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6 Thoughts People With OCD Have—According to Women Diagnosed With This Mental Health Condition
"I'm doing these things; I can't stop doing them; I realize they're irrational."
By Karen Pallarito
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is sheer anguish for those who struggle with it. Vexing thoughts or images—things that are distressing or sexual in nature, for instance—are a hallmark of OCD. To counteract their anxious feelings, people with this mental health diagnosis may feel compelled to perform certain behaviors over and over, such as extreme handwashing, or mental rituals, like excessive counting.
Yet people who don't know any better sometimes make light of OCD, equating it with perfectionistic personality traits. It's true that some people with OCD have persnickety habits, like the freakishly neat Monica Geller played by Courteney Cox on Friends. But life with OCD is much more complex than stereotypes make it out to be.
As many as 2 to 3 million U.S. adults and half a million kids are living with this disorder, according to the International OCD Foundation. Symptoms can subside or go into remission with treatment. But it takes courage to confront one's obsessions and compulsions and "break the cycle," asserts Anne, one of three women with OCD who agreed to share intimate details of the specific thoughts and compulsions they live with. "For those of us who have it," she says, "it's not a joke."
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"I had these terrifying thoughts of taking a bag and, ugh, holding it over my son's head"
Anne began struggling with cycles of anxiety and depression in 2004. When a licensed clinical social worker mentioned OCD in passing, the now 38-year-old dismissed the idea, believing you had to be fastidiously clean (which she assures me she is not) to meet the diagnosis.
Then her thoughts turned grim (and I can hear the angst in her voice as she reflects on the horror of it all). She'd see scissors or a knife and think of stabbing her toddler. She'd see the atrium at her workplace and imagine herself taking a leap to her death.
She enlisted friends at work and family at home to sit with her so she would never be alone. "That was my compulsion," she explains. "If I had somebody with me who was normal, then they would stop me from doing anything abnormal."
I sometimes find myself "getting reassurance to the point of ridiculousness"
Terrifying, intrusive thoughts no longer haunt Anne, who sees a clinical psychologist specializing in OCD. But she still has a habit of seeking reassurance, a common trait among people with OCD.
The Connecticut mom realizes she shouldn't have to call others to decide how many rolls to buy for a large family dinner. But she is compelled to gather their opinions because what if people really like rolls, or different types of rolls?
"If I can't find somebody to talk to," she explains, "I'll end up doing a compulsive buy." This past Thanksgiving, she purchased 100 rolls for 37 people.
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"I'm doing these things; I can't stop doing them; I realize they're irrational"
Laura, a 35-year-old alcohol and substance use recovery blogger, says her compulsions are mostly mental: She repeats phrases or sentences in her head. (When I asked for an example, her voice rose in pitch, as if she were panicked, telling me that reciting them aloud might trigger an OCD episode.) But she did recall one vivid event from her adolescence.
"My brother noticed me knocking on my head, because in my head I was saying, 'knock on wood,' and he was wondering why I did it," she recounts. To stop her, he sat on her hands. "It was just excruciating," says Laura, "because I felt this compulsion, this need to do it."
"I couldn't stop the brain loop, sort of like a broken record"
It was during a college psych course that the pieces of Laura's life—intrusive sexual thoughts that made her feel ashamed, plus other obsessions and compulsions over the years—instantly fit together. She was relieved to attribute her symptoms to a chemical imbalance, not "a moral failing."
Actually, researchers have yet to pinpoint the cause of OCD. But risk factors include genetics, physical or sexual abuse in childhood, and differences in brain structure and function. A recent review of studies involving brain scans of people with OCD suggests a brain circuitry problem may be to blame for repetitive behaviors.
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"I'll find myself pushing down the faucet even though no water is coming out"
Laura is a compulsive checker of door locks, ovens, and faucets. Repeatedly checking on things is something some folks with OCD do to ease the fear and stress of perceived harms to themselves or others.
"I'll watch myself turn off heat from cooking or making a pot of tea, but then sometimes I'll still stare at it—like, ensure that it's off," says Laura.
"I'll spend hours in bed before my brain will let me sleep"
By all outward appearances, 33-year-old Diana is a supermom. She's the one who bakes the prettiest cakes and plans for every contingency. Before a Yellowstone vacation, she assembled kits containing just-in-case supplies for her immediate family members and others going on a hike.
The truth is that Diana strives to do her best, but not because she's trying to one up anyone. Her obsessions are related to perfectionism. Every night, she scours Pinterest articles for ideas on how to be more tidy and organized. "I'll spend hours in bed (seeking tips and making lists) before my brain will let me sleep," she confesses.
And that family vacation? At one point she was physically ill because she couldn't give herself permission to relax.
"I'm so overwhelmed, but I need to clean my bathroom"
Diana feels compelled to clean house. But it's not easy for her, and the more she has on her plate, the less she'll get done. When things get cluttered, she'll lose focus. Paperwork is her nemesis because she can't decide on a system for handling it.
The one thing she's driven to do each day is wipe down and disinfect each of the four toilets in her three-story home. "Even when I'm sick, if I don't do anything else that day, my bathrooms will be clean."
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Kurow's sole-charge police officer is on the move.
Senior Constable Steve Baddock (45) and his family leave this week for Pahiatua, where he has accepted a promotion to sergeant.
Snr Const Baddock will be officer in charge of the Pahiatua police station, responsible for 11 staff, including the out-stations of Woodville and Eketahuna.
Snr Const Baddock joined the police after 10 years in the forest service.
He spent three years in Upper Hutt and six in Oamaru before moving to Kurow eight years ago.
Kurow had been a good place to work and live, with a community that looked after each other, and it was a hard decision to leave, he said.
He had worked with the community and, together, they had been able to "hammer" crime - crime was now at its lowest levels since he had been there, he said.
Snr Const Baddock said he had previously relieved in the Waitaki Valley while working in Oamaru, and the Kurow position appealed to him.
He had also enjoyed fishing and golfing in the area.
The best part of the job was working with the community.
Being sole charge meant he was dependent on help from local people.
The most unusual incident he had attended was in 2004, when a couple and a dog survived a 21m fall over the Waitaki dam.
The couple said later they had cruised down the lake early that morning to see the dawn from the dam but their boat slammed into the dam, bouncing over the top and plunging into the Waitaki River below, narrowly missing a concrete spillway.
It was believed to be the first time anyone had gone over the top of the dam since it was built in the 1930s.
That also doubled as one of the luckiest things he had seen as it could easily have been a double fatality.
Snr Const Baddock's last day at work in Kurow will be Friday and he will start his new job on December 22.
Unlike the Waitaki Valley, where the population swells with holidaymakers over the Christmas-New Year period, it was a quiet time in Pahiatua, he said.
The position in Kurow has been advertised, along with the sole charge position in Omarama.


