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Civility Center Staff & Consultants
Civility Center Staff and Consultants
Our staff work with consultants that we have gathered from all sectors of the legal profession. These experts help design our seminars, consulting projects, and custom programs. Many also serve as presenters and facilitators at our seminars.
Paula Lustbader, J.D.
Genevieve Williams Geiger, M.P.A.
Scott Petit, M.A., LMHC
Ricardo Ibarra, B.S.
William Galloway, J.D.
Michael Djordjevich, CPA
Hon. Benes Z. Aldana, J.D.
G. Andrew H. Benjamin, J.D. Ph.D., ABPP
David Boerner, J.D.
Lisa Brodoff, J.D.
Giuseppe De Palo, M.S., J.D., LL.M.
Justice Mary E. Fairhurst, J.D.
Tim Jaasko-Fisher, M.A., J.D.
Stella Rabaut, M.A., J.D.
Craig Sims, J.D.
Sumeer Singla, J.D.
Ronald R. Ward, J.D.
Debra Wiley, M.A., J.D.
Justice Mary I. Yu, M.A., J.D.
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Learn more about Justice Yu
King5.com, "Mary Yu appointed to state Supreme Court"
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The Stranger, "Who's marrying the first gay couple? Judge Mary Yu"
Justice, Washington State Supreme Court
Mary Yu was appointed to the Washington Supreme Court effective May 16, 2014, and subsequently elected for the remainder of a two-year term. Justice Yu joined the Supreme Court after more than 14 years as an accomplished trial court judge in King County Superior Court where she presided over a wide variety of criminal, civil, and juvenile cases, and presided over hundreds of adoptions and other family law matters. As a trial court judge, Justice Yu became known for treating everyone with respect and fairness, approaching each case with an open mind and understanding that each decision has an impact on an individual's life.
Prior to becoming a judge, Justice Yu served as Deputy Chief of Staff to King County Prosecutor Norm Maleng and as a deputy in the Criminal and Civil Divisions. Before attending law school, Justice Yu worked in the Peace and Justice Office for the Archdiocese of Chicago, first as staff and later appointed by Cardinal Joseph Bernardin as Director of that Office.
Justice Yu has a deep record of service both on and off the bench, mentoring young attorneys, law clerks and students, co-chairing the Court's Minority and Justice Commission, teaching at Seattle University School of Law and serving there as Jurist in Residence, co-chairing the Washington State Bar Association/University of Washington Law School Leadership Institute, serving on the board of FareStart and the advisory board for the University of Washington School of Law's Gates Public Service Program. She is personally devoted to the Civility Project of the Robert's Fund Foundation and to the Seattle Girls' School Mock Trials, serving as their judge for the last eleven years.
Justice Yu was raised in Bridgeport, a south side neighborhood in Chicago, by immigrant parents; her mother came from Mexico and her father from China. She is the first in her family to graduate from college. She received her B.A. from Dominican University, M.A., Religious Studies, from Mundelein College of Loyola University in Chicago, and J.D. from the University of Notre Dame Law School.
Justice Yu is the recipient of the following awards: 2015 Woman of the Year from the Seattle University School of Law and Women's Law Caucus; 2014 Judge of the Year from the Washington State Association for Justice; 2014 Betty B. Fletcher Judge of the Year Award from Washington Women Lawyers, King County Chapter; 2013 Public Official of the Year from the Municipal League Foundation; 2013 Latina/o Amicus Award from Seattle University School of Law Latina/o Law Student Association; 2012 President's Award from the Asian Bar Association of Washington; 2012 Difference Makers Award from the American Bar Association Solo, Small Firm and General Practice Division; the 2011 Judge of the Year award from the Washington State Bar Association (shared with Justice Gonzalez); 2011 Seattle Girls' School Grace Hopper Award; 2009 Norm Maleng Award from the Washington State Bar Association; 2008 Judge of the Year from the Asian Bar Association; 2008 President's Award from Washington Women Lawyers; 2006 Model of Excellence Award from the Latina/o Bar Association of Washington; the 2005 Judge of the Year award from the American Board of Trial Advocates; and the 2005 Reah Whitehead Public Leadership Award from Seattle University School of Law.
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We invite you to join the Traffic Strings Concert on Wednesday, 08 September 2012, at 20:30 after the Welcome reception at Aula Magna.
About TRAFFIC STRINGS
The musicians who are part of TRAFFIC STRINGS play with sensitivity and virtuosity. They approach each musical genre with exquisite feeling. Their orchestrations are innovative yet true to the original compositions. The manner in which TRAFFIC STRINGS perform is both profound and authentic.
TRAFFIC STRINGS appeal to each and every music lover. Whether you enjoy listening to the rich heritage of Romanian folklore or to Bach and Vivaldi or to a cocktail of sound and rhythm in their tango , jazz, or instrumental pop/rock concerts, TRAFFIC STRINGS are sure to enthrall you.
Their concerts are bound to fill you with energy. Once you have taken a pill of TRAFFIC STRINGS, your life will be much more beautiful. TRAFFIC STRINGS are like a drug that heals the souls of their listeners. Their music is fraught with joy, hope and love.
The group first album resulted from a prolific collaboration which they had with the famous panpipes player Gheorghe Zamfir. This material contains a variant of the Vivaldi's Seasons, arranged in a special way by Lucian Moraru, the founder of the group. The latter used the panpipes instead of the solist violin, obtaining a real premiere in the field. The other two albums were presented to the public in 2009 and 2013 and these are Tango Finesse and Tango Aficionado which include some of the most seductive authentic tangoes, performed with a new, innovative instrumental shape. It certainly comes as a surprise when the orchestration for the tango music supposes the use of the panpipe to which it is added the chords quintet, the accordion, piano and in certain musical fragments, the percussion rhythm instruments.
The fourth album of the group called Traffic Strings Live in Concert creates addiction. The album contains famous musical pieces, but due to the new and unusual manner for the classic music interpretation, these "offer the listeners the feeling of freshness and the spectacular brightness of the fireworks". (Loredana Baltazar)
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Cher's films – ranked!
Guy Lodge
# Cher
She has just turned 75 and there's a new biopic in the works. What better time to look back at a film CV that's full of memorable roles?
10. If These Walls Could Talk (1996)
HBO produced this heavy-handed but affecting anthology film on the topic of abortion, premiering it at the Toronto film festival on the combined star clout of Demi Moore, Sissy Spacek and, of course, Cher, who also directed the third (and best) of its segments. It remains her only directorial credit, and she would have done well to keep at it. She shows a sure touch with actors, herself included, uncharacteristically restrained as a benevolent abortion doctor working through a violent anti-choice protest. It is enough to make you wonder whether HBO should have kept her on its books. Surely there could have been a place in The Sopranos for Cher.
9. Stuck on You (2003)
By the 00s, Cher had mostly checked out of acting: cue a brief phase of as-herself cameos, including two droll appearances in Will & Grace, and a slightly more extended gag role in this surprisingly tame Farrelly Brothers comedy about conjoined twins attempting to make it in Hollywood. As the haughty superstar Cher, who hits on the exploitative idea of sabotaging a dreadful sitcom she is contractually obliged to star in by choosing one of the twins as her co-lead, she cannily and wittily caricatures herself, not letting her mere casting be the joke. Her salty comic timing is more on point than anything else in this oddity.
