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Recently Dan Perkins, REquipment Donations Coordinator, made a follow-up call to Kelly McDermott, a physical therapist with the Boston Public Schools. Kelly had received a tilt-in-space pediatric wheelchair from REquipment and Dan called to hear how it was going and help troubleshoot any problems or concerns. Kelly has helped many families acquire the equipment their children need through our program, but Dan soon heard this case was special. They decided it was a story to share.
"Peter" was born very prematurely and spent the first three years of his life living at the hospital. He came home in August and with the tilt-in-space wheelchair Kelly found in the REquipment inventory, he's now successfully made the transition to school.
When he first came home his parents had just a standard stroller for him. But Peter is not yet able to walk, has a tracheostomy, a feeding tube, a suction machine and could not be easily transported to school without the specialized equipment that could make that possible. To be safe on the bus he required, too, a wheelchair that is transport-safe with a chest harness and pelvic belt.
Kelly was amazed when she found the pediatric device he needed in the REquipment inventory.
"Insurance takes months," she emphasizes, again and again. "We expect his request to be approved, but lately–in general–denials have been getting worse. It feels like they look for reasons to deny and then you have to go through the appeals and it all drags out. We're so grateful for REquipment."
Kelly says that Peter's nurse, who accompanies him to school, is delighted by the chair because it can carry all his durable medical equipment and accommodate using his different devices throughout the day as well as tilt Peter back as needed. The bus driver is happy because it's safe for transport and his teacher is happy; the wheelchair came with a tray and Peter can easily participate in fine motor activities.
The real surprise, however, was Peter himself, "and how delighted he is to go to school!" Kelly gushes. After all, wouldn't the school transition be stressful, as it is for so many three-year-olds? "But he's just been smiling, engaged, participating and eager. He's just doing so well." He doesn't speak since he has a tracheostomy, but he expresses clear preferences and his intelligence shines, she says.
Considering what we all know about the importance of these early years for development and growth, REquipment is humbled to have the opportunity to make this kind of positive impact on the lives of children and their families, an impact that will span out over the course of their whole lives.
For her part, Kelly stresses how grateful she and her colleagues are to have access to our program. "The chair was in perfect condition, it was cleaned, everything worked, the brakes were good, the tilt worked, the lateral supports, we could adjust it, everything was awesome. I've requested a lot of equipment over the years for kids who don't have insurance or have inadequate insurance: gait trainers and standers that have benefitted our students. I don't know what we'd do without REquipment."
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1E 161348-5055 — нейтронная звезда, которая находится в созвездии Наугольник на расстоянии около 10 тысяч световых лет от нас. Она пережила вспышку сверхновой около 2000 лет назад, и сейчас её окружает газопылевая туманность RCW 103, остаток сверхновой.

История открытия

Звезда была открыта с помощью орбитального рентгеновского телескопа Эйнштейн в 1980 году. До вспышки сверхновой она была приблизительно в 8 раз массивнее Солнца. В данный момент она имеет массу как у Солнца, но её диаметр составляет около 20 километров. Звезда интересна тем, что её период вращения вокруг своей оси составляет 6,7 часов. Это очень медленно для звезды, взорвавшейся две тысячи лет назад: по существующей модели она должна вращаться в несколько тысяч раз быстрее. Она ведёт себя как звезда, возраст которой много миллионов лет. Вторая странность была обнаружена в период между октябрём 1999 и январём 2000 года: 1E 161348-5055 внезапно стала ярче в 50 раз. После этой вспышки яркость медленно спала, но с тех пор остаётся большей, нежели до 1999 года.

Существуют две гипотезы, объясняющие данные феномены. Первая предполагает существование мощного магнитного поля и газопылевого диска, оставшегося после взрыва сверхновой вокруг звезды. Однако эта гипотеза объясняет только малую скорость вращения 1E 161348-5055, но не саму вспышку.

Согласно другой гипотезе, 1E 161348-5055 имеет невидимого нам компаньона с малой массой — звезду, вращающуюся по вытянутой орбите. Через определённое время объекты сближаются на достаточное расстояние, чтобы вещество компаньона смогло, заполнив полость Роша, падать на нейтронную звезду. Это и является причиной вспышки. Более того, компаньон может воздействовать на магнитное поле нейтронной звезды, вызывая у неё торможение. Если данная версия верна, то мы наблюдаем одну из самых молодых подобных двойных систем.

См. также
 Список остатков сверхновых

Ссылки
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There's no need to reinvent the wheel. We want to be everywhere and make the last trendy social media plastform. Nevertheless, since our resources are limited and the opportunity cost is always there, being everywhere is being nowhere.
Everybody wants to give us their opinion of how we need to do our work and where we need to be, however. They don't realize that every business is different and, if something works for you doesn't mean that works for me.
You should be on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and don't forget that new social media platform . Wait, why? Why do you want to be on every platform? If that works for your business, maybe you should. But are you really sure that it worth?
That's it. Before jumping to another platform be sure to get this done in the best way you can. Once you get it, take a look and improve it.
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Epic Corruption: Unsealed Court Documents Show How Prosecutors Tried To Rig The Bundy Trial
Authored by Tim Pearce via The Daily Caller,
Unsealed court documents detail how the team of prosecutors tasked with convicting Cliven Bundy and his sons of crimes relating to a 2014 armed standoff failed to turn over potential exculpatory evidence to the court, The Oregonian reports.
The Bundys' case ended in a mistrial Dec. 20 after Judge Gloria Navarro ruled that prosecutors violated the civil rights of the defendants by withholding evidence supporting the Bundys' case. Navarro is considering dismissing the case "with prejudice" and blocking prosecutors from retrying the case. Her decision will come Jan. 8, according to The New York Times.
"There were approximately 3,000 pages that were provided to us only after we started trial," Bundy lawyer Bret D. Whipple told TheNYT.
"I personally have never seen anything like this, especially in a case of such importance."
Those 3,000 pages include the Bundys' requests for multiple federal assessments that showed the Bundy family was likely not dangerous. Prosecutors called the requests part of a "long list of frivolous and vexatious pleadings," until a government witness, under cross examination, revealed knowledge of the assessments in court, The Oregonian reports.
Defense attorney's asked federal prosecutors to hand over Inspector General reports on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) agent Dan Love, who directed the BLM raid on the Bundy ranch to seize the family's cattle over decades of unpaid grazing fees. Love was fired from the agency in September for corruption and unethical behavior.
Prosecutors had dismissed the allegations and investigations of Love as an "urban legend," but ended up handing over 500 pages worth of reports on Love in December, according to The Oregonian.
The Bundys' lawyers made two requests to Navarro for a special "discovery monitor" to ensure that all relevant documents were being turned over by the prosecution. Both requests were denied. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, however, launched an investigation into prosecutorial misconduct after the mistrial.

