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-{Amtsblatt}- односно Службени гласник царског и краљевског Окружног заповедништва у Ужицу је лист аустроугарске окупационе власти - Крајскоманде у Ужицу за време Првог светског рата.

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Ратни услови диктирају посебан режим живота локалног становништва који мора бити уређен званичним саопштењима. Званично гласило у окупираном Ужицу био је Amts Blatt: Службени гласник царског и краљевског Окружног заповедништва у Ужицу који је излазио од 01. августа 1916.(бр.1) до 15. септембра 1918 (бр.52) и штампан је у штампарији царског и краљевског заповедништва у Ужицу. Изашла су укупно 52 броја.
Почетком новембра 1915. почела је окупација ужичког краја и трајала до октобра 1918. У периоду од 1916. до 1918, колико је излазио Amts Blatt садржао је обавезе грађанства према држави: предаја оружја, забрана ношења српских униформи (капа), ограничавање пословања, забрана свадби, ценовник за продају на мало, исплаћивање купона аустријских и угарских ратних зајмова, издавање нових банкнота, куповина у туђим окрузима, спречавање заразних болести, кулучење, надлежност општинских судова, објаве путовања у иностранство... Једна од сталних рубрика била је о преступима и казнама која се односила на : новчане глобе, конфискације, принудни рад, узимање талаца, хапшења и затварања, робијања и тамничења, смртне казне.

Народна библиотека Ужице
Гласник се чува у Народној библиотеци Ужице. Гласник је изванредан извор података на различите теме које доприносе разумевању опште атмосфере времена изузетно значајног за српску историју и судбину српског народа.

Дигитализација
Због значаја који има за културну баштину Србије, дигитализован је и може се претраживати по годинама, језицима (српски, хрватски, немачки) и писмима (ћирилица и латиница). Дигитализован посебно је намењен истраживачима, научним и стручним радницима, али и студентима, ђацима и свим заинтересованим корисницима С обзиром на време које обрађује посебно је интересантан за наставу историје и грађанског васпитања.

