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Since 2010, six children have died after being placed in the Nap Nanny, including an eight-month-old girl as recently as June 2014. The Nap Nanny was first recalled in 2012, and in 2013 Nap Nanny and Nap Nanny Chill infant recliners and covers were taken off the market. Despite its recall, however, the product remained on the shelf, and can still be found in unmonitored forums like yard sales and thrift shops. After the sixth infant death, the federal government stepped in with another aggressive press release urging parents to immediately discontinue the use of the Nap Nanny for the safety of their children if they still have the Nap Nanny in their home. According to a spokesperson at the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the device has been called "entrapment and suffocation risk to babies."
The History of the Nap Nanny
The Nap Nanny is a secure and seemingly adorable, comfortable cushioned non-moving seat with a harness that allows a sleeping baby to remain partially upright while slumbering. The design of the product was intended to mimic a car seat, allowing the infant to recline without lying down on its back, a position that may be helpful in eliminating reflex and gas in small children.
In June 2013, the Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a press release about the recall of the product manufactured by Baby Matters, LLC, a Berwyn, Pennsylvania company. Baby Matters, LLC was sued by the federal government after 92 incidents and five infant deaths. Four of the children were using the Nap Nanny Generation Two Recliner; the fifth was using the Nap Nanny Chill mode. The company issued a voluntary recall in 2013 as part of a 2012 settlement filed by the Consumer Product Safety Commission who sought a mandatory recall of the Nap Nanny and Nap Nanny Chill.
The most recent incident includes an 8-month-old baby from New Jersey who died using the Nap Nanny Chill in a crib. Sadly, as with this child, babies are unable to correct themselves to sit back up if they have rolled over the side of the Nap Nanny. The harness was designed to keep the child in a safe position, when in fact, it was found to keep babies stuck in a position that causes suffocation.
While the Nap Nanny is no longer sold legally in the United States, it can still be found. In fact, 165,000 of these products were sold between 2009 and 2012. This product was originally sold at major retailers including Toys R Us, Babies R Us, Buy Buy Baby, and Amazon, with an average price point of $130.00 per unit.
The Problem with the Nap Nanny
The Nap Nanny and the Nap Nanny Chill pose a product defect in their design when the baby becomes trapped between the bumper (or side) of the Nap Nanny and the side of the crib. The baby could become trapped and suffocate, which is how the majority of injuries and deaths among babies who have used the Nap Nanny have been affected.
Nap Nanny and its associate product, the Nap Nanny Chill, were used by thousands between the years 2009 and 2012. At the time of initial concerns about the recall, the manufacturer claimed the product was being used incorrectly and refused to remove the product from shelves despite its increasing problems. Baby Matters, LLC, a Berwyn Pennsylvania company, manufactured the Nap Nanny is now bankrupt
Recalled Products
Recalled products make the news all the time and the Consumer Product Safety Commission makes it a priority to alert consumers about the risks and liabilities of using recalled and defective products, particularly when it comes to toys and baby products. Consumers should be cautious about purchasing products that may have a recall warning, as many manufactures continue to make their products available and refuse the claims of the recall. Parents should also be aware that recalled products are often found at thrift stores and online forums like Craigslist.
Keeping Kids Safe: What to do in Case of a Recall
Many infants are injured and die each year as a result of incidents and accidents that happen while the infant is in a crib, at home or at the home of a caregiver or relative. Parents can enlist some rules of caution when it comes to the safety of the baby, including the following:
Nothing should be in a crib with a baby including blankets, cushions or bumpers; it is easy for a child to suffocate or become entangled in the material.
If the baby has learned to crawl or can roll over, certain products are no longer age-appropriate.
Arms and legs are easily stuck between the bars of a crib and bestrewn products in the crib.
Report any injuries or incidents immediately to authorities.
Keep up-to-date with recalls and other recalled items on the list provided by the Consumer Product Safety Commission
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According to the Consumer Product and Safety Commission, it is illegal to sell, offer for sale, distribute, manufacture or import any model of the Nap Nanny. Although the bankrupt company is not accepting any returns, consumers should contact the retailer where the item was purchased to find out how to return the defective product and obtain a refund.
If your infant or the infant of someone you know has been injured or died due to the use of the Nap Nanny or Nap Nanny Chill or any of its affiliated products, consulting with Finz & Finz, P.C., personal injury lawyers will help you further understand your rights regarding recalled products and product liability. A simple Free Nap Nanny Injury Case Evaluation Form will start the process. You can also call toll free at (855) TOP-FIRM to speak with an experience attorney now.
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TECNO Honored as 2022-2023 Global Top Brands at CES
January 7, 2023 by Nawab Khan
With its achievements in technology innovations and globalization, Techno Hhonored As "2022-2023 Global Smart Phone Brand Top 10"
Las Vegas And DubaiUnited Arab Emirates and Abuja, Nigeria And Manila, Philippines And Bogota Colombia And Nairobi, Kenya And New Delhi And Ankara, Turkey And Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, January 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — As the highly anticipated annual Consumer Electronics Show 2023: CES 2023 revealed, the 2022-2023 Global Top Brands honored TECNO as the "2022-2023 Global Smart Phone Brands Top 10." With its ever-accelerating strategy in technology innovation and design excellence to build a modern stylish brand since 2013, TECNO has established itself as an innovative global brand with operations in over 70 markets, while the award is recognized by the global against serves as another convincing proof of its competitive prowess. Giants.
Certificate and Trophy of "2022-2023 Global Smart Phone Brand Top 10"
The annual Global Top Brands Awards, hosted by the Asia Digital Group and the European Digital Group, and supported by TWICE and International Data Corporation (IDC), aims to honor global consumer electronic brands on pioneering innovations for global consumers and the industry-wide To promote development. ,
We are impressed with what TECNO has achieved this year Dongfang Zhu, Chairman of Asia Digital Group. "TECNO has built a long-standing reputation in global markets and is dedicated to leading technology innovations for markets globally. TECNO remarkably stays at the forefront and truly embodies the spirit we seek as a top consumer Looking for electronic brand.
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Technology Innovation Is Hardcore in the Global Top Brands Ranking
As CES is home to technologies and global innovators, this year the Global Top Brands Awards incorporate the theme of CES 2023: How technology is solving the world's biggest challenges, and the inspiring innovations and brands to inspire them. The focus is on identifying effective global strategies. To upgrade technical innovations and create new and better products. In an increasingly digital age, brands can only meet global challenges by constantly innovating and unlocking more and more uncharted territory. Therefore, innovation capabilities as well as brand services from a global perspective are considered to be the archetypes in the Global Top Brands Award selection criteria.
Candidate brands are also assessed from multiple perspectives to assess brand globalization achievements as well as overall technology innovation capabilities including candidates' internationalization, overseas competitiveness, consumer experience, technological innovation and patents, overseas brand awareness, and brand management in internationalization went.
Adhering to the principles of authority, science, professionalism, objectivity and fairness, Global Top Brands has been one of the most authoritative, professional and credible selection programs in the global consumer electronics industry and has released the most influential list to the world. 2006.
honor of techno,Huge strides towards a premium technology brand
Brands participating in this year's selection are assessed on four dimensions: industry popularity, global strategic layout, international market impact and product innovation. Winning this prestigious global award and being listed as one of the Top 10 Global Smartphone Brands further endorses TECNO's successes and strengths in exactly those matters.
Adopting cutting-edge technology innovations and the latest trends in stylish modern design to create great products for a new generation of consumers, TECNO is revolutionizing the digital experience in emerging global markets, for a perfect integration of contemporary, aesthetic design Constantly pushing. latest technologies. Thanks to its constant innovation, TECNO has gained popularity among global young consumers who are eager to build a digitally connected life and feel a better self.
"It is with great humility and excitement to receive this prestigious Global Top Brands Award at CES 2023. It is a wonderful recognition of our continuous efforts to develop a distinctive brand and make TECNO the best choice among global consumers." Jack Guo, General Manager of Techno. "With this precious recognition and our continued commitment to leading markets and consumers, we will advance our innovation strategy, push new boundaries between technology and design, and enable our consumers to create a beautiful life that is digital." Connected to and visionary."
