BACKHOUSE, CHARLES. Private. No 2547. 1/5th Battalion Duke of Wellington's Regiment. Born Thurstonland. Son of James and Sarah Backhouse of Brockholes. (later of Leeds). Attended Brockholes Wesleyan Church and was secretary of the Wesley Guild. Embarked for France in April, 1915. Was badly wounded by shrapnel on the morning of 1.7.1915. Was on his way to his dugout to prepare a meal when a shell burst near him and he was struck on the head. Was taken to a dressing station where he died a week later, on 11.7.15. Age 26 years. Buried in FERME-OLIVER CEMETERY, ELVERDINGHE, BELGIUM. Grave location:- Plot 1, Row J, Grave 8.
ROH:- Thurstonland War Memorial; Brockholes War Memorial; Huddersfield Drill Hall.
It is with very great regret that I have to break the news to you that your brother Charles has died from his wounds received the other day. I wish to offer you my deepest sympathy in your great loss. I may say I feel it as keenly as anyone possibly can seeing that he has been my orderly for nine months and in close contact with me all the time. I am the one who knew his worth more than anyone else. He was the most faithful, clean, good natured boy in the whole battalion. He never ceased to look after me and I trusted him with all my private affairs and money so you can tell how I appreciated him. All the Company feel his loss very much indeed and they all have a good word for him. He was wounded just outside my dugout whilst doing his duty. He was a brave lad and shells did not frighten him and it was a most unfortunate thing that he was wounded by a shell. I am so far away from the hospital that I shall not be able to attend his funeral. I should have liked to have done so for my own feelings and also yours. Let this be an example to the Holmfirth young men and those who have not joined yet. I trust that the death of a noble young man like your brother are the means of the slacker coming forward to avenge his death. He was a lad to be proud of and I cannot praise him too highly. May you seek comfort in the fact that came forward to do his duty in this great war and that duty he did nobly and well and may God comfort you in your trouble is all that I his Officer whom he served so well can say.


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3G cell phones could tap Web-deployed images
Predictions see 60 million in U.S. by 2005Radiologists may soon be able to use their cell phones to send e-mails and messages, send and view sample radiology images, and gain access to their institution's electronic medical
Predictions see 60 million in U.S. by 2005
Radiologists may soon be able to use their cell phones to send e-mails and messages, send and view sample radiology images, and gain access to their institution's electronic medical records. The enabling technology is third-generation (3G) wireless technology.
Japan's NTT DoCoMo established the world's first 3G network in 2000. Sprint PCS set up the first nationwide 3G network in the U.S. in August 2002. Some 60 million such phones will be in use in the U.S. by 2005, according to Dr. T.J. Lewis of Consulting Radiologists, a subspecialty radiology practice that provides services in the Toledo, OH, area.
"Three-G offers another venue for radiology content distribution for education, administration, and patient communication," said Lewis and colleagues in an infoRAD exhibit at the 2003 RSNA meeting.
Three-G technology supports data transfer speeds up to 2 Mbps for stationary digital cellular phones. The data rate drops to 144 kbps when users are on the move. The technology enables the transfer of multimedia information among cell phones. This capability is being incorporated into Internet-enabled cell phones and "smart phones," as well as portable computers.
Internet-enabled phones resemble regular phones and sport typical 160 x 160-pixel resolution with 1.6 MB of RAM. So-called smart phones are PDA/cell phone hybrids that offer 240 x 320-pixel resolution and up to 64 MB of RAM. These phones are larger and tend to have a shorter battery life.
Most 3G phones support WAP 2.0 protocol, which allows them to use HTTP transfer protocol and view HTML pages and inline BMP, JPEG, and GIF images formatted for small screens.
As a first step toward getting radiologists acquainted with the use of this technology, Lewis and colleagues have established a Web site that supports Internet-enabled 3G cell phones, future smart phones, and computers (www.angelfire.com/mi4/kalrad/rad3g.html). The site contains abstracts, links, a case of the month, and other information.

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Place of birth Ross, New Zealand
School State School
Occupation Tool sharpener
Address c/- Mrs A Cunningham, 47 Leviathan Street, Boulder, Western Australia
Next of kin Mother, Mrs Alice Cunningham, 47 Leviathan Street, Boulder, Western Australia
Enlistment date 4 March 1915
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll 1 March 1915
Place of enlistment Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Unit name 28th Battalion, B Company
Embarkation details Unit embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia, on board HMAT A11 Ascanius on 29 June 1915
Embarkation details Unit embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia, on board HMAT A36 Thirty Six on 12 July 1916
Rank from Nominal Roll Private
Unit from Nominal Roll 28th Battalion
Fate Killed in Action 03-6 November 1916
Place of death or wounding France
Age at death 34
Age at death from cemetery records 34
Commemoration details Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, France
Villers-Bretonneux is a village about 15 km east of Amiens. The Memorial stands on the high ground ('Hill 104') behind the Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, Fouilloy, which is about 2 km north of Villers-Bretonneux on the east side of the road to Fouilloy.
The Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux is approached through the Military Cemetery, at the end of which is an open grass lawn which leads into a three-sided court. The two pavilions on the left and right are linked by the north and south walls to the back (east) wall, from which rises the focal point of the Memorial, a 105 foot tall tower, of fine ashlar. A staircase leads to an observation platform, 64 feet above the ground, from which further staircases lead to an observation room. This room contains a circular stone tablet with bronze pointers indicating the Somme villages whose names have become synonymous with battles of the Great War; other battle fields in France and Belgium in which Australians fought; and far beyond, Gallipoli and Canberra.
On the three walls, which are faced with Portland stone, are the names of 10,885 Australians who were killed in France and who have no known grave. The 'blocking course' above them bears the names of the Australian Battle Honours.
