This discussion is limited to healthy, adult relationships. This is not about abuse in its many forms, which is never to be tolerated. If you are being abused in any way, the most loving thing you can do, for both of you, is to leave. If you are recovering from abuse, take what you can from these words, but please seek further assistance in healing the trauma.
We have all experienced a betrayal of our trust in a relationship. Betrayal hurts, so very deeply, and always makes us wonder if we will ever trust again. I would suggest that if we allow ourselves to learn from the experience, we actually become more trusting, if less naive. You only have three basic responsibilities in a relationship – communication, boundaries, and managing your energy. Well ok, both communication and boundaries are really just taking responsibility for your energy.
Communication means clearly stating your needs, expectations, and disappointments. No one can read your mind, but most can read your energy. If you are obviously angry, but verbally saying you're fine, you are sending mixed signals. Be honest. It's perfectly ok to say, "I'm angry, but I don't want to talk about it yet," but it's never ok to lie. Lying is unfair to both of you. If your normal reaction is to lie about your feelings, it's time to ask yourself why. What are you afraid of? What are you attached to?
Boundaries are essential to every healthy relationship. Strong boundaries are the only way to avoid codependence, and come naturally with self-knowledge and self-respect. First, you must know yourself to know your boundaries, then you must be willing to take action to defend them, which may involve leaving the relationship. First, identify the boundary that has been crossed, communicate the issue, and be fully aware of future transgressions. Everyone makes mistakes, and should be allowed to correct their behavior. The problems start when the behavior isn't changed and keeps recurring. So many of us then justify the issue with "they are trying to change". Be honest with yourself about how deeply you feel the transgression, and if it is recurring. Sometimes people are just incompatible, and that's okay. It's okay to let people go.
This brings us to the crux of the issue… What story were you attached to that they couldn't fulfill? And what story are you now attached to that keeps you from letting go? Expectation is the leading cause of disappointment, and only you control your expectations. I'm not saying that other people can't do unjust things. Free will matters, and sometimes other people use theirs inappropriately (like infidelity), but you are always in control of your own stories, and it's those stories that keep the unhealthy attachments in place. Ever if you are out of the unhealthy relationship, are you still holding on to the hurt or the anger? What you are really holding on to is a story, an unfulfilled expectation.
So the question of trust comes to this… Do you trust yourself not to make the same mistake again? And do you trust yourself to heal? Not repeating the same mistake is a matter of awareness. Know thyself. Be totally honest with yourself. Delusion and denial will only keep you bound to the same karmic loop, but the cycle is broken by awareness. It takes courage to be honest with yourself. Be brave. As far as healing, we are built to heal, on all levels. Only our attachments keep us from healing. Find the story and let it go, and healing happens naturally. You are stronger than you think.
Then we come to forgiveness. This one takes a bit longer, because so much has to happen first. First, throughout the whole process, you must feel everything. This alone keeps many from forgiving the past. It's a messy business, this emotional muck, but to be cleared, it must be felt. Next, you must identify the stories you were attached to, and grieve their loss. This will require some brutally honest soul-searching, and more emotional turmoil. Not fun, but totally worth it. Last, you must forgive yourself… for getting into this situation, for not seeing the signs, for not leaving sooner, for thinking you could "make it work", for everything you went through by staying, for ignoring your intuition… for everything. We are all imperfect. You are allowed to make mistakes. Forgive yourself for being human.
You have learned so much from this experience. Keep the lessons, and release the attachments. If things resurface, just keep processing them as they come – feel it, grieve it, and let it go.
Quite possibly, trust is really about trusting ourselves to respect our own boundaries, betrayal is an unfulfilled expectation, and forgiveness is the messy work of sorting out the first two. Attachment isn't love, yet it's what we build so many of our relationships on. Love yourself enough to see the difference.


There is 1 golf course in Clarksville, Missouri and 0 are municipal courses. There are also another 3 golf courses within 20 miles of Clarksville, including 1 public, 0 municipal, 1 PL and 1 private courses. The oldest course in the Clarksville area is the Pike County Country Club opened in 1915. The longest course is Sun Valley Golf Course, which is 6,435 yards. Eagles Bluff Golf Course is rated the best course near Clarksville.


The Archbishopric of Salzburg was a Prince-Bishopric and state of the Holy Roman Empire for many centuries. The diocese arose from St Peter's Abbey, founded in the German stem duchy of Bavaria about 696 by Saint Rupert at the former Roman city of Iuvavum (Salzburg).
In the 13th century it reached Imperial immediacy and independency from Bavaria, and remained an ecclesiastical state until its secularisation to the short-lived Electorate of Salzburg in 1803. The Prince-Archbishops had never obtained electoral dignity; actually of the four Prince-archbishoprics of the Holy Roman Empire—with Mainz, Trier and Cologne—Salzburg was the only one that got nothing from the Golden Bull of 1356. The last Prince-Archbishop exercising secular authority was Count Hieronymus von Colloredo, an early patron of Salzburg native Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The bishopric's territory was roughly congruent with the present-day Austrian state of Salzburg. It stretched along the Salzach River from the Hohe Tauern range—Mt. Großvenediger at 3,666 m (12,028 ft)—at the main chain of the Alps in the south down to the Alpine foothills in the north. Here it also comprised the Rupertiwinkel on the western shore of the Salzach, which today is part of Bavaria, Germany. The former episcopal lands are traditionally subidivided into five historic parts (Gaue): Flachgau with the Salzburg capital and Tennengau around Hallein are both located in the broad Salzach valley at the rim of the Northern Limestone Alps, the mountainous (Innergebirg) southern divisions are Pinzgau, Pongau around Bischofshofen, and southeastern Lungau beyond the Radstädter Tauern Pass.
In the north and east, the prince-bishopric bordered on the Duchy of Austria (Archduchy from 1457), nucleus of the Habsburg Monarchy. The Salzkammergut border region, today a UNESCO World Heritage Site, as an important salt trade region was gradually seized by the mighty House of Habsburg and incoproated into Upper Austria. In the southeast, Salzburg adjoined the Duchy of Styria, also ruled by the Habsburg (arch-dukes in personal union since 1192. By 1335, the Austrian regents had also acquired the old Duchy of Carinthia in the south, the Styrian and Carinthian territories were incorporated into Inner Austria in 1379.
The Habsburg encirclement was nearly completed, when in 1363 the archdukes also attained the County of Tyrol in the west. Only in the northwest, Salzburg bordered on the Duchy of Bavaria (raised to an Electorate in 1623), to which it formerly belonged to, and the tiny Berchtesgaden Provostry which was able to retain its independency until the Mediatisation in 1803.
Eberhard was excommunicated in 1245 after refusing to publish a decree deposing the emperor and died suddenly the next year. During the German Interregnum, Salzburg also suffered confusion. Philip of Spanheim, heir to the Dukedom of Carinthia, refused to take priestly consecrations, and was replaced by Ulrich, Bishop of Seckau.
King Rudolph I of Habsburg quarrelled with the archbishops through the manipulations of Abbot Henry of Admont, and after his death the archbishops and the Habsburgs made peace in 1297. The people and archbishops of Salzburgs remained loyal to the Habsburgs in their struggles against the Wittelsbachs. When the Black Death reached Salzburg in 1347, the Jews were accused of poisoning the wells and suffered severe persecution. The Jews were expelled from Salzburg in 1404. Later, the Jews were allowed to return but were forced to wear pointed hats.
Conditions were at their worst during the reign of Bernard II of Rohr. The country was in depression, local authorities were raising their own taxes and the Turks were ravaging the archdiocese. In 1473, he summoned the first provincial diet in the history of the archbishopric, and eventually abdicated. It was only Leonard of Keutschach (reigned 1495–1519) who reversed the situation. He had all the burgomasters and town councillors (who were levying unfair taxes) arrested simultaneously and imprisoned in the castle. His last years were spent in bitter struggle against Matthäus Lang of Wellenburg, Bishop of Gurk, who succeeded him in 1519.
