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ECOLAB HITS $500,000 MARK IN AHLA FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS FOR HOSPITALITY STUDENTS
WASHINGTON (November 16, 2020) – The American Hotel & Lodging Foundation (AHLAF) today announced that Ecolab, Inc., the global leader in water, hygiene and infection prevention solutions and services, has hit the $500,000 mark in academic and professional scholarships awarded through the annual AHLAF Ecolab Hospitality Scholarship Program. More than 350 students and current hotel employees across the country have received a scholarship through the program.
Support for the Foundation builds on Ecolab's long-standing relationship with the AHLA and commitment to the hospitality industry. In addition to the scholarship program, Ecolab is renewing its partnership commitment with the Foundation.
"We are extremely grateful for Ecolab's partnership, expertise and generous support for the lodging industry," says Rosanna Maietta, AHLA Foundation president. "Ecolab's grants support countless individuals around the country and set them on a pathway to a lifelong career in an industry grounded in the service of others."
The Ecolab Hospitality Scholarship Program was established in 1996 as a commitment to the lodging industry and to support the development of its future leaders. The AHLA Foundation disburses the Ecolab Hospitality Scholarship annually to undergraduate hospitality management majors at colleges and universities across the U.S. Students are chosen based on academics, financial need, relevant work experience, extracurricular activities, personal attributes, and a passion to pursue a career in the hotel and lodging industry. Additionally, Ecolab supports current hospitality employees by providing professional development scholarships that allow them to advance their skillset through professional certifications.
"The AHLAF and Ecolab have been partners for many years, and we are proud to continue our collaboration and support for the industry now more than ever," said Greg Cocchiarella, Ecolab's vice president of industry relations. "We are pleased to support these dedicated students and employees as they work to advance the hospitality industry, which is vital to our global economy."
Throughout the years, Ecolab's investments have helped students get one step closer to their dreams by providing much needed financial support. A few of their stories are highlighted below:
Roxana Castillo, age 26 (Washington, D.C.): Roxana spent countless hours applying for scholarships to help her afford her dream of obtaining a bachelor's degree in Hospitality Management and Tourism at the University of the District of Columbia. As an immigrant and full-time worker in the hospitality industry, she looks forward to making a difference in the lives of others and knows that this scholarship will bring her one step closer to her dream.
Moises Lobaton, age 20 (Orlando, Fla.): Moises frequently finds himself in the service of others, whether it is while working in the hospitality industry or doing undergraduate mentoring. He hopes to one day become a general manager and work toward bridging the gap between underrepresented minorities and employment opportunities in the industry.
Canisha Pope, age 29 (Princess Anne, Md.): While COVID has had a significant impact on the event industry, Canisha is still planning on becoming an event manager at a hotel and one day owning her own event planning business. The Ecolab Hospitality Scholarship comes at a time when her other financial aid for the year has been exhausted and allows her to graduate next May. She hopes to one day repay the favor by helping her peers in the hospitality industry achieve their goals just like Ecolab has helped her.
Evan Nitroy, age 20 (Philadelphia, Pa.): Evan is a sophomore at Temple University and is enrolled in The School of Sports, Tourism and Hospitality Management. He plans to take what he is learning in the classroom to create and scale event programs that implement supports and healthy living to underprivileged children. By receiving the Ecolab Hospitality Scholarship, he believes he is one step closer to that dream.
The AHLA Foundation awarded $1 million in academic scholarships for the 2020/2021 scholarship season and will begin accepting applications for the 2021/2022 scholarship season on November 16, 2020. For more information about AHLAF scholarships and other programs, visit www.ahlafoundation.org.
About The AHLA Foundation
The AHLA Foundation, the charitable giving arm of the American Hotel & Lodging Association, is dedicated to helping people build careers, improve their lives, and strengthen the lodging industry. From lifting individuals out of poverty and connecting them with a life-long career in the industry to providing certifications to promote current hotel employees into leadership positions, the Foundation's programs are changing the industry by changing lives. We are committed to elevating, educating, and empowering individuals and the public on the industry's story of opportunity and advancement. Since its founding in 1953, the Foundation has distributed over $27 million in support of the industry and is committed to ensuring a strong and viable workforce for the entire lodging industry. The Foundation is funded solely by contributions from generous individuals and companies who want to give back to the hotel industry and ensure a successful future. Learn more at www.ahlafoundation.org.
About Ecolab
A trusted partner at nearly three million commercial customer locations, Ecolab (NYSE: ECL) is the global leader in water, hygiene and infection prevention solutions and services. With annual sales of $13 billion and more than 45,000 associates, Ecolab delivers comprehensive solutions, data-driven insights and personalized service to advance food safety, maintain clean and safe environments, optimize water and energy use, and improve operational efficiencies and sustainability for customers in the food, healthcare, hospitality and industrial markets in more than 170 countries around the world. www.ecolab.com
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Paris from Towers of Notre Dame (Photo by JW Bailly CC BY 4.0)
"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast." Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
LOCATION: Two airports serve Paris. Both are an easy RER (regional train) ride from the center. If arriving by train, you will arrive at one of several train stations. Not to worry, thank to its comprehensive and efficient metro, Paris is one of the easiest cities to navigate. Get a free map from a metro booth, a public transportation pass, and just go.
DESCRIPTION: Paris is the most visited city in the world and the Louvre is the most visited museum in the world. And for good reason. It is diverse, walkable, safe, and features an incredible cultural richness. Caution – do not try to do everything in one short trip. You will burn out and miss one of the most important Parisian traditions-to sit in a cafe or a park and talk about matters that have no definite answer.
1. The Louvre
Nike of Samothrace (Photo: JW Bailly CC by 4.0)
You can't say you've been to Paris if you haven't been to the Louvre. On November 8th 1793, the French Revolutionary government formally opened the Louvre Museum. To this day, no museum in the world is as comprehensive, vast, and rich.
Valerie Villa at Eiffel Tower (Photo by JW Bailly CC BY 4.0)
First, take the obligatory picture. Good. Now, take a moment to appreciate the meaning of the Eiffel Tower's revolutionary and controversial history—it really is fascinating. Cabeza Tip: Take the stairs, it makes the view from the top so much more rewarding.
3. Notre Dame & Ile de la Cite
Notre Dame (Photo by JW Bailly CC BY 4.0)
Visiting Ile de la Cite is talking a walk through history. Paris was born on this island, and to this day, the center of French civic and religious life is here.
4. Orsay
Cabeza's JW Bailly in Musée d'Orsay (Photo by Corey Ryan CC BY 4.0)
As heavy as the Louvre is, the Orsay is light. Housed in a beautiful repurposed railway station, this museum is smaller, the works more intimate, and the subjects less daunting.
5. Centre Pompidou/Museum of Modern Art
Cabeza's Corey Ryan in front of Klein's Blue (Photo by JW Bailly CC BY 4.0)
The trifecta of Parisian art museums end here. The Louvre covers prehistory to 1848, the Orsay 1848 to 1914, and the Centre Pompidou from 1900 to the present day. The building is incredible, the art inside, even more so. Cabeza Tip: Don't miss the amazing views from the rooftop.
6. Invalides/Musée de l'Armée
Napoleon's Tomb at Invalides (Photo by JW Bailly CC BY 4.0)
There are several reasons to visit this museum: Napoleon's tomb, the incredible collection of historical weapons, and the comprehensive and compelling World War II exhibition. This is the best place for children (and maybe adults) to learn their history.
7. Jardin du Luxembourg
Luxembourg Gardens (Photo: Stephanie Sepulveda CC BY 4.0)
Are you 20-something and in Paris? Then go lunch and hang out on the greens of Luxembourg. It is the best spot to engage in Paris' respectful, reserved, but absolutely lovely, flirting.
8. Place des Vosges
Place des Vosges (Photo: Stephanie Sepulveda CC BY 4.0)
Some consider this the greatest square in the world for its stunning architecture and intimacy. This is the place to spend an afternoon idly lounging in the way only Parisians know how.
9. Pere Lachaise Cemetery
Jim Morrison grave at Pere Lachaise (Photo by JW Bailly CC BY 4.0)
Can a cemetery be romantic? Weird, but definitely, yes. Buy a map and visit the graves of many of the greatest minds that Paris has given the world—from Delacroix to Oscar Wilde.
10. Arc de Triomphe & Champs Elysses
La Marseillaise on the Arc de Triomphe (Photo: JW Bailly CC BY 4.0)
Take a walk down the iconic Champs-Elysses to reach the Arc de Triomphe. Remember, Napoleon saw himself as a Roman, and this was designed to be his lasting legacy monument, built for his victorious troops. Cabeza Bonus: Beneath it lies the original tomb of the unknown soldier.
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World Bank Under Cyber Siege in 'Unprecedented Crisis'
The World Bank Group's computer network — one of the largest repositories of sensitive data about the economies of every nation — has been raided repeatedly by outsiders for more than a year, FOX News has learned.
It is still not known how much information was stolen. But sources inside the bank confirm that servers in the institution's highly-restricted treasury unit were deeply penetrated with spy software last April. Invaders also had full access to the rest of the bank's network for nearly a month in June and July.
In total, at least six major intrusions — two of them using the same group of IP addresses originating from China — have been detected at the World Bank since the summer of 2007, with the most recent breach occurring just last month.
In a frantic midnight e-mail to colleagues, the bank's senior technology manager referred to the situation as an "unprecedented crisis." In fact, it may be the worst security breach ever at a global financial institution. And it has left bank officials scrambling to try to understand the nature of the year-long cyber-assault, while also trying to keep the news from leaking to the public.
• Click here to see the e-mail.
• Click here to visit FOXNews.com's Cybersecurity Center.
