This year try some of these Holiday Hacks to help your festivities be less stressful and more joyful!
For many of us, the holiday season (Thanksgiving through the New Year) involves endless lists of things to do, calendars bursting with events, and feelings of overwhelm. With all that and more the holidays lend themselves to being stressful, but it doesn't have to be that way.
Get your menu set weeks in advance. (check out my Christmas meal plan) Many patients in our office have some strict dietary restrictions, take that into account when you plan a menu and ask your guest if they have any special dietary needs. As someone who has some special dietary needs, I am always willing to bring a dish to a gathering that I know I can eat, and I always make accommodations for guest that will be coming to our home.
If you're having a large gathering with people who may have various dietary restrictions, make it a pot-luck gathering. To avoid an unbalanced buffet of food, assign a specific type of dish to each guest.
Appetizer Dishes: bean or veggie based dips to serve with veggies or crackers, salsa and tortilla chips or even fruit dip. One of our favorite appetizers is a charcuterie board (thats a fancy name for a fancy spread of cured meats that usually has cheese, crackers, a little fruit and probably other savory items like pickles, artichoke hearts, roasted peppers and olives.) You can find some great ideas for (shahr-cute-uh-ree) boards on pinterest, like this one.
Salad Dishes: These can be a simple green salad, a potato salad, a salad without lettuce or a salad packed with all sorts of goodness. For more salad ideas visit the salad recipes section of our site.
Side Dishes: These could include soups or veggies or grain dishes, find some ideas here.
Main Dish: As the host I find it generous to prepare the main dish. This could be a roasted turkey, chicken wings, baked fish, Stir-Fry or even a hearty soup or chili. Letting your guest know what the main course will be can help them decide what they should bring as their luck item.
Remember gatherings don't have to always include a full meal. You can also just serve appetizers, finger foods or a dessert buffet.
Let go of doing everything yourself. As mentioned above, share the meal prep by making some food assignments. Delegate non-food item essentials too, have someone be responsible for paper-goods and table cloths, you can even have your "decorator" friend come get the table set all pretty. Add name cards if you are having a smaller gathering, you can even include a small gift for each guest. These special touches make your guests feel special.
Eating might be the main even at a holiday gathering but having some planned activities can add extra fun to a party. Delegate these planned activities to the guest that seems to always be the life of the party. Some fun ideas could include; a white elephant exchange, group games like charades or pictionary, a sleigh ride and caroling, story telling of your favorite holiday event, or even a service project like assembling hygiene kits to deliver to a local shelter.
Relax. Any gathering should be fun for everyone, including the host. Focus less on trying to impress and more on being engaged. Spending time together, sharing acts of kindness or just enjoying a conversation have more value than a perfect meal, decorations or spotless house and an exhausted host due to all the pre-party preparations. When it comes down to your holiday event your guest will remember more how they felt than even what they ate or how amazing the house looked.
What are some of your simple holiday entertaining ideas?


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These days, cross-device interaction of customers is important. Some people buy their goods using a laptop; others do it on the go through their iPhones or Android devices. As a businessman, you cover a lot more ground if you are able to flexibly accommodate these device preferences of your customers. Admittedly, having an iOS and Android version of your web-based application can get quite costly. As such, proper planning and these five tips can help pave the way toward this transition as smoothly as possible.
A progressive web app framework allows users to work on the apps in offline mode. It also leaves a lot of room for improvement in the future. This kind of design does not get you imprisoned with an initial set of specs. At the same time, it gives you and the developer enough leg room to make adjustments to the app reasonably until launch date or even during the time that the app goes live.
A progressive web app (PWA) also adds the feature of keeping your users hooked on your app as they can still use it even without an Internet connection as long as it's installed in their phones. This style, however, does not apply to all use cases. Make sure that your planned use for the app matches the requirements of a PWA.
You need to give considerable time for the developer to weave his or her magic on the app. Your iPhone app development and Android app development may require separate timelines unless you use a cross-device platform like Apache Cordova for building the app. Know the costs and time of delivery with a reliable developer or developer team so that you won't have surprises or awful bugs that can also have a negative impact on your application.
Some web-based features may no longer be necessary when in a phone app and vice versa. Additionally, things that were not considered in web-based features may end up as a critical factor to the usability of your app when migrated to its smartphone app version. This is where you might need the help of beta testers, avid customers who can test the initial stage of the app and provide useful feedback that will help keep most customers in support of your business.
Simplify the process and reduce the number of buttons that the customer has to press, especially for mobile converted applications. The fewer the buttons, the better the conversions. But don't make it bare to the point that hardly anything can be done. Strike a balance and provide just the right amount of visual choices per view.
These days, people will get impatient if your design does not respond to their screen sizes. Test out if your app is responsive across different devices, and see if the font sizes and buttons are all working as they should.
When done the right way, converting your web-based application into a smartphone-based one can be one of the best decisions you can do for increasing the reach of your business. You will see the results as more and more people are using your smartphone-based app.


