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Ruby and Diamond Dragonflies Sparkle in Monaco
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Monaco is home to some of the most interesting princes and princesses in Europe—including several royals who no longer have thrones. One of these, Camilla of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, frequently attends Monegasque events in sparkling jewels. For the princely wedding in 2011, she wore a dazzling diamond and ruby tiara on the opera terraces.
Camilla is the wife of Carlo of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, a descendent of royals who ruled the Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily in the nineteenth century. (Carlo and Camilla also use the titles of Duke and Duchess of Castro.) She wore a theatrical red and black striped gown for the reception held after the wedding of Prince Albert II and Princess Charlene in July 2011.
Camilla accessorized the flamboyant gown with ruby and diamond jewels, including a belle epoque diamond and ruby necklace and coordinating earrings. She also wore the Ruby Dragonfly Tiara, an antique piece from the Art Nouveau period.
Here's a closer look at the tiara, which also features diamond and ruby flowers interspersed between the diving dragonflies.
The jewels are excellent, but they're really competing with the gown for attention on this occasion. Wouldn't you love to see these with a sleek, plain dress in a solid color, maybe cream or navy?
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Composition Shirley Temple doll by Ideal c 1930s.
The Marx Split Level dolls house.
Lennon Sisters Paper Doll Books. The centre one is an original but we don't have the dolls as yet.
Clothing from the Merrill wedding paper dolls.
This one was taken "blind" I could not get down low enough so just had to hold the camera low and hope I got her in frame.


Hey, we're still around, as if this compendium of new stories isn't enough evidence. (That little bit about Triad City Beat going out of business was an April Fool's joke — sorry if you didn't think it was funny.) And speaking of someone who's still around, Senior Editor Jordan Green chronicles the history of Electro, the last free man on Tate Street in this week's Triad City Beat cover story.


Remarks made in Accra (Ghana), December 2004 Kings, traditional leaders, leaders of ethnic groups, they have to take their place back as Uriel said, whose ancestor was a Katanga emperor and I hope I support him anyway, in his fight to rebuild the state of Katanga.
A president elected for 4, 5, 7 years. What is he looking for? … To become as rich as possible by placing his money in Switzerland, then possibly keep the wolf from his door for the rest of his life. And you know what is it in Africa? Corruption! All the sitting persons become as rich as possible as they misappropriate the money of their country until they are no longer president.
A king, a traditional leader, he is a leader for life and he wants the wellbeing of his people because, if he does not want the well-being of his people, sooner or later, he will be defeated. A traditional leader thinks of the children of his village, thinks of people, of the children amongst whom he lives with. They come to see him when there is a problem. It is magnificent! Everybody speaks of the good French kings of old, like Henri IV who rendered justice, like good kings thinking of their people: the French were dying of hunger and he said every Frenchman ought to be able to eat a chicken every Sunday.
That is very African. He is a king! A president would never have said that. What impresses me is that they do not think of the good for their people, but their political career. What can I do to be re-elected and earn even more money for again another mandate? Thus, this return to small ethnic groups, whether there is 500, 600 ethnic groups in Africa with leaders and the United States of Africa, no longer having current borders but all these ethnic groups federated in the United States of Africa where all the ethnic groups will be represented equally, that's the future.
(..) How can we undertake this African revolution that will federate and create the United States of Africa and, at the same time, reach today existing countries? Unfortunately, in countries inherited from colonization, never the present governments will agree to give up their power in order to build up a federated state because the current power enables them get richer and richer landing their money in Switzerland. Who shall be the initiator? The basis, he people. What do I mean by people? I mean the ethnic groups. And these ethnic groups, what do they have? Leaders, traditional leaders, they can be kings, the heads of village. You all know about it because you have some you know them. They are the only ones that can embrace our Message; only them and by increasing their power, because when you will tell them about the United States of Africa in which their ethnic groups will be directly represented by them or by a village ambassador chosen by themselves, it changes everything. Therefore, this African revolution will not be made by the national powers in place, from these artificial nations created by colonizers. But it will be made by the basis, by the people, by the villages, by the ethnic groups.
The United States of Africa will be an African parliament, where each ethnic group will be represented equally; Tutsi, Hutus, and people from all the regions you know. By doing so, each people regain its dignity and pride to be equal to the others. Do not try to give the present government the idea of creating the United States of Africa. They are already corrupted. For most of them, they are already rotten to the core, except maybe for a few who could have some slightly altruistic ideas and think of their people before thinking of their bank accounts. But, mostly, there is nothing much to expect from them. It is normal; they sit on what has to disappear. We are not masochists: when we sit on a branch we don't want to cut it by ourselves. So, asking them to become federated in the United States of Africa is like telling them "Here is the saw, you can cut the branch you are sitting on". They do not want to do that. On the other hand, your traditional leaders, the heads of villages; them, they will climb the tree. And if all the African traditional chiefs get together by region, by country, to say: "We inherited artificial separation by countries from the colonizers, we do not want them anymore and we will get together".
Then, you have traditional chiefs from the same ethnic group on one side of the border in Burkina Faso, on the other side of the border in Ivory Coast and on another side of the border in Ghana. They will say: "What is this border between us. Why am I under the authority of the President of Ivory Coast and you are under the authority of the President of Burkina Faso? Let us become one, let us create our independent state". And this is how it starts. Africa's strength comes from the basis. The basis is the people. The people have traditional chiefs, descendants of their ancestors, who are intelligent, who love the village, who love the people. And they do not fill their Swiss bank accounts. They are with you every day of your life. Those in power, who have found artificial posts, those, who do not know sometimes their village (they do not go to villages for fear of getting dirty), do not lie the real African life. A lot of research still need to be done (it is difficult because colonizers did everything to make them disappear) to find back the ethnic groups in the United States of Africa; they can be anywhere. You need to find a place. The OAU was a beautiful dream but in fact was a dream to protect rulers' interests. This is why it does not make progress. In other words, the Organization of African Unity (OAU) is saying: "We, rulers with our bank accounts in Switzerland to do everything to unite, but not too much, not too fast and in such a way to protect ourselves and our interests first.
If the OAU had been powerful, nobody in Africa would be dying from starvation; it is not the case. Thus, they are powerless and incompetent. The lives: The heads of village, traditional leaders know what it is, they know what it is like losing their children, loosing people in their villages from hunger or sickness. Those ones are in contact with the people. This unity among traditional leaders should be found within the United States of Africa: I assure you, if all traditional leaders of the large African ethnic groups gather in the United States of Africa, they will think of the African people and not of their Switzerland bank accounts. What saddens the ELOHIM and myself, is to see a continent like the African continent with its immeasurable wealth (the wealth of the African continent is colossal) and to see how people are victims of the divisions created by the Western countries.


