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__label__wiki	0.614807	0.614807	Necker Summit Empowering Early Stage Startups to Build a Better World What is Future Founders Future Founders is a unique innovation programme that inspires, invests in, and guides early stage startups to success. Powered by Venturespring in collaboration with Tata Communications, Made, as some of the world’s biggest brands and business leaders, Future Founders propels early stage startups to the next level by unlocking corporate resources, investment and mentoring. A special thanks to our sponsors for empowering startups to build better futures. Why we created Future Founders We created the Future Founders innovation programme to give young leaders access to the resources they need to scale their startups. However, our commitment to early stage startups goes far beyond seed capital. Our team is dedicated to nurturing the next generation of game changers by providing a springboard for creating a positive, growth-driven future. Unlike traditional innovation programmes, Future Founders is corporate backed. The upside? Your startup gains unparalleled access to corporate resources, business mentors and networking opportunities that are aligned with your values, so you can create the change you want to see in the world, but faster. Bridging the gap between corporations and startups We believe in supporting growth-driven startups that are developing game-changing solutions to the world’s biggest problems. Our unique approach to corporate-startup collaboration puts you on an accelerated track to innovation, empowering you to positively shape the future. What do I get by joining? Be on a better path to success. Push your startup further and get where you want to go on this accelerated path to unlocked corporate resources and mentoring. Up to a $50,000 seed investment to propel your startup to the next level Access to entrepreneurs with a proven track record Access to a 6 week acceleration programme that will provide you with advice, mentorship, and hands-on support in key business areas An invitation to the Future Founders Summit on Necker Island, where you’ll have the opportunity to meet with the world's most successful business entrepreneurs, including Richard Branson, Elon Musk, and other like-minded visionaries An opportunity to hear Future Founder Summit speakers discuss key trends and learn about what corporate resources are available to help startups like yours A powerful professional network is an invaluable resource. Our Future Founders Summit gives you a chance to mix and mingle with high profile industry leaders and tech visionaries such as Sir Richard Branson, Elon Musk, and other liked-minded entrepreneurs. Our Judges Our panel of experts will review startup entries with the greatest potential to change our future. Startups will be judged based on originality, business model, team, design, and potential for growth and engagement. Applications for the Future Founders innovation programme are now open! If you’ve got a revolutionary startup product that’s already gained some traction, then we want to hear from you. Fill out the registration form to apply. Good luck! About Venturespring A digital transformation firm and early growth venture capital fund that match makes corporates with game changing ventures. We bridge the gap between startups and corporations to empower technology ventures to grow and prosper faster. We work with corporates who are interested in disrupting themselves and future forward ventures who are ready to take their businesses to the next level. Our mission is to bridge the gap between startups and corporations. We believe in the power of young talent and its potential to shape our future. We also believe that the synergy of the entrepreneurial spirit and corporate resources is the key to unlocking innovation. SIGN UP TO OUR NEW NEWSLETTER Sign up for the Venturespring newsletter, and be the first to receive must-know tips, advice and more for startups! 2 Eastbourne Terrace, London W2 6LG 25 Taylor Street, Standard Chartered Tower, level 5 emaar square, dubai 999 Copyright ©2017 Venturespring Ltd. All rights reserved.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line803
__label__cc	0.624967	0.375033	TiD&B Interview & Mix: Hybrid Minds Posted by Lady V on Friday, April 13th, 2012 We last spoke with Hybrid Minds just under a year ago when Matt aka Sensa and Josh aka Haste’s collaborative project had just started bubbling, but with so much happening since then, including a string of top notch releases and a new addition to the crew, we felt a catch up was more than necessary! Lady V chatted with the duo, also asking them to provide an exclusive guest mix which they did a stellar job with; 30 minutes of lush liquid cuts, just for you, under the jump… TiD&B: When we last spoke, Hybrid Minds was still a fairly new project but now your name is cropping up a lot, and more specifically, being associated with the crème de la crème of labels putting out those good soulful vibes – it’s a big look! Hybrid Minds: We are overwhelmed by how well our tracks have been going down so far, and in such a short time too. The support from the scene and the online channels like UKF & Liquicity has been amazing. It’s a real honour to be able to release our tunes with labels that we have always admired. We just want to carry on making music and see how far we can take it. It’s a very good feeling to feel like we are starting to make our own small mark on the scene. TiD&B: You also appear to have become 3? Having collaborated with Grimm on quite a few releases, is he now part of Hybrid Minds? Hybrid Minds: Grimm is most definitely now part of Hybrid Minds. We plan to continue to work together on most of the tracks and keep the sound we have and expand with it. He’s become part of the brand now and a good portion of what Hybrid Minds is all about. But like a battery, he has a negative side and that is…he’s ginger, haha! TiD&B: Some of our favorite liquid releases of 2012 have come from you guys, but are you ever tempted to make harder sounds such as the kind you were producing before joining forces under the Hybrid Minds moniker? Do they crop up in studio sessions anymore? Hybrid Minds: It’s weird you should ask, we were just discussing that last night – we absolutely love the darker side of things and play it in our sets a lot. It’s just that our hands have been pretty tied up with making music on the other end of the scale. Our love goes beyond the melodic side of things but at the minute we are just trying to cement our sound. It’s still very early days and we can guarantee we will be making some dance floor bangers. We have made a couple collabs with Anile which have been going down very well but we are not sure what is happening with them yet. TiD&B: What have you got planned next, is there an album in the works? Hybrid Minds: We have more than enough potential tracks on the way to compile an album but it’s still very early days, it is something we have discussed but nothing is confirmed as of yet. TiD&B: You’ve put together an awesome guest mix for us, featuring MC Tempza on hosting duties who does a wicked job – what ideal place/state of mind do you suggest we should be in to listen to it? Josh: Our music is aimed at happy people who like dinosaurs, so I think the ideal place think to listen to this mix would have to be in a past life whilst riding a pterodactyl. Matt: I’d want to listen to it whilst in the Wacky Warehouse, swimming in the ball pit. With those wise words, hurry up and press play… Hybrid Minds’ self-titled debut EP is out now on AudioPorn. Hybrid Minds: May 2012 Mix Video: Hybrid Minds feat. Grimm 'Lost' Hybrid Minds: August 2011 Mix Hybrid Minds: July 2011 Mix TiD&B Interview: Hybrid Minds Free Track: Sensa 'The Dream Catcher' (Hybrid Minds VIP) Posted on: 13/04/12 Categories: Interviews Mixes TiD&B Features	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line809
__label__wiki	0.87334	0.87334	Slaughter Beach, Dog Gladie, Spirit Desire Hard Luck Bar 772 Dundas St. W. Toronto, ON, M6J 1V1 This event is all ages Few bands can say they were born out of necessity, but Slaughter Beach, Dog can. In 2015, Jake Ewald, in the midst of trying to write songs for his other band Modern Baseball (which has since gone on hiatus), hit a patch of writer’s block. To get himself back in action, Ewald decided to move the focus off of himself, stitching together a loose narrative surrounding a motley cast of characters. Before he knew it, he’d written an entire album, and Slaughter Beach, Dog was no longer an exercise, it was a full-fledged band. “ When I gave myself the specific goal to write these kinds of songs and figure out how to do it, it just broke me open in a way I really needed.” What came pouring out of Ewald was Welcome,a 10-track debut that showed his ability to create a world of his own making, all the while blurring the line between fiction and reality. At times, he’d be singing about people and situations he invented, but the songs were still personal, often informed by experiences deep in his past, excavated for the purpose of expanding his songwriting vocabulary. This approach is even more evident on the new, four-song Slaughter Beach, Dog EP, Motorcycle. jpg. Recalling the likes of John K. Samson or David Bazan, this new batch of songs darts between musical styles and narrative structures. Protagonists go unnamed, leaving it up to the listener to deduce whether or not Ewald is singing about himself or offering updates to the characters found on Welcome. . “ Building The Ark,” Motorcycle .jpg’s first single, works in the same framework as the best songsby The Weakerthans. Like John K. Samson, Ewald is a songwriter that sweats the small stuff, focusing in on tiny details in order to tell a freewheeling account of a strange night in Las Vegas. It’s abstract framing recalls the storytelling of David Lynch, featuring some bloody knuckles and a hazy dream that culminates in a love scene inside of a 7-11. Musically, it’s akin to the deconstructionist Americana found on Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (his namechecking of “ Heavy Metal Drummer” on “ 104 Degrees” drives it home all the more) as instruments swirl around Ewald, with twangy lead guitar parts peppered in and some oddly-timed cymbal crashes accenting the song’s unpredictable aura. “ I took that as an opportunity to get a little bit weirder than usual,” said Ewald, noting that the EP taps into a more ambitious style of production, while pointing people in the direction of where the new Slaughter Beach, Dog LP—which is currently being recorded—will likely end up. Though it may sounds like a sonic leap, Motorcycle .jpg shows Ewald isn’t so much interested in reinvention as much as he is expansion. Everything he’s hinted at in his previous work is blown out here, allowing him to create songs that never settle into one specific set of sounds. “ 104 Degrees” features chest-rattling synths and a plainspoken vocal delivery befitting of Fred Thomas. The acoustic guitar strums accompanied by muted drums on “ Glowing” turn a Superweaks cover into a Left And Leaving B-side. “ Your Cat” is a sunbaked, out-of-body fantasy that’s both aimlessly fun and deeply introspective. Though Slaughter Beach, Dog may have started as a project for Ewald to get past a mental block, it’s grown into something more. Under this moniker Ewald has built a rich, vibrant world—and it may very well be the one we’re living in. LP bioFew bands can say they were born out of necessity, but Slaughter Beach, Dog can. In 2015, Jake Ewald, in the midst of trying to write songs for his other band Modern Baseball (which has since gone on hiatus), hit a patch of writer’s block. To get himself back in action, Ewald decided to move the focus off of himself, stitching together a loose narrative surrounding a motley cast of characters. Before he knew it, he’d written an entire album, and Slaughter Beach, Dog was no longer an exercise, it was a full-fledged band. “ When I gave myself the specific goal to write these kinds of songs and figure out how to do it, it just broke me open in a way I really needed.” What came pouring out of Ewald was Welcome,a 10-track debut that showed his ability to create a world of his own making, all the while blurring the line between fiction and reality. At times, he’d be singing about people and situations he invented, but the songs were still personal, often informed by experiences deep in his past, excavated for the purpose of expanding his songwriting vocabulary. Slaughter Beach, Dog’s new album Birdie (October 27 on Lame-O Records) expands upon the framework Ewald built on Welcome and the recent EP Motorcycle .jpg, retaining the hallmarks of Slaughter Beach, Dog while pushing into brave new territories A single listen to Birdie shows how much Ewald has grown as a songwriter, embellishing every detail in his songs without losing his homespun charms. Where Welcome felt based in rock’s grand tradition, Birdie is at once more expansive and more intimate. Songs ebb and flow in the way of The Weakerthans, still rocking, but in a more scholarly way. “ I took [Motorcycle .jpg] as an opportunity to get a little bit weirder than usual,” said Ewald, and it’s clear that the EP was a signpost for where he’d be taking Slaughter Beach, Dog on Birdie. “ Gold And Green” sees Ewald skirt the lines between half a dozen genres,creating a song that’s able to mine vintage genres like folk and country in order to make something contemporary. Strumming an acoustic guitar, Ewald spins a narrative flush with details, boasting lyrics that are, depending on your reading, either wildly impressionistic and or plain as day. Ewald plays into this ambiguity expertly, offering songs that use a lilting bounce to obscure the darkness of the world he’s building. “ Fish Fry” is a prime example, utilizing a simple backbeat, a chugging guitar riff, and a ruminative vocal melody, the song allows Ewald to toss out references to his past work for those paying close attention. Much like on Motorcycle .jpg’s “ Building The Ark,” Ewald once again finds himself dreaming of a convenience store, inviting fans to dig into his lyrics to unfurl every subplot running beneath his gooey melodies. Similarly, “ Acolyte” closes the record but simultaneously opens a door, showing Ewald at his most introspectively ambitious. The song sprawls out, expanding slowly and deliberately, completing Birdie’s arch without providing any definitive answers. Though Slaughter Beach, Dog may have started as a project for Ewald to get past a mental block, it’s grown into something more. Under this moniker Ewald has built a rich, vibrant world, one that invites thoughtful analysis from fans, and continues to expand past its initial intent. Birdie is bountiful in its scope, with songs that pile on layers of instruments and suck you into the world of Slaughter Beach, Dog. And once you’re there, you never want to leave Gladie Spirit Desire Sun, August 4 Lil Lotus Fri, September 6 Thu, September 12 The Toasters girl in red – world in red Slaughter Beach, Dog with Gladie, Spirit Desire Wednesday, September 26 · Doors 7:00 PM at Hard Luck Bar	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line810
__label__wiki	0.51228	0.51228	I wonder, I wonder April 16, 2017 By Tim WorstallComments:12 Comments I seriously doubt it’s going to happen but what if Melenchon and Le Pen are the two that make it to the second round? Would be rather cat among the pigeons, wouldn’t it? “Never forget the French are a people who cut off heads. We did this. Literally,” The terror, eh, the terror Nice to confirm it of course 12 comments on “I wonder, I wonder” Bloke in North Dorset says: Either one of those becoming President would give the EU a lot more of a headache than where to site a couple of bureaucracies. The France is done and so is the EU. Happy about the second bit. He’s crazier than Le Pen by a mile. Andrew M says: Seven-to-one odds on a Le Pen / Mélenchon final. It’s not out of the question. Support for Macron is begrudging: he’s the Hillary of France. Support for Mélenchon is more authentic: he’s the Bernie Sanders of France. There are still a lot of undecided voters out there. I am still hoping the French will break 2000 years of history and appoint a woman as head of State. The polls suggest otherwise but they have been wrong before Bongo says: After 30 years of always voting for massive losers, things changed last year. When a vote is decided by <2% either way it's quite a rush feeling that you might have mattered. I hope that the French who are bothered are getting this rush too. It's also sweet to see people you don't care for turding themselves at the possibilities. Andrew M Seven-to-one odds on a Le Pen / Mélenchon final. It’s not out of the question. Support for Macron is begrudging: he’s the Hillary of France. Re Macron, I found this interesting. https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2017/04/emmanuel-macron-frances-ed-miliband-not-justin-trudeau/ I am an elected municipal councillor and talk to scores, if not hundreds, of French voters from every social class and way of life. I hear plenty of support for Le Pen, including from many young people and women who are concerned about security; much more support than I would have expected for Fillon, and lots of admiration for Mélenchon. Of Macron, oddly, I hear barely a word. I detect no enthusiasm for him whatsoever. “He wants to renegotiate EU treaties and quit Nato, the World Trade Organisation, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, ” Doesn’t President Trump want to renegotiate treaties, alter the relationship with NATO and give the finger to globalist organisations too? And yet apparently one is good, the other very, very bad. Charlie Suet says: I still think the French system, like the Dutch system, will facilitate the election of someone acceptable to the establishment. Then they’ll ignore the fact that millions of people voted for the other candidate, as with Geert Wilders. There aren’t that many similarities between Brexit and foreign politics, but the ones that do exist mostly lie in the attitudes of those that oppose these sorts of movements. The belief that you can go on ignoring a gathering storm without moderating your opinions at all will never end well. @PF: “Of Macron, oddly, I hear barely a word. I detect no enthusiasm for him whatsoever” Not that surprising. Political parties rely on having either the charismatic leaders that attract some voters while possibly repelling others (Thatcher, Blair, Trump, Le Pen), or they go with a safe pair of hands likely to garner a lot of (sometimes half-hearted) support from a broad range of factions within their party/grouping and win support almost by default (Major, Cameron, Merkel). Fillon and Macron fall into the latter category while Le Pen and Melenchon are in the former. The trouble is that Le Pen and Melenchon, despite being labelled right wing and left wing respectively, seem to espouse identical policies. That no commentator is able to see this just goes to show what idiots work in the media. So the protest vote will split between them and neither will get through the first round. Edward M. Grant says: The real political divide these days is not between socialism and capitalism, but between globalism and nationalism. There’s no point worrying about whether your government is ‘left wing’ or ‘right wing’ if your nation has no effective borders. Diogenes – “The trouble is that Le Pen and Melenchon, despite being labelled right wing and left wing respectively, seem to espouse identical policies.” Except they don’t. They espouse similar policies in areas you care about. On the whole “sucking up to terrorists and flooding France with Arabs” front, they have very different policies. Macron apologised for Algeria. Le Pen, whose father fought bravely to save Algeria from Communism, well Communism’s close friends, does not. That is a major policy difference. The Soil Association was founded by Fascists. It has been taken up by Charles and the Guardian reading classes. That doesn’t make them Fascists. That just means they share the same irrational views about soil – but not about Jews for instance. I believe in protecting whales. But it doesn’t mean I agree with Greenpeace on anything else.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line811
__label__cc	0.535909	0.464091	Children Crossword Puzzles Older Children Word Search Puzzles Children Crosswords These crosswords are made for kids ages 8 to 12. They are made up of words that are often found in third, fourth, fifth, and sixth grade spelling lists and cover subjects of interest to older kids. To view or print a crossword puzzle for children click on its title. Instructions / Description Sample Puzzle Hints Human Body System Body use the clues to find the answer a short band of tough, flexible, fibrous connective tissue that connects two bones or cartilages or holds together a joint.. the tendency toward a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements, especially as maintained by physiological processes.. a short band of tough, flexible, fibrous connective tissue that connects two bones or cartilages or holds together a joint.. The muscular system is an organ system consisting of skeletal, smooth and cardiac muscles.. The framework of the body, consisting of bones and other connective tissues, which protects and supports the body tissues and internal organs. . Joseph in Canaan Bible The brothers rip up Joseph's coat and dip it in this.. Jacob had this many sons.. Jacob and his sons were these.. Joseph's brothers throw him in one.. The brothers sell Joseph to these men for 20 pieces of silver.. American Revolution History a person who wanted the 13 colonies to be independent. a person who was loyal to the King of England during the colonial times. something that a person is or should be allowed to have, get or do. an act of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from getting in or out. a point of view or way of seeing something. President's Day Government and Politics Use last name's only Was a general for the union armies in the Civil War. Middle name was Hussein. Was President when 9-11 took place. Gerald was his first name. A President often called Ronnie. Thomas Jefferson Government and Politics He was the ______ president.. On what month did his wife pass away?. Where did he spend most of his childhood?. Where does he die?. He graduated from the college of ______ and mary.. Layers of Earth Earth Sciences Movements of the Earth's Lithosphere. The point where an earthquake starts. A theory on how energy transfers during earthquakes. An instrument that records the features of an earthquake. A fracture in the volume of a rock. The Patriot History Character Hung in the Beginning of the Story. Sophia's Brother. Title of The Book. Main Character. The _____ Occupied The Calderwoods Home City . Telescopes Technology Communicates with spacecraft. Makes an object appear closer. Tells us about future and past. Uses concave mirror. Can see. Seven times further than our eyes. Castle in the Attic Books - Childrens Literature A big stone building that knights and kings live in. A hero who saved a kingdom. A place with lots of trees. Someone in shining armour. A knight who gets turned to lead. Entry Level English Spelling Lists A type of snake. Past Tense of Think. Your name is a _______ noun. Past Tense of Speak. Word which joins two sentences together. Modern Periodic Table Math complete the crossword puzzle on the basis of your understanding if two elements have same number of shells then they belong to same------. elements of same group have same number of---------. modern periodic law is based on atomic----------. the number of valence electrons in F is. atomic size------------from top to bottom. Fairy Tales Home and Family Fill in the crossword someone who is not fighting on your side. an abnormally small creature. bad luck. person of noble birth, trained to help the poor and the weak. small, human in form, playful, with magical powers. Ocean Currents Earth Sciences area of land found between low and high tide. swift currents that flow away from the beach. a narrow current parallel to the shoreline. rock that is broken down into smaller pieces. movement of the sand on the beach by breaking waves and the movement of the sand in long shore currents. Math Math a polygon with six sides. each angular point of a polygon. a plane figure with at least three straight sides and angles. a polygon with seven sides. numbers that can be expressed in a+bi form. Animal Kingdom Animals hard covering of the body of an insect. lives only in water, has gills. warm-blooded, hairy, backboned animal. animals with no backbone. many have feathers and fly, born from eggs. Solids, Liquids and Gases Chemistry This is a very dangerous type of gas.. This is what we see in the winter.. This is the last step in the water cycle.. This is what we breath out.. A type of gas that we need to live.. Tiger Woods Sports Writer of Books. State Tiger was born. Event Tiger won in Augusta, GA. Tiger's first braning company. Tiger's real name. Improving Self Esteem Other Please fill in the blanks on ways to Improve Self Esteem. Replace negative thoughts with ______ ones.. Celebrate your own _____.. Building up positive thoughts and improving your ______.. 'You have to climb a mountain ____ step at a time.'. Be able to ______ others.. Language of Position Spelling Lists Write the best word for each sentence. comes after second. close to something. on the side of something. comes before fifth. comes after first. Fun Facts About Germany World Geography The German word for blue.. How many countries border on to Germany?. How many states does Germany have?. The German word for Germany.. This German city shares the same name as a 'hot dog'.. The Crucible Literature and Writing Write the correct word that matches the hint Who gave Elizabeth the poppet. Which girl confessed. How many warrants were issued that night. The person who was sentenced to hang. Who is charged for murder. Elements of Art Art An enclosed area that is 2-dimensional.. The surface quality of an object. Can be real or implied. . A range of lights and darks. . A line drawing that describes the shape and interior details of an object.. The distance or area between, around, above, below, or within things.. Planet Mercury Astronomy dry and rocky. Nearest plant. What the core is mostly made of. Holes in the surface. Mercury has none. Elephant Animals All about elephants Type of elephant. Colour of their skin. Continent they live in . Country they live in . Type of elephant. The Northern Renaissance History What did the growth of cities help create?. Why were other people starting to interact more?. Who invented the printing press. How was the Northern Renaissance different from the Italian Renaissance?. Name one thing Shakespeare wrote.. Westward Expansion History the name given to the 800-mile forced march of 15,000 Cherokee in 1838 from their homes in Georgia to the Indian Territory. Moved people and goods quickly on rivers and canals. Moved raw materials and goods quickly over land. a person who is among the first nonnative people to sette in a region. Person who wanted to end slavery. Space Transportation Transportation First satellite in space (no number). First person to orbit the earth. Space missions to take pictures and study mars . First dog in space. reusable rockets. 1st Amendment Government and Politics this freedom means the government cannot stop people from saying what they think. means to have the supreme power. added to the Constitution to protect citizens' freedoms (3 words). the number of amendments in the Bill of Rights. this freedom means people can request that the government makes changes. Life Cycle of Stars Astronomy a core of a star that is left behind. a large cloud of gas and dust. a very large star that is running out of fuel that is brighter and cooler than a giant. an object with gravity so strong nothing can escape it. any star that is fusing hydrogen in its core with a stable balance. Cyclones Meteorology I. Crossword Puzzle It is a disturbance that originates in the South Pacific and Indian Ocean.. It is a rotating, organized system of clouds and thunderstorms that originates over tropical or subtropical waters and has a closed low-level circulation.. It is a disturbance that originates in the Northwest Pacific.. It is a disturbance that originates in the Atlantic and Northeast Pacific.. The wind speed of the cyclone is less than 63 km/hr.. Plant Life Cycle Botany Sticky Powder.. Part of the plant that helps reproduction.. Changes that happen during the life of a plant.. Where a plant makes new plants.. When a plant makes its own food and releases oxygen.. Moons Astronomy Large moon of Saturn and has liquid lakes. Something other than water that Europa and Earth has in common. ______s have been seen jetting out of Europa and Enceladus. Sixth planet from our sun and has 62 moons. Small moon of Jupiter and the sixth largest moon in our solar system. Rock Cycle Geology cools on the exterior of the volcano. this kind of igneous rock cools slowly and forms large crystals with coarse grains. sedimentary rocks found in layers and formed from organic material. rocks made by the layering and compacting. a specific type of igneous rock. Slavery and North vs. South Economy History cotton and Tabasco were the main products produced for its value than being used. believed their way of slavery was abolished. the South is known as the ________. the state where the first slaves were sent in America. African American woman who believed blacks were happy as slaves . Neil Armstrong Crossword US History What state was Neil Armstrong born in?. What state was Neil Armstrong ordered for overseas active duty? . Who was Neil Armstrongs flight instructor in 1946? . Was Neil Armstrong the first man to step foot on the moon? Write yes or no.. What was Neil Armstrong granted when he was sixteen years old?. Matter Physics An element or compound; matter that always has exactly the same composition. a mixture that has some particles that are intermediate size between small and large . a change that occurs when some properties of a material change . change that occurs when a substance reacts and forms one or new substances. a substance that is made from two or more simpler substances; can be broken . Science Rocks Science This scientist from the late 1600's and early 1700's has three laws of motion.. Atoms are made of protons, electrons, and ______.. Rain, snow, and sleet are all forms of ___________.. The three types of rocks are igneous, metamorphic, and ________.. Humans have 206 of these in their bodies.. Civil War US History The south.. To withdraw from a lager body.. To isolate your enemy.. The act of freeing someone.. The effort to fix the U.S.A.. Nature Other tree used to make snooker cues. bird in a clock. spring flower. freshwater predetor fish. edible fungi. Boiling, Poaching and Steaming Food Steak and kidney pudding is cooked using this cooking method. (8). A type of food that it boiled, of which there are three main types: white, brown and vegetable. (5). A combination of fat and flour gently cooked over a low heat for a short time. (4). A type of poaching in which the food is cooked in a small amount of liquid and covered with greaseproof paper. (7). The process of removing impurities from the surface of the liquid when boiling meat. (8). The Diary of Anne Frank - Quotes Books - Historical Complete the crossword below Its a phase... you heard father... most girls go through it.... If my husband had any obligation to you, he's paid it, over and over. I always get along well with children. Mr. Dussel, i leave you in good hands. I want to see something now...not a thousand years from now. The Solar System Astronomy Glowing ball of hot gas that makes its own energy and light. Large object in space that orbits a star such as the sun. Envelop of gas surrounding an object in space. very bright, rotates in opposite directions from other planets, day lasts 243 Earth days, much carbon dioxide in atmosphere, greenhouse effect, very hot, rolling plains, towering highlands.. iron in rock and soil, two moons rotates once every 24 hours and 38 minutes, year lasts 687 Earth days, thin atmosphere of mostly carbon dioxide, windy. Physical Geography Earth Sciences This biome is where the lion king takes place and where many african animals live. . Some think a synonym is daily weather, but it is not.. I am sweating and there is sand in my eyes. What biome am I in?. Sometimes soil just doesn't like to stay put and leaves with the water.. In this biome, you may see a white-tailed deer running through the trees. . Words From Shakesphere Literature and Writing without disguise . little remains of it . a rush of wind . to spend money carefully and sparingly . 'large and outstanding'. The Flute Music Beginner's will use this type of flute. The Right Hand Pinky's nickname. This is the smallest member of the flute family. This type of flute is played to the side (like modern flutes). Ancient flutes were sometimes made out of this material. Ancient Egypt History Is supposed to be put on a toothbrush and was invented in Ancient Egypt . Most famous dessert that Ancient Egyptions ate . These were the people who built the pyramids . Poor peoples houses were made of this . Most powerful person in Ancient egypt . Bicycle Safety Other Write the correct words from your spelling test for each clue Your feet push them to make a bike go. A vehicle kids can ride. A bicycle has two of these. Cars moving on the street. Make it easy for cars to see you. States of America World Geography Read the hints and figure out which state it has been written about. Which state is the 2nd largest by both area and population?. Which state has the capital Oklahoma city?. In which state is the Walt Disney World?. In which state is the Golden Gate Bridge?. Which state has the capital Springfield?. Volcano Earth Sciences Holes on the planet on one the moon due to an impact or a explosion. Bits of rock or solidified lava dropped from the air. A place where hot rock is forced toward the crust where it melts. A type of volcano that is formed by tephra. An opening to a volcano. Mohandas Gandhi History Use the clues to fill in the crossword. Not eating or drinking for a certain amount of time.. The person who influenced his beliefs growing up.. He was offered a job here and he protested against racism and poverty her.. His home country.. 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__label__wiki	0.729104	0.729104	Letter to President Clinton Concerning Lebanon and The Peace Process Lebanon After the Israeli Withdrawal Religious Leaders Urge New Attention To Middle East Peace In Message To White House, Religious Leaders Say Peace Is Possible Print Ready Flyer on Aid Agencies in the Holy Land (PDF) Holy Land Pilgrimage Guidelines Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem Advocacy for Israeli Palestinian Peace Sample Appeal Letter/Diocesan Column Sample Bulletin Announcement Catholic Campaign for Peace in the Holy Land Pilgrimage to the Holy Land Projects to Strengthen the Church in the Holy Land Bishop Pates Reaffirms Need For Two State Israeli Palestinian Solution Ahead Of Clinton Visit National Catholic Fund for Migration and Refugee Services Bishop Pates To Secretary Clinton: Moves By Israelis, Palestinians Undermine Peace, Human Dignity Letter to Israeli Ambassador Shoval Regarding Nazareth Mosque Letter to President Clinton on Crisis in Nazareth The Future of Jerusalem: Some Clarifications Report on the Symposium of Bishops Conferences on the State of Jerusalem see all 20 pages Other News Releases: USCCB Purchases Translation of Psalms and Canticles from Conception Abbey USCCB President Condemns Threat of Widespread Enforcement Actions and New Rule Drastically Limiting Asylum Chairman of U.S. Bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace, applauds the convening of the Second Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom Confraternity of Christian Doctrine Awarded Grants to Promote Catholic Biblical Literacy and Interpretation USCCB>Media > News Releases > Jewish, Christian and Muslim National Religious Leaders Unite for Israeli-Palestinian Peace WASHINGTON—In a letter to President Donald J. Trump, thirty-five Jewish, Christian and Muslim national religious leaders agree that Israeli-Palestinian peace is possible. They believe, "based on the legitimate, long-standing aspirations of Israelis and Palestinians for national self-determination and security, a two-state solution still represents the most realistic way to meet essential interests of both peoples and to resolve the conflict." The letter includes the signatures of Bishop Oscar Cantú, of Las Cruses, Chairman of the Committee on International Justice and Peace, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, Archbishop Emeritus of Washington. The statement by Christian, Jewish and Muslim religious leaders points to the fact that, "despite deep distrust on both sides, recent polls among Israelis and Palestinians show that the majority still yearn for two states." The leaders believe, "pursing either side's version of a one-state solution would likely lead to more years of violent conflict." The leaders are encouraged that, building on years of official and informal negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians, "the basic parameters of a framework for a two-state solution are widely known." And they say, "combined with a broader regional framework such as the Arab Peace Initiative, the incentives for all sides to make the historic decision for a two-state peace agreement are monumental." They believe that "achieving a just peace between Israel and the Palestinians would have substantial positive effects for the people of Israel and Palestine, the region, the United States' own interests, and our world." The religious leaders are united in pledging their "support for US efforts to achieve this goal." The full letter can be found at: http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/global-issues/middle-east/israel-palestine/nili-letter-to-president-on-israel-palestine-2017-07-19.cfm Keywords: U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, USCCB, President, President Donald J. Trump, religious leaders, Israelis, Palestinians, two-state solution, Bishop Oscar Cantú, Committee on International Justice and Peace, Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, Archbishop Emeritus, Washington, D.C., Arab Peace Initiative, conflict, peace. Judy Keane	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line823
__label__cc	0.595456	0.404544	View Chris D'Elia Pictures » Chris D'Elia Dines Out At Craig's Restaurant In West Hollywood (Source: Bauer Griffin) Chris D'Elia Pictures more » Chris D'Elia Performs At The Mirage In Las Vegas View 26 Chris D'Elia Pictures » Premiere Of Columbia Pictures' 'Sicario: Day Of The Soldado' - Arrivals View 3 Chris D'Elia Pictures » Elisabeth Rohm, Josh Brolin, Kathryn Boyd, Isabela Moner, Jennifer Morrison Nashville Comedy Festival Thomas Middleditch, Ben Schwartz, Billy Gardell, Don DiPetta, Amir Blumenfeld NBC Greenlights 'Chicago Fire' Spin-Off, Dude Comedy 'Undateable,' and More By Jill Slattery on In addition to the six new series it picked up on Thursday, NBC gave the green light to six more new shows on Friday afternoon, including a Chicago Fire spin-off about the Chicago Police Department and another cop procedural starring Blair Underwood. Get all the details on the Peacock network's new series below:Chicago PDDistrict 21 of the Chicago Police Department is made up of two distinctly different groups. There are the uniformed cops who patrol the beat and go head to head with the city...Read Full Story Find news about Chris D'Elia and check out the latest Chris D'Elia pictures. The Best TV Shows Of 2019 Movies Critics Hated and Audiences Loved The Best Movies From The First Half Of 2019 Which 2019 TV Shows Are Renewed, Canceled, In Danger Stars Who Dramatically Left Their Hit TV Shows	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line824
__label__wiki	0.551915	0.551915	STEM Remains Strong Contender for DonorsChoose Dollars STEM projects are continuing to make the top 10 as a category on teacher funding site DonorsChoose. According to the organization, over the past four years, computer science and coding projects grew two and a half times faster than other project types. GitHub Classroom Adds Multi-Class Support An online open source program originally designed to help software developers collaborate but then modified to help teachers manage computer science-oriented workflows in their classrooms has added a function intended to simplify its use across the school. Students Encouraged to Share Video Math Pitches Students who appreciate math have almost a month to create an "elevator speech" video telling others why math is important and relevant. One winner will have his or her one- or two-minute movie shown during an upcoming math conference and win $1,000. Microsoft, VictoryVR Release Free STEM VR Curriculum Microsoft and VictoryVR have made a library of virtual-reality-based science content available free to schools that are using headsets running Microsoft Windows Mixed Reality. Developing Robotic Kids Robotics programs across the country are appealing to non-STEM-oriented students too, even as they learn science, tech, engineering and math (along with a whole bunch of soft skills) on the side. MakerBot Publishes Step-by-Step Guide for Adding 3D Printing to STEAM Lessons To help educators understand how to set up STEM-oriented 3D printing experiences for their students, MakerBot, which sells 3D printers, has put together a bundle of free resources for teachers, available in its educator program. Biology Class Dissections to Get Virtual Treatment While dissections are an integral part of most biology classes, many states now have laws in place that give students the right to opt out of animal dissections. The new solution offers schools an option, starting with a VR frog, which is expected to be available in this quarter. North Carolina School Adds VR Headset System for STEAM Education The project was undertaken by video game lover and STEM coach, Jennifer Snyder, who saw the gear in use at the University of North Carolina Charlotte and added it to her wish list. KinderLab Robotics Releases K–2 Robotics and Coding Curriculum KinderLab Robotics has released a new curriculum for early elementary grades designed to support education in robotics, coding and computational thinking. "Growing with KIBO - A Progressive Robotics Curriculum for Grades K–2" also offers integration with arts and literacy activities. Education Needs to Revamp How to Teach English Learners in STEM English language learners are underrepresented in STEM fields, in both college and on the job. To understand how education can better work with these students (who could speak one of 350 different languages in the United States) is the topic of a new report from the National Academy of Sciences.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line825
__label__wiki	0.540325	0.540325	World of Coins » Design and designing » Thematic collecting (Moderator: <k>) » Thematic sets from the 1920s to date Pages: [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ... 14 Go Down Author Topic: Thematic sets from the 1920s to date (Read 119196 times) <k> Posts: 19 908 Before the First World War, when monarchies and empires were the rule, heraldry, coats of arms and royal emblems were far more likely to be seen on coins than anything else. However, since the 1920s the use of themes (flora, fauna, ships, architecture, etc.) on coins has increased enormously. See my Terms of Reference for more detail about sets that qualify for inclusion here. Click on the link below to post comments about this topic: Comments on “Thematic sets from the 1920s to date” « Last Edit: November 16, 2017, 08:53:27 PM by <k> » Re: Thematic sets from the 1920s to date Lithuania released a set depicting various plants and leaves. One or two are in the old-fashioned form of a tied wreath, but overall I regard it as a thematic set. See also: Lithuanian coins of the 1920s. 1 centas. Flax. 5 centai. Flax. 10 centu. Rye. 1 litas. Oak leaves 2 litu. Rue 5 litai. Tulips. Designer: Juozas Zikaras. « Last Edit: June 30, 2017, 02:12:52 PM by <k> » The Union of South Africa introduced its first coinage in 1923. It is not until 1925, when the 3d and 6d adopted a protea design, that its set meets my terms of reference. Before that they depicted a simple old-fashioned wreath with a bow. See also: Coinage of the Union of South Africa. ¼d. Sparrows. ½d. Sailing vessel. 1d. Sailing vessel. 3d. Protea cynaroides. 1s. Allegory of Hope. 2s. Coat of arms. 2/6. Crowned coat of arms. Designer: George Kruger-Gray. Greenland (a Danish colony at that time) issued three coins, in denominations of 25 øre, 50 øre, and 1 krone. The reverse of each coin showed the same design of a polar bear on a plinth. The design was by Gunnar Jensen. See also: Greenland. « Last Edit: March 22, 2019, 04:46:58 PM by <k> » Albania rounded out its design series with the issue of a 1 franga ar coin, equal to 5 lek. The themes and designs look similar to those the Italian coins of the day, and they were indeed designed and minted in Italy. See also: Albania: Coins of the 1920s. 5 qindar leku. Lion's head. 10 qindar leku. Eagle's head. ¼ leku. Lion. ½ lek. Hercules wrestling the Nemean lion. 1 lek. Alexander the Great / Armed horseman. 1 franga ar. Mercury / Prow of ancient galley. 2 franga ar. Peasant sowing seed / Eagle with outstretched wings. « Last Edit: September 07, 2018, 06:06:40 PM by <k> » The Irish Free State produced a set that had a thematic design on the reverse of every coin. This ground-breaking set became known as the Barnyard Series. Some of the designs were carried over onto the decimal coinage of the 1970s. They disappeared (apart from the harp) when Ireland joined the euro. See also: The coinage of the Irish Free State. ¼d. Woodcock. ½d. Pig and piglets. 1d. Hen and chicks. 3d. Hare. 6d. Irish wolfhound. 1s. Bull. 2s. Salmon. 2/6. Irish hunter (horse). Designer: Percy Metcalfe. « Last Edit: August 22, 2017, 08:39:01 PM by <k> » Brazil released a design series commemorating the 400th anniversary of its colonisation. See also: Brazil: circulation commemoratives of the 1930s and 1940s. 100 reis. Cazique Tibirica. 200 reis. Admiral da Sousa's caravel sailing to Brazil. 400 reis. Map of South America. 500 reis. Joao Ramalho, colonist. 1000 reis. Martim Afonso do Sousa, colonist. 2000 reis. King John III of Portugal. Southern Rhodesia released its first national coinage. It was a mixed thematic set, including depictions of native weapons and the Zimbabwe soapstone bird. See also: Southern Rhodesia / Rhodesia and Nyasaland / Rhodesia. 3d. Three spear tips. 6d. Crossed axes. 1s. Zimbabwe soapstone bird. 2s. Sable antelope. 2/6. Coat of arms. The penny and halfpenny, each showing a crowned rose and designed by Derwent Wood, were not released until 1934. New Zealand issued its first national circulation set. A penny and halfpenny were not released until 1939 (though dated 1940). See: The predecimal coinage of New Zealand. 3d. Maori war clubs. 6d. Huia bird. 1s. Maori warrior. 2s. Kiwi. The halfpenny (Tiki head) and penny (Tui, or parson bird) issued in 1939 were designed by L. C. Mitchell. « Last Edit: October 22, 2017, 09:13:55 PM by <k> » Brazil released another circulation set in commemoration of its national heroes. 100 reis. Admiral Marques Tamandare, founder of Brazilian Navy. 200 reis. Viscount de Maua, railway builder. 300 reis. Antonio Carlos Gomes, composer. 400 reis. Oswaldo Cruz, microbiologist. 500 reis. Diogo Antônio Feijó, politician and priest. 1000 reis. Jose de Anchieta, Spanish Jesuit missionary. 2000 reis. Duke of Caxias, military hero and statesman. 5000 reis. Alberto Santos Dumont, aviation pioneer. « Last Edit: August 25, 2017, 09:28:50 AM by <k> » Canada released a new coin series, with thematic designs. Some of the designs are still used to this day. See also: Prototype Sketches for Canada's Coins of the 1930s. 1c. Maple leaves. 5c. Beaver. 10c. Bluenose. 25c. Caribou. 50c. Coat of arms. $1. Le Voyageur (canoe). Australia released a new series of designs in 1938, but it did not add the new penny and halfpenny design until 1939. 1] Australia: Rejected pre-decimal designs of 1937/8. 2] Predecimal coinage of the Commonwealth of Australia. ½d. Kangaroo. Facing right. 1d. Kangaroo. Facing left. 3d. Wheat stalks. 6d. Coat of arms. 1s. Merino ram. The new state of Slovakia issued a circulation set. It had gained its limited independence as a result of Hitler’s dismemberment of Czechoslovakia. However, it was doomed to remain a puppet state of Nazi Germany. After the Second World War, Slovakia was reabsorbed into Czechoslovakia, becoming independent again in 1993. The scenic designs of the 10 and 20 halierov are unusual in that they extend over the full field of the coin. NOTE: The coins in the image are not to scale. Slovakia: Two states, three coinages. The History and Coinage of the First Slovak Republic. 5 halierov. Denomination. 10 halierov. Bratislava Castle. 20 halierov. Nitra Castle. 50 halierov. Plough. 1 koruna. Stylised ears of wheat. Designer: Andrej Peter. Italy became a republic in 1946. Its first post-war, post-Fascist, coinage was an attractive set (albeit in aluminium), showing the fruit of the land. 1 lira. Head of Goddess Ceres. Orange. 2 lire. Man ploughing field. Ear of wheat. 5 lire. Head of Liberty, with torch. Bunch of grapes. 10 lire. Pegasus. Olive branch. The Belgian Congo completed its set of elephant coins in 1947. It had issued a hexagonal 2 francs coin in 1943, the first of its coins to depict an elephant. However, the word “BELGISCH” was unfortunately misspelt as “BELGISH”. In 1944 a 1 franc and 50 francs coin were added. A circular 2 francs coin followed in 1946, and a 5 francs coin in 1947. All the coins carried the same elephant design on the reverse. See also: Belgium's African possessions. Pages: [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ... 14 Go Up	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line829
__label__wiki	0.91525	0.91525	The MagicBox Forums > Console Specifics > Sony Discussion Square Enix and Studio Istolia’s Project Prelude Rune announced for PS4 First game from the creator of Tales... A teaser trailer for the Hideo Baba-led fantasy RPG. Project Prelude Rune, the first game from Square Enix’s Hideo Baba-led Studio Istolia, will be released for PlayStation 4, Square Enix announced. An official title and further information about the game will be announced at a later date. For now, here is a message from Hideo Baba: Today, at the PlayStation LineUp Tour, we debuted new content that Square Enix Group’s Studio Istolia is working on. We started from zero and are currently in the middle of development with some way to go, but we are pushing forward to accomplish various new challenges. Regarding the game’s visual presentation, we’re developing a warm, friendly look for the game in our own way. With this artistic direction, we want to depict a fantasy world and a story imbued with themes and messages. Studio Istolia is launching a new RPG IP in Square Enix Group, and aims to create content that more people can enjoy. Although the road is still long ahead, I would be happy if you could look forward to it. I look forward to your support of Studio Istolia in the future. https://gematsu.com/2018/09/square-e...ounced-for-ps4 Connect With Facebook to "Like" This Thread	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line831
__label__wiki	0.718482	0.718482	Posted by admin in June Monday, June 19, 2017 Edition: #5999 Good Morning, Sheetheads! ★ Carrie Fisher died from sleep apnea and a combination of other factors, but investigators were not able to pinpoint an exact cause, say coroner’s officials. Among the factors that contributed to Fisher’s death was the buildup of fatty tissue in the walls of her arteries. The release says that the Star Wars actress showed signs of having taken multiple drugs, but investigators could not determine whether they contributed to her death on December 27. -Jam.Canoe ★ Bill Cosby’s aggravated indecent assault case ended in a mistrial Saturday after a Pennsylvania jury was unable to come to a unanimous decision. About an hour into the sixth day of deliberations, Judge Steven O’Neill declared that the jury of seven men and five woman were hopelessly deadlocked. Prosecutors immediately announced they will retry the case. ★ The famous ‘Shawshank Redemption’ oak tree lives on. Wood from the tree used in an iconic scene from the movie has been fashioned into some very cool – but expensive – souvenirs. ‘Shawshank’ merchandise went on sale Saturday in Mansfield, Ohio. Items from the fallen tree include key chains and magnets ($40), mini rock hammers ($85), bottle openers ($130), and shadow boxes with an inscription of Andy’s note to Red ($500). The giant oak was cut up in April following severe storm damage. (Like Andy told Red, “no good thing ever dies.”) -TMZ ★ “Shark Week” has a new star attraction: Michael Phelps. Discovery Channel’s plans for “Shark Week” programming next month includes a July 23 show titled “Phelps vs. Shark: Great Gold vs. Great White.” It’s billed it as “an event so monumental that no one has ever attempted it before” and adds that “the world’s most decorated athlete takes on the ocean’s most efficient predator: Phelps V Shark – the race is on!” -CTV ★ Love has blossomed for Drew Barrymore. She is apparently seeing David Hutchinson — a senior vice president at Maesa, the company that manufactures and markets her Flower Beauty products. Barrymore and ex-husband Will Kopelman divorced in August 2016 after four years of marriage. The former couple have two children together — Frankie, 3, and Olive, 4. -People ★ ‘The Most Interesting Man in the World’ has a new gig. When Jonathan Goldsmith was the spokesman for Dos Equis beer, he often pointed out in his commercials that he didn’t exclusively drink beer. In his new role as the pitchman for Astral Tequila, he lifts a glass of tequila and says, “I told you I don’t always drink beer.” ★ ‘Last Man Standing’ fans might be able to breathe a sigh of relief as the recently cancelled ABC series has been eyed for a seventh season revival at cable network CMT. Though primarily known for their music programming, CMT recently reemerged into the spotlight after reviving another cancelled ABC series, ‘Nashville’, to run as an original program on its network. -MoviePilot • “The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon” (NBC/CTV): Will Ferrell, Alison Brie, Shawn Mendes • “Last Call with Carson Daly” (NBC/CTV): Elisabeth Moss, Tiger Army, Lauren Ash ( R ) • “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” (Comedy): Janet Mock • “Conan” (TBS/Comedy): Aubrey Plaza, Demetrius Shipp Jr., Joe Bonamassa • “Watch What Happens Live” (Bravo): Kathryn Calhoun Dennis, Willie Geist • “The View” (ABC/CTV): Jackie Miranne • “The Talk” (CBS): Maddie Ziegler, Krista Smith, guest co-host Cristela Alonzo • “Live with Kelly and Ryan” (ABC/CTV): Dwyane Wade, Ilana Glazer • “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” (NBC/CTV): Nicole Kidman, Giada De Laurentiis ( R ) • “Wendy Williams” (FOX): Ashlee Glazer, Devyn Simone • “Harry” (NBC/CTV): Meagan Good, Haley Lu Richardson, Keri Glassman ( R ) • “The Real” (FOX): Keyshia Cole, French Montana, guest co-host Remy Ma ( R ) • “The Bachelorette” (ABC) Two men get in an argument; after the rose ceremony, Rachel and the men travel to South Carolina. • “So You Think You Can Dance” (FOX): “Los Angeles Auditions No. 2” Hopefuls perform for the judges in the hope of moving on to the callback rounds. • “American Ninja Warrior” (NBC): “San Antonio Qualifiers” • “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” (CBS/Global): Seth Rogen, Kumail Nanjiani, Paul Shaffer & the World’s Most Dangerous Band • “Late Night with Seth Meyers” (NBC/CTV): Kirsten Dunst, Jerrod Carmichael, Jeff Tweedy, Daru Jones • “Late Late Show with James Corden” (CBS/CTV): Ginnifer Goodwin, Eddie Izzard, Jillian Bell, Jason Derulo • Bob Seger – has joined the digital distribution era: A dozen of his albums have finally made their debut at streaming and download services — 10 of which have never been available for download before. “One of the most sought-after catalogs for digital music distribution” is now available, including the albums ‘Beautiful Loser’, ‘Night Moves’, ‘Live Bullet’, ‘Nine Tonight’, ‘Stranger in Town’, ‘Against the Wind’, ‘The Distance’, ‘Like a Rock’, ‘Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man’, ‘The Fire Inside’, ‘Greatest Hits’, ‘Greatest Hits 2′ and ‘Ultimate Hits’. • Journey – guitarist Neil Schon remains open to working with former singer Steve Perry in the future but according to him, Journey couldn’t even possibly be doing better right now even if Perry was in the lineup. He says that it has “taken a lot of hard work to build it back up, but you know what, we’re here again…it couldn’t possibly be bigger.” • Sting – won the Polar Music Prize in Sweden, in recognition of “the power and importance of music.” As part of a gala celebration, Annie Lennox surprised Sting at the ceremony with a performance of “Fragile.” • Foster the People – have announced that their third studio album, ‘Sacred Hearts Club’, will arrive July 21.The band has also shared a new video for a song called, ‘Sacred Hearts Club (the beginning).’ • Dr. Dre – is giving back to his community in a big way. The music mogul has pledged $10 million dollars to build a performing arts center at a new Compton High School. Dre was born and raised in the city. ($10 mil…that’s what? 75 pairs of ‘Beats’?) • Jason Aldean – The country music industry is booming with proposals, marriage and pregnancy announcements. Jason Aldean’s wife Brittany has shared a photo of herself alongside two other pregnant country music wives. Brittany shared an image of herself beside Thomas Rhett’s wife Lauren Akins and Florida Georgia Line’s Tyler Hubbard’s wife Hayley. The caption reads, “Future bandmates in these bellies!” • Hunter Hayes – had fun last weekend at CMA Fest surprising fans that were headed to his soundcheck. In the viral video, a Lyft driver chats with passengers, then picks an “extra guest” on the way to the venue. You guessed it, the surprise rider was Hunter Hayes. The destination for the lucky guests was to be onstage, watching the singer go through his soundcheck. DUMB LESSONS: Here are the five habits of stupid people that smart people don’t have, according to an expert who is presumably smart: ✓ They blame others for their mistakes: Stupid people don’t like taking responsibility for their mistakes. They prefer to wallow in self-pity or just go straight to playing the blame game. (But what if it WAS “that guy’s” fault??) ✓ Stupid people always have to be right: In a situation of conflict, smart people have an easier time empathizing with the other person and understanding their arguments. They are also able to integrate these arguments into their own chain of thought and to reconsider their opinions accordingly. (This point does not bode well for politicians.) ✓ Stupid people react to conflicts with anger and aggression: Even the smartest people can get really angry from time to time. But for less intelligent people, this is the go-to reaction whenever things aren’t going their way. When they feel like they don’t have control over a situation, they tend to use anger and aggressive behavior to secure their position. (I know that guy!) ✓ Stupid people ignore the needs and feelings of other people: Intelligent people tend to be very good at empathizing with others. This makes it easy for them to understand another person’s point of view. People who are less smart have a hard time imagining that people could think differently than they do and would therefore disagree with them. ✓ Stupid people think they are better than everyone else: Intelligent people try to motivate and help others. They do this because they are not afraid of being overshadowed. Stupid people on the other hand tend to badmouth others in order to look better themselves. (Oh yeah? Well it takes one to know one…) (There. Do we all feel better about ourselves?) (I can’t believe there is nothing here about wearing your jammies to Wal-Mart…) -Independent.co.uk SONGS ARE GETTING MORE REPETITIVE, BABY, SONGS ARE GETTING MORE REPETITIVE: Are songs getting more repetitive these days? You bet. In a detailed analysis using a technique known as ‘language compression’, where song lyrics are checked for repeated sequences, songs are given a score based on how efficiently the program can compress the lyrics of a song based on the number and length of the repeated sections in the song. After analysis, each song is given a ‘compression’ score to detail its repetitiveness. Among the findings: • Songs that reached the top 10 were, on average, more repetitive than songs which didn’t in every year from 1960 to 2015! • Top 40 music has gotten steadily more repetitive in each decade since the 1960s, drastically more so since the 1990s. • Among hit singles, 2014 is the most repetitive year on record. An average song from this year compresses 22% more efficiently than one from 1960. • Rappers like and J. Cole and Eminem tend to be consistently non-repetitive. • Perhaps surprisingly, since 2000, country music hits have been less repetitive than pop. • Songs with the highest compression scores: 1. Around the World- Daft Punk 1997: 98% 2. The Rockafeller Skank-Fatboy Slim 1998: 95% 3. Chain of Fools (Part 1)-Jimmy Smith 1968: 92% 4. Get Low- Dillon Francis & DJ Snake 2015: 90% 5. Duck Sauce-Barbra Streisand 2015: 2011: 89% • Rihanna won the title of most repetitive artist in the dataset. Over half a dozen of her songs scored very high repetition scores. (Including, appropriately, Pon de Replay). (Well, a song HAS to be catchy…) -Pudding.cool -Link to the study (it’s pretty cool): https://pudding.cool/2017/05/song-repetition/ DADGUM FIDGETTY SPINNERS: Despite the fact that they are a sometimes annoying distraction, fidget items such as the fidget spinner can have some practical uses for adults, according to some experts in the field. (And wouldn’t it be awesome to be called an ‘expert’ on fidget spinners!!) As we are all aware, fidgeting did not start with the spinner; Many adults report fidgeting with an object in hand when doing a long task or when sitting still and trying to stay attentive in a long meeting. Examples include paper clips, pens, thumb drives and earbuds. But people also buy specialized items like a fidget spinner or a Fidget Cube for this purpose. Some schools are banning the spinners and teachers are taking them away. The reason is that not all fidget items are created equal. The problem is that unlike fidgeting with a pen or a paper clip, fidget spinners allow visual stimulation as well. And then there are the tricks you can learn to do with them. That can become a distraction to others…whether at the workplace or in the classroom. But fidget items do seem to serve a valuable purpose. The experts are saying that these things are around for the long haul. They’re not just a fad. They embody a phenomenon that nearly everyone uses at some point. There is still some science to be done, but the conclusion from researchers is that fidget spinners and other fidget items actually help adults manage attention and remain calm. (And what else are you going to do when the boss is droning on and on and on, and the donuts have all been eaten?) (And as soon as they are available at the dollar store, I’m getting one!) -Good.is 1948 [69] Phylicia Rashad, Houston, TX, TV actress (‘Claire Huxable’ on “The Cosby Show” 1984-92) 1962 [55] Paula Abdul, Van Nuys CA, TV personality (“So You Think You Can Dance?” 2015, “The X Factor” 2011, “American Idol” 2002-10)/pop singer (1988 Grammy – “Opposites Attract”) 1969 [48] Lara Spencer, Garden City NY, TV personality (“Good Morning America” since 2002) 1970 [47] Brian ‘Head’ Welch, Torrance CA, nu metal guitarist (KoRn-“Freak on a Leash”) 1975 [42] Poppy Montgomery, Sydney, Australia, TV actress (‘Carrie Wells’ on “Unforgettable” 2011-16, “Without a Trace” 2002-09) 1975 [42] Hugh Dancy, Stoke-on-Trent UK, TV actor (‘Will Graham’ on “Hannibal” 2013-15)/wed to actress Claire Danes since 2009 1978 [39] Zoe Saldana, Passaic NJ, movie actress (“Guardians Of the Galaxy”, “Avatar”) 1983 [34] Macklemore (Ben Haggerty), Seattle WA, rapper (Macklemore & Ryan Lewis-“Thrift Shop”) • “World Sauntering Day”, a day to ‘revive the art of Victorian sauntering, and discourage jogging, lollygagging, sashaying, fast walking, and trotting’. It’s “Martini Day”, can we stumble? • “Martini Day”. Recipe for a very dry martini: Take 1 bottle of gin … • “Garfield the Cat Day”, honoring Jim Davis’ fat cat comic strip on the anniversary of its 1978 debut in newspapers. (Big fat hairy deal.) • “Pets In Film Day”, Cats and dogs have been on the big and small screens since the early days. Here’s some interesting trivia on a few of Hollywood’s popular furry stars. • Lassie’s a Lad: Although Lassie was a girl in the TV series and movies, this heroic pup was actually played by a boy dog named Pal. Male collies tend to have thicker coats, which look better on camera. • Mr. Bigglesworth’s Breed: In the ‘Austin Powers’ movies, Dr. Evil’s famous feline Mr. Bigglesworth was a Sphynx cat. The Sphynx is considered a hairless breed and is known to love cuddling for warmth. • Many Marleys: The touching film ‘Marley and Me’ covers 14 years in the life of the title dog. To make the film, the director used yellow labs at different ages to play him – 22 in all! AND REMEMBER (DAYS/WEEK): [Tues] Vanilla Milkshake Day [Tues] Productivity Day [Tues] World Refugee Day [Wed] Skateboarding Day [Wed] Yoga Day [Wed] Selfie Day This Week Is…Universal Father’s Week This Month Is… Great Outdoors Month THIS DAY IN SHOW BIZ . . . 2013 [04] Former “Sopranos” star James Gandolfini dies of a heart attack at age 51 in Rome, Italy (what we don’t know is if his character Tony Soprano died…) 1965 [52] “Yesterday” is recorded and mastered during this week 52 years ago, the first Beatles song recorded solo (by Paul McCartney) without the other band members (temporarily titled “Scrambled Eggs”, McCartney says the melody came to him in a dream) Often called the most covered song of all time…but look out for ‘Rolling in the Deep’! TODAY’S FIRSTS . . . 1910 [117] ‘Father’s Day’ is 1st proclaimed by the mayor of Spokane, Washington at the request of one Louise Smart Dodd 2012 [05] WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requests asylum at the Ecuador Embassy in London, fearing extradition to the US after publication of classified documents (he’s still there!) 2014 [03] US Patent & Trademark office cancels ‘Washington Redskins’ trademark, ruling that the name is ‘offensive to Native Americans’ (there’s been pressure for years to change names) BS WACK FACTS: • Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour. • When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red. • If you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground it can’t hop. • Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun. • ‘Facebook Addiction Disorder’ is a mental disorder identified by Psychologists. • Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water. -TheFactSite BS EASY WAYS TO GET A BETTER BUTT: ✓ Always take the stairs when visiting the Eiffel Tower. ✓ Store the Nutella on a low shelf so you have to squat down … once every 5 minutes. ✓ Steal someone’s identity, like maybe JLo. She has a pretty good butt. ✓ Invite your butt out for a friendly lunch (salads only) and then ask it nicely to be better. ✓ Put on a pair of Spanx over your current pair of Spanx and pray that your butt knows how to take a hint. ✓ Make a vision board of great butts. ✓ Move to Brazil. There’s something in the water there. ✓ Become an Olympic beach volleyball player. The ‘uniforms’ seem to include great butts. ✓ Surgery. ✓ Replace every meal during the day with a glass of vodka, and forget that you even have a butt. (First published in BS in 2015) ☎What article of clothing should your partner never wear, but you don’t have the guts to say it? If I had a dollar for every time I thought about you, I would start thinking about you. Question: The average woman uses her height in this every 5 years. What? Answer: Lipstick Don’t wait. Right now is the oldest you’ve ever been and the youngest you’ll ever be. 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__label__wiki	0.940307	0.940307	Home Sport Central Otago hockey draw squeezed to absolute capacity Central Otago hockey draw squeezed to absolute capacity Alexia Johnston Numbers game . . . Central Otago Hockey executive officer Sandra Stuart estimates more than 900 players will join clubs for this year's hockey season. PHOTO: ALLIED PRESS FILES ALEXIA.JOHNSTON @alliedpress.co.nz This season’s hockey draw is full to capacity, leaving next to no room for extra game time at Central Otago’s turf fields. The sport, which has been growing over recent years, has once again proved popular to the point hockey turf across the district would be busy over the coming months, Central Otago Hockey executive officer Sandra Stuart said. She estimated there would be at least 900 players signed up once the season was in full swing, which was on par with last year. “Primary numbers are at capacity with the facilities we have at the moment.” Those facilities, which are at Omakau, Cromwell and Wanaka, will welcome the start of the season in the first week of term 2. Matches will include 11-a-side and six-a-side games. All 11-a-side matches will be played in Cromwell because it is home to the district’s only full-sized field, while the other grades will be shared between all the towns. Junior grade competitions will feature 13 teams in the years 7-8 grade, about 25 in years 5-6 and 23 in years 3-4. “It’s a real juggle,” Mrs Stuart said, in regards to determining the draw and distributing the matches between each field. When possible, games would be played throughout the week, mostly mid-week so children could play other sports at the weekend. “It’s a sign of the times,” Mrs Stuart said. “We listened to what the community says and [have] tried to adapt to have as many people playing as we can with the resources we have available.” Omakau School principal Tracy Richmond said she had noticed growth within the sport over recent years, which she attributes to the Central Otago Hockey schools programme. Schools signed up to the programme, which meant each child got four coaching sessions a year, based on their grade or skill level. Each school also received hockey sticks and balls to keep. About 17 schools across Central Otago have signed up to the programme. It had been a great way to promote the sport, Mrs Richmond said. “Hockey in this area has increased massively in the last few years.” She credits the people who help make that happen. “There’s some really committed parents in this area that coach and support those teams.” Previous articleDucks all in a row Next articleWaka-based venture proposed	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line839
__label__cc	0.748871	0.251129	[ report an error in this record ] basket (0): add \| show Evidence of genetic differentiation of the brackish water mysid Neomysis integer (Crustacea, Mysida) concordant with pleistocene glaciations Remerie, T.; Gysels, E.; Vierstraete, A.; Vanfleteren, J.; Vanreusel, A. (2006). Evidence of genetic differentiation of the brackish water mysid Neomysis integer (Crustacea, Mysida) concordant with pleistocene glaciations. Vie Milieu (1980) 56(1): 15-22 In: Vie et Milieu. Observatoire Oceanographique Banyuls: Banyuls-sur-Mer. ISSN 0240-8759, more Available in Authors VLIZ [ request ] Mysida [WoRMS]; Neomysis integer (Leach, 1814) [WoRMS]; Marine mysid; Neomysis integer; phylogeography; pleistocene glaciations; Authors Top Remerie, T., more Gysels, E., more Vierstraete, A., more Vanfleteren, J., more Vanreusel, A., more In this study the genealogical relationships and distribution of molecular variation of the mysid Neomysis integer was examined throughout most of its geographical range, in order to interpret phylogeographic patterns. N. integer (Leach, 1814) is one of the most common mysids (Crustacea, Mysida) along the coasts of Europe. It is a hyperbenthic species that typically dominates the brackish part of estuaries and occurs along the northeastern Atlantic from the Baltic Sea to Morocco. Nine samples, comprising 45 individuals, were collected across the species' range of distribution, and sequenced using a segment of 390 base pairs of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene (cyt b). A clear geographic structuring was found with one common haplotype occurring in most samples, while two samples (the Guadalquivir and Gironde estuary) consist solely of unique variants. At the southern distribution range a remarkable genetic break was observed between the Guadalquivir population and all other samples. These findings are discussed in the perspective of the presence of glacial refugia and postglacial recolonisation routes of low-dispersal organisms along the northeastern Atlantic coasts. All data in the Integrated Marine Information System (IMIS) is subject to the VLIZ privacy policy Top \| Authors	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line842
__label__cc	0.643652	0.356348	Julia Child's Birthday: Books About Food Yesterday was Julia Child's birthday. She would have been 101. To celebrate the woman who made French cooking totally normal, here are some great YA books about cooking. My Cup Runneth Over: The Life of Angelica Cookson Potts by Cherry Whitock. Angel is larger than life (physically and mentally) which can be hard when your mother's a former supermodel. Lots of mother/daughter drama, but Angel wants to be a chef and shines in the kitchen with the family cook-- there's a recipe after every chapter. I've made several and they're tasty. Follow it with My Scrumptious Scottish Dumplings. Cupcake by Rachel Cohn. Cyd's back in New York, living with her brother Danny, and searching for the perfect cupcake. She thinks about culinary school, but then she breaks her leg and can't move. And then Shrimp shows back up. The final book in a trilogy, start with Gingerbread. A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts: A Collection of Deliciously Frightening Tales by Ying Chang Compenstine. This book isn't just Imperial China. A collection of short and gruesome ghost stories that tend to feature revenge from beyond the grave, this book spans most of Chinese history. Each story comes with a historic note and recipe. The stories are not for the faint-hearted, but everyone should try the recipes-- Compenstine has written several cookbooks. Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies by Laura Esquivel. Tita is the youngest daughter, and therefore destined to stay at home forever and care for her aging mother. Nevermind that Tita and Pedro are in love, but Pedro must marry her sister. Tita speaks her emotions in her food and each chapter contains a recipe. Published for adults, this was a favorite of mine in high school. Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Julie Powell. Stuck in a dead-end job and generally unhappy about life, Julie Powell decided to cook her way through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and blogging about her experiences. This is her memoir, interspersed with a biography of Child. Written for adults, teens will enjoy this one of trying to find your place after college. Pizza, Love, and Other Stuff That Made Me Famous by Kathryn Williams. Sophie loves being in the kitchen at her family's DC restaurant. She's willing to leave it behind to be a contestant on a new teen cooking show, but soon finds herself in some serious competition and off-camera drama. Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley. Lucy's father is a foodie, her mother a chef. Lucy grew up immersed in the food scene of New York City and Rhinebeck. She thinks of her life and memories in terms of food and that's how she presents them here-- complete with illustrated recipes. Stir It Up by Ramin Ganeshram. Trinidadian-Indian-American Anjali loves helping in her parents' restaurant and taking cooking classes with her grandmother. Her parents don't understand how deep her passion for food really is though, until she enters a contest to get her own show on the Food Network. Getting the Girl: A Guide to Private Investigation, Surveillance, and Cookery by Susan Juby. Someone mandates which girls are blackballed and then ostracized by Sherman's high school, and he's had enough. The aspiring chef is spying on who he thinks is responsible in order to bring him down. There's more Julia love tomorrow, so stay tuned! Cleopatra Commits Suicide: Books About Ancient Egy... Katrina hits New Orleans Oil Discovered in Titusville Preppy Murder: Books about Spoiled Socialites Wizard of Oz Opens Mount Vesuvius Erupts: Books About Volcanoes Be an Angel Day Part 2: More Books About Angels Be an Angel Day: Books About Angels Poet's Day St. Stephen's Day: Hungary Cupcake Day Bali-Java Blackout: Books about Electricity Julia's Birthday Part 2: More Yummy Reads Pakistan Independence Day Fast Time at Ridgemont High Opens Largest T-Rex Skeleton Ever Found: Books about Din... MIssouri Statehood: Authors from the Show-Me State... Post Mix-Up! ARGH! US Bombing of Nagasaki: Books on the Bomb Straight Outta Compton Turns 25: Books About Rap a... The Kon-Tiki Lands: Books about Sailing US bombs Hiroshima: Asia in WWII Mayflower Leaves England: Books on Colonial Americ... Friendship Day: Books with Two Authors The Nautilus Goes Under the North Pole: Books abou... Colorado Statehood (yesterday) Six Flags Opens: Books about Amusement Parks	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line845
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__label__cc	0.681468	0.318532	Home » Archive for May 2003 Principals Link Recess to Academic Achievement in Latest Gallup Poll When most people talk about how to improve education, they tend to focus only on what happens in the classroom. But elementary principals, who are the key instructional leaders in the learning process, report in a new Gallup poll that the most unexpected opportunity to boost learning may exist on the playground at recess. Alexandria, VA (Vocus) February 5, 2010 The first-of its-kind survey of almost 2,000 principals nationwide, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Association of Elementary School Principals, and Playworks, revealed enthusiastic support for recess among principals, who see it benefiting kids both in the classroom and in life. “Principals know that students’ academic development is inextricably connected to their physical, social, and emotional well-being, and they support recess as a crucial element of learning that sustains the whole child,” said NAESP Executive Director Gail Connelly. “As primary catalysts for creating lasting foundations for learning, principals are key in determining and nurturing what works for children in schools—in both the classroom and on the playground.” Key findings from the survey include: Four out of five principals report that recess has a positive impact on academic achievement. Two-thirds of principals report that students listen better after recess and are more focused in class. Virtually all believe that recess has a positive impact on children’s social development (96 percent) and general well-being (97 percent). “This research sends a clear message to anyone interested in improving education or the overall well-being of America’s children: it’s time to take recess seriously,” said Jane Lowe, team director for the Vulnerable Populations Portfolio at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. “Recess should no longer be treated as an afterthought but as a core part of any strategy for promoting learning and improving health.” Recess has traditionally served as the one outlet during the school day when children can recharge their bodies and minds. But those minutes have been steadily eroding. A 2005 study found that the average American student only participates in 22 minutes of recess a day. And according to the Gallup poll, one in five principals report cutting recess minutes to meet testing requirements. Still, this research shows that even a little recess can have a big impact on the school day. “Recess offers an extraordinary opportunity to improve a school’s climate,” said Jill Vialet, founder and president of Playworks, a national nonprofit and grantee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that helps schools improve their recess. “Just a little bit of training for staff can go a long way in helping schools dramatically reduce disciplinary problems at recess and direct more attention to teaching and learning.” The poll is the first national, scientific survey of principals on the subject of recess. The research was conducted October 8-19, 2009, through an online survey fielded by The Gallup Organization with 1,951 principals and deputy, vice or assistant principals across the country. The survey sample was provided by NAESP and was weighted to reflect a balance of urban, suburban and rural schools, as well as schools of various income levels, defined by the percentage of students receiving free and reduced lunch (FARL). Read the executive summary at www. playworks. org/files/StateOfPlayFeb2010.pdf (http://www. playworks. org/files/StateOfPlayFeb2010.pdf). About NAESP: Established in 1921, the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) serves more than 25,000 elementary and middle school principals in the United States, Canada, and overseas. NAESP leads in the advocacy and support for elementary and middle-level principals and other education leaders in their commitment to all children. www. naesp. org About The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation focuses on the pressing health and health care issues facing our country. As the nation's largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to improving the health and health care of all Americans, the Foundation works with a diverse group of organizations and individuals to identify solutions and achieve comprehensive, meaningful and timely change. For more than 35 years the Foundation has brought experience, commitment and a rigorous, balanced approach to the problems that affect the health and health care of those it serves. When it comes to helping Americans lead healthier lives and get the care they need, the Foundation expects to make a difference in your lifetime. www. rwjf. org. You have read this article health with the title May 2003. You can bookmark this page URL http://ysagabriellechong.blogspot.com/2003/05/principals-link-recess-to-academic.html. Thanks! Website Improves Market Efficiency to Better Oppose the Looming Water Crisis Much of the world's water systems are inadequate or crumbling from age. Around the world, billions are spent each year to build or repair water and wastewater systems. Yet, there was no place where utilities could announce their contract opportunities and be assured that interested vendors could find them. Detroit, MI (PRWEB) August 22, 2006 Water is not only the basic fundamental need, but adequate safe water upderpins the nation’s health, economy, ecology and security. The challenge for the future is to ensure adequate quantity and quality of water to meet human and ecological needs against growing competition among domestic, industrial and agricultural needs. To tackle this issue, there should be an efficient global market for water and wastewater contract opportunities as we have for other important commodities like oil and gold bullion. It is being discussed again and again that, in the near future, the wars will be for water and not for oil. Given the competition for water among farmers, communities, aquatic ecosystems and other users as well as emerging challenges like climatic change and threat of water borne diseases, a new mechanism is needed so that transparent, cost effective and result oriented decisions are taken with great speed. Federal funding should go specifically to the areas of water demand and use, water supply augmentation ensuring maximum return to the tax payer. The water portal H2bid. com's vision is to create the world's most efficient market for water and wastewater contract opportunities. Through our site, we want to provide 24/7access to any water or wastewater contract opportunity anywhere in the world. Through our vision, we have created an online presence where water and wastewater utilities can find vendors who specifically serve these industries – wherever they may be in the world. Similarly, our website enables the world's suppliers to the water and wastewater industries to be able to find any contract opportunity – wherever it may be in the world. We endeavor to provide immediate worldwide access to water and wastewater contract opportunities. H2bid. com enables water and wastewater utilities and their potential suppliers to find each other at a rate of speed that has never existed. In doing so, we enable utilities to fulfill their fiduciary obligation of getting the best product or service for the best price. Conversely, vendors now have a one-stop-shop to access water and wastewater contract opportunities all over the world. This will lead to true competition, greater transparency, and lower prices in the water and wastewater industries. Ultimately, everyone wins, including the ratepayers who can be assured that the various multimillion-dollar projects have been exposed to the world to produce the best bid (or tender). With utilities spending billions for years to come, this translates into real money that can reduce the need for the constant and exorbitant rate increases that are becoming common throughout water and wastewater systems. This is especially important for such projects as desalination plants where the cost is enormous and even small savings can free up millions for other important projects. With H2bid. com, competition is higher, the vendor options are greater, and costs are lower. As the world's market for the water and wastewater industries, H2bid. com hosts bids from every continent, country, province, state, county, city, town, or village. There are no cost barriers, because all utilities can announce their contract opportunities at no cost to the entire world of water and wastewater venders and suppliers. For instance, H2bid. com: Is the only website dedicated exclusively to water and waster contract opportunities from all over the world. 