Spending the summer in a beach house is a custom for meridians of high purchasing power since the linear meter in the area can cost up to 350 thousand pesos.
To the north of Merida, the sea breaks against the coast in the municipality of Progreso, the most important port of Yucatan. Along more than 40 kilometers of beach, you can count hundreds of houses and condominiums that for more than 100 years have been part of the life of the meridians.
The summers of hundreds of Yucatecan families have passed in this place and for some years it is the winter that receives Canadian, North American and European vacationers, who have found in this area a shelter against the cold that punishes their countries of origin, in a paradise similar to the New York Hamptons.
This arrival has generated a new panorama for the area, which stands out in the map of northern Yucatan as one of the most valuable real estate in the region, with prices that reach 300 and 350 thousand pesos per linear meter in the surrounding areas. the places called San Benito and San Bruno.
Víctor Esquivel Peniche, director of Prisma Edificadora, one of the real estate companies that have condominiums in the area, told how the region has become an attraction for foreigners looking to spend days or months in Progreso since the beginning of this century, but for The Yucatecans its a tradition that goes back to generations that lived between the 1880s and 1890s.
"A tradition of our grandparents (going to the houses on Progreso beaches) in July and August the middle and upper class will live two and a half months," recalls Esquivel Peniche, who, in addition to being a developer in the area, is a native of Mérida and he knows well what the coastal zone represents for the Yucatecans.
"Penthouse, one bedroom, one bathroom, 293 square meters of surface, price 6 million 788 thousand 293 pesos", is the advertisement with which a property is sold in a condominium located in Chicxulub Puerto, in the portal VivaAnuncios. The cost does not seem to surprise many who ask for it in the comments of the publication.
Similar to what happens in the area called " The Hamptons " in the state of New York, the area is now highly valued and becomes the refuge of people of high purchasing power who also find a warm place to spend the days, a high fishing and water sports activity to satisfy your entertainment needs.
Along the coast that begins in the area of Chelem are buildings of one or two floors, with family spaces, small pools or Jacuzzis to the front, some of which have been remodeled and adapted to modern styles.
There you can find considerably cheaper properties, houses of one thousand 302 square meters, with a garage with space for four cars are offered at one million 400 thousand pesos on the coast.
It is in this area where a large colony of Canadians has established some homes that they visit from the end of November to the beginning of March, dates when their country has little work or tourist activity.
Some, mostly retired people, already have a permanent home and have even adapted to the daily life of the place.
In addition to them, hundreds of Mexicans who have had to leave their places of origin driven by violence find refuge in Mérida or areas of Progreso.
The increase in the construction of houses in the city caused that the coast also saw benefited with greater demand for holiday periods.
Sites and housing rental applications such as Airbnb have gained strength and there are now some condominiums, mainly in the Chicxulub Puerto area, which are used only for short-term rental.
For those who only seek to know the area and spend a weekend near the coast, there are rental options ranging from 250 pesos in areas closer to Chelem and Puerto Progreso, up to one thousand 500 or 2 thousand pesos per night in the Chicxulub and Telchac area, according to Airbnb site options.
Now, with the increase in demand, the constructions have extended eastward, to San Bruno and San Benito still in Chicxulub and to the municipality of Telchac Puerto.
In some points, the linear meter is around 400 thousand pesos, according to the constructor's data.
Towards the other extreme, at the end of the commercial area of Progreso beach, Chicxulub Puerto starts, an area where some of the oldest condominiums in the area are established and which has had problems in recent years with the advance of the sea, which has gained ground to the beach and forced many property owners to frequent less or simply abandon their properties.
"At kilometer 12 the sea is already 5 or 6 meters away," says the real estate developer, who recalls that this happened gradually. Together with the current problem of sargassum, this area that is several kilometers long on the coast now looks abandoned.
After the removal of the spurs (wooden structures that were intended to prevent the erosion of the beach) due to ecological causes, a large part of it disappeared.
There, some large complexes have been left waiting for the sea to swallow them, but meters ago other houses and apartments are being built, away from danger.
In San Bruno, many of the buildings in process and some others already finished, are not near the beach, they started 120 meters away from the coast, preventing the same problem that caused the abandonment of their predecessors.
"They are built on pilastrons (pilasters), which measure one meter with 80 centimeters, so they are already asking for them," says Ulises Mézquita Martínez, a carpenter and rescuer of ships from the Progreso area.
He prefers to be called "El Botellón" and has experience in all the houses in the area where he does carpentry work, but also masonry.
The houses are now built on these pillars that go to a considerable depth, depending on how near or far from the coast, which in addition to giving security to the new homes protect it from the onslaught of hurricanes that could cause flooding in nearby areas. the coast.
With his experience, Ulises knows that these houses are prepared to withstand much more now than the spurs that have been removed from the beach area, at the demand of local authorities, which also gives more value to the houses that are built with the new technique.
Although many still use their homes as places where they only vacation on holidays or during a long weekend, others have begun to add to the advantages that technology provides by sharing long stays with travelers to keep the properties occupied for much longer.
Others more take advantage of the boom of the region and offer houses within the town, in areas slightly further from the coast, at an average price of 2.6 million pesos, according to data from real estate portals such as Propiedades.com, Trovit, Inmuebles24 and Lamudi.
On the coast, the average is between 5 and 6 million pesos, according to these same search engines, but they reach 2 million dollars (about 38.3 million pesos) for properties with 40 linear meters of front.
Most of these properties are located from kilometer 16 and up to 35, areas that had not been so demanded until recent dates.
"Now it is built between 100 and 120 meters from the coast, the beach at some points is already 5 or 6 meters from reaching the houses," says Peniche, who says that building far from the beach gives them much more years of safety to the constructions.
Although the region still does not gain national or international fame from other points, as more people continue to acquire properties in the area, the prices will continue to rise.
If for decades the Yucatecans preferred their coast instead of any European destination, now also the Europeans do it.


