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stories from my family history and tips on how to research
Sunday's Obituary: Rev Joseph Bentley, 1840-1903
Rev Joseph Bentley was my great grandfather. He was born near Barnsley, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, in 1840 and died in Wimbledon, Surrey, in 1903. Joseph was a Wesleyan Methodist minister for 36 years. During this time he served Methodist communities in 17 different places in England, from Durham to Cornwall. The constant upheaval of moving from place to place must have made life very difficult for his wife, Emma, and seven children.
Joseph's obituary appeared in the 1904 Minutes and Yearbook of the Methodist Conference:
JOSEPH BENTLEY: born in August, 1840. He was converted at the age of eighteen, entered the ministry in 1864, and died on August 7th 1903. His life was chiefly spent in the Circuits of rural Methodism, where he laboured with much energy and zeal. He was loyal to our discipline, and endeavoured to inculcate that spirit among the people to whom he ministered. His preaching was generally appreciated, and his genial disposition won him many friends. The end of his life was shadowed by failing eyesight, which created much depression, but his faith in God and his trust in the atonement of Christ were unfailing.
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Labels: Ancestral Faces, Bentley, Clergy, Obituaries
All the nice girls love a sailor - 2
In Part 1 of this post I wrote about my husband's great great grandfather, Captain John Winn, a master mariner who disappeared in "North America" sometime between 1830 and 1848.
In trying to crack this major brick wall I have pursued many different lines of research. I began by reading this book, published by the Society of Genealogists:
I then explored the following sources:
I cannot find John Winn in the 1841 or 1851 British censuses, the 1840 or 1850 US Federal censuses or the 1851 Canadian census.
Lloyds Registers of Shipping
These annual lists can be fully viewed on Google Books. I have extracted the names of all merchant ships with a captain or owner called Winn between 1807 and 1865. I have eliminated those vessels where I have been able to discover the captain's first name and it is not John. I've also eliminated those still sailing from British ports after 1848.
This leaves me with six captains & vessels:
1811-12, Thirsk, J Winn, Hull coaster
1822, Holland, Winn, Exeter coaster
1830-33, Legatus, Winn, Sunderland, Bristol, Montreal
1832-33, Kate, Winn, New Brunswick, London, Halifax
1836-40, George Canning, Winn, Newcastle, Halifax, Bombay
1841-44, Rainbow, Winn, London, Cape of Good Hope
There are three masters called Winn on the Ship's List website but, from the names of their ships, I have eliminated all three as being different people. The captain of the Legatus is also mentioned there, spelled Wynn. Using One-Step Webpages I turned up a John Winn, ship master, aged 35 years & 4 months, who arrived in New York from the Turks on board the schooner "Deposit" on 23 August 1836. However, he is described as US born & resident.
I can find no will, and no action by the family to have him declared dead.
Records of Merchant Seamen
There are no records of merchant navy officers in the UK before 1845. I spent a day trawling through seamen's records and crew lists at the National Archives. There were many John Winns, all ordinary seamen, but nothing to identify my man.
I can find no reference to him (such as a missing person advert) in the British Library's 19th century newspaper collection.
Genealogy Bank turns up various references in US newspapers in the 1830s to John D Winn, captain of the Eliza from Salem, Massachusetts.
I can't find him listed as the captain of a ship that went down at any of the websites devoted to wrecks.
Where should I go next? Please leave your suggestions in the comments. I'll use them to draw up a future research strategy for Part 3 of this post.
Labels: Books, Brick Walls, Newspapers, Passenger Lists, Research, SOG, TNA, Winn
Wordless Wednesday: Beards and Longevity
Dr John Lowe (1781-1866)
and sons
Dr Robert Lowe
George Lowe
Thomas Lowe
Labels: Ancestral Faces, Lowe
Amanuensis Monday - The insolent misbehaviour of one of my own tenants
This is an extract from a letter written by Patrick Lyon, 3rd Earl of Kinghorne (1643-1695) to James Ogilvy, 2nd Earl of Airlie (c1615-1703), in March 1670. It concerns my 7x great grandfather, Alexander Hood (d. 1729), the tenant of an estate called Readie in the parish of Glamis, Angus.
The Earl of Kinghorne's family had been virtually bankrupted by the Civil War and the Earl's Book of Record, dated 1684, shows that he had borrowed a large sum of money from Alexander Hood. This may explain the animosity between them. The Earl was ultimately successful in restoring the family's fortunes. One of his descendants was the late Queen Mother.
... excuse me for giving you the trouble of narrating the insolent misbehaviour of one of my own tennants, who obraided me in my face with an ordinary guilt of the breatch of word & write1 (A thing very inconsistent with A gentleman & which I hope non has reason to accuse me of). I believe the fellow said it in ignorance and wishes he had not said it, yet it being befor four or fyve2 as first spoke & for the terror of such, he being fugitive and disobedient to two severall lawfull charges to my Bailies Courts, I caused cease upon his person about fyve dayes agoe and had him as I thought in sure firmance3 till I should bring him to A forder condigne & exemplar4 punishment but this last night he has made his escape and I suppose may have his shalter among some of his wife's friendes who are of your name.5 So my Lord I shal entreat of you & accept of it as A peculiar favour that you will cause intimat to all your tennantry and dependers not to protect him by A glandestine6 keeping of such A person amongst them. He is A young man one Alexr Hood youngest son to the late John Hood in Readie. My Lord this will not only be an act of good neghbourhood but is for the maintenance of that authority which is the inherent right of landlords over ther own people betwixt whom non else ought to interest themselves. This I thought fitt to acquaint you with for preventing such misinformation as possibly might induce you to permitt his wife residence within your bounds, which I hope now you will positively discharge, the injury being against my person , in the way as I have related to you, upon the word of him who avouches to be
Your most affectionat & humble servant
Kinghorne
Glamis 18 March 1670
I only apprehend that he shall lurke amongst the country people for I hope no gentleman will receive him.
National Archives of Scotland GD16/34/212
Amanuensis Monday is an idea I found on Geneabloggers.
1. breaking his word
2. in front of four or five witnesses
3. confinement
4. further suitable & exemplary punishment
5. Alexander's wife, Margaret, was an Ogilvy from Airlie
6. clandestine
A map showing the location of Airlie and Glamis in Angus (Forfarshire).
Labels: Ancestral Places, Hood, Ogilvy, Scotland
Three times before breakfast
I'm currently reading Fearless on Everest, an excellent biography of mountaineer Sandy Irvine, who was lost on Everest with George Mallory in 1924. The author is Irvine's great niece, Julie Summers.
I first came across Julie's work when searching for information about my grandfather's first cousin, Marjory Agnes Standish Thomson. (Marjory's mother, Alethea Isabella Evans Davis, was the sister of my great-grandfather, Rev Alban Edgar Brunskill Davis. )
I knew that Marjory had married a man called Henry Hall Summers in 1917 and divorced him in 1925. I had even found an account of the divorce proceedings in The Times:
Google led me to Julie's website and her account of her involvement in the recent film about Mallory and Irvine, The Wildest Dream. (Narrated by Liam Neeson, it was Natasha Richardson's last film before her tragic death in Canada in March 2009.)
Julie writes that:
Although National Geographic were relaxed about showing the corpse reconstruction, they balked at a tale I told of Sandy's prowess.
Sandy Irvine had a brief but indiscreet love affair with Marjory Summers, the very much younger second wife of Harry Summers … Marjory, who had been a chorus girl when she married Harry at the age of 19, found life married to her stout, balding, fifty-two year old husband quiet. Dull even. … In a move of the utmost audacity she followed Sandy to Norway when he went with the Merton College Arctic expedition to Spitsbergen in July 1923.
I found Sandy's diary from the expedition in the library at Merton College, Oxford …on the last night that they were on board … Sandy visited Marjory's cabin at five o'clock in the morning and made love to her three times before breakfast.
This is not the sort of information you expect to find about your first cousin twice removed. Her mother came from a family of zealous high church Anglicans. Her father was an Elder Brother of Trinity House, a Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, and a friend of Prince Louis of Battenberg. What on earth was she doing as a chorus girl in 1917? Lying to a judge in 1925? But the black sheep of the family are invariably the most interesting. Julie's website even provided me with a photograph of Marjory in a raffish hat:
I would highly recommend Fearless on Everest to anyone who is fascinated, as I am, by Mallory and Irvine's attempt on Everest. The book has received excellent reviews.
I have not yet seen The Wildest Dream, which was released in the UK whilst I was in America. Have you seen it and, if so, what did you think? Is Marjory portrayed in the film?