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Erik Falkenburg (born 5 May 1988) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder.

Club career
Born in Leiden, he came through the youth system at and made his professional debut for Sparta Rotterdam on 23 January 2008 against PSV. At Sparta he played alongside future international players Kevin Strootman and Nick Viergever. He and Viergever left the club for AZ in 2010. Not a regular starter at AZ, he joined NEC on loan in January 2013 and he was sent on loan the next season to Go Ahead Eagles.

After his contract with AZ expired in summer 2014, Falkenburg moved to NAC, who surprisingly beat Cambuur, Go Ahead and Willem II for his signature despite being in financial trouble. He did join Willem II however the next season after NAC was relegated to the Eerste Divisie. The attacking midfielder changed clubs once more, when he teamed up with ADO Den Haag in 2017.

On 10 September 2020, Falkenburg signed a one-year contract with Roda JC Kerkrade in the Eerste Divisie. He left the club as his contract expired in July 2021.

International career
Falkenburg played three matches for the Netherlands U-21s in 2009 and 2010, scoring three goals.

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External links

 Voetbal International profile

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Chancellor Annouces Measures Aimed at Tackling Late Payment
Firms will be Forced to Report on Payment Practices
Small businesses have welcomed this year's Spring statement from the Chancellor in which he announced measures aimed at tackling late payments.
"I announced a year ago that we would take definitive action to tackle the scourge of late payments for our small businesses. A full response to last year's call for evidence will be published shortly, but I can announce today that as a first step we will require company Audit Committees to review payment practices, and report on them in their Annual Accounts. My RHF the Business Secretary will announce further details in due course. "
The regulations will force companies to name and shame themselves, publishing information on how often they pay their bills on time. In this way, the Chancellor hopes to persuade businesses to improve payment performance. There is also a requirement that businesses name a non-executive director with responsiblity which should make it easier to hold companies to account on their payment performance.
The Federation of Small Business (FSB), says that four in five small businesses are routinely paid late, and that the typical SME is owed £6,142 in overdue payments. FSB claims that as many as 50,000 firms go out of business each because of problems related to late payments. Mike Cherry, national chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses seemed delighted with the announcement:
"The end of late payments could finally be in sight. It can't come soon enough, to bolster small businesses at a time when they are in great need of support and a lift in confidence. "
However, Samanta White, CEO of My Credit Controllers urged caution:
"This year we have seen more and more large companies unilaterally impose longer payment terms on their smaller suppliers. By redefining what 'late' means, large companies can still take a long time to pay suppliers and claim that all payments are made on time. Also, large companies (those with a turnover greater than £36m) have had to report on their payment practices since November 2017, with little sign that this is having an impact on behaviour. Our own analysis reveals that many large companies take far longer than best practice 30 days to pay suppliers. "
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Seeing in the Dark came at a time when the BBC commissioned experimental studio plays from adventurous writers like Alan Drury, here interrogating the human psyche with a dramatised stream of consciousness delivered in part by interior monologue.
Produced by George Faber and shot entirely in studio, its interiors conveyed the claustrophobia and vulnerability of a London basement flat, complete with the damp stairwell outside. The piece plays on a fear of invasion and the terror of blindness in a creative writer dependent on his eyes for his precarious living, in a 1980's consumerised society where graduate friends are riding the yuppie gravy train.
Ilona Sekacz composed the disturbing musique concrète, complemented by a whisper track of inner confusion. Led by the young David Threlfall, already a star, the cast also featured Sylvestra Le Touzel as his long-suffering girlfriend, while Maurice Denham, fresh from Jones's recent Trial of Klaus Barbie, delivered the terrifying demiurge Mr Letchworth with steely unapology.
Seeing in the Dark was previewed at the Cannes FIPA of 1989, where it was met with polite bafflement, probably due to its remorseless pessimism and hermetic tone. This was not TV as anyone knew it. The wave of disapproval led to Jones quitting his then agent and de facto the BBC. It was, though, the production on which Jones and Howe first met. The rest is history.


