ENGLEWOOD, CO / ACCESSWIRE / March 14, 2019 / Viveve Medical Inc. (NASDAQ: VIVE), a medical technology company focused on women's intimate health, today reported financial results for the three months and full year ended December 31, 2018.
Achieved continued growth in global revenue: Reported 2018 total revenue of approximately $18.5 million from the sale of 259 Viveve Systems and over 18,000 disposable treatment tips, representing a 21% year-over-year revenue increase.
Advanced and fully enrolled U.S. clinical trial for the improvement of sexual function in women: Following U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of the Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) and successful review of patient safety data submitted to the Agency, Viveve received approval to proceed to full patient enrollment in late December 2018. In March 2019 Viveve completed enrollment of 250 patients in VIVEVE II, our U.S. multi-center randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled trial for improved sexual function in women.
Advanced clinical programs in stress urinary incontinence (SUI): Reported positive 12-month results from a pilot study and separate feasibility study using the Viveve System for the treatment of SUI. Viveve initiated and completed patient enrollment in the LIBERATE-International trial with results expected in the third quarter of 2019. The company also worked closely with FDA throughout 2018 to define the data needed in 2019 to support starting a U.S. registration study for SUI.
Introduced an enhanced technology platform: Successfully executed the initial launch of Viveve 2.0., the company's next generation system, with the potential to deliver improved gross margins in 2019.
Expanded awareness of Viveve's CMRF technology: Data was reported in more than 20 clinical publications and presented by gynecology, urology, women's intimate health and aesthetic physician opinion leaders at 15 leading global medical conferences and meetings.
Successfully protected Viveve's IP estate: Announced a favorable settlement of the company's patent infringement litigation, further protecting Viveve's intellectual property portfolio.
Expanded Board: Appointed two new, independent, and seasoned commercial executives to Viveve's Board of Directors; Steven Basta and Karen Zaderej.
Revenue for the fourth quarter of 2018 totaled approximately $4.5 million from the sale of 57 Viveve Systems and approximately 4,600 treatment tips, compared to revenue of approximately $5.1 million for the same period in 2017, representing a 12% decrease over the fourth quarter of 2017.
Gross profit for the fourth quarter of 2018 was approximately $1.7 million, or 37% of revenue, compared to gross profit of approximately $2.8 million, or 54% of revenue in the fourth quarter of 2017.
Total operating expenses for the fourth quarter of 2018 was $13.9 million compared to total operating expenses of $12.2 million in the same period in 2017. The increase was primarily the result of increased efforts to support the commercialization of Viveve's products in the U.S. and clinical studies in SUI and sexual function.
Spending on research and development during the fourth quarter of 2018 was $2.8 million compared to $3.1 million in the fourth quarter of 2017.
Selling, general and administrative expenses for the fourth quarter of 2018 were $11.1 million compared to $9.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2017.
Net loss for the fourth quarter of 2018 was $13.5 million, or a net loss of $0.38 per share based on 35,484,596 weighted average shares outstanding during the period.
Cash and cash equivalents were approximately $29.5 million as of December 31, 2018.
Revenue for 2018 totaled approximately $18.5 million from the sale of 259 Viveve Systems and approximately 18,450 treatment tips, compared to revenue of approximately $15.3 million for the full year of 2017, an increase of 21% year-over-year.
Gross profit for 2018 was approximately $7.3 million, or 40% of revenue, compared to gross profit of approximately $7.4 million, or 49% of revenue for the full year of 2017.
Total operating expenses for 2018 was approximately $52.3 million compared to $41.2 million for the full year of 2017.
Spending on research and development for 2018 was approximately $13.7 million compared to approximately $12.3 million in 2017 and increased due to costs associated with engineering and development work with the company's contract manufacturer related to product line improvement and expansion efforts.
Selling, general and administrative (SG&A) expenses during 2018 were approximately $38.6 million compared to $28.8 million in 2017. The increase in SG&A spending was primarily the result of increased costs associated with Viveve's expansion of the commercial sales organization, marketing efforts to build brand and market awareness, expenses associated with being a public company and financing efforts.
Net loss for 2018 was approximately $50.0 million, or a net loss of $1.61 per share based on 31,059,483 weighted average shares outstanding during the period, compared with a net loss of $37.0 million, or a net loss of $2.11 per share for 2017.
The company will host a live conference call at 5:00 p.m. ET today. The conference call may be accessed by dialing 1-833-255-2833 (domestic) or 1-412-902-6728 (international) or via live webcast at https://services.choruscall.com/links/vive190314.html. Participants may also pre-register for the conference call at http://dpregister.com/10128440.
A recording of the webcast will be posted on the company's investor relations website following the call at ir.viveve.com and will be available online for 90 days.
International regulatory approvals and clearances have been received for vaginal laxity and/or improvement in sexual function indications in over 50 countries. Viveve is conducting VIVEVE II, a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled clinical trial to assess improvement of sexual function in women following vaginal childbirth. Completion of full 250 subject enrollment was announced in early March 2019. If successful, VIVEVE II results could support a marketing application for a new U.S. commercial indication. Currently, in the United States, the Viveve® System is cleared by the FDA for use in general surgical procedures for electrocoagulation and hemostasis.
Viveve has fully enrolled LIBERATE-International, one of two planned independent, multicenter, randomized registration trials for the improvement of stress urinary incontinence in women and plans to re-submit an IDE to the FDA for LIBERATE-U.S. after conducting certain safety testing. The results of these two trials, if successful, could support marketing applications in the U.S. and in over 35 countries around the world for this new commercial indication.


