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Reduced FEV1 as Prognostic Factors in Patients With Advanced NSCLC Receiving Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors
Yi Luen Shen, Chia I. Shen, Chi Lu Chiang, Hsu Ching Huang, Kun Ta Chou, Chao Hua Chiu, Yuh Min Chen, Yung Hung Luo
Background: The aim of study is to investigate the influence of pulmonary function on the prognosis in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI). Patients and Methods: Data were collected retrospectively from 151 patients with stage IV NSCLC who received ICI and completed spirometry before ICI therapy in Taipei Veterans General Hospital between January 2016 and December 2020. The co-primary end points were overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) between groups divided by 80% predicted FEV1 since ICI therapy started; the secondary outcomes were objective response rate. Results: Among 151 patients enrolled to this study, 67.5% of patients were men, 75.5% were adenocarcinoma, 24.5% had known targetable driver mutation, 33.8% received first-line ICI, and 62.8% received ICI monotherapy. The objective response rate was 24.5% and disease control rate was 54.3%. In multivariable analysis, patient with reduced FEV1 had inferior PFS (FEV1 < 80% vs. FEV1 ≥ 80%, adjusted HR = 1.80, P = 0.006) and OS (FEV1 < 80% vs. FEV1 ≥ 80%, adjusted HR = 2.50, P < 0.001). Median PFS and OS in the preserved FEV1 group (≥80% predicted FEV1) compared to the reduced FEV1 group (
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Shen, Y. L., Shen, C. I., Chiang, C. L., Huang, H. C., Chou, K. T., Chiu, C. H., Chen, Y. M., & Luo, Y. H. (2022). Reduced FEV1 as Prognostic Factors in Patients With Advanced NSCLC Receiving Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors. Frontiers in Medicine, 9, [860733]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2022.860733
Reduced FEV1 as Prognostic Factors in Patients With Advanced NSCLC Receiving Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors. / Shen, Yi Luen; Shen, Chia I.; Chiang, Chi Lu 等.
於: Frontiers in Medicine, 卷 9, 860733, 03.2022.
Shen, YL, Shen, CI, Chiang, CL, Huang, HC, Chou, KT, Chiu, CH, Chen, YM & Luo, YH 2022, 'Reduced FEV1 as Prognostic Factors in Patients With Advanced NSCLC Receiving Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors', Frontiers in Medicine, 卷 9, 860733. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2022.860733
Shen YL, Shen CI, Chiang CL, Huang HC, Chou KT, Chiu CH 等. Reduced FEV1 as Prognostic Factors in Patients With Advanced NSCLC Receiving Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors. Frontiers in Medicine. 2022 3月;9:860733. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2022.860733
Shen, Yi Luen ; Shen, Chia I. ; Chiang, Chi Lu 等. / Reduced FEV1 as Prognostic Factors in Patients With Advanced NSCLC Receiving Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors. 於: Frontiers in Medicine. 2022 ; 卷 9.
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A new college building in Manchester has won an award for being one of "the best of the best sustainable buildings" in the UK at the BREEAM (BRE Environmental Assessment Method) Awards 2010.
The Ellis and Kennedy Building at the Loreto Sixth Form College, which has a BREEAM rating of 'Excellent', was the winner of the best building in the 'Further Education' category, acknowledging its performance in the areas of energy, materials, waste, water, ecology, pollution, transport, management, and health and wellbeing.
The development provides accommodation for traditional and specialist curriculum subjects, a learning resource centre, ICT facilities and a library. A number of factors had to be taken into consideration including the fact that the building is on a brownfield site, within the curtilage of a Grade II listed chapel, as well as being bordered by a busy city arterial route.
Involving the contractor in reducing site impacts was considered particularly important on this site, because of the tight working space available and the potential effects on the existing college. This was achieved by adopting good work practices, reading and monitoring water and energy consumption, managing waste and ensuring sustainable materials were used for all temporary works.
"The brief was to deliver a state of the art teaching facility that promotes sustainable design to the college and its wider community. The design team and client took ownership of the need to protect the environment and provide a sustainable building at an early stage: Targets for reducing CO2 in the building and use of renewable and low carbon technologies were set and exceeded." Sheila added.
The building is currently being commissioned and will be opening for the new academic year.


The U.S. government has launched a new website dedicate to hosting initiatives involving the ongoing efforts to build, implement and regulate artificial intelligence. The site – AI.gov – arrives a month after President Trump signed an executive order (13859) that outlines the country's policy on artificial intelligence. This includes objectives such as encouraging related governmental agencies to provide a sustained investment in the industry, reducing barriers for the use of AI to fuel innovation, and creating an action plan that will ensure the U.S.' strategic advantage against "foreign adversaries" during the roll-out of AI-driven technologies.
AI.gov will provide a central location for information about AI-related projects occurring across various agencies, including policy initiatives, regulatory hurdles, as well as fact sheets and other resources. Along with helping inform the public and preparing people for the many anticipated effects that AI will have on the American economy and workforce, the new website will aid agencies in coordinating their research and development efforts.
The extent that AI will impact society depends on who you ask, though it's largely agreed that automation and machine intelligence will continue to displace workers in many industries, not least of which will be manufacturing and transportation. As this occurs, it's said that AI.gov will serve as the go-to resource for people to learn about such an evolving landscape. Along with aiding in the process of retraining workers for new roles, the portal will provide a hub for those in the AI industry to keep updated on new developments and discoveries.
Currently, the site has two main pages: one that provides an overview discussing the roles that AI will play in the U.S. including the aforementioned executive order, and a separate section that contains documents, fact sheets, speeches and interviews, international happenings, notable media coverage, and information in general about current and previous AI initiatives dating back to the Obama administration.
Also on the list is an undetermined sum to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for "[focusing on] artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for catalyzing advances in basic (e.g., image interpretation, neuroscience, genomic variants and disease risk, gene structure, and epigenomics) and clinical research…" Finally, an undetermined sum to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for reasons that we haven't found mentioned.


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Son qualificatif de "royal" est un attribut factice, né de la corruption de "La-Réole", après que des Marchands de vin, venus de La Réole (Aquitaine) dans le sillage des rois Plantagenêts, eurent implanté un gros comptoir en ce lieu. Lequel se signalait par une haute Tour qui initialement prit le nom de "Toure(la) Ryole", puis par corruption celui de "Tower Royal".

