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Nexus, industry's top planners offer 'better' way to facilitate long-term care services via hub model
Joe Bush
Top aging care experts on Thursday floated a vision of regional centers of experts affordably advising seniors and their families on where to continue their healthcare upon discharge from a hospital.
In their ideal scenario, dedicated offices and their staffs would be supported by a combination of public, private and employer-based money. It would reflect a long-term healthcare industry that has the patient's best interest at heart, even if it means recommending care at someone else's facility.
This scenario was presented in a report released Thursday by Nexus Insights, a think tank advancing the well-being of older adults through innovative models of housing, community and healthcare.
"Where Am I, Where Do I Go: The Missing Entry Point to Long-Term Care Solutions for Older Adults and Their Caregivers" sprang from a week of discussion among an elite group of industry stakeholders in February 2022. Included in the host committee besides Nexus Insights founder Bob Kramer were: David Grabowski, PhD, Harvard Medical School professor; Caroline Pearson, senior vice president of healthcare strategy, NORC at the University of Chicago; Sarah Thomas, CEO of Delight by Design/MezTal; and Anne Tumlinson, CEO of ATI Advisory. Some 20 other key stakeholders either took part in the event or were interviewed before it.
The report lays out a blueprint for both policymakers and the private sector that is the product of eight months of work. It addresses "the current challenges that older adults and their families face in finding and understanding the resources and supports available to them and to identify ways to help them access those programs and to identify potential elements of a navigation support system."
Kramer said the report's ideas are urgent because the country's main public sources of healthcare funding — Medicare and Medicaid — are moving from volume-based to value-based.
Nexus Insights founder Bob Kramer
"Skilled nursing more than ever has to recognize it's not about fighting to get people to come to their setting and holding on to them as long as possible so they can bill as much as possible. It's rather demonstrating they're very much part of a larger continuum and for many skilled providers that means an opportunity to think about their customer and resident in a much broader sense than when they're in their building," Kramer told McKnight's Long Term Care News Thursday.
Insurance plans for seniors have an incentive to break what Kramer calls "the vicious cycle" of people getting caught in a revolving door into hospitals and ERs.
"They also have an incentive to make sure that people are getting the right care in the right place at the right time," he said.
He said an example of the all-too-common nightmare the report is calling attention to is: 24 hours before a hospital discharge, the hospital gives the patient and their family a list of places to go to, with only a day to choose.
"They don't know what they need, and the family is in a panic," he said. "What does Mom really need?"
Breaking down walls
Kramer suggests that part of the current challenge begins with a siloed point of care system.
"If they're interested at all in the transition, it's only to say, 'Well, we found a bed for Mrs. Jones,' but they're not there to counsel the family, to say, 'This is what you need to expect over the next six to 12 months, this is the kind of help and support you're going to need, this is the kind of setting, therefore, that you may want to consider,'" Kramer said. "There's nobody there doing that."
He related a story of a friend whose mother entered a skilled nursing facility from a hospital and within two days had calls from three officials: a care coordinator from the discharging hospital, a Medicare Advantage representative, and a staff member from the facility where she was.
"All three gave conflicting advice and it was clear they never talked to each other," he related. "Absolutely no coordination. How are we supposed to know what to do when three experts tell us three different things?"
Skilled nursing providers should concentrate on the fact that potential residents need better guidance, and if that guidance means the patient may not stay at their facility, that's a better outcome for the industry overall.
"Ultimately, the skilled nursing provider will win if they are seen as having the best interest of that patient at heart, and not desperately wanting them in their building and staying as long as possible," said Kramer. "You have not only knowledge but you're connected to all parts of the continuum and committed to Bob's mom getting the right care at the right setting at the right time, and it may not be your building.
"Yes, there's a time and a place for her to live with us, but our common goal is to keep her from bouncing back and forth to the hospital. and we want to break that vicious cycle of the revolving door of the ER and the hospital where each time that person comes out weaker and with a lower quality of life."
Public, private-pay and employer-based programs must work together by combining their infrastructure, experience and delivery models, he added
"Employer-based options have a lot more promise because they're much more customized, personalized and patient centric," he said.
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1 killed in crash off Route 125 in Lee
Victim pronounced dead at scene
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A man was killed in a crash Tuesday night in Lee.Police said Jacob Currier, 27, of Epping, was pronounced dead at the scene.>> Download the FREE WMUR appOfficers responded to the scene about 10:15 p.m.Currier's truck crashed down an embankment against a tree off Route 125, authorities said.His 22-year-old passenger, who was from Sandown, was found walking along the southbound emergency lane of the road and appeared injured and dazed, police said.The cause of the crash is under investigation, though police said speed and alcohol appear to be factors.
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A man was killed in a crash Tuesday night in Lee.
Police said Jacob Currier, 27, of Epping, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Officers responded to the scene about 10:15 p.m.
Currier's truck crashed down an embankment against a tree off Route 125, authorities said.
His 22-year-old passenger, who was from Sandown, was found walking along the southbound emergency lane of the road and appeared injured and dazed, police said.
The cause of the crash is under investigation, though police said speed and alcohol appear to be factors.

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Introduction: Studies of naturalistic data have suggested that young children acquiring highly- inflected languages do so in a way that is largely error-free. However, low overall error rates in children's production may hide higher error rates in certain parts of the paradigm (Rubino & Pine, 1998; Aguado Orea & Pine, 2015). To investigate this possibility, the current study examines children's production of person/number marking in present tense verbs in two morphologically complex languages, Finnish and Polish, which differ in the complexity of the verb inflection pattern. Input-based accounts, which are based predominantly on English morphological learning (e.g., Matthews & Theakston, 2006), predict that both the input frequency of a particular word form (token frequency) as well as the density of a word's phonological neighbourhood (PND), predict rates of learning. Therefore, we investigate not only whether children make errors in inflection, but also whether input-based accounts are able to predict where in the verb paradigm errors occur.
Method: Seventy-seven native Finnish-speaking children (46 females; mean age: 49.4 months; range: 35-63) and 81 native Polish-speaking children (43 females; mean age: 48.7 months; range: 35-59) participated in the study, which employed an elicited production paradigm. The stimuli consisted of 32 verbs in each language. The verbs were chosen across a range of surface form frequencies and from 8 (Polish) and 11 (Finnish) verb classes varying in PND, with counts taken from CDS corpora and standard grammar dictionaries respectively. Each verb was presented as an action in a video on a laptop computer. Children were shown animations of different characters (1st, 2nd, 3rd person; singular and plural) performing the various actions, and they produced both the pronoun and the inflected present-tense form of the verb (e.g., "Minä uin" I swim-1sg; "Sinä imuroit" You hoover-2sg).
Results: Analysis with mixed-effects models revealed that, for both languages, despite low overall error rates (7-8%), children made more errors with verb forms with lower token frequencies in the input (Finnish: β=0.38, SE=0.06, χ2(1)=39.14, p<0.0001; Polish: β=0.26, SE=0.05, χ2(1)=29.47, p<0.0001) and with verbs belonging to classes with lower PNDs (Finnish: β=0.17, SE=0.07, χ2(1)=5.78, p=0.016; Polish: β=0.21, SE=0.07, χ2(1)=8.36, p=0.004) (see Figures 1 and 2). In Finnish, but not in Polish, older children also produced fewer errors than did younger children (β=0.08, SE=0.03, χ2(1)=8.71, p=0.0032). The interaction between token frequency and PND was not significant in either language. Analysis of the children's errors indicated that the types of errors made by children were influenced by the type of inflectional paradigm in the language.
Conclusion: These findings suggest that successful models of children's acquisition of verb morphology need to be sensitive to the statistical properties of children's input, i.e., both token frequency (reflecting children's retrieval of individually stored verb forms) and PND (children's use of phonological analogy), and the type of inflectional paradigm children are learning.