8. Suspect (1987)
With three starring vehicles, 1987 was Cher's annus mirabilis as an actor; the year it seemed she might actually become a full-time movie star and put her pop career second. This gripping, if hokily plotted, legal thriller was the oddest fit for her. As a Washington DC public defender assigned to a deaf, homeless Vietnam vet accused of a high-profile murder, she struts around in her character's drab grey suits as if she might at any point shed them to reveal a leather-and-lace leotard beneath. What she does bring, however, is the fierce conviction necessary to pull off a ludicrous, twist-bearing courtroom monologue at the climax.
New broom … Cher battles for screen supremacy with Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer and Susan Sandon in The Witches of Eastwick. Photograph: Allstar/Warner Bros
7. The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
In the first of her 1987 successes, Cher had a lot of star power to compete with. She was one of the titular suburban sorceresses, sure, but so were Michelle Pfeiffer and Susan Sarandon, and all three were working opposite Jack Nicholson as the devilish lothario they summon. And yet, in this popular but overblown adaptation of John Updike's subtler, nastier sexual satire, she comes off best. As Alexandra, a wry, wary artist and single mother, her slightly jaded sensuality feels closer to Updike's tone than the others, and she is the steeliest sparring partner for Nicholson's manic mugging. She beat his then-lover Anjelica Huston to the role, but Huston would have the last laugh, pipping Cher to roles in The Grifters and The Addams Family.
She Shoops, she scores … Cher in Mermaids. Photograph: AF archive/Alamy
6. Mermaids (1990)
Having initially been cast opposite the then-rising British starlet Emily Lloyd in this sweetly quirky family drama, Cher objected that they didn't look sufficiently alike to be convincing as mother and daughter. Lloyd was booted off in favour of the star's preferred choice, Winona Ryder, and successfully sued the studio for a six-figure sum. It was worth the trouble: as an introverted teen and the flighty mother who repeatedly mortifies her, the pair clash and quarrel on screen with an intensity that gives the otherwise bouncy proceedings some ballast. Meanwhile, it is also the film that gave Cher (who had hitherto kept her singing and acting careers largely separate) that joyous, chart-topping cover of The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss) – a win all round.
5. Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982)
Nobody has a kind word for the Golden Globes these days, but here's one: they were the only major awards to nominate Cher for this stagey, strangely haunting Robert Altman curio, and they were right to do so. She is imaginatively cast and deeply moving as Sissy, a small-town washout attending a rather tragic reunion for a James Dean fanclub. This was Cher's first serious film role after some flimsy attempts to cash in on her Sonny & Cher stardom more than a decade before, and Altman thoughtfully plays on her then-tacky public persona: the character's gradually revealed sexual and bodily insecurities catch us by surprise.
Showgirl … Cher in the burgeoning camp classic Burlesque. Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/Allstar Collection/Screen Gems
4. Burlesque (2010)
Unless you count her film-lifting cameo at the end of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, this garish, wonderfully knowing backstage musical was Cher's last major film role, as well as her first in more than a decade. The verve and good humour with which she attacks it make one wish she had made more. Ostensibly, it is Christina Aguilera's vehicle: she plays an aspiring performer who makes it as the star attraction of Cher's Sunset Strip burlesque club. But the elder diva eats her alive, from her first, witheringly delivered putdown ("And you are in my mirror because?") onwards, and also knocks out the film's funniest musical number in Welcome to Burlesque: equal parts Bob Fosse zazz and Mae West leer. Why Cher didn't make more movie musicals is a question for Hollywood's conscience, but this burgeoning camp classic is one to treasure.
3. Silkwood (1983)
Cher often tells an anecdote about being in the back of a public cinema when the first trailer for Mike Nichols's Oscar-targeting Karen Silkwood biopic played, and being devastated by the audience's laughter when her name cropped up on screen. Surely nobody was laughing – for any reason – when they finally saw this solemn drama, in which Meryl Streep excels as the eponymous nuclear whistleblower. That was to be expected: the surprise was Cher matching her beat for beat as Silkwood's rough-edged lesbian roommate Dolly Pelliker, her standard glitz a distant memory beneath lank, shadowing locks and gangly body language. But this wasn't an empty deglam stunt: there is a real, wounded person beneath the unflattering get-up.
2. Mask (1985)
After winning best actress at Cannes for this surprise Peter Bogdanovich hit, Cher was annoyed not to be nominated at the Oscars. Gamely showing up as a presenter in a magnificent headdress, she pointedly quipped: "As you can see, I got my handbook on how to dress like a serious actress." Her pique was justified. As Rusty Dennis, the fiercely protective biker-chick mother of a teen with disfiguring craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, she had finally found the role that meshed her transformative acting ambitions with her naturally larger-than-life persona, while her spiky tenderness saves the film from maudlin disease-of-the-week territory. This ought to have been her Erin Brockovich or The Blind Side, although the Academy would rectify that two years later.
'Snap out of it!" … Cher and Nicolas Cage in Moonstruck. Photograph: Sunset Boulevard/Corbis/Getty Images
1. Moonstruck (1987)
"Snap out of it!" With apologies to her formidable set of rivals for the 1987 best actress Oscar – including her bestie Meryl Streep and perennial bridesmaid Glenn Close – Cher probably won it the second she hard-slapped Nicolas Cage across the face with that much-quoted but peerlessly incensed line reading. Everything came together perfectly for her here: a funny, full-hearted script, a perfectly integrated supporting ensemble, and a leading role as the romantically bewildered Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini, smartly synced to her own persona's blend of been-around-the-block weariness and witchy glamour. Small wonder her interest in acting seemed to wane after she got the gong: she had nothing left to prove.
Guy Lodge is an Observer film columnist and the chief UK film critic for Variety
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Q: change only the color of the button clicked and the others return to the original color VueJS I have 3 buttons, when I click on one of them, the other two would like them to go back to the original color
my html
       <div class="col-md-8 row gutter-sm opts">
          <q-btn
            id='1'
            class="col-md-2 opt"
            label="OPTIONS 1"
            style="color: white"
            @click="filters(1);"
          />
          <q-btn
            id='2'
            class="col-md-2 opt"
            label="OPTIONS 2"
            style="color: white"
            @click="filters(2);"
          />
          <q-btn
            id='3'
            class="col-md-2 opt"
            label="OPTIONS 3"
            style="color: white"
            @click="filters(3);"
          />
       </div>

