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Millennium Alliance launches ADITI to scale cooperation between India, Africa through Innovation, Technology transfer
New Delhi [India], Oct 27 (ANI-BusinessWireIndia): Millennium Alliance, a joint initiative of the Technology Development Board, Government of India; United States Agency for International Development; Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry; United Kingdom Agency for International Development (UKAID), ICCo Cooperation (Netherlands); ICICI Foundation for Inclusive Growth; Wadhwani Initiative for Sustainable Healthcare (WISH Foundation); World Bank Group and Facebook is a national platform to identify, test, award and scale innovations which bring improvements at the Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP).
The Alliance has so far funded 62 high impact social innovations with close to Rs. 55 crore. Out of these, twelve enterprises have been funded for replication of their innovations in Africa and South Asia including Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Afghanistan, Nepal and Bangladesh.
Buoyed by success of the Program and responding to the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi's call, "India shares because it cares" as enshrined in the Joint Statement of Prime Minister with the Heads of States in India Africa Forum Summit III (IAFS III), the Millennium Alliance has launched a special initiative called 'African Development through Indian Technologies and Innovation (ADITI).' ADITI aims to foster South-South cooperation between India and Africa through innovation and technology transfer.
Under ADITI, the Millennium Alliance shall provide financial and technical support to Indian entrepreneurs who have successfully demonstrated their technologies in India and are willing to scale them in Africa.
Responding to the needs of African markets, these technologies and innovations would provide low cost affordable solutions for service delivery at last mile in priority sectors such as agriculture, healthcare, water and sanitation, education and financial inclusion.
The Alliance is already supporting replication of Indian innovations in Kenya such as CassavaTech, a patented technology that brings down capital cost of processing Cassava from USD 15,000 to USD 200 and reduces operating cost from USD 20 to USD two for 200 kg processing capacity.
The technology further reduces drying time for Cassava from 10 days to 10 hours producing high quality Cassava flour.
Another technology being replicated in Kenya is -100 percent compostable menstrual hygiene solution providing affordable pads to adolescent girls and women.
This is done using a unique low cost, low electricity consuming machine that produces 1200-2400pads/eight-10 hrs through community participation from 12-16 women (no specific skills required) as production workforce.
Dr. Bindu Dey, Secretary, Technology Development Board stated, "TDB's partnership with FICCI, USAID, DFID, ICCO, ICICI, WISH and other like-minded organizations to create a unique platform called Millennium Alliance is revolutionizing social enterprises by leveraging India's creativity, expertise and resources to scout and build innovative solutions for those who are needy but mostly ignored.
We have now created the very special ADITI initiative under the Alliance to transfer the knowledge to our friends in Africa by way of technology transfer." Dr.
A Didar Singh, Secretary General, FICCI said, "ADITI is a natural extension of the work being done under the Millennium Alliance.
The intellectual property being developed by Indian innovators should be shared with African entrepreneurs to foster bilateral cooperation and in the interest of global prosperity.
India and Africa face similar challenges and it is wise that we work together to develop innovative solutions to meet to respond to such challenges." Nirankar Saxena, Senior Director, FICCI shared "Millennium Alliance is a first of its kind partnership where several governments have come together to support breakthrough innovations that directly impact the lives of the bottom of the pyramid.
ADITI is a positive step forward that would create a bridge for Indian and African entrepreneurs to connect and collaborate to develop and implement solutions that would benefit both sides." (ANI-BusinessWireIndia).
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Q: Apache Pig Group by and Filter if multiple values exist? I am trying to group multiple rows with the same IDs, and then check for each tuple in the group if it contains both values, for example:
(10461 , 55 )
(10435 , 17 )
(10435 , 11 )
(10435 , 72 )
(10437 , 11 )
(10830 , 72 )

After I group it via: groupedData = group dataPoints by data_id;
I get :
(10461 ,{(10461 , 55)})

(10435 ,{(10435 , 17),(10435 , 11),(10435 , 72)})

I want to filter and get the value of 10435 if it contains 17 and 11.

