Alan Wong's New Wave Luau is a glamorous book full of color photos that convey the complexity of his lush and exciting cooking. It is also alive with Chef Wong's passion for his Asian heritage and that of the Hawaiian Islands, where his restaurant has three times been selected Best Restaurant of the Year by Honolulu magazine.
For decades, Quail Ridge Press has been collecting and publishing classic recipes from every corner of the country. The goal of this quest is to Preserve America's Food Heritage. The editors, Gwen McKee and Barbara Moseley have sought out the leading cookbooks within a state, and then selected the most popular recipes from these cookbooks to produce the different volumes in Quail Ridge Press' acclaimed Best of the Best State Cookbook Series.
David B. Goldman was born in Brazil, Mexico and was raised in Honolulu, Hawai'i and Laguna Beach, California. He has been a freelance travel writer for seventeen years and for several of those years, a restaurant critic for the Los Angeles Times. He has enjoyed cuisines from all over the world, from Seattle to Moscow, from Rio de Janeiro to Singapore, but it is Hawai'i that has captured his stomach.
What's chewy and moist, comes in all shapes and flavors, great for picnics, parties, office treats for coffee break and EASY to prepare? Why, it's a mochi dessert - always popular in Hawaii!
In this grand collection of mochi recipes, not only can you find traditional recipes and today's popular mochi desserts all in one cookbook, but also included are entrees, such as Siu Mai with Mochi Rice, Crisp Fried Shrimp, and Mochiko Chicken.
There is also a microwave section for today's busy lifestyle. The average microwave cooking time is around 10 minutes. Best of all, most mochi desserts can be prepared a day ahead and require no refrigeration.
For five seasons, Roy Yamaguchi has explored the ingredients and growers of Hawaii on his public television show, Hawaii Cooks with Roy Yamaguchi. Now, in a companion volume to the sixth season, he brings his rich culinary discoveries to home kitchens. In HAWAII COOKS, Roy introduces a comprehensive pantry that describes his favorite ingredients in detail and carefully explains how flavors, textures, and colors play off and complement each other on the plate. As a classically trained chef, Roy combines fresh, Hawaiian-grown ingredients with French cooking techniques to produce a mouthwatering collection of recipes with eastern and western influences. Recipes such as Crab and Taro Cakes with Bearnaise Sauce, Lamb Steaks with Sweet Potato Mash and Apple-Curry Sauce, and Crab with Vanilla Sauce pack an unexpected punch in every delicious bite, bringing out the flavors of ingredients in ways that only Roy can.
This collection was compiled from recipes shared by some of the best cooks living on the Big Island of Hawaii. Some are gathered from foreign lands, some are family recipes passed from generation to generation and some are shared through friendship. All are family favorites that illustrate the great variety of dishes available in our Hawaiian paradise through the blending of the many varied races and nationalities living here in harmony. We hope you enjoy them all.
Aloha, Welcome to Sam Choy's Kitchen: Cooking Doesn't Get Any Easier Than This!
Sam does it again. This time with very easy to make recipes taken straight from Sam's popular TV show, "Sam Choy's Kitchen." All the taste, all the flavor but with less preparation time, just open the refrigerator and start cooking.
Sam Choy's Sampler?Welcome to the Wonderful World of Hawai'i's Cuisine is the perfect introduction to the exotic and sunny flavors of Hawai'i's multicultural cooking.
Sam's recipes reflect a melding of East and West, with distinctive Polynesian flourishes and some highly innovative twists that could have been conceived only in the creative and original mind of Chef Choy.
Here are over 80 recipes including both Sam's innovations as well as his renditions of Island favorites. They range from simple preparations like poke, an addictively delicious raw seafood appetizer, to elaborate and beautiful dishes like Sauteed Island Fish Trio, sure to dazzle the table and palate at your next dinner party.
Hawaiian chef Sam Choy is sassy and sweet. So are the flavors of his food. Choy's cooking is hapu, a hybrid of Polynesian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and European influences, combined in what he calls local-style cooking. In Wok-Seared Shrimp with Pepper-Papaya-Pineapple Chutney, a typical example, Choy marinates the main ingredient, then stir-fries it, and serves it with a colorful accompaniment.
Fish or seafood stars in many dishes. Choy's marinades are generally a blend of garlic, ginger, soy sauce, and sugar, with varying accents of scallion, sesame oil, and hot peppers. Both the preparation of ingredients and the cooking method are quick for most dishes. The accompaniment, often a salsa or chutney, is usually a toss-together of chopped fresh fruits and vegetables that can be made ahead of time.
How to Use Hawaiian Fruit was originally published in 1912 in Honolulu, where the author once owned a popular restaurant. Petroglyph Press added illustrations by William D. Brooks in 1974 and in 1999 reset the type and added a new cover design by Jan Moon, but kept the flavor of the original cookbook. Almost all of the recipes are very simple and call for basic ingredients. Note, with amusement, the recipe for Lomilomi Salmon on page 73 which calls for 5 cents onions and 5 cents tomatoes. How times have changed!
Originally published by the University of Hawaii in 1936, this book combines fascinating Hawaiian recipes and technical scientific data on vitamin and nutritional composition of various fruits grown in Hawaii. The book covers avocado, banana, breadfruit, carambola, coconut, coffee, fig, grape, common guava, strawberry guava, lemon, lime, ictchi, mango, mountain apple, orange, papaya, passion fruit, pineapple, poha, soursop, strawberry, Surinam-cherry, tamarind, and watermelon.


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He is the author of Nature, Justice and Rights in Aristotle's Politics(Oxford University Press,1995), and co-editor of A Companion to Aristotle's Politics(Blackwell, 1995). He is also co-editor and contributor to A History of the Philosophy of Law from the Ancient Greeks to the Scholastics which is volume 6 of a twelve-volume Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence (Springer/Kluwer, 2006). In addition, he co-edits an ongoing series of books on Social Philosophy and Policy published by Cambridge University Press. He has published articles on Plato, Aristotle, and other Greek philosophers in Philosophical Review, the Review of Metaphysics, Philosophical Quarterly, and Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie. His recent publications on classical philosophy include "Ancient Political Thought," "Plato on the Rule of Reason," "The Platonic Soul," "Aristotle's Theory of Political Rights," "Aristotelian Autonomy," and "Natural Law, Civil Society and Government." He also wrote the chapter "Aristotle's Naturalism" for The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2000), "Aristotle's Political Philosophy" for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy , and "Classical Political Thought" for The Encyclopedia for Classical Philosophy(Greenwood Press, 1997).
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C Spire and Mimosa Networks have announced that they are working together on a 5G fixed wireless initiative in Mississippi designed to extend broadband internet access service to more consumers and businesses.
As part of an initiative designed to reach tens of thousands of consumers and businesses with affordable broadband internet, C Spire is deploying Mimosa's sub-6 GHz equipment and technology solutions in neighborhoods, small towns and cities across the state.
C Spire operates the nation's largest privately held wireless communications company and is one of the nation's leading broadband and cloud service providers. In addition to fixed wireless broadband, C Spire offers consumers and businesses voice, video, home internet, wireless, business services, cloud and managed services solutions.
With a vision of transforming Mississippi one neighborhood at a time, C Spire is targeting its 5G fixed wireless internet service to hundreds of neighborhoods over the life of the initiative.
C Spire is focused on providing the Magnolia state's unserved and underserved population with the fastest time-to-market and activation of service, while delivering up to 120 Mbps speeds at an affordable price. Both business and consumer subscribers in the targeted neighborhoods, cities and towns will have access to the service.
After several field trials and an extensive technical evaluation, C Spire partnered with Mimosa to develop the industry-leading, cost-competitive technology, which offers hybrid-fiber-wireless (HFW) solutions, using client antennas and access point base stations to extend C Spire's extensive 8,400 route miles of buried fiber network at the edge of most Mississippi neighborhoods.
Mimosa's HFW solutions can be rapidly deployed, with client antennas about one third the size of a satellite dish. C Spire's 5G internet offering provides subscribers with speeds of up 120 Mbps. C Spire offers the service for $50 a month with no data caps and no long-term service contracts and low latency ideal for applications like gaming, streaming and video calling.
C Spire is deploying Mimosa solutions in neighborhoods using short-range MicroPoP architectures and in limited tower deployments. The deployment includes Mimosa A5 and A5c access devices, Mimosa C5 client devices, and Mimosa N5-360 beamforming antennas.
Bye said C Spire has been impressed with Mimosa's vision, roadmap, direction and noted that both companies are collaborating on future technology solutions. In addition, Mimosa has been active in Washington, D.C. as a leader of the Broadband Access Coalition (BAC) and is continuing to work with the FCC to free up unused spectrum for fixed wireless initiatives.
Massive broadband deployment is a key part of a broader C Spire Tech Movement initiative designed to leverage the company's technology leadership and investments to help transform Mississippi. Expanding tech innovation and education in the areas of robotics, artificial intelligence, internet of things, augmented and virtual reality, machine learning and telehealth are also top priorities for the company, Bye said.


