U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told the Class of 2014 at today's Commencement Exercises that his Boston College education had inspired him to serve others—and he urged BC's newest graduates to draw on the same lessons to guide their own lives and careers.
John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American politician who is the 68th and current United States Secretary of State. He has served in the United States Senate, and was chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Kerry was the candidate of the Democratic Party in the 2004 presidential election, losing to George W. Bush.
Your Eminence Cardinal O'Malley, Father President Leahy, Father Monan, Father Devino, members of the faculty, my fellow recipients of honorary degrees, parents, siblings, and the distinguished class of 2014: Congratulations to everybody here today.
There are many things actually that Yale and Boston College have in common, but one is probably the most powerful: mutual dislike of Harvard. (Laughter.) Although to be fair, hundreds of schools don't like Harvard very much.
So we have with us today a great legend, but most importantly an amazing person, an amazing player, and three other extraordinary builders of community, all of whom I am very honored to share degrees with today. Their lives and their selfless service are testimony to the fact that Boston College is an amazing place.
Over the past years, you have all been blessed to experience a special quality that has always defined BC: the welcoming spirit of this community. That has been a distinguishing characteristic of Boston College since its first days, when it opened its doors to Irish immigrants and Catholics who were barred from other schools.
When I came here more than 40 years ago, I want you to know that I felt that welcome firsthand. I had, as you heard, served in war, and when I came home, I worked to end it. It was a turbulent time – for our country, for me personally. It was a time of division and disillusionment.
But because of one thoughtful man of conscience, one member of the Boston College community, I found a home right here.
Many of you today might not even recognize the name of Father Robert Drinan. He was the dean of the Law School and he was running for Congress when I first visited him on the campus.
And what impressed me most about Father Drinan – whether on Chestnut Hill or Capitol Hill – was that he made no apologies for his deep and abiding Catholic commitment to the weak, the helpless, the downtrodden.
In fact, it was Father Drinan who encouraged me to study law at BC, even when it wasn't the obvious path. I had come to law school from a different background than my classmates. I'd served in the Navy, just turned 30, and had a young family.
And because of where I'd been and what I'd seen, I came to Boston College with a set of nagging questions. I had confronted my own mortality head-on during the war, where faith was as much a part of my daily life as the battle itself. In fact, I wore my rosary around my neck hoping for protection.
But on closer examination, I realized my wartime relationship with God was really a dependent one – a "God, get me through this and I'll be good" kind of relationship. And as I became disillusioned with the war, my faith also was put to test.
There's something theologians call "the problem of evil." It's the difficulty of explaining how terrible and senseless events are, in fact, part of God's plan. That was a very real test for me. Some of my closest friends were killed. You see things in war that haunt you for the rest of your life.
So coming here to BC Law, reading St. Augustine on the problem of evil, or St. Thomas Aquinas on just war, the letters of St. Paul and thoughts about suffering – this was not an abstract or academic exercise. It was a chance to dig in and really try to understand where and how everything fit, including trying to understand where I fit in. I'm sure a lot of you ask those questions.
It was the compassion, listening, and understanding that I experienced at BC that made me feel welcome, taught me literally how to think critically, how to ask the right questions, and reinforced in me a personal sense of direction.
It would be years before Pope Francis would talk about the responsibility we all have to reach out to those who "stand at the crossroads." I might not have connected the dots at the time, but that is exactly what BC was doing for me and I hope has done for you.
Every institution has a mission or a motto – that's the easy part. The hard part is ensuring that they're not just words. We have to make sure that even as our world changes rapidly and in so many ways, we can still, each of us, give new meaning to our values.
Today, I promise you that is one of the greatest challenges of America's foreign policy: ensuring that even when it's not popular, even when it's not easy, America still lives up to our ideals and our responsibilities to lead.
Never forget that what makes America different from other nations is not a common religion or a common bloodline or a common ideology or a common heritage. What makes us different is that we are united by an uncommon idea: that we're all created equal and all endowed with unalienable rights. America is – and I say this without chauvinism or any arrogance whatsoever, but America is not just a country like other countries. America is an idea, and we – all of us, you – get to fill it out over time. (Applause.) So our citizenship is not just a privilege – it is a profound responsibility.
And in a shrinking world, we can't measure our success just by what we achieve as Americans for Americans, but also by the security and shared prosperity that we build with our partners all over world.
In times of crisis, violence, strife, epidemic, and instability – believe me – the world still looks to the United States of America as a partner of first resort. People aren't worried about our presence; they're worried about our leaving. One of the great privileges of being Secretary of State is getting to see that firsthand.
In December, I walked through the devastation left behind by the typhoon in the Philippines. The U.S. military and USAID had arrived on the scene before countries that are much closer than we are.
This month in the Democratic Republic of Congo, I saw how the United States is supporting surgeons and Catholic nuns helping victims of violence and abuse.
And just a few weeks ago in Ethiopia, I saw what our sustained commitment to combatting AIDS is achieving. Local doctors and nurses are making possible the dream of an AIDS-free generation. We're on the cusp of achieving that.
And what we have done to turn back the armies of defeatism and indifference in the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and even polio – this work should give every one of you confidence to confront another cross-border, cross-generational challenge, the challenge of a changing climate. If we're going to live up to our values, this is a test that we have to meet.
Now look, I know this is hard, because I spent almost 30 years in the United States Senate pushing this issue, trying to get colleagues to move. We got up to maybe 55 votes, couldn't quite get to 60. And I know it's hard to feel the urgency. As we sit here on an absolutely beautiful morning in Boston, you might not see climate change as an immediate threat to your job, your community, or your families. But let me tell you, it is.
Two major recent reports, one from the UN and one from retired U.S. military leaders, warn us not just of the crippling consequences to come, but that some of them are already here. Ninety-seven percent of the world's scientists tell us this is urgent. Why? Because if crops can't grow, there'll be food insecurity. If there's less water because of longer droughts, if there are stronger and more powerful storms, things will change in a hurry and they will change for the worse.
What's frustrating is that this challenge is not without a solution. In fact, not one problem I can think of today that we face in this country is without a solution. It's a question of capacity, willpower. The solution is actually staring us in the face. It is energy policy. Make the right energy policy choices and America can lead a $6 trillion market with 4 billion users today and growing to 9 billion users in the next 50 years.
But if we do nothing, and it turns out that the critics and the naysayers and the members of the Flat Earth Society, if it turns out that they're wrong, then we are risking nothing less than the future of the entire planet. This is not a hard choice, frankly. But still, let me tell you we need the help of every single one of you to make it.
In the end, all of these global challenges – how to defend against extremism, how to eradicate disease, how to provide young people with opportunity, how to protect our planet – all of these questions of whether men and women can live in dignity. What do I mean by dignity? I mean exactly the same thing that Father David Hollenbach taught on this campus and brought to the forefront of Catholic social teaching: That when families have access to clean water and clean power, they can live in dignity. When people have the freedom to choose their government on election day and to engage their fellow citizens every day, they can live in dignity. When all citizens can make their full contribution no matter their ethnicity; no matter who they love or what name they give to God, they can live in dignity.
And this is where you come in: the struggle for dignity. Whether across town or across the world, it makes demands on your own lives. The diploma that you will receive today isn't just a certificate of accomplishment. It's a charge to keep. It's a powerful challenge to every single one of you, because you have already been blessed with a world-class education, and with it comes responsibility. Part of that responsibility is taking to heart the values that you've learned here and sharing them with the world beyond BC. That spirit of service is part of the fabric of this school, just as it is part of the fabric of our nation.
So graduates of 2014, pass on your light to others. Set the world aflame with your service. Welcome those who are lost; seek out those at the crossroads. That is how you can fulfill your responsibility as a graduate of this great institution. That is how you can answer the call to be a servant, leader, and that is how you can keep faith with and renew the idea of America, and that is how we all live up to our duty as citizens.
Congratulations to all of you. Good luck and God bless.