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Salvador Monzó Cros (Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, España, 20 de agosto de 1921), fue un futbolista español. Jugó de defensa central y su primer equipo fue el Valencia CF.

Biografía

Tras pasar por el Levante UD y una cesión en el equipo amateur de Catarroja este fuerte defensa se hizo con un hueco en la primera plantilla del Valencia CF.

A pesar de su escasa estatura era una pesadilla en el juego aéreo para los atacantes rivales a los que secaba aprovechando su gran corpulencia. En sus comienzos solía jugar en la banda sin embargo su mejor rendimiento lo logró como central, puesto en el que se mantuvo como titular durante seis años  formando una pareja mítica con Vicente Asensi.

Tras retirarse por problemas físicos al final de la temporada 1955 tuvo un breve retorno en el Alicante CF que confirmó que sus días como jugador de fútbol habían acabado.

Clubes

Títulos

Campeonatos nacionales

Enlaces externos
 Monzó en www.lfp.es

Futbolistas de Valencia
Futbolistas del Valencia Club de Fútbol en los años 1940
Futbolistas del Valencia Club de Fútbol en los años 1950
Futbolistas del Alicante Club de Fútbol
Nacidos en Valencia

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Michael Cohen presents his case to Congress.
On February 27, 2019, the former lawyer and attorney of President Donald Trump stood before Congress to publicly testify against him for possible crimes the president may have committed. According to The Real Deal, Cohen stated that Trump inflated the value of his assets to insurance companies.
As an example for the alleged asset inflation, Cohen named 40 Wall Street, which he had fixed at $524.7 million back in 2011. In this particular asset, he used comparable figures from similar properties. This is a typical industry practice; however, this does allow Trump to set the value of the asset at whatever he chooses.
According to The Washington Examiner, Trump has also alleged to seek NDAs (Non-Disclosure Agreements) from his staff, which would prevent them from reporting any activity that may not be entirely legal.
As the Democrats attempt to prepare their best argument in favor of impeaching Trump, many assumed that Cohen's testimony would be of great use in their case against him. Unfortunately for them, Cohen does have a history of lying to Congress, a rather recent one, in fact. Just last week, according to National Review, he claimed to have flipped against Trump almost two years ago in Charlottesville. This even included the stripper who had attempted to blackmail Trump, and while the president never directly told Cohen to pay him off, Cohen was not able to provide details of the debacle.
Whether or not these allegations are true, Cohen has stirred up quite a debate among both the Republicans and the Democrats. Only time will tell if this impacts Trump's presidency.


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Recently I attended a meeting of the local chapter of the American Correctional Health Services Association and heard a presentation about a program to manage chronic pain in the correctional setting. Even though nurses deliver the majority of care in the correctional setting no nurses were involved in this program; it was a completely physician- driven model of care. It made me wonder why nurses are not collaboratively managing clinical care of patients with chronic pain. What role do correctional nurses have in addressing patient's chronic pain?
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) identified pain management as an essential responsibility for nurses (Relieving Pain in America, 2011). This responsibility is more than simply carrying out the provider's treatment orders; it includes implementation of nursing interventions to manage and reduce a patient's experience of pain. Interventions that are within the independent scope of nursing practice include non-pharmacologic measures to manage symptoms and assist the patient with coping.
Decreased levels but not elimination of pain (2011).
There are a number of non-pharmacologic approaches to improve sleep, increase activity and manage stress but which ones have the best evidence to support their use? The ICSI and the Registered Nurse Association of Canada (RNAO) are two organizations that evaluate the research and publish recommendations regarding chronic pain on a periodic basis. There is strong evidence to incorporate the following interventions into the plan of care for patients who have chronic pain. Each is within the nursing professions' scope of practice.
Exercise: Exercise provides physical reconditioning, elevates mood, increases functionality and helps maintain mobility. No one type of exercise is more effective than another. Nurses can recommend, teach, coach and supervise patient exercise. No referral to a physical therapist or recreation specialist is needed. No special equipment or facility is needed.
Relaxation: Helpingpatients incorporate relaxation techniques into their daily life has been found to improve treatment adherence, reduce anxiety, and enhance pain tolerance. Relaxation techniques include massage, use of heat or cold, meditation, imagery, diaphragmatic breathing, autogenic training, progressive muscle relaxation and music. Relaxation decreases physical tension, increases oxygenation and circulation, lengthens and relaxes muscle fibers.
Cognitive behavioral change: This intervention is considered by the ICSI to be the most effective non-pharmacologic tool in managing chronic pain. Cognitive change involves restructuring the patient's view of pain and increases the patient's coping strategies. It involves finding ways to change habits or beliefs by experimenting with different ways to solve problems. The nurse assists the patient to develop goals for change, a plan to accomplish the goal incrementally and periodic coaching and follow up on progress.
Chapter 13 of the Essentials of Correctional Nursing has more discussion about the nurses' role in managing pain and the challenges of doing so in the correctional setting. If you would like to share your successes incorporating non-pharmacologic approaches into the treatment of patients with chronic pain please use the comments section of this post? You may also want to attend the session on this subject at the National Conference on Correctional Health Care in Las Vegas on October 22, 2012 (registration information is at http://ncchc.org/education/national.html). If so, see you there!
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Clocks change 2019: When do the clocks go forward and why do clocks change?
The days are currently getting brighter and brighter as spring arrived this month. Soon, the clocks will change and go forward, giving Britons and hour less of sleep. When the clocks go forward, the evenings will get lighter and the mornings darker.
The clocks will go forward by one hour at 1am on Sunday, March 31 this year.
The period when the clocks are one hour ahead is called British Summer Time (BST).
The change will mean more daylight in the evenings and less in the mornings.
If you live near the equator, day and night are nearly the same length (12 hours).
But elsewhere on Earth, there is much more daylight in the summer than in the winter.
Because of this, Britain is currently changing the clocks twice a year to go forward on hour and back one hour in the winter.
The period when the clocks are one hour ahead is called British Summer Time (BST) and when it goes back the UK is on Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
The main purpose of turning the clock back (or forward) is to make better use of daylight.
In Britain, changing the clock began in 1916 when the Government passed the Summer Time Act in 1916, during the First World War.
Coldplay singer Chris Martin's great-great-grandfather, a builder called William Willett, thought it was a good idea so he started campaigning for people to get out of bed earlier.
Mr Willett spent his life trying to convince people to get behind his suggestion, but daylight saving was only introduced a year after he died.
However, the idea of changing the clocks started in the USA in 1784.
The true inventor Benjamin Franklin suggested if people got up earlier, when it was lighter, then it would save on candles.
Many people have different opinions about whether the clocks should change or not.
Critics of the twice-yearly clock changes say it can cause long-term health problems, especially among young children and elderly people.
Others argue that making the switch to give extra morning daylight in winter and evening light in summer can help reduce traffic accidents and save energy.
Last year, the European Union announced they will scrap the twice-yearly seasonal clock change across the bloc from October 2019, leaving member states to decide by April whether they will stick permanently to summer or winter time.


