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At Quixy, we pride ourselves on providing the best service possible for our customers and our aim is to become a leader in the no-code space.
So, we're excited to share that we were named a "Leader" on a worldwide level in No-Code Application Development in G2's Winter 2021 report!
Previously, in G2's Fall 2020 report, Quixy was named a "Leader" for the Asia-Pacific region in No-Code Application Development, and we're pleased to see that our impact has now reached a global scale. Along with this recognition in G2's Winter 2021 report, we were also rated a "High Performer" for Business Process Management Software, Workplace Innovation Platforms, Digital Process Automation (DPA) Software, and Workflow Management Software.
G2 determined the leader for the report after analyzing the reviews from the community and other data from online sources and social media and networks, thus helping confirm that Quixy's customers are satisfied with the product. We also earned several community review badges, including "Best Est. RoI", "Easiest To Use", "Easiest Setup", "Best Support", and "Best Results", thus proving that Quixy is a rising competitor in this space.
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With customers in over 5 continents and 10 different countries, Quixy has made it easy for business users to use this tool across the world. Quixy has definite benefits for most departments in companies including Procurement, Legal, Marketing, Admin, HR, Customer Service, Field Services, Project Management, IT Operations, etc. Quixy can also be useful across a variety of industries such as Construction, BFSI, Education, Government, Manufacturing, Supply Chain & Logistics, Utilities, etc.
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Regarding the award, Mr. Gautam Nimmagadda, CEO and Founder of Quixy, remarked, "Innovation & Customer Delight are among the core values of Quixy, and it gives us immense pleasure to see that these values are the center of Quixy's recognition by G2 as a leader in the no-code platform space. We are thrilled and at the same time feel more responsible with this recognition. We are confident that we will continue to innovate and delight customers and play a key role in bringing maturity & standardization in no-code and driving its universal adoption."
We wanted to thank all of our customers for supporting us through this journey. We've come a long way since Quixy was founded in 2019 and we're eager to see where we can continue improving. We'll welcome your continued support as we progress towards our aim of democratizing digital transformation across the world!
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The introduction to the exhibition will look at gold and silver mining in this country and alongside examples of minerals there will be statues of miners on display. Reproductions of illuminations and altarpieces will transport visitors into the atmosphere of mediaeval mining. The main part of the exhibition will consist of major groschen treasures from "vaults" in Hodonín, Týn nad Vltavou and Žichlice. Visitors will also find out how much things cost in the Middle Ages and how counterfeit coins were made. The final part of the exhibition is devoted to how goldsmiths worked and, in the gold-plated monstrances and the crystal cross on display, visitors will have the opportunity to experience the beauty of the Gothic style in the decorative arts.
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Elizabeth Warren Has Latched Onto the Issue That's Beneath All the Others
With the scenes out of Donald Trump's impeachment trial these past two weeks, it's a good time to run against corruption.
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CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA—Kohawk Arena at Coe College had something of a startling reporter-to-voter ratio when Senator Professor Warren came by to call on Saturday. It filled slowly, but it did fill. Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, who rapidly is building a following of her own as a rock-star surrogate, got them revved up in time for the main event, who showed up and immediately sought to make up for the time she'd lost as a juror in the moot court competition in Washington.
Warren had too many stops to make over the last three days of the Iowa caucus campaign to hang around for her trademark selfie line afterwards. However, Bailey the dog was available to step in and was certainly popular, especially with the service dogs in attendance, who looked on Bailey curiously, like basketball players when Michael Jordan stepped in for a pickup game. Warren—and Bernie Sanders and Amy Klobuchar—are all burning up the highways and byways here this weekend because, as senators, they were obligated to spend two weeks in Washington listening to the grinding of Pat Cipollone's interests as they conflicted with each other, grinding up the canons of legal ethics along the way. So if the homestretch here is more frantic than usual, blame the effort it takes on the part of this White House to turn the constitutional processes of government into a burlesque.
If nothing else, this obviously should be a good moment for Warren, whose campaign is based on her conviction that our government and our politics are so corrupt that Big Structural Change is needed to clean out the Augean Stables in the District of Columbia. On Saturday, she deftly connected decades of increasing corruption with the undeniable end product, which is this administration* and this president*.
"The good news is that I have the biggest anti-corruption plan since Watergate," she said. "The bad news is that we need the biggest anti-corruption plan since Watergate. These problems, this corruption, started long before Donald Trump became president.
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"Some of the things we can do quietly. But that anti-corruption plan, there's no way to do that quietly. We can't keep doing this as a country. The one good thing about Donald Trump is that he's got everybody off the sidelines. We run against that corruption. We run against the most corrupt administration in the history of this country. Have you been watching these trials? At the center of the whole thing was an ambassador [Gordon Sondland], and how did he get to be an ambassador? He had no qualifications, except that he cut a check to Donald Trump's inaugural committee for a million dollars. He bought a public office. That is the height of corruption."
Both Sanders and Warren have arrayed themselves strongly against the money power. However, Warren's focus is more precisely aimed at the money power's destruction of ethics and trust, while Sanders seems most concerned with a general critique of the money power's influence. After two weeks in which the president*'s corruption was laid bare in the Senate, only to have the Republican Senate majority essentially decide that the corruption was an inherent part of the office of the president—Alan Dershowitz as much as said that—and prepare to give him a gentle warning and send him away, it can be argued that corruption of the office is the only issue that should matter.
Oh, and there was more of it revealed on Saturday, too. From CNN:
The Department of Justice revealed in a court filing late Friday that it has two dozen emails related to President Donald Trump's involvement in the withholding of millions in security assistance to Ukraine -- a disclosure that came just hours after the Senate voted against subpoenaing additional documents and witnesses in Trump's impeachment trial, paving the way for his acquittal. The filing, released near midnight Friday, marks the first official acknowledgment from the Trump administration that emails about the President's thinking related to the aid exist, and that he was directly involved in asking about and deciding on the aid as early as June. The administration is still blocking those emails from the public and has successfully kept them from Congress.
Elizabeth Warren may or may not be the Democratic nominee for president, but she's latched on to the issue beneath all the others.
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The new bilingual coed residential school, which opened on Sept. 12 to 350 African students, aims to create economic sustainability, protect AIDS orphans and other children from human trafficking and other exploitation, and promote gender equality. Twenty percent of Academy students will receive a full scholarship. "Education yields a larger impact than any other form of help or aid we can give to improving health, raising income, promoting gender equality, and reducing overall poverty in developing nations," says Good Shepherd SLF Co-Founder Brenda Ruello. Good Shepherd SLF's Board of Directors includes Pike County residents Molly Flewharty, Elizabeth Geitz, Brenda Ruello, and Sam Ruello.
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The Other Bakken Boom: America's biggest oil rush brings tribal conflict
Sierra Crane-Murdoch April 23, 2012 From the print edition
An old church, painted with an arrow -- and a smiley face -- pointing toward a pumpjack at the edge of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota.
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An oil rig stands below a North Dakota thunderhead near the town of Parshall on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation.
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"Nobody knew there were billions of dollars in value under Fort Berthold," says Theodora Bird Bear, a tribal member and land and mineral-rights owner. "How do you believe that if you've been poor all your life?"
Horses shake off the dust as a backhoe and other heavy equipment dig a trench for a gas pipeline.