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Campaigner urges Japan to cease support for Burmese regime
Mar 20, 2009 (DVB), The director of the US Campaign for Burma met with Japanese MPs in Tokyo this week to raise concerns about Japan's perceived support for the Burmese regime in the lead-up to the 2010 elections.
Aung Din, director of USCB, flew to Tokyo on Wednesday to discuss Japanese policy to Burma.
"They were showing signs that likely to support the State Peace and Development Council's 2010 election plan," he said.
"I pointed out during my discussion with Japanese MPs that is important to release political prisoners in Burma before going ahead with the elections."
The USCB has been calling for a revision on the 2008 constitution to make it amendable by most parties, and for dialogue and reconciliation between the SPDC and opposition groups.
According to unconfirmed reports, the Japanese government has also been urging the National League for Democracy to participate in the elections.
International governments should not recognise the elections unless these problems are solved, he added.
"When I questioned the Japanese officials about [their support], they said the Japanese government's policy is to remain in the middle, while recognising opinion from both the Burmese government and the opposition."
He pointed to the difference between the US government, "who has a great respect for public opinion", and the Japanese.
"In the States, the congress has power to make policies but in Japan, the authority of the parliament is barely anything," he said.
"The Japanese government is run by bureaucrats and thus it is always difficult for them to make changes in their policy."
Reporting by Htin Aung
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Egypt: Part of courthouse burnt in clashes in Alexandria
CAIRO (AP) — A courthouse went up in flames in Egypt's northern Mediterranean city of Alexandria during clashes between protesters and riot police Sunday, according to witnesses.
The blaze destroyed part of the building, burning some files. A security official said unidentified assailants were responsible.
This was the second straight day of clashes there ahead of the two-year anniversary of Egypt's uprising that toppled longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak.
Young men threw rocks at police, who responded with tear gas, outside the courthouse where six senior police officers were on trial for deaths of protesters during the nation's 2011 uprising.
Two years after the revolt was first sparked, families of the deceased remain frustrated over the pace of reform. Rights groups have criticized what they say remains a culture of police impunity.
Two trucks that transport riot police was set ablaze outside the courthouse, which is near the Italian consulate, after Judge Mohammed Hammad Abdel-Hadi resigned from the case on Sunday. He did not say why he quit.