my JS
   methods: {
      filters(id){
         var select = id
         document.getElementsByClassName("opt").style.backgroundColor="white"
         document.getElementById(select).style.backgroundColor='black'
      }
   }

A: If you have VUE, you should not try and manipulate the DOM yourself.
Add a data variable "selected" and store say the id of the selected button
ON render, bind the style property to a computed and you can set the style based on the selected property of the data property.
For your button do something like this:
<button :style="[selected===1 ? {'background': '#333'}: {'background': '#FFF'}]">

and then store selected in the data so your method only sets the selected = id

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Designed exclusively for girls, we are the only independent, private all-through girls' school in Edinburgh (from 2-18 years). St George's was founded by pioneering women who were passionate about achieving equal opportunities for their students. We are still pioneers in women's education, and we never see gender as a barrier to our girls' aspirations. Surrounded by positive female role models, your daughter will have opportunities to discover new talents and skills and to develop her academic potential.
We are small enough (at about 800) to know your daughter really well, and yet we are large enough, especially in the examination years, to offer an impressively wide range of subjects and courses. Transitions are managed smoothly and secondary education begins early, in Primary 7, where our girls relish the intellectual challenge of being taught by subject specialists.
Our academic results are consistently outstanding, with most of the students going on to their first choice of university. We offer a mixture of Scottish and English qualifications. The teaching sets are small, with individual attention assured for each student.
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You will find on this page all the celebrity horoscopes for a birth on March 17, sorted by decreasing popularity.
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Kurt Vogel Russell (born March 17, 1951 (birth time source: Gauquelin, birth certificate)) is an American actor. He began acting on television in the western series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963–1964). In the late 1960s, he signed a ten-year contract with The Walt Disney Company where, according to Robert Osborne, he became the studio's top star of the 1970s.
Lee Alexander McQueen, CBE (16 March 1969 – 11 February 2010) was an English fashion designer known for his unconventional designs and shock tactics. McQueen worked as the head designer at Givenchy for five years before founding the Alexander McQueen and McQ labels.
Claire Boucher (born March 17, 1988), better known by her stage name Grimes, is a Canadian artist, musician, and music video director. A native of Vancouver, Grimes began recording experimental music while attending McGill University in Montréal, where she became involved with the underground electronic and industrial music scene.
José Garcia (French pronunciation: ; born 17 March 1966 in Paris), sometimes credited as José Luis Garcia, is a Spanish-French film and television actor. Career Since 1989, Garcia has made acting appearances in over forty-five films. Additionally, he has made appearances, some in acting roles but mostly as himself, in over twenty television productions.
Robert Hepler Lowe (born March 17, 1964) is an American actor. He became famous after appearing in popular 1980s movies such as The Outsiders and St. Elmo's Fire, which included other members of the Brat Pack. Lowe is also known for his role as Sam Seaborn on The West Wing and as Senator Robert McCallister on Brothers & Sisters.
Tamar Braxton-Herbert (pronounced Tay-mar) (born March 17, 1977), still commonly known as Tamar Braxton, is an American R&B singer-songwriter and reality television personality. She rose to fame in the 1990s as a founding member of the R&B group, The Braxtons. The Braxtons released their debut album So Many Ways in 1996 along with four singles "So Many Ways", "Only Love", "The Boss" and "Slow Flow" In 2011, Tamar Braxton reunited with her sisters, The Braxtons, for the WE tv reality show, Braxton Family Values.
Rudolf Nureyev (Tatar form Rudolf Xämät ulı Nuriev, Russian Рудольф Хаметович Нуриев) (17 March 1938 – 6 January 1993), a Tatar ballet dancer, is regarded as one of the greatest male dancers of the 20th century, alongside Vaslav Nijinsky and Mikhail Baryshnikov.
Andrew Hozier-Byrne (born 17 March 1990 (birth time source: himself on Twitter "sometime just before 6am" https://twitter.com/Hozier/status/747551791512903680.lang=en), known as Hozier, is an Irish musician and singer-songwriter from Bray, County Wicklow. In 2013, he released his debut EP, featuring the hit single "Take Me to Church", and his second EP From Eden in 2014.
Mia Hamm (born Mariel Margaret Hamm on March 17, 1972 in Selma, Alabama) is a former American soccer player. Playing for many years as a forward for the United States women's national soccer team, she scored more international goals in her career than any other player, male or female, in the history of the sport (158).
Patrick G. Duffy (born March 17, 1949 in Townsend, Montana) is an American television actor, who appeared primarily in soap operas and television. He is best known as Bobby Ewing, on the CBS series Dallas, and as Suzanne Somers's husband, Frank Lambert, on the ABC television sitcom Step by Step.
Nathaniel Adams Coles, known professionally as Nat King Cole (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965) was a popular American singer, songwriter, and jazz pianist. He first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist, then switched his emphasis to singing, becoming one of the most popular and best-known singers of the 1950s.
Gary Alan Sinise (born March 17, 1955) is an Emmy and Golden Globe winning, Golden Palm and Academy Award nominated American actor and film director. In 1992, he directed the film and played the role of George Milton in the movie adaption of Of Mice and Men.
Nicole Natalie Marrow (née Austin) (born March 17, 1979 (birth time source: Viktor E., Astrodatabank, birth certificate)) commonly known as Coco Austin, Coco, Coco Marie Austin, Coco Marie, Coco-T, is an American actress, dancer, glamour model and web personality. She has been married to rapper-actor Ice-T since 2001.
Nathalie Marquay Pernaud is French comedian and a former Miss France, born March 17, 1967 in Comines (birth time source: Astrotheme, civil registrar, acte n° 56). She is the wife of French journalist Jean-Pierre Pernaud, and has two children, Tom and Lou.
Elis Regina Carvalho Costa, known simply as Elis Regina (March 17, 1945 – January 19, 1982) was a singer of Brazilian popular music who achieved great success and recognition during her lifetime. She remains one of the most popular and beloved stars in Brazil.
Daniel Lavoie (born Gérald Lavoie; March 17, 1949 (birth time source: Canadian Astrology Collection, Astrodatabank) ; French pronunciation: ) is a Canadian singer–songwriter, actor, producer, poet and radio host, best known for his song "Ils s'aiment" and the role of Frollo in musical Notre-Dame de Paris.
Patricia "Patti" Elvina Hansen (born March 17, 1956) is a former American model and actress. Early life and career Hansen, who is of Norwegian ancestry, was born and raised in the Tottenville section of Staten Island, New York. The youngest of six children, Hansen was discovered by photographer Peter Gert at age 14.
John Boyega (born 17 March 1992) is a British actor, best known for playing Moses in the 2011 science fiction film Attack the Block. Early life Boyega was born in Peckham, South London, and his first role was that of a leopard in a play at his primary school at the age of 5.
Patricia Pualani Ford (Waialae) (born March 17, 1969 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is a popular American model of multi-ethnic ancestry (German, Irish, Chinese, Portuguese and Hawaiian). Height: 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) Weight: 105 lb (48 kg) Career Patricia Ford was born in 1969 and raised in Honolulu, but she also lived in Waianae during that time.
Melissa Gaboriau Auf der Maur (born March 17, 1972) is a Canadian rock musician of Franco-Swiss ancestry, who currently resides in Montreal, Quebec. She is also a published photographer. The name "Maur", pronounced to rhyme with "power", is derived from the German word for wall (Mauer), thus her full surname can be literally translated as "On the Wall".
Denise Labbé, born March 17, 1926 in Melesse, is a French infanticide: she drowned her daughter Catherine (born 4/26/52) on 11/08/1954 with Jacques Algarron (born 2/26/1930) and condemned to life sentence.
Peter D. Ouspensky (March 5 (OS), 1878, Moscow (March 17 NS (Gregorian calendar) - October 2, 1947, Lyne Place, Surrey, England), (Pyotr Demianovich Ouspenskii, also Uspenskii or Uspensky) was a Russian philosopher who invoked geometry in his discussions of psychology and higher dimensions of existence.
Dana Reeve (March 17, 1961 – March 6, 2006) was an American actress, singer, and activist for disability causes. She was also the wife of actor Christopher Reeve. Early life and family Reeve was born Dana Charles Morosini in Teaneck, New Jersey to Charles Morosini, a cardiologist, and Helen Simpson Morosini, who died in 2005.
Edgard Grospiron, born March 17, 1969 in Lélex, is a French acrobatic ski olympic champion (Olympic gold metal in Oberjoch, 1989, Olympic gold metal in Lake Placid, 1991, Olympic gold metal in La Clusaz, 1995).
Sydne Rome (born March 17, 1951) is a United States-born, Italy-based film actress. Her first name is often misspelled Sydney or Sidney. Born in Akron, Rome grew up in a wealthy family in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Her father was president of a very successful Akron area plastics corporation.
Frédérique Bedos, born March 17, 1971 in Mont-Saint-Aignan, Normandy, is a French TV host, radio host and journalist.
Kyle Elliot Korver (born March 17, 1981) is an American basketball player, who currently plays for the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association. He plays shooting guard. Career Korver was drafted out of Creighton University by the New Jersey Nets in the second round (51st overall) of the 2003 NBA Draft; his draft rights were traded to the Philadelphia 76ers for cash considerations in a draft-night deal.
Caroline Georgina Corr MBE (born 17 March 1973, in Dundalk, County Louth) is the drummer for the folk-rock band, The Corrs. Caroline is 5'4", the second shortest after Andrea Corr in the band & family. In addition to the drums, Caroline also plays the bodhrán, piano, and occasional backing vocals.
Ann Wigmore (1909-1994) was a holistic health practitioner, nutritionist, whole foods advocate, and a doctor of Divinity. With Viktoras Kulvinskas, she co-founded the Hippocrates Health Institute (rated as one of the top health resorts by the International Spa Industry). She was an early pioneer in the use of wheatgrass juice and living foods for detoxifying and healing the body, mind, and spirit.
Adrien de Durand de Prémorel or Adrien de Prémorel (born March 17 1889 in Brussels, Belgium - died February 28 1968) was a French-speaking Belgian writer.
Thoinot Arbeau is the anagrammatic pen name of French cleric Jehan Tabourot (March 17, 1520, Dijon - July 23, 1595, Langres). Tabourot is most famous for his Orchésographie, a study of late sixteenth-century French Renaissance social dance. The manual provides critical information on social ballroom behaviour and on the interaction of musicians and dancers.
Mary Weir, better known as Molly (17 March 1910 - 28 November 2004) was an accomplished Scottish stage actress, best known to legions of children as the long-running (1977-1984) character Hazel the McWitch the Scottish Ghost in the BBC TV series, Rentaghost.
Julia Winter (born 17 March 1993(1993-03-17) in Stockholm) is a Swedish born English child actress. Background Winter was born in Sweden and grew up in London, England. She is fluent in both Swedish and English. She attends Sigtunaskolan Humanistiska Läroverket, a boarding school in Sigtuna, Sweden.
Amelia Heinle (born March 17, 1973) is an American actress best known for her work on daytime soap operas. From 1993-1995, she played the role of Stephanie "Steffi" Brewster on the soap opera Loving. She also played the character for two months in that show's short-lived spin off The City from November 1995 until January 1996.
Alexandre Arcady is a French actor, film director, producer and screenwriter. Biography Alexandre Arcady was born on March 17, 1947 in Algiers, French Algeria (birth time source: Didier Geslain). He immigrated to France at the age of 15. He is Jewish. He expressed his surprise at the "lack of leadership" of Israel during the Arab Spring, and he called Israel "the most advanced democracy in the Middle East".
Alain Jérôme, born March 17, 1936 in Paris, is a French journalist, TV host, former actor and film producer. Filmography Rebelle, Le (1980) .. Jean-Claude .. aka The Rebel (International: English title) Himself 40 ans de la 2, Les (2004) (TV) (also archive footage) .
William Withering (17 March 1741 – 6 October 1799) was an English botanist, geologist, chemist, physician and the discoverer of digitalis. Introduction Withering was born in Wellington, Shropshire, trained as a physician and studied at the University of Edinburgh. He worked at Birmingham General Hospital from 1779.
Élie Baup (born March 17, 1955 in Saint-Gaudens (birth time source: Astrotheme, civil registrar)) is a former French football player and now a manager. Coaching Career He won the French championship with the FC Girondins de Bordeaux in 1999. Fired in October 2003 by the president Jean-Louis Triaud, Baup signed for AS Saint-Étienne in 2004 with one of his favourite player: Pascal Feindouno.
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Briana Blankenship has a daughter named Taylor; Taylor is five and was diagnosed as "nonverbal" on the autism spectrum. Unlike most parents who can look forward to their children hitting certain milestones like taking their first steps or saying their first words, Briana doesn't have that hope. Taylor may understand some of what's said, but she doesn't communicate through speech.
Incredibly, something amazing occurred one day in the McDonald's drive-through. Briana shared this story with the Love what Matters Facebook page.
"I am ugly crying in the McDonald's parking lot, and the employees probably think I'm crazy. In the drive-thru, I suddenly heard Taylor say 'MAMA.
"As soon as she said it I grabbed my phone and started recording. I'm pretty sure I held up the drive-thru line, but there was no way I wasn't getting proof of this.
Sometimes life throws surprises our way when we least expect them. It sounds like Briana needed this from Taylor at this exact moment. Watch the video below and prepare to be awed.