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Political geography in the interwar period was one of the major sources of thinking about the international order. Premised on the importance of human interactions with space and the physical world, political geographers pondered questions of technology, raw material spread, land use, and the effects of state-building and imperialism. In this sense there was a planet politics in IR before 1950. Perhaps the best example of this comes from the work of the Harvard-base political geographer Derwent Whittlesey.
Whittlesey's first contribution to the idea of the interaction between culture and environment came in the 1920s through the concept of sequent occupance: the idea that each pattern of settlement and land use influences and guides the character of subsequent patterns. Here Whittlesey took the notion that population distribution and human activities are the result of the physical environment of climate, resources and topography, and added the dimension of time. There were two elements to this addition of time. First, land use transforms the land, which in turn leads to new types of land use. In extreme cases this can be because of the unsustainability of an economic activity leading to the degradation of the land. Second, new forms of land use build upon the previous land use, thus sequences of land use, even if they appear to be jarring discontinuities, are as much products of previous stages as they are of physical and environmental constraints (Whittlesey, 1929: 162-5).
There are two takeaways from Whittlesey's concept of sequent occupance that would later be developed in his international thought. First, that the relationship between human societies and the environment was not solely of one shaping the other. When we look over time human activity is simultaneously influenced by the physical world, and is also (often dramatically) changing the environment at the same time. There is, therefore, a complex relationship between human activity and physical factors that includes regular feedback between the two. Second, culture becomes an important variable in understanding how humans interact with their environment. For Whittlesey cultures that developed under different sets of environmental conditions are frequently transferred to very different environments. When they do, they often have major effects on these new environments. Later Whittlesey would use the global spread of the European idea of the state as a way of explaining many of the problems facing mid-twentieth century international politics.
Yet, before Whittlesey could make this jump between land use and the rise of the European state he needed to explore how a particular aspect of culture – political authority – affected the physical environment. 'Phenomena engendered by political forces', he concluded, 'should have a recognized place as elements in the geographic structure of every region' (Whittlesey, 1935: 97). Anticipating the work of Rob Walker (1993: chs 6-8), he began with the role of boundaries. For Whittlesey border regions were a varied phenomenon, but generalizations could be made about the role that centralizing political authorities had had on them. When central power was weak, as has been the case for much of human history, borders form zones. In these zones those either side of a border share more in common with each other than they do with the metropolitan centres that claimed to control them. Thus, border regions were areas of lively cross-border cultural and economic exchange. The growth of central authority in modern states has replaced border zones with linear boundaries, and in the process has cut through communities, lines of kinship and economic transactions. This process, in turn, leaves its mark on both land use and on the landscape. Even in mountain zones, often considered the most natural of boundaries, these processes occur when a linear boundary is imposed (Whittlesey, 1935: 88-9). This effect of borders is magnified by the role played by tariffs and other similar controls that lead to the breaking up of previous economic links. This is particularly the case with agriculture, which is especially sensitive to changes from free trade to protectionism. Farmers under state-based protectionism will move to grow needed crops that might not otherwise have an advantage in a specific area, with implications for the environment (Whittlesey, 1935: 94).
While the growth of central authority has a dramatic effect on border regions, it also changes the relationship with the natural environment within the state. Central authorities, by their nature, impose uniformity over diverse natural landscapes. In the United States one of the clearest signs of this is uniform land surveys that impose the same plot sizes over physical environments that may require very different forms of farming (Whittlesey, 1935: 90). Similarly, legal norms adopted in different conditions are usually imposed without amendment in different territories. Thus English common law riparian rights, which were developed in a humid and temperate western European environment, were adopted in more arid zones such as the San Joaquin Valley. The development of irrigation was adversely affected by the need to bend to common law rights that were inappropriate for an area suited to a more Mediterranean system of agriculture (Whittlesey, 1935: 96).
Throughout his exploration of the role of centralized and centralizing authority Whittlesey often delved into the role of imperial expansion on land use and settlement patterns. The spread of the modern state became one of the central themes of his 1939 the Earth and the State. It also reappeared in his Environmental Foundations of European History of 1949. It was not, though, the only theme. While Whittlesey saw the spread of the modern state from Western Europe as 'the major geopolitical fact of modern times' (Whittlesey, 1939: 86) that spread had to be understood within the context of the interaction between human society and its physical environment.
Building on his argument on central authority, Whittlesey argued that the mode of government was a product of both environmental and human conditions. Environmental conditions were passive, in the sense that they did not actively dictate a particular form of government, but they were ceaseless and constant in their presence. Here Whittlesey does not mean passive in a negative sense of merely receiving, but rather as a criticism of those who would see the environment as an active anthropomorphic agent pointing people in a specific historical direction (as his mentor Ellen Churchill Semple (1911) did). Human conditions were of two types. First, there were the cultural factors and tenacious political attachments that influenced how the society reacted to the environmental conditions. Second, there were technological changes that altered the importance of certain environmental conditions, and often created new relations with the environment that made past social arrangements and laws redundant or damaging to the environment (Whittlesey, 1939: 556-7; 1949:5). The varying strength of the forces of environmental and human conditions also depends on the nature of the environment. In harsh natural environments the effects of environmental conditioning are much stronger, while in better endowed areas there are greater opportunities for a wide range of cultural adaptations to the habitat (Whittlesey, 1939: 557-8).
In 1945 Whittlesey developed his view of the interaction between human society and the environment by putting it into the context of what he called the horizon of geography. Human society developed its geographical view by expanding from two to three, and finally to four, dimensions. Prior to the modern machine age humans thought of their societies as interacting with the Earth along the two dimensions of a flat space. The development of a new coal and oil driven industrial order added the third dimension of height through aircraft, submarines, radio and deep mining for minerals. With the development of this third dimension the possibilities of damaging the environment through human activity increased significantly. For Whittlesey damage to the human habitat was a result of human societies failing to adapt to the new realities of this third dimension. In short, our societies were still stuck in the institutions and thinking of a two dimensional world, and without adequate adjustment to the realities and possibilities of a three dimensional reality we would continue to wreak havoc on our habitat. Whittlesey singled out modern war as an example of this. While both world wars made use of the technologies of the new dimension, the continued division of the world into a two dimensional patchwork of states meant that the attempt to adjust to the new realities of the interdependence of the third dimension went down the destructive route of violent conquests in the service of autarky (Whittlesey, 1945: 28-9).
For Whittlesey the means by which a society regulates its relationship with the natural environment is the law. It is through its legal system that a society extracts a livelihood from its environment, and in the long run successful laws will be the ones that conform to the basic conditions of the habitat (Whittlesey, 1939: 8, 557, 558). At the same time, though, laws act upon the environment, changing it in significant ways. In its most extreme form, and where laws do not adequately conform to the habitat, this can result in the severe degrading of the environment (Whittlesey, 1939: 589). If human societies were always static then it could be deduced that systems of law would all eventually lead to a harmony with the habitat. Yet, most human societies occupy their habitat dynamically. This dynamism is most clearly expressed in the role of technology. By creating new relationships with the environment, especially new needs in the exploitation of the habitat, technology is frequently making the laws that societies rely on obsolete and counterproductive. This need to adapt laws to accommodate changes in technology that alter the relationship with the habitat is often in conflict with the conservative 'emotional character of political thought' that hold 'communities and states to traditional patterns and practices long after their original connection with the natural environment has been forgotten' (Whittlesey, 1939: 591). The result of this is that even when laws change to adapt to the new relationship with the habitat, and in line with the idea of sequent occupance, elements of the previous law is preserved in the new.
Here Whittlesey added a fourth dimension to the three dimensions of the machine age: that of time. Time had already become important through the introduction of machines. Greater velocity of transport had led to a shrinking of the world relative to speed; the faster pace of human life was speeding up transactions, but also increased the extraction of minerals; while machines made the need for the synchronization of timing a central concern of most human activities (Whittlesey, 1945: 23-4). Taking the fourth dimension seriously allows us to see that human occupance was not about stable systems, but rather a continuing process of change. Time allowed us to see how so much of our laws were holdovers from past periods, and also how the issue of time in questions of conservation made the difference between whether a utilization of a natural resource was either useful/regenerative or abusive/destructive (Whittlesey, 1945: 29-31). Here, the realization of the importance of the fourth dimension of time to space – and especially the increased velocity of technological change – meant that all geography needed to also be historical geography (Whittlesey, 1945: 33).
Change in the face of a new technological relationship with the habitat is never an easy process, and Whittlesey saw it as a constant three-stage cycle that largely dominated the evolution of political society. The first stage of adaption was the establishment of governmental and legal structures to deal with the new ways of utilizing the earth's resources. This was often brutally imposed in a top-down manner. Some evidence for the success of this elite imposed method of resource management have been explored in detail by Jared Diamond in his analyses of the successful forest management policies in Tokugawa Japan and in the Trujillo and Balaguer regimes in the Dominican Republic (Diamond, 2011: 294-306, 341-49. Diamond does also discuss bottom-up responses). Later, Whittlesey would hint that a less brutal alternative was open to us, but that it required people to have a better perception of the effects of the machine age (Whittlesey, 1945: 21). The second stage involved the struggle to make these new laws less brutal, and is marked by the recognition of what Whittlesey called 'human values'. The Third stage was marked by the further extension of technology over material means, which in turn created the need for new forms of political control, and thus bringing a society back to stage one (Whittlesey, 1939: 55). Before technological innovations a society is limited in what it can do by the availability of natural resources (Whittlesey, 1939: 27). Technology is, therefore, at one level liberating, since it opens up new possibilities for using resources that overcome the natural limits of a society. At another level, though, the crisis that it throws the old legal system into, along with the natural conservatism of political philosophy, often favours brutal reforms. Whittlesey, a strong opponent of fascism, saw in the new totalitarianism around him in the 1930s just such an attempt to deal with the multiple ironies and contradictions that the machine age had thrown up. In a milder form, the executive–led programmes of the FDR administration in the US also fit Whittlesey's model.
'The major geopolitical fact of modern times' Whittlesey wrote in 1939, 'is the conquest of the world by the political system evolved in the coastland states of Western Europe' (Whittlesey, 1939: 86). This exportation of the Western European state – whether by colonization, imposition or emulation – was not necessarily the result of the superiority of its political system, but rather to do with the transport revolution in the sixteenth century that turned the ocean from a barrier to a highway. Basically, Whittlesey argued, this transport revolution in ocean-going vessels 'turned the continents inside out', by transferring the centre of gravity of political power from continental centres to the ocean-facing littoral of continents (Whittlesey, 1939: 59). The spread of the Western European state was the basis upon which a new interdependent world economy was created, and thus ushered in the new reality of a finite global order in the twentieth century (Whittlesey, 1949: 118-9, 126-8, 133-5; 1945: 11-12). While this spread was responsible for the new interdependent global political economy, this did not mean that Whittlesey saw the state as an essentially global institution. The state took with it its Western European character, which included laws and political institutions that were designed for a temperate and wet habitat. From his own experiences of English common law riparian rights in California (discussed above) Whittlesey know that this could have disastrous results in dryer climates. His 1945 analysis also added the experience of the Midwest dust-bowl to that tally. The spread of western European norms had led to the imposition of legal systems that, if not modified, would do serious damage to fragile environments (Whittlesey 1939: 560-1). In addition to this, the notion of immovable property that was such a cornerstone of Western European settled intensive agriculture led to a system of clear state boundaries that were damaging for regions of more marginal production (Whittlesey, 1939: 559, also 91-4). Whittlesey's view was that these imposed rules would need to be modified to fit the conditions of the habitat, either by creating new hybrid legal systems, or by overthrow and replacement (Whittlesey, 1945: 12).
In one sense, though, there was no going back. The spread of the Western European state had now created a new global system in which industrialization had created a new set of relations between human culture and the environment. The patchwork of states that still dominated twentieth century life represented largely the political order suited to a pre-machine age order of self-sufficient states. In this sense the concept of national self-determination ran counter to the longer historical secular trend of favouring larger units (Whittlesey, 1935: 579, 580). The boundaries of European states especially were a product of early modern nation-building, and conformed to the earlier reality of an agrarian society based on the canal, coastal shipping and horse-drawn traffic (Whittlesey, 1949: 127). Quite possibly, Whittlesey wrote in 1939, 'all of the states of Europe west of Russia are too small to fit the conditions of the twentieth century' (Whittlesey, 1939: 581). By contrast, the large powers like the United States and Russia, were better suited to the era of long-distance rail, air routes, and radio transmissions (Whittlesey, 1939: 12, 576; 1949: 128-132). The problem was that conservative human loyalties still stuck to parochial and national patterns. The problem of reconciling these parochial loyalties with the realities of interdependence was, for Whittlesey, the origin of fascism. Fascism accepted the economic need for a unit beyond the small scale national state, but the only way that it could accomplish this and keep parochial national loyalties was through a system of regional and global conquest. In short, parochial loyalties and machine age economics produced fascist political systems (Whittlesey, 1939: 55, 584). Although Whittlesey did not discuss the political alternative to fascism in any detail, he did hint that federation was a possible alternative (Whittlesey, 1939: 580). In 1949 he argued for both European federation and a weaker association with the United States and Canada as possible ways out for the specific problems that the European stated faced (Whittlesey, 1949: 146-7).
Huge acreage of soils is depleted, in places ruined, by machine methods of tillage that modern inventions have put into the hands of every farmer. Water supplies have been pumped for irrigation at rates far in excess of replenishment, to the ultimate detriment of the users. Extraction of minerals threatens to exhaust not merely small deposits, but also major enrichments. Depredations have made serious inroads into many vital natural resources. All three dimensions of earth-space are affected (Whittlesey, 1945: 28-9).
Thus humanity needed to be aware of the relentless influence of the environment, and how human activity shaped that influence. Yet nature was an agent of a different kind. It was not the active anthropomorphic agent found in Semple's work, whispering solutions in our ear. There was no plan that nature had in store for us, and no natural society capable of an untroubled balance with our habitat. No stable 'laws of history' came from nature. Rather the environment's ceaseless presence and fungible reactions to human practices made instability and the role of the fourth dimension of time a central part of human society. The problem was not the question of how humans could care for a stable planet – the planet would survive humanity – rather the issue was could our civilization survive the inevitable environmental feedback from our activities. The problem of global order was not just a human on human problem; it was also a matter of human relations with the non-human habitat.
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William "Bill" Miller
February 5, 1951 - February 16, 2021
William Miller "Bill", 70, passed away February 16, 2021. Beloved husband of Jan Miller for 44 years. Loving father of Trisha Miller Burkhardt (Scott) and Brendt Miller (Mandy Basista Miller). Son of the late Betty and Jack Miller. Brother of Donna Miller, David Miller, Sharon Miller Mihovk, and the late Jimmy Miller. Dear grandfather of Will Burkhardt, Makenna and Maelyn Miller. Bill graduated from Valley Forge High in 1969. He attended Iowa State for undergraduate and graduated with a degree in Education. Bill also attended Cleveland State where he earned a degree in School Administration. He taught Industrial Arts, coached high school athletics, and was a school administrator at Strongsville High for 37 years. He will be greatly missed. VISITATION SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2021 12PM-4PM at JARDINE FUNERAL HOME, 15822 PEARL RD, STRONGSVILLE. A Memorial Service and interment will be held privately on Monday. The Memorial Service will be live streamed on Monday starting at 10:30AM for those who wish to attend virtually. You can find the live stream through the Strongsville United Methodist Church website, www.strongsvilleumc.org or visit YouTube and type in the search Strongsville United Methodist Church. You will be able to join the live stream 10 minutes prior to the 10:30AM service. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Strongsville High Athletics, 20025 Lunn Rd, Strongsville, OH 44136 Attn: Athletics Dept. – please make checks payable to Strongsville City Schools, Strongsville Historical Society, 13305 Pearl Rd, Strongsville, OH 44136, or Strongsville United Methodist Church, 13500 Royalton Road, Strongsville, Ohio 44136.
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Handheld, wandered around trying to get a better angle on this, but I just couldnt get one, this was the best gap in the rooftops.
I love numbers 1 and 3. You didn't waste that couple of hours, Derek.
The rain didn't help much last night, other than to help reflect the light.
I am loving the fast sharp glass that's available now, compared to what I used to use when I started out.
No 3 for me - well spotted/ taken etc! Also like the green oof lights in the 2nd one as they 'home in' to a focus; are they flare?
A couple of wet hours well spent, nice set. I'm with the herd, My fav is No.3 I also really like No.4 the block of flats disappearing up into the night.