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Marketing for dental practices is growing in influence as the need to differentiate from competitors becomes more important than ever. But the need to understand how resources are being spent, with defined objectives and easy-to-use methods of monitoring success, is vital if practices are to allocate budgets wisely.
When running any type of marketing campaign, the accurate tracking of responses is crucial. But for dentists who undertake marketing activity, the lack of coherent planning, execution and monitoring is marked. In Software of Excellence's recent Whitepaper 'Driving Practice Revenues Through Effective Patient Marketing', less than a quarter of respondents set targets for their campaigns and less than half tracked the results. In fact, many dentists simply rely on 'gut feeling' to assess whether a campaign has been successful.
This failure to accurately measure results is put down to a number of factors, including a lack of knowledge about how to track and monitor accurately. Respondents also indicated that measurement was either too time consuming and complicated or the data to carry out such monitoring was not easily accessible. However, while the number of barriers mean that measurement of success is not always easy, only a small minority (4%) of those questioned for the Whitepaper research indicated that they had 'no interest' in measuring the success of their campaigns.
Creating and maintaining campaigns is a big challenge for busy dental practices and the campaign function in EXACT V12's Marketing Manager can be set up to automatically send a series of messages on a 'set and forget' basis. This means that managers need only act once to set up the campaign, leaving it to communicate in a structured way unless interrupted by a patient's response.
Each campaign can be allocated a unique telephone number which, via Software of Excellence's Channel Track module, records calls and monitors which campaigns are being most successful. Crucially, the ability to identify those calls that did not result in an appointment, combined with the ability to listen to these calls, gives managers a unique insight into how staff and patients communicate on the phone and could be a trigger for additional team training, if necessary.
Defining the success criteria for a particular campaign is vital if accurate measurement is to be useful. Revenue is not necessarily the only or most important metric for defining success and dentists should consider that new enquiries, appointments booked and treatment uptake are all equally worthy of consideration.
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How volcanoes kill
The eruption of Popocateptl on 18 December 2000 has been reported to be the Mexican volcano's largest eruption in a thousand years (Pic: USGS).
It might be a scorching 1000 degrees but volcanic lava is the least of your worries when it comes to volcanoes, according to new research which found cooking in a surge of volcanic gas a more common cause of death.
A study published in the journal Science analysed data on voclanoes from the last 500 years to come up with a series of "lessons from the historical record" about what exactly kills people and when.
"Lava is pretty unimportant in the scheme of things," co-author Professor Russell Blong of Macquarie University's Natural Hazards Research Centre told ABC Science Online. "It's pretty hot but it moves slowly and it moves down channels so it's not difficult to get out of its way."
Professor Blong says there has been 274,000 deaths from 400 volcanic eruptions on record since the year 1500.
28% of these deaths were caused by hot surges of gas and rock which are not as hot as lava but at 500 degrees, Professor Blong says are still "hot enough to cook you".
"These move at up to 200 kilometres an hour and it is unpredictable which side of the volcano they will come from," he says.
The study showed that the second most common cause of death by volcano is indirect death. 23% of deaths were due to such causes as starvation and disease resulting from destruction of crops or loss of infrastructure.
Next most common cause of death (20%) was from tsunamis (giant waves) caused by volcanic material falling into the sea.
"90% of the deaths from the 1883 Krakatoa eruption died as a result of a tsunami," he says.
Mud flows were found to have killed 13% of people - and another 3% of people up to two years after the initial event (when rain would cause further slides of mud).
Another 3% of people were killed by falling ash which tends to spread over hundreds or thousands of square kilometres and cause the collapse of buildings.
7-8% of deaths had an unknown cause, and less than 1% of total deaths were caused by lava.
However Professor Blong says that these proportions could "change tomorrow".
"Only 7 eruptions accounted for a large proportion out of the deaths which means that a large eruption tomorrow could change the proportions of people killed by different aspects of a volcanic eruptions."
He estimates that indirect deaths due to eruptions will be less likely in the future.
The study also looked at when people die.
Professor Blong said that at 50 days after the initial eruption, people become complacent and return to their homes where they are vulnerable to further blasts from the volcano which can occur months and sometimes years after the first.
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The purpose of the Live Event Media Production certificate is to provide hands-on training to individuals who are interested in becoming camera operators for television, video, or internet production events. This program focuses on broad transferable skills and stresses understanding and demonstration of the following elements of the television video and internet/webcast industries: working as part of a team, safe and efficient work practices, use of lighting equipment, operation of video camera, set-up and use of audio recording equipment, operation of control room equipment, and organization and editing of video resources.


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Heddert ist eine Ortsgemeinde im Landkreis Trier-Saarburg in Rheinland-Pfalz. Sie gehört der Verbandsgemeinde Saarburg-Kell an.

Geographie
Heddert liegt im Naturpark Saar-Hunsrück. Der Ort liegt etwa fünf Kilometer nordwestlich von Kell am See und 13 Kilometer südöstlich von Trier an der Landesstraße 143.

Zu Heddert gehören auch die Wohnplätze Haus Jägen sowie die Heddertermühle am Zusammenfluss von Rauruwer und Neukreutzbach.

Geschichte
Heddert wurde urkundlich erstmals als Hederichsrode 1207 erwähnt. Weitere Erwähnung findet der Ort 1670 als Hedenroit, 1710 als Heydert und 1724 als Haydert. Bis zum Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts gehörte der Ort zum Teil dem Trierer Stift St. Paulin, zum anderen Teil zur reichsunmittelbaren Herrschaft Schillingen des Trierer Domkapitels. Im Jahr 1794 wurde das Linke Rheinufer von französischen Revolutionstruppen eingenommen. Von 1798 bis 1814 gehörte Heddert zum Kanton Hermeskeil im Saardepartement. Aufgrund der auf dem Wiener Kongress (1815) getroffenen Vereinbarungen kam die Region zum Königreich Preußen. Die Gemeinde war der Bürgermeisterei Kell im 1816 errichteten Landkreis Trier zugeordnet und gehörte von 1822 bis zum Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs zur Rheinprovinz. Seit 1946 ist Heddert Teil des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz.

 Bevölkerungsentwicklung
Die Entwicklung der Einwohnerzahl von Heddert, die Werte von 1871 bis 1987 beruhen auf Volkszählungen:

Politik

Gemeinderat
Der Ortsgemeinderat in Heddert besteht aus sechs Ratsmitgliedern, die bei der Kommunalwahl am 26. Mai 2019 in einer Mehrheitswahl gewählt wurden, und dem ehrenamtlichen Ortsbürgermeister als Vorsitzendem.

Bürgermeister
Josef Wagner wurde 2004 Ortsbürgermeister von Heddert. Da bei der Direktwahl am 26. Mai 2019 kein Wahlvorschlag eingereicht wurde, oblag die Neuwahl des Bürgermeisters dem Rat. Dieser bestätigte Wagner am 11. November 2019 einstimmig in seinem Amt.

Wirtschaft und Infrastruktur
Der Ort ist vor allem land- und forstwirtschaftlich geprägt. Außerdem bietet er für die Freizeitgestaltung ausgebaute Wanderwege und eine Kirmes im August.

Kulturdenkmäler
Siehe: Liste der Kulturdenkmäler in Heddert

Literatur
 Ernst Wackenroder: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz. Band 15, Abt. 2. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1936 (Die Kunstdenkmäler des Landkreises Trier), Nachdruck vom Verlag der Akademischen Buchhandlung Interbook, Trier 1981, S. 142–143.

Weblinks

 Website von Heddert

Einzelnachweise

Ort im Landkreis Trier-Saarburg
Ort an der Ruwer
Ort im Hunsrück
Ersterwähnung 1207