As the University prepares to hire a huge number of professors, candidates will face different degrees of review for tenure at Cornell, depending on their teaching ability, experience and the caliber of their former institution.Junior faculty — untenured professors — at the University often have to wait about six years before they are reviewed for tenure. But when hiring new faculty, Cornell does not have a defined process for determining which candidates receive tenure, according to John Siliciano '75, vice president for academic affairs."There actually isn't a policy" on granting tenure to newly hired faculty, Siliciano said, "because we have to make judgments based on very individual circumstances."Siliciano said that if faculty are hired "laterally" — to the same position they held at another university of comparable caliber — they are guaranteed tenure. Rather than undergo an extensive review process, they may need to simply wait for approval by a committee of faculty; the dean of the college; and the University Provost before being granted tenure."They know it, we know it … We're hiring them as a tenured professor," Siliciano said. "In that case, the only thing that process is doing is complying with [University] rules. It's just a bunch of little formalities."But Prof. Adam Smith, anthropology, who came to Cornell from the University of Chicago last fall, said he had a different experience."When they hired me here, it was basically probationary," he said, describing his past year at the University as "going through the exact same process [of review for tenure] all over again.""In effect, to come work at Cornell, you have to give up your tenure and your position," Smith added.Smith said that most candidates who come to Cornell on the condition that they be reviewed again for tenure assume that the process will be a relatively smooth one, assuming they meet the University's standards. "You already made it through the hiring process, so the process of tenuring and promotion shouldn't be all that difficult," Smith said.Like Smith, Prof. Ted Sider, philosophy, said that new hires who had tenure at their former university are likely to receive tenure once he or she has agreed to work at their new institution.Although one does have to be "technically" reviewed again for tenure, "I've moved a couple times since I've gotten tenure [and] it's usually very unlikely that you would not be successfully re-renewed," Sider said.In addition to hiring some faculty "laterally," the University sometimes hires people as full professors who were considered junior faculty at their former institution.According to Prof. Ron Ehrenberg, industrial and labor relations, although Cornell likes to "grow our own talent" by promoting and encouraging the development of junior faculty, it will occasionally offer tenure to talented, young faculty from other institutions."If there's a young star at another university, we can try to pre-empt what his or her university is doing and see if we can get their tenure promoted early," Ehrenberg told The Sun in March.For instance, Sider said his wife, Prof. Jill North, philosophy, was "coming up" for tenure at the college she worked at last spring when she was both hired and given tenure by Cornell."She didn't have tenure previously, and so that's a bigger deal," Sider said, adding that the tenure process was "done before we got here."The University offers faculty from other institutions tenure upon being hired if they are identified as a "target of opportunity," said Prof. Charles Brittain, classics, chair of the Department of Classics."If we identify that person as the best person in the search, when we offer them a job, it [also] means that we want to offer them tenure," Brittain said.Siliciano said, however, that the decision to offer early tenure to a faculty member remains under the discretion of the department in which that candidate would teach."Those [decisions] are always based on the department's assessment of whether the person is ready to come up under Cornell standards," he said.For instance, according to Siliciano, a candidate who comes from a university with lower standards can "fall backwards" and have to undergo a more extensive review to be granted tenure at Cornell."The amount of process you're typically going to see is proportional to the amount of uncertainty we have about [the hire]," Siliciano said.One of the most common examples of such a tenure process, according to Siliciano, involves candidates who focus primarily on research and have less teaching experience. Although the candidate may be hired, he or she will only be considered for tenure once their department has evaluated their teaching abilities."We want to see them up close," Siliciano said.Although some professors may find an extended tenure process nerve-wracking or frustrating, Brittain said that waiting to give tenure — especially for candidates who primarily focus on research — is beneficial for the University."That's a good way of getting the best people … [and making] sure they put effort into teaching," Brittain said.
Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly gave the first name of Prof. Ted Sider, philosophy. His first name is Ted, not Tom.


