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DNH 2021 · 28/12/2021 Opposition to introduce European minimum wage in Hungary corruption Democratic Coalition Dialogue for Hungary (Párbeszéd Magyarországért) European Union Hungarian economy Hungary Jobbik Representatives of the united opposition, should they win the general election next spring, have pledged to make the personal income tax system fairer and to combat corruption. They also vowed to introduce a European minimum wage as well as measures promoting a level playing field for entrepreneurs. At a press conference on Tuesday, Márton Ilyés of Momentum said personal income tax brackets would not be hiked but the system could be made fairer by easing taxes for low earners, adding that taxes on the minimum wage were high in Hungary compared with other European Union member states. Also, the opposition plans measures to narrow the gap between underdeveloped regions and more advanced ones, he said. László Varjú, a deputy leader of the Democratic Coalition, said business interests linked to the ruling Fidesz party had become rich at the expense of hard-working earners who were struggling to make ends meet. The government's wage policy was "a mere band aid", and changes were possible only if a European minimum wage, binding on all governments, were enacted, he said. Jobbik deputy leader Dániel Z. Kárpát said that despite the government's policy of keeping Hungarian wages relatively low to make Hungarian labour competitive, minimum and average wages should be raised to be "closer to an acceptable European average". Police officers, fire fighters, and health-care employees need to paid better in the hope of retaining their services, he added. Read also: This is why the government postponed to buy Budapest Airport Párbeszéd deputy group leader Bence Tordai vowed to "rid the Hungarian economy of corruption" and to make public procurement "transparent and fair". Doing so would make the price of services and goods purchased through that system cheaper, he insisted. Tordai pledged to scrap the law on strategic government investment projects and to review projects already completed. The opposition wants Hungary to join the European Public Prosecutor and to set up a national anti-corruption agency, An opposition government would review the assets of politicians through a new asset declaration system designed to show "how the wealth of decision makers has grown", Tordai said. In response, the deputy group leader of Fidesz said the opposition planned to scrap the minimum wage wholesale. In a video, László Böröcz quoted Péter Márki-Zay, the prime ministerial candidate of the opposition alliance, as saying there was no need for a minimum wage at all. The Fidesz official said Marki-Zay had argued that the minimum wage carried "many disadvantages". Böröcz said the minimum wage, however, meant employees were not exposed to the aggressive low-wage practices of multinationals, and he accused Márki-Zay if being "on the side of multinationals" instead of Hungarian employees. "Conversely, Fidesz is on the side of Hungarians, which is why we have raised the minimum wage to 200,000 forints (EUR 540), three times the amount it was last time round when there was left-wing government." Read alsoBreaking news! Croatia top court affirms prison sentence for MOL chief Hernádi – UPDATE Source: MTI DNH 2021 Hungary thinks Trump's Middle East policy was the best French EC presidency using double standards, political blackmail? Will we ever see clear in Budapest's City Hall scandal? Hungary marks memorial day of deportation of ethnic Germans

The only way that this would work is if people were silly enough to singup with a service like this. seriously, would you setup to a service who did this? there are plenty of well known companies out there doing VoIP and PLENTY of free applications which people use. SKYPE being just one. yes, this could happen. but so can they get it just as easily by going through your trash or calling you on your mobile pretending to be someone from your bank. its called social engineering; because it relies on the victim falling for whatever the 'hacker' is doing.

Submitted by Mike Durek of The Use. You can see a report from the recent performance by The Use at the Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco. Posted on May 6, 2013 May 6, 2013 by catsynth This entry was posted in Cats, Synthesizers and tagged analog, black cat, cat, michael durek, midnight monday, moog, Synthesizers, the use. Bookmark the permalink. Well kitty, what are you going to borrow it for? Do you have an upcoming show ? Clicked the link of the performance at the Luggage Store Gallery. Aha! You can't have thumbs and work this; you need a cat snoopervisor! LOL nice! Thanks Amar, and thanks all. I let her smell it and she hasn't been in the studio since. It is kinda pricey after all. Can't have any hairballs on a borrowed Voyager.

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The airport in Warsaw has been recently expanding and actually looks quite nice now compared to what it looked like a couple of years ago. I took an Uber from my hotel to the airport and it cost ~$6 USD, which was super cheap and generally taxis don't cost a lot of money in Poland and therefore the ~25 minute ride was super cheap. LOT recently opened a special premium check-in area for Star Gold, Business, and First class passengers, however the area is nothing special and just consists of a normal check-in area surrounded by a fancy wooden 'fence' with an agent guarding the entrance. I had to show him my Senator card before he let me in. Check-in was super simple and I was informed that there had been an aircraft change from an ancient B737 to a newer E195, so technically the equipment was 'upgraded'. Next to the premium check-in area is a Star Gold fast track security area, which didn't have any queues and therefore I cleared security in less than ten seconds and made my way over to LOT's only Business Lounge, Polonez. The lounge feels super small since there is a ton of unnecessary furniture everywhere that blocks certain areas. There is however plenty of seating areas such as regular chairs and couches. The food spread consisted of chocolate, cookies, heated snacks, finger sandwiches, soup, salads, etc. The food selection was actually quite nice, there was also various types of alcoholic beverages. Overall, the LOT Polish Airlines Business Lounge Polonez in Warsaw is a comfortable place to relax and have some snacks. There is also a fake waterfall on one side of the wall, although I think it distracts much more than it actually calms you down. There is also a special Elite Club Lounge inside of this lounge which is accessible to Star Gold members, a review of that one is up next!

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Courtney A. Hoffman Ph.D., English "The Disappointment" – Annotations by William Chen Addison on the Dissection of a Beau's Brain: Annotations and Analysis by Audrey Cossin Mash-Up Videos: 18th-Century Text with 21st-Century Video Memes and Poster Design Magical Texts Fantastic Beasts Multimodal Essays Please click on the links below to access the syllabus for the course listed: The Age of Letters: Epistolarity in the Eighteenth Century The epistolary is often regarded as an eighteenth-century phenomenon. Rachael Scarborough King recently argued that letters function as what she calls a "bridge genre," creating connections between forms, as well as functioning as a nascent genre from which others grew. Novels, poetry, newspaper articles, pamphlets all were composed in the letter form. Ordinary people wrote to each other about history and nature, business and religion, personal triumph and tragedy, love and politics. With literacy and global expansionism on the rise, more and more of the population in Britain and around the world began to participate in a culture of epistolary exchange that spread ideas spanning mountain ranges and oceans. The eighteenth century was an age of letters as communication, as well as of lettered people. This course will explore eighteenth-century epistolarity through its many genres: fictional, actual, poetic, political, and cultural. Engaging with eighteenth-century letter texts, students will analyze and discuss the methods by which letters were exchanged, how fiction explored epistolary culture, where letters served as devices to promote conversation, how letter-writing permeated eighteenth-century society, how ideas about consciousness and the self could be portrayed through letters, and how letter writing persists in twenty-first century communication, even if we do not realize it. Using the Writing and Communication Program's WOVEN curriculum, students will analyze and replicate letters in the projects they complete for the course, which may consist of textual annotation and analysis, video design and creation, map-making, and blog post composition. These projects will require individual or collaborative work, depending on the assignment, and students can expect to present their ideas to the class, both formally and informally. Our Literary Mothers: British Women Writers in the Eighteenth Century In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf suggests that women writers should lay flowers on the grave of Aphra Behn, in tribute to Behn's position as the trailblazing woman who supported herself by her writing. Since Woolf's acknowledgement of Behn's contributions opening up the intellectual, financial, and literary worlds to women, many other women writers of the eighteenth century have been touted as putting cracks in the canon: Anne Finch, Frances Burney, Charlotte Smith, Elizabeth Montagu, Mary Wortley Montagu, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Mary Shelley are only a few of the women whose writing changed their world and the world of literature in the period. This course will explore eighteenth-century writing by women in conjunction with the texts these women inspired, reacted to, and revised, placing examples of the period's literature in conversation with each other. Though we will be reading texts by and about men, women, and non-binary individuals, our focus will be on how women writers negotiated their place within the culture of the long eighteenth-century. Using the Writing and Communication Program's WOVEN curriculum, we will explore multiple genres of communication including drama, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, editing, and discussion. Students will analyze and replicate these styles of communication in the projects they complete for the course, which may consist of textual annotation and analysis, video design and creation, map-making, and blog post composition. These projects will require individual or collaborative work, depending on the assignment, and students can expect to present their ideas to the class, both formally and informally. Birthday Suits: Materiality of the Body in the Eighteenth Century and Today In Samuel Richardson's 1740 novel Pamela, a character mentions needing a "birthday suit," by which he means a new suit of clothing to wear when attending events celebrating the King's birthday. Yet, in today's parlance, the term has come to signify nakedness, the human body in its natural form, thus suggesting the idea of bodily materiality encompasses a multifaceted landscape. Using our WOVENText curriculum, we will consider how eighteenth-century models have been transformed – or not – leading to the ways bodies are presented and represented in the twenty-first century. How do modern image texts, including videos, cartoons, ads, and photographs, provoke similar questions about size, shape, costume, attitude, class, gender, and race as eighteenth-century understandings of bodily materiality? How do scenes from television shows such as Grey's Anatomy resemble dissection theatres in the eighteenth-century? How do today's clinical trials for medical treatments compare to rhetorical and empirical methods that were developing during the 1700s? Why do publications such as The Spectator comment on dress and gender performance like modern periodicals do? What techniques do writers such as Jonathan Swift share with cultural critics today? The class will also include a visit to the Bodies Exhibit in Atlantic Station, in addition to challenging students to produce various multimodal artifacts that explore historical trends in the scientific study of the body, gender performance, and visual portrayal of bodies in literature, nonfiction texts, and print culture. Your Obedient Servant: Movement of Information in the Age of Print Media and Beyond What does it mean to convey information between people: between individuals, between the masses, between nations? In an age when a message can be sent with the push of a button, when we can communicate via emojis, and we can block access for those whom we chose, the notion that news could days, weeks, months, or years to arrive at its destination – or maybe never arrive at all – is occasionally hard to fathom. This course will examine the ways in which letters, the postal service, newssheets, periodicals, and pamphlets gave rise to email, tweets, video chats, and websites as means of disseminating information, both personal and public, over the last two centuries. Using multimodality and the WOVEN curriculum (Written, Oral, Visual, Electronic, and Nonverbal), we will consider how twenty-first-century means of communication have been shaped by those of the eighteenth and nineteenth century. How did ideas, social norms, public policies, and scientific advancements spread before the internet – when a pen and ink was the only way to communicate over distances? Why and how was the promulgation of print and visual culture intertwined, and why do we still read the letters of ordinary people who lived in the eighteenth century? What can the method by which information was conveyed show us about the modes through which we communicate today? How can twenty-first-century technologies of communication teach us about our relationships with our friends, families, communities, and the world? We will discuss these topics and others in this ENGL 1102 course. Graduate Academic Writing This course is designed to familiarize graduate students in the sciences and engineering with various genres of academic writing and communication. By conducting rhetorical analyses of example materials across genres, students will understand the conventions by which each of these genres is produced and how to assess the rhetorical situations surrounding them. Students will work to improve their existing writing and communication skills in these genres, utilizing the writing process through multiple stages (including revision and peer review), as well as improve their abilities to collaborate with colleagues. We will discuss principles of rhetoric and why these are important for communicating in the scientific and engineering communities, both for the university setting and academic writing for a broader audience. Harry Potter and the Material Object Though we often believe that we, as individuals, are separate entities from the things in our lives, everyday objects – books, computers, phones, silverware, clothing – are integrated parts of our lives and existences. In this course, we'll consider how J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, a cultural phenomenon that has affected a wide audience in the twenty years since it was first published, transcending age, gender, race, and class barriers, portrays objects and the interactions between objects and characters in Rowling's novels. Materiality functions much differently in the fictional Wizarding World than in reality, so that a book or a broomstick might engage with a character independently of their wishes, and things (with a few exceptions) can be created, erased, or transformed with a thought. We'll be reading the novels and exploring some theories of human/object interactions, as well as learning new ways to think about the material world and communicating those idea through multiple modes, both digital and analog. Students will design and create their own material objects, present them to an audience, and analyze how objects and humans' interactions with them can reveal meaning and significance in both fictional worlds and the world which we inhabit. Things are everywhere – how are we connected to our things, and how are they becoming part of our selves? Biomedical Innovations and the Question of Ethics Utilizing texts that question, challenge, and document changes in biomedicine and the ethical considerations of such innovation since the 1950s, students will hone their skills in rhetorical practices across multiple modes of communication. This class will seek to emphasize the importance of communication skills in the dissemination of information about these new and exciting technologies. These will include written projects, visual essay design, journal blog posts, presentations with visual components, and a group research project culminating in a podcast episode. Innovations in biomedicine seem to appear almost daily on the evening news, on radio broadcasts, across our newsfeeds, and in fictional narratives. From gene therapy to designer babies, therapeutic uses of blood doping to scandals in cycling, the effects of scientific advancement and their engagements with existence as we know it permeate facets of our lives, some of which we might not even realize. As we consider what drives these developments and what are the underlying ethical implications of pushing the boundaries of the human, students will design, create, and communicate their ideas on the subject through various modes and media.

I have been a brittle asthmatic since early childhood but the severity and frequency of attacks has increased over the past 14 years, resulting in several ventilated episodes in ICU. Some of the admissions have been comparatively uneventful whilst others have been more traumatic for both myself and those close to me. I had never spoken to anyone at length about my experiences; I always thought that because I was a qualified nurse I shouldn't feel vulnerable and anxious, or 'fall to pieces', so didn't: not on the outside anyway. I thought that was what I should expect, and what was expected of me by others. I kept my feelings to myself, and wrote a journal and poetry about those feelings. Putting things on paper did help, but later found a new meaning to the power of speech. initially I felt relief, as if a weight had been lifted. a few hours later I 'fell to pieces', as everything that had been conveniently stored at the back of my mind had been pushed to the front. and finally acceptance, in equal measures, of what had happened, what could happen in the future, and that support offered should be grabbed with both hands. Admissions continue, but the psychological aspect is now easier to deal with. I still keep my journal up to date and have written a few more poems, which still helps put thing into perspective, but am still reassured that there is always someone to talk to if I need that little bit of extra help. But the more I think about it, no nearer do I get. And put the trauma and the stress so very far behind. It's such a strange old feeling to know that for some time - how long? I was not alive on earth, but was dead and so was gone. How long id it last? What did they do? And whatever did they say? What exactly went on while I was so far away? I need to get things sorted out and settled in my mind. I need to come to terms with life – and death – so peace I'll find. And carry on with my life feeling undeterred.

Fashion that's made in France and eco-friendly? The French say 'oui!' Why We Wrote This "Using these leftover fabrics just made sense" "It's not a question of being trendy" For over a century, Hauts-de-France was the textile capital of France – until the jobs disappeared overseas. Today, it's trying to reinvent itself as the country's eco-friendly textile engine. The push to reuse local materials and reduce waste is part of a larger phenomenon by French entrepreneurs to offer products that are made domestically. This past June, about 450 textile businesses joined forces to create the Textile Valley project, with the goal of bringing 1% of the country's overall textile production back to Hauts-de-France, and with it, upwards of 4,000 jobs. Fashion-forward France wants to become a leader in eco-friendly clothing production. Part of that strategy is promoting items that are made locally. Their hope is to revitalize communities, boost the local economy, and help consumers think differently about how they shop. And since September 2020, the French government has plugged 100 billion euros into relaunching the economy, with a third dedicated to relocating production back to France using more modern, sustainable practices. "French people like these products because they're original, but also because they make a positive impact and have a history," says Hubert Motte, founder of upcycle clothier La Vie est Belt. "Especially since COVID, there's a desire by French people to leave 'fast fashion' behind and buy products that are made locally." Tourcoing, France Strips of used, donated bicycle tires lie stacked in a pile on a flat work surface in a labyrinthine warehouse in this northern French town. Soon, the tires will be washed, perforated for buckles, and assembled into smart, sturdy belts. They aren't the only upcycled product created by La Vie est Belt. The textile company also takes used sheets to make men's and women's underwear, and even sells a DIY kit for customers to make their own undergarments. "French people like these products because they're original, but also because they make a positive impact and have a history," says Hubert Motte, who founded La Vie est Belt in 2017 at the age of 23. "Especially since COVID, there's a desire by French people to leave 'fast fashion' behind and buy products that are made locally." In doing so, Mr. Motte and his company are helping turn this region into a textile-recycling engine at a time when both eco-friendly clothes and buy local movements are growing – the latter by as much as 64%, according to recent polls. The effort draws on the local history of Hauts-de-France's history, which for over a century was the textile capital of France. The push to reuse local materials and reduce waste is part of a larger phenomenon by French entrepreneurs to offer products that are made domestically. This past June, around 450 textile businesses joined forces to create the Textile Valley project, with the goal of bringing 1% of the country's overall textile production back to Hauts-de-France, and with it, upwards of 4,000 jobs. In an industry that destroys between 10,000 and 20,000 tons of products each year in France, textile producers in Hauts-de-France are now leading the country in creating eco-friendly, locally made clothing and accessories. Their hope is to revitalize communities, boost the local economy, and help consumers think differently about how they shop. "French consumers are transforming how they buy clothing, leaning towards zero waste and buying less," says Annick Jéhanne, president of Fashion Green Hub, a community of 300 businesses and collectives dedicated to sustainable fashion based in neighboring Roubaix. "But major labels need to make their clothing more sustainable and provide eco-friendly alternatives so that, ultimately, the consumer can make better choices." France's textile industry can be traced as far back as the 14th century to northern towns like Tourcoing and Roubaix, known primarily for production of wool and lace. After taking a hit following World War I and II, the industry began to prosper by the early 1950s, becoming the largest economic driver for the region. But as businesses began outsourcing production to plants overseas, the industry saw a steady decline by the 1960s. And by the 21st century, local textile production had almost completely disappeared. Today, Hauts-de-France suffers from a lack of skilled textile workers as well as one of the highest levels of unemployment in the country. Charles-Henri Florin, the owner of Peucelle & Florin, a Roubaix-based wool business in operation for a century, had a front-row seat to the region's change in fortunes. The company got its start producing high-end wool for major labels. But instead of following its competitors, which were outsourcing to Asia in the 1960s, Peucelle & Florin decided to change its business model – looking to Italy to import quality recycled wool. Héloïse Grimonprez, owner of the Edie Grim fashion label, with her father Charles-Henri Florin, owner of wool importers Peucelle & Florin, stand in the Peucelle & Florin stockroom. The father-daughter team has dedicated each of their businesses to supporting local textile producers and designers. "That allowed us to weather the storm, and also keep production in Europe," says Mr. Florin from his sprawling stockroom, which houses thousands of fabric samples. "It's important to be transparent. Everyone is thinking about their environmental footprint these days." Mr. Florin passed on his savoir-faire and appreciation for sustainability to his daughter, Héloïse Grimonprez, who founded her clothing label Edie Grim in 2015. The two are now in partnership, with Ms. Grimonprez buying up Peucelle & Florin's unused fabrics to create chic, tailor-made coats and blazers. "When I started the company, no one was using terms like 'eco-friendly,'" says Ms. Grimonprez. "But using these leftover fabrics just made sense. They were just sitting there and I thought, 'I need to do something with this.'" The growing desire to know the source of clothing is not just for the upwardly mobile and looks to be more than a passing trend. Mainstream brands are looking for ways to make their labels more eco-friendly as well, handing over part of production to the region. And since September 2020, the French government has plugged 100 billion euros into relaunching the economy, with a third dedicated to relocating production back to France using more modern, sustainable practices. Roubaix-based national retailers are increasingly committing to better practices. Clothier Camaïeu sends the entirety of its unsold women's clothing to a local workshop to be upcycled by women facing joblessness, and fashion retailer La Redoute is creating a 100% eco-friendly men's line and aiming to produce zero carbon emissions by 2030. France's next generation of designers looks set to carry the "made in France" concept beyond the trends, too. ESMOD, a private fashion school with branches across France, recently challenged students to create an eco-friendly clothing line to be produced by a local retailer. And degree programs in textile production, like the recently launched EPICC school – aimed at young people facing school difficulties – offer hope for the future of the industry here. Entire neighborhoods in Tourcoing and Roubaix are now dedicated to new textile designers and producers, and several initiatives are working to boost manufacturing while also fighting exclusion. The Projet Resilience – a network of 60 textile producers – has worked with those facing social or economic marginalization since March 2020 to teach basic sewing. The Atelier Agile has similar goals but on a smaller scale, planning to train about 30 people starting in January to produce small clothing series for new labels and capsule collections. And La Vie est Belt employs those living with disabilities, in partnership with social inclusion group AlterEos. "Professors are asking us more and more to think about sustainability in our creations," says Dune Girardot, who started working at Edie Grim after graduating from ESMOD last year. "It's not a question of being trendy. It's because it's important." There are obstacles yet to overcome. The textile industry here is still recovering from having sent production overseas – it lost 530,000 jobs between 2006 and 2015, according to The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. As the desire for products made in France increases, the region has struggled to meet demand – both in materials and manpower. Get stories that empower and uplift daily. But that demand shows that things are improving. "I'm on back order. I'm waiting for more donations to come in so I can make my belts," says Mr. Motte of La Vie est Belt. "It shows that things are changing. There's definitely an energy here." Tags: EcoFriendly fashion France French oui Previous Hottest fashion trends to look back in 2021 Next How Lifestyle Fashion Brand Goodsinners Develops Great Style With A Positive Impact

Halloween at sea tops chefs' operational effort Published on November 18, 2017 by LCDR Fiona Southwood (author), ABIS Nicolas Gonzalez (photographer) Able Seaman Maritime Logistics - Chef Alex Mullen cooks a Halloween dinner for Ship's Company onboard HMAS Newcastle in the Middle East region. HMAS Newcastle may have been on operations but the chefs on board have worked tirelessly throughout the deployment with the morale and welfare of the ship's company in mind. Ideal job on operations Published on November 17, 2017 by LS Tom Gibson (author and photographer) Able Seaman Marine Technician Erik Schneider is seen inside HMAS Warramunga's gas turbine room during the ships deployment to Operation MANITOU. A world of oceans has opened up for a man who has landed his "ideal job" with the Royal Australian Navy. Newcastle's operations complete Published on November 16, 2017 by CPL Max Bree (author), ABIS Nicolas Gonzalez (photographer) HMAS Newcastle HMAS Newcastle has rounded out her busy six-month deployment to the Middle East, completing some 'firsts' and 'lasts' for Australian Navy ships in the region. Visit informs new capability vision Published on November 15, 2017 by LTJG Michelle Tucker (author), Petty Officer 1st Class Marcus Stanley - USN (photographer) Members of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) engage in discussion with members of the information warfare (IW) department of Carrier Strike Group 11 during a visit aboard aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68). The United States Carrier Strike Group 11 welcomed three members of the Royal Australian Navy for a 10-day visit in October aboard aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) during its deployment in the Arabian Gulf. CTF150 - Team building training Published on November 09, 2017 by LCDR Jacqueline Swinton (author), Unknown (photographer) Combined Task Force 150 (CTF 150) Rotation 9 group photograph during a team building exercise in the Blue Mountains. A team from the Royal Australian Navy, Royal Canadian Navy and the Defence Science Technology Group, are preparing to take command of the next rotation for Combined Task Force 150 in the Middle East. Navigation by sea and by road Published on November 30, 2017 by LEUT Theresa Swift (author and photographer) Lieutenant Matthew Lloyd, conducts preparations for HMAS Sirius' departure from Port of Kuantan, Malaysia. Lieutenant Matthew Lloyd took the long way round on completion of his Junior Warfare Application Course at HMAS Watson in Sydney in June, setting out on a 5000 kilometre motorbike ride across Australia to resume his passion for salt water. 'Eyes and ears' determined and ready to shine Published on November 28, 2017 by LEUT Will Singer (author), CPOIS Damian Pawlenko (photographer) Seaman Combat Systems Operator Adeel Patel at Fleet Base West, Western Australia. The lure of an adventurous and an unrivalled career was enough motivation for a recruit to 'pull out all the stops' before heading to HMAS Cerberus for the 11 weeks of Recruit School. Finals for FFG champion Published on November 23, 2017 by LEUT Elizabeth Ringrose-Voase (author), POIS Yuri Ramsey (photographer) Leading Seaman Marine Technician Sarah Battenally at Fleet Base East, Garden Island, Sydney. A love of fast cars, fast bikes, gas turbines, and warships wouldn't normally correlate with a desk job, but for Leading Seaman Marine Technician Sarah Battenally, it led to her being recognised as a finalist in the 2017 NSW Telstra Business Women's Awards. Lucky seven for graduating Navy Recruit Published on November 22, 2017 by LCDR Helen Ward (author), PO Vickie Austin (photographer) Member of General Entry 357 Taylor Division Recruit Rob Hilton with his dad Chief Petty Officer Peter Hilton and his mum, ex-Chief Petty Officer Linda Hilton. The power of the number seven was widely discussed by one particular family at the recent Recruit School Graduation parade for GE 357 in HMAS Cerberus. Communication key to supply Published on November 20, 2017 by LEUT Theresa Swift (author), Unknown (photographer) Leading Seaman Richard Hankinson is a member of the ships company onboard HMAS Sirius which is currently deployed on Indo-Pacific Endeavour. Whatever the role of the warship, there's still the requirement for professionals of all descriptions onboard, and in Navy's combat support vessels communication is in high demand.

According to South Wales Argus, Transport for Wales in partnership with Business Wales, the Welsh Government flagship business support service, is to host a 'Meet the Buyer' event in Newbridge this month. The event, taking place on November 13th is designed so that local businesses can find out more about the opportunity to prepare bids for contracts worth £50m each year over 15 years. More information at South Wales Argus. Click here to find out more about the event and book a place.

Happy Friday! How are you? Are you feeling spring-like yet? We still have snow in the garden so I'm going to say no, not for us at the moment. It's a slow one for us this weekend, we'll mostly be at home, having some work done to the house and catching up on some shows. Maybe even some baking? Plus we've been out quite a lot lately, so a weekend in will be nice. 1. Letting everyone see my wedding dress. The boutique is quite small, so we squeezed all eight of us in and I got to put it on again. I think nearly everyone was crying, my mum for the second time. 2. Eating all the Easter chocolate. We still have a cupboard full but we're staying away from it for while. I think we've possibly sickened ourselves. 3. A little surprise get together for my little brothers birthday. I think he actually knew about it in the end, but it was still a fun night. 4. Our mini seed garden that I'm watching with great anticipation for something to start growing. 5. Season two of Queer Eye has been announced for Netflix -woohoo!! 6. *touch wood, but my nails seem to be getting stronger! They haven't been peeling or chipping for weeks now and feel quite strong. Fingers crossed this continues. 7. New socks! Honestly, I'm so easily pleased. 8. Being very awake in the mornings just now. I think it probably has something to do with the lighter, brighter morning hours. But whatever it is, it makes me want to get up and out of bed.

GetUp! - Victorian Environment Minister Neville -- vote for cleaner air! Victorian Environment Minister Neville -- vote for cleaner air! Next Wednesday, July 15, State and Federal Environment Ministers will convene to decide new national air pollution standards. The current standards are failing to protect the health of our communities. It's essential that our politicians vote in favour of the strictest possible standards. To do that, they'll need to know their constituents care about clean air. Can you contact Victorian Environment Minister Lisa Neville and ask her to vote in favour of the strictest possible standards on air pollution? The big polluters have succesfully lobbied against stricter standards for far too long. We need to speak up and let our politicians know that we won't tolerate the health of our communities being jeopardised so big polluters can have their way. Can you contact Victorian Environment Minister Lisa Neville to say you care about clean air? We've given you some talking points to get you started, but we encourage you to use your own words. Air pollution is killing Australians. Illness from air pollution kills 3000 Australians every year. Some of the worst affected communities are those living near polluting coal mines, coal-fired power stations and coal export facilities. It's estimated that health damages in Australia associated with pollution from coal-fired power amounts to $2.6 billion per annum. In the Hunter Valley, coal-fired power stations cause an estimated $600 million in health damages every year. A 2010 report showed that asthma rates among children aged 9 to 15 in the Hunter region were four times higher than the national average. For 15 years, Australia's pollution standards have allowed the coal industry to release harmful levels of particle pollution into communities. The coal industry has campaigned to be allowed to continue polluting. It's time our politicians put the health of communities over these vested interests. Health experts and the WHO advocate stricter standards. Air pollution impacts cardiovascular and respiratory health, and is responsible for conditions like asthma, lung cancers and premature death. There is a growing body of evidence about the harmful effects of air pollution related to coal power. Respected Australian scientists such as Fiona Stanley and Tim Flannery have campaigned for stricter national air pollution monitoring at coal-fired power plants. The WHO also recommends stronger standards.