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Irish MPs will pass emergency legislation Tuesday night, after the state's Court of Appeal found current law banning ecstasy, crystal meth and "legal highs" to be unconstitutional. The legal loophole has sparked disbelief and bemusement across the state.
The controversial Court ruling, concerning Ireland's Misuse of Drugs Act 1977, was issued Tuesday morning.
It has proven an embarrassment for Irish lawmakers, as it renders government orders banning psychoactive substances such as ketamine, ecstasy and magic mushrooms null and void.
Until new legislation is passed, the possession of multiple Class A drugs and other formerly banned substances will be legal in Ireland.
The Irish parliament is expected to gather between 8.30pm and 11.30pm on Tuesday night in a bid to remedy the situation. MPs will seek to close the offending loophole, and vote through a revised bill.
The state's Senate will pass the emergency legislation on Wednesday, and it will be signed into law by Ireland's President Michael D. Higgins.
It will not come into effect, however, until Thursday at midnight.
The whole #yokes thang shows very clearly how much of the structures of an unequal nation state can rest upon fabricated fear and panic.
The legal quagmire was spawned by a Court of Appeal ruling that part of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977, which legislates for the control of certain substances in Ireland, is unconstitutional.
The Court found Section 2(2) of the Act to beat odds with Ireland's constitution because it gives law-making powers to the state's government, which should be the exclusive domain of its Senate.
"All substances controlled by means of Government Orders made under section 2(2) cease to be controlled with immediate effect, and their possession ceases to be an offence,"a memorandum detailing the emergency bill concluded.
The issue arose following the prosecution of Lithuanian-born Stanislav Bederev for possession of methylmethcathinone. His lawyers argued that the decision to ban the drug was a matter to be considered by the Senate, and that only after that could a government minister formally initiate a ban on the substance.
Other drugs such as cocaine, heroin and cannabis will continue to be illegal as they are controlled by separate Irish legislation.
The Irish government said it may challenge the Court of Appeal's decision in the Supreme Court, but until that happens, police must rely on the emergency legislation.
It is believed Irish party whips were aware of the possible need for government intervention last week, but were informed that doing so would breach confidentiality relating to the Court of Appeal case.
Irish hip hop group Rubber Bandits suggested the legal loophole uncovered by Bederev'scase reflected badly on the professionalism of Ireland's legislature.
Hundreds of people took to Twitter to air their thoughts on the legislative bungle.
Some expressed bewilderment, while some focused on the absurdity and hilarity of the situation, as they saw it.
Others mused over the fact the possession of ecstasy - often called"yokes"by recreational drug users in Ireland - will be legal 48 for hours.
So basically Ecstasy was legal before gay marriage in Ireland.
Furious hipsters have dissed the #yokes craze tonight, heading to South William St for some craft ecstasy and organic retro punk meth.
Ireland's fleeting decriminalization of Class A drugs and other banned psychoactive substances has also sparked intrigue internationally.
By Tuesday afternoon, the hashtag #ecstasy was trending on Twitter in London with social media users marveling at Ireland's shifting legal landscape.


If you're a Coldplay fan, you probably want to get your downloader ready PDQ. Coldplay are releasing their next album - Left Right Left Right Left - to the masses as a free download at 9am (UK time - What time is that where I live?) this morning.
Radiohead managed to get a UK #1 album by letting people pick their own price (including free). I wonder how well Coldplay will do by taking that extra bit of thinking away from your and giving it away completely.
Update: It's 9:03 and as expected, the Coldplay site is crawling like a sleeping snail.


"Margarita", the classic cocktail drink happens to be one of the cherished favorites for a lot of us. It is basically a combination of three main ingredients - tequila, orange liqueur and lime juice - and as fruity flavors go well with mixed drinks, you can add whichever fruit you like the best. The punch in this drink lies in the tequila, so make sure you use a good one:) And of course, the most crucial step is creating an ice and salt or ice and sugar rim around your serving glasses to induce that extra flavor! I had a handful of large california oranges at hand, and also some leftover strawberry syrup from my valentine cake, so I put them to good use by making this Strawberry Margarita, which has an intoxicating citrus flavor blended with the sweet strawberries and the salted glass rim! Of course, you can easily make this a Virgin Margarita by omitting the liquor, but believe me, it tastes way more better with it!
Its already Valentine's Day in some parts of the world, and I wish all my friends and readers a wonderful day full of love and friendship! And now let's get on to the Margarita Recipe!
First moisten the rim of the glass with lime juice. Then sprinkle salt on the the rim of the glass. You can even use powdered sugar for a sweeter drink.
Now fill the glass with ice cubes. Add the tequila, strawberry syrup, orange juice and lime juice, preferably in an ice-filled shaker. Shake well and pour the contents into a cocktail glass.
Garnish with a slice of lime or oranges and serve!
Tip: If you want a darker pink shade in your drink, add one drop of POM to the glass. Combined with strawberry syrup, it gives a beautiful deep red color to the drink!
Serve this Strawberry Margarita at a Cocktail Party and dazzle your guests!
always a favorite! looks great:) I like mine with raspberries too!
Lovely and colourful margaritas mansi. I want one pls.
Sounds great! the POM tip is pretty useful:) thanks!
Happy V day dear buddy.
Must be nice..I dont drink but it sure luks v appetizing..
Happy V Day Mansi. Margaritas look yumm!
What a coincidence: we have friends coming over for dinner tomorrow, and I was just searching for a good strawberry margarita recipe! And we also have a pile of oranges in the house - thank you for sharing this, and happy Valentine's!
Very pretty colour, sounds delicious too.
Wow, the margarita looks lovely and delicious! Nice pink! Happy Valentine's day to you, Mansi!
love the orange twist!! love margaritas anyday!
lovely color..love to have one now.
Another lip smacker Mansi! GREAT colours in your photo!
Strawberries and oranges are fabulous together! Love 'em in sauces and salads. Now I'll have to try the Mansi Margarita!


