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Салама́нка () — стародавнє кельтське місто на північному заході Іспанії на річці Термес, в автономній області Кастилія-і-Леон, є адміністративним центором провінції Саламанка. Саламанка є другим за величиною містом (228,881) в Кастилії і Леона, після Вальядоліду (414,000). Стара частина міста була внесена у Всвітню спадщину ЮНЕСКО в 1988 році. Торговий, промисловий, науковий і туристичний центр.

Транспортний вузол. Харчова, текстильна, шкіряна промисловість. Два університети (державний і католицький), один з яких, Університет Саламанки, був заснований у 12 — початку 13 століть. Місто відоме з 5 століття до н. е.. Численні архітектурні пам'ятники 12—18 століть, в тому числі Старий собор (12 століття), будівля старого університету (16 століття) та інші.

Населення — 160 331 чоловік (2005), є залізничний вокзал і аеропорт.

Історія

 Поселення засноване іберійцями, 217 року до н. е. здобув Ганнібал, пізніше римляни та вестготи.
 У VIII ст. захоплене маврами, багато разів побувало у руках як мусульман, так і християн.
 У XI ст. герцог Раймонд Бургундський оточив захисними стінами.
 У 1218 король Альфонсо IX заснував університет у Саламанці, який до XVII століття конкурував з вишами в Болоньї, Оксфорді і Парижі. Був реорганізований в 1254 р.
 Католицькі Королі ((Фердинанд II Арагонський)) та Ізабелла заснували у Саламанці багато церков, монастирів і палаців.
 12 липня 1812 об'єднані війська британські, іспанські та португальські перемогли тут (битва під Саламанкою) війська Наполеона.
 Під час громадянської війни тут була тимчасова столиця франкістів.
 Тепер Саламанка є квітучим містом, а університет змагається за першість з вишами в Мадриді і Барселоні.

Релігія
 Центр Саламанкської діоцезії Католицької церкви.

Освіта
 Саламанкський університет
 Папський Саламанкський університет

Клімат
Місто знаходиться у зоні, котра характеризується середземноморським кліматом. Найтепліший місяць — липень із середньою температурою 21.1 °C (70 °F). Найхолодніший місяць — грудень, із середньою температурою 3.9 °С (39 °F).

Пам'ятки
 Головна площа, () — , збудована в XVIII ст., відноситься до найгарніших в Іспанії. На ній знаходяться дві ратуші, на більшій з них розміщений годинник. Дзвіниця і фасад прикрашені медальйонами з зображеннями героїв Іспанії.
 Комплекс будівель Університету Саламанки (16 століття), Головний фасад вважається одним з найкращих в Іспанії. Фасад прикрашений медальйоном Католицьких Кролів, зображенням папи, скульптурами Геркулеса і Венери, а також великою кількістю геральдичних щитів і барельєфів.
 Старий собор (12 століття), () у романському стилі, з дуже гарним куполом Torre del Gallo, прекрасним вівтарем, готичними гробницями в нішах з добре збереженими фресками.
 Новий собор, () — останній готичний собор в Іспанії, будівництво якого тривало від приблизно 1500 до 1733 року. Гідний подиву є перш за все головний портал, всередині склепи, каплиці і стели, зовні фасади в стилі платереско () з барельєфами, вежа висотою 110 м, купол якої зазнав впливу чуригереско (). З правої бічної нави можна перейти до Старого собору, фрагмент якого був відірваний під час нового будівництва.
 Домініканський монастир Святого Стефана, () — побудований у роках 1524—1610. Гарний передній фасад у стилі платереско, сформований у вигляді тричастинного вівтаря. Усередині монастиря бароковий вівтар з 1693 року — роботи J. Churriguery. У монастирі гробниця герцога Альби, іспанського намісника Нідерландів.
 Будинок з мушлями, () — резиденція з XV—XVI століття прикрашена висіченими з каміння мушлями, що символізують прощу до Сантьяго, яку здійснив власник дому.
 Міст Романо, () — міст над річкою Тормес, п'ятнадцять арок якого походять ще з римських часів.
 інші цивільні будівлі в готичному стилі .

Відомі люди
Серед відомих уродженців — політик Хосе Марія Хіль-Роблес, футболіст Альваро Арбелоа та інші.
 Дієго де Торрес-і-Вільярроель (1694—1770) — іспанський письменник.

Література

 Географический энциклопедический словарь. Москва. «Советская энциклопедия». 1989. стор. 407

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Analysis of the Joint Distribution of Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments. California
The California's DSHprogram is funded entirely through federal match of intergovernmental transfers (IGTs) from public entities (county hospitals and the University of California clinics) to the Medi-Cal Inpatient Adjustment Fund. The amount of IGTs paid by a public entity is based on the ratio of the hospital's projected DSHpayments to that of al
Analysis of the Joint Distribution of Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments. Overview of Medicaid DSH Programs
Analysis of the Joint Distribution of Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments. 8: Three State Analysis of Alternative DSH Policies
In this chapter, we discuss the results of our analyses using the HCUP SID and detailed financial data for hospitals located in California, New York, and Wisconsin. We chose these states because they participate in HCUP, require uniform financial reporting systems, have different types of Medicaid DSH programs and, perhaps most importantly, hospit
There are several findings from the HCUP analysis that have import in designing a DSH allocation policy. First, it appears that the patient population (e.g., with or without Medicare SSI beneficiaries) included in the allocation statistic is more important than how the care provided to those patients is quantified. Ideally, the allocation statisti
Analysis of the Joint Distribution of Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments. Comparison of Current and Alternative DSH Policies
Table 7.4 summarizes the results of our analysis of the current distribution of DSH payments to the hospitals in the HCUP file. Most of the hospital categories in the first column are self-explanatory. The grouping of hospitals by the percentage of low-income patient days is based on the proportion of low-income patient days attributable to Medic
Analysis of the Joint Distribution of Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments. Case-mix
One objective of the DSH allocation policy is to use an indirect measure of a hospital's costs of providing care to low-income patients. When discharges are used as an allocation statistic, differences in a hospital's case mix need to be taken into account. Since data on a hospital's overall case mix are not readily available, we examined measures
Analysis of the Joint Distribution of Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments. Low-Income Patient Shares
We examined the relationship between the proportion of low-income patients by payer to address the question of whether one of the more readily available statistics, e.g., the percentage of Medicaid days, is an appropriate proxy for a hospital's percentage of low-income days. We combined Medicare SSI and Medicaid days into a measure of "joint" days
We used the HCUP data to establish the proportion of total inpatient days, total discharges, total charges, and case-mix index (the average DRG relative weight) attributable to each payer. We estimated the Medicare SSI statistics by applying the hospital's SSI ratio to the Medicare data. Doing so assumes that the Medicare SSI patients have the sam
Analysis of the Joint Distribution of Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments. AHA Survey
Consistent with other analyses, we used the adjusted discharges and adjusted days from the 1998 AHA survey. As previous noted, these measures include outpatient volume by adjusting the inpatient statistic by the ratio of gross patient revenues to gross inpatient revenues.
Analysis of the Joint Distribution of Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments. Hcris
We used the HCRIS data for FY1998 to develop each hospital's cost-to-charge ratio for inpatient hospital services. We also used the total margin and total margin net of DSH measures used in our evaluation of measures of financial viability (see Chapter 5).
Analysis of the Joint Distribution of Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments. HCUP National Inpatient Sample
The HCUP national inpatient sample (NIS) is comprised of a 100 percent claims for inpatient discharges occurring during 1998 in a nationally representative sample of about 20 percent of the hospitals in 24 states. In total, there are 984 community hospitals stratified on five characteristics: ownership/control, bed size, teaching status, urban/rur
Analysis of the Joint Distribution of Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments. 7. Exploratory Analyses Using National HCUP Data
In this chapter, we report the results of our analyses using the HCUP national inpatient sample. We used the HCUP data to explore the relationship between various inpatient measures of low-income patient care that rely on inpatient utilization or gross revenue data by payer class and the implications this might have for using the different measure
Analysis of the Joint Distribution of Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments. Exploratory Analyses
As discussed in Chapter 3, data were not available that allowed us to examine the alternatives with a national set of hospitals. Our exploratory analyses drew on two different sets of hospitals. The first set consists of the hospitals that are represented in the HCUP national sample. We were able to explore the sensitivity of DSH allocations to l
Analysis of the Joint Distribution of Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments. Resource Differentials
One issue in allocating DSH funds is the extent to which the state's available resources to finance health care for low-income persons should be taken into account in the fund distribution formula. Under current law, Medicare DSH payments are based on national allocation rules without regard to state resources while the federal share of Medicaid D
Analysis of the Joint Distribution of Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments. Cost Differentials
The allocation formula could further adjust the hospital's volume-weighted low-income patient measure for systematic differences in cost. A case-mix adjustment should be used when adjusted discharges are used in the allocation formula. A case-mix adjustment is not needed if adjusted inpatient days are used as the volume statistic because case mix
Analysis of the Joint Distribution of Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments. Volume
We avoided establishing a direct DSH subsidy for inefficiencies by expressing the low-income measures as a percentage of revenues or costs rather than absolute dollar amounts. However, this approach also requires that the allocation formula include a measure to take into account differences in patient volume across hospitals ( Table 6.2 ). While i
Analysis of the Joint Distribution of Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments. Other Potential Allocation Factors
Analysis of the Joint Distribution of Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments. Measures Derived From Financial Data
Measures 2.1 and 2.2 use financial data to measure the percentage of gross revenue attributable to low-income patients. Measure 2.1 is similar to MedPAC model's definition of a hospital's low-income share. 1 Gross revenues derived from financial data have several advantages over those derived from inpatient claims data.

