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Hilton Supply Management's approach to internship and training projects for young people in Egypt
By SL Staff
The global hospitality company's procurement team is helping to empower young women by providing skills and work experience
Egypt has experienced a significant increase in its adolescent and youth population in recent years. Survey data from 2018 reflects that nearly 33% of Egyptian youth aged 15-29 are not engaged in education, employment or vocational training. According to UNICEF, young women face a particular challenge accessing employment and receiving professional development opportunities as they work to overcome perceptions that certain jobs are only suitable for men. These challenges mean that the country has the opportunity to make the most of one of its greatest resources—young workers and entrepreneurs.
For Hilton Supply Management (HSM), the procurement arm of global hospitality giant Hilton, this presents an opportunity to make a difference.
Ingy Helal, HSM's Regional Procurement Director for Egypt and North Africa, spent a one-month Hilton-sponsored sabbatical volunteering with Egypt's Meshwary (My Journey) project in 2018. Established as a partnership between the country's youth sports ministry and UNICEF, Meshwary focuses on teaching skills such as interpersonal communication, work readiness and financial literacy to disadvantaged young people.
After gaining first-hand insights into the challenges faced by Meshwary participants, Helal engaged HSM to help combat these issues and the company embarked on the creation of an internship and training project aimed at supporting Meshwary in addressing these challenges.
What is HSM?
As the innovation and logistics centre of Hilton, Hilton Supply Management (HSM) leverages billions in combined spending power to drive economies of scale and negotiate competitive contracts with suppliers, creating substantial savings for properties around the globe. HSM partners with more than 12,000 properties across 127 brands, working with over 1,500 suppliers to source 500,000 unique products and services.
Creating an internship programme
Helal envisioned an opportunity to work with Meshwary to provide education, access and hands-on skills training to young people interested in pursuing careers in hospitality. In tandem with HSM, Helal worked to create an internship programme with three key aims:
Support diversity and encourage women to join the hospitality industry
Present a new pool of workers to the labour market
Develop and engage high-caliber candidates for job opportunties when available
Helal established the first of these internships, a month-long programme at the company's Hilton Sharm Waterfalls Resort in Sharm El Sheikh, which was later expanded to three sites. The successful launch of these internships required collaboration with:
Hotel management and human resources to ensure buy-in for programme participation
Hotel HR departments to develop the internship programme structure
Hilton Learning & Development teams to create a training curriculum, online resources and tools to support the interns in their skills development
Helal collaborated with all key stakeholders at partnering hotels, HSM and Hilton to compile programme materials, curate additional resources and learning tools—including success story videos featuring team members at the company's Egyptian properties—and further assist programme participants by staying on-site and guiding them through each phase of their internship.
Programme recruitment
The programme is advertised via UNICEF, the Egyptian Youth and Sports Ministry and Meshwary's dedicated website and social media channels. Applicants complete an initial application form and those shortlisted for the programme are invited to attend interview days hosted by the Ministry of Youth across a number of cities. Interview sessions include a welcome from Helal detailing programme particulars and providing an introduction to Hilton and HSM. Interns are selected based on a number of soft skills criteria, including their conversational ability, enthusiasm and maturity.
Participants are afforded the opportunity to experience a variety of roles across Hilton's hotel operations. The programme progresses over three stages:
Week one: General orientation, including classroom training sessions to help interns adapt to the new environment. For many participants, the programme is their first opportunity to travel outside of their hometowns and interact with people from different cultures.
Week two: Meetings with department heads. Leaders from hotel teams including Food & Beverage, Front Office, Landscaping, Maintenance, Engineering, Security, Kitchen and Housekeeping meet with the participants to share their experiences working in hospitality and provide an overview of their roles and responsibilities.
Weeks three and four: Based on their discussions with department heads, participants select their top area of interest and spend the remainder of the programme shadowing that team and gaining hands-on skills training and workplace experience.
At the end of the programme, many participants are offered permanent employment at Hilton based on their performance and engagement throughout the internship. In fact, 13 candidates were awarded jobs after the initial training initiative in 2018. HSM also conducts an open panel discussion with participants to gather feedback on potential programme improvements or enhancements.
Some participants who are not offered, or are unable to accept, a permanent position with Hilton continue to participate in the Meshwary programme, including participation in webinar sessions to encourage other youth to apply.
Training curriculum
In collaboration with Hilton Learning & Development, Helal developed a curriculum to help the participants grow accustomed to the service expectations and day to day work within the hospitality industry. Training was delivered during orientation week in the form of classroom sessions, covering topics such as:
Workplace protocols
Making a positive first impression
Goal setting: Make it happen
Expanding the programme
Following the success of the initial internship cohort, Hilton and HSM invested further resources to grow the programme, provided extra funding to the Meshwary project through UNICEF to create a formal training programme. HSM worked with Meshwary to secure a grant from the Hilton Effect Foundation, which funds projects around the world to support the communities Hilton serves, as well as funding disaster relief efforts.
The Hilton Effect Foundation grant was used to develop a formal curriculum and expand the programme to two additional hotels, with a focus on providing support to vulnerable adolescents in regions with a high risk of irregular migration. Ultimately, the grant's impact extended beyond Hilton's own operations as some of the funds were used through UNICEF to train 100 youth mentors within at-risk areas and provide ten youth centres with IT equipment.
The Covid-19 outbreak posed a threat to the programme's future as on-site training was suspended until January 2022. However, HSM worked with UNICEF to digitize the training and resource guides, making sure they were available for participants to access online. The acceleration to a hybrid training model will ensure the programme's continued impact, regardless of whether funding for in-person training remains in place for the long term.
By working with external partners through Meshwary and investing time and effort into youth training and work experience, HSM has been able to strengthen its talent pipeline in Egypt whilst helping to tackle challenges affecting the country's young people.
Across the lifespan of the project, 47 young people trained at Hilton hotels, with 33 going on to become full-time members of staff—a 70% conversion rate. Hires included intern Mostafa Mousa, who dreamed of becoming a pastry chef and spent ten days learning to knead, bake and prepare breads before being recruited to join a hotel's bakery department, and Donia Zakareya, who became the first female landscaping engineer at an Egyptian resort.
Zakareya said of her experience, "This was my dream opportunity. After all, who would agree to transport, accommodate and give a girl extensive training in landscape engineering, a male-dominant field, in an international hotel? We all had equal chances; our capabilities, determination and interest were the only criteria of our assignments."
HSM's participation has helped drive the success of the wider Meshwary project, which so far has delivered quality of life, employability and entrepreneurship skills training to more than 5,200 youth – made up of nearly two-thirds women.
Following the success of the initiative, an agreement was signed by Mohab Ghali, Country Managing Director, Egypt, Hilton, whereby Hilton will offer internships and on-job training opportunities to more than 750 young people across its hotels in Egypt over the coming five years, ultimately safeguarding the future of the program.
Said Ghali: "Not only will we offer guidance and support to the youth, allowing them to be more prepared for the job market, but we'll also offer our valued team members a chance to share their knowledge and experience with passionate, budding hoteliers."
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In the video posted below, Tedisco persuaded Assembly Ways And Means Chairman Denny Farrell (D-Manhattan) to explain the cost of printing is $13 million, plus an additional $40 million for waste management and disposal, according to a press release sent by Tedisco's office.