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Missouri Voters Overwhelmingly Reject 'Right to Work'
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Unions in Missouri are declaring victory after voters shot down a Republican-backed "right-to-work" law by a hefty 2 to 1. Photo: Vote No on Prop A Facebook page
Unions in Missouri are declaring victory after voters shot down a Republican-backed "right-to-work" law by a hefty 2 to 1.
The final vote count was 937,241 against the legislation to 452,075 in favor.
Missouri became the 28th state with a right-to-work law on the books in February 2017, when Republican Governor Eric Greitens signed the law at a ceremony in an abandoned factory.
In response, thousands of union members hit the streets to gather enough signatures to trigger a referendum vote that could repeal the law. Over the course of six months, activists gathered 310,567 signatures—more than three times the number needed. Right to work was put on hold until voters could decide.
Most of the signatures were gathered by volunteer rank and filers. Labor educator Judy Ancel wrote for Labor Notes last summer about how the drive energized local unions:
Brian Simmons of Machinists Local 778 took on a coordinating role in very red Cass County, south of Kansas City. He was elated with the newcomer activists from various unions. "They began saying 'Brother and Sister,'" he said. "You ask 'em to turn out, and they do. They ask, 'How can we do better?' We had people asking where to go when they got run off a spot. They'd be willing to go across town, telling me, 'I'm on it.'
"Our August union meeting rarely gets a quorum, but we had a packed house, and the first thing they wanted to know was 'how are we doing?' We kicked ass."
Robert W. Shuler II, a forge operator and president of IUE-CWA Local 86821 in Centralia, recruited 35 members to go to poker runs, the state fair, bike runs, and festivals all summer. "It's already changed the local," Shuler said.
"We have more attendance at meetings. People are asking about stuff to do. Something like this gives people hope. We have nominations on Friday, and I think we'll get more candidates than before."
At first the referendum vote was set for this November, but Republican lawmakers moved the date up to August, hoping to hurt the referendum's chances by suppressing voter turnout—and to avoid a November uptick in union voters that could give Democrats a boost.
An employer-backed group also circulated a petition to institute right to work through an amendment to the state constitution. Despite nearly $1 million spent, that effort failed.
The labor movement's victory owes to the turnout of union members at the polls, but also to appeals made to nonunion workers at doors and in parking lots across the state. Shannon Duffy of the United Media Guild in St. Louis gave us a sense of these conversations on our site yesterday:
Last week I spoke with a nonunion single mother. We did not discuss fair share. Instead, we talked about the myriad issues workers face in our state. While talking about medical coverage (and her lack of it) I asked her if she thought our odds were better for expanding Medicaid in this state with a strong union movement or with a weak one? And that is when she got it.
If we want to help the tens of thousands without insurance and expand Medicaid, or improve workers lives in countless other ways, it will take a well-thought-out, organized, and sustained campaign. So a strong union presence serves her self-interest—and other nonunion workers like her—because unions are the vanguard for social change.
A weak union movement helps no one except the Koch brothers and their ilk. And the bosses. Bosses love weak unions.
1978 ALL OVER AGAIN
For Missouri labor movement old-timers, this week's win is a satisfying reprise. Forty years ago, the National Right-to-Work Committee tried to pass right to work by referendum.
Initial polls suggested it would pass 2 to 1, and even get the votes of a majority of union members. National labor leaders feared that a loss in Missouri might trigger a domino effect in other union stronghold states.
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Jerry Tucker, then a D.C.-based staffer for the United Auto Workers, returned to his home state to manage the 1978 campaign against right to work—which put together the strongest coalition of progressive forces Missouri had ever seen, registered an estimated 100,000 union members to vote, and dealt Republicans a lasting defeat. Voters rejected the referendum 3 to 2.
In a 2011 article for Labor Notes, Tucker explained how they did it. The campaign had a coordinated strategy, but it was a grassroots affair. Tucker wrote:
The United Labor Committee, a statewide body with representatives from the AFL-CIO, UAW, Teamsters, and Mine Workers, raised $2.5 million to run the campaign against right to work. Twice the committee requested donations from member unions equivalent to 50 cents per member.
Some unions asked locals or internationals to cover the donation. Some, like the UAW, went directly to the membership—which had important benefits. Members were educated about the campaign and gained a personal stake once they reached into their own pockets.
For example, Local 93 in Kansas City produced buttons: "I fought against the RTW." One person on each line was assigned to sell the buttons and inform people of the dangers of RTW. Some paid a dollar; others gave as much as $100. The women's committee sponsored a dance to augment the collections.
The campaign was three-pronged: First was voter registration, get out the vote, and rank-and-file action. Second was communication through the media, direct mail, and phonebanking. Last was coalition building…
Rank-and-file unionists were the mainstay of the campaign. In fact, some couldn't seem to do enough, and at the outset thought their leaders weren't doing enough.
While the labor committee was still ramping up, members were acting on their own. They set up meetings, visited the merchants with whom they did business, painted signs on their cars, and worked the polls.
Many traveled from urban areas back to their childhood homes in rural Missouri to urge folks there to vote "no." On weekends, caravans of urban and suburban workers traveled to meet farmers and small-town shopkeepers to make their case against RTW.
Motorcyclists cruised the highways in bunches, with banners opposing RTW. Truckers used CB radios to maintain a steady stream of anti-RTW conversations on the interstates.
THE PEOPLE'S VETO
Missouri isn't the first state to repeal a right-to-work law. Indiana's open-shop law, passed in 1957, was so unpopular that it was repealed eight years later in 1965.
In a 2011 referendum, voters in Ohio shot down Senate Bill 5, which would have limited the collective bargaining rights of public sector unions and imposed the open shop on the public sector.
There too the effort relied on a vast number of volunteer signature-gatherers and a coalition that stretched far beyond unions. John McNay, a former chapter president of the American Association of University Professors who wrote a book on the campaign, reported in Labor Notes:
We Are Ohio's coalition was very broad: professors, Steelworkers, secretaries, ministers, Teamsters, police, nurses, students, firefighters, auto workers, and janitors. Unions were obviously prominent, but we had organizations behind us as diverse as the Amos project (a Catholic social justice group), Black ministers groups, the Blue-Green Alliance of the Sierra Club, and the Farmers' Union. Even the Catholic bishops came out against SB 5.
To get an idea of the scale of the campaign, during the petition drive to get SB 5 on the ballot for repeal, we had 10,000 volunteers. They spread out across the state, gathering a record 1.3 million signatures (though only 242,000 were needed).
When the parade arrived at the secretary of state's office with a semi-truck to deliver all those petition booklets, a structural engineer had to be called in to see if the building's floor could take the weight.
These stories have a common lesson. Business groups often rely on courts and state legislatures to force through unpopular anti-union policies. But they can be stymied by democracy.
Alexandra Bradbury is editor and co-director of Labor Notes.al@labornotes.org
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Like many other people I have had a lot of stress in my life lately, and I am hard on myself when I am not able to do all of the things I want to do.
When that happens I know that I need to take time for self compassion.
Just as we show compassion to other people we need to do the same for ourselves.
This is a time of year when we all have many extra obligations and life can become overwhelming.
It is also the perfect time to slow down, breathe deeply, and show compassion for ourselves.
I know there are many people enduring stress this time of year. My husband is a firefighter and tells me so many stories about suicide calls that he goes on this time of year. It's wise to do whatever you have to do to ease the stress in your life.
Such truth and I am finally learning a skill set on how to take care of me.
I know that this time of the year conjures up a variety of emotions for all of us and it is important to be aware of this and nurture ourselves first.
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Morris Buys a Watermelon: The Continuing Adventures Only on Friday Fictioneers
Posted on March 4, 2020 by The Writer's Village
Morris schlepps Gertie to a seedy part of town for a bargain. But will it be more than he bargained for?