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Not Long Tales … October 22nd, 2019
Tuesday's Toodle
After thirty-five years of "workin' on the railroad all the livelong day," Gerald McCallister retired to a tiny, two-bedroom home with purple shutters, a mile-and-a-half outside the little village of Coreyville, Georgia. He was a single man with no children and no relatives who seemed to recall the "tie that binds."
After months of going through the desperation of trying to find a purpose for his life, he was nearly on his last breath of despair. It was especially difficult late at night, when he found himself tumbling into the deep-dark caverns of depression, dwelling with deep consideration on his demise, even the taking of his own life. In those agonizing junctures of dismay, it seemed logical to leave instead of continuing the absurdity of repetition.
But each morning the sunlight offered such a cheery outlook that he sat down at a small wooden table he had made for himself years before and relished his cup of coffee and a plateful of sliced corn-meal mush he had fried to a crisp and drizzled with maple syrup.
But it was a to-and-fro that certainly could not continue. The agony of the nighttime was consuming the hope of the new day.
Finally one night his heart was overthrown by anguish, and he made a promise to all the blackened room around him. He believed it to be a prayer, though he was not sure it had the power to ascend. "If anyone is listening," he said, "please hear. I cannot pretend anymore. I will not fake my life. I will continue to faithfully chase the weeks and months if you will do three things. Yes — just three things. Every day I will make a simple list of people, happenings or events that I wish to see, and during my walk to town, my journey through the village, my lunch at the diner, and my return to my home, if I see those three things, I promise to you — or to anyone who's listening — that I will not grab my hunting rifle and climb into the bathtub, tuck it under my chin, pull the trigger and blow my brains into the face of God."
Strangely enough, this petition gave strength to Gerald's heart, for the next morning he had a true purpose — to pick his three things. He decided to call it his "Toodle List" — short for "To Do Today."
Gerald McCallister was not insane nor was he in search of miracles. Just connection. He was never going to place anything miraculous or outlandish on his list — nothing beyond the spectrum of what was available in his community. Just three insignificant little jobs. He figured it was one task for the Father, one for the Son and one for the Holy Ghost.
The list he made on the first morning was a request for a squirrel running by his feet, a bird singing in a tree and hearing the sound of an automobile's honking horn. Sure enough — during the four-and-a-half hours of walking to Coreyville and back, all three were provided. This went on for weeks.
Gerald decided to do his Toodle list every day except Sunday. On Sunday he made the walk into town to attend the Glory Land Church of God in Christ. It was a black church, and Gerald was white — what you might call "china white." He didn't care. He loved the music, he loved the spirit, and even liked it a little bit that they stared at him, wondering why he didn't go to the Baptist Church down the street, that was of a lighter hue.
But more than anything else, Gerald loved it when the black folks got to prayin' and would suddenly slip out of their native tongue, into a language he didn't understand, which he was told by the pastor was "heaven speak."
Reverend Kepling, the minister of the congregation, told Gerald, "It's when you get so close to God that your tongue goes heavenly and your talkin' to just Him and nobody else."
Gerald thought about how marvelous that sounded. He, himself, had no such dialect. But he sure loved to listen to them chat away.
There was one other white man who came to the church occasionally, but he usually showed up for the choir concerts, to tap his foot awhile to the Gospel tunes. He didn't know about the supernal speaking that went on, from the Earthly angels.
Yet even though Gerald attended the church, he never got close to anyone, only having lunch at the Coreyville diner once a month with the pastor — more or less because they would always eventually run into each other. During one of those luncheons, Gerald worked up the courage to tell the young cleric about the deal he had made in the dark room. He was about halfway through his explanation — in the middle of describing the requests he made daily of God — when the young minister interrupted, horrified. "Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God!" he objected.
Gerald sat and stared at him, not certain of the meaning, but figured it was time to cease being transparent.
More time passed.
There was also an older woman at the church who expressed some fondness for Gerald, but when he finally worked up the courage to approach her about continuing their friendship outside the churchyard, she shook her head. She explained to him, "I likes you an' all, but we lives in Coreyville, Georgia. And here I'm not a woman and you a man. Here, I'm black — and you white."
Gerald looked at her, perplexed, but deep in his heart he knew what she was talking about, and unfortunately, he had to agree that she was probably right.
But this disappointment further fed the demon that kept trying to drag Gerald McCallister to the gates of hell. But once again, every morning came with light.
Most of the time, the Toodle list he made was so simple that the Father, Son and Holy Ghost seemed to have no problem completing their tasks. Every once in a while, the third one would be slow coming. Gerald figured that was just the Holy Ghost being new to the job.
For instance, one day Gerald asked, on his Toodle list, to see a rainbow. He thought it was plenty fair, because rain was in the forecast, but lo and behold, the weatherman was wrong. The day was brilliant and beautiful. So Gerald was on his way to leave town, a bit forlorn, wondering if he would have to follow through on his promise. All at once, he passed by the town fountain, spraying water into the air. The sun — the mighty sun in the sky — hit it just right, and suddenly there was a rainbow all around him.
Gerald felt like shouting hallelujah. He thought if he got started with it, he might even find his heavenly tongue, like the folks at the church. But looking around, he saw some children walking by. So he contained himself and instead sprouted the largest smile his face had ever known.
Today, for Tuesday's Toodle, he had requested to see someone helping out another who was having car trouble. Secondly, he wanted the town grocer to say hello to him (which had only happened a half a dozen times over the months.) And finally, he wanted to catch a glimpse of a soul giving a donation to the homeless veteran who sat outside the hardware store. Everyone called him Sergeant Jack.
Well, the first two came quickly — so quickly that Gerald was nearly as excited as he'd been on Rainbow Thursday weeks before. But the third one — well, the third one became problematic.
Unbeknownst to Sergeant Jack, Gerald sat twenty paces away, watching for nearly two hours, as people stepped over and around the veteran, but no one gave the old soldier a single dime.
Gerald was astonished. Normally, Sergeant Jack was beloved and appreciated. Why were people ignoring him today? Was it a sign from God? Was God punching Gerald's ticket, ready to take him home?
After three long hours, with tears in his eyes, Gerald stood to his feet and trudged his way home.
Upon arriving, he took off his shirt, removed his walking boots, grabbed his rifle and climbed into the bathtub, sinking himself deep into the tub, ensuring that most of the blood and brain matter would land inside instead of destroying the walls. He tucked his gun underneath his chin and he gently reached down to finger the trigger. He was careful not to pull it too soon — not until he was certain that the time was right.
He had one thought in his mind: A deal is a deal. He had never welched on a bet and he'd always tried to honor his promises. He could not understand why after all these months, the Father and Son delivered but the Holy Ghost was ignoring him.
Do I really want to live, he thought to himself, in a world where Sergeant Jack is ignored?
His confidence to pull the trigger was building with each moment as he realized that the only thing he had left was his integrity. After all, without it, his Toodle was just a game he played with himself, which made him not only a fool but a liar.
It was time to put up and forever shut up. He fingered the trigger, testing to see how much pressure it would take to pull it.
Suddenly there was a knock at the door. The knock was so surprising that Gerald nearly pulled the trigger accidentally. He remained quiet, waiting for the stranger to go away, but the knock came again, getting louder. It was followed by a voice — a familiar one. Reverend Kepling. He shouted, "Gerald! Gerald! Mr. McCallister! Gerald McCallister!"
He kept shouting, over and over again. Gerald was stymied. He didn't know what to do. But he knew for a fact that he didn't want this young man to discover him, headless. It could ruin his life and scare him away from the ministry.
So holding his finger on the trigger, letting up on some of the tension to so as not to complete the deed, he called out, as loudly as he could speak with a gun held under his chin, "In here!"
In the flash of a moment, the Reverend entered the bathroom and saw Gerald sitting there with a gun to his head. Trying desperately to maintain his calm through gulping gobs of dry throat, he said slowly, "What are you doing, Gerald?"
Gerald suddenly remembered that he had told the minister about his Toodle list, so earnestly — as rationally as he could — he explained that today's list had gone unfulfilled. Unfortunately, Reverend Kepling did not remember quite as well. "What do you mean, unfulfilled?" he asked.
Frustrated, Gerald shifted his hands on the gun and replied, "It's neither here nor there. I asked God to do something simple and told Him if He couldn't, I would know that it was my Judgment Day."
Suddenly, as if struck by the memory of an angel, the minister spoke up. "Oh, I know what you're talking about! Wait, wait. What is it God didn't do?"
"It wasn't God," answered Gerald. "It was Slow Joe, the Holy Ghost."
Kepling nodded his head as if comprehending.
Gerald continued. "I had three things on my Toodle list today — you know that. The first two came quickly and easily. But the third one never showed."
Kepling, grasping for inspiration, inquired, "Well, what was it, Gerald? What did the Holy Spirit fail to do?"
Exasperated, Gerald responded, "The Holy Ghost — well, the Holy Ghost was supposed to show me the sight of Sergeant Jack being blessed by a donation from one of the townsfolk."
The pastor shook his head. Gerald, frustrated, replied, "Well, goddamn it, it didn't happen."
With this, Gerald motioned toward the trigger again. The minister rose to the occasion. "Listen. Listen, Gerald," he said. "My brother, my brother — you got it all wrong. This was your fault."
This surprised Gerald so much that he removed his hand from the trigger, taking his finger and pointing at himself. "Me?" he asked. "How was it my fault?"
Reverend Kepling burst into laughter. "Don't you see? God can't take your job and make it somebody else's business. You were the one that came up with the idea to give a donation to Sergeant Jack. Not even the Holy Ghost can give your job to someone else."
"What are you saying?" Gerald asked, confused.
Kepling inched his way over to sit on the edge of the bathtub. "I'm saying, Brother McCallister, that when you bring up being kindly to one of the lost souls of God, He is expecting you to have the good sense to know that you're the one to do it, not someone else."
Suddenly Gerald had a burst of understanding. His faith had been tested. The problem was, he was asking somebody else to do his business for him.
God was sittin' there, right next to him, watching to see if Sergeant Jack would get a donation. But not from a stranger. No. From Mr. Gerald McCallister.
Suddenly in tears, Gerald slowly disengaged himself from his rifle, set it on the floor outside the bathtub, and climbed out. Crying like a baby, he pleaded, "I've gotta go to town, Preacher. I didn't do my part. And I'm so tired. I'm so tired."
Reverend Kepling supported Gerald as they walked out of the bathroom, clear from the present danger. "Brother McCallister," he said, "it would be my honor to drive you into town in my car, so you can fulfill your third Toodle."
Gerald stopped and gave the young fellow a hug. "Thank you, Preacher Man."
They made their way into the car, drove into town, and found Sergeant Jack, who was about to head to the woods outside town to settle in for the night. They took him to dinner at the local diner and talked about things that none of the three men ever knew about each other.
Not Long Tales
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The NoOne Caper … September 24, 2012
I had a dream.
It was in late October, 2011. As far as I know, I wasn't thinking about anything particularly philosophical or even considering what I might be sharing in the coming year, 2012. But I had a vivid vision, filled with emotion, anxiety, joy and energy, about conveying a specific mission in that coming year. It was a typical dream in the sense that the images had significance in the moment and were difficult to explain later, when sleep had disappeared.
But there is one thing that came out of the experience that is as clear as a bell–it was six words. They were to become my central theme as I journeyed across the country in 2012: NoOne is better than anyone else.
Two immediate problems presented themselves.
First, Janet pointed out to me that "no one" was not a compound word, and that it should be dubbed the Seven Word Tour. I normally try not to be stubborn, but I really felt impressed from my nighttime visitation, that the theme was to be six words. So we went on the Internet, checked with grammar sources, and found what one often does when seeking an answer concerning the English language–it could be this, it could be that. Some sources said that "no one" was two separate words. Others insisted it was a normal compound word, separated because it was thought that the two o's placed together looked rather odd. (Honestly, that's why I like it. Two o's look like a pair of eyeballs staring at you, checking out your reaction.) So even though I have great respect for English grammar, I decided that since I was given license, I would pursue my own path. (However, even though I validated the choice, I still occasionally have folks come up to me, thinking they are clever by pointing out that it's really seven words. I just smile.)
The second problem was a little bit more deeply ingrained within our culture. After all, we live in a society that holds conventions in which discussions ensue on how important it is to not mistreat cows while simultaneously serving fillet mignon at the banquet. In other words, some notions have become high-sounding ideals instead of practical pursuits. Unfortunately, that's kind of what has happened with "do unto others as you would have them do unto you." We have basically decided that this principle is completely implausible, and even though we allow it to be spoken in public, everyone quietly retreats from its purity because of its difficulty and seemingly inhuman feasibility.
So I knew when I stood in front of an audience and said, "NoOne is better than anyone else," I would receive mixed reviews–at best a nod of assent followed by a quiet grunt of disapproval.
But I came to the conclusion that everything evil that has ever happened in our world was forged in the fires of supremacy. When we believe that we are to live our lives by the rules of the jungle, using domination as the settling ground for all conflict, we are admitting that possessing a larger brain and an eternal spirit is useless to us.
This is not the surrender that we should accept without a fight. Let me repeat it: everything born of darkness in the human experience begins with the notion that "i am better than you."
Six million skeleton, slain, Jewish innocents were thrown into mass graves because one man was able to propel a message of the supremacy of his supposed Super Race.
Over three hundred denominations of churches met yesterday in America, not simply because they favor one style of worship over another, but because at some point, doctrinally, the forefathers of their faith believed they had found a more enlightened path which made them better than their brothers and sisters.
The Republican Party believes it is better than the Democrat Party.
The Democrats believe they are better–more high-minded–than the Republicans.
A white man, even though enlightened by his experience and journey, will still sprout nervous energy when in the presence of a black man–not quite sure how to carry on a conversation because the whole climate of his world has screamed his preeminence over his darker-skinned brother.
This pervasive philosophy not only creates an impasse, but an obstinate, disguised anger that pouts in the corner, refusing to participate in détente.
When I looked at those six words–NoOne is better than anyone else–I realized I was headed for an experience rife with blessing and froth with controversy. So if you will allow me, over the next several days I will give you the ten objections I have received to my dream message from October 2011–NoOne is better than anyone else.
These assertions tickled me but also gave me pause to find the reasoning, both spiritually and intellectually, to prop up this valuable axiom.
So tomorrow I will start with what I call The California Consideration–the two objections presented to me while I was in the Golden State. I hope you will come along. It will be great fun, and like all good things that are entertaining, will certainly have its moments of inspiration.
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We offer three degree programs. The first step is a 3-year Bachelor degree (BSc Physics). The BSc is primarily coursework, although students are strongly encouraged to do research, either for credit (such as a Science Research Project, SCIE30001) or during the summer or winter teaching breaks. The next step is a 2-year Masters degree (MSc Physics), which has 1-year of coursework and a 1-year intensive research project. Finally, there is a PhD program, which is 100% research and takes 3.5-4 years. By the end of your PhD program, we expect that you are an expert who knows more than we do in some area of astrophysics.
Research into open problems in astrophysics, such as "How did the Universe begin?", "What happens when black holes collide?", or "How do galaxies form?" lies at the core of the Astrophysics programs, especially at the MSc and PhD levels. You can find information about some of the research projects on offer at this page. This is not an exhaustive list; you can also come up with your own topic if you convince a faculty member that it is interesting.
These three degrees do no need to be taken as a single block. Many of our students decide to get jobs after finishing their Bachelors or Masters degrees, while others begin their studies at another institution and transfer to the University of Melbourne for their Masters or PhD degrees. The skills and training you get by studying physics and astrophysics will stand you in good stead for a wide range of future careers.
Curious about where studying astrophysics can take you? You can browse where our past alumni have ended up on the MsC and PhD alumni pages. Many of our past students have ended up in astronomy; many others have taken the problem-solving skills they have developed during their studies and applied them closer to home – in industry, finance and elsewhere.


