Chiropractic care is the core treatment at Keyes To Health. In the Province of Ontairo, Chiropractors are indeed Dcotors, that is, Doctors of Chiropractic. The right to use that title is enshried in law. Chiropractors are licensed to diagnose and/or treat musculo-skeletal conditions, from back and neck pain, to arm and leg pain, arthritis, knee, shoulder, hip, elbow and indeed almost any muscular or skeletal condition.
Chiropractic Care is covered by every major health plan, and does not generally require a medical prescription, although please check with your plan. Chiropracic is covered for motor-vehicle accidents and WSIB claims, also with no medical referral.
This website, in addition to being about health and wellness, massage therapy, acupuncture, orthotics and nutrition, is concerned mainly with chiropractic care. There are many topics and issues relating to chiropractic care. Please take your time to navigate the site, and even register as a member (lower left panel) to gain access to the member only section, which has resources on exercise protocols, products and health issues.
If you have questions not addressed in the website, please contact the clinic by phone or email with the link at the bottom of the page and we will be glad to assist you.
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LEOMINSTER -- Sitting in the lobby of HealthAlliance Hospital's Entrance D, Anne LeCuyer shifted uncomfortably, but only for a moment.
"What's really sad is that I blame myself. Did I dress provocatively?" she said, pausing briefly to adjust her sweater. She glanced to a nearby wall, where a glossy framed plaque greets visitors entering the hospital with the name Dr. Richard Hawkins.
"Did I give the impression that it was OK for him to do that?" she said. "When the 'Me Too' movement came about, I realized I didn't do a single thing wrong. He's the one who did it, not me."
The last time LeCuyer's story was told in a newspaper, she was only referred to as Patient B.
That was the pseudonym used to describe her in court after she alleged that her orthopedist, Hawkins, had sexually assaulted her during an appointment in February 2000.
LeCuyer, of Townsend, said she had been dressed in little more than a hospital gown when Hawkins began talking about his "sexual habits" during her examination. Then he groped her and attempted to kiss her.
She planned to report Hawkins' behavior to the police, but chose to wait until after her scheduled surgery to repair a torn meniscus cartilage in her knee. Hawkins was the surgeon assigned to operate on her.
"My primary care doctor said 'You'll be OK because you're not going to be alone in the operating room. There will be many people around,'" LeCuyer said.
"I still had to go through the surgery because it was already booked and my knee was killing me, but I was petrified the whole time. I didn't want to be put to sleep."
LeCuyer's testimony, along with the testimony of another patient, led to Hawkins being charged with two counts of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14 years old. Hawkins, who died in 2016, lost his licenses to practice medicine in Massachusetts and New Hampshire in 2005, and subsequently lost his position with HealthAlliance Hospital.
In 2006, the state amended the charges and he pleaded guilty to two counts of assault and battery and was ordered to serve one year of probation.
Despite his criminal charges and loss of licenses, a plaque in Hawkins' honor remains on display in the lobby of Entrance D at HealthAlliance for his philanthropic support of the hospital's capital campaign from 1999 to 2001.
"I can't even look at it. If I had a screwdriver, I'd take the thing down myself," LeCuyer said. "I don't think there should be any kind of memorial in the hospital for him, or anyone else who is a sexual predator."
LeCuyer first reached out to hospital administration last month about taking the plaque down and was told the issue would be taken under advisement.
When contacted by the Sentinel & Enterprise about what might happen to the plaque, hospital spokeswoman Kelli Rooney said in a statement: "It's the policy of UMass Memorial Health Care and HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital to provide and maintain a culture characterized by integrity, responsible behavior, and a commitment to the highest legal and ethical standards. It is our unequivocal responsibility to provide fair, non-judgmental and consistent care and service to our patients, their families, visitors, and colleagues. We intend to remove the donor plaque in question from the public lobby and it will be relocated to a more appropriate setting."
Rooney said on Wednesday that the hospital hadn't yet decided where the plaque might be moved to and declined to comment further.
"This isn't taking action," LeCuyer said. "In my opinion, it's not the result that should have happened. It should have been taken down immediately."
Hawkins would go on to work as a commercial truck driver, according to his death notice, after finishing out his probation and LeCuyer said she's now gotten to the point where she finally feels comfortable being alone with a doctor again.
"I have a lot of physical issues and have had a lot of surgeries, but for the longest time after this, I wouldn't go to the doctor's without my husband," she said. "It took a long time for me to be able to go to a doctor without him because I was petrified."
LeCuyer said she remains a regular patient at HealthAlliance Hospital and walks passed Hawkins' plaque every time she enters the building.


Editor's note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified the street where police found the male suspect. This story has been updated. WCPO regrets this error.
SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio -- A man shot a woman and then, after a police pursuit, himself late Friday night.
Police were called to Tag Drive at about 9:55 p.m. They found 21-year-old Kenesha Moore, of Fairfield, dead of multiple gunshot wounds.
The gunman reportedly drove away, according to Springfield Township police. Officers found his abandoned car shortly afterward, on Adams Road.
A canine officer tracked the man to Ripplebrook Drive.
After officers ordered him to drop his handgun, he shot himself, police said. He survived the shot, and paramedics took him to University of Cincinnati Medical Center.
The suspect's name and medical condition have not been released, and he's not been charged.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Springfield Township Police Department at 513-729-1300.


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The Permanent Committee for Kingdom Relations of the Second Chamber of the Dutch Parliament is putting pressure on the Dutch Government to quickly give an official reaction to the report of the Caribbean Netherlands Evaluation Committee.
Minister of Home Affairs and Kingdom Relations Ronald Plasterk stated during the debate on the 2016 draft Kingdom Relations budget two weeks ago, that a reaction to the report of the evaluation committee headed by former Minister Liesbeth Spies would be forthcoming before the summer of 2016.
That is too late, members of the permanent committee for Kingdom Relations decided during a procedural meeting on Wednesday. "Now that we have seen the report, we think it should be possible for government to draft a response at an earlier stage. I find half a year too much. It should be shorter," said Member of Parliament (MP) Roelof van Laar of the Labour Party PvdA.
MPs Ronald van Raak of the Socialist Party (SP) and Wassila Hachchi of the Democratic Party D66, the only two other members present at Wednesday's meeting, concurred. The committee agreed to ask Plasterk to present a reaction before the end of this year so a debate can be planned with the Minister in the foreseeable future.
Hachchi suggested to ask the Dutch public entities Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba for a formal reaction to the report of the Evaluation Committee, and to also have a meeting with the committee itself. Van Raak said he did not feel the need to talk with the Evaluation Committee. He said the findings of the report were actually very clear.
According to Van Raak, the report's findings regarding the increased poverty and decreased quality of living for the majority of residents on the three islands had been predictable and unfortunately were true. "The new constitutional relations on October 10, 2010 were rushed through and everyone could have known that this wasn't going to work," he said.
At the request of Hachchi, the Kingdom Relations Committee agreed to hold a separate general debate with Plasterk about the Caribbean Netherlands before the Christmas recess. On the agenda of that debate would be the Plan of Approach for St. Eustatius in light of the June 2015 instruction; the issue of the inadequate budget for the Dutch Ombudsman to execute tasks for the Caribbean Netherlands, and the objection of the St. Eustatius Island Council to Plasterk's decision to impose administrative supervision on St. Eustatius and to give a financial instruction.
Also on the agenda of that debate will be the double taxation that is paid on goods for St. Eustatius and Saba due to St. Maarten's Turnover Tax. Plasterk stated in a letter to the Second Chamber late September that double taxation should not be a problem if St. Maarten companies made proper use of the tax exemptions that are in place for basic necessities, and if St. Eustatius and Saba applied pressure to ensure that these exemptions in fact were utilised.
Ronald van Raak questioned the issue of double taxation. He asked who had the ultimate responsibility in this matter. "We can say this is the fault of the private sector, but I want to know who we can address to solve this for once and for all," he said. The committee agreed to request a letter from the Minister before the debate.
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We've heard of "survivor's guilt," the pangs felt by people who have lived through horrors of war or natural disaster in which others, perhaps comrades, were killed. Hurricane Irene has brought us a recurrence of what I'm calling survivor's pride, the kind that expresses itself as scorn for all the precautions and fears that preceded the storm. Survivor's pride can be seen also in the chain emails about our wonderful childhoods in the best of all possible times when no one made us wear bike helmets or worried about where we were all day, and we shared from one coke bottle, drank from the hose, etc., etc., ad nauseam.
I've never been much moved by the nostalgia for the good old days when we could leave our doors unlocked and could go anywhere day or night without fear. Only by the quick thinking and immediate actions of my older sister was I spared being murdered at age four by a man trying to abduct her. No doubt, like Cedric in the Harry Potter novels, I would have been the "spare" who got killed. In what dangerous place were we? We were walking, ironically, along the top of "dead man's hill," on the grounds of my elementary school.
Was Hurricane Irene hyped by the television weather reporters? I would say it was, especially by the focus on the tornado warnings, but meteorologist Glenn "Hurricane" Schwartz did what I considered a fine job of putting those warnings into perspective and getting us back to the situation at hand, which was the hurricane.
Come Sunday afternoon, I was very thankful Irene had not been far worse in our area, but such thankfulness is always modified by the distress of those whose lives were disrupted or whose property was damaged or lost and, much more so, by the anguish of those who lost someone loved. That we stayed safe and did not even lose electrical power, that the church had just put a new roof on the manse in which we live, that we suffered no loss even of property – none of that eases the pain of those whose lives were changed by the hurricane. Yes, it could have been worse, much worse. For some, it was.
As we persist in our folly of cutting government spending to restore economic prosperity to the land – the economic equivalent of digging down deeper and deeper to get up out of a pit – we face the likelihood that in the future, our government will not be so well prepared to help the stricken and coordinate responses to natural disasters. Read here for Dana Milbank's thoughts on this subject in the Washington Post.
What does survivor's pride do for us? Does it make us feel strong? Superior? Does it feed our adolescent resistance to being told what to do for our own good? It seems quite popular these days with my Baby Boom generation as we look back and congratulate ourselves on our toughness and independence. Of course, we did take the polio vaccine (government interference?), and it is true that those who didn't survive all those supposedly imaginary dangers of childhood are not doing chain emails from their perspective. But my sister thought fast and acted quickly. So I'm a survivor.