Each week Rochelle Wisoff-Fields posts a pic to write a 100 word story about. This week's photo is:
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Morris Buys a Watermelon:
Morris, quick! We got to get out of here. I'm not comfortable. Something bad's gonna happen.
Gertie, just give me a minute. I want some watermelon and this is the cheapest place around.
What good is cheap if we get our throats slit? Look at all this gang graffiti.
Gertie, I didn't schlep us all the way over here so we couldn't buy a watermelon.
No, you schlepped us all the way over here to get us killed. I don't want to die over a watermelon. Let's go already.
Hold on, Gertie, I think this is a really ripe one…
– Randy Mazie
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31 thoughts on "Morris Buys a Watermelon: The Continuing Adventures Only on Friday Fictioneers"
Iain Kelly on March 4, 2020 at 12:47 PM said:
I don't think I've ever found any fruit worth dying for…
The Writer's Village on March 4, 2020 at 1:40 PM said:
I'll let Gertie know that you're with her.
theministryofshrawleywalks on March 4, 2020 at 1:07 PM said:
I think Morris is going to be ok, he seems head strong
A strong head is good to have, no head is not so good.
Gertie thinks he's gonna lose his head as well as he's already lost his mind.
Maybe he's just being adventurous, My Dad started eating asian food after his stroke, he was a strict meat and 2 veg tip of guy
neilmacdon on March 4, 2020 at 1:12 PM said:
You can't do a lot of damage with a watermelon as a self defence device, but it looks terrific
Now that's funny. LOL.
I haven't heard a good watermelon joking a while. Da-dah-dum,
Susan A Eames on March 4, 2020 at 1:55 PM said:
Great dialogue – and somehow I think they're going to be fine. 🙂
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Why not? They've only been married 40 years.
Thanks, Randy
Anthony North on March 4, 2020 at 1:57 PM said:
Funny. I like it.
Gertie says, "Good. You go shopping with him next time!"
msjadeli on March 4, 2020 at 3:07 PM said:
Methinks something — or someone — is going to be splatted soon…
If he was only splattered, that wouldn't be so bad. It's the seeds as in "seedy neighborhood" as well as watermelon seeds that worries Gertie.
pennygadd51 on March 5, 2020 at 12:35 PM said:
Entertaining story, and pretty true to life. Morris and Gertie are wonderful characters!
The Writer's Village on March 5, 2020 at 12:58 PM said:
Glad to read you found it entertaining.
That's my family. They're nothing if not entertaining.
Gertie says hi!.
plaridel on March 5, 2020 at 5:50 PM said:
hopefully, it's all worth the risk. 🙂
Gerite says, "from your lips to G-d's ears…" Amen.
draliman on March 6, 2020 at 2:39 AM said:
I have visions of Morris fending off a knifeman using the watermelon as a shield…
you and neil macdon.
A watermelon is not a weapon, defensive or otherwise.
Geriye says, you go shopping with Morris next time.
Keith's Ramblings on March 6, 2020 at 5:52 AM said:
Differing priorities! I'm with Morris, a tasty watermelon is worth the risk.
Gertie says, Double oy!!!!
rochellewisoff on March 6, 2020 at 7:52 AM said:
Dear Randy,
You know the old saying, "It was to die for." Perhaps Gertie isn't too keen on the most literal take. Get the watermelon already! Love the dialogue. I can hear it…in fact I'm sure Gertie and Morris are members of my family. 😉 Actually I did have an Aunt Gertie and my brother's middle name is Morris after several relatives. (Thought you'd want to know).
Wait !!!!!
(big smile)
susanmehr on March 6, 2020 at 7:10 PM said:
Persistent, you're killing me. Brilliant.
You must have meant to write "perspiring", not "persistent."
Gertie was definitely perspiring.
And as far as "you're killing me!", Morris said, "No one's getting killed, trust me."
And lastly, Gertie says, "As far as brilliant goes, you must be talking about my brilliant husband who insists on taking me to the best places. Ha!"
I just say, "Thank you for commenting."
susanmehr on March 6, 2020 at 11:18 PM said:
No problem, regardless Morris makes me nervous. You have a great husband and takes you to the best places but I do insist I'm never shopping with mine, he makes me 'more nervous(er)'. 🙂
Gertie says, She likes you. (wink)
michaelwynnauthor on March 7, 2020 at 5:17 AM said:
He sure seems focussed on that watermelon, hope it's worth it
No watermelon is worth it.
Björn Rudberg (brudberg) on March 8, 2020 at 5:22 PM said:
I don't think that watermelon will be cheap… after all, it's filled up with crack
I'd better tell Morris to get out of there fast,
Don't say a word to Gertie!
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Alf Lombard () a fost un lingvist, lexicograf și profesor universitar suedez, care a avut ca specialitate limbile romanice, dedicând o bună parte a activității sale cercetării limbii române. A fost membru corespondent al Academiei Române.

