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Steph: Kuminga's role in Warriors' title chase will 'show itself'
/ by Josh Schrock
CHICAGO -- For 26 minutes Friday night in Chicago, the Warriors' future was on full display as Jonathan Kuminga put together the best performance of his young career, scoring 25 points on 10-of-12 shooting while showcasing a wide range of skills in Golden State's 138-96 romp over the Bulls at United Center.
Kuminga's athleticism and explosion feel different, even at 19 years old. It's easy to watch Kuminga have a night like Friday where he is attacking relentlessly on offense, protecting the rim, showing off his court vision, and fast-forward the tape three to five years and envision Kuminga taking a Giannis Antetokounmpo-like path to stardom.
But these Warriors aren't daydreaming about tomorrow. They are firmly planted in the present. So, the question becomes, can Kuminga develop enough, and become consistent enough, to help these Warriors in their title chase?
"That will show itself," Steph Curry said Friday after the Warriors' win. "I mean it's kind of hard to predict, but it's also on him to maintain focus on what's going to make him better whether he's playing 25 minutes, whether he's in the G League, whether he's coming in for spot minutes. That effort that he showed tonight was amazing and he needs to do that every time he has an opportunity to play because every rep he gets is important for his development, for his confidence, developing his skill set.
"His game is interesting because you can kind of throw him out there with any lineup for the most part and he can do what he does. It's just effort and intensity at the end of the day for him. He is so athletic, he has unbelievable upside for what he does well and it comes and shines when he is playing hard."
Kuminga did it all Friday night.
The No. 7 overall pick in the 2021 NBA Draft scored the Warriors' first two baskets of the second quarter, the first on an inverted pick-and-roll with Curry. The Bulls defenders both went with Curry, giving Kuminga a free runway to the rim. Kuminga's second-quarter statement also included a nifty transition pass to Curry for an open 3-pointer, some solid on-ball defense on DeMar DeRozan, and a deflection of a Lonzo Ball pass that led to a breakaway dunk.
With the game out of hand in the second half, Kuminga got extended run to show off his other-worldly athleticism, including a huge block in the fourth quarter that was the exclamation point on his night.
Kuminga got UP on this block ⬆ pic.twitter.com/PxjJaJ72Yg
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The Warrior will continue to work Kuminga in when it's appropriate. Coach Steve Kerr mentioned after Friday's win over the Bulls that they have been asking Kuminga to work at running the floor hard and using his athletic gifts to his advantage.
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But the Warriors leave Chicago at 31-11. They own the second-best record in the NBA and just got Klay Thompson back from a 941-day absence. At this point, Kuminga is a wild-card with a ton of potential. The Warriors don't need to rely on him. Whatever he gives them is a bonus.
"It's a lot of learning," Kuminga said of his first NBA season. "I feel like I am getting better. It's a good thing that I am going back out there and getting more comfortable. Getting the minutes that I get and help the team win."
Still, it was hard to watch the Kuminga Show at the United Center on Friday and not see how he might play an important role when the lights are brightest.
But that's a story for another day.


In a highly-anticipated decision (at least for those in the arbitration world), the Second Circuit yesterday vacated the district court's opinion in Meyer v. Kalanick, 200 F. Supp.3d 408 (S.D.N.Y. 2016), which was authored by the well-known Judge Jed Rakoff. The Second Circuit, in Meyer v. Uber Technologies, 2017 WL 3526682 (Aug. 17, 2017), found that plaintiffs, a putative class of Uber riders asserting price-fixing claims against Uber and its former CEO Travis Kalanick, received sufficient notice of an arbitration clause when they downloaded the Uber App.
The Second Circuit, applying California law, found that plaintiffs, by downloading the App and clicking through the payment screen, received "reasonably conspicuous notice of the existence of contract terms" and the act of downloading and opening an account was "unambiguous manifestation of assent to those terms" such that a valid contract was formed.
I am not at all surprised at the outcome here; Judge Rakoff was one of the very few district court judges who concluded that downloading the Uber App and clicking through the various screens was NOT a manifestation of assent to be bound to Uber's Terms of Service. To date, lawsuits involving Uber have generated 189 federal and state court opinions (75 in the last year alone); many of them addressing the enforceability of its arbitration clause. Virtually every court has enforced that clause, which now also includes a delegation clause, delegating arbitrability decisions to arbitrators.
One interesting tidbit in the opinion is the court's recognition of the universality of smartphone usage by Americans everyday. The court wrote: "when considering the perspective of a reasonable smartphone user, we need not presume that the user has never before encountered an app or entered into a contract using a smartphone. Moreover, a reasonably prudent smartphone user knows that text that is highlighted in blue and underlined is hyperlinked to another webpage where additional information will be found." So, for those whose first app download is Uber, the courts deem you to have downloaded many apps in the past with Terms of Service that are hyperlinked and include an arbitration clause.
In addition to many rides to and from airports, we now can thank Uber for its vast contribution to US arbitration jurisprudence!


When you are pregnant everyone makes it seem like you need every single high tech gadget out there and I had thought that at first when I started looking at baby stuff when I was pregnant with my daughter in 2013. I was lucky enough that I had a big support system so a lot of people gave me the old things they were done using with their child. I ended up with a lot of blankets and crib sheets things that came very in handy, but some things that were passed on to me and things I bought I found little to no use for.
Wipe warmer- I had been given a wipe warmer and thought with my daughter being born in winter it would come in handy. When she was born I found that it dried out her wipes completely ruining a whole pack of brand new wipes.
Newborn mittens- We never used these I got a bunch at my baby shower but I only used them a few times before decided they were to much trouble for me. My daughter had a knack for pulling them off and the ones we did put on her were promptly lost.
Baby bathrobe- I can see the appeal of these they are adorable but for us completely unnecessary. I never used them because basic towel worked just fine for us.
stuffed animals- I HATE stuffed animals. With me having a girl everyone I had ever met in my whole life somehow felt obligated to buy her stuffed animals. We had more than we knew what to do with. Still, with her being 4 people buy her a ton of stuffed animals that she largely ignores.
on-the-go wipe case- Those tiny little wipe cases can be handy on cutting down space taken up in your diaper bag but I always preferred carrying way more wipes than necessary just in case. There have been times where my daughter had a diaper blowout in a store and I was so thankful I had thought to bring her whole wipe container. The tiny little on-the-go wipe container would not have had enough wipes in it to help me clean up the mess.
Diaper stacker- These things a ridiculously cute in a fully decorated nursery but completely impractical. I hated mine I had loaded it up with newborn size diapers right next to her changing table before she arrived, and it was one of the first things along with the wipe warmer to go into a box to be put in storage.
baby shoes- The most pointless thing ever invented for children that don't yet walk. Not only a waste of money but also a pain to tie those tiny little shoelaces.
Changing table- I used mine maybe 5 times till I gave up on walking back and forth from the living room to my room. I found it tedious because I already had diapers and wipes in the living room I didn't see the reason to travel back and forth.
baby bathtub- Another one of those things I only used a handful of times before deciding that it was easier to wipe her down with a washcloth. Once her umbilical cord fell off just have her take a bath with me and have someone come to get her when I was done washing her.
Bumbo seat- I've met a lot of people who swore by their Bumbo seat and loved them to death but I could not stand mine. It didn't help her sit up at all she was slouched over in it looking completely uncomfortable, so I never recommended them for anyone who asked my personal opinion on them.
These are just the things I personally didn't find any use in. I know everyone and their babies are different, maybe if I decide to have another baby I might end up using a few of these things. You honestly never know the needs of one baby can be completely different from the next.