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Audi AG is an automobile manufacturer that has been owned by the Volkswagen Group since 1966. Prior to that, the company (then known as Auto Union) had been owned by Daimler-Benz. Audi itself was founded in 1909, although other companies that it purchased or merged with can be traced back even further (such as Wanderer, which was founded in 1885).
The "four rings" Audi logo represents the merging of Audi, DKW, Horch and Wanderer in 1932.
1 History of Audi
2 Vital Data
3 Audi Contact Information
History of Audi
The name of the company can be traced back to an earlier company, Horch & Cie, which was in 1899 by August Horch. When Horch left that company to start a new one in 1909, he was unable to use his name again. The solution was to translate "horch" ("hark" or "listen" in english) into Latin: audi. This became the name of Horch's new company, and it has persisted throughout the years as the company has undergone many changes.
Although Audi as a brand name and car badge fell out of use for a number of years, it was revived after the Volkswagen Group purchased the Auto Union group (which itself was renamed Audi AG.) Today, Audi is considered to be the Volkswagen Group's luxury brand, and it is one of the so-called "Big Three" German luxury automobiles (with Mercedes-Benz and BMW being the other two.)
Today, Audi manufacturers and sells vehicles all around the world, and its yearly profits account for almost all of the Volkswagen Group's yearly operating profits (as several of Volkswagen's other brands post significant losses each year.)
Audi vehicles are built at two plants in Germany (Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm) and seven other plants spread across Europe and Asia. By 1016, Audio expects to open its first North American manufacturing facility in Mexico to supply demands in that part of the world.
Vital Data
Founded: Zwickau, Germany (1909)
Current headquarters: Ingolstadt, Germany
Yearly production: 1,466,059 vehicles (2012)
Employees: ~46,000
Owner: Volkswagen Group
Subsidiaries: Ducati, Italdesign Giugiaro S.p.A, Lamborghini, Quattro
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On Sep. 4, Nike announced that controversial figure and former NFL Quarterback Colin Kaepernick would be one of their faces of the thirtieth anniversary of Nike's universally known "Just Do It" campaign. Since then, there have been reports of Nike knowing what would follow, backlash and all, but took the chance of involving Kaepernick in their promotional campaign.
The backlash towards Nike involved angry "fans" of the product destroying Nike apparel and saying that they would boycott the brand. This raised the question for many: is this helping or hurting the Nike brand? Was this Nike doing exactly what the ad of Kaepernick stated, "Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything"?
The College of the Ozarks was not the only college to follow through with such an act, as a number of other colleges and universities also announced that they would be letting go of Nike as their uniform partner and provider.
Across social media, it became a polarizing topic, with both positive and negative feedback towards Nike's decision. "I feel like Nike has taken a downfall to their own company. Kaepernick's biggest achievement in football was turning the whole league against the national anthem. He doesn't deserve a deal with any company," an anonymous interviewee said.
The boycott of Nike products was brought to focus by many people, with burning of Nike apparel and destruction of the popular sportswear. Destruction also took the form of people cutting out the Nike logo from their sneakers and t-shirts.
While some protested Nike, others went out of their way to purchase Nike products in support of the advertising campaign.
When the initial announcement took place on Sept. 4, Nike's sales numbers hit a 3 percent drop within the first few hours. However, a report by Edison Trends states that Nike's online sales grew 31 percent from the Sunday of Labor Day weekend to the Tuesday following. The 31 percent rise shows that Nike's risk for reward may have certainly paid off. "I think Kaepernick joining Nike is a good move. Nike has always been known for taking risks and it is paying off," Merrimack student Rob Bonitatibus said.
While the rise of sales is always ideal, the biggest sign that this move by Nike may have been a success was through its own stock. Per the Bloomberg Markets, Nike's shares hit an all-time high of $83.90 shortly after the debut of the ad, which led to even more exposure for the brand. "It was definitely a good move by Nike because they got a ton of exposure," Merrimack student Scott Neville said.
Through the continuous exposure and constant talk of Nike's move to present Kaepernick as their "main attraction" for the thirtieth anniversary of the "Just Do It" campaign, they showed where they stand in the whole controversy. Nike, the official provider of jerseys and equipment for the league that pushed Kaepernick out, the NFL, may have even taken a shot at a partner. With the current Kaepernick vs. NFL lawsuit still going on, it should raise questions as to not only Nike's sales, but their partnership with the NFL as well.


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News that the Government has appointed a Commissioner to replace the Southern District Health Board is hardly a surprise given the mounting pressure it has been under to do more with a lot less, says Labour's Acting Health spokesperson David Clark.
"Southern DHB has been under the gun for some time. It has made a number of quite drastic cuts over the last six years as it struggled to maintain services, at times putting patients at risk.
"Until now, the Government has maintained a façade of non-interference. However it appointed five Board members, including the chair, and has had a Crown monitor on the Board with a direct line to the Minister for nearly six years.
"With a commissioner in place Jonathan Coleman can no longer continue the charade.
"National's ongoing under-resourcing of health is at the heart of this issue. Its reluctance to carry out a full review of the funding model has had an adverse effect across New Zealand.
"Southern covers the largest geographical area in the country. Today's problems stem in part from the merger of the Otago and Southland DHBs five years ago, when little was done to work out how it would impact on the region.
"The Board was under huge pressure and was desperate to meet expectations. Jonathan Coleman now needs to ensure adequate funding to ensure the region's health needs are not put at risk.
"The real test of the Minister's intervention will be a properly funded health service. The South will know he has failed if sods are not turned on a full rebuild of Dunedin's tertiary hospital before this term of Government is up," David Clark says.


