Police Commissioner Gary Griffith has criticised members of the media and "social media experts" who he says have been unfair to him.
Griffith took issue with the reporting by media and others, on his handling of the TV Jaagriti issue and his appearance at the Buju Banton concert.
At the end of the 25-minute address, Griffith closed the news briefing without fielding questions and when some journalists sought to get responses on some matter, he replied, "Ask Omatie Lyder" (Editor-in-Chief at the Express Newspaper).
Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith is saying the head of finance from the TTPS is 100 percent accurate.
The TTPS has not received any money for the fiscal year 2018 to 2019 from the Ministry of Finance.
The commissioner says the TTPS does not require any finance guidance or training on how to manage its accounts since individuals working in the finance and administration sections have decades of experience and qualifications.
The Office of the Commissioner of Police says it has reached out to members of Parliament across 41 constituencies within the nine policing divisions of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS), as part of ongoing efforts to strengthen stakeholder partnerships and community engagement.
The statement says that Police Commissioner Gary Griffith has written to all MPs indicating his willingness and availability to meet with them to discuss crime initiatives and strategies, which can be beneficial to their constituents and by extension, Trinidad and Tobago.
"Buck physically attacks & threatens to kill us"
Police Commissioner Gary Griffith wants consideration given to reasonable shut-off times for future Carnival celebrations.
Griffith made the suggestion at a press conference at the Ministry of National Security in Port-of-Spain yesterday.
"This is one of the few countries in the world where you have Carnival going on from Friday. In other carnivals you have a shut-off point," Griffith said.
Police officers who fail to show up for work on Carnival Monday and Tuesday without a valid reason will be reassigned from their units and face disciplinary action.
The warning came from Police Commissioner Gary Griffith after he made an assessment of the "great" turnout by members of the T&T Police Service (TTPS) on Carnival Monday.
Locusts have descended on farms in the southwest peninsula, ravaging crops and vegetation.
A 47-year-old taxi driver was killed during an apparent robbery early this morning.


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The European Parliament has recognized Venezuela's self-declared interim president Juan Guaido as de facto head of state, a move that is heightening international pressure on the OPEC member's socialist President Nicolas Maduro.
The Parliamentarian voted 429 in favor to 104 against, with 88 abstentions, at a special session in Brussels on Thursday recognizing Guaido as interim leader.
Though frequently accusing Maduro of stifling democracy, the European Union, wary of setting a precedent of recognizing self-declared leaders, has been reluctant to follow the United States and most Latin American nations in their immediate recognition of Guaido.
Although, Britain, France, Germany, and Spain said they would recognize Guaido unless Maduro called elections within eight days. But the EU as a whole has not set a time limit in its call for a new presidential vote.
"We appreciate the decision [taken by] the European Parliament [it] recognize [s] all the effort that we Venezuelans have put forward for the restitution of constitutional order in our country"
In another development, Brussels-based International Federation of Journalists said seven foreign journalists had been detained in Venezuela, including French and Spanish reporters. EU foreign policy Chief Federica Mogherini has since called for their release.


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Sanjay Leela Bhansali's magnum opus Bajirao Mastani witnessed growth in the collection during weekdays due to Christmas holidays in India. The daily collection during weekday was either in double digit or very close to that and as a result of this unprecedented trend at the ticket counters, it posted a fabulous total at the end of the first week.
As per the box office reports, the movie amassed 12.80 cr on Friday, 15.52 cr on Saturday, 18.45 cr on Sunday, 10.25 cr on Monday, 9.40 cr on Tuesday, 9.21 cr on Wednesday, and 10.52 cr on Thursday to take its total domestic box office collection to 86.15 crores in the first week. The weekdays collection of the movie has surpassed that of its competitor Dilwale. Both Dilwale and Bajirao Mastani will be impacted by the new Hollywood release Star Wars, but only second weekend collection can insinuate the impact and the future prospect these Bollywood movies. If the film could maintain good growth during second weekend, it has enormous chance to cross 150 crores in the domestic market as no new release will hit the the theaters before 8th Jan.


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Ornithogalum geniculatum ist eine Pflanzenart der Gattung Ornithogalum in der Familie der Spargelgewächse (Asparagaceae). Das Artepitheton geniculatum stammt aus dem Lateinischen, bedeutet 'mit einem Knie' und verweist auf den knieartig gebogenen Blütenstand.

Beschreibung
Ornithogalum geniculatum ist ein zwergiger, einzeln wachsender Geophyt. Seine kugelförmig-eiförmigen Zwiebeln weisen einen Durchmesser von bis zu 1 Zentimeter auf und sind ebenso hoch. Die weißen Zwiebelschuppen sind fleischig. Äußere Schuppen sind trocken. Die variablen, sukkulenten Laubblätter erscheinen mit den Blüten. Die Blattspreite der länglichen, unteren Blätter ist 4 bis 5 Zentimeter lang und 2 Zentimeter breit. Die oberen Blätter sind basal röhrig und stängelumfassend, 3 Zentimeter lang und 0,3 Zentimeter breit.

Der rispige, bis zu fünfblütige Blütenstand erreicht eine Länge von bis zu 15 Zentimeter. Der sehnige Blütenschaft ist an der Basis knieartig gebogen. Die Brakteen sind linealisch-zugespitzt. Die Blüten stehen an 1 Zentimeter langen Blütenstielen. Die weißen, linealisch-elliptischen Perigonblätter sind 10 Millimeter lang und 3 Millimeter breit. Die Staubblätter sind 5 Millimeter lang. Äußere Staubfäden sind fadenförmig, innere eiförmig. Der Fruchtknoten ist eiförmig, der Griffel aufrecht und die Narbe kopfig. Die Blütezeit ist der Frühling.

Die durchscheinenden, länglich-eiförmigen Früchte sind 10 Millimeter lang und 10 Millimeter breit. Sie enthalten flache, schwarze Samen mit einem Durchmesser von 1 Millimeter.

Systematik und Verbreitung
Ornithogalum geniculatum ist in Namibia im Süden der Wüste Namib sowie in der südafrikanischen Provinz Nordkap in der Sukkulenten-Karoo verbreitet.

Die Erstbeschreibung durch Anna Amelia Obermeyer wurde 1978 veröffentlicht.

Ein Synonym ist Eliokarmos geniculatus (Oberm.) Mart.-Azorín, M.B.Crespo & Juan (2011).

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Sephardische Musik  ist die Musik der als Sepharden bezeichneten Nachfahren iberischer Juden, die nach einer über Jahrhunderte währenden Phase des kulturell, wirtschaftlich und politisch bedeutsamen Zusammenlebens mit den Mehrheitsbevölkerungen der Iberischen Halbinsel am Ende des 15. Jahrhunderts aus Spanien und Portugal vertrieben wurden, und die sich bevorzugt im Mittelmeerraum niederließen.

Entwicklung

Wie in der sephardischen Sprache lassen sich auch in der sephardischen Musik Elemente der spanischen Kultur nachweisen, auch wenn diese durch die Einflüsse der neuen Gastländer im Laufe der Jahrhunderte zunehmend überformt wurden. So hat sich das ursprünglich ibero-jüdische Repertoire der Musikpraxis jeder Region angepasst und regionale Eigenheiten aufgenommen, so die mikrotonal verzierten Töne des nordafrikanischen Kulturraumes; die türkisch beeinflussten Rhythmen vom Balkan und die arabisch-türkischen Tonsysteme.

Die Forschung steht in Bezug auf die Musik der Sephardim vor dem Problem, dass zwar jüdische und nichtjüdische Quellen zum Musikleben der Juden in Spanien vorhanden sind, die erhaltenen Niederschriften von Musik aber alle aus der Zeit nach 1492 stammen. Große Teile des Repertoires wurden über lange Zeiträume nur oral tradiert und erst im 20. Jahrhundert niedergeschrieben oder aufgenommen. Israel J. Katz schreibt deshalb, dass "die Musik des sephardischen Spanien für uns Rätsel (Enigma) bleibt".