Julie Summers tells me that Marjory does indeed feature in the film. If only I could track it down in a cinema near to my home. Perhaps one day it will come out on DVD?
Julie has also very kindly sent me some new photographs of Marjory. I think this one gives a much better idea why men like Henry Hall Summers and Sandy Irvine fell for her:
Labels: Ancestral Faces, Books, Davis, Films
The Beau Brummell of the Yard
My great-grandfather, John McCarthy (1863-1927) was a detective with the Metropolitan Police. Starting as a constable on the beat in Islington in 1881, by 1912 he had worked his way up to be Superintendent in charge of the Criminal Investigation Department at Scotland Yard. Along the way, he had some fascinating jobs and cases.
He joined CID in 1887 as a founder member of the newly reformed Special Branch. All Irishmen, they were responsible for secret political work at home and abroad, tackling the growing threat from anarchists and Fenians. In the early 1890s he spent a year in Le Havre in this capacity, watching for suspicious activity at the Channel ports and liaising with the French authorities.
Back in England he was sent to Bow Street as a uniformed Detective Sergeant, distinguishing himself in a famous murder case, the Muswell Hill murder. In 1896 he returned to CID and Special Branch and was promoted to Inspector in 1901. During this time he regularly acted as a bodyguard for the Prince and Princess of Wales, Edward and Alexandra. With Edward's accession to the throne in 1901, John McCarthy took over protection of the new Prince and Princess of Wales, later to be King George V and Queen Mary.
In 1906 John became a Chief Inspector. He joined a special section focused on the violent activity of the suffragettes and also monitored the activities of exiled anarchists and revolutionaries such as Lenin. In January 1911, a series of anarchist murders culminated in the siege of Sidney Street. John McCarthy was one of the senior Special Branch officers who advised the Home Secretary, Winston Churchill, on the conduct of the siege. After several hours the house caught fire and the anarchists stopped shooting. No one was sure if they were dead so the unarmed John McCarthy decided to investigate:
Accompanied by two fellow plain-clothes officers and keeping close in to the wall ... the burly McCarthy picked his way through the debris to the scarred front door … lifting his foot high, [he] kicked it open. As it swung back a great belch of flame roared out.
Only then did it become clear that nobody could still be alive inside. Scotland Yard later commended his cool courage.
By all accounts he was a popular head of the CID. Contemporaries described him as "urbane and courteous" and he was so well dressed that he earned the nickname "Beau Brummell of the Yard". He also knew how to enjoy himself. In June 1914 he presided at the annual CID dinner. One of the guests was a former Special Branch officer who had joined the Russian Secret Service – the Okhrana. The programme for the evening's entertainment bizarrely found its way into their archives, where it survives to this day. We learn that, after an eight course meal, John McCarthy and his men enjoyed a cabaret which included a ventriloquist, a highland dancer, a "Growing Man" and a song called "Willie took his Flo below".
His period in charge of CID included the First World War, with controversy over internment of enemy aliens and fears about the effects of war and air raids on civilian morale and loyalty. Special Branch expanded from 114 to 700 men and new departments were created to censor mail. In 1916 came the Easter Rising and from then on Ireland was at the top of Special Branch's agenda.
In March 1918 John McCarthy retired and was immediately reappointed as liaison officer between Special Branch and MI5, with a special suite of offices in Scotland Yard. His role involved "an intimate knowledge of the movements of the various political sects in Ireland" and Scotland Yard said that "his services were of the greatest assistance to the authorities in this country". In recognition of those services, John McCarthy was awarded the OBE in the King's Birthday Honours List in June 1923.
Because of his undercover work, John McCarthy was on the IRA's death list and Scotland Yard took out an insurance policy on his life. In the event, he died of spinal cancer in September 1927. In the last weeks of his illness he had ordered his daughter to burn his diaries and other papers relating to his police career. Other Scotland Yard officers had published memoirs about their involvement in famous murder cases or anecdotes about their work as royal bodyguards. John McCarthy's dying concern was not for his own reputation but for those ex-offenders who, having served their sentences, were trying to rebuild their lives and would be harmed if his account of their crimes were to be published.
Labels: Ancestral Faces, Crime, McCarthy, Police, Royalty
Marian Pierre-Louis has kindly publicised my search for the elusive Captain John Winn in her excellent Roots and Rambles blog, so I thought I'd start my blogging journey with him.
John Winn is my husband's earliest known Winn ancestor and a huge stumbling block to tracing the family tree any further back in time. He first appears in the records with his marriage to Heneretta Tomlin on 5 October 1829 at St Mary-le-Bow, London, when he was stated to be "of this parish". The witnesses to the marriage were Heneretta's father, William Tomlin, and a so far unidentified man named John Nickless.
John and Heneretta had only one child, William, baptised on 29 August 1830 at St Dunstan's, Stepney. The baptismal register shows that the family were living in Mile End Old Town and that John was a master mariner i.e. the captain of a merchant ship.
I could not find John Winn in the 1841 census, which did not surprise me, given his occupation. Heneretta was living with her sister and brother-in-law, James and Mary Ann Horn, in Green Street, Bethnal Green, a short distance from her father's business premises at Twig Folly, Bethnal Green. William Winn cannot be identified with any certainty, the most likely candidate being an 11 year old pupil at a boarding school in the township of Roby in Lancashire.
Heneretta's father, William Tomlin, was a prosperous man, the owner of lighters and barges which transported coal from the docks at Limehouse along the Regent's Canal. His grandson, William Winn, would later take over the family business and eventually serve two terms as Master of the Company of Watermen and Lightermen. No formal apprenticeship records for William Winn can be found but it is likely that he served some sort of apprenticeship in the London docks, for which a baptismal certificate would be required.
It was probably in this way that Heneretta discovered that her unusual name had been wrongly recorded as Hannah in William's baptismal entry. For on 25 February 1847 she swore a formal oath before the magistrates in the Thames Police Court, in order to get the entry corrected. In her affidavit she described herself as the "wife of John Winn of 6 Waterloo Terrace Commercial Road in the Parish of St Dunstan Stepney".
Heneretta clearly still regarded herself as the wife of John Winn but that was not how her father saw things one year later. On 10 February 1848, William Tomlin wrote his will, in which he described his daughter as:
Heneretta Winn the wife or widow of John Winn who some years since went to North America and whose existence is uncertain.
By the time of the 1851 census, William Winn described his mother as a widow:
and when she made her own will on 9 July 1856, she did the same:
but eight days later, when William Winn married, he made no mention of his father being dead:
When Heneretta died in Southampton on 15 August 1857, her death certificate described her as the "widow of John Winn master mariner". That is the last mention of John Winn in any records I can find.
In Part 2 of this post I will describe the efforts I have made to find additional information about this wayward matelot, who appears to have no beginning and no end!
Labels: Brick Walls, Friends and Mentors, Winn
I've started this blog to share some of the fascinating stories I've uncovered during 25 years of researching my family history. I'm also aiming to share some tips on how I broke down "brick walls" in my genealogical research and point readers towards new sources of information for their own families.
Ancestral Places
My research interests are global – mainly in the UK but also in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India. From time to time I'll focus on some of these ancestral places.
Ancestral Faces
I'm fortunate to have a wonderful collection of old family photographs. Some were given to me by my mother but many others have been shared by generous cousins around the world. Using some of these ancestral faces, I'll show how the clues in a family photograph can lead to new avenues of research and fascinating new information about the lives of your ancestors.
Friends and Mentors
Genealogy is the most clubbable of hobbies. I've made firm friendships online with family historians I may never meet in person, "pen pals" for the 21st century. I've also been privileged to learn from some outstanding professional genealogists. Although I'm British, and focused mainly on UK research, most of these friends and mentors have been Americans and Canadians. To all of you – and you know who you are – this blog is dedicated.
Labels: Ancestral Faces, Ancestral Places, Davis, Friends and Mentors, Winn
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Australia Day: Gateway to a new and better life
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Black Sheep Sunday - Rev Frederick Davis
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Wordless Wednesday - The Ark, Prince Rupert, BC
The house in Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada, where my mother was born in 1919. For obvious reasons, it was known to the fami...
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Ancestors who died of tuberculosis
Today is World Tuberculosis Day . It commemorates 24 March 1882, the day on which Dr Robert Koch announced that he had discovered the cause...
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An ancestor who fought at Waterloo
Since my daughter married, two years ago, I have been tracing my son in law's ancestry. I recently discovered that his 4x great grandfat...
10 things my ancestors did to annoy me
The Society of Genealogists sells a booklet called " My Ancestor was a Bastard ". I have to admit that is often the way I feel ab...
