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Have you or someone you love suffered from a brain injury in Houston, Texas? In many cases, you may be entitled to compensation for lost wages, medical bills, and loss of enjoyment of life.
When you have brain injuries, you deserve a legal team that will fight for every dime you need to get the necessary medical care you need.
At Attorney Brian White Personal Injury Lawyers, our Houston brain injury lawyers have over 45 years of combined experience. We've spent our careers fighting for injured victims like you and securing life-changing awards of compensation for them in the process.
Our skilled and trusted attorneys can help you understand your legal options and get the compensation you deserve.
Contact our Houston law firm today at (713) 500-5000 for a free consultation.
How Attorney Brian White Personal Injury Lawyers Can Help With Your Brain Injury Accident in Houston
What Are Common Symptoms of Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI)?
What Usually Causes Traumatic Brain Injuries?
What Damages Are Available in Traumatic Brain Injury Cases in Houston, TX?
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You need a Houston brain injury lawyer that has everything needed to give you the best chance to recover compensation. We have the experience and strength required to handle serious personal injury cases in Houston, Texas, like traumatic brain injuries.
We also have a winning track record. Perhaps what sets us apart from many personal injury firms, we have the financial stability necessary to put up a fight against big insurance companies.
Attorney Brian White is Board-Certified in Texas Personal Injury Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. This personal injury lawyer specialty certification is one earned by only 3% of lawyers.
Our personal injury lawyers in Houston, TX, are proud to carry on a culture of excellent service for each client as we handle their personal injury claims.
When you hire us, you can expect:
Full-service representation. We know that traumatic brain injuries are enough to worry about. We handle every aspect of your case. You can focus on recovery.
Thorough investigation. When you have suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI), you may not recall much about the accident that caused your injury. Memory loss is a symptom of many types of brain injury. We will launch a complete investigation and gather all the evidence available to establish your case.
Expert collaboration. We work with Texas' leading experts, including medical experts and experts in any other scientific or technical field needed to prove your case.
Blame deflection. Even when a serious condition, like a traumatic brain injury, is at issue, insurance companies will still often try to blame you for your own injuries. We defend our clients against accusations of blame and minimize any blame on their part.
Assertive negotiation. We have the backbone it takes to stand up to the insurance companies in settlement negotiations. We always do our best to get our clients full compensation.
Of course, even though most cases settle before trial, we are prepared to take every case to trial, if it becomes necessary.
After an accident, it is recommended that an injured person establish an attorney-client relationship with a reputable personal injury attorney promptly. This is because personal injury claims can take quite a lot of time to investigate and prepare.
With our entirely free consultation and contingency-fee based representation, you have nothing to lose. Contact our Houston personal injury law office today to get started. Our personal injury attorneys are available 24/7.
Traumatic brain injuries result from violent jolts of the head and neck. A wide range of signs and symptoms characterize traumatic brain injuries. These injuries can be particularly scary because the signs and symptoms do not start immediately after the accident. Instead, their onset is delayed by hours or even days.
For this reason, it is important to be familiar with classic warning signs associated with TBI that call for medical intervention.
Signs Immediately After an Accident
Not all signs and symptoms of traumatic brain injuries are delayed.
Some immediate signs include:
Loss of consciousness as brief as a few seconds or as long as hours
Changes in alertness, like drowsiness or difficulty awakening
Double vision or trouble following an object with the eyes
Loss of balance and peripheral weakness of arms and legs
Clear fluid draining from ears or nose
Speech difficulties, like slurred speech or scrambled speech (sometimes called "word salad"), also indicate TBI.
If you suspect that your infant has suffered a TBI, get immediate medical help and contact our Houston infant brain injury lawyers.
Signs In the Hours and Days After an Accident
Following a blow to the head or other violent jolt, particularly those sustained in a car accident, friends and family should monitor victims of head trauma.
TBI victims may start to show the following signs in the hours or days after they have suffered a TBI:
Headache, particularly a persistent headache
Vertigo, dizziness, or lightheadedness
Sudden changes to behavior or mood swings
Inability to concentrate, communicate thoughts, read, or think clearly
They may also develop anxiety and depression, or a lack of interest in activities they previously enjoyed.
In particular, TBI symptoms often impact a person's sensory abilities, such as:
Metallic or other bad taste in the mouth
Loss of smell or taste
If your loved one is showing symptoms like these within the hours and days after a serious violent jolt to their head, they should be evaluated by a medical professional immediately.
There can be many causes of traumatic brain injuries. But one of the most common causes covers a wide range of situations: someone else's negligence.
According to the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the majority of TBIs reported in the U.S. were caused by:
Almost half, a full 40%, of the TBIs in the U.S. each year result from a fall. Unsurprisingly, the elderly are most likely to suffer a brain injury from a fall. Falls among senior citizens can be the result of unfortunate slip-and-fall accidents or they can be indicators of more serious situations, like nursing home negligence.
Motor vehicle crashes, including truck accidents and motorcycle accidents, are the leading cause of TBI-related deaths. Often, a head impacts a steering wheel, dashboard, or window at high speed during a crash.
Struck by an Object or Person
Blunt force trauma results from direct contact between a blunt object and a person. The severity of these injuries depends on the size, speed, force, and other factors related to the object and the strike. Blunt force trauma often occurs in construction site accidents when equipment strikes a worker.
Violent Crime or Assault
Each year, 10% of all TBIs are caused by a violent interaction with another person. Intimate partner violence and child abuse, as well as physical assault with an intent to injure or harm someone, fall into this category.
In addition to these broad categories, traumatic brain injuries of all kinds can be caused by specific types of accidents.
Some situations that commonly lead to TBIs include:
Bike accidents (including electric scooter accidents)
In any of these situations, a negligent party can be responsible for the injuries a victim sustains as a result of their negligence.
Texas law permits recovery of both economic and non-economic damages in personal injury cases. Economic damages are those that are easily quantified by dollar amount.
Cost of future medical care
Therapy and rehabilitation expenses
These damages usually have a reasonably certain value that can be documented by receipts, payroll stubs, tax returns, and medical treatment records.
Non-economic damages still have a pecuniary value, but it is not easily quantified or reasonably certain. Instead, the value of these damages is based on the facts of the individual case and the judgment of the jury.
Non-economic damages include:
A savvy attorney uses evidence of a person's pre-injury lifestyle to establish the value of these claims. The more disruption the injury causes in a person's life, the higher their non-economic damages are likely to be valued.
Traumatic brain injuries range in seriousness and spread. Some common categories of TBIs include:
Concussions. Concussions are the most common type of TBI. They are caused by a hit to the body that causes the brain to move rapidly back and forth, sometimes even striking the inside of the skull.
Contusions. A brain contusion is caused by bleeding inside the brain itself. Brain contusions frequently require surgical removal to avoid fatal outcomes or to prevent further damage to surrounding brain tissue.
Diffuse axonal injuries. A severe type of brain injury, this kind of brain damage occurs when an external force causes tears throughout the brain. These tears in brain tissue can lead to coma or death.
Penetrating injuries. Penetrating injuries occur when an object, usually a sharp one, punctures the skull and brain. An injury that can often be fatal, anyone who survives is likely to have long-term and severe loss of cognitive function, speech capacity, and emotional regulation. In short, they may be unable to care for themselves.
Even if you or someone you love have suffered a TBI, you are not automatically entitled to recover compensation. Each type of injury must still be proven by competent medical evidence, including medical records and expert testimony.
Texas has a two-year statute of limitations that applies to most personal injury lawsuits. So, if you've sustained a brain injury due to another person's negligence, you'll have two years from the date you got hurt to take action.
While there are exceptions to this rule, it is important to act quickly. If you miss the deadline that applies to your specific set of circumstances, you'll be prohibited from seeking damages for your brain injury.
Attorney Brian White Personal Injury Lawyers has three convenient locations to serve you throughout Houston, TX. Our main office is located at 3120 Southwest Freeway, Suite 350, Houston, TX 77098. We can be reached at 713-500-5000 or click here to fill out our online form.
Proving a traumatic brain injury (TBI) case is difficult. It can be made even harder by the victim's limited ability to remember, speak, or express their emotions.
The compassionate personal injury attorneys at Attorney Brian White Personal Injury Lawyers know how difficult dealing with TBI victims can be. We are proud to help our clients who have suffered TBIs to reach their optimal physical and financial recovery. Give us a call today.
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David Lee Black
An Eye for Photography
By Mark B. Oliver | May 27, 2015
David Lee Black is an award winning photographer whose images frequently adorn ONE.
"I was drawn to art and photography at an early age, fascinated by the natural lines formed in nature and attracted to the sights, smells and textures of abandoned spaces. One of my first merit badges before I earned my Eagle Scout Award was Photography."
In high school, Black was the photo editor for the school paper and year book, and his journalism teacher nurtured his interest in photography.
"She gave me keys to the school darkroom which was located high above the theatrical stage. There was a wooden staircase that led up into what I fondly remember as a 'magic room' with a red light bulb outside the door indicating whether the darkroom was in use."
His teacher's trust in his ability was well placed, with Black forging a lifelong career in photography.
Black never received formal training, but his natural talent has been helped by being surrounded by creative people.
"I have been very fortunate in my life to have wildly creative painters, sculptors, potters, musicians, writers in my life. All of which has helped form my path in photography with a special knack for having a eye for what is a good photograph."
"Abandoneer" from the forthcoming book "Asylum"
When asked who his favorite photographer is he hesitates.
"I would say it is a coin toss between Alfred Stieglitz and Ansel Adams. Stieglitz was a photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental in having photography accepted as mainstream art in the early twentieth century, and this accomplishment often overshadows his own excellent work. Adams, of course, has an expansive eye for the majestic landscapes of the American West."
Black's work has appeared in numerous publications including Stationery Magazine, New England Living, Edible Cape Cod, Art Scope Magazine, and Yankee Magazine.com. Shortly his photograph White Mountain Sisters will be published in National Geographic Traveler.
His commercial work is wide ranging with his images appearing on everything from ale to record labels.
Perhaps it's this diversity that has led Black to win so many awards such as Featured Artist Award for New England Artists (2005), The Juror's Choice Award at the Winter Exhibition at the Attleboro Art Museum (2006), and The Honorarium Award, the International Society of Photographers Convention and Symposium, Las Vegas (2007) to name but a few.
Black's favorite quote sheds light on his work ethos;
"Each photograph owns its own setting, heart and soul, without apology or reservation." - Mexico Ledger.
Looking ahead Blacks' future looks rosy as his career continues to blossom with new opportunities to photograph the rural landscapes and special portraiture of the people of Ireland.
A collection of Black's photos will be released in the fall of 2012. Asylum is a photographic journey into an abandoned Massachusetts insane asylum built in 1854. A selection of photographs from the book are in the slideshow that accompanies this article. Further details will be published on Black's website when they become available.
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In 1975 and 1976 work to clear an area immediately outside the city wall recorded a section of the associated bank and ditch. It was also noted that almost the whole site was covered to a depth of up to 1m with black ash and cinders containing 19th century material. There are also a considerable number of chalk-filled pits on the site, and these may be linked to documentary references to lime-working in this area in the 14th century.
1975. Large area cleared immediately outside the city wall.
Virtually the whole site was covered to a depth of up to 1m with black ash and cinders containing 19th century material. There were also a considerable number of chalk filled pits on the site, undated. There are documentary references to lime-working on or around this site from the 14th century (S1).
Section of the bank and ditch of the city wall seen and recorded.
Medieval and post medieval sherds from foundation trenches.
Compiled by W. Milligan and M. Atkin (NCM).
<S1> Publication: Ninham, J. and Fitch, R. 1861. Views of Gates of Norwich. pp 17-19.