Matthäus Lang was largely unnoticed in official circles, although his influence was felt throughout the archbishopric. He brought in Saxon miners, which brought with them Protestant books and teachings. He then attempted to keep the populace Catholic, and during the Latin War was besieged in the Hohen-Salzburg, declared a "monster" by Martin Luther, and two later uprisings by the peasants lead to suffering to the entire archdiocese. Later bishops were wiser in the ruling and spared Salzburg the religious wars and devastations seen elsewhere in Germany. Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau gave the Protestants the choice of either to live Catholic or leave. The Cathedral was rebuilt in such splendour that it was unrivalled by all others north of the Alps.
Archbishop Paris of Lodron led Salzburg to peace and prosperity during the Thirty Years' War in which the rest of Germany was thoroughly devastated. During the reign of Leopold Anthony of Firmian, Protestants emerged more vigorously than before in 1731. He invited the Jesuits to Salzburg and asked for help from the emperor, and finally ordered the Protestants to recant or emigrate - about 30,000 people left and settled in Württemberg, Hanover and East Prussia, and a few settled in Ebenezer, Georgia in what would become the United States of America. The last Prince-Archbishop, Hieronymus von Colloredo, is probably best known for his patronage of Mozart. His reforms of the church and education systems alienated him from the people.
In 1803, Salzburg was secularised as the Electorate of Salzburg for the former Grand Duke Ferdinand III of Tuscany (brother of Emperor Francis II), who had lost his throne. In 1805 it came to Austria, and in 1809 to Bavaria, who closed the University of Salzburg, banned monasteries from accepting novices, and banned pilgrimages and processions. The archdiocese was reestablished as the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Salzburg in 1818 without temporal power.
Up to today, the Archbishop of Salzburg has also borne the title Primas Germaniae ("First [Bishop] of Germany"). The powers of this title – non-jurisdictional – are limited to being the Pope's first correspondent in the German-speaking world, but had been used to include the right to preside over the Princes of the Holy Roman Empire. The Archbishop also has the title of Legatus Natus ("born legate") to the Pope, which, although not a cardinal, gives the Archbishop the privilege of wearing red vesture (which is much deeper than a cardinal's scarlet), even in Rome.


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Declaration of Independence by John Trumbull, 1819
Conservative Republican Senator Tom Cotton from Arkansas is proposing national legislation that would prohibit Federal funds to any teacher, school or school district that uses content from the Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times 1619 Project.
The 1619 Project isn't without its critics. The folks at the conservative Manhattan Project aren't fans. But by my count, no one gets it 100 percent right. Not the 1619 Project, but in this case, certainly not Senator Cotton.
In defending his "defunding" of anyone associated with the 1619 Project, Mr. Cotton said this:
"We have to study the history of slavery and its role and impact on the development of our country because otherwise we can't understand our country. As the Founding Fathers said, it was the necessary evil upon which the union was built, but the union was built in a way, as Lincoln said, to put slavery on the course to its ultimate extinction."
According to these same reports, Cotton claimed that instead of portraying America as "an irredeemably corrupt, rotten and racist country," the nation should be viewed "as an imperfect and flawed land, but the greatest and noblest country in the history of mankind."
There's a whole lot wrong about Senator Cotton's comments. Perhaps he was having a moment. I've said a lot of stupid things in my life and most of them – fortunately – were not to a reporter. But there are many claims here worth a historian's review.
One thing to start. Lincoln was a great president – some would argue our greatest – but he was not a Founding Father.
To be sure, a fair and complete read of Lincoln's history and record put him clearly in the anti-slavery camp. But when Lincoln unilaterally canceled emancipation proclamations by his generals, and then the following year signed the 1862 Confiscation Act that allowed the confiscation of rebel slaves because they were … well … "property," abolitionist Horace Greely challenged the president to make clear his position on the abolition of slavery. Lincoln famously replied:
"…If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that…."
Lincoln's first duty was to the union, not the abolition of slavery.
But the phrase by Sen. Cotton that has (or had) everyone talking about, was his claim that the Founding Fathers felt that slavery was a "necessary evil upon which the union was built."
From a historians' perspective, there are quite a few problems with this one too. First, the Founding Fathers were not a monolith. They were different people with very different perspectives on a host of issues, slavery among them. Some might suggest that the few areas of agreement among them were Enlightenment ideals, deism, and independence from the King and parliament.
There was considerable diversity of opinion over the institution of slavery – from staunch abolitionists (Adams, Hamilton) to guilt-ridden patriots (Jefferson, Washington) to straight-up racists (Virginia's Edmund Randolph and Georgia's James Jackson).
As historian Stephen Ambrose has noted, of the nine presidents who owned slaves, only one, George Washington, freed his. And of course there's Jefferson, who penned the immortal "these truths are self-evident, that all men are created equal." But neither Jefferson nor the rest of our Founding Fathers put that into practice. Writes Amrose:
"Jefferson, like all slaveholders and many other white members of American society, regarded Negroes as inferior, childlike, untrustworthy and, of course, as property. Jefferson, the genius of politics, could see no way for African-Americans to live in society as free people. He embraced the worst forms of racism to justify slavery."
It would be hard to make the claim that there was a wide-spread consensus amongst the Founding Fathers that slavery was either "necessary" or "evil." It would be easier to make the case that many (if not most) of the Founding Fathers saw slavery not as "necessary" but "normal." Some in the paternalistic sense – that whites had the obligation to lift blacks out of their backward condition. Some, like Jefferson, in the very racist sense – that whites were inherently and genetically superior to blacks.
Perhaps the best "spin" that one could put on the Founding Fathers and slavery was their overall tolerance of it. Or perhaps one could use the word that historian Joseph Lewis used to describe the slavery debate amongst the revolutionary generation in is his Pulitzer-prize winning book, "Founding Brothers." He titled that chapter of his book, "The Silence."
Many of the Founding Fathers, knew the practice of slavery was evil but found it politically expedient to ignore and chose to pass the responsibility on to the next generation of Americans. And, as noted, aside from Washington this guilt did not drive them to free the hundreds and thousands of slaves they owned. Nor did it stop them from taking advantage of their position as slaveholders.
[Note that it did not stop Jefferson from having a long-term sexual relationship with his slave Sally Hemmings which most historians believe began when Ms. Hemmings was only 14 years old. I'm sure most would put that in the 'evil' category but doubt anyone would argue it 'necessary.']
Was slavery "necessary"? Not economically. At least not in broadestr sense. The move by farmers and plantation owners from indentured servitude to slave labor helped large agribusinesses but it was a very bad deal for the working poor and lower-middle class.
Moreover, the acceleration of the slave trade came well after the U.S. independence and establishment of the U.S. Constitution. In that sense, the result of the Founding Fathers' work was not to put slavery on the path to extinction, but rather on a path to spectacular growth. In 1790, three years after the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, there were approximately 650,000 slaves in the United States. Just thirty years or approximately one generation later, that number doubled to 1.5 million. In another thirty years and on the eve of the Civil War in 1850, the number doubled again to 3 million. Enslaved people were not necessary for American independence. But many wealth landowners in the south felt they were essential for their own economic development and the sale of cotton and other agricultural goods.
I guess one can argue that the acceptance of the heinous practice of slavery perhaps was necessary to get agreement amongst the thirteen colonies to support the nation's rebellion against the British. Most specifically, it was a compromise to seal support from South Carolina, Georgia, and especially the nation's largest state – Virginia. In that, it was less of a "necessity" and more a moral and ethical compromise – an acceptance of evil to 'get the job done.'
The big problem with Senator Cotton's position is one could read from his (wrong) interpretation of history that slavery was a reasonable "price to be paid" for the establishment of our union. It wasn't and needn't have been. Put more directly, it shouldn't have been. And to believe so would be to pervert American ideas of democracy to an anti-democratic "ends justify the means" ideology – something more appropriate for Chairman Mao than General Washington.