One more +1 vote for Dr. Faulkner. Great guy!
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Where the elderly take care of each other -- because no one else will
There seems to be another way to develop new careers in this fast-aging society, Japan. Care-giving for elderly people, but not by young people but by seniors who are looking for another career or chance-to-contribute after their own retirement.
"Seniors take care of other seniors" may sound a little odd, but if you look at the Japan's population and demography now and the future, there is no other way around to cope with this situation, unless they accept more foreign workers to fill the roles.
Gig economy (Vol.1937, yesterday) is a work style to do various jobs at a time, but this "Seniors-help-other-seniors" seems more like a life style for the second life. Either case, it's not just for money but also for the value of life.
Enjoy reading and thinking what you would be interested in doing when you retire for the first time.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/22/asia/japan-nursing-home-old-workers/index.html
The gig economy of the 18th century
"gig economy?" It's a working style doing temporary or separate jobs when available and getting paid separately, instead of working for one employer. Some people do an additional job to just to make a living and that's normal. But thanks to the sharing economy and networking platforms, there are more people out there who choose not to commit themselves to just one job but to be engaged in various jobs. Why?
Some people feel more comfortable doing the things they like. Others enjoy building different relationships, reputations or satisfactions by other types of jobs. It seems that social and cultural value and aspiration drive people to do more than one thing. And this is not a new style of working. Even some people in the 18th century took more than one job for living and fun.
Gig economy surely keeps people busy with the tasks that others need help. It sounds complementary and may create new opportunities to those who want to do other things.
Enjoy reading and thinking if you're interested in doing multiple jobs.
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170721-the-gig-economy-of-the-18th-century
Shenzhen's never-ending skyscraper boom
China's economy is somewhat slowing down but it is still growing. But which city in China do you think is the richest? Shanghai or Beijing, or Hong Kong if included?
It's Shenzhen. This economically huge but geographically small city is located immediately north of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Thanks to high-tech industry, this booming city has the highest per capita GDP in China.
In fact, Shenzhen was ranked number one in the mainland's most expensive property market in 2016. Because of the soaring land prices, Shenzhen has been building more sky scrapers than any other city or even country for the last few years, maybe more than what businesses need.
Enjoy reading and thinking if google map helps you preview the place you are looking for in this 3-D city.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/23/architecture/shenzhen-skyscraper/index.html
Why Switzerland never takes sides?
Modern Switzerland was formed in 1848, though its history dates back to the 13th century. This small country in the Alps is known for a few distinctive characteristics.
Geographically, it is a landlocked country, so they have army and air force that mainly consist of conscripts or volunteers but no navy. This military is solely for defense as the country is strictly neutral. Politically, it adopts direct democracy. Diplomatically, it is extremely independent. Though it has the United Nations offices in Geneva, the nation became a member of the UN in 2002. It isn't an EU member state and maintains its own currency, Swiss franc. Though German is the language spoken the most, there are three other official languages in the country, French, Italian and Romansh for only eight million plus population.
How has this small country remained neutral and been free from wars for centuries?
Enjoy reading and learning what it's like to stay neutral.
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170717-the-country-that-cant-choose-a-side
Watch your waste: The problem with airline food and packaging
Do you always finish everything served on your flight? With just a few exceptions, such as fancy wine in the first class, coffee or tea in any cabin, almost everything served on a flight is individually packaged. This means anything unfinished becomes garbage. As there are thousands of flights in the sky today and that number is increasing almost every day, how much food waste is being, and will be produced in the air daily?
Because of customer satisfaction, competition, low cabin air-pressure and food safety regulations, meals served on the flight are quite different from the ones you find on the ground. And plenty of food is stocked to make sure all the passengers are fed, even though there are always quite a few passengers who decline to eat. Though new technologies are going to help reduce such waste by more accurately predicting what and how much should be served on each flight, there still is quite a lot of food waste discarded from each flight.
What about preorder meals or in-flight convenience store?
Enjoy reading and thinking why such dish meals, mostly salty and greasy, not just sandwiches, are served on the flight in the first place.
http://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/airlines-cabin-waste/index.html
Disney reveals plans for 'Star Wars' immersive hotel
There are games, toys and costumes beyond screens. That's quite norm for any big hit movie and Star Wars is no exception. And ever since the movie franchise was acquired by Disney, the universe of the movie is further expanding at a speed of light. New episodes are being produced not only to entice hardcore Star Wars fans but also to create new fans in younger generations. Also, the Star Wars-themed lands are expected to open in 2019. And now an immersive "Star Wars"-themed hotel in Disney World in Orlando, Florida.
It looks like Hollywood is the place to invest, or bet, money on producing movies and Orlando is the place to reap the fruits. And Disney does it well and entertain more people.
What's wrong with Disneyization?
Enjoy reading and thinking which character's costume you'd be wearing if you stay in the hotel.
http://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/star-wars-hotel-disney-world/index.html
Earth is becoming 'Planet Plastic'
Convenient and inexpensive. Over eight billion tons of plastic products have been produced in the last 65 years. Plastic is so easy to be produced, used and thrown away but so hard to be recycled, incinerated, or biodegraded. Once the plastic product is made, most of them are used in a very short time, like plastic shopping bags or packages. Then they are thrown away or collected with quite a lot of effort. But less than 10% of such discarded plastic is recycled, and most of them are used only once. The rest goes to landfills or floats in the oceans and seas.
While Elon Musk's Space X is trying to reuse rocket multiple times, plastic bags are reused only once in the best case. Is rocket science needed to reduce or reuse plastic products?
Enjoy reading and thinking what the Planet Plastic is going to be like.
Missing Swiss couple found frozen in Alps after 75 years
An ordinary couple suddenly disappeared near their home in Swiss Alps on a peaceful summer day 75 years ago. They just went out to milk their cows but never returned to their six children. Despite the long and continual search effort by their children, their bodies had never been found until this year when the retreating glacier finally uncovered them. It seems the couple fell into a rift of the glacier together, and were preserved in the ice. Though the couple had been separated from their children for such a long time, they have been together and are now met by their children at last.
Will there be more discoveries like this as glaciers or ice sheets retreat because of the global warming?
Enjoy reading and imagine what a reunion after 75 years is like.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/19/europe/swiss-alps-couple-frozen-75-years/index.html
How did dogs become our best friends? New evidence
Dogs have been human's friends for thousands of years. As you know, there are all kinds of dogs out there like, companion dogs, guard dogs, hunting dogs, herding dogs, and working dogs, just to name a few. And there are over 300 breeds of dogs that are divided into 10 groups based on the purpose, function, appearance or size, such as Sheepdogs, Terriers, Dachshunds, Pointers, and Retrievers. They all look quite different, don't they?
Now, a new study suggests that they all evolved from wolves in one location over 20,000 years ago. Even though dogs have a faster breeding cycle, or dog year, physical changes and evolutions they've made are quite significant. It's hard to imagine that toys dogs like the Yorkshire Terrie and the Chihuahua share the same ancestor as the Foxhound and the Bernese Mountain Dog.
Enjoy reading and thinking what dogs will be like in the next millennium.
Apple unveils new emoji, including breastfeeding mom
There is such a day. World Emoji Day is celebrated on July 17.
http://worldemojiday.com/
It is a day to celebrate emojis mainly online. There are 2,666 emojis in the Unicode Standard as of June 2017, including some sequences for gender or skin tone, flags, and the components that are used to create keycap, flag, and other sequences.
On that very day, Apple announced quite a few new emojis, including genie, t-rex, yoga master, zebra, elf and even a zombie. These are Apple's interpretation of the 69 new symbols approved by the Unicode Consortium, which sets the standard for emoji and text characters. Android devices have their own interpretations of these symbols, so they don't look the same as Apple's.
How often do you use emoji? Are there more words represented in emojis than texts in your recent messages?
Enjoy reading and thinking how dependent you are and will be on emoji in day-to-day communication.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/17/technology/apple-emoji-2017/index.html
Why China censors banned Winnie the Pooh
Winnie the Pooh, or just Pooh Bear, is a fictional teddy bear created by an English author nearly a century ago. The bear became globally known after Disney adapted him into series of features in theaters a half century ago. No wonder why so many people associate Winnie the Pooh with Disney and think him as one of its original characters like Micky Mouse.
Within the Great Firewall of China, this animated plump bear is no longer been seen on the web. Did he say anything that upset Chinese people? No really.
He was compared to its supreme leader by some bloggers on the net. It seems to have triggered a warning to the authority because it could be used to protest against the government or the top leaders. But the bear is not alone to be censored and blocked. Liu Xiaobo, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize who died in custody recently, is not known much in China.
Enjoy reading and thinking what they are doing with the students who have studied abroad.
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-40627855
Tour de France: The history of the La Caravane Du Tour
This multiple-stage bicycle race is by no means the most prominent bicycle race in the world. Tour de France has been held since 1903 annually, except during the World Wars. Now over 200 teams race every year to earn the title and the iconic yellow jersey.
Another thing that makes this racing event more exciting and attracting to the roadside spectators is the publicity caravan, La Caravane Du Tour. This promotional caravan not only generates needed fund for the racing event but also creates opportunities for marketers and consumers to meet. In fact, many fans along the way are even more attracted by this caravan than the race itself.
Tour de France guide: publicity caravan
While the main racing competition has suffered from the doping allegations, cyclists, organizers and fans are still enjoying this tour event.
Enjoy reading and learning what this world and historic cycling event is about.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/17/sport/tour-de-france-caravan/
This is what happens if you open a plane door mid-flight
Though the incident occurred at a relatively low altitude, it was scary enough for all the passengers and crew members abroad.
45 minutes after departure, a first-class passenger on the flight bound for Beijing allegedly tried to open one of the exit doors of the Boing 767 aircraft. Flight attendants used their best force and tools to stop his attempt but the man was too tough to be subdued, even after being smashed by a wine bottle over his head.
Fortunately, with the help of other passengers, the man was restrained and tied, and the aircraft landed safely at the airport it departed. The details of the incident will become available as the investigation progresses. But what could have happened if the man had ever succeeded in his attempt to open the exit door in the mid-flight?
Enjoy reading the article and think what you could have done if you had been one of the passengers sitting near the door.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/item/a69fdc7e-7fb5-43ce-977f-1e88de99e0dc
Where many of the clothes you throw away end up
Have you ever thought of where donated or collected used-clothes go? Basically, most of the clothes that are still in good shape are sent or sold to those in need. But the others are often sent overseas for recycling, mostly to India, where there are numbers of vendors that buy, recycle and sell them to even poorer countries in Africa.
It sounds like an environmentally friendly cycle before the carbon footprint of the transportation and working and processing conditions are taken into calculation.
But there is severe pressure to this recycling model in India. Man-made fabrics such as polyester are getting more economical than these recycled materials and many of such recycling operators have gone out of business.
Enjoy reading and learning what the recycling process of clothes is like in India.
No, poor people don't eat the most fast food
Fast food is most popular among low-income families. This easy assumption found out to be untrue, according to a new survey.
Why do people eat or buy fast food, such as hamburgers, fried chickens or burritos?
Is that because of the price, convenience or taste? As more people become overweight or obese in America, fast food is blamed the most because of its high-calorie menus enhanced by sugar, saturated fat, and sodium. But it is, still a very popular meal option for many Americans.
Convenient,? Of course, yes. Most fast food can be eaten by fingers rather than a knife and fork. It can be eaten conveniently in a car, at the desk or on a bench.
The price? Not really. An average fast food meal could cost as much as a minimum hourly wage. It may be a cheaper lunch option for medium-income families but it is, in fact, a special treatment for low-income families.
The study found that there is no significant gap by income level as to how often people go to a fast food restaurant. Rather, it is people's craving that drives people to fast food restaurants.
While many people are aware of the unhealthiness of fast food, guilty indulgence seems to create substantial business and weight problems in America.
Enjoy reading and thinking if you sometimes are fooled by groundless assumptions.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/12/health/poor-americans-fast-food-partner/index.html
Credit Card Fraud: What you need to know
Online shopping has been increasing everywhere in the world. But is online payment safe? Whether for online or onsite payment, whenever you use a plastic card, credit or debit, there is always a chance for cybercriminals to seal precious information from the card for fraud.
One typical method to steal card information is "phishing." It is often carried out by email spoofing or instant messaging, to direct users to enter personal information at a fake website that looks almost identical to the legitimate or trustworthy one.
Another way, though not as often as in the past, is to steal card information by swiping a card by a special device, called "skimming." For example, when a server takes your card away for payment, he or she could swipe the card to steal the information.