Considering the economic environment and its recent effects on commercial real estate, going green is a wise way to cut costs in operating office buildings, retail stores, manufacturing facilities and malls. Tenants and owners may enjoy significant savings in utility costs if they adopt any number of green business practices, and they'll be helping the environment, too.
One option available is solar window films, which reduce indoor air temperature in order to cut cooling costs. Newer films are revolutionary because, unlike earlier versions, they do not darken the indoor environment. They accomplish this feat by absorbing ultraviolet and infrared radiation while permitting the passage of visible light into the building. More than half of the sun's energy is reflected away from the building by solar window films, increasing indoor comfort levels significantly. Some newer films are capable of not only blocking light, but of actually producing energy. They house ultra-thin photovoltaic material components which generate electricity during the day.
The 2008 Emergency Economic Stabilization Act gives special tax credits to owners who install energy-efficient improvements, such as photovoltaic window films. Also, the recent spikes in energy costs have created a powerful incentive for the commercial real estate community to adopt green business practices. These incentives will help offset the cost of installation.
mineral wool insulation. Although mineral wool forms naturally, it is manufactured for commercial purposes using basalt and iron-ore slag that is melted, spun into fibers, and held together with a special resin. This material provides excellent thermal resistance, as well as sound attenuation and flame resistance. Coupled with the EPA's requirement that it be made from 75% recycled content, mineral wool is an attractive choice for green commercial building insulation.
efficient lighting. The topic of green lighting is so vast that it deserves an article of its own. Commercial tenants and owners should research their options, which range from light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and compact fluorescent lighting (CFL) to the lesser-known implementation of light tubes, light shelves, and clerestory windows.
leakage through the building envelope. An enormous amount of heat is lost in commercial offices through gaps in the building envelope, in such places as electrical outlets, mail slots, window frames, baseboards, and around pipes and wires. A commercial inspector trained in performing energy audits can perform the tests necessary to determine where energy is lost and how to resolve the problem.
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Caratlane launches its 50th Store
CaratLane - A Tanishq Partnership, India's leading omni-channel jeweller has launched its largest store in Mumbai, taking their count of stores nationally to 50.
Feb 4 2019 10:36AM
The new store that is located on Link Road in Andheri (West) is designed to offer a distinctive jewellery buying experience for the relentless modern women.
Speaking on the occasion, Mithun Sacheti, Founder and CEO, CaratLane said, "We launched our first store in 2012, and since then we have been rapidly expanding to meet consumer needs and demand. The West has always been a key market for us and we are excited to launch our 50th store in the prime suburbs of Mumbai. We've designed a whole new experiential store for our customers that will help them discover jewellery that will complement their personalities. The store has a virtual try-on 'magic mirror' for those 'just looking' moments. The store is a testament to the brand's commitment to make beautiful and affordable jewellery increasingly accessible."
As a first, the store is also set to offer a uniquely uplifting browsing experience through a meticulously hand-painted artwork on the central wall depicting the two worlds of a woman. The outer intensive colours represent the society and family that is important to the woman of today, while the soft CaratLane colours depict the harmony within and how she blends the two to stay true to herself. As a part of celebrating the new opening, the store will have a special showcase of their most stylish collection 'Weave', with designs that are meticulously crafted with gorgeous interlaced golden thread and strokes of diamond.
"I love CaratLane for its designs, transparency and affordability. Most of the designs help me dress for multiple occasions, which in return increases its value." said Shalini, a CaratLane customer from Mumbai.
"The launch of our 50th store is a very important occasion for us and as a special launch offer for our customers, the store is offering a flat 30% off on diamond jewellery for a limited period," added Sagar V, Head- Retail sales, CaratLane who was present at the launch.
For a brand that's on a mission to democratise access to beautiful jewellery, the launch of their 50th store is another step forward in that direction.
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Three in four Britons are worried about companies collecting information about them
A major new international online study on privacy and personalisation from Ipsos MORI shows that three in five Britons (62%) would rather keep their online activities private, even if that means they lose out on personalised services and relevant recommendations.
Three in four Britons are worried about companies collecting information about them – and three quarters think a further loss of privacy is inevitable
Britain in mid-table in international league of privacy concerns
A major new international online study on privacy and personalisation from Ipsos MORI shows that three in five Britons (62%) would rather keep their online activities private, even if that means they lose out on personalised services and relevant recommendations. This puts us in a similar position to the United States, while countries such as France, Germany, Australia and Sweden are even less likely to say they would trade their privacy for personalised services. Online consumers in emerging nations, though (such as Brazil, India, China and Russia) are more attracted by the benefits of personalisation.
This is underpinned by a general concern about the way information collected online is being used by companies and governments. Seven in ten (68%) of Britons are concerned about the way information is collected about them by the government, and even more – 76% - are worried about companies. We see the same pattern in terms of trust: from a range of organisations, public sector healthcare providers are most trusted to use people's information in the right way (41%), followed by banks (34%), governments and supermarkets (both 31%). At the other end of the scale, though, are other organisations such as media companies (just 11% trust) and social media sites (12%), with foreign governments right at the bottom on 10%. Trust in all three of these is lower in Britain than the average across the 20 countries surveyed.
When it comes to surveillance technologies, Britons make a distinction between crime and terrorism – at least as far as other people's privacy is concerned. Around four in ten say it would be completely unacceptable for the government to monitor emails, text messages, phone calls, or internet activity without consent to combat crime – whether their own or other people's. However, while Britons are just as likely to rule out monitoring their own communications to combat terrorism, they seem less bothered if the government were to do that to other people, with only 18% seeing this as completely unacceptable. However, in either case Britons are more comfortable with government monitoring communications without consent than the global average.
Despite all this genuinely-held concern there is less sign that we are really changing our behaviour about it – perhaps because 77% think it is inevitable that we will lose some privacy in the future because of new technology. For example:
two in three (67%) say they often don't bother reading terms and conditions on a website before accepting them
only a quarter (23%) have changed the default settings on their computer or browser to increase their privacy
and only a third (34%) would be willing to pay extra for a service to keep details private – 19th out of the 20 countries asked
People are however much more likely to see the benefit of companies giving them access to the data held on them: seven in ten (71%) say they would like to have access to the data that companies hold about them, to help me make better decisions, for example on how they spend their money.
Personalisation Versus Privacy from Ipsos MORI
Personalisation vs. Privacy: The Balance of Public Opinion Event: 11 February 2014
Bobby Duffy, Managing Director of the Ipsos MORI Social Research Institute, said:
"The enormous amount of data and information that's collected about us in just about all areas of our lives now provides incredible opportunities – but also makes a large majority of people uneasy. How we balance the real benefits these data bring with equally real concerns is a key challenge now and for the coming years - and it's clear from this major international survey that there will be no one approach that will work for everyone. "Government and companies will need to be flexible and sensitive to very different levels of concern between individuals and across countries - and will have to communicate very carefully. Knowledge of the real nature of what's known about us and how it's used is very low – and while more transparency and simple messages are key, these may actually make more people worried than they currently are."
These are the findings of the Global Trends Survey, an Ipsos survey conducted between October 1st and October 15th.
The survey was conducted in 20 countries around the world via the Ipsos Online Panel system. The countries reporting herein are Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Great Britain, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Poland, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and the United States of America.
For the results of the survey presented herein, an international sample of 16,167 adults aged 18-64 in the US and Canada, and age 16-64 in all other countries, were interviewed. Approximately 1000+ individuals participated on a country by country basis via the Ipsos Online Panel with the exception of Argentina, Belgium, Poland, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden and Turkey, where each have a sample approximately 500+.
Weighting was then employed to balance demographics and ensure that the sample's composition reflects that of the adult population according to the most recent country Census data, and to provide results intended to approximate the sample universe. A survey with an unweighted probability sample of this size and a 100% response rate would have an estimated margin of error of +/-3.1 percentage points for a sample of 1,000 and an estimated margin of error of +/- 4.5 percentage points 19 times out of 20 per country of what the results would have been had the entire population of adults in that country had been polled. All sample surveys and polls may be subject to other sources of error, including, but not limited to coverage error, and measurement error.
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Jean-Baptiste de Nompère de Champagny, 1 duc de Cadore, né le  à Roanne (Loire) et mort le  dans le  de Paris, est un militaire et homme politique français.

