Had the victim ever received treatment for depression or any other mental disorder?
Did the victim have a problem with substance abuse?
If the victim was depressed was he or she openly aggressive, anxious, or agitated?
Conveying that effective treatments for most of these conditions are available (but underutilized) may encourage those with such problems to seek help.
Acknowledging the deceased person's problems and struggles as well as the positive aspects of his/her life or character contributes to a more balanced picture.
Studies of suicide based on in-depth interviews with those close to the victim indicate that, in their first, shocked reaction, friends and family members may find a loved one's death by suicide inexplicable or they may deny that there were warning signs.22,23 Accounts based on these initial reactions are often unreliable.
Some informants are inclined to suggest that a particular individual, for instance a family member, a school, or a health service provider, in some way played a role in the victim's death by suicide. Thorough investigation almost always finds multiple causes for suicide and fails to corroborate a simple attribution of responsibility.
Dramatizing the impact of suicide through descriptions and pictures of grieving relatives, teachers or classmates or community expressions of grief may encourage potential victims to see suicide as a way of getting attention or as a form of retaliation against others.
Using adolescents on TV or in print media to tell the stories of their suicide attempts may be harmful to the adolescents themselves or may encourage other vulnerable young people to seek attention in this way.
Referring to a "rise" in suicide rates is usually more accurate than calling such a rise an "epidemic," which implies a more dramatic and sudden increase than what we generally find in suicide rates.
Whenever possible, it is preferable to avoid referring to suicide in the headline. Unless the suicide death took place in public, the cause of death should be reported in the body of the story and not in the headline.
In deaths that will be covered nationally, such as of celebrities, or those apt to be covered locally, such as persons living in small towns, consider such phrasing for headlines as: "Marilyn Monroe dead at 36," or "John Smith dead at 48." How they died could be reported in the body of the article.
In the body of the story, it is preferable to describe the deceased as "having died by suicide," rather than as "a suicide," or having "committed suicide." The latter two expressions reduce the person to the mode of death, or connote criminal or sinful behavior.
Contrasting "suicide deaths" with "non-fatal attempts" is preferable to using terms such as "successful," "unsuccessful" or "failed."
Celebrity deaths by suicide are more likely than non-celebrity deaths to produce imitation.24 Although suicides by celebrities will receive prominent coverage, it is important not to let the glamour of the individual obscure any mental health problems or use of drugs.
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Gould, M.S. (2001). Suicide and the media. In H. Hendin, & J.J. Mann (Eds.), The clinical science of suicide prevention (pp. 200224). New York: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.
Fekete, S., & A. Schmidtke. (1995) The impact of mass media reports on suicide and attitudes toward self-destruction: Previous studies and some new data from Hungary and Germany. In B. L. Mishara (Ed.), The impact of suicide. (pp. 142-155). New York: Springer.
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Mann, J.J., Waternaux, C., Haas, G.L., & Malone, K.M.(1999). Toward a clinical model of suicidal behavior in psychiatric patients. American Journal of Psychiatry, 156: 181-189.
Soloff, P.H., Lynch, K.G., Kelly, T.M., Malone, K.M., & Mann, J.J. (2000). Characteristics of suicide attempts of patients with major depressive episode and borderline personality disorder: a comparative study. American Journal of Psychiatry, 157: 601-608.
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You may remember Switch Galaxy Ultra from its debut at Gamescom this year. Set for release on the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita the arcade-twitch style racer has players navigating their ship on a series of rails. all while dodging obstacles and enemies at extremely fast speeds.
It was known since the games announcement that the English Developer and Publisher Atomicom would have some sort of partnership with the national charity "Caudwell Children", but the full extent of what that meant was not known at the time.
"We are delighted to announce our support for Caudwell Children.
We have wanted to work with the charity for a while and feel this is the perfect time for us to support them so we devised an exclusive download pack for them with sales of this going to help support the work they do. We can't wait to launch the game as it's really come a long way since we launched Switch on mobile back in 2011, it's quite an amazing story for us to have the latest version launching on PS4 and PS Vita and to bring Caudwell Children with us along for the ride." said Gary Nichols CEO and Co-Founder of Atomicom at Gamescom 2013.
Today however a press release was sent out detailing the exclusive content that was created through the collaboration.
Personally I believe that games as a medium have the potential to instill so much empathy and understanding into those who experience them, however this goes above and beyond even what I had hoped for. It is humbling to see all that Atomicom are doing to support those in need, actions that do not fall on deaf ears.
"The announcement that Caudwell Children will play a key role within Switch Galaxy Ultra is a fantastic one for the charity.
Switch Galaxy Ultra will be released on November 15 2013 for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita, but will eventually be made available for the PlayStation 3.


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After Teenage Mistakes, Pardons Give Second Chances To Ex-Offenders
Eduardo made a mistake 10 days before he turned 18 in New York City.
"Basically every single day, I relive that moment," says Eduardo, who is now 32 and still regularly passes by the spot where he was arrested for the first and only time in his life.
Police caught him selling cocaine on the sidewalk next to the apartment building he's lived in since he was a kid. His plan, he says, was to make some money to pay for marijuana. Instead, it stalled his college years and landed him a three-years-to-life sentence in an adult prison.
He convinced a parole board to let him out early after more than seven months. Still, he came home at 18 years old with a criminal record.
"Shortcuts, they won't get you anywhere, man. Just give you a hard time," he says. "They'll give you a lot of time to think."
He asked NPR to identify him only by his first name because he's worried a future employer or landlord might find out about his criminal record. He says it's cost him plenty of jobs since he left prison.
"The initial interview would go great, but towards the end when it was time to run that background check, that's when reality hit," he explains. "I've heard the word 'no' so many times. It's hard, man. It's hard to keep telling yourself you're not going to give up."
But just before the new year, Eduardo finally got the phone call he had been waiting for. One of his attorneys called him late one night to tell him that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was granting him a pardon.
It's one of the first pardons in New York state for former offenders who committed a nonviolent crime when they were 16 or 17 and have stayed conviction-free for at least 10 years. Anyone convicted of a sex crime does not qualify, and pardons can be withdrawn if the recipient is re-convicted.
Cuomo announced the first group of 101 pardons on Dec. 30, after creating the youth pardon program in late 2015. About 10,000 people could benefit from this program for New York residents, according to an estimate from the governor's office. So far, it's received 260 applications.
For Eduardo, receiving the governor's pardon means the conviction record that's haunted him into his early 30s is now sealed from the general public. Some government agencies that require a deeper background check through fingerprinting can still access his rap sheet. Still, sealing his conviction record could help get rid of many of the barriers to jobs and housing Eduardo and thousands of other former teen offenders have faced.
"They serve no good public safety function, and yet they really make it even more difficult for people to readjust to the community once they've completed their prison term," says Marc Mauer, executive director of The Sentencing Project.
He says New York's program could serve as a model for other states, including North Carolina. That's the only other state like New York that charges 16- and 17-year-olds for all crimes not as juveniles, but as adults.
Mauer adds that records in the adult justice system can be harder to seal than in the juvenile system. In fact, adult records about misdemeanors in New York are never sealed.
"You can be 16 years old, you can hop a turnstile, you can get convicted for theft of services, and that will be on your record the rest of your life," says Laurie Parise, executive director of Youth Represent and one of the attorneys who helped Eduardo apply for Cuomo's pardon.
While many advocates for criminal justice reform hail the pardon program as an important way to help former teen offenders, they also see the need for pardons as a reminder that New York has one of the country's toughest sentencing laws for teenagers.
"The real solution to this is for New York to raise the age," says Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, referring to proposals to change state laws so that 16- and 17-year-olds are tried as juveniles. "That way kids will be treated as kids and not subjected to the scars of a criminal conviction. They'll be more likely to be able to stand on their own feet."
Cuomo, a Democrat, supports reform efforts in New York. But lawmakers in the Republican-controlled state Senate have pushed back against recent proposals to raise the age of criminal responsibility, citing concerns about how a change would put more pressure on courts and housing for juvenile offenders.
While they wait for a legislative solution, advocates at Youth Represent and other organizations are trying to find more former teen offenders in New York to apply for a second chance in time for the next round of pardons.
"We can't continue to define young people by the worst mistake they ever made," Parise, Eduardo's attorney, says. "We have to give people a chance."
Eduardo's still waiting for his chance to become a health educator. Since finishing his prison sentence, he's completed his associate's, bachelor's and master's degrees. For now, he's working two jobs to help raise his four-year-old daughter.
More than a decade later, memories of his arrest and time in prison still motivate him today.
"I tell myself, 'I am better than this.' I am much better than what a piece of paper or what this judge has sentenced me," he says. "I know that this is not who I am."

