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Rounding out International Living’s Top 10 Places to Retire in 2017, this small, historic European nation is beautiful and extraordinary. It’s actually a chain of islands between Sicily and North Africa. |
International Living says retirees can expect 300 days of sun, mild winter, a laidback atmosphere and a large, welcoming international, English-speaking community. |
The cost of living is higher than others on IL’s list, though: A couple can live comfortable for less than $2,700 a month and rent a two-bedroom in Sliema, one of Malta’s liveliest cities, for about $800 a month, says IL correspondent Barbara Diggs. |
Health care here is excellent and a bargain: a GP visit costs around $20; a specialist may run $65. |
And if you’re craving to visit Paris, IL editors say, you can hop an Air Malta flight — a roundtrip costs as little as $175. |
Arbortext's Epic Editor doesn't make you choose between structured and content views of XML documents: It offers both. Like XMetaL 3, Epic is designed for content developers rather than the application developers that TurboXML and XML Spy 4.3 target. As with XMetaL, Epic's focus is on streamlining the creation of XML c... |
Epic's strength is its presentation of XML content, especially in creating tables for importing database data. Epic also includes tools for placing graphics and configuring hyperlinks. |
The program's multipane structure editor lets you quickly view the overall document structure in a left-hand pane while viewing the content in a right-hand pane. You can easily turn tag viewing on or off. Also, a partial tag view clearly indicates the positions of various elements without cluttering the content window ... |
Although you can edit XSL documents directly, there's no specific support for XSL beyond that for editing any other XML document. The Turbo Styler feature lets you quickly create a style sheet based on your existing document. By selecting a series of radio buttons and pull-down menus, you can add basic styling, such as... |
Epic generates HTML transformation markup to render the document instance in the program's editor. But the comments Turbo Styler automatically produces and places in the style sheet warn you that modifying this markup may make it unusable by the editor. Turbo Styler doesn't offer the support you'd look for in a general... |
When it comes to schema support, Epic uses DTDs for validation and lets you generate a DTD based on a document instance. A significant advantage, Epic validates elements as you author them, avoiding document-constraint violations. |
Among Epic's drawbacks are insufficient support for actual DTD editing and the absence of documented support for the more recent XML Schema standard. When we attempted to load a document that referenced an XML Schema, the document passed Epic's well-formed and validity checks, but the editor ignored schema references c... |
LONDON (REUTERS) - Ms Meghan Markle's father said on Monday (Dec 17) that he hoped Queen Elizabeth would intercede to end his estrangement from his daughter, the wife of Britain's Prince Harry. |
"I would appreciate anything she can do and I would think that she would want to resolve the family problems," Mr Thomas Markle said of Queen Elizabeth in an interview aired live on ITV. |
"All families, royal or otherwise, are the same and they should all be together certainly around the holidays," Mr Markle said. |
Mr Markle said that Meghan had not sent him a Christmas card, but that he was hopeful that they could at some time build their relationship. |
"All I can say is that I'm here, she knows it and I've reached out to her and I need her to reach back to me. I love her very much," Mr Markle said. "I love my daughter very much and she has to know that." |
Kensington Palace did not immediately comment on the interview. |
SACRAMENTO – California’s troubled addiction treatment industry may face stricter oversight and a raft of new requirements in 2018, as lawmakers try to protect vulnerable patients and reduce blatant fraud. |
“We’re all at fault for allowing this to grow out of control the way it has,” said Albert Senella, president and CEO of Tarzana Treatment Centers in Los Angeles. |
The Southern California News Group spent a year probing the addiction industry and found it peppered with financial abuses that bleed untold millions from public and private pockets. Broke addicts are commodities – bought, sold and exploited in an underworld rife with kickbacks, drug use and fraud that bleeds money fro... |
It starts with “body brokers” who scour the nation for addicts, then deliver them to the centers that pay the most for clients. Some patients die in “non-medical” detox centers that would not be allowed to open in other states. And many note a revolving door between detox centers, treatment facilities, sober living hom... |
“Because of the profits and the current minimal fines the (state) is able to collect, there are people running rampant,” said Malibu Councilman Lou La Monte, whose city has a high concentration of addiction treatment centers. |
Sen. Richard Roth, D-Riverside, read from the dais a printout of the Southern California News Group’s reports detailing the death of 21-year-old Dillon DeRita. DeRita suffered a fatal heart attack on the patio of Costa Mesa’s Pacific Coast Detox. Video showed rehab workers checking on him, finding him unresponsive and ... |
Another problem is the crop of sober living homes popping up in Southern California’s coastal cities. |
Federal law has created a hands-off situation for these homes, which provide a roof and a bed for addicts considered by law to be disabled and, as such, legally protected from certain city ordinances or zoning rules. Addicts, because they are considered disabled, are also guaranteed insurance under the Affordable Care ... |
