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Inside FreightWaves
FreightWaves appoints David Bradford to EVP of the FreightWaves Community
FreightWaves Staff Friday, July 6, 2018
David Bradford bringing in donuts for the FreightWaves client engagement team for exceeding monthly engagement goals
David Bradford, one of the original employees at FreightWaves has been promoted to EVP Commercial Engagement of the FreightWaves Community. The Community consists of FreightWaves.com news and commentary, Waves Events, and membership.
Editorial Publishing (John Kingston), Waves Events (John Bowes), and Community Engagement (Mitch Hixon) will continue to report to their respective executives.
David will oversee the commercial activities and product execution of the FreightWaves Community. The sales teams that are involved in commercial activities for these areas will report to David. David has ran membership at BiTA and Waves events for the past year. He will now oversee the sales and commercial team involved with FreightWaves.com sponsored content.
David has been with FreightWaves since August of 2016, in the company's earliest days. His contributions to the commercial progress of the firm have been noticed by the venture community. The company has been called one of the "Fastest growing enterprise tech firms", and has raised $18.4 million dollars from some of the leading venture firms. This, along with the rapid revenue growth has enabled FreightWaves to rise to #51 of Crunchbase's rankings.
In remarking about the appointment, David stated, "the culture of FreightWaves is the most important thing that drives the team to keep the momentum going. I love helping the freight community deal with major pressures including technology disruption, market economic changes, and regulatory challenges. The future of Freight is bright and I love being apart of this Community."
Bradford, has been involved in sales and management in the trucking industry for the past two decades. He has held positions at U.S. Xpress, TransCard, Covenant Transport, and Lipsey Logistics. Most notably, he was involved in the early-days of Xpress Direct, one of the largest providers of on-demand trucking services. David was instrumental in operational design for the operation, most notably establishing the POD structure in 2003, which has been credited towards accelerating Xpress Direct's growth.
"David is a champion of the FreightWaves team and is selfless in his leadership. I have known David for nearly twenty years and we grew up together in this industry. I am honored have him leading our Community Commercial efforts." -Craig Fuller, CEO of FreightWaves stated.
Over the past year, FreightWaves has become the leading provider of news and analytics for the freight community, serving up hundreds of articles per month about the Freight Markets. Website tracking firm owned by Amazon, Alexa.com, ranks FreightWaves as the number one news site involved in freight and logistics news, globally.
As of July 5, 2018, FreightWaves ranked #11,683 of all websites in the country and #57,075 globally. With 1.2 million page-views a month and among the longest time on site for all sites involved in freight and logistics news, FreightWaves continues to gain an audience that is unmatched in the industry. Also, in just 18 months, FreightWaves' has been referenced on 1,339 top-ranked websites, also according to Alexa, like Reuters, Bloomberg, CNBC, Business Insider, TechCrunch, and many of the largest commodity news publications covering articles ranging from the driver capacity crunch, blockchain, autonomous vehicles, and the U.S. economy.
The BiTA Community has quickly become the leading organization that is developing education, content, and engagement around technology applications and tech standards for the freight industry. BiTA Community works alongside BiTA Standards, led by Chris Burruss to ensure that the BiTA Community has opportunities for engagement and involvement in the development of technology standards. The Waves events showcases top subject matter experts involved in the intersection of technology and the Freight Markets. Morgan Stanley described the first Waves event, Transparency18 as the "CES of Transportation."
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A Republican Fights For Gay Marriage
October 15, 2009 Robin Koerner Uncategorized 0
Published in Wiener Zeitung
(Austria) on 13 October 2009
by Alexander U. Mathé [link to original]
Translated from German by Ron Argentati. Edited by Katy Burtner.
Posted on October 15, 2009.
Theodore Olson is actually a conservative hard-liner, a Republican who supports the right of every American to own a gun and as U.S. Solicitor General defended George W. Bush's controversial legal opinions concerning the so-called "war on terror." He's mainly known for representing George W. Bush before the Supreme Court after the 2000 presidential election and successfully getting him into the White House. But Olson is now attracting attention with what is known essentially as a Democratic issue: he is preparing a brief proposing a law he hopes to get through the Supreme Court that would allow same-sex marriages nationwide in the United States.
In 2003, Olson did not support preferences for minority students under equal opportunity provisions. He sees no conflict between his position there and his current support for gay marriage; on the contrary, he says it's a logical continuation of his fight against discrimination. In the one case, it's a matter of negative discrimination, and in the other it's positive discrimination. Olson adds: "This is about the an individual's right to be treated fairly and not stigmatized."
The bone of contention here was the state of California. Voters in a referendum there chose to reverse an earlier state supreme court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage. Olson decided to make a constitutional case out of it at the federal level. "It's a question that needs to be addressed at the national level," he said.
Olson allied himself with former adversaries from the 2000 election: David Boles represented Al Gore at that time. Teaming up with him, Olson says it will be a signal that this isn't about liberals versus conservatives, but rather about constitutional rights and equal justice for all Americans.
But Olson is trusted neither by Republicans nor Democrats. Some find it especially suspect that he has no close relationship with homosexual issues. He is currently in his fourth marriage and has no known gay relatives.
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Q: using between function in oracle last data is not printed in selecting name while in salary last value is included SELECT name from emp
WHERE salary BETWEEN 'A%' AND 'K%'

not printing the name with K but when we using
SELECT salary from emp
WHERE salary BETWEEN 5000 AND 10000

In this 10000 is included, why?

A: The reason is that while comparing salary, you are using EXACT values. But for names, you are using wildcards.
So if you want all records between A and K, then use below query to get exact result
      select *  from emp
      where substr(ename,1,1) between 'A' and 'K'

Let me explain what I assume but please correct me if I am wrong. ORACLE sorts strings based on ASCII values. If 2 varchar has same first ASCII values, then it uses second ASCII value and so on. So as per Oracle 'K' < 'K1' or 'KA'. Hence you don't get employees starting with K in your output.
Now the like clause is bit confusing. For varchar when you include wild card, they behave bit differently for upper and lower limit. So > 'A%' will not include A, but < 'K%' will include K. So between 'A%' and 'K%' will behave differently from between 'A' and 'K'.
See this example
      with emp (ename) as
      (select 'A' from dual union
      select 'A1' from dual union
      select 'KK' from dual union
      select 'K' from dual union
      select 'ZZ' from dual)
      select * from emp
     order by ename

Output
  ENAME
      A
      A1
      K
      KK
      ZZ

Now if you run between query then you would only get A1 and K in your output
      with emp (ename) as
      (select 'A' from dual union
      select 'A1' from dual union
      select 'KK' from dual union
      select 'K' from dual union
      select 'ZZ' from dual)
      select * from emp
     where ename > 'A%' and ename <'K%'

Output
  ENAME
      A1
      K

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Revmatická onemocnění postihuji pohybový aparát (klouby, páteř, ale i svaly, vazy). Rozdělujeme je do několika základních skupin, přičemž mezi nejčastější a nejznámější patří zejména Bechtěrevova nemoc.

Revmatoidní artritida
Mnoho lidí se domnívá, že revmatoidní artritida je onemocněním kloubů, avšak ve skutečnosti se jedná o onemocnění imunitního systému. Při revmatoidní artritidě je to právě imunitní systém, který napadá klouby, nezvratně je poškozuje a vyvolává v nich chronickou bolest.

Revmatoidní artritida obecně je dlouhodobé, postupující a invalidizující onemocnění, provázené bolestí. Toto onemocnění člověka postupně omezuje v pohybu a brání mu vykonávat běžné každodenní aktivity a žít samostatný a nezávislý život. Přestože pro revmatoidní artritidu je nejtypičtější onemocnění kloubů, může nemoc postihnout také kterýkoli jiný orgán v těle, například plíce, srdce nebo oči. Z kloubů jsou nejčastěji postižena zápěstí a drobné klouby na rukou a na nohou.

Původní příčina, která u konkrétního člověka vyvolá rozvoj nemoci, není dosud známa. Víme toho však hodně o mechanismech, kterými nemoc poškozuje klouby a vyvolává typické obtíže pacientů s artritidou. Hlavním škodlivým procesem je chronický nitrokloubní zánět. Ten je způsoben vstupem bílých krvinek do kloubu a projevuje se jako otok, horkost, citlivost na dotek, bolestivost a snížená funkčnost. Po nějaké době probíhající zánět vyústí v destrukci a deformaci kloubu.