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North Highland College UHI and Developing the Young Workforce North Highland (DYW) initiative, led by Caithness Chamber of Commerce, have signed a partnership agreement to formalise their new initiative, The Apprenticeship Hub. The initiative aims to create a collaborative approach between North Highland College UHI and Developing the Young Workforce North Highland to support growth in the apprenticeship family to benefit the Caithness and Sutherland economy.
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First Newton Room In The UK Is Officially Opened In Thurso
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A deal to harmonise staff pay at a cost of £50m a year will absorb projected savings from the reform of Scotland's colleges, says the Auditor General. Caroline Gardner's annual report on colleges says the sector reported a very small surplus in its underlying financial position in 2016/17, compared to the previous year's £8m deficit.
Report highlights success of Highland and Islands colleges
A new report has revealed that 70.3% of full-time students successfully completed their studies at Highlands and Islands colleges in the 2016 to 2017 academic year. This is higher than the national average figure which shows that 65.3% of students passed further education courses at Scottish colleges in the period.
Report highlights threat of marine plastics to seabirds
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Q: Overwriting properties of abstract class I am defining a class GameState and a class MainMenuGameState. The former is meant to be an abstract class and the latter is inheriting it. But somehow, I am not able to overwrite its properties.
GameState.h
#ifndef _GAME_STATE_H_
    #define _GAME_STATE_H_

#include <SDL2/SDL.h>

class GameState {
    public:
        virtual void loop(Uint32 deltaTime) = 0;
        virtual void render() = 0;
        virtual void event(SDL_Event * event) = 0;

        bool stopRenderPropagation = false;
        bool stopLoopPropagation = false;
};

#endif

MainMenuGameState.h
#ifndef _MAIN_MENU_GAME_STATE_H_
    #define _MAIN_MENU_GAME_STATE_H_

#include "../Game.h"

class MainMenuGameState : public GameState {
    public:
        MainMenuGameState(Game * pGame);

        void loop(Uint32 deltaTime);
        void render();
        void event(SDL_Event * event);

        bool stopRenderPropagation = true;
        bool stopLoopPropagation = true;

    private:
        Game * game;

        int xOffset = 0;
        int yOffset = 0;
};

#endif

So after instanciating a MainMenuGameState object, I expected stopRenderPropagation and stopLoopPropagation to be true, but they are false.
I also had no luck overwriting them inside the constructor for some reason.
MainMenuGameState::MainMenuGameState(Game * pGame) {
    game = pGame;

    xOffset = rand() % 20;
    yOffset = rand() % 20;

    stopRenderPropagation = true;
    stopLoopPropagation = true;
}

After that, they are still true. I don't know weather this is a problem with my constructor or if I misunderstood polymorphism in c++.
The instances of MainMenuGameState get stored in a vector<GameState *>, could this be the problem? I am accessing the properties like this:
if(gameStates.begin() != gameStates.end()) {
    std::vector<GameState *>::iterator it = gameStates.end();
    do {
        --it;
    } while(it != gameStates.begin() && (*it)->stopLoopPropagation == false);

    while(it != gameStates.end()) {
        (*it)->loop(deltaTime);
        ++it;
    }
}

Thank you for your help!

A: Your derived class is declaring another couple of members with the same name of the members in the base class, thus "hiding" the base ones.
You should accept the initial values for those members in the constructor, or if they are fixed properties of the class that never change you should make them member functions instead like in
class GameState {
    public:
        ...
        virtual bool stopRenderPropagation() { return false; }
        virtual bool stopLoopPropagation() { return false; }
};

class MainMenuGameState : public GameState {
    public:
        ...
        bool stopRenderPropagation() { return true; }
        bool stopLoopPropagation() { return true; }
        ...
};

A: Inheriting data members (your booleans) does not work in the same way as inheriting and overloading methods. Try putting the bools as protected inherited data members instead (uninitialized), and initialize them in the respective subclass constructors instead.
class MainMenuGameState : public GameState {
    public:
        MainMenuGameState(Game * pGame);

        void loop(Uint32 deltaTime);
        void render();
        void event(SDL_Event * event);

    protected:
        bool stopRenderPropagation;
        bool stopLoopPropagation;

    private:
        Game * game;

        int xOffset = 0;
        int yOffset = 0;
};

A: You declare new variables in your derived class, which is leading to these problems. Variables that are not private are inherited:
struct A { int x };
struct B : A {}; // has B::x by inheritance

You can just set them in your constructor without redeclaration:
struct A { int x; };
struct B : A { B() : x(1) {} };

Notice that it is usually considered bad practice to declare public variables, it is more common to implement getters and setters instead:
struct A
{
    int x() const { return x_; }
    int & x() { return x_; }

    private:
        int x_;
};