Politics and Pills – an 1820 Medical Bill: Part 2
This is my second post about the 1820 medical bill I recently bought on eBay. You can read Part 1 of the post here . The first thing...
Lest We Forget: 11/11/12
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One of my favourite holidays to start off the new year with is the Epiphany, for my family it's the Catholic holiday celebrating when the Magi arrived to Bethlehem to see the Christ (frankincense, myrrh, and gold included), or (if I understand it correctly) the day that the eastern Orthodox Christians celebrate their Christmas. Aside from adding the Magi to our family's Nativity scene, the biggest tradition that I've only ever still seen celebrated in Europe is gathering up the family to eat the Galette des Rois (or 'King's Cake', though it's more of a puff pastry). A galette is a to die for frangipane pastry that contains a fève (literally a 'bean' but now usually a porcelain miniature).
Tradition goes that the youngest person in the family sits under the table when the galette is brought out, and the family's patriarch cuts the galette into as many pieces as there are people present. The person under the table (and that gets to be me!) then calls out who each piece goes to. This goes on until everyone has been served. We then proceed to eat the yummy cake and whoever finds the fève in their piece is crowned King and gets to wear a silly golden paper crown and selected a Queen (or King).
I find the bit about the 'Gâteau de l'Êgalité' really funny... I guess people have believed in the whole concept of renaming things (aka. 'freedom fries') for a long time now when they disagreed with current political times!
It being a french puff pastry, you can imagine that a 'real' galette is filled with butter, eggs, and all sorts of non-vegan things. To adapt both the tastes for my family, especially for my dad, and trying to stick to as 'raw' ingredients as possible, I made my first galette totally from scratch today and I was actually more proud of it than any other recipe I've made in a while. I guess when you are trying to simulate such a historical recipe with such a remarkable and sought-after taste, the pressure is really on!
Unfortunately, I didn't actually get to photograph my galette... That's how yummy it was I guess (see photo for proof... I think the Magi look dismayed that they didn't get any)! What I ended up doing was using phyllo pastry as the crust (the 'pâte feuilletée' you usually use for galette just can't be found anywhere outside of France). I placed these sheets in a pie plate, brushing every couple slices with Organic Earth Balance margarine (I used about 5 phyllo sheets). The frangipane was a mix of 1 C of almonds soaked overnight, rinsed and peeled the next morning, and dehydrate. I then food processed the almonds with agave nectar, almond and vanilla extracts, and a pinch of salt. I smeared the frangipane paste into the pan (with the crust lining the bottom), stuck the fève inside, and folded the sides of the phyllo sheets back into itself (and added a couple sheets to make it look as round, pretty, and as much like a cake as possible). Gotta say, it ended up looking pretty to close to the picture of the 'real' galette I posted above. I brushed the top again with a little more margarine to make sure the crust would stick together and that it would get that pretty golden colour in the oven. I finished it off by baking it at 400F in the oven for 10 minutes and lowered it to 350F for another 20 minutes (goodbye raw! but oh well...).
And there you go! Happy Epiphany!
Why my galette of course! But also finished those eggplant bacon slices though they aren't very photogenic. I've also managed to make up a ground soaked flax-ground sprouted soybean-partially ground soaked sesame seed-maple syrup-cinnamon-dash of salt cracker which goes wonderfully with raw pb&jam! Triple kitchen victory for today!


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Jackie Robinson played for the Montreal Royals, a Dodgers farm team, before he integrated the Major Leagues.
The Splendid Splinter one of baseballs greatest hitters Ted Williams first honed his unique batting skills as a Minor Leaguer with the San Diego Padres in 1935. (Pacific Coast League)
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Abstract: Portugal was the first country in Europe to join Great Britain in the Gold Standard, in 1854, having abandoned the principle of free gold convertibility in 1891. By elucidating the historical choice of the Gold Standard by the Portuguese authorities, and analysing its macroeconomic behaviour, we prove that it is a mistake to compare different monetary systems with the same indicators. Our examination of demand, supply and monetary shocks in the context of a Vector Autoregression (VAR) model confirm the idea of appropriate application of the principles of classical economics to the Gold Standard in Portugal. We also prove that the principles of demand management were not compatible with the functioning of the Gold Standard.


According to the CEO of luxury fashion company Hermes, up to 80 percent of the products sold on the Internet with the brand name Hermes is counterfeit.
The counterfeit purse market is estimated to be worth $70 Million.
Source: Olivia Bergin, "Hermès employees found to be in on counterfeit ring," Telegraph, Fashion, June 18, 2012.


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Director-General Supachai Panitchpakdi, at the General Council meeting (Word document, 2 pages, 21KB) on 17-18 May, urged trade negotiators "to show the world that Geneva is capable of delivering significant results". He said that "we have a window of opportunity but it is a small one and closing rapidly".
In his report as Chairman of the Trade Negotiations Committee, Dr. Supachai said that since the April TNC meeting, a number of developments have demonstrated "a new level of political will to make progress" in the negotiations. These include "the outcome of the LDC Ministers' meeting in Senegal...the initiatives by Commissioners Pascal Lamy and Franz Fischler set out in their letter to all Ministers..and most recently, the discussions that have taken place in the context of the OECD Ministerial meeting in Paris".
The Chairman of the General Council, Ambassador Shotaro Oshima (Japan), said he "shared very much the Director-General's cautious optimism that we seem to be making the kind of progress in key areas tha allows us to hope for agreements at a framework level by July".
The Acting Managing-Director of the IMF, Ms. Anne Krueger, made a presentation on the IMF's new initiative for developing countries: the Trade Integration Mechanism. She stressed that "for the vast majority of countries, the benefits of a Doha agreement would be, as they would be for the global economy as a whole, overwhelmingly positive and even in the short-term". Ms. Krueger said that the Mechanism is like an "insurance policy" to provide reassurance to governments.
Dr. Supachai welcomed the IMF's intiative as "a welcome contribution to the Doha Round, in particular to attaining ambitious market access results" He said the Mechanism "can help reassure low income developing countries that they will receive assistance from the international community to help them deal with adjustment difficulties they encounter from the loss of trade preferences which will result from the lowering of MFN tariffs at the end of the Doha Round".
Dr. Supachai, in a speech during the opening of the Conference of the African Union Ministers of Trade on 27 May in Kigali, Rwanda, said that the meeting will be "pivotal" in determining whether the trade negotiations "will take a substantial step forward by the end of July". He stressed that "no one questions" that development concerns must be reflected in the July package.
President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, in his speech, said that "in Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development. We are all turning to trade as the engine for our growth and development after many decades of donor-aided development that failed to make an impact on our economies, mainly because it was not aimed at building a basis for market-driven economic growth anyway".
During the Third LDC Trade Ministers' Meeting in Dakar, Senegal on 4 May, Director-General Supachai in his address stressed that "now is the time for all WTO members to show realism, flexibility and a determination to make progress" in the negotiations. He warned that "a loss of momentum will have a direct impact on the areas in which LDCs have a key interest".
The WTO's Government Procurement Agreement was extended on 1 May to cover the 10 new member States of the European Union: the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia.
The WTO Committee on Government Procurement approved on 23 April the necessary modifications to the EU schedules extending coverage of the GPA to the new member States of the European Union. The GPA is now legally binding for those countries. The extended GPA coverage offers new procurement opportunities to suppliers of goods and services in the 10 new EU countries as well as in the other GPA members.
Meanwhile, the WTO Import Licensing Committee on 5 May reviewed 31 notifications submitted under various provisions of the agreement, a situation some members described as an improvement but still unsatisfactory.
The committee's main function is currently transparency and review, and as usual, the main purpose of this hour-long meeting was information on members' import licensing procedures. On the table were six questions or replies to questions, and 31 notifications from 21 members. Delegates spoke on a handful of these.
The chairperson continued her efforts — and her predecessors' and the Secretariat's — to encourage members to notify their import licensing measures. This includes notifying if they have no import licensing requirements at all.
The 5th Introduction Course on the WTO for Least Developed Countries, organized by the Institute for Training and Technical Cooperation of the WTO, opened on 24 May and will end on 11 June.
Twenty representatives of least developed African, Caribbean, Asian and Pacific countries are attending this course, which is organized in French at WTO headquarters. The three-week programme is being held at a key moment in the process of relaunching negotiations within the framework of the Doha Development Agenda.
The WTO is introducing online courses for governments officials from developing countries with the inaugural course "Introduction to the WTO and its Basic Principles" starting on 21 June 2004.
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The inaugural course is entitled "Introduction to the WTO and its Basic Principles" and will be held in English. The objective of the course is to familiarize participants with the World Trade Organization, the multilateral trading system and its legal framework.