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Avengers Endgame has been released on April 26, 2019, with some advance screenings set for April 25. Some theaters are even letting Marvel fans marathon through hours of MCU world-building with marathons of select or all of the movies to date.
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Prevention of extremist behaviour / radicalisation
The Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism in the Home Office, works to counter the threat from terrorism, via its CONTEST strategy. Schools have a vital role to play in protecting pupils from the risks of extremism and radicalisation, a role which is underpinned by the duty in the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 "to have due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism" (1 July, 2015).
Prevent work with children and with schools is an important part of the strategy. Schools are important not because there is significant evidence to suggest children are being radicalised – there is not – but because they can play a vital role in preparing young people to challenge extremism and the ideology of terrorism and effectively rebut those who are apologists for it. Schools can help to protect children from extremist views in the same ways that they help to safeguard children from drugs, gang violence or alcohol.
North Yorkshire is a safe place in which to live and work and incidents of violent crime are low. However there are vulnerable sites within the county including scientific research laboratories, historical and religious sites, military sites and crowded places that could be targeted for attack by extremists. Nationally the largest threat to security is from international terrorist organisations such as ISIS. In North Yorkshire threats of extremism may also include, far right extremist groups, animal rights or environmental groups. There is also the risk of young people travelling to Syria.
Research suggests that young people who feel alienated or isolated by 'push' factors are more vulnerable to being influenced by the 'pull' of a single narrative and therefore more susceptible to radicalisation. Universal provision around the prevention of violent extremism is embedded within effective mainstream provision. Work to engage children and young people; develop their social and emotional skills; educate them in citizenship, Religious Education, peaceful protest, global learning and e-safety; recognise and support their individual needs; give them a voice; develop community cohesion and so on, already features within the provision of our primary and secondary schools and within other settings where children and young people come together. Effective universal provision should make a young person less susceptible to radicalisation.
All staff should be made aware of the potential indicators that a child, young person or their family may be becoming involved in extremism and know how and where to refer any concerns. The process is: NOTICE, CHECK, SHARE.
Early intervention is crucial
Some vulnerability factors that may contribute to extremism
Some indicators of becoming involved in extremism
Identity crisis –being distanced from their cultural / religious heritage
Personal crisis –experiencing family tensions; a sense of isolation; and low self-esteem; dissociated from their existing friendship group and become involved with a different group of friends; may be searching for answers to questions about identity, faith and belonging;
Personal circumstances – migration; local community tensions; and events affecting the student / pupil's country or region of origin may contribute to a sense of grievance;
Unmet aspirations –perceptions of injustice; a feeling of failure; rejection of civic life;
Experiences of criminality – which may include involvement with criminal groups, imprisonment, and poor resettlement / reintegration;
Special Educational Need –difficulties with social interaction, empathy with others, understanding the consequences of their actions and awareness of the motivations of others.
Becoming a loner
Obsessed by the internet/social networking sites– and secretive about what they are doing
Un-cooperative/disengaged
Abusive/aggressive/extremist views/comments/ threats/language
Fascination/fixation with weapons (eg drawing guns)/chemicals/explosives/ extremist activity/events
Changes in relationships/ withdrawal from family
Changes in friendship groups (including adult relationships)/desire to be part of a gang.
Change in behaviour or appearance due to new influences
Seeking to recruit / 'groom' others to an extremist ideology
Possession of violent extremist literature
Absence patterns/ emergent travel plans e.g. Syria
Based on Birmingham Safeguarding Board: Model policy
However, this list is not exhaustive, nor does it mean that all young people experiencing the above are at risk of radicalisation for the purposes of violent extremism. There is no single profile of a violent extremist. Every case will need to be considered on an individual basis.
Responding to concerns
Schools and settings should continue to follow usual safeguarding procedures and rapid multi-agency responses as tools to support their assessment of vulnerability and the appropriate sharing of information with local partners. Schools are encouraged to work with local police on awareness of community issues and tensions which may also be contributory factors. For secondary schools, your local Behaviour Collaborative is the forum for raising any emerging concerns and for reporting extremist behaviour to the Local Authority (extremist behaviour is a standing item on every collaborative agenda). Primary schools should raise emerging concerns with their School Adviser or Behaviour and Attendance Adviser. Please note however, that routine safeguarding procedures and protocols should always take precedence and be adhered to.
Questions to ask yourself if you are concerned about a young person?
Who is the young person involved with?
Who are their peers?
Have there been changes in the young person's behaviour or attitude?
Are there other issues that could be the reason behind the changes?
What could the young person be involved in?
Is this a child protection issue?
Who is being affected who may require a safeguarding response? I.e. the concern may relate to adults as well as young people.
If you feel that a young person may be at risk of being involved in radicalisation or extremism...
Follow usual safeguarding procedures
Inform the Headteacher (or Manager if other setting).
Inform the police via your 'Safer Neighbourhood' contact, who will then advise and support further referral as appropriate
Inform your Behaviour & Attendance Adviser who will also advise and support.
Where else can we go for help?
North Yorkshire Equalities Adviser for advice including curriculum resources, activities and training: Rebecca.swift@northyorks.gov.uk 01609 798554
Guidance/ Resources/Training:
Key guidance documents:
Working with individuals vulnerable to extremism in educational settings. (2018) Practice guidance from NYCC. http://www.safeguardingchildren.co.uk/admin//uploads/practice-guidance/working-with-individuals-vulnerable-to-extremism-in-education-settings.pdf
Resources: (further resources available on NYES)
For teaching resources and guidance documents: https://educateagainsthate.com/
Training: Free on-line training https://www.elearning.prevent.homeoffice.gov.uk
Staff and governor training for your school or cluster from North Yorkshire: book through NYES http://smartsolutions.northyorks.gov.uk/ or contact Rebecca Swift Rebecca.swift@northyorks.gov.uk
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The thing note is that Asian wedding photography is an interesting term, in it's broad sense it means more than photographing just any Indian or Pakistani wedding. And with the indian weddings, these to gets segmented into Sikh, Hindu, Punjabi, Tamil, Hindu-Tamil, Hindu-Punjabi weddings. Now there are mixed marriages too.
Bipin Dattani has been a professional Asian Wedding Photographer in London for near 15 years. It is the testament to this skill as a photographer that he still in business. He specialises in Asian weddings offering a combination of candid, reportage, natural photojournalistic coverage together with artistic couple portraits with his signature pre-wedding and post wedding photo shoots with the happy couple. Artistic and unobtrusive memorable photography!
For any Asian bride and the groom a wedding is a sacred and special occasion. They want it to be the most memorable day of their life and spend months organising the special day when they say their marriage vows. Be it a Indian, Sikh or Hindu ceremony Asian weddings are filled with rituals and customs that have been practised for generations in India, Pakistan or Sri Lanka.
Hiring expert and best Asian wedding photographers is of utmost importance for such couples. They are very careful and meticulous in deciding the Indian photographers for their wedding. And rightly so, these are once in lifetime event, these most important memories need to be recorded and captures in the best possible wedding album and video. How else is it possible to remember your wedding day in the coming years.
As a London wedding photographer my aim is to capture beautiful images as the day unfolds, together with awesome portraits of the bride & groom which can be enjoyed in a wonderful wedding album consisting of beautiful designed montages or in print format as a canvas. Creating treasured memories of your special day.