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This is a list of water trails which make it easy to arrange a self-guided vacation, plus some commercial operators who provide sea kayak tours and training. For activities outside Canada and the US see next page.
Elsewhere we list some courses on building traditional kayaks; some tours, treks, races & raids; some sea kayak meetings & symposia, and national and regional sea kayaking associations.
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Way, way back in 2011, when the world was young and fidget spinners weren't yet a thing, there was lore floating around in the search marketing world that "mesothelioma" was the most expensive keyword to bid on in Google AdWords, costing upwards of $100 per click. But was it true? I had a little idea: What if we used data from our Free Keyword Tool to determine which keywords had the highest costs per click (or CPC's) in Google AdWords? The infographic we created based on that data is still one of our most popular and most linked to pages ever, but people often ask us for updated data. Those people and curious people everywhere are in luck! We've completed a new, comprehensive analysis of keyword data for five different currencies in English-speaking countries (keep an eye out for the data for GBP, CAD, AUS, and ZAR over the course of this week). This time around, we determined the top 25 most expensive keywords (meaning these niche markets are super-competitive) along with their average CPC – and six years later, the results are substantially different!
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Volunteer at the animal rescue center in a township.
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Choose from several fascinating and affordable programs to volunteer in South Africa! We offer both exciting wildlife volunteering opportunities in the African Bush, and educational projects in Cape Town. There are hundreds of reasons to volunteer in South Africa, may it be the fascinating volunteer projects, or hundreds of stunning leisure activities.
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If you enjoy surfing, join the Surfing program in Muizenberg. On one of the most beautiful beaches of the planet, you can learn to surf on gently rolling waves! As a volunteer, you can share this fascinating experience with adolescents from the neighborhood, and teach them English as well.
On the Southern Peninsula of Cape Town, there are more exciting volunteer projects: the new Teaching Internship at a primary school, Occupational Therapy for children with special needs and Sports Development. One of the favorite experiences is caring and Teaching Children at Doreen's Crèche, in Masiphumelele.
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All these projects are close to the volunteer house and to the beaches.
Cape Town offers plenty of fascinating leisure activities, even paragliding. However, if you love marine life and want to dig even deeper, try ou new Marine Biology internship at the Aquarium in Cape Town! You will fall in love with the underwater life full of color, beauty, tranquility, and magic.
You may even face your fears and cage dive with Great White Sharks! This program offers the opportunity to see the world's most fascinating predators in their natural habitat.
On the picturesque coastline of the Garden Route, close to Port Elizabeth, you'll find an Animal Sanctuary, where you can nurse orphaned and Injured Wildlife.
And since you will be living in a nearby lodge, the African Choir will wake you up every morning.
From there, it is not really far to tropical Durban – where the sun never sets and the surf is always up!
Near Tzaanen, a six hours drive from Johannesburg, there is an important volunteer project to save orphaned Vervet Monkeys. For this one, you don't need to be a vet, love for the animals and dedication is all you need!
The country is both rich in culture, fauna & flora, and history.
Moreover, the beautiful country features an incredible range of climates, widely varying landscapes, wildlife, and wilderness.
While you volunteer in South Africa you will also have some free time to discover its beautiful landscapes.
You can choose whether you discover from the white beaches and dazzling oceans of Cape Town or go for a trip to the picturesque coastline of the Garden Route, to tropical Durban – where the sun never sets and the surf is always up!
At the rugged Drakensberg mountain range, you can enjoy stunning views over jagged sweeps of peaks. However, in the North, you will find a different scenery again, where it's famous 'veld' or bush expands to the horizon.
At dusk, you can expect to behold spectacular sunsets like no other, made up of the most vivid reds, orange, pinks, and purples.
Besides the stunning natural beauty and scenery, South Africa features one of the most diverse populations of wildlife in the world.
In the raw African bush only an hour from urban cities such as Pretoria and Johannesburg, you can hope to see Africa's Big Five: lions, elephants, buffaloes, rhinos and leopards, among many hundreds of other species.
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Iko Poran is not a travel agency, but rather a non-profit volunteer organization based in a developing country.
We are committed to making your adventure trip to volunteer in South Africa the most affordable and effective so that more people can help where it is really needed.
There are no hidden costs, the entire placement fee goes directly to the local organization in the host country.
Join our cheap volunteer programs in South Africa for the experience of your lifetime!
Iko Poran is an NGO based in a developing country. We are dedicated to helping you help others, at the cheapest possible prices. One of our goals is to offer cheap volunteer programs in South Africa so that more people can help to do really important work.
Participants in our cheap volunteer programs in South Africa normally find U$100 to be sufficient for weekly expenses in the country.
Find all the programs to volunteer in South Africa on our detail pages for each project. You will find in detail, where the volunteer programs for a specific cause are located in South Africa.
As the details of these services vary according to the project, please check the specifics of your chosen program to volunteer in South Africa.
Programs start every Mondays of each month. Volunteers should plan to arrive before 4:15 pm to attend orientation.
If you can't make it, we suggest you fly in a day early. We can arrange airport pickup & extra night of accommodation.
Program length varies according to the project.
Orientation takes place at 5 pm on Mondays.
In the Animal preservation programs, all volunteers must treat animals and humans with respect.
Most importantly, pack in energy, a positive attitude, love in your heart and a spring in your step!
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1. Water: No matter what the weather, you'll need water. Vary the amount, depending on conditions, but don't travel with less than 1 liter, while at least 1.5 liters would be better for a hike of over 4 hours duration.
2. Food: Although most of Gaol Siar's tours include lunch or a coffee break, we do advise that you bring something extra with you such as chocolate or an energy bar.
3. Torch plus spare batteries: Always handy to have in your rucksack, just incase.
4. Camera: To capture the moment a camera is always a good idea, please ensure you have the permission of other participants prior to taking any photographs of the tour group.
5. Mobile phone: Just incase.
6. First aid supplies: Whilst Gaol Siar guides carry a basic first aid kit, if you feel you need additional first aid kit, please ensure to bring it with you.
7. Maps and information: Gaol Siar may provide you with maps and additional material, please ensure you bring them with you to make the most of your tour.
1. Hiking boots: Waterproof ankle high boots are essential. Buy a pair that is at least one half to one full size too big for you, compared to standard shoes, so you can wear two pairs of good thick socks and feel nice, comfortable and secure within.
2. Hiking socks: To ensure you are comfortable on your walk a good pair of hiking socks is advisable.
3. Waterproof pants: A pair of waterproof trousers is advisable, however they should be light enough to carry in your rucksack when not needed.
4. Waterproof Jacket: A waterproof jacket is a must in the west of Ireland.
5. Hats and Gloves: In the cooler months, both hats and gloves are essential. In the summer moths a good sun hat is also a must.
6. Hiking Stick|Pole: Many of Gaol Siar's tours are on uneven ground therefore a hiking pole or stick is advisable.
7. Rucksack: A light water proof rucksack to keep all your belonging dry.
8. Sunglasses: Sunglasses are a must near the coast, as the glare from the sea tends to be quiet strong.
9. Sun Cream: Please ensure you wear an appropriate factor sun cream, please remember that you can get salt and wind burn on the sea swell as sunburn.