The United States Government, on 14 May, pledged a contribution of US$ 994,100 (CHF 1.3 million) to the Doha Development Agenda Global Trust Fund for 2004.
countries to assess their interests and to participate in market access negotiations and in the WTO's work on trade facilitation.
The United States is the fourth biggest voluntary contributor to WTO technical assistance activities since 1995, with a total of CHF 8.5 million.
The WTO Appellate Body, on 7 May 2004, issued its Annual Report for 2003 (Word format, 43 pages, 698KB) containing information about changes in the composition of the Appellate Body, appeals filed, Reports circulated, participation of WTO members in appeals, amendments to the Working Procedures, technical assistance and other developments that took place last year. The Annual Report was accompanied by a Communication (Word format, 1 page, 41KB). from the AB Chairman to the DSB Chair.
Director-General Supachai, in his opening statement on 25 May at the WTO public symposium "Multilateralism at a Crossroads", said that trade negotiators are facing a "historic window of opportunity" and urged civil society to add their voice in WTO's work to "further improve and reform the multilateral system".
In his foreword to the WTO Annual Report 2004 issued on 26 May, Dr. Supachai said that this and the organization's three other annual publications are "part of the WTO's continuing efforts to work in a manner which is transparent, informative and in tune with the expectations of the public around the world".


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Published September 21, 2016 | By Caryn
Since my dad was in the Army Air Forces in World War II, the B-17 is a plane that I have researched, watched documentaries and movies about, and toured. The B-17 was called the Flying Fortress, and my dad always said that it was a very safe plane. Nevertheless, as much as I love the B-17 Bomber, there are other war planes that were also stars of World War II. Sometimes, I think that I forget about all those others planes.
One of those planes, the B-29 Superfortress actually made its debut flight in Seattle Washington on this day, September 21, 1942. The B-29 was the largest bomber used in World War II, by any nation. The B-29 was the brain child of General Hap Arnold, back in 1939. Arnold worried that a German victory in Europe would mean the United States would have no bases on the eastern side of the Atlantic from which to counterattack. They needed a plane that could travel faster, farther, and higher than anything that was available then. Taking on the challenge, Boeing set out to create such a plane.
The plane they came up with was amazing. It could carry loads that were nearly its own weight and at altitudes of 30,000 to 40,000 feet. The plane boasted a pilot console in the rear of the plane, capable of running the plane in the event the front pilot was knocked out of commission. It also had the first radar bombing system of any US bomber. While the Superfortress first took flight on September 21, 1942, it would not make its bombing debut until June 5, 1944, in a battle against Bangkok, as the Allies prepared to liberate Burma from the hands of the Japanese. Then a little over a week later, it was used against mainland Japan on June 14, when 60 B-29s based in Chengtu, China were used to bomb an iron and steel works factory on Honshu Island. It wasn't exactly a successful mission, but it did boost the morale of the Americans.
The United States recaptured the Marianas Islands in the South Pacific, because they were the perfect location for air bases for the new B-29s to strike mainland Japan on a consistent basis. When the bases were up and running, they were used to coordinate a series of bombing raids against Tokyo. While the B-29s were capable of precision bombing at high altitudes, they began dropping incendiary devices from a mere 5,000 feet, firebombing the Japanese capital attempting to break the will of the Axis power. One raid, in March 1945, killed more than 80,000 people. But for the Superfortress, the most famous use would happen in August. It was the only plane capable of delivering a 10,000 pound bomb…the atomic bomb. The Enola Gay took off on August 6th and the Bock's Car took off on August 9th both from the Marianas, and flew into history. Of course, we all hope that such a bomb run would never be necessary again, but if it had been, it was good to know it was available.
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Rest Day in Heaven-Kissing Park!
When I visited Sky Park, a part of World Cup Park, in Mapo-gu, it gave me a relaxing time because I had been going through a really tough time. Taking a step on the sky stairway, strolling in a silver grass field, looking down the view of Seoul from an observatory called the "Sky Embracing Bowl" and the wind turbines…. All of these features in Sky Park seemed to give plenty of inspiration to visitors. However, you can enjoy an even more meaningful and tangible rest if you know the history of this place in advance and the process of its construction under Seoul's special goals of achievement.
Nanjido, located beside the Han River, was originally a precious ecological repository full of orchids, flowers, and migratory birds. However, in 1978, it was turned into a landfill, and it gradually grew into a mountain of garbage over the course of 15 years. According to the urban management policy of Seoul, the condition of Nanjido was finally reversed. The city government realized that Nanjido signified human connivance toward environmental destruction under the rapid growth of South Korea's industrialization. This same realization has also aroused a self-examination in Korean society. Nanjido received a new name, World Cup Park, and went through a reformation with the special vision of "environmentally sound and sustainable development." World Cup Park now has five themed sections: Sky Park, Peace Park, Sunset Park, Nanjicheon Park, and Nanji Han River Park.
Sky Park, one of the hot places to go for a date or picnic, has a commendable theme in the light of its beautiful scenery with a strong ecological meaning. The ground of Sky Park was the most barren area in Nanjido, and it is a symbolic place to show how nature begins its own recovery. The vast grassland stretches out right in front of our eyes. Woolly grass, silver grass, and wild plants such as thistle, violet, and clover are here and there in the grassland, and about 30,000 varieties of butterflies were released to the grassland to stabilize the plant ecosystem. Sky Park has a special meaning as it demonstrates how Seoul managed to change the wasteland into an ecological space with some special elements. The following will tell you about it.
Silver Grass Field spreads out in a clear view over the vast area. Seeing this field of tall and wild grass swaying with the wind, I could find peace in mind. Visitors strolling in this endless sea of silver grass seemed to enjoy their own relaxing time with their beloved families, friends, and lovers while taking pictures and enjoying nature. There was also a newly married couple taking wedding photos, and they brought smiles to people's faces with their pleasant yet austere ceremony. It seemed that Silver Grass Field offered people refreshment with its adorable view of simple nature.
"Sky Embracing Bowl" is an observatory where visitors can look down the entire scenery of Seoul, including the Han River and Bukhan Mountain. It has an unusual appearance, like a massive bowl. During the planning of Sky Park, the use of manmade structures collided with the goal of the park, so Seoul decided to make an observatory using a frame structure made of as little iron as possible. The six wisteria vines covering it help it blend into Sky Park. The observatory looks like a full bowl with so many people spending time in it.
Five Wind Turbines were constructed to represent the eco-friendly image of World Cup Park. They provide about 50KW of electric power using wind blowing from Han River at a height of 98 meters. This clean energy is used for lights in the park and for the operation of an Information Center. Located next to the observatory, it also serves as a wonderful piece of ecological scenery.
Although Sky Park is the most famous in World Cup Park, Peace Park, Sunset Park, Nanjicheon Park, and Nanji Han River Park also offer a wonderful experience to visitors. There is an exhibition hall in Peace Park to introduce the history of Nanjido, and there are camping sites in the Sunset Park. You can find more such as a botanical garden, a festival venue, a firefly observation center, and many other interesting places in the other sections. I recommend you to visit this park if you need refreshment.


