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Hadad (Ugaritic: 𐎅𐎄 Haddu), Adad, Haddad (Akkadian) or Iškur (Sumerian) was the storm and rain god in the Northwest Semitic and ancient Mesopotamian religions.
He was attested in Ebla as "Hadda" in c. 2500 BCE.[1][2] From the Levant, Hadad was introduced to Mesopotamia by the Amorites, where he became known as the Akkadian (Assyrian-Babylonian) god Adad.[3][4][5][6] Adad and Iškur are usually written with the logogram 𒀭𒅎 dIM[7]—the same symbol used for the Hurrian god Teshub.[8] Hadad was also called "Pidar", "Rapiu", "Baal-Zephon",[9] or often simply Baʿal (Lord), but this title was also used for other gods. The bull was the symbolic animal of Hadad. He appeared bearded,[10][11] often holding a club and thunderbolt while wearing a bull-horned headdress.[12][13] Hadad was equated with the Greek god Zeus; the Roman god Jupiter, as Jupiter Dolichenus; the Indo-European Nasite Hittite storm-god Teshub; the Egyptian god Amun.[citation needed]
1 Adad in Akkad
2 Hadad in Ugarit
3 Hadad in Aram and ancient Israel
4 Sanchuniathon
Adad in Akkad[edit]
In Akkadian, Adad is also known as Rammanu ("Thunderer") cognate with Aramaic: רעמא Raˁmā and Hebrew: רַעַם Raˁam, which was a byname of Hadad. Rammanu was formerly incorrectly taken by many scholars to be an independent Akkadian god later identified with Hadad.
Though originating in northern Mesopotamia, Adad was identified by the same Sumerogram dIM that designated Iškur in the south.[14] His worship became widespread in Mesopotamia after the First Babylonian dynasty.[15] A text dating from the reign of Ur-Ninurta characterizes Adad/Iškur as both threatening in his stormy rage and generally life-giving and benevolent.[16]
The form Iškur appears in the list of gods found at Shuruppak but was of far less importance, probably partly because storms and rain were scarce in Sumer and agriculture there depended on irrigation instead. The gods Enlil and Ninurta also had storm god features that decreased Iškur's distinctiveness. He sometimes appears as the assistant or companion of one or the other of the two.
When Enki distributed the destinies, he made Iškur inspector of the cosmos. In one litany, Iškur is proclaimed again and again as "great radiant bull, your name is heaven" and also called son of Anu, lord of Karkara; twin-brother of Enki, lord of abundance, lord who rides the storm, lion of heaven.
In other texts Adad/Iškur is sometimes son of the moon god Nanna/Sin by Ningal and brother of Utu/Shamash and Inanna/Ishtar. Iškur is also sometimes described as the son of Enlil.[17]
The bull was portrayed as Adad/Iškur's sacred animal starting in the Old Babylonian period[18] (the first half of the 2nd millennium BCE).
Adad/Iškur's consort (both in early Sumerian and the much later Assyrian texts) was Shala, a goddess of grain, who is also sometimes associated with the god Dagānu. She was also called Gubarra in the earliest texts. The fire god Gibil (named Gerra in Akkadian) is sometimes the son of Iškur and Shala.
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He is identified with the Anatolian storm-god Teshub, whom the Mitannians designated with the same Sumerogram dIM.[8] Occasionally Adad/Iškur is identified with the god Amurru, the god of the Amorites.
The Babylonian center of Adad/Iškur's cult was Karkara in the south, his chief temple being É.Kar.kar.a; his spouse Shala was worshipped in a temple named É.Dur.ku. In Assyria, Adad was developed along with his warrior aspect. During the Middle Assyrian Empire, from the reign of Tiglath-Pileser I (1115–1077 BCE), Adad had a double sanctuary in Assur which he shared with Anu. Anu is often associated with Adad in invocations. The name Adad and various alternate forms and bynames (Dadu, Bir, Dadda) are often found in the names of the Assyrian kings.
Adad/Iškur presents two aspects in the hymns, incantations, and votive inscriptions. On the one hand he is the god who, through bringing on the rain in due season, causes the land to become fertile, and, on the other hand, the storms that he sends out bring havoc and destruction. He is pictured on monuments and cylinder seals (sometimes with a horned helmet) with the lightning and the thunderbolt (sometimes in the form of a spear), and in the hymns the sombre aspects of the god on the whole predominate. His association with the sun-god, Shamash, due to the natural combination of the two deities who alternate in the control of nature, leads to imbuing him with some of the traits belonging to a solar deity.
According to Alberto Green, descriptions of Adad starting in the Kassite period and in the region of Mari emphasize his destructive, stormy character and his role as a fearsome warrior deity,[19] in contrast to Iškur's more peaceful and pastoral character.[20]
Shamash and Adad became in combination the gods of oracles and of divination in general. Whether the will of the gods is determined through the inspection of the liver of the sacrificial animal, through observing the action of oil bubbles in a basin of water or through the observation of the movements of the heavenly bodies, it is Shamash and Adad who, in the ritual connected with divination, are invariably invoked. Similarly in the annals and votive inscriptions of the kings, when oracles are referred to, Shamash and Adad are always named as the gods addressed, and their ordinary designation in such instances is bele biri ("lords of divination").
Hadad in Ugarit[edit]
Stele of Baal with Thunderbolt, 15th–13th century BCE. Found at the acropolis in Ras Shamra (ancient city of Ugarit).
In religious texts, Ba'al/Hadad is the lord of the sky who governs the rain and thus the germination of plants with the power to determine fertility. He is the protector of life and growth to the agricultural people of the region. The absence of Ba'al causes dry spells, starvation, death, and chaos. Also refers to the mountain of the west wind.[citation needed] The Biblical reference[clarification needed] occurs at a time when Yahweh has provided a strong east wind (cf. Exodus 14:21,22) to push back the waters of the Red or Erythrian Sea, so that the children of Israel might cross over.
In the Ugaritic texts El, the supreme god of the pantheon, resides on Mount Lel (perhaps meaning "Night") and it is there that the assembly of the gods meet. That is perhaps the mythical cosmic mountain.
The Ba'al cycle is fragmentary and leaves much unexplained that would have been obvious to a contemporary. In the earliest extant sections there appears to be some sort of feud between El and Ba'al. El makes one of his sons who is called both prince Yamm ("Sea") and judge Nahar ("River") king over the gods and changes Yamm's name from yw (so spelled at that point in the text) to mdd 'il, meaning "Darling of El". El informs Yamm that in order to secure his power, Yamm will have to drive Ba'al from his throne.
In this battle Ba'al is somehow weakened, but the divine craftsman Kothar-wa-Khasis strikes Yamm with two magic clubs, Yamm collapses, and Ba'al finishes the fight. 'Athtart proclaims Ba'al's victory and salutes Ba'al/Hadad as lrkb 'rpt ("Rider on the Clouds"), a phrase applied by editors of modern English Bibles to Yahweh in Psalm 68.4. At 'Athtart's urging Ba'al "scatters" Yamm and proclaims that Yamm is dead and heat is assured.
A later passage refers to Ba'al's victory over Lotan, the many-headed sea-dragon. Due to gaps in the text it is not known whether Lotan is another name for Yamm or a reference to another similar story. In the Mediterranean area, crops were often threatened by winds, storms, and floods from the sea, indicating why the ancients feared the fury of this cosmic being.
A palace is built for Ba'al/Hadad with cedars from Mount Lebanon and Sirion and also from silver and from gold. In his new palace Ba'al hosts a great feast for the other gods. When urged by Kothar-wa-Khasis, Ba'al, somewhat reluctantly, opens a window in his palace and sends forth thunder and lightning. He then invites Mot 'Death' (god of drought and underworld), another son of El, to the feast.