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Аустроугарска у Првом светском рату
Србија у Првом светском рату
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James Pate, MD
Gay doctor? Why I'm out, loud and proud
What everyone should know about gender and sexuality
Considering circumcision?
OB/GYN resources
Resources for kids and teens
Resources for minorities of sex, gender and sexual orientation
Tag Archives: Gender
Gender is a spectrum of identity and expression. Posts in this category typically challenge the Western belief of separate binary options.
January 19, 2014 James Pate, MD, FACOG	Leave a comment
To this day I do not know a single LGBTQ* person from my youth. I was not privileged to have understanding parents nor to have role models with whom I could connect. Many youth today find themselves in a similar position.
Growing up as an LGBTQ* person is rarely easy. Rejection, isolation, discrimination, harassment and physical violence are all too common. Understandably this results in low self-esteem, risky self-destructive behaviors, homelessness and suicide. Hope for a better future is often an essential lifeline to those of us who are hurting. We need to know that suffering will end and that we can be happy.
I choose to be visible for this reason. As many others have said, I want you to know that life does get better. So much better!
If you are struggling please know that you are not alone. You are precious and you are loved. There are many resources available to you. All you need to do is reach out.
The Trevor Project (http://www.thetrevorproject.org) is a 24 hour help line that is available to anyone who needs a listening ear.
866-4-U-TREVOR (866-488-7386)
Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (http://www.pflag.org) provides support and resources for families and friends of LGBT people.
Information from the American Psychological Association (APA)
Answers to your questions: For a better understanding of sexual orientation & homosexuality
Answers to your questions: About transgender people, gender identity, and gender expression
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Women's Work?
March 18, 2012 James Pate, MD, FACOG	Leave a comment
I was recently interviewed for an article published in the March 2012 edition of Minnesota Medicine, the journal of the Minnesota Medical Association.
In Women's Work? Obstetrics/gynecology struggles with the gender question, author CArMen PeOtA addresses the gender shift of OB/GYN physicians from once a predominantly male to a now predominantly female presence.
My input lies toward the end of the article, under the "The Value of Gender Balance" section heading. She writes:
Those concerns didn't put off third-year University of Minnesota ob/gyn resident James Pate, M.D. "There's such a strong need for providers in every specialty that there will always be jobs available." His plan is to specialize in caring for patients
with atypical gender experience. Like most men and women who go into ob/gyn, Pate says the appeal of the specialty is that it offers physicians the chance to do both primary care and surgery. Pate actually thinks it's a good thing that nine out of 10 of his colleagues in ob/gyn residencies are female. "In the past, all of medicine was heavily dominated by men," he says. "Having the majority of providers [be female] makes sense. They are women, and they care about women and want to provide excellent health care to women." But he believes both males and females bring a perspective to practice that's valuable. "Both our female colleagues and our patients appreciate the male presence," he says.
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Dr Cary Gabriel Costello: Intersex Fertility
Dr Cary Gabriel Costello
Dr Costello writes in his blog entry, Intersex Fertility, that "My daughter was not of woman born. That is a concept that has fascinated people through the ages. My daughter's gestation was perfectly 'natural,' I should point out–but I carried her, and I was never of the female sex; I am a so-called 'true hermaphrodite.' I was assigned female at birth, and was living as such when I gave birth to her, but I never identified as a woman, and am now legally male."
He continues, "I'm glad that I was able to become a parent, but believing that this should have 'cured' me of my distress with my assignment is magical thinking along the lines of believing that procreating will 'cure' a lesbian or gay man and make them heterosexual. Gender identity, sexual orientation, and procreative status are independent characteristics. Lesbians and trans men and intersex individuals aren't mystically "converted" by pregnancies. Gay men and trans women and intersex individuals who inseminate someone aren't thereby made straight or cis or dyadically-male-sexed."
He concludes: "Most of us who do reap the rewards of fertility do this in private, with no medical journal articles trumpeting a star in the east. In fact, some medical 'corrections' of our physical differences render us infertile, and I don't see why that's treated as unimportant when doctors are so very willing to write articles about their 'cases' who do prove fertile. And the magical thinking behind the idea that doctors can validate a sex assignment through the intersex person contributing the 'correct' component, egg or sperm, to a conception just boggles my mind. It's time for some more sophisticated thinking about intersex fertility."
I couldn't agree more. Ready more about Dr Costello, his experiences and his scholarly opinions regarding intersex and trans issues on his blogs:
http://intersexroadshow.blogspot.com/
http://trans-fusion.blogspot.com/
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The Genocide of Intersex People
December 31, 2011 James Pate, MD, FACOG	3 Comments
American Grotesque posted The Genocide of Intersex People on 11/28/11. I recently came across it while catching up on twitter and facebook during my holiday break (a true luxury for a resident!). In this post the author discusses the damage perpetuated by the myth of binary gender, its social construction and legal ramification. The author places hir-self in the place of "patients" whose bodies defy the myth and without consent are reconstructed to appear to confirm it. Yet in spite of appearances they remain outside of the binary and their shame and scars and are shrouded in secrecy and silence. Is this moral? Is this fair? Is this just?
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. [And] In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." ―Martin Luther King Jr
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Am I intersexed?
Dear Dr Pate,
I was born with a DSD. Is penoscrotal hypospadias with severe chordee an intersex condition? Am I intersexed?
Your questions are more difficult to answer than one would think. The term "intersex" has changed in meaning over time, more so among doctors than perhaps many who consider themselves to be intersex. From a medical point of view, your condition would not necessarily have been considered an intersex disorder in the past. However, an international consensus reclassified disorders with either abnormal sex chromosomes (ie XO, XXY) or atypical genitalia under the umbrella term "disorders of sex development" (DSD) in 2006. Given that hypospadias is a condition where development of male external genitalia is halted prematurely, this is indeed a DSD. The term "intersex" however is no longer considered to be a contemporary medical word and has been replaced by DSD.
Adults who consider themselves to be intersex generally have a history of ambiguous genitalia, may or may not have been subjected to "normalizing" genital surgeries in infancy and/or childhood, but do not feel that they fit neatly into the binary boxes of male or female. They usually feel that if surgery occurred that it was undesired and destructive. Their gender identity may be the same as their sex of rearing, opposite, a combination, or something else. Adults who identify as intersex are generally offended by the new medical nomenclature "DSD"; they do not feel that their sex is disordered but rather a natural occurrence within the human spectrum. They are also quick to point out that they are not transgender or transsexual and do not feel that they are a part of those communities. Unlike the trans communities, they feel that their gender identities match(ed) their bodies, though they may not match their surgically altered bodies nor the sex of rearing that was chosen for them. The intersex community is still rather small given the shame, embarrassment and mistreatment individuals were subjected to while growing up as well as the continued ignorance of society regarding their existence.
People that continue to be born with chromosome abnormalities and/or varying degrees of genital ambiguity may feel that they are either truly male or truly female with a DSD medical condition, not intersexed. On the other hand, if their gender identity is the opposite of their sex of rearing then they may consider themselves to be trans. Others feel more comfortable with an intersex identity. Thus the matter of what is considered an intersex condition and who considers themselves to be intersex remains quite murky.
There are intersex groups that exist online and occasionally meet in person. If you are interested in chatting with others like you I would recommend checking out Organisation Intersex International (OII). They are "devoted to systemic change to end the fear, shame, secrecy and stigma experienced by children and adults through the practice of non-consensual normalisation treatments for people born with atypical anatomy, and the arbitrary assignment of a particular gender without an informed consultation with the individual concerned."
Hope this helps and good luck to you. Happy holidays!
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Ob-Gyns: Prepare to Treat Transgender Patients
November 30, 2011 James Pate, MD, FACOG	1 Comment
From: The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
Washington, DC — To address the significant health care disparities of transgender individuals and to improve their access to care, ob-gyns should prepare to provide routine treatment and screening or refer them to other physicians, according to The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (The College). In a Committee Opinion published today, The College also states its opposition to gender identity discrimination and supports both public and private health insurance coverage for gender identity disorder treatment.
Although the total number of transgender people in the US is unknown, studies suggest they make up a small, though substantial, population. Transgender is a broad umbrella term that includes people whose gender identity and/or gender expression differs from their assigned sex at birth. Female-to-male, male-to-female, crossdressers, bi-gendered, and intersex are the major groups that fall under the term transgender.
"Transgender patients have many of the same health care needs as the rest of our patients," said Eliza Buyers, MD, former member of The College's Committee on Health Care for Underserved Women who helped develop the new recommendations. Health outcomes for the transgender community are very poor due to their lack of access to health care, noted Dr. Buyers. "It would be wonderful if all transgender patients had the resources to be seen in a specialized clinic, but the reality is that many forgo care because they don't. By increasing the number of ob-gyns providing care to transgender patients we can help improve the overall health of the transgender community."
Transgender individuals who were assigned female sex at birth but are now living as a male will continue needing breast and reproductive organ screening, unless they've had mastectomy or had their ovaries, uterus, and/or cervix removed. Male-to-female individuals who have had genital reconstruction may need cancer screening of the neovagina and breast cancer screening if taking estrogen hormones.
"Services that ob-gyns should be able to offer transgender patients include preventive care, Pap tests, sexually transmitted infection (STI) screenings, and hysterectomy for standard indications like heavy bleeding or pain," said Dr. Buyers. The College recommends ob-gyns first consult with transgender experts before performing hysterectomies as part of gender affirmation surgery. "Hormone replacement can be managed in consultation with experts in transgender care, as many patients will seek hormones on the black market if unable to obtain them from their providers."
Many, if not most, transgender people face social harassment, discrimination, and rejection from family and society in general. Many of them are homeless, particularly youth who identify as transgender. Transgender individuals are at an increased risk for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV, and physical abuse.
"We need to make our offices settings that treat all patients with respect," said Dr. Buyers. The College offers ob-gyns suggestions on how to create an office environment that is welcoming to transgender patients. For instance, asking patients their preferred name and pronoun, posting non-discrimination policies, ensuring confidentiality, and offering sensitivity training for staff are all steps that signal acceptance and let patients know that they will be treated with dignity. "We want the transgender community to know that we, as ob-gyns, care about their health."
Committee Opinion #512 "Health Care for Transgendered Individuals" is published in the December 2011 issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology.
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Beard envy?
October 21, 2011 James Pate, MD, FACOG	1 Comment
Beardo Beanie to the rescue!
More evidence against DEX for prenatal treatment of CAH
Related post – Prenatal steroids to prevent boyish baby girls (5/19/11)
On 10/19/11 Science Translational Medicine published the research of Dr Emily Tam, MD, assistant clinical professor of child neurology at UCSF, et al demonstrating Preterm Cerebellar Growth Impairment After Postnatal Exposure to Glucocorticoids. Per study abstract:
"As survival rates of preterm newborns improve as a result of better medical management, these children increasingly show impaired cognition. These adverse cognitive outcomes are associated with decreases in the volume of the cerebellum. Because animals exhibit reduced preterm cerebellar growth after perinatal exposure to glucocorticoids, we sought to determine whether glucocorticoid exposure and other modifiable factors increased the risk for these adverse outcomes in human neonates."
MRI studies were performed on 172 premature infants exposed to steroids before birth in order to evaluate resultant structural abnormalities of the brain. Betamethasone (the drug of choice to minimize the risk of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome in premature infants) was not associated with measurable differences from controls. However, both dexamethasone (DEX) and hydrocortisone were associated with an 8-10% decrease in the size of the cerebellum, the part of the brain responsible for motor control, balance and cognitive function. The association between cerebellar hypoplasia and impaired motor and cognitive function is well established.
So what does this have to do with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH)? As discussed in my earlier post, Prenatal steroids to prevent boyish baby girls, DEX is a controversial treatment offered to women at risk of having a female fetus with CAH with the only aim being to avert masculinization of her genitalia (enlargement of the clitoris, fusion of the labia and elongation of the urethra). This treatment unnecessarily exposes 7 out of 8 fetuses to high levels of DEX (60 times higher than a normal physiologic level) and many of those female fetuses with CAH aren't even at risk.
This article provides further evidence that DEX is dangerous, shrinks brains in addition to clitorises and may result in lifelong deficits in motor and cognitive capabilities. Other known risks for babies are:
Decreased birth weight
More shyness, social anxiety and emotionality
Less sociability
Poorer working memory (ie reading comprehension) and self-perceived scholastic competence
Less masculine males with more neutral gendered behaviors
DEX treatment is NOT the standard of care, it is experimental and controversial and mounting evidence continues to demonstrate that its risks outweigh its benefits.
"Physicians should not sell themselves short in imagining that they cannot — with their words as much as with their knives and drugs — influence parents to accept their children's bodies and the possibility that their children could lead rewarding lives with those bodies."
– Dr Elizabeth Reis, PhD
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Brianna Amat is "The Kicking Queen"
October 17, 2011 James Pate, MD, FACOG	Leave a comment
Move over Miss Congeniality…
Homecoming queen? [check]
Kicked winning homecoming field goal? [check]
Micheline Maynard, New York Times, reports "On Friday [9/30/11], with Pinckney leading powerful Michigan rival Grand Blanc, 6-0, at the half, Amat, the first girl to play football for the school's varsity, was asked to return to the field. When she arrived, she was told that her fellow students had voted her queen. When the tiara was placed on her head, she was wearing not a dress, like the other girls in the homecoming court, but her No. 12 uniform, pads and all. A short while later, with five minutes to play in the third quarter, Amat was called to the same field to attempt a 31-yard field goal. She split the uprights. The kick proved decisive as Pinckney held on for a 9-7 victory against a Grand Blanc team that had come into the game ranked seventh in the state in its division. It also earned Amat the nickname the Kicking Queen."
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I am a board certified OB/GYN physician in Saranac Lake, NY. My practice includes traditional obstetrics and gynecology as well as medical and surgical services specific to the needs of minorities of gender, sex and sexual orientation. I strive to provide personalized, comprehensive and compassionate care to all of my patients.