Roopkund is the Trek of Myths and Mysteries.
Roopkund is a famous Glacial Lake with hundereds of Skeltons lying across the lake. Trek to Roopkund is at the top when comes to the conversation between the adventurous trekkers. This is one of the most famous and extra special Trek located in Nanda Devi National Park in the Gharwal region of Himalayan ranges of Uttarakhand/Uttaranchal. Roopkund sits down quietly at the laps of the Trishul Massif at an altitude of almost 16,500 feet.
Trek to Roopkund starts from a small village Lohajung which is situated at an altitude of 7,715 feet. The trek to Roopkund passes through the dense forests and some of the most famous Meadows like Ali Bugyal (Largest Meadow in Asia) and Bedini Bugyal. Trekking on the trail of Roopkund gives the trekkers a chance to trek across the dense forests, over the tree line on the green meadows and finally at the altitudes with no vegitation when approaching the summit.
This is the trek, which is also been trekked by some of the professionsls from National geographic, a documentary titled – Riddles of the Dead – The Skeleton Lake is been published, years ago.
After you arrive in Kathgodam, our representative will pick you up from station and proceed towards Loharjung. From Kathgodam, you will travel through the scenic hilly routes in order to reach your destination. On the way we will pass across some famous places like Kausani, Baijnath. By the evening reach Lohajung and check-in to the guest house. Beforet he dinner, we will do a group briefing about the Trek and all the Do's and Dont's while on this trek. Have a good night sleep as tomorrow onwards the most awaited trek of your's will be starting.
Post breakfast we will start our trek towards Didna village. We will start our trek through a picturesque forest comprising Himalayan Cedar and Oak trees. This trail is a combination of steep ascents and descents. The trail through lovely oak and rhododendron forests is a pleasure for the eyes. We will reach Didna Village by the afternoon for lunch. After Lunch explore the remote yet beautiful village. The stay at Didna will be in a Homestay with understanding of local culture and having local food. After an early dinner we will call of the day.
After having early breakfast breakfast in the morning, we will start our trek towards Bedini Bugyal. Today's trek is very strenuous yet most delightful with some of the best views of the Uttarakhand Himalayas. The trek today will start through thick forests and enters into the first Meadow of the day Ali Bugyal. We will have our pack lunch at Ali Bugyal and after taking some rest over this magnificent grassland, we will start our trek towards Bedini Bugyal. Walking over the high altitude green Meadow with complete tree line below is one of a kind experience. By the evening we will reach to the second Meadow of the day, the Bedini Bugyal. Bedini Bugyal offers breathtaking view of Trishul Peak and Nandaghunti peaks, which you cannot resisit capturing in your camera. Our camp will be set over the Bedni Bugyal. Explore this breathtaking grassland and dissolve in its hypnotizing beauty. After having an early dinner, we will call off the day.
We start our day by 8:00 AM as today's trek is of a short distance which starts with a steep climb followed by a gradual descent to Patarnachuni. The trek will take around 4 hours to complete and by the lunch we will be reaching to Patarnachuni. On a clear day, the view from this trail is very beautiful, one can see the Greater Himalayan ranges from Patanachuni. We will camp at PatarNachauni for the night.
Today the trek starts off with a walk, followed by a steep ascent to Kalu Vinayak Temple and then a gradual descent to Bhagwabhasa. The oxygen level in the air goes down as you climb uphill by the minute, so ascend as slow as possible, to acclimatize better. Just as we finish the climb from Ghora Lotani, we'll reach Kalu Vinayak Temple, where there's a shrine of Lord Ganesh. Bhagwabhasa is 2 km from here, following an easy, gradual descent. There will be snow on this trail. We will reach Bhagwabhasa and camp there. The nights get tremendously cold and windy so it's better if you keep warm clothes in handy. Bhagwabasa is the base camp for the Roopkund Summit.
Today is the summit day for Ropkund. We start the day early at around 4:00 am. We trek uphill for 5 km towards Roopkund, the trek to the summit will take around 3 hours to. Roopkund is at 16,000 feet, we need to climb down 250 feet to reach the edge of the lake. If weather permits, we will trek till Junargali which is another 500 ft above Roopkund. After spending some time at Roopkund, we will start our trek back to Bhagwabasa. We will have early lunch at the campsite, and start the trek towards Bedini Bugyal via Patarnachuni. By late afternoon we will reach Bedini Bugyal.
After having our breakfast, we start our trek to Wan village which will take around 5 hours. The trek is via the meadows of Bedni Bugyal and then by the dense forests and very steep descent over the bootom of the hill to river Neel Ganga. On the way, we will stop to take in the view at Ghairoli Patal, from where we will get astounding views of Mt. Trishul. From Neel Ganga, it is around 45 mins uphill trek to reach Wan village. We will board our vehicle at Wan and drive towards Lohajung after successful Roopkund trek. The drive to Lohajung will take around 30 min.
1. What is Roopkund and where is it Located ?
- Roopkund is a high altitude glacial lake in the Uttarakhand Himalayas.It is situated in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand.
2. What is the best time to go to Roopkund ?
- Roopkund trek is done only for 4 months throughout the year. If you want to experience snow and do on high difficulty then May and June are the best months for this trek. If you want to see skeltons and do the trek in slightly easy way then September and October are the best months for this trek.
3. From where does the trek starts and How difficult is this trek?
- Trek to Roopkund starts from a small village called Lohajung. THe trek to Roopkund is of Difficult gradient and in May and June the trek is the most difficult in level. Due to unpredictable weather in the higher altitudes sometimes the trek becomes challenging.
4. What kind of fitness level is required for this trek ?
- Roopkund trek require good fitness level, and anyone planning for this trek should start with normal cardio exercise at least 1 month prioor to trek start.
5. Do i need to worry about altitude sickness ?
- As we will trekking mostly in the higher altitudes above the tree line, altitude sickness can be a problem. Our team carries complete first aid kit along with supplimetal oxygen and oximeter to take each day's oxygen level reading. However, it is always advisable to keep your body hydrated by drinking atleast 5-6 ltrs of water everyday.
6. How will we travel from Kathgodam to Lohajung, and is my transport cost included in the trek cost ?
- The complete group will travel together from Kathgodam to Lohajung and back by a sumo/bolero. The transport cost from Kathgodam to Lohajung and back to Kathgodam is included in the Trek cost.
7. What is the group size for this Trek ?
- The group sizes varies from 8-12 people per group.
8. What is the trekking distance on each day ?
- The trekking distance varies on each day. On an average we will be trekking around 8 - 10 KM. THe average time taken will be around 5-6 Hrs on each Day. The trek on each day passes through some of the best meadows and views of the HImalayan Ranges.
9. Do i require Trekking Shoes for this trek ?
- Yes, good trekking shoes are recommended for this trek.
10. What type of accommodation will be provided on each day ?
- The accommodation on each day will be in Dome Tents. Complete camping equipments are carried along with the group on each day.
11. How are the sanitation facilities in the camping sites ?
- We pitch toilet tents in each camping site.
12. What kind of food will we get while on trek ?
- We proide with High Nutrition food to all the trekkers. Our Food Menu consists of Veg//Egg meals.
13. What kind of clothing i require for this trek and what all things i need to carry for this trek ?
14. Can i get a porter to carry my Bag ?
- You can get a porter to carry your bag, there is per day fee assosciated with it which we will let you know at Lohajung.