But Mot is insulted. The eater of human flesh and blood will not be satisfied with bread and wine. Mot threatens to break Ba'al into pieces and swallow Ba'al. Even Ba'al cannot stand against Death. Gaps here make interpretation dubious. It seems that by the advice of the goddess Shapsh 'Sun', Ba'al has intercourse with a heifer and dresses the resultant calf in his own clothes as a gift to Mot and then himself prepares to go down to the underworld in the guise of a helpless shade. News of Ba'al's apparent death leads even El to mourn. 'Anat, Ba'al's sister, finds Ba'al's corpse, presumably really the dead body of the calf, and she buries the body with a funeral feast. The god 'Athtar is appointed to take Ba'al's place, but he is a poor substitute. Meanwhile 'Anat finds Mot, cleaves him with a sword, burns him with fire, and throws his remains on the field for the birds to eat. But the earth is still cracked with drought until Shapsh fetches Ba'al back.
Seven years later Mot returns and attacks Ba'al in a battle which ceases only when Shapsh tells Mot that El now supports Ba'al. Thereupon Mot at once surrenders to Ba'al/Hadad and recognizes Ba'al as king.
Hadad in Aram and ancient Israel[edit]
In the second millennium BCE, the king of Yamhad or Halab (modern Aleppo) received a statue of Ishtar from the king of Mari, as a sign of deference, to be displayed in the temple of Hadad located in Halab Citadel.[21] The king of Aleppo called himself "the beloved of Hadad".[22] The god is called "the god of Aleppo" on a stele of the Assyrian king Shalmaneser I.
The element Hadad appears in a number of theophoric names borne by kings of the region. Hadad son of Bedad, who defeated the Midianites in the country of Moab, was the fourth king of Edom. Hadadezer ("Hadad-is-help"), the Aramean king defeated by David. Later Aramean kings of Damascus seem to have habitually assumed the title of Ben-Hadad, or son of Hadad, just as a series of Egyptian monarchs are known to have been accustomed to call themselves sons of Ammon. An example is Ben-Hadad, the king of Aram whom Asa, king of Judah, is said to have employed to invade the northern kingdom, Israel.[23] In the 9th or 8th century BCE, the name of Ben-Hadad 'Son of Hadad', king of Aram, is inscribed on his votive basalt stele dedicated to Melqart, found in Bredsh, a village north of Aleppo.[24] A Hadad was also the seventh of the twelve sons of Ishmael.
As a byname we find Aramaic rmn, Old South Arabic rmn, Hebrew rmwn, Akkadian Rammānu ("Thunderer"), presumably originally vocalized as Ramān in Aramaic and Hebrew. The Hebrew spelling rmwn with Massoretic vocalization Rimmôn[25] is identical with the Hebrew word meaning 'pomegranate' and may be an intentional misspelling and parody of the original.
The word Hadad-rimmon, for which the inferior reading Hadar-rimmon is found in some manuscripts in the phrase "the mourning of (or at) Hadad-rimmon",[26] has been a subject of much discussion. According to Jerome and all the older Christian interpreters, the mourning is for something that occurred at a place called Hadad-rimmon (Maximianopolis) in the valley of Megiddo. The event alluded to was generally held to be the death of Josiah (or, as in the Targum, the death of Ahab at the hands of Hadadrimmon). But even before the discovery of the Ugaritic texts some suspected that Hadad-rimmon might be a dying-and-rising god like Adonis or Tammuz, perhaps even the same as Tammuz, and the allusion could then be to mournings for Hadad such as those which usually accompanied the Adonis festivals.[27] T. K. Cheyne pointed out that the Septuagint reads simply Rimmon, and argues that this may be a corruption of Migdon (Megiddo), in itself a corruption of Tammuz-Adon. He would render the verse, "In that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of the women who weep for Tammuz-Adon" (Adon means "lord").[28] No further evidence has come to light to resolve such speculations.
Sanchuniathon[edit]
In Sanchuniathon's account Hadad is once called Adodos, but is mostly named Demarûs. This is a puzzling form, probably from Ugaritic dmrn, which appears in parallelism with Hadad,[29] or possibly a Greek corruption of Hadad Ramān. Sanchuniathon's Hadad is son of Sky by a concubine who is then given to the god Dagon while she is pregnant by Sky. This appears to be an attempt to combine two accounts of Hadad's parentage, one of which is the Ugaritic tradition that Hadad was son of Dagon. The cognate Akkadian god Adad is also often called the son of Anu ("Sky"). The corresponding Hittite god Teshub is likewise son of Anu (after a fashion).
In Sanchuniathon's account, it is Sky who first fights against Pontus ("Sea"). Then Sky allies himself with Hadad. Hadad takes over the conflict but is defeated, at which point unfortunately no more is said of this matter. Sanchuniathion agrees with Ugaritic tradition in making Muth, the Ugaritic Mot, whom he also calls "Death", the son of El.
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This was an overall fun and enjoyable read. I didn't read the debut Kopp Sisters novel Girl Waits with Gun so maybe it wasn't a good idea to read the second book. I do think that even in a series each book should be a stand-alone that anyone can pick up to read and figure out what's going on. Despite not knowing the case from the first novel which did carry over to this novel–at least in consequences for Constance Kopp and her position as deputy sheriff—I could mostly piece together what I needed. The youngest sister Fleurette confused me at first and I didn't know if she was a daughter or niece. I absolutely admire and appreciate that Amy Stewart found clips in which to base this case and that Constance Kopp was a real person. Stewart explained, "I'm lucky enough to have a huge treasure trove of newspaper clippings covering 1914 and 1915. Constance was in the paper all the time. This book covers one particular incident that made headlines nationwide: the pursuit of a convicted criminal." This is a delightful description of Constance's duties for the New Jersey sheriff's department: "I wasn't just a chaperone for wayward girls. I carried a gun and handcuffs. I could make an arrest, just like any deputy. I earned a man's salary. People did find it shocking and I didn't mind that one bit." Constance stands as a strong, determined female working in the male-dominated field of law enforcement. She doesn't seem deterred when men don't know how to speak with her or how to react to her as she carries out her varied responsibilities. She lives with her sisters, Fleurette and Norma, in the countryside in New Jersey. Norma seems content to raise homing pigeons and not venture far from home. Fleurette dreams of the stage and for now acts in a local production. The sisters look out for one another and serve as sounding boards for each other. Not having sisters it seems a wonderful thing. This case didn't quite enthrall me enough for a mystery/thriller, fortunately the strong female lead makes up for my lack of interest and sometimes confusion in the case. I rooted for Constance and her sisters to fight the system and to fight sexism.
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Funding plans offer encouragement for one million people
Wendy Burn 08 February 2018
An under-reported boost to mental health funding is highlighted by the President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Professor Wendy Burn.
Last week RCPsych got really excited about the contents of a deceptively low key document and two equally opaque acronyms in particular – and you should too, as they relate to good news on mental health care funding.
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The document was the 2018/19 NHS Planning Guidance. In short, it's pretty important: it sets out what local NHS services across England are asked to fund and provide for the year ahead.
Good news for people living in regions that have been spending too little on mental health services
This was the first passage that excited us: "Each and every" commissioner must, after a year's break, "meet the MHIS". What is this acronym? And what does it mean?
The MHIS stands for Mental Health Investment Standard. It requires local areas to increase their spending on mental health services in line with their overall increase budget allocation each year.
In 2016-17 this requirement was in place and upheld.
But last year's financial year's planning guidance (2017-18) did not set the standard out as a specific requirement for each Clinicial Commissioning Group.
So when, last week, the new planning guidance for 2018-19 clearly stated that, once again, all CCGs 'must' meet the investment standard, the College breathed a huge sigh of relief.