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World Bank approves $290mn additional financing for vulnerable groups in Jordan
The World Bank has approved additional financing of US$290 million for the Emergency Cash Transfer COVID-19 Response Project to provide cash support to poor and vulnerable households and workers affected by the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Jordan. Although Jordan's economy is beginning to recover, the shock caused by the pandemic continues to be felt through job
Fund injects JD2mn into Mafraq development projects
The Development and Employment Fund (DEF) has financed 227 projects over the past three years at an estimated cost of JD2 million, creating 300 job opportunities. DEF Director General Mansour Wrekat discussed during a meeting on Monday with the Mafraq Governor Yasser Adwan the services and financing programs provided by the Fund for establishing small- and medium-sized enterprises and
PM congratulates Crown Prince on 27th birthday
Prime Minister Bisher Khasawneh Monday congratulated His Royal Highness Crown Prince Al Hussein bin Abdullah II on the occasion of his 27th birthday today. "I send to His Highness Crown Prince Al Hussein Bin Abdullah II the sincerest congratulations on the occasion of his birthday, imploring Almighty God to bestow upon him the blessings of health and wellness, and
Prime Minister Bisher Khasawneh said Monday that his government, under the directives of His Majesty King Abdullah, is working on a matrix of economic priorities for post-Covid recovery. The matrix is linked with commitments by sectoral ministers to come up with a roadmap over a period of two years, including projects that are tied to funding windows either from the treasury or public-private partnership projects or open to investment, he told a meeting with Jordan Chamber of Industry President Fathi Jaghbir and sector representatives. The premier said during the meeting, which was held in his office in the attendance of the ministers of industry, Trade and Supply, Maha Ali, Finance, Mohammad Al-Ississ, and Labor, Yousef Al-Shamali, that among the key ventures is the railway link between Aqaba and Madouna in its initial stage that could extend to Iraq, noting that many parties are interested in the project. The Prime Minister referred to a serious discussion that took place yesterday during the tripartite summit between His Majesty King Abdullah, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sissi and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al Kazemi in Baghdad about an oil and gas pipeline and industrial city on the Jordan-Iraq border, and the need to speed up accomplishment of the two projects. He also stressed the need to work on devising sectoral strategies, not just drawing policies, that will have a positive impact on the economy in general, and the various economic sectors. Khasawneh urged a "real review" of challenges and hindrances facing the industrial sector, including energy costs, to enhance the sector's competitiveness, protect the local industry and promote exports. For her part, Minister of Industry, Trade and Supply Maha Ali stressed that the industrial sector's major contribution to the national economy, noting that the government is interested to see its strategies further enhance the sector's competitiveness. Jordan Chamber of Industry President Fathi Jaghbir spoke about the key challenges and concerns of industrialists, stressing the need for a real partnership between the government and the private sector in the decision-making process. Source: Jordan News Agency
Prime Minister Bisher Khasawneh said Monday that his government, under the directives of His Majesty King Abdullah, is working on a matrix of economic priorities for post-Covid recovery. The matrix is linked with commitments by sectoral ministers to come up with a roadmap over a period of two years, including projects that are tied to funding windows either from
COVID kills ten in Jordan, positive tests at three percent
COVID-19 killed ten people in Jordan in the last 24 hours, as the death toll stands at 9,737, and a total of 605 cases were recorded, pushing the caseload to some 750,390, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH). The MoH said in a press statement Monday that 3.3 percent of the 18,000 tests conducted today came back positive.


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NEXT Wednesday evening Waterstones in Dawson Street, Dublin, will probably be under siege as the twice Oscar-nominated, limelight-shunning actor Ralph Fiennes appears for a reading. Not from Herodatus - though thanks to its key role in The English Patient, the Penguin cut-down version is rapidly climbing the bestseller list - but from Blood Ties by Jennifer Lash. Beside him will be his sister Sophie and brother Joseph, youngest of the six Fiennes children, all born within eight years of each other. Jennifer Lash, who died three years ago of breast cancer, was their mother.
Six children had been a goal since Jini - as she was always known - was 12, explains Joseph Fiennes, also an actor, who has just finished playing the lead in Troillus And Cressida with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Like many children who believe themselves to be unloved, Jini felt the answer was to build her own personal reservoir. She had a miserable childhood, abused physically by her ex-lndian army officer father, and generally ignored and dismissed as difficult by her remnant-of-the-Raj mother: this imaginative, damaged and precocious girl didn't fit into the hobbled world of 1950s Surrey.
She left home at 16 and, via a series of low-level clerical jobs, finally found sanctuary, after a suicide attempt, with an old family friend called Iris Birtwhistle, who recognised her potential and nurtured it. Her first novel, The Burial, was the result of her encouragement. Dodie Smith, author of 101 Dalmations, called her "almost too interesting to be true".
Like much of the work that would follow, it was a dark metaphor for her own life. Blood Ties, her last novel and one which the family believes to be a fitting epitaph, is equally dark: a story of loneliness, rejection and pain redeemed by the power of myth and the power of love. Although the themes, characters and events of Blood Ties are clearly rooted in her own history, the book is not a mirror, but rather the shadow of a luminous life.
Blood Ties was hard to write. Jennifer Lash knew she had cancer. When the book was rejected by publishers she was devastated, recalls Sophie, who is currently developing a film project in Ireland. "My mother wasn't a viable option for publishers. They want young, sexy novelists. A middle-class, middle-aged, white woman living in Dulwich - there was no publicity angle that a publisher could work on. That's my reading of it. Her reading was `I'm a terrible writer, I'm a failure, what I do is shit, no one wants it.' It was a sense of complete and utter failure and we were all very aware of how she felt and we were always keen to try and get it published.
The publicity angle that any publisher would die for came in the shape of Jennifer Lash's first born. When Ralph Fiennes was filming The English Patient in the desert in Tunisia, he met Liz Calder who had published Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient. According to Sophie, her brother seized the moment "and brilliantly did the pitch" for the book all the children consider to be their mother's best work.
Blood Ties is set largely in the south-west of Ireland. Jennifer Lash always though of herself as Irish, explains Sophie, it was where she felt most at home. Her mother had been born here, but it wasn't until 1971 that she came to West Cork on a photographic assignment with her husband, Mark Fiennes, whom she had met aged 23. Mark had been a tenant farmer, but after eight years of marriage the farm had ceased to be viable and he had turned to photography.
"They fell in love with it," remembers Sophie. "She just decided that she didn't want to bring up her children in England but there, on the south-west coast. I can remember her saying: "I knew that then you would understand when you read the Brothers Grimm; you would understand the archetypes that occur in painting and writing, because those, are still alive and kicking there.
They bought a plot of land and designed and built a house on Dunmanus Bay, near the village of Kilcrohane, one down from Bantry Bay, which Sophie describes as "ridiculously beautiful".
Joseph was only four when they arrived. "I was very impressionable. It was all about adventures, about the wild wind and the sea and jellyfish. My father actually built the house with his own hands. It was a wonderful dream, an adventure."
But as Joseph puts it: "There was a real struggle between the dream and the reality." The hand-to-mouth existence selling photographs of vanishing Irish life in rural Cork couldn't feed six hungry children and the family returned to England and survived by doing up dilapidated houses and selling them on.
The Fiennes's peripatetic lifestyle was a disaster in terms of schooling. Yet in other ways it was to prove a spur. To succeed as an actor "you have to be a tough soul," explains Joe and changing schools over and over again was to prove good preparation. "It was very tricky, but it was also great fun. If I didn't want to be the Joe Fiennes I was at one school, I could be another Joe Fiennes at the next. It may be that that's the root of the acting."
Through their mother's determination in nurturing their individual talents and giving them the confidence to build up their self-belief, her brood have all blossomed in the fields they chose to make their own. Sophie is a filmmaker, Magnus a composer, Martha a film director, Jacob a game-keeper, Ralph and Joseph actors. All as valuable as each other.
In spite of Ralph's extraordinary early success (happily Jennifer Lash lived to see Schindler's List), jealousy has never been an emotion the Fiennes children understood. "I've never been aware of it," says Joe. "From the earliest crayon drawings, our mother recognised each of our merits and encouraged our particular aspirations. It was never a thing of `hasn't this other person been great or wonderful'. We always knew that over and above being family, kith and kin and all that stuff, we were her friends; and she gave equal time to everyone. Every individual member of the family feels hugely happy about their life, and where they re going, whether in the eyes of other people, or if someone isn't as prominent as someone else, isn't an issue."
"My mother saw children as a wonderful source of creative inspiration and intelligence. She had had a certain amount of pain in her own life and she was determined to break the cycle.
But it came at a cost. For 15 years she elected to give up writing to devote herself to her children - although she did paint. "A lot of people find them disturbing and odd," said Joe, "I find them wonderfully liberating. They deal with great mythological dynamics...
"She was the warmest and most generous person and would constantly give, give, give, until she was utterly drained. She was extraordinary, a real giver of life."
And not only to the children she bore. When already a mother of two, she had answered an advertisement in the local Suffolk paper to foster a boy of 11 from a difficult background.
"By the time I was born," says Joseph, "Mick was just there and as far as I knew he was blood. When she saw the ad, her motherly instincts just couldn't resist. Of course her friends said she was mad. He became just one of the family." Michael Emery is now an archaeologist.
Dark Blood is the story of just such a boy, dumped on his unwilling grandparents in Ireland, aged three. "They were destined to seek out each other's frailties rather than strengths," she wrote, describing his pain as being "solid, lumpen, a constant moan of dread, so solid within him it felt as if was his heart". Joseph recognises that much of the narrative is heart-breakingly bleak. "But I wonder whether we all carry pain behind the exterior. And the darkness is necessary because through the darkness comes the redemption. It's a great cyclical journey."


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It was a wake-up call for Putnam County, New York. In 2008, DWI arrests rose an alarming 35 percent. That meant that from a 2006 high of 414 DWI arrests, 2008 arrest figures jumped to 633.