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When a person becomes a non-resident Indian, he is required to either close his existing savings account, or convert it to a Non-Resident (Ordinary) or NRO account.
When a person becomes a non-resident Indian, he is required to either close his existing savings account, or convert it to a Non-Resident (Ordinary) or NRO account. NRO accounts can be opened with funds either remitted from abroad or generated in India. These are just like a savings accounts, with certain restrictions on repatriation of proceeds to the foreign country. Here's how to convert an existing savings account to an NRO account.
Banks prescribe specific forms for the conversion of existing savings accounts to NRO accounts. Forms can be obtained from the bank or downloaded from the bank website. All holders are required to sign the form. One form can be used to convert all savings accounts held with the bank against the same customer ID.
A new account opening form also needs to be submitted to support the conversion request. Address proof of the overseas address must also be provided. Copies of the applicant's passport, valid visa or work permit and OCI/PIO card (if applicable) must be submitted.
If the account in question was a zero balance account before being converted to NRO, it needs to be funded with the minimum balance.
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Let Your Dim Light Shine
1995 studio album by Soul Asylum
Soul Asylum
Butch Vig & Soul Asylum
Soul Asylum chronology
Grave Dancers Union
(1992) Let Your Dim Light Shine
(1995) Candy from a Stranger
Chicago Tribune [2]
Christgau's Consumer Guide B+[3]
Entertainment Weekly B[4]
Los Angeles Times [5]
Q [6]
Spin 7/10[8]
Let Your Dim Light Shine is the seventh album from the band Soul Asylum, released in 1995. Critically, it suffered in comparison to its predecessor, Grave Dancers Union, the band's breakout release. It includes the hit "Misery," which was parodied by "Weird Al" Yankovic as "Syndicated Inc." on his album Bad Hair Day.
This was the first Soul Asylum album with drummer Sterling Campbell. He provided half of the drums on Grave Dancers Union.
The album's title comes from a lyric of the song "Promises Broken." Actress Trini Alvarado provided backing vocals on three songs.
2 Singles
All songs written by David Pirner unless noted otherwise.
"Misery" – 4:24
"Shut Down" – 2:51
"To My Own Devices" – 2:59
"Hopes Up" – 3:45
"Promises Broken" (Murphy, Marc R. Perlman) – 3:14
"Bittersweetheart" – 3:34
"String of Pearls" – 4:56
"Crawl" (Stephen Jordan, Pirner) – 4:00
"Caged Rat" – 3:03
"Eyes of a Child" – 3:35
"Just Like Anyone" – 2:47
"Tell Me When" (Pirner, David Samuels) – 3:42
"Nothing to Write Home About" – 3:14
"I Did My Best" – 3:46
For the Japanese release of Let Your Dim Light Shine, an additional track was added to the album. It was a cover of the Descendents song "Hope". Note that "Bittersweetheart" fades out at 3:17, but the guitar feedback remains, therefore "Bittersweetheart" quickly segues into "String of Pearls". The running time of both songs equals about 8 minutes and 30 seconds long.
Singles[edit]
"Misery"
"Just Like Anyone"
"Promises Broken"
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1995 The Billboard 200 6
Singles - Billboard (North America)
1995 "Misery" The Billboard Hot 100 20
1995 "Misery" Mainstream Rock Tracks 2
1995 "Misery" Modern Rock Tracks 1
1995 "Just Like Anyone" Mainstream Rock Tracks 11
1995 "Just Like Anyone" Modern Rock Tracks 19
1996 "Promises Broken" The Billboard Hot 100 63
1996 "Promises Broken" Mainstream Rock Tracks 29
1996 "Promises Broken" Adult Contemporary 29
Dave Pirner – lead vocals, rhythm guitar
Dan Murphy – lead guitar, backing vocals
Karl Mueller – bass
Sterling Campbell – drums
Joey Huffman - keyboards
^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Let Your Dim Light Shine Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
^ Kot, Greg (1995-06-08). "Pirner's Folly". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
^ Christgau, Robert (2000-10-15). "Soul Asylum: Let Your Dim Light Shine". Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. Macmillan Publishing. ISBN 9780312245603.
^ Browne, David (1995-06-09). "Let Your Dim Light Shine". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
^ Hochman, Steve (1995-06-04). "Album Review: Soul Asylum Is Searching With Its 'Dim Light'". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
^ "Let Your Dim Light Shine Review". Q. July 1995. p. 124.
^ Gardner, Elysa (1998-02-02). "Soul Asylum: Let Your Dim Light Shine". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 2007-10-02. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
^ Arnold, Gina (July 1995). "Soul Asylum: Let Your Dim Light Shine". Spin. SPIN Media LLC. p. 71.
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Home Business Budget 2022: Minority says Tax Projections unrealistic
Budget 2022: Minority says Tax Projections unrealistic
The The Minority in Parliament has cast doubts over the credibility of revenue projections made in the 2022 budget, questioning the ability of the government to meet its GH₵100.5 billion targets of which GH₵80 billion will be from taxes.
Speaking on the floor of Parliament to debate the 2022 Budget Statement and Economic Policy, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ajumako Enyan Esiam Constituency, Mr Cassiel Ato Forson said the projections which showed a 45 per cent increase in tax revenue from the previous year was unprecedented and unrealistic.
"In nominal terms, the government is seeking to raise GH₵25 billion additional revenue in taxes," he said.
With the realisation of GH₵6.9 billion from electronic transactions, about GH₵1 billion from the introduction of benchmark value and 2.5 billion from the introduction of compliance measure which was normally not costed in the budget, the tax projections, he said, had still been over projected by GH₵10 billion, representing two per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
He warned against the practice of over projecting revenue as that could deteriorate the public debt situation while fiscal deficit projected to become 12.1 per cent by the year, the ending could reach 13 per cent.
"In fact, I project that we will end the year 2021 with a public debt of GH₵355 billion Ghana Cedis, representing 81 per cent of our GDP. The highest since HIPC," he said.
Mr Ato Forson said if the current projections were not corrected in the budget, the woes of the Ghanaian economy would be "sick from what we call stagflation with acute debt overhang syndrome."
He explained that the state of the economy would show a slow real sector growth and high unemployment, posing a security threat and high inflation that is pushed by rising fuel prices and the high cost of food.
The debt overhang situation is reflected in 2021 where GH₵34.4 billion was used to service debt, representing 93 per cent of revenue generated.
According to the budget, GH₵37.1 billion was collected as revenue with GH₵25.3 billion used to pay interest on loans and GH₵9 billion for amortisation within the nine months from January to September.
He further raised concern over how the government intended to meet its GH₵55 billion revenue target for 2021 by indicating that the trajectory of revenue generation showed that about GH12.3 billion was averagely raised quarterly for this year.
The ability of the government, therefore, to raise GH₵18 billion to meet targets for 2021, he said was unrealistic as that would require raising more than 50 per cent of revenues generated quarterly.
"I am aware there are seasonality and revenues perform better at the end of every year but the evidence before us suggests that revenue increase by about 20 per cent so how come you are projecting that revenue will increase by 50 per cent," he added.
The MP for Damongo, Samuel Abu Jinapor, Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, noted that the content of the budget, including its tax projections, must be debated within the context of the current situation around the globe due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
He said the economy was recovering based on the Bank of Ghana composite index economic activity data released on Monday, which showed an annual growth rate as of September 2021 of 11.2 per cent compared to 10.8 per cent in 2020 and 4.2 per cent in 2019.
Despite all hardship experienced in the country as a result of the pandemic, the GDP growth rate stands at 3.5 per cent compared to 3.4 per cent of 2016-the highest of the previous government, he said.
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THE PRODIGY, GROWN UP
MATTHEW ERIKSON; COURANT STAFF WRITERTHE HARTFORD COURANT
At 32, and in the 20th year of her career as a violinist, Midori has made the transition from child prodigy to concert veteran and adulthood. Continuing to elicit huge audiences and the raves of critics -- and while juggling lives as both a teacher and graduate student -- she has eluded the perils of burnout and disillusion while still broadening as a musician.
"I have never felt more comfortable in my own skin before," says Midori, who will perform the Sibelius Violin Concerto tonight at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Showing up for an interview at an Upper West Side Greek restaurant with a backpack and oversize Jackie-O glasses, she might at first be confused for a modish Columbia undergrad. Diminutive, her endearing face more developed and a little fuller than when she first burst upon the classical music scene, Midori still retains more than a trace of youth. Yet when she speaks, you sense a wisdom beyond her years.
"The thing I know about myself is that I have very high standards and great respect for diligence, really high quality," she says. "High quality, the best quality you can get, is very important for me."
While snacking on scoops of homemade yogurt with honey, she quickly gives an impression of someone self-possessed, articulate, pragmatic, unfailingly polite -- and unusually driven.
"I'm very disciplined," she says. "People like to say that it's the Asian culture in me. Sometimes I think that maybe that's true. But other times, I go to Japan quite a bit on a regular basis, and I think, gosh there's absolutely no discipline there."
Much of her strong work ethic she credits to her mother, Setsu Goto, her first violin teacher, who continues to maintain some influence in her life -- including the occasional wakeup call, particularly when Midori performs overseas.
Born in Osaka, Japan, and starting violin at 4, Midori entered New York City's Juilliard School at 10 and studied with famed violin instructor Dorothy DeLay.
Accepted by DeLay as a scholarship student at the Aspen Music Festival, Midori played a Bartok concerto for string player Pinchas Zukerman. "Out comes this tiny little thing, not even 10 at the time," Zukerman later told critic K. Robert Schwarz, an account that has become part of the Midori lore. "I was sitting on a chair, and I was as tall as she was standing. ... She had a tiny little half-size violin, but the sound that came out -- it was ridiculous. I was absolutely stunned. I turned to the audience and said, 'Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know about you, but I've just witnessed a miracle."'
Midori quit Juilliard at 15, her reputation secured with a sensational Tanglewood performance the prior summer. On the subject of performance and interpretative freedom, Midori eschews perfectionism in spite of talk of high standards. Rather, she addresses the subject "structured spontaneity."
"Freedom is something very, very important," she says. "It's not a thing that we can just take it for granted. Freedom comes out of structure. Freedom without some kind of reasoning or some kind of guideline really is not freedom at all."
Adherence to the composer's intent and musical tradition is the prerequisite for performance, she says.
"I enjoy my work a lot," she adds. "Sometimes it's very difficult for people to think that I'm getting enough fun time, but I do."
She writes her own program notes, reads Willa Cather and prepares lessons for her teaching studio at the Manhattan School of Music. "I think teaching is a great honor," she says.
She recently finished her undergraduate degree at New York University in psychology and gender studies ("I have always been, since childhood," she says, "fascinated by how other people's minds worked") and is working on a thesis in pain research for a graduate degree. ("I am writing a nonfiction children's book about pain" on a suggestion by her young half-brother.)
While thriving in the adult, fishbowl world of classical music, Midori still keeps one eye in childhood. She counts children's books among her scholarly readings and spends considerable time with her "Midori and Friends" arts education program, bringing music to underprivileged schools.
"We concentrate on nurturing the whole child, rather than on a particular or specific skill," she says, "and we also concentrate on the approach or the process, rather than on a particular goal."
Skillful in projecting an aura of openness, Midori remains reserved about her personal life, contributing to her mystique. Her extraordinary talent and dedication (she frequently practices following performances long after the orchestra has left), her proclivity for precision and her combination of youth and sagacity suggest something a little otherworldly.
"She calls to mind some sort of benign, exquisite, alien visitor," wrote critic Tim Page (now of The Washington Post) in a 1993 article about the 21-year-old Midori.
All the same, Midori feels secure and grounded, both with her career and personally. For the near future, she is planning premieres of works by new composers. She also hopes to carve out time for greater self-exploration.
"There's a strong sense of myself that is still in search of what it means to live, and I think that's nice. Also, it keeps me very much grounded. I want to have a good life. I want to think about what it means to have a life this day and age. Again, the process of finding out what that means is just as important as actually achieving the goals, I think. This improvement of mind is very good for an artistic personality."
Midori plays with the Boston Symphony Orchestra tonight at 7:30 at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets are $28 to $75. Information: 860-987-5900.


