Drinking water is like washing out your insides as it not only cleanses your system but also decreases your caloric load thus improving functions of all your tissues. Interestingly a large number of people live with the misconception that drinking generous amount of water is limited to summers only.
On the contrary, as temperatures begin to drop and winter season blooms in full swing, we must increase our water intake to maintain the level of moisture in our bodies.
One grave repercussion of dehydration is that drinking less water during winters can cause Kidney stones. Kidney stones develop when crystals of salt gather into lumps and are not flushed out of the body, due to lack of adequate hydration.
They can cause severe abdominal and groin pain, which in extreme cases can only be cured through surgery.
RG Stone Hospital is one of India's premium Urology hospitals which specialize in treatment for kidney stones. They have been certified by Guinness Book of World Records for treating the largest kidney stone (13cm).
The panel of expert and esteemed Urologists at RG Stone recommend that apart from a healthy lifestyle and diet, sufficient water intake is the most effective way of prevention of kidney stones.
This method is well recognised today even though it is not new and has been used since the time of Hippocrates. Sadly some recent studies have shown that the development and recurrence of kidney stones is on a constant rise in our country.
While exercise is mandatory for a fit and healthy life, certain things like saunas, hot yoga or heavy exercise leads to sweating which results in less urine production.
So the more you sweat, the less you urinate allowing stone causing minerals to settle and bond in the kidneys and urinary tract.
So this winter, hydrate with H20 as its one of the best measures for prevention of kidney stones. Thirst may be the obvious indicator of dehydration in winter but it is a late indicator and one should also watch out for signs such as chapped lips, a dry cough, nosebleeds, mild headaches and acne.
While there is no golden rule book on how much water you need to consume during the winter season, experts reckon 10-14 glasses per day for men(who exercise) and 8-12 glasses per day for women (who exercise) in general.
"I Believe that water is the only drink for a wise man" said Henry David Thoreau. So drink lots of water and take care of your body as, it's the only place you have to live!


New Best Western Plus Marion Hotel is right off of I-57 at Exit 53, walking distance to the Cracker Barrel, close to SIU-Southern Illinois University, Shawnee National Forest, SI Miner, SI Wine Trail and Crab Orchard Lake.
This Hotel in Marion, IL is surrounded by Carbondale, Paducah, Evansville, Mt Vernon, Cape Girardeau, Harrisburg, West Frankfort, Benton, and Johnston City.
Southern Illinois University hotels are often geared more towards college students looking for a low-cost weekend getaway. When you pick this Marion hotel, you get all of the benefits of a top notch stay. When youre taking your high school student on a tour, theres no reason you cant enjoy some luxury.
Other hotels in Marion, Illinois strive for this kind of service. We still offer a few smoking-permitted rooms so that you can travel in comfort. The indoor pool and hot tub is the ticket after a full day of hiking or walking around the local campus. Of course, our friendly and helpful staff is always on hand to make sure every need is attended to.
There are multiple vineyards nearby, so if youre here to check out the wine trail, this is the Marion hotel for you. Southern Illinois University hosts parents weekend, sign-up week, and of course graduation, so youll want to be close to the campus. Rent One Park is just a few minutes away where concerts, events, and sporting tournaments like Southern Illinois Miners games are held.
The Kokopelli and Rend Lake Golf Courses are just a few of the many in Marion. Hiking trails like the Shawnee National Forest & Garden of the Gods and Shawnee National Wildlife Refuge are popular picks. Of course, if youre traveling on business with Aisin Manufacturing Plant, Pepsi Mid America, Caterpillar or Bombardier, youll be right down the street.
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Gundog handling acts as a great activity for a country sports themed away day, or as team event all on its own. Usually the session will take approximately 1 hour, but the timings and content can be amended to suit your day and to compliment other activities that might be taking place, such as shooting and driving experiences, or other team building activities.
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An interesting news story hit the wires recently. Welch Allyn Inc. and Zoll Medical Corp. announced a comprehensive strategic alliance with regard to research and development, manufacturing, sales and service, and distribution of Welch Allyn's defibrillation and monitoring devices. The two companies hope to capitalize on their complimentary strengths in the areas of operations and products by working together across multiple areas.
Welch Allyn, a leader in sales of equipment and products for physician office practices, will continue to focus on sales of their AED 10™ to alternate care markets. Zoll will likely become the manufacturer and exclusive supplier of AED 10 products to Welch Allyn. The AED 20™ and the PIC™ line of defibrillators will be discontinued.
Zoll has been named by Welch Allyn to be the exclusive distributor of the Propaq®LT monitor in North America. The Propaq LT is a flexible, highly portable, lightweight monitor that displays multiple lead ECG, non-invasive blood pressure, SPO2 and respiration parameters. It will be marketed along with the Zoll AED Pro® that features both semi-automatic and manual defibrillation modes, and also incorporates Zoll's Real CPR Help® and See-Thru CPR®, which provides real-time feedback on CPR quality.
This alliance will allow Welch Allyn and Zoll to jointly pursue business opportunities with the military, air medical and emergency medical services customers. Both companies maintain leading positions in those markets with their current monitoring and defibrillation products. It is anticipated that Zoll will acquire Welch Allyn's defibrillation research and development operations at a future date, and Zoll will eventually be the provider of customer support and technical service, and will supply aftermarket accessories to Welch Allyn defibrillator customers.


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Over 300 retailers targeted in sting operations to see if they're selling cigarettes to under 18s
The HSE figures relate to the first three quarters of last year.
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A TOTAL OF 306 retailers around the country were targeted in sting sales operations in the first nine months of last year to see if they were selling cigarettes to minors.
The 'test' tobacco sales to minors are carried out by the Health Service Executive (HSE) every year.
In Ireland, it is illegal to sell cigarettes to someone under the age of 18.
The HSE carries out 'test' cases on retailers, such as supermarkets and newsagents, throughout the year in order to inspect the law is being adhered to. For the first three quarters of 2017, there were eight convictions for breaching the law.
The fines imposed ranged from €400 to €2000, with some sellers being barred from selling tobacco products for a period of one or two days.
In 2016 the HSE Tobacco Control Inspection Programme carried out 540 test purchases of tobacco products to minors, of which 472 retailers were compliant, representing 87% compliance.
The test cases resulted in 35 convictions.
One case in 2016 resulted in Tesco Ireland having to donate €1,000 to a court poor-box to avoid a three-day ban on selling tobacco products after a 17-year-old test purchaser managed to buy a pack of cigarettes.
A recent European School Study showed that the number of schoolchildren smoking decreased in almost all countries surveyed, including Ireland, in the past 20 years.
It found that more boys than girls smoke in Ireland.
In Ireland, smoking is the leading cause of avoidable death. Nearly 5,500 people die in Ireland each year from the effects of smoking and thousands of others are ill because of smoking-related diseases.
The Irish Cancer Society's We Can Quit programme has been launched this month to help people give up smoking in 2018. The 12 week programme is a free and offers free nicotine replacement therapy, a weekly smoking cessation group and one to one support.
It has been rolled out in several locations across North and South Dublin and Cork. Communities include Blanchardstown, Coolock, balbriggan, Swords, Tallaght, Rialto, Mallow, Ballyphehane and Mayfield.
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Ammanford man jailed for "emotionally assaulting" partner by posing as a stalker
A MAN who convinced his girlfriend she was being stalked has been jailed thanks to a "dogged and protracted" police investigation.
Dyfed-Powys Police officers were able to prove that Rhodri Harries was behind a relentless series of messages sent to his ex-partner in an attempt to test her fidelity.
Harries who has now been jailed, was described in court as showing "bizarre and wicked" behaviour in making his girlfriend believe she had a stalker while pretending to support her through the police investigation.
Investigating officers were praised in court for their work in identifying Harries as a suspect and building a strong case against him.
Temporary Detective Inspector Matthew Briggs said: "This was a very unusual case, which began in August 2019 when the victim reported she had been receiving messages from a social media account she believed to be fake.
"The matter escalated as the victim received 118 calls and 84 messages over a short period of time, including information which led her to believe the person was following her.
"This had a massive impact on the victim, who was so fearful that she began to sleep with weapons nearby."
Police resources were immediately dedicated to the enquiry, with safety and security advice given to the victim.
Harries became a suspect when a message contained a reference to something the victim had said when he was in the room.
Police focussed their enquiries on the 35-year-old, identifying him as the person buying top-up credits for the mobile phone used to send the messages, and tracing the location of the phone using cell site analysis, which matched his movements.
He was arrested on suspicion of stalking after turning up at the victim's address unexpectedly while she was providing a statement to police officers.
The following day, a mobile phone was found hidden under a carpet near the victim's garden. This was examined and found to belong to the suspect.
Harries, of Maesywerin, Ammanford, was charged with controlling and coercive behaviour against his now ex-partner, and appeared at Swansea Crown Court for sentencing on Friday, December 4.
He was jailed for 12 months, and given an indefinite restraining order.
T/DI said: "In court, Harries's behaviour was described as "bizarre and wicked", and just as severe as a serious assault. The recorder added that he saw it as a form of emotional violence.
"Domestic abuse can come in all forms, and emotional control is just one type of behaviour these offenders use against their victims.
"Harries has left his victim feeling anxious, paranoid and in constant fear of danger, and there is no doubt that her life has been profoundly impacted. The escalation in his behaviour was deeply concerning and a potentially more serious incident has been avoided thanks to the thorough investigation and support of the victim.
"I would like to commend the victim for coming forward to report the matter, and for the strength she has shown throughout the investigation."
Dyfed-Powys Police has dedicated resources to investigate domestic abuse, and to support victims.
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very good charge against the practice of Confession, as commonly advocated by the Ritualist party,—i.e., against the view that any human being who has done wrong, whether he is clear in his own mind or not as to the wrong and the reparation needed, must go and confess to a clergyman, who probably understands. less both of the sin and of the true test of penitence than himself and dozens of other laymen. Bishop Claughton said truly that the Anglican Church gives no countenance at all to such a view, and obviously he is right. What it does contemplate is simply the relief of the conscience of one who doubts his own fitness for the communion, and who needs good counseL And it is only a pity that he should be referred exclusively to clergymen for that. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, a high-minded layman would give him better help, because, with as educated a conscience, he would know ten times as much of the character of the world's temptations, and of the best safeguards against them.