In 2016-17, when the standard originally applied to every CCG, 32 (15%) still failed to meet it. But it is likely that the relaxation of this policy this financial year has made this situation worse and that more CCGs are now on course to fail to meet the standard. We hope that reinstating it will help reverse this trend.
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The MHIS is not a fix-all. Meeting it does not mean that mental health services in an area are perfect. There is wide variation in mental health spending in local areas. The MHIS in itself won't provide a solution to the gap between the lowest spenders and the average.
But importantly, reinstating the requirement that all CCGs must meet the MHIS should stop it getting worse and widening. Over time we would hope that the spending gaps would close when all CCGs are investing the right proportion of their budget on the mental health needs of their population.
As the expectations on CCGs to meet the MHIS are high, the risk of money intended for mental health services being spent elsewhere is reduced.
Commitment remains for one million more people to receive treatment
Another important acronym appeared in the NHS planning guidance last week: FYFV. This is the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, which is the government backed and funded plan to be able to treat a million more people with mental illness by 2021.
We are approaching the halfway mark for this plan.
Last autumn the commitment to see it through appeared to be wavering. The RCPsych ran a campaign asking for assurance from NHS England that the funding commitment would be honoured. The campaign was successful and the new NHS planning guidance states that the funding earmarked for delivering this transformation in mental health services must be delivered.
The College has said several times before - and will continue to stress - that if the ambition to treat a million more people with mental illness is to be realised, we need to make sure that money is spent on frontline services
Even more transparency is needed on mental health spending. We want scrutiny of spending in local areas to be further enhanced, including through the publication of a traffic light-style (Red, Amber, Green) rating of MHIS by NHS England. This would avoid Clinical Commissioning Groups disinvesting in mental health or using additional monies to prop up other services.
The decision to strengthen the MHIS is great news but without clear figures showing what each CCG has spent on mental health it will be well nigh impossible to establish whether or not the standard has been met.
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Evening Edition - April 8
EXPLODING THE TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME (TDS) NARRATIVES
President Trump has become the first President in history to officially label a white nationalist group as a terrorist organization. Extra head-exploding points for the left: the group Trump condemned is also pro-Russia.
BERNIE OUT
Bernie Sanders has dropped out of the Democratic Presidential race - although it seems odd to call it a "race" when it consisted of two men in their late 70s standing frozen in place.
As usual, the humor site The Babylon Bee had the best headline: "Bernie Sanders drops out of race to spend more time with his many, many houses."
Bernie told his heartbroken followers that they know the truth: the path toward victory is impossible and his battle for the nomination cannot be successful.
Now if he and his followers could just accept the same truth about socialism, America would be a lot better off.
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One of the strangest delusions of Trump Derangement Syndrome victims is their insane belief that Donald Trump only ran for President to enrich himself. Sure, he was already a billionaire living a life of unimaginable luxury, but he chose to give that up to take on the hardest job in the world (at no salary), knowing he would have to divest himself from his business empire, which would suffer a tarnished brand because of all the slanders that have been thrown at him and the loopy leftist protesters trying to drive people away from his hotels and sue him if a foreigner stayed in one… but somehow, it was going to make him richer. Of all the nonsensical mischaracterizations of Trump, from wannabe dictator to Russian secret agent, the "he only ran to get richer" narrative just might be the stupidest.
Yet here it comes again…
When Trump first said there had been hopeful results treating the coronavirus with a combination of drugs that includes hydroxychloroquine, and that people might want to ask their doctors about it, you'd think the media would have seen that as good news, or at least researched it honestly. Instead, because the drug hadn't yet undergone years of clinical trials (on a disease that appeared only a few months ago), the media discouraged people from trying it by impugning Trump's motives and slamming him for pushing "false hope" (if I were anything like them, I might suggest that the deaths of anyone who didn't try it because of that are now on the media's heads.
Then we started hearing anecdotal evidence and seeing studies showing that in some cases, the drug does make a positive difference. So shouldn't the narrative have changed to "Trump was right, we were wrong, we apologize"? If you think that, you really don't know our modern news media. No, they've shifted straight from "Trump is pushing snake oil!" to "The snake oil works, so Trump must be profiting from it somehow!" They have zero proof of that, but since has having zero proof stopped anyone from reporting a negative story about Trump?
It would be nice to live in a world where reporters aren't afflicted with TDS, and they could simply accept that Trump mentioned that drug simply because he wanted people to know about it because it might save their lives. But to concede Trump actually cares about saving lives would force them to admit he's an actual human being rather than the evil cartoon image they've spent three years creating. Only in "The Wizard of Oz" is a straw man allowed to act like a human being.
PS – For reporters who think the Washington status quo was wonderful and any failings in the response to the coronavirus are all Trump's fault, here's a list of 30 existing government regulations (I would call them "pre-existing conditions") that stymied his efforts to deal with the pandemic.
My questions: Why only 30? And why were most of these regulations ever created in the first place?
"DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM"
The pushers of the old poison of socialism under the snazzy new label of "Democratic Socialism" want people to believe their version is different from the old tyrannical dictatorships because it will be implemented by caring, compassionate people like them. You know the old saying: Socialism works great, it's just that the right people have never been in charge of implementing it.
Well, if there's any upside to the current coronavirus lockdown, maybe it's opening the eyes of a lot of misled young people. They're getting a firsthand lesson in one of the biggest problems with socialism: it doesn't take human nature into account. Specifically, that power corrupts, and that the people who really want a lot of government power (leftists) are the last people who should be trusted with it, because they'll use any excuse to expand it.
And so, we've seen stories about a surfer being arrested for surfing on a deserted beach, a teenage girl fined for taking a drive by herself in a closed car, and now, a Colorado man being handcuffed by police for playing catch with his wife and daughter in a deserted park. How any of these people were spreading the coronavirus is beyond me, but their real "crime" was in not abiding by a one-size-fits-all government encroachment on their personal freedom.
Meanwhile, liberal elites, as always, carve out exceptions for themselves, such as New York Mayor Bill DeBlasio continuing to go to the gym (he needs the exercise because his job is so much more important than yours) and now, Chicago's Mayor violating her own strict stay-at-home order to get a haircut. She even became indignant when questioned on it because she's the "public face of the city" and is on national media and in the public eye. Naturally, her hair needs to look good while you can look like a llama with bed head.
So, kids, if you want to know what a "Democratic socialist" America would really be like, take a good hard look. The government using heavy-handed enforcement to tell you what you're allowed to do and what's banned because they deem it "non-essential," while the politicians exempt and indulge themselves because they're more important than you.
Oh, and all those empty toilet paper shelves at the supermarket? Imagine them being empty permanently.
That's socialism.
ALONG WITH THE WUHAN PANDEMIC, THERE'S A HUGE OUTBREAK OF LYING
Yesterday, I said that one way for China to be held accountable for the WUHAN virus from WUHAN, CHINA, was for us to tally up the astronomical financial hit we're taking and simply subtract it from the amount of U.S. debt held by the Chinese. I see I am not the only one to be thinking along these lines.
South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham, appearing on Monday's SEAN HANNITY show, said, "If it were up to me, the whole world should send China a bill for the pandemic." He went on to say that this is the third pandemic to come out of China, that they come out of "these wet markets" that sell bats, monkeys and many more species of exotic animals "intermingled with the food supply."
Of course, in this case, it's not just the food supply we have to worry about –- it's very likely the "Level 4" biolab and another infectious disease lab near the market, both of which study coronaviruses. (I use quotation marks because the actual level of containment in these labs seems to be much lower.)