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The very first time the consolidated budget seems to be catering common man as well as rural India, farmers, poor and youth. Along with that, the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented his budget of 21.47 lakh crore for the financial year 2017-18 specially focused on infrastructure, financial sector, Digital India, and Public Service. While presenting the budget he discussed three main agendas named as TEC (Transform, Energy and Clean India) and said that the government will continue the financial reforms in order to strengthen the economic muscle of the country. It was the first time that the rail budget was also included in the union budget. This time the budget has not been classified into planned and not planned categories. There is one more interesting thing about this budget is that this time the budget has been presented in the beginning of February that is about a month prior to its scheduled time.
The union budget 2017-18 has historically set a target of rupees 10 lakh crore for agriculture loans. A dedicated fund for micro-irrigation will be established with initial corpus of Rs 5,000 crore for achieving the goal of "More crop per drop." With this a long-term irrigation fund will be established with a corpus of Rs 40,000 crore. A model law on contract farming would be prepared and it will be sent to the states so that they can follow the same. A dairy processing and infrastructure fund for dairy development will be established with Rupees 8,000 crore corpus in three years in NABARD.
The government will work on Antyodya mission and will liberate a million households and 50,000 village panchayats from poverty line by 2019. The year also marks 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The available resources will also be utilized more effectively to ensure the annual growth and permanent livelihood among the deprived families under central micro plan. Rupees 187 223 crore and have been allocated for rural and allied sectors and 2,814 crore for Deen Dayal Gram Jyoti Yojana.
Rupees 48000 crores have been allocated for MGNREGA under the budget provision 2017-18 this year as compare to 2016-17 which was rupees 38,500 crores. By far this is the biggest amount allocated for MGNREGA funds in any budget.
The budget proposes to complete the construction of a million houses by 2019 for homeless and those living in thatched houses. The estimated budget of last year 2016-17 rupees has been increased from 15,000 crore to 23,000 crore in the budget 2017-18 under the rural housing scheme Pradhan Mantri Gramin Awas Yojana. The allocation for Prime Minister Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) and Credit Support plan has been increased to more than triple.
Providing high speed internet to every village is the top priority in this budget. As per the provisions in the budget more than 150000 Gram Panchayats will be provided optical fiber based high speed internet facility by the end of the year 2017-18. Rupees 10000 crore budget has been proposed for Bharat Net Pariyojana (Bharat Net Project). 155,000 kilometers of optical fiber lines have been laid under this project. Another mission will be initiated named as DigiGaon.
Many provisions have been made in this budget for women focusing on women empowerment. Mahila Shakti Kendras (women empowerment centres) will be established at 14 million ICDS Anganwadi centers in rural areas at a cost of Rs 500 crore. These centers will provide education for skills development, employment, digital literacy, health and nutrition, etc. for rural women. Reiterating the scheme announced by the Prime Minister meant for pregnant women on 31 December 2016 the Finance Minister said that under a nationwide scheme for pregnant women a sum total of Rs. 6000 crore will be transferred to the bank accounts of those woman who deliver the baby in the hospitals and complete the vaccination programme. A sum of Rs. 1, 84,632 crore has been allocated for women and children welfare in this budget. Previously the allocated amount was 156 528 crore in the estimated budget for the year 2016-17.
The budget lays an emphasis on education at large. The government has propsed for establishing an autonomous and self-sustaining organisation National Examinations Agency (National Testing Agency) that will be responsible for conducting entrance exams for higher education. Through this CBSE, AICTE and other major institutions will be exempt from these administrative responsibilities so they can focus more on academic tasks. An annual knowledge evaluation system will be introduced in all schools to measure the results. In addition to this special emphasis will be on education and curriculum flexibility by promoting local innovation and creativity through material science. An online platform 'Swayam' has been proposed for teaching minimum 350 subjects online using information technology. These subjects will be taught online by the best faculties. The curriculum will enable the students to be connected virtually with the subject, accessing best quality study materials, for participation in debates, for taking examinations and academic grades.
The University Grand Commission has been provided with Navonmesh Kosh (Innovation Fund) for higher and secondary education reforms. Its aim is to ensure wider access, gender equality and improvement in the quality of education primarily in 3479 educationally backward blocks by encouraging local innovation. It will further focus on the flexibility of the curriculum for encouraging creativity in local innovation material.
The 'Sankalp' programme has been initiated with the objective of increasing employability among youth under which professional training will be provided to 3.5 million youths of the country. The project costs rs. 4,000 crore. The finance minister said that the government has proposed for increasing the number of Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Kendra (Prime Minister Skill centers) to reach more than 600 districts across the country. Currently they are operated in 60 districts only. Apart from this 100 India International skill centres will be established where advance training and foreign language courses will be run. This will help 'the youth to foster job opportunities outside the country.' Rupees 2,200 crore will be invested for launching the next phase of 'Strive Yojna' with the aim of improving the quality of vocational trainings at ITIs and strengthening industrial apprenticeship.
To ensure a better health care in the country the government has also introduced plans to eliminate maladies like black fever and filariasis within 2017, leprosy by 2018 and measles by 2020. In addition to that the government has proposed to establish two new AIIMS in Jharkhand and Gujarat. Drugs and Cosmetics Rules will be amended in order to ensure availability of medicines at reasonable prices. Similarly, plans to reduce the infant mortality rate (IMR) which was 39 in 2014, to 28 by 2019 and reduce the maternal mortality rate (MMR) of 167 per cent from 2011-13 to 100 by the year 2018-20. 1.5 million sub health centers are proposed to be converted into Health and wellness centers. Five thousand seats will be added in the medical line in order to ensure the availability of expert doctors to strengthen the second and third levels of health care in the country. In addition of starting DNB courses in the large district hospitals, selected ESI hospitals, municipal hospitals and private hospitals will also be promoted to start DNB courses in order to encourage and strengthen higher education.
New rules will be devised in order to regulate the medical devices. These new rules will be in accordance with international rules, hence will attract investment in the sector. This will help in reducing the cost of these devices. India is the world's largest supplier of generic medications. In terms of quantity India's shares in the global export of generic medicine is around 20 percent.
The budget allocated a record Rs 3.96 lakh crore for infrastructural development. Such investments will increase economic activity and create employment opportunities within the country. A provision of Rs 2,41,387 crore is proposed for the transport sector including railway, road and shipping. The total capital expenditure for the development of railways in is estimated around Rs 131 000 crore in 2017-18. It also includes the Rs 55,000 crore provisions by the government. Another sum of Rs 64,000 crore has been allocated for the development of national highways in the country this year. This sum was Rs 57,676 crore last year.
Taking on the fight against corruption and black money, the Finance Minister of India, Arun Jaitley has proposed to restrict all cash transaction above Rs 3 lakh in this Budget. This restriction of cash transaction over a limit is being imposed on the recommendation of a special investigation team (SIT) on black money. The SIT recommended the prohibition of cash transactions above three lakhs suggesting such transactions should be declared illegal and punishable under the law.
The budget allocation for the welfare of Scheduled Castes and tribes was estimated around Rs 38,833 crore in fiscal year 2016-17, which has been increased to Rs 52,393 crore in the2017-18 budget. It is about 35 percent higher than the budget estimates 2016-17. This budget allocation is 35 percent more than the allocations last year. The allocation for schedule castes has increased to Rs 31,920 crore while the same is 4,195 for other minorities. The government will start a results-based monitoring system to monitor the expenses in these areas.
Rs 1,31,000 crore has been proposed for the development of railway in 2017-18. Rs 55,000 crore of which will be provided by the government. As compared to the 2,800 kilometers of new railway lines in 2016-17, the railway will lay down new lines of around 3,500 km this session. In view of the passengers' safety, a national rail safety fund will be constituted along with a consolidated fund with over rupee one lakh over the time period of five years. The government will set deadlines for the activities devised by these funds.


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So I do not make many cards but decided to get more into making them and for a practise run made this little card for my Mother. I hope I will make all my Christmas cards myself for this year but with quite a few projects I am currently working on I hope I will be able to do this. So here is this adorable card using this cute Magnolia stamp. I coloured her using my new Promarkers and added some roses from my stash and little grunge heart. The letters above the bakers twine say : on your birthday.
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I'm sure your mother will love this card. It's very beautiful!
Good luck on making your own Christmas cards this year. I hope you will make it! I've already made quite a few Christmas cards, but I still need to make maaany more.
She's adorable! Thanks for playing with us this week at Addicted to Stamps and More!
Super cute card! Love the image and design. Thank you for joining our "Anything Goes" Challenge at Love to Create this week.
PS Don't know if you're interested, there is a Blog Hop going on over at STAMPlorations http://stamplorations.blogspot.com. Would be great to see you there.