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Çakar, T., Rızvanoğlu, K., Özturk, Ö., Çelik, D. Z., ve İ. Gürvardar, "The Use of Neurometric and Biometric Research Methods in Understanding the User Experience During Product Search of First-Time Buyers in E-Commerce", Design, User Experience, and Usability: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10288, ed. A. Marcus ve W. Wang, Proc. of Int. Conference of Design, User Experience, and Usability: DUXU 2017 held as part of 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: HCII 2017, 1-21, Springer, Cham, Heidelberg, Vancouver, 2017.
Understanding user experience (UX) during e-commerce has been a relatively important research area especially in the last decade. The use of conventional methods in UX such as task-observation, in-depth interviews and questionnaires has already contributed for the measurement of the efficiency and effectiveness.
Rızvanoğlu, K., Öztürk, O. ve B. Kara, "What Ads Say, What Audience Gets? From Semiotics to Eye Tracking, A Multi‐Method Approach for the Analysis of the Audience's Perception of Advertisements", Proc. of the 2nd International Conference on New Media and Interactivity, 12-18, Istanbul, 2010.
Rızvanoğlu, K. ve Ö. Öztürk, "What are Users Really Looking At in News Portals?: An Eye‐Tracking Study on the Homepage Usability of Popular Turkish News Portals", Proc. of the 2nd International Conference on New Media and Interactivity, 449-454, Istanbul, 2010.
There's a growing interest towards mobile commerce in recent years. This pilot study, which is the first step of an extensive long-term research, investigated mobile usability in mobile "private shopping" applications. Focusing on three different private shopping applications / mobile sites in Turkey, a qualitative mobile usability test, based on a multi-method approach, was carried out with a sample of 11 Turkish senior year university students, who were experienced mobile Internet users and potential customers of private shopping platforms.
Rızvanoğlu, K. ve Ö. Öztürk, "A Close Look at the Phenomenon: An Eye‐Tracking Study on Social Network Site Usability", Proc. of the 7th International Conference of Interactive Media Design, İstanbul, 2010.


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BetaMike, Do you have any video of you up there at the candy shop?
So mom has blackmail material, huh ?
She does. Although, she's actually quite proud of it, NO ONE wants to have a video tape of them singing the "fudge song" off key for posterity.
That's me in that video. Before marriage, 4 kids, 2 grandkids(so far) and a 28 year career at Kraftheinz. No one did a candy demonstration better than June but I did my best to replicate. That was back in the day when that brittle kettle was never off. A batch every 20 minutes all day long and the double doors were swung wide open in the heat of summer. I wouldn't have traded that experience for anything. It taught me how to work hard and June taught me how to have a lot of fun while doing the hard work.


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The Clone Wars and its most beloved heroes are coming to "Star Wars Battlefront II," EA DICE announced today. Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Count Dooku, and the sinister General Grievous have all been confirmed as playable characters.
An upcoming season of "Battlefront II" will focus heavily on the fan-favorite era, which takes place in between the live-action films "Attack of the Clones" and "Revenge of the Sith." The conflict was also the setting for the wildly popular animated series "Star Wars: The Clone Wars," which aired on Cartoon Network and then Netflix beginning in 2008.
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I must have missed this one - it took place over a fortnight ago!
Richard G3CWI broke through the "500 SOTA Activations" barrier, somewhat appropriately on local hill Shining Tor G/SP-004.
I see he celebrated in style with a 4 contact activation! One of those was on 10GHz, it has to be said.
And now it's 300 up for CWI.
Richard chalked up his 300th Unique SOTA summit activated on Monday 3rd March 2008, with his successful activation of Cairnpapple Hill GM/SS-254.
As is usual these days, Richard included a 10GHz QSO in his operation, which was otherwise completed on 2m SSB/FM. The 3cm contact was made possible via snow scatter!
I spotted that as well Tom - looking at my favourite table on the database.
Many congratulations Richard. Can you remember them all?
Well done Richard, plugging away at it quietly in the background. Your average speaks volumes. If you are like me, I doubt you'll remember many of them any more. With the exception of a few ,they may all seem to merge into one another.
how about the "guiness book of world records"?
Thanks all. It's been fun (mostly).


Lawyering for social justice makes sense to those who do it: using legal skills for a better world. But law, legal education, and the rules of lawyering do not easily accommodate this approach to legal practice, and are unsupportive if not hostile. Social justice lawyers pursue their calling in spite of, not aided by, the institutions of law. Professor Rice will ask and offer answers to a range of questions that seem central to the sustainability and effectiveness of lawyering for social justice: what makes a social justice lawyer? what does a social justice legal education look like? what does a social justice lawyer need to know? how do social justice lawyers practice? what are social justice lawyers' ethics? how do social justice lawyers achieve change?
Julie Bishop, Director of the Law Centres Network and Jacqui Kinghan, Head of Teaching and Learning at the UCL Centre for Access to Justice will contribute to a discussion following the Talk. We will situate our discussion within the current UK landscape for social justice lawyers considering, for example, the aftermath of cuts to legal aid, the under resourced justice system and wider pressures faced by the not for profit legal services sector.
Simon Rice is a Professor of Law at the University of Sydney, and a solicitor on the volunteer roster at Redfern Legal Centre where he worked as a poverty lawyer in the mid-1980s. In between times, Simon has worked at, managed and consulted to a number of community legal centres in Australia, and has researched and written on legal aid and access to justice. He has been a board member of New South Wales (NSW) Legal Aid, director of the NSW Law and Justice Foundation, and chair of the Australian Capital Territory Law Reform Advisory Council. In the areas of human rights and equality law Simon has been president of Australian Lawyers for Human Rights, adviser to the parliamentary human rights scrutiny committee, and a judicial member of the tribunal deciding discrimination matters in NSW. His co-authored publications include Australian Anti-Discrimination and Equal Opportunity Law, and The International Law of Human Rights.