Born in 1980, Kristian Lindberg began making waves in his native Norway at a young age. In 1997 he won the Norwegian Young Pianists Competition and the following year represented Norway in the Eurovision Young Musicians competition in Vienna. Since then Lindberg has been a prizewinner in several competitions, including taking first prize in Oslo's International Concours Grieg competition in 2007. Between 2006 and 2009 he was selected to play for Rikskonsertene's prestigious INTRO Classical programme, which promotes the cream of young Norwegian musicians.
In 2006 Lindberg completed a soloist's diploma (the highest level of postgraduate performance study) at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, where he studied with Einar Steen-Nøkleberg. His previous teachers have included Jiri Hlinka and Einar Henning Smebye in Norway, Laszlo Simon at the Universität der Künste, Berlin, and Désiré N'Kaoua at the Ecole Normale de Musique, Paris.
In August 2011, Lindberg performed Rachmaninov's 3rd Piano Concerto with Orkester Norden and Rolf Gupta in the Konzerthaus, Berlin. He has also given recitals in Carnegie Hall in New York and Wigmore Hall in London, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Thailand Cultural Centre in Bangkok and the Kyotofuritsu Fumin Hall. Lindberg has performed with many Norwegian and international orchestras, including the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Oslo Symphony Orchestra and the Kremlin Chamber Orchestra in Moscow. He has given recitals all over Europe, and has performed at various festivals, including the Oslo Chamber Music Festival, Vinterfestspill in Røros and the Ultima contemporary music festival in Oslo.


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Organizing Electronic Documents Successfully on a Shared Network Drive
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Determine Drive Location
Create a File Hierarchy
Establish Document-Naming Conventions
File System Maintenance
Creating an electronic structure is more than just determining a file hierarchy. It also involves establishing clear guidelines of how that data should be organized, saved, and maintained. Leading productivity specialist K.J. McCorry, author of Organize Your Work Day in No Time, shows you how to move toward that paper-less office.
Organize Your Work Day In No Time
To begin to create that paperless office, users have to trust finding and accessing data electronically. Without a sound file structure and guidelines on the shared or network drive, users will tend to keep a "backup" copy in paper. Although paper does have its uses for work purposes such as reading or processing, it is not the best format to archive and manage company data.
Creating an electronic structure is more than just determining a file hierarchy. It also involves establishing clear guidelines of how that data should be organized, saved, and maintained. When moving towards a paperless office, it becomes even more vital that file guidelines are established for all types of electronic records, regardless if it is a document, email, or instant message.
The first consideration is to determine drive mapping on the network for storing company data. Some companies have one shared drive, often referred to as the "I" or "S" drive. Other companies have separate mapped drives for each primary department in the company. For example, Operations is mapped to "O" and Human Resources is mapped to "H". The advantage of having each major department mapped to a separate drive is that it is easy to set up permissions for only staff of that department to access that data. This can be essential for confidentiality purposes such as in the case of personnel and/or financial data. The other advantage of having a mapped drive per each department or area is to prevent users from making a mistake of filing data in the wrong department file that often have similar names of files.
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John Bedle (died 1667), English clergyman
Joseph D. Bedle (1831–1894), American politician
William Bedle (1679–1768), English cricketer

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What does the Reformed Presbyterian Church believe?
What is the difference between presbyterian and Reformed presbyterian?
Do Reformed Presbyterians believe in infant baptism?
What is the most conservative presbyterian Church?
How do Presbyterians differ from other Christians?
Are Reformed Presbyterians evangelical?
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Do Presbyterians do God parents?
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Theology. Reformed Presbyterians believe that the supreme standard for belief and practice is the Bible, received as the inspired and inerrant Word of God. Reformed Presbyterians also follow the Westminster Confession of Faith and the Larger and Shorter Catechisms.
Reformed is the term identifying churches regarded as essentially Calvinistic in doctrine. The term presbyterian designates a collegial type of church government by pastors and by lay leaders called elders, or presbyters, from the New Testament term presbyteroi.
Reformed Christians believe that the children of those who express faith in Christ should be baptized. Because baptism is believed to be beneficial only to those who have faith in Christ, infants are baptized on the basis of the promise of faith which will come to fruition later in life.
The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) is the second-largest Presbyterian church body, behind the Presbyterian Church (USA), and the largest conservative Calvinist denomination in the United States.
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The difference between presbyterian and protestant is that Protestant Christians are a large group of Christians with reformed thinking. They do not believe in catholic churches and their teachings. … Presbyterians generally follow the gospel of Jesus. They mostly show their faith through social justice and humanity.
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Reformed Presbyterians believe that the supreme standard for belief and practice is the Bible, received as the inspired and inerrant Word of God. … Reformed Presbyterian churches describe their theology as apostolic, Protestant, Reformed (or Calvinistic) and evangelical.
The Reformed Church in America (RCA) is a mainline Reformed Protestant denomination in Canada and the United States. It has about 194,064 members.
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A foundational document for Presbyterians, the "Westminster Confession of Faith," clearly asserts the doctrine of predestination. … The "Confession" affirms that humans do have free will, reconciling it with predestination by assuring believers that their state of grace will call them to choose godly lives.
In the Reformed tradition that includes the Continental Reformed, Congregationalist and Presbyterian Churches, the godparents are more often referred to as sponsors, who have the role of standing with the child during infant baptism and pledging to instruct the child in the faith.
Early Reformed theologians such as John Calvin and Huldrych Zwingli rejected the Roman Catholic belief in transubstantiation, that the bread and wine of the Eucharist change into Christ's body and blood, but taught that Christ's person, including his body and blood, are presented to Christians who partake of it in …
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This is a trial / teaser version of our regular discovery games. It exists to show you what it's like to discover a city in a playful way.
Start at the intersection of Prins Hendrikkade and Nieuweburgsteeg (near Centraal Station).
End on Nieuwmarkt, where you can start three of our adventures!
Highlights: Even this mini game has some highlights! You'll see the Red Light District, Chinatown, Nieuwmarkt and two (!) of the best canal-houses-on-the-water views!