After the war an appeal in Australia raised £22,700, of which £12,500 came from Victorian school children, with the request that the majority of the funds be used to build a new school in Villers-Bretonneux. The boys' school opened in May 1927, and contains an inscription stating that the school was the gift of Victorian schoolchildren, twelve hundred of whose fathers are buried in the Villers-Bretonneux cemetery, with the names of many more recorded on the Memorial. Villers-Bretonneux is now twinned with Robinvale, Victoria, which has in its main square a memorial to the links between the two towns.
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cemetery records Parents: Andrew and Alice CUNNINGHAM, 47 Vivian Street, Boulder City, Western Australia
War service: Western Front
Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal


9 October 2018 – iCar Asia Limited ('iCar Asia', the 'Group' or the 'Company'), owner of ASEAN's number 1 network of automotive portals, has published its Appendix 4C for the third quarter of 2018.
The Group recorded A$3.0 million in unaudited revenue for the third quarter, an increase of 51% compared to the same period last year. This was achieved on the back of continued strong growth in core businesses in Used and New Car. For New Car, retimed events and media campaigns were successfully executed in Q3.
In September, our Malaysia operation became EBITDA and cashflow positive. This is expected to continue on a quarterly basis and is four months earlier than iCar Asia's original guidance. Thailand remains on track to reach EBITDA and cashflow breakeven by the end of 2018 and together these markets will be the key drivers of pushing the Group to breakeven, which is still on track for December 2019.
Cash receipts for Q3 delivered growth of 46% over Q3 last year to A$3.2 million and net cash used in operating activities reduced to A$2.8 million, down from A$3.4 million compared to the previous quarter. This represents a third consecutive cash collection of over A$3 million.
The Company closed Q3 with access to up to A$28.6m in funds, comprised of A$12.2m in cash and cash equivalents, and up to A$16.4m from a committed debt facility and from the potential exercise of options on issue, due to expire in June 2019.
decrease of 6% in total account numbers year on year. Despite this reduction in accounts, listings grew year on year by 1%. We expect the number of accounts to return to the growth path during Q4 2018.
listings and this has resulted in an increase in buyer leads of 23% year on year, despite a reduction in total listing volumes as a result of this policy. The win-back of active accounts after the pricing increases in May 2018 continues.
In Thailand in Q3 we saw continued growth in both dealer accounts which increased by 22% year on year and in listings which increased by 8%. This growth was achieved despite a marginal decrease in audience of 2% year on year as we continue to optimise our digital marketing partners in Thailand with a focus on improving traffic quality.
audience grew by 17% compared to Q3 last year and was 3.3 million in September, and leads increased by 13%. With this progress in operational metrics, the next steps in monetising used cars listings was introduced in September with a Subscription Product based on the volume of listings to be placed on the site. Sales ofsubscriptions have performed well in September and we expect to see continued take-up of this product in Q4.


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Finding a good tradesman to help.
Good tradesmen must be like buses: You wait around for one to turn up and suddenly, they all appear at the same time. At least, that's been my experience.
I've been advertising a job vacancy for a long time on the Buildingrooms website for several trades to help me with building and renovation work in Belfast. Recently, I had the good fortune to meet up with a great tiler, a very talented painter and decorator, two really clean an efficient plasterers: all at around the same time!! Where have these guys been hiding ? Obviously very busy until now.
The credit crunch in Belfast, like most other cities around the UK, has seen a downturn in demand for skilled tradesmen. The result is talented people in the building sector looking at alternatives to how they used to work in their chosen trade.
There's plenty of tradesmen available now to choose from. Be careful though, its a case of the good, the bad and the desperate at the moment, so select carefully. More on this later.
Meanwhile, I may have stumbled accross potentially the best tiler, painter and plasterers I've seen in a long time. The best news is they want to help buildingrooms with some quality building work.
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Home Shop Classes Drop-In Fused Glass Easter Eggs– for Adults & Kids, with Gayla Lee!
Drop-In Fused Glass Easter Eggs– for Adults & Kids, with Gayla Lee!
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Miramichi Flash Showcase: November 2022
A double issue! Eight delicious #FlashFiction – "My People Came Down From the Mountains by Vicki McLeod, "The Scent of Lemons" by Sandra Arnold, "Tying The Boats" by Amanda O'Callaghan, "Nowhere Station" by Tom Hazuka, "The Matador" by Lorette C. Luzajic, "Grandma's Three Heads" by Traci Mullins, "Beneath A Vacant Sky" by Sara Dobbie, and "Slugs In Designer Colours" by Doni Eve. Enjoy!
(And gorgeous original artwork by Melissa McKinnon-Artist, Lorette C. Luzajic, and Eva Lewarne)
"MY PEOPLE CAME DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAINS" BY VICKI MCLEOD
My people came down from the mountains, brittle ghosts armed with blades and hacksaws. They were big eared, small-footed and had red-knuckled hands. They carried no expectations. The men were tough and canny, ready with violence, religiously upright, but secret drunks. The women bore the men, bruised and joking.
"THE SCENT OF LEMONS" BY SANDRA ARNOLD
He said he was sure the house they'd stayed in had been halfway between a rock at the end of the beach and the Māori pa site. He remembered paddocks opposite where the owners kept their horse. And a garden full of lemon bushes and a path that led down to the beach. The librarian brought out maps and summoned a couple of locals to help. Perhaps the house had been demolished? Perhaps there'd been floods? Erosion? Perhaps he was mistaken about the area? Twenty-three years was a long time.
"TYING THE BOATS" BY AMANDA O'CALLAGHAN
A week after she married him, she cut her hair. The scissors made a hungry sound working their way through the curls.