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Houston Texans fire coach David Culley after just one season
The Texans fired David Culley on Thursday, a move that came four days after Houston wrapped a 4-13 campaign in his first season as head coach.
"I came to this difficult but necessary decision after reviewing our football operation," Texans general manager Nick Caserio said in a statement released by the team. "While a change after one season is unusual, we had philosophical differences over the long-term direction and vision for our program moving forward. We appreciate Coach Culley for helping us navigate through a difficult season, but it is my responsibility to make decisions that I feel are best for our organization."
Culley told Houston media outlets SportsTalk 790 and KRIV-TV that he had three years left on his contract and that his salary is guaranteed.
"I loved every minute of being the head coach of the Houston Texans. I appreciate the players and coaches for staying the course with me through the ups and downs of our season," Culley said in a statement released by the team. "I'm disappointed we didn't win more games and I won't have a chance to improve on the lessons I've learned, but I fully understand this is a bottom-line business and I didn't do enough."
The firing comes one year after the Texans hired Culley, a longtime assistant who became the oldest first-time NFL head coach at age 65. Culley, hired in January 2021 by Texans chair and CEO Cal McNair and Caserio, was the lone Black head coach hired last offseason and was one of three Black coaches in the NFL this past season. His firing leaves the Pittsburgh Steelers' Mike Tomlin as the NFL's only current Black head coach (the Dolphins fired Brian Flores earlier this week).
New England Patriots linebackers coach Jerod Mayo is expected to emerge as a leading candidate for the Texans' head-coaching job, sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter.
"We are grateful for the energy and passion David brought to our organization throughout last season," Texans chair and CEO Cal McNair said in a statement released by the team. "I have entrusted Nick Caserio to lead football performance and I have complete confidence he will find the best leader for our team. These decisions are difficult, but Nick believed it was necessary for the future of our organization."
Offensive coordinator Tim Kelly also was fired Thursday.
On Sunday, after the Texans completed the 4-13 season, Culley said he expected to return for a second season. However, the Texans' ownership and front office took the past few days to evaluate the coach and decided to fire him on Thursday.
Before being hired in Houston, Culley spent two seasons as the Baltimore Ravens' assistant head coach, passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach. Culley spent 43 years as an assistant in college football and the NFL.
In Culley's first season as a head coach, the Texans won the same number of games as they did the previous season under interim coach Romeo Crennel. Culley did it with a depleted roster and team that has had just one first-round pick in the past four years.
Houston was without quarterback Deshaun Watson, who requested a trade in January after the McNair family hired Caserio. Less than two months later, the first of 23 lawsuits were filed against Watson alleging sexual assault and inappropriate behavior. Watson, who still faces 22 active lawsuits, reported to training camp and was on the active roster all season. The quarterback was a healthy scratch for each game.
The 2021 Texans were also without defensive end J.J. Watt, who requested to be released after the 2020 season and now plays for the Arizona Cardinals.
This season, the Texans dominated the Jacksonville Jaguars in the season opener before losing veteran quarterback Tyrod Taylor in Week 2 because of a left hamstring injury. He was replaced by 2021 third-round pick Davis Mills, who went 0-6 in his six starts while Taylor was on injured reserve.
After Taylor struggled in his return from injured reserve, he was benched for Mills, who beat the Jaguars and Los Angeles Chargers in consecutive weeks.
Houston's offense ranked 31st in Football Outsiders' DVOA under Culley and Kelly. The Texans were outscored by 172 points, the largest points differential in franchise history, according to ESPN Stats & Information.
The Texans' 13 losses were the franchise's most in a single season since 2013.
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"Ribosomal biosynthesis of the cyclic peptide toxins of Amanita mushroo" by Jonathan D. Walton, Heather E. Hallen-Adams et al.
Published in (Biopolymers) Peptide Science 94:5 (2010), pp. 659–664; doi: 10.1002/bip.21416. Special Issue on International Conference on Circular Proteins. Copyright © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Used by permission.
Some species of mushrooms in the genus Amanita are extremely poisonous and frequently fatal to mammals including humans and dogs. Their extreme toxicity is due to amatoxins such as α- and β-amanitin. Amanita mushrooms also biosynthesize a chemically related group of toxins, the phallotoxins, such as phalloidin. The amatoxins and phallotoxins (collectively known as the Amanita toxins) are bicyclic octa- and heptapeptides, respectively. Both contain an unusual Trp-Cys cross-bridge known as tryptathionine. We have shown that, in Amanita bisporigera, the amatoxins and phallotoxins are synthesized as proproteins on ribosomes and not by nonribosomal peptide synthetases. The proproteins are 34–35 amino acids in length and have no predicted signal peptides. The genes for α-amanitin (AMA1) and phallacidin (PHA1) are members of a large family of related genes, characterized by highly conserved amino acid sequences flanking a hypervariable "toxin" region. The toxin regions are flanked by invariant proline (Pro) residues. An enzyme that could cleave the proprotein of phalloidin was purified from the phalloidin-producing lawn mushroom Conocybe apala. The enzyme is a serine protease in the prolyl oligopeptidase (POP) subfamily. The same enzyme cuts at both Pro residues to release the linear hepta- or octapeptide.


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The process of repression is outsourced to the citizenry who indirectly secure absolute power for the regime. It is a vicious cycle with the masses being both the victims as well as beneficiaries of repression.


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Salgótarján − miasto na Węgrzech przy granicy ze Słowacją, 120 km na północ od Budapesztu, stolica komitatu Nógrád oraz powiatu Salgótarján. Miasto liczy 37 166 mieszkańców (styczeń 2011 r.).

Salgótarján otoczone jest lasami i wzgórzami z ruinami zamków na szczytach (m.in. Somoskő/Šomoška).