Příznaky
 prodromální (předchází vlastním projevům choroby)
 hubnutí
 únava
 kloubní
 bolest drobných kloubů
 ranní ztuhlost
 omezení pohyblivosti
 kůže na prstech je lesklá, hladká
 mimokloubní
 oční příznaky (záněty)
 nervy
 anemie

Vyšetřovací metody
Pro správnou diagnostiku a léčbu revmatoidní artritidy jsou nejdůležitější následující vyšetření: odběr a vyšetření krve, rentgenové vyšetření a punkce (postiženého) kloubu.

 Odběr a vyšetření krve – při odběru krve se odebírá pouze malé množství. Z několika mililitrů je možno získat mnoho cenných informací o průběhu a aktivitě choroby. Důležité je především vyšetření revmatoidního faktoru, což je druh autoprotilátky, který se vyskytuje až u 80 % pacientů s revmatoidní artritidou. Z krve je rovněž možno určit stupeň zánětlivé aktivity, především podle počtu bílých krvinek a koncentrace látky zvané CRP (C-reaktivní protein).
 Rentgenové vyšetření – rentgenové snímky se pořizují pravidelně v průběhu nemoci. Pro lékaře je důležitá možnost srovnat rentgenové snímky z různých časových období a určit tak, zda a jak rychle postupuje zánětlivý proces poškozující klouby.
 Punkce kloubu – některé postižené klouby jsou zvětšené a bolestivé nejen kvůli otoku okolních tkání, ale také kvůli vyššímu množství nitrokloubní tekutiny, která je vylučována do kloubní dutiny. V takových případech se často provádí kloubní punkce – nabodnutí kloubu dlouhou jehlou a nasátí zmnožené nitrokloubní tekutiny. Punkce se provádí u větších kloubů, jako je koleno, kyčel nebo zápěstí. Z nasáté tekutiny je možné zjistit pravděpodobnou příčinu zánětu, a odsátí určitého množství tekutiny rovněž uleví postiženému kloubu a zmírní bolest.

Možnosti léčby
Nejvýznamnější místo v léčbě revmatoidní artritidy zastávají léky. Kromě nich však máme k dispozici také postupy rehabilitace, fyzikální léčby, revmatochirurgie a protetiky. Svou roli hraje rovněž lázeňská léčba (viz sekci Lázně).

 Farmakoterapie – farmakoterapie neboli podávání léků má v léčbě revmatoidní artritidy zásadní význam. V současné době jsou k dispozici tři základní skupiny léků – nesteroidní antirevmatika, dále léky modifikující nemoc a kortikoidy. Do postupů farmakoterapie patří také takzvaná biologická léčba. V takzvané biologické léčbě se užívají látky vyráběné genetickým inženýrstvím, které se blízce podobají přirozeným molekulám produkovaným v organismu. Tyto látky mají schopnost zastavit v určitém místě sled kroků, které vedou ke spuštění reakce imunitního systému a udržování chronického zánětu. Biologická léčba zásadně mění kvalitu života pacientů a vrací je zpět do normálního pracovního a společenského života. Není určena pro všechny pacienty, ale jen pro ty, kteří splňují kritéria pro zahájení biologické léčby.

 Rehabilitace a fyzikální léčba – pravidelná a správně prováděná cvičení spolu s postupy fyzioterapie, zejm. jemné masáže a manipulační terapie mají v léčbě revmatoidní artritidy nezastupitelný význam. Jejich úkolem je udržet dostatečný rozsah pohybu v postižených kloubech, zabránit ochabnutí svalů a ztuhnutí kloubu.

 Revmatochirurgie a protetika – v pokročilých stadiích revmatoidní artritidy lze chirurgicky odstranit zničené klouby a nahradit je umělými implantáty (takzvanými endoprotézami). Implantát, který obnovuje funkci zničeného kloubu, je možné použít jako náhradu u kloubů kyčelních, kolenních, ramenních, loketních, zápěstních i prstových. Chirurgická léčba pacienta také zbaví bolestí v postiženém kloubu.

Lázně
Lázeňská léčba revmatoidní artritidy je vhodná především pro ty pacienty, u nichž nemoc není příliš aktivní. Při některých formách lázeňské léčby může totiž dojít i k oživení zánětu, zejména jsou-li používány příliš teplé procedury. O vhodnosti lázeňské léčby může rozhodnout pouze lékař-revmatolog, který také nese odpovědnost za to, že pobyt v lázních nezhorší průběh nemoci. Obecně je lázeňský pobyt možné předepsat pacientům od II. stupně choroby s funkčním postižením typu b.

Na doporučení lékaře většinou pacient absolvuje pobyt v průměrném rozsahu jeden měsíc až jeden a půl měsíce. Lázeňský pobyt by měl přinášet zintenzivnění celkové léčby. Prospěšná je možnost celodenního rozvržení léčby a často i příznivé působení příjemného lázeňského prostředí. Při vzniku aktuálních problémů bývá navíc k dispozici odborná lékařská pomoc.

Lupénka
Spíše než jako psoriáza je toto onemocnění známé pod svým českým názvem lupénka. Psoriáza postihuje především kůži, avšak zhruba u 10–20 % pacientů se může objevit kromě kožního také kloubní postižení. Onemocnění kloubů, které je do jisté míry podobné revmatoidní artritidě, se nazývá "psoriatická artritida".

Příčina
Přestože přesný důvod, proč psoriáza u některých lidí vzniká, není znám, jsou definovány některé vlivy, které při vzniku psoriázy hrají určitou roli. Tyto vlivy můžeme rozdělit do následujících kategorií:

 Dědičnost – odhaduje se, že dědičnost má na svědomí vznik psoriázy asi u 30 % pacientů. Nedědí se však choroba jako taková, ale pouze náchylnost k ní. Spolu s dědičností je ještě potřeba působení provokujících faktorů (Spouštěče), které vznik choroby vyvolají.
 Autoimunita – při vzniku lupénky je velmi pravděpodobná spoluúčast imunitního systému. Imunitní buňky zvané T-lymfocyty migrují do bazálních vrstev kůže, kde spouštějí uvolňování zánětlivých látek (cytokinů). To podporuje vznik chronického zánětu v kůži, na jehož podkladě dochází k nadměrné tvorbě nových kožních buněk a jejich olupování.
 Vnější prostředí – vlivy vnějšího prostředí nemohou samy o sobě způsobit psoriázu. Mohou urychlit její nástup nebo zhoršit její projevy. Mezi tyto negativní vlivy patří stres, infekce, poranění a některé léky. Dále se uvádějí klimatické a hormonální vlivy.

Spouštěče

 infekce horních cest dýchacích (u mladších pacientů angíny, u starších virózy), infekce zubů, chronický zánět žlučníku aj.
 užívání některých léků
 hormonální změny (puberta, období po porodu, klimakterium), během těhotenství obvykle nastává zlepšení
 životospráva (stres, alkohol, kouření, nedostatek spánku, nepravidelný životní rytmus)
 jiná onemocnění (cukrovka, dna, obezita, choroby jater aj.)
 očkování
 fyzikální vlivy (poranění, tření, střídavý tlak, ultrafialové záření, prudké změny teploty a klimatu)
 chemické (poleptání, podráždění kůže, včetně agresivní místní léčby)
 biologické (uvažuje se o podílu některých virů)

Příznaky
Psoriáza je především onemocnění kůže, u 10–20 % pacientů se rozvine také postižení kloubů (Kloubní projevy), takzvaná psoriatická artritida. Protože psoriáza se může vyskytovat v několika různých formách, nejsou její příznaky vždy u všech pacientů stejné. Nejčastější forma psoriázy se označuje jako ložisková (psoriasis vulgaris). Mimoto rozlišujeme ještě několik dalších forem tohoto onemocnění.

Typické onemocnění psoriázou vypadá následovně:

 Červená šupinatá olupující se ložiska na kůži, především na loktech a kolenou.
 Kromě zmíněných oblastí velkých kloubů, kde se ložiska vyskytují nejčastěji, může psoriáza postihnout téměř jakékoli místo na těle, včetně vlasaté části hlavy a genitálu.
 Na rozdíl od ekzému se psoriáza nejvíce projevuje na vnější, takzvané extenzorové straně loktů a kolen.
 Při mírných formách choroby nacházíme na těle jen ojedinělá nevelká ložiska červené kůže s bílými olupujícími se šupinami. V závažných případech může olupující se pokožka pokrývat téměř celé tělo.

 Kromě kůže bývají často postiženy také nehty na nohou i na rukou. Někdy je dokonce typické poškození nehtů přítomno samostatně, bez psoriatických ložisek na kůži. Psoriáza na nehtech vytváří mělké jamky, které se podobají jamkám v náprstku. Může také dojít ke zbytnění nehtového lůžka, které se pak lžičkovitě prohýbá nahoru. Pokud je ložisko lupénky pod nehtem, prosvítá skrze nehet nahoru jako nažloutlá skvrna.