Truck drivers fill up at the Cenex station in New Town. Most oil workers have come from off the reservation, some from as far away as South Africa and Brazil.
Crime has risen since the start of the boom, and Fort Berthold's 13 officers struggle to keep up, hindered by laws that prevent them from pressing criminal charges against non-Indians. Pictured are Kelly Hosie, who has since left the force, and Dustin Krueger.
Trucks drive the highway east from New Town. Roads on Fort Berthold were not built to withstand heavy loads, and many have turned back to dirt.
Land ownership on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, a lilting swath of prairie in western North Dakota, was once a quiet place. Though thrice the area of Los Angeles, it had only 5,000 residents. Even New Town, a more populous district east of a reservoir called Lake Sakakawea, looked sparse and ephemeral. There was a granary, a fire station, a Gospel Tabernacle and a Jack & Jill grocery. A brick federal Bureau of Indian Affairs office marked the beginning of town, and the few squat buildings on the main street were largely unoccupied. It was rare, here, to see a stranger, and even rarer to see so many gathered at the civic center one November morning in 2007.
Theodora Bird Bear worked across the street at the New Town News, and knew from a flier that the BIA planned to hold an auction for the reservation's oil and gas rights. That afternoon, she went to investigate. She recognized a few people in the dim, crowded room. BIA officials sat in the front and members of her own Three Affiliated Tribes in the audience. But of the rest she later recalled, "I had never seen a single one of them before, and they already seemed to know everything about Fort Berthold." The land near the reservation's center earned the highest bids. There, in a district called Mandaree, she noticed her own mineral rights were up for lease.
Though the BIA facilitates the leasing of Indian-owned minerals, owners must agree to the terms. After the sale, companies continued to compete for Bird Bear's favor. She ignored them. Even in the spring of 2008, when an old classmate, hired as a broker, approached her with the best offer yet, she hesitated. "People were signing left and right," she said. "I needed the money, but I couldn't bring myself to do it." But when her brother fell sick and she couldn't afford to visit him, she leased 320 of her acres, retaining a small parcel beneath her house. Her brother died before she saw a check. When it came -- a $320,000 bonus -- she paid for his funeral and her credit card bills, bought a car and a couch, and quit her job at the paper.
Such a financial windfall was once unheard of on Fort Berthold. Apart from livestock grazing, there were few sources of income. Unemployment hovered at 40 percent and the poverty rate was four times the national average. It was the sort of hardship that shrinks one's frame of reference. A few hundred dollars was a lot; billions, unfathomable. Even the energy industry, which had suspected for decades that a shale formation beneath western North Dakota contained a vast sea of oil, lacked the technology to tap it. Then it found a way. By combining hydraulic fracturing with horizontal drilling, rigs could bore miles deep, navigate laterally along narrow seams of oil-laden rock, and pump in water and chemicals to create fissures and release the hydrocarbons. According to the most recent, and perhaps overly conservative, federal estimate, the Bakken Formation holds roughly 4 billion barrels of recoverable oil, enough to supply the United States for seven months; nationally, only Alaska's North Slope holds more. By some measures, Fort Berthold sits over the deepest pool.
But the reservation has been at a marked disadvantage in the rush to tap the resource. All Indian minerals are managed in trust by the U.S. Department of Interior, a task mostly delegated to the BIA, and companies must endure a bureaucratic gantlet so costly and slow that many avoid it altogether. On Fort Berthold, tribal members feared the boom would leave them behind. By 2009, they had pushed the BIA to lease all of their acreage; but while landowners off the reservation earned thousands of dollars an acre, those within, except for Bird Bear, generally saw only a few hundred. The disparity strained the already delicate relationship between the BIA, which approved the offers, and the tribe and its members, who accused the agency of violating its mandate to "maximize" Indian mineral owners' economic benefits. Why, people wondered, had they not waited for better?
Regardless, the money has been substantial since the boom hit fully in 2010. At the start of this year, Fort Berthold's 172 wells produced 2.5 million barrels a month. Altogether, they have generated more than 26 million barrels, earning the tribal nation roughly $330 million, two-thirds of which has gone to individual mineral owners. Industry will drill a thousand more wells in the next five years, with payouts in the billions -- more than any Western Indian nation has seen in that short a time. "We are of the firm belief we will become more sovereign by the barrel," Tribal Chairman Tex Hall told the North Dakota Legislature in January 2011. This was the tribe's chance, he said, to break free at last from its reliance on the federal government.
The question is whether it can do so before the boom ends. Rapid development has aggravated old problems -- homelessness, crime, poor infrastructure -- and as the tribe wrestles with the effects, it has struggled, too, to reap the rewards. "My biggest fear is that when the industry leaves, the reservation is in worse shape than before," said Mark Fox, the tribe's tax director. "We're sitting on billions of barrels of oil. Twenty years from now, if we do it right, we should have things that last us forever. But if we have worse unemployment, worse health, worse poverty, worse crime, then we've failed. We were better off leaving it in the ground."
Across Lake Sakakawea from New Town, there is a museum in the tribe's casino parking lot, choked now with trucks and campers, but open, still, to anyone curious about reservation history. Visitors will learn that the museum is a relic of a boom come and past -- its posthumous benefactor, Helen Gough, owned rights to the first oil drilled on the reservation in 1951. They will also learn of the betrayals that fomented Fort Berthold's privation. The first treaty that established its boundaries in 1851 at the Missouri and Powder Rivers was broken for Montana's statehood and again for the railroad. Congress whittled down the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara territories, allotting farmland to Indian families along the Missouri's fertile banks. Then, the government drew plans to dam the river. The tribal council protested, writing, "We have been, and now are, as nearly self-supporting as the average white community ... the lands which will be flooded are practically all the lands which are of any use or value." In 1954, Garrison Dam was completed, and Lake Sakakawea, named for the Shoshone-Hidatsa woman who guided Lewis and Clark, filled in behind it. By then, the people had dug up their dead and moved to higher ground.
"All these years, we didn't see any value in the land," Bird Bear, 65, told me one morning last May, at her house in Mandaree. She wore red-rimmed glasses and faint makeup around her eyes. Through her kitchen window, past a yard strung with clotheslines, a yellowing field stretched to a long horizon. The land here is dry; come late spring, grass can catch fire with a single match. "Nobody knew there were billions of dollars under Fort Berthold. How do you believe that if you've been poor all your life?"
Besides, the historical record was discouraging: After Gough's well, Fort Berthold produced little oil. Even in the 1970s, when another boom hit North Dakota, companies hardly ventured onto the reservation. On Indian trust land, which includes collectively held "tribal land" and individually owned "allottee land," companies had to go through four federal agencies and 49 steps to acquire a permit to drill; off trust land, they dealt with only four steps. Furthermore, a company needed the consent of every person who owned a share of a parcel's minerals. Indian land is fractionated by inheritance -- one parcel may have scores of owners -- and convincing all to agree was maddening, if not impossible.