Es gibt drei Arten sephardischer Lieder: Balladen und Unterhaltungslieder, Romanzen sowie geistliche oder liturgische Gesänge. Die Sänger sind zumeist Frauen, die während der Hausarbeit singen. Die Gesangstraditionen verbreiteten sich von Spanien nach Marokko (die "westliche Tradition") und in Teile  des Osmanenreichs ("östliche Tradition") mit Griechenland, Jerusalem, dem Balkan und Ägypten. Die meist monophonen Lieder sind normalerweise unbegleitet. Tamburins und andere Perkussionsinstrumente werden zuweilen verwendet, insbesondere bei Hochzeitsliedern. Eine instrumentale Begleitung erfolgt traditionell durch Oud und Kanun, heutige Interpreten verwenden unterschiedlichste Instrumente westlichen Ursprungs. Die Texte können in unterschiedlichen Sprachen vorgetragen werden, einschließlich des Hebräischen für religiöse Gesänge sowie des Ladino.

Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts wurden einige populäre kommerzielle Plattenaufnahmen sephardischer Musik in Griechenland und der Türkei, später in Jerusalem und anderen Regionen der östlichen Tradition veröffentlicht.  Die ersten Interpreten waren zumeist Männer, einschließlich der Türken Jack Mayesh, Haim Efendi und Yitzhak Algazi. Später kam eine neue Sängergeneration auf, viele von ihnen waren selbst keine Sepharden.  Gloria Levy, Pasharos Sefardíes und Flory Jagoda waren bekannte Interpreten dieser östlichen Traditionsperiode. Yasmin Levy zählt zu einer neuen Sängergeneration, die das Ladino-Erbe neu interpretiert und mit andalusischem Flamenco kombiniert. Myriam Alter fusioniert sephardische Musik mit Jazz und lateinamerikanischer Musik. In der Türkei schaffte es die sephardische Musikgruppe Sefarad bis in die Top Ten.

Liste von Interpreten

Interpreten sephardischer Herkunft
 Noam Vazana (Israel/Niederlande)
 Mor Karbasi (Großbritannien)
 Yasmin Levy (Israel)
 Lili Boniche (Algerien)
 Yehoram Gaon (Israel)

Interpreten sephardischer Musik
 Ana Alcaide (Spanien)
 Esther Ofarim (Israel)
 Soledad Bravo (Venezuela)
 Savina Yannatou (Griechenland)

Ensembles
 Ensemble Sarband (Deutschland / Bulgarien / Türkei / Libanon)
 Sefarad (Türkei)

Literatur
 Judith Cohen: Ladino Romance. In: Simon Broughton, Mark Ellingham et al. (Hrsg.): World Music, Vol. 1: Africa, Europe and the Middle East. Rough Guides Ltd, Penguin Books, 2000, ISBN 1-85828-636-0, S. 370–379.
 Edwin Seroussi: Between the Eastern and Western Mediterranean. Sephardic Music after the Expulsion from Spain and Portugal. In: Alisa Meyuhas Ginio (Hrsg.): Jews Christians, and Muslims in the Mediterranean World after 1492. Routledge, 1992, ISBN 978-0-7146-8050-7, S. 198–206.
 Edwin Seroussi: Sephardic Music – A Bibliographical Guide with a Checklist of Notated Sources. In Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Review, Vol. 12, Nr. 1–2. 1990, S. 56–61
 Abraham Zvi Idelsohn: Hebräisch-orientalischer Melodienschatz. Vol. 4: Gesänge der orientalischen Sefardim. Berlin u. a. 1923
 Mark Kligman: Diversity and Uniqueness – An Introductio to Sephardic Liturgical Music. In Zion Zohar (Hrsg.): From the Golden Age of Spain to Modern Times. New York University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-8147-9705-9, S. 259–284

Weblinks

 Pizmonim.org – nahöstliche sephardische Pizmonim (Lieder)
 Blog von Adik Chezron – Sammlung von sephardischen Liedern in Ladino mit deutscher, englischer und russischer Übersetzung.

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It is with great sadness that we all learnt last night the passing away of Cherif Bassiouni, one of the giants of international law and international criminal law. He really needs no introduction, but I wanted to offer some concluding feelings.
He was a great jurist, a great scholar and writer. Possibly more importantly, he was a great inspirer. His writings have moved generations of scholars and practitioners into trying to make a difference. He was the perfect and healthy symbiosis between utopia and realist understanding of our world. Cherif Bassiouni was always promoting justice, peace and tolerance but was never preachy about it. He didn't need to, because he made things sound so natural. God knows I tend not to be easily taken into idealist visions of the world, justice and the future (some would even say that I am cynical). But Cherif was different. Listening to him, you were taken into his words and left with no doubt that everything was possible, even when going back into the world.
Cherif Bassiouni was a key personality in my own professional career. Attending the Syracusa ICL Summer School in 2007 was a founding moment in confirming my decision to do international criminal law and in my love for pleading (I sulked for 24 hours because I didn't win the Moot Court…).
Ten years later, this summer 2017, I had the privilege of being invited to teach at the ICL Summer School and to meet Cherif one last time. We had a dinner in honor of Judge van den Wyngaert where he made a kind and inspirational speech before we shared moments of joy and singing in probably 12 different languages, a perfect symbol of the diversity surrounding Cherif. I will always remember that evening fondly. Below is a picture Raymond Savadogo, an attendee at the summer school, took as a memorandum (and yes, Judge van den Wyngaert is indeed holding a guitar, but that is a story for another time…).
I cannot claim that we were friends, but the few time we met and had the chance to talk, there was always a sense that he cared and that nothing else mattered for that moment. He was, simply speaking, a truly remarkable human being.
Cherif Bassiouni will be missed by all who had the honor of meeting him and knowing him. There are few people I would say this about, but I am proud to be part of his legacy and to carry it forward.


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Some customers pay for flight booking on foreign currency so the setup should also track foreign currency transactions and report the sales in home currency using an updated exchange rate. Any gain or loss on transactions should also be accounted for.
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Two former presidents, Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, were among the top dignitaries who graced the turbaning of Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as the 'Wazirin Adamawa' on Sunday.
Bukola Saraki, President of the Senate, and Yakubu Dogara, Speaker of the House of Representatives, led a horde of National Assembly members to the occasion.
Governors Seriake Dickson (Bayelsa State), Udom Emmanuel (Akwa-Ibom), Aminu Tambuwal (Sokoto State), Ishaku Darius Dickson (Taraba State), Ibrahim Dankwambo (Gombe) and Adulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State were sighted by our reporter.
Political coloration betrayed what was meant to be a cultural event, as PDP symbols filled Yola. All major streets were decorated in PDP colors such that one would mistake the state for a PDP-controlled one.
Earlier before the turbaning ceremony, and even after it, Peter Obi, Atiku's running mate, anchored sideline political meetings on the need to reassess and to solidify the PDP strategy towards wresting power from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Saraki, Director General of the Atiku Presidential Campaign, took charge of the meeting of PDP presidential aspirants, to perfect the cementing of unity. Tambuwal, Kwankwaso and Dankwambo spoke of their commitment to the Atiku project.
Former President Obasanjo, who was a special guest, described Atiku as a well-cultured man who has what it takes to reposition the country.
Speaking of his relationship with Atiku, Obasanjo recalled how Atiku handled his duties with deep sense of responsibility.
"I have known Atiku for a while, and can state that he handles all responsibilities meticulously," he said.
"Let me thank the Lamido on half of all of us who are friends, colleagues and co-workers of Atiku for the honour you have done him by conferring the title of Waziri on him."
Former Chairman of DAAR Communications, Raymond Dokpesi, criticised President Muhammadu Buhari, describing the APC as a "party branded in propaganda and lies".
"Buhari was marketed to Nigerians on false assumption that as a Major General he has what it takes to end Boko Haram.
"But the stack reality is that he does not know what to do; the man was overrated; and let me tell you Buhari has never passed any military exams in his life."
Buhari was represented at the event by FCT Minister, Musa Bello, just as Governor Jibrilla Bindow was represented by his Deputy Governor, Martin Babale.