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Сволл-Медоус () — переписна місцевість (CDP) в США, в окрузі Моно штату Каліфорнія. Населення — 220 осіб (2010).

Географія
Сволл-Медоус розташований за координатами  (37.506060, -118.642656).  За даними Бюро перепису населення США в 2010 році переписна місцевість мала площу 11,56 км², уся площа — суходіл.

Демографія
Згідно з переписом 2010 року, у переписній місцевості мешкало 220 осіб у 98 домогосподарствах у складі 75 родин. Густота населення становила 19 осіб/км².  Було 128 помешкань (11/км²).

Расовий склад населення:

До двох чи більше рас належало 4,1 %. Частка іспаномовних становила 2,7 % від усіх жителів.

За віковим діапазоном населення розподілялося таким чином: 16,4 % — особи молодші 18 років, 64,5 % — особи у віці 18—64 років, 19,1 % — особи у віці 65 років та старші. Медіана віку мешканця становила 53,8 року. На 100 осіб жіночої статі у переписній місцевості припадало 89,7 чоловіків;  на 100 жінок у віці від 18 років та старших — 100,0 чоловіків також старших 18 років.

Середній дохід на одне домашнє господарство  становив  доларів США (медіана — ), а середній дохід на одну сім'ю —  долари (медіана — ). За межею бідності перебувало 2,1 % осіб, у тому числі 0,0 % дітей у віці до 18 років та 0,0 % осіб у віці 65 років та старших.

Цивільне працевлаштоване населення становило 117 осіб. Основні галузі зайнятості: освіта, охорона здоров'я та соціальна допомога — 40,2 %, сільське господарство, лісництво, риболовля — 12,0 %, фінанси, страхування та нерухомість — 9,4 %, будівництво — 8,5 %.

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Населені пункти округу Моно (округ)

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Dr. Theodore G. Tong Scholarship Endowment
Through a generous donation to the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) by Theodore G. Tong, PharmD, FAPhA a new endowed scholarship has been established.
The Dr. Theodore G. Tong Scholarship Endowment will fund one scholarship in the amount of $1,000 which will be awarded annually to a meritorious student pharmacist. The endowment also will provide $400 each year to the APhA Foundation to help defray incurred administrative expenses.
"The APhA Foundation is deeply grateful to Dr. Ted Tong for his generosity and leadership in establishing the new scholarship," said APhA Foundation Executive Director, Elizabeth K. Keyes, RPh. "Guiding and mentoring students has been his professional and personal priority. The scholarship will provide an opportunity for student pharmacists to meet their academic and career goals."
Tong is the Professor of Pharmacy Practice, Pharmacology and Toxicology and the inaugural holder of the R. Ken Coit Endowed Chair in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Arizona. He received his B.S. from the University of Southern California, a B.S. from Oregon State University; and his PharmD from the University of California, San Francisco. Over the course of his career, he has served as Director of the Arizona Poison and Drug Information Center (1982–2005) and Associate Dean for Student Affairs (1987–2018).
Responding to the need for a resource in California's Bay Area and North Coast counties that would provide poison information, education, data collection, and research, Tong co-founded the San Francisco Bay Area Regional Poison Control Center, which has become an integral part of the region's emergency medical services. Tong is a Fellow of the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) and the Academy of Clinical Toxicology (AACP). He has been bestowed numerous honors, including induction to the Arizona Pharmacist Association Hall of Fame (2014), and receiving the Bowl of Hygeia Community Service Award (2006) and the Arizona Pharmacist of the Year Award (1999). He received the UCSF Pharmacy Alumni Association Distinguished Alumnus of the Year Award (2005).
In addition to these honors and accomplishments, Tong cites his proudest "APhA moments" as serving as Honorary APhA President and receiving the Outstanding APhA-ASP Chapter Advisor Award.
Tong decided to fund an endowed scholarship in recognition of the vital role APhA has had in his own professional development and achievements in pharmacy. "My decision to fund an endowed scholarship is my way of giving back and have lasting impact. I have a deep appreciation for all the value I have experienced as an APhA member. I am delighted that for years to come, this new scholarship will provide financial support to individuals who are starting their pharmacy academic studies."
The Dr. Theodore G. Tong Scholarship recipient must be enrolled in an accredited school or college of pharmacy and demonstrate outstanding leadership, academic excellence, pharmacy association involvement and community service.
The Theodore G. Tong Scholarship is presented annually to one (1) recipient with a scholarship of $1,000.
Learn more about other APhA Foundation scholarships for students.


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Anna Faris Stuns At The Emmys In First Appearance Since Split With Chris Pratt
With a little help from "Mom" co-star Allison Janney.
By Cole Delbyck
Can we all just take a moment to recognize how amazing Anna Faris is?
The "Mom" actress made her first public appearance since announcing her split from husband Chris Pratt after eight years of marriage at the 69th annual Emmy Awards on Sunday, and she totally nailed it.
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Anna Faris walks the red carpet during the 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
Styling duo Wendi and Nicole shared a photo of Faris on her way to the award show, showing off her stunning look for the evening.
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The actress later appeared on the Emmys stage with "Mom" co-star Allison Janney to present the award for Outstanding Variety Special.
Janney, who revealed Faris is doing "fantastic" since her split with the "Guardians of the Galaxy" actor, pulled her in close, as they playfully ribbed each other on comedic timing.
Faris and Pratt broke our collective hearts with a joint statement revealing their separation in August.
"We tried hard for a long time, and we're really disappointed. Our son has two parents who love him very much and for his sake we want to keep this situation as private as possible moving forward," they wrote. "We still have love for each other, will always cherish our time together and continue to have the deepest respect for one another."
Since splitting from Pratt, Faris hasn't missed a beat, recording new episodes of her podcast, "Anna Faris Is Unqualified, as well as proceeding with releasing her new book with a foreword written by Pratt, which is set to hit shelves in October.
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Health & Fitness Heart disease is the number one killer of women – so why is no one talking about it?
A woman in Canada dies every 20 minutes from heart disease.
Pop quiz: What's the leading cause of premature death (that is, dying before one reaches their expected lifespan) for women in Canada?
If you're surprised to learn that the answer is heart disease, you're not alone. Thanks to what is arguably the most successful public-awareness campaign in medical history, breast cancer may be at the forefront of most minds when discussing women's health. This, despite the fact that heart disease kills five times as many women in Canada.
The statistics surrounding women and heart disease – released last week by the Heart & Stroke Foundation as part of a national awareness campaign called #TimeToSeeRed – are powerful and shocking. Did you know that a woman in Canada dies every 20 minutes from heart disease? Or that women who have a heart attack are more likely than men to either die or suffer a second heart attack? My career is devoted to improving people's health, and I had no idea about any of this.
And therein lies the problem. Twenty-five thousand women die from heart disease every year, yet the medical establishment – and the general public – still view it as a men's health issue. Another grim stat: Two-thirds of heart-disease research focuses on men.
Some may wonder why this gender gap in research is a problem. After all, a heart is a heart, right? Yes and no. For starters, a woman's heart is smaller than a man's, as are the coronary arteries that supply it with blood. There are differences in how atherosclerotic plaque collects in women's blood vessels, leading to heart disease. And of course, there are those biological functions – pregnancy and menopause to name only two – unique to women that can affect heart health.
With the launch of #TimeToSeeRed, Savoie is confident that these systemic inequities will be addressed. In the meantime, there are plenty of easy-to-adopt preventative measures that will keep the hearts of both women and men healthy and strong long into old age.
It should go without saying that cigarettes aren't good for, well, anything. Smoking is the No. 1 cause of preventable death in Canada; smokers are three times more likely to die from heart disease than non-smokers. If you smoke, stop.
Heavy drinking is also a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke. Women should consume no more than two drinks a day (up to 10 per week), while men should cap their consumption at 3 a day (up to 15 per week).
Being a vegan, I'll admit to some personal bias on this one, but the link between eating meat and heart disease is strong. In April, the International Journal of Epidemiology published a research paper in which the five-year eating habits of more than 80,000 men and women were studied. The results? Those whose receive their protein from plant-based sources – specifically nuts and seeds – were 40-per-cent less likely to suffer from heart disease than their carnivorous counterparts.
Exercise is the miracle remedy for just about all of life's ailments. By now, everyone is probably sick of hearing about the many benefits of regular physical activity and exercise, but until we're all living happy and health lives well into our 90s, I'll keep on trumpeting the news. How you get your sweat on doesn't matter; what matters is that you move your body as often as possible, several times a day.
"A 10-minute walk three times a day can have a huge impact for someone who's otherwise largely sedentary," Savoie said.
Muscleheads can rejoice – there's evidence that lifting weights provides its own unique set of benefits on the cardiovascular system, separate from that of aerobic exercise. Resistance training leads to a greater flow of blood away from the heart, contributing to a prolonged drop in blood pressure after exercising has stopped.