How should you protect yourself from such frauds?
Enjoy reading and learning what you should and shouldn't do to avoid being a victim of such fraud.
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170711-credit-card-fraud-what-you-need-to-know
Paris and Los Angeles set to get 2024 and 2028 Olympics
Do you remember the last three cities that hosted the Olympic Games? Do you know where the next games will be hosted?
2008: Beijing, China
2012: London, the UK
2016: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2020: Tokyo, Japan
2024: Paris or Los Angeles
2028: Los Angeles or Paris
You can see that all these cities are mega cities that can host such huge game events and accommodate a large number of athletes and visitors from all over the world for a short period time.
But the truth is that this once-every-four-year prestigious sports extravaganza costs more than the projected revenues or budget. In fact, these two cities are the only competitors left for the 2024 games.
Now, the IOC has given a chance to these two cities to decide which will host 2024 games and which will wait until 2028. If they can't reach an agreement, the IOC will decide which city to host 2024 games and leave 2028 event for open.
Enjoy reading and thinking which year would you like to host the games if you sat in the mayor's chair of either city.
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170502-what-your-handwriting-says-about-you
Okinoshima: Japan's UNESCO World Heritage Site that's banned to women
To be inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage Site list is a great honor for those who inhabit the site. But there aren't any residents in this newly listed world heritage site in Japan.
The sacred island of Okinoshima lies at 77km off the coast of Fukuoka, Japan. It is one of the newly designated World Heritage Sites with historical significance. It is privately owned by Munakata Taisha, a large Shinto shrine in Fukuoka, and is prohibited for visitors on any day but May 27th every year when they hold a grand festival. It's too early to mark your calendar because only 200 men, no women, are allowed to land this mysterious island in order to maintain their purity
Though it is unclear why women are banned from visiting this island, the tradition has been kept since the fourth century. Even for lucky men who get permissions to visit the island, they must bathe in the sea naked to purify their body and soul before landing.
Enjoy reading and thinking what pure means to you.
http://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/okinoshima-japan-unesco-men-only-island/index.html
If you are interested in this mysterious island, visit the website below;
http://www.okinoshima-heritage.jp/en/
What's behind the India-China border stand-off?
China and India shared a 3,500km border, and a number of disputed regions lie along this border. In 1962, during the 13-day Cuban Missile Crisis, the Chinese launched simultaneous offensives in two of the disputed lines. Their troops advanced over Indian forces in both theaters during the month-long Sino-Indian War whose battles took place at altitudes of over 4,000 meters. This inland territorial dispute wasn't paid so much attention by the global community then because of the intense and critical US-USSR conflict over Cuba in the Caribbean Sea was taking place at the same time.
Now the two neighboring countries have been involved in a stand-off along some part of the shared border. Why has such a dispute arisen again? Well, when it comes to a border dispute, the stories told by either side never matches what the other says, such as who shot or invaded first.
Enjoy reading and learning the complex and sensitive argument over the border between these two gigantic countries.
China's impossible engineering feat
It seems they've been building bridges all over the world, including the highest, longest, and also the shortest one in life.
The Beipan River Guanxing Highway Bridge in Guizhou Province, China is one of the highest suspension bridges in the world. This 388-meter suspension bridge overlooks the Beipan River 366 meters below its deck. It was constructed in 2003 and still is in use.
How did they construct a bridge in such a high position in the air?
Enjoy watching the video to learn how this mid-air bridge was constructed.
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170531-chinas-impossible-engineering-feat
China's enthusiasm to build high-rise bridges didn't stop there. Above 565 meters of the same river, Beipanjiang Bridge in a remote, mountainous region was completed in 2016 and holds the world highest bridge title.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/news/beipanjiang-bridge-worlds-tallest-opens-traffic-rural-china/
Just a reminder. While these amazing bridges are still in service, a Chinese-built Sigiri bridge in Kenya collapsed just before its completion. (Listed in Topic Reading-Vol.1914 on Jul.8th)
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/03/africa/kenya-bridge-collapse/index.html
Enjoy checking out these amazing Chinese-built bridges.
World's prettiest Starbucks? New Kyoto outlet set inside 100-year-old townhouse
When you're in Kyoto, do as Kyotonians do. Unlike other 26 other Starbuck coffee shops in town, this one is quite distinctive.
First, the legendary mermaid green logo is hardly recognizable. There are no glass windows or open terrace that you can see from outside. The only identity is a subtly printed logo on Noren door curtains.
If you want to go up to the second floor, you need to take your shoes off first. Then you can sit on tatami mats and enjoy viewing a traditional Japanese garden and silk cushions while sipping your usual coffee.
And this isn't the only unique Starbucks coffee shop in the world.
Enjoy reading and seeing the photos of some of the uniquely set-up coffee shops of the world's largest coffee chain.
http://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/kyoto-traditional-starbucks/index.html
France set to ban sale of petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040
More electric cars will soon be seen on the street. Norway is leading the move to remove gasoline or diesel powered cars from the street. The Netherlands is following the same path and China, the world largest CO2 emitter has been seriously incentivizing the sale of zero-emission electric vehicles to bring back the blue sky.
Now the host country of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 21, has announced to join the race under the initiative by the newly formed government.
Also, just this week alone, a few other environmental initiatives were announced like;
Volvo goes electric across the board
Hanoi plans to ban motorbikes by 2030 to combat pollution
While such progressive initiatives are being taken among civilized countries, there is one big CO2 emitting country that is heading the other way, the U.S.A.
Enjoy reading the text and think which brings better solutions, democracy or one-party ruling.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40518293
Canadian baby given health card without sex designation
Gender is usually determined by sex, which is easily found by a genital inspection. It is stated in the birth certificate or health document, depending on the administrative body, based on the application made by the baby's parent. But what happens if the parent refuses to identify the gender of the baby?
This is what happened in British Columbia, Canada. It seems too controversial that it took some time for the provincial ministry of health to issue a health card for the baby. In the card, the sex is listed as "U" instead of "M" or "F". The parent believes that the baby is the first to be registered without sex or gender being specified in Canada. He wants his child to decide his, her or else's gender when he, she or else is ready.
In the meantime, he gave the baby a name, Searyl.
Enjoy reading the text and think which or both you want to choose yourself, your gender or/and name.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/04/health/canadian-baby-gender-designation/index.html
How did a $12 million bridge collapse in Kenya
Phew! Unfortunate but fortunate. A landmark bridge in Kenya that had been under construction collapsed just before completion and a presidential election. If the bridge collapsed after completion, there would be quite a few casualties and damages to the passersby of the bridge.
Kenya is one of the African countries that are heavily depending on China's financing, engineering and constructing forces to build new infrastructures, such as roads, bridges and tunnels, railways and stations, and ports and building constructions. Their generous and economical proposals have allured interest of political leaders of developing African countries who are looking for ways and funds for an economic leap. And China has been working on such projects for a while.
But if one nearly-completed bridge collapses like this, what about quality and reliability of other on-going and already-completed construction works?
Read the article and think if this incident has caused any significant damage to the president's election campaign in Kenya.
Mindful eating: 'Suddenly, you have power over food'
There are many ways to control weight. Some are initially effective but often end up falling into yo-yo effect, the cyclical loss and gain of weight, like the up-down motion of a yo-yo. Though it may sound like the difference in medical treatment between Western and Oriental, which is more essential to be in a good weight range, mind control or weight control?
There is a new Western-Oriental hybrid-kind of idea to control weight, called mindful eating. You may wonder what mindful or mindfulness means. It basically means to maintain a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, as well as the surrounding environment.
Sounds like Zen meditation? Well, there don't seem to be so many zen practitioners who need serious weight control, do they?
Enjoy reading, and try asking yourself during your next meal if you're eating because you're still hungry.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/14/health/mindful-eating-lose-weight-hospital-profile/index.html
Most US women won't dine alone with opposite sex, survey suggests
US Vice-President Mike Pence says he isn't going to dine alone with a woman who is not his wife. Do you think he is too old-fashioned or right about marital commitment?
To find out what people really think about this controversial topic, the New York Times conducted a poll among 3,500 people. It revealed that quite a few number of respondents agreed that a married person shouldn't have a meal or drink alone with a non-family person of the opposite sex. It also found that the responses vary widely by gender, education, political stance, and religion. For example, people who are college educated or have liberal views seem to think it's ok to have a one-on-one occasion.
Enjoy reading and thinking if everything can be determined by the gender or marital status.
Volvo's driverless cars 'confused' by kangaroos
Hands Off the Wheel. Self-driving cars are on the way not only in tech-savvy Silicon Valley or over-congested Beijing but also the Outback in Australia. Each market seems to require distinct challenges for the driving computer of such vehicles. On a busy highway, there are many cars around you that may change the speed, lane or direction at any moment. In a residential area or on a busy downtown street, there are kids and bicycles that could suddenly make an unpredictable move or appearance. And on a rural road, there are wild animals that run or jump across the street suddenly. Cars drive by themselves need to be able to detect such moves and react without delay.
In Australia, of the 20,000 or so animal collisions each year, and around 16,000, or 80%, of such animal-caused accidents involved kangaroos. The problem is that kangaroos apparently make quite different moves from other large animals, so that the latest Large Animal Detection system is fooled by their distinctive jumping and landing.
Enjoy reading and thinking what your course of action would be when you saw a kangaroo by the roadside.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40416606
How do Navy ships operate?
Accidents happen no matter how well you are trained or how careful you are. That's why it's accident, not incident. So then, it's the matter of how well you manage the damage and situation caused by an unpredicted occurrence. That is when how well you are trained matters.
On June 17th, a US Aegis destroyer, the USS Fitzgerald, was hit by a container ship off the coast of Japan and suffered substantial damage and casualties. How did such a collision occur? Since an Aegis destroyer is well equipped with state-of-art radar, detection and navigation systems, the Fitzgerald must have known what was coming to her course. And of course, she must have had watch team on duty at all time.
Enjoy reading and learning how an US warship is operated in the sea.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/18/politics/how-do-navy-ships-operate/index.html
Canada 150: Huge crowd celebrate nation's anniversary
Every year on July 1st, Canada celebrates its birthday as Canada Day (French: Fête du Canada). But this year is special as it's the 150th anniversary that enacted the Constitution Act in 1867, which united the three separate British colonies of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick into a single country. Probably known to more people around the world, it's neighboring country, the United States of America, celebrates its 91-year-older birthday just three days later on the 4th of July every year.
This milestone anniversary was celebrated in all over the country by many, but not all. There are as many as 1.4 million indigenous people, such as First Nations, Inuit and Métis, whose ancestors were displaced, segregated or assimilated by the European settlers. Though the government has been trying to reconcile the past mistakes, such a history of oppression doesn't seem to be forgotten in just a century or two.
At any rate, the last 150 years were quite eventful; the second industrial revolution, two world wars and the cold war, and full-independence from the UK in 1982. What will the next 150 years be like in Canada?
Enjoy reading and thinking what the next 150 years will be like in your country.
Is India descending into mob rule?
Silenced, ignored or even supported. That's what seems to be the case in India when it comes to lynching beef eaters or handlers regardless of the age especially in BJP-ruled states like Haryana where a 15-year-old Muslim boy was brutally assaulted and killed on the train by 20 or so mobs. His three other brothers who were on board the train with him were also attacked by knives and wounded because they ate beef (though not on the train).
In Hinduism, the cow is thought to be sacred, respected and honored in society, and its meat is not eaten by most Hindus, which makes up about 80% of India's population. On the contrary, pork is the meat that should never be touched or eaten for Muslims because it is regarded as impure.
The problem is that even some lawmakers think and even publicly say that lynching or hate crimes are not new to their country and that they should not be over-stated or over-reported by media.
Is India the largest not only democratic but also mobocratic nation?
Enjoy reading and learning about this India's underlying social problem.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-40402021
Baboon troops clash in epic battle
Baboon troops usually live in a hierarchical group. The size of the group varies from 50 up to 250, depending on specific circumstances, especially species and time of year. They mainly eat plants but they also eat grasshoppers, ants, and sometimes small gazelles and chickens. In order to find food, they walk as long as 10 kilometers in their territory every day.
That was when these troops of baboon encountered other intruding troops. They needed to protect their own turf and females from the enemy. There didn't seem to be any room for peaceful interaction or negotiation but to fight. The monkeys have sharp canines mainly to protect themselves or attack other animals, including the members of their own group, enemies of the same species and preys such as gazelles. The battle looks quite fierce and bloody.
Enjoy watching this amazing video to learn what the life of baboons is like.
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170627-baboon-troops-clash-in-epic-battle