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The Multilevel Marketing Misnomer: How the Federal Trade Commission May Change Network Marketing
Jeremy Pineres ∗Emory University School of Law, J.D. Candidate, 2017; Vice President, Student Animal Legal Defense Fund; House Coordinator, Emory Law Houses Program; Mentor, Emory Law Mentor-Mentee Program; B.A. Legal Studies, University of Central Florida. I would like to thank Heidi Hegewald, Liu Chen, and Nicole Fukuoka for helping refine my work, and Kelsey Spillers and Laura Beth Jackson for their encouragement and support throughout the writing process.
Multilevel marketing, also known as network marketing, is a business model in which distributors typically earn money through: (1) commissions on products or services they sell to the public, (2) a percentage of the capital new recruits invest to join the company (under the original distributor, known as one's "downline"), and (3) a percentage of the sales made by the distributor's "downline." 1Multilevel Marketing, Fed. Trade Comm'n (Aug. 2012), . This structure shares characteristics with the problematic pyramid scheme, in which there is also a product or service sold. 2Common Fraud Schemes, Fed. Bureau of Investigation, (last visited Sept. 20, 2015). However, in a pyramid scheme, the focus of sales and actual profit is earned by the introduction of new "downlines," not sales of products or services. 3 Id. Promoters promise rapid returns to prospective investors, claiming that they will earn easy money by simply getting others to make the same investment. 4Id. This business structure is not only fraudulent, but unsustainable, because eventually the supply of prospective investors is depleted and the pyramid collapses. 5Id.
While the distinction between the two models may seem clear, the Federal Trade Commission (the "FTC') recently investigated Vemma Nutrition Co., a leading multilevel marketing energy drink company, and argued that the manner in which these companies implement compensation plans can result in blurred lines. 6Samantha Masunaga, Court Halts Vemma Temporarily on FTC Claim That It's a Pyramid Scheme, L.A. Times (Aug. 27, 2015), . The FTC alleged that the company operated much like a pyramid scheme by focusing on the "recruitment of distributors over bona fide retail sales, while also misleading distributors, mostly young adults, on their ability to earn income by selling its products." 7Antoine Gara, Federal Trade Commission Calls Vemma a Pyramid Scheme That Preys on Young Adults, Forbes (Aug. 26, 2015), . On September 18, 2015, a federal judge granted in part and denied in part the FTC's Motion for a Preliminary Injunction, enjoining Vemma from recruiting new sales members. 8Judge Bars Vemma Nutrition from Resuming Full Business Operations, Cronkite News (Sept. 18, 2015), . This is a monumental step in the direction of reforming a business practice that currently induces the destitute, hopeful, and unaware into becoming part of a pyramid scheme called by a different name. 9 Id. This article will explain how many multilevel marketing companies operate similar to a pyramid scheme, as well as the impact the ruling in the Vemma case may have on the future of the multilevel marketing business structure.
I. How the Transition to Illegal Practices Occurs
While there are many different types of compensation plans offered by multilevel marketing companies, 10Ronald Kimmons, Examples of Compensation in Multilevel Marketing Plans, Houston Chronicle, (last visited Oct. 2, 2015). the oldest type, which is used by popular multilevel marketing companies such as Herbalife and Amway, is the breakaway compensation plan. 11Rod Nichols, Which Compensation Plan Is the Best?, Better Networker (Sept. 24, 2010), . In this plan, an initial distributor may only recruit people directly under them. 12Id. The initial distributor experiences downline (vertical) growth when its new recruits further recruit people under them. 13Id. Visually, the compensation plan looks like a staircase: as the initial distributor's sales volume increases through each additional tier of distributors, the initial distributor earns commissions based on the sales of each lower tier. 14Id.
Oftentimes multilevel marketing companies will claim to sell legitimate products or services. 15Beware of Pyramid Schemes Posing as Multi-Level Marketing Programs, Secs. & Exch. Comm'n. (Oct. 1, 2013), . This has the effect of hiding the truth about revenue generation under their compensation plan to avoid being labeled as a pyramid scheme. 16Secs. & Exch. Comm'n, supra note 15. The problem with this claim, however, is that the products or services offered by these companies are priced too high to compete with standard markets that sell comparable shelf products. 17Jon M. Taylor, The Case (for and) against Multi-level Marketing 8-1,8-19 (2011), available at . The price of these products or services are inflated in order to satisfy: (1) costs of production, (2) costs of infrastructure, (3) substantial individual commissions for promoters at the top of the chain of distributors, (4) aggregate commissions for downline participants, and (5) a percentage of sales skimmed by the founders. 18Id.
The problematic transition from legitimate multilevel marketing sales to illegal pyramid scheme occurs when a largely unsellable product or service is combined with a compensation plan supposedly based on the sales made by distributors. 19Id. at 18–19, 29–30. At first glance, such a business model would seem to generate no revenue and inevitably fail. The industry's solution to this problem, however, is achieved by rewarding distributors via commissions based on the start-up and inventory fees paid by new recruits. 20Aditi Jhaveri, The Telltale Signs of a Pyramid Scheme, Consumer Info. (May 23, 2014), . According to the FTC's complaint against Vemma:
The defendants allegedly claim that affiliates' earning potential is limited only by their own efforts and that Vemma provides young adults an opportunity to bypass college and student loan debt. Vemma urges customers to make an initial investment of $500-$600 for an "Affiliate Pack" of products and business tools, buy $150 in Vemma products each month to remain eligible for bonuses, and enroll others to do the same. 21FTC Acts to Halt Vemma as Alleged Pyramid Scheme, Fed. Trade Comm'n (Aug. 26, 2015), .
This shifts the source of revenue generation away from legitimate sales of products (by distributors to the public) to income based on recruitment of new distributors. 22Jhaveri, supra note 19. This point is further emphasized when one considers that a company as large and well-known as Herbalife does not track or distinguish between sales made to end customers and distributors. 23Herb Greenberg & Karina Frayter, Why Spotting a Pyramid Scheme Isn't So Easy, CNBC (Jan. 9, 2013), .
II. How the Ruling Will Impact the Multilevel Marketing Model
U.S. District Court Judge John Tuchi's ruling, which granted in part and denied in part the FTC's Motion for Preliminary Injunction, has the effect of prohibiting Vemma from "paying commissions, recruiting new members, offering rewards for purchases[,] and tying sales to multi-level marketing." 24Robert Anglen, Judge Forbids Vemma to Resume Normal Operations; Company to Be Supervised by Federal Monitor, AZCentral (Sept. 22, 2015, 1:09 PM), . The court-appointed receiver concluded that in 2015, seventy-eight percent of product sales were to affiliates, while only twenty-two percent of product sales were to customers. 25Robert Anglen, Court Keeps Controversial Vemma Energy-Drink Firm under Receiver, Cincinnati (Sept. 18, 2015, 8:11 PM), . An analysis of past years resulted in roughly the same numbers: eighty-six percent of product sales were to distributors in 2013, and seventy-one percent of product sales were to distributors in 2014. 26Anglen, supra note 24.
The ultimate decision in this case may affect the future of the multilevel marketing business structure in several ways. Assuming the court decides that commissions based on start-up fees are not allowable because such payouts encourage the recruitment tactics of a pyramid scheme, the business model would necessarily shift back to commissions based primarily on the sales of products or services. To shift a larger percentage of retail sales away from distributors to end-consumers, the court may find that multilevel marketing businesses may not bundle eligibility of bonuses with the purchases of product. Therefore, if a distributor is not able to sell his or her full inventory, the distributor would not be under undue pressure to buy unnecessary inventory in order to stay eligible for bonuses. This would have the effect of requiring the products or services to be competitive in the market through adjustments in quality, price, or a combination of both quality and price. The ruling, assuming the preceding changes occur, should bring network marketing back to its roots—direct sales made through networking with individuals.
1Multilevel Marketing, Fed. Trade Comm'n (Aug. 2012), .
2Common Fraud Schemes, Fed. Bureau of Investigation, (last visited Sept. 20, 2015).
4Id.
6Samantha Masunaga, Court Halts Vemma Temporarily on FTC Claim That It's a Pyramid Scheme, L.A. Times (Aug. 27, 2015), .
7Antoine Gara, Federal Trade Commission Calls Vemma a Pyramid Scheme That Preys on Young Adults, Forbes (Aug. 26, 2015), .
8Judge Bars Vemma Nutrition from Resuming Full Business Operations, Cronkite News (Sept. 18, 2015), .
10Ronald Kimmons, Examples of Compensation in Multilevel Marketing Plans, Houston Chronicle, (last visited Oct. 2, 2015).
11Rod Nichols, Which Compensation Plan Is the Best?, Better Networker (Sept. 24, 2010), .
12Id.
15Beware of Pyramid Schemes Posing as Multi-Level Marketing Programs, Secs. & Exch. Comm'n. (Oct. 1, 2013), .
16Secs. & Exch. Comm'n, supra note 15.
17Jon M. Taylor, The Case (for and) against Multi-level Marketing 8-1,8-19 (2011), available at .
19Id. at 18–19, 29–30.
20Aditi Jhaveri, The Telltale Signs of a Pyramid Scheme, Consumer Info. (May 23, 2014), .
21FTC Acts to Halt Vemma as Alleged Pyramid Scheme, Fed. Trade Comm'n (Aug. 26, 2015), .
22Jhaveri, supra note 19.
23Herb Greenberg & Karina Frayter, Why Spotting a Pyramid Scheme Isn't So Easy, CNBC (Jan. 9, 2013), .
24Robert Anglen, Judge Forbids Vemma to Resume Normal Operations; Company to Be Supervised by Federal Monitor, AZCentral (Sept. 22, 2015, 1:09 PM), .
25Robert Anglen, Court Keeps Controversial Vemma Energy-Drink Firm under Receiver, Cincinnati (Sept. 18, 2015, 8:11 PM), .
26Anglen, supra note 24.
∗Emory University School of Law, J.D. Candidate, 2017; Vice President, Student Animal Legal Defense Fund; House Coordinator, Emory Law Houses Program; Mentor, Emory Law Mentor-Mentee Program; B.A. Legal Studies, University of Central Florida. I would like to thank Heidi Hegewald, Liu Chen, and Nicole Fukuoka for helping refine my work, and Kelsey Spillers and Laura Beth Jackson for their encouragement and support throughout the writing process.