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He is a founding member and CEO till 2005 of ICAP, the largest business consulting company in Greece that provides business credit risk services, management consulting services, market research and business listings and personnel selection.
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She graduated from the British College of Egypt and attended seminars in sociology and philosophy in Greece and abroad. She worked for several years at the Embassy of Saudi Arabia while teaching English, French and Italian.
She is a member of the National Society of Greek Writers (E.E.E.L.) and has written books of social content. She has also written articles, essays, studies in magazines and newspapers and has given lectures on philosophical content.
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Husband Of Murdered Top Kenyan Athlete, Agnes Tirop Arrested
Husband of slain Kenyan long-distance athlete Agnes Tirop, Emmanuel Rotich, has been arrested in Mombasa.
Ezenwoko's Blog understands that Agnes Jebet Tirop, a Kenyan Olympian and world record holder in the women's 10000m category, was allegedly stabbed to death by her husband
Tirop was found dead at her home on Wednesday, reportedly with stab wounds in her abdomen and neck. It is alleged that she was murdered by her husband.
Police say Emmanuel Rotich was caught "while fleeing" and may face charges after an investigation.
She was just 10 days away from her 26th birthday.
The 25-year-old Kenyan had recently set the world record for the road 10K.
In other news, another Kenyan man named Stephen Nyangeri Mauti, has been charged with manslaughter for allegedly killing his wife, Faith Nyatichi after she told him he was not good enough when they made love.
According to k24tv, late Faith Nyatichi had visited the accused in the Kangemi Hill area, where they had rented an apartment and lived.
It was gathered that the incident had happened in Kangemi hill after the deceased was said to have left her husband to go visit her 'cousin' in Kiserian and after a while, he called her to know when she would be back only for her to inform him she had travelled to the village. Read here;
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Mark Zuckerberg married Priscilla Chan in secret ceremony after $104 bn IPO
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his long-time girlfriend Priscilla Chan tied the knot at a small ceremony at his home in Palo Alto, California, a day after $104 billion IPO.
Priscilla Chan, 27, also had a busy week, graduating from medical school on Monday, as Zuckerberg marked his 28th birthday.
The guests believed they were going to celebrate Priscilla Chan's graduation – but found they were at a wedding instead.
The wedding ring, a "very simple ruby", was designed by Mark Zuckerberg.
Mark Zuckerberg weds Priscilla Chan in secret ceremony after $104 bn IPO
Nine years ago the pair met at Harvard, where Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004.
They later moved to California, where Facebook has its headquarters, and Priscilla Chan studied at the medical school of the University of California, San Francisco.
Facebook's valuation after its flotation on Friday means the social network site is worth about the same as internet shopping giant Amazon, and more than the value of stalwarts such as Disney.
Even after the flotation, Mark Zuckerberg continues to control just under 56% of the voting power of the company.
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Dear Annie: Stay with a deceiver?
Dear Annie: I'm torn and hoping an objective voice will help me reach a decision.
I recently found out that my girlfriend of three years has been seeing another guy behind my back for the past couple of months. I had been growing suspicious for some time; she has been distant and has not been physical at all lately. Then the other day, when she was in the shower, I gave in to temptation and snooped through her cellphone. I found that she'd been texting with some guy the night before about meeting up at a bar. She had told me she was going out for a girls night.
But I've a feeling that the real reason you're avoiding a breakup is you're afraid to let go. If that's the case, it's time to end things so you can start the process of beginning again. You cannot simply wish that pain in your chest away.
Dear Annie: I have actually found comfort in reading the letters from grandparents and others who have shared their dismay in never receiving thank-you notes. At least I'm not the only one who has had this problem.
I tried talking to the kids and the parents, to no avail. The parents even tried to "explain" that their kids were too busy with activities. I was appalled. So I went to plan B. During one visit, when everyone was at one dining room table, I passed out thank-you cards to all the grandkids. The envelopes were pre-addressed to my husband and me and stamped. I also gave them an additional box of thank-you notes to be used for other gift givers. I shared the importance of sending thank-you notes whenever they receive a gift. I then advised that they were all on permanent probation. No "thank you" means no future gifts — end of story. I give them five days after receipt of a gift to send a note. This has worked.
Of course, their mother thinks I am a nag and old-fashioned. I think I'm teaching my grandkids an important life lesson, and shame on their parents for not doing the same. But now I enjoy notes from my grandkids, and some of them are even being more thoughtful and giving in other ways. — C.A. in Sarasota, Fla.
Dear C.A.: You are indeed teaching them an important life lesson, one they'll thank you for when they're older.
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US Now Assessing Effectiveness of Dropping Nukes on Russia & China — Seriously
by Claire Bernish
Amid heightening tensions with China and in the wake of accusations Russia somehow interfered in the election, U.S. Congress has instructed intelligence agencies and the Pentagon's Strategic Command to assess the 'survivability' of Chinese and Russian leaders in the event of an above- or below-ground nuclear strike.
Under ordinary circumstances, such a review could be considered routine, but — given President Donald Trump's ratcheting up of hostilities with China and the Democratic establishment's scapegoating of Russia for its own shortcomings — it seems more an indication the U.S. could be preparing for war.
Interestingly, the plan for this analysis came buried in the 2017 NDAA, which former President Barack Obama signed into law two days before Christmas — timing almost certainly intended to deflect attention from several unsavory measures buried in the law's pages.
This review, had it garnered attention, surely would have set off further debate on the perilous provocation to war with nuclear capable nations.
According to the NDAA, reviewers will perform "an identification of which facilities various senior political and military leaders of each respective country are expected to operate out of during crisis and wartime" and, additionally, the "location and description of above-ground and underground facilities important to the political and military leadership survivability."