The crisis comes at an awkward moment for World Bank president Robert Zoellick, who runs the world's largest and most influential anti-poverty agency, which doles out $25 billion a year, and whose board represents 185 member nations. This weekend, the bank holds its annual series of meetings in Washington — and just in advance of those sessions, Zoellick called for a radical revamping of multilateral organizations in light of the global economic meltdown.
Zoellick is positioning himself and the bank as an institution that can help chart a new path toward global financial stability. But that reputation, more than ever, depends on the bank's stable information infrastructure.
The fact that the information vaults of the World Bank have been repeatedly pried open won't help Zoellick's case.
While it remains unclear how much data has been pilfered from the bank, it's a lot. According to internal memos, "a minimum of 18 servers have been compromised," including some of the bank's most sensitive systems — ranging from the bank's security and password server to a Human Resources server "that contains scanned images of staff documents."
• Click here to see bank memos about the intrusions.
One World Bank director tells FOX News that as many as 40 servers have been penetrated, including one that held contract-procurement data.
Despite the gravity of the break-ins, the bank is trying hard to pretend to outsiders it didn't happen. "There were attempts to hack the bank's computer systems last summer," says a World Bank spokesman. "However, there was no compromise of confidential information." Requests for on-the-record interviews with Zoellick and other top officials were declined.
Meanwhile, the bank's treasurer, Kenneth G. Lay, has been briefing Zoellick's senior management team regularly on the situation since April.
Other bank officials are also sleuthing. The bank's chief information officer, Guy De Poerck, has engaged Price Waterhouse Coopers to do a confidential million-dollar assessment that is expected to tell him what's going on in his own department. And a 22-page internal report by a computer security company named MANDIANT, dated August 18, fleshes out many details of the June-July breaches. But very few people have ever seen the report, and nobody has been permitted to retain a paper copy.
At the same time, De Poerck has been downplaying the problem to the bank's 10,000 rank-and-file staffers as mere intrusion "attempts" in his e-mails. Yet most of those staffers have been asked to change their password three times in the past three months.
"As previously reported in mid-July," CIO De Poerck and a senior bank treasury official wrote in an August announcement to employees, "we would like to reassure you that there is no evidence that Bank staff personal information is at risk from the recent external attempts."
It's unclear how that statement squares with an internal memo to De Poerck a month earlier revealing that a sensitive Human Resources server "that contains scanned images of staff documents" had been successfully breached. De Poerk declined to comment to FOX News about any of these details.
• Click here to see De Poerck's memo.
In reality, the situation is serious enough that federal investigators have been called in. "We're not talking about hackers playing games or messing up our website," insists a senior member of the bank's IT department at its Washington headquarters. "It's about the FBI coming last summer and saying, 'You should take a look at your systems because we think something weird is going on.' It's about the intruders knowing what information they wanted — and getting to it whenever they wanted to. They took our existing data stores and organized them in a way that they could be easily accessed at will."
In plainspeak: "They had access to everything," says the source. "They had the keys to every room at the bank. And we can't say whether they still do or don't until we fully and openly address what's happening here."
The data raids are not a matter of stealing inconsequential bits and bytes. The World Bank's data center is literally a treasure trove of vital financial information from around the globe. As a clearinghouse for financial data from both governments and companies, the bank's computers could provide intruders with both a financial and intelligence gold mine — from inside information on bids and contracts to the minutes of confidential board meetings.
If the bank takes a position in a currency, for example, that currency usually moves in response to the bank's actions. Stocks and bonds can also swing up and down based on World Bank announcements. "If you know beforehand that the bank is going to put an order in for oil pipelines in Chad or healthcare systems in India, you can actually make a good amount of money," says one insider.
Although the bank typically provides only a fraction of the financing for a project, its influence on those projects is immense. Private corporations see the bank's stamp of approval as a guarantee that their own larger investments will be safe — and profitable. Knowing in advance what projects the bank's board will reject could be just as profitable.
Some insiders fear that contractors — perhaps even governments — might be seeking advance knowledge on the status of the bank's anti-corruption probes. "The bank knows the books of countries almost as well as the countries do — including the corruption at times," says one insider.
The first breach of the bank's secrets was discovered in September, 2007, after the FBI —while at work on a different cybercrime case — notified the bank that something was wrong. The feds pointed to a part of the bank's network that led out of the Johannesburg hub of the International Finance Corp. (IFC), a bank arm that lends to the private sector.
Within a week of the tip, teams of bank investigators sent to Johannesburg discovered that intruders had gained full and total access to all of IFC's worldwide information — including all incoming and outgoing e-mail — for at least six months. "They were downloading everything and anything," says one insider, who says that IFC's monitoring systems were extremely weak. "They [intruders] had full access."
Investigators discovered that the intruders were using a so-called "cluster" of IP addresses from Macao, China. But since those addresses can be spoofed (i.e., disguised) the discovery doesn't prove that the breaches actually originated in China. Nonetheless, bank officials and its executive director for China clashed behind closed doors over whether or not China's government is involved in the break-ins.
Bank sources tell FOX News that Johannesburg is one of several secret "hubs" containing a "common data store" (or CDS) that the World Bank Group has established around the globe. In layman's terms, a CDS is the cyber-world's version of a bomb shelter where every piece of an organization's data is replicated and backed up in case of a data-wipeout at headquarters in Washington. While it's known that IFC data was accessible at the hub, it remains unclear if all World Bank Group data was compromised there.
The second major breach — of the bank's treasury network in Washington — was discovered in April 2008. The World Bank's Treasury manages $70 billion in assets for 25 clients — including the central banks of some countries. It carries out substantial collaborations with the world's finance ministers on public wealth and debt management, runs an active bond-trading desk in Washington, and does everything from currency trading to capital markets financings.
After a forensic analysis of the treasury breach, bank investigators discovered that spy software was covertly installed on workstations inside the bank's Washington headquarters — allegedly by one or more contractors from Satyam Computer Services, one of India's largest IT companies.
The software — which operates through a method known as keystroke logging — enabled every character typed on a keyboard to be transmitted to a still-unknown location via the Internet.
Upon its discovery, insiders report, bank officials shut off the data link between Washington and Chennai, India, where Satyam has long operated the bank's sole offshore computer center responsible for all of the bank's financial and human resources information.
Satyam was also banned from any future work with the bank. "I want them off the premises now," Zoellick reportedly told his deputies. But at the urging of CIO De Poerck, Satyam employees remained at the bank as recently as Oct. 1 while it engaged in "knowledge transfer" with two new India-based contractors.
Satyam — one of the largest and most prestigious IT companies in India — is publicly listed on the NYSE and boasts having $2 billion in sales and more than 150 Fortune 500 companies as clients. In 2003, Satyam — it means "truth" in Sanskrit — won a much-heralded and lucrative five-year "sole source" contract to design, write and maintain all of the World Bank's information systems.
The contract — which began at $10 million and grew to more than $100 million by 2007 — was suddenly not renewed this year. Satyam so far declines to comment.
Then came the June-July breaches in Washington. They were similar to the Johannesburg attack, as the same group of IP addresses from Macao were used.
This time, however, the cyber-burglars used a different spyware. They broke into an external server run by the bank's private sector development unit. They were able to acquire passwords — including the password for the systems administrator.
That enabled them to jump into the servers at MIGA, the bank's giant insurance arm. It was there that they captured the security administrator's password as he was logging on to his computer.
It took ten days for bank officials to detect that they'd been invaded. Once they did, they shut down all external servers, except for e-mail — which it turns out the invaders were already using as their entrance point. By the end of July the invaders "had completely mapped out the topography of the bank's information systems," says one expert — "where everything was, the types of servers, and the types of files on the servers."
What the intruders did with all that information is the World Bank's most sensitive and painful mystery. It has clearly left the institution in a highly vulnerable position.
And the same may go for bank president Zoellick. Bank insiders say that he needs desperately to get the security of his own house in order. Despite the vast sums that the Bank spends on data and data storage, its information systems are deeply in disarray.
Today the total cost to maintain the bank's information infrastructure is at least $280 million per year. But according to one disgruntled bank staffer, "We don't even have an internal search engine that works."
The truly alarming fact, however, is that someone — or many people — seem to know their way around the bank's most valuable resource very well, even though they aren't supposed to be there at all.
UPDATE: After FOX News published its story, a World Bank spokesman issued the following statement:
"The Fox News story is wrong and is riddled with falsehoods and errors. The story cites misinformation from unattributed sources and leaked emails that are taken out of context.
"Like other public and private institutions, the World Bank has repeatedly experienced hacking attacks on its computer systems and is constantly updating its security to defeat these. But at no point has a hacking attack accessed sensitive information in the World Bank's Treasury, procurement, anti-corruption or human resources departments."
FOX News stands by its story.