Paul Figgiani sent me a link to Schmedley. It's like the OS X dashboard inside the browser. The fact that you can do this kind of thing in a browser still amazes me.
Update: I wrote more about Schmedley at BTL this afternoon.


Traumatic Brain Injuries: Better understand traumatic brain injuries (TBI), and how stigma affects the people who have them.
Article: Judgment Varies with TBI. Dr. Donna Langenbahn, Rusk Rehabilitation at NYU's Langone Medical Center, differentiates between the various types of stigma experienced by people who have a TBI. Her engaging and easy-to-read style helps clarify how common behaviors and misperceptions can be harmful.
Article: The Hidden Pain of Traumatic Brain Injury. College student Arleigha Cook writes about the pain and isolation she experienced after her fourth and final concussion.


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Drug insurance policy brings hope to patients
A technician checks medical equipment at a hospital in Boao, Hainan province, on Oct 22. [Photo by Yuan Chen/For China Daily]
A global drug insurance policy newly launched in the Boao Lecheng International Medical Tourism Pilot Zone of Hainan province is providing timely assistance to hard-hit patients on and away from the tropical island, said officials with the zone administration.
A man surnamed Li, an 85-year-old resident of Qiongzhong, central Hainan, was diagnosed with lung cancer in October.
"My doctor asked me to use a new domestic immunotherapy drug. The drug costs about 555,000 yuan ($83,669) a year, which is way out of my league," Li said.
What was comforting to the Li family was that the bill will be 100 percent covered, thanks to a licensed drug insurance policy Li bought in September. Li's claim was settled in two weeks, said Lai Xingfan, a manager in charge of the zone's special drug insurance service.
The Boao zone was established in 2013 to pilot development of international medical tourism-related businesses and services, such as licensed medical treatment, cancer prevention and treatment, healthcare management, rehabilitation and anti-aging medicines.
Jointly introduced by the pilot zone and leading insurance companies, the trailblazing medical insurance policy covers foreign medicines yet to be approved domestically, with an annual premium of 29 yuan for Hainan islanders since August, and 39 yuan for residents of all nationalities in other Chinese regions since Nov 11.The insurance covers up to 1 million yuan in drug costs for all those eligible.
The government-backed insurance policies cover 70 cancer drugs for 35 common cancers, among which 49 medicines are yet to be approved for sale in other parts of the Chinese mainland market. More than 1 million customers have purchased the insurance by late November, according to the administration.
The new moves followed the release of a master plan for the construction of Hainan Free Trade Port on June 1, which encourages Hainan FTP to explore innovation in the medical services sector.
Shen Danyang, vice-governor of Hainan, said the special drug insurance products will enable domestic patients to share policy dividends of Hainan FTP to enjoy medical products and services in line with international peers at the most preferential prices.
The quick expansion of the special drug insurance coverage from Hainan to the whole country indicates Boao Lecheng has made a big step forward in becoming a platform for China's medical and healthcare industry.
So far a total of 60 customers have made claims as patients suffering from breast cancer, lung cancer, thyroid cancer, prostate cancer, liver cancer, esophageal cancer, gastric cancer and other diseases.
"The global franchise licensed drug insurance is a new achievement of system integration and innovation made by the pilot zone to promote the domestic and international dual circulation strategy. It is also a new innovative medical security measure to help accelerate the construction of Hainan FTP and enable the people of the whole country to enjoy policy dividends in developing Hainan FTP," said Gu Gang, Party secretary and director of the Boao Lecheng International Medical Tourism Pilot Zone Administration.
Gu said the pilot zone, with more than 10 hospitals in operation, has introduced more than 100 innovative drugs and 120 medical devices from overseas, covering mainly cardiovascular medicines, ophthalmology, dermatology, plastic surgery, oncology and infectious diseases, thus giving timely treatment to nearly 1,000 patients.
Experts have hailed the special insurance policies, saying they mark another milestone in Hainan's medical innovation after the pilot zone was given authorization to import and sell foreign medicines not available in the rest of the Chinese mainland.
Pharmaceutical companies such as AbbVie Pharmaceutical Trading (Shanghai) Co Ltd, whose acute myeloid leukemia medication is covered by the insurance, welcome the new initiative, saying it will bring more treatment methods and products to help relieve pain and improve the quality of life for Chinese patients, said officials with the pilot zone.
Liu Zhefeng, deputy director of the pilot zone administration, said Lecheng is actively cooperating with overseas pharmaceutical companies to achieve a win-win situation.
Also known as Boao Hope City, the pilot zone is one of the 11 key industrial parks designed to play leading roles in highlighting three major fields-tourism, modern services and advanced technologies-in developing Hainan FTP, according to Hainan government authorities.
The policies will help reduce the financial burdens of cancer patients while speeding up the process for overseas pharmaceutical enterprises to enter the Chinese market, said Chen Feng, a doctor with Haikou-based Hainan Provincial People's Hospital.
"The rapid expansion of the insurance coverage, including such details as free registrations for the first visit and free testing, shows the urgency and sincerity Hainan FTP practices to benefit all people," Chen said.
The implementation of the Hainan FTP preferential policies such as zero tariffs, low tax rates and a simplified tax system is drawing more big international pharmaceutical companies and professionals to the pilot zone, said Gu. "The pilot zone has established in-depth relations with more than 20 well-known global pharmaceutical enterprises, such as Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic, Astellas and MSD," Gu said.
Domestic focus gives fillip to tourism industry
Higher-level opening-up key to China's future development: Experts
Major pharma companies sign agreements with local parties
Multinational pharma firms sign deals to boost China's healthcare
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Talking About Chamberlain
April 16, 2015 by Daniel Loeb 1 Comment
Disagree with the Iran talks? Then use informed 2015 arguments, not the 1938 Munich analogy! (Courtesy of Courtesy of The Cartoon Kronicles @ cartoonkronicles.com.)
Many politicians and advocates use the specter of Nazi appeasement to scuttle an Iran deal.
Certainly Chamberlain's 1938 Munich Agreement handed over the Sudetenland in exchange for empty promises and paved the path towards World War II.
However, what would have happened if the Munich Agreement had resembled the currently proposed agreement with Iran?
Imagine if Germany had not be given control of any new territory, but only allowed normal trade with the rest of the world. Suppose further if Germany had agreed to:
Destroy or sell abroad 97% of their tanks, armored transports and aircraft – just as Iran agrees to dispose of 97% of their enriched uranium.
Destroy or sell abroad 60% of their guns including all of their machine guns and high caliber weapons – just as Iran agrees to dispose of 60% of their centrifuges leaving only the most primitive ones based on 1970s technology.
Allow international observers to be stationed permanently at all military bases, weapon warehouses and weapon factories – just as Iran agrees to allow monitors of their nuclear program from the mines, to the processing, and the storage.
Place tracking devices on all military officers – just as Iran agrees to have GPS tracking of their nuclear scientists.
Allow international observers to be sent to any location based on any intelligence found – including information from these tracking devices – just as Iran agrees to do.
Immediate and verifiable halt to the rocket program being researched by Werner von Braun and others – just as Iran agrees to halt their research into a possible plutonium weapon, now being undertaken at Arak heavy-water reactor.
If Germany had made all of these agreements, Europe would likely have remained at peace and perhaps there would never have been a World War II.
Such an agreement would not have been a panacea. Such an agreement would not have improved the prospects of life for the Jews in Germany itself no more than a nuclear deal with Iran is likely to turn that country into a Western-style democracy tolerant of all religions and sexual orientations.
Nevertheless the deal is a step forward, and I hope it is signed, ratified and implemented by both countries.
Filed Under: Featured Articles, News & Opinion Tagged With: Chamberlain, Iran, Israel, Obama, uranium, WMD
About Daniel Loeb
Dan Loeb is a mathematician, publisher and genealogist. He is the publisher and founder of the Philadelphia Jewish Voice. His genealogical website includes about 30,000 individuals with certain branches going back to biblical times. After completing his doctorate in mathematics at MIT, Loeb moved to France where he taught mathematics and computer science at the University of Bordeaux. In 1996, he returned to the United States where he works in statistical arbitrage for Susquehanna International Group.
His earliest articles for the Philadelphia Jewish Voice can be found at this link.
Contact Dan Loeb at [email protected]
burrowsx says
Dan, this is an excellent analysis, unemotional, and well calibrated. Thanks