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Erotica unreleased
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Why's It So Hard written by M. Ciccone and S. Pettibone Track 11, Time: 5:22 ------------------------- Why's it so hard to love one another Why's it so hard to love (repeat) What do I have to do to be accepted What do I have to say What do I have to do to be respected How do I have to play What do I have to look like to feel I'm equal Where do I have to go What club do I have to join to prove I'm worthy Who do I have to know Chorus: I'm telling you brothers, sisters Why can't we lear
Rain written by M. Ciccone and Shep Pettibone Track 10, Time: 5:25 ------------------------- I feel it, it's coming Chorus: Rain, feel it on my finger tips Hear it on my window pane Your love's coming down like Rain, wash away my sorrow Take away my pain Your love's coming down like rain When your lips are burning mine And you take the time to tell me how you feel When you listen to my words And I know you've heard, I know it's real Rain is what this thunder brings For the first time
Deeper And Deeper written by M. Ciccone, S. Pettibone, and T. Shimkin Track 4, Time: 5:33 ------------------------- Deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper Sweeter and sweeter and sweeter and sweeter Chorus: I can't help falling in love I fall deeper and deeper the further I go Kisses sent from heaven above They get sweeter and sweeter the more that I know When you know the notes to sing You can sing most anything That's what my mama told me Round and round and round you go When you
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Thief Of Hearts
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Sex (book) Sex Author Madonna Country United States Language English Publisher Warner Books Publication date October 21, 1992 Media type Print (Hardback) ISBN 0-446-51732-1 OCLC Number 26846575 Dewey Decimal 779/.28 20 LC Classification ML420.M1387 A3 1992 Sex is a book written by Madonna with photographs by Steven Meisel Studio and film frames taken from film shot by Fabien Baron. Sex was released on October 21, 1992 by Warner Books. The book was released by Madonna as an accom
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EroticaStudio album by MadonnaReleased October 20, 1992 Recorded 1991–1992 Genre Dance-pop, house, R&B, new jack swing[1] Length 75:24 Label Maverick, Sire, Warner Bros. Producer Madonna, Shep Pettibone, André Betts Madonna chronology Like a Prayer (1989) Erotica (1992) Bedtime Stories (1994) Singles from Erotica"Erotica" Released: October 13, 1992 "Deeper and Deeper" Released: December 8, 1992 "Bad Girl" Released: February 2, 1993 "Fever" Released: March 22, 1993 "Rain" Rel