About 2/2: … The article came out, and led to an unexpected partnership. Levitt and Dubner wrote Freakonomics, a book about cheating teachers, bizarre baby names, self-dealing Realtors, and crack-selling mama's boys.
They figured it would sell about 80 copies. Instead, it took up long-term residency on the Times best-seller list, and went on to sell more than 4 million copies in 35 languages. Then they wrote SuperFreakonomics. It also became a worldwide best-seller. A lot of other stuff happened, too. A blog. A documentary film. Jon Stewart and Beauty and the Geek! Lectures. A pair of pants. A radio show. Not bad for a partnership born of such profound reluctance.
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Our Redeemer Lutheran Church
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Puerto Rico Mission Trip
Join us this Sunday at 9:15 a.m., in the Old Sanctuary, to hear about
the work done during our Puerto Rico Mission Trip.
Our Redeemer is sending 8 people to Mayaguez, Puerto Rico from April 14 to 20, 2018, a location that was heavily impacted by winds and floods from hurricane Maria last September. They will be working on local home repairs, home visits, repairs to a local men's drug rehab home, and ministry at the men's home. If you are interested in helping to fund this trip (cost is over $1,000. per person) a collection bottle is in the narthex, and a door offering will be taken on March 24-25. The group is also asking for a prayer support team to keep the team in prayer as they prepare for the trip and during their stay in Puerto Rico. If you would like to be a part of this team please sign up in the narthex. Thank you!
Please check back for updates and opportunities to help support this mission.
Fundraising Update - 2/20/18
Thank you to all who attended the showing of the movie "The Case For Christ" last Sunday. Women's Ministry raised $220 for the Mission Trip to Puerto Rico thanks to your generous donations. If anyone is interested in watching the movie it is now available in the church library!
Thank you to everyone who attended our Euchre tournament to raise money for our mission trip to Puerto Rico. $836 was raised to go toward the trip. A special thank you to Troy and Joyce Kilpatrick, Art Bucholz, and Klaus and Diana Mabarak for putting the event together!
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Home Border Protecting Our Borders with Border Patrol
Protecting Our Borders with Border Patrol
U.S. immigration laws context for U.S. Border Patrol
The United States Border Patrol is a law enforcement agency with responsibility for controlling the entry of individuals to the U.S. and specifically toward preventing the occurrence of illegal immigration as much as is possible. The U.S. Border Patrol can accordingly be responsible for removing individuals whom it detects attempting to move into the U.S. over the country's borders.
As such, the U.S. Border Patrol exercises oversight over the nation's long and largely unsettled borders with the two neighbors physically contiguous with the nation's main landmass, as comprise Canada and Mexico. Administrative issues have ensured that the specific policy and workload shouldered by the U.S. Border Patrol with regard to those two nations differs to some extent:
U.S. Border Patrol functions in regard to Mexico:
Current social conditions and the past history of the often fraught relationship between the two countries have conspired to ensure that the main emphasis of the U.S. Border Patrol as a federal agency has often been both perceived and experienced as being toward enforcement against the occurrence of illegal immigration from the direction of Mexico.
For one, the high rates of poverty as have commonly been experienced by the population of Mexico, along with the more recently increased rate of violence to which the nation's populace is similarly subject, have combined with the U.S.'s relatively high level of affluence and employment to provide an incentive for border crossings to occur northward, regardless of whether immigration and work visas have actually been granted
by the U.S. government.
Another factor in the difficulty faced by the U.S. Border Patrol consists of the past history of the two countries, as is most dramatically marked by the U.S.'s forcible seizure of a large portion of territory formerly under the control of Mexican authorities in the 19th century.
As a result, links persisted between the Spanish-speaking populations on both sides of the border as additionally acted to encourage greater rates of border crossings than would otherwise be allowed for by the empowered U.S. authorities. As such, the effectiveness of the U.S. Border Patrol in this area has often been questioned.
U.S. Border Patrol functions in regard to Canada
The relatively high affluence of Canada, as comparable to the U.S. and placed far above the levels in quality of life generally attained by the populace of Mexico, has typically ensured a much-reduced numbers of officers assigned by the U.S. Border Patrol in comparison with the similar functions exercised in regard to the U.S.-Mexico border.
Administrative history of the U.S Border Patrol
Along with long-standing practical issues, the U.S. Border Patrol has more recently been affected by the increased concern over national security issues raised by the terrorist attacks committed on U.S. soil on September 11, 2001, and by the associated rise in violent Islamic fundamentalism around the globe. As such, the U.S. Border Patrol was shifted from the oversight of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to the Department of Homeland Security.
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Q: Let A be skew-symmetric, and denote its singular values by $\sigma_1\geq \sigma_2\geq \dots \sigma_n\geq0$. Let A be skew-symmetric, and denote its singular values by $\sigma_1\geq \sigma_2\geq \dots \sigma_n\geq0$. Show that
a) If n is even, then $\sigma_{2k}=\sigma_{2k-1}\geq 0, k= 1,2,\dots n/2.$ If n is odd, then the same relationship holds up to $k=(n-1)/2$ and also $\sigma_n=0$.
b) The eigenvalues $\lambda_j=(-1)^ji\sigma_j$, $j=1,2,\dots,n$.
I know that skew symmetric means $-A=A^T$ and I know that the eigenvalues of a skew-symmetric matrix are either purely imaginary or zero. I am not able to get this though and I have been trying all week...
Thanks for your time.