I suppose it's time for an update seeing as I moved to Montréal over a week ago. The move went pretty smoothly for the most part. I arrived in Montréal after a lovely red eye flight. Can't say I ever enjoy flying, but I suppose if I am going to fly I might as well sleep through the whole thing. I caved & took a cab to the apartment because I had far too much stuff to haul it across the city on the bus/métro.
After freshening up a bit it was IKEA time. I spent the next few hours taking the métro/bus out to IKEA, shopping for all the stuff I need, purchasing it & then finding a cab to haul it all back to my apartment. I then proceeded to lug all the boxes up to my apartment where I could finally assemble them. By the time Margaux got home that evening I was a sweaty mess & only a third of the way through assembling my drawers. She helped me finish that up & I had a lovely sleep on our giant (& extremely comfy) futon.
Since that hectic first day, I've fully assembled all of my IKEA furniture & my room actually resembles a room. I think it is really quite impressive. For the most part, I've spent my time getting settled & working at the YMCA here.
& wow, does this Y ever make me miss the good old Crowfoot YMCA. We're not allowed to talk to each other on deck at this one. We do 20 minutes standing between the 2 pools, 20 min sitting at the deep end & 20 minutes "off". & there are only ever 3 guards. If someone has to get in to teach, then there are 2 guards that stay on the whole time. It's great. Oh CFY, how I miss you & how close we all were.
Margaux's boyfriend, Mike, came up from Kingston last weekend for a visit. It was nice to get to meet him finally & hang out. We had Montréal smoked meat at Schwartz's, he made us pasta & I think they had a really good weekend together.
Aside from a nice stroll in Mont Royal last Friday (where I got horribly lost in Westmount for a while & ended up on a 3 hour walk instead of a hour & a half) & a visit to the Atwater Market I haven't had time to do much exploring yet. I work all this weekend, but I'm hoping to still get out a bit & then do some serious exploring next week. It's time to really get to know this city I think!
Change- that seems to be the theme of most of my posts. I guess that's what happens when you decide to move all the time. I've always been okay with change & trying new things. & I think this year will certainly be full of new things & "firsts".
new city, new apartment, new roommate, new friends, new job, new school(s), new language.


Like solving the riddle of the sphinx, so too is unlocking the mystery of how to cut a watermelon without butchering the fruit or cutting yourself. Watermelons come in various sizes, but their round or oblong shape does make them rather difficult to cut. We've found a clever way to not only cut up, but to serve up this summertime favorite, and it's so simple, you'll wonder why you've never done it this way before!
Now, many of you out there will already be familiar with this method. Lucky you! Because for those of us who didn't know, this is downright revolutionary. You'll need a good knife, a steady hand, and a little bit of patience to pull off this carving technique. Once you've done it, you may never go back to triangular slices again! As always, exercise caution when working with a knife, and to make the watermelon less slippery, consider setting it on top of a dish towel to help with grip. Once the melon is cut in half (the hardest part), then begin slicing out a simple grid. Once done all you have to do is pull out a perfect sized watermelon slice.
Finding clever ways to do everyday kitchen tasks is actually pretty fun. And while many of these "hacks" have been around for a long time, for many of us these are new and fresh ways to tackle tedious kitchen tasks. We love watermelon in the summertime, and no matter how you slice it, it's guaranteed to be a crowd pleaser. Family and friends will marvel at your knife skills while enjoying sweet and juicy bites of this beloved summertime treat.


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To The Moon gets free holiday "minisode", will soon have Mac and Linux versions
By Phil Savage 02 January 2014
Seasonal specials are a long-standing tradition in television, from EastEnders' annual scowl-off, to Downton Abbey's historical snoot-'em-up, or Doctor Who's... whatever the hell that was. Thanks to Freebird Games' To The Moon, games are getting in on the drama as well. The developer of the emotionally charged adventure has now released a free holiday special "minisode" focusing on its lead doctors Eva & Neil.
"The minisode is just about 20 minutes long," writes Freebird Games' Kan Gao in a blog update , "and is meant to be played front-to-end in a little marathon, as there is no save feature (or menus, for that matter). It takes place around the holiday season, at the local branch of Sigmund Corp where Eva & Neil are employed."
You can download the free chapter from here . The freebie was also released through Steam, via an update to To The Moon. To play it, you'll need to go to To The Moon's Steam folder, where you'll find the executable.
And what else? In an interview with Polygon , Gao revealed that Mac and Linux versions of To The Moon where "not too far off". There's no firm date for the ports, but, according to Gao, the studio has overcome legal problems surrounding the current game engine's EULA, and now progress is being made.
And what else? Gao also writes about A Bird Story, the developer's next release, saying it will be finished when it's ready. "It's not that long of a game at all, but there are things in it that I'm just still trying to figure out. It's also something that means a lot to me personally, and I don't want to compromise how it turns out." A Bird Story will be a prequel to the eventual second episode of To The Moon, featuring a younger version of what will be that game's patient.
In case you haven't played the main game, it's a narrative adventure about a couple of doctors who help grant the wishes of dying patients by travelling back through their memories. It's an excellent and moving story, which is just as well, because its title never fails to get that Savage Garden song stuck in my head. It's well worth checking out, especially at its super-cheap Steam sale price , or, if you use the service, the even cheaper UPlay sale price .
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IVC Filter Lawsuit Plaintiff May Present Eclipse Predicate Device Evidence at Upcoming Bellwether Trial
Published on April 23, 2018 by Sandy Liebhard
The federal court overseeing hundreds of product liability lawsuits involving C.R. Bard Inc.'s allegedly defective IVC filters will allow a plaintiff to present evidence pertaining to a predicate device during the litigation's second bellwether trial, which is slated to begin next month.
Evidence on Recovery Filter Testing, Development and Design Relevant to Plaintiff's Case
According to court documents pending in the U.S. District Court, District of Arizona, the case soon to go before a jury was filed on behalf of a Georgia woman who received C.R. Bard's Eclipse blood clot filter in 2010 to treat recurrent deep vein thrombosis. Five years later, a scan revealed that one of the filter's limbs had fractured and become embolized in her right pulmonary artery. Though doctors removed the filter, the fractured limb remains in her body.
The Eclipse IVC filter came to market under the U.S. Food & Drug Administration's 510(k) program, which allows device manufacturers to avoid conducting human clinical trials when a new device is shown to be "substantially equivalent" to a "predicate device" that had already gone through the agency's strict premarket approval device.
The predicate device for the Eclipse IVC filter was C.R. Bard's Recovery filter. In an Order dated April 18th, Judge David G. Campbell ruled that the plaintiff would be able to present evidence pertaining to the testing, development and design of the Recovery blood clot filter, finding that it is relevant to her case.
"The history of the Recovery and how it led to the G2 tends to make a fact in dispute — the allegedly defective design of the Eclipse — more probable," Judge Campbell wrote. "The Court cannot conclude that evidence of the Recovery's complications, testing, and design should be precluded under Rule 403. The Court does not find such evidence to be unfairly prejudicial – it is a relevant part of the Eclipse filter's design history
IVC Filter Problems
IVC (inferior vena cava) filters are indicated for use in patients at risk for pulmonary embolism, a life-threatening type of blood clot that occurs when a clot elsewhere in the body breaks free and travels through the bloodstream to the lungs. IVC filters are inserted into the inferior vena cava to prevent any such clots from making their way to the heart or lungs.
In 2010, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration reported that its adverse event database had received more than 900 reports in relation to IVC filters, including:
328 reports of filter migration
145 reports of embolization
70 reports of inferior vena cava perforations
50 reports of filter fracture
Four years later, the agency issued a second advisory urging healthcare providers to retrieve temporary blood clot filters within 29 to 54 days of their implantation in order to reduce the risk of patient harm.
C.R. Bard IVC Filter Bellwether Trials
Court records indicate that there are more than 3,700 IVC filter lawsuits pending in the multidistrict litigation now underway in the District of Arizona.
All of the cases were filed on behalf of individuals who suffered life-threatening injuries and complications allegedly due to the malfunction of C.R. Bard's retrievable blood clot filters, including Recovery, G2, G2 Express, G2X, Eclipse, Meridian, and Denali devices.
The litigation's first bellwether trial concluded in March, when the company was ordered to pay $3.6 million (including $1.6 million in actual damages and $2 million in punitive damages) to a woman who suffered complications related to the fracture and migration of the G2 IVC filter.
The Eclipse IVC filter lawsuits will head to trial on May 15th.
As bellwether trials, the verdicts in these cases are intended to provide insight into how other juries might decide similar IVC filter lawsuits.