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Water and Wastewater contract opportunities are our core business. H2bid. com is the world's first and only market dedicated to water and wastewater contract opportunities. Today, H2bid. com is growing rapidly and is on track to be THE place to post or find a water or wastewater contract opportunity -- anywhere in the world. By creating an efficient and immediate method of posting and finding the world's water and wastewater contract opportunities, H2bid. com is helping water and wastewater utilities provide worldwide access to their contract opportunities, get better value for lower prices, and reduce the need for constant water and wastewater rate increases. Headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, the land of the Great Lakes, H2bid. com is committed to helping the world meet the need for safe and viable water and wastewater systems through immediate access to services and products, the efficient use of procurement resources, and open competition for contract opportunities. You have read this article health with the title May 2003. You can bookmark this page URL http://ysagabriellechong.blogspot.com/2003/05/website-improves-market-efficiency-to.html. Thanks! Arizona Company Launches with New Approach to Cosmetic Skin Enhancement Cosmetic skin treatment company Skintegrity inc. opens at the Arizona Integrative Medical Center in Scottsdale, Arizona, offering a wide range of aesthetic skin enhancement products and services, along with a new, contemporary approach to anti-aging skin care. Scottsdale, AZ (PRWEB) June 23, 2006 The Arizona-based company Skintegrity, has opened a new aesthetic skin enhancement and cosmetic anti-aging treatment center at the Arizona Integrative Medical Center, home of world renowned naturopathic physician Dr. Paul Stallone. Dr. Stallone currently resides as Medical Director for the Arizona Integrative Medical Center in Scottsdale, Arizona, and has become famous for his successful treatment of patients with stage 3 and 4 cancer. Many patients have traveled from the corners of the earth to seek his innovative care and solutions. He uses a vast array of modalities including Nutrition/Supplements, Homeopathy, Detoxification, Joint Manipulation, Therapeutic Injections, Oxygen/Ozone Therapy, Intravenous Nutritional-Vitamin Therapy, Hormone Therapy, Sports Medicine, Pain Management, Pharmaceutical Drugs and Botanical Medicine to effectively treat the acute and chronic diseases that are commonly seen today. Responding to an overwhelming client demand, Dr. Stallone has partnered with Skintegrity company owner Kira Wilder, taking a contemporary, naturopathic approach to the growing aesthetic skin care and cosmetic anti-aging industries. "What sets us apart from our competitors is our ability to bring out a healthy and youthful look naturally for our clients. We don’t do cookie-cutter treatments. This is a small, upscale medical practice focused on relationships. Our greatest pleasure is creating personalized, full service, one-patient-at-a-time care,” says Wilder. Combining Dr. Stallone’s naturopathic treatments with Skintegrity’s medical aesthetics has been a big hit with the patients. Dr. Stallone has improved healing time of the patients with his “Collagen Building Skin Rejuvenation IV Therapy.” Dr Stallone commented, “I perfected my detoxifying, rejuvenating skin formulas when I worked with patients pre and post plastic surgery to reduce healing time. Combining medical aesthetic treatments such as our Portrait PSR non-surgical facelift with naturopathic therapies is a home run for our patients!” According to Wilder, the company slogan "consciously creating your best skin," exemplifies the company's commitment to uncovering and magnifying clients' natural beauty. Methods used by Skintegrity to accomplish this include: Portrait PSR Skin Regeneration Procedure, Acne and Sun Damage Treatments Levulan, Botox Cosmetic, Restylane, Sculptra and the Zeno Acne Clearing Device. Learn more about Skintegrity and their methodology by visiting www. myskintegrity. com. Information on the Arizona Integrative Medical Center and Dr. Paul Stallone can also be viewed at www. drstallone. com. You have read this article health with the title May 2003. You can bookmark this page URL http://ysagabriellechong.blogspot.com/2003/05/arizona-company-launches-with-new.html. Thanks! Volcano Vaporizer Low Price Guarantee at GotVape. com The Volcano Vaporizer is now being offered at the guaranteed lowest price in the world. This latest addition in quality vaporizers is being offered by GotVape. com, headquarters to the world's finest vaporizers and tobacco smoking cessation devices. Los Angeles, CA (PRWeb (http://www. prweb. com)) April 14, 2004 Â (www. gotvape. com). 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The Mold Consultants LLC Releases Results Of An Independent Analysis Of Usefulness Of Mold Sniffing Dogs (PRWEB) August 14, 2003 The Mold Consultants, LLC has released an independent report analyzing the effectiveness and utility of Âmold sniffingÂ dogs to perform environmental air quality assessments. This report cuts through the hype and emotional entanglements to disclose how mans-best-friend stacks up when doing toxic mold testing in buildings. Homeowners are increasingly dealing with mold issues in their homes, and theyÂre finding out that proper identification and remediation is costly. Further, as insurance companies usually deny coverage for mold claims, the homeowner is usually left to their own devices to try to figure out what to do. Since toxic mold inspections done by a professional mold inspection company can range from $95 to well over $1,500, minimizing the cost of mold identification motivates some homeowners to attempt to reduce this cost any way they can. Mold sniffing dogs have been marketed as a way to reduce the cost of a toxic mold inspection. Popularized by recent media coverage of how these animals are being used to assist in the detection of mold, The Mold Consultants LLC investigated purchasing a mold sniffing dog as a tool to augment their existing toolset used in their business of providing indoor air quality assessments. Said Jim J. Hobuss, Principal Consultant for The Mold Consultants, LLC, ÂOur business is growing rapidly, and we began hearing stories of how dogs were trained to detect mold, thus saving time and expense for the homeowner. Wanting to stay ahead of the competition, we wanted to see how effective these animals actually are, and, if they are really more economical and effective than traditional sampling technology. So, we began a 60-hour analysis, looking into this issue. We wanted answers to a number of questions: How effective are these animals? Are they really more cost-efficient? Are they as thorough and accurate as a human-based inspection? Can the results be counted on as much as the results from a human-being performing a toxic mold inspection?Â The results of the analytical effort, tailored for the general consumer, is available in a free summarized report on the companies website. The URL to the report is: http://www. mold-consultants. com/sniffingdog. php (http://www. mold-consultants. com/sniffingdog. php). ÂWe feel it is important that people understand exactly what they are, and are not, getting when they consider hiring a dog to perform a toxic mold inspection. In many cases, their health is in question, and they need this sort of information to make an informed decision. The people selling the dogs to mold inspection companies wonÂt tell you the limitations that are inherent with the dogs, and the people that work for the mold inspection companies that use dogs wonÂt tell you about their limitations, for obvious reasons. We at The Mold Consultants, LLC have broken down the hype and tell you exactly what the mold sniffing dogs can, and canÂt, do. You have read this article health with the title May 2003. You can bookmark this page URL http://ysagabriellechong.blogspot.com/2003/05/mold-dogs-hoax-or-help.html. Thanks! DiscountMugs Announces New BPA-Free Reusable Aluminum Water Bottles Discountmugs. com announces a new line of BPA-free reusable aluminum water bottles. These water bottles are top-of-the-line, eco-friendly, and are cheaper than most water bottles you find on the market today. In an effort to promote a healthy environment, Discountmugs. com has launched this line of custom water bottles to help people drink their water with the earth on their minds. Miami, FL (PRWEB) July 30, 2009 Discountmugs. com announces a new line of BPA-free reusable aluminum water bottles. These water bottles are top-of-the-line, eco-friendly, and are cheaper than most water bottles you find on the market today. 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Practice Fusion Reaches 100 Physician Milestone in Record Time Practice Fusion, a leading force in the healthcare IT revolution and award winning provider of on-demand EMR solutions to the medical practice community today announced that it signed-on over 100 practitioners across 70 practices since its launch on October 23, 2007, highlighting the product's industry acceptance and momentum. San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) February 7, 2008 Practice Fusion], a leading force in the healthcare IT revolution and award winning provider of on-demand EMR solutions to the medical practice community, today announced that it signed-on over 100 practitioners across 70 practices since its launch on October 23, 2007, highlighting the product's industry acceptance and momentum. "This milestone validates Practice Fusion as a leading contender in the EMR market, as well as establishes us as one of the fastest growing EMR communities in the countries," said Ryan Howard, CEO and co-founder of Practice Fusion. "Physicians are realizing that they no longer have to be gouged by existing enterprise vendors, such as Misys, who require a large upfront investment and disrupt their practice by taking weeks to implement. By offering a world-class solution that is free and deployable in minutes, Practice Fusion's innovative model fundamentally addresses the two highest risks for physicians when purchasing an EMR, price and implementation." Practice Fusion achieved these record results by combining the features of a world-class EMR with a truly unique process for bringing new clients on board. "We are very excited to reach this milestone," continues Alan Wong, Practice Fusion's COO. "Where typical EMR implementations can span months or even years, hindering the practitioner's ability to go live quickly, we have fine-tuned our system so that it takes only minutes to provision the practice and give them access to start charting. These results reflect our continuous investment in our products, process and infrastructure which allows us to better serve our clients." Practice Fusion's clients span specialty and region. "With Practice Fusion, we have our patient history in one place," says Jason Boylan FNP-C of Robertson Health Services, PLLC. "We looked for an EMR that could help us with creating portable records for our patients. Every system we looked at was very expensive, but with Practice Fusion we liked what we saw and the risk was minimal. The system is great for us and is very user friendly. It is the right solution for our practices." "I am really impressed with the strong foundation Practice Fusion has built into its EMR," explains Thomas Nedumthottathil, B. Sc., M. D. "It does what the more expensive EMRs do at a significantly lower cost, plus because it is internet based, I have more flexibility in where and how I use it." Referring to the software's ability to interface with the Microsoft Vista voice recognition software, Dr. Nedumthottathil continues, "you can do pretty much everything without using your keyboard and mouse." Gregory Lorkowski, O. D., sums up his experience by adding, "Practice Fusion eliminates the headaches with getting a new EMR -- no hardware, no software and no backup systems. With Practice Fusion, the hassles no longer outweigh the advantages of going electronic." The Practice Fusion EMR is free, on-demand and low risk. Software licensing and data hosting is free, and practitioners pay a modest $50 support fee. Practitioners can sign up for a demo on the company's website at www. practicefusion. com/demo (http://www. practicefusion. com/demo). About Practice Fusion Practice Fusion addresses the complexities and critical needs of today's healthcare environments by proving a revolutionary application and delivery model for physicians and patients at no cost. Practice Fusion's free, on-demand, low-risk EMR platform eliminates the complexities associated with licensing, implementation, integration and support experienced with traditional enterprise software solutions. Practice Fusion dramatically reduces the cost to the practice while enabling providers to deliver the highest level of care possible to their patients. For additional information, please visit www. practicefusion. com. Http://www. practicefusion. com/product. htm (http://www. practicefusion. com/product. htm) Http://www. practicefusion. com/practitioners. htm (http://www. practicefusion. com/practitioners. htm) You have read this article health with the title May 2003. You can bookmark this page URL http://ysagabriellechong.blogspot.com/2003/05/practice-fusion-reaches-100-physician.html. Thanks! Orange County, Newport Beach Plastic Surgeon Connects with Patients Using Social Media Dr. Semira Bayati’s Orange County breast augmentation and plastic surgery practice is taking advantage of the popular social networking site Facebook to connect with patients both new and old. Dr. Bayati’s Facebook page provides an informal yet informative look at all that her practice has to offer and the results that she has been able to achieve for her patients. Newport Beach, CA (Vocus) February 11, 2010 In this era of You Tube, Twitter, and other social networking sites, people can stay connected with their friends, family, and others who share their interests more easily than ever before. Dr. Semira Bayati, a plastic surgeon offering procedures such as breast augmentation and liposuction in Orange County, has embraced social media to enhance her practice’s online presence. Dr. Bayati is reaching out to past, current, and prospective patients on Facebook, one of the nation’s most popular social networking sites. In creating her plastic surgery practice’s Facebook page, Dr. Bayati seeks to provide individuals with an easy way to access before-and-after photos, videos, and information on the various plastic surgery procedures that she offers. Patients considering tummy tuck in Newport Beach and other aesthetic enhancement options can view testimonial videos and hear from those who have already undergone the surgery. Other videos on her Facebook page include a story detailing how Dr. Bayati helped a patient who had lost a significant amount of weight complete his transformation with body contouring surgery. Plus, women who are interested in the 'mommy makeover' after pregnancy will find several resources that can help answer their questions about the procedure, including a link to an interview that Dr. Bayati conducted with a popular website for stay-at-home moms. In addition, Dr. Bayati’s Facebook page allows users to comment directly about the mommy makeover procedure. One user writes, 'Thank you for my mommy makeover. I was a tight size 14, now I am a comfortable size 9/10. Instead of it being a chore to get dressed in the morning, it's fun.' Although everyone has different needs and their results may vary, Dr. Bayati says the user comments provide women with valuable feedback from actual patients who have chosen her for their treatment. Dr. Bayati also maintains a robust website, linked within her Facebook page, with detailed information about her practice and her procedures, patient forms, financing options, and plastic surgery specials. Those who wish to communicate with Dr. Bayati or other patients through Facebook will find that her profile page is bustling with activity, including many comments from the doctor herself. As social media continues to evolve, Dr. Bayati says she plans to stay abreast of new trends to ensure that she is providing patients with information and answering their questions in the most effective ways possible. About Dr. Bayati Dr. Semira Bayati established her Newport Beach liposuction and plastic surgery practice to help patients enhance their confidence about their appearance. She has the distinction of being one of only 45 students in the country who was accepted to medical school directly out of high school. After graduating with honors form the prestigious Boston University School of Medicine, Dr. Bayati completed her general surgery and plastic surgery training in Springfield, Illinois. She completed three years of plastic and reconstructive training, learning advanced endoscopic and other minimally-invasive techniques. Dr. Bayati also completed a year of training in hand and upper extremity surgery at the Loma Linda University Medial Center. This delicate, detailed specialty helped her to hone her microsurgical techniques. Dr. Bayati is a board-certified plastic surgeon and is a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. She is also a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. The results of Dr. Bayati’s patients have been chronicled on the Discovery Health Channel multiple times for mommy makeover and for body contouring after massive weight loss; she has also been featured in New Beauty and Inland Empire magazines. For more information on Dr. Semira Bayati, the procedures she offers, and her social network outreach, the practice can be reached at 20311 SW Birch Street, Suite 200, Newport Beach, CA. 92660 – (949) 756-0400. http://www. drbayati. com You have read this article health with the title May 2003. You can bookmark this page URL http://ysagabriellechong.blogspot.com/2003/05/orange-county-newport-beach-plastic.html. Thanks! New Novel Presents a Gripping Story about Discovering the Ties that Bind a Family Together Follow one family's trials and triumphs in Kentucky Rain by Charlotte Jerace. TRURO, MASSACHUSETTS (PRWEB) January 4, 2007 Author Charlotte Jerace reveals a tender, heartfelt story of one family's ability to pull together when confronted with a crisis, despite all odds against them, in her new novel Kentucky Rain. Jerace's story centers on a genteel, yet spirited Southern woman named Agatha Vorelli, who embarks upon a road trip to Louisville, Ky. to deliver an extremely unique book to a noted historical society and to receive a seat of honor at the Kentucky Derby. However, Agatha's arrival doesn't go quite as planned, as her family members are called to retrieve her from Canadian Mounties. The family soon discovers Agatha is slowly losing her mind and manners due to Alzheimer's disease, and each of them must first wrestle with denial and their own demons before being able to truly unite in an effort to help. A novel that plumbs the depths of familial emotions, fears of aging, and the family ties that can overcome the most daunting challenges, Kentucky Rain brings together an eclectic cast of characters, and deftly presents the motivations that often lead to monumental conflict -- but just as often results in brilliant humor that is both entertaining and biting. In Jerace's clever tale, we see how some of the most improbable people in our lives can often turn out to be the most important. With mounting family tensions and rising stakes on the social scene and the racetrack, Charlotte Jerace's novel progresses to a terrific climax that should prove satisfying to readers everywhere. Kentucky Rain embodies many truths and conveys the message that love, laughter, and forgiveness are the ties that bind a family together. Rob Kean, author of The Pledge, had this to say about Kentucky Rain: "The world is filled with books we can't put down, but rare is the story we take with us. Jerace has penned a tale at once hilarious and touching, and that finds us sweetly conflicted, by Agatha Vorelli's tragic affliction in lockstep with her outrageous spirit, as those who love her do the best they can with both. A Kentucky Rain is available for sale online at Amazon. com, Borders. com, Target. com and through additional wholesale and retail channels worldwide. Charlotte Jerace has a Masters of Education degree from Antioch University and worked as a partner in an international human resources and employee communications consulting firm where she completed major writing and consulting assignments for clients such as Tyco International, Fidelity Investments, Hilton Hotels, KPMG Peat Marwick, and Partners HealthCare System. Her awards for writing include several Telly Awards, a New York Film Festival Award, and the International Association of Business Communicators Gold Quill. In addition to her current work, she has written screenplays and a children's book and published a short story entitled "Cannibals" for Provincetown Arts Magazine and a nonfiction book entitled Facing the Future for Penguin Books. An avid gardener and beach walker, Jerace is married with a family and divides her time between Cape Cod and Florida. About BookSurge BookSurge LLC, an Amazon. com company, is a pioneer in self-publishing and print-on-demand services. Offering unique publishing opportunities and access for authors, BookSurge boasts an unprecedented number of authors whose work has resulted in book deals with traditional publishers as well as successful authorpreneurs who enhance or build a business from their professional expertise. You have read this article health with the title May 2003. You can bookmark this page URL http://ysagabriellechong.blogspot.com/2003/05/new-novel-presents-gripping-story-about.html. Thanks! Cord Blood Bank Sponsors Free Mother's Day Giveaway and Infant CPR Training Cord Blood Bank Gives Back to Community with Mother's Day Giveway and Free Infant CPR Training Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) May 13, 2008 For many expectant parents cord blood banking (http://www. familycordbloodservices. com) has been an easy decision due to emerging medical advancements and life saving benefits of cord blood stem cells. To date, cord blood stem cells have been used to treat over 40 life threatening diseases including certain cancers and inherited disorders and have promise for diseases such as diabetes, brain injury and heart disease. In celebration of Mother's Day, Los Angeles-based Family Cord Blood Services is offering expectant parents a chance to win free cord blood banking, a value of $1650, which includes enrollment, collection kit, medical courier transport of cord blood, processing, and one year of umbilical cord blood storage. Expectant parents can enter the Giveaway until the end of May. Expectant parents can enter to win free cord blood banking directly by signing up at http://www. familycordbloodservices. com/cp07/info-kit. cfm? urlid=mom08 (http://www. familycordbloodservices. com/cp07/info-kit. cfm? urlid=mom08) or calling 888-828-CORD and mentioning MOM08 until May 31, 2008. Besides sponsoring the Mother's Day Cord Blood Banking Giveaway, the company also provides Free Infant CPR Training for local expectant parents in the Greater Los Angeles area on a quarterly basis. Expectant families receive complimentary breakfast and tour of state-of-the-art cord blood (http://www. familycordbloodservices. com) facility during the course of the training. The next infant CPR training is scheduled for Saturday, June 7, from 10 a. m. - 12 p. m. Interested expectant parents can contact Family Cord Blood Services to reserve their space or email rsvp2@familycordbloodservices. com. "As a way giving back to the community, we're proud to be offering expectant parents the opportunity to win free cord blood banking through our Mother's Day cord blood banking giveaway and free infant CPR training certification to help protect their family's future health," says Dr. Charles Sims, founder of Family Cord Blood Services and a leading cord blood expert. About Family Cord Blood Services Family Cord Blood Services provides the industry's highest quality cord blood banking along with family-friendly pricing for expectant families. Founded in 1997, Family Cord Blood Services, a subsidiary of California Cryobank, Inc., provides umbilical cord blood processing and storage for families throughout the United States and worldwide. Family Cord Blood Services is registered with Federal Drug Administration (FDA), accredited by the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) and licensed by Pharmastem. You have read this article health with the title May 2003. You can bookmark this page URL http://ysagabriellechong.blogspot.com/2003/05/cord-blood-bank-sponsors-free-mother.html. Thanks! Briggs Introduces OASISync Mobile Data Collection for Home Care Agencies Briggs®, a leading healthcare provider, today introduced a unique electronic mobile data collection system that will enable home health care agencies to improve the accuracy of data recorded on government-regulated OASIS forms as well as to speed up their Medicare reimbursements. Des Moines, IA (PRWEB) July 26, 2009 The new OASISync™ (http://www. briggscorp. com/oasisync) system is offered solely by Briggs and integrates Briggs' regulatory-compliant OASIS forms content. According to an independent study conducted by OCS, Inc., the nation's leading post-acute health care information company, agencies using Briggs OASIS forms report: better patient outcomes for all CMS measurements, lower occurrence rates, reduced resource utilization and reduced costs per visit. A complete electronic offering of Briggs' OASIS forms content, proprietary software and a choice of data collection devices--digital pen or tablet computer--is brought together in the new OASISync system. The OASISync system has an ICD-9 lookup to reduce errors in recorded patient data, which accelerates reimbursement to agencies and allows home care clinicians to spend more time with their patients. The system ensures privacy through a secure HIPAA-compliant data transfer. "Briggs OASISync is helping our agency improve our clinical outcomes and rate of reimbursement," said Debra Harris, Home Health Director for Wilson County Home Health Agency in North Carolina. "The system alerts our home health clinicians to missing or incorrect data--right as they're filling out the OASIS forms. That safeguard alone reduces processing delays and increases our agency's efficiency." "This electronic solution is exceptionally easy to use, and it significantly reduces errors and redundant data in home patient care documentation," said Kevin Robbins, Vice President of e-Products at Briggs. "Further, it increases the speed of Medicare reimbursements to home care providers. Through these and other efficiencies, OASISync is able to deliver a rapid return on the minimal investment home care agencies make in the system." For more information about Briggs OASISync, including demos of the digital pen or tablet computer technology, visit OASISync (http://www. briggscorp. com/OASISync) online. About Briggs Briggs Medical Service Company is a leading supplier to more than 50,000 healthcare customers in the senior care, home care, acute care, physician and retail markets. Briggs produces and distributes more than 10,000 products including proprietary medical forms and documentation systems, durable and disposable medical supplies, charting materials and professional resources. Backed by clinical experience and regulatory knowledge, the company develops and markets products that are designed to improve clinical outcomes and reduce operating costs. The company has extensive international production capabilities and serves customers in five continents. For more information, visit Briggs (http://www. briggscorp. com) online. You have read this article health with the title May 2003. You can bookmark this page URL http://ysagabriellechong.blogspot.com/2003/05/briggs-introduces-oasisync-mobile-data.html. Thanks! PaperStreet Launches New Web Site for Korybski & Levinson, LLP PaperStreet Launches New Web Site for Korybski & Levinson, LLP Korybski & Levinson, LLP launches new web site with the help of PaperStreet Web Design. The new site is elegant, attractive, and easy to navigate. Fort Lauderdale, FL (PRWEB) October 17, 2006 PaperStreet is proud to announce that Korybski & Levinson, LLP has a new home on the web. The new site’s design captures the elegant and professional image of the firm. About Korybski & Levinson, LLP Http://www. kllegal. com/ (http://www. kllegal. com/) Based in lower Manhattan, New York City, with satellite offices conveniently located in Central New Jersey, the Hudson Valley Region of New York State and the State of Pennsylvania, Korybski & Levinson is a personal service law firm that provides highly skilled and personalized legal services tailored to meet their clients’ goals. The firm concentrates on Healthcare and Property Subrogation, Corporate/Commercial Transactions and Litigation, and Civil Litigation (including personal injury and insurance defense). Their attorneys pay close attention to the needs of each client and take the time to fully explore and discuss all available options. About PaperStreet Http://www. paperstreet. com (http://www. paperstreet. com) PaperStreet creates new web sites and revitalizes aging ones. PaperStreet has been designing web sites for over four years now. Our company has produced over 150 custom web sites for lawyers, doctors, vets, and businesses. We have several accomplished web designers, programmers, and content writers on staff. Our combined talents produce compelling web sites that achieve results. More information on our services is below: Web Design: PaperStreet has the ability to create a professional web site from scratch. PaperStreet can also redesign your existing web site for a more professional image. Content Writing: Whether you need a few pages written, existing copy edited, or total content development, our staff writers and editors create compelling, clean copy. Search Engine Optimization: Can you find your web site when you search on AOL, Yahoo! or Google? Top search rankings lead directly to more web traffic, which in turn leads to more clients. PaperStreet can assist in obtaining top rankings. Internet Marketing & PPC Advertising: We can give your web site more exposure by creating Google and Overture pay-per-click and banner advertising campaigns. Newsletters: This form of advertising is great for generating repeat traffic to your web site by providing immediate communication with clients. Content Management: Need to add your breaking news to the web site? How about adding a new attorney or practice area? Our content management system gives you the ability to edit your own site at any time, from any where, instantly. For more information please visit www. paperstreet. com. You have read this article health with the title May 2003. You can bookmark this page URL http://ysagabriellechong.blogspot.com/2003/05/paperstreet-launches-new-web-site-for.html. Thanks! GHFN Launches Pioneering Video Newsgathering Operations Worldwide After more than a year of planning and trial productions in Africa and Asia, Global Health Frontline News (GHFN) is now assigning video newsgathering crews worldwide to cover major global health stories in partnership with selected broadcasters and Internet platforms. Atlanta, GA (Vocus/PRWEB) January 06, 2011 As a nonprofit project with a mission to produce video news stories on global health issues that are largely under-reported by mainstream media, GHFN will focus its coverage on diseases that mainly affect impoverished populations in developing nations – malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and neglected tropical diseases such as river blindness and trachoma – and on maternal mortality and food security. Funded by nonpartisan donors and operating independently, GHFN will follow strict journalistic standards and produce high-quality video news material for broadcast globally by television networks and wide distribution on the Internet. GHFN’s executive editor, Gary Strieker, said the project’s crews and producers are exceptionally qualified for their assignments. “All of our newsgathering teams have years of experience in broadcast television,” he said. “And most importantly, they have first-hand experience in tracking down health stories in difficult situations in Africa, Asia and Latin America. We’re definitely going to set some new standards in global health reporting.” You have read this article health with the title May 2003. You can bookmark this page URL http://ysagabriellechong.blogspot.com/2003/05/ghfn-launches-pioneering-video.html. Thanks! Sailormen, Inc. Raises $265,000 to Send Local Children to MDA Summer Camp Thursday, May 13, was declared ÂSailormen, Inc. MDA DayÂ as over 140 golfers took to the links at Don ShulaÂs Golf & Country Club in Miami Lakes for the 2nd Annual Sailormen, Inc. MDA Golf Classic. In addition to the $220,000 raised in March through SailormenÂs ÂAppetite For a CureÂ coupon card promotion, the tournament raised over $45,000, which will be used to send over 40 South Florida children with neuromuscular diseases to MDA summer camp in Brandon, FL from July 18-July 23. MIAMI LAKES, FL (PRWEB) July 15, 2004 Sailormen, Inc., a subsidiary of Miami-based company Interfoods of America and the largest domestic franchisee of PopeyeÂs Chicken & Biscuits, joined with players and guests for ÂGolf Fore a Cure,Â a day of golf that included a buffet breakfast, delicious lunch catered by PopeyeÂs, and a raffle with thousands of dollars in prizes. Steve Wemple, Sailormen President and COO, declared the tournament a rousing success thanks to the efforts of the Sailormen MDA Team and the great response from their vendor - supplier partners. ÂWe made the call and they stepped up to the plate with their checkbooks,Â he said. In addition to sending children to a weeklong summer camp at no cost to their families, the money raised will be used to assist with the purchase and repair of medical equipment, provide medical care at three South Florida clinics, and fund research at the University of Miami School of Medicine. MDA is a voluntary health agency working to defeat neuromuscular diseases through programs of worldwide research, comprehensive services, and far-reaching professional and public health education. Be sure to tune into the annual Jerry Lewis Telethon this upcoming Labor Day weekend on WBFS-TV/UPN 33. For more information or to find out how you can help, please contact your local MDA office at (305) 717-9937. You have read this article health with the title May 2003. You can bookmark this page URL http://ysagabriellechong.blogspot.com/2003/05/sailormen-inc-raises-265000-to-send.html. Thanks! Wrike Introduces a Game-Changing Microblogging Tool for Project Managers Award-winning project management software provider, Wrike. com, announces the release of the new “Activity Stream” feature that allows project managers to find out about changes across multiple projects in less than a second. San Jose, CA (PRWEB) June 2, 2010 Wrike. com (http://www. wrike. com/), a leader in online project management software (http://www. wrike. com/) innovations, sets a new project management productivity standard by adding the “Activity Stream” feature to its award-winning project management and collaboration solution. Wrike’s Activity Stream represents a built-in microblogging tool that allows everyone on the team to instantly share information and links, post information about their progress, report problems, and get solutions. In addition, Activity Stream displays all the team members’ recent actions in real time. Users can see changes that their peers make to tasks and projects immediately. The result is a team productivity boost, better communications and tighter control across multiple projects and teams. “Enterprise microblogging is a highly demanded functionality in thousands of organizations today. However, a stand-alone microblogging application is not what enterprises are looking for. Managers find it inconvenient to track the project progress across different tools, so a stand-alone microblogging tool simply doesn’t make sense. We chose a different path and integrated microblogging with project management software to maximize overall productivity. With Wrike’s Activity Stream, project managers are always in control, as they instantly know what is happening on a project. The feature has already gained immense popularity with our customers, who need to manage multiple projects simultaneously,” Andrew Filev, CEO at Wrike. com, points out. “I like the built-in Activity Stream component a lot. We used to use Yammer for microblogging on our projects, but it wasn't really worth an extra app for just that functionality. But microblogging built into the online project management system makes more sense and is far more useful,” confirms Luther Cale, chief of marketing at HealthStream. "I like the Activity Stream, and I think that it would be hugely beneficial for big companies and people working off-site or in different time zones," agrees Nick Doherty, managing editor of television at SBS Online. To see Wrike’s Activity Stream in action for free, please visit http://www. wrike. com (http://www. wrike. com). About Wrike Wrike (http://www. wrike. com (http://www. wrike. com)) is the leading on-demand, online project management and collaboration solution. It provides teams with a unique platform for collaborating on multiple projects in one workspace in real time. Wrike’s collaboration features give a significant productivity gain to diverse small and midsize companies (http://www. wrike. com/stories. jsp (http://www. wrike. com/stories. jsp)) and are known to save managers up to 30 working hours per month. Its e-mail integration is the most advanced in the project management space. Wrike, Inc. has patents pending. Founded in 2003, Wrike, Inc. is a privately held corporation located in California. You have read this article health with the title May 2003. You can bookmark this page URL http://ysagabriellechong.blogspot.com/2003/05/wrike-introduces-game-changing.html. Thanks! Band-Aid Brand Liquid Bandage micro-site Case Study released by Montreal-based Dascal & Associates Band-Aid Brand Liquid Bandage micro-site Case Study released by Montreal-based Dascal & Associates Dascal & Associates (d/a interactive) promote their recently issued case study, Brand-Aid: Building A Macro Case For Micro-Sites, that discusses the power of building and deploying a Micro-Site. The case study is based on their recent work with Johnson & Johnson for the Canadian launch of the new Band-Aid Brand Liquid Bandage. (PRWEB) November 26, 2003 D/a interactive is the new media division of Dascal & Associates, a cross media company providing integrated strategic marketing, graphic design and new media services. d/a interactive has worked with many multi-national companies to help them leverage their brands online. Understanding that the internet provides much more than a supportive role in a marketing strategy, d/a interactive has been working with top-tier brands in the development of micro-sites to help launch new products into the marketplace. Most recently, d/a interactive was retained by Johnson & Johnson to create a micro-site surrounding the Canadian product launch of Band-Aid Brand Liquid Bandage. Johnson & Johnson is the leader in the adhesive brand category. The Band-Aid brand continuously brings innovation to the marketplace. In February 2003, Band-Aid once again revolutionized the adhesive bandage category with a liquid bandage. Band-Aid Brand Liquid Bandage promotes fast healing on contact by forming an invisible, flexible and one hundred percent waterproof seal that is breathable and stays on hard to cover affected areas. Â Creation of a consumer-centric micro-site Â Creation of Content Management System (CMS) technology that allows Johnson & Johnson to edit certain aspects of the site Â The longstanding Band-Aid brand has a traditional integrity. The look and feel needed to be upheld in the online environment Â Needed to provide Johnson & Johnson with statistical information about traffic and usage of the micro-site "We were looking to use the micro-site to create excitement," says Morris Dascal, President of d/a interactive, on their mandate from Johnson & Johnson. "Micro-sites are a relatively new way for companies to launch a product without revamping their entire website and also a great way to isolate a user and maintain their attention on one product." "In addition," says Dascal, "we were using a non-traditional buzz for a new and non-traditional product. The new Band-Aid Brand Liquid Bandage is a more expensive product, and Johnson and Johnson was looking at integrating an online marketing campaign that included email marketing, banners and this micro-site in conjunction with offline marketing and public relations initiatives. We needed to build a site that was brand specific." IMPLEMENTATION/INTEGRATION D/a interactive set-up a distinct website and URL for Band-Aid Brand Liquid Bandage at www. band-aid. ca. The core design component was to maintain the color, consistency, visuals and images typically associated with the Band-Aid brand. After storyboarding the concept for this micro-site and the virtual demonstration (which would enable consumers to see how the product works from the comfort of their own home), d/a interactive designed, produced and implemented the site. All visuals, content and promotional areas were presented and approved in conjunction with Johnson & Johnson to ensure that the online promotion matched their offline strategy. "There were three main areas that we focused on to implement and integrate this micro-site," says Dascal. "First, we had to ensure that the front-end was visually appealing, matched the Band-Aid brand in terms of integrity and was easy to use and navigate. Second, we implemented a Content Management System (CMS) in the back-end, so the staff at Johnson & Johnson could have access to certain content areas for updating and editing purposes. Finally, we needed to focus on the calls to action and promotions that would drive this micro-site to be a successful part of the Band-Aid Brand Liquid Bandage launch in Canada." With the launch of the Band-Aid Brand Liquid Bandage Micro-Site, d/a Interactive: Â Created a micro-site that was robust in terms of design, functionality and usability Â Spoke directly to consumers and informed them through a virtual demonstration, promotions and online couponing Â Deployed an online marketing campaign using existing and targeted consumer portals to send emails regarding the launch (sites included ReaderÂs Digest and Chatelaine Magazine) Â Catered to the mass market, including everyone from parents to retailers Â Developed and deployed a thematic promotion that involved a grand prize trip for a culinary experience in Provence, France Â Executed the value of Band-Aid Brand Liquid Bandage as being worth the cost of the product Â Positioned of Band-Aid Brand Liquid Bandage as a "hot ticket" Â Deployed a viral coupon component where users could "pass on the savings" via a send-to-a-friend function to try Band-Aid Brand Liquid Bandage Â Created the "Ask Band-Aid" area of the micro-site as a forum to position Band-Aid as experts in care, sanitation and recovery from the cuts and bumps from daily life "Putting the pieces together to create a viable solution for Band-Aid was based around our vision of using their product launch marketing strategy integrated with this Âstand aloneÂ micro-site to build brand equity and create product visibility," says Dascal. "The results we anticipated after creating the site were strong micro-site traffic urging consumers to go out and purchase the product at the retail level." "The use of micro-sites for the launch of any brand or service is innovative," insists Dascal. "Band-Aid managed to keep marketing dollars relatively low with the ability to reach a large crowd. WeÂre seeing many companies, from small to large, using the internet from the initial strategic planning phase as a core element to their integrated marketing programs. Companies that focus on strong branding understand how much technology and tools like a micro-site allows them to keep budgets pragmatic with high-end results." Dascal continues: "Consumers were able to educate themselves regarding the unique product benefits of Band-Aid Brand Liquid Bandage which led to general trials and, hopefully, repeat purchases. The micro-site also enabled Johnson & Johnson to gather consumer information through the online promotions and offer an accessible channel for Band-Aid to speak directly with their consumers." "The success of the Band-Aid Brand Liquid Bandage micro-site was, in large part, due to Johnson & JohnsonÂs dedication to ensuring a successful campaign," says Dascal. "This included excellent lines of communications between d/a interactive and Johnson & Johnson, a strong working relationship with the entire team that was involved in this launch, and everyoneÂs enthusiasm to use contests and promotions coupled with strong and relevant content to make the micro-site have inherent value." "We are now in discussions with Johnson & Johnson about building a full-fledged Band-Aid product information website that will reflect their brand and entire line of products," concludes Dascal. "WeÂre also seeing a lot of other clients interested in building micro-sites for product launches and to test the waters of micros-sites prior to committing to a robust website. The Band-Aid Brand Liquid Bandage micro-site proved that packaged goods companies can use the internet to establish their brand both online and offline. WeÂre seeing clients from all sectors of industry now looking at micro-sites to deliver precise, informative and influential information coupled with intelligent calls to action and incentives." ABOUT D/A INTERACTIVE Formed in 1996, d/a interactive is the new media arm of Dascal & Associates. Dascal & Associates is an integrated marketing, design and new media agency delivering solutions that drive business through effective and creative communications. With offices in Canada and the United States, the company has successfully produced off-line and online marketing strategies for companies and brands like Gillette, Johnson & Johnson, Keri Lotion, Kodiak and many others. Dascal & Associates has extensive knowledge in product launches, business-to-business communications, merchandising, point-of-purchase and promotional campaigns. Through extensive work in health and beauty care, consumer packaged goods, biomedical, personal diagnostics, industrial and the fashion and apparel industry, please contact us to see how we can help make your next marketing campaign a success. You have read this article health with the title May 2003. You can bookmark this page URL http://ysagabriellechong.blogspot.com/2003/05/band-aid-brand-liquid-bandage-micro.html. Thanks! Health Network Laboratories Deploys Rhodes Group&#194;s Proprietary Front-end Client, Collection Facility, and Physician Office Group Order Entry Solution Health Network Laboratories Deploys Rhodes GroupÂs Proprietary Front-end Client, Collection Facility, and Physician Office Group Order Entry Solution. Health Network Laboratories, a Pennsylvania-based regional integrated laboratory system, and Rhodes Group, Inc., a leading Connecticut-based laboratory management & IT consulting firm, announce the implementation of Fast OrdersTM, Rhodes GroupÂs revolutionary front-end order entry solution in Health Network LaboratoriesÂ Patient Service Centers. Allentown & Hartford, CT (PRWEB) September 2, 2003 ÂFast Orders is an innovative and comprehensive HIPAA, MSP, and ABN compliant front-end order entry solution for laboratories, patient care centers, and physician office groups,Â says Sam Merkouriou, Rhodes GroupÂs chief executive officer. ÂUniquely engineered as a powerful, complete, and truly versatile interfaced client order entry system, Fast Orders provides revenue enhancing capabilities, error rate reduction, and minimizes multiple entry steps by providing Âsingle screen order entryÂ and Âsingle screen registrationÂ user interfaces.Â ÂThe ability to collect all patient demographic, insurance and order information within 2 screens is tremendous,Â says Jane Erdman, Health Network LaboratoriesÂ chief information officer. ÂFast Orders has greatly improved our registration process in its presentation of data in a concise, readable, and complete format. The incorporation of ABN generation at the point of patient registration has improved that process as well.Â ÂFast Orders provides complete integrated access to both laboratory and hospital information systems, offering significant benefits and advantages to our clients,Â says Sebastian Leonardi, director of business development for the Rhodes Group. ÂIntegrated Results reporting, laboratory and pathology order entry, insurance data entry-edit masking, built-in standing orders capability, and user specified customizable entry options, are several of Fast OrdersÂ inherent benefits and exclusive features.Â About Rhodes Group, Inc. Rhodes Group, Inc. is a leading, Connecticut based, laboratory management and IT consulting firm, dedicated to delivering results-oriented services and solutions to the healthcare industry. Rhodes Group provides unparalleled consulting expertise, enhanced implementation services, and the effective utilization of innovative IT solutions to maximize ROI, improve financial performance, and optimize revenue for healthcare providers across outreach business lines. About Health Network Laboratories Health Network Laboratories, based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, is a regional medical lab facility with over $41M in annual revenue, serving the needs of the public and health care communities in central and southeastern Pennsylvania and central and southern New Jersey. It performs almost 3 million billable clinical and pathology tests each year. Sebastian J. Leonardi, Director of Business Development SJLeonardi@RhodesGroup. org (860) 296-1972, ext.304 You have read this article health with the title May 2003. You can bookmark this page URL http://ysagabriellechong.blogspot.com/2003/05/health-network-laboratories-deploys.html. Thanks! Project X Unveiled: Introducing the SnackShotz™ Dog Treat Launcher from Dogmatic Dogmatic Products creates a new category of human/dog toys. SnackShotz™ is a tracer gun that shoots Dog Treats instead of plastic discs. Hours of fun for dogs and their owners. Brooklyn, NY (PRWEB) June 2, 2006 The time has come. “Project X” is now officially being unveiled to the public! After a series of secret meetings with retailers and distributors nationwide, it is time for the world to know about “Project X”, which is the SnackShotz™ Dog Treat Launcher. SnackShotz is a high quality, handheld dog treat launching device. SnackShotz can launch new Discos™ Flying Dog Treats, also made by Dogmatic Products, up to ten feet. SnackShotz is made from high quality, durable ABS plastic; the same material Apple® uses for its iPod™, to ensure long lasting fun. Discos are the perfect treat for SnackShotz; hard enough to fly, but soft enough to chew. One sniff of Discos is all it takes to have your dog running after them, when they are launched by SnackShotz. They are great for cleaning teeth too. SnackShotz is easy to use. Simply load Discos treats in the top of the SnackShotz launcher, pull back and release the lever and watch your dog run, jump and chase Discos as they “dance” through the air. This patented technology will be all the rage in homes and parks across America and Europe. SnackShotz retails for $14.99-$19.99, and includes the SnackShotz Treat Launcher and a free 39 piece count Discos treat starter pack in mixed flavors. Discos refills are available for $3.49 - $3.99 and come in three flavors, Chicken, Beef, and MightyMint™. The SnackShotz Launcher holds 10 Discos per loading. SnackShotz is not just all fun either. Dog obesity is a growing epidemic. Veterinarians estimate that 44% of their patients are overweight. SnackShotz helps fight dog obesity by encouraging dogs to exercise, all while stimulating the human/animal bond. “It creates the ultimate game of chase!” says John Cullen, Dogmatic’s Director of Sales and Marketing. There has never been a product like SnackShotz before. "Time as we know it now will be called A. S. , meaning ‘After SnackShotz’ and B. S., ‘Before SnackShotz’," Says Andrew Bunch, PR Manager of Dogmatic Products. Ren Moulton, CEO and President of Dogmatic Products, said, “Now treating your dog will be more fun. This is the biggest innovation in the pet industry in 50 Years, maybe ever!” Cullen adds, “SnackShotz and Discos are the first pet product innovation that is commercial enough to completely cross channels – pet specialty, mass, club, drug and grocery. Any retailers looking to significantly increase their pet sales should carry SnackShotz and Discos.” By combining innovation with two different pet categories, dog treats and toys, Dogmatic Products has revolutionized the pet industry. For more information visit www. DogmaticProducts. com. Retailers and distributors email: info@dogmaticproducts. com or call 866-463-6462. Power panels and floor displays are available for speedy merchandising. Source: American Health Animal Association You have read this article health with the title May 2003. You can bookmark this page URL http://ysagabriellechong.blogspot.com/2003/05/project-x-unveiled-introducing.html. Thanks! New Pointers for Acing Panel Interviews from America's Career and Life Coach From phone interviews to lunch and dinner interviews, and even brainteaser interviews, employers are increasingly turning to various methods to screen job candidates. In her recently released book, Interview Magic, Second Edition, author Susan Britton Whitcomb shares inside secrets for how to ace each type of interview. Indianapolis (PRWEB) July 29, 2008 Today's job seekers have their work cut out for them. If they want to land a job offer they must pass not one, but multiple interviews. And chances are each stage will be different from the next. From phone interviews, lunch and dinner interviews, and even brainteaser interviews, employers are increasingly turning to various methods to enhance their understanding of candidates' skills and personalities. One type of interview in particular--the panel interview--has gained popularity in the job search. Originally rooted in academia and health care, this interview type has made solid inroads into the corporate sector, according to Susan Britton Whitcomb, America's Career and Life Coach. "A panel interview measures how you interact with other people, many of whom will be your supervisors and colleagues," advises Whitcomb in her recently released book Interview Magic, Second Edition. During a panel interview, a job seeker meets with two or more individuals who work for the potential employer. Often, these people are hiring managers, HR representatives, upper management and potential peers. To achieve the best results during this type of interview, Whitcomb offers the following tips in her new book: Ask the person setting up the interview, "Who will I be interviewing with and what are their job titles?" If possible, gather information on each of the panel members. Sometimes a Google search will bring up the relevant information you need. Treat the interview like a business meeting and ask if it's okay to take notes. Jotting notes will allow you to remember important points and occasionally buy you a few extra moments response time to probing questions. Take it one question at a time, one person at a time. Address each response primarily to the individual asking the question, while also making eye contact with the rest of the panel. Look for the key decision-maker on the panel--he or she is often the person who is last to the meeting because of a busy schedule, or the person to whom all the other heads turn when there is a question. When the floor is opened up for you to ask questions, address a question to each person on the panel. Send a separate thank-you or follow-up note to each panel member. In her book, Interview Magic, Whitcomb identifies the 14 other types of interviews and provides unique tips for how to ace each one. Armed with her guidance and insider strategies, job seekers will have everything they need to prepare for whatever challenge stands between them and a job offer. Interview Magic, Second Edition, is available at all major bookstores and from the publisher (www. jist. com or 1.800.648.JIST). For a free media copy or to speak with Susan Britton Whitcomb, contact Natalie Ostrom. JIST, America's Career Publisher, is a division of EMC/Paradigm Publishing and is the leading publisher of job search, career, occupational information, life skills and character education books, workbooks, assessments, videos and software. You have read this article health with the title May 2003. You can bookmark this page URL http://ysagabriellechong.blogspot.com/2003/05/new-pointers-for-acing-panel-interviews.html. Thanks! Kids Wish Network and Megatrux Deliver Smiles to Children at North Shore Children's Hospital A visit to the hospital will be made a little easier for pediatric patients at North Shore Children's Hospital thanks to Kids Wish Network, a national charity dedicated to infusing hope, creating happy memories, and improving the quality of life for children. The organization is honored to be able to provide toys with a retail value of over $60,000 to the hospital through its unique Holiday of Hope Gift Bank. This special Gift Bank is being sponsored by Megatrux, Inc. Salem, MA (PRWEB) March 14, 2008 Megatrux Inc. is one of the largest privately owned transportation, shipping, & warehousing networks on the entire globe and has played a truly significant role in behind-the-scenes assistance to Kids Wish Network and its many programs. The donated toys and games will be distributed throughout the year to children coming in to North Shore Children's Hospital for medical treatment. Erin Lavallee, Child Life Coordinator at North Shore Children's Hospital, said the facility was excited about once again taking part in Kid Wish Network's Gift Bank program. "The Child Life Program here truly relies on the generosity of the Kids Wish Network to help restock the playrooms each year and to fill our treasure boxes on the inpatient unit as well as in the ER. This is the second year in a row that we have participated and the staff cannot be happier with our shipment this year. This Gift Bank is going to bring so many smiles to the children and families we serve!" As just one of the programs that makes Kids Wish Network different from similar organizations, its Gift Bank is an uplifting, gift-giving program that brings cheer to children admitted to the hospital for treatment. The brand new toys and games, donated by some of America's top toy manufacturers, are distributed to sick youngsters when they come to children's care facilities for treatment. The Gift Banks help alleviate fears and anxieties by allowing youngsters to temporarily forget about the stinging needles and uncomfortable treatments often endured while undergoing medical care. For more information on Kids Wish Network's programs and upcoming events, please visit their website at http://www. kidswishnetwork. org (http://www. kidswishnetwork. org) and their blog at http://kidswishblog. org (http://kidswishblog. org). If you know of a hospital that could benefit from its Holiday of Hope Gift Bank program, please call 727- 937-3600 or toll free at 888-918-9004. NSMC (North Shore Medical Center) is a multi-site health system headquartered in Salem, Mass., which includes NSMC Salem Hospital, NSMC Union Hospital in Lynn, NSMC North Shore Children's Hospital, NSMC Cancer Center, NSMC Heart Center, NSMC Women's Center and the physician network known as North Shore Physicians Group. NSMC is a member of Partners HealthCare, which was founded by Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital. For more information, visit our website at nsmc. partners. org. You have read this article health with the title May 2003. You can bookmark this page URL http://ysagabriellechong.blogspot.com/2003/05/kids-wish-network-and-megatrux-deliver.html. Thanks! Forthcoming Book Shows Today's High-Achieving Women How To Find Contentment & Direction Forthcoming Book Shows Today's High-Achieving Women How To Find Contentment & Direction In her groundbreaking book, Wander Woman: How High - Achieving Women Find Contentment and Direction (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, June 2010, paperback), Marcia Reynolds, Psy. D., draws on solid research and a wealth of clinical and personal experience to identify an emerging identity among high-achieving women. Oakland, CA (Vocus) March 10, 2010 Women are increasingly occupying the top rungs of the corporate ladder, earning advanced degrees, launching their own businesses, and serving as the major breadwinners of their families. The role of the woman has changed which has led to a change in the woman herself. In her groundbreaking book, Wander Woman: How High - Achieving Women Find Contentment and Direction (http://www. WanderWomanBook. com) (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, June 2010, paperback), Marcia Reynolds, Psy. D., draws on solid research and a wealth of clinical and personal experience to identify an emerging identity among high-achieving women. Wander women are confident, gutsy, dynamic high achievers who don’t struggle with the same issues that their foremothers in the work world did. They aren’t afraid to speak up, aren’t racked with self-doubt, and have little trouble asserting themselves. However, that doesn’t mean that they aren’t struggling. Wander women often feel underutilized, bored, unfulfilled, and fearful that they are not living up to their potential or having the impact that they know they are capable of. Their solution is often to wander from job to job, career to career, business to business in search of fulfillment, and this leaves them even more anxious, exhausted, and confused. Now, for the first time, they have help. In Wander Women (http://www. WanderWomanBook. com): How High-Achieving Women Find Contentment and Direction, master coach Marcia Reynolds, Psy. D., shows wander women how to “wander on purpose.” She gives them the tools they need to gain insight into why they wander and to make strategic decisions about when to move on. For many wander women this will not mean fewer changes, but smarter ones. They will move on because they are ready to take the next step, not because they can no longer stand the boredom or frustration. Reynolds also addresses the “burden of greatness” that wander women typically carry. In addition, she situates the wander woman in a historical context, noting the social, political, and historical forces that have shaped this new identity. Marcia Reynolds, Psy. D., is a master coach, celebrated author, and in-demand professional speaker. In addition to coaching executives in multi-national companies, she travels around the world teaching classes in leadership and consulting on organizational change programs. She has worked within a variety of industries with clients in organizations such as Medtronic, Nokia, British Telecom, GlaxoSmithKline, Amgen, American Express, Maersk, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Advance Auto, Home National Bank, and Staples, plus many agencies of the National Institute of Health. Her earlier book, Outsmart Your Brain, was featured in national media, including Investor’s Business Daily, Harvard Communications Newsletter, Cosmopolitan, Christian Science Monitor, Family Circle, American Way, The Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times. She has appeared on ABC World News, National Public Radio, and Japan Nightly News. Reynolds is past president of the International Coach Federation (ICF). She was one of the first 100 people to earn the designation of Master Certified Coach (MCC) and was instrumental in designing the certification and accreditation programs for the ICF. She teaches coaching skills to managers around the world, helps to design internal coaching programs, and mentors many coaches both internal and external to organizations. Dawn Baron Dawn(at)passionprofitsconsulting(dot)com Www. WanderWomanBook. com Video: http://wanderwomanbook. com/speaking/#live (http://wanderwomanbook. com/speaking/#live) You have read this article health with the title May 2003. You can bookmark this page URL http://ysagabriellechong.blogspot.com/2003/05/forthcoming-book-shows-today-high.html. Thanks! SushiMagic. com - Now Anyone Can Make Sushi at Home Preparing sushi is like sculpting fine art. Nobody knows that better than Chef Michael Young, entrepreneur and inventor of the all new at home sushi making device, rightfully named, Sushi Magic. As Young explains, "I had often admired the sushi chef's unique skills required to roll inside out sushi rolls and the finger dexterity required to mold Nigiri sushi (rice balls with wasabi and fish on top). I knew there had to be an easier way to make sushi at home, just like a sushi chef." Pismo Beach, CA (PRWEB) November 21, 2004 Young envisioned a kitchen tool that had not been offered before, a roller that could accomplish the feat of rolling inside out sushi rolls with ease and a mold that would create perfect Nigiri sushi every time. "As a chef, I molded and rolled a lot of food products such as pastries, breads, seafood mousse and pates. From that experience I was able to begin engineering a unique product from the ground up.' His vision first took the physical form of models made with clay and hardware supplies. He spent hundreds of hours building and testing molds and rollers that cumulated in a prototype, which streamlined the process of making sushi. As Young remembers, "I was engineering at night and making test sushi by day. I made so much sushi I had to start giving it away. By the time the product was ready for manufacturing, testing the models had turned into small sushi parties with friends and neighbors." Sushi Magic is now manufactured from easy to clean food grade ABS plastic and silicone and is in the process of increasing distribution. Currently, the product can be purchased online. With an animated voice, Young recalls, "Going through the invention process has been very rewarding and entertaining." The result? Now anyone can make perfect sushi rolls and Nigiri sushi at home. Sushi Magic is great for parties, entertaining, making healthy snacks, and eating sushi on a budget. It also makes a terrific, one-of-a-kind gift for sushi lovers. To learn more about Sushi Magic, one can visit http://www. sushimagic. com (http://www. sushimagic. com). Get free recipes, demos, tips, and sushi making secrets. Also, visit the sushi store to purchase the Sushi Magic kit ($29.95), Japanese ingredients, knives, and more. You have read this article health with the title May 2003. You can bookmark this page URL http://ysagabriellechong.blogspot.com/2003/05/sushimagic-com-now-anyone-can-make.html. Thanks! FTC Publications' National R&B/Hip-Hop Artist JayL Performs Live at the Atlanta Vision Basketball ABA Playoffs FTC Publications' National R&B/Hip-Hop Artist JayL Performs Live at the Atlanta Vision Basketball ABA Playoffs Opening with "The Star Spangled Banner" FTC Publications' National R&B/Hip-Hop Artist Jay L performs, to include a Half-Time Show Special. Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) March 18, 2006 R&B and Hip-Hop Artist Jay L performs at the ABA Basketball Playoffs being held in Atlanta, opening with "The Star Spangled Banner", and during the half time show, various selections from his upcoming album to include his hit single "More". The performance features national performing artist Jay L at Samsons Health & Fitness Center in Lithonia, Georgia; Jay L, published by FTC Publications, brings quite a history with him. He has performed both solo, and along side other artists to include Babyface and Boys II Men. Jay L brings awe and excitement to each of his performances. This church bred artist gives us the best of both worlds of Hip-Hop and R&B. His buzz is strong coming and fans don't like to miss these groundbreaking performances for music as they know it. You have read this article health with the title May 2003. You can bookmark this page URL http://ysagabriellechong.blogspot.com/2003/05/ftc-publications-national-r-artist-jayl.html. Thanks! PayCycle Survey Finds 34% of Small Business Owners Want a Stimulus Package as "First" Action 58% Are Canceling Year-End Bonuses Palo Alto, Calif (PRWEB) December 2, 2008 PayCycle, Inc., America's #1 online payroll service, today released results of a proprietary survey that showed 34% of small business owners want President-elect Barack Obama to pass an economic stimulus package as his first step when taking office in January. 24% of respondents identified "fixing health care" as the issue they would advise Obama to tackle first, 9% suggesting fixing Social Security and only 3% wanted to see more bail-out packages. "These survey results underscore the passion small business owners are showing for the macro-economic issues confronting them. The variety and depth of responses show how involved and concerned small business owners are, not only about their individual businesses and their local situations, but also about the national economy as a whole," said Jim Heeger, president and CEO of PayCycle Inc. Impact on Year-End Bonuses, Holiday Parties: The survey found that almost 53% of small business owners pay some kind of year-end bonus, either to themselves, to their employees or to both. Of this group that do pay bonuses, over half (58%) of the respondents are either canceling bonuses altogether (26%) or canceling their own personal bonus (32%) so they can still pay employees. When it comes to the annual holiday party, almost half (43%) of traditional party sponsors are either canceling the party or toning it down. Small Businesses Name Numerous Causes for Economic Woes: When asked which national issue had the most direct impact on their business in 2008, 32% of respondents indicated the slowdown in consumer spending was the biggest problem area. But many people also mentioned the credit crisis and problems in the housing industry (21%), the decline in the stock market (15%) and the summer spike in gasoline prices (18%). Clearly, for small business owners, there is not just one problem to blame for the current economic conditions. The remaining 14% of respondents gave a variety of answers ranging from "lack of healthcare reform" to the rise in unemployment. A handful of respondents commented that their businesses had been "spared" from any negative fall-out from the economic crisis. The survey, conducted between November 19 and November 26, 2008, compiled responses from 321 small businesses randomly selected from PayCycle's broad, national base of over 75,000 small business customers. About PayCycle: PayCycle is America's #1 online payroll service, serving more than 75,000 small businesses. PayCycle provides an easy-to-use, innovative, efficient service for small businesses, backed by outstanding customer support. PayCycle also powers payroll services for leading financial institutions including Capital One and PNC Bank, and provides client payroll services through many of the nation's accounting professionals. The PayCycle® service integrates with leading accounting programs such as QuickBooks®, Quicken®, Peachtree® and Microsoft® Money. PayCycle's unique "Do-It-With-YouSM" (DIWYSM) technology platform guides customers through the entire payroll process from paycheck to W-2 forms. PayCycle also holds PC Magazine's highest editorial honor for small business payroll, the PC Magazine Editors' Choice Award. Visit www. paycycle. com for a free trial of the service. PayCycle is a registered trademark, and "Do-It-With-You" and "DIWY" are service marks of PayCycle, Inc. All other product names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. You have read this article health with the title May 2003. You can bookmark this page URL http://ysagabriellechong.blogspot.com/2003/05/paycycle-survey-finds-34-of-small.html. Thanks! Getting Help With Your Medical Expenses The Federation of American Consumers and Travelers (FACT) has issued a summary of Federal and state programs designed to help certain persons with their medical bills. Programs available include... Edwardsville, IL (Vocus) February 16, 2010 Edwardsville, IL, February 15, 2010 -- The Federation of American Consumers and Travelers (FACT) has issued a summary of Federal and state programs designed to help certain persons withtheir medical bills. Programs available: Medicaid (also called Medical Assistance) This is a joint Federal and state program that helps pay medical costs for certain people and families who have limited income and resources. Medicaid will pay participating doctors, pharmacists, hospitals or other providers for your care. Each state decides what counts as income and resources, who is eligible, what services are covered, and the cost for services. States also can decide how to run their program as long as they follow Federal guidelines. Medicare Savings Programs States have programs that pay Medicare premiums and, in some cases, may also pay Part A and Part B deductibles and coinsurance. Among these programs: Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB) — Helps pay your Medicare Part A and Part B premiums, and other cost-sharing (like deductibles, coinsurance, and copayments) if your income and resources are at or below a certain level. Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiary (SLMB) and Qualifying Individual (QI) — Helps pay your Part B premiums if your income and resources are at a certain level. Qualified Disabled & Working Individuals (QDWI) — Helps pay your Part A premiums if your income and resources are at a certain level. Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Benefits SSI is a monthly amount paid by Social Security to people with limited income and resources who are disabled, blind, or age 65 or older. SSI benefits provide cash to meet basic needs for food, clothing, and shelter. SSI benefits aren’t the same as Social Security benefits. Persons who qualify for Medicaid, one of the Medicare Savings Programs or SSI may also qualify for a program called “Extra Help” in paying the costs of Medicare prescription drug coverage. The income and resources level may change every year. The only way to know for sure if you qualify is to apply with your State Medical Assistance (Medicaid) office. Call 1-800-MEDICARE (1-800-633-4227), and say “Medicaid” to get the telephone number for your state. TTY users should call 1-877-486-2048. And/or visit http://www. medicare. gov. Contact your State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP) for free health insurance counseling and personalized help making coverage decisions, for information on programs for people with limited income and resources, and for help with claims, billing, and appeals. Social Security can be reached at 1-800-772-1213 for information on SSI or applying for Extra Help. TTY users should call 1-800-325-0778. The Web site address: http://www. socialsecurity. gov. This news bulletin has been issued by The Federation of American Consumers and Travelers (FACT), a consumer organization formed under the not-for-profit corporation laws of the District of Columbia in 1984. FACT serves more than 1 million consumers nationwide. Additional information on FACT may be found in the Encyclopedia of Associations, and by visiting the association's Web site (http://www. usafact. org). Informative, unbiased news bulletins are regularly disseminated by FACT to help its members remain current on matters which might seriously impact their lives. The association does not offer support to -- and does not receive support from -- any political party or movement. In addition to publishing consumer-related reports, the association provides more than 30 benefits for its members, ranging from medical insurance and dental discounts to prescription drug savings and scholarships. FACT’s administrative office is located at 318 Hillsboro Avenue, Edwardsville, IL 62025. You have read this article health with the title May 2003. You can bookmark this page URL http://ysagabriellechong.blogspot.com/2003/05/getting-help-with-your-medical-expenses.html. Thanks! Former Capital One Executive to Lead BoldMouth BoldMouth Inc., a social marketing services agency, announced today that Scott Hildebrand has joined the agency as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, a new position at the company. Hildebrand most recently served as Managing Vice President of Brand Marketing for Capital One, one of the largest banks in the country. BoldMouth's clients include AARP, Kraft, MTV, Microsoft, Metagenics, MTV Networks, and Scholastic, among many others. Charlottesville, VA (PRWEB) December 6, 2007 - BoldMouth Inc. (http://www. boldmouth. com), a social marketing services agency, announced today that Scott Hildebrand has joined the agency as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, a new position at the company. Hildebrand brings over twenty years of diverse marketing experience and leadership to the role. Hildebrand most recently served as Managing Vice President of Brand Marketing for Capital One (http://www. capitalone. com), one of the largest banks in the country. In this role, he headed consumer marketing efforts for the U. S. credit card division. Prior to joining Capital One, Hildebrand was Vice President at Epsilon (http://www. epsilon. com), a leading database marketing firm. He has previously served as a management consultant with Arthur D. Little, a marketing executive for the Marriott Corporation, and as a brand manager for PepsiCo. Hildebrand says he is excited about BoldMouth's extensive experience in the social marketing and viral marketing arena, and looks forward to building a next generation ad agency. "BoldMouth is an exciting firm with unique expertise and great clients. My role will be to build on this foundation by delivering new ways to bring people together as we change the face of media, user generated content and the part played by advertising agencies in a social marketing context," noted Mr. Hildebrand. Hildebrand received his B. A. in Economics from Georgetown University (http://www. georgetown. edu) and an M. B.A. in Marketing and Finance from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University (http://kellogg. northwestern. edu). 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__label__wiki	0.780141	0.780141	12thNight.ca Liz Nicholls on theatre News/Views ← So…. wanna go out some time? I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, a review I Heard About Your Murder: a new Lemoine comedy reinvents the who-dunnit → Getting away with murder? Stewart Lemoine’s new mystery-comedy I Heard About Your Murder premieres at Teatro Posted on July 13, 2017 by Liz Nicholls Patricia Cerra, Garett Ross, Jenny McKillop, Kendra Connor, Mathew Hulshof in I Heard About Your Murder by Stewart Lemoine, premiering at Teatro La Quindicina. Photo supplied. By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In Stewart Lemoine’s new murder mystery thriller comedy — a tricky theatrical category with precious few representatives — you’ll meet a married couple of Canuck urbanites with an idyllic rural retreat. Little do Howard and Dodie Forrester know it, of course. But their spontaneous, and independent, arrivals at their B.C. cabin between Golden and Radium instigate the complications of I Heard About Your Murder, premiering Thursday in the ongoing Teatro La Quindicina summer season at the Varscona. A proliferating nexus of unexpected guests, unravelling deceptions and scrambled secrets, orchestrated misapprehensions, and out-and-out lies ensues, says the playwright cheerfully over morning coffee. The man at the next table keeps his head down when he overhears this breezy summation. It might explain why ‘murder mystery thriller comedies’ are not a dime a dozen in the theatrical repertoire. For starters, they require a certain fierce concentration to plot. Both in the writing and the acting, knowing how much to reveal, and when, … well, it’s intricate, to say the least. “This is not your Agatha Christie or Murder She Wrote,” says Lemoine with his misleadingly benign smile, over pre-rehearsal coffee. “Not that kind of body in the library.” He is prepared to shed more light on the intricate byways of I Heard About Your Murder — in a mysterious sort of way. Of the drop-ins, “some (the Forresters) know, some they don’t know, some they pretend to know. Everyone there has an agenda; everybody has something to conceal.… Lies range from domestic to international. An unusual turn of events happens that needs to be investigated, but in the context of a fun trip to the cabin.” Patricia Cerra (centre) with Jenny McKillop, Garett Ross, Kendra Connor, Vincent Forcier, Mathew Hulshof, in I Heard About Your Murder, premiering at Teatro La Quindicina. Photo by Andrew MacDonald-Smith. In 35 seasons of comedies set in exotic locales like Venice and Zurich, Manhattan and L.A., Budapest and Buenos Aires (not to mention up the Amazon), it’s curious, and revealing, how often Lemoine has turned to apparently benign Canadian locales — for screwball escalations, comic mayhem, and even international intrigues. The national parks of Jasper and Waterton have figured prominently, for example (Mrs. Lindeman Proposes, A Rocky Night For His Nibs). So has the cafeteria in the downtown Winnipeg Eaton’s (Fever-Land). Lemoine’s 2013 comedy thriller Cause and Effect had international complications accelerating through a remarkably unremarkable strip of Edmonton retail real estate, the stunningly undistinguished Gateway Blvd. between 34th and 51st Avenues. When it comes to “writing something mysterious about people investigating, seeking information and not having it” in a contemporary mystery, “it’s hard to do anywhere there’s wi-fi,” as Lemoine remarks. “You need a remote location.” Anthony Shaffer’s Sleuth, as he points out, is set in an isolated country house; no cell phone reception is involved. Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None happens on an island, “with the remake on a mountain you can only get to by cable car.” Neither is contemporary, of course: “isolation and what it allows dramatically” is a delicate matter in the here and now. When there’s Google, investigation is a mere fingertip distraction. Which is why “the weekend getaway of I Heard About Your Murder isn’t set in downtown New York,” grins Lemoine. I Heard About Your Murder by Stewart Lemoine, premiering at Teatro La Quindicina. Photo by Andrew MacDonald-Smith. B.C. is the remoteness of choice, mainly because Calgary-based actor Barbara Gates Wilson, a Teatro fave, and her artist husband have a cabin midway between Golden and Radium. Lemoine and Teatro artistic director Jeff Haslam have been guests there. “I always send her a birthday message, and she gets it several days late because there’s no email there,” says Lemoine. “They’re cut off from the normal channels of information.” Not only is isolation a dramatic practicality, but there’s also “its value to people who want it, beyond (mere) tranquillity. What kind of people that, or will fight to have it?” Hmmm. Could that be people who are, as Lemoine puts it, “concealing, avoiding, lying?” In writing the new play, the only production in the Teatro season set in contemporary time, Lemoine, who’s written both, has been struck by the parallels in structure between mystery thrillers and farce. In both, the infrastructure of high stakes, ever more teetery, is propped up by improvised lies and concealments. The production, which he cast before he wrote the play, has a sextet of actors, mixing Teatro stars, like Jenny McKillop, Mathew Hulshof, Vincent Forcier and Kendra Connor with newcomers like Garett Ross and Patricia Cerra, Kendra Connor, Mathew Hulshof, Garett Ross in I Heard About Your Murder, premiering at Teatro La Quindicina. Photo by Andrew MacDonald-Smith. “In the general landscape of theatre now,” as Lemoine puts it, “six actors is a big cast. In contrast to many of his playwright colleagues, he thinks “it’s easier to write for more people. To have a plot that reflects … life. To (create) something fun involving misunderstanding and misconceptions with three actors is, well exhausting.” His 2005 farce A Grand Time In The Rapids, with its etiquette columnist character reduced to panic, had only three actors, but four characters since twins were involved. Teatro’s July slot has always been one of their biggest draws for audiences. Last summer’s revival of Cocktails at Pam’s was the best attended show in Teatro history. “My philosophy,” laughs Lemoine, “is have something fun for July, the play equivalent of the book you take to the beach. A page turner!” I Heard About Your Murder Theatre: Teatro La Quindicina Written and directed by: Stewart Lemoine Starring: Jenny McKillop, Garett Ross, Mathew Hulshof, Kendra Connor, Vincent Forcier, Patricia Cerra Where: Varscona Theatre, 10329 83 Ave. Running: Thursday through July 29 Tickets: 780-433-3399, teatroq.com Share the story! This entry was posted in Previews and tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, murder mystery comedies, Stewart Lemoine, Teatro La Quindicina, Varscona Theatre. Bookmark the permalink. Please help me continue theatre coverage at 12thnight.ca by contributing to my Patreon campaign! Click here. 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__label__wiki	0.683397	0.683397	Salamander Antipredator Defenses: A Field Exercise to Engage Students in Ecosystem Dynamics Sandra J. Connelly, Katelyn Meier, Madeline Becker September 2017, Vol. 79 No. 7, (pp. 564-570) DOI: 10.1525/abt.2017.79.7.564 The Study of Animal Behavior Provides Valuable Opportunities for Original Science Fair Projects: Recommendations from The Animal Behavior Society, Education Committee Stan Braude, Susan Margulis, E. Dale Broder August 2017, Vol. 79 No. 6, (pp. 438-441) DOI: 10.1525/abt.2017.79.6.438 Understanding Sensory Ecology Megan Mayo, Jan Ng April 2016, Vol. 78 No. 4, (pp. 338-340) DOI: 10.1525/abt.2016.78.4.338 Using Online Content to Study Animal Behavior Paige Littman, Janice Moore Do You See What I See? Using Ethograms to Observe Animal Behavior Mary Carla Curran, Amber Siler, Michele B. Sherman March 2016, Vol. 78 No. 3, (pp. 226-232) DOI: 10.1525/abt.2016.78.3.226 Studying Behavioral Ecology on High School & College CampusesA Practical Guide to Measuring Foraging Behavior Using Urban Wildlife Mohammad A. Abu Baker, Sara E. Emerson, Joel S. Brown Investigating Issues in the LaboratoryThe Behavior of Red Swamp Crayfish as an Invasive Species Krissi M. Hewitt, Lori J. Kayes, David Hubert, Adam Chouinard November/December 2014, Vol. 76 No. 9, (pp. 609-614) DOI: 10.1525/abt.2014.76.9.7 It’s a Snap! An Inquiry-Based, Snapping Shrimp Bioacoustics Activity Bradley K. Fox, Kelvin D. Gorospe, Roxanne D. Haverkort-Yeh, Malia Ana J. Rivera September 2013, Vol. 75 No. 7, (pp. 470-475) DOI: 10.1525/abt.2013.75.7.5 An Experimental Test of Kin Recognition in Harvester Ants Stephanie A. Strickler, P. L. Schwagmeyer Building Creative Scientists in the Classroom Laboratory: Applications for Animal Behavior Experiments Justin R. Lamanna, Perri K. Eason April 2011, Vol. 73 No. 4, (pp. 228-231) DOI: 10.1525/abt.2011.73.4.8	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line862