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Dedicated to science education, the Weizmann Institute of Science – in addition to its graduate school – facilitates science classes for schoolchildren at all levels of ability, as well as programs aimed at encouraging girls and minority students. Weizmann's professional development for teachers produces an Israel-wide network of skilled science, math, and technology educators. Online programs teach math and other skills to young students worldwide. Festivals, workshops, science mobiles, and an interactive, outdoor science museum engage the public. By opening the doors of the Institute—both real and virtual—to the community, Weizmann is sharing the creative spirit of discovery...and inspiring scientists of tomorrow.
Imagine science tutoring that has guided more than 1 million disadvantaged schoolchildren.
In the early 1970s, Weizmann launched Perach, a mentoring program that pairs university students with children from underprivileged backgrounds. Today, Perach is a national effort, with around 15 percent of all college students in Israel and tens of thousands of children taking part each year.
Imagine an award that boosts the careers of female scientists.
Women in Science enables talented female PhD recipients to pursue postdoctoral research abroad. So far, the award has aided 75 such scientists – and their families.
The Institute's Feinberg Graduate School, established in 1958, grants around 1,000 MSc and PhD degrees each year to outstanding young scientists from dozens of countries. Its postdoctoral program brings talented researchers to campus to continue their studies in the labs of the Institute's renowned scientists.
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A tailored program at Weizmann's Davidson Institute of Science Education helps immigrant youth from Ethiopia strengthen their science skills, enabling them to pursue higher education – and careers – in science and technology.
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The Weizmann Institute sends a Science Mobile – a van with educators and science enrichment programs – to children in Israel's outlying communities, including those that are impacted by war.
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Weizmann's Davidson Institute of Science Education, inaugurated in 2001, provides modern classrooms and laboratories for teacher development programs and science programs for at-risk youth, gifted students, and other school age children.
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Chicken and Dumplings is just about the most delicious creation to ever come out of the deep South. Pure comfort food, of the highest order. There are as many ways to make it as there are cooks who specialize in it. After much trial and error, I have discovered the key to making good Chicken and Dumplings. It must be started the day before. This give the broth a chance to cool down so you can lift the fat off of it. The fat in the broth makes for an indigestible mess.
So start the day before. Get out a very large pot, 5 quarts or bigger. Put the chicken into the pot and pour the water over it. The chicken should be covered with water, if it isn't add more, until it is. If you use chicken leg quarters, use about 4 of them to make three pounds. Now bring the chicken to a boil on the back of the stove. Put a lid on the pot, or a pizza pan, and reduce the heat to medium-low. It should still simmer, but sort of slow and easy like, the same way the sun sets on a hot summer day in the south, not energetically, but sort of lazy like instead. Now let the chicken simmer like that for a full two hours. Longer if the chicken was partially frozen when you put it in. You want the meat to fall off the bone. When the chicken is good and tender, remove it from the broth. Try to make sure there are no sneaky bones which have worked there way to the bottom of the broth. If you find any, just fish them out. I do this with a slotted spoon, and a fork. The chicken is hot, so be very careful not to burn yourself. Collect your chicken in a dish or bowl and let it cool down. Let the broth cool down too. Then put the whole pot of broth into the fridge overnight.
When the chicken is cool enough to handle, remove the meat from the bones. Discard the skin, or give it to a grateful pet lurking nearby. Toss the bones away. Put the chicken in a bread bag or quart size canning jar and keep it in the fridge until tomorrow.
The next day get the big pot out of the fridge and lift off the cake of fat which will be solidified on top. Toss it out. Now bring the broth to a boil on the stove over high heat, adding the chicken bouillon and pepper. When the broth is boiling, add the chicken meat from the fridge. Reduce the heat so that is barely simmers, in that lazy southern sunset way. Taste it carefully and add salt if you think it needs it, probably it doesn't, but make sure first.
While the broth is starting to cook on the stove prepare your dumplings. Get out a big bowl and mix up the oil and milk. Add the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Mix it up to a stiff batter, like for drop biscuits. Set it aside until you need it.
When the broth and chicken are simmering slowly, it is time to drop in the dumplings. Take small rounded scoops of the dough with teaspoon and drop them into the simmering broth, on top of the boneless chicken. Keep dropping the dough blobs until you have scraped the bowl clean. Now put the lid, or a handy pizza pan over the pot and let it simmer for 20 minutes. Do not peak. Let the dumplings simmer covered for the full 20 minutes. The thing about dumplings is that they cook partly from the boiling broth and partly from the steam. The steam is what makes the fluffy, and the simmering broth is what cooks them all the way through. So just trust me and don't peak while the dumplings are cooking. When the time is up, serve the chicken and dumplings right away. The broth will have miraculously thickened into a rich gravy, the dumplings will be fluffy and the chicken will be a savory gift from the heavens (or the cook). I serve it in cereal bowl with instant mashed potatoes, green beans, and brownies. Orange juice is good with it too, he citrus flavor sort of feels good on your tongue in between bites of the chicken.
This recipe serves 8 folks pretty well.
It may seem like a lot of work when you read this recipe, but it really isn't. The first day, the hardest part is taking the bones out of the chicken, and that really only takes about 15 minutes, after the meat is cooled down. And the second day, the whole process takes about 30 minutes from when you start it to when you eat it. The other charm of this dish, is that if you have little else beside chicken leg quarters (often less than 50¢ a pound), flour and a little milk, you have a dish fit for royalty. This is one of the best recipes in my whole collection.