Il est issu d'une famille de la noblesse de Roanne. Officier de marine, il est élu député de la noblesse aux États généraux de 1789. Conseiller d'État et ambassadeur sous le Consulat, il devient ensuite ministre de l'Intérieur puis ministre des Affaires étrangères sous le Premier Empire.

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Dans la Royale

Sa famille, noble mais sans fortune, le destine dès son enfance à la profession des armes. Fils d'un cadet de famille qui, devenu veuf de bonne heure, avait épousé en secondes noces une sœur de l'abbé Terray, le jeune Champagny doit à la protection de ce ministre de Louis XV une bourse au collège de La Flèche (1765) où il fait de brillantes études, puis son admission à l'École militaire de Paris en 1770, où il prend son premier grade du service de mer, et d'où, par faveur spéciale, il ne sort qu'après des études suffisantes pour lui faire obtenir un avancement anticipé.

Il est admis à l'âge de 15 ans dans la Marine royale en  comme garde-marine. Embarqué en 1774 sur la frégate « La Flore », chargée d'annoncer l'avènement de Louis XVI au dey d'Alger et au bey de Tunis. En 1775, un examen qu'il subit, avec la plus grande distinction, en arrivant en France, lui valut le grade d'enseigne de vaisseau. Il embarque ensuite sur « L'Écureuil » en escadre d'évolutions.

La campagne d'Amérique

Le jeune Nompère prit part à la guerre d'indépendance américaine. Le , il est nommé enseigne de vaisseau et embarque sur « La Dédaigneuse » à Saint-Domingue. En 1778, il embarque sur « Le Fier » et prit part à la prise de l'île de Grenade en juillet 1779.

Lieutenant de vaisseau en , il passa sur « L'Émeraude » et en 1782 comme commandant en second de « La Couronne », dans l'escadre de l'amiral de Grasse, il prit part au combat au large des Saintes les 9 et  et y est très grièvement blessé à la mâchoire. Passé pour mort, alors que l'on allait jeter son corps à la mer, le vicomte de Viella constate qu'il était encore en vie. Remis de ses blessures, il est fait chevalier de Saint-Louis et son activité pendant la campagne des Amériques le fait recevoir membre de la Société des Cincinnati.

Élu à l'Académie de marine en 1785, il commande « Le Pandour » en escadre d'évolutions.

Le marquis de Castries lui propose alors de participer à l'expédition de Monsieur de Lapérouse, devant partir explorer le Pacifique en compagnie de nombreux scientifiques. Il refusa du fait qu'il devait se marier cette année-là avec  Victoire Blandine Huë de Grosbois ; le mariage n'eut pourtant lieu que deux ans plus tard.

Major de vaisseau en , il quitte la marine en 1787, après avoir pris part à neuf campagnes, et assisté à cinq combats, notamment à ceux d'Ouessant (1778) et de la Grenade (1779).

Il épousa donc, le  à Saint-Vincent-de-Boisset, Victoire Blandine Huë de Grosbois (1770-1821), laquelle venait d'hériter du château du lieu. Cette union marqua la fin de sa brillante carrière militaire.

Les États généraux de 1789
Le , il est élu député de la noblesse aux États généraux par le bailliage du Forez (Montbrison). Les Roannais, le tenant en très grande estime, le nomment le  commandant de la garde bourgeoise de Roanne. On peut mettre à son crédit les faits qu'il fait tout son possible pour éviter la disette à sa ville, mais également pour que soit reconstruit le pont la reliant à Le Coteau, emporté lors de la terrible crue de 1790.

Champagny ne partage pas l'entraînement des députés de  à la mémorable séance du 4 août ; il est au contraire du petit nombre de ceux qui protestèrent contre l'abolition des titres et de la noblesse héréditaire, lors de la révision de l'acte constitutionnel ().

Il fut l'un des quarante-sept députés de son ordre à se réunir au Tiers état avant l'invitation royale. Distingué par son éloquence et sa modération, peu porté aux , il est nommé secrétaire de l'Assemblée constituante (), et membre influent du comité de la marine.

Du reste, à l'Assemblée constituante, il ne fixe guère sur lui l'attention publique que par sa défense, en 1790, du comte d'Albert de Rions, officier général sous lequel il avait servi précédemment, chef d'escadre, attaqué à la barre de l'Assemblée nationale pour sa conduite ferme et courageuse à Toulon, lors des mouvements insurrectionnels qui avaient failli éclater dans cette ville. Champagny vote pour qu'il soit déclaré que cet officier avait . Sa défense est couronnée de succès.

M. de Champagny s'occupe particulièrement des modifications et améliorations qu'exigeait la législation maritime, propose quelques réformes au code maritime, et demande l'assimilation de la marine marchande à la Marine royale.

Lors de la clôture des travaux de l'Assemblée constituante (), il se retire dans une terre qu'il possédait en Forez (dans son château d'Anzy, près de Roanne).

Arrêté (sur ordre de Jean-Marie Lapalus) comme noble et suspect en , la Terreur le jette en prison quelques mois.

Il est enfermé au couvent des ursulines avant d'être transféré à la prison des Minimes. Fort heureusement, il fut « oublié » dans sa cellule. Il ne recouvra la liberté qu'après un arrêté du , qu'il dut à la chute de Robespierre, le 9 thermidor an II (). À sa libération, il se retira dans sa  de Saint-Vincent-de-Boisset, et continua à se tenir à l'écart de toute vie publique jusqu'au coup d'état du 18 brumaire.

Ambassadeur à Vienne
Après le coup d'État du 18 brumaire an VIII, il fit partie du Directoire du département de la Loire avant d'être appelé à Paris par le général Bonaparte (placé à la tête du pouvoir exécutif comme Premier consul), qui le fit entrer au nouveau conseil d'État (3 nivôse an VIII : ) où il l'attacha à la section de la marine.

C'est à ce titre qu'il fut chargé d'exposer au Corps législatif le résultat du recensement du vote pour l'acceptation de la constitution de l'an VIII. Il fut chargé, au même titre (17 ventôse an VIII) de communiquer au Tribunat la proclamation et les arrêtés des consuls à l'occasion de la reprise des hostilités (campagne de Marengo). Le discours aussi éloquent qu'adroit qu'il prononça en cette circonstance lui fit faire un grand pas dans la faveur du Premier consul. On y remarquait entre autres ce passage

Champagny effectue ensuite une inspection des administrations préfectorales puis, probablement sur proposition de Lebrun, le troisième consul, est nommé à l'ambassade de Vienne ().

Pendant son absence, le collège électoral du département de la Loire l'élut, en 1803, candidat au Sénat conservateur.