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Hadouk Trio - Live-a-FIP where can it be boiught on CD?
A friend is desperatly searching but can't find it anywhere.
They advise using the "magnet link"
Though I believe it's also available in Studio Master quality from the same site, if one has the appropriate subscription.
Unfortunatly he IIs only interested in the original CD for his CD collection.
I think that is the wrong CD and it is also only shippable within Germany. I did however found a copy at amazon Spain.
I have most of Hadouk Trio's albums and yes that one is the best.
Life without Acoustat is possible BUT why.
Didier Mahlerbe! Good stuff, I have a studio album of there's..


About Lazio Rome Italy, maps, news, weather, property for sale.
Lazio is famous because it's the Italian region that has Rome. And this certainly makes it an important region at tourist level... but this is not all, in fact it's only a part. Actually Lazio is a region full of culture, history, nature, that gives the tourist what he wants, allowing him to live different experiences and to turn his own vacation in an unforgettable event.
Three very definite mountain ranges of volcanic origin exist here: the Volsini, the Cimini and the Sabatini Mountains, whose principal craters contain respectively, the lakes of Bolsena, Vico and Bracciano. These rises go down northeast towards the Tiber's downstream and southwest till the coastal strip called Latial Maremma, cut off near Civitavecchia by the mountains of Tolfa, of volcanic origin, too. The Latial Maremma meets the Roman Countryside, crossed by the Tiber. It's limited by the Alban Hills and the Prenestini Mountains, to which follow the calcareous rises of the Simbruini and the Ernici Mountains, of the Meta and Mainarde, that are part of the Abruzzi Apennines, and the rises, also calcareous, of the Lepini, the Ausoni and the Aurunci Mountains parted by the Apennines and by the wide downstream of the river Sacco (Ciociaria) and Liri. At the mountain's foot there are the Pontine Marshes, once a swampy area and now reclaimed, the Plain of Fondi and the coastal plain between Gaeta and the low course of the river Garigliano. If we go up the Tiber's downstream we come to the Sabine region. Between the Sabine Mountains and the Reatini ones opens out the wide plain of Rieti, to which follow the ones of Leonessa and of Amatrice in the inland and towards southeast the river Sacco's downstream. The coasts are mainly low and flat and have some headlands, formed by isolated rises that were islands once, or by the end of ridges or by the outlet of Tiber itself. The Pontine Islands are part of Lazio.
Its longest river, the Tiber, comes from Umbria. Several river streams flow in the Tiber: the Velino, the Salto and the Turano, through the Nera and the Aniene. Other minor rivers are the Sacco and the Liri but also the Fiora, the Marta and the Arrone that reach the ocean directly after a relatively short course. Other important lakes, besides the already mentioned lakes of Bolsena, Vico and Bracciano, are the ones of Albano and of Nemi, that are also contained by the craters of two extinct volcanoes in the Alban Hills.
Capital city of the Italian Republic and bishop's see of the Pope. The city was born, according to the legend, the 21 of April 753 B.C. on the Palatine Hill (one of the seven hills) from which we had the following and gradual development, going through the republican period (509-31 B.C.), when Rome established itself as one of the Mediterranean's main and populated cities. In those centuries the city gained that grandness and that magnificence still visible nowadays. The most important works: the Tabularium of the Campidoglio, the Theatre of Marcellus, the Imperial Forums whose building was started by the emperor Augustus, the grand imperial Palace on the Palatine wanted by Nero, the Colosseum and the Arch of Titus. In the II and III century Rome reached its grandness' peak. In that period were built the Forums by Trajan, Caracalla's Baths and the Aurelian Walls, the Baths of Diocletian, the Arch of Constantine and the Basilica of Maxentius. The imperial court's transfer to Byzantium marked the beginning of its decline. The city, after the barbarian invasions, saw the birth of many churches that because of the prohibition of being built instead of the temples, determined the movement of the city's center from the Forums and the Palatine to the Lateran, Episcopal seat at Rome. After the city's sack by the Saracens in 846, Pope Leo IV made build Castel Sant'Angelo, being the birthplace of the so-called Leonine city and making himself the name of Rome's real lord. Turismo Lazio.
Lazio is the region around Rome. With endless attractions, a unique cultural heritage and the incomparable charm of the Eternal City, this region can be visited at any time of the year. Lazio is a region waiting to be discovered: with a variety of extraordinary landscapes and environments, long beaches and vast pine groves, mountains and lakes, hills and plains. A region waiting to reveal its rich historical, artistic and cultural heritage in the most irresistible means possible.
Rome, the capital of the Roman Empire, the center of Christianity and capital of Italy. No further presentation necessary. Leaving the capital, every area of Lazio has its own distinguishing feature. To the north the province of Viterbo, called Tuscia, preserves the richest cultural and archaeological heritage in Italy. The region is scattered with Etruscan necropolises, medieval villages, castles and splendid Renaissance villas. Viterbo is the best preserved medieval city in Lazio, while the surrounding area is composed of picturesque countryside and wilderness. The Etruscan cities of Tarquinia, Cerveteri and Tuscania and their incredible necropolises are not to be missed. Among the villas, we recommend you visit Palazzo Farnese in Caprarola and the "Park of Monsters" in Bomarzo. East of Rome one finds unmissable Tivoli, the preferred thermal spring of the ancient Romans, where one finds the impressive ruins of Hadrian's Villa and the Renaissance residence of Villa d'Este. The south-east of the capital extends over the fascinating region of Ciociaria: its wild landscape hosts beautiful medieval cities of pre-Roman origin, such as Anagni, Alatri and Ferentino famous for imposing walls, or one can take the charming religious itinerary among the ancient abbeys of Subiaco, Casamari, Montecassino and Fossanova. Another interesting tour around the mountains of Lazio will lead you to Rieti, a city full of medieval testimonies enclosed by its perfectly preserved great, long walls.
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Swimming Pool is a 2003 erotic thriller film directed by François Ozon and starring Charlotte Rampling and Ludivine Sagnier. The plot focuses on a British crime novelist, Sarah Morton, who travels to her publisher's upmarket summer house in Southern France to seek solitude in order to work on her next book. However, the arrival of Julie, who claims to be the publisher's daughter, induces complications and a subsequent crime. Both lead characters are bilingual, and the film's dialogue is a mixture of French and English.