__label__cc	0.688933	0.311067	American Wild Horse Campaign  Reality of Roundups Become a Monthly Supporter Gifts of Appreciated Stock AWHC in the News Eyewitness Reports Kimerlee Curyl Fine Art Wild Grounds Coffee Get Informed: What BLM is Proposing for Wild Mares in Oregon By Brieanah Schwartz, AWHC Government Relations and Policy Counsel The Bureau of Land Management’s Burns District Office is accepting public comments on an Environmental Assessment for the Spay Feasibility and On-Range Behavioral Outcomes Assessment and Warm Springs HMA Population Management Plan. The first four years of this EA deal with a spay study that will begin this year by rounding up 100% of the horses and burros in the HMA, primarily using helicopters, and then spaying over 100 mares! Located in Hines, Oregon, the HMA encompasses 474,547 acres and it is currently estimated that 738 adult horses and 147 foals live in the HMA. After the BLM rounds-up 100% of the horses, 100 horses will be returned to a fenced in area of the range as the control group and 100 horses will be returned to an adjacent, fenced in area as the treatment group. The remaining approximately 685 horses will be permanently removed from the range. The EA is considering an extremely controversial and dangerous surgical spay procedure—ovariectomy by colpotomy. In the study, 28-34 mares will be spayed by this horribly inhumane procedure. Eight mares will be released into the treatment group without the spay procedure. An additional 70 mares will be spayed but not returned to the range at all. These 70 mares are spayed only to contribute to the complication rate of the study. The study will conduct this painful procedure on mares that are three years of age and older. However, and worst of all, the procedure will be conducted on mares that are in three different gestational groups: not pregnant, early term (less than 120 days), and midterm (120-150 days). There is a known, extremely high risk of abortion in the early to mid- term pregnancies following this procedure. In a hardly sterile environment, the mares are lightly sedated for the procedure, and, as seen in the BLM’s video of the procedure, the mares are alert and aware the entire time. After the excruciating 15-minute procedure, the mare is given a long-term antibiotic and turned out in a half-acre pen with other mares to recover from the light sedation. As soon as a mare recovers from the sedative, she is hastily moved to a larger pen with more mares and dependent foals. The mares will then be held separately for only seven days of “recovery” in a pen for “post-surgery welfare observations” before they are released into the treatment group. This period of observation is to record instances of pain or discomfort in the mares following this harmful surgery. Any horses that show signs of distress will be closely evaluated, further analgesia may be given at the vet’s discretion, but no post-operative antibiotics will be given. Mares that take a turn for the worse within 24 hours will be given further analgesia as necessary, and then the vet will decide if euthanasia is necessary. The 70 mares who will be spayed but not returned to the range will be observed for 2-4 weeks by ultrasound to evaluate their pregnancy status. The BLM states in the proposed EA that this period of observation will help with pregnancy loss data; meaning the BLM is spaying 70 mares in different stages of pregnancy to see if and how they abort their unborn foals. Unlike the 34 mares that are returned to the range, these mares will receive veterinary care as needed. The study will last for four years, until 2022, and then the Population Management Plan will be in place until 2028. Once the study is complete, and if the study is deemed successful, the Population Management Plan will implement the controversial ovariectomy by colpotomy procedure and roundup more horses to the low AML of just 111 individuals. Burros will not be involved in the study or in the sterilization treatments of the Population Management Plan. However, the BLM will roundup burros as part of the Plan’s implementation. If the BLM implements spaying as a management tool after the conclusion of the study, the plan 25-37 mares, ages two and older, will be spayed and 0-76 horses will be removed from 2022 through 2028. If the study is found to be unsuccessful, the BLM will move forward with a humane PZP program instead. Under that scenario, 37 mares will be treated with PZP, but 110 horses will still be removed from 2022 through 2027. This plan is incredibly inhumane, uneconomical, and once again reflects the BLM’s preferential treatment of privately-owned livestock, will devastate the wild horse population in the Warm Springs HMA. Remember – All horses and burros removed from the Complex are in grave danger of being killed if Congress grants the BLM's request to lift the restriction on destroying healthy wild horses and burros or selling them for slaughter. Also, mares would be subjected to unprecedented and largely untested surgical sterilization procedure of spaying by colpotomy. Now is the time to weigh in for humane on-the-range management and fair treatment of the wild horses living on our public lands in the Warm Springs HMA, so please get your comments in by taking action below! Our goal is to protect America’s wild horses and burros by stopping the federal government’s systematic elimination of these national icons from our public lands. It’s not too late to act to save the mustangs! Please get involved today.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line884
__label__cc	0.737794	0.262206	June 25, 2019 AndrewHalterOmniblogart, commentary, Donald Trump, fun, humanity, humor, life, mass shooting, mime, news, political, politics, sad, speech, suicide, technology, violence, writingLeave a comment by: Andrew Halter 1. Piloting a Remote Control Helicopter This is one of the more subtle uses of mime technique, in which the performer holds his hands parallel to each other, roughly 2-3 feet apart, scanning the sky for an invisible flying machine. One can also open his or her mouth in amazement and excitement, occasionally becoming concerned that the imaginary helicopter will crash, only to be relieved when it does not. 2. Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Waving Tube Man The Mime splays his or her arms wide, holding them rigid and unmoving, only to suddenly reverse directions suddenly. The mime’s face should be completely without expression, suggesting the personification of an inanimate object. If any small children are near, the mime could suddenly throw his arms toward them, hoping not to make them burst into tears. 3. Suicide The mime should first pretend to sit at a desk and write a confessional note, making sure to emphasize with his or her finger the tears running down their cheek. Then, standing up, the mime can slip an invisible noose over their neck, throwing the other end of the rope over an imagined overhead pipe. With hands clasped together in front of them, the mime could weep briefly into their own folded hands, before pretending to dangle lifeless from their own imagined suicidal rig. Possibility: suddenly spring to life, grinning widely and ensuring any audience that it was all a ruse. 4. Mass Shooting This act requires at least 15 mimes, as one will portray the shooter and the others his or her unfortunate victims. All the mimes should begin together in one group, until one of them upholds an imaginary machine gun and begins to murder many of the other mimes. There should be at least 10 imaginary casualties, with the shooter making sure to shudder his or her body rapidly as if jostled by machine gun fire. 5. Donald Trump Speech The mime stands as if before a podium, making sure to indicate with hand motions that he or she is enormously overweight. The mime could gesticulate wildly with his or her hands while occasionally standing openhanded as if asking the crowd a question. Depending on what part of the country the mime performs this routine, it may end with a final triumphant Nazi salute. News: Dummy Falls Down on his Stupid Face in Front of Everybody June 20, 2019 June 20, 2019 AndrewHalterOmniblogautobiographical, Comedy, Donald Trump, fun, humanity, mass shooting, mime, news, opinion, personal, philosophy, satire, suicide, technology, the onion, writingLeave a comment Dummy Falls Down on His Stupid Face in Front of Everybody Chicago, IL — Andrew Halter, fledgling journalist and part-time stand-up comedian, looked like an idiot last Thursday when his right toe clipped the curb in front of the Walgreens at Foster and Lincoln, causing him to drop his bag of candy and painfully exclaim “Dammit!” Most of the 11 bystanders who witnessed the event declined to comment on how foolish Halter seemed, brushing Swedish Fish off the same jeans he wears everyday, preferring instead to look at the sky as though they’d not witnessed Andrew’s humiliation. “Yeah that was pretty funny I guess,” remarked David Grant, local father of five, after witnessing the doofus peel himself off the asphalt. Immediately after falling, Halter tried to gather himself as quickly as he could and walk away, though he could not hide the painful limp in his stride. When authorities attempted to reach Halter for comment, he yelled “I don’t know what you’re talking about!” before slamming into the nearby Lincoln bus stop kiosk as he attempted to hurry away. Upon hearing him walk into the bus stop, Margaret Atwood, grandmother of twelve, was unable to keep herself from audibly guffawing at the silly boob as he hobbled down the sidewalk toward his apartment. “I’m sorry,” Atwood explained as she attempted to cover her mouth with her right hand, “it was funny, I feel bad for him though.” Douglas and Jerry Ignacio, local high schoolers who also witnessed the disturbance were less kind, remarking that “(the) bit*h better watch where he’s going.” Reports say that after he got back to his apartment, Halter turned off the lights and watched Fargo on Netflix under his heavy comforter, vowing to never again mention the occurrence.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line889
__label__wiki	0.791132	0.791132	Is a 'dog year' really seven years? by Bambi Turner Dogs really do advance and age faster than humans, but not quite at the same rate at all times. Some years the rate is much slower than others for our furry friends. VolNa69/Thinkstock In one of a string of well-known '80s Alpo commercials, actor Lorne Greene proclaimed, "Danny is 14 -- that's like 98 to you and me." The national commercial helped to perpetuate the myth that a single calendar year equates to seven dog years, but also did poor Danny a disservice, inflating his age by a decade or more. While this seven-year myth helps dog lovers understand canine life stages compared to those of humans, experts agree that it's not entirely accurate, particularly once dogs reach their golden years. Though it's possible to translate dog years to human years, the process isn't as simple as using a straight multiplier. That's because a dog's progression through life is not exactly linear, and can vary significantly based on the breed and size of the animal. For example, canines experience rapid development in their first year, aging as much as 20 times as fast as humans, and then gradually slowing their development until the ratio is more like 5-to-1 [source: Bialik]. If you need a framework for estimating Fido's age, assume he reaches the age of 15 by the end of his first year, putting him at the stage where he's ready to reproduce. Add another nine years for his second year of life, which puts his age at 24 by the time he reaches his second birthday. After that, add four to six years to his age for every human year – this is where size comes into play. For small dogs, assume they age about four years for every human year. For medium dogs, this figure ranges from four to five, while large dogs age five to six years annually [source: Westwood Hills Veterinary Hospital]. While this may not seem like much of a difference, it can really add up over time. By the age of five, large breeds hit the age of 36 and are considered seniors. Medium dogs have another year, reaching geriatric status by age six, while small dogs can hold off on the senior title until they reach the age of seven -- or 44 in dog years [source: Westwood Hills Veterinary Hospital]. And Danny, from the Alpo commercials? After 14 long years of life, the medium-to-large Danny is somewhere between 78 and 88 years of age, or 10 to 20 years below Lorne's estimate. Can owning a pet help you live longer? How Animal Domestication Works How do dogs perceive time? How Dogs Work How many words do dogs understand? Bialik, Carl. "The Seven-Year Glitch." The Wall Street Journal. Aug. 29, 2008. (Oct. 15, 2014). http://online.wsj.com/articles/SB121997338176882143 Westwood Hills Veterinary Hospital. "Caring for Your Dog." Date Unknown. (Oct. 15, 2014). http://petfocus.ca/westwood-hills/dog-health.php Bark Forward 10 Best Family Dog Breeds Dog-Care Tips Do all dogs dream? Amazing Animals: Dog Quiz	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line895
__label__wiki	0.872668	0.872668	The fantasy novel Eleanor is best when it’s grounded in reality Samantha Nelson Jason Gurley Crown Publishing Eleanor, the latest novel from Jason Gurley, who became a bestseller through his Kindle Worlds writing, begins as a painful but beautiful coming-of-age tale of a teenager bound by guilt to raise herself while taking care of her alcoholic mother. But then the title character’s life—and in turn the novel—is dramatically disrupted when Eleanor starts disappearing in front of friends and loved ones, losing time as she’s transported to other worlds. The result is a disjointed narrative that never manages to satisfyingly combine its component parts, leaving intriguing plot points undeveloped in favor of some too predictable fantasy tropes. The story, which was originally self-published but has since been released by Crown Publishing, starts decades before Eleanor’s birth from the perspective of her grandmother and namesake, a depressed woman who has lost her dreams of being an Olympic swimmer and commits suicide while pregnant with her second child. The story then flits between narrators including Eleanor and her parents, drawing out the day of a car crash that kills Eleanor’s twin sister, Esmeralda, before jumping forward to spend the bulk of its time focusing on a teenage Eleanor, a cosmic being named Mea who lives in a fish bowl where she can see all of time and space, and The Keeper, a woman who holds omnipotent power over a gray forest and resents Eleanor for invading her domain. While The Keeper’s chapters seem disconnected from the main story for most of the book, they offer Eleanor’s most striking imagery and eventually a nice payoff as her peaceful, solitary life threatens to violently fall apart. In contrast, everything involving Mea and her ominous captor, Efah, is dull and obvious. It’s frustrating as that part of the narrative begins to dominate the story, hedging out the more compelling material like the quiet, awkward love Eleanor develops with a teenage boy she’s bonded with because of their shared experience with alcoholic parents, or the resentment her father feels because Eleanor chose to live with her neglectful mother instead of him. So many plot points feel untethered when they might have been neatly tied off. Before the accident, Eleanor’s father feels guilty about having a special bond with Eleanor, but that emotional conflict is only a factor in a single chapter. A young Eleanor is obsessed with drawing secret underground passages and her cousins were on a plane that vanished—yet neither of these things seems to have anything to do with Eleanor’s disappearance and the worlds she visits. The novel took a decade to finish, so its possible some of these issues can be blamed on parts of the narrative that shifted or were cut over time. There’s perhaps a better version of Eleanor hidden in the existing novel where the supernatural elements are more mysterious and subtle, building on the concerns people around her have as they grasp for rational ways to explain her disappearances and the physical toll Eleanor’s journeys takes on her. There are questions about if she’s run away or being abused—both reasonable given her home life—but the magical nature of what’s happening soon becomes undeniable to her friends and family. When Mea and Efah reveal that Eleanor might be able to change the past and she traces her mother’s issues, Gurley could have made points about the destructive power of regret and dwelling on misfortune, or how tragedy begets tragedy. But this is a very literal fantasy, more concerned with laying out its rules for how Eleanor can travel between realms and what steps she needs to take to achieve to make everything right again. While it’s not being marketed as YA literature, Eleanor is essentially a fusion of the wish-fulfillment supernatural tales and realistic dramas that are currently dominating the format. There’s certainly merit in trying to combine the two ideas, but Gurley’s attempts at genre bending just leave the novel feeling broken. Recent from Samantha Nelson It’s Harry Potter meets Megan Abbott in fantasy noir Magic For Liars Famous Men Who Never Lived uses an alternate universe to tell a very real refugee story A stranger comes to town—and opens a bowling alley—in Elizabeth McCracken’s Bowlaway	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line899
__label__wiki	0.765569	0.765569	Y-Chromosome Variation in Altaian Kazakhs Reveals a Common Paternal Gene Pool for Kazakhs and the Influence of Mongolian Expansions Matthew C. Dulik, Ludmila P. Osipova & Theodore G. 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To clarify their population history from a paternal perspective, we analyzed the non-recombining portion of the Y-chromosome from Kazakh populations living in southern Altai Republic, Russia, using a high-resolution analysis of 60 biallelic markers and 17 STRs. We noted distinct differences in the patterns of genetic variation between maternal and paternal genetic systems in the Altaian Kazakhs. While they possess a variety of East and West Eurasian mtDNA haplogroups, only three East Eurasian paternal haplogroups appear at significant frequencies (C3, C3c and O3a3c). In addition, the Y-STR data revealed low genetic diversity within these lineages. Analysis of the combined biallelic and STR data also demonstrated genetic differences among Kazakh populations from across Central Asia. The observed differences between Altaian Kazakhs and indigenous Kazakhs were not the result of admixture between Altaian Kazakhs and indigenous Altaians. Overall, the shared paternal ancestry of Kazakhs differentiates them from other Central Asian populations. In addition, all of them showed evidence of genetic influence by the 13<sup>th</sup> century CE Mongol Empire. Ultimately, the social and cultural traditions of the Kazakhs shaped their current pattern of genetic variation.</p> </div>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["y-chromosome", "altaian", "kazakhs", "reveals", "paternal", "mongolian", "expansions"], "article_id"=>138240, "categories"=>["Genetics", "Evolutionary Biology"], "users"=>["Matthew C. Dulik", "Ludmila P. Osipova", "Theodore G. 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Kazakh1 represents samples that were collected from four locations <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0017548#pone.0017548-Wells1\" target=\"_blank\">[10]</a>, <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0017548#pone.0017548-Zerjal1\" target=\"_blank\">[13]</a>.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["populations"], "article_id"=>461663, "categories"=>["Genetics", "Evolutionary Biology"], "users"=>["Matthew C. Dulik", "Ludmila P. Osipova", "Theodore G. 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__label__cc	0.597628	0.402372	Amanda Smiles Founder/ Executive Director at Ruraq Maki New College of California 2005 — 2008 Interdisciplinary Studies- Social Justice/Social Change Ruraq Maki August 2009 - Present Tina Stromsted, phD August 2008 - Present Buen Dia Family School August 2007 - January 2013 Party with a Purpose April 2007 - August 2008 Quickbooks, Quicken, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Mac, Windows, Microsoft Excel, Non-profits, Microsoft Word, Marketing Communications, Social Media, QuickBooks, Event Planning, Community Outreach, Nonprofits, Program Development, Volunteer Management, Research, Public Speaking, Newsletters, Office Management, Press Releases Amanda Sonenberg Vice President, Sales North America Western Region Mighty Leaf Tea Company February 2003 - Present Starbucks, Tazo Tea January 1998 - December 2002 Les Concierges 1996 - 1998 Brand Development, International Sales, Strategic Planning, Product Marketing, Food, Food Service, Food & Beverage, Marketing Strategy, New Business Development, Market Planning, Customer Relations, Distributors, Restaurants, Food Industry, Key Account Management, Customer Service, Hotels, Event Management, Account Management, Sales Operations, Key Account Development, Sales, Trade Shows, Management, Sales Management, Purchasing, Start-ups, Hospitality, Selling, Income Statement, Consumer Products, Sales Process, Retail, Forecasting, Product Development, P&L Management, Merchandising, Grocery, Inventory Management, Training, Wine, National Accounts, Marketing, Event Planning, P&L, Hot Water, Love to Learn, Catering Amanda Spooner Production Stage Manager at Soho Repertory Theatre Yale School of Drama 2006 — 2009 MFA, Management BA, Technical Theatre & Design Soho Rep. Theatre September 2013 - Present Primary Stages June 2013 - Present Sundance Institute March 2014 - July 2014 Westport Country Playhouse April 2010 - June 2013 Lincoln Center Theater November 2012 - April 2013 Yale Repertory Theatre September 2008 - November 2012 American Repertory Theater July 2012 - September 2012 Northern Stage September 2009 - February 2012 Primary Stages January 2010 - April 2011 Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Social Media, Cpr Certified, Theatre, Musical Theatre, Events, Events Coordination, Arts Administration, Drama, Performing Arts, Stage Management, Theatrical Production Amanda Stillman Assistant store leader EILEEN FISHER, INC. July 2015 - Present kate spade October 2013 - June 2015 Ann Taylor LOFT December 2009 - June 2013 Gap Inc./Banana Republic October 2008 - December 2009 Visual Merchandising, Retail Management, Merchandising, Styling, Store Management, Store Operations, Loss Prevention, New Store Openings, Retail Sales, Window Displays, Retail, Inventory Control, Shrinkage, Associate Development, Inventory Management, Hiring, Product Knowledge, Customer Service, Time Management, People Development, Employee Training, Customer Satisfaction, Apparel, Merchandise Planning, Driving Results Amanda Sue Varona Certified court reporter Green River Community College 2003 — 2006 Court reporting, anatomy, and medical terminology Journalism, U.S. history, philosophy Santa Monica College 1982 — 1984 English, political science, debate, philosophy, and much more Freelance court reporter January 2008 - Present Law firms in LA, San Francisco, and Seattle 1981 - 2007 Depositions, Court Reporting, Hearings, Medical Malpractice, Arbitration, Transcripts, Litigation Support, Patent Litigation, Legal Assistance, Courts, Personal Injury, Transcription, Litigation, Civil Litigation, Trials, Notary Public, Family Law Amanda Sweikow Deborah Lemen Studio May 2009 - Present Light Iron Digital May 2010 - January 2011 Filmmakers Alliance February 2005 - April 2010 Photography, Photoshop, Final Cut Pro Amanda (Min-Yao) Tang M.S, Accounting University of California, San Diego 2008 — 2010 Center for Asian American Media January 2014 - May 2014 Vita January 2014 - April 2014 SDS Skateboards September 2010 - June 2011 TearLab Corporation March 2010 - June 2010 Kyocera Communications, Inc January 2010 - March 2010 Microsoft Office, Excel, Customer Service, QuickBooks, GAAP, IFRS, Financial Analysis, Accounting, Accounts Payable, General Ledger, Auditing, Invoicing, Tax, Finance, Journal Entries, Bank Reconciliation, Internal Audit, Tax Returns, Financial Reporting, Bookkeeping, Financial Accounting, Financial Statements Amanda Thayer California Lead Coordinator, Black Box Network Services BA, Criminal Justice Black Box Network Services February 2010 - Present Private June 2006 - November 2009 Bath & Body Works September 2005 - April 2006 Athen's Kuzina January 2004 - August 2005 Sears January 2000 - January 2005 Amanda Thurman Amanda Trac Executive Team Leader at Target Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics Target May 2015 - Present Target October 2012 - May 2015 Bath and Body Works October 2008 - October 2012 Retail, Store Management, Driving Results, Inventory Control, Loss Prevention, Merchandising, Profit, Retail Sales, Sales, Store Operations, Visual Merchandising, Merchandise Planning, Customer Service, Leadership, Inventory Management Amanda Trescott Program Assistant at Youth Leadership Institute Masters in Public Administration, Public Policy Bachelors of Science, Health Education Youth Leadership Institute January 2013 - Present Gap Inc. February 2012 - January 2013 Youth Leadership Institute April 2011 - January 2013 Bath and Body Works April 2011 - February 2012 Bath and Body Works August 2009 - April 2011 Time Management, Organization, Social Media Marketing, Program Facilitation, Social Media, Event Planning, Social Networking, Teamwork, Team Facilitation, Youth Development, Youth Leadership, Youth Programs, Youth Engagement, Tobacco Control, Alcohol Awareness, Curriculum Development, Data Visualization, Data Entry, Public Administration, Public Policy, Public Health, Health Education, Holistic Health, Agenda Development, WordPress, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat, InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, PowerPoint, Community Outreach, Customer Service, Community Organizing, Sales, Visual Merchandising, Program Development, Program Evaluation Amanda Tsai New Homes Utility Programs Team Lead Environmental Studies, Natural Resource Management and Conservation SolarCity September 2015 - Present SolarCity May 2015 - September 2015 SolarCity April 2014 - May 2015 SolarCity October 2013 - April 2014 SolarCity 2012 - 2013 US EPA January 2012 - April 2012 Urban Table Farmers' Markets May 2011 - October 2011 Microsoft Office, Troubleshooting, Customer Service, PowerPoint, Team Leadership, Sales, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Management, Inventory Management, Technical Support, Training, Leadership Amanda Tugwell Founder/Director of Tours and Events at Candlestick Park Bachelor of Science, Recreation; Parks, and Tourism Administration West Valley Community College 2007 — 2009 Associates Degree, Communications Candlestick Park June 2012 - Present San Francisco Recreation and Parks May 2011 - June 2012 Candlestick Park December 2011 - May 2012 Diabetic Youth Foundation October 2011 - December 2011 Golden Gateway Tennis and Swim Club September 2010 - October 2011 San Francisco State University February 2011 - June 2011 Courtside Club July 2007 - September 2010 Tuxedo Warehouse February 2005 - July 2007 South Hills Community Church June 2002 - January 2006 Mervyns October 2004 - January 2005 Customer Service, Sports, Public Speaking, Event Planning, Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Outlook Amanda Ulricksen Brand Manager at Mekanism Minor in Marketing Mekanism August 2015 - Present H&L Partners January 2015 - August 2015 H&L Partners December 2013 - January 2015 H&L Partners December 2012 - December 2013 Glam Media April 2012 - August 2012 PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Social Media, Public Relations, Marketing, Online Advertising, Social Media Marketing, Leadership, CRM, Facebook, Advertising, Event Planning, Social Networking, Blogging, Integrated Marketing, Digital Marketing, Digital Media, Marketing Communications Amanda Valente Assistant Event Manager MKTG INC Cuesta College 2002 — 2005 Morro Bay High School 1999 — 2002 MKTG INC June 2013 - Present JCrew May 2013 - June 2013 California Psychcare January 2010 - April 2013 Pick-Up Landscaping August 2009 - March 2013 Starbucks February 2002 - May 2010 Gap Inc./Banana Republic June 2009 - January 2010 Applied Behavior..., Training, Event Planning, Supervising Others, Customer Service, Highly detail oriented, Public Speaking, Multi Tasking, Organization, Employee Training, Intrapersonal Skills, Microsoft Office, Analytic Problem Solving, Community Outreach, Cpr Certified, Developmental..., Autism, Prioritisation, Managing and Processing..., Financial Transactions, Retail, Salesforce.com, Discrete Trial Training, Pivotal Response..., Salesforce, Inventory Management, Staff Development, Brand Management, Hiring Employees, Social Media Marketing, Time Management, Social Media, Sales Amanda Van Voorhis Owner at Amanda Van Voorhis Photography Bachelor of Science, Fashion Design and Merchandising Associate of Arts, General Amanda Van Voorhis Photography October 2010 - Present NERA Economic Consulting February 2008 - December 2012 Metal Mafia/Bombshell Accessories October 2006 - September 2007 Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Access, Outlook, Social Media, Event Planning, Event Management, Public Speaking, Customer Service, Project Management, Marketing, Graphic Design, Product Development, Administrative... Amanda Ventimiglia Crew member at Trader Joe's Bachelor of Science (BS), International Relations and Affairs West Valley College 2008 — 2012 Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS), Administrative Justice Trader Joe's August 2010 - Present Brand Logistics Expert August 2007 - August 2010 Clark Chiropractic June 2005 - June 2007 Loss Prevention, Time Management, Microsoft Office, Event Planning, Customer Service, Social Media, PowerPoint, Data Entry, Social Networking, Public Speaking, Microsoft Word Amanda Vergel de Dios Shape Up SF Program Assistant at San Francisco Department of Public Health Bachelor of Arts, Journalism San Francisco Department of Public Health February 2015 - Present California Department of Public Health August 2014 - Present City and County of San Francisco Department of Aging and Adult Services April 2014 - June 2014 Schools of the Sacred Heart San Francisco August 2013 - June 2014 I Luv My Body Fitness January 2012 - August 2013 Lifting Up Lives January 2010 - January 2012 Philippine News January 2010 - November 2010 Golden Gate [X]press August 2009 - December 2009 Golden Gate [X]press January 2009 - May 2009 Adobe Bridge, Adobe Creative Suite, MS Office Suite, Editing, Writing, Digital Photography, Nutrition, Journalism, Blogging, Storytelling, Marketing, Copy Editing, Social Media, Microsoft Office, Proofreading, Facebook, Creative Writing, Newsletters, News Writing Amanda Virgil Office Manager at A&E Electrical Co. Inc. Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Accounting A&E Electrical Co. Inc. BaristaStarbucks2009 - 2010 Strategic Planning, Customer Service, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office, Leadership, Event Planning, Social Media Amanda Wallace Senior Design Manager of Women's Accessories at Under Armour Bachelor of Arts (BA), Design And Merchandising Under Armour July 2015 - Present Gap Inc. March 2011 - July 2015 Jimlar June 2010 - February 2011 Coco & Lolly May 2008 - May 2010 G. Hensler & Co. May 2007 - February 2008 Circa Corp. December 2004 - May 2007 Leather, Finish, Tech Packs, Trend, Trend Analysis, Fashion Design, Fashion, Fashion Illustration, Footwear, Sketching, Mood Boards, Technical Drawing, Illustrator, Merchandising, Denim, Technical Design, Wovens, Concept Development, Knitwear, Pattern, Trend Forecasting Amanda Wehe Executive Assistant at Premier Press The Fashion Institute of Design and 2009 — 2010 Associate of ArtsCurrently a, Visual Communications major Premier Press August 2014 - Present Gymboree November 2013 - Present AniA Collection January 2014 - August 2014 Sonny Alexander Flowers April 2012 - September 2013 The Cheesecake Factory July 2010 - August 2012 Hey Guy Media April 2011 - July 2011 Anthropologie November 2009 - January 2010 Pacific Avalon Yacht Charters May 2008 - August 2008 Inventory Management, Customer Service, Restaurants, Cooking, PowerPoint, Microsoft Office, Restaurant Management, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Time Management, Food, Sales, Telephone Skills, Visual Merchandising Amanda Werner Legal & Policy Fellow at International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR) UCLA School of Law 2011 — 2014 Doctor of Law (J.D.), David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy, Critical Race Studies Program, Top 15% Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), American/United States Studies/Civilization, Summa Cum Laude International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR) January 2015 - Present Community Outreach, Public Policy, Policy Analysis, Non-profits, Legal Research, Fundraising, Public Speaking, Legal Writing, Media Relations, Speech Writing, Debate, Social Media, Film Production, Writing, Nonprofits, Politics, Blogging Amanda Wolf Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Apparel Design and Merchandisisng Brown Paper Tickets September 2014 - Present Wolfchildren August 2009 - Present Louis Vuitton October 2012 - July 2014 Radiance Herbs & Massage August 2010 - August 2012 Banana Republic 2008 - 2009 Bloomingdale's 2006 - 2007 Therapy Clothing and Furniture January 2005 - January 2006 Crossroads Trading Company January 2000 - January 2005 Visual Merchandising, Trend Analysis, Merchandising, Fashion, Team Leadership, Management, Trend, Sales, Retail, Training, Gifts, Home, Jewelry, Styling, Window Displays, Customer Service, Apparel, Creative Direction, Visual Display, Fashion Jewelry, Merchandise Planning, Cross Merchandising, Mannequin Styling, Retail Displays, Display Campaigns, Product Display, Store Displays, Retail Category..., Retail Buying, Visual Styling, Set Styling, Color Styling, Accessories Display, Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Social Media, Store Management, Textiles, Draping, Pattern, Trend Forecasting, Sewing, Pantone, Color Schemes, Color Theory, Brand Filters, Fashion Design, Fashion Illustration Amanda Zadrozny Lighting and Graphics Design Consultant at Radiant Atmospheres B.A., Communication Studies Radiant Atmospheres October 2014 - Present Happy Hound Play and Daycare August 2014 - September 2015 Happy Hound Play and Daycare June 2014 - June 2015 Radiant Atmospheres July 2014 - October 2014 Happy Hound Play and Daycare July 2014 - August 2014 Sports Basement Walnut Creek May 2010 - January 2014 Lindsay Wildlife Museum October 2006 - November 2011 Symbio Systems, LLC July 2009 - November 2010 Sports Basement May 2010 - June 2010 Lindsay Wildlife Museum October 2006 - March 2007 Adobe Illustrator, Google Business..., Telemarketing, Illustrator, Microsoft Word, Social Media, Customer Service, Event Planning, Public Speaking, Social Networking, Photoshop Amanda Zielinski Director of Product Sourcing Retail Ithaca College London Williams-Sonoma, Inc. November 2010 - Present LifeVantage Corporation February 2013 - Present Williams-Sonoma, Inc. January 2004 - November 2010 Williams-Sonoma, Inc. September 2002 - September 2004 Gymboree September 2000 - September 2002 Gap Inc. September 1997 - September 1998 Trend Analysis, Merchandising, Global Sourcing, Apparel, Retail, Private Label, Sourcing, Textiles, Fashion, Multi-channel Retail, Project Management, Footwear, Retail Buying, Wovens, Merchandise Planning, Sportswear, Product Development, Store Management, Furniture Amandeep Dhanoa QC Microbiologist at Novartis Bachelor of Science (BS), Microbiology Novartis February 2015 - Present San Francisco State University 2013 - Present Gap Inc. August 2009 - August 2011 Laboratory, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Research, Data Analysis, PCR, Data Entry, Time Management Amandine Castex Master of Arts (M.A.), Anthropology California State university East Bay 2008 — 2010 Associate of Arts (AA), Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies Campus de bissy 2003 — 2005 Associate of Arts (AA), Business/Commerce, General notre dame Bordeaux 1998 — 2002 high school, literature and languages University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign May 2011 - July 2011 College of San Mateo April 2007 - December 2008 INTERMARCHE May 2005 - September 2005 Cofinoga June 2004 - August 2004 Community Outreach, PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Customer Service, Higher Education, Research, Spanish, Event Planning, Microsoft Excel, Social Networking, Editing, Teaching, Volunteer Management, Microsoft Office, Public Speaking Amandine Redington AR Riding and Training August 2013 - Present Lazy 'H' Pony Ranch May 2006 - Present YGCIC January 2010 - June 2010 Horse Training, Horses, Horse Care, Teaching, Animal Behavior, Psychology, Time Management, Training, Dogs, Event Management, Equestrian, Microsoft Word, Leadership Amani Algazzali "The greatest power human beings how is the power to create reality." Super Brian Business Administration, Marketing Primerica November 2012 - Present Gazzali's Supermarket May 2003 - November 2007 Finance, Recruiting, Marketing, Business Development, Community Outreach, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, New Business Development, Sales, Strategic Planning, Teaching, Event Planning, Market Research, Social Networking, Time Management Amani Baidwan Amanita LeMon Criminalist II, Oakland Police Dept. Bachelor of Science (BSc), Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology MA Science, Biology OPD Crime Lab June 2001 - Present Longevity Wines October 2011 - Present Department of Justice 1999 - 2001 San Mateo Mosquito abatement District June 2000 - October 2000 Statistics, Molecular Biology, Microsoft Office, Research, Excel, Word, Writing, PowerPoint, Customer Relations, Customer Service, Life Sciences, Editing, Public Speaking, Teaching, Problem Solving, Data Analysis, Quality Auditing, insect identification,... Amara Benjamin-Bullock, MFTI Transitional Age Youth Clinician at WestCoast Children's Clinic Argosy University San Francisco Bay Area 2009 — 2011 MA, Counseling Psychology WestCoast Children's Clinic March 2012 - Present Opportunity Plus, Inc June 2011 - Present The Institute for the Advanced Study of Black Family Life and Culture, Inc. January 2007 - Present East Bay Community Recovery Project June 2011 - February 2012 Berkeley Youth Alternatives September 2010 - June 2011 Association of Black Psychologists 2007 - 2011 Bay Area Association of Black Psychologists 2007 - 2009 Amara Ebeling Bachelor of Science (BS), Human Biology Amaris Blackmore MulitMedia Production Coordinator at Discovery Communications BA, Television Production / Journalism Orange Coast College 2000 — 2003 AA / Film&Video Certificate, Film Production Discovery Communications April 2008 - Present Mottaz Productions March 2005 - March 2008 Indigo Films September 2007 - November 2007 edelman communications August 2006 - November 2007 BBC Worldwide January 2007 - February 2007 Manic Pictures 2002 - 2006 amaris cano Amarjeet Soni Cupertino, California Phlebotomist at Crossover Health Ohlone College 2005 — 2006 Certificate, Certificate in Phlebotomy Merrill F West High School 1997 — 2000 High School Diploma, General Education Crossover Health November 2013 - Present Stanford University Medical Center July 2011 - Present Planned Parenthood Mar Monte May 2008 - January 2010 Washington Hospital November 2006 - December 2006 UNCLE Credit Union February 2006 - August 2006 Bath & Body Works May 2004 - January 2005 Macy's December 2002 - January 2005 Sutter Health September 1998 - August 2000 Inventory Management, Health, Customer Service, Data Entry, Healthcare, Marketing, Vital Signs, Microsoft Office, Nursing, Time Management, Hospitals, Phlebotomy, Cpr Certified, Administration, Venipuncture, Sales A. Mark Harland Independent Primary/Secondary Education Professional American Legion Post 238 2011 - 2013 Amaury Perez Client Advisor at Louis Vuitton The American Business School Paris 2012 — 2012 Louis Vuitton 2014 - Present SANDRO August 2013 - May 2014 Fashion Network Association 2014 - 2014 Anthropologie February 2013 - September 2013 Event Planning, PowerPoint, Social Media, Microsoft Office, Social Networking, Facebook, Public Speaking, Microsoft Excel, Customer Service, Time Management, Microsoft Word, Blogging, Leadership, Merchandising, Community Organizing, Fashion, Program Development, Marketing, Visual Merchandising A Maxwell Stephens Information Systems Intern at Port of San Francisco Irvington High School 2003 — 2007 Port of San Francisco August 2012 - Present TE Connectivity 2011 - 2012 Composite Software June 2011 - September 2011 ConSentry Networks June 2008 - August 2009 Linux, Virtualization, Testing, Test Planning, Software Quality..., Unix, Security, TCP/IP, Network Security, Windows, VMware, Windows Server, Operating Systems, Microsoft Office, Customer Service, Information Technology, Troubleshooting, Network Administration Amayah Harrison Amaya M. Elu Coccodrilli Peckville, Pennsylvania Equipment Project Manager Kinesiology and Exercise Science Self-employed August 2008 - Present CHOC Children’s Hospital of Orange County 2010 - 2010 Sutter Health January 2004 - August 2008 Stanford Hospital & Clinics September 1998 - August 2003 Construction Management, Construction, Project Management, Project Planning, Submittals, Strategic Planning, Value Engineering, Program Management, Process Improvement, MS Project, Hospitals, Green Building, Nonprofits, Microsoft Office, Budgets, Management, Team Building Health & Community Organizer M.S., Public Health B.S., Public Health Desert High School Alioto Law Offices January 2009 - July 2010 San Francisco State University Student Health Center July 2008 - May 2009 Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Public Health Desert High School 2004 — 2007 Optiscan Biomedical December 2014 - Present MacroGenics, Inc. March 2014 - December 2014 UCSF February 2012 - March 2014 UCSF May 2011 - August 2011 Public Health Education, Clinical Research, Clinical Monitoring, Clinical Research..., Clinical Trials, IRB, Biostatistics, Infectious Diseases, CTMS, Epidemiology, GCP, Clinical Study Design, EDC, ICH-GCP, Clinical Data Management, CRO, Clinical Development, Public Health, Oncology, Medical Writing, Protocol, Therapeutic Areas, Cancer, Global Health Amber Bryan Owner at Balancing Points Acupuncture American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2001 — 2005 MS, Traditional Chinese Medicine Balancing Points Acupuncture 2006 - Present Guang Ci Clinic 2006 - 2007 Dr. Lifang Liang's Acupuncture Fertility Clinic 2004 - 2006 Herbal Medicine, Acupuncture, Traditional Chinese..., Headaches, Cupping, Pain, Fertility, Pain Management, Wellness, Herbs, Chinese Herbal Medicine, Back Pain, Sciatica, Sports Injuries, Herbal, Alternative Medicine, Chronic Illness, Chronic Pain, Pregnancy, Digestive Disorders, Infertility, Insomnia, Healing, Stress, Holistic Health, Fibromyalgia, Bodywork AMBER CURRAN Public Safety Dispatcher at City and County of San Francisco BA, Writing for Electronic Media City and County of San Francisco June 2001 - Present Amber Davis Parham Museum Educator & Performer at Denver Museum of Nature & Science M.A., Museum Studies B.A., Drama, Performance Emphasis Liberal Studies and Drama Denver Museum of Nature & Science June 2014 - Present Butterfly Pavilion March 2014 - Present San Luis Obispo Children's Musem July 2013 - January 2014 John F. Kennedy University October 2010 - June 2013 Chabot Space & Science Center June 2012 - February 2013 Chabot Space & Science Center October 2012 - January 2013 Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History 2013 - 2013 Chabot Space & Science Center November 2011 - June 2012 Aquarium of the Bay March 2011 - June 2012 Aquarium of the Bay June 2011 - January 2012 Research, Teaching, Public Speaking, Microsoft Office, Writing, Acting, Improv, Drawing, Painting, Museums, Art Exhibitions, Natural History, Exhibit Design, Museum Collections, Theatre, Improvisation Amber D. Esposito Litigation Associate at Bradley & Gmelich Southwestern University School of Law 2005 — 2008 B.A., International Relations Bradley & Gmelich October 2011 - Present Calendo, Puckett, Sheedy & DiCorrado, LLP July 2009 - October 2011 Law Offices of Doron Tisser, Estate and Gift Tax Planning August 2008 - April 2009 Holmes & Holmes May 2007 - April 2008 Independent Film & Television Alliance January 2007 - April 2007 Los Angeles City Attorney's Office May 2006 - July 2006 Civil Litigation, Personal Injury, Trials, Hearings, Depositions, Pleadings, Liability, Entertainment Law, Legal Research, Legal Writing, Litigation, Motions, Mediation, Legal Issues, Courts Amber Dobos The Little Shamrock January 2013 - Present Amber Drake Vendor Partner SpecialistPeople Resources Bachelor's degree, Dietetics/Dietitian American River College Adobe August 2014 - Present MKTG INC 2012 - August 2014 San Francisco State University August 2011 - May 2013 Camp Okizu Volunteer 2013 - 2013 City Of Dixon 2005 - 2011 Sutter Davis Hospital January 2007 - January 2008 Management, Nutrition, Dietetics, Food Safety, Food Industry, Red Cross, Lifeguard Instructor, Well-organized, Reliable, Wellness, CPR/AED Certified, Water Safety Instructor, Recreation, First Aid, Nutrition Education, Fitness Training, Health Education, Sports, Fitness, Program Development, Athletics, Clinical Nutrition, AED, Lifeguarding, Cpr Certified Amber Egan Charlotte, North Carolina Area Executive Assistant at Garretson Firm Resolution Group, Inc. Garretson Firm Resolution Group, Inc. February 2012 - Present Relman, Dane & Colfax, PLLC August 2011 - November 2011 ASPEN OF DC October 2010 - August 2011 ADELMAN, SHEFF & SMITH, LLC July 2003 - October 2010 Outlook, Management, Team Building, Event Management, Public Speaking, Research, Access, Microsoft Word, Customer Service, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Spreadsheets Amber Eilert Kenwood Investments Graphic Design, Logo Design, Illustrator, Graphics, Art Direction, Corporate Identity, Layout, Typography, Creative Direction, Brand Development Amber Elf Broadcast Media Professional University of East Anglia 2001 — 2002 Amber Engelmann Co Executive Producer at Highnoon Entertainment BA, Radio, Television, and Digital Communication Scula Leonardo Da Vinci 1998 — 1998 Bachelor's degree, Broacast Electronics Media Arts Deutsch July 2015 - Present Highnoon Entertainment March 2015 - July 2015 Lucky Dog Films October 2014 - November 2014 Double Act TV October 2014 - November 2014 Lucky Dog Films August 2013 - September 2014 Renegade 83, Inc. April 2013 - August 2013 Bischoff Hervey Entertainment September 2012 - December 2012 Half Yard Productions July 2012 - September 2012 Evolution Media May 2012 - August 2012 Bischoff Hervey Entertainment January 2012 - May 2012 Documentaries, Reality, Field Producing, Broadcast, Production Managment, Avid, Video Production, Commercials, Independent Film, After Effects, Creative Direction, Screenwriting, Casting, Entertainment, Camera, Feature Films, Short Films, Final Draft, Mac, Media Production, Storytelling, New Media, Music Videos Segment Producer at N.A. Amber Engle Marketing Coordinator at Sotheby's International Realty UC Berkeley Extension 2012 — 2014 Certificate, Marketing Stanford Continuing Studies 2009 — 2009 Sotheby's International Realty March 2015 - Present Petersen Dean July 2014 - January 2015 The Entrust Group March 2014 - July 2014 Stanford University July 2013 - October 2013 Idean December 2012 - July 2013 Landtech Consultants, Civil and Structural Engineers January 2012 - March 2013 DMC Insurance Administrators, Inc. June 2011 - August 2011 KHA February 2010 - June 2011 Content Magazine 2010 - 2010 Writing Skills, Online Research, Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Excel, Dreamweaver, Adobe Acrobat, Visual Studio, Basic HTML, Event Planning, Social Media Marketing, Event Management, Photography, Photoshop, Content Writing, Microsoft Excel, Editing, Management, Marketing, Outlook, Leadership, Public Speaking, Social Networking, Facebook, Writing Amber Falconer Thomas Geologist at GeothermEx, Inc. Certificate in Environmental Analysis (June 2013), Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Southern Oregon University 2007 — 2007 Field Course in Geology and Hydrogeology, Geology and Hydrology B.S. (Distinction), Geology GeothermEx, Inc. (A Schlumberger Company) September 2007 - Present Geology, Field Work, Drilling, ArcGIS, Hydrogeology, Earth Science, GIS, Geological Mapping, Sampling, Water Amber Fultz Education Management Professional Amber Giles Behavioral Health Counselor at RAMS, Inc. Master of Science (M.S.), Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Psychology RAMS, Inc. August 2014 - Present Seneca Family of Agencies June 2013 - August 2014 RAMS, Inc. September 2012 - May 2013 Asian American Recovery Services, Inc. August 2011 - June 2012 Behavioral Health, Case Management, Community Outreach, Crisis Intervention, Mental Health, Public Speaking, Therapists, Treatment, Interventions, Psychology Amber Hadley Sales Operation Analyst at ReneSola Ltd. California State University-Sacramento 2009 — 2011 Bachelor of Arts (BA), Art (Art History) Genearl Education/Art History ReneSola Ltd. June 2015 - Present ReneSola Ltd. May 2014 - June 2015 ReneSola Ltd. November 2013 - May 2014 Hibbert Lumber Co. June 2002 - September 2013 Pence Gallery October 2011 - May 2013 California State University Sacramento, Office of Graduate Studies March 2010 - May 2011 Blockbuster October 2007 - August 2008 PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Customer Service, Supervisory Experience, Event Planning, Salesforce.com, Salesforce Training, Outlook, Art History, Purchasing, Purchase Orders, Inventory, Microsoft Office, Sales, Public Speaking Amber Hatfield Materials Administrator at Institute of Reading Development M.A., Comparative Literature B.A., Literatures of the World Institute of Reading Development January 2010 - Present Institute of Reading Development January 2008 - December 2009 Institute of Reading Development May 2005 - December 2009 Jane & Jane 2008 - 2008 Incredible Adventures October 2006 - December 2007 Quest International September 2005 - June 2006 Quest International - a nonprofit coporation 2005 - 2005 Teaching, Nonprofits, Blogging, Leadership, Customer Service, Staff Development, Program Management, Editing, Recruiting, Non-profits, Public Speaking, Teacher Training, Higher Education, Advertising, Vendor Management, Contract Negotiation, Project Planning, Education, Cost Accounting, Operational Testing, Order Fulfillment, Event Planning, Coordinating Events, Project Management Amber Hauch Owner, amantiglass Amber Janssen Instruction and Assessment Librarian at California Maritime Academy MLIS, Library & Information Science BA, Technical & Professional Writing Napa Valley College 1996 — 2000 AA, General Education California Maritime Academy June 2015 - Present Tetra Tech October 2003 - June 2015 California Maritime Academy January 2015 - April 2015 UC Santa Cruz January 2011 - May 2011 Nova Group, Inc. August 1998 - October 2003 Solano County Library November 1996 - August 1998 Higher Education, Adobe Creative Suite, Research, Program Development, Teaching Amber Jean Kuss Research Scientist at Bay Area Environmental Research Institute (BAERI) Ph.D., Environmental Studies, Graduate Student M.A., Environmental Studies M.S., Geosciences College of Charleston 2003 — 2007 B.S., Geology and Environmental Geosciences Bay Area Environmental Research Institute (BAERI) September 2014 - Present NASA DEVELOP for SSAI October 2012 - September 2014 NASA DEVELOP for SSAI October 2011 - October 2012 NASA Ames Research Center June 2010 - October 2011 ERM February 2008 - January 2009 Water Resources, Field Work, Remote Sensing, GIS, Geology, Hydrology, Ecology, Groundwater, Environmental Consulting, Spatial Analysis, Science, Geochemistry, Sustainability, ERDAS Imagine, Environmental Science, Modeling, ArcGIS, Climate Change, Hydrogeology, Environmental Education, Environmental Awareness, Earth Science AMBER KANTOR MEDICAL SALES REPRESENTATIVE at Dynasplint Systems CSU Chico 2007 — 2009 Certificate, Interior Design A.A, Business Administration Dynasplint Systems, Inc August 2010 - March 2013 Suite One Eight One May 2008 - July 2010 Marina Sports Bar & Grill April 2006 - May 2008 Nordstrom October 2005 - April 2006 Orange Coast Oncology Hematology May 2000 - September 2005 Sales, Relationship-building..., Time-efficient, Prioritize Workload, Asking Questions, Customer Service, Organization, Marketing, Budget Setting, Rehabilitation Services, New Client Development, Identifying New..., Sales Presentations, Time Management, Microsoft Applications, Sketchup 3D Modeling, Website Management..., Global Brand Awareness, Negotiating & Closing, Account Management, Teamwork, Podiatry Amber Kuipers Office Assistant & Dispatch at Comfy Heating & Air Conditioning Masters of Arts, Communications MA, Communications Hayward/ Union City - California - US 2007 — 2007 c-best, education Comfy Heating & Air Conditioning July 2015 - Present Egnyte December 2014 - March 2015 San Lorenzo Unified School District August 2008 - December 2014 Christ Community Church June 2003 - December 2014 Shotokan Karate Do June 2009 - September 2010 American Youth Outreach Program January 2008 - June 2009 The Style Co. August 2006 - December 2006 Gold's Gym December 2005 - August 2006 The Style Co June 2005 - November 2005 Public Speaking, Training, Microsoft Office, Editing, Teaching, Advertising, Data Entry, Research, PowerPoint, Teamwork, Program Management, Leadership, Community Outreach, Event Planning, Customer Service, Microsoft Word, Social Media, Zen Desk, QuickBooks Amber Kvietys Office Manager at Heavenly The Art Institute of California-San Francisco 2010 — 2012 Theatre/Theater Heavenly April 2015 - Present Alpine Hills Tennis & Swimming October 2012 - January 2015 Flavor Restaurant September 2011 - July 2012 Plaza Research 2005 - 2008 Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Customer Service, English, Windows, Research, Photoshop, Teaching, Public Speaking, Budgets, Editing, Strategic Planning, Negotiation, Menu Development, Teamwork Amber Leage Greater Chicago Area Education Consultant for SchoolWorks Concordia University Chicago 2012 — 2014 Masters in Educational Leadership & Administrative Credential, Educational, Instructional, and Curriculum Supervision Teaching Credential, Secondary Education, Language Arts English Literature, Literature SchoolWorks July 2014 - Present Gordon Tech College Prep July 2012 - June 2014 The Noble Network of Charter Schools August 2011 - June 2012 Colegio Nueva Granada August 2009 - June 2011 Colegio Karl C. Parrish August 2006 - June 2008 Junipero Serra High School August 2004 - June 2006 Downtown College Prep 2002 - 2004 •Team Leadership •..., Teacher Training, Teaching, Staff Development, Educational Leadership, Classroom Management, Public Speaking, Classroom, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Educational Technology, Leadership, ESL, Research, Fundraising, Lesson Planning, Community Outreach, Writing, Tutoring, Special Education Amber Leckie Paraprofessional at San Francisco Unified School District San Francisco Unified School District Instructional AidePomona Unified School DistrictSeptember 2007 - August 2008 B.A., Criminal Justice Studies San Francisco Unified School District August 2008 - Present Pomona Unified School District September 2007 - August 2008 Placentia Yorba Linda Unified School District November 2006 - January 2008 Placentia Yorba Linda Unified School District March 2007 - June 2007 Boys and Girls Clubs of America September 2006 - November 2006 Amberlee Sutton Independent Law Practice Professional University of California, Hastings College of the Law 1982 — 1985 Bachelor of Science (B.S.), History, cum laude Law Office of Amberlee Sutton 2011 - Present Bervar & Jones 2008 - 2010 Prentice & Scott 2001 - 2002 Trials, Litigation Support, Legal Research, Civil Litigation, Litigation, Westlaw, Appeals, Legal Writing, Courts, Personal Injury, Document Review, Family Law, Product Liability, Arbitration, Commercial Litigation, Pleadings, Legal Assistance, Hearings, Mediation, Bankruptcy, Administrative Law, Trial Practice, Depositions, Torts, Legal Issues, Lexis, Class Actions, Motions, Business Litigation, Personal Injury..., Legal Discovery, Insurance Law, Creditors' Rights, Alternative Dispute..., Civil Rights, Breach Of Contract, Domestic Relations Amber Lester Server at Wipeout Bar & Grill Amber Loskot-Beatty Client Manager, Nexus IS A Dimension Data Company Bachelor of Science (BS), Business Administration Nexus - A Dimension Data Company June 2015 - Present NetXperts April 2010 - June 2015 The Axean Group November 1999 - January 2001 Kaiser Permanente May 1998 - November 1999 Time For Two, Inc. 1996 - 1998 Management, Project Planning, Leadership, Project Management, Training, Customer Service, Process Scheduler, Time Management, Networking, System Administration, Program Management, Security, Telecommunications, Troubleshooting, Process Improvement, Vendor Management, Account Management Amber Marcia Adjunct Faculty at Northeastern Univ. and Northshore Community College California Institute of Integral Studies PhD classes Transworld Schools Advanced CTESOL Northeastern Univ. and Northshore Community College 2010 - Present Lambton College at Jilin Uni 2005 - 2006 Adult Education, Teaching, Higher Education, E-learning, Word, Classroom Instruction, Classroom Amber M. Bush CFO at LiquiDyn, Inc. BS, Business Administration (Accounting) LiquiDyn, Inc. August 2013 - Present Trudy Balston, CPA July 2008 - October 2013 Madelyn Davis, CPA September 2004 - July 2008 Madelyn Davis, CPA July 2002 - September 2004 Accounting, CPA, Income Tax, Small Business, Tax Returns, GAAP, S Corporations, Corporate Tax, QuickBooks, Partnership Taxation, Tax Preparation, Financial Statements, Account Reconciliation, Tax Research, Journal Entries, Bookkeeping, Tax, IRS, Financial Accounting, Auditing, Sales Tax, Payroll Taxes, Microsoft Excel, Fixed Assets, Microsoft Word, General Ledger, Financial Reporting, Microsoft Office, Tax Accounting Amber McCoy Associate of Science (A.S.), Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Women's Studies Mt. San Antonio College 1995 — 1999 Claremont High School Pacific Coast Manor June 2015 - Present Actively Seeking Employment December 2014 - Present Provant Health Solutions Inc. October 2014 - June 2015 The American Red Cross March 2015 - May 2015 Napa Valley College August 2012 - June 2014 Bistro Boudin January 2010 - October 2013 Boom Boom Room May 2005 - June 2008 Images Everywhere August 2001 - November 2004 Meditech, Compassion, Patient Advocacy, Women's Health, Health Education, Resiliency, Humanitarian, Quality Patient Care, Leadership, Healthcare, ACLS, BLS, Women's Studies, Registered Nurses, Student Leadership, Non-profit Volunteering, Retail Sales, Operations Management, Digital Photography, Nursing, Customer Service, Microsoft Excel, Public Speaking, Sales, Patient Safety, Hospitals, CPR Certified, EMR, Time Management, Healthcare Management, Patient Education, Social Media, Behavioral Health, Team Building, Event Planning, Acute Care, Medication..., Medical Terminology, Vital Signs, Critical Thinking, Data Entry, Nonprofits Amber Moncrief Speech and Language Pathologist: Research at VA Clinic MA, Speech language pathology BA, Communicative Disorders VA Research May 2014 - Present Supplemental Health Care November 2013 - Present Rehab Without Walls October 2014 - June 2015 St. Mary's Medical Center, San Francisco November 2013 - November 2014 Relocation From Los Angeles To SF Bay Area/Caretaking Parent March 2013 - November 2013 Communique Therapy March 2008 - March 2013 Frank D. Lanterman Regional Center January 2007 - February 2013 Pacific Alliance Medical Center May 2011 - July 2012 California Hospital Medical Center January 2008 - January 2012 Dysphagia, Aphasia, Speech Therapy, Apraxia, Language Disorders, Early Intervention, Traumatic Brain Injury, Voice Disorders, Dysarthria, Acute Care, Speech, Rehabilitation, AAC, Autism Spectrum... Amber (Wingfield) Morabito, M.A. PITC Partners for Quality Regional Coordinator at WestEd Capella University 2010 — 2014 Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Psychology, Graduate Student Master of Arts (M.A.), Developmental Psychology WestEd-Center for Children and Families August 2015 - Present Santa Rosa Junior College August 2015 - Present WestEd March 2015 - Present WestEd August 2014 - Present Self-employed June 2006 - Present Miami Dade College January 2014 - May 2014 San Francisco Unified School District November 2009 - June 2012 Skyline Community College January 2011 - June 2011 Program for Infant and Toddlers, Program for Quality (West-ed) February 2008 - June 2011 Ability to facilitate..., Effective trainer,..., Computer/Technical..., Enthusiastic..., Lifelong Learning, Dependable, Excellent Multitasker, Exceptionally well..., Partner with families..., Child Development, Public Speaking, Healthcare, Teaching, Curriculum Design, Staff Development, Mental Health, Psychology, Early Childhood..., PowerPoint, Research, Program Evaluation, Educational Leadership, Teacher Training, Program Development, Higher Education, Newsletters, Student Development, Classroom Management, Leadership Development, University Teaching, College Teaching, Qualitative Research, SPSS, Research Design, Data Analysis, Student Counseling, Childcare, Student Affairs, Organizational..., Editing, Nonprofits, Curriculum Development, Training, Analysis, Leadership, Classroom, Grant Writing, Community Outreach, Instructional Design, Adult Education Amber Morin Registered Dietitian at American Red Cross San Diego/Imperial Counties Chapter Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Dietetics/Dietitian Michigan State University 2012 — 2012 Foods, Nutrition, and Wellness Studies of East Africa University Of Ghana Legon 2010 — 2011 BS, Nutrition and Food Science American Red Cross - San Diego/Imperial Counties Chapter July 2015 - Present Golden Gate Dietetic Internship August 2014 - May 2015 Feeding America San Diego September 2013 - August 2014 24 Hour Fitness July 2013 - August 2014 24 Hour Fitness January 2012 - June 2013 San Francisco State University January 2010 - June 2012 City of Burlington June 2011 - September 2011 Nutrition, Nutritional Counseling, Wellness, Fitness Training, Sports Nutrition, Cpr Certified, Public Speaking Amber Nichols Operations Analyst, Biology Department, Cal Poly University M.S. Biology, Ecology Washington State University 2002 — 2003 B.A. Biology California Polytechnic State University May 2015 - Present AECOM September 2011 - January 2015 Swaim Biological 2010 - 2011 Stevens & Permanente Creeks Watershed Council 2009 - 2010 Environmental Consulting, Environmental Impact..., NEPA, Wetlands, Endangered Species, Environmental Permitting, Environmental Science, Ecology, GIS, Environmental Awareness, Environmental Compliance, ArcGIS, GPS, Surveying, Mitigation, Wildlife Amber Noël Bachelors of Art Degree, European History West Contra Costa Adult School 2011 — 2011 Office Team/Providence Health Care September 2014 - January 2015 Cannabis Now Magazine January 2014 - August 2014 Herbal Essentials February 2012 - February 2014 Pure Air America December 2009 - July 2010 Off Base Productions October 2008 - May 2010 Alive! Vegan Restaurant June 2007 - February 2008 Navlet's Garden Centers February 2003 - August 2004 WildPackets January 2000 - January 2002 QuickBooks, Accounts Payable, Telephone Skills, Filing, Fax, Microsoft Word, Editing, Customer Service, Accruals, Bookkeeping, General Ledger, Facebook, PowerPoint, Outlook, Data Entry, Microsoft Excel, Social Media, Invoicing, Spreadsheets, Writing, Editorial, Blogging, Administrative... Amber Novey TriFund Field Coordinator at LIUNA Certificate, Event and Meeting Planning BA, Organizational Communication LIUNA January 2013 - Present Platinum Planning June 2006 - Present LIUNA May 2006 - January 2013 California Democratic Party April 2002 - April 2006 Event Planning, Fundraising, Public Relations, Promotions, Non-profits, Public Speaking, Writing, Event Management, Microsoft Office Amber Parmenter Wildlife Biologist at Wildlife Heritage Foundation Master's degree, Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, 4.0 Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Zoology/Animal Biology Wildlife Heritage Foundation May 2014 - Present U.S. Forest Service May 2012 - Present San Francisco State University September 2011 - December 2013 SF Bay Whale Watching June 2010 - May 2013 Penn State University May 2011 - August 2011 Aquarium of the Bay May 2007 - July 2009 Restoration Ecology, Avian Ecology, Marine Ecology, Ecological Research, Cpr Certified, GPS devices, Mist Netting, GIS Modeling, Science Education, Marine Biology, Ecology, GPS, Birds, Field Work, Environmental Education, Environmental Science, Wetlands, Conservation Issues, Research, Biology, Natural Resource..., Wildlife, ArcGIS, Data Collection Amber Pinson Americorps Mentor BS Magna Cum Laude, Health Education with an emphasis in community-based health AmeriCorps August 2013 - Present Hannah CDF Freedom School May 2013 - August 2013 Hannah Project November 2012 - May 2013 Hannah Freedom School June 2012 - August 2012 UCSF New Generation Health Center February 2012 - May 2012 Sexual Health PEACH August 2010 - December 2011 Public Health, Health Education, Reproductive Health, Experience working with..., Social Media, Community Outreach, Public Speaking, Proposal Writing, Microsoft Office, QuickBase, Experience Working with..., Teaching, Program Management, Grants, Leadership Amber Pruitt Law Clerk at San Buenaventura City Attorney's Office Golden Gate University, School of Law 2010 — 2013 Juris Doctor (J.D.), Law, Graduate with Highest Honors San Buenaventura City Attorney's Office August 2013 - Present San Francisco District Attorney's Office January 2012 - February 2013 Women’s Employment Rights Clinic, GGU August 2011 - December 2011 US Bank Commercial Banking May 2010 - May 2011 Legal Writing, Legal Research Amber Rocha Intern: Visitor and Resource Protection Division at National Park Service Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Environmental Studies National Park Service January 2015 - Present ArcGIS, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Biology, Restoration, Customer Experience amber rosas Amber Rosen Austin, Texas Area Customer Service Representative at a t & t Bachelor's degree, English Language and Literature/Letters, 3.63 National Domestic Violence Hotline October 2010 - Present BodyWorks Fitness Equipment 2006 - 2007 Social Services, Non-profits, Crisis Intervention, Customer Service, Sales, Nonprofits, Teaching, Social Media Amber Sambrone 1st Grade Teacher at San Francisco Unified School District Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Major in Liberal Studies/Minor in Sociology New College of San Francisco Master's degree, Humanities With An Emphasis In Social Change and Activism Multiple Subject Teaching Credential, Elementary Education and Teaching San Francisco Unified School District August 2005 - May 2006 Elementary Education, Literacy, Classroom Management, Lesson Planning, Differentiated..., Classroom, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Tutoring, Special Education, Educational Leadership, Language Arts, Common Core State..., Child Development, Teaching Amber Sauceda Master of Arts (M.A.), Kinesiology and Exercise Science Boys & Girls Club of El Sobrante October 2014 - Present UPS July 2012 - October 2014 California Autism Foundation November 2009 - January 2012 Office General 2012 - 2012 Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Access, Billing Systems, Event Management, Operations Management, Master Scheduling, Research, Education, Special Education, Public Speaking, Organization, Critical Thinking, Routing, Recruiting, Budgets Amber Shannon Environmental Contractor/Dance Instructor at Del Campo Dance Studio Tioga High School 1995 — 1999 Del Campo Dance Studio April 2009 - Present Sacramento City Unified School District August 2010 - June 2011 Enercon Services, Inc. April 2009 - August 2010 Versar October 2008 - February 2009 Delta Environmental Consultants February 2008 - October 2008 Dominion Environmental December 2006 - June 2007 Research, Public Speaking, Teaching, Biology, Editing, Environmental Awareness Amber Stiglianese Visalia, California Area Human Resources Manager Central California Region at Cooperative Agricultural Support Services Authority CASS Master of Arts, Industrial/Organizational Psychology Bachelor of Arts, English Literature Cooperative Agricultural Support Services Authority - CASS March 2013 - Present Coalinga Regional Medical Center April 2005 - March 2012 Aon Corporation Law Division June 1997 - May 2003 Human Resources..., Employee Relations, Human Resources, Recruiting, Deferred Compensation, Training, Interviews, Policy, Employee Benefits, Personnel Management, Performance Management, Management, Event Planning, Talent Management, Onboarding, Talent Acquisition, Employee Engagement, Conflict Resolution, Leadership, Hiring, Change Management Amber Tyner Pacific Oaks College 2007 — 2010 Master of Arts, Marital and Family Therapy Bachelor of Arts, Criminal Justice Therapist / Counselor / Life Coach May 2009 - Present Adolescents, Play Therapy, Self-esteem, Anger Management Amber van Weerden District Visual Manager at Anthropologie BA, Cultural Anthropology Anthropologie November 2001 - Present Visual Merchandising, Trend Analysis, Store Management, Merchandising, Styling, Window Displays Amber Weathers Digital Production Group, Stanford University Libraries Amber Wolfe Teaching Artist Post Graduate Study, Theatre bachelor's degree, theatre Wedgwood Drama School October 2014 - Present Seattle Children's Theatre October 2002 - Present The Northwest School August 2008 - June 2014 University of Washington Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute 2004 - 2006 SouthEast Effective Development (SEED) -Rainier Valley Youth Theatre Program 2003 - 2006 Living Voices 2002 - 2004 Seattle Public Theater/ Rainier Valley Youth Theatre 2003 - 2003 Stage Combat, Vocalist, Teaching Adults and..., Shakespeare, Performing Arts, Theatre, Arts, Writing, Playwriting, Community Outreach, Drama, Singing, Musical Theatre, Physical Theatre, Improvisation, Dialects, Acting, Teaching Amber Wong Consultant Quickbooks Master's degree, Business Administration Bachelor of Arts, Political Science QuickBooks ProAdvisor 2014 - Present ArcSoft, Inc. 2011 - 2013 Vavrinek, Trine, Day & Co., LLP 2009 - 2011 Odenberg, Ullakko, Muranishi & Co LLP 2007 - 2009 Revenue Recognition, Great Plains Software, Accounting, Accounts Receivable, Financial Reporting, Forecasting, QuickBooks Ambra Bilbro Information Security Consultant at Wells Fargo Bank BA, Business Wells Fargo Bank -Online Banking February 2014 - Present Wells Fargo Bank May 2009 - April 2013 Wells Fargo Bank January 2000 - March 2008 Requirements Gathering, SDLC, Vendor Management, Business Analysis, PMP, Agile Methodologies, Visio, Requirements Analysis, Process Improvement, Management, Integration, Banking, Software Project..., Business Requirements Ambrogino Giusti University of Pennsylvania Law School 2012 — 2015 Juris Doctor (J.D.), Law Master's Degree, International Relations, 3.95 Bachelor's Degree, Political Science and History, 3.95 Senator Murray 2015 - 2015 K&L Gates May 2014 - July 2014 United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit May 2013 - August 2013 San Francisco Police Department October 2009 - August 2010 Bluebooking, Technology, Editing, Legal Writing, Legal Research, Typography, Teamwork, Work Ethic, Professional Ethics, Westlaw, Microsoft Office, Powerpoint, Administrative Law, International Law, Criminal Law, Public Policy, International Relations, Political Science, Writing, Research, Policy, Analysis, Web Design, Social Media, Interviewing, Project Management, Strategic Planning, Event Planning, Customer Service, Marketing, Training, Teaching, Professionalism, Management Skills, Leadership, Community Outreach, Scholarship Ame Beanland Dallas/Fort Worth Area Graphic Artist and Writer BA, Technical and Professional Writing, Graphic Design Bachelor's degree, Professional, Technical, Business, and Scientific Writing Ame B Design July 2000 - Present CISD Approved Vendor December 2012 - Present Nesting It's a Chick Thing BOOK 2005 - 2007 Freelance Graphic Artist and Project Manager 1998 - 1999 Conari Press October 1993 - July 1998 Books, Publishing, Graphic Design, Book Design, Non-fiction, Creative Direction, Copywriting, Creative Writing, Writing, Marketing, Published Author, Publications, Magazines, Editorial, Newsletters, Ebooks, Fiction, Graphics, Copy Editing, Content Development Amedee Ito Business Operations Leader at Vionic Group LLC Certificate, Continued