Theoretical consideration indicates that, in an accelerated turbulent flow, the thermal boundary layer may penetrate significantly beyond the edge of the velocity boundary layer. This effect may contribute in part to the marked decrease in Stanton number which has been reported in accelerated turbulent boundary layers. This paper presents theoretical solutions to turbulent velocity and thermal boundary layers in flow between converging planes where the wall temperature varies as the free-stream velocity raised to a positive exponent. The solutions clearly illustrate that, as the wall-temperature variation is made less rapid, the thermal boundary layer penetrates progressively further beyond the velocity boundary layer, causing the Stanton number to decrease.
Launder BE, Lockwood FC. An Aspect of Heat Transfer in Accelerating Turbulent Boundary Layers. ASME. J. Heat Transfer. 1969;91(2):229-234. doi:10.1115/1.3580132.


Waking up on a moist light filled Sunday morning graced with peaceful nature sounds of forest and creek. All is well in this moment, laced with a sharp awareness that everything could change in an instant....and has...and will.
This is a time of great upheaval, shifts….. and changes that must be made if we are to survive and eventually thrive. There is great loss as the imbalance that has been caused by humans wreaks havoc on all forms of life.


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El cálao gorgiclaro o cálao de pico liso (Rhyticeros subruficollis) es una especie de ave coraciforme de la familia de los cálaos (Bucerotidae).
Se puede encontrar en los bosques de los montes Dawna y Tenasserim en el sur de Birmania, las partes adyacentes del oeste de Tailandia y el norte de la península de Malaca.

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M.A. in Choral and Orchestral conducting – University of Denver
B.M.E. in Voice and Instrumental Music – Wartburg College
Tim Schumacher serves as an adjunct professor at Waldorf University where he directs the Waldorf Jazz Band, Vocal Jazz and Jazz Combo. He earned a Bachelor of Music Education in Voice and Instrumental music from Wartburg College. He attended the University of Denver to complete a Master of Arts degree in Choral and Orchestral conducting. While at DU he also completed extensive studies in Classical Guitar, Vocal Pedagogy and Jazz.
Mr. Schumacher is ABD (All But Dissertation) from the University of Iowa in Choral Conducting. An active performer, he appears regularly as guitarist and bassist for the Okoboji Summer Theatre and he has held positions as Director of Music and Choral Activities on all levels including High School, College/University and Church/Community settings. He is currently in his 29th year as Artistic Director and Conductor of the "Many Voices" Choir, a regional adult, volunteer ensemble drawing membership from approximately 20 communities around Northwest Iowa.