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"We're not comfortable with that," UCHealth Director of Behavioral Health Monica Smith said. "We're hoping that as the community gets more resources that will come down."
Most emergency room patients get in and out of UCHealth's Northern Colorado emergency rooms within three hours if they have non-mental health needs, according to UCHealth's Northern Colorado Director of Emergency Services Janice Mierzwa.
NEWS: Larimer County behavioral health tax officially on ballot
Lengthy psychiatric wait times aren't isolated to PVH. Nearly 86 percent of psychiatric patients at Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland from February through June had to wait at least four hours to be transferred. More than one-third had to wait 10 or more hours. January numbers were not available for MCR.
Although Mierzwa and Smith wouldn't take a stance on a ballot measure calling for a quarter-percent sales tax to pay for a behavioral health facility in Larimer County, they say more mental health resources are the only hope for easing that wait.
"Larimer County has gotten too big and it needs to support its own citizens," Mierzwa said. "There's nothing worse than dealing with a family member in crisis in Denver or Colorado Springs because we don't have services in our community."
Mierzwa said the lack of local detox and substance abuse facilities are to blame for lengthy wait times because of the time involved to arrange transportation to Island Grove Regional Treatment Center in Greeley or other such facilities.
MENTAL HEALTH: Area mental health providers face lack of psychiatrists
Other than increasing area resources, solutions are slim.
"It's capacity," Mierzwa said.
Poudre Valley Hospital's new ER, which is under construction, will include a segregated assessment area with seven private rooms for patients with mental health needs. That won't reduce wait times, but Smith said it will create a safer environment for patients, their families and staff members when it opens early next year.
UCHealth is developing telehealth programs to assess people in remote areas of Northern Colorado, which could make a dent in wait times.
Wait times at Poudre Valley Hospital
More than 87 percent of the 567 patients who visited Poudre Valley Hospital from January through June this year had to wait at least four hours or more before being placed at Mountain Crest or another appropriate facility.
Less than four hours: 71 patients
4-10 hours: 307 patients
10-20 hours: 155 patients
20 or more hours: 34 patients
Wait times at Medical Center of the Rockies
Nearly 86 percent of the 221 patients who visited Medical Center of the Rockies Emergency Room from February through June this year had to wait at least four hours before being placed at Mountain Crest or another appropriate facility. January numbers were not available for MCR.
Four to 10 hours: 108 patients
10 to 20 hours: 57 patients
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Edward aims to build another hospital
Crystal Yednak, Tribune staff reporterCHICAGO TRIBUNE
Edward Hospital & Health Services in Naperville is asking for state approval to build a 146-bed hospital in rapidly growing Plainfield, hospital officials said earlier this month.
The proposed Edward Plainfield Hospital would be built on 60 acres along 127th Street just west of Illinois Highway 59, said Brian Davis, Edward's vice president for marketing. The $169 million facility would include a 20-bay emergency room, intensive care unit, six operating rooms and 30 obstetric beds.
Edward submitted an application for the hospital to the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board in early October. The state is reviewing the application, and a public hearing is likely in the next few months, said Tammy Leonard, a planning board spokeswoman.
If approved, Edward is looking to open the hospital in 2009, according to the application.
In 1999, Edward's proposal to add a heart hospital in Naperville drew the ire of officials at surrounding hospitals, who called it unnecessary. The hospitals formed an alliance to protest the plan.
Edward eventually changed its proposal to earn state approval and opened a 71-bed heart facility last year. Edward administrators have announced plans to add more beds, saying they are fully occupied on most days.
The Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board could put Edward's application for the Plainfield facility on the agenda for its February or April board meeting, Leonard said.
Edward officials said there is a need for the hospital. A study released by the Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council this year projected a need for 4,500 more hospital beds in the Chicago region in the next two decades. Though some Illinois hospitals currently report having empty beds, the group found that the changing demographics of the region, such as aging Baby Boomers, will mean an increased need for beds.
At Edward's Naperville hospital, the staff expects to be running out of beds in the next three to five years, Davis said.
"The growth in Plainfield and the surrounding areas is amazing," he said. "We're responding to that growth."
Edward officials also said the forecasted growth will only add to the congestion on the area's roads, and residents need an emergency room and primary-care physicians that are closer.
Plainfield Mayor Richard Rock said a hospital on 127th Street would shorten the drive for many residents who now go to Joliet, Aurora or Naperville for health care.
"With the traffic situation, it's always a good 20-minute drive" to other hospitals, he said.
Besides Plainfield, the new hospital would serve the southern end of Naperville and western parts of Bolingbrook, as well as Yorkville, Minooka and Oswego, Davis said.
Edward also has asked the state for approval to build a $43 million outpatient services center on the same plot of land in Plainfield, Davis said. That building, slated to open in 2005 if approved, would include an imaging center, medical office building and immediate-care center.
Edward has about 300 total beds -- 236 in the main Naperville facility and 71 in the heart hospital. The health system has 100 more beds in Linden Oaks Hospital at Edward, a behavioral health center, Davis said.