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Money Market Funds and Systemic Risk
Marco Cipriani, Michael Holscher,* Antoine Martin, and Patrick E. McCabe**
On September 16, 2008, Reserve Primary Fund, a money market fund (MMF) with $65 billion in assets under management, announced that losses in its portfolio had caused the value of shares in the fund to drop from $1.00 to $0.97. The news that an MMF had "broken the buck" spread panic quickly to other MMFs. In the two days following Reserve's announcement, investors withdrew approximately $200 billion (10 percent of assets) from so-called "prime" MMFs, which, like Reserve, mainly invest in privately issued short-term securities. The massive redemptions and resulting strains on MMFs contributed to a freezing of the markets that provide short-term credit to businesses and financial institutions and a sudden spike in short-term interest rates. Responding to these severe disruptions, the Treasury Department intervened on September 19 with a government guarantee of the value of MMF shares, and the Federal Reserve announced on the same day a facility designed to provide liquidity to MMFs. These unprecedented actions stopped the run on MMFs (for more analysis of the run in 2008, see McCabe, 2010). In this post, we discuss why MMFs are a source of financial fragility and the need for reforms to mitigate the risks they pose to the financial system and the economy.
Since 2008, policy makers, MMF industry participants, investors, and academics have considered options for reducing the vulnerability of MMFs to runs and limiting their contribution to systemic risk. Developments since the crisis have heightened the importance of these objectives. For example, Treasury's authority to provide a guarantee to MMF shareholders—which was critical to stopping the run in 2008—was eliminated by legislation later that year. The European fiscal crisis has highlighted the need to mitigate MMFs' vulnerabilities, as European holdings made up more than half of prime MMFs' assets at times in early 2011. Meanwhile, institutional investors' heightened responsiveness to MMF risks since 2008 probably has exacerbated the susceptibility of MMFs to runs.
The Popularity, and Vulnerability, of MMFs
Both the popularity of MMFs and their vulnerability to runs traces back, in large part, to their defining feature: MMFs usually maintain stable net asset values (NAVs), typically at $1 per share. Like other mutual funds, MMFs are regulated under the Investment Company Act of 1940. But MMFs also must follow SEC rule 2a-7, which imposes strict guidelines on their assets, while allowing them to employ pricing methods that help hold NAVs steady even when there are small changes in the values of MMFs' underlying assets.
The resulting stability of MMF share prices, combined with the liquidity investors enjoy in a product that allows redemptions (at least) daily, has made U.S. MMFs a very popular financial product for institutional and retail investors alike. Investors use MMFs for cash management, and with $2.7 trillion in assets under management at the end of 2011, MMFs represent about a quarter of all U.S. mutual fund assets. MMFs deploy investors' cash to provide short-term funding for financial institutions, other businesses, and governments, and the funds play key roles in short-term credit markets. For example, MMFs owned over 40 percent of U.S. dollar-denominated financial commercial paper outstanding at the end of 2011 and about one-third of dollar-denominated negotiable certificates of deposit.
But MMFs' stable NAVs and the methods used to keep them steady in normal times also make the funds susceptible to runs in unusual times, and these runs pose broad systemic risks. In part, these risks arise because the historical record of MMFs keeping NAVs steady (only two money funds have "broken the buck" since 1983, when the SEC adopted rule 2a-7) has attracted a large, highly risk-averse shareholder base that includes many institutional investors. These shareholders reportedly place great value on principal stability and are prone to fleeing money funds quickly at any sign of trouble. Importantly, because of the sheer size of the money fund industry and its importance in providing short-term funding to financial institutions, MMFs' vulnerability to runs not only puts their investors at risk, but also poses considerable systemic risk to the U.S. financial system, as was observed in the fall of 2008.
Although the stable NAV is critical for many MMF investors, no capital buffer protects a money fund's $1 share value. Instead, MMFs usually have relied on the SEC's risk-limiting rules for portfolio holdings and on rounding of their NAVs to the nearest cent, as permitted under those rules. But NAV rounding can create dangerous dynamics when a fund is in trouble: If a MMF has incurred a small loss (less than 0.5 percent of assets), it can continue to redeem shares at $1 apiece. However, by doing so, the fund concentrates the loss over a shrinking number of shares. Redeeming shareholders get $1 per share, while those who stay invested see their potential losses grow. Clearly, under such circumstances, shareholders have strong incentives to run.
In addition, MMFs' liquidity management practices, while they contribute to principal stability, also increase investors' incentives to run from the funds. MMFs meet redemptions by selling their most liquid assets, rather than selling a cross-section of all of their holdings. This practice allows an MMF to avoid realizing losses from sales of less liquid securities and, as long as all investors do not redeem at once, effectively provides shareholders with more liquidity than they would have individually. But during periods of market strain, when less-liquid assets may sell at deep discounts, redeemers who receive $1 per share bear none of the implicit liquidity costs of their redemptions. Rather, remaining investors are left with claims on a less-liquid portfolio. For this reason, shareholders have an incentive to run from troubled money funds as they leave behind risks and costs to be borne by those who remain invested in the fund.
Historically, when all else has failed, MMF sponsors (asset management firms and their affiliates) have voluntarily provided support—when they have had the wherewithal to do so—to prevent shareholder losses. Indeed, sponsor support has been crucial for MMFs' apparent price stability. For example, the SEC documented 100 cases in which MMFs received support from sponsors during the 2008 crisis alone (see "Money Market Fund Reform: Proposed Rule"). Notwithstanding language in MMF prospectuses stating that the funds' shares are risky, sponsor support probably has led many investors to view MMFs as safer than their underlying assets and thus has attracted highly risk-averse investors. Yet, sponsors are not required to demonstrate an ability to support MMFs, and no capital requirements or other rules ensure that money will be available during crises to hold NAVs at $1. So, if investors doubt the ability of a sponsor to prevent losses, they have strong incentives to redeem shares before others do. In September, 2008, Reserve's announcement that its MMF had broken the buck evidently undermined investor confidence that sponsors would provide support and sent MMF shareholders running for the exits.
In a run, investors who are left behind are most likely to suffer losses, so the first sign of serious strains for an MMF or its sponsor—or worries that other shareholders think there is a problem—may be enough to trigger a run. Moreover, retail investors, who historically have been slower to redeem shares than institutional shareholders during crises, may be at risk of shouldering a disproportionate share of any MMF losses. During the run in 2008, redemptions by institutional investors accounted for over 90 percent of outflows from prime funds. For further discussion of the vulnerability of MMFs to runs, see the Report of the President's Working Group on Financial Markets-Money Market Fund Reform Options.
Stabilizing MMFs
How to mitigate the vulnerability of MMFs to runs? In January 2010, the SEC strengthened rule 2a-7 by requiring that MMFs hold substantial amounts of highly liquid assets, shortening the maximum average maturities of MMF portfolios, limiting holdings of certain risky assets, and mandating monthly disclosure of portfolio holdings. The new rules made MMFs more resilient to strains, including heavy redemptions and changes in interest rates. But SEC Chair Mary Schapiro made clear in a speech, even as the new rules were announced, that more was needed. In particular, MMFs can still take risks similar to those that destroyed the Reserve Primary Fund and triggered the damaging run in 2008: MMFs still use the same set of tools, including rounded NAVs, to maintain principal stability; and investors still have incentives to run at the first sign of trouble. Thus, the SEC's current efforts to modify the structure of MMFs to reduce incentives to run may be essential not only for protecting MMF investors—especially retail investors—but also for protecting the stability of the U.S. financial system and maintaining the access of businesses, consumers, and governments to credit. In a future post, we intend to describe a proposal for improving the stability of MMFs by making them less vulnerable to runs.
*Michael Holscher is an officer in the Markets Group.
**Patrick E. McCabe is a senior economist with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
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Your post focusses exclusively on money market funds (MMFs) without proper context of all the upheavals in the markets. Much of your blog repeats the myth that a run on MMFs was the proximate cause of the crisis. Treasury Strategies believes this is incorrect and misdirects focus away from more significant causal factors.
A $1.2 trillion run on non- MMF asset classes had already occurred during the 15 months preceding the chaos of mid-September 2008. Close examination of asset flows for the week of September 15 shows the firestorm was not triggered by the failure of MMFs, as is being widely cited. The firestorm was actually triggered by the surprise, late-night $85 billion government rescue of AIG.
On the morning of September 15, Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy. That evening, aware of AIG's Lehman exposure, all three major rating agencies nonetheless issued investment grade ratings on AIG. Thus the 9 p.m. September 16 surprise $85B rescue of AIG (more than 100X the loss in the Reserve fund) sent global markets into a tailspin. Investors were shocked, not only by the sudden collapse of AIG but also by the fact that all three rating agencies had been completely wrong, just 24 hours earlier. Hence, they assumed problems lurked around every corner. That AIG rescue announcement panicked investors around the world, who then immediately fled all non-government guaranteed asset classes for the safety of government securities/government guarantees.
Posted by: Anthony Carfang, Treasury Strategies, Inc. | June 13, 2012 at 03:05 PM