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North Korea's state-owned national airline Air Koryo is just as complex as the country. In his photobook, Dear Sky: The Planes and People of North Korea's Airline, Dutch photographer Arthur Mebius (b. 1971) provides insight into this complicated country and its national airline.
Mebius' book looks at how, despite international sanctions and environmental restrictions reducing the airline's global destinations, with only China and Vladivostok remaining, Air Koryo is still in business. The old Antonovs, Ilyushins and Tupolevs – all types of aircrafts – rarely fly abroad and therefore seem superfluous. Nevertheless, the airline's aircrafts and crew are kept ready for operation. Mebius looks beyond the seemingly frivolous dimension of the airline's existence to photograph all of the people and pieces involved in Air Koryo, creating a narrative about the airline's history and current routine.
Dear Sky offers a reportage of the day to day of the airline's operations, in and around the planes, together with various close-ups ranging from the stewardesses' shoes to the wheels. The photos are accented with illustrations of airplane diagrams, one of which bleeds into a photograph, drawing our attention to the constructed nature of this photobook and, more significantly, of the North Korean airline itself. The photographs taken on board the aircraft show only a smattering of passengers and many empty seats –illustrating how few people use the airplanes and perhaps more importantly how few people have access to it.
Mebius includes five short anecdotes, fictive though based on actual historical events, in the photobook. Each text, dated from 1953 to 2016, gives some insight into North Korea's history and contributes to the overall narrative of how Air Koryo operates.
The artist uses a diverse quality of photographs, both colour and black and white, to argue a perspective of the airline that makes us call into question politics of control and also evokes a sense of further curiosity about North Koreans. For example, we see a man sitting cross-legged on the grass near an airplane, mysteriously calm and content. On the opposite end of the spectrum, a man in a suit and tie walks on top of the airplane, offering a question of control.
The complex messages of these images, combined with the flipping back and forth between colour and black and white photographs, illustrations and texts, reminds us of the conscious formation of narrative when it comes to history. In this way, Mebius' project addresses the blurred boundaries between the idea and the reality of North Korea, its people and national airline.
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Q: Converting the form of an observable array and displaying in select list I have an observable array as below..
var myObservableArray = ko.observableArray(["Bungle","George","Zippy"]);

I wish to copy the elements into another observable array but in the following format where type is always unknown..
var anotherObservableArray = ko.observableArray([
    { name: "Bungle", type: "Unknown" },
    { name: "George", type: "Unknown" },
    { name: "Zippy", type: "Unknown" }
]);

If the original myObservableArray changes, anotherObservableArray also needs to change.
Any help is sincerely appreciated..
Thanks

A: You can create a view model from original data and then use it (jsfiddle):
var originalArray = ["Bungle","George","Zippy"];
function createItemModel(name) {
  var model = {
    name: ko.observable(name),
    type: ko.observable("Unknown"),
  }
  model.displayText = ko.computed(function() {
    return model.name() + '-' + model.type();
  });
  return model;
}
var myObservableArray = ko.observableArray(originalArray.map(createItemModel));

var viewModel = {
  myObservableArray: myObservableArray,
  selected: ko.observable()
};

ko.applyBindings(viewModel);

And use this in the markup (from your second question):
<select data-bind="options: myObservableArray,
                   optionsText: 'displayText',
                   value: selected"></select>