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Campaigning For Christopher
The Winslow Brothers #4
Campaigning for Christopher is the fourth book about the Philadelphia-based, wildly-handsome Winslow brothers who are all on the lookout for love.
(Eeek. Oops. Except...no, they're not. Brooks has his Skye, Pres and Elise are happily married, and Cam and Meggie are scorching the earth at the Five Sisters. Hmm. That only leaves...)
Christopher Winslow, the youngest of the four Winslow brothers, was born with a silver spoon in his privileged mouth, which has made it difficult for him to establish his credibility in the fast-approaching congressional race. Working against the clock to assure Pennsylvania voters that he is forthright, trustworthy and able has been an exhausting challenge, but Christopher's chances at beating the incumbent look good.
Julianne Crow, a plus-size model struggling to make ends meet, jumps at the chance to make a little extra cash on the side. What does she have to do? Slip something into Christopher Winslow's drink and take some very naughty pictures with him.
But Christopher is nothing like Julianne expected, and when her actions sabotage his hard-earned campaign only a month before the election, her guilt is overwhelming. She offers Christopher her help in an effort to repair the damage she's caused, but can anything change the fact that he sees her as an opportunist and a mercenary? When she starts campaigning for Christopher, he may find out there's more to her than meets the eye.
Return to the world created in the English Brothers books with this fresh foursome of scorching hot Winslow Brothers!
Katy Regnery of Ridgefield, CT
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Katy Regnery started her writing career by enrolling in a short story class in January 2012. One year later, she signed her first contract and Katy's first novel was published in September 2013.
Twenty-five books later, Katy claims authorship of the multi-titled, New York Times and USA Today Blueberry Lane Series, which follows the English, Winslow, Rousseau, Story, and Ambler families of Philadelphia; the six-book, bestselling ~a modern fairytale~ series; and several other standalone novels and novellas.
Author has 9+ signings in 2016
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Airfields & Airmen--Somme
Aircraft of the Aces No. 33 - Nieuport Aces of World War I
British Air Forces 1914-1918 Vols. 1 & 2
British Aviation Squadron Markings of World War I--RFC, RAF, RNAS
CESKOSLOVENSK NIEUPORTY
Deutsche Luftkriegsgeschichte
Fokker Aircraft of World War One
Fokker Dr.I Aces of World War I
Kusch Adam, Der Vogelmann, Erinnerungen Des Bagdadfliegers Hans Hesse
Luftsiege der k.u.k. Luftfahrtruppe Rumanische Front 1916-17
Mother of Eagles--The War Diary of Baroness von Richthofen
René Dorme and Joseph Guiget, The Air War of Two Aces
Salmson Aircraft of World War I
Sharks among Minnows
Somme Success: The Royal Flying Corps and the Battle of the Somme, 1916
SPAD VII Aces of World War I
The Hat in the Ring Gang
The Legionnaire
War Wings: Films of the First Air War
Windsock Datafiles
Windsock International
Wings Over Cape Cod, The Chatham Naval Air Station 1917-1922
World War I Posters
Fokker Dr.I Aces of World War I, by Norman Franks and Greg VanWyngarden, Osprey Publishing (U.K.), 2001; 96 pp., 9-3/4" x 7-1/4", softcover, profusely illustrated with photos, line drawings and color profiles; ISBN 1-84176-223-7; $12.99 / $18.95; available from Motorbooks International, P.O. Box 1, Osceola, WI 54020.
In answer to the obvious question: yes, another volume devoted to the Fokker Dr.I triplane. But the topic is well handled and the authors--League members Norman Franks and Greg VanWyngarden--have obviously gone to great lengths to provide new photos and fresh insights into this ever-fascinating topic. The reviewer can attest to the fact that it is getting more difficult to find 'new' material and, especially, photos of such a well-covered aspect of World War I avation history.
Of special interest is the 12-page section of full-color profiles and various details of Fokker triplanes from a wide range of Jagdstaffeln. These include variations of aces' markings that are not readily apparent in most photo features. Clearly, this section of the book represents an intensive effort to present newly-researched details.
This consideration of the Fokker Dr.I is part of a series of new titles from Osprey. Given the scholarship and quality of artwork in this example, the others are to be eagerly awaited.
This book is highly recommended.
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Opposition activists accused Syrian troops of shelling two cities on Tuesday in a campaign to weaken forces fighting President Bashar al-Assad's government before a ceasefire deadline next week.
Rebel fighters also kept up their attacks, killing three soldiers in separate actions in northern Syria, activists said.
Assad has agreed to a ceasefire negotiated by international peace envoy Kofi Annan from April 10, the latest effort to end a a year of bloodshed stemming from an uprising against his rule.
An advance team from the United Nations' peacekeeping department will arrive in Damascus in the next two days to work out how observers can monitor the truce, Annan's spokesperson said in Geneva.
But Syrian opposition figures as well as Western governments have already made it clear they are not convinced that Assad, who has failed to honour previous commitments, would keep his word this time.
"He is a liar," said Waleed al-Fares, an opposition activist in Homs, a city which came to symbolise the anti-Assad struggle as opposition-held areas endured weeks of bombardments and sniper fire.
Fares said Assad was playing for time to gain the upper hand over poorly-armed rebel forces which have been driven from city strongholds in the past two months.
Targets in Homs were coming under shelling on Tuesday, he said. Another opposition activist, Mortadha al-Rashid, said from Damascus that the western border town of Zabadani was also taking a pounding.
"The regime shows no signs of stopping. There are people being shelled in Zabadani right now," Rashid said.
In violence elsewhere, rebel fighters killed one soldier in a clash in northern Idlib province, according to the opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based monitor which collates reports from inside Syria.
Armed men also attacked the home of a military director of logistics in Aleppo, killing two guards, the Observatory said.
The Syrian state news agency SANA said 10 soldiers and police officers were buried with honours on Monday.
Accounts of the violence can be difficult to verify because the Syrian government restricts access to Western journalists.
But the UN estimates Assad's forces have killed more than 9 000 people in the past year, while the government says about 3 000 security personnel have been killed by what it describes as foreign-backed gangs of terrorists.
The opposition Syrian National Council has endorsed Annan's six-point peace plan but made no official comment on the April 10 ceasefire target. Rebels of the Free Syrian Army have said they will stop shooting if tanks and artillery withdraw from cities.
Annan, who acts for the UN and the Arab League, told the UN Security Council on Monday he would have liked to see a ceasefire sooner. Some council members were concerned that the next week could be used to intensify army operations.
Annan's spokesperson Ahmad Fawzi, speaking in Geneva, said the aim was to bring a complete end to hostilities by April 12.
A UN peacekeeping advance team was due in Damascus in the next two days to discuss the deployment of monitors, Fawzi said. A team of up to 250 unarmed observers is envisaged although it will require a Security Council resolution.
Syria's ambassador to the UN, Bashar Ja'afari, said Damascus would not take all the blame if the plan failed and Annan must also get the armed opposition to comply.
"A plan wouldn't be successful unless everybody is committed to it," Ja'afari said in New York.
Many foreign governments fear the conflict could descend into a full-scale civil war and drag in other Middle East players if it carries on much longer.
But Arab League states have backed away from earlier demands that Assad—whose family has ruled Syria for four decades—step down immediately and are focusing on Annan's initiative, which imposes no conditions on the president.
Saudi Arabia wants the rebels to be given weapons. Egypt's foreign minister Mohamed Kamel Amr said on Monday that this would hasten a slide to civil war.


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The west coast of the United States has been the final resting place for much of the wreckage that left Japan on March 11, 2011, after a massive earthquake and resulting tsunami rocked its shores. One such relic of the tragedy is a small fishing boat belonging to a Japanese high school in Rikuzentakata that washed ashore in Crescent City, California this past April. This boat survived an incredible journey across the planet's largest ocean.
Students from Crescent City's Del Monte High School made it their mission to return the boat to Japan free of barnacles and full of compassion. These students understand the devastation a tsunami can cause, as they too were impacted by the event. The earthquake that created the Japanese tsunami also caused a tsunami that badly damaged Crescent City's harbor. The Del Monte students filmed a video that shows the connection these two cities share. They sent the video with the vessel as a reminder to the students in Rikusentakata that they have not been forgotten and that a midst the unthinkable devastation and loss, there can be small but meaningful steps toward healing. After two years awash at sea, the boat departed Oakland for Japan on September 19th, to be reunited with its rightful owners at last.
Students from Del Norte High School return the boat to Japan with compassion.
Click here to learn more about this project and see the student's film.
This entry was posted in Marine Debris, Uncategorized and tagged Japanese Tsunami, Marine Debris, Student on 11. October 2013 by coasst.