Knowledge processes are critical to outsourced software projects. According to outsourcing research, outsourced software projects succeed if they manage to integrate the client's business knowledge and the vendor's technical knowledge. In this paper, we submit that this view may not be wrong, but incomplete in a significant part of outsourced software work, which is software maintenance. Data from six software-maintenance outsourcing transitions indicate that more important than business or technical knowledge can be application knowledge, which vendor engineers acquire over time during practice. Application knowledge was the dominant knowledge during knowledge transfer activities and its acquisition enabled vendor staff to solve maintenance tasks. We discuss implications for widespread assumptions in outsourcing research.


The Reverend Margaret Thor, deacon, came to St. John's in the fall of 2014.
She grew up an Air Force "brat" and attended the University of California Davis, graduating with a degree in psychology. She now works in Brooklyn Center and currently manages a group of employees who audit small businesses.
She and her husband, Eric, live in Arden Hills. They have two children in college, Caryn and Peter, and an old basset hound named Stuart who has attended many pet blessings.
She participated on the Episcopal Church in Minnesota's Mission Opportunity team for 2014, which focused on resources for faith communities willing to reach out to school age youth in their neighborhoods. She has been a Lay Eucharist Visitor and Minister, lector, and verger. She has also been a senior warden, treasurer, and Christian Ed instructor. She currently volunteers one Friday morning a month at the Episcopal Homes.


England football star Wayne Rooney reportedly copped an earful from fed-up wife Coleen following his drunken US airport arrest last month.
The former England and Manchester United great was berated over the phone by his better half, who, according to The Sun, yelled: "How many times do you need to be told?"
A source reportedly detailed that: "She told him he wasn't to go out of the house again without her supervision.
"Coleen was really p***ed off with Wayne for getting into trouble again.
"She was mortified when she got the call about it and wanted him straight home. She called him an idiot for doing something so stupid."
Rooney was arrested on a public intoxication charge on December 16 and taken to jail to sober up after he triggered a door alarm at Washington Dulles Airport.
The 33-year-old reportedly mixed cocktails and sleeping pills while on a long-haul flight from Saudi Arabia to the US, where he now plays for Washington's United DC.
reports Coleen, 32, urged her husband to reign in his behaviour as she worries about the public's perception of their marriage.
The source said: "She warned him to never do something so daft again.
"When he's been drinking and gets into trouble it upsets her because she thinks it gives a bad impression of their relationship.
"She's told him before that people will assume he's unhappy if they see him out drinking.
"But Coleen did see the funny side later when she saw how ridiculous the situation was.
"They're loving their life as a family in the US and are moving on."
Rooney's latest gaffe follows his 2017 drink driving arrest in England, when he was caught nearly three times over the legal limit, while behind the wheel of a Volkswagen Beetle belonging to a woman named Laura Simpson.
At the time, Coleen, was pregnant, with couple having announced just days before his arrest news they were expecting their fourth child.
Simpson later revealed she had "kissed and hugged" Rooney after they met in a bar before he drove her VW Beetle in Cheshire.
Rooney joined United DC last July and in his first half-season helped take the struggling Major League Soccer club into the playoffs.
Having retired from international football, he moved to the US to take up a three-year deal after departing Everton, the club he made his professional debut for before his 14-year stint with Manchester United.
Upon arriving in the US, Rooney explained he was looking forward to the new challenge and excited to enjoy relative anonymity living in suburban Washington.


Perfect for a work desk snack because you and enjoy a fruity treat without getting your hands dirty. However, I do not recommend eating the bowl. I tested that for you to...less than favorable results.
Now here is a mix of flavors I never thought I'd enjoy. The secret has long been out that sweet and salty treats are amazing. These slightly salty potato chips are absolutely drenched in chocolate and yogurt to put that assertion to the test. The taste is a rush of rich yogurt and chocolate that is quickly followed by a familiar potato chip zing. Oh, and of course it comes with a satisfying crunch.
I spend about 2 hours a day studying Japanese characters. What keeps me motivated? I decided to write about it.