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Socialist Worker on "The Lobby": half a step forward
Submitted by martin on 7 December, 2020 - 5:48 Author: Martin Thomas
Socialist Worker half-breaks from its previous attitudes to tell readers that seeing "the Israel lobby" as super-powerful in world politics is an antisemitic idea
"Continuing to believe [criticism of Corbyn inside Labour is] all simply orchestrated by an 'Israel lobby' can lead you down some very dark paths… It can lead to antisemitic arguments".
That's not from Solidarity, but, surprisingly, from an article by Nick Clark in Socialist Worker (2 December 2020).
Clark's article is progress. Mind you, he doesn't explain how the "Israel lobby" idea of Jews worldwide being mysteriously highly united (in a way no other diaspora is) and mysteriously ultra-powerful (though they're 0.2% of the world's population) is a modern makeover of old "Jewish conspiracy" ideas.
He also insists that criticism of Corbyn's record on antisemitism is not based on real issues, but comes only because "the right hated Corbyn's support for the Palestinians" and from an "effort to silence criticism of Israel in the Labour Party".
Actually, the only recent shifts in Labour Party policy on Israel-Palestine have come with Lisa Nandy's call for a boycott of settlement goods if Israel should annex areas of the West Bank and Ed Miliband's three-line whip to recognise a Palestinian state in October 2014 - before Corbyn or after, not during.
And none of the antisemitic abuse complained about has been an attack on solidarity with the Palestinians, or on "criticism" of Israel in the ordinary sense in which we "criticise" Iran or China or the USA (i.e. criticise actions and records of their governments), rather than in the sense of wanting Israel wiped off the map.
So why the volume and weight of criticism of Corbyn on antisemitism, if not because of real issues, and also not because of the strange superpower of an "Israel lobby"? Clark has to give a different explanation.
It is, he says, because Labour is reformist, therefore supports the British state. The British state backed the Jewish settlers in Palestine because "they offered to play a role defending the British Empire". Later Israel became "the foremost enforcer of the US's rule in the Middle East", the British state wants to be "the US's junior partner", therefore it belongs to the inner essence of Labour always to back Israel.
Labour in government has always deferred to clearly-defined world-scale interests of British capital. It will take a great transformation of the British labour movement to break that pattern.
But it doesn't always follow, for example, that Labour in opposition is always compliant. Or that Labour can't differentiate from the Tories when the interests of British capital are disputed or unclear.
The 1918 Labour manifesto headlined support for freedom for India and Ireland, and the Labour Party broadly if blurredly backed Ireland in its War of Independence.
The first British Military Governor in Jerusalem, Ronald Storrs, famously hoped that the Jewish settlers might create a "little loyal Jewish Ulster" and help Britain maintain its hegemony in surrounding Arab lands. The argument was not calculated to appeal to pro-Irish-nationalist Labour. Anyway it didn't work out. Storrs himself would become a keen anti-Zionist in the 1940s.
In the World War 2 coalition government, Labour did not differentiate from the Tories' strict curbs on Jews fleeing to Palestine, imposed to placate Arab opinion and safeguard Britain's semi-colonial hegemony in Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, etc.
The 1945 Labour government continued those curbs, holding Jewish refugees in detention camps in Cyprus, and resisting US pressure on the issue. By 1947 Britain decided it could not win its developing war in Palestine against the Jewish community there, which was fighting to win free immigration for the Holocaust survivors. It withdrew.
In Israel's war of independence, 1948, the strongest Arab forces were commanded by British officers, and the British Labour government tilted towards the Arab side.
A number of RAF planes, in fact on reconnaissance missions, were shot down by the Israelis in January 1949. Britain sent troops to Aqaba, and Israel prepared military plans against an expected joint British-Iraqi-Jordanian attack on the Negev. Britain changed the arms embargo which it, like the US, had imposed both on the already-established Arab states and on the scratch armed forces of the incipient Israeli state, now to embargo only Israel. In the end, Britain decided that Israel had in fact already pretty much won the war, and the incipient new clash faded. Israel had got the arms supplies it needed via Czechoslovakia, thanks to Stalin's calculation that victory for Israel would disrupt British hegemony in the region.
By 1956 British power in the region had in fact much faded. A Tory government in Britain joined with France and Israel to attack Egypt to reverse Nasser's nationalisation of the Suez Canal. Israel's hope was to gain territory in Sinai. The US forced Britain, France, and Israel to withdraw, and later forced Israel to withdraw from Sinai. The Labour Party (then under very right-wing leadership) campaigned vigorously against the Tories' attack on Egypt.
Since 1967, the US has had close ties with Israel, seeing it as its only reliable ally in the region (the Saudi monarchy is an ally: but what happens when it falls?). But at no point has Israel been able to "enforce… the US's rule in the Middle East". When the US went to war against Iraq in 1991 and again in 2003, it wanted every ally to contribute forces - except Israel, whose involvement in the coalition would be sure to rally Arab support round Saddam Hussein.
In short, historical facts as well as considerations of general theory makes nonsense of Clark's idea that the Jewish community in Palestine, and later Israel, had some special essence which, through all twists and turns of their own and of global politics, assured them of the support of all imperialist powers (or, since the SWP recognises that Stalin's USSR was an imperialist power, of all imperialist powers except, after the 1948-49 tactic, the USSR). If you think about it, that idea of Clark's is scarcely less antisemitic than the idea of the "Israel Lobby" being the world's great but mysterious Axis of Evil.
The reason for complaints about the Corbyn leadership's record on antisemitism is neither an "Israel lobby" pulling strings, nor some eternal essences of reformism and of Jewry in Palestine, but real issues.
Back in 2003 Socialist Worker journalist Paul Foot used exactly the "Israel lobby" theory. Foot responded in the Guardian (14 May 2003) to an outcry about maverick Labour MP Tam Dalyell saying the problem with Tony Blair was too much influence from Jewish advisers by arguing that Dalyell erred only by saying "Jewish" when he should have said "Zionist".
"Obviously [Dalyell] is wrong to complain about Jewish pressure on Blair and Bush when he means Zionist pressure".
Part of the trouble in the Labour Party is that so many of the elderly post-2015 "returners" were trained in the 1980s by responses similar to Foot's, including stuff from the "Healyite" WRP and others. Since then they have lost the positive enthusiasm for a single "democratic secular Palestine" which they had when young, leaving only a sour "hate Israel" residue.
Clark's article is progress. But SW still has a long way to go.
I can't see the actual quote 'can lead to antisemitic arguments'
Submitted by TJ Stretch (not verified) on Sun, 10/01/2021 - 13:58
In the original Socialist Worker article
https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/50978/Labours+long+history+of+support+for+the+Israeli+state%C2%A0
... I can see the sentence 'Continuing to believe it's all simply orchestrated by an "Israel lobby" can lead you down some very dark paths'.
But not the next phrase 'It can lead to antisemitic arguments'.
Did the Socialist Worker edit its article or it was your conclusion that 'dark paths' means 'lead to antisemitic arguments'?
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Northfield – Tales of a Citizen Militia
19. September 2011 · Comments Off on Northfield – Tales of a Citizen Militia	· Categories: Old West · Tags: cole younger, confederate soldiers, confederate veterans, frontier west, james gang, northfield, william clarke quantrill
It would seem from the history books that most veterans of the Civil War settled down to something resembling a normal 19th century civilian life without too much trouble. One can only suppose that those who survived the experience without suffering incapacitating physical or emotional trauma were enormously grateful to have done so. Union veterans additionally must have been also glad to have won the war, close-run thing that it appeared to have been at times. Confederate veterans had to be content with merely surviving. Not only did they have to cope with the burden of defeat, but also with the physical wreckage of much of the South… as well as the wounds afflicted upon experiencing the severe damage to that whole Southern chivalry-gracious plantation life-fire eating whip ten Yankees with one arm tied behind my back-anti-abolitionist mindset. But most Confederate soldiers laid down their arms and picked up the plow, so to speak fairly readily… if with understandable resentment. In any case, the still-unsettled frontier west of the Mississippi-Missouri basin offered enough of an outlet for the restless, the excitement-seekers and those who wanted to start fresh.
But the war had been conducted with more than the usual brutality in the mid-west: in Bleeding Kansas and even Bloodier Missouri, where the dividing line between murderous vigilante bandit-gangs and well-disciplined mobile partisan units was considerably more blurred than elsewhere. Some individuals who had participated in warfare on that basis were even more reluctant to shake hands like gentlemen and go back to a peaceable life when it was all over.
Such were men like the James brothers, Jesse and his older brother Frank, and their friends, Cole and Jim Younger. Jesse and Cole Younger had both ridden with the Confederate partisans led by the notorious William Clarke Quantrill. The Coles and the Youngers were so disinclined to give peace a chance that they hardly waited a year before holding up the Clay County Savings Association in Liberty, Missouri. Over the next decade, they hit banks from Kentucky to Iowa, Kansas and West Virginia, varying the program occasionally with robbing trains. By July of 1876 they appear to have made Missouri too hot to hold them, even though they had sympathy and quiet support among kinfolk and local residents who gave them the benefit of the doubt for having fought for the Confederacy.
Casting around for a new and profitable target for robbery which would get them away from Missouri, the James-Younger gang may have taken up the suggestion of one of the gang members: Minnesota. Not only was gang-member Bill Chadwell a native, and presumably familiar with the lay-out… but no one would be expecting such an organized gang so far off their usual turf. And robbing a bank in Minnesota would have the added piquancy of taking money from the hated "Yankees."
In August of 1876, eight members of the gang, Frank and Jesse James, Jim, Cole and Bob Younger, Clell Miller, Bill Chadwell and Charlie Pitts all arrived in Minnesota… by what exact means is not certain. They pretended to be legitimate businessmen, and scouted various locations in southern Minnesota, in groups of two and three. They spent some time shopping for horses and equipment in Minneapolis and St. Paul, and did some gambling, drinking and recreating. Although they gave false names, they wore long linen dusters, to conceal their weaponry, and this had attracted notice. After some weeks of careful consideration, they settled upon robbing the First Commercial Bank in Mankato. On the day of the planned robbery, they noted a large crowd in the vicinity of the bank, and wisely decided on turning their attentions upon their second choice, the First National Bank of Northfield. They split up into two groups, to travel to Northfield, and arrived there on the morning of September 7th…where an alert citizen noticed that two of them had passed through Northfield and cashed a large check at the bank, some ten days earlier.
Three of the gang waited with their horses, a little way down Division Street from the bank to guard the getaway route. Two more, Clell Miller and Cole Younger posted themselves directly in front. At 10 minutes before 2, with everyone in place, Bob Younger, Frank and Jesse James entered the bank and informed Joseph Lee Heywood, the acting cashier, teller Alonzo E. Bunker and bookkeeper Frank J. Wilcox that the bank was being robbed. Unfortunately for the gang, the citizens of Northfield were not as unobservant as had been expected. The owner of the hardware store directly across the street, J.A. Hill came across the street, accompanied by a young medical student named Henry Wheeler and accosted Clell Miller, who was covering the bank entrance and demanded to know what was going on. Miller's response, which was to shove Hill off the sidewalk and tell him to get out of there only confirmed suspicions among the Northfield townsfolk that all these strangers in long dusters, standing around nervously, or sitting on their horses, were up to no good. Especially as young Wheeler had looked in through the window, and realized immediately what was going on. Instead of forcing him into the bank, Miller only threatened him, telling to keep his mouth shut and go about his business. Both Wheeler and Allen walked a few steps away, and then began shouting that the bank was being robbed. And then when Clell Miller fired at the fleeing Wheeler and missed… that was the moment when the Northfield bank robbery went pear-shaped.
Miller and Cole Younger mounted their horses and began riding up and down the street, firing into windows and into the air, and shouting for people to get inside, while the three other robbers joined them in attempting to keep the citizens properly terrorized and off the street long enough for all of them to make their usual getaway.
Inside the bank Joseph Heywood was adamantly refusing to open the bank vault in spite of being punched and threatened with a gun held to the side of his head … which he had been able to slam closed, nearly catching Frank Younger inside. Finally he revealed that there was a time-lock on it: It could not be re-opened. There was the modern equivalent of nearly a quarter million dollars inside of it, but the James-Younger gang would have to content themselves with the cash in the till. Bob Younger was gathering up loose bills, while Frank James guarded two bank employees and Jesse continued trying to force Heywood to open the vault. While they were distracted, Alonzo Bunker made a dash for the back door, and although clipped in the shoulder by a shot from Bob Younger, began shouting for help, that the bank was being robbed.
But the alarm was already sounded: A.J. Allen had run to his hardware store, and begun loading all the weapons he had in stock and handing them out to all and sundry, while other citizens ran for their own weapons… and a position on a roof, in an upstairs window, or a balcony. The five men riding up and down the street came under a hail of gunfire from all directions, and Cole Younger finally screamed, "They're killing our men! Let's get out of here!" Before the three robbers in the bank left with a sack of small cash, one of them shot Joseph Heywood with a bullet through his head. Another Northfield citizen, a Swedish immigrant who probably could not understand English was dead also, caught in the crossfire in the street. Clell Miller and Bill Chadwell— who was supposed to have been their guide — were also dead in the dust of Division Street. Only Jesse James himself was unscathed. All the other surviving gang-members were wounded, and two of them were doubled up on a single horse. Supposedly as they fled Northfield some of the citizens threw rocks and pitchforks after them.
They escaped with $26.70. Within two weeks, all but the James brothers would be captured, or dead. It is one of those little ironies of history to know that the most notorious bandit outlaws of the decade following the Civil War were taken down… not by lawmen, not by Texas Rangers, or Pinkertons, a sheriff or marshal… but by citizens and businessmen, responding on their own.
(There was one big movie made about this in the early 1970s, which unfortunately had deeply imbibed the revisionist Koolaid, and felt obliged – in spite of some very good starring performances, including the late Cliff Robertson as Cole Younger – to paint the good citizens of Northfield as corrupt, venial and incompetent.)