XX wiek
Salgótarján założono w 1922 r. jako miasto górnicze. Budynki zaprojektowano w stylu modernistycznym, utrzymując jednolitą estetykę architektury miejskiej. W Salgótarján znajduje się pierwsze na Węgrzech podziemne muzeum górnictwa, dokumentujące przeszłość nógradzkiej niecki węglowej. Nieużytkowany obecnie szyb Józefa został uznany za pomnik przemysłowy.

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  Nacka, Szwecja
  Valenciennes, Francja

Bibliografia
 Osobliwości kraju Paloców [w:] Naturalnie... poszukiwanie przygód w Północnych Węgrzech, Wyd. Węgierska Turystyka S.A., Regionalna Dyrekcja Marketingowa Północnych Węgier, Komárom 2007, s. 17
 Węgierski Urząd Statystyczny

Linki zewnętrzne
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All attempted change is an insult to present conditions, and a direct threat to the status quo.
What the City folk call "reality," is but the ONE possibility they can presently perceive…but hell, that's true for all their thoughts and feelings as well.
I've told you that, "Life's heard it all before," but do you see why? Life's SAID it all before!


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US-Colombia Business Partnership and Atlantic Council hold reception and dinner at Library of Congress for Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos.
David Horowitz Freedom Center not a think tank, it's a "battle tank."
UAE and its ambassador to the US, Yousef al-Otaiba, have close ties to small, pro-Israel DC think tank FDD.
David Reaboi: Over the next few weeks, you will be slammed by op-eds and propaganda from Qatari-funded think tanks like Brookings.
A trial lawyers think tank.
Former Bush official John Bailey joins AEI as Visiting Fellow.
Former top Obama official Denis McDonough joins Carnegie's Technology and International Affairs Program as a Senior Fellow.
Jake Sullivan, former advisor to Biden and Clinton, joins Carnegie's Geoeconomics and Strategy Program as a Senior Fellow.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace establishes Tata Chair for Strategic Affairs.
Carnegie Europe announces that Tomáš Valášek is its new director.
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Last year, the BBC released a scandalous film that highlighted the poor care to which brain injury victims are routinely subjected. Audiences were aghast to see health care workers in their own national healthcare system treating rehabilitation center patients with carelessness — at best — and often with actions bordering on abusive. Safety procedures were ignored, hygiene was neglected and, in at least one case, doctors' orders were directly violated.
brain injury patient whose concerns over her partner's well-being were repeatedly ignored. Rather than give up, she installed a secret camera in his room. Among other things, the footage showed a health care assistant cleaning the patient's stomach tube with the tip of a pen, and giving him drinks of water even though he was supposed to receive nothing through the mouth.
The film brought much-needed attention to the plight of brain injury patients in Britain's National Healthcare System. But it also shows the awful effects that ignorance and lack of care have on the well-being of a victim of brain trauma. Even those who are surrounded by a loving support system can suffer due to a family's lack of information or assumptions about their condition.
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Ask the doctor when it's safe to drive a car, ride a bike, play sports or use heavy equipment because reaction time may be slower after a brain injury.
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Welcome United States Geological Survey (USGS)
October 17, 2016 by Trisha Cruse • read
https://doi.org/10.5438/9jwd-tn3a
DataCite is pleased to welcome USGS to the DataCite community. USGS is one of the largest government scientific agencies in the world and was created by an act of the US Congress over 125 years ago. With vast holdings in Earth and biological data, USGS is leading the way with research into ecosystems, climate and land use change, energy and mineral assessments, environmental health, natural hazards, and water resources.
https://data.usgs.gov/datarelease/
USGS has long maintained a strong commitment to public access to scientific results through peer-reviewed publications and access to data generated from research funded by USGS. From the beginning USGS has held data sharing as part of its mission – a mandate to publish and publicly share USGS data and findings from USGS science activities dates to the Bureau's founding in 1879. In a step to make USGS science even more accessible to the public, USGS officially launched their new public access plan on October 1, 2016. The new plan applies to both research data and scholarly publications. On the data side of the plan, USGS will rely on its Science Data Catalog for discovery and access to data resulting from its funded research.
DOIs are an important component of USGS' public access plan. USGS works with Crossref and DataCite (currently via EZID) to assign and register DOIs to support the unique identification, citation, attribution and cross-referencing between related resources such as data, videos, software, and publications.
There are several areas that DataCite is looking forward to working with USGS on. First, we are particularly interested in working with USGS on linking data to publications – this dovetails with DataCite's work on Event Data, where DataCite exposes the activity that occurs around research data objects like data and publications. Second, USGS now requires researchers to obtain an ORCID to unambiguously identify scientists. The use of ORCID iDs will allow synchronization of research across USGS' various systems – this is very similar to the DataCite and ORCID's work on the THOR project. Finally, USGS has years of experience developing and managing rich metadata for increased access and discovery, and DataCite looks forward to their expertise in this area through participation in DataCite working groups and symposiums.
Trisha Cruse
DataCite Executive Director
© 2016 Trisha Cruse. Distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license.


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Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi
Author(s): Michael John Franklin
Genre(s): Biography
Series: Writers of Wales
March 2020 · 216pages · 216x138mm
This is the first biography to foreground the importance of Hester Lynch Piozzi's Welsh heritage throughout her long life. As one anonymous reader put it, 'Few eighteenth-century Welsh writers long resident in England continued to identify as strongly with their homeland.' Born in an obscure plwyf in Caernarvonshire the salonnière of Streatham was finally laid to rest in the vault of Tremeirchion church in the Vale of Clwyd. Hester had been mortified at the failure of her brewer husband Henry Thrale, and her mentor Dr Samuel Johnson, to appreciate the beauties of Wales. But her second husband, musician Gabriel Piozzi, was so enamoured that he proposed residing there. Newly-found confidence inspired Piozzi to write in her middle age, and her daringly personal biography (1786) and edition of Johnson's letters (1788) were runaway bestsellers. Her travel book (1789) treated the reader for the first time as an intimate friend, recounting her love affair with her husband's homeland in Italy, whose landscape reminded her so much of Wales.
'This is an eminently readable compact biography of a particularly colourful late eighteenth-century personality. Each of the various phases of Hester Salusbury/Thrale/Piozzi's life is presented in detail, with full academic citations and a sustained attempt at providing the social and historical contexts of her changing times. As such, the book constitutes a welcome addition to the Writers of Wales series, and one which is likely to prove a useful resource for students and interested lay readers alike.'
-Emeritus Professor Jane Aaron, University of South Wales
'Franklin's biography is accessible even for a lay reader, . There is also plenty of meat here for the professional historian or critic. This addition to the records of writers of Wales is a welcome discussion of an often overlooked character who took so many first steps for women in the intellectual life of her era.'
- Sarah Tanburn https://nation.cymru/culture/review-hester-lynch-thrale-piozzis-biography-is-accessible-but-has-plenty-of-meat-for-the-historian/
Hester Lynch Salusbury: 'a thousand pretty Tricks, […] a
Thousand pretty Stories and […] a Thousand pretty Verses'
The Two Hesters 'have murder'd Peace & Happiness at Home'
The Arrivals of Queeney and the Great Cham.
Hester Brewster, or, 'Women have a manifest Advantage
over Men in the doing Business'
'Like a Rocket She rises, and leaves us to Stare'
'To revise my past Life, & resolve upon a new one.'
'To hie home and dye like a Hare upon the old Farm,
near the Place I was kindled at'
. 'Each bold Cambrio Briton's a Stranger to Fear'
Michael John Franklin
Michael John Franklin is Professor of English at Swansea University.
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...is the love child of Harry Waters Jr and Abra. I realize that I'm perhaps one of two people who will understand what this means.
And I'm not one of them. Explicate?
Imagine crossing yourself with a 50 year old Black man actor with dreds, possible ADD, the energy of a 20 year old and the penchant for tangents. Kia had some of your facial features, facial gestures, body carriage, vocal inflections, intelligence about her writing.
Now I want to see this woman. You've roused my curiosity, and everybody knows to let sleeping curiousity (if Abra's) lie.
And yes, I believe you are the only other person to understand what I mean.