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Canada's new air passenger screening system singled out 2,300 travellers in three months
Canada Border Services Agency says the travellers — flagged for possible links to terrorism or serious crime — represented a tiny fraction of the millions who flew into the country
Chris Young / Canadian Press
OTTAWA — Canada's new security system for scrutinizing people who arrive by airplane singled out more than 2,300 passengers for closer examination during a recent three-month period, the federal border agency says.
The Canada Border Services Agency says the travellers — flagged for possible links to terrorism or serious crime — represented a tiny fraction of the millions who flew into the country.
Still, privacy and civil liberties watchdogs want to know more about the border agency's so-called scenario-based targeting system to ensure individual rights are not being trampled.
The agency has implemented the targeting system, already used by the United States, as part of Canada's commitment to co-operate with Washington under the 2011 continental security pact known as the Beyond the Border initiative.
Commercial airlines are legally bound to provide Canada's border agency with specific information about passengers flying to Canada, including name, birthdate, citizenship, seat number and other details.
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The border agency has long used the information to assess people for risk, allowing officials to zero in on those with high scores for additional attention upon landing.
The new scenario-based scheme uses elaborate number-crunching, or Big Data analytics, to reveal patterns in the information provided by air carriers — a method the border agency considers more efficient and accurate.
Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien is pressing the border agency to explain the program's rationale and build in safeguards to protect individual liberties. Travellers may be targeted if they fit the general attributes of a group due to traits they cannot change such as age, gender, nationality, birthplace, or racial or ethnic origin, he warns.
In his recently released annual report, Therrien said "it could allow the operator to, for example, search for all males aged between the ages of 18-20 who are Egyptian nationals and who have visited both Paris and New York."
The border agency declined to make anyone available to discuss the project. In written answers to questions, the agency said scenarios are "a generic set of indicators" that flow from analysis of intelligence, enforcement, trends and other information to identify passengers who "may pose a higher risk" due to concerns about national security, smuggling of contraband such as drugs, or illicit migration.
When a person matches a scenario, a targeting officer conducts a review of the case to confirm or dismiss the risk. "If the risk is confirmed, a target is issued for the person to be intercepted upon arrival at the port of entry," the border agency said.
During the first quarter of 2015-16, 2,350 air travellers were targeted, representing 0.3 per cent of the more than 7.5 million people flying into Canada, according to border agency figures.
The agency regularly conducts reviews of the scenarios to ensure their "effectiveness and proportionality," the agency added.
Canadians don't know enough about the criteria being used, said Monia Mazigh, national co-ordinator of the Ottawa-based International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group. "Why do we need to do it?"
Mazigh wonders whether the border agency has scientific studies to show the new techniques will make Canada safer, or if it is simply following in American footsteps.
"It's very important for Canadians to know that."
Therrien's office has urged the border agency to be more transparent by fleshing out descriptions of the kinds of scenarios that might be used to identify potentially high-risk travellers.
Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale, the cabinet member responsible for the border agency, said in a recent interview that Therrien's concerns would be factored into a coming review of anti-terrorism legislation and related security issues.
"We take his arguments very seriously, and he will be one person among many that we consult very closely to make sure that we are getting all of the provisions here correct."
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Japanese monkeys caught on camera
Wednesday, 17th March 2010
A wildlife photographer has captured a group of monkeys playing in the snow in the mountains of Japan.
Pictures published in the Daily Mail showed a group of macaque monkeys taken by amateur snapper Masashi Mochida who took the pictures during a break to the Nagano province of Japan this winter.
One of the monkeys appears to be making a snowball to throw at another animal.
He referred to the animals as "funky monkeys" and noted that many Japanese people also love to watch the monkeys play like he does.
"When I watch them I think they look a lot like children playing and it amazes me how they are so similar to us," Mr Mochida said.
The pictures were taken at Jigokudani Monkey Park in central Japan, which opened in 1964 and is covered by snow for much of the year.
Visitors to Japan can head to the monkey park to watch the famous snow monkeys in their natural habitat, which has an average temperature of minus 10 degrees Celsius.
Written by Kimberley Homer.