Comin' Soon… The Troy Savings Bank Music has bolstered its upcoming season with six new shows: Wednesday, October 6, 8pm: JP, Chrissie and the Fairground Boys (featuring the Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde) $29, $35 Sunday, December 12, 7pm: The Canadian Brass, $31, $38; students $25 Tuesday, December 21, 8pm: Judy Collins (her annual holiday show is back) $29, $34, $41, $46 Friday, January 14, 8pm: Arrival (ABBA tribute band from Sweden), $20, $25, $31, $35; students $15 Sunday, April 17, 7pm: Septeto Nacional Ignacio Piñeiro de Cuba, $25, $29, $35 Saturday, May 7, 8pm: The Glenn Miller Orchestra, $20, $25, $29, $35 Tix are currently available to members and will go on sale to the general public on Friday, August 27. Academy Award winner Ryan Bingham – who penned and sang "The Weary Kind," the main theme from "Crazy Heart" – is headed back to Nippertown, and he's graduated from Valentine's Music Hall, where he last played. This time around, he's headed into The Linda in Albany for a show with his band the Dead Horses at 8pm on Sunday, October 17. The Rustlanders open the show. Tix are $17. Blues guitarslinger and multiple Grammy Award winner Joe Louis Walker will be scorching the Bearsville Theater in Woodstock at 9pm on Friday, September 3. General admission tix are $20. OK Go – who rocked Albany's Tulip Festival back in May – are headed back to Nippertown for a show at Northern Lights in Clifton Park on Wednesday, October 27. Priced at $15 in advance, tix will go on sale on Friday. Also at Northern Lights, Lotus shakes things up at 9pm on Wednesday, November 17 with opening acts Mux Mool and ELECTRONICAnonymous. Priced at $17 in advance, tix go on sale on Friday. Honky tonk hero Wayne "The Train" Hancock rides into town for a show at the Ale House in Troy on Sunday, September 12. Trainwreck – featuring Kyle Gas from Tenacious D – lands at Jillian's in Albany on Saturday, September 18. Tix are $12. In Case You Missed It: The fall season of performances at MASS MoCA was announced over the weekend… Five new concerts were added to the upcoming 2010-2011 season at The Egg in Albany… EMPAC at RPI in Troy also announced its fall season of events. 8/19/10: Today's Tips: Thursday Live: Day Three of the Solid Sound Festival @ MASS MoCA, 8/15/10

Jim Manzi The Economics of Energy & Climate Change Science, Technology & Public Policy B.S. in mathematics Ph.D. applied statistics Wharton School James Manzi is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and founder and chairman of Applied Predictive Technologies (APT)—an artificial intelligence software company whose tools are used by dozens of the world's largest corporations to apply structured experimental methods to determine causal relationships between business programs and financial outcomes. Prior to founding APT, Manzi was a vice president at Mercer Management Consulting, where he directed corporate strategy assignments across a wide array of industries and business issues on five continents. He was previously employed in the Data Networks Division of AT&T Laboratories, where he developed PC-based pattern-recognition software. Manzi is a contributing editor of National Review, where he writes frequently for the print and online editions on science, technology, business, and economics. He has written for the New York Post, The Weekly Standard, Slate, The New Atlantis, Cato Unbound, and Culture11. Manzi is a frequent blogger at National Review's blog The Corner, as well as at The American Scene. Manzi holds a B.S. in mathematics from MIT and was subsequently awarded a dean's fellowship to the Wharton School's doctoral program in applied statistics. He serves on numerous corporate and nonprofit boards of directors. Expand Contract Sorry we were unable to find any results for "" Make sure words are spelled correctly. Try entering different keywords. Try using more general keywords. Commentary Issue Briefs Reports Testimony Books Press Releases Video Audio Charts & Graphs Interactives Last Month Last Year Custom With Media Audio Video Transcript

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OCCUPIED CRIMEA MAIDAN UKRAINE CRIMEA ANNEXED WAR IN UKRAINE FUND EMPR Home » Ukraine Deputy Minister was detained on suspicion of extortion of US Dollar 1.1 million Ukraine Deputy Minister was detained on suspicion of extortion of US Dollar 1.1 million 15.08.2019 15.08.2019 , 0 The Deputy Minister for Temporarily Occupied Territories Grymchak and his assistant was exposed and detained by SBU officers, together with NABU detectives and representatives of the Office of Special Investigations of the Prosecutor General's Office. The officials were detained on suspicion of committing a crime under part 4 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code (fraud). "The detainees demanded a bribe in the amount of $ 1.1 million from the entrepreneur for allegedly exercising influence on decision-making by persons authorized to perform state functions, – the SBU states -Upon receipt of part of the funds in the amount of $ 480 thousand, they were "caught red-handed." According to media reports, it is about Deputy Minister for Temporarily Occupied Territories Yuriy Grymchak. He is also known as a native of Donetsk, former MP and former assistant to Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko. Yuriy Lutsenko himself has already responded to the detention of his colleague. "Yes, it's true. The GPU, together with the SBU and NABU investigators detained my former assistant and MP Grymchak for fraudulent misappropriation of more than $ 1 million," wrote Lutsenko. "NSRD (covert investigative (search) actions) indicate that he and his aides have demanded money for influence on the courts and officials of the Ministry of Culture for making the biased decisions. I am ashamed of him. But this clearly shows that the law is the same for everyone in the GPU." EMPR Source: oligarphmedia Tags: corruption corruption in Ukraine hybrid war hybrid warfare russia ukraine nabu russian agents SBU Ukraine ukraine government Ukraine's Prime Minister calls the US to invest in Ukraine to defeat Putin (Video) In the framework of his visit to the United States, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk gave interview to the... State Bureau of Investigation is getting closer to exposure of Poroshenko's fraud schemes The Pechersk District Court of Kyiv granted all 14 petitions of the State Bureau of Investigation on seizure of... Odessa struggle against illegal seaside constructions comes to a new phase Odesa community assists authorities in dismountung illegal parking lot near one of the beaches. Aleksandra Demskaya (EMPR) was there and... EMPR digest: February 4, 2015 Since January 2014, EMPR twitter team operates 24/7 to provide in-time info, breaking news, analytics, video and photo reports... Hot rally at the Ukrainian Prosecutor's Office Free people want to live in democratic country free from corruption. That's why Ukrainians came today to a rally... Ukraine Parliament has passed the law on the Ukrainian language The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has passed the law on the Ukrainian language. Its preparation lasted two months. MPs... A Year without Ukrainian activist Katya Handzyuk A Year without Ukrainian activist Katya Handzyuk rally was held in Kyiv, near the President's Office, as well as... Solar power plant in the Chernobyl exclusion zone is completed The construction of solar power plant with a capacity of 1 megawatt is completed in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Russia – Ukraine war updates: daily briefings as of August 15, 2019Russia – Ukraine war updates: daily briefings as of August 16, 2019 Russia – Ukraine war updates: daily briefings as of January 20, 2020 20.01.2020 Russian authorities continued harassing Crimean Tatars in Crimea 17.01.2020 Zelensky did not dare to start a war with Kolomoysky and Avakov for so long that they started it first Is Iran interested in proper investigation of Ukraine plane crash? The Maidan cases: A lawyer of the fugitive president Yanukovych may become deputy head of the State Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine DISCOVER UKRAINE The Veles Night: customs and beliefs around Ukraine's own Halloween Ten places in Kyiv, where you can work comfortably Russian government is connected to MH-17 downing EMPR [an abrivation of Euromaidan PR] is the #1 Independent Citizen Media about Ukraine VISIT UKRAINE You can send us an email and we'll get back to you, ASAP. EMPR team Copyright ©2014-2020 EMPR

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Bio-diesel racer entering LeMans in 2008 May 5th 2006 at 2:09PM This year's 24 Hours of Le Mans will see a pair of diesel-powered Audi R10s in its field of competitors. Audi's oil burners had a terrific first showing at the 12 Hours of Sebring already where the No. 2 took the victory with a three-lap cushion. AutoblogGreen is now reporting that Welter Racing, a French-based team, has announced plans to go one step further into the green by fielding a biodiesel-powered racer in the LMP2 class at Le Mans in 2008. An entirely new chassis is being developed for the racer that will be entered in the 2007 race, albeit powered by petrol. The biodiesel powerplant will be ready to take the track for the 2008 race. The project is being partly funded by the Association for the Development of Agricultural Fuels in France. Its purpose is to highlight vegetable-based fuels in a country that imports 97-percent of its energy resources. 24HoursOfLeMans The Chevrolet Bolt is headed to China as a Buick SUV Nissan Ariya-inspired EV will be as fast or faster than a Z car Nissan e-4ORCE Prototype First Drive | Nissan's performance future is electric

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endometriosis, mothers day, raewyn billings, childbirth, medicine RAEWYN Billings had to pinch herself on Sunday to make sure her motherhood journey was real. The Ashtonfield woman celebrated her second Mother's Day after welcoming baby Lilly on May 7, 2018. It was not an easy road to become a parent. At age 19 she was diagnosed with endometriosis, but was hopeful she would still be able to conceive when the time was right. "I always though I would be a mum," she said. "I knew it would be a challenge but it definitely was not as easy as I thought." After building an impressive career in science, moving to Canada for four years to continue her study in the field of genetics and eventually returning to the Hunter, she found herself having to undergo yet another surgery for endometriosis. It was after this stay in hospital that her specialist said those words - "it is now or never". "I thought by 25 I would find Mr Right, we would get married and have kids," she laughed. "It was so unrealistic." With the support of friends and family Ms Billings decided IVF was going to be the pathway to fulfill her longing to have a child. It took three long gruelling attempts, but the week before her 40th birthday she got the good news. "It was amazing," she said. "I still pinch myself that she is actually real." Lilly's birth was bittersweet however, because as she arrived, Ms Billings father was admitted to hospital after an earlier terminal illness diagnosis. He spent four precious months with his new granddaughter before he lost his battle with the illness. "I don't know how we could have got through it without Lilly," she said. "She brought so much to our family. I can't imagine life without her." This year Mother's Day marked a whole year of Ms Billings new life in her family of two and give her a chance to appreciate her own mum. "If I am even a small pinch of what my mum is, then Lilly is going to be a very special girl." https://nnimgt-a.akamaihd.net/transform/v1/crop/frm/KRM77tP3akqwSNbwmEzAg5/9cb7a0e1-ee60-4d98-a3d4-7188355ceb01.jpg/r1_0_1199_677_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg May 12 2019 - 10:27AM Mother's Day: Raewyn Billings' journey to become a mother LOVE: Raewyn Billings and her daughter Lilly, 1, are a modern-day family of two after a long battle to have children. Picture: Jonathan Carroll. RAEWYN Billings had to pinch herself on Sunday to make sure her motherhood journey was real. The Ashtonfield woman celebrated her second Mother's Day after welcoming baby Lilly on May 7, 2018. It was not an easy road to become a parent. At age 19 she was diagnosed with endometriosis, but was hopeful she would still be able to conceive when the time was right. "I always though I would be a mum," she said. "I knew it would be a challenge but it definitely was not as easy as I thought." After building an impressive career in science, moving to Canada for four years to continue her study in the field of genetics and eventually returning to the Hunter, she found herself having to undergo yet another surgery for endometriosis. It was after this stay in hospital that her specialist said those words - "it is now or never". "I thought by 25 I would find Mr Right, we would get married and have kids," she laughed. "It was so unrealistic." With the support of friends and family Ms Billings decided IVF was going to be the pathway to fulfill her longing to have a child. It took three long gruelling attempts, but the week before her 40th birthday she got the good news. "It was amazing," she said. "I still pinch myself that she is actually real." Lilly's birth was bittersweet however, because as she arrived, Ms Billings father was admitted to hospital after an earlier terminal illness diagnosis. He spent four precious months with his new granddaughter before he lost his battle with the illness. "I don't know how we could have got through it without Lilly," she said. "She brought so much to our family. I can't imagine life without her." This year Mother's Day marked a whole year of Ms Billings new life in her family of two and give her a chance to appreciate her own mum. "If I am even a small pinch of what my mum is, then Lilly is going to be a very special girl." Get our Editor's Weekly Wrap featuring the best local news and stories, as well as our Breaking News Alerts.

In an age in which liberal churches and synagogues see membership declining and fundamentalist ones grow as they fan hostility to science, it is refreshing to find an artist who uses historical genetics as the basis for a new concept of holiness. Chris Twomey combines her skills as painter and photographer to reinvent and democratize the Madonna ideal by combining joyous photographs of very particular mothers with their naked babies on one hand with graphic evocations of cell structure and mapped intercontinental migrations of mitochondrial DNA on the other. Each 30x40" multi-media canvas places a grand-scale photograph of mother and baby, haloed (of course) against a segment of a drawn diagram of a phylogenetic network, featuring the child's imagined haplogroup. These amount to radiating webs of lighter colored canals against darker saturations of the same shade, reminiscent of actual medieval icons. Each main photograph is cut into four quadrants, whose sections are separated to form a cross. Inside the wide margins on all four sides of each canvas Twomey has drawn 14 miniature world maps in a paler version of the main background color, that outline the journey of each pair's ancestral DNA. On either side of the canvas smaller light colored photos of the same pair in six poses overlay the maps. The effect is striking. Twomey has elevated a compelling series of literal photographs to the level of high concept, whose main theme is that the spiritual dignity of every one of us ultimately derives from the wanderings of our ancestors across the globe—as traceable in our DNA. While not refuting any pious tenets, Twomey has given religious concepts a new gloss, and she has been recognized by Art and Science Collaborations, Inc., who have included one of these works in their current show at the New York Hall of Science, through January 15, 2007. The other works in the show consist of superimposed images of mother-and-child pairs, each monochromatic image colorized a different tint, and all against a solid color background. Her video is a series of these images moving and mixing with each other. These are pleasing works, offering their share of visual stimulation, but are lighter fare compared to the power of Twomeys' multi-media canvases. Newer Post"Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting"

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Brunk House holds open house April 15 Heather Rayhorn Take a Saturday drive, enjoy spring blooms and step back in time at the Brunk House. The Polk County Historical Society will hold its spring open house 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 15 at the historic home of Harrison and Emily Brunk, built for them and their eventual 12 children in 1861. The Brunk House will offer tours of the home for a donation, and, for a fee, there will be pies, cookies and other desserts to snack on in the large family kitchen or while strolling the grounds. Outside, visitors can check out cars, as Auto Clubs of Salem will bring their refurbished vehicles. The Brunk House is one stop on the club's Spring Blossom Drive that starts at Walery's Pizza in West Salem anytime between 9 a.m. and noon and also includes Polk County Museum, Cafe 22 West, Heritage Center at the Mill, Willamette Pie Co., Egan Gardens and the Hitchin' Post. It is open to the public and features an optional "poker hand," where players get cards as they go from place to place. To join the poker run, it's $5 a hand, which benefits the Boys and Girls Club. Like the free tours at the Brunk House, each stop will feature deals or freebies, including free ice cream cones at Cafe 22. The blossoms on display at the Brunk house include gardens with tulips and daffodils. "Most the trees are at least budding, and that's exciting," said Jo Ann King of the Brunk House. The Master Gardeners, who work mostly in the vegetable and berry gardens, will be on site to answer gardening questions. The Brunks came over the Oregon Trail in 1849 with two covered wagons, and most of their original furniture is still there. Three generations of the Brunks lived in the home, and the last one, Thomas Earl Brunk, was a bachelor and left the house and slightly over 1 acre to the Historic Society in 1975 to be preserved as an example of a pioneer farm. The Brunk House is at 5705 Salem-Dallas Highway NW (22W). It is open for tours 9 a.m. to noon Tuesdays and Thursdays and noon to 4 p.m. the second Saturday of each month except January when the house is closed. MORE events: 2017 Easter egg hunts fill the valley Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival runs March 24-April 30 Shakespeare returns to Salem Saturday Market for April Unique Irish singer performs traditional sean-nos April 15 Get a taste of local music scene with 12-hour concert April 15 Kelly Williams Brown back with book on being gracious Catch experimental music project Beef Kitchen April 15

The Price of Socialism, could it ever work? Listen to this. The new Filipino president is urging his citizens to shoot and kill drug dealers "I'll give you a medal" Dan Harmon: It's f*cking over. The discourse is over. We have sat. We have talked. We have argued. We have pondered. The discourse is over… The discourse is over the war has begun… They're f*cking nazis. It's the bedrock of humanity. It is so low that the worst people in the world find it and that's where they rally. We've gotten so bad that a third of our country has gotten there.

Health Ministry wants public to be its 'eyes and ears' once smoking ban kicks in The nationwide smoking bans at all restaurants and eateries will be enforced on Jan 1, 2019. - NSTP/LUQMAN HAKIM ZUBIR By Shaarani Ismail - December 23, 2018 @ 3:29pm IPOH: The Health Ministry has urged members of the public to act as its 'eyes and ears' when the smoking ban at all restaurants and eateries is fully enforced nationwide on Jan 1 next year. Deputy Health Minister Dr Lee Boon Chye said the public can lodge their complaints directly to the ministry via its hotline at 03-8892 4530. "During this enforcement period, it's important that this is not done just by the ministry but also with the cooperation of the public. "The government is widening the scope of non-smoking zones not just to bring down the numbers of smokers but to also protect the rights of those who do not smoke so that they will not be exposed to secondhand smoke, and protect their health," he said. He was speaking to reporters after attending a lunch session with the Perak Chinese Schools Council Committee on Sunday. Dr Lee said the ministry's enforcement drive in the first six months will lean more towards advising stubborn smokers. However, he noted that this does not mean that smokers should regard the ban lightly. Asked if the ministry's 5,000-strong enforcement team is enough to tackle the ruling, Dr Lee said the ministry will strategise the deployment of its officers nationwide. He said stern enforcement will take place after six months via regular patrols and with help from the public. "We will arrange the deployment of our enforcement officers nationwide. In the first six months, we need to increase enforcement efforts. "However, enforcement action in these six months will focus on educating the public and restaurant owners so that they are aware of the ruling and hopefully, they will respect the ban. "After six months, there will be patrols to check on the smoking ban and the public can call the ministry hotline if they see people breaking the law," he said. Asked if restaurant operators can designate smoking zones within their premises, Dr Lee said it is possible but these smoking zones must be built three metres away from the dining area. "It must be at a distance of three meters from the dining area and premises. This means that even if the operators want to, they cannot build a smoking zone in their restaurant. But if they set it up three metres away, then the ministry will not be able to take action." Health Ministry: Govt cannot ban smoking in private vehicles Health Ministry does not have agents selling 'No Smoking' signs Health Ministry drawing up legislation to ban vapes

Krabi, in southern Thailand, has the distinction of being the country's oldest continually inhabited settlement, while Thailand itself, has the distinction of being the only Southeast Asian country that was never colonized. The residents of Krabi, like the rest of the country, are descended from the Chinese, who migrated there in the first century A.D. Recorded history designates Krabi as part of the Kingdom of Ligor, a major city-state of the Siamese Kingdom. The city was originally a group of three communities that provided elephants for the capital city of Bangkok. As these communities grew, they were combined and eventually given the status of a town. Subject to King Rama the fifth, Krabi was under the direct jurisdiction of a governor. Its status was eventually raised to a "fourth-level city" and from then on, Krabi was as distinct as the other Thailand provinces. Today for the most part, the elephants are gone, replaced by tourists who plod the streets and stroll the beaches along the Andaman Sea and are awed by the high, limestone cliffs of Krabi. Once upon a time in Krabi Town, a person would holler, or whistle, or maybe stomp his feet, and an elephant would come lumbering toward him, the driver astride his neck. Mr. Elephant would kneel on his front legs and the passenger would climb aboard and off they would go at the sub-breakneck speed of two miles an hour. Things have changed. Today, you can still ride on an elephant, but taxis and rental cars will get you to your destination faster – river taxis, too. Taxis come in the form of cars, trucks, and motorcycles, so it's your choice how you want to go… for a ride, that is. Fares are reasonably priced according to your destination. Being a port town, Krabi also has "longtail" boat river taxis available at the Chao Fah Pier. They serve the islands and beaches. There are also ferry services that serve farther island destinations. A number of these river taxi services do not operate during monsoon season, which runs from May to October. In their stead, a combined bus/longtail boat service can be utilized. Private ferry transfers are also available. Several car rental services (also called car hire or self-drive) are available. Reserve your car beforehand and save money and time. Scuba Diving – Undoubtedly Krabi is the gateway to the Andaman Sea of Thailand. From Krabi, you can launch off into the various dive locations: Phi Phi, Similans, Phuket, Hin Daeng and Hin Muang and Lanta. Apart from colourful marine life, sightings of whale sharks, mantas, leopard sharks and stingrays, also expect to have some fun weaving through the caves and caverns which make Krabi and its surrounding areas such a great adventure. The dive operators have of course the full range of dive courses for you to choose from. Snorkeling – Untainted hard and soft corals are found just off the shorelines of Krabi, making it the perfect residence of marine fish life. Some of the best snorkeling in Thailand is found just off Krabi. Rock Climbing – Krabi is enveloped by many limestone and hard rock mountains, making its terrain ideal for both experienced rock-climbers and those who want to try out this sport. Afraid of heights? Don't worry, there are many levels of rocks and the operator can help you book your rock climbing lessons with a reputable and reliable instructor. Sea Kayaking and Canoeing – Amidst the many rock islands that surround Krabi are many waterways which twine through water pools that are perfect for kayaking. Even those who have not tried it before will easily do so under the guidance of your experienced leader. Take half a day out and explore the ravines that surround the Krabi region. Jungle Trekking – Krabi region is surrounded by fabulous mountains and hills that make your holiday a complete adventure. Elephant Trekking – What a novelty! Imagine mounting one of these gentle giants, and let them take you on an hour-long trek through the jungles of Krabi. Emerald Pool and Crystal Pool – Believe it or not, there are some natural water pools filled with cool spring waters from the surrounding mountains tucked in the middle of the forests in Krabi. Spas and Massage – You cannot visit Thailand without going for one of the local Thai massages. Choose between an oil massage and non-oil, and let the skilful hands of the experienced masseuse rub away all your aches and pains. Wonderful, especially after a day of diving or trekking. Something that everyone gets pretty hooked on!

Home Politics Omicron version, France closes its borders to tourists arriving from Great Britain Omicron version, France closes its borders to tourists arriving from Great Britain Virgil Harper LONDON – Great Britain is now a little more an island: neighboring France has erected its bridges. Faced with the new wave of Omicron, it closed borders to tourists from Great Britain. Only the French returning home from Saturday and the English living in France will be able to travel. It is an announcement that disrupts the plans of thousands of people ready to go for White Week or the culture of big cities across the channel and which highlights how, despite hopes and forecasts, it is also a " There will be no "normal" Christmas. In restaurants, in cinemas, in cinemas across the United Kingdom, cancellations are falling: Queen Elizabeth will skip a pre-Christmas breakfast. "It's too risky to uncover the prospect of so many people getting sick around Christmas," a spokesperson said. Every day in the UK brings new firsts. Yesterday, 78,610 new cases of covid, the highest since the start of the pandemic. Confirmed Omicron variant positives are 10,000, but true cases would be at least twice that. Understandable, therefore, is the decision of France, where the transmission of the new version is currently limited (about 250 cases). Yesterday, in a press conference, Prime Minister Boris Johnson assured the country that it would not be necessary to cancel Christmas. During the same meeting, Chris Whitty, the head of public health for England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales and one of the most authoritative voices in the pandemic, encouraged citizens to use common sense, which is essential to the safety of the ceremony. was not. And the family reunion they absolutely didn't want to miss. See also Bronx shootout: Suspected death in New York City, 2 U.S. Marshalls, NYPD detective wounded The country seems to have considered Whitty more than premier if the hospitality sector anticipates bookings and very heavy losses in free fall today. Meanwhile, the day is complicated for Johnson on a political level as well. Voting is underway in North Shropshire following the resignation of MP Owen Paterson due to a conflict of interest. The outcome of a college that has always and only voted Tory will be a judgment on the credibility and credibility of the premiership. (Corrire della Sera) Devoted problem solver. Tv advocate. Avid zombie aficionado. Proud twitter nerd. Subtly charming alcohol geek. Previous articleCOP26: "Anyone who just talks and doesn't talk in Glasgow will be caught early" Next articleBeckham, you can't grab it! Maserati launched the MC20 Furiousry Edition Schoolgirls in Hanover demand free menstrual articles. NDR.de – News – Lower Saxony Covid-19 in England: Boris Johnson announces end of most restrictions Edinburgh releases marine wind power