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Whatsapp for Samsung B5722
Samsung isn't one to skimp on its creations, and the Samsung B5722 is a top contender. Sleek and stylish, this phone competes very well against more expensive phones out there at a price of $125.
Storing apps isn't an issue as this phone has 30MB of internal memory and a microSD slot that can hold 8GB microSD card. You can hold 1000 contacts on it's phonebook. Regardless of all its high-tech features, the B5722 is a smartphone and if you're like most people you'll want to use your phone for texting.
Unfortunately, text message fees can be a bit hefty and might hurt your budget. Whatsapp, an app that lets you send text messages without paying any texting fees, is the perfect solution. Here's a step by step guide of how to download and install Whatsapp.
Download Whatsapp From The Android Store
This phone uses the Android operating system so you'll have to download it from their store. It should take up much space on the phone's hard drive and the download speed is likely to be quite short.
There are conditions to the installation of Whatsapp. To use Whatspp you're going to have to agree to them to move on. For the most part, it's nothing you haven't already seen in other apps.
Input the number of your cell phone into the device. Make sure you have a stable wifi connect, or the verification process might not work. Reboot the phone if this fails and re-install the latest version of the app.
Type In The Name You Would Like Displayed To Others
Simply input the name that others will see when you send them a message. If you do not like it you may change the name later.
Restore Old Contacts From Previous Versions
If you have previously used Whatsapp you may transfer your old contacts to the latest versions. When the app prompts you, agree to transfer contacts.
Begin Sending Messages
The app should be functioning fully and allow you to send messages. As long as the person you are sending the text to has an activated cell phone you can send a text message to them
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Climate change is exacerbating the pollen season and your allergies |
Allergies aren't just the hassle of the sneaky season.
Hay fever has a major impact on health and economy.It exacerbates asthma and weakens defense against Respiratory virus, as a result Visit to more emergency rooms It confused school education and work.
Climate change has already exacerbated the pollen season in the United States and Canada, revealing a new study of nearly 30 years of data. The pollen season is getting longer and more intense.
According to the author, the time and amount of pollen that North Americans are exposed to pollen has "significantly increased" in recent decades.
Researchers examined various pollen indicators from 1990 to 2018 from 60 monitoring stations in North America. Scientists have found that the pollen season began up to 20 days ago and lasted up to 8 days longer.
The number of pollen or the concentration of pollen also increased, increasing by 20.9% between 1990 and 2018, and by 21.5% in the spring season alone.
"There is a huge amount of research on how climate change already affects our health. Our research has made climate change the number one cause of asthma, allergies and respiratory health problems. It fills in the important part that binds to one of the pollen, "says William. Anderegg, an assistant professor of biology at the University of Utah and the lead author of the study published at Journal PNAS on Monday.
"It's a clear example that climate change is here now."
The largest and most consistent growth was in Texas and the Midwestern United States, and research found Andereg to be surprised. He expected to see a larger increase in pollen in the more northern states.
He hypothesized that the reason for this was "not completely clear and would require further research to elucidate. The plant species found there are particularly sensitive to warming and the production of more pollen. There may be. "
The study looked at various factors in this change, including temperature changes, rainfall, frost days, and carbon dioxide levels, and found that rising average annual temperatures were the strongest factor.
Researchers also used computer models of the Earth's climate to calculate how anthropogenic climate change increased pollen levels and lengthened pollen seasons.
"These computer models simulate a world without anthropogenic climate change and a world with anthropogenic climate change (that is, the real world)," Anderegg said in an email.
"By combining the observed pollen-temperature relationship with these two different scenarios, we can estimate how much anthropogenic climate change is affecting pollen trends."
The pollen season gets longer
Researchers have concluded that it is a "strong impetus" in terms of the early start of the pollen season and the length of the long season. But with higher pollen levels, it was a more modest impetus.
According to scientists, the 2003-2018 period had a significant contribution to anthropogenic climate change compared to the longer 1990-2018 period. This is the cumulative impact of climate change, the cumulative impact of climate change, and the shorter duration.
Researchers also see that the impact on the human environment is milder when looking at annual figures compared to the spring season, and some reduction in summer pollen numbers is due to the life cycle of some plant species. He said it indicates a shift.
Some according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 19.2 million adults have been diagnosed with hay fever -Allergic reaction to pollen, fine powder from plants that may come in contact with eyes, nose, mouth and throat.
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Poll Results – Is Caledon too Big?
(Port Babbage) – Surprisingly enough, the vote was in favor of further expansion of Caledon go figure! The results of the survey "Is Caledon Too Big"?
It would seem that that the desire for Caledon to grow is insatiable! As voting began, the "Manifest Destiny" crowd seemed to be dominating the vote. However, near the end to the selection period, the "Too Big" group made a dramatic upsurge in its voice. Not quite a dead heat, but an interesting divide between the two groups. The "Stay Pat" group was in the minority, and never made any significant gains (my selection lol)!
1) I feel that I need to be a bit less flippant offering future choices the combination of "No, it needs to be bigger" and "Manifest Destiny" are essentially the same, with only slight grade of grey. As such, I will combine those for statistical analysis purposes, and be clearer with choices in the future.
2) As I understand it, the expansion of Caledon will end with the remaining four planned sims. Please do not quote me on this, as I cannot attribute this to a specific source. If there is word to the contrary, please let me know!
3) Also, I have understood that Steelhead will be expanding in the near future. Steelhead Harborside is filling out quite smartly, and from what I have seen, it is my opinion (*editorial alert*) that Steelhead will prove to be an excellent destination, especially with its cohesive theme.
4) Additionally, New Babbage is expected to expand in the first part of this year, and Antiquity, well they have recently opened Antiquity Township East, a second urban Victorian sim, growing dramatically since its opening in early August of last year.
Growing Victorian-era sims (Steelhead, Antiquity, New Babbage), more sims joining with Caledon (Winterfell, Brythony Isle), and new sims (Solarya) all point to the growing interest of Victorian and Steampunk themes in Second Life, it would seem. Question is well, that may be another poll!
If you will be so kind as to let me correct your comment '…more sims joining with Caledon (Winterfell, Brythony Isle)…'.
Winterfell and Brythony Isle have not 'joined with' Caledon, but merely share contiguous seas. The arrangements for this, true, were due to friendly agreements between the heads of the three nations, but it is not an implied political relationship in the sense that many may be used to and assuming – no 'League of Nations', one would say.
Miss Serra, Seneschal of Winterfell, consulted with sages and came up with a name for the continent on which these three, and soon four (Lovelace Over the Sea) nations find themselves: the Realm of the Roses. It is far less biased a name than 'Caledon and neighbours', ja?
Perhaps the use of the word "joining" could be seen as a verbal mischaracterization of the agreement between Caledon and its new neighbors. The intent of the phrase in question was merely to illustrate the physical association, the "joining" of borders (e.g. sea lanes") between the nations in question that has happened recently.
It was not to imply that the sims in question had become part of Caledon, only to demonstrate the sway that Caledon in the SL Victorian arena.
I apologise for over-explaining the point; I am sure you personally were well aware of the tone, or shall we say, the lay of the lands.
However, I know you have a wide readership and many of them would not have had access to some of the same information as you and I. I hope to forstall any misunderstandings from further afield.
…But if economic conditions roughly remain the same, all things being equal, Caledon will be at maximum size in mid 2008. Yes, entirely completed, per a master plan I've been working with for months. Just seven more regions to go, six in 2008. Beyond that I *may* add one set of void sims, maybe, to link to some neighbours….
This post is also where Herr Guvnah Shang mentions those invited to share nautical boundaries. Quite interesting, and as one who is engaged in long-term national planning at home, the differences are enlightning.
Caledon is nearing its proper size now. Five more regions to go is all, and they won't change the overall size terribly much. Maps have been publically available for a long time re: the final shape of its coastline.
But I miiight have a surprise or two in the works!
@ Baron Wulfenbach – Thank you for the clarification regarding the Realm of the Roses, and the link to the Caledon forums about the proposed plans for Caledon. I completly agree that a correct understanding of the circumstances area an essential priority. Again, ty, sir!
@ Guvnah Shang – Sir, I'm certain that we come to expect no less from your master plans and are looking forward to the further sims and suprises you are planning!


New features are out there for VersionEye Enterprise. In an Enterprise environment it makes sense that ALL users can see ALL projects. If everybody can see everything you want to avoid to monitor the same project twice. That can happen if 2 developers create a new VersionEye project from the same project file in the same git repository and the same branch. In that case 2 VersionEye projects point to the exactly same project file on the git server. The new features address exactly this problem.
has to be unique. That will work for most of the projects. But if you are creating/updating projects via the VersionEye API or through the VersionEye Maven Plugin, this will not work anymore. For Maven based projects the combination of GroupId and ArtifactId has to be unique.
The current version of VersionEye Enterprise supports both. If you are logged in as admin you can turn this 2 constraints on under the "Global Settings" there is a new section for "Project Settings".
This new feature is implemented in the business logic of VersionEye and it works without database constraints/indexes. That means it will have no effect on already existing projects. But if somebody tries to create a new project wich already is monitored by VersionEye an error message will popup.
The error message shows the Project ID of the already existing project.
This 2 constraints are specially a big help if you have a lot of projects and a lot of developers. Let me know if you have questions to this new feature.