On August 8, 28 students from the 2013 NEI Summer Internship Program participated in the NIH Summer Research Program Poster Day. They explained their posters, what they did, and how it was accomplished.
Andrea Li, a senior at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia never thought much about eyes, especially her own. That was until the summer of 2012, when she experienced a temporary loss of vision. It was then she understood how scary and dangerous vision loss could be. That sparked her interest in vision-related diseases. It brought her to the Unit on Ocular and Stem Cell Translational Research, Ophthalmic Genetics and Visual Function Branch, where she worked with Dr. Kapil Bharti on researching degenerative eye diseases.
Her research was looking into a layer of cells in the eye that are essential in supporting vision. She was trying to identify a set of unique surface biomarkers that can assist in purifying these cells for eventual transplantation into patients. Currently, there are no known surface biomarkers unique to these cells. In finding a novel set of these proteins, purification of stem cell-based treatments are facilitated, potentially putting NEI one step closer to treating degenerative eye diseases.
Andrea loves working in the lab and learning so many new techniques/information about the eye. "I have definitely met a lot of researchers and made some really good friends this summer. Working with them in the lab, learning from them, and listening to all the different projects and how they fit into the bigger picture has been really rewarding," she said.


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Les cellules lymphoïdes innées (CLI, en anglais  innate lymphoid cells [ILCs]) constituent une famille de cellules immunitaires innées qui jouent un rôle central dans le remodelage tissulaire. Les CLI peuvent se définir par trois caractéristiques principales :
 l'absence de récepteurs à antigène à réarrangement (RAG)-dépendant ;
 l'absence de marqueurs phénotypiques myéloïdes ou dendritiques ;
 une morphologie de type lymphoïde.

Les cellules lymphoïdes innées non cytotoxiques peuvent être classées en trois grands groupes, en fonction des facteurs de transcription qu'elles expriment et des molécules qu'elles sécrètent :
 Les CLI du groupe 1 (CLI1) se caractérisent par la production de leur cytokine signature, l'IFNγ, et par leur incapacité à produire des cytokines associées aux lymphocytes T auxiliaires de type TH1 et TH17. Les lymphocytes NK sont classés dans le premier groupe.
 Les CLI du groupe 2 (CLI2) nécessitent de l'IL-7 pour leur développement et produisent des cytokines associées aux lymphocytes T auxiliaires de type TH2 en réponse à une stimulation par des cytokines telles que IL-25, IL-33 et la lymphopoïetine stromale thymique (LPST). On y retrouve des cellules auxiliaires naturelles, des nuocytes et des IH2.
 Les CLI du groupe 3 (CLI3) se définissent par leur capacité à produire les interleukines IL-17A et/ou IL-22. À l'instar des lymphocytes T auxiliaires de type TH17, leur développement et leur fonction dépendent du facteur de transcription RORγt. Les CLI3 prototypiques sont les cellules iTLs (inducteurs du tissu lymphoïde).