Biografie
Și-a luat licența la Universitatea din Uppsala sub îndrumarea profesorului Erik Staaff. A vizitat România pentru prima dată în 1934, când l-a întâlnit pe profesorul Ovid Densusianu, s-a împrietenit cu Alexandru Z. N. Pop și cu tânărul lingvist Alexandru Rosetti.

După ce a fost docent (care corespunde într-un fel titlului de conferențiar universitar în România) la Universitatea din Uppsala, a fost transferat în 1937 la Universitatea din Lund ca locțiitor al profesorului universitar Emanuel Walberg. În 1939 Alf Lombard îl va înlocui pe Emanuel Walberg definitiv și va fi profesor la aceeași universitate până când va ieși la pensie în iunie 1969.

Alf Lombard a fost membru corespondent al Academiei Române din 1947.

Se spune că ar fi fost un adevărat geniu al limbilor străine, cunoscând bine vreo trei duzini și având anumite cunoștințe despre încă vreo 60 de limbi.

Marea parte a bibliotecii pe care și-o acumulase a donat-o Universității din Trondheim, Norvegia.

Alf Lombard este tatăl actriței suedeze Yvonne Lombard.

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 Le i prosthetique du roumain
  Rumänsk Grammatik
 Europas och den vita rasens språk. En systematisk översikt (Europa și limba rasei albe. O privire sistematică)
 Språken på vår jord (Limbajul pe pământul nostru)
 Dictionnaire morphologique de la langue roumaine (1982) (cu Constantin Gâdei)
 Dictionnaire roumain-français (neterminat)
 La prononciation du Roumain
 Le Verbe Roumain. Étude morphologique I - II
 Les constructions nominales dans le francais moderne. Étude syntaxique et stylistique
 L´Infinitif de narration dans le langues romanes. Études de syntaxe historique
 Sydsvenska och uppsvenska. Bidrag till en jämförelse mellan två former av svenskt riksspråk (Suedeza de sud și suedeza de nord. O contribuție la o comparație între cele două forme al limbii suedeze)
 Niloés Fransk-Svenska Svensk-Franska lexikon La Langue Roumaine : Une Presentation Note

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 Melanges de philologie offerts a Alf Lombard a l'occasion de son soixante-cinquieme anniversaire par ses collegues ses amis, Lund, Suedia: C.W.K. Gleerup, 1969. 252 p. ; 26 cm.
 Medina Fodor, Studii românești în Suedia
 Corespondență: 1934-1990/ Alexandru Rosetti & Alf Lombard; ediție îngrijită de Nicolae Mocanu, Ioana Anghel, Heinz Hof; Cluj-Napoca, România, Clusium, 2000
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Legături externe
 Alf Lombard, "Despre folosirea literelor  și Δ, 1992.
 In memoriam Alf Lombard, în "Dacoromania", 1996-1997 (o prezentare detaliată a biografiei lingvistului)

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Membri corespondenți ai Academiei Române
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Decese în 1996
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Sophia Palmer Nurses Risk Retention Group, Inc. will offer malpractice insurance to Florida nurses in partnership with the Florida Nurses Association (FNA), Barbara Lumpkin, RN, FNA Associate Executive Director, and Kathi Cavallo, RN, CLC, President, Uni-Ter Risk Management Services, announced.
The newly formed Risk Retention Group (RRG) was capitalized by Ponce de Leon LTC RRG, Inc., a major provider of professional liability insurance to long-term care facilities in Florida. The Uni-Ter Group of Atlanta, GA, a subsidiary of New York-based U.S. RE Companies, an international financial services and reinsurance brokerage firm, will manage Sophia Palmer.
Named after Sophia Palmer, a founding member of the American Nurses Association, the RRG will be owned by nurses who become shareholders in the Company. It was formed to meet the nursing profession's urgent need for affordable, reliable malpractice insurance. The Nurse's Service Organization reported in 2005 that Florida had the highest number of malpractice claims in the nation against nurses.
"Because of increased claims activity for Nurse Practitioners and Physician's Assistants, many insurance carriers have pulled out of Florida, and all have gone from offering an Occurrence Policy to a Claims Made Policy," Cavallo said.
Sophia Palmer will offer limits of $100,000 per event up to $250,000 aggregate for a policy year, or $250,000/$750,000. Members of the Florida Nurses Association will receive a 10 percent discount. "Sophia Palmer will offer competitive rates because it has no history of large claims over several years. In fact, the rate for an Occurrence policy for a Nurse Practitioner is similar to or less than the current rate for a less desirable Claims Made policy offered by other carriers in the State," according to Cavallo.
In order to be insured by Sophia Palmer, nurses must buy stock in the Company. Advanced Practice Nurses and Physicians Assistants will pay 40 percent of their first year's premium, payable over three years, to become shareholders. All other categories of nurses will buy two shares of stock at $25 per share.
"The FNA Board and staff are very pleased with the products and options offered to RNs and Nurse Practitioners. We are truly excited because Sophia Palmer will offer both a Claims Made Policy and an Occurrence Policy," Lumpkin said. "As a general rule, Occurrence Policies are preferred because the policy will pay on an incident that occurs anytime during the life of the policy, while a Claims Made Policy pays only if the claim is made while the policy is in effect. Claims can often be made a few years after the incident," Lumpkin added.
Ponce de Leon LTC RRG, Inc. was formed four years ago to provide a market for long-term care facilities that are required to have general and professional liability insurance but could not obtain the coverage from traditional insurers who were withdrawing from this line of business or pricing the product out of reach of most operators. Today, Ponce de Leon is a market leader in Florida with more than 700 facilities insured.
Sophia Palmer offers malpractice insurance to: Medical Assistants, Certified Nursing Assistants, Licensed Practical Nurses, Registered Nurses, Advanced Practice Registered Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Nurse Midwives, and Physicians' Assistants. In order to qualify, Nurse Practitioners and Certified Nurse Midwives must be working under the general supervision of a physician.
"Online continuing education sessions will be available for insureds at no added cost. Several courses related to risk management will be included as part of the insurance agreement between the Sophia Palmer RRG and the insured," Cavallo pointed out.
This entry was posted in Healthcare Industry, Medical Malpractice Insurance, State/Local on March 21, 2007 by dleander.