Pendant quatre ans, il remplit cette mission importante, que rendaient difficile les événements militaires qui avaient précédé sa nomination. Sa modération et la modestie de sa conduite y firent merveille. L'empereur François II devint le parrain du fils qui lui naquit à Vienne (, et qui deviendra académicien).

Bien que François II admît la nouvelle carte de l'Allemagne issue du Recès d'Empire (1803), Champagny échoua, l'année suivante, à faire accepter à la cour de Vienne l'avènement de Bonaparte à l'Empire. Il fut rappelé.

Il acquiert vers la même époque les domaine et château des Marmousets à La Queue-en-Brie.

Ministre de Napoléon

L'Intérieur
Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur, au 9 vendémiaire an XII, il prit le portefeuille de l'Intérieur () en remplacement de Chaptal (le ministère fut confié par intérim à Jean Étienne Marie Portalis, ministre des cultes, jusqu'au retour de Champagny de Vienne). Napoléon lui confia ce ministère important certainement par souci de placer à la tête de ce département un grand commis docile duquel il n'aurait pas à craindre les velléités d'autonomie. Pendant sa gestion de l'Intérieur, et abstraction faite de la direction politique, dans laquelle il n'était que l'instrument de la volonté de l'Empereur, Champagny avait introduit beaucoup d'améliorations et de perfectionnements dans le système administratif.

Les premiers mois, l'Empereur attendit surtout de son nouveau ministre qu'il lui procurât les soldats nécessaires à la guerre imminente. Mais, par la suite, Champagny sut ne pas se limiter à ce rôle de sergent recruteur et conçut également un vaste plan de travaux publics (dont la rue de Rivoli, à Paris, est l'une des réalisations) tout en préparant activement lExposition des produits de l'industrie nationale (prévue en 1808).

À l'ouverture de la session parlementaire de l'an XIII (), le nouveau ministre présenta au Corps législatif un exposé de la situation de l'Empire. Ce discours avait pour principal objet l'apologie de la révolution qui venait de convertir la République en Empire :

En 1804, il soutint la création de l'Académie celtique, créée par Jacques Cambry, antiquaire et préfet, Jacques-Antoine Dulaure et Jacques Le Brigant. Elle fut présidée par Cambry, puis par Alexandre Lenoir, fondateur du musée des monuments français.

Grand-aigle de la Légion d'honneur depuis le , date à laquelle cette distinction a  été attribuée pour la première fois, il accompagna l'Empereur à son couronnement comme roi d'Italie, le  suivant dans le  de Milan.

Après l'arrivée du message par lequel le Sénat de Gênes sollicita, pour cette république, sa réunion à l'Empire français, Champagny, délégué à cet effet par Napoléon, alla présider à la cérémonie de cette adoption ().

Il rédigea en  le décret qui rendrait au culte le Panthéon et Saint-Denis, vanta (), dans un nouvel exposé, la prospérité due au régime impérial, et fut chargé (1807), comme ayant également dans son ministère l'Instruction publique et les Beaux-arts, de présenter à l'Empereur un rapport . M. de Champagny proposa sur ce point six décrets dont la plupart, d'une remarquable étroitesse de vues, furent rejetés par l'empereur, mais dont un du moins fut l'origine de l'École des chartes.

Pour la conception de l'Arc de triomphe de l'Étoile (construction ordonnée  par Napoléon ), l'architecte Chalgrin fut en concurrence avec son confrère Raymond, chargé de collaborer avec lui. Le premier souhaitait orner l'arc de colonnes isolées tandis que le second les voulait engagées, l'incompatibilité de ces deux conceptions rendant impossible toute collaboration entre les deux architectes. Un arbitrage, rendu par Champagny, força Raymond à se retirer honorablement. Chalgrin supprima alors les colonnes de son projet. L'Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile devait être à la Bastille, mais sur les conseils de Champagny et de l'architecte Chalgrin, il fut construit sur la colline de l'Étoile.

Un décret destiné « à la réforme sociale des Juifs » et joint au règlement du culte, fut proposé par Champagny, ministre de l'Intérieur, et trois commissaires impériaux. Il portait sur une meilleure intégration de la communauté juive en France mais prévoyait toute une série de cas arbitraires pouvant entraîner l'annulation des créances et ordonnait aux commerçants juifs de se faire délivrer par les préfets une patente annuelle et révocable. De plus, les juifs devaient satisfaire en personne à la conscription et n'avaient plus la possibilité de payer un remplaçant comme les autres citoyens. Ce décret (souvent appelé le « décret infâme »), valable dix ans, fut aboli en 1818 sous Louis XVIII.

De 1804 à 1809, il habita dans l'hôtel particulier qui fut affecté au ministère de l'Intérieur au 116, rue de Grenelle (Paris ) et qui deviendra plus tard la mairie du  de Paris.

 Les Relations extérieures
La volonté et la demande de M. de Talleyrand de quitter les Relations extérieures fit passer M. de Champagny, , du ministère de l'Intérieur à celui des Relations extérieures, le . Le choix de Napoléon est probablement dicté par la « timidité » et la « faiblesse de caractère » de Champagny en qui il souhaite un ministre plus docile que Talleyrand.

Il présenta des rapports (, ) sur l'occupation du Portugal, appuya, sur les griefs créés par l'intervention de l'Espagne dans les troubles de la Ligue et de la Fronde, les rêves de conquête de l'Empereur sur ce pays. Voyant l'état de décrépitude de la monarchie espagnole, l'Empereur tenta de profiter de la situation pour mettre la main sur l'Espagne. Ses conseillers le poussaient : le ministre Champagny écrivait par exemple :  C'est sur le rapport concernant les menées de l'Autriche qu'il adressa au Sénat que fut ordonnée une levée de  hommes en vue d'une nouvelle campagne contre cet Empire. Dans un autre rapport () relatif à la réunion du Valais à la France, M. de Champagny flattait sans ménagement la soif de guerre de l'Empereur :

Il fut créé comte de l'Empire le , et duc de Cadore le .

Champagny conserva jusqu'en 1811 son poste, dans lequel il prit part à des actes d'une haute importance. Il mena les négociations relatives au système de blocus continental, adopté contre le Royaume-Uni, et à l'occupation de l'Espagne et du Portugal. Il conclut en sa qualité de ministre le traité du  (faisant suite à l'entrevue de Bayonne), par lequel le roi Charles IV cédait ses états à Napoléon , et celui de « Vienne » (paix de Schönbrunn, ), qui met fin à la Cinquième Coalition. Il négocia aussi le mariage de l'Empereur avec l'Impératrice Marie-Louise et reçut le grand-cordon de l'ordre impérial de Léopold d'Autriche en 1810.

Le , Champagny, qui jouissait de l'amitié de l'empereur Alexandre , qui l'avait décoré trois ans auparavant de l'ordre de Saint-André, dut malgré son zèle rendre son portefeuille pour avoir trop longtemps soutenu une politique d'alliance franco-russe. Il n'avait pas soupçonné les intentions de Napoléon vis-à-vis de la Russie ni pressenti l'évolution des conceptions de l'Empereur sur le sujet.

On le nomma, en compensation, ministre d'État le , puis, le  de la même année, intendant général des domaines de la Couronne (une sinécure), en remplacement du comte Daru, puis grand-chancelier de l'ordre de la Réunion, le  suivant.

Alors qu'en 1804, Napoléon avait été lancé un projet de palais impérial à Lyon (comme dans les autres grandes villes de France), une lettre du duc de Cadore, en tant que ministre d'État, précisa en 1811 : « le palais impérial sera élevé sur la gare d'eau, le jardin sera dans la presqu'île, entre les deux fleuves, jusqu'au pont de la Mulatière ». Mais le projet n'aboutira jamais.

Champagny fut appelé au Sénat le , et remplit auprès de l'Impératrice Marie-Louise et du conseil de régence les fonctions de secrétaire d'État.

Les derniers mois de l'Empire virent son retour au premier plan. Secrétaire du Conseil de régence, il accompagna Marie-Louise à Blois et, après la chute de Napoléon , porta une lettre de l'Impératrice à son père pour réclamer la reconnaissance de Napoléon II. L'empereur d'Autriche s'y refusa, tout en traitant le plénipotentiaire comme un vieil ami.

Lors de l'invasion, le duc de Cadore fut nommé chef de légion de la Garde nationale de Paris, le .

 À la Chambre des pairs
Le  suivant, il n'hésita pas à adhérer à la déchéance de l'Empereur, se rallia l'un des premiers aux Bourbons, qui le firent entrer, le  suivant, à la Chambre des pairs et le nommèrent contre-amiral.

Le retour de l'île d'Elbe réveilla son dévouement pour l'Empereur qui lui rendit l'intendance des domaines de la Couronne, et le nomma .