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Finland national church strong on environment
by Rajan Zed
Hindus have praised The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland for coming out with a "climate program" focused on "gratitude, respect and moderation".
Acclaimed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, applauded Archbishop Dr. Jukka Paarma's powerful stand in this regard: "All the good that we have received from God we want to pass on to future generations."
Zed, who is president of Universal Society of Hinduism, also commended Finnish national church's idea of transferring energy needs of its older properties spread throughout Finland to renewable energy sources and relaying the message of climate change in kindergartens and confirmation classes.
Faiths coming out in support of the environment was a remarkable signal, Rajan Zed said and urged all world religious leaders, religions and denominations to openly bless the environmental causes. Ancient Hindu scriptures, especially Atharva-Veda, were highly respectful of mother nature, he added.
We may believe in different religions, yet we share the same home—our Earth. We must learn to happily progress or miserably perish together. For man can live individually but can only survive collectively, Zed says quoting scriptures.
Christianity came to Finland in ninth century AD and now about 80% of Finns are members of The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, totaling about 4.4 million. The church consists of nine dioceses and 517 parishes.
Hinduism, oldest and third largest religion of the world, has about one billion adherents and moksha (liberation) is its ultimate goal.
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As you may know, last month we made a Kickstarter to help us set up a new and much needed creative hub in Partick for us and fellow creative practitioners to base events. We are delighted to announce that we reached our target of £1,000!
Work has begun on renovating a space on Rosevale Street and we expect it to be opening at the end of October. It's a really exciting opportunity for us to not only expand what we can do with Drawing Life but also welcome new collaborators. We recently worked with Print Clan at one of our Tuesday sessions at FIKA with amazing results and can't wait to have them back.
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Q: If statement to choose a value Hi I have the following code:
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But it doesn't do what I expect it to do. The code works though. Say for example if Numcolyo=4 then I want the first statement to be true: StartPoint.y = BuWidth / 2 + ccFacoy
If Numcolyo=3 then I want the second statement to be true: StartPoint.y = BuWidth / 2
Have I written anything wrong? Thankful for any kind of help :)

A: Don't think there is an EVEN keyword in VBA.  Try it with the modulus operator which returns the remainder of a division operation:
If Numcolyo Mod 2 = 0  Then
    .StartPoint.y = BuWidth / 2 + ccFacoy
Else
    .StartPoint.y = BuWidth / 2
End If

When something divided by 2 has no remainder, it is even.