You cut your hair, he said, when he came home. Nothing more.
She thought he might have said, You cut off your beautiful hair, but his mouth could not make the shape of beautiful, even then.
"NOWHERE STATION" BY TOM HAZUKA
I was alone in a second-class car on a train out of Madrid, bound for Barcelona. Yesterday I'd spent twenty minutes standing in front of Picasso's Guernica, which was black and white like old war photographs and far larger than I expected. I was twenty years old. No painting could make me cry back then, at least on the outside.
"THE MATADOR" BY LORETTE C. LUZAJIC
The first time I saw Freddie Mercury in our elevator, he caught my eye and flashed me a grin.
"I've seen you at the Wine Vine," I said.
Everyone in the neighbourhood called him Freddie, because he was a dead ringer. Small and fierce, with big teeth and a clipped moustache. He even dressed the part, rocking skin-tight white jeans, a wife beater, and sneakers as small as slippers.
"GRANDMA'S THREE HEADS" BY TRACI MULLINS
On top of my grandma's dresser were three heads. Even though they had no eyes, I was sure they were watching me as I played with Grandma's jewelry and sneaked peeks into her drawers. I named them Flora, Fiona, and Frances and made up elaborate stories about their elegant, glittering lives.
"BENEATH A VACANT SKY" BY SARA DOBBIE
The morning after the moon explodes, Marla wonders if she imagined the whole thing. She rushes down the stairs, two at a time, hoping the chaotic images flooding her brain are memories leftover from some surreal nightmare. But no, her mother is pacing in front of the television, cigarette dangling from her lips. Phone cradled between ear and shoulder, shouting at Auntie Tia. The man on the news summarizes the event in a monotone voice, while a shaky recording of the blast plays on repeat.
"SLUGS IN DESIGNER COLOURS" BY DK EVE
The rain has let up and she's walking her dog in the neighbourhood park. Broadleaf maples tower above the trail forming a canopy, leaves gleaming bright green, scrubbed of dust. Streams of golden pollen pool at the trail's edge.
The air smells washed, new. There's a word for it, she thinks.
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Winter in June by Lorette C. Luzajic
James M. Fisher
James M. Fisher is the owner and editor-in-chief of The Miramichi Reader. He began The Miramichi Reader (TMR) in 2015, realizing that there was a real need for more book reviews of Canadian literature. It has since become Canada's best-regarded source for the finest in new literary releases. James has been interviewed about TMR on CBC Radio as well as other media sites. James works as a Medical Radiation Technologist and resides in Miramichi, New Brunswick with his wife Diane and their tabby cat Eddie.
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Forced Displacements
Interview with Catherine Gousseff — Directrice de recherche — CNRS (CERCEC)
In 2013, as Catherine Gousseff was about to publish a book on polish-ukrainian populations exchange after World War II, civil war broke out in Ukraine, leaving thousands of men and women hitting the roads and awakening recollections of tragic mass human movements. Using declassified data sources after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the historian focuses on forced displacement of populations (exiles, banishments, deportations) within the Soviet territory, revealing a large-scale phenomenon unequalled during the twentieth century. While administrative archives produced by the Soviet State enable a statistical approach of the phenomenon, the lack of testimonies and Egodocuments renders the historian's work laborious, and still prevents the historian from shedding light on the sensitive and personal experience of the displacement.
Catherine Gousseff's researches echo Marc Bloch's watchword: studying history makes the present more understandable. Here, she connects today's european migrant crisis with the forced population displacement in post-World war II Poland and Ukraine.
Interview published on 01-04-2018
Last modified on 04-11-2018
Original language: English Lire la version French
Bibliography of Catherine Gousseff
Échanger les peuples, le déplacement des minorités aux confins polono-soviétiques (1944-1947), Paris, Fayard, 2015.
"L'URSS et la Russie contemporaine face à l'humanitaire" (with Amandine Regamey), Connexe, n° 1, 2015.
(with Katja Hrobat, Gustovo Corni), At Home but Foreigners. Population transfers in 20th Century Istria, Koper, Univerzitetna zalozba Annales, 2015.
"Rapatriation versus Evacuation: the Polish-ukrainian Exchange of Population, 1944-1946", in J. Reinisch, E. White (ed.), The Disentanglement of populations: Migration, Expulsion and Displacement in Post-War Europe, 1944-1949, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, p. 91-111.
L'Exil russe (1920-1939). La fabrique du réfugié apatride, Paris, CNRS-Éditions, 2008.
(with Olga Pichon-Bobrinskoy), L'Invention d'une politique humanitaire: le Zemgor et les réfugiés russes (1921-1930), Cahiers du monde russe, vol. 46, n° 4, 2005.
(with Sabine Dullin), "Les pratiques administratives en URSS", Cahiers du Monde Russe, vol. 44, n° 2-3, 2003.
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Maz O'Connor spent her teenage years singing in folk clubs, and in 2014 was the recipient of a BBC Performing Arts Fund Fellowship (Adele was a previous recipient) which paired her as an emerging artist in residence with The English Folk Dance and Song Society. During this year she wrote, recorded and released her album 'This Willowed Light', which earned her a nomination for the BBC Radio 2 Folk Horizon Award and appearances at high profile festivals such as Glastonbury, Cambridge Folk Festival and WOMAD. Maz began to explore her own songwriting further, addressing themes of millennial angst in her second album 'The Longing Kind'. She toured the U.K. and Europe, including opening for such artists as David Gray, Thomas Dybdahl and Rosanne Cash.