As an innovative technology brand, TECNO has set several new benchmarks in technology innovation and stylish modern design to provide premium smart devices for forward-looking individuals in the global markets. Notably in 2022, TECNO has made several leapfrog breakthroughs in premium technology innovations, including the Phantom X2 Pro being the world's first smartphone with a retractable portrait lens to create "studio-like" portrait photography comparable to a professional camera lens, an eco-friendly version with a back cover made using recycled materials from ocean plastics like the Phantom X2 Pro 5G, as well as the TECNO CAMON 19 Pro Mondrian Edition being the world's first smart device to be "sunlight drawing" Uses technology to allow the phone to change color in sunlight, to name a few.
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TECNO is an innovative technology brand with operations in more than 70 countries and territories across five continents. Since its launch, TECNO has been revolutionizing the digital experience in emerging global markets, continuously pushing for the perfect integration of contemporary, beautiful design with the latest technologies. Today, TECNO has grown into a recognized leader in its target markets, providing cutting-edge innovation through a wide range of smartphones, smart wearables, laptops and tablets, HiOS operating systems and smart home products. Guided by its brand essence of "Stop at Nothing", Techno is committed to unlocking the best and latest technologies for future-oriented individuals. By creating stylish, intelligent products, TECNO inspires consumers around the world to never stop pursuing their best self and their best future. For more information, please visit TECNO's official site: www.tecno-mobile.com
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Vogel Crystal Star of David Pendant with exquisitely honey-colored and rare African Congo Citrine masterfully crafted by Drew Tousley and Luminary Studios. Breathtakingly deep-hued and beautiful, this medium-sized Vogel Crystal Star of David Pendant is set in the warmth of 14K gold and measures 1.0" wide and 0.5" deep.
Citrine is one of the stones of abundance and prosperity. It's also a happy and generous stone that amplifies sharing and good will. It's believed that Citrine does not hold any negative energy therefore requires no clearing as does other quartz crystal. This stone is energizing and recharging of one's entire chakra system.
With each healing Vogel crystal Star of David pendant from Crystal Light and Sound, you'll receive directions on how to clear and program your new healing crystal.
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In the United States, whiteness as metaphysical absence is a prerequisite for economic class neutralization, allowing the aesthetic malleability and fetishization of generic working-class suffering to act as a form of blackface. Only by considering race as yoked to commodity labor, what Cedric Robinson refers to as racial capitalism, is it possible to see how whiteness normatively functions in an elaborate disciplining of persons into fragmented laboring bodies that sustain a political economy predicated on working-class exploitation. In the last two years since Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, the Warren-Youngstown/Trumbull-Mahoning County areas of northeast Ohio, historically referred to as the "steel valley" region, have proxied as sites of mnemonic recovery, a means of rememoration to understand something about the national poetics of civic democracy driven by destructive capitalism. Confoundingly, Trump easily won Warren-Trumbull County which hadn't voted Republican since President Richard Nixon in 1972. Media hype about the extent to which a Trump electorate reflects an overwhelming majority of the county has been greatly overstated, however.
The story goes that a severe lack of opportunity leaves these scrappy, blue-collar individualists vulnerable to dog-whistle politics trafficking in pathologies of racism, misogyny, and xenophobia to uphold a white supremacist patriarchy necessary for maintaining plutonomy (an economic system driven by the free-market demands of the rich). What is so disorienting about the adoption of Warren-Trumbull County as a site to unearth the significance of these catastrophic economic shifts is that it has been imagined as a wholly white place, despite its dependence on a city with a population nearly thirty percent Black and led by its first Black mayor. Born and raised in Warren for most of seventeen years before going off to college, returning frequently for family and holidays, and for a time between graduate programs working at nearby V& M Steel (located at the Girard-Youngstown juncture) as well as other manufacturing and assembly plants in the area, I cannot help but to see beyond news media's entertainment and myth-making.
A city of almost forty-two thousand people, Warren (the largest city and county seat of Trumbull County) has been ranked as the third hardest hit US city yet to recover from the 2008 recession. Nine of the twenty-eight cities ranked are in Ohio; most, including Youngstown, make up The Steel Valley. Suffering the generational effects of poverty invigorated by multiple collapses of its steel and automotive-related industries—especially at the height of Reagan and Clinton-era federal tax deregulations and criminal justice/welfare reforms—Warren-Youngstown and surrounding areas have been gripped by the opioid crisis that has swept through so many economically declining U.S cities and towns. The empathetic face of the drug addiction crisis is very much a young, white, suburban or rural son or daughter; while Black communities plagued by opioid addiction since the seventies have been rendered invisible. Also missing from this white heteronormative sentimentalism is the increasing use of crystal methamphetamine among Black/Latinx queer men and its links to HIV/AIDS.
What emerges when we examine the spectacle of white working-class grief more closely, lifting the Du Boisian veil that shrouds a geography encumbered by racial folklore intertwined with political history and contemporary economic stagnation, is an industrial city invested in the preservation of structural inequality for its survival in post-Fordist capitalism. Founded in 1798, only fifteen years after the American revolution, Warren factors into the imaginary of Manifest Destiny (western expansion and settler colonialism of continental North America) as a newly formed independent US government established law and order over its Midwest territories. Ideation of this period echoes with the many "spectacular displays of white terror and violence" that supplement quotidian violence against a 'self-possessed' black body, as Saidiya Hartman evinces.
In contemporary Warren, everyday violence embodied in an imagined national identity takes spectacular form in civic and cultural institutions. One such example is an all-white, senior male Barbershop chorus named after Stephen Foster, the "father of American music." Foster exploited the minstrel genre in popular song compositions during a period of heated national debate concerning expansion of chattel slavery into the western frontier. He visited family in Warren several times before a brief residency there, four years prior to his early death in Pittsburgh in 1864. The Stephen Foster Chorus includes Foster's minstrel songs in its repertoire. At the very least, the contemporaneous performance of minstrels is an expression of white indifference, a related interlocking phenomenon which entails periodic extension and reiteration of inequity. In his research expounding the conceptual neologism of "Blacksound"—racially coded sonic scripts developing out of blackface performance—Matthew Morrison argues that these productions involve a nostalgia that reenacts and perpetuates a sentimentalized disengagement with the real-life effects of structural inequality (119). This overlooked aesthetic of whiteness suppresses art like Kenneth Patchen's anti-racist, working-class poetry.
The devastation of the rust-belt represents a process of creative destruction, capital accretion through neoliberal techniques of economic and financial restructuring of the social order, or as David Harvey phrases it, "accumulation by dispossession." Corporate privatization of the public sector along with global free-market strategies leads to the devaluation and inevitable relocation of labor resulting from hypercapitalism—requiring ever cheaper sources of labor power in a desperate move to expand. This capitalist growth results in a social and economic precarity among the working and middle classes that benefits a wealthy elite. General Motors' recent announcement that it is shutting-down operations at the Lordstown (Trumbull County) Assembly Complex as part of an overall downsizing strategy involving several closings in its US and Canadian automotive division—even after a $350 million retooling as part of an $80.7 billion bailout in 2008 under the Obama administration—is a real-world effect of economic cycles of creative destruction.
Warren, like much of Ohio, while somewhat ethnically diverse divides along racial lines of black and white, and distinct heteronormative male/female gender binaries. With a median income of less than half the national average and thirty percent less than the county, Blacks and women in Warren experience severe income inequality and disproportionate rates of unemployment and poverty. Nowhere is the disparity more evident, though, than Ohio's overcrowded prison system. Having the sixth largest prison system in the US, Ohio incarcerates Blacks at a rate seven times higher than whites, largely for non-violent drug related charges. Although Black people in Trumbull County represent only a little over nine percent of the general population, they are nearly fifty-eight percent of all incarcerated persons.
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, dealing with racial capitalism as it relates to a surplus population of Black and migrant Chicanx/Latinx workers in Los Angeles, evaluates the complex circulation of a war economy that consumes living labor power for the production, reproduction, and accumulation of dead labor (capital) (70-8). Reminiscent of Du Bois' Black Reconstruction, Gilmore's Marxian analysis rectifies the normativization of the market economy's destructive cycles of progress and dispossession, committed through color-blind approaches to neoliberal correctives espoused by academic establishment figures as well as radical leftist critics like Harvey and Noam Chomsky. Developing out of Harvey's 'spatial fix' metaphor to explain capitalism's addiction to expansion, Gilmore's "prison fix" concept elucidates how surplus populations of criminalized Black and Brown bodies provide the prison industrial complex with the corporeal means for capital expansion during periods of unproductive accumulation in conjunction with a dismantled welfare state (129-31). But, even while preemptively suppressing any potential political dissention arising from those communities affected by the loss and degradation of human capital, liminalization of the carceral state cannot absorb the shock of every impending crisis.