A: Hint: The singular values of $A$ are the (positive) square roots of the eigenvalues of the matrix $A^TA = -A^2$.  So, if $\lambda$ is an eigenvalue of $A$, then $\sqrt{-\lambda^2} = |\lambda|$ is a singular value.
Because $A$ is real, its complex (i.e. non-real) eigenvalues must come in complex-conjugate pairs.

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The Stories and Music for Adolescent/Young Adult Resilience during Transplant (SMART) study (R01NR008583; U10CA098543; U10CA095861) is an ongoing multi-site Children's Oncology Group randomized clinical trial testing the efficacy of a therapeutic music video intervention for adolescents/young adults (11-24 years of age) with cancer undergoing stem cell transplant. Treatment fidelity strategies from our trial are consistent with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Behavior Change Consortium Treatment Fidelity Workgroup (BCC) recommendations and provide a successful working model for treatment fidelity implementation in a large, multi-site behavioral intervention study. In this paper, we summarize 20 specific treatment fidelity strategies used in the SMART trial and how these strategies correspond with NIH BCC recommendations in five specific areas: (1) study design, (2) training providers, (3) delivery of treatment, (4) receipt of treatment, and (5) enactment of treatment skills. Increased use and reporting of treatment fidelity procedures is essential in advancing the reliability and validity of behavioral intervention research. The SMART trial provides a strong model for the application of fidelity strategies to improve scientific findings and addresses the absence of published literature, illustrating the application of BCC recommendations in behavioral intervention studies.


Lebeau has a breathable, habitable atmosphere and a reasonable amount of surface water. The system supports a population in the hundreds of thousands of sophonts, lacking the industrial base to be completely self-supporting. This is a high technology world with available technology over the standards for Charted Space. It is a member of Zhodani Consulate in the Querion Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector and in the Province of Iadr Nsobl.
Fiashzaikriq has a breathable, habitable atmosphere. The system has a population in the millions of sophonts. This is a high technology world with available technology over the standards for Charted Space. It is a member of Zhodani Consulate in the Querion Subsector of Spinward Marches Sector and in the Province of Iadr Nsobl. This world is an Interface world, with a quarantine inspection facility for all ships.
The Zhodani name for this world is Fiashzaikriq.
Diameter: 8,017 miles (12,800 km).
Government: Technocracy of Zhodani nobles.
The University of Lebeau is famous for its excellent facilities, especially in the departments of Psionic studies and psychology.
Formerly known as Lebeau, Fiashzaikriq is a college planet, containing the largest Zhodani university in the Marches.
Fiashzaikriq has a good quality starport.
Fiashzaikriq possesses a Technology Level of TL–12 or TL-C in Hexadecimal Notation.
Fiashzaikriq has a Feudal Technocracy government.
The planetary government is controlled by the University Council of Governors, a council of 12 nobles, usually of impeccable academic background.
Outside of the university, the population practices simple agriculture and animal husbandry.
The University of Fiashzaikriq is a well rounded learning institution, but since the Collapse its psionic and cultural studies departments have become very important to relations with the Regency. A great many Regency students and academics come here on exchange or sabbatical.
Dave Nilsen. The Regency Sourcebook (Game Designers Workshop, 1995), 40.
Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 44.
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"Before the real battle begins, you will have to reach the wall itself. Choose Legolas and shoot the target on the left side of the grate and build a mechanism from the received cogs (K). Afterwards use Gimli to break the cracked brick on the ground, pick up the crank and connect it with the rest of the machine. After attaching the crank, use the broken chests to build a platform and use it to get onto the wall. The last obstacle can be once again destroyed by Gimli.
During the last wave you will have to throw Gimli at the cracked brick and shoot down two Orcs with Legolas' bow. Unfortunately the wall will be broken and you will an up by its base.
Use Gimli's help to break the cracked brick found on the wall. Build a platform from the received elements, thanks to which you will be able to reach the upper one. Destroy the spears by the wall and build a target from their remains. Time for Legolas: place an arrow in the hole and leaves making it possible for you to reach the bar will appear. Swing on it, jump to the left and push down the boulder which will let you the team reach the top of the wall. Break the cracked brick with Gimli and you will be able to head further to the left, inside the fortress.
You need to give the defenders inside the fortress some time to prepare for the battle. Pick up Gimli and throw him at the broken Uruk-hai shield. Aragorn will be afterwards able to join the fight by jumping across the cracked floor. Defeat the enemies, destroy the ram and reinforce the gate with the LEGO bricks on the ground.
The action will move to the wall above the gate. Controlling Legolas, you will have to show down three ladders - a fourth, bigger one will appear once you do. Use the elf's daggers to destroy both hooks and unhook it from the wall. Use the remaining pieces to build a floor and push down the chest. There, after switching to Aragorn or Gimli you have to build a platform and use it the reach the rope which can be used to climb the castle.
The gate has fallen - time to face Saruman's forces. You control King Theoden and you have to kill as many Uruk-hai as possible while collecting studs as well. You can also admire the views:) It's the last stage of Helm's Deep defense.
This time you need to reach the gates of Isengard - Saruman's seat. On your you can buy missing characters (I'd recommend the Berserker who you will be able to use mithril bricks and gain more treasures). Unfortunately, after the battle of Helm's Deep, Saruman's gaze will be pointed here and therefore blocks your path. However every cloud has a silver lining - thanks to this you can switch to the group of Hobbits and enter Osgiliath, which you should do now.


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Entire east side of country obscured by tv weather forecaster
December 21, 2016 Weird
"Stop standing in front of East Iceland, dear weather forecasters"
Some Icelanders are so tired of a tv weather forecaster blocking their home that they created a Facebook group called "Stop standing in front of East Iceland, dear weather forecasters".
"Scattered suit and white shirt east the next day," predicted one viewer after another frustrating weather forecast above.
A Back-to-basics solution was suggested to deal with the issue:
Or perhaps a Weather forecaster dressed in green:
"You'd hardly know it's cold by the way they dress"
Iceland isn't alone in vexing tv weather forecasters. This arrow pointing out Ireland on the national Irish tv station caused a bit of a furor.
One viewer was particularly mortified over it as he had relatives from abroad visiting.
At this stage I have to ask…. What is the story with the labelling of Ireland on weather maps on the weather forecast on rte?? Why after all these years do people suddenly think that we have become a nation of morons who don't know what our country looks like???! Is this an RTE thing or a Met Eireann thing? Either way, it's absolutely ridiculous and rather embarrassing! I had English relatives staying with me last week and they were in stitches at the thought that we needed to have our country pointed out to us. I'm sure there's some genius behind this but I can tell you I have yet to meet someone who doesn't think it's stupid!
Other Irish complaints have included weather forecasters who are simply too glamorous. A perceived Dublin bias had one complainant claiming Dubliners should have to "pay for their own rubbish forecast themselves".
Here's the classic response from the "too glamour-oriented" weather forecaster:
@AideenFinnegan Cripes! I try really hard not to be glamorous. I'm not brushing my hair next time. See how they like that.
— Joanna Donnelly (@JoannaDonnellyL) December 1, 2016
"I had to quickly jump ship"
Earlier this month, BBC Radio 4 weather forecaster Tomasz Schafernaker had to leave his live broadcast of the shipping forecast to be sick. This is the first time that a presenter has failed to finish a broadcast in 91 years. During the broadcast, which went out at 5.20am, he could be heard saying: "Mull of Kyntyre to Cape Wrath southerly or southerly five or four… excuse me…"
The BBC South-East weather presenter took to Twitter a few hours later to let everyone know he was doing okay, confirming he had to step away to be sick. It's been speculated that Tomasz was suffering a hangover – a likely explanation the morning after the BBC South-East Christmas party.
It's not the first time Schafernaker has been in the spotlight for the wrong reasons:
In 2010, he stuck his middle finger up at a breakfast show presenter without realizing he was on camera at the time.
He once stumbled over his words and forecast a 'muddy sh**e' for the Glastonbury festival when he meant 'muddy site'.
He was forced to apologize in 2007 after referring to the Outer Hebrides in the Western Isles of Scotland as 'nowheresville.'
"watch football naked with my lady and a bottle of wine"
All of this pales before the awesome "Hangover" style exploits of John Bolaris, one-time weather forecaster at Philadelphia Fox affiliate WTXF .
In Miami Beach, he was seduced and drugged (twice) by two European women. Days later, his credit card company called to report he had charged more than $43,000 on alcohol, expensive food and an absurd painting of a woman's head.
Later, the weatherman mentioned to Playboy that one of his favorite pastimes was to 'watch football naked with my lady and a bottle of wine.' He added: 'Then, the next morning, make breakfast for her, turkey Hot Pockets with egg whites in the microwave'. Fox promptly fired him.
In 2015, Bolaris announced that for a mere $500 a month, he was offering a "concierge weather service" that would phone, mail and text clients weather forecasts seven days a week, at the times of their choosing.
For a timeline of his legendary exploits, check here.
Got any other weather forecast gems? Let 'em shine in the comments below.
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Here is the University School vs Somerset Pines recap featuring Five-Star players Vernon Carey, Scottie Barnes & Dudley Blackwell. The game was intense thanks to an active student section! We appreciate you guys. Keep it locked for more videos!