On 27 and 28 November, our Italian affiliate FILT CGIL held its National Congress in Milan. Our General Secretary and President both attended the event, which commemorated the memory of Alessandro Rocchi.
Unions are most effective when working together across borders. We brought affiliates together to work on the challenges facing fishers across the Mediterranean.


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Монтегю́-ла-Бризе́тт, Монтеґю-ла-Брізетт () — муніципалітет у Франції, у регіоні Нормандія, департамент Манш. Населення —  осіб (2011).

Муніципалітет розташований на відстані близько 290 км на захід від Парижа, 90 км на північний захід від Кана, 60 км на північний захід від Сен-Ло.

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До 2015 року муніципалітет перебував у складі регіону Нижня Нормандія. Від 1 січня 2016 року належить до нового об'єднаного регіону Нормандія.

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Розподіл населення за віком та статтю (2006):

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У 2010 році в муніципалітеті числилось 205 оподаткованих домогосподарств, у яких проживали 507,5 особи, медіана доходів виносила  євро на одного особоспоживача

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Fifteen-year-old Angelica "Angel" Longoria grew up helping take care of her older brother, Gabriel, and younger brother, Gus. According to Gus, Angel became very protective of her brothers after their parents had a messy divorce in the late '70s.
"My father worked a lot, so he was really never home. Mom wasn't in the picture. So [Angel] was kind of like my mother -- she was the one who did the laundry, got me food, and watched over us," younger brother Gus told Dateline. "She kept my older, bully brother from beating me up, too," he added with a laugh.
After their parents' divorce, in June of 1980 the Longoria kids moved from California to Texas to live with their aunt, Irma Sandoval.
"Angel was the sweetest, most docile, loving child ever," Irma told Dateline. After almost a year of the children living with Irma, Angel's mother, Maria, brought them back to California to live with her in Los Angeles. Eventually, though, the three Longoria siblings moved in with their father, Gilbert, and his new wife, Margaret, in 1982.
"[Angel] was very nurturing and sweet to her younger siblings," Margaret told Dateline about her stepdaughter.
Angel was in junior high on November 23, 1985. Her father Gilbert told Dateline Angel always did well in school and was never in trouble.
Angel's brother Gus, who was 13 years old at the time, says he remembers very few details about that day, but does recall the fight. Gus says Angel eventually left the house.
"I noticed she was gone the very next day, and I kept asking where she was," Gus told Dateline.
According to her father and stepmother, Angel had gone to a friend's house in the neighborhood. They expected her to return home after cooling off from the fight. But she never returned.
Angel's father Gilbert said he waited a few days before reporting his daughter missing to local authorities.
According to Gilbert, police went to Angel's friend's home, "When they got there, there was no one at all. They had picked up and left," Gilbert told Dateline.
The California Department of Justice still lists Angelica as a missing person. Thirty-three years later, her family continues to mourn their missing loved one.
Gus says he now fears the worst for Angel.
"I know if she ran away -- if there was one person she would reach out to again, it would be me. I was her baby," he told Dateline.
Angelica Longoria would be 48 years old today. At the time of her disappearance, she was described as being 4'8" and weighing 108 lbs., with brown hair and brown eyes. If you have any information surrounding Angelica's disappearance, please call the El Monte Police Department at 626-580-2100.


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Problem drinkers have higher 'benzo' use, UCSF-Kaiser Permanente study shows
Problem drinkers are more likely than teetotalers and moderate drinkers to take benzodiazepines, a class of sedatives that are among the most commonly prescribed drugs -- and the most abused. When taken by heavier drinkers, benzodiazepines may heighten the risk for overdoses and accidents as well as exacerbate psychiatric conditions.
In a study by UC San Francisco and Kaiser Permanente Northern California, researchers found that primary care patients with "unhealthy alcohol use" had a 15 percent higher likelihood of using benzodiazepines than moderate drinkers and nondrinkers. Benzodiazepines -- colloquially known as "benzos" -- are usually prescribed for anxiety and insomnia, and include Valium (diazepam), Xanax (alprazolam), Klonopin (clonazepam), Ativan (lorazepam), Restoril (temazepam) and others.
In the study, which appears in the American Journal of Managed Care on Dec. 13, 2019, researchers reviewed the health records of more than two million primary care patients, who were Kaiser Permanente enrollees. The patients were screened for unhealthy alcohol use, defined as at least 15 drinks per week for men under 65, and at least eight drinks a week for women and males aged 65 and older. They found that 4 percent of the patient pool had unhealthy alcohol use and 7.5 percent of the patient pool had filled a prescription for a benzodiazepine within the last 12 months. The researchers excluded patients who had been prescribed benzodiazepines for alcohol withdrawal.
However, the authors also found that when problem drinkers were prescribed benzodiazepines, their average dose was 40 percent lower and the duration of use was 16 percent shorter than moderate drinkers and abstainers. It is unknown whether the impetus for this regimen came from the prescribing physician or the patients themselves, who "voluntarily limited their use of benzodiazepines to avoid functional impairment," the authors noted.
Patients May Believe Daily Benzos 'Harmless'
"Some physicians may be refilling prescriptions, unaware that their patients have unhealthy alcohol use. In many cases, patients have been taking benzodiazepines for years and believe them to be harmless," said first author Matthew Hirschtritt, MD, clinical professor in the UCSF Department of Psychiatry.
"When benzodiazepines are consumed with alcohol, overdose can result from the impact of two central nervous system depressants. Their effects can reduce motor coordination, impact judgment and decision-making, and result in falls and accidents. Long-term use can lead to cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, liver, kidney and neurological injury, as well as psychosis or suicidal ideation for those with pre-existing psychiatric conditions," he said.
Numerous studies have already demonstrated that long-term benzodiazepine use has been linked to an increased risk for dementia. "It's possible that unhealthy alcohol use may amplify this dementia risk," said Hirschtritt, who is also an associate physician in the Department of Psychiatry of The Permanente Medical Group and an adjunct investigator in the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research.
Alcohol Implicated in 1 in 5 Benzo-Related Deaths
Between 1996 and 2013, the percentage of U.S. adults who filled a benzodiazepine prescription increased from 4.1 percent to 5.6 percent, and the number of overdose deaths involving the drugs spiraled from 0.58 to 3.07 per 100,000 adults. Alcohol was a factor in one-in-four benzodiazepine-related visits and one-in-five benzodiazepine-related deaths in U.S. emergency departments, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The finding that patients with unhealthy alcohol use were 15 percent more likely to be prescribed a benzodiazepine runs counter to the researchers' hypothesis they would have a lower likelihood of obtaining the drugs. "In prescribing drugs, physicians weigh the risks and benefits," said Hirschtritt. "While the risks of benzodiazepines for all patients, and especially those with problem alcohol use, are becoming clearer, their benefits may appear to be negligible given that safer prescription drugs are effective for treating anxiety."
"As we learn more about drinking habits of primary care patients, especially among vulnerable populations such as benzodiazepine users, providers and health systems can better tailor practices and focus identification and prevention efforts," said senior author Stacy Sterling, DrPH, MSW, research scientist at the Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California.
University of California - San Francisco


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Ramón Torres Braschi (1917-1983) was the first Puerto Rico Police Superintendent, acting from 1956 to March 14, 1963.  Before this commission, he had been Director of the Office of Personnel of Puerto Rico. He also served in the United States Army with the rank of captain. He was a member of Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity. During his tenure as Puerto Rico Police Superintendent, Torres Braschi received an award from the American Society of Public Administration (Puerto Rico chapter) for the establishment of the preventive and permanent surveillance system. He presented his resignation as Puerto Rico Police Superintendent to accept an academic appointment as professor at the University of Puerto Rico. Ramón Torres Braschi died on September 13, 1983 at age 65, He was buried at the Puerto Rico National Cemetery in Bayamón, Puerto Rico.