In 2003, more than a decade before Eric Garner's final words, "I can't breathe," became a mantra of the Black Lives Matter movement, those words were uttered in a video depicting the brutal beating and choking of Lyndal Kimble at the hands of three Warren police officers. The video gained national attention and sparked a debate about use of excessive, deadly force and targeted surveillance against Blacks. In the aftermath of 9/11, with the country on high-terror-alert and government administration of the Patriot Act being instituted at state and local levels, media attention of Kimble's nonfatal beating was discontinued in a frenzied patriotism that gave false deference to police as first responders. Quietly hidden from national purview, however, as other complaints were made about the Warren Police Department's routine use of violence, a Department of Justice (DOJ)/FBI investigation was launched. The investigation found "a pattern or practice of conduct by law enforcement officers that deprives individuals of rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the constitution," and was settled by Warren PD being placed under DOJ jurisdiction and oversight from 2012 to 2018. In this way, Warren serves as reminder of how the sacred white mask of working-class blackface transubstantiates invisible, muted Black pain and suffering into the grotesque expression of white grief.
Keelyn Bradley is a PhD candidate in the Philosophy, Art and Critical Thought Division at The European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland. He is currently writing his dissertation, "Suffering Neoliberalism: Searching for the Meaning of 'the right to equal protection' in an Era of HIV/AIDS and Terrorism." This study intends to research Frantz Fanon and Hannah Arendt's theories of violence and embodiment, and their dual relation to Karl Jaspers' existentialism while addressing the social and historical developments between the aesthetic dimensions of disease, disability, race, and heteronormativity. His first collection of poetry, 'hunger,' is forthcoming. Follow him on Twitter @koal2k.


The one-handed controller device is expected to ship with a second iteration of the GearVR headset readying for an announcement sometime late next month, likely during the unveiling of Samsung's Galaxy S8 smartphone at MWC 2017. We expect it should also be shipping separately for use with existing GearVR headsets as well. For now, the best information so far comes from WinFuture.de's Roland Quant, who says the new controller will ship with a new Samsung Galaxy S8-compatible headset codenamed SM-R324.
While the FCC listing does not show any images of the Bluetooth-enabled device, it does mention the labels that will be placed on the battery compartment and clearly shows the model name ET-YO234. At this point, it is difficult to gain an understanding of what the controller will look like, though it will likely end up being similar to the one included with Google's Daydream VR headset or any rectangular AV stereo remote with contoured edges and a smooth surface.
Last year, a leaked render of the alleged device appeared, showing a very flat rectangular design reminiscent of a graham cracker with a total of six interface buttons. While this leak was clearly a two-handed design not matching the FCC's single-handed description, it did bring some useful interface elements with it, such as a center-positioned LED that glows blue when the device is on and flashes red when low on battery. Other elements mentioned included two shoulder buttons, a Bluetooth sync button, an analog stick in resin black and four action buttons.
The big hope is whether Samsung will be able to sell enough of these controllers to mobile VR users that they don't end up overestimating demand as they did three years ago with the Smartphone GamePad controller for Android 4.1 and higher devices.


Manic Depression is also known as Bipolar Illness.
Like depression, people with this disorder go through stages of depression, but Mania or Manic adds a cycle.
Mania is a very "up" mood, over elated, over happy. Too much of anything is no good, and because of these cycles, people experiencing Manic Depression visit the two extremes of depression and elation.
Sure, sounds great to be able to be really happy and energetic all the time. However, with the elated mood, the sufferer will often talk rapidly, and become disjointed.
There are three types of cycles that people may go through during mania. These are Rapid Cycle, Ultra-Rapid cycle and Ultradian cycles. All of these show how many episodes of mania the person goes through a year.
Rapid Cycles are most common, and this means 3 or 4 cycles of mania per year.
Ultra Rapid Cycles mean that the person goes through episodes that are shorter than a week, a bit more often.
Ultradian cyclers go through distinct, dramatic mood changes within a 24 hour block.
-decreased energy, a felling of fatigue or of being "slowed down"
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A huge 130-strong field gathered at Lakeview Fishery on Saturday for a Fish O'Mania qualifier.
The national competition has become one of the most popular in Britain as anglers fight it out for a place in the final, televised by Sky Sports.
The entrants were split onto eight pools - river, stream, canal, serpent, lagoon, reef, marina, and oasis.
Leicestershire angler Sam Brown (Maver) won the day with 149lb 14oz from oasis peg 17, a full 25lb clear if runner-up Wayne Heywood, from Derbyshire, with 124lb 5oz, taken from oasis peg 14.
Ben Sharp (Melton Angling) took third place with 76lb exactly from reef peg 19.
* Results (top five) – Wednesday Open: 1 Brian Greenbury (LVS) 79lb 1oz (river peg 6), 2 Dave Harper (Plumtree Pig Roast Co) 65lb 13oz (stream 17), 3 Steve Haywood (Middy) 64lb 8oz (river 17), 4 Sean Huggins (Drennan/Dynamite) 59lb 5oz (river 1), 5 Andy Searle (LVS) 58lb 1oz (stream 9).
Sunday Open: 1 Dave Harper (Plumtree Pig Roast) 64lb 4oz (peg 3), 2 Andy Searle (LVS) 32lb 8oz (peg 1), 3 Ken Daws (Sensas) 31lb 15oz (peg 9), 4 Kev Kania (LVS) 29lb 8oz (peg 5), 5 Steve Haywood (Middy) 27lb 12oz (peg 15).


This research program is a summary of several topics of concrete research at MIT. Concrete is a very common material in construction field for its excellent properties. Even though we have used it for quite a long time, there are still many mysteries about it. In order to explore the essential material properties of concrete, CSHub at MIT has conducted many analyses at different scales, such as nano, micro, and macro scales. Based on multiscale methods, the properties obtained at nano and micro scales can be reflected at macro scale. The research can help industries produce concrete with better properties and reduce the environmental effects. By introducing this topic, we will help students experience the process of scientific research and improve their ability to discover, analyze and solve scientific problems and make preparations for their future study in the US.


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The Challenge of Donor Coordination in Global Health – What's At Stake? Briefing and Panel Discussion
Multiple donors currently provide aid to low- and middle-income countries on global health issues – in some cases, close to 20 donors are providing aid to address the same global health challenge in the same country. Are they coordinated, and how does coordination impact effectiveness of aid? Do recipient countries know which donors are working in their countries on which issues? Does civil society know? Are these resources being used in the best way possible? The proliferation of donors has created challenges for negotiating, coordinating and delivering effective programs that strengthen country ownership, support civil society, and uphold other established principles for development assistance.
Building on a recent series of reports examining the current landscape of global health donors and recipient countries on HIV, TB, malaria, and family planning/reproductive health, the Kaiser Family Foundation hosted a panel of experts to discuss these issues, including the role of the U.S. government in addressing coordination. The panelists included Ariel Pablos-Méndez, assistant administrator for global health at USAID; Shu-Shu Tekle-Haimanot, Geneva-based senior specialist for advocacy and partnerships, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; Matthew Kavanagh, senior policy analyst at Health Global Access Project; and Josh Michaud, associate director for global health policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation. Jen Kates, the Foundation's vice president and director of global health and HIV policy, provided opening remarks and moderated the panel discussion.
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Mapping the Donor Landscape in Global Health: Family Planning and Reproductive Health
Mapping the Donor Landscape in Global Health: Malaria
Mapping the Donor Landscape in Global Health: Tuberculosis
Mapping the Donor Landscape in Global Health: HIV/AIDS


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TV: Jane Campion's 'Top Of The Lake' Will Return For Season 2; Shows Based On 'In Good Company' & 'The Illusionist' In The Works
TV: Jane Campion's 'Top Of The Lake' Will Return For Season 2; Shows Based On 'In Good Company' & 'The Illusionist' In The Works
Kevin Jagernauth
Premiering last year at the Sundance Film Festival and then bowing on the Sundance Channel, Jane Campion's six episode "Top Of The Lake" was one of the most powerful, heart-wrenching dramas we witnessed on any screen in 2013. While it won Elisabeth Moss a rightly deserved Golden Globe for her performance and cinematographer Adam Arkapaw an Emmy for his own work, we'd venture the show could've used even more people tuning in. Well, if "Top Of The Lake" didn't land on your radar, now is the time to catch up.