A: You can use a nested FOREACH to filter the bags, and then check for empty bags. Note I'm not sure what you've called fields with the numbers (55, 17, 11 etc.) so this is value in the code below - replace as needed!
filteredBags = FOREACH groupedData {
    seventeen = FILTER dataPoints BY value == 17;
    eleven = FILTER dataPoints BY value == 11;
    GENERATE
    group AS data_id,
    seventeen,
    eleven;
}

nonNullBags = FILTER filteredBags BY NOT IsEmpty(seventeen) AND NOT IsEmpty(eleven);

finalIds = FOREACH nonNullBags GENERATE data_id;

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To Pay for Billionaire Tax Cuts, the Republican Tax Plan Makes It Harder for Orphans to Find a Home
By Jacob Weindling | November 9, 2017 | 1:15pm
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The Republican Party is not a political party. It's simply a machine that whips up voters' grievances (usually racial) to elect politicians who do nothing other than ensure that the rich keep getting richer while the rest of us get poorer. It's their only priority. They could care less about you or I, as we are simply impediments to their goal of turning America into the uber corporatist playground of Republican wet dreams. The party of "small government" religiously believes in too big to fail capitalism, proving that Republicans in Congress have no guiding principles, and they simply sell their souls to the highest bidder.
Paul Ryan, who has forever stapled his reputation to Donald Trump's, told CBS's Face the Nation that "the entire purpose of this is to lower middle-class taxes. So yes, people are going to get tax cuts. How big are those tax cuts? That depends on the individual." Trump's Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, pushed back against the litany of budget wonks who have crunched the numbers and deduced that this is just one big giveaway to the rich, saying on ABC's This Week: "I just don't think that's the case. As we've talked about, changes in the top bracket are offset with elimination of almost every single type of deduction."
Despite Ryan and Mnuchin's assertions that this entire push is about lowering taxes for the middle class, GOP Senator John Thune couldn't commit to that.
GOP Sen. John Thune says he can't guarantee that no middle class family will see their taxes go up. (via CBS) pic.twitter.com/K2hoPucptG
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 9, 2017
Senator Lindsey Graham went even further, and spoke to the puppet masters behind the curtain.
Lindsey Graham says "the financial contributions will stop" if tax reform fails.
— Alan Rappeport (@arappeport) November 9, 2017
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office calculated that the House Republican tax plan would add $1.7 trillion to the national debt over the next decade. This tax plan is so cynical and cruel, that Republicans are even angering some of their core constituencies in this blind pursuit to hand more of the public's money to our corporate overlords. One of the ways they have figured out how to pay for this massive giveaway to the superrich is to kill the adoption tax credit, which is an idea so wildly unpopular that it has angered both LGBTQ and pro-life groups. It's further proof that the GOP only cares about their donor class, as this tax credit costs the government a paltry $355 million per year compared to the trillion(s) the entire plan will add to the debt.
These numbers on GOP getting rid of the adoption tax credit are wild. via @McCormackJohnhttps://t.co/MUqSaUWsHqpic.twitter.com/ANypypscRh
— Haley Byrd (@byrdinator) November 8, 2017
Mallory Quigley of the pro-life organization Susan B. Anthony List said that "part of the pro-life message is promoting adoption as the loving option." Republican Senator Ben Sasse—who came up through the religious right—tweeted his disdain for this move.
Amen. Being pro-life means being pro-adoption. Congress must remember this as we work through the details of tax reform in the coming weeks. https://t.co/7rPz6lU0hE
— Ben Sasse (@BenSasse) November 3, 2017
Other staunch conservatives have also voiced their opposition to this cruel idea which is specifically designed to discourage adoption in order to pay for billionaire's tax cuts.
If the GOP repeals the adoption tax credit the party should disband https://t.co/8DuO0oCEUZpic.twitter.com/fAuxIvwZsb
— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) November 8, 2017
I was #NeverTrump but remain a dead-red downballot GOP voter. Repealing adoption tax credit is a great way to get me to vote Democrat. https://t.co/vExGIPi7YU
— Jeff B/DDHQ (@EsotericCD) November 8, 2017
I will literally vote on this as a single issue. My church is filled with adopted kids & parents trying to adopt https://t.co/WjVgXudeeB
— PoltergeistMath (@politicalmath) November 8, 2017
Note: This all describes the House's tax plan, but there are reports that the Senate's version will not eliminate the adoption tax credit.
One of the ways that Republicans always try to sell their fraudulent tax plans is to say that they will create economic growth that just isn't possible. This time is even more egregious, which has led some Republicans to jump ship thanks to the massive increase in the debt this will create. Per The Washington Post:
Even some Republicans say that kind of growth is unlikely. Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) said he is cautious about the growth estimates that leaders have discussed. He said he is eager to begin a serious tax discussion, but he insisted that he will not vote for any bill that adds "one penny to the deficit."
"I am not going to be for it, okay?" Corker said on NBC's "Meet the Press." " I'm sorry. It is the greatest threat to our nation."
Trump's chief economic advisor, Gary Cohn, gave away the entire game in an interview with CNBC's John Harwood, calling this "trickle-down economics"—which by definition, means that the tax plan is a giveaway to the rich. The GOP has been selling this fraudulent economic theory since the 1980s, and wages have stagnated despite productivity continuing to rise. Even if we give the GOP the benefit of the doubt and assume that their incorrect view of economics is how things actually work, it's taken far too long for that money to trickle down from our corporate masters to the rest of us, and the trend is getting worse.
The result of trickle down economics pic.twitter.com/kVekrEWtfA
— ???? (@broncosdotgif) November 9, 2017
If that wasn't enough of a hint as to what this tax plan is really about, Cohn completely let the cat out of the bag, saying that "the most excited group out there are big CEOs about our tax plan." Providing further evidence for his assertion, The Washington Post calculated that over 500 Trump entities would receive a big tax break in this bill. The Republicans touted the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center's initial analysis of the plan, but the TPC went back and revised their figures after finding an error in their calculations, and they reached the same conclusion that all other tax wonks have come to.
New Tax Policy Center analysis shows GOP tax plan gives top 1% and top 0.1% truly ginormous tax cuts:https://t.co/Q16siNOLCxpic.twitter.com/gLzA5sw8hO
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) November 6, 2017
So to recap: the GOP is touting this as a middle class tax plan, but one of its top Senators won't commit to promising that it will cut middle class taxes, it adds over a trillion dollars to the debt, gives the top 0.1% an absolutely massive tax cut, which is partially paid for by cutting tax benefits for couples who adopt children. The only way this could get more cartoonishly evil is if they burned down an orphanage and built a golden throne for the Koch brothers atop its ashes.
The silver lining in all this is that people are beginning to wise up to the Republican Party's perpetual fraud—as 50% of Americans oppose the plan, and 60% believe it favors the wealthy. People are getting smarter, which is bad news for the Republican Party—whose entire platform requires their voters to not understand the issues. The whole point of the Republican Party's existence is to gin up racial animosity amongst white people so they vote for politicians who will enact hyper-corporatist policies which would never be able to win an election on their own merits, and this cynical tax plan is a fitting end to a year in which the party has openly embraced white nationalism as a central plank of their inherently evil political platform.
Jacob Weindling is a staff writer for Paste politics. Follow him on Twitter at @Jakeweindling.
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PART 5 Chapter 9
The old neglected palazzo, with its lofty carved ceilings and frescoes on the walls, with its floors of mosaic, with its heavy yellow stuff curtains on the windows, with its vases on pedestals, and its open fireplaces, its carved doors and gloomy reception rooms, hung with pictures--this palazzo did much, by its very appearance after they had moved into it, to confirm in Vronsky the agreeable illusion that he was not so much a Russian country gentleman, a retired army officer, as an enlightened amateur and patron of the arts, himself a modest artist who had renounced the world, his connections, and his ambition for the sake of the woman he loved.
The pose chosen by Vronsky with their removal into the palazzo was completely successful, and having, through Golenishtchev, made acquaintance with a few interesting people, for a time he was satisfied. He painted studies from nature under the guidance of an Italian professor of painting, and studied medieval Italian life. Medieval Italian life so fascinated Vronsky that he even wore a hat and flung a cloak over his shoulder in the medieval style, which, indeed, was extremely becoming to him.
"Here we live, and know nothing of what's going on," Vronsky said to Golenishtchev as he came to see him one morning. "Have you seen Mihailov's picture?" he said, handing him a Russian gazette he had received that morning, and pointing to an article on a Russian artist, living in the very same town, and just finishing a picture which had long been talked about, and had been bought beforehand. The article reproached the government and the academy for letting so remarkable an artist be left without encouragement and support.