He served in the National Guard and the U.S. Army. He was a public official in the Government of Puerto Rico, serving first as Assistant Director and then as Chief Personnel Officer. He was the first Superintendent of the Police of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. He was also a lecturer and associate professor at the Graduate School of Public Administration of the University of Puerto Rico and a lawyer in private practice from 1964 to 1983, the year in which he passed away. He was married since 1947 to Mayaguez-born Mrs. Hilda Irizarry Mercader.

Early life
Ramón Torres Braschi was born in Ponce on October 18, 1917, the youngest son of Prosecuting attorney Libertad Torres Grau and Mrs. Aida Braschi Paoli. Ramón grew up in Ponce, Yauco, and Santurce. He completed his first years of grade school education in the latter, graduating from Matienzo Elementary School in 1930 and the Santurce Central High School in 1934.

Military service (1940-1946)
Torres Braschi voluntarily enlisted in the United States National Guard based in Puerto Rico, which was about to be federalized in 1940. In May 1942, he was commissioned as an Infantry Second Lieutenant in the United States Army after graduating from the Officer Candidate's Course (OCS) at Fort Benning, Georgia. In 1944, he was assigned to the Third Battalion of the 65th Infantry Regiment, serving in several countries, including France and Germany. His unit saw action at Peira Cava in the French Maritime Alps. He was released from active duty in 1946, having reached the rank of captain. His service records indicate credit for campaigns at the European theatre of war in Rhineland, Rome-Arno and Central Europe and four decorations: American Defense Service Medal (with 4 bronze stars); European African Middle Eastern Theater Service Medal; American Campaign Medal; and the World War II Victory Medal.

Office of Personnel Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (1947-1956)
In 1946, he completed his studies at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) graduating with a bachelor's degree in commercial administration (BBA) (cum laude).  He began working at the University as its first director of the Personnel Office (now Human Resources). In 1947, he resigned to accept an appointment as deputy director of the Office of Personnel of the Government of Puerto Rico. The Office was then of recent creation and managed by Don Manuel A. Pérez. In 1951, Torres Braschi applied for a leave to study the Master's Degree in Personnel Administration (MPA) at Harvard University's Graduate School of Public Administration. Upon his return to Puerto Rico and after the death of Don Manuel A. Pérez in 1951, Torres Braschi served as interim Chief Personnel Officer until he was formally appointed to the post in 1952.

Superintendent of the Puerto Rico Police (1956-1963)
In July 1956 he was appointed first Superintendent of the Puerto Rico Police by then Governor of Puerto Rico, Don Luis Muñoz Marín, thereby becoming the first civil servant to manage that institution. Among the most notable events during his tenure were visits to Puerto Rico by U.S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower in February 1960, and John F. Kennedy in December 1961.

Ramón Torres Braschi was in charge of the police until 1963, when he resigned for health reasons.  The April 1963 editorial column of Public Order (known in Puerto Rico as the publication Orden Publico) magazine summarized his main achievements in the PR Police as follows:

 "... Under the leadership of Torres Braschi, programming related to new standards in public service was intensified in all its aspects; education and prevention work was expanded through the existing youth institutions in the Corps; preferential attention was given to civic activities, as well as communication agencies consisting of press, radio and others; great emphasis was placed on the promotion of human and social relations in general; due recognition of the efficiency and dedication in the service of the members of the Corps; due attention was paid to the retired members of the institution, especially in support of the institutions created by them for their protection.  Mr. Torres Braschi also imprinted great human sense on all procedures related to the mission of our police agency, disassociating himself, as far as possible in an armed body, from the sordid and mechanistic aspect of the military organizations, whose mission does not go beyond, as is the case in the police forces in their functional process, to direct service to citizens for their defense and individual protection..."

Professor and Lawyer (1963-1983)
Since 1951, Torres Braschi had been associated to the UPR Graduate School of Public Administration, initially as an ad honorem lecturer.  In 1963 he returned as a lecturer until becoming an associate professor.

In 1960 he began studying law in the first night school section of the UPR School of Law, receiving his Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) (magna cum laude) in 1964.  He practiced the law profession specializing in the areas of civil law, tax, corporations, and contracts.

He was also an ad hoc consultant on personnel administration issues for the governments of El Salvador, Honduras, and the Dominican Republic. He was an honorary member of several organizations including the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the Police Association, and the Puerto Rico Police Veterans Association.

See also
 List of Superintendents of the Puerto Rico Police

References

1917 births
1983 deaths
Puerto Rican law enforcement personnel
Superintendents of the Puerto Rico Police
United States Army officers
University of Puerto Rico faculty
Harvard Kennedy School alumni


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Special Projects Associate VISTA
Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook County
Living Allowance and Education
Program Management, Volunteer Management
The Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook County seeks a Special Projects Associate VISTA who is interested in supporting our work to prevent and end homelessness in suburban Cook County. Projects involve communications, client engagement, and managing a housing project.
Note: This is an AmeriCorps VISTA position. Placements are full-time for one year. More info on becoming a VISTA is below.
The Alliance Coordinates the Continuum of Care throughout the suburban Cook County, a network of organizations working to prevent and end homelessness in the region. The special Projects Associate VISTA will engage people who have experienced homelessness, with a focus on youth homelessness, to identify ways to strengthen our homeless services system. In addition, the VISTA will develop and implement a communication plan to better share resources with our members and educate the community about homelessness. Finally, the VISTA will serve as the coordinator of the FLOW housing program, a partnership between homeless service providers and the housing authority.
Strengthen the youth action board in the south and identify resources to develop and expand youth action boards to help the continuum better identify and serve youth who are homeless. (Youth Action Boards are groups composed of youth who have experienced homelessness that are helping our community develop and implement a plan to end youth homelessness).
Conduct foucs groups and individual interviews of consumers using shelter services to enhance service delivery and identify service gaps.
Develop and implement a communications plan that will more effectively share resources with Alliance members (primarily service providers), and will educate the public, donors, and others about our work and how they can support it.
Manage the FLOW program process to ensure providers and the housing authority quickly and efficiently move people from permanent supportive housing to housing choice vouchers.
The VISTA will periodically need to drive to meet with community stakeholders throughout suburban Cook County so access to a car will be required.
Choice between two End-of-Service Awards:
Segal Education Award: $5,920
End of Service Cash Stipend Award: $1,800
Living allowance: (Currently $542 bi-weekly pre-tax)
Forbearance/Deferment of Student Loan Payments while in service
Non-Competitive Eligibility Status for Federal Jobs
Healthcare allowance
10 Personal and 10 Medical Leave Days
Childcare, relocation payment, and food assistance available if eligible
All benefits of service can be found at the Americorps website.
Submit an application through the AmeriCorps Portal Posting
For questions, email kurt@suburbancook.org
4415 Harrison Street, Suite 228
Hillside, IL 60162-1904
Additional Salary Information: Choice between two End-of-Service Awards: Segal Education Award: $5,920 End of Service Cash Stipend Award: $1,800
About Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook County
The Alliance strives to eradicate poverty by eliminating homelessness in suburban Cook County through the coordination and maximization of available resources to assist homeless individuals and families, as well as those at risk of becoming homeless. The Alliance coordinates the Cook County Continuum of Care (IL-511), which encompasses homeless assistance efforts throughout all of Cook County except for the City of Chicago. As the lead agency for suburban Cook County's Continuum of Care, the Alliance brings together a range of services and housing options for homeless people. The Alliance convenes a variety of stakeholders to cooperatively set priorities, collect data, rank project applications, and measure outcomes. In coordinating the annual application to the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for homeless assistance grants, the Alliance brings in approximately $13.5 million per year to support over forty (40) homeless programs in the region.