November 18th, 2011 9:38 AM by Lehel S.
Far fewer borrowers are delinquent on their home loans these days, a Mortgage Bankers Assn. report shows, but new foreclosure actions are on the rise in states like California, showing the nation still has much pain to endure before the housing crisis subsides.
Private analysts say the nation is only halfway through the wrenching grip of the foreclosure epidemic. And that's reflected in the housing market, where home sales and prices continue to sag in many areas despite record low interest rates.
Five years into the crisis, 7.99% of all U.S. home loans were behind by at least one payment in the third quarter but not yet in foreclosure, the mortgage trade group said Thursday. That's down by nearly half a percentage point from the second quarter and more than a percentage point from a year earlier.
But the group's statistics showed how banks are reasserting themselves against troubled borrowers after slowing the process for nearly a year amid increased scrutiny from regulators.
The percentage of loans on which foreclosure actions were started during the third quarter was 1.08%, up from 0.96% in the second quarter. California had the nation's fifth-highest rate of new foreclosures: nearly 1.5% in the latest quarter.
The percentage of U.S.loans somewhere in the foreclosure process at the end of the third quarter was 4.43%, up slightly from a year earlier. The rate of homes in foreclosure was highest in Eastern and Midwestern states that route all home repossessions through the courts, with Florida at more than 14% and New Jersey at 8%.
California, which for years had one of the highest rates of loans in foreclosure, has fallen to 19th on the list because its foreclosure process doesn't normally require court action and is among the most streamlined in the nation. In other words, even as the rate of new foreclosures increases, the repossessions are being handled quickly.
Of states that handle foreclosures without going through court procedures, Nevada was the only one high on the total foreclosure-rate list, with nearly 8% of its mortgages in foreclosure.
In a separate report Thursday, mortgage finance giant Freddie Mac said the typical rate on a 30-year fixed-rate home loan early this week was an even 4.0%, a statistically insignificant rise from 3.99% a week earlier. The 15-year fixed loan rates rose to 3.31% from 3.30%.
Expressing some optimism, Frank Nothaft, an economist for the trade group, said the economy "is showing potential for further gains in the near term" as the near-record low mortgage rates persist.
Retail sales rose for the fifth straight month in October, consumer confidence rose for the third straight month in early November to the highest reading since June, and home-builder confidence exhibited a back-to-back monthly increase in November to the strongest level since May 2010, Nothaft said, citing various surveys.