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JOHN PRINE DIES OF CORONAVIRUS
By "Huckabee" writer/pop culture historian Pat Reeder
The family of legendary singer/songwriter John Prine announced last night that he had died at 73 after being put in critical care several days ago with the COVID-19 coronavirus. He is the most famous person yet to die of this disease, a chilling reminder that it can strike down anyone. And having already survived lung cancer and stage 4 throat cancer, you would think that if anyone could have beaten this, he could.
Here is what some fellow entertainers are saying…
John Prine was both one of the most influential songwriters of the past half-century and, ironically, one of the most inimitable. Some critics called him "The Mark Twain of modern songwriting." In both his musical style and his decision to quit major labels and sell his albums direct to fans, he practically created the genre of indie Americana music.
I confess that this is a really hard story for me to write about, since I am a lifelong John Prine fan who has all his albums and has seen him live numerous times. As someone whose job is to rearrange the contents of the dictionary in ways nobody's thought of before, I was in awe of his ability to create stunning images in words. A few favorite lyric quotes:
"Naked as the eyes of a clown…"
"Drinks his beer like it's oxygen…"
"There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes..."
"You may see me tonight with an illegal smile…"
"Sally used to play with her hula hoops, now she tells her problems to therapy groups…"
If you don't know his work, anything is great, but I particularly recommend his first album where almost every song became a country/folk standard, "The Missing Years" and "Bruised Orange." And here's a full live concert you can watch from "Austin City Limits":
And a short concert from PBS's "Tiny Desk" series:
Finally, even now, when I am feeling incredibly sad and depressed (and furious at China) about this news, I know that if I watch this next video, I'm going to smile. That's probably the greatest legacy anyone could hope to leave:
By the way, I hope you'll also remember to include my fellow Texans, Christopher Cross and Ray Benson of Asleep at the Wheel, in your prayers. Cross calls it the worst illness he's ever had. Fortunately, Ray said he believes he's "licked this thing" and is recovering.
WHY THINGS WILL IMPROVE
Dr. Anthony Fauci has been one of the more pessimistic voices about restarting the economy, but he seemed to backtrack a bit yesterday, saying he expects that by fall, kids will be return to school and we'll be back to gathering safely in public again. He cautions that the virus isn't just going to go away and it's impossible to predict accurately, but click the link for details on why he thinks things will improve fairly quickly.
And here are some hopeful comments about the coronavirus and the economy from HUD Secretary Ben Carson, who, unlike every one of the reporters attacking the President and spreading gloom and doom, actually is a brain surgeon.
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Lynn Benson
I have read predictions that Michelle Obama will somehow win the Democratic Presidential Election at their Convention this summer. She hasn't announced as a candidate. Do you think she will win that nomination?
Edelia Willis
Keep informing the people.
Marilyn Robideaux
I'm tiring of the anti-Trump and anti-USA journalists' mantra. Would they be paid/controlled by a communist country or a very rich socialist/globalist? Don't these journalists know they will be the first dispatched by their controllers?
Dot Whitley
So far I like Ben Carson very much, and I hope he never changes.
May the Lord spare those men, and very few women who go by the constitution,and may they fight hard for the rights of Americans. It's too easy to be led astray when we get overly anxious about ourselves.
LeeMar Zarr
Who is the UN Who...doesn't "UN" mean Un Necessary?
Brenda Easterling
As always your comments are right on. It does seem to me that if everyone had common sense things could be a whole lot different. Unfortunately that isn't the case. Sad about Mr Prime, but all deaths are sad ??. Keep up your honest reporting. We need a lot more of that!
Glendel "Glen" Peddy
Johnny Cash had a big hit with one of John Prine's songs.
Melinda Long
Sorry, I do not trust Fauci!
Bettye Martinez
Our world is a much sadder place because of the loss of John Prine. One of the funniest song writers to grace our presence. What a sad day it is to know that such a great folk artist is gone. See you on the other side John where we can hear you sing once again!
Willard B. Simmons
Good morning Governor ! I want to Thank You for you daily email. I trust your content more than any other!!! A thought, we are getting the daily casualty from the virus, would it be great if they also report how many births happened during the same time period. I trust you and your family and staff remain Safe, Healthy and Blessed !!!
Leo Draegert
I think OH! Yes I do think that the sending a bill to China for the cause of this virus is a good idea. And at 74 I am ready to lock and load to defend the sending of it. I really have nothing to lose because I am in the high risk to get it anyway. I still believe God is in control, and the draft goes back to before Jesus.
Steven Lechtenberg
The #I'M WITH STUPID MOVEMENT has really been growing. One politician does something TO HELP US and the other's try to outdo the first one. Common sense has been lacking, really bad in treating this virus. Here in Omaha the Mayor is blaming the virus for decimating the city budget, when in reality it was poor decisions that led to that short fall. The virus is a problem, but not to the extent that the DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST and their enablers in the media are making it. The old kill the patient to save it is looking more likely here in the US. Just wit till this paranoia passes and se what is left of the business community. Everybody will look to the tax payers to make up for their short sightedness in dealing with the virus. How much more money will they take from us to cure their budget short falls.
Great, uplifting commentary as always. I live in New York and can barely suffer through the Governor's interminable, condescending briefings. I can hardly wait for the virus to be over so I don't have to flip the channel to Twilight Zone, which is much more credible. And even here in the Vampire State, the name of Pelosi is universally abhorred.
Everyone agrees she is out of touch and so power-hungry that she plays politics while Americans die. Nice of her to discover a bridge to start bringing us together. Hey thanks, Nance!
The left makes a good point I hadn't thought of getting rich, although I am in the stock market and have healthcare as one of the stocks adding investment into the drug that might buy us some time against the China Virus may be good advice to all to make an investment in it, why not take the chance to enrich your future or is the Left planning the end of time in 11 years still. Dear Lefties you will not determine the end of time you ignorant bastards our Creator will so join Donald and get rich by investing into the old safe drug that will buy us some time till the vaccine comes available and invest in that also or does that make sense? OK disregard stay stupid change is difficult for you on the Left. MAGA Lefties stay poor stay stupid when you grow up maybe we can help you when your ready to let stupidity behind. After you hit bottom we can help you up to Intelligence join conservatives and improve your surroundings and your life.
Thala J Susag
The Trump Derangement Syndrome originated in the bowels
of cable news networks CNN and MSNBC. Billionaire owners
were able to hang onto their failing empires by developing
this false narrative about President Donald Trump, and by
instructing their "correspondents" to use it often and at
every opportunity. The worst of the small-brain, large ego
"correspondents" turn our stomachs, but thankfully, one
of these days their networks will no longer be in business.
Fox News certainly beat CNN!
william backs
im 82 and ican rememb er a lot of preidents but Trump stands at the top also i watch you every sat. night and you lift my spirit
Wallace Rowan
Glad to see that you and hopefully more of our so called "leaders" in Congress are finally coming to grips with calling out China for what they have done.
In mid-March I began contacting my U.S. representative and both senators that since this came from China and was caused by China, we should seek reparations in the form of not paying back any of our debt they hold and instead use that money to clean up their mess.
Everyone should be doing this, if they haven't already. Maybe if those idiots up there in D.C. hear it enough, they will realize we are serious and that reparations are the proper way to punish them.
There should be severe consequences to China's actions and that would be a good way to mete out punishment.
And it would get our government off our backs to pay for their ridiculous handout proposals.
Rose Wade
Please keep up your editions you are so spot on it just amazes me how the liberals just can't or won't see their lies and backstabbing and how it hurts Americans.
Mona Kramer
Test everyone and put them back to work. Put the money into testing kits and stop giving away money. We can go back to work - stop the madness.
Eugene Gee
I think Dr. Fauci is an anti-Trumper. After this is over and President Trump starts his second term, I hope he gets rid of him.