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by Richard Nelson
The Pit, 23 November 1994
The language, the dress and the daily actions of men in democracies are repugnant to conceptions of the ideal.
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
On America
If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.
Christopher Hampton, Savages , scene 16
The American language is in a state of flux based on the survival of the unfittest.
Cyril Connolly, The Sunday Times , 1966
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor
To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
Randall Jarrell, Pictures from an Institution .
That land is like an eagle whose young gaze
Feeds on the noontide beam, whose golden plume
Floats moveless on the storm, and in the blaze
Of sunrise gleams when earth is wrapped in gloom;
An epitaph of glory for the tomb
Of murdered Europe.
PB Shelley, The Revolt of Islam , xi 1818
... as American as English muffins and French toast.
John Russell Taylor, The Times , 1984
They are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.
James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson , 1775
The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess success. That — with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success — is our national disease.
William James in a letter to HG Wells, Letters , 1920
You should have as much faith in America as I have.
Margaret Thatcher, Face the Nation (CBS) 1987
The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, in time a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton in Peru. At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Baalbec and Palmyra.
Horace Walpole, Letter to Horace Mann , 1774
If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I would never lay down my arms — never, never, never!
William Pitt, speech in the House of Commons, 1777
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
On England
If it is good to have one foot in England, it is still better, or at least as good, to have the other out of it.
Henry James (attributed)
A people without history
Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern
Of timeless moments. So, while the light fails
On a winter's afternoon, in a secluded chapel
History is now and England.
TS Eliot, 'Little Gidding', Four Quartets , 1942
Racial characteristics: cold-blooded queers with nasty complexions and terrible teeth who once conquered half the world but still haven't figured out central heating. They warm their beers and chill their baths and boil all their food including bread.
PJ O'Rourke, 'Foreigners Around the World', National Lampoon , 1976
The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.
James Agate
I did a picture in England one winter and it was so cold I almost got married.
The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he'll come and sleep in your closet rather that spend ten shillings on a hotel.
Truman Capote, 1966
Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.
Hermione Gingold, Saturday Review , 1955
England and America are two countries divided by a common language.
George Bernard Shaw (attributed)
The Englishman foxtrots as he fox-hunts, with all his being, through thickets, through ditches, over hedges, through chiffons, through waiters, over saxophones, to the victorious finish; and who goes home depends on how many the ambulance will accommodate.
Nancy Boyd, (pseudonym of Edna St Vincent Millay)
The sun of her glory is fast descending to the horizon.
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia , 1782
The play takes place over a weekend in a farmhouse in Western Connecticut, just across the border from New York State.
The performance is approximately 1 hour and 4 minutes in length, without an interval.
The music score incorporates excerpts from Frank Bridge's String Quartet no. 2 in G minor.
Harry Baker David Burke
Theatre: Includes: A Flea in Her Ear (Thorndike, Leatherhead). Work in London: Othello (Young Vic), Baddies, Rocket to the Moon (Hampstead and West End), Slow Dance on the Killing Ground (Greenwich), Hamlet (Riverside Studios). For the RNT: Measure for Measure, The Devil is an Ass (visit from Birmingham Rep), Watch on the Rhine, The Strangeness of Others, Bartholomew Fair, Hamlet, The Voysey Inheritance, The Crucible, Pericles . RSC: Philistines, Melons, Troilus and Cressida . This season: Harry/Alfred Baker in New England . Television: Sherlock Holmes, Crown Court, Holly, Inheritance, Kipling, Two Days in The Life of Michael Reagan, Barlowe at Large, Love School, Fair Training on the Dance Ground, Esther Waters, Pope Pious XII, The Murder Machine, The Winter's Tale, Nanny, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, Richard III, Dreams, Secrets, Beautiful Lies, Run For the Lifeboat, Taking Liberties, The Woodlanders, Hotel in Amsterdam, Hine, Crimes of Passion, The Guardian, Villain, Hammer and Sickle, Quiet As A Nun, Casualty, The James Maybrick Case, The House of Eliott, Poirot, An A-Z of Democracy . Film: Includes Mesmer .
Alice Berry, his girlfriend Angela Thorne
Trained: Guildhall School. Theatre: Work at Theatre Royal, York; Playhouse, Sheffield; Greenwich; Nuffield Theatre, Southampton; Theatre Royal, Windsor; Chichester Festival Theatre; Yvonne Arnaud, Theatre, Guildford; Theatre Clwyd, Mold: Mrs Alving in Ghosts , Ginny in Relatively Speaking , Smilya Darde in Captain Cavallo , Virginia in The Golden Age , Olivia in Twelfth Night , Gwen in This Space is Mine , Gloria Clandon in You Never Can Tell . Work in West End: Io in Prometheus Bound , Portia in The Merchant of Venice , Julia in The Rivals , Mrs Van Omrigh in Yahoo , Susan in Happy Family , Mrs Thatcher in Anyone for Denis , Glynis in Body and Soul , Virginia in The Weekend , Lady Gay Spanker in London Assurance . RSC: Alice Berry in New England . Television: That Was The Week That Was, Elizabeth R, Demon Lover, Bagthorpe Saga, The Rocking Horse, Winner, To The Manor Born, Three Up Two Down, Farringdon of the FO, Paying Guests, Anyone For Denis . Film: Oh What A Lovely War .
Tom Berry, her ex-brother-in-law Mick Ford
Theatre: Seasons at Nottingham Playhouse, Manchester Royal Exchange. Willy Mossop in Hobson's Choice , Trofimov in The Cherry Orchard , Feste in Twelfth Night , Jonny in Touched, While the Sun Shines , Huck Finn in White Suite Blades , Ken Deed in Deeds , Wilson in Teeth 'n' Smiles , Lawrence in The Fool (Royal Court), Shannon in Winter Darkness (New End, Hampstead), Irwin in The Secret Rapture (NT), Danny in The Pool of Bethesda (Orange Tree). RSC: Edward Stern in Penny For a Song , Gunner in Misalliance . Co-composed music for Savage Amusement with Robert Hickson; co-wrote Awful Knawful with Peter Flannery, Stefan in Singer , Antonio in The Duchess of Malfi , Cherkoon in Barbarians . This season; Tom Berry in New England . Television: Love Match, Naming the Names, The Ascent of M. Blanc, The Daughter-in-Law, Desert of Lies, Jenny's War, The Knowledge, Caleb Williams, The Racing Game, The Adventures of Frank, The Promise, Hitting Town, A Woman of Substance, Goodbye Cruel World . Film: Sailor's Return, Scum, Light Years Away, Bad Hats . Radio: Ascent of F6, Pity, Dan Dare and numerous others. Writing: Bad Hats (co-written with Robert Hickson). One Way Out (Best Film Monte Carlo Festival 1990), Harry (BBC). Music: Tom Paine, Arturo Ui (Contact Theatre, Manchester), Last Resort (Manchester Royal Exchange), Henry IV (Oxford Playhouse, co-composed with Robert Hickson).
Elizabeth Baker, Harry's daughter Selina Cadell
Theatre: Includes: Move Over Mrs Markham, A Flea in Her Ear, As You Like It, Uncle Vanya (Birmingham Rep), Mrs Warren's Profession (Watford Palace), The Glass Menagerie, See How They Run, Kennedy's Children (Watermill Newbury), A Midsummer Night's Dream (ACTER). In London: A Night in Old Peking (Lyric Hammersmith), Not Quite Jerusalem, Top Girls (Royal Court, the latter also in New York), The Mad Woman of Chaillot (Lilian Baylis), The Fruits of Enlightenment, As You Like It, Sisterly Feelings, Galileo, The Shoemaker's Holiday, Othello, The Duchess of Malfi, The Real Inspector Hound/The Critic, The Cherry Orchard, The Voysey Inheritance, The Madness of George III (RNT). RSC: This season: Elizabeth Baker in New England . Television: Includes: Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye, The Victoria Wood Show, Life Without George, South of the Border, A Little Fry and Laurie, A Small Dance, Thacker, Full Stretch, You, Me and It, A Class Act, Jeeves and Wooster, Pie In The Sky . Film: Not Quite Jerusalem, Prick Up Your Ears, The Madness of George III .
Paul Baker, Harry's son Duncan Bell
Theatre: Work at Traverse Theatre, Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh; York Theatre Royal; Royal Exchange Manchester: Elizabeth Gordon Quinn, Losing Venice, The Rivals, The American Clock , Orlando in As You Like It , Mortimer in Edward II , Harcourt in The Country Wife . Work in London: Clindor in The Illusion (Old Vic), Sergei in Piano , Dorante in Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme , Roderigo in Le Cid (RNT), title role in Hippolytos (Almeida). Tours UK: George Osbourne in Vanity Fair , Cleon/Boult/Cerimon in Pericles , Pyrrhus in Andromache , Theseus/Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Cheek By Jowl). RSC: Ariel in The Tempest , Malcolm in Macbeth , Bob Hedges in Restoration , Ragnar in The Master Builder . This season: Paul Baker in New England . Television: Blind Justice, Troubles, Taggart, The Strauss Dynasty, The Lawlord, Boon, The Countess Alice, Headhunters, The Bill, Medics, Dr Finlay, Between the Lines, A Touch of Frost, Rik Mayall Presents, The Zebra Man, Bramwell .
Gemma Baker, Harry's eldest child Diana Hardcastle