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The full selection of Headline and Premier films has just been announced for the 2012 San Diego Film Festival. The 11th year of the festival might just be the most impressive yet.
All in all there'll be some 200 movies showing at the event. The Festival ha just been infused with a heaping helping of new leadership (and capital- don't forget that) and is poised for one heck of a showing.
There were over 1300 entries from 55 different countries (!) in total and the final 200 represent the best of the best as chosen by the SDFF. Of those 200, the following movies represent the 'headliners'- the big boys that'll be showing for the first time (or just the first time on the West Coast).
It's a pretty impressive list to be honest. Lots of big stars and a few very interesting films that weren't on my radar before I saw the release.
Highlights of the Headline Films for the 2012 San Diego Film Festival include:
● The Sapphires – Opening Night Premiere, The Gaslamp
Director: Wayne Blair
Cast: Chris O'Dowd, Deborah Mailman, Jessica Mauboy, Shari Sebbens, Miranda Tapsell
Synopsis: It's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship and war when theirall-girl group, The Sapphires, entertain the US troops in Vietnam.
7:00pm Wednesday, Sept. 26 at Reading Theater
● The Oranges – Spotlight at La Jolla
Director: Julian Farino
Cast: Hugh Laurie, Leighton Meester, Catherine Keener, Allison Janney, Oliver Platt, Adam Brody, Alia Shawkat
Synopsis: THE ORANGES is a comedy about two families, who have been lifelong friends, and the hilaritythat ensues when a rebellious daughter returns home for the holidays and causes a scandal that forces everyone to re-examine what happiness really means tothem.
6:30pm Saturday September 29 at Reading Theater
● Quartet – Closing Night, La Jolla
Director: Dustin Hoffman
Cast: Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Billy Connolly
Synopsis: Cecily, Reggie and Wilfred are in a home for retired opera singers. Every year, on October 10, there is a concert tocelebrate Verdi's birthday and they take part. Jean, who used to be married to Reggie, arrives at the home and disrupts their equilibrium. She still acts like a diva, but she refuses to sing. Still, the show must go on... and it does.
7:30 pm Saturday, Sept. 29th at Museum of Contemporary Art LaJolla
● Seven Psychopaths – Horror Fest at Gaslamp
Director: Martin McDonagh
Cast: Colin Farrell, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell
Synopsis: Written and Directed by Oscar®-winner Martin McDonagh, the comedy Seven Psychopaths follows a struggling screenwriter (Colin Farrell) who inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends (Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell) kidnap a gangster's (Woody Harrelson) beloved Shih Tzu. Co-starring Abbie Cornish, Tom Waits, Olga Kurylenko and Zeljko Ivanek.
9:00 pm Saturday, Sept. 29th at Reading Theater
● Grassroots – Closing Night, Gaslamp
Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal
Cast: Cobie Smulders,Lauren Ambrose, Jason Biggs, Joel David Moore, Christopher McDonald, Tom Arnold
Synopsis: After losing his job, a journalist reluctantly agrees to help his oddball friend with his bid to earn a seat on the Seattle City Council.
7:00pm Sunday, Sept. 30th at Reading Theater
Highlights of the Premiere Films for the 2012 San Diego Film Festival include:
Red Line – World Premiere
Director: Robert Kirbyson
Cast: Nicole Gale Anderson, John Billingsle, Kunal Sharma
Synopsis: Moments after departing from the Hollywood & Highland Metro Station, commuters on L.A.'s subway system experience a sudden explosion. Most passengers die on impact as the train is violently derailed and sent smashing into the tunnel's walls.
6:00 PM, Saturday, Sept. 29th at Gaslamp
5:30 pm Sunday, Sept. 30h at Museum of Contemporary Art La Jolla
The Story of Luke – World Premiere
Director: Alonso Mayo
Cast: Lou Taylor Pucci, Seth Green, Kristin Bauer, Cary Elwes
Synopsis: Luke's world is turned upside down when his grandmother dies and he is forced to live with his dysfunctional relatives who have no patience for him or his senile grandfather, who they quickly force into a nursing home. Luke is left with his grandfather's final semi-coherent words: "Get a job. Find a girl. Live your own life. Be a man!" For the first time in his life, Luke has a mission. He is about to embark on a quest.
7:00 PM, Saturday, September 29th at Gaslamp
Man Inside – US Premiere
Director: Dan Turner
Cast: Ashley Thomas, Peter Mullan, Michelle Ryan
Synopsis: Clayton Murdoch carries a terrible darkness inside him. As a boy he was exposed, by his father, to murder and gang culture,
With his father now in prison, Clayton struggles to overcome what he was groomed to become, in a city where every day there is a constant threat of violence and death.
8:30 PM, Thursday, Sept 27th at Gaslamp
3,2,1...Frankie Go Boom – West Coast Premiere
Director: Jordan Roberts
Cast: Charlie Hunnam, Chris O'Dowd, Lizzy Caplan, Ron Perlman, Chris Noth, Whitney Cummings, Nora Dunn, Sam Anderson
Synopsis: A comedy about two brothers a girl with a broken heart, a sex tape, an angel and a pig.
7:00 PM, Friday Sept 28th at Gaslamp and Sat, September 29th at 8:00 PM Coast Room La Jolla
Things kick off on Wednesday the 26th and run through the 30th. Here's your full list of deets:
The San Diego Film Festival is scheduled for Wednesday, September 26, 2012 – Sunday, September 30, 2012. For the first time, the Festival will be held at two venues: the Reading Theater in the Gaslamp Quarter (701 Fifth Avenue, San Diego, 92101), and the Museum of Contemporary Art La Jolla, Sherwood Auditorium (700 Prospect Street, La Jolla, 92037). Tickets start at $14 for pre-sale/$16 at the door, and go up to $75 for a one day pass, and range up to $500 for a Festival VIP Pass to all screenings, premieres, events, and panels on all days. A dramatic expansion this year, Festival organizers anticipate hosting over 100 film screenings.
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The Blue Dolphins are the big fish on campus. This school-age before and after school program is designed to enhance the school day. Children in the before school program enjoy a calm, relaxing morning stretching and preparing their minds to begin a full day of learning. The after school program allows the children to decompress after a long day and relax and enjoy time with friends. There are plenty of games to be played, puzzles to be completed, crafts to create and time allowed for homework. Blue Dolphins classroom is licensed for 30 children and runs with a 15:1 child to teacher ratio.
The Blue Dolphins program offers before and after-school programs, along with full-day summer care. We are licensed for a total of 30 children. Our Blue Dolphins program focuses on developing and reinforcing character skills in our children, along with providing a balance of gross motor and homework/skill building activities. There is also a full-day summer program that includes an extensive list of field trips and special activities.
This is a sample of typical day in our school-age classroom. Children will be required to wash their hands when they arrive at the Center, before and after eating, after playing outdoors, and after they use the restroom.
Experience: Miss Pam leads our Blue Dolphins program and has been employed at Kid Country since 2015. She holds an associate in applied science degree from Rasmussen College.


In a small village in rural Québec that was just the way it was – you grew up, you got married and you raised a family. She was only 16 years old when it was decided she should marry the neighbor's young son. She had already finished her limited schooling by age 10 and was helping in the kitchen and learning how to be a good wife.