...and he's on it: Where in the world is Conor Daly?
Think your 2011 is shaping up to be a busy one? Let's see how your itinerary stacks up against my man Conor Daly's.
Competing in both a full season of GP3, plus selected events in the Firestone Indy Lights Series, to say Conor will be racking up the frequent-flyer miles is an understatement.
Here it is in a nutshell: 21 races (GP3 holds two per weekend) and the potential to run on 12 test days scattered across 10 countries, 4 states, and only 6 months.
Check out the full list of events, below, then stop back over the course of the 2011 racing season to see where in the world is Conor Daly.
P.S. Hey, CD... better print this and strap it to your wrist like an NFL QB, you're going to need it.
This could be good or it could be very bad. While I think Conor has the talent win in Indy Lights, GP3 may be more of a struggle and the constant changeover of cars could be problematic.


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Magnets used to clean up bloodstream
Sepsis, a potentially lethal disease caused by a systemic microbial infection that spreads via the bloodstream, is responsible for more than 200,000 deaths per year in the U.S. alone. Existing treatments can be ineffective but researchers in the Vascular Biology Program at Children's Hospital Boston have come up with a novel first line of defense - the use of magnetism to quickly remove pathogens from the blood. The new blood-cleansing device, developed by Chong Wing Yung and Don Ingber is described in the journal Lab on a Chip.
The system works by drawing the patient's blood and adding tiny magnetic beads (coated with antibodies) to it. The blood and bead mix is then run through a microfluidic system in which two liquid flow streams run side by side without mixing - one containing blood, the other a saline-based collection fluid. The beads bind to the pathogens and a magnet then pulls them (along with the pathogens) into the collection fluid, which is ultimately discarded, while the cleansed blood in reintroduced into the patient.
Tested with contaminated human blood, a device with four parallel collection modules achieved an impressive 80 percent clearance of the fungi Candida albicans in a single pass, at a flow rate and separation efficiency that would be viable for clinical applications. The researchers estimate that a scaled-up system with hundreds of channels could cleanse the blood of an infant within several hours.
"This blood-cleansing microdevice offers a potentially new weapon to fight pathogens in septic infants and adults, that works simply by removing the source of the infection and thereby enhancing the patient's response to existing antibiotics," noted Ingber, who says the next phase will be to test the device in animals.
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Russell McVeagh advises CBA on sale of Sovereign to AIA
Home Insights Russell McVeagh advises CBA on sale of Sovereign to AIA
Russell McVeagh has advised Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) on the sale of Sovereign, New Zealand's largest life and health insurance business, to AIA International Limited (AIA) for AU$1.275 billion.
CBA, the parent company of ASB Bank Limited (ASB), has sold its New Zealand life and health insurance business (Sovereign) to AIA Group Limited. The transaction completed yesterday (2 July 2018). AIA International Limited is a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of AIA Group Limited, a company listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited. AIA International Limited's New Zealand branch operates its existing New Zealand life and health insurance business.
The sale agreement includes a 20-year partnership with Sovereign and AIA for the provision of life and health insurance products to ASB customers in New Zealand.
The Russell McVeagh team advised CBA on the transaction, working closely with Mark Alexander and Kirsty Cox from the CBA legal team. The transaction was led by senior Corporate partner, Pip Greenwood with assistance from team members Frida Klippel, Aria Molteni-Luporini, Lucy Clifford and Wendy Smith. Additional support was provided by Finance partner, Tom Hunt; Tax partner, Fred Ward; Competition partner, Troy Pilkington; and Employment partner, Kylie Dunn.
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Disney Springs Area Resorts – Stay Near Entertainment, Dining, and Shopping
If you plan to be up and out the door at the crack of dawn in your pursuit of theme park fun, and only return after midnight to crawl into bed, then a Magic Kingdom or Epcot Area resort may be the best option for you. But for those looking to enjoy a more varied vacation experience, staying at a Disney Springs Area hotel has some terrific advantages.
If you consider the other resort areas to be the peaceful residential neighborhoods of Disney World, then Disney Springs is the bustling business and entertainment center.
While most resorts offer a handful of restaurants, Disney Springs has another dozen dining opportunities available to resort guests as well as non-guests. These nearby restaurants include the House of Blues, the Rainforest Café, and Planet Hollywood. Disney Springs also offers many shopping opportunities, a movie theater, and other entertainment options including Cirque du Soleil's La Nouba, which is permanently in residence on the West Side. Many resorts are within walking or boating distance of these restaurants and attractions. service is also available to take visitors from Disney Springs to all other resort areas and the theme parks in the Disney World complex.
Resorts near Disney Springs offer plenty of unique advantages.
Saratoga is a picturesque Victorian-era and equestrian themed deluxe villa resort at the center of Disney Springs. With all the swankiness of a deluxe resort, the Saratoga villas provide luxury accommodation for families and larger groups, including in-room full service kitchens and washer/dryers. The three-bedroom grand villas can house up to twelve guests, the Treehouse villas up to nine. There are three restaurants on the resort grounds, and Saratoga is in walking distance of the dining and shopping of Disney Springs. Other amenities for villa guests include the Health Club, babysitting services, as well as the full service salon and spa. If a morning round of golf is as important to you as a morning cup of coffee, the Lake Buena Vista Golf Course is walking distance from Saratoga.
Old Key West Resort
Old Key West is another deluxe villa resort within the Disney Springs Resort Area. This resort wants you to relax and feel at home, if your home were a luxurious Key West estate that is. It doesn't have the overwhelming opulence of other deluxe resorts; instead, it surrounds you with quiet and attractive comforts that can be a pleasant retreat from the larger-than-life themes and amusements of Disney World. Accommodations range from studios that offer similar amenities to those of a standard hotel room, to the three-bedroom villas that can sleep twelve people and come equipped with full service kitchens as well as dining and living areas. Taking a Disney bus is the only way to get from Key West to most Disney World attractions, but Disney Springs is a relaxing boat ride away for those who want to take the scenic route to enjoy the downtown nightlife. Old Key West, like Saratoga, is directly adjacent to the Lake Buena Vista Golf Course.
Port Orleans French Quarter
At the Port Orleans French Quarter, it's Mardi Gras all year-round. This hotel features the distinctive storm windows, curling wrought-iron railings and antique lampposts for which New Orleans' French Quarter is famous. Of course, the French Quarter is also famous for being the center of the party on Fat Tuesday, and Port Orleans brings that party to Florida with jazz music constantly piping through the resort's common areas, the impressive pool area with its towering dragon slide and alligator marching band, and live entertainment at the Scat Cat Lounge. The hotel also features a food court serving American and Creole style food. The glass-sided and sun-roofed lobby at this hotel is one of its loveliest and most impressive features. Taking a boat or bus is the way to get from Port Orleans to Disney Springs or other Disney world locations.
French Quarter gives you a taste of Mardi Gras fun and southern hospitality.
The Riverside option of the two Port Orleans hotels leaves behind the bustling urban French Quarter and settles its guest into the rustic aesthetic of rural Louisiana. Riverside has two distinct sections, and guests can opt for the opulent plantation-feel of Magnolia Bend, or the quaint feel of a cottage along the Mississippi River in Alligator Bayou. The river that runs through this rambling hotel is the Sassagoula, and guests can dive, slide, or swing their way into an old-fashioned swimming hole on Ol' Man Island, or take a 30-minute horse-drawn carriage ride along the banks of the peaceful river. Riverside has two informal dining areas, the Riverside Mill food court and Boatwright's Dining Hall, both of which serve typical American and Southern-style cuisine. Travel by boat or bus to get to Disney Springs or the Disney theme parks.
Other resorts and hotels
The attractions at Disney Springs draw a number of visitors who do not have plans to visit the rest of the Disney World resort. As a result, several non-Disney run hotels and resorts exist within the Disney Springs Resort Area. The resorts are the Best Western Lake Buena Vista Resort, the DoubleTree Guest Suites Resort, the Regal Sun Resort, and the Hilton Resort. The hotels are the Courtyard by Marriott, the Hotel Royal Plaza, and the Buena Vista Palace Hotel and Spa. If you are a Disney World vacationer, two main factors might tempt you to forgo a Disney resort in favor of non-affiliated accommodations. Travelers enrolled in a Hilton Honors, Marriott Rewards, or similar program may prefer to continue earning frequent-visitor points, or even cash in their points to make the rest of their Disney World experience more affordable. Other visitors may simply be looking for a place to get away from the non-stop Disney experience of the official resorts and theme parks. If 24/7 Disney is a bit too rich for your blood, but you still want to be as close as possible to all the action, then these alternatives can allow you to enjoy the same convenient location of the Disney resorts in a non-themed atmosphere.
Disney's Port Orleans ResortDisney's Old Key West ResortDisney's Saratoga Springs Resort And SpaDowntown Disney
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Q: Adding User to AD Group in VB.Net (2008) I needed to add users to Active Directory using VB.  I found code that works (mostly), except for assigning the user to a group.  I'm fairly certain that the code works, I just don't know the format of the group to pass to it.
Given the code (below), and the image of my AD structure (below that), what is the structure of the GroupName passed to the routine to add the user to the group "Level1/All Users/Level 2/A-K"?
TIA
Public Shared Sub AddUserToGroup(ByVal de As DirectoryEntry, ByVal deUser As DirectoryEntry, ByVal GroupName As String)
Dim deSearch As DirectorySearcher = New DirectorySearcher()
deSearch.SearchRoot = de
deSearch.Filter = "(&(objectClass=group) (cn=" & GroupName & "))"
Dim results As SearchResultCollection = deSearch.FindAll()
Dim isGroupMember As Boolean = False
If results.Count > 0 Then
    Dim group As New DirectoryEntry(results(0).Path)
    Dim members As Object = group.Invoke("Members", Nothing)
    For Each member As Object In CType(members, IEnumerable)
        Dim x As DirectoryEntry = New DirectoryEntry(member)
        Dim name As String = x.Name
        If name <> deUser.Name Then
            isGroupMember = False
        Else
            isGroupMember = True
            Exit For
        End If
    Next member
    If (Not isGroupMember) Then
        group.Invoke("Add", New Object() {deUser.Path.ToString()})
    End If
    group.Close()
End If
Return