Trained: Bristol University and Central School of Speech and Drama. Theatre: Work at Lyceum Theatre, Crewe; Lancaster; Manchester Contact Theatre; Manchester Royal Exchange; Birmingham; Liverpool Playhouse; Watford: Juliet in Romeo and Juliet , Regina in Ghosts , Dusa in Dusa Fish Stas and Vi , Lucy Lockit in The Threepenny Opera . Cariola in The Duchess of Malfi , Mabel in An Ideal Husband , Anne in All My Sons , Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Louise in Me and Mamie O'Rourke . Work in London: The London Cuckolds (Lyric Hammersmith), Isabel in Secret Rapture , Lady Teazle in School for Scandal (RNT), Milly Crocker Harris in The Browning Version (Greenwich). RSC: Mopsa in The Winter's Tale , Silvia in The Two Gentlemen of Verona , Marquise de Merteuil in Les Liaisons Dangereuses (tour 1993). This season: Creusa in Ion , Gemma Baker in New England . Television: East Lynne, Reilly Ace of Spies, Love Song, Fortunes of War, That's Love, Punch Drunk, Charlie, Frankie and Johnnie, First Among Equals, Boon, Resnick . Film: The House .
Alfred Baker, Harry's brother David Burke
Sophie Baker, Paul's wife Annie Corbier
Studied: Montpellier and Sorbonne Universities. Theatre: Work in France at theatres in Alès, Nîmes, Montpellier, Avignon, Paris. In England at the Stafford Shakespeare Festival 1992: Margaret d'Anjou in Henry VI Part 3 , Queen Margaret in Richard III (The Wars of the Roses) . Tours abroad: Solo in Bolero, wrote, choreographed and played the Traveller in Voyages (Théâtre d'Alès). RSC: This season: Sophie Baker in New England . Opera: Manuelita in Carmen , Nurse in Pelleas and Melisande, Die Frau Ohne Schatten, Les Huguenots, Tosca, La Bohème . Television: UK: La Difference . France: Hotel de Police . Film: MOMI the Video (British Film Institute). Radio: Programme Litéraire for French radio. Writing: Plays: Les Miroirs Brisés; L. Avaknatse (screen play); Aperçus (short stories published by Stephen Betrand Editions). Short stories published in several magazines.
Theatre: Started his career as an actor, then in 1964 became Assistant Director at the Royal Court and then Associate Director in 1970. Founder Director of Riverside Studios 1976. Peter Gill has been an Associate Director of the Royal National Theatre since 1980 and was the Founding Director of the National Theatre Studio in 1984. Plays: The Sleeper's Den (1965), Over Gardens Out (1969), Small Change (1976), Kick For Touch (1983), In The Blue (1985), Mean Tears (1987), Boys Talk (1990), Certain Young Men (1993). Adaptations: A Provincial Life, The Merry-Go-Round, The Cherry Orchard, Touch and Go, As I Lay Dying. Directing includes: For the Royal Court: A Collier's Friday Night, The Local Stigmatic, The Ruffian on the Stair, A Provincial Life, A Soldier's Fortune, The Daughter-in-Law, The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd, Life Price, Over Gardens Out, The Sleeper's Den, The Duchess of Malfi, Crete and Sergeant Pepper, The Merry-Go-Round, The Fool, Small Change . For Riverside Studios: The Cherry Orchard, The Changeling, Measure for Measure, Julius Caesar, Scrape Off the Black . For the RNT: A Month in the Country, Don Juan, Much Ado About Nothing, Danton's Death, Major Barbara, Tales from Hollywood, Small Change, Kick For Touch, Antigone, Venice Preserv'd, Fool For Love, The Murderers, As I Lay Dying, A Twist of Lemon, In The Blue, Bouncing, Up For None, The Garden of England, Show Songs, Mean Tears, Mrs Klein, Juno and the Paycock . Other credits include Bow Down, Down by the Greenwood Side (QEH), The Marriage of Figaro (Opera North), The Way of the World (Lyric, Hammersmith). RSC: Twelfth Night (1974).
Designed by Hayden Griffin
Trained: Sadler's Wells Design Course (now Motley Design Course). Theatre: Narrow Road to the Deep North, Trixie and Baba, The Enoch Show, Come Together Season, The Runaway, The Farm, Restoration (Royal Court). As Head of Design at the Northcott Theatre, Exeter 1970-72: The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Julius Caesar, Galileo, The Tempest, Judge Jeffrey, Bingo, Narrow Road to the Deep North, Measure for Measure, Guys and Dolls . Designs for the Edinburgh Lyceum include The Iceman Cometh, How Mad Tulloch Was Taken Away, Civilians . For Nottingham Playhouse: The Churchill Play, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, Henry V . For West Yorkshire Playhouse: The Gulf Between Us . Work in London: Devil's Island, Yesterday's News, A Mad World My Masters (Joint Stock), Total Eclipse, In The Summer House (Lyric Hammersmith), The Invisible Man (Theatre Royal Stratford East/West End and tour), Lennie, All My Sons, The Way of the World, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Admirable Crichton, A Life in the Theatre, Vanilla, A Month in the Country (West End). Productions designed in New York include: Rockerfeller and the Indians, Players, A Map of the World, The Knife, The Day Room . Amongst other work abroad: Cyrano de Bergerac, The Taming of the Shrew (Teatro de gli Incamminati, Italy); Roberto Zucco (Teatro di Geneva), Six Characters in Search of an Author (Ro Theatre, Rotterdam), Money and Friends (The Doolittle Theatre, LA), Mini and Maxi (Interpressario, Netherlands). A Midsummer Night's Dream (Stratford Festival, Ontario and Gate Theatre, Dublin), Maria Stuart, Blood Brothers (Hamburg Schauspielhaus). RSC: Comrades, Duck Song, Cousin Vladimir, Henry VIII . This season: New England . Opera: Cosi Fan Tutte (New York Metropolitan Opera), Orfeo (ENO), Falstaff (Los Angeles/Florence/Covent Garden), Parsifal (Covent Garden/Flemish Opera Co.), Martydom of St Magnus, Jacob Lenz (Italy). Ballet: Still Life at the Penguin Cafe, Hobson's Choice, Cyrano (Royal Ballet), Job (San Francisco Ballet). Film and Television: South Bank Show — Edward Bond, Wetherby, Comrade Lady, Still Life at the Penguin Cafe, Hobson's Choice, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Hope in the Year Two, Syrup .
Lighting designed by Andy Phillips
Theatre: Royal Court Theatre (1965-1972) Resident Lighting Designer where he designed over eighty consecutive productions including Peter Gill's season of D.H. Lawrence plays. 1974 TONY nomination for the Broadway production of Equus. 1989 TONY nomination for the Broadway production of M Butterfly . Most recent designs include for RNT: The Mountain Giants; West End: A Month in the Country; Royal Lyceum Theatre: Armstrong's Last Goodnight; Birmingham Royal Ballet: Handel and Brahms Variations; Southwark Playhouse: Jack Shepherd's Chasing the Moment .
Music by Terry Davies
Bachelor of Music, Surrey University. Spent one year as sound engineer at Chappell's Studios. Freelance arranging, composed music for music libraries, National Film School and Jingle packages. Theatre: Arranging and music directing for theatres includes work for Oxford Playhouse, Leicester Haymarket, Hornchurch, Exeter, Norwich, Scottish Ballet, Nottingham Playhouse, Bromley, Chichester, Swedish National Theatre, Iceland National Theatre, Young Vic, Restoration (Royal Court), Guys and Dolls, The Beggar's Opera, Schweyk in the Second World War, Lorenzaccio, King Lear, Rough Crossing, Dalliance, The Shaughraun, Mrs Klein, White Chameleon, Racing Demon, Murmuring Judges, The Absence of War (NT). Work as composer includes: Tales from Hollywood, Antigone, Festival of New Plays, Neaptide, The Misanthrope, Schism in England, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (RNT), Hamlet (RNT Education Dept.), The Birds (Istanbul City Theatre), Richard III (Iceland National Theatre), Private Times (Library Theatre, Manchester), Whale (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield), The Way of the World (Lyric Hammersmith), Blood Wedding, Time and the Conways, Derby Day (Octagon Theatre, Bolton). RSC: Coriolanus (1990). This season: New England . Radio: A Handful of Pleasant Delights . Film: Mystery of The Chateau of Dice .
Sound by Jeremy Dunn
Sue Carter
Stage Manager Jane Pole
Deputy Stage Manager Caroline Beale
Assistant Stage Manager Lynda Snowden
Violin Julia Singleton
Viola Daniel Fenton
Cello Joy Hawley
Production acknowledgements Null
Scenery constructed by Robert Knight Ltd. Painting by David Laws and Patsy Large. Many thanks to: Neil Donovan and the Fonda Group for the Chinese containers; The Adirondack Beverage Company for the Seltzer labels; Mostly Music for the musical and orchestral scores; Grove's Dictionaries of Music for the music books; 100 Air Refuelling Wing, RAF Mildenhall; John Amos, vehicle locksmith; South London Crematorium for their assistance; Oxford University Press, publishers of the New Oxford Book of English Verse ; Borden's Incorporated for the milk cartons; Threshers for the wine; Glenhurst Interiors for help and advice; Jasper Gilbert; Susan Cumings; Yolanda Jeffrey; Panasonic for the Home Entertainment unit and radio cassette player; S.H. Simms & Sons Ltd, Stratford-upon-Avon for the leaf rake; Louis Vuitton for the travel bag; Thames and Hudson for the art books; International Music Publications for manuscript paper; Cambridge University Press; The Unique Quilt Company 0181 579 6520; Faber Books; Rosemary Philips of Delsey Luggage Ltd; Anne O'Neill of Simon and Shuster UK; Penguin Books. Wardrobe care by Persil, Frend and Robin Starch; tights by Elbeo; shoe colouring by Lady Esquire. Assistant to Wardrobe Supervisor: Lisa Messenger. Company voice work by Lyn Darnley and Andrew Wade. Dialect Coach: Charmian Hoare. Production Photographer: John Haynes.
Programme acknowledgements
Programme edited by Alexandra Bannock; designed by Chris Moody; notes on Richard Nelson by Ben Jancovich; notes On America and On England compiled by Philumena Muinzer; graphic repro by Lithocraft, Coventry; printed by Edward Fox and Son, Stratford-upon-Avon. © Royal Shakespeare Theatre 1994.