Screen Daily reports that Jane Campion and series co-writer Garth Lee are now developing a second season. Hell yes! Unfortunately, that's the only detail at the moment, with Australia's production house See-Saw gearing up the new season. And while it's not certain if Moss will return to reprise her role, the world of "Top Of The Lake" is pretty rich, so it could easily pivot to another facet. And **spoiler alert** given that Holly Hunter's character GJ leaves for Iceland, we'd doubt she'd be back too **end spoilers**. But this is great news all around, and we're eager to find out the direction the new season will go.
In other, not as exciting TV news, Deadline reports that The CW are developing a show based on that 2006 Edward Norton-starring magician movie, "The Illusionist." There's not much in the way of details, but the setting will be switched up from Vienna to New York, probably because getting CW viewers to watch a period based drama will be a tough job.
Meanwhile, the trade also reports that Paul Weitz's sorta okay 2004 dramedy "In Good Company" to come to CBS as a series. The plot here will remain the same, following a middle aged advertising executive who has to deal with his younger boss dating his daughter. Cue mid-life malaise.
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A few years back John Brandon, contributing editor at Inc. magazine, wrote an absolutely fascinating piece entitled: "Confessions From an Introverted Leader". In this he analyzed the impact his introverted personality – INFP according to the Myers Briggs Personality Indicator [MBTI] – had on his leadership abilities.
"I remember having many intense conversations with employees when I worked at my first startup," he wrote. "One of them was so upset with me when I called her into my office that she dumped her work onto my floor. In a few cases, especially when it came to firing people, I dreaded confrontations so much that I'd re-schedule meetings multiple times.
What personality traits has Myers-Briggs publisher, CPP identified amongst and how does the typical CIO's personality differ from the rest of the IT department? Find out: Do you have the personality of a CIO?
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The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, or MBTI, is based on Jung, currently used by 89 of the Fortune 100 companies and is probably the most ubiquitous personality test out there. It has also proved so ludicrously popular that a range of t-shirts, mugs and other memorabilia are available to interested parties.
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Hard to believe that a week ago I had just gotten back from a mini vacation in South Haven. Last week was so busy, it feels like that getaway happened many months ago. Thought I'd just do a little catching up -- let you see what's been going on and what's coming up.
The exciting new this week is that my son, Tony's, four children's books are now for sale at all three Art Is In Market stores: Laurel Park Place, Twelve Oaks Mall, and Partridge Creek Mall.
As I've mentioned before, Tony is on the autism spectrum and attends Eastern Michigan University, where he is studying Children's Literature and Children's Theater. He is thriving there and doing very well academically, thanks largely to the college supports program for students on the autism spectrum that is run through the Autism Collaborative Center at EMU. Tony is donating 15% of the profits from his book sales at Art Is In Market to the ACC's College Supports Program.
Tony was also just featured in a very informative Associated Press article and video regarding college options for autistic students.
As far as my endeavors, I've been finishing up some of the felted crocheted bags that I was working on and making a few new ones. Here are some photos of the ones I've completed.
Has a removable, cross-body strap.
Removable chain and hand-embroidered and appliqued details.
This one is done in a wool/mohair blend -- hence, the "fuzzy" look. Crocheted, beaded appliques. Removable chain.
Multi-color striped mini purse with crocheted, beaded embellishment and hand embroidery.
I love this color of periwinkle blue. The button is one-of-a-kind, handmade by a glass artist.
My plan for this week is to start work on some felted iPad covers, Rather than crochet the covers, I went to the Ann Arbor Thrift Shop and purchased some gorgeous wool sweaters to felt and use for this project. I will take photos as I work on this project and share my progress in my next post.
Saturday, November 9, 2013 - The Lindbergh Holiday Boutique at Lindbergh Elementary School in Dearborn, MI.
Saturday, December 7, 2013 - Ann Arbor City Club, 30th Annual Arts and Crafts Festival, Ann Arbor, MI.


You can tell a lot about a city by the price of its beer; generally, it's a good mark of how cheap it is. And the lower the better we say.
So, we looked at our most popular city breaks, to work out which is the cheapest place for a pint – and where to find the best beers. Cheers!
Prague is often touted as a budget traveller's dream city break destination, offering the perfect blend of culture, history and cheap nights out. And if beer is your tipple, you'll have plenty of local brews to try.
Pilsner Urquell and Krusovice are the famous pivo (that's beer in Czech) picks, but the craft beer craze is really starting to make its mark on a city famed for its ale. Try Matuska or head U Fleků when you want to 'splurge'. Beers here hover around the 69 Kč or £2.41 mark.
For cheaper classics, hit up the Letna Beer Garden in the summer and Propaganda Bar in the evenings.
Fall in love with the city's world-class architecture and enchanting old town streets.
If you visit just one watering hole on your Budapest city break, make it a 'ruin pub' in the seventh district. They've mostly set up shop in the abandoned areas behind the Great Synagogue and with an eclectic mish-mash of dated décor, certainly live up to their name. Try favourites Szimpla Kert, Rácskert and Most for cheap pints and friendly vibes.
As for which beers to choose, the locals favour domestic brews Dreher, Soproni and Arany Ászok, while craft beers include the 38-strong Legenda Sörfőzde range and the refreshing Fóti Zwickl.
Holidays in Budapest are heavy on romance and high on style.
You'll be hard-pressed to find a pub that doesn't stock Poland's most popular beers, Zywiec, Tyskie and Okocim, and you can often snap them up at a bargain. Dobry Kumpel, an underground pub in Stare Miasto, is a local favourite for a cheap pint, as is the cosy Banialuka a few streets over.
For beer enthusiasts, pick up a pint (or three) of budget-friendly craft brews at the impressively-stocked House Of Beer or go hunting for Multi Qlti Tap Bar tucked away in the streets of the Old Town.
Krakow is a treasure trove of handsome buildings, age-old monuments and magnificent Gothic churches.
Spilling onto the narrow streets of Lisbon's Bairro Alto neighbourhood are a myriad of bars, pubs and restaurants where you can eat, drink and be merry without breaking the bank.
Here, Super Bock and Sagres are the local big beer brands to look out for but craft beer fans will have plenty to choose from, too.
There's the capital's first craft brewery, Cerveteca Lisbon, the Portuguese-only stockist Duque Brewpub and the laidback The Beer Station with a great outdoor space.
With castles, cathedrals and glorious beaches, Lisbon is sure to steal your heart.
Germany is renowned for its thriving beer culture – it is, after all, home to the biggest beer festival in the world.
So it'll come as no surprise that there'll be more native brews than you can feasibly try on a Berlin city break. You can't miss the opportunity to taste the local Berliner Kindl Weiss or the Munich-brewed Augustiner. Erdinger Hefeweizen is also a popular pick.
In the craft beer world, BRLO and Straßenbräu near Gleisdreieck Park and in Friedrichshain respectively, are some of the top contenders.
Few European capitals are as big, bold, clever and creative as the German capital.
Spain is one of the most prolific beer producers in the world so you'll want to sink a few cervezas while you're visiting Barcelona.
Estrella is a perennial favourite, and you'll usually find it in pubs for a steal alongside other big Spanish brands, Alhambra and San Miguel.
Meanwhile, Eixample is where you'll want to be for craft beer as there's brewery after brewery in this neighbourhood. Keep an eye out for Garage Beer Co, BierCab and L'Espumossa.
The Catalan capital offers the perfect mix of natural wonders and buzzing city life.
Booze, gambling, big shows… whatever you're looking for, you'll probably find it in Vegas. So if a classic American lager doesn't quite do it for you (think Budweiser and Coors Light), there's plenty of craft breweries in town, though you'll have to stray from The Strip to find them.
Aces & Ales frequently tops most lists for the best in the city, but if you want to veer from the tourist trail, try one of the PKWY Taverns – it offers over 250 brews!
There's nowhere quite like Sin City for a city break.
Cruising the Venetian canals with a bottle of beer in hand? It isn't quite the picture you'd conjure up of this romantic Italian city, especially as the local wine is so tasty and pairs so well with the cuisine.