The ultimate irony is that many African Americans – those who suffered from slavery and segregation – likely agree with one thing Senator Cotton said about the U.S. That the U.S. is "imperfect and flawed land, but the greatest and noblest country in the history of mankind." Indeed, Nikole Hanna-Jones opens her 1619 essay noting that her father, a military veteran, proudly flew the U.S. flag outside their small home in rural Iowa despite all the hardships he had faced throughout his life as a black man.
You don't have to agree with everything said or written in The New York Times 1619 Project. But slavery was a defining element of our first one hundred years of history. It was evil. It wasn't necessary. And even after slavery's official demise, its legacy of racism and white supremacy left a heavy imprint on our next one hundred years. And it remains with us today.
Facing and wrestling with the hard truth of our history is not anti-American. It is another form of patriotism.
Tagged: History
There's a lot of talk about statues these days. Actually, a lot more than just talk. And even the "talk" is a euphemism. Not a good time to be a statue.
While Andrew Jackson and the founding fathers have been the source of some of the grumbling most attention has been given to Confederate statues.
There are those who say these statues glorify those who fought to maintain the right for white people to enslave black people. Others say these statues simply document figures in U.S. history.
Both views are correct. This is exactly why so many communities are deciding to rid themselves of them!
A recent news report about yet another confederate statue being taken down provides a clue. In what was otherwise a piece on protesters, police and community groups there was a seemingly random "throwaway" line that, from a historical perspective, made all the difference. It was this:
"The Lee statue was erected in 1904."
Wait. 1904? A statue of Lee almost forty years after the end of the Civil War? Over thirty years after Lee's death? (He died in 1870.)
Usually, statues and commemorations are made either contemporaneously or immediately after a hero's demise. We were busy naming buildings and airports after President Ronald Reagan while he was still living. Why erect a Lee statue more than a generation after his death?
James Loewen – who both in appearance in whose voice is eerily similar to Bernie Sanders – wrote a book, "Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything that You American History Textbook Got Wrong." Loewen was a sociologist who became interested in historical landmarks. He found that "historical markers" – including statues – were less about accurately recording history and more about the motivation of interested parties to leave a marker or message for current and future generations on how to interpret that history.
His recurring admonition was, if you want to understand the meaning of a statue – particularly a Confederate statue – don't look at what it is or what it says, focus on when it was erected.
The fact is that up until post-Reconstruction, most civil war monuments were in remembrance of the fallen. The Civil War was and remains the bloodiest in American history. Rough estimates are that it claimed somewhere between 610,000 to 750,000 lives. Monuments and markers honored the dead.
But ten years after the Civil War the United States and its northern Republican reformers began to tire from the pains of reconstruction. And by the end of the 1870s and with the election of Rutherford B. Hayes, whites clawed back to power and quickly implemented a range of laws crippling the 15th amendment – everything from the infamous "grandfather clause" in Louisiana to poll taxes and literacy tests. Between that, intimidation, and outright violence and lynching, white supremacists regained government control.
They, in turn, engaged in a well-organized effort to recast the Civil War as that of a "lost cause" pursued by noble, honorable, and well-intentioned men of the South. They also wanted to remind the negro – that was the nicest word used back then – who was in charge. In addition to rewriting history, another motivating factor was intimidation and domination. That campaign included monuments that blanketed the South from 1890 to 1920, all with the help of Ku Klux Klan and associated organizations such as the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
The goal of these statues was to remind both radical Republicans and freed African American slaves that segregation would not only continue in the South but would be celebrated as worthy and noble. As Wiley M. Nash noted at the erection of a Confederate statue in 1908:
Like the watch fires kindled along the coast of Greece that leaped in ruddy joy to tell that Troy had fallen, so these Confederate monuments, these sacred memorials, tell in silent but potent language, that the white people of the South shall rule and govern the Southern states forever.
The historical record is abundantly clear. These statues weren't just about remembering history. They were about reinterpreting and ensuring a particular view or version of history – that of white supremacy – would be remembered in the future.
I grew up with these monuments as a boy in New Orleans. The Robert E. Lee statue was erected in 1880. "Lee Circle" – the site of the Robert E. Lee statue erected in 1880 – was notable for its prominence as the main thoroughfare from the Central Business District to the Lower Garden District and a central stop for the city's famous streetcars. No matter that General Lee had never visited the city of New Orleans!
New Orleans Mayor Landrieu took down the monument at Lee Circle. In his speech – which I recommend everyone read – he noted that:
"The historic record is clear, the Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and P.G.T. Beauregard statues were not erected just to honor these men, but as part of the movement which became known as The Cult of the Lost Cause. This 'cult' had one goal — through monuments and through other means — to rewrite history to hide the truth, which is that the Confederacy was on the wrong side of humanity."
Mayor Landrieu also repeated the oft-quoted claim by confederate vice-president Alexander Stephens, who compared to Jefferson Davis, was a "moderate" on issues of slavery and race. Stephens noted that the Confederacy's:
"cornerstone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery — subordination to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth."
So in taking down these statues are we taking down history?
Yes! But it is not the taking down of the history of the Civil War. That history remains and is well preserved if you visit Gettysburg, Antietam, or Manassas.
The history that is being taken down is that which happened a generation after the Civil War. The history that protesters are refusing to celebrate is that of a successful post-reconstruction effort to make acceptable – even honorable – a racist and segregated society long after emancipation and equal protection were American law.
"Along Monument Avenue" by barxtux is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
Brain 1 – History (and Thanksgiving) 0
I've been plowing through a stack of books about the brain … how we process information, store it, understand it, and incorporate that information into our lives. There's no shortage of them. The brain and its vagaries are hot topics, especially if you are in the behavioral marketing or communications sciences (that would be me). I just finished a great read by Robert Burton. It was the title that got me:
"On Being Certain: Believing your are right even when you're not"
Of course he wasn't talking about you and me. To steal the tag line from the late Senator Long, he was talking about "the person behind the tree". You and I … well, we're sure we're right. Right?
Fact is, what we THINK happened in the past likely did not … at least not in the way we think. We didn't party as much (or as little) as we think we did in high school and college. We weren't as cool (or dopey) as we thought we were in our twenties. And that summer road trip wasn't as fun and bizarre (or mind stultingly boring) as we imagined.
Indeed … the road trip may not have even happened!
Fact is, after you finish reading Burton's book you begin to rethink everything about what you think you know. Because according to him a good chunk of it is something we made up along the way.
Burton explores the 'hidden layer' of the brain that enables us to – among other things – reinterpret history. It is this subconscious layer that makes us certain about things that either allows us be certain about things that are either (a) dead wrong; or (b) didn't happen.
He gives the example of Ulric Neisser's famous Challenger explosion study. Ulric, a professor and psychologist, the day after the Challenger study asked his students to write down the details of that day. Two and a-half years later he asked them again and guess what. In a mere 30 months less than 10 percent told the same story. A quarter of the participants told a 'strikingly different' story. Most interesting was this – when shown their own original account many clung to the 'new version' of history. As told by Burton:
"Many expressed a high level of confidence that their false recollections were correct, despite being confronted with their own handwritten journals. The most unnerving was one student's comment, 'That's my handwriting, but that's not what happened.'"
I'm imagining it is why all those politicians – both left and right – say stuff about themselves that isn't true. Maybe it is why Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck have – as noted recently in the New York Times – created their own myth about the origins of Thanksgiving and the demise of American socialism and rise of American capitalism.
Doesn't have much to do with truth. But for them it has become their reality. The past is metastasized, digested and recast. And viola! Out pops a new reality.
This is a sad reality for people like me that are in the communications business. Every day someone can wake up and decide that they are going to change history. Their 'hidden layer' is going to process the next wave of information and decide that you're no longer cool.