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Munster Fleadh 2019 is the largest provincial Fleadh in Ireland as thousands of musicians, singers, dancers, storytellers and visitors from the six counties of Munster and beyond gather for an annual celebration of our Irish cultural traditions.
Ennis' rich history and culture seeped in Traditional Irish Music, made the Fleadh na Mumhan in July 2018 hugely successful. Proven to be the ideal venue, this amazing festival is returning to the capital town of County Clare.
An action-packed programme of events for the 2019 Munster Fleadh is currently being compiled which will include a wide selection of outdoor entertainment, concerts, céilithe, workshops, sessions, and most importantly the Munster Fleadh competitions where musicians from the six counties of Munster will compete.
For information on the programme of events see the Fleadh Cheoil na Mumhan website.


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Oil Markets Approach Key Point of Recovery
The latest IHS Markit Outlook for Global Oil Market Fundamentals and Prices Through 2021, available Aug. 6, finds that oil markets have returned to relatively stable ground with Brent prices within a narrow $40-$45 per barrel range and could conclusively pass the $50 per barrel mark in the second half of 2021, according to Roger Diwan and the IHS Markit Energy Advisory Service.
The consultancy's Brent price outlook has been revised upward to an average price of $42.35/bbl in 2020 and $49.25/bbl in 2021, higher by $7.09/bbl and $5.25/bbl, respectively, from the outlook in May.
Emerging from the worst of the COVID-19 outbreak, oil markets are now at a delicate pivot point as they transition to phase II of the IHS Markit Three Phases of Oil Markets Recovery.
Roger Diwan, vice president financial services, IHS Markit, explains, "The record cuts set in motion in May and June by Saudi Arabia and its OPEC+ partners played a pivotal role in accelerating the improbable rebalancing of global oil markets. With demand recovering from April lows and after giving markets an extra month to find their footing, these exporters have now moved from managing the immediate surplus of the crisis toward managing the recovery."
Phase II of the recovery, the "just-in-time oil market" phase, is a delicate transition phase in which surplus inventories are worked down in parallel with rising supply as spare supply capacity returns from Vienna Alliance and North American producers.
OPEC+ and the U.S. are bringing back over 4 MMbbld of production in July and August. Meanwhile, the global demand recovery is showing clear signs of plateauing and Chinese crude buying has begun to soften.
Barring a large second wave of COVID-19 cases driving widespread economic shutdowns, IHS Markit expects Brent will stay within a $40-$47/bbl price band on average over the next four quarters.
This stabilization period will make way for the more structural stage of the recovery process, wherein the progressive normalization of demand and OECD commercial stocks allows a return of most spare capacity in Russia and in the key producing countries in the Gulf. This could start as early as the second half of 2021, when Brent prices could conclusively pass $50/bbl.
Diwan concludes, "The recent display of restored harmony among OPEC+ heavyweights Saudi Arabia and Russia illustrates that the strategic debate within the group over price levels and market share has time to run... As long as prices hold in the current range, demand concerns will likely help keep the agreement on course. When prices surpass $50/bbl, potentially lifting capital spending in the United States higher, that is when changes to the tenor of the discussion, and the divergence of interest could start to play out."
SOURCE: The Weekly Propane Newsletter, August 13, 2020. Weekly Propane Newsletter subscribers receive all the latest posted and spot prices from major terminals and refineries around the U.S. delivered to inboxes every week. Receive a center spread of posted prices with hundreds of postings updated each week, along with market analysis, insightful commentary, and much more not found elsewhere.


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Man, since antiquity, has been an inveterate traveller. Only the motivations for travel have changed. In ancient times, the main motivations for travel were trade, pilgrimage and conquest. It is not often realised how extensive among the peoples several thousand years ago. For instance, there was considerable interchange of ideas and knowledge between India and West Asia and the Graeco-Roman civilization.
Travel became the means of acquiring culture in Europe. The tradition of the Grand Tour which started in the 17th century was more firinly established in the 18th and the 19th centuries by the emergence of an affluent mercantile class. After the Second World War, Europe lay in ruins. The Marshall Plan which was introduced by the United States for the revival of the economies of European countries made tourism as one of its planks. It provided large amount of money for the reconstruction of hotels and tourism infrastructure of Western Europe. What was Inore significant was that for the first time tourism was viewed as an engine for economic development. This made the Governments start assuming responsibility for the promotion of tourism.
Three technological inventions have fuelled the growth of travel on a large scale in successive periods. First, the steam engine which made travel by rail and steamship possible before 1914; then the internal combustion engine which popularized travel by automobile in the inter-War years and lastly, the jet propulsion engine which has led to the international tourist explosion of the post-War era.
The Government of India also took note of the new phenomenon of tourism and its economic implications. In 1947, the private sector consisted of a number of hotels and travel agencies in the main cities mainly owned and operated by foreign interests. As it happened in other industries after Independence, the control of many of these hotels passed into the hands of Indian entrepreneurs. At the same time, a number of new indigenously owned and operated travel agencies and hotels started being set up. In the last 50 years, the Indian travel industry has shown remarkable enterprise. Some of the leading Indian hotel groups and travel agencies have branched out overseas and their performance is highly regarded in the international tourism markets. The tourism revolution which started in full measure 50 years ago has not run its course. There are several reasons for taking a long-term optimistic view of tourism. First, the increase in leisure time in industrialized societies; paid holidays which were introduced as a social welfare measure have now become an accepted feature not only in industrialized countries but also in many developing countries. The length of paid holidays has increased. The working week, both in public and private sectors, has come down to 40 hours, spread over 5 days. Evidently Governments will have to concern themselves with the quality of use of leisure. Tourism has become a preeminent form of recreation for the younger people. This is reflected in the increase in travel in the age group of 18 to 25 years. Second, the rise in literacy and educational standards. Third, better health care has made it possible for retired persons, above 60 years, to undertake travel for pleasure. Fourth, the increase in discretionary incomes in real terms in the last twenty years, partly due to two income families with fewer children. Tourism is highly susceptible to income elasticity. Many research studies have established that increase in income level in rcal terms results in increase in propensity for travel. And lastly, taking a vacation, generally twice a year, has become a way of life in modern societies.
(a) What, according to the author, were the main motivations for travel in ancient times?
(b) What was the state of tourism in Europe and the United States?
(c) What part did technology play in the growth of tourism?
(d) How does the author describe the state of tourism in the post-Independence India?
(e) Why does the author think that there is a bright future for tourisın in modern societies?
The work of a lawyer or a politician must contain in a more delectable form a great deal of the same pleasure that is to be derived from playing bridge. Here, of course, there is not only the exercise of skill but the outwitting of a skilled opponent. Even where this competitive element is absent, however, the performance of difficult seats is agreeable. A man who can do stunts in an aero plane finds the pleasure so great that for the sake of it he is willing to risk his life. I imagine that an able surgeon, in spite of the painful circumstances in which his work is done, derives satisfaction from the exquisite precision of his operations. All skilled work can be pleasurable, provided the skill required is either variable or capable of indefinite improvement. If these conditions are absent, it will cease to be interesting when a man has acquired his maximum skill. A man who runs three-mile races will cease to find pleasure in this occupation when he passes the age at which he can beat his own previous record. Fortunately there is a very considerable amount of work in which now circumstances call for new skill and a man can go on improving, at any rate until he has reached middle age. In some kinds of skilled work, such as politics, for example, it seems that men are at their best between sixty and seventy, the reason being that in such occupations a wide experience of other men is essential. For this reason, successful politicians are apt to be happier at the age of seventy than any other men of equal age. Their only competitors in this respect are the men who are the heads of big businesses.
(i) The older the wine, better it tastes.
(ii) You cannot cross the bridge until you do not come to it.
(iii) He asked me what was my profession.
(iv) Give me a pencil to write.
(v) Netaji is one of the bravest patriot of the country.
(vi) I met an one-eyed beggar in the street.
(vii) The traders dealing with garments are jittery about the impact of GST.
(ix) She does not know cooking, doesn't she?
(x) No sooner the bell rang than the children rushed out of their classrooms.
(i) The quarrel was unnecessary as they were making a_ out of a molehill.
(ii) Let us ring_ the New Year with gaiety.
(iii) The custom of SATI was done away_ during the British period.
(v) I cried myself_ to make him hear.
(i) Bread and butter_ his usual breakfast.
(ii) Some of the protestors were_ by bullets.