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Rutgers MBA proved to be a valuable credential for Army officer in Iraq
Alumnus was known as "that Rutgers MBA" during the U.S. Army's intense mission to rebuild Sadr City
Fri, November 3, 2017
Gene Spillane was 43, white-haired, and more than half way through his Rutgers Part-Time MBA when he was deployed to Iraq in early 2008.
Months after his arrival, U.S.-backed Iraqi forces defeated the Mahdi Army and took control of Sadr City, where years of intense fighting had killed thousands of civilians and devastated schools, businesses and vital infrastructure.
Spillane, an Army officer who had made a career in commercial banking and was re-activated after 9-11, was put in charge of a team at the heart of the U.S. Army's plan to rebuild Sadr City.
"General Petraeus wanted to ensure a lasting peace," Spillane said, explaining the mission. "If the schools re-opened, if the water and electricity worked, the U.S. believed it would bring about a sense of normalcy."
As his brigade's deputy civil military affairs officer, he was responsible for overseeing a team of seven project purchase officers. He supervised the negotiations, management and the closings of more than 350 service contracts and more than 900 micro grants that were used to supply electrical micro stations, re-establish businesses, build roads, re-open schools and create jobs.
"Our brigade purposely immersed itself among the people of Sadr City, which was devastated once the heavy fighting subsided," Spillane said. "We were really trying to rebuild its shattered economy as quickly as possible."
Spillane worked 20 hour days and ran each night to clear his head. The job required more than a knowledge of finance. Spillane had learned Arabic, but he also had to learn Muslim culture. Working closely with the mukhtars – the leaders of the city's neighborhoods – was essential. "Nothing got done without the local mukhtar's approval. It was like dealing with the patriarch of a family who was also the mayor," he said.
Spillane drew on his experience in banking as well as the skills he had learned in his MBA classes. "Rutgers makes us adept problem solvers," he said, "and enables us to be forward thinking and pragmatic."
But the fact that he was in the Rutgers MBA program also gave him an incredible credential.
When he arrived at the John F. Kennedy Warfare School at Fort Bragg, Spillane looked older than many of the high-ranking officers. When he was introduced, it would often be followed by: "This is that Rutgers MBA I told you about."
It also happened when he was in Iraq, requesting funds for one of the hundreds of micro-grants that would be used to repair water treatment plants or rebuild medical clinics. He became known as "that Rutgers MBA guy."
His association with the Rutgers MBA program, he said, became "a very powerful factor in accomplishing my mission."
"Rutgers makes us adept problem solvers and enables us to be forward thinking and pragmatic."
Sadr City's vulnerability didn't lessen even as the economy was rekindled and services were slowly restored. Stability, the presence of the U.S., and even a sense of collaboration between the U.S and Iraq, caused anti-coalition forces to find new ways to disrupt the reconstruction efforts.
"It wasn't a comfortable life," Spillane said.
The threat of improvised explosive devices was ubiquitous. At times, Spillane and his team had bounties on their heads, and meetings could be cancelled abruptly if an intelligence officer or a trusted interpreter advised against it.
During his service in Iraq, Spillane turned 44. He also became a father. When the Red Cross notified him that his pregnant wife's condition had deteriorated, threatening the health of both her and their twin daughters, he was sent home to be with them.
Meanwhile, his colleagues were continuing their work, which included weekly meetings with the Sadr City Honor Council. He and his team always assembled along a wall in front of a large map. As they gathered in their usual spot before the start of the meeting one day during Spillane's trip to the U.S., an improvised explosive device, planted behind the map detonated. Four of his close friends – "brilliant, smart, wonderful people" – died.
In 2009, Spillane finished his service and returned to the U.S. The banking industry was still recovering from the effects of 2008 Financial Crisis. Spillane returned to his commercial banking career, but for only a brief time. "It was a fulfilling career before I left," Spillane said of his commercial banking work, "but after such a transformative experience (in Iraq) I felt the need to change my life's work."
He began working as a civilian Army contract specialist at the Picatinny Arsenal in Morris County where he ensured that contracts and purchases complied with federal acquisition regulations. "The work was much more fulfilling as I was supporting my friends who were still actively serving in the Army," Spillane said.
The work also gave him the flexibility to complete his MBA studies. He didn't continue his studies in finance though. He changed his focus, opting to concentrate on international business based on his experience in Iraq.
While he was still completing his MBA, he spotted an interesting job posting with the Small Business Administration. He applied and got the job as a lender relations specialist just before he graduated. In the job, he works with former banking colleagues to help them structure loans to entrepreneurs. He also works with entrepreneurs who are trying to grow their businesses and veterans who are starting businesses.
"Every day I can solve problems and I find that to be a profoundly satisfying experience," he said. "Rutgers has given me a very effective tool box in which to help people who drive the economy in New Jersey."
In his work, Spillane often encounters representatives from the Small Business Development Centers across the state."Eugene is always armed with a smile and ready to lend a helping hand," said Brenda Hopper, state director and chief executive officer of the New Jersey Small Business Development Centers. "He continuously works to help small business owners prosper, especially veterans. We truly value our relationship with him."
Spillane said he is moved by the business people he meets. "There are all of these beautiful business ideas that I encounter every day," he said. "I meet entrepreneurs that have gone through thick and thin and family businesses that have endured for generations. You can get really inspired."
After he completed college, Spillane did a tour in the Army, following in the footsteps of his father and other family members who served in the military. Like other Americans, he felt a surge of patriotism after the terrorist attacks on the U.S. in 2001. He contacted the Army and volunteered to mobilize if he was needed.
"I just did what my family has done for generations," he said, "Quietly serve."
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The third and final release for the fourth-quarter gross domestic product is available this week. The annualized rate of growth is expected to remain about 2.5% for the quarter. Also worth noting this week is the international trade in goods report for February. The trade deficit continues to widened, as the cost of imports regularly outpace exports.