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English Premier League Football Football (News Update) Latest News
After the loss to Crystal Palace, Norwich manager says player welfare is not considered
ByMuhammad-Hadi Oyerinde	Hours Posted on December 29, 2021
After the loss to Crystal Palace, Norwich manager Dean Smith believes player welfare is not considered.
After the loss to Crystal Palace, Norwich manager Dean Smith believes player welfare is not considered due to COVID-19.
Odsonne Edouard, Jean-Philippe Mateta, and Jeffrey Schlupp scored in the first half to assist Palace move into the top half of the Premier League at Selhurst Park, relegating Norwich City to the bottom of the table by the end of the 2021 season.
Smith admits his side "need to be better", but believes teams should not have to play two games in three days in such disruptive conditions, with some games being postponed because of rising cases.
"I didn't have a lot of choice with the team and the subs today," he told BBC Sport. "If that's what the Premier League want, so be it. We should never be asked in the current climate to put players through that. Players will keep topping up the injury list.
"We had three who dropped out yesterday. Max Aarons, Teemu Pukki and Todd Cantwell all pulled out. It's a really hard time, not just for ourselves but for everyone at the moment.
"I just told the players the half-term report: it's not good enough and it needs to be better. If they want to maintain any kind of semblance of a Premier League team, we have to turn it around very quickly. It doesn't help we only have 10 senior players."
After a bright start, the visitors fell behind after eight minutes when Kenny McLean fouled Will Hughes in the area and Edouard converted from the spot for his first goal since October.
Hughes was the driving force behind Palace's takeover. He leaped forward and slid in Mateta, who could only find the side-netting.
Mateta scored his first goal of the season seven minutes before halftime to make it 2-0. Edouard drew to the left and played in a low cross, which Mateta expertly placed past Angus Gunn.
Just seconds earlier, Norwich's Jacob Sorensen squandered a fantastic chance, and Schlupp added a third with a powerful finish from a tight angle four minutes later.
In stoppage time, Sam Byram clipped the top of the crossbar with a header, but Norwich's defensive issues had already given them a mountain to climb.
In the second half, Gunn made an excellent double save to deny Schlupp and then Mateta, while Vicente Guaita was forced into rare action by a Przemyslaw Placheta strike.
Smith was aware of how difficult the job would be when he arrived at Carrow Road in November, but his side appear to be lacking in inspiration at the moment.
There were some good spells of possession, particularly early on, and a couple of half chances, but Palace were never really troubled.
With Pukki and Cantwell out, their task was made even more difficult, but they have now lost five games in a row without scoring a goal and conceding 14.
The Norwich fans even resorted to singing "Let's pretend we scored a goal!" which neatly summed up another difficult afternoon in what is quickly becoming a nightmare season.
COVID-19 in the Premier League: Two matches has been postponed amid fear of COVID-19 resurgence
Leicester beat Liverpool 1-0, leaving the Reds 6 points off the Premier League lead
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Reads 200 The Blues comfortably secured their place in the Champions League last 16 thanks to goals from Trevoh Chalobah, Reece James, Callum Hudson-Odoi and Timo Werner. Chalobah opened the scoring with a smart turn and shot from a 25th-minute corner to mark his first start in the competition with a goal. The hosts could…
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Reads 290 Chelsea's Goalkeeper Edouard Mendy complained about media outlets using his image to illustrate news reports about Manchester City's Benjamin Mendy, who has been accused of rape and sexual assault. Benjamin Mendy, a France international has been charged with about seven counts of sexual assault and and rape. He is yet to enter a…
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Why did Solskjaer choose McTominay as the Man of the Match in United's win over Tottenham?
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Reads 279 Why did Solskjaer choose McTominay as the Man of the Match in United's win over Tottenham? Manchester United's win over Tottenham Hotspur away from home featured various tweaks that resulted in the Red Devils' first victory in four games. They responded admirably to their humbling defeat at Old Trafford against Liverpool. Many people…
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Barcelona 1-0 Dynamo Kiev: Pique helps the Blugrana secure vital 3 points.
Reads 326 Gerard Pique's first half volley was the difference for the under-pressure Ronald Koeman's side after two heavy defeats in the champions league. The Spaniard scored an important goal to earn his team their first win in Group E and keep their hope of reaching the knockout rounds. The Veteran defender volleyed in Jordi…
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Luka Jovic stars as he replaces an injured Benzema in Real Madrid's 2-0 win over Real Sociedad.
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Reads 175 Luka Jovic stars as he replaces an injured Benzema in Real Madrid's 2-0 win over Real Sociedad. When an injured Karim Benzema was subbed off in Real Madrid's 2-0 win over Real Sociedad on Saturday night, the Serbian striker Luka Jovic was expected to come in and do little. Still, he impacted by…
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Are you planning a trip to London? If you will be traveling with children, I've compiled all sorts of tips and suggestions for you! Visit my pinterest page, London With Kids, to discover kid-friendly activities, hotels that cater to families, and great places to eat. Find books about London to read before you go or bookshops to visit while you are there. Discover fun facts about London sights, too!


Reminding you of its importance in your life, Angel Number 1894 is speaking to you about your life purpose. You need to remember that this is meant to be a goal in your life, an important one that is going to bring you all sorts of positive things if you allow it to do so.
So, make sure that you take a look at your goals and see that they are aligned with your angels, who love you dearly and want to see you succeed.
Angel Number 1 shares that you are on the right path to making your future as bright as you could imagine. All you need to do is remember that positive thinking is key and should factor into all of your days.
Angel Number 8 shares that you are on the brink of bringing some financial flow into your life, so use it for good and see if you can bring more positive things into your life.
Angel Number 9 asks you to take a look at the world around you and see if you can notice why things are ending or beginning. This will give you a hint as to what direction to turn in.
Angel Number 4 wants you to depend on your angels more and rely on them if you are in need of support in your life. It doesn't matter what for, just allow them to help.
Angel Number 18 wants you to look to your guardian angels if you are in need of support on what way to turn or which road to take in your life. They will guide you to the right decision without any worries.
Angel Number 94 wants you to know that your angels always have your back and will protect you from any harm that comes your way, even if you can't see how it is going to hurt you directly.
Angel Number 189 wants you to let go of those emotions that are dragging you down and focus on the fact that you have brought a lot of great things to your life and can bring more if you let them come to your life.
Angel Number 894 wants you to realign those priorities and remember that you need to focus on your soul destiny as much as you can to make sure that you are getting closer to it all the time.


of quality standards for safe medicines and their safe use.
The Reference Standards and Samples Division (DRS) is responsible for the production, storage and dispatch of the European Pharmacopoeia Reference Standards, WHO International Standards for Antibiotics (ISA) and International Chemical Reference Standards (ICRS). It also procures samples, which are analysed in the process of elaborating the European Pharmacopoeia Monographs.


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Q: What are some good examples of exploratory data analysis today? Are there some papers published which illustrate EDA used to tackle substantial data problems? I am particularly looking for actual (current) data examples, where plots have been made and  statistics computed that reveal things in the data that we would not have been able to detect otherwise, or with models. Here are a couple of examples of what I am interested in finding. Both of these examples show things that were discovered in data by making plots. I'd also be interested in discoveries made by rough calculations, like Tukey used to do, eg like median polish. Not from fitting models, where lots of assumptions are required.
This is an old example, from a data set on tipping in restaurants, see introduction of ggobi book for the full example,

with the observation that "many diners round tips to the nearest $1 and 50c value". The peaks in the histogram with the small bandwidth occur at regular intervals, too much to be due to chance. Hand et al found similar behavior when mining a large credit card data set, when customers were purchasing petrol in the UK. He followed up the discover by setting up a model that had multiple components, one with the rounding behavior and another following a more regular distribution.
See Hyndsight blog for a recently released statistics on unemployment. This is the critical picture:

with the observation, "that there is something different about Aug this year." The most plausible explanation is a change in the way the unemployment is being collected.