Neither of them really knew what life had in store for them but she was destined to be wife, mother and have many children as per the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church which was the religion she was brought up in. By the age of 21 she had already given birth to 5 children only 3 of which survived. The growing family moved to the city so her husband could find work as the village did not have enough industry to sustain its residents and only a few family members were needed to work on the local farms.
It was not easy bringing up a family with 2 to 3 children in diapers at any given time and by the age of 30 she had birthed 12 children and fortunately I was one of the 9 lucky ones who is here today to recount her story. Life got tougher when they moved to the city. Jobs were not easy to come by and her husband's pay was less than adequate to support the family. Stopping at the tavern the night he was given his pay packet did not help their meager lifestyle.
Hand-me-down clothes and darned socks were the order of the day and trading with the neighbors was the most common way to make ends meet. She took in laundry to help pay the bills and somehow she always managed to find enough food to feed all of us. She got us to school on time by walking us there and making sure we never missed a day – not if she could help it.
When I think back now I don't remember her ever having something new to wear or going out to the movies but I do remember her ironing clothes all day on Saturday to make sure we all looked our best for Sunday mass at the local church.
Eventually we all grew up, moved out of the house and on with our own lives but we always took care of her because, if we didn't, then who would. She had made us all who we are today and she sacrificed herself and her youth for us. She taught us right from wrong; she did her best to ensure that we got an education; and she showed us that there was always hope if we put our minds to making things happen.
It was in 1997 that she finally took a plane trip, her dream flight, to Florida where all Québec snowbirds look forward to vacationing in the cold winter months. By then she was a widow and her life was her own but she never stopped caring for and worrying about her children and grandchildren. She made and continues to make a huge impact on the lives of all of us and she is remembered with love and fondness.
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Zombie Studios is an independet American video game developer. Founded in 1994 by Joanna Alexander and Mark Long, Zombie Studios have developed games for a wealth of different platforms and genres. They are most well-known for their work on the Spec Ops franchise.
Daylight is a first-person survival horror game developed by Zombie Studios for the PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Windows. The game features procedurally generated environments with in bone-chilling detail for a unique experience each time, allowing for limitless replayability and unpredictability.
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A haunted house, memories of loved ones, and how War tears apart families
WaterBrook Multnomah October 2011
Contemporary/Historical/Christian/Romance (a light blend of all)
Review copy provided by the publisher, thank you!
Burton Book Review Rating: Three Stars
Author's Web Site
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A house shrouded in time.
A line of women with a heritage of loss.
As a young bride, Susannah Page was rumored to be a Civil War spy for the North, a traitor to her Virginian roots. Her great-granddaughter Adelaide, the current matriarch of Holly Oak, doesn't believe that Susannah's ghost haunts the antebellum mansion looking for a pardon, but rather the house itself bears a grudge toward its tragic past. When Marielle Bishop marries into the family and is transplanted from the arid west to her husband's home, it isn't long before she is led to believe that the house she just settled into brings misfortune to the women who live there. With Adelaide's richly peppered superstitions and deep family roots at stake, Marielle must sort out the truth about Susannah Page and Holly Oak— and make peace with the sacrifices she has made for love.
It took me quite a while to get into this book as it begins with contemporary characters Marielle and Carson as they move into Holly Oak, an old house that has withstood the test of time and war. The novel focuses on the house and its inhabitants, with the house of Holly Oak being a central theme that is strong enough to be a character in itself. As we slowly unwind the past via the contemporary newlyweds Marielle and Carson, we meet a few of the past inhabitants of Holly Oak. Many of the characters of the book were long gone by the time Marielle arrives at Holly Oak, but in order for Marielle and Carson to move onwards in life they have to untie the threads of the past that are holding them to Holly Oak .. and to Adelaide.
It is the story of the events of the Civil War that had intrigued me about this novel, and I was not disappointed with the story the novel finally creates surrounding this important period in American history. However, it took a very long time to come to that point in the past which was my main interest in the novel, and is why it only earned three stars in my book. It took me twelve days to read, when I would normally finish a book of this size within four days.
I prefer historical fiction because I like to immerse myself in another time, when I can learn about a different era and have instant empathy for characters who have to work hard for their daily bread. None of this should have any bearing on the current read.. but since it took so long for me to become invested in this novel, I felt an explanation was in order. I have found that I have an unconscious distaste for contemporary themes, no matter how hard I try to like the book, most often the main characters are shallow and wishy-washy and spoiled in the books I come across. I didn't like Marielle or Carson in this story, though I did like Adelaide when she was not acting superstitious even though she said she wasn't.
Holly Oak is hundreds of years old, and with a history that creates superstitions and possible ghosts as horrors of the Civil War were witnessed by the house. As Marielle moves into Holly Oak, its elderly matriarch is clinging to the past but stubbornly does not let its secrets unveil themselves to the reader. It turns out Adelaide's great grandmother was known as a Union Spy during the fight of the Confederacy in Virginia, and this ghost of Susannah has all of Fredericksburg talking about it to this day. It is Adelaide's estranged daughter who holds all the clues, but she has been MIA for many years, but when she does appear the novel is given new life.
In the end, we realize along with Adelaide the truth of the house, and the truth of her ancestors and their involvement with the Civil War. But, it is only through letters of Susannah herself (my favorite part of the novel, surprisingly) that the whole truth reveals itself, and that Holly Oak can figuratively rest in peace.
The epic conclusion was just what the book needed to make it worthwhile; the emotions of the characters as they discover the past were well portrayed, and everything came together in a very satisfying way. Although I wish the quickened pace had started a bit earlier, the novel as a whole was very enjoyable with writing that flowed easily with intriguingly flawed characters and I recommend it to those interested in how Southern life was affected by the Civil War. This intriguing story is a mix of light romance, an almost non-existent Christian nuance, and a good mix of contemporary and historical Virginians.
I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this honest review.
Susan Meissner
at Tuesday, July 24, 2012
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Иван Никитич Оболенский по прозвищу Смола (? — 1504) —  князь, русский боярин, воевода на службе у московского князя Ивана III.