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Wrestling Fraternity Mourns Passing Of Pat Patterson
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Pro wrestling legend Pat Patterson has died in Miami, Fla. after a bout with cancer, he was 79. His decades-long career in sports entertainment remembered his peers through social media.
Born as Pierre Clermont, Patterson began his career in Canada and was recruited to a Pacific Northwest promotion by fellow Montreal native Mad Dog Vachon.
By 1965 Patterson (hometown billed as San Francisco) was paired with Ray 'The Crippler' Stevens, they became tag-team mainstays with Bay Area and Minneapolis-based promotions through the late 1970s. In 1980 Patterson began a tenure with World Wrestling Entertainment that lasted until death. For several years he worked alongside Vince McMahon as a color commentator.
Officially retired from wrestling in 1984, Patterson made many cameos to reprise his in-ring role. He was the first holder of the Intercontinental Championship, a belt typically awarded to mid-level talent. He also provided interview segments on French WWE telecasts, where he played heel, insulting rivals. Patterson served in many capacities including talent-relations and contributing with the expansion of WWE programming. In 2019 Patterson participated in a reunion night and briefly won the '24/7 belt', pinning the reigning title holder backstage. Backstage, Patterson's personal life was known early in his career. His legacy includes being a trailblazer as the first openly gay performer in wrestling.
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Get to Know the Show
Getting to Know the Show: School of Rock
Sharpen your pencils, get out those books and tune that guitar – lets get ready to rock!
The Story: Are You Ready to Rock?
The show introduces Dewey Finn, a guy with only one passion: rock and roll. After Dewey's band No Vacancy sends him packing, he is forced to find other means to make ends meet. He poses as a substitute teacher at Horace Green Preparatory School and teaches his students how to make music. He soon realizes his students' musical abilities and together they join forces to form a rock group to vanquish the Battle of the Bands.
The Characters: Meet the Band
All your favorite SCHOOL OF ROCK characters are back for this Broadway production. Dewey is accompanied by Ned Schneebly, Dewey's best friend, who's given up his old rocker days for life as a grade school teacher. Rosalie Mullins, who serves as the uptight principal at Horace Green that eventually learns how to let loose and kick up her heels. But let's not forget the cast of insanely talented boys and girls that make up the SCHOOL OF ROCK band and their posse.
The Setting: Back to School
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A cast of super-talented kids don't just sing exquisitely and dance with infectious abandon, they also play their own instruments! Each member of the band elevates the show to new levels with their skilled musicianship. This smash hit features 14 new songs by Andrew Lloyd Webber and all the original songs from the movie that we know and love.
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Witchcraft spirits are encountered and stopped by God's prophets. You are in a spiritual war for dominion. Apostle Paul said, "We are not wrestling against flesh and blood." That doesn't mean we're not wrestling. It just means we know where the battle originates. Spiritual warfare is something we cannot escape as Christians. Christ said he would build His church and the gates of hell would not prevail. However, they are still trying.
Jesus was a spiritual warrior. After the anointing of the Holy Ghost had come on Jesus, He rebuked demons, faced Satan, healed the sick, and spoiled principalities and powers. He defeated death, hell, and the grave. He is your Redeemer, and he is risen!
How Prophets Overcome Witchcraft Spirits and Opposition.
(c) Kingdom Living with Jonas Clark is a Christian television media presentation produced by Spirit of Life Ministries, Hallandale Beach, Florida.


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According to the American Academy of Pediatrics children or infants should see a dentist after their first tooth erupts or no later than a child's first birthday. However, according to a survey conducted in 2009 most children don't see a dentist until they are 2.6 years old.
The child is too young to see a dentist.
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2-11 year olds have 1.6 decayed primary teeth and 3.6 decayed primary surfaces.
While these numbers are a bit shocking, this captures the importance of why taking your child to a dentist as early as possible matters. Primary teeth are very important in the health and development of your child's speech, smile, and chewing. Baby teeth are also important for holding space for your child's permanent teeth to come in. If a baby tooth is lost too soon this can cause other permanent teeth to shift and move into open spaces causing overcrowding or crooked teeth.
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Here in New England, we are big fans of Nantucket, MA and the color Nantucket Red! We just had to dye this up for our local crew and you! Buyer beware! This yarn has speckles of blue in it; it is completely unintentional but we love it.


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Editorial: Mental health—let's talk about it
By Sophie Whitten, Editor-in-chief
Editor's Note: The content in this issue deals heavily with mental health, anxiety, depression and suicide, which may be difficult or triggering for some readers.
For the past few years, mental health has become a buzzword in our society. From burned out students at SIU to 2020 Tokyo Olympic gymnasts, people are beginning to speak up about their mental health and the importance of mental health to their overall well-being, but it hasn't always been this way.
Until more recent years, mental health had been stigmatized and often vilified. When I started receiving treatments for anxiety as a senior in high school, I realized I was incredibly privileged to have grown up in a society where that was possible, but even now, mental health is still widely under-discussed and sometimes seen as taboo. It's not a topic for the dinner table.
The purpose of this edition of the Daily Egyptian is to dive into these topics that are uncomfortable and difficult to speak about in order to shed some much needed light on the issue of mental health.
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, "Nearly one in five U.S. adults live with a mental illness."