A: One example I enjoy (and is a simple illustration) is the work by Michael Maltz on analyzing the uniform crime reports that police agencies supply to the FBI. See:

Maltz, M. D. (2010). Look before you analyze: Visualizing data in criminal justice. In Piquero, A. . and Weisburd, D., editors, Handbook of Quantitative Criminology, chapter 3, pages 25-52. Springer New York, New York, NY.

For some background, the FBI does not have standardized ways to report missing or incomplete reports (they collect data monthly, so an agency could report for some months but not the entire year). So the uncritical would observe zeroes or very low numbers for a particular jurisdiction and not presume missing data, e.g. see the numbers for Florida in Parker & Pruitt (2000). So there is quite a bit of precedent in the criminology literature of modelling this data without discovering such errors.

Here is a good example from blogs discussing published papers:

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*Uri Simonsohn on the Data Colada blog and Felix Schönbrodt on a failed replication in pyschology and how ceiling effects of the instrument are not an issue. Here are the images of the original and replication ECDF's from the Data Colada blog:

There are also some good examples on this site. I thought I had a good example here but a few others that I really enjoyed are:

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*Improving data analysis through a better visualization of data?

*Which permutation test implementation in R to use instead of t-tests (paired and non-paired)?. A terrific quote by G. Jay Kerns here "In my opinion, these data are a perfect (?) example that a well chosen picture is worth 1000 hypothesis tests. We don't need statistics to tell the difference between a pencil and a barn.".

*This is a bit more of a contentious one which I might rename to If a statistician were in a cave her whole life and then one day was shown a scatterplot what would she see?
I realize these aren't published, but I think are illustrative nonetheless. I'm sure you could cull up more on this site as well.

A: Our neuroscientist and colleage Dr. Trejo had a successful experience with exploratory data analysis applied to adult neurogenesis in his work "Involvement of specific adult hippocampal neurogenic subpopulations on behavior acquisition and persistence abilities" (under peer-review so details cannot be provided still).
I would suggest you to contact Dr. Trejo and chat with him. He's truly cooperative so I'm sure he will explain his case with more detail.
The issues they were facing in his lab were two:

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*Their data only showed "trends" about their original hypothesis on the relationship between neural structure and learning-memory processes.

*They spent weeks manually looking for relevant correlations with classical statistical packages.
(Automated) Exploratory data analysis helped them to found some hints on were could be the key variables involving the relationship. Of course, a further confirmatory work was done then.

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Trust in science, and in vaccines, is our only way out of this
As nurses, we believe that any risk posed by the vaccine is far outweighed by the benefits in being protected from COVID-19, Linda Silas writes.
By Linda Silas
Fri., Feb. 5, 2021timer3 min. read
A COVID-free future is within our reach — a future where it's safe to hug again and where our smiles no longer need to be hidden behind a mask. To get there, we will need a robust vaccination drive. We will need Canadians to roll up their sleeves and get vaccinated. But we will also need to be patient. Immunizing the country won't happen overnight. It will be an incremental process informed by science and one that seeks to immediately stem the loss of life.
Earlier this month, the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions encouraged all health care workers, all essential workers and the general public to receive the vaccine when they become eligible. We also urged governments across Canada to speed up the rollout of the vaccine, especially to those most likely to experience severe illness, such as seniors, Indigenous people and racialized people.
Nurses have also signalled that they are ready and willing to step up and help the government with the vaccine rollout by joining health care teams at vaccination clinics across Canada. While the news of some delays in delivery of the Pfizer vaccine may give us pause, governments must strive to speed up the immunization and rapidly increase the number of clinics where the vaccine is available. This is how we will contain this virus and counter its spread.
What's also been lacking in Canada's vaccine delivery program is evidence-based information. Within this vacuum, misinformation, vaccine myths and mistrust have thrived. Sadly, many Canadians are hesitant to get vaccinated, particularly among marginalized communities who, we recognize, have all too often experienced negative interactions with the medical community.
As nurses, we believe that any risk posed by the vaccine is far outweighed by the benefits in being protected from COVID-19.
As with any other medical treatment, informed consent is required. It's our job, as health professionals, to provide facts — and yes, empathy — when patients express concerns about being vaccinated. Everyone who gets the vaccine must understand the benefits of immunization, as well as any potential risks. All Canadians should be empowered to make an informed decision.
Some individuals have expressed concerns about the record turnaround time for these vaccines. Producing multiple vaccines in less than a year was the result of a momentous global effort, harnessing the ingenuity of a scientific community united in a common objective. Large-scale trials on the efficacy of vaccines involved tens of thousands of participants, including many from diverse backgrounds. The trials resulted in high rates of protection with few or no reported serious adverse events. Despite the compressed timelines, no shortcuts were taken: the same standards were applied to these vaccines as for any other vaccines that have been developed.
In Canada, we know the approval process by Health Canada is safe and effective; their assessment of scientific and clinical evidence is done independently and is known to be stringent. We also know that historically, immunization programs have saved countless lives worldwide. The COVID-19 vaccines approved thus far have the potential to provide much-needed protection against the continued spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus but this will only happen if sufficient numbers choose to be vaccinated.
As Canada's nurses, we want to encourage all those living in Canada to receive the vaccine as soon as they are able. Together, we can contain this virus, end the pandemic and take part in Canada's post-pandemic recovery.
Linda Silas is a nurse and president of the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions, representing nearly 200,000 nurses and student nurses across the country.