Education, Purchasing Certificate Program BFA, Photography Vionic Group LLC January 2015 - Present Vionic Group LLC October 2009 - Present Goorin Brothers Inc., October 2005 - March 2009 Cosmic Debris November 2001 - October 2005 DATA Diversified Animated Technologies Associates February 1999 - September 2001 Kaiser Permanente - Neighbors in Health 1999 - 2001 Kaiser Permanente Colorado Rocky Mt. Division March 1998 - September 1999 Freelance for various clients 1990 - 1998 Amee Bearne Sustainability Coordinator at University of Maryland University of Maryland College Park 2013 — 2016 Master of Community Planning, Sustainable urban planning, emphasis in historic preservation Bachelor's of Arts, Political Science University of Maryland, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences August 2014 - Present City of Takoma Park December 2013 - September 2014 The Democracy Commitment November 2011 - December 2013 Institute for Civic & Community Engagement September 2010 - July 2011 Grant Writing, Public Speaking, Higher Education, Non-profits, Community Outreach, Nonprofits, Public Policy, Policy Analysis, Program Development, Research, Event Planning, Sustainability, Editing, Teaching Amelia Atalig-Smith Adult Nurse Practitioner, COHNS at Sutter Health UCSF 2011 — 2013 Master of Science (MS), Adult Nurse Practitioner: Occupational and Environmental Health Sutter Health September 2014 - Present UCSF Medical Center February 2011 - August 2011 UCSF Medical Center January 2011 - August 2011 UCSF Medical Center February 2002 - September 2003 UCSF Medical Center February 2001 - February 2002 ICU, Critical Care, Medical/Surgical, Nursing, Patient Safety, ACLS, BLS, Acute Care, Prevention, Occupational Health, Safety, Patient Education, Patient Advocacy, Nursing Education, Inpatient, Telemetry, End of Life, Registered Nurses, Renal Failure Amelia Axler Master's degree, Adult Education Educational Instructor July 2014 - Present Independent Contractor July 2014 - Present Travelhost of San Francisoco January 1989 - February 1991 Saatchi & Saatchi 1978 - 1984 Curriculum Design, Teaching, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Differentiated..., Tutoring, K-12, Social Studies, Teaching English as a..., Higher Education, E-Learning, Curriculum Mapping, Adult Education, Editing, Technology Integration, Mathematics Education, Language Teaching, Non-profits, Event Planning, Community Outreach, Social Media, Behavior Management Amelia Fitzgerald Italian Teacher at Deer Valley High School Teaching Credential, K-12 Italian MA, Italian Transworld Schools 2004 — 2004 Certification to teach English as a Second Language, Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor Gonzaga University 2002 — 2004 BA, Italian Studies, English Deer Valley High School August 2014 - Present Diablo Valley College January 2010 - Present Diablo Valley College January 2014 - July 2014 Diablo Valley College October 2013 - March 2014 Diablo Valley College September 2013 - December 2013 Lowell High School August 2009 - May 2013 Cactus Language Training June 2011 - December 2011 Hoover Middle School September 2009 - December 2009 APTOS Middle School October 2008 - December 2009 San Francisco Unified School District February 2009 - February 2009 Classroom, E-Learning, Higher Education, Lesson Planning, Teaching, Language Teaching, Customer Service, Spanish, Curriculum Design, International Education, Public Speaking, Italian, Event Planning, Community Outreach, Research, Intercultural..., Editing, Curriculum Development, Proofreading, Foreign Languages, Translation, English Amelia Fritz Master of Science (M.S.), School Psychology University of California, Santa Barbara 2004 — 2008 Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Psychology and Applied Psych/Education (minor) San Carlos School District August 2011 - Present Amelia Labzin Account Manager at CPXi Queensland University of Technology 2009 — 2012 Bachelor of Mass Communication, International Journalism and Advertising CPXi January 2015 - Present Davines September 2013 - January 2015 ntegrity agency November 2012 - August 2014 map creative + map digital November 2012 - May 2013 Copywriting, Social Media Marketing, Press Releases, Online Advertising, Public Relations, Social Media, Marketing Communications, Marketing, Advertising, Social Networking, Blogging, Magazines, Digital Media, Digital Strategy, Editorial, CRM, Creative Direction, Newsletters, Office Administration, Event Planning, Event Management, Business Strategy, Email Marketing, Facebook, Account Management, Marketing Strategy, Integrated Marketing, Microsoft Word, Digital Marketing, Customer Service, Direct Marketing, Google Analytics, Content Development, Creative Writing, Google Adwords, WordPress, Strategic Communications, Media Relations, Content Strategy, Advertising Sales, Creative Briefs, Strategy, Community Management, Publications, Online Marketing, Brand Awareness, E-commerce Optimization, E-commerce, SEO, SEM Amelia Mesina Salinas, California Area Registered Dietitian at Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System Amelia Perez Financial Manager at AECOM Business Administration and Management, General AECOM August 2008 - Present HOK May 1997 - July 2008 GEZ Architects Engineers March 1993 - September 1996 Financial Reporting, Forecasting, Accounting, Finance, Project Planning, Strategy, Contract Management, Management, Accounts Payable, Human Resources, Accounts Receivable, Training, Budgets, Strategic Planning, Cash Flow, Microsoft Excel Amelia Pergl Geographergl at * * 2005 - Present Amelia Pryor Psychotherapist and Director at Community Healing Centers Ph.D., East-West Psychology John F. Kennedy University MA, Clinical Psychology B.S., Business Management Community Healing Centers 1998 - Present Psychology, Psychotherapy, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Family Therapy, Nonprofits, Stress Management, Public Speaking, Holistic Health, Self-esteem, Counseling Psychology, Mental Health Counseling, Life Transitions, Group Therapy, Stress Amelia Reyes Autodesk Certified training, Architectural Drafting and Architectural CAD/CADD NJIT 2009 — 2012 Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Civil Engineering New Jersey Institute of Technology 2009 — 2012 B.S, Civil Engineering 2005-2009 Hudson County Community CollegeJersey 2005 — 2009 Associate, Engineering Sciences Ninyo & Moore Geotechnical and Environmental Sciences Consultants August 2015 - Present DESI Engineering September 2014 - August 2015 Rieser builder group January 2014 - September 2014 Advanced Quality Concrete Inc. February 2013 - July 2013 NJIT September 2011 - May 2012 J.Josephson, INC August 2007 - May 2012 Geotechnical Engineering, Transportation..., Civil Engineering, Stormwater Management, AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD, Hydrology, Construction, Microsoft Office, Concrete, Microsoft Excel, Revit Amelia Rodelo Holiday Food Drive Assistant at Alameda County Community Food Bank Alameda County Community Food Bank October 2008 - Present Cohen Lab, Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies June 2006 - October 2008 Amelia Saetern Amelia Sandy Workshop Lead at Autistry Studios Incorporated Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Fine Art, Psychology, Magna Cum Laude Autistry Studios Incorporated March 2012 - December 2014 Adolescents, Autism Spectrum..., Visual Arts, Learning Disabilities, Young Adults, Creative Arts, Developmental... Amelia Shelton-Fullmer Project Manager, CSM Bachelor's Degree, Political Science and Government, Pre-Law, Magna Cum Laude, 3.78 overall, 4.0 major. Academy of the Canyons Middle College High School 2009 — 2010 Symbii Home Health and Hospice March 2015 - Present Tybera Development Group August 2014 - Present DNP LLC June 2014 - February 2015 San Francisco Superior Court, Unified Family Court July 2013 - December 2013 Public Speaking, Event Planning, Leadership, Community Outreach, Recruiting, Project Management, Customer Service, Scrum, Policy Analysis, Benefits Administration, Executive..., HR Policies, Visio, Microsoft Project, Office Management, Microsoft Excel, Time Management, Travel Arrangements, Competitive Analysis, eFiling, PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office Amelia Tandean	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line909
__label__wiki	0.875548	0.875548	Los Angeles, CA (AmericanInjuryNews.com)–Last September a Metrolink commuter train, Los Angeles’ commuter train rail, crashed killing 25 and injuring hundreds of other passengers. Since the fatal train crash, federal, state and local investigators have uncovered horrifying evidence as to possible causes of the train wreck. The most damaging evidence seems to be the trains’ operating engineer was text messaging seconds before the train crashed head-on into a freight carrier. The Associated Press (AP) reported five more additional lawsuits were filed earlier this week in Los Angeles Superior Court by some of the survivors and victims of the passengers. The lawsuits claim negligence by multiple train engineers, workers and companies as the cause of the wrongful deaths of their loved ones. The plaintiffs are seeking general and punitive damages. The regional rail authority, which operates Metrolink and Metorlink’s parent company, Veolia Transportation, were among the parties named by lawyers in the litigation. Court documents also state the injured victims, families and their legal teams named the contractor who provides engineers to Metrolink’s operating system. One of victim’s attorneys who filed a legal action in the courts claims the defendants knew the engineer was incompetent and still allowed him to operate the train. AmericanInjuryNews.com by Dallas Wrongful Death Lawyer Amy K. Witherite Practice areas: Personal Injury Lawsuits Amy Witherite. Eberstein & Witherite, LLP. 3100 Monticello Avenue, Suite 500. Dallas, TX 75205 – Toll Free: (888) 407-6669 Personal Injury crash, Dallas wrongful death lawyer, Rail, train, wreck SUV versus Mack truck wreck kills 3 Johnson County family members	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line910
__label__wiki	0.609753	0.609753	Tag Archives: Immaculate Conception Church Columbus Day Weekend In The 88th Assembly District The Columbus Day weekend is almost here so why not spend it exploring and enjoying everything the cities, towns and villages of the 88th Assembly District have to offer? There are movies, music, discussions, farmer’s markets and much more going on this weekend, providing something of interest for just about everyone. The Sadie Robinson “Live Original” Tour, combining music, motivational speeches and audience participation, will stop at The Westchester County Center in White Plains at Daniela Gioseffi 7 p.m. Visit countycenter.biz for more information. The Westchester Italian Cultural Center (One Generoso Pope Place, Tuckahoe) will show “AUTHOR & ACTIVIST: THE DANIELA GIOSEFFI STORY”, a documentary about the acclaimed poet, at 7 p.m. Visit wiccny.org for more information. The After Dark Book Club will meet at the Pelham Library (530 Colonial Avenue, Pelham) to discuss “No Great Mischief” by Alistair MacLeod at 7:30 p.m. Visit pelhamlibrary.org for more information. The Scarsdale Forum will host a public forum and membership meeting at the Scarsdale Library (54 Olmstead Road, Scarsdale) at 7:30 p.m. All are invited. Visit scarsdaleforum.com for more information. Montefiore Medical Center and White Plains Hospital are combining to host a panel discussion at Bloomingdale’s (175 Bloomingdale Road, White Plains) around genetic health, the importance of a family history and breast cancer awareness from5:30-7:30 p.m. I will be moderating the discussion. Call 718-920-6786 for more information. The Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum (895 Shore Road, Pelham Bay Park) will host its “First Friday Music & Trolley” program from 5:30-8:30 p.m. Queen Esther and the Jeremy Bacon Jazz Trio will perform while the trolley will make hourly trips from the #6 Pelham Bay Park subway station. The Mansion will also host its Garden Centennial Exhibition Opening from 5-6 p.m. Visit bartowpellmansionmuseum.org for more information. The Bronxville Women’s Club (135 Midland Avenue, Bronxville) will hold a reception for wood-working artist Saud Omran from 7-9 p.m. Visit bronxvillewomensclub.org for more information. The Eastchester Columbus Day Carnival and Festival will kick off at Lake Isle Country Club (660 White Plains Road, Eastchester at 7 p.m. There will be a DJ Dance Party beginning at 8 p.m. Visit eastchestercolumbusday.bandzoogle.com for more information. The Picture House (175 Wolfs Lane, Pelham) will show the Stephen King thriller “The Shining” at 9:30 p.m. as part of its Friday Night Frights Series. Visit thepicturehouse.org for more information. The Friends of the New Rochelle Library will host a major book sale at the New Rochelle Public Library (1 Library Plaza, New Rochelle) from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. Visit nrpl.org for more information. The Eastchester Public Library Film series will continue at the library (11 Oakridge Place, Eastchester) with a 1:30 p.m. showing of “A League of Their Own”, starring Gina Davis and Madonna. Visit eastchesterlibrary.org for more information. WestCOP and New Rochelle C.A.P.’s will present “A Night of Champions” from 7 p.m.-midnight at the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church (10 Mill Road, New Rochelle). Pastor Denise Campbell, Reuben Barajes, Tkhikuma Dixon Obafemi, Dr. Tahira Chase, Dr. Angela Campbell, Dr. Linda Williams, Angela Farrish and Judie Eisenberg will be honored. Call 914-636-3050 for more information. The Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum (895 Shore Road, Pelham Bay Park) will host its “Fall into Fall Harvest Festival”. There will be food, music, crafts and a giant hay-bale tower. Visit bartowpellmansionmusuem.org for more information. The thrift shop at White Plains Presbyterian Church (39 North Broadway, White Plains) will be open from 9:30-1 p.m. All proceeds will go to local philanthropies. Visit womansclubofwhiteplains.org for more information. The Great Escapery, a mobile escape and mystery company, will present “The Heist” at The Westchester County Center with shows from noon-10 p.m. Visit greatescapery.com for more information. The Fitness Expo returns to the Westchester County Center from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Visit fitnessexpo2016.com for more information. The St. Paul’s Church and National Historic Site (897 S. Columbus Avenue, Mount Vernon) will host the Bob Arthur’s Jazz Trio for a 1 p.m. concert. Visit nps.gov/sapa for more information. The Junior League of Bronxville will host “Touch A Truck” at the Immaculate Conception Church Field (53 Winter Hill Road, Tuckahoe) from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.. Climb aboard a fire truck and construction truck and sit inside a helicopter. Visit jlbtouchatruck.weebly.com for more information. The Eastchester Columbus Day Carnival and Festival continues at Lake Isle Country Club (660 White Plains Road, Eastchester) from 1-11 p.m. There will be live music, a homemade meatball contest and a homemade wine contest throughout the day. Visit eastchestercolumbusday.bandzoogle.com for more information. The Walkabout Clearwater Coffeehouse will host The Gaslight Tinkers and Low Lily in a double bill at the Memorial United Methodist Church (250 Bryant Avenue, White Plains) at 7:30 p.m. Visit walkaboutclearwater.org for more information. The Scarsdale Cookbook Club will host cookbook author and vegan specialist Victoria Moran at The Scarsdale Library (54 Olmstead Road, Scarsdale) from 2-4 p.m. She will discuss eating healthy and living compassionately. Visit scarsdalelibrary.org for more information. The Eastchester Library (11 Oakridge Place, Eastchester) will host 10 Westchester-based indie authors from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. for “Indie Authors” as they discuss the trials and tribulations of self-publishing. Visit eastchesterlibrary.org for more information. Alvin & Friends Restaurant (14 Memorial Highway, New Rochelle) will host “Sunday Jazz Brunch” beginning at 11:30 a.m. There will be live music and an extensive menu. Visit alvinandfriendsrestaurant.com for more information. The Eastchester Columbus Day Carnival and Festival continues at Lake Isle Country Club (660 White Plains Road, Eastchester) from 1-11 p.m. There will be live music and a fireworks show by Grucci. Visit eastchestercolumbusday.bandzoogle.com for more information. Columbus Day fireworks in Eastchester The Eastchester Columbus Day Parade will begin at The Immaculate Conception Church (53 Winter Hill Road, Tuckahoe) at 3:30 p.m. and finish at the Lake Isle Country Club. Visit eastchestercolumbusday.bandzoogle.com for more information. The Hoff-Barthelson Music School (25 School Lane, Scarsdale) will hold a memorial concert for former faculty member Edmund Niemann at 2 p.m. Visit hbms.org for more information. Alan Schwarz, a Pulitzer Prize-nominated freelancer with The New York Times, will speak at the Scarsdale Library (54 Olmstead Road, Scarsdale) about ADHD, children, doctors and big pharma at 2 p.m. Visit scarsdalelibrary.org for more information. The Eastchester Library (11 Oakridge Place, Eastchester) will present the M&M Production of “The Last Romance”, a drama/comedy about the power of love. Visit eastchesterlibrary.org for more information. The Community Church of the Pelhams is accepting volunteers for its Westchester Habitat for Humanity project in Mount Vernon. There will be an orientation meeting and lunch at the church (448 Washington Avenue, Pelham) before heading over to the work site. Visit communitychurchofpelham.org for more information. The Humane Society of Westchester, located in New Rochelle, will join Pet Rescue in hosting Hounds on the Sound, a dog walk-a-thon and festival at 10 a.m. at Harbor Island Park (Mamaroneck Avenue and East Boston Post Road, Mamaroneck). There will be contests for best doggie costume, best tail-wagging and more. Visit humanesocietyofwestchester.org for more information. 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__label__wiki	0.84623	0.84623	Sentencing Options for Bill Cosby Include Prison, Jail, Probation FILE – This June 1, 2018, file photo, shows a housing unit in the west section of the State Correctional Institution at Phoenix in Collegeville, Pa. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma, File) PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby could be sent to prison next week for drugging and molesting a woman at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004 in what became the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era. Cosby is due in court Monday for a two-day sentencing hearing that follows his conviction in the spring on three felony counts of aggravated indecent assault. The judge’s options are broad, because the state guideline range of about one to four years spans the gamut from a prison term to a jail stint to house arrest or probation. The maximum term is 10 years per count. Lawyers for the 81-year-old, legally blind Cosby will no doubt stress his age, health problems, legacy and philanthropy as they plead to keep him at home, while prosecutors hope to call other accusers to paint Cosby as a sexual predator deserving of prison. Montgomery County Judge Steven T. O’Neill may aim straight for the heart of the guidelines to blunt public criticism from both sides and avoid being overturned on appeal, legal experts said. “If you give a sentence in the middle, almost no one can complain,” said Daniel Filler, dean of Drexel University’s Kline School of Law, who studies sex assault issues. “And because the case has mitigating factors and aggravating factors, that’s the most likely outcome.” Cosby should learn his fate by Tuesday. THE SENTENCE Jurors convicted Cosby of sexually assaulting Andrea Constand without consent, while she was impaired and after incapacitating her. Though each count carries a 10-year maximum sentence, O’Neill will likely merge them since all three stem from the same encounter, in effect weighing only one charge, legal experts say. State guidelines call for a base 22-to-36-month sentence. The judge can add up to a year for aggravating factors – such as the 60-some other accusers, Cosby’s denials and lack of remorse, and even his defense team’s repeated attacks on the judge and prosecutor. Then O’Neill could deduct up to a year for mitigating factors – Cosby’s age, health and perhaps even the $3.4 million he paid to settle Constand’s related lawsuit. PRISON, JAIL OR HOUSE ARREST? If Cosby gets even a day more than two years, he’ll enter the state prison system, with a first stop at SCI Phoenix, a new $400 million, 3,830-bed prison in suburban Philadelphia where staff would assess his physical, medical and security needs. Cosby could end up in a long-term medical care unit there or elsewhere. If he’s deemed at risk because of his celebrity or as a risk to others, he’d be held in solitary confinement, spending most of the day alone in his cell. Otherwise, he’d likely share a two-person cell, leaving for meals, exercise, counseling and other activities. He’d be free to bring a personal tablet for music or games but wouldn’t have internet access, corrections spokeswoman Amy Worden said. If Cosby gets two years or less, he’d likely go to the Montgomery County Correctional Facility in nearby Eagleville, a 2,080-bed site that also has a medical unit. Or O’Neill could give him less than a year and let him serve some or all of the time on home confinement, typically with an ankle monitor or probation. The key question, if Cosby gets time, is whether O’Neill lets him stay home while he appeals his conviction. The violent nature of the crime works against him, but Cosby’s age might work in his favor. “You don’t want your client to go to prison and find out that (in) those twilight years of their life they shouldn’t have had to spend there in the first place,” said Loyola Law School professor Laurie Levenson. THE ACCUSERS More than 60 other women accuse Cosby of sexual misconduct during his 50-year show business career. O’Neill allowed five of them to testify at trial, while others came to watch the court proceedings. District Attorney Kevin Steele wants some of them to speak at the sentencing. O’Neill on Wednesday ruled out the testimony of most of the other accusers, other than the five trial witnesses. But whether any of them testify, he already knows their stories well after presiding at both trials and several intense pretrial hearings over their “prior bad act” testimony. “The judge knows a ton about Mr Cosby whether or not the D.A. puts on a single witness,” Filler said. O’Neill, who is married and has three adult sons, took the bench in 2002. He has watched the Cosby team’s attacks on the court system intensify, and grow more personal, as the stakes grew. When the first trial ended in a deadlock in June 2017, the defense attacked the judge and prosecutor from the courthouse steps. In court in April, moments after his conviction, Cosby called Steele an expletive and said he was “sick of him.” Then, just this week, Camille Cosby filed a state ethics complaint against O’Neill, invoking a long-ago romance to allege he had a bias in the case. She has called him “arrogant,” ”unethical” and “corrupt.” Lawyer Samuel Stretton, who often represents Pennsylvania judges in disciplinary hearings, called O’Neill an even-keeled professional who “understands human nature.” He doesn’t think the attacks will influence the sentence – but said Cosby’s lack of remorse might. “Obviously, if no one is repenting, that’s a factor to consider. 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__label__cc	0.558258	0.441742	New date set for beluga move to sanctuary By Danny Groves \| 7th May 2019 \| 0 Following bad weather preventing the initial operation to move two beluga whales from captivity in China to a new ocean home in Iceland, we’re pleased to confirm a new date has been set for the departure of Little Grey and Little White. Our top priority has always been Little Grey and Little White’s welfare and we’ve been working hard with our expert project team and travel partners Cargolux to find a suitable option to safely relocate the whales to their new open water sanctuary home on the Island of Heimaey. Little Grey and Little White are now scheduled to arrive in Iceland on 19th June and will continue to prepare for this complex journey. All of the logistical implications in rescheduling the move have been confirmed and we’d like to thank all of those partners and suppliers who have been working tirelessly with us to support this move. Read more about the project, and why we are helping to create sanctuaries for whales and dolphins here Virgin Holidays has announced that it is to stop selling tickets to SeaWorld as part of a move to cut links with facilities that hold... This World Oceans Day, WDC were delighted to have the fantastic support of several of our most committed and generous partners from all over the... On the morning of 30 May, off Tofino, British Columbia, Canada, an orca calf, complete with fresh foetal folds and typical orange (instead of white)... North Atlantic right whales are on the brink of extinction. Fewer than 450 are left. They never recovered from the intensive hunting of the past... Tagged beluga whale, sanctuary WDC/SLT, Vanessa Mignon, GREMM	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line922
__label__cc	0.633281	0.366719	Things To Do(current) Extremes Sanatorium Leisure Nature & Wildlife Festivals Events Historical Places Arts & Museums Historical Places Architecture Culture Regions Visas Transfers Accommodation Map Agencies Restaurants Pubs Lounge Bars National Cuisine National Drinks ENG РУС Rock Climbing in Armenia Maybe you have heard about Armenia and you know the fact that this small country has a lot of stones, deep gorges, high canyons, and mountain chains. These factors have always been benefits of Armenians during wars and in different situations, making the invasions more difficult and impassable roads for invaders. The mountains have been another proud of Armenia, and this is not surprising that their national symbol is the biblical mountain Ararat, though it is not in the area of the country. Rock Climbing was a part of Alpinism, but already in the middle of 20th century it was separated from it and became an independent branch. This kind of sport needs special physical and mental abilities because during the activity the climber should be strong, flexible, balanced and determined. Armenia also has the Federation of Rock climbing which organizes different competitions and open championships. The first championship took place in 2009, the organizers of which was "Up the Rocks" club. It started from the Hrazdan canyon, continued in the Noravank's canyon, then Djoghk's gorge and finished in Garni's gorge. “I see dozens of photos every day but these photos struck me like a bell before I saw Sam Bie’s images, all I knew about Armenia was produced wrestlers and Chess Champions. After seeing the shots I wanted to know more”. These were the words of Alex Chabot, a French rock climber. When he saw the photos of Armenia’s Rock Climbing areas Alex decided to travel this country. The most developed area for climbing is the Noravank Canyon. It is located on the main road Yerevan-Goris. The climbing track attracts many climbers with its heights and difficulty. Some say that Armenia has the best climbing track area in the world. Besides their sport, climbers will be able to see the marvelous nature of Yeghegnadzor, see one of the famous churches in Armenia, called Noravank. The other extraordinary place for climbers is located in Garni's gorge 23km east of Yerevan, called "The symphony of stones". It is considered to be a natural monument which is included in the list of natural monuments of Armenia. The symphony seems to be artificial rocks sorted one by one. Actually, these stones were created under high pressure, in the result of volcanic lava's freezing and crystallization. In 2013 the poster of "Symphony of stones" became a winner of "Vettor Giusti" competition of travel posters organized by UNO's World Tourism Organization. Armenia is a home for many foreign Rock Climbers who travel this country just for climbing or participating Armenian Rock Climbing Festival. There is a special festival dedicated to the Rock Climbing. During the festival, the participants learn the skills of climbing and with the help of the professional instructors start their climbing. Year by year the number of rock climbers and sports amateurs rises up. Riding in Armenia Winter Sports in Armenia Zipline in Armenia Hiking in Armenia Arts and Museums	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line926
__label__cc	0.743921	0.256079	Putin moves to leave weapons treaty as US accuses Russia of nuclear violations Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell spoke with CNN about a senior military official’s accusations that Russia was doing nuclear testing. “This accusation comes with absolutely zero evidence to support it,” said Alexandra Bell, senior policy director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. She noted the lack of details Ashley offered. “There was no mention of time or a specific incident or any clear indication that we’ve consulted with our allies.” “The word ‘testing’ didn’t even make it into the report” on compliance released last month, Bell noted. This year’s version of the report was unusually short by previous years’ standards and was criticized for potentially being politicized in its approach to Iran. Bell said of Ashley’s charges against Russia that “if we’re ready to talk about it publicly, why didn’t it make it into that compliance report?” Read more	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line927
__label__cc	0.642145	0.357855	No "123 Fake Main Street" here — In wake of Liberty Reserve bust, Mt. Gox will require user verification World's largest Bitcoin exchange wants more info from its users. Cyrus Farivar - May 30, 2013 6:10 pm UTC On Thursday, the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, announced that it would require all users to “be verified in order to perform any currency deposits and withdrawals. Bitcoin deposits do not need verification, and at this time we are not requiring verification for Bitcoin withdrawals.” The company did not provide any explanation about why it was imposing this new requirement, but it did say that it would be able to process most verifications within 48 hours. The move comes two days after federal prosecutors went after Liberty Reserve, another online currency that had notoriously poor verification. (In court documents, a federal investigator in that case included an address of “123 Fake Main Street, Completely Made Up City, New York” to create an account that was accepted.) It also comes two weeks after the Department of Homeland Security started investigating Mt. Gox over the possible crime of money transmitting without a license. Mt. Gox did not immediately respond to requests for comment concerning why this new requirement has been put into place or what exactly it will entail. We will update this story if more information becomes available. TeknoKid Ars Praetorian This isn’t too big a change. The transaction limits imposed on non-verified users made Mt. Gox almost unusable without verification anyway. WaveRunner Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius 123 Main Street , New York New York. Adding the "Fake" wasn't really necessary Ostracus Ars Legatus Legionis Kind of takes away one of Bitcoin's advantages, doesn't it? 27189 posts \| registered Oct 22, 2008 BkMak Ars Centurion Ostracus wrote: Ehh, yes and no. You can still transfer the currency anonymously, you just have to identify yourself when/if you convert it into dollars or some other form of traditional currency. cdclndc Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius et Subscriptor BkMak wrote: And the paranoid libertarian faction screamed with rage. pasttense Smack-Fu Master, in training And consequently in a few months instead of Ars writing: "Mt. Gox, world's largest Bitcoin exchange..." Ars will be writing "Mt. Gox, one of the world's smaller Bitcoin exchanges..." cdclndc wrote: Yeah, it absolutely does. But only one. Still a pretty major one. TheDarkerPhantom Ars Tribunus Militum You don't have to convert the virtual currency into actual currency. There are lots of services that allow payment through BitCoin, of course, those services are unlikely to be anonymous anyways so its catch 22. xoa Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius et Subscriptor cmacd wrote: I'm admittedly not a Bitcoin user, but I don't see that as ever having been a Bitcoin "advantage". I thought it was always clear that the core point of Bitcoin was to be an anonymous currency, not a meta-currency useful only as a temporary intermediary (even if that necessarily would be a significant initial use during ramp-up). Like so much else on the Internet, full anonymity and protection only exists so long as someone sticks purely within the electronic anonymous frameworks. There's a lot someone can do with extremely good privacy, so long as they're willing to stay entirely on the net. But obviously as soon as activities intersect with something like a traditional, fully tracked monetary system, well of course then the rules of that system come into play. There's nothing surprising or wrong about that, it'd be the same as dealing with any other currency, or for that matter in raw gold or bags of uncut diamonds or whatever. I now see a significant number of useful digital services though (including hosting) that accept Bitcoins directly. That's the sort of thing that's necessary for it to actually be of any real value as a true currency. If/when/as it moves more towards being a currency and less a meta-currency it'll be able to fulfill more of what its creators hoped for. Any intersection with traditional currency will always be rightly regulated though, just as borders are. Ikarushka Seniorius Lurkius Deleted my rant pending a promise to resolve (in short, I cannot withdraw bitcoins from a non-verified account -- contrary to the statement above). 4 posts \| registered Jun 22, 2011 lyme Ars Praefectus There are two certainties in life: death and taxes.. My bitcoins are on one of those two reasons.. and it isn't death. DanNeely Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius pasttense wrote: I believe you meant to write "Mt Gox, one of the few Bitcoin exchanges not seized by the feds and whose operators aren't facing an extended stay in Club Fed..." S_T_R Ars Tribunus Militum lyme wrote: Yeah...making money in BTCs does not in any way absolve you of your requirement to pay taxes. It doesn't matter if your paid in dollars, BTCs, or chocolate doughnuts, nor does it matter whether or not you earned said income by committing legal or illegal acts. The only difference is that the government won't accept tax payments in BTCs or doughnuts, so you have to convert your income INTO dollars at a market rate. People v Capone 1931 jimisawesome Ars Tribunus Militum DanNeely wrote: Please use the full name. Magic the Gathering Online eXchange, one of the few Bitcoin exchanges not seized by the feds and most of whose operators aren't facing an extended stay in Club Fed. s73v3r Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius Care to point out examples of ones that are? umaromc Ars Scholae Palatinae Wasn't anonymity one of the main selling points of BitCoining in the first place? No matter, everyone can find me at 1313 Mockingbird Ln, anyway. jdv Seniorius Lurkius I believe this was already a requirement for Europeans. I certainly found myself needing to do this, although I forgot the exact reason. Unfortunately, I also found myself unable to prove my identity to them! They would ask for copies of things like utility bills (my landlord takes care of those), cellphone bills (prepaid card), bank statements (online banking), and health insurance bills (public health care) that I simply did not have. I emailed them about this but they weren't exactly understanding. I have an ID card and a passport but for some reason they really wanted to verify my address, which those documents say nothing about. Hinton Ars Legatus Legionis et Subscriptor umaromc wrote: Uhm, it's your dealings with mtgox that's not anonymous. You can still make anoymous drug deals all day with Bitcoins, if that's your mindset. (seems like it's something like it). The Bitcoins you bought from mtgox can't be traced to that if you tumble them. wobbleworks Wise, Aged Ars Veteran I thought the main selling point of BTC was to be a purely digital currency and that anonymity was just a side-effect. puffinus Ars Praefectus xoa wrote: I thought it was always clear that the core point of Bitcoin was to be an anonymous currency, If so, then they failed miserably. All of the transactions are publicly recorded. Think about it like a currency started here, arsbucks. It's arguably not a flaw in the currency that if I pay you for a used hard drive you'll probably find out who I "really" am and where I live by virtue of giving me my hard drive. It's definitely a flaw that anyone else I've done business with can see exactly how many arsbucks I just paid you and correlate that with the ad for your hard drive disappearing. It also a flaw that the guy who just paid me arsbucks for webhosting can now see that I paid you (or a couple of my own fake arswallets and then you) and lean on you to find out who I am. Like so much else on the Internet, full anonymity and protection only exists so long as someone sticks purely within the electronic anonymous frameworks. True, but Bitcoin in particular suffers from the additional shortcoming that you can follow a transaction trail back or forwards arbitrarily far. In addition to assisting legitimate law enforcement, the public transaction records could be used to set up to flag individuals who are a couple of financial transactions removed from criminal activity. rdx Wise, Aged Ars Veteran puffinus wrote: Not really. Wallets are not tied to IP addresses or persons and you can have as many as you want. You can see that wallet A sent 10 BTC to wallet X, but you usually don't know who it is and whether wallets B and C that sent 7 and 3 BTC to wallet A just before did that to pay for something or was the same person covering the trail. You might even be able to trace from wallets B and C to a single initial account, but proving identities of owner(s) is completely different question. rdx wrote: "you usually don't know who it is" is true of me as an individual engaging in a few transactions here and there, but it's not necessarily true of large vendors who can figure out who the purchaser of their services is, ISP's who can watch connections to bitcoin exchanges or vendors and then review the public global transaction log- seriously, you don't have to crack HTTPS to figure out that once a month wallet A is used to pay a web host and that wallet A is almost always refilled via a transfer from Mt. Gox right after customer _X_ at IP 1.2.3.4 connects to their "web banking" link. With what form of "anonymous" cash can you figure out that a given wallet belongs to me in 2016 and then know a lot about what I spent money on in 2013 by comparing my transactions to a list of known large vendor wallets (Amazon, supermarkets, ...)? That's not anonymous: you could argue that it's pseudonymous, but even so it's a very weak pseudonym. The ability to correlate transactions with real people if you know one end of the transaction is obvious. Having that compromise leak through to the entire history of the wallet and bitcoins that pass through it is a serious problem which I don't think most people fully appreciate. Theoretically, I could maintain a large number of wallets and collaborate with other people to launder money, but then I'd be doing something which looks very shady in order to maintain a level of privacy which most people expect as a given. crustytheclown Ars Praefectus Banzai51 wrote: AAAAHHHHHH! I am not sure what is so paranoid about this US trend toward recording all business transactions. Dollar-Dollar Bills yo! IP 1.2.3.4 connected to MtGox, and bought 50 BTC as (A), soon after paid 22 BTC to (B) and 28 BTC to (C), (B) soon receives 4 BTC more from (D) and sends them to a tumbler service. Some time later, (F) pays 10 BTC for anonymous web hosting and (G) buys an Amazon gift card. Meanwhile (C) spends and receives BTC from different sources, including spending some on freshly mined coins. When web hosting runs out it never gets renewed by (F), but some unrelated wallet (H) buys a completely new subscription. Good luck linking all those together, even though actually they're all the same person. Given a few years of data, it doesn't seem like that hard a problem to me for a seven figure development budget on the tools (well within the realm of possibility for advertising companies or governments). Remember that the goal isn't to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that wallet G is owned by mr rdx of 123 Main Street, New York NY. It's just to catch the low-hanging fruit for marketing or law enforcement purposes. You could probably maintain several distinct identities, but if they're clustered and ever doing even concealed self-dealing patterns will show up in the long term because every wallet and every bitcoin record is public. Just as one obvious attack: the guy would have to be very very careful to avoid letting weekends, his time zone, his vacations, etc. result in patterns that correlate across his various wallets. It would be extremely hard to make sure that your activity patterns for your various pseudonyms never vary even when you're asleep, hospitalized, climbing in Nepal, etc. The user can be as careful as he wants, but if he _EVER_ slips up with a given wallet in a way which links it to his "real" identity, all of the past history of that wallet can now be leveraged- not just present and future transactions but also things years in the past. It's not quite so obvious, no. Wallets might be used once and sleep months between receives and sends. You need many slip-ups to trace them all. So you found that (C) was same as (A) in my example. Can you prove that (B) was same person, when (A) says it was some guy he paid to paint his fence (this even assuming you have the power to question (A)). Or you might have linked (G) and (A) - given honest tumbling service, how do you find that (F) was another output from same operation? (A) might have just spent it on painting the other side of the fence (no, of course I don't remember anything about that other wallet anymore, officer). You can only reliably trace a line between two endpoints, forks between them can only be assumptions. You don't have to have conclusive proof that they're all the same person to compromise anonymity. Heck, even suspecting that two accounts are run by the same entity counts as a compromise of anonymity in a lot of contexts: how about an oppressive government being sure enough that a given person is the political dissident who's been paying for "anonymous" webhosting using "anonymous" currency to break down his door and beat a confession out of him? In some places, "Well, we traced a bit and think it might be him" is quite sufficient for really nasty things to happen. You can say that Bitcoin obfuscates identity but calling it an anonymous currency when specifically discussing its strengths and shortcomings is very misleading to the public and potential users. Titanium Dragon Ars Tribunus Militum The problem is that any time you put money into the system, or take money out of the system, or get a product from someone, you can be tracked. Anonymity is sharply limited for this very reason. Sure, you can push bitcoins around the internet all you want. But when you actually spend them on something real, you cease to be anonymous. Titanium Dragon wrote: It's blatantly obvious that _you_ cease to be anonymous if you walk into a supermarket and pay with bitcoins from a particular wallet. What _isn't_ blatantly obvious to the public is that, for something which claims to be an anonymous currency, the following situation can happen: Bob, the political dissident, earns bitcoins from donations to his political blog (obviously, the wallet or wallets to contribute to must be known to people making donations: essentially, the entire public). Charlie, Bob's gardener, is paid from that wallet. Dan the quickie-mart dude accepts some bitcoins from Charlie. The police show up at the Quickie Mart because even though they have no idea who Bob, Charlie, and Dan are they know that the Quickie-Mart is separated by two degrees of payment from the guy they need to bag. So they intimidate Dan into telling them who Charlie is (or find out via surveillance tape/etc.), intimidate Charlie into telling them who Bob is, and then arrest Bob. That's about the opposite of an anonymous currency: it's obvious that Dan knows that Charlie has control over the wallet he paid with, but if the currency were really anonymous the oppressive government wouldn't know that the money Charlie spent was possibly* connected to the money which had been donated to Bob because the government wouldn't have a public signed record of which wallets have paid which. You could argue that the problem was Bob paying for something "real", but the same thing works if Charlie is Bob's "anonymous" webhost that the government intimidates into giving connection logs for. Even if Bob was careful and used a huge number of proxy steps, the government can still hand out a subpoena to the webhost company and to Bob's home ISP (and cell data provider, and nearby coffee shops, ...) and see that the times the webhost received connections and the data quantities exactly match the times and data seen coming out of Bob's house. (yeah, Pipenet, but that doesn't exist and if it did connecting to it would draw unpleasant attention in and of itself in the kinds of places where a political dissident would be afraid) Because even an anonymous webhost needs to pay people (even if it's volunteer labor, they need to pay for the bandwidth/etc.) you still wind up with a chain of people to identify and leverage back another layer. I suppose a politically committed webhost could accept payments to avoid the pitfalls of being a free host while never actually spending the proceeds to fund business operations but then it wouldn't be a business and there would still have to be a payment trail somewhere. It's hard to imagine a way to anonymize the money without hypothesizing various entities which intentionally launder money because by yourself even creating a pile of wallets doesn't suffice. Dealing with them would itself be a flag. Bitcoin may allow pseudonymous _identity_, but it is not an anonymous _currency_. *Yes, "possibly"- it doesn't take rock-solid mathematical proof to make you sure enough to justify following up on investigative leads. Postulator Ars Tribunus Militum I'm sure I visited Completely Made Up City last time I visited the US - though it wasn't in New York, it was somewhere in Anaheim, Los Angeles. Vapur9 Ars Tribunus Militum Cash is the only effective method for all debts, public and private. Bengie25 Ars Praefectus Hard to remain anonymous when you withdraw/deposit electronically from your account. If you're that concerned, create an account with a fake name and a Swiss bank account has the deposit/withdraw account. For filtering out morons Smack-Fu Master, in training Christ, you two. Get a room. 95 posts \| registered Aug 2, 2012 Thucydides411 Ars Scholae Palatinae Bengie25 wrote: If you've been following the news out of Europe recently, you'll know that Swiss bank accounts are no longer anonymous when the Feds come knocking. Massolo Ars Scholae Palatinae Like I said yesterday, BitCoin would be next. This only proves that things are going on behind the scenes, probably entailing secret DHS gag orders and the like, as the initial take down of BitCoin starts. To have the expectation that our government would allow people freedom to exchange money without their ability to monitor it was naive. JumpNDesign Ars Centurion You talk about wallets like they have an ID number for everyone one but they don't. A wallet is basically just a text file with a bunch of numbers in it. Numbers that each correspond to a usable address. When you send /receive coins they don't necessarily all come from or get delivered to one single address. They get spread out. Like a tip jar or change jar. You drop some money in, and you're total goes up. A while later you go back and find you have $10. But you only need $2 to go get a 40. So you grab up random coins until you have $2 bucks and you go buy a 40. BTC wallets function much in the same way. You can't decide later to only pull out the transactions that gave you quarters and try to use those to pay for your 40. Well you can (~ish) but not by default. You can 'hack' (as in hack job or ghetto rig) together the ability with pywallet, privaddy transfers, and multiple wallets, but its not inherently built in to the protocol and default client. Also when you spend coins from an address you spend the full amount in the priv addy, and then the client sends back and left over 'change' to a different priv addy from your key pool. So really once a coin becomes 'dirty'. It taints the entire system. But its better this way because everyone is in the same position. Everyone is spending 'dirty' coins. To link a person specifically to a transaction, you'd have to prove the identity and ownership of the entire chain of accounts and all of its splits up to that specific transaction from the time in which that it was determined to be illegal. You'd then have to show that the person willfully knew where those funds came from and chose to spend them. So yea 2-3 transactions away might be easy to pin down to individual people. But with each spend, the number of possible owners of those coins grows exponentially. One 'bitcoin' only account, or offline account, or one privaddy switch and that chain is broken and ownership would be unable to be proven. So don't donate to terrorists with the same account you use to ship stuff from amazon. Dur. Digital anything leaves traces everywhere. Maintain a few different accounts/wallets. Shift your money around a few times. Air gap to a cold-storage account, and then priv-key import to another. Swap them through a few exchanges. Etc etc. Total anonymity is not needed. Plausible deniability and enough obfuscation through separation can achieve the same results. tigerhawkvok Ars Scholae Palatinae et Subscriptor To quote myself: Imagine a BitCoin exchange, called Mt. Launderer. You can only withdraw from Mt. Launderer in $10^n increments, so $10, $100, $1000, etc. Mt. Launderer's servers have (like Reddit) something (let's call it a "checker") that checks for a transaction to be verified, then instructs the disburser to disburse X at the end of the day. The checker does not retain these logs, and the disburser never gets the transaction if in the first place. Hell, every time the disburser gets a transaction from the checker, it shuffles the array of disbursements for shits and giggles. At the end of the day, Mt. Launderer disburses all the funds set to disburse that day. The amounts disbursed only occur in certain common increments. While the blockchain can verify that person A sent X to wallet address Z, there's no strict verification that wallet Z is owned by Mt. Launderer (possibly traceable through Mt. Launderer's eventual money exitpoint), but even if you did establish ownership of Z, with a small set of transactional outputs going to several people, you can't identify "where" person A's funds came from. It may be from only a few potential sources, sure, but you can't actually which of those. Last I checked, "You probably did one of these 100 crimes" isn't actually chargeable ;-) -- and that assumes everyone using Mt. Launderer is nefarious. A single "good" transaction gives every user plausible deniability. I'd be shocked if something like this (probably cleverer) didn't exist on the darknet. And I bet tonnes of legitimate people would use it, too. I know I probably would, if I didn't need to go to the darknet to use it.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line928
__label__wiki	0.978054	0.978054	Choi-gate: Daughter of South Korean leader’s friend arrested in Denmark amid graft probe (File) Protesters wearing cut-outs of South Korean President Park Geun-hye (right) and Choi Soon-sil attend a protest denouncing Park over a recent influence-peddling scandal in central Seoul, South Korea in October. Pic: Reuters. Danish police have arrested the equestrian competitor daughter of a woman at the centre of a South Korean influence-peddling scandal that has engulfed President Park Geun-hye, police and prosecutors said on Monday. The scandal led to Park’s impeachment by parliament on Dec. 9 and has drawn hundreds of thousands of protesters onto the streets of the capital, Seoul, for weekly demonstrations. South Korean authorities had been seeking the arrest of Chung Yoo-ra, 20, for her ties to the scandal in which her mother, Choi Soon-sil, is a central figure. Chung had been sought for alleged criminal interference related to her academic record, and other unspecified charges. Park, 64, could become South Korea’s first democratically elected leader to be forced to leave office early. The parliamentary impeachment must be confirmed or overturned by the Constitutional Court, which has months to rule. “We will request an emergency extradition of Chung, working with the special prosecutor’s office,” Lee Chul-sung, commissioner general of the Korea National Police Agency, told a media briefing in Seoul. SEE ALSO: S.Korea: President Park breaks month-long silence, says corruption allegations were “fabricated” The two countries have an extradition treaty. Chung, who did equestrian training in Germany, was arrested in the northern Danish city of Aalborg for staying illegally, at around 4 a.m. Seoul time (1900 GMT) on Monday, Lee said. South Korea’s foreign ministry has been working to invalidate Chung’s passport and authorities have asked German prosecutors for information about her whereabouts and assets. The influence-peddling scandal centres on accusations the president colluded with her friend Choi to pressure big businesses to make contributions to non-profit foundations backing presidential initiatives. Park, whose father ruled the country for 18 years after seizing power in a 1961 coup, has denied wrongdoing but apologised for carelessness in her ties with Choi, who is facing her own trial. Choi also denies wrongdoing. FILE PHOTO: South Korea’s Chung Yoo-ra, then known as Chung Yoo-yeon, bites her gold medal as she poses after winning the equestrian Dressage Team competition at the Dream Park Equestrian Venue during the 17th Asian Games in Incheon September 20, 2014. REUTERS As part of their investigation, prosecutors are trying to ascertain whether Samsung Electronics sought favors from Choi and Park in return for funding some of their initiatives. In particular, they are looking at whether favors Samsung sought included the National Pension Service’s support for Samsung’s founding family in a shareholder vote last year. An element of the investigation has been Samsung’s sponsorship of Chung’s riding career. The special prosecutor’s office has asked Interpol to place Chung on its red notice list, but Interpol had yet to make a decision on the request, Lee Kyu-chul, a spokesman for the special prosecutor said. FIVE IN CUSTODY Chung told Danish police she was staying in Denmark for equestrian-related work, according to South Korea’s JTBC TV channel. A Volkswagen vehicle and horse-riding equipment were found at the house where Chung and her party were arrested, JTBC said. Lee Kyung-jae, a lawyer representing both Choi and Chung, said the daughter would cooperate. “When Chung Yoo-ra returns I will ensure that she fully cooperates with the special prosecution’s investigation,” the lawyer told the Yonhap News Agency. Danish officials had five people in custody, including Chung and a child born in 2015, a police official said, declining to be identified, not four as police said earlier on Monday. Chung is known to have a young son. The others in custody are two men who appear to be Koreans in their late twenties or early thirties and a woman in her sixties. Lee, the police official, said Danish police had 24 hours to secure evidence that Chung was staying illegally in Denmark. Park’s arrest was first reported by the JTBC channel, which said on its website that its journalists had alerted Danish police to Chung’s presence there. A video on JTBC’s website showed a person identified as Chung in a heavy hooded parka being led to a police car. The person’s face could not be seen. Chung became a figure of public ire in South Korea last year after it emerged that she had received special treatment from the prestigious Ewha Womans University, where her admission was subsequently cancelled. News of Chung’s arrest came a day after Park broke a month-long silence over her alleged role in the corruption scandal, publicly denying charges of wrongdoing and describing the accusations against her as fabricated and false. – Reuters {"total":9,"error":"","stumbleupon":0,"facebook_total":4,"linkedin":0,"buffer":1,"google":0,"pinterest":0,"twitter":0,"vk":0} Topics covered: Choi Soon-sil gate corruption investigation Park Geun-hye	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line933
__label__wiki	0.721792	0.721792	Advocate Sinha \| Find The Best Lawyers in Dlehi, NCR Advocate sinha is a the best advocate. he handle the case such as Property and Criminal Case and Etc. Contact the best lawyers in delhi. Recording is admissible in court Laws regarding electronic record and their admissibility are properly laid down in Section 65B of Indian Evidence Act. The contents of electronic records may be proved in accordance with the provisions of section 65B. Therefore, in order to understand whether a voice recording can be used as an evidence in courts in India, an understanding of section 65B of Indian Evidence Act is necessary. Any information contained in an electronic record which is recorded or copied in optical or magnetic media produced by a computer shall be deemed to be also a document if the conditions mentioned here are satisfied.If the conditions are satisfied then such recordings are admissible in any proceedings without further proof or production of the original, as evidence of any contents of the original, or of any fact stated of which direct evidence would be admissible.The conditions are– The source containing the information was produced by the computer during the period … Provisions related to conduct of trial of reported offences Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) Why are affidavits important? How to Find The Best Corporate Lawyers in India Matrimonial Lawyers What do you Understand About Lawyers ? Criminal Lawyers. Find the best advocate What does it mean to be an advocate? Criminal Lawyers. Find the best advocate Matrimonial Lawyers Criminal Lawyers. Find the best advocate	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line935
__label__wiki	0.726438	0.726438	Main » 2018 » January » 4 » Masimo Announces CE Marking and Release of Oxygen Reserve Index™ rainbow Lite Sensors Masimo Announces CE Marking and Release of Oxygen Reserve Index™ rainbow Lite Sensors NEUCHATEL, Switzerland-Tuesday, January 2nd 2018 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) announced today the CE marking and release of RD rainbow Lite SET™ sensors, which enable the monitoring of Masimo Oxygen Reserve Index™ (ORi™) and RPVi™, an improved PVi® that allows clinicians to assess fluid responsiveness noninvasively and continuously1 at a fraction of the cost of invasive methods, and at a fraction of the cost of rainbow® sensors. rainbow Lite sensors utilize twice as many wavelengths of light as SET® sensors, allowing rainbow Lite sensors to provide ORi and RPVi along with Masimo SET® Measure-through Motion and Low Perfusion™ pulse oximetry. ORi is the first noninvasive and continuous parameter to provide insight into a patient’s oxygen reserve in the moderate hyperoxic range. In conjunction with SET® pulse oximetry, ORi may provide advanced warning of impending desaturation, which may allow clinicians to intervene sooner. For example, in a study of 25 pediatric patients undergoing general anesthesia with orotracheal intubation, researchers found that ORi helped clinicians identify impending desaturation a median of 31.5 seconds before noticeable changes in oxygen saturation (SpO2) occurred.2 In another recent study of 106 adult patients scheduled for surgery with arterial catheterization and intraoperative blood gases analyses, researchers found a significant relationship between change in PaO2 and change in ORi.3 In addition, ORi may provide insight into oxygen reserve when titrating patients who are receiving supplemental oxygen.4 Joe Kiani, Founder and CEO of Masimo, said, “rainbow Lite sensors allow clinicians, who depend on powerful SET® pulse oximetry technology, to augment their patient monitoring with ORi and newly introduced RPVi. Given the positive reception of ORi in available markets, and feedback from clinicians who see great value in the benefits of ORi monitoring, we are excited to make ORi and RPVi accessible via the cost-effective solution represented by RD rainbow Lite SET. Hospitals that standardize on RD rainbow Lite SET will pay only nominally more per sensor than for SET®.” Masimo RPVi is a multi-wavelength version of Pleth Variability Index (PVi). RPVi is designed to provide enhanced assessment of changes in fluid volume compared to PVi5, which has been shown in over 90 independent clinical studies to be as effective as invasive monitoring methods.6 With the addition of RD rainbow Lite SET, the RD family of sensors is now available in three levels of capability: RD SET, utilizing two wavelengths (2 LED) and featuring SET® pulse oximetry; RD rainbow Lite SET, which utilizes four wavelengths (4 LED) and adds the ability to measure ORi and RPVi; and RD rainbow SET, which utilizes over seven wavelengths (7+ LED) and enables the measurement of additional advanced noninvasive parameters such as SpHb®(total hemoglobin), SpCO® (carboxyhemoglobin), SpMet® (methemoglobin), and SpOC™ (oxygen content). Like RD SET sensors, RD rainbow Lite SET sensors are designed to maximize patient comfort and optimize clinician workflow. The sensors are lightweight and have a flat, soft cable with smooth edges, so that they lie comfortably on a patient’s hand or foot. The sensors feature an intuitive sensor-to-cable connection, with tactile and audible feedback to ensure a proper connection, and have graphics printed on both sides to assist with application. Devices with ORi and RPVi measurements and RD rainbow Lite SET sensors have not received FDA 510(k) clearance and are not available for sale in the United States. @MasimoInnovates \| #Masimo Forget P, Lois F, de Kock M. Goal-Directed Fluid Management Based on the Pulse Oximeter-Derived Pleth Variability Index Reduces Lactate Levels and Improves Fluid Management. Anesth Analg. 2010 Oct; 111(4):910-4. Szmuk P, Steiner JW, Olomu PN, Ploski RP, Sessler DI, and Ezri T. Oxygen Reserve Index A Novel Noninvasive Measure of Oxygen Reserve—A Pilot Study. Anesthesiology. 4 2016, Vol. 124, 779-784. doi:10.1097/ALN.0000000000001009. Applegate R, Dorotta I, Wells B, Juma D, and Applegate P. The Relationship Between Oxygen Reserve Index and Arterial Partial Pressure of Oxygen During Surgery. Anesth Analg. 2016 Sep; 123(3); 626-633. Scheeren TWL, Belda FJ and Perel A. The oxygen reserve index (ORi): a new tool to monitor oxygen therapy. J Clin Monit Comput. 2017. doi:10.1007/s10877-017-0049-4. Masimo data on file. Published clinical studies on PVi can be found at http://www.masimo.com/en-GB/home/clinical-evidence/pleth-variability-index-pvi/. About Masimo Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) is a global leader in innovative noninvasive monitoring technologies. Our mission is to improve patient outcomes and reduce the cost of care. In 1995, the company debuted Masimo SET® Measure-through Motion and Low Perfusion™ pulse oximetry, which has been shown in multiple studies to significantly reduce false alarms and accurately monitor for true alarms. Masimo SET® has also been shown to help clinicians reduce severe retinopathy of prematurity in neonates,1 improve CCHD screening in newborns,2 and, when used for continuous monitoring with Masimo Patient SafetyNet™* in post-surgical wards, reduce rapid response activations and costs.3,4,5 Masimo SET® is estimated to be used on more than 100 million patients in leading hospitals and other healthcare settings around the world,6 and is the primary pulse oximetry at 17 of the top 20 hospitals listed in the 2017-18 U.S. News and World Report Best Hospitals Honor Roll.7 In 2005, Masimo introduced rainbow® Pulse CO-Oximetry technology, allowing noninvasive and continuous monitoring of blood constituents that previously could only be measured invasively, including total hemoglobin (SpHb®), oxygen content (SpOC™), carboxyhemoglobin (SpCO®), methemoglobin (SpMet®), Pleth Variability Index (PVi®), and more recently, Oxygen Reserve Index™ (ORi™), in addition to SpO2, pulse rate, and perfusion index (Pi). In 2014, Masimo introduced Root®, an intuitive patient monitoring and connectivity platform with the Masimo Open Connect™ (MOC-9™) interface, enabling other companies to augment Root with new features and measurement capabilities. Masimo is also taking an active leadership role in mHealth with products such as the Radius-7™ wearable patient monitor, iSpO2® pulse oximeter for smartphones, and the MightySat™ fingertip pulse oximeter. Additional information about Masimo and its products may be found at www.masimo.com. Published clinical studies on Masimo products can be found at http://www.masimo.com/cpub/clinical-evidence.htm. ORi has not received FDA 510(k) clearance and is not available for sale in the United States. *The use of the trademark Patient SafetyNet is under license from University HealthSystem Consortium. Castillo A et al. Prevention of Retinopathy of Prematurity in Preterm Infants through Changes in Clinical Practice and SpO2 Technology. Acta Paediatr. 2011 Feb; 100(2):188-92. de-Wahl Granelli A et al. Impact of pulse oximetry screening on the detection of duct dependent congenital heart disease: a Swedish prospective screening study in 39,821 newborns. BMJ. 2009;338. Taenzer AH et al. Impact of Pulse Oximetry Surveillance on Rescue Events and Intensive Care Unit Transfers: A Before-And-After Concurrence Study. Anesthesiology. 2010; 112(2):282-287. Taenzer AH et al. Postoperative Monitoring – The Dartmouth Experience. Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Newsletter. Spring-Summer 2012. McGrath SP et al. Surveillance Monitoring Management for General Care Units: Strategy, Design, and Implementation. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 2016 Jul; 42(7):293-302. Estimate: Masimo data on file. http://health.usnews.com/health-care/best-hospitals/articles/best-hospitals-honor-roll-and-overview. This press release includes forward-looking statements as defined in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, in connection with the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include, among others, statements regarding the potential effectiveness of Masimo RD rainbow Lite SET™ sensors, ORi™, RPVi™, and PVi®. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations about future events affecting us and are subject to risks and uncertainties, all of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond our control and could cause our actual results to differ materially and adversely from those expressed in our forward-looking statements as a result of various risk factors, including, but not limited to: risks related to our assumptions regarding the repeatability of clinical results; risks related to our belief that Masimo's unique noninvasive measurement technologies, including Masimo RD rainbow Lite SET sensors, ORi, RPVi, and PVi, contribute to positive clinical outcomes and patient safety; risks related to our belief that Masimo noninvasive medical breakthroughs provide cost-effective solutions and unique advantages; as well as other factors discussed in the "Risk Factors" section of our most recent reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), which may be obtained for free at the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in our forward-looking statements are reasonable, we do not know whether our expectations will prove correct. All forward-looking statements included in this press release are expressly qualified in their entirety by the foregoing cautionary statements. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of today's date. We do not undertake any obligation to update, amend or clarify these statements or the "Risk Factors" contained in our most recent reports filed with the SEC, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under the applicable securities laws. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180101005082/en/ Evan Lamb elamb@masimo.com Permalink : http://www.aetoswire.com/news/5303/en	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line938
__label__wiki	0.564276	0.564276	Lions trading up? GM Bob Quinn doesn't have the 'ammunition' 90dMichael Rothstein Lions' Quin 'walking away' after 10 NFL seasons 9dMichael Rothstein NFL Future Power Rankings: Projections for all 32 teams for the next three years 2dLouis Riddick, Kevin Seifert and Field Yates Darius Slay shows up at Lions fan's high school graduation party NFL over/under predictions: 32 picks for fantasy and win totals Roberts waived after Lions-Pats trade rescinded 33dMike Reiss Logan Thomas, Teez Tabor helped themselves during Lions' offseason Pats pick up another tight end in trade with Lions 35dMike Reiss and Michael Rothstein The NFL minicamp absences that actually matter, and what's next 35dDan Graziano Why ex-lacrosse pro is chasing NFL dreams with the Lions Veterans who could be cut by each of the NFL's 32 teams New Lions WR Jermaine Kearse returns to the familiar to reclaim career Michael RothsteinESPN Staff Writer Previously covered University of Michigan for ESPN.com and AnnArbor.com Also covered Notre Dame for Fort Wayne Journal Gazette ALLEN PARK, Mich. – Bob Quinn has been very comfortable making trades throughout his tenure as general manager of the Detroit Lions. It can be in training camp or at the trade deadline, in the offseason or during the draft. He’s usually very willing to make a move. When: Thursday-Saturday Where: Nashville, Tennessee How to watch: ABC/ESPN/ESPN App • Kiper's Top 300 » \| McShay's Top 300 » • Mel & Todd answer biggest questions » • McShay's draft buzz: What he's hearing » • Complete draft order: Picks 1-254 » • In-depth stories on the top prospects » • More NFL draft coverage » Quinn is likely to be the same this year during the NFL draft; he has been very open about his interest in moving down if the right situation fits. Moving up, however, is something entirely different. “There’s a couple players right up at the top that you’d obviously love to have,” Quinn said. “I just don’t think I have enough ammunition to get up there. Like I said previously, I’d rather move back a couple of spots, if anything. So there’s definitely good players at the top, at the very top. There’s good players at eight, too, guys that we’re excited about that hopefully a couple of them are there and we can choose from a couple of them. “But yeah, I don’t think I’m going to be in the business of moving up in this year’s draft, but there are players that are worthy of that.” That probably means he thinks the draft’s best defenders – like Ohio State’s Nick Bosa, Alabama’s Quinnen Williams and Kentucky’s Josh Allen – will be gone before the Lions pick. It would be an interesting scenario if one of the three somehow slid to No. 6 or maybe even No. 5, because Quinn might have the picks and capital to try and make that move. But any higher than that and he probably isn’t willing to mortgage it, especially in a deep draft for front-seven talent. Being in the top 10, though, is a new place for Quinn. A team he has been a part of hasn’t been in a top-10 position since the 2001 draft after his first year in the league, when New England took Richard Seymour at No. 6. Quinn was a player personnel assistant at the time, so he had no say in decision-making. So this will be his first go at a top-10 pick – if he keeps it. And he’d like it to be his last – at least of his team’s own doing. And that’s the other question. Though he said there was “no reason” he has been so open and vocal about trading down, the interest is clearly there. He was also vague about how far down he’d be willing to go, but he left open the possibility of dropping a decent amount. Bob Quinn would prefer to trade down from the No. 8 spot if given a good offer. Carlos Osorio/AP Photo “It’s a situation where it’s hard to say right now, to be quite frank with you,” Quinn said. “Some teams in that 13-to-15 range, they don’t want to do anything but you get an offer from 21 and it looks really good and you’re looking at the board and 8 to 21 is 13 spots. “There’s 13 good players I like there so you have to do quick math, you look at your board and I’m going to say, 'I’m going to at least get that guy,' kind of just evaluate it there.” As with anything when it comes to the draft, it’ll be a matter of balance and perspective, too. When the time comes at No. 8, he’ll look at the clock, check out any potential offers, look at trade value charts for advice, and maybe work the phones. Unless there’s someone who unexpectedly falls, making the selection a no-brainer, he’ll probably be active while trying to find the best possible option. If that means taking a player ... fine. Trading the pick ... that’s OK, too. “It’s something you have to study. You have to ... there’s gut instinct involved here, too,” Quinn said. “This isn’t just like you plug it into your computer, your matrix, and it just spits out yes or no, you make that trade. It’s taking everyone’s information, talking to the key people that you rely on in making the best decision for the Lions at the end of the day.”	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line939
__label__wiki	0.602959	0.602959	Home>News>Report: Congolese army implicated in ethnic violence in Kasais Report: Congolese army implicated in ethnic violence in Kasais By AT editor - 6 August 2017 at 5:44 am Government forces in the DR Congo have been implicated in waves of increasing ethnic violence in the Kasai provinces, according to a United Nations investigation report released Friday. The report, based on interviews with Congolese seeking refuge in neighboring Angola, details their horrific accounts of targeted killings and mutilation of civilians, with dozens of victims younger than eight years old. “In many of the incidents reported to the team, FARDC soldiers were seen leading groups of Bana Mura militia during attacks on villages,” the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights report said. The fighting began in August 2016 between the Kamuina Nsapu militia and the government. The UN team found that the Bana Mura, another militia formed along ethnic lines this spring, was allegedly armed by local traditional leaders and security officials, including support from the Congolese army and the police. They have targeted communities accused of backing the Kamuina Nsapu. The UN Mission in the DRC has identified at least 80 mass graves in the Kasais, and the information in the report points to abuses that may be considered criminal under international law. “Survivors have spoken of hearing the screams of people being burned alive, of seeing loved ones chased and cut down, of themselves fleeing in terror. Such bloodletting is all the more horrifying because we found indications that people are increasingly being targeted because of their ethnic group,” said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein. “I call on the Government to take all necessary measures to fulfill its primary obligation to protect people from all ethnic backgrounds in the greater Kasai area,” he added. The report underscores the need for the team of international experts on the situation in the Kasais to be granted safe and unrestricted access necessary to complete their work. Image: UNHCR Bana Mura Kamuina Nsapu OHCHR Egypt, UAE join Western nations in call to end Libya conflict The governments of six nations – including Egypt and the United Arab Emirates – called… Tedros: Ebola case in Goma may be ‘game-changer’ The report of an Ebola patient in the busy travel hub of Goma heightened the… Calls for inquiry grow as Tanzanian minister walks back Gwanda comments Amnesty International has joined the Committee to Protect Journalists and other advocacy groups in calling… ICC delivers guilty verdict in Congolese warlord case Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda was found guilty on Monday of 18 counts of war crimes… Conflict, displacement in Ituri threaten DRC Ebola response Renewed violence in the Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is forcing…	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line940
__label__cc	0.511502	0.488498	IF Ready Ready (B.o.B song) Uthama Puthiran Idrettsforeningen Ready is a sports club in Vestre Aker, Oslo, Norway. The club was established on June 14, 1907 by Aage Blom Lorentzen. The football club play their home games at Gressbanen in Oslo. Gressbanen was the national arena for the Norwegian national football team before Ullevaal was built in 1928. Former Norwegian international Dan Eggen has played for Ready. Ready's elite bandy team started playing in the Norwegian Bandy Premier League 2004–05 and has played there ever since. The club has 14 Norwegian championships in this sport, the last one in 2015, after a long wait because the 13th championship came as far back as in 1926. The club's female bandy team has five international players for Norway. Ski jumper Jon Aaraas is a member of the club. Media related to IF Ready at Wikimedia Commons This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - https://wn.com/IF_Ready "Ready" is a song by American hip hop recording artist B.o.B. It was released on September 10, 2013, as the third single from his third studio album, Underground Luxury (2013). The song, produced by American record producer Noel "Detail" Fisher, features a guest appearance from fellow American rapper Future. In an interview with Rolling Stone, B.o.B spoke on why he decided to release "Ready" as the album's third single, saying: "I feel like it's the season where everybody's going back to school and football is back in season, which is one of my favorite sports, so I just felt like it was a great song for the time. Then me and Future, we're both from the east side [of Atlanta] so it felt like a real necessary move to make. What Future brings to the song is just crazy. Future came up with the hook and brought it to me first. I heard it and I loved it and so I spent a couple of days just trying to live with it and letting the music flow. The way I write now, I just try and let the music come to me. I really don't try to force anything, so if I catch something like a vibe or a feeling then I catch something and go with it and let that direct me. I feel like it's a more natural way to finish songs." This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - https://wn.com/Ready_(B.o.B_song) Uthama Puthiran may refer to: Uthama Puthiran (1940 film), a 1940 Tamil language film starring P. U. 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__label__wiki	0.818312	0.818312	Beat is powered by Vocal creators. You support Samantha Bentley by reading, sharing and tipping stories... more Cereal Dating With Alison Wonderland by Samantha Bentley a year ago in interview I took Alison Wonderland to eat cereal and talk about her new album, her dog, and Harry Potter.... Photo by Bree Hart It is a rare occasion that one gets to sit down and really pick the brain of an artist whose style and sound they truly admire, so when I was offered the chance to interview Alison Wonderland, I must admit that I had a small fan girl moment. As I sit in East London's super kitsch "Cereal Killer Cafe," I can’t help but hope that she thinks my choice of meeting place is cool and not "creepy and weird," as one of the label team keeps repeating, whilst staring at the beanie babies stapled to the walls and boxes of vintage Pokemon cereal. I had my reasons behind choosing this particular spot, in a moment of Wonderland Stanism, I remember Alison once saying that she wished someone would open a restaurant that just served breakfast all day (a woman after my own heart). So here we are. I can confirm that Alison Wonderland is, indeed, the smallest human I have ever met, but that doesn’t matter. She has a presence that fills the room. “This place is fucking cool,” is the first thing to escape her mouth, and I breathe a sigh of relief! We order our respective cereals, some sort of Oreo-flavoured hoop for me and some sort of cinnamon-flavoured hoop for her, both with almond milk. I literally love this girl! We also order tater tots, because it’s lunch time, and our camera woman has never tried them before. I have an hour, and I’m trying to work out how I can fit in everything I need to ask this producing/DJing/singing/songwriting/classical cellist (yep) in such a small pocket of time. So obviously I started with the most important things on the list, like which Harry Potter house she would be in…Slytherin, of course, “but I’m only here for Snape,” she assures me. Apparently, she’s on the cusp of Slytherin and Gryffindor, just like Harry Potter himself. As a fellow dog mother, I also need to talk at length about her dog, Molly. When I mention Molly, a wave of sadness crosses her face and I sympathise immediately. Missing your pooch is something that only other dog owners can truly understand, but it’s OK, she get’s daily photo updates when she’s on tour. Then on to the music side of things. That is, after all, why we are here. Awake is Alison’s sophomore album and has a lot to live up to following the success of Run. When I ask what the story behind Awake is she explains that it is about waking up and feeling self worth again, after feeling defeated for so long and being around toxicity, starting to believe and trust in herself again. Self belief and trust is a battle for any artist, especially in this age of social media, where every single person with internet access has an opinion or a critique, and while she is ever present on her brimming social platforms, Alison tells me that she needs to be able to walk away and switch off from the cyber world sometimes in order to preserve her sanity, but also to make the music we love her for. “As a creative, you have to be bored to come up with ideas,” she muses, “and nowadays, what do we do when we’re bored? We pick up our phone and we scroll, so yeah, I do need to put my phone down sometimes to stop my mind racing with feedback.” Amen to that. “My lyrics are my diary, so it’s hard to not take things personally,” she continues. This comes shortly after I mention a review of Run where it was suggested she should not sing as much. But instead of holding back on Awake, Alison took her diary and opened it up to the world. She has laid everything bare with this album, from her struggle with anxiety and depression, to how bad she "just wants to fuck you all the time" in "Cry" (which one can assume is dedicated to a love interest in her life.) If you followed Alison on Twitter for the past year, you will have witnessed the ups and downs she has experienced during her writing process. She has tweeted more than once that she has put all of herself into this album and that she just hopes people like it. This sort of hope and want for acceptance speaks loudly through the opening track on Awake, tentatively named "Good Enough?"