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Chinese scientist accused of smuggling US lab samples, amid crackdown on research theft
The Chinese flag seen at an event in Shanghai in 2010. PHOTO: REUTERS
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BOSTON (NYTIMES) - Zaosong Zheng was preparing to board Hainan Airlines Flight 482, nonstop from Boston to Beijing, when customs officers pulled him aside.
Inside his checked luggage, wrapped in a plastic bag and then inserted into a sock, officers had found what they were looking for: 21 vials of brown liquid - cancer cells, it would emerge - that Zheng, 29, a cancer researcher, had taken from a laboratory at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre.
Under questioning, court documents say, Zheng acknowledged that he had stolen eight of the samples and had replicated 11 more based on a colleague's research. When he returned to China, he said, he would take the samples to Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital and turbocharge his career by publishing the results in China, under his own name.
Zheng's arrest Dec 10 signified an escalation in the FBI's efforts to root out scientists who, the authorities say, are stealing research from American laboratories. Federal prosecutors warn that he may be charged with transporting stolen goods or with the theft of trade secrets, a felony that brings a prison term of up to 10 years.
At a hearing on Monday (Dec 30), Magistrate Judge David Hennessy granted prosecutors' wish to hold Zheng without bail, noting that the theft appeared to have the support of the Chinese government. Two other Chinese scientists who worked in the same lab as Zheng had successfully smuggled stolen biological material out of the country, prosecutors say.
Zheng's case is the first to unfold in the laboratories clustered around Harvard University, but it is not likely to be the last. Federal officials are investigating hundreds of cases involving the potential theft of intellectual property by visiting scientists, nearly all of them Chinese nationals.
Mr Christopher Wray, director of the FBI, described the researchers as "nontraditional collectors" of intelligence acting at the behest of the Chinese government, part of a collective effort to "steal their way up the economic ladder at our expense". Dr Ross McKinney Jr, chief scientific officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges, said the actions Zheng was accused of were especially bold.
"This is one of the few cases where there's been stealing of physical material as well as the stealing of ideas," he said. "It's an escalation over most of what we've been seeing."
Researchers of Chinese descent make up nearly half the workforce in US research laboratories, in part because American-born scientists are drawn to the private sector and less interested in academic careers, Dr McKinney said. Among the 6,000 Chinese scientists who have received grants from the National Institutes of Health, around 180 are under investigation for possible violation of intellectual property law, he said.
Harvard University had sponsored Zheng's visa starting on Sept 4, 2018, according to Mr Jason A. Newton, a spokesman for the university. The visa support ended when Zheng lost his job at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre, he said.
The hospital said in a statement that it was cooperating with the investigation.
Chinese scientist pleads guilty to technology theft
US charges Chinese professor in latest shot at Huawei
Chinese employees stole corporate secrets from semiconductor-maker ASML: Report
Ex-Coca-Cola engineer charged with stealing secrets for Chinese firm
"Any efforts to compromise research undermine the hard work of our faculty and staff to advance patient care," said Ms Jennifer Kritz, the hospital's director of communication.
A message left for Dr Brendan O. Kelley, Zheng's lawyer, was not returned.
Court records sketch out a cat-and-mouse game between Zheng and Ms Kara Spice, the FBI special agent assigned to the case. Customs and Border Protection agents had been warned that he was "a high risk for possibly exporting biological undeclared biological material," and inspected his luggage in the airline's bag room.
At first, Zheng deflected their interest in the 21 vials, telling the agents that they "were not important and had nothing to do with his research". Then he offered another explanation, saying that they had been given to him by a friend and that he had no plans to do anything with them.
"Zheng could not explain why he was attempting to leave the United States with the vials concealed in a sock in his checked bag," Ms Spice's statement says. Shortly thereafter, he confessed to stealing the material.
Zheng booked another flight to China the following day, but was detained by FBI agents before he could board it, court documents say. Through a Mandarin interpreter, he waived his Miranda rights and told the agents he intended to use the samples for cancer research. At that point, he was arrested.
Agents learned more when they visited Zheng's apartment, according to court documents. His former roommate, a fellow medical researcher named Jialin Li, told them that Zheng had packed all his possessions in preparation for his Dec 9 flight, suggesting that he did not intend to return to the United States.
Li also told them that two other Chinese researchers, Lei Liu and Leina Mo, who had worked in the same laboratory at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre, had managed to smuggle biological material into China without getting caught, according to court documents.
Zheng's theft "was not an isolated incident," prosecutors stated in the motion to hold him without bail.
"Rather, it appears to have been a coordinated crime, with likely involvement by the Chinese government, as two other Chinese nationals working in the same lab have also stolen biological materials and smuggled them out of the United States."
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– japońska narciarska dowolna, złota medalistka mistrzostw świata juniorów.

Po raz pierwszy na arenie międzynarodowej pojawiła się 2 lutego 2019 roku w Tazawako, gdzie wygrała rywalizację w jeździe po muldach. W 2021 roku wystąpiła na mistrzostwach świata juniorów w Krasnojarsku, zdobywając złoty medal w tej samej konkurencji. W Pucharze Świata zadebiutowała 7 grudnia 2019 roku w Ruce, kończąc rywalizację w jeździe po muldach na drugiej pozycji. Rozdzieliła tam na podium Francuzkę Perrine Laffont i Britteny Cox z Australii. W klasyfikacji końcowej jazdy po muldach w sezonie 2020/2021 zajęła drugie miejsce. W sezonie 2021/2022 zajęła trzecie miejsce w klasyfikacji generalnej muld (MO+DM), a w klasyfikacji jazdy po muldach (MO) była druga.

Osiągnięcia

Igrzyska olimpijskie

Mistrzostwa świata

Puchar Świata

Miejsca w klasyfikacji generalnej jazdy po muldach
 sezon 2019/2020: 7.
Od sezonu 2020/2021 klasyfikacja jazdy po muldach jest jednocześnie klasyfikacją generalną.
 sezon 2020/2021: 2.
 sezon 2021/2022: 3.

Miejsca na podium w zawodach
  Ruka – 7 grudnia 2019 (jazda po muldach) – 2. miejsce
  Idre Fjäll – 12 grudnia 2020 (jazda po muldach) – 2. miejsce
  Idre Fjäll – 13 grudnia 2020 (muldy podwójne) – 3. miejsce
  Deer Valley – 4 lutego 2021 (jazda po muldach) – 2. miejsce
  Idre Fjäll – 11 grudnia 2021 (jazda po muldach) – 1. miejsce
  L'Alpe d'Huez – 17 grudnia 2021 (jazda po muldach) – 2. miejsce
  Mont-Tremblant – 7 stycznia 2022 (jazda po muldach) – 1. miejsce
  Mont-Tremblant – 8 stycznia 2022 (jazda po muldach) – 3. miejsce
  Deer Valley – 13 stycznia 2022 (jazda po muldach) – 2. miejsce
  Deer Valley – 14 stycznia 2022 (jazda po muldach) – 1. miejsce
  Megève – 18 marca 2022 (jazda po muldach) – 3. miejsce