But there are a few Italian brews worth seeking out when on their home turf. The most popular are, of course, Peroni, Nastro Azzurro and Birra Moretti and you can usually pick them up, on average, for the same price you'd expect to pay in London.
In terms of craft beer, however, your options are limited. Santo Bevitore is championed by most international travellers for its great range, but you'll also find options in Birraria La Corte and Birre Da Tutto Il Mundo.
How to order a couple of beers in Italian: "due birre per favore."
Shrouded in drama, romance and beauty, a short break in Venice will make you swoon.
It would be criminal to talk about Amsterdam without mentioning Dutch juggernaut Heineken, but instead of splashing out on the brand's tour in the city, try one of the many craft brewers to get an authentic flavour of the country.
The beer-loving capital has plenty dotted about the city including local favourites Brouwerij 't IJ, located underneath Amsterdam's tallest windmill, Craft and Draft, with 40 taps on rotation, and Butcher's Tears, pouring such creatively-named pints as Waning Gibbous and Ditchwitch. Proost!
How to order a couple of beers in Dutch: "twee bier alstublieft."
Windmills, canals and bright tulips, Amsterdam is a picture-perfect city break destination.
You can expect to pay a bit more on average for a beer in Rome than in the aforementioned Venice, but that's because there's a lot more variety to be found in the capital.
While it's true that wine also reigns supreme as beverage of choice here, you'll still find the iconic Italian brands in most bars and pubs.
But to really treat your taste buds (and your Instagram feed), hop to craft beer hotspots Open Baladin, Ma Che Siete Venuti A Fa' or Birra Più for cosy, friendly spaces and lots of boozy options.
With art, history and impressive architecture, any trip to the Eternal City will be magical.
The Irish are so famous for their watering holes, you can find replicas all over the world in places as unlikely as Wuhan in central China and Namche Bazaar in Nepal (the latter has snow-capped mountains right outside its doorstep!).
You would be doing yourself an injustice, therefore, not to visit one on your Dublin city break.
A hearty stout, such as the country's iconic Guinness, is the obvious choice here, but Murphy's is also a worthy contender. Another popular one is Smithwick's, a red ale.
As for where to go, Temple Bar has plenty of choice, but for a hefty price, so head to local winners The Long Stone, Mulligan's or The Cobblestone.
How to order a couple of beers in Irish Gaelic: "dhá beers le do thoil."
A city with warmth and soul, a trip to Dublin is always special.
You might be able to score a cheap New York city break but remember to budget for your nights out, because drinking in the Big Apple could run you quite a bill!
Bud Light and Millers are the big brands New Yorkers love and hover on the cheaper end but to really drink like a local, craft brew, Brooklyn, is the undisputed favourite.
Craft beer is also the order of the day at upscale pubs Harlem Hops and Bondurants. The latter also specialises in bourbon if you want to shake it up.
Packs in all of the Big Apple's classic experiences on a wallet-friendly city break.
You'd be forgiven for not knowing many French beers. It is, after all, the wine that often makes international headlines. But if you prefer a bière to a vin, look out for big brands Kronenbourg 1664 and Pelforth and as many microbreweries as you can find!
In Paris, Brasserie de l'Etre in the 19th arrondissement is the highly lauded new kid on the block while mainstays Brasserie de la Goutte d'Or and Frog Brew Pubs won't fail to satisfy.
How to order a couple of beers in French: "deux bières s'il vous plait."
Ramp up the romance on a weekend break in the City of Love.
Icelandic beer is everything you'd expect from an icy Nordic island. It's hearty, warming and packed with rich flavours. It'll also cost you a pretty penny, but real lager lovers won't baulk at the price after trying some of the national brews.
Lava Beer, Gædingur Stout and Leifur are three natives worth seeking out. The latter is brewed with Arctic Thyme and heather for true Icelandic flavours.
As for craft beer, Reykjavik locals swear by Skúli Craft Bar, MicroBar, and Mikkeller & Friends. They're all within walking distance of each other for the ultimate pub crawl.
How to order a couple of beers in Icelandic: "tveir bjór vinsamlegast."
There are big experiences to be had in this little city even on a cheap weekend.
It's pricey to knock back a brew in Dubai with a pint coming in at just under a tenner each. And if you're really hankering for a bevvie, you'll have to seek out either a licensed night club, pub or hotel bar.
But if you're going to splurge here, you may as well go all-out. Some popular hotspots are the Belgian Beer Café and the retro Stereo Arcade but cocktails are the real order of the day and Dubai happily obliges tourists here. Find next-level drinks at the lavish Coya or the rooftop Mercury Lounge.
How to order a couple of beers in Arabic: "jaeatan min fadlik."
Mouthwatering dishes, extravagant shopping and exciting experiences, you'll live it up in style with a break in this city.
Please note the prices in this story are indicative only. Prices were averaged from cost of living data websites, Numbeo and Expatistan, on September 17, 2018.


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Home > International Football > Fabio Coentrao's latest appeal has astounded many fans and people worry about his wellbeing.
Fabio Coentrao's latest appeal has astounded many fans and people worry about his wellbeing.
by BLISS - May 15, 2018 0
The Portuguese Left-Back has pulled urged his name shall not be considered for the squad traveling to Russia for the FIFA World Cup 2018.
The famous on loan Real Madrid left back, Fabio Coentrao has been modest enough lately. He appealed his national team selectors publicly on social media urging them to consider some other name instead of his.
Coentrao lately has been too harsh on himself as last season he asked Real Madrid to loan him out. He chose Sporting Lisbon as his destination where he expected to get more minutes and regain his confidence.
People are concerned with his low self esteem levels and worry for his wellbeing.
He believed his level of fitness and his current form isn't up to the level of Real Madrid and volunteered himself to leave until he finds his confidence back again.
Similarly, this time he feels he might be a liability for his national team and has asked to be left out. Though he remains optimistic in future endeavors with Portugal NT.
Here's what he had to say on his social media account.
Fabio Coentrao has had a track record of injuries which affected his playing time. He got his foot fractured while at loan to Monaco where he played as a Left-Winger.
He did well in his time in the French Ligue 1, before he was out for 6 months. He missed out on the Euro 2016 campaign of Portugal which his national teammates won.
While he admits he will be back to his national team after the World Cup campaign is over. He will be cheering his team as a fan.
Cristiano Ronaldo and company will be looking forward to repeat the Euro 2016 success in Russia.
The FIFA World Cup starts on 15 June 2018. All the matches will be telecasted live by the official broadcasting partners of FIFA.
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Master's Defense by Jacob Daniel Kirstejn Hansen April 15th.
This thesis presents a complete pipeline for the automatised generation of synthetic 3-dimensional porous chalk rock data, from X-ray com- puterised microtomography (X-ray μCT) data. Generated datasets are based on two experimental datasets with voxel sizes of 25 and 50 nm, collected from the ID22 beamline, at the European Synchrotron Research Facility. The pipeline shows great potential for reconstructing dataset with similar petrophysical parameters.
Two process based data generation strategies are proposed, for low- and high-energy environment sedimentation of spherical shaped and irregularly shaped grains respectively. An automatic shape prior extraction routine, based on the watershed transform has been implemented for the generation of grain size distributions. A randomized extraction of grain radii from grain size distributions, for sedimentation, has been done using the inverse transform sampling. A variational segmenta- tion algorithm, as an extension of the classic Chan and Vese algorithm ([Chan and Vese, 2001]) has been derived and implemented. The algorithm is without level sets and has a regularization term based on the dual formulation of total variation, which is relaxed to make the min- imization problem convex, inspired by the recent work of Chambolle, Cremers and Pock ([Chambolle et al., 2012]).
The pipeline encompasses functionality for adding blurring, noise, bias field, and ringing effects artefacts, at variable controllable strength and nature. Two pairs of synthetic datasets have been created, based on the two proposed strategies, each pair with voxel sizes of 25 and 50 nm. All four artefacts have been added to each pair and segmented using our proposed method, to test the feasibility of our pipeline. A module for computing petrophysical quality indicators and measures has also been developed, that comprises the Sørensen-Dice coefficient, porosity, grain surface voxel ratio, pore phase connectivity, and the total surface area shared between grain and pore space. All Dice scores were reported over 97% and relative ratios of segmented volumes and ground truth show near perfect restoration of porosity and connectivity.
