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What Syria Ought to Teach America About Competition with Russia
Aaron Stein
Russia has quite the mess on its hands in Syria and any hope of a clean exit from the country is far-fetched. Moscow has achieved its top-line military objectives in Syria — the defense of the Assad regime — and has shown that it has the resources to intervene in a third-party civil war. However, it has yet to demonstrate a capability to negotiate an end to the war and it is anyone's guess how well Russia will deal with an open-ended insurgency that will surely drag on in parts of Syria. If Washington is serious about engaging in an open-ended competition with Moscow, it is time to think about how to make Russia own the costs of victory by letting them win.
Since President Donald Trump ordered American troops to withdraw from the Turkish-Syrian border in October 2019, the Russian Federation has taken advantage, deploying their forces to locations along the border that the United States had once occupied. The sight of the Russian tricolor flag flying above abandoned U.S. military bases has come to symbolize the ongoing narrative of America's retreat around the world and the rise of Russia in the Middle East. This imagery has fed a narrative in the United States that depicts Russian President Vladimir Putin as some sort of evil genius, running circles around the West, and Russian military police patrols in rural Syria as indicative of Russian regional supremacy and America's regional defeat.
Russia has established itself as a major player in the Middle East, but this is not the result of some brilliant master plan. There are costs associated with Moscow's actions in Syria, but Washington is not seeking to exploit them. Russia has achieved its goals — namely the defense of the Syrian state under Bashar al-Assad — but still faces years of combat to definitively quell the anti-Damascus insurgency. This does not mean Russia is mired in a quagmire. It is not. It also does not mean that Russia has gained nothing from its intervention in Syria. It has. But these gains are on the periphery of American national interests. Russia's acceptance of open-ended and messy political processes can be turned into Washington's advantage, but only if it accepts Moscow's territorial gains in Syria and seeks to impose a cost in ways not currently being considered by officials in charge of American strategy in the Middle East.
At the heart of this is how the United States ought to adapt its thinking about competition with Russia in order to develop (and stick to) a strategy that seeks to reshape how Moscow spends finite resources. This approach is not new. It is derivative of traditional competitive strategy, outlined during the Cold War to frame how the United States should exploit its competitive advantages with the Soviet Union, and to try and shape how Washington would like Moscow to spend money. Syria is not — and never truly has been — a core American priority. There was reason to fight the Islamic State, but the group has been militarily defeated. ISIL is likely to return, either as a localized insurgent movement or a terrorist organization interested in attacking the West (or a combination of both). But when this happens, it should not fundamentally change U.S. strategy with respect to Russia and its pursuit of a policy of long-term competition with large state competitors.
This may seem strange, but the United States has ample incentive to encourage a large Russian military presence in Syria. Washington should realize that any such effort requires money, and a ruble spent on a broken state, or to support even a relatively small Russian presence to quell an insurgency to support a war that Moscow felt compelled to fight because its regional ally is so weak is advantageous for the United States. In an era where both powers are projected to have flat defense budgets, Washington should think creatively about how it would want Moscow to spend resources and then encourage them to do so. At the same time, the United States should evaluate how it sends its own finite resources to then determine how best to engage in long term competition with a capable adversary in areas defined as a core national interest.
Updating Assumptions: Looking Back at Russia's Intervention
The United States overlooked a series of factors that, together, prompted Moscow's military intervention in Syria. Russian-Syrian ties are far more robust than most had thought before the war, and Moscow's gains in the country will have a favorable impact on its naval operations in the Mediterranean and have already yielded many lessons learned for Moscow's ground and air forces. After years of investment, Russia has proved that it has made the investments needed to sustain expeditionary warfare and has made the critical political decision to test these capabilities far from its borders for the first time since the failed Afghanistan war.
Further, once Moscow did militarily intervene, most underestimated Russian military capabilities, focusing on their lack of precision guided munitions as the metric for military performance, with some analysis suggesting that Moscow had signed up for a military quagmire. Russia is not in a military quagmire and its intervention in Syria has been small and highly circumscribed, most likely to avoid the very types of state building boondoggles that have plagued the United States since 9/11 and which the Soviet Union faced in Afghanistan. Instead, Russian actions have featured small numbers of ground forces and overwhelming air power to enable offensive operations — tactics reminiscent of those favored in the United States.
It is important to note that the Russian campaign has not been entirely successful. Instead, Russia has succeeded in its military's core mission: The defense of the Assad regime. However, it is important to note that Russia has been involved in combat operations inside Syria for close to 4.5 years, performed poorly in remote areas far from its main base in Syria's west, and still faces months of fighting in support of the Syrian Arab Army in Idlib. A narrow military victory over the remnants of the insurgents in Idlib is likely to happen this summer, or as part of some nebulous agreement with Turkey. However, once the regime retakes this territory, Moscow will still be faced with ensuring security from a diffuse and radicalized insurgency, marrying these military victories to a political outcome that Russia can live with, and, importantly, convincing the Syrian regime to accept.
On this front, Russia has had less success, largely because it is dependent on consensus between Ankara and Damascus, two hostile actors that share few (if any) interests. Turkey has given support to the armed opposition since 2012 and (in its diplomatic talks with Russia) has assumed a guarantor role for the anti-Assad opposition. Moscow in turn has guaranteed regime security, and is committed to making life so miserable for the opposition that their choices are either to surrender to the regime or face death at the other end of a Russian-made weapon. Still, Turkey and Russia are involved in a political dialogue, dubbed the Astana process, that is now centered in Geneva and focused on finding consensus on changes to the Syrian constitution. However, this process has little hope for success because the two blocks remain fundamentally at odds and the regime has pledged to completely defeat them.
The Russian state may be satisfied with these minimal political gains, believing that its entente with Turkey is a useful outcome to counter the United States, and that a military victory is "good enough" to have deepened Russian influence. This may be true. However, it also of secondary importance for the United States. Syria has been a Russian client for decades and that is not likely to change, nor should Washington anguish over its inability to realize such a change. The United States, too, does not have an incentive to micromanage a poorly run peace process. It does, however, have an incentive to increase the costs for Moscow of its own military victory. Thus, while Russia may have enabled the regime's territorial defeat of an insurgency, there is no escaping that its future management of this failed state will have direct and indirect costs for the Russian government — even if those costs are manageable for Moscow.
Bending the Cost Curve: Calculating Costs and Imposing it on Others
It is this nuance that the United States and its allies should consider, especially when trying to craft an implementable strategy in Syria, and drive thinking about how and where it would be most beneficial for America for Russia to spend finite defense resources. As Michael Kofman and Richard Connolly wrote in these pages, "Measuring military power is fraught with difficulty because it can be so context-driven and scenario-based," but that when analyzing Russian defense spending, as compared to the United States, it is best to use Price Purchasing Parity (PPP). Using this method, both Kofman and Connolly argue that Russia defense spending is more robust than is commonly believed, but also that it has plateaued in recent years because Russia is at the tail end of a procurement cycle and is committed to avoiding the runaway defense costs of the type that bankrupted the Soviet Union.
These twin insights are important mostly because they indicate that Russia will retain the capability to deploy and use force beyond its borders, particularly in areas where its interests are stake. This approach fits nicely with Kofman's description of Russian policy as "raiding," which rests "on deterring the high-end conventional fight and restoring nuclear coercive credibility" to allow for Moscow to intervene in more unpredictable and cost effective ways. To counter such a strategy, the first step requires identifying where Russian interests are most acute and areas where they could consider using force to drive outcomes in its favor. These assumptions should then inform American thinking about which of these potential areas are most critical for U.S. strategic interests — and where to invest in order to shore up areas vulnerable to Russian coercion. This strategy would assign more weight to, say, the Baltic states and Europe, over Syria. It also entails revisiting common U.S. assumptions about its own use of force abroad and considering how any such action could prompt Russian counter escalation in areas where there are competing interests, such as in Libya.
American and European policymakers should also think about how, in an era of flat Russian defense spending, its actions can coerce Russia into spending money in astrategic ways. This approach must also look inward and realize that American defense spending is high, while deficits are large (and growing) because of poor tax policy. This suggests that, in the near-to-medium term, it is almost certain that the U.S. defense budget will be cut, or remain stagnant, even if European defense budgets continue to grow to attend to the poor state of most European militaries.
As a basic measure, one has to ask: Is Syria worth it? And how can one make that determination? The standard counter, of course, is that Syria is a venue to challenge America's regional foe, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and that any American withdrawal would empower a hostile foe. This approach, again, ascribes strategy to a zero-sum game, dependent on denying space to an adversary to measure strategic success. This way of thinking is not strategic at all. Instead, it falls victim to the same mindset that underpins thinking about American options in Syria and whether denying Assad a victory is advantageous for U.S. policy. It is not. Largely because the war in Syria and the "maximum pressure" campaign to economically isolate Iran requires significant investments in the American military presence in the Middle East, all of which decreases the availability of systems and equipment for deployment elsewhere in Europe. It also has secondary costs, all of which contribute to a poor allocation of U.S. resources, as compared to the priorities enumerated in the National Defense Strategy.