Shoot, they may even decide that you are downright evil (e.g. you may have THOUGHT that those Pilgrims were nice folks yearning for religious freedom in funny hats but in reality they were communist, collectivist, fascist zealots that were only saved when unshackled from their socialist roots and given a heavy dose of capitalism and an across-the-board tax cut.)
Seems we have to work hard just to keep history the same.
Doesn't leave much time to make for a better future.
Fact is, what we THINK happened in the past likely did not … at least not in the way we think. We didn't party as much (or as little) as we think we did in high school and college. We weren't as cool (or dopey) as we thought we were in our twenties. And that road trip wasn't as fun and bizarre (or mind stultingly boring) as we imagined.
Tagged: Advertising, Analytics, Authenticity, History, Robert Burton, Social change, Ulrich Nesser, Uncategorized

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SAC / What is SAC?
The School Advisory Council (SAC) is a team of people representing various segments of the community–parents, teachers, students, administrators, support staff, business/ industry people and other interested community members. The purpose of a SAC is to assist in the preparation and evaluation (developing and evaluating) of the results of the school improvement plan and to assist the principal with the annual school budget. Additionally, SAC receives funds "to be used at the discretion of the School Advisory Committee A portion of the money should be used for implementing the school improvement plan." "The improvement plan shall include performance indicators which are measurable." "Funding for use by the School Advisory Councils should be allocated directly to the School Advisory Councils, should be clearly earmarked for their use and is not subject to override by the Principal or interim approvals by school district staff. These moneys may be expended only on programs or projects selected by the school advisory council. These moneys may not be used for capital improvements." More from the Florida SAC site.


Beyond its condo-strewn skyline, one of Toronto's most impressive recent transformations is taking place in Regent Park, a once-notorious housing project that is transitioning into a vibrant mixed-use community. This aquatic centre serves as its heart, inviting in both long-time residents and newcomers. Clad in black zinc panels with a green roof, the low-slung 2,600-square-metre building is generously glazed: a raised, glass-covered spine runs along its axis, and a "dorsal fin" of a skylight brings light into the swim halls and change rooms, with double sliding doors off the main pool area leading sunbathers to the park-side terrace. Inside, the faceted wooden ceilings bring a sense of grandeur to the morning swim.
Through their thoughtful architecture, the four long, parallel structures that constitute this waste treatment plant achieve the facility's central tenets: to connect with its environment, and to engage visitors. The sculpted buildings, which process 450,000 tonnes of waste each year, sink at one end into the rising topography and receive ample natural light inside. Visitors can enter via a plaza dotted with local orange trees to tour the plant and learn about energy conservation.
Capturing the rhythm of rowing in its exuberant roofline, this boathouse by Studio Gang symbolizes the Chicago River's evolution into the city's next recreational frontier. The 2,100-square-metre facility's zinc-clad volumes are dually oriented, toward each other and toward the river, and their slate-shingled peaks incorporate glazed clerestories. In the interior, finished in warm Douglas fir plywood and black locust wood, one room is entirely devoted to indoor training tanks. Yet this new Chicago icon, with its 4,043-metre-long launch dock, is for everyone, as seen in its generous camp and community programming.
Recalling the tobacco barns and covered bridges of New England, this handsome rowing centre on the Charles River is clad in composite wood-resin panels and louvres rendered in subtly varying geometric cuts. They are operable by simple chain pulls to control light and ventilation gain; the mechanism also syncs with the geothermal heating and cooling system to make the boathouse an efficient, comfortable year-round facility. A second, smaller pavilion is clad in glass shingles.
A cascade of lustrous volumes, the University of Toronto's new business school campus has a 400-seat lecture hall cantilevered from its second storey, a bold gesture that telegraphs the facility's future-forward culture. Clad in tinted glazing and Ductal concrete panels, the remaining spaces house a broad program of offices and research labs, student lounges and study rooms. However, it's not all business all the time: a twisting atrium staircase with a pink accent brings a tailored flair to the 10-storey main building.


This is an intriguing fantasy novella crafted by an author obviously full of passion for the genre. It's rough around its edges and reads like an early draft in places, but there is something here.
We're thrust into a fantasy world tempered with science fiction elements. Although nothing in this book struck me as being daringly original or unique, it carries a certain charm that helps get the ball over the net in so many places.
The journey feels rushed. Character exploration is fleeting. We head-hop between characters endlessly, and while there is great care undertaken to consider a larger fantasy world at play here, we are merely flung from one stage to the next.
The villain is passable, the writing ranges from striking to tepid, and then back again. Yet despite its shortcomings, there is talent here that will only bloom with the right practice, care and attention.
Action is plentiful, and the dialogue shines in places. There are some twists and turns to keep you turning the pages.
As for presentation, the cover is well illustrated, but needs color to capture the eyes of buyers. There were a handful of typos, but they did not ruin my reading.
This snack should satisfy the appetite of fantasy fans between their main-course tomes.
This is just one opinion. Don't forget to leave your own rating below!


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WGNO News at 11 a.m.
Your LSU Tigers are the 2020 College Football National Champions
NEW ORLEANS - The LSU Tigers are your new, undefeated, 2020 College Football National Champions.
LSU defeated Clemson with a final score of 42-25.
It was a beautiful season for the LSU Tigers, and it's so great to see all of their hard work pay off.
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In hearings, Chuck Hagel expands on 'Jewish lobby' apology
By	Ron Kampeas	 January 31, 2013 8:09 pm
WASHINGTON (JTA) — In his Senate confirmation hearings, defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel expanded on his apology for using the term "Jewish lobby" and said it also was wrong to suggest pro-Israel groups "intimidate" Congress into doing "dumb things."
Hagel, the former Republican senator from Nebraska nominated by President Obama to become defense secretary, faced an array of tough questions on Thursday from members of both parties on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Two members, Sens. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) focused particularly on Hagel's claim in a 2006 interview that the "Jewish lobby" is intimidating.
"I've already said I regret referencing the Jewish lobby, I should have said, 'pro-Israel lobby,'" Hagel said. "The use of 'intimidation' — I should have used 'influence.' I think that would have been more appropriate. I should not have said 'dumb' or 'stupid,' because I understand or appreciate there are other views on these things."
The difficulties of getting pat the pro-Israel lobby's preferred locution — "pro-Israel lobby" — were evidence in departures from this by both Wicker, who called it the "Israel lobby" and Graham , who called it the "Israeli lobby." Those designations also discomfit officials in the pro-Israel lobby, who see the dropping of the prefix, "pro," as intimating loyalty to another nation.
Senators also asked Hagel about his past skepticism of some Iran sanctions and his wariness of a military strike. He reiterated his commitment to sanctions and said all options, including the military option, were on the table in order to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Hagel also said he was committed to the special U.S.-Israel relationship.
Much of the hearing was taken up with reviewing past Hagel statements and actions on Israel and Iran. He acknowledged putting a hold on comprehensive Iran sanctions in 2008 but said he did this with other Republican senators, and he suggested that the hold was placed at the behest of the Bush administration.
For a recap of Thursday's confirmation hearings, visit JTA's Capital J blog for Washington Bureau Chief Ron Kampeas' live blogging of the event.
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Penalty for mobile phone use while driving should be six points, not three
12.00 | 16 July 2014 | Mobile phones | 10 comments
The transport secretary and Met Police commissioner both favour a six-point penalty for mobile phone offences while driving, according to two separate news reports.
The change from a three to six point penalty would mean a driver could be banned after two mobile offences, and a newly-qualified driver could be banned after one offence.
According to the Telegraph, the Met Police commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe believes the current punishment of three penalty points and a £60 fine is not a strong enough deterrent for drivers.
Writing on the Met Police website, the commissioner said that a six-point penalty would make drivers take the law on driving while on the phone more seriously.
The Telegraph says that when asked during a live webchat by a cycling enthusiast why so many people still seemed to be getting away with using mobile phones behind the wheel, Mr Hogan-Howe replied: "I would like to see them receive six points in the future.