With that many people experiencing a mental illness, ranging from anxiety and depression to bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, it is important to be able to have open dialogue about the subject to destigmatize mental illnesses and gain a better understanding of how mental health impacts an individual.
Dr. Jeffrey Kellogg, a practicing clinical child psychologist and professor at SIU, said in the years following the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become an even more relevant issue as many people experienced an increase of symptoms of depression and anxiety due to isolation and loss of connection from social groups.
"We were experiencing this pandemic and that had a profound impact on all of us, and that's increased levels of anxiety across the board, it's increased levels of depression across the board," Kellogg said. "So it's kind of like the new normal is that more people are experiencing significant amounts of anxiety and depression."
Kids, too, are feeling the weight of the pandemic, with almost (PERCENTAGE—In think he says 'half' in the recording) expressing high levels of anxiety or depression and over "200,000 kids [losing] a parent or primary caregiver to COVID," Kellogg said.
When a person experiences depression or anxiety, it doesn't simply make the person sad or nervous. It can impact everything from a person's ability to study and work to their digestive system, says Kellogg.
"I think mental health is pervasive," Kellog said. "It affects us in everything we do, and depending on how much disruption our emotions are, or if we have an anxiety disorder or a depression disorder or just normal reactions to life stresses, it can interfere and affect almost everything… It's not a separate entity, it's all one and the same. "
But the walls around mental health and illness are slowly beginning to break down as awareness and understanding spreads about the issue, and part of this is thanks to the help of social media.
"One of the nice things about media and social media and those resources is there's so many things available to us from our phones," Kellogg said.
Social media has played a major role in my own mental health journey. When I was in high school, I was a dedicated fan of Hank and John Green's YouTube channel, Vlogbrothers, where I was first introduced to someone else who had anxiety. After the release of his book, "Turtles All the Way Down," in which the main character deals with anxiety and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), John Green often spoke about his own experience with anxiety and OCD.
In a 2018 interview on 60 Minutes, John Green described how his thoughts spiral after an anxious thought, "Instead of being able to move on to a second thought, that thought just expands and expands and expands and expands, and then I use compulsive behaviors to try to manage the worry and the overwhelmedness that that thought causes me."
I immediately felt connected with what he said. My anxiety would often look something like this in high school: I would feel stressed because of an upcoming test in anatomy and physiology, and it would make the right side of my stomach cramp, then I would notice my stomach cramping and have the thought that maybe I am experiencing appendicitis. That would begin a spiral, and I would start panicking. At this point, I would start to feel lightheaded and very hot and clammy, which would only make me more convinced that I had appendicitis. After that, I would try to calm myself down by searching on my phone for what can cause stomach cramping on your sides, and the first thing that pops up is appendicitis.
I sometimes spent hours debating whether I should tell my parents because I couldn't tell if I had a real or serious problem or if it was just me panicking. Hearing someone else who has gone through those same feelings felt incredibly validating, and I began to feel much less isolated.
Then, once I began to understand the emotions I was feeling, the more I was able to work towards finding ways of helping my anxiety and working through spirals and panic attacks.
My number one go-to for coping with anxiety is walking. I walk almost every day and any time that I begin to feel even remotely anxious. When I'm walking, I feel like I have more power over my thoughts, that I can think through them and rationalize them. When I am sitting and anxious, the only thing I can do is sit and think, but when I'm moving, it feels like I am actively walking towards clearer thoughts.
Kellogg suggests that another way you can cope with anxiety or depression is through apps on your phone that focus on mindfulness.
"There's one by an Australian psychologist, it's called Smiling Mind. It's a free application and it's a very sophisticated application," Kellogg said. "It has modules for all sorts of age groups, kids as well as adults, and what's nice about the application is it's free… I've used it with clients and some of my grad students have used it."
These resources and communities combined with education about mental health have helped to erase the stigma surrounding it – at least much of it.
"If you go back to the 50s and sometimes even the 60s, you didn't tell people yet about your mental illness or mental issues," Kellogg said. "I think over those couple of decades, the language has changed, has become less stigmatized and people are just more educated and more psychologically minded and recognize it's not something to be ashamed of."
He made it clear that everyone deals with stress. The difference is how much stress a person feels and how it affects them, so it is important to be accepting of stress in our lives so that we can find ways of managing it.
"I think our grade schools and our high schools are taking more of an active interest in teaching kids coping strategies, teaching kids about their emotions, or how to try and break down some cultural, and social barriers to recognizing that people have feelings and it's healthy to express those feelings," Kellogg said.
With all of the advancements we have made, however, there is still a long way to go. From young men to the LGBT+ community and communities of color, there are many underrecognized groups whose mental health is sometimes put aside.
Boys are often told from a young age that men don't cry, and this language can be damaging to a person struggling with mental illness. Educating people that mental illness is not a sign of weakness and that emotions are not something to be ashamed of helps people to understand that there is something that can be done to manage their mental health.
"We've got to start in preschool and grade school and teaching kids how to cope with stressors and teaching kids how to manage your emotions and giving kids voices when they need to have them, and that will have a ripple effect generations from now when they can do that," Kellogg said. "We still have a lot of strong feelings within our culture in our society about these things, so it's not an easy process. But quit telling kids they can't cry. Quit teaching boys that men don't cry."
So if you are feeling anxiety or depression, know that you are not alone. You are allowed to feel these emotions and you are allowed to talk about them and express them. You do not have to feel shame for your mental health.
Most importantly, there are things you can do about your mental health. Find something that works for you. Try going for a walk, a mindfulness app or consider speaking with a professional care provider. You are not alone, and there are people who are willing and passionate about supporting you.