The cure to the sober living home problem is complex. Speakers appearing before the committee Wednesday said the answer lies not only with the state legislature but with federal lawmakers. |
Requiring a medical exam before an addict enters treatment, to determine which placement is appropriate. |
Requiring the state to license and background check addiction counselors. Now, an outside agency “certifies” them. |
Making body-brokering – the selling of patients to the highest bidder – a felony so prosecutors are willing to pursue those cases. |
Cracking down on false advertising. |
One industry expert noted that 32 states require that drug and alcohol counselors be licensed, but California is not among them. |
Anne Eowan, senior vice president for the Association of California Life and Health Insurance Companies, testified that regulators also should keep a closer eye on treatment centers that pay the insurance premiums for addicts. |
“Most of these people are unwitting dupes, they don’t even know they are being signed up for insurance,” Eowan said. |
The people seeking addiction treatment are often at one of the most vulnerable points of their lives, said Jennifer Kent, director of the Department of Health Care Services, which regulates treatment centers. |
“To the extent there is not a consistency of services, that can lead to tragic outcomes and expectations that are not fulfilled. To the extent we can assure people that they get a quality product – I think we owe it to them to assure them that,” Kent said. |
Sen. Pat Bates, R-Laguna Niguel, has been trying to get rehab-related legislation through the Legislature for years. “Maybe we’ll get somewhere this year,” she said. |
Lora Fisher has joined the Union Bank’s consumer lending group as a mortgage consultant serving the Golden Triangle branch in La Jolla. |
Fisher is responsible for assisting the bank’s new and existing clients with their personal mortgage needs and loan originations. In this newly created position, she will report to Regional Sales Manager William Bilicki. |
The bank has also added Susie H. Friedman as a business client advisor in the Business Banking group. |
Reporting to Regional Vice President Jonathan Holmes, Friedman is responsible for identifying and managing new client relationships surrounding an array of products and services, including loans, deposits, cash management and foreign exchange. She is based in San Diego, California. |
It was actor Harrison Ford's good fortune as well as others on the ground that a golf course was near the airport at which he was attempting to return when he crash-landed his World War II training aircraft on Thursday. |
Ford, who was hospitalized after suffering injuries that were not life-threatening, brought his plane down on Penmar Golf Course in Venice, catercorner from the end of the Santa Monica Municipal Airport runway from which he had taken off only moments earlier. |
"Looking at where he crashed and how the plane went down, I'm sure there was a moment where he said, I'm not going to risk lives, whatever happens, happens. It's going to be just me,'" Eddie Aguglia, who was playing a round of golf at the time, told NBC News. |
"He risked life and limb by putting it down on the golf course instead of trying to go further to try to get back to the airport. Another 25 to 30 yards and…I don't want to think about it. He saved several lives." |
Golf courses are often used as emergency landing strips, given their often wide and relatively flat fairways. Last month, one plane made an emergency landing at Skywest Golf Course in Hayward, Calif., and another crash-landed at Valley View Golf Course in Layton, Utah. During World War II, the War Department viewed gol... |
Airplane manufacturer and movie producer Howard Hughes was test-piloting an experimental Army photographic plane when it experienced trouble and was attempting to land it on Los Angeles Country club, when he came up about 100 yards short, according to the Los Angeles Times. |
Penmar is a short (2,582 yards) nine-hole course owned by the city of Los Angeles. It opened in 1962. |
A fun gift shop in Portland for kids and grownups too! |
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Locally owned and operated in Portland, Oregon. |
What the community has to say about Hello! Good Morning! |
A series of restrictive voting policies backed by Republicans were upheld by state and federal courts last week—rulings that could potentially affect the outcomes of several close midterm elections. In Arkansas, the state’s highest court upheld an anti-voter fraud law requiring voters to show photo ID before voting. In... |
Abrams and Kemp: Who gets to vote? |
For Republicans, voter suppression is a survival strategy, said Jay Michaelson in TheDailyBeast.com. Aware that they’re living in an increasingly diverse nation, the largely white GOP is trying to hold on to power “by making it harder for nonwhite people to vote.” In recent years, Republican-dominated states have shutt... |
“In an era of close elections,” said Jonathan Tobin in TheFederalist.com, “zero tolerance for fraud seems sensible.” Democrats want to conflate voter security laws with Jim Crow, but the idea that blacks or Native Americans are incapable of securing a photo ID “is as absurd as it is insulting.” This country already req... |
At 22, Amy Willans was a driven nursing student and champion figure skater. In 1996 she began to experience paranoid thoughts and depression and was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder. The poet and acclaimed peer support worker talks to Dr. Goldman about living with mental illness and her journey to recovery. |