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Griffin Sinn never planned on being an entrepreneur. That was until he encountered a problem that he had to solve.
Now, with five patent pending products under his belt and a hustle like no other, this Indiana University student looks forward to pursuing his dream of working for a startup in Silicon Valley. Check out our interview with Griffin to find out what drives him and what set him off on the entrepreneurial path.
Not many college students can say that their life consists of meeting top artists like Nick Jonas and Adam Levine, or interning for the Grammy Awards. For Jacklyn Krol, that's not the case.
When this self-proclaimed music fanatic realized that popular music sites weren't giving her what she wanted, she started the music blog Stage Right Secrets to feed her appetite and offer a more unique experience to music fans fans.
This week's student highlights were chosen from Indiana University, where last week our co-founder Tony Conrad spoke on the importance of entrepreneurship and visual storytelling. Our four featured Hoosiers are a dancer, weekend warrior, entrepreneur, and world traveller.
On Thursday, September 18th, Tony Conrad will be in his home state of Indiana and at his alma mater, Indiana University, for a day of special programs with students and the community. In the evening he will host a talk on entrepreneurship and owning your online identity, as well as about.me! His presentation begins at 7pm and is open to the public.
If you're in the area, or know someone who is have them check out the Facebook event here and RSVP to let us know you're going!
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SL v Australia: Mathews ruled out of final ODI
Owing to the calf injury he sustained in the fourth One-Day International against Australia, Sri Lanka's captain Angelo Mathews will miss the final match of the series.
02 September, 2016 20:42 IST
Angelo Mathews sustained his calf injury in the fourth ODI.
Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews will miss the rest of his matches against Australia after sustaining a calf injury, with the final One-Day International of the series set to be played at Pallekele on Sunday.
Batsman Upul Tharanga has been recalled to the squad for the match, while Niroshan Dickwella and Dasun Shanaka have also been added as Sri Lanka seeks to restore some pride after >losing the series .
Thisara Perera and Lakshan Sandakan have been released from the squad for the last ODI, with a pair of Twenty20 internationals to come on September 6 and 9.
Mathews posted an injury update on his Twitter account, insisting he will play again "soon" and that he is targeting Sri Lanka's upcoming tour of Zimbabwe to make his comeback. "Quick thumbs up to all who wanted to know my status," the skipper wrote. "Will be back on the field soon. Will keep you posted."


Onto Part 2: Genre and Misfit Awards. Inspired by The Null Set, these awards cover genres and well, random things. Without further to do.
I'm dropping Ookami Kakushi. There's a lot I like about the series, but the truth is, the scenes between Hiro and Issei are really upsetting to me, enough that it makes finishing the episode hard for me.
Maybe I'll go back and finish if I find out there aren't any more scenes like this between them, or Issei dies, or something, but I don't want to keep pushing through to have to deal with it all the series.
I just find sexual abuse situations extremely upsetting is the blunt truth of it.
The title is in reference to something that happened around here during election time. I live in a heavily republican area. When Palin was running for office and came under criticism, a house in front of the high school started sporting 'I like her!' signs. It wasn't just one sign. Or two. The entire front yard was filled with these signs, and they also were hanging in every window.
Now, I don't like Palin. Sorry if I broke any hearts. Rather I really like another unpopular lady.
After this, I only have one more show I'm planning to check out for this season.
It's really hard for me to want to watch a show that no one else is too thrilled with. On the other hand, I've come to expect a certain type of format from Ryukishi09's anime adaptation, Umineko no Naku Koro Ni and Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni . The few episodes are dull, with bits of mystery thrown in to keep you pushing alone. However, exactly the point you're ready to give it, it suddenly gets cool, and you're sucked it.
Given that criteria, Ookami Kakushi did better then expected. Don't get me wrong, it's still a horribly dull first episode, but it could be worse.
She makes me think of an older Satako, in a weird way. She's so cute.


First Mid-Illinois Bank & Trust generated over $10,000 in first 60 days by implementing technology.
Orlando, FL – March 26, 2015 – With tight interest rate margins putting the squeeze on banks, many are growing earnings by increasing service and penalty fees and eliminating tedious manual work. First Mid-Illinois Bank & Trust and a mid-sized Oklahoma-based bank each used Foxtrot software from Orlando-based EnableSoft to automate fee assessment processes, with the former generating $10,000 in new revenue within the first 60 days. By implementing the software, the banks ensure consistency in their assessment processes while reducing the overhead costs inherent in this repetitive, routine job. The ability to actually assess the fees has also given the institutions freedom to explore new revenue streams and charges that might not have been available before due to resource constraints.
One Oklahoma-based bank with over $380 million in assets turned to automation technology to generate new revenues and save time. In 2013 the bank began using the software to automate a fee assessment process on direct deposit accounts (DDA) on hundreds of accounts each month. "We used to pull individuals off of other duties to assess these fees." explained the bank's Assistant Vice President of Operations. "Now we can assess these fees and need just one person to start the software." Manually, the process occupied multiple bank representatives for an entire day. Done automatically, the customers are charged without employee intervention, generating thousands in revenue in just 24 hours. "Banks turned to fee revenue as a way to make up for the loss of interest income." said Richard Milam, CEO of EnableSoft. "Now, as regulations restrict the types of fees they can collect, these same banks need to get more efficient and continue to seek out missed opportunity revenue streams to stay competitive." Milam's comments reflect the opinions of many financial institutions, who anticipate continued regulatory tightening for the foreseeable future. As long as this trend continues, banks and credit unions will continue to seek new revenues wherever it can be found.
About First Mid-Illinois Bank & Trust, N.A.
First Mid-Illinois Bancshares, Inc. is the parent company of First Mid-Illinois Bank & Trust, N.A. (First Mid) and First Mid Insurance Group. A community bank with over $1.6 billion in assets headquartered in Mattoon, IL, First Mid offers comprehensive banking, trust and wealth management, and insurance services. First Mid's vision is to be the best financial institution in the region, where service is provided at a level above expectation, and to be recognized as such by customers, employees and the communities it serves. First Mid-Illinois Bancshares, Inc. stock is traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol FMBH. More information about First Mid is available at www.firstmid.com.