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The key objective of this project was to improve the heavy load capacity of the network and also provide pedestrians with a safe means of access over Wrinklers Lagoon, located at Scamander on the East Coast of Tasmania.
The existing bridge was constructed in 1958 and comprised of two concrete slabs each spanning 13m over the mouth of Wrinklers Lagoon, supported by a central pier and abutments. The existing bridge was 6.7m wide, which was sufficient for traffic but did not allow for safe pedestrian movement. The existing structure had been identified for replacement due to evidence of severe chloride ingress which compromised its load carrying capacity.
The new replacement bridge is a 22m single span Super-T structure allowing for two 3.0m wide lanes with 1.0m sealed shoulders on both sides and a 1.8m wide pedestrian walkway (located on the western side of the bridge). The works also included pavement match-ins on both sides of the new bridge and the construction of a temporary bypass.
The project included demolition of the existing concrete structure in an environmentally sensitive coastal environment and the construction of a 30m temporary steel truss bridge to carry traffic during the project.
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Марсело дос Сантос Феррейра (,  27 липня 1989, Сан-Паулу) — бразильський футболіст, захисник клубу «Ат-Таї».

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Народився 27 липня 1989 року в місті Сан-Паулу. Вихованець футбольної школи клубу «Васко да Гама», втім за першу команду так і не дебютував і у 20210 році грав за клуб «Ріо Прето» у другому дивізіоні чемпіонату штату Сан-Паулу (шостий за рівнем дивізіон країни).

2010 року перейшов у клуб третього за рівнем дивізіону Португалії «Рібейран», де провів один сезон, після чого перейшов у вищоліговий португальський клуб «Ріу-Аве», втім відразу був відданий в оренду в «Лейшойнш» з другого дивізіону, де провів сезон 2011/12.

Марсело дебютував у португальському вищому дивізіоні 18 серпня 2012 року, відігравши усі 90 хвилин у домашньої матчі проти «Марітіму» (0:1). За підсумками першого сезону бразилець допоміг клубу зайняти високе шосте місце та був визнаний найкращим гравцем року у клубі. В подальшому провів у клубі ще п'ять сезонів як основний гравець, зігравши загалом за клуб з Віла-ду-Конді 152 матчі у чемпіонаті.

23 травня 2018 року на правах вільного агента перейшов у «Спортінг», підписавши з клубом трирічний контракт.

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NEMA, NMA collaborate to strengthen medical assistance in disasters
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The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says it is partnering with the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) to strengthen the provision of quick and appropriate emergency medical assistance to victims of disasters across the country.
Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole
Mr Sani Datti, Head of Media and Public Relations (NEMA) made this known in a statement on Sunday, August 26, 2018 in Abuja.
According to Datti, a Bilateral Technical Working Group (BTWG) has been established between NEMA and the NMA to draw up details of the working relationship.
He said that Mr Mustapha Maihaja, Director General of NEMA, led management staff of the agency to meet with the national executives of the NMA in Abuja at the weekend.
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Datti quoted Maihaja as identifying the imperatives for the partnership to actively engage members of the association in addressing gaps in the provision of medical supports in the aftermath of disaster incidents.
Maihaja said, "though there were a number of medical personnel in NEMA, response to disaster situations would always require more professionals to guide and direct us appropriately.
"Partnership with the NMA would avail the services of specialists in various medical fields to deal with situations such as malnutrition among Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).
"Deployment of First Aid by emergency workers and advocacy against environmental health issues among others."
Datti said that the National Executives of the NMA led by the President Dr. Francis Adedayo in discussion with the NEMA management noted that the partnership would enable them to offer more services.
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Adebayo said that with agreement better services would be offered to the less privileged and those in distress in all the States of the Federation including FCT with Specialist in all the Categories of the Medical Profession.
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My mother comes to pick me up from kindergarten and is pulled aside by the teacher. "Your daughter doesn't color between the lines." "She knows how she just doesn't want to." One week later, the same conversation repeats. So, my mother chooses another school for me—my mother, who dropped out of university and married at 19 across religious divides on the eve of a civil war.
Now, every morning while barely awake, I make my coffee and call her first thing. With the seven-hour time difference, she's just finished lunch and is having early afternoon coffee at her end. We talk for half an hour. It's worth waking up earlier. Every day.
"I want to be a mother to play, to have adventures, to open doors, and to watch a child discover," my partner tells me, "you?" She points out that I only ever speak of our hypothetical future child in the female pronoun. Well of course. I'm waiting for that most wonderful curse to come true. My love laughs at the image of a knee-high little person with brown curls gesturing dramatically, arms swept away and up in an imperious Russian ballet stance, wrist and fingers rotating-twirling open, punctuating a high-pitched and demanding why?
I search inside myself as we speak of becoming parents. There is a willow tree and an expanse of dark blue water at twilight. There are the skipping stones sunk to the bottom. I'm 40, and it's not the first time I stand at this shore.
I watch my younger cousin's one-year-old daughter singing in between the lyrics, in a video sent from England. The child looks exactly like her mother did when I used to pretend that she was my doll. The child's grandmother –my mother's cousin, the family standard for sophisticated class — offered me a pearl pendant when I graduated high school. It was the pendant she had received upon completing her doctoral degree in nuclear physics. "I know you'll get there," she tells me, "you don't have to wait to enjoy wearing this." Her own grandmother passed when the children were infants.
And Bella she became—to her husband, her children, and almost everyone else. I lived with her as a child; she was both a mother and a grandmother to me. Jade green eyes sparkling over hot chocolate. She passed on a fierce desire for the freedom she never had.