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Voir aussi
 Système immunitaire inné

Système immunitaire

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CERTUS Begins Manufacturing of Novel In-House Pathogen Detection System with Toho Technology
CERTUS, innovators in food safety technologies, has begun manufacturing of the CERTUS System Detection Unit, bringing small and mid-sized food processing plants one step closer to a fast, easy and cost-effective way to detect pathogens. Based on SERS nanoparticle technology made available through an exclusive license agreement with BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, the CERTUS System is an entirely in-house system, enabling food producers to perform environmental monitoring without the need for outsourced testing. With the commencement of manufacturing, the CERTUS System Detection Unit is on track for market availability in June 2018.
Manufacturing of the Detection Unit is being carried out at CERTUS' parent company and iconic precision manufacturer Toho Technology. Founded in 1819 in Nagoya, Japan, Toho is a privately-held company that provides engineering, manufacture, distribution and support of diverse industrial and life-science technologies to customers around the world. With a well-established global market presence in optical instrumentation in the fields of semiconductor, flat panel display and process engineering, CERTUS leverages the Toho team and talent to advance out of R&D and into full scale commercial production.
"Being part of the Toho Technology family provides us with a myriad of technological and commercial benefits to ensure our products exceed the market's expectations for precision and accuracy," said CERTUS Director of Product Development, Dr. John Bodner. "Not only does Toho provide significant expertise in the manufacture of precision instrumentation, they also provide CERTUS with the solid infrastructure and financial backing needed to bring this level of innovation to our customers."
In addition to partnering with Toho, CERTUS works with United Kingdom-based Solus Scientific for assay development. "One of the reasons we chose to partner with Solus is because of their efficient research and development track record on bringing to market a range of assays in the area of food safety testing," continued Bodner.
The CERTUS Listeria El assay was developed in collaboration with Solus in 2017, while the environmental Salmonella assay is currently under development and expected to be available for use in the CERTUS System as early as Q4 of this year.
"Through BD's exclusive license to CERTUS and our strategic partnerships with Toho and Solus, we can ensure best-in-class products for our clients, with the end goal of removing the most harmful pathogens from the food system," said Bodner.
The CERTUS System will be commercially available in June 2018 and will feature a simple workflow, Bio-Lock™ safety components and real-time monitoring for rapid results.
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The #1 most asked question after I announced our pregnancy that didn't have to do with how I was feeling or how far along I am was about my dress. I'm SO SO glad you guys loved this romper/dress as much as I do.
Since y'all had so many questions about it, I decided to include some similar dress and romper options below for you as you're packing your spring break bags and looking towards Easter and fun spring date night options.
You may remember that when Leyton was in my belly I did weekly pregnancy updates, so I've decided to bring those back for Baby Brown #2 so I can keep everything documented here. Plus I figure that some of you who are also pregnant may find this information useful to see how others are feeling along the same path as you. So, keep reading to see my fourteen weeks update + some spring lace dress and romper ideas similar to my dress to help you transition into spring.
Mom Styling Tip: Don't be afraid to add a little edge to your lace especially while the weather can still be cool at night in parts of the country. You can always throw on a leather jacket or pair with booties if you don't want it to be to feminine and soft with the lace.
Total weight gain: 10 pounds…..this may be the only time I answer this question. ?I am gaining so much faster this time around!
Maternity clothes? Not yet! But I have already eliminated my favorite mom jeans from my lineup as I can't fit in them once my belly expands after 5:00. SO interesting how it gets bigger each night.
Stretch marks? Not yet, I am starting using creams this week though! More to come on that in Monday's post.
Sleep: I am still pretty tired. I sleep so hard right now (well, and to be honest, usually!). I sleep in and nap any chance I get.
Miss Anything? Sad I didn't get to enjoy National Margarita day!
Food cravings: Hot tea for my cough at night, McDonald's fries, sodas to help settle my stomach when needed.
Mood: Ready for energy to be back and for this cough to leave!
Looking forward to: Beach trip in 2 weeks!


Nutrition promotion: the role of monitoring physical growth.
Growth monitoring has been included as one of the basic strategies for child survival. In this paper, the rationale for this is reiterated both for individual as well as population nutritional surveillance. Methods for and approaches to growth monitoring are described. In addition, potential problems in implementing growth monitoring projects and interpreting the results are discussed. Despite its lack of sensitivity and specificity as a diagnostic tool, its advantages in terms of low cost, simplicity, reliability and social acceptability justify its use in nutritional surveillance, particularly in populations at risk of malnutrition.
Social Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur.


Prior to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), taxpayers were able to deduct fifty percent of the cost of meal expenses and entertainment expenses provided certain requirements were met. As a result of the TCJA, entertainment expenses are no longer deductible. The issue presented for taxpayers has now become whether the provision of food and beverages might constitute entertainment.
For most taxpayers, the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) should provide a welcome reduction to their tax bills. Taxpayers should see the act's immediate impact on their tax bills as they work to finalize and file their 2018 tax returns.
Attorneys Robert T. Smith and Blake D. Lewis presented at the Arkansas Society of CPA's 57th Annual Arkansas Federal Tax Institute. Additionally, Blake served as co-chair to the two-day event. Robert spoke about reasonable compensation and Blake's presentation focused on the centralized partnership audit regime.


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Fritz Ligges (* 29. Juli 1938 in Asseln; † 21. Mai 1996 in Herbern) war ein deutscher Vielseitigkeits- und Springreiter und Bundestrainer der Jugend. Er feierte Erfolge in den 1960er bis 1980er Jahren, unter anderem errang er Einzel- und Mannschafts-Medaillen bei Olympischen Spielen.

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Geboren wurde Ligges als Sohn einer Landwirtfamilie. Sein Vater züchtete Kaltblüter als Arbeitstiere für den Verkauf und hielt ein paar Ponys. Auf diesen Ponys lernte Ligges schon in jungen Jahren reiten und den Umgang mit Pferden. Er besuchte die Realschule in Dortmund und nach seinem Abschluss dort die Landwirtschaftsschule, um eines Tages den Hof seines Vaters zu übernehmen. Seine zweijährige praktische Ausbildung in einem landwirtschaftlichen Betrieb brach er vorzeitig ab, um sich ganz dem Reiten widmen zu können.

1968 heiratete er Ulrike Lauterjung, mit der er zwei Söhne hatte.

Sportliches
1959 machte er durch Erfolge auf ländlichen Turnieren auf sich aufmerksam und wurde vom DOKR zu Lehrgängen nach Warendorf eingeladen, wo er unter anderem von Hans Günter Winkler unterrichtet wurde. Zu dieser Zeit lag Ligges Hauptaugenmerk noch auf der Vielseitigkeitsreiterei. Bereits 1960 qualifizierte er sich in dieser Disziplin für die Olympischen Spiele, wurde aber trotzdem nicht nominiert, weil man erfahreneren Reitern den Vorzug gab. 1961 und 1962 errang er jeweils mit Föhn die Deutsche Meisterschaft der Vielseitigkeitsreiter.

Um sich optimal auf die Olympischen Spiele 1964 vorbereiten zu können, siedelte er 1962 für zwei Jahre mit seinen Pferden nach Warendorf über. Die Qualifikation glückte und diesmal bestand auch kein Zweifel an seiner Nominierung, auch wenn sein bestes Pferd Föhn verletzt ausfiel. Auf seinem zweiten Pferd Donkosak errang er bei den olympischen Wettbewerben jeweils die Bronzemedaille in der Mannschafts- und in der Einzelwertung. Nach den Spielen orientierte er sich um und widmete sich vornehmlich der Springreiterei.

Ab 1967 engagierte sich Ligges mehr und mehr auch als Trainer, wobei er von seinen Reiterkollegen den Spitznamen "Damentrainer" verpasst bekam, weil er überwiegend Amazonen unterrichtete.