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Treaty claims for cancelled or modified infrastructure projects in the wake of Covid-19
CMS | 7 August 2020
by Jay Randhawa, Randall Walker and Sarah Grenfell - CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
A recent ICSID tribunal has denied an investor's claim concerning the development of an airport project in Latvia. The investor was unable to proceed with the construction of its project due to numerous amendments to the relevant development plan, culminating in a decision to significantly restrict the size of the airport. The tribunal determined that the actions of the airport authority were not attributable to the State and that the changes to the development plans did not give rise to a treaty-breach, despite having an impact on the investor's ability to proceed with the works. This decision may have wider implications for developers and contractors on global infrastructure projects that may now be under feasibility reviews (and may subsequently face suspension, or cancellation) as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Staur Eiendom AS, EBO Invest AS & Rox Holdings AS v Latvia
The Claimants in this case were all limited liability companies who held an interest in (SIA) Rixport ("Rixport"), a company incorporated for the purpose of bidding for a contract for the development of a parcel of land adjacent to Riga International Airport in Latvia. Following a tender process in 2006, the Latvian state-owned company SJSC Airport Riga ("SJSC"), which operates Riga International Airport, awarded four land lease agreements to Rixport in respect of this land (the "Land Leases"). Under a business proposal which was annexed to the Land Leases, Rixport undertook to use the land for the construction of hotels, conference and exhibition facilities, a business park and greenery and recreational areas.
Following the award of the Land Leases to Rixport, the Claimants argued that the development plans for Riga Airport were continually reviewed and revised to take into account elements such as projected flight numbers, passenger numbers, cargo volumes, and required infrastructure capacity. During 2006, SJSC was anticipating (in the context of the economic conditions at the time) a need to develop the capacity of Riga Airport to accommodate increased use and a growing volume of passengers (which was anticipated to increase from 2.5m passengers to up to 7.5m passengers). There is a dispute as to whether the development plan was a product of SJSC's internal deliberations or whether it was dictated or otherwise influenced by the Latvian Ministry of Transport (the "MoT") (being the sole shareholder of SJSC).
Following an extended period whereby no construction was carried out by Rixport and unsuccessful settlement discussions between the Parties, SJSC cancelled the Land Leases on the basis of Rixport's failure to make rent payments. The Claimants commenced ICISD arbitration against Latvia alleging that Rixport's construction and development efforts were thwarted by "constant changes to the SJSC Airport's development plans".
State attribution
To succeed in their treaty claim, the Claimants were required to show that SJSC's changes to its development plans were attributable to the Latvian Government. The Claimants relied on a number of grounds to support attribution, including:
the MoT having a role in SJSC's decision making and operations;
SJSC's board was not independent from the MoT and was made up of politically appointed directors who referred to themselves as "state officials";
SJSC's financial dependence on the State which was evidenced by the alleged need for SJSC to obtain MoT authorisation for any major expenditure;
SJSC's development plans for Riga Airport were submitted to the MoT and the Latvian Cabinet of Ministers for review;
More generally that the management of strategic state assets such as an international airport could not possibly take place without the exercise of governmental authority.
These grounds were contested by SJSC witnesses and the tribunal found that attribution had not been proved: "there is no evidence that the changes of SJSC Airport's business plans, including the postponement of SJSC Airport's terminal expansion plans, were instructed, directed or otherwise attributable to any decisions of the State". In doing so, the tribunal accepted the State's submissions that there must be a presumption of autonomy for State Owned Enterprises unless there is compelling evidence to the contrary. The tribunal accepted the State's witness evidence that "SJSC Airport develops internal business development plans 'like most businesses.' These plans are not binding upon anyone and are not required to be approved by the State. Even if they are prepared with the objectives of the State for the Airport in mind, it does not follow that they are themselves acts of governmental authority". In this case, the appointment of board members and having oversight in relation to SJSC decisions or conduct was not sufficient to demonstrate a lack of autonomy for the SJSC. Such conduct "was not unlike that ordinarily played by the shareholder of any private company" and was not sufficient for SJSC's separate legal personality to be disregarded.
Fair and equal treatment
Despite finding against the Claimants in relation to attribution, the tribunal nonetheless considered the Claimant's case that Latvia had violated its obligation to afford fair and equitable treatment to Rixport. The tribunal rejected the suggestion that Rixport could have had a reasonable expectation for a consistent policy with regards to the development of the airport as (despite various representations being made by SJSC and other Government representatives) "the leases did not provide for the expansion of the Airport terminal in accordance with any particular technical plan or timeline. Nor did they contain any representations concerning Airport passenger forecasts". The tribunal did not accept that the State and/or SJSC had created a legitimate expectation that the development was "shovel-ready" or that Rixport could commence construction soon after the land leases had been awarded. Instead, the tribunal held that it was "normal and indeed necessary, for an airport to continuously assess the need of the market and to consider possible changes, including extensions or expansions".
Implications for Covid-19 affected projects
Whilst this decision arose from a very specific set of facts, it potentially has wider implications for the airport infrastructure sector and global infrastructure projects generally in light of the current economic downturn caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The development interruptions experienced by the Claimants in this case (e.g. "repeated and significant changes to the number of passengers the airport facilities were expected to cater for") are exactly the type of interruptions that many airport infrastructure projects may be experiencing in the current climate of economic uncertainty.
In the 10 years leading up to 2020, the global volume of air passengers has increased annually between 5-10% p.a.. The high rate of growth of demand for air travel coupled with low air-fares (largely driven by the increased number of budget carriers which entered the market in recent years) has increased the financial and economic feasibility for a number of new airport developments and airport expansion projects over the past few years. This has included a number of airport projects in locations that traditionally would not have experienced high enough passenger volumes to justify new development, including locations in Latin America, Eastern Europe, Africa and South-East Asia.
However, the aviation industry now faces an unprecedented period where it will seek to recover from: (i) a significant drop in revenues, (ii) a likely sustained period of reduced demand for air travel, (iii) increased health and safety costs, and (iv) what is likely to be a narrowing of the number of routes offered by many airlines or potentially insolvency of smaller airlines including low-cost carriers. These factors are likely to result in a number of airport development/expansion projects (particularly in what would traditionally be considered 'low-demand' locations) as no longer being financially or economically feasible. As such, a number of these projects may be reduced in scope, shelved or even cancelled.
The decision in this case demonstrates that developers and EPC Contractors on projects which end up being reduced in scope, shelved or cancelled as a result of changing economic conditions, will need to satisfy a high evidentiary threshold in order to establish treaty breaches in respect of these impacted projects. Parties should be cognisant that:
A high threshold exists for seeking to attribute actions by a state-owned entity to the state itself. This case is a further example of an ICSID tribunal taking a narrow approach towards the assessment of attribution and requiring the claimants to submit compelling evidence to demonstrate that the presumption of autonomy for state-owned enterprises should be displaced. Whilst the Claimants had relied on express representations by various State officials expressing support for the development prior to the Land Leases, it was unable to prove that subsequent changes in plans for the airport were directed or instructed by the State.
Where the development or project in question relates to ancillary facilities such as those considered in this case (i.e. hotels, conference facilities and other key supporting infrastructure to the airport), it should be ensured that the contract documents expressly specify that the development of those ancillary facilities is predicated on certain developmental baselines for the primary infrastructure (e.g. in the case of an airport, a defined terminal size or location, an agreed baseline of estimated passenger volumes, and/or an agreed date for completion of construction/upgrade to the terminal itself etc). Accordingly, if any subsequent changes to the development of the ancillary facilities are required in order to meet changes to the planning for the primary infrastructure, there is a clear measure to assess the investor's legitimate expectations at the time of the investment. This should help to preserve the option to seek treaty-based relief (particularly potential claims for breaches of the fair and equitable treatment standard) without facing the same difficulties as beset the Claimants in this case.
There are other ICSID decisions where claimants have been successful in demonstrating that project cancellations (as opposed to simply suspensions or reductions in scope) are a breach of treaty-based obligations by the State. The present case suggests that claims based on the underlying parameters of a project being altered (as opposed to projects being cancelled entirely) are more difficult to demonstrate as treaty breaches.
Staur Eiendom AS, EBO Invest AS & Roxy Holding AS v Republic of Latvia, ICSID Case No. ARB/16/38.
Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States dated 18 March 1965 (the "ICSID Convention").
Agreement between Government of the Kingdom of Norway and the Government of the Republic of Latvia on the Mutual Promotion and Protection of Investments, which was signed on 16 June 1992 and entered into force on 1 December 1992 (the "BIT").
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Liam Dutton , Weather Presenter
Liam Dutton is the Channel 4 News Weather Presenter.
Forecaster Liam Dutton is Channel 4 News' first presenter dedicated to weather.
His brief incorporates analysis of UK and International weather along with issues related to climate change, health and food and the impact of weather on travel, finances and welfare.
Liam will have an important online role too, leading Channel 4 News' new weather website and using social media to discuss weather with viewers.
He started his career at the BBC Weather Centre (presenting his first forecast at just 22) and has since travelled the UK presenting for BBC nations and regions.
In 2006 he began presenting for national and international BBC outlets and most recently worked across BBC News, BBC World News, BBC Breakfast and Radio 4's Today programme.
Temperatures in France reach record 45 degrees
As England braces itself for a bit of a heatwave this weekend, temperatures in France soared to the hottest on record today, hitting 45.9 degrees Celsius in one southern town.
France prepares for 40C heatwave
France is preparing for a potentially record-breaking heatwave. Temperatures are forecast to hit 40 degrees Celsius later this week. Authorities in Paris have enacted an extreme heat plan, fearing a repeat of the conditions which killed an estimated 15,000 people in France in 2003. Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and Spain are also preparing for oppressive heat.
UK experiences warmest February day on record
The UK has recorded its hottest February day on record, with temperatures topping 20 degrees Celsius in parts of England and Wales.
Record European temperatures predicted amid "dangerously hot" weather
Well for London and the South East the respite from the heatwave was short and sweet. Now the temperature's rising again bringing warmth to parts of the UK. But in Spain and Portugal it's going to be "dangerously hot", with some saying there could be a record temperature. Our weather presenter, Liam Dutton is here…
What is causing this heatwave?
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Slow thaw expected this week
Our weather presenter, Liam Dutton, looks ahead at the week's weather prospects.
What are the prospects for the weekend?
Our Weather presenter Liam Dutton joins us live with the latest forecast for the weekend.
How much worse is the weather going to get?
How bad is it going to get and what is going to happen in central Scotland?
Kent hit by snow
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A weatherman's tips on how to get through this week's cold and snow
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Why I criticised Met Eireann for naming Storm Fionn
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'Bomb cyclone' hits east coast of America
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Euronews: Liberty Global Back in Takeover Talks With Ziggo
News Analysis Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe 12/12/2013
Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Samsung placates EU on patents; Brits pay less for comms; Zayo provides fiber for SSE.
It seems the takeover talks between US cable giant Liberty Global Inc. (Nasdaq: LBTY) and Ziggo B.V. , the largest cable operator in the Netherlands, are back on. In a statement responding to recent market speculation, Ziggo said that it "is currently in discussions with Liberty Global regarding a potential offer for the company by Liberty Global." In October Ziggo rejected a bid from Liberty -- which already holds a 28.5% stake in Ziggo -- as inadequate. See (Ziggo Rejects Liberty Takeover Bid .)
The European Union authorities are poised to give their approval to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Korea: SEC)'s offer to settle a patents-related antitrust investigation, according to a Bloomberg report. Samsung has pledged to stop seeking injunctions in Europe in its many and varied disputes with rivals over alleged infringements of patents. (See Euronews: EC Probes Samsung on Patents.)
A study by UK regulator Ofcom has concluded that British consumers are getting their communications needs serviced for less than it costs in other major European countries and the US. Communications services -- including landlines, mobile services, broadband, and pay TV -- represented 2.3% of overall living costs in the UK, compared with 2.5% in France, Italy, and the US, 3.2% in Spain and 3.4% in Germany. The UK is also streets ahead when it comes to online shopping, spending £1,175 (US$1,928) per head in 2012, which is £307 ($503) higher than Australia, the second-placed country in the sample covered. It seems the Brits trust online retailers more than others do. The fools.
Zayo Group Inc. (NYSE: ZAYO) has landed a deal with SSE Telecoms , the network infrastructure and datacenter arm of utility services giant SSE. Zayo will provision the dark fiber backhaul network, which will connect 21 BT Group plc (NYSE: BT; London: BTA) phone and Ethernet exchange points in London, as well as another exchange serving the Slough area just west of London. SSE plans to extend its network coverage to all major business districts across the UK. (See SSE Lights Up Extra UK Capacity.)
Telenor Group (Nasdaq: TELN), the Norway-based operator that has subsidiaries in Russia, Eurasia, and elsewhere, has launched an LTE roaming exchange service for all the companies that form part of the Telenor group. The service is based on the Diameter signaling protocol.
T-Systems International GmbH , Deutsche Telekom AG (NYSE: DT)'s IT services subsidiary, has joined Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT)'s Cloud OS Network in a bid to offer secure hybrid cloud services in Germany and the rest of the European market. In the wake of the Prism controversy, data privacy has become a major issue for Deutsche Telekom and others. (See Euronews: Deutsche Telekom Shuns US Servers.)
It was something of a black Wednesday for Imagination Technologies Group plc , the UK firm that designs graphics chips for the iPhone, reports The Guardian, as shares in the company lost almost a quarter of their value following disappointing half-yearly results. Pre-tax profits fell to £2.2 million ($3.6 million) from £10.5 million ($17.2 million) a year earlier.
— Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, Light Reading
DOShea 12/16/2013 | 11:01:54 PM
Zayo With deals in the U.K. and elsewhere in Europe, we may be starting to see Zayo's Abovenet acquisition pay off.
albreznick 12/12/2013 | 11:41:25 AM
Liberty & Ziggo? So ziggo is talking to Liberty again, eh? I imagine Liberty must have either sweetened their offer or held a gun to Ziggo's head. Any thoughts, Paul?
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Q: Pass Callback function via @Input in angular2 I have two components Main (parent) and Header (child). I want to add buttons in my Header component from the Main component. Clicking the button should change a state in my Main component. I don't want it to be hardcoded, but rather passing an Array of objects from Main component to Header component. Clicking the button in header should trigger a state change in my Main component. I know how to do it by using @Input and @Output decorators using EventEmitters, however i want to provide like a callback function in the array object to call in my parent component. Is it possible to do?
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Zvonce (lat. Edraianthus), biljni rod u porodici zvončikovki s oko dvadesetak vrsta zeljastih trajnica raširenih na području tzv. Balkana, uključujući BiH i Srbiju, zatim u Grčkoj, Rumunjskoj, Hrvatskoj i na području Italije.