Relative ratios of recovered surface voxels and total surface area are near 80%. Furthermore, a meshing module has been used to gener- ate surface meshes for visualization, but can also be used to generate volume meshes for future fluid simulations to determine important petrophysical parameters.
This first iteration of the pipeline looks very promising as a testbed for future comparative studies and segmentation parameter tuning, to test feasibility and accuracy of segmentation algorithms.


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Croatia's momentum as one of the world's top vacation destinations shows no signs of slowing down. With a burgeoning infrastructure and more flight connections than ever since its inclusion in the EU in 2013, it has never been easier to visit. Croatia combines astounding natural beauty – in the form of towering mountains and crystalline water along the rocky Adriatic coast – with rich cultural and historical heritage in cities like Dubrovnik, Split and the capital, Zagreb. Add to that the wide selection of water sports and outdoor activities (from sailing and scuba diving to mountain biking and rock climbing), a surging festival scene and exciting and innovative cuisine, and it's not hard to see why Croatia was the most Googled travel destination of 2016.
The City of Dubrovnik buzzes with life all year around. The astonishing beauty of the marble-clad Old Town is contained within the city walls; people flock to its squares, picturesque narrow alleyways, cafés and bars. The clean beaches and the crystal-clear blue water surrounding the city walls of Dubrovnik captivate the visitor with their charm.
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If you are looking for a place suitable for a vacation, free from industry and the usual urban disrputions, choose Zagorje with an easy heart. It is an oasis of preserved nature, greenery, clean air and mild, healing waters. A cultural heritage of feudalism in this area marks the architecture of many castles and manor houses set amid idyllic nature. Krapina Zagorje County is well-known for its castles, Krapina Neanderthal and thermal springs translated into modern baths with excellent hotels and a vast gastronomic offer.
Opatija, often called the queen of the Adriatic, is one of Croatia's most famous destinations, boasting a tradition of welcoming visitors dating back more than 160 years. Located at the edge of the Mediterranean, on the slopes of Mount Učka gently descending towards the coast of Kvarner Bay, Opatija with its local climate, beautiful architecture, quality hotels and luxurious, well-tended parks and promenades, offers plenty of possibilities for a pleasant stay throughout the year. Get to know Opatija, and let Opatija get to know you!
Jewel of the verdant peninsula of Istria, Pula is the province's largest city and forms a dramatic gateway to the seductive, crystalline waters of the Adriatic. Situated at the southernmost tip of the area, which has come to be known as 'the new Tuscany' for its bright medieval hilltop towns and ancient ruins, Pula boasts a rich and varied cultural heritage. The city is bordered by national parks remarkable for their astounding unspoilt natural beauty and is celebrated for its wonderfully preserved Roman amphitheatre and forum, which form a dramatic backdrop for leisurely strolls from the old town to the coast.
Rijeka is in an exceptional location, at the point where the Adriatic Sea washes over the European coast furthest inland, and that is why the rich history of this city is tied to the sea. Rijeka is the third largest town in the Republic of Croatia, and is the main town of Primorsko-Goranska County. Because of its openness towards the outside world, the city is known for its hospitality. The influences of numerous cultures and nations can be seen in the town, and Rijeka has to this day remained a town of tolerance and coexistence.
The coastline of the Atlantic Sea cradles the elegance of the historical city of Split. Chosen by the Roman emperor Diocletian as his city of residence, Split accommodates his Palace, an over 1700 years old giant that comprehends an intricate complex of quaint alleys and square. Due to its vastness and impressively excellent conservation, the ancient colossus can be referred to as a city within a city. While the charm of the city's historical sites captivates the multitude of holiday-makers who flock to Split throughout the hot Croatian summer, the unspoiled nature and crystalline waters just make them fall in love. The people of Split claim that their city is "the most beautiful one in the world and beyond," and the well spirited Split aims to convince you of this! The city is full of life and soul, and the friendly local people of Split are waiting to welcome you with open arms. Only a few cities in the world can offer such variety of entertainment and excursions in their closest surroundings as Split.
Vodice is a coastal town located in a wide bay, 11km northwest from the town of Šibenik, the centre of Šibenik-Knin County. The town of Vodice numbers almost 10,000 inhabitants, and is considered to be an ideal vacationing destination, where everyone can find something to enjoy. In and around Vodice there are many beautiful beaches washed over by crystal clear waters, historic spots, and the beautiful Kornati archipelago.
Almost entirely surrounded by the warm waters of the Adriatic, Zadar may not be large, but it is bursting with personality. A thoroughly cosmopolitan space, the city is full of extraordinary architecture and offers some of the best sailing around Zadar's archipelago and along the western coast of the Dalmatia region.
For centuries, Zagreb has been a focal point of culture and science, and later also developed into a major centre of commerce and industry. Nowadays it is a predominantly outdoorsy town with a plethora of cultural and clubbing opportunities, which are some of the many reasons people of all ages flock to this dazzling capital.
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Tanglewood Cooperative Secretary Sharon Harper says her community used the additional revenue from new houses to remove some problematic trees.
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Vacant ROC lots present a statewide housing opportunity
Too often, affordable-housing discussions in New Hampshire leave out the most affordable housing option: Manufactured homes.
Manufactured homes are one-story houses built in factories to federal building code and trucked to house lots for installation. They're incredibly affordable, regardless of whether you compare their cost to conventional houses or to rent a similarly sized apartment.
The median sales price of a conventional home in N.H. passed $400,000 earlier this year. The cost of a brand-new manufactured home is usually less than $100,000.
Former renters who buy a manufactured home save, on average, about $500 a month. "You're saving about $6,000 a year by owning your own home. That's real money in your pocket every month," says Jennifer Hopkins, our Vice President of Lending.
Plus, buyers of new manufactured homes can select features like open-concept floor plans, energy-efficient appliances, granite countertops, spa-like bathrooms, flooring choices, even dog-washing stations.
Jen helped design homes for one of our projects and says she loves watching people's reactions when they first tour a manufactured home.
"The most common thing I hear is: 'I didn't think it was going to be this nice!' When people see the quality, see the energy features, see the kitchen design … you can pick your colors, pick your carpet, pick the front porch that is big enough to have your cup of coffee in the morning. It feels like home."
If the home is in a resident-owned community (ROC), the advantages also include the stability of cooperative land ownership—your community won't be sold to a predatory owner—plus house lots that are smaller and easier to care for and a voice in how the cooperative is managed and maintained.
The advantages of putting new homes on empty lots in ROCs ripple out from the homeowners. ROC's budgets improve when more homeowners pay monthly lot rent (the fee for using the house lot). Neighborhoods with new homes are more appealing for potential residents. And community life is enhanced when potential new volunteers and leaders move in. The town or city where the ROC is located collects more real estate tax revenue without providing significantly more services.
A manufactured home in Mascoma Valley Cooperative in Canaan.
Permanently affordable homes
Sarah Wrightsman, Executive Director of the Workforce Housing Coalition of the Greater Seacoast, says resident-owned communities are an important part of N.H.'s housing picture.
"These communities contribute both to the overall diversity and affordability of our housing," she says. "They are permanently affordable opportunities for homeownership, adding to an incredibly limited supply of housing—especially affordable housing—in N.H."
She points out that essential members of our workforce and our communities make their homes in ROCs. They're people who work in our schools, hospitals and other health care settings, grocery stores and restaurants, farms, and municipal services.
"(Manufactured homes) are a really common choice for people who are buying their first home or retirees buying their last home," Jen says. "Also, the percentage of people with disabilities is much higher than in the general population. We think that some of that is because manufactured homes are easy to take care of, one-floor living, low taxes, very easy to connect a ramp to, and affordable for the long term."
Still, nearly 275 lots in N.H.'s ROCs remain vacant, and more are added each year as parks convert to ROCs.
"Taking advantage of these opportunities (to place homes) in existing manufactured-housing neighborhoods, and especially ROCs, is part of what we need to do to solve the state's housing crisis," Sarah says.
"Manufactured homes in resident-owned communities are an excellent option for N.H. homebuyers," noted Ignatius MacLellan, Managing Director of New Hampshire Housing's Homeownership Division. "Because the market is so competitive, many low- and middle-income people are struggling to find a home to buy. The Community Loan Fund's efforts to add new homes within existing resident-owned communities is an important initiative."