"I've seen it," answered Golenishtchev. "Of course, he's not without talent, but it's all in a wrong direction. It's all the Ivanov-Strauss-Renan attitude to Christ and to religious painting."
"What is the subject of the picture?" asked Anna.
"Christ before Pilate. Christ is represented as a Jew with all the realism of the new school."
And the question of the subject of the picture having brought him to one of his favorite theories, Golenishtchev launched forth into a disquisition on it.
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NC Grocery Store Becomes Scene of Human Trafficking Bust
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A local grocery store was the scene of a human trafficking bust in Charlotte this week. It happened at Food Lion on Beatties Ford Road. Gerald Johnson, 59, was arrested for human trafficking and promoting prostitution in front of the store. Some of the human trafficking victims told officers they'd been threatened by the 300-pound alleged pimp. "I'm really surprised it happened here at the grocery store," said David, a
In the Know: A Survivor's Perspective
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By Kimberly Benson About 16 years ago, I wrote my first book and asked the first lady of our church to edit it for me, since she was an English major. She agreed and was so impressed. She was also the head of the women's ministry. I just knew that she would want me to help her head the women's ministry after reading my book, but to my dismay, she
In the Know: A Survivor's Perspective March 2015
Lost in a World of Abuse and Trafficking – My Story
by J. A. Elam
Here are the stats:
According to the United Nations, human trafficking is a $32-billion a year business. There are an estimated 27 million slaves in the world today, and that number is growing exponentially.
In the United States, the Department of Justice estimates up to 300,000 children are at risk annually of being trafficked. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the average lifespan of a trafficked child is seven years.
Human trafficking is second only to the drug trade as the fastest growing criminal enterprise. According to the United Nations, human trafficking generates $9.5 billion yearly in the United States. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children reports that the average age of a trafficked child is 13-14 years old. According to Polaris Project, a pimp makes $150,000-$250,000 per child a year; each pimp has an average of four to six children; and the average victim of sex trafficking is forced to have sex between 20-48 times a day. According to the Justice Department, a human trafficker will approach one in three teens within 48 hours of their leaving home.
For seven long years, beginning at the age of five, I was trapped in a hell no one deserves. I was nothing more than a shell of a human being, enduring suffering and torture at the hands...
Feburary Trucker to Trucker
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Hello, Fellow Drivers. My name is Ina Daly. I've driven for Con-Way Freight for 30 years, hauling double trailers in mostly day-cab tractors. Being a woman in that type of operation, I'm not likely to have a young girl knock on my truck door in a truck stop.
Initial appearances of TAT would lead most to believe that their target drivers would be solo, male, long-haul drivers, because they usually overnight alone in truck stops, where traffickers most frequently work their victims while traveling on to their next destination. However, trucks come in many different configurations for many types of operations. Some of us run the same route daily and sleep at home, and some call the truck home.
TAT was established to utilize our value as extra eyes and ears, just as law enforcement has for many years, especially after Sept. 9, 2011. We work where the traffickers transport their victims. Just like truck cargo, these victims are business merchandise and not valued as human beings, let alone as someone's daughter or sister. TAT understands that truckers overall are compassionate people who are willing to help those in need.
As a second generation, career truck driver with mostly other truckers as family friends, I can agree with TAT's assessment of drivers. If you look into the history of trucking, our gear-jamming forefathers (and mothers) were known as the "Knights of the Road,"...
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HOW TO MAKE AN IRA ROLLOVER GIFT TO TAT
Contact your IRA custodian to obtain the appropriate form to make an IRA charitable rollover. The form may refer to the rollover by its technical name, "qualified charitable distribution," or QCD. On the form, specify the amount to be transferred to TAT, identify TAT by its full legal name, and include TAT's tax ID no. 45-2696572.
The IRA plan custodian should make the check payable to TAT and mail it to:
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Questions: Please contact Kendis Paris at kparis@truckersagainsttrafficking.org
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Facebook has announced an improved photo sharing and viewing experience for Facebook profile users. The social network now allows Facebook profile users to showcase larger stream of photos and group all photos in one place. This enhanced photo streaming view on Facebook would sure churn more photography enthusiasts who want to shoot photos to share (or flaunt?) on Facebook?