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The best video games of E3 (vote for your own in our poll) More than 300 game publishers showed off thousands of video games at the E3 trade show last week. I didn't see them all, but I got a glimpse of most of the big games and the ones that generated a lot of buzz. Many of the games were frontrunners coming into the show and they made it onto my most-anticipated games list. But some games at E3 2010 were genuine surprises. Here's my list of the best games at E3. And for fun, here's the list from a year ago, when it was easy to see that Alan Wake and Uncharted 2: Among Thieves would be the big hits. I'll be voting this week in the Game Critics Awards, and you can bet that a lot of these titles will be on that list. 1. Rage (developer: id Software; publisher: Bethesda Softworks) multiple platforms. I expected this game to be the best at E3 and it managed to hold off all challengers. At the core of this game is a new graphics technology known as Virtual Texturing. It comes from graphics wizard John Carmack at id and is part of id Tech 5, a new game engine that renders agamzing graphics. The game itself is set in a futuristic wasteland that blends influences from the Wild West and the Road Warrior. In this post-Doomsday world, you race highly weaponized cars and then shoot a lot of mutants. The game makers have created a combination of cool characters and enemies, realistic sci-fi environments, and cool game play advances such as a crossbow that shoots electric darts. 2. Crysis 2 (developer: Crytek; publisher: Electronic Arts) Xbox 360, PS 3, PC. holiday 2010. This game is one of the only titles I've looked at that looks good in stereoscopic 3D. This game is the latest creation from a German company run by the brothers Yerli: Cevat, Avni and Faruk. They developed Far Cry back in 2004 and became known for their beautiful 3D graphics technology. This game carries on that tradition with a dramatic new story as well. This time, aliens are attacking New York City and are causing virtual 9/11 building collapses. Your job is to don an armored suit that lets you run at superhuman speeds or slip into stealth mode. Against this backdrop is a dramatic story where you have to make tough choices, such as leaving survivors behind as you run for your life. The game also has solid first-person shooter game play to satisfy shooter fans. 3. Killzone 3 (developer: Guerrilla Games; publisher Sony) PS 3. 2011. Sony touted this title in 3D, but I think it looks just fine in 2D. The Helghast home planet is as creepy as ever, with both arctic and jungle action appearing in this game. Guerrilla Games took a long time to get Killzone 2 out. But they're promising a faster turnaround on Killzone 3 and a major overhaul of the graphics and game play at the same time. You'll be able to fly around with jet packs in levels that cover 10 times more territory than before. As such, it's a strategically important game for Sony as it tries to come up with a "Halo killer." It's being built by a team of 130 people, and so far the craftsmanship looks excellent. 4. Call of Duty Black Ops (developer:Treyarch; publisher: Activision Blizzard) Xbox 360, PS 3, PC. Nov. 9, 2010. At E3, Treyarch showed off a new level where you can steal a Hind helicopter gunship and wreak havoc along a mountain river canyon with it. With this game, Treyarch will prove it can make a Call of Duty game every bit as good as its sister studio Infinity Ward. Gamers will get to play riveting scenes, like a crazy firefight in the midst of the burning city of Hue during the Vietnam War or hiding from Soviet troops as you infiltrate behind the Iron Curtain to take out a remote radar station. You play covert operatives going on secret missions. From what Treyarch has shown so far, the title will be action packed and it will always zero in on the tense moments leading up to inferno of combat. 5. Civilization V (developer: Firaxis Games; publisher: Take-Two Interactive) PC. fall 2010. The strategy genre wasn't very visible at E3 amid all of the combat games. But thank heaven that Firaxis is reinventing this hit franchise for strategy fans. I loved Civ IV, but the tweaks for this bird's-eye-view strategy game are taking me back to the great strategy games of my childhood. With the redesign, now you can now fight battles on both a tactical and strategic level. Hexagons replace squares, allowing for more natural terrain movement. And the leaders of rival countries are now animated in a more emotion-inducing way. It's a perfect example of taking a classic game and improving it so that players will come back to it by the millions. Civilization V is proof that it's always possible to regenerate interest in a classic franchise. 6. Halo: Reach (developer: Bungie; publisher: Microsoft) Xbox 360. fall 2010. This prequel takes us back to the days when the Covenant were first coming into contact with humanity and had just begun to "glass" planets, or turning them into melted sand and dirt. Halo has sold more than 34 million units and Bungie can be trusted to come up with another blockbuster game with its fourth and final installment in the Halo series. (Afterward, other developers will pick up the Halo universe games). In the single-player campaign, you have to help stave off the Covenant invasion both on the ground and in the all-new space combat as well. With the cool new multiplayer combat, Bungie has already proven it can still please and surprise gamers. 7. Steel Diver (developer/publisher: Nintendo) 3DS. No date. This submarine game was one of the surprise delights of the show. It is one of the upcoming games for the 3DS handheld with stereoscopic 3D viewing. As you stare at the 3.5-inch 3DS screen, you can see the depth in the imagery, seeing past your submarine into the underwater terrain. You have to use the speed of the sub and its ability to diver or surface to navigate the underwater terrain. At the same time, you have to rise to the surface on occasion to fire torpedoes at the walls that get in your way. You also have to mind your air and deal with underwater obstacles. Nintendo has been working on this game for almost six years. Nintendo showed off the title as "Submarine Demo" way back in 2004. It looks great in stereoscopic 3D, as if you were playing in an aquarium. But it's only one of 70 titles that are coming for this game system. 8. LittleBigPlanet 2 (developer: Media Molecule; publisher: Sony) fall 2010 for PS 3. The original LittleBigPlanet from 2008 let fans create their own characters and art work to be used in levels. Now Media Molecule is extending the user-generated content trend so that you can now create your own games within the larger game. Users can tap artificial intelligence, vehicles and graphical assets to make their own sophisticated mini games. This has been standard practice with a lot of shooting games on the PC. But the consoles have never been quite as friendly to users who wanted to hack their way to happiness. The developers have created their own game for this side-scrolling platform game, with more than 40 levels and six different themes. You can bounce around inside virtual pinball machines to score points and get to the next level. Everything about this game makes me think about how creative it allows gamers to be. 9. Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (developer/publisher: Nintendo) Wii. 2011. Nintendo has been working on this new installment of Zelda for a long time. It finally unveiled the game, showing off how the sword play works with the Wii MotionPlus control, which can capture the subtle twists of your wrist as you slice sideways or chop downward. While it didn't work so well on stage because of wireless interference, the game worked properly when I tried it out behind closed doors. Besides swinging a sword, you can roll bombs, crack whips or shoot flying beetles. The only flaw I see so far is the inaccuracy of the controls when it comes to shooting arrows. That's a fundamental flaw of the Wii itself, but hopefully Nintendo will be able to deal with it by the time this comes out. 10. Portal 2 (developer: Valve; publisher: TBA) PC, Xbox 360, PS 3. 2011. Valve has revived a beloved franchise that came out of the indie game movement. The original Portal could spin your head around, allowing you to shoot an opening, or portal, into a wall and come out upside down so that you could maneuver past an obstacle. Now the original antagonist, a computer artificial intelligence named GLaDOS, is back in this game, where the physics effects are going to be more interesting and the puzzles even more mind-bending. Valve's Gabe Newell promises that this one will be twice as long as the previous game. Here's some other titles that I also liked at the show: 11. Gears of War 3 (developer: Epic Games; publisher: Microsoft) Xbox 360. April 2011. The human planet of Sera is fast becoming a wasteland and all that's left to save it are the Gears, the Marine-like soldiers who make Arnold look like he didn't exercise enough. Gears of War is all about close combat, hiding behind corners and firing as much as you can as fast as you can at any targets that are moving close enough to turn you into red meat. This game brought us innovations such as the chainsaw bayonet and taught us that it's more fun to play a game if your side is not invulnerable and you have to hide as much as you shoot. Now you can shoot away at giant plant-like beasts who are trying to kill you with wild limbs; but you can fight in four-player cooperative mode. 12. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II (developer/publisher: LucasArts). Oct. 26, 2010. You get to play Darth Vader's fugitive apprentice StarKiller, once again in this series that pre-dates the formation of the Rebel Alliance in Star Wars lore. The first game made expansive use of physics technology, allowing you to use The Force to toss around Imperial Stormtroopers as if they were rag dolls. This game takes those effects to new heights. 13. Motorstorm Apocalypse (developer: Evolution Studios; publisher: Sony) PS 3. No date. In this Motorstorm, you race your car through a coastal city that is disintegrating in a natural disaster. There's lots of debris that kicks up and gets in your way as you race to salvation. It actually looks good in stereoscopic 3D. 14. Medal of Honor (developer: EALA/EA Dice; publisher: Electronic Arts) PS 3, PC, Xbox 360. Oct. 12, 2010. This decade-old franchise should have been the winner, not Call of Duty. But Electronic Arts lost touch with the quality that made Medal of Honor: Allied Assault one of the best video games ever. Now the company has committed itself to reviving this franchise, taking advantage of the weakness created by the firing of Infinity Ward's founders. EA is moving this franchise into the modern setting of Afghanistan in a direct challenge to the Modern Warfare version of Call of Duty. EA showed off cool multiplayer combat with up to 24 players per battle. 15. Dead Space 2 (developer: EA Visceral Games; publisher: Electronic Arts) PS 3, Xbox 360, PC. 2011. EA created a compelling new franchise with the first installment of this deep space horror game with third-person shooting. You'll be shooting to dismember the many disgusting monsters coming at you. This time, you get a nicer spacesuit and better weapons. The scene that EA showed in this game make you feel like you're thrown from the frying pan into the fire, over and over again, as you have to strategically dismember monsters. You escape from one peril, only to face another loud and roaring monster. 16. Dance Central (developer: Harmonix; publisher: MTV) Xbox 360. Nov. 2010. Created by the developers of Rock Band, this game uses Microsoft's Kinect motion-sensing system to great effect as it captures your dance moves. You are unemcumbered by by controllers as you try to match the moves of the dancers on screen. 17. Kinectimals (developer: Rare; publisher: Microsoft) Xbox 360. This title was perhaps the cutest of the show. Using Kinect, you can stand in front of your pet tiger and pet him with your hands. You can toss a ball, and, just as with Nintendogs, your pet may or may not decide to chase it. This titles blends motion control with artificial intelligence. 18. End of Nations (developer/publisher: Trion Worlds). PC. 2011. This is a real-time strategy game that takes place across an entire globe. You can build your army and move into any given region for a huge battle that involves dozens of players. To take out huge enemy bosses, you have to cooperate with other players, dropping coordinate air strikes and artillery barrages just before you mop up with ground forces. 19. Bulletstorm (developer: Epic Games/People Can Fly; publisher: Electronic Arts). PC, Xbox 360, PS 3. 2011. I got a package in the mail about this game. It was a bunch of ice-cooled hamburger. It drove home the point that this game is really a comedy. It makes a joke out of shredding your opponents into chunks of meat using your big giant machine guns, telekinesis, and gravity whips — all to the tunes of hard rock. You can earn more points in the game if you kill with style (Yes, the anti-violence crowd will have a field day with this one). In this game, you are on a hostile planet full of bad guys and man-eating plants. If you enjoy disgusting fun, this could be your game. 20. Epic Mickey (developer: Junction Point; publisher: Disney Interactive) Wii. fall 2010. Mickey Mouse has been reimagined by Warren Spector's team as a mischievous and darker character that is reminiscent of Mickey's early years. It's a major effort to make an 80-year-old icon relevant to today's gamers. Spector hopes to produce the quality video game that Mickey fully deserves. 21. Star Wars: The Old Republic (developer: BioWare; publisher: Electronic Arts) PC. This massively multiplayer online game is one of the most expensive games being developed anywhere. Hopefully the deep stories and variety of this game galaxy will keep the Star Wars faithful busy, whenever it arrives. The game play is choppy, but the galaxy is vast. 22. Metal Gear Solid: Rising (publisher: Konami) PS 3, Xbox 360. 2011. This game features Raiden a character that co-starred in Metal Gears Solid 2. On stage, Hideo Kojima talked about how you can use swords to slice your rivals in slow motion. 23. Mafia II (publisher: Take-Two Interactive) PS 3, Xbox 360, PC. August 24, 2010. There's an endless opportunity to upgrade your career as a hardened criminal in this open world game. It's got good graphics and exciting missions with lots of action. 24. Fable III (developer: Lionhead Studios; publisher: Microsoft) Xbox 360. Peter Molyneux promises more emotion-laden game play with the latest installment of this action role-playing game. Here you can find out what it's like to claw your way up to being king, and then living with the choices that you make. 25. Gran Turismo 5 (developer:; publisher: Sony) PS 3. 2010. Racing games just don't get more realistic than this. This game represents the state of the art for people who can't get enough driving during the daytime. 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You can earn 1 CE credit per article selected in Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology by reading the article through Oxford University Press and completing an online quiz. NAN members receive complimentary access to the journal and a reduced rate on the CE credit opportunity. Read a CE-designated article in ACN (you must access and read the article on your own prior to purchasing the CE credit through NAN DistanCE). Register for the specific article for which you wish to receive CE credit. Complete all questions on the quiz and pass with a score greater than 75%. CE certificates will be emailed to you or immediately accessed through the "My Learning" menu tab in the DistanCE online learning platform. 1. Discuss the role of cholinesterase inhibitors in attention performance. 2. Identify and describe which measures may best detect the treatment effects of donepezil among individuals with Alzheimer's disease. Vila-Castelar, C., J. Ly, J., Kaplan,L., Van Dyk, K., T. Berger, J., O. Macina, L., L. Stewart, J., S. Foldi, N. (2019). Attention Measures of Accuracy, Variability, and Fatigue Detect Early Response to Donepezil in Alzheimer's Disease: A Randomized,Double-blind, Placebo-Controlled Pilot Trial. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 34(3). Discuss competitive queuing (CQ) models of memory for serial order. Utilize CQ models to describe serial position accuracy and error patterns in Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia as compared with healthy older adults. Rhodes, E., Lamar, M., Libon, D.J., & Giovannetti, T. (2019). Memory for serial order in Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia: A competitive queuing analysis. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 34(1).

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This is Ivor's Typepad Profile. Paul, David Ainsworth did publish his conclusions: http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/Governance/article/1172289/peter-bone-meet-nick-hurd-discuss-bill-amend-charities-act-2011/ Conservative MP's bill seeks to reinstate the presumption of public benefit for religious organisations An MP who has proposed a bill to reinstate the presumption of public benefit for religious organisations will today meet with the charities minister, Nick Hurd, to discuss it. Peter Bone, Conservative MP for Wellingborough, presented a Ten Minute Rule Motion in the House of Commons on 19 December seeking leave to bring a bill to amend the Charities Act 2011 to "treat all religious institutions as charities". Bone said yesterday on BBC's The Big Questions programme that the bill will contain three tests that an organisation must pass before it can be a charity: it must either provide prayer, do social work and education or provide money to other charities. He said that sham charities and those that have harmful doctrines would also not be permitted. The motion passed its first reading in December by a majority of 166 to seven. A second reading of the bill, which is formally titled the Charities Act 2011 (Amendment) Bill, has been scheduled to take place on 22 March, although parliament is not due to be sitting on that day. It is rare that bills introduced under the 10-minute rule become law because they are usually opposed by the government in the later stages. The majority pass their first reading without any opposition. Bone's bill was introduced in response to a recent decision by the Charity Commission to refuse charitable status to the Preston Down Trust, a congregation of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, a religious group which practices a "doctrine of separation" which limits their contact with the outside world. The Brethren have since appealed to the charity tribunal. A Charity Commission spokeswoman said: "Judging from his comments during the BBC programme, Mr Bone's test appears different in nature as well as content to the commission's understanding of the public benefit requirement for religious charities in charity law. "The public benefit of a religion derives from the positive impact the organisation's doctrines and practices have on the wider community: activities carried out by a religious organisation have to be seen in that context. "Demonstrating public benefit is not an onerous task for religious organisations – the commission registers hundreds of religious charities each year." There's already a foolish comment from B Temple who seems to be an Exclusive Brethren lobbyist from his comments in various places. Wilton Park quote: "Christian sect school" The Plymouth Brethren Christian Church is a mainstream Christian Church holding substantially the same doctrines as the Church of England. The PBCC is not a sect but is structured and operates on common Christian ground as taught by Holy Scripture which is available for all Christians. As this is so blatantly untrue, what confidence can be given to the remainder of their press release. (Does the CofE shut up or internally exclude its members for watching TV/going to the pub/having a coffee with a neighbour etc. NO. Does the CofE withdraw or ex-communicate people for the same as above and other sillies. NO. Does the CofE have its church buildings behind barred and gated enclosures? No. Does the CofE lock its doors [and its security gates] after a service starts? NO Do visitors to a CofE service have to phone in advance to gain entry and only be granted entry if they are 'well disposed'. NO. The list could continue. Neither the CofE nor other mainstream Churches are anything like the Exclusive Brethren. In my opinion, yes, they are a sect, there's nothing mainstream about them. Mr Flyyn: It looks like you colleagues continue to do a good job (unlike the BBC): The link refers to the Exclusive Brethren: Parliamentarians gather evidence of alleged 'harm' from former Plymouth Brethren http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/bulletin/third_sector_daily_bulletin/article/1168609/parliamentarians-gather-evidence-alleged-harm-former-plymouth-brethren/?DCMP=EMC-CONThirdSectorDaily where Baroness O'Loan said she had not yet decided what she might do with evidence given to her but that she was concerned about the restrictions of the Brethren way of life, and its effect on children. "At the moment we are just gathering evidence," she said. "We have not decided what we would do next. "But we need to know more. If this organisation is being funded by us because it's a charity, we need to be sure that its charitable status is justified." She said she was concerned about the fact young people were not allowed to go to university or join groups outside their own community. O'Loan said she was also keen to find out whether the disciplinary process of "shutting up", where members of the congregation stopped speaking to a particular individual, was practised on children. I think their signage is a clear attempt to bamboozle people into thinking it's a place of public worship (It also means that no rates are paid on the building) while making it as difficult as possible to attend in reality. Once vetting has occurred am I right in thinking the visitor is no longer a member of the public, but now a guest? So how does that fit with public worship? I'm sure there are more charities than that - quite apart from each meeting hall etc. How about CENTRAL G H TRUST which had income of over £1million and claimed nearly £1/4 million in Gift Aid on top of that to help build EB Meeting Halls that year. Michael Waterson, We're not stupid. We spotted the slick PR machine crank up; the flurry of charitable acts appear out of nowhere; the name change to more publically acceptable one, all just after this whole sorry mess went public. That's right, just at the same time as the Charity Commissioners denied the Exclusive Brethren charitable status. Strange co-incidence that? So, no it's not about giving, giving, giving. Do you really believe we're that gullible to think this exclusive and reclusive self serving sect has had a sudden change of heart to become outward looking and concerned with the people it was previously told to hate? Rather, more and more of us are becoming concerned about the harm done to members and ex-members (the public) by the policy of (non-scriptural) extreme separation which prevents ex-Exclusive Brethren from seeing children, parents, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, cousins, grand-parents etc who remain in the Exclusive Brethren. It also prevents members of the public from even sharing the most basic of human relationships such as a cup of tea together as that would defile them. Do I want my tax supporting this system. Clearly NO! John Handel I see on Third Sector you question which name is referred to regarding the Exclusive Brethren/Plymouth Brethren Christina Church and why is the name important? The Plymouth Brethren name goes back many centuries after founding by John Darby. Sadly Darby was a divisive man and led the first schism which divided the Brethren movement into open and closed groups. The open group has had many luminaries over the centuries including the like of George Muller, FF Bruce, WE Vines, Thomas Barnardo, and many others. This open group is also referred to as Christian Brethren. The other group, the closed or exclusive group did as the name suggests and looked inward rather than outward. For the current Exclusive Brethren (many schisms later, and even more exclusive over the centuries) to now put on the publically respected clothing of the Open/Christian Brethren can be seen at the best as obfuscation, or at the worst, deception to attempt to convince the public that they're the good guys and have been for centuries. Sad really. For info on the Open/Christian Brethren see here: http://www.brethrenonline.org/faqs/Brethren.htm They remain socially involved evangelical church. John Handel: I despair of MPs like Mr Bone who have not done any basic research to find out who these men in nice suits lobbying them are. Five minutes on a search engine is all it takes ... Thankfully despite the Exclusive Brethren's best efforts, spin doctors and PR merchants the majority of the Christian Church do not feel threatened by the Charity Commissioners. Why? Because public benefit is so interwoven into the fabric of their organisations they do not have to think twice about it. But let's be sure: The Evangelical Alliance met with the Charity Commissioners to be 100% sure this did not affect their members and got the following reassurances and clarification: http://www.eauk.org/current-affairs/news/the-advancement-of-religion-and-public-benefit.cfm 1.under the current law the provision of services of public worship which are genuinely open to anyone to attend is in itself sufficient to satisfy the public benefit requirement even if, in practice, the numbers attending such services are small; 2.contrary to what has been reported in the press, the Commission confirmed that there is no difficulty in restricting access to the sacrament of Holy Communion in accordance with denominational requirements. Difficulties only arise if restrictions are imposed upon access to the worship services of which the sacrament forms a part; 3.the Commission will not involve itself in matters of doctrine except where the outworking of particular doctrinal beliefs impacts upon the public benefit of the organisation. In practice, we understand this to mean situations where the outworking of particular doctrines may give rise to detriment or harm in which case this must be weighed against the positive public benefit in order to determine whether or not, on balance, charitable status is appropriate. There you have it - a storm in an EB teacup! Roger: You quite rightly quote "Next week millions will remember the wonderful occasion when God sent a Saviour into the world." But the Exclusive Brethren won't. No Christmas tree, no visiting relatives outside the church membership, no celebratory family dinner together, no gifts to celebrate the greatest gift of all – Jesus. Just a normal day, because the EB don't celebrate Christmas! Despite the Exclusive Brethren's best efforts, spin doctors and PR merchants the majority of the Christian Church do not feel threatened by the Charity Commissioners. Why? Because public benefit is so interwoven into the fabric of their organisations they do not have to think twice about it. But let's be sure: The Evangelical Alliance met with the Charity Commissioners to be 100% sure this did not affect their members and got the following reassurances and clarification: http://www.eauk.org/current-affairs/news/the-advancement-of-religion-and-public-benefit.cfm 1.under the current law the provision of services of public worship which are genuinely open to anyone to attend is in itself sufficient to satisfy the public benefit requirement even if, in practice, the numbers attending such services are small; 2.contrary to what has been reported in the press, the Commission confirmed that there is no difficulty in restricting access to the sacrament of Holy Communion in accordance with denominational requirements. Difficulties only arise if restrictions are imposed upon access to the worship services of which the sacrament forms a part; 3.the Commission will not involve itself in matters of doctrine except where the outworking of particular doctrinal beliefs impacts upon the public benefit of the organisation. In practice, we understand this to mean situations where the outworking of particular doctrines may give rise to detriment or harm in which case this must be weighed against the positive public benefit in order to determine whether or not, on balance, charitable status is appropriate. There you have it - a storm in an EB teacup! Craig Jones Jesus does indeed speak about the world hating Him. But never does He or His Father speak about the Godhead hating the world. Quite the contrary. John 3:16 Darby Translation 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believes on him may not perish, but have life eternal. Just because the world hated Him it did not stop and does not stop Him still loving the world. Is this your reverse interpretation another dodgy proof-text taken out of context and mangled? John Handel: History is never a precise science. People do say what they want to/are told to say as well as what truly happened. Police witness statements are clear evidence of this. The circumstances around the Aberdeen event can also be considered - such as the latest and probably greatest schism in Exclusive Brethren history which followed this debacle. Something happened for such a traumatic change. The history writers on balance support the view that JT Jr was drunk and abusive: A contemporaneous record of the events included a sound recording of John Taylor Juniors appalling language can be found here: http://peebs.net/Aberdeen_Incident/if-we-walk-in-the-light.php Certainly the style and the language used by Mr Taylor in *a church meeting* is far from what I would expect or consider acceptable from a church member and especially that of the worldwide 'Man of God'/Leader. Maybe if you study this you'll realise where the truth really is? John Handel - you made me laugh! Trying to apply Assembly out-of-context dodgy doctrine on Christians outside of the EB who can read the Bible for themselves. How many more 'proof texts' like these are used? You don't really believe that verse is a catch all for all who disagree with the leadership do you?

Some weeks ago I met Gert Weinberg's family members (sister-in-law and nieces) from Brazil. It was a very special and emotional meeting. They were so happy that the Dokin site enabled them to learn more about the years Gert spent in this country, the homes he lived in and more details about his life. Prior to this, they knew very little about his life between January 1939 and July 1943 when he was killed in Sobibor. This sharing of information is the epitome of what I hoped to accomplish with my research and the raison d' être of the website! I can only hope that more people find the site and discover historical information on their ancestry. But having said that: since the site was launched a year ago, the number of daily visitors hasn't diminished and is still quite high. In fact, it is much higher than I had expected. It all makes it so worthwhile! In the last few months I have taken a bit of a side tangent. After discovering that there were many mistakes in the lists of people who were deported to Theresienstadt, I decided to research this thoroughly. I scanned the transport lists, transferred them into Excel and tried to find out what really happened to this group of almost 5,000 people. Unfortunately my fears were justified: I have discovered more than 100 people who did not come back but whose name never appeared on the transport lists. In some cases it was the other way around. I find it very disturbing that almost 70 years after the end of the Holocaust there are still people who have been swept off this earth, and not only just physically. If a person's name isn't even living on, what is left? I have shared the outcome of my research with all the institutions and am waiting for their feedback. How could this have happened? I do not have a clue. But I am researching this now with the intention of writing an article. In five days it will be 70 years since Auschwitz was liberated. To commemorate all the people who were deported from Westerbork all the names will be read at the camp. The reading started today and will continue around the clock to finish on the 27th. I will be reading on Monday the 26th at 14:50. The reading of the 102,000 names can be followed via livestream at 102000namenlezen.nl. Apart from all this I am also working on an article about the survival chances of the refugee children with Peter Tammes, and on the first chapter of my book. I'm finding the first chapter the most difficult, which is why I started with chapter 6 last year.

This week's spotlight is Chioma of Chioma's Evolution of Style. Her outfit from last week's link-up is fabulous! We love it, so make sure to stop by her blog and say hello! NEXT WEEK: Next week we are styling your favorite looks featuring red/white/pink in honor of Valentine's Day! Thanks so much for linking up each week! xo. « Valentine's Day Gift Guide! Looking so pretty and feminine! Love your jacket, it's a great piece! Love your marsala jacket! Such a fun deviation from the traditional black moto. Love your jacket and your bump is adorable!! Great outfit! Beautiful jacket! Loving the dress showing off your cute bump with the jacket on top! So chic! You look beautiful. That burgundy leather jacket is stellar! Great maternity style!! I love how you embrace the bump! I love how you are dressing our baby bump! The color of your jacket is gorgeous! You have really great fashion sense! I'm loving the black jersey dress! you look amazing!! love the dress! I am loving this look on you Elle! You are seriously the cutest! Loving that bump!

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Nachrichten»MorphoSys AG: Dr. Sarah Fakih joins MorphoSys as Head of Corporate Communications and Investor Relations MorphoSys AG: Dr. Sarah Fakih joins MorphoSys as Head of Corporate Communications and Investor Relations PLANEGG/MUNICH GERMANY / ACCESSWIRE / April 1, 2019 / Dr. Sarah Fakih joined MorphoSys AG (FSE: MOR; Prime Standard Segment, MDAX & TecDAX; NASDAQ: MOR) as Vice President and Head of Corporate Communications and Investor Relations effective April 1, 2019. She will report to Chief Financial Officer Jens Holstein. Sarah joins MorphoSys from Qiagen N.V., a leading global provider of sample and assay technologies for molecular diagnostics, academic research, the pharmaceutical industry and applied testing. Qiagen is listed in the German indexes MDAX and TecDAX as well as at the New York Stock Exchange. Sarah has held the position of Director Investor Relations since April 2018 at Qiagen N.V. in Hilden. She joined the Investor Relations Department in October 2015, having started as a scientist at Qiagen in 2009. Sarah has a PhD in Chemistry (Dr. rer. nat.) from the University of Münster, held a Postdoctoral position at the King's College London, Department of Pharmacy, and was awarded a habilitation at the University of Göttingen, Department of Inorganic Chemistry. Sarah had also been appointed to a full professorship for Coordination Chemistry / Bioinorganic Chemistry at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich in 2009 and has a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Würzburg in collaboration with the Florida Gulf Coast University, USA and Boston University, USA. "We are extremely happy that we have gained with Sarah a highly experienced and competent Investor Relations expert with a strong scientific background for this important corporate function in our company. 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If you want to get more complete image about your website you need to know how well your site is converting. It was designed with a specific goal in mind, be it game download, game purchase or filling up newsletter form. Google Analytics can help you track goal conversion rate. For a website dedicated to games I advise to setup two goals: game download and game purchase. Those two are the most important goals your site should be aimed for. You need to maximize number of downloads per visitor and your games should maximize number of purchases. If your Google Analytics account is set up and working you can proceed to setup goals. Click Edit link in Settings column. In the second table you will be able to setup up to 4 goals. Click edit on G1. You will need to enter goal information: Goal URL and Goal Name. URL is important. Google uses it to determine whether the goal was achieved or not. If you enter wrong URL, your goal will not be tracked. Goal name is not that important, but keep it meaningful. If you want G1 to track downloads you can skip funnel section completely. If you track purchases you can enter URL of all steps that are necessairy to complete order, like enter billing informations, credit card data, etc. You will be able to check where people abondon purchase process. Match type is the trickiest one. First of all, to make it work, you need a page your game is downloading that will redirect to a certain binary file. On this page you need to put Google Analytics code. And last but not least, if you want to track all downloads, you better put that page in subfolder download and choose regular expression match. Enter /download/ as Goal URL. Otherwise if you enter URL without or with www. one of this URL's will not be tracked. As I mentioned in one of my previous articles, tracking orders is not so easy. First of all, you need to put Google Analytics code on your invoice page. If you are using eSellerate, you are lucky. eSellerate is kind enough to setup this on request. I don't know if other e-commerce providers can assist you with it, but their help would let you not only track number of transactions, but also order value and quantity of purchased products (and even more, like average order value, site conversion rate, revenue per medium, etc.). Once you get some orders you'll be able to see a lot of great informations about your website. But having information is just the beggining, what you do with it is the key to your success. Tracking your visitors is very important. If you don't know who is visiting your site, where is coming from or what are your most popular pages then you are not able to improve your website. What is even worse, you don't know if a change on your website has a positive or negative impact on your traffic. There are various options available for website owners, from free to commercial. For a long time I have been using commercial software, but it didn't give me information I needed. And then I found Google Analytics. Google wants you to attract more of the traffic you are looking for, and help you turn more visitors into customers. Use Google Analytics to learn which online marketing initiatives are cost effective and see how visitors actually interact with your site. Make informed site design improvements, drive targeted traffic, and increase your conversions and profits. Google Analytics is a free tracking tool (though some argue about it and say it's an exchange deal – you let them know how big is your site, they let you use their software). Installation process is quite simple. You need to go to http://www.google.com/analytics/ and set up a Google account, or if you have a Google account just sign in and Google will create Analytics service for you. The next step is to add website profile. Google will show you tracking code. All you need to do is to copy this code into your website footer (I hope you do use templates). After Google verifies placement of tracking code you are ready to go. Come back next day and check out what it was able to track. If you see no data, it means you did something wrong. The best thing about Google Analytics is that you place just one piece of code and it detects which pages on your site are the most popular. This is something not every commercial soft offers. You can easily find out that ie. "your game description page" is the most popular page on your website and what's more – you can find out how people go to this page (search engine traffic, referrals, direct entries, etc.). Setting up Google Analytics is almost done. The important step is to set up goals. This will be covered in the next post. I, just like many developers here, was suffering due to lack of sales. Creating games is fun, but when your game is done, you put in on your website and then wait… wait… and sometimes sales come, but mostly not. I started to ask myself why is this happening. My games are great (don't they? ;-)) so what's wrong? Am I the only one that likes my game? I started to read various blogs regarding making money online. No, not to make money selling ads, but to learn how to improve my website. When I finally got some results I decided to write few articles to help you find the right way. So you want to know how to get more sales without spending a penny? First of all, you need to know who is visiting your site and what one is doing. You need a good tracking tool. Because you don't want to spend a penny, you can use Google Analytics (GA). That's what I use and it works great. Installing Google Analytics is easy, so I won't go deep into this topic today. When you get GA working the next thing you need to do is to set goals. 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Orkney's reputation for energy innovation has been showcased once again on the shortlist for the 2018 Scottish Green Energy Awards. Four Orkney-based projects and companies are in the running for recognition across five categories at the annual ceremony, which will be held in Edinburgh in December. Scotrenewables Tidal Power, now rebranded as Orbital Marine Power, has been nominated for two titles for its SR2000 tidal energy device - Best Innovation Award and Outstanding Project Award. Community Energy Scotland's 'Surf 'n' Turf' scheme, which sees green energy converted to hydrogen to power local ferries docked in Kirkwall, is shortlisted for the Best Community Project Award. The initiative is a partnership with the Orkney-based European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), Orkney Islands Council, Eday Renewable Energy and ITM Power. Microsoft has been nominated for the Carbon Reduction Award for its Project Natick. The innovative scheme saw a mini data centre sunk in the sea off Orkney earlier this year to investigate whether it can boost energy efficiency. The final Orkney nominee is local company Leask Marine Ltd, which is up for the Outstanding Service Award. It's more fantastic recognition for Orkney's reputation as a major centre for renewable energy research. Local projects and businesses are nominated in five of the eleven categories with a shortlist at the event. Find out more about Orkney's renewable energy expertise via the Orkney Renewable Energy Forum's website, the Orkney Marine Renewables website and the official EMEC website.