La seconde Restauration le rendit, à son grand regret, à la vie privée. Il fut radié de la liste des pairs par l'ordonnance du 24 juillet 1815. Dès le  suivant, il présenta à Louis XVIII un mémoire justificatif de sa conduite pendant les Cent-Jours, dans lequel il suppliait le roi de le rétablir dans la dignité de pair de France :

La Restauration le fit attendre jusqu'en 1819 : M. Decazes le comprit à cette date dans la fournée des soixante nouveaux pairs destinée à rendre la majorité au ministère. Il fut réintégré, avec majorat de baron-pair le  (lettres patentes du ) À la Chambre haute, M. de Champagny vota avec la droite. Il vécut encore assez pour prêter serment au gouvernement de Juillet, et continua de siéger dans la Chambre des pairs, au centre droit, jusqu'à sa mort.

Le duc de Cadore présida le collège électoral du département du Loiret en 1820.

Jean-Baptiste de Nompère de Champagny s'éteignit le , dans le  de Paris. Il fut inhumé au cimetière du Montparnasse (, 315 ).

Les papiers personnels de Jean-Baptiste Nompère de Champagny sont conservés aux Archives nationales sous la cote 181AP .

 Franc-maçonnerie
Franc-maçon, il fait partie des 148 officiers du collège du Grand Orient de France de 1806 à 1814 .

 Union et postérité

Jean-Baptiste de Nompère de Champagny avait épousé, le  à Saint-Vincent-de-Boisset, Victoire Blandine Huë de Grosbois (née le  à Roanne - décédée le  à Paris , inhumée au cimetière du Montparnasse (, 315 P 1834)), fille d'Antoine Huë de Grosbois (1735-1771), seigneur de Grosbois, capitaine au corps royal d'artillerie.

 Titres
  comte de Champagny et de l'Empire (Bayonne, ).
  duc de Cadore (à la suite du décret du , Schœnbrunn).
 Pair de France :
  (première Restauration) ;
  (Cent-Jours : révoqué par l'ordonnance du 24 juillet 1815) ;
 Baron-pair héréditaire (seconde Restauration : , lettres patentes du ).

 Distinctions

  Chevalier de l'ordre royal et militaire de Saint-Louis ().

 Membre de la Société des Cincinnati (1783).

 Légion d'honneur :
  Légionnaire (9 vendémiaire an XII : ), puis,
  Grand officier (25 prairial an XII : ), puis,
  Grand-aigle de la Légion d'honneur ().
   Ordre de la Réunion :
 Grand-croix ;
 Grand-chancelier (1811).

  Commandeur de l'ordre de la Couronne de fer.

  Grand dignitaire de l'ordre des Deux-Siciles.

  Grand-croix de l'ordre de Saint-Hubert (Bavière).

  Grand-croix de l'ordre de l'Aigle d'or.

  Grand-croix de l'ordre de la Couronne de Saxe.

  Chevaliers de la Grand'croix de l'ordre de la Fidélité.

  Commandeur grand-croix de l'ordre de Louis de Hesse.

  Grand-croix de l'ordre de Saint-André (1808).

  Grand-croix de l'ordre impérial de Léopold (1810).

  Grand-croix de l'ordre de l'Aigle noir ;

  Grand-croix de l'ordre de Saint-Joseph (1810).

 Armoiries

 Hommages, honneurs, mentions
Dix ans après sa mort, on rendit hommage à Jean-Baptiste de Nompère de Champagny en donnant son nom (ordonnance du ) à une petite rue de Paris, dans le quartier des Invalides (). La rue de Champagny existe toujours. Ouverte sur les terrains du couvent des Dames de Bellechasse, elle est longue de  et va de la rue Casimir-Périer à la rue de Martignac.

Hector du Lac de la Tour d'Aurec le mentionne parmi les principaux Foréziens dignes de mémoire dans son Précis historique sur le département de la Loire''.

 Annexes
 Bibliographie
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Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Liste des personnalités françaises ayant combattu lors de la guerre d'Indépendance des États-Unis
 Liste des députés des États généraux de 1789, par ordre, bailliage et sénéchaussée
 Liste alphabétique des membres de l'Assemblée constituante de 1789
 Ambassade de France en Autriche
 Ministres de Napoléon
 Liste des ministres français de l'Intérieur
 Liste des ministres français des Affaires étrangères
 Napoléon et les Juifs
 Armée d'Espagne
 Sénat conservateur
 Liste des membres du sénat conservateur
 Liste de personnalités inhumées au cimetière du Montparnasse
 Duc de Cadore
 Famille de Nompère

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 Les archives de la Secrétairerie d'État impériale, sous la tutelle de Jean-Baptiste Nompère de Champagny (novembre 1813-avril 1814) sont conservées aux Archives nationales.
 La correspondance et les rapports des ministres de l'Intérieur (dont Champagny, 1804-1807) au Secrétaire d'État sous Napoléon Ier sont conservées aux Archives nationales.
La correspondance et les rapports des ministres des Relations extérieures (dont Champagny, 1807-1811) au Secrétaire d'État sous Napoléon Ier sont conservées aux Archives nationales.
 Les archives de l'Intendant général de la Maison de l'Empereur (dont Nompère de Champagny, 1811-1814) sous le Premier Empire sont conservées aux Archives nationales.

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Personnalité française de la guerre d'indépendance des États-Unis
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Député français de la noblesse en 1789-1791
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Diplomate du Premier Empire
Ambassadeur français
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Ministre français de l'Intérieur
Ministre français des Affaires étrangères
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Pair de France (Cent-Jours)
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Personnalité de la franc-maçonnerie française
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Comte de l'Empire
Chevalier de l'ordre royal et militaire de Saint-Louis
Ordre de Cincinnatus
Grand-croix de la Légion d'honneur
Grand-croix de l'ordre de la Réunion
Grand-croix de l'ordre impérial de Léopold
Dignitaire de l'ordre des Deux-Siciles
Chevalier de l'ordre de Saint-André
Chevalier de 2e classe de l'ordre autrichien de la Couronne de fer
Récipiendaire de l'ordre de la Fidélité (Bade)
Récipiendaire de l'ordre de Saint-Hubert (Bavière)
Ordre de Louis de Hesse
Naissance en août 1756
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My little toddlers are so funny at the moment the little conversations that they have are enough to make you just want to grab them and squeeze them. Here is a few of the conversations that I have managed to remember.
Mummy: Son Son are you a boy or a girl?
Ami: Mum where are we going today?
Mum: Well its bedtime now so bed.
Ami: No where are we going today?
Mum: To the park maybe.
Ami: What are we doing today!
I found Son Son with my hat on, he was wearing his superhero jumper at the time and asked me to out his muzzy in his jumper.
A typical day with Ami.
Ami: you drop the babies of and Son Son be the dad.
Ami: Right now I am the mum, son son the Dad and your the grandma mum.
Ami: Right heres the babies I have to go to a wedding see you later.
Ami: I am back from the wedding the babies don't need a sleep, I'm off to another party.
And so that game goes on, a little insight into when I am an grandma and the kids dumping the grandkids for me to look after.
Ami: Yes my Daddy is at work he works in London.
Asti is at school at the moment too.
Mummy: Right its time to go out.
Ami: I get my shoes on.
Mummy: Not today Ami we are in a hurry.
Ami: please take my bike.
This then results in Son son having a meltdown because he has to go into the pushchair then Ami giving up after 5 minutes of using the bike most days.
So here we are a little insight into what Ami and Son son say. I promise I will try and remember the more funny sayings for next month so do keep an eye out as they are hilarious.
Aww hehe I love listening to little people conversations too. Especially when my 2 little ones are playing together and think noon es watching .. does make me chuckle sometimes bless them.