Swimming Pool premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on 18 May 2003, and was released theatrically in France three days later with a U cinema rating, meaning it was deemed suitable for all ages. It was given a limited release in the United States that July and was edited to avoid an NC-17 rating due to its sexual content and nudity. It was subsequently released in North America on DVD in an unrated cut.

The film ignited controversy with audiences because of its ambiguous nature and unclear conclusion which can be interpreted in various ways. In France many comparisons were made with Jacques Deray's 1969 film La Piscine (The Swimming Pool), starring Romy Schneider and Alain Delon.

Plot
Sarah Morton, a middle-aged English mystery author, who has written a successful series of detective novels, is having writer's block that is impeding her next book. Her publisher, John Bosload, offers her his country house near Lacoste, France, for some rest and relaxation. Sarah takes him up on the offer, hinting that she hopes John may visit. After becoming comfortable with the run of the spacious, sun-filled house and meeting the groundskeeper, Marcel, Sarah's quietude is disrupted by a young woman claiming to be the publisher's daughter, Julie. She shows up late one night explaining that she is taking time off from work herself. She eventually tells Sarah that her mother used to be Bosload's mistress, but that he would not leave his family.

Julie's sex life consists of one-night stands with various men, and a competition of personalities develops between the two women. At first, Sarah regards Julie as a distraction from her writing. She uses earplugs to sleep during Julie's noisy nighttime adventures, but develops a voyeuristic fascination with them, abandoning the earplugs during one of Julie's trysts. Sarah sneaks into Julie's room and steals her diary, using it in the novel she is working on. The competition comes to the fore when a local waiter, Franck, is involved. Julie wants him but he appears to prefer the more mature Sarah, having struck up a relationship with her during her frequent lunches at the bistro.

An unexpected tragedy occurs after a night of flirting among the three. After swimming together in the pool, Franck refuses to allow Julie to continue performing oral sex on him once Sarah, who watches them from the balcony, throws a rock into the water. Franck tells Julie he is leaving. The next day, Franck is missing. While investigating Franck's disappearance, Sarah is told that Julie's mother died years earlier, though Julie had spoken of her mother as if she were alive. She returns to the villa, where a confused Julie thinks Sarah is her mother and has a breakdown. Julie eventually recovers and confesses that Franck is dead because she repeatedly hit him over the head with a rock as he tried to leave her at the pool. His body is in one of the sheds.

When Marcel becomes suspicious of the mound of fresh soil where Sarah and Julie have buried Franck's body, Sarah seduces him to distract him. Julie leaves, thanking Sarah for her help and leaving her the manuscript of an unpublished novel she claims her mother wrote, which she had previously said John made her mother burn. Sarah uses the mother's manuscript in her novel.

Sarah returns to England and visits John at his publishing office with her new novel, which she anticipated he would reject, so she had it printed by another publisher. His daughter, Julia, shows up just as Sarah is leaving, but is revealed to be a different person than the girl who came to John's French house.

Cast
 Charlotte Rampling as Sarah Morton
 Ludivine Sagnier as Julie
 Charles Dance as John Bosload
  as Franck
 Marc Fayolle as Marcel
 Mireille Mossé as Marcel's daughter
 Lauren Farrow as Julia
 Sebastian Harcombe as Terry Long
 Frances Cuka as Lady on the Underground
 Michel Fau as The First Man
 Émilie Gavois-Kahn as Waitress at Cafe

Ending interpretations
The intentionally ambiguous ending sparked much confusion and controversy. One interpretation is that Sarah was alone at the villa the entire time. This would mean that Julie is a fiction conjured by Sarah for the purpose of her new book – also titled Swimming Pool – which she presents defiantly to Bosload at the end of the film. Ozon has said:

Release

Box office
Swimming Pool grossed $10,130,108 in the United States and $12,311,215 internationally for a worldwide total of $22,441,323. It had a budget of €6.1 million (about US$7.8 million), meaning that it was a financial success.

Critical reception
The film was well received and earned  "freshness" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with most critics' praise centering on the two leads. The site's critical consensus reads, "A sensual thriller with two engaging performers demanding our undivided attention." On Metacritic, the film holds a score of 70 out of 100 based on 37 critics, indicating "generally favourable reviews".

Roger Ebert gave the film a positive review, writing, "François Ozon, the director and co-writer (with Emmanuèle Bernheim), understands as Hitchcock did the small steps by which a wrong decision grows in its wrongness into a terrifying paranoid nightmare".

Neil Smith of the BBC also praised the film, calling it a "compelling psychological melodrama" and "Hitchcockian thriller." Sarmad Iqbal of the International Policy Digest wrote that the film's "intriguing yet mystifying mix of erotica and thriller set in a part of France that is a far cry from bustling Paris makes you fall in love with it. It is not just the plot, the setting and the way actors have immaculately performed their roles will make you shower praise on this film but also the soundtrack by Philippe Rombi".

Moira Macdonald of The Seattle Times called film's director a "master of mood", while Varietys David Rooney called the film a "sophisticated [and] unpredictable mystery".