This spin, however, does not consider the cumulative cost of American-led wars after 9/11, and how continued military action drives up indirect costs, such as the of military equipment and the deleterious impact that near-constant deployment has had on the entirety of the armed forces. With this in mind, the better way to judge the costs of intervention is to consider how the use of force has contributed to a lack of military readiness, driving up the costs of maintaining current military assets as newer systems come slowly online. Thus, to more accurately measure the cost of intervention, beyond the notional risk of unintended escalation, is to weigh the total costs against a value assigned to a political or military outcome, and then make a determination about whether the use of force makes strategic sense. This debate would, in theory, attach values to American interests, allowing for some metric to be used to more accurately capture the total costs of U.S. military action. This measure could help to enhance the debate before force is used and, importantly, to underscore how elements of the budget are spent in support of such actions.
At the same time, the cost to maintain the Russian armed forces is less than those in the United States, making the comparative cost of small military operations — as is the case for both Moscow and Washington — greater for America, and less for Russia. This cost, then, has to be married to unquantifiable strategic outcomes, which in the Syrian case also favor Moscow because Russia need only provide foreign internal defense (a straightforward task), while the United States is mired in a complicated unconventional warfare campaign. Thus, if one truly stops and thinks about the cost curve, the United States is spending more than Russia when it intervenes, and the outcomes of its intervention are just as murky as those in Moscow. This is a losing proposition for Washington.
Knowing this, it would be better to only commit resources to conflicts where American goals are clear, and where the total costs of action outweigh those of inaction. And, in areas where Russia has intervened, consider whether Moscow's own expenses can be deemed advantageous. There are clear benefits to a large Russian presence in Syria for the United States if one thinks about the total costs of these deployments, as compared to the expected outcome. If, as Kofman and Connolly argue, Russian defense spending is flat, and if Moscow is at the end of an expansionary budgetary cycle, it behooves the West to consider how even a small Russian expenditure in Syria impacts overall military spending. And that the money being spent is allocated to a conflict Moscow has not yet won, and which will require some form of open ended commitment to rebuild the core pillars of the state once major combat is over.
Coercive Diplomacy and Playing the Long Game
This does not mean that Washington stands aside and invites Russia to intervene around the world, or that America plays no role on diplomatic talks surrounding the conflict in Syria. Instead, it should be used to challenge simplistic, zero-sum thinking about regional influence, and whether the fact that Russian troops deploy to places the United States has vacated in Syria is anything more than Moscow taking on a greater burden to police areas in Syria that ISIL was once dominant. This task is not easy. It entails working with antagonistic local actors, and is dependent on expanding military capabilities further east. Russia's decision is not cost-free and, if Moscow remains committed to defending Assad and assuaging its wary neighbor, Turkey, it is not something that can be wound down easily.
The United States, in this regard, shares considerable interests with Europe — and this very basic fact should frame how Washington thinks about coercing Russia. Both Washington and Brussels care more about the residual ISIL threat than does Moscow. The two sides also share an interest in codifying existing arrangements to share information about suspected ISIL members that traveled to the conflict zone, but may now be part of the refugee population in Turkey and are seeking to return to their countries of origin. These synergies, however, are often lost amidst ongoing political dysfunction in Washington. The Trump administration has a tendency to dismiss European concerns, either because they do not care or because they are unwilling to compromise on ancillary American security interests — like Iran policy — which have clouded the Syria debate and undermined efforts to re-allocate resources to deploy in more geo-strategically important locations, like Asia and Europe.
This is a shame because there is, in fact, considerable overlap and avenues for diplomatic engagement. Inside Syria, the United States could try and narrow its goals, focusing only on ISIL, and accepting that the regime will remain in power. This approach would allow for more productive dialogue with Russia, which will eventually inherit indirect responsibility for security in Syria's east. If one accepts this inevitability, it becomes easier to reconcile talks with Russia geared toward preventing the release, or managing the repatriation, of ISIL fighters in some sort of coordinated fashion.
As part of this effort, it would be beneficial to harmonize the American and European positions, before ultimately having to grapple with the future of the Syrian Kurds, whom the United States have partnered with and whose political future remains murky. To truly address this topic, Washington would have to accept that the current political status quo would remain in place, and work to shape the post-conflict outcome in a way that is most beneficial for its partner force.
To truly coerce Russia, the United States would have to offer Moscow some incentives for positive outcomes. The question then is where and how can the United States do this. At a very basic level, the United States has two interests in Syria: The management of the residual ISIL threat and stemming the use and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Russia has hindered these twin efforts, despite maintaining that it also has an interest in counter-terrorism and nonproliferation.
Exploiting Russia's Hypocrisy with Action Is the Best Available Option
The lowest-hanging fruit is to focus, again, on the Assad regime's use of chemical weapons and continued violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). In 2013, as part of a bilateral U.S.-Russian agreement, the Syrian regime agreed to declare its chemical weapons stockpiles and for those stockpiles to then be destroyed. The regime lied when it made its chemical weapons declaration and after efforts were successfully undertaken to destroy its declared stockpiles, it continued to use chemical weapons. Russia has failed to uphold its end of the bargain. This provides the United States with some leverage that it should exploit. The United States should sanction Russian entities that support Syria's chemical weapons delivery systems, which mostly utilize Russian vintage aircraft. Any maintenance support from Russia for these aircraft should be targeted, until such a time that Assad verifiably disarms, per Russia's pledge in 2013 and as outlined in the CWC. Until such time, the sanctions would remain in place, driving up the cost for Russia to support rogue chemical weapons use.
The United States, however, ought to accept the limits of sanctions and realize that coercion depends on a pathway to reward. Russia has been sanctioned many times, but continues to act in Syria and to project power in its near abroad despite sanctions that have negatively impacted their defense industry. The lesson, of course, is that sanctions do not stop a determined actor, even if they do impose some modicum of cost for negative action. Knowing this, the United States has a much more difficult task ahead of it: defining how it would remove sanctions on Russia and what Washington would demand in return. This approach would offer a positive inducement to win concessions on a conflict outside of America's core interests. It also has the advantage of flipping the dynamics in Syria so that the United States had less to lose than Russia. A U.S. concession for a Russian pledge to tackle core priorities, like terrorism and WMD proliferation, costs America very little and shunts the responsibility for outcomes to Moscow. This is the very definition of playing with house money because the expected Russian counter-ask would be to not meddle in Syria, or to cooperate with them on these two issues. The United States can and should explore how to reinvigorate work on WMD nonproliferation. However, Moscow is on the hook for keeping the peace in Syria, including managing the likely an open-ended insurgency.
The United States has the tools to take advantage of Russian missteps in its own wars of choice, but only if it acknowledges that any such competition requires rethinking how outcomes are measured. Washington does not have the power to "deter" Russia in every part of the globe and, if Moscow makes the choice to intervene, the United States has few tools to stop them from acting. This aspect of Russia's raiding policy is effective, but also has the potential to be costly. At its core, brigandry requires constant action for little gain. In Syria, the ultimate prize is assuming greater responsibility for a broken state, rebuilding elements of the state, and remaining embedded with Syrian forces to secure territory taken.
The Russian government's recent emphasis on intervention has yielded some positive results, but the reality in Syria suggests continued combat before transitioning to a more pronounced counter-insurgent campaign, and open-ended negotiations with Turkey on behalf of the last vestiges of the opposition. These talks will not be easy, nor straightforward, and will entail some tradeoffs that will require Russia to deliver the regime. Russia has managed to control the costs and risks associated with its interventions because it has used force in places where it can safely assume that Western pushback will be limited.
Western restraint stems from the facts that Russian actions are outside core areas and that the secondary risks to the Alliance's interests are manageable. Washington and Brussels have also chosen to respond asymmetrically, spending resources to defend Europe rather than to chase Moscow in Syria. This is a valuable lesson, precisely because it breaks free of treating small wars as a zero-sum game, and it should be used as a template for thinking about how best to compete in the future. Ultimately, Washington should consider that even a small Russian financial outlay spent on a faraway war could be beneficial for the United States, precisely because it forces choices on Moscow's future procurement, perhaps making it more costly to purchase increasingly threatening military hardware.
Further, to then account for the gains that Russia has made, the United States should use Moscow's regional raiding to allocate resources towards core national interests in Europe. This approach would necessarily accept that this effort will be open-ended and take time to implement, but would be part of a broader effort to effectively counter Russia's current regional strategy. It is also contingent on taking a longer view of this competition, recognizing that in the near term, the United States has an incentive to try and effectively use resources to its own advantage, as well as try to exploit where Russia may be spending in ways that are less concerning for core American security interests.
Aaron Stein is the Director of the Middle East Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
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Айра́н — кисломолочный напиток на основе тураха, катыка или разновидность кефира у тюркских, балканских, северокавказских, южнокавказских народов.