 U pacientů s psoriatickou artritidou se rozvíjí chronický zánět jednoho nebo více kloubů. Dlouhotrvající zánět může vést až k deformitě kloubu s úplnou ztrátou jeho funkce.

Léčba
Lokální léčba

Při lokální léčbě se léčivé přípravky aplikují pouze lokálně, přímo na postiženou kůži. Jedná se tedy o nejrůznější masti, gely, mléka a podobně. Lokální léčba se užívá především u méně závažných forem psoriázy. Její výhodou je minimální výskyt nežádoucích účinků, neboť účinné látky pronikají především do kůže, do celého organismu však jenom minimálně.

Přípravky užívané pro lokální léčbu lupénky rozdělujeme do následujících skupin podle obsahu konkrétní účinné látky:
 Černouhelný dehet
 Kortikosteroidy
 Retinoidy
 Antralin
 Kalcipotrien
 Keratolytika a hydratační přípravky

Systémové léky

K systémové léčbě, tedy k lékům podávaným v tabletách či injekcích, je nutné sáhnout u závažnějších forem psoriázy. Protože účinná látka systémově podaného léku se dostane skrze krevní oběh do celého organismu, zvyšuje se oproti lokální léčbě riziko nežádoucích účinků. Právě kvůli zmírnění nežádoucích účinků se systémové léky často kombinují nebo střídají. Pacienti, kteří systémovou léčbu užívají, musí také pravidelně podstupovat krevní a jaterní testy, aby se včas odhalilo případné poškození.

Nejčastější systémově podávané léky užívané při léčbě psoriázy:
 Metotrexát
 Cyklosporin
 Retinoidy

Biologická léčba

V takzvané biologické léčbě se užívají látky vyráběné genetickým inženýrstvím, které se blízce podobají přirozeným molekulám produkovaným v organismu. Tyto látky mají schopnost zastavit v určitém místě sled kroků, které vedou ke spuštění reakce imunitního systému a udržování chronického zánětu. Protože účinné látky užívané v biologické léčbě účinkují konkrétně na určitý aspekt v imunitní odpovědi.

Biologická léčba zasahuje do imunitních mechanismů cíleně. Tlumí zánět v časné fázi, tedy v situaci, kdy ještě není dostatečně nastartovaný, kůže se vyčistí a zůstává čistá. Léčba dále zlepšuje výskyt a závažnost přidružených onemocnění, která jsou typická pro pacienty s psoriázou, např. metabolického syndromu, kardiovaskulárního onemocnění, zánětu kloubů, depresí, úzkostí, únavy atd. Vrací pacienta do normálního pracovního i společenského života.

Fototerapie

Již dlouho je známo, že každodenní a přitom nepříliš dlouhé vystavení se slunečnímu záření zmírňuje příznaky psoriázy. Později se přišlo také na to, že za léčivé účinky slunečního záření je zodpovědná jeho krátkovlnná složka, záření ultrafialové. To se dále rozděluje na tři složky, UVA, UVB a UVC záření. K léčbě psoriázy se užívá UVB složka. Existují dva typy UVB lamp, které emitují léčebně působící záření, širokopásmové a úzkopásmé. Pro zvýšení účinnosti fototerapie je možné současně aplikovat přípravky s retinoidy, dehtem nebo antralinem.

Fotochemoterapie neboli PUVA

Kombinace látky psoralenu a UVA složky ultrafialového záření se označuje jako PUVA. Při této metodě je pacient ozařován UVA zářením a zároveň užívá tablety psoralenu nebo tuto látku aplikuje lokálně. Přesný mechanismus, jakým PUVA potlačuje projevy psoriázy, není znám. Předpokládá se, že psoralen zvyšuje citlivost kůže k léčebným účinkům UVA záření.

Bechtěrevova nemoc
Bechtěrevova choroba je chronické, celoživotní onemocnění. Jeho příznaky se postupně vyvíjejí a nejsou v každé fázi nemoci stejné. Je častější u mužů než u žen, první příznaky se většinou objeví mezi 18 a 30 lety.

Příčina nemoci
Přesná příčina Bechtěrevovy nemoci zůstává stále nejasná. Již dlouho je však známa souvislost, která existuje mezi výskytem nemoci a přítomností antigenu HLA-B27. HLA antigeny jsou molekuly na povrchu buněk, podle kterých imunitní systém rozeznává vlastní buňky od cizích.

Nejrůznějších HLA antigenů existuje velké množství a antigen HLA-B27 se vyskytuje přibližně u 7 % obyvatel České republiky. U bechtěreviků jej lze prokázat až v 90 % případů. U osob s antigenem HLA-B27 je pravděpodobnost onemocnění až 300krát vyšší oproti osobám, které tento antigen nevlastní. Přítomnost antigenu HLA-B27 však ještě neznamená, že budete Bechtěrevovou nemocí postiženi, jedná se pouze o zvýšené riziko.

Příznaky nemoci
 Chronická bolest a ztuhlost v dolní části páteře. Bolest se často objevuje v místě skloubení křížové kosti s pánví (sakroiliakální skloubení), odkud vyzařuje do hýždí nebo zadní strany stehna. Bolest je největší, pokud pacient zůstává v klidu, zmírňuje se při fyzické aktivitě.
 Páteř se postupně stává stále méně ohebná, pacient si nejprve nedosáhne rukama na kolena, později se nemůže vůbec předklonit. Rozvoj nemoci je postupný a trvá mnoho let, než dojde do konečného stadia, kdy má páteř charakter tuhé neohebné tyče. K tomu však dochází pouze u menší části pacientů.
 Může se objevit i bolest hrudníku, zvláště při hlubokém dýchání.
 Dalším rysem Bechtěrevovy nemoci je chronická těžká únava.
 Zhruba 40 % případů Bechtěrevovy nemoci je spojeno se zánětem oční duhovky a řasnatého tělíska (tento zánět se odborně nazývá iridocyklitida). Zánět se projevuje bolestí oka a zvýšenou citlivostí na světlo (fotofobií).
 Mezi méně časté příznaky Bechtěrevovy nemoci patří zánět kloubů, plicní fibróza (zvýšená tvorba vaziva v plicích) nebo odlučování nehtů od nehtového lůžka (tzv. onycholýza).
 V mladém věku může nemoc začínat jako otoky velkých kloubů na končetinách, především kolen. Postižení páteře přichází později.

Dědičnost
Bechtěrevova nemoc není dědičné onemocnění v tom smyslu, že by se jednoduše přenášela z rodičů na děti. Přesto však v jejím rozvoji dědičnost určitou roli hraje. Má-li někdo z blízkých příbuzných (rodiče, prarodiče, sourozenci) Bechtěrevovu chorobu, je i vyšší riziko tohoto onemocnění, a neměly by být podceňovány případné příznaky, které jsou pro počátky Bechtěrevovy choroby typické.

Dědičnost sklonů k Bechtěrevově chorobě může být založena na dědičnosti antigenu HLA-B27, který výrazně zvyšuje riziko tohoto onemocnění. Tento specifický antigen se vyskytuje asi u 7 % populace. Antigeny jsou molekuly umístěné na povrchu buněk a slouží jako značka pro imunitní systém, který díky nim rozpozná buňky vlastní od buněk cizích (například bakteriálních, nádorových nebo transplantovaných). Sestavu antigenů má každý člověk individuální, ale dědí se z rodičů na děti tak jako krevní skupiny nebo třeba fyziognomické znaky. Proto mají blízcí příbuzní podobnou sestavu antigenů a dá se očekávat, že mohou sdílet také rizikový antigen HLA-B27.

Průběh onemocnění
Tak jako se lidé vzájemně liší mezi sebou, liší se u každého pacienta s Bechtěrevovou nemocí i průběh jeho choroby. U někoho může nemoc postupovat rychle a záhy ho invalidizovat, zatímco v jiném případě se může nástup závažných projevů oddálit až do pozdního věku. Přesto je v průběhu choroby možné vysledovat několik společných znaků:
 Nemoc se objevuje většinou postupně v nepravidelných intervalech. První bolesti lidé cítí zpravidla v dolní části zad, v tzv. sakroiliakálním skloubení, tj. kloubu mezi křížovou kostí a pánví. Bolesti trápí pacienty nejvíce v noci, po dlouhé jízdě autem a delším sezení. Někdy je nemoc i vzbudí, přinutí vstát a ulevit si lehkým rozcvičením páteře.
 Nemoc probíhá dlouhodobě – tj. nejméně 3 měsíce, zpravidla však i několik let. Zánětlivé postižení meziobratlových plotének a dalších struktur páteře vede k postupnému tuhnutí, někdy až k ankylóze páteře (nepohyblivému srůstu v důsledku tvorby syndezmofytů – kostěných můstků mezi obratli – a vzniku tzv. bambusové páteře). K té může dojít již za 14 let od začátku onemocnění.