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Regula Hänggli is a professor specialized in political communication at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). Her work deals with media & democracy, digitalization, opinion formation, and the origin of dialogue. Before she came to Fribourg, she was a professor at Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR). She is also a member of a federal expert group addressing the digital transformation of our society.
Hänggli holds a PhD in Political Science and an M.A. in Political Science (major subject), and Economics (minor subject) from the University of Berne. Her research interests include political communication in a comparative perspective, institutional reforms, and societal impact of technological change.
During fall term 2018, Hänggli is a visiting scholar at the ETH in Zurich. Before coming to Fribourg, she was an assistant professor at Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR). In 2008/ 2009 Hänggli was a visiting scholar at the Northwestern University, Evanston/USA visiting Prof. Dr. James Druckman.
Bernhard, Laurent, Fossati, Flavia, Hänggli, Regula and Hanspeter Kriesi (forthcoming): Shaping the Debate on how to Fight Unemployment. A Comparative Analysis of the Political Communication Strategies on Labour Market Policies in Western Europe. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Hänggli, Regula (2018): The Origin of Dialogue in the News Media. Under Revision.
Hänggli, Regula and Flavia Fossati (forthcoming): Theoretical Framework: Production of Policy-specific Political Communication. In: Shaping the Debate on how to Fight Unemployment. Bernhard, Laurent, Fossati, Flavia, Hänggli Regula and Hanspeter Kriesi. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Hänggli, Regula (forthcoming): Framing Strategies- Important Messages in Public Debates. In: Shaping the Debate on how to Fight Unemployment. Bernhard, Laurent, Fossati, Flavia, Hänggli Regula and Hanspeter Kriesi. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Hänggli, Regula and Richard van der Wurff (forthcoming): Quality of Public Debates. In: Shaping the Debate on how to Fight Unemployment. Bernhard, Laurent, Fossati, Flavia, Hänggli Regula and Hanspeter Kriesi. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Kriesi, Hanspeter and Regula Hänggli (forthcoming): The Positioning of the Actors in the Public Debates. In: Shaping the Debate on how to Fight Unemployment. Laurent, Fossati, Flavia, Hänggli Regula and Hanspeter Kriesi. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Kriesi, Hanspeter, Bernhard, Laurent, Fossati, Flavia, Hänggli, Regula and Christian Elmelund- Præstekær (forthcoming): The Variety of National Debates. In: Shaping the Debate on how to Fight Unemployment. Bernhard, Laurent, Fossati, Flavia, Hänggli Regula and Hanspeter Kriesi. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Kriesi, Hanspeter, Bernhard, Laurent, Fossati, Flavia and Regula Hänggli (forthcoming): Introduction: Shaping the Debate on Unemployment and the Labour Market. In: Shaping the Debate on how to Fight Unemployment. Bernhard, Laurent, Fossati, Flavia, Hänggli Regula and Hanspeter Kriesi. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Bernhard, Laurent and Regula Hänggli (2018): Who Holds Populist Attitudes? Evidence from Switzerland. In: Swiss Political Science Review. 24(4): 510–524.
Dalmus, Caroline, Hänggli Regula and Laurent Bernhard (2017): The Charm of Salient Issues? Parties' Strategic Behavior in Press Releases. In: Peter Van Aelst and Stefaan Walgrave (Ed.): How Political Actors Use the Media. Palgrave Macmillan: 183-202.
Bochsler, Daniel, Hänggli, Regula and Silja Häusermann (2015): Consensus Lost? Disenchanted Democracy in Switzerland. In: Swiss Political Science Review: 475–490.
Lecheler, Sophie, Keer, Mario, Schuck, Andreas and Regula Hänggli (2015): The Effects of Repetitive News Framing on Political Opinions over Time: Communication Monograph: 339-358.
Hänggli, Regula (2012): Key Factors in Frame Building. Model Specification. American Behavioral Scientist. Special Issue: 300-317.
Hänggli, Regula and Hanspeter Kriesi (2012): Frame Construction and Frame Promotion (Strategic Framing Choices). American Behavioral Scientist. Special Issue: 260-278.
Hänggli, Regula, Schemer, Christian and Patrick Rademacher. (2012). Toward a Methodological Integration in the Study of Political Campaign Communication. In H. Kriesi (Ed.), Political Communication in Direct-Democratic Campaigns. Enlightening or Manipulating? Hampshire, Palgrave Macmillan: 39-53.
Hänggli, Regula, Bernhard, Laurent and Hanspeter Kriesi. (2012). Construction of the Frames. In H. Kriesi (Ed.), Political Communication in Direct-Democratic Campaigns. Enlightening or Manipulating? Hampshire, Palgrave Macmillan: 69-81.
Hänggli, Regula (2012). Key Factors in Frame Building. In H. Kriesi (Ed.), Political Communication in Direct-Democratic Campaigns. Enlightening or Manipulating? Hampshire, Palgrave Macmillan: 125-142.
Hänggli, Regula and Hanspeter Kriesi (2010): Political Framing Strategies and Their Impact on Media Framing in a Swiss Direct-Democratic Campaign. Political Communication 27(2):141-157.
Wirth, Werner, Matthes, Jörg, Schemer, Christian, Wettstein, Martin, Friemel, Thomas, Hänggli, Regula and Gabriele Siegert (2010): Agenda Building and Setting in a Referendum Campaign: Investigating the Flow of Arguments among Campaigners, the Media, and the Public. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. 87(2):328-345.
Selb, Peter, Kriesi, Hanspeter, Hänggli, Regula and Mirko Marr (2009): Partisan choices in a direct-democratic campaign. European Political Science Review 1(1): 155-172.
Kriesi, Hanspeter, Bernhard, Laurent and Regula Hänggli. (2009). The Politics of Campaigning – Dimensions of Strategic Action. In F. Marcinkowski & B. Pfetsch (Eds.), Politik in der Mediendemokratie. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften: 345-365.
Hänggli, Regula, Lenz, Franziska und Tim Frey (2018): Umsetzung mediale und digitale Bildung in den Kantonen. Universität Freiburg.
Wirth, W., Esser, F., Wettstein, M., Engesser, S., Wirz, D., Schulz, A., Ernst, N., Büchel, F., Caramani, D., Manucci, L., Steenbergen, M., Bernhard, L., Weber, E., Hänggli, R., Dalmus, C., & Schemer, C. (2016). The Appeal of Populist Ideas, Strategies and Styles: A Theoretical Model and Research Design for Analyzing Populist Political Communication. University of Zurich: Working Paper 88 of the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) on Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century.
Dalmus, C.; Hänggli, R.; Bernhard, L. (2016). Issue competition between parties across communication channels: An empirical analysis of the 2011 Swiss Federal Elections. University of Zurich: Working Paper 93 of the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) on Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century.
Hänggli, Regula (2013): How Should I Vote? In H. Kriesi, L. Müller (Ed.): Democracy: An Ongoing Challenge. Lars Müller Publishers: 432-436.
van der Heiden, Nico, Schwab Cammarano, Stephanie, Töndury, Andrea, Engesser, Sven, Hänggli, Regula, Auer, Andreas, Esser, Frank und Daniel Kübler (2013). Regierungskommunikation in der direkten Demokratie. In: Auer, Andreas and Katharina Holzinger (Hg.). Gegenseitige Blicke über die Grenze: Bürgerbeteiligung und direkte Demokratie in Deutschland und der Schweiz. Nomos. Zürich/Baden-Baden: 81-104.
van der Heiden, Nico und Regula Hänggli (2011). Die Meinungsbildung der StimmbürgerInnen und die Rolle der politischen Kommunikation. In: van der Heiden, Nico and Daniel Kübler (Hg.): Direkte Demokratie und politische Kommunikation in der Informationsgesellschaft: Herausforderungen für den Kanton Aargau. Aarau: ZdA: 33-53.
Hänggli, Regula (2006). Gemeindefusionen— Ein Beitrag zur Erklärung und Beschreibung institutioneller Reformen. Lizentiatsarbei. Bern, Institut für Politikwissenschaft. Won Prize "Excellence" for the best Master Thesis in 2006 by IDHEAP, Lausanne, Switzerland (2006).