Für die Olympischen Spiele 1972 in München konnte sich Ligges erneut qualifizieren und wurde auch für die Mannschaft nominiert. Und obwohl er und sein Pferd Robin im Vorfeld als schwächstes Paar des deutschen Quartetts mit Gerd Wiltfang, Hartwig Steenken und Hans Günter Winkler eingeschätzt wurden, bewiesen sie ihr Können und beendeten als bestes deutsches Paar den Mannschaftswettbewerb, den die Mannschaft mit der Goldmedaille abschloss.

Dafür wurde er am 11. Dezember 1964 mit dem Silbernen Lorbeerblatt ausgezeichnet.

Kurz nach dem olympischen Wettbewerb brach sich sein Pferd Robin ein Bein und musste nach langem Kampf letztendlich eingeschläfert werden. Auch das war ein Grund dafür, dass Ligges sich mehr und mehr auf die Ausbildung junger Pferde und Reiter fokussierte. So wurde beispielsweise das damalige Schweizer Talent Markus Fuchs bei Ligges trainiert.

Parallel zu seiner Karriere engagierte sich Ligges auch in der Zucht und baute sein eigenes Gestüt auf, dessen erstes Aushängeschild bis zu seinem Verkauf 1979 an Leon Melchior nach Zangersheide der Hengst Ramiro war. Ebenfalls im Jahr 1979 verkaufte Ligges den elterlichen Hof und baute bei Münster ein neues Anwesen, wo das Gestüt Ligges noch heute beheimatet ist.

Für die Olympischen Spiele 1984 in Los Angeles qualifizierte er sich letztmals und gewann auf Ramzes Mannschafts-Bronze.

1986 zog sich Ligges aus dem aktiven Sport zurück und übernahm das Amt des Bundestrainers der Junioren und Jungen Reiter, mit denen er bis 1996 insgesamt 34 Medaillen auf internationalen Championaten gewinnen konnte. 1990 wurde ihm von der FN der Titel des Reitmeisters verliehen. Außerdem engagierte er sich stark beim Westfälischen Pferdestammbuch, dessen Vorstand er zehn Jahre angehörte und wo er Mitglied der Körkommission und des Auktionsteams war.

Am 21. Mai 1996 starb Ligges an einem Herzinfarkt in seinem Heimatort Herbern. In Erinnerung an ihn erhielt im Jahr 2010 im Dortmunder Stadtteil Asseln eine neugebaute Straße den Namen Fritz-Ligges-Straße.

Erfolge

 Olympische Spiele:
 1964 in Tokio: Bronzemedaille Mannschaft, Bronzemedaille Einzel auf Donkosak in der Vielseitigkeit
 1972 in München: Goldmedaille Mannschaft, Einzelwertung 8. auf Robin im Springreiten
 1984 in Los Angeles: Bronzemedaille Mannschaft auf Ramzes im Springreiten
weitere:
 2× Deutscher Meister der Vielseitigkeitsreiter (1961 und 1962 jeweils auf Föhn)
 Sieger im Großen Preis von Deutschland (1966 auf Finette)

Quellen

Literatur
 Eckhard F. Schröter: Das Glück dieser Erde …: Leben und Karriere deutscher Springreiter. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-596-23019-5.

Weblinks

 Website des Gestüts Ligges

Olympiasieger (Springreiten)
Trainer (Springreiten)