Her background in folk continues to inform her storytelling and feminist themes are a constant in her work: from the song 'Derby Day', which she was commissioned to write about Emily Wilding Davison and the feminist re-telling of the creation myth 'Mississippi Woman' (both on her first album 'This Willowed Light'), to the songs giving voice to women in portraits who have been silenced as muses (on her second album 'The Longing Kind').
She considers new album 'Chosen Daughter' - a collection of darker, story songs - a bigger, more concentrated feminist statement. It is not protest music, but a very personal album which explores, and celebrates, the feminine.
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Lingerie on 6; Lobster on 9
By DICK SCANLAN DEC. 29, 2011
Annie Mallin, far left, and her mother, Chris Mallin, both of Connecticut, at BG Restaurant, which overlooks Fifth Avenue and Central Park from the seventh floor of Bergdorf Goodman. Credit Librado Romero/The New York Times
MAYBE it was that scene between Kris Kringle and Alfred, the people-pleasing porter, in "Miracle on 34th Street": lunch at a cafeteria in Macy's.
Before I saw that movie on television in the late 1960s, my notion of in-store dining had been the food court at the mall near my family's home in Rockville, Md. By the time I moved to New York, in 1981, the city was experiencing an economic slump that was palpable in its stores and their restaurants. The celebrated Charleston Garden, with a full-size facade of a Tara-like mansion built inside the B. Altman building, was still open, but it felt like Tara after Sherman's army had marched through, leaving Scarlett nothing but a radish. Even Bergdorf Goodman offered little more than a coffee shop menu.
Diners at Macy's Cellar Bar & Grill, where Macy's memorabilia are displayed. Credit Librado Romero/The New York Times
That was then. These days department store restaurants are once again good enough for destination dining, doubly so now that the January sales are coming up.
Friends are dubious when I suggest a favorite, Saks Fifth Avenue's Cafe SFA, on the eighth floor. To get there, we must fight our way past the "Sex and the City" enthusiasts tussling over Jimmy Choos in the 10022-Shoe department. When there is a sale, I feel lucky to arrive at Cafe SFA without ripped clothing and a flesh wound.
The view alone is worth it: Rockefeller Center Promenade and rooftop gardens on one side, and along the other wall of windows, the neo-Gothic spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral across East 50th Street. The BLT frittata ($19) is a delicious tomato-bacon-cheddar omelet topped with romaine. The restaurant's carrot cake ($9.50) is that-day fresh and topped with just-enough-but-not-too-much cream cheese frosting.
From left, the B. Altman department store, once home to the Charleston Garden, in 1943.
A half-flight up from the department that sells coffee makers, Le Train Bleu at Bloomingdale's appears to be suspended between the sixth and seventh floors. It has an elegant dining room, outfitted like a railway car and widened to accommodate those Big Brown Bags. I feel as if I've boarded one of the luxury trains on my bucket list, if not in my budget: the Orient-Express. Or perhaps Hogwarts Express. (The food could use a wave of Harry Potter's wand.) Truffled watercress soup ($9) isn't as bitter as you might wish. (What or whom else can you say that about?)
But the "where am I?" vibe is magical. As was Andrew, my waiter on my most recent visit. The service at most of these restaurants is well above the norm. It seems the age-old department store strategy of cultivating customer loyalty through customer service has been inculcated in the servers.
For dessert, I follow signs through the Calvin Klein bedding collection in search of the more casual Forty Carrots, on seven. Its claim to fame is having introduced New Yorkers to frozen yogurt ($5.50 for eight ounces). More than 35 years later, the original plain flavor remains tart enough for me to delude myself that what I am eating is heart-healthier than ice cream. Family-friendly and hip, this large white room is accented in orange and green and offers sandwiches, salads and brunch.
Sarabeth's at Lord & Taylor on Fifth Avenue. Credit Librado Romero/The New York Times
At Macy's Cellar Bar & Grill, I stick to basic fare like the American burger ($13.50). Display cases feature Macy's memorabilia, including porcelain dinnerware from 1911, an early electric blender, old golf balls and a ruffly black jacket dating to the 1860s that looks like something a Civil War widow might have worn to her husband's wake in hopes of attracting his replacement. The windows look out onto the sales floor, sure to be an anthropological study during the post-Christmas blitz.
That can't be said for Fred's at Barneys New York, on nine. This woody room with its whimsical bird murals is undeniably handsome, and the lobster club sandwich ($36) is loaded with lobster meat. But the restaurant is cocooned from the rest of the store, and I miss the almost musical sound ofshoppers sliding hangers along metal racks.
Bergdorf Goodman houses the two best department store restaurants in town. BG Restaurant is a seventh-floor stunner: robin's-egg blue whisper chairs and chinoiserie wallpaper. The vista of Fifth Avenue and Central Park leaves me awestruck. Meals are served, but I opt for afternoon tea ($35). The sun is shining as I start on the finger sandwiches (smoked salmon, egg salad, turkey and dill). By the time I've finished a perfect scone with Devonshire cream and four petits fours, it is dusk, and Manhattan is ablaze.
The lobster club sandwich at Fred's at Barneys New York. Credit Barneys New York
But BG Restaurant is merely runner-up. The winner is Goodman's, in the basement, or what Bergdorf's calls the "Beauty Level," presumably because the cosmetics counters are there, but also because, let's face it, "basement" sounds crass. (I've taken to calling the subterranean laundry room in my building the beauty level, and it's made doing laundry much more enjoyable.)
Goodman's is sleek but not cold, with taupe walls and banquettes upholstered in a sage green weave. The sweet pea soup ($8.50) convinces me that peas are like atoms: best left unsplit. The Gotham salad ($20), a chopped mélange of chicken breast, Gruyère, tomato, beets, bacon, egg and iceberg lettuce tossed in Thousand Island dressing, is retro and tastes really good. The sliced chicken breast sandwich ($17) is served on pumpernickel that is impossibly thin, like Goodman's typical customer.