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The office of the First Lady of Ethiopia is making a sustained effort to rally various development programs aimed at addressing economic and social problems of Ethiopian children and women. 'Ye Enat Weg' Charitable Association is a non-political, non-profit making indigenous humanitarian organization that is striving to ensure quality of education in primary schools by supporting needy students. Majority of these students are orphans, children living with multiple disabilities or HIV/AIDS.
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Tewolde GebreMariam, Ethiopian Group CEO said: "We are glad to create the necessary link and work with The Office of the First Lady of Ethiopia and 'Ye Enat Weg' Charity Organization, to bring some relief and hope to primary school children who are in dire need of food, materials and emotional support in Addis Ababa. This is not only about today; it's also about the long term response to today's challenges in unlocking the new civic energy through one of our Corporate Social Responsibility Programs. Children hold the fate of a society and working for their wellbeing is investing in the future of a country by establishing a bigger and stronger stable society who will be able to give back to the community."
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Paul Linden-Retek received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University in 2018 with departmental and university distinction and holds previous degrees from Harvard University (A.B. in Social Studies) and Yale Law School (J.D.). Paul's research and teaching interests are in contemporary political and legal theory, in particular the political philosophy of European integration, global constitutionalism, and law and the humanities. His dissertation develops a theory of post-national constitutional law, sovereignty, and solidarity that draws on conceptions of identity and time from across Anglo-American legal theory, Continental political and ethical thought, and European jurisprudence.
At Yale College, Paul has taught on the politics and theory of human rights, law and globalization, public international law, and the moral foundations of politics. He sits on the Advisory Committee of Yale's Multidisciplinary Academic Program in Human Rights Studies. Paul has served previously as a legal adviser in the Human Rights Section, Office of the Government of the Czech Republic; the Legal Unit, International Civilian Office/EU Special Representative, Kosovo; and the EU Department, Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic.
His academic work has been published in Global Constitutionalism, the Croatian Yearbook of European Law and Policy, and the Yale Journal of International Law, and his public writing has appeared in the Boston Review, openDemocracy, and Social Europe. Paul is currently at work on his first book, entitled, The time of law: Europe's crisis and the future of post-national constitutionalism.
Narrative constitutionalism: A 'commitmentarian' vision of constitutional pluralism in EU law. The extension of constitutional law beyond the nation-state challenges foundational concepts of legitimacy, popular sovereignty, and civic belonging. Post-national law requires—more than a set of legal rules applicable across borders—a novel mode of democratic self-authorship, a modulation of the modernist basis for public authority. The enduring crises of the European Union—my central subject of analysis—demonstrate the pressing need for such innovations. But present theories of constitutional pluralism have yet to adequately address these underlying demands for a self-decentered political community. The aim of this research is to reimagine the character of post-national law by turning to law's diachronic temporality, by amplifying the importance of law's internal narrative form. Unlike most accounts of constitutional pluralism, the view I sketch here privileges the formal characteristics by which law exists over time; and finds in this movement a mode of legal reasoning with creative possibilities for post-national constitutional politics. The project first inquires into the principles of constitutional politics and constitutional adjudication that accompany this diachronic vision of pluralism. Grounded in prominent American constitutional theories from the work of Robert Cover, Jed Rubenfeld, and Philip Bobbitt, 'narrative constitutionalism' attends systematically to the historical development of both legal doctrine and the surrounding socio-political narratives that gives this doctrine its meaning. By taking constitutional provisions as 'commitments' made and re-interpreted in time, the project introduces such historical reasoning directly into its mode of argumentation and judgment. Second, the project asks whether such a modality of adjudication can be translated into discrete doctrine. It looks to European citizenship law, immigration and asylum law, labor law, and fundamental rights jurisprudence for key cases that illuminate the stakes of a more (or less) time-sensitive mode of argument. In so doing, it aims to revive new criteria and doctrinal guidelines for judicial dialogues both horizontally and vertically.
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Stunning Photos of Abandoned Green River Launch Complex in Utah. Discovering Green River Launch Complex, a sprawling abandoned military installation and Cold War relic occupies a vast stretch of barren land in Eastern Utah.
The History of Abandoned Buildings of Circleville, Utah
Circleville was abandoned in 1866 due to the ongoing dangers of Black Hawk War, but was reestablished in 1874 by Charles Wakeman Dalton, a Mormon settler, and his two wives.
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Unique abandoned buildings in Antimony and Junction, Utah serve as reminders of the frontiersmen and miners who ventured westward in the late 1800s in search of opportunity.
Abandoned Ghost Town of Cisco, Utah
Cisco, Utah has a robust history that dates back to the late 1800s. The town was first established as a watering stop for steam engines operated by the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. The station became an important shipping depot for the cattle ranchers and sheep herders from the nearby Book Cliffs.