Deutscher Meister (Vielseitigkeitsreiten)
Reitmeister (Deutsche Reiterliche Vereinigung)
Reiter (Deutschland)
Olympiateilnehmer (Deutschland)
Teilnehmer der Olympischen Sommerspiele 1964
Teilnehmer der Olympischen Sommerspiele 1972
Träger des Silbernen Lorbeerblattes
Teilnehmer der Olympischen Sommerspiele 1984
Deutscher
Geboren 1938
Gestorben 1996
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Prosecution questions Zahid's RM1.3m charity funds for football players, says football club not a soup kitchen or helping poor
Wednesday, 13 Oct 2021 01:34 PM MYT
Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi arriving at the Kuala Lumpur High Court, October 5, 2021. — Picture by Miera Zulyana
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 13 — Former home minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi had dishonestly misappropriated charitable foundation Yayasan Akalbudi's funds to give RM1.3 million to the police's football club in November 2015, as this cannot count as charity or eradicating poverty, the prosecution argued in the High Court today.
The prosecution was presenting arguments to show why Ahmad Zahid should be called to enter his defence against 12 criminal breach of trust charges in relation to RM31 million of Yayasan Akalbudi funds.
Lead prosecutor Datuk Raja Rozela Raja Toran today argued that Ahmad Zahid's alleged use of funds from Yayasan Akalbudi was wrongful and with dishonest intention, as the money was not used for the foundation's objective of eradicating poverty and enhancing the welfare of the poor.
High Court judge Datuk Collin Lawrence Sequerah had noted that Ahmad Zahid's lawyers had argued that the RM1.3 million cheque from Yayasan Akalbudi to the Persatuan Bola Sepak Polis Diraja Malaysia was given to alleviate salary issues faced by the players, and that the defence had argued that this was within the foundation's objectives of eradicating poverty.
Raja Rozela however shot down such an argument by Ahmad Zahid's lawyers, pointing out that the football club had nothing to do with helping the poor.
"This PDRM football club is a football club, it is not an NGO that runs a soup kitchen or a food bank.
"So the club belongs to PDRM, PDRM hires players to play football for them, which in turn means these players are professional players.
"Players are of course given wages, but our contention is this shortfall of money does not necessarily make one poor. You don't get your salary for a month or two, does not make one poor, does not make one become destitute. Hence it does not fall into the category of poverty as stated or as envisaged in the Memorandum and Articles of Association, the objects of establishment of Yayasan Akalbudi," she said, referring to the company constitution of Yayasan Akalbudi.
Previously, Ahmad Zahid's lawyer Hamidi Mohd Noh had claimed that the RM1.3 million cheque using Yayasan Akalbudi's funds to the PDRM football association was a "donation" that is in line with the charity's objectives of helping the poor, arguing that the cheque is to "eradicate the poverty" of this association's football players as they had not received their salaries for some time.
Responding to Ahmad Zahid's lawyers' suggestion that the football players qualify for the so-called "sumbangan" (donation) from Yayasan Akalbudi just because they were not paid their wages, Raja Rozela questioned this line of thought by pointing out that it would mean that civil servants who "would probably qualify as being poor" after the first week of receiving their monthly pay would "easily qualify to receive sumbangan (donation) from Yayasan Akalbudi courtesy of the accused".
Raja Rozela then referred to the World Bank's definition of poverty, which included hunger, lack of shelter, being sick and not being able to see a doctor, being illiterate and not being able to go to school, not having a job, fearing for the future and living one day at a time.
"If we accept the description of poverty by the World Bank, I do not see how a football club can fit into that description," she said.
She highlighted that one of the Yayasan Akalbudi trustees — Muhammad Nabil Salleh — had himself agreed that the police football club was not "fakir miskin" or paupers that need assistance.
"So to Your Lordship's question and in reply to my learned friend's suggestion that the money given to PDRM football club falls within the ambit of Akalbudi's objects, we humbly submit that it does not. PDRM football club does not qualify for any sort of monies from Yayasan Akalbudi," she said.
Datuk Zul Hisham Zainal is seen at the Kuala Lumpur High Court December 11, 2019. — Picture by Firdaus Latif
Raja Rozela also argued that Ahmad Zahid was the one who had issued and signed the RM1.3 million cheque to the football association in contravention of Yayasan Akalbudi's objects.
While acknowledging that a document examiner had said the RM1.3 million cheque was "most probably not" signed by Ahmad Zahid after examining it, Raja Rozela went on to argue that there was circumstantial evidence from two prosecution witnesses that would enable an inference that the cheque was actually issued by him to the police's football association.
Raja Rozela noted that Ahmad Zahid's former executive secretary Major Mazlina Mazlan @ Ramly had as the 90th prosecution witness testified that she had brought the RM1.3 million Yayasan Akalbudi cheque into Ahmad Zahid's office for him to sign.
Mazlina had also testified that Ahmad Zahid had signed the cheque without asking anything when she told him about a message she had received from Ahmad Zahid's son-in-law Datuk Zul Hisham Zainal, Raja Rozela noted.
Raja Rozela said Mazlina had also testified to then having passed the cheque to another person — whom she recalled to be Ahmad Zahid's driver — to be given to Zul Hisham.
Raja Rozela noted Zul Hisham himself had as the 19th prosecution witness testified to having received a phone call in 2015 from the police's football association's assistant secretary ASP Mohd Nizam Mohd Noor for financial assistance of RM1.3 million to pay the players' outstanding wages and for administrative matters.
Raja Rozela highlighted that Zul Hisham had testified in court previously to having told Ahmad Zahid about the football association's request, and that he had subsequently received an envelope containing a cheque from Yayasan Akalbudi staff and then contacted Nizam to hand over the cheque.
"These two sets of evidence — one, from Major Mazlina, she presented the cheque for him to sign and witnessed him sign that cheque, and also from Datuk Zul, the accused's son-in-law, to say that he received a cheque although not directly from the accused according to him.
"We submit based on these two evidence, it is safe to infer the cheque was issued by the accused person and that the accused endorsed the giving of the RM1.3 million. Therefore we would humbly urge the court to find that in this particular transaction, that the accused had acted dishonestly when he misappropriated the RM1.3 million Yayasan Akalbudi cheque," she said when arguing that Ahmad Zahid had committed criminal breach of trust over the RM1.3 million cheque.
In this trial, Ahmad Zahid ― who is also a former deputy prime minister and currently the Umno president ― is facing 47 charges, namely 12 counts of criminal breach of trust in relation to charitable foundation Yayasan Akalbudi's funds, 27 counts of money laundering, and eight counts of bribery charges.
The 12 criminal breach of trust charges involves one charge relating to Ahmad Zahid's alleged instructions to have RM17.9 million of Yayasan Akalbudi's funds transferred to a law firm, while the 11 other charges is over the alleged use of more than RM13 million of Yayasan Akalbudi's funds through 50 cheques for purposes that are not part of the foundation's aims of eradicating poverty and enhancing the poor's welfare.
Apart from the RM1.3 million cheque to the police's football association, the other expenses under the RM13 million sum were listed as being the RM1.3 million payment via 43 cheques for personal credit card bills, a RM107,509.55 payment using three cheques for vehicle insurance and road tax for privately-owned vehicles, a RM10 million loan given out via a cheque to company Armada Holdings Sdn Bhd and a RM360,000 payment via two cheques to political consultancy firm TS Consultancy & Resources which helped register voters.
Raja Rozela had pointed out that "gifting or lending money to a businessman such as Armada Holdings or a football team or political consultancy firm is not charity" by any stretch of imagination, and that such use of Yayasan Akalbudi's funds would further not be considered as a "means to eradicate poverty".
The trial resumes tomorrow.
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CBS TV interview with Assad: US should 'expect everything' in retaliation
CBS TV interview with Assad: US should 'expect everything' in retaliation
September 9, 2013 | Michael Dorstewitz | Print Article
PBS host Charlie Rose spoke to Bob Schieffer Sunday on CBS News about his interview with Syrian President Bashar al Assad. The interview, held at the presidential palace in Damascus, will fully air Monday night on PBS's "The Charlie Rose Show."
This marks Assad's first interview with an American TV network in nearly two years, and his first since President Obama called for a limited strike against that country, according to CBS.
Rose told Schieffer that Assad denied responsibility or even knowledge of the sarin gas attack.
While neither confirming nor denying a Syrian stockpile of chemical weapons, Assad said that if his country possessed them, they would be maintained in a "centralized control" beyond the access of unauthorized personnel.
Listen to the exchange between Rose and Schieffer, courtesy of CBS News.
In this excerpt of the Assad interview, which aired on CBS Monday morning, the Syrian president told Rose that if the United States were to launch a limited attack against his country, "You should expect everything. Not necessarily from the government."
Assad warned Rose that Syria is "not the only player in this region." Middle Eastern allies that have promised retaliation for an attack on Syria include Iran and the militant Islamic group Hezbollah.
In addition, both Russia and China have publicly supported Syria, and have each sent warships to the east Mediterranean off the Syrian coast.
"You have different parties, you have different factions, you have different ideology. You have everything in this region now," said Assad.
Assad has denied from the beginning that his country had engaged in chemical warfare against his own people. When questioned about the possibility of future uses of chemical weaponry, he said "if the rebels or the terrorists in this region or any other group have it. It could happen, I don't know. I am not fortune teller."