Home > TV > THE GRINDER Season 1 Poster THE GRINDER Season 1 Poster How many TV lawyers does it take to try a real-life case in a real-life courtroom? One, and his name is THE GRINDER. Starring Emmy Award nominee Rob Lowe ("Parks and Recreation," "The West Wing"), THE GRINDER is a new comedy about a famous TV lawyer at a crossroads. When his legal series ends, he decides to move back home and join his family's real law firm – despite having no formal education, no bar certification, no license to practice and no experience in an actual courtroom. DEAN SANDERSON (Lowe) spent eight seasons playing the title role on the hit legal drama "The Grinder." Now he's moving back to his hometown of Boise, Idaho, where his brother, STEWART (Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award nominee Fred Savage, "The Wonder Years"), is a real-life attorney who is poised to take over the family law firm. It doesn't take long for Dean to start injecting his TV drama into every aspect of Stewart's life, both in the courtroom and at home, impacting Stewart's wife – and Dean's high school sweetheart – DEBBIE (Mary Elizabeth Ellis, NEW GIRL, "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"); their two kids, 15-year-old LIZZIE (Hana Hayes, "Bucket and Skinner's Epic Adventures") and 13-year-old ETHAN (Connor Kalopsis, "Days Of Our Lives"); and Dean and Stewart's father, the law firm's head, DEAN SR. (William Devane, "24: Live Another Day"). Dean and Stewart don't see to eye to eye, but when they stop arguing with each other and start arguing together in court…they make a formidable team. THE GRINDER is the story of two brothers, who took different paths, but meet again in the middle – for justice…sort of. Categories TV Tags Fox, The Grinder Post navigation THE BLACKLIST Season 3 Poster COP CAR Blu-ray And DVD Release Details

SAN PEDRO, Laguna—Supporters belonging to rival parties rallied behind their leaders as the legal battle for the mayoral seat of Imus in Cavite province continued. Supporters of Homer Saquilayan trooped to the Imus Cathedral for what they called the "walk for truth" on Monday. Cavite Gov. Jonvic Remulla joined Saquilayan's supporters. At the Municipal Hall just across the cathedral, provincial government employees wore yellow in support of Emmanuel Maliksi, a member of the Liberal Party, who was installed in December by a court ruling that declared him winner in the 2010 elections against Saquilayan. Saquilayan, of the Nacionalista Party, appealed the case to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) which issued a decision last week reversing the court ruling. The rallies were peaceful, said Supt. Hersan Mojica, Imus police chief. Maliksi, who continues to sit as mayor despite the Comelec order, said the continuing battle had affected preparations for the town's Wagayway Festival on May 28.

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A healthy soup to warm you on a Routt County winter night. In stock pot, cook barley and lentils in 2 cups chicken stock until tender. Add rest of chicken stock and sherry. In a large nonstick skillet, saute onion and garlic in oil. When onions are soft, add mushrooms. When mixture is tender, add to stock pot. Simmer soup, covered, for 20 minutes. Makes 6 servings. Adapted from Judith Emerson's recipe in the "Fair Family Favorites — Celebrating 100 Years of the Routt County Fair." Copies of this cookbook are available for purchase at the Routt County Extension office. Proceeds benefit the Routt County Fair exhibit hall.

Deaths in Laois - September 4, 2019 Frank Wall - Mountmellick The death took place on Wednesday, September 4 of Frank Wall of Derrycloney, Mountmellick. Peacefully at home surrounded by his loving family. Predeceased by his beloved wife Mary. Funeral arrangements will be announced later Kathleen Kavanagh - Colt The death took place on Tuesday, September 3 of Kathleen Kavanagh (née Brennan) of Colt, Ballyroan. Peacefully in the loving care of her family. Predeceased by her husband Liam (1990) and son Barry (1982). Deeply regretted by her loving daughters, Mary (Annabi), Dolores (Murray), Louise and Grace, her loving sons, Austin, Paul, Raymond and Brian, her sons-in-law, Liam and Karim, her daughters-in-law, Marie and Betty, her grandchildren, her great-grandchildren, her brother Paddy, sisters-in-law and brother-in-law, nieces, nephews, relatives and friends. Reposing at her residence from Tuesday from 5pm until prayers at 6pm on Wednesday. Transfer of remains to St. Peter and Paul's Church, Portlaoise arriving at 7.15pm followed by Mass with Divine Mercy Devotions. Private transferral to St. Fintan's Church, Raheen for 12 noon Requiem Mass on Thursday. Interment in the adjoining cemetery. Mairead Kavanagh - Coolrain The death took place on Monday, September 2 of Mairead Kavanagh (née Delaney) of Windsor, Coolrain. Peacefully, at home surrounded by her loving family. Predecesed by her parents Fintan and Margo Delaney, sister Paula (Byrne). Deeply regretted by her loving husband Gerry, sons Paul and Gearóid, their partners Tina and Aisling, grandchildren Aoife and Jack, sister Breda (Dooley), brothers James and Fintan, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, nieces, nephews, she will be sadly missed by family, neighbours and dear friends Reposing at her home this Tuesday evening from 4pmwith Rosary at 8pm. Removal on Wednesday afternoon to St. Fergal's Church Camross, arriving for Requiem Mass at 2.30pm, followed by burial in the adjoining cemetery Elizabeth Bennett - Portlaoise The death took place on Monday, September 2 of Elizabeth Bennett of Crumlin, Dublin and late of Coolnamona, Portlaoise. Peacefully, at the Regional Hospital, Portlaoise. Elizabeth, daughter of the late Patrick and Peggy Bennett. Deeply regretted by her loving brothers Joe and Anthony, sisters Mary and Margaret, sisters in law, brothers in law, nephews, nieces, relatives and friends. Reposing at Keegans Funeral Home, Portlaoise, on Wednesday from 5.30pm. Removal at 7pm to arrive at St Fintan's Church, Ballyfin, at 7.30pm. Requiem Mass on Thursday at 11am, followed by interment in SS Peter and Paul's Cemetery, Portlaoise. Sarah Patricia Phelan - Mountrath The death took place on Monday, September 2 of Sarah Patricia (Patty) Phelan (née Fitzpatrick) of Rushin Road, Mountrath. Peacefully) in her 98th year, in the tender care of staff at Ballard Lodge Nursing Home Portlaoise. Predeceased by her husband Padraig, sadly missed by her loving family, grandchildren, daughters-in-law, son-in-law, brothers, sisters, extended family, neighbours and friends. Reposing at her home this Monday evening from 7pm with Rosary at 9pm. Reposing on Tuesday from 3pm with Rosary at 9pm. Removal on Wednesday morning to St Edmund's Church Castletown, arriving for Requiem Mass at 12 noon, followed by Burial in St. Fintan's Cemetery Mountrath. Ann French - Portlaoise The death took place on Sunday, September 1 of Ann French (née Dempsey) of Coolock, Dublin and formerly of Donegal and originally from Portlaoise. Passed away peacefully at Beaumont Hospital, surrounded by her loving family. Beloved mother of Bernadette, Veronica, Declan, John, Edel, Joseph, Ann, Orla and Jacinta; she will be very sadly missed by her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, daughters-in-law, sons-in-law, sister Sarah, nieces, nephews, relatives, friends and neighbours. Reposing at her daughter Bernadette's home on Wednesday from 12pm onwards. Removal on Thursday to St. Joseph the Artisan Church, Bonnybrook arriving for 10.30am Funeral Mass, followed by burial in Dardistown Cemetery. Ita Salmon - The Heath The death took place on Monday, August 26 of Ita Salmon (née Scanlon) of The Heath, Portlaoise, London and late of Belmullet. Peacefully. Beloved wife of the late David Salmon, late of Dysart, Stradbally. Sadly missed by her loving sister Vera, nephews and nieces, John, Angela, Geraldine and Ann. Especially her niece Dawn and her husband Frank and her cherished grand nieces Charlotte and and Elizabeth with whom she resided. Also her sisters-in-law Bernadette, Jane and Philomena, good neighbours and friends. Requiem Mass will take place in the Church of the Assumption, The Heath at 11am on Thursday followed by interment in the adjoining cemetery. Geoff Samways - Portarlington The death took place on Sunday, September 1 of Geoff Samways of Killenard, Portarlington. Peacefully, surrounded by his loving family, in the wonderful care of the staff of Dun Aimie Ward, St Vincent's Hospital Mountmellick. Sadly missed by his loving wife Paula, son Ian, daughters Vicky and Lisa, grandchildren, sons-in-law, daughter-in-law, extended family and friends. Funeral service in St John's Church Killenard, Portarlington on Wednesday at 12 noon. Interment afterwards in the adjoining Cemetery. Vincent Murtagh - Mountrath The death took place on Sunday, September 1 of Vincent (Sonny) Murtagh of Shannon Road, Mountrath and formerly of Arthur Griffith Park, Lucan, Dublin. Peacefully, in the care of staff at Midlands Regional Hospital Portlaoise, surrounded by his loving family. Deeply regretted by his loving wife Maureen, sons Vincent, Brendan and Barry, grandchildren Gillian, Conor, Curtis, and Lewis, daughters-in-law, Jean and Helen, brothers, sisters, extended family, relatives, neighbours and friends. Reposing at Burke's Funeral Home, Mountrath, on Tuesday evening from 7pm, with Rosary at 9pm. Removal on Wednesday morning to St. Fintan's Church Mountrath, arriving for Requiem Mass at 11am, followed by Cremation in Newlands Cross Cermatorium.

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The White House was taking a victory lap the day after the special counsel found no proof of collusion and reached no opinion on obstruction. President Donald Trump on Monday responded "yes, he did" when asked if special counsel Robert Mueller acted honorably, while White House press secretary Sarah Sanders defended Attorney General William Barr. Trump was asked about Mueller by reporters as he was leaving an event at the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. During the course of the nearly two-year Mueller probe, Trump repeatedly attacked the special counsel and his team of lawyers as conducting a "witch hunt" against him. The president also said Monday he would not mind if Barr released the full Mueller report — "it wouldn't bother me at all," Trump said — and was pleased the probe was finally over, but wished it would "have gone a lot sooner, a lot quicker." "We're glad it's over. It's 100 percent the way it should've been," Trump said in the Oval Office with Netanyahu sitting beside him. He went on to say that people whom he did not name had committed "evil" acts. "There are a lot of people out there who have done some very, very evil things, very bad things," Trump said. "I would say treasonous things against our country...You know who they are. They have done so many evil things." Trump added, "I love this country. I love this country as much as I can love anything, but what they did — it was a false narrative, it was a terrible thing. We can never let this happen to another president again. Very few people I know could have handled it." The president also said he had given no thought to pardoning anyone caught up in the Mueller probe. Earlier, in an interview Monday on NBC's "Today" show, Sanders said Barr did not make a "snap judgment" about whether Trump had obstructed justice. "It's not a snap judgment," Sanders said, adding that Barr "takes his job seriously." The comments came after NBC's Savannah Guthrie pointed out that Barr wrote a memo last year arguing that the president could not have obstructed justice. Guthrie added that some critics said the attorney general — who determined that Trump did not obstruct justice within 48 hours of receiving Mueller's report on Friday — might have acted in haste. Vice President Mike Pence also touted the findings in remarks to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's annual policy conference in Washington, D.C., on Monday, saying the Justice Department did not find collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in 2016 or that the president obstructed justice. "Make no mistake about it, my fellow Americans, this was a total vindication of the president of the United States and our campaign," Pence said. "And it should be welcomed by every American," he added. "And even if some Democrats want to spend more time on discredited allegations, the American people can be confident the president and I are going to continue to focus where we always have, on the issues that are most important to our country, on a stronger and more prosperous America and on a safer world." In a letter to leaders of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees on Sunday, Barr wrote that Mueller's investigation did not find collusion between the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it and the Russian government in its efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election. Barr added that the special counsel declined "to make a traditional prosecutorial judgment" on obstruction of justice, leaving it up to the attorney general to draw a conclusion about actions such as the president's firing of James Comey as FBI director in May 2017.

Trinidad, Montecristo and Romeo y Julieta are the three brands selected by Habanos, S.A. for these Ediciones Limitadas (Limited Editions) 2016 and will be arriving to the different points of sales worldwide in the coming weeks. Habanos, S.A. launch the Ediciones Limitadas 2016, Montecristo Dantés, Trinidad Topes and Romeo y Julieta Capuletos, that are reaching to the different outlets around the world. The Ediciones Limitadas – Limited Editions- of Habanos* are appreciated and expected by the aficionados every year. These Ediciones are special because their vitolas do not exist in the regular range of sizes of the brand portfolio. They are also distinguished by a careful selection of all their leaves – wrapper, filler and binder -, which have been aged for a period of at least 2 years. The dark wrapper dressing these Habanos, coming from the highest levels on the shade grown black tobacco plant, is another characteristic that identifies them, as this wrapper is darker than the one of the vitolas in the regular range of the brand. All Habanos of these Ediciones Limitadas are made "Totalmente a Mano con Tripa Larga" ("Totally handmade with Long Filler") and with leaves selected in very small quantities from the Vuelta Abajo* zone, in the region of Pinar del Río*, Cuba. These Habanos have been made by Cuban expert cigar rollers, willing to meet the expectations of the most demanding Habano enthusiasts. Topes (56 ring gauge x 125 mm length). This vitola is also unique in the range of sizes of Habanos; it will be the brand's heaviest ring gauge after Trinidad Vigía (54 x110 mm), showing the brand's clear trend of filling out its traditional portfolio with new heavy ring gauge benchmarks. Trinidad Topes, with medium strength flavour, is presented in a 12-unit Semi Boîte Nature case. Montecristo Dantés (48 ring gauge by 167 mm length). This is a heavy to medium ring gauge Habano, with an elegant format and medium to full strength flavour. In addition, this Habano is the first "Hermoso" (48 ring gauge) launched in the Montecristo brand. This Limited Edition is presented in a special 10-unit case. Romeo y Julieta Capuletos (53 ring gauge x 153 mm length). For the very first time, the vitola de galera "Sobresalientes" is launched with Capuletos, totally unprecedented in the Habanos portfolio. Enthusiasts will be able to enjoy a balanced, aromatic blend from the brand in a completely new format with strength flavor. *(D.O.P.) Protected Denomination of Origin. Corporación Habanos, S.A.

When delivering actionable analytics within an organisation I often spend some time removing commentary from management reports. I have found that the regular reporting packs produced for senior management are often drowning in long commentaries that attempt to explain the data in the packs. This immediately gets me asking 'Why?' most of the commentary exists. Why can't the data do the talking? What is it about the way the data is organised and presented that makes it necessary to add all of this text? In my experience there are a number of reasons for this. The first is poor design of the report. Not enough thought has been given to either the purpose of the report (i.e. what are the objectives? what are the decisions we want taken?) or the audience (i.e. what are the information requirements of the decisions makers? how do they prefer information to be presented?). not sufficiently appreciate the 'brilliance' that was required to deliver the result. In both cases the intent of the manager reporting the figures is to 'spin' the message given to the report reader. 9 times out of 10 the spin is intended to mislead the reader. All of these reasons for extensive amounts of report pack commentary result in at best the report data failing to provide the insight required by the business users. At worst it misleads decision makers into making bad decisions. I like to think that my job is to create an environment where good decisions can be made because they are based on unbiased information that fairly measures performance. In practical terms, this translates into reducing commentary by improving the quality of the automatically produced data. This sounds simple but this is deceptive. It is very challenging to achieve in practice. Here is a little video that I have made that helps explain how identical words can be spun to justify diametrically opposed management messages. It's a bit of fun (adapted from a political campaign ad I saw some years ago) and that is why I have found it effective. Enjoy.

Republicans falsely claim that killer of Oakland police officer was involved in racial justice protests Louise Hall Trump administration officials and Republicans in Congress are continuing to suggest that the man accused of murdering a federal protective services officer was linked to racial justice protests. Steven Carrillo, an active-duty staff sergeant in the US Air Force, opened fire on a guard shack outside of a federal building in Oakland on 29 May, according to charging documents. He later allegedly killed David Patrick Underwood, a federal protective services officer, during a drive-by shooting that same night. The killing of Mr Underwood took place the same night as demonstrators were gathering throughout the city to mourn the death of George Floyd but an FBI affidavit last month said Mr Carrillo was not associated with the demonstrators. "There is no evidence that these men had any intention to join the demonstration in Oakland as some as the media have asked. They came to Oakland to kill cops," said John Bennet, the agent in charge of the FBI's San Francisco division, according to CBS News. A number of Trump administration officials and Republicans have continued to suggest that Mr Carrillo was affiliated with the nationwide George Floyd protests, Talking Point Memo first reported. At a hearing on Thursday, Senator Ron Johnson linked Mr Carrillo to the protests, which he described as "chaotic and violent", according to the website. "News reports said the protest involving approximately 8,000 people turned chaotic and violent, as demonstrators smashed windows, looted stores, and broke into a bank a few blocks from where Officer Underwood was on duty," the senator was quoted as saying. He reportedly said the suspect's "anti-police views drew him to Oakland, where he saw the anti-police protest as an opportunity for more bloodshed". A spokesman for Mr Johnson denied that the senator was suggesting Mr Carillo was among the protesters and insisted he was only suggesting that he was using the demonstrations as an opportunity to kill a police officer. TPM reported that a security camera still taken seconds before the alleged murder, and cited in the federal criminal complaint against Mr Carrillo, shows the attack actually took place on a near-empty street. Senator Ted Cruz also seemingly recently implied that Mr Underwood's death was connected to the protests at a hearing on Wednesday regarding "The Right of the People Peaceably to Assemble: Protecting Speech by Stopping Anarchist Violence". He provided a montaged news clip describing the killing next to other clips of protest coverage, implying a connection. Acting Deputy DHS secretary Ken Cuccinelli wrote in June that while the nation was "appalled" by George Floyd's death in Minneapolis, "The mayhem that ensued, however, cannot be excused or justified, particularly when it causes the death of another." "How do we prevent the death of another Patrick Underwood? We don't allow lawlessness in our streets," he wrote in an opinion piece for Fox News. Officials have in fact said Mr Carrillo was a suspected member of the Boogaloo movement, a loosely-connected group of extremist right-wing activists calling for another American civil war through violent actions. Mr Carillo has now been charged with murder and attempted murder, which could carry a death sentence. Robert Alvin Justus Jr, who allegedly drove Mr Carrillo in the van used for the drive-by shooting, has been charged with aiding and abetting murder and attempted murder. Suspect in murder of police officer wrote 'Boogaloo' messages in blood Portland mayor accuses protesters of 'attempting to commit murder' Oakland Athletics coach apologises for 'unintentional' Nazi salute Republican veterans release attack ad against Trump Trump will 'probably' accept GOP nomination in speech at White House Dustin Diamond: Saved by the Bell star given stage four cancer diagnosis Actor played Screech on Nineties sitcom

Cathaoirleach of Clare County Council, Bill Chambers signs the Book of Condolences. Clare County Council has opened a Book of Condolence at Áras Contae an Chláir in Ennis in solidarity with the people of Manchester and the UK in memory of the victims of last night's terror attack at the Manchester Arena. "On behalf of Clare County Council and the people of Clare, I wish to extend my deepest sympathies and condolences to the families and friends of those killed and injured. Our thoughts and prayers are with them and the people of Manchester at this difficult time," he added. Members of the public are invited to sign the Books at Áras Contae an Chláir, New Road, Ennis, during office hours (9am -5pm, Monday-Friday). Once closed, the Book of Condolence will be delivered to the Office of the Mayor of Greater Manchester, the Rt. Hon. Andy Burnham. Tags Bill Chambers book of condolences Manchester Manchester Arena Mayor of Greater Manchester terror attack the Rt. Hon. Andy Burnham.

Fan-zone FC Sheriff - FC Milsami. The semifinal match of the Cup of Moldova It is time for semifinal matches for the Cup of Moldova. Four clubs continue fighting for this trophy, and it is a coincidence that those are the teams taking first four places in the standings. On wednesday, April 29, there takes places the first match at the Main Arena this year. At 18:00 FC Sheriff and FC Milsami meet in the match. At the same time FC Dacia and FC Tiraspol play in Speia. The entrance to the stadium costs 10 Transnistrian rubles. You can buy the tickets in Agroprombank payment terminals as well at the ticket counters at the stadium. FC Sheriff Press Service