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Gitanjali Rao wants to make polluted water safer with lead detection system
By Jacopo Prisco, CNN
Updated 5:53 AM EST, Thu February 15, 2018
Gitanjali Rao, a seventh grader from Colorado, has been awarded the title of "America's top young scientist" for designing a compact device to detect lead in drinking water, which she believes can be faster and cheaper than other current methods.
The 12-year-old's invention was inspired by the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, where cost-cutting measures led to tainted drinking water that contained lead and other toxins.
It also won her a $25,000 prize, for which Rao already has plans: "I plan to use most of it in developing my device further so that it can be commercially available soon," she told CNN.
Fighting lead
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Related Article Flint Water Crisis Fast Facts
Lead is a toxic metal that is harmful to humans even in very low concentrations. If ingested, it is particularly dangerous for children and can cause developmental problems. It usually finds its way into the water system as a result of corrosion of old leaded pipes, made before we knew it was toxic.
The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), the US government agency whose mission is to protect human health and the environment, sets the "maximum contaminant level goal" of lead in drinking water at zero, meaning that no amount is safe for human consumption. However, this is unrealistic because of the widespread use of leaded piping, thus it's not enforced.
The actual admissible quantity is 15 parts per billion, called an "action level" because if 10 percent of water samples from the same source exceed it, action must be taken. The World Health Organization, by comparison, sets a more strict acceptable level of 10 parts per billion.
As of June 2016, in the US, an estimated 5,300 water systems were in violation of EPA's lead and copper regulations, exposing 17.6 million people to unsafe levels of contaminants. In Flint, Michigan, one test by city officials in a local household in 2015 revealed a lead concentration of 397 parts per billion, 26 times more than EPA's own "danger level" of 15. But independent tests run by Virginia Tech researchers found concentrations as high as 13,000 parts per billion.
An invisible enemy
"After I learned about Flint," said Rao, "I continued to research and follow it for the next couple years. Then, I saw my parents testing for lead in our water and that is pretty much what sparked the idea. I realized that using test strips would take quite a few tries to get accurate results and I wanted to do something to change this, not only for my parents but for the residents of Flint and places like Flint around the world."
Gitanjali Rao with her £25,000 prize.
PHOTO: Discovery Education/Andy King
Since lead does not affect the taste, smell of appearance of water in any way, the only way to detect it is with a test. There are currently two main ways to do so, home testing strips or lab testing. The strips generally cost between $15 and $30, can detect various contaminants and offer quick results, but they are not designed for maximum accuracy. That requires the more rigorous lab testing, which involves collecting a sample of water at home – specific kits are sold for around $10 – and then sending it to a lab to get detailed results, which can cost an additional $20 to $100, according to the EPA.
Rao thinks her device could become a competitively priced alternative: "The prototype cost just over $20 to make, but all of the materials were custom-manufactured. At bulk, I expect the production cost to be significantly less than that."
The device, called "Tethys" after the Greek Titan goddess of fresh water, uses carbon nanotubes, microscopic cylindrical structures that have a range of unusual properties and innovative applications. Inspired by an MIT project that employs them to detect hazardous gases in the air, Rao decided to try them in the water: "My solution uses carbon nanotubes to detect lead in water faster than any other current techniques. It has a carbon nanotube sensor, to which special atoms are added that react to lead," she said.
The Tethys device prototype.
When dipped in contaminated water, the special atoms react with lead molecules and add resistance to a flow of current in the nanotubes, which is then easily detected by the device: "The amount of resistance is proportional to the amount of lead in the water. The processor includes an attachment that sends the measurements over Bluetooth to a smartphone. The smartphone app, that I custom developed, captures this data and shows the results on a user-friendly scale."
Rao thinks that Tethys will be better than both lab testing and strips: "Testing water in labs is the most accurate test available today, however, it takes time and requires expensive equipment not easily accessible to everybody. On the other end, test strips are easy to use, but they do not quantify the contamination and are sometimes inaccurate requiring multiple tests."
"My solution addresses all of the above issues. It uses a disposable cartridge that can cost as low as a dollar, it is fast, accurate and it shows lead contamination levels on a regular smartphone, that are easy to interpret and take appropriate action," she said.
The seventh-grader, who attends the STEM School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, originally submitted the idea to the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge, an annual youth science and engineering competition for middle school students in the US, inaugurated in 2008. She was awarded a 3-month mentorship with Kathleen Shafer, a research specialist who develops new plastics technologies: "Gitanjali's concept was at a very early stage at the beginning of our mentorship. She had thought of this idea earlier this year, only a few weeks before the submission deadline," Shafer told CNN.
Gitanjali Rao with Kathleen Shafer.
Along with nine other finalists, she then presented her work to a panel of 3M scientists and school representatives from across the country, and won: "I think the judges recognized the significant progress Gitanjali made over the summer, advancing her project from a cardboard box prototype to building out Tethys' software and 3D-printed hardware. She also initiated some fundamental lab studies to investigate how aspects of her proposed sensor could work in the future," said Shafer. She remains cautious about the commercial future of the device: "For commercial products, it's important to establish technical feasibility, manufacturing feasibility, and a strong business case. As mentors we really focus on supporting the finalists in the early research phase of technical feasibility."
Rao, on the other hand, has clear plans: "I hope to make it commercially available in the next year so that it's in everybody's hands."