"This drastic increase clearly indicates that more needs to be done to address the growing problem of drinking and driving in Putnam County," stated Kristin McConnell, executive director of Putnam's chapter of the National Council on Alcoholism and Other Drug Dependencies (NCADD).
Focus groups on the issue were sponsored by the Putnam County District Attorney's Office, and included representatives from Putnam County STOP DWI, Putnam County Mental Health, Social Services and Youth Bureau, and NCADD Putnam. The focus groups further identified a need for action in the area in the form of increased education and intervention.
The educational curriculum the groups came up with is called Rethinking Drinking. The name was chosen to utilize the NIAAA's Rethinking Drinking training manual and used with NIAAA permission. Putnam's Rethinking Drinking program seeks to educate the adult Putnam County community about alcohol/drug abuse and its consequences, as well as promoting self-evaluation. From the start, Putnam NCADD chose to use two Innocorp products as part of the educational process: intoxiclock® and Sum-It-Cup®.
Rethinking Drinking focuses on persons arrested for DWI, DWAI, or similar offences in Putnam County. It's part of a pre-plea agreement, with referrals made by the District Attorney's Office. Defendants who opt into the program (with the DA's recommendation) may get a sentence reduction as long as they remain in compliance with the program and any judicial requirements.
Participants go through the in-person interactive instruction and group discussion that forms the core of the Rethinking Drinking curriculum. In addition, the District Attorney presents an overview of DWI to educate participants. The program follows that up with intoxiclock® and Sum-It-Cup® sessions. McConnell sees them as a vital educational tool in the program.
"It was important that we have interactive, hands-on components to the program," she says. "The intoxiclock® and Sum-It-Cup® are also significant because many times people don't realize how much alcohol they are being served. They (intoxiclock® and Sum-It-Cup®) offer real-life examples and shed some light on how much they are actually consumingand the rate at which the body metabolizes alcohol." Rethinking Drinking started operating in Putnam County in 2012. Thirty-nine offenders have completed the program to date. While it's too early to evaluate the program yet, McConnell has gotten positive feedback from participants on intoxiclock® and Sum-It- Cup®. They stated that they learned the size of an actual drink and how some drinks are really more than just one.
"One hundred percent of program participants have reported an increase in knowledge and many have reported the group activities were very helpful," says McConnell. "By the end of the program, participants have acquired knowledge of alcohol and other drugs as well as a better understanding of their responsibility to the social system and of the dynamics leading to addiction."
McConnell believes that the public, whether they've been involved in a DWI incident or not, needs to understand the information that intoxiclock® and Sum-It-Cup® give: the amount of alcohol they are actually being served and are consuming.
"These products provide an educational and interactive way to demonstrate how a person's level of intoxication changes with increasing levels of alcohol consumption and the rate at which the body metabolizes alcohol," she notes. "I think that once people have a true understanding of this, they are much more likely to make better choices when they consume alcohol."
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Story of Arunima Sinha, the girl who conquered Mount Everest with a prosthetic leg
Debarati Choudhary April 6, 2018
The day her leg was amputated, Arunima Sinha took a pledge that many would find even difficult to comprehend. Her objective, from that day onwards, was not simply to prove her proficiency with a prosthetic leg, but was also to conquer the highest peak in the world – Mount Everest. The sense of accomplishment was what brought back her fearlessness as well as made her a motivation for everybody back home.
As a national level volleyball player, Arunima from Ambedkarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, was an unstoppable soul. When a gang of robbers drove her out of a moving train in 2011, she firmly concluded that she would not cringe down. She was tired of people looking at her with pity in their eyes, and mountaineering caught her eye. She found it as a perfect action to symbolic and tangible achievement. It literally embodied the spirit of fighting and conquering obstacles.
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She contacted Bachendri Pal in 2011 by telephone and signed up for training under her at the Uttarkashi camp of the Tata Steel Adventure Foundation (TSAF) 2012. Sinha climbed Island Peak (6150 metres) in 2012 as preparation for her ascent of Everest. Nothing could falter her from her dream. On her first deed while in transit to the summit, she was so cheerful to have achieved the base camp that she lost balance and tumbled to the ground, injuring herself in the process. In the following journey, there were no stepping tools to sustain her to the opposite side of a wide crevice. She was compelled to bounce crosswise over holes which in the event that she missed, would have ended her life. On the day she endeavoured to summit the Mount Everest, she and her Sherpa were the first to leave the camp. When they were very close to the summit, her Sherpa gave her some terrible news. Their oxygen levels were quickly exhausting, and they needed to return the following day for another attempt. Sinha was adamant on completing the summit that very day. With the help of the Sherpa, after two hours, they were at the pinnacle of Mount Everest, and of her success at 10:55 am on 21 May 2013. Those 7 minutes atop the summit were the best moments of her life. She just wanted to shout out to the world that she had done it.
Arunima Sinha holding the Indian Flag at Mount Everest
Arunima Sinha has been included as one of the 'People of the Year' by Limca Book of Records in 2016. She is now dedicated towards social welfare and she wants to open a free sports academy for the poor and differently-abled persons. She is donating all the financial aids she is getting through awards and seminars for the same cause. The academy would be named Pandit Chandra Shekhar Vikalang Khel Academy. In her website arunimasinha.com, she is noted as saying, "I have achieved my goal but now I want to help physically challenged people to achieve their goal so that they can also become self-dependent and nobody looks at them with pity."
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Debarati is presently pursuing Bachelors in Social Sciences. She is an absolute outgoing and extrovert, accounting the presence of her huge friend circle. She is a bookworm, and a couch potato at times, but loves going on trips amidst nature. A pure Bengali, mad about Rabindranath Thakur and Golgappa.
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Osteopathic Medicine D.O.
Osteopathy as an alternative
Thread: Osteopathy as an alternative
azskeptic
Moderator 666 points
I have had several conversations with students recently which would tell me that they haven't researched all of the alternatives to attending US medical schools. If you have an MCAT of 25 or higher and a GPA of 3 or so or up, you owe it to yourself to apply to an osteopathic school also. Find attached an article I thought was interesting
http://www.westernu.edu/comp/testimonials.xml
Osteopathy a good option for some medical students
By Cindy Mehallow
Special to the Tribune
As a pre-med student at Bradley University in Peoria, Nicole Ottens investigated her medical school options: traditional, or allopathic, institutions that confer MD degrees; and osteopathic medical colleges, which grant the less common doctor of osteopathy, or DO, degree. To help her make her decision, Ottens shadowed both an MD and a DO.
The osteopath "really delved into what was going on in their life," Ottens said. "He looked into possible causes of a patient's problem rather than the problem itself. He had a more global sense of what was going on in a patient's life and took that into consideration when dealing with their current health problem."
Then, when Ottens applied to and interviewed at both allopathic and osteopathic medical schools, more differences emerged. With a bachelor's degree in psychology, Ottens appreciated the osteopathic medical schools' more holistic approach not just to patient care but also to student selection.
"As a candidate, I was evaluated by more than numeric scores. They tried to assess the type of physician I could be," said Ottens, who graduated in May from the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine in Downers Grove.
Meeting students at osteopathic medical schools clinched the decision for her. "The students I interacted with genuinely seemed to love what they were doing. They seemed happy to be there. It seemed to be a more positive environment and more focused on the bigger picture," said Ottens, now in a one-year traditional rotating internship. After that, she'll complete a four-year residency program in emergency medicine and family medicine at St. James Hospital in Olympia Fields.
Like Ottens, an increasing number of medical students are considering osteopathic medicine. After reaching an all-time high of 10,764 in 1996, applications to osteopathic medical schools declined to a low of 6,324 in 2002 and have been rising since 2003. In 2005, applications hit 8,255. First-year enrollment at osteopathic medical schools exceeded 3,300 students for the 2003-2004 academic year. During that time, applications to U.S. medical schools followed a similar trend.
The patient-centered philosophy of osteopathic medicine accounts for much of this interest, according to Karen Nichols, dean and professor of medicine at the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine, part of Midwestern University.
"I ask every first-year student why they chose osteopathic medical school. The answer I get almost 100 percent of the time is that they like the philosophy. We take a whole-person approach as opposed to an organ-system approach," she said.
Hands-on medicine
The osteopathic philosophy originated with Andrew Taylor Still, a 19th Century American frontier physician who believed that many of the medications of his day were useless or even harmful. Instead, he studied the attributes of wellness to better understand the process of disease. He believed in the unity of the body parts and the importance of the musculoskeletal system in good health. Today, DOs practice alongside MDs, but they often employ osteopathic manipulative treatment, a hands-on technique for diagnosing, treating and even preventing health problems, especially pain-related maladies.