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Archive | Bloomfield High School Class of 1973 RSS feed for this section Bloomfield High School Class of 1973 Memorial Dedication Page Bengals Forever: A memorial tribute to those that have left us. Memories, the 1973 Bloomfield High School Yearbook Cover designed by Patricia Anselmo Daly ('73) Desiring light but enveloping darkness You search for the beauty And the meaning. ~Colette Natalie Lisacchi ('73) Gone, but never forgotten . . . "No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights." ~C. S. Lewis Poem for his Friends So my friend you're feelin' down Someone you once knew is gone Farther than the longest mile Gone without a word. Life is a sacred gift Taken back for no reason Going faster than it came leaving only a sigh. How you doin' friend we're thinkin' of you Hold your head up in the morning sun Look down upon us from wherever you may be Your life hasn't stopped, it's just begun. So your friends' memories are never gone. Sometimes lost but always found And as time passes day by day Sooner than you think you'll meet again. So my friend, don't let it bring you down He is better off then we are here. He is watching over us somewhere. ~Kenneth J. Brill ('73) John Mitchell Adams Mass to be Held Today for John Mitchell Adams. A Mass will be held this morning for John Mitchell Adams, 18 son of Mr. and Mrs. Kelty Adams of 26 Olive Street, at St. Anthony's Church, Franklin Avenue, Belleville. The youth was reported missing in heavy seas at Seaside Heights last Thursday, and presumed drowned. Marine police and Coast Guard boats searched through Sunday. The accident occurred about 7:40 p.m. off of the Summer Street beach. Mr. Adams and two other youths were on a raft which was upset by a wave. Mr. Adams was swept away but the two other youths managed to get to shore. Born in Wyatt, MO., Mr. Adams moved with his family to Connecticut, then to East Orange and Bloomfield. John Adams attended Clifford Scott High School in East Orange for two years and Bloomfield High School for two years and was a member of the BHS graduating class of 1973. He had been sworn into the Naval Reserves and was supposed to report for duty on 1. He planned to spend two weeks with friends at the shore first. In addition to his parents, members of the youth's family include two sisters, Mary Louise, 19 and Angela, 15 at home; his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Alphonse Condito of 91 Watsessing Avenue, and his paternal grandfather, John W. Adams of the Olive Street address. Obituary; John Mitchell Adams.pdf. See link below. Phyllis (Angelo) Piccirillo Patricia Caruso Patrick Cervasio Thomas W. Corcoran (Drama Club; Acting Club; Vice President; All-School Production; Student Prints; Photography Staff; Chess Club; Intramural Basketball; Intramural Volleyball; Camera Club) Thomas W. Corcoran, on Monday, September 15, 2003, of Upper Montclair, NJ, husband of Patricia Barry Corcoran, father of Maureen, Leigh Ann, and Heather Corcoran, all of Upper Montclair, son of the late Charles andVirginia Corcoran, brother of Charles of Middlesex, also survived by 15 sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law, as well as 23 nieces and nephews. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral from The O'BOYLE FUNERAL HOME, 309 Broad Street, Bloomfield, NJ, Friday at 9:00 am. The funeral service will be held at Riverside Community Church, 50 Union Avenue, Nutley, at 10:30am. Internment Immaculate Conception Cemetery. Friends may call Thursday 2-4 and 7-9 pm. For those who wish, in lieu of flowers,contributions may be made to the Jennifer Swift Feldman Foundation, 60 Bellevue Avenue, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043, or the Riverside Community Church. Kathy Dell'Osso Michele Mary De Vito Howard S. Dieterle (J.V. Baseball; Varsity Basketball; Intramural Volleyball) John Dull Stephen Figurelli Karen E. Fleisher (Display Committee; Guidance Worker) Al R. Fleming William F. Giammearse Edward A. Gleason Kevin Robert Greener (Library Council, Display Committee; Wrestling. Outdoor Track) Maralyce "Molly" Henchey Maralyce (Molly) Henchey of Montclair, N.J., died on Nov. 21, 2010, at Father Hudson House, Elizabeth, N.J. She was 55 years old. Relatives and friends are invited to a memorial service to celebrate her life on Saturday, Dec. 4, from 12 to 2 p.m. at Frank Halpin's Brookdale Funeral Home, 1284 Broad St., Bloomfield, N.J. Maralyce was a 1976 graduate of Ramapo College with a degree in psychology. She was an avid gardener. Maralyce was the beloved daughter of the late Ann and William Henchey; dear sister of Monica Ginsberg of Randolph, N.J., and Michael Henchey and Lawrence Henchey, both of Montclair, and loving aunt of Aaron and Ethan Ginsberg. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Father Hudson House, 111 Dehart Place, Elizabeth, N.J. 07202, in her memory. Norajean Hughes (Home Economics Club; History Club) Robert L. Juliano (Outdoor Track) Joan Kabasakalian (German Club; National Honor Society) Charles S. Karsh (Valedictorian; History Club; Creative Writing Club; Ecology Club; Treasurer; Key Club; National Honor Society) Carol Lynn Koslosky (Football Program) Paul Krie Donald Robert Krentz (Intramural Basketball) Joseph P. LaBadia (Varsity Football, Golf, Italian Club; Varsity "B" Club; Intramural basketball); Birth Date: 11 June 1954; Death Date: 22 April 2005; Localities: Big canoe, Pickens, Jasper, Georgia, 30143 Kathleen Ann Lataro (Home Economics Club) Dorothy Ann Leggins Thomas James Madden Daniel Peter McGrath Daniel McGrath Retired Bloomfield fireman Daniel McGrath, 61, of Longs, S.C., passed away on Aug. 7, 2016. Relatives and friends are invited to attend a celebration of his life at the O'Boyle Funeral Home, 309 Broad St., Bloomfield, N.J., on Tuesday, Sept. 6, from 5 to 7 p.m. Please express condolences at oboylefuneralhome.com. Born in Newark, N.J., Daniel lived in Bloomfield and the last eight years in Longs. He was a retired fireman in Bloomfield for 20 years. Daniel was the brother of Gerard, Terrance, and Susan. Nancy E. McLaughlin (Home Economics Club; MEMORIES '73; Literary Staff; Future Nurses of America; National Honor Society; Recording Secretary; Junior Red Cross Representative; Delegate to the Citizenship Institute; S. G. A.; Homeroom Representative) Henry George Meininger Henry George Meininger USMC veteran and former Caldwell police lieutenant, 61 Henry George Meininger, 61, of Blairstown, N.J., for the past two years, formerly of West Milford, N.J., passed away Sept. 9, 2016, at Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, N.J. A visitation will be held from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m., today, Monday, Sept. 12, at Newbaker Funeral Home, 200 Route 94, Blairstown. A funeral service will take place at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 13, at the Free Evangelical Church, 11 Lambert Rd., Blairstown. Henry was born on Dec. 9, 1954, in Bloomfield, N.J., to John H. and Phyllis (Lawson) Meininger. He was a graduate of Bloomfield High School, served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1974-1977. He retired as a police lieutenant of the Caldwell, N.J., police force, and later as accident investigator instructor. Henry attended the Free Evangelical Church in Blairstown, and was involved with the Solid Rock Day Camp in West Milford, N.J., where he was an instructor of archery and paintball. He is survived by his wife, Christine (Kongsberg) Meininger; three daughters, Anna Pascarella, Krista Dailey, and Amanda Meininger; three grandchildren, and a sister, Phyllis Bedotto. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made in Henry's name to either The Solid Rock Day Camp, 37 Stevens Rd., West Milford, N.J. 07480 or the Shiloh Bible Camp, 753 Burnt Meadow Rd., Hewitt, N.J. 07421. Gerald Oliveto Richard Pelosi Joseph Pezzino (Sophomore Football; Varsity Football; J. V. Baseball; Varsity Baseball) Kathy Pologonia John Puttorak James "Jimmie" Quine James Thomas Romanowski (Indoor Track, Outdoor Track, Cross Country, Intramural Basketball) Bernice J. Ryblewski (Art Club) Alfred Michael Saia (Intramural Basketball and Volleyball) Vincent Michael Salvatore (C. I. E.) Armond Sasso (J. V. Basketball; Varsity Basketball; Varsity Baseball) Richard A. Saunders John Scalise (Camera Club; Homeroom Representative) Thomas Phillip Scaringello Marla Scott Dennis Brian Slattery (Electronics Club; Homeroom Representative; Intramural basketball; Intramural Volleyball) Richard Soper Richard Soper Loving father, son, brother Richard Soper died unexpectedly in his home in Bloomfield, N.J., on Nov. 21, 2016, from complications of cancer. A memorial will be held at First Presbyterian Church on the Green on Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016, with visitation at 1 p.m., followed by the service at 2 p.m. Arrangements are by Van Tassel Funeral Home, vantasselfuneralhome.com. Richard was a loving father, son and brother. He was a man of integrity who endured many challenges in his life. His gruff exterior masked a very loving heart. Richard was born in Bad Axe, Mich., on Nov. 15, 1955, to Ruth Louise (Emery) Soper and Ward Orin Soper. When the family moved back to Bloomfield, Richard was educated in the Bloomfield school system. In 1972 Richard was given an award for bravery when he rescued his maternal grandmother from a home fire. He married in his twenties and was blessed with beautiful daughters, Georgann and Annatalie Soper, whom he loved very much. After living in Florida for a few years, Richard returned to Bloomfield to take devoted care of his parents. He was a loyal employee of Terry Drugs, then Esquire Big and Tall, until his retirement a few years ago. Richard is survived by his mother, Ruth; daughters, Georgann and Annatalie, and sister, Cheryl. He was predeceased by his father, Ward; grandmother, Louise Emery, and brother and sister, Ward Arthur Soper and Sandra Louise Soper. Richard will be greatly missed by those who knew and loved him very much. Published in Star-Ledger on Dec. 2, 2016– See more at: http://obits.nj.com/obituaries/starledger/obituary.aspx?n=richard-soper&pid=182920150&fhid=17157#sthash.bYeJPcAK.dpuf Theresa Spano (Pep Club; German Club; Future Teachers Club; Gym Club; S. G. A.; Dramatics Club; G. A. A.; Cheerleading Squad, Speedball; Basketball; Volleyball) Terry Spano, Rockette and performing arts school founder, of Roseland, 53 Terry Spano, 53, of Roseland passed into eternal rest Thursday in Hackensack University Medical Center, after fighting a courageous battle for four yeares against ovarian cancer. Services will be conducted from the LaMonica Memorial Home, 145 E. Mount Pleasant Ave., Livingston, on Monday, Sept. 29, at 9a.m., followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 10 a.m. in Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament Church, Roseland. Interment will follow in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, East Hanover. Visitation is on Sunday form 1 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Terry was born in Newark, the daughter of the late Michael and Carmella Spano. She was raised in Bloomfield and moved to Roseland in 1984. A 1973 graduate of Bloomfield Senior High School, Terry auditioned in her senior year and was accepted into the world famous Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall. This began a 23-year career that took her all over the world. Terry began her love of dancing at four years of age as a student of the Perry and Keller Dance Studio in East Orange. At Radio City Music Hall, she danced with such famous stars as Liza Minelli, Peter Allen, Liberace, Ginger Rogers and Gwen Verdon. She also starred in the made-for-television movie 'Legs', the life of a Rockette, print ads for'I Love New York', and the feature film, 'Annie'. In 1988, Terry was chosen to be one of eight Rockettes to co-star with Chita Rivera on a world tour of the revival of the Broadway hit of Cole Porter's 'Can Can'. This 2 1/2 year tour took Terry around the U.S. and all over the world to London, Paris, Germany, Australia and for three months, Japan. Terry was a 30-year member of the American Federation of Radio and Television Artists, Actors Equity and the Screen Actors Guild, voting every year for the Academy Awards. She retired from Radio City Music Hall in 1996 and became the founder and artistic director of the the Roseland School of Performing Arts, showcasing the development of young students in the area several times a year. Through these experiences, Terry gave others her courage to dream of a life in the performing arts. In June 2007, Terry was chosen Citizen of the Year by the Roseland Chapter of Unico National for her outstanding devotion and dedication to the Roseland community. She is survived by her husband of 28 years, John Higgins of Roseland; her brother, Michael Spano Jr. and his wife, Angela, and sons, Ryan, Gino and Michael, all of Roseland, and her many loving family members. In lieu of flowers, donations in Terry's memory would be appreciated and can be sent to The Sisters of Saint Joseph, St. Joseph's Villa, 110 W. Wissahickon Ave., Flourtown, Pa. 19031. Richard Staub Richard P. Staub, 54, passed away on Saturday, October 11, 2008. A memorial mass will be held on Saturday, October 25, 2008 at St. Mary'sChurch, 17 Msgr. Owens Pl., Nutley at 1:00 p.m. To send condolences and to sign the guestbook, please visit www.biondifuneralhome.com. Mr. Staub, formerly from Bloomfield and Florida, currently lived in Nutley and was a butcher and meat manager for Pathmark and ShopRite. Richard is survived by his former wife Louise Staub and his beloved son Richard Ryan Staub. He is also survived by his brothers Joseph Staub; David Staub and his wife Karen; John Staub and his wife Lisa. Richard is also survived by his sisters Mary Hoover, Theresa Sheldon and her husband Gary; Peggy Caruso and her husband John. He is also survived by many loving nieces, nephews and life-long friends. Arrangements by the Biondi Funeral Home of Nutley, NJ. Linda Tibbetts Vincent Henry Tucciarone Edwin D. Whelpley (Electronics Club; Chips and Sparks Club) Gail Wilks (Visovsky) Robert William Williams (Outdoor Track) Categories Bloomfield High School Class of 1973, high school, Memories

» Concrete Construction (60) A Discussion on the Top 10 Ways to Reduce Concrete's Carbon Footprint This On Demand CEU is a recorded presentation from a previously live webinar event. Concrete is the building block of modern society and the most widely used building material. Nearly every structure built today, including buildings, bridges, homes, and infrastructure uses concrete in some way. It provides us with shelter along with places to work, learn and play. It connects us through roads and rapid transit and airports. Water is delivered and treated in concrete structures. Concrete is economical, available everywhere, durable, and versatile. As demand for building construction continues to increase, it is likely the demand for concrete will also increase. Like all building products, however, concrete has a carbon footprint. This presentation will analyze the top ten strategies to take advantage of concrete's benefits while ensuring the lowest possible carbon footprint. 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Medicare Advantage plans commit fraud by submitting inaccurate risk-adjustment data for payment. As a whistleblower, you can put an end to these fraudulent practices and be rewarded for your efforts. Upcoding – With upcoding, fraud is committed by exaggerating the illness of patients. With a more serious diagnosis code, the facility can collect more money per plan member each month. Chart Mining – Reviewing charts to upcode diagnoses and look for new risk adjustment claims. Incentivizing upcoding – Encouraging doctors and other healthcare providers to upcode member diagnoses or list diagnoses that appear on the member's problem list but are not illnesses they were treated for that year. Upcoding is a major issue in the healthcare industry. It costs taxpayers millions each year because of the fraud committed against government funded programs intended to help the sick in need. If you have information about Medicare fraud, please call (845) 383-1728 today to speak about your potential whistleblower case. Even if you have seen these practices in action, it can be difficult to know what to do about it. Many employees fear for their job if they decide to blow the whistle on fraudulent practices. There are many protections in place to prevent employer retaliation against whistleblowers. And with the help of an experienced Medicare fraud lawyer like James Ratner, you can navigate the sometimes intimidating waters of your case without worry. Medicare fraud whistleblowers can be awarded a percentage of the money recovered in whistleblower cases. If you have information about Medicare fraud that cost the government millions of taxpayer dollars, please contact James T. Ratner for your confidential consultation with an experienced Medicare fraud attorney. Serving clients in New York and nationwide.

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The band's first CD release party (yes, there will be more than one!) is scheduled for 8:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 18, at the Wild Buffalo House of Music on Holly Street in Bellingham. Opening for the Walrus will be Vadinska. The five seasoned professionals who make up The Walrus have been energizing nightclubs, community festivals and private parties in the Pacific Northwest with classic rock cover tunes since the band formed nearly 11 years ago. Now they are poised to delight their growing fan base with a collection of original, "uncovered" tunes that combine the melodic harmonies of the 1960s and the psychedelic musical arrangements of the '70s with present day inspiration and high-tech recording techniques. Dingée, of course, is the soulmate, husband and first mate of Sheehan World publisher Kathy Sheehan, for whom one of his "Uncovered" songs was written. In addition to the sound produced by current Walrus band members, haunting strains from the violin of the late Guy Mulford (known as Kathy's "other" husband) are heard on 'Guy's Song,' a tribute to the beloved musician who died on Jan. 1, 2001. Mulford's posthumous fiddling is also a tribute to the top notch recording equipment and talent at Bayside Recording in Bellingham, where the album was produced and recorded over the last two years. "Each of the 11 songs is so different that the debut album defies categorization in a single musical genre," Sheehan said. Chip Westerfield of Bayside Recording, agreed. "It sounds more like a 'Walrus Greatest Hits' collection than a first album," Westerfield said. The Walrus CD is rich with classic rock, pop and folk vocal arrangements; ballads about friends who are like a 'Second Family' and about empowerment; screaming electric, acoustic and pedal-steel guitar licks; and love songs about absent lovers and cheating hearts. The synergy of original themes and lyrics combined with Sgt. Pepper-inspired rock song melodies points to the versatility and experience of Bellingham's Rockin' Sea Mammals. Shea adds that the classic rock sound has an ageless popularity. "It's not only the Baby Boomers who can relate to the Walrus' classic rock style," Shea said. "Some of our most appreciative fans are kids in their 20s whose parents serenaded them with songs like the Beatles 'Golden Slumbers' instead of 'Rockabye Baby.'" Shea says she looks forward to singing and playing the group's new songs as well as cover tunes by Jefferson Airplane, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Kansas, Mamas and Papas and others at a series of CD release events over the coming months. In addition to the Nov. 18 gig at Wild Buffalo House of Music, the Walrus will be performing – and selling the 'Uncovered' CD – at the Fairhaven Pub & Martini Bar in Bellingham on Dec. 1. Opening for the Walrus on Dec. 1 will be the popular Seattle acoustic band, The Senate. 'Uncovered' can be purchased for $15 from members of the Walrus, local music stores and CDBaby.com. It will also be available from the iTunes Music Store and other online music sites. For more information about the Walrus, including photos, a list of songs and booking information, go to http://www.tusktusk.com. Print-quality photos of The Walrus are also available on PRWebPhotowire.com by searching for "Walrus" or "classic rock."

Washington, D.C. - Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, along with Senators Todd Young (R-IN), Bill Nelson (D-FL), and Dean Heller (R-NV), this week introduced the Dialysis Patient Access to Integrated-care, Empowerment, Nephrologists, and Treatment Services (PATIENTS) Demonstration Act to deliver high-quality, integrated care to patients receiving dialysis for end-stage renal disease (ESRD). "This bipartisan legislation would help the thousands of Coloradans making burdensome trips to a dialysis clinic to receive necessary care," Bennet said. "As we continue to think holistically about health care-from care coordination to quality of life-this legislation is a practical step to improving health outcomes for some of the most vulnerable patients." Currently, patients who receive dialysis to treat ESRD spend three days a week at a dialysis clinic and still must make time for their other medical and social needs. The Dialysis PATIENTS Demonstration Act would establish an ESRD integrated care demonstration program where interdisciplinary teams, led by a nephrologist, would provide holistic management for all of the patient's health care needs. The program would utilize the dialysis facility as a central command point for patients to access the coordinated health care services. This practical approach to care delivery would improve health outcomes, reduce hospitalizations and readmissions, and increase quality of life for ESRD patients. A companion bill was introduced in the House by U.S. Representatives Jason Smith (R-MO), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), and Tony Cárdenas (D-CA).

"SLAIDBURN, a parish-town, in the west division of Staincliffe, liberty of Bowland; 9 miles NW. of Clitheroe, (Lanc.) 10 from Gisburn, and Long Preston, 12 from Settle, 20 from Lancaster and Blackburn, (Lanc.) 21 from Skipton, 62 from York. No Market. Fairs, Wednesday before Easter, and November 4. Principal Inn, Hark to Bounty. Pop. 914. The Church is a rectory, dedicated to Saint Andrew, in the deanry of Craven, value £28. Patron the Rev. Henry Wigglesworth. The Church is a large handsome structure, of red Fell stone, built about the time of Henry VIII. and appears to have been repaired in 1726. Within the altar is a stone, inscribed to the memory of Nicholas Townley, dated 1693. This place is situated near the western extremity of the Forest of Bowland, on the borders of Lancashire. Here is a Free Grammar School, which was erected and Endowed by John Brennand late of Panehill in this Parish. Gentleman who died the 15th day of May in the year of our Lord 1717. The Master's salary £50. and the Usher or second Master, about £20. per annum. The Courts Leet for the higher division of the Forest of Bowland are held here. "Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, procured a charter for a Fair at Slaydburn, on the eve and festival of St. Peter ad Vinc. and two days after." --Whitaker's Craven." Transcript of the entry for Slaidburn in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels". The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of Slaidburn. Ask for a calculation of the distance from Slaidburn to another place. The Dalehead and Stocks in Bowland website would be very pleased to hear from anyone who can help them in adding to the history and genealogical past for those two places. Stocks in Bowland is now submerged under the reservoir. The War Memorial at Slaidburn (with plaques for Dunsop and Newton). The Monumental Inscriptions for St. Andrew's Church, Slaidburn on Kate Hurst's web-site. The Monumental Inscriptions for St. Hubert's Church, Dunsop Bridge on Kate Hurst's web-site. The Monumental Inscriptions for St. Helen's Church, Waddington on Kate Hurst's web-site.

Back to school is an important time for kids. They get to see old friends and prepare for a big year of learning. But, perhaps, most importantly, they get to brag to all their fellow classmates about what an awesome summer they had. Want to help your kiddo embellish their story a little bit? It's easy. Just get them this Iron Man Armor Backpack, and let your kid tell everyone that they spent the summer training with Tony Stark! This backpack is made with 100 percent polyester canvas construction. Plastic zippers secure the main pocket and exterior pocket, and it's fully printed with costume details from the Iron Man suit. It measures about 11" wide, 17" tall, and 5" thick, with length adjustable shoulder straps to size it properly for a kid or adults. There's nothing wrong with superhero fun, especially when it involves blasting around the playground at recess. Get your kid this backpack, and they'll be ready to proudly display that they're as cool as Iron Man himself. Even if the story is just a little bit of a fabrication!

March 7, 2013 by Val Civilization De-railed: Lessons of the Holocaust I backdated this to the date when it was originally written. This is a paper that deals with the sociological, moral, and theological implications of the Holocaust and was based on Zygmunt Bauman's Modernity and the Holocaust. Civilization De-railed: Lessons of the Holocaust. Posted in Essays | Tagged history, holocaust, morality, sociology, theology, Western Civilization, World War II | Leave a comment May 2, 2010 by Val "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." – Margaret Mead, American anthropologist 1901 – 1978 (Moncur). Mead's words are words of encouragement, and words to live by, surely – a call-to-arms in pursuit of stewardship, edification to all who understand the importance of standing up for whatever causes or principles are deemed best and most noble for the betterment of the world and of society. But just what is best and most noble for the betterment of the world and of society? The chilling truth is that Mead's words serve well to universally describe what is required to affect change, regardless of the nature of the change in question: for good or for ill, it does not take great multitudes to affect great change, but merely a small group with great resolve. To apply Mead's words to some of the darker moments in world history provides many apt possibilities, though perhaps some of the most apt possibilities occurred within Mead's own 20th c. lifetime. One of the darkest chapters in 20th c. Western Civilization is the Holocaust – millions of people murdered, at the hands of a relative few unexceptional individuals, in response to a systematic campaign of terror (a terror guised in rhetoric detailing the changes required to bring about what was deemed best and most noble for the betterment of the world and of their society). So what of such terror and atrocity – is it a mere, slight, bump on Western Civilization's road toward becoming the best of all possible worlds, something exceptional and "wholly other" apart from the greater post-Enlightenment glory? Is it, perhaps, just a slightly different re-telling of the traditional plot of genocidal oppression, with the heat of the terror turned up a bit perhaps? Was a group of godless, evil people somehow twisted in an extraordinary way to perpetrate this outrageous historical anomaly? Is this atrocity somehow the historical "private property" of one exceptionally vulnerable group? In the Preface to his work Modernity and the Holocaust, Zygmunt Bauman dismisses all of the aforementioned claims on the Holocaust: "The Holocaust was born and executed in our modern rational society, at the high stage of our civilization and at the peak of human cultural achievement, and for this reason it is a problem of that society, civilization, and culture" (x). Bauman's insistence throughout his work is that the Holocaust is not an anomaly, but "a rare yet significant and reliable, test of the hidden possibilities of modern society" (12); he cites: The truth is that every 'ingredient' of the Holocaust – all those many things that rendered it possible – was normal; 'normal' not in the sense of being familiar, […] but in the sense of being fully in keeping with everything we know about our civilization, its guiding spirit, its priorities, its immanent vision of the world – and of the proper ways to pursue human happiness together with a perfect society. (8) So if a "civilized" society can hold the glories of its own advancement in one hand, and the forces of terrible destruction in the other, how is this even possible, and what went wrong? Perhaps one thing to consider – indeed a major premise in Bauman's work – is how a society uses various tools to affect change or promote productivity. A "tool," by definition, can be broadly defined as any instrument, implement, process, etc. used to accomplish a task or process (Tool). With respect to the tools of society, they are the instruments and processes by which civilization is further advanced. However – as with a surgeon's scalpel or miner's explosives – the power of the tool for benefit or for harm rests ultimately with the end-user; the tools in-and-of themselves are not harmful, but they can be used to bring about harm. Scientific thinking, bureaucracy, and scientific technology are tools for a productive modern society, but without a moral "check," even the most productive society can be run off-the-rails in immoral directions by the power of faulty "reason"; though an immoral de-railing of society is possible, it is not inevitable. One tool of modern society is scientific thinking. While science can be infinitely beneficial for a society's advancement, it can become a danger when its aims and processes are allowed to wholly eclipse (and even replace) established religion and morality. The penultimate legacy of the Scientific Revolution of the 16th c, and the 17th c. Enlightenment that followed, was to elevate what is "rational" above all other considerations. By Enlightenment thought, all subjective, metaphysical, and spiritual consideration are either less valid or invalid compared to what is rational. The danger in replacing religion or morality with scientific reason in the case of an established "Christian" nation like Hitlerian Germany rests in the idea of "natural theology." The antithesis of "natural theology" would be the concept of "revelation." "General revelation" of God occurs in such things as nature and the world around us; "specific revelation" in Christian theology is in Christ (indeed one of the three tenets of Protestantism): God in himself […] is revealed to us in Christ alone, that we may behold him as in a mirror. For in Christ he shews us his righteousness, goodness, wisdom, power, in short, his entire self. We must, therefore, beware of seeking him elsewhere, for everything that would set itself off as a representation of God, apart from Christ, will be an idol. (Calvin) In other words, God defines himself from the "top down" – God is who he says he is by how he reveals himself to us. By contrast, the "natural theology" trap by which Hitlerian Germany was snared is a "bottom up" approach – God is defined by how we experience God (a rational point-of-view). There was a group of church leaders from the various denominational factions in the German church (and also Swiss theologian Karl Barth among them) who stood against Nazi Germany's nationalization of the German church ("German Christians"); their resistance "answer" to the "German Christians" (and Nazi Germany) was the Theological Declaration of Barman, a creed wholly rejecting the hijacking of the German church by the Nazi regime. Section 5 of the Theological Declaration of Barmen states: 5.) "Fear God. Honor the Emperor." (I Peter 2:17.) Scripture tells us that, in the as yet unredeemed world in which the church also exists, the state has by divine appointment the task of providing for justice and peace. [It fulfills this task by means of threat and exercise of force, according to the measure of human judgment and human ability. The church acknowledges the benefit of this divine appointment in gratitude and reverence before him. It calls to mind the Kingdom of God, God's commandment and righteousness, and thereby the responsibility of both rulers and of the ruled. It trusts and obeys the power of the Word by which God upholds all things. We reject the false doctrine, as though the State, over and beyond its special commission, should and could become the single and totalitarian order of human life, thus fulfilling the church's vocation as well. We reject the false doctrine, as though the church, over and beyond its special commission, should and could appropriate the characteristics, the tasks, and the dignity of the State, thus itself becoming an organ of the State. ("Theological Declaration of Barmen" 8.22-8.24). Though some boldly stood against what was happening, it was merely a brave few. The nationalization of the German church paved the way for a cultural steam-rolling of established tenets (and "checks") of morality in Nazi Germany. Of course, there cannot simply exist a void in human consciousness where "morality" once stood (or ought to be), that void must be filled with something; Nazi Germany sought to fill that void with a rational propaganda on a societal scale. But if one is going to "invent" a new rational morality, who then is minding the store? Bauman's assertion is that when moral considerations move beyond the proximity of community and communal interaction ("social") to an abstract and corporate "rational" substitute for morality ("societal"), it can become both perfectly logical – and reasonable – for all hell to break loose (192). What, then, is required for a society to seemingly completely lose its senses and wash out established morality in favor of "rational" immorality? Bauman asserts that the primary key to this lies in a different tool of modern society: bureaucracy. The reason why the Holocaust under Nazi Germany proved so horrendously effective is that it did not rely on an emotional "mob mentality," but on the cool rational logic of an extensive bureaucracy. Bauman points out that the division of labor in a bureaucracy creates a distance and detachment from the task at-hand, and re-focuses morality not on the ethics of the task, but on the efficiency by which that task is accomplished (98-99). Bauman used the example of the Milgram experiments to point to the idea that there is an odd bit of wiring in "rational" human consciousness such that if a person is detached from the direct consequences of his or her actions, and if the degree of severity of the consequences of those actions is increased incrementally under a single authority, morality against cruelty can disappear in otherwise "normal" or "moral" people (160). And further, what becomes important – in-place of morality – does not have anything to do with the effects of the action, but rather, the efficiency of performing the task and of effectively following orders (Bauman 160). Additionally, where terror reigns within this bureaucracy, the instinct for self-preservation above all other things takes over (Bauman 206). Bauman further speculates that the difference between the bureaucracy of Nazi Germany and the conditions of the Milgram experiments (as Nazi Germany obviously had multiple variables and took place over a longer span of time) allowed for a "free-floating" morality to develop – that because the culturally-ingrained bureaucracy of Nazi Germany was so large and so compartmentalized, no one individual felt any responsibility for the ultimate results because everyone within the bureaucracy was confident the ultimate responsibility rested with someone else somewhere else in the system (163). In other words? "Free-floating responsibility means in practice that moral authority as such has been incapacitated without having been openly challenged or denied" (Bauman 163). A society can lose its senses in the direction of immorality because if it all happened very gradually and very surgically – as can occur within a bureaucratic setting – the society may not have noticed when morality "went missing" in the first place. Clearly if all the safety valves on the tools for promoting and creating a civilized society fail sequentially: "In a system where rationality and ethics point in opposite directions, humanity is the main loser" (Bauman 206). If a society's moral compass can be uncoupled from its actions in the direction of cruel immorality by scientific thinking within a bureaucratic model, how then can one explain the scale of the Holocaust's destruction? Bauman asserts that the key to the efficiency of the bureaucracy itself lies in a third tool of modern society: scientific technology. In essence, the Nazis took "industrialization" to a new level: via technology and scientific advancement, the Nazis employed all manner of "science" to bring about their extermination processes. In the interest of the "science" of promoting public health, the parameters of desirable and undesirable populations of humanity were defined, and the best available scientific and medical technology available was used to cull the undesirables from the population via "euthanasia" and sterilization (Bauman 66-7). Incredible technological innovations in transportation and chemistry made the mass deportation for forced-labor and extermination of millions possible. When imposing death on fellow humans becomes "scientific" and a matter of improving technology, the bureaucratic mindset takes over – how can we make this process more efficient? (Bauman 194-5) It plays to the aforementioned findings of Milgram – that physical separation can wash the ethics and morality out of the situation, and can perhaps even serve to divorce us from the humanity of others (or our own humanity). In the case of the Holocaust, the improved killing technologies which distanced the perpetrators from the victims washed the morality out of murder, and the blood of innocents ran in that wash-water on a colossal industrial scale. If all the primary tools, primary "ingredients," of the Holocaust exist within modern societies, why then do not more Holocausts occur? The primary factor that can twist society is the presence of a strong central authority without plurality (Bauman 165). Bauman points to the further Milgram experimental research by which multiple authority figures were introduced into the experimental model; the blind obedience against moral judgment fell apart within plurality (164). Bauman concludes: [T]he readiness to act against one's own better judgment, and against the voice of one's conscience, is not just the function of authoritative command, but the result of exposure to a single-minded, unequivocal and monopolistic source of authority. Such readiness is most likely to appear inside an organization which brooks no opposition and tolerates no autonomy, and in which linear hierarchy or subordination knows no exception: an organization in which no two members are equal in power. (Most armies, penitentiary institutions, totalitarian parties and movements, certain sects or boarding schools come close to this ideal type). (165) So what is necessary for a society to follow blindly into a realm of cruel immorality is a singular strong, authoritarian voice to guide, shape, plan, and enact that society's "rational" journey straight into pits of hell. It is a bleak forecast indeed if the lessons to be learned from the Holocaust, and from Bauman's analysis of it, are correct: that the Holocaust was a warning, and because the conditions that caused the Holocaust still exist (and have been often left unexamined or unheeded), it could happen again (203-4). What then – is there any hope? Must humanity merely wait – holding its breath – until the next Holocaust hits? Though the last Holocaust missed us personally, are we marked for extermination in some future event? Should we all go dig our graves now in preparation for future societal depravity? Bauman concludes that it is an important lesson of the Holocaust that: [P]utting self-preservation above moral duty is in no way predetermined, inevitable, inescapable. One can be pressed to do it, but one cannot be forced to do it, and thus one cannot really shift the responsibility for doing it on those who exerted the pressure. It does not matter how many people chose moral duty over the rationality of self-preservation – what does matter is that some did. Evil is not all-powerful. It can be resisted. The testimony of the few who did resist shatters the authority of the logic of self-preservation. It shows it for what it is in the end – a choice. (207) If the Holocaust is a mirror of our own times, then it is as Galadriel's mirror in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; it is a mirror that – like Dickens' Ghost of Christmas Yet-to-Come – reflects not what will be, but what may be. In the reality that future holocausts do not need to come to pass if we can learn well from the lessons of the Holocaust, there is hope. If the lesson to be learned from the Holocaust is to warn of the power of evil apart from morality, then as long as there is resistance to evil, there is hope. German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer reflected: "Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act" (Van Horn). Bonhoeffer's words on silence as a sin of commission are apt: clearly in the case of the Holocaust, or other instances like the Holocaust, apathy kills (and kills splendidly). Bonhoeffer's reflection is interesting when compared the reality of his life: he was willing to compromise (somewhat) his own moral convictions within Christianity to settle for the "rational" solution of "the lesser of two evils" with respect to his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler; even one with strong moral convictions like Bonhoeffer was not immune to the poison of the "rational" thinking of the society in which he lived. Still, Bonhoeffer offers us a bold challenge: if a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world it should be allowed to do so in the direction of goodness, but if the small group threatens to change the world in the direction of evil, silence will then morph from a sin of omission to a sin of commission. All, then, that remains to ask is whether or not we have the courage to stand against evil in the small group committed to what is truly best and most noble for the betterment of the world and of society. Bauman, Zygmunt. Modernity and the Holocaust. Ithica: Cornell University Press. 2000. Calvin, Jean. "Colossians 1:12-17." Commentary on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians. Trans. J.P. Elgin. 1851. Christian Classics Ethereal Library. 2005. Calvin College, Grand Rapids. 2 May 2010. <http://www.ccel.org/ccel/calvin/calcom42.v.ii.iii.html&gt; "Theological Declaration of Barman." The Constitution of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Part I: The Book of Confessions. Louisville: The Office of the General Assembly, 2004. 8.01-8.28. Tool – Define Tool at Dictionary.com. 2 May 2010. Dictionary.com. 2 May 2010. <http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tool&gt; Moncur, Michael. Margaret Mead Quotes – The Quotations Page. 2007. The Quotations Page. 2 May 2010. < http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Margaret_Mead/&gt;. Van Horn, G. Amour. Dietrich Bonhoeffer quotes from QOTD.org (page 2 of 2). 2 May 2010. QOTD.org. 2 May 2010 <http://www.qotd.org/search/search.html?aid=1575&page=2&gt; Posted in Essays | Tagged history, holocaust, morality, sociology, theology, Western Civilization, World War II | 1 Comment