В разных языках и у разных народов точный смысл названия и технология приготовления немного различаются, но общим является то, что это молочный продукт, получаемый при помощи молочнокислых бактерий. При этом у оседлых народов он жидкий и хорошо утоляет жажду, а у кочевых — густой как жидкая сметана, что очень удобно для хранения и транспортировки. Однако для утоления жажды густой айран требует разбавления водой, молоком или кумысом (разбавленный вариант у кочевников именуется суусаб/чалап/шалап). Имеет разный уровень жирности.

Состав и микробиология
Традиционный айран изготавливается из коровьего молока с добавлением воды и соли. Вместо коровьего иногда используют козье или овечье молоко. Изготавливается закваской болгарской палочки и Streptococcus thermophilus. Айран обычно содержит 94 % воды, 1,2—1,5 % жира, 1,7 % белка и 0,75 % молочной кислоты. Болгарский айран имеет более высокую кислотность, до 1,16 %.
В качестве первоначальной закваски используется сычуг убитого новорождённого телёнка. Для этого сычуг солят и высушивают. После получения айрана становится возможным в дальнейшем использовать в качестве закваски уже изготовленный айран. Айран — напиток низкокалорийный, его калорийность варьируется от 25 до 60 килокалорий на 100 граммов в зависимости от жирности.

Айран у оседлых народов
Особенностью напитка является то, что при его приготовлении катык смешивают с холодной кипячёной водой, родниковой или минеральной водой с добавлением кусочков льда. Наилучшим считается айран, в котором вода составляет не более 1/3, а лёд — чуть меньше 1/10 от общего количества катыка или сузьмы.

Айран у кочевых народов

Айран получают путём заквашивания молока, которое в средние века заливали в пристёгнутый к седлу кожаный бурдюк с закваской, в современном же варианте молоко после добавления закваски ставят в тёплое место. Для утоления голода айран употребляется как еда, а для утоления жажды его смешивают с водой или кумысом, либо просто с молоком. При этом айран промышленного производства имеет несколько более жидкую консистенцию, чем айран, приготавливаемый традиционным (в бурдюке) или «домашним» (дома) способом. Из айрана также вырабатывается продукт сузьма путём удаления сыворотки. Из сузьмы, в свою очередь, добавлением соли и сушкой в тени изготавливается курут.

Айран, катык и чалап/шалап
Если катык у оседлых народов примерно соответствует по консистенции айрану у кочевых, то катык у кочевых народов имеет ещё более густую консистенцию, чем айран, а словом чалап/шалап у кочевых народов именуется разбавленный для питья айран.

Промышленное производство

Первая технология изготовления айрана в промышленных масштабах появилась в СССР в 1970-х годах в форме региональной документации в Ставрополье, Узбекистане, Азербайджане. В 1990-х годах началось промышленное производство тана и айрана. В 1999 году были разработаны общероссийские технические условия на этот продукт. В южных регионах и регионах Северного Кавказа айран производят примерно 10-15 заводов, а в целом по России таких предприятий десятки.

См. также
 Агаран, ак-айран — вариант айрана в туркменской кухне на основе чала
 Тан (напиток)
 Кефир
 Шубат, чал
 Курт (блюдо)
 Чалоп, шалап
 Ласси (напиток)
 Ирьян — казачий вариант айрана из сузьмы
 Турах ()

Примечания

Литература

Кисломолочные напитки
Азербайджанские напитки
Армянские напитки
Башкирская кухня
Болгарские напитки
Восточная кухня
Казахские напитки
Киргизские напитки
Татарская кухня
Турецкие напитки
Узбекские напитки

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The Hampshire Cos. has opened a 104,260-square-foot self storage facility in Millburn, N.J. Extra Space Storage was appointed to manage the property. The Hampshire Cos. currently has 12 self storage developments underway and 14 projects in the planning stage.
Located at 30 Bleeker St., the facility is just off Interstate 78 and provides access to Interstate 287. Additionally, the storage asset is approximately 11 miles from Newark Liberty International Airport and within 20 miles of New York City. The new development occupies 5 acres and comprises a total of 767 storage units, ranging from 25 to 300 square feet. Features of the three-story storage building include climate control and a state-of-the-art security system.
"Continued strong demand for self storage facilities in some of the most densely populated areas along the eastern United States has created an ample opportunity for developers with experience in constructing projects in markets with high barriers to entry," said James Hanson II, president & CEO of The Hampshire Cos., in prepared remarks.
Earlier this month, The Hampshire Cos. opened a 106,500-square-foot self storage facility in Hartford, Conn.


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Amzya (; , Ämzä; , Emśe) is a rural locality (a village) in Balyklykulsky Selsoviet, Aurgazinsky District, Bashkortostan, Russia. The population was 78 as of 2010. There are 5 streets.

Geography
Amzya is located 21 km southwest of Tolbazy (the district's administrative centre) by road. Naumkino is the nearest rural locality.

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Rural localities in Aurgazinsky District


This month I'm sharing stories from my paranormal/horror universe. Today I'm continuing with the one from the last couple weeks, with Sara from "Tim and Sara" and Alec from "The Kindness of Strangers." Schizophrenic Sara has met not-quite-human Alec and fallen in love with him. In this scene, she's taking him home to meet her twin brother.
Sara sat on the couch next to Alec, staring up at him like a dog at its master. I'd never seen her like this, and I didn't like it.
His voice was low, seductive, mocking me. I could see immediately how this would appeal to someone like my sister, and my dislike for him grew into hate.
Not-quite-human Alec loves driving around the country, causing trouble. Tonight he's picked up Brianna at a bar in Indiana and is about to drive her home.
Brianna shivered in the cool night air, and Alec wrapped his arm around her, his nails biting into her flesh. She whimpered at the pain, and he licked his lips.
"This way, my dear," he said as he led her over to a black Corvette, ignoring her slight gasp as she saw what he drove; he was used to that.
Like a gentleman, he opened the door for her, then slammed it shut as soon as she was in. He got in, put the keys in the ignition, and turned to face her.
Alec nodded but offered no explanation.
New month, new Weekend Writing Warriors theme! For June, I'm going to pull from my horror/paranormal universe stories, starting with an excerpt from "Tim and Sara," a short story I published a couple years ago.
In this scene, Tim has gotten them kicked off the bus at a station in the middle of nowhere. They're waiting to catch another bus the next day.
I wake in the middle of the night to a station lobby that's empty, lights off but the parking lot streetlights provide more than enough illumination in here. Sara lies next to me, curled in a ball, hair in her face. I reach over, brush it off and behind her ear. Her face is relaxed as she sleeps, peaceful.
I stretch, return to sleep but I'm awakened by a loud noise. I open my eyes, afraid to move. Sara is in the corner, pleading with someone who may not even be there, stomping her feet, crying. I know I should help her but I'm afraid of her voices, afraid of what they might make her do if they find out I'm listening.
Get a copy of the story to find out what the voices make her do!
Then post a link to your eight sentences blog entry, or join the fun at the Weekend Writing Warriors website. And make sure you get a copy of my short story, "Not My Thing." It's currently free at Smashwords and Barnes and Noble (Amazon is still dragging their feet with the permafree thing, but you can get a Kindle version at Smashwords).
Continuing on with the Viking theme, here's an excerpt from a short story I'm working on, "There Are No Vikings in Montana." Jill has been seeing some weird stuff recently – a chupacabra and a walking tree, among other things – and now she thinks she's seeing a Viking too. She's finally confronted him, and he's informed her the tree is actually a dryad.
"A dryad," I repeated, my tone dripping with disbelief.
Again, his look that implied I was an idiot.
In this story, Laura left her friend's party after seeing her ex with another girl. It started raining as she was walking down the road, and a stranger offered her a ride and a chance to vent. He then gave her a powder that would ensure no one bothered her ex again. Now she's back at the party, looking for her ex.
She grabbed an abandoned cup of beer as she walked and dumped the packet's contents into it. The beer fizzed, turned black, then amber again.
In this story, Laura left her friend's party after seeing her ex with another girl. It started raining as she was walking down the road, and Alec offered her a ride, and a chance to vent. Last week he gave her a powder that would ensure no one bothered her ex again.
Alec let go of her. She massaged her burning skin, and when she looked up, Alec and the car were gone; just Laura, standing on the edge of the road.
She turned, walked with deliberate steps back to the farmhouse. Inside the crowd had disappeared, only her friend Megan left sprawled on the couch.
"Laura, where have you been all night?" Megan asked as she sprung up from the couch.