End Sub

A: According to your input from your comment I set up this Sub for you.
You havn't clarified the level below Level2 so I just called it Level3.
This function already enables User as a disabled User is useless...
References:
Imports System.DirectoryServices

How to Use:
CreateUser("Doe", "John")

Method:
Public Sub CreateUser(ByVal givenname As String, ByVal surname As String)

    Dim dom As New DirectoryEntry()
    Dim ou As DirectoryEntry = dom.Children.Find("OU=All Users")
    Dim ou2 As DirectoryEntry = ou.Children.Find("OU=Level2")
    Dim ou3 As DirectoryEntry = ou2.Children.Find("OU=Level3")

    Dim firstLetter As String = givenname.Substring(0, 1)
    Dim ou4 As DirectoryEntry

    If firstLetter Like "*[A-K]*" Then
        ou4 = ou3.Children.Find("OU=A-K")
    Else
        ou4 = ou3.Children.Find("OU=L-Z")
    End If

    Dim ADuser As DirectoryEntry = ou4.Children.Add("CN=" & givenname & "\, " & surname, "user")

    ADuser.CommitChanges()

    'The User is now created. Most people forget to enable their users so I'll put it in here too

    'UF_DONT_EXPIRE_PASSWD 0x10000
    Dim exp As Integer = CInt(ADuser.Properties("userAccountControl").Value)
    ADuser.Properties("userAccountControl").Value = exp Or &H1
    ADuser.CommitChanges()
    'UF_ACCOUNTDISABLE 0x0002
    Dim val As Integer = CInt(ADuser.Properties("userAccountControl").Value)
    ADuser.Properties("userAccountControl").Value = val And Not &H2
    ADuser.CommitChanges()

End Sub

See my answer in this post for basic knowledge of interaction with AD and LDAP.

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Q: Tikz: draw over gridlines I am currently creating an axis with
\begin{axis}[
xmin=-0.5, xmax=3.5,
ymin=-0.5, ymax=3.5,
axis on top,
xmajorgrids,
ymajorgrids,
]

and I draw arrows within this axis using
draw[red,thick,->] (axis cs:1.2,1) -- (axis cs:1.8,1);

The result looks like this:

How do I draw the arrows such that they are drawn covering the gridlines?
MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
    \begin{tikzpicture}

    \begin{axis}[
    xmin=-0.5, xmax=3.5,
    ymin=-0.5, ymax=3.5,
    axis on top,
    xmajorgrids,
    ymajorgrids
    ]
    \draw[red,thick,->] (axis cs:1.2,1) -- (axis cs:1.8,1);
    \draw[red,thick,->] (axis cs:2,0.2) -- (axis cs:2,0.8);
    \end{axis}

    \end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

A: The manual says of the axis on top key:

/pgfplots/axis on top=true|false                               (initially false)

If set to true, axis lines, ticks, tick labels and grid lines will be drawn on top of plot graphics.

Hence, all you have to do is remove axis on top from the list of options for the axis environment.


Ideal Hardware today announces the signing of an agreement with Sun Microsystems, premier network product computing company. Ideal will add to its portfolio Sun Microsystems' Microelectronics components, including SPARC-based motherboards and processors. The agreement sees Sun Microsystems become the UK platform from which Ideal will launch its components offering into UK and European vertical markets. This relationship will also enable Ideal to deliver an extensive components portfolio to the reseller community.
Ideal's parent company, Bell Microproducts Inc., is a prominent force in the US storage market. It is also the longest serving and most successful distribution partner for Sun Microsystems' Microelectronics components range working in the US. This well-established partnership will allow Ideal to become the Sun distribution partner to drive Microelectronics' components offerings into UK telecom, network equipment provider, and XSP markets. Before executing a full channel strategy in the agreed vertical markets with Sun, Ideal will undertake a period of investment and training. The alliance positions both parties as leaders in the European and UK components marketplace.
record in selling complex products, makes it the unrivalled choice as a distribution partner. Ideal will be promoting a flexible and competitive offering of SPARC-based solutions that will address the requirements of its reseller community.
Seamus Twohig, Ideal's relationship director, comments on the alliance: "We recognise Sun as an incredibly significant distribution partner of today, and a key technology partner of the future, instrumental to our continuing success. Ideal recognises that the market has fragmented into a multiplicity of vertical markets where one solution does not suit all. Therefore, Ideal will work to create a strong presence in vertical markets such as Storage Service Providers (SSPs) and Telecommunications, both in the UK and Europe.
"Sun will bring a key set of solutions both hardware (motherboards PCI and cPCI, and systems cPCI) and software (Solaris, Chorus and High Availability solutions). This will strongly enhance our product offering allowing us to fully support OEMs and Value Added Integrators, addressing the communications and industrial markets. Ideal plans to work closely with Sun Microsystems to integrate our technologies and services to provide a complete IT solution to our customers."
Bell Microproducts Inc is an international value-added provider of a wide range of high technology products, solutions, and services to the industrial and commercial marketplace. The company's offering includes semiconductors, computer platforms, peripherals, and storage products of various types including desktop, high-end computer and storage subsystems, fibre channel connectivity products, RAID, NAS and SAN storage systems and back-up products.