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DONNA LEWIS RETURNS WITH BRAND NEW DAY, FEATURING DAVID KING, REID ANDERSON AND ETHAN IVERSON
Platinum Singer-Songwriter Reimagines Her Own Material and Songs by David Bowie, Neil Young, Damian Rice, Gnarls Barkley, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Chocolate Genius,Burt Bacharach and Harry Nilsson
Donna Lewis will be performing at The Falcon in Marlboro, New York on March 26 and
at Turning Point in Piermont, New York on March 27
The Welsh-born singer Donna Lewis is one of those rare artists whose immense success on the pop radio charts disguises an exceptional and serious musicianship and breadth of repertoire. Lewis' new album, Brand New Day, reveals the range of her artistry, and may surprise listeners who know her only for her pop hits "I Love You Always Forever," "At The Beginning," "I Could Be The One" and "Love Him." Produced and arranged by Lewis' longtime friend David Torn, the genre-busting composer and producer, Brand New Day is an intoxicating set of jazz-inflected covers and Lewis originals in which she is joined by the eminent progressive jazz musicians Ethan Iverson (piano), Reid Anderson (bass) and Dave King (drums). Palmetto releases the album March 10, 2015.
With her distinctive, breathy voice and unique phrasing, Lewis brings a fresh immediacy to the covers on Brand New Day, including David Bowie's infrequently heard "Bring Me the Disco King," Neil Young's "Helpless," Damien Rice's "Amie," and Chocolate Genius' "My Mom," among others. The album also features two new Lewis originals, "Sleep" and "Brand New Day," as well as a powerful remake of "I Love You Always Forever."
For an artist used to the do-and-do-again perfectionism of pop music recording sessions, returning to the improvisational nature of jazz was an exciting prospect. It took nerve for Lewis to take on songs so deeply etched in the pop consciousness in such a stripped-down setting, but she recorded most of them in a single take. As a result, the record has live, organic, nearly ambient feel.
"I Love You Always Forever" was such a hit for Lewis that, for many listeners, it will always be the thing for which she is remembered. Atlantic Records Chairman Doug Morris had been so enamored with the demo for that song that he flew Lewis to New York to meet him and perform her material, and offered her a deal on the spot. It became the first song ever to get a million spins on American radio and the third best-selling song in the history of Atlantic Records. The record also was an international sensation, topping charts all over the world. Lewis' second album for the label, Blue Planet (1998), spawned two hits: "Love Him," which topped the Billboard Dance charts, and "I Could Be the One."
She soon began to reveal other dimensions of her creativity. While on hiatus to start a family, she left her mark on such projects as The Art of Noise's The Seduction of Claude Debussy. She began her longtime collaboration with David Torn, a guitarist and studio wizard known for his film scores including Friday Night Lights, The Order and Lars and the Real Girl, as well as for his work with rock legends such as David Bowie and Jeff Beck. In 2001, five electronically textured songs Torn and Lewis wrote and recorded for the Chute project were among the most requested on Los Angeles' KCRW for three weeks running. She released the acoustic Be Still in 2002 and the high-energy In the Pink in 2008.
Still, the aptly titled Brand New Day is both a striking departure from anything she has done before, and the fullest realization of qualities that have always set her apart. As Time Out NY said before a recent NYC performance, "If you really listened past the earworm chorus and bubbly beat of Lewis's debut hits, you quickly sensed that she was no flash in the pan. The classically trained…Lewis had a breathy coo that could recall Kate Bush, and used it with a flexibility that few pop princesses could muster."
Donna Lewis – Brand New Day
Bring Me The Disco King
Waters of March
Everybody's Talkin' At Me
I Love You Always Forever
My Mom
Website: donnalewis.com
Twitter: @donna__lewis
Facebook: facebook.com/DonnaLewisMusic
Instagram: @donnalewismusic
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheDonnaLewisChannel
Instagram: @thepromotionpeople
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Tammy Gillis Returns to Television Screens Across North America With Roles in ABC's New Series "Motive" and the Award Winning "Less Than Kind"
Acclaimed Canadian actress Tammy Gillis guest-stars in an episode of the new television series "Motive", set to premiere on ABC on May 23rd, 2013. Tammy's performance received rave reviews when her episode (entitled "Detour") aired in Canada. "Detour" will air this summer on ABC. "Motive" has become a quick hit; it was recently being picked up by CTV for a second season, and was recently acquired by Universal Channel UK. The buzzed-about series stars Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, Roger Cross and Lauren Holly.
Tammy will also be returning to her hilarious recurring role for the fourth and last season in the multiple Canadian Screen Award winning, television series "Less Than Kind". The final season of this fan favorite show premieres on June 2nd, 2013 in a 2-episode event. Tammy will be appearing in the premiere event, in the episode titled "Girl Trouble". The original comedy series airs on DirectTV and HBO Canada. The role has Tammy starring as Barbara, a new mother and trophy wife to Jack. Barbara is young, pretty and full of life—maybe a little too full of life with her Jekyll and Hyde personality.
One of the roles that Tammy is most proud of is her leading role in the independent feature film "Under the Apple Box" which screened and won Honorable Mention at the 2013 New Jersey Film Festival as well as screened at the Women's International Film Festival in Miami. "Under the Apple Box" written, produced and directed by Ellie Fox, is a compelling and beautifully-filmed feature about an Iranian woman Leila, played by Tammy, who is forever tormented by her past.
Last year, Tammy co-starred in a steamy episode of Showcase's "Lost Girl". Tammy's other television roles include CW's "Supernatural" and the SpikeTV comedy "Blue Mountain State". She has been seen on Global TV series' "Endgame" and "Shattered", and played Rachael Leigh Cook's best friend in the thriller "Stealing Paradise", which aired on The Movie Network, Movie Central and Super Écran.
This talented actress has amassed a number of impressive credits throughout her career, including roles in feature films such as "Shooter", and "White Noise 2: The Light". Her television appearances include the critically acclaimed CBC series "jPOD", "Reaper", "The L Word", and the final season of "Battlestar Galactica". Tammy has worked on a number of MOW's as well: one opposite Linda Hamilton in "Home for Christmas", and another with Kim Basinger in "The Mermaid Chair".
This gorgeous performer was one of Femme Fatale's 'Fresh Faces of the Year' and has been featured in UMM and Sharp for Men. Her successful career began as a model, and led to her being one of the main spokesmodels for underwear Ginch Gonch. This role had her representing the line around the world, from Canada to France to El Salvador. Since then, she has moved on to film and television, not only in front of the camera, but behind it as well. Gillis has acted as a producer on a couple of short films, including "Dealing with Jerks" and "Din". She currently has a number of projects in development that she has written, including two feature films and a webisode series titled "Goodnight Tammy".
Since the move from her Manitoba farming roots to pursue her dream of acting, Tammy has become a successful and respected member of the entertainment industry in Canada. Tammy currently splits her time between Vancouver and Toronto, and travels to LA (and around the globe) for projects.. When she isn't busy on set, the multifaceted performer loves to stay active—she loves skiing and is currently addicted to some dance Kundalini yoga!
Website: tammygillis.com
Twitter: @Tammy_F_Gillis
Youtube: Under the Apple Box Trailer
Facebook: Tammy Gillis
Jasmyn Pozzo – Publicist
jasmyn@thepromotionpeople.ca
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Q: Textures with programmable color in Rajawali All works great for me with Rajawali in Android, except textures.
I would like to programmatically load a transparent image as a texture, with a chessboard pattern where each black square is in fact fully transparent while each white square is just white.
I would like to use this as a texture over an object, that otherwise has diffuse and specular color properties that can be changed programmatically. So if the user has inputted the color blue, I would like the object to show a blue-white pattern.
How can I do that?
The rajawali tutorials do not really help, since for textures rajawali changed a lot in the last update. Also the Rajawali examples app does not really help, as they all seem to deal with environment maps.
What I tried was e.g.:
protected void initScene() {
objParser = new LoaderOBJ(mContext.getResources(), mTextureManager,        R.raw.stdblock_obj);
try{
Texture jetTexture = new Texture("jetTexture", R.drawable.chessboardtexture);
mTextureManager.getInstance().addTexture(jetTexture);
semiglossMaterial.addTexture(jetTexture);
semiglossMaterial.setColorInfluence(0);
}catch(TextureException e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

The object is rendered, but without any texture. The chessboard image does have a size power-of-2, and it is located in the right folder R.raw.stdblock_obj. It is a jpg image, but I also tried png which didn't work either.
I also tried a different approach:
semiglossMaterial.enableLighting(true);
semiglossMaterial.setDiffuseMethod(new DiffuseMethod.Lambert());
phongMethod.setShininess(iShininess);            semiglossMaterial.addTexture(new Texture("jetTexture",R.drawable.chessboardtexture));
semiglossMaterial.addTexture(new AlphaMapTexture("alphaMapTex", R.drawable.simpletexture3));
semiglossMaterial.setColorInfluence(0);

but also this did not work.
Anyone an idea?

A: You have to add that texture as a child, a child of the .obj file, if you don´t know how many child have your .obj and the name of them, use:
"your3DobjectName".numChildren(),

then use a simple
for(int i = 0; i < "your3DobjectName".numChildren(); i++)
{
   String name = "your3DobjectName".getChildAt(i).name();
   Log.d("rajawali", "Name: "+name);
}

At this way you will know how many childs and the name of your childs declared at your obj

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Estimating snag densities in pre-European settlement landscapes (i.e., historical conditions) provides land managers with baseline information for comparing current snag densities. We propose a method for determining historical snag densities in the dry forests east of the Cascade Range. Basal area increase was calculated from tree ring measurements of old ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Dougl. Ex Laws.) trees. Historical stand structure was assumed to be open and parklike, with low densities favoring larger diameter trees, and it was considered relatively stable at the landscape level.