Přes všechny naděje, které poskytují nové léky a léčebné postupy, stále zůstává nejdůležitějším pacientův osobní přístup k nemoci. Pravidelným cvičením a dodržováním základních doporučení lze podstatně zlepšit průběh choroby i rozsah trvalých následků.

Léčba
Léčba Bechtěrevovy nemoci vyžaduje dlouhodobý odborný přístup. Choroba není ani při dnešních léčebných možnostech zcela vyléčitelná a podávané léky se zaměřují jen na zmírnění příznaků a zpomalení progrese onemocnění.

Farmakologická léčba a druhy používaných léků. Používané skupiny léků se zaměřují na potlačení zánětlivé aktivity a na potlačení imunitního systému, který reaguje proti tkáním vlastního těla (autoimunitní reakce). V současné době se rozvíjí nová skupina léčiv náležejících do takzvané biologické léčby. Tyto léky potlačují přehnanou reakci imunitního systému, avšak činí tak velmi cíleně na základě detailních poznatků o spouštěčích a průběhu imunitní reakce. Proto mají výrazně menší nežádoucí účinky než klasické imunosupresivní léky.

Léky používané v léčbě Bechtěrevovy nemoci můžeme tedy rozdělit do následujících základních skupin:

 Nesteroidní antirevmatika – tyto léky zmírňují zánětlivý proces, potlačují otoky a bolest v postižených místech. Patří mezi ně i notoricky známé léky, jako například kyselina acetylsalicylová, ibuprofen. Nevýhodou těchto léků je při dlouhodobějším užívání riziko vzniku žaludečního nebo dvanáctníkového vředu s možným krvácením a dalšími komplikacemi.

 Imunosupresivní léky – tyto léky potlačují reakci imunitního systému jako celku. To vede ke zmírnění příznaků a zánětlivé aktivity, avšak zároveň má na svědomí i četné nežádoucí účinky. Organismus s potlačenou imunitou je například podstatně náchylnější k infekčním onemocněním.

 Kortikoidy – tyto léky jsou velmi účinné v potlačení zánětu i autoimunitní reakce, opět však mají celou řadu závažných nežádoucích účinků. Velké dávky kortikoidů se tedy používají jen krátkodobě, v případech náhlého zhoršení nemoci a jejích příznaků.

 Biologická léčba – tato skupina léků je nejnovější a v současné době se mohutně rozvíjí. Na základě detailního poznání imunitních mechanismů na molekulární úrovni je možné vyvinout léky, které působí cíleně proti určitým látkám způsobujícím zánět. To potlačuje projevy a postup onemocnění, vrací pacienta do normálního pracovního i společenského života bez bolesti a zároveň minimalizuje nežádoucí účinky obvyklé u méně specifických imunosupresivních léků. Je určena pacientům, kteří splňují kritéria pro zahájení biologické léčby.

Cvičení a rehabilitace
U málokteré choroby jsou právě cvičení a rehabilitace natolik důležité, jako právě u Bechtěrevovy nemoci. Díky vhodné rehabilitaci je možné zpomalit rozvoj nemoci i její další průběh. Důležité je, aby byla rehabilitace odborně vedena a správně dávkována. Měla by se pro nemocného stát každodenní součástí života.

Rehabilitace probíhá jednak za přímé spolupráce rehabilitačního pracovníka, který provádí masáže a asistuje při rozcvičování páteře. Pacient by měl být poučen o provádění samostatných cviků, především dechových cvičení. Důležitý je nácvik přímého držení těla a udržování obratnosti. Rehabilitace probíhá pravidelně, většinou jednou za týden. Samostatně by však měl pacient cvičit alespoň dvakrát denně, nejlépe ráno a v poledne.

Kromě cvičení je nutné dodržovat určitá režimová opatření, dbát na správné držení těla a vhodnou polohu při spánku. Vhodné pro zmírnění bolestí je také cvičení ve vodě. Vztlaková síla vody usnadňuje pohyby a vede k uvolnění napětí a zlepšení pohybového rozsahu. Revmatickými chorobami se zabývá revmatologie.

Externí odkazy
 Komplexní informace o revmatických onemocněních na www.revmaticke-nemoci.cz
 Poradna lékaře pro revmatické nemoci

Onemocnění pohybového aparátu
Revmatologie

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Stephen Thomas "Steve" Haberman (born 23 December 1963 in Geelong) is an Australian sport shooter. He captured the men's double trap title at the 1995 ISSF World Shotgun Championships in Nicosia, and had the opportunity to represent Australia in two editions of the Olympic Games (1996 and 2004). Haberman currently trains for Echuca Ghil Target Club in his native Geelong, under Azerbaijani-born coach and three-time Olympic skeet shooter Valeri Timokhin.

Haberman's early success in the international competition came as a 32-year-old at the 1995 ISSF World Shotgun Championships in Nicosia, Cyprus, where he claimed the double trap title with 188 hits, leading to his selection to the Australian team for his Olympic debut. At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, he shot 131 out of 150 hits to force a two-way tie with France's Marc Mennessier for seventeenth place in the inaugural men's double trap, which was eventually won by his teammate Russell Mark.

Although Haberman missed out on his selection bid for the host nation in Sydney 2000, he came back from an eight-year absence to compete for his second Australian team, as a 40-year-old in double trap shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Few months before the Games, Haberman beat his former teammate Mark at the Olympic trials in Sydney to keep his own Olympic quota that he claimed from the Oceanian Championships a year earlier. With Mark's abrupt absence to the Aussie team, Haberman put up a lackluster performance by marking only a score of 129 hits out of 150 to obtain a fifteenth spot from a field of twenty-five shooters in the qualifying phase, failing to advance to the final round.