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Q: Neo4j Multiple server instances Error 401 I am new to neo4j,I just follow the neo4j official  manual:
 install two instances on one machine ,my environment is ubuntu-11.10.I had success start up the neo4j service and entered the websites http://localhost:7474/webadmin/  .But when I tried to  run  the "DELETE /db/data/cleandb/secret-key' command in its http console  .It returned error 401. Any idea about this?

A: Which version of neo4j are you using?
You have to configure two different ports for the two servers. Think you did this.
The clean-db-addon doesn't come out of the box, you have to download it and and copy it in the plugins directory and adjust the neo4j-server.properties config file.
org.neo4j.server.thirdparty_jaxrs_classes=org.neo4j.server.extension.test.delete=/cleandb
org.neo4j.server.thirdparty.delete.key=<please change secret-key>

Then you can call it for each of your servers with:
curl -X DELETE http://localhost:<port>/cleandb/secret-key

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Perl is available with all the Linux shared web hosting that we offer and you will be able to execute any .pl file which you upload within your account with the File Manager of the Control Panel or some FTP program. The latter will allow you to build an Internet site with all the options that you'd like your visitors to have, but PHP cannot provide. You can execute a script either manually or automatically using a cron job. Our packages feature numerous Perl modules that you can employ and you'll see the full list in your website hosting account along with the path which you should use in your scripts, so as to be able to access these modules. If you would like to execute a Perl/CGI script using a cron job but your plan doesn't offer this feature, you'll be able to include as many cron jobs as you need via the Add Upgrades/Services link on the left-hand side of your web hosting Control Panel.
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Deprotonação é um termo em química que refere-se a remoção de um próton (hídron) (íon hidrogênio H+) de uma molécula, formando a base conjugada. A capacidade relativa para uma molécula ceder um próton é medida por uma valor de pKa. Um baixo valor de pKa indica que o composto é ácido e irá facilmente ceder este próton a uma base. O pKa de um composto é determinado por muitas coisas, mas mais significativamente é impactado pela capacidade (ou incapacidade) da base para estabilizar a carga negativa através de ressonância.

Bases usadas para deprotonar dependem da pKa do composto. Onde o próton não é particularmente ácido, e como tal, a molécula não cede este próton facilmente, uma base mais forte que os comumentos conhecidos hidróxidos são requeridos. Hidretos são uns dos muitos tipos de poderosos agentes deprotonadores. Hidretos comuns usados são hidreto de sódio e hidreto de potássio. Estas bases são tão poderosas devido ao hidreto formar hidrogênio na forma de gás quando o próton de outras moléculas é removido. Entretanto, a produção de hidrogênio também significa que deprotonação usando reagentes que liberam hidrogênio é perigosa e tais reações devem ser realizadas sob atmosfera inerte (e.g. nitrogênio) devido a água ser uma fonte de prótons que está presente no ar circundante da reação todo o tempo e pode reagir com o hidreto ao invés da molécula desejada e incendiar o aparato.

Ver também
 Protonação
 Hidrônio
 Constante de dissociação ácida

Reações químicas
Química dos ácidos e bases


Washington - The Obama Justice Department moved Friday to drop all charges against two former pro-Israel lobbyists who had been charged under the Espionage Act with improperly disseminating sensitive information.
The move by the government came in a motion filed with the federal court in Alexandria, Va. which was to be the site of the trial that was scheduled to begin June 2.
The prosecution's case against Steven J. Rosen and Keith Weissman suffered several setbacks in rulings from the trial judge. At the same time, the case was fraught with deep political dimensions, as it raised delicate issue of behind-the-scenes lobbying over Middle East policy and the role played by American Jewish supporters of Israel.
Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weissman, who were lobbyists with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a leading pro-Israel lobby, were charged with violating the World War I-era Espionage Act. The indictment said they violated the law by disseminating to journalists, fellow Aipac employees and Israeli diplomats information they had learned in conversations with senior Bush administration officials.
Judge T.S. Ellis 3d, who was to preside over the trial rejected several government efforts to conceal classified information if the case went to trial. Moreover, he ruled that the government could only prevail if it met a high standard; he said prosecutors would have to demonstrate that Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weissman knew that their distribution of the information would harm U.S. national security.
Over government objections, Judge Ellis said that the defense could call as witnesses several senior Bush administration foreign policy officials to demonstrate that what occurred was part of the ongoing process of information trading and did not involve anything nefarious. The defense lawyers were to call as witnesses Condoleezza Rice, the former secretary of state, Stephen J. Hadley, the former national security advisers and several others. Government policymakers indicated they were clearly uncomfortable with senior officials testifying in open court over policy deliberations.
The investigation of Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weissman also surfaced recently in news reports that Representative Jane Harman, a California Democrat long involved in intelligence matters, was overheard on a government wiretap discussing the case. Ms. Harman was overheard agreeing with an Israeli intelligence operative to try and intercede with Bush administration officials to obtain leniency for Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weissman in exchange for help in persuading Democratic leaders to name her the chairman of the House intelligence Committee.
Ms. Harman has denied interceding for the Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weissman and objected to her being wiretapped.
I have great respect for the new Attorney General Holder for dropping this case when he realized it was not going to be a viable prosecution. He did the same several weeks ago in dropping the charges against Sen Steven for prosecutorial misconduct. Some were too quick to criticize him when he was nominated.
Kudos to AG Holder for doing the right thing -- twice.
Next he should drop charges against former Alabama Gov. Siegelman.
...The Gov't. source/s that revealed the "secret" information to Messrs. Rosen and Weissman should be prosecuted, if anyone is going to be. The moment they received the information it automatically lost its secret status! They were neither Government officials nor did they have "Clearance"! Not that they did the right thing by further revealing the information! But bringing them up on charges will do more harm than good!!!
" Kudos to AG Holder for doing the right thing -- twice.
...I know another Mr. Siegelman who would benefit from charges being dropped by the Attorney General !!!
Not to minimize him, do you really think that he calls the shots? There is much more here then meets the eye; this time for the good.
What idiots those Bush Administration Justice Dept officials were. They go on a political witch hunt, and what does it get them? Now at a time when the Iran crisis is coming to a head they could have used the expertise of Larry Franklin and Rosen/Weissman to deal with it. Instead they have three broken lives, wasted government resources and eggs on their faces. For shame!


Welcome Back To The Blogosphere, Business Law Prof Blog!
A good group of law professors have restarted the business law prof blog - to which we say: welcome back! Here's Bainbridge on the welcome wagon as well. I saw a Honda ad over there, too, so they are pretty likely rich beyond anyone's wildest already.