For more than 5 years we come aserando to our clients in the registry of international domains and lately we are not finding with attempts of deceits for the renovation of the domain.
Of which the deceit consists? It is possible to consult the e-mail of the registrante of the domain through sites as www.whois.com or similars, the swindler obtains information on the registrante person and date of victory of the registry.
With the date of victory and the personal data they by email send electronic a renovation request indicating the process of renovation to realise and the price to pay. Obvious, the form of payment is not through his to register that has the administration of the domain.
In summary, the client pays of good faith to renew his domain, but she is paying to a third party that nothing has to do with registering that it administers the domain. At the moment at which really it overcomes the domain, registering it sends all the average ones for the renovation and is where the disadvantages appear.
This problem can be solved asking for to its supplier a service of blockade of data. Normally they have a cost of approximately $100 but they guarantee that their data are not obtained and can be deceived.
Intensified other in the registry of international domains is that the swindler hopes patiently that the domain wins and it buys it immediately. Soon it tries to contact itself with the first owner to sell it to prices up to 100 times majors to the initial. Mainly in domains that handle much traffic.
This is avoided controlling the victories of its domains.


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June 13 – This Day In History
Filed under: Commentary — Tags: June 13 — Wayne A. Schneider @ 12:06 AM
When you get right down to it, many things in history happened on any given date on the calendar. But today I'm going to discuss just a few of the many important (and unimportant) things that happened on various June 13ths throughout history. Without further ado, on this date in:
1633: The charter for Maryland is given to Lord Cecil Baltimore after whom, of course, the city of Silver Springs, Maryland is named.
1731: Future First First Lady Martha Washington was born. She was a wealthy widow by the time she married George Washington.
1786: Winfield Scott, U.S. Army General famous for victories in the War of 1812 and the War with Mexico, was born. There are many who believe he is the "Scott" in the expression "Great Scott!"
1831: James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist, was born. His work proved that electrical, magnetic and optical phenomena were all united in a single universal force, Electromagnetism, and formulated electromagnetic theory. You're reading this now because of him.
1865: William Butler Yeats, Irish poet and playwright, was born. He was famous for "The Second Coming" which featured the line, "The centre cannot hold." This was a line often repeated by the army commander of the facility in Stephen King's "The Stand" from which the virus that wiped out most humans on Earth escaped. This happened in the story on a June 13th. There's a connection.
1892: Basil Rathbone, actor famous for playing Sherlock Holmes, was born. Rathbone was also famous for getting drunk at parties and walking around naked except for his pipe and deerstalker cap.
1953: Tim Allen was born. Famous to me for playing Jason Nesmith, who played Cmdr. Peter Quincy Taggart on the fictional TV series, Galaxy Quest, one of the best Star Trek parodies ever made.
1960: I was born. (This would be one of the unimportant things that happened on this date.)
1966: The Supreme Court of the United States enters the realm of police television drama writing when they hand down their famous Miranda v. Arizona decision reminding you that, when arrested, you have the right to remain silent, that anything you say can be used as evidence against you, that you have a right to have an attorney present during questioning, that if you cannot afford an attorney one will be appointed to you, and that, perhaps most importantly, if you want to wear white after Labor Day, it's constitutionally permissible.
1967: President Lyndon Johnson nominated Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to the United States Supreme Court. Upon his retirement, he was replaced by the completely unqualified Justice Clarence "Who Put This Pube On My Coke?" Thomas, apparently on the sole basis that he was black, like Justice Marshall.
1968: Johnny Cash records his famous "At Folsom Prison" album live at Alcatraz.
1970: The Beatles' "Let It Be" album goes to Number 1 on the charts and stays there for four weeks. It was their penultimate album recorded, but the last one released. It was also the basis for one of my album parodies, "Enemy". I hope you enjoy it.
1983: After it crosses the orbit of Neptune, Pioneer 10, launched in 1972, becomes the first human-built space craft to leave the solar system. It has not yet been determined how many non-human-built space craft have made the journey previously. The first close-up pictures we had of Jupiter were taken by Pioneer 10, which proved to be a much more successful satellite than its predecessors Pioneer 8, Pioneer Vista, Pioneer XP, and the disastrous Pioneer 98. They're still not sure why they built that one.
1986: Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen (Michelle on Full House) were born. I would have to wait until I was 44 before even thinking about dating them.
1990: Testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Secretary of State James A. Baker III urges the Israelis to accept a US plan for peace talks. He gives out the number to the White House switch board (202-456-1414) and says, "When you're serious about this, call us." I've called that number before. It was usually to talk to the White House Communications Agency Duty Officer (WHCADO, or "whocka-do") about a problem with one of several methods President Reagan had to talk to people on the ground while flying in Air Force One (which I used to watch being parked in its hangar outside my dorm window.)
1996: A new report on Nature proposed that guinea pigs are on a distant branch form rodents and deserve a class of their own. Having once worked on a street named Guinea Road, I can certainly understand the profound implications of this report, which came out 20 years ago, and of which I was completely unaware until I started researching this post. Still, it's deeply moving.
2005: In the "Better Late Than Never, But Not Really"-Department, the US Senate apologizes for blocking anti-lynching legislation in the early 20th century, when mob violence against blacks was commonplace. They followed this up four years later by vowing to block any legislation put forth by the nation's first black president, just in case anybody thought we were actually making progress on addressing this nation's deep-seated racist history. And while I certainly feel lucky to have been born in this country, it's things like its ongoing racism that make me hesitant to same I'm "proud." Do people who say they are proud ever think about things like this? Since they continue to happen, I'd say not.
Anyway, enjoy your June 13ths, today and in the future. It's not all that bad a day after all.