In 1999, North Dakota Sen. Byron Dorgan amended the law specifically for Fort Berthold: The Interior Department could approve any lease involving Indian mineral owners if a simple majority agreed to the terms. That same year, an Interior Department geologist released the first impressive Bakken estimates, and by 2005, North Dakota was heading assuredly toward another boom. "Workers needed immediately in North Dakota's oil patch," the Associated Press reported; roughnecks started at $25 an hour. Bonus offers to private landowners climbed from tens, to hundreds, to thousands of dollars an acre. But as oil rigs appeared around the reservation edge, Fort Berthold remained quiet. One tribal administrator told me that he had worried Fort Berthold's oil might vanish, siphoned away by pumpjacks at its edge. In 2004, BIA petroleum engineer Jeff Hunt, who commutes between Denver and New Town, took a tribal councilman to the North American Prospect Expo in Houston, Texas, to promote the reservation. "Rather than wait for a company to walk through your doors," Hunt reasoned, "why not go to them?"
The first buyer was an obscure outfit called Black Rock Oil & Gas, which in 2005 proposed to lease 10,000 tribal acres for 16 percent royalties and a $35-per-acre bonus. The tribal council jumped at the offer; the BIA signed off as well. "For years, we had always wanted an oil and gas lease," said Councilwoman Judy Brugh. "We took the first offers because we didn't know how long they would last." Meanwhile, Black Rock hired several tribal members to help acquire leases from individuals, including Beverly Hall, who worked at the tribal college. In the spring of 2006, her cousin, Ron Brugh, told her that a company wanted to lease her 160 acres under the same terms they had offered the council. "It looked like a lot of money," Beverly told me. "And Ron -- I trusted him. He was a close relative." She signed the lease and took Brugh to see her brother, who leased his acres as well.
By the fall of 2008, nearly all of Fort Berthold had been leased. The tribe settled for royalties between 16 and 18 percent and bonuses no higher than $110-per-acre; individuals did slightly better. But the most fortunate was a young tribal member, Spencer Wilkinson Jr., who was general manager of the tribe's casino and a friend of Tribal Chairman Marcus Levings, who defeated Tex Hall in 2006. (Hall was re-elected in 2010.) In January 2008, the council leased Wilkinson 42,000 tribal acres for 18 percent royalties and a $50-per-acre bonus. He acquired an equal number of allottee acres under the same terms. Then in December 2010, after drilling several wells, he sold his leases to the Oklahoma-based Williams energy company for $925 million, and turned his company, Dakota 3, into a subsidiary.
Flipping, as it is called, is a common industry practice, and all four of the companies that first acquired tribal mineral rights, including Black Rock, engaged in it. But the enormity of Wilkinson's profit -- and on land that earned its owners very little in comparison -- enraged many tribal members. That the BIA had signed off on the transactions without their consent seemed a blatant violation of its duty to protect their economic interests. When Houston-based Marathon Oil Company acquired Beverly Hall's leases in January 2008, the BIA informed her by letter. "I felt really ashamed that I had been taken like that," said Hall. She knew the council had encouraged the original deals, but why had the BIA never advised her to negotiate for better terms, and why had they approved the flips without her knowing?
"Mineral owners got the price of the day," Jeff Hunt countered when I asked the same question. "Drilling was still a big risk, and so it made sense that offers were low in the beginning." When an individual signs a lease form, the company sends it to the reservation BIA office to check calculations and certify that the owner's interests are being met. Then the superintendent based on Fort Berthold adds his signature. (Neither the superintendent nor BIA spokesperson responded to repeated requests for an interview.) On a few occasions, said Hunt, the BIA advised mineral owners to reject low offers, but he could not recall any examples and said the information was privileged. The lease document, meanwhile, did not require the agency to consult with owners before permitting companies to flip. Had the BIA approved deals too readily? Hunt didn't answer, and instead insisted, "This was the driving force behind it: We had companies in the office. We had councilmen and mineral owners in the office -- hundreds each day -- and everyone saying, 'We want our money now. We want our leases now.' I think if we had said, 'Let's wait a while,' people would've strung us up.' "
On Fort Berthold, distrust of the federal government has become a cynical expectation: The Interior Department has rarely acted in Indian peoples' favor, so why would it do so now? Over the past century, its mistakes and misdeeds -- lost records, outstanding royalties -- have amounted to billions of dollars owed to tribes and individuals nationwide. In 1996, Elouise Cobell, a Blackfeet director of a nonprofit Native American bank, filed a class action suit on behalf of hundreds of thousands of plaintiffs alleging that the U.S. government had mishandled $47 billion belonging to Indian landowners. Cobell died last October, but the case is nearing settlement for $3.4 billion, pending appeals.
Last summer, Fort Berthold mineral owners filed their own suit, accusing the U.S. of failing to protect tribal members' economic interests. Among the evidence are Dakota 3 lease forms rubberstamped with the words, "This lease is in the best interest of the Indian mineral owner." A letter to the BIA from the Elders Organization states, "The BIA is allowing these lucrative agreements between oil companies ... knowing that (the original agreement) was not market value." According to the organization, the BIA never responded. Nor did the reservation superintendent answer Beverly Hall's inquiries; Bird Bear also said she was frequently ignored. "People were learning they were going to have to manage on their own," she told me.
After the Black Rock deal, landowners' associations proliferated on the reservation as tribal members turned to their neighbors for guidance. One of the most active began in Kara and Ken Hall's one-story ranch house in New Town. "We realized that if we wanted to maximize our minerals, we couldn't rely on the BIA to negotiate for us," Ken Hall told me in November. Ken, who is Tex Hall's nephew, works in the tribal energy department; Kara is an indigenous rights consultant and ran Tex's re-election campaign. In 2007, Peak Energy Resources, a small company based in Durango, Colo., contacted Ken to discuss a lease. They decided on 22.5 percent royalties and $1,000 an acre -- the same deal Bird Bear received from Peak. "Leases off the reservation were going for substantially more than on," company CEO, Jack Vaughn, later told me. "We believed that the geology wasn't any different -- actually, the prospects on the reservation were much better." Still, the bureaucratic wrangling required to operate on Indian land was discouraging. "At every step, you had the potential for delay," said Vaughn. "It might take the BIA a month to get one piece of paper done. Environmental assessments were taking months." With added fees, Vaughn estimates that it costs a half-million dollars more to drill a well on Indian land than off.
Vaughn developed a close working relationship with the Halls and met with other tribal members to explain how leasing worked. Then, in the spring of 2008, the company organized mineral owners, led by Tex Hall, to lobby in Washington, D.C. Their request: Turn the Fort Berthold BIA office into a "one-stop-shop" by packing it with experts from every federal entity involved in the permitting process. This, they hoped, would ensure that drilling applications turned over quickly, landowners earned royalties sooner, and that tribal members could meet directly with officials to negotiate terms, ask questions, and locate lost records. "Experts" was the key word, Tex told Dorgan when they met in the Senator's office. "We do not want recycled rejects."
Dorgan liked the idea and wrote a bill to extend the one-stop-shop throughout Indian Country. Though Dorgan's bill died in 2011 when he left office, Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, introduced the Native American Energy Act with similar intent this year. The BIA, meanwhile, struggled to find qualified people willing to move to Fort Berthold. Ken Hall joked that the one-stop-shop turned into a "one-man-show," run by the BIA's Hunt. The agency added a few employees, but it hardly eased mineral owners' frustrations. "Due to significant mistakes, errors in judgment, and lack of trained staff by the BIA," Tribal Chairman Marcus Levings told the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs in April 2008, "the Fort Berthold Reservation may very well miss out on the economic boom that the rest of North Dakota appears to be enjoying." Shortly thereafter, Levings struck a deal with the state to reduce the taxes industry had to pay to North Dakota and the tribe for producing on Indian land. Some credit this last, hasty attempt with setting the boom in motion. That spring, Marathon drilled the first well on a Black Rock lease and named it Myrmidon, after the ruthless Greek warriors in the Trojan War.