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Editors' BlogOctober 26, 2009
Falling for No. 16 in Michigan
Bob Carney
They let the editor in charge of the Editors' Blog out once in a while and last week was one of those whiles. Your letters were dwindling and it was time for field work; hence my silence. No harm, though, because as Calvin Coolidge said, "I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm." In this case, it did me good.
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My road trip took me to one of golf's most unforgettable places and to another very, very memorable one, both in Michigan.
When you write to us about our course rankings, you tend to focus on either the new entries or the old standbys and their place on the chart. How did Augusta National overtake Pine Valley? Why is Oakmont not higher? Lower? Pebble is the greatest ever; how can it not be No. 1?! And why is Bandon Trails so far behind Bandon Dunes?
No one mentions our No. 16 course, Crystal Downs Country Club. Some readers don't even know about it. Crystal Downs was designed by Alister Mackenzie within a few years of his work on Augusta National and Cypress Point, the zenith of his career. He spent two weeks there and then handed the job over to his associate, Perry Maxwell, who took a great site and an inspired design and made a masterpiece.
You'll find Crystal Downs up in the northwest corner of Michigan's lower peninsula, on a strip of land where, if you liken Michigan to a mitten, the little finger and ring finger from a notch. It sits on a sandy bluff that overlooks pale blue Crystal Lake in one direction and oceanic Lake Michigan in the other. You can, on good days, see the Sleeping Bear Dunes, reminding you that a dune is what you're standing on. Having climbed to first tee from the road that hugs Crystal Lake through a birch, beech and evergreen forest that reveals only a couple of (relatively flat) holes, the view from the top is your first shock. What really floors you, though, is the golf course.
It is 6518 yards that, simply put, has never been messed with. It's playable, challenging, enduringly, rusticly beautiful. It gives you, on almost every tee, a feeling of hope and confidence, because there is usually plenty of room to play and beautiful views to match. But reality sets in as you approach greens that tilt, tip, buckle and fall away in every direction. You can score here. You'll enjoy your game here. If you have a caddy, you'll surely enjoy the walk. But, if you're not precise, you may also spend a great deal of time learning new short game shots. Crystal has only 79 bunkers, many of them behind greens (think of the 13th at Augusta) but they will find you, especially if you are approaching from a less-than-ideal direction. And if they don't, the the gathering depressions beside them will swallow you up.
The par-5 eighth is a perfect example. You know the nine will finish with this par 5 and a medium-length par 3, (542 yards and 175 years), with few bunkers to contend with. You're disappointed because you played two very short par 4s preceding it sloppily, and you have nothing to show for it. You're thinking, "I can make up some ground here." But if you haven't hugged the inside of the dog leg on the par 5, and placed your second shot up the right side, you're third shot will be just a bit longer and much more awkward than you'd planned. Your third will no doubt be off a less-than-level lie (they all are) and you know that a mis-hit will send your ball tumbling down the left front of the green (where the green seems to evaporate) or in a position on the putting surface where you're putting defensively. Get aggressive, lose it over the green, and you'll be happy to make bogey. So you fumble the 8th; now the 175-yard ninth looks like a real bear. And, oh, don't be above the hole.
And so it goes at Crystal Downs. Listen to Fred Muller, who's been pro there for 33 years--he's more like a curator, really--describe the 449-yard No. 1, which, he cheerfully points out, usually plays into the wind: "Sneak up on a wildly undulating green with a shot that lands short and pitches on. A miss to left is a bogie, a miss to the right is a disaster." The day I played, with the wind howling, I snuck up on No. 1 with a 2-rescue and a sand wedge. Not so sneaky.
But I spent a wonderful afternoon first chatting with Fred about the course and the club and then playing it in, admittedly, pretty rough conditions. The wind was blowing 35 miles an hour, raining off and on, playing long and walking longer. And yet was the round of my season. There are courses you play and think, "Great. I've done it. It's off the list. And there are others where you think, "Wow. May I come back tomorrow? Please?" That's Crystal Downs.
The following day I joined my brother and two other members at recently renovated Barton Hills Country Club in Ann Arbor. Architect Ron Prichard has removed trees, added and restored bunkers, and made this very good course even better. Barton held the 1998 U.S. Women's Amateur and it is, in my experience, one of the truly great members' courses in the country. It's now been made even more beautiful and, for better players, much sturdier. I hear that some members have complained that removing trees and adding bunkers has made Barton "easier." Not for me. It has made it perhaps more playable off the tee, but, as with Crystal Downs, more challenging than ever on the approach. Trees behind greens have been taken out, revealing the movement in those greens, and making one's shot selection even tougher.
It was, despite cold and wet weather, a most memorable weekend. No wonder Michiganders love golf so much.
--Bob Carney
(Photo by Dom Furore)


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Experts from 52 countries said that planting trees and restoring soil would help the planet recover from the damage caused by the meat industry
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Cutting food waste and eating less meat will reduce climate change by saving millions of square miles of land from being degraded by farming, according to a United Nations report.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said that a quarter of the world's ice-free land had been damaged by human activity, with soil eroding from agricultural fields up to 100 times faster than it forms.
The body, which advises governments on the science of climate change, called for more sustainable use of land. This includes tackling over-consumption, which it says has resulted in two billion adults — more than a quarter of the world's population — being overweight.
The panel said that about 25-30 per cent of food produced globally was wasted and that


Deaf from the age of five, Adeline Munroe operates a hospital for injured dolls, but lately her quiet life is disturbed by violent, haunting visions. Perhaps it's just her unspoken fear–a serial killer has struck in Headley Cross. But Adeline soon realizes she's seeing each murder just before they happen and reluctantly contacts the police.
Detective Sergeant Nate Holmes has enough to deal with between caring for his orphaned niece and his current assignment–the Herbalist killings, so when a woman comes forward who claims to be "seeing" the crimes in dreams, he isn't hopeful she'll be of any help. But he knows her from church, and she inexplicably describes how each crime is committed. Is God answering his prayers through Adeline?
Adeline assists the police, yet more women die and she becomes the prime target of the killer. Will Nate crack the case before the Herbalist can complete his agenda–or will the next murder Adeline foresees be her own?
All of Nate's senses kicked into action, his copper's antennae twitching.
She knew something, or at least thought she did.
Nate put a hand on her arm, cutting her off.
She jerked her head upwards in surprise.
Make sure you stop back by tomorrow when I share my review of Tuesday's Child. Now let's find out a little about Clare Revell. What is your workday like? Well I don't sleep much so I'm up at midnight – when the kids have finally gone to bed and hand write until half two or three am. Then sleep til 6.30 when i have to get up to go to the day job in a school. That's giving the kids breakfast, playing with them, art activity etc. Between 18 and 36 kids a day ranging from 4yr olds to 11 yr olds (foundation stage to year 6). Next its home and then writing more or less all day in between cleaning and cooking and laundry til i fall asleep around 9pm.
Sounds like you don't sleep at all. Not me. I need seven or eight hours or I'm dragging all day. That's amazing, Clare. Do you have any interesting or strange writing quirks? The first draft is hand written. in pencil. on a narrow leaved spiral bound notebook.
Ouch. Not me. If I drafted in pencil, I'd spend a fortune in erasers. Name one thing you learned from your hero or heroine. There is no such thing as a disability. Just a different kind of problem to deal with and over come.
Here! Here! Do you have a question for our readers?
The heroine of Tuesday's Child Adeline is deaf. If you had to lose one sense what would it be and why? Or what sense would you least like to lose.
Thanks so much for visiting, Clare. I'm looking forward to sharing my review of Tuesday's Child tomorrow!
Clare lives in a small town in England with her husband, whom she married in 1992, and her three children. Writing from a early childhood and encouraged by her teachers, she graduated from rewriting fairy stories through fanfiction to using her own original characters and enjoys writing an eclectic mix of romance, crime fiction and children's stories. When she's not writing, reading, sewing or keeping house or doing the many piles of laundry her children manage to make, she's working part time in the breakfast club at one of the local schools.
She has been a Christian for more than half her life. She goes to Carey Baptist where she is one of three registrars.
Looks like an interesting novel, Clare. I don't know how you do all you do on so little sleep. I'll be looking forward to Dora's review.
As for losing a sense, that's hard. Maybe my ability to speak–at least for a little while.