Третий, из пяти сыновей князя Никиты Ивановича Оболенского, боярина удельного князя углицкого и брата Ивана III Андрея Горяя. Имел братьев: Василия, Андрея Ногтя, Петра и Даниила Собаку.

Биография
Возможно, именно он во время похода Ивана III был боярином царского брата, удельного дмитровского князя Юрия Васильевича (1471).

Участвовал в походе против литовцев к Мещовску и Серпейску вторым воеводой полка правой руки (1493), а затем был послан на Оку для защиты от ожидаемого нападения татар. Присутствовал на свадьбе В. Д. Холмского и дочери Ивана III Федосьи (февраль 1500). Умер (†1504), не оставив потомства.

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 А. А. Половцев. Русский биографический словарь
 Богуславский, В. В. Славянская энциклопедия. Киевская Русь — Московия: в 2 т. — М.: Олма-Пресс, 2005.

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Tesla Officially Moves Headquarters to Texas
It's unclear whether the 10,000 employees at Tesla's Palo Alto headquarters would be required to move.
This photo shows a sign bearing the company logo outside a Tesla store Feb. 9, 2019 in Cherry Creek Mall in Denver. Tesla says it has officially moved its corporate headquarters from Silicon Valley to a large factory under construction outside of Austin, Texas. The company made the announcement late Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021 in a filing with U.S. securities regulators.
AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Tesla says it has officially moved its corporate headquarters from Silicon Valley to a large factory under construction outside of Austin, Texas.
The company made the announcement late Wednesday in a filing with U.S. securities regulators. CEO Elon Musk had said at the company's annual meeting in October that the move was coming.
The filing said the relocation from Palo Alto, California, to what Tesla calls a "Gigafactory" on Harold Green Road near Austin was done on Wednesday.
In U.S. regulatory filings at the end of last year, Tesla said it had about 71,000 employees worldwide. Company news releases in 2020 said about 10,000 work at the Palo Alto headquarters and 10,000 are employed at its factory in Fremont, California.
It wasn't clear if all of the headquarters employees would be required to move. A message was left Wednesday seeking comment from Tesla, which has disbanded its media relations department.
Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives said in October that he expects some of the 10,000 employees in Palo Alto won't want to leave the Bay Area, but says a large number will, due to Austin's lower cost of living. He said he thinks Tesla will give many the option of staying, but expects 40% to 50% to make the move.
"The tax incentives down the road, we believe, will be massive when you compare taxes versus California," Ives said. "Getting employees is much cheaper and easier in Texas."
CEO Elon Musk hinted at making a move ever since a spat with Alameda County, California, health officials over reopening the factory in Fremont last year at the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
Musk has said that he has moved his residence from California to Texas, where there is no state personal income tax.
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The Marriage Of Abundance
Aastha Atray Banan
None of these people thought there was a wedding in their future. Until a website flew them past their weighty issues, says Aastha Atray Banan
NARESH SIDHU'S parents had been looking for a bride for their "slightly" healthy son since he turned 27, four years ago. They contacted marriage bureaus and put up his profile on matrimonial sites. Nothing worked out. Naresh and his family knew the reason behind this embarrassment — Naresh is what we term "overweight".
Unwavering Filmmaker Jharna Jhaveri at her Delhi home
Illustrations: Anand Naorem
"At the time, I weighed around 90 kg. It was always the same routine — parents of girls looked uncomfortable as soon as they saw me. Later they would call up and say 'this rishta (match) won't work out.' They wouldn't even let me meet their daughter," says the 31-year-old businessman from Delhi with a wry smile. Without telling anyone he registered on the website conspicuously named overweightshaadi. com. A few weeks later, to his astonishment, he found a girl online who shared his interest in music. "I found someone who saw my inner beauty, and I saw hers. She is less heavy than me though. But we clicked. I told the whole world, and everyone was happy. We got married last year and it's been the happiest time of my life."
Sidhu's happiness has Gurgaon-based sisters Aditi Gupta and Megha Singhal to thank. They started overweightshaadi. com in 2008 after they witnessed the similar plight of a cousin. "All our relatives were after her to lose weight. But she had a sensible argument — what if she lost weight, found someone, but then put it back on? Would the guy love her then?" Today, the website gets 10 to 12 new registrations a day, and has around 60 members active at any given time.
In our country with its severe malnutrition issues, it's difficult to process statistics that show that some Indians are getting fatter by the day. But According to the Nutrition Foundation of India, half the women and more than a third of the men in New Delhi's high-income group were overweight. And a 2009 BBC report says around 70 million Indians are classified as overweight. Our society, already obsessed with body image, has certainly not figured how to deal with this new phenomenon.
The distaste for obesity in the context of marriage is highly visible in popular culture. In the recent Shoaib Malik-Ayesha Siddiqui-Sania Mirza nikah triangle, two 'facts' emerged — that Ayesha refused to leave her home because she was obese; Shoiab left her because his teammates said she was too fat. Pop culture peddles the idea that fat people are losers who can't find love. The popular Zee TV soap, 12/24 Karol Bagh, for instance, features a worried mother who so bemoans her fat, 30-year-old daughter's fate and thus agrees to get her married to a yellow-toothed sleazeball in gold silk shirts. The latest Gurinder Chaddha movie, It's A Wonderful Afterlife, also chronicles the fat, dark heroine's search for a husband.
POP CULTURE is darkly echoed when Naresh remembers life before marriage, "I couldn't take the rejection any more. The atmosphere in my family had become unbearable. I registered because on this website my weight wouldn't be an issue. And once a person accepts you are fat, they will look at your other qualities to decide if they want to be with you." To ensure this openmindedness, overweightshaadi. com prides itself on its screening process. "I personally screen every registration. We don't allow 18-year-olds looking for a date or pranksters on the site as this is serious business," says Aditi.
Gitanjali Singh, is one of the many parents who also wondered about the seriousness of the website. She had spent five years looking for a match for her 75-kg daughter. She says, "I was totally against it. But when I saw my daughter's profile getting reactions, it gave me hope." Another mother came to Aditi anxiously with a 35- year-old daughter who weighed 105 kg and was close to a nervous breakdown. Aditi says, "Two months after registering, she found a match.
'I found someone who saw my inner beauty, and I saw hers. She is less heavy than me though,' says Naresh Sidhu, a Delhi businessman
Ask Aditi whether people who are genuinely attracted to the overweight — register, and she equivocates. "Thin people who are okay with marrying heavy people do register." Certainly not everyone on the site is fat. Sanjana is a quiet 23-year-old who works at an MNC in Mumbai. She is mildly plump and has grappled with fluctuating weight problem since she was a teenager and is now fed up. "I want a grown up man who will look beyond my weight," says Sanjana. "My parents were apprehensive when I registered but I was adamant." In retrospect, she was right. Sanjana is now dating 27- year-old Angad Sood. Sood weighs over 90 kg and Sanjana rejoices that they are both passionate photographers. Sood, who works as a chartered accountant, says he had got used to people making fun of his weight, but had told himself it was "all okay". "Like all Punjabi mothers, my mother also used to get really hyper, and so I registered on a site where I am not judged by my weight." Angad feels lucky to have found Sanjana. He will not allow janampatris and caste to come between them now. He says. "I am a Punjabi, while she is a Jat, but imagine allowing that to come between us"
But caste and religion still plays an important role, even among those who feel matrimonially persecuted. Aditi says, "Parents call us personally. A Tamilian will want a Tamilian and a Gujarati a Gujarati. They have caste and religion requirements, and that's a sad truth.
Even on overweightshaadi. com, a little difference in weight could make or break a relationship. Rajesh Singh, a cheerful 25-year-old diction trainer. He weighs 85 kg. He registered after many rejections from prospective brides. Without any qualms he says that given the choice of two girls, all other things being equal, he would choose the thinner one. "You may think I am being hypocritical, but I am just honest. It's natural to think like this," says the Delhi boy. He plays tennis for fun but doesn't worry about losing weight himself. He wants to live the good life and eat well. "I have seen people living on lettuce leaves. Nothing is worth that.
The now happily married Naresh recognises the irony of his own search — after all despite being overweight himself, when his parents had put out an advertisement looking for a bride, they had listed the old clichéd requirements: "Wanted: a thin, tall, extremely beautiful bride." It is just that he had not expected he would be judged as well. He had found it difficult to attract girls since school but had not thought the same rules would prevail in the marriage market.
All paradoxes apart, overweightshaadi. com could be credited for making "overweight" or healthy (as the site refers to them as) people feel less alienated in a world where a person's worth is figured on a weighing scale. As the fat comedienne Dawn French once said, "If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? She would have been the paintbrush!"
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Toto je seznam prezidentů Slovenské republiky a dalších osob vykonávajících prezidentské pravomoci.

Slovenská republika (1939–1945)

Výkon prezidentských pravomocí
 Jozef Tiso vykonával prezidentské pravomoce ve dnech 14. března 1939 – 26. října 1939.

Slovenská republika (od 1993)

Výkon prezidentských pravomocí
 Vladimír Mečiar vykonával prezidentské pravomoci ve dnech 1. ledna 1993 – 2. března 1993.
 Vladimír Mečiar vykonával prezidentské pravomoci ve dnech 2. ledna 1998 – 30. října 1998; od 14. července 1998 vykonával část prezidentských pravomocí také Ivan Gašparovič.
 Mikuláš Dzurinda a Jozef Migaš vykonávali prezidentské pravomoci ve dnech 30. října 1998 – 15. června 1999.

Poznámky
 Mezi dnešní Slovenskou republikou (od 1993) a Slovenskou republikou (1939–1945) není právní kontinuita.
 Právní kontinuita naopak existuje mezi dnešní Slovenskou republikou a Slovenskou socialistickou republikou (od roku 1990 Slovenskou republikou), která vznikla roku 1969 podle ústavního zákona o československé federaci, včetně recepce československého právního řádu.