In the Tribal Employment Rights Office, a dark, brick building in New Town, there is a glossy brochure printed with a message from Chairman Hall:
Our sovereignty can be maximized by the number of barrels of oil taken from our Mother Earth. We call it "sovereignty by the barrel." The potential here is to obtain financial independence for our nation, education for our youth, sustenance for our elders, maintenance of our culture and above all to set the people of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation on the road to independence.
Business on the reservation is better than it has ever been. A diner in New Town is full by noon; grocery store shelves are empty by midweek. The casino, a popular roughneck hangout, has seen its annual revenue rise by millions. There are more jobs than people to fill them, and the unemployment rate has fallen from 40 to 10 percent. Many are living on royalties. Beverly Hall, whose well was drilled in March 2010, retired and bought a house off the reservation. Each month, she earns $10,000, more than her and her husband's former salaries combined.
Last May, when I dropped by the employment office, it was crowded with Native American men seeking work on the rigs. Tony Damian, 30, who has a soft, round face and serious eyes, told me that he reviewed dozens of contractors each week applying to work on the reservation. (Eight months later, he started his own excavating business.) "We have an unbelievable opportunity to train our guys and start companies ourselves," he said. "But we only have a five-to-10 year window to do it." Since the start of the boom, Indian-owned businesses -- trucking, welding, road-building, consulting, general construction -- have increased tenfold. The employment office, meanwhile, has found jobs for more than 200 enrolled members as water haulers, builders, flaggers and roustabouts. A typical starting wage is $20 an hour.
But finding qualified workers is challenging. "When I was in my 20s, and I started to hear this was coming, I thought, 'Yeah, it might be a few wells here and there, but what am I going to do?' " said Damian. "My buddies and I weren't thinking, 'I better not drink and drive so I can get my commercial license when the boom hits.' " Truck drivers are the most in demand, he said, "but we can't get anybody to have a clean record, let alone a license." Contractors pay a small fee, which the tribe uses to train youth in the industry. Still, most workers -- at least 3,000 -- come from off the reservation.
The effect is dramatic: Not long ago, at an intersection north of New Town, 60 percent of the 29,000 vehicles headed toward the reservation in 24 hours were large trucks. Many paved roads have deteriorated to dirt, and on dry days, thick dust clouds settle onto pastures. A short highway stretch in heavy traffic may take hours to travel. Diabetics sometimes arrive late to dialysis. In September, an oil truck strayed into oncoming traffic and killed a family of four. Roadside ditches are littered with deer carcasses and plastic flowers memorializing the dead. New Town's new health clinic has hardly enough staff to treat the living. Ambulances are in short supply, and trauma victims have died before paramedics could reach them. Strippers make more money than in Las Vegas; there's not a vacant motel room, and small trailers rent for more than $2,000 a month. Man-camps sprout with each new rig and men sleep in their truck cabs, foreheads pressed to steering wheels. Women who work the fitness center catch oilmen walking treadmills in work boots, and, in the evening, scrub black residue off the shower tiles.
These are classic symptoms of a boom; north and west of Fort Berthold, it looks much the same. But there is one important difference: The reservation, having long been poor and unaccustomed to rapid development, was wholly unprepared. An estimated 400 Indian families lacked homes before the boom, and that number has only grown. The roads were not built for heavy traffic, nor are there enough to access remote areas. A lack of pipeline infrastructure has meant that natural gas is burned directly at wellheads, in open flares. When the boom began, the tribe had no transportation department and relied on the BIA's and the Bureau of Land Management's regulatory authority in environmental matters. The BIA has no fine structure in place for illegal dumping and has depended on the state, already overburdened, to penalize offenders.
Nor is the tribe, with only 13 police officers patrolling the reservation, able to fully enforce its own laws. Police calls have increased more than two-fold, and often it is an hour before officers respond. "Fires, explosions, gas leaks -- we never had to deal with these things before," Dawn White, a young tribal police officer, told me last May. White, who is short with a tight, gelled bun and military gait, has been an officer for three years. Oil spills and illegal dumping, she says, now occur almost weekly; the BLM, which oversees activity on wellpads, confirms the trend. Drunk driving and hard drug use are rampant, as is sex trafficking, according to a recent Department of Justice report. Just among tribal members, domestic violence incidents have doubled.
The lack of regulatory structure has promoted a culture of lawlessness. One night, a trucker grilling chicken by his RV in the casino parking lot told me, "You can get away with a hell of a lot more" on the reservation than off. In fact, he said, "You can do anything short of killing somebody." He earned $130 an hour overtime hauling water from wellpads to waste pits and once drove 36 hours without stopping. Normally, the U.S. Department of Transportation limits commercial truckers to 11 hours each day, but on Fort Berthold, there are no weigh stations to enforce the rule. "Keep your eyes open with toothpicks and you're making money. Another cup of coffee? You're making money."
To complicate matters, tribal police have no criminal jurisdiction over non-Indians. Due to a 1978 Supreme Court decision, only the state and the U.S. can prosecute crimes committed by non-Indians on reservations, depending on the transgression's severity. Fort Berthold's officers pass perpetrators on to county law enforcement. On several occasions, when White stopped drunk drivers and called the county, officers never came. At the end of her shift, with two kids at home, she had no choice but to let the offenders go. "It shouldn't be that someone calls for help and you ask, 'Are you enrolled or non-enrolled?' " said White. "Say a woman is assaulted by a worker. It's hard to walk away from that and look at a victim and have them say, 'Aren't you guys going to do anything?' "
It is difficult to take the reins of a boom driven by people over whom the tribe has little authority. And it complicates an old predicament: Tribal members have limited means to govern themselves and a federal government -- with a sordid history of guardianship -- to act as their primary guardian. In recent decades, BIA superintendents have changed frequently as each successive council chairman requests a replacement for the last. But it would be too easy to blame the BIA entirely; the real problem, perhaps, is in the relationship between nation, tribe and tribal member. "When you already have profound distrust, you're bound to have a lack of cooperation and communication, and also a lack of regulation," Paul Joffe, an international indigenous rights lawyer, told me. "And that's a situation that is very easy for corporations to exploit."
If distrust plagued the reservation before, now it is even more palpable. Many residents own little or no mineral rights other than those the tribe holds collectively. "People think that when there's more money floating around, our lives should be better," said tax director Mark Fox. "But the average person hasn't seen that happen." So far, the council has spent the better part of its oil income repairing roads, building houses to ease the shortage, and establishing regulatory structures to keep pace with the boom. Last year, when oil revenue generated a billion-dollar budget surplus in North Dakota, the Three Affiliated Tribes, despite earning $60 million from royalties, bonuses and taxes on oil production, remained $100 million in debt.
The debt is a popular point of rumor on the reservation. Before the boom, the tribe had hardly enough income -- even with $60 million-$70 million in annual federal assistance -- to pay for its projects and services, and it borrowed the difference. But councilmen have also been accused of mishandling funds. The council's spending records are classified, and according to a report commissioned by Tex Hall in 2010, most of its income is pooled into one account, from which councilmen annually draw several hundred thousand dollars apiece to spend on projects and grants at their discretion. Council positions turn over infrequently, and the seven members, including the chairman, have full authority. There are no checks and balances.