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REPORTS OF NEURALTUBE DEFECTS FOR 8 ARTS, IN FDA, WHO, EMA, AND UK SAFETY DATABASES
Andrew Hill1, Nikolien S. van de Ven2, Anton Pozniak3, Jacob A. Levi4, Anna Garratt5, Christopher Redd5, Lynne Mofenson6
1Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK,2London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK,3Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, UK,4Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK,5Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK,6Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Washington, DC, USA
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The Botswana TSEPAMO study reported neural tube birth defects (NTDs) in 4/596 (0.67%) infants of women receiving dolutegravir (DTG) antiretroviral therapy (ART) preconception vs 14/11,300 (0.12%) receiving preconception non-DTG ART. Further data are required to confirm or refute this potential safety signal. Pregnant women were excluded from Phase 3 randomised DTG trials and data from other observational studies of DTG in pregnancy are currently limited. Clinicians, patients and pharmaceutical companies can report adverse drug reactions (ADRs) to pharmacovigilance (PV) databases, which could be used to assess potential safety signals.
4 PV databases with online data availability were analysed for NTD reports for 4 integrase inhibitors (DTG, raltegravir, elvitegravir, bictegravir), two protease inhibitors (darunavir, atazanavir) and two non-nucleosides (nevirapine, efavirenz): 1. Food and Drug Administration FAERS database (USA) 2. World Health Organisation VigiAccess (WHO) 3. European EudraVigilance (EU), 4. UK Medicines Health Regulatory Authority (MHRA). ADR reports in the System Organ Class (SOC) 'Congenital or Familial Disorders' were searched for NTDs using the search terms Neural Tube Defect, spina bifida, meningocele, meningomyelocele, anencephaly, iniencephaly, and encephalocele
NTDs were reported for all drugs except bictegravir. The number of reported NTD cases with DTG exposure were similar in the FDA and WHO databases, but no cases were reported to EU and UK MHRA (Table 1). Since ART consists of multiple drugs, NTDs could be reported for multiple drugs and from multiple sources for the same patient; for example, for one patient in the FDA database, there were 91 NTD reports for the same patient who received 7 different drugs
PV databases included reports of NTDs for pregnant women taking a wide range of ARVs. These databases have many limitations – there is no denominator for patient exposure to the drug, reporting is not systematic, there is overlap in reports for multiple drugs given combination ART, duplicate cases are difficult to identify, and results differ between the databases. Given widespread use of multiple new ARVs worldwide, and anticipated use of new drugs (e.g. TAF, bictegravir cabotegravir), prospective follow up of pregnant women and birth surveillance studies such as Tsepamo are critically needed for a wide range of ARVs. In addition, pregnant women should be enrolled in Phase 3 trials where regulations allow.
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Women take the lead at Middle East races
The Ladies Tour of Qatar starts Tuesday in the country's capital city of Doha
Two-time road world champion Giorgia Bronzini headlines the Ladies Tour of Qatar this week. Photo: Tim De Waele | TDWsport.com
DOHA, Qatar (VN) — The Ladies Tour of Qatar kicks off a series of stage races this month in the Middle East that cumulates with the Tour de France stars in Oman.
The men, including reigning Tour de France winner Vincenzo Nibali (Astana), race Wednesday in the Dubai Tour. Bradley Wiggins (Sky), Peter Sagan (Tinkoff-Saxo), Fabian Cancellara (Trek Factory Racing), and others land in Doha for the Tour of Qatar February 8.
Ladies first, however.
Before the men set foot in the Sheraton Doha Hotel on the capital city's waterfront, the women will take the spotlight. The last of the teams arrived Sunday ahead of the four-day stage race that starts Tuesday.
The race will begin along the waterfront outside the Museum of Islamic Art. It will travel west over the sandy peninsula to Dukhan Beach. Stage 2 will cover the wide and straight roads in the country's north, while the final two stages will skirt along the east with Doha as the base.
Tour de France organizer ASO began the men's Tour of Qatar in 2002. The classics men and sprinters loved the hot and windy racing in February. The women had their chance when ASO began the Ladies Tour of Qatar in 2009.
The men/women pairing is rare in stage racing. The women have the new Tour de San Luis, the Amgen Tour of California, and the Tour of Qatar sitting alongside the more popular men's versions of those races. They also have one-day races like the Ronde van Vlaanderen (Tour of Flanders), la Flèche Wallonne Femmes and, starting in 2015, Strade Bianche.
The women, which number 90 across 15 teams in Qatar, like it. The races allow them to share the spotlight with the men and bring their sport some extra attention.
"The pairing works. Absolutely," Shelley Olds (Bigla) told VeloNews at the 2013 edition of the Tour of Qatar.
"You hear it over and over. We should have all the same races as the men have, like Milano-Sanremo, etc.
"It's true, when you have the big races, you have the spectators there already. They say, 'Oh my god. The women can race too.' Maybe they'll be more interested in the women, especially now with the state of men's cycling."
ASO tacked on a women's one-day race, Le Course, at the end of the Tour de France in 2014. The Vuelta a España and Giro d'Italia are planning similar races.
One of the big events is the UCI Road World World Championships, which takes place in Richmond, Virginia, this year. Last Friday, the UCI said it would continue its support of the women's side of the sport and in televising their World Cup races.
"I think there has been a recent change in public perception across the world for women's sport, I think people are more interested in women's sport of all kind," UCI President Brian Cookson told VeloNews this winter.
"We at the UCI are doing our part and we want the media to step up and do their own part."
The ASO, cycling's strongest and richest race organizer, is doing its part and has received praise from women like Olds.
In the six previous editions of the Ladies Tour of Qatar, The Netherlands' Kirsten Wild has won four times. Wild's countrywoman Ellen Van Dijk and German Judith Arndt own the two other victories.
Wild is not racing in Doha this week, but her Hitec Products team will be there. Van Dijk will return with team Boels-Dolmans, which also has World Cup overall and Commonwealth Games winner Lizzie Armitstead.
Two-time world champion Giorgia Bronzini of Italy will lead Wiggle-Honda with Chloe Hosking, third overall in 2014. Olds is on the startlist again, along with four other U.S. cyclists on American team Optum-Kelly Benefit Strategies.
The Middle East will continue to buzz with cyclists. Nibali and other elite men will race the Dubai Tour in the neighboring United Arab Eremites, from February 4-7. The men's Tour of Qatar will start February 8 and run through February 13 on most of the same roads the women use. Before the focus shifts back to Europe for the spring/summer season, the men will race the Tour of Oman, slated for February 17-22.
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It is well settled that the Courts will consider assets passing outside of a Will when determining the distribution of assets
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It is important to note that any assets such as these that pass outside of the will cannot be reallocated by the court under WESA. In many cases, these benefits or assets passing outside of the estate may comprise a greater amount than those passing under the will. These situations can arise out of deliberate estate planning to minimize fees or challenges to a will, or sometimes they may result out of an unplanned event such as death benefits payable under an insurance policy after an accidental death.
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Bourg d'Oisans is one of the most popular tourist resorts in the Oisans region during the summer months with visitors from all over the world. The town has a bustling atmosphere, offering a good selection of restaurants, bars, cycle hire and shopping. Surrounded by stunning mountain scenery the village is the perfect base to explore.
Saturday mornings is when you can enjoy all the hustle and the bustle of the local market selling local fresh produce from the region.
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The ground floor has a secure garage for bike storage accessible from inside and outside the property and is equipped with track pump, tool kit and work stand. There is ample space to store bikes, bike boxes, skis and winter sports equipment. The large entrance hallway provides a welcoming area with access to the garage and stairs leading to the first floor.
The floor of the house has a large fully equipped kitchen, gas hob and electric oven, fridge freezer, microwave, dishwasher, coffee maker and all the necessary items to enjoy a self-catered holiday. To the right of the kitchen is a separate store room with a large freezer, microwave and additional storage space for food items.
To the left of the kitchen is a large and comfortable living room with wood burner, comfy sofas, tv with full satellite package, DVD, and Wi-Fi. There is large dining table and chairs for 8 guests. French doors open from the lounge onto a furnished terrace with spectacular views towards the high peaks of Ecrins National Parc.
From the lounge and kitchen, you pass into a large corridor from where there are doors leading to a bathroom with bath and overhead shower attachment and a separate wc. Two large bedrooms lead from the corridor, they are bright and modern with twin beds that are convertible to double beds. All bedrooms have been recently renovated providing a unique and highly comfortable modern space.
From the first-floor corridor stairs lead to down to the ground and second floors.
On the second floor there are a further two large bedrooms, one with twin beds and a second larger family bedroom with space for a baby cot and a table and chairs to use as a workspace. All beds are new as of 2018 and are good quality adult sized single beds which can be converted to doubles. The rooms also have wardrobes/storage. There is a second bathroom with shower cubicle and wc.
The house has a washing machine and dryer.
The house has private electric gated parking with space for two cars. There is additional parking available in the quiet cul-de-sac if required.
The First-floor terrace is the perfect spot to enjoy the evening sunshine after your ride, or in winter the beautiful snowy alpine scene. The outside space also provides a lovely area to enjoy the mountain views of the valley or have a BBQ in summer.
The house is a short walk from the centre of the town and outdoor swimming pool, and the large supermarket is just a minute away.
Situated in La Garde at bend 16 of the infamous Alpe d'Huez climb, this little apartment boasts wonderful views of the Sarenne gorge and surrounding mountains. Located on the ground floor at the rear of a small apartment block with café/restaurant this well-maintained apartment is available for rent year-round and is perfectly suited to a solo, or couple looking to enjoy the exceptional cycling and winter activities to be found on the doorstep.
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The Enforcement Directorate on Friday moved a Mumbai Court against Vijay Mallya, seeking a fugitive offender tag and to confiscate all his assets of worth Rs 12, 500 crore. The application was filed against the businessman by the agency under the new Fugitive Economic Offenders Ordinance, that allows the agency to confiscate all the assets of an absconding defaulter.
Seeking a fugitive offender tag for liquor baron Vijay Mallya, the Enforcement Directorate on Friday moved a Mumbai court against the businessman under a new law, the Fugitive Economic Offenders Ordinance. The agency has also sought court's permission to confiscate all his assets worth Rs 12,500 crore — both movable and immovable– which belongs to Mallya and his companies. Reports said that the new law empowers the agency to confiscate all the assets of a fugitive loan offender. In a bid to seek a fugitive offender tag for Vijay Mallya from the court, the agency has gone through all the evidences that were there in past two charge sheets, filed under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
Mallya is facing the money laundering charges in London while the Indian legal system is making efforts to bring him back to India and face the charges of Rs 9000 crore IDBI Bank-Kingfisher Airlines loan-default case, which was filed in June 2017.
Earlier, the probe agency has also accused Mallya of not disclosing all his assets with the lender during a personal guarantee agreement, which was restructured in December 200. The ED said that Mallya had total assets over Rs 3,164.65 crore, while Mallya had claimed only Rs 1,395 crore only at the time of the agreement.
A few days back, in a bid to recover the alleged dues of 13 Indian banks, the UK High Court ordered Mallya to a minimum of 200,000 pounds towards cost borne by the respective banks.
Coming to the new Fugitive Economic Offenders Ordinance, 2018, the authorities will be more empowered to confiscate assets of loans defaulters. Besides Mallya, the law was approved to confiscate assets of other offenders including Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi.


The admit cards, the passport size picture and the government approved ID were checked before we got into the car. These, at least would get us into the ring. The ingredient to crack the bout was presumed to be stacked in the nearest location on the RAM in the CPU of the brain for quick retrieval at the time of need.
The Google map showed a drive of 26 minutes, after its artificial intelligence consulted many more Google map users who were on the same route. Many more travelers, travelling with the same aspirations and similar apprehensions.
The FM radio employed songs of Kishore Kumar to sooth the frayed nerves. No one talked, as the soulful voice traveled across the time bridge connecting the 70s to the last of the teens of the 22nd century. As the RJ broke the spell, I realised we were not even hearing the song. We were engrossed in our own thoughts. The mind had moved ahead, pacing the unformed future.
Quite, was not the state of existence which was habitable for Anjali. She initiated the conversation, prempting my urge to revise the chemical equations and the mathematical formulae. We, instead talked of the many tips trending on the Internet, on how to crack the exam. I wondered, if there was a correlation between the people who made those blogs or the people who visited those sites with their pass results. But I guess it wasn't something that would get a favourable result. Also, I wanted to impart the wisdom, of how it was more important to be well prepared than to rely on these 'tricks of the trade'. But I guess our Arjun wasn't keen on the Gita discourse while traveling towards the battle for future life.
The trip was spent laughing on anecdotes of people preparing for the battle and the pragmatism of the tips. The light heartedness was something each of us clung to. However, the upbeat mood eventually submitted to the inescapable law of "All good things must come to an end". The gloom was thick as we cramped into the viscous traffic jam. Moving slowly through the sludge like a suspended impurity in a dense solute. As we inched closer to the collosium we could see the anxious gladiators sharpening their weapons through well thumbed notes of an year long accumulated knowledge. The anxiety spilling over to their guardians. The gloom also turned the green lights into red.
The futility of travel by the wheels was evident but people were unwilling to let go. We decided otherwise. We broke out of the conveyer belt and parked our car in a small bylane. We walked past the snail paced line of vehicles, each capable of greater potential but stuck in the rut with the bonnets cramped into the bumper ahead.
We reached the entry of the battle zone. The lines converged at the first check point. Thats where the support staff of parents, tutors and some accompanying fairy god mothers had to let go of their wards. That's where the gladiators had to move on, into the battle space armed only with the knowledge in their minds and the mandatory material things that would ensure their entry. Now they milled together and forged ahead as one mass.
Parents were moving on to higher grounds to have one last look at their wards before they entered the arena. We were not to be left behind as we jostled competitively to find the best viewing site.
Ah!! We were in time to see our daughter emerge from the first check point victoriously. We were about to shout out to her, when we saw her making animated conversation with other co-participants of the race. Making friends with a complete strangers, related only by similar aspirations and apprehensions. There she was, sharing the infectious laughter she is blessed with. There she was, helping the other just-formed-friend, with the forms and the documents. Then, before we could shout out to her, they entered the arena together. We did not shout out her name. We just watched with a knowing smile on our lips.
The result of this exam was still somewhere in the future.
But we were happy she had already cracked the exam.
Great reading! Love how it ends. Truly, in this rat race we as parents become too focussed on numbers (scores, marks, rankings) and are oblivious of the human qualities of our children. Qualities which are actually the key to a happy contented life.
Great reading Satish. It reminds me that we as parents often overlook and ignore the human qualities of our children, qualities that are so essential to lead a happy contented life, and instead let our interaction with th be defined by Numbers like grades, rankings and scores.