"Back then, the disease of loneliness wasn't understood the way it is now.
"If we knew what we were doing, before the epidemic struck, things could have been different. We could have treated the lonely before the sickness overtook them.
The communes we've created to treat the afflicted are really making a difference, I only wish we had known sooner.


To understand Glassell Park, California, it helps to understand the neighborhoods around this Northeast Los Angeles area. They include Atwater Village, Burbank, Eagle Rock, Elysian Valley, Glendale, Mount Washington and Silver Lake. As with many areas in NELA, property values are expected to increase by double digits in the next few years – due to location, the quality of the housing stock and the emergence from a recession that means more people are able to buy homes.
What buyers are looking for in Glassell Park varies. For some, it's new construction on the hilly terrain that defines much of the town. For others it's the classic California Craftsman-style bungalows. Parts of the town abut Rio de Los Angeles State Park and Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
A fixer-upper Craftsman home was recently listed for $300,000, which of course is a steal by Los Angeles standards. The median price (2013) of detached homes in Glassell Park is $531,000. A handful of houses list each year for more than $1 million while un-built lots sell for $50,000 and sometimes less. The median household income skews higher than Los Angeles overall, at $61,000 per year.
With a strong Hispanic and Filipino population, the median age of residents is about 37 years, with 51% of households containing married couples. Half of those homes have children 18 years and younger.
Students in Glassell Park are within the Los Angeles Unified School District, with the Alliance Environmental Science and Technology High School, a charter, a standout institution. Occidental College is close to Gossell Park.
Have you been to Glassell Park? Steve Aranda at 360 Real Estate Group would like to show you this interesting section of Northeast Los Angeles, having represented buyers and sellers in the area for the past 13 years.


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Q: Android browser unable to open web page Hello i am new to android and i written a small app for "Simple web Browser".
but my browser is unable to open the page and it's showing error like no network available(Web Page not available) even wifi is on and normal browser is working on that device.
please check the code below::
SimpleBrowser.java
package com.thenewboston.travis;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.text.Editable;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.webkit.WebView;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;

public class SimpleBrowser extends Activity implements OnClickListener{

    Button bGo,bBack,bForward,bHistory,bRefresh;
    EditText et;
    WebView wb;
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.simplebrowser);

        bGo = (Button)findViewById(R.id.go);
        bBack = (Button)findViewById(R.id.bBack);
        bForward = (Button)findViewById(R.id.bForward);
        bHistory = (Button)findViewById(R.id.bHistory);
        bRefresh = (Button)findViewById(R.id.bRefresh);
        et = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.editAddress);
        wb = (WebView)findViewById(R.id.webView);
        wb.setWebViewClient(new ourViewClient());

        bGo.setOnClickListener(this);
        bBack.setOnClickListener(this);
        bForward.setOnClickListener(this);
        bHistory.setOnClickListener(this);
        bRefresh.setOnClickListener(this);

        //wb.loadUrl("http://www.gmail.com");

    }
    @Override
    public void onClick(View arg0) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        switch(arg0.getId())
        {
        case R.id.go:
            String website = et.getText().toString();
            wb.loadUrl(website);
            break;
        case R.id.bBack:
            if(wb.canGoBack())
            wb.goBack();

            break;
        case R.id.bForward:
            if(wb.canGoForward())
            wb.goForward();
            break;
        case R.id.bHistory:
            wb.clearHistory();

            break;
        case R.id.bRefresh:
            wb.reload();

            break;

        }

    }

}

ourViewClient.java
package com.thenewboston.travis;

import android.webkit.WebView;
import android.webkit.WebViewClient;

public class ourViewClient extends WebViewClient {

    @Override
    public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        view.loadUrl(url);
        return true;
    }

}

and ....
Manifest.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.thenewboston.travis"
    android:versionCode="1"
    android:versionName="1.0" >

    <uses-sdk
    android:minSdkVersion="10"
    android:targetSdkVersion="17" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.SET_WALLPAPER"/>
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WAKE_LOCK"/>
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>

    <application
    android:allowBackup="true"
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
    android:label="KCRaju"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme">
    <activity
        android:name="com.thenewboston.travis.Splash"
        android:label="KCRaju"
        android:screenOrientation="portrait" >
        <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>
    <activity
        android:name=".StartingPoint"
        android:label="KCRaju" >
        <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="com.thenewboston.travis.STARTINGPOINT" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>
    <activity
        android:name=".Menu"
        android:label="KCRaju" >
        <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="com.thenewboston.travis.MENU" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>
     <activity
        android:name=".prefs"
        android:label="KCRaju" >
        <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="com.thenewboston.travis.prefs" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>
    <activity
        android:name=".About"
        android:label="KCRaju"
        android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Dialog" >
        <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="com.thenewboston.travis.About" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />

        </intent-filter>
    </activity>
        <activity android:name=".TextPlay" android:label="@string/app_name" >
    </activity>
        <activity android:name=".Email" android:label="@string/app_name" >
    </activity>
         <activity android:name=".Camera" android:label="@string/app_name" android:screenOrientation="portrait" >
    </activity>
     <activity android:name=".Data" android:label="@string/app_name" android:screenOrientation="portrait" >
    </activity>
    <activity android:name=".GFX" android:label="@string/app_name" android:screenOrientation="portrait" >
    </activity>
    <activity android:name=".GFXSurface" android:label="@string/app_name" android:screenOrientation="portrait" >
    </activity>
    <activity android:name=".SoundStuff" android:label="@string/app_name" android:screenOrientation="portrait" >
    </activity>
    <activity android:name=".Slider" android:label="@string/app_name" android:screenOrientation="portrait" >
    </activity>
    <activity android:name=".Memory" android:label="@string/app_name" android:screenOrientation="portrait" >
    </activity>
    <activity android:name=".OpenedClass" android:label="@string/app_name" android:screenOrientation="portrait" >
    </activity>
    <activity android:name=".Tabs" android:label="@string/app_name" android:screenOrientation="portrait" >
    </activity>
    <activity android:name=".SimpleBrowser" android:label="@string/app_name" android:screenOrientation="portrait" >
    </activity>
    </application>

</manifest>

A: We need to provide url with https as suffix to loadUrl

A: In your code :
wb.loadUrl(website);

What you passed website.check the string  it is valid website.Copyt the string and paste in android phone's browser then check it is display or not


Hand-lettering and calligraphy are like candy to me - fun, sweet, pretty things that I love to indulge in. A friend of a friend recently commissioned me to write a poem in calligraphy for her son's graduation present.
Since I wasn't sure exactly what she wanted, and I was feeling a little rusty, I did a couple of warm-ups before hitting the final version.


Buying the used phone can be the trickiest thing. Although there are several ways to get the used iPhones but it is not easy to trust on them. As there are several different models of iPhone are available in the market i.e., from 2G to 4G. People find the used iPhone best as compared to the other new iPhones because they can get the latest version in the same money, which is required to buy a newer version. For example, if someone wants to buy the new iPhone 6 and in the same money, he/she can get the used iPhone 7, so it is always better to have the good features in very less amount.
As iPhones are much costlier as compared to the other Android phones, people cherish the phone and keep the iPhone safe as compared to the other phones. So, one can get the used iPhone in a good condition. There are several online websites available, which deals in the used iPhone. Here are certain things, which one should check before reaching at the final decision.
The most important question which one need to ask the seller why they are selling the phone and after they give the reason for your question, check it on your own basis. Do not forget to ask that the phone is in warranty period or not. Always ask for the pictures of whole phone and one can ask for the more pictures until they get satisfied. The pictures are needed so as to check the screen, scratches or any serious damage. These all things are necessary to check before handing over the cash to the seller.
After buying the phone, if you are unhappy then you need to sell the phone again. So ask from the dealer that they have return policy or not. Most of the online sellers have the return policy so it is better to check them before buying the used iPhone and avoid the problems in the future.