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Survey says more people are gardening, even Millennials
The National Gardening Survey reports lawn and garden spending up, food gardening more popular than flowers.
Industry News Retail News Trends
The National Gardening Survey has some good news for garden retailers. After reporting a five-year low in lawn and garden spending in 2014, consumers spent a reported $36.1 billion dollars in 2015, according to a press release about recently released results of the annual survey.
The average amount spent on the back yard or balcony nationwide in 2015 was $401 per household, up from a low of $317 in 2014.
"Participation in gardening did not decline much during the economic downturn," says industry analyst Bruce Butterfield, who heads the National Gardening Market Research Company and oversees the survey each year. "People have been participating in gardening all along but they weren't spending as much in recent years ... These results are encouraging. Not only did DIY gardening have 6 million more customers, they spent more, too."
According to the survey, the highest spending was among Baby Boomers, married households, those with annual incomes of more than $75,000 and college graduates – but the most important market force was 18- to 34-year-olds. Five million of the six million "new" gardening households were Millennials.
Food gardening and flower gardening were the most popular gardening activities last year. About one out of three households participated in food gardening (36 percent) or flower gardening (34 percent). Households spent an estimated $3.6 billion growing vegetables, fruit, berries and herbs and $2.7 billion on flower gardening.
The 250 page National Gardening Survey report can be purchased at GardenResearch.com. The survey is conducted by The National Gardening Market Research Company, formerly part of the National Gardening Association, a well-known authority on the U.S. consumer lawn and garden market.
Photo taken at Petitti Garden Centers' Avon location by Michelle Simakis
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U.S. extends overtime pay
4.2 million salaried workers will be affected by the rule, which will take effect Dec. 1.
Industry News Legislation
The Obama administration on Tuesday unveiled the final version of a long-awaited and controversial rule to extend overtime pay to 4.2 million U.S. workers, which marks one of the administration's most significant moves to address stagnant wages.
The rule, which has drawn intense criticism from business groups and Republicans, doubles the maximum annual income a salaried worker can earn and still be automatically eligible for overtime pay from $23,660 to $47,476 and requires that threshold to be updated every three years. It takes effect Dec. 1.
Officials said many workers will earn more money, an estimated total of $12 billion over the next decade, while others will work fewer hours for the same pay.
For the full story on nbcnews.com, click here.
National Garden Bureau members to host Summer Vegetable Trials
Attendees can visit six breeder trials throughout California.
Industry News Plants Trade Show & Event Coverage
May 16, 2016 – DOWNERS GROVE, Il. – For the second year in a row, vegetable breeding companies focusing on the fresh market and home garden segments are coming together to host Summer Vegetable Trials via open houses and field days. This event will be held in six locations from August 8-19, 2016. Just like the long-standing California Spring Trials that are held annually in California during the month of April, attendees will have the opportunity to visit breeder company trial sites throughout the state.
Customers, growers and the media should contact each company below to arrange their visits. Please note that not all stops are open all days. Visits will focus on observing new varieties in a field or garden setting and learning about new breeding and marketing opportunities from the respective hosts.
National Garden Bureau, the non-profit organization promoting gardening on behalf of the horticulture industry, is organizing and publicizing this event on behalf of members.
Individual companies hosting a Field Day or Open House during August are:
1. American Takii, 301 Natividad Road, Salinas, Ca.
Crops featured: Asian vegetables, lettuce, peppers, tomato, squash, cucumber, carrots, radish, cabbage
www.takii.com
Dates: August 8 -19, 2016
Appointments are mandatory, no drop ins.
Contact: Julia Paul, jpaul@takii.com
2. PanAmerican Seed, 335 Briggs Road, Santa Paula, Ca.
Crops featured: vegetables and cut flowers; 2015 AAS Ornamental Trials
www.panamseed.com
Dates: August 10 - 16, 2015
Appointments are mandatory, no drop-ins.
Contact: Josh Kirschenbaum, jkirschenbaum@panamseed.com
3. Sakata Seed America, 105 Boronda Road, Salinas, Ca.
Crops featured: cool crops; 2016 AAS Edible/Vegetable and Ornamental Trials.
www.sakatavegetables.com
Dates: August 15 (Noon – 5 p.m.)
August 16 (8 a.m. - 5 p.m.)
Contact: info@sakata.com
4. Sakata Seed America, 12498 Country Road 100, Woodland, Ca.
Crops featured: warm crops
http://www.sakatavegetables.com/
Dates: August 17-18, 2016 (8 a.m. – 5 p.m.)
5. Seeds By Design/Terra Organics, 3856 Cosby Ave, Chico, Ca.
Crops featured: cucumber, herbs, squash, pumpkin, gourd, pepper, tomato, melon and watermelon; 2016 AAS Edible/Vegetable trials.
Summer Garden Trials Luncheon on August 12, 2016.
www.seedsbydesign.com & www.terraorganics.com
Phone: 530-438-2126 for appointments on other dates
Contact: Miles Rogers or Susan Birdseye, MilesR@seedsbydesign.com or SusanB@seedsbydesign.com
6. Syngenta at Syngenta Flowers, 2280 Hecker Pass Hwy, Gilroy, Ca.
Crops featured: in-ground and patio trials featuring tomato, pepper, squash, beans, cantaloupe and watermelon; 2016 AAS Ornamental trials.
www.syngentafhg.com
Contact: Jeannine Bogard, jeannine.bogard@syngenta.com or syngenta.flowers-1@syngenta.com
For more information about this program and/or membership in National Garden Bureau, please contact Diane Blazek.
National Garden Bureau
Study shows all generations buying more flowers
73 percent of Generations Y, X and Boomers surveyed said they have a "high appreciation of flowers."
SAF Society of American Florists
Industry News Retail News
A new study reveals that consumers of every generation have grown to appreciate flowers more and more over the past several years, and continue to buy flowers as gifts for other people and themselves.
The American Floral Endowment (AFE), in partnership with the Society of American Florists (SAF), conducted the 2016 Generations of Flowers Study. This study is an update to the 2009 SAF study exploring consumer perceptions of flowers and purchasing/gift-giving behavior among three generations: Generation Y (ages 22-39), Generation X (ages 40-51) and Baby Boomers (ages 52-70).
Nearly three-fourths (73 percent) of all three generations said they have a high appreciation of flowers, a significant increase compared to 2009 findings.
According to the study, flowers attract people through their senses and emotions:
Consumers strongly agreed the color of flowers adds to the impact of a gift (70 percent), the sight and smell can improve their mood (69 percent), and the fragrance is important to them (64 percent).
Nearly two-thirds of all study respondents feel special when receiving flowers as a gift and find flowers to be an emotional gift, while 60 percent said flowers have a special meaning unlike any other gift.
The study results for all three generations were similar in other ways:
Two in five consumers (40 percent) purchased flowers in the past year for home decoration, and 22 percent purchased them as a present for themselves.
82 percent of consumers make gift purchases at local florists, including nearly two-thirds who shop in-person.
Just one-third (34 percent) said they don't purchase flowers more often due to them being viewed as too expensive. In 2009, nearly half of respondents identified cost as a barrier.
To download the executive summary and full report, visit endowment.org/GenerationsStudy.
Photo courtesy of AFE
Editor's note: While the study focuses primarily on cut flowers, growers of traditional nursery crops can learn from this research, especially when it comes to building a gift-plant market.
May 2016 issue now available online
In this issue, we talked with several students, professors and managers in the green industry about the future of horticulture.
Industry News Management New Varieties Retail News Supplier News
You can now browse Garden Center magazine's May issue at this link or by selecting "digital edition" from the "Magazine" tab.
In the May cover story, we spoke with students pursuing careers in the green industry about their motivations and expectations, as well as hiring managers and professors to gain their insights into this new generation of horticulture professionals. This cover story includes data from an online survey taken by 145 students at 17 different schools with horticulture programs around the country.
Other topics in this issue include color trends for the upcoming gardening season, strategies for using natural scents to boost rose sales, the popularity of an outdoor dining and "garden-to-grill" lifestyle, the benefits of a packed and varied events calendar and more.
Also, garden center leaders speak out on how their businesses make their mark, we revisit the implementation of EMV credit card systems and showcase new plant varieties and hard goods entering the market.
Keep up with the latest news on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram.
Photo of Ohio State University students Cristen Flamm and Nathan Detwiler by Leonardo Carrizo.
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Former Confederates Desecrate Statue of Washington!
On May 29, 1890 Richmond, Virginia dedicated a large statue to the memory of civil war general Robert E. Lee. The occasion became a large gathering of the surviving soldiers who served the Confederacy. Old soldiers' organizations from across the South attended as well as many soldiers who had served in the Grand Army of the Republic. Robert E. Lee's son, Fitzhugh Lee, was serving his final year as the governor of Virginia. The Confederate National Flags and even some Battle Flags were on display during the even along side a roughly equal number of Old Glories. In public the talk was about national unity under the flag of the United States. One old veteran opined to the press that he thought this would be the last time the Confederate flag would be on display in public, as the nation needed to move forward from the wounds of the war. Observers from Northern States cast a jaundiced eye on the ceremonies, looking to see if the South was serious about its return to the fold. There were many private celebrations where the old soldiers came together. Dixie played on local stages was met with thunderous applause and rebel yells. Even so, Old Glory, was a prominent guest at these festivities. The speeches in the smaller reunions tended to be a bit more salty than those during the ceremony. General Thomas Lafayette Rosser, an able cavalryman, railed upon the Reconstruction Period (1866-1877). [As an aside Rosser gets a special note for directing battery fire that resulted in the first wartime downing of an enemy aircraft during the War of the Rebellion.] The tone of the events in late May was to continue with healing. It is unclear what Rosser was up to as by 1890 the sold South was run by former Confederates and all occupation forces had been removed as part of the Compromise of 1877. It was a period we now refer to as the Jim Crow Period and part of the compromise was that the Southern States would be left to deal with Negroes within their boundaries without interference from the North.
Along with Rosser's intemperate speech he press was given a chance when several "young men" climbed atop a statue of George Washington and placed a Confederate Flag (unknown which one) in the founding father's hands. They were roundly chastised by several of the old greybacks in the crowd, but no one took down the flag. The adornment of Washington's statue with a banner of rebellion created quite a stir with the old veterans of the Union armies and the Northern public in general. The image of the father of the United States holding the symbol of a rebellion aimed at undoing the United States did not play well in most of the nation. The Union veterans too wished to put the divisions of the war behind, but many considered that the romanticization of the "Lost Cause" would be an albatross around the nation for years to come if the old fellows couldn't nip it in the bud. Perhaps they were right. Watch for more blogs on this issue in the future.
The above newspaper clipping is from The Star Tribune of Minneapolis, May 30, 1890.
This purports to be an image of the ceremony in question. Note that the flags all appear to be one of the later Confederate National Flags with the St. Andrews Cross in the upper corner by the flagstaff.