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This article was originally written by Len Price in 1991 for the Quincentenary Celebration book. It only covers the first forty years of the Society, which at the time was half of the time the Society had been in existence.
The inaugural meeting of the Society was held on March 19th. 1912, having been called at the suggestion of the then Headmaster, Mr. A. C. Powell. A total of fifty Old Boys were present, Mr. Powell took the Chair and gave his reasons for calling the meeting. After discussion it was unanimously agreed to form the Society.
The election of officers found Mr. Powell as President, creating a precedent that applies to the present day, and Mr. G. W. Willan as Chairman. The committee was formed of seven "town members" and four "country members", a split that was to exist until well into the 1930's. The meeting also proposed and agreed to form the Old Boys' Rugby Football Club.
The following week a further meeting was held to draw up the Society's rules. One rule of interest was that former pupils were not automatically members, but had to be proposed; their acceptance or rejection being at the hands of the committee – one "black ball" being sufficient to deny membership to the applicant. The committee also had the power to remove any member's name from the list of members.
It was further proposed and agreed that all Masters and Assistant Masters were eligible for membership. This continues to the present day, the lady members of staff being also included.
This of course means that they become the only ladies eligible to attend the annual Founders' Day Dinner.
The initial subscription was 3 shillings, (15 p.), which is equivalent of £10:20 at current prices (December 2006). Evidently, over the years, the annual subscription (£ 7:50) has not kept in line with inflation. The date of the first Old Boys' Dinner was fixed for the third Thursday in October, and was held at the Black Horse Hotel at the cost of 2 shillings and 6 pence, (12.5 p.).
In the years up to the First World War the annual cricket, golf and rugby matches against the School were started, as were the first two prizes for pupils to the value of one Guinea, £1:05, each.
The year 1914 saw the Annual Dinner moved to Saturday night, still in October, but that year's Dinner was cancelled due to the outbreak of the war.
In 1915 the activities of the Society were suspended due to the large numbers of members who were serving in the Forces; no formal meetings were held until November 1917.
The annual dinner was moved from October in 1919, being held on December 12th. 1919. After the supper the Annual General Meeting was held, raising the annual subscription to 5 shillings, (25p.).
The first practical moves towards the Memorial Library came in November 1920, when it was suggested that, subject to permission from the Governors, the Library should be formed by converting the then Rooms 1 and 2 plus the main entrance vestibule.
The year 1921 saw the Library fund at £1,100. A further appeal was launched and an Annual Dance was also inaugurated to help to build up the appeal funds.
In 1922 the Founders' Day celebrations moved to the present date, the Saturday nearest December 12th.
Work started on the Memorial Library in December 1922, whist the Annual Dinner was revived in 1923, held for the first time on Founders' Day at the Devonshire Hotel, Skipton.
Founders' Day, 1924 saw the Memorial Library formally opened, with buglers in attendance at the unveiling of the plaque. The Bishop of Bradford officiated at the service.
In 1926 comes the first mention of a School Scholarship Scheme, although apparently details were very sparse at that time.
The following year the Society purchased a set of white jerseys, complete with the School crest, for use by the Old Boys' rugby team.
The Founders' Day Dinner for the first time had what is now the traditional toast, – "The School and the Society". It was also recorded that the Old Boys' colours were available from W. A. & J. T. Simpson's on Swadford Street – the beginning of a long association with the Society.
In 1928 a branch of the Society at Barnoldswick was proposed, and duly formed. Recognition was also given to a London branch, although no details were given as to who had formed the branch. No mention is made after the war of the Barnoldswick branch of the Society; nor is there mention to be found, after the 1928 minutes, of the London Branch.
The Annual General Meeting of 1929 voted to give £50 to the School Scholarship Fund, whilst in 1931 two representatives of the Society were appointed, with two School representatives, the best area of investment for the Scholarship Funds, 5% War Stock being selected.
Arthur C. Coe, one of the new Committee members in 1932, was duly appointed as Treasurer. Arthur gave many years service to the Society, his official position being Chairman from 1946 to 1950.
The Chief Guest at the 1933 Dinner was our Founder, Mr. A. C. Powell. At the Annual General Meeting it was proposed to put an Old Boys' supplement in one of the then three annual issues of The Chronicles of Ermysteds, the start of what is still a very popular section of The Chronicles.
A sliding scale of subscriptions was put into operation, starting at one shilling ( 5p.) for 16-17 year old members, rising to four shillings ( 20p.) for full members over the age of 21; this was changed in 1934 to one shilling and six pence ( 7.5p.) ranging up to four shillings.
A joint dance with the High School Old Girls' Guild was proposed and agreed.
The year 1937 saw the launch of a drive to raise £5000 for a School Leaving Scholarship.
In 1938 the Old Boys' Golf Competition, was inaugurated. This is still a popular afternoon out for those Old Boys who play the "Royal and Ancient" game. The donation of a trophy, by Mr. W. H. Hitchin, a former Chairman of the Society, for the annual golf competition was also recorded in 1939. This trophy is still being played for in 2009.
The School Leaving Scholarship had by now reached £3,446. Discussions were taking place as to the regulation of the Scholarship, the Honorary School Solicitor being requested to draw up a draft deed for further discussion.
A meeting on September 11th. 1939 nominated the fund as the "Hartley McIntosh Scholarship", which, of course, is still in existence, although in a different form to that inaugurated in 1939. A decision was made at the same meeting to keep the Society active during the war years, although the Annual Dinner was substituted with a High Tea.
During the Second World War the Society, not unnaturally, moved slowly forward; 1942 saw the first increase on subscriptions for eight years, rising to five shillings, ( 25p. ), for full members. The subscriptions for younger members remained unchanged.
Life Membership ceased in 1943, the subscription of £2. 2s. 0d. (£2.10p.) giving ten years membership instead, although reading further into the Minutes it took a long time to implement completely.
As far as can be ascertained, 1943 was also the first year that the Parish Church, the location of the School's foundation, being used for the annual Founders' Day service.
The Annual Dinner was revived in 1945, when the then President and Headmaster, Mr. M. L. Forster, announced a War Memorial Building Fund, which was eventually to finance the building of the Memorial Hall on "The Bottom".
The Founders' Day Dinner in 1946 was held, for one year only, at the long-gone Co-operative Hall on Swadford Street, when it was reported that the War Memorial Building Fund was very slow in getting moving. Mention was also made of the forthcoming publication of A. M. Gibbon's "The Ancient Free Grammar School of Skipton in Craven", the author being a member of staff at the time.
Not unnaturally, 1947 was taken up largely with planning the festivities to celebrate the 400th. anniversary of the re-founding of the School by William Ermysted in 1548 – a joint committee of Old Boys, parents and staff being formed. By sheer coincidence, in 1991, this format was repeated to plan for the 1992 celebrations.
The 1948 festivities were subsequently reported as being a huge success.
The "Fleming Essay Prize" was introduced in 1951, eight entries being received in the first year. That year's A. G. M. passed a resolution that retired members of staff should be invited to attend the Founders' Day Dinner if they wished.
A major increase in subscriptions was introduced in 1952, the ten-year membership fee being raised 50% to £3. 3s.0d. (£3.15), whist the annual subscription was raised from 5s.(23p.) to 7s. 6d. (37.5p.), the reduced fee for younger members being discontinued.
The end of the Society's fortieth year saw a balance of only £36. The Hartley McIntosh Scholarship Awards were made "on application only" and lasted, subject to annual requests, until the end of their university studies.
One name prominent in 1952, which will be well known to older members, is that of W. B. Swainson, who was elected to the committee in 1948, and served as Secretary from 1950 to 1966.
As the Memorial Hall had yet to be built, Annual Dinners were being held at the Devonshire Hotel.
If the 1952 subscription of 37.5p. had kept in line with inflation, we would now be paying £7.45, we are actually paying £7.50. However, the 1952 balance of £36 would only be worth £476. Evidently the Society's officers have very astutely managed the funds in the last 56 years.


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Justice League International Special #2
On February 4, 2019 February 4, 2019 By Tom PanareseIn Comics, Reviews
This is an issue I didn't know existed until I was thumbing through the back issue bins during my LCS' "Shortboxtober" event. I saw the cover and that it was by the same creative team as the Huntress series I'd recently purchased on eBay. And while it does feature several JLI members, the story is more or less issue #20 (maybe issue #20-21 since it's a 38-pager) of The Huntress.
Meant to tie up loose ends, the story centers around Helena being pulled back in after quitting her vigilantism and moving with James to the suburbs. New York is being "terrorized" by a mob-avenging vigilante named The Hunter who has been hunting down and killing dirty cops. Helena gets with the JLI, comes out of retirement to find him and when she does, she reveals him to be Sal, the bodyguard who had been assigned to her following the deaths of her parents. The rest of the story is more or less a prolonged showdown between Helena, the mob, crooked cops, and The Hunter that ends on the closed and deteriorating Williamsburg Bridge (which, in a real-world connection, had been closed due to poor conditions in 1988). The JLI is there, but seems to just be providing backup and I wonder if Cavalieri used them in the story because it was more or less mandated that he did.
Helena hangs it up at the end and we're led to believe that will be it for the character, although about a year later she shows up in a Detective Comics #652-653 in a story written by Chuck Dixon and then co-stars with Robin in Robin III: Cry of the Huntress. These two stories, for the most part, are a soft reboot of the character that truly starts her on the road to becoming the character that Batman readers from the Nineties are more familiar with. Here, we have the closing of an era of the character that leaves the door open for said reboot without it going completely against everything that had been laid as a foundation.
As for the issue if the Huntress' ongoing series was a syndicated action show, this is the television movie produced to wrap things up–even the JLI appears in order to give us a guest star that would make this worth watching. There's a "let's tie up loose ends" feel to a lot of this, what with Sal and a number of the police and mafia characters that go all the way back to the first issue making appearances or being mentioned. Cavalieri even gives us enough exposition in some of the conversations and flashbacks to catch up any casual reader who hadn't read all 19 issues of the original series. Staton is strong and even though Bob Smith isn't inking him, Pablo Marcos and Mark Nelson (who had inked issue #14 and did the art on the first Dark Horse Aliens series) do a great job at keeping the tone consistent with the rest of the series.
And considering the way that this series always was solid but does pale in comparison to the Huntress' later stories, this special is a solid ending. I'd say that the series is more than just a curiosity, but beyond finding it in a cheap bin, I wouldn't go out of your way.
So, for the series …
Keep, Sell, Donate, or Trash?
Sell.
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Let's Go to the Tape, Shall We?
As you know, we moved. One of the things we did when we moved was cancel our TiVo service.
Why? Good question. We were happy with TiVo. But TiVo didn't (at that time, at least) work with DirectTV. So we got the DirectTV DVR, and we canceled TiVo.
Except that TiVo says we didn't. TiVo's "case notes" say that we accepted three months for free, and then failed to pay after that.
Except that we didn't. Why would we? Who takes three free months on something they're not even going to hook up, when they're getting the same type of service from a different provider?
No one. Certainly not us. And now I hate TiVo.
When I called (November 4, BTW), I was told that the account was canceled. Now they say we accepted an offer we would never have accepted. They also say (and by they, I mean Supervisor Jeff) that because we are closing the account, there is no reason why they should make any allowances for us–and he's going by the "case notes," even if they're wrong because TiVo couldn't keep records accurately. Now that's stellar customer service. Sarcasm too hard to discern? Okay. I really mean that's abysmal, disgraceful, and just plain bad customer service.
The only thing they can do is go to the tape recording of that call and tell us what it says. They have no way of letting us hear what it says. We have to take their word for it. Next week, when they get around to it.