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8. The 'War on Terrorism'
We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.
— George W. Bush, Des Moines, Iowa, Aug. 21, 2000
In a speech to a joint session of Congress on September 17th, 2001, Bush announced that America was embarked upon a "War on Terrorism" (in that speech he used the words "terror", "terrorist" and "terrorism" at total of 32 times, and "war" twelve times, so no-one would fail to get the message). But before the U.S. retaliated by bombing Afghanistan day and night for weeks it should first have established exactly who instigated, planned and directed the terrorist attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon. Despite the attempt to blame nineteen Arabs, allegedly the hijackers of the four planes, this was not done. Such evidence, if it were ever produced (and, of course, it will never be produced), must be such as to convince third parties such as the Europeans, and the evidence must be made public (not every last detail, but enough to establish the case). Insiders such as the U.S. President, the British Prime Minister and the NATO Secretary-General declaring themselves "convinced" is insufficient. Such declarations will fool some people, but these officials are literally warmongers and will do anything to justify their waging of war, including lying to the public about the convincingness of the alleged evidence. Only when convincing evidence has been made public, and the identity of the attackers established, would it be possible to declare "war" without misuse of language. Until then the "War on Terrorism" will be a propaganda campaign like the "War on Drugs" — a way of disguising the true aims and motivations of those waging this "war", which in this case is that age-old motivation: territorial and economic conquest.
But, of course, the U.S. government will never reveal who exactly planned and directed these attacks, firstly because it was an inside job, and secondly because blame must be laid upon "Arab terrorists" in order to "justify" the "War on Terrorism" and the military assaults upon Arab countries (recently and, as the U.S. and Britain plan at least, for years to come; indeed, in the words of one Pentagon official, possibly "for the rest of our lives").
The "War on Terrorism" has three major components:
(1) A propaganda war waged firstly against the American people and secondly against the rest of the people on this planet who have access to TV and newspapers.
(2) A large increase in the powers of surveillance and control exercised by the U.S. federal government over U.S. citizens and residents and in the ability of the government to impose censorship.
(3) The use of American military force (with help mainly from the British), to whatever extent necessary, to gain control of the oil reserves of the Caspian Basin, the mineral wealth of Central Asia and whatever other economic resources in other parts of Asia that the U.S. wishes to control.
The purpose of (1) is to disguise the true nature of (3) by presenting it as the use of military force to protect Americans against future terrorist attacks. The purpose of (2) is to stifle any protest and dissent from those Americans who are not fooled by (1) and who object to (3). Bush, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft & Co. know from the 1960s demonstrations against the Vietnam War that domestic opposition to military aggression abroad can bring that aggression to an end, and they wish to make sure in advance that the same thing will not happen this time.
The American government says that America is "at war" (as if that justifies anything the government wishes to do). But a war requires an identifiable enemy. A war is a war between two or more opposing sides. A "war" in which one side is invisible is a fantasy — a pretext to restrict civil liberties, to impose censorship and to deny rights guaranteed to American citizens under the U.S. Constitution. It is a tool psychological operations directed against both domestic and foreign populations, for deceiving the American people and others and persuading them to submit willingly to violations of their human rights. (Though one might say that if they do submit then they deserve the enslavement that will come to them.) And in this case, as noted above, the purpose is to suppress any domestic opposition to U.S. military action abroad. And at home; remember that the U.S. military has been used against American citizens before — at Waco.
What is too shocking for many Americans to contemplate is that the terrorist attacks, from which the people of the U.S. are supposed to be protected by the "War on Terrorism", are themselves part of the propaganda war. In order to "justify" to the American people the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan and the deaths of Afghan civilians, the violent overthrow of the (admittedly reprehensible) Taleban government, the deployment of U.S. ground troops to sieze territory in Afghanistan and in other countries, and the use of whatever weapons of death the Pentagon plans to use (including "low yield" nuclear weapons), the U.S. must present its actions as being morally good and noble (as in World War II), specifically, as motivated by the desire to protect decent, innocent American citizens from the evil of terrorist attacks.
Thus the American people are presented with staged photo ops such as that of the firemen raising the American flag (this was filmed by the NYPD video team), which most people would (subconsciously at least) associate with the raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima in World War II in the noble fight against the evil fascist forces of Imperialist Japan.
Without terrorist attacks there is no justification for the military action, so terrorist attacks there must be (or at least, the perpetual fear of such). The attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon were the first (unless we count the Waco Massacre and the Oklahoma City Bombing), brought to you by those people who are directing the propaganda campaign and, indeed, scripting this entire "War on Terrorism". And (as the CIA informed members of Congress in early October 2001) it is certain that there will be more terrorist attacks (how did they know?) — most of them far less spectacular than the destruction of the Twin Towers, but sufficient (such as the controlled release of anthrax bacteria, probably by the CIA itself) to induce in the American public a state of constant fear — made worse by their not knowing who is really behind these attacks.
Does the WTC attack feel like a movie? It does? Well of course it does! It has been specifically written as a movie script. ... This entire sequence of: hijack; first plane; second plane; Pentagon ;WTC collapse; phone calls from the planes; copy of the Koran; more attempted hijackings; arrests; plucky passengers; etc., etc., has been scripted by a crew of cynical planners who could care less that REAL people died in the Twin Towers. — Tall Tales of the Wag Movie
In March 2002 U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney toured the Middle East trying to drum up Arab support for a second American-led war against Iraq. He was politely informed by Arab leaders to crawl back into his hole. So the Bush administration now needs another Big Catastrophe on American soil to justify the war they want to wage against Iraq.
I think that the prospects of a future [terrorist] attack on the U.S. are almost a certainty. — Dick Cheney, speaking on Fox News, 2002-05-19
And just in time for the mid-term Congressional elections we were presented with the 2002-10-12 terrorist bombing at Kuta in Bali. It seems likely that this was the work of the same people who carried out the attacks of September 11th. It was a psychological operation directed mainly against the people of Australia, most of whom were opposed to their government's shameful support of America's plans to wage war on Iraq. For a fuller consideration of this matter see:
The Meaning of the Kuta Bombing
Look for something like a low-yield nuclear explosion in the vicinity of Washington D.C. (downwind from the White House and far enough away from Langley that the spooks won't have to evacuate), sufficient to scare the congresscritters into going into the underground bunkers that have been prepared for them, after which America will be entirely in the hands of George W. Bush's "shadow government".
Or perhaps a chemical and/or biological "terrorist attack" on Washington and New York which will kill thousands of people, including a large number of congresscritters (George W. Bush and his cronies will, of course, conveniently be out of town), a number large enough that the legislative branch of the U.S. government is no longer functional, allowing Bush to declare a state of national emergency, implement the proposed Patriot II legislation by presidential decree, and cancel the 2004 election.
Wars end when one of the opposing sides is beaten into submission and can no longer fight. But if one side is invisible then the war can never end, because there is no way to know that the opposing side has been defeated. Indeed, if the American people begin to believe that perhaps the "terrorist threat" has begun to recede you can be sure that another "terrorist attack" will occur, courtesy of those scripting the "War on Terrorism", which will return them to their former state of fear and dread, which is just where the perpetrators want them to be. The "enemy" will remain an invisible, diabolical presence, unseen except for its evil effects when "the terrorists" attack again. The American people have entered what may be a long, drawn-out, nightmare, in which nothing will be what it seems. It is The Towering Inferno, Armageddon and The X-Files suddenly emerging into daily life.
The "War on Terrorism" is the psy-war successor to the "War on Drugs". It has been clear to almost everyone for quite some time that the "War on Drugs" is totally discredited, and those who are informed know that it is basically a component in a huge and long-running scam whereby the U.S. government finances its covert operations and (in part) its military by means of its profits from its international drug trafficking (see Prohibition: The So-Called War on Drugs for details). It became clear to the U.S. government, especially in view of the tolerance and regulation of drug use adopted in recent years in many European countries, that it can no longer maintain its "War on Drugs" with any degree of credibility. Thus the people of the U.S. had to be hoodwinked into supporting a new "War", and the bogeyman of "militant Arab fundamentalists" (helped greatly by a Zionist-dominated mainstream media and terrorist attacks on the WTC in 1993, probably provoked by the FBI, and on US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, in which US Army explosives had reportedly been used) provided a useful target.
This "War on Terrorism", like the "War on Drugs", will involve the usual propaganda techniques such as lies, deception, misrepresentation of opposition viewpoints, disinformation, fake opposition and media emphasis on what is irrelevant (for example, that Mohammed Atta may have contacted an Iraqi intelligence agent in Prague — of only minor interest since there were no on-board hijackers and he and the other Arabs on board were set up to take the blame). The propaganda campaign will continue until the instigators and scripters of this "War" believe they have finally gained domination over all countries and have attained control of the entire planet and all its economic resources — or until they themselves have been defeated.
In June 2004 there appeared a very perceptive article concerning the "War on Terror":
The war on terror is the new strategy for elite domination of US society. It is their desperately-needed successor to the Cold War, which for fifty years legitimized government power and Pentagon budgets and held people in thrall to Mutually Assured Destruction. The war on terror is intended to strike fear in the hearts of Americans, so that they sacrifice liberty for security and mobilize behind their leaders to smite the foe wherever and whomever he may be. It is meant to justify the far-flung bases of Empire and to make Americans eager to sacrifice their sons and daughters and treasure in the noble cause. It is meant to turn an alienated and ever more unequal and undemocratic society towards unthinking, patriotic zeal. Most of all, it is meant to focus on carefully-selected foreign enemies the anger and revolutionary solidarity which should be focused on the enemies of democracy and peace here at home. — Dave Stratman, Beware the Liberal War on Terror
See also this April 2014 article on the Boston Marathon Bombing:
The Boston Marathon Bombing (BMB) appears to be the usual alarmist message from the likes of the FBI and CIA to remind us that Islamic terrorists are still lurking in the shadows and that we need to keep spending hundreds of billions of dollars and give up further civil liberties and privacy so the US national security apparatus can "keep us safe". ... The US public should not expect truth or transparency regarding the BMB from the intelligence agencies or its congressional overseers or the MSM gatekeepers. It is in their best interest, and in the best interest of their cronies, to implicate an Islamic extremist in the BMB in order to help perpetuate the extremely costly and highly questionable "war on terror". — Keith Maart, The Boston Marathon Bombing One Year Later: A Detailed Look at the Vast Failures, Falsehoods and Cover-ups of the FBI and CIA