U Hrvatskoj raste oko 6 vrsta: dalmatinsko zvonce (Edraianthus dalmaticus), dinarsko zvonce (Edraianthus dinaricus), širokolisno zvonce ili hrvatsko zvonce (Edraianthus graminifolius), patuljasto ili biokovsko zvonce (Edraianthus pumilio), puzavo zvonce ili kreštalica (Edraianthus serpyllifolius), uskolisno zvonce (Edraianthus tenuifolius), a na području susjedne Srbije i u Bugarskoj (Edraianthus serbicus).

Vrste

 Edraianthus australis Lakušić ex Greuter, Burdet & G. Long
 Edraianthus caespitosus  F.K.Mey.
 Edraianthus canescens D.Lakušić, Niketić & Stevan.
 Edraianthus dalmaticus (A.DC.) A.DC.
 Edraianthus dinaricus  (A.Kern.) Wettst.
 Edraianthus glisicii Cernjavski & Soska
 Edraianthus graminifolius (L.) A.DC.
 Edraianthus hercegovinus  K.Malý
 Edraianthus horvatii Lakušić
 Edraianthus × intermedius  Degen
 Edraianthus × lakusicii Stevan. & D.Lakušić
 Edraianthus × murbeckii Wettst.
 Edraianthus niveus  Beck
 Edraianthus parnassicus  (Boiss. & Spruner) Halácsy
 Edraianthus pilosulus (Beck) Surina & D.Lakušić
 Edraianthus pubescens  F.K.Mey.
 Edraianthus pulevicii Surina & D.Lakušić
 Edraianthus pumilio (Port. ex Schult.) A.DC.
 Edraianthus serbicus  (A.Kern.) Petrovic
 Edraianthus serpyllifolius  (Vis.) A.DC.
 Edraianthus stankovicii (Lakušić) D.Lakušić & Surina
 Edraianthus sutjeskae  Lakušić
 Edraianthus tarae  Lakušić
 Edraianthus tenuifolius  (A.DC.) A.DC.
 Edraianthus wettsteinii  Halácsy & Bald.

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Army study recommends more sleep for recruits at basic, which drill sergeants will absolutely not disregard or anything
Soldiers who experience sleep problems during basic combat training may be more likely to struggle with psychological distress, attention difficulties, and anger issues during their entry into the military, a recent study suggests
By Lisa Rapaport, Reuters | Published Aug 20, 2019 9:30 AM
(Reuters Health) – Soldiers who experience sleep problems during basic combat training may be more likely to struggle with psychological distress, attention difficulties, and anger issues during their entry into the military, a recent study suggests.
"These results show that it would probably be useful to check in with new soldiers over time because sleep problems can be a signal that a soldier is encountering difficulties," said Amanda Adrian, lead author of the study and a research psychologist at the Center for Military Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Silver Spring, Maryland.
"Addressing sleep problems early on should help set soldiers up for success as they transition into their next unit of assignment," she said by email.
Adrian and colleagues surveyed 1,577 soldiers during the 10-week basic combat training at weeks 1, 3, 6, and 9 to see whether they were experiencing sleep problems or any issues with mood disorders, anger, or attention.
About 61% of the soldiers in the study never had a sleep problem. Another 13% started out with sleep issues but recovered during training, while 20% developed sleep problems during training and about 7% had chronic sleep issues throughout the study.
Compared to soldiers who never had sleep problems, those who recovered from initial sleep problems started out with higher psychological distress, anger reactions and attention problems but steadily improved throughout training, the study found.
Those who developed sleep problems during training or had chronic sleep problems had slower improvements in psychological distress and a decline in attention throughout the study. And the group with chronic sleep problems also had increasing anger issues throughout the study.
Sleep problems have long been linked to poor mental health, emotional regulation, cognitive function, and job performance, the researchers note in Sleep Health. But little is known about how sleep problems among people in high-risk occupations like firefighting and policing might impact their job performance, or the safety of people they're charged with protecting.
The current study wasn't a controlled experiment, so it can't prove sleep problems caused issues with mood, attention or anger reactions. Another limitation is that researchers relied on soldiers to accurately recall and report on any problems with sleep, attention, anger or mood. And the study didn't assess sleep duration or underlying factors that might lead some soldiers to develop sleep problems while others did not.
"There is evidence that both reduced hours of sleep and poor quality of sleep are associated with adverse mental health and cognitive functioning," said Sanford Nidich, director of the Center for Social and Emotional Health at Maharishi University of Management Research Institute in Fairfield, Iowa.
"The results of this current study on soldiers undergoing basic combat training provide further support on the connection between sleep quality and mental health, especially in the areas of anger reaction and attention," Nidich, who wasn't involved in the study, said by email. "While it is difficult to conclusively determine cause-and-effect from this study, it is clear that both quality of sleep as well as adverse mental health issues need to be addressed in terms of prevention and treatment."
Military personnel, like civilian adults, need approximately 8 hours of sleep per night for optimal job performance, said Dr. Hohui Wang, a psychiatry researcher at the University of California San Francisco who wasn't involved in the study.
"Persistent insomnia negatively impacts cardiometabolic and neurocognitive functions, and is associated with future development of PTSD, depression and anxiety," Wang said by email.
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What is the Housing Policy Council?How Does the Housing Policy Council Work?The HPC and the HOPE NOW Alliance
What is the Housing Policy Council?
The Housing Policy Council (HPC), created in 2003, is a non-profit organization based in Washington D.C. that lobbies for the interests of member companies in the mortgage and housing businesses. Ed DeMarco, former acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, currently heads the HPC.
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How Does the Housing Policy Council Work?
The Financial Services Roundtable, itself a special interest group of the financial services sector, laid the foundation for the HPC in 2003. The HPC is involved with housing and mortgage-related matters such as bank modernization, government-sponsored enterprise reform, the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, data reporting, low-income housing tax credit, mortgage interest deductions and mortgage revenue bonds. The Financial Services Roundtable came into being in 1993 as the Bankers Roundtable, as a result of the merger between two associations - the Association of Reserve City Bankers and the Association of Registered Bank Holding Companies. The group was finally rechristened in 2000 and adopted a policy of a considerably broader focus on the banking industry. At present, the group is actively involved in activities pertaining to the housing industry, including mortgage lending.
The HPC and the HOPE NOW Alliance
The Housing Policy Council played a significant role in the formation of the HOPE NOW Alliance, a coalition that came into being to put a check on mortgage foreclosures triggered by the subprime mortgage market collapse of 2007-08. Investors, consultants and mortgage services all formed part of this new alliance. As a countermeasure to stop snowballing mortgage defaults in the aftermath of the 2008 recession, the Alliance began reaching out to homeowners who were struggling on their payments. It offered them perquisites such as free counseling by counselors authorized by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. In less than a year since its formation, the HOPE NOW Alliance helped upwards of 1 million homeowners in avoiding foreclosure. The strong connection between the Housing Policy Council and the Financial Services Roundtable resulted in the alliance having close relationships with major banking institutions. Moreover, the induction of several officials from major financial organizations into the roundtable's board of directors created the impression that the alliance was more involved in finding ways to minimize losses resulting from flawed underwriting than actually facilitating mortgagors, who often ended up with irreconcilable repayment plans.
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Anthony Rendon free agency rumors: Angels agree to huge deal with third baseman
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The Angels are about to secure the top position player in the 2019-20 MLB free-agent market after agreeing Wednesday to a reported seven-year, $245 million contract with third baseman Anthony Rendon.
MLB Network's Jon Heyman and ESPN's Jeff Passan reported the contract terms. Los Angeles closed in on the agreement one day after being outbid for the top pitcher on the market, Gerrit Cole.
WINTER MEETINGS TRACKER: Signings, trades and rumors
Rendon, 29, is set to come to the Angels after playing an integral role in the Nationals' World Series championship run. Washington principal owner Mark Lerner indicated before the Winter Meetings that it was unlikely the club could re-sign him and Series MVP Stephen Strasburg. The Nats later agreed to a record pact with Strasburg, also for seven years and $245 million. Cole's reported nine-year, $324 million contract with the Yankees shattered that mark.
While Strasburg agreed to defer millions of his contract, Rendon will have none of his Angels deal deferred, reports Jesse Dougherty of The Washington Post. Rendon does not have an opt-out clause in his contract, either, reports Mark Feinsand of MLB.com.
RIVERA: Cole was the Yankees' only option
With Rendon off the board, more third-base dominoes will begin to fall. Free agent Josh Donaldson becomes the hottest commodity, and he is flush with suitors. The Rangers, Nationals and Braves reportedly lead the group. The Rangers offered Rendon six years and just under $200 million, according to Evan P. Grant of the Dallas Morning News.
Teams that lose out on Donaldson might then look to trade for a high-end third baseman, with the Cubs' Kris Bryant the most likely target. There were reports Wednesday that the Rockies might be willing to listen to offers for Nolan Arenado.
This developing story will be updated.