She says this to me when I am 9, 11, 17, 24 years old as she sews dresses for herself and her daughters, dreaming of having her own atelier in Paris. And I do have long legs, and I will have lovers.
My mother admits that she prayed for a long time that I finish school before I fall in love and get married too soon. I break off two engagements and wrap up my doctoral degree at 39. I inform her she can stop her nocturnal wishing now. Two of my great-aunts laugh at this story. Single and cosmopolitan professors in their late 60s, they have chosen outside their generational and cultural lines – their own mother married in a whirlwind at 15.
Each stone represents a hope, skipping out as many times as it can, then sinking. My hands scuffle on the shore, searching and searching for more stones. The women before and around me have taught me how to choose their shapes. The wishes made are for the shinier worlds of their daughters and nieces.
When my kid brother was born, my mother has admitted thinking: how do I take care of a boy?!
I have heard my mother's sisters and cousins say the same, as they trade recipes, complaints, and deep listening around how to care for adult children. Their mothers gone, they knit stories tight to hold closer. These women are more than an extended network of aunts, they are also godmothers to each other's children, promising to care as if each was their own, should anything happen.
As children, we were sent to our aunts for months every summer. I am the oldest of the seven maternal cousins; the youngest is also my goddaughter. We would wander outside, climbing trees and skating on boards. I would always be behind, counting the heads in front of me. Mothering isn't about keeping them in line; it's about knowing where they all are, where they wish to run to, at any time.
So, in my wallet, I have an envelope of cash. The exact amount to pay for my goddaughter's reading chair. She moves into her first apartment next weekend, amidst dubious budgetary decisions. I dream ahead of what her life will finally be like in this new and open space, and what stories she will share with me on Sundays, curled in her chair.
The willow's fingers trail in the water. It is not a lonely shore. I imagine diving in, swimming down deep to see what kind of stone architecture has grown beneath the ripples. Is it a palace with gardens? A haphazard ruin? A home to fish?
As my mother's cancer returns, wave after wave, year after year, she refuses to have me limit my horizons to care for her. She has given too much to set me free, to take it back now.
The women in my family, past and present, echo her wish. I especially hear my father's sister –the first child psychologist in an emerging third world desert, and his grandmother – a bone healer who was reported to be the first woman to attend the opera without gloves, while smoking a cigarette.
Trail blazers now gone with the wind, encouraging me to keep dancing, to keep traveling, to never silence my voice, and keep seeing the sights they have not.
Skipping stones, wishing thoughts. I've already chosen so many names before. All my unborn daughters want freedom.
When my mother, my aunts, and great-aunts are gone along with my grandmothers. Then. Then who will the stones skip for?
Hiba, your words grounded me to what matters, in a deep and very special way. Thank you.
Your piece is haunting and beautiful. I can identify as a motherless child, a daughter, a mother. Thank you.


"Don't let the bedbugs bite!" our Moms always told us when they tucked us in at night, little dreaming that one day we might well need to do exactly that. Unfortunately, not allowing bed bugs to bite you is far more difficult than you may suspect. As we transition from fall to winter bed bugs become increasingly common as they seek warmer climes to get away from the cold. The trouble with bed bugs is that they are so tiny and virtually impossible to detect visually, especially their eggs and their young (nymphs). They are amongst the most persistent pests on the planet, extremely adept at hiding in even the tiniest of nooks, crannies and crevices. What's more, it can take us a while to notice it.
Bed bugs are extremely difficult to see, not just because of their diminutive size, but because they are a mottled brown in color and their young are whitish yellow and translucent… Unless of course they've fed recently. While we, our loved ones and our pets sleep, they gorge on our blood. When this happens, they turn bloated and a reddish brown in color making them much more visible. Thus, if you can see a bed bug, it's probably because it's recently been snacking on you.
You may well wonder how bed bugs are able to bite you when you are sound asleep without waking you up. This is actually because bed bugs actually inject a tiny amount of natural anaesthetic into you when they bite. Because our survival is integral to theirs, it's not in their best interests to cause us pain which is likely why they also do not transmit diseases. They're actually kind of considerate… As parasites go!
However, when they bite us they do leave a nasty rash, which is not a good look on anyone!
Finally, because they're so hard to spot and such adept hiders, some pest control services use dogs to sniff bed bugs out. Dogs navigate the world by smell and while a bed bug nymph may be impossible to spot visually, a dog can smell one with pinpoint accuracy. Properly trained, dogs can smell the difference between a young and old bed bug and even a dead or living bed bug. This is why they are so effective in ensuring that an infestation is well and truly treated and that all vestiges are gone.
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This move towards consensus buying makes life far more difficult for salespeople. Not only do they have to win over more stakeholders to seal a deal, but these stakeholders will often be at cross-purposes, with what's good for one department being seen as possibly detrimental to another. In fact, the consensus model is sometimes delaying or destroying a purchase before it's even reached the salesperson.
They're talking each other out of it before they ever talk to you.
It's no wonder we are seeing longer cycle times, smaller deals and lower margins. So how does a salesman adapt to the Age of Consensus?
Why The Change In Buyer Behavior?
First, we must ask ourselves: Why has the consensus model come into favor? The first reason is societal. Social order has lost out to personal freedom and hierarchical structures are flattening. A more inclusive, democratic approach involves more debate and the need for consensus among stakeholders.
Increased accountability in a post-recession landscape is another reason for the shift in buyer behavior. Companies are scrutinizing their salespeople to a far greater degree than they were before the global downturn took place, cross-checking their reps' promises against their results. Teams of buyers are designed to increase this accountability.