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Logan Morrison Serves as the Wild Child for the Already Loony Miami Marlins
Gus Garcia-Roberts March 29, 2012 4:00AM
Miami Marlins outfielder Logan Morrison spends the morning of Valentine's Day 2012 at the nearly empty Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter, the team's spring facility. He hits balls in a cage, sweats on a stationary bike, and works on stretching and strengthening his right knee. Morrison — who has been called stubborn, juvenile, and impatient but never lazy — underwent minor surgery on the knee in December, the result of a 2011 baseball season spent diving and slamming into outfield walls.
But on Twitter, the 24-year-old — or at least his virtual ID, @LoMoMarlins — is looking for love. "After much deliberation," he thumb-pecks to almost 100,000 followers, "I've added motor boating @sofiavergara to my bucket list."
Sofia Vergara, for the woefully unacquainted, is a zeppelin-breasted Colombian actress from the TV show Modern Family. Motorboating, according to Urban Dictionary, is "the placement of one's face, specifically the mouth, into the area between a well-endowed woman's breasts, followed by a rapid shaking of the face in a side-to-side motion accompanied by yelling."
Later he ruminates, "There are 3 certainties in life; Death, Taxes & I will trim my pubes on Feb 13th of every year."
He also announces that whichever of his female followers makes the best argument for being his Valentine will "get a signed ball from me (à la Derek Jeter)" — a reference to the report that the New York Yankees shortstop uses autographed memorabilia to bid au revoir to his one-night stands.
Then he reposts a photo of one of his female followers making out with another chick.
Over lunch after the morning workout, the muscular former Army brat complains about the coaches and teammates who loudly order him to put his phone away at the ballpark. "I've been here since 7:30 a.m. while you were still sleeping, bro," he tells these hypothetical foes. "I can tweet on the training table while I'm getting my knee massaged. So what? Want me to focus on getting my knee massaged?"
Last season, he paid a heavy price for his seemingly genetic inability to censor himself. A summerlong sports-section soap opera saw him criticize team owner Jeffrey Loria, dress down star shortstop Hanley Ramirez in the locker room, and poke fun at team President David Samson on Twitter. For those crimes against the regime, Morrison was demoted to the minors for ten days.
"I'll never forget it, but I'm over it," he says bitterly of the demotion. "You don't do something so drastic and want somebody to forget about it."
This week, the perennially skinflint and mostly anonymous Marlins officially move from a dingy, converted football stadium in Miami Gardens to their new, retractable-domed home in Little Havana. They play the world champion St. Louis Cardinals at 7:05 p.m. April 4.
The new Miami Marlins spent $191 million on some of the most expensive and loony personnel in the majors. Joining the rotation: human frowny face Carlos Zambrano, a pitcher arguably better-known for hurling fists and water coolers than baseballs. Poached from the ruins of the New York Mets: stealthy shortstop Jose Reyes, setting the stage for a clash with hometown all-star Hanley Ramirez.
To lead them? The totally unfiltered and usually nonsensical former White Sox manager, Ozzie Guillen, who once famously called a Chicago reporter a "faggot." Guillen has an active Twitter page of his own. As Logan tweeted: "I really hope Ozzies on-field instructions r easier 2 understand than his tweets. I literally have no idea what this dude is talking about."
To ensure the Marlins will be the Jersey Shore of our national pastime, the team has given complete access to camera crews for Showtime's reality series The Franchise.
For his part, Morrison is hoping Zambrano tosses around Gatorade coolers all summer. When it's remarked that the pitcher could be in the headlines every day, he shoots back, "Good. That way I won't be. I'm not an attention whore."
Morrison's iPhone rarely stops humming on the table in front of him as he downs a citrus chicken bowl at Burrito Bros., the surfer joint in Jupiter where he eats with his BFF Petey — Marlins backup outfielder Bryan Petersen — almost every day during spring training.
The roomies live in a rented condo a few minutes away. They carpool everywhere in Petey's Range Rover or Logan's late-model Toyota pickup. They spend the afternoons making goofy YouTube videos. You might have seen a still of them drinking red wine together in a bubble bath. At night, Petey reads Howard Zinn, blogs about sustainable eating, and edits film. Morrison tweets.
He is in a constant conversation with his Twitter army, having broadcast, at last count, 10,800 messages to 96,022 followers. Morrison might not yet be one of the league's elite ballplayers, but when it comes to Twitter stats, he's Babe Ruth. For example, two-time Cy Young Award winner Roy Halladay — sample tweet: "Happy Earth Day and remember to do your part and help the environment" — has only 8,000 followers. Even superstar Yankee Alex Rodriguez has just 48,000. Morrison's numbers are still dwarfed by sports' reigning king of acting a fool on Twitter, Chad Ochocinco, who has more than 3 million followers.
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MOST "hypoallergenic" and "fragrance-free" moisturisers contain potential irritants, experts have warned.
US researchers put popular creams and lotions to the test and discovered that many manufacturers could be putting people with sensitive skin at risk of rashes.
They found that 45 per cent of moisturisers claiming to be "fragrance-free" contained a botanical ingredient or fragrance cross reactor.
And 83 per cent of products claiming to be "hypoallergenic" included potentially allergenic chemicals.
Creams and moisturisers do not have to go through testing by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, so manufacturers do not have to list every ingredient in their product.
When it comes to price, products with a "dermatologist recommended" label tended to cost 15p more per ounce than those that did not.
Study author Steve Xu, a resident physician in dermatology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, said: "We looked into what it means to be 'dermatologist-recommended' and it doesn't mean much because it could be three dermatologists recommending it or 1,000."
The study looked at the ingredients and performance of the top 100 best-selling moisturisers bought online and in stores.
They looked for the presence of ingredients represented in the North American Contact Dermatitis Group (NACDG), which determines if a product contains typical skin allergens such as fragrance mix, parabens (preservatives used in cosmetics) or tocopherol (organic chemical compounds containing vitamin E).
Only 12 per cent of the best selling moisturisers were free of NACDG allergens.
Moisturisers are a great solution for patients with skin disorders because they retain moisture in the skin, reduce inflammation, help prevent infection, are widely available and are largely affordable, Xu said.
"If manufacturers did list all the ingredients, their labels would be 75 pages," Xu said.
"As it stands now, patients have a challenging time making an informed decision by glancing at the back of the bottle.
"Our study highlights that and aims to make that search easier on consumers by informing dermatologists.
"There's a huge loophole relating to fragrances, which is the number one cause of skin allergies related to cosmetics."
The top three most affordable moisturisers that were free of NACDG ingredients, according to the research, were Ivory raw unrefined shea butter, Vaseline original petroleum jelly and Smellgood African shea butter.
Products currently on the market that are free of typical skin allergens include white petroleum jelly, certain coconut oils that are cold-pressed and not refined, Vanicream's hypoallergenic products and Aveeno Eczema Therapy moisturising cream, they said.
Xu added: "The more we know about the science behind moisturisers, the better we can guide our patients to what they like, what is safe and what is affordable.
"We could recommend a moisturiser that has no allergy risk and is affordable and effective, but if the patient doesn't like it, it's a wasted recommendation.
"We need to program into our minds to think differently and strike that fine balance between safe ingredients and user preference."