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Cherrie O'Hagan, wife, mother and artist, is the most recent recipient of the Verdugo Hills Art Association's Artist of the Year Award. Her watercolor portraits have earned her an honor that she says was most unexpected.
"I was really honored," O'Hagan said of the award. "I wasn't expecting it because there were quite a few other artists [considered]."
A native of the Philippines, O'Hagan began her career by studying architecture, but realized it wasn't the right career path for her.
"I didn't like the scientific side of architecture," she said. "I liked the drawing side. Back when we did everything by hand, I was doing interiors and perspectives, so my training was in technical mechanical drawings."
A sudden career change prompted O'Hagan to move to leave her home country.
"I went to Hong Kong to become a flight attendant. I was a flight attendant for about six years. I met my husband there and we've since been moving around the world."
O'Hagan's extensive traveling gave her the opportunity to begin pursuing her a career as an artist.
"Since I've been moving around, I've been joining art classes, workshops and life drawing sessions wherever we are," she said. "I attended oil-painting sessions and watercolor sessions. When we were in Hong Kong, some people wanted me to paint [pictures of] their kids, so that's how I started to specialize in children's portraits."
After living in various locations such as Vancouver, Dubai, Bangkok, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., O'Hagan and her family finally settled in La Cañada. She now focuses mainly on children's portraits.
"I love doing faces and figures, but not so much the background," she said of her work. "I wasn't very good with watercolor to start with, but I improved over the years."
O'Hagan calls her work "realistic watercolor" and enjoys the experience of meeting the individuals who will be the subjects of her work. "I've done a few commissions here and there. Every now and then someone will come up to me and say, 'Can you paint my child?' I prefer to take my own pictures because I get to meet the child and see their personality and get to know the child more. That's why my kids are always in the paintings, because I practice on them."
In an attempt to meet other artists like herself, O'Hagan joined the Verdugo Hills Art Association as well as the Pasadena Society of Artists. "That way I could meet like-minded people who paint as well," O'Hagan said. "That's the best way to meet friends, right?"
Right. In their September newsletter, the Verdugo Hills Art Assn. profiled O'Hagan as their Artist of the Year.
"Her landscapes are marvelous," said Joyce Peterson, exhibit chairman. "How she handles that medium of watercolor is obviously very well grounded and empathetic. All you have to do is look at any of her children's portraits. That's where her future will be."
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"She has a great future as a portrait painter," said Peterson. "I predict that coming out of our club; she may be one of the most well-known members that we will have because she is so young and so good."
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What does the future hold for CCGs?
Azeem Majeed, Professor of Primary Care and Public Health
One of the key aims of establishing clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in England's NHS was to place general practitioners at the heart of NHS commissioning. And yet surveys consistently show that many GPs feel that their view are ignored by their CCGs. For example, an NHS England survey reported that only 44% of GPs said that their CCGs acted on their views. A BMA survey reported that nearly two-thirds of GPs feel they either had limited influence on their CCGs or that they were dictated to by their CCGs rather than being asked to contribute to CCG decision making.
Another key aim of creating CCGs was to make use of GPs' clinical expertise in commissioning health services to improve health outcomes and patients' experience of the NHS. However, a Pulse survey found that more than twice as many GPs think that the introduction of CCGs has been detrimental to patient care than think have improved it.
In many ways, the fate of CCGs is linked with inextricably the consequences of the 2012 Health and Social Care Act that created them. The disruption caused by the changes the Act brought about, at a time when the NHS was entering a period of unprecedented financial pressure, have clearly made it difficult for both GPs and CCGs to function effectively. One example of this was the transfer of key public health functions to local authorities – rather than to CCGs – when primary care trusts (PCTs) were abolished. GPs suddenly found themselves with little or no influence in determining local policies for services in areas such as smoking cessation and sexual health.
Many GPs have worked very hard to try to ensure that CCGs delivered what they set out to do when they were established. They will argue that the financial pressures on the NHS – and the declining share of the NHS budget spent on primary care along with the large increase in workload that primary care teams have experienced in recent years – that are largely responsible for the perception among many GPs that CCGs have failed to achieve their key objectives. But it is CCGs who now control the majority of NHS funds in England and they could have done more to protect and expand primary care services, and taken a stronger line against the demands of NHS hospital trusts.
What does the future hold for CCGs? The former Chancellor, George Osborne, stated that major cities in England will be offered the opportunity to control their health budgets. GPs were not consulted about this proposal which will effectively remove from many CCGs much of the influence they currently have in commissioning NHS services. Other CCGs have opted to take on the co-commissioning of primary care services in addition to secondary care commissioning, effectively recreating PCTs (but still without responsibility for key public health functions). To prevent conflicts of interests, the role of GPs in CCGs that take on co-commissioning will have to be carefully regulated. Other CCGs have begun to merge their commissioning functions, thereby creating much larger organisations.
Hence, in many parts of England, we will start to see the end of GP-led commissioning. GPs will continue to have a role in commissioning health services but increasingly this will be an advisory rather than a leadership role.
A version of this article was first published in Pulse.
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Does adding phone check-ins and digital recovery support services to conventional alcohol use disorder treatment improve outcomes?
Ongoing patient support after formal addiction treatment produces better outcomes than treatment on its own. This ongoing support, called "continuing care", has traditionally been delivered through in-person or remote check-ins with providers. Continuing care can also be delivered through innovative smartphone apps that do not rely on live-time therapist interactions. This study compared traditional telephone-based continuing care, a modern smartphone app, and a combination of the two on alcohol use disorder patient outcomes after treatment.
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WHAT PROBLEM DOES THIS STUDY ADDRESS?
Individuals with alcohol use disorder typically require continuing care to achieve stable remission. There are however numerous barriers that impede individuals' access to continuing care, such as employment or family responsibilities, limited access to transportation, illness or disabilities, and for some, geographic isolation.
Promising remote continuing care interventions that can offset these barriers include telephone monitoring and counseling and relapse prevention smartphone apps like the addiction comprehensive health enhancement support system (ACHESS). Telephone monitoring and counseling often includes elements of cognitive behavioral therapy (commonly referred to by its abbreviation CBT), whereas apps like ACHESS provide digital recovery support services with minimal monitoring by a care team.
In this study, the researchers compared cognitive behavioral therapy-based telephone monitoring and counseling, ACHESS, and the integrated combination of both interventions to intensive outpatient programs (commonly referred to as IOPs) to determine if these continuing care add-ons improve alcohol use disorder outcomes over treatment as usual. This study also examined whether telephone monitoring and counseling, ACHESS, or the combination of these interventions were superior to one another.
HOW WAS THIS STUDY CONDUCTED?
This was a randomized controlled trial with 262 participants who received either telephone monitoring and counseling + treatment as usual, ACHESS + treatment as usual, the integrated combination of both interventions + treatment as usual, or treatment as usual only over a 12-month period. Groups were compared during the 12-month treatment phase and at post-treatment follow-up (18 months post-baseline). The primary study outcome was percentage heavy drinking days over the 12-month treatment period. Secondary outcomes included percentage heavy drinking days at 18-month follow-up, any alcohol use within a given follow-up period (yes/no), any drug use (yes/no), and alcohol use related negative consequences and quality of life during study months 3, 6, 9, 12 and 18.
All participants received intensive outpatient treatment, which provided 9 hours of group counseling per week for up to 3 months, plus up to 3 months of weekly continuing care. For the treatment as usual group, this was the only treatment received.