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"We envision a company where in five years, at least fifty-per cent of our workforce is made up of women, people who are Black, Hispanic, Native American, Pacific Islanders, people with two or more ethnicities, people with disabilities and veterans," Maxine Williams, Facebook's chief diversity officer, wrote in a blog post Tuesday.
Facebook released the new targets alongside its annual diversity report, which details the ethnic and gender breakdown of its workforce.
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Facebook said on Tuesday it had increased the number of black women at the company twenty-five fold since 2014. For black men, this was tenfold.
Facebook has put the most effort into diversifying its technical workforce, "so there is an irony and a frustration on our part that we have not been able to grow more," she added.
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As far as the average family goes, there are more than a handful of attractions that one could explore in Canberra, Australia. And this includes but not limited to:
Let The Kids Learn More About Australia's War History at the Canberra Memorial – Not only is Canberra Australia's youngest capital city, it also has the richest collection of art, culture and a diverse mix of natural and manmade attractions. And this doesn't quite sink in until you visit the Australian War Memorial. The institution acts as the national chronicles of the involvement of Australian troops dating back from the colonial days to the present day. There's simply no shortage of exhibits here, which range from ANZAC Voices to the revamped First War Galleries.
Leisure Around a Manmade lake – Lake Burkley Griffin, one of most prominent landmarks in Canberra also doubles as an expansive water spot for a variety of family friendly activities such as windsurfing, kayaking, and yachting. And one of the best ways to experience this is by organizing an all-inclusive family cycling session around the 20-mile perimeter.
Relax at the Foliage of Canberra – The Floriade festival, one of the city's most colorful events attracts hordes of plant lovers stemming from around the globe. And the best thing is that it takes place right in the heart of Canberra. Even better, you can take your family out to the National Arboretum, an ambitious project that was launched back in 2005. The project also includes a visitor's centre, a gift shop, and a fully-fledged restaurant.
Take Them for Swimming at the Institute of Sport – You and your family can get up close and interact with professional athletes, swimmers, cyclists that often train at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra.
Hike All The Way Up To Mount Ainslie – This can also double up as a camping excursion if you have small kids who can't possible hike or go for extensive nature trails. But this aside, Canberra is one of the few cities in Australia which have developed a decent number of intricate heritage trails that have consistently helped highlight its urban design. One of this is the world re-known Mount Ainslie Lookout, one of the spots that offer a good view of the panorama view of the Australian War Memorial, Parliament House, and Anzac Parade.
Learn a ton of History at the Questacon and National Museum – By spending a few hours at the Australian National Museum in Canberra, you and your family will easily learn that despite Canberra's corporate image, it's also shrouded with an undertone of humour – which can be even be viewed as a national trait.
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"They told me to take a streetcar named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries…" Tennessee Williams' troubled heroine Blanche Dubois thus used New Orleans' cemeteries as a landmark to find her way through the city in "A Streetcar Named Desire," as have many others, not only to mark a physical place, but also to mark a cultural note in time. Throughout literature, music and history, New Orleans' cemeteries, and those of southern and coastal regions of the state, Louisiana's "Cities of the Dead" are, simply put, iconic.But with rising sea waters and the loss of land along the Gulf Coast, many of these remarkable low-lying burial grounds are being lost.
Writer and photographer Shexnayder and Manhein, retired director of the Forensic Anthropology and Computer Enhancement Services at Louisiana State University, use their academic backgrounds and experience to give readers a history of the laws and land, an overview of burial customs found throughout the area, as well as and in-depth look at coastal cemeteries and those upstate.
From mausoleums, caveau (vaults), society tombs and tabletop burials, Louisiana's burial customs including, heritage form Native Americans, French, Spanish, African, German, Islenos and Vietnamese, are in danger from land loss and coastal erosion. While immigration away from flood plains is not new to people that inhabit areas prone to flooding and natural changing landscapes, the increase in the rate of land loss has made the mission to document and appreciate these precious areas even more important, according to Schexnayder.
Manhein echoed Schexnayder's thoughts, reflecting on her own experience living and working in the area and watching it swiftly wash away.
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In "Approaching the Fields" poet Chanda Feldman brings together the day-to-day toils of the distant past and the present-day in a lyrical tribute to southern workers, farmers and homemakers. Feldman, whose poems have appeared in numerous journals including The Southern Review, New South and Ecotone, explores themes of work, both physical and emotional, love, courage, darkness and light.
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Q: How can I search for multiple words in one function? I've a macro that searches for a word ("January") and converts the space next to it to a protected space.
I'd like to search for the other months of the year as well. Is there a way of searching for the other months within the same function, rather than copying my code 11 times, searching for a different month each time?
I'm only interested in changing the search text line, if possible, as the rest works.
I have another search function that does the same but following any digit ("([0-9])") and that works, I just want to shorten 12 potential search functions into one.
Sub ProtectedSpacesAfterMonths()

Dim sFindText As String
sFindText = "January "
Selection.Find.Execute sFindText
Do Until Selection.Find.Found = False
    Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
    Selection.TypeBackspace
    Selection.TypeText Text:=" "
    Selection.Find.Execute
Loop
End Sub

A: The following code works for me.
It starts by putting the month names in an array. In a loop on the array, each name is sent to the procedure FindMonths, along with the Range object to be searched. Putting the code that needs to be repeated in its own procedure saves needing to type it out.
Note how the Find process works with a Range (rather than Selection object). Generally, following what's happening is more reliable with a range than with a selection.
Note, also, how after one "found" has been processed the Range is set to extend from the point after it's found one instance of a month to the end of the document. This ensures that all, and not just the first, instance of a month is located.
Sub ProcessMonths()
    Dim sFindText As String
    Dim aMonths As Variant
    Dim i As Long

    aMonths = Array("January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", _
                    "September", "October", "November", "December")
    For i = LBound(aMonths) To UBound(aMonths)
        sFindText = aMonths(i)
        FindMonths sFindText, ActiveDocument.content
    Next
End Sub