For a profession once deemed a cult by the American Medical Association, osteopathic medicine has struggled to become fully accepted. As recently as 1962, the AMA persuaded California to prohibit osteopathic physicians from practicing in the state; it didn't lift the ban until 1978. In a turnabout, the AMA in the 1990s invited the American Osteopathic Association to send voting members to its House of Representatives. The AOA declined, preferring to retain its own identity.
The osteopathic profession has actively cultivated its reputation among the allopathic medical community, pre-med advisers at undergraduate schools and the public at large.
"A lot of pre-med advisers simply didn't understand that it was a complete system of medical care," said Catherine Schneider of the American Osteopathic Association communications department.
A helpful boost
Recently, this effort has been boosted by the growing interest in and acceptance of complementary and alternative medicine.
"Osteopathy straddles the fence a bit when it comes to complementary medicine," said Mike Patterson, professor in the College of Osteopathic Medicine at Nova Southeastern University in Bradenton, Fla. "The profession is certainly mainstream in that it has full practice rights. But the practice of manipulative medicine is considered a form of alternative medicine by the National Institutes of Health."
In the past, some students applied to osteopathic schools as "safety schools" because they were regarded as less selective. That's no longer the case.
Many students come to osteopathic medicine as their first or even only choice, said Patterson, who has served on admissions committees at several osteopathic medical schools, which, like allopathic schools, require good grades and MCAT scores. Additionally, applicants should have letters of reference and a familiarity with osteopathic medicine.
For the 2005 academic school year, the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine received more than 3,200 applications for just 160 positions. Founded in 1900, it is the only osteopathic medical school in Illinois.
Interest from women
The unprecedented flood of women into the field accounts for a large portion of the increase. For the past two years, women have accounted for more than half of all applicants to osteopathic and allopathic medical schools.
The number of osteopathic colleges has grown too over the last 10 years, with 20 osteopathic medical schools now in the United States. That's created more openings for students, more than 3,300 in the 2003-2004 academic year. New schools have opened and existing schools have established branch campuses, often in other states. Midwestern University, for example, opened a Glendale, Ariz., campus in 1996, introducing osteopathic medicine to the Southwest.
With more schools and more graduates, the number of DOs has increased sharply, and as of June 2005, there were about 50,000 practicing DOs in the country. Still, their numbers are dwarfed by those of MDs, which the American Medical Association estimates at almost 800,000.
On to residencies
Upon graduating from medical school, DOs can apply for residencies at osteopathic hospitals and some allopathic hospitals.
Osteopathic residents generally "perform very well," and often outshine MDs with their physical examination and diagnostic skills, said Robert Buckley, MD, chairman and executive director of medical education at Resurrection Medical Center on the Far Northwest Side.
Because its primary-care orientation makes it a natural fit, Resurrection's family practice residency program actively recruits osteopathic physicians. On average, DOs comprise up to one-third of Resurrection's nearly 70 residents and up to half of the physicians in its family practice residency program.
"The osteopathic residents have a skill which gives them an additional edge that my allopathic brethren and I don't have," said Buckley, referring to osteopathic manipulative treatment.
Buckley first became impressed with Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine graduates in particular long before joining Resurrection 13 years ago. His personal physician, whom he highly respected, was a graduate of the college.
Likewise, "it's not uncommon that our applicants' personal physician is a DO," said Donald Sefcik, past president of the Illinois Osteopathic Medical Society and associate dean at the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine. "Based upon their own experience, with the difference a DO makes, they chose to pursue a career in osteopathic medicine."
Trends in osteopathic education
OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL SCHOOL APPLICANTS (1995-2005)
Applications to osteopathic medical schools have been on the rise again after declining for several years.
In thousands of applicants
1995: 10.2
2005: 8.3
OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL SCHOOL GRADUATES (1195-2009)
The increase in the number of osteopathic medical school graduates is expected to continue until 2009.
In thousands per graduation year
2009: 3.3 Projected
Note: Applicants processed by the AACOM Application Service FIRST-YEAR ENROLLMENT IN OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL SCHOOLS BY GENDER
Numbers per entering year
Women now make up more than 50 percent of first-year students.
1995 1,424 850
'96 1,578 957
'97 1,621 1,071
Source: American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine
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microphage
Useless Member 512 points
Originally Posted by azskeptic
i have those stats... DO just wasn't the best option for those interested in research later on.
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stateofequilibrium
Super Moderator 6105 points
I should've applied.. but darn it, I wanted that MD and Caribbean vacation.
Posterior Fornix.
Miklos
Elite Member 511 points
There are at least three real downsides to osteopathic schools, apart from patients asking: "Why does it say D.O. on your lab coat?"
Surgery and surgical subspecialty ACGME residencies are almost off limits for DOs. This is due to the policies of the governing boards of those specialties. It is true that these are very difficult for IMGs, but DO representation in those residencies is very, very limited.
The degree is not as portable as an MD. For most people this doesn't play a role, but if someone is thinking about the possibility of going internationally at some point, this can be a limiting factor.
There aren't enough DO residencies. Something on the order of 50% of DO graduates plan to do ACGME residencies. This has another downside, in that a handful states will not license DO grads unless they have completed a traditional DO internship or gotten a waiver from the AOA.
osteopath surgeons have their own residencies
https://www.facos.org/ScriptContent/...tion=education
Yes, they do, but a very limited number. Iserson shows a total of 54 funded general surgery first year positions in the 2003 edition of his book (plus a couple dozen of surgery subspecialty spots). This is probably up somewhat, but not enough to make a real difference when you consider that there will soon be 3,000 DO grads.
Again, if surgery is something you want, DO is not the way to go.
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Absolutely true. If surgery is something you want, you better go to a US allopathic school.
OLDPRO
Originally Posted by ol' man
That's not totaly true many from the Big 3 have got residencies in Surgery.
It's not simply the schools it's also the scores man, the scores will rule your life.
And many from DO schools have also. What's your point? If you have good scores from either DO or FMG allopathic you will be competetive. If you don't have good scores from either, you won't. Anything outside of an American allopathic school, you are taking your chances. And even with with some American schools, you are.
neilc
Permanently Banned
surgery is getting rough for IMG's. it looks like there are enough US grads to fill just about all the seats, so you had better stand way above the rest. i have heard some miserable stories about GS this year, and how tough it is to even get interviews. if surg is what you want, you really should do whatever it takes to get into a US school.
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Q: cancancan authorization without params[:id] set I'm trying to authorize "Locations". In the url, the param is not the Location id, but another field called "url_alias". So when searching for the right Location in the LocationsController, I don't use params[:id].
@location = Location.find_by(url_alias: params[:url_alias])

The route is looking like this:
resources :locations, param: :url_alias

In the ability.rb model, I use the following line;
can :read, Location, url_alias: "TestURL"

Now the problem is that CanCanCan doesn't use the information that I try to authorize by the url_alias field, I can view every Location I want. When I replace "url_alias" by a random value like "qwert", I don't even get an error that the field doesn't exist.
By setting params[:id] in the controller to a random value, everything works as expected again, cancancan authorizes by the url_alias etc.
I think it's not a really clean solution to work around this problem by just setting params[:id] to a random value in order to get CanCanCan working. So does anybody have an idea for a better solution? Thanks in advance!

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Greg Horton had been drafted by the Chicago Bears. It was 1974. Third round, 56th pick overall. Papa Bear himself, George Halas, supervised the selection of Horton, a third-round selection out of Colorado.
By 1976, Greg was a member of the Los Angeles Rams. Papa Bear had traded him there on April 2, 1974 for the Rams' third round (Mike Fuller) and 10th round (Mike Julius) picks in 1975.
At L.A., Greg was teammates with Joe Namath, Ron Jaworski, Pat Haden, Lawrence McCutcheon, Heisman winner John Cappelletti, blocking against guys like Jack Reynolds, Isaiah Robertson and Jack Youngblood in practice.
Playing mostly special teams, Greg eventually took over for injured right guard Dennis Harrah midway through the 1977 season.
He played 63 NFL games, starting 34. Most of those came after he got traded to the expansion Tampa Bay Buccaneers midway through the 1978 season.
Greg was part of football lore.
Tampa Bay coach John McKay, who coached USC to four national championships over 16 seasons, watched the Bucs start off losing their first 26 games beginning in their first season, 1976. Little by little, though, McKay started building a strong defense.
John McKay, whose career was built on great success at USC, coached Redlands' Greg Horton in the NFL for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Photo provided by USC/Wikipedia.