How will your photos look on Facebook.com?
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The social network behemoth has announced a redesigned version for displaying photos to enable its Facebook profile users to organize their photos better. Users will get greater control over photos and will be able to decide on important photos that require more prominence. Your friends will view a more organized layout wherein photos are arranged in the sections of photos you were tagged, photos you have shared on Wall and album of photos so that they can easily switch in these three options. Earlier, your friends had to scroll down the page and they would lose interest and with this new layout with categorized section, highlighted photos and larger exhibition of important photos. Also, any photo that you highlight at the Facebook Timeline page will be automatically highlighted in the new Facebook photo page.
According to Emily Grewal, the spokesperson of Facebook, this redesigned photo page will roll out soon. What do you think of this Facebook improved layout and features?
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Work - Volume 5, issue 4
WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation is an interdisciplinary, international journal which publishes high quality peer-reviewed manuscripts covering the entire scope of the occupation of work. The journal's subtitle has been deliberately laid out: The first goal is the prevention of illness, injury, and disability. When this goal is not achievable, the attention focuses on assessment to design client-centered intervention, rehabilitation, treatment, or controls that use scientific evidence to support best practice. WORK occasionally publishes thematic issues, but in general, issues cover a wide range of topics such as ergonomic considerations with children, youth and students, the challenges facing an aging workforce, workplace violence, injury management, performing artists, ergonomic product evaluations, and the awareness of the political, cultural, and environmental determinants of health related to work.
Dr. Karen Jacobs, the founding editor, and her editorial board especially encourage the publication of research studies, clinical practice, case study reports, as well as personal narratives and critical reflections of lived work experiences (autoethnographic/autobiographic scholarship), Sounding Board commentaries and Speaking of Research articles which provide the foundation for better understanding research to facilitate knowledge dissemination. Narrative Reflections on Occupational Transitions, a new column, is for persons who have successfully transitioned into, between, or out of occupations to tell their stories in a narrative form. With an internationally renowned editorial board, WORK maintains high standards in the evaluation and publication of manuscripts. All manuscripts are reviewed expeditiously and published in a timely manner. WORK prides itself on being an author-friendly journal.
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Citation: Work, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 241-241, 1995
Impact of carpal tunnel education on changing dental hygienists knowledge, risk behaviors, symptoms and functional performance
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Abstract: In recent years, occupational therapists have become increasingly involved in the design and implementation of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) prevention programs. The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of an occupational therapists' designed and implemented CTS educational program targeted to address risk behaviors in the dental hygiene profession. A total of 79 practicing dental hygienists completed a pre, post, and 2-week follow-up questionnaire to measure the extent of change in knowledge of CTS symptoms, "at risk behaviors", and prevention strategies before and after CTS education. The findings of this study suggest that the CTS educational program, presented …by an occupational therapist and a registered dental hygienist, significantly impacted dental hygienist's CTS knowledge and lead to positive changes in their "at risk behaviors" and use of prevention strategies. Show more
Keywords: Occupational therapy, Carpal tunnel syndrome, Education, Dental hygienists, Risk behaviors, Outcome study
What prevents people with disabilities from obtaining employment? An examination of Canadian data from a national and regional perspective
Authors: Westmorland, Muriel G. | Pennock, Mike
Abstract: People with disabilities who are able to be employed have historically had to struggle with a number of barriers related to workplace activities. In recent years, more data has become available regarding employment in general and for people with disabilities in particular. As major stakeholder groups (people with disabilities, service provider agencies, funders and employers) move to a more integrated and equitable approach, it is essential that data related to employment for people with disabilities not be esoteric but utilitarian. This article will review a Canadian regional study that is being used to help shape vocational services for people with …disabilities and will compare the findings to the Canadian national scene. Show more