As always this was the best Kohacon yet, I will write up a more technical post over on the work site but I wanted to write up a more personal one over here. Kohacons are different to any other conferences I have attended, it feels less like a conference and more like a reunion. One of the other attendees remarked that there was a certain something that he couldn't put his finger on. I replied that I thought it was whanaungatanga. And I really think that is what it is. The conference has a really great gender balance, and there were attendees from Pakistan, Australia, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Ireland, UK, New Zealand, Germany, Kenya, Guyana, Mexico, France, Canada, Turkey, Brazil, Argentina and of course USA. But despite our many differences, new friendships were quickly made and old friendships renewed. Before the conference had even started people who had never met each other before drove off to look at Mt St Helens together. Others went to the zoo, others to the beach. Every night communal meals were organised, and over breakfast tales shared of the night before. One of the traditions we have is a day between the conference proper and the hackfest after where we all do something together. This year there were walking tours, jet boat rides, tours of Powells bookshop and tours of the Japanese gardens. Another of our tradition is sharing treats from all around the world at the hackfest.


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Revolution #75, January 7, 2007
Daring to Change Minds and Move Millions: The Case for Impeachment Now
The following excerpt is from: "Daring to Change Minds and Move Millions: The Case for Impeachment Now," a speech given by Sunsara Taylor (World Can't Wait advisory board member and writer for Revolution newspaper) in NYC on December 10.
For five years we've gone through this dance where the Bush regime proposes--or gets caught doing something--outrageous. At first the Democrats make some noises of opposition, then they get reasonable, and eventually capitulate, and the world is made worse.
There's been Roberts, Alito, the Patriot Act I, the Patriot Act II, the Terri Schiavo theocratic lunacy, the NSA spying, the Military Commissions Act, it just goes on and on and on. And now, we're seeing the same thing happen--again--with the war on Iraq. The Democrats promised a "new direction," but already they are accommodating to Bush, saying it's too messy to pull out, and maybe best to send in tens of thousands MORE troops.
But there is another force in society. There are people. Millions and millions of people. People who are sick of this war.
Troops who don't believe in their mission stuck on their second and third tour of duty.
Thousands still scattered across the country by Hurricane Katrina and millions more whose smoldering anger at how Black people were treated there has been inflamed again by the NYPD's 50 shots that killed Sean Bell.
Women and gay people whose fundamental rights are being systematically shredded.
Rivers of immigrants who not long ago clogged the streets of every city in this country in protest.
Intellectuals and artists who are not ready to bow down to a king.
And there are all the people who tried to give expression to their sentiments through this election.
These people, totaling in their millions, have the potential strength to upset this whole direction. These are the people that WE need to get out to and WE need to bring into the streets on January 4th, the first day of the new Congress, to demand: Impeach the war criminals! The Bush Regime must go!
Some people say we should stay away from impeachment, that it's better to just let the Republicans twist in the wind and take a loss in '08. How removed from reality, how enveloped in political meaninglessness do you have to be, not to see or not to care that it is the torture victims, the Iraqi families, the people of Iran, the women and gays, the immigrants and Black people you would be leaving to twist in the wind as this regime barrels forward?
Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the Democrats say that "impeachment is off the table." But if George Bush is not impeached over these crimes, then everything he has done -- the doctrine of preemptive war, the torture, the assault on the separation of church and state, the undermining of the rule of law -- all of this is legitimized and will continue, no matter who becomes the next president. And it means we are complicit in all of this.
Some say--oh no, this will divide the country. Today the major media won't mention impeachment except to say that the Republicans would love it. And many are afraid of saying things because it might incite the Republicans. Hello! Bowing down and giving them the horrific future they want without a fight, is even worse.
When you had racist vigilantes hunting down and terrorizing Black people and you had laws and good ol' boy networks backing it all up--you had to politically confront it!
When you had an unjust war sending tens of thousands of young men to their deaths and destroying the Vietnamese countryside and slaughtering millions of Vietnamese--you had to politically confront it.
Without a political confrontation, these crimes weren't going to go away.
We are not talking about spoiled children making mischief that you can ignore long enough that they'll eventually get bored and move on. This is a regime with a strategic plan for remaking the whole world. They have their hands on the levers of state power and they have an unthinking fanatical social base they have built up and are increasingly unleashing to intimidate and terrorize people who don't agree with them. This reality needs to be politically confronted and transformed. Avoiding that political confrontation, avoiding the necessary polarization and upheaval means being complicit as all of this gets worse.
Besides, what is so wrong with polarizing people when they are wrong — and going along with great crimes?
The biggest problem right now is not that people don't want what we are for. It is that too many people are inactive, tuned out, they don't know how bad it is and they don't know how they can affect things. The only way this will change is if we go out and challenge and polarize people around what is being done in our names.
Seriously, imagine how much further along we'd be if every person in this country was forced to take a side: Are you for torture or are you against it? For the slaughter of the Iraqi people or against it? For spying on the public or against it? For preaching abstinence, ignorance and patriarchy or against it? For denying fundamental rights to gay people or against it? For replacing science with religion in the public schools or against it? For papering over global warming or against it? Let's get people picking sides.
It is good to stand against these crimes. It is RIGHT to stand against these crimes.
This country needs to be polarized. The White House and Congress need to look out and see that the country is overwhelmingly polarized against them and they need to seriously fear that if they don't put a stop to this whole direction that they are going to lose the allegiance of millions of people.
We have to challenge people to take a stand on this. And we have to do it on terms that are radically different than those being counseled right now by the Democrats.
So, January 4th, everyone here needs to be serious about getting to Washington, DC and organizing others to be there. On that day, the new Congress, the people of this country, and the people of the world need to hear the will of the people ringing out loud and clear: Start the impeachment and open the investigations. If war crimes, torture, and crimes against humanity aren't enough to start impeachment, then what is? Bush must go!