This is where tribal members see the BIA playing a valuable role. Many told me that they trusted the agency more than the council to protect their interests -- at least the BIA has a mandate to do so. Even Chairman Hall admitted that the tribe cannot manage the boom alone. "We don't want to get rid of the BIA," he told me. The agency is bound by treaty to protect the tribe. "If something goes wrong, we need the government to take responsibility, to safeguard our land and water."
I repeated this exchange to Fox one morning in his office. He is a wired, matter-of-fact man, clean-cut and often dressed as though headed to a company retreat. He smiled and shook his head. "When has the federal government ever protected us?" he said. "They took our land, they flooded us out, they put us in housing units and then said, 'Live.' " But, he conceded, "They were not ready for what was going to happen here. The tribe and the people were not ready. The only ones that were ready -- that knew exactly what they were doing and have been doing it since -- were the oil companies."
The rain fell so hard on Fort Berthold one night that trucks rested on roadsides and brittle grass softened and flattened onto fields. At an intersection of asphalt and dirt, a horse hung its head over a barbed-wire fence. A pumpjack nodded with steady complacency, and a flare burned without a hiss. Potholes filled with mud, and scoria roads dampened to a deeper, bluer red, like veins popping beneath the skin.
I went to dinner at the Scenic, north of Highway 23 with a view of the reservoir. Roughnecks smoked beneath the eaves, each with a foot propped against the siding and a knee protruding into the storm. Inside, I was seated near an elderly man who eyed me with curious distrust before inviting me to join him. "The thing you must know," he said, without introduction, "is that this was our big chance and we missed it."
It is true that there are many things the tribe cannot undo. Several leaders told me that they wished the council had followed the model of Colorado's Southern Utes, who rejected outside offers, formed an energy company and drilled their land themselves. One tribal member, David Williams, recently founded a company to do just that. But the leases left are mostly table scraps, small tracts with poor prospects. Meanwhile, last year, Marcus Levings' tax deal earned North Dakota $20 million more than the tribe in production taxes on Fort Berthold's oil. When a state legislator proposed amending the deal in the tribe's favor, it was voted down nearly unanimously.
The best the tribe can do now is to invest its profits in future security. Chairman Hall talks about a "People's Fund," where oil revenue could be saved for the benefit of tribal members who aren't receiving royalties. The tribe also has made some regulatory strides: A new transportation department mandates that subcontractors pay to register their vehicles and is working to install weight limits on the roads. A tribal environmental code will fine illegal dumping. In February, the council hosted an "energy summit," inviting mineral owners, industry representatives, and BIA officials to discuss the boom. Dorgan was the keynote speaker. "You could tell there was a shift going on," said Kara Hall, who helped organize the summit. "There was a sense that the oil play belonged to everybody, and people were feeling empowered." Bird Bear, on the contrary, referred to the event as decidedly "pro-development." Recently, when the Environmental Protection Agency approved a permit for the tribe to build an oil refinery on the reservation, she appealed the decision.
One afternoon, I drove to Mandaree after Bird Bear called about a grass fire. Two roustabouts had lit a rag soaked in gasoline and flung it across a gas vent to make a flare, but the wind dropped it in the adjacent field. The district had no fire service, and by the time trucks arrived with hoses, the hillside was charred up to the back deck of a small ranch house. From a distance, it looked as if a raincloud had cast a vast, black shadow on the prairie. Bird Bear came to the door smelling of grass smoke. We sat on her couch, and she said that Enerplus, a Canadian company that bought Peak's leases, was trying, again, to lease the minerals under her house. "I kind of feel like I've lost," she said. "I never believed the tribe would look out for us, and I knew the Bureau wouldn't either." Worried that the BIA would allow drilling to proceed, since the acres around her house were already leased, she called Jeff Hunt. Was there any way to keep her oil from being "drained" without her consent? "Lease it," he replied.
"That's the way oil and gas works," said Hunt when I asked about the conversation. "Once the game's begun, you have to join." But Bird Bear had decided not to lease because she feared what fracking might do to her groundwater; was he saying her minerals would be drilled anyway? "Yes, eventually, which is kind of tough on the individual. But she has to think about the people around her. Don't they have a right to their oil?"
I dropped by the tribal employment office last November to see Tony Damian, but a girl snapping bubble gum in the waiting area told me he worked for Williams now, in a trailer by the granary. "If you can't beat them, join them," Damian joked when I found him in his new office. Apart from a desk and portraits of his daughters, the room was empty and echoed when he shut the door. He had been with Tribal Employment only a year, he said, when someone at Williams recruited him. He helps the company stay in compliance with codes by hiring Indian subcontractors and tribal members.
I asked Damian if working in the industry made him think better of the boom. "Not really," he said. "It's like the money hypnotizes you, and the oil companies know that. There's a lot of poverty and stress here, and the money's a quick solution to those issues. I went from living check to check to financial stability. And that means a lot for me and my kids. But is it worth it in the long run?" He shrugged. "I don't know." The day before, he had seen an article about fracking and thought he'd ask a colleague about it. "How do you reverse contaminated water?" Damian asked me. "Can you even do that? And to tell you the truth, I don't think he's going to tell me everything. Because regardless if I'm on his team, I'm Native American, and when this thing is over, I'm the one that will still be here."
Sierra Crane-Murdoch freelances in print, radio, and photography from Colorado's Western Slope. She is a Middlebury Fellow in Environmental Journalism and a former High Country News intern.
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Posted 6:32 pm, April 29, 2016, by Carter Coyle
GREENSBORO, N.C. -- After decades of trying to attract development in Greensboro's Ole Asheboro community, Family Dollar is planning to build a new store on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.
The building will be a new look for Family Dollar, with a historic feel to it to comply with surrounding preservation standards and fit into the neighborhood.
Greensboro Planning Director Sue Schwartz said, "Commercial development and investment has been a major concern of the neighborhood for several decades now literally since 1979. Having some sort of access to quality goods and services."
She said in 2014 Family Dollar and its representatives approached the city, interested in buying the land. They've had community meetings and distributed literature to nearby residents.
"We were excited because it was something -a national brand - willing to invest in a neighborhood has been bypassed by so many opportunities. This was very exciting we felt for the neighborhood."
But Sandra Isley, who lives in neighboring Arlington Park, doesn't want retail in the area. She and some of her neighbors and her kids were protesting the development Friday afternoon. They'd rather see a community center and more resources to help working families.
"It is something wrong with a community when all we have are cops and Family Dollars in it. We don't want that. We want to be able to dine in our neighborhood at a high-scale restaurant. We want to be able to support our people," she said.
Others said they'd rather see high-end development if anything. "A neighborhood quality is known by the stores in their area," Isley pointed out.
But the fact is, other development hasn't knocked.
District 2 Councilman Jamal Fox is glad to see the Family Dollar project moving along. He believes it will open the door to bigger development and more options.
The New Zion church under construction just down the street does have plans for a community center, he pointed out, so he feels there will be the best of both worlds. He said the Ole Asheboro Neighborhood Association supports the development, too.
Schwartz promised, "We will keep pursuing and keep pushing on what we can. We think this is a great first step."