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Das Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes (UKS) ist das Klinikum der Universität des Saarlandes in Homburg.
Es ist auf einem Campus südlich des Stadtzentrums konzentriert, mehr als 100 Klinikgebäude liegen verstreut in einem über 200 Hektar großen Waldgebiet. Im Zuge des 2009 begonnenen Projektes "UKS Projekt Zukunft" werden zahlreiche Neubauten errichtet und die Kliniken für Innere Medizin in einem großen Gebäudekomplex zusammengefasst. Angegliedert sind die medizinische Fakultät der Universität des Saarlandes mit circa 2000 Medizinstudenten und ein Schulzentrum mit elf Schulen für Gesundheitsfachberufe.

Geschichte

Am 1. Juni 1909 fand die Eröffnung der dritten Pfälzischen Heil- und Pflegeanstalt in Homburg statt. In der Eröffnungsrede wurde betont, dass diese Anstalt "ein Denkmal für Pflege und Fürsorge" für geisteskranke und schwerbehinderte Menschen sein sollte. Teile des ältesten Gebäudekomplexes, der noch steht, wurden 1904 bis 1910 durch den Architekten Heinrich Ullmann in reinstem Jugendstil geplant und erbaut. So existieren heute noch beispielsweise die Bibliothek und die Klinikkirche, die unter Denkmalschutz stehen. 1922 wurde die Anstalt in das Landeskrankenhaus für das neu gebildete Saargebiet umgewandelt. Der Zweite Weltkrieg verschonte die Gebäude im Wald weitestgehend. Im Jahre 1947 war die Gründung der Universität des Saarlandes auf dem Gelände des ehemaligen Landeskrankenhauses Homburg, Partneruniversität in der Gründungsphase war Nancy, der Gründungsdekan Hans Lullies.

Im April 1948 wurde der Umzug der nichtmedizinischen Fächer nach Saarbrücken beschlossen. 2005 fand die Eröffnung des José-Carreras-Zentrums für Immun- und Gentherapie statt, 2006 die Eröffnung Ambulantes Onkologiezentrum (AOZ) für Chemotherapien bei Krebserkrankungen.

Ab 2009 wurden die nach wie vor verstreut im Gelände liegenden Gebäude im Zuge des Projektes "UKS Projekt Zukunft" neu strukturiert und für rund 200 Mio. Euro umgebaut. 2015 wurde der erste Teil des Neubaus der Inneren Medizin (IMED) fertiggestellt. Im Dezember 2018 wurde der zweite Teil beendet und von den Abteilungen bezogen, sodass sich nun die internistischen und chirurgischen Kliniken mit der zentralen Notaufnahme und der Radiologie in einem zusammenhängenden Gebäudekomplex befinden.

Die Institute für Physiologie und Biophysik konnten 2015 in das neu errichtete CIPMM (Centrum für Integrative Physiologie und Molekulare Medizin) umziehen. Ein neu errichtetes Forschungsgebäude dient der Vernetzung und gemeinsamen Nutzung verschiedener Gerätschaften für Arbeitsgruppen aus allen Fachbereichen. Die Bauzeit betrug drei Jahre, die Kosten von 36 Millionen Euro trugen der Bund (16 Millionen) und das Land (20 Millionen). Es wird auch ein neues Gebäude für die Institute für Rechtsmedizin und Pathologie errichtet, dessen Bau 2019 abgeschlossen wurde. In den Kliniken für Augenheilkunde, Dermatologie sowie Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie werden aufwendige Umbaumaßnahmen durchgeführt. Ein neues zentrales Hörsaal- und Bibliotheksgebäude ist seit 2016 im Bau.

Anfang 2020 wurde der Spatenstich für das neue PZMS gesetzt. Es soll wie das CIPMM ein zentrales Gebäude für die Biochemie und Pharmakologie darstellen.

Krankenbehandlung

Das Klinikum ist das größte Krankenhaus des Saarlandes. In den verschiedenen Fachkliniken und Instituten werden jährlich etwa 54.000 Patienten stationär und 213.000 ambulant behandelt. Als größtes Krankenhaus der Region übernimmt das Universitätsklinikum mit seinen spezialisierten Hochschulambulanzen zahlreiche Aufgaben jenseits der klassischen Maximalversorgung.

Mit zehn Intensivstationen und insgesamt 203 Intensivbetten ist das UKS das wichtigste Krankenhaus für die Versorgung kritisch kranker Patienten im Saarland. Die neonatologische Intensivstation ist ein Perinatalzentrum ersten Levels für die Versorgung Neugeborener mit höchstem Risiko.

Die im Jahr 2016 neu eröffnete Knochenmarkstransplantationsstation zählt zu den modernsten Deutschlands. Angeschlossen ist das Zentrum für Knochenmark- und Stammzelltransplantationen, das die hämatologisch-onkologische Versorgung der Region sicherstellt. Das Klinikum ist ein Zentrum für Nieren-, Lungen- und Lebertransplantationen.

Die Klinik für Unfallchirurgie leitet das Traumanetzwerk Saar-Lor-Lux-Westpfalz.

In Homburg ist der erste "Schlaganfallnotarzt" Deutschlands stationiert.

Forschung
Die Medizinische Fakultät bündelt ihre Forschungsaktivitäten auf fünf verschiedene Forschungsschwerpunkte:
 Inter- und Intrazelluläre Signalverarbeitung
 Molekulare Therapiestrategien
 Mechanismen und Auswirkungen rekombinanter Vorgänge
 Entwicklung und Regression des zentralen Nervensystems
 Biokompatible und nanostrukturierte Materialien

Es existieren 250 Forschungskooperationen weltweit. Bisher entwickelt wurden insbesondere neue Behandlungsmethoden zu: Hepatitis C, Herzinsuffizienz, Krebs und Alzheimer-Erkrankung.