Have you ever seen the memes of Pinterest Fails floating around the internet? Essentially, people attempt adorable and unrealistic pinterest projects and hilarity ensues when the results aren't as promised. Here are 17 examples from Buzzfeed. When I saw a photo of these cookies on pinterest I immediately wondered why I hadn't thought of this earlier - it's genius! Peanut butter cookie with chocolate chips + chocolate cookie with peanut butter chips. It's a perfectly balanced ying-yang cookie. Shortly after discovering this beauty I speculated the reason must be that they probably fall into the "Pinterest fail" category. However, did high possibility of embarrassing failure stop me? OF COURSE NOT. And you know what? These actually did work! These cookies involve a bit more effort than just plopping a ball of dough on a baking sheet and tossing it in the oven but in the end it's totally worth it. And if you make these and they don't work you can always achieve internet fame via pinterestfail.com. win, win!
1. Make the chocolate dough: Cream the butter and sugars together with a mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg and vanilla until combined. In a separate bowl, combine the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt. Slowly mix it into the wet ingredients The dough will be very thick. With a spoon or rubber spatula, mix in the milk and then fold in the peanut butter chips.
2. Make the peanut butter dough: Cream the butter and sugars together with a mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Mix in the peanut butter, egg, and vanilla (in that order). Slowly mix in the baking soda and flour. Do not overmix. Fold in the chocolate chips. Chill both doughs for at least 1-2 hours.
3. Preheat oven to 350F degrees. Line cookie sheet with silicone baking mat or parchment paper. Measure 2 Tablespoons of peanut butter cookie dough. Roll into a ball. Take 2 Tablespoons of chocolate cookie dough. Roll into a ball. Smoosh the two balls together and roll them into 1 large ball. Repeat for each cookie. The chocolate cookie dough will get onto your hands, so wash/wipe them after you roll each cookie. It is important the chocolate cookie dough is chilled or else it will be even more messy.
4. Bake the cookies for 11-12 minutes, not exceeding 13 minutes. The cookies will look very soft, puffy, and almost undone. Allow the cookies to cool on the cookie sheet and they will continue to "bake" and set up. As they cool, the cookies will firm up.


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DON'T UPSET ME – Or I may put you in a book and kill you
Posted on August 29, 2017 by Lindsey Burden
by Terence Strong
(Author of Whisper Who Dares, The Tick Tock Man and Some Unholy War)
'Where do you get your ideas from?'
Isn't that the question all authors dread? I mean just where do you begin?
My stance when giving a talk to enthusiastic readers is to begin with 'I know the three questions you are all dying to ask. So we can get on, here are the answers: In the bath. A garden shed. And, yes, I always use a rubber – because we all make mistakes.'
That usually manages to set the tone.
I've been a member of the Crime Writers' Association (CWA) for a long time, although I feel a bit of a fraud because I'm probably classed as a thriller writer rather than a crime writer – although crime writers certainly thrill. Or at least the best ones do.
And crimes I write about just seem to be a bit more ostentatious and on a bigger scale than most. Mass genocide, world terrorism, war crimes and narcotics. While crime writers may be content with a bottle of arsenic, I'm only happy with a phial of polonium. I always thought the CWA should have an annual Kalashnikov Award, although I can't complain as they do now have the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger to represent the hunt to find international criminals of all types.
This is sounding like an excuse for we thriller writers to be as accepted in decent literary society as the authors of traditional crime novels and whodunits. Well, the truth is, we thriller writers have nowhere else to go and need to be loved like every other author. After all, we all have to answer that ideas question. Like me, you probably get some yours from national and local newspapers.
Most weeks I read the profile of a CEO of a multinational in the Business Section and know I can plan simply from that how to go about finding him or her to assassinate them. Or, in more mellow mood, to abduct for ransom, or capture and hold his wife and children hostage and to work out how I'd get away with it.
I sat in an optician's once and listened to a delightful young lady give all her personal details, address, telephone number and email to the receptionist. She became my first serial killer victim.
I buy two weekend broadsheet newspapers every weekend to keep up to date with everything in the world – at home and abroad.
But often ideas come without trying . . . through half-remembered dreams. The one I remember most vividly was being stuck in London knowing there were IRA bombs being planted all around us. I asked this beat copper, which way should I go. He shrugged and said 'Your idea's as good as mine, mate. Just run!' That ended up as the Seven Dials Bomb in The Tick Tock Man.
More recently I awoke as a spy being controlled by chef John Torode and Greg Wallace from Masterchef. They provided me with a hooker and told me to be nice to her because she was one of their best. Absolutely true. They have now become the inspiration for MI6 field officer Ollie Parsons and an Australian Army minder on secondment in my new thriller WOW (code-name) which is due out shortly.
Even better they are joined by the evil teenaged Chief Mbobo, inspired by a contestant who appeared on BBCTV's The Apprentice a few years back. Mustn't say too much as I've turned him into a nasty piece of work. It's amazing what they'll try to sue you for nowadays.
Less controversial was feisty lawyer Sam Browne in Rogue Element who was inspired by one of Joanna Lumley's creations and actress Frances de la Tour who – in my head – magnificently became the character of MI6 officer Iona in Deadwater Deep.
The Asia-born Ravi in Some Unholy War was influenced by a brilliant pro bono charity solicitor fighting against the almighty NHS in my private life. At one point I locked antlers with a consultant in a battle that caused me tremendous personal anguish and grief. He became a character. I killed him in Cold Monday (the BREXIT thriller). On paper. The bastard.
From that same real-life situation two nurses, who were brilliant, were awarded with starring roles in the same book. I captured their personalities and breathed new life into them. Ah, yes, it's true that one of them did get bumped off. But she was collateral damage. Not intended, nothing personal.
A gorgeous and daffy barmaid at my local – The Lying Toad – very successfully transformed into my hero's secretary and inadvertently saved the day by her unpredictable way of doing things. Amalgamating several friends or acquaintances into one character is also fun. It gives the author so much to work with. Mind you, sometimes it's best not to mention it to the person concerned – even if you think you know them well. Recently I raided someone I knew – and disliked – in the 60s. The revenge was late, cold, but very sweet.
Yesterday in Waitrose, a cocky new greengrocery shelf-stacker told me blatantly that asparagus was not in season. That's why the store had none in stock. I looked into his eyes and saw that he had no soul.
It is very possible that by next year he will be a junior officer in the Russian Army and will be shot dead during the writing of Ice Island.
Terence Strong © 2017
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BACK TO THE FRONT – SAS RETURN TO AFGHANISTAN
Posted on August 28, 2017 by Terence Strong
Like they've never been away, up to a 60 plus-man Squadron of the SAS is being redeployed to Afghanistan to support the new military "surge" planned by the Donald Trump administration.
With Marine Corps vets dominating in the White House, the new President is determined to crush reviving Taliban forces and the Islamic State and al-Qaeda forces they are harbouring.
SAS troops are likely to be joined by members of the smaller Special Boat Service (Royal Marines), which had made Special Forces' activities their own during the prolonged conflict in the country.
Serious concerns about the regrouping and rapid growth of the extreme Taliban religious sect, which previously ran the country, were confirmed in recent weeks by the British Army's top-secret Defence Intelligence Unit. It specialises in training and operating human intelligence ("humint") and running agents on the ground in war-zones, being particularly adept at focusing on target recognition of terror group leaders.
Any new "surge" by the United States is likely to see a return to the Black Ops in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Although criticised by many neo-liberals back home, they proved to be ruthlessly efficient in smashing the rule of terror in both countries. They comprised night-after-night of surprise raids, snatch squads and harsh interrogation with immediate follow-up of intelligence gleaned. It wasn't always a pretty sight. (See Some Unholy War).
The operations took their toll on Special Forces operators themselves as well as the terrorist networks they destroyed.
#SAS #SBS #SpecialForces #Afghanistan #Surge #BlackOps #Trump #USMarineCorps
WRITING FOR REAL
Article originally for Simon & Schuster website/Dark Pages
"Fill an overnight bag and grab your passport."
These would normally be the words I'd want to say to anyone buying one of my books, warning, "You are in for the white-knuckle ride of your life." I could, but wouldn't add, "But don't worry, you're in a safe pair of hands."
Because that is what thriller writing and reading is all about and always has been. Being led by the hand into an unfamiliar and dangerous world where no one and nothing is quite what it seems. Yet knowing that the person taking you – however tough things get – will let you come to no harm. Although if your habit is to read last thing at night, you could be in for a restless sleep.
That is the way I safely travelled the world as a child, flying with Captain W.E. Johns' famous creation, pilot James Bigglesworth. With him I went everywhere from the jungles of South America, the Gobi deserts of Mongolia and even Syria, so much in the news today. Later I changed companions to Ian Fleming, Hammond Innes, Desmond Bagley and Graham Greene. Sven Hassel tended to get me shot at quite a lot. Not sure how safe I felt with him.
But none of it did my Geography, General Knowledge and some History any harm at school. I wrote my first proper book at the age of 16 and my second when I was in my very early twenties.
Neither was seriously submitted for publication, but it was to be only a matter of time before it was my turn to take readers by the hand and lead them into another more unfamiliar and dangerous world beyond the front door of their cosy town house or suburban semi.
Work in journalism and a bit of military research had shown me there were other places you wouldn't necessarily want to go and people you wouldn't want to meet. I developed friends and contacts in the British and American military, including Special Forces, spying and counter-espionage, terrorism, narcotics and assassination. And it isn't always the good guys I am having a drink with.
Thriller writers are a bit like media reporters that way. Their job is to report the facts, not to be judgemental. Writers do, however, have a licence to tell it how it really is and how it feels. We can look at characters and the effect of events on the human condition.
Countless times I have found that, on examination, commonly-held beliefs about people, places and events are misplaced or misjudged. That can come as quite a shock sometimes, but makes for interesting reading.
Desk research is as important as travel research. After the first Gulf War, a huge-selling British writer had his hero break into one of Saddam Hussein's bunkers – into a broom cupboard! I had a similar occurrence in Stalking Horse. It took me just one phone call to bunker architects in Northern Ireland to establish how it can be done…It can't – you have to have an accomplice on the inside! Normally with research, if you knock on a door – however secret – and ask nicely, someone will open it for you.
For SOME UNHOLY WAR you won't need your passport. Together, we'll recount deadly black ops by the SAS with their American allies in Iraq and in Afghanistan. We'll experience again the sultry heat and the dusty desert air. Remember the sights, the sounds and the smells. We'll feel again the adrenalin rush of relentless combat, the unaccountable elation and the terrible fear.
But most of our action will be on the streets of home. Did I say home? Through the eyes of the veteran soldier it won't feel much like home. More like an alien planet. When you're down on your luck and on the streets, you make new friends. And new enemies.
To fight them will take deep resolve. You'll need to kick the black dog that keeps following you and deal with the pit bull that the drug-dealer has on a leash in front of you. It won't be a walk in the park, I promise you.
But like all the other trips we may have made together – on the borders of Northern Ireland, chased by the Russian Spetsnaz in the Scandinavian mountains, fighting child soldiers in Mozambique, the narcos in the South American jungles, the hostage takers and ship hijackers in Arabia – we'll get through safely in the end.
And recount our tales of derring-do down the pub, until we're ready to go again.
© 2013 Terence Strong
KURD GIRL SNIPERS TIGHTEN NOOSE ON ISLAMIC STATE
The city of Raqqa is the dark heart of the so-called Islamic State of Da'esh, the Sunni Muslim death cult in Syria. It still pumps and spills blood within its decimated houses of rubble as its hard-core believers continue to hold on.
They are Chechen vets, former al-Qaeda fighters and Iraqi Ba'athists who supported Saddam Hussein. And they are in no mood to give up the dying dream of being at the centre of an extreme Islamic Caliphate that would stretch halfway across the world from the UK to the Philippines.
After all, they have had three years to prepare and dig in with secret tunnels, booby-traps and car-bombs, all surrounded by a soft bubble-wrap human shield of several hundred thousand civilians in the built-up central neighbourhood.
Pitched against them for the past two months are the US-backed Syrian Democratic Force (SDF), a Kurdish-led coalition of Arab, Assyriac and Yazidi fighters.
In there somewhere, of course, are advisers from the British SAS.
Recently the SDF claim to have secured the northern half of the city, but the confusing front-line continues to ebb back and forth. Everyone knows the final push will be long and hard to win. That bloody victory will have to be achieved by scarcely-trained teenagers of YPG – part of the SDF – who make up in enthusiasm and blind courage what they lack in any kind of military expertise.
America is happy to fire them up with rhetoric, military technology and brand new Humvees that still have their protective plastic film sheaths on.
So leading the attack on Islamic State are thousands of untrained young Kurdish fighters, including deadly and fearless girl snipers who are apparently taking a deadly toll on the Christian world's historic anti-Christ enemy.
They will need all the spiritual help they can get, and no doubt deserve.
#SDF #Kurds #YPG #Syria #Raqqa #USA #CIA #IslamicState #Daesh #alQaeda #SAS #MI6