To help address N.H.'s lack of affordable housing, the Community Loan Fund offers fixed-rate mortgage financing to people buying manufactured homes in ROCs (or on land they own). Through a partnership with New Hampshire Housing, we can provide up to $20,000 in down payment and closing cost assistance to help buyers with low incomes afford new, energy-efficient homes in ROCs. Our Welcome Home Loan staff guide homebuyers through the process of selecting and placing a home.
We're also working intensively to help the leaders in the state's 140 (and counting) ROCs fill their empty lots and replace abandoned and dilapidated homes with new ones. We've provided:
in-person training,
a new training video series,
a database tracking vacant lots in N.H.'s cooperatives.
Also, through New Hampshire Housing, we're offering lines of credit to cover ROCs' upfront costs of placing homes.
A worker prepares a site at Tanglewood Cooperative in Keene for the placement of a new home.
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ROC leaders in N.H. are trying a variety of strategies to put homes on their empty lots.
Sharon Harper has been secretary of Tanglewood Cooperative in Keene since 2018, when its residents decided to try to buy their park. When it became a ROC the following year, the 328-home community had nine homes for sale and 28 empty lots, depriving it of a staggering $244,200 annually.
With significant help from a Realtor who lives in Tanglewood, Sharon says the nine empty homes were sold within weeks of the co-op buying the park. The vacant lots have been a tougher sell, at least partly because the community was built before the state began requiring cement pads under the homes.
"Because we're a new co-op and we don't have a lot of money (the co-op's board) decided to offer six months of free rent to help offset the cost of a pad," Sharon says. "We have the customer pay for the pad, and the six months free rent doesn't start until the day they move in."
Many co-ops have found that the absence of a pad complicates the buying process for customers. Tanglewood has benefited from an arrangement with Fineline Homes in Hinsdale, which offers homebuyers in the co-op the option of rolling the pad's cost into the sales price and treating it as part of the installation.
Because the co-op has filled five lots, it has been able to budget an extra $50,000 this year to cut down trees, "which is something everybody in the park has been complaining about since I can remember," Sharon says.
For the past year, Mascoma Valley Cooperative has used a different strategy to fill its lots. Treasurer Darrel Brock says the co-op couldn't find a home retailer to work with and even offered a free year's lot rent, with no success.
So, on the advice of its ROC-NH technical advisor and the help of a revolving line of credit (RLOC) offered by the Community Loan Fund, Mascoma Valley worked with Ironwood Construction to place a home on the site. It sold through a local Realtor, and the co-op recouped all its costs. A second buyer worked directly with Ironwood to place a home, with the co-op waiving rent for a year and covering the site preparation costs.
As of late September, Mascoma Valley was waiting for the delivery of a third house (the pandemic has disrupted house production and the supply and prices of building materials). That will leave three lots to fill.
Getting to full occupancy is essential because the co-op, which converted to resident-ownership four years ago, is facing some big projects—replacing a water line and two leach fields—which will cost a minimum quarter-million dollars.
"We're looking to get full revenue just to help fund these projects," Darrel says.
Soda Brook Cooperative in Northfield took a third route—one that might interest employers—to place a home on a lot that had sat vacant for 10 years.
Soda Brook used our RLOC to buy and place a home, then sold it to a military veteran who was an Easter Seals client. Easter Seals donated to the Community Loan Fund the funds to make a 0% loan to the homeowner, and the deal was closed so quickly that the co-op never even made a payment on the RLOC.
The Community Loan Fund will continue to explore and invest in new products and strategies to strengthen ROCs and extend affordable manufactured-home ownership to more people across N.H. during the next year and beyond.
This article was published in the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund's 2021 annual report.


I love the work you have put together for the community, a labor of love and much appreciated!
1. for the server section /hot fixes can we pipe that to a CSV to show it in a easier to read format?
i copied the PS1 files to both locations and ran the import command and still no joy. any other ideas?
i will try adding POSH5 to my laptop and run from there but hopefully you can shed some light on this . thanks in advanced!!!
The Citrix.GroupPolicy.Commands.psm1 file MUST be in a folder named Citrix.GroupPolicy.Commands where PowerShell will look for modules.
Copy the file Citrix.GroupPolicy.Commands.psm1 to two different places.
i.	C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules, in a new folder named Citrix.GroupPolicy.Commands.
ii.	C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules, in a new folder named Citrix.GroupPolicy.Commands.
If you type in Get-CtxGroupPolicy, what happens?
On a domain controller, go to c:\windows\sysvol and search for Policies.gpf. Did you find any? That is what determines if an AD policy contains any Citrix settings.
The script for XenApp 6.5 is very slow. I'm running the script on a XenApp 6.5 farm server with no published apps. This server is located on the same datacenter where the Datastore is. Some of our XenApp servers are distributed in different datacenters. If I run the script with the switch ".\XA6_Inventory_V42_Signed.ps1 -section Servers" it runs very slowly from "Gather server info for Appendix B" until the end for many hours. It's the same thing for many of the other sections.
I don't know if you got this feedback before?
Can you run the script from a computer with PoSH V5 installed? I have seen an 85% performance improvement when the script is run under PoSH V5.


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Good, Peter (2018) The East India Company in the Persian Gulf: The View from Bandar Abbas. PhD thesis, University of Essex.
The Persian Gulf represents a vital, yet unexplored region of the East India Company's sphere of influence. By considering the Gulf as an important space of interaction between the Company and successive Persian regimes, a new relationship can be revealed. From the Company's foundational action in assisting Shah Abbas I in the capture of Hormuz in 1622, to the creation of a fleet by Nader Shah in the 1730's, the Company's experience with Persia represents a different angle on wider trends in Company history. The Company's factory at Bandar Abbas was a nexus for Indian Ocean trade, as well as the living quarters for a small community of Europeans, whose lives and livelihoods depended on the recognition of rights granted by successive Persian Shahs in the Farman; a legal document of great influence and longevity, originally granted by Abbas I, which lasted for more than a century.
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We had a lot of fun during Volunteer Appreciation Week in April providing treats to the volunteers who worked with us each day. W e were also happy that Steve Longmire and Tiyah Fowlkes Mensah, two of our listeners, visited GaRRS to meet some of the volunteers and let them know how much they appreciate their time spent voicing programs. We love hearing from our listeners.
The picture (above) is of Steve and Tiyah with Eric Hill (The Science Fiction Hour) and Forde Kay (Wall Street Journal). A big thanks to Steve and Tiyah for letting our volunteers know that their efforts are appreciated!
In May we are fortunate to have two Eye On Blindness episodes.
On May 24th Empish Thomas speaks with Barbara Harvey, author and advocate, about parenting. Barbara offers insights for parents with and without impairments as they care for children with and without impairments. Listen for this program on May 24th at 2:00 p.m. or listen on the archive page.
Additionally, Carol McCullough returns with an Eye On Blindness episode where she talks about how blind runners participate in organized races. As part of the program, Carol interviews Trey McAfee who volunteers as a pilot runner in Houston, TX. You can listen to this special edition of Eye on Blindness on May 31st at 2:00 p.m.
GaRRS listener Joey Stuckey is a longtime resident of Macon, a musician, and an avid Braves fan. He studied classical guitar, has his own blues band aptly named the "Joey Stuckey Band," operates his own recording studios, and has released six studio albums.
Joey lost his sight when he was eighteen months old because of a brain tumor. When Joey moved to Macon at 15, he discovered GaRRS which at the time was broadcast on Cox cable channel 99. GaRRS Producer Kevin Burnup invited Joey to visit the GaRRS offices in Macon where he was first able to investigate a studio environment. Joey credits GaRRS as being part of his journey to becoming a recording artist.
Joey feels the most important thing that GaRRS provides is access to local newspapers. Even with all of the technology available for reading, newspapers and magazines can be tricky to read online because of the interruptions of graphs and advertising. Joey explained that readers lose the continuity of the articles. Instead, GaRRS provides an excellent narrator (not a robot) and a continuous reading of the articles without a lot of jumping around. Additionally, Joey believes that the advent of 24-hour news cycles have actually contributed to less local news delivery. Joey believes that GaRRS allows the listener to be an educated part of the community.
You can listen to Joey's music and watch his videos online including a great music video for the song "Blind Man Driving."
Betty Seeley began volunteering for GaRRS about ten years ago and currently reads the Christian Science Monitor and the weekly Food Ads. She has also read a book for Classic Books (O Pioneers! by Willa Cather) and has subbed for other programs in the past.