I am presented a menu of irresistible-sounding desserts, though judging from the startled look on the waiter's face when I order banana bread pudding ($7), resist is probably what most Goodman's patrons do. Apparently here, beneath this temple of haute couture, where Size 2 women outnumber the men 10-to-1, dessert is a dirty word. It's also mouth-wateringly delicious: the bread moist but not wet, the bananas ripe but not rotten, and a crème anglaise made intense by vanilla bean.
Helpful hint: if there's a line at Goodman's, cross the street to Bar III at the Bergdorf Goodman Men's store. Different décor — dark wood and white marble — but the same food as its sister restaurant, and there's never a wait.
Now if only Lord & Taylor would reopen the Bird Cage, a bygone favorite of the ladies who lunch. There is a Sarabeth's in its stead that is fine but, in this setting, feels unoriginal. Bring back the rolling carts of desserts modeled on Italian racing cars and, as God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
Dick Scanlan is a Broadway librettist and lyricist who wrote "Everyday Rapture" and the Tony Award-winning "Thoroughly Modern Millie."
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Statement of Research Interests
Posted bygiridharbr October 3, 2017 October 16, 2017 Posted inresearch
In Asia, there is an imperative need to implement the practice of evidence-based public health policy, planning, and spending. My earlier and ongoing research provides the appropriate evidence, which can guide the formulation of policy to bring in positive change that we can see in our lifetime. I am focused shaping my career towards independence and in building a long-term career in academic public health. Therefore, my future research plan is dedicated to exploring the impact of tackling determinants in the maternal and psychosocial environment and thereby promote positive health in populations through appropriate interventions.
The focus of my research is through the realization of the following objectives.
Generating evidence regarding maternal and psychosocial environment of NCDs
Explore the appropriate interventions through pilot projects
Ensuring evidence-based public health policy planning and implementation
Objectives (a) and (b) help in identification and prioritization of maternal determinants of childhood obesity (and subsequent risk of diabetes and hypertension) in Asia. The evidence available in the next three years will aid in the generation of rigorous, feasible and contextually specific population-based pilot interventions. The objective (c) will be achieved through the implementation of pilot interventions based on objectives (a) & (b). The three objectives together will contribute to logical and empirically grounded choices of public health interventions.
In the next few years, I want to pilot the interventions based on the results of the research on the role of the maternal and psychosocial environment of NCDs in different populations. The overall results from testing the interventions will result in the implementation of evidence-based public health. In the next 5 years, I wish to inculcate the evidence into policy formulations at the national and international level to influence policymakers to bring positive changes with respect to NCD prevention and control. Due to demographic transition and lifestyle changes, the aging Asian populations continually are affected by NCDs. My engagement of research and advocacy in NCDs will aid in improving the health of an aging population and improve productivity. I am uniquely positioned to study the effects from an intergenerational perspective and earnestly believe that the positive changes will see the transformation of societies in the next two decades. Therefore, my long-term goal is to ensure healthy populations are sustained through integrated technical and advocacy efforts. My track record of working in public health over 17 years has provided a clear resolve for the achieving the objectives listed above.
Ongoing Research Projects [PHFI, Bengaluru campus]
Full meal supplementation: Evaluation of Effect in Pregnant and Lactating women (FEEL): Funded by Department of Women and Child, Government of Karnataka
Ambient and Indoor Air Pollution in Pregnancy on the risk of Low birth weight and Ensuing Effects in Infants (APPLE); A cohort study in South India. Funded by Department of Science & Technology, Government of India
*Under Development*
Details of Earlier Research
[2009-2012, University of California Los Angeles]
Summary: Hypertension is a major contributor to the worldwide epidemic of cardiovascular disease (CVD).[1,2] It is estimated that hypertension causes 7.5 million deaths worldwide amounting to 12.8% of the total of all annual deaths.[3] Many risk factors leading to hypertension are modifiable and therefore provide an opportunity for preventive efforts.[4] There is an imperative need for population-based research to understand the modifiable factors such as job stress in leading to Hypertension.[4] I chose workplace settings for the research as they provide opportunities to explore determinants of these negative behaviors and are amenable to interventions.[1]
I led a moderately large study (N = 1071) in the software professionals in Bangalore, India employed at 27 different IT companies. The focus of our study was to study the association of Job stress and Hypertension as well as understanding the on the age gradient of hypertension prevalence. The research established higher prevalence of hypertension in the younger age cohort, affecting 31% professionals with 5% having malignant levels of hypertension. It was known earlier that south Asians are predisposed to be hypertensive a decade earlier compared the developed countries.[6] Our research suggested that hypertension in IT/ITES professionals occurs a decade earlier compared to the rest of India and two decades earlier compared to developed countries.[7] This suggests that if untreated, these professionals would go on to develop cardiovascular diseases (CVD) at an early age. The results also indicated that 46% of professionals were in pre-hypertension. In addition, I found that the dimensions of workplace autonomy and workplace environment are associated with hypertension.
The earlier understanding was that the association between job strain and coronary heart disease (CHD) is weak, with job strain slightly increasing the risk of coronary diseases by 3.4% in the general population.[9] Our meta-analysis showed statistically significant associations with 30% higher risk of hypertension for those with job strain. This proves that job strain might be affecting the CHDs through hypertension. The paper on the meta-analysis of job stress and hypertension, therefore, is a significant contribution to the body of literature and would influence future research delineating the effects of stress on CHDs. As a testimony to the impact of the paper, the original paper by us was republished by the BMJ group in their postgraduate medical journal.