"Key officials and organizations of each respective country involved in managing and operating such facilities, programs, and activities" will also be identified by analysts.
Bloomberg reports, "Under the little-noticed provision in this year's defense authorization measure, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the U.S. Strategic Command — which plans and would execute nuclear strikes — will evaluate the post-attack capabilities of the two nuclear powers. The law mandates a report on Russian and Chinese 'leadership survivability, command and control and continuity of government programs.'"
Strategic Command will also evaluate how Chinese and Russian plans relate to the post-nuclear deployment plans of the United States.
"Our experts are drafting an appropriate response," Strategic Command spokesman Navy Captain Brook DeWalt told Bloomberg in an email, adding, "it's premature to pass along any details at this point, we can update you further at a later date."
Written before Trump took office, the planned analysis nevertheless aligns with the president's statement the U.S. nuclear arsenal should be strengthened — despite his stated goal of rapprochement with Russia.
In December, he told MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski on Morning Joe, "Let it be an arms race. We will outmatch them at every pass and outlast them all." And in a brazen tweet the same month, Trump declared, "The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes."
On Friday, Trump ordered Secretary of Defense James Mattis to "initiate a new Nuclear Posture Review to ensure that the United States nuclear deterrent is modern, robust, flexible, resilient, ready, and appropriately tailored to deter 21st-century threats and reassure our allies."
Ohio Representative Michael Turner, who sits on the House Armed Service Committee's Strategic Forces panel, told Bloomberg via email the U.S. "must understand how China and Russia intend to fight a war and how their leadership will command and control a potential conflict. This knowledge is pivotal to our ability to deter the threat."
China and Russia, he continued, "have invested considerable effort and resources into understanding how we fight, including how to interfere with our leadership's communication capabilities.
"We must not ignore gaps in our understanding of key adversary capabilities."
While posturing about Russia being responsible for hacking and otherwise manipulating either the election or the U.S. populace has subsided since Trump took office, the president has intensified hostilities with China over trade, as well as maritime territorial issues in the South and East China Seas.
Russia and the U.S. ostensively possess some 90 percent of the world's nuclear weapons — but Moscow has reportedly spent a great deal of time and money upgrading and improving its arsenal, where the U.S. has not.
Assessing the plans of world leaders in the event military action turns nuclear indicates the use of these weapons remains a viable option.
"Nuclear leaders in Russia and China 'plan to direct nuclear forces from inside command bunkers buried deeply beneath the earth or deeply inside mountains,' said Bruce Blair, a Princeton University research scholar on nuclear security policy and co-founder of Global Zero, a group devoted to eliminating nuclear weapons," Bloomberg reports.
With a cascade of contentious executive actions coming nearly every day since Trump took the oath of office, vigilance — particularly concerning bellicose exchanges between the U.S. and China or Russia — is an absolute imperative.
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Lawrence K. Frank
Lawrence (Larry) Kelso Frank (December 6, 1890 – September 23, 1968) was an American economist and social scientist, administrator, and parent educator, known with Frank Fremont-Smith as initiator of the Macy conferences, which helped shape the foundations for the field of cybernetics.
1.1 Projective methods for the study of personality (1939)
1.2 National Policy for the Family (1948)
1.3 Nature and human nature (1951)
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Past and future are but two aspects of behavior, the past being the persistent modifications in the behaving organism, and the future the controlling direction or pattern imposed upon the unfolding behavior according to those persistent modifications.
Lawrence Kelso Frank (1948) Society as the Patient: Essays on Culture & Personality. p. 351; as cited in: Betsy Caton Goss (1991) Accounting quality and dispersion of financial analysts. p. 15
The concepts of purposive behavior and teleology have long been associated with a mysterious, self-perfecting or goal-seeking capacity or final cause, usually of superhuman or super-natural origin. To move forward to the study of events, scientific thinking had to reject these beliefs in purpose and these concepts of teleological operations for a strictly mechanistic and deterministic view of nature. This mechanistic conception became firmly established with the demonstration that the universe was based on the operation of anonymous particles moving at random, in a disorderly fashion, giving rise, by their multiplicity, to order and regularity of a statistical nature, as in classical physics and gas laws. The unchallenged success of these concepts and methods in physics and astronomy, and later in chemistry, gave biology and physiology their major orientation. This approach to problems of organisms was reinforced by the analytical preoccupation of the Western European culture and languages. The basic assumptions of our traditions and the persistent implications of the language we use almost compel us to approach everything we study as composed of separate, discrete parts or factors which we must try to isolate and identify as potential causes. Hence, we derive our preoccupation with the study of the relation of two variables. We are witnessing today a search for new approaches, for new and more comprehensive concepts and for methods capable of dealing with the large wholes of organisms and personalities.
L.K. Frank (1948) "Foreword". In L. K. Frank, G. E. Hutchinson, W. K. Livingston, W. S. McCulloch, & N. Wiener, Teleological mechanisms. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sc., 1948, 50, 189-96; As cited in: Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1968) "General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications". p. 16-17
The concept of teleological mechanisms, however it be expressed in many terms, may be viewed as an attempt to escape from these older mechanistic formulations that now appear inadequate, and to provide new and more fruitful conceptions and more effective methodologies for studying self-regulating processes, self-orienting systems and organisms, and self-directing personalities. Thus, the terms feedback, servomechanisms, circular systems, and circular processes may be viewed as different but equivalent expressions of much the same basic conception
Projective methods for the study of personality (1939)[edit]
L.K. Frank (1939) "Projective methods for the study of personality" The journal of psychology 8, 389-414
The most important things about the individual are what he cannot or will not say.