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Home Civil Society Voices 2010 Civil society voices Selangor's Freedom of Information Bill welcomed
Selangor's Freedom of Information Bill welcomed
Suaram applauds the Selangor state government for finally announcing that it will table the Freedom of Information (FOI) Enactment at the sitting of its state assembly from 12-16 July.
Suaram is further encouraged by the Selangor state government's announcement that public feedback will be sought in the enactment of the FOI legislation. Suaram certainly hopes that the public consultation process would be a comprehensive, inclusive and meaningful one. On this note, Suaram will monitor to ensure that the Selangor state government obtains the views of all relevant stakeholders.
Suaram believes that the FOI enactment is a big step forward in the country's democratisation process, allowing the public easy access to information that pertain to matters of public interest. This is indeed a positive development in a country where an endless list of information is kept secret under the Official Secrets Act (OSA) 1972.
Furthermore, Suaram would like highlight the cases of misuse of public funds and misconduct in government projects which are yet to be answered as information pertaining to these cases is apparently classified as "secret" under the OSA. Among the higher profile cases include the Scorpene submarine deal by the the Defence Ministry (which was then led by current Prime Minister Najib Razak when the deal was made) and the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal in which the initial cost of the project (RM1.9 billion) ballooned to RM12.5 billion. These are merely two of the myriad of examples of misuse of public funds by the government. The government must be held accountable for all of these cases.
READ MORE: Making freedom of information a right
Finally, Suaram strongly calls on the Federal Government and all the other state governments to follow the Selangor state government's initiative by enacting FOI legislations under their respective administrations. The Federal government should also stop enforcing the OSA and further repeal the law.
Suaram and other CSOs are willing to provide our expertise and cooperation to the Selangor state government in popularising the FOI enactment and gather public feedback on the legislation. At the same time, we are also committed to engage with and assist other state governments and the Federal government in enacting the FOI legislation.
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