Dr Anne Merriman is the founder of Hospice Africa and Hospice Africa Uganda. She is presently Director of Policy and International Programmes. Here she tells the story of how HAU was founded. Dr Richard Harding is an academic researcher working on palliative care in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper described Dr Merriman's experience in pioneering palliative care provision. In particular it examines the steps to achieving wider availability of opioids for pain management for those with far advanced disease. Hospice Africa Uganda has been a model facility in achieving high quality clinical care embedded in a strategy of advocacy and education, using a multifaceted approach that has addressed logistical, policy and legislative barriers. Until 1990 control of severe pain in Sub-Saharan Africa was non-existent except in Zimbabwe and S Africa. Oral affordable morphine was brought to Kenya through Nairobi Hospice that year, and to Uganda through Hospice Africa Uganda in 1993. This paper offers an example of a highly effective and cost efficient model of care that has transformed the ability to humanely manage the problems of those with terminal illness, and to offer a culturally appropriate "good death". Thus it is now possible to complete the ethical circle of care in resource poor circumstances.
Sub-Saharan Africa faces a very high burden of incurable terminal disease. During 2007 there were 22.5 million people living with HIV infection; 1.7 million adults and children became infected with HIV; and 1.6 million died of AIDS (UNAIDS). The burden of cancer is just beginning to be understood and receive attention with clinical research and policy. The burden of other non-malignant diseases is unknown, although heart failure is recognized as a leading cause of death in Southern Africa. Palliative care can relieve the suffering of patients and families affected by these diseases and a strong body of evidence has demonstrated this . The pain, symptoms, insight and anxiety associated with HIV can also be controlled under palliative care . For this reason, policy and legal frameworks have sought to remove this unnecessary suffering and to promote cheap and effective palliative care as both a public health issue and as a human right . Medical ethics requires that we "do no harm". Leaving my patient in pain in the era when pain relief and symptom control is affordable, is breaking our ethical code.
Since the modern palliative care speciality was developed and grew in the 1960's across Western Europe, Australia and North America it has (to a greater or lesser degree) become integrated into the health system. The palliative care needs of a range of patients and families can be met (although still only a proportion of those who could benefit actually get access). Therefore it is difficult to imagine, and impossible to justify, a country where there is no medicine for severe pain. This, however, is the case for many countries in Africa today. While there are centres of excellence providing care, education and advocacy, they are few and far between [4, 5]. To reach the poorest and those suffering in an appropriate and ethical manner, a public health policy needs to be accepted and delivered in every country.
is applicable early in the course of illness, in conjunction with other therapies that are intended to prolong life, such as chemotherapy or radiation therapy, and includes those investigations needed to better understand and manage distressing clinical complications."
In summary, palliative care is appropriate for any patient with an incurable, progressive and life threatening illness, and should be provided from the point of diagnosis until the end of life- and should provide bereavement support for family members if required. It is patient focused rather than disease oriented, holistic, and can be provided alongside potentially curative options. Indeed, palliative care is entirely necessary alongside antiretroviral therapy due to the distressing and complex symptoms experienced by those living with what remains an incurable terminal disease [7, 8]. Palliative care is multi professional with recognition of the input of nurses, doctors, social workers, spiritual care providers and allied health professionals (where resources permit).
The cornerstone of palliative care is the relief of pain and other distressing symptoms- although palliative care cannot be said to be present if pain control is the only intervention available. My patient, in severe physical pain, is unable to accept the holistic approach until pain is relieved. Other dimensions of psychological and spiritual pain must also be assessed and managed.
The introduction of morphine is the focus of this paper, and is the success that enabled the provision of cheap and effective palliative care to those who are in severe pain. Previously there was no relief for these patients. Thus they were unable to think or make decisions, have autonomy, for themselves and their families. Once affordable oral morphine, suitable for use in the home is available, it is against justice for this treatment, prescribed at the hands of trained and legal prescribers, to be inhibited by bureaucratic channels in country.
The introduction of this essential component of health care was a particular challenge in an African country such as Uganda in 1993. Uganda, which lacks economic resources, has few doctors (1: 19,000 population), and nurses (1:5,000 population) and where 57% of the population never see a health worker. Traditional healers are the first port of call in illness, and there is 1 traditional healer to 450 population. These traditional healers are holistic in their approach and culturally more acceptable to those in the village than Western medicine which can be expensive. Curative options are usually few for people who present with cancer- firstly they present very late, as they spend some time with the traditional healer, fear hospitals and have very little money. There is also only one source of radiotherapy and chemotherapy and that is in Kampala, far away from most Ugandan dwellings, and cannot meet the needs of all patients.
In 1993, Hospice Africa Uganda (HAU) was established [9, 10], with the vision of facilitating the initiation and expansion of palliative care throughout Africa . The aim was to create an affordable and culturally acceptable model in an African country, which could be adapted to the needs of other African countries. The Hospices and palliative care services in African countries would have an ethos to guide them to care for patient and family in this special time of life (although of course South Africa and Zimbabwe had an earlier history of the introduction of hospice). After a feasibility study of countries requesting such a service, Uganda was chosen because of the trust it had established in 1993 of the International communities, the great increase in cancers due to a high prevalence of HIV and the commitment of the Ministry of Health to support relief of the suffering of so many Ugandans by importing an affordable form of oral morphine which could be used in the home.
Hospice Africa Uganda commenced with very little funding, and began providing principally a home clinical service with the addition of a hospital consultation service. Working in partnership with the Ministry of Health commenced immediately. Teaching at Makerere University for undergraduate and post graduate doctors and for nurses in training was also initiated. Thus all doctors who have qualified to practice medicine since 1994 have been trained in palliative care. This year, the first unit of palliative care was commenced in Makerere University under Internal Medicine.
With the help of the Ministry of Health, oral affordable morphine was brought into Uganda in September 1993. This meant importing powder and making up the oral morphine using a formula perfected in Singapore during Dr Merriman's seven years there, and used for the first time in Africa in Nairobi Hospice 1990-2. Among the first patients, at the first Christmas, was a little boy of 7, named Bashir. He had had a forequarter amputation for osteosarcoma of the scapula. When he was referred to Hospice he already had cancer in secondary sites including the liver. He was in severe pain from the operation, and the skin grafts to the stump. His grandmother panicked when he developed malaria and she wanted to take him home to die. Granny having told hospital staff he lived 20 kms away, Dr Merriman, now alone as the little team had gone to their homes for Christmas, set out for home with a young interpreter from the ward caring for another patient. Thus they found that home was 60 kms away and the last 20 kms required them to transport him up a mountain! They managed to reach there in the donated 4WD, and then the team were committed to visiting him twice weekly until he died 6 weeks later. Thanks to the fact that he had morphine, he died a happy child and at peace. Without palliative care, and in particular without the availability of morphine to control his pain, this boy would have had no opportunity for a pain free and peaceful end to his life. His family would have suffered alongside him.
More than 16,000 patients and families have since received such care from Hospice Africa Uganda- and many more receive high quality palliative care from doctors, nurses, and other health professionals trained by HAU initially.
We realised that in order to make pain control a reality for all those who needed it, we had to increase the number of prescribers so that opioids could be accessed by patients across a range of health care settings and districts. In 2002, the Government agreed to change the statute. The revolutionary change enabled a new cadre of opioid prescribers: midwives were already allowed by statute to prescribe pethidine. To the same statute was added that nurses/clinical officers who had successfully undergone training at HAU for nine months and subsequently registered with the Ministry of Health, could prescribe morphine.
From 2000, due to a millennium grant from the British Royal Air Force, a similar programme of introducing advocacy for affordable morphine and training health professionals in parallel with morphine availability was rolled out initially to Tanzania and later to other countries. We were able to achieve this through a strategic advocacy approach to influence governments, health professionals, Universities and other health training institutions. Morphine is now available in 11 countries in Africa with the consent of their Governments. However, although there is a strong desire for professionals to be able to prescribe and control pain, and the training provides the skills to do this, experience has shown us that the provision of training is not enough to ensure that pain relief is delivered. Health professionals need the subsequent support and mentoring of someone with African experience to work side by side with them, to introduce record keeping, monitoring and evaluation, organisational development and all those aspects of a sustainable organisation relevant to, and affordable in, their own unique circumstances.
Less than a quarter of African countries have now affordable oral morphine available. To address this problem, a combination of advocacy, education and training is required to ensure and maintain good analgesia for those in need. Again, training is vital and needs to come from African success stories. We require models of care and drug options that are relevant to the local context- and evidence-based palliative care needs to be founded on research and practice that has been shown to be effective and feasible in African settings.
Patients in Africa prefer to die in their own homes [12–14]. Our focus has been on critical care and end of life care in the home since 1993. However, we do attend hospitals on consultation and subsequently follow the patients up at home.
For pain relief to be possible continuously in the home, morphine needs to be given orally. The patient and family are trained in giving morphine at regular intervals so that the pain does not return. They are instructed in giving an extra dose for breakthrough pain and the number of extra doses used, are calculated to adjust the daily dose at the next visit of the team (Figure 1).
In 1993, we arrived with a donation of 5 syringe drivers for parenteral morphine. We used them 3 times the first year, twice the second and never since.
Firstly we can effectively manage pain with oral morphine. If the problems of high or low intestinal obstruction occur (obstruction from cancer of the oesophagus, relatively common and situated high) or ovary (not so common and lower down according to the site of the metastases), we then use concentrated morphine dripped into the mouth and this is absorbed from the buccal mucosa with good effect. Occasionally we use MST (slow release morphine tablets) rectally, but this is expensive.
Providing a laxative for the anticipated constipation has proved a challenge as the laxative of choice, sennakot is expensive and not always available. Bisacodyl has greater availability at a cost. We are now prescribing the seeds of paw paw, dried and crushed, one to five teaspoons at night. This gives very good results and paw paw fruits are readily available [see Additional file 1]. Then we turn to the margarine for the high or low impaction. One dessertspoon taken before breakfast lubricates impacted stool. We manage most constipation with this regime while continuing with paw paw seeds and occasionally adding in bisacodyl.
Morphine is not the treatment of choice for all pains, and neuropathic pain and bone pain are treated by conventional means, usually antidepressants or anti epileptic medications for neuropathic pain not responding to oral morphine and non steroidal anti inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) for bone pain . Our choice of medication is limited by cost and availability, but we do relieve most pains. Some of the medications usually prescribed for HIV neuropathic pain such as gabapentin are prohibitively expensive for use in our setting. To manage neuropathic pain of herpes zoster, we are now using the milk of the frangipani tree , [see Additional file 2]. This is applied three times a day to the affected dermatomes, before the vesicles appear and later for post herpetic neuralgia (see reference ).
The process that has been established for the safe use of opioids for home palliative care in Uganda is as follows.
Import morphine powder from supplier: appropriate paper work and Government acceptance of the requirements for the country taken into account through the National Drug Authority.
Morphine powder is transferred to the dispenser. The dispenser is overseen by a registered pharmacist.
Powder is weighed and mixed with boiled, filtered water [see Additional file 3].
Each strength is colour coded: green for 1 mg per ml, pink for 10 mgs per ml and blue for 20 mgs per ml. The colour is cake colouring.
The liquid is now poured into recycled plastic water bottles. These bottles are washed carefully, in the pharmacy, before use. The patient is also provided with a 5 ml syringe without a needle. These are soon to be replaced with cups because of the moulded needles to syringes now being produced. With the syringe, they are shown how to draw it up, by pouring the liquid into the lid of the bottle, which holds about 5 mls. With the cups it will be poured in directly and measured.
The patient or relative receives the morphine from the dispenser. The person who collects signs the Controlled Drugs book.
The formula for oral morphine, as used in Hospice Africa Uganda, is found in the "Blue Book" (see reference ).
Patients and families are given a leaflet with instructions to keep the medicine out of the reach of children. The leaflet also explains about the use of morphine. It is in the local language as well as English. The patient and relative are asked to return any unused morphine, and if this is not possible because of distance, to destroy it (e.g. put it down pit latrine) and to note how much they destroyed.
The cost of morphine in Uganda is low. 500 mgs of morphine diluted to 500 mls is the cost of a loaf of bread. The average dose controlling pain in our patients is 30 mgs per day. Therefore, with morphine 5 mgs being taken 4 hourly and a double dose at night, the bottle lasts the average patient 10 days allowing for break through doses of the regular 4 hourly dose if required.
This formula and our training is now being carried to countries where Governments have agreed to import powdered morphine. Advocacy to Governments, medical schools and training schools is bringing pain control to more and more patients, but there is still a huge need.
Critical illness in the home and end of life care is being provided in a small number of countries by hospice and palliative care organisations. HAU has shown how commencing from very little, with the support of Government and networking organisations, pain control opens the door to providing holistic care to the patient and family. The evaluation of our public health approach to expanding the availability of morphine has demonstrated that any fears of opioids being diverted from health care into the hands of recreational users are unfounded, and that systemic analysis of the opioids supply chain is essential to unblock the system . However, we also identified that there are problems as there are many steps to be taken to make this effective, with many rules and regulations which prevent our patients getting acceptable pain control in some of the Government health systems.
We have identified a few challenges in the replication of our Ugandan successes in other countries. These are observed in variation in price, in the way patients are instructed and reinforcing myths about addiction, in reinventing the wheel for the right formulae, strengths and storage. These delays exhibit maleficence. There is physical harm to the patient, suffering for the patient and family.
In visiting other African countries, we recently found that the cost of morphine in one was 5 times that in Uganda, posing a significant challenge to models of affordable pain management and palliative care . In another country, a pharmacist was questioning each patient or relative at the pharmacy as to why they were taking an addictive drug and reducing the dose if he anticipated a stock out. Another pharmacist in a Muslim country was using a formula made up with alcohol as preservative when this is not acceptable to the Muslim. There is an urgent ethical need for those of us who have experienced success to share experiences with those initiating care and facing challenges to provide sustainable, affordable and effective models of care.
Getting the system right so that morphine is available and reaches those in need is the beginning of the holistic approach. There are many other pains beside physical pain, and that may be as distressing: psychological, spiritual and social problems, which must be addressed. We have focused here on opioids as a specific challenge, but the effective management of these other problems also require urgent attention. Effective analgesia and the availability of opioids is essential to allow us to then approach the range of holistic needs of a patient who is in severe pain and has a terminal prognosis. Hospice Africa, together with other established palliative care services and networking with the more recently established regional advocacy organisation, the African Palliative Care Association, are working together to increase the coverage, and ensure quality, throughout Africa for those in need.
Oral morphine, made up near to the patients in need, is now recognised as the most affordable and effective way to control severe pain for cancer and AIDS, in the African situation. Having proved that this affordable method works, we, who witness the terrible suffering still going on in Africa from cancer, AIDS and other diseases, are ethically bound to try and make it reach all in need in Africa. Only thus can we bring dignity of life and death , based on the four pillars of ethics, to those in need.
Working with limited resources and in a different cultural setting, certain observations have been made which might, with further research, assist pain control methods and palliative care in more developed countries.
AM is the invited author and conceived and wrote the original paper.
RH edited, contributed advice and further references.