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Jimmy O. Yang (Jimmy Ouyang; Chinese: 歐陽萬成) is a Hong Kong-born Chinese-American stand-up comedian, actor, writer. As of 2015 he is starring as Jian-Yang in the HBO comedy series Silicon Valley. Yang made his television debut on the CBS series 2 Broke Girls; and his first late night stand-up appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show. In season 9 of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, he played the character Tang-See. Yang also appeared in an episode of Criminal Minds, starring as Nathan Chow, a highschool student, who suffered a psychotic break. He was once a writer/consultant for the Harlem Globetrotters, and voiced roles in the video game Infamous Second Son.
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Adam has worked in the forest products industry for 18 years. During his more than five years at International Paper, Adam held three corporate-level positions, where his priorities included sustainability and climate reporting, environmental regulations, and stakeholder dialogue. Adam then served the Institute of Forest Biosciences (IFB) as President for 11 years and launched large-scale efforts to improve the quality and productivity of the world's forests. He has been a proud member of the Sustainable Manufacturing and Climate group at NCASI since 2018 – a perfect fit, since Adam especially enjoys greenhouse gas minimization efforts, improving the sustainability of working forests, and optimizing societal benefit from the use of renewable forest products.
Master of Environmental Management: Resource Economics & Policy, Duke University (Durham, NC)
Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering: Energy & Environment, University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)
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Microsoft certifications in Python Programming and SQL Server
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Leading the Forest Health Initiative in sequencing the Chinese chestnut genome, develop a blight-resistant biotech American chestnut, and getting it regulated and planted.
Served on the Board of two international non-profit organizations.
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When I first posted on the Oregonians Against Job-Killing Taxes discussion at NedSpace Old Town—which is being held tonight starting at 4:30—it sparked an interesting conversation in the comments.
When I first posted on the "Oregonians Against Job-Killing Taxes" discussion at NedSpace Old Town—which is being held tonight starting at 4:30—it sparked an interesting conversation in the comments.
Well, as much as I love the blog comments, I'm hoping that a fruitful conversation can occur in person, as well. That's why I'm encouraging you to attend the talk tonight, regardless of your stance on the subject.
Oregon's 2009 legislature passed two tax increase measures that will have a serious negative impact on startups, both directly and by affecting their sources of capital. One of the measures added a new gross receipts tax on unprofitable corporations (like startups). The other measure raises Oregon's top personal income tax to 11 percent – the highest in the country – thereby adversely affecting the angel and venture investor community's ability to fund startups. This serves as a double-whammy to the Oregon entrepreneurial community. What we need is more reasons for companies, entrepreneurs and investors to come and stay here – this is just one more reason they will stay away, or if here now, relocate.
Portland execs and entrepreneurs like Tim Boyle CEO of Columbia Sportswear, Bill Kelly CEO of Learning.com, Bob DeKonig CEO of Routeware, and Bob Wiggins Managing Partner of Mt. Hood Equity are all expected to be in attendance.
For more information or to RSVP for this discussion, visit Oregonians Against Job-Killing Taxes.
You'd have to be a damned idiot to believe that these TINY tax increases will cost Oregon even one job. This is about politics, not tax policy. They're using lies based on emotional arguments to gather support behind a strictly political action coming out of the extreme right wing. Frankly, if I'm supposed to care about someone making a MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR paying an extra $13,000 in taxes this year and $9000 in 2012, I know I'm being lied to, but let's look at the figures.
These lying political charlatans say that these taxes will kill up to 70,000 jobs. Think about that for a second. Let's say that those jobs each cost businesses $25,000, including taxes and benefits. That's a nice low figure that gives them the benefit of the doubt, right? So the total cost of the tax increases in lost dollars in the Oregon economy would have to be on the order of $1.75 Billion. So since this tax increase is pulling $750 million out of the pockets of the rich, and dumping it into the pockets of the middle class government employees (who, I should add, are more likely to spend their money here than put it into wall st investments), what they're saying is that for every dollar the rich don't pay in taxes, $2.30 is kept in the local economy somehow. Does that make any sense whatsoever? Of course not. These people are LYING TO YOU. Treating the situation like the two camps had any sort of intellectual equivalency whatsoever is frankly ridiculous.
This tax increase doesn't just pay for needed services. By putting money into the pockets of people who spend more than they save, it directly stimulates the economy in a way that protecting the interests of the politically motivated does not. This isn't about job-killing taxes. This is about making sure that the legislature doesn't get it into their heads that they can tax the rich without an uproar. No one is gonna spend $100,000 donating to a group like this when their taxes are only gonna go up $9000. You'd have to be pretty stupid to do something like that. What this is all about is making sure taxes don't go up $100,000 on that million dollar income the next time the subject is brought up. It's about forming a bulwark. It is a cynical, political campaign, utterly divorced from their real agenda, and their willingness to lie and distort the facts bears this out.
Oregon doesn't need a couple thousand more $125k+ jobs. That won't improve the economy or the livability of the state. It needs a hundred thousand more $50K jobs. We need a bigger, stronger middle class. And just points out the obvious: the people behind this campaign are intellectually and morally bankrupt, whatever their bloated bank accounts say. When asked how to overcome the budget deficit, they simply say 'that's the legislature's problem', as if it wasn't the legislature's very effective solution to the problem that they're fighting against. SOMEONE has to pay for it. It can be the rich, as the Oregon legislature correctly decided. Or it can be the middle class and poor Oregonians, in the form of either sales tax or other broad-based taxes, or in reduced services. In either case, solutions other than taxing the rich negatively and disproportionately affect those least capable of rolling with the punches. There is simply no valid argument here. It's a sad statement that money buys an argument in this country when there is none to be made. It's true of climate change, and it's true of this load of rich twits.
Someone needs to slap these idiots.