It is important that individuals with higher stress have to change their lifestyle to prevent a progressive rise in BP using the recommended lifestyle modifications. [8] As a result of the findings from the study, the software companies have approached us and have requested to engage with them for improving health outcomes. I am in discussion with a major IT company to finalize the details of engagement towards improving the health of the employees.
I have published extensively on this work. The Publications from this project are as follows.
Babu, Giridhara R., et al. "Republished: Is hypertension associated with job strain? A meta-analysis of observational studies." Postgraduate Medical Journal 90.1065 (2014): 402-409.
Giridhara R Babu, T. Mahapatra, and R. Detels. "Job stress and hypertension in younger software professionals in India." Indian Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 17.3 (2013): 101.
Babu GR, Jotheeswaran A, Mahapatra T, Mahapatra S, Kumar A SR, Detels R, Pearce N. Is hypertension associated with job strain? A meta-analysis of observational studies. Occup Environ Med. 2014 Mar; 71(3):220-7. doi: 10.1136/oemed-2013-101396. Epub 2013 Sep 24.
Babu GR, Mahapatra T, Mahapatra S, Detels R. Sexual behavior and job stress in software professionals, Bengaluru – India. Indian J Occup Environ Med. 2013 May; 17(2):58-65. doi: 10.4103/0019-5278.123165.
Babu GR, Mahapatra T, Detels R. Application of mixed methods for exploration of the association of job stress and hypertension among software professionals in Bengaluru, India. Indian J Occup Environ Med. 2013 May; 17(2):41-7. doi: 10.4103/0019-5278.123160.
Babu GR. Prevalence of Job Stress, General Health Profile, and Hypertension Among Professionals in the Information Technology Sector in Bengaluru, India. Los Angeles: University of California, Los Angeles; 2012.
Babu GR, Detels R. Prioritizing Social Actions And Involving Community For Prevention Of The Non-Communicable Diseases. The Internet Journal of Epidemiology. 2011;9(2).
Giridhara R Babu, Sathyanarayana T N, Snehendu B Kar, Roger Detels. Perceived occupational stressors and the health of Software Professionals in Bengaluru, India. The Qualitative Report.
Subsequent to the study in software professionals, we have now conducted the study in schoolteachers and employees of the health department. These studies are helping us to collate evidence on the worksite-based burden of NCDs and are helpful in designing the appropriate interventions. A series of papers are pending for publications on the burden of the diseases in different workgroups.
Parimala, Giridhara R Babu, The Burden of Diabetes And Hypertension in the staff working in Directorate Of Health And Family Welfare Services, Bengaluru, Karnataka. [In press]
Manjula, Sarin S, Giridhara R Babu. Prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus in School teachers of Bengaluru. [In press]
Sudha BK, Sarin S, Giridhara R Babu Prevalence of Hypertension in School teachers of Bengaluru. [In press]
References for Details of Earlier Research:
Giridhara R Babu, Mahapatra, and R. Detels. "Job stress and hypertension in younger software professionals in India." Indian Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 17.3 (2013): 101.
Kearney PM, Whelton M, Reynolds K, Muntner P, Whelton PK, He J. Global burden of hypertension: Analysis of worldwide data. Lancet. 2005;365:217–23.
World Health Organization. Global Health Risks: mortality and Burden of Disease Attributable to Selected Major Risks. Geneva: World Health Organization, 2010; 2009.
Srinath RK. Protecting the heart of global development. Heart Beat, The World Heart Federation Newsletter. 2005. Jun, [Last accessed on 2014 Jan 10].
Yusuf S, Reddy S, Ounpuu S, Anand S. Global burden of cardiovascular diseases: Part II: Variations in cardiovascular disease by specific ethnic groups and geographic regions and prevention strategies. Circulation. 2001;104:2855–64.
Murray CJ, Lopez AD. Global mortality, disability, and the contribution of risk factors: Global Burden of Disease Study. Lancet. 1997;349:1436–42.
Reddy KS. India wakes up to the threat of cardiovascular diseases. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2007;50:1370–2.
Chobanian AV, Bakris GL, Black HR, Cushman WC, Green LA, Izzo JL, Jr, et al. Seventh report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure. Hypertension. 2003;42:1206–52.
Kivimäkii M, Nyberg ST, Batty GD, et al. Job strain as a risk factor for coronary heart disease: a collaborative meta-analysis of individual participant data. Lancet 2012;380:1491–7.
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Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) contract is the newest award at USDA earned by DRT, continuing an eleven-year successful expansion of IT work and strengthening business relationships with agency decision makers and key stakeholders.
Arlington, VA – September 10, 2018 – DRT Strategies, Inc. (DRT) (http://www.drtstrategies.com), a leading management and technology firm, announced today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded the company a new task order contract with the USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) for Information Technology Support Services (ITSS). This work specifically supports NRCS in managing the full range of IT program/project management services necessary to implement the IT strategic and operational program direction to include IT governance, enterprise architecture, cybersecurity and technology management. The total value of the contract is $6 million over 12 months.
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2015 SEAT Ibiza Hatchback Review
Subtle changes to the SEAT Ibiza in 2015 keep it competitive, just.
The Spanish cousin of the Volkswagen Polo is an established supermini contender, only it's getting a bit old now, it bettered by not just that admittedly more expensive Volkswagen, but its Skoda Fabia relative, too. Not quite an also-ran, but certainly not as appealing as it once was, despite a recent update.
SEAT's supermini, the Ibiza, is manufactured on the same underpinnings as the Volkswagen Polo and borrows from Volkswagen's engine line-up, too. It's a trick SEAT's good at, and the Ibiza remains appealing, despite its advancing years. It's fun to drive, good to look at and nicely finished inside, while its recent refresh added touch-screen connectivity that's fast becoming the class norm. It also signalled the arrival of some new engines, giving the Ibiza improved economy and emissions in three- and five-door forms.