The cooler temperatures this week have reminded me that fall is just around the corner. Soon, the leaves on trees will be changing and the days will be getting shorter and shorter. I wanted to take some time and look at this process of how leaves change colors. I came across this article, "Why leaves change color" and highlight some information in the article.
Carotenoids – Produce yellow, orange and brown colors..
Anthocyanins – Give color to various fruits and appear in watery liquid of leaf cells.
Both Chorophyl and carotenoids are present in the chloroplasts of leaf cells. Most anthocyanins are produced in the autumn. As the night length increases in the autumn, chlorophyll production slows down and then stops and eventually destroys the cholopyl. The carotenoids and anthocyanins are present in the leaf and unmasked and show their colors.
Oak leaves turn red, brown, or russet. Maples turn brilliant scarlet as examples.
The amount and brilliance of colors developed is a direct result of the weather conditions.
A succession of warm, sunny days and cool, crisp but not freezing nights seems to bring about the most spectacular color displays. During these days lots of sugars are produced in the leaf but the cool nights and gradual closing of veins going into the leaf prevent these sugars from moving out.
Also, the amount of moisture in the soil affects the color. A late spring or severe drought, can delay the onset of fall color by a few weeks. A warm period during the fall will also lower the intensity of the autumn colors. In addition, a warm wet spring, favorable summer weather and warm sunny fall days with cool nights should produce the most brilliant colors.
The veins that carry fluids into and out of the leaf gradually close off as a layer of cells forms at the base of each leaf. These clogged veins trap sugars in the leaf and promote the production of anthocyanins. Once this separation layer is complete and the connecting tissues are sealed off, the leaf is ready to fall.
The leaves that fall are not wasted, they decompose and restock the soil with nutrients and make up part of the spongy humus layer of the forest floor. In addition fallen leaves also become food for numerous soil organisms that are vita to the forest ecosystem.


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Véronique Pauwels leads Bain & Company's Amsterdam office
26 January 2021 Consultancy.eu 2 min. read
Bain & Company has named Véronique Pauwels as its new Managing Partner for the Netherlands.
Véronique Pauwels has been with the global strategy consulting firm since 1996, and became a partner in 2006. She succeeds Stephen Bertrand, who relocated to the Amsterdam office in 2014 to take the helm, and now returns to the company's New York office.
Under Bertrand's leadership, Bain & Company enjoyed a period of robust growth in the country, landing a range of new clients, boosting its brand recognition among CxO's and growing its partner team to sixteen. Meanwhile, the Amsterdam office developed itself into one of the leading national workplaces for talent – in 2017 for example, Bain & Company was named the Netherlands' top employer across all industries.
According to the Italian Domenico Azzarello, regional managing partner for Bain & Company in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Pauwels has what it takes to successfully fill Bertrand's shoes. "We have realised impressive growth in the Netherlands and are delighted to be able to put the ambitions of the Amsterdam office in Véronique's hands."
He continued, "Véronique is a highly regarded partner within our organisation. She has a fantastic track record, both within Bain & Company and beyond our firm, and is recognised for her extraordinary dedication to our clients and her significant contribution to the development of the talent within our company."
Alongside her managing partner role, Pauwels will continue to serve clients. She specialises in corporate strategy and transformations, serving as Head of the EMEA Performance Improvement practice for the last six years.
Commenting on her new challenge, effective 1 January 2021, Pauwels said: "Together with my colleagues in Amsterdam and around the world, I look forward to further building our business, supporting clients in their growth, and deepening our sustainability, digitalisation and transformation capabilities. I also strive to continue offering fantastic career opportunities for our talent and broaden diversity within our organisation."
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Inframediterrani, és un estatge bioclimàtic que pot trobar-se a qualsevol zona de clima mediterrani, situat per sota del termomediterrani.
Només es presenta en les zones de poca altitud, en les latituds més baixes, ja pròxim a condicions desèrtiques. L'aridesa és important i moltes espècies perden la fulla a l'estiu per combatre l'intens estrès hídric.

La vegetació es caracteritza normalment pels matolls espinosos o suculents, però hi ha arbres com l'argània o el drago que suporten aquestes condicions d'aridesa. Aquest estatge té molts elements endèmics algun d'ells de clar origen neotropical en les zones inframediterrànies americanes (agavàcies cactàcies, etc.) L'ombrotipus predominant és el semiàrid.

Per exemple la vegetació de l'illa de Formentera amb una mitjana anual de 19,2 °C està a la frontera entre el termomediterrani i l'inframediterrani.