Keywords: Employment barriers, People with disabilities, Vocational rehabilitation
Empirical finding on the external validity of patient assault vignettes
Authors: Carifio, James | Lanza, Marilyn
Abstract: We had the nurses who were victims of actual assaults (n=29) use the 'blame' scales we have used in our last two written vignette studies to assign blame for their assault, and then we had three judges use the same scales to assign blame for the assault based on a written description of the assault by the victim. No significant difference in mean blame levels were found between victims and the average ratings for the three judges, or between victims, judges and the response levels obtained in our prior two studies. The mean 'blame' scores observed in written assault vignettes, …therefore, are relatively and approximately the same as those that are, or will be observed in actual assaults. Show more
Keywords: Blame scale, Empirical findings, Vignettes
Performance components predictive of errors resulting in motor vehicle crashes in older drivers
Authors: Jennings, Linda A.
Abstract: Numerous skills and abilities are necessary in the operation of an automobile. Many of these skills and abilities deteriorate with age. These deteriorations, coupled with the increased incidence of motor vehicle crashes in terms of number of miles driven for older drivers, makes it imperative to explore the relationship between these factors. A review of the literature was utilized to present the performance components of older drivers that may contribute to motor vehicle crashes. Vision and attention appear to play a major role, particularly in the types of accidents that occur most frequently to this population – intersection accidents. This …article consolidates the existing literature from several disciplines. This is especially needed for occupational therapy practitioners, with their growing involvement in the assessment and rehabilitation of driving skills. Show more
Keywords: Automobile driving, Useful field of view, Attention
Identification of the variables relevant to the recovery from post-surgical carpal tunnel syndrome
Authors: Smail, Katherine E.
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to determine what variables have been found to predict successful outcome for patients who have undergone carpal tunnel release surgery. In this case, 'successful' is defined as long-term relief of symptoms, pain free functional performance, or return to work. The variables have been divided into three major groups. The first group is the variables that relate to the individual. The second group is those variables that relate to the person's employment. The last group of variables to be discussed are those that relate to society. From this literature review, it appears that there are …a significant number of variables that are 'relevant' to the recovery from carpal tunnel release surgery. However, the research conducted thus far has produced few results that identify any consistently reliable 'predictors' of surgical outcome. Future studies will require that a greater degree of reliability and validity be established for these variables. In addition, a clear and consistent definition of success with specific criteria for recovery will be necessary. Show more
Keywords: Carpal tunnel syndrome, Cumulative trauma, Occupational therapy, Rehabilitation, Recovery, Variables
Knowledge about AIDS and attitudes towards persons with AIDS: Implications for occupational therapy
Authors: Lang, Gayle B.
Abstract: Persons with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) are frequent users of healthcare services, and their care presents a critical challenge to the healthcare profession. With an estimated one million persons in the United States believed to be infected, occupational therapy practitioners will see increasing numbers of referrals to provide services to persons with AIDS. Like other healthcare professionals, occupational therapy practitioners have expressed inaccurate knowledge about AIDS and negative attitudes towards persons with AIDS, both affecting the therapeutic relationship, and possibly leading to suboptimal clinical care. This paper summarizes research that measures healthcare professionals' knowledge and attitudes about AIDS. It also …explores the effectiveness of educational programs aimed at increasing knowledge about AIDS and modifying attitudes towards persons with AIDS. Further research is proposed in the occupational therapy field to assist in the development of educational programs addressing these important AIDS issues. Show more
Keywords: Education, Ethics, Healthcare, Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
Demonstrating therapeutic interventions for the remediation of symptoms associated with trauma-induced carpal tunnel syndrome: An illustrated case report
Authors: Kohler, Lee A. | Lieberman, Jenny M. | Sgrignoli, Darci | Sibley, Linda K.