QB Doug Williams, who would eventually lead Washington to a Super Bowl about a decade later, took snaps for the Bucs. Side note: Tampa's offensive coordinator in those early years was none other than Joe Gibbs, the Redskins' head coach when Williams QB'd them to the Super Bowl.
Gibbs and McKay built Tampa's offense from scratch. Its real strength might've been its offensive line.
Left tackle Dave Reavis had played for Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh – drafted in 1973 by the Steelers.
Center Steve Wilson, right guard Greg Roberts and right tackle Charlie Hannah were original Bucs. Good enough to stick around for the upgrades.
McKay and Gibbs built that left side – Williams' blind side – with Reavis and Greg, who blocked blitzing linebackers and safeties up the middle, nose guards and defensive tackles on every snap.
Williams, incidentally, had gone down just 12 times that season. Twelve sacks over 16 games! Incredible. Onetime Trojan Ricky Bell was racking up over 1,000 yards behind that stud line, too.
It had to be one of football's greatest ironies that Tampa Bay would host the Rams for the right to play in the 1980 Super Bowl. It would be played in Pasadena's Rose Bowl, of all places.
McKay, who probably figured to be the Rams' coach at one point due to his proximity with USC, watched the likes of George Allen and Chuck Knox coach the Rams during his Trojan years. Ray Malavasi had taken over from Knox.
Bell, of course, was the ex-Trojan playing against the pro team from his former college home town. Also for his former college coach.
Ricky Bell, runner-up to Tony Dorsett in the 1976 Heisman Trophy race, was picked No. 1 overall in the NFL draft by Tampa Bay. He was the man that Redlands product Greg Horton blocked for when both became Buccaneer teammates in 1978 and 1979. Photo by Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Then there was Greg, a 6-foot, 4-inch, 260-pounder who grew up in Redlands – Rams' country – before eventually getting shipped to L.A. by Chicago in 1976. He never played for the Bears. Eventually, he was traded by the Rams two games into the 1978 season, Greg found a home in Tampa.
This was a "worst to first" ride, one of pro football's biggest turnarounds.
When Greg arrived in Tampa, the line consisted of Garry Puetz, a 12th round pick by the Jets in 1973, with 1975 Miami first rounder Darryl Carlton occupying right tackle. By 1979, Puetz and Carlton were no longer around.
Greg started out by playing left guard, eventually shifted to right guard to accommodate injuries to Hannah, plus any rebuilding taking shape under Gibbs and McKay.
Any team's best defense is a good offense. During that era of ball control, clock-killing, run-oriented offenses is what kept the other team's attacks on the sideline. It's exactly what McKay had in mind with the Reavis-Horton-Wilson-Hannah-Roberts corps blocking for Williams and Bell (1,263 yards).
The Bucs were no different than Earl Campbell's Houston Oilers. Or Walter Payton's early days in Chicago. Line play had been huge around the likes of O.J. Simpson in Buffalo, Franco Harris in Pittsburgh, not to mention Larry Csonka and Mercury Morris in Miami.
In Tampa Bay, Bell had been taken in the 1976 NFL draft ahead of Tony Dorsett, the Pittsburgh All-American selected by the Dallas Cowboys.
Defensively, onetime Oklahoma Sooner defensive end Lee Roy Selmon was named Associated Press MVP that season. Linebacker Richard Wood, another ex-Trojan that was originally drafted by the Jets, also played a key role on the Bucs' defense.
After a 10-6 regular season, it was Tampa Bay 24, Philadelphia 16 in the divisional playoff round – Bell bashing for 142 yards on 38 carries behind that Bucs' line.
Suddenly, Tampa Bay, Bell, McKay, Greg, Wood & Co. had found themselves staring face to face with the Los Angeles Rams. The NFC championship was on the line.
From a 7-37 beginning to an 11-6 record heading into the NFC Championship, McKay had lifted the Bucs to pro football's pinnacle.
Malavasi's Rams finished 9-7, but stunned Dallas, 21-19, in the divisional round.
Their featured running back was UCLA product Wendell Tyler.
Vince Ferragamo had taken over as Rams' QB from onetime USC shooter Pat Haden, who combined 24 interceptions with 16 TD passes.
Williams' 24 picks and 18 TDs weren't much better.
Each side would try and counter the other with ground games and staunch defense.
Surely, the Bucs' defense would devour the Rams.
L.A. had a defense of its own – the Youngbloods, Reynolds, Fred Dryer, you name it.
The date was Jan. 6, 1980.
Both were called back because of penalties.
It was a defensive slugfest.
The Rams' defense stole the show, limiting the Bucs to a mere 177 total yards.
By contrast, L.A.'s Cullen Bryant ran for 106 yards. Tyler racked up 86 more. Ferragamo threw for 163 yards – no interceptions.
Williams gave way to backup Mike Rae, the pair combining for a total of 54 yards passing.
Rams' placekicker Frank Corral hit field goals of 19, 21 and 23 yards.
Final score, Rams 9, Bucs 0.
After a dozen years of seeing the Packers, Colts, Vikings and Cowboys reach the Super Bowl, the Rams became the first NFC Western Division team to advance to the NFL's title game against the Pittsburgh Steelers.


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Heldrungen
Youth hostel Heldrungen
Heldrungen "Wasserburg" Youth Hostel
Heldrungen's Wasserburg ("Water Castle") is the only fully preserved, French-style fortified castle of its kind in Germany and dates back to the 12th century. Nowadays there is a Youth Hostel at the Wasserburg, with a special focus on learning about history. If you want to take a trip to the Middle Ages, you've come to the right place. An interactive journey of discovery back to the days of knights, castles and the German Peasants' War means there will be no time for boredom.
Heldrungen Youth Hostel: Spend the night in a castle
Because of its sturdy fortification, the moated castle of Heldrungen in the North of the State of Thüringen was once believed to be invulnerable. Today, thousands of people occupy the historical building every year, as it now houses a newly refurbished youth hostel.
Once a year a colourful camp scene is reminiscent of the days when the castle and the separate ring of fortifications were erected: craftsmen and tradesmen, minstrels and travelling entertainers take up abode between the moats, bastions and turrets. Furthermore, the Medieval market on the 24th and 25th of September 2016 will take visitors back centuries.
The first mention of the building was found in a document dating back to the year 1217. The moated castle that still remains today was built between 1512 and 1519 and is the only fully preserved monument in Germany built in the French architectural style. The bastions are arranged in the geometric pattern typical for the Renaissance period in France. A characteristic feature of Heldrungen is the so-called outwork, which, in Heldrungen, is filled with water. In order to prevent deterioration and to preserve their authentic appearance, the buildings have been restored and renovated several times.
The youth hostel moved into the moated castle 40 years ago, and is equally popular amongst school classes, families and seminar groups. The North and South Wing of the castle have recently been renovated so that guests can continue to enjoy high standards. The regulations for the preservation of historical buildings and monuments were also taken into account, and although construction work went on for 5 years, the youth hostel remained open without interruption. Now the hostel is able to house 142 guests; twice as many as before. Pleasant colours, wooden furnishings and an agreeable overall impression create an appealing atmosphere.
Heldrungen lies in the South Harz, near Erfurt and Bad Frankenhausen, and belongs to the natural park Kyffhäuser. Countless hiking trails cross through the uplands; the beech forest is a retreat for wild cats, and in the autumn thousands of cranes rest here on their journey south. Mines, churches, monasteries and historical parks are some of the many attractions of this region full of cultural monuments.
Heldrungen is situated some 20 km east of the Kyffhäuser mountain (Kaiserpfalz Tilleda) and 20 km away from the Barbarossa Cave.
Heldrungen Youth Hostel has 100 beds in rooms with between 2 and 8 beds. Most of the rooms are equipped with washing facilities. Communal showers and WCs are on the different floors.
Since May 2013: 50 beds in rooms between 2 and 6 beds with shower and WC.
Magazin 279 sqm 130 70 - - - GF upon request
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Welcome to the Wasserburg!
Once the abode of knights and noblemen, today this is the ideal place for adventure-packed days looking at history and the natural world. The Youth Hostel is now a place of learning about history. Whether you're a school class, a history buff, you love finding out about things or you just want to relax, you are in good hands. The Youth Hostel is also a great starting point for many excursions that will bring you back to nature in the Kyffhäuser hills.
In the immediate vicinity you'll find Wiehe model Railway, the world's largest permanent model railway exhibition. Whether you fancy a trip to Bad Frankenhausen, with its Kyffhäuser Thermal Baths and Panorama Museum, to the Kyffhäuser Monument or perhaps to the Barbarossa Cave - the Hostel management team will be happy to assist you in planning your individual stay.
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"Wasserburg" History Learning Hostel
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