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Review: Transcendent Kingdom
"The truth is we don't know what we don't know. We don't even know the questions we need to ask in order to find out, but when we learn one tiny little thing, a dim light comes on in a dark hallway, and suddenly a new question appears. We spend decades, centuries, millennia, trying to answer that one question so that another dim light will come on. That's science, but that's also everything else, isn't it? Try. Experiment. Ask a ton of questions." ~ Yaa Gyasi
Genre: Contemporary fiction
Published by: Alfred A. Knopf, 2020
Re-readability: I'll definitely come back to this one.
Reviewed by: Indiana
Synopsis from the publisher:
"Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after an ankle injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. But even as she turns to the hard sciences to unlock the mystery of her family's loss, she finds herself hungering for her childhood faith and grappling with the evangelical church in which she was raised, whose promise of salvation remains as tantalizing as it is elusive."
This immersive novel takes readers from the lab to the church and back again. It's a meditation on mental health and faith, and it examines how differently those are thought of in the United States and Ghana.
Gyasi is a master storyteller; each sentence has been carefully crafted, with no extraneous details. Take this line for instance: "If I've thought of my mother as callous, and many times I have, then it is important to remember what a callus is: the hardened tissue that forms over a wound."
Or this zinger that many can connect with: "Whenever I listened to his friends speak about issues like prison reform, climate change, the opioid epidemic, in the simultaneously intelligent but utterly vacuous way of people who think it's important simply to weigh in, to have an opinion, I would bristle. I would think, What is the point of all of this talk? What problems do we solve by identifying problems, circling them?"
Beyond her writing style, I really appreciated the way she treats both science and religion. The protagonist struggles with her faith after her brother dies, then when she goes off to college, she becomes used to people making fun of religion and the idea that there is a God. Reading about Gifty's reckoning between her spiritual foundation and the scientific field that she's trained in was fascinating and all too relatable. It was also done in a way that felt respectful to both science and religion, and upheld that both are important. My only gripe with Transcendent Kingdom was that I wished it were longer, though Gyasi wrapped it up well; yet another mark of a good storyteller. I'm already looking forward to her next book.
Reviewed by Indiana, Reviews
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Missouri: In the Footsteps of Famous Faces
Vickie Sam Paget
Canadian Traveller > Destinations > North America > US > Missouri
As you travel Missouri, you find the state has ties to many well-known figures of historical importance, including author Mark Twain and President Harry S Truman.
The Show-Me State also offers great lessons on the lives of prominent scientist George Washington Carver, author Laura Ingalls Wilder, outlaw Jesse James and animation pioneer Walt Disney.
Twain, who was born Samuel Clemens, is perhaps Missouri's most famous son. Born in the city of Florida, Twain grew up in Hannibal and used the Mississippi River city as the basis for many of his famous works, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Sheila Scarborough
Today, Twain's presence looms large over Hannibal, where the Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum is just one of many attractions where the author's legacy lives. You'll find a statue of Twain in the city's Riverview Park and see him depicted as a young riverboat captain at Glascock's Landing on the riverfront. And you can go underground to Mark Twain Cave, which was detailed in five of his books.
While Twain is widely credited as the Show Me State's most-famous writer, he's not the only one who had a way with words. President Harry S Truman – the only Missourian ever elected president – popularized a variety of expressions: He was known to reference "Monday morning quarterbacks" and often is credited for the phrase "The buck stops here."
Creativecommons.org/ Matt Turner
For more on Truman, visit the Truman Birthplace State Historic Site, which is in Lamar, and the Harry S Truman Library and Museum and the Truman National Historic Site (Truman Home), both of which are in Independence. Additionally, people who visit Independence have the opportunity to walk in Truman's footsteps by taking a stroll on the Harry S Truman Walking Trail, a 2.7-mile path that features some of the sites Truman – an avid walker – saw on his regular jaunts.
Creativecommons.org/ Bryce Edwards
If you like following in famous footsteps, perhaps a trek north of Independence, to Kearney, is in order. That's where you'll find the Jesse James Farm and Museum, which features a large collection of James family artifacts and includes Jesse's original grave site.
More on James can be found even farther north in St Joseph, where attractions include the Jesse James Home (where James was shot and killed on April 3, 1882) and the Heaton-Bowman-Smith Funeral Home, where the wicker basket used to transport his remains is displayed.
When looking for famous folks with Missouri roots, don't overlook Carver, whose interest in agriculture began budding while he lived on a farm in southwest Missouri.
Today, the George Washington Carver National Monument, fills the property Moses and Susan Carver owned just outside of Diamond and pays tribute to one of this country's greatest scientists.
Spanning 240 acres – the entirety of which is actually considered the monument to Carver – the site contains the mile-long Carver Trail, the Carver Family Cemetery and the 1881 Carver House. The Carver National Monument also has a visitor centre and museum.
Creativecommons.org/ Sheila Scarborough
Also in southwest Missouri, the city of Mansfield pays tribute to another famous author who called Missouri home – one whose books focused on early 19th century life in the Midwest. At the Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Home and Museum, learn more about the author of the beloved Little House on the Prairie books and her most-famous works.
There are two homes to tour: the farmhouse, which Laura and her husband, Almanzo, built upon moving to Missouri in 1894; and the Rock House, which their daughter Rose had built for them in 1928.
The museum contains artifacts, including handwritten manuscripts of some Little House books, keepsakes of the Ingalls and Wilder families, and many other items familiar to readers.
In northwest Missouri, travel to Marceline, where popular culture and history meet. Marceline was the childhood home of Walt Disney, who created iconic characters such as Mickey Mouse, and brought animation to the big screen with classics such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Cinderella.
Disney spent part of his youth in the railroad town of Marceline, which retains its ties to the animation pioneer through the Walt Disney Dreaming Tree and Barn, located on the old family farm, and the Walt Disney Hometown Museum. You also find an elementary school and post office that bear Disney's name.
www.VisitMO.com


I am currently using a HMI/Codesys device to talk to multiple Modbus devices - all this works well, not that it makes any difference everything is in ST as this is all fairly new to me and I come from a software programming background.
I have a new set of devices I need to collect data from however they don't use standard addressing. Everything is in a holding register, from 0-65536. They don't conform to the holding registers being in the 40x range.
When adding a channel I can either enter the address in decimal and it gets converted or enter the hex value, however if I enter 1 for example using function 3 to read holding registers it assumes 40001 but for this device I actually want 00001.
Is this possible with the standard library? Is there any other library which can do it?
holding register numbers start with 4 and span from 40001 to 49999.
This translates into addresses between 0 and 9,998 in data frames. For example, in order to read holding registers starting at number 40001, corresponding address in the data frame will be 0 with a function code of 3 (as seen above). For holding registers starting at number 40100, address will be 99. Etc.
holding register numbers span from 400001 to 465536.
EDIT : To make it clear, if a holding register address is told being 0001, then read it as read code 4 then address 1. But if it's told to be 40001, use read code 4 but address may vary depending the constructor (1 or 40001).
Hi dFx thanks for the reply.
The 'problem' in theory is, the new device (which is arriving tomorrow so I can start some testing) holds everything in holding registers.
There are no coils, discrete coils or input registers.
So within the device everything from 0 to 65,536 is a holding register.
I have been informed however Codesys doesn't do anything to add the '4'.
So for example one controller I normally use follows the standard, holding registers are in the '4' section, so asking for register 1 function code 3, is the same as 40001.
However Codesys simply asks for register 1 with function code 3, it is the controller that returns the correct register. Because the new controller has everything in holding registers, when Codesys asks for register 1 with function code 3, it will get register 00001.
My confusion came because the HMI which can access tags prefixes the number with the 4 so would only allow access to 9,999 registers which would miss off 55,537 potential registers. I have been informed Codesys will not do this and nothing special needs to be done to make it work!?
By default, memory maps are 65536 words long.
There are 4 maps, one for each 1x 2x 3x and 4x codes.
If everything is in 4x code memory map, then, just use the address provided in the supplier memory map, and it should be fine.
Controllers support the full modbus address range (0-65535 decimal, 0000-FFFF hexadecimal) therefore to address every register in the module, the Modbus Master system must also support this address range.
All modbus registers are classified as Holding Registers. They can only be read using modbus function code 3 (Read Multiple Registers).
Some modbus masters use a suffix to the address as a way of specifying the function code to use for the query.
For example 41,029 is used to instruct the master to query address 1029 using function code 3.
Some modbus masters also require you to add '1' as previously described.
This means that in many cases the master can read only up to register 9999 (49999 is last register that will be read using function code 3).
These modbus masters are therefore limited and cannot read the full list of registers from the module.
As stated I am using a HMI which includes Codesys, the HMI allows tags and can read from modbus devices, however the programming software does prefix the '4' for holding registers.