Watch the excerpt of the Assad interview, courtesy of CBS News.
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Friends who survived Sandy Hook and Parkland are on a mission to 'move the needle' on gun reform
William Brangham William Brangham
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Parkland victim's father: We will get gun reform in the U.S.
Among the hundreds of thousands at last weekend's March for Our Lives in Washington were two women who share an uncanny bond. Friends for over three decades, Yvonne Cech and Diana Haneski are also both school librarians who survived different shooting massacres at Sandy Hook Elementary and Stoneman Douglas High School. William Brangham reports on their fight for change.
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Judy Woodruff:
Among the hundreds of thousands of participants in last weekend's March for Our Lives rally in Washington, D.C., were two women who share an uncanny bond.
William Brangham spoke with these two educators in the days before the march.
It's part of our weekly series Making the Grade.
Yvonne Cech:
I feel the change coming.
William Brangham:
Yvonne Cech and Diana Haneski have been friends for over 30 years. They joined the thousands who traveled to Washington, D.C., this past weekend.
They met decades ago working at a radio station in Connecticut, and over the years their lives have been strangely in sync. They both married men at the same station. They each got their master's at the same university. They had kids at almost the exactly same times. And they each became librarians.
But here's where those similarities turn tragic. In 2012, Yvonne was a librarian at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and Diana is a librarian at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
It was just total disbelief, because I thought, how is that possible that, in our friend group, there are — you know, this has happened twice? How is that possible? And I kept thinking, it can't be true.
Woman:
There has been a deadly shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut.
Six years ago, in Newtown, a young man walked into the school with an AR-15 assault rifle and began shooting. Yvonne was preparing lessons for the day.
It was a Friday, and it was a beautiful blue sky, December day. And I remember leaving for work that morning and thinking, this is going to be a great day.
Yvonne and her students survived by hiding in a closet. It took several hours before she realized that others hadn't been so lucky.
When they evacuated us to the firehouse nearby, that's when we kind of understood the enormity of what was going on. And when I got to the firehouse and heard that there were two classes of children missing, I thought, well, they must have found a place to hide like we did. They must have had to have found a spot.
Twenty elementary school kids and six educators were killed that day.
News of a school shooting in South Florida.
Six years later, another young man with another AR-15 walked into Diana's school, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, and started shooting.
911 Operator:
Nine-one-one. What is your emergency?
Please help. Please help.
OK. Is anybody injured?
Yes, yes, a lot of blood. Please help, please.
Diana was in a room with a dozens of kids when the attack began.
She immediately thought of what Yvonne had been through years before.
So, when what happens at Marjory Stoneman Douglas starts to unfold, you're thinking of Yvonne and what she did?
Diana Haneski:
Yes, and I thought of her before it even happened. I was always trying to have my keys and my phone and my radio with me.
If I didn't have a pocket, I would put a pouch on, because of what she shared, how that people who didn't have a key were in trouble, or if you couldn't unlock or lock something, you had a problem. But then, of course, when it actually was happening, the adrenaline kicked in, and my only focus was getting the kids in and safe.
And I had — there were four other adults with me and 50 students. And I wanted them safe and hidden and calm. And that's what we did.
Yvonne, can you tell us where you were when you hear what has happened in Florida?
I was at work in the library. And I was in a meeting, and I had my phone on mute. And — but I could tell that, you know, the phone was going crazy.
And so I excused myself from the meeting, and I quickly called back. And I said, what's going on? And it was our friend Sue, and she said, the shooting was at Diana's school.
And I thought, OK, I have got to talk to her. I have got to talk to her. And she picked up the phone, and she just — the first thing she said to me was, how can we make this the last one?
That was the first thing you said?
I guess. It's hard to remember. But she remembers for me, yes, because it's too hard to believe. It was like surreal. It was like, this is really happening. It happened to you. It's happening in our school, too?
So, yes, that was my first reaction. This can't happen again. It can't. So, we have to do something.
Both women are now a part of a club of sorts, survivors of these horrible tragedies who are trying to help each other cope.
I think my life is now sort of divided into before the shooting and after the shooting, and not because I want to stay focused on it.
I'm constantly trying to reframe my thinking, so that I can sort of have a normal life. But the truth is that it's part of your life forever. And, you know, when we talked to the teachers from Columbine and I thought, you know, I said, you know, how long does this take to get over, and they said, that's not how it works. You won't get over it. You will learn to co-exist with it.
After the Parkland shooting, both Diana and Yvonne have been what they call reluctant activists for comprehensive gun control.
Diana and I were saying, we would much rather be doing a book club right now than doing this.
It's our spring break for us. It's our spring break.
But we find ourselves in the position, I think, that we can't be silent. We don't — we have an obligation to protect the children of this country. And the only way to do that is to change — move the needle, change it.
And if the NRA doesn't want to listen, I think they're going to be left behind.
And I think it's wrong to say you're going to solve a gun problem, gun violence problem by adding more guns. That just doesn't make any sense, and you don't need to be a teacher to realize that.
To arm a teacher, like, in the situations we both described, I don't know how a gun would have helped us in our situation.
At times this past weekend, Yvonne Cech and Diana Haneski looked like two old friends enjoying each other's company.
Good time.
But at other moments…
She survived Sandy Hook, and I survived Douglas.
… the enormity of their experiences and the enormity of this movement they have joined was overwhelming.
Nobody said it was easy.
But these two friends say they will stick with this for as long as it takes.
For the PBS NewsHour, I'm William Brangham in Washington, D.C.
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New chickpea breeding protocol promises to bring down varietal development time from 12 years to 6 years
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)
Rapid Generation Advancement promises to be a simple yet cost effective solution
ICRISAT's chickpea researchers have developed a breeding protocol that holds the potential to create new varieties of chickpea in half-time.
The Rapid Generation Advancement (RGA) protocol allows production of six to seven generations of chickpea in a year under controlled greenhouse conditions. The protocol has been standardized through a series of experiments conducted over two years, using six cultivated chickpea varieties -early, medium and late maturity groups.
Generation time is a game changer for achieving maximum genetic gains in crop plants. Generally, it takes seven to eight years to develop homozygous (identical) lines after hybridization with one crop generation produced per year. Given the growing need for food and nutrition, and the mounting pressures of climate change, the demand for improved varieties is more pressing today than ever.
"RGA can significantly reduce the number of years required to reach homozygosity and develop a cultivar or material for research purposes," said Dr Pooran Gaur, Director for the Asia Research Program at ICRISAT.
Before the development of the new protocol, ICRISAT's chickpea breeding program was producing three generations per year; first crop in the field during the crop season (October – February), second crop in the field under late-sown conditions with irrigation (February – April) and the third crop in an off-season nursery (May – July) at Hiriyur in Karnataka, south India.
Now, generation advancement can quickly be achieved by providing extra source of light (60W incandescent bulb) in greenhouses, explains Dr Srinivasan Samineni, Chickpea Scientist at ICRISAT. Extended photoperiod (light) during seedling stage induces early flowering within 20-25 days after sowing, against normal flowering duration of 40-50 days. The duration of crop cycle is further reduced by germinating immature green seeds.
During the experiments, the team found that the mean total number of generations produced per year during the experiments were 7, 6.2, and 6 in early, medium and late-maturing genotypes, respectively. The findings were described in a publication in The Crop Journal.
"This will be a game changer for fast-tracked development of chickpea varieties globally, meeting the ever-changing market needs. Varietal development with conventional breeding methods takes nearly 12 years, which is long enough for markets to change and render a variety under development unattractive to demand forces. Hastening breeding is the way ahead," Dr Samineni said.
Additionally, the chickpea RGA protocol developed is significantly less resource intensive than RGA protocols developed for other crops such as wheat, faba bean and lentil, which requires exposure of seed to stress treatment, adjustment in wavelength of light source and application of chemicals and hormones, thus requiring specialized operations and controlled growing conditions.
The chickpea team put the RGA protocol to test on real-world breeding material by developing recombinant inbred line (RIL) mapping populations. Two RIL populations have just been developed following this protocol and have been advanced to F7 from F1 within a year.
"This RGA protocol developed for ICRISAT chickpea is very simple and cost-effective. It can be implemented easily by any breeding program with a greenhouse facility," Dr Gaur added.
This work was taken up with support from CGIAR Research Program Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (CRP-GLDC).