Betty was a primary school teacher until she discovered that the librarian had the best job in the school system. She was then a school librarian for 36 years before she retired. In addition, she has served for many years as librarian for Canterbury Court and for her church. She also enjoys reading to children and shares that the secret to making them listen is to make them look you in the eye. Betty also takes classes with the Emory at Night program, is an avid student of historical architecture, and loves to travel.
Thank you, Betty, for all you do for GaRRS!
Please pay attention to the length of your recordings as each program has a target length. If you are not sure of the target for your program, check the guideline, the spreadsheet (with the tiny print) posted on the cork board over the black cabinet, or please ask.
People stopping early--just not filling the required time.
Note for Book Readers: The last episode of a book must be 58 minutes just like the other episodes. Please prepare material to fill that last hour. It can be information about the author or about the subject of the book. It can also be a short story by the author. If you are having trouble finding material, please let Cheryl or Jane know.
Note to Recorded News Readers: If you find that you have worked through the guideline, and the last section does not have enough material, don't just stop. Say something like "We have time for one more news (or sports, or living) article" and then fill out the remaining time.
Welcome to new GaRRS volunteer Moira Waldron; and welcome back to returning volunteers Laura Keyes and Carol McCullough (who has been out for recuperation and then some fun and relaxation).
Please send thoughts and prayers to John Crean, Darlene French-White and Marty Kwatinetz. We wish you all speedy recoveries.
Congratulations to the winners of the Volunteer Appreciation Week drawing: Nancy Naidu, Karen Scullion, Murray Friedman and Ricky Prior. Enjoy!
Thank you to Suzanne Carey, Renee Ford Clark, Tracy Diehl, Ed Falso and Elizabeth Kimbrell for recording the proposed changes to GVRA policies. These changes are intended to support 2016 changes in federal law governing services provided to the blind. Some of our listeners sent 'Thank You' messages to GaRRS for making this information available.
When you're reading aloud you will find that it becomes easier to put all of your energy into the task at hand without the temptation of distractions.
If you read the words aloud you may find deeper layers of meaning. When spoken, words take on a life of their own off of the written page and become part of you and inevitably, through comprehension, become part of your vocabulary and influence your use of language.
People learn in a variety of ways--visual, aural, tactile and so on. By reading aloud, you'll stand a better chance of internalizing the words and making them your own.
If you are looking for an opportunity to stretch your imagination and explore the capabilities that may be hidden in your voice, read a children's book aloud to someone you love.
When people speak, we often involve more than just our voice in the projection process. In fact, many of us make use of our entire body when speaking to get a point across.
When you read aloud there is hardly the opportunity to sound dull--especially if you have an audience. Make use of the full range of your voice. You'll only be able to discover and explore it if you are speaking the words with the intention of them being heard.
Lastly, reading aloud will make you more aware of things that you read and also help you to identify proper grammar and sentence structure.
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Out & About: This month's Out and About is Part 2 of Jody Franco's visit to FDR's Little White House in Warm Springs. Check out the conclusion of this trip on the Archive page of GaRRS' web site.
Some readers have been experiencing issues with our recording computers, particularly with booth 4. Our computers have run more or less non-stop since 2006--much longer than one should reasonably expect. Good news! GaRRS is getting new computers for booths 1 - 5. The computers will be brand new, and there will no longer be cords on the floor to get tangled with your feet. The recording software and keypads will remain the same so there will be no need to relearn recording. Booth setup will also be a little easier for you, and people who read from a computer will find it easier as well as laptops will not be needed. We will replace the booth 4 computer first and provide the documentation and training you need.
Books with a 2014 or earlier copyright are now in the 'for sale' book shelves. The Lending Library includes books aired in early 2017. Enjoy!
With summer vacation season starting, we have a lot of one-time and short-term volunteer opportunities. Please check the red column in the Volunteer Calendar for current available slots. Call or email Cheryl Cabral (404-685-2823 or ccabral@garrs.org) if you are available for any of them.
GaRRS is currently recording the revised Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency Client Services Handbook. At seventeen pages long, the recorded handbook will be on the GVRA website as well as on the GaRRS website. Please call Jane if you would like to assist in reading or have questions about this effort.
Visit our website, garrs.org, and make your secure donation today.
If you have any suggestions for future issues of this newsletter, please send them us by emailing info@garrs.org. Use "Newsletter Suggestion" as the subject line.
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clypd Collaborates with Industry Consortium ATSG to Define Standards for Advanced Audience Targeting in TV; Nielsen Among First to Adopt
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The Advanced Targets Standards Group (ATSG), whose members include Disney|ABC and ESPN, AMC Networks, A+E, CBS, CIMM, and Discovery, announced significant progress in bringing advanced audiences to the TV advertising marketplace
New York, NY – September 13, 2018 – The Advanced Target Standards Group, a consortium of leading network TV programmers, along with CIMM's Advanced TV Committee, today announced that the Calculation Principles for Advanced Targets, published last year, will be implemented in Nielsen's Advance Audience Posting API.
"We know that the currency is evolving and Nielsen will remain at the center of providing the industry with the metrics needed to transact," said Kelly Abcarian, SVP of Product Leadership, Nielsen. "The ATSG Calculation Principles are a great first step towards bringing consensus to advanced audience measurement and we are pleased to be among the first to implement these standards. We are committed to bringing independence and consistency to this space, and as a result, we are innovating to ensure advanced audiences can be monetized in a seamless way."
Keith Kazerman, SVP Client Solutions of Discovery Networks commented, "We've been using these calculation methods in our Discovery Engage advanced audience deals for over 18 months. Because of the ATSG's work on standards, we and our clients are confident that our advanced audience deals are being measured accurately and consistently."
"Getting the numbers right is critical, but with the proliferation of measurement and data in the market, accuracy and transparency are not always guaranteed. The ATSG Calculation Principles reflect broad industry consensus about how advanced audiences should be counted in linear TV" said Pete Doe, Chief Research Officer at clypd. "Additionally, they are open source, as we all agreed that was crucial for the development of the industry. We're excited that Nielsen has chosen to implement them."
The ATSG has also released new resource materials on the ATSG website, including:
First-Party Advanced Audience Data: Considerations and Guidelines
This document lays out the key issues that need to be addressed with the use of first-party data, such as target size, utility, completeness and consistency, and the fidelity of the data when matched to relevant audience measurement data.
ATSG member David Ernst of A+E Networks commented, "We are seeing more and more interest from advertisers and agencies wanting to incorporate their own data into their national TV advertising. The opportunities here are great, but there are also challenges with first-party data that need to be considered. This new ATSG document provides a comprehensive but readable overview of key considerations and guidelines for anyone working in this space."
ROI/Effectiveness POV
The use of advanced audiences in national TV campaigns has coincided with a focus on effectiveness. The ATSG has published a point of view on effectiveness measurement for TV.
"Any measurement that improves our understanding of how TV advertising delivers on advertiser objectives is welcome," said Tom Ziangas of AMC Networks. "For television, that has to include a clear view of the advertising objectives and the metrics that are being used to measure campaign success. TV works at all levels of the effectiveness funnel and any effectiveness measurement needs to reflect that. It takes a first impression to get a last click."
The ATSG has created a data labeling framework for TV measurement data, to help guide data users through the increasingly crowded TV measurement data environment that includes Panel, STB, OTT and ACR data sets. This data labeling operates at two levels – a top-line description of the basic attributes such as sample size, coverage and projectibility, and a more detailed assessment that covers areas such as reported metrics, data granularity, and reporting frequency and latency.
ATSG member Jonathan Steuer, Chief Research Officer at Omnicom Media Group, first suggested the data labeling concept that has now been embraced across the industry. Steuer said of the initiative, "The ATSG focus on TV data sets for these labels complements other initiatives in play in the digital space and provides a useful set of considerations for anyone deciding which data set can best inform better TV advertising outcomes for their clients."
In other news, the ATSG announced that Howard Shimmel, President, Janus Strategy & Insights, LLC and former Turner and Nielsen executive, has joined the group in an advisory capacity.
Shimmel stated, "I'm extremely happy to be advising ATSG. Their efforts will be instrumental in helping the industry to transition to audience buying and selling, and maximizing the benefits that sellers and buyers gain."
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