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Departments at America Hospital include: Allergy – Immunology, Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Audiology, Cardiology, Cardiovascular Surgery, Check Up, Clinical Laboratories, Dermatology, Ear Nose and Throat, Emergency Service, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, General Surgery, Hematology, ICU Coronary Care, ICU Neonatal, and Infectious Diseases among others.
For nurses, be aware of their responsibilities and values of life, which is educated, ethical and conscientious is the most basic approach.
The Sister 500 nursing family at American hospital has maximized efficiency in a positive approach to the work environment, while in order to satisfy the patient's / employee's happiness and trust. They constantly seek to constantly improve their services and use cutting-edge technology and reflect such events in the services they provide. Close
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Acibadem City Clinic is a top-notch medical facility established in 2012, by Angel Angelov. Acibadem attracts patients from all over Europe... Acibadem City Clinic is a top-notch...
Acibadem City Clinic is a top-notch medical facility established in 2012, by Angel Angelov. Acibadem attracts patients from all over Europe (UK, Spain, Russia, France, Germany, etc.), Asia and USA, with its qualified professional employees and its high-tech equipment. The City Clinic is the top hospital of the CITY HOSPITAL and CLINICS GROUP which possesses two medical facilities in Bulgaria.
Acibadem City Clinic is the leading ultramodern private hospital in Bulgaria, applying and taking advantage of unique information technology solutions by CISCO systems, e-Administration of the entire treatment procedure, specialized medical departments, a modern cardiovascular centre and unique Imaging Diagnostic equipment. Additionally, most of Acibadem doctors and almost all its nurses have gone through specialized training and received qualifications from top hospitals in Europe and the USA as part of its continuous training exercise to ensure that professional and cautious services are rendered to each patient.
Acibadem have solid collaborations with international medical organizations and among its departments leading it to a position of excellence within the local and global medical healthcare sector. The clinic is steadfast to the achievement of scientific results of high level and, in precise, development and integration of scientific research, health care and training, all intended to realize a sole main objective, the finest patient care.
Acibadem City Clinic have the following amenities:
•84 hospital beds
•8 Specialized Medical Divisions
•5 Surgical Theatres
•One-day Surgical treatment Centre
•Modern Cardiac Surgical treatment Centre
•3-Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) equipment
•128-Slices Computed Tomography Imaging (CT) equipment
•Hospital room upgrades: standard triple room, double room and private apartments
•Option for relatives/friends to stay with the patient during the treatment in the same or in a separate room
Acibadem City Clinic offers the following services to International patients:
•Executive VIP Medical Services
•Preventative Medical Screening programs
•Medical Tourism, Tourism Packages and Travel Services
oMedical Services including:
oCardiac Surgery
oVascular Surgery
oInvasive Cardiology
oNeurovascular procedures
oOne-Day Surgery
oGastroenterology
oRadiology and Diagnostic Imaging
oFurther specific endovascular procedures.
Acibadem City Clinic has been accredited by Joint Commission International (JCI) and it is the pioneer hospital in Bulgaria to receive such accreditation. Close
Aesthetic Surgery Center
The Centre of Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery is the private practice of the two Board certified plastic surgeons Dr. Janis Zarzeckis and Dr.... The Centre of Plastic and Aesthetic...
The Centre of Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery is the private practice of the two Board certified plastic surgeons Dr. Janis Zarzeckis and Dr. Talivaldis Krumins. The Centre of Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery is where best quality services are provided in aesthetic, reconstructive and hand surgery.
Surgical operations carried out at Centre of Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery is listed below:
FACIAL SURGERIES: Facial plastic surgeries are one of the most effective way to employ modern methods in order to remove lines, wrinkles and grooves on the forehead, somewhere at the corners of the mouth and around the eyes which occurs as a result of the aging process of the skin. These new age methods are also utilized to enhance the contours of an aged face, to restore the firmness and youth of the facial skin and skin on the neck. Plastic surgeries done on the face include nose, ear and lip reshaping procedures, providing the opportunity for everyone to enjoy the harmony of his or her inner and outer beauty.
COSMETIC EYELID CORRECTION: the main purpose and objectives of the eyelid plastic surgeries is to eliminate visual defects resulting from the aging process or from congenital and bothersome eyelid peculiarities, which already obvious in a some categories of people at the ages of 20 to 30.
EAR RESHAPING: These type of plastic surgeries of the ears is performed purposely to improve the ear shape, to eliminate consequences resulting from trauma or congenital visual defects. During the surgery, the ear cartilage is reshaped into the desired shape and position (if the ears need to be brought closer to the head). The incision is made behind the ear where scars will not be visible.
Other surgical operations include: nose reshaping, lip reshaping, facial and neck skin rejuvenation among others.
The long-term of experience possessed by both Dr. Janis Zarzeckis and Dr. Talivaldis Krumins, their extensive knowledge and modern working methods in using the latest medical equipment provides patient with the best result and professional care on the way towards a pleasant life, coupled with a fantastic appearance and well-being. Close
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COLUMBIA ASIA WHITEFIELD
Columbia Asia is an international healthcare organization, operating a chain of more than 12 modern hospitals across Asia. Columbia Asia Hos... Columbia Asia is an international h...
Columbia Asia is an international healthcare organization, operating a chain of more than 12 modern hospitals across Asia. Columbia Asia Hospitals Pvt. Ltd.is one of the earliest healthcare corporations to come into India through 100% foreign direct investment (FDI) route. The Columbia Asia Group is owned by more than 150 private equity companies, fund management organizations and individual investors.
Columbia Asia hospitals are efficient, hygienic, customer centric, affordable and accessible. The innovative design of the hospitals, from their convenient size to their cutting-edge technology, is concentrated on generating positive experience for patients.
The hospital is the first in India to launched operations in 2005 in Hebbal, Bangalore and presently Columbia Asia runs eleven facilities. The organization has establishments in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Mysore, Kolkata, Gurgaon, Ghaziabad, Patiala and Pune.
Columbia Asia Hospitals employs the finest professionals from healthcare and other industries, investing in training the employees and have several rewards and recognitions for them.
"To deliver the best clinical outcomes in the most effective, efficient and caring environment"
"passionate for making people better"
The hospitals practice hospitality-based tactic, where patients are treated as guests. Their procedures are technology-driven, making it suitable for patients to make use of their services. All medical programs are supported by a secure confidence and practice of principles, excellence and strict clinical governance.
Columbia Asia currently serves more than one million patients every year. Each hospital provides wide-ranging clinical courses that are supported by numerous ancillary services (ICU, NICU, physiotherapy, referral lab, teleradiology/telemedicine, pharmacy and imaging facilities).
Columbia Asia Hospitals has been accredited by different medical
NABH Accredited Columbia Asia Hospitals in India:
•Columbia Asia Hopitals, Hebbal, Bangalore (accredited - 2007, reaccredited 2010 and 2013)
•Columbia Asia Referral Hospital, Yeshwanthpur, Bangalore (accredited – 2011, reaccredited 2014)
•Columbia Asia Hospital, Palam Vihar, Gurgaon, Haryana (accredited – 2011, reaccredited 2014)
•Columbia Asia Hospital, Pune, Maharashtra (accredited – 2014)
•Columbia Asia Hospital, Mysore, Karnataka (accredited – 2012, reaccredited 2015)
•Columbia Asia Hospital, Patiala, Punjab (accredited – 2014)
•Columbia Asia Hospital, Ghaziabad (accredited - 2015)
NABL Accredited Columbia Asia Hospitals in India:
•Columbia Asia Referral Hospital Yeshwanthpur, Bangalore (accredited – 2010, reaccredited 2012 and 2014)
•Columbia Asia Hospital Hebbal, Bangalore (accredited – 2011, reaccredited 2013)
•Columbia Asia Hospital Palam Vihar, Gurgaon, Haryana (accredited – 2011, reaccredited 2013 and 2015) Close
Gizińscy Medical Centre was established in the 1990s, by Katarzyna Gizińska and Włodzisław Giziński it is a dream come true that crowns many... Gizińscy Medical Centre was establi...