"That would mean a second offence would lead to them being banned and I believe this would change driving behaviour and improve safety."
An article in the Daily Mail suggests that Patrick McLoughlin, the transport secretary, also favours this change.
The Daily Mail article says the latest figures show that "mobile phones contribute to one road death every fortnight", and quotes Patrick McLoughlin as saying that "foolish use of mobiles destroys lives".
Mr McLoughlin added: "The amount of casualties has been absolutely appalling. We've got to change this. We've got to get that message across."
Thanks to Peter (Westminster) and Simon (Norwich) who brought this to our attention from the BBC News Magazine Monitor – five radical ways to keep drivers off mobiles – which includes contributions from Alan Kennedy, Road Safety GB business and operations manager.
It's not often I find a video that makes the point as suscinctly as this one. It covers the three Es in my view – education, engagement and enforcement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZPIJSb8U9g
Elaine, Northern Ireland
How about confiscating the mobile for 24 hours for a first offence, 48 for a second and a week for third? I don't think it will happen in reality, as there won't be the resource to set up the system, but given the reliance on mobiles to run social as well as business lives, I think the threat of losing it, albeit temporarily, would be a far better deterrent than points or a fine.
Mandy Rigault. Oxfordshire.
That would mean an instant ban and retest for those drivers that have passed their driving test within the last two years. Odd that in the pre-mobile age, the police drove often with one hand while talking on their mobile radio, now it seems it is so dangerous!
Terry Hudson, Kent
An American study of 100 vehicles for a year, all equipped with CCTV monitoring inside and out, found that 75% or so of crashes (and presumably near-misses) were immediately pre-dated by momentary inattention. THAT is the major problem.
Of course mobile phones lead to that inattention, so I never use one when moving. But it is arguable that if the driver were not distracted by a phone he might well have been distracted by something else, including speaking to others in the vehicle.
So removing sign clutter is good, as is improving the ones that remain.
How about switching the phone off, not the brain. People will still be tempted to use their phone while being in control of a vehicle.
David Cant Solihull
I guess 6 points would include using a mobile whilst stationary with the engine running? Maybe more police on the roads to enforce the existing law would make more sense than more points? I'm sure only a tiny minority of offenders are actually caught.
Thanks for that Simon, those are all great ideas! Some maybe a bit better than others, but how refreshing to see decent thinking being applied to a problem. My favourite has got to be the one from our friends in Belgium as that one addresses the problem right at its source.
Duncan MacKillop, Stratford on Avon
Have you seen this Duncan on the BBC website now?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-28325532
Simon, Norwich
Punishment doesn't seem to have worked that well so far in preventing mobile phone use, so will even more punishment provide a long-term solution?
It's how much? £100 last time I checked….
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Protesters Topple 'Silent Sam' Statue At UNC Chapel Hill
WFAE | By Associated Press
Published August 20, 2018 at 11:49 PM EDT
On Monday night, protesters toppled Confederate statue "Silent Sam" on the UNC Chapel Hill campus.
Jasmin Herrera
A Confederate statue in the heart of North Carolina's flagship university was toppled Monday night during a rally by hundreds of protesters who decried the memorial known as "Silent Sam" as a symbol of racist heritage.
The crowd gathered across the street from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill plaza for a series of speakers at 7 p.m. before heading over to the quadrangle. Then, about two hours into the protest, a group surrounded the statue and pulled it down, according to television footage. Once it was on the ground, demonstrators kicked it and cheered.
A half-hour after it was pulled down, a crowd of dozens remained standing around the empty pedestal. The crowd chanted "Tar Heels!" and "Whose Campus? Our Campus!" Cars honked as they passed nearby on the college town's main drag.
Many students, faculty and alumni have called the statue a racist image and asked officials to remove it, though some argued it was a tribute to fallen ancestors. UNC leaders including Chancellor Carol Folt had previously said state law prevented the school from removing the statue.
Word that the statue had fallen drew curious students out.
"I heard the statue had come down, so I had to see it myself," said freshman Manuel Ricardo, who arrived after the statue was on the ground.
The site of the empty pedestal "is pretty breathtaking," said Ricardo, who's African American. "I think most people here are happy. I'm ecstatic."
Shortly after 10 p.m., a dozen officers were surrounding the fallen statue, which was eventually covered with a tarp next to its empty pedestal.
Junior Ian Goodson said he came out after he heard the statue fell because he wanted to see history.
"It's a significant event for UNC," he said.
He said that while he doesn't agree with what the Confederacy stood for, he understands that some saw the statue as an important memorial.
Asked whether he's glad the statue came down, he said: "I was always kind of torn."
North Carolina, which ranks among the handful of Southern states with the most Confederate monuments, has been a focal point in the national debate over them following a deadly white nationalist protest a year ago in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Protests over the UNC statue erected in 1913 have flared in the past year, and another Confederate monument in nearby Durham was torn down shortly after the Virginia protest.
Gov. Roy Cooper had called for removing Silent Sam and other rebel symbols on public land. A state historic panel is set to meet this week to debate Cooper's request to remove other Confederate monuments at the state Capitol.
Still, the Democratic governor issued a statement on Twitter Monday night arguing the protesters took the wrong approach to remove the statue.
"The Governor understands that many people are frustrated by the pace of change and he shares their frustration, but violent destruction of public property has no place in our communities," said the tweet from his official account.
The university echoed the sentiment in a statement issued after the statue came down.
"Tonight's actions were dangerous, and we are very fortunate that no one was injured. We are investigating the vandalism and assessing the full extent of the damage," the university said in a tweet.
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Grammy-Nominated Nigerian singer, Wizkid's fourth studio album "Made in lagos" has made The Guardian UK's Top 50 Best Albums of 2020, making the album the only African album on the list.According to the publication, the list is drawn from votes by Guardian music critics –...
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On the Rocks No More: FTC Approves $1 Billion Deal Between Low-Price Liquor Rivals With Unusual Remedy
Just before Christmas, the Federal Trade Commission cleared wine and spirits maker E. & J. Gallo's acquisition of a portfolio of low-price alcohol brands from Constellation Brands, Inc., subject to several conditions, including a rare behavioral remedy. The approval clears a deal that was first announced nearly two years ago. The FTC's decision illuminates the agency's granular approach to defining narrow product markets—here, based on customer/distribution channel, product use, and price tiers—and relies in part on a behavioral remedy requiring Constellation to hold onto and compete with certain brands it had proposed to sell to Gallo.
In April 2019, Gallo agreed to buy over 30 alcohol brands and wine-making facilities from Constellation for approximately $1.7 billion. The proposed transaction largely involved brands associated with lower-priced wines and spirits, such as Cook's sparkling wine and Paul Masson brandy. In January 2020, the parties agreed to modify their deal to remove certain of the brands to address FTC concerns, and revised the deal again in May to remove a sparkling wine production facility from the sale. Yet the as-revised $1 billion deal remained under FTC review for several more months, until approved on December 23, 2020.
The FTC alleged that the deal would result in substantial competitive harm in five product markets, distinct from other types of wine and spirits and distinct from other higher-priced versions of these same wines and spirits, in the U.S. The FTC focused on Gallo's and Constellation's number one and number two position in each of these allegedly highly concentrated markets:
Entry-Level On-Premise Sparkling Wine: The FTC alleged this market as low-priced sparkling wine often sold to restaurants, casinos, hotels, and other establishments for brunch mimosas, complimentary pours, banquets, and catering. The FTC alleged that Gallo, which owns the Wycliff brand, and Constellation, which owns the J Roget brand, are the two largest suppliers by volume of entry-level on-premise sparkling wine in the United States.
Low-Priced Sparkling Wine: The FTC described this market as wine sold primarily to end-consumers in grocery, liquor, or convenience stores. The FTC alleged that Gallo's André and Constellation's Cook's brands are the two largest low-priced sparkling wine brands in the United States.