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Only 24 hours after shutting out Merrimack College in the first game of the Hockey East tournament, Boston College women's hockey suited up for another game against the Warriors in Kelley Rink. BC advanced in the tournament by topping Merrimack in a 1-0 win.
After last night's shutout, the Warriors (11-22-3, 7-18-0 Hockey East) changed up their starting goaltender, replacing Léa-Kristine Demers with Samantha Ridgewell. BC (25-5-5, 17-4-3) came out aggressive again, but the Warriors kept a tighter defense and gained possession of most rebounds off Ridgewell's pads. BC had its first chance at a goal when Andie Anastos skated the puck down the length of the ice and made a pass to Makenna Newkirk. She took a powerful shot on the sophomore goaltender but Ridgewell wasn't keen on letting one in so early. Caitrin Lonergan gained possession of the rebound but still couldn't find a way to push the puck past the goal line.
The Eagles found their second chance in Megan Keller, who received a pass from Anastos. After evading the sticks of multiple defenders, Keller took a risky shot from outside of the circle and the puck narrowly passed under Ridgewell's arm before settling in the back of the net. The remainder of the period was tame, with neither team taking a single penalty. While the Eagles headed into the locker room comfortably ahead of the eighth-seeded Warriors, Merrimack headed off the ice with the same bitter taste of falling behind early into the game.
When the players returned to the ice, Merrimack tried everything in its power to tie up the game. But every time the puck made its way across the blue line with a Merrimack player in tow, there was always a BC stick to block it. The closest the Warriors came all period to scoring a goal was when Burt couldn't catch the puck after making a block. As she reached forward to try to secure the puck in her glove, she left a large gap between herself and the goal. Despite the opportunity to secure a point, the Eagles were there to help cover Burt.
Ten minutes into the second period, Newkirk suddenly keeled over on the ice, unable to get up. During a fight for the puck a Merrimack defender came up behind Newkirk and grabbed her jersey, flinging her to the ground. Instead of sending a player to the box, the referees called icing, and had the women face off as Newkirk skated off the ice. The only penalty of the period was given to BC, as Erin Connolly was whistled for slashing. Despite the player advantage, the Warriors still couldn't find a hole in the BC defense and headed into the locker room behind again.
The Warriors came onto the ice in the same aggressive fashion that they started during the latter half of the second period. Connolly was tripped and sent sailing into the wall early on, but the referees failed to call a penalty. Frustrated by the the possibility of a second shutout, Merrimack was becoming frantic.
Like Connolly, Ryan Little was tripped by a defender's stick and caught between two players after falling to the ice, but again nothing was called. The aggression the Warriors showed caught up to them, with Marie Delarbre getting sent into the box for body checking.
The Eagles couldn't capitalize, and when the game returned to full strength, the Warriors pulled Ridgewell and attain a player advantage. Despite two minutes with an extra player on the ice, the Warriors didn't tie up the game and it ended with another narrow victory for the Eagles.
Head coach Katie Crowley didn't mind the physicality of the second half of the game, and is proud of how her team handled it.


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Culture Change and Continuity in the Eastern Mediterranean during Rapid Climate Change: Assessing the vulnerability of Late Neolithic communities to a "Little Ice Age" in the seventh millennium cal B.C..
In recent years there has been increasing interest in a short interval of abrupt climatic change commonly called the "8.2 ka calBP [Hudson Bay] event". This study aims at a comprehensive review of available palaeoclimate data from the early Holocene and climate perturbations in the 9th to 7th millennium, at increasing awareness of a longer-lived Rapid Climate Change [RCC] interval [8,600-8,000 calBP], its mechanism and repeated occurrence, at developing a complex theoretical approach for assessing the biophysical and social vulnerability of prehistoric communities to RCC and other forms of climate and environmental perturbations, at reviewing all available radiocarbon dates in order to determine which sites or settlement phases coincided with RCC, at applying the developed theoretical approach to the archaeological record, and at promoting climatic change as a significant factor in Neolithic culture diversification and innovation processes and the dispersal of Neolithic lifeways into adjacent regions. In the Levant, the beginning of RCC coincided with the onset of Pottery Neolithic Yarmoukian, its end with younger PN Jericho IX, in Anatolia with the beginnings of Late Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic respectively.


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El terremoto de Lo Mustang de 1505 ocurrió el 6 de junio de 1505 y tuvo una magnitud estimada entre 8,2 y 8,8, lo que lo convierte en uno de los terremotos más grandes en la historia de Nepal. El terremoto mató aproximadamente al 30 por ciento de la población nepalesa en ese momento.El terremoto se localizó en el norte de Nepal, afectó al sur de China y al norte de India.