An easy and healthy recipe for whole wheat oatmeal pancakes. Make a big batch, freeze, then reheat for busy mornings!
It's the 21st of the month folks! So that means I'm sharing another Recipe Redux recipe. I decided to make whole grain oatmeal pancakes because it fits this month's recipe theme perfectly: fantastic freezer meals. There's just something about making and freezing a big batch of pancakes that makes me feel like an accomplished cook. And Mom. And registered dietitian. Mainly because I know when the Serbinski crew wakes up, I can present them with homemade, whole wheat pancakes in minutes!
Like most parents, the idea of making homemade pancakes in the morning is a nice idea. But it's just that. An idea. Mornings— whether you are getting kids ready for school or childcare or just balancing the chaos that comes when the whole family wakes up— can be stressful. So I like to make a batch of these on Saturday or Sunday, and freeze for the week ahead.
To freeze the pancakes, place a sheet of wax paper between each pancake and stack together. Then wrap the stack of pancakes tightly in aluminum foil or place inside a heavy-duty freezer bag and freeze. While I typically use a batch within a few weeks, they usually keep for about 3 months in your freezer. To reheat, place a frozen pancake on a microwave safe plate [uncovered] and microwave on high for about one minute. You can also reheat the pancakes your toaster for a few minutes.
Step 1 for freezing includes cooled pancakes + parchment paper!
Step 2 for freezing includes aluminum foil! How easy is this?!
So when you want to make breakfast from scratch but have little time to do so, make a batch of these whole grain banana oatmeal pancakes. Freezing and reheating them makes life SO much easier!
Add all ingredients to a medium sized bowl. Mix until combined.
Heat skillet over medium heat. If skillet is not non-stick, use oil or butter to grease to prevent batter from sticking.
Pour batter [1/4 cup per pancake] into skillet and cook about 2-3 minutes each side. Coat skillet again with nonstick spray for each pancake or batch of pancakes.
What's great about these whole grain oatmeal pancakes is that they are not just a breakfast food IMO. They make a hearty lunch or dinner too! They are simply delicious served with fresh fruit, yogurt, and a glass of milk [and bacon, Ted had me throw that one in there].
Be sure to check out other fantastic freezer meals from fellow Recipe Reduxer's. And if you have the time, check out my Pinterest board dedicated especially for freezer meals.
I'm a huge fan of pancakes reheated in the toaster. It helps them to come out nice and crispy in their texture. I typically will take pancakes and dip in PB-greek yogurt for a healthy snack or quick breakfast!
I've never reheated in the toaster. Trying that!
Sounds like we both enjoy freezing whole grain pancakes! Looks yummy!
I love heaving freezer meals at the ready when it comes time for breakfast. These pancakes look simple and healthy. Definitely giving these a shot.
I'd love to hear what other freezer breakfasts you make!
Such a great idea, Katie. Makes it easy for kids to pull them out and pop them in the toaster before school.
Yes! They can definitely help with this breakfast!
I'm all about freezer pancakes – in fact, it's really the only recipe I make ahead and freezer! Great for dinner too – want to try your oatmeal version – yum!
Pancakes are one of my favorite freezer friendly meals.
I love these! Freezer pancakes are a great idea – it does make me feel more accomplished because I know they were homemade and not the store bought kind full of who knows what. I never thought to wrap them in tin foil before, though. I think that will help prevent any freezer burn – thanks for the recipe and tips!
I've found its the only way I can do it without freezer burn!
I can't seem to get this recipe to work. I've tried three times now and even tried using a blender but it comes out as a dough instead of a batter. I had to add milk to make it work.
Any thoughts as to why this keeps happening?
Jen— it's because I forgot to add milk to my recipe ingredient list!!!!!!!!!! Oh my gosh. Talk about a sleep deprived Mom. Thanks for catching that. I'll update when I'm at my computer tonight!
And I use about 1-1.5 cups milk!
Is it possible to not use a banana? Would it make a big difference? Thanks!
I have been looking for a whole wheat recipes for a while now! I'm so glad that I came across this article! Wheat is an important part of my husband's diet as he is recovering from diarrhoea. Thanks for sharing!