Sub FindMonths(month As String, searchRange As Range)
    Dim bFound As Boolean

    bFound = searchRange.Find.Execute(month)
    Do While bFound
        searchRange.Collapse wdCollapseEnd
        searchRange.Delete wdCharacter, 1
        searchRange.Text = Chr(160)
        searchRange.End = searchRange.Document.content.End
        bFound = searchRange.Find.Execute(month)
    Loop

End Sub

A: For Each sounds like a good move forward. Here's a sample of how I'd put your code (untested) into a For Each block looping over an array of the months of the year.
Dim item As Variant
Dim months(1 To 2) as String
Dim str As String

months(1) = "January ": months(2) = "February "

For Each item In months
    Selection.Find.Execute item
    Do Until Selection.Find.Found = False
        Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
        Selection.TypeBackspace
        Selection.TypeText Text:=" "
        Selection.Find.Execute
    Loop
Next

A: Yes, create an array of months and then loop through that array for each. Simply:
Dim arrMonths() As Variant
Dim i As Long

arrMonths = Array("Jan", "Feb", ..., "Dec")

For i = LBound(arrMonths) To UBound(arrMonths)
    sFindText = arrMonths(i)
    Selection.Find.Execute sFindText
    Do Until Selection.Find.Found = False
    Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
    Selection.TypeBackspace
    Selection.TypeText Text:=" "
    Selection.Find.Execute
    Loop
Next i

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Highlights: Raised anchor at 6AM today and motored east and NE into strong head winds and choppy seas for about 4 hours up past Oregon Inlet and Manteo. Averaged only 5 knots at 2500 RPM through most of the morning. Made the turn to the NW past Manteo around 11, and finally got some good sailing in the rest of the day. Averaged about 7.5 knots with 1 reef in up Albemarle Sound, and reached the North River and Buck Island anchorage around 4PM. Got settled, Terry took a well-deserved nap while Amy prepared dinner of shrimp over pasta and garden salad, then we watched a movie before turning in for the night. Hard part of the trip is pretty much behind us - should be easy travel days between here and Solomons.


Seated beside Mrs. Xi, Old Madam Xi looked like her sister instead of her elder.
In fact, she was even prettier than Mrs. Xi. The faded lines around her features helped accentuate their exquisiteness.
One could only imagine how gorgeous she must be when she was young.
The way she dressed also spoke of elegance and nobility.
A simple pattern-less blue shawl wrapped around her neck not only brought another layer of sophistication to her beauty but also cleverly hid her missing right arm.
If one didn't take a second closer look, one wouldn't know she was handicapped.
This was a woman who spent her life pursuing perfection and beauty!
After seeing her in person, Xinghe finally understood why the Xi family wasted so many resources trying to manufacture the perfect artificial limb. A woman like Old Madam Xi wouldn't allow the presence of malformation on her body.
She also understood why Grandfather Xi valued his first wife so much.
Her otherworldly beauty was meant to be cherished for a lifetime and more.
Xinghe finished evaluating the room the minute she entered.
Of course, the people in the studio were also staring her up and down.
There was maliciousness in the way Tianxin and Ruobing looked at her.
This observation stumped Xinghe. Tianxin was envious of her relationship to Mubai, but what about Ruobing?
What did she have that Ruobing was envious about?
"Don't just stand there. Come in and take a seat," Old Madam Xi opened her mouth to say.
Xinghe walked over calmly and sat herself opposite them.
"Why did Madam Xi call for me?" she asked directly, not interested in engaging them with perfunctory small talk.
Old Madam Xi put down her tea cup delicately and raised her eyes to study Xinghe. Xinghe saw clarity and a minute degree of condescension in them.
"I see the change they mention," Old Madam Xi observed lightly, "I've only seen your picture from before but you do look different from how you were back then."
The change was not in her physical appearance but her mannerism and the way she carried herself.
Xinghe was several years older than when she married Mubai but she was a lot more charming now. Perhaps it is as they say, intelligence is beauty.
The eyes were the window to one's soul. Before this, Xinghe's eyes were dark and lifeless but now, it was as if there was a sun shining behind them.
They exuded a natural confidence that attracted people's attention, some from admiration, others from envy.
For example, the more Tianxin stared at Xinghe, the more her envious hatred grew.
She couldn't help but acknowledge that Xinghe was a lot more captivating than the last time they met.
Ever since their meeting in front of the restaurant two months ago, she would notice some changes in Xinghe every time their paths crossed.
It pained her to admit it, but the change in Xinghe was undeniable.
The first time they met, Xinghe was nothing, simply walking trash, completely incomparable to her.
But now she had become the lesser in comparison! She was brutally outclassed by Xinghe!
She knew if this was allowed to continue, she wouldn't even be qualified to be Xinghe's competition anymore.
How was she going to fight for Mubai against such a powerful competitor? She had no chance!
Her inner insecurities and misgivings clawed at her. Tianxin prayed Xinghe would just keel over and die right there, right then.
She consoled herself with the fact that she hadn't completely lost yet. She still had a chance at pursuing Mubai because a great tragedy was going to befall Xia Xinghe that day!


