. On top of its head are two pairs of antenna-like horns. ![]() It has bright green eyes, two green spots on each cheek, a relatively long neck, and a short, rounded snout. Most of its body is pale purple with a darker purple underside. ![]() Goodra is a bipedal, draconic Pokémon that is coated with slime. 3.1 Pokémon - The Legend of the Dragon King.Refer to Game data→Evolution data for these details.) It is the final form of Goomy in the Hisui region. It evolves from Hisuian Sliggoo starting at level 50 during rain or fog in the overworld. In Hisui, Goodra has a dual-type Steel/ Dragon regional form. It evolves from Sliggoo starting at level 50 when leveled up during rain or fog in the overworld. Goodra ( Japanese: ヌメルゴン Numelgon) is a Dragon-type pseudo-legendary Pokémon introduced in Generation VI. Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl. After graduating from high school in 1987, she attended Rutgers University, where she lived on campus and was active in clubs and activities. Salas attended Emerson High School in Union City, where her extracurricular activities included cheerleading. Growing up indigent, Salas recalls having to translate for her mother at the welfare office, and later helping friends with various problems facing their lives, an activity that led to her pursuit of a career focusing on human services. Though she lost contact with her father when she moved from the West Coast, she would later reconnect with him during the course of the background check she underwent upon being appointed a federal judge. At the age of five, she, her mother, Aurelia Salas, along with her siblings, moved to Union City, New Jersey. Her father is Jewish and her mother is Catholic. Salas is from Monterey Park, California, and is the daughter of a Cuban mother and a Jewish-Mexican father. Salas is the first Hispanic woman to serve as a United States magistrate judge and as a United States District Judge in the District of New Jersey. She previously served as a United States magistrate judge of the same court from 2006 until her confirmation as a district judge in 2011. Alabama, which prohibited the execution of an inmate who could not understand their death sentence due to dementia or psychosis.Esther Salas (born December 29, 1968) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey sitting in Newark, New Jersey. Kagan in 2019 wrote the 5-3 majority opinion in Madison v. What is one of Kagan's most significant opinions? ![]() Hawaii after the conservative majority voted to uphold Trump’s travel ban on majority-Muslim countries. In 2018, Kagan joined the dissenting liberal justices in Trump v. Kagan voted in 2015 to deem state laws that ban same-sex marriage unconstitutional in Obergefell v. What major cases has Elena Kagan decided? She also served in various roles in the Clinton administration from 1995 to 1999. She was the first woman to serve in both positions. She became dean of Harvard Law School in 2003, before leaving the position in 2009 to become solicitor general under Obama. Kagan is the only current justice on the Supreme court to not have prior experience as a judge. When Associate Justice Stephen Breyer retires, she will be the only Jewish member of the Catholic-majority court. Is Elena Kagan Jewish?Įlena Kagan is the second Jewish woman to serve on the Supreme Court after the late Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Kagan’s 5-foot 3-inch stature earned her the nickname of "Shorty" from the late Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall, for whom she clerked. She has two brothers, Marc and Irving Kagan. Kagan has never been married and she does not have children. Kagan is registered as a Democrat in Washington D.C., according to the judicial watchdog group Fix The Court. By the end of 2022, she will have been a justice for 12 years. Kagan began her service on the court in 2010. How long has Elena Kagan been a Supreme Court Justice? ![]() ![]() She got her law degree from Harvard Law School in 1986 after earning a masters degree in philosophy from Oxford University in 1983. Kagan earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Princeton University in 1981. In the 2020 term, she sided with liberal Associate Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer 87% of the time and 90% of the time, respectively, according to the Harvard Law Review. Kagan rules overwhelmingly with her liberal colleagues. She is often viewed as more willing to seek a compromise than some of her colleagues. Kagan was appointed by a Democratic president and is considered part of the court's liberal wing. Kagan replaced Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, nominated to the court by Republican President Gerald Ford in 1975. She was confirmed by the Senate in August 2010. Obama nominated Kagan to the Supreme Court in May 2010. The office is so closely intertwined with the high court that the solicitor general is sometimes referred to as the "10th justice." How old is Elena Kagan?Įlena Kagan was born on April 28, 1960, in New York City. Prior to her nomination, Kagan was the solicitor general, the top Justice Department lawyer representing the federal government at the Supreme Court. ![]() Kagan is the 112th justice to serve on the Supreme Court.
![]() Based on current information, PGE estimates a PSPS could be called on Friday morning, and power could be out through Saturday night. After weather conditions return to normal, PGE will begin to visually inspect its equipment and make any repairs necessary to safely re-energize lines. If PGE calls a PSPS in these areas, PGE will shut off power as long as necessary to protect against the risk of fire. PGE encourages everyone who may be impacted by a PSPS or a weather-related outage to make an emergency plan and prepare an outage kit using the preparedness information that PGE sent to customers and that is also available on PGE’s website. Customers in these areas should check /psps to confirm if their power may be impacted. The 10 PSPS areas are shown in the map below. We are preparing to have crews at the ready to begin repairing damage as soon as conditions are safe.” “However, we are expecting extreme winds that could cause outages outside of our PSPS areas. “PGE works year-round to help keep our system safe and resilient from wildfire, including managing over 2.2 million trees along 12,000 miles of power lines,” said Larry Bekkedahl, senior vice president of Advanced Energy Delivery, PGE. ![]() Weather forecasts indicate strong, gusty winds are predicted across PGE’s service area, starting as early as Friday morning. If conditions persist, PGE aims to provide up to four hours of notice before turning off power. PGE will continue to monitor conditions for the next 24-48 hours and will provide an update. PGE is actively monitoring conditions and will make the decision based on factors including wind speed, temperature, humidity and the dryness of trees and brush, field observations and information from local fire departments and agencies. A PSPS is when PGE turns off power in a limited, high-risk area to help reduce the risk of wildfire and to help protect people, property and the environment. 7, 2022 -Portland General Electric announced that it is monitoring dangerous, high-risk fire conditions and is increasingly likely to call a Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) in 10 areas that are at a higher fire risk, affecting approximately 30,000 customer meters. |