Vegeu també
 Zonació altitudinal

Notes i referències
 Formentera
 Bioclima

Estatges bioclimàtics


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LIDICE. A small village located only a few miles north-west of Prague. It is built on the site of a previous village of the same name which was ordered directly by Heinrich Himmler to be completely destroyed by German forces in reprisal for the assassination of Reinhardt Heydrich. This much documented atrocity perpetrated by the Germans goes down in history as one of the very worst.. The entire population were sent to Nazi concentration camps where many of the women and nearly all the children were killed.
The sculpture depicted above were created during the 1990s by academic sculptor Marie Uchytilová poignantly reflects the children's faces and overlooks the site of the old village of Lidice. "The Memorial to the Children Victims of the War" comprises 82 bronze statues of children (42 girls and 40 boys) aged 1 to 16 to honour the children who were murdered at Chelmno in summer 1942.
There is a small cinema where we can watch a thought provoking film which features not only Lidice but many other aspects leading up to the second world war. We can also visit a permanent photographic exhibition. Although the town and its inhabitants were destroyed (Himmler ordered that the town be eradicated from the map), the town rose again from extinction at the end of WW11. However as a mark of respect the new Lidice was built on adjoining land. The original site remains to this day an untouched monument. A most humbling and though provoking experience and one to not to be missed. The village sits very close to Prague and around 5 minutes from Prague airport. Interestingly the Lidice story in Western Europe was little known in the cold war era and rarely visited by people living outside the eastern bloc.
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The epidemic of childhood allergic disorders has been associated to the decline of infectious disease. However, exposure to many triggers (airborne viruses, tobacco smoke, pollution, indoor allergens, etc.) contribute to the disease. Breast feeding practices, nutrition, dietary and obesity also play a multifaceted role in shaping the observed worldwide trends of childhood allergies. Guidelines for treatment are available, but their implementation is suboptimal. Then developed countries are slowing learning integrating the development of suitable guidelines with implementation plans. Awareness, psychosocial and family factors strongly influence asthma and food allergy control. Moreover, monitoring tools are necessary to facilitate self-management. By taking into consideration these and many other pragmatic aspects, national public health programs to control the allergic epidemic have been successful in reducing its impact and trace the need for future research in the area.
Asthma and allergic rhinitis levels among children experienced a boost in the second half of the 20th century especially [1, 2] in developed countries, causing enormous burden for patients and societies . However, the epidemiological heterogeneity at country level is great. In Iceland for example, a cohort of 179 children monitored for allergic manifestations for two decades showed a cumulative prevalence of 29% for asthma during the study period, with a peak prevalence of 28% at age of 4 years . Similarly, the prevalence of asthma in Irish schoolchildren, aged 6–9 moved from 21.7% in 2002 to 23.5% in 2007 . By contrast, in Belarus, in a cross-sectional study conducted in 2010 examined 2606 urban and 2422 rural children aged 6–16 years, the prevalence of asthma was as low as 3.84%. Symptoms of hay fever were also astonishingly rare (2.45%), when compared to the prevalence registered in the rest of Europe . In parallel, dramatic increase of food allergies in the recent 15 yrs released a second wave of the allergic epidemic; however causing factors are still uncertain. In Australia for example, 10% of all infants suffer from a confirmed, IgE-mediated food allergy . Many putative factors were here nominated, such as increased consumption (e.g. seafood allergies) , progressive urbanization , environmental factors and increased atopic disorders of the parents [9–11] or the increase in sensitization to pollen allergens (e.g. profilins, Bet v 1 and other PR-10 molecules, lipid transfer proteins) which cause the oral allergy syndrome . A recent study on 3800 Finnish children demonstrated how children of allergic parents had a 2-fold higher risk to be sensitized/allergic to food if one and 3-fold risk if both parents suffered from any allergic manifestation . On individual level, other factors including severe atopic eczema, maternal anti-helminthic therapy during pregnancy, birth season and order were suggested to affect the risk of food allergy outbreak in childhood [9, 14–16]. For example, children born in autumn/winter had significantly a higher rate of food allergies compared with children born in spring/summer according to recent studies on 835 Australian and 1177 Korean children separately [11, 15]. Birth order was inversely related to the risk of food allergy and eczema .
Although infections are risk factors of chronic urticaria  and other allergic diseases, hygiene and anti-infectious treatments contribute to explain the raising trend of asthma and allergies and they can act even before birth. Maternal anti-helminthic therapy, while protecting the fetus from helminth infection, may facilitate allergy as suggested by a randomized, DBPC study with albendazole on more than 2500 Ugandan women. In this trial, a positive relation between mother's treatment and increased risk for wheezing and eczema in infancy was found . Gram negative bacteria have been the first category of infectious agents believed to protect from asthma and allergies. The Dutch WHISTLER-birth cohort has recently found that exposure to endotoxin in the first two months of life, in combination with house dust mite and cat allergens, is associated with an increase in the neonatal respiratory compliance. The authors concluded that endotoxin may contribute to the development of a normal lung function and maturity . Not only bacteria, but also some viruses may protect of atopy. In American children up to 8 yrs of age, wild-type varicella zoster infection is associated with less atopic dermatitis (AD) and asthma, a phenomenon explained by suppression of IgE production and allergic sensitization and modified leukocyte subsets . Under the hygiene hypothesis, the so-called "farming effect" is by far the most investigated epidemiological model. A meta-analysis of 39 studies showed a 25% lower asthma prevalence among subjects exposed to farming environment compared with unexposed subjects . However, the basis of a protective effect of farming environment is still not sufficient understood. As proposed in the late nineties, a high microbial turnover at mucosal surfaces and a broad spectrum of microbial contacts in the every-day life may be at the basis of the atopy protecting effect of a traditional lifestyle [21, 22] also by exerting an influence at the level of GALT [23, 24]. This branch of the hygiene hypothesis, which may be defined as the "biodiversity" hypothesis, has been later supported by studies showing that the diversity of microbial flora early in life is protecting from atopic eczema [25, 26] and that the diversity of exposure to bacteria or fungi is an atopy protecting factor in farming children . Accordingly, a cross-sectional study of almost 300 German children has shown that the sole ingestion of the farming milk is linked to less asthma by an increase in T-regulatory cells levels . Similarly, local and systemic immune responses of piglets nursed by their mother on a commercial farm differ from those of isolated piglets fed with formula in a "clean" environment and display stronger regulatory components at mucosa level (CD4(+) CD25(+) Foxp3(+) regulatory T-cell) and higher IgG levels to food proteins at weaning . A low-grade (or the so-called "minimal persistent") inflammation induced by a farming environment in early childhood may protect against allergic diseases. In 653 children from the PASTURE birth cohort, those with undetectable high sensitive CRP (hsCRP) had increased prevalence of sensitization to inhaled and seasonal allergens . However, the farming environment is showing a wheeze-protective effect also independently from atopy, for example by modifying the susceptibility to wheeze during viral infections .
The role of atopic sensitization and viral infections in asthma has been extensively reviewed  and investigated . An open question remains the sequential relationship between these two components. A longitudinal study on 285 American children with high risk for allergic diseases and asthma demonstrated that sensitization to aeroallergens increases the risk of wheezing caused by HRV (but not by respiratory syncytial virus). In contrast, viral wheeze did not increase the risk for subsequent allergic sensitization. This study's conclusion was that allergic sensitization is the one who precedes and might promote viral caused wheezing, and not the other way round . However, other infections are also associated with asthma development. The ISAAC-Phase Two study found that pertussis and measles are associated with symptoms of asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis and eczema in schoolchildren aged 8–12 years, independently from IgE responses . As a part of the same study, an investigation among more than 23,900 schoolchildren aged 8–12 years showed that tuberculosis was associated with asthma, hay fever and eczema symptoms, but not to immunization with BCG . In Latin America not only helminthic infections  but a broad set of infections interfere with asthma and its atopic background. By contrast, in 1128 urban children from Salvador-Brazil tested to the 8 most common local pathogens those with 3 or fewer infection markers showed a higher prevalence of sIgE and SPT reactivity compared with those with 4 or more infection markers, but no association of these markers to asthma could be established . The heterogeneity of the conclusions reached by different studies highlights the need of large international studies designed to increase sample heterogeneity and evaluation of local factors to minimize their confounding influence. Anyhow, early prevention is now necessary to avoid further progression of the allergy epidemic. Therefore, screening tests should be optimized to devise appropriate and economic national prevention and treatment strategies [9, 39].
Guidelines for treatment are available, but their implementation is suboptimal. Then developed countries are slowing learning integrating the development of suitable guidelines with implementation plans. Awareness, psychosocial and family factors strongly influence asthma and food allergy control. Moreover, monitoring tools are necessary to facilitate self-management. By taking into consideration these and many other pragmatic aspects, national public health programs to control the allergic epidemic have been successful in reducing its impact and trace the need for future research in the area.
Traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) and biomass fuels (BMF) play a central role in the asthma epidemic especially in middle and low income countries. In Asia, TRAP and BMF increase the risk of asthma outbreaks, asthma exacerbations, respiratory infections and even COPD . But also in a high income country, such as Canada, the frequency and duration of asthma exacerbations were associated with the levels of air pollution . Domestic usage of BMF for fire, especially in low-income countries, is strongly associated with asthma and other lower respiratory diseases. Raising awareness at community level about this problem can reduce the negative impact caused by BMF . In parallel, campaigns and legislations against tobacco smoke must be reinforced in high income countries, where this risk factor has not been yet defeated. Indeed, the ISAAC-Phase Three study among Maltese children demonstrated that passive and active tobacco smoke, that still is a frequent factor in that country, increased the risk of wheezing, exercise-induced wheezing, asthma, and rhinitis . Furthermore, passive tobacco smoke's influence is even stronger when it interacts with other risk factors, such as atopic sensitization. Among 486 children from the CCAAPS birth cohort, lung function was impaired at the ages 2, 4 and 7 years in atopic polysensitized girls exposed to tobacco smoke . The effect of tobacco smoke seems to be partially affected also by genetic predisposition. Studies in the Norwegian ECA- and GAIN-cohorts have found that CHRNA3/5 polymorphisms on chromosome 15 are positively associated with bronchial hyperresponsiveness, especially in children exposed to tobacco smoke, no matter if set out in-utero or indoor at 10 yrs of age . Similarly, among 157 children of the ECA-birth cohort, the impact of tobacco smoke exposure and pet keeping on allergy was conditioned by a limitation of CD14 methylation levels in exposed subjects . All these data reinforce the concept that tobacco smoke must be contrasted at population level but also that risk factors of susceptibility must be taken into account at individual level.
The asthma epidemic is not the only one among children of developed and developing countries. A parallel increase in obesity and asthma rates suggests that allergic respiratory disease may be linked to dietary factors and behaviors and that the two conditions may influence each other . Accordingly, a cross-sectional questionnaire-based survey in almost 34,700 Japanese children aged 4–5 years demonstrated how important obesity is in asthma management; current asthma was significantly more prevalent in overweight children compared with underweight and normal weight children after adjusting for other variables, such as gender, other coexisting allergic diseases, and parental history of asthma . Weight reduction has been associated with variations of leptin, ghrelin and obestatin blood concentrations  thus correction of obesity implies changes of adipokines supposed to influence allergic inflammation.
The epidemic of childhood allergic disorders has been associated to the decline of infectious disease. However, exposure to many triggers (airborne viruses, tobacco smoke, pollution, indoor allergens, etc.) contribute to the disease. Breast feeding practices, nutrition, dietary and obesity also play a multifaceted role in shaping the observed worldwide trends of childhood allergies.
A smaller study among Italian children has shown that the female gender is a risk factor for asthma associated to obesity . Regular physical exercise may even induce beneficial immune system responses and reduce pro-inflammatory cytokines secretion . In this respect, the positive influence of sport on asthma encourages physical activity in asthmatic children who are obese or overweight . Nevertheless, physical can play a role on FEIA and anaphylaxis , hence only physical activities that are well tolerated should be promoted in at risk asthmatic patients.
The impact of nutrition on the development of respiratory disorders in childhood may begin already before birth. In a Finnish population-based birth cohort study (n = 2441), mother's reduced intake of certain foods (leafy vegetables, malaceous fruits, certain fatty acids and chocolate) during pregnancy was associated with increased risk of wheeze (but not asthma) in her child at 5 years of age [53, 54]. However, 'Western-Diet" including a higher intake of meat, eggs, vegetables' oil and white vegetables was linked to a reduce risk of wheezing among children aged 16–24 Months . The intake of vitamin D is also increasingly investigated in this area. In an experimental mouse model, vitamin D deficiency in utero was found associated with enhanced allergen-induced lymphocyte responses and cytokine production into airways . A case–control study of children with severe therapy-resistant asthma, moderate asthma and healthy controls demonstrated that patients with severe therapy-resistant asthma have significantly lower levels of vitamin D. Decreased levels were also associated with increased airways smooth muscle mass, worse asthma control and lung function . Vitamin D levels may also explain seasonal variations in food allergies risk . Moreover, nutritional deficits have been linked to food allergies [9, 58] and supplementary nutrients have been proposed. A recent case–control study on 191 French children (mean age 4 yrs) showed that food allergic patients are smaller than healthy controls . On the other hand, extensive nutrition restrictions in food allergic children are not always necessary and should be established on a case by case fashion, as demonstrated by a recent study on 145 British peanut allergic children . Last but not least, the impact of breastfeeding on asthma and food allergy still remains a hotly debated topic. A longitudinal study on 882 Australian and Swedish children with parental wheeze or asthma found a lower risk for developing asthma at age 4 and 8 yrs among breast-fed, compared to bottle-fed children. Furthermore, breast-feeding did not influence the sensitization rate to airborne allergens but it was a risk factor for sensitization to cow's milk, peanuts and eggs . Similarly, prolonged breastfeeding and delayed introduction of solid food provided no evidence to be protective from atopic eczema in a population of over 18,700 Taiwan infants .
Suitable and reliable prediction tools are essential to identify targets for prevention. Since many years clinical scientists are trying to find markers predicting asthma. A recent study has shown that inflammatory markers, including many interleukins (IL-2, IL-4, IL-8 and IL-10) are elevated in the exhaled breath condensate already during the pre-clinical phase anticipating wheezing . Furthermore, perinatal factors may affect lung maturity and contribute to cause wheezing and asthma. Neonatal jaundice, for example, increased the risk of asthma in the first six years of life among Taiwanese neonates . Atopic sensitization in infancy has been often used as a predictor of atopic diseases at school age. Recently, Item Response Theory (IRT) models, have been applied to SPT results at 2 years of age to predict persistent wheeze, rhino-conjunctivitis, and eczema at age 4 and to identify the allergens most associated with atopy predisposition .
Prediction models are used to facilitate the identification of targets for prevention. Until a few years ago, allergic asthma prevention has been mostly based on allergen avoidance. Studies results though show no or little benefit from allergen avoidance. By contrast, a national plan for allergy and asthma prevention, recently implemented in Finland, has shown that implementation of balanced diets, physical activity and protection from other allergy promoting factors such as tobacco smoke represent adequate prevention methods . This Finnish program was then based on a multifaceted strategy. The complexity of the immune response and of allergy pathogenesis is making more and more questionable if one kind of intervention alone is sufficient to prevent allergic disease in high risk children. More and more relevance is being given to the concept of a poly-factorial intervention, based on both, avoiding risk factors and providing protective factors. Unfortunately, the feasibility of interventions in everyday life declines with their increasing complexity [66–68]. For example, a study on 476 Dutch children demonstrated that PREVASC multifaceted intervention was efficient in reducing the exposure to inhalant and food allergens. Nevertheless, this program was unable to reduce the prevalence of asthma at the age of 6 yrs, as the parents were unable to properly implement all the measures of this complex prevention plan .
In contrast to asthma, studies on prediction and prevention of atopic eczema are still providing relatively conflicting outcomes. However, the "classical" biomarkers of allergy, such as total and specific IgE levels are still considered valuable pre-clinical predictive biomarkers [70–73]. For example, elevated maternal IgE levels during pregnancy were associated in non-atopic mothers to increased risk of eczema in offspring . Elevated cord blood IgE, together with specific LT-α and FcϵRI-β genotypes and a higher maternal stress during pregnancy were linked to a higher risk of eczema at age of 2 yrs . Similarly, not SPT  but IgE levels can be useful in predicting a positive food challenge test . Although these biomarkers can help predicting atopic eczema , prevention is unfortunately still difficult. Probiotics are widely marketed as useful against food allergy [75, 76], respiratory infections  and airway inflammation , but their preventive efficacy has not been confirmed. For example, Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG, given to the mother during pregnancy, had no influence on her child's gut colonization profile  and their content in cow's milk and egg's white proteins may be even dangerous for allergic patients . However, supplementation of the probiotic Lactobacillus plantarum CJLP133 provided beneficial results in the treatment of pediatric AD in a case–control study on 88 Korean children between 12 months and 13 yrs .
Asthma control is essential to prevent long-term consequences of asthma and improve patients' quality of life. Hence, many studies focus on identification of reliable diagnostic tools to monitor asthma control. While the diagnostic role of atopic tests, lung function and challenge tests in asthma are quite established since decades that of breath condensate is still hotly debated. Exhaled nitric oxide (NO), a non-invasive marker of airway inflammation, can be implemented in the diagnosis and management of asthma and its strong relation to atopy, (e.g. house dust mite sensitization) has been recently described . Furthermore, elevated bronchial NO output is associated with an increased risk of exercise-induced bronchoconstriction in atopic patients during childhood and adolescence . Similarly, fractional exhaled NO (FeNO) was also elevated in the sputum of asthmatics with coexisting food allergy suggesting an association of asthma with food allergies through an increased eosinophilic inflammation . Accordingly, in 467 children from the European Community Respiratory Health Survey II, FeNO was only elevated in asthmatic patient with simultaneous sensitization to food and pollen allergens . Unfortunately, FeNO levels in exhaled breath may be not always appropriate as a marker to monitor asthma control over time . This has been also confirmed by a study showing a poor accuracy to discriminate well- from not well-controlled asthma in a case–control study among 664 Dutch children aged 4–12 yrs .