The volume sales will be in the S and SE trims, which limits your choice to a pair of engines, a 1.4 TDI and 1.0-litre petrol. Both have 75hp, and while the diesel's the economy champion, the petrol doesn't trail it so much that you'll feel inclined to spend the sizeable premium on that diesel. With its engaging chassis it makes good use of the petrol engine's limited power, the steering sharp enough, the suspension giving good control and riding well, too.
The five-door hatchback (there's a three-door 'SC' version too) starts at €14,295 in S form, but it's worth spending a bit more on the SE for its gains in economy and emissions. It also has a more comprehensive standard equipment list. Much as we'd like an FR, with its sharper road manners and more comprehensive engine line-up, those SEs make the most sense to the majority of buyers. It's worth optioning the inexpensive SEAT Full Link where available, as it allows full integration with your phone's functionality. A good supermini.


Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan secured near dictatorial powers in the recent constitutional referendum. Yet after predicting that he'd win 60 percent or more of the vote, the would-be sultan barely broke 51 percent after rigging the ballot, destroying a free press, and criminalizing criticism.
The opposition is divided and broken, but Erdogan increasingly is feared rather than loved. His reign may be shorter than expected.
The Republic of Turkey was created amid the wreckage of the Ottoman Empire by Mustafa Kemal, a military officer later anointed with the name Ataturk, or father of the Turks. The state eventually evolved into an authoritarian democracy, with heavy-handed military interference which limited political and religious liberty.
In the early 2000s the country was ruled by an unstable nationalist coalition. Erdogan led the relaunch of the principal Islamic party, winning the 2002 election.
As prime minister Erdogan liberalized the economy, spurring growth which especially benefited the rural poor. He sought peace with the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, and expanded Kurdish participation in Turkish society.
He revamped Turkish laws to meet requirements for European Union membership. In 2008 he barely avoided a legal attempt to outlaw the AKP, but rebounded to systematically dismantle the authoritarian "deep state," returning the military to its barracks.
Although his power base was conservative, traditional, and religious Turks, he won the backing of liberals, secularists, and women. Journalists enjoyed greater freedom and Europeans believed he could bring Turkey into their continent's orbit. People prospered. Erdogan appeared to be creating the moderate Islamic democracy that Turkey always had been said to represent, even when it was in reality a secular autocracy.
Alas, many observers, this writer included, overestimated Erdogan's commitment to a Western model. What looked too good to be true turned out to be so.
Journalist Claire Berlinski contends that the AKP was illiberal from the start, though in ways the West chose to ignore. However, Erdogan was moving the country in a freer direction, which even Turkish liberals saw as positive.
Analysts debate why Erdogan changed, but the best guess may be that his ambition fully flowered after he'd cemented his electoral dominance and defanged the military. He apparently meant it when he said "Democracy is like a streetcar. You ride it until you arrive at your destination and then you step off." Once he felt unchallengeable, he abandoned democracy.
Around 2010 or so Erdogan began using his authority in a more illiberal fashion, punishing academics, businessmen, and journalists, in particular, who challenged him. He went to extraordinary lengths to not just break the military's ability to intervene in politics but destroy individual military officers, accusing them of participating in fantastically crazed conspiracies (some of which he repudiated years later).
Erdogan prosecuted even his most harmless critics, including children, for insulting him on social media. He morphed from an ambitious politician seeking to silence those who could hinder his rise into an egocentric narcissist outraged that anyone would tar his dignity. If Kemalism was receding, Ottomanism was advancing.
His political brutality grew along with challenges to his rule. In 2013 Erdogan's government was hit with serious corruption allegations from police and prosecutors apparently linked to Hizmat, the movement headed by Muslim teacher and cleric Fethullah Gulen. Erdogan purged the legal system of his former allies.
Two years later the AKP lost its parliamentary majority. Erdogan responded by abandoning his conciliatory policy toward the PKK and hyping security issues. He forced another election five months later, which restored his party's majority. Along the way he purged the AKP of officials insufficiently subservient to him, including Abdullah Gul, his predecessor as president, and his activist successor, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.
Thus, democracy was in dismal shape, though not quite dead, last July when some members of the military attempted to stage a coup. Most of his critics joined his supporters in rallying against the putsch. Erdogan treated the failed coup as his Reichstag Fire, allowing him to aggrandize his own power.
Before the coup even had been suppressed Erdogan charged that Gulen, who had lived in rural Pennsylvania for years, was the mastermind. A committee of the United Kingdom's parliament as well as German and European intelligence officials reported that they found no evidence backing Erdogan's claim. Rep. Devin Nunes, Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, was similarly dismissive.
After the coup's collapse Erdogan won emergency powers from parliament. He closed publications and jailed journalists—more now languish in prison than in any other country, including China and Russia. He charged opposition leaders and lawmakers who had opposed the coup with backing terrorism. He restricted freedom of assembly and punished critics. He purged government universities, closed private schools, and shuttered civic organizations.
The extent of the ongoing purge is extraordinary—so far some 50,000 have been imprisoned, 113,000 detained at least temporarily, and another 150,000 or more ousted from public sector jobs and banned from civil life more generally. Equally devastating private firings go uncounted. For many people Turkey now is an open-air prison.
The Turkish authorities did not bother attempting to demonstrate those punished had anything to do with the coup. Nor did Erdogan only target Gulenists. Anyone critical of him or linked to someone critical of him was at risk.