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News National Housing, hospitals and jobs: The key issues that could decide the Tasmanian election
10:00pm, Apr 29, 2021 Updated: 6:49pm, Apr 29
Housing, hospitals and jobs: The key issues that could decide the Tasmanian election
Current Premier Peter Gutwein and Labor's Rebecca White take their parties to the polls this weekend. Photo: AAP
Samantha Dick Reporter
Curing Tasmania's crook health system and putting the economy back on track will be the issues that win votes at the state election this Saturday.
And unlike Labor's landslide win in Western Australia, this election will be near impossible to call early.
The difference between a landslide win and a hung Parliament is just a handful of Tasmania's 25 seats.
Each of the major parties would need to gain seats at this election to secure a majority government.
Read: Five of Tasmania's best wineries
Premier Peter Gutwein needs at least one more seat to retain his incumbent Liberal government, while Labor leader Rebecca White needs four.
So what are the key issues?
It used to be the pokies.
Now, it's Labor pushing for better health care and affordable housing, while the Liberals promise a strong economic recovery.
Under Mr Gutwein's government, Tasmanians have been able to enjoy life with few coronavirus restrictions, thanks to a series of strict rules and snap border closures.
During campaigning, the Premier has attempted to ride on the coattails of his success, vowing to keep rebuilding the state's economy if his party forms government.
On Tuesday, he announced a new $700 million hydro-electric power station if re-elected, provided the Morrison government chips in $65 million.
Plans involve doubling the capacity of the Tarraleah station in the Central Highlands to 220 megawatts, with construction expected to create 250 jobs at its peak.
Speaking at the Liberal Party campaign launch in Rokeby, Mr Gutwein said: "Confidence is high, our economy is booming and record numbers of Tasmanians are back into work."
In an unusual twist, it's possible the Tasmanian government has done such a good job of keeping COVID-19 out of the state, that many voters no longer consider it a major threat.
Tasmanian political analyst Dr Kevin Bonham told The New Daily the coronavirus has "largely gone into the background".
"There's not been very much focus on it during the campaign," he said.
Under-staffed hospitals
The loss of urgency around COVID doesn't mean health has been forgotten as an election priority.
Quite the opposite.
For years, Tasmania has suffered an ailing and under-resourced healthcare system – a major issue that Labor is promising to fix.
Read: Family wants answers after woman dies waiting six hours for ambulance
The state's major hospital, the Royal Hobart Hospital, has been operating at its highest escalation level, with reports of overworked staff and understaffed wards.
"For seven years the Liberals have failed to deliver better outcomes for both patients and staff," Opposition Leader Rebecca White said.
Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation State Secretary Emily Shepherd told the ABC staff were at times working up to 18 to 19 hours straight.
In the final leg of campaigning, Labor has pledged to employ more midwives and specialist doctors to deliver maternity services at the north-west Mersey Community Hospital.
It has also promised $5 million towards a 10-bed dedicated hospice at the Launceston General Hospital.
Mr Gutwein said his government had employed more than 1500 full-time-equivalent health staff over the past seven years.
Another perennial issue in Tasmania is the state's rental market squeeze, exacerbated by a boom in the value of real estate combined with home owners renting out their properties on short-stay accommodation sites like AirBnB rather than having long-term tenants.
"It's another big issue that disappeared during COVID and is now blowing up again," Dr Bonham said.
"It gets talked about a lot, but it's hard to say if it will affect anyone's vote.
"Low-income residents are generally not going to vote Liberal anyway, so it's questionable whether it's going to swing voting intention."
All bets are off
Successful handling of the coronavirus pandemic has seen four state and territory governments re-elected in the past year.
But in the case of Tasmania, anything can happen – though voters will almost certainly deliver a majority government.
"A lot of Tasmanian voters don't like minority governments," Dr Bonham said.
"A party that thinks it will win a majority will often push particularly hard for that."
Under Tasmania's Hare-Clark voting system, the state uses the same five electorates for federal and state elections.
At state elections, five members are elected per electorate using the Hare-Clark system, for a total of 25 lower house members.
This means elections are almost always tight.
"You could conceivably see anything from the government increasing its majority, through to the government losing its majority," Dr Bonham said.
"There's a very wide range of outcomes you can't rule out."
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Wildlife Conservation Guatemala Project #44125
Rescue Endangered Wildlife in Guatemala
by Wildlife Rescue and Conservation Association
Progress report, November 2020
By Colum Muccio - Development Director
Red-fronted amazons
Greetings from Guatemala where we are still recovering from tropical storms Eta and Iota which did a lot of damage to the eastern part of the country. We also continue to deal with the Coronavirus pandemic. The rate of infections has dropped and the government has lifted most of the restrictions on travel, but masks are still mandatory, and we are all nervously waiting for a second wave with the holidays.
We are finishing up the sea turtle nesting season and have over 4000 eggs buried in the Hawaii Hatchery. That is a low number for us, but the beaches were closed for much of July and August, and we have not received any volunteers or interns to help us with egg collection and data gathering.
Despite not having any volunteers, we continue to receive and treat rescued wild animals. The wild animals of Guatemala and the poachers and traffickers that prey on them don't pay attention to pandemics. So far in 2020, we have received over 86 animals at our rescue centers in Peten, Guatemala City and Hawaii.
The 28th of August we carried out an animal release in the Yaxha Nakum Naranjo - National Park in Peten. Among the animals released:
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18 different turtles of 4 different species
40 parrot - (including: White-fronted - Amazona Albifrons, Red-fronted - Amazona Autumnalis, Mealy - Amazona Farinosa, White-crowned - Pionus Senilis)
Our many thanks to the National Council of Protected Areas (CONAP) and the Humane Society International for their support with this release.
The pandemic has been difficult for all of us, but it has been especially difficult for Fernando, Alejandro, Anna and the rest of the team of the rescue center in Peten who, without the help of volunteers and interns, have been working long hours to keep the 500+ animals at the center healthy and on the road to rehabilitation. Your generous donation have helped us keep the rescue center running by purchasing food and veterinary medicines for the animals. THANKS!
The red-lored amazon (Amazona autumnalis) is one of the most-frequently trafficked animals in Guatemala. They can live up to 80 years, so, in addition to being illegal, keeping them as pets is a life-long commitment.
These two parrots were recently donated to ARCAS by an elderly couple who, after 30 years, found they were no longer able to care for them. In addition to being really loud, they can inflict serious bites.
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We have also recently published several important papers on the sea turtles and parrots of Guatemala which you can find on our publications page: https://arcasguatemala.org/who-we-are/arcas-publications/
THE NEXT SIX MONTHS ARE CRITICAL for the survival of ARCAS and Guatemalan wildlife.
We are happy to hear that a Covid vaccine is on the way, but it will probably not be readily available until next spring. Although we are opening to the public in December, our volunteer and intern programs will probably not begin recuperating until mid-2021, and most of our institutional donors have put their conservation programs on hold due to the economic crisis.
Meanwhile, we continue receiving orphaned animals rescued from the illegal wildlife trade and are finishing up our sea turtle conservation season at the Hawaii Park.
Please help us make it through the next 6 months by making a donation this GivingTuesday (December 1st) to https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/support-wildlife-rescue-in-guatemala/ Donations up to $2500 will be matched by GlobalGiving, though the % match will be determined depending on our ranking at the end of the day.
Help ARCAS and the wildlife it protects make it through the next months!!!
Nine banded armadillo
Injured margay
Margay recuperated
ARCAS publications page
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Location: San Lucas - Guatemala
Website: https://www.arcasguatemala.org
Twitter: @ARCASGuate
Colum Muccio
San Lucas, Sacatepequez Guatemala
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How The Mainstream Media Is Covering Up Mitt Romney's 12 Million Jobs Debate Lie
Written by Jeremy Holden
Published 10/17/12 5:49 AM EDT
Major print media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, erased Mitt Romney's discredited lie that his economic agenda will be responsible for 12 million new jobs in 4 years from the debate record. In fact, independent analysts have said that Romney cannot support his own math, and some economists say the economy is already on track to create that many jobs.
Romney's Debate Lie: 12 Million Jobs
Romney Lie: "I Put Out A Five-Point Plan That Gets America 12 Million New Jobs In Four Years." During the October 16 presidential debate, Mitt Romney claimed that his economic agenda would lead to the creation of 12 million jobs in 4 years:
We have not made the progress we need to make to put people back to work. That's why I put out a five-point plan that gets America 12 million new jobs in four years and rising take-home pay. It's going to help Jeremy get a job when he comes out of school. It's going to help people across the country that are unemployed right now. [Presidential Debate, 10/16/12, via The Washington Post]
Wash. Post Fact-Checker: Romney's 12 Million Jobs Math "Doesn't Add Up." Before the debate began, Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler reported that Romney's campaign could not support the claim that Romney's economic policy would create 12 million jobs in 4 years, which has also been made in a campaign ad:
This is a case of bait-and-switch. Romney, in his convention speech, spoke of his plan to create "12 million new jobs," which the campaign's white paper describes as a four-year goal.
But the candidate's personal accounting for this figure in this campaign ad is based on different figures and long-range timelines stretching as long as a decade -- which in two cases are based on studies that did not even evaluate Romney's economic plan. The numbers may still add up to 12 million, but they aren't the same thing -- not by a long shot. [The Fact Checker, The Washington Post, 10/16/12]
Wash. Post's Ezra Klein: Romney's Jobs Claim Relies On "Misreading Studies To Get To A Number That's Pretty Easy To Reach." In an October 16 entry on his Washington Post blog, Wonkblog, Ezra Klein criticized Romney's claim for relying on dubious assertions and setting a goal economists say the economy is already on track to meet:
So Romney's claim of 12 million jobs over four years breaks down to 7 million jobs over 10 years in an economy that's already at full employment, 3 million jobs over eight years that have nothing to do with any of Romney's policies, and 2 million jobs if China suddenly became very, very respectful of U.S. intellectual property laws.
This is a lot of misreading studies to get to a number that's pretty easy to reach: According to Moody's Analytics, the economy is set to add 12 million jobs over the next four years anyway. Romney's goal might sound ambitious, but it's actually what we expect will happen if policy stays more or less stable over the next few years. [Wonk Blog, The Washington Post, 10/16/12]
NY Times Fact-Check: Romney's 12 Million Jobs Claim Is Based On What Some Economists Project Will Happen Anyway. In a debate fact-check, The New York Times reported that Romney's claim that his policy will create 12 million jobs reflects what some economists say the economy is already to projected to create, while also noting that Romney's evidence to support his claim was "problematic."
Mr. Romney has promised to create 12 million jobs over the next four years if he is elected president. That is actually about as many jobs as the economy is already expected to create, according to some economic forecasters. [The New York Times, 10/16/12]
Yet Major Print Media Outlets Whitewashed Romney's Economic Lie From The Debate Record
Wall Street Journal Repeats Romney's Economic Attack But Not The Key Falsehood. In its report on the debate, The Wall Street Journal parroted Romney's critique of Obama's economic record without noting that Romney lied about his own economic policies during the debate:
Mr. Romney distilled his argument against the president to a simple theme: The country can't afford four more years under Mr. Obama. "If you were to elect President Obama, you know what you're going to get -- you're going to get a repeat of the last four years," he said. "The middle class is getting crushed under the policies of a president who has not understood what it takes to get the economy working again." He later added, "The president has tried, but his policies haven't worked." [The Wall Street Journal, 10/17/12]
NY Times Touts Romney's Economic Theme But Not The Central Falsehood. In its report on the debate, The New York Times reported that Romney's debate argument centered on an economic message, but the Times did not report that Romney lied about his economic policies in making that argument:
But while Mr. Romney was on the defensive for much of the debate, his arguments were built around a theme he returned to again and again: the Obama administration's record and its failure to restart the economy, saying his business know-how was what was called for now. He used a litany of statistics to make his case that the economy has not improved and that the president has not lived up to his pledges. [The New York Times, 10/17/12]
Wash. Post Ignored Romney's Economic Lie While Calling Him "Most Confident" On The Economy. In its report on the debate, The Washington Post reported that Romney was "most confident" when talking about the economy without noting that Romney lied about his economic policies during the debate:
The former Massachusetts governor seemed most confident when he talked about Obama's stewardship of the nation's beleaguered economy.
When a man who voted for Obama in 2008 said his everyday living expenses had grown too high, Romney told him, "I think you know that these last four years haven't been so good as the president just described and that you don't feel like you're confident that the next four years are going to be much better, either."
Romney cast Obama as a president who failed to deliver on his promises -- to lower the unemployment rate, to cut the deficit, to lift people out of poverty and to create more jobs. [The Washington Post, 10/17/12]
The NY Times published an anti-immigration screed by a member of an extremist group
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Frequent question: Is becoming a gamer in India?
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In the past few years, India is witnessing tremendous growth in the video gaming industry. Many students have started their careers in the field of gaming, a highly competitive sector. Students can earn well by doing courses to become a game designer or game developer.
9 tips from Ankit Panth to help you become a pro gamer
Start your esports career young.
Set a career target for yourself.
Try to make the right contacts.
Beat the best if you want to be the best.
Keep practicing, even if you are the best.
Learn to bounce back from difficult situations.
Esports Player Earnings in India
When it comes to hard numbers, Agarwal claims that a decent mobile esports player could end up earning between INR 40,000 ($546) to INR 75,000 ($1,023) per month, while top-rated Indian esports players earn as much as INR 1,00,000 ($1,364) to INR 1,50,000 ($2,046).
What does a Professional Gamer do? The line between work and play blurs when you're a professional gamer. In this career you're paid to play, yet the job takes the same amount of daily practice and dedication required of a professional athlete. … Many gamers find this is a part-time gig that simply pays the bills.
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The study showcased that Indian parents also have many fears concerning online gaming. … Most parents (76.1 per cent) also felt that their child's online gaming habits caused frustration in the family. Therefore, 78 per cent of parents think that it's essential to have ground rules for online gaming.
Having a reputation for being a pro Free Fire player and streamer, Amit Sharma also known as Kroten Gaming has carved his niche as one of top 10 gaming YouTuber in India with 0,7 crore subscribers and more than 52 crore views in total.
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As of September 2021, the highest-earning PUBG player from Russia was Ivan Kapustin under the username "ubah." His total prize money won in that game since August 2017 amounted to nearly 391.1 thousand U.S. dollars.
Richard Tyler Blevins, popularly known by his gamer name Ninja is the richest gamer in the world. His net worth being $17million makes him the richest out of the lot. Ninja is popular for streaming Fortnite and has also been streaming PUBG, Call of duty, H1Z1 for a decade now.
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According to the 2016 McQuaig Global Talent Recruitment Survey, nearly two-thirds of respondents say it's hard to find a cultural fit when hiring. And when there isn't a good fit, we often end up losing people fairly quickly, and that's expensive and inefficient. So, given what's at stake here, why are we finding it so hard to align who we're hiring with what our culture truly is?
In short, because the hiring process is fundamentally dishonest. I don't mean recruiters and candidates are lying outright (though that does happen too). I mean that the entire system is built on the premise that neither side in the process is going to be speaking the whole truth.
44 low-cost (and free) ideas to reduce chamber employee turnover.
On the employee side, candidates obviously want the job, so it is in their interest to present a picture of themselves that best matches what the employer wants to see. The truth is, they are not presenting the picture that reflects their own greatest strengths, potential, or aspirations in an authentic way – Instead, they are telling the employer what they want to hear. It is in their interest to do so.
And on the employer side, organizations are in the middle of a "war" for talent, so we're not about to tell the whole truth of what it's like to work here. We'll stress how great our culture is, and share our cool core values (Integrity! Excellence! Fun! Work-life-balance!). To get the best talent to say yes, we're going to present an attractive picture, even if that means not sharing the whole truth of what it's really like here. It is in our interest to do so.
It is in all of our interests to NOT speak the truth. Hmmm, and we're finding culture fit hard to do? Imagine that.
On the employee side, organizations have been making efforts. There are more holistic assessments of candidates to get a more complete picture – for example, several of the companies we found in our research are including short-term work assignments as part of their interviewing process. There's a lot more to assess when watching people getting their hand dirty trying out doing the job and interacting with others, compared to just asking them questions about doing the job.
But what's happening on the employer side? Why are we not working harder to present a more holistic and authentic picture of what it's like to work at our organizations? The candidates should be able to see that information, just like we employers want to see the whole picture of who they are. The only way you get true culture fit is if the honest picture is painted on both sides of the equation.
But here's the rub. Most employers don't even know what their culture is. They know what their recruiting and marketing collateral SAYS their culture is, and they know about all of their efforts to create a culture that the business literature says you SHOULD have, but they don't know what it's really like to work there. They don't know the actual genetic code that determines what employees will, in fact, experience when they work there.
Let's say you discover that you are a fairly hierarchical place. You may think that you should perhaps hide that trait in your hiring process, given today's "culture cool kids" emphasis on flattening hierarchies and the growth of emerging systems of self-management, like Holacracy.
But here's the catch: what if the way you emphasize hierarchy actually drives your success in your unique environment?
If you got clear on that, you'd be smart to advertise the hierarchical nature of your culture. Because then you could attract the people want that, people who know they will thrive in that environment.
Suddenly you're hiring people who naturally connect to what you already know drives your success. That's cultural fit.
But it starts with knowing what is and then connecting that to what drives your success – two steps that most organizations today are ignoring. The ones who figure this out are winning the war for talent.
Maddie Grant is the author of Humanize and When Millennials Take Over, and is Founding Partner at WorkXO, a culture startup that helps forward-thinking leaders in growth-oriented organizations use culture analytics to tackle business problems. Attract the right talent, increase engagement, and more through the Workplace Genome™ Project – learn more at www.workxo.com.