I just want to bring it to your attention. I have installed the Latin spell checker but everytime I run a spell check on Latin text or a file that is all in Latin just like the Latin-rtf.rtf file from your website, I get an error message about my custom dictionary?
I have attached the picture of the error message for you to see exactly what is happening. I have tried navigating to the folders where the error is pointing that my custom.dic file is missing but it is actually there. I am not sure why the Latin spell checker triggers this message that the custom.dic file does not exist.
When spell checking other documents in other languages it is fine. The problem only happens when spell checking in Latin. This error only happens after the spell checker software was installed.
Dernière édition par drouizig le ven. juin 22, 2007 6:06 am, édité 2 fois.
Yes indeed It is important (mandatory I would even say) that you set correctly the user dictionary. Most of the feedback we get about COL concerns this feature. BTW, did you install the new version (COL2.0) ?
a screenshot of a good configuration. We use a French MS Word, we guess it won't be a problem to you.
Dernière édition par drouizig le ven. juin 22, 2007 6:07 am, édité 1 fois.
Thanks for your reply. I see what you have configured in MS Word where you have changed your dictionary and selected Latin.dic.
But I do not have a Latin.dic file in the Microsoft directories. I have other languages on the list that I could check but Latin is not one of them.
I don't know what version of COL I am using. I checked the download and installation but it did not tell me anywhere.
Do I have to manually create the Latin.dic file? Or should that have been installed automatically? Maybe I have installed the older version. Where can I download the newer one, 2.0? Maybe that would fix it and create the .dic file. The one I installed only has the .lex file.
You need to create it but from the MS Word interface only (don't create it by hand from the Windows Explorer or from Notepad or whatever).
There should be a button "New" in the MS Word "user dictionaries config box". Just add "latin.dic" as file name and click OK : a right file, in terms of format will be created.
Once the file has been created, it is also very important to select "Latin" as the language type of the file. You can do this from the config box too.
IMHO, it is much more clean to have one personal dictionary per language.
Other languages use UNICODE (extended characters).
Yes ! that worked! I initially thought of copy and pasting the custom.dic file through Windows Explorer and just renaming it to Latin.dic but I am glad you warned me about that.
I have to add the Latin.doc in Spelling and Grammar options and MS Word creates the format of it automatically. But after that it did not work, I still get the same message. So I went back in to the same window and modify Latin.dic and set the Language to Latin. That still did not work. When I unchecked custom.dic and made sure Latin.dic is the only option selected on the list, then that worked.
Thanks again. Hope unchecking the custom.dic would not affect other Microsoft Office applications when it comes to spell checking.
BUT you may have to change this .dic selection if you want to add unrecognized words of any other language you spell check, to the right .dic file.
I always do this between Latin, French, English, Breton and recently the Occitan spell checker!


Where can an accused criminal with all the evidence stacked against him turn for help? "I Hear Your Voice," also known as "I Can Hear Your Voice" is a 2013 South Korean drama series directed by Jo Soo Won. The legal drama centers around Jang Hye Seong (Lee Bo Yeong), a brazen, sharp-tongued female attorney who says everything that comes to her mind with no filter. When she gets to the point in her career where it's hard to muster up any enthusiasm for her work, she teams up with the serious Cha Kwan Woo (Yoon Sang Hyun), a passionate public defender, and Park Soo Ha (Lee Jong Suk), a 19-year-old with a special ability to hear people's inner thoughts. Together, they also must face a killer with a personal vendetta that entwines all of their lives.


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Neos collects $15.5M from private investors to bring ADHD extended-release option to market
by Michael Gibney |
Mar 5, 2014 7:55am
Texas oral drug delivery specialist Neos Therapeutics pulled in $15.5 million in a Series C round of financing to help propel its line of ADHD controlled-release treatments to the market.
Neos' time-release ion masking technology allows for the controlled dosing of already-approved APIs that the company says is ideal for both pediatric and geriatric patients. For children with ADHD in particular, CEO Vipin Garg told FierceDrugDelivery, the slow release of drugs throughout the day offers greater parental control and ease of administration.
With three generic ADHD treatments in the pipeline, the company is on the lookout for potential partners down the road. Garg, who joined the company late last year, said the Series C from existing investors would help get them there.
The ionic masking delivery technology uses an ion resin that allows for a liquid suspension with a highly controlled or delayed release, Neos' chief technology officer, Mark Tengler, told FierceDrugDelivery.
"This tech is ion resin-based, so we take a small-molecule ionic API that is safe and effective and bind it to the ion resin, then coat it for controlled release," Tengler said. "As soon as you swallow it, the ions cross the membrane at a rate-determining step."
With this type of delivery tech, there are several options to create complex treatments, including drugs that release one drug immediately, Tengler said, and then release another for an extended period of time. In terms of an ADHD treatment, Garg said this is particularly attractive and patient-friendly. The drug, which must be dosed at home and not at school, gives a child full coverage throughout the day, giving parents control over the dosing.
But Neos met with some trouble in April 2013 as biotech giant Shire ($SHPG) sued the company in Texas federal court over Shire's patents for the ADHD drug Adderall, according to an article from Law360 at the time. It's not the first time Shire has made this move to save its patents, and the Irish company has been accused in the past of using settlements to keep generics off the market.
But Neos is moving forward with its NDAs in hopes of reaching commercialization within the next two years.
"We're looking to explore every option, and a partnership at this point is very attractive," Garg said. "There's been significant demand from pharma, and multiple companies have shown interest. We hope to move these programs forward and explore every opportunity in less than 24 months."
Early last year, Pfizer ($PFE) launched its own version of a once-daily ADHD treatment, which was the first on the market.
- here's the release