Gizińscy Medical Centre was established in the 1990s, by Katarzyna Gizińska and Włodzisław Giziński it is a dream come true that crowns many years of hard work. More than 20 years ago, a private psychiatric office was opened, and in a short period of time a paediatric-laryngology counselling centre, complying with the first Polish regulations that allowed physicians to take up a standalone initiative. today the clinic has a vast experience of over 20 years in the non-public medical sector.
The clinic started with a single office at Sułkowskiego Street in Bielawy housing estate. In the 1990s, and relocated at Kościuszki Street in the City Centre. Thanks to progressing circumstances, the clinic was able to open there over a dozen of offices and treatment rooms.
Functioning at the very same time in the public health care, university, as well as state and local administration, all the time the clinic was striving to make the simplest and yet the most effective treatments. Employing all experiences and thoughts when relocating the Gizińscy Medical Centre to the new base at Leśna Street. The clinic is definitely a cutting-edge clinic, with several offices and counselling centres, hospital departments, treatment and operating rooms.
The clinic founders entrusted their son, Jędrzej, economist by education, with the administrative and financial management of the centre.
Gizińscy Medical Centre concentrate on a wide variety of services, expert approach for patient's convenience and well-being. All that to make each patients satisfied and contented with the clinic.
Gizińscy Medical Centre provide 81,678 number of counselling appointments in 2015, 21,433 number of counselling appointments provided by 31st,March,2016 and 4 727 number of hospitalisations provided in 2015. 1,153 Number of hospitalisations provided by 31.03.2016.
Gizińscy Medical Centre partners with other organizations such as Uniqa, Tu-zdrowie, Allainz, PZU, Saltus zdrowi. Close
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Medipol Clinic Istanbul
Medipol University Hospital is one of the top largest private health investment located in Turkey. As a university hospital that incorporate... Medipol University Hospital is one...
Medipol University Hospital is one of the top largest private health investment located in Turkey. As a university hospital that incorporates General, Cardiovascular Surgery, Oncology and Dental hospitals, Medipol University Hospital grabs audience with its new age architecture intelligent building technology and state-of-the-art medical equipment and bears the distinction of being one of Turkey's best hospitals with a new generation of technology. Medipol University Hospital, is a new reference center in the health sector in both national and international arenas.
Medipol University Hospital has been justified as the pride of Medipol Education and Health Group in Turkey and around the globe, sequel to this, is a health complex which has JCI standards that accept patients from all over the globe. Medipol University Hospital takes strong steps forward with the big investments and advances in preventive / curative health services in order to enhance the community's quality of life.
At Medipol University Hospital, the hospital capacity has 470 beds, 133-bed Intensive Care Units (General, Coronary, CVC, Neonatal Intensive Care) all serving with an infrastructure equipped with intelligent systems and technology. Medipol University Hospital is the only hospital in Turkey that has the highest number of departments, presents patient-centered superior service approach. The hospital is also organized with a new generation of technology which has the capability of performing simultaneous operations in 25 operating rooms.
The comfort and convenience of patients is at the forefront of Medipol University Hospital. At Medipol University Hospital, both patients and their relatives are hosted in the comfort of home environment. There are 470 beds in total which also involves spacious and modern physical areas, terrace garden suites, suites and normal rooms. Patients can benefit from multimedia services such as TV, DVD, and internet among others in rooms equipped with LCD screen. A high - quality meal service is also supplied to both the patient and their relatives.
Medical Centers at Medipol University Hospital are listed below:
•Bone Marrow- Stem Cell Transplantation Center
•Hemodialysis Center
•In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) Center
•Nuclear Medicine Center
•Organ Transplantation Center
•Medical Oncology
Treatments performed at Medipol University Hospital are listed below:
•Aesthetic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
•Algology
•Anesthesiology
•Brain - Nervous System
•Cardiovascular Surgery
•Dentistry - Oral Surgery
•Ear - Nose – Throat
•General Surgery
•Infectious Diseases
•Internal Diseases
•Neurology
•Obstetrics - Gynecology Close
Jelenia Góra, Poland
The KCM Clinic is situated in the heart of Karkonosze. It is a modern Clinic. The clinic was established in 2006 at first under the name Kar... The KCM Clinic is situated in the h...
The KCM Clinic is situated in the heart of Karkonosze. It is a modern Clinic. The clinic was established in 2006 at first under the name Karkonoskie Centrum Medyczne, which is currently known as the KCM Clinic. KCM clinic begin operating in cooperation with NFZ in order to render all Patients with the highest quality of healthcare services.
In 2009 KCM clinic received the ISO 9001:2009 quality management certificate, and in 2010 the construction of the Hospital began. At the end of 2011 the highly specialized Hospital was officially opened, including a modern multimedia operating theatre, in-patient units, the 1-Day Surgery Clinic, the Rehabilitation Complex, and the Dental Clinic with the highest class equipment. For the patients KCM clinic provide a high-standard single and double rooms with bathrooms, TV, Internet and Wi-Fi.
The goal of KCM clinic is being a clinic that is friendly to both patient and children. Due to cooperation with the Sanford Health, USA, initiated in April 2012, doctors at KCM clinic expand their knowledge and medical experience.
Since the establishment of KMC Clinic, the mission of the clinic is to provide a wide-range help to its Patients and increase access to the latest achievements in medicine. The believe of KCM clinic is that with modern equipment, highly-qualified personnel and, particularly, the clinics doctor's commitment and care for its Patients, it is possible to help anybody who visits KCM Clinic.
Treatment provided at KCM clinic include:
•Weight Loss Surgery
•Spine Surgery
•Laparoscopic Surgery
•Plastic Surgery
•Orthopaedics
•Gynaecology
•Urology
•Otolaryngology
•Eye Clinic
•Dental Clinic
The doctors of KCM Clinic are experienced specialists that possesses high qualifications and scientific achievements. With the doctor's commitment, passion for delivering quality, regular training abroad and scientific research, KCM clinic offer medical care at the highest level. Doctors at KCM take part in in a number of symposia and congresses. In addition, KCM Clinic has a collaboration with Sanford Health in the USA.
Doctors areas of specialization at KCM clinic includes: Anaesthetist, Cardiologist, Diabetolog, Gastrointestinal Surgeon, General Surgeon, Gynaecologist, Internist, Laryngologist, Nephrologist, Neurologist, Neurosurgeon, Ophthalmologist, urologist and Orthopaedist among others. Close
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The Age Of Exploration History Essay
Magellan faced a rough young person ; his parents died when he was merely 10 old ages old. He was besides had a occupation at the age of 12 ; Magellan was appointed as the queen 's courier in the royal tribunal. At the tribunal, he obtained information about many celebrated adventurers and the most of import information about voyaging ships. The royal tribunal was most decidedly where he acquired his inspiration for sailing and geographic expedition.