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Have you ever thought of a vacuum cleaner that would double as a canister and an upright? If you're reading my blog on a regular basis, I'm sure you're familiar with the Lift-Away concept from Shark. You can see it in their newest Rotator models, including their latest Duoclean. The Navigator was always destined for families who need the power and the flexibility of a Rotator, but who can't afford the price tag. There are many other small differences between the Navigator and the Rotator, so if you want to spend a minute finding out more about these, you can see the 2 products compared here.
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In Thomas Hart Benton's painting "Going West," a train pulled by a coal-black engine hurtles into a wash of golden light trailing a ribbon of billowing smoke. Utility poles edging the tracks fall back as though pushed aside by the rushing train.
The 1926 painting is the centerpiece of "Thomas Hart Benton: Mechanics of Form" at Surovek Gallery in Palm Beach. The show features more than 65 works in oil, watercolor, tempera and other media spanning the artist's career.
Most have been shown only rarely or are being exhibited publicly for the first time. The majority are on loan from the Thomas Hart and Rita Benton Trust and other private collections. But several, including "Going West," are for sale.
The exhibition follows a 2017 show at Surovek Gallery highlighting the regionalist paintings for which Benton is best known.
Benton, who lived from 1889 to 1975, became famous in the inter-war period of the 20th century for his distinctive, vigorous, curvy and colorful murals and paintings depicting the people of the American heartland.
His most acclaimed work, the mural series "America Today," commissioned in 1930 for the New School of Social Research in New York, resides in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The success of Surovek's earlier show, and the availability of "Going West," triggered this show, said director-owner Clay Surovek, son of gallery founder John Surovek. Clay Surovek and New York-based Lester-Thompson Fine Art collaborated on the exhibition.
Where: Surovek Gallery, 8 Via Parigi, 349 Worth Ave.
Before its recent re-emergence, "Going West" had been exhibited only twice since its creation — in a 1927 gallery show and in 1980 when it was auctioned at Christie's.
In Benton's hands, the train "becomes a living thing, the embodiment of life, force, energy and the American spirit," Adams wrote in a letter to Surovek.
This exhibition also differs from the earlier show in that it's the first to focus on the abstract foundation of Benton's work, which, far from being abandoned when he adopted his everyman regionalist style in the 1920s, continued to be an important tool throughout his career. As a teacher, he passed on his notions of organizing a painting to his pupils, including abstract expressionist trailblazer Jackson Pollock.
The show takes its name from Benton's 1920s essay "The Mechanics of Form Organization in Painting," in which he lays out his principles of composition, form and aesthetic organization.
Crayon sketches from the 1920s in the show diagram these ideas using descriptive phrases and abstract shapes. Benton even reduced old master paintings to such basics.
Many people aren't familiar with Benton's early abstract modernist paintings, and even if they are assume he abandoned abstraction when he discovered his groove, Surovek said.
"This show covers a 60-year span and shows how when you put his modernist work next to his regionalist work you can see how it's related," he said.
Accordingly, viewers might see in the sickles, balls and hazy blue horizon of the 1919 abstract painting "Rhythmic Construction" the waves, fish and ocean of "Sea Phantasy I," a panel from Benton's first mural commission. The murals, executed around 1925, decorated the sports den of avid fisherman Albert Briggs.
Many painters of Benton's period have fallen from favor, Surovek said. Benton and Edward Hopper "are among the few still sought after," he said. "There's not been a dip. Actually, there's been an uptick." The dozen or so works in the show for sale range in value up to $5.5 million.


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The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) is a United States non-profit organization that provides identity crime victim assistance and education, free of charge, through a toll-free call center, live chat, website, podcasts, and social media. The ITRC educates consumers, businesses, government agencies, policymakers, and other organizations on best practices for identity theft and fraud detection, reduction, and mitigation; and, serves as an objective national resource on trends related to cybersecurity, data breaches, social media, fraud, scams, and other identity issues.

The ITRC was founded in December 1999 in San Diego, California and is a 501(c)(3) non-profit funded by a combination of competitive government grants, business services and sponsorships, and corporate donations.[1] In addition to the victim assistance services that are free of charge to individual consumers, the Center also conducts research and analysis related to identity and data privacy issues and publishes four annual reports that detail trends and impacts of identity crimes: the ITRC Data Breach Report, the ITRC Trends in Identity Crimes Report, the ITRC Consumer Impact Report, and the ITRC Small Business Impact Report. [2]

The ITRC received a United States Department of Justice National Crime Victim Service Award in 2004.[3]  In 2019, ITRC President & CEO Eva Velasquez received a Crime Victims Service Award from the U.S. Department of Justice

See also

 Bank fraud
 Check fraud
 Check washing
 Credit card fraud
 Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act
 Fair Credit Billing Act
 Fair Credit Reporting Act
 Ghosting (identity theft)
 Hacking
 Identity document forgery
 Identity fraud
 Identity theft
 Internet security
 Pharming
 Phishing
 RFID
 Spam
 Wireless identity theft

References

External links

US Resource Map of Crime Victim Services & Information

Theft Resource Center
Fraud in the United States
Non-profit organizations based in San Diego
1999 establishments in California


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I'm a local hapa-haole girl, born and raised in one of the most beautiful places on earth – the island of Maui in Hawaii. I grew up loving my home, yet at the same time I've always longed to spread my wings and to get out to see the world.
In 2008, I packed up all of my belongings into my Camry, stored it with my dad and set off to travel Southeast Asia for six months. It was a life-changing experience, and before I knew it six months had turned into eight and I ended up at the Paris American Academy studying travel writing under one of my favorite authors, Rolf Potts.
>> You can view my travel blog from Southeast Asia here and from Paris and beyond here.
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You studied with Rolf Potts! Lucky dog.
Yes, it was such a great program… Only 13 of us the year I studied there, including MFA students and even published novelists. It was so inspiring to be around such a supportive and diverse community of writers. And in Paris, no less! I'm saving up to go back again someday.
And it was great to meet you at TBEX!
Mahalo Adam! Great to meet you as well. =) Keep in touch!


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Man stabbed in chest on Gold Coast
6:27pm Aug 1, 2018
A man has been stabbed twice in the chest in front of shocked parents and children at a Gold Coast sports field.
The 49-year-old man was allegedly attacked by another man at Firth Park in Mudgeeraba about 3pm on Wednesday.
By the time police arrived on the scene the alleged attacker had fled but he was located a short distance away outside a Christian college.
He was arrested at gunpoint but no charges have been laid at this stage.
It's alleged the man was beaten after being stabbed with one witness telling reporters about the brazen attack.
"Highly aggressive, like he was at my daughter's window bashing the guy while my child's watching it all happen," Sheridan Opetaia told the Seven Network.
The victim was treated at the scene and has been taken to Gold Coast University Hospital in a serious condition.
Daughter 'haunted' by mother's death appeals to public for help
Queensland teen who lost leg in horrific farming accident reunites with rescuers
Queensland government savaged for offshore deal on milk
It's understood the two men know each other.
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