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CSU students selected for NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
By Joe Giordano
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship recipients from CSU: (top left to right) Collin Brehmer, Morgan Crump, Daniel Dominguez, Kayl Ecton, (bottom left to right) Leidy Hooker, Darcy Hunstiger, Blythe Johnston and Andrew Paton. Winner Nicolas Matallana-Mejia is not pictured.
The National Science Foundation recently awarded one of the country's top STEM fellowships to seven Colorado State University graduate students and two recent graduates.
The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports high-performing graduate students who are pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees in areas such as science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
The nine CSU fellowship recipients include Collin Brehmer, Morgan Crump, Daniel Dominguez, Kayl Ecton, Leidy Hooker, Darcy Hunstiger, Blythe Johnston, Nicolas Matallana-Mejia and Andrew Paton.
The five-year fellowship includes three years of financial support, including an annual stipend of $34,000 and a cost-of-education allowance of $12,000 to the institution. Since 2016, the NSF has awarded 41 Graduate Research Fellowships to CSU students.
The CSU Graduate School, the Office for Scholarship and Fellowship Advising, and the Office for Undergraduate Research and Artistry played a key role in the process.
"This is a prestigious fellowship for an exceptional group of scholars, and I congratulate all of them," said Mary Stromberger, dean of the Graduate School and vice provost for graduate affairs. "We look forward to each student pursuing their graduate studies and to the impact they will make both in the STEM disciplines and to society."
NSF Graduate Research Fellows from CSU
Collin Brehmer
Morgan Crump
Graduated with degree in Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology
Daniel Dominguez
Graduated with degree in Watershed Science
Kayl Ecton
Leidy Hooker
Darcy Hunstiger
Blythe Johnston
Nicolas Matallana-Mejia
Andrew Paton
As the oldest graduate fellowship of its kind, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program was developed to promote diversity in science and engineering in the United States.
Since 1952, the NSF has funded more than 50,000 Graduate Research Fellowships, with 42 fellows going on to become Nobel laureates and more than 450 becoming members of the National Academy of Sciences.
Johnston, who studies civil engineering in the Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering, discovered her passion while working with the Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning at CSU. The experience allowed her to understand how her passions for engineering and community action can complement each other.
"I see an exciting path forward in my career in which my diverging interests are an asset and not an impending dilemma," she said. "This award grants me increased autonomy in pursuit of my academic interests, which is such an incredible gift."
Ecton, who studies microbial biology in the College of Natural Sciences, hopes to be a physician-scientist and bridge the gaps between science and medicine. She said she would like to keep one foot in academia and take her graduate training in mentorship and research and disseminate it to the public.
At CSU, she studies how diet affects the trillions of bacteria living in the gut, known as the microbiota, and how a flux or change in these populations influences the progression of cardiovascular disease and obesity.
"I applied [for the NSF Fellowship] without success in 2020. So being a recipient this year is a testament to the biggest lesson in research: try and fail — but try again," Ecton said. "It is such an honor. Winning this award gives me renewed hope to work for a better future and to solve previously unsolved problems."
Like Ecton, Hooker, who is in the College of Natural Sciences studying chemistry, is honored to be named a fellow.
Hooker said her dive into chemistry as an undergraduate didn't come naturally, but she put in the time and effort and took advantage of a variety of research opportunities that cultivated a passion for organic chemistry methodology."
"What continues to drive me is the pursuit of a deeper understanding and knowledge," she said. "Upon graduating, I plan to continue my education into a postdoc position and then seek an academic position at an R1 university. I hope to promote STEM outreach in rural and tribal communities while encouraging students to continue their own pursuit of knowledge."
Students interested in applying for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program should contact Mary Swanson at mary.swanson@colostate.edu.
NSF Graduate Research Honorable Mentions
Nine CSU student received Honorable Mentions from the National Science Foundation. This significant national academic achievement provides access to XSEDE, a cyber portal that scientists can use to interactively share computing resources, data and expertise.
Rachelle Austin
Taylor Bobowski
Elizabeth Marie Ellis
Darby Lynn Gilfillan
Microbiology, Immunology, Pathology
Elizabeth Sally Lawler
Anna Elizabeth Marshall
Hillary My Ha Nguyen
Rachael L. Nickerson
Ecosystem Sustainability
Rosalyn Stoa
College of Agricultural SciencesCollege of Natural SciencesCollege of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical SciencesGraduate SchoolOffice for scholarship and fellowship advisingScholarshipsWalter Scott Jr College of EngineeringWarner College of Natural Resources
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Tuvalu Balance of payments Stats
Grants, excluding technical cooperation > BoP, current US$: Grants, excluding technical cooperation (BoP, current US$). Grants are defined as legally binding commitments that obligate a specific value of funds available for disbursement for which there is no repayment requirement. Data are in current U.S. dollars.
Grants, excluding technical cooperation > BoP, current US$ per capita: Grants, excluding technical cooperation (BoP, current US$). Grants are defined as legally binding commitments that obligate a specific value of funds available for disbursement for which there is no repayment requirement. Data are in current U.S. dollars. Figures expressed per capita for the same year.
Grants, excluding technical cooperation > BoP, current US$, % of GDP: Grants, excluding technical cooperation (BoP, current US$). Grants are defined as legally binding commitments that obligate a specific value of funds available for disbursement for which there is no repayment requirement. Data are in current U.S. dollars. Figures expressed as a proportion of GDP for the same year
Select year 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Grants, excluding technical cooperation > BoP, current US$ $36.95 million 2011 120th out of 138
Grants, excluding technical cooperation > BoP, current US$ per capita $3,753.56 2011 1st out of 138
Grants, excluding technical cooperation > BoP, current US$, % of GDP 103.2% 2011 1st out of 131
SOURCES: World Bank, International Debt Statistics; World Bank, International Debt Statistics. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; World Bank, International Debt Statistics. GDP figures sourced from World Bank national accounts data, and OECD National Accounts data files.
Tuvalu Economy > Trade > Balance of payments Profiles (Subcategories)
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16 of the top 20 most developed countries all speak Germanic languages.


Kappa Sigma's pledge education process involves cultivating the new member with the basic knowledge necessary to understand the Fraternity's history, founding, growth, leadership structure, and responsibility within the Greek community as a whole.
On a more personal level, the pledge program cultivates time management and personal development skills which become critical throughout college and beyond. In addition, emphasis is placed on the importance of responsibility to one's self in terms of academic, fraternal, and community obligations.
Expect to be immediately involved with community service projects with the chapter brothers, campus organizations and leadership programming, and countless brotherhood and teamwork building activities. The pledge process is 60 days or less at all chapters.
During the pledge period, there are two necessary fees that must be paid to the Headquarters in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Chapter dues may vary. Please ask a current Omicron-Kappa brother.
One of the first aspects a new member sees and hears upon joining Kappa Sigma is the Star and Crescent. This creed is the spoken motto of all Kappa Sigma men and its words reflect the ideals of the Fraternity. Here is the Star and Crescent as found in the Bononia Docet; the manual all pledges receive.


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10 Of The Most Emotional Movie Scenes Of All Time
Casey Chan
Video: Movies are supposed to make you feel something. The best ones can deliver scenes that make you feel all sorts of emotions through the fiction. CineFix cooked up a list of 10 of the most emotional movie scenes of all time — but really, it's a dive that goes so much deeper than that, because it takes a look at all the ways movies deliver all kinds of feelings. Loss, happiness, a sense of longing, glee, victory... feeling emotions like that is why we watch movies in the first place. The video is really long, but man, after watching it you'll want to re-watch so many movies again.


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73% of insomniacs cured after therapy session
In the first study to attempt to treat insomnia in the acute phase, before it becomes chronic, researchers found that almost 3/4 of participants saw improvements in their sleep within three months following a 60-minute cognitive behavioural therapy session. Those transitioning from acute to chronic insomnia are vulnerable to the onset of depression.
People with insomnia report consistent issues with the quality, duration or continuity of their sleep patterns. They may find it difficult to fall asleep, struggle to go back to sleep on waking during the night or wake early which can lead to problems with attention, concentration, mood and memory. Approximately one third of the adult population reports symptoms of insomnia, with 10% suffering from an insomnia disorder.
Forty adults who reported that they had suffered from insomnia for less than three months and who were not currently taking medication to aid their sleep took part. None had previously received cognitive behavioural therapy.
The participants were separated into two groups, each featuring nine males and eleven females. All used sleep diaries to record the quality and duration of their sleep for seven days before treatment and completed the Insomnia Severity Index which measures the nature, severity and impact of insomnia.
One group received treatment of a one-hour one-to-one cognitive behavioural therapy session delivered by Professor Ellis and a self-help pamphlet to read at home. The control group received no additional support.
After treatment there was a significant difference between the group that had received cognitive behavioural therapy and the control group. Within one month of the therapy session, 60% of participants reported improvements in their sleep quality. Within three months, this had increased to 73%.
Tags: depression, health, insomnia, medicine, sleep
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