EVALUATION OF CYTOTOXIC ACTIVITY AND ANTHELMINTIC PROPERTY OF CHLOROFORM EXTRACT OF CLITORIA TERNATEA L.
Objective: The objective of the present work was to evaluate the phytochemical study, cytotoxic activity and anthelmintic property of the whole plant chloroform extract of Clitoria ternatea L.
Methods: The chloroform extract was tested for protein, amino acids. alkaloids, glycosides, flavonoids, tannins, steroids, saponins. The in vitro cytotoxic activity of chloroform extract was performed by MTT assay method against HepG2 (Liver carcinoma), HeLa (Cervix carcinoma) cell lines. 25, 50 and 100 mg/ml concentration of chloroform extract of Clitoria ternatea L. whole plant were taken for performing anthelmintic activity against adult Indian earthworm Pheritima posthuma.
Results: The preliminary phytochemical tests revealed that chloroform extract of Clitoria ternatea L. contains amino acids, alkaloids, glycosides, flavonoids, tannins, saponins, steroids. Effect of inhibition of cell growth showed significant cytotoxicity against HepG2 with an IC50 of 110.00±1.9 μg/ml and against HeLa with an IC50 of 104.50±0.9μg/ml. The crude chloroform extract (25, 50, 150 mg/ml concentration) of Clitoria ternatea L. whole plant shows potent anthelmintic activity against Pheritima posthuma.
Conclusion: The present study concluded that Clitoria ternatea L. can be considered as an important source of natural products that have anti-cancer potentials and potent anthelmintic activity.
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RCE Greater Yenagoa
Photo Credit: Bayelsa State Government
Location and Regional Characteristics:
Greater Yenagoa consists of Yenagoa Local Government Area (LGA) and three other peripheral LGAs namely Kolokuma/Opokuma, Ogbia and Sagbama. Yenagoa is equally, the headquarters to one of the eight local government areas (LGAs) of the State and one of the important traditional homes of the Ijaw people who comprise the majority of the State. Yenagoa is the Capital City of Bayelsa State, which occupies an estimated area of 21,110 km2, about three-quarters of which is below water. Bayelsa State is endowed with an abundance of oil and gas reserves and is one of the six core oil-producing states of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. English is the official language but, Epie-Atissa language, one of the Ijaw languages, is the major local dialect spoken in Yenagoa. The other LGAs speak other Ijaw dialects. The people are, mostly, fisher folks and subsistence farmers (cassava, plantain, banana and other short season crops like maize and vegetables); plantain cultivation is the predominant enterprise next to artisanal fishing. The region is mostly made of seasonally flooded wet lowlands with a mixture of rain forest and mangrove vegetation, which provides several ecosystems' services for sustenance of livelihood of the people.
Photo credit: RCE Greater Yenagoa
As a result of a rich cultural setting, which presents an inviting atmosphere coupled with natural endowments, there is a huge presence of multi-stakeholder interests and sometimes conflicts arise over issues relating to the management and exploitation of resources. There is the presence of a number of international oil companies (IOCs) operating in the area such as Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) and Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC). Also, the area is the host to a strategic supplier of gas from the Shell facility within the area to the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) company in Bonny from where the bulk of it is exported as a foreign exchange earner for the nation.
The Bayelsa State is also host to three Universities; the state owned Niger Delta University (NDU), the Federal University at Otuoke within the Ogbia LGA and the private-public partnership owned University of Africa at Sagbama. There are also many other higher educational institutions including a Polytechnic, a College of Education and College of Arts and Science owned by the State Government. There are equally many public and private primary and secondary schools within the state.
RCE Greater Yenagoa (in particular) and Niger Delta (in general) where the indigenes continuously improve their quality of life, adopt better sustainable livelihood practices, promote social capital and create a critical mass of stakeholders with capability to prevent and mitigate harmful environmental, social, health and economic hazards.
Long Term Objectives:
To conduct train-the-trainers community awareness schemes on the importance of contributing effectively, towards sustainable advancement in the social, economic, health and environmental aspects of the lives of the inhabitants in the RCE area.
To implement community town hall sensitisation and environmental education on the benefits of embracing sustainable development practices (as listed above in number 1) for the communities in the four LGAs.
To continually encourage greater participation and empowerment of vulnerable groups (youths and women) for more inclusive development.
To continually encourage research efforts in the educational institutions that will improve the quality of life of the inhabitants.
To sensitise community members on the benefits of peaceful coexistence and the acquisition of conflict resolution skills, etc.
To develop audio jingles and audio-visual documentaries for radio and television stations on the causes, consequences and prevention of crude oil pollution and operational sabotage acts that destroy the natural ecosystems.
To advocate for improved educational curricula for all the levels of education towards making the citizens more sustainable development compliant.
To assist schools to promote science and technology education.
Short Term Objectives:
To foster effective networking and partnerships among RCE members on one part and with oil companies, the state and local governments, and any other national and international donors for effective RCE operations.
To engage existing Community Based Organizations at the Community levels and build their capacities to manage themselves, their communities and be the first point of impact in the proposed interventions.
To advocate for the inclusion of projects that will specifically benefit youths and women.
To support capacity building on sustainable community development for leadership in communities.
To identify, visit and engage heads of key primary (elementary) and secondary schools within the RCE project area to build the capacity of teachers and pupils/students on good sustainable development lifestyles and the importance of protecting the environment.
To lobby the Ministry of Education and other relevant agencies on the need for prioritising science and technology education as strategy for promoting sustainable development.
Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State
Isaac Adaka Boro College of Education, Sagbama – Alternate secretariat
Community Inter-Relations and Conciliation Initiative (CIRCI) – Lead facilitator and main contact
Ukieh Health Foundation (UHF)
Foundation for Agric and Social Transformation (FAST)
Oloibiri Youngsters Foundation and Public Library (OYFPL)
Gbarain/Ekpetiama Cluster Development Board (GE-CDB)
Okordia/Zarama Cluster Development Board (OZ-CDB)
Kolo Creek Cluster Development Board (KC-CDB)
Kolokuma/Opkuma Cluster Development Board (KO-CDB)
SprintLife
Foundation for Entrepreneurship Education and Development (FEEDA)
Teenage Haven Initiative for Sustainability (THIS) Foundation
Community development projects in Gbarian/Ekpetiama 11 communities
Community development projects in Orkodia/Zarama 9 communities
Community development projects in Kolo Creek 4 communities
Educational research efforts in Niger Delta University and other affiliates
Community Sensitisation
RCE Greater Yenagoa Annual Review Meeting
Representatives of affiliate members of RCE Greater Yenagoa met in Yenagoa on the 7th November, 2018 to review the performance of the network in the past one year.
The Provost of Isaac Jasper Boro College of Education, Prof. Timothy T. Epidi said he was encouraged by the progress the network had made so far. Equally, the representative of the Niger Delta University (NDU) Prof. Tuemi Tuduo Asuka was optimistic that more projects will be reported on in 2019. The current coordinator of the RCE Sir Anthony Wakwe Lawrence facilitated the meeting, and delivered a presentation to acquaint attendees of progress in the Network so far.
The Network resolved to foster more collaboration among affiliates and other bodies within and outside Nigeria to achieve set objectives. RCE Greater Yenagoa will equally advocate for support from the Bayelsa State Government, the State Ministries of Education, Health, Environment and Minerals Resources sectors, the four Local Government Councils and all major private Companies operating within the catchment area.
The next RCE Greater Yenagoa coordination meeting is planned to take place in the month of March 2019.
March 2019 – First annual projects review meeting
Participatory Rural Appraisals (PRA)/ Sustainable Livelihood Assessment (SLA) conducted for 20 communities
Several projects completed in 24 communities
Several projects on-going in 24 communities
Women and youth sensitization activities
Women empowerment initiative implementation status in Gbarian/Ekpetiama cluster development area, Bayelsa state, Nigeria
REPORT ON SECOND ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE ( SUPERHEROES) AND OTHER ACTIVITIES OF SPRINTLIFE
COMMUNITY EDUCATION ON PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE IN NINE OKORDIA CLAN AND ZARAMA CLAN COMMUNITIES
Improving access to post graduate education for the people of Gbarain clan and Gbarantoru community in the Gbarain/Ekpetiama GMoU Cluster Development Area through Scholarship Awards
https://www.facebook.com/rcegreater.yenagoa
Sir Anthony Wakwe Lawrence
tonylawrence942@gmail.com
Prof. Tuemi Tudou Asuka
tuemiasuka@yahoo.co.uk
Dikibujiri Diri (Focal point for educational curriculum support, library projects and female youth empowerment)
diridiki@gmail.com
Aghara Paul John (Focal point for youth training and reorientation)
charmzpaul@gmail.com
Weke Michael (Focal point for skill acquisition)
brownmichael399@gmail.com
rcegreateryenagoa@gmail.com
c/o Prof. Tuemi Tudou Asuka
Niger Delta University
Wilberforce Island
Bayelsa State