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March 14th to 20th: "Is setting just a backdrop, or a key element to your story?" by ITW We talk so much about character and conflict. What about setting? Is it just a backdrop? Or a key element to your story? You don't want to miss next week's Roundtable as ITW members D.E. Johnson, Karen Dionne, William Dietrich, Peter James, Bobbye Terry and Norb Vonnegut lead this thrilling discussion! D.E. (Dan) Johnson's literary debut, a historical mystery entitled The Detroit Electric Scheme, was published by St. Martin 's Minotaur in September 2010. The sequel, Motor City Shakedown, will be published by Minotaur in September 2011. Dan is a history buff who has been writing fiction since childhood, but had to hit his midlife crisis to realize he should get serious about it. Detroit native Karen Dionne is the internationally published author of two environmental thrillers, Freezing Point and Boiling Point. She serves on the International Thriller Writers board of directors as Vice President, Technology, and is co-founder of the online writers community Backspace, where she organizes the Backspace Writers Conferences held every May in New York City. Karen is also a member of Sisters in Crime and the Mystery Writers of America. William Dietrich is the author of thirteen books that have sold into 31 languages, including the Ethan Gage series of historical thrillers. He is a Pulitzer-winning journalist, college professor, and avid traveler. Peter James is an International best-selling crime thriller novelist published in 34 languages. In addition to early work as Orson Welles' char, James' vast experience includes success in TV and film production, as well as over 20 novels. His latest, DEAD MAN'S GRIP, is the seventh in his Detective Superintendent Roy Grace crime series and arrives in late May 2011. Norb Vonnegut writes financial thrillers and non-fiction commentary (The Huffington Post, Acrimoney) about Wall Street behind closed doors. He has appeared on Bloomberg, Judith Regan, and the Laura Ingraham shows. Top Producer, his debut novel, was a featured pick on Today and one of Smart Money's seven must-read books for the fall of 2009. His follow-up thriller, The Gods of Greenwich, takes place in the high-rolling world of hedge funds and will be released on April 26, 2011. Pat Mullan's recent work has appeared in the anthology, DUBLIN NOIR, published in the USA by Akashic Books and in Ireland and the UK by Brandon Books. You can find his GALWAY NOIR anthology on-line from iPulp Fiction. His latest novel, Last Days of the Tiger, is now available from Athry House Books. New thrillers coming soon: Creatures of Habit and Screwed. He is Ireland Chair of International Thriller Writers, Inc. Bobbye Terry is the multi-published writer of romantic comedy, suspense and fantasy. She also writes under the pseudonym Daryn Cross and with a co-writer as Terry Campbell and has books out or slated for publication through Black Opal Books, Crescent Moon Press, Eternal Press, L&L Dreamspell and Turquoise Morning Press. Buried in Briny Bay, her first mystery novella in a series of four, released on March 7. Her next cozy, Slam Sisters of Serendipity by Terry Cambell, is slated for publication by Eternal Press in June She is a regular writer for Writers Fun Zone and The Mojito Literary Society and is a member of ITW, RWA, FF&P, Yellow Rose and DARA chapters, Crimespace, and Savvy Authors. For more information, check out her online headquarters. International Thriller Writers Inc represents professional authors from around the world. Learn more about them, their work, and the sources from which they draw their inspiration at the Official ITW Organization Website. Interested in becoming a member of the International Thriller Writers? ITW offers Active and Associate memberships. Latest posts by ITW (see all) The January 2021 Edition of The Big Thrill is Here! - December 31, 2020 BookTrib Spotlight: Ashley Audrain - December 31, 2020 AudioFile Spotlight: Favorite Crime Fiction Sidekicks - December 31, 2020 March 21st to 27th: "How do you separate yourself from the characters you write?" March 7th to 13th: "What is the best debut novel you've ever read?" ITW March 4, 2011 Pat Mullan says: We talk so much about character and conflict. What about setting? Is it just a backdrop? Or a key element in your story? I am very visual so I see each scene as though I were adapting my novel from a screenplay. As such the setting is an integral part. The key word is 'integral'. To me, setting and location must cling to the characters like their own clothes. You'll find a good example of this in Ken Bruen's work. Galway city is the setting for his Jack Taylor series, commencing with THE GUARDS. Jack Taylor wears Galway like a hairshirt . As such, the city becomes an integral 'character' in the story. Too often I find that writers describe settings and locations as though they were describing the scene for the local tourist or real estate agency. These descriptions may be very well written but they add no value. Often they simply detract. Settings must be skilfully blended so that the reader does not see the writer at work. When the setting is used in an action sequence, it must underline the action and the threat, otherwise it will undermine it. When setting provides a backdrop to good dialogue, it should be used to sharpen the reader's attention, never deflect it. Beckett's sparse stage settings are a good, if extreme, example of this: dustbins are the setting for Nagg and Nell in ENDGAME; legless, the dustbins cling to them like body parts. D.E. Johnson says: The Detroit Electric Scheme is a mystery set in 1910 Detroit in the early electric car industry, so in my case the setting informed everything. The characters and the story had to work within the time period, the industry, and the historical record. I included dozens of real-life characters in the book, some well known like Edsel Ford and the Dodge brothers, others less so like Detroit's first mob boss, Vito Adamo, and the 6'4″ 260-pound bouncer at a saloon known as "The Bucket of Blood," who went by the moniker of "Big Boy." They were all in this place at this time, so even though they are characters they also become part of the setting. My fictional characters had to be limited in their interactions with these folks to actions that don't contradict their known history. I spent three months just researching the book, so by the time I started writing I had a number of mileposts set. Certain events happened at certain times, which gave me a framework for the story. I just needed to figure out how to fit my story into that framework in the most effective way. An example of setting creating story – Detroit Electric, the most successful electric car company in U.S. history, had a huge press that stamped out the one-piece roofs for their cars. When I read about that, I thought, What a great way to kill somebody! And the opening scene of the book was born. Bobbye Terry says: Great comments, Pat and D.E. I especially like Pat's reference to the setting "must cling to the characters like their own clothes." You're right. It needs to be so integrated that you don't see it as just scenery. In the South, setting is often a character in the story, especially when it's small and populated with quirky citizens. There are a lot of such places out there, believe me, and I've lived in my share. Two of my books stand out with regard to the setting and its role in the story. Buried in Briny Bay takes place in the fictional town of Briny Bay that I envision as being located on the coast of North Carolina just across from the barrier islands known as the Outer Banks. People there know everyone else and they snoop into everyone's affairs. Few people live there who haven't had family residing in the town for generations. Briny Bay also lends itself to mystery, because there is a large expanse of water where people can drown and heavily wooded areas where danger can lurk. In Coming to Climax, my suspense coming out in September, the small town once again plays a part. Climax is a real town that, for all intents and purposes, has no real town structure. However, in my story I have populated it and grown it beyond anyone's wildest dreams. Here, just as in Briny Bay, citizens are nosy characters. In Climax, there is a group of women who are like the Steel Magnolias. They are the glue that holds the town together and the ladies also provide occasional comic relief. Deep in the forest of Central Virginia, Climax also has foreboding landscape for villains to hide in, kidnap from and murder the unsuspecting. Add to that the fact this place gets a lot of rain and your setting takes on an even more dismal scape. Peter James says: I think "place" is as vital as characters and plot in crime, mystery and thriller novels. The place can be real or fictitious, but without a credible world in which the characters in the books exist few stories can be effective. Perhaps more with crime than any other genre, a real setting is always going to give more impact than a fictional one. Look at how many crime writers have made a place their own, such as James Ellroy's LA, or Ed McBain's New York, or Ian Rankin's Edinburgh. Norb Vonnegut says: The Gods of Greenwich is my latest novel. So with a title like that, I'm almost bound to say, "Setting is a key element of the story." I agree with Peter's earlier comment that "place is as vital as characters and plot…." "Vital" and perhaps inseparable. Bianca Leeser, a character in The Gods of Greenwich, is a romance novelist who regularly quotes Dorothy Parker. I could see someone with similar attributes living in LA, Sydney, or somewhere on the streets of Paris. But she would be somebody else. Greenwich is part of Bianca's DNA. She is one of my vehicles for taking readers on a ride inside that community. I think Pat started us off right with his great observation, "Setting and location must cling to the characters like their own clothes." Because clothes come off, I would say the link is even deeper. It's in the genes. Sorry folks, no pun intended. Karen Dionne says: A writer friend of mine used to say that every word should go to plot, scene, or character. Setting the scene ranks right up there next to storytelling, as far as I'm concerned. An author has to immerse the reader in the scene, so that the reader feels as though they're actually there – not as though they're looking at a pretty picture hanging on a wall, or out the window, separated from the action by a pane of glass; the reader needs to feel as though they're right there with the characters, seeing and hearing and feeling and smelling what the characters are experiencing. This is one of the reasons writers choose a setting that they know well, or if they don't, why they take research trips. For my last novel, I visited an active volcano in Northern Patagonia, Chile that was officially on "Red Alert." I stayed in the village at the volcano's base, even though it was ruined during the eruption and was without electricity and running water, and hiked to within one mile of the new lava dome, where I saw steam vents, heard explosions coming from the caldera, and felt a small earthquake. A number of reviews have mentioned Boiling Point's "vivid detail" – something I honestly don't think I could have pulled off if I hadn't gone there. I guess that leads to a secondary question, if anyone feels like answering it: how do you research your setting? I agree with you, Karen. I almost always go to my setting. If I don't, I solicit a lot of help. For instance, right now I'm lauching a project set in Dallas. I've been there many times, but I don't know it like I do many of my places. I am asking for help from other writers to get the information I need to make my characters fit where they live and work. Karen, you asked: I guess that leads to a secondary question, if anyone feels like answering it: how do you research your setting? A very brief response because I'm on my way to Clifden to have a couple of pints in our local and watch the St. Patrick's Day festivities (I'd rather be in New York today ).. Take a look at my thoughts on our great Clifden Arts Week: http://www.clifden2012.org/component/k2/item/66.html Anyway, I digress! Forgive for the day that's in it! As Bobbye said, I've been to many of the locations in my novels but that's only one aspect of location. Much of one of my last novels was set in Russia (where I've not been) . My wife spent some time there teaching English to Russians (as part of an EU sponsored program in Kaliningrad ) and became close friends with a couple of young Russians. One of them vetted my Moscow setpieces – not just to get the location correct but, more importantly, to get the dialogue and action/reaction of the Russians correct. Get the location right, get the local dialogue and people wrong and it doesn't matter whether the cityscape or hotel booking details are accurate. That will undermine it. Recently I've read works written by American authors set in Ireland. Even in the cases where they got the location right, they often got the dialogue and the people wrong. OK – happy St.Pat's to you all, Slan, Pat. J H Bogran says: Great comments everyone. I agree, setting is an integral part of the story. The best examples I can think of right now is if Hunchback of Notredame would be just the "the Hunchback" if the setting were not the cathedral. Or the town of Kingsbridge in Pillars of the Earth. Or Texas in Jon Land's Caitlin Strong series. Or the Cheitén volcano in Karen Dionne's Boiling Point. The setting is ingrained into the story.

I think we need to stage an intervention, or at least monitor who Rosie the robotic vacuum cleaner makes friends with. She has suddenly started getting up to clean at 2.30am for no reason. I suspect drugs and I suspect Duck Norris is dealing them. I had to get up in the middle of the night, calm Rosie down and put her back on her docking station. I questioned her as to what was going on, but she sat in stubborn silence and wouldn't give anyone up. This morning I questioned Norris who said he'd never even met Rosie and he doesn't deal drugs, he's much too busy for that sort of thing. I saw some of the other ducks muttering, looking at the ground and shuffling their feet. I think, if I try, I can probably get one of them to quack on him. No-one trusts your shifty eyes Norris. Rosie running about at full steam in the middle of the night really is most suspicious. I agree that Duck Norris is behind it all. He must have realized that the fastest way to the top is to take advantage of a power vacuum. I should have known it would only take him a few weeks to corrupt her. Two of the girl ducks say they'll do a tell all story for a bag of peas. The chickens say they'll expose him for free, and while they're at it, they'd also like to report him for sexual harassment. He's been milling around the fence staring at their fluffy butts. I say published and be damned! Norris is getting dangerously powerful and has to be stopped somehow. I know peas are expensive these days at $1.60 a bag, but it's almost certainly worth the price when you weigh it against the future of world civilization.

Best ever January transfer buys By Prashant Kharbanda on January 31, 2014in CB News Here's a list of the top five best transfers that have taken place in January in recent years: 5) Lucas Moura Dubbed the new Ronaldinho, Manchester United, Inter Milan and PSG were battling to sign him in 2012. Eventually, he signed for PSG for a fee reported to be around £35 million. He has won the Ligue 1 with PSG, FIFA Confederations Cup with Brazil, along with 30 caps to his name. 4) Juan Mata Despite just signing for Manchester United, Juan Mata is destined to be a star in the Red of Manchester in the coming years. Former two-time Player of the Year for Chelsea, he has vowed to make a difference and perform in every game for the Red Devils. 3) Mario Balotelli Super Mario was signed for AC Milan from Manchester City on a four-and-a-half year deal rumoured to be worth €20 million plus bonuses and add-ons. He was sold by Roberto Mancini for the good of Mario Balotelli, as he needed a fresh start in his home country of Italy. He has 25 goals to his name in a Rossoneri jersey. 2) Nemanja Vidic The Serbian powerhouse joined Manchester United in January of 2006 for a fee of around £7 million. He immediately formed a partnership with Rio Ferdinand in the heart of defence, which has since become one of the most prominent partnerships in European football. Vidic was appointed as club captain in 2010 after the retirement of Gary Neville, and has won 5 Premier Leagues, 3 League Cups, 1 Champions League and 1 FIFA Club World Cup. He has also appeared in the Premier League Team of the Year 4 times and twice in the FIFPro World XI. 1) Luis Suarez He joined the Merseysiders from Ajax for a fee reported to be around £22.8 million. Luis Suarez has been influential for Liverpool over the years. He has scored 74 goals in 117 games for the Reds, as well as 39 goals in 71 games for Uruguay. Mostly known for his incidents involving racially abusing Patrice Evra, biting Branislav Ivanovic infamously blocking an extra time goalbound header with his hands during the quarter finals against Ghana during the World Cup in South Africa. What players voted for Ronaldo? – Ballon d'Or Award 2013 By CB on January 14, 2014 BREAKING NEWS: Barcelona banned from making transfers in the next two windows (sourced from Sky Sports) By CB on April 2, 2014

TCG Has Another Active Quarter and Will Meet Clients at Major Partnering Meetings to Explore US Launches and Potential Strategic Transactions Research Triangle Park, NC and Heidelberg, DE - Technology Commercialization Group, LLC (TCG), an international firm providing interim management and strategic advisory services to life sciences companies, announced today that it had another successful quarter. Highlights of key accomplishments included:… TCG Completes Another Active Quarter with Multiple New Assignments and Completed Transactions Research Triangle Park, NC - Technology Commercialization Group, LLC (TCG), an international firm providing interim management and strategic advisory services to life sciences companies, announced today that it has concluded another productive quarter in 2015. Below are highlights of the… TCG Partner Charlie Turner Advises Client, Asklepios BioPharmaceutical, Inc., in Execution of License with AveXis, Inc., for Use of Duplex Vector Technology in SMA Gene Therapy Program Click "Read more" and then click on the link for the press release: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150617005099/en/Asklepios-AveXis-Finalize-License#.VYGFK-coF8F TCG Completes Active 1st Quarter with Multiple New Assignments and Completed Transactions Research Triangle Park, NC - Technology Commercialization Group, LLC (TCG), an international firm providing interim management and strategic advisory services to life sciences companies, announced today that it has concluded an active first quarter of 2015, with the hiring of… Michael Garrett Joins Technology Commercialization Group Research Triangle Park, NC - Technology Commercialization Group, LLC (TCG), an international life science consulting firm specializing in interim management and strategic transaction services, is pleased to announce that Michael Garrett has joined the firm as a new Partner. Mr.… TCG Partner Charlie Turner Acted As Interim Business Development Leader in Key Transaction for Baxter International Chapel Hill, NC - Initial trial results from Baxter hemophilia gene therapy program come from acquired affiliate of AskBio of Chapel Hill; TCG Partner Charlie Turner acted as interim business development leader in key transaction. Click here to download press… Charlie Turner of TCG Presents Talk to LES on "Biotechnology Licensing in a Virtual Business Model" Research Triangle Park, NC - TCG Partner Robert W. (Charlie) Turner gave a presentation to the Research Triangle Park Chapter of the Licensing Executives Society (LES) detailing how as an interim Business Development leader, he helped create and then implement a licensing… Technology Commercialization Group Partners with BioFilm Ltd. Glasgow, Scotland and Research Triangle Park, NC – BioFilm, Ltd. is a leading developer and contract manufacturer of Thin Dissolving Films (TDF) that release active ingredients for use for over-the-counter (OTC) medicines, oral hygiene products, cosmetics and dietary supplements. The…

Brick things Review: 21316 The Flintstones February 16, 2020 March 29, 2021 - by Richard The first episode of the The Flintstones aired in 1960 and the programme ran for six seasons until 1966. It was a popular TV staple in many countries, lasting well beyond the 60s and was still a regular on TV in the UK still when I was growing up in the 1980s. As such, it represents the perfect kind of nostalgia fair that has the potential to make a popular IDEAS release. The set is based on the LEGO Ideas fan design of Andrew Clark and the finished model is broadly similar to his original design, containing Fred and Wilma Flintstone's house, their car and their neighbours Betty and Barney Rubble. Opening the box reveals six bags containing 748 pieces, as well as the usual stylishly presented IDEAS instruction book that contains background information on the designers and the design process. The first bag builds the Flintstones' car and the Fred and Wilma minifigures. It's a good representation of the stone age foot-powered vehicle featured in the TV series. The only slightly fiddly thing is stretching the large piece of fabric over the top to form the roof. Purists might object to the use of such a large piece of material, but it creates exactly the right look. Also included is the large dinosaur rib that Fred orders at the drive-in during the title sequence and which causes the car to topple over. The second bag contains the parts to build the base of the house, while the third builds the structure up to almost its full height. This part of the build is satisfying enough, but doesn't contain any particularly interesting techniques. Building bag four turns a relatively rectangular building into something a bit more rock like through the addition of curved sides and also adds the tree. Then it's time to fill in the interior with a sofa, lamps, telephone (including clever use of croissant piece) and the "television". The final bag adds the roof, which is cleverly sloped, plus the Flintstones postbox , which includes a preprinted piece labelled with a the homeowner's name 'carved' into it. It's a fun build overall, but it is disappointing that the set doesn't include Fred and Wilma's daughter Pebbles, or their pet Dino. Richard's verdict: 7/10 – a nicely executed model that will satisfy fans of the original TV programme and provide some good play value for younger fans. Tom's verdict: 8/10 – Very cool. TaggedIdeasReview Copyright © 2022 Brick things.

Posted by desertedbeach on April 19, 2018 in Neurosurgery Education, Neurosurgery Technology Direct electrical current used to preferentially inhibit pain-transmitting neurons IMAGE: GENE FRIDMAN (LEFT) AND YUN GUAN EXAMINE A PROTOTYPE OF A DEVICE THAT DELIVERS DIRECT CURRENT SAFELY. view more CREDIT: JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE Using computer models and laboratory rats, Johns Hopkins researchers have demonstrated that "direct electrical current" can be delivered to nerves preferentially, blocking pain signals while leaving other sensations undisturbed. The researchers say the experiments advance the search for improved implantable devices able to treat chronic pain that is due to peripheral nerve injury or disease. "We have developed a potential new concept for neural implants that works differently than conventional electrical stimulators," says Gene Fridman, Ph.D., M.S., assistant professor of otolaryngology–head and neck surgery and biomedical engineering at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. "We believe we are the first to investigate the idea of using this concept for implantable medical devices that use direct electrical current, long thought to be unsafe." Implantable spinal cord stimulators and peripheral nerve stimulators designed to interrupt nerve pain impulses were developed more than 30 years ago, but the devices work by interacting with sensory nerve cells, leading to numbness, tingling and other side effects. In a report on the new findings, published online April 11 in Science Advances, the researchers say direct electrical current devices would allow for more precise, preferential targeting of the appropriate pain-transmitting nerve cells, making them more effective for pain suppression and reducing the side effects of conventional devices. Traditionally, direct current — or single-direction streaming electrical signaling — has been considered unsafe for medical devices that deliver electrical stimulation in the body. The continual flow of electrical current results in chemical reactions at the site of the electrodes delivering the signal, causing gas bubbles, corrosion and toxic byproducts to form. All modern implantable electrical stimulation devices use alternating current pulses instead, in which the electrical current switches back and forth very quickly in a circuit between positive and negative voltage. Such rapid pulses allow the devices to interact with the nervous system but don't create the toxic chemical reactions. In 2013, Fridman and his team reported on successful efforts to develop an ionic direct current system, which converts the "safe" pulses like those delivered in the conventional stimulator into direct ionic current that may potentially be applied to the body safely. To find out if the modified system of direct ionic current could be safely used to preferentially target and silence pain-transmitting neurons, Fridman teamed up with pain researcher Yun Guan, M.D., Ph.D., an associate professor of anesthesiology, critical care medicine and neurological surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. When nerve cells receive a signal of pain or other sensation, the signal opens sodium channels and floods the cell with positively charged sodium ions, which positively charge the neurons until the electrochemistry changes enough to inactivate the channels and close them. This change in electrical charge of the neuron is what propagates and sends the signal to the spinal cord and then to the brain to register as a sensation, such as pain or pressure. Each nerve in mammalian arms and legs contains multiple sensory neurons (nerve cells) transmitting pain and other sensations such as touch or feeling to the spinal cord. Fridman and Guan realized that the pain and "feeling" sensory neurons each contained different kinds of sodium channels and that it may be possible to block one kind of channel and not the others to prevent patients from feeling pain but not other sensations. Fridman and Guan's team first devised a computer model to try to predict what happens when researchers use direct current to block the pain signals or inhibit other sensory neurons. In the model they sent negatively charged direct current to the nerves to weaken their activity. The model showed that the sodium channels 1.6 in the feeling sensory neurons were blocked with 670 microamperes, but the pain neuron's sodium channels 1.7 were blocked at only 290 microamperes. For comparison, holding a 9-volt battery to the tongue delivers approximately 2,000 microamperes, causing a small shock. This suggested to the researchers that it was theoretically possible to preferentially target one type of neuron over another, since the channels could be blocked at different levels of current. Next, working with anesthetized rats, they sent direct ionic current into the sciatic nerve in the legs and, using neural recording electrodes, recorded whether this current inhibited the activity of individual or groups of neurons at the spinal cord. In a series of experiments, they increased the current in two-minute increments from 0.1 to 0.2, 0.4 and 0.8 milliamperes. The current at 0.8 milliamperes completely blocked the response of the pain-transmitting neurons. Although signals from the feeling sensory neurons were reduced by 20 percent, they were still active and sending sensation signals to the spinal cord. After the current was stopped, the signal from the pain-transmitting neurons remained blocked for another two minutes, whereas the signal from the feeling sensory neurons quickly came back. "Using direct current, we can inhibit the pain-transmitting neurons at much lower amplitudes than the feeling sensory neurons, allowing us to be preferential in how we target the nerve," says Guan. "We also found that because the pain neurons take longer to come back on line, we may be able to conserve energy and not have to deliver this electrical current constantly to keep them blocked." Being able to deliver this current periodically rather than constantly would mean longer use of the neural implant before needing to recharge the battery, says Guan. Guan cautions that more studies will be needed to verify safety and measure the strength and duration of pain relief before direct ionic current devices could be used for people. Other authors on the study include Fei Yang, Michael Anderson, Shaoqiu He, Kimberly Stephens, Yu Zheng, Zhiyong Chen, Srinivasa Raja and Felix Aplin of Johns Hopkins. The study was funded by awards from the Neurosurgery Pain Research Institute and the Blaustein Pain Research Fund, and grants from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R21 NS099879, R01 NS070814, R01 NS092726).