Key Concept-Goal: The student will be able to make a picture using the method of collage. The student will understand and create, by applying a wide variety of media, techniques, and processes, to express visual ideas, feelings, and values through the use of art elements and principles.
*express the differences among materials, techniques, and processes.
*utilize art materials and tools in a safe and responsible manner.
e.g. unity, repetition, variety, movement, emphasis, balance, and proportion.
*create works in a variety of three-dimensional media.
*recognize career opportunities related to art.
Engagement Activities- Procedure: Using a pattern, the student will trace and cut out body and feathers, etc. When the student has enough, he will glue them on a large piece of construction paper.
Work period-guidance: Encourage neatness in tracing pattern and cutting it out. Making sure feathers and body are placed correctly.
Cleanup: Put large piece of paper on my desk, put scraps in scrap box, put newspapers back in box, scissors back in jar, glue back in tote.
Assessment-Evaluation: Does is look like what it is supposed to be? Is it neat? Did the student use the materials, techniques and processes correctly? Did the student consider the elements and principles of design?
Other Teaching Aids: Samples on board. Magazines: School Arts, Arts and Activities, Textbook: Discover Art, Examples and Visuals.
Higher Order Thinking Skill Questions: Can you create other pictures using patterns and collage? Evaluate what makes this different from a regular painting or drawing.
Basic: Did the students identify and recognize a variety of art media and techniques?
Did the students identify connections between the visual arts and other disciplines in the curriculum?
Did the students define the role of an aesthetician and identify the steps involved in judging works of art?
Did the students identify art works of various time periods and cultures and match artists with specific time periods and cultures by using symbols and themes?
Transitional: Did the students demonstrate and apply an understanding of the proper use of a variety of art media to create works of art?
Did the students understand similarities between the characteristics of the arts and other disciplines?
Did the students apply steps involved in art criticism in comparing his/her work with the works of others and other cultures?
Did the students compare and contrast works of art from different time periods and give examples of how early works influenced works of modern art?
Advanced: Did the students compare and make judgments about the different art productions and media used to create them?
Did the students justify and value the art as it relates to other disciplines in the curriculum and learn how art supports and combines with other disciplines in the curriculum?
Did the students draw conclusions, evaluate, and make judgments about specific works of art? Did the students make critical judgments about works of art?
*Smaller print indicates guidelines from the revised Visual Arts Curriculum Framework Grades K-5.