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My Development Setup. What's yours?
It's a Sunday evening and I am sipping an ice cold G&T now that my DIY bits are done for the weekend.
Am i the only one who gets major lag running VS2013 on win8 on a mac using parallels 10? #Inception #dreamiscollapsing #timeforbootcamp?
I replied to Pete saying I have never had any issues and that I would write about my experiences, hence this post.
Pete and other people have asked me before about my setup of my machine I use for coding and I want to discuss about my particular setup and start a wider discussion with the community about their setups.
First of all you may be wondering why you would want to toggle the display of the tree navigation, considering that this is the main & primary navigation when using the Umbraco backoffice, however on a project I am doing at work a new property editor that is being developed requires more screen real estate and toggling the tree navigation allows the content editor to see & use this property editor a lot easier, as it involves plotting objects on a canvas. So as much space as possible is useful in this case.
I would be interested to hear what other people think of this and should this tree toggle become part of the core by doing a Pull Request and if was to become part of the main UI, where should the button go or by double clicking the grey area with the application/section icons toggle this action?
Well let me know by leaving your thoughts in the comments.
I have written a blog post for a little while. So I thought I would create a package for Umbraco Contour. If you do not know what Umbraco Contour is, surely you have been living under a rock?!
Hello all this is another 'What on Earth' blog post detailing a specific feature or functionality of Umbraco that may be hidden away a little & this blog post is here to help describe & detail it.
So I have been lucky enough to come back from a fun packed, long week with my second family the Umbraco community at the annual Umbraco conference, CodeGarden.
I wanted to say a BIG thank you to everyone who voted for me this year to receive a community award, the Umbraco MVP award. I may not has been active as other members of the MVPs on our.umbraco.org however I like to think this blog with various code snippets & findings I have found out along the way has been useful to yourself & the community, in addition to running the weekly(ish) Umbraco Show & Tell Google Hangout, called uHangout.
What is an Umbraco MVP?
MVPs are quite common in different projects and they're all inspired by Microsofts "Most Valued Professional" program. In Umbraco MVP stands for "Most Valued People" as we see at least as big value in amateurs as in professionals. In fact several Umbraco MVPs started as amateurs only to find that Umbraco is now the cornerstone of their professional career.
An MVP is a person who's not a part of the core team nor a part of the Umbraco HQ (the company), but in some other way adds extraordinary value to the project. Looking back at previous MVPs this translate into being friendly in the forum or making incredible and highly useful packages. In other words, MVPs represent the best of the community which is the last building block in what makes the foundation of the Umbraco project; the company, the core team and the community.
I want to end my post with a big thanks & a H5YR (High Five You Rock) to the other Umbraco MVPs who help make the Umbraco community fantastic with the packages they create, to the very detailed & helpful answers they post on our.umbraco.org. I swear Jan never sleeps as he always finds the time to post on the forums. So a big thanks to my fellow MVPs & nominees you all do outstanding work & help make this a better place for all.
I never thought in a million years I would be awarded MVP, but it's easy to get involved with the Umbraco community and you never know it could be you next year.
No I am not trying to be a kid from the 90's and start every greeting off with yo, but in fact I want to introduce you to a new tool I have built called Yo Umbraco, which help boost productivity for developing property editors for Umbraco 7 & newer.
Note: This is a cross post from my blog post over at Work's blog at CogWorks, this is a cross post to keep a record of my findings.
What is TeamCity and Continuous Integration?
TeamCity is a tool developed by JetBrains to run a continuous integration environment. This allows the development team to push to a Git repository and for the TeamCity tool to monitor the Git repository and perform a series of build steps in order for the website to be built and deployed to a webserver. In our case at The Cogworks, a website in our development environment.
This allows the code to be checked ensuring the code compiles and builds, as it would inside Visual Studio. You can then be sure that a working site is deployed.
With TeamCity you can be as simple or fancy as you like, involving build steps that copy files from one place to another or running complex tasks such as utilising tools to help you migrate databases from one environment to another. There are plenty of scenarios and ideas that can be setup to fit your team's development workflow.
What are NodeJS, Compass, Grunt and Bower?
Before I go onto explain this, I'd just like to add a disclaimer that I claim to be no expert in this field and someone with more experience with these tools may give a better explanation of their use. So as I am still new to these frontend tool sets I'll try my best to explain them.
Next onto Compass, this is seen as a common and useful extension to the popular CSS preprocessor Sass. It also gives some extra functionality to your Sass files for example providing the power to automatically create a sprite image and use it in your CSS – It's voodoo magic!!
Finally, Bower is a front end package manager which is built by the guys over at Twitter and runs on NodeJS. This fetches other front end tools you may wish to use. For example you may use Bower to install and fetch the latest version of jquery, jquery-ui and jquery.cookies along with a range of other client side dependencies. This is similar to the NodeJS NPM repository, but instead is aimed at web dependencies from jQuery to handlebars.
Why do we need all these frameworks?
All these tools basically allow us to write better front end code. It allows us to compress images, minify large JS and CSS files and hel pus improve the overall quality of the browsing experience on as many devices and connection speeds as possible automatically.
They help us take some of the hard work out of this by allowing us to automate a lot of the front end build processes. You can think of Grunt as the front end developer equivalent of a build process like we do as .NET Developers.
From the screenshot above, you must ensure you chose the option to run Git from the Windows command prompt. This ensures that you can type Git in any console window as it has been added to your computers PATH. Without doing this you will make your life hard if you work with things like bower.io where it expects Git to be in the PATH.
Now that we have Git installed, let's quickly check and ensure it is actually installed correctly.
From a console window type the following git -v and hit enter. You should see a version number displayed if git has been successfully installed.
The next part that I needed to install on the server was NodeJS which allows a whole heap of extensions to be installed via NPM (Node Package Manager). Think of this as the equivalent of NuGet in the .NET world but just specifically for NodeJS.
Again as with the Git install, there is an important step to ensure the following commands node and npm are available in your console window globally by ensuring NodeJS and NPM are installed in your PATH.
Once the NodeJS installer has finished lets test and ensure that NodeJS has been installed and available globally in our Windows console.
Type node -v into the console and hit 'Enter'. You should see the version number displayed if it has been successfully installed into your PATH, next try npm -v and see if that also returns a version number too.
Bower is a front end package manager from the Twitter team and uses Git to consume the packages. To install Bower we need to install it from the node package manager (npm). In the console window type the following command npm install -g bower this tells npm to install the Bower package globally. This allows us to use the command 'Bower' in our console window from any location. Similar to how Git and NodeJS was added to our PATH.
This is where you will see your console window go nuts as the NPM goes and downloads Bower and it's dependencies. Do not panic you will soon get used to the number of dependencies any NPM package has.
Again to test that Bower has been installed successfully use the bower -v command.
Bower is not a requirement but as our front-enders were using Bower in their workflow we needed to install it too on our build server as well.
The next thing we need to install and setup for our workflow is to install GruntJS which is the task runner or the equivalent as the front-enders build steps.
To install this we need to install Grunt from NPM with this following command npm install -g grunt-cli which tells node to install the Grunt command line runner globally and make it accessible from any console window.
The next part we need to install is Ruby, this allows us to use other packages that are specifically written for Ruby. We use Ruby in our setup because our front enders are using a front end tool called Compass which is an extension for the CSS preprocessor Sass.
So we need to download and install the Ruby installer from rubyinstaller.org.
As before with all installs, we need to ensure that Ruby gets installed correctly and we need to make sure it gets installed into our PATH.
Once installed let's verify it installed correctly by typing ruby -v and also gem -v to test it out. As with NodeJS, Ruby has it's own package manager and it's called gem. So we can download packages such as compass from gem.
The final thing to install for our front end tools is Compass, which is a tool for the CSS preprocessor Sass, which helps give Sass some extra power with some helpers and extensions.
To install Compass we need to run the following commands in the console.
For Compass to be installed we need to ensure Sass is installed first, hence the order above for the commands is important.
Ok we have everything all setup and ready for the front end workflow that our front-enders are using, the last thing to setup is the TeamCity plugin to use NodeJS and Grunt in the build steps.
To install the plugin you need to stop the build runner and the main web interface services on the build server. Once they are stopped you need to copy the downloaded zip file to TeamCityDataDirectory/plugins, note you do not need to unzip the file, simply copy it to the plugins folder. Once the plugin has been copied restart the two services for TeamCity backup on the build server.
If you were like me and were unsure where the TeamCityDataDirectory is, then before you stop the services, go to the Administration settings page in TeamCity to point you to the folder location path.
Now that you have the plugin installed and have restarted TeamCity, go to Settings followed by Plugin List which should show the NodeJS plugin in the list if it's installed correctly.
Each call/command line is its own step, so we can easily see where the build fails to help us debug the problem. Each step we add here outputs information allowing us to keep an eye at all times what is going on with our build.
So when the build is running on TeamCity we can see the build log and the output of each of these steps to give us an insight into what is happening and if any errors are occurring. The order of these build steps is important so that they run in the specific order as defined above. This is to ensure if one step fails it stops and the other steps cannot continue to run.
There were a few gotcha's that caught me out which I'd like to share with you which may also catch you out on your journey to front end workflow nirvana.
Bower uses Git to go off and consume packages from Git repositories nine times out of ten it would work fine, however there may be one dependency it was trying to download where it would fail with a weird error message of 'ECMDERR Failed to execute'. After some Googling I found the solution was best to change how Git was fetching contents of a repo. So in the console window run the following command to ensure it uses https:// protocol as opposed to git:// urls and this error went away.
The second gotcha happened when I received some strange errors back from NPM. It took a while for me to figure out why I was experiencing these errors. However the solution for us was to run the Teamcity service on the server under the Administrator user specifically. After doing so the errors went away and we managed to get the Grunt workflow all sorted out for our frontenders.
Hopefully this has been useful to you and now you too can get up and running with integrating Grunt and the world of NodeJS into your TeamCity Continuous Build processes.
As it's the last day of 2013 I would like to look back and reflect on the year that has been.
It has been a great & fantastic year after a personal rocky year back in 2012, but as this year has progressed I have gained my confidence in myself back.