… almost likes she’s asking us, is it? Is it good enough?… Happily, the answer is a resounding "Yes." Yes it is. Awake showcases Alison's vocals and song writing ability in a way we never experienced with Run, her lyrics are more mature, her voice stronger and clearer than ever. Her production tight and distinctive. Every track is so completely different from the next, but in the best possible way—and not on purpose, either. I am interested as to if the diversity we hear throughout Awake is an important factor to her when creating, but she confirms that she just writes what she feels and vibes at that particular time, or with whomever she has in the studio with her. Each unique song takes you on a journey and has its own story to tell, like an EDM opera, each track different in genre and style, but each a definite ‘Alison Wonderland’ track. My own personal favourite, Church, almost didn’t even make the cut. After handing in the finished album and scrapping ‘Church’ completely. Deleting the project file from her laptop and almost giving up hope, she decided to give it one last try. “I just couldn’t get the music right,” she gushes, “and then I thought, I’ll have one more go, I produced it on Instagram live to my fans and handed it in as the rest of the album was being handed back to me," and it’s a good thing she did! "Church" became a single and has already racked up over five million Spotify streams. On that note, we finish our now soggy cereal, as I’m seeing hand gestures behind the camera telling me I need to wrap it up before heading to The Nest for Alison’s London album launch. For those that don’t know, The Nest is a sweaty, dingy East London club, known for pioneering bass music. But on a rainy Wednesday night, you wouldn’t expect to see a line down the street and a sold out show—especially for an artist that hasn’t done much in the UK yet, but there it is, a queue of fans waiting in anticipation… and she didn’t even think us Londoners would know her music! The opener, "Good Enough," which features Alison playing her cello, gets the crowd hyped, and it seems everyone already knows the new material (despite it yet to be released at the time of writing this) either that or they are INCREDIBLY enthusiastic about this new sound. Either way, it’s a win. She goes straight in to "Sometimes Love," another personal favourite from the album, a track with Slumberjack, who she previously collaborated with on Run. The latest single, "High," get’s a lighters-in-the-air response, and old favourites like "I Want U" are met with loud cheers. For "Church," she leaves the safety of the decks and steps into the crowd to sing with them. This is my first time seeing her live and I have to say the moment she gained the most respect from me was when she mixed "Refused" into her heavy EDM setlist. During the madness, she grabs the mic and shouts out a particular Twitter handle. An ecstatic young woman is pushed forward, and Alison invites her up to the DJ booth. “This girl tweets me every day! I wouldn’t be here without people like you! You’re staying up here with me for this next one,” she tells the crowd, before playing the emphatic ode to anxiety and depression, "Easy." With lines like ‘Walked into the bathroom/just so I could cry/Wish I knew why/ Wish I knew why/ Oh baby, why don’t you find someone easy?’ I can’t help but feel a rush of emotion. As a sufferer of intense and all-consuming anxiety and depression myself, I understand the hopeless sense of drowning and dark cloud of worry that constantly follows you with no rhyme or reason behind it. When an artist as influential as Alison vocalises the pain she feels, anxiety sufferers that feel alone realise there are others out there that feel just like them. They can throw on her music and relate. They can be inspired to follow their dreams, knowing that musicians and artists and influencers they respect can push through the pain and do amazing things. I left that night feeling inspired, what an amazing woman and what an incredible piece of art Awake is… Follow Alison Wonderland: Twitter - @awonderland Instagram - @alisonwonderland Twitter - @thebadbentley Instagram - @thebadbentley Follow our amazing photographer: Twitter - @breeemmahart Instagram - @breehart Read next: Create a Certain Kind of Beautiful Born and Bred Londoner, Mother to baby Roman and my two pooches, Plant Eater, Yoga and Aerial Teacher + Learner, Music Maker... was once in Game Of Thrones, was once a Penthouse Pet, used to win awards for getting naked. All posts by Samantha → #901Spotlight on Musician and Industry Mover, Cody Landers NewVMusic Virtuosity Memphis Twenty-three-year-old Cody Landers has made a name for himself in the Memphis Music community at a very young age. He is guitarist for One Less Reason, and recently became bassist for What We Do In Secret. On top of his hectic career as a musician, he runs AeroLith production studio out of Young Avenue Sound in Memphis, TN. Unlike most 20-somethings, he works diligently, and has only recently seen some fruits of that labor. When you first meet him, he is the epitome of rocker—with gauges, tattoo... Brendan McMahon's Music Will Amaze You What happens when you combine a talented Australian singer with a combination of musical genres that include country, folk, rock, pop, blues, and even some Celtic sounds? You get some unique music tha... The 'List: Fleetwood Mac Hello, one and all. Here's the second artist profile for the new year. A mixed rock/pop act from both the US and the UK that formed in London. They went through many lineup changes and were considered... Songs About Long Distance Relationships Every LDR Couple Should Listen To Songs about long distance relationships have been around as long as there have been long distance couples. It was John Donne who first underlined the ache of romantic separation in his poem, “A Valedi... Ryan Zimmerman – Singer, Songwriter, Storyteller Hailing from Long Beach Island, Jersey Shore singer/songwriter Ryan Zimmerman has a sound that grows away from the typical music scene in his area of residence. The general “Jersey Shore Sound” lends ... 5 Worst Rap Songs of 2017 Aquamarine Crystal Gem Create a Certain Kind of Beautiful	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line948
__label__wiki	0.786103	0.786103	Lenny's Book of Everything Children > Middle Readers Author: Karen Foxlee Perfect for readers who love Liar and Spy, Counting by 7s, and Bridge to Terabithia, a heartwarming and transformative novel about family, loss, and never giving up from beloved author Karen Foxlee. Lenny Spink is the sister of a giant. Her little brother, Davey, suffers from a rare form of gigantism and is taunted by other kids and turned away from school because of his size. To escape their cruel reality, Lenny and Davey obsess over the entries in their monthly installment of Burrell's Build-It-at-Home Encyclopedia set. Lenny vows to become a beetle expert, while Davey decides he will run away to Canada and build a log cabin. But as Davey's disease progresses, the siblings' richly imagined world becomes harder to cling to in this deeply moving and original novel about grief, family, and wonder. Shortlisted CBCA Book of the Year: Older Reader 2019 'Such a big heart and not a beat out of place.' - MELINA MARCHETTA 'Tough, tender and beautiful.' - GLENDA MILLARD 'Unforgettable.' - ANNA FIENBERG 'Karen Foxlee, you're a genius.' - WENDY ORR Karen Foxlee is an Australian author who writes for both kids and grown-ups. Her first novel The Anatomy of Wings won numerous awards including the Dobbie Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book. Ophelia and the Marvellous Boy, Karen's first novel for children, was published internationally to much acclaim while her second novel for younger readers, A Most Magical Girl, won the Readings Children's Fiction Prize in 2017 and was CBCA shortlisted the same year. Karen lives in South East Queensland with her daughter and several animals, including two wicked parrots, who frequently eat parts of her laptop when she isn't looking. Her passions are her daughter, writing, day-dreaming, baking, running and swimming in the sea. Publication date : October 2016 Reading Level : 8 Kids Middle Readers Dewey classification : [Fic] Author : Karen Foxlee	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line949
__label__cc	0.749819	0.250181	Bible > NIV > John 2 ◄ John 2 ► New International Version Par ▾ Jesus Changes Water Into Wine 1On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, 2and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. 3When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.” 4“Woman, a why do you involve me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.” 5His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” 6Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons. b 7Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water”; so they filled them to the brim. 8Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.” They did so, 9and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside 10and said, “Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.” 11What Jesus did here in Cana of Galilee was the first of the signs through which he revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him. 12After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples. There they stayed for a few days. Jesus Clears the Temple Courts 13When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. 15So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. 16To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a market!” 17His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.” c 18The Jews then responded to him, “What sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?” 19Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.” 20They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?” 21But the temple he had spoken of was his body. 22After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken. 23Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, many people saw the signs he was performing and believed in his name. d 24But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all people. 25He did not need any testimony about mankind, for he knew what was in each person. a 4 The Greek for Woman does not denote any disrespect. b 6 Or from about 75 to about 115 liters c 17 Psalm 69:9 d 23 Or in him Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line955
__label__wiki	0.656226	0.656226	Home > A&D Books > Collage Collage From A&D Books < Back to A&D Books Browse all Collage from A&D Books All new arrivals from A&D Books Want to know when A&D Books adds new books to this category? Notify me seller photo Serge Mendjisky: Exhibition Catalogue, December 2, 2009 - January 3, 2010 By Mendjisky, Serge; Christophe Donner New York: Galerie Elysees / Galeries Bartoux, 2009. Paperback. First edition. Fine/As New paperback. SHIPS THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING AND CARDBOARD. The catalogue for an exhibition of work by Serge Mendjisky, held at the Galerie Elysees, NYC, December 2, 2009 - January 3, 2010. Mendjisky was born in 1929 in Paris. Though an established painter, in 2000 he turned to photography as the final medium for his artistic expression. He collages his photographic images producing multiple and mixed perspectives. By decomposing and recomposing the skylines of some of the most well-known cities of the world like New-York and Paris, Mendjisky creates new urban landscapes that question our sense of perception. Introduction by Christophe Donner. Staple-bound; 20 heavy, plastic covered glossy pages; 12 full-page or full-spread color plates; 8 x 8 inches. Artist's biography. Peter Beard: 28 Pieces By Beard, Peter; Jerome Sans Paris: Gallerie Kamel Mennour, 2000. Paperback. SIGNED. Second edition. Near Fine paperback with French flaps with spots of rubbing at the spine and fore edge. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. The catalogue for an exhibition of work by Peter Beard, held at the Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris, in 2000. Photographs and mixed-media works by Peter Beard; essay by Jerome Sans in English and French. SIGNED BY BEARD on the first plate with a non-personalized inscription that includes his Nairobi address. Unpaginated [60 pages]; color plates throughout; 8 x 10.75 inches. Biography, list of plates (in French.) The Life and Times of Rosy Aster By Di Maio, Dan New York: Citadel, 1971. Paperback. First edition. Near Fine paperback with a couple light stress marks to the spine on the back and a touch of rubbing to the extremities. A very nice copy. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. An erotic story composed entirely of found cut-up letters and imagery. Story in collage by Dan Di Maio. Unpaginated [128 pages]; 58 monochrome plates printed in various colors recto only; 11 x 9 inches. How to Make Collages By Lynch, John New York: Viking Press, 1961. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Fine/As New cloth-bound hardcover with a very slight bow to the boards and text block in a Very Good+ dust jacket with touches of soiling and touches of rubbing to the extremities. A very nice copy. Note that the white line along the spine in our photo is the reflection of the flash. All dust jackets are protected by a clear mylar cover. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. A useful and informative volume on the making of collages of all sorts, profusely illustrated. Text by John Lynch with samples of his work and the works of other artists. 136 pages; 8 color plates + 104 b&w text illustrations; 6.25 x 9.25 inches. LAID-IN is 12-page article from 2009, Artforum magazine, on "the collage impulse today." Charles Henri Ford: Spare Parts By Ford, Charles Henri Athens: A New View Book, 1966. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Very Good hardcover with rubbing to the extremities, a small tear at the heel along the spine revealing the boards, and a short closed tear at one tip; lacking dj though not all copies were issued with one. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. An artist's book by Charles Henri Ford featuring his "Poem Posters:" word assemblages and collages of images and the residue of pop culture, all awash in psychedelic colors. "Earthy, elegant and alternating sexual references with advertising come-ons, the 'Poem Posters' were a particularly visual and outrageous form of concrete poetry." Ford was a poet, novelist, painter, and photographer; the life-long companion of the painter Pavel Tchelitchew; editor and publisher of the Surrealist art magazine View; and an exhibiting artist for much of his life. Unpaginated [ca. 100 pages of various weights and colors]; color throughout; 10 x 14 inches. #354 from an edition limited to 850 numbered copies (plus 100 hors d'commerce.) LAID-IN is an illustrated gallery exhibition announcement for a 2003 show of Ford's work, curated by Jack Pierson, a short essay on the artist, and an illustrated obituary on the artist. Due to size and weight, international and expedited shipping will be more than quoted. Bates: Cartoons by Bill Bates By Bates, Bill Indianapolis: Bobb-Merrill, 1964. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Fine, virtually as new, cloth-bound hardcover in a Near Fine dust jacket with two tiny tears and a touch of soiling. A very nice copy. All dust jackets are protected by a clear mylar cover. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. Collaged cartoons by Bill Bates. Unpaginated [ca. 100 pages]; full-page b&w illustrations throughout; 7.75 x 10.25 inches. Wilfred Satty: The Cosmic Bicycle By Satty, Wilfred; Thomas Albright San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1971. Paperback. First edition, first printing. Near Fine paperback with a slight curl to the covers and a one-inch abrasion at the edge of the front cover. A nice copy. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. Dark psychedelic collage work. Wilfred Satty (1939-1982) was one of the original underground/beat artists of 1960s San Francisco. He designed and illustrated posters for rock concerts, produced artwork for books, record albums, magazines and newspapers, and was featured in many gallery exhibitions. Essay by Thomas Albright. Unpaginated [160 pages]; 8 color and 79 b&w full-page illustrations; 9 x 12 inches. The True Life of Sweeney Todd: A Novel in Collage By de Charmoy, Cozette New York: Da Capo Press, 1977. Paperback. First paperback edition, first printing. Near Fine paperback with a hint of sunning in places and a thin strip of soiling to the back cover. A very nice copy, almost as new. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. The story of Sweeny Todd, the barber who slit his patrons throats and gave the bodies to his wife to make mincemeat pies, as told through collage using 19th century sources. Illustrations and text by Cozette de Charmoy. 94 pages; b&w illustrations throughout; 8.5 x 11 inches. Christy Rupp: Sacred/Scared, October 14 - November 13, 2004 By Rupp, Christy New York: Frederieke Taylor Gallery, 2004. Postcards. First edition. Fine postcard set. SHIPS THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING AND CARDBOARD. Six detachable 6x4-inch color postcards in an accordion-fold format. The front of each reproduces one of Christy Rupp's cut paper collages from the 2004 series "Globoloco: Made in America: Sacred/Scared." In response to the Bush Administration's attempt to redesign the Middle East, Rupp redesigned the stars and stripes to "pass" as icons for our Middle East partners. This set of postcards was issued in conjunction with an exhibition of Rupp's work entitled "GloboLoco" and held at the the Frederieke Taylor Gallery, NYC, October 14 - November 13, 2004. Michal Macku: Gellage, 1989 - 1999 By Macku, Michal New York: John Stevenson Gallery, nd [2000]. Pamphlet. First edition. Fine/As New pamphlet. SHIPS THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING AND CARDBOARD. 2 parts: Pamphlet; 2 loose sheets folded to produce 8 pages; 6-page biographical essay with 1 b&w illustration; 5.5 x 8.5 inches & Double-parallel-fold card stock gallery exhibition announcement/catalogue; 8 pages; 8 b&w illustrations, 6 full-page; 5.5 x 8.75 inches. The catalogue for a 10-year retrospective exhibition of the "gellage" photographs by the Czechoslavakian artist Michal Macku, held at the John Stevenson Gallery, NYC, March 15 - April 28, 2000. The "gellage" process involves dissolving and floating-off the gelatin silver layer from the paper backing of a print and then using the wet skin as a collage element. His subject is the male body. Lucy Williams: The Day the Earth Stood Still By Williams, Lucy New York: McKee Gallery, 2006. Paperback. First edition. Fine/As New paperback. SHIPS THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING AND CARDBOARD. Staple-bound stiff wraps; 20 pages; 13 full-page color plates + 2 text illustrations; 8 x 7 inches. Biography, exhibition history, bibliography, annotated listed of works in the exhibition. The catalogue for an exhibition of mixed media collages of modernist architecture by the British artist Lucy Williams. Aleksandra Mir: The Seduction of Galileo Galilei By Mir, Aleksandra; Carter E. Foster New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2011. Pamphlet. First edition. Fine/As New pamphlet with crisp gilt titling to front. SHIPS THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING AND CARDBOARD. Essay by Carter E. Foster. Staple-bound self-wrappers; 16 pages; 17 color reproductions of collages and installation activity; 6 x 8.5 inches. The gallery booklet for an exhibition of work by Aleksandra Mir, held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, October 20, 2011, through February 19, 2012. Maureen Mullarkey: Gutenberg Elegies By Mullarkey, Maureen New York: George Billis Gallery, 2007. Paperback. First edition. Fine paperback. SHIPS THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING AND CARDBOARD. Statement by the artist. Staple-bound stiff wraps; 22 pages; 10 full-page color plates; 8 x 8 inches. The catalogue for an exhibition of collages of book parts, found handwritten paper, etc. by Maureen Mullarkey, held at the George Billis Gallery, NYC, February 6 through March 3, 2007. LAID IN is the illustrated gallery exhibition announcement card and press release and price list. Lucy Williams: Glass Houses New York: McKee Gallery, 2010. Paperback. First edition. Fine/As New paperback. SHIPS THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING AND CARDBOARD. Staple-bound stiff wraps; 24 pages; 9 full-page color plates + a portrait of the artist; 8 x 7 inches. Biography, exhibition history, bibliography, annotated listed of works in the exhibition. The catalogue for an exhibition of mixed media collages of early modernist architecture by the British artist Lucy Williams. LAID IN is the gallery press release. C.K. Wilde: Tender By Wilde, C.K.; Mark Wagner; Peter Spagnuolo New York: Pavel Zoubok Gallery, nd [2010]. Paperback. First edition. Fine paperback. SHIPS THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING AND CARDBOARD. Essays by Mark Wagner and Peter Spagnuolo. Staple-bound stiff wraps; 19 pages; color reproductions throughout; 6 x 9 inches. The catalogue for an exhibition of the currency collages of C.K. Wilde, held at the Pavel Zoubok Gallery, NYC, October 14 - November 13, 2010. Lucas Samaras: Photofictions By Samaras, Lucas New York: PaceWildenstein, 2003. Paperback. First edition, first printing. Fine/As New paperback. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. Photographs and text by Lucas Samaras. 172 pages; 47 full-page color plates; 8 x 7 inches. The catalogue/artist's book published in conjunction with an exhibition of photo-collages and text-based art. Cameraworks By Hockney, David; Lawrence Weschler New York: Knopf, 1984. Hardcover. SIGNED. First American edition, first printing. Near Fine cloth-bound hardcover with a light bump to the heel and soiling/rubbing along the bottom edges of the boards in a Near Fine dust jacket with a hint of rubbing at the extremities and a touch of soiling at the edges. A very nice copy. All dust jackets are protected by a clear mylar cover. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. Photographs by David Hockney; text by Lawrence Weschler. 279 pages; 117 color plates + 53 text illustrations; 12 x 12 inches. SIGNED BY HOCKNEY AND WESCHLER; no inscription. The definitive collection of photo-collages by Hockney. Overseas sales and expedited shipping will require extra postage for this volume. Janet Malcom: Free Association By Malcom, Janet; Hilton Als New York: Lori Bookstein Fine Art, 2011. Pamphlet. First edition. NEW pamphlet. SHIPS THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING AND CARDBOARD. The catalogue for an exhibition of collages made by the journalist Janet Malcolm. "The collages began to form in the artist's mind when the papers of a psychiatrist who practiced in New York in the late 1940's and 1950's came into her possession. The extracts from case studies appear in combination with fragments from early 20th century medical, surgical, astronomical and technological texts, as well as appropriations from contemporary art, giving these works the atmosphere of dreams in which vaguely and somewhat disturbingly familiar times and places are evoked." Essay by Hilton Als; statement by Janet Malcolm. Staple-bound self-wrapper; 12 pages; 8 full-page color reproductions; 6 x 8.5 inches. By Smith, Alexis; Richard Armstrong; Amy Gerstler; David A. Ross New York: Whitney Museum of Art & Rizzoli, 1991. Hardcover. SIGNED. First edition, first printing. Moisture stain to the heel with staining to the bottom edges of the endpapers, otherwise Fine, in a Fine dust jacket with remains of a security sticker to the verso at the spine. All dust jackets are protected by a clear mylar cover. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. Artwork by Alexis Smith; text by Richard Armstrong; fictional biography by Amy Gerstler; foreword by David A. Ross. 244 pages; 191 color + 36 b&w reproductions; 8.5 x 10.75 inches. Exhibition history, bibliography, exhibition checklist. SIGNED BY SMITH opposite the title page, inscribed and dated in 2001. The catalogue for a traveling exhibition of Smith's collage work. Building on Dada, Surrealism, and Joseph Cornell, Smith uses the detritus of popular culture--pulp novels, postcards, road maps, movie stills, advertisements--to examine and remake 'America's soul'. LAID IN is a 10-panel, illustrated folded pamphlet from the Whitney exhibition with an essay, exhibition checklist, and list of events, as well as an illustrated 2001 exhibition announcement for a show at Lawrence Rubin/Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, NYC. Karl Blossfeldt: Working Collages By Blossfeldt, Karl; Ann Wilde; Jurgen Wilde; Ulrike Meyer Stump Cambridge, MA & London: MIT Press, 2001. Hardcover. First American edition, first printing. Fine blue cloth-bound hardcover with crisp silver title to spine in a Fine dust jacket, protected by a clear mylar cover. A very nice copy with no remainder mark. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. Photographs by Karl Blossfeldt; edited by Ann Wilde and Jurgen Wilde; introduction by Ulrike Meyer Stump. 145 pages; 61 color plates; 12.5 x 9.75 inches. This volume presents for the first time all 61 recently discovered collages by Blossfedt of photographic contact prints arranged to compare the graphic and aesthetic relation and similarity of the plant forms in his photographs. Overseas sales and expedited shipping will require extra postage for this volume.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line956
__label__wiki	0.718102	0.718102	English Fairy Tales - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham by Flora Annie Steel and Arthur Rackham This wonderful book of English Fairy Tales was collected and adapted by Flora Annie Steel in 1918. It includes the tales ‘Tom-Tit-Tot’, ‘Jack the Giant Killer’, ‘Tattercoats’, ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’, ‘Catskin’, ‘The Three Little Pigs’, ‘Dick Whittington and his Cat’, ‘The Little Red Riding Hood’, ‘Babes in the Wood’ and many more. This edition of ‘English Fairy Tales’ is accompanied throughout by a series of dazzling colour and black and white illustrations – by the master of the craft; Arthur Rackham (1867-1939). One of the most celebrated painters of the British Golden Age of Illustration (which encompassed the years from 1850 until the start of the First World War), Rackham’s artistry is quite simply, unparalleled. Throughout his career, he developed a unique style, combining haunting humour with dream-like romance. Presented alongside the text, his illustrations further refine and elucidate these wonderful fairy tales. Pook Press celebrates the great ‘Golden Age of Illustration‘ in children’s literature – a period of unparalleled excellence in book illustration from the 1880s to the 1930s. Our collection showcases classic fairy tales, children’s stories, and the work of some of the most celebrated artists, illustrators and authors. Publisher: Read Books Ltd.Released: Apr 16, 2013ISBN: 9781473383487Format: book Read More From Flora Annie Steel English Fairy Tales Flora Annie Steel Tales of the Punjab The Adventures of Akbar Byam Shaw The Forgotten Fairy Tale Genius of Édouard Laboulaye Tale As Old As Time: The Dark Appeal of 'Beauty And The Beast' Disney's new live-action extravaganza is just the latest retelling of this classic fairy tale. But why do Beauty and her Beast have such a hold on us? And why are there so many versions of their tale? To Your Left Is Coding, to Your Right Is Safety: Programming Stories 1. The logic of novice programming goes something like this: Run function (x, y) If x is greater than y: Do this Else if y is greater than x: Do that Else: Something else happens. I quickly learned that computers don’t like choice, and they don’t lik To Your Left Is Coding, to Your Right Is Safety Victor LaValle: Fairy Tales Redux Sweet, Generous 'Wild Things' Is A Playful Survey Of Kid Lit The Enduring Appeal of the Fairy-Tale Wedding A New Recipe For Old Tales The Original Little Mermaid Review: Old Fairy Tales Morph Into Modern Psychological Thrillers In The Compelling 'Tell Me A Story' 'Once And Forever' Turns Familiar Fairy-Tale Ideas Upside Down 'Spin The Dawn' Stitches Up A Fabulous Fantasy What Would Miss Rumphius Do? The Hate U Give Enters the Ranks of Great YA Novels Light And Dark, Characters Shine In 'Blanca & Roja' By the Book: Celeste Ng THE AUTHOR OF, MOST RECENTLY, ‘LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE,’ OFTEN RETURNS TO ‘THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO’: ‘RIGHT NOW, I SEE IT AS AN EXPLORATION OF THE COMPLEXITIES OF GOOD AND EVIL AND HOW EASILY ONE SHIFTS INTO THE OTHER.’ Q: What books are currently What Snow White and the Evil Queen Taught Me About Desire This Thing of Darkness: An Interview With Rachel Ingalls This Thing of Darkness You Can Never Go Back: On Loving Children’s Books as an Adult You Can Never Go Back Rediscovering Reading After Graduate School Nearly Destroyed It Writing Prompts and Exercises Suggested Reading: A Primer for Poets & Readers of Poetry (W. W. 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Its author, the editor and educator Nancy Larrick, noted that African-American children we Black Stories Matter Yang Inspires Young Readers In 2008 the Library of Congress, the Children’s Book Council, and the nonprofit organization Every Child a Reader established the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature position to celebrate and promote books for children and young adult r Mallory Ortberg On The Remixed Fairy Tales Of Her New Book 'The Merry Spinster' Call Cinderella Paul. Mallory Ortberg, co-founder of the dearly departed feminist website The Toast, Slate's "Dear Prudence," and the author of "Children's Stories Made Horrific" and "Texts from Jane Eyre," turns beloved fairy tales on their heads in Reading Racism in Dr. Seuss Stop Dismissing Inclusive Children’s Books as ‘Too Political’ English Fairy Tales - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham - Flora Annie Steel ST. GEORGE OF MERRIE ENGLAND IN the darksome depths of a thick forest lived Kalyb, the fell enchantress. Terrible were her deeds, and few there were who had the hardihood to sound the brazen trumpet which hung over the iron gate that barred the way to the Abode of Witchcraft. Terrible were the deeds of Kalyb; but above all things she delighted in carrying off innocent new-born babes, and putting them to death. And this, doubtless, she meant to be the fate of the infant son of the Earl of Coventry, who long long years ago was Lord High Steward of England. Certain it is that the babe’s father being absent, and his mother dying at his birth, the wicked Kalyb, with spells and charms, managed to steal the child from his careless nurses. But the babe was marked from the first for doughty deeds; for on his breast was pictured the living image of a dragon, on his right hand was a blood-red cross, and on his left leg showed the golden garter. And these signs so affected Kalyb, the fell enchantress, that she stayed her hand; and the child growing daily in beauty and stature, he became to her as the apple of her eye. Now, when twice seven years had passed the boy began to thirst for honourable adventures, though the wicked enchantress wished to keep him as her own. But he, seeking glory, utterly disdained so wicked a creature; thus she sought to bribe him. And one day, taking him by the hand, she led him to a brazen castle and showed him six brave knights, prisoners therein. Then said she: Lo! These be the six champions of Christendom. Thou shalt be the seventh and thy name shall be St. George of Merrie England if thou wilt stay with me. But he would not. Then she led him into a magnificent stable where stood seven of the most beautiful steeds ever seen. Six of these, said she, belong to the six Champions. The seventh and the best, the swiftest and the most powerful in the world, whose name is Bayard, will I bestow on thee, if thou wilt stay with me. Then she took him to the armoury, and with her own hand buckled on a corselet of purest steel, and laced on a helmet inlaid with gold. Then, taking a mighty falchion, she gave it into his hand, and said: This armour which none can pierce, this sword called Ascalon, which will hew in sunder all it touches, are thine; surely now thou wilt stop with me? Then she bribed him with her own magic wand, thus giving him power over all things in that enchanted land, saying: Surely now wilt thou remain here? But he, taking the wand, struck with it a mighty rock that stood by; and lo! it opened, and laid in view a wide cave garnished by the bodies of a vast number of innocent new-born infants whom the wicked enchantress had murdered. Thus, using her power, he bade the sorceress lead the way into the place of horror, and when she had entered, he raised the magic wand yet again, and smote the rock; and lo! it closed for ever, and the sorceress was left to bellow forth her lamentable complaints to senseless stones. Thus was St. George freed from the enchanted land, and taking with him the six other champions of Christendom on their steeds, he mounted Bayard and rode to the city of Coventry. Here for nine months they abode, exercising themselves in all feats of arms. So when spring returned they set forth, as knights errant, to seek for foreign adventure. And for thirty days and thirty nights they rode on, until, at the beginning of a new month, they came to a great wide plain. Now in the centre of this plain, where seven several ways met, there stood a great brazen pillar, and here, with high heart and courage, they bade each other farewell, and each took a separate road. Hence, St. George, on his charger Bayard, rode till he reached the seashore where lay a good ship bound for the land of Egypt. Taking passage in-her, after long journeying he arrived in that land when the silent wings of night were outspread, and darkness brooded on all things. Here, coming to a poor hermitage, he begged a night’s lodging, on which the hermit replied: Sir Knight of Merrie England—for I see her arms graven on thy breastplate—thou hast come hither in an ill time, when those alive are scarcely able to bury the dead by reason of the cruel destruction waged by a terrible dragon, who ranges up and down the country by day and by night. If he have not an innocent maiden to devour each day, he sends a mortal plague amongst the people. And this has not ceased for twenty and four years, so that there is left throughout the land but one maiden, the beautiful Sâbia, daughter to the King. And to-morrow must she die, unless some brave knight will slay the monster. To such will the King give his daughter in marriage, and the crown of Egypt in due time. For crowns I care not, said St. George boldly, but the beauteous maiden shall not die. I will slay the monster. So, rising at dawn of day, he buckled on his armour, laced his helmet, and with the falchion Ascalon in his hand, bestrode Bayard, and rode into the Valley of the Dragon. Now on the way he met a procession of old women weeping and wailing and in their midst the most beauteous damsel he had ever seen. Moved by compassion he dismounted, and bowing low before the lady entreated her to return to her father’s palace, since he was about to kill the dreaded dragon. Whereupon the beautiful Sâbia, thanking him with smiles and tears, did as he requested, and he, re-mounting, rode on his emprise. Now, no sooner did the dragon catch sight of the brave Knight than its leathern throat sent out a sound more terrible than thunder, and weltering from its hideous den, it spread its burning wings and prepared to assail its foe. Its size and appearance might well have made the stoutest heart tremble. From shoulder to tail ran full forty feet, its body was covered with silver scales, its belly was as gold, and through its flaming wings the blood ran thick and red. So fierce was its onset, that at the very first encounter the Knight was nigh felled to the ground; but recovering himself he gave the dragon such a thrust with his spear that the latter shivered to a thousand pieces; whereupon the furious monster smote him so violently with its tail that both horse and rider were overthrown. Now, by great good chance, St. George was flung under the shade of a flowering orange tree, whose fragrance hath this virtue in it, that no poisonous beast dare come within the compass of its branches. So there the valiant knight had time to recover his senses, until with eager courage he rose, and rushing to the combat, smote the burning dragon on his burnished belly with his trusty sword Ascalon; and thereinafter spouted out such black venom, as, falling on the armour of the Knight, burst it in twain. And ill might it have fared with St. George of Merrie England but for the orange tree, which once again gave him shelter under its branches, where, seeing the issue of the fight was in the Hands of the Most High, he knelt and prayed that such strength of body should be given him as would enable him to prevail. Then with a bold and courageous heart, he advanced again, and smote the fiery dragon under one of his flaming wings, so that the weapon pierced the heart, and all the grass around turned crimson with the blood that flowed from the dying monster. So St. George of England cut off the dreadful head and hanging it on a truncheon made of the spear which at the beginning of the combat had shivered against the beast’s scaly back, he mounted his steed Bayard, and proceeded to the palace of the King. Now the King’s name was Ptolemy, and when he saw that the dreaded dragon was indeed slain, he gave orders for the city to be decorated. And he sent a golden chariot with wheels of ebony and cushions of silk to bring St. George to the palace, and commanded a hundred nobles dressed in crimson velvet, and mounted on milk-white steeds richly caparisoned, to escort him thither with all honour, while musicians walked before and after, filling the air with sweetest sounds. Now the beautiful Sâbia herself washed and dressed the weary Knight’s wounds, and gave him in sign of betrothal a diamond ring of purest water. Then, after he had been invested by the King with the golden spurs of knighthood and had been magnificently feasted, he retired to rest his weariness, while the beautiful Sâbia from her balcony lulled him to sleep with her golden lute. So all seemed happiness; but alas! dark misfortune was at hand. Almidor, the black King of Morocco, who had long wooed the Princess Sâbia in vain, without having the courage to defend her, seeing that the maiden had given her whole heart to her champion, resolved to compass his destruction. So, going to King Ptolemy, he told him—what was perchance true—namely that the beauteous Sâbia had promised St. George to become Christian, and follow him to England. Now the thought of this so enraged the King that, forgetting his debt of honour, he determined on an act of basest treachery. Telling St. George that his love and loyalty needed further trial, he entrusted him with a message to the King of Persia, and forbade him either to take with him his horse Bayard or his sword Ascalon; nor would he even allow him to say farewell to his beloved Sâbia. St. George then set forth sorrowfully, and surmounting many dangers, reached the Court of the King of Persia in safety; but what was his anger to find that the secret missive he bore contained nothing but an earnest request to put the bearer of it to death. But he was helpless, and when sentence had been passed upon him, he was thrown into a loathly dungeon, clothed in base and servile weeds, and his arms strongly fettered up to iron bolts, while the roars of the two hungry lions who were to devour him ere long, deafened his ears. Now his rage and fury at this black treachery was such that it gave him strength, and with mighty effort he drew the staples that held his fetters; so being part free he tore his long locks of amber-coloured hair from his head and wound them round his arms instead of gauntlets. So prepared he rushed on the lions when they were let loose upon him, and thrusting his arms down their throats choked them, and thereinafter tearing out their very hearts, held them up in triumph to the gaolers who stood by trembling with fear. After this the King of Persia gave up the hopes of putting St. George to death, and, doubling the bars of the dungeon left him to languish therein. And there the unhappy Knight remained for seven long years, his thoughts full of his lost Princess; his only companions rats and mice and creeping worms, his only food and drink bread made of the coarsest bran and dirty water. At last one day, in a dark corner of his dungeon, he found one of the iron staples he had drawn in his rage and fury. It was half consumed with rust, yet it was sufficient in his hands to open a passage through the walls of his cell into the King’s garden. It was the time of night when all things are silent; but St. George, listening, heard the voices of grooms in the stables; which, entering, he found two grooms furnishing forth a horse against some business. Whereupon, taking the staple with which he had redeemed himself from prison, he slew the grooms, and mounting the palfrey rode boldly to the city gates where he told the watchman at the Bronze Tower, that St. George having escaped from the dungeon, he was in hot pursuit of him. Whereupon the gates were thrown open, and St. George, clapping spurs to his horse, found himself safe from pursuit before the first red beams of the sun shot up into the sky. Now, ere long, being most famished with hunger, he saw a tower set on a high cliff, and riding thitherward determined to ask for food. But as he neared the castle he saw a beauteous damsel in a blue and gold robe seated disconsolate at a window. Whereupon, dismounting he called aloud to her: Lady! If thou hast sorrow of thine own, succour one also in distress, and give me, a Christian Knight, now almost famished, one meal’s meat. To which she replied quickly: Sir Knight! Fly quickly an’ thou canst, for my lord is a mighty giant, a follower of Mahomed, who hath sworn to destroy all Christians. Hearing this St. George laughed loud and long. Go tell him then, fair dame, he cried, that a Christian Knight waits at his door, and will either satisfy his wants within his castle or slay the owner thereof. Now the giant no sooner heard this valiant challenge than he rushed forth to the combat, armed with a hugeous crowbar of iron. He was a monstrous giant, deformed, with a huge head, bristled like any boar’s, with hot, glaring eyes and a mouth equalling a tiger’s. At first sight of him St. George gave himself up for lost, not so much for fear, but for hunger and faintness of body. Still, commending himself to the Most High, he also rushed to the combat with such poor arms as he had, and with many a regret for the loss of his magic sword Ascalon. So they fought till noon, when, just as the champion’s strength was nigh finished, the giant stumbled on the root of a tree, and St. George, taking his chance, ran him through the mid-rib, so that he gasped and died. After which St. George entered the tower; whereat the beautiful lady, freed from her terrible lord, set before him all manner of delicacies and pure wine with which he sufficed his hunger, rested his weary body, and refreshed his horse. So, leaving the tower in the hands of the grateful lady, he went on his way, coming ere long to the Enchanted Garden of the necromancer Ormadine, where, embedded in the living rock, he saw a magic sword, the like of which for beauty he had never seen, the belt being beset with jaspers and sapphire stones, while the pommel was a globe of the purest silver chased in gold with these verses: My magic will remain most firmly bound Till that a knight from the far north be found To pull this sword from out its bed of stone. Lo! when he comes wise Ormadine must fall. Farewell, my magic power, my spell, my all. Seeing this St. George put his hand to the hilt thinking to essay pulling it out by strength; but lo! he drew it out with as much ease as though it had hung by a thread of untwisted silk. And immediately every door in the enchanted garden flew open, and the magician Ormadine appeared, his hair standing on end; and he, after kissing the hand of the champion, led him to a cave where a young man wrapped in a sheet of gold lay sleeping, lulled by the songs of four beautiful maidens. The Knight whom thou seest here, said the necromancer in a hollow voice, is none other than thy brother-in-arms, the Christian Champion St. David of Wales. He also attempted to draw my sword but failed. Him hast thou delivered from my enchantments since they come to an end. Now, as he spoke, came such a rattling of the skies, such a lumbering of the earth as never was, and in the twinkling of an eye the Enchanted Garden and all in it vanished from view, leaving the Champion of Wales, roused from his seven years’ sleep, giving thanks to St. George, who greeted his ancient comrade heartily. After this St. George of Merrie England travelled far and travelled fast, with many adventures by the way, to Egypt where he had left his beloved Princess Sâbia. But, learning to his great grief and horror from the same hermit he had met on first landing, that, despite her denials, her father, King Ptolemy, had consented to Almidor the black King of Morocco carrying her off as one of his many wives, he turned his steps towards Tripoli, the capital of Morocco; for he was determined at all costs to gain a sight of the dear Princess from whom he had been so cruelly rent. To this end he borrowed an old cloak of the hermit, and, disguised as a beggar, gained admittance to the gate of the Women’s Palace, where were gathered together on their knees many others, poor, frail, infirm. And when he asked them wherefore they knelt, they answered: Because good Queen Sâbia succours us that we may pray for the safety of St. George of England, to whom she gave her heart. Now when St. George heard this his own heart was like to break for very joy, and he could scarce keep on his knees when, lovely as ever, but with her face pale and sad and wan from long distress, the Princess Sâbia appeared clothed in deep mourning. In silence she handed an alms to each beggar in turn; but when she came to St. George she started and laid her hand on her heart. Then she said softly: Rise up, Sir Beggar! Thou art too like one who rescued me from death, for it to be meet for thee to kneel before me! Then St. George rising, and bowing low, said quietly: Peerless lady! Lo! I am that very knight to whom thou did’st condescend to give this. And with this he slipped the diamond ring she had given him on her finger. But she looked not at it, but at him, with love in her eyes. Then he told her of her father’s base treachery and Almidor’s part in it, so that her anger grew hot and she cried: Waste no more time in talk. I remain no longer in this detested place. Ere Almidor returns from hunting we shall have escaped. So she led St. George to the armoury, where he found his trusty sword Ascalon, and to the stable, where his swift steed Bayard stood ready caparisoned. Then, when her brave Knight had mounted, and she, putting her foot on his, had leapt like a bird behind him, St. George touched the proud beast lightly with his spurs, and, like an arrow from a bow, Bayard carried them together over city and plain, through woods and forests, across rivers, and mountains, and valleys, until they reached the Land of Greece. And here they found the whole country in festivity over the marriage of the King. Now amongst other entertainments was a grand tournament, the news of which had spread through the world. And to it had come all the other Six Champions of Christendom; so St. George arriving made the Seventh. And many of the champions had with them the fair lady they had rescued. St. Denys of France brought beautiful Eglantine, St. James of Spain sweet Celestine, while noble Rosalind accompanied St. Anthony of Italy. St. David of Wales, after his seven years’ sleep, came full of eager desire for adventure. St. Patrick of Ireland, ever courteous, brought all the six Swan - princesses who, in gratitude, had been seeking their deliverer St. Andrew of Scotland; since he, leaving all worldly things, had chosen to fight for the faith. So all these brave knights and fair ladies joined in the joyful jousting, and each of the Seven Champions was in turn Chief Challenger for a day. Now in the midst of all the merriment appeared a hundred heralds from a hundred different parts of the Paynim world, declaring war to the death against all Christians. Whereupon the Seven Champions agreed that each should return to his native land to place his dearest lady in safety, and gather together an army, and that six months later they should meet, and, joining as one legion, go forth to fight for Christendom. And this was done. So, having chosen St. George as Chief General they marched on Tripoli with the cry: "For Christendom we fight, For Christendom we die." Here the wicked Almidor fell in single combat with St. George, to the great delight of his subjects, who begged the Champion to be King in his stead. To this he consented, and, after he was crowned, the Christian host went on towards Egypt where King Ptolemy, in despair of vanquishing such stalwart knights, threw himself down from the battlements of the palace and was killed. Whereupon, in recognition of the chivalry and courtesy of the Christian Champions, the nobles offered the Crown to one of their number, and they with acclaim chose St. George of Merrie England. Thence the Christian host journeyed to Persia, where a fearsome battle raged for seven days, during which two hundred thousand pagans were slain, beside many who were drowned in attempting to escape. Thus they were compelled to yield, the Emperor himself happening into the hands of St. George, and six other viceroys into the hands of the six other Champions. And these were most mercifully and honourably entreated after they had promised to govern Persia after Christian rules. Now the Emperor, having a heart fraught with despite and tyranny, conspired against them, and engaged a wicked wizard named Osmond to so beguile six of the Champions that they gave up fighting, and lived an easy slothful life. But St. George would not be beguiled; neither would he consent to the enchantment of his brothers; and he so roused them that they never sheathed their swords nor unlocked their armour till the wicked Emperor and his viceroys were thrown into that very dungeon in which St. George had languished for seven long years. Whereupon St. George took upon himself the government of Persia, and gave the six other Champions the six viceroyalties. So, attired in a beautiful green robe, richly embroidered, over which was flung a scarlet mantle bordered with white fur and decorated with ornaments of pure gold, he took his seat on the throne which was supported by elephants of translucent alabaster. And the Heralds at arms, amid the shouting of the people, cried: Long live St. George of Merrie England, Emperor of Morocco, King of Egypt, and Sultan of Persia! Now, after that he had established good and just laws to such effect that innumerable companies of pagans flocked to become Christians, St. George, leaving the Government in the hands of his trusted counsellors, took truce with the world and returned to England, where, at Coventry, he lived for many years with the Egyptian Princess Sâbia, who	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line961
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Anarcho-capitalists believe that in the absence of statute (law by decree or legislation), society would improve itself through the discipline of the free market (or what its proponents describe as a "voluntary society").[6][7] In an anarcho-capitalist society, law enforcement, courts, and all other security services would be operated by privately funded competitors rather than centrally through compulsory taxation. Money, along with all other goods and services, would be privately and competitively provided in an open market. Therefore, personal and economic activities under anarcho-capitalism would be regulated by victim-based dispute resolution organizations under tort and contract law, rather than by statute through centrally determined punishment under political monopolies.[8] Various theorists have espoused legal philosophies similar to anarcho-capitalism. The first person to use the term, however, was Murray Rothbard, who in the mid-20th century synthesized elements from the Austrian School of economics, classical liberalism, and 19th-century American individualist anarchists Lysander Spooner and Benjamin Tucker (while rejecting their labor theory of value and the norms they derived from it).[9] A Rothbardian anarcho-capitalist society would operate under a mutually agreed-upon libertarian "legal code which would be generally accepted, and which the courts would pledge themselves to follow."[10] This pact would recognize self-ownership and the non-aggression principle (NAP), although methods of enforcement vary. Anarcho-capitalists are distinguished from minarchists, who advocate a small night-watchman state limited to the function of individual protection, and other anarchists who often seek to prohibit or regulate the accumulation of property and the flow of capital. 1.1 Ethics 1.2 Property 1.2.1 Private property 1.2.2 Common property 1.3 Economics 1.4 Contractual society 1.5 Law and order and the use of violence 2 Branches of anarcho-capitalism 3 Anarcho-capitalism and other anarchist schools 4.1 Classical liberalism 4.2 Nineteenth century individualist anarchism in the United States 5 Historical precedents similar to anarcho-capitalism 5.1 Medieval Iceland 5.2 American Old West 6 Anarcho-capitalist literature 6.1 Nonfiction 6.2 Fiction §Philosophy[edit] §Ethics[edit] Anarcho-capitalists argue for a society based on the voluntary trade of private property and services (in sum, all relationships not caused by threats or violence, including exchanges of money, consumer goods, land, and capital goods) in order to minimize conflict while maximizing individual liberty and prosperity. However, they also recognize charity and communal arrangements as part of the same voluntary ethic.[11] Though anarcho-capitalists are known for asserting a right to private (individualized or joint non-public) property, some propose that non-state public or community property can also exist in an anarcho-capitalist society.[12] For them, what is important is that it is acquired and transferred without help or hindrance from the compulsory state. Anarcho-capitalist libertarians believe that the only just, and/or most economically beneficial, way to acquire property is through voluntary trade, gift, or labor-based original appropriation, rather than through aggression or fraud.[13] Anarcho-capitalists see free-market capitalism as the basis for a free and prosperous society. Murray Rothbard said that the difference between free-market capitalism and "state capitalism" is the difference between "peaceful, voluntary exchange" and a collusive partnership between business and government that uses coercion to subvert the free market.[14] (Rothbard is credited with coining the term "Anarcho-capitalism").[15][16] "Capitalism," as anarcho-capitalists employ the term, is not to be confused with state monopoly capitalism, crony capitalism, corporatism, or contemporary mixed economies, wherein market incentives and disincentives may be altered by state action.[17] They therefore reject the state, seeing it as an entity which steals property (through taxation and expropriation), initiates aggression, has a compulsory monopoly on the use of force, uses its coercive powers to benefit some businesses and individuals at the expense of others, creates artificial monopolies, restricts trade, and restricts personal freedoms via drug laws, compulsory education, conscription, laws on food and morality, and the like. Many anarchists view capitalism as an inherently authoritarian and hierarchical system, and seek the expropriation of private property.[18] There is disagreement between these left anarchists and laissez-faire anarcho-capitalists,[19] as the former generally rejects anarcho-capitalism as a form of anarchism and considers anarcho-capitalism an oxymoron,[20][21][22] while the latter holds that such expropriation is counterproductive to order, and would require a state.[8] On the Nolan chart, anarcho-capitalists are located at the northernmost apex of the libertarian quadrant - since they reject state involvement in both economic and personal affairs.[23] Laissez-faire anarchists argue that the state is an initiation of force because force can be used against those who have not stolen private property, vandalized private property, assaulted anyone, or committed fraud. Many also argue that subsidized monopolies tend to be corrupt and inefficient. Anarchist theorist Rothbard argued that all government services, including defense, are inefficient because they lack a market-based pricing mechanism regulated by the voluntary decisions of consumers purchasing services that fulfill their highest-priority needs and by investors seeking the most profitable enterprises to invest in.[24] Many anarchists also argue that private defense and court agencies would have to have a good reputation in order to stay in business. Furthermore, Linda and Morris Tannehill argue that no coercive monopoly of force can arise on a truly free market and that a government's citizenry can't desert them in favor of a competent protection and defense agency.[25] Rothbard bases his philosophy on natural law grounds and also provides economic explanations of why he thinks anarcho-capitalism is preferable on pragmatic grounds as well. David D. Friedman says he is not an absolutist rights theorist but is also "not a utilitarian", however, he does believe that "utilitarian arguments are usually the best way to defend libertarian views".[26] Peter Leeson argues that "the case for anarchy derives its strength from empirical evidence, not theory."[27] Hans-Hermann Hoppe, meanwhile, uses "argumentation ethics" for his foundation of "private property anarchism",[28] which is closer to Rothbard's natural law approach. I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. Anarchists oppose the State because it has its very being in such aggression, namely, the expropriation of private property through taxation, the coercive exclusion of other providers of defense service from its territory, and all of the other depredations and coercions that are built upon these twin foci of invasions of individual rights. —Rothbard in Society and State Rothbard used the term anarcho-capitalism to distinguish his philosophy from anarchism that opposes private property,[29] as well as to distinguish it from other forms of individualist anarchism.[30] Other terms sometimes used for this philosophy, though not necessarily outside anarcho-capitalist circles, include: anti-state capitalism anti-state marketism capitalist anarchism free market anarchism individualist anarchism[31] natural order[32] ordered anarchy[32] polycentric law the private-law society[32] private-property anarchy[32] pure capitalism radical capitalism[32] stateless capitalism stateless liberalism Anarcho-capitalism, as formulated by Rothbard and others, holds strongly to the central libertarian nonaggression axiom: [...] The basic axiom of libertarian political theory holds that every man is a self owner, having absolute jurisdiction over his own body. In effect, this means that no one else may justly invade, or aggress against, another's person. It follows then that each person justly owns whatever previously unowned resources he appropriates or "mixes his labor with". From these twin axioms – self-ownership and "homesteading" – stem the justification for the entire system of property rights titles in a free-market society. This system establishes the right of every man to his own person, the right of donation, of bequest (and, concomitantly, the right to receive the bequest or inheritance), and the right of contractual exchange of property titles.[33] Rothbard's defense of the self-ownership principle stems from what he believed to be his falsification of all other alternatives, namely that either a group of people can own another group of people, or the other alternative, that no single person has full ownership over one's self. Rothbard dismisses these two cases on the basis that they cannot result in a universal ethic, i.e., a just natural law that can govern all people, independent of place and time. The only alternative that remains to Rothbard is self-ownership, which he believes is both axiomatic and universal.[34] In general, the nonaggression axiom can be said to be a prohibition against the initiation of force, or the threat of force, against persons (i.e., direct violence, assault, murder) or property (i.e., fraud, burglary, theft, taxation).[35] The initiation of force is usually referred to as aggression or coercion. The difference between anarcho-capitalists and other libertarians is largely one of the degree to which they take this axiom. Minarchist libertarians, such as most people involved in libertarian political parties, would retain the state in some smaller and less invasive form, retaining at the very least public police, courts and military; others, however, might give further allowance for other government programs. In contrast, anarcho-capitalists reject any level of state intervention, defining the state as a coercive monopoly and, as the only entity in human society that derives its income from legal aggression, an entity that inherently violates the central axiom of libertarianism.[34] Some anarcho-capitalists, such as Rothbard, accept the nonaggression axiom on an intrinsic moral or natural law basis. It is in terms of the non-aggression principle that Rothbard defined anarchism; he defined "anarchism as a system which provides no legal sanction for such aggression ['against person and property']" and said that "what anarchism proposes to do, then, is to abolish the State, i.e. to abolish the regularized institution of aggressive coercion."[36] In an interview published in the libertarian journal New Banner, Rothbard said that "capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism, and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism."[37] §Property[edit] §Private property[edit] Central to Rothbardian anarcho-capitalism are the concepts of self-ownership and original appropriation: Everyone is the proper owner of his own physical body as well as of all places and nature-given goods that he occupies and puts to use by means of his body, provided only that no one else has already occupied or used the same places and goods before him. This ownership of "originally appropriated" places and goods by a person implies his right to use and transform these places and goods in any way he sees fit, provided only that he does not change thereby uninvitedly the physical integrity of places and goods originally appropriated by another person. In particular, once a place or good has been first appropriated by, in John Locke's phrase, 'mixing one's labor' with it, ownership in such places and goods can be acquired only by means of a voluntary – contractual – transfer of its property title from a previous to a later owner.[38] Anarcho-capitalism uses the following terms in ways that may differ from common usage or various anarchist movements. Anarchism: any philosophy that opposes all forms of initiatory coercion (includes opposition to the State) Contract: a voluntary binding agreement between persons Coercion: physical force or threat of such against persons or property Capitalism: economic system where the means of production are privately owned, and where investments, production, distribution, income, and prices are determined through the operation of a free market rather than by government Free market: a market where all decisions regarding transfer of money, goods (including capital goods), and services are voluntary Fraud: inducing one to part with something of value through the use of dishonesty State: an organization that taxes and engages in regularized and institutionalized aggressive coercion Voluntary: any action not influenced by coercion or fraud perpetrated by any human agency This is the root of anarcho-capitalist property rights, and where they differ from collectivist forms of anarchism such as anarcho-communism where the means of production are controlled by the whole community and the product of labor is collectivized in a pool of goods and distributed "according to need." Anarcho-capitalists advocate individual or joint (i.e. private) ownership of the means of production and the product of labor regardless of what the individual "needs" or does not need. As Rothbard says, "if every man has the right to own his own body and if he must use and transform material natural objects in order to survive, then he has the right to own the product that he has made." After property is transformed through labor it may then only exchange hands legitimately by trade or gift; forced transfers are considered illegitimate. Original appropriation allows an individual to claim any never-before used resources, including land, and by improving or otherwise using it, own it with the same "absolute right" as his own body. According to Rothbard, property can only come about through labor, therefore original appropriation of land is not legitimate by merely claiming it or building a fence around it; it is only by using land – by mixing one's labor with it – that original appropriation is legitimized: "Any attempt to claim a new resource that someone does not use would have to be considered invasive of the property right of whoever the first user will turn out to be." Rothbard argues that the resource need not continue to be used in order for it to be the person's property, "for once his labor is mixed with the natural resource, it remains his owned land. His labor has been irretrievably mixed with the land, and the land is therefore his or his assigns' in perpetuity."[39] As a practical matter, in terms of the ownership of land, anarcho-capitalists recognize that there are few (if any) parcels of land left on Earth whose ownership was not at some point in time obtained in violation of the homestead principle, through seizure by the state or put in private hands with the assistance of the state. Rothbard says, It is not enough to call simply for defense of "the rights of private property"; there must be an adequate theory of justice in property rights, else any property that some State once decreed to be "private" must now be defended by libertarians, no matter how unjust the procedure or how mischievous its consequences.[30] Rothbard says in "Justice and Property Right" that "any identifiable owner (the original victim of theft or his heir) must be accorded his property." In the case of slavery, Rothbard says that in many cases "the old plantations and the heirs and descendants of the former slaves can be identified, and the reparations can become highly specific indeed." He believes slaves rightfully own any land they were forced to work on under the "homestead principle". If property is held by the state, Rothbard advocates its confiscation and return to the private sector: "any property in the hands of the State is in the hands of thieves, and should be liberated as quickly as possible." For example, he proposes that State universities be seized by the students and faculty under the homestead principle. Rothbard also supports expropriation of nominally "private property" if it is the result of state-initiated force, such as businesses who receive grants and subsidies. He proposes that businesses who receive at least 50% of their funding from the state be confiscated by the workers. He says, "What we libertarians object to, then, is not government per se but crime, what we object to is unjust or criminal property titles; what we are for is not "private" property per se but just, innocent, non-criminal private property." Likewise, Karl Hess says, "libertarianism wants to advance principles of property but that it in no way wishes to defend, willy nilly, all property which now is called private... Much of that property is stolen. Much is of dubious title. All of it is deeply intertwined with an immoral, coercive state system."[40] By accepting an axiomatic definition of private property and property rights, anarcho-capitalists deny the legitimacy of a state on principle: For, apart from ruling out as unjustified all activities such as murder, homicide, rape, trespass, robbery, burglary, theft, and fraud, the ethics of private property is also incompatible with the existence of a state defined as an agency that possesses a compulsory territorial monopoly of ultimate decision-making (jurisdiction) and/or the right to tax.[38] §Common property[edit] Though anarcho-capitalists assert a right to private property, some anarcho-capitalists also point out that common, i.e. community, property can exist by right in an anarcho-capitalist system. Just as an individual comes to own that which was unowned by mixing his labor with it or using it regularly, a whole community or society can come to own a thing in common by mixing their labor with it collectively, meaning that no individual may appropriate it as his own. This may apply to roads, parks, rivers, and portions of oceans.[12] Anarchist theorist Roderick Long gives the following example: Consider a village near a lake. It is common for the villagers to walk down to the lake to go fishing. In the early days of the community it's hard to get to the lake because of all the bushes and fallen branches in the way. But over time the way is cleared and a path forms – not through any coordinated efforts, but simply as a result of all the individuals walking by that way day after day. The cleared path is the product of labor – not any individual's labor, but all of them together. If one villager decided to take advantage of the now-created path by setting up a gate and charging tolls, he would be violating the collective property right that the villagers together have earned.[41] Nevertheless, since property that is owned collectively tends to lose the level of accountability found in individual ownership to the extent of the number of owners – and make consensus regarding property use and maintenance decisions proportionately less likely, anarcho-capitalists generally distrust and seek to avoid intentional communal arrangements. Privatization, decentralization, and individualization are often anarcho-capitalist goals. But in some cases, they not only provide a challenge, but are considered next to impossible. Established ocean routes, for example, are generally seen as unavailable for private appropriation. Anarcho-capitalists tend to concur with free-market environmentalists regarding the environmentally destructive tendencies of the state and other communal arrangements. Air, water, and land pollution, for example, are seen as the result of collectivization of ownership. Central governments generally strike down individual or class action censure of polluters in order to benefit "the many", and legal or economic subsidy of heavy industry is justified by many politicians for job creation within a political territory.[8] §Economics[edit] The Austrian school of economics argued against the viability of socialism and centrally planned economic policy. Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, a colleague of Austrian school founder Carl Menger, wrote one of the first critiques of socialism in his treatise The Exploitation Theory of Socialism-Communism. Later, Friedrich von Hayek wrote The Road to Serfdom, which states that a command economy lacks the information function of market prices, and that central authority over the economy leads to totalitarianism. Another Austrian economist, Ludwig von Mises, wrote Human Action, an early exposition of the method he called Praxeology. Murray Rothbard (1926–95). Rothbard attempted to meld Austrian economics with classical liberalism and individualist anarchism. He wrote his first paper advocating "private property anarchism" in 1949, and later came up with the alternative name anarcho-capitalism. He was probably the first to use libertarian in its current (U.S.) pro-capitalist sense. His academic training was in economics, but his writings also refer to history and political philosophy. When young, he considered himself part of the Old Right, an anti-statist and anti-interventionist branch of the Republican party. In the late 1950s, he was briefly involved with Ayn Rand, but later had a falling out. When interventionist cold warriors of the National Review, such as William F. Buckley, Jr., gained influence in the Republican party in the 1950s, Rothbard quit that group and briefly associated himself with left-wing antiwar groups. He believed that the cold warriors were more indebted in theory to the left and imperialist progressives, especially with respect to Trotskyist theory.[42] Rothbard initially opposed the founding of the Libertarian Party but joined in 1973 and became one of its leading activists. §Contractual society[edit] A postage stamp celebrating the thousandth anniversary of the Icelandic parliament. According to a theory associated with the economist David Friedman, medieval Icelandic society had some features of anarcho-capitalism. Chieftaincies could be bought and sold, and were not geographical monopolies; individuals could voluntarily choose membership in any chieftain's clan. The society envisioned by anarcho-capitalists has been called the Contractual Society – "... a society based purely on voluntary action, entirely unhampered by violence or threats of violence."[39] – in which anarcho-capitalists assert the system relies on voluntary agreements (contracts) between individuals as the legal framework. It is difficult to predict precisely what the particulars of this society will look like because of the details and complexities of contracts. One particular ramification is that transfer of property and services must be considered voluntarily on the part of both parties. No external entities can force an individual to accept or deny a particular transaction. An employer might offer insurance and death benefits to same-sex couples; another might refuse to recognize any union outside his or her own faith. Individuals are free to enter into or reject contractual agreements as they see fit. Rothbard points out that corporations would exist in a free society, as they are simply the pooling of capital. He says limited liability for corporations could also exist through contract: "Corporations are not at all monopolistic privileges; they are free associations of individuals pooling their capital. On the purely free market, such men would simply announce to their creditors that their liability is limited to the capital specifically invested in the corporation...."[39] Corporations created in this way would not, however, be able to replicate the limit on liabilities arising non-contractually, such as liability in tort for environmental disasters or personal injury, which corporations currently enjoy. Rothbard himself acknowledges that "limited liability for torts is the illegitimate conferring of a special privilege"[43] There are limits to the right to contract under some interpretations of anarcho-capitalism. Rothbard himself argues that the right to contract is based in inalienable human rights[34] and therefore any contract that implicitly violates those rights can be voided at will, which would, for instance, prevent a person from permanently selling himself or herself into unindentured slavery. Other interpretations conclude that banning such contracts would in itself be an unacceptably invasive interference in the right to contract.[44] Included in the right of contract is the right to contract oneself out for employment by others. Unlike anarcho-communists, anarcho-capitalists support the liberty of individuals to be self-employed or to contract to be employees of others, whichever they prefer and the freedom to pay and receive wages. Some anarcho-capitalists prefer to see self-employment prevail over wage labor. For example, David Friedman has expressed preference for a society where "almost everyone is self-employed" and "instead of corporations there are large groups of entrepreneurs related by trade, not authority. Each sells not his time, but what his time produces."[45] Others, such as Rothbard, do not express a preference either way but justify employment as a natural occurrence in a free market that is not immoral in any way. §Law and order and the use of violence[edit] Different anarcho-capitalists propose different forms of anarcho-capitalism, and one area of disagreement is in the area of law. Morris and Linda Tannehill, in The Market for Liberty, object to any statutory law whatsoever. They argue that all one has to do is ask if one is aggressing against another (see tort and contract law) in order to decide if an act is right or wrong.[46] However, Rothbard, while also supporting a natural prohibition on force and fraud, supports the establishment of a mutually agreed-upon centralized libertarian legal code which private courts would pledge to follow. Unlike both the Tannehills and Rothbard who see an ideological commonality of ethics and morality as a requirement, David Friedman proposes that "the systems of law will be produced for profit on the open market, just as books and bras are produced today. There could be competition among different brands of law, just as there is competition among different brands of cars."[47] Friedman says whether this would lead to a libertarian society "remains to be proven." He says it is a possibility that very unlibertarian laws may result, such as laws against drugs. But, he thinks this would be rare. He reasons that "if the value of a law to its supporters is less than its cost to its victims, that law...will not survive in an anarcho-capitalist society."[48] Anarcho-capitalists only accept collective defense of individual liberty (i.e., courts, military or police forces) insofar as such groups are formed and paid for on an explicitly voluntary basis. But, their complaint is not just that the state's defensive services are funded by taxation but that the state assumes it is the only legitimate practitioner of physical force. That is, it forcibly prevents the private sector from providing comprehensive security, such as a police, judicial, and prison systems to protect individuals from aggressors. Anarcho-capitalists believe that there is nothing morally superior about the state which would grant it, but not private individuals, a right to use physical force to restrain aggressors. Also, if competition in security provision were allowed to exist, prices would be lower and services would be better according to anarcho-capitalists. According to Molinari, "Under a regime of liberty, the natural organization of the security industry would not be different from that of other industries."[49] Proponents point out that private systems of justice and defense already exist, naturally forming where the market is allowed to compensate for the failure of the state: private arbitration, security guards, neighborhood watch groups, and so on.[50][51][52][53] These private courts and police are sometimes referred to generically as Private Defense Agencies (PDAs). The defense of those unable to pay for such protection might be financed by charitable organizations relying on voluntary donation rather than by state institutions relying on coercive taxation, or by cooperative self-help by groups of individuals.[54] Subrogation, which allows remuneration for losses and damages to be funded by the aggressors, reduces insurance costs and could operate as a business in itself – converting victims from paying customers into direct beneficiaries. The concept of Restitution Transfer and Recoupment (RTR) has been explored by freenation theorist John Frederic Kosanke.[55] RTR agencies would employ bonding agencies, private investigators, private dispute resolution organizations, and private aggressor containment agencies, as required. Instead of having to pay for restitution, victims sell restitution rights to the RTR agencies. This arrangement can be compared to the contractual nature of the Goðorð system employed in the Icelandic Commonwealth by competing chieftains. Edward Stringham argues that private adjudication of disputes could enable the market to internalize externalities and provide services that customers desire.