Amy (in pink) as a young skater on the podium. After being hospitalized for mental illness, Amy gave up her place on Canada's national precision skating team and never skated again. (Submitted by Amy Willans) At 22, Amy Willans was a driven nursing student with a part-time job and a spot on Canada's national precision ... |
It was 1996, she was dating the varsity football quarterback and had her whole life planned out. |
"I was going to be traveling and competing and representing my country, which was so exciting," Willans recalled. |
To outsiders, the young Edmonton woman was on an upward trajectory. |
But inside her own head, she was besieged by thoughts of worthlessness, self-doubt and, even more troubling, growing paranoia. |
"I began to believe that I was being watched and followed. I started to have these delusions that I was pregnant when I wasn't," Willans told Dr. Brian Goldman, host of White Coat, Black Art. |
She was eventually diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder: a condition that can be hard to diagnose, but which combines schizophrenia with a mood disorder — in her case, depression. |
Willans called police repeatedly to report she was being followed or her mail was stolen. |
As paranoia took hold, she locked herself in her apartment and had to be coaxed out by her mother, a psychiatric nurse, and hospitalized. |
"[Depression] yelled in my ear that I was nothing, that I was no one, that everybody hated me … I stopped eating. I stopped showering." |
In any given year, one in five Canadians will experience mental health issues according to the Canadian Mental Health Association, and stigma attached to the disease is seen as a major barrier to recovery. |
Willans' life as a "sister, and friend and athlete and student" was suddenly trumped by another title: psychiatric patient. |
With that title came isolation. She recalled sitting by the door of her hospital room, waiting for visitors that never came. |
"I didn't receive 'Get Well Soon' cards or pink balloons. There was just this silence." |
The loneliness was unbearable, but the stigma — even from health-care workers — made it worse, she said, recalling an incident in an Ontario hospital. |
"This nurse came in and she had a student and she said, 'This one's a schizophrenic.' I remember just sitting there with my head down feeling so incredibly humiliated by this experience." |
The nurse found her crying because she'd been cut off her medication. As Willans begged for help, the nurse told the student she simply seeking drugs. |
"I've never abused medications in my life," Willans said. |
Earlier this year, Willans wrote about the biases she's faced in a Globe and Mail article. |
She slowly recovered, and learned to manage her disease after her family took her home to Alberta, where she found a new doctor and compassionate nurses. |
One nurse took her out for ice cream, she said, while another let her father stay after visiting hours to help her get to sleep. |
But she credits one nurse, who she calls "Nurse Mary," with helping her to find a new purpose, and a new identity as a writer. |
During her last hospital stay in 2001, Willans began writing verses on scraps of paper she hid around the hospital. |
The nurse, a published poet, collected them and typed them out for her to display on a bulletin board. |
She also led her to a women's writing workshop, which a "terrified" Willans attended once she was released. |
She loved the workshop, but was afraid to read her work in front of the group. |
"I was shaking … One woman came and stood to my left and another one came to my right. They each just gently put a hand on my shoulder and it settled me. I was able to read a poem." |
That, she said, was the moment she found her voice and lost some of the shame she'd felt over her illness. |
"It was one of the biggest gifts that I've ever been given. I have Nurse Mary to thank for that." |
Willans is now a published poet and an award-winning peer support worker. In 2012, she was the first peer support worker in Alberta to join a clinical team. |
"My first thought isn't always my best thought," she said with a laugh. |
She uses it to deal with paranoid thoughts which still creep in now and then. |
"I'll think, 'OK, I'm sitting here watching TV with the cat. Why would somebody be interested in watching me?'" |
Finding the correct medication, after trying many combinations was also key. |
"It was like somebody had turned the lights on," she said. |
Her peer support has allowed her to help others understand the stigma mental health patients face. |
"There's so much more to a person than their illness. We don't call somebody with cancer, 'Cancer." So don't call somebody who has schizophrenia [their disease],'" said Willans. |
Willans knows she's been blessed with a supportive family and good caregivers, but she believes recovery is possible for everyone, if given the right resources. |
"You need encouragement, you need purpose, you need proper housing ... But everybody can get well." |
Willans is currently working on a memoir about her life and experience with mental illness. |
From Fighting Normal, a book of poetry and art by Amy Willans and Laurie MacFayden. |
Global Energy Transmission Corporation (“GET”), a provider of long distance high power wireless power solutions for industrial applications, has raised a $2.5M seed round. |
The new investment round is a landmark cross border Russian-US joint technology venture investment, led by IP Fund (Russia) and Draper Associates (US). IP Fund participated in this transaction via PapayaFIN Ltd. which became the new shareholder. The new funds will be used to develop GET’s industrial wireless power char... |
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