Increased accountability and more in-organization democracy mean greater uncertainty—and uncertainty breeds conservatism. In his booked Influence: The Psychology Of Persuasion, Dr Robert Cialdini outlines three ways in which people respond when they are uncertain. Firstly, they freeze; secondly, they make choices that are least likely to cause a loss; and thirdly, they make choices based on a single overriding factor rather than on a number of relevant factors.
You can turn that uncertainty to your advantage. 'Accepting that the world is full of uncertainty and ambiguity does not and should not stop people from being pretty sure about a lot of things,' said the British philosopher Julian Baggini. It's your job as a salesperson to accept uncertainty among buyers—and be pretty sure about your own role in persuading them to buy in spite of it. And when the math says you're really only 10% into the buyer journey when the rubber meets the road, salespeople are still plenty relevant.
The first thing to do is not to question yourself. Just because the goalposts have suddenly moved doesn't make you irrelevant, or a bad salesperson overnight. 'It's the inability of stakeholders to agree on what problem they want to solve that leads decision groups to default to a common desire to either save their company money or avoid organisational risk,' say Brent Adamson and Nick Toman on the CEB website.
'Further, buying groups that are better at coordinating their individual goals, priorities and metrics are more likely to interact successfully, and so purchase more ambitious offerings.' It follows that encouraging consensus between the component parts of a group of buyers is the salesperson's route to success. We need to teach groups of stakeholders to make better, if seemingly riskier, business decisions. We need to teach them how to buy.
How do we achieve that consensus? Adamson and Toman suggest providing them with a common language is one way. 'Help stakeholders who "speak IT" or "speak marketing" to communicate with one another,' they say. 'This is a crucial part of helping stakeholders identify common objectives and to create greater overlap between stakeholders.' You have to get them to see the value in their terms.
Other methods include making sure everyone in the buyers' group has a collective understanding of the individual perspectives within the group: does everyone know why each stakeholder wants a certain thing? If you can understand what someone wants and why, it will be easier to compromise and reach a consensus.
Of course, this is easier said than done. As Peter Buscemi of Fourquadrant notes, there are several roles in the buyers' group: decision-maker, approver, recommender, influencer, sniper (the person who wants to torpedo the decision for one reason or another) and end-user. All of these people have disparate goals. Buscemi cites a CEB survey, which showed that 53% of customer loyalty is driven by a salesperson's ability to deliver unique insight to the customer, 'by how a vendor sells, not by what a vendor sells'.
Buscemi notes that, while decision-makers tend to value the overall sales experience, believing that they buy from organizations, influencers and end-users believe that they buy from people. 'So if a rep is using the same sales deck or the same messaging with these two audiences it doesn't matter if there are a lot of nods in the room—that sales cycle is going nowhere,' he says.
So what do influencers and end-users value? According to Buscemi, they value 'unique perspectives, insight into issues and outcomes, anticipating landmines and other areas that help them understand and build their knowledge base.' In other words, they like challenger salespeople.
We've covered the challenger technique in depth before, and it's easy to see why it's key to influencing the buyers' group. If influencers and end-users love to be educated and the challenger provides them with new, useful information, the influencers and end-users are likely to proselytize to the rest of the group. Not only does the challenger now have the decision-maker on board, he has another two or three people as well, putting traditional hold-outs like the sniper under pressure to agree to the sale.
The Age of Consensus is a daunting one for salespeople, but it's a change we can adapt to and thrive in. Learning to convince a multi-person, hydra-headed buyer committee can be done successfully if it's done strategically. Turn the influencers and end-users in buyers' groups into your acolytes and let them preach your gospel to the rest of the group. Internal pressure from colleagues is much more effective than external pressure from a salesperson as a means of achieving consensus.


Donnington Castle stands just to the north of Newbury on the junction of the road from London to the western ports and the road from the north to the southern ports. It was well placed to harass Parliamentarian communications.
Two days after the First battle of Newbury, on 22nd September, 1643, Colonel John Boys, a professional soldier from Kent, was sent to Donnington Castle with a garrison company of about 200 foot, 25 horse, and 4 pieces of cannon.
Boys realised that the existing fortifications would not survive long against artillery, putting his knowledge of fighting in the trenches in Flanders to use he spent £1,000 on strengthening the castle by instructing the construction of the 'star' fort earthworks. Three adjacent hundreds (administrative units) Kintbury Eagles with 20 Parishes, Faircross with 14 and Compton with 8 were laid under contribution to maintain the castle, providing a weekly payment, beds, etc.
"England had not a better regulated garrison and better loved of the countrye than was this of Donnington".
Newbury, which held for parliament, felt differently, as we shall see.
"Sir I am instructed by his majesty's express commands, and have not yet learned to obey any other than my Sovereign. To spare blood, do as you please, but myself and those are with me are fully resolved to venture ours in maintaining that we are instructed with which is the answer of John boys".
On 31st July a general assault with scaling ladders was launched, but without any artillery support it was driven back with over 300 of his own soldiers being killed.
On the 20th August Captain Tailor was shot through the head and killed whilst skirmishing with the rebels. However the rest of the Troop beat three times their number of rebels into the town of Newbury and killed 7 men and captured 9 musketeers and 2 Officers.
On the 4th October the Earl of Manchester arrived to take over the siege, receiving another refusal, resolved to storm the castle, but his soldiers being well informed of the resolution of those within, declined that hot service. The parliament forces were ordered to storm the castle but were instead content to keep up the bombardment.
…..there having been 19 days (12 at Speen, and 7 at Snelsmore) over 1,000 great shot was spent upon the walls of the garrison.