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Russia's defense industry
Russian hi-tech firm to showcase new noiseless sniper rifle
The company will showcase a whole range of MTs-116M rifle modifications at the Army-2018 arms show
© Valeriy Matytsin/TASS
MOSCOW, May 28. /TASS/. A new Russian 12.7mm quiet sniper rifle derived from the MTs-116M gun will be demonstrated for the first time at the Army-2018 arms exhibition in Kubinka outside Moscow in late August, a representative of the Shipunov Instrument-Making Design Bureau (the rifle's developer) told TASS on Monday.
The company will showcase a whole range of MTs-116M rifle modifications at the Army-2018 arms show, including 7.62x51mm (.308 Winchester), 7.62x67mm (.300 Winchester Magnum) and 8.6x70mm (.338 Lapua Magnum) guns, the representative said.
Advanced Kalashnikov assault rifles go into serial production
More powerful cartridges (with the greater powder charge due to the cartridge's larger size) provide for better trajectory flatness and more accurate shooting, the representative said.
"Considering the high-quality production of barrels, the bullet's deviation is just 13mm per 100m," the representative of the design bureau said.
Besides, the design bureau will demonstrate rifle variants chambered for the 7.62mm subsonic ammunition and 12.7 noiseless cartridges," he said.
All the modifications have retained the stock of the MTs-116 rifle and use the standardized trigger and striking mechanism but have different barrels.
As the design bureau's specialist said, the MTs-116M rifle's quiet large-caliber modification will be intended for Special Forces for their use largely in urban conditions.
Reconnaissance squads in east Russia give Ratnik combat gear the 'deep freeze' test
This new rifle can inconspicuously hit an enemy in good protective gear (a high-class armor vest) at short distances of up to 300m.
The bullet's large caliber (12.7mm) and weight compensate for its low flight speed and low energy and help retain the damaging effect.
As the design bureau's specialist explained, propellant gases emerging from the barrel are the main source of the sound during a shot. In a subsonic cartridge, gases flow out of the barrel at the subsonic speed, correspondingly, which helps use the silencer more effectively to reduce such factors unmasking the shooter as the shot loudness and flame.
In a quiet cartridge, powder gases stay inside the cartridge case and a special piston pushes a bullet into the bore. A rifle with such a cartridge produces neither flame nor shot sound. The only thing that can be heard is the clattering of moving mechanical parts in the breech casing, for example, the breechblock.
MTs-116M rifle
The MTs-116M baseline magazine-type sniper rile is chambered for the standard 7.62x54mm domestic cartridge and is designed for police and anti-terror operations. It has an effective range of 700-800m.
According to open sources, the rifle is produced in small batches and is used by Special Forces of the Interior Ministry, the Defense Ministry and the Federal Security Service. MTs-116 rifles were earlier noticed in Syria: they were used by snipers of Syrian government forces.
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Russia, Belarus to hold Union Resolve 2022 drills on February 10-20 — top brass
The upcoming drills will assess the ability of military command centers and troops to accomplish the tasks of ensuring the military security of the Union State, Oleg Voinov informed
EU top diplomat rules out preventive anti-Russian sanctions
Josep Borrel said that to be prepared to act does not mean to act before it is needed


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Potrero Power Station
Waterfront Revival
We were selected as master planners for this emerging neighborhood because of our reputation for breathing new life into San Francisco's waterfront. The client valued our collaborative work experience with the city and community, as well as our track record for creating resilient maritime destinations.
Our plan includes more than six acres of parks and multiple pedestrian paths, as well as 2,600 mixed-use and mixed-income units. Existing industrial structures will be adapted for public access, entertainment, and business. Most notably, the 130-foot steel Unit 3 Power Station will be converted into a boutique hotel.
Our planning process features quarterly community workshops, monthly site tours, and weekly "developer office hours." It's lauded by the neighborhood and the San Francisco Planning Commission as a model for community engagement and transparency, which in turn allows us to proceed on a two-year schedule—a much faster pace than the typical 10 years it takes for projects of this scale.
Client: Associate Capital
Size: 21 acres
The Stack anchors the neighborhood park and the community's larger footprint.
The site will be bookended by two power stations—one built in 1889, the other in 1964. A 300-foot-tall stack will remain as an icon on the waterfront and a reminder of the new neighborhood's rich history. In a complete turnaround, the site will be transformed from a polluting power plant to a sustainable, resilient neighborhood that embraces wellness.
"The perception of what's out there has really changed from an industrial wasteland where no one wants to be to the next hot neighborhood of San Francisco."
– Lou Vasquez, Build
An urban neighborhood rises.
Accessible waterfront space for an active public.
The process of developing the plan brings more than 2,500 people to the site for food and art festivals, live performances, and temporary light art installations.
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Washington and Lee students want diplomas — without portraits of Washington and Lee on them
Alberto Bufalino - Wake Forest University •December 30, 2019
Some students at Washington and Lee University School of Law want the option of receiving a diploma that does not bear the image of President George Washington or General Robert E. Lee — the institution's two namesakes.
The "Petition to Allow Washington & Lee Students to Opt-Out of Namesakes' Portraits on Diplomas," its authors claim, is a movement led by "both current students and alumni."
"We are not asking for a mandatory change to the diplomas, but rather the option to have a diploma without portraits," the petition states.
Organizers add the idea was sparked from the chaos of the Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally.
"The goal of establishing this option is to create a diploma that alumni are proud to prominently display in their homes and places of work," the petition states. "Given the aftermath of the 2017 Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville and the heightened awareness of making Washington & Lee an inclusive and compassionate environment to all students, we believe this request provides alumni the ability to honor their alma mater without the presence of the portraits that some may find controversial or offensive."
Spokespersons for Washington and Lee University did not respond to The College Fix's requests for comment on the matter.
But in a late-November statement published by Washington and Lee President Will Dudley and law school Dean Brant Hellwig, the two say that they respect the free speech rights of those behind the petition, and punted any decision on the matter to the Board of Trustees, "which has sole authority to confer degrees."
Organizers of the petition also did not respond to requests from The College Fix seeking comment.
According to The Washington Post, the proposal is supported by more than half of the students at the Washington and Lee School of Law, but has also sparked backlash from alumni:
"That debate is deeply felt on the campus of this private university in Lexington, Va.: The school was named for Washington, an early benefactor, and Lee, an influential president of the university, who is buried in a chapel at the heart of campus. A commission examining how history shapes Washington and Lee suggested numerous changes last year but stopped short of recommending renaming the school."
The petition has gained the backing of Rev. Rob W. Lee IV, a descendant of Robert E. Lee, who claims in a Dec. 5 letter that the removal of Washington and Lee will bring about "justice" as he combats the influence of money and those who seek to uphold a traditionalist view of history in the state of Virginia: "You can choose to side with wealth and power, but that is not the side that will ultimately win in our culture that is headed toward justice."
But a group of "concerned" alumni called The Generals Redoubt have come out against the petition's demands.
"The petition is a symptom of strong undercurrents within the University to dismantle the traditions, values and history of Washington and Lee. The removal of the likeness of George Washington and Robert E. Lee, which adorns the offices and homes of many of our alumni is a severe affront to the generous and loyal alumni who respect the character and values of our namesakes," the group states.
As the university's website explains: "Founded in 1749, Washington and Lee University is named for two men who played pivotal roles in the University's history: George Washington, whose generous endowment of $20,000 in 1796 helped the fledgling school (then known as Liberty Hall Academy) survive, and Robert E. Lee, who provided innovative educational leadership during his transformational tenure as president of Washington College from 1865 to 1870."
MORE: High school may erase mural of George Washington: 'traumatizes students'
IMAGE: main, YouTube screenshot; inside, petition screenshot
Alberto Bufalino
Alberto Bufalino is a student at Wake Forest University studying in Politics and International Affairs. On campus he participates for the Wake Forest Review and the Wake Forest College Republicans. He is considering a career in politics and law.