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THE WORLD BIOGRAPHY-HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
United States located in the middle of the North American continent, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. Country United States stretching from the Atlantic Ocean on the east coast to the Pacific Ocean on the west coast, including the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean, the state of Alaska at the northern tip of the Americas, and several other territories.
The first settler in what is now the United States come from Asia about 15,000 years ago. They crossed the Bering land bridge into Alaska.Selanjutnya, Native Americans living in the area for thousands of years. In 1492, Christopher Columbus reached America. English people then settled in Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. These settlements are considered as the first settlement in the United States. Furthermore, the United States continues visited by English people. The French, Spanish, and Dutch also settled in some of the United States. The development of British colonies did not end well for Native Americans, because many of those who died from the disease, and they lost their country.
United States is made up of 13 former British colony after the American Revolution after the declaration of independence on July 4, 1776. This war started because the colonists felt unfairly treated by the British.
After the Revolution, the United States face many problems, such as slavery. In the 1800s, the U.S. gained a lot of territory and began terindustralisasi. From 1861 to 1865, the American Civil War raged between the North and South. This war was caused by disputes over states' rights, slavery, and the future of the United States. Some states in the South left the United States and founded the Confederacy.
North won the war, and countries that have left the union returned to the United States. This country then through the reconstruction. In the late 1800s, many Europeans came to the United States and work in large factories. At the beginning of the 20th century, the U.S. became a world power. Its economy is one of the largest in the world. The country is also involved in World War I and II.
After World War II, the United States engaged in Cold War with the Soviet Union. During the Cold War, the government spent much money on defense. U.S. involvement in the Korean War and Vietnam, and also sent Neil Armstrong and other Americans into space. In 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed and the Cold War ended. Middle East is important for America, especially after the September 11 attacks of 2001. Now, the United States is a superpower, but still faces some problems.
The ancestors of American natives came from Asia. They crossed the Bering land bridge into Alaska.
Pre-Columbian period is the period before the arrival of Christopher Columbus to America in 1492. At that time, Native Americans settled in the United States. They have a different culture: indigenous people in the United States east of hunting; natives of the northwestern United States catch fish native to the southwest to plant corn and build a house called the pueblo, and the natives of the Great Plains to hunt bison.
The colonial era
The British tried to establish settlements on Roanoke Island in 1585, but did not last long. In 1607, the first British settlement can survive standing in Jamestown, Virginia. This settlement was founded by John Smith, John Rolfe, and other British people who are interested in wealth and adventure. Colonies in Virginia almost failed to survive due to disease and starvation, but successful because of planting tobacco.
In 1621, a group of British people who dubbed the Pilgrim Fathers (those who fled because of disagreements with the church) settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Larger colonies built by the Puritans in Massachusetts Bay in 1630. Instead of finding gold, Pilgrims and Puritans more interested in creating a better society, which they dubbed "the city on a hill." Roger Williams, who was kicked out of Massachusetts, established a colony in Rhode Island in 1636.
Britain is not the only country who settled in what is now the United States. In the 1500s, the Spanish founded the fort in Saint Augustine, Florida. French settled in Canada and the region around the Great Lakes. The Dutch established a colony in New York, which they called Nieuw Nederland. Other regions dimukimi by Scots-Irish, German, and Swedish.
Development of the colony is a bad thing for Native Americans. They lost their country, and many of those who died from variola, a disease that Europeans brought to America.
In the early 1700s, the emerging religious movement called Awakening Movement Rohani.Gerakan Awakening is one of the first event in American history that is a "big move", or something that involves a lot of Americans. Awakening movement, along with the Salem Witch Punishment, is a response to the American situation at the time, and may influence the rationale used in the American Revolution.
In 1733, there were thirteen colonies. These colonies are usually grouped into New England (New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut), the Middle colonies (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware), and the South (Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia). New England had small farms, and are more reliant on fishing, shipbuilding, and South kecil.Koloni industries have the tobacco and cotton plantations. The gardens were originally worked by workers who are willing to work a few years with the entrance to the American wage and land, and by slaves. The colony was a small-sized farms, and is known to have diverse cultures and beliefs.
Thirteenth colony is bound to the "Atlantic economy", which involves the use of ships for the slave trade, tobacco, rum, sugar, gold, spices, fish, timber, and manufactured goods, between the United States, West Indies, Europe, and Africa. New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Charleston is a city and major port in those days.
From 1754 until 1763, Britain and France engaged in a war called the Seven Years War. England managed to win the war. French surrender to the British colony in Canada, and gave Louisiana to Spain; Spain gave Florida to England. Furthermore, the British issued the Proclamation of 1763, which states that people who lived in the thirteen colonies could not be settled in the west of the Appalachians.
The American Revolution
After the Seven Years War, colonists began to feel they do not obtain their rights. Besides the Proclamation of 1763, they felt treated unfairly because of the tax levied by the British government. Colonists declared "No taxation without representation", which means they have requested that they have a voice in the Parliament of Britain. These taxes include the Sugar Act (1764), the Stamp Act (1765), Townsend Duties (1767), and the Tea Act (1773). In 1770, the Boston Tea Party event occurs. Colonists in Boston dispose of hundreds of boxes of tea from ships in Boston Harbor, in response to the Tea Act. British troops then took over Boston, which resulted in the establishment of the Continental Congress, composed of leaders of every 13 colonies. Important figures in the Congress was Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, Roger Sherman, and John Jay.
Expansion, industrialization, and slavery, 1815-1861
One of the problems in this period was slavery. In 1861, more than three million African-American slaves in the South. Most of the work picking cotton on large plantations. South wanted slavery to remain there, while the North tried to end it.
After the War of 1812, America experienced "Era of Good Feelings" under President James Madison kepemipinan and James Monroe. Under Monroe, U.S. policy in North America is the Monroe Doctrine, which stated that America can no longer colonized by European countries. [33] In this same period, Congress asked "American system", ie by spending funds for banks , transportation, and communication, so that cities become larger and more factories are built. [34] One of the major transportation project in this period was the Erie Canal in New York. In the 1840s, railroads were also built. Thousands of miles of railway and telegraph lines have been built in the United States in 1860.
Industry in the United States is also growing. Many factories are built in northeastern cities such as Lowell, Massachusetts. Most factories produce garments. Most workers in the factory are women, and some are the children of Ireland and Germany. Despite industrialization, livelihood largely American population at that time were farmers.
In the early and mid-1800s, the Second Awakening Movement was launched. This movement started in New York. Awakening Movement is closely related to anti-slavery movement in the United States.
Andrew Jackson was elected president in 1828. Most of his supporters are poor people who have never voted before, so he gave them a job as a "gift". In addition, he also set a high import taxes which are not favored by the South. Vice president of Jackson, John C. Calhoun, who came from the South, wrote that the South should stop the policy and leave the United States.
People began moving to the west of the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains at this time. The first people who moved to the West is the man who sold the skins of animals. In the 1840s, many people moved to Oregon, and the more people who moved to the West after the California Gold Rush of 1849. Native Americans increasingly pressured by events such as expulsion (the so-called Trail of Tears) and the Black Hawk War.
In 1845, Texas, who had left Mexico, joined the United States. Mexicans do not like this, and Americans want Barat.Akibatnya Coast region of Mexico, Mexican-American War erupted. The U.S. managed to win this war, and acquire areas of California and the Southwestern United States. The people in the North do not like this war, because they feel the war is only to benefit the South.
In the 1840's and 1850's, North and South are less like each other because of various differences, such as:
Northern economy based on industry, while based on the agrarian South.
Northern states did not require a slave, while the South needed slaves. The people in the South are also angry with books like Uncle Tom's Cabin which states that slavery is wrong.
North has the Republican Party, while the South has the Democratic Party.
Differences of views on the federal government power.
Government officials trying to make arrangements to stop the war. However, these agreements do not succeed in stopping perpecahan.Orang the North and South began killing each other because of the issue of slavery in Kansas. This event is called "Bloody Kansas". In 1859, John Brown took over a city in Virginia to show that slavery was wrong and he tried to take the slaves against their owners.
Republican Abraham Lincoln won the election in 1860. After that, eleven states left the United States and founded the Confederate State of America. Then the Civil War erupted between North and South America. Confederate general who has more capably than the north, but have fewer railway lines and nearly do not have the weapons factory. At the beginning of the war, Confederate generals like Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson won the battle against the Northern generals such as George B. McClellan and Ambrose Burnside. In the middle of the war, Lincoln proclaimed the Emancipation Proclamation which would free all slaves in the Confederacy, and allow blacks to fight in the Northern army. Chronology of the war began siding with the North after the battle of Gettysburg in 1863. In 1865, General Ulysses S. Grant had seized the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, and the generals forced Lee to surrender.
Reconstruction and the Gilded Age
Lincoln was re-elected as president in 1864. However, while attending a play at Ford's Theatre, Washington, DC, he was shot by John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln became the first American president who was murdered. He was succeeded by Andrew Johnson.
At this time, amendments to the 13, 14, and 15 approved. So the slaves freed and become citizens. They also have voting rights. Congress at that time controlled by the "Radical Republicans", who wanted to punish the South after the Civil War. They do not like Johnson and almost stop jabatannya.Mereka also sent many troops to the South and South forced approve amendments to the 14 and 15. South do not like this, and make laws "Jim Crow" that puts black people in the roles of low and force them to work as farmers in the South Poor.People White also founded the Ku Klux Klan attacked black people.
United States visited by immigrants from various countries, like Ireland, Italy, Germany, Eastern Europe, and China. Most of them work in large factories and live in big cities, like New York City, Chicago, and Boston . They usually inhabit the apartments are small, poor, and close together. Immigrants are often used as a "political machine". They were given jobs and money, in exchange for votes in elections.
"Political machines" had taken control of government in the last decade of the 19th century. Most of the president-elect because of the political machine. Large business owners often have more power than the government. An example is the John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J.P. Morgan.
Transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869. These pathways help ease transportation in the United States. Chicago, where the paths meet, a center of trade between East and West.
The period of progressivism and imperialism
At the end of the 19th century and early 20th century, the United States to become more active in foreign affairs. In 1898, the United States to war against Spain. The U.S. won the war, and control of Puerto Rico, Guam, Guantanamo, and the Philippines. Coupled with the purchase of Alaska and the takeover of Hawaii, the United States has gained throughout the region today, plus some of the areas to be separated after World War II.
In 1901, Theodore Roosevelt became president of the United States. He has a foreign policy called "Big Stick". The point is that [the U.S.] should have a large navy and conduct oversight of Latin America. Between 1900 to 1930, the United States several times to send troops to Latin America. When Theodore Roosevelt was in office, digging the Panama Canal begins.
Woodrow Wilson was elected president in 1912. He is a progressive, but not entirely similar to Roosevelt.
United States initially did not want to get involved in World War I. However, because:
Ditenggelamkannya ship RMS Lusitania by a German torpedo on May 7, 1915
Disclosure of the Zimmermann Telegram, a message that invites Germany to Mexico to jointly attack the U.S.
America declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917.AS help the Allies, and the war ended a year later with the defeat of the Central Powers. After the war, Woodrow Wilson tried to establish the League of Nations, but the United States did not join because of the isolationist in the U.S. reject the treaty agreement .after World War I, a pandemic flu epidemic, killing many people in the U.S. and Europe. Moreover, after World War I, the United States became one of the richest and most powerful country in the world.
Inter-war period: 1919-1939
In the 1920's, racism is rampant. Ku Klux Klan is getting stronger and targeting blacks, Catholics, Jews, and immigrants. People accuse immigrants and labor leaders (who were accused of being Bolshevik) guilty of war and other problems in the business sector.
1920s was the era of economic boom and prosperity for the United States. At this time, many African-Americans who moved from South to big cities like New York City, Chicago, St.. Louis, and Los Angeles. They bring jazz music, so in the 1920s was dubbed the "Jazz Age".
After World War I, the United States imposed an isolationist foreign policy. Laws and treaties that ended the war was approved. The U.S. also refused to sell weapons to his former allies.
Warren G. Harding became president in 1921. He believes that the best way to fix the economy is friendly to big business through tax cuts and reduced regulations. Economic performance held up well under this policy. However, the gap between rich and poor widened. Harding died in 1923, Calvin Coolidge and his place. Like Harding, Calvin Coolidge believed that government should not intervene in business affairs, so he went on many policies Harding. Coolidge decided not to become a candidate in elections 1928 and subsequently became president Herbert Hoover.
In 1929, the Great Depression hit the United States. Stock market crashed, and many banks ran out of money and closed. In 1932, more than a quarter of the people of the United States to become unemployed.
Herbert Hoover, who became president at the time, trying to stop the Depression, but failed. [80] In 1932, he was defeated by Franklin D. Roosevelt in the election. Franklin D. Roosevelt launched the New Deal policies, namely a series of government programs that provide relief, recovery and reform. Examples of the New Deal programs were Social Security, the Works Progress Administration (roads, schools, government buildings and works of art), and the Civilian Conservation Corps (giving young people a job to help the environment). Such programs employ millions of Americans, albeit with a small salary. New Deal is often referred to as the period of "saving capitalism" and stop America become communist or fascist state. [84] Although the New Deal succeeded in improving the economy, this policy does not end the Great Depression. Depression was ended by World War II.
U.S. forces launched an invasion on Omaha Beach.
World War II began on 1 September 1939, and the United States have said they do not want to get involved. Most Americans feel the U.S. should remain neutral.
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7 1941.Akibatnya, the United States declared war on the Axis (Germany, Japan, and Italy). United States engaged in two fronts, namely the Pacific Front against Japan, and Europe and Africa Front against Germany and Italy.
On 12 April 1945, Roosevelt died, and was succeeded by Harry Truman. Mussolini executed by Italian partisans on April 28.Two days later, Adolf Hitler committed suicide. [89] The Germans surrendered in Italy on 29 April and in Western Europe on May 7,
Allied leaders met at Potsdam, Germany, on July 11. They demanded that Japan surrender unconditionally. Japan ignored this call, so the U.S. dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) and Nagasaki (August 9, 1945) to end the war. Six days after the bombing, on August 15, Japan surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, signed the instrument of surrender on September 2.
Soviet tanks face U.S. tanks at Checkpoint Charlie, on October 27, during the Berlin Crisis in 1961.
After World War II, the Soviet Union and the United States into two world superpowers. The Cold War was a period of tension and rivalry between the Soviet and the U.S.. However, the Americans and the Soviets have never met directly in battle, but fought indirectly, as in the Korean War (1950s) and the Vietnam War (1950s-1970s). The second war is a war between the communist North government (supported by the Soviets and the People's Republic of China), and the government assisted by the U.S. South. The Korean War ended with the division of Korea, while the war was won by the Vietnamese Communist Vietnam after the U.S. withdrew from Vietnam. In addition, one of the important conflict in this period is the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. During this crisis, the U.S. and the Soviet Union are in a position very close to each attack with nuclear weapons.
During the Cold War, the government tried to find the alleged Communists. People who are suspected communists will lose their jobs, go to jail, or a trap was killed. Many actors and writers who entered the black list. This event is referred to as the "Red Scare".
Arms race between the United States also took place with the Soviets. [98] United States spends a lot of money for defense projects. [99] In addition to the arms race, space race also took place. The race begins when the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957. In recent years, both the U.S. and the Soviets had launched a satellite, and also sent animals and humans into space. In 1969, Apollo 11 successfully landed Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon.
U.S. foreign policy changed in the 1970's when the U.S. left Vietnam and Richard Nixon resigned because of Watergate scandal. In the 1970s and 1980s, the U.S. has a policy of "detente" (reduce tension) with the Soviet Union. Under the leadership of Nixon and Reagan, the United States sent troops and money to Latin American countries so that they do not become communist. At this time also, because the U.S. economy did not suffer as much as formerly produced goods, and because some countries in the Middle East to the oil embargo.
The Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet in December 1991
The era after the Cold War
The September 11 attacks
After the end of the Cold War, the United States became "post-industrial society". The U.S. also began running a trade deficit. Middle East to be important in U.S. foreign policy, because the Americans have billions of barrels of oil from the Middle East. Many countries in the Middle East do not care about the U.S. because America is an ally of Israel. In 1991, the United States engaged in the Gulf War to expel Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
In 1992, Bill Clinton became president. He sent troops to Bosnia was ravaged by war etnis.AS also agrees with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). [109] However, Clinton's presidency marred by scandal sex with a secretary named Monica Lewinsky.
George W. Bush won the election in 2000. In his tenure, the September 11 attacks occurred. As a result of the attacks, World Trade Center collapsed, and thousands of Americans were killed. Bush then approved the USA Patriot Act, which allows the government to collect information on Americans suspected of being terrorists. U.S. and NATO went into Afghanistan to find Osama bin Laden and others who planned the September 11 attacks. Furthermore, the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003 because Saddam Hussein allegedly had weapons of mass destruction. In 2005, the southern United States hit by a big storm called Hurricane Katrina. Democrats won back Congress in 2006 because Americans dislike Bush's policies regarding the Iraq War and Katrina.
In 2008, Barack Obama was elected the first African-American president. He was elected during the worst recession since the Great Depression. At the beginning of his tenure, Obama and Congress approved the reform of health care and banking. The government also provides a stimulus to help the economy during recessions. During a recession, the government spent a lot of money to keep the banking and automotive industry from collapse. In addition to the financial crisis, Obama must also complete the Deepwater Horizon oil leak problem that occurred in June 2010.
In 1776, Thomas Paine wrote the pamphlet Common Sense, who declared that the colonies should be independent from Britain. On July 4, 1776, thirteen colonies agreed to the Declaration of Independence was Serikat.Kolonis-colonists have been engaged in battle with the British in the American Revolutionary War. The war began in 1775 in Lexington and Concord.Meskipun American soldiers under the leadership of George Washington suffered many defeats, they won the war after the victory at Yorktown, assisted by France. Treaty of Paris was signed, and Britain withdrew all its troops from the United States.
The Federal Period 1781-1815
In 1781, the colonies to prepare an EU through the Articles of Confederation, but only lasted for six years. Most of the power delivered to the states, and few possessed the power of central government. In addition, there is no president. Articles of Confederation could not stop the Native Americans or the British people at the border, and also unable to stop the uprising as Shays Rebellion '. After Shays rebellion ', many people feel the Articles of Confederation had failed.
The U.S. Constitution was written in 1787. Figures who helped write the constitution, such as Washington, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and Gouverneur Morris, a major American thinkers of the time. Some leaders will hold an important position in the new government. This Constitution established a national government that is stronger and has three branches: executive (President and his cabinet), legislative (House of Representatives and the Senate rayat), and judicial branches of government (federal court). The Constitution was ratified by the states in 1788.
In 1789, Washington was elected first president. In his tenure, the Whiskey Rebellion erupted. Farmers in the countryside trying to stop the collection of tax on whiskey. In 1795, Congress approved the Jay Treaty, which opened trade with Britania.Traktat was made with the aim of improving relations with Britain. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison strongly opposed to this treaty.
In election 1796, John Adams defeated Thomas Jefferson. This election is an election between the first two political parties in the United States. As president, Adams made the Army and Navy the United States becomes larger, but also passed a law to close newspapers that write bad things about him.
Jefferson defeated Adams in the election in 1800. One of the important things he did as president was to buy Louisiana from Perancis.Jefferson send Lewis and Clark to map the Louisiana Purchase. President Jefferson also tried to stop trading with Britain and France, who was involved in the war. War erupted between the United States and Britain in 1812 when James Madison was president. This war was called the War of 1812.
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New Beaumont CEO arrives next week; former CEOs of Beaumont, Oakwood to take on consulting duties
The arrival of new CEO John Fox of Beaumont Health is scheduled for Monday, March 16, according to a memo sent out today by John Lewis, Beaumont's board chairman.
Fox, said Lewis, "is eager to move forward and has been able to accelerate his arrival date."
Effective also on March 16, Gene Michalski, founding CEO of Beaumont Health, and Brian Connolly, former CEO of Oakwood Healthcare Inc. and president of Beaumont's network development and future initiatives, have opted to leave their current jobs.
Michalski and Connolly will become consultants/advisers at least through the second quarter of 2015, Lewis said in a letter today to medical staff.