[56][57] Murray Rothbard admired the American Revolutionary War and believed it is the only U.S. war that can be justified. Like classical liberalism, and unlike anarcho-pacifism, anarcho-capitalism permits the use of force, as long as it is in the defense of persons or property. The permissible extent of this defensive use of force is an arguable point among anarcho-capitalists. Retributive justice, meaning retaliatory force, is often a component of the contracts imagined for an anarcho-capitalist society. Some believe prisons or indentured servitude would be justifiable institutions to deal with those who violate anarcho-capitalist property relations, while others believe exile or forced restitution are sufficient.[58] Bruce L. Benson argues that legal codes may impose punitive damages for intentional torts in the interest of deterring crime. For instance, a thief who breaks into a house by picking a lock and is caught before taking anything would still owe the victim for violating the sanctity of his property rights. Benson opines that, despite the lack of objectively measurable losses in such cases, "standardized rules that are generally perceived to be fair by members of the community would, in all likelihood, be established through precedent, allowing judgments to specify payments that are reasonably appropriate for most criminal offenses."[59] The Tannehills raise a similar example, noting that a bank robber who had an attack of conscience and returned the money would still owe reparations for endangering the employees' and customers' lives and safety, in addition to the costs of the defense agency answering the teller's call for help. But the robber's loss of reputation would be even more damaging. Specialized companies would list aggressors so that anyone wishing to do business with a man could first check his record. The bank robber would find insurance companies listing him as a very poor risk, and other firms would be reluctant to enter into contracts with him.[60] One difficult application of defensive aggression is the act of revolutionary violence (including anarcho-capitalist revolution) against tyrannical regimes. Many anarcho-capitalists admire the American Revolution as the legitimate act of individuals working together to fight against tyrannical restrictions of their liberties. In fact, according to Rothbard, the American Revolutionary War was the only war involving the United States that could be justified.[61] Some anarcho-capitalists, such as Samuel Edward Konkin III, feel that violent revolution is counter-productive and prefer voluntary forms of economic secession to the extent possible. §Branches of anarcho-capitalism[edit] The two principal moral approaches to anarcho-capitalism differ in regard to whether anarcho-capitalist society is justified on deontological or consequentialist ethics, or both. Natural-law anarcho-capitalism (as advocated by Rothbard) holds that a universal system of rights can be derived from natural law. Some other anarcho-capitalists do not rely upon the idea of natural rights, but instead present economic justifications for a free-market capitalist society. Such a latter approach has been offered by David D. Friedman in The Machinery of Freedom.[62] Also unlike other anarcho-capitalists, most notably Rothbard, Friedman has never tried to deny the theoretical cogency of the neoclassical literature on "market failure", but openly applies the theory to both market and government institutions (see "government failure") to compare the net result. Nor has he been inclined to attack economic efficiency as a normative benchmark.[53] Kosanke sees such a debate as irrelevant since, in the absence of statutory law, the non-aggression principle (NAP) is naturally enforced, because individuals are automatically held accountable for their actions via tort and contract law. Communities of sovereign individuals naturally expel aggressors in the same way that ethical business practices are naturally required among competing businesses that are subject to the discipline of the marketplace. For him, the only thing that needs to be debated is the nature of the contractual mechanism that abolishes the state, or prevents it from coming into existence where new communities form.[8] §Anarcho-capitalism and other anarchist schools[edit] Main article: Anarchism and anarcho-capitalism Anarchism, in both its collectivist and individualist forms, is usually considered a radical left-wing and anti-capitalist ideology that promotes socialist economic theories such as communism, syndicalism, and mutualism.[63][64] These anarchists believe capitalism is incompatible with social and economic equality, and therefore do not recognize anarcho-capitalism as an anarchist school of thought.[65][66][67][68] In particular, they argue that capitalist transactions are not voluntary, and that maintaining the class structure of a capitalist society requires coercion, which is incompatible with an anarchist society.[62] Murray Rothbard argues that the capitalist system of today is, indeed, not properly anarchistic because it so often colludes with the state. According to Rothbard, "what Marx and later writers have done is to lump together two extremely different and even contradictory concepts and actions under the same portmanteau term. These two contradictory concepts are what I would call 'free-market capitalism' on the one hand, and 'state capitalism' on the other."[69] "The difference between free-market capitalism and state capitalism," writes Rothbard, "is precisely the difference between, on the one hand, peaceful, voluntary exchange, and on the other, violent expropriation." He continues, "State capitalism inevitably creates all sorts of problems which become insoluble."[69] Rothbard maintains that anarcho-capitalism is the only true form of anarchism—the only form of anarchism that could possibly exist in reality, as, he argues, any other form presupposes an authoritarian enforcement of political ideology, such as redistribution of private property.[70] According to this argument, the free market is simply the natural situation that would result from people being free from authority, and entails the establishment of all voluntary associations in society: cooperatives, non-profit organizations, businesses, etc. Moreover, anarcho-capitalists, as well as classical liberal minarchists, argue that the application of left-wing anarchist ideals would require an authoritarian body of some sort to impose it. In order to forcefully prevent people from accumulating private capital, there would necessarily be a redistributive organization of some sort which would have the authority to, in essence, exact a tax and re-allocate the resulting resources to a larger group of people. This body would thus inherently have political power and would be nothing short of a state. The difference between such an arrangement and an anarcho-capitalist system is precisely the voluntary nature of organization within anarcho-capitalism contrasted with a centralized ideology and a paired enforcement mechanism which would be necessary under a coercively egalitarian-anarchist system.[62] However, Rothbard also wrote a piece, published posthumously, entitled 'Are Libertarians "Anarchists"?' where he traced the etymological roots of Anarchist philosophy, ultimately coming to the conclusion that "...we find that all of the current anarchists are irrational collectivists, and therefore at opposite poles from our position. That none of the proclaimed anarchist groups correspond to the libertarian position, that even the best of them have unrealistic and socialistic elements in their doctrines", and furthermore, "We must therefore conclude that we are not anarchists, and that those who call us anarchists are not on firm etymological ground, and are being completely unhistorical. On the other hand, it is clear that we are not archists either: we do not believe in establishing a tyrannical central authority that will coerce the noninvasive as well as the invasive. Perhaps, then, we could call ourselves by a new name: nonarchist. "[71] §History[edit] §Classical liberalism[edit] Main article: Classical liberalism Classical liberalism is the primary influence with the longest history on anarcho-capitalist theory. Classical liberals have had two main themes since John Locke first expounded the philosophy: the liberty of man, and limitations of state power. The liberty of man was expressed in terms of natural rights, while limiting the state was based (for Locke) on a consent theory. In the 19th century, classical liberals led the attack against statism. One notable was Frédéric Bastiat (The Law), who wrote, "The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else." Henry David Thoreau wrote, "I heartily accept the motto, 'That government is best which governs least'; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe, 'That government is best which governs not at all'; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have."[72] The early liberals believed that the state should confine its role to protecting individual liberty and property, and opposed all but the most minimal economic regulations. The "normative core" of classical liberalism is the idea that in an environment of laissez-faire, a spontaneous order of cooperation in exchanging goods and services emerges that satisfies human wants.[73] Some individualists came to realize that the liberal state itself takes property forcefully through taxation in order to fund its protection services, and therefore it seemed logically inconsistent to oppose theft while also supporting a tax-funded protector. So, they advocated what may be seen as classical liberalism taken to the extreme by only supporting voluntarily funded defense by competing private providers. One of the first liberals to discuss the possibility of privatizing protection of individual liberty and property was France's Jakob Mauvillon in the 18th century. Later, in the 1840s, Julius Faucher and Gustave de Molinari advocated the same. Molinari, in his essay The Production of Security, argued, "No government should have the right to prevent another government from going into competition with it, or to require consumers of security to come exclusively to it for this commodity." Molinari and this new type of anti-state liberal grounded their reasoning on liberal ideals and classical economics. Historian and libertarian Ralph Raico argues that what these liberal philosophers "had come up with was a form of individualist anarchism, or, as it would be called today, anarcho-capitalism or market anarchism."[74] Unlike the liberalism of Locke, which saw the state as evolving from society, the anti-state liberals saw a fundamental conflict between the voluntary interactions of people – society – and the institutions of force – the State. This society versus state idea was expressed in various ways: natural society vs. artificial society, liberty vs. authority, society of contract vs. society of authority, and industrial society vs. militant society, just to name a few.[49] The anti-state liberal tradition in Europe and the United States continued after Molinari in the early writings of Herbert Spencer, as well as in thinkers such as Paul Émile de Puydt and Auberon Herbert. Later, in the early 20th century, the mantle of anti-state liberalism was taken by the Old Right. These were minarchists, anti-war, anti-imperialists, and (later) anti-New Dealers. Some of the most notable members of the Old Right were Albert Jay Nock, Rose Wilder Lane, Isabel Paterson, Frank Chodorov, Garet Garrett, and H. L. Mencken. In the 1950s, the new "fusion conservatism", also called "cold war conservatism", took hold of the right wing in the U.S., stressing anti-communism. This induced the libertarian Old Right to split off from the right, and seek alliances with the (now left-wing) antiwar movement, and to start specifically libertarian organizations such as the (U.S.) Libertarian Party. §Nineteenth century individualist anarchism in the United States[edit] Lysander Spooner (1808–87) Rothbard was influenced by the work of the 19th-century American individualist anarchists[75] (who were also influenced by classical liberalism). In the winter of 1949, influenced by several 19th century individualists anarchists, Rothbard decided to reject minimal state laissez-faire and embrace individualist anarchism.[76] Rothbard said in 1965[77] "Lysander Spooner and Benjamin T. Tucker were unsurpassed as political philosophers and nothing is more needed today than a revival and development of the largely forgotten legacy they left to political philosophy." However, he thought they had a faulty understanding of economics. The 19th century individualists had a labor theory of value, as influenced by the classical economists, but Rothbard was a student of Austrian Economics which does not agree with the labor theory of value. So, Rothbard sought to meld 19th-century American individualists' advocacy of free markets and private defense with the principles of Austrian economics: "There is, in the body of thought known as 'Austrian economics', a scientific explanation of the workings of the free market (and of the consequences of government intervention in that market) which individualist anarchists could easily incorporate into their political and social Weltanschauung".[78] Rothbard held that the economic consequences of the political system they advocate would not result in an economy with people being paid in proportion to labor amounts, nor would profit and interest disappear as they expected. Tucker thought that unregulated banking and money issuance would cause increases in the money supply so that interest rates would drop to zero or near to it. Rothbard disagreed with this, as he explains in The Spooner-Tucker Doctrine: An Economist's View. He says that first of all Tucker was wrong to think that that would cause the money supply to increase, because he says that the money supply in a free market would be self-regulating. If it were not, then inflation would occur, so it is not necessarily desirable to increase the money supply in the first place. Secondly, he says that Tucker is wrong to think that interest would disappear regardless, because people in general do not wish to lend their money to others without compensation so there is no reason why this would change just because banking was unregulated. Also, Tucker held a labor theory of value. As a result, he thought that in a free market that people would be paid in proportion to how much labor they exerted and that if they were not then exploitation or "usury" was taking place. As he explains in State Socialism and Anarchism, his theory was that unregulated banking would cause more money to be available and that this would allow proliferation of new businesses, which would in turn raise demand for labor. This led him to believe that the labor theory of value would be vindicated, and equal amounts of labor would receive equal pay. Again, as a neoclassical economist, Rothbard did not agree with the labor theory. He believed that prices of goods and services are proportional to marginal utility rather than to labor amounts in free market. And he did not think that there was anything exploitative about people receiving an income according to how much buyers of their services value their labor or what that labor produces. Benjamin Tucker opposed vast concentrations of wealth, which he believed were made possible by government intervention and state protected monopolies. He believed the most dangerous state intervention was the requirement that individuals obtain charters in order to operate banks and what he believed to be the illegality of issuing private money, which he believed caused capital to concentrate in the hands of a privileged few which he called the "banking monopoly." He believed anyone should be able to engage in banking that wished, without requiring state permission, and issue private money. Though he was supporter of laissez-faire, late in life he said that State intervention had allowed some extreme concentrations of resources to such a degree that even if laissez-faire were instituted, it would be too late for competition to be able to release those resources (he gave Standard Oil as an example).[79] Anarcho-capitalists also oppose governmental restrictions on banking. They, like all Austrian economists, believe that monopolization is facilitated and expanded through government intervention. 19th-century American individualist anarchists such as Tucker and Lysander Spooner have long argued that monopoly on credit and land interferes with the functioning of a free market economy. Of particular importance to anarcho-capitalists and Tucker and Spooner are the ideas of "sovereignty of the individual", a market economy, and the opposition to collectivism. A defining point upon which they agree is that defense of liberty and property should be provided in the free market rather than by the State. Tucker said, "[D]efense is a service like any other service; that it is labor both useful and desired, and therefore an economic commodity subject to the law of supply and demand; that in a free market this commodity would be furnished at the cost of production; that, competition prevailing, patronage would go to those who furnished the best article at the lowest price; that the production and sale of this commodity are now monopolized by the State; and that the State, like almost all monopolists, charges exorbitant prices."[80] §Historical precedents similar to anarcho-capitalism[edit] §Medieval Iceland[edit] This section relies largely or entirely upon a single source. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources. (October 2014) 19th century interpretation of the Althing in the Icelandic Commonwealth, which authors such as David Friedman and Roderick Long believe to have some features of anarcho-capitalist society. According to the libertarian theorist David D. Friedman, "Medieval Icelandic institutions have several peculiar and interesting characteristics; they might almost have been invented by a mad economist to test the lengths to which market systems could supplant government in its most fundamental functions."[81] While not directly labeling it anarcho-capitalist, he argues that the Icelandic Commonwealth between 930 and 1262 had "some features" of an anarcho-capitalist society – while there was a single legal system, enforcement of law was entirely private and highly capitalist; and so provides some evidence of how such a society would function. "Even where the Icelandic legal system recognized an essentially "public" offense, it dealt with it by giving some individual (in some cases chosen by lot from those affected) the right to pursue the case and collect the resulting fine, thus fitting it into an essentially private system."[81] §American Old West[edit] According to the research of Terry L. Anderson and P. J. Hill, the Old West in the United States in the period of 1830 to 1900 was similar to anarcho-capitalism in that "private agencies provided the necessary basis for an orderly society in which property was protected and conflicts were resolved," and that the common popular perception that the Old West was chaotic with little respect for property rights is incorrect.[82] Since squatters had no claim to western lands under federal law, extra-legal organizations formed to fill the void. Benson explains:[83] The land clubs and claim associations each adopted their own written contract setting out the laws that provided the means for defining and protecting property rights in the land. They established procedures for registration of land claims, as well as for protection of those claims against outsiders, and for adjudication of internal disputes that arose. The reciprocal arrangements for protection would be maintained only if a member complied with the association's rules and its court's rulings. Anyone who refused would be ostracized. Boycott by a land club meant that an individual had no protection against aggression other than what he could provide himself. According to Anderson, "Defining anarcho-capitalist to mean minimal government with property rights developed from the bottom up, the western frontier was anarcho-capitalistic. People on the frontier invented institutions that fit the resource constraints they faced."[84] §Anarcho-capitalist literature[edit] Main article: Anarcho-capitalist literature §Nonfiction[edit] The following is a partial list of notable nonfiction works discussing anarcho-capitalism. Murray Rothbard founder of anarcho-capitalism: Man, Economy, and State Austrian micro– and macroeconomics, Power and Market Classification of State economic interventions, The Ethics of Liberty Moral justification of a free society For a New Liberty An outline of how an anarcho-capitalist society could work David D. Friedman, The Machinery of Freedom Classic consequentialist defense of anarchism Michael Huemer, The Problem of Political Authority, a lengthy defense of philosophical and political anarchism (with the latter version being of the anarcho-capitalistic variety) drawing on a mix of natural rights and consequentialist arguments Linda and Morris Tannehill, The Market for Liberty Classic on Private defense agencies Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Anarcho-Capitalism: An Annotated Bibliography The Economics and Ethics of Private Property A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism Democracy: The God That Failed Frédéric Bastiat, The Law Radical classical liberalism. Precursor to anarcho-capitalism. Bruce L. Benson: The Enterprise of Law: Justice Without The State To Serve and Protect: Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice James Dale Davidson & William Rees-Mogg, The Sovereign Individual Historians look at technology and its implications Auberon Herbert, The Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State Albert Jay Nock, Our Enemy the State Oppenheimer's thesis applied to early US history Stefan Molyneux, Universally Preferable Behavior: A Rational Proof of Secular Ethics[self-published source] Everyday Anarchy[self-published source] Practical Anarchy[self-published source] Herbert Spencer, Social Statics Includes the essay "The Right to Ignore the State". Spencer was not an anarcho-capitalist, however many of his ideas, including the Law of Equal Freedom, were precursors to modern anarcho-capitalism. George H. Smith, "Justice Entrepreneurship in a Free Market" Examines the Epistemic and entrepreneurial role of Justice agencies. Edward P. Stringham, Anarchy and the Law: The Political Economy of Choice 700 page book presenting the major arguments historical studies about anarcho capitalism. Robert Paul Wolff, In Defense of Anarchism, influential defence of anarchism within contemporary analytical philosophy. Wolff is not an anarcho-capitalist and has expressly repudiated this interpretation of his work. He instead favors social anarchism and an antiauthoritarian Marxist critique of capitalism; however, his book is often cited by anarcho-capitalists. §Fiction[edit] Anarcho-capitalism has been examined in certain works of literature, particularly science fiction. An early example is Robert A. Heinlein's 1966 novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, in which he explores what he terms "rational anarchism". A contemporary anarcho-capitalistic work of science fiction is John C. Wright's The Golden Age.[citation needed] In The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson the Discordian Society headed by the character Hagbard Celine is anarcho-capitalist. The manifesto of the society in the novel 'Never Whistle While You're Pissing' contains Celine's Laws, three laws regarding government and social interaction.[citation needed] Cyberpunk and postcyberpunk authors have been particularly fascinated by the idea of the breakdown of the nation-state. Several stories of Vernor Vinge, including Marooned in Realtime and Conquest by Default, feature anarcho-capitalist societies, sometimes portrayed in a favorable light, and sometimes not.[85] Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash and The Diamond Age, Max Barry's Jennifer Government and L. Neil Smith's The Probability Broach all explore anarcho-capitalist ideas. The cyberpunk portrayal of anarchy varies from the downright grim to the cheerfully optimistic, and it need not imply anything specific about the writer's political views. Neal Stephenson, in particular, refrains from sweeping political statements when deliberately provoked.[86][87] Ken MacLeod's Fall Revolution series explores the future consequences of the breakdown of current political systems within a revolutionary context. The second novel of the series The Stone Canal deals specifically with an anarcho-capitalist society and explores issues of self-ownership, privatization of police and courts of law, and the consequences of a contractual society.[citation needed] In Matt Stone's (Richard D. Fuerle) novelette On the Steppes of Central Asia[88] an American grad student is invited to work for a newspaper in Mongolia, and discovers that the Mongolian society is indeed stateless in a semi-anarcho-capitalist way. The novelette was originally written to advertise Fuerle's 1986 economics treatise The Pure Logic of Choice. J. Neil Schulman's novel Alongside Night involves the occurrence of the achievement of a market anarchist society through agorism.[citation needed] Sharper Security: A Sovereign Security Company Novel, part of a series by Thomas Sewell, is "set a couple of decades into the near-future with a liberty view of society based on individual choice and free market economics"[89] and features a society where individuals hire a security company to protect and insure them from crime. The security companies are sovereign, but customers are free to switch between them. They behave as a combination of insurance/underwriting and para-military police forces. Anarcho-capitalist themes abound, including an exploration of not honoring sovereign immunity, privately owned road systems, a laissez faire market and competing currencies. Sandy Sandfort's, Scott Bieser's and Lee Oaks's Webcomic Escape from Terra, examines a market anarchy based on Ceres and its interaction with the aggressive statist society on Terra.[90] Lawless regions of space in Eve Online can exhibit anarcho-capitalism. Player-run corporations are responsible for the protection of their own assets such as space stations, space-based factories, and mineral-rich asteroid belts from other player-run corporations competing for control of these resources. Great power is wielded by corporations that can import or manufacture the spaceships and weapons required to enforce their control over territory. Since scams, theft, and espionage are not against the game rules and it is the responsibility of corporations to police their own members.[citation needed] §See also[edit] Anarcho-capitalist symbolism Anarcho-capitalism and minarchism Anarchism and capitalism Criticisms of anarcho-capitalism Stateless society §References[edit] Jump up ^ "Flags of political parties (Sweden)". FOTW Flags Of The World website. Retrieved 2014-10-30. Jump up ^ Edward Stringham, Anarchy and the law: the political economy of choice, p. 504 Jump up ^ Roderick T. Long, Tibor R. Machan, Anarchism/minarchism: is a government part of a free country?, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2008, Preface, ISBN 978-0-7546-6066-8, ISBN 978-0-7546-6066-8 Jump up ^ Anarchy and the Law: The Political Economy of Choice, by Edward Stringham. Transaction Publishers, 2007 Jump up ^ Casey, Gerard (2012). Libertarian Anarchy: Against the State. Continuum International Publishing. p. 62. "The form of anarchism that accepts this radical notion of freedom, our freedom to bind ourselves, I call libertarian anarchism. The term 'anarcho-capitalism' is used by some to name the position I am defending here." ISBN 978-1441144676 Jump up ^ Morris, Andrew (2008). "Anarcho-capitalism". In Hamowy, Ronald. The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE; Cato Institute. pp. 13–4. ISBN 978-1-4129-6580-4. LCCN 2008009151. OCLC 750831024. Jump up ^ Edward Stringham, Anarchy and the law: the political economy of choice, p 51 ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Review of Kosanke's Instead of Politics – Don Stacy" Libertarian Papers VOL. 3, ART. NO. 3 (2011) Jump up ^ "A student and disciple of the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises, Rothbard combined the laissez-faire economics of his teacher with the absolutist views of human rights and rejection of the state he had absorbed from studying the individualist American anarchists of the 19th century such as Lysander Spooner and Benjamin Tucker." Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Political Thought, 1987, ISBN 978-0-631-17944-3, p. 290 Jump up ^ Rothbard, Murray. For A New Liberty. 12 The Public Sector, III: Police, Law, and the Courts Jump up ^ Hess, Karl. The Death of Politics. Interview in Playboy Magazine, March 1969 ^ Jump up to: a b Holcombe, Randall G., Common Property in Anarcho-Capitalism, Journal of Libertarian Studies, Volume 19, No. 2 (Spring 2005):3–29. Jump up ^ Avrich, Paul. Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America, Abridged Paperback Edition (1996), p. 282 Jump up ^ Rothbard, Murray N., A Future of Peace and Capitalism; Murray N. 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(1982) "Law, Property Rights, and Air Pollution" Cato Journal 2, No. 1 (Spring 1982): pp. 55–99. Retrieved 20 May 2005 ^ Jump up to: a b c Rothbard, Murray N. (1982) The Ethics of Liberty Humanities Press ISBN 978-0-8147-7506-6 p. 162 Retrieved 20 May 2005 Jump up ^ Rothbard, Murray N. (1973) For a new Liberty Collier Books, A Division of Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., New York: pp. 24–25. Retrieved 20 May 2005 Jump up ^ Rothbard, Murray N. (1975) Society Without A State (pdf) Libertarian Forum newsletter (January 1975) Jump up ^ Exclusive Interview With Murray Rothbard The New Banner: A Fortnightly Libertarian Journal (25 February 1972) ^ Jump up to: a b Hoppe, Hans-Hermann (2002) "Rothbardian Ethics" Retrieved 23 May 2005 ^ Jump up to: a b c Rothbard, Murray N. (1962) Ludwig von Mises Institute Man, Economy & State with Power and Market Ludwig von Mises Institute ISBN 978-0-945466-30-7 ch. 2 Retrieved 19 May 2005 Jump up ^ Hess, Karl (1969) Letter From Washington The Libertatian Forum Vol. I, No. VI (15 June 1969) Retrieved 5 August 2006 Jump up ^ Long, Roderick T. 199. "A Plea for Public Property." Formulations 5, no. 3 (Spring) Jump up ^ Rothbard, Murray N. LewRockwell.com. Retrieved 10 September 2006. Jump up ^ Rothbard, Murray N. (1962) Man, Economy & State with Power and Market, Mises.org Jump up ^ Nozick, Robert (1973) Anarchy, State, and Utopia Jump up ^ Friedman, David. The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism. Harper & Row. pp. 144–45 Jump up ^ Brown, Susan Love, The Free Market as Salvation from Government: The Anarcho-Capitalist View, Meanings of the Market: The Free Market in Western Culture, edited by James G. Carrier, Berg/Oxford, 1997, p. 113. Jump up ^ Friedman, David. The Machinery of Freedom. Second edition. La Salle, Ill, Open Court, pp. 116–17. ^ Jump up to: a b Molinari, Gustave de (1849) The Production of Security (trans. J. Huston McCulloch)'.' Retrieved 15 July 2006. Archived 30 July 2007 at WebCite Jump up ^ Stringham, Edward; Curott, Nicholas (2010). "The Rise of Government Law Enforcement in England". THE PURSUIT OF JUSTICE: LAW AND ECONOMICS OF LEGAL INSTITUTIONS, Edward Lopez, ed., Independent Institute 2010. Jump up ^ Stringham, Edward (Winter 1998–1999). "Market Chosen Law". Journal of Libertarian Studies 14 (1): 53–77. Retrieved 8 January 2015. Jump up ^ Stringham, Edward; Zywicki, Todd (November 5, 2005). "Rivalry and Superior Dispatch: An Analysis of Competing Courts in Medieval and Early Modern England". George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper 10 (57). doi:10.2139/ssrn.1703598. Retrieved 8 January 2015. ^ Jump up to: a b Friedman, David D. (1973) The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism Harper & Row ISBN 978-0-06-091010-5 ch29 Archived 10 January 2011 at WebCite Jump up ^ Rothbard, Murray N. (1973) For a new Liberty Collier Books, A Division of Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., New York: p. 223. Retrieved 5 August 2006. Jump up ^ "Restitution_Transfer_and_Recoupment". Jump up ^ Stringham, Edward (2015). Private Governance. Oxford University Press. \|accessdate= requires \|url= (help) Jump up ^ Caplan, Bryan; Stringham, Edward (2008). "Privatizing the Adjudication of Disputes". Theoretical Inquiries in Law 9 (2): 503–528. Jump up ^ O'Keeffe, Matthew (1989) "Retribution versus Restitution" Legal Notes No. 5, Libertarian Alliance ISBN 978-1-870614-22-1 Retrieved 19 May 2005 Jump up ^ Benson, Bruce (1998). To Serve and Protect: Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice. NYU Press. pp. 235–238. ISBN 978-0-8147-1327-3. Jump up ^ Tannehill, Linda and Morris (1993). The Market for Liberty. San Francisco: Fox & Wilkes. pp. 105–106. ISBN 978-0-930073-08-4. Retrieved 30 June 2011. Jump up ^ Rothbard, Murray N. (1973) Interview Reason February 1973. Retrieved 10 August 2005. ^ Jump up to: a b c Tame, Chris R. October 1983. The Chicago School: Lessons from the Thirties for the Eighties. Economic Affairs. p. 56 Jump up ^ Brooks, Frank H. (1994). The Individualist Anarchists: An Anthology of Liberty (1881–1908). Transaction Publishers. p. xi. ISBN 1-56000-132-1. Usually considered to be an extreme left-wing ideology, anarchism has always included a significant strain of radical individualism, from the hyperrationalism of Godwin, to the egoism of Stirner, to the libertarians and anarcho-capitalists of today Jump up ^ Joseph Kahn (2000). "Anarchism, the Creed That Won't Stay Dead; The Spread of World Capitalism Resurrects a Long-Dormant Movement". The New York Times (5 August). Colin Moynihan (2007). "Book Fair Unites Anarchists. In Spirit, Anyway". New York Times (16 April). Jump up ^ Marshall, Peter (2008). Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism. London: Harper Perennial. p. 565. "In fact, few anarchists would accept the 'anarcho-capitalists' into the anarchist camp since they do not share a concern for economic equality and social justice, Their self-interested, calculating market men would be incapable of practising voluntary co-operation and mutual aid. Anarcho-capitalists, even if they do reject the State, might therefore best be called right-wing libertarians rather than anarchists." Jump up ^ Newman, Saul (2010). The Politics of Postanarchism. Edinburgh University Press. p. 43. "It is important to distinguish between anarchism and certain strands of right-wing libertarianism which at times go by the same name (for example, Rothbard's anarcho-capitalism)." ISBN 0748634959 Jump up ^ McKay, Iain (2008). "Section F – Is 'anarcho'-capitalism a type of anarchism?" An Anarchist FAQ: Volume 1. Oakland/Edinburgh: AK Press. ISBN 9781902593906 Jump up ^ Goodway, David (2006). Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow: Left Libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. p. 4. "'Libertarian' and 'libertarianism' are frequently employed by anarchists as synonyms for 'anarchist' and 'anarchism', largely as an attempt to distance themselves from the negative connotations of 'anarchy' and its derivatives. The situation has been vastly complicated in recent decades with the rise of anarcho-capitalism, 'minimal statism' and an extreme right-wing laissez-faire philosophy advocated by such theorists as Rothbard and Nozick and their adoption of the words 'libertarian' and 'libertarianism'. It has therefore now become necessary to distinguish between their right libertarianism and the left libertarianism of the anarchist tradition." ^ Jump up to: a b Rothbard, Murray N (1973). "A Future of Peace and Capitalism". James H. Weaver, ed., Modern Political Economy. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. pp. 419–30. Jump up ^ Rothbard, Murray N (25 February 1972). Exclusive Interview With Murray Rothbard. The New Banner: A Fortnightly Libertarian Journal. Jump up ^ "Mises Daily". Mises Institute. Jump up ^ Thoreau, Henry David (1849) Civil Disobedience Jump up ^ Razeen, Sally. Classical Liberalism and International Economic Order: Studies in Theory and Intellectual History, Routledge (UK) ISBN 978-0-415-16493-1, 1998, p. 17 Jump up ^ Raico, Ralph (2004) Authentic German Liberalism of the 19th century Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de Recherce en Epistemologie Appliquee, Unité associée au CNRS Jump up ^ "...only a few individuals like Murray Rothbard, in Power and Market, and some article writers were influenced by these men. Most had not evolved consciously from this tradition; they had been a rather automatic product of the American environment." DeLeon, David. The American as Anarchist: Reflections on Indigenous Radicalism. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978, p. 127 Jump up ^ Gordon, David. The Essential Rothbard. Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2007. pp. 12–13. Jump up ^ "The Spooner-Tucker Doctrine: An Economist's View." A Way Out. May–June 1965. Later republished in Egalitarianism As A Revolt Against Nature by Rothbard, 1974. Later published in Journal of Libertarian Studies, 2000. The Spooner-Tucker Doctrine: An Economist's View Jump up ^ "The Spooner-Tucker Doctrine: An Economist's View, Journal of Libertarian Studies, vol. 20, no. 1, p. 7 (1965, 2000) Jump up ^ Tucker, Benjamin. State Socialism and Anarchism Jump up ^ Tucker, Benjamin. "Instead of a Book" (1893) ^ Jump up to: a b Friedman, David D. (1979) Private Creation and Enforcement of Law: A Historical Case. Retrieved 12 August 2005. Jump up ^ Anderson, Terry L. and Hill, P. J. An American Experiment in Anarcho-Capitalism: The Not So Wild, Wild West, The Journal of Libertarian Studies Jump up ^ Benson, Bruce L. (1998). "Private Justice in America". To Serve and Protect: Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice. New York: New York University Press. p. 101. ISBN 978-0-8147-1327-3. Jump up ^ Probasco, Christian (18 June 2008). "Grilling Terry L. Anderson, Free-Market Environmentalist". New West. Jump up ^ Henry, Jim. "Reviews by Jim Henry: Vernor Vinge". Retrieved Mar 17, 2011. Jump up ^ Godwin, Mike; Neal Stephenson (February 2005). "Neal Stephenson's Past, Present, and Future; The author of the widely praised Baroque Cycle on science, markets, and post-9/11 America" (print article). Reason (magazine). Archived from the original on 10 August 2007. Retrieved 11 August 2007. Jump up ^ Roblimo; Neal Stephenson (20 October 2004). "Neal Stephenson Responds With Wit and Humor" (email exchange). Slashdot. Retrieved 11 August 2007. Jump up ^ "On the Steppes of Central Asia". Retrieved 10 February 2008. Jump up ^ "Sharper Security Series". Catallaxy Media. Retrieved 23 November 2012. Jump up ^ "Big Head Press – Thoughtful Stories, Graphic Novels Online And In Print – Escape From Terra – by Sandy Sandfort, Scott Bieser, Leila Del Duca and Lee Oaks!". Escape From Terra. Archived from the original on 15 May 2011. Retrieved 22 April 2011. §Further reading[edit] Sources that consider anarcho-capitalism a form of individualist anarchism Alan and Trombley, Stephen (Eds.) Bullock, The Norton Dictionary of Modern Thought, W. W. Norton & Company (1999), p. 30 Outhwaite, William. The Blackwell Dictionary of Modern Social Thought, entrada: Anarchism, pp. 13–14, 21. 2002 Bottomore, Tom. Entrada: Dictionary of Marxist Thought, Anarchism, p. 21 1991. Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Political Thought, 1991, ISBN 978-0-631-17944-3, p. 11 Barry, Norman. Modern Political Theory, 2000, Palgrave, p. 79 Adams, Ian. Political Ideology Today, Manchester University Press (2002) ISBN 978-0-7190-6020-5, p. 135 Grant, Moyra. Key Ideas in Politics, Nelson Thomas 2003 ISBN 978-0-7487-7096-0, p. 91 Heider, Ulrike. Anarchism: Left, Right, and Green, City Lights, 1994. p. 3. Ostergaard, Geoffrey. Resisting the Nation State – the anarchist and pacifist tradition, Anarchism As A Tradition of Political Thought. Peace Pledge Union Publications Avrich, Paul. Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America, Abridged Paperback Edition (1996), p. 282 Brooks, Frank H. (ed) (1994) The Individualist Anarchists: An Anthology of Liberty (1881–1908), Transaction Publishers, Prefacio p. xi Sheehan, Sean. Anarchism, Reaktion Books, 2004, p. 39 Tormey, Simon. Anti-Capitalism, One World, 2004, pp. 118–19 Raico, Ralph. Authentic German Liberalism of the 19th Century, Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de Recherce en Epistemologie Appliquee, Unité associée au CNRS, 2004 Offer, John. Herbert Spencer: Critical Assessments, Routledge (UK) (2000), p. 243 Busky, Donald. Democratic Socialism: A Global Survey, Praeger/Greenwood (2000), p. 4 Foldvary, Fred E. What Aren't You an Anarchist?, Progress Report, reprinted en The Free Liberal, 14 February 2006 Heywood, Andrew. Politics: Second Edition, Palgrave (2002), p. 61 Levy, Carl. Anarchism, Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2006. Sources holding that individualist anarchism was reborn as anarcho-capitalism Levy, Carl. "Anarchism", Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2006 Brown, Susan Love, The Free Market as Salvation from Government: The Anarcho-Capitalist View, Meanings of the Market: The Free Market in Western Culture, editado por James G. Carrier, Berg/Oxford, 1997, p. 99 Anarchism/Minarchism: Is a Government Part of a Free Country? Ed., Roderick T. Long y Tibor R. Machan. Ashgate Anarchy and the Law: The Political Economy of Choice, Edward Stringham. Transaction Publishers, 2007. As a form of anarchism in general Sylvan, Richard. Anarchism. A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy, editores Goodin, Robert E. and Pettit, Philip. Blackwell Publishing, 1995, p. 231 Perlin, Terry M. Contemporary Anarchism. Transaction Books, New Brunswick, NJ 1979, p. 7 DeLeon, David. The American as Anarchist: Reflections of Indigenous Radicalism, Chapter: The Beginning of Another Cycle, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979, pp. 117 & 123 Kearney, Richard. Continental Philosophy in the 20th Century, Routledge (UK) (2003), p. 336 Sargent, Lyman Tower. Extremism in America: A Reader, NYU Press (1995), p. 11 Sanders, John T.; Narveson, Jan, For and Against the State, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1996, ISBN 978-0-8476-8165-5 Goodwin, Barbara. Using Political Ideas, fourth edition, John Wiley & Sons (1987), p. 141 Sources that do not consider anarcho-capitalism to be a form of anarchism Meltzer, Albert. Anarchism: Arguments For and Against AK Press, (2000) p. 50 §External links[edit] Find more about Media from Commons Anarcho-capitalism at DMOZ Ludwig von Mises Institute – a research and educational center of classical liberalism; including anarcho-capitalism, libertarian political theory, and the Austrian School of economics. Freedomain Radio. Hosted by Stefan Molyneux, discusses anarcho-capitalism topics Anarcho-capitalist FAQ. Anti-state.com, the "online center for market anarchism," has an active forums and archive of theoretical and practical articles from notable anarcho-capitalists The Libertarian Standard – a website of Austrian and Rothbardian-influenced libertarians LewRockwell.com, run by Lew Rockwell Property and Freedom Society – an International anarcho-capitalist society Strike The Root – an anarcho-capitalist website featuring essays, news, and a forum. Center for a Stateless Society – anarchist think-tank and media center focused on market anarchism Relationship with anarchism · Relationship with minarchism · Anarcho-capitalist revolution · Aggression insurance · Crime insurance · Free-market roads · Jurisdictional arbitrage · Private governance · Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anarcho-capitalism&oldid=649220718" Anarchism by form Economic ideologies Ideologies of capitalism Libertarianism by form Syncretic political movements Accuracy disputes from November 2014 Articles with unsourced statements from February 2015 Articles with DMOZ links Wikimedia Shop	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line963
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__label__cc	0.695342	0.304658	Dave Earl Interview Dave Earl has been an important part of the Bay Area blues scene since the early 1970's. On top of being a fantastic harmonica player, guitarist, and vocalist, as a recording engineer and producer, he's recorded some of today's most well known blues harmonica players. Rack players on the site will enjoy his rack and microphone rig. Subscribers to BluesHarmonica.com can watch his interview here https://www.bluesharmonica.com/dave_earl What's New - Gary Smith Contributor Submission #62 - Harp Amp Trials In Gary’s latest submission he puts the VHT Special 6, Windy City Plus, Marble Max, Laney Cub, Memphis Mini, and Harp Train to the test. He shares his favorite pics of this bunch (more amps to come). You can find this lesson here http://www.bluesharmonica.com/contributor/gary_smith Fender Mustang Series of Amps with Richard Hunter I did a review on one of the Fender Mustang amplifiers recently. Richard Hunter has spent a tremendous amount of time getting to know the entire Mustang series, so I asked him to do a couple videos demonstrating the various models of amps and how to use the FUSE software for us. Richard also sells patches for the amps. If you would like to save the time of experimenting yourself, visit his website http://www.hunterharp.com/buy-richard-hunters-huntersounds-patch-set-for... to purchase. You can see Richards videos here https://www.bluesharmonica.com/amp_reviews What's New - Monoprice Stage Right Amplifier Review ($99 with 1x8" Speaker) My review of the Monoprice Stage Right amplifier ($99 with 1x8" Speaker) is now up. You can see the review here https://www.bluesharmonica.com/amp_reviews Event - Harmonica Masters Workshops 2018 Registration is now open for the 2018 Harmonica Masters Workshops in Trossingen, Germany. Here is the website https://www.harmonica-masters.de/en/ Here are the classes I'll be teaching... Wednesday (Half Day) - V-IV-I Licks continue reading... Sonic Pipe Windy City Plus Amplifier Review My review of the Sonic Pipe Windy City Plus amplifier ($480 with 1x10" speaker) is now up. You can see the review here https://www.bluesharmonica.com/amp_reviews What's New - Steve Baker's New Album Steve Baker’s first solo release is available as of next month (pre-order link below). Tons of great harmonica playing on here. continue reading... What's New - Fender Blues Jr Amplifier Review My review of the Fender Blues Jr amplifier ($529 with 1x12" speaker) is now up. You can see the review here https://www.bluesharmonica.com/amp_reviews What's New - History of the Blues Harmonica Concert (2CDS) The History of the Blues Harmonica Concert CD set is now available again at Bluebeat Music. Grab yours while they're in stock https://tinyurl.com/y7csse95 DISC 1..................... - Train Imitation Medley - 1st Position Medley - Lost John/Fox Chase Medley (Deford Bailey) - Sonny Terry Medley - Mean Low Blues (Blues Birdhead) - Stove Pipe Blues (Daddy Stovepipe) - Sugar Mama Blues (John Lee Williamson) - Bye Bye Bird (Rice Miller)....................... DAVE BARRETT - Evan's Shuffle (Little Walter) - Blue Light (Little Walter, by Joe Filisko) continue reading... What's New - HarpGear II Amp Review My review of the HarpGear II amplifier ($899 with 1x8" speaker) is now up. You can see the review here https://www.bluesharmonica.com/amp_reviews	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line977
__label__cc	0.735818	0.264182	What I’m reading, what I’m writing “A philosophical question: if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? And if a woman who’s wholly alone occasionally talks to a pot plant, is she certifiable? I think that it is perfectly normal to talk to oneself occasionally. It’s not as though I’m expecting a reply. I’m fully aware that Polly is a houseplant.” On the reviewing pile. Having recently signed on with the Glasgow Review of Books, I’m patiently awaiting the arrival of my first assignment. It’s a reprint of a “forgotten” writer’s autobiography, a writer I’ve never heard of but found so intriguing I was happy to say aye. Reading and more reading. Meanwhile, I’m engaged in lots of other literary pursuits, natch. I’m working on a review of Ever Dundas’s remarkable Goblin, as well as a pending interview with this gifted debut novelist. Gail Honeyman’s Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – the IT novel of Summer 2017 – kept me enthralled throughout. I have Muriel Spark’s The Comforters simmering on the back burner, and just started Jenni Daiches’s Borrowed Time. On the Kindle there’s, a review copy of Rushdie’s upcoming The Golden House, featuring a satisfyingly sly portrait of a certain orange president. Daaaang this was a good read. Author events wise, Gail Honeyman’s appearing in Edinburgh this week. You don’t need to ask if I’m planning to go, because I’m planning to go. As for July, current plans are to hit the road late in the month for Austen, Woolf and Bronte country. My son’s visiting the UK for a couple of weeks in early August, then the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Stellar lot of authors this year, but I haven’t picked my must-sees. Best fast-track that. My reading plate’s full to overflowing, covered in comfort food. It’s a big ol’ buffet full of mashed potatoes, meatloaf and macaroni and cheese that isn’t flourescent orange and doesn’t come from a box. And is that chocolate cake I see on the dessert table? I think it is (galloping noises). Incoming! New books on the shelf this week. When the dollar rose against the pound, I took advantage. Now that it’s inevitably fallen very ouchly, post-UK election kerfuffle, I need to consider cutting back on book purchases. [Need. Such a vague word, isn’t it? Food, water, clothing, shelter… Got those, but do we not have other needs, less about pure survival, but nevertheless crucial?] But it feels so right Graeme Macrae Burnet climbed atop Mt. TBR after last year’s Man Booker Prize featured his His Bloody Project on its shortlist. If you’ve not heard of it, trot out and find it. I bought The Disappearance of Adele Bedeau because it’s his first novel. I’m planning to read everything he’s written, partly because I’m eyeing the Bloody Scotland literary event in September, and partly because he’s a writer just breaking out into the big time. He’s also the author Ian Rankin recommended when I asked which new Scottish authors should I make sure to read. The Shore by Sara Taylor, Hotel World by Ali Smith, and Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood are three books consisting of inter-connected short stories recommended to me by trusted reading friends. It’s a side project of mine, an interest in studying how writers use this particular framework. They all sound fantastic. Am writing. In my free time, I’ve been working on a fiction project of my own, and is it ever slow going. It’s not the first fiction I’ve written, but working on it reminds me how bleeping hard the craft truly is. And the easier prose looks, the tougher it was to write. A writer can’t keep that from allowing a steady flow of absolute shite in the all-important first draft. It’s awful, oh god it’s awful, but it’s supposed to be. I apply every bit as much severity to what I write as I do the writing of others, and expect the same scrutiny from fellow reviewers. More, actually, because I am an unabashed reading snob, expecting a very high level of quality in published fiction. I jealously guard my reading time. It’s limited, and I refuse to squander it. An advocate of struggling writers, every time I see another sub-par writer published I know dozens more far more talented have been slighted. It makes me very, very angry. I hope other reviewers feel the same, judging accordingly. It’s a blustery day in Scotland. No better time to curl up and read. 25-06-17 Lisa Guidarini2017, Reading, ReviewingAli Smith, Ever Dundas, Gail Honeyman, Glasgow Review of Books, Graeme Macrae Burnet, Jenni Daiches, margaret atwood, Muriel Spark, Salman Rushdie, Sara Taylor Previous Post Nailing Jess by Triona Scully – but mostly, a lecture on craft Next Post Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line978
__label__cc	0.724093	0.275907	What is Book Barbarian? Keepers of the Stone: The Complete Historical Fantasy Trilogy by Andrew Anzur Clement Keepers of the Stone: The Complete Historical Fantasy Trilogy by Andrew Anzur Clement An orphan raised by a fanatical Sect of thieves, Malka has already sacrificed the lives of her people to protect the magical diamond she carries from the Urumi’s demonic Order. Stas, the courageous son of a Polish refugee learns he is being sent home to a continent he has never visited. But the Urumi have their own plans for Stas, placing his closest friend, Nell, in great danger. He will have to embark on a perilous journey of his own if he is to have any hope of saving her. Trapped in unfamiliar parts the globe and confronted with mystical arts they do not understand, Stas and Malka must struggle to find allies, battle the Urumi and uncover their common path to the stone’s cataclysmic final purpose. Whether they know it or not, an epic quest has just begun…. Previously $6.99 Category: Fantasy – Historical © Copyright 2018 BookBarbarian.com	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line984
__label__cc	0.724869	0.275131	Home / News / Ghost’s tragic story featured in the Daily Mail. Ghost’s tragic story featured in the Daily Mail. By Jayne / News / 1 Comment / 23rd March 2018 A dog owner says she is ‘devastated’ after her five month old labradoodle was found dead after going missing from a dog day care centre. Andrea Pothier’s puppy Ghost was discovered lying at the side of a busy road, just yards from the company’s enclosure. Some 100 people had joined in the hunt for the dog and spent 10 days around the City Paws Club site near Chessington, Greater London. But despite the extensive search, and a social media campaign that won support from around the world, Ghost’s body was spotted by a motorist on the A3. Ms Pothier, 36, of Fulham, south London, told Mailonline that she is now seeking to take legal action against the company. She said: ‘I was completely and utterly devastated. ‘It was really emotional. Someone else lost my dog and for 10 days I was devoting myself to finding him. For it to end like that was heartbreaking. ‘I think for a while, I have been too upset to be angry, Now I am angry. ‘We had 100 people helping with the search, I have 2000 messages of condolences on his page from all over the world. Everyone is angry and upset. ‘It is completely unforgivable. He was like my child.’ Andrea and her partner Ivor O’Toole, 45, left Ghost with City Paws Club for a trial day on March 6. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5531849/Pet-owner-devastated-labradoodle-goes-missing.html#ixzz5AZRg2xrc Read Ghost’s DogLost timeline here… Ann 1 year ago I totally agree with Andrea – someone who you believe you can trust to leave your dog with has been negligent in that duty of care. Steps need to be taken to see what procedures they have in place to make sure dogs are kept secure at all times – the company should know that some dogs may have a tendency to run off but that is no excuse as they have a duty of care to the owner – trackers could be fitted to dogs which may be able to alert them to trace the dog to stop it getting into danger. Andrea so sorry to read about this in the papers and on this site.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line992
__label__wiki	0.932033	0.932033	Boeing CEO on 737 MAX problems: ‘We clearly fell short’ Published May 30, 2019, 10:00 PM By John BIERS NEW YORK (AFP) — The head of Boeing acknowledged Wednesday that the company “clearly fell short’’ in dealing with the accident-ridden 737 MAX and said that it had not adequately communicated with regulators. Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg’s remarks to CBS News – his first interview since the global grounding of the plane following two crashes that claimed 346 lives – came as a top airline representative signaled that the top-selling jets could be out of service at least through mid- to late-August. Muilenburg was pressed by CBS about failing to notify the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for more than a year that the company had deactivated a signal designed to advise the crew of a disagreement between the plane’s “angle of attack’’ sensors, which measure its angle vis-a-vis oncoming air to warn of impending stalls. The sensors provide data to the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, a flight handling system connected to the deadly crashes of Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines MAXs. The FAA did not learn of the issue until after the Lion Air crash, more than 13 months after Boeing first unearthed the problem. The design of the MCAS system has been criticized by aviation experts because it is tied to just one sensor at a time, making it susceptible to malfunction. In both of the MAX crashes, the MCAS pointed the plane sharply downward based on a faulty sensor reading, hindering the pilots’ effort to control the aircraft after takeoff, according to preliminary crash investigations. Muilenburg, who has repeatedly rejected suggestions of a design flaw in the 737 MAX, acknowledged implementation shortcomings. “The implementation of this angle of attack alert was a mistake,’’ he told CBS. “Our communication on that was not what it should have been.’’ But Muilenburg, who also issued a sweeping apology to the families of flight victims during the interview, said he believes in the plane and would have no reservations putting his family aboard. Pakistan reopens airspace to all civilian traffic ICTSI subsidiary to launch Pakistan rail cargo service American, United extend Boeing Max grounding to November	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line1002
__label__wiki	0.602788	0.602788	Home Broadband Latest News Motorola’s 5G Moto Mod speed test was massively misleading Motorola’s 5G Moto Mod speed test was massively misleading Motorola wants you to know that it demoed a real Verizon 5G connection on a real 5G phone in Maui that over 330 journalists and analysts were able to see in person. It wants you to know that phone is capable of incredible 5Gbps speeds — enough to apparently download an entire season of your favorite TV show in mere minutes. So when journalists tried out Motorola’s speed test demo, they naturally did the math. By measuring how long it supposedly took Motorola’s 5G Moto Mod to download a 1GB file in a special Motorola demo app, PCMag and PC World each independently reported speeds of 470Mbps. But those numbers just aren’t accurate. As The Verge reported yesterday — and confirmed with Motorola — the 5G connection in Maui is running at a comparatively anemic 130 to 140Mbps. The speeds PCMag, PC World, and others thought they saw were physically impossible. Did Motorola fake the demo? Is there actually any 5G in Maui at all? These are the questions we’re all wondering. When I spoke to Motorola, it assured me that the test was real. It was just extremely misleading. According to Doug Michau, Motorola’s head of product operations who is in charge of the Maui demos, we did actually witness a real 5G demo that beamed data over a millimeter wave signal from an Ericsson base station directly to the 4×4 MIMO antennas inside Motorola’s 5G Moto Mod. Those files weren’t downloaded from the actual internet, but rather an on-site server, which means we’re not seeing real-world performance. More importantly, the files appear to have been compressed to smaller file sizes when they passed through the network, says Michau. He also notes that compression is a pretty common practice, and generally a plus for end-users because they’re still getting the same result. “What’s meaningful to them is they have that file size on their device,” he says. But it is meaningful in the context of 5G speeds because downloading one gigabyte of file isn’t the same as simply having the file on your device. With compression, it’s impossible to get any idea of 5G speeds or extrapolate 470Mbps+ speeds from a 140Mbps connection. And that means that the Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit in Maui — the last, best chance for journalists to see what 5G is really capable of before AT&T launches the tech in mere weeks — can’t actually do that job. “We did not intend to mislead anyone with the demo.” Motorola says it was unaware that compression might be happening, and it’s still investigating how it could have occurred. The company also claims that the demo wasn’t a speed test, for what that’s worth. “We did not intend to mislead anyone with the demo,” a PR rep says. So what kind of speeds can we actually expect from Motorola’s 5G mod? The company did some level-setting there, too. Though it’s theoretically capable of 5Gbps speeds, there are so many factors that Motorola’s now advertising a conservative estimate of 300 to 500Mbps. That’s plenty fast, but it’s less than one-tenth of those full theoretical speeds. “We feel that’s something that can be achieved,” says Michau of what “the average user” might see. Here’s Motorola’s full statement: As mentioned at the event, the network and demo elements were pre-commercial and set up in the matter of days. The intent of today’s demo was to show off a live 5G connection on Verizon’s 5G network using an actual smartphone, and was not meant to focus on speeds, given the 5G network used was set up temporarily for the event. That said, and as you saw, we did perform a few file downloads to demonstrate an actual download. As you were told, the 5G network at the event was limited more to 130-140 Mbps. However, in this demo environment there were a lot of factors. Though we did our best to monitor, there is a chance that the files used for the download during demos experienced some compression from the server or other network components, resulting in lower download times in some cases. Rest assured that what you saw today was a real life, working download over a working 5G mmWave network using a working moto z3 and prototype 5G moto mod. Unfortunately, in temporary environments like these, it’s difficult to showcase speeds accurately and is why our demo was meant to simply show off the connection, not highlight any speeds. When 5G does become available in 2019, we expect to see speeds much higher than anything on display today. We heard you liked 5G, so here’s a phone for your phone Misleading demo aside, I do have to say the 5G Moto Mod seems like a neat piece of tech. Motorola has effectively built an entire 5G phone without a screen. It’s got its own Snapdragon 855 processor in addition to Qualcomm’s X50 modem so it can support both faster mmWave and wider-range sub-6Ghz 5G networks. It has its own 2,000mAh battery so it doesn’t drain your phone while sporting a total of 10 antennas to support 4×4 mmWave, 4×4 LTE, and sub-6 5G all at the same time. “We believe there’s no problem in watching a three-hour 4K streaming video on the device using that 5G mod without running out of battery,” says Michau. I can’t wait to test that in the real world. Photography by Sean Hollister / The Verge Previous articleA retired Navy captain explains how drones will shape the future of war Next articleTimothy Zahn is writing a new Thrawn novel Microsoft’s annual Build developer conference starts on May 6th Broadband Latest News February 6, 2019 Instagram is now using AI to describe photos for users with visual impairments Golf Peaks turns mini-golf into a card-based puzzle game River Bank battery review: modular, powerful, and full of ports AT&T announces a better 5G Samsung phone, less than 24 hours after the first... Leaked Oppo Reno pictures show off the weirdest notch-killing slider yet 2018: A year in photographs on The Verge	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line1013
__label__wiki	0.545213	0.545213	Post Time: Pegasus undercard loaded with stakes Madefromlucky races in the Poseidon on the Pegasus undercard. Photo Credit: Susie Raisher/NYRA By Gene Kershner\|Published Fri, Jan 27, 2017 \|Updated Sat, Jan 28, 2017 HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The Pegasus World Cup undercard includes three graded stakes races and three non-graded stakes, in hopes of eclipsing last year’s Florida Derby day handle of $36 million. In a national media teleconference on Tuesday, The Stronach Group’s Tim Ritvo stated that $40 million was the goal for Saturday’s big day. One of the big undercard races that is sure to obtain strong betting is the inaugural $400,000 Poseidon Stakes, a race that was created for the Pegasus stakeholders to have back up horses in case their entry in the $12 feature scratched. The race has attracted a field of nine, including to Pegasus also-eligibles, Stanford and Madefromlucky. Here’s a look at the Poseidon and the three races leading up to the Pegasus that are part of the $1 million guaranteed late Pick-4: Race 5: Poseidon - $400,000 non-graded; 1 1/8-miles; Post Time: 1:30 p.m. The Poseidon kicks off a rare Pick-4 in the middle of the card and has plenty of known commodities lineing up in the gate. 4-Stanford (Even) is the overwhelming favorite coming out of an impressive win in the Harlan’s Holiday and looks to be the one to beat. Love the Florida-bred 9-Hy Riverside (12-1) wheeling back after his victory in the Sunshine Millions Classic last week. 3-Imperative (9-2) ships in for trainer Robert Hess, Jr. from the west coast for his 2017 debut race. 6-Madefromlucky (7-2) hasn’t won since his 3-year-old year in the West Virginia Derby. 1- Mylute (10-1) could close into the exotics, but is not your likely winner. Tough to get past the favorite in here. Post Time Outlook: 1 - Stanford, 2 – Hy Riverside, 3 – Imperative Race 9: Gulfstream Park Turf Sprint - $125,000 Grade 3; 5-furlongs – Turf ; Post Time: 3:38 p.m. Solid group of 12 led by former Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint winner 10-Mongolian Saturday (7-2) will kick off the late Pick-4 into the Pegasus. 11-Power Alert (4-1) draws in top turf jockey Julien Leparoux coming off a non-graded stake win at Tampa. We’ll also use 2-Manhattan Dan (9-2) with Castellano , who is 2-for-2 over the Gulfstream turf. Leaning towards using 1-Rainbow Heir (6-1), impressive in his last outing at GP. Race 10: LePrevoyante - $200,000 Grade 3; 1 1/2-miles – Turf ; Post Time: 4:14 p.m. Turf route for fillies and mares 4-years-old and up features two mares that will be tough to leave off your tickets in 12-Suffused (3-1) and 7-Arles (7-2). Suffused makes her 2017 debut after finishing last year strong with a second-place finish in the Grade 1 E.P. Taylor at Woodbine. She had two solid starts at Saratoga before ending her 2016 campaign in the Great White North. Aries finished second to Suffused in the Grade 3 Glens Falls at Saratoga and was nosed out of the Grade 3 Red Carpet at Del Mar. This could be her coming out in America party for trainer Graham Motion. 11-Paige (8-1) won a local prep for Christophe Clement. Most likely to only include the top two in the Pick-4. Post Time Outlook: 1-Suffused, 2 – Arles, 3 - Paige Race 11: WL McKinley Handicap - $200,000 Grade 3; 1 1/2-miles – Turf ; Post Time: 4:50 p.m. The lead-up to the Pegasus is the spot to go deep in the Pick-4 as several contenders are win candidates. The value horses are 10-Mr. Maybe (6-1) with Eclipse winning jock Castellano aboard and 11-Sadler’s Joy (8-1) who attracts Leparoux to ride. 6-Charming Kitten (9-2) returns to the States from a tour in Ireland for trainer Mike Maker and has to be included on the ticket. I’m tossing 8-year-old Twilight Eclipse (4-1) for 1-Taghleeb (6-1) who is 6-2-2-1 at Gulfstream. Post Time Outlook: 1 – Mr. Maybe, 2 – Charming Kitten, 3 – Sadler’s Joy Check tomorrow’s print edition for a preview of the Pegasus World Cup. Gene Kershner, a Buffalo-based turf writer, is a member of the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters Association, and tweets @EquiSpace. Story topics: Horse Racing/ Pegasus/ Pegasus Cup/ Post Time Gene Kershner – Gene is a Buffalo-based turf writer and a member of the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters Association. He has been The Buffalo News turf writer since October 2010.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line1015
__label__wiki	0.883265	0.883265	Distribution, Featured Post, Mobility Synnex Canada Gears Up for Mobility Play by Robert Dutt • November 19, 2013 Adnon Dow, vice president of global mobility solutions for Synnex. Synnex Canada is building up its game in mobility. The Canadian subsidiary is following its U.S.-based parent’s lead with the rollout of MobilitySolv, the latest member of the distributor’s family of “Solv” solution bundles. The distributor is in the mist of the first phase of a three-phase rollout for MobilitySolv, said Adnon Dow, vice president of global mobility solutions for Synnex. It’s building out its line card of vendor offerings in the mobility space, then will build out the company’s VAR community around mobility, the stage it’s currently at in the U.S. After that, Dow said it will turn its attention to building ecosystems and specific solutions around verticals on industry opportunities. “We’re about 85 percent there in Canada,” Dow said of the effort to develop the line card. “We’re trying to tie down the carrier relationships and figure out the go-to-market with them. That was the most intensive effort we had in the U.S., and it’s just really happening.” Dow expects MobilitySolv to kick off in a big way in Canada in January, with the offering rolled out completely in by February. He said the company is currently up and running transactionally, able to help solution providers activate with carriers. It’s been able to take advantage of North American or global deals with mobility vendor partners to streamline developing the line card. From there, it’s a matter of getting building resources around the new mobility practice, and building up the services and structure around it. Here too, Synnex will lean heavily on what it’s learned from going through the MobilitySolv launch in the U.S. “It’s easy to sign vendors and sign partners, but it’s another thing to ramp them up and get them to revenue. There’s a lot more heavy lifting, training, and enablement that need to be done to make it a reality. In the U.S., it took us longer than we anticipated to et that traction.” So the Canadian launch will benefit from that experience, with more marketing campaigns and support in place at launch time to help partners quickly get to “sustainable revenue” with the new practice area. “We’re already tweaking the program and correcting course in the U.S., and we’re seeing the results,” he said. Ultimately, Dow said he sees an opportunity for every solution provider in the mobile space, as it becomes the ubiquitous, and perhaps even dominant in terms of endpoints. But Dow said the ideal solution provider for MobilitySolv brings at least some wireless background, has an applications- and services-based business model, and “has truly embraced innovation.” “They’re not a traditional networking VAR, they’re not a traditional voice guy,” Dow said. “They’re dabbling in applications, dabbling in devices, they can take the message to the market and they can invest and create a practice around mobility.” That’s important because Dow has built the MobilitySolv methodology around taking a look at mobility beyond the device. The distributor has built the practice around three pillars: connecting devices, moving information to the devices, and controlling security and management in the mobile environment. And then, when things move into the third phase of Dow’s plan – the one that’s yet to really kick into gear in the U.S. – things get more interesting, as the distributor looks to move beyond endpoint-centric mobility. Dow describes building a business around machine-to-machine computing, the much-vaunted Internet of Things. Dow said he also sees a great opportunity to help managed service providers extend their reach beyond remote control and management of PCs, networking gear and servers, to include more mobile devices. Mobility is a hot topic in the channel, so it’s not surprising that distribution is getting involved. Synnex rival Ingram Micro Canada has also been building out a significant mobility presence over the last two years. Tags:Adnon Dow Ingram Micro Internet of Things Mobile Devices Mobility MobilitySolv Service Provider Services SYNNEX SYNNEX Canada ← Long View Establishes Trust Fund for Sottile’s Family Websense’s Triton May Be Catalyst for Advanced Security Practices →	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line1016
__label__cc	0.565331	0.434669	Need education outcomes explained in a more intuitive way? Better call Dave Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action A lovely tribute to Dave Evans, who’s been a boon to the field, and a prolific producer of public goods, from David McKenzie and his Development Impact Blog colleagues I ran a quick search, and I’ve cited him about 50 times in my links It’s fitting that Dave’s final Dev Impact post is in one of his specialities, making research more understandable to non-researchers, in this case for education. While researchers often report learning outcome changes in standard deviations, he describes his new paper with Fei Yuan on how to express outcomes in increased years of schooling – a much more intuitive measure. Whatever you think of the replication crisis/credibility revolution, the rubber meets the road on good scientific practices when it comes to medical trials. A number of top medical journals have signed onto the CONSORT guidelines for publications, requiring hypotheses to be prespecified. But what good are they if nobody goes back and compares the publication to the registration? Well, when a team compared the actually published studies in a number of top medical journals to the pre-registered hypotheses, they found 25% of the studies had switched outcomes – reporting different ones than they’d originally identified (outcome switching might mean reporting quality of life instead of overall survival, for example, even if survival had been the original goal). Almost half dropped secondary outcomes, and others added new outcomes. When the research team wrote to the journals (like JAMA, BMJ, and NEJM) fewer than half their letters were published, suggesting that top journals aren’t adhering to their own guidelines, but also that there’s no mechanism for checking and enforcing the guidelines. The University of California, Berkeley is ending their contract with Elsevier journals after negotiations (co-chaired by chief librarian, informational science professor, and MIT-trained economist Jeff MacKie-Mason), failed to find an agreement on pricing for journals and also making publications open-access. Their tips for finding alternative ways to access paywalled articles are helpful for all non-academics looking for paywalled articles In econ you can often find a version on the author’s personal website, or by googling the title for a working paper version. If you can’t, try emailing an author to request a copy. A new group of prominent economists has formed the network Economists for Inclusive Prosperity, publishing a set of concrete, research-based policy suggestions for addressing problems of wealthy economies, such as financial system stability, taxation, labor markets in the age of AI and automation, and the like. You can read a summary in the Boston Review from Suresh Naidu, Dani Rodrik, and Gabriel Zucman. I enjoyed the conversation between Tyler Cowen and Daniel Kahneman (Apple). It might be the accent, but I feel like you get a sense of the wisdom of a lifetime of studying human intuition and life satisfaction when you hear him reflect. Two things that struck me were how often he passed on questions – it seemed like if he wasn’t an expert on a topic, he didn’t feel like his opinion was worth more than anybody else’s – and how often he discouraged Cowen from labeling parts of human nature as biases. The Indicator, from NPR’s Planet Money, interviewed economist Nina Banks about Sadie Alexander, the first African-American economist, who held both a Ph.D. and JD from Penn (Apple). For more, see Cardiff’s longer interview with Banks when he was at the Financial Times Alphachat (Apple). And Banks has two books coming out on Alexander – a biography and edited volume of her speeches. The Sadie Collective, which encourages Black women to enter economics and related fields recently held their first conference (and I believe was crowded to capacity). You can watch the video here. Marginal Revolution University has a short video on the work of Elinor Ostrom as part of their new series. And they’ve started their their new course with Josh Angrist on basics of econometrics. It’s difficult to make an intro video about econometrics, but I have a lot of respect for the production quality and effort they’ve put into it. Here’s one on Ceteris Paribus and counterfactuals (if it moves too slowly you can always speed up youtube videos in the settings):	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line1021
__label__cc	0.623428	0.376572	Tag Archives: girl Endellion St Endellion's Church. As a Westcountry lad, and one rather taken by our folklore, I am gladdened to hear that Samantha Cameron has named her baby girl Florence Rose Endellion after the North Cornish village of St Endellion where the family were holidaying. Endellion was a 6th century ascetic who lived her life in isolation with only a faithful cow for company. She subsisted entirely on her cow’s milk. Endellion came from a large family of saints, children of King Brychan: including Nectan who carried his head after being decapitated by cattle rustlers, Morwenna who carried a stone on her head to build her church and Clether who was an unremarkable hermit. One day, Endellion’s cow wandered off, trespassing on the lands of the Lord of Tregony, who killed the cow for the damage it did. On hearing this, Endellion’s godfather, King Arthur (yes, he of the Round Table), slew Tregony in a rage. Overcome by the slaughter, Endellion wept over the corpses of Tregony and her dear cow, and they were both restored to life. At her death, Endellion requested that her cow pull her funeral sled, and that she be buried where she stop, and that is where St Endellion’s Church stands today. There’s also an old chapel dedicated to Endellion on Lundy Island, opposite her brother Nectan’s stomping ground of Hartland. Cambridge’s famous Endellion Quartet is also named in her honour. If you enjoyed the story of St Endellion, you might just like the story of St Sidwell of Exeter, and her sister St Juthwara who rubbed cheese on her breasts! Categories: Christianity \| Tags: ascetic, baby, breasts, Brychan, chapel, cheese, church, Clether, Cornish, Cornwall, cow, David Cameron, Devon, Devonian, Endellion, Endellion Quartet, Exeter, Florence, girl, girl's name, Hartland, head, hermit, Juthwara, King Arthur, Lundy Island, milk, Morwenna, name, Nectan, Rose, saint, Samantha Cameron, Sidwell, St Endellion, stone, Tregony, Westcountry \| Permalink.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line1022
__label__wiki	0.831758	0.831758	Ceddesfield Hall, Sedgefield Hexham Bridge Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne Black Horse, Monkseaton < 1792 \| 1793 \| 1794 > In Northern England: 1793: founding of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne - Overview History "The Society was founded early in 1793 as a ‘conversation club’, with an annual subscription of one guinea. The subjects of the conversations - and the books that ... Image taken from page 824 of 'The Local Historian's Table Book of remarkable occurrences, historical facts, traditions, legendary and descriptive ballads, connected with the Counties of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, and Durham. Historical Division. - It replaced an earlier bridge, which was destroyed in the Great Flood of 1771. Hexham bridge is Grade II* listed. - The original Black Horse Inn in Monkseaton was built in 1793 as a two-storey stone building, with a third floor added later. In 1936 Monkseaton Urban District Council granted permission ... Added by: Simon Cotterill , Last modified: 8 months, 3 weeks ago, Viewed:477 times,	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line1026
__label__wiki	0.681682	0.681682	Religious Left Emerges, Religious Right Erodes From my hometown newspaper this morning at the heart of Gator Nation, in the South! — even though it’s something I can be proud of this time rather than apologize for, like what passes for good communal citizenship just down the road from UF, in a giant corporate enclave of relatively wealthy, morally pious old folks called the Villages. UF study: Religious left emerging to oppose right Research shows growing influence of liberal Christians in politics. By Nathan Crabbe A new University of Florida study finds the religious left is emerging as an alternative to the Christian right. Gainesville can be seen as a leading indicator of the trend. Faith-based liberal activism has long been a community tradition, from advocacy for the homeless to protests of executions. “This is a town where there is certainly a religious left,” said UF political science professor Ken Wald, who collaborated with two other researchers on the study. The research found that Christians who value being active members of a religious community tended to vote for Democratic candidates in 2006 and 2008. The research contradicts the “God gap” theory that white religious Christians are conservative and likely to vote Republican, Wald said. He said the religious left is becoming more influential with the election of Barack Obama and his experience in community organizing and expansion of a White House office on faith-based initiatives. At the same time, Wald said, young evangelicals are placing more emphasis on traditionally liberal issues such as addressing climate change. “I think you’re seeing the religious right erode a bit, and at the same time the religious left gets more aggressive,” Wald said. In case you weren’t riveted to Snook’s comments this weekend, a discussion of Catholic homeless and soup kitchen services sprang up here, debating the social effects of believing in the higher moral authority of “church doctrine” that would refuse help to those living in sin. This story adds texture to Read the rest of this entry » Categories : Advocacy, Barack Obama, belief in gods, Bullying and control, Change, civil rights, Cognitive Psychology, Congress, Constitution, Discipline-behavior, Dominionists, Ethics and Philosophy, Evolved Homeschoolers, Family Values, Feminism, Gators, Gay Pride, God, Health, Human Networking, Institutions and Individuals, Leadership, Liberal, Literalism, Logic, Memes, Nature-nurture, organizational behavior, Partisan Politics, Election News/Commentary, Power of Story, Pro-life, Pro-choice, Public Communication, Reason, Religion, Research and Science, School is to Food, Separation of Church and State--the First Amendment, Shopping/consumerism, Socialization, Taxes, The South, Thinking Parents, Unity08, Volunteering, Voting, War, What's In a Name?, Wonder	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line1027
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__label__wiki	0.713776	0.713776	Knives of the Avenger This film has Mario Bava's coloring (thick and rich, with a lot of lingering shots of sunsets, sun on rolling waves, puddles reflecting lights, and the blue and red lighting like Bava's monster movies) but the tale itself is a mix-up of several other movies, notably Shane and Kirk Douglas' The Vikings (with a long bar scene that looks like it's from Chuck Heston's Agony and the Ecstasy). Bava's film centers on the redemption of a viking raider (Cameron Mitchell as Helmut) who takes on the job of watching over the apparently abandoned wife (Elissa Pichelli) and child of a rival who hates him, and though the wife keeps repeating that she wants him to exit her woodland hut by the sea (she expects her vanished husband to return), he comes in handy when other raiders show up and have to be dispatched (which he does by deftly thrown knives, his particular skill and the title of the film). Complications ensue as the local bad chieftain wants the wife for his own, and there's a messy paternity for the child. The small army thrown against Helmut are no match for his combat skills for he can throw up to 3 knives simultaneously, which is quite handy as he must frequently fight off multiple attackers. Substitute these Italian vikings (the movie was filmed at Titanus Studios, Rome) for cowboys and the movie could be a decent Western movie pastiche, which it probably is anyway despite the cast wearing long-horned helmets and furry clothing. The rapid knive-throwing and ducking behind barrels and bar-tops can stand in as a medieval gun-fight in a saloon, and the rotten bad-guy is as crooked and scheming as any lawless cinematic dude in a black hat. Bava shot Knives of the Avenger in 6 days, and this shows up onscreen, but this film holds together really well for a 6-day movie, a minor-accomplishment coupled with Bava's ace directing chores. The English-language dubbing is as crude and unexacting as it was and many other 1960s Italian epics. There are static shots but a great deal of the time Bava shows off his inventive camera work to compensate for the familiarity and low-budgetness of the rest of the movie. Original page June 2015	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line1034