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UST 405: Methods of Research and Evaluation: Articles/Research Databases
Off-campus access to research databases is restricted to current CSU faculty, staff, and students.
To access research databases from off-campus, you will have to authenticate first -- select Cleveland State University, and then enter your Name, CSU ID No., and Library PIN. If you don't have a Library PIN yet, then you can create one on the My Account page.
Enter search:
Use OneSearch to find books, articles, and more -- all in a single search!
Remember to use the operator AND to combine your search terms. For example, a search on "college students" AND stress in OneSearch retrieves over 476,000 results.
Use the limits in OneSearch to narrow your results. You can limit results to Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals. You can limit results by Publication Date. You can limit by Source Type, for example, to see Books, eBooks, Academic Journals, Magazines, or News.
Connecting to the Full Text of an Article
-Many articles are available full text online in HTML or PDF format inside the research databases.
-If not, then select the yellow Find It! button or the Full Text Finder(s) link to determine the availability of a specific article when searching the databases. You may be able to connect to the full text of the article in another database. Just follow the links!
-If the article is NOT available in the database or by selecting the other links, then check Journals at CSU. Use Journals at CSU to determine if the Library provides full text access (either online or in print) to the TITLES of specific journals, magazines, and newspapers.
-If the article is not available in any of the sources mentioned above, then request it through Interlibrary Loan.
Articles are published in periodicals -- JOURNALS, MAGAZINES, and NEWSPAPERS. To find articles on a topic, search the Michael Schwartz Library's Research Databases.
The databases are listed in Alphabetical Order by Title and grouped by Subject Category on the Library's website. The Library also provides access to several Newspaper Research Databases.
Research Databases contain citations and summaries of articles published in various journals, magazines, and newspapers. They also contain the full text of many articles, either in HTML or PDF format. The Library pays to provide access to these Research Databases -- they are not free!
For academic research, you should include articles from scholarly, peer-reviewed journals. These journals are sometimes called refereed journals. In the peer review process, an article is reviewed by other experts in the same discipline before it is published in a scholarly journal. Most Research Databases will allow you to limit your results to peer-reviewed journals when searching.
Start with some of the Research Databases listed below to locate articles on your topics. Remember to search databases in different Subject Categories depending on your research topics, like Business, Education, Health & Medicine, Psychology, Sociology, and/or Urban Studies.
Academic Search Complete (1984-) This link opens in a new window
Indexes, abstracts, and full text for many scholarly publications covering all academic areas of study.
America: History and Life This link opens in a new window
Index to articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. Indexing for 1,700 journals from as far back as 1910.
Index, abstracts, and full text covering scholarly business journals, business and industry news on management, economics, marketing, finance, accounting, international business and much more.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text (1937-) This link opens in a new window
Index, abstracts and full-text access to the literature of nursing and allied health, including Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, and Speech and Hearing.
Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text (1968-) This link opens in a new window
Abstracts and full text from over 500 journals as well as dissertations, new books, and reports of public and private agencies provide comprehensive coverage of the field of criminology: crime, offenders, victims, juvenile delinquency, police, courts, correction, crime prevention.
Education Research Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides access to full text education journals and also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues.
Electronic Journal Center This link opens in a new window
A full text searchable database of electronic journal articles from more than 11,000 academic journals from top scholarly publishers, academic societies and university presses. The EJC covers a wide range of disciplines and contains just published scientific research as well as historical journal articles. New articles are added daily.
ERIC (Public Access Interface) This link opens in a new window
Public Access (.gov) Interface. Indexes and abstracts of articles, books, and documents covering education research and practice. Provides full-text for some ERIC documents.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (1975-) This link opens in a new window
Index, abstracts, and full text focusing on many medical disciplines, particularly nursing and allied health.
JSTOR (1838-) This link opens in a new window
Provides full text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics, and other fields of the humanities and social sciences.
MEDLINE with Full Text (1950-) This link opens in a new window
Includes all of the content available in MEDLINE as well as cover-to-cover full text for 1,014 journals indexed as cover-to-cover in MEDLINE, including hundreds of journals not available as full text in any other EBSCO database. Mobile version of MEDLINE.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (1961-) This link opens in a new window
Index, abstracts, and full text covering topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
APA PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
The American Psychological Association's resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. It contains records and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s with one of the highest DOI matching rates in the publishing industry. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to the present, includes international material selected from periodicals in dozens of languages. Includes APA PsycINFO Historic (1886-1966)
Public Administration Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to public administration, including public administration research, public administration theory, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
Social Sciences Full Text This link opens in a new window
Access to a wide assortment of the most important English-language journals published in the social sciences. This resource provides detailed indexing for over 625 periodicals dating back as far as 1983—nearly 400 of which are peer-reviewed.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
A sociology research database featuring more than 2.1 million records with subject headings from a 20,000+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for more than 860 journals dating back to 1908. This database also includes full text for more than 830 books and monographs, and full text for over 16,800 conference papers.
Sociological Collection (1965-) This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive database with coverage of more than 500 full text journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed titles. Sociological Collection offers information in all areas of sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture and social structure. Updated daily.
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What to do if you put the wrong fuel in your car!
Putting the wrong fuel in a car, whether it's diesel in a petrol model or petrol in a diesel engine, is something many motorists worry about. It only takes a moment of inattention to make the slip, and we tend to imagine that the consequences, both in financial cost and personal embarrassment, will be catastrophic. Yet, in spite of all this paranoia, we still let our thoughts wander while at the pump, only to suffer that instant of freezing horror when we realise what we've done.
It is, perhaps, slightly comforting that approximately 150,000 people in the UK make this error every year. Although drivers of both new and used cars slip up every day, it's more common to make a mistake when driving a new or unfamiliar vehicle, so hire cars and cars on trade plates often suffer this fate. Drivers in the motor trade are not immune to making fuelling mistakes, so there's no need to feel as if it's something only a bad driver would do.
Part of the reason motorists are so terrified of misfuelling is we're not sure what, exactly, happens when the wrong fuel enters a car's system, or what we need to do about it.
It is much more common for drivers of diesel cars to fill up with petrol than vice versa, since a petrol nozzle will fit a diesel tank, while diesel nozzles are too large for most petrol vehicles. Unfortunately, this way round also has more potential for engine damage. In a diesel engine, the fuel also acts as a lubricant, to keep things running smoothly. Petrol does not have this property, and can start to harm components as soon as it enters the system.
Most drivers notice they have used the wrong fuel while still at the pump. The damage is done when the wrong fuel begins to circulate, so it's important to keep the engine switched off. Leave the car where it is, or push it away from the pump. If you only realise something is wrong while you are driving, pull over and stop as soon as it is safe to do so.
Many breakdown policies include misfuelling help, so if you are covered by a breakdown service, make this your first call. If you do not have cover, there are a number of companies that specialise in fuel recovery and will come out to you. This might be expensive in the short term, but could save money on repairs later, or even a new car.
A professional will drain the wrong fuel out of your tank, flush out the system, and fill up with the correct fuel, as well as offering advice on how to proceed and what to look out for.
If you notice your mistake shortly after you start filling up, it is sometimes possible to get away with it by switching to the right fuel and brimming the tank. This is a risky strategy, however, and it is safest to call for professional help.
What can we do to prevent this potentially costly, and definitely inconvenient, error? Avoiding distraction at the petrol station is a good start. It might sound silly, but it's easy to make a mistake when preoccupied with the journey ahead, or chatting with passengers. You should also check the label on the fuel nozzle, and, when you've picked the nozzle up, the indicator on the pump. Don't rely on the colour of the hose or the position of the nozzle.
Diesel owners can buy a device which prevents a standard petrol nozzle from fitting the tank, but the simplest, and cheapest, solution is a sticker on the inside of the filler cap to remind you which fuel you need.
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Charlene Lum
Cheryl Sng Yu Qin was sentenced to a two-year mandatory treatment order today (May 16), for assaulting her parents in their Toa Payoh North home and for verbally abusing four police officers with obscenities upon their arrival at the flat.
The 33-year-old also snatched and ripped up a statement Staff Sergeant Gerald Ng Yong Sheng was taking from her mother about the events that took place in May 2017.
On April 18, Sng pleaded guilty to three charges -- assaulting her mother, using profanities on Staff Sgt Ng and obstructing him from performing his duties.
Two particular assault charges involving both parents and three charges of verbally abusing the three other police officers were taken into consideration during sentencing, reports The Straits Times.
Sng's 68-year-old father had called the police at 6.40pm when his wife and daughter were caught in a dispute on May 11, said Deputy Public Prosecutor Tan Zhongshan.
Upon arriving at the flat with another police officer, Staff Sgt Ng approached Sng's 59-year-old mother to find out what had happened.
That's when Sng suddenly hit the back of her mother with her left hand.
When Staff Sgt Ng asked Sng what was she doing, she replied: "I am hitting my mum."
Sng then became agitated and spewed profanities at him as he tried to calm her down.
According to DPP Tan, Sng refused to reveal her personal particulars but complied when Staff Sgt Ng asked her to go to her room to cool down.
However when Sng overheard the officer obtaining her personal details from her mother, she stomped out of her room, snatched the statement from him and ripped it up, the court heard.
Read the full story at The Straits Times.
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There is an indie ARG on the loose
By Angus Morrison 2016-01-25T12:29:47.24Z
Screenshot by /u/Tambox
Coils within coils—there is an impenetrable mystery at large connecting a series of ostensibly unrelated indie games. The Reddit hivemind is currently at work cracking the meaning of the strange sigil that has been added to various games since as far back as 2014 but is only now coming to light, accompanied by map-like puzzle fragments.
After the discoveries appeared separately on assorted subreddits, user MachMatic made the connection. In The Magic Circle, the sigil appears on an airlock. Dying and leaving the airlock with some clever platforming reveals a puzzle fragment in all its neon glory. In May, eye.jpg was added to Crypt of the Necrodancer, and having a crack at it with a hex editor reveals another puzzle piece. A hidden map, Canberra, accessed through an eye concealed in the credits, was added to MiniMetro in February. As discovered by nint8835, arranging your stations correctly (or cheating) unlocks one more chunk of puzzle.
Screenshot by /u/nint8835
Non-Steam browser game Kingdom of Loathing also features the eye, a relic of an October 2014 update, as does the beta build of Legend of Dungeon, from which good old-fashioned datamining extracted yet another map fragment. There the investigation has stalled. How many more fragments could there be? What connects the games, and where on Earth or elsewhere could this be leading?
If you'd like to lend your expertise to the hunt, there are a number of discussion hubs accessible through MachMatic's original post. The meat of the investigation looks to be taking place on the /r/gamedetectives' Discord channel.