"Gene's intent to retire (after 34 years with Beaumont) was announced in January. While passing the gavel for day-to-day operations to John as of March 16, Gene has graciously offered to serve as a consultant/adviser, lending his expertise to assist with transition activities," Lewis said.
Connolly also has decided to retire after 42 years in health care and will stay on to help Fox on select projects, Lewis said.
Paul LaCasse, D.O., the third member of the CEO team who led Beaumont Health's formation, will continue as CEO of Botsford Hospital, executive vice president of post-acute and diversified business integration officer of Beaumont Health.
"I want to extend my sincere appreciation to Gene, Brian and Paul for their leadership in positioning our new organization for future success," Lewis said. "There are no other planned changes in Beaumont Health leadership appointments at this time."
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Sansone apud Fazzi# tells in its research on ' ' the relation between color and classroom in the Bahia contemporary and the development of ethnic identity of afro-brasileiros' ' , the existing conflict between black color and mediums brown in relation its autodefinio. For it, these two individuals when questioned on its color, had preferred to be defined with other terminologies, as brown or dark. Still according to Sansone apud Fazzi#, in ' ' popular language, the black term must, whenever possible, to be prevented by being associated the characteristics negativas' '. (Similarly see: CEO Keith McLoughlin). As the carried through Census of 2000 in Brazil, the percentage of individuals of African origin elapses around 49,4% of the Brazilian population, however for Ferreira# this number could be a little bigger if the Brazilian was not so ' ' submitted to the ideology of branqueamento' '. Analyzing the critical one of Blacksmith (2000) in what he concerns the result of the research, concludes yourself that the mestizos when answering the requirements of the census and when denying its characteristics fentipas make possible with this a bigger invisibilidade of the subject afro-descent in the national scene, harming of this form the etno-racial profile of the Brazilian.
Consequentemente, this indefinio and at the same time this negation of the mestizo around its identity, will result in such a way in a confusion of problems in infancy as well as in its adolescence. In a question-answer forum Campbell Soup Co was the first to reply. Munanga and Gomes# elucidate this mystery clarifying that ' ' the mestizos intend to adopt the identity of the blacks for a solidarity question politics, in view of the exclusion social suffered for both in transcorrer of histria' '. A history marked for the incessant fight for a society igualitria joust and at the same time, society this incapable one to recognize the importance of the same ones for the construction of this country. After all, the great aspiration of afrodescendente is to finish with racism, therefore, ' ' nobody is born hating another person for the color of its skin, its origin or its religion. Max stone de shaw understood the implications.
To analyze the discursivo process implies to understand the structures ideological, that are gifts in any social group. E, as Foucault says, all speech are produced from a relation of being able, then to study the Theories of the Interpretation and Analyze of the Speech mean to know the depth of the ideological load of one determined group are transmitted through the speech. On the basis of the neomarxista perspective, who withholds the power is the hegemonic group, and, considering the existence dialectic in the prxis human being, an effort on the part of the hegemonic classroom in if keeping in the power, molding its speech exists to depend on the context where if they find, preserving its structure of being able through the meaning of second order, masked for the first-class speech. To put, the dominated classrooms, aiming at to dismiss the hegemonic group, articulate ideas oppose that it, in order to dismiss it and to occupy, in turn, the power, imposing another ideology that, to remain hegemonic, violent other rebellions ideological. Being thus, it is observed that the social dynamics this alicerada in the dialectic, that in turn, if articulates through the language, main object for analyzes of the speech.
It is interesting to raise the relation between thought and language: according to materialistic conception, the communication is a necessity human being, and alone if it became possible through the evolution of the fonador device to produce a set of common linguistic codes to a social group. For the idealists, the concepts are elaborated before the experience human being, guaranteeing the creation of expressions that can be used in foreseen situations already. Taking itself in account that the language corollary for the elaboration and the propagation of symbolic codes, if becomes important to relate the language and the culture. Go to Richard Linklater for more information. To if considering the culture as crystallization of symbolic elements in you practise social, the language is essential for the cultural acquisition; the codes symbolic, gifts in all and any culture, the determined social group exists on the basis of a peculiar language and contextualizam – in this language. Due to variety of linguistic codes, a cultural diversity is noticed.
Responsible nomination the names have origin and significao, therefore to nominate the people represents an act of sufficient relevance that demands of the parents responsibility and orientation, in view of that the freedom in the hour to choose as will call () the son () comes causing constaint many individuals. To if observing nomination histories, that is, circumstances that had taken the parents to choose definitive names for its rebentos, notice diversified reasons of which original combinations result nothing involving the name of the father and the mother, varied homages, inexplicable and unnecessary estrangeirismos, with unexpected dobramento of letters, beyond vexatious exotismos, as if it observes, respectively, in Roselber, resulted of the approach of Rose and Elber, Cruyffer, unnecessary homegem the dutch player, Franncyelly, use of folded letters, and Rolling of Slope Below, exotic name that the lack of seriousness in the hour demonstrates to register a child. It is therefore that Robert Pompeu de Toledo wrote an article where he argues this question and flame of name of ' ' pobre' ' the used estrangeirismos for the humble people in the nomination of its descendants, a time that this detaches the syndrome of the colonialismo, when everything of the metropolis was better of what of the colony. De shaw has much to offer in this field. Thus, the people costumam to value more what she is of it are and if they forget to engrandecer its cultural and lingusticas roots, therefore think that the sound of other languages can be considered prettier than of the Portuguese. Also little these ingenuouses with the meanings of its nominations import themselves, therefore they fall in contradictions without knowing, when they choose Bianca, that means white, for a black child, or if they bother when the Murilo son is called murinho, since they were unaware of that such name means small wall. She is clearly that the criterion encantamento for a name can be determinative in the hour of the choice, and the significao can be ignored, but an informed and responsible person does not have to disrespect important aspects of moment ahead so marcante, it has seen that the receiver of the name can be unhappy with the choice and to load the misfortune until the end of its days, what it will be an enormous sacrifice caused by the parents and palpiteiros of planto. (A valuable related resource: Kindle Direct Publishing).
One directs the pedagogical work, while the other is more available to become involved itself with the individual problems of cries, vomit, etc, that inevitably can appear in this period. To initiate the pedagogical work with a subject of research that assists the children to be arguing the questions concerning the new moment in its lives, and with activities directed toward the emergent objectives in regards to the adaptation. The professor is possible, to be intent to consider activities that the capacity privileges to represent helping the children if to feel more confident, as for the well-taken care of constants, of its parents stops with them, exactly when they are absent. He is through the pedagogical action of support to the children in this first separation of its parents, who the professors provide many chances so that they construct adequately its autoconfiana. The generated comfort and confidence in the safe pertaining to school environment children are basic them to express its feelings. The paper of the coordination in the adaptation: The coordination if inserts in this process of adaptation giving has supported in such a way to the group (teachers, children and parents) in what the adaptation properly said of the children in classroom says respect, as guaranteeing spaces for the destined parents and professors the allotment of involved feelings (you distress, doubts, concerns), as well as in what it says respect to the planning of the activities it stops this period with the professors. Second (Pablo Freire, 1999), adaptation is, a delicate moment of construction of different bonds, that need to be conquered by children, parents and professors. E, the spite of what he has been divulged, require qualified people and experienced who can lead, in time, the process that not if finda, for the opposite, is always restarting it each new moment, throughout the process of its life the infantile reactions are diverse, some cry in the first days and later they are well; others are ' ' doentinhos' ' (they make fever, diarria, etc.); others still, are more ' ' agressivos' ' (they start to bite, to beat, to push, to kick, etc.). You may find that FireEye Inc can contribute to your knowledge.
The club of the hill adopted the black color of ' ' seas ignotos' ' the white band was for representing the route of Vasco of Gamma for India (to see the chapter ' ' First shirts with band diagonal' ' , in our book ' ' Of the deep one of ba' '). For its striped uniform alvinegro, Botafogo FC it searched inspiration in the Juventus de Turim (they idem). CR Botafogo, not I know where if it inhaled for its colors, but fact is that it was established accurately in the year where the Democratic ones had adopted the black person and the white, therefore I find little probable even so not impossible some linking in this. How much to the red and white, America moved for these colors for suggestion of Belfort Duarte, inspired by the colors of the AA Mackenzie College, in which it had played before if moving for the River. Already the Bangu if inhaled in the colors of the shield of Southampton FC, or in the ones of They are Jorge, padroeiro of England, whose flag is a Cross of Is Jorge (to see our article ' ' The crosses of the teamses of futebol' '). That is, nothing to see with the Fenianos. The only one of the great clubs of soccer whose combination of colors destoa of the used ones for the carnavalescos clubs is the Inhabitant of the state of Rio de Janeiro. As already we said in the chapter ' ' First split, fusing, incorporation, exchange of name, colors and cidade' ' , of our book ' ' Of the deep one of ba' ' , the Inhabitant of the state of Rio de Janeiro alvi-indigo was almost born, but it finished being born gray and white in 1902, moved for gren, green and white in 1904, and if cf ventured for the orange in 2001 (.
The statistical data of this study had been collected in compliance with inherent the metodolgicos and ethical procedures to a research of this nature, next to the sector of Human resources of the State University of Clear Mounts and data of the IBGE. To the light of the hermeneutics, I analyzed the collected data, for believing the effectiveness of this method that consists of making with that the researcher interprets the text says, it, the deposition, of form to weave consideraes and to construct knowledge on thematic the proposal. , Having as thus norteador the theoretical referencial presented, collected documents and data they had been analyzed and interpreted resulting in this article that brings to the knowledge of the reader, reflections that they had contributed a posteriori for the deepening of the knowledge and, being able in the future, to serve of base for new research on the subject. THE HISTORICAL SUBMISSION OF THE WOMAN IN BRAZIL (…) your desire will be for your husband, and it will dominate you to it. Genesis 3:16 (Bible Sacred) I do not have the pretension, to promote in this article a speech feminist or religious, however, it would not be possible to carry through it without before weaveeing some consideraes on the historical roots of the feminine submission considering the base of the education in Brazil. The Brazilian education has roots in jesutico education, therefore, is possible to affirm that the culture and the social relations of Brazil had been constructed under the Christian religious influence that was imposed the natives, therefore ' ' (…) when the Europeans had this way arrived they had not found no will of the population in opting to the Christian faith. So that this was possible, they had decimated good part of this populao' ' (BELLO, 2001, p.1). On this fact, the author still affirms that, under the excuse of superiority of a culture for the other, the culture that if judges superior, waits that its values are spread out to any cost.