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Haunted House Facts & Worksheets
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Download the Haunted House Facts & Worksheets
The origins of the haunted house date back to 19th century London when a series of illusions and attractions introduced the public to new forms of gruesome entertainment.
See the fact file below for more information on Haunted Houses or alternatively download our comprehensive worksheet pack to utilise within the classroom or home environment.
In 1802, Marie Tussaud scandalized British audiences with an exhibition of wax sculptures of decapitated French figures. These included King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Marat and Robespierre.
A haunted house is often perceived as being inhabited by disembodied spirits of the dead.
The first documented haunted attraction was the Orton and Spooner Ghost House, in 1915, which was part of the Edwardian Fair in England.
The popularity of haunted houses can be traced all the way back to ancient Egypt.
Along with ancient Greeks and Romans, Egyptians were scaring away evil spirits.
Ghosts, demons and the devil were portrayed throughout the rise of live theater during The Renaissance.
Actors would strap pig's bladders to their bodies that would burst to make it look like they were bleeding.
The creepiest things happen to people living in haunted houses.
Some see a young boy in a bathroom just staring at them.
Some say there are faceless or headless men in haunted houses.
Others hear terrible, bloodcurdling screams.
Some children are able to see other children and actually play with them.
Others feel like something or someone is standing beside them or hiding under the bed.
In other cases, people hear footsteps going up and down the stairs.
Nowadays, haunted houses are very common attractions, especially around Halloween.
Haunted houses have special effects, costumed actors, scary monsters popping out, and a lot more to offer.
Haunted House Worksheets
This bundle contains 11 ready-to-use Haunted House worksheets that are perfect for students who want to learn more about Haunted Houses of which the origins of the haunted house date back to 19th century London when a series of illusions and attractions introduced the public to new forms of gruesome entertainment.
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Why is the whole word method of learning to read so difficult? Students who read whole words as a unit and who have not learned decoding skills must memorize each and every one of the thousands of words they will eventually need to know in order to be capable of reading well. To be able to read at a first grade reading level, a student needs to memorize about 2,000 to 3,000 words. This is the number of whole words an average student can retain. And a student will need to memorize about 5,000 words to get to a third grade reading level (McGuinness, Carmen and Geoffrey; Reading Reflex; 19, 37). This is why students who appear to read well in first grade begin to experience reading difficulty around the third grade.
These words look very similar to beginning readers as well as to struggling readers. Unless a student is taught to pay attention to every letter from left-to-right in each of these words, and especially to the vowel in the middle of the word, he will not be able to read these words accurately.
When words get longer and more complex, it is even more difficult to read unless students have learned to decode and read the entire word letter-by-letter. As students get older, they often use context to decide what the word is. This works only part of the time, resulting in poor reading comprehension.
However, once we teach these same students what to pay attention to, reading becomes easy. They often ask why no one has taught them this before. In Part 3, we will talk about phonetic decoding and why it's important for students to learn how to do this.


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Pakistanis to now get Qatar visa on arrival
DOHA: In an exciting news for Pakistanis, the country has been added to the list of 80 countries whose nationals will be able to travel to Qatar and obtain a visa on arrival. Qatar Airways website stated that Pakistani nationals, with a valid passport for a minimum of six months ...
Qatar announces $5.9b order for warships from Italy
DOHA: Qatar announced a five-billion-euro ($5.9 billion) order for seven warships from Italy in the midst of a nearly two-month diplomatic crisis with neighbouring Saudi Arabia and its allies. "We have signed a contract on behalf of the Qatari navy to acquire seven warships from Italy for five billion euros," ...
Qatar is 'undermining' GCC allies: UAE
LONDON: The United Arab Emirates warned Qatar it could not belong to the Gulf Cooperation Council if it undermined regional security, calling for a "change of behaviour" but not "regime change". Anwar Gargash, the UAE state minister for foreign affairs, also denied a Washington Post report saying that his country ...
UAE arranged for hacking of Qatar government sites, sparking diplomatic row
WASHINGTON: The United Arab Emirates arranged for Qatari government social media and news sites to be hacked in late May in order to post fiery but false quotes linked to Qatar's emir, prompting a diplomatic crisis, the Washington Post reported on Sunday, citing U.S. intelligence officials. The emir, Sheikh Tamim ...
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Qatar says Garcia report 'vindicates' 2022 World Cup bid
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DOHA/ISLAMABAD: After Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Yemen and even the Maldives severed their ties with Qatar today, Doha and Islamabad have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on how to pretend the neighbourhood isn't hostile. With Qatar's neighbouring countries accusing it of harbouring terrorism, the ...


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Socony Mobil Oil Co. v. N.L.R.B
Mohave Electric Cooperative v. N.L.R.B
Moreover, the Supreme Court has confirmed that "the `mutual aid or protection' clause protects employees from…
Misericordia Hospital Medical Ctr. v. N.L.R.B
As the Hospital itself emphasizes, a JCAH survey determines whether a hospital will receive federal Medicare…
Full title:SOCONY MOBIL OIL CO., Inc., Petitioner, v. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD…
Court:United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
357 F.2d 662 (2d Cir. 1966)
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
In Socony Mobile Oil Co. v. NLRB, 357 F.2d 662 (2d Cir. 1966), the issue was raised of suspension of an employee for presenting a complaint to a governmental regulatory body.
Summary of this case from N.L.R.B. v. Red Top, Inc.
No. 252, Docket 29983.
Argued February 28, 1966.
Decided March 16, 1966.
Edward F. Callan, New York City (Putney, Twombly, Hall Skidmore, New York City, Stephen F. Huff, Charles O. Strahley, Donald J. Maroldy, New York City, on the brief), for petitioner.
George B. Driesen, Washington, D.C. (Arnold Ordman, Gen., Counsel, Dominick L. Manoli, Associate Gen., Counsel, Marcel Mallet-Prevost, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Clarice Feldman, Atty., Washington, D.C., on the brief), for respondent.
Before LUMBARD, Chief Judge, KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge, and FEINBERG, District Judge.
Sitting by designation.
PER CURIAM:
Socony Mobil Oil Company, Inc. ("Socony") petitions to set aside a Decision and Order of the National Labor Relations Board ("the Board"), and the Board cross-petitions for enforcement. The Board found that Socony had violated section 8(a)(1) and (3) of the National Labor Relations Act ("the Act"), 29 U.S.C. § 151 et seq., by the ten-day suspension of an employee, Garabed Newton Haleblian, for engaging in protected concerted activity.
Socony Mobil Oil Co., 153 N.L.R.B. No. 97 (1965).
Socony operates a fleet of oil tankers, including the S.S. Mobil Lube, between ports on the Gulf Coast and the eastern seaboard. The suspension of Haleblian grew out of a labor dispute between Socony and Socony Vacuum Tanker Men's Association ("the union") over the duties of certain employees on the Mobil Lube. In early 1964, Socony directed these employees to perform their jobs in a manner which the union thought violated the full-watch requirements of 46 U.S.C. § 673, and the union complained to the United States Coast Guard by letter, dated March 10, 1964. The letter, which was signed by Haleblian, a Socony employee and member of the union's Board of Governors, charged Socony with operating the vessel in an unsafe manner and contained various factual allegations, some of which were untrue. On March 18, 1964, a Coast Guard commander boarded the tanker to investigate the complaint. While he was there, Haleblian acted in a bellicose way toward Socony's officers, at one time asking Socony's employee relations assistant to "step outside." On March 20, 1964, Socony wrote Haleblian that he was being suspended because of his "wrongful accusation regarding the seaworthiness" of the Mobil Lube, the disruption of the vessel by "the improper manner" in which he processed the accusation and his "misconduct" on March 18. After reviewing Haleblian's file, which included warnings for prior misconduct, Socony imposed a ten-day suspension without pay.
The Trial Examiner dismissed the complaint charging Socony with violation of section 8(a)(1) and (3) of the Act, finding that the sole reason for Haleblian's suspension was his "misconduct" on board the Mobil Lube on March 18, 1964. The Board reversed, holding (1) that Haleblian was suspended for processing a complaint before an appropriate government agency; and (2) even if Haleblian had been suspended solely for misconduct on March 18, 1964, during a Coast Guard investigation, that misconduct was not so extreme that it passed the bounds of lawful protected activity. In this court, the test on review is whether there is substantial evidence on the whole record to support the Board's ultimate conclusion that Haleblian was suspended primarily because of his protected activities.
As to the first theory, Socony cannot nullify the effect of the letter of March 20, 1964. It clearly supports a finding that Socony was motivated in part by Haleblian's processing the complaint. And for this reason, Socony's suspension of Haleblian was unlawful. NLRB v. Park Edge Sheridan Meats, Inc., 341 F.2d 725 (2d Cir. 1965); NLRB v. Great Eastern Color Lithographic Corp., 309 F.2d 352 (2d Cir. 1962), cert. denied, 373 U.S. 950, 83 S.Ct. 1680, 10 L.Ed.2d 705 (1963). Of course, Haleblian would not be engaged in protected activity in filing the complaint if he acted in bad faith. However, the record supports a finding that the union's complaint was made not out of malice, but in a desire to bring the watch-standing problem to the Coast Guard's attention. See Walls Mfg. Co. v. NLRB, 116 U.S.App.D.C. 140, 321 F.2d 753, cert. denied, 375 U.S. 923, 84 S.Ct. 265, 11 L.Ed.2d 166 (1963). Therefore, on the Board's first theory the test for review is met. Since the Board's Order is sustained on this ground, it is not necessary to discuss the second theory.
As to the scope of the Order, Socony correctly urges that it goes too far. The Order in this case should be trimmed by omitting paragraph 1(c), and the required notice should be similarly tailored. As modified, enforcement is granted, and Socony's petition for review is denied.
In Socony, the court held the discharge of an employee an unfair practice, where the termination of employment followed the employee's complaint to the Coast Guard as to the "seaworthiness" of the employer's vessel.
Summary of this case from ILLINOIS RUAN TRANSPORT CORP. v. N.L.R.B