We are proud to be one of the few day schools in the area to have integrated the UNICEF Living Values Education Program into our curriculum. We know that it is critical to engage a child's heart and mind in their educational experience, and the Living Values program helps us do that, every day, for every child.
Our students and faculty reflect daily on the values, motives, and choices they make and those that are made by their community members. The Living Values Program provides us with the best possible structure and tools to create and maintain the learning environment that makes that reflection possible, nurtures it, and ensures that it is ongoing.
Evidence-based results from around the globe give us confidence that we're helping our children build a better foundation for a happy, healthy, productive life.
Students participating in the Living Values Program become more diligent in their approach to education without becoming stressed out. Students and teachers form stronger bonds. And parents become more active in the day-to-day education of their children.
The program does not attempt to teach students what values to hold or what to believe. Its goal is to teach them how to think critically and to develop their own moral code, based on what they experience every day at school, how they see their teachers and peers behaving, and having an understanding of their own place in the world.
The LIving Values approach to education is gaining wide acceptance. To date it is being used in more than 8,000 educational settings in 80 countries.
That means that all across the globe there are educators modeling powerful values for students every day. New curriculum and classroom activities are being produced to support the ongoing evolution of the program. And our teachers increasingly have opportunities to participate in high-quality continuing education that focuses on the Living Values Program.
Very simply, classrooms explore real-world values through news, games and the use of other tools. They reflect on what they've learned and actively seek out new information. They then share what they've experienced through storytelling and other collaborative exercises.
This approach encourages the exploration of ideas and the development of the social, emotional and interpersonal skills that students need in order to transfer what they learn into the values by which they live their lives.
Encouraging researchers, teachers and caregivers to consider education from its broadest perspective which must include a personal philosophy that they are committed to and live their lives by.
We're honored to be able to offer our students such an enriching and life-changing learning environment.


Three Energy Recovery strategies for Professionals / Corporate Executives / Conscious Entrepreneurs feeling overworked, overwhelmed and burnt out!
The following three Energy recovery strategies are simple and can be immediately practiced and or made part of your daily regime if you would like to considerably reduce and change the way you relate to Stress.
When on the corporate and professional treadmill, it often feels that no matter how much you have achieved, success is somewhere else. There is the nagging anxiety or fear of not quite making it, or fear of not being good enough, often even when you are outwardly achieving very high levels of success. When not addressed these feelings can eat away at your enjoyment of your work and contribution no matter how well you do, or how far you have reached. So how can you counter these thoughts and feelings?
Remind yourself that you are enough, no matter where you are. This is the truth, you are incredible and you know it. There is nothing you have to prove. Resist the tendency to judge or compare yourself with others, who you might perceive as being either ahead of you or less than in some way.
Being present means having all your attention in the here and now, as opposed to being focussed on the future, or in thoughts of the past. Being present allows you to appropriately focus on what needs attention now. When you are not present you may be anxiously focussed on how much still needs to be done, or still beating yourself or resenting something that happened yesterday. These are signs of being lost in psychological time.
- it allows your intuition to present you with helpful guidance , insights and for creativity to flow.
- As well as being able to get a lot more done, you get to enjoy yourself along the way.
Open and Listen - Take a few deep breaths, breathing progressively slower and deeper. Notice and become aware of how your body feels. Begin to listen to your body as well as to your immediate sensory environment, sights, sounds, smells and kinesthetic stimuli.
Begin a practice of Mindfulness. Simply pay attention to your thoughts and recognise how these are constantly taking you away from the present moment. Bring your attention back to breath and body, just doing this a couple of minutes at a time, will allow you to re-center and become more present.
Don't allow stress to accumulate - release it now!
When you allow life stresses or work related challenges to accumulate, this exacts a toll on the body and mind which can get progressively more challenging till we pay attention and listen to the messages our body is giving us. When you don't listen you may be setting yourself up for trouble further along the way. You can address this right now, instead.
Before going to bed each night, make sure you make a habit of releasing all of the days events, whether good or bad, handing over any concerns to your higher mind for resolution as you sleep.
Forgive yourself or anyone else that needs forgiving, or make an intention to do so if you feel you are not yet ready to release. Congratulate yourself and celebrate the good and the successes, as you look forward to the next day. Then let go of the day and release yourself in to a peaceful night's rest.
Beyond the night time release, be aware of all the stressors you are picking up from your environment as you go about your day. Notice what you are resisting or in conflict with, and when you have a few minutes take the time to process these feelings by welcoming them and then releasing these feelings. To release unwelcome emotions, it is helpful to first allow them to be there and to acknowledge their presence, before inviting these feelings to shift and let go. It is our resistance to feeling them that is what keeps them in place.
In the workplace our environment may often not be so conducive to acknowledging and processing feelings, and the logical or linear mind is expected to take precedence. However acknowledging your emotions and allowing them to be there is often all that may be required to release and to restore balance.
Attend a De-stress and Rejuvenate workshop to learn and experience useful practices and strategies to release stress as well as reconnect with your inner space of mastery and flow. You will melt away stress, experience deep relaxation and become more aligned with your intuition.
Call Johneal Rouse on 020 75852076 or email johnealrouse@gmail.com for further details and register for a De-stress and Rejuvenate workshop.


Irene's is going all out for the first Longhorn Football game of the season! Come hang on their patio and watch UT vs. Maryland in style! The fun and the football kick-off at 11 a.m. so get there early to grab a good spot. Enjoy food and drink specials, a raffle giveaway, and St Elmo Brewing Company's limited edition of their "Darrell" burnt-orange ale. Hook 'em!!