Virginia Rodriguez
We believe strongly that this virus was created to bring down our President and our economy. Safety measures are good but not that good to shut down our nation. We call it "control of the masses". Praying for our President and the people in his administration. Keep safe and blessings to you and yours!
Gail Benensohn
Thank you for introducing me to the amazing music & talent of John Prine. A comforting break from the madness of this virus nightmare!
Bruce Deming
Pres Trump said at his briefing today that Bernie had left the race but hadn't moved his delegates to Biden. He still has 30 delegates. If you listen to Bernie, he actually says he's leaving the campaign. Something fishy going on.
Gary R. Heitz
Simply billing China for the costs of the Corona virus is not enough as there are human costs that are priceless. Sure losses of businesses and in the economy can be charged against China, but if I lost a friend or family member no amount of money can pay for that. I do think, however, that China should be taken to court and sued for criminal negligence for how they intentionally mislead people and caused the spread of this pandemic. I would suggest a charge of at least $10,000,000 for every person outside of China who died due to the virus. Additionally, there should be pain and mental suffering compensation for every person who contracted the virus and for every person, that means all Americans, who have had to be isolated and not allowed to work. The cost of the government stimulus programs should be added into the bill and all other contingent fees and services provided to treat people who have contracted this virus. The world as a whole should come in this action in a class action suit and seek both real and punitive damages. All assets owned by China and China backed companies that are in actually owned by the government along with their assets should be confiscated and seized and all funding sources stopped worldwide for China. They must learn that the world will not allow them to be a bully and treat the rest of the world with disdain and lack of respect. If this is done China will be brought to her knees and the people of China might have a real chance to have a government that respects them. We should pray that God would look favorably upon such efforts and seek His Grace for the needs of all the suffering people of the world.
Tom Carson
The focus of the left that make up the Democratic Party are well funded and supported by the one-world government whose followers have, as their primary goal, a created world without boundaries and governed by an elite of their own choosing to govern and direct everyone else's lives. This kind of philosophical thinking and twisted idea on what is believed to be of a higher moral ground is what is being promoted at nearly every level in our public school system especially in most of our so called institutions of higher learning. These people who have been indoctrinated do not believe in America and they support any effort at all costs to bring about a communist-like system that makes the lives for everyone essentially the same without freedom and governed in one way according to the what the elites believe the world needs. They believe that to support one nation and its founding principles built on freedom and God creates a temporary block for them in their efforts to accomplish their aims. President Trump is one of those blocks. He is a patriot who believes in America first which is completely counter to their goals.


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Woodland caribou, seen here in a grove of trees, will get further protection with the purchase of privately-owned land southeast of Mackenzie by Nature Trust of B.C.
On February 2, I held a Southern Mountain Caribou Closures Town Hall in Fort St. John to allow our local representatives, stakeholders, and residents an opportunity to come together as a community to discuss possible closures in our region, and what it could mean to our economy and our outdoor recreational way of life.
I want to thank everyone who attended the town hall and shared their thoughts and concerns about this issue. I especially want to thank Kathleen Connolly and Derek Clark with Concerned Citizens for Caribou Recovery, Gerry Paille with BC Wildlife Federation, MLA Dan Davies, MLA Mike Bernier, Mayor Lori Ackerman, Mayor Allen Courtoreille, Mayor Rob Fraser, and Peace River Regional District Chair Brad Sperling for speaking at the event and sharing what they knew.
I had also invited the Honourable Doug Donaldson, BC Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, as well as our region's First Nations Chiefs to attend and speak to the issue. Unfortunately they were unable to attend.
I wanted to have this town hall because so many of you have come to me to voice your concerns about the lack of transparency behind these caribou recovery plans. Previous public meetings have been canceled and we are still no closer to finding out what is going to happen in our own backyard.
It's clear from this town hall that residents are very much concerned about the lack of information available surrounding possible caribou closures. What we want are answers, to have a seat at the table, and to be a part of the conversation when these decisions are made.
For those who were unable to attend the town hall, a video of the presentations and the Q&A that followed is available on my Facebook page. I will also be writing a letter to the Honourable Catherine McKenna, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, summarizing the meeting and our concerns that were shared.
As a follow up to this town hall, Guy Lahaye of the North Peace Rod and Gun Club suggested I host a roundtable with local residents, associations, First Nations, industries, recreationalists, and our municipal, provincial and federal representatives.
I have also spoken to Mayor Lyn Hall and MLA Mike Morris about hosting a similar town hall in Prince George. It's important that we continue to push for an open, public conversation about these possible closures and I will be sharing more details about the roundtable and a possible town hall in Prince George in the coming weeks.
As I said during the town hall, we all want to see the caribou survive in our region but we want our communities to survive as well.
We need a recovery plan that is crafted by those of us who live in the area rather than by lawyers in Victoria and Ottawa.


What to do in Cebu!
Cebu - an industrious and lively city full of rich traditions. Honking jeepneys and populated streets at every turn - it felt as though we were trying to catch up to the pace of the city during our tour with Southwind Travel & Tours.
Before diving right into our tour of Cebu, let us provide you with a preface. We had no idea what to expect before traveling to Cebu, especially since before arriving in the Philippines all we ever heard about was Manila, Palawan and Boracay which as you're reading this you're probably thinking: "Cebu, what is there to do in Cebu?". Well, guess what? We don't blame you! However, all we ask is that you give it a chance like we did because you'll find that there is plenty to do here and Cebu City is significant to the culture in the Philippines.
Our first stop on the Cebu City tour was the furniture showroom of award winning, Filipino industrial designer, Kenneth Cobonpue. Being that we live in Los Angeles, we enjoyed learning that Cobonpue's designs have appeared in film and television; such as, Ocean's 13 and CSI Miami. His roster of Hollywood clientele includes celebrities like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. We really loved walking around the showroom to see first hand some of his famous designs - not to mention, acquiring knowledge about his brand.
After visiting the showroom we drove across town to visit a landmark known as Yap San Diego Ancestral House. We're grateful that we had a guide because anyone could have easily walked past this place if they didn't have one; it certainly is a hidden treasure in Cebu. Construction began in 1675 and ended in the early 1700s which means that this property is over 300-years-old. It is one of the oldest residential structures located in the Philippines with 95% of the roof and the walls being original. A fun fact we were told by our guide, is that the current owner of Yap San Diego will sleep in the master bedroom once a week! How crazy is that? If we got dared and paid enough money, we probably would too!
Our favorite stop on the Cebu City tour was (Ferdinand) Magellan's Cross and Basilica Minore del Santo Niño. Let's start with Magellan's Cross, it's a small spot full of rich history and is arguably the most famous landmark in the city. Back in the 1500's Ferdinand Magellan wanted to prove that the Earth was round and by doing so he ended up taking a voyage from Spain, ultimately ending up in Cebu. It is believed that upon his arrival in 1521, he and his explorers planted the cross in this exact location. The original cross is encased inside of the wooden cross on display to help preserve and protect from locals as well as tourists. The cross itself is housed a few steps away from the Basilica Minore del Santo Niño. This church happens to be the first established and the oldest roman catholic church in The Philippines. Our time spent here was special because mass was in session and it was during the week of Easter; it was a spiritual experience to witness firsthand the religious traditions of the Filipino people. It's something we will never forget.
Our last stop on our tour of Cebu was Zubuchon a world famous restaurant with "The Best Lechon in the World". We had never had Lechon but really enjoyed it and the whole experience at Zubuchon. Anthony Bourdain claimed that the Lechon at Zubuchon was "the best pig ever". If you travel to Cebu you must try Lechon at least once!