Telephone monitoring and counseling included one initial in-person session with a counselor to establish a relationship. Telephone calls then occurred weekly in month 1, twice monthly in months 2–4, monthly in months 5–7, and every other month in months 8–12 for a total of 16 possible calls. Each call lasted 15–30 minutes. At the beginning of each call, participants completed a brief assessment of substance use, and risk and protective factors. Cognitive behavioral therapy-based counseling was provided based on the results of these assessments. Potential coping strategies and behaviors were practiced, and participants were reinforced for engagement in pro-recovery activities. Participants without reliable access to a telephone were given a smartphone.
The ACHESS app offered connections to online peer support, access to audio and written information on addiction, recovery related web links, global positioning system-driven information on mutual-help meetings, and inspirational messages. If needed, participants were provided with a smartphone and data plan. Study staff trained the participants to use the ACHESS app. ACHESS collected information on confidence for maintaining abstinence (daily) and on 10 risk and protective factors (weekly) via surveys delivered through the app. When data indicated that relapse risk was high, participants were encouraged via automatic text messages to seek additional support. Also, following 7 days of inactivity, ACHESS automatically sent a message to participants and alerted ACHESS support staff, who encouraged use of ACHESS via text messaging.
For the combined telephone monitoring and counseling and ACHESS group, telephone monitoring and counseling and ACHESS were provided. In addition, in the event a participant reported something clinically concerning through ACHESS, the telephone counselors received an alert. Counselors could also view a graph with current and past assessment scores in a clinician dashboard. The idea here was that these features would support faster outreach to patients when risk increased.
The primary outcome measure was percentage of days of heavy drinking (defined as 5 or more drinks/day for men, 4 or more drinks/day for women) during the 12-month treatment phase of the study. Secondary outcomes measured during study months 3, 6, 9, 12 and 18 months were: Percentage of days of heavy drinking at 18 months, any alcohol use within a given follow-up period (yes/no), any drug use within a given follow-up period (yes/no, as determined by self-report measures, and urine drug screens at 18-month follow-up), alcohol use related negative consequences measured by the short inventory of problems, and quality of life measured by the short form survey.
Participants were 262 adults recruited from four publicly funded intensive outpatient programs in Philadelphia, USA. To be included in the study, participants had to: 1) Have a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-5 (DSM 5) diagnosis of current, moderate to severe alcohol use disorder, 2) have completed 3 weeks of an intensive outpatient treatment, 3) be aged 18–75 years, 4) have no current psychotic disorder or dementia, 5) have no acute medical problem requiring inpatient treatment, and 6) be not receiving other addiction treatment.
Participants, on average, were 47 years old, had 12 years of education. Most were male (71%), African American (82%) and never married (67%). Current co-occurring disorders included cocaine use disorder (39%), anxiety disorders (35%), and major depression (26%). Participants drank alcohol on 45% of the days in the 3 months prior to baseline, which included 3–4 weeks of intensive outpatient program.
WHAT DID THIS STUDY FIND?
Adherence to ACHESS app usage was generally better than for telephone monitoring and counseling.
In the ACHESS only group, participants used the ACHESS app an average of 20 days per month in months 1 and 2, but subsequently declined in usage to around14 days per month. In telephone monitoring and counseling + ACHESS group, ACHESS was used an average of 16 days per month in months 1 and 2 and subsequently declined to around 10 days per month for the remainder of the study.
The telephone monitoring and counseling group completed, on average, 8.1 counseling sessions, while the telephone monitoring and counseling + ACHESS group completed 10.7. Notably, among the participants who completed the in-person orientation session, counseling sessions were slightly better attended, with a mean of 10.2 in the telephone monitoring and counseling group and 11.0 in telephone monitoring and counseling + ACHESS group.
Telephone monitoring and counseling, ACHESS, and telephone monitoring and counseling + ACHESS all outperformed treatment as usual in terms of percentage of days of heavy drinking over the 12-month active treatment period.
Average percentage of days of heavy drinking in study months 1–12 was significantly lower in the three treatment groups compared to treatment as usual only group. Specifically, the telephone monitoring and counseling group had on average 5.4 percent days of heavy drinking, the ACHESS group 6.8, the combined telephone monitoring and counseling + ACHESS group had 6.0, while the treatment as usual only group had 10.3. However, none of the active treatments markedly outperformed the other in terms of percentage of days of heavy drinking.
Telephone monitoring and counseling, ACHESS, and telephone monitoring and counseling + ACHESS outperformed treatment as usual in terms of any drinking, but not drug use, negative consequences, or well-being.
Those in the treatment as usual group were 3 times more likely to drink any alcohol in study months 1–12 compared to the telephone monitoring and counseling group, and 2.4 times more likely to drink any alcohol than the telephone monitoring and counseling + ACHESS group. However, the treatment as usual group was not meaningfully more likely to drink than the ACHESS group, although in absolute terms, the treatment as usual group did more poorly on this measure.
In terms of other secondary study outcomes including drug use, negative consequences, and quality of life, there were no meaningful between group differences.
There were no between group differences at 18-month follow-up.
Groups were not meaningfully different on any of the primary or secondary study outcome measures at 18-month follow-up.
WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE STUDY FINDINGS?
This study replicated findings from prior research which has found that telephone monitoring and counseling and ACHESS can improve alcohol use outcomes for individuals seeking recovery from alcohol use disorder when added to treatment as usual. In addition, this study was the first to compare these two approaches, and the first to determine whether combining these interventions improved outcomes over either intervention alone.
Although none of the interventions in this study added to treatment as usual (i.e., telephone monitoring and counseling, ACHESS, and their combination) performed markedly better than the other, findings are notable that all outperformed treatment as usual alone in terms of the primary study outcome – percentage days heavy drinking.
What is perhaps most notable among these findings is that a 'therapist in the pocket app', ACHESS, with minimal monitoring by trained personnel, performed about as well as more costly telephone monitoring and counseling. This is exciting, because it suggests that a relatively low cost, high-accessibility intervention might be enough to produce the improvements in drinking outcomes previously observed for more intensive and expensive counseling follow-up approaches.
At the same time, it's important to note that the study groups were not markedly different in terms of drug use, negative consequences, or well-being over the 12-month treatment period, or on any study measure at 18-month follow-up. This highlights potential limitations of telephone monitoring and counseling, apps like ACHESS, and their combination, both during outpatient treatment, and over the longer-term. While the researchers' findings suggest that patients seeking recovery from alcohol use disorder might experience better alcohol use outcomes with continued counseling or app use (e.g., continued use of these through the 18-month follow up might have showed benefits at this longer follow-up), these results may not be sustained when counseling or app use is discontinued as was found this study at the 18-month follow-up. Also, benefits related to reduced drug use, negative consequences, and improved well-being may not follow from these interventions. It could be that additional resources are needed to confer such benefits, especially for individuals with limited resources and recovery capital.
As noted by the researchers:
More than 80% of participants in this study were African American, which although representative of clients in treatment for substance use disorders in publicly funded programs in Philadelphia, USA, may not be representative of other treatment settings and locations. While there is no reason to believe that these effects would not generalize to other patient populations, different findings might be obtained in different patient populations and replication studies are needed.
Biological measures of drinking outcome were obtained only at the 18-month follow-up, meaning the researchers relied solely on self-report to assess drinking outcomes throughout the active treatment period of the study. Though there is no reason to suspect participants did not report any alcohol use accurately, self-report can be prone to certain kinds of biases.