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Driver Profile: John Walter Christie: Front-Wheel Drive Pioneer
The struggle of the Christie team in the 1905 and the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Races was a kind of metaphor for (John) Walter Christie's life. Born in River Edge, New Jersey on May 6, 1866, Christie spent his youth working as a machinist and studying mechanics. As a teenager, he worked at the DeLamater Machine Shop in New York where the Civil War ironclad U.S.S. Monitor had been constructed nearly 20 years prior.
Ever the enterprising man, Christie set up his own business in 1899, the Christie Iron Works. That company focused on building and refurbishing gun turret tracks. A lathe he developed for this work triggered his imagination and he devised his innovative front wheel drive mechanism for automobiles.
Christie worked hard to crack into the automobile business from 1904 through 1910, but never with much success. He formed the Christie Direct Action Motor Car Company in 1905 and spent a tremendous amount of effort promoting his product through racing.
He continued this effort through 1910 and it may have proved more a distraction than a business stimulant. Reportedly the business never produced more than nine cars in total during that time. This total included six race cars, a roadster, a touring car and a taxi cab.
In addition to racing for the Vanderbilt Cup as described this week, Christie competed in beach races such as the Ormond-Daytona automobile tournaments, hill climbs and horse tracks. In a disappointing misadventure, he entered the 1907 French Grand Prix and finished 33rd out of 37 cars. Upon his return he was roundly criticized for risking the reputation of the American industry with such dismal results.
Christie spent much of 1908 barnstorming the country with Barney Oldfield and a small troupe of "daredevil racers." These races were derided as fakery with some accusing Oldfield and Christie taking turns winning. Regardless, they attracted crowds and publicity.
In 1909 he became one of the first drivers to compete on the newly brick paved Indianapolis Motor Speedway in a special time trial December 18. He set an American record for the quarter mile at 8.37 seconds or 107.53 miles per hour. Seven years later, long after Christie stopped racing, the same car made Indianapolis Motor Speedway history again in the hands of Barney Oldfield. In an exhibition run on May 28, 1916, Oldfield became the first man to turn a lap at the Speedway in excess of 100 miles per hour. Oldfield's time was 1:27.70 for a speed of 102.623 miles per hour – gunning the front wheel drive Christie.
Finally giving up on his dream of becoming a captain of the automobile industry, Christie attempted to establish a business developing fire engine tractors to haul water pumps. This business was only briefly viable and with the outbreak of World War I he transitioned to military tanks. He was late to market and the bulk of the opportunity ended with the conclusion of the war.
Nevertheless, Christie continued this pursuit, producing tanks that achieved then-incredible speeds of 65 miles per hour in 1938. His tanks were never fully embraced by the United States military but Great Britain and Russia bought rights to the designs and manufactured them in significant numbers. John Walter Christie, his dreams unfulfilled, passed away in obscurity on January 11, 1944 at his home in Falls Church, Virginia at the age of 78.
Comments, feedback and contributions are very much welcomed. Please leave your comments at the end of this post or send me an email at Howard@Kroplick.com .
November 15, 2009 Update: Hugh Nutting has forwarded this photo of his friend's Coleman truck with an added Christie half-track.
Update November 26, 2010: The Automobile Pioneers section of the December 2010 issue of Hemmings Classic Car profiled Walter Christie:
Links to related posts on VanderbiltCupRaces.com and the Internet:
The Campbell-Christie House
Archives: Drivers and Mechanicians
1905 American Elimination Trial
1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race
Nov 15 2009 Roy W. 6:10 PM
The US Army rejected the Christie design. Notice the angled front end. In the actual event, the Russians adopted the design for their tanks during WWII. The angled design was much better than the customary vertical design in deflecting or reducing the impact of shells, which played a major role in the Battle of Kursk. So in an odd way, Christie had a major role in WWII.
Nov 15 2009 Robert R. 8:44 PM
Nice to see the piece about Christie, Howard.
His work on tank suspension systems was remarkable. A grossly underrated genius.
Jan 23 2011 William B. Christie 11:40 PM
J Walter Christie was indeed a visionary mechanical genius. Although not blessed with long term financial success, his inventive mind and fabricational skills contributed substantially to numerous developments which have changed the course of history.
As a diehard automobile buff, I am particularly impressed with his pioneering efforts with front wheel drive.
I was told a Christie fire rig is on display in New Jersey, possibly Hoboken.
Do you have any information concerning survivors-either automotive or fire apparatus?
Bill Christie
Mar 17 2011 Howard Kroplick 10:28 AM
Does anyone know of a surviving Christie automobile?
William, are you releated to J. Walter?
May 29 2011 Lee Stohr 10:46 AM
No Christie automobiles are known to have survived. There are a few fire engines around, I think in Hoboken, LA and Phoenix. Also there was a tank in Aberdeen.
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