Abstract: An increase of cumulative trauma disorders including carpal tunnel syndrome has been seen in the last 10 years. Common causes of carpal tunnel syndrome include high-risk occupations, pregnancy, diabetes, and trauma. Measures used to diagnose carpal tunnel syndrome are physical examinations, electromyography, computerized tomography, and vibrometers. Carpal tunnel syndrome can be treated through conservative methods, such as splinting and steroid injection, or through surgical procedures. Ergonomic principles can also help to minimize exacerbation of symptoms and possibly prevent carpal tunnel syndrome. A case report is used to describe the long-term effects of trauma-induced carpal tunnel syndrome and to present various …therapeutic interventions, including ergonomics, which may be useful in returning clients to work. Show more
Keywords: Carpal tunnel syndrome, Therapeutic intervention, Carpal tunnel release surgery, Ergonomics
Assessing the older worker: Are current evaluations valid measurements?
Authors: Zeske, Kimberly A.
Abstract: Older workers that sustain an injury effecting their work performances are increasingly being treated by rehabilitation professionals. Often, these persons are tested with popular standardized assessment tools that have obtained their normative data on young or middle-aged subjects. This article examines the normative data relating to some of these assessment tools and the potential injustice imposed upon older workers when they are compared to these standards.
Keywords: Older worker, Evaluation tools, Normative data
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The Board of Trustees at Williams Baptist University elected officers for the coming year, voted to hire a prominent student recruitment firm and welcomed a strong audit report on Friday, September 14. The board met in regular session on the WBU campus in Walnut Ridge.
Trustee Dave Russell of Jonesboro, Ark., will serve as board chair this year. He was elected to replace J.R. Cox of Walnut Ridge, whose term on the board expires this fall. Also elected to officer positions were Sarah Shell Teague of El Dorado, Ark., as vice president and James Miller of Melbourne, Ark., as secretary.
The board took action toward building enrollment at WBU. Trustees voted to enter into a four-year contract with Ruffalo Noel Levitz, a prominent national firm that specializes in student recruitment and financial aid. The firm will work closely with Williams personnel to implement marketing and recruitment strategies, as well as financial aid packaging, best suited for WBU's target market.
"We are getting the people and strategies in place for WBU to make strides in the Christian higher education marketplace. Students all across Arkansas and well beyond our state would find Williams to be a great fit and a transformative experience, so we are taking the steps necessary to bring them here," said WBU President Dr. Stan Norman.
The board also accepted the audit report for the 2017-18 budget year. The audit showed WBU finished the year with a balanced budget and no issues to report in its accounting. The report was presented by Lisa Stephens, a certified public accountant in Conway, Ark., who conducted the audit.
"We appreciate our board members for the time they invest and the insight they bring to these meetings. They demonstrate a clear dedication toward WBU, which is a great encouragement as we continue to move Williams forward together," Norman said.
Williams is a private, Christian university in Walnut Ridge. Its trustees are appointed by the Arkansas Baptist State Convention.
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Now in the sixth decade of his professional life, Herbie Hancock remains where he has always been: at the forefront of world culture, technology, business and music. In addition to being recognized as a legendary pianist and composer, Herbie Hancock has been an integral part of every popular music movement since the 1960's. As a member of the Miles Davis Quintet that pioneered a groundbreaking sound in jazz, he also developed new approaches on his own recordings, followed by his work in the 70s – with record-breaking albums such as Headhunters – that combined electric jazz with funk and rock in an innovative style that continues to influence contemporary music. "Rockit" and "Future Shock" marked Hancock's foray into electronic dance sounds; during the same period he also continued to work in an acoustic setting with V.S.O.P., which included ex-Miles Davis bandmates Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams.
In honor of his work, Hancock was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in February 2016. Hancock is currently in the studio at work on a new album.
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A tepukei, tepuke or TePuke is a Polynesian boat type, characterized by its elaborate decking, its submerged hulls and symmetrical "crab claw" sail slender foil or radically extended tips claw sail (Te Laa). Tepukei boats are produced primarily by the Polynesian-speaking inhabitants of Taumako (Duff Islands), and have been occasionally borrowed by other Polynesian and Melanesian societies.