Overall our action packed tour of Cebu was filled with history and culture of the Philippines! We can't thank Southwind Travel & Tours enough for the wonderful city tour, giving us more insight into the wonders of Cebu! We hope that when you visit this exciting and fast paced city that you'll get a chance to check out some of these historical highlights like we did.


Island Parent Online (Formerly Kids In Victoria) Community • View topic - Do training wheels inhibit bike learning?
So my DS has a gross motor challenge. He has always been delayed physically and pretty much hated riding a bike even with training wheels.
We tried peddle pushers lessons but he was not at all comfortable.
So in the end this summer I took off the training wheels AND the peddles (left the chain) and within a week he figured out balance and coasting at his own pace and his own speed.
Now he pushes off with his feet and coasts quite fast and balances with his legs up in the air. We will put the peddles back on once he is OK with it.
They didn't have push bikes when he was little and now they are all really tiny so not designed for kids over say 3.
I really think the training wheels were detrimental to him. They were a false sense of security and he would have been FAR better off with a peddless bike 4 or 5 years ago.
So my advice to any parents whose kids are struggling, take off the training wheels and peddles and let them learn balance at their own pace. Pretty amazing at the progress he has made in such a short time.
Re: Do training wheels inhibit bike learning?
A friend of mine had similar issues with getting her son to ride a bike. In the end she hired an OT to help her son learn to ride a bike. Might be an avenue worth exploring.
I think it depends on the child. As you stated your son has some gross motor challenges, which make make a difference for his learning to ride.
None of my children have balance issues and all 3 of them had training wheels at some point and I did not find that the training wheels inhibited their learning to ride.
Yes, OTs can help with that. I have a high respect for that profession and I have found that OTs can help sort out a lot of gross and fine motor and sensory issues as well.
Just google "OT and riding a bike" and I found this blog post that may be of interest.
Yes, you are right. It is geared towards age 2-5, however, there is some good advice in there about children needing good postural and lower limb strength to ride a pedal bike. Plus, I was thinking that the comment about the 9 year old was relevant to your situation. Perhaps, you could look into physio therapy for your child to help development good postural and lower limb strength.
You could hire an OT privately and get an assessment done that way if you have no luck with your son's school.
We have really lost the reason for having an assessment done by a professional. It is not for funding but to find out how to help the child. If you ever have the opportunity to chat with an OT or PT or Educational Psychologist ask what they see as the purpose of the assessment. They become very discouraged about the time and effort and their knowledge and skills being used to acquire a funding designation and not for the pages of deep understanding that is described in the document.
An OT assessment can be invaluable and not too many of the result in a designation.
I think an OT assessment is less than $5000. One OT gave me a quote of $1500. It is worth calling some OTs that do private services. You might not even need to do a full assessment and just pay for a consultation regarding this specific issue. I know one OT that has done that for parents.
I totally understand why you want the school to pay for it. I wish that parents did not need to pay for assessments out of their own pocket.
I would never do training wheels again. Both my kids resisted having them off.... dd is 8 and she still freaks out at the idea... and generally doesn't want to ride her bike at all.
This is a kid who does amazingly at gymnastics and loves to skate.
Totally agree that the school should have an OT assessment done, keeping in mind that most schools do have huge waitlists thanks to a reduction in specialist and itinerant services. I also completely agree with educator that the purpose should be to learn what can be done to help your child. He may not reap the benefits of individuals services, an IEP or funding, but this doesn't mean a good teacher won't read the report and follow the 'classroom appropriate' recommendations.
As a special ed teacher myself, I would recommend you ask to speak to the specialist teacher in the school and if possible the OT assigned to the school about your child's needs rather than the classroom teacher - not that I wouldn't discuss it with the teacher first so they're aware of the concerns (especially since you'll be dealing with a new teacher at the beginning of the year and they really won't know your child well enough to decide if it's an appropriate referral).


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There in the view, I allow those session data to a Combo Box
So whenever session data is null, I got null reference error on that combo box.
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Stemodia é um género botânico pertencente à família Plantaginaceae. Tradicionalmente este gênero era classificado na família das Scrophulariaceae.

Sinonímia
Morgania R. Br.

Espécies
Composto por 127 espécies:

Stemodia ageratifolia Stemodia alanta Stemodia angulata
Stemodia aquatica Stemodia arenaria Stemodia arizonica
Stemodia arvensis Stemodia azurea Stemodia balsamea
Stemodia bartsioides Stemodia berteroana Stemodia bissei
Stemodia bodinieri Stemodia camphorata Stemodia capitata
Stemodia caerulea Stemodia ceratophylloides Stemodia chiapensis
Stemodia chilensis Stemodia chodati Stemodia cimicina
Stemodia coahuilensis Stemodia coromandelina Stemodia coerulea
Stemodia costaricensis Stemodia crenatifolia Stemodia damaziana
Stemodia debilis Stemodia diffusa Stemodia durantifolia
Stemodia ehrenbergiana Stemodia erecta Stemodia ericifolia
Stemodia flaccida Stemodia floribunda Stemodia florulenta
Stemodia foliosa Stemodia fruticosa Stemodia fruticulosa
Stemodia glabella Stemodia glabra Stemodia glauca
Stemodia grandiflora Stemodia gratiolaefolia Stemodia gratioloides
Stemodia grossa Stemodia harleyi Stemodia hassleriana
Stemodia heterophylla Stemodia hirsuta Stemodia hondurensis
Stemodia humilis Stemodia hypericifolia Stemodia hyptoides
Stemodia jorullensis Stemodia kingii Stemodia lanata
Stemodia lanceolata Stemodia lathraia Stemodia latifolia
Stemodia linearifolia Stemodia linophylla Stemodia littoralis
Stemodia lobata Stemodia lobelioides Stemodia lutea
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RELATIVE RISK: Compares how many times as high the disease risk is for the exposed group compared to the non-exposed group. For instance, in patients who had uncemented prosthesis, the risk of aseptic loosening increases three times with exposure to NSAID compared to patients who were not exposed to NSAID.
THE ODDS RATIO: Estimate of the relative risk if the disease is not frequent.
INCIDENCE: Concerns the frequency of new cases. Can be expressed as number of new disease cases accumulated over time (cumulated incidence proportion), or as the >velocity< at which new cases arise (incidence rate).
PREVALENCE: Concerns the population of diseased at a given time. The prevalence proportion is the proportion or part of the study population which has the disease in question at a given time.
MORTALITY RATE: Is estimated as the number of deaths in relation to the time of risk.
CONFOUNDING: An alternative cause of disease which is unevenly distributed between exposed and non-exposed persons. Three conditions must be met for a factor to be a confounder. The factor must be an independent risk factor for the development of the disease (1), there must be a statistical association between the incidence of the exposure and the confounder (2), and finally, the confounder cannot be a part of the chain of causes between exposure and effect (3). Confounding can be avoided / reduced by restriction, matching or stratification.
CONFIDENCE INTERVAL (CI): An expression of the statistical precision of the observed measure of association, e.g. the Rate or Hazard ratio; 95 % Confidence Interval means that if we repeat the data collection and analyses many times, the 95 % Confidence interval will include the correct value of measurements in 95 % of the cases. Confidence Intervals indicate to which extent random variation can explain the registered survival and is closely connected with the number of operations being part of the analysis. A wide confidence interval indicates that there is a considerable uncertainty about the real prosthesis survival, while, on the contrary, to a lesser extent, a narrow interval indicates that the prosthesis survival can be interpreted as a result of random variation. If the value corresponding with no effect (as the Relative risk or Hazard ratio 1, or treatment difference at 0) fall outside the 95 % Confidence Interval, the result will be statistically significant at 0.05 level. If the Confidence Interval includes 1 or 0 the result is not statistically significant.