On the sample side of things, in 8- and 16-voice mode, the Prophet XL provides two independent, stereo, digitally sampled instruments per voice (4 in Stack or Split mode). The 150 GB of internal sample content was created by 8Dio, known for pioneering "deep sampling." You'll find a diverse collection of acoustic and electronic instruments as well as plenty of edgy ambient and cinematic effects. You can shape the samples through loop manipulation, sample stretching, and the Prophet XL's sound-sculpting modulation functions. Each sample instrument has its own Tone control for high-pass or low-pass filtering. Fifty gigabytes of additional internal storage is dedicated to importing external sample libraries. Support for user-created samples is planned for December 2018. Add-on sample packs are available from 8Dio on product release.
At the heart of the Prophet XL's powerful sound are its new, 24 dB-per-octave resonant low-pass filters, which are based on a vintage design. In 8-voice mode, there are separate filters in the left and right channels for a true stereo signal path. These add exceptional presence and fullness to both the samples and the oscillators. For additional polyphony, you can switch the Prophet XL from 8-voice stereo mode to 16-voice mono mode, which is useful for stacks and splits, or 32-voice paraphonic performance mode when using a single sampled instrument (and oscillator).
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Top Robotics Engineering Schools in the U.S.
If there ever were a sign that we are "living in the future," the ability to earn a degree in robotics (and to become a "Doctor of Robotics") might be it. Though the earliest research programs in robotics started cropping up on select college campuses more than 50 years ago, it wasn't until much more recently that the discipline began to gain popularity. Now, graduate students who have a background in engineering and a passion for futuristic technology can join one of nearly 70 universities in the United States that (according to NASA) include robotics on their list of specialties.
In determining this list of the top robotics engineering programs, we looked specifically for schools that excelled in a few key areas. First, we vetted schools on the comprehensiveness of their degrees. For example, an "M.S. in Robotics" fared better than an "M.S. in Computer Science: Concentration in Robotics," which in turn fared better than an "M.S. in Computer Science" with no highlighted concentration but a strong robotics research program. In the ranking below, eight degrees are comprehensive, might offer a specialization, and four offer general degrees with strong research programs (you can recognize this latter group by the inclusion of the qualifying phrase "Research Area" in their degree titles).
Next, we took a close look at the schools' research programs, as this is an extremely important consideration for graduate students – especially Ph.D. students, and especially robotics engineers. To gauge the strength of their robotics research, we looked at the number of faculty conducting work in robotics or a related field and the number of focus areas/major labs included under the robotics umbrella. Note that there was some flexibility with this last metric, as not all schools organize their programs the same way. For example, some universities create consolidated labs for designated focus areas, while other colleges support networks of individual laboratories that overlap many different focus areas. In ranking schools, we did our best to award points judiciously and make fair comparisons that considered all contenders in context with one another.
Combining these factors, we were able to determine the following ranking of the best robotics engineering degrees in the United States in terms of academic and innovative strength. You'll notice that a few of these schools are quite expensive, and we'd expect no less from colleges that host some of the most well-equipped, well-funded, high-tech laboratories in the world. But when you consider the knowledge (and job prospects) that these robotics engineering schools provide, it's easy to see how the investment will pay off.
M.S. in Computer Science: Robotics, Computer Vision, & Graphics Research Area
If you're interested in robots, chances are you're willing to get your hands dirty by actually working on building them in a lab. And if you go to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, it's practically a requirement! Computer science graduate students who opt for the "Research MS Track" have the coveted opportunity to work in some of the university's coolest facilities – but they should also prepare to eventually transition to the PhD program. Not that it's hard to convince most UMass grad students of the merits of becoming a Dr. of Robotics; with on-campus labs like the Autonomous Learning Laboratory (ALL) and the Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics, the opportunities to participate in cutting-edge work at this robotics engineering school are simply too hard to pass up.
Graduate Tuition & Fees: $22,364/yr
M.S./M.C.S. in Computer Science: Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Research Area
Although the University of Minnesota doesn't have a designated robotics engineering degree, its robotics and artificial intelligence research program could easily fool you into thinking it did! And for grad students, especially Ph.D. candidates, research is the first priority. Students throughout the College of Computer Science and Engineering can work on projects that fall under the umbrella of artificial intelligence, and research assistantships abound in UM labs. One example is the Center for Distributed Robotics, which operates a growing network of wirelessly controlled robots that can complete tasks and even cooperate with each other.
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Whether assisting someone from a wheelchair to a mat table or the parallel bars, patient transfers are a routine part of all therapy interventions. But did you know that these transfers place a therapist at an extraordinary risk for work-related injury? Statistics show that caregivers engaging in manual patient lifting, transferring and repositioning activities beyond the 35-lb patient lifting maximum set by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) have an injury rate on par with freight handlers and construction workers.1,2 Work-related injury equals lost time from work or leaving the profession altogether.2,3 In fact, it was the overwhelming amount of evidence showing the risk of these lifts that gave birth to the Safe Patient Handling and Mobility (SPHM) movement, advocating the use of powered lifts and transfer devices for patient care and intervention, seeking to eliminate all unnecessary and hazardous manual approaches. Although adopted by government funded organizations, the Veteran's Administration, the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses and the American Physical Therapy Association and even with strong evidence showing its efficacy in preventing caregiver injury, safe patient handling has been slow to catch on among therapists. Most likely this stems from the three common misconceptions among therapists. Let's take a closer look.
In the past, physical therapy, occupational therapy and nursing schools focused on teaching manual lifting techniques. It was thought that regardless of the size, gender or physical strength of the care provider and the client, using good body mechanics and lifting techniques would prevent damaging musculoskeletal strain. This is false. Based on current biomechanical research we know that body mechanics alone cannot prevent work-related musculoskeletal disorders.
A landmark study by Marras and colleagues assessed the level of forces that resulted in damage to spinal tissues. They found that even with experienced caregivers performing common manual patient handling tasks such as a two-person transfer with a gait belt or a one-person "hug" transfer, the disc compression and shear forces in the spine routinely exceeded the tolerance limits.4 Therapists participating in therapeutic patient handling tasks such as prolonged gait training sessions are even more vulnerable because they are exposing their spinal tissues to high mechanical loads for longer periods of time.5,6 A study by Daynard corroborated these findings, adding that when caregivers used safe patient handling devices, they reduced the peak spinal compression values during the transfers.7 And further studies underlined the benefits and injury-reducing properties of safe patient handling equipment as compared to manual lifting techniques.8,9 This is not to say that body mechanics are no longer important; they certainly have their place. Maintaining proper body posture at all times is a good habit and therefore a supporting element of safe patient care. This is true especially when positioning and assisting patients into and out of the safe lifting devices.
An interesting interview conducted by Campo in 2010 shows negative effects on productivity and patient care when therapists—with even the best intentions—choose to disregard their own health. Responses to interview questions asking about the quality of patient care in such a situation are revealing: "Sometimes you find yourself using or doing other things with the patients so you don't have to transfer them," or "I hate to admit it, but my 4-6 pm patients might be getting gypped.15" The impact on patient care because a therapist is in pain is a real concern because it can result in substandard intervention and decreased quality patient care. Clearly, although knowledge and expertise in the treatment of musculoskeletal problems is valuable, it is not enough to prevent injury to the therapist.13,16,17 The best preventative measure for work-related injuries is the use of safe patient handling devices. Used for all patient lifts and transfers, the clinic becomes a safe and productive environment for both the therapist and patient.
The success of High Desert Education Service District's pilot safe patient handling program is a great example of how taking the first steps towards implementing change can produce amazing results in work-place safety. After noticing an alarmingly high injury rate among special education therapists performing manual transfers, this school district in Oregon managed an experimental SPHM program throughout their schools. This included mandating the use of Rifton TRAMs and other transfer devices for all patient lifts above 30 lbs. At the same, time they ran a before- and after-injury analysis with their workers' compensation provider. The experiment paid off. Therapist injuries from student assisted transfers dropped to zero -- down from a seven per year average. The director of the study, Jill Barrett, commented that the pilot program turned out to be a win-win situation. The staff was happy using the mechanical lifts (and remaining injury free), the patients felt safer while being lifted and the parents of the students began looking for lifting devices for home use.
It is no wonder then that evidence-based SPHM policies are being integrated into rehab facilities, clinics, hospitals and schools. Across the country we're seeing therapists recognizing the necessity of work-place safety and patient comfort and becoming instrumental in advocating for SPHM, creating safe lifting environments and providing equipment in every therapy practice setting.
A research article exploring the perceptions and practices among acute care physical therapists towards safe patient handling.