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The solar power station Tavanska-2 is completed | Rentechno
In January 2018, the solar power plant Tavanska-2, which was built and engineered by specialists from Rentechno, began to generate clean and green electricity. The power of this PV plant is 8.2 MWp. The facility is important next step in the portfolio of solar energy projects that Rentechno is developing in this region.
A solar power station was built in Kamyanetche village | Rentechno
In the Kamieneche village of Novoarkhangelsk rayon, a photovoltaic solar station with a total capacity of over 2 megawatts has begun, which can provide one hundred percent of the area with electricity during the day.
The results of the company in the second half of 2015 | Rentechno
After considering the results of the second half of 2015 some new private solar power plants with total capacity of 197 kW were installed and placed into operations by Rentechno. In addition, the company built and put into operation three industrial solar power plants with a total capacity of 560 kW and organized supply to Ukraine of solar modules for 4 MW solar power plants.
The construction of Chateau-15 solar system is finished | Rentechno
Chateau-15 backup solar power system was built in the second half of 2014 in Kirovograd region. The total capacity of solar panels installed on the roof of the house is 5 kW and 10 kW were mounted on two biaxial trackers. The PV power plant is designed to produce electricity and then using it for the needs of a private house.
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Serena relishing Sharapova 'title fight' at Open
MELBOURNE - Agence France-Presse
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Arch-rivals Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova set up a dream Australian Open final Thursday while Andy Murray ground down Tomas Berdych to give himself a fourth crack at winning the Melbourne Park title.
Williams battled past gallant fellow American Madison Keys while Sharapova demolished Russian compatriot Ekaterina Makarova to ensure the top seeds meet in Saturday's showpiece.
The world's best two players have history and the odds are stacked in Williams' favour, with the 33-year-old holding a major psychological advantage.
She has a 16-2 record against Sharapova, with the Russian five-time Grand Slam champion losing their every encounter since 2004.
An impressive Murray swept into a fourth Australian final in six years as he zeroed in on the elusive title, dousing big-serving Czech Berdych 6-7 (6/8), 6-0, 6-3, 7-5.
There was plenty of friction between the two over Berdych's decision to hire former Murray team member Dani Vallverdu as his coach, with some steely glares at each other during the changeovers.
"I was disappointed to lose the opening set after I had a couple of chances at the end but I felt I was playing better as the set went on and I was very aggressive at the beginning of the second set," said the British sixth seed.
"In the beginning I was feeling quite rushed and then I got more aggressive and made him do more running."
Awaiting him in Sunday's final will be world number one Novak Djokovic or defending champion Stan Wawrinka, who play their blockbuster semi on Friday.
Despite the ominous statistics, Sharapova has been in outstanding touch and blew away fellow Russian Makarova 6-3, 6-2 on a blustery afternoon on Rod Laver Arena.
She is now in her fourth Australian final, having won in 2008.
Williams was made to work harder by rising teen Keys, who saved eight match points.
Coached by former US great Lindsay Davenport, Keys forced Williams to a first set tiebreak before her illustrious opponent took charge to win 7-6 (7/5), 6-2.
"I was just happy to get through it today," said Williams. "My theory now is to relax and just play the next match as best I can."
In reaching the final at 33, she became the oldest player to make the Australian Open decider in the Open Era, surpassing Chris Evert.
It also ensured that she keeps the number one ranking she has held for more than 100 weeks. Sharapova could have claimed the accolade if she had won the title and Williams had failed to make the final.
In another warning sign for Sharapova, her rival has won all five of the previous finals she has made in Melbourne. Williams is now in her 23rd major final, and has claimed 18 of them.
The Russian was undaunted and said her confidence was high.
"I think my confidence should be pretty high going into a final of a Grand Slam no matter who I'm facing and whether I've had a terrible record, to say the least, against someone," she said.
"It doesn't matter. I got there for a reason. I belong in that spot."
She went into her match against Makarova with a 5-0 record and always looked in control, despite intially struggling with her serve. She soon found her groove and took charge to race home in 87 minutes.
Going into Saturday's showdown, Williams has the added incentive of needing one more Grand Slam title to go clear second on the all-time Open Era winners list and further cement her name in the history books.
She currently has 18 alongside Evert and Martina Navratilova and is four behind Steffi Graf's 22.
Keys had beaten Williams' sister Venus to reach the last four and revenge was on Serena's mind, but the plucky 19-year-old had other ideas.
Despite being in her first-ever Slam semi, she held her own and earned generous praise.
"She's obviously a great player, she's going to be winning this tournament very soon and lots of other Grand Slams," said Williams.
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namespace Gbrock\Pages\Tests;

use Carbon\Carbon;
use Gbrock\Pages\Tests\Cases\DatabaseTestCase;
use Gbrock\Pages\Tests\Mocks\Page;
use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Exception\HttpException;

class PageTest extends DatabaseTestCase
{
    function test_it_can_create_a_page()
    {
        Page::create(['title' => 'Hello, Test']);

        $this->seeInDatabase('pages', ['title' => 'Hello, Test']);
    }

    function test_page_is_public()
    {
        Page::create([
            'title'   => 'Beam Me Up',
            'slug'    => 'about',
            'content' => '
All About Grungions
',
            'public'  => true,
        ]);

        $this->visit('/about')->see('All About Grungions');
    }

    function test_page_excerpts()
    {
        $htmlContent = "
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say " .
            " that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.  They were the last people you'd expect to be " .
            " involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.
";

        $expectedExcerpt = "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were" .
            " perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the…";

        $page = Page::create([
            'content' => $htmlContent,
        ]);

        $this->assertEquals($expectedExcerpt, $page->excerpt);
    }

    function test_page_publishing()
    {
        Page::create(['title' => 'Terra', 'public' => true]);
        Page::create(['title' => 'Locke', 'public_after' => $this->today('-1 day')]);
        Page::create(['title' => 'Edgar', 'public_before' => $this->today('+1 day')]);
        Page::create(['title' => 'Sabin', 'public_after' => $this->today('+1 day')]);

        $publishedPages = Page::published()->get();
        $slugs = $publishedPages->lists('slug');

        // Terra is always public.
        $this->assertContains('terra', $slugs);

        // Locke has been public since yesterday.
        $this->assertContains('locke', $slugs);

        // Edgar is public until tomorrow.
        $this->assertContains('edgar', $slugs);

        // Sabin isn't public until tomorrow.
        $this->assertNotContains('sabin', $slugs);
    }

    function today($modifier = '')
    {
        return with(new Carbon)->modify($modifier ?: '+0 seconds');
    }
}

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Drastically Improve Freshman Retention Rates
Emotional Intelligence (E.I.) Games awarded Gold for their innovative approach to changing lives through their Phoenix: Student Success digital game in the 2019 International Serious Play Awards. Held at University of...
SOURCE EI Games
Collaboration with students proves how to win at the game of life.
MIAMI, July 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Emotional Intelligence (E.I.) Games awarded Gold for their innovative approach to changing lives through their Phoenix: Student Success digital game in the 2019 International Serious Play Awards. Held at University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida July 24, 25, and 26, learning simulation and virtual solutions in emotional management and education is playing a massive role in reducing student drop-out rates.
E.I. Games partnered with the Center for Information and Communication Sciences (CICS) program at Ball State University and developed a game whose emotionally intelligent approach prepares students, especially first-generation freshmen, to complete their first year of college life and make it to graduation. The goal was to focus on increasing student retention and preparation through real-life scenarios. The game connects first-year college students with college advisory services and contains an "early warning" component to identify students at risk for the college to reach out and assist. After playing the game students are more equipped to navigate through their own emotional turmoil during the inevitable transition into campus life.
"Phoenix gives freshman the tools they need to thrive in their first year of college. If you know a college student considering leaving school, our Student Success game gives them real world solutions." said Karl Allen, Co-Founder of EI Games.
Developmental research in collaboration with Ball State showed the games prowess in helping students with issues such as not making friends, depression, anxiety, homesickness, substance abuse, money management or questioning their investment in a college education all together. Respondents demonstrated a heightened awareness in seeking available student counselling and resources which slashed dropout rates in half.
"Our intention is to acknowledge student concerns and give emotional guidance needed to navigate the challenges freshman college students inevitably face." said Kevin Allen, EI Games Chairman. "We knew students dropping in to utilize student resource centers after playing our game could save them from dropping out."
The award-winning digital game asks the pertinent questions not taught in most curriculum by using real-life scenarios. Phoenix sheds light on readily-available student resources on-campus, government funded programs, and career counseling after the gaming results are in. Visit www.eigames.com to see if the Student Success game is a good fit you or your students.
Tara Patten
217543@email4pr.com
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