P – VALUE: Is calculated in relation to a specific hypothesis, usually the Nil Hypothesis which states that there is no connection between exposure and disease; e.g. Relative risk=1. The P-value is to regard as a measure of the relative accordance between the Nil Hypothesis and the collected data.
SURVIVAL ANALYSES:
A. Outcome variable is the time until the event occurs.
B. We are interested in one event; more events cause competing risk problems.
C. The purpose of the analysis is to estimate and interpret survival and/or mortality; to compare survival and/or mortality; to assess the relation between explanatory variables and the survival time.
SURVIVAL CURVES: Curves or plots which present the proportion of patients who have not experienced the defined event (e.g. death, revision of prosthesis) in relation to the time. The Kaplan-Meier method is the most used to present survival curves.
LOG RANK TEST: A statistical test which compares the survival of two or more groups during the entire follow-up period (as opposed to comparison of the survival within a determined time period, e.g. five years survival).
COX PROPORTIONAL HAZARD MODEL: A statistical model which is used to analyze survival data. The model compares two or more different categories (e.g. three types of prosthesis) calculating the Hazard Ratios (can be interpreted as measure of the relative risk) with 95 % CI.
HAZARD RATIO: Expresses the effect of each variable included in the Cox model in relation to the reference group, adjusted for other variables in the model.
If we compare the survival for patients in three prosthesis groups with revision as outcome;
Thus, Hazard Ratios are a comparison of the incidence of revision in two different categories of patients. If the Hazard Ratio is 1.00 there is no difference in the incidence of revision when the two patient categories are compared. On the other hand, a Hazard Ratio <1 will indicate that the incidence of revision in a given patient category is lower than the incidence in the reference category.
In case the stated 95 % CI for Hazard Ratio do not include 1.00 it can be concluded that the given category of patients have an incidence of revision which differs from the reference category and that this difference probably cannot be explained by random variation. In other words, there exist stastistically significant differences. On the other hand, if the 95 % CI include 1.00 it is not possible to determine whether the incidence is different in the two categories.
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Example: In an analysis of all patients with a primary total hip replacement with first revision as end point, the Hazard Ratio was 0.49 (95 % CI:0,35-0,69) when we compared patients older than 74 years with patients younger than 50 years. Thus, the incidence of the first revision was relatively 51 % lower among patients older than 74 years compared to patients younger than 50 years. The relatively narrow CI and the fact that 1.00 is not included indicate that this difference between the two patient categories is established very precisely and probably cannot be ascribed to random variation.
VALIDITY: Or the accuracy. Validity refers to the degree of what the data measure compared to what they are supposed to measure.
EVALUATION OF REGISTRY DATA: There are two questions to be answered:
1. Completeness of patient registration ?Defined as a part of all patients who had the operation in question and who are in fact registered in the Registry.
2. The validity of registered data ?Defined as a percentage of persons in the Registry with a given characteristic (e.g. age, sex, type of operation, diagnosis) who really have these characteristics. The validation of registered data can be expressed as the predictive value of positive registration.
SENSITIVITY: An expression of the test's ability to classify the diseased correctly; for instance sensitivity of postoperative questionnaire B, which is used for the registration of postoperative complications, is 0.9. That is, 90 % of the patients who had postoperative complications are registered with the complication in question in the Registry and, conversely, 10 % of the patients who had postoperative complications are not registered with the complication in the Registry.
SPECIFICITY: An expression of the test's ability to classify the non-diseased correctly; for instance specificity of postoperative questionnaire B, which is used for the registration of postoperative complications, is 0.3. That is, 30 % of the patients who did not have postoperative complications are registered as patients without complications in the Registry and, conversely, 70 % of the patients who did not have postoperative complications are registered with complications in the Registry.
POSITIVE PREDICTIVE VALUE: The probability that the patient really is diseased if the test is positive. For instance the positive predictive value of the diagnosis primary arthrosis in the Registry is 0.85. That is, 85 % of the patients registered with primary arthrosis did really have this diagnosis and 15 % of the patients with primary arthrosis should be registered with another diagnosis.
CO-MORBIDITY: Co-existing diseases can have an influence on survival. For instance survival of hip prosthesis in relation to first revision is 51 % lower for a patient who is older than 74 years than for a patient of the same sex who is younger than 50 years. After adjusting for co-morbidity in the analysis of survival, the survival of hip prosthesis is the same for the two patient groups. Hereby, we can conclude that higher survival before adjusting for co-morbidity is mostly due to higher morbidity for patients older than 74 years.
THE NUMBER NEEDED TO BE TREATED (NNT): Indicates how many patients have to be in treatment in order to avoid an unfavourable incident. For instance, 100 patients must be in treatment with lipid lowering medicine for five years in order to avoid a case of AMI (made up).
CASE-CONTROL STUDY: Analytical, epidemiological study based on a group of patients suffering from a defined disease, as it is studied whether there exist conditions in the diseaseds?past which differentiate them from non-diseased. Patients with the disease (*cases*) are compared to persons without the disease (*controls / reference*). Measure of association ?the Odds ratio (OR) or Relative risk (RR).
FOLLOW-UP STUDY: Descriptive or analytical, epidemiological study which is based on a selected group of persons who are more or less exposed to a presumably pathogenic or prognostically significant factor. The selected persons are followed over time until they contract disease or until the study period ends in order to study whether the exposed have higher morbidity or mortality than the non-exposed. Measure of association ?Relative (Incidence ratio, Relative risk, the Odds ratio) and Absolute (Risk difference, Incidence rate difference).
RANDOMIZED CLINICAL STUDY: An analytical study in which a group of patients receive one type of treatment and another group of patients receive a different type of treatment or no treatment. The selection between two types of treatment takes place by lot (randomization). The randomization procedure should ensure that the studied groups have the same expected prognosis and disease manifestation at group level.
SELECTION BIAS: Systematic errors due to errors in the procedures used in the selection of patients for the study or due to factors which can have an influence on selected patients. Bias arises when the connection between exposure and disease is different for persons who participate in the study and persons who do not participate in the study.
INFORMATION BIAS: Systematic errors which occur because the information gathered about or from the participants in the study is faulty. This is called misclassified information.
RECALL BIAS: The most frequent type of information bias which occurs in case-control studies because the patients are interviewed about exposure information after the disease setting in. Persons who contracted a disease will remember better than persons who did not contract the disease.
PUBLICATION BIAS: Is reflected in that journals have a tendency to accept manuscripts which report positive results. This shows in meta-analyses based on published data alone. Bias in meta-analyses corresponds with the selection bias in individual studies.
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(1) siyaam in arabic means abstaining; in islam it means abstaining from things that break the fast, from dawn until sunset, having first made the intention (niyyah) to fast.
ruling on fasting
(2) the ummah is agreed that fasting the month of ramadaan is obligatory, the evidence for which is in the qur'aan and sunnah. allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
"o you who believe! observing al-sawn (the fasting) is prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you, that you may become al-muttaqoon (the pious)." [al-baqarah 2:183]
the prophet (peace and blessings of allaah be upon him) said: "islam is built on five [pillars]…" among which he mentioned fasting in ramadaan. (reported by al-bukhaari, al-fath, 1/49).
whoever breaks the fast during ramadaan without a legitimate excuse has committed a serious major sin, the prophet (peace and blessings of allaah be upon him) said, describing a dream that he had seen: "… until i was at the mountain, where i heard loud voices. i asked, 'what are these voices?' they said, 'this is the howling of the people of hellfire.' then i was taken [to another place], and i saw people hanging from their hamstrings, with the corners of their mouths torn and dripping with blood. i said, 'who are these?' they said, 'the people who broke their fast before it was the proper time to do so,' i.e., before the time of iftaar." (saheeh al-targheeb, 1/420).
al-haafiz al-dhahabi (may allaah have mercy on him) said, "among the believers it is well-established that whoever does not fast in ramadaan without a valid excuse is worse than an adulterer or drunkard; they doubt whether he is even a muslim at all, and they regard him as a heretic and profligate." shaykh al-islam [ibn taymiyah] (may allaah have mercy on him) said: "if a person does not fast in ramadaan knowing that it is haraam but making it halaal for himself to do so, kill him; and if he does it because he is immoral [but believes it is haraam], then punish him for not fasting." (majmoo' al-fataawa, 25/265).