|In Youth in Coffee, From the field, Colombia, Thrive!
Over the course of the past summer two new youth groups were established in Colombia, bringing our total number of youth up to 70 in Colombia and 313 across all three regions! The youth all live in the region of La Risaralda, in three different small communities. La Risaralda is situated west of Bogota and south of Medellin. The proximity of our youth groups allows for exchange among these young farmers and gives them a way to build on each other's motivation and drive. The youth who are further along in their businesses are developing the skills to become mentors, sharing learning and advice. It also elevates the role of youth and youth coffee in the community and producer associations.
The youth in the small community of Quinchia, our second cohort, recently finished their training and are now on their way to launch their new businesses. The 25 youth in this group are between the ages of 15-29, including 14 young women and 11 young men. And they are full of energy, ideas, and really willing to support each other even giving the big age difference in this small group.
During the training period our incredible youth coordinator, Daniel Valencia, a young Colombian of 27 years old himself, visited the family and farm with each youth. A critical key to the success of these young adults is buy-in from their families, so we spend time ensuring everyone knows what is happening and families have a clear role in supporting their children's vision – without driving it themselves.
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New Jersey Jackals Sign Santiago Chirino to Contract Extension
January 7, 2020 - Little Falls, NJ - The Hit King has returned. The 2019 Can-Am League Champion New Jersey Jackals announce signing infielder Santiago Chirino to a contract extension. Along with being a key contributor to the Jackals' 2019 championship run, the Can-Am League's merging with the Frontier League brings Chirino back to the circuit where he owns the all-time hits record with 726. This signing also marks the seventh year that the 28-year old Punto Fijo Venezuela native has played for New Jersey Jackals manager Brooks Carey. Six of ... Full Story
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Can-Am League & Frontier Announce Historic Merger
October 16, 2019 - WASHINGTON, Pa - Today the Can-Am League and the Frontier League are announcing a historic merger resulting in the creation of the largest league in all of Independent Professional Baseball. The newly formed Frontier League will begin play in 2020 with a soon to be revealed 96-game schedule spanning from mid-May through September. The all-new league will be comprised of all five Can-Am League organizations and nine members of the Frontier League, totaling 14 clubs in two divisions. The former Can-Am League clubs - includi... Full Story
New Jersey Jackals: 2019 Can-Am League Champions
September 15, 2019 - The New Jersey Jackals won their first ever Can-Am League championship as they defeated Sussex County in game four of the title series by the score of 8-7. New Jersey had an 8-2 lead through 3 1/2 innings of play before having to hold off a furious rally by the Miners to claim the championship. The Jackals pounded out 11 hits in the contest with four batters having multi-hit games. New Jersey DH Richard Stock led the way going 2-for-4 with two runs scored and an RBI. Jackals SS Santiago Chirino and CF David Harris each co... Full Story
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Jackals Take 2-1 Series Lead with Shutout of Miners
September 14, 2019 - New Jersey starting pitcher Justin Brantley and two relievers combined on a six-hit shutout as the Jackals defeated Sussex County, 2-0, in game three of the Can-Am League Championship Series. Brantley was terrific tonight as he tossed six solid innings allowing two hits and four walks while fanning seven batters. The bullpen duo of Reece Karalus and Dylan Brammer threw the final three frames and combined gave up four hits and a walk and struck out two. Brantley notched the win and is 2-0 in the postseason while Brammer co... Full Story
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New Jersey Jackals Sign Santiago Chirino to Contract Extension - (Can-Am) January 7
Rockland Boulders Move to Frontier League in Merger - New York Boulders (Can-Am) October 16
Can-Am League & Frontier Announce Historic Merger - (Can-Am) October 16
Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center Presents: Darryl Strawberry in Conversation with Ira Berkow - New Jersey Jackals (Can-Am) October 1
New Jersey Jackals: 2019 Can-Am League Champions - New Jersey Jackals (Can-Am) September 15
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Miners Roll Past Jackals to Even Series at 1-1 - New Jersey Jackals (Can-Am) September 12
Jackals Walk-Off Miners in Game One of Championship Series - New Jersey Jackals (Can-Am) September 11
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New Exhibition at the Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center - New Jersey Jackals (Can-Am) September 10
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THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS Spoilers — Victor's Fate is Decided!
By	Chris Eades	 July 25, 2016
Lives will change forever in these spoilers from today's THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS!
With the testimony concluded, the judge must deliberate and decide whether Victor should be sent back to jail or released. But he warns the mogul, "Phyllis Abbott's emotional outburst is quite a compelling case for you to stay behind bars." Has she ruined Victor's plan to be set free, or can nothing stop The Mustache?
In the visitor's room at the prison, Chelsea and Adam continue to debate whether Connor should be allowed to visit him there. "How long can you survive this hell without your son?" she asks.
MUST SEE: First Photos of Michael Graziadei Back at Y&R!
Jill stuns Billy when she informs him, "I will not be running Brash & Sassy with Cane — you will." Will he agree to work with his rival? And even if he does, can the two men run a company together or will their arguments drive it into bankruptcy?
Check out this tease for the next episode, and for more Y&R previews, keep reading the CBS edition of Soaps In Depth magazine!