From the day he was born, Dr. Lincoln Jiménez was a man of two nations. He was born in a small town in Colombia in South America, but his given name, which his father propitiously selected, came from North America.
"My dad was a good reader of the World Almanac, and he liked the story of Abraham Lincoln," Dr. Jiménez says. "And that's where he got the name. He thought it was a good story, and he thought Lincoln was a good man. That's why I was named Lincoln."
Decades later, Dr. Jiménez would find his way to the United States, first during a neurosurgical residency in Puerto Rico, then during a two-year fellowship in Cincinnati under the mentorship of Dr. Andrew Ringer, and finally, in 2017, as a newly employed neurosurgeon at Mayfield Brain & Spine.
The bilingual surgeon wasn't always sure that he wanted to become a doctor. As an adventurous and scientifically curious young man, he trained in aviation and thought he might become an engineer or aviation professional. Eventually, he decided he could "give more to people by being a doctor."
Dr. Jiménez (pronounced Him-EN-ez) earned his medical degree from Universidad Metropolitana de Barranquilla in Colombia. Following his fellowship in Cincinnati, he became Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Medical Director of Cerebrovascular and Endovascular Surgery at the University of Florida, Jacksonville. In 2015 he moved to Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola, Florida, and in 2017, with Dr. Ringer's encouragement, he returned to Cincinnati.
"I have great respect for Dr. Ringer, who is my professor," Dr. Jiménez says. "I respect him a lot. He had been talking to me about what Mayfield had to offer, what we could do as partners. I believe both of us, together, can enhance the vascular program here in Cincinnati."
Like Dr. Ringer, Dr. Jiménez's subspecialty is vascular and endovascular neurosurgery. "I deal with vascular problems that may appear in the head or the spine," he says. "During endovascular procedures we work inside the vessels with catheters. Open surgery is the older, traditional type of surgery, but we still use those techniques for the management of these conditions."
Dr. Jiménez no longer works with airplanes, although he would like to do so again someday. His current hobbies keep him well grounded. "My main hobby is being with my family, with my wife and kids," he says. "I enjoy reading to my children."
Like their father, the Jiménez children have roots in two nations. The oldest reads in both English and Spanish, and her younger sister is soon to follow.
Above: Dr. Jiménez with Mayfield associates at the 2017 Tri-State Brain Aneurysm Support Group Walk.


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On New Year's eve in 2021, I got a picture from one of our executive Australian male members. There was no message with it. But I knew what it meant and why he sent it to me.
It was a photo of a Japanese woman's hand with her engagement ring.
He did it…. and I cried.
Are there any Australian men who want to meet Japanese women??
I am a Japanese matchmaker and running an international matchmaking agency in Australia to support Australian single men and Japanese single women.
When I started OzMatch, an Australian and Japanese matchmaking agency, I didn't have any Australian male members. Zero. None. Nil. 無(mu) …
We got about ten Japanese female executive members in the first month, but there were no Australian male members, even though they could become a free basic member for free.
It showed that OzMatch wasn't known by any Australian men at all. So sad.
Three months later, a young Australian man contacted us and said he wanted to be an executive male member. Our first male member!! Then nothing happened for the next 8 months.
Australian men are sceptical about Matchmaking Agencies
I would like to introduce one of our successful couples, Tim and Aya's testimonial. They completed their journey with OzMatch in November 2021. A lovely couple.
In their testimonial, Tim describes his first impression of OzMatch. The below is only a part of their testimonial.
"When I first found OzMatch I was a bit skeptical if it was legitimate or not with all the stories that you hear of people getting scammed on the internet.
I had a read through the website & decided to join as a basic member then had an online consultation with Misao, the CEO.
During our chat Misao explained how OzMatch works & having actually seen who I was speaking to and not sending emails to someone who could have been anybody I felt more at ease.
I joined an OzMatch online speed dating event not sure what to expect. I still hadn't had to pay anything so I thought I would give it a go."
It helped me to understand how Australian men saw OzMatch and are uncomfortable with contacting us. So it took 8 months to get a second Australian male member for us.
Who was the brave man?
That is who I am going to talk about today. Let's say he is Cris.
He is an IT guy who loves games and Japanese anime
Since I started an international matchmaking agency, I have met many men who love games and Japanese anime/mangas. Cris was one of them.
I don't play computer games and to be honest I was prejudiced against people playing games.
But what I have found is that people who love games and Japanese anime or manga are very good people. They are shy at the beginning but once we know each other they are very friendly and very gentle.
Cris was shy and a bit grumpy at the beginning but once we knew each other we could talk for one hour easily. He was quite funny.
I thought he would find his best match at OzMatch in one year but his first year with us didn't go well. He was tired and said he wanted to take a break for a while. I understood and respected his decision.
There is a right time to meet a Japanese woman
Then three to four months later, Cris contacted us and asked if there were any Japanese ladies who could match him. I said "Maybe".
There was a new Japanese executive female member who had lived in Australia more than 8 years but hadn't met a special person yet.
I introduced both of them and they decided to meet in person. We call it an OMIAI, a first date.
Before the OMIAI, she asked me what kind of conversation she should have. She was shy too. I was a bit worried about what kind of first date they would have as they are both shy. But the first date, OMIAI, went well and they started conversations regularly.
I often wonder how our couple met. I mean how they knew their future partner was in OzMatch. They came to OzMatch at the right time and met the right person.
Don't give up to find your best match so soon
It took 2 years and 2 months for Cris to find someone whom he would like to make a commitment to at OzMatch.
You may think that taking two years to find a partner is too long.
One of our new executive Australian male members recently told us that he was disappointed that he hadn't found a partner after 6 weeks on OzMatch.
He met a very nice Japanese female member at OzMatch and they went very well. But he decided to end the relationship after two weeks because she couldn't come to meet him at Christmas time from Japan.
For some people, two weeks seems to be the limit of patience to finding the right person. And I understand it.
Before joining OzMatch, they spent many years trying to find a partner and were exhausted of disappointment. So two weeks could be enough to be patient for them.
Cris was the same. But he didn't give up.
He is an IT guy who loves games and Japanese anime. He is shy and has been single for a long time. He wanted to meet a Japanese woman who understood him and wanted to be with him.
He found her and they got engaged on New Year's eve in 2021.
Category: How to meet Japanese Singles, International Couples