Niyyah (Intention) in Fasting
Etiquette and Sunnah of Fasting
The Virtues of Fasting
Who is Obliged to Fast?
Rulings on Fasting for Women
When to Start and Stop Fasting
The Benefits of Fasting
Some of the Ahkaam (Rulings) on fasting
Things that Break the Fast
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April 8, 2009 – Students from 26 area high schools will compete in the 32nd annual Math Field Day April 21 at Southeast Missouri State University.
Southeast's Department of Mathematics and the Southeast Missouri Council of Teachers of Mathematics sponsor Math Field Day. The day's events begin at 9 a.m. in Academic Auditorium and conclude with an awards ceremony at 1:45 p.m. Team events will begin at 10 a.m. in Academic Auditorium. Individual testing will be held from 10:35 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Glenn Auditorium, located in Robert A. Dempster Hall.
At 12:30 p.m. in the University Center Ballroom, students will engage in a problem-solving event called MATHLETICS.
Individual and team events will challenge about 581 students in a multitude of areas, including algebra I, algebra II, geometry, trigonometry, word problems, history of mathematics, sets and logic, exponential and log functions, matrices and determinants, computational mathematics, elementary data analysis, probability, mental arithmetic, non-routine problem solving, analytic geometry, number bases, number theory, hand calculators and calculus.
Area schools competing in this year's competition include: Arcadia Valley R-II School; Bell City High R-II School; Campbell R-II School; Cobden High School; Eagle Ridge Christian School; Egyptian CUSD#5; Leopold School District R-III; Marquand-Zion R-VI High School; New Madrid County Central; Oak Ridge R-VI High School; Puxico High School; Saxony Lutheran School; Scott City R-I High School; South Pemiscot High School; Southern Reynolds County R-II; Valley R-VI School District; Viburnum C-4; Anna-Jonesboro High School; Cape Central High School; Dexter High School; Farmington Senior High School; Fredericktown R-I High School; Herrin High School; North St. Francois County R-I High School; Notre Dame Regional High School; and Ste. Genevieve High School.
For more information about Math Field Day, contact Cheryl McAllister, chair of the Math Field Day Committee, at (573) 651-2778, by e-mail at cjmcallister@semo.edu or visit http://www5.semo.edu/math/mathfieldday.htm.
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The AC Joint is a small joint on top of your shoulder. It is formed where your collarbone meets your shoulder blade. Many people have swelling or prominence on the top of their shoulder and it is likely that this is due to AC joint arthritis. While osteoarthritis of the AC joint is common, it is not always the cause of your pain. Osteolysis of the distal clavicle is a unique type of arthritis of the AC Joint that is very common in weight lifters. Osteolysis often requires surgery if the weight lifter wants to remain active.
Osteoarthritis of the AC joint implies that the cartilage in the AC joint is wearing thin. When this occurs, the bones develop spurs which is why the joint looks prominent. These bone spurs are not dangerous and are not the cause of the arthritis. Quite the opposite, the arthritis itself caused the spurs.
AC Joint arthritis occurs commonly in weight lifters at a young age. Arthritis in the AC Joint is found in most everyone else over 50 years of age if a routine X-ray of the shoulder is obtained. Just because you have arthritis of the AC joint does not mean that it will hurt and it does not mean that it needs to be treated. How do we know if your AC Joint is the source of your pain?
Many of you have a bump on the top of the shoulder. That is your AC Joint. If you have pain on top of your shoulder and the AC Joint is very tender to touch, then it may be the cause of your pain.
Painful arthritis of the AC joint can be mild or severe. If you lead a very active lifestyle the pain could affect your quality of life significantly.
When we evaluate people with shoulder pain, the majority of you will have pain because of your rotator cuff. The AC joint might prove to be a contributor to your painful shoulder as well. It is very rare when AC joint arthritis is the primary cause of pain. In young weight lifters, AC joint pain due to osteolysis of the clavicle is common cause of pain. Osteolysis or AC joint arthritis is the most common cause of pain on top of the shoulder.
In one group in particular, the opposite is true. The AC joint is the primary cause of pain in many young, or middle age heavy weight lifters. Initially they develop a process called osteolysis of the distal clavicle. That basically means that the end of the clavicle is dissolving away (just a little). It is caused by repetitive stress. Over time it will lead to arthritis as well.
Many of you with AC Joint arthritis will respond to activity modification, anti-inflammatories, and perhaps an injection. Most of you will require physical therapy to address your rotator cuff which is more than likely to be the main cause of pain.
Our young weight lifters will not fare so well. Research shows that if they stop lifting they will feel better. But that just isn't reality for most weight lifters. They wish to continue weight lifting. If you are in this group, you might respond temporarily to an injection, but many will go on to choose to have surgery on your AC Joint arthritis to clean it out and widen the space between the bones. This surgery is arthroscopic or keyhole surgery. The procedure is called a distal clavicle resection. During the surgery we remove 8-10 mm of bone from the end of the clavicle. It is ambulatory surgery and most active weight lifters are back in the gym within a few weeks. The success rate is reasonably high (80-85%) and the recurrence rate is very low.
For those of you with pain in the shoulder due to arthritis of the AC Joint AND a rotator cuff tear. Recent research reveals that if the rotator cuff tear is addressed you may not need to have surgery on the AC joint as well. That is something you may wish to discuss with your doctor.
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An X ray shows that I have calcification of the arm. An injection was given in my shoulder and the pains subsided and came back.
The Dr. tried to remove the calcified deposit but unfortunately he missed the target hence I had a severe pains in the process so it was discontinued.
He is offering between the needle(no radiologist guided) and the slit cut.
Please which one should I go in for?
find a radiologist or ortho who will use US to guide the injection.
Rest. What are the chances of a successful surgery after 12 years? Any other suggestions? Thanks.
For a true Type V AC separation, if the clavicle remains mobile then it should be able to be reduced and stabilized.
not always…. arthritis can cause joint pain… but not all joint pain is due to arthritis.
I am 45 and have constant pain in my right shoulder. I can not lift above my head and can not throw any ball to play catch with my kids. I have had 2 MRI's and they just show arthritis in the AC joint no tears anywhere. I have had several different injections and take meloxicam 15mg daily and still have constant pain. Can this be remedied by any type of laparoscopic surgery? I would really like to be able to throw with my kids. My VA Dr. tells me nothing can be done.
Most of us will have arthritic changes in the AC joint on an MRI. That doesn't always mean that it is the source of our pain. If your examination confirms that the AC Joint is in fact the cause of your pain then an Orthopedic Surgeon might discuss a procedure called a distal clavicle resection with you. It is an arthroscopic,outpatient procedure which is reasonably effective at eliminating or at least decreasing the pain due to the AC Joint.


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While stationed abroad, Tim's parents developed a deep respect and love for German Riesling. The family's time in Europe served as the inspiration for the family vineyard in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The first vines were planted at Cardinal Point 30 years ago. What started out as a few acres in the mid 80's has turned into a thriving business for the Gorman's. Cardinal Point now has 15 acres of vinifera vines on the farm in Afton and a vibrant tasting room.
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