Turkish prosecutors announced that they were investigating several Americans for their alleged roles as closet Gulenists and coup plotters, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, former CIA director John Brennan, former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, American Enterprise Institute scholar Michael Rubin, and columnist Ralph Peters, and almost a dozen others. Erdogan's paranoia brings to mind Joseph Stalin.
Even before the referendum Freedom House rated Turkey as only "partly free" and moving in the wrong direction. The State Department's human rights assessment cited "inconsistent access to due process," "government interference with freedom of expression," "inadequate protection of civilians," and a potpourri of other issues.
Nevertheless, murdering democracy was not enough for Erdogan. After taking over the presidency, a position of little formal power, he proposed changing Turkey from a parliamentary system into a hyper-presidential government, akin to that dominated by Russia's Vladimir Putin.
After the coup attempt he placed a package of 18 constitutional amendments on the ballot to expand presidential power. The vote would merely ratify reality and few imagined that he could lose.
Yet the measure barely passed. The embarrassed Turkish government then expanded its crackdown. For instance, it charged Abdurrahman Atalay, a political activist who filed an election appeal, with "inciting hatred." In the following days thousands more were arrested and purged. Law, courts, constitution, indeed most everything in Turkey, now is subordinate to Erdogan's wishes.
Still, the referendum, by highlighting Erdogan's willingness to subvert the vote of all Turks, may end up undermining his legitimacy. Even the Istanbul district, Uskudar, in which he owns a home and where he voted, came out against him.
Turkey's saga of liberty lost is not only a tragedy for the Turkish people. It undermines the country's relationship with the West.
Turkey obviously is free to change direction—in fact, public opinion long has been hostile to the U.S. But then Ankara's membership in NATO should be reconsidered.
Erdogan's government apparently helped arm, sell oil from, and open Turkish territory for use by ISIS. More recently he has targeted the Syrian Kurds, U.S. allies against ISIS. Erdogan's government has limited military cooperation with Washington while promoting lurid conspiracy tales against the U.S. government and snuggling close to Putin's Russia.
President Erdogan has abandoned its long-standing affinity for the West. The problem today is not a conflict between America's moral and strategic interest. The Erdogan government flunks both tests.
This article was adapted from one first posted to Forbes online.


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Ch. Teyssier is a true favourite among our customers, delivering huge quality at its price point; we're very proud to have it in our range. The vineyard dates to the 15th century, lying on a clay-limestone hillside in the satellite appellation of Montagne-St Emilion, northeast of the medieval village of St Emilion. The 2016, a blend of Merlot and Cabernet Franc, is rich and ripe with violet, plum and tobacco notes. Enjoy it with a Sunday roast or grilled meats.
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Packed with ripe, jammy Merlot, this wine is rich, dense and structured. Succulent acidity gives a crisp touch to a generous wine that has power and some good, medium-term potential. Drink from 2022.
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Vines have been cultivated at Teyssier in the St Emilion satellite AOC of Montagne-St-Emilion since the 15th century. Today there are 50ha of vineyard surrounding a charming 18th-Century Chartreuse.
Antoine Darquey is the fourth generation of his family to take the reins at the property, arriving in 1993 when the estate was in perilous condition. Since 2008 he has been joined by his cousin Thomas Durand Teyssier who took on the role of technical director.
Teyssier's terroir is very similar to that found in St Emilion itself, with rolling slopes of clay and limestone. Vineyards are planted with 90% merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc. The proportion of Cabernet Franc will be increased to 15% by the 2025 vintage as they value its elegance and contribution to complexity in the blend.
Initially working with renowned consultant Michel Rolland, they have invested and finessed their approach to deliver increasing success. Since 2014 Stephane Dereroncourt has taken over from Michel continuing the drive for quality and a move towards organic viticulture with HVE-3 certification (environmental farming).
Thomas vinifies parcel by parcel, taking account of soil type and age of vines. When it comes to the blending this ensures the flexibility to make the best wine they can. New oak is used modestly and judiciously, the objective being to show off the quality of the fruit rather than expensive casks.
These are excellent quality, great value wines with soul which put many similarly priced wines from neighbouring St. Emilion firmly in the shade.
Montagne-St-Emilion
Montagne-Saint-Émilion is a satellite Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) for wine in the Bordeaux wine region,5km to the north of the town of Saint-Emilion, in the Libourne region and on the right bank of the river Dordogne. Its AOC status was established in 1936, for wines produced on the land of the Montagne commune or in its hamlets, Parsac and Saint-Georges.
It covers approximately 1,600 hectares, with a production of 80,000 hl. Only red wine production is approved under the Montagne-Saint-Émilion AOC. The classic grape varieties from Bordeaux are planted - Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Côt (Malbec) etc., although it is Merlot is predominant on the vineyard and the blend.
Cabernet Sauvignon lends itself particularly well in blends with Merlot. This is actually the archetypal Bordeaux blend, though in different proportions in the sub-regions and sometimes topped up with Cabernet Franc, Malbec, and Petit Verdot.
In the Médoc and Graves the percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon in the blend can range from 95% (Mouton-Rothschild) to as low as 40%. It is particularly suited to the dry, warm, free- draining, gravel-rich soils and is responsible for the redolent cassis characteristics as well as the depth of colour, tannic structure and pronounced acidity of Médoc wines. However 100% Cabernet Sauvignon wines can be slightly hollow-tasting in the middle palate and Merlot with its generous, fleshy fruit flavours acts as a perfect foil by filling in this cavity.
In St-Emilion and Pomerol, the blends are Merlot dominated as Cabernet Sauvignon can struggle to ripen there - when it is included, it adds structure and body to the wine. Sassicaia is the most famous Bordeaux blend in Italy and has spawned many imitations, whereby the blend is now firmly established in the New World and particularly in California and Australia.


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