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FORT WORTH, Texas – After enduring more than 756 days between goals, junior forward Lois Heuchan sent in a pair within 45 minutes to help the Kansas Jayhawks to a 2-1 win over the TCU Horned Frogs Friday night at Garvey-Rosenthal Stadium. The Jayhawks claimed the sixth unbeaten result in their last seven outings and earned their third-straight victory on TCU's home turf.
The win moved Kansas to 7-3-2 on the year and 2-0-0 in Big 12 play. The loss dropped gave the Horned Frogs their second loss of the year at 8-2-1 and moved them to 0-2-0 in Big 12 play.
"I thought we played really well in the first half, but TCU really took it to us in the second half," said head coach Mark Francis. "In the end, I think we were able to pull it out because of our grit and how we were able to fight and battle until the end. I was very proud of the team today. This is a good victory for us."
For the sixth time this season, Kansas got on the board first with the help of a goal within the opening 20 minutes of the match. At the end of a run into the heart of the TCU defense, senior Tayler Estrada played a pass into the Horned Frogs box. The TCU defender deflected the pass, however Heuchan was there to meet the deflection. The junior let the ball take one bounce before heading it inside the right post of the TCU frame. The goal was Heuchan's first of the season and first since her freshman campaign in 2014.
KU continued to keep the pressure on the TCU back line over the rest of the first half. Heuchan nearly put in her second goal of the game when she got on the end of another piercing Jayhawk cross. This time though, TCU keeper Courtney Hofer was there for a diving save. Senior Hanna Kallmaier also came within inches of giving the Jayhawks a 2-0 lead. In the 23rd minute, Kallmaier got a shot off from the top of the TCU six-yard box, but the try slammed off the right post and out of harm's way.
The Horned Frogs got one back just moments into the second half. A poor clearance by the KU defense gave McKenzie Oliver an uncontested shot from the top of the Jayhawk box. Her high-arching attempt slipped under the crossbar and pulled the Horned Frogs level only 78 seconds into the second period.
The Kansas offense didn't waiver and reclaimed the lead less than 12 minutes later. Senior Jackie Georgoulis sent an on-point pass downfield to a streaking Katie McClure, who used some fancy dribbling to evade a defender and find an opening at the top of TCU's 18-yard box. The freshman then played a pass across the box to Heuchan who had gotten in behind the Horned Frog defenders. With a one-on-one look between herself and TCU keeper Katie Lund, Heuchan slotted a shot home past the freshman keeper to notch the first multi-goal game of her career.
The Jayhawks were forced to withstand several tense moments down the final half-hour of the match as TCU refused to concede the game without a fight. In the 66th minute, the home side saw a handful of chances that nearly brought the Horned Frogs level. A close range attempt from a TCU striker was saved off the line from senior defender Morgan Williams. Seconds later, the Horned Frogs found themselves on the right side of a breakaway, however KU goalkeeper Maddie Dobyns came up with one of her five saves of the night.
The Horned Frogs ended up outshooting Kansas 9-4 over the final 30 minutes, however none of those attempts managed to make it to the back of the KU net. After some frantic TCU attempts at the equalizer the final whistle sounded and gave the Jayhawks their third-straight win on the Horned Frogs' home pitch.
For just the fourth time this season, the Jayhawks were outshot in a match after TCU posted 13 shots to KU's 10. Heuchan and Estrada led the KU offensive attack with three shots apiece. On the defensive end, Dobyns collected five saves on the night and earned her seventh win in goal this year.
The Jayhawks will continue their Lone Star State road swing when the take on the Texas Longhorns on Sunday, Oct. 2. KU and UT are slated to kick off from Mike A. Myers Stadium at 1 p.m. The match will be televised on Longhorn Network.