Low-Priced Brandy: The FTC alleged that Gallo's E & J Brandy and Constellation's Paul Masson brandy are the two largest low-priced brandies in the United States, and a market distinct from other types of alcohols and high-end imported brandies such as cognacs.
Low-Priced Port and Low-Priced Sherry: The FTC alleged that the transaction would have resulted in Gallo owning 3 of the top 4 low-priced port and sherry brands in the U.S. The complaint distinguishes these cooking and consumption alcohols from others based on their price, "flavor profile, alcohol level, and use."
High Color Concentrates: This is a syrup used to enhance wines and to make jellies, juices, and other products. According to the FTC, Gallo and Constellation are the two largest producers in the United States.
To resolve concerns in three of the markets, the FTC consent order requires the parties to divest low-price brandy, low-price port and sherry, and high color concentrates products to divestiture buyers. But the consent order notably imposes a behavioral remedy in two markets, requiring Constellation, for four years, to retain and maintain the "full economic viability, marketability, and competitiveness" of both its on-premise sparkling wine brand, J Roget, and its low-priced sparkling wine, Cook's. The FTC further required that Constellation not sell or lease—and Gallo not buy—a key production facility without FTC approval.
The FTC did not explain why a divestiture remedy, which the agency repeatedly has said it prefers, was not available or workable in these two markets, but once the parties decided that Constellation would retain the two products, the FTC took the unusual step of imposing a behavioral remedy, presumably to ensure that those products remained competitive and were not simply discontinued. That would have resulted in the same effects—namely, the elimination of competition between Gallo's and Constellation's products—that the FTC was concerned would occur if Gallo acquired the products.
Notably, all five FTC commissioners voted to accept the proposed consent order, which will now be subject to public comment before the FTC issues the order on a final basis.
This matter serves as an important reminder that the antitrust agencies often define narrow product markets, based on price, quality, and distribution-channel segmentations, in consumer-products mergers. It also demonstrates the FTC's willingness, at least in some circumstances, to accept a behavioral remedy that permits deals to close if the competitive status quo is maintained post-merger.
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WASHINGTON: Summoned to action by student survivors of the Florida school shooting, hundreds of thousands of teenagers and their supporters rallied in the nation's capital and cities across America on Saturday to press for gun control in one of the biggest youth protests since the Vietnam era.
Organizers of the March for Our Lives rally in Washington hoped their protest would match in numbers and spirit last year's women's march, one of the biggest protests in the capital since the Vietnam era and one that far exceeded predictions of 300,000 demonstrators.
Bearing signs reading "We Are the Change," ''No More Silence" and "Keep NRA Money Out of Politics," protesters packed Pennsylvania Avenue from the stage near the Capitol, stretching many blocks back toward the White House.
"We will continue to fight for our dead friends," Delaney Tarr, a survivor of the Florida tragedy, declared from the stage. The crowd roared with approval as she laid down the students' central demand: a ban on "weapons of war" for all but warriors.
President Donald Trump was in Florida for the weekend. A motorcade took him to his West Palm Beach golf club in the morning.
"It's pretty simple for me," said Zoe Tate, 11, from Gaithersburg Middle School in Maryland, explaining why she marched in Washington. "I think guns are dumb. It's scary enough with the security guards we have in school. We don't need teachers carrying guns now. I find it amazing that I have to explain that idea to adults."
Said her mother, Maria Blaeuer: "For our kids, feeling safe is fundamental, and they don't feel safe."
Large rallies also unfolded in such cities as Boston" New York" Chicago" Houston" Fort Worth, Texas" Minneapolis" and Parkland, Florida, the site of the Feb. 14 attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that left 17 people dead.
The police presence was heavy as more than 20,000 people filled a park near the Florida school, chanting slogans such as "Enough is enough" and carrying signs that read "Why do your guns matter more than our lives?" and "Our ballots will stop bullets."
The National Rifle Association went silent on Twitter on Saturday morning, in contrast to its reaction to the nationwide school walkouts against gun violence March 14, when it tweeted a photo of an assault rifle and the message "I'll control my own guns, thank you."
Counter-demonstration
As of early afternoon, Trump himself had yet to weigh in on Twitter about the protests.
About 30 gun-rights supporters staged a counter-demonstration in front of the FBI headquarters, standing quietly with signs such as "Armed Victims Live Longer" and "Stop Violating Civil Rights."
Gun violence was fresh for some in the Washington crowd: Ayanne Johnson of Great Mills High School in Maryland held a sign declaring, "I March for Jaelynn," honoring Jaelynn Willey, who died Thursday two days after being shot by a classmate at the school. A boy was injured in the attack, and the shooter died.
Michael Rocco, an 18-year-old freshman at Emerson College in Boston, came to Washington to support the students' calls for banning high-capacity magazines and assault-type rifles like the one used by the Florida killer, tightening background checks and school security, and raising the age to buy guns. He said he grew up in an era of school violence.
"I've been genuinely terrified of mass shooting," he said. "When I was a kid, I was always scared to go to movie theaters because I was afraid I was going to be killed."
Rallying outside the New Hampshire Statehouse in Concord, 17-year-old Leeza Richter said: "Our government will do more to stop us from walking out than it will to stop a gunman from walking in."
Since the bloodshed in Florida, students have tapped into a current of gun control sentiment that has been building for years – yet still faces a powerful foe in the NRA and its supporters.
Organizers hope the passions of the crowds and the under-18 roster of speakers will translate into a tipping point starting with the midterm congressional elections this fall.
In Atlanta, Lindsey Alexander, a freshman at Decatur High School in Decatur, Georgia, attended her first protest, inspired by hearing Parkland students debate the NRA on television.
"If nothing changes, we're going to continue to have school shootings," she said. "I understand the Second Amendment is important. We've always had this right. But when the Founding Fathers put that right in place, they didn't mean it to become what it is today."
Polls indicate that public opinion nationwide may be shifting on an issue that has simmered for generations, and through dozens of mass shootings.
A new poll conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that 69 percent of Americans think gun laws in the US should be tightened. That's up from 61 percent who said the same in October 2016 and 55 percent when the AP first asked the question in October 2013. Overall, 90 percent of Democrats, 50 percent of Republicans and 54 percent of gun owners now favor stricter gun control laws.
But even with claims of historic social momentum on the issue of gun control, the AP poll also found that nearly half of Americans do not expect elected officials to take action.
Among the questions facing march organizers and participants will be how to translate this one-day event into legislative change. One way they hope to do that is by registering young voters and channeling energy into the midterm elections.
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Because of its shallow nature it is an ideal site for beginners and training dives. After walking from the beach in to into crystal clear water, the dive takes you across the bay to the sunken columns & statue of Atlantis. Excellent opportunity to get some photos in Atlantis with the statues. The dive heads in to a small canyon and fantastic rock and amphora formations before coming back across the sandy seabed. Head back to the exit point/shore and over the many boulders, rocks and crevices that are a great hiding place for fish of all types.
On this dive site you may see Flying Gurnards and Tuna, Turtles. Most likely to see the ever present Bream & Brown and Rainbow Wrasse, Parrot Fish, Cleaver Fish and Damselfish, Weaver fish. This is a very tranquil and pleasant dive for all.


Engineers that understand infrastructure asset management are in demand within the US engineering marketplace. Infrastructure asset management specifically focuses on the need to sustain structures such as highways, bridges, water treatment facilities, electric utility and transmission lines in addition to many others. Mounting pressures to cut public spending, has much needed maintenance and rehabilitation put on hold….


Hepatology – A clinical textbook is now in its ninth edition and the editors as the book are more mature. The current edition has again been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest medical progress. Because of this annual revision process it remains an up-to-date reference for all aspects of clinical hepatology. This would not have been possible without the continuous contributions of all the authors who have dutifully revised and updated their chapters and the help of Simon Collins who checked all chapters for language and correctness.