Other measures of oxidative stress have been also tested. A case–control study on 219 Turkish children has shown that higher concentrations of Malondialdehyde and GSH in exhaled breath condensate are a marker of asthma and allergic rhinitis and are associated with enhanced oxidative stress . Another case–control study among 22 asthmatic Swedish children (6–18 years) demonstrated the relevance of basophil allergen threshold sensitivity (also CD-sens) in identifying those with the most severe and uncontrolled allergic asthma . Last, clinical indexes are also intensively investigated, as they can allow daily monitoring. The visual analogue scale (VAS), a widespread assessment in Pediatrics, confirmed its usefulness in measuring breathlessness perception in Italian asthmatic children and was significantly related to lung function . However, other clinic assessments lack so far of unsatisfying accuracy and reliability levels. A study in 314 patients has recently shown that both, GINA-guided and C-ACT-guided (Childhood-Asthma Control Test) assessment have a poor accuracy and reliability in measuring the level of asthma control, if used separately .
Anti-inflammatory drugs and bronchodilators [91–93] and antibiotics (e.g. macrolides)  help controlling asthma but allergen-specific immunotherapy (SIT) is the only treatment potentially changing the natural history of the allergic component of moderate asthma, with a potential long lasting exacerbation-preventing effect and corticosteroid-sparing effect . However, due to the difficulty in carrying out placebo controlled trials, efficacy of SIT, especially in its subcutaneous version (SCIT), has been so far demonstrated in children by a few trials only [96–98].
Food allergy monitoring and control is a highly developing area of investigation and we can consider here only a few examples of studies dealing with the need of molecular diagnosis, the antigen-specificity of oral tolerance induction and the use of epinephrine, respectively.
Cross-reactivity and pan-allergens represent one of the difficulties that often hamper the diagnosis of allergies to vegetal food in childhood. Therefore, diagnostic tools should be developed to support clinicians in distinguishing between tolerant and allergic and then between primary and secondary allergic patients. In birch-pollen-associated secondary soy allergy, SPT with soy flour and molecular diagnostic of specific IgE to Gly m4 facilitate a correct diagnosis . IgE levels to seed storage proteins Ara h1, Ara h2 and Ara h3 allow distinguishing peanut-allergic from tolerant patients [100, 101]. By contrast, peanut-specific IgG or IgG4 levels were elevated in peanut-sensitized children and did not indicate tolerance or protection from sensitization as observed in other atopic diseases . Similar findings were also shown in patients with egg allergy, where elevated levels of specific IgG to ovalbumin, β-lactoglobulin and α-casein were associated with positive SPT to egg. In contrary, elevated IgG4 levels to α-casein was linked to a negative DBPC cow's milk challenge . On the other hand, cytokines and other immunological markers are being investigated for a more precise monitoring of food allergies. For example, the interleukin IL-21 may be involved in the pathogenesis of atopic dermatitis  and the chemokine CCL18, also known as pulmonary and activation-regulated chemokine (PARC), may be linked to disease severity .
Studies on oral tolerance induction (OIT) are defining more and more the usefulness and limitations of this novel therapeutic approach. Cow's milk allergy affects 1.9-4.9% of the children, of which a few might suffer from a protein energy malnutrition caused by the subsequent dietary . Therefore, oral tolerance induction provides a chance for these patients to avoid possible late-implication caused by dietary restrictions such as growth impairment. Recent studies on SOTI demonstrated an increase of regulatory cells such as Foxp3+ regulatory T-cells and other hypo-proliferative subset of T-cells (CD4+, CD38+ and CD45RO-) which characterize tolerance development, suggesting possible pathways for tolerance induction in cow's milk and hen's egg allergic patients [107, 108]. The induction of clinical tolerance, however, is antigen specific. This aspect is essential from a clinical stand point, as many children with cow's milk allergy react also to goat's or sheep's milk. Unfortunately, orally induced tolerance to cow's milk does not protect these children from reactions to the milk of other mammals [109, 110] and elimination diets are sometime not sufficient to avoid severe reactions in allergic children . A few children with severe food allergies cannot be treated with SOTI, as they do not tolerate even minute amount of the relevant allergen. In these children, proper education, availability and correct use of epinephrine is often essential. Unfortunately this is not always the case. A recent investigation of 1361 adverse reactions to food in the US showed that only one third of the reactions requiring intervention with epinephrine were correctly managed . Actually, guidelines on anaphylaxis are not sufficiently implemented although they are distributed to most pediatricians . Education and awareness about anaphylaxis is therefore still insufficient to guarantee guidelines implementation and the guidelines themselves should be perhaps simplified and made more user-friendly .
Despite intensive research and progress, allergic diseases in childhood still represent a complex challenge for the family and the society. They has a considerable impact on quality of life for the patients and a financial burden for the society caused by increased costs, morbidity and mortality . A recent meta-analysis considering almost 3550 children with asthma has shown that patients suffer from more depression and anxiety, independently from the level of severity of their asthma . Similarly, among the asthmatic adults screened in the Asthma Insight and Management (AIM) survey in the United States, patients rated their health as "only fair," "poor," or "very poor," or experienced limitations in activity because of health problems, compared with the general population. This indicates that the burden of asthma remains high in the US despite the availability of updated treatment guidelines and new therapies . Moreover, severe reactions observed in food allergies have also immense impact on patients' quality of life. A recent survey on the life quality of food allergic children showed that patients who experienced severe systemic reactions, with multiple food allergies or with siblings/mother affected by allergies score worse in quality of life questionnaire . In this respect, it is interesting to note that a farming environment, which in somehow implies a healthier contact with nature, can influence not only physical and objective reactions but also the psychological well-being of allergic and asthmatic patients .
Hence, not only for the patients, but also for their families it is important to establish clear plans beyond the patient's direct needs by involving the community. Such perspectives can be successfully achieved by national-wide management programs aimed at minimizing disease's impact on the whole society and the healthcare systems . Further inputs provided by parents and/or patients associations might be useful. A management curriculum for the parents of newly diagnosed food allergic children can reduce both stress and anxiety and improve the quality of life of the allergic children and their parents .
Guidelines for treatment are available, but their implementation is suboptimal. Developed countries are slowing learning integrating the development of suitable guidelines with implementation plans. Awareness, psychosocial and family factors strongly influence asthma and food allergy control. Moreover, monitoring tools are necessary to facilitate self-management. By taking into consideration these and many other pragmatic aspects, national public health programs to control the allergic epidemic have been successful in reducing its impact and trace the need for future research in the area.
Moreover, awareness for food allergies and anaphylaxis must be improved also among teachers and school-personnel, since schools are the places with the highest attack-related death rate . Recommendations must not only guide diagnosis and treatment, but should also prevent unjustified and exaggerated allergen avoidance, which heavily affect life quality and immunologic tolerance development. This is true not only for food, but also for respiratory allergies. Accordingly, asthma control programs have to be made easy and integrated into everyday life. An authentic reflection of the difficulties facing implementation of asthma control programs in real life has been shown by the results of the CHOICE survey on 1000 American asthmatic patients. Almost the half of the patients did not use controller medications while 80% of those had a persistent asthma. Moreover, only 14.3% of patients on controllers were well controlled . Other studies reported high levels of over- and under-treatment for asthma [122, 123]. Hence, despite updated guidelines, the large offer in medication and active national management programs, control programs are still not well implemented in "real life". Old guidelines included also unnecessary recommendations: for example, pet avoidance has been a long-lasting prescription for asthma prevention. Recent studies have confirmed that pet exposure in early life is not to be suspended even in families with "at risk" atopic/allergic children, unless pet already cause symptoms . Guidelines should be therefore "user friendly", so that GPs, parents, health care centers and schools can easily learn how to handle asthma without useless restriction or even harming influences for the affected children. This has been confirmed by a recent study on 170 Dutch children, where parental concerns about adverse consequences of the medication and low maternal education were associated with uncontrolled asthma . Attention to guidelines feasibility has probably greatly contributed to the success of the Finnish plan for asthma control . The Finnish experience can therefore encourage other countries to in their attempt to revert the epidemic trend of asthma and allergies or at least to control better the social impact of this childhood chronic disease.
The most recent advances in the field of childhood asthma summarized in this review give us an idea of how fast clinical research in this area is making progress. Solid approaches to avoid risk factors and to promote protective factors should be established according to the recent findings. Nevertheless, many studies demonstrated the huge lack in adopting and implementing recommendations and guidelines in everyday life, which require further development of current intervention and control strategies in the framework of national asthma control programs to choke the worldwide asthma epidemic.
DH wrote the draft version and made the literature search. ST revised the final version. Both authors read and approved the final manuscript.


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