The Initial Expedition
Magellan 's initial clip at sea was at the age of 25, in 1505. He sailed with Francisco de Almedia, Portugal 's first admiral, and his fleet. In 1511, Magellan went on an expedition to suppress Melaka. After his triumph, a Lusitanian fleet sailed to the Spice Islands ( besides known as the Moluccas Islands ) , Portugal claimed the Moluccas.
Journey around the World
In September of 1519, Magellan and his crew set canvas for southern Spain with five ships-the Santiago, the San Antonio, the Conception, the Trinidad, and the Victoria. Magellan 's fleet sailed across the Atlantic Ocean and reached South America. They stocked up with goods and sailed down the coastline looking for a transition through South America. They did n't happen a path through South America hence, he sailed further and further south. The conditions got colder and colder, and they were running out of supplies. The crew revolted against Magellan and the other captains. The work forces who started the mutiny were hanged and the journey continued. Finally, in October of 1520, Magellan and his fleet found a sound. He named it after himself, naming it the Strait of Magellan. It took 38 yearss to sail through the unsafe sound. They eventually arrived at the ocean that Balboa had discovered several old ages before. However, Magellan named it the Pacific Ocean ( Tepre Pacificum ) because of its unagitated Waterss. They found themselves sailing for hebdomads across the Pacific Ocean with no mark of land. Their imbibing H2O stunk and started to acquire slimed. Fernao magalhaes and his crew were forced to eat rats! Many of his crew suffered from scorbutus. One of the other captains deserted Magellan and sailed the San Antonio back to Spain. In March of 1521, Magellan arrived in Guam, an island in the Pacific ; afterwards he set canvas for the Moluccas.
Fernao magalhaes decided to captain this ocean trip merely because of pure greed, as there was a batch of money to be made on the completion of the ocean trip. Magellan did non profit in the ocean trip as he died in the Philippines. However, he benefited Spain as it was his difficult attempts that lead the ( 18 ) Portuguese to a glorious triumph, the 18 work forces who were alive brought back a whole ship of spices, and spices back so were in some instances more expensive than gold! Besides, on the manner back to Spain he captured Trinidad and that is why today in Trinidad, a per centum of the population speaks Spanish.
Magellan 's Last Dayss
Magellan ne'er made it to the Moluccas ( Spice Islands ) . He was caught in a war in the Philippine islands. On April 27, 1521, at Cebu, Philippines ; he got killed by a group of indigens by a poisoned pointer and a lance ; the toxicant pointer landed in his pes and the lance in his bosom. Magellan died at the age of 40-41. After Magellan died, his crew burned his ship. Merely 3 ships remained. Merely two ships really reached the Spice Islands because the Santiago was sunk in a storm. His crew loaded both ships with a rich lading and headed for Spain. On the manner place, the Portuguese who had claimed the Spice Islands captured the Trinidad. The Victoria was the lone ship to do it safely back to Spain. Out of the five ships that began the journey, merely one ship made the ocean trip around the universe. Out of 250 work forces, merely 18 survived, [ that is about, for every 1 individual who survived the full journey, 14 other people died ] – Fernao magalhaes was non one of them.
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Ferdinand Magellan ( 1480-1521 ) was a Lusitanian adventurer who led the first expedition that sailed around the Earth ( 1519-1522 ) . Magellan besides named the Pacific Ocean ( the name means that it is a composure, peaceable ocean )
He was the boy of Pedro Ruy de Magalhaes, city manager of the town, and of Alda de Mezquita. He was brought up at the Court of Portugal and learned uranology and the maritime scientific disciplines under good instructors, among whom may hold been Martin Behaim. These surveies filled him at an early age with enthusiasm for the great ocean trips of find which were being made at that period.
In 1505, he took portion in the expedition of Francisco d'Almeida, which was equipped to set up the Portuguese viceroyalty in India, and in 1511 he performed of import services in the Lusitanian conquering of Malacca. He returned place in 1512 and took portion in the Lusitanian expedition to Morocco, where he was badly wounded. On history of a personal dissension with the commander-in-chief, he left the ground forces without permission. This and an unfavorable study that had been made upon him by Almeida led to his shame with the male monarch.
I ne'er made it to the Spice Islands. I was caught in a war in the Philippine islands. We faced a group of indigens who killed me with a poisoned pointer in my pes and a lance through my bosom. After I died, my crew burned my ship. Now merely 3 ships remained. My organic structure was left buttocks. Merely two ships really reached the Spice Islands because the Santiago was sunk in a storm. My crew loaded both ships with a rich lading and headed for Spain. On the manner place, the Portuguese who had claimed the Spice Islands captured the Trinidad. The Victoria was the lone ship to do it safely back to Spain. Out of the five ships that began the journey, merely one ship made the ocean trip around the universe. Out of 250 work forces, merely 18 survivedaˆ¦I was non one of them.
Serrao 's letters helped construct in my head the location of the Spice Islands, which subsequently became the finish for my great ocean trip. I asked the King of Portugal to back up my journey, but he refused. After that, I begged the King of Spain to back up my journey. He was interested in my program since Spain was looking for a better sea path to Asia than the Lusitanian path around the southern tip of Africa. It was traveling to be difficult to happen crewmans, though. None of the Spanish crewmans wanted to sail with me because I was Lusitanian. I would hold to take anybody who signed on, whether they were good mariners or non. Partss of my crew were captives, released from gaol in return for sailing with me.
In September of 1519, my crew and I said our supplications and put canvas for southern Spain with five ships-the Santiago, the San Antonio, the Conception, the Trinidad, and the Victoria. At first, all went good. Our little fleet sailed across the Atlantic Ocean and reached South America. We stocked up with goods and sailed down the coastline looking for a transition through this great continent. We merely could n't happen a path through South America! We sailed further and further south, sailing into every river and bay we came upon. The conditions was acquiring colder, and we were running out of supplies. The crew revolted against the other captains and me. I had the work forces who started the mutiny hanged, and so we continued our journey. Finally, in October of 1520, we found a sound. I named it after myself, naming it the Strait of Magellan. It took 38 yearss to sail through the unsafe sound. We eventually arrived at the ocean that Balboa had discovered several old ages before. I named it the Pacific Ocean because of its unagitated Waterss. We found ourselves sailing for hebdomads across this ocean with no mark of land. Our imbibing H2O stunk and started to acquire slimed. My crew and I had to eat rats! Could you imagine eating a rat? Many of my crew suffered from scorbutus. One of the other captains deserted me and sailed the San Antonio back to Spain. In March of 1521, we arrived in Guam, an island in the Pacific. From at that place, we headed for the Moluccas
My first clip at sea was in 1505 when I was 25 old ages old. I sailed with Francisco de Almedia, Portugal 's first admiral, and his fleet. In 1511, I went on an expedition to suppress Melaka. After our triumph, a Lusitanian fleet sailed to the Spice Islands ( besides known as the Moluccas Islands ) . Portugal claimed the islands at this clip. One of my close friends, Francisco Serrao, went on the ocean trip and wrote to me. In his letters he described the path and the island of Ternate.
Hartig, Otto. " Ferdinand Magellan. " The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 9. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. 7 Aug. 2010 & lt ; hypertext transfer protocol: //www.newadvent.org/cathen/09526b.htm & gt ; .
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