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Schools across Hampshire allowing children to come in late following Euro 2020 final
Most schools are extending the Monday morning registration period till 10 am
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Children across Hampshire will be thrilled by the news (Image: PA)
Schools across Hampshire and on the Isle of Wight are allowing children to arrive later following the Euro 2020 final.
England will face Italy on Sunday (July 11) with kick-off at 8pm and many local schools have taken the stance that pupils should be allowed to stay up late to enjoy the game.
With that in mind, many have extended the Monday morning (July 12) registration period to 10am to allow children to sleep a little longer.
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Headteacher at Endeavour Primary School, Andover, Helen Palmer, announced via Facebook that the school gates would stay open until 9.55 am allowing children to be dropped off anytime before the 10am cut-off.
She said: "England making it all the way to the final of the European Cup is a fantastic achievement and a special and unique event for the whole country.
"The match is on late in the evening on Sunday and we know that many families will be watching this historic game together.
"We have extended registration to support parents in allowing their children to sleep in a little longer if they have been up late the night before enjoying the match.
"School drop-off times have not changed, and gates will be open as normal from 8.25 am. We will all be hoping The Three Lions 'Bring it Home!'..."
Schools on the Isle of Wight have also announced that the Monday morning registration period would be extended.
Godshill Primary School released a statement that read: "If your child is a football fan and is likely to be staying up after 11 pm and supporting England in their final on Sunday, then let them stay in bed a little longer. It has been agreed that they can get to school on Monday morning by 10am, when the registers will close.
"School will start at normal time, but children arriving up to 10 am will not be marked as late.
"If your child might be late and would want a school dinner on Monday then the office must know by 9:15 am, either via email or phone call.
"Loads of luck to England on Sunday! We are all behind you."
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2004-10-28 04:00:00 PDT Washington -- The Defense Department must immediately stop inoculating soldiers with anthrax vaccine, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, saying the Food and Drug Administration acted improperly when it approved the experimental injections for general use.
Concluding that the FDA violated its own rules by approving the vaccine late last year, U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan said the mandatory vaccination program -- which has inoculated more than 1.2 million soldiers since 1998 -- is illegal.
Sullivan wrote that his ban on involuntary vaccination will remain until the FDA reviews the anthrax vaccine properly or until President Bush determines the normal process must be waived due to emergency circumstances.
The Defense Department has required many soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan to be vaccinated and has punished and sometimes court-martialed those who have refused. The department expanded its anthrax and smallpox vaccination programs in July to include troops stationed in Korea and other areas in Asia and Africa, despite complaints from some soldiers that the vaccine made them sick.
In a statement, the Defense Department said it is reviewing the decision and will "pause giving anthrax vaccinations until the legal situation is clarified. ... DOD remains convinced that the anthrax immunization program complies with all the legal requirements and that the anthrax vaccine is safe and effective."
In his decision, Sullivan wrote that the FDA's approval was invalid because it did not meet required review standards and failed to seek the necessary public comment.
"Congress has prohibited the administration of investigational drugs to service members without their consent," he said. "This court will not permit the government to circumvent this requirement.
The judge ruled on a suit filed in March 2003 by six servicemen and women who argued that the FDA never properly reviewed the vaccine for its ability to protect against inhalational anthrax. The suit claimed that the drug was never shown to be effective, and that some vaccinated soldiers have experienced extreme fatigue, joint pain and temporary memory loss after being vaccinated.
The vaccine, made by BioPort of Lansing, Mich., is given as a series of several shots.
Mark Zaid, an attorney for the six who has also defended more than a dozen soldiers court-martialed for refusing the vaccine, said one of his clients was a breastfeeding mother who did not think the vaccine was safe for her child.
"We will now initiate an effort to ensure the government reverses all punishments that were imposed for refusing an order to take the vaccine," Zaid said. He also will seek compensation for soldiers who were physically harmed.
"As we've seen in Iraq, there wasn't any actual threat from anthrax, so there was never any real need for the vaccine," Zaid said.
Sullivan initially ruled in late 2003 that the FDA had never approved the vaccine and ordered inoculations to stop. Eight days later, the FDA approved the vaccine based on an application made 18 years earlier, and the inoculation program resumed.
Wednesday's ruling concluded that the agency did not follow its own rules in deciding the vaccine was safe and effective.


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Nisa Investment Advisors LLC Boosts Holdings in Ryman Hospitality Properties Inc (RHP)
Posted by Devon Dixon on May 3rd, 2019
Nisa Investment Advisors LLC raised its position in shares of Ryman Hospitality Properties Inc (NYSE:RHP) by 167.0% in the first quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The fund owned 2,630 shares of the real estate investment trust's stock after buying an additional 1,645 shares during the quarter. Nisa Investment Advisors LLC's holdings in Ryman Hospitality Properties were worth $216,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.
Other hedge funds have also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Aurora Investment Counsel grew its position in Ryman Hospitality Properties by 4.7% during the fourth quarter. Aurora Investment Counsel now owns 22,743 shares of the real estate investment trust's stock valued at $1,517,000 after acquiring an additional 1,016 shares during the period. Vanguard Group Inc. grew its position in Ryman Hospitality Properties by 2.1% during the third quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 7,881,444 shares of the real estate investment trust's stock valued at $679,145,000 after acquiring an additional 159,056 shares during the period. Boston Advisors LLC grew its position in Ryman Hospitality Properties by 4.8% during the fourth quarter. Boston Advisors LLC now owns 56,840 shares of the real estate investment trust's stock valued at $3,791,000 after acquiring an additional 2,614 shares during the period. Duff & Phelps Investment Management Co. purchased a new stake in Ryman Hospitality Properties during the fourth quarter valued at about $16,893,000. Finally, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans grew its position in Ryman Hospitality Properties by 228.3% during the fourth quarter. Thrivent Financial for Lutherans now owns 15,100 shares of the real estate investment trust's stock valued at $1,007,000 after acquiring an additional 10,500 shares during the period. 88.18% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
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A number of research firms have issued reports on RHP. Zacks Investment Research raised Ryman Hospitality Properties from a "sell" rating to a "hold" rating in a research report on Wednesday, February 13th. ValuEngine downgraded Ryman Hospitality Properties from a "buy" rating to a "hold" rating in a research report on Thursday, February 28th. Deutsche Bank upped their target price on Ryman Hospitality Properties from $94.00 to $98.00 and gave the stock a "buy" rating in a research report on Monday, February 11th. Finally, Raymond James raised Ryman Hospitality Properties from a "market perform" rating to an "outperform" rating in a research report on Tuesday, January 8th. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and five have given a buy rating to the company. The company has a consensus rating of "Buy" and a consensus target price of $91.40.
In related news, CEO Colin V. Reed bought 6,106 shares of the firm's stock in a transaction dated Monday, March 4th. The stock was bought at an average price of $82.46 per share, with a total value of $503,500.76. The acquisition was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through the SEC website. Also, CAO Jennifer L. Hutcheson sold 1,892 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Thursday, March 14th. The shares were sold at an average price of $82.39, for a total value of $155,881.88. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief accounting officer now directly owns 5,818 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $479,345.02. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. 3.30% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.
Shares of NYSE RHP opened at $80.24 on Friday. Ryman Hospitality Properties Inc has a 1-year low of $64.36 and a 1-year high of $90.02. The company has a quick ratio of 1.23, a current ratio of 1.23 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 5.20. The stock has a market capitalization of $4.13 billion, a PE ratio of 13.69, a P/E/G ratio of 1.25 and a beta of 1.32.
The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Monday, April 15th. Stockholders of record on Friday, March 29th were given a $0.90 dividend. This is an increase from Ryman Hospitality Properties's previous quarterly dividend of $0.85. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, March 28th. This represents a $3.60 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 4.49%. Ryman Hospitality Properties's dividend payout ratio is presently 61.43%.
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Ryman Hospitality Properties Profile
Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc (NYSE:RHP) is a REIT for federal income tax purposes, specializing in group-oriented, destination hotel assets in urban and resort markets. The Company's owned assets include a network of four upscale, meetings-focused resorts totaling 8,114 rooms that are managed by lodging operator Marriott International, Inc under the Gaylord Hotels brand.
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Sixth Formers collected eight hampers full of kitchen equipment and new mum kits for the Besom Charity in Camberley. The charity provides a link between those who want to give time, money, things or skills to those who are in need. They delivered the hampers today to St Paul's in Camberley.