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Many employees believe they have complete privacy while using company computers and company issued equipment such as cell phones and laptops. Those many employees could be wrong. Most companies have policies in place stating they have the right to monitor all communications on company owned equipment. Every word that is said on a company phone could be listened to and every web page downloaded could be viewed by the company. Some companies even have keystroke recording, where they can tell what keys are pressed allowing them to record personal passwords.
At Fresenius Medical Care, there is policy that states any employee is permitted to use company computers before work, after work, and on break times. They have strict policy about the websites an employee can access and have filters in place to block out inappropriate sites. They also do not allow access to any gaming or media streaming sites, such as YouTube (Michael McCann, personal communication, January 15, 2010). Basically, computer use by an employee is limited to checking personal e-mail and for school related purposes. The company has an excellent tuition reimbursement program and many employees are also students. An employee can also access websites for other personal reasons such as checking a bank account or to pay bills.
The policy also states that the company has the right to monitor any computer usage by any employee. They use keystroke recording to document any key that is pressed on all company computers. For managers who have company owned laptops, cell phones, and Blackberries, all their communications are also monitored. Possession of any pornographic or sexually explicit material is grounds for immediate termination (Michael McCann, personal communication, January 15, 2010). There are rules against using company e-mail to distribute chain mail and mass mailings not approved by management. Time spent on the Internet is monitored and excessive use can result in corrective actions (Michael McCann, personal communication, January 15, 2010).


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The CNG way is winning awards that prove that we go above and beyond. And as we go about raising our own game, we hope to set a shining example for the rest of the energy industry.
As the UK's leading customer experience consultancies, Investor in Customers (IIC) spent five weeks to carry out an independent assessment to establish the strength of our customer relationships. The IIC look at how we understand customer needs, deliver products and services that meet those needs, deliver first class service and engender loyalty in customers and staff. We were awarded the Outstanding rank.
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Reaching customers in authentic ways transcends basic customer service. Because of this, earning customer loyalty is sometimes easier said than done. In today's world, people don't trust advertising; they trust what their friends tell them. And they have hundreds of ways to connect with those friends. Living in the age of the customer means gaining their trust and creating positive experiences through two-way interactions that are both meaningful and personal.
Effective contact center programs move from simply providing customer service to providing true customer care. They reinforce a brand's values to create advocates, who in turn share their experiences with friends.
Most companies understand long-term customer retention begins with a relationship. Technology advancements over the past 10 years have streamlined contact centers' processes, which has minimized relationship building. As the recession hit, businesses focused on using technology to increase efficiency, and somewhere along the way companies lost the personality that brings brands to life.
To truly provide customer care, employees need to be empowered to think and act individually in the best interest of that customer and that interaction. Employees who must adhere to strict guidelines and phone scripts sound robotic. However, allowing employees complete freedom in their words and actions is a scary proposition for management. Having customer service associates use brand language—the key terms reflecting the values and vernacular of the company—goes a long way in improving brand reputation in the marketplace. But, you may think, "That sounds more like scripting and less like empowerment." The key is striking a balance between quality control, keywords and efficiency to create more authentic, and less scripted, interactions.
Giving customer care associates the freedom to act within a framework, empowers them to create memorable experiences for customers.
The first step is to provide a framework from which employees base their interactions. You probably already have this in your CRM or case management systems to guide conversations and manage issues. It also should include ways for the associate to extend his or her one-on-one conversation, such as tools that present contact center employees with opportunities to follow up with customers after the call ends in order to extend the positive experience. Lengthening the experience in personable ways conveys several things to the customer.
Hallmark Business Connections has built a powerful customer experience solution to help brands build better relationships with its inbound customers known as Customer Care. Accessible through a web-based interface, Customer Care allows customer service representatives to personalize Hallmark cards with their own words or choose a prewritten message. The cards are "signed" with the associate's name using Hallmark proprietary digital handwriting and are automatically printed, addressed, stamped and mailed. To learn more, visit our Customer Care page or fill out the form below.
Striking a happy medium between complete independence and strict policies permits employees to be individuals while still following company guidelines. It clearly allows associates to not only "service" customers, but to care for them. In doing so, your customer care associates give customers unique, memorable ways to feel good about doing business with you. They will feel compelled to share all those great feelings with others, creating the trusted word-of-mouth advocacy every business desires.