__label__wiki	0.536002	0.536002	Clarencethehorse's Blog "Nobody goes there anymore…it's too crowded." Archive for Matt Walker Bruins Fend Off Sabres, Sidestep Lightning, and Tranquilize Panthers – Winning Streak Hits Four Posted in Boston Bruins, Hockey, Music, Television, Travel and Nature with tags Adam Mair, Adam McQuaid, Albert Hammond, Albert Hammond Jr., Beatles, Beware of Darkness, Boston Bruins, Buffalo Sabres, Cigarette commercials, Craig Rivet, David Krejci, Don Cherry, Florida Panthers, George Harrison, Marc Savard, Marco Sturm, Mark Recchi, Matt Walker, Milan Lucic, Miroslav Satan, Ryan Miller, Scituate, Shawn Thornton, Steven Weiss, Tampa Bay Lightning, The Strokes, Tim Thomas, Tomas Vokoun, tuukka rask, Tyler Myers, Victor Oreskovich, Zdeno Chara on February 14, 2010 by clarencethehorse After ending a 10-game skid with a victory in Montreal last Sunday, the Boston Bruins looked to continue their winning ways in the remaining three games (see below) of their four-game road trip – a road trip that would take them up to the Winter Olympic break. The bounces are suddenly going the Bruins way, and the solid goaltending of Tuukka Rask (4-0-1 in starting five consecutive games) allowed them to run the table on the road trip, going 4-0-0. Click on the SCORE below for Highlights from NHL.com. Bruins 3, Sabres 2 (Shootout) In the first period against Buffalo, it was the Daniel Paille show. Paille, traded to the Bruins from Buffalo earlier this season in the first-ever transaction between the Boston and Buffalo organizations, scored two first period goals – and almost had a natural hat-trick in the period if not for a spectacular save by Sabres goalie Ryan Miller. Early in the second period, Shawn Thornton and Craig Rivet dropped the gloves and had a spirited fray: The momentum switched in the second period, though, and goals by Derek Roy and Tyler Myers made it a 2-2 game after two periods. Myers goal was a rare weak moment for Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask, as he was fooled and caught flat-footed as Myers surprised him by ripping a quick wrist shot as he crossed into the Bruins’ zone. There was no scoring in the third period, but it did feature this tussle between Milan Lucic and Buffalo’s Adam Mair: The Bruins would have won this game in overtime if not for Miller, as the Bruins could not get a puck by him despite numerous high quality scoring chances. Much like crossing the bridge of death, the Bruins knew they had their work cut out for them in the ensuing shootout. Miller is one of the best all-time in NHL shootouts (check out the stats), with a 28-19 record and a .709 save percentage. But – alas – shootout goals by Marco Sturm and David Krejci gave the Bruins the victory, and they had back to back wins for the first time in 2010. Tuukka Rask posted a career-high 43 saves, as Tim Thomas bored children with his stories of growing up in Flint, Michigan. Bruins 5, Lightning 4 The Bruins came out of the gate flying against Tampa Bay at the St. Pete Times Forum. They had built a 4-0 lead at the end of the first period on goals by Miroslav Satan and Milan Lucic, then two from Michael Ryder. Boston dominated, as they had 21 shots in the first period – conversely, for the last 13 minutes of that period, Tampa Bay had no shots. This was also the first time in 17 games that the Bruins had scored more than three goals in a game, dating back to their 4-1 victory in Ottawa on 1/5. Lucic‘s second goal of the game early in the second period would give the Bruins a (seemingly) comfortable 5-0 lead. But two goals apiece from Martin St. Louis and Steve Downie brought the Lightning back to within a goal at 5-4 with 3:13 remaining in regulation. Showing some grit late in the game, the Bruins held on for the 5-4 regulation victory, and found themselves back in the playoff hunt tied for the eighth and final playoff spot with – who else – the Tampa Bay Lightning. GAME MILESTONE: Mark Recchi played in his 1,549th NHL game, tying him for ninth place on the career list with Alex Delvecchio. Bruins 3, Panthers 2 (Shootout) Heading into their last game before the Olympic break, the Bruins were facing a Panthers team that had lost five games in a row. Nick Tarnasky‘s first goal of the year gave the Panthers a 1-0 lead, but Panther’s goalie Tomas Vokoun allowed a softie to David Krejci, and the score was tied at one. But Stephen Weiss‘ end-to-end highlight film goal, in which he even burned Zdeno Chara, gave the Panthers a 2-1 lead with 1:06 remaining in the first: There was no scoring in the second stanza, but there was a good bout between Adam McQuaid and the Panthers Victor Oreskovich….click on the picture below to see the fight at hockeyfights.com: Mark Recchi again proved himself to be the most valuable 42-year old in the NHL by scoring his 12th goal of the season when he deflected home a Dennis Wideman shot with 8:16 remaining in the third period to tie the game at two. But the best was yet to come from Recchi, who capped off an epic eight-round shootout with a pretty goal to give the Bruins a 3-2 shootout victory. David Krejci and Marc Savard had both scored shootout goals to keep the Bruins alive in rounds 3 and 7 before Recchi came in swooping from the right side, then quickly deked and beat Tomas Vokoun high on his right glove side to propel the Bruins to victory. The Bruins head into the Olympic break in seventh place in the eastern conference, one point ahead of the Montreal Canadiens. Funny Picture of the Week “Honey…are you sure this is the right book store?“ Don Cherry Night on NESN – March 4, 2010 Random Videos of the Week Albert Hammond had a hit with this song in 1972; I always think of the seawall in Scituate’s Sand Hills Beach section when I hear this song. Hammond’s son Albert Hammond Jr. is a guitarist for The Strokes. About Clarencethehorse Can You Find Clarence? Y. I. Oughta (coming soon)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line1036
__label__cc	0.685865	0.314135	Greenbox robotics intelligent cannabis kiosk \| Interview with Zack Johnson Interviews, Technology By Cannabis Magazine Zack Johnson of Greenbox robotics discusses innovative cannabis technology, the future of the cannabis industry as a whole, and the complex journey of young entrepreneurial growth. From Massachusetts to Los Angeles, and from the music industry to the cannabis industry, Zack has had a fascinating journey. Tell us about Zack Johnson, the young kid, versus Zack Johnson now as an adult. Did your background and experiences as a youth play a role in your desire to be an entrepreneur? Zack: I grew up in the north shore of Massachusetts, raised by a single mother with two older sisters, making me the man of the house at a very young age. As a kid I always believed I would be a professional athlete but as I grew up, that vision shifted. I realised my propensity for creativity and my drive for innovation translated directly to an entrepreneurial role. I moved to California in 2009 to pursue an unexpected career in music through the development of my very first business in the entertainment space; a record label called 1st Round Records. I was heavily influenced by Richard Branson, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel and it became apparent that innovation through business was my true passion. Having become “man of the house” at such a young age, it was my goal to create a successful business so I could provide for my family and for the future family that I hope to create. Considering you’ve lived and worked on both coasts,where do you call home now? Zack: Home is Marina Del Rey, California, but my heart will always be in Boston with the Patriots, Celtics, Red Sox and most importantly my family. Zack, you’ve had quite a diverse set of creative business endeavors over the years. What motivates you to dive into new ventures and keeps your momentum going? Zack: I am a big believer in answering the door when opportunity knocks. In some instances I have been at the right place at the right time, but diving into the cannabis industry was a no brainer. It is the fastest growing market since the .com era. The greenrush is growing by the day and being the first brand to market with an automated solution is my goal. Staying motivated has never been a challenge for me. There are no handouts in business, you need to work hard and build your own momentum if you want your company to be successful. Zack Johnson on the left, Jack McDaniel (godfather & first investor) on the right How did your early business experiences influence your next career moves? Can you share with us some of the highlights of your career? Zack: In high school I interned for my godfather Jack Mcdaniel who taught me everything I know about business. He exemplified for me the art of navigating the delicate balance between applying the assertive temperament necessary to closing the deal, and simultaneously ensuring the customer always knows they come first. Had I not interned for Jack, I don’t think I would be in the position I am in today with greenbox, nor would I have developed the assertive confidence necessary to follow through the many entrepreneurial ventures of my career thus far. On March 4th, 2010, six months into launching my aforementioned record label- and with no previous knowledge of the music industry- the first artist I signed secured the title of Number 1 album in the US and Australia. By sunday of that week, I had met with every major label, even sitting for breakfast in Jimmy Iovine’s home to discuss Interscope Records acquiring my label. Since you worked in the music industry, how many times did people get your name confused with another famous artist whose name sounds alot like Zack Johnson? Zack: While I am a huge fan of the singer, songwriter, and surfer Jack Johnson, I distinctly remember the biggest name mixup happening when I was scheduling tee time on the golf course. I have been confused with Master’s Champ, ZacH Johnson. Were you surprised to find yourself immersed in the innerworkings of the Cannabis industry? What stood out to you in terms of key learnings? Zack: I was not surprised because the idea of a brand new booming market is what excites me, and Cannabis incontestably falls under that market category. The potential to innovate and subsequently disrupt the market, the economy, and even the political environment, something the Cannabis industry will undoubtedly continue to do, serves as significant inspiration for my career change. Without doubt the key learning I have taken from the industry to date is the potentiality of success for ancillary business pursuits within and around the greenbox umbrella. What biggest lessons did you learn while working as the Chief Marketing Officer for Cannabis dispensaries in Los Angeles? Zack: My experience in the cannabis industry came from my two years working at Hawke Media, the fastest growing marketing company in the country. As the Director of Strategy and Business Development, I pioneered our relationship with the cannabis world. My biggest lesson during this thrilling pursuit was the insight I gained into the importance of empathizing with the customer experience in order to foster lifetime value and connection with each individual customer. Greenbox cannabis inventory management Greenbox robotics feels like an invention that is going to revolutionize the Cannabis experience in a big way. How did you get involved with this product? Zack: As the CMO of a metal fabrication company in Connecticut and 5 cannabis dispensaries in Los Angeles, I envisioned these two parties connecting in this innovative way to eventually create the concept of greenbox. My manufacturing partnership is by far the most important part of the business in that it connected me to the dedicated team necessary to bring the greenbox to life. A cannabis vending machine may sound simple in conception, but it is complicated in production and required attention from a pragmatic and flexible team. It clearly takes innovation and persistence to develop an offering like greenbox. What were the biggest obstacles you faced during the planning and production phases of greenbox? What were your greatest milestones? Zack: The biggest obstacle was establishing the communication between two vastly different technologies. We had to create a hack between the fully integrated touch screen and the robotic arm to properly deliver the products that customers added to cart. We also had to challenge traditional vending machines by incorporating an “add to cart” functionality, which enables our customers to purchase as many items as they want in one single transaction reflective of an online shopping cart. The proudest milestone was finally hosting my early investors at a successful demonstration of the greenbox model Z1 prototype. After that demonstration, we were able to place our first PO for 20 machines. On August 16th the owner of ERBA collective signed a contract for 4 greenbox’s and 1 CBD machine. This was a very exciting day for the entire greenbox team that opened a new chapter in the story of realizing this pursuit What has the feedback about greenbox been like, both from a customer perspective and from clients who purchase the kiosk for their dispensary? Zack: We spent a great deal of time on the engineering design and overall aesthetic of the greenbox machine. The guided interface and exposed windows have provided our early adopters with a welcoming and simultaneously curious feel. cannabis kiosk for dispensaries Now that you’ve developed greenbox, and made it available to the public, what’s next? Zack: Our goal is to connect as many dispensary owners with greenbox machines as is logistically possible to establish greenbox as a solution for inventory management and to manage the increasing volume of customers serviced at dispensary locations. We also plan to release new features such as home delivery, a rewards program, and a mobile application. What’s one thing, besides greenbox, that you feel the Cannabis industry and culture is in dire need of? What is one thing, other than greenbox, that you feel has drastically shifted the dynamics of the Cannabis industry and culture? Zack: I’d like to see less red tape; for the United States to completely legalize cannabis. Allowing for medical and recreational shops to exist and public trading. The culture should embrace the health benefits of cannabis, rather than the traditional “stoner” mentality. Zack, can you leave us with any thoughts you are willing to share about what or who inspires you professionally and personally? Zack: Without a doubt my mother is my biggest human inspiration. She raised my sisters and I all by herself while working full-time as a middle-school social worker in my hometown. She always seems to know exactly what to say or where to lead me no matter how hard or challenging the situation appears to be. The short of it is, I am a mamas boy, but in the best way! My mom is my hero my mentor. My first investor, Jack McDaniel, who shot down every invention and idea I pitched since high school until deciding to dive in with me on greenbox, has undoubtedly served as my biggest professional influence. Tagscannabis cultureCannabis Technologycannabis vending machinecannapreneurChief Marketing Officerdispensariesdispensary inventory managementfuture of cannabis retailgreen box roboticsgreenrushintelligent cannabis kioskinventory controllegalize cannabissuccessful cannabis businessZack Johnson The Successful Stoner: 6 Ways this Millennial ... Cannabis Banking is Possible \| Interview with ... A magazine for the higher minded. 5 Dispensary Team Hiring Mistakes Arts & Culture, History, Industry News, Legality My First Amsterdam Coffeeshop Interview with Scott Martin of N2 Packaging Arts & Culture, Featured, Industry News What 4/20 Really Means Featured, Interviews Rob & Kyle – PrestoDoctor Legality, MMJ Dronabinol vs. Cannabis: What’s the Difference? 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__label__cc	0.667606	0.332394	The 12 Days of Kushmas: 12 Growers Growing Uganda Poised to Become Africa’s Next Cannabis Powerhouse You’ve Grown It, Now Own It: How to Master Drying & Curing Cannabis 3C Farms: Maximizing the Entourage Effect You can’t have Kushmas without cannabis, and you can’t have cannabis without cultivators. So, on the 12th Day of Kushmas, my true love gave to me: 12 growers growing! Greg Zeman After spending 12 days celebrating the many festive facets of our favorite plant, it’s high time to give a little recognition to the people who make this all possible: the growers. This isn’t just about making a great joint or bowl — what comes out of the ground decides everything that comes after harvest. For example, any honest extractor will tell you that everything ultimately boils down to the quality of the flowers produced by cultivators, and there is no substitution for growing fire. This list is just a small sampling of the countless cultivators who keep cannabis consumers feeling the holiday spirit all year long. So, to all the cultivators out there: Let it grow, let it grow, let it grow! 1) Utopia Farms – C. Banana This Santa Cruz, California-based cultivator is best known for their award-winning macaroons and their high-potency flagship strain, which tests around 33 percent THC. The “corporate trademark baggage” I mentioned in my profile of the strain formerly known as “Chiquita Banana” finally caught up with Utopia, so now you’ll find their flagship strain sold as “C. Banana.” Rest assured, with it’s pungent sweetness and sky-high potency, it’s still a fantastic stocking stuffer. 2) Mean Gene/Freeborn Selections – Cherry Limeade Mean Gene is more than just a phenomenal breeder and cultivator, he’s a bit of a legend among NorCal cultivators because of his intuitive understanding of cannabis and his massive generosity. Not only does he freely spread long lost or entirely new “colors” for the palettes of breeders seeking unique phenos, he also uses his seemingly bottomless archive of heirloom genetics to raise money for charitable causes within the cultivator community. He’s a gift that keeps on giving, and if you can get a hold of his Cherry Limeade — or anything else he grows — it’s sure to be a holly jolly sesh for you and yours. 3) Fig Farms – Banana Fig 8 There are two basic kinds of good growers: the ones who expertly cultivate and push the limits of already popular strains and phenos and the ones from the Mean Gene school who invent brand new phenos and shatter the expectations of cannabis consumers. Fig Farms is is one of the latter. The farm possesses a deep stash of landrace genetics, and their in-house strains are all masterful expressions of complex, previously unknown terp profiles. One of their finest and most popular is 2017 High Times Cannabis Cup winner, Banana Fig 8, a powerful juxtaposition of a familiar flavor (banana) and the unmistakable but practically unplaceable complexity of their in-house flagship “fig” pheno. Make sure you put some of these trees under the tree this year. 4) Spire Ridge – Alien Spire Ridge used to be multiple farms, which is part of what makes it so exciting. These aren’t just long-time Emerald Triangle growers with a deep knowledge of and love for cannabis, they’re also innovators keeping the traditional way of growing alive in the face of industry upheaval. There are many old school growers fighting to keep a slice of the soon-to-be cooled adult-use pie. And when it comes to their ferociously fiery outdoor flowers, few bring as much heat as the Alien — a hybrid of Alien OG and Lotus X2. If it’s couch lock and euphoria you seek, sit down by the fire and roast some of these dense buds instead of chestnuts — you’ll be glad you did. You can learn more about Spire Ridge in Issue 27 of Cannabis Now. 5) Harry Resin – Super Silver Haze Harry Resin made a name for himself in Amsterdam during its “golden age” by producing bubble hash for coffeeshops there. He went on to cultivate legendary strains, including the incomparable Super Silver Haze, and is working on new breeding projects at his grow in San Francisco, California. If you want an unmatchable expression of classic haze pungency, Harry Resin is your super silver Santa. He’s also a Cannabis Now contributor! 6) Heroes of the Farm – Scooby Snacks I can still almost smell the lingering aroma of Scooby Snacks in my closet, as few terpene profiles I’ve experienced were stronger or more complex. Most of the growers on this list are California-based, but the Heroes of the Farm cultivators are a reminder that the entire Pacific coast is more or less the North Pole of cannabis. You can read more about Scooby Snacks in Issue 24 of Cannabis Now. 7) Northern Emeralds – Titan OG OG Kush is a perennial favorite in California — especially Los Angeles — but also throughout the rest of the country. For that reason, there’s no shortage of cultivators growing it, so picking one is difficult. The gassy phenos are increasing in popularity, and for good reason, but for some Christmas cannabis, it seemed appropriate to pick a piney expression of OG Kush, and the Titan OG from Northern Emeralds delivers like a fat man with a magical sleigh. 8) 3C farms – Sapsquatch The Sapsquatch from 3C Farms took second place in the Cannabis Now mini cup (a hotly contested decision) but it was definitely a top favorite among the staff. 3C is one of those farms with dozens of strains and phenos to choose from, so picking out one is like choosing your gift from the floor of Santa’s workshop. They’ve got a lot of standouts, but you can’t go wrong with this funky staff favorite. 9) CRAFT – Super Lemon Haze CRAFT knows what they’re doing when it comes to cannabis, and their in-house strains are no exception. With famous fans (and funk experts) like George Clinton singing their praises, it’s no surprise that CRAFT has earned a top spot in the NorCal cannabis cosmos. If you have a love of citrus — particularly lemons — the sharp, aggressive lemon edge of Super Lemon Haze will leave you so hungry you might actually consider eating fruit cake. 10) Gold Seal — Red Congo and Cherry Cheesecake Gold Seal is famous for their Cherry Cheesecake, and for good reason. It’s a sweet, mild smoke with potent impacts and loads of bag appeal. But with their recent acquisition of Dragonfish Farms’ exceptional genetic catalog, thanks to a merger with Tyson of Dragonfish, they now also possess one of the most potent and popular sativas to hit NorCal in some time: Red Congolese. With a sharp, flavorful terpene profile and an invigorating but mellow buzz, it’s become a top choice even among cannabis users who usually avoid sativas. If that sounds like you, well, it’s beginning to look a lot like… you know. Keep an eye out for a Gold Seal feature in an upcoming issue of Cannabis Now. 11) Jigga & Cookies Fam – Thin Mint Cookies/GSC The Cookies Fam is a given for this list. Some strains have their moment in the sun and fade into obscurity, either to be lost forever or kept on life support by a small, dedicated cadre of true believers. But then there are the strains that stick around in some incarnation forever — think of OG Kush. By now, it’s no longer a matter of debate; Cookies has also made it on that list. As with any cannabis strain’s lineage and origins, the matter is shrouded in uncertainty and a fair share of controversy. Who “started” the “real” Cookies? Read all about it. But if you just want to enjoy the unmistakable minty-sweet terpene profile of a (relatively) new cannabis classic, you’ll be reaching for the “Thin Mint Cookies” pheno cultivated by Jigga of Cookie Fam and made famous by Berner. These are the Christmas cookies you’re looking for. 12) Sherbinski – Gelato It remains to be seen if Gelato will have the same staying power as Cookies, but it’s still a cannabis connoisseur favorite. And while may growers are running variations of the strain, you have to hand it to the man who created it (largely by accident, as it turns out): Mr. Sherbinski. You can read our profile of Sherbinski and Gelato in Issue 25 of Cannabis Now. Sherbinski’s illustrious roots in the Cookie Fam have certainly helped promote his new strains, but what speaks the loudest is the terps on the Gelato he grows — if they don’t put you in a festive mood, then nothing will. Or you know, maybe you just need some dabs — just saying. TELL US, what growers did we miss? 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__label__cc	0.60072	0.39928	Shareen Davis Wins Chatham Selectmen's Race May 11, 2017 CHATHAM — By a healthy margin of 1,289 votes to 706, Shareen Davis unseated Selectman Seth Taylor in Thursday's annual town election. The unofficial election results were released shortly after polls closed at 8 p.m. The selectmen's race was the only contested one on the ballot. Davis thanked her supporters and election volunteers, and said the series of meet-and-greet events she held during the campaign ga... Read more from Shareen Davis Wins Chatham Selectmen's Race Selectman Candidates Spar Over Pot Sale Comments May 10, 2017 By: Tim Wood CHATHAM – In last-minute ads, fliers and emails, incumbent Selectmen Seth Taylor is criticizing comments made by challenger Shareen Davis regarding the retail sale of marijuana in town. At the League of Women Voters candidate forum April 20, Davis said the town should not dismiss the retail sale of marijuana outright. 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__label__cc	0.61916	0.38084	7.1 Chromosomes And Phenotype Study Guide 7.1 Chromosomes and Phenotype (8 review) carrier organism whose genome contains a gene for a certain trait or disease that is not expressed in the organism’s phenotype sex-linked gene gene that is located on a sex chromosome X chromosome inactivation process that occurs in female mammals in which one of… What Feature Is Shared By Vitamins E And K Chapter 11 – The Fat-Soluble Vitamins A, D, E, and K What is the major carrier of the fat-soluble vitamins from the intestinal epithelial cell to the circulation? Chylomicrons Which of the following is a property of the fat-soluble vitamins? Deficiency symptoms may take years to develop on a poor… In Eukaryotic Cells, Chromosomes Are Composed Of _____. 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__label__wiki	0.87345	0.87345	View From the Cab in Springfield It was already warm as I waited in late morning on a Sunday in June 1977 for the arrival of the westbound Inter-American in Springfield, Illinois. No. 21 was still being pulled by SDP40F locomotives photographing that was my primary objective. I don’t recall if the train was late or on time. It arrived behind a single locomotive and stopped. After getting an external photo that didn’t turn out all that well, I asked the engineer if I could come up to photograph inside the cab. He was an older gentlemen who probably ranked high on the seniority list. At the time, he was an Illinois Central Gulf employee but would have begun his career with the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio or maybe even the Chicago & Alton. This is one of three images that I made inside the cab. The view is looking southward toward St. Louis from the fireman’s side. That is the East Adams Street crossing directly ahead. Beyond that is East Monroe Street and then the tracks cross over East Capitol Avenue on a bridge. Much has changed since this image was made 39 years ago. The ex-GM&O tracks are now owned by Union Pacific and there is just one track now through downtown Springfield. The Inter-American is now the Texas Eagle and no longer operates south of San Antonio to Neuvo Laredo, Texas, as it did in 1977. The SDP40F motive power was replaced with F40PH locomotives and Amfleet equipment about two months after my visit. Officials want to remove these tracks and reroute Amtrak to another path that has far fewer grade crossings. Like so many other photographs made many years ago, this one is full of reminders of how things have changed as well as how they haven’t. Tags:Amtrak, Amtrak in Springfield Illinois, Amtrak in the 1970s, Amtrak SDP40F locomotives, Amtrak's Inter-American, Springfield Illinois Posted in Remembrances \| Leave a Comment » Chance Meeting of 2 Amtrak Trains Amtrak trains pass each other every day on every route, so the practice is common. It can be tricky, though, to know where two trains are going to pass on any given day. Yes, you can determine the likely meeting places based on schedules and how the trains are operating that day. That’s easier to do on single track territory with a set number of passing sidings, but calculating a meeting point can be complicated on a double-track mainline. Back in early August 2008 I was in Mendota, Illinois, to photograph the westbound Carl Sandburg and the eastbound Illinois Zephyr, which were scheduled into there seven minutes apart. The Zephyr was running late and the Sandburg reached the station first. No. 381 had scarcely came to a halt when No. 380 came around the curve. Perhaps this type of meet happens frequently in Mendota, but it was a lucky break for me. Tags:Amtrak, Amtrak in Illinois, Amtrak locomotives, Amtrak P42 locomotives, Amtrak photographs, Amtrak stations, Amtrak trains, Amtrak's Carl Sandburg, Amtrak's Illinois Zephyr, Illinois Amtrak routes, Illinois Amtrak trains, Illinois Zephyr, Mendota Illinois Posted in Amtrak Photos \| Leave a Comment » K.C. Union Station Upgrades Get Underway Construction has begun to renovate the East Public Transit area of Kansas City Union Station to provide better access to the new downtown streetcar system, RideKC buses and Amtrak. The changes will include single-level platform modifications to make them ADA compliant, additional seating areas, a lighted pathway to and from Union Station, and enhanced landscaping with public art displays. Work is expected to be completed by early November with the streetcar platform expected to open first. Officials said that access to the Union Station streetcar stop will not be blocked during construction. Permanent aluminum and bronze sculptures will be installed to serve as one of several focal points in the renovated area. Kansas City Union Station is served by Amtrak Missouri River Runner trains between St. Louis and Kansas City and the Chicago-Los Angeles Southwest Chief. Tags:Amtrak, Amtrak stations, Kansas City streetcar, Kansas City Union Station, RideKC Posted in Other News \| Leave a Comment » Pa. Lawmaker Optimistic About Added Service A Pennsylvania lawmaker is predicting that additional Amtrak service could begin in western Pennsylvania within a year. Using a football anology, Bryan Barbin, a Johnstown Democrat, said that additional trains are not at the first and goal position yet, but are five yards or less away from the goal line. Barbin serves on the House Transportation Committee and spoke with Pennsylvania news media after a meeting of that committee. He said Norfolk Southern will soon tell the state how much it would cost to increase passenger service. Currently, the route between Pittsburgh and Harrisburg is served only by the daily New York-Pittsburgh Pennsylvanian. The region has been lobbying for years for increased service. Although expanded service has support on both sides of the political aisle, lawmakers say that the price and technical details must still be negotiated. “This won’t come to a matter of if, but how much it costs,” Transportation Committee Chairman Rep. John Taylor, R-Philadelphia, said. Lawmakers might gulp if NS demands costly new switches and track improvements. “You’ve got to take one step at a time,” Barbin said. “But what do you need to make the western corridor more like the eastern corridor? You’d have to make improvements on both sides of the Allegheny Mountain.” He said federal grants could help cover the costs for track improvements. “Any time you have a tight budget like we have, it’s never small potatoes. But it’s possible to do it,” Barbin said. Expanded rail passenger service to Pittsburgh has the support of Pittsburgh city government, the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership and the Blair County Chamber of Commerce. Barbin said some in western Pennsylvania have been contrasting the paltry level of rail service in their end of the state with the scale of commuter rail operations in eastern Pennsylvania, particularly the Keystone Service trains from Harrisburg to Philadelphia and New York. Tags:Amtrak, Amtrak in Pennsylvania, Amtrak Keystone Service, Amtrak's Pennsylvanian, intercity rail service IP Looking to the Future as it Celebrates First Year of Operating Chicago-Indy Hoosier State Operation of the Chicago-Indianapolis Hoosier State by Iowa Pacific Holdings has reached the end of the first year of a two-year trial and the results are promising and concerning. Under IP oversight, the average on-time performance has been 86 percent, which was better than the OT average of Amtrak trains of between 60 to 65 percent. Ridership, though, has fallen by 11 percent since IP took over the quad-weekly train from Amtrak on Aug. 2, 2015. The Hoosier State was racking up financial losses that were on track to reach $2 million for the year. On the other hand, ticket revenue has increased by 26 percent and during June the Hoosier State even turned a small profit on the strength of increases in patronage and revenue. IP head Ed Ellis has attributed that turnaround to growth in business class passengers, who pay a premium to receive food and beverage service while riding in a dome car. The Chicago-Indianapolis route is different in that IP and Amtrak both provide service. Amtrak’s tri-weekly Chicago-New York Cardinal uses the route and the Hoosier State operates on days that the Cardinal does not. Ellis told West Lafayette radio station WBAA that the improved timekeeping is a result of establishing personal relationships with Amtrak and every freight rail that hosts the train. “I think, if nothing else, just that level of daily attention has caused everybody else to pay daily attention to the train and has solved the problem,” Ellis said. For its part, IP has focused on ensuring that the equipment is ready to go at departure time, thus eliminating late departures that can have a ripple effect. “ . . . it’s when trains get out of slot that you get more host-related delays because they need to run freight trains. So leaving on time is important,” Ellis said. The Hoosier State is not solely an IP train. Amtrak provides under contract the operating employees and does servicing in Chicago and Indianapolis. IP provides the equipment and handles marketing and promotion although the train is shown on the Amtrak website and Amtrak sells tickets for it. Funding comes from the Indiana Department of Transportation and five communities along the route of the train. The Hoosier State costs about $2.7 million annually to operate. Eventually, all of the parties concerned would like to see it become more self-supporting financially. They would also like to see more service on the route. But Ellis said that will require additional sidings and signal work on the mostly-CSX route that would need to be paid for by the Indiana Department of Transportation. “I think it’s obvious we need more trains, and the only way to do that is for the state to go to the freight railroads and say, ‘What does it take,’ and for the railroads to give us all a number and for us to decide if we can afford to do that,’ ” Ellis said. If Ellis had his way, he would create a new route into Chicago and even use a different terminal. What he has in mind is building a connection in Blue Island between the Metra line from Joliet to the La Salle Street Station and the former Grand Trunk Western mainline that CSX now operates. Writing on Train Orders.com, Ellis said that and other improvements could cost $500 million and cut the Chicago-Indianapolis running time to 3 hours, 20 minutes. Ellis would also like to operate three daily roundtrips between the two cities. He said he wants to trade Chicago terminals because Union Station is crowded but La Salle Street is not. A new Chicago routing would eliminate running on tracks owned by Amtrak, Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific and the Belt Railway of Chicago. In the process, IP would gain a faster route into Chicago and eliminate a congestion- prone junction with the Indiana Harbor Belt in Dolton. If the money was available today Ellis figures it would take a year to 18 months to complete the track improvement work. Given the realities of the situation he said it would more likely take until 2020 to get the improvements made and train frequencies increased. “There is a lot of spade work that has to be done between INDOT, the [Indiana] legislature and CSX on infrastructure improvement,” Ellis wrote on TO. But he sees progress, noting that revenue in July 2016 was 70 percent over that of the same month in 2015. “ . . . so the effects of improved service are beginning to take hold. But there is a long way to go,” he said. Continued political support for Hoosier State funding appears to be building. Indiana lawmaker Tim Brown, a Crawfordsville Republican, is chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, which writes the state’s biennial budget. He admits to having been skeptical at first about funding intercity rail passenger service, but after riding the Hoosier State he came away with a favorable impression. “This experience showed me there is a desire, there is interest in continuing it and growing it, and so I’m more convinced now than two years ago that it’s more appropriate to continue funding,” Brown told WBAA. Brown said that although it is too early to say how much will be allotted for the Hoosier State when the next budget is hammered out in 2017, he expects legislators to approve a line item for passenger rail in the INDOT budget. Tags:Amtrak, Amtrak's Cardinal, Chicago La Salle Street station, Chicago Union Station, Chicago-Indianapolis corridor, CSX, Ed Ellis, Hoosier State, Hoosier State funding, Indiana Department of Transportation, Iowa Pacific, Iowa Pacific Holdings, Iowa Pacific trains Texas Eagle to Detour in Illinois in September Track work on the Chicago-St. Louis corridor in September will result in the cancellation of some Lincoln Service trains and detours for the Texas Eagle. In some instances, Amtrak said it would provide alternative service on chartered buses between St. Louis and Springfield, Illinois. The dates and trains affected are: Train 305 on Sept. 5, 6, 15 and 16 will operate Chicago and Springfield only. Bus service will be provided from Springfield to Carlinville, Alton and St. Louis. Trains 301 and 303 will operate between Chicago and Springfield only on September 6, 7, 16 and 17. Bus service will be provided from Springfield to Carlinville, Alton and St. Louis. On the same dates, Trains 302, 304 and 306 will be replaced with chartered buses from St. Louis to Alton, Carlinville and Springfield. At Springfield, passengers can board their respective trains. Train 300 will be cancelled on Sept. 10 and 11 and bus service will not be provided. Trains 301, 302 and 303 will be cancelled on Sept. 10 and 11 with bus service being provided at all stations on the route. The Texas Eagle will detour between Chicago and St. Louis on Sept. 6, 7, 10, 11, 16 and 17. These dates are for departures from Chicago and St. Louis and not for dates for departures from Texas stations. The detour will be via the former Chicago & Eastern Illinois mainline via Pana, Sullivan, Tuscola and Villa Grove, Illinois. Tags:Amtrak, Amtrak's Lincoln Service, Amtrak's Texas Eagle, Texas Eagle, Texas Eagle detours Posted in Amtrak News \| Leave a Comment » BNSF Track Work to Cancel Heartland Flyer BNSF track work will affect operations of the Heartland Flyer between Oklahoma City and Fort Worth, Texas, in September. Amtrak said Train 822 will be cancelled on Sept. 18. Passengers will be provided bus service at all stations on the route. Train 821 will be cancelled on Sept. 19 with passengers riding a chartered bus. On both dates, bicycles will not be accepted aboard the buses. Amtrak also reminds passengers that new schedules for Nos. 821/822 are now in effect. The primary change is that Train 822 now departs earlier at stations from Gainesville, Texas, to Oklahoma City. Tags:Amtrak, Amtrak service cancelations, Amtrak service disruptions, Amtrak's Heartland Flyer, Heartland Flyer Moorman to be Next Amtrak President Former Norfolk Southern head Charles W. “Wick” Moorman has agreed to become president of Amtrak effective Sept. 1. Moorman, who retired as president and CEO of NS in 2015, will replace Joseph Boardman. In announcing Moorman’s appointment, Amtrak said he had agreed to take a $1 yearly salary but will be eligible for a $500,000 annual bonus if meets specified performance goals. Moorman would be the third Amtrak head to take over after serving as president of a Class I railroad. Graham Claytor Jr. served as Amtrak president from 1982 to 1993 having previously been president of the Southern Railway. Alan Boyd was president of Amtrak between 1978 and 1982 had been president of the Illinois Central Railroad. “I view this as public service,” Moorman told Railway Age Editor-in-Chief William C. Vantuono. “Amtrak is important to the freight rail carriers, and to the country. This is something I really want to do, and I believe I can contribute to making Amtrak a better railroad. I’m sure the work will be interesting, and I hope it will be fun as well.” Moorman said he did not take the job for the money or because he had been unhappy in retirement. In a news release, Moorman said he agreed to take the position because, “it is an honor and privilege to take on the role of CEO at Amtrak, and I look forward to working with its dedicated employees to find ways to provide even better service to our passengers and the nation. At Norfolk Southern, our team fostered change by placing a solid emphasis on performance across all aspects of our business, which helped develop a stronger safety and service culture throughout the company. I look forward to advancing those same goals at Amtrak and helping to build a plan for future growth.” Moorman has more than 40 years in the railroad industry with NS and the Southern. He began his railroad career working on a track gang during college and because a management trainee after graduation. Moorman is a graduate of Georgia Tech University and the Harvard Business School. He served on the boards of Duke Energy Corporation, Chevron Corporation, the Virginia chapter of the Nature Conservancy, and the Georgia Tech Foundation. He had held the post of NS executive chairman until late 2015. “Wick Moorman is a proven railroader whose track record of success demonstrates his commitment and adherence to rail safety, efficiency and service to customers,” said Association of American Railroads President and CEO Ed Hamberger in a statement. “His contributions and leadership in the freight rail industry, I believe, will advance the working partnership the freight railroads have with Amtrak. The AAR and its freight rail members recognize the importance of Amtrak as a reliable U.S. passenger rail service and look forward to working with Wick in his new capacity.” Amtrak Board Chairman Anthony Coscia said in a statement, “We are very pleased that someone with Wick’s experience and vision will lead Amtrak during this critical period as the company charts a course for future growth and improvement.” Coscia expressed optimism that Moorman would improve Amtrak’s relationship with its host freight railroads. “He clearly understands both worlds, and he’s going to be in a position to try to get us all to a much better place,” Coscia said. Tags:Amtrak, Amtrak president, Charles Wick Moorman, Joe Boardman, Norfolk Southern Boston LSL Passengers Riding the Bus Amtrak is substituting a bus for the Boston section of the Lake Shore Limited on Aug. 21-24 due to CSX track work. Buses also are replacing the Boston section this week through Wednesday. Passengers bound for Pittsfield, Springfield, Worcester, Framingham and Boston (South Station) will board a bus at the Albany-Rensselaer station to continue their journey or board at their intermediate station if originating east of Albany. The bus will not stop at Boston Back Bay station. Westbound passengers will also board a bus at their boarding station except at Boston Back Bay, which is not being served during the time when Nos. 448 and 449 are not operating. Back Bay passengers are advised to contact MBTA for travel information to or from that station. Passengers boarding at Boston South Station should go to the Amtrak Information Desk for instructions on boarding the buses. Those boarding at Framingham will board their bus at the drop-off/pick-up area for the Track 2 platform (at Waverly Street). Worcester passengers should go downstairs to the intercity bus area and board the bus marked Premier Bus. Tags:Amtrak, Amtrak service, Amtrak service disruptions, Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited, Boston section of Lake Shore Limited, Lake Shore Limited Multi-Ride Ticket Limits Extended in Missouri The 10-ride ticket policy for travel on the St. Louis-Kansas City Missouri River Runner service has been changed to allow passengers a longer period of time to use their tickets. A 10-ride ticket purchased on or after Aug. 15 will be valid for 180 days, which is triple the limit of previous tickets. All multi-ride Tickets are refundable and exchangeable prior to first use, but they are not transferable. These tickets can be purchased at Amtrak.com, using Amtrak’s mobile apps or by calling 1-800-USA-RAIL (1-800-872-7245). Tags:Amtrak, Amtrak in Missouri, Amtrak multi-ride tickets, Amtrak's Missouri River Runner, Missouri, Missouri Amtrak service, Missouri River Runner You are currently browsing the Amtrak in the Heartland blog archives for August, 2016.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line1068
__label__wiki	0.575091	0.575091	Phil Voysey Cheryle Yin-Lo Cultural and Emotional Intelligence Training Personal Development Coaching Professional Coaching (Coaching Across Cultures) Volunteering Programs Chicuchas Wasi Mother Language Day Border Post: An Inclusive Australian Constitution Phil November 17, 2017 0 Section 44 of the Australian Constitution that makes it illegal for Members of Parliament to hold dual citizenship is an anachronism in modern, multicultural Australia that needs to be changed, if not as an immediate priority then certainly in the long term. The ethos of multiculturalism is unity in diversity. In all aspects of Australian life people are encouraged to express their cultural identities while accepting that under Australian law we are one people with the same rights. Where cultural practices such as arranged marriages with minors contradict Australian law the law is upheld. The recent decision on the illegibility of six members of parliament on the basis of dual citizenship, while true to the constitution, is not true to the spirit of modern Australia. Multiculturalism promotes inclusion. Section 44 is exclusive and discourages dual citizens from participating in our parliament. We no longer suffer the tyranny of distance. Surely, in a globalized world, we want to encourage people who have diverse cultural perspectives and overseas connections to become decision makers at the highest level in our democracy. The argument that Section 44 guarantees loyalty to Australia just doesn’t stack up. Citizenship status does not of itself ensure loyalty and the upholding of national interest in decision making or prevent corruption. We have ample evidence of that in recent times. If the Australian Government was serious about safeguarding the integrity of our democracy it would ban foreign donations and create a federal ICAC. But more importantly perhaps, the ruling of the High Court speaks to a part of our constitution that entrenches an outdated sense of national identity, a sense of us and them. The majority of Australians have more than one culture, rendering the old debate about what it means to be Australian, forged in theatres of war, on sporting fields and at times of national disaster, meaningless. We are many cultures and many identities, a country connected to the rest of the world through our diversity, our history, through trade, business, sport and the arts. Our democracy should reflect this. Let’s keep in mind too that culture and identity are constructed realities that are constantly evolving. What’s more, debates about Australian identity corrupt and constrain the development of policy on key global issues such as climate change, energy policy and asylum seekers, where narrow national self interest repeatedly triumphs over larger ethical questions of what is environmentally responsible and humane. Surely we want our politicians to be both loyal to Australia and have a global perspective. We should be inviting people with dual citizenship and international connections to participate. Let’s stop debating who or what qualifies as Australian, in whatever context. Let’s insist that the constitution is consistent with the diverse, inclusive society we are. The bigger question is this: what does it mean to be an ethical, responsible and compassionate human being in the twenty first century? Border Crossings Blog Border Post:Day of the Dead Border Post: Pamberi Ni Zimbabwe Subscribe me to the blog. Sign up below to receive an email when there's a new blog post to read. Border Post: Cultural Intelligence and Leadership If Wishes Were Horses Beggars Would Ride George Lombard on The Inspiration of Ramadan At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time. Friedrich Nietzsche Migration Heritage Centre Bangla Academy Australia Blue Mountains Refugee Support Group Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute Centre for Culture and Climate Change Hands Across the Andes Andess Taste of Native America Australian Latin American Business Council Cultural Detective Drik Photo Library in Bangladesh Refugee Council of Australia Copyright © 2019 Cultural Connexions. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line1072
__label__cc	0.59431	0.40569	Home › The Porch Discussion 2016 Single 2016 Single mace1229 Posts: 3,505 PJForceofNature said: I'm thinking that maybe they don't know when the single will be mailed out, so are waiting to tell us when they know. Then come out and say "even though 2018 is only 2 months away, we still have no idea what we are doing for the 2016 single. Our apologies folks" Hawk123 Posts: 1,502 mace1229 said: Exactly, just communicate one way or another. A simple message will go a long way and stop all of the threads/speculation. erocshifty Posts: 958 Double a-side Murphy's Rooftop set?? It's probably something special, hence the silence? Staying on the bright side.. Tour dates in the Spring, new record not far? @dimitrispearljam , what do you know? lol...=) "It's best to live in grace before you're forced to." EV- 10/09/2014 fotd Posts: 512 This was in the July newsletter. Any update on the 2016 Ten Club Single & Deep Magazine? 10.20.01 11.29.01 Brad 06.02.03 06.03.03 10.25.03 10.23.04 Eddie 07.09.06 07.10.06 07.12.06 10.21.06 10.20.12 Eddie 11.04.12 Eddie 08.20.16 08.27.16 Eddie Banjo Posts: 219 There's a bunch of threads on this already. And the answer is no, there haven't been any updates 09/01/2000 Camden, NJ; 09/04/2000 Columbia, MD; 04/28/2003 Philadelphia Spectrum;07/06/2003 Camden, NJ; 07/08/2003 Madison Square Garden, NYC; 09/30/2005 Atlantic City, NJ; 05/27/2006 Camden, NJ; 06/17/2008 Virginia Bch, VA; 08/07/2008 (EV solo) Newark, NJ; 06/11/2009 (EV solo) Upper Darby, PA; 06/14/2009 (EV solo) Baltimore, MD; 10/28/2009 Philadelphia Spectrum; 10/31/2009 Philadelphia Spectrum; 05/01/2010 NOLA Jazz Fest; 05/18/2010 Newark, NJ; 05/21/2010 Madison Square Garden, NYC, Nami NewfoundlandPosts: 5,724 Stephan is that you? HM!!!! Hamilton 9-13-05; Toronto 5-9-06, Toronto 8-21-09, Toronto 9-12-11, Hamilton 9-15-11.... kramer73 Posts: 2,155 LOL are you serious. ski-bum Posts: 855 October 2017 edited October 2017 Post edited by ski-bum on October 2017 9/15/98 - Great Woods................9/29/04 - Fleet Center.....................8/02/08 - Opera House (EV)............10/16/13 - DCU Center 8/29/00 - Tweeter Center............5/24/06 - Banknorth Garden............5/17/10 - Banknorth Garden.............08/05/16 - Fenway Park 7/11/03 - Tweeter Center............5/25/06 - Banknorth Garden............6/16/11 - Wang Theatre (EV)............08/07/16 - Fenway Park 9/28/04 - Fleet Center................6/30/08 - Tweeter Center FR181798 Posts: 1,143 Maybe if we take over the porch by having the entire first page with these 2016 single threads then someone might take notice. I'm off to open a new thread now. 2-feign-reluctance Posts: 17,959 Halts Maul! www.cluthelee.com broloco Posts: 1,213 Hawk123 said: I just got an email today to renew for 2018...so I think we could/should get an email about what's going on for 2016 single?! Come on PJ/10C: it's not that hard to give us some info. You guys are pretty much a year behind. With all due respect it's not that hard to slap something together especially if it's a live song that is already been recorded. Same with DEEP mag: a recipe and some photos shouldn't take that long. With all due respect we deserve some respect. brewdog123 ATLPosts: 298 With all due respect we deserve some respect. PB11041 EarthPosts: 1,311 His eminence has yet to show. http://www.hi5sports.org/ (Sports Program for Kids with Disabilities) http://www.livefootsteps.org/user/?usr=3652 1996 - 9/21, 9/28, 9/29 1998 - 5/1, 8/22, 8/25, 8/26, 8/28, 9/8, 9/10, 9/11 1999 - 10/30, 10/31 (left early due to flight grrr) 2000 - 4/12, 8/4, 8/6, 8/23, 8/24, 8/25, 8/27 2003 - 4/28, 4/29, 5/3, 6/29, 7/5, 7/6, 7/8, 7/9, 7/14 2005 - 9/15, 9/16 2006 - 5/12 2016 - 4/29, 8/7 2018 - 9/4 kathynek of the earthPosts: 48 Per July 2017: "2016 Ten Club Single & Deep Magazine Update! We will be pulling the mailing list for the 2016 Analog Members. Please be sure to update your Primary Shipping Address in your Account by August 1, 2017." ...coming soon!?!?! * St. Louis, MO - 02 July 1998 * Chicago, IL - 09 Oct 2000 * St. Louis, MO - 11 Oct 2000 * Champaign, IL - 23 April 2003 * Las Vegas, NV - 06 June 2003 * Kansas City, KS - 12 June 2003 * Chicago, IL - 18 June 2003 * St. Louis, MO - 05 Oct 2004 * Chicago, IL - 16 May 2006 * Milwaukee, WI - 29 June 2006 * Chicago, IL - 05 Aug 2007 * Chicago, IL - 24 Aug 2008 * Nashville, TN - 17 June 2009 * Nashville, TN - 18 June 2009 * Chicago, IL - 23 Aug 2009 * St. Louis, MO - 04 May 2010 * Chicago, IL - 28 June 2011 * St. Louis, MO - 01 July 2011 * East Troy, WI - 03 Sept 2011 * East Troy, WI - 04 Sept 2011 * Chicago, IL - 19 July 2013 * Chicago, IL - 09 July 2015 * Chicago, IL 20 Aug 2016 61 days till 2018 A "silver jubilee" package perhaps? hsohi Posts: 991 Maybe they are waiting until 2020. Big things happening in 2020. London Ontario 2013, Buffalo New York 2013, Lincoln Nebraska 2014, Quebec City 2016 Enzed NZPosts: 273 Perhaps it’s because of Trump? No single since the Donald has been in charge? Auckland 1 1995 EV (Neil Finn and Friends, April 2, 2001) High Fidelity 2000 New Mexico USAPosts: 4,341 It's almost 2018... so... any day now. Or not. Who knows. ABQ 93, Las Cruces 95, ABQ 98, Bridge School 10/30/99, Lubbock 00, ABQ 00, Denver 03, State College 03, San Diego 03, Vegas 03, PHX 03, D.C. 03, Camden 7/5/03, NYC 7/8/03 + 7/9/03, Vegas 06, San Francisco 7/15/06 + 7/16/06 + 7/18/06, Kansas City 10, EV:ABQ 11/6/12, Chicago 13, PHX 13, Denver 14--PJ24!, Telluride 16, Chicago 8/20/16 New Mexico Pearl Jam Fans (New Mexico, USA) on Facebook! RiotAct10 OhioPosts: 1,373 It has reached a point, where if they haven't pressed the 2016 single, they could save a lot of money (at least on shipping) if they just did a double single for 2016 & 2017 and sent that out. words seem so out of place. 8.21.00, 6.24.03, 5.6.10 Columbus 5.20.06, 5.9.10 Cleveland \| 8.5.07, 7.19.13 Chicago 7.9.03 NYC \| 10.2.04 Toledo \| 9.11.05 Kitchener 5.7.10 Noblesville \| 9.3.11, 9.4.11 East Troy 10.11.13 Pittsburgh \| 10.1.14 Cincinnati 4.8.16 Ft. Lauderdale \| 4.9.16 Miami 8.8.18, 8.10.18 Seattle 6.26.11 Detroit (EdVed) \| 9.23.17 Louisville (EdVed) im in for them saving money. please let us know! demetrios canadaPosts: 56,096 RiotAct10 said: It would be great if they did release a double 7" vinyl . Maybe it'll include the jams played up on Murphy's Rooftop back in '16. PJ_Soul Vancouver, BCPosts: 47,459 Would be great, but I paid for an analog membership in 2016 and not in 2017. Maybe I would just get half the double single, lol. With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata PJ_Soul said: Lol. They could also save on shipping if they tore the double single in half because the weight would be less. Live performances from the UJA luncheon in June 2017: A side: Eddie Vedder - Without You B side: Eddie Vedder & Stone Gossard - Daughter RoleModelsinBlood31 Austin TXPosts: 4,742 Pap said: Oh yeah? I'm like an opening band for your mom. ^ Wishful thinking... My membership renewed yesterday. I have paid for two years of an Analog membership and have received the exact same benefits as a Digital member...but I've paid about $60 more. While I would like to see the singles for the last two years, I really don't want them to rush something together now after all this time and rehash live recordings. Imagine if the 2 years worth of singles were unreleased outtakes of studio/album songs. I know of a few from Avocado that would make people's heads spin. I also remember Mike in an MTV interview saying after Backspacer they might go back into the studio and put together an EP of songs that didn't make the album. Let's hear those! I'm sorry...I just want new PJ music. justam Posts: 21,301 I think the real elephant in the room is that they don’t seem to want to make a holiday single anymore. There is absolutely no enthusiasm for the project. Not only no enthusiasm, they can’t even seem to force themselves to do it! The real question for the curious is “why?” &&&&&&&&&&&&&& KC138045 Columbus, OHPosts: 2,669 justam said: Almost 26 years together as a band. They're all older with families and have other projects besides Pearl Jam. Priorities and interest change over time. Columbus-2000 Cincinnati-2006 Wrigley-2013 Lexington-2016 Wrigley 1 & 2-2018	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line1080
__label__cc	0.653401	0.346599	50: Bret Gregory: How to Achieve High Outcomes as a Conscious Entrepreneur Expertise: Training & Coaching [one-half] [/one-half] [one-half last] [/one-half] What does it mean to be a Conscious Entrepreneur? Join us as Bret shares his journey as a successful entrepreneur and provides an inside view on how you can make money by making a difference and become a Conscious Millionaire. Discover how to become a Successful Entrepreneur. Bret is passionate about health and wellness and teaching enlightened entrepreneurs how to thrive and grow their business using Facebook. He knew that without customers, his own business would fail, so he set out on a mission to succeed and save his business. He focused on using Facebook to get customers. After a lot of trial and error, and some financial investment he finally figured it out. He quickly grew a page to 200,000 fans, drove traffic to a website and got 2,400 email address opt-ins. From those opt-ins the subsequent sales totaled $1.5 million dollars and saved his business. Now, he teaches you, the enlightened entrepreneur, how to thrive and grow your business on Facebook. He’d like to show you how to do things effectively the first time around so that you can use Facebook to attract new customers to your business now. What is a marketing strategy that has generated profit and sales for your business? Bret’s strategy for sales was starting a free weekly live class. This got him more customers than any other marketing strategy. For profits, Bret uses recurring revenue business model, such as starting with a high end coaching model where you sign up customers on a 6 month agreement. Is there a success book you recommend? The Lean Entrepreneur by Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits – Get the Book What is the legacy that you hope to leave? Bret would like to leave a legacy of helping other people achieve better health and wellness, as well as higher consciousness to have people go out to help others around them. Would you like to promote a cause that you support? The Wellness Community– Learn More Links from this Interview: Bret’s FREE GIFT to you: Get the top 15 all-time, most viral templates to grow likes free at: fbfreephoto.com free Follow Bret: Bret’s Website: attractcustomersnow.com Connect on: Facebook \| Twitter LifeVantage: Discover some of the most advance health products on the planet! Maximize your health as a successful entrepreneur! LifeVantage	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line1083
__label__wiki	0.74728	0.74728	Carrie Ann Inaba To Replace Julie Chen On ‘The Talk’ By Lisa de Moraes, Patrick Hipes December 6, 2018 1:55pm Shutterstock/CBS Carrie Ann Inaba, the longtime Dancing With the Stars judge who guest-hosted on CBS’ The Talk during Julie Chen’s pre-departure hiatus, is replacing Chen on the show permanently, Deadline has confirmed. Inaba and Rosie O’Donnell mostly filled Chen’s seat for guest stints back in September, after Chen announced just before the talk show’s new season began that she was taking time off after husband and CBS Corp CEO Leslie Moonves was fired amid sexual misconduct allegations. Chen soon after announced on The Talk, via videotape, that she was exiting permanently. In that message, she voted for Inaba to get the gig, telling her as she guest host that day: “In my opinion, you look awfully good sitting there, my Asian sister. I’m just saying!” Announcement comes after Inaba guest hosted every day this week. According to Variety, which broke the story today, Inaba will join the show in January. Chen will continue to host CBS’ Big Brother. This article was printed from https://deadline.com/2018/12/carrie-ann-inaba-the-talk-julie-chen-replacement-cbs-1202515526/	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line1089
__label__wiki	0.58429	0.58429	Newsletter No 3 (April 1993) ISSN 0966‑999X No. 3 April 1993 FIFTH WORLD CONGRESS OF SLAVISTS, Warsaw 1995 COSEELIS has received information about plans for the librarians’ contributions to the World Congress of Slavists to be held in Warsaw in 1995. This information has been provided by Dr Horst von Chmielewski of the Johann-Gottfried-Herder-Institut (Marburg/Lahn). The main reason for producing this current Newsletter so quickly in the wake of the last is that we need to react fairly swiftly to suggestions for librarians’ contributions already put forward, especially as these will be discussed soon at two international meetings of librarians: i) in Warsaw, May 1993 and ii) in The Hague, June 1993. Suggestions so far are being coordinated by Dr Wojciech Zalewski who has been nominated by the AAASSS Librarians as their contact person. Programme ideas fall into two categories: i) panels for the main congress, and ii) sessions for a possible pre-conference (not necessarily in Warsaw) along the lines of the Cambridge conference which took place before the Harrogate congress in 1990. i) Suggestions for panels: 1. Displaced collections: books, archives, art objects, as a result of World War Two 2. National bibliographies, sharing data 3. Computerised subject bibliographies 4. Artistic books – their cultural mission 5. Impact of books beyond national and cultural borders ii) Suggestions for the possible pre-conference: 1. Preservation 2. Access: physical and bibliographic to resources 3. Library support for publication of expensive sets, eg documents, sources, parliamentary proceedings, etc (ie categories of materials whose publication depends heavily on the library market 4. Book exchanges 5. Workshop for bookdealers (especially newer firms), where library needs, procedures, blanket orders, invoicing, advertising etc 6. Bibliographic control of former non-official publications 7. Subject bibliographies including the European Bibliography and ABSEES Dr Chmielewski is keen to receive reactions to these and/or new ideas so that they might be discussed at the following two conferences coming up shortly. It would also be very useful if some members of COSEELIS could attend one or other of them: i) May 1993 (probably 17th-19th, exact date not known at time of going to press). Meeting of Polish librarians in Warsaw with Dr Chmielewski and Dr Zalewski. This will be dedicated exclusively to discussing the participation of librarians at the Congress and at the possible pre-conference. The presence of colleagues from other countries would be welcome. The date has been chosen to enable participation in the Warsaw Book Fair. Anyone interested in attending this conference should contact Dr Horst von Chmielewski, Johann-Gottfried-Herder-Institut, Gisonenweg 5-7, 3550 Marburg-an-der-Lahn. Tel: 06421/184150. Fax 06421/184139. ii) 7th-10th June 1993. ABDOS [Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Bibliotheken und Dokumentationsstellen der Ost-, Ostmittel- und Sudosteuropaforschung] Conference in The Hague. Dr Chmielewski will report on the results of the Warsaw conference. Information about the ABDOS conference, including the programme of sessions, can be found in the latest number of ‘Mitteilungen der Arbeitsgemeinschaft… (ABDOS)’, 1993, no.1. Anyone wishing to attend the conference should contact Dr Franz Görner, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Osteuropaabteilung, Potsdamer Str 33, D-W 1000 Berlin 33. Tel: 030/266-2429. Comments and suggestions from COSEELIS should be sent to Tania Konn, Glasgow University Library, Hillhead Street, Glasgow G12 8QE. Tel: 041-339-8855 ext 6735. Fax: 041‑357‑5043. COSEELIS ANNUAL CONFERENCE This year’s conference is being organised by Charlotte Sing of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester and will be held at Langley Hall, University of Manchester on 23 and 24 September. More details and a provisional programme will be circulated at the end of April. Charlotte may be contacted at John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PP. Tel: 061-275-3726. Fax: 061 272 7488. It is hoped that the Annual Conference 1994 will take place in Belfast. ACQUISITIONS PROBLEMS At the COSEELIS Committee Meeting on 16 March we discussed the continuing problems of acquiring materials from the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. It remains extremely difficult to find out i) what is being published and ii) how to acquire and pay for material. We decided it might be a good idea to use this Newsletter to publicise any useful new booksellers or distribution agencies, which have proved to be effective. Names and addresses (plus telephone and fax if possible) of any such individuals or organisations should be sent to the Editor of this Newsletter along with a brief description of the type of material offered. Meanwhile, the Editor herself would like to recommend the following: 1. Onegin Books. SSEES Library has been using this service since November last year and has received several deliveries of books. Onegin Books offers a catalogue every 2‑3 months of Russian titles emanating not only from Moscow and St Petersburg but from other cities within the Russian Federation. Subjects covered include recent politics, economics, law, as well as history, literature, literary criticism and dictionaries. The books are supplied quickly and the prices are reasonable; prices are quoted in US dollars, DM and sterling. Most titles to date have been priced between £3.00 and £8.00. Dictionaries are more expensive at £12.50-£13.50. Onegin Books have also agreed to search for titles listed in Knizhnoe obozrenie but have not yet managed to supply any of our requests. Queries should be addressed to: Rita Nyqvist, Onegin Books, Siltasaarenkatu 15 D 97, 00530 Helsinki 53, Finland. 2. SSEES have recently also been using the Polish book supplier Maciej Wolinski, recommended by Janet Zmroczek in her article for the last Newsletter. So far our experience with his firm Lexicon has been good. In December last year the Editor visited his office in Warsaw and saw the range of his stock. He has many contacts throughout Poland and is therefore able to supply books published outside Warsaw as well as academic publications which have very short print runs. He produces a catalogue every few months, prices are very reasonable, he supplies orders quickly and has a bank account into which we can pay directly. Wolinski is also able to supply subscriptions to the invaluable new selection tool Notes Wydawniczy (also mentioned in Janet’s article). Maciej Wolinski, Ksiegarnia Wysylkowa ‘Lexicon’, Skr poczt 957, 00-950 Warszawa, Poland. Tel: 49-98-38 or 22-70-37. Fax: 46-17-44. 3. Russian Press Service, 1805 Crain Street, Evanston, Illinois, IL 60202, USA. SSEES has received their very useful lists from which we have selected material and received a fast response. So far we have only sent one batch of orders so it is rather difficult to judge them on the basis of this. Does anyone else have more experience of them? Prices are rather higher than Onegin Books: we have been paying 10-16 US dollars for paperbacks. 4. Zwemmer Russian Centre. We have been discussing with Zwemmers the possibility of their supplying us with Russian books after receiving advertising material about their new Russian Centre. They have opened a branch in Moscow called Zwemmer Moscow which claims to be ‘the first, and so far, the only English bookshop in Russia’. They also intend to supply books from other East European countries. Mrs Z Radosavljevic, who is the contact for East European books, responded positively to our request to search for specific titles chosen by us from Knizhnoe obozrenie. (None of the titles 1 ordered has yet materialised). Initial enquries should be directed to Philip Wilson, Chairman, Zwemmer Russian Centre, 28 Denmark Street, London WC2H 8NJ (Bookshop information: 071-379-7886 ext 231) or to Mrs Radosavljevic at 26 Litchfield Street. In addition the Committee agreed it would be a good idea for anyone travelling to Eastern Europe, Russia or other countries of the former Soviet Union, to help colleagues in other libraries by relaying experiences or by buying material (where physically and financially possible). This could be done directly or through the medium of this Newsletter. The British Library (Humanities & Social Sciences) is to acquire the POLSKIE ARCHIWUM BIOGRAFICZNY on microfiche published by K G Saur (Münich, 1992-95). The BL has recently received the first instalments which cover names beginning with A-G. It is a compilation of ca.230 biographical reference works dating from the 17th to the 20th centuries. At the time of writing the set is not yet catalogued so if anyone wants to use it or needs further information, please contact Janet Zmroczek, Slavonic and East European Collections, Humanities and Social Sciences, British Library, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. Tel: 071-323-7586. In Janet Zmroczek’s article on her visit to Poland in COSEELIS Newsletter no.2, January 1993, the name of the BUW librarian responsible for exchanges with the UK was given incorrectly. Her name is Maria Szelegiewicz, not Maria Sztaudynger. MATERIAL ON OFFER i) The Library of Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, wishes to dispose of the following. Anyone interested should contact Susan Boyde or Mary Bone before the end of May on 071-957-5700. Fax: 071-957-5710. 1. For A Lasting Peace, For A People’s Democracy! International Comiform Journal, Comiform Bucharest. (Weekly) 2. Newsletter From Behind The Iron Curtain; The Baltic Review occasionally News From Behind the Iron Curtain. Estonian Information Centre, Stockholm or Estonian Council in Canada. (Irregular) 1950-58 nos 186-420 (incomplete) 3. [Various titles] (Irregular) a) Information Service of Free Czechoslovakia b) Reports From Behind The Iron Curtain, Information Service of Free Czechoslovakia c) Features & News From Behind The Iron Curtain London. April 1949-December 1960. Vol I, no.1 – Vol. XII, no.48. 4. Romania: Collection of Laws, Decrees, Rsolutions and Decisions Translated by US & British delegations in Bucharest as supplements to their respective Press Reviews. 1952. 5. a) Yugoslav Bulletin (to October) later: b) TANJUG, Yugoslav News Agency (October 1949 onwards). (Weekly) London, Yugoslav News Agency Tanjug, 1949-1958. 6. Croatia Press: Review & News Bulletin (founded in 1947). Rome, Cleveland (Ohio) and New York. September 1952-1960. ii) SSEES Library wishes to dispose of the following newspapers of which we have duplicate issues. Any requests or queries should be directed to Ursula Phillips or Ann Smith by 30th June. Tel: 071-637-4934, ext. 4094 or 4018. 1. Rossiia, 1992. Nos. 10-38 (very few gaps) 2. Rossiiskaia gazeta, 1992 (very few gaps) 3. Nezavisimaia gazeta, 1992 (very few gaps) 4. Megapolis Express, nos 1-45 (very few gaps) 5. Kuranty, 1992, issues for 28-29 January, 15th February-29 September (some gaps), 4th November. GUIDE TO LIBRARIES IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE The Guide to libraries in Central and Eastern Europe, compiled by Maria Hughes (an information management specialist) for The British Library’s Science Reference and Information Service, covers 27 Central and East European countries and includes details on 235 libraries. Detailed indexes offer geographic and subject access. The Guide also contains specially commissioned maps. It can be ordered from The Publications Sales Unit, The Publications Sales Unit, The British Library, Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, LS23 8BQ. Tel: 0937-546077. The Guide costs £30.00. ISBN 0-7123-0795-8. Price includes UK postage. Overseas postage is charged extra, contact the Publications Sales Unit for further information. Here are the e-mail addresses received so far. (I hope to organise this listing a bit better next time!) Aspden, Lawrence. University of Sheffield Library. LB1LCA@UK.AC.SHEFFIELD.PRIMEA Freeman, John. Library, SSEES. JFREEMAN@UK.AC.ULCC.CLUS1 Hudson, Grace. J B Priestly Library, University of Bradford. G.L.HUDSON@UK.AC.BRADFORD Kidd, J University of St Andrews Library. LIBRARY@UK.AC.ST-AND Konn, Tania. Glasgow University Library. LIBRARY@UK.AC.GLASGOW.VME Phillips, Ursula. Library, SSEES. URSULAP@UK.AC.ULCC.CLUS1 Pitman, Lesley. Library, SSEES. L-PITMAN@uk.AC.ULCC.CLUS1 Reedy, Katharine, University of Westminster. REEDYK@UK.AC.WESTMINSTER Screen, J E O Library, SSEES, J-SCREEN@UK.AC.ULCC.CLUS1 Scrivens, Ray. Cambridge University Library. RS@UK.AC.CAM.ULA Sing, Charlotte. John Rylands University Library of Manchester. CRSING&UK.AC.MAN.LI.FSI Walker, Gregory. Bodleian Library, Oxford. GPMW@UK.AC.OX.VAX Editor U. Phillips, School of Slavonic and East European Studies. University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU. Tel: 071-637-4934 ext 4094. Fax: 071‑436‑8916. © COSEELIS. 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__label__cc	0.607471	0.392529	Commission launches the "Smart Specialisation platform" to further boost innovation in the EU regions On June 23, 2011, the Commission launched the "smart specialisation platform" to support regions and Member States in better defining their research and innovation strategies. As there is no "one-size-fits-all" policy solution, the new facility will help the regions to assess their specific Research and Innovation (R&I) strengths and weaknesses and build on their competitive advantage. This is another step on the path to achieving the objectives set by the Member States in the field of research and innovation as part of the Europe 2020 strategy. The related press release reports about this new activity. A look at the "European Regional Innovation Scoreboard" shows that there is considerable diversity in regional innovation performance all over Europe. Only 27 EU regions – one in ten – have achieved the goal of investing 3% of gross domestic product (GDP) in research and development. With regard to small and medium enterprises (SMEs), the European innovation landscape shows marked contrasts: the share of innovative SMEs in 2008, ranged from 13% in Hungary to 46% in Germany. There is a relative lack of vision in setting R&I priorities in Europe: sometimes either no clear priorities are defined or priorities are just copied from one region to another. The new platform aims at encouraging national and regional authorities to design "smart specialisation strategies". Each region should identify its best assets and R&I potential in order to concentrate its efforts and resources on a limited number of priorities where it can really develop excellence and compete in the global economy. The platform brings together expertise from universities, research centres, regional authorities and businesses. Regional Policy Commissioner Johannes Hahn said: "Regional Policy is already largely supporting innovation in the regions. But we must ensure that the EU investment creates the best possible impact on the ground. The platform will help the regions in designing forward-looking, well-designed and integrated strategies to further boost innovation, Europe's key driver for competitiveness." Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science added: "This smart specialization platform demonstrates the Commission's determination to bring regional policy and research and innovation policy closer together in order to get the best possible results in terms of growth and jobs. The platform will help policymakers and businesses to make full use of research and innovation potential and talent in every part of the Union. The ultimate aim is to foster and develop all over Europe the kind of world-class excellence in science and innovation that today is confined to only a few EU regions. That is a necessity if we are to transform Europe into an Innovation Union and create jobs where they are most needed." The platform is launched today at the "Regions for Economic Change conference" in Brussels, the annual meeting point of Europe's structural fund managers. Smart Specialisation Strategies These are multi-annual strategies defining a policy mix and budgetary framework focusing on a limited number of priorities to stimulate smart growth. The strategy is based on a strong partnership between regional authorities, the business community and stakeholders from research and academia. These strategies should not only target science and technology-led innovation but also foster innovation that is non-science based (i.e stimulating entrepreneurship, innovation in the public sector and service innovation). It should also ensure a more effective and complementary use of EU investments in the regions and help leverage private investments towards the regions' areas of specialisation. An example of such a strategy is "Flanders in Action", a plan by which Flanders wants to rank among the top five knowledge-intensive regions in Europe in 2020. The role of the platform This new structure, also called the S³ platform, will provide direct assistance to regions and Member States in developing, implementing and monitoring smart specialisation strategies, it will: provide feed-back and information to Member States and regions; create and manage databases of policy-makers, experts etc; promote an annual meeting on smart specialisation for policy-makers; share information and knowledge (prepare a guide for policy-makers, case studies, a peer review methodology to assess the smart specialisation strategies etc.). Where and Who? The platform is established at the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (Joint Research Centre) in Seville in Spain for three years. It is run by a steering team bringing together representatives of several Commission services. All EU regions can participate in the platform. Developing smart specialisations strategies is important not just for those regions at the cutting edge but also those that are still developing their capacities. http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu/s3platform.html http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/themes/research/publications_en.htm Ton Van Lierop (+32 2 296 65 65) Marie-Pierre Jouglain (+32 2 298 44 49) Source: http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/776&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en Activities of the S³Platform The brand new web-gateway to the smart specialisation platform is under construction at the moment and will be available at the latest by the end of 2011. How can regions and Member States join the Platform? If you wish to take part to the works of the S³Platform, you should REGISTER stating your interest to join in a mail to jrc-ipts-s3platform@ec.europa.eu, together with the following information: 1. The designated department/body and persons that will be responsible for the work with the platform. 