Home Hero I-League Tactical changes that brought success to the Indian u23 Pailan Arrows Tactical changes that brought success to the Indian u23 Pailan Arrows Rudra Nayan Das The Early expectations The Indian developmental squad and I League's only all Indian, u23 team, had a poor I League season, securing only two wins in the I League, the first coming only in their 24th game. They finished 13th and survived relegation only because AIFF made Arrows immune to relegation, in order to keep them afloat in the country's most competitive football league. Arrows had a decent last season, they finished 9th with 7 wins. More importantly they produced many players who were selected in the Indian team – Raju Gaikwad, Jeje Lalpekhlua, Lalrindika Ralte, Gurpreet Singh Sandhu, Manandeep Singh, Jewel Raja, Shilton D'Silva are some of such players. Thus, at the start of this season, much was expected from Arrows, but, they failed to deliver. However, Arrows did made a comeback in the last phase of the season, too late to climb the league table, but nevertheless, a comeback is a comeback. In my opinion the improvement seen in Arrows has been due to change of tactics and in this article I will put forward my views on the tactical changes seen in Arrows during the last phase of the season. Tactics under Sukhwinder Singh Arrows started the season under Technical Director, Sukhwinder Singh, who used a conventional 4-4-2 formation, with a defensive mind set. His tactics saw Arrows forming a strong defense, with long clearance aimed for the attacking players to latch on to and try to surprise the opposition on counter. Unfortunately, the lack of firepower upfront and a creative attacking midfielder meant that the tactics was unsuitable for the team. A typical Arrows formation under Sukhwinder Singh Wind of change! After 17 I league matches, Arrows were without a win, accumulating 8 points and scoring only 8 goals. During this time, Sukhwinder Singh resigned and the existing Arrows staff of Sujit Chakaborty, Tanumoy Basu and later Narayan Menon took over the Arrows boys. Rob Baan himself, instructed the coaches and brought the massively talented George Alwyn from TFA to the Arrows squad. After this Arrows played 9 I League games and 3 IFA shield games. They won 3 matches, scoring 15 goals. They did experiment a bit with tactics and formation. I would discuss the most successful tactical changes based on two matches – Churchill Brothers (Home) and HAL (Away). Arrows changed altered their 4-4-2 formation to what can be described as 4-1-2-1-2, which sometimes looked very similar 4-1-4-1 and 4-2-3-1 depending on the situation. This formation used CS Sabeeth as a lone striker (Targetman) who tried to distract the opposition central defenders or tapped in the crosses. They used two attacking wingers, but there was an asymmetry in the attack. The left winger, usually Ajay Singh or Malswamfela, would take more attacking responsibilities and frequently assumed the role of a supporting forward, but they also took lot of work load as they frequently tracked back to support midfield and sometimes even defence. Because the left wingers tracked back to do defensive duties, the left fullback Shouvik Ghosh had been given a defensive role, where he would hardly go up and frequently move into the position of central defence when the right wing back, Avinabo Bag, takes an attacking role. The epicenter for most attack was by George Alwyn who was given much less defensive duties and had some degree of free role, he would provide passes to the targetman, dribble past defenders to bomb into the box, reminding of the elegant trequartista position. Since, the wingers in left were more attacking, the right side was balanced by overlapping runs by Avinabo Bag, who would combine with the other central midfielders. In central midfield, Bikramjit Singh Sr. was given a full time defensive duty, ahead of him were two midfielders who would take a lot of work load in both helping the attack by combining with Alwyn and the wingers and they would also come back to have defensive duties. The players in these positions were mainly Tirthankar Sarkar and Pronay Halder. Prabir Das has also been used but he is more competent in attack rather than defence. Arrows formation against HAL during their 2-1 win against HAL The tactical changes brought modest success to the Arrows camp and built the player's confidences. Apart from the wins against HAL and Chirag Kerala, they had given solid performances against Pune FC, Churchill Brothers and Prayag United. It helped in breaking the myth that the current Arrows players were of poor quality. It is of no surprise that a lot of senior Arrows players (who would be released as they turn 23+) are getting contracts from top clubs like Mohun Bagan, Churchill Brothers etc. Apart from that it again shows the importance of correct tactics based on available players in football. Lastly, the coaching staff of Arrows clearly deserves kudos for implementing these tactics successfully in a very short time. CS Sabeeth Football tactics George Alwyn Indian Arrows Pailan Pailan Arrows Rob Baan Previous articleNational Shame! Karnataka Santosh Trophy players travel without train reservation Next articleIndian football still in medieval ages Rudra Nayan Das has been following football since 1994 world cup. However, his main interest lies in Indian football. He enjoys football tactical analysis, dynamics of fandom, following youth football and joining fan banters. When not following football, Rudra doubles as a biologist. The author can be followed in twitter - http://twitter.com/Rudra_nayan Rahul May 25, 2012 at 8:52 PM Excellent write-up

Asian equity markets traded mostly higher following the positive performance in their US counterparts where the Nasdaq led the advances and the S&P 500 notched a 3rd consecutive gain to move to within 22 points from all-time highs. Nikkei 225 (+0.6%) was higher as focus remained on earnings with SoftBank and Rakuten among the top gainers in the index after both reported solid profit growth, while ASX 200 (-0.3%) lagged its regional peers with the index dragged by weakness in telecoms and miners. Elsewhere, Hang Seng (+1.5%) and Shanghai Comp. (+2.7%) were positive with property developers underpinned by strong guidance including Country Garden and Evergrande Real Estate, although price action was far from smooth with a bout of intraday volatility in Chinese bourses after the PBoC continued to withhold from liquidity operations and amid lingering trade uncertainty. Finally, 10yr JGBs were little changed with only minimal losses seen amid gains in stocks and as the Japanese 10yr yield remained above 0.11%, while participants the 10yr inflation-indexed bond auction also failed to spur demand as b/c and lowest accepted price declined from prior. AUD - The clear G10 front-runner on several supportive factors, as Aud/Usd regains a firmer foothold above 0.7400 to print a marginal new August high (0.7437) having held in above chart support in the interim, and the Aud/Nzd cross trades above 1.1000 to expose 1.1025 resistance again. No lasting drag on the Aud from the latest RBA policy meeting and statement that was essentially a repeat of the previous version and several before that, with the ongoing mantra that rates are appropriate at current levels and are likely to remain apt for some time to come given the slow evolution of inflation and wage growth. CAD/EUR - The Loonie is next best major performer vs the Usd, albeit only just eclipsing the single currency and Kiwi as the Greenback loses some momentum across the board (DXY around 95.200 vs 95.500+ yesterday) EMs also off recent lows). Usd/Cad is back below 1.3000 and eyeing strong support at 1.2961 (100 DMA) before 1.2950, while Eur/Usd has bounced a bit further from Monday's 1.1530 multi-week base towards 1.1600, but not quite testing the big figure, yet. GBP/CHF/JPY - All marginally firmer vs the Dollar, with Cable back above 1.2950 having hit new lows for 2018 on Monday circa 1.2915, but the Pound not faring so well vs the Eur (0.8930+) amidst yet more Conservative Party rebellion against UK PM May and her Chequers White Paper. Usd/Chf remains above 0.9950, but easing back from near parity, while Usd/Jpy is still rangebound just under 111.50 between 111.45-20 after reports that the BoJ talked about tightening rates twice before the end of the year, according to people supposedly in the know. EM - As noted, some respite for regional currencies after a dip in the Cny mid-point fixing and more efforts by Turkey to arrest the Lira's slide alongside reports that mediation with the US has been successful to a degree. Usd/Try around 5.2400 vs 5.4250 at the new/latest all time low). A relatively abrupt and pronounced turnaround for Bunds and Gilts, as EU stocks rebound amidst less angst in EMs and no further escalation in US-China trade wars. The core 10 year debt futures are just off new session lows on Eurex and Liffe at 162.11 and 122.84 respectively for losses on the day of 24 and 15 ticks vs gains of 4 and 11 ticks at the other end of the spectrum. As mentioned earlier, thin holiday and seasonal trading conditions are impacting price volatility and chart levels are also exerting some directional influence with Bunds and Gilts both conscious of strong resistance (162.47 and 123.39). Elsewhere, US Treasuries are slipping alongside their EU equivalents, but also in preparation by way of some concession for this week's supply that kicks off with $34 bn 3 year notes and cumulatively represents a larger net issuance total than the previous auctions of 3, 10 and 30 year paper. WTI and Brent are showing mild gains as the futures hold onto the USD 69.00/bbl and USD 74.00/bbl handles respectively. US re-imposed the first round of sanctions against Iran which will cover the auto sector, gold and key metals, while crude sanctions are not expected until November. Oil traders will be looking out for the latest API Inventory numbers released later today. In the metals complex, spot gold is prints fresh highs for the day, moving in-step with USD action, while London copper edged higher amid ongoing concerns revolving around Chile's Escondida mine, the world's largest copper mine. In the latest developments, BHP is said to seek a 5-day mediation by Chile's government in contract discussions to avoid a strike at the copper mine, while there were also reports the union at the copper mine was preparing a strike contingency plan as it awaited the final response from the company. Of note: on Monday, Escondida copper workers union said half of members have voted in which around 80% voted to reject the final contract offer.

cinderella 2015 Gwynne Watkins What to Stream: Drew Barrymore's Revolutionary Cinderella Story 'Ever After' The Basics: Drew Barrymore plays a version of Cinderella in the classic fairy tale, which is re-invented as a funny, forward-thinking period romance. Disney's new Cinderella (in theaters Friday) updates the animated classic with live action, digital effects, and a newly empowered heroine. In 1998, Drew Barrymore revolutionized the Cinderella tale in Ever After, a film that gives depth and strength to its fairy-tale princess without sacrificing an ounce of charm. Kevin Polowy Wicked Awesome: Cate Blanchett on Playing the Redheaded Stepmom in 'Cinderella' Like most of us, Cate Blanchett grew up on Disney cartoons. Now Blanchett, 45, gets to antagonize the iconic glass slipper-wearing, will-be princess as the wickedest stepmother of them all, Lady Tremaine, in Disney's new live-action Cinderella (in theaters Friday). Meriah Doty Get the Story Behind the New Mini-Snowmen in 'Frozen Fever' (Exclusive Poster and Interview) You'll probably recognize most of the characters in this exclusive poster for Disney's new animated short Frozen Fever that's playing ahead of Cinderella starting on Friday. Frozen Fever is the highly anticipated sequel-of-sorts to Disney's massive 2013 Oscar-winning hit that's now the highest-grossing animated movie of all time. Fever picks up with our Frozen family as snow queen Elsa plans a surprise birthday party for her spirited sis Anna. 15 Frenzy-Worthy Films of 2015 When we got going on our monster list of most anticipated movies coming out this year , we found ourselves constantly wanting to turn to the next page. 2015 is sizing up to be the most monstrous movie year of all — with mega-franchises like "The Avengers," "The Hunger Games," and "Star Wars" poised to break all kinds of box office records. (Thankfully "Avatar 2" is slated for 2016, otherwise our heads would explode!) Forget 2014, here are the year-from-now movies that have us wishing we could travel into the future: 1. "Star Wars: Episode VII" ZOMG. F9: Fast And Furious 9 The Addams Family 2

I play on Zynga, but my granddaughter has just started playing on FB. How can I make her one of my neighbors? Just make sure your Zynga account is linked to your Facebook account. Sorry Judi, didn't see this post before. Did you ever find her? I make sure I clear my cache in my browser, then go log into zynga.com through facebook button. Sometimes it takes a day or two to sync up. Not sure if this belongs here; however, how exactly do you get someone to become a neighbour (Canadian spelling!!) on Farmville 2. I tried by leaving a link to FB page to be added as a friend but this didn't work as I don't see the people on my add neighbours in FV2.. I am needing neighbors to visit and gain xps. I only play on this site, please add me cause I am new. There are plenty of discussion threads here that help you add new zfriends. However, when it comes to adding a neighbor you know specifically. Certain zfriends don't always show up right away to add as a neighbor.

ORIENTAL REGION Laticorn Myzorhynchus Barbirostris Etymology: of fields (L); from broad aluvial plains Anopheles campestris is one of six formally recognized species in the Barbirostris Complex. Other species include An. barbirostris van der Wulp, An. dissidens Taai & Harbach, An. saeungae Taai & Harbach, An. vanderwulpi Townson & Harbach, and An. wejchoochotei Taai & Harbach (formerly "campestris-like"). The latter taxon was first separated from An. campestris s.s. based on cross-mating studies and mitotic karyotypes. The mitotic karyotype of An. campestris reveals a telecentric Y-chromosome, unique amongst other members of the Barbirostris Complex. Three karyotypic forms have been noted in An. wejchoochotei. Prior to the discovery of An. wejchoochotei the distribution of An. campestris included mainland Southeast Asia (Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam), doubtful records from China, and its invasive establishment on Guam. Since then, An. campestris has been molecularly confirmed in peninsular Malaysia and in Thailand. Anopheles wejchoochotei is widely distributed in Thailand and likely to occur elsewhere. Further studies are needed to fully elucidate their distributions. Type locality: Rantau Panjang, Klang, Selangor, Malaya [Malaysia] Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England (NHMUK) ADULT (illustrated): Head: Clypeus without patch of scales; palpus shaggy in appearance. Abdomen: Sterna with many white scales scattered between median patch and lateral rows; VII-S with tuft of black scales. Legs: Fe-III without distal broad preapical white bands. Thorax: Antepronotal scales (ApSc) present. Wing: With 3 dark marks (1,2,3) on costa (C) and veins R-R1; costa without presector pale spot (PSP); apex with 2 small pale spots (i, ii), without pale spot at end of vein R2. LARVA (not illustrated): Head: Seta 1-A with very long branches; seta 3-C multi-branched. Thorax: Seta 1-P with ≥4 branches. Abdominal segments: Seta 1 palmate on segments I–VII, well-developed on segments II–VII. Nguyen Thuong Hien 1968 Rattanarithikul & Harrison 1973 Rattanarithikul et al. 2006b WRBU - Anopheles – Myzorhynchus – Australasia - Adult WRBU - Anopheles – Myzorhynchus – Indomalayan - Adult WRBU - Anopheles – Myzorhynchus – Indomalayan - Larvae WRBU - Anopheles – Myzorhynchus – Oriental Region – Adult WRBU - Anopheles – Myzorhynchus – Oriental Region – Larvae WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Adult WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Larva WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Oriental - Adult WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Oriental - Larva An. campestris ITS2: HQ424573; COI: AB331582-588 An. wejchoochoteiITS2: AB971306-311, EU812808-809; COI: AB971335-40 Typical An. campestris immature habitats include shaded ponds, swamps, pools, rice fields, marshes, drainage ditches, canals, wells, and deep animal footprints in pasture lands. These ground-water habitats are typically still or very slow-moving, always with at least some floating, emergent or submerged vegetation. Immature An. wejchoochotei have been collected in rice fields at elevations of 310m in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Anopheles campestris are found in low-lying open habitats, and broad alluvial plains, typically at elevations of lower than 200m. Anopheles campestris females are reportedly the most anthrophophilic species of the Barbirostris Complex, and readily enter homes to feed on man. They are regarded as primary malaria vectors, especially in coastal areas of Malaysia. Little is known about the biting habits of An. wejchoochotei, but the mother of the type series was collected at human bait, indicating that the species does bite man. Banzi virus (BANV) Simbu virus (SIMV) Brugia malayi Plasmodium spp. (represents both An. campestris and An. wejchochootei) Available GIS Models: An.campestris_Nyari_1 Reid 1962: 15 (M*, F*, P, L, E) Nguyen Thuong Hien 1968 (F*, L*; keys, taxonomy, bionomics; Vietnam) Harrison & Klein 1975 (distribution) Harrison & Scanlon 1975: 89 (M*, F*, P*, L*) Rattanarithikul & Harrison 1973 (L; key, Thailand) Rattanarithikul et al. 2006b (F*, L*; bionomics, distribution, keys) Taai & Harbach 2015: 258 (M, F, P, L; bionomics, genetics) Harrison, B.A., & Klein, J.M. (1975). A revised list of the Anopheles of Cambodia. Mosquito Systematics, 7(1), 11–12. Harrison, B.A., & Scanlon, J.E. (1975). Medical entomology studies-II. The subgenus Anopheles in Thailand (Diptera: Culicidae). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute, 12(1), iv + 1–307. Nguyen Thuong Hien 1968. The genus of Anopheles in Vietnam. Saigon: Bureau of Entomology, National Malaria Program/ Republic of Vietnam. English translation by Military Entomology Information Service. 205pp. Rattanarithikul, R., & Harrison, B.A. (1973). An illustrated key to the Anopheles larvae of Thailand. U.S. Army Medical Component, SEATO, Bangkok, Thailand. Rattanarithikul, R., Harrison, B.A., Harbach, R.E., Panthusiri, P., & Coleman, R.E. (2006b). Illustrated keys to the mosquitoes of Thailand. IV. Anopheles. Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, 128(Supplement 2), 2. Reid, J.A. (1962). The Anopheles barbirostris group (Diptera, Culicidae). Bulletin of Entomological Research, 53, 1–57. Taai, K., & Harbach, R.E. (2015). Systematics of the Anopheles barbirostris species complex (Diptera: Culicidae: Anophelinae) in Thailand. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 174(2), 244–264. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles campestris species page. 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There's this one "thing" I'll always crush over… But trust me; I didn't have it all right from the beginning, especially my mindset about it. I had watched this "thing" fail a couple of times so I just disregarded it all the same. That thing? F-A-M-I-L-Y/R-E-L-A-T-I-O-N-S-H-I-P-S. Hold up! did you notice that? What popped up in your mind when you read over the words "family/relationships?" Was it your siblings, your friends, that boy, that girl, the ex's or future bae? Hmmm. Ohh stop it… And this is why you must follow the Relationship Twos'day series from now on. When you hear words like "trust," "patience," "friendship,"etc., it is only common that people, scenarios, everything else but YOU would cross your mind. Thing is, we pretty much KNOW the right things that should be done in our families or in any relationship, but we seldom decide to BE the right people by focusing more on doing these right things rather than expecting them from others all the time. It should never really about "THEM" for they are, in most cases, beyond your control. Rather, it should be about YOU first, for you are all that is guaranteed to change without resistance when you CHOOSE to. Stop prioritizing "THEM" thoughts and start cultivating "YOU" thoughts. Something light for this wonderful week. Anticipate Next Blog Post…First Interview Feature Coming Up Soon…New To Blogging…I Love It!!!

Apparently, that's today's news. Maps of Antarctica will soon need to be re-drawn, and Trump thinks that his policies provide for the daily needs of the average Pittsburgh resident, as if those needs aren't quietly connected to those of the rest of global humanity's fragile conditions for comfortable life. In my town, two gentlemen gave their lives to protect two ladies against hate. In my bed, one thigh is tied to the other because one hip socket is ripped. This is that pressure, the squeezing of the slippery orange pip between the fingers before it flies. This is not a zero-sum game; we need each other. Maybe we need this president to expose those parts that are hard to see. I offer you this talk by Christina Figueres, who guided the bridging of the gap between the Climate Change Conferences in Copenhagen and Paris, at which all but two nations agreed to participate in legally binding adjustable resolutions. It's about attitude, and optimism, and asking the right questions. I broke down crying when I saw this piece by Rodin at PAM just at the conclusion of NCECA. It captures everything for me. Somewhere at the top of my spine where my head should be is a heavy lidded vessel holding...? So, I have 23 acres of graceful, unzoned land 50 minutes from downtown Portland. I have dreamed for over a decade of a residency focused on ceramics and permaculture, but we blew the immediate budget just buying the land, so now I'm a full-time admin hustling for grants or I ask better questions. What do I do now in this time and place, with my gifts? What is this time and place where a vet makes it through war to die at home in defense of diversity? What is needed, culturally? Is it about "now", or is it about life 50, 100 or 300 years out? There are mature wetlands, a pond, and new timber areas. There's a spring, and a meadow. I'm planning the orchard and nursing its trees at a makeshift space right now. We have the budget for a studio for 3 people and a community kitchen with some guest quarters up above, so I am figuring out how to invite larger groups of people than what I can protect under a solid roof: classes, woodfiring crews, other small meetings of minds and neighbors… SO, when you think of a earth-based response to what you want to change, with what would you engage? When you daydream of a sweeter future that involves an understanding of natural systems, what do you see? When you look at your urban establishments and imagine them with a rural outpost, what does that latter part look like, or when you rural folk look at your area's jewels, how would you connect them to the city? Copyright © 2017 Careen Stoll, All rights reserved.

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I started to learn English because there might be a chance to use English in my work in near future. It has been 2 years since I started learn English at MMM. Recently I found that sometimes I can understand English directly in English. And I don't feel nervous when I speak English. I think I can have confidence a little with my English skill.

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Customer experience is the mantra of many brands, but there is often a disconnect between what the customer experiences and what the business owners or staff experience. When you do a deep dive into why customer service is so bad in many brands, you discover five common mistakes, which are easy to fix yet have a big impact on the bottom line. When sales are down it is easy to cut corners in the name of managing costs. Turning off overhead lights in the afternoon. Reducing staff or even not accepting credit cards because of the additional processing fees. You're stepping over dollars to pick up pennies. Turning the lights off means your store looks abnormally dark as a customer walks toward the back. Reducing staff increases wait times. Not letting customers choose the way they want to pay adds friction, and some will simply walk out without buying. The customer left without his purchases. We joined American Express the next day. Since then, we've noticed our customers are happier and we've enjoyed an increase in monthly sales because of it. When you make it all about your customers, your business will enjoy higher sales, which brings all expenses into line. 2. Don't treat regulars better than first-timers. I'm sure, in her mind, she thought she was giving me great customer service. She had acknowledged me and helped her regular customer. What she didn't realize was that it was giving her regular customer preferential treatment over me. What did it cost the business? I never returned. When you haven't done the hard work of treating your new customers just as well as your old ones, you develop a core group of customers and stop growing. 3. Don't ask for a commitment before providing inspiration. Old sales training encourages salespeople to tie down the customer early on so as not to waste the salesperson's time. While most retailers don't even have retail sales training anymore, many companies allow their employees to ask questions that put the customer immediately on the defensive. What does it cost you? While many customers will tell you their budget, no one comes in and says the sky's the limit. Limiting their choices means you are making them settle. When they can't find something in their price range, they feel judged by the employee and leave empty-handed. 4. Don't only sell the customer on what they ask for. Most customers nowadays research online before ever walking through your door. When they do come in, and ask for a specific product, poorly-trained employees will simply take them to it, or tell them they don't have it. The trouble is your shopper will never discover another option you have that will do the same thing or a premium model that will work even better. The shopper is never given the chance to compare and contrast, which means your store's success is solely dependent on what customers ask for, not what you carry. That's a sure way to leave a lot of money on the table. 5. Don't add services at the expense of coverage. Buy online, pick-up in store (BOPIS) requires dedicated staff, space and resources. Merchandising and planning needs to be modified as traditional key performance indicators will not be applicable as the whole store becomes a fulfillment warehouse. These additional omnichannel services do not increase revenue as much as they increase costs, and these costs typically lead to a reduction of staff on the salesfloor. The more staff you task to pick up orders, the more your entire focus of your store goes from the customer in front of you to the one you can't see. Dressing rooms filled with clothes, messy displays and long wait times for service make customers pull out their smartphones in your store and buy from a competitor. To deliver a truly exceptional experience requires you to focus squarely on the person, who drove in the rain, the snow, the heat, past your competitors, to find a parking place and walk into your store. Blow that, and the customers you have now, or any new ones you might have acquired, will either stay home, order online, or buy from a competitor.

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La Réjouissance Youth Orchestra Founded in 1997, thanks to the initiative of some parents, it's a symphonic orchestra today. It imparts the joy of making music together and by collaborating with teachers and professionals in the music sector. It comprises 70 young musicians from the ages of 10 to 20, coming from different musical backgrounds. Since 2002, the orchestra has held concerts in prestigious theatres all over Italy, such as the "Comunale" in Treviso and Vicenza, the "Sociale" in Rovigo, the"Goldoni" in Venice and also the "Bibiena" in Mantua and "Teatro Verdi" and "Teatro della Pergola" in Florence. It has worked with actors including Luigi Mardegan, Marta Dalla Via and Federica Rosellini (awarded the NUOVOIMAIE Talent Award at the Venice festival in 2017), with singers such as Francesca Patanè, Giovanna Nocetti, Benedetta Caretta and Nicole Zillio and conductors and composers Davide Maserati, Mike Applebaum and Pinuccio Pirazzoli, who have composed and arranged original pieces. It normally holds 10 concerts per year. It has taken part in international festivals and recorded programmes for the Italian state television RAI. It also comprises the groups "Réjouissance Ensemble" and the "String Ensemble". Since 2005, the orchestra has been a UNICEF Youth Advocate, a title given to those organisations who donate part of their time and involve their audience in important issues concerning children's rights, by encouraging the mobilisation of resources and the creation of partnerships which benefit children in the whole world. The orchestra has produced special projects which have been very successful in the region including "Rockquiem", a new metal interpretation of Mozart's masterpiece played by 150 young performers on stage. The initiative is addressed at all children and teenagers who study music for a hobby or professionally, because it helps them meet in this specific age group (8-18 years old approx.) where they can share many interests and stimuli. At this age in life every encounter is possible, and all the talented musicians can work together thanks to the power of friendship and curiosity. The repertoire spans from 16th century music up to contemporary, with pieces from musicals and films. The orchestra is coordinated and conducted by Maestro Elisabetta Maschio.

Nathan Vincent's wool-and-foam soldiers subvert gender norms by creating figures associated with masculinity out of something traditionally considered a feminine craft. Only two of Nathan Vincent's yarn soldiers are standing on display at the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textile,s but they alter the mood of the gallery. There's nothing decorous or innocuous about a three-dimensional man, albeit soft-bodied, holding a rifle above his head and aiming it at an enemy. These "child-size" soldiers are taken from a larger series Let's Play War!, in which Vincent created two opposing armies out of yarn and foam. He distinguishes them by knitting one troop in jungle green and a second the color of desert sand. Based on the plastic toy soldiers boys play with in order to mimic adult warfare, he arranges the figures in malevolent poses, cleverly negating the idea that child's play is harmless. If not pointing rifles and shotguns at each other, the soldiers stretch out on the ground to steady their grips and to better the sight lines for their bazookas. Vincent occasionally affixes a grenade to a combatant's outstretched hand. The weapons stitched on to these aggressive appendages appear to be growth-like extensions of, not separate from, the limbs themselves. The soldiers' expressions are blank and call to mind The Hollow Men from T.S. Eliot's poem: "The eyes are not here/There are no eyes here." They're blindly following their orders to maim and kill. Vincent says that the idea for the series came to him after completing Boy Toys, a collection of crocheted sculptures—including video game controllers, a wrench, weapons (a slingshot, knives) and explosives (bright red sticks of dynamite). In his artist's statement, he explains that these toys often endorse aggression and "unconsciously instill values and reinforce gender roles." During a filmed interview with the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City, he goes on to explain his methodology. "I make mainly masculine objects or things that people associate with masculinity, and I make them with something that's considered a feminine craft." An evocative diorama, Let's Play War! makes those gender roles traditionally associated with toy soldiers (male) or knitting needles (female) slippery. "The use of crochet and knitting," Vincent adds, "is a way of subverting our cultural gender norms and experimenting with newer ways of thinking, questioning why our roles, activities and allowable personality traits are so often dictated by our anatomy."

Drew Peterson Found Guilty Of Killing Third Wife Filed Under:Bolingbrook Police Sergeant, Drew Peterson, Kathleen Savio, Murder, Murder Trial, Third Wife, verdict Former Bolingbrook police sergeant Drew Peterson arrives at the Will County Courthouse in Joliet, Ill., Friday, May 8, 2009, for his arraignment on charges of first-degree murder in the 2004 death of his former wife Kathleen Savio. (M. Spender Green/AP) JOLIET, Ill. (CBS) — Former Bolingbrook police sergeant Drew Peterson on Thursday was found guilty of murder in the 2004 death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio. A jury of seven men and five women had deliberated since 9:37 a.m. Wednesday morning before reaching a verdict around 2:30 p.m. Thursday. Peterson, who has been jailed since May 2009, was stoic as the guilty verdict was read, but audible gasps could be heard in the courtroom. He is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 26 and faces a range of 20 years to 60 years in prison. LISTEN: WBBM Newsradio's Brandis Friedman reports https://chicago.cbslocal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/15116062/2012/09/mp3_bc__carts_peterson-verdict-am-w2.mp3 Peterson was charged with killing Savio in her bathtub on March 1, 2004, as they were going through a divorce. Initially, the Will County Coroner's office ruled Savio's death an accidental drowning. But her death was reclassified as a homicide after an exhumation and a new autopsy, following the disappearance of Peterson's fourth wife, Stacy, in October 2007. "Game over, Drew," Cassandra Cales, sister of Stacy Peterson, told reporters after the verdict. "He can wipe the smirk off his face. It's time to pay." Peterson's defense team vowed to appeal. They had long criticized the prosecution's use of hearsay evidence, which effectively allowed Stacy Peterson to speak from beyond the grave and incriminate her husband in Savio's death. State lawmakers passed legislation that allowed the hearsay evidence at trial. LISTEN: WBBM Newsradio's Mike Krauser Reports "You know what they say: A conviction is a first step in a successful appeal," Joel Brodsky, Peterson's lead defense attorney, said. Brodsky said Peterson was philosophical when he talked with his client earlier Thursday. "Drew said to me, 'Whatever the verdict, we did the greatest job we could,'" the attorney said. Peterson's attorneys conceded the former police sergeant is an unpopular figure. JUROR: HEARSAY TESTIMONY SEALED CASE Jurors said they would not talk with the media, but released a collective statement through a Will County sheriff's spokesman. "We would like to thank Judge Burmila, the bailiffs and the Will County Sheriff's Department for the duration of this trial," the statement said. "We have taken the responsibility bestowed upon us by the court with a great deal of solemnity and diligence. After much deliberation, we have reached a decision we believe is just." Family members of Savio were emotional but elated at the verdict. "I'll never have my sister again — I still have to visit her at the cemetery — but at least I know she got justice," Nick Savio, Kathleen Savio's half-brother, told reporters outside the Will County Courthouse. Investigators believe Stacy Peterson is dead, and have named Drew Peterson as a person of interest in her disappearance. He has not been charged with a crime in that case. Pam Bosco, a spokeswoman for Stacy Peterson's family, said a second prosecution is coming. "Stacy's case is right around the corner — I truly believe that," said Bosco, who thanked the jury members for their decision. Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow agreed prosecutors are reviewing the disappearance of Stacy Peterson "with an eye to charging it." He called Thursday's guilty verdict "transcendental." "It transcends the criminal justice system," Glasgow said. "It makes a statement about violence against women that is one of the biggest problems that we have in this country — and that it won't be tolerated." He called Drew Peterson a "coward and a bully." Earlier Thursday, jury members sent trial judge Edward Burmila a note, asking, "Just to be clear judge, what does unanimous mean?" The judge replied to them: "The word unanimous has its common meaning. It indicates the agreement of all on the matter at hand, and your verdict must be unanimous and signed by all." The atmosphere at the courthouse was circus-like. A group of regular Peterson trial spectators even prepared a song about Drew Peterson's conviction, sung to the tune of "Puff the Magic Dragon." It went, in part: Drew the lady killer, won't be getting out of jail Who'd of thought a few weeks ago that justice would prevail? Once a respected police man, sworn to protect and serve, He'll be in jail for 20-plus. He got what he deserved.