The Global Human Rights Movement in the 21st Century11. We would like to thank Marcela Perelman, Director of CELS' research department, for her valuable contributions to this article.
The following article analyses the changes generated in the global human rights movement in recent decades by the resurgence of alliances of organisations from countries of the Global South. Based on the perspective of a national human rights organisation in Argentina, we reflect on our strategies and analyse developments in the processes used to define international agenda on human rights. We also examine the effects on mechanisms and institutions and on the capacity to implement the decisions made.
The global human rights movement (GHRM) has undergone significant changes over the past 65 years. Since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 – both a landmark and the foundational symbolic framework for the movement – socioeconomic and geopolitical processes have led the GHRM to experience numerous changes. The founding of a series of human rights organisations in the United States and Europe consolidated the movement in the 1960s. These organisations, like civil liberty activists, became an important actor on the political scene (NEIER, 2003). Until the late 1980s, a specific model of transnational activism was consolidated within the GHRM. This model established a division of labour in the movement whereby local organisations worked to collect reports on human rights violations in their countries, while international organisations sought to give them greater visibility and force on the global scene.
Now, at the end of the first decade of the 21st century, there is broad consensus among members of the GHRM – social organisations, academics and experts, international officials, etc. – that a new scenario has emerged. This new context has led actors to rethink the model that has guided the GHRM's forms of organising, tactics and strategies for many years.
By GHRM, we refer to a conglomerate of social actors who coalesce around common values and discourse and that work together on the international level to meet a common goal: to defend, promote and protect human rights, and strengthen the systems and institutional mechanisms created for this purpose. Some studies emphasize the absence of top-down leadership in the GHRM and conceptualise it as a "transnational support network" – a kind of activism characterised by the establishment of horizontal, voluntary and reciprocal relations of exchange.
The increase in number and diversity of organisations in the GHRM in recent years has generated a more complex scenario. For example, some national human rights organisations increased their presence on the global scene, expanded their operations and strengthened their work agenda on the regional and international level. Organisations with years of experience in using international protection mechanisms to deal with human rights violations in their own countries diversified their actions to take on new roles in the global discussions that define agendas and in debates on institutional issues.
In this article, while basing ourselves on our work at the Centre for Legal and Social Studies (Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales – CELS), we reflect on the context and the experience of this national human rights organisation from Argentina in reformulating and broadening its international scope of action. We also examine the implications of these changes for its local and global work.
A succinct overview of the history of the GHRM allows us to identify four main periods: the 1950s; from the 1960s to the 1980s; the 1990s, and from 2000 on.
After the adoption of the Universal Declaration, the international scene was dominated by diplomats and officials who coalesced around the ideal of preventing atrocities like those committed during the not so distant Second World War. At the beginning of the 1960s, there was an incipient opening for civil society participation. This participatory space was broadened during the 1970s (POSNER, 1997) due to the creation of some of the main international human rights organisations, including Amnesty International, the International Commission of Jurists, the Centre for Legal and Social Policy, the Washington Office for Latin America, and Human Rights Watch. The GHRM adopted a particular model of transnational activism in which the actions of these international organisations prevailed.
Their main actions were focussed on the elaboration of regulations and on institutional development, which meant intervening in processes for the codification and ratification of international human rights treaties. Practices that violate human rights were exposed primarily through public reports denouncing the situation and holding States accountable before the international community, according to the "name and shame" logic. This kind of campaign follows a pattern that Keck and Sikkink (1999) call the "boomerang effect", which refers to the triangulation between international NGOs from the Global North-West and local actors from the "underdeveloped South". This dynamic, which aimed to generate international pressure in order to influence the actions of the States, made a decisive contribution to exposing massive and systematic human rights violations, such as those committed by dictatorships, namely between the 1960s and the 1980s in various Latin American countries.
During the 1990s, the socioeconomic and geopolitical changes of the post-Cold War era and socio-environmental concerns brought major transformations to the GHRM. The distinction between civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights was questioned and re-conceptualized. In Latin America, after years of democracy, the movement felt the need to complement its analysis on and denunciations of States' actions and omissions with work on other relevant dimensions, like inequality and the actions of non-State actors. It is important to remember that these shifts in paradigm arose at a time when neoliberal tendencies based on the concept of a minimal State were gaining ground. The GHRM had to balance its emphasis on denunciations with elements related to the prevention of human rights violations and thus, the elaboration of public policies aimed at strengthening the role of the State as the protector of rights.
Also in the 1990s, local social movements underwent important changes, which affected the GHRM as well. The "major international conferences" – including the well-known World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna in 1993 – were held, with the participation of a wide range of non-governmental organisations. In Latin America, in the context of the return to democracy in the region, social movements diversified and were revived, while civil society gradually became more organised. As the sphere of public participation at the local and global level continued to slowly broaden, it revealed new opportunities for civil society, as well as the need for different actors to coordinate and cooperate on various levels in order to respond adequately to complex human rights issues.
A series of events at the beginning of the 2000s gave rise to a new era: changes in the weight of regional economies in the world,1 the impacts of the "war on terror" led by the United States on human rights and the intense incorporation of communications technology into research, documentation and communication work,2 among other factors. Changes in the distribution of power at the global level generated pressure on governance structures, which raised questions on legitimacy, representation and participation in an increasingly multipolar world. Furthermore, especially after September 11th, 2001, the global leadership that actors from the North exercised in the area of human rights was questioned and it became a source of geopolitical tensions.
In recent decades, democratic regimes in Latin America in particular are experiencing a period of stability – albeit one with nuances, tensions and exceptions. This has created the need to rethink relations between States and international human rights bodies.3 What is more, governments with strong social agendas and their own views on human rights have come to power in the region, which has been reflected in their priorities for public policies and socioeconomic development. The mark these States are leaving is making it more complex for the GHRM in terms of its strategies and legitimacy.
In short, these factors have had important impacts on the GHRM in relation to its systems and mechanisms, how it relates to States, and the legitimacy of its main actors. The current context challenges the effectiveness of its traditional intervention model on several levels. Several questions have been raised regarding political legitimacy in terms of the basis of one's interventions: What is the basis of our actions? Who are our allies? What has our participation and dialogue with the actors we are seeking to influence been like in the past?
Questions also exist on the way thematic agendas and the hierarchy of the issues on them are defined: What are the factors at play that determine why some issues and/or situations are given priority over others? Is the idea merely to point out the disconnect between "universal" human rights priorities and what is happening in the real world? The often volatile and asymmetric relation between international NGOs and local actors, in many cases, does not help the movement to establish processes that integrate the strategies, issues and nuances of locally sustained practices.
Finally, there is a need to reflect on the concrete impacts of the GHRM's strategies based on its commitment to implementation processes on the local level. These processes are essential for ensuring that the conditions needed to prevent human rights violations or to effectively protect such rights are met. In democratic contexts, the chances of implementing the decisions made at the international level depend on the organisations' capacity to sustain long and tedious processes at the local level, and to participate in the bodies overseeing the operationalization of commitments made by regional and international offices. It also involves keeping up-to-date with the actors and issues in order to grasp the changes brought on by the processes themselves. This is especially true when organisations seek to address the structural conditions that facilitate rights violations, by using strategies of dialogue aimed at strengthening the role of the State as the guardian of human rights, and to go beyond merely denouncing emergencies or intervening in grave crises.
This necessary commitment to the effective realisation of human rights demands that social organisations have the capacity to engage state actors not only in relation to denunciations, but also as stakeholders in the transformation processes. This requires an understanding of the State as a heterogeneous entity, full of contradictions and fissures.
Since its creation, CELS has worked in the international human rights protection systems in alliance with other local and international actors, with the goal of fostering change at the local level. Denouncing violations and building transnational solidarity networks has been one of our institution's main strategies since its inception. CELS was founded in 1979 during the preparations for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights' visit to Argentina. This visit constituted a decisive step in the work to expose the violations perpetuated by the military regime in the country at the time.
However, in the midst of all the changes occurring in the GHRM at the beginning of this century, some international actions proved to be no longer effective for intervening in domestic affairs. At the same time, the legitimacy of international human rights protection systems were being seriously questioned, as recent processes to reform and strengthen them at the Inter-American level and within the UN have shown. In addition, the GHRM's traditional model of intervention proved to be inadequate and too weak to respond to these approaches and to address contemporary human rights issues on the ground.4 Furthermore, the local human rights movement in Argentina has been undergoing changes since the economic, social and institutional crisis that affected the entire socio-political background in 2001.
In this context, in order to regain its efficiency, our international work had to respond to both the global changes described earlier and the way we understand our activism on the national level. Knowledge acquired on the international strategies' positive results maintained the institution's interest in seeking innovative forms of lobbying. We also realised that some of these weaknesses could be counterbalanced by a process in which national work and knowledge on human rights issues generate input for regional and international mechanisms and standards; and then these, in turn, are used to intervene on the local level.