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Open Source software is always trustworthy, right? Last year, Bertus broke a story about a malicious Python package called "Colourama". When used, it secretly installs a VBscript that watches the system clipboard for a Bitcoin address and replaces that address with a hardcoded one. Essentially this plugin attempts to redirects Bitcoin payments to whoever wrote the "colourama" library.
Why would anyone install this thing? There is a legitimate package named "Colorama" that takes ANSI color commands and translates them to the Windows terminal. It's a fairly popular library, but more importantly, the name contains a word with multiple spellings. If you ask a friend to recommend a color library and she says "coulourama" with a British accent, you might just spell it that way. So the attack is simple: copy the original project's code into a new misspelled project, and add a nasty surprise.
Sneaking malicious software into existing codebases isn't new, and this particular cheap and easy attack vector has a name: "typo-squatting". But how did this package get hosted on PyPi, the main source of community contributed goodness for Python? How many of you have downloaded packages from PyPi without looking through all of the source? pip install colorama? We'd guess that it's nearly all who use Python.
It's not just Python, either. A similar issue was found on the NPM javascript repository in 2017. A user submitted a handful of new packages, all typo-squatting on existing, popular packages. Each package contained malicious code that grabbed environment variables and uploaded them to the author. How many web devs installed these packages in a hurry?
Of course, this problem isn't unique to open source. "Abstractism" was a game hosted on Steam, until it was discovered to be mining Monero while gamers were playing. There are plenty of other examples of malicious software masquerading as something else – a sizable chunk of my day job is cleaning up computers after someone tried to download Flash Player from a shady website.
In the open source world, we've become accustomed to simply downloading libraries that purport to do exactly the cool thing we're looking for, and none of us have the time to pore through the code line by line. How can you trust them?
Repositories like PyPi do a good job of faithfully packaging the libraries and programs that are submitted to them. As the size of these repositories grows, it becomes less and less practical for every package to be manually reviewed. PyPi lists 156,750 projects. Automated scanning like Bertus was doing is a great step towards keeping malicious code out of our repositories. Indeed, Bertus has found eleven other malicious packages while testing the PyPi repository. But cleverer hackers will probably find their way around automated testing.
That the libraries are open source does add an extra layer of reliability, because the code can in principle be audited by anyone, anytime. As libraries are used, bugs are found, and features are added, more and more people are intentionally and unintentionally reviewing the code. In the "colourama" example, a long Base64 string was decoded and executed. It doesn't take a professional researcher to realize something fishy is going on. At some point, enough people have reviewed a codebase that it can be reasonably trusted. "Colorama" has well over a thousand stars on Github, and 28 contributors. But did you check that before downloading it?
Typo-squatting abuses trust, taking advantage of a similar name and whoever isn't paying quite close enough attention. It's not practical for every user to check every package in their operating system. How, then, do we have any trust in any install? Cryptography solves some of these problems, but it cannot overcome the human element. A typo in a URL, trusting a brand new project, or even obfuscated C code can fool the best of us from time to time.
What's the solution? How do we have any confidence in any of our software? When downloading from the web, there are some good habits that go a long way to protect against attacks. Cross check that the project's website and source code actually point to each other. Check for typos in URLs. Don't trust a download just because it's located on a popular repository.
But most importantly, check the project's reputation, the number of contributors to the project, and maybe even their reputation. You wouldn't order something on eBay without checking the seller's feedback, would you? Do the same for software libraries.
A further layer of security can be found in using libraries supported by popular distributions. In quality distributions, each package has a maintainer that is familiar with the project being maintained. While they aren't checking each line of code of every project, they are ensuring that "colorama" gets packaged instead of "colourama". In contrast to PyPi's 156,750 Python modules, Fedora packages only around 4,000. This selection is a good thing.
Repositories like PyPi and NPM are simply not the carefully curated sources of trustworthy software that we sometimes think them to be– and we should act accordingly. Look carefully into the project's reputation. If the library is packaged by your distribution of choice, you can probably pass this job off to the distribution's maintainers.
At the end of the day, short of going through the code line by line, some trust anchor is necessary. If you're blindly installing random libraries, even from a "trustworthy" repository, you're letting your guard down.
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Aidan Moffat's foray into traditional music began mischievously but ended up being very moving, writes Alistair Braidwood
Last year I was lucky enough to witness one of those legendary Barras' nights – a real "I was there" evening. It was the final gig of Aidan Moffat's Where You're Meant To Be tour, his travelogue of Scotland and its traditional music. Moffat had an idea to update traditional tunes and songs and make them more relevant to a contemporary, and in particular urban, Scotland. The tour was filmed and the results were shown at the recent Glasgow Film Festival. For anyone interested in Scottish music, and not just Aidan Moffat, it's a film I urge you to see. Sometimes there are tears, sometimes there is laughter, and by the end you're hoping for a happy ever after. But then, this is Scottish folk music meets Aidan Moffat. What are the chances?
Moffat says early on that the simple idea behind Where You're Meant To Be was to have a giggle, touring the country and performing his adaptions. Most of these songs are originally rooted in the country, part of a rural Scotland that Moffat, and much of modern Scotland, doesn't easily identify with. At one point he asks why folk songs have to be about hills and heather? Why can't they be about glass and neon? That's what he tries to install, performing the songs in his own style, and there's little doubt his tongue is firmly in his cheek when he does so (his filmed homages to Tom Weir and Robert The Bruce only confirm this). And then he meets Sheila Stewart.
Moffat will have been aware that many would immediately take against this undertaking, and you can't shake the feeling that his love for mischief as well as his love of music is behind his decision to take his versions into the heartland of the originals. However, that's with regard to mostly unknown crowds who he can confront, confuse and hopefully convert, before moving on. When he initially gets to spend time with Sheila Stewart, a legendary traditional singer of Scottish folk music whom he obviously admires (the film is in part a tribute and love letter to her) he tries to convince her of the validity of what he's trying to achieve, but she gives him the shortest of shrift. In her critical response, traditions and worlds collide. Many of Moffat's songs are set in a world of drink, drugs and dance music. You can argue that so are Sheila's, just of a different vintage. What also unites them are that their songs are dark, and downbeat – often concerning tales of love gone wrong, inevitably. It takes a while, but there is a growing realisation that these songs and the world they are from are perhaps not so different after all.
The aforementioned night at Glasgow's Barrowland Ballroom, where Moffat performs with his wonderful band and also invites those singers he has met on the road to share the stage, is a fitting end to proceedings. It's a celebration of music, the perfect final stop on his travels, and he does seem a different man by the end. The resulting film provides the promised laughs that Moffat was after, but lessons are learned and traditions reassessed. What stays with you are the more poignant scenes, where the power of music is clear; how it can comfort, heal and help remember, but never forget. As with Moffat's own songs, and helped by his pitch-perfect narration, the film is a mixture of dark humour, loss and reflection. You wouldn't expect an anything less.
This is a clip from the screening at the Glasgow Film Festival, and is perhaps the perfect summation of what Moffat was attempting to do as there is great music, an updated version of a traditional song, and also a laugh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDYOI_J772Q
Alistair Braidwood blogs at the very fine http://www.scotswhayhae.com where an earlier version of this article first appeared.
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