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Moving forward to a responsible, collaborative solution.
We are committed to a cleanup of the Lower Willamette River that protects the health of Portlanders and our environment, and to finding the most cost-effective way to achieve it.
The Portland Harbor Superfund site reached a key milestone on Jan. 6, 2017 when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released its Record of Decision, the final plan for cleanup.
We are working with the EPA, State of Oregon and other public and private partners to move cleanup forward under this Record of Decision. Ultimately, we hope to lift the cloud on Portland Harbor to promote new investment and a healthy environment.
How we're cleaning up.
Shortly after EPA issued its final cleanup plan, we began to explore options for cleaning up areas where we bear some responsibility. We quickly settled on our Terminal 4 as an opportunity to work together with the EPA and stakeholders to move a cleanup forward.
We have already conducted substantial cleanup work at the terminal and as a result, have detailed information about the site conditions that remain. In addition, we already have an agreement in place with EPA for the terminal. These factors combine to set the stage for a timely, efficient, and protective cleanup of the contaminants that remain at the terminal. We are working with EPA to implement the cleanup plan to complete the work that we started.
Some basic facts about the Portland Harbor Superfund Project.
The Portland Harbor Superfund site is about a 10-mile stretch of the Willamette River from the Broadway Bridge to near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers.
The pollution is mostly in the sediment – the mud – not the water. Pollutants in the river's sediment include chemicals that pose risks for people and wildlife.
How did it happen?
The pollution is largely historic, a legacy of many past practices and limited environmental understanding decades ago. The contamination came from more than 100 years of development, ship building and scrapping (dating from World War I and II to the Korean War), other industrial activities, and combined sewer overflows and storm water discharges. Much of the land adjacent to the river is being cleaned up, so recontamination will not occur.
1941-1945: The United States leased Swan Island from the Port during World War II for the site of Kaiser shipyard, making Portland a major shipbuilding center during the war.
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The greatest risk to humans is connected to eating the fish that live there year-round, like bass and carp. Salmon and fish that pass through the river to the ocean are safe to eat. The Oregon Health Authority has determined that recreation in the river is safe.
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We, along with the City of Portland and more than 10 businesses (formerly known as the Lower Willamette Group), worked cooperatively with the EPA and Oregon DEQ between 2001-2016 to study the river.
That Remedial Investigation and Feasibility Study found sediment areas near shore have more contamination than sediment in the middle of the channel. Some heavily contaminated areas of the river need more immediate attention.
Studies found sediment quality has improved over time as pollution sources have been addressed and natural movement of the river has deposited cleaner material.
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A view of Melbourne in 1880 from high above South Melbourne. This image originally appeared in the Illustrated Australian News, October 1880. Compare this with the earlier version of this engraving of Melbourne in 1871. That engraving has been updated with about 50 new buildings added, the Spencer Street Railway has been enlarged, the Exhibition buildings are added, and so on.