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Quality of Life Comparison
If you lived in Germany instead of Hungary, you would:
live 4.4 years longer
In Hungary, the average life expectancy is 77 years (73 years for men, 81 years for women) as of 2020. In Germany, that number is 81 years (79 years for men, 84 years for women) as of 2020.
be 15.5% less likely to be obese
In Hungary, 26.4% of adults are obese as of 2016. In Germany, that number is 22.3% of people as of 2016.
make 71.6% more money
Hungary has a GDP per capita of $29,600 as of 2017, while in Germany, the GDP per capita is $50,800 as of 2017.
be 12.1% more likely to be live below the poverty line
In Hungary, 14.9% live below the poverty line as of 2015. In Germany, however, that number is 16.7% as of 2015.
pay a 3.2 times higher top tax rate
Hungary has a top tax rate of 15.0% as of 2016. In Germany, the top tax rate is 47.5% as of 2016.
be 41.7% less likely to die during childbirth
In Hungary, approximately 12.0 women per 100,000 births die during labor as of 2017. In Germany, 7.0 women do as of 2017.
be 29.8% less likely to die during infancy
In Hungary, approximately 4.7 children die before they reach the age of one as of 2020. In Germany, on the other hand, 3.3 children do as of 2020.
be 18.0% more likely to have internet access
In Hungary, approximately 76.1% of the population has internet access as of 2018. In Germany, about 89.7% do as of 2018.
Germany: At a glance
Germany is a sovereign country in Europe, with a total land area of approximately 348,672 sq km. As Europe's largest economy and second most populous nation (after Russia), Germany is a key member of the continent's economic, political, and defense organizations. European power struggles immersed Germany in two devastating World Wars in the first half of the 20th century and left the country occupied by the victorious Allied powers of the US, UK, France, and the Soviet Union in 1945. With the advent of the Cold War, two German states were formed in 1949: the western Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the eastern German Democratic Republic (GDR). The democratic FRG embedded itself in key Western economic and security organizations, the EC, which became the EU, and NATO, while the communist GDR was on the front line of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact. The decline of the USSR and the end of the Cold War allowed for German unification in 1990. Since then, Germany has expended considerable funds to bring Eastern productivity and wages up to Western standards. In January 1999, Germany and 10 other EU countries introduced a common European exchange currency, the euro.
How big is Germany compared to Hungary? See an in-depth size comparison.
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The statistics on this page were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook, National Tax and Customs Administration of Hungary, Federal Central Tax Office (BZSt).
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Obywatel Piszczyk – polski film komediowy w reżyserii Andrzeja Kotkowskiego z 1988 r., którego premiera miała miejsce w 1989. Film jest kontynuacją filmu Zezowate szczęście z 1960 r. w reżyserii Andrzeja Munka. Został zrealizowany na podstawie powieści Smutnych losów Jana Piszczyka ciąg dalszy Jerzego Stefana Stawińskiego. Obraz dedykowany był Bogumiłowi Kobieli.

Obsada aktorska
 Jerzy Stuhr - Jan Piszczyk
 Maria Pakulnis - Renata
 Krzysztof Zaleski - kapitan UB
 Kazimierz Kaczor - Zdzisław Pasionka, dyrektor OBOP
 Krystyna Tkacz - Liliana, kobieta poznana na wczasach nad morzem
 Andrzej Szczepkowski - doktor filozofii Fabian Tubalny, współwięzień Piszczyka
 Janusz Bukowski - naczelnik więzienia
 Grzegorz Warchoł - kelner Władek Weronicki, współwięzień Piszczyka
 Andrzej Blumenfeld - literat Stawiński
 Leon Niemczyk - ojciec Renaty
 Irena Kownas - matka Renaty
 Andrzej Grabarczyk - kolega Renaty
 Anna Gornostaj - koleżanka Renaty
 Irena Laskowska - matka Piszczyka
 Zygmunt Fok - Cezary, ojciec Piszczyka

Opis fabuły
Jest rok 1960. Jan Piszczyk ogląda w kinie film Zezowate szczęście, zrealizowany według jego biografii. Jest oburzony, gdyż uważa, że twórcy filmu przekręcili jego historię i go ośmieszyli. Następnie akcja przenosi się do roku 1952, kiedy Piszczyk przebywa w więzieniu. Tam zostaje przyłapany przez strażnika na pisaniu buntowniczych haseł. Trafia do celi, gdzie poznaje filozofa Tubalnego, autora koncepcji zwiastujących rychły zanik w społeczeństwie wszelkich podziałów. Wkrótce otrzymuje od władz więziennych zadanie napisania referatu na okolicznościową akademię.

Linki zewnętrzne

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Polskie filmy polityczne
Polskie filmy z 1988 roku
Filmowe adaptacje utworów Jerzego Stefana Stawińskiego
Filmy Studia Filmowego Perspektywa
Filmy w reżyserii Andrzeja Kotkowskiego
Filmy kręcone w Warszawie
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