Artículos en prensa Cost-effectiveness analysis of a surveillance program to prevent hip dislocation in... Model input parameters Editor in charge Transparency declaration Cost-effectiveness analysis of a surveillance program to prevent hip dislocation in children with cerebral palsy Análisis de coste-utilidad de un programa de vigilancia para prevenir la luxación de cadera en niños y niñas con parálisis cerebral Laura Vallejo-Torresa,b,c, [email protected] Corresponding author. , Amado Rivero-Santanaa,c,d, Carlos Martin-Saboridof, David Epsteing, Lilisbeth Perestelo-Pérezc,d,h, Carmen Luisa Castellano-Fuentesa, Antonio Escobar-Martínezc,i, Pedro Serrano-Aguilarc,d,h a Fundación Canaria de Investigación Sanitaria (FUNCANIS), Islas Canarias, España b Departamento de Métodos Cuantitativos en Economía y Gestión, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Islas Canarias, España c Red de Investigación en Servicios de Salud en Enfermedades Crónicas (REDISSEC), Madrid, España d Centro de Investigación Biomédica de Canarias (CIBICAN), Islas Canarias, España f Unidad de Evaluación de Tecnologías, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid, España g Departamento de Economía Aplicada, Universidad de Granada, Granada, España h Servicio de Evaluación del Servicio Canario de la Salud (SESCS), Islas Canarias, España i Unidad de Investigación, Hospital Universitario Basurto, Bilbao, España Table 1. Data inputs. Table 2. Results for the base case analysis. Material adicional (1) In this study we conducted an economic evaluation of a surveillance programme to prevent hip dislocation in children with cerebral palsy. We developed a model that compared costs and health outcomes of children with cerebral palsy with and without a surveillance programme. Information from a number of sources was combined into a decision analytical model, primarily based on data from a comparative study with a 20-year follow-up. Effectiveness was measured using Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs). The analysis took the perspective of the Spanish National Health Service. We undertook extensive sensitivity analyses including a probabilistic sensitivity analysis. The surveillance programme led to higher QALYs and higher health care costs, with an estimated incremental cost per QALY gained of 12,282€. The results were robust to model assumptions. The probability that the programme was cost-effective was estimated to be over 80% at the threshold of 25.000€/QALY recommended in Spain. This study indicates that surveillance programmes to prevent hip dislocation in children with cerebral palsy are likely to be cost-effective. En este estudio se realiza una evaluación económica de un programa de vigilancia para prevenir la luxación de cadera en niños y niñas con parálisis cerebral. Se desarrolló un modelo que comparó los costes y los resultados en salud de niños y niñas con parálisis cerebral incluidas y no incluidas en un programa de vigilancia. Se combinó la información proveniente de diversas fuentes en un modelo analítico de decisión, principalmente basado en datos de un estudio comparativo con 20 años de seguimiento. La efectividad se midió empleando los años de vida ajustados por calidad (AVAC). El análisis tomó la perspectiva del Sistema Nacional de Salud de España. Se realizó un extenso análisis de sensibilidad, incluyendo un análisis de sensibilidad probabilístico. El programa de vigilancia estuvo asociado a más AVAC y mayores costes sanitarios, con un coste incremental por AVAC ganado estimado en 12.282 €. Los resultados fueron robustos a los supuestos del modelo. La probabilidad de que el programa fuera coste-efectivo se estimó en un valor por encima del 80% para el umbral de 25.000 € por AVAC recomendado en España. Este estudio indica que es probable que los programas de vigilancia para prevenir la luxación de cadera en niños y niñas con parálisis cerebral sean coste-efectivos. Análisis coste-beneficio Luxación de cadera Cerebral palsy has an incidence of approximately two per 1000 live births and it is considered the most common cause of physical disability in children in developed countries.1 A common but often preventable complication in children with cerebral palsy is the dislocation of the hip, usually attributed to spasticity and contracture of the hip adductors and flexors as well as the medial hamstrings.2 Between 15-20% of children with cerebral palsy develop this condition.3 At first, children with cerebral palsy might experience asymptomatic subluxation or displacement of the hip that can progress into painful dislocation, contributing to difficulties with sitting, standing, walking, dressing, and perineal hygiene.4 In most cases children with identified displacement will need surgery to prevent dislocation.5 Treatments for hip displacement in children with cerebral palsy are less invasive and more successful in hips with less hip degenerative change and less displacement.6 Due to the silent nature of early stages of the development of hip displacement, screening or surveillance programs may permit early detection and treatment. Surveillance programs involve the monitoring of children with cerebral palsy until they reach skeletal maturity based on standardized clinical evaluations and radiological examinations. Hip displacement is often evaluated using the Reimer index or migration percentage (MP)7, with most authors classifying hips with a MP>30% as displaced, and hips with an MP>90% to 100% as dislocated.2 The potential of surveillance to reduce hip dislocation depends on the appropriate planning of early treatment once displacement is detected. Surgical treatments to prevent dislocation include adductor–psoas tenotomy and varus osteotomy of the proximal femur. Salvage surgery (e.g. femoral head resection) is usually performed, if the child is fit to undergo surgery, when the hip has reached dislocation.8 Some countries and regions have established surveillance programs, achieving a reduction in the rate of hip dislocation.3,9–14 Well-applied surveillance programs have therefore been considered effective and practical.6 However, no previous study has provided evidence on the cost-effectiveness of this intervention. The aim of this study is to determine the cost-effectiveness of a surveillance program to prevent dislocation of the hip in children with cerebral palsy in Spain. MethodModel overview In this analysis we compared the costs and Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) of children with cerebral palsy with and without a surveillance program to prevent hip dislocation. The perspective was of the Spanish National Health System,15 with a time horizon of 18 years, coinciding approximately with the follow-up duration of available data. We applied a 3% discount rate to future costs and QALYs.15,16 The paper follows the CHEERS Statement for economic evaluations.17 This is, to our knowledge, the first cost-effectiveness evaluation of a surveillance program to prevent hip dislocation in children with cerebral palsy. The analysis was thus based on a de novo decision analytical model. Similar to previous cost-effectiveness analyses of related interventions, such as screening of developmental dysplasia of the hip,18–20 the model took the form of a decision tree (Fig. 1). A decision tree is appropriate in this case because the data did not indicate a complex pattern of recurring-remitting health conditions. However, to account for the timing of preventive surgery, dislocation or salvage surgery, costs and QALYs associated with each pathway were computed on a yearly basis and summed up for the duration of the time horizon with appropriate discounting. Decision tree. Decision node represented by squares and chance node by circles. (0,21MB). Based on this model, mean cost and mean QALYs and the incremental cost-utility ratio (ICUR) under both strategies were computed. The ICUR represents the additional cost required to achieve one additional QALY,16 which is then compared with the decision makers' willingness to pay threshold in order to draw conclusions about the cost-effectiveness of the intervention. In Spain a cost-effectiveness threshold of 20,000-25,000€ per QALY has been recommended.21 Effectiveness of the surveillance program A systematic review was performed to identify studies that estimated the effectiveness of a screening program to prevent hip dislocation in children/adolescents (0 to 18 years old) with cerebral palsy. Methodological quality of the included studies was assessed with the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) criteria22 (see online supplementary Appendix I). The methods and results of the systematic review are described in detail in online supplementary Appendix II. Three articles (reporting on two studies) were included in the final analysis. These two studies were retrospective analyses of the effectiveness of the same program: the Cerebral Palsy Follow-Up Program (CPUP), initiated in southern Sweden in 1994. Hägglund et al.,3,9 in 2005 and 2014, reported results at 10 and 20 years, respectively, comparing a cohort of children born between 1992-1997 (study group 1) and between 1998-2007 (study group 2) included in the CPUP, to a historical control group of children born in 1990-1991 not included in the program. Elkamil et al.,10 in 2011, compared a subsample of the CPUP to a sample of children recruited over the same period and with the same GMFCS (Gross Motor Function Classification System) levels in Norwegian regions who were not in a surveillance program. None of the studies reported data on pain or health-related quality of life. The overlap of the intervention samples in the included studies precluded a meta-analysis of their results. The cost-utility model was populated based on data from Hägglund et al.,9 which provided the longest follow-up and compared two groups of children from the same region. The methodological quality of this study was evaluated as acceptable, the highest possible quality for retrospective studies according to the SIGN criteria (see online supplementary Appendix I). In this study, children included in the control and intervention groups were not born in the same period. As a result, at the end of follow-up children in the control group (aged 22-23 years by then) have been at risk of developing dislocation (defined in the study as MP=100%) for far longer than children included in the intervention group 2 (aged 6-15 years at follow-up). Therefore, we compared information only from children included in intervention group 1 (aged 16 to 21 at follow-up) with those included in the control group, since they had a similar follow-up duration that was long enough to detect most cases of hip dislocation. Nine of 103 children developed dislocation of the hip in the control group (8 of them between 3 and 6 years of age, and one at age 16), while two out of 210 children from study group 1 included in the CPUP program suffered from a dislocated hip (relative risk=0.1090; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.2-0.49). Information on the probabilities of undergoing preventive primary, revision and salvage surgery were also computed by comparing children from study group 1 with the historical control cohort. These are presented in Table 1. Resource use and unit costs Data inputs. Relative risk Prob. distrib. Dislocation under surveillance program 0.10899 (0.02-0.49) Lognormal 9 Mean (SD) Non-surveillance program Primary preventive surgery 0.1165 (0.0315) Beta 9 Revision surgery after preventive surgery 0.5833 (0.1367) Beta Dislocation 0.0874 (0.0277) Beta Salvage surgery after dislocation 0.4444 (0.1571) Beta Surveillance program Proportion of type of preventive surgery Tenotomy (vs. osteotomy) in primary preventive surgery 0.6117 (0.0478) Beta 9 Tenotomy (vs. osteotomy) in revision preventive surgery 0.0652 (0.0360) Beta Proportion of children in each group of the GMFCS GMFCS I 0.4312 (0.01791) Dirichlet 9 GMFCS II 0.1665 (0.01347) Dirichlet GMFCS III 0.1048 (0.01108) Dirichlet GMFCS IV 0.1442 (0.01270) Dirichlet GMFCS V 0.1533 (0.01303) Dirichlet Unit costs X-ray 21.12 €(11.38 €) Gamma See online supplementary Appendix III Physiotherapist visit 25.84 € (18.17 €) Gamma Occupational therapy visit 20.17 € (7.29 €) Gamma Orthopedic specialist doctor visit 91.19 € (28.58 €) Gamma Adductor–psoas tenotomy 1,912.1 € (1,405.93 €) Gamma Femoral osteotomy 2,185.4 € (1,018.68 €) Gamma Femoral resection 3,253.4 € (948.07 €) Gamma QALY weights Cerebral palsy without hip dislocation(Mild cerebral palsy) 0.8700 (0.2000) Beta 32 Cerebral palsy with hip dislocation(Moderate cerebral palsy) 0.7600 (0.2300) Beta Disutility due to surgery (1-year) 0.1000 (0.1000) Beta Assumption Mean [min; max] Age at primary preventive surgery 5 [3;8] Uniform 9 Age at revision surgery 8 [4; 12] Uniform Age at salvage surgery 13 [7;20] Uniform Age at dislocation 5 [3;8] Uniform CI: confidence interval; GMFCS: Gross Motor Function Classification System; Prob. distrib.: probability distribution; QALY: quality adjusted life years; SD: standard deviation. Note: A more detailed description of the parameters summarized in Table 1 is provided in online supplementary Appendix V. The intervention under analysis is the CPUP surveillance program,3,9 which included a standardized physiotherapist and occupational therapist visit twice a year until the age of six years, and once a year thereafter. Inclusion in the program was from identification of a possible cerebral palsy diagnosis, i.e., from birth on most patients, until they reached skeletal maturity. Radiological examinations in the CPUP program are based, since 2007, on the GMFCS, with children in level I not examined radiologically (if they have normal pain-free range of movement), children in level II examined at two and six years of age, and children in level III-V examined annually.9 GMFCS is currently the most widely applied scale for motor function classification in patients with cerebral palsy.23 We assume that each radiological examination involves a visit with an orthopeadic specialist doctor. In order to compute the mean cost of the program we considered the percentage of children in each GMFCS category as reported in Hägglund et al.,9 and shown in Table 1. This distribution by GMFCS was very similar to that reported in a previous study conducted in a Spanish region.24 In the CPUP, decisions regarding preventive surgery were made locally, and the most common types of preventive surgeries performed consisted of adductor–psoas tenotomy25 and varus femoral osteotomy.26 The proportions of surgery types are presented in Table 1, alongside with the mean age of children when undergoing preventive, revision and salvage surgery. Information on the use of non-surgical treatments to prevent hip dislocation, such as appropriate lying, sitting and standing positions and the use of orthoses, is not provided in Hägglund et al.9 We assume there are not differences across groups in the provision of this usual care, and therefore these costs are not included in the analysis. Furthermore, no information was provided in this study on the follow-up required for children after surgery or who developed dislocation but could not undergo a surgical procedure. In our analysis we assumed, based on clinical expertise, an additional annual visit to the physiotherapist and an additional radiological examination involving an orthopaedic surgeon visit in these children. The impact of this assumption was tested in sensitivity analyses. Unit costs data (Table 1) were taken from the mean values of the most up-to-date (2013 to 2018) Spanish regional tariffs (see online supplementary Appendix III for references). Life expectancy and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) In order to calculate the QALYs associated to each strategy, we combined information on life-expectancy as well as on HRQoL, the latter expressed in terms of QALY weights. We estimated mortality rates for patients with cerebral palsy until 18 years of age based on data from Hägglund et al.9 There is no evidence of differences in mortality for children under and not under a surveillance program, and neither there is evidence that hip dislocation has an impact on life expectancy in patients with cerebral palsy. Therefore, we applied the same mortality rates (represented as survival curves in online supplementary Appendix IV) for all children in our analysis. Several studies have shown that hip displacement/dislocation is significantly associated with a lower HRQoL in children with cerebral palsy.27–30 However, these studies have used a measure of HRQoL not suitable for the computation of QALYs weights (e.g. the Child Health Index of Life with Disabilities). QALY measurement in paediatric populations is very challenging.31 One study by Carroll and Downs32 calculated QALY weights for a wide range of health problems in the paediatric population. They considered mild, moderate and severe symptoms for each health problem, including cerebral palsy. In our base case analysis, we applied the reported utilities for children with mild cerebral palsy to children with cerebral palsy not suffering from hip dislocation, and that estimated for children with moderate cerebral palsy to children with cerebral palsy with hip dislocation (Table 1). We explored the impact of this assumption in sensitivity analyses, and estimated the change in utility required for the program to be cost-effective. We assumed that the mean age of children developing dislocation was 5 years of age.3,9 Furthermore, to allow for the fact that undergoing a surgical procedure might have a short-term detrimental impact on HRQoL, we applied a disutility associated to any surgical procedure equivalent to 0.1 QALYs for one-year after surgery. The impact of this assumption is also analyzed in sensitivity analyses. Data parameters were increased to double and reduced by half the base-case value in one-way deterministic sensitivity analyses. Wider ranges were applied to the assumptions included in the analyses: the number of follow-up visits after surgery was varied from no follow-up to monthly (base-case: annual visits); the disutility associated to any surgical procedure for a one-year after surgery was varied from 0.05 to 0.5 (base-case: 0.1); the time horizon of the study was varied from 10 to 100 years (base-case: 18 years) and discount rate varied from 1% to 5% (base-case: 3%). In addition, we undertook a threshold analysis that computed the value required on the change in QALY weights after dislocation for the intervention to be considered cost-effective. We also conducted a probabilistic sensitivity analysis to characterize the joint uncertainty in the model using 1,000 simulations in a Monte Carlo simulation. The results of the probabilistic sensitivity analysis are presented in terms of a cost-effectiveness plane and cost-effectiveness acceptability curves, which indicate the probability that an intervention is cost-effective for different values of the willingness to pay for a QALY. Probability distributions for each parameter are shown in Table 1. The cost-utility results of the base case analysis are presented in Table 2. The mean cost per child included in the program is 1569€ (95% CI: 917-2470€) and the mean cost per child not included in the program is 613€ (95% CI: 258-1151€). The mean QALYs for children included and not included in the program are 11.99 (95% CI: 3.83-13.85) and 11.92 (95% CI: 3.73-13.78) QALYs, respectively, for an 18-year time horizon. The ICUR of the program is estimated as 12,282€/QALY (95% CI: 3014-60,708€), and therefore considerably lower than the threshold of up to 25,000/QALY recommended in Spain.21 Results for the base case analysis. Surveillance programMean (95% CI) Non-surveillance programMean (95% CI) Incremental differenceMean (95% CI) ICURMean (95% CI) Costs 1569 €(917-2470 €) 613 €(258-1151 €) 956 €(394-1708 €) 12,282 €/QALY(3013-60,707€) QALYs 11.994(3.832-13.8450) 11.916(3726-13.780) 0.0778(0.028-0.131) ICUR: incremental cost-utility ratio; QALY: quality-adjusted life years. The results were robust to one-way sensitivity analyses (Fig. 2). The ICUR values estimated under the sensitivity analyses were in every instance under 25,000€/QALY, with the exception of when the time horizon is reduced to 10 years and when the underlying risk of dislocation without a program is assumed to be half the value of the base-case. Other variables found to have a large impact on the ICUR were the cost of the program, the probability of undergoing preventive surgery, and the disutility associated with dislocation. With regards to the latter, our analysis suggested that the screening program would be cost-effective when the difference in the utility weight between children with cerebral palsy with and without hip dislocation is 0.06 or greater (the base-case difference in the model is 0.11). One-way sensitivity analyses. Figures 3 and 4 shows the cost-effectiveness plane and the cost-effectiveness acceptability curves. At a threshold value of €25,000/QALY, the probability that the surveillance strategy is the most cost-effective option approaches 90% in the base case analysis. Cost-effectiveness plane. Cost-effectiveness acceptability curves. This study provides the first cost-utility evaluation of a surveillance program to prevent hip dislocation in children with cerebral palsy. The analysis was based on the best available evidence, which is limited to a population-based retrospective observational study implemented in southern Sweden. This study showed acceptable internal validity (see online supplementary Appendix I). External validity might be compromised due to potential differences between countries in the organizational requirements to implement the program and the quality of services provided in usual care. Therefore, both the underlying dislocation rate under non-surveillance and the effectiveness of a surveillance program might be different in other contexts. Unfortunately, there are no data on the underlying dislocation rate in children with cerebral palsy in Spain, but similarly to the control group included in Hägglund et al.,9 current clinical guidelines for children with cerebral palsy in Spain do not include routine surveillance for hip dislocation, but only recommend considering annual radiological examinations in severe cases.33 Therefore, the rate of dislocation in Spain is unlikely to be lower than that reported in Hägglund et al.9 In fact, studies from other countries, such as in a Norwegian non-surveillance cohort with a 15 years of follow up,10 have reported a dislocation rate larger than that in the control group in Hägglund et al.9 (8.7% vs. 15.1%). Dislocation rates under surveillance programs in other countries have also being found to be larger to that observed in the intervention group of Hägglund et al.9 We identified three non-comparative studies of surveillance programs in Norway34 and Australia.14,35 The results of Connelly et al.14 and Terjesen et al.34 are not directly comparable to those of Hägglund et al.,9 since they defined dislocation as MP>90% instead of 100%, and indeed they reported much higher dislocation rates with shorter follow up (6.8% and 4%, respectively, vs. 1.0%). Wynter et al.35 published an abstract reporting ten years of follow up of the largest cohort studied to date (n=2278); they did not define dislocation, although in a previous 5-year report it was defined as 100% of MP.13 The observed dislocation rate in Wynter et al.35 (1.8%) was similar but slightly larger than that of Hägglund et al.9 (1.0%); although more than half of cases of dislocation were observed at the initial entry to the program. Another threat to external validity could be the technical evolution of therapeutic preventive and reconstructive procedures, since the CPUP program in Sweden started more than 20 years ago. However, treatment modalities have not fundamentally changed, as suggested by recent published systematic reviews about treatments options.8 The cost-utility analysis has a series of limitations. First, and related to the previous point, the analysis is based on data from the study implemented in Sweden and, therefore, some input parameters might not correspond to the epidemiological context and clinical practice in Spain. Nevertheless, the extensive sensitivity analyses conducted around these model parameters showed the results were generally robust to variations in these values. The validity of any model depends on a series of assumptions. In our model, these assumptions include the intensity of follow-up after surgery or when dislocation is not surgically manageable, as well as the disutility associated with surgical interventions. In every case results were found not to be sensitive to these assumptions. Finally, possibly the main methodological challenge in undertaking cost-utility analyses in paediatric populations pertains to the estimation of QALY weights. We explored the change required in the QALY weight of children with cerebral palsy with a dislocated hip for the intervention to be considered cost-effective, which was estimated in 0.06. This value is significantly lower than the baseline assumption. The results of previous papers that have shown a significant association of hip dislocation with a lower HRQoL in children with cerebral palsy,27–30 indicate that the program is cost-effective even when using conservative assumptions about HRQoL. The results of this study suggest that a surveillance program to prevent hip dislocation in children with cerebral palsy is likely to be a cost-effective use of health care resources of the Spanish National Health System. However, there is a need for further research, in particular about epidemiological data on the incidence of dislocation in children with cerebral palsy, the impact of dislocation on quality of life, as well as on the comparative effectiveness of surveillance and other preventative treatments options. Miguel Ángel Negrín Hernández. The corresponding author on behalf of the other authors guarantee the accuracy, transparency and honesty of the data and information contained in the study, that no relevant information has been omitted and that all discrepancies between authors have been adequately resolved and described. What is known about the topic? Dislocation of the hip is a common but often preventable complication in children with cerebral palsy. Surveillance programs for early detection have been shown to be effective and practical, but no previous study has provided evidence on the cost-effectiveness of this intervention. What does this study add to the literature? We provide the first cost-effectiveness evaluation of a surveillance program to prevent hip dislocation in children with cerebral palsy. Our study indicates that these programs are likely to be cost-effective. This information aims to support decision making in the Spanish National Health Service, but these results might be of relevance in other settings. L. Vallejo-Torres, A. Rivero-Santana and L. Perestelo-Pérez conceived the study, and P. Serrano-Aguilar oversaw its conduct. A. Rivero-Santana, L. Perestelo-Pérez and P. Serrano-Aguilar conducted the systematic review of effectiveness. C. Martin-Saborido, C.L. Castellano-Fuentes and A. 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This includes a small image with each of your RSS postings. Typical use is to add the logo of your site for branding purposes, but this suited me better. I made the change and didn't think about it again until this morning when I happened to see my post from yesterday on Bitacle. Click the below screenshot to enlarge and see why I think it is so damned funny. Tee hee — turns out that bitacle puts your feed image up in their header area. Now you can click directly from my bitacle posts to the Stop Bitacle site — Ha! OK I'm easily amused, but that combined with my tip for redirecting their image requests to show the below really makes me laugh. Yes, I'm easily amused. And yes, I still hate Bitacle, but I have to do something while waiting for them to implode. Excellent work! That is great! That is pretty funny. Shows you how stupid scraping can be. I still look forward to the day in which Barnacle, I mean Bitacle, is gone for good. Hi. I've been on the trail of Bitacle all weekend. Lo and behold, my entire litany of posts from start to finish is under their aggregates tab! Oh joy. I'm posting about this tomorrow on Mimi Writes (blogspot). May I include this post in my article? It's funny and creative. Jessica & Jonathan: Well, it amuses me, so I guess that's somthing! Hey Mimi: Sure, that would be great. I look forward to the article! Found you from Mimi's site. Great idea. I'm going to try this. Thanks! I had no idea this was going on! Thank you so much, and your humor is grand! I found you from Dr. A's site. Bitacle has stolen me too. And I don't begin to have the level of technical knowledge you do to do something about it. How do I change my RSS feed to summary from full post? I am both mad and bewildered by all this. Thanks for educating! I believe the 'Descriptions' popup menu is what you're looking for. I hope that helps! blogmad brought me here and i'm glad it did. there are 367 feeds of mine on bitacle. can you tell me exactly what i need to do to be like you and STOP BITACLE? Dr. A — let me know how it turns out. jen — Hmmm, I haven't stopped Bitacle at all. The best way to stop them is to spread the word so that they might get put out of business. Their goal is to have a site that makes a ton from Google Adsense, so if their Adsense account gets terminated they might close up shop. Other than that you can check http://stopbitacleorg.wordpress.com/ for tips other than the ones I have listed. Good luck! That screen shot is fantastic. Good for you. Oooh I do so hatehatehate those bitchacles… You are officially my plain-Jane hero!

2006/07/24 14:44:00 - Oh noe! It's a bus on wheels! Well, like what I said, I were in Bristol on Friday (and practically so on Saturday). The purpose of said trip was claroscuro's brother's graduation. Oh, I remember it was you who once posted about how to make the little LJ user icon thingies into a little animal, like you have it now. How did you do it? How can I capture an image and then use it instead of the little person icon? Thanks! WOW! It's like a bus...only a train!

about due process, I can do that. > Thank you for the Formal Objection information. > duly considered. Working group members were mislead. > concerns about due process." > Would an appeal be applicable in this circumstance? > >> . Is this correct? > > require Director approval is advancing the spec to CR.

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Have you heard already? Sizzix has released new wonderful version of TH Tattered Florals. In Europe they will be sold only from January, but I am one of the few lucky ones to receive them as a Christmas present from Sizzix itself. You can see many amazing tutorials and previews of these new dies all over the blogland and Tim's page as well. So I wanted to show you something different - a comparison to the first Tattered Florals and the branch die also included in this set. These are the largest flowers of both sets. You can see how very bigger are the new dies - they're on the left side. This is a comparison of branch dies. The bigger one on the left side is from Garden Greens Bigz Die, the on in the middle is from Spring Greenery Decorative strip die, and the last one is from retired Sizzlits die. This is also a comparison between Bigz Die and Decorative Strip Die. And these are all other shapes you can get from the Jumbo Set. I also would like to wish you merry, bright and peaceful Christmas and prosperous, lucky and healthy New Year! There's plenty of time to get some Christmas crafting done and here are 8 FREE paper downloads that are perfect for the occasion! With a range of designs on offer, they are ideal for cards, tags, gift wrapping embellishments and more! Head over to Sizzix and sign up for their newsletter and voila - you will have access to wonderful Christmas papers.