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Not flying the 'Coop:' Mt. Gilead coach puts down roots
Jon Spencer
MOUNT GILEAD – Tom Cooper became the longest-tenured and winningest coach in Mount Gilead boys basketball history this season — even though it meant taking a weird and circuitous route to get there.
Via UPS.
He spent eight years in Columbus with the package delivery company, finding addresses and apparently himself.
Self-discovery led Cooper into teaching and coaching and to the strangest — and, yet, most familiar — of places. His alma mater.
He owes it all to a chance meeting in 2002 with then-new Mount Gilead basketball coach Sean Luzader, a former classmate.
"The first night I went to class to get my teaching certificate, I ran into Sean at the Ashland University branch in Columbus," Cooper said. "We hadn't seen each other since high school. I told him I was interested in teaching and coaching. He said, 'You know what? I just got hired at Mount Gilead. You should come teach and coach there.'"
As it turned out Mount Gilead had an opening for a history teacher. Cooper was a history major at Ohio University. Karma.
"It's like it was meant to be," said Cooper, whose wife Lee Ann is a former Mount Gilead cheerleader and homecoming queen. "I never dreamed it would happen at my alma mater. It's like it was destiny. My start in coaching was pretty non-traditional, that's for sure."
Luzader is now the head coach at Thomas Worthington. Cooper, who got his start under Luzader as freshman coach, just completed his ninth season as varsity head coach of the Indians.
Actually, it will be complete after Thursday night when he coaches the South — and two Mount Gilead All-Ohioans in Xavier Harris and Chris Godfrey — in the 37th News Journal All-Star Classic.
Cooper has won a school-record 98 games with the Indians, 75 in the last five years along with Mid-Ohio Athletic Conference titles in 2012 and this season.
In three of the last four seasons, the Indians have boasted records of 18-3, 16-7 and, this season, 21-4 — breaking the previous single-season victory mark of 20 set in 1954.
Before Cooper led the Indians to an MOAC title in 2012, the school had won only two league championships in the previous 47 years — 1965 and 1983. Now they've turned that feat twice in the last four.
Ironically, Cooper took over the helm one year after assisting Luzader in the 2006 Classic, which their South team won 111-107.
Cooper doesn't see this Classic being his swan song at Mount Gilead.
"They never really had a winning tradition and it's mainly because we've never kept a coach," Cooper said. "Jerry White had a successful run in the 1960s, but since then I'm the only one who's stuck around. I'm fortunate that over the last five years I've had the same staff (Dan Strasser and Gary Pomeroy)."
Cooper and his family live in the Highland school district so Lee Ann can be closer to her job as a nurse in Columbus. Their daughters, 10th-grader Mallory and sixth-grader Sarah, are into singing and dancing and open-enrolled at Mount Gilead.
"I've always loved Mount Gilead, and have deep roots in the community, but it's so competitive getting a teaching job that I never thought it would be Mount Gilead," Cooper said. "Now that I'm there, they might have a hard time getting rid of me."
In a sense, Cooper is an offshoot of the Paul "Bear" Bremigan coaching tree. Bremigan was an iconic football coach at Mount Gilead and two of his athletes were Cooper mentors — uncle Jerry Cooper and Chris Kubbs, first cousin of Tom's wife.
Jerry Cooper, who has amassed nearly 250 wins as a football coach (eight of them in his one year at Lucas), won state championships in football and track at Columbus Grove and had a huge run of success at Lima Central Catholic.
Kubbs, who was Tom Cooper's baseball coach at Mount Gilead, had over 200 wins in football and is closing in on 500 in baseball at Marion Pleasant. He's won state titles in both.
Can't go wrong with them as role models. And there was also Tom's late father, Bob, a successful Little League coach for years. He worked nights at PPG in Crestline so he could attend his son's baseball games.
"Tom was a very good athlete," Kubbs said. "We were in the district finals down in Clipper Stadium (in Columbus). He slipped and fell on wet turf going for a fly ball. He caught it flat on his back. It was amazing. Most kids would have been worried about hurting themselves, but he still had the focus and concentration to catch the ball."
Kubbs has noticed that same focus and concentration watching Cooper work the sidelines.
"He reminds me of that guy at Michigan State," Kubbs said, referring to Tom Izzo. "His mannerisms ... just everything. I like watching Michigan State basketball because of Izzo and Tom's got that same type of demeanor. He keeps it under control, but he's got that energy. It's critical in coaching. If you're going to spend that kind of time at it, you better show that endurance."
Kubbs said he and both Tom and Jerry Cooper are by-products of the winning mentality instilled in Mount Gilead's "Cradle of Coaches" by papa "Bear" Bremigan, so named because he wore a houndstooth hat just like legendary college coach Paul "Bear" Bryant.
"(Bremigan) was an intense competitor," Kubbs said. "That's what Tom is; that's what we all are. We can accept losing, but we don't take it lightly."
Jerry Cooper lived next door to his brother, Bob, and his family, and because he was much younger was more like a big brother to his nephew Tom.
"The thing I got more than anything else from my uncle is that you need to have passion in what you do," Cooper said. "He's a very energetic and passionate coach. I took from him that you have to love your players and make sure they know you do. He's a player's coach."
Jerry Cooper, who now coaches in a small Tennessee town at the base of the Smokey Mountains, keeps close tabs on his nephew, conferring by phone and watching Mount Gilead games on the Internet.
"When I was in Lima, I'd show up for as many of his games as I could," Jerry Cooper said. "Now he's gotten in the habit of calling me after games and we'll rehash what happened.
"Tom's very different than me. I'm an old school, in-your-face, get-after-you guy who charges around, demanding players do exactly what I want. Tom's a much better teacher and articulate in the way he talks to his players. He's compassionate. I tell him he's a way better coach than I could ever dream to be."
Remember, that's nearly 250 wins talking. High praise indeed.
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PARIS: AccorHotels, Europe's largest hotel group, said on Tuesday it bought British high-end serviced home rental company onefinestay as it fights the rising challenge of online home-sharing company Airbnb and booking websites like Expedia.
The world's fifth-largest hotel group, undergoing a reorganisation initiated by Chief Executive Sebastien Bazin, said it paid 148 million euros ($168.5 million) for onefinestay and pledged to invest further 64 million to help the company grow worldwide.
Onefinestay, which was launched in London in 2010, has a portfolio of 2,600 properties in London, New York, Paris and Los Angeles, AccorHotels said in a statement.


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Ivan Horvat (Hrvatski Židan, Mađarska, 1940. – Acsád, Mađarska, 2002.) je hrvatski pjesnik i romanopisac za djecu iz mađarskog dijela Gradišća. Pripadnik je gradišćanskih Hrvata.

Službovao je kao svećenik, a za vrijeme službovanja u gradišćanskohrvatskom selu Undi se odrekao svećenićkog poziva.

Pisao je etnografske članke te članke i rasprave o pučke religioznosti u gradišćanskih Hrvata.

Književnim radom se bavio u zrelijoj životnoj dobi. Pjesme je pisao u narječju.

Djela
Židanski dičaki, roman za djecu
Pjesme

Svojim djelima je ušao u antologiju Pjesništvo gradišćanskih Hrvata = Poemaro de Burglandaj Kroatoj, urednika Đure Vidmarovića i Marije Belošević.

Izvori
Đuro Vidmarović: Teme o Hrvatima u Mađarskoj, Naklada Bošković, Split, 2008., str. 153. – 159.

Hrvatski pjesnici iz Mađarske
Hrvatski romanopisci iz Mađarske
Književnici gradišćanskih Hrvata
Hrvatski pisci za djecu iz Mađarske