Switzerland's Falcon Private Bank will begin supporting ether (ETH), litecoin (LTC) and bitcoin cash (BCH) on August 22, 2017, expanding its blockchain asset management services to more digital currencies.
Last month, Falcon Private Bank became the first Swiss private bank to enter the cryptocurrency asset management market with bitcoin following approval from the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA), Switzerland's financial regulator.
Through a cooperation with Bitcoin Suisse, a regulated Swiss financial intermediary, the bank began allowing its clients to purchase, exchange, and hold bitcoin. It also installed a Bitcoin ATM in its headquarters in Zurich that's been accessible for the public during business hours.
"The first reactions to our Bitcoin services have been very encouraging and we are convinced that by adding three new blockchain assets we will fulfill our clients' future needs," said Arthur Vayloyan, the global head of products and services of Falcon Private Bank.
Now with the addition of ETH, LTC and BCH, Falcon Private Bank's clients will be provided with broader portfolio diversification possibilities as well as the same easy access and convenient offline storage within the bank. The new features are supported by its partner Bitcoin Suisse.
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Far infrared research and the Depression
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Robert Wood was the great man in experimental optics. He was full of playfulness. I imagine very few people nowadays have seen his book, called 'How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers'. His fanciful drawings in which the colored object could be a bird or it could be a flower. Robert Wood liked to have practical jokes. He would invite somebody to swallow some liquid air- nobody volunteered but Wood himself would take some liquid air into his mouth. And the fumes of the vaporizing liquid air coming out of his mouth made a spectacular sight. And another spectacular sight was a smoke ring generator. You tapped the back of it after it was filled with smoke, and out would come a great ring of smoke which would go across the room. But he lectured us on how powerful the theorem is that the vorticity cannot break off, it has to continue all the way around the circle. And after having emphasized that point, he ridiculed the mathematics, because he had never been able to pass the mathematics to get a Doctor's degree himself. He taught without benefit of a PhD. In order to ridicule the mathematics, he produced for us a smoke ring that was only half a circle. And what happened to the other half? The other half was there in invisible air, just not any smoke to make it show up. But in addition to Wood, keeping on the tradition of optics at Johns Hopkins, there was Pfund, P F U N D, who made working with things optical an absolute joy. All kinds of gadgetry. Then there was a new arrival, Dieke, from the Netherlands, who combined knowledge of spectra, especially Spectra of Molecules, with the modern Quantum Mechanics, to describe the- and he was- had been brought in to modernize the curriculum in the physics department with more emphasis on modern quantum points of view. And then there was Joyce Bearden who worked at the other end of the spectrum, X-rays. Robert Wood was a member of the Royal Society and made annually a visit to England. And he was given the task of bringing back somebody who could teach something about the new field of nuclear physics. He brought back a quite young man from Rutherford's laboratory, Norman Feather. And the young fellows in the laboratory, the younger teachers, embarked with enthusiasm on a new scheme of providing a month of instruction, working in their own laboratories, with this or that student. So I worked for a month with Feather, for example, who went to the basement, sat there for half an hour in the dark, until my eyes adapted enough so I could see flashes when particles from radium hit a screen of zinc sulfide. These flashes of light you count, and count again some hours later, and see how the radioactivity falls off with time, from radon gas. Nowadays, people make a great thing about the radon in people's basements, and trying to protect themselves from radioactivity, but here I was trying to measure it. And then, with Bearden on X-rays. Then I found myself trying to explain the penetration of X-rays. And we wrote a couple of papers together. With Dieke, I'm afraid my experience did not lead to any paper. I learned a bit about spectroscopy in the infra-red, but that was it.
John Wheeler, one of the world's most influential physicists, is best known for coining the term 'black holes', for his seminal contributions to the theories of quantum gravity and nuclear fission, as well as for his mind-stretching theories and writings on time, space and gravity.
Title: Optics, x-rays and radioactivity at Johns Hopkins
Listeners: Ken Ford
Ken Ford took his Ph.D. at Princeton in 1953 and worked with Wheeler on a number of research projects, including research for the Hydrogen bomb. He was Professor of Physics at the University of California and Director of the American Institute of Physicists. He collaborated with John Wheeler in the writing of Wheeler's autobiography, 'Geons, Black Holes and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics' (1998).
Date story recorded: December 1996


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Administrative Supplements for P30 Cancer Centers Support Grants (CCSG) to Stimulate Research in Non-AIDS Defining Cancers (NADCs) in Aging Populations
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The National Cancer Institute (NCI) announces an opportunity for supplemental funding to stimulate research in non-AIDS defining cancers (NADCs) among aging HIV+ individuals via support of pilot projects at NCI-designated Cancer Centers (CC). Findings from this supplement are aimed to expand our knowledge of the impact of aging on the pathogenesis of NADCs.
All NCI-Designated Cancer Centers are eligible for funding. A letter of intent is not required; a full proposal of no more than 6 pages must be submitted by the request receipt date to the NCI Office of Cancer Centers. Funding is contingent upon NCI approval of the proposal, which will include both a scientific and budgetary evaluation. Only one supplement will be allowed per institution. These administrative supplements are designed to address focused areas of challenge such as pattern, natural history, and optimization of treatment of NADCs occurring in aging HIV+ individuals.
The number of older individuals living with HIV/AIDS has risen dramatically over the last decade. In 2016, nearly half of HIV+ people in the United States (US) were aged 50 and older. Though new HIV diagnoses are declining among people aged 50 and older, around 1 in 6 HIV diagnoses in 2017 were in this group. Older people are more likely than younger people to have late-stage HIV infection at the time of diagnosis, which means they start treatment late and possibly suffer more immune-system damage. The introduction and widespread use of combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) in the mid-1990s has dramatically improved the health outcomes of HIV+ individuals, leading to decreases in AIDS-defining cancers such as Kaposi's sarcoma and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. However, the longer life expectancy now observed in these individuals has led to the increased incidence of diseases with a longer latency period, such as NADCs. NADCs now account for 50% of all cancers among HIV+ individuals. The incidence and mortality from NADC in HIV+ individuals > 50 years of age have not been extensively studied; however, some studies have shown an increased incidence in liver, bladder, lung, and Hodgkin's lymphoma.
It has become apparent that individuals living with prolonged HIV infection exhibit many of the clinical characteristics commonly observed in aging, such as multiple co-morbidities, polypharmacy, physical and cognitive impairment, functional decline, alterations in body composition, and increased vulnerability to stressors. Moreover, the clinical picture of HIV in older adults may be complicated by many other risk factors, including infections with oncogenic viruses (e.g., human papillomavirus [HPV], Kaposi-sarcoma associated herpesvirus [KSHV/HHV-8], Epstein-Barr virus [EBV], hepatitis B virus [HBV], and hepatitis C virus [HCV]), obesity, and substance abuse including nicotine, alcohol, marijuana, and prescription drugs. Also, people living with HIV(PLWH) on cART often have a degree of immunologic impairment and chronic immune activation, even when their CD4 count is normal. Aging itself is associated with immunologic impairment, and it is unclear how these factors interact in aging PLWH. As such, improved management of older individuals with HIV will require a much deeper understanding of the interface between aging, HIV, associated co-morbid conditions, and concurrent treatment.
• Biology of Aging and Cancer
• Effects of comorbidities (consequences of the aging process and/or the progression of HIV/AIDS)
• Effects of polypharmacy including antiretroviral therapy on treatment of NADCs
• Treatment efficacy and tolerance
• Cancer control for early detection, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, prognosis and survivorship


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Direct flights from Malaga to Istanbul open a gate to the Asian market
Malaga Airport will provide from next April 27th a direct connection with Istanbul, which will open the Costa del Sol to the Asian market and the Middle East.
Turkish Airlines, so far with two daily flights in Spain only from Madrid and Barcelona, will operate this route with three frequencies per week, according to the company. Furthermore, there will be also opened another route from Valencia from March 27th with four weekly frequencies.
This airline connects Istanbul with more than 170 destinations worldwide in 80 countries.
From the airport it is assessed that this route will become a gateway to the Costa del Sol for tourists from the Asian market given the strong presence of this company in this area.
They also highlighted the fact that Malaga airport counts for the first time with a direct route to the Middle East, which will permit access to markets whose passengers hitherto had no direct flights to the Costa del Sol.