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Developing an internet-based support system for adolescents with depression
Maritta Anneli Vaelimaeki, Marjo Kurki, Heli Hätönen, Marita Koivunen, Maarit Selander, Simo Saarijärvi, Minna Anttila
Background: Depression is the most common mental health problem among adolescents. Despite policy guidance and governmental support to develop usable mental health services, there is still a lack of easily accessible and modern interventions available for adolescents in Finland's majority official language. Objective: Our objective was to develop a user-friendly and feasible Internet-based support system for adolescents with depression. Methods: The Internet-based support system for adolescents with depression was developed. To create this new intervention, some examples of existing interventions were studied, the theoretical basis for the intervention was described, and the health needs of adolescents identified. As an outcome of the process, the results were combined and the content and delivery of a new intervention will be described here. Results: Six individual weekly Internet-based support sessions were delivered by a tutor over a 6-week period of time and developed to form an intervention called Depis.Net. This was an Internet-based support system for adolescents with depression tailored to improve self-management skills and increase awareness of their own well-being and mental health. The intervention was accessible via an electronic platform, which was secured and password protected for users. The intervention on the Depis.Net website consisted of elements identifying adolescents' needs, and offering self-monitoring, access to health information and self-reflective written exercises. An educated nurse tutor gave written feedback to each adolescent via the electronic platform. Conclusions: An Internet-based support system for adolescents with depression was developed using a systematic approach with four steps. This was done to ensure that the intervention had a sound theoretical background and at the same time caters flexibly for the problems that adolescents commonly face in their daily lives. Its potential for adolescents visiting outpatient clinics will be evaluated in the next phase by means of a randomized controlled trial.
https://doi.org/10.2196/resprot.2263
10.2196/resprot.2263
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Adolescent Nursing and Health Professions 100%
Youth Social Sciences 54%
Adolescents Psychology 54%
Intervention Social Sciences 40%
Support Social Sciences 31%
Internet Social Sciences 27%
Depression Social Sciences 27%
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Vaelimaeki, M. A., Kurki, M., Hätönen, H., Koivunen, M., Selander, M., Saarijärvi, S., & Anttila, M. (2012). Developing an internet-based support system for adolescents with depression. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 14(6), [e22]. https://doi.org/10.2196/resprot.2263
Vaelimaeki, Maritta Anneli ; Kurki, Marjo ; Hätönen, Heli et al. / Developing an internet-based support system for adolescents with depression. In: Journal of Medical Internet Research. 2012 ; Vol. 14, No. 6.
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abstract = "Background: Depression is the most common mental health problem among adolescents. Despite policy guidance and governmental support to develop usable mental health services, there is still a lack of easily accessible and modern interventions available for adolescents in Finland's majority official language. Objective: Our objective was to develop a user-friendly and feasible Internet-based support system for adolescents with depression. Methods: The Internet-based support system for adolescents with depression was developed. To create this new intervention, some examples of existing interventions were studied, the theoretical basis for the intervention was described, and the health needs of adolescents identified. As an outcome of the process, the results were combined and the content and delivery of a new intervention will be described here. Results: Six individual weekly Internet-based support sessions were delivered by a tutor over a 6-week period of time and developed to form an intervention called Depis.Net. This was an Internet-based support system for adolescents with depression tailored to improve self-management skills and increase awareness of their own well-being and mental health. The intervention was accessible via an electronic platform, which was secured and password protected for users. The intervention on the Depis.Net website consisted of elements identifying adolescents' needs, and offering self-monitoring, access to health information and self-reflective written exercises. An educated nurse tutor gave written feedback to each adolescent via the electronic platform. Conclusions: An Internet-based support system for adolescents with depression was developed using a systematic approach with four steps. This was done to ensure that the intervention had a sound theoretical background and at the same time caters flexibly for the problems that adolescents commonly face in their daily lives. Its potential for adolescents visiting outpatient clinics will be evaluated in the next phase by means of a randomized controlled trial.",
keywords = "Adolescent, Depression, Development, Internet, Intervention, Support",
author = "Vaelimaeki, {Maritta Anneli} and Marjo Kurki and Heli H{\"a}t{\"o}nen and Marita Koivunen and Maarit Selander and Simo Saarij{\"a}rvi and Minna Anttila",
doi = "10.2196/resprot.2263",
journal = "Journal of Medical Internet Research",
publisher = "Journal of medical Internet Research",
Vaelimaeki, MA, Kurki, M, Hätönen, H, Koivunen, M, Selander, M, Saarijärvi, S & Anttila, M 2012, 'Developing an internet-based support system for adolescents with depression', Journal of Medical Internet Research, vol. 14, no. 6, e22. https://doi.org/10.2196/resprot.2263
Developing an internet-based support system for adolescents with depression. / Vaelimaeki, Maritta Anneli; Kurki, Marjo; Hätönen, Heli et al.
In: Journal of Medical Internet Research, Vol. 14, No. 6, e22, 01.11.2012.
T1 - Developing an internet-based support system for adolescents with depression
AU - Vaelimaeki, Maritta Anneli
AU - Kurki, Marjo
AU - Hätönen, Heli
AU - Koivunen, Marita
AU - Selander, Maarit
AU - Saarijärvi, Simo
AU - Anttila, Minna
N2 - Background: Depression is the most common mental health problem among adolescents. Despite policy guidance and governmental support to develop usable mental health services, there is still a lack of easily accessible and modern interventions available for adolescents in Finland's majority official language. Objective: Our objective was to develop a user-friendly and feasible Internet-based support system for adolescents with depression. Methods: The Internet-based support system for adolescents with depression was developed. To create this new intervention, some examples of existing interventions were studied, the theoretical basis for the intervention was described, and the health needs of adolescents identified. As an outcome of the process, the results were combined and the content and delivery of a new intervention will be described here. Results: Six individual weekly Internet-based support sessions were delivered by a tutor over a 6-week period of time and developed to form an intervention called Depis.Net. This was an Internet-based support system for adolescents with depression tailored to improve self-management skills and increase awareness of their own well-being and mental health. The intervention was accessible via an electronic platform, which was secured and password protected for users. The intervention on the Depis.Net website consisted of elements identifying adolescents' needs, and offering self-monitoring, access to health information and self-reflective written exercises. An educated nurse tutor gave written feedback to each adolescent via the electronic platform. Conclusions: An Internet-based support system for adolescents with depression was developed using a systematic approach with four steps. This was done to ensure that the intervention had a sound theoretical background and at the same time caters flexibly for the problems that adolescents commonly face in their daily lives. Its potential for adolescents visiting outpatient clinics will be evaluated in the next phase by means of a randomized controlled trial.
AB - Background: Depression is the most common mental health problem among adolescents. Despite policy guidance and governmental support to develop usable mental health services, there is still a lack of easily accessible and modern interventions available for adolescents in Finland's majority official language. Objective: Our objective was to develop a user-friendly and feasible Internet-based support system for adolescents with depression. Methods: The Internet-based support system for adolescents with depression was developed. To create this new intervention, some examples of existing interventions were studied, the theoretical basis for the intervention was described, and the health needs of adolescents identified. As an outcome of the process, the results were combined and the content and delivery of a new intervention will be described here. Results: Six individual weekly Internet-based support sessions were delivered by a tutor over a 6-week period of time and developed to form an intervention called Depis.Net. This was an Internet-based support system for adolescents with depression tailored to improve self-management skills and increase awareness of their own well-being and mental health. The intervention was accessible via an electronic platform, which was secured and password protected for users. The intervention on the Depis.Net website consisted of elements identifying adolescents' needs, and offering self-monitoring, access to health information and self-reflective written exercises. An educated nurse tutor gave written feedback to each adolescent via the electronic platform. Conclusions: An Internet-based support system for adolescents with depression was developed using a systematic approach with four steps. This was done to ensure that the intervention had a sound theoretical background and at the same time caters flexibly for the problems that adolescents commonly face in their daily lives. Its potential for adolescents visiting outpatient clinics will be evaluated in the next phase by means of a randomized controlled trial.
KW - Internet
KW - Intervention
KW - Support
U2 - 10.2196/resprot.2263
DO - 10.2196/resprot.2263
JO - Journal of Medical Internet Research
JF - Journal of Medical Internet Research
M1 - e22
Vaelimaeki MA, Kurki M, Hätönen H, Koivunen M, Selander M, Saarijärvi S et al. Developing an internet-based support system for adolescents with depression. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 2012 Nov 1;14(6):e22. doi: 10.2196/resprot.2263


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