Coming directly to the topic of projective methods of personality study, we may say that the dynamic conception of personality as a process of organizing experience and structuralizing life space in a field leads to the problem of how we can reveal the way an individual personality organizes experience, in order to disclose or at least gain insight into that individual's private world of meanings, significances, patterns, and feelings.
p. 402 as cited in: Jerry S. Wiggins (2003) Paradigms of personality assessment. p. 33
In similar fashion we may approach the personality and induce the individual to reveal his way of organizing experience by giving him a field (objects, materials, experiences) with relatively little structure and cultural patterning so that the personality can project upon that plastic field his way of seeing life, his meanings, significances, patterns, and especially his feelings, Thus we elicit a projection of the individual's private world, because he has to organize the field, interpret the material, and react affectively to it. More specifically, a projection method for study of personality involves the presentation of a stimulus-situation designed or chosen because it will mean to the subject, not what the experimenter has arbitrarily decided it should mean (as in most psychological experiments using standardized stimuli in order to be "objective"), but rather whatever it must mean to the personality who gives it, or imposes it, his private, idiosyncratic meaning and organization. The subject then will respond to his meaning of the presented stimulus-situation by some form of action and feeling that is expressive of his personality.
p. 402-403; As cited in: Edwin Inglee Megargee, Charles Donald Spielberger (1992) Personality assessment in America: a retrospective on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Society for Personality Assessment. p. 20-21
When we scrutinize the actual procedures that may be called projective methods we find a wide variety of techniques and material being employed for the same general purpose, to obtain from the subject 'what he cannot or will not say,' frequently because he does not know himself and is not aware what he is revealing about himself through his projections.
p. 404 as cited in: Gardner Lindzey (1961) Projective Techniques and Cross-Cultural Research. p. 36
National Policy for the Family (1948)[edit]
L.K. Frank (1948) "National Policy for the Family" Marriage and Family Living. Vol. 10, No. 1, Feb., 1948;
A policy is a formulation of long term goals and purposes and of the values and aspirations by which those goals and purposes are not only defined but are to be translated into activities and practices. Thus a policy is an affirmation, perhaps a reaffirmation, of what may be taken for granted or is implied, but what is frequently ignored or neglected or inadequately recognized in plans and programs and customary operations. Sometimes a policy serves to point out where these goals and purposes and these values are being blocked or sacrificed to various short-term ends or convenience.
A policy therefor might be likened to strategy, the broad, overall, long term conception which gives direction and purpose to the tactics of immediately daily operations and decisions.
Cited in: Atlee L. Stroup (1966) Marriage and Family: A Developmental Approach. p. 593
[I call for] imagination and courage in the endless endeavor to make human life more meaningful and significant, more nearly expressive of the values we cherish... A national policy for the family will earn affirmation and as such should give re-direction to what we are now doing in our social life, and new hope and inspiration to individual men and women and new promise to youth.
Cited in: Ruth H. Jewson, James Walters (1988) The National Council on Family Relations: a fifty year history. p. 15
Nature and human nature (1951)[edit]
Lawrence Kelso Frank (1951) Nature and human nature: man's new image of himself
We are living the events which for centuries to come will be minutely studied by scholars who will undoubtedly describe these days as probably the most exciting and creative in the history of mankind. But preoccupied with our daily chores, our worries and personal hopes and ambitions, few of us are actually living in the present.
We exist in the geographical environment, moving about in space-time, as we carry on our continual intercourse with nature, through breathing, drinking, eating, absorbing light, heat and other forms of radiant energy, eliminating through breathing, urination and defecation, through the skin and by radiation of heat, as the geographical environment flows in and out of us, as it does in all other organisms.
p. 37 as cited in: Laura Thompson (1961) Toward a science of mankind. p. 84
Quotes about Lawrence K. Frank[edit]
While he served as a foundation officer, he fostered studies of child growth and development, adolescents, family living, and aging; parent education programs; and nursery schools. He was long active in the field of mental health, stressing what is now called "Primary Prevention, "and emphasizing the importance of mental health programs in schools and colleges.
NCFR (1963) "Profile of Lawrence K. Frank from NCFR 25th Anniversary"
Frank was one of the two or three men who used foundations the way the Lord meant them to be used.
Margaret Mead (1968) cited in: Steve J. Heims (1991) The Cybernetics Group. p. 68
With the death of Lawrence K. Frank on September 23, 1968, one of the founders and major catalysts of the child development movement was lost to the field.
M.J.E Senn (1969) "Lawrence K. Frank" Child Development. Vol. 40, No. 2, Jun., 1969
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176 Retired Flag Officers To Trump: Do Not Torture In Our Name
A group of retired top military officers has sent a letter to Donald Trump asking him to renounce torture. Will he listen?
During the presidential campaign, one of Donald Trump's big applause lines was about the use of torture on our enemies, particularly terror suspects. During a February 2016 GOP debate he said,
I would bring back waterboarding. And I would bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.
Not long after that he repeated his belief that torture is effective as an interrogation technique, telling a South Carolina audience,
Don't tell me it doesn't work -- torture works. Okay, folks? Torture -- you know, half these guys [say]: 'Torture doesn't work.' Believe me, it works. Okay?
But torture doesn't work, as most military members and intelligence officers will tell you. And on January 6 almost 200 retired flag rank military officers (generals and admirals) sent the incoming commander in chief a letter asking that he formally renounce the practice.
The January 6 letter starts by noting that the signers have a combined 6,000 years of experience in the military. It goes on to speak of the signers' strong belief in the "values and ideals that our country holds dear." Then it cuts to the heart of the matter.
For these reasons, we are concerned about statements made during the campaign about the use of torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment of detainees in U.S. custody. The use of waterboarding or any so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" is unlawful under domestic and international law. Opposition to torture has been strong and bi-partisan since the founding of our republic through the administration of President Ronald Reagan to this very day.