CELS was originally founded with the goal of working on the litigation of individual and collective test cases;5 documenting and investigating human rights violations; and creating alliances with other national and international social actors. After the return to a democratic system in Argentina in 1983, the organisation responded to the need to expand the scope of its work to include the protection and promotion of human rights in democracy. In addition to continuing its work to denounce violations, the institution directed its focus toward intervening in the elaboration of public policies, promoting legal and institutional reforms to improve institutional quality, and defending the most vulnerable sectors of society's right to exercise their rights.
Therefore, in addition to its ongoing work to demand memory, truth and justice and an end to impunity for the crimes committed during the last dictatorship, CELS expanded its agenda in two directions. For one, it incorporated new issues, which include economic, social and cultural rights; the justice system; migration; prisons and criminal justice; mental health, and armed forces. Secondly, its work on these issues now involves both denouncing violations and intervening on the conditions that give rise to such problems. For example, denunciations of institutional violence have always been accompanied by work on the logic behind the way the bureaucracies in charge of public safety function, studies, and the identification of possible areas for intervention and lobbying.
After the 2001 crisis in Argentina, human rights organisations, social movements, trade unions and other civil society organisations experienced profound change. The scenario created new challenges for building alliances and raised new questions on how to advance human rights activism vis-à-vis the new government, which had incorporated the national human rights movement's historical demand for "truth and justice" into the centre of its agenda, in alliance with various actors. The government's position affected the way we selected and defended strategic lawsuits, gained access to the field, and produced knowledge on our lines of research and for all of our lines of work in general.
CELS, therefore, broadened and intensified its international work based on this vision of its place in the country and in the world.
This also meant that the organisation had to assume institutionally the need to work with strategic alliances to restore legitimacy to international protection mechanisms and make them more efficient according to our understanding of this new phase. The processes to reform and strengthen these mechanisms both at the Inter-American level and within the UN involved a wide variety of actors and interests at stake. Here, criticisms of these bodies' performance were mixed with proposals that questioned their scope and jurisdiction. Meanwhile, the number of new political decision-making institutional spaces with potential impacts on human rights multiplied, especially on the sub-regional level – for example, within MERCOSUR and UNASUR processes. At the same time, non-specialized political forums proved to be increasingly open to human rights rhetoric. In sum, these factors brought to light the lack of strategic complementarity between the work being done in the different forums and instruments created with a human rights mandate on the regional and international level.
The importance of CELS' international work as a national organisation also demands that we reflect further on the nature of the link between local issues and those that we share with allies from other countries. In some cases, we are dealing with transnational phenomena or local manifestations of global issues for which analyses and proposals on this level are needed – such as, for example, migration issues. In other cases, we find regularities or coincidences for which we are not always able to identify the causal ramifications that link them to convergence processes; even so, they indeed call on us to share our experience in addressing similar problems – as is the case of the abusive practices of security forces. It is critical that we refine these analyses in order to elaborate effective strategies that enable us to obtain concrete results on the local level with our allies from other countries.
We describe below some aspects and examples of actions that are illustrative of the wider process that is transforming CELS' international work.
In regards to the international agenda, CELS strives to coordinate its local work – while respecting the activist preferences of its staff in Argentina at the time – with the regional or international vision the organization builds with peers from other countries while taking into account the issues in their respective national contexts. Regulatory developments and the way protection systems' mechanisms work are also taken into consideration. Working in horizontal coalitions is indispensable in the multipolar context, as the geopolitical changes we referred to in the previous section force us to revisit how we coordinate within the GHRM and how to strengthen the voices of local organisations from the South in the international arena.
A key step in this direction was the decision CELS, Conectas Direitos Humanos from Brazil, and Corporación Humanas from Chile made in 2010 to establish a representative/team in Geneva in order to participate directly in debates on human rights in the United Nations (UN)6. Prior to 2010, this participation had always been mediated by international human rights organisations. As a compliment to this, CELS also decided to participate in a network of organisations called HRCNet. This network is composed of international and national organisations from various regions that coordinate their efforts to monitor and intervene in the activities of the UN Human Rights Council.
Another important step was the creation of the International Network of Civil Liberties Organisations (INCLO), established officially in 2012 after years of meetings and efforts to coordinate among its members. The INCLO is a pioneering initiative, as it brings together ten national-level human rights organisations from Europe, South and North America, Africa and the Middle East to take on coordinated international work. As organisations with a long history of work in their respective countries, each one of them has a record of sustained work and strong local alliances.
In terms of substance, one example of an impact on the agenda that goes beyond the traditional institutional world of human rights is the contributions we made, mainly from 2013 on, together with Conectas, to the process of revising the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners.7 This process was conducted by the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. The participation of national organisations with experience in implementing these rules on the local level brought to light issues that were not being contemplated in the revision of these standards, yet are of extreme importance for prison and criminal justice systems in Argentina, Brazil and throughout the region. Among other aspects, issues like prison overcrowding and body-cavity searches were raised, which demonstrates the importance of using practical experience in implementing these regulations to influence the discussion process.
CELS is part of several other processes at the regional and sub-regional level, such as efforts to coordinate among various organisations on issues like transitional justice and human rights at the borders. Working with allies is fundamental for monitoring and intervening in institutional strengthening processes – both the ones we are following up on and the ones we contributed to during recent processes undertaken to strengthen the IACHR at the Inter-American level and the UN treaty bodies.
In the end, the nature of the relation, the modes of dialogue and the construction of alliances with other local actors – victims, social movements, political operators of the State –guide the coordinated deployment of local and international strategies. Experience with and knowledge of specific tools, like strategic litigation and international actions, constitute one of our organisation's main contributions to building strategic alliances with other actors.
Sustained work at the local level also demands – and builds – greater capacity to engage State agencies in dialogue. It also allows us to grasp the nuances of different situations and to avoid generalisations that do not lead to real changes, nor are able to address certain circumstances.
Our experience in this position concretises our effort to work on several levels at the same time, negotiating between local, regional and global systems with the goal of applying discourses from the international law arena to concrete cases of rights violations, on one hand, and, on the other, framing local demands in terms of global human rights principles and practices. Some authors have referred to these processes as "vernacularisation" (MERRY, 2006).
CELS has been actively employed a wide range of strategies in local, regional and international human rights bodies since its creation in 1979. Different kinds of global changes have had repercussions on and called into question the legitimacy and the effectiveness of international bodies for the protection of human rights. Some of these processes have also brought about changes in the local movement. CELS took note of these changes and strengthened both its strategic alliances in the country and its international work. The expansion of the organisation's international work, in this sense, also has to do with the process that is needed to restore the legitimacy of these international spaces from a national perspective from the Global South.
The GHRM has shown that it has the power to resist and to bring change to the world. Actors engaged in the movement must help it to increase its impacts. To do so, they must reflect on the roles and strategies that best suit the movement's different components – national and international organisations, mechanisms of the system, States –to sustain the networks that are the most effective in extending the possibility of exercising rights to all people.
1. As the United National Development Programme's most recent Human Development Report pointed out, "for the first time in 150 years, the combined output of the developing world's three leading economies—Brazil, China and India—is about equal to the combined GDP [Gross Domestic Product] of the long-standing industrial powers of the North," and although "some of the largest countries have made rapid advances (…) there also has been substantial progress in smaller economies" (PROGRAMA DE LAS NACIONES UNIDAS PARA EL DESARROLLO, 2013. pp. 1 – 2).
2. The revolution in telecommunications technology has affected the GHRM in terms of both the means used for research and coordination, and the issues arising from the use of this technology – for example, the recent controversy sparked by revelations on the use of surveillance and espionage at the global level.
3. See Kletzel, G.; Timo, P. & Cárdenas, E. (2014) Sistema Interamericano, el principio de subsidiariedad revisitado en el escenario actual de la región. Capítulo del Informe Anual 2014 del Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS). Argentina: Editorial Siglo Veintiuno. [printed].
4. One can affirm that other actors share a similar interpretation of this overview, which brought, for example, changes to the international funding scene. In pragmatic terms, this element allowed CELS to expand its work on the international level.
5. See Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales – CELS (2008) La lucha por el derecho, 1a ed., Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI. Editores Argentina.
6. In 2012, CELS obtained the consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.
8. Thanks to the alliance between CELS, MNCI and CLOC-Vía Campesina, a thematic hearing was held at the IACHR's 149th regular session, which was the first time the issue of the economic, social and cultural rights of peasant farming communities in the Latin American and Caribbean region was addressed. Another example is the success of efforts to coordinate among 14 organisations in the region – including CELS and organisations of individuals with mental health problems and their family members – to have a thematic hearing at the IACHR on the legal capacity and access to justice of people with disabilities, especially psychosocial ones. The hearing was held during the IACHR's 150th session. Users of the mental health system participated in the event and presented the issue for the first time before this regional mechanism.
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POSNER, Michael. 1997. Human Rights and Non-Governmental Organizations on the Eve of the Next Century. Fordham Law Review, v. 66, n. 2.
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Executive director of the Centre for Legal and Social Studies (CELS, Argentina) since 2006. A law graduate of the University of Buenos Aires, Gastón has a Master of International Law and Human Rights Law degree from the University of Notre Dame Law School in the United States.
Member of the international team of the Centre for Legal and Social Studies (CELS, Argentina). Pétalla graduated in international affairs from the University of Brasília, Brazil, and holds a Master of International Law degree from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.


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