Wichtige Forschungsbereiche sind:
 Sonderforschungsbereich 152 (seit 2014): Steuerung der Körperhomöostase durch TRP-Kanal-Module
 Sonderforschungsbereich 1027 (seit 2013): Physikalische Modellierung von Nichtgleichgewichtsprozessen in biologischen Systemen
 Sonderforschungsbereich 894 (seit 2011): Ca2+-Signale: Molekulare Mechanismen und integrative Funktionen
 der Klinischen Forschergruppe KFO 129: Mechanismen der Resistenzentwicklung und Optimierung antiviraler Strategie bei Hepatitis C-Virusinfektion unter Einbeziehung integrativer Modelle der Biomathematik und Bioinformatik

Forschungserfolge
 1968: Weltweit erstes C-Bogen-Stativ für die Koronarangiographie
 1990: Weltweit erste erfolgreiche Versorgung einer einseitigen Taubheit mit einem knochenverankerten Knochenleitungshörgerät (BAHA)
 1993: Erste Identifizierung bisher nicht bekannter menschlicher Tumorantigene mit der neu entwickelten SEREX-Methode
 2001: Weltweit erste beidseitige Implantation von knochenverankerten Taschenhörgeräten (CORDELLE)
 2003: Weltweit erstmaliger Einsatz eines medikamentenbeschichteten Ballonkatheters (Wirkstoff: Paclitaxel) um Wiederverengungen von Herzkranzgefäßen zu vermeiden.
 2004: Weltweit erste Kupfertherapiestudie gegen Alzheimer
 2006: Weltweit neues Verfahren zur Diagnostik von Hirntumoren (Gliomen) unter Einsatz von Jod-123-Phenylalanin

Lehre und Ausbildung
Die Medizinische Fakultät der Universität des Saarlandes bietet die Studiengänge Humanmedizin und Zahnmedizin an. Weiterhin trägt die Medizinische Fakultät gemeinsam mit der Naturwissenschaftlich-Technischen Fakultät III der Universität des Saarlandes den Studiengang Biologie mit Schwerpunkt Human- und Molekularbiologie.

An der Medizinischen Fakultät der Universität des Saarlandes studieren 2.076 Medizinstudenten (Stand: Wintersemester 2013/2014). Die Zahl der jährlichen Abschlüsse beträgt im Studiengang Medizin im Mittel 270 und in der Zahnmedizin 25. Der Beginn des Studiums ist ausschließlich zum Wintersemester möglich.

Zum Universitätsklinikum gehören 11 Fachschulen mit insgesamt 665 Ausbildungs- und 142 Weiterbildungsplätzen: Angeboten werden Ausbildungen zum Krankenpfleger, Kinderkrankenpfleger, Hebamme, Diätassistent, Orthoptist, OTA, MTLA, PTA, MTAF, MTRA, Physiotherapeut und Logopäde.

Kliniken

Im Einzelnen gliedert sich das Universitätsklinikum in 30 Kliniken und sieben Institute:
 Klinik für Anästhesiologie, Intensivmedizin und Schmerztherapie
 Klinik für Augenheilkunde
 Kliniken und Institute für Chirurgie
 Klinik für Frauenheilkunde, Geburtshilfe und Reproduktionsmedizin
 Klinik für Hals-, Nasen- und Ohrenheilkunde
 Klinik für Dermatologie, Venerologie und Allergologie
 Kliniken für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin
 Medizinische Kliniken
 Institute für Infektionsmedizin
 Kliniken und Institute für Neurologie und Psychiatrie
 Klinik für Neurochirurgie
 Klinik für Orthopädie und Orthopädische Chirurgie
 Institute für Pathologie
 Kliniken für Radiologie
 Klinik für Urologie und Kinderurologie
 Klinik für Zahn-, Mund- und Kieferheilkunde
 Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Hygiene
 Hämophiliezentrum

Verwaltung
Die Verwaltung des Universitätsklinikums ist in folgende fünf Dezernate unterteilt:
 Dezernat I – Personal
 Dezernat II – Finanzen
 Dezernat III – Wirtschaft
 Dezernat IV – Technik
 Dezernat V – Recht und Verwaltung

Neben den genannten Dezernaten gibt es noch eigenständige Einrichtungen wie: das Zentrum für Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik, das Zentrum für Medizintechnik, die Arbeitssicherheit und Umweltschutz, den Strahlenschutz und Datenschutz, den betriebsärztlichen Dienst, Projektsteuerungsbüro und das Büro für Neubauprojekte.

Missbrauchsvorwürfe
Im Sommer 2019 wurde bekannt, dass ein Mediziner, der als Assistenzarzt an der Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie des UKS tätig war, mehrere Kinder bei Untersuchungen missbraucht haben soll. Dem Mann, der im Jahr 2016 eines natürlichen Todes gestorben war, wurde vorgeworfen, medizinisch nicht notwendige Untersuchungen im Intimbereich als Routinemaßnahmen ausgegeben zu haben. Der Sachverhalt wurde der Öffentlichkeit erst infolge der Recherche des TV-Magazins Monitor bekannt, indem das Universitätsklinikum der Ausstrahlung des entsprechenden Berichtes durch eine Pressekonferenz zuvor kam. Insgesamt wurden 34 mögliche Vorfälle ermittelt, die sich auf den Zeitraum von 2010 bis 2014 erstreckten. Nach dem Tod des Verdächtigen im Jahre 2016 waren die Untersuchungen eingestellt worden. Nach dem Bekanntwerden des Sachverhalts im Zuge der Recherche der Redaktion des Magazins Monitor wurden im Jahr 2019 auch die Studienunterlagen des Verdächtigen durch eine sogenannte Task-Force gesichtet, um zu ermitteln, inwieweit mögliche Missbrauchsfälle in dessen Studienzeit von 2003 bis 2009 vorgefallen sein könnten. Die Untersuchung ergab keinerlei Hinweise auf Missbrauch im Rahmen der in dieser Zeit durchgeführten Studien und Beobachtungen, an denen der Mann als Student beteiligt gewesen war. Es wurden auch weitere mutmaßliche Missbrauchsfälle bekannt, so insbesondere an der HNO-Klinik im Jahr 2012, der jedoch nicht aufgeklärt wurde.

Im August 2019 setzte der Landtag des Saarlandes einen Untersuchungsausschuss ein. Der Untersuchungsausschuss hatte die Aufgabe zu klären, wie es zu den mutmaßlichen Missbrauchsfällen ab 2003 insbesondere in der Spezialambulanz der Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie kommen konnte und wer dafür die politische Verantwortung zu tragen habe. Die Beweisaufnahme wurde im Juli 2021 abgeschlossen.

Trivia
Das Klinikum hat als Großempfänger eine eigene Postleitzahl: 66421. Im Jahr 2015 erreichte das UKS deutschlandweit in der Focus-Klinikliste Platz 18.

Weblinks

 Website des Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes
 Website der Medizinischen Fakultät der Universität des Saarlandes
 Website von Heinrich Ullmann mit Bildern einiger Bauten der Heil- und Pflegeanstalt Homburg

Einzelnachweise

Saarland
Hochschule im Saarland
Bauwerk des Jugendstils im Saarland
Universität des Saarlandes
Unternehmen (Homburg)
Psychiatrische Klinik im Saarland