1) How is the Chicago Collaborative different from other efforts to encourage regular ongoing discussions among publishers and librarians?
The Collaborative brings together representatives from STM publisher, editor, and librarian organizations to discuss challenging issues, educational efforts, and recommendations that highlight commonalities and a shared purpose that centers on broad issues of scholarly scientific communication. The specialized subject focus provides a shared background and showcases the spirit of cooperation and collaboration prominent among organizations of STM, editors, and librarians.
2) How will this effort be sustained in the future?
One of the goals of the Chicago Collaborative is to develop sustainable mechanisms for ongoing conversations and actions among STM publisher, editor, and librarian communities that do not follow the traditional buyer/seller models. The Collaborative operates as an enhancement to existing publisher/editor user advisory boards and librarian sponsored forums. Each member organization contributes to the funding needed to hold two meetings per year, including fees for facilities, speakers, meals and administrative support.
3) Why is AAHSL the sponsoring organization of the Collaborative?
AAHSL is the organization which hosted the first planning meeting that led to establishment of the Chicago Collaborative. AAHSL members serve in key positions in academic health centers whose faculty and administrators make choices directly affecting the scholarly scientific communication process. Representatives at the May 22, 2008, planning meeting requested that AAHSL serve as the initial sponsoring organization until a sustainable infrastructure is established.
4) Where can I find Chicago Collaborative documents, statements, recommendations?
Documentation is available on the Chicago Collaborative website under the About and Resources tabs.
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6) Who are the founding organizations of the Chicago Collaborative?
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She's not going to write you a love song, but she is coming to Marquette.
Three-time Grammy-nominee Sara Bareilles will be headlining this year's Marquette Student Government-sponsored Spring Concert, MUSG announced yesterday.
The concert will take place in the Alumni Memorial Union Ballrooms on Friday, April 8 at 7:30 p.m, with doors opening at 6:30 p.m. The tickets go on sale today in the Brooks Lounge at 1 p.m. and cost $15. The general admission tickets are limited to one per person with a valid Marquette ID.
Bareilles is best known for her 2007 hit "Love Song," which earned the number one spot on the Billboard Pop 100.
Originally, the concert was set to take place in the Varsity Theatre. But due to scheduled events during the day and the setup time needed for Bareilles' equipment, the venue was changed to the AMU ballrooms, said David Stockton, coordinator of campus programs.
Student reaction has been varied, but Bridget Bolotin, a sophomore in the College of Business Administration, said she was ecstatic about the news Bareilles will be performing at Marquette.
"Oh my God, she's coming here?!" Bolotin said upon hearing the news.
Andrew Boyd, a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences, wasn't as enthusiastic. He said he had never heard of Bareilles.
Boyd said he believed MUSG has the funding, power and capability to bring in a better-known artist to the college crowd.
Stephanie Fuller, a co-commissioner of the committee in charge of choosing Bareilles and a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences, said the pop performer represents a change of pace from last year's mix-master, Girl Talk.
Kathleen Ward, also a co-commissioner, said she is very excited to see Bareilles perform.
Both Ward and Fuller said Bareilles was chosen because students had expressed interest in seeing her and she also fit their budget, keeping the size of venues available on campus in mind.
With regards to the budget, Stockton said he was not able to disclose Bareilles' compensation yet because the contract has not been signed. He said the figure should be released within the next few weeks.