Hepatology is a rapidly evolving field that will continue to grow and maintain excitement over the next few decades. Viral hepatitis is not unlike HIV 10 or 15 years ago. Today, hepatitis B viral replication can be suppressed by potent antiviral drugs, although there are risks regarding the emergence of resistance. Strategies to enhance the eradication rates of HBV infection still need to be developed. On the other hand, hepatitis C virus infection can be eradicated by treatment with pegylated interferon plus ribavirin, although the sustained virologic response rates are still suboptimal, particularly in those infected with genotype 1. Many new antiviral drugs, especially protease and polymerase inhibitors, are currently in clinical development, and the data from trials reported over the last few years provide optimism that the cure rates for patients with chronic hepatitis C will be enhanced with these new agents, and even that all-oral regimens are around the corner! In other areas of hepatology, e.g., hereditary and metabolic liver diseases, our knowledge is rapidly increasing and new therapeutic options are on the horizon.
In rapidly evolving areas such as hepatology, is the book format the right medium to gather and summarise the current knowledge? Are these books not likely to be outdated the very day they are published? This is indeed a challenge that can be convincingly overcome only by rapid internet-based publishing with regular updates. Another unmatched advantage of a web-based book is the free and unrestricted global access. Viral hepatitis and other liver diseases are a global burden and timely information is important for physicians, scientists, patients and health care officials all around the world.
The editors of this web-based book – Thomas Berg, Stefan Mauss, Jürgen Rockstroh, Christoph Sarrazin and Heiner Wedemeyer – are young, bright, and internationally renowned hepatologists who have created an excellent state-of-the-art textbook on clinical hepatology. The book is well-written and provides in-depth information without being lengthy or redundant. I am convinced that all five experts will remain very active in the field and will continue to update this book regularly as the science progresses. This e-book should rapidly become an international standard.
Therapeutic options and diagnostic procedures in hepatology have quickly advanced during the last decade. In particular, the management of viral hepatitis has completely changed since the early nineties. Before nucleoside and nucleotide analogues were licensed to treat hepatitis B and before interferon α + ribavirin combination therapy were approved for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C, very few patients infected with HBV or HCV were treated successfully. The only option for most patients with end-stage liver disease or hepatocellular carcinoma was liver transplantation. And even if the patients were lucky enough to be successfully transplanted, reinfection of the transplanted organs remained major challenges. In the late eighties and early nineties discussions were held about rejecting patients with chronic hepatitis from the waiting list as posttransplant outcome was poor. Today, just 15 years later, hepatitis B represents one of the best indications for liver transplantations, as basically all reinfection can be prevented. In addition, the proportion of patients who need to be transplanted is declining − almost all HBV-infected patients can nowadays be treated successfully with complete suppression of HBV replication and some well-selected patients may even be able to clear HBsAg, the ultimate endpoint of any hepatitis B treatment.
Hepatitis C has also become a curable disease with a sustained response of 50–80% using pegylated interferons in combination with ribavirin. HCV treatment using direct HCV enzyme inhibitors has started to bear fruit (we draw your attention to the HCV chapters).
Major achievements for the patients do sometimes lead to significant challenges for the treating physician. Is the diagnostic work-up complete? Did I any recent development to evaluate the stage and grade of liver disease? What sensitivity is really necessary for assays to detect hepatitis viruses? When do I need to determine HBV polymerase variants, before and during treatment of hepatitis B? When can I safely stop treatment without risking a relapse? How to treat acute hepatitis B and C? When does a health care worker need a booster vaccination for hepatitis A and B? These are just some of many questions we have to ask ourselves frequently during our daily routine practice. With the increasing number of publications, guidelines and expert opinions it is getting more and more difficult to stay up-to-date and to make the best choices for the patients. That is why Hepatology – A Clinical Textbook is a very useful new tool that gives a state-of-the art update on many aspects of HAV, HBV, HCV, HDV and HEV infections. The editors are internationally-known experts in the field of viral hepatitis; all have made significant contributions to understanding the pathogenesis of virus-induced liver disease, diagnosis and treatment of hepatitis virus infections.
Hepatology – A Clinical Textbook gives a comprehensive overview on the epidemiology, virology, and natural history of all hepatitis viruses including hepatitis A, D and E. Subsequent chapters cover all major aspects of the management of hepatitis B and C including coinfections with HIV and liver transplantation. Importantly, complications of chronic liver disease such as hepatocellular carcinoma and recent developments in assessing the stage of liver disease are also covered. Finally, interesting chapters on autoimmune and metabolic non-viral liver diseases complete the book.
We are convinced that this new up-to-date book covering all clinically relevant aspects of viral hepatitis will be of use for every reader. The editors and authors must be congratulated for their efforts.
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Pathology in Irish medical education
Hilary Humphreys1,2,
Niall Stevens1,
Desmond Leddin3,
Grace Callagy4,
Louise Burke5,
R William Watson6,
Mary Toner7
1 Department of Clinical Microbiology, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
2 Department of Microbiology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
3 Graduate Entry Medical School, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
4 Department of Pathology, National University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
5 Department of Pathology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
6 UCD School of Medicine, Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
7 Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Correspondence to Dr Hilary Humphreys, Department of Clinical Microbiology, RCSI Education and Research Centre, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin D09 YD60, Ireland; hhumphreys{at}rcsi.ie
Pathology is the study of disease and is an important component in medical education. However, with medical curriculum reform, its role and contribution to medical courses is under potential threat. We surveyed the status of pathology in all six Irish medical schools. Information was received from five direct undergraduate and four graduate entry programmes. Pathology was recognisable as a core subject in all but one of the medical schools, was generally taught in years two or three, and the greatest contact hours were for histopathology (44–102 hours). Lectures were the most common teaching modality, and all used single best or extended matching answer multiple-choice questions as part of assessments. Currently, pathology is very visible in Irish medical education but needs to remain relevant with the move to theme and case-based teaching. There is heavy reliance on lectures and on non-academic/full-time hospital staff to deliver teaching, which may not be sustainable.
Handling editor Tahir S Pillay.
Contributors HH drafted the questionnaire with NS and with DL, GC, LB, RWW and MT provided the data. HH drafted the manuscript which was reviewed and amended by all the authors.


When we moved back from living in France to Australia, there were many things that we missed. So many, in fact, that it was a difficult period for us all. But, let's not dwell on that today. Instead, close your eyes and breathe in, listen to the crunch and taste the, nearly authentic, French bread that made us feel a little closer to our French home. Of course, you'll need to turn on the oven to as high as your oven will go, and chances are you'll look more longingly at the long, cylindrical shapes you create if you have on hand the nifty baguette trays (as ordered on line by yours truly). Don't forget to divide the dough into 3, score each loaf, set your timer for 18 minutes or so and then ahh..Miam! Miam!
One more hint: how to know when your water is warm enough? You can count to ten with your finger in the water and it doesn't burn. Like the precision of the technique? Let me know how you go.
Heaven forbid that I ever leave France and no longer have heavenly baguettes at my fingertips, I will turn to this recipe.
Our village of Menthon-St-Bernard burnt down almost completely because of a moment of inattention such as you have described (in the 1700s, if I remember correctly). I love learning aout the origins of words. Thank-you for this explanation. I must get back to your blog - always a great read.
So simple and will no doubt be delicious! I'm sending this one to my daughter in Australia. What does the baguette look like if you bake it on a flat sheet? Too flat and spread out?
Hi Ellen, yes, the loaf doesn't hold its shape in the way that it should if a baguette tray is not used. By the way, the kneading is really not necessary. I just find it an enjoyable extra part of the process.
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Documents women's participation in, and contributions to, the broad field of art. Contains primarily printed material, plus, correspondence, interviews, notes, photographs, postcards, posters, speeches, and typescripts. The collection documents the lives and work of individual designers, landscape architects, women in the fine arts, as well as the status of women in the arts and organizations of feminist artists.
Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History / Art collection
Bel Kaufman papers
Abstract Author; Teacher; Lyricist. Papers consist of files pertaining to Kaufman's activities as a high school teacher, author, lecturer and public speaker; to her travels in Russia, where there has been an abiding interest in her grandfather, the author Sholom Alacheim; and to translations of her books into the Russian language. Materials relating to her written works include manuscripts, correspondence, contracts, and notes on Kaufman's published books Up the Down...
Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History / Bel Kaufman papers
Caroline Dwight Bain papers
This collection consists of the personal papers of archival consultant and loyal Smith College alumna Caroline Dwight Bain (1928-2015). Of special note are the letters Bain wrote to her parents while she was working for the Civil Aeronautics Board in Washington, DC, 1944-1945.
Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History / Caroline Dwight Bain papers
Center for the Advancement of Women records
Women's advocacy group. The records document the daily activities of a feminist non-prift research and advocacy group. Major topics covered: women's rights, women's health, reproductive rights, women of color, affirmative action, and domestic violence.
Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History / Center for the Advancement of Women records
Cherry Family papers
The collection contains material related to the Cherry Family, including family photograph album and loose photographs, New Testament Bible with ancestry information, and several lace christening caps. Also included are high school memorabilia books belonging to Marguerite (born c1901) and Ethel Cherry (born c1904).
Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History / Cherry Family papers
Elizabeth A. Sackler papers
Elizabeth A. Sackler, the daughter of Arthur M. Sackler, a psychiatrist who made a fortune in the pharmaceutical business and a noted patron of the arts, has been a tireless advocate on behalf of American Indians and the repatriation of their sacred objects as well as a self-described "matron"of feminist art". Her papers include correspondence, reports, fundraising materials, A/V materials, photographs, and publications.
Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History / Elizabeth A. Sackler papers
Invitation to gymnastic exhibition, 1899
Item — Box 1608: [Barcode: 310183630238151], Folder: 12
Invitation to a gymnastic exhibition at Smith College on March 17, 1899.
Found in: Smith College Archives / CA-MS-00398, Marjory Gane papers / correspondence
Joann Aalfs papers
Abstract The Joann Aalfs papers document the New Bedford Women's Center (founded circa 1969), of which Aalfs was a member. She kept complete and highly detailed records that provide excellent documentation of the beginnings of this grassroots women's organization, the personal and political dimensions of the problems its members sought to address and remedy, as well as the economic, social and cultural context in which it existed. Much of the correspondence is family-related, over multiple...
Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History / Joann Aalfs papers
Leslie Tarr Laurie papers
Abstract Leslie Tarr Laurie helped found The Family Planning Council of Western Massachusetts (later known as Tapestry Health Systems) 1973 to provide family planning services (birth control, pregnancy testing, referral for adoption and abortion services) and other health services (STD testing, gynecological exams). She would serve as CEO/Executive Director of the agency for the next 40 years until her resignation in early 2014. The collection contains correspondence, publications, minutes, reports,...
Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History / Leslie Tarr Laurie papers
Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition. Pioneer Valley Chapter records
Abstract Founded in 1993 by a group of Western Massachusetts women concerned about issues related to breast cancer, the Pioneer Valley Chapter was associated with the statewide organization, the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition (MBCC), until 1996 and in 2000 re-organized as the Cancer Connection which is still serving the Pioneer Valley in 2019. The collection contains correspondence, financial records, newspaper articles, meeting minutes and agendas, membership lists and programming...
Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History / Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition. Pioneer Valley Chapter records
More about 'Invitations'
Aalfs, Janet E. 1
Aalfs, Joann 1
Aleichem, Sholom 1
American Indian Ritual Object Repatriation Foundation 1
American Red Cross 1
Bain, Caroline Dwight 1
Bain, George 1
Boston Symphony Orchestra 1
Cancer Connection 1
Center for the Advancement of Women 1
Cherry Family 1
Cherry, Ethel 1
Cherry, Marguerite 1
Chicago, Judy, 1939- 1
Civil Aeronautics Board 1


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Get the Free Interactive Ebook The Guru's Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment https://www.weareinterconnected.com/newsletter Please share, like and subscribe! http://www.weareinterconnected.com http://www.michaellanfield.com Tonight At 10Is The New OKC Convention Center Worth It? NEWS Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on gmail Share on email Share on print More Sharing Services 87 Texas Mayor Shares Secrets Of His 'Vegan Town' With Oklahoma Posted: Jul 07, 2014 8:52 PM EST Updated: Jul 07, 2014 11:10 PM EST By Kelly Ogle, News 9 - bio | email Being one of the country's most unhealthy states is costly in sickness, medical and insurance costs, a lower quality-of-life, and early death. However, one Texas town is working to turn the tide on chronic disease. Being one of the country's most unhealthy states is costly in sickness, medical and insurance costs, a lower quality-of-life, and early death. However, one Texas town is working to turn the tide on chronic disease. Marshall, Texas - Diseases of the dinner table continue to drag Oklahoma down. We're a national leader for heart disease, high-blood pressure, obesity, high cholesterol, stroke, cancer and diabetes. Being one of the country's most unhealthy states is costly in sickness, medical and insurance costs, a lower quality-of-life, and early death. However, one Texas town is working to turn the tide on chronic disease. Marshall, Texas has a population of 25,000. It's cattle country, with a food culture, like the rest of the south, centered on meat, sugar, processed and fatty fried foods. Like Oklahoma, it's known as America's "stroke belt." But to sit at dinner with Marshall's Mayor Ed Smith and his wife, Amanda, you'll hear a different tale. "If somebody wants to get control of their health, and turn things around, your body will heal itself very quickly," said Mayor Ed Smith. Six years ago, Mayor Smith was 40 pounds heavier and diagnosed with prostate cancer. Knowing they needed to make a change, the Smiths Began eating a plant-based, whole foods diet of vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, legumes and whole grains. Amazingly, his prostate cancer disappeared. "Most of these chronic diseases we have in the United States, for the most part, and even a lot of our cancers are driven by what we're eating." Mayor Smith said. Buoyed by his success, the mayor and his wife offered to share what they had learned. "We've had so many people come up to us that we've not even met that tell us their success stories, that is so rewarding," said Amanda Smith. In fact, once a month, crowding in a room at the fire house, they share home-cooked healthy foods, exchange recipes and tell their success stories. "I was 60 pounds heavier, so because of a plant-based diet, this is where I am today," said Bill Dinsmore of Shreveport, Louisiana. Sharon Clark of Nacogdoches, Texas also saw success. "I wasn't even conscious at first that I was losing weight 'til people started saying 'are you on a diet?' and I'm thinking, 'no, I've changed my lifestyle is what I've done, I've gotten healthy," she said. Marshall's Fire Chief Reggie Cooper was 50 pounds heavier and taking medicine every day for Type 2 diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol. Then he too switched to a plant-based diet. "In 28 days, what I couldn't do in five years, I was able to get off all the medications," Cooper said. "I haven't been on medication since." All because in a world where arterial-stents and open-heart surgeries are considered "normal," a man in Texas draws headlines for eating his vegetables. "The end result is it's been a success in people's lives that we've seen," Mayor Smith said. "We've seen phenomenal changes in people's health."
Highlighting my favorite vegetarian restaurant in Oklahoma City, The Red Cup.
Famed couple commits to changing their eating habits for a set period of time.
Vegans having lunch in the woods. What do they eat?
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Steven Dotson grew up in Jackson and Franklin Tennessee, is a married father of three and has 25+ years experience in the real estate industry as a developer, broker, builder, investor and business entrepreneur.
Since entering the real estate industry in 1993, Dotson has purchased, developed, built and sold properties cumulatively valued at more than $500 million.
Invested, purchased, sold and consulted several other successful companies throughout the last twenty-five years.
Steven Dotson has been married to Jean Alyne Dotson since 1999 and the couple has three children. He enjoys golf, St. Louis Cardinals, UT Vols, the lake, the farm, the beach and family vacations.