The authors focused on percentage days heavy drinking and any drinking (yes/no). While these are important measures of alcohol use outcomes for people in treatment for alcohol use disorder, they don't paint the full picture of alcohol use. Percentage days abstinent, for instance, is a commonly used measure that characterizes overall alcohol use over a monitoring period, which was not reported in this study.
Results from this randomized controlled trial indicate that adding telephone monitoring and counseling, ACHESS and the combination of telephone monitoring and counseling and ACHESS to intensive outpatient treatment reduced heavy drinking by approximately 50% over 12 months of active treatment. However, those receiving these interventions were not markedly different from those receiving treatment as usual only in terms of drug use, negative consequences, or well-being over the 12-month treatment period, and no meaningful differences were observed at 18-month follow-up occurring 6 months after the conclusion of treatment.
For individuals and families seeking recovery: The findings here build on previous studies showing follow-up care for individuals in substance use disorder treatment improves treatment outcomes. Results from this study suggest that telephone counseling and apps like ACHESS can enhance recovery outcomes when added to conventional outpatient treatment. Currently, follow-up counseling and support is not widely practiced in addiction treatment, except perhaps in some higher quality programs. When researching treatment program options, ask if follow-up care is provided. Additionally, apps like ACHESS will also likely confer benefit, whether used alone or in conjunction with follow-up counseling.
For treatment professionals and treatment systems: The researchers' findings build on previous studies showing follow-up care for individuals in substance use disorder treatment improves treatment outcomes. Results from this study suggest that telephone counseling and apps like ACHESS can enhance recovery outcomes when added to conventional outpatient treatment. Adding follow-up counseling and support to treatment programs is likely to improve patient outcomes. Additionally, apps like ACHESS will also likely confer benefit, whether alone or in conjunction with follow-up counseling.
For scientists: The researchers' findings build on previous studies showing follow-up care for individuals in substance use disorder treatment improves treatment outcomes. Results from this study suggest that telephone counseling and apps like ACHESS can enhance recovery outcomes when added to conventional outpatient treatment. More work is needed, however, to determine for whom, and under what conditions these supplemental interventions confer the most benefit.
For policy makers: The researchers' findings build on previous studies showing follow-up care for individuals in substance use disorder treatment improves treatment outcomes. Results from this study suggest that telephone counseling and apps like ACHESS can enhance recovery outcomes when added to conventional outpatient treatment. Reducing barriers to follow-up care such as phone counseling and relapse prevention apps by requiring insurers to reimburse for these services will improve public health and reduce costs to healthcare systems in the long run.
McKay, J. R., Gustafson, D. H., Ivey, M., Pe-Romashko, K., Curtis, B., Thomas, T., . . . & Lynch, K. G. (2022). Efficacy and comparative effectiveness of telephone and smartphone remote continuing care interventions for alcohol use disorder: A randomized controlled trial. Addiction, 117(5), 1326-1337. doi: 10.1111/add.15771
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I am so excited! I love this book, and I'm eager to share it with the world.
What's great is that so far, just about everyone whose reviewed it loves this book, too. I am so glad. When you write a book, you have to forget about your audience. That means that at moments as you're writing, you have a keen sense that what you're writing won't make a lick of sense. That's exactly how I felt many times during the writing of Openly Straight.
Thanks to Cheryl Klein, my awesome editor, and Linda Epstein, my awesome agent, even if it didn't make sense at one point, it does now.
Here are a few of the things people are saying about Openly Straight. I promise that when I am allowed to share the full reviews, I will.
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Clifford Joseph Harris Jr. (born September 25, 1980 in Bankhead, Atlanta, Georgia), better known by his stage name T.I., and also by his alter ego T.I.P., is a Grammy award winning American rapper, producer, actor, and co-CEO of Grand Hustle Records. In 2001 he released his debut solo album, I'm Serious through Arista Records. Since then he has released 2003's Trap Muzik, 2004's Urban Legend, 2006's King, 2007's T.I. vs. T.I.P, 2008's Paper Trail, and his latest CD No Mercy released December 7, 2010. In March 2009 he was sentenced to one year and one day in prison and ordered to pay a $100,300 fine for felony weapons charges. When released from prison, he will be subject to an audit of his finances, drug counseling, DNA testing, random searches of his property and will not be able to own firearms.
As of October 2008, T.I. has had nine Top 10 Billboard Hot 100 singles, with 3 of them reaching number 1 ("My Love" by Justin Timberlake on which T.I. was featured, "Whatever You Like," & "Live Your Life" featuring Rihanna).
The Love This Life Songfacts reports that Love This Life, the first official single from T.I.'s eighth album, Trouble Man, was released on April 2, 2012 via YouTube.
T.I. is from Bankhead, Atlanta, Georgia and was raised by his grandparents. T.I. explained the origin of his nickname Rubber Band Man, saying, "We used to wear rubber bands to signify how much money, how much blow we had." He was nicknamed "Tip" after his paternal great-grandfather. Upon signing with Arista Records subsidiary LaFace Records in 2001, he shortened his name to T.I. out of respect for label mate Q-Tip.
T.I. has been in a relationship with former Xscape member Tameka "Tiny" Cottle since 2001. Together, they have two sons: King and Major Harris. He has three other children with ex-girlfriend Lashon Dixon: Domani, Messiah and Deyjah. Overall, T.I. has five children.
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Thanks guys, these are all very helpful. I saw your response to this 8FillTheHeart, but I think that it is one of his underlying motives to avoid applying.He goes to a classical Christian high school and Lord willing he is heading to an Engineering program at whatever college he lands at. He's tired of the liberal arts. He does well with history and literature, he plays the piano well and enjoys classical music, but he's told me a few times he just wants to do math and science. He also has a fear of the unknown. He's only 16 yo and I really think this is a place where his father and I need to push him out of his comfort zone. I guess I was looking for validation, that it is worth it.
Handling a Great Books or integrated humanities sequence on the transcript?
Kagan is not quite as dry, has larger font, but it also has good questions and original source documents. It was (may still be) used for honors or AP history (I forget which.) Balanced view of history in my opinion. Kagan is conservative, but fair. Side note: If you mourn the loss of the classical liberal arts read Kagan's retirement speech from Yale.
Hi Heather, I suggest Writing with Skill I with both boys. If Latin is only for vocabulary perhaps you should start off with a roots program. You may catch the latin bug as you gain confidence in homeschooling. If you want to dive in then get a grammar school level Latin and progress quickly though the first couple of levels before moving on to a high school level Latin. It's been a while since we've done grammar, but again, I would choose something you can use with both at the same time.
Do you have the Teacher CD? There are lesson plans on it. Not very in depth, but it breaks it down for you. We started our week on Friday so my boys could read over the weekend. In addition to meeting when starting a book, we met twice a week to discuss questions. Some had to be written down and handed in and some we simply discussed dialectically Typical week (when starting a new book): Friday: Student reads intro to new book, afterwards we discuss intro and prelude questions Homework: Assigned reading, questions Tuesday: Discussion Homework: Assigned reading, questions Thursday or Friday: Discussion Each book would have at least one extra assignment - essay, project, or activity We discussed history separately. With my oldest we did Omnibus and TOG. I met with Ds#2 one day a week to discuss history readings and questions. I didn't use Spielvogel, I used The Western Heritage (Kagan), various books I liked from TOG, and Teaching Company audio. Ds#3 did Omnibus I online - they met 2x a week to discuss so I figured I was on to something with my schedule.
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Is there a list or search engine of child psychologists for gifted children? My youngest son is now attending a university model school and it is forcing us to face some issues with his emotional intensity. Most recently he has started laughing in one class, he says he doesn't know why. I have observed this behavior over the years as a nervous habit. Obviously this is an issue for the teacher. Anyway, I think it's time we talk to someone. Anyone know of such a site?
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