Several years ago, I read an editorial that compared the happiness level of people based on their gender, age, and marital status. The study had a couple surprises: the happiest group, it was reported, might surprise some people: unmarried women in their 40s. The unhappiest group: unmarried men in their 30s. As a 33 year old never married man, I wonder if there is something to this study. A few months ago, a series of stressful events, combined with my own feelings of despair over what I hadn't accomplished in life, led to a "nervous breakdown" of sorts. When I then started having panic attacks, I knew I needed help. I went to my doctor and was given anti-depressant medication.
Within a few weeks, I started feeling grounded in a way I hadn't felt in an extremely long time. "Why couldn't I have felt like this when I was younger?" I wondered. I also noticed something else: for the first time, I didn't feel really bad over the fact that I was still single. While I haven't felt like this every day since I started taking the medication four months ago, I have certainly noticed a shift in my attitude.
I have to ask myself: is it worth the trade-off? For married couples, these issues can raise all sorts of relationship problems, but for a "chronically single" man such as myself, I actually think it's a pretty good deal to lose some of these feelings in exchange for greater happiness. What do you think?
I think Bella DePaulo has given us reason to question studies that try and link happiness to marital status. Seems that many of these studies give mixed results and minor differences.
But anyway, onto the benefits of pills and such. I think we need to differentiate between "feeling grounded" and romantic love. Because a pill creates the former doesn't mean it suppresses the latter. To be honest I've never heard of antidepressants suppressing any sorts of romantic feelings. Some antidepressants can cause impotence, but that's physical not psychological. Depression, on the other hand, can indeed cause emotional withdrawal loss of desire.
You know, when I am happy, I don't feel like I need someone to talk to/be with/share life with. When I am happy, I see the good and I have so much gratitude for the people in my life already. When I am sad, I feel terribly alone.
Maybe being happy is making you more aware of the awesomeness that is already in your life!
Firstly – about studies comparing single men and women. Women, on the whole, will naturally have more friends than men and they discuss personal aspects of their lives with their friends, which men tend not to do. So single women will be able to open up, get advice, share problems etc with their friends, however men don't have the same place to do it – men rely on wives or girlfriends to do this. So it doesn't surprise me that single women are happier than single men – it makes sense.
I don't know about the anti-depressants, but if it's true then it's up to each person to individually decide what's important for them and their stage of life. For example, couples who have been married for 20 years will be in a totally different relationship than those that aren't married yet, or those married for 1 year. The couple who have been married for 20 years have a much deeper relationship probably based more on friendship and less on sexual partnership. But then everyone's different.
But it's always good to know that studies like this exists – so that you can keep a watch out to see if it may validate your own experiences etc.
Don't forget to take personality into account. An extroverted single man might have difficulties with loneliness and thus unhappiness. This might be much less of a problem for introverted single men.
I think that when people are depressed, anything that could be seen as a negative or lacking aspect of their lives comes to the forefront of their thoughts, and it *becomes* the thing or one of the things that they are depressed *about*. I don't think I have ever had clinical depression, but I do have very serious PMDD. When I was in my early 20s, before I figured out the PMDD thing and received treatment, I would get very, very depressed about being single. Every month I had a PMDD "attack," the focus of my thoughts would ALWAYS be my lack of a boyfriend. I thought that I was either depressed about not having a boyfriend or depressed *because* I didn't have a boyfriend.
After receiving treatment for PMDD, I gradually transformed completely. For the next few years I still wanted a boyfriend, and was sort of unhappy that I didn't have one, but it didn't cause feelings of dispear and hopelessness. I wasn't *having* those feelings anymore. The fact is, without treatment for PMDD, I was going to be depressed about *something* for a week every month. If I had had a boyfriend, my mind would have focused on something else I was lacking.
Actually now I will still have months when my PMDD is more severe and I do get very upset about things, but since I don't really care if I have a boyfriend anymore, I get upset about things lacking in my career or not having money or not having enough friends or something else. And I know what is happening, so I know that if a depressing thought came into my head that was about not having a boyfriend, I still know intelligently that I really don't care about not having a boyfriend, and if that's all I can think of to be depressed about, then things must be going pretty well otherwise! And to note, while I was on antidepressants for PMDD treatment in the beginning, I'm not anymore, I treat it birth control and cognitive exercises.
So I don't really know if going on anti-depressants should pose a problem in romantic relationships, other than the documented sexual side effects. I think what happen is that when people are NOT depressed, they're going to be less needy and more happy with themselves. If a relationship is hurt by that, then it's probably a relationship based on the wrong things!
I'm a relatively young guy who's been taking an SSRI for 10 year or so. While it is true that all of my relationships came before I started taking them, I think all of my Onely tendencies were still present before them, and I was often quite depressed being in a relationship, so I'm not sure how much they may be to blame for my perpetual desire to be single.


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If a leader doesn't grow - they stagnate. Are you keeping your leaders fresh? Request a course outline for more detail.
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This week's podcast is practically full of tracks I thought I had already included on an earlier edition but hadn't. It's an odd feeling. The first comes from a band that has returned after what seemed like a brief hiatus. I like how they sound (and look) but I really wish they did songs in Maltese. Perhaps it's just a very personal thing. I just think they would stand out much more if they did that and they would certainly receive more attention than they've managed to attract. I think they deserve all the attention they can get.
Joe Muscat was someone I had bookmarked on YouTube several months ago but never got around to including him on a previous edition of my podcast. This year he has resurfaced as Joe Roscoe and has made quite a splash with this new song. I doubt that this is the last time we'll be hearing from him. I'm also quite sure that his next offering will be even better than this one.
During my most recent visit to Malta I had the good fortune of catching nosnow/noalps performing live in the MediaCAST video production studio in Targa Gap. They had a new line-up, which sounded even cooler than the one captured on their previous recordings. They've now released this track from last year's album Romantikpolitik to follow-on from the recent bout of touring that they did. This particular song reminds me of British band Prefab Sprout from the 1980s. That's a compliment, actually.
I think Alex Alden will always remember me as the guy who made her break a string on her dad's lovely Ovation acoustic guitar just before she was about to play live on Michael Bugeja's Rockna radio show. Luckily, Konrad Pule came to the rescue, with an even more impressive Gibson acoustic guitar. To clarify: we were talking about alternative tunings. Anyway, for some reason I was pretty sure I had played this song on a previous edition of the MMI podcast, but I clearly hadn't. There's not only a video for it but she has now also released it as part of an EP called The Curious Child. It sounds pretty impressive for a debut release, particularly coming from such an unassuming young artist, who was invited as one of the interval acts at the most recent Malta Eurovision Song Contest. I believe she performed live on that day too. Luckily for her, I wasn't around…but Konrad was right there, of course.
We last heard Cedric Vella on the MMI podcast as the guitarist for the metal band For the Godless. This sort of thing was the last thing I ever expected from him. But as part of the debris that will survive from the 2013 General Elections I think this is a fitting memory. Naturally, the video makes it even more worthwhile than if we only got an audio release. Having said this, it's actually quite evident that this is a video production, particularly since Cedric is a master video editor. What else can I say? Enjoy! Or at least rejoice that it's all over. Or is it?
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Many individuals get stressed in managing their financial investment portfolios and their finances. In some months, your investments are doing great and the next month you may be losing loan. The good news is that there is manner in which an individual can reduce their stress and anxiety and stresses in looking after their finances.
Get sound advice from a good financial professional. There are many monetary specialists who can give you good advice on how to manage your financial resources. Listen to what they have to state and decide for yourself the very best path you can take in terms of your financial investments and financial resources.
Establish a spending plan to manage your expenses. A budget will allow you to distribute your paycheck that will pay all of your expenses and will prevent you from spending your cash on things that you do not require.
Plan for any emergency situations that might turn up. Put aside a little quantity of cash from your weekly paycheck into an emergency situation fund. The function of the emergency fund is to provide immediate money for unexpected, unexpected occasions. When something takes place, you will have something to fall back on.
Learn to manage your spending habits. The more you spend on things that you do not need, the less cash you will have for the future. There is absolutely nothing incorrect with buying things that appear nice at the time. The point is that you require to spend your loan wisely.
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These are a few of the ways to handle your anxieties and tensions of dealing with your finances. Even if you do not make a lot of cash, there are methods to minimize your expenditures and establish a sound budget. The secret is to understand how to handle the cash you do have.


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New Chocolate Drops
Dom Flemons and Rhiannon Giddens bring a new lineup
by T. Ballard Lesemann
The Carolina Chocolate Drops, 2011
Look for a couple of new faces on stage when Durham, N.C.-based acoustic combo the Carolina Chocolate Drops return to town.
Singers and string players Dom Flemons and Rhiannon Giddens formed the group in 2005 with Justin Robinson. They specialize in traditional African-American folk music and earned acclaim with the releases of Dona Got a Ramblin' Mind in 2007 and Genuine Negro Jig in 2010. The trio headlined Spoleto Festival USA's Festival Finale at Middleton Place in 2010.
Earlier this year, citing fatigue from constant touring and a desire for new academic pursuits, Robinson announced his departure from the band. Beatboxer/percussionist Adam Matta and multi-instrumentalist Hubby Jenkins officially joined the Drops in February.
The new lineup hits the Music Farm on Wed. Nov. 30. Advance tickets are available for $16.
Visit carolinachocolatedrops.com and musicfarm.com for more.
Visiting Acts Carolina Chocolate Drops Music Farm Visiting Acts
Music Farm
32 Ann St. (Downtown)