These officers understand several things from experience that Trump just doesn't get. Not only is torture, by whatever name it is called, unlawful, it simply doesn't work. General James Mattis, Trump's pick for Defense Secretary, told Trump that, and these officers agree with him. They call torture "unnecessary" and "counterproductive."
It increases the risks to our troops, hinders cooperation with allies, alienates populations whose support the United States needs in the struggle against terrorism, and provides a propaganda tool for extremists who wish to do us harm.
The letter ends with an appeal to Trump's patriotism.
Most importantly, torture violates our core values as a nation. Our greatest strength is our commitment to the rule of law and to the principles embedded in our Constitution. Our servicemen and women need to know that our leaders do not condone torture or detainee abuse of any kind.
Whether Trump will listen to the appeal is anybody's guess. He has famously said that he knows more about ISIS than the generals do. He has criticized current military leadership, even as he prepares to stock his administration with a number of former military leaders.
Trump did waffle a bit on his promise to bring back waterboarding after meeting with Mattis in November. According to reports, Trump was surprised to learn that Mattis doesn't think very highly of the practice, telling Trump that he has always had more success in interrogations with "a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers."
All things considered, it's likely the letter and Mattis' comments will do little if anything to change Trump's mind for one depressing reason: To a certain segment of the population, the thought that American troops are torturing confessions out of terrorists and saving the world like a scene from the show "24" is a positive thing. It makes them feel good. "Core values?" Who cares about core values when you're attaching electrodes to some terrorist whose core values don't match yours? A sizable portion of Trump's followers have a frightening blood lust. Trump, with his boundless desire to be loved by his basket of deplorables, appears more than happy to appease them.
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UPDATE: Disaster relief teams respond to U.S. storms
by Diana Chandler, posted Monday, January 13, 2020 (7 days ago)
Tags: disaster relief
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was updated Tuesday (Jan. 14).
ANNISTON, Ala. (BP) -- "To God be the glory, great things He has done," rang opening praise at First Baptist Church of Saks in Anniston, Ala., Sunday (Jan. 12) morning, glorifying God for stemming damage when a tornado flew over the church and community the previous day.
Crews removed the toppled steeple that remained on First Baptist Church of Saks in Anniston, Ala., Sunday (Jan. 12) morning, and sealed a hole that was left in the roof.
Photo courtesy of pastor Kenneth Todd Stewart
"The weather report for Saks ... said that a tornado did go over here," senior pastor Kenneth Todd Stewart told Baptist Press Monday (Jan. 13). "But evidently it stayed fairly high, because mainly it was steeples and tree tops and power lines [damaged]. Even the homes that got damaged were mainly from trees falling on them, as opposed to the tornado itself touching down and wiping a big path."
The disaster relief team at the Calhoun Baptist Association (CBA), where First Baptist of Saks is a member church, deployed 19 men and women Saturday (Jan. 11) and Sunday who completed 160 hours of disaster relief work in the county, CBA Director of Missions Roger Willmore told BP Monday.
Three people died in Alabama, killed by a tornado that touched down in Pickens County about 160 miles southwest of Anniston, the Weather Channel reported.
Reported weekend deaths included three in northwest Louisiana, two from an EF2 tornado near Haughton, and one when high winds toppled a tree northwest of Shreveport. Multiple chainsaw crews from First Baptist Church of Blanchard, La., and First Baptist Church of Haughton responded to damage, removing trees and inspecting churches and homes, John Kyle, director of communications for the Louisiana Baptist Convention, told BP late Monday.
First Baptist of Haughton served meals to area residents Sunday and hosted a watch party Monday for the national college football championship game, since many were still without electricity, Kyle said. A laundry unit was available at the church for those in need.
The deaths are among 11 killed in a line of severe weather that struck Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Ohio and Iowa variously with tornadoes, thunderstorms, high winds, ice and heavy rains, according to various news reports.
Casualties included three deaths in Texas, one in Nacogdoches County from a downed tree and two first responders hit by a car while responding to an accident caused by icy roads in Texas; a man who drowned from flooding in Oklahoma, and a man who died in a weather-related traffic accident in Iowa City, Iowa, according to reports.
In Alabama, damage to First Baptist Church of Saks was minimal, the pastor said, including a toppled steeple and water damage.
"Our damage to our facility ... was minimal in that the entire steeple blew over, laid down on its side, but it did not fall off of the building," Stewart said. "We lost a few shingles, but nothing extensive."
With the steeple toppled, water damaged ceiling tiles and part of the sanctuary, which will need to be cleaned, he said. As advised by the church's insurance, the church removed the damaged steeple Sunday morning to prevent additional water damage, and sealed the roof. The church canceled Sunday School and worshiped in the congregation's Christian Life Center.
"Worship went forward, and people gave thanks and praised God that things were not worse than they were," Stewart said. The church expressed "thanksgiving unto the Lord that His hand of providence and protection was with our people and our community. We actually opened our service with 'To God Be the Glory.' Great things he has done, indeed."
Two other Alabama churches, Edgewater Baptist Church in Bessemer and Valley Grove Baptist Church in Tuscumbia, also suffered minor damage, confirmed Mark Wakefield, Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions disaster relief coordinator.
The CBA disaster relief team removed trees that had fallen on two homes, cleaned driveways and roadways of fallen trees, installed a tarp roof on a home and drove many miles assessing damage. The team also presented the Gospel to two homeowners, Willmore said, and will follow up with them as recovery continues.
"[Presenting the Gospel] is part and parcel of our disaster relief efforts," Willmore said, "and our team considers that a very important part of our mission."
CBA disaster relief director Scotty Duke had a team on standby before the storms hit, Willmore told BP, and was able to deploy volunteers immediately.
Diana Chandler is Baptist Press' general assignment writer/editor. BP reports on missions, ministry and witness advanced through the Cooperative Program and on news related to Southern Baptists' concerns nationally and globally.
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