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Sekhukhune: Greatest of the Pedi Chiefs
This book tells the story of Sekhukhune, of whom The London Times wrote on 30 August 1882: "… We hear this morning … of the death of one of the bravest of our former enemies, the Chief Sekhukhune… The news carries us some years back to the time when the name of Sekhukhune was a name of dread, first to the Dutch and then to the English Colonists of the Transvaal and Natal…"
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SKU: 9780992228835 Category: Limpopo Tags: Baharutse, Bapedi, Louis Trichard, Mpumalanga, Sekhukhune, Sekwati, Steelpoort River, Thaba Mosega, Transvaal, Tubatse, Voortrekkers
Sekhukhune, The Greatest of the Pedi Kings
In this extract, read how Sekhukhune struggles against the Boers until they both fall foul of the colonial aspirations of the British. Sekhukhune continued in the footsteps of his father, King Sekwati, and his forefathers, building a powerful Bapedi kingdom. The times were changing, though, and the tribe was under threat from the new arrivals in the land.
Early in 1876, various reasons were made up by the Boer authorities to attack King Sekhukhune and his people. We are told that the incident that started the fighting happened when Dinkwanyane's followers captured a wagon-load of wood belonging to a Boer called Jankowitz.
Apparently he had trespassed on Dinkwanyane's land to illegally cut the timber. At the same time, the Boers spread rumours of cattle theft by the Bapedi. There was even a made-up story doing the rounds that Dinkwanyane had burnt down a German mission station belonging to the Reverend Nachtigal. When this news, although false, reached Pretoria, an enraged President Thomas Francois Burgers decided to set out, "to deal with the Sekhukhune menace himself". Burgers quickly assembled the largest army ever seen before in the Republic.
In the first war against Sekhukhune, Burgers' army was armed with a few seven-pounders or Krupp guns. They had a force of about 2000 men and almost 500 wagons. A strong force of Swazis joined the army. We have heard that the Swazis were brought into the fight by Mampuru, King Sekhukhune's embittered brother. They marched to Thaba Mosega, which they reached in July 1876. They were also supported by other African troops who were hoping the land under King Sekhukhune's control would be given to them after he was defeated.
He immediately came to support his half-brother against the Boers.
The Boers began by attacking Dinkwanyane and his followers. However, because King Sekhukhune had recognised him as one of the Bapedi chiefs, he immediately came to support his half-brother against the Boers. Despite this help, the attack by the Afrikaners resulted in Dinkwanyane's death. The battle was a bloody one.
The Boer, Joubert, and his men went to position themselves behind the Bapedi, but their progress was halted by the large numbers of the enemy who occupied the rocks, and Joubert returned to camp with his men. For some unknown reason, there was no contact between Joubert and the other forces, probably because of the rough land and the distance. As a result, the remaining Boers were unaware of Joubert's failure. Although the Boers had reached the Bapedi and actually set fire to some of the huts, they were forced to withdraw owing to lack of support from Joubert.
As a result, the Boers failed to dislodge King Sekhukhune. They returned from the scene of the action with some haste until they had recrossed the Steelpoort River. For this reason, the First Sekhukhune War was often referred to as "die huis-toe oorlog", the "go-home war".
King Sekhukhune had inflicted an embarrassing defeat on the Boers and President Burgers. This defeat cost Burgers his position, and he lost the presidency to Paul Kruger.
In response to the bad defeat suffered by President Burgers, the Boers decided to pay an army of mercenaries or paid soldiers, called the Lydenburg Volunteer Corps, to go and attack King Sekhukhune. Their leader was a reckless German adventurer from the diamond-mining world named Conrad Hans von Schlieckmann. He was an ex-officer and a soldier of fortune. He was closely connected with the German government and had fought under Otto von Bismarck in the French German War of 1870−1871.
He was succeeded by an Irishman, Alfred Aylward.
The mercenaries acted with the support of their home countries. Many of these soldiers of fortune were recruited from the diamond diggings in Kimberley, where they had gone in search of diamonds. The Lydenburg area attracted them because it was said to hold large deposits of gold, diamonds and other precious minerals. So when Pretoria established the Lydenburg Volunteer Corps, von Schlieckmann's men, because they had not found any riches, joined willingly. They fought fiercely from behind the defences to avenge the defeat of President Burgers. But they lost, and Von Schlieckmann himself was killed in battle in November 1876. He was succeeded by an Irishman, Alfred Aylward. But this was not the end of the war. It was just the end of a battle − an important battle.
In the same month, King Sekhukhune attacked Fort Burgers. His aim was to recover the cattle he thought had been looted from the Bapedi by the Colonial Volunteers. Although the Bapedi failed to take the fort, they recovered the cattle and killed two of the Colonial Volunteers. The Boers' policy was to trouble the Bapedi and prevent them from sowing their crops. Finally, the Boers had the result they wanted. King Sekhukhune had no alternative, but to accept peace offers. By February 1877, after a peace treaty had been agreed, calm was eventually restored along the border.
On 12 April 1877, Sir Theophilus Shepstone, secretary for native affairs of Natal, annexed the Transvaal. This means that on behalf of the British government he took over the Transvaal and attached it to Natal. The reason he gave for doing this was that the Boer Republic had failed to make peace with the Bapedi. He also thought the Boer Republic, by its weakness, was going to make the British colonies of the Cape and Natal weaker.
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Anne Gesthuysen [] (* 2. Oktober 1969 in Geldern) ist eine deutsche Journalistin, Schriftstellerin und Fernsehmoderatorin. Sie moderierte von 2002 bis 2014 das ARD-Morgenmagazin.

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Gesthuysen wuchs in der Gemeinde Alpen am unteren Niederrhein auf. Nach dem Abitur am Stiftsgymnasium Xanten begann sie ein Journalistik-Studium an der Universität Dortmund. Ihre ersten journalistischen Erfahrungen sammelte sie im Alter von 17 Jahren als Hörfunkreporterin für das WDR-Außenstudio Kleve während eines Schülerpraktikums. In den Jahren 1990 und 1991 absolvierte sie ihr Volontariat beim WDR in Köln. Als freie Autorin arbeitete sie danach für die Sender WDR, VOX und ZDF.

Nach dem Studium ging Gesthuysen zunächst zum WDR-Studio Münster. 1997 stand sie als Moderatorin für das WDR-Fernsehen erstmals vor der Kamera. 1999 folgte ein Abstecher zum privaten Fernsehsender RTL. Dort gehörte sie zum Moderatorenteam der Sendung Mein Morgen, ein Frühstücksfernseh-Derivat, das nach knapp einem halben Jahr wieder eingestellt wurde. Nach ihrer Rückkehr zum WDR war sie zunächst Moderatorin für die Lokalzeit in Essen.

Von 2001 bis 2004 moderierte Gesthuysen an der Seite von Martin von Mauschwitz die Nachrichtensendung Aktuelle Stunde des WDR. Von 2002 bis 2014 moderierte sie das vom WDR produzierte ARD-Morgenmagazin – zunächst aushilfsweise und ab März 2004 als Stammmoderatorin zusammen mit Sven Lorig. Entscheidende Antriebskräfte für den Wechsel dorthin waren ihren Angaben zufolge insbesondere die freie Moderation und der Reiz, sich mit internationalen politischen Themen auseinanderzusetzen. 2012 gewann sie mit dem Team des ARD-Morgenmagazins den deutschen Fernsehpreis. 2005 nahm sie neben Dariusz Michalczewski, Roberto Blanco, Ralf Möller, Jeanette Biedermann und Sven Hannawald und weiteren Prominenten bei der ARD-Star-Tour teil.

Im Jahr 2006 hatte Gesthuysen eine Gastrolle in der ARD-Serie Verbotene Liebe, in der sie sich selbst spielte. Im Februar und März 2007 vertrat sie in der vierteiligen WDR-Live-Sendung Streitfall als Anwältin ein europarelevantes Thema (Gesundheit, Türkei, Klima, Rauchen). Die Gegenposition vertrat Sven Lorig. Im Mai 2009 präsentierte sie zusammen mit Lorig die ARD-Gala Jede Stunde zählt, die Auftakt-Show zur ARD-Themenwoche Ist doch Ehrensache. Von Januar bis Dezember 2010 moderierte sie neben dem ARD-Morgenmagazin die Phoenix Runde im Ereigniskanal Phoenix.

Gesthuysen veröffentlichte 2012 – inspiriert vom Lebenslauf ihrer drei Großtanten, die alle 80 Jahre und älter wurden – den Roman Wir sind doch Schwestern. Das Buch wurde ein großer Erfolg und belegte zeitweilig den ersten Platz der Spiegel-Bestsellerliste. Ihren dritten Roman Mädelsabend (2018) versteht sie als Hommage an ihre verstorbene Schwiegermutter.

Im Dezember 2014 gab Gesthuysen bekannt, dass sie zum Jahresende die Moderation des ARD-Morgenmagazins aufgebe, um weitere Romane schreiben zu können.

Von 2016 bis 2017 trat sie zusammen mit ihrem Mann Frank Plasberg in der von Jörg Pilawa moderierten Quizsendung Paarduell, das vom Ersten werktags ausgesendet wurde, jeweils gegen ein anderes, teils prominentes Paar an.

Seit 2020 ist Gesthuysen Mitglied im Rateteam der SWR-Fernseh-Sendung Ich trage einen großen Namen.

Derzeit moderiert sie zudem die WDR-Nachrichtensendung Aktuelle Stunde.

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Gesthuysen und Plasberg wurden im Januar 2011 Eltern eines Sohnes. Sie leben seit 2007 zusammen und heirateten im  August 2012.

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