Name
The word comes from the phrase te puke  in Vaeakau-Taumako and other Polynesian languages. Removing the noun article te, the original meaning of puke , as reconstructed for the ancestor Proto-Polynesian is "bow and stern decking on a canoe". By metonymy, the name of that deck has become used for the ship as a whole. (The Proto-Polynesian root for "boat" or "canoe" is *waka.)

History
The tepukei was first reported in print by Spanish explorer Álvaro de Mendaña in 1595, on his visit to the Santa Cruz Islands.

A tepukei looks like an outrigger canoe with a crab claw sail, and is a very sophisticated ocean-going sailing ship, belonging to the proa type (a main hulls and a massive, buoyant outrigger). Contrary to what Mendana wrote, the outrigger is always kept to windward. Its main differences from other proas are:

 The main hull (vaka) has an almost circular section whose submerged profile remains constant despite heeling, and has less almost no dry surface when trimmed for sailing. The design is meant to carry heavy loads.
 The vaka's top is very close to the flotation line, so it is closed with planks (tetau) and the accommodations for the crew are on an elevated platform over the Lakauhalava (the crossbeams connecting the main hull and the smaller, windward outrigger)
 The radical claw sail.

In common with a typical proa, it uses a radically long-armed form of crab claw sail. However, its particular variant, when a small, stiff model was evaluated in modern wind tunnel tests, shows superior performance over two of three points of sail.

W. C. O'Ferrall, an Anglican missionary to Melanesia between 1897 and 1904, described the tepukei as a "sailing canoe". He described it as consisting of a dugout log equipped with a deck upon which a small hut was built, powered by a "lofty and strikingly shaped sail", and steered with a long paddle. He reported that men from Santa Cruz used the boat to travel as far away as the Solomon Islands.

The Maunga Nefe, which may be the only te alolili that was built prior to 1970, is in the Ethnological Museum of Berlin. People of Outer Reef Islands (Vaeakau people) call them "Puki" making no distinction between tealolili and tepukei designs. It was brought by Dr. Gerd Koch from the Santa Cruz Islands in 1967.

In recent years, tepukei have been experiencing a renaissance. The Vaka Taumako Project has helped support the construction of these boats, and some vessels inspired by ancient designs are even being built in San Francisco.

External links

The Vaka Taumako Project
Account of tepukei construction
 3D model of a TePuke sailing canoe from Taumako.

References

Indigenous boats
Sailboat types
Multihulls
Outrigger canoes
Boat types

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Arbor and Sector 9 longboards are some of the most popular longboards in the market.
The two however have some differences as well as similarities. From their history to their longboards, this article shall shed light on those differences and similarities.
Arbor, also known as Arbor Collective, is a company specializing in outdoors and sports products.
The company is known for making high quality and exceptional snowboards, longboards, skateboards and clothing. Arbor Collective was started in 1995 and prides itself in using the best materials to create wearable and rideable products of the highest quality.
The company consists of artists, designers and friends who collaboratively combine proven craftsmanship with forward looking design to create amazing products.
The company started off in 1995 by making snowboards.
The goal of Arbor has always been to create amazing products using sustainably sourced materials like bamboo and wood.
Skateboards production started in 1998 and Arbor has been converting old snowboards to skateboards for years. Both the skateboards and snowboards incorporate great design and art in handmade woodcraft of high quality.
The clothing is also made in a way that fits Arbor's philosophy of creating amazing products in the most responsible way. Some of the apparel by Arbor is made of organic cotton and bamboo.
The clothes from Arbor aim at promoting environmental preservation efforts.
Arbor is also committed to taking care of the environment. Their environmental program, Returning Roots, aims at rebuilding forests with every sale.
This is achieved by making donations to groups that rebuild and protect forests.
Arbor's preservation efforts are primarily focused on Hawaii's Koa forests. The company also aims at using materials that are sourced sustainably to further protect the environment.
The start of Sector 9 can be traced back to 1993. The company specializes in making longboards and skateboards. It also offers other products such as clothing and surfboards.
The focus on longboards means that the company not only offers completes but also produces longboard and skateboard components such as decks, trucks and wheels. This makes Sector 9 a one stop shop for longboard riders be they interested in buying a complete longboard or assembling it themselves.
The company is also a strong proponent of environmental conservation.
Additionally, the company sponsors surfers, skateboarders and longboarders. The company, which was founded by Dave Klimkiewicz, Steve Lake, Tal O'Farrell and Dennis Telfler, has its headquarters in San Diego, California.
It was acquired in 2008 by Billabong International and is one of its subsidiaries. The company prides itself in delivering a great riding and surfing experience and amazing boards.
Arbor and Sector 9 are both great companies with amazing products. Their longboards are not radically different from each other. What really separates them is the fact that Arbor likes to use Koa wood in the construction of its boards.
Some riders have asserted that Sector 9 longboards have better performance. This is especially so when it comes to longboards designed for a certain style of riding such as downhill and carving.
This may be due to the different series that Sector 9 offers targeted at specific styles of riding.
Given the similarities in construction, ratings and prices, there is not much that radically differentiates longboards from the two companies. This means that ultimately, the choice between Arbor or Sector 9 longboards comes down to availability and personal preference.