Charles 1, with his army, moved towards Donnington and Manchester withdrew. On 22 October 1644 the King knighted John Boys at his rendezvous at Red Heath, then marched on to Newbury where he lodged the army being encamped for the next few days between Newbury and Donnington Castle, Speen and Shaw house.
Early in the morning of the 27th October 1644, Colonel John boys with a strategic view from Donnington castle saw Waller's horse at Lambourn, he sends 25 horse to harry their flank, later the same day the 2nd battle of Newbury was fought. The remaining Companies of the Earl Rivers Regiment supported Shaw House under the command of Colonel Blagg. The castle was an important factor in the battle, its strategic position causing the wide detour (13 miles from Clay Hill via Hermitage, Chieveley, North Heath, Boxford and Wickham Heath to Speen), whereby the parliamentary army attempted a pincer movement to entrap the kings army on both sides i.e Speen and at Clay hill. It was not a success, and no side could claim a victory. Prince Maurice was enabled to slip clear away to Oxford under the cover of night through the gap between Shaw House and Donnington Castle.
The King himself set out to join Prince Rupert in Bath, leaving his crown , great seal and treasure in the castle. With the guns that were left in the care of Sir John Boys.
"one stone would not be left on another".
"He was bound to repair the castle, but that by gods help, he would keep the ground".
The intended assault did not take place because of the death of the officer in charge, and disagreements among the parliamentary officers. About this time some parliamentary soldiers poisoned the castles well, which laid on the north side of the castle between their trenches and the castle earthworks, But the next day the Parliamentary Commander with the horror of the fact sent a drummer with a letter to Sir John Boys stating what had been done.
"and at first opportunity drew 40 musqueteers out of the Castle, and in the face of the rebells cleaned the well, taking out the bag of poyson, and digging it deeper".
"we kept the well in despite of the rebells, and to make tryall whether or not the well was truly poisoned, we tried the experiment upon a horse, which having drunk of it, swell'd and dyed within 24 hours".
(the well is on the north-west side of the castle, about 400yards from the building, being screen by the lie of land from observation of the enemy on Snelsmore common, so that the garrison could easily get obtain water).
Early in May 1645, five hundred Royalist Protestants marched out of Basing House, after a Religious dispute and travelled to Donnington Castle still un-besieged, but they were very properly refused admission by Sir John Boys.
Sir John Boys continued to hold the dilapidated castle, he now had a rest bite as the Roundheads were occupied elsewhere. As soon as the main Parliamentary body left Newbury the defenders continued to launch raids on Parliamentarian forces in the area. John Boys made a sally into Newbury (then a Parliament town), and nearly succeeded in capturing the Mayor and other leading citizens and holding them up to ransom.
By the end of 1645 Parliament was on the verge of victory in the war Donnington, like Basing was a constant thorn to the Parliamentarians and after the storm of Basing House 14th October 1645 by the Regiments of Dalbier, Pickering, Hardress Waller and Edward Montague, Cromwell gave the task to Dalbier for the total destruction of Donnington Castle to reduce it at all cost, having received instructions from the Speaker of the House of Commons 15th October 1645 to have Donnington "taken in".
However, Sir John Boys had not only provisioned the castle he had also, in view of Dalbiers advance set fire to Donnington and adjacent villages as commanded by the Kings Council at Oxford, to deprive the besiegers of cover.
The humble Petition of the poor Inhabitants of Dennington in the County of Berks; shewing, That their Houses, Stables, Barns, and divers other Buildings, together with their Goods and Housholdstuff, were burnt and consumed, by the Command of Sir John Boys, Governor of Dennington-Castle, amounting to the Sum of Five thousand Two hundred Eighty-three Pounds and Eighteen Shillings, to the utter Undoing of the Petitioners, their Wives, and many Children; they consisting of Two-and thirty Families; was this Day read. The Articles, upon which Dennington-Castle was surrendered, were likewise read. The House called upon a Report, in the Hands of Mr. Lisle. And It is Ordered, That the Debate concerning Sir John Bois, and the Articles for Rendition of Dennington-Castle, be taken into Consideration, next after the said Report.
Bitter winter weather postponed the attack on the castle during this time Sir John Boys sallied into the local area, beating down and destroying any quarters they found.
The Kentish Regiment, regarded as traitors by their compatriot Sir John (who was a Kentish man), received special treatment.
The large hole in the south-east tower that was later repaired in modern brick, is the apparently the work of this great mortar which had great shattering effect upon the castle the garrison as written in some reports 200 strong with 20 barrels of black powder and six pieces of ordnance. The Roundheads spent a long time knocking these towers down, however it was the newly constructed earthworks that was the Castle's real defence.
On 30th March 1646 with the Kings cause lost, at the Battle of Naseby, Dalbeire wrote to Sir John Boys telling him that he could not expect any relief and advised him to surrender the castle, whilst he might be able to give him honourable conditions.
Sir John called a council of war, and it was agreed to ask Dalbier for passes for two Officers of the Garrison to go to Oxford. Boys held a parley with Dalbier and as a result, Captains Osborne and Donne, were sent to Oxford to gain the King's orders.
On 1st April 1646 the Castle finally surrendered. What remained of the Castle was then sacked and all the lead stolen, probably causing much discomfort to the Puritan owner, an MP called John Packer, who had only taken possession in 1640.
Members of the original Regiment are buried at Speen Church on the outskirts of Newbury. Unfortunately no memorial remains to their whereabouts in the churchyard.
Providence Improved by Mr. Burgha1l Vicar of Acton.
' Adderton – QJF9O/3 – No. 183 and 184.