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June 8, 2016 In News
Dancing Starbucks barista wins hearts everywhere
"Sam the Barista" took the internet by storm after one of his many adoring Toronto Starbucks customers recorded the rhythmic magic unfolding behind the coffee counter.
The video of Sam dancing while whipping up a beverage swiftly captured hearts around the world and has since been a viral sensation viewed by over 70 million people. It wasn't long before Sam landed an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. His online admirers affectionately refer to him as "the dancing barista."
However, Sam isn't the typical 17-year-old barista and his irresistible charisma isn't the only characteristic that makes him unique.
Sam is autistic and has a commonly-associated movement disorder. He was told he would not be employable, but Starbucks manager Chris Ali thought otherwise when he met Sam at a summer camp for kids with autism. After hearing about Sam's dream to be a barista, Chris offered an interview and immediately thereafter welcomed him to the Starbucks family. It was clear to Chris that individuals with disabilities are capable of surpassing barriers and he aspired to give Sam the same opportunity he would grant any other teen.
"Chris just said, 'you got the job,'" Sam explained during his appearance on Ellen. "And in that moment my life changed, and my whole world changed."
"Sam the Barista" and his manager Chris Ali
His whole world did in fact change as he propelled himself from a time in life when he avoided eye-contact to now flourishing in an environment spreading coffee and happiness. With the support of both Chris and his family, Sam wielded his movement disorder into dance.
Dance is medium that is not only enjoyable for Sam, but plays a significant role in the control he has over his movement. Individuals with autism excel within routine, both physical and visual. Sam is able to concentrate on how to craft beverages, learn new routines, and improve his overall social skills because of his love for dancing.
Through education and awareness, it's possible to shift the perception that leaves some individuals with disabilities feeling deterred from achieving common life milestones. Sam transformed into a role-model for individuals diagnosed with disabilities. Shying away from hurdles in the path to his dreams was simply not an option.
Innovative programs and resources for individuals like Sam are readily available through organizations, including those offered by Southwest Human Development. While Sam learned that he could manage his condition through dance, other individuals may require different forms of therapy and support.
Sam's story is more than a heartwarming tale to share, but rather an incredible opportunity to change and inspire the lives of others. Learn more about the autism services offered by the Children's Developmental Center at Southwest Human Development by visiting swhd.org/autism.