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Imperial County was a warning for California. Will its shutdown be a model?
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1of6EL CENTRO, CALIFORNIA - JULY 23: A message is posted reading 'Stay Home' in Imperial County which has been hard-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic on July 23, 2020 in El Centro, California. Imperial County currently suffers from the highest death rate and near-highest infection rate from COVID-19 in California. The rural county, which is 85 percent Latino, borders Mexico and Arizona and endures high poverty rates and air pollution while also being medically underserved. In California, Latinos make up about 39 percent of the population but account for 55 percent of confirmed coronavirus cases. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)Mario Tama / Getty ImagesShow MoreShow Less
2of6CALEXICO, CALIFORNIA - JULY 24: Antonio, who is currently unemployed, waits in a socially distanced line to enter a bookkeeping shop to fill out unemployment forms near the U.S.-Mexico border in Imperial County, which has been hard-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, on July 24, 2020 in Calexico, California. Unemployment claims in California have reached their highest levels in almost three months with surging coronavirus cases upending plans to reopen the economy. Imperial County currently suffers from the highest death rate and near-highest infection rate from COVID-19 in California. The rural county, which is 85 percent Latino, borders Mexico and Arizona and endures high poverty rates and air pollution while also being medically underserved. In California, Latinos make up about 39 percent of the population but account for 55 percent of confirmed coronavirus cases. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)Mario Tama / Getty ImagesShow MoreShow Less
3of6CALEXICO, CALIFORNIA - JULY 22: People wear face masks as they walk past a shuttered Greyhound bus station near the U.S.-Mexico border in hard-hit Imperial County amid the COVID-19 pandemic on July 22, 2020 in Calexico, California. Imperial County currentMario Tama / Getty Images 2020Show MoreShow Less
4of6EL CENTRO, CALIFORNIA - JULY 21: El Centro Fire Department firefighter/paramedic Chase Adame (C) wears a protective suit and respirator as he treats a woman who fell in a parking lot in hard-hit Imperial County amid the COVID-19 pandemic on July 21, 2020Mario Tama / Getty ImagesShow MoreShow Less
5of6EL CENTRO, CALIFORNIA - JULY 21: Clinicians care for a COVID-19 patient in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at El Centro Regional Medical Center in hard-hit Imperial County on July 21, 2020 in El Centro, California. Imperial County currently suffers from theMario Tama / Getty Images 2020Show MoreShow Less
6of6CALEXICO, CALIFORNIA - JULY 24: Face masks are displayed at a shop near the U.S.-Mexico border in Imperial County, which has been hard-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, on July 24, 2020 in Calexico, California. Unemployment claims in California have reached tPhotos by Mario Tama / Getty ImagesShow MoreShow Less
A month ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom called on Imperial County to do something he hadn't asked any other part of the state to do: halt the reopening of its economy and move backward.
The county in the far southeast corner of California, along the Arizona and Mexico borders, was experiencing the worst surge of coronavirus cases in the state. Some local leaders said its challenges were an anomaly, exacerbated by border travel and widespread poverty.
But in many ways, Imperial County was more of a warning siren than an outlier. Cases across California have surged in recent weeks, and the whole state has retreated in its reopening efforts.
Longtime residents and state officials say the situation in Imperial County shed light on how the coronavirus has disproportionately harmed two vulnerable groups all over California: agricultural workers and the Latino community. Lessons learned from the state's aggressive intervention in Imperial helped officials prepare to fight a surge hitting rural counties in the Central Valley.
"Imperial County was a canary of something," said Luis Flores of the Imperial Valley Equity and Justice Coalition, a group that advocated more than a month ago for the county of 181,215 people to reimpose full stay-at-home orders. "It's not exceptional — it's just a very dramatic version of labor dynamics and racial disparities."
The coronavirus' spread in Imperial County has slowed — it has averaged about 30 new cases per day per 100,000 people over the past week, compared with 126 daily at the peak of its surge in mid-June.
California, meanwhile, has seen its case rate increase. The state has averaged 23 cases daily per 100,000 people over the past week, compared with about eight cases per day in mid-June.
Despite its improvement, Imperial County's per capita infection rate since the outset of the pandemic — one case for every 19 residents — remains the highest in California, by far. It's four times the statewide rate.
Health officials and community activists say Imperial County is a microcosm of how the virus' uneven toll has been exacerbated by racial and economic disparities that exist in many parts of California.
Newsom homed in on those disparities this week. He said the state's experience in Imperial County is "deeply ingrained" as his administration works to control surging outbreaks in eight Central Valley counties with economic and demographic similarities — namely, large numbers of farmworkers unable to stay physically distant either on the job or at home.
CALEXICO, CALIFORNIA - JULY 24: The Border Motel is mostly empty at dawn near the U.S.-Mexico border in Imperial County, which has been hard-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, on July 24, 2020 in Calexico, California. Imperial County currently suffers from the highest death rate and near-highest infection rate from COVID-19 in California. The rural county, which is 85 percent Latino, borders Mexico and Arizona and endures high poverty rates and air pollution while also being medically underserved. In California, Latinos make up about 39 percent of the population but account for 55 percent of confirmed coronavirus cases. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)Mario Tama / Getty Images
The governor said the state hasn't focused enough on fighting the spread of the virus among agricultural workers and in the Latino community, where larger households are more prevalent.
In California's hardest-hit county, fear and death mix with anger
California aims to tamp down coronavirus hot spots in hard-hit Central Valley
Newsom said California plans to spend $52 million to help the Central Valley fight the virus, including providing more hotel rooms for infected workers to isolate from their families. He said it will replicate strategies the state has tried in Imperial County, such as the deployment of "strike forces" of inspectors to enforce health orders.
"We recognize while we have seen some progress, significant progress in Imperial County, we still have a lot of work to do," Newsom said.
Imperial County became the focus of statewide attention in late June, when Newsom demanded it fully reinstate a stay-at-home order or he would do so.
Some business groups pushed back, but county health officials eventually went along with Newsom's ultimatum. On July 1, they ordered the closure of shopping malls, indoor religious services and county parks.
Health workers and community activists said Newsom's intervention has helped slow the crisis, and allowed them the time to take steps such as expanding hospital capacity and securing more masks and other protective equipment.
CALEXICO, CALIFORNIA - JULY 24: People wear face coverings while waiting in a socially distanced line to enter a bookkeeping shop near the U.S.-Mexico border in Imperial County, which has been hard-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, on July 24, 2020 in Calexico, California. Imperial County currently suffers from the highest death rate and near-highest infection rate from COVID-19 in California. The rural county, which is 85 percent Latino, borders Mexico and Arizona and endures high poverty rates and air pollution while also being medically underserved. In California, Latinos make up about 39 percent of the population but account for 55 percent of confirmed coronavirus cases. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)Mario Tama / Getty Images
"It's giving us a lot more time to continue to work with the community, reach out and continue to educate people," said Blanca Morales, who founded the Calexico Wellness Center, a nonprofit clinic on the border with Mexico.
Morales joined a group of local health care providers who sent Newsom a letter in June saying the county needed to shut down and receive extra help to fight the virus.
Almost a quarter of the county's residents live in poverty, and its population is 85% Latino, including many migrant farmworkers and recent immigrants. Unemployment is approaching 28%.
The county also is medically underserved, with about 4,250 people for every primary care physician. It has high rates of asthma, diabetes and obesity, conditions that make residents more vulnerable to serious complications from the virus.
Hundreds of patients have been airlifted to other counties during the pandemic because of overcrowding in Imperial's hospitals.
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Larry Lewis, CEO of one of the county's largest hospitals, Pioneers Memorial Hospital in Brawley, said an influx of state and federal aid in June brought some stability to local health care providers. The state has provided funding for more critical care nurses and respiratory therapists.
Lewis said his hospital typically had more than 40 coronavirus patients a day in June, but that number has fallen to about 30 patients or less. Fewer patients are being transferred to other counties, he said.
"We were shipping out two patients a day for critical care only," Lewis said. "We've stemmed the tide on that from their assistance. Providers are much better prepared and equipped to manage the current (case) levels, which are pretty significant levels."
But local health officials warn that the crisis is far from over. Imperial County continues to face a high infection rate, and its effects could be long lasting.
Some local leaders have said the crisis is fueled by Imperial's shared borders: Thousands of migrant farmworkers cross over from Mexico daily to pick fruit and vegetables, and many U.S. citizens live in Mexico but receive their health care in this country.
Farmworker activists say more needs to be done to fix deep economic and labor-force disparities that made Imperial County a worst-case scenario.
Almost half of farmworkers don't receive face coverings from their employers, according to a survey released this week by the California Institute for Rural Studies, a nonprofit advocacy group in Davis.
The survey of 900 farmworkers, including dozens in Imperial County, also found that more than half said they wouldn't seek medical care, even if they fell ill, because they lack insurance or sick leave.
Esther Bejarano, programs manager of Comité Cívico del Valle, an environmental justice advocacy group in Imperial County, helped conduct the survey. She said most day laborers won't risk asking for masks or safer workplace practices because farm managers simply won't hire them the next day.
"The people that are feeding us cannot feed themselves," Bejarano said at a news conference. "They're getting sick, they're getting their families sick."
She said an influx of assistance for hospitals isn't a long-term solution for the impoverished county: "The strategy is the same old broken strategy. We cannot afford to just triage it at the emergency room."
Dustin Gardiner is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: dustin.gardiner@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @dustingardiner
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Dustin Gardiner is a state Capitol reporter for The San Francisco Chronicle. He joined The Chronicle in 2019, after nearly a decade with The Arizona Republic, where he covered state and city politics. Dustin won several awards for his reporting in Arizona, including the 2019 John Kolbe Politics Reporting award, and the 2017 Story of the Year award from the Arizona Newspapers Association. Outside of work, he enjoys hiking, camping, reading fiction and playing Settlers of Catan. He's a member of NLGJA, the association of LGBTQ journalists.


CHICAGO (February 9, 2015) – NAI Hiffman is pleased to announce that it has been awarded the management of 100 North LaSalle Street in Chicago by Sun Life Investment Management. The 160,000-square-foot, 25-story office tower is located at the northwest corner of LaSalle Street and Washington Street. The assignment represents NAI Hiffman's fourth office management assignment in downtown Chicago. Sun Life has been a long-term client of NAI Hiffman, who currently manages its Chicago portfolio.
Sun Life has been strategic in entering the Chicago CBD, with its first downtown acquisition of 29 North Wacker Drive in 2010 where NAI Hiffman played a major role in its $9 million, multi-phase renovation, helping transform the asset to reposition its identity as a premiere boutique office building. 29 North Wacker Drive also achieved LEED Gold certification under NAI Hiffman's management. Sun Life aims to tell a similar success story at 100 North LaSalle with plans to invest additional capital into building systems and tenant amenities.


Eastern Harps under 12 girls kept up their 100% record so far this year, when they won their 5th straight game to progress to the County A League final. On Tuesday evening last, they entertained CT Gaels in the A-League semi-final,in Gurteen. All the girls were exceptional on the evening and showed great determination to overcome a stubborn CT Gaels side. A tight contest saw The Harps lead 9-7 going into the final quarter, but a dominant display in the final quarter, saw them run out convincing 12-7 winners. The girls are now in training for the County Final, which Takes place next Tuesday evening, 31st May, in Ransboro at 8.30pm. Their opponents will not be known until Sunday, when the other semi-final is to be played between Drumcliffe/Rosses Point and Tourlestrane. All support would be greatly appreciated.


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Written by: Dr. Valerie Young on April 24, 2013.