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JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – PT Jasa Marga (Persero) Tbk prints net profit amounting to Rp 157.6 billion in the third quarter of 2020.
Business Agency Highway (BUJT) this state-owned company also recorded asset growth thanks to an increase in completion progress Highway new.
Thus, the Company's total assets reached IDR 103.5 trillion or experienced a growth of 3.8 percent compared to the same period in 2019.
Jasa Marga Corporate Secretary Agus Setiawan said that the Company is committed to continuing to maintain its performance so that it remains positive amid the Covid-19 Pandemic.
"For example, making efficiency efforts in several areas such as operating expenses and
control capital expenditure or capex ( capital expenditure) Company, both operational and business development, "said Agus in a press release, Tuesday (24/11/2020).
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Agus continued, the operation of Jalan Toll Manado-Bitung segment Manado-Danowudu and Pandaan-Malang toll road Section V (Pakis-Malang) also contributed to the addition tolls which are owned.
Thus, the total toll roads owned by the Company reached 1,191 kilometers spread throughout Indonesia.
Throughout the third quarter, Jasa Marga also won several achievements in various fields, including Human Capital appreciation for the category of Best Organizational Transformation II at the 9th Anugerah BUMN 2020
Then, in the field of Gvernance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC), Jasa Marga was awarded The Best GRC for Compliance Risk Management 2020 at the 2020 GRC & Performance Excellence Award.
Then in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Jasa Marga won the Top Leader on CSR Commitment 2020 award at the 2020 TOP CSR Awards.
While in the field branding, Jasa Marga won the Most Promising Company in Branding Campaign award in the State-Owned Enterprise (BUMN) Brand & Marketing Award 2020 and Gold Winner in the Brand Strength category in the 2nd BUMN Award 2020.
"With various achievements and titles obtained until the third quarter of 2020, Jasa Marga strives to continue to achieve sustainable growth and be able to compete in the toll road industry," said Agus.
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Rebuilding communities, healing psyches
By: Joan Orendain Philippine Daily Inquirer / 04:45 AM October 21, 2012
DR. MEL Capistrano (right) with some families living in the evacuation center, during the blessing of the remaining core houses on April 18
Camelot and the Knights of the Round Table may have been a legend. But real knights did exist in the days of the Crusades, responding to the Pope's call to defend Palestine's holy places and Jerusalem, in particular, which the Seljuks of Asia Minor had captured.
The oldest surviving order of chivalry is a Roman Catholic lay religious order—the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta, once known as the Knights Hospitaller founded in Jerusalem about 1050 to provide care for sick pilgrims.
DR. MEL Capistrano, Bishop Elenito Galido, Rommel Lluch, Artemio Tabudlong and Lizet Linehan; (standing) Dr. Leo Lazatin, Cecilia R. Piñones, Delza Lazatin, Mina Carag-Harada and Marivic Concepcion
It became a military order operating from Rhodes, then Malta, when the Christians lost Jerusalem. The Order's fleet, one of the most powerful in the Mediterranean, Wikipedia states, "contributed to the ultimate destruction of the Ottoman naval power in the Battle of Lepanto in 1571." Attracted by Malta's location along strategic sea-lanes, Napoleon took over the island in 1798. Finally settling in Rome, its original hospitaller function once more became its main focus.
In several recent Philippine disasters, Malta's worldwide relief corps, Malteser International, has responded with humanitarian aid to helpless victims. Owing both to local Order of Malta resources and, to a large extent, Malteser funds, thousands of disaster victims in the Cordilleras and Muntinlupa, and still ongoing, Iligan's "Sendong" refugees, have been helped to recover.
The deep despair of victims who have lost their loved ones and everything they owned is palpable. "Recover" entails helping them bounce back from physical loss and to meet their medical, spiritual and psychosocial needs.
Engineers, architects, agricultural and hydrological experts, social workers, medical doctors, psychiatrists, men of the cloth and nuns—all have roles in the always complex disaster scenarios.
CEREMONIAL turnover of key to the families for house
assignments of temporary shelters, handed over by Iligan Bishop Elenito Galido, DD, with Dr. Leo Lazatin and Marivic Concepcion
In the aftermath of "Pepeng" and "Ondoy" in 2009, Parañaque, Muntinlupa and San Pedro, Laguna, victims were given food and other provisions from the Manila warehouse, where Malteser International stocks about two tons of relief goods. Portalets were also provided in evacuation centers.
Fishermen in Tunasan, Muntinlupa, received a new water pump and water containers, fish cages stocked with 12,000 tilapia fingerlings, and a boat.
To the rescue
The Baguio diocese recommended Pasdong in Atok, and Coruz, ambassador in Tublay, for assistance. Coming to the rescue were the Order of Malta Philippines, with Malteser International and the Order of Malta Worldwide Relief, the National Disaster Coordinating Council and the Cordillera Autonomous Region's Office of Civil Defense, and Malteser officers from overseas.
Farms were cleared of boulders, riprap built, gabions installed to prevent further mudflow encroachment, and new boundaries set, restoring farms to their rightful owners. Village officers were trained to strengthen cooperatives augmented by micro-credit services, with P10,000 loan ceilings. A tomato farmer earned P50,000; another bought a washing machine for a laundry shop in Baguio.
A CORE house at the Order of Malta area, Deus Caritas-
Diocese of Iligan. Note the pocket garden.
A multipurpose center, water tanks and latrines were built. Basic rescue training and disaster risk reduction were conducted in modules, such as basic rope safety and spinal injury immobilization.
In Mindanao just before Christmas 2011, Knight of Malta Ramon Prieto, whose wife is from Iligan, got an urgent call from a priest based there. Used by illegal loggers to float huge timbers down from the mountain, the normally tranquil Mandulog River turned into rampaging floodwaters when "Sendong" hit. In the dead of night, tons of logs crashed into houses on the flooded riverbanks, killing 1,456 and destroying thousands of houses and a school building.
Cold, hungry and traumatized, 57,000 refugees, many of whom lost loved ones, filled evacuation centers.
Two days later, Knight Prieto, with relief goods from Malteser Manila, or purchased with substantial donation from Malta Dames Marivic Concepcion and Leonida Vera, the Order's Vatican-appointed ambassador to the Philippines, flew in with two tons to Iligan, on ZestAir for free.
Accompanying him to assess the damage were Filipino Maltesers assigned abroad but who were in Manila for the holidays, Dr. Melgabal Capistrano from Myanmar, Pakistan-based engineer Floriano Arañez and Msgr. Esteban Lo, Malta Philippines' chaplain.
Last Jan. 2, Dr. Capistrano and Arañez, with Dame Mina Carag-Harada, and Knight Dr. Leopoldo Lazatin, flew to the stricken city to attend a meeting with the governor, the mayor, Bishop Elenito Galido of the Diocese of Iligan, and various organizations. The most urgent need, apart from food, water and medicines, was to decongest 16 evacuation centers in schools and a couple of gymnasiums.
While more disaster aid from Malta Singapore and Australia arrived, and a ton of relief goods and shoes from American agencies, the Knights offered to build 100 core shelters on a hectare of land donated by Bishop Galido. Designed by Arañez, the shelters would decongest one school. Lazatin's group put together a proposal addressed to Caritas Germany through Malteser International.
Psychosocial approaches
Dr. Capistrano also joined a meeting in Manila with renowned psychiatrist Lourdes Ladrido-Ignacio and Dr. Susie Mercado, and Roby and Joy Alampay, to discuss psychosocial approaches for the 100 families earmarked for Malteser assistance. Their mission: to transform the lives of 5,000 men, women and children refugees from victims to survivors.
Dr. Mercado and her classmate in Iligan, Dr. Miriam Timonera, communicated by Skype. Ten "Ginhawa" books written by Dr. Ignacio discussing psychosocial work on how to help normal people in abnormal situations, were rushed to Iligan.
Dr. Timonera's team formed the Ginhawa Group. Away from muddy evacuation centers and aided by Unicef, a Ginhawa tent was set up where children listen to music, watch videos and play with pets. Channel 5 gave them backpacks. Another tent is for mothers, where they chat, listen to music and watch documentaries, and a third tent is for medical examinations.
Dr. Capistrano took charge of camp management: food preparation, sanitation, camp activities and disaster risk training. Engineer Arañez supervised the construction of the first core shelter of hollow-block walls, concrete flooring, a toilet and a GI-sheet roof on 30 square meters, built along two rows.
With male victims helping, building the core shelters was relatively simple when compared to psychosocial intervention. The loss of family members and their homes engendered a deep feeling of powerlessness. Dr. Ladrido grouped victims into survivors who "respond appropriately" to problems confronting them, regaining a sense of empowerment, and "victims who are overwhelmed into paralysis by their sense of helplessness," which could lead to more serious psychological problems.
"Transforming victims to survivors," Dr. Ladrido said, "should be the overall goal of disaster management."
"We consider this project significant since this will be the first time we ourselves undertake a psychosocial program with a long-term perspective, i.e. focusing on child mental health promotion which offers the opportunity to reduce the child's vulnerability to mental health problems in adulthood," Dr. Lazatin says.
That is how Maltesers International, the Order of Malta Philippines, and Dr. Ignacio and Dr. Timonera's merry band of Ginhawa psychiatrists, doctors and social workers labor to restore a disaster-struck community in Iligan to normalcy and well-being.
Knight Ernesto B. Rufino is president of the Philippine order.
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