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Odd Job: This father of three put everything into bitcoin. Here's what happened next.
The Bitcoin Family are traveling the world, unencumbered by centralized currency.
By Luke Winkie Jun 20, 2019, 7:30am EDT
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In late 2017, bitcoin peaked at $19,000 per bitcoin. It is now valued around $7,000.
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When I jumped on a WhatsApp call with 41-year old Didi Taihuttu, he was a few days away from joining his family on CoinBank's annual Mediterranean "Blockchain Cruise" — a combination vacation getaway and crypto symposium at which all the movers and shakers in the decentralized finance arena get together to discuss a hypothetical future where government-printed money is rendered obsolete, dropping by Mallorca and Marseille along the way.
According to Taihuttu, invitations to blockchain conferences and seminars have piled up ever since he liquidated almost everything he owned (yes, including his house and his cars) and invested his remaining capital in bitcoin. It's a financial pivot that's both irrational and dangerous to an outsider, but within the crypto nation, it can make you a legend.
Taihuttu was born in the Netherlands, and before going all in on bitcoin, he ran a company that taught tech literacy to people in need. Today, though, he, his wife, and their three kids are in constant transit. After the family ditched their house and consolidated all their money, they lived on a campsite in the Netherlands for a few months before moving to Thailand (a country that's become a haven for anyone looking to live outside of banking institutions).
Now back in the Netherlands, he tells me that he bought the lion's share of his bitcoin when the prices were hovering around $1,000 and $2,000 in January 2017. He watched from the sidelines as the exchange rate crested past the $19,000 mark the following December. Taihuttu, however, has never fully cashed out. So as the market corrected and bitcoin has embraced a much more modest valuation of $7,000, Taihuttu never divested himself. Today, he says he's in it for the long haul.
Talking about our life and bitcoin on the Gert late night show on Belgium television. #cryptolife #thebitcoinfamily #celebrations #blockchain
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Taihuttu's gambit isn't entirely unique. As cryptocurrency has shifted from a semi-legal hacker's bounty into an unavoidable fixture in the financial industry, more and more people have opted to ditch the banks entirely and live a decentralized life. There's an entire community of so-called "crypto nomads," who live port to port, country to country, with little more than their laptops and their coin tickers. Taihuttu, of course, is an exception; the vast majority of crypto nomads are young, single men, so he's almost certainly one of the only people who's wrapped up his wife Romaine and their daughters Joli, Juna, and Jessa in the lifestyle. But that's a designation he's learned to embrace.
Taihuttu branded himself as the patriarch of the Bitcoin Family; he runs a website under that name that hosts his blog and his YouTube channel, and he wears a tattoo of the bitcoin logo on his left arm. We talked about the impetus to put all of his money into bitcoin, any lingering regrets he felt after the 2018 crash, and the conversation it took to get his wife to sign on with the plan.
When did you discover bitcoin? When did bitcoin come into your life?
I was still running my business. There was an internship, and a guy came into my company in 2013. And he said, "Have you ever heard of bitcoin?" He told me everything, and I invested into mining bitcoin. It was an evolution to disrupt systems because I've always been fighting against systems — I'm not a normal guy.
[It also interested me] because I could become a millionaire. At that point in my life, I was still very after the money.
What was the impetus to convert everything to bitcoin?
I was in Bali at the end of 2016, around Christmas. My father died, and I started selling my companies and traveling the world with my family already. A friend called me and said, "Do you still have your bitcoins?" I said yeah, I still have them, but I'm not looking at them at all. This was January 2017, and he told me to start looking at them again. [Bitcoin was in the beginning stages of a massive boom, doubling in value several times.] I did, and I was like, "Okay, the revolution is starting." So I told my wife let's go all in.
I sold my cars online and bought bitcoins off them. We sold our house for bitcoin.
Do you have an estimate of how much you put into bitcoin when you went all in?
Yes but have never shared it with the public. Just everything we had, so more than $100,000, but less than $1 million.
What do you remember about that conversation with your wife?
Of course, at first, it was a shock. She almost [fainted]. When I started mining in 2013, I lost my confidence in bitcoin in 2014 after the first crash. So all my wife knew about [bitcoin] was that I bought a bunch of computers for 4,000 euros and I sold them a year later because the thing I was talking about was crashing. She wasn't ready to go all in.
"That's the part she really liked, showing our kids a decentral lifestyle"
But I told her, "Let's look at our lives, and our kids, we've been spoiling them. Let's do it to educate our kids." That's the part she really liked, showing our kids a decentral lifestyle. That was it. She was like, "Let's do it."
What do you mean by that? Your kids being spoiled. Why was that a motivation for going all in on bitcoin?
During our trip, we visited our roots in Indonesia. We visited these very small islands, the Moluccan Islands [where Didi's father is from]. I was able to show my kids how 90 percent of the people [on the islands we visited] are fishing, and growing rice, and don't have bank accounts. It gets you thinking about the fundamentals of bitcoin and blockchain.
We had been very [materialistic,] even when with all the money we had, I couldn't save my father from a sickness. I couldn't cure him of cancer. I couldn't do nothing. It made me realize that money wasn't important to us anymore; it was important to be with my family.
You said yourself earlier that you're not a normal guy, and I'm sure your wife knows you well enough that she wasn't completely surprised that you had this idea, right?
Yeah, that's one thing, and the other thing is I'm an entrepreneur. I've been running businesses for 15 years. I have a crazy idea every day of my life. My brain is running is 24/7 with crazy things that I speak to her about. And most of the things she says, "Oh, Didi, man, that's crazy." So I'm very lucky that she said, "Sounds good, let's do it."
What was the rest of 2017 like? You get back from Indonesia, you sell the house, you were living on a campsite for a while. What was that like?
We sold the house in September and we lived on the campsite, but the media found out. So five days a week, there was media. They flew in from the US and Australia, so the campsite was bombed with media. At that point, I was really addicted to trading. It was a boom market. Eventually my wife looked at me and said, "Didi, this is really not healthy, you've gained 15 kilo [33 pounds] by just sitting at your laptop, we are just talking to cameras and media. This isn't what we chose to do." That's when we booked tickets to Thailand. In Thailand, we found a community for traveling families, and we stayed there for three or four months.
When you're in Thailand, or any other country that uses a lot of paper money, do you convert your bitcoin into hard cash ever?
We always stay in a small town in Thailand where there are three restaurants, six hotels, and two bars that all accept bitcoin. We also always carry our Wirex cards [a decentralized debit card-like service that allows users to store cryptocurrency on the balance]. So if we need to, we cash our bitcoin at an ATM and take the money. We try to minimize it, and it's getting easier [to minimize it] every day.
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And you're back in the Netherlands now, right?
Yes, we returned to the Netherlands in March because my brother was having his first child, so I wanted to be there for that. But we are leaving this Saturday again. I've been speaking at conferences; I just got back from one in Bulgaria. And now we are joining the Blockchain Cruise from Barcelona to Rome.
So you're really deep in the community now.
Yeah, I've met all the people that are huge in this industry. They all understand why we are doing this. They all can't believe that we as a family are doing it. They understand how they're able to do it and travel the world as single guys. But they're like, "Wow, you're doing this as a family." They're very supportive.
2017 was a wild year for bitcoin. What were your thoughts when it hit that $20,000 peak? Was there ever a moment where you thought about cashing out?
Of course there were many moments where I thought about cashing out, but at that point I would've cashed out and [put it in other coins] because I really didn't want to use the bank system anymore.
You started buying your bitcoin when it was around $1,000. When you were looking at such a huge return on your investment, did you want to get your normal life back?
"There was a moment where we thought if we cashed out, we could have our life forever"
There were a few times. There was a moment where we thought if we cashed out, we could have our life forever. But we wanted to live decentral. We don't want a house. We need a few thousand a month to live. So when bitcoin starts dropping, it's like, "Okay, of course." I didn't expect it to drop to 16,000, 13,000, shit, 10,000. At 10,000, you're like leave it, man. You don't have to get out now. Just leave it forever.
Did you ever have any regrets? Were you ever bummed out about the crash?
I'd be lying if [I said] you never get bummed out. We could've sold more. We could've tripled our bitcoin stash. But as a rule, I'm always positive. The glass is always half full. I don't get down about what I've lost. I'm still in the plus; I still have my bitcoin, I still have my family, and we wake up happy and healthy every day.
Are you still trading coins? Or are you just sitting on it?
I still trade because I like it. Not as much as I did, but I don't short bitcoin. I'm waiting now. I'm waiting for bitcoin to correct.
So you're in it for the long haul.
I'm never going to leave it now, because it changed our lives into this cryptocurrency life. This Bitcoin Family life. I speak at conferences, we wrote a book, so why would I ever change that?
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Do you recognize the name? This worthy saint is better known for the town in which her father's palatial estate was located. And while she is often paired with a man named Francis, this woman was a force to be reckoned with during her life.
Clare of Assisi is one of the better-known saints in our Communion. Books could be written, but I thought it better to touch on her aspirations of following her friend into a deeply radical Christianity.
In gathering women to follow this radical holy life, Clare had two great obstacles. It was extremely difficult in 13th century Italy for women to live as Francis and the brothers lived: begging and poor and without a home of any sort. Clare solved something of this by rejecting offers (even from Pope Gregory IX) to be dispensed from a vow of poverty. Clare's response was, "I need to be absolved from my sins, but not from the obligation of following Christ." And so the Privilegium Pauperitatis was granted. She and her sisters lived within walls in a similar way as those Franciscan men lived outside: sleeping on the ground, abstaining from meat, and engaging in manual labor.
I don't know if Clare knew of the various movements of the Beguines and other women in northern Europe who declined to conform to expectations for women religious. Perhaps life in a home in a city would have been unsatisfactory to women who longed for the itinerant life of Francis.
Still, some bishops brought pressure to bear to conform Clare and her women to a monasticism more in the style of Saint Benedict. Relationships seem never to have gotten to the breaking point other women leaders experienced. Clare was a well-regarded figure in her day. Though Poor Clares remained in cloisters for centuries, the Franciscan charism emerged in new ways over the past century or so.
In 1256, Clare was declared a saint–only three years after her death. Her reach is still strong, healthy, and fruitful today.


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BioMatrix And Highmark Announce Settlement
BioMatrix Specialty Pharmacy
Feb 12, 2019, 14:37 ET
WESTON, Fla. and PITTSBURGH, Feb. 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- BioMatrix Specialty Pharmacy and Highmark, Inc. jointly announced today that they have settled litigation pending between the two companies.
This agreement enables both companies to focus on their respective commitments to providing high quality care for patients with chronic medical conditions. To ensure continuity of care, BioMatrix and Highmark will continue to service patients who live in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and West Virginia.
"We are pleased to have reached this mutual settlement and commend Highmark for its enduring commitment to care for people with hemophilia and other chronic conditions," Nicholas Karalis, BioMatrix's interim COO and founder of Elwyn Pharmacy Group, said. "We look forward to working with Highmark to build a partnership that will drive the best possible outcomes for our mutual patients."
Aaron Bilger, VP Internal & External Communications at Highmark Health said: "We are thankful that, as a result of this agreement, specialty medications BioMatrix provides will be widely available across our network."
About BioMatrix Specialty Pharmacy
BioMatrix Specialty Pharmacy offers comprehensive, nationwide specialty pharmacy services and digital health technology solutions for patients with chronic, difficult to treat conditions. Our growing family of companies unites leaders in the specialty pharmacy industry to improve health and empower patients to experience a higher quality of life. The current BioMatrix family of companies includes:, BiologicTx, Decillion Healthcare, Elwyn Pharmacy Group, Factor Support Network, Matrix Health, and Medex BioCare.
About Highmark Inc.
Highmark Inc. and its health insurance subsidiaries and affiliates collectively are one of America's largest health insurance organizations and together with its Blue-branded affiliates, collectively comprise the third-largest overall Blue Cross and Blue Shield-affiliated organization in the country based on capital. Highmark Inc. and its affiliates operate health insurance plans in Pennsylvania, Delaware and West Virginia that serve approximately 4.6 million members and hundreds of thousands of additional individuals through the BlueCard® program. Its diversified businesses serve group customer and individual needs across the United States through dental insurance, vision care and other related businesses. Highmark Inc. is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, an association of independent Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies. For more information, visit www.highmark.com.
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A small assorted collection of Ancient Bactrian chunky Lapis beads, with a matte dull old surface.
The colour is middling, with some "denimy" flecking and quite deep patches varying over the length of the bead.
The shapes are all different, the largest is reactangular with the corners cut off, creating a diamond face and measures L19 mm x 14 mm, the hole is about 2.5 mm, but is smaller in the center where the drilling from both ends met.
The trade in Lapis Lazuli either worked into beads or raw chunks precedes the earliest civilisations and was a contributing factor in the creation of trade routes in the region.
The interior hole is about 1 mm so it can be threaded on silk or tiger tail but not on a cord, chain or choker. To thread them you can either use a cap to cover the ends or I use a small (2 mm or 3mm ?) bead as a pivot when threading.
All the corners are smoothly worn and rounded, I'd suggest if you're going to thread these that they would make nice features as each has it's own character.
Size: Largest is L 19 mm x W 14 mm.