2. A chart/diagram illustrating the bodies and responsibilities regarding the drafting and coordination of innovation strategies including names and contacts (in this diagram the national/regional coordination should be clarified if relevant for the country). 3. Commitment to develop a webpage on smart specialization, which will be eventually linked to the S3 portal. 4. Commitment to use the Technical Assistance of Structural Fund programmes or other financial resources available in order to participate to the works of the S³Platform. Once received the request to join and the required information, the S³Platform will forward questionnaire on smart specialisation and regional innovation. You will have to fill the questionnaire and send it back to the S³Platform in order to activate your registration. Geographical focus: EU Member States Created by: Desiree Pecarz S3P ONLINE SURVEY on Examples of Successful Inter-regional and Trans-national R&I Partnerships The S3 Platform is launching an online survey on examples of successful inter-regional and trans-national R&I partnerships implementing past and current... Guide on regional/national Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS³) This guide has been conceived as a methodological guidance for policy-makers and implementing bodies on how to prepare for and how to design, draft... European Commission - Joint Research Centre - Institute for Prospective Technology Studies, Spain The Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), which will carry out the proposed project, is one of the seven scientific institutes of the... The RIS3 KEY for Self-Assessment RIS3 - Regional research and innovation strategies for smart specialisation - will become an ex-ante conditionality in the EU Structural Funds 2014...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line1115
__label__wiki	0.550098	0.550098	This is a bicameral parliament. Switch to theSenate Presidential system Historical data for IPU membership Year IPU membership Basic information such as the official name of parliament and details of its structure and leadership. Also includes the current breakdown of MPs by sex and age, and provisions for quotas and reserved seats. Parliament name Chamber name Structure & Status of parliament This field is to indicate lower/upper in the back end. Parliamentary term (years) IPU membership Affiliation periods from 1889-01 to 2003-10 Official title The Speaker may for example be known as the Presiding Officer, President, Chairman/Chairperson, etc. Nancy Pelosi (Female) Historical data for Speaker Paul D. Ryan (Male) Official title This post is most commonly called Secretary General or Clerk. It may also be called Secretary, Head/Chief of the Secretariat, Director General, etc. Clerk of the House Cheryl Johnson (Female) Notes Additional information about the Secretary General, in particular regarding their term. Sworn in on 25 Feb. 2019. Statutory number of members Statutory number of members, as defined in the constitution or other fundamental law. Principal mode of designation of members Directly elected Directly elected members Directly elected by citizens. Note on the statutory number of members In addition, there are six non-voting members: Five delegates (one each from the District of Columbia, US Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam and the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands) and one Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico. Current number of members Number of members who currently hold seats in parliament. May be lower or higher than the statutory number of members. Historical data for Current number of members Year Current number of members Women The number of female parliamentarians who currently hold seats in parliament. Historical data for Women Year Women Percentage of women Calculated by dividing the current number of women by the current number of members. 23.56% See historical data for this field. Historical data for Percentage of women Year Percentage of women Statutory number of members per country As defined in the constitution or other fundamental laws. Combines the number of parliamentarians in both chambers in bicameral parliaments. 535Compare data of this field. Population (in thousands) Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects. Historical data for Population (in thousands) Year Population (in thousands) Inhabitants per parliamentarian Calculated by dividing the population by the statutory number of parliamentarians. 597,998 See historical data for this field. Historical data for Inhabitants per parliamentarian Year Inhabitants per parliamentarian Average age of all members Historical data for Average age of all members Year Average age of all members Number of members, by age Breakdown of members by age and gender Totals per gender Totals per age interval 0 0 29 33 43 144 137 41 7 1 Total <= 45: 62 Total >= 46: 373 Male 0 0 24 30 37 121 108 27 7 1 355 Female 0 0 5 3 6 23 29 14 0 0 80 Percentage of members, by age Age as last election or renewal Percentage of MPs 30 years of age or youngerCompare data of this field. 0% 0% 0% Percentage of MPs 40 years of age or youngerCompare data of this field. 6.67% 5.52% 1.15% Percentage of MPs 45 years of age or youngerCompare data of this field. 14.25% 12.41% 1.84% Members for whom data is available Reserved seats and quotas There are reserved seats in parliament for certain groups Reserved seats are a means to ensure the parliamentary representation of certain groups in society. Electoral quota for women Quotas to promote the representation of women in parliament. Electoral quota for youth Quotas to promote the representation of youth in parliament. Parliamentary website Link(s) to parliamentary web site in English, French and/or local languages. http://www.house.gov https://www.congress.gov/ http://clerk.house.gov https://docs.house.gov/ http://houselive.gov/ Rules of procedure/Standing Orders Link(s) to Rules of procedure on the parliamentary web site in English, French and/or local language. http://clerk.house.gov/legislative/house-rules.pdf List of members Link(s) to list of members on the parliamentary web site. http://www.house.gov/representatives/ Constitution Official links to the Constitution in English, French and/or original language is provided. Links to unofficial translations where no other source is available. https://www.congress.gov/content/conan/pdf/GPO-CONAN-2017-6.pdf	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line1117
__label__wiki	0.68539	0.68539	Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ 0.211% growth 6.91% growth Median Property Value Housing & Living In 2017, Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ had a population of 121k people with a median age of 41.8 and a median household income of $125,313. Between 2016 and 2017 the population of Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ grew from 121,148 to 121,404, a 0.211% increase and its median household income grew from $117,211 to $125,313, a 6.91% increase. The population of Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ is 75.8% White Alone, 11.2% Hispanic or Latino, and 7.69% Asian Alone. 20.5% of the people in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ speak a non-English language, and 92.8% are U.S. citizens. The largest universities in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ are Fairleigh Dickinson University-Florham Campus (804 degrees awarded in 2016), Drew University (449 degrees), and College of Saint Elizabeth (448 degrees). The median property value in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ is $589,900, and the homeownership rate is 73.2%. Most people in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ commute by N/A, and the average commute time is 27.6 minutes. The average car ownership in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ is N/A per household. Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ borders Dover Town & Kinnelon Borough PUMA, NJ, Morris County (West) PUMA, NJ, Lincoln Park Borough PUMA, NJ, Somerset County (North & West) PUMA, NJ, Summit City & Westfield Town (North) PUMA, NJ, and Essex County (Southwest) PUMA, NJ. About the photo: State Capitol Rotunda, Trenton, NJ Photo by Peter Miller United StatesNew Jersey The economy of Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ employs 60.3k people. The largest industries in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ are Elementary & secondary schools (4,587 people), Insurance carriers & related activities (2,761 people), and Securities, commodities, funds, trusts & other financial investments (2,732 people), and the highest paying industries are Electronic shopping ($348,282), Electric power generation, transmission & distribution ($290,175), and Professional & commercial equipment & supplies merchant wholesalers ($277,736). Median household income in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ is $125,313. Males in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ have an average income that is 1.61 times higher than the average income of females, which is $87,895. The income inequality in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ (measured using the Gini index) is 0.522, which is higher than than the national average. 2017 value Households in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ have a median annual income of $125,313, which is more than the median annual income of $60,336 across the entire United States. This is in comparison to a median income of $117,211 in 2016, which represents a 6.91% annual growth. Look at the chart to see how the median household income in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ compares to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies. Wage by Gender in Common Jobs ± $20,768 In 2017, full-time male employees in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ made 1.61 times more than female employees. This chart shows the gender-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ by number of full-time employees. Wage by Race and Ethnicity in Common Jobs Highest Average Salaries by Race & Ethnicity $111,617 ± $37,606 $81,387 ± $95,355 In 2017 the highest paid race/ethnicity of Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ workers was Asian. These workers were paid 1.07 times more than White workers, who made the second highest salary of any race/ethnicity. This chart shows the race- and ethnicity-based wage disparities in the 5 most common occupations in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ by number of full-time employees. 2017 Wage GINI In 2017, the income inequality in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ was 0.522 according to the GINI calculation of the wage distribution. Income inequality had a 0.361% decline from 2016 to 2017, which means that wage distribution grew somewhat more even. The 2017 the GINI for Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ was higher than than the national average of 0.479. In other words, wages are distributed less evenly in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ in comparison to the national average. This chart shows the number of workers in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ across various wage buckets compared to the national average. Income by Location Use the dropdown to filter by race/ethnicity. TotalWhiteBlackAsianOtherTwo Or MoreWhite Non-HispanicHispanic Highest Median Household Income (Total) Ridgewood Village, Glen Rock & Westwood Boroughs PUMA, NJ Somerset County (North & West) PUMA, NJ In 2017, the PUMA with the highest Median Household Income (Total) in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ was Ridgewood Village, Glen Rock & Westwood Boroughs PUMA, NJ with a value of $146,691, followed by Somerset County (North & West) PUMA, NJ and Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ, with respective values of $141,315 and $139,109. The following map shows all of the PUMAs in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ colored by their Median Household Income (Total). Poverty by Age and Gender Largest Demographic Living in Poverty N/A% of the population for whom poverty status is determined in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ (N/A out of N/A people) live below the poverty line, a number that is approximately the same as the national average of 13.4%. The largest demographic living in poverty are N/A N/A, followed by N/A N/A and then N/A N/A. The Census Bureau uses a set of money income thresholds that vary by family size and composition to determine who classifies as impoverished. If a family's total income is less than the family's threshold than that family and every individual in it is considered to be living in poverty. Poverty by Race and Ethnicity The most common racial or ethnic group living below the poverty line in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ is false, followed by false and false. Employment by Occupations From 2016 to 2017, employment in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ grew at a rate of 2.36%, from 58.9k employees to 60.3k employees. The most common job groups, by number of people living in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ, are Miscellaneous managers (3,095 people), Accountants & auditors (2,130 people), and Elementary & middle school teachers (1,804 people). This chart illustrates the share breakdown of the primary jobs held by residents of Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ. The most common jobs held by residents of Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ, by number of employees, are Miscellaneous managers (3,095 people), Accountants & auditors (2,130 people), and Elementary & middle school teachers (1,804 people). Compared to other pumas, Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ has an unusually high number of residents working as Actuaries (7.67 times higher than expected), Securities, commodities, & financial services sales agents (7.6 times), and Financial analysts (5.75 times). The highest paid jobs held by residents of Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ, by average salary, are Advertising sales agents ($313,525), Chief executives & legislators ($256,904), and Securities, commodities, & financial services sales agents ($253,984). Employment by Industries The most common employment sectors for those who live in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ, are Elementary & secondary schools (4,587 people), Insurance carriers & related activities (2,761 people), and Securities, commodities, funds, trusts & other financial investments (2,732 people). This chart shows the share breakdown of the primary industries for residents of Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ, though some of these residents may live in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ and work somewhere else. Census data is tagged to a residential address, not a work address. The most common industries in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ, by number of employees, are Elementary & secondary schools (4,587 people), Insurance carriers & related activities (2,761 people), and Securities, commodities, funds, trusts & other financial investments (2,732 people). Compared to other pumas, Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ has an unusually high number of Pharmaceutical & medicine manufacturing (9.13 times higher than expected), Securities, commodities, funds, trusts & other financial investments (6.15 times), and Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied products merchant wholesalers (4.99 times) industries. The highest paying industries in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ, by average salary, are Electronic shopping ($348,282), Electric power generation, transmission & distribution ($290,175), and Professional & commercial equipment & supplies merchant wholesalers ($277,736). Domestic Production & Consumption Domestic production and consumption consists of products and services shipped from New Jersey to other states, or from other states to New Jersey. Domestic Production in DollarsDomestic Production in TonnageDomestic Consumption in DollarsDomestic Consumption in Tonnage Top Domestic Production in Dollars $48.1B In 2015, the top outbound New Jersey product (by dollars) was Pharmaceuticals with $48.1B, followed by Electronics with $36.5B and Motorized vehicles and $35.3B. The following chart shows the share of these products in relation to all outbound New Jersey products. Domestic Trade Growth Showing data for New Jersey state. Projected 2045 Value 57.1% growth In 2015, total outbound New Jersey trade was $467B. This is expected to increase 57.1% to $734B by 2045. The following chart shows how the domestic outbound New Jersey trade is projected to change in comparison to its neighboring states. Interstate Trade Interstate trade consists of products and services shipped from New Jersey to other states, or from other states to New Jersey. Most Common Trade Partners In 2015, the top outbound New Jersey domestic partner for goods and services (by dollars) was New York with $70.5B, followed by Pennsylvania with $48.9B and California and $16.6B. The following map shows the amount of trade that New Jersey shares with each state (excluding itself). N/A% of the population of Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ has health coverage, with N/A% on employee plans, N/A% on Medicaid, N/A% on Medicare, N/A% on non-group plans, and N/A% on military or VA plans. Per capita personal health care spending in the puma of Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ was $8,859 in 2014. This is a 4.91% increase from the previous year ($8,444). Primary care physicians in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ see 1184 patients per year on average, which represents a 1.11% increase from the previous year (1171 patients). Compare this to dentists who see 1187 patients per year, and mental health providers who see 534 patients per year. Comparing across all counties in the state, Salem County has the highest prevalence of diabetes (12.1%). Additionally, Cumberland County has the highest prevalence of adult obesity (34.7%) Patient to Clinician Ratios Data is only available at the state level. Showing data for New Jersey. Patient to Primary Care Physician RatioPatient to Dentist RatioPatient to Mental Health Provider RatioOther Primary Care Providers 1,184 to 1 Patient to Primary Care Physician Ratio Primary care physicians in New Jersey see an average of 1,184 patients per year. This represents a 1.11% increase from the previous year (1,171 patients). The following chart shows how the number of patients seen by primary care physicians has been changing over time in New Jersey in comparison to neighboring states. Behavioral Health Conditions Data only available at the state level. Adults With Major Depressive EpisodeAdults With Serious Mental IllnessOpioid Overdose Death RateSubstance Use Disorder Among Adolescents and Adults (Age 12+)Drug Overdose Death RateExcessive Drinking State with the Highest Prevalence 8.26% of the population affected In 2016, West Virginia had the highest prevalence of adults with major depressive episode, with 8.26% of the population affected. The second highest is Arkansas (8.13%), followed by New Hampshire (7.98%). The following map shows the percent of individuals with major depressive episode by state over multiple years. Social Needs Estimated Number of Chronically Homeless IndividualsPercent of Residents with Access To Exercise OpportunitiesPrevalence of Food InsecurityPercent of Occupied Households Lacking Complete Plumbing FacilitiesPercent of Occupied Households Lacking Complete Kitchen FacilitiesPercent of Households Lacking Internet Access Most prevalent states 35,798 individuals 5,087 individuals In 2017, California had the highest estimated number of chronically homeless individuals in the nation, at 35,798. New York has the second highest (5,087), followed by Florida (4,915). The following map shows the estimated number of chronically homeless individuals in the nation by state over multiple years. Access and Quality Data only available at state level. Adults Who Haven't Seen a Doctor in the Past 12 Months Due to CostMental Health Service Use Among Adults With Mental Illness30-Day Hospital Readmission Rate Among Medicare PatientsAdult Hospice Patients Who Received Care Consistent With Their End-Of-Life Wishes 19.2% of adults In 2016, Mississippi had the highest prevalence of adults who haven't seen a doctor in the past 12 months due to cost, at 19.2%. It is followed by Texas (17.9%) and Louisiana (17.6%). The following map shows the prevalence of adults who haven't seen a doctor in the past 12 months due to cost by state over multiple years. Total Per Capita Spending on Personal Health Care Per Enrollee Private Health Insurance Spending on Personal Health Care Per Enrollee Medicaid Spending on Personal Health Care Per Enrollee Medicare Spending on Personal Health Care Between 2013 and 2014, all personal health care spending per capita in New Jersey (including private, Medicare, and Medicaid) grew 4.91%, from $8,444 to $8,859. The following chart shows how this spending changed over time in comparison to Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance spending, per enrollee. N/A% Uninsured Employer Coverage Non-Group Military or VA Between N/A and N/A, the percent of uninsured citizens in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ N/A by N/A from N/A% to N/A%. The following chart shows how the percent of uninsured individuals in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ changed over time compared with the percent of individuals enrolled in various types of health insurance. Data available at the county level. DiabetesAdult ObesityHIV DiagnosesSexually Transmitted InfectionsAdult SmokingAlcohol-Impaired Driving DeathsMotor Vehicle Crash DeathsHomicidesViolent Crimes Most at risk counties Salem County 12.1% prevalence Atlantic County Salem County has the highest prevalence of diabetes in New Jersey, at 12.1%. The following map shows the prevalence of diabetes in New Jersey by county over multiple years. Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ is home to a population of 121k people, from which 92.8% are citizens. As of 2017, N/A% of Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ residents were born outside of the country. The ethnic composition of the population of Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ is composed of 92.1k White Alone residents (75.8%), 13.6k Hispanic or Latino residents (11.2%), 9.34k Asian Alone residents (7.69%), 4.28k Black or African American Alone residents (3.53%), 2.03k Two or More Races residents (1.67%), 78 Some Other Race Alone residents (0.0642%), 17 American Indian & Alaska Native Alone residents (0.014%), and 0 Native Hawaiian & Other Pacific Islander Alone residents (0%). The most common foreign languages spoken in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ are Spanish or Spanish Creole (10,942 speakers), Chinese (2,584 speakers), and Italian (1,155 speakers). Age by Nativity Median Native-Born Age ± N/A Median Foreign-Born Age In 2017, the median age of all people in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ was 41.8. Native-born citizens, with a median age of N/A, were generally N/A than foreign-born citizens, with a median age of N/A. But people in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ are getting staying the same age. In 2016, the average age of all Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ residents was 42. 2017 Foreign-Born Population As of 2017, N/A% of Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ residents were born outside of the United States, which is approximately the same as the national average of 13.7%. In 2016, the percentage of foreign-born citizens in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ was 16.8%, meaning that the rate has been maintaining. The following chart shows the percentage of foreign-born residents in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ compared to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies. Most Common Origin 1,915 ± 1,066 people 1,542 ± 958 people In 2017, the most common birthplace for the foreign-born residents of Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ was India, the natal country of 1,915 Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ residents, followed by Colombia with 1,542 and China with 1,189. 2017 Citizenship As of 2017, 92.8% of Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ residents were US citizens, which is lower than the national average of 93.1%. In 2016, the percentage of US citizens in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ was 93%, meaning that the rate of citizenship has been decreasing. The following chart shows US citizenship percentages in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ compared to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies. White Alone 92.1k ± 1.36k Asian Alone 9.34k ± 677 In 2017, there were 6.77 times more White Alone residents (92.1k people) in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ than any other race or ethnicity. There were 13.6k Hispanic or Latino and 9.34k Asian Alone residents, the second and third most common racial or ethnic groups. The following bar chart shows the 8 races and ethnicities represented in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ as a share of the total population. Most Common Languages Spanish or Spanish Creole 10,942 speakers (9.53%) 2,584 speakers (2.25%) 20.5% of Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ citizens are speakers of a non-English language, which is lower than the national average of 21.5%. In 2015, the most common non-English language spoken in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ was Spanish or Spanish Creole. 9.53% of the overall population of Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ are native Spanish or Spanish Creole speakers. 2.25% speak Chinese and 1.01% speak Spanish or Spanish Creole, the next two most common languages. Most Common Service Period 0 ± 0 Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ has a large population of military personnel who served in false, N/A times greater than any other conflict. In 2016, universities in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ awarded 1,701 degrees. The student population of Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ is skewed towards women, with 2,726 male students and 4,127 female students. Most students graduating from Universities in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ are White (921 and 57.1%), followed by Unknown (193 and 12%), Black or African American (192 and 11.9%), and Hispanic or Latino (183 and 11.3%). The largest universities in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ by number of degrees awarded are Fairleigh Dickinson University-Florham Campus (804 and 47.3%), Drew University (449 and 26.4%), and College of Saint Elizabeth (448 and 26.3%). The most popular majors in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ are General Business Administration & Management (149 and 8.76%), Registered Nursing (124 and 7.29%), and General Psychology (104 and 6.11%). The median tuition costs in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ are $34,774 for private four year colleges, and $N/A and $N/A respectively, for public four year colleges for in-state students and out-of-state students. 1 to 2 Year Postsecondary CertificateAssociates DegreeBachelors DegreePostbaccalaureate CertificateMasters DegreePost-Masters CertificateResearch DoctorateProfessional DoctorateOther Doctorate General Business Administration & Management Registered Nursing In 2015, the most common concentation for Bachelors Degree recipients in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ was General Business Administration & Management with 82 degrees awarded. This visualization illustrates the percentage of students graduating with a Bachelors Degree from schools in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ according to their major. Largest Universities by degrees awarded Fairleigh Dickinson University-Florham Campus College of Saint Elizabeth Median Private In 2016, the Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ institution with the largest number of graduating students was Fairleigh Dickinson University-Florham Campus with 804 degrees awarded. Student Gender for Common Institutions Degrees Awarded to Men Degrees Awarded to Women In 2016, 558 men were awarded degrees from institutions in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ, which is 0.488 times less than the 1,143 female students who received degrees in the same year. This chart displays the gender disparity between the institutions in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ by degrees awarded. Student Race and Ethnicity Most Common Student Race or Ethnicity In 2016 the majority of degrees awarded at institutions in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ were to White students. These 921 degrees mean that there were 4.77 times more White students then the next closest race/ethnicity group, Unknown, with 193 degrees awarded. The median property value in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ was $589,900 in 2017, which is 2.71 times larger than the national average of $217,600. Between 2016 and 2017 the median property value increased from $572,400 to $589,900, a 3.06% increase. The homeownership rate in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ is 73.2%, which is higher than the national average of 63.9%. People in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ have an average commute time of 27.6 minutes, and they commute by N/A. Car ownership in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ is approximately the same as the national average, with an average of N/A per household. Please note that the buckets used in this visualization were not evenly distributed by ACS when publishing the data. Number of Households In 2017, the median household income of the N/A households in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ grew to $125,313 from the previous year's value of $117,211. The following chart displays the households in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ distributed between a series of income buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households have an income in the N/A range. 2017 Median In 2017, the median property value in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ grew to to $589,900 from the previous year's value of $572,400. The following charts display, first, the property values in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ compared to it's parent and neighbor geographies and, second, owner-occupied housing units distributed between a series of property value buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. In Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ the largest share of households have a property value in the N/A range. $3k+ Average Range This chart shows the households in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ distributed between a series of property tax buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. In Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ the largest share of households pay taxes in the $3k+ range. Rent vs Own 2017 Homeownership In 2017, 73.2% of the housing units in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ were occupied by their owner. This percentage declined from the previous year's rate of 73.8%. This percentage of owner-occupation is higher than the national average of 63.9%. This chart shows the ownership percentage in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ compared it's parent and neighboring geographies. Average Number The following chart displays the households in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ distributed between a series of car ownership buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ have N/A, followed by N/A. 27.6 minutes Average Travel Time Using averages, employees in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ have a longer commute time (27.6 minutes) than the normal US worker (25.1 minutes). Additionally, 6.84% of the workforce in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ have "super commutes" in excess of 90 minutes. The chart below shows how the median household income in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ compares to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies. Commuter Transportation In N/A, the most common method of travel for workers in Morristown Town, Madison & Florham Park Boroughs PUMA, NJ was N/A, followed by those who N/A and those who N/A. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Essex County, NJ Somerset County, NJ	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line1118
__label__cc	0.520082	0.479918	What is the connection of winding of capacitor start motor The main difference between synchronous and asynchronous transmission is that... 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__label__wiki	0.580199	0.580199	Mobile +1 (505) 365-3402 Facebook icon will open a new window Instagram icon will open a new window LinkedIn icon will open a new window Homes In Santa Fe Land & Ranches Tesuque Las Campanas Historic Eastside Canyon Road Buying/Selling Education In Santa Fe INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS 83 Avan Nu Po Road \| Santa Fe, NM 87508 The Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) is the only four-year degree fine arts institution in the nation devoted to contemporary Native American and Alaska Native arts. It is devoted to the study of contemporary arts, as well as the art of education. IAIA also operates the Center for Lifelong Education and the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts. IAIA welcomes students from the 567 federally-recognized tribes and non-Native Americans looking to obtain a world-class arts education. 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__label__cc	0.653512	0.346488	drownedinlight7 — drownedinlight7 Write the Thing I need to write more... RPM kind of sequel cheat Atalanta did not so much want to be written tonight, that's why you get so much of this, and so little of that. Okay, I had to find a device to write this song fic, so this fic takes place in a high school, multi-cross au. Maybe the same one that the earlier RPM Dillon Ziggy slash fic takes place in. Yes...I think that shall be my device. ( fanficCollapse ) Tags: 2000/50 project, fanfiction, power rangers rpm Atalanta part 18 She hacked and coughed as she made her way over to Charlotte, her face contorted into an angry snarl. “You said!” She could not muster enough air to finish her statement, and Charlotte offered her a water bottle. Mizuki snapped it up guzzling down the water. Havard came tumbling down the park side walk as she handed it back and began to speak, “You said no super speed.” “So I did,” Charlotte replied. “What went wrong?” Natalie came up with shiny, new, plastic bottles from a vending machine by the park bathrooms, and Havard ripped into one. “What is wrong is you did not obey your own rule!” Mizuki shouted. She looked around her, but no one seemed to notice her outburst. Lowering her voice she continued. “You were running far too fast for a normal human being. Not as fast as I couldn’t have, but still much faster than a normal person could.” “Mizuki speaks the truth,” Havard rasped out. “I do not think you realized you were doing it, but you continued at far too quick a pace for too long, and I do not believe your ‘parkour’ can account for all of it.” “I have a theory,” Greer said as he jogged up to the group. Charlotte blinked as Natalie handed him a bottle; she had not seen him enter the corner of her eye. Once he took a few drinks of water he said, “Charlotte is capable of maintaining weights that would kill a normal person, not to mention, she’s invincible. So it would stand to reason that she can accelerate to a velocity capable for most people, and then maintain it, when others would weaken. Something to be aware of, like you said, when speeding through the city without a mask.” “Hmm, well, I apologize Mizuki, Havard,” Charlotte said, “I didn’t mean to break my own rule the first time we trained together. That being said, baring super powers, if Zombies ever take over the world, you would be eaten.” “How is that a fitting critique at all?” Mizuki asked. “Zombies would never take over the world.” “And people who fly and can lift cars over their heads surely do not exist,” Charlotte retorted. “I’m teasing, Mizuki, I don’t really mean any of it seriously.” “Then you should not say such things,” Mizuki said, falling to the ground and falling over her legs in a stretch. “Everything you say has meaning.” “Yes, and the way you say it does as well,” Natalie said, moving into the same stretch as Charlotte, Havard and Greer joined them. “The fact that Charlotte teases you like that means you’re her friend. I mean we banter all the time. Just come up with a witty retort.” “The wittier the better,” Charlotte said, putting one leg over the other and turning the side. “And I am sorry; I didn’t know I was constantly going thirty miles per hour.” “It’s…all right, I suppose, so long as you are held to the same rules in training later on.” “Of course,” Charlotte agreed. “I make it a point to follow my own rules. Tags: 2000/50 project, atalanta, part 18, superheroes, superwoman 2000/50 project, adventure, atalanta, au, book review, camp nanowrimo, chapter 1, chapter 2, chapter 4, chapter 5, church, dillon, experiment, fairy tale, fanfiction, fantasy, fiction, films, girl!harry, harry potter, journal, kryptongirl, memoir, nanowrimo, non fiction, novel length, one shot, part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, power rangers rpm, rant, reading writing project, science fiction, scott, short story, superboy, superheroes, superwoman, the next great magician, ulorna, urban fantasy, when needed, wonder woman, writer's block, young justice, ziggy, …	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line1127
__label__wiki	0.66205	0.66205	The Amazing Race Philippines 1 Season Wrap-Up The Amazing Race Philippines Season 1 Wrap-up There have been a lot of reactions since it was first announced that TV5 would finally be bringing The Amazing Race to the Philippines. For some, it was a frightening announcement. The idea of a locally produced TAR made a lot of people cringe, what with mixed experiences from the other locally produced franchised reality formats like Survivor Philippines and the bastardized Pinoy Big Brother. There were some who were upset that it’d be undertaken by the upstart #3 network, TV5 instead of, say, the self-professed media titan ABS-CBN. Then there was absolute horror that gasp TARPh wouldn’t even leave the country. There were cynical reactions to rumors of celebrity contestants. And then bewilderment at a daily, five episode… actually, six episode a week schedule. But now that the first season of The Amazing Race Philippines is over and the first winners crowned, it’s safe to say that not only did it exceed expectations, it did well enough to be able to stand with other international versions of the Emmy winning franchise with its head held high. High and Low Expectations For anyone familiar with Filipino television, it’s no secret the kinds of production limitations any of the local networks have. You aren’t going to see comparable productions from (forget the United States) with those of neighboring Asian countries like Korea or Japan which the Philippines loves to import. So there were definitely tempered expectations of TARPh. As long as it wasn’t embarrassing, then it’s all good. But still, for The Amazing Race, long considered one of, if not the, premiere reality-competition program in the world, you really couldn’t mess this up. Which is why many people would’ve rather not had any network attempt a local TAR. But TARPh exceeded those low expectations as well as matched the high expectations one would expect from any version of The Amazing Race. “Pinas muna.” Derek Ramsay hinted then confirmed before production started that TARPh1 would travel only amongst the 7,107 islands of the archipelago. While that definitely horrified some, it turned out pretty well. Personally, the fact that some of the more memorable (and not so memorable) tasks from other TAR versions could be staged in the Philippines is pretty impressive. Having a TAR franchise Race only within its own borders isn’t a bad thing. And the Philippines certainly isn’t the first. And TARPh was definitely the best opportunity to show off the country. With such diverse cultures and landscapes, the Philippines provided a great Race course. Originally I thought, okay, just for season 1 with out of the country Legs a sure thing for season 2. But now, I think a TARPh2 staying in the Philippines again would still be okay. Many were weary of the pseudo-celeb teams at first, but the cast turned out to be one of the better groups we’ve seen on any TAR in recent memory. While I’m personally meh on the Final 3, the cast overall delivered some amazing television. And by that I mean drama. Drama that only Filipinos could do. There were some hilariously awesome meltdowns, some usual catty Filipino behavior, but also a great sense of fun that only Filipinos have when doing anything and everything. SIX Days a Week!? It was originally unthinkable that any Amazing Race would work with a daily format. It might have been okay with Survivor, but part of TAR’s excitement is that a whole Leg is contained within an hour or two every week. But the six episodes a week format ended up not being all that bad. It might have finished the show quicker than most (Only 7 weeks!), but they managed to pack in enough tasks and team drama to be able to make each episode worthwhile. There were some duds, but overall, it was a different, but still exciting way to watch an Amazing Race season. With this schedule though, I thought the Legs would be completely different from a regular once-a-week TAR, but… ….TARPh’s Legs ended up being exactly the same. There weren’t many extra tasks, despite Derek saying so at the Starting Line. So most Legs had 3 episodes each which would amount to a 90-minute episode of a TARUS or TARAu. But since Filipinos have sadly been trained to only watch things 5 days a week and for TV5 to maximize returns on the expensive series, the daily format was not a bad decision. Now as for Leg design, you just can’t get away from the linear Legs I guess. That might’ve been part of the reason for some of Marc & Kat’s Leg wins. Also, the unique situation of having to fly back to Manila, twice, just to get to another destination was interesting. Overall, for Legs, nothing special. Nothing more, nothing less from typical TAR Legs. Derek Ramsay was pretty much the obvious choice to host the show. TV5’s other in-house candidates were already tied up. Paolo Bediones, former host of Survivor Philippines on GMA, was busy with TV5’s Extreme Makeover Home Edition as well as anchoring the network’s primetime newscast. Ryan Agoncillo, who would’ve seen a familiar face on TAR in LJ Moreno having hosted ABS-CBN’s Pinoy Fear Factor, was busy with the breakless Talentadong Pinoy. The only other names mentioned was a strange non-announcement from TV5 that Amazing Race Asia alums and experienced hosts Marc Nelson and Rovilson Fernandez would BOTH host the show, together. But even before ABS-CBN and their fans shunned him for his transfer, TV5 was intent on getting Derek Ramsay to be their Phil Keoghan (or Allan Wu). Overall, Derek did fine. But I think his hosting was affected too much by lack of script. Allan Wu of TARA and Grant Bowler of TARAu both used Phil Keoghan’s TARUS spiels. Any TAR fan is used to hearing “So and So, you are team #2!” at the Mat. But we didn’t get that on TARPh. The lack of uniformity and sometimes, strangely, Derek’s lack of energy, made the check-ins at the Mat a little awkward. Even if they did have written scripts for Derek, it appeared he was going off the cuff which made the show almost seem a little unprepared. But again, Derek was fine. And really the only choice to host. It would’ve been nice to watch the show in HD. It also would’ve been nice not to watch the show via blurry uploads to YouTube and sketchy ad-filled Filipino blogs. But it was nice to see the show was indeed filmed in HD (as shown by the production screencaps posted to TARPh’s Facebook). It sucks that it had to be downconverted before even editing to place all the bugs and Twitter hashtags onscreen. Now the sound though, eek. There were times when it sounded like Derek had recorded his voiceovers over the phone. It was so jarring. But production overall was good and up to par with at the very least TARA (the punching bag for iffy production values). TV5 definitely spared no expense and it was definitely solid, production-wise. P200,000!?! I expected Philippine Airlines or Cebu Pacific-sponsored trips as Leg prizes, not 10% of the grand prize. Seeing Marc & Kat accumulate almost as much as the P2 million prize took all the fun out of competition. Maybe TARPh could’ve taken some of that American Tourister money and used it to make two more sets of wooden statues for that final Road Block. There’s really no reason to give that big a prize for Legs. So overall overall, The Amazing Race Philippines was solid. TV5 did a great job sticking to the format and not inserting some crazy, eyeroll-enducing Filipino-only twists. The cast surprisingly delivered, the tasks and challenges were on par with TAR’s other international versions. I’d have to say The Amazing Race Philippines defied the odds and ended up being an exciting, fun ride. My Subjective FINAL Team Rankings Pamela & Vanessa – Hilarious. They were definitely a fun team to watch even though they might not have been all that great as Racers. They definitely enjoyed a lot of luck, or an “angel” as Derek said. But it was fun while it lasted and I’m sure TV5 is prep raring “The Real Housewives of Alabang” right now. Dani & Mish – They were some iffy moments, but for the most part, Dani & Mish were an amazing team to watch. Both highly competitive with a drive to Race well. But Dani’s volatile personality was definitely the draw. Her outbursts and meltdowns were hilarious to watch. But it was also good to see they were also capable of Racing well. It sucks the other teams unfairly targeted them for purely superficial reasons. Sheena & Gee – They started out okay, but definitely kicked it up a notch as the Race went on. When Dani & Mish got knocked out of the Race, Sheena & Gee took over the alpha females. They Raced well, were competitive, feisty and determined. They didn’t care about other teams even when other teams put a lot of effort into them. And when there were only a few teams left, they ended up being the final hope. Anton & Armand – It actually would’ve been fun to have seen them Race longer and maybe take it all. They seemed to be laid back, nice guys who are definitely athletic who could’ve done very well in the Race. Which just makes Anton’s HUGE mistake that much more disappointing. I guess they’ll get their chance for redemption on The Amazing Race Philippines: Unfinished Business. Ed & Angel – Parent-child teams are great to watch on TAR. And Ed & Angel, most times, were a determined and feisty team. But there were also unfortunate moments when they’d be so down and ready to give up, not just on their last Legs but even in the beginning of the Race. I would’ve liked to have seen them work it out and take it all the way. Saida & Jervi – They were definitely a strong team in the beginning in addition to being fun to watch. But that all tapered off halfway through the Race. While they were still the better of the teams that were left at the time, instead of stepping up their game they began to lose a lot of steam, which was unfortunate. Mykey & Crystel – Despite basically almost getting taken to the hospital, Mykey & Crystel would’ve survived another Leg had it not been for their horrible taxi. I would’ve rather had them in the Race and most of the teams that made it past the halfway mark, that’s for sure. LJ & CJ – They were boring then used forced drama to make themselves look good. I couldn’t care less that they won… or if they had lost really. They were the least offensive and annoying team of the Final 3, but that’s merely consolation. Two “Meh” TAR winners in one week. And thanks LJ and CJ for now not making me care if a TAR fan wins the show. Marc & Kat – They were cast as and started out as the alpha team and they ran the Race like they were the alpha team. Not only did it get tiring seeing them accumulate more than half… HALF! the grand prize, but it made the latter half of the season almost boring. They definitely benefited from some bad Leg design, but it takes the fun out of competition when one team is dominating the whole way. Can’t even enjoy their dysfunction since they end up winning Legs anyway. Fausto & Dayal – They started out being cocky and delusional, which was actually great to laugh at. But they soon took that overconfidence and turned it into license to be obnoxious and annoying. Dayal’s meltdowns were fun to watch at times, but then you start to think, Maybe he’s just playing up to the camera. That definitely takes the fun out of it. Dayal’s shit stirring and drama queen attitude definitely got old quick. Boom & Cheng – They started out as a funny and charming team, but quickly became rude, obnoxious and inappropriate jerks. It became pretty clear they were trying to position themselves as the next Jose & Wally, but instead made themselves look like asses. First to the local Pit Stop greeters, then grossly stealing kisses from every woman they saw. And their oddly misogynistic Yield and U-Turn decisions. Them being in the Final 3 would’ve been the absolute worst. The Amazing Race Philippines ← Recap: Power Rangers (Super) Samurai Christmas Special – Stuck on Christmas Review: KBS’ School 2013 a Gritty Look at Today’s Youth →	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line1129
__label__wiki	0.854395	0.854395	TFW janitor can't recover $12,261 in lost wages Temporary foreign worker Angie Bestray saw big problems on her very first pay day. The Filipina cleaner was handed an envelope full of cash with a pink postit note stuck on top instead of a proper pay stub. Angie Bestray Clark is a Filipino temporary foreign worker who is owed more than $12,000 by her ex-employer who hired her at one wage and paid her much less. She is shown here with husband Trevor Clark. Greg Southam / Edmonton Journal EDMONTON – Temporary foreign worker Angie Bestray saw big problems on her very first pay day. The Filipina cleaner was handed an envelope full of cash with a pink postit note stuck on top instead of a proper pay stub. In handwriting, her employer recorded her wage at $11 an hour – though $14 was the rate she was supposed to be paid under her federally approved contract. Bestray also worked overtime, but was paid only straight time, in violation of provincial labour standards. That was December 2011. When Bestray expressed shock, her co-workers at Nelma’s Janitorial Services advised her not to complain. That’s just the way it is, said the workers, mostly on overnight shifts cleaning major city department stores. For two years, Bestray said nothing. Then her new Canadian husband, Trevor Clark, tired of watching her work seven days a week without proper pay, urged her to complain to provincial labour standards. A subsequent investigation found Bestray is owed $12,261 by her employer, confirmed Jay Fisher, public affairs for the department of jobs, skills, training and labour. Alberta Labour standards investigates 250 to 300 complaints a year from temporary foreign workers. They are subject to the same employment standards as local workers. Investigating officers determine if an employee has been improperly paid and calculate money owing. Most of the time, collection is successful. “More than $4.5 million was recovered in the last fiscal year” – about 75 per cent of all money owing, Fisher told the Journal. The investigation into Bestray’s case was difficult because there were no pay stubs. But a labour standards officer stuck to it, contacting Nelma’s for records, using Bestray’s personal records and sign-in books where the cleaners worked. The $12,261 in unpaid earnings includes $1,602 in unpaid wages, $5,940 in overtime pay, and $4,917 in vacation pay and statutory holiday pay. The debt was registered as a judgment with the Court of Queen’s Bench in July. Labour standards found other troubling problems, according to the investigator’s May report, obtained by the Journal. In December 2012, Bestray was supposed to receive a raise to $20 an hour. Nelma’s LMO (labour market opinion, the document filed to apply for temporary foreign workers) was renewed by the federal government with the new wage. But Nelma’s had not been paying the higher wage to Bestray, the officer discovered in the investigation. In spring this year, the province ordered the company to start paying the $20 and to issue proper pay stubs. Three other workers have launched complaints against Nelma’s Janitorial Services, Fisher confirmed. Nelma De Celis, owner of Nelma’s Janitorial, told the Journal that she can’t afford to pay due to financial difficulties. She closed her cleaning company this spring, saying she suddenly lost the big cleaning contracts. She will file for bankruptcy next week, said De Celis. “I am more than willing to pay if I had the capacity,” said De Celis in an interview Thursday. She also owns a restaurant but she said that, too, is losing money. De Celis added she has “made an arrangement” with a provincial collections officer to pay $500 to Bestray in October. Fisher said Friday the department is not aware of any repayment plan. “This is still an active collections file,” he said. While the money is important since she is out of a job, Bestray mostly wants to put a stop to employers who cheat workers out of their legal wages. Bestray quit her job with Nelma’s in March. That’s after she was transferred to Spruce Grove for a night cleaning job after Nelma’s Janitorial Services discovered she had launched the complaint. She ran into another roadblock this summer. At best, Bestray will only be able to collect about $1,602 of the $12,262. With Nelma’s cleaning company closed, collections officers are going after De Celis personally and her partner Leonilo Eugenio. But under the provincial Labour Standards Code, company directors are only liable for basic wages owed to an employee – not overtime or vacation pay. “It’s so frustrating. Although I have a right to complain, there’s no way to collect the money,” said Bestray. Clark says there’s a problem with the law and it needs to be changed. “We appreciate the effort of the collection officer; she is doing a great job,” said Clark. Bestray and Clark also want to know why Bestray had to pay the cost of her flight to Canada as well as a $3,000 fee to an agency in the Philippines when both those charges are illegal under the temporary foreign workers program. spratt@edmontonjournal. com TFW janitor can't recover $12,261 in lost wages Oilers lose to Canucks 3-2 in last pre-season game Library? Tank? Cruise ship? New-look Edmonton library has some folks fuming	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line1145
__label__cc	0.664681	0.335319	Patterns and prevalence of arrest in a statewide cohort of mental health care consumers William H. Fisher, University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolFollow Kristen M. Roy-Bujnowski, University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolFollow Albert J. Grudzinskas, University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolFollow Jonathan C. Clayfield, University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolFollow Steven M. Banks Nancy Wolff Adolescent; Adult; Cohort Studies; Crime; Demography; Female; Humans; Male; Massachusetts; Mental Disorders; Mental Health Services; Middle Aged; Prevalence; Prisoners; Severity of Illness Index; United States Life Sciences \| Medicine and Health Sciences OBJECTIVE: Although criminal justice involvement among persons with severe mental illness is a much discussed topic, few large-scale studies systematically describe the patterns and prevalence of arrest in this population. This study examined rates, patterns, offenses, and sociodemographic correlates of arrest in a large cohort of mental health service recipients. METHODS: The arrest records of 13,816 individuals receiving services from the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health from 1991 to 1992 were examined over roughly a ten-year period. Bivariate relationships between sociodemographic factors and arrest were also examined. RESULTS: About 28 percent of the cohort experienced at least one arrest. The most common charges were crimes against public order followed by serious violent offenses and minor property crime. The number of arrests per individual ranged from one to 71. Five percent of arrestees (roughly 1.5 percent of the cohort) accounted for roughly 17 percent of arrests. The proportion of men arrested was double that of women. Persons 18 to 25 years of age had a 50 percent chance of at least one arrest. This rate declined with age but did so unevenly across offense types. CONCLUSIONS: The likelihood of arrest appeared substantial among persons with severe mental illness, but the bulk of offending appeared concentrated in a small group of persons and among persons with sociodemographic features similar to those of offenders in the general population. Data such as these could provide a platform for designing jail diversion and other services to reduce both initial and repeat offending among persons with serious mental illness. 10.1176/appi.ps.57.11.1623 Psychiatr Serv. 2006 Nov;57(11):1623-8. Link to article on publisher's site Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) Fisher, William H.; Roy-Bujnowski, Kristen M.; Grudzinskas, Albert J.; Clayfield, Jonathan C.; Banks, Steven M.; and Wolff, Nancy, "Patterns and prevalence of arrest in a statewide cohort of mental health care consumers" (2006). Open Access Articles. 1848.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line1151
__label__wiki	0.934062	0.934062	Label: COMPASS RECORDS When You're Ready [Limited Edition Red LP] Artist: Molly Tuttle 1. Million Miles 2. Take the Journey 3. Make My Mind Up 4. When You're Ready 5. The High Road 6. Don't Let Go 7. Light Came in (Power Went Out) 8. Messed with My Mind 10. Sit Back and Watch It Roll 11. Clue Compass is proud to announce the release of award-winning guitar virtuoso Molly Tuttle's debut album, WHEN YOU'RE READY. An insightful, gifted songwriter who was crowned "Instrumentalist of the Year" at the 2018 Americana Music Awards on the strength of her EP Rise, Tuttle has broken boundaries and garnered the respect of her peers, winning fans for her incredible flatpicking guitar technique and confessional songwriting. Graced with a clear, true voice and a keen melodic sense, the 25-year-old seems poised for a long and exciting career. WHEN YOU'RE READY, produced by Ryan Hewitt (The Avett Brothers, The Lumineers) showcases her astonishing range and versatility and shows that she is more than simply an Americana artist. Monday -Friday 10 am - 6 pm 267 East Main St. Branford, CT 06405 Contact us via email. Copyright © Exile on main	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line1158
__label__cc	0.618863	0.381137	« East Fortune by James Runcie \| Main \| Me and A.S.Byatt are friends at last (or should that be A.S.Byatt and I?) » Hearts and Minds by Amanda Craig and prize draw copies (worldwide) So I pick up a book, open it and read it. Well not quite because inbetween the picking up and the opening there is an inordinate amount of time spent choosing a bookmark, and I need to know that this isn't just a foible of mine...do you all do this? I mean how awful it would be to have the wrong bookmark for the book, I'd just not be able to sleep for the incongruence of the thing. It's all a delicate mess waiting to happen but for my recent read of Amanda Craig's latest novel Hearts and Minds I turned to the Margaret Calkin James selection. Quite by chance I decided that this one would do nicely, the book was about London after all. By page two bodies are being deposited on the Heath so I knew I was warm with my bookmark choice and things could proceed. Hampstead Heath and indeed Kenwood do feature large and as a unique contrast to elsewhere in London, 'Here it is scented with early spring flowers; over in Hackney it's hot chip oil.' Well proceed things most certainly did and at a rattling pace too, this became my unputdownable book of the moment and I had a few '1.30am and still reading' nights with this one. The lives of a cross-section of twenty-first century Londoners are shaken out and pegged on the line in full view of the neighbours and in that way that can only make you think as you read, here but for the Boz drawings is the Dickensian novel of our time. If anyone needs to know in a hundred years time what London might have been like in the Noughties they could do no better than read The Room of Lost Things by Stella Duffy and Hearts and Minds by Amanda Craig and they'll have it sorted. Two contrasting perspectives, both exceptional social novels of today, in fact you can just imagine the OU exam question now, "The London of the early twenty-first century was both sordid and violent yet vibrant and multicultural, how could these disparate and seemingly dissident and conflicting levels of society coexist comfortably in an area of just 659 square miles without recourse to civil war. Discuss with careful analysis of two contemporaneous texts of your choice." An astutely portrayed cast of characters tell this story and slowly Hearts and Minds becomes a book of both contrasts and similarities because everyone's under pressure and many and varied are the forms of slavery and entrapment; to work, to a lifestyle, to a master, to a mistress, to a past life, to a dream, to money, to poverty, to misguided values and Amanda Craig has rolled out a great big canvas on which to explore them all. That veil between sorrow and misery and happiness and contentment far thinner than ever before in this version of London, 'the city of work not play', the city where for so many it seems like 'nobody knows or cares'. Polly the immigration lawyer, divorced from the cash-rich, emotion-poor husband, trying to hold down a job and raise two children in the Farrow & Ball painted house with the potted olive tree but on just the wrong side of Islington. For all her principles Polly is one of the many thousands who have to turn a blind eye and rely on illegal immigrants for the support to keep their Smeg fridges filled and their children cared for and it is this sub-strata that is so astutely exposed and examined by Amanda Craig, 'glimpses of all the lives happening in other houses...so many lives all going on, not quite touching, all so different yet...linked by place and time.' It's true when you live in Devon you don't really pay too much attention to this sort of thing so it was all quite an education to read about the trafficking of the Ukranian girls to work in sexual slavery, fifteen year-old Anna that 'shattered creature' finding herself imprisoned and put to work at Poshlust. Job the black school teacher who has fled persecution in Zimbabwe and scrapes a living as a cab driver. Ian the white school teacher from South Africa where he is no longer able to find work, jobs now designated for the black population and so he finds himself in a London sink comprehensive just inches away from special measures where crowd control is the extent of his working day. Job invested with the solemn wisdom of his namesake doesn't take long to put his finger on the deep malaise, 'It is what the white man has given them, this great longing, this curiosity and thirst to learn more; but here in the white man's own country, children have lost it.' and somehow Amanda Craig touches on the reality and the truth of this and you really do want to weep. Just like you'd weep for portrayals of little boys being abducted by gangs of pickpockets and taken out on thieving trips by rough men with pit bull terriers who then murder their girlfriends and come to a sticky end themselves. The lives touch and glance off each other, intricate plot threads lead all over the capital, a wonderful one woven around a London magazine called The Rambler, lots of almost-but-not-quite recognisable characters cleverly constructed to entertain and inform, and in essence I think that is what Hearts and Minds achieves in full measure.The whole rapidly becoming a beautifully written and quite mesmerising page-turner. Contemporaneous detail added hugely to my enjoyment and if only we'd thought to ask Amanda Craig we'd have known all about the credit crunch coming because hints of financial collapse are cleverly and clearly foretold in this book. As usual you don't have to take my word for it, three copies of Hearts and Minds ready and waiting to go to three lucky winners worldwide and The Artful Dodger will of course do his stuff. I'm also very excited because Amanda Craig will be submitting to the gentle glow of the standard lamp and we'll be forcing a virtual cream tea on her as she settles into the plumped up cushions of the 'dovegreyreader asks...' armchair any day now. Thursday, May 07, 2009 \| Permalink	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line1163
__label__wiki	0.526743	0.526743	AVIATION ENGINEERING SERVICES CHEMICAL & ALLIED NAVAL TECH PHARMA & LIFE SCIENCES TEXTILE & APPAREL B2B PRICE OPTIMIZATION CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION DEMAND FORECASTING IDENTITY GOVERNANCE AND ADMINISTRATION LOW CODE PLATFORM MANAGED PRINTING PAYMENT AND CARD TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT CIOREVIEW >> Environmental Health And Safety >> CIO Viewpoint CXO Insight CASE Study News Vendors Randee Jennings, SVP/CIO, GNS LLC Mary Alice Annecharico, SVP & CIO, Henry Ford Health System Thomas Day, CSO, United States Postal Service Linda H. Butler, VP of Medical Affairs, Rex Healthcare Oleg Shilovitsky, PLM Consultant, Beyond PLM Steve Garske, Ph.D., SVP & CIO, CHLA Brian R. Jacobs, VP, CMIO, Childrens National Medical Center Alexander Nazarov, Engg Functional Excellence Mgr, Cummins Transforming Healthcare with Technology Philip Loftus, SVP IT & CIO, SSM Health 1) What do you see as a big challenge in technology to meet the challenges of your industry? If you were to write down a wish list, what solutions do you look forward to and your expectations from technology providers for the enterprise? The biggest technical challenge for health care providers is balancing the need for transparency and open access to information, with the need to protect sensitive health, financial and personal information. In terms of a wish list, here are my thoughts: • The general availability of two-factor authentication on desktop and mobile devices that can be used both for user authentication and delivering secure encrypted communication to caregivers, patients, and family. • Voice recognition would greatly simplify the ability of patients, family, and the public to communicate with us and electronically conduct key transactions, such as paying bills, making appointments, and communicating with care teams. • Artificial intelligence (AI) systems to provide clinical data support– based on analysis of the electronic health record and best practices–offering real-time clinical decision making support to physicians and care teams. 2) Organizations have to integrate data across the enterprise to have a 360-degree view of the customer, but it’s not an easy thing to do. What are your thoughts on getting this act right? Data integration in health care is a major challenge. While electronic health record (EHR) systems are getting better at sharing information, the limitations are such that we’re in the process of merging our three Epic EHR platforms, despite the fact that it’s an expensive, time-consuming and technically challenging task. The other need is for improved health care communication and information exchange standards, many of which have been around in similar form for more than a decade. For example, Health Level 7(HL7) standards, which were developed by an organization founded in 1987, is still one of the primary data sharing mechanisms. In addition, EHRs still share information primarily using continuity of care documents, which can be slow and cumbersome. The biggest technical challenge for health care providers is balancing the need for transparency and open access to information, with the need to protect sensitive health, financial and personal information Universal multifactor authentication and encryption systems are also needed to ensure adequate compliance with the growing number of data security and privacy requirements. 3) What specific types of technology will give leaders/players within your industry the competitive edge? The winners in this game will have a number of key attributes. • They will have standardized systems based on a combination of evidence and best practice procedures that are used system wide. • Recognizing that they are often data rich and information poor they will streamline their systems making them simpler and more intuitive to use, avoiding unnecessary collection of data. • Their systems will be integrated across the full continuum of care from hospital and ambulatory, to home care and hospice, and rehab, skilled nursing facilities and long term nursing homes. This is likely to be through the use of strategic partnerships with agreed ways of sharing key patient information between them. 4) Despite the advancement in technology and availability of some cool technology solutions, there isn’t a day when we can say ‘all is fine.’ There are several pain points within the enterprise for which solutions do not exist yet. In your business environment what are some of the solutions which are not available or not up to the mark and if available, would have made your job easier. Can you share 1-2 things on what keeps you awake at night? Areas of strategic opportunity where the technology is not yet mature enough to fully support health care’s extremely broad range of users–that is, patients, caregivers, providers, insurers, etc.– include AI, voice recognition, and natural language processing 5) There are several technology trends which you perhaps would be observing (big data, social media, mobile, cloud, IOT). Can you share with us 1-2 trends that will have significant impact on your enterprise business environment and your industry? • Population health management is the future business model for health care. Consequently, establishing a flexible and scalable IT platform to support population health is critical to future success. • With the consumerization of health care, developing a more retail-oriented delivery of health care services also is a key requirement for future success. That will require a fundamental change in the thinking and operations of health care providers. 6) Can you illustrate how technology is revolutionizing than ever thought before in 1-2 business segments in your work environment and is so critical for your business to succeed? • Patient access, the ability for new and existing patients to obtain online real or virtual appointments, preferably same day or next day, is one of the key requirements specified by patients. • Centralized call centers available 24 by 7 by 365 providing patients with a single number to call, covering both clinic and hospital outpatient appointments, is another key patient requirement. • Diagnostic imaging has improved to a level where it can often eliminate the need for biopsies or other invasive procedures. In addition, enhanced imaging technologies can detect smaller abnormalities and significantly reduce the number of false positives, enhancing the patient experience. 7) How is the role of IT changing at your company, and, with it, your role as CIO/CXO? IT has moved from being a support function to a strategic business partner reporting to the CEO and responsible for the innovative use of IT that’s based on the business strategies, goals, and priorities of the organization. 8) What is the best example of IT’s new role at your company? Can you share on some of the things you have done in driving process transformation efforts—while tuning and elevating IT’s relationship with the business? Some key examples are: • The move to a single electronic health record is key to supporting patients across the full continuum of care so that they always receive the best treatment, based on their full medical history accessed from anywhere in the system. • Our new population health management platform is key to understanding the history and risk of patient populations. More specifically, it’s critical in managing patient populations by evaluating risk and pricing; tracking performance against key financial and clinical requirements; and, in the process, maintaining or enhancing patient outcomes. • Providing remote specialist tele-consultations to patients in rural hospitals and clinics provides them with the same level of expertise that we have in our major medical centers without the need for extensive travel. 9) When it comes to security, how significant is the role of a CIO/CXO or CISO as an ombudsman between IT and business? As security issues gradually start demanding full time attention, do you think that it is time to hand over security completely to a CSO? We see IT security as a shared responsibility encompassing the Board, the CEO and business leadership in addition to the CIO and CISO. The CISO plays an important and growing role but everyone in IT has a part to play. Given our vision that IT security is everyone’s responsibility and that IT security issues always have both an IT and a business component, we will likely not be moving security to a CSO in the near future. 10) A final question, what’s your advice to a CIO/CXO starting out in your industry? For those in IT who want to work in close partnership with business leadership and help drive transformational change, today’s healthcare environment truly provides a unique and challenging opportunity. 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__label__wiki	0.692291	0.692291	Theatre out of the theatre I attended three performances last week, none of them in conventional theatre spaces. And I attended a rehearsal in a living room, for an indie production that may culminate in workshop/performance in equally unconventional space. There is something truly inspiring and welcoming about using found space to create and share performance, about taking advantages of the quirks of the location to develop site-specific performance, and about bringing live entertainment to places the audience is already comfortable with, rather than trying to draw new audiences in to a conventional theatre with all its inherent cultural expectations (do I dress up? do I fit comfortably in their seats? what if I get restless? can I afford it? can I bring refreshments? etc). Two of the performances I attended this week were staged readings rather than fully staged productions. That means that the actors had the scripts in front of them, on music stands. There were no sets or props, no fancy lighting or sound effects, just the narrative and the actors delivering it. Alberta Playwrights’ Network hosts a “Script Salon” once a month, a public reading of a new script by one of their members. This month it was Blaine Newton’s Bodice Ripper. (Blaine Newton’s play Bravo! about nuclear testing in the south Pacific was performed by Shadow Theatre a few years ago). Tracy Carroll directed the reading, and the readers were Perry Gratton, Jenny McKillop, Sam Jeffrey, Patricia Cerra, Jacob Holloway, and Jake Tkaczyk. The actors took turns reading the setting description notes and stage directions, and from these we learned that the action all took place in the main room of a small holiday cabin in the mountains, in the 1960s. The premise is that a group of friends borrows the cabin retreat with a plan to write a novel collaboratively – maybe a romance, a bodice-ripper, maybe a murder mystery or thriller, they can’t agree. Without a visible set, I pictured something like the cabin in Teatro’s Sleuth a few years ago, or maybe the Mayfield’s stylish Long Weekend, or the one in Ruth Ware’s thriller novel In a Dark, Dark Wood. As was pointed out in the lively talkback discussion afterwards, setting it in the 1960s “raised the stakes” for female characters who had been resenting the men who underestimated them – and it also provided for a fully-staged production to benefit from the audible and visual business of feeding paper into a typewriter, typing (quickly, slowly, or clumsily with mitts on), and pulling paper out to crumple it or file it. Script Salon is open to the public, admission by donation. The April session will mark five years of the project, and promises to also have cake and live music. The other staged read I attended was Social Studies, a play by Winnipeg playwright Trish Cooper. The reading was in a suburban community league hall, hosted by a regular seniors’ social group there – there were folding chairs, a small stage, and a cheerfully-staffed snack bar, but no other theatre amenities – no dimmed lights, no sound amplification or hearing-assist loop, no reserved seats, no programs. And of course no set pieces, props, or actor movement. But I loved it regardless. Kristin Johnston plays Jackie, a young woman who arrives with suitcases (and metaphorical baggage) at her childhood home after a breakup, only to find that her mother (Leona Brausen) has given away her room to a Sudanese refugee (Deng Leng). Rebecca Merkley plays teenage sister Sarah. The play’s narrative intersperses snippets of a class presentation Sarah gives to her class about the Lost Boys of Sudan and Sudanese refugees in Canada, with scenes of how this works out in real life in the household. I thought the dialogue was well-written, credible, funny, and affectionate. It reminded me of a mix of Kim’s Convenience and Schitt’s Creek, in the way it portrayed 21st-century mismatches between parents and children, and between well-meaning people of different cultural and religious backgrounds. Specificity made it more powerful (audience members at the reading shared afterwards that they were familiar with the meat-packing plant in Brooks hiring Sudanese workers, as mentioned in the text). The readers were all good, bringing life to the script with comic timing and pathos, with Leona Brausen particularly powerful as the slightly-hippie single-mother/activist. The reading was directed by Jake Tkaczyk, who also read the stage directions. In a change of pace from the staged readings, Tuesday night I attended opening night of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, with Gregory Caswell in the title role, Marisa West playing her husband Yitzhak, and musicians Matt Graham, Sean Besse, Connor Pylypa, & Sam Malowany as the backup band. Brennan Doucet directed. It was fully staged, with all the rock/punk music and over-the-top costumes. And it was performed in Evolution Wonderlounge, the small subterranean LGBT+ nightclub down the street from Rogers Place. This worked perfectly with the musical’s storyline that Hedwig and her band are performing in a low-prestige venue near where her estranged former lover/protege Tommy Gnosis is playing an arena show – and every now and then Hedwig throws open a door and we “overhear” Tommy Gnosis’s over-amplified between-songs musings. Hedwig is a cult phenomenon, an off-Broadway show that opened in 1998, a film version in 2001, and a first Broadway version in 2014-2015 (I saw that one, with Neil Patrick Harris and Lena Hall in their Tony-award-winning performances). It’s a rather odd story, using the late-20th-century divided Berlin as a metaphor for love and gender and a seeking for wholeness and re-unification. Caswell owns the role and the stage, from eyeshadow to stilettos, a fierce, tragic, brave genderqueer performer telling us her story and singing her songs. Marisa West plays Hedwig’s Croatian husband Yitzhak, surly and resentful at the start but reborn in beautiful drag for the finale. Hedwig and the Angry Inch has one more performance tomorrow night (Saturday Mar 16th). It’s not quite sold out, but it probably will be. This entry was posted in Theatre and tagged deng leng, evolution, greg caswell, hedwig and the angry inch, jacob holloway, jake tkaczyk, jenny mckillop, kristin johnson, leona brausen, marisa west, matt graham, patricia cerra, perry gratton, rebecca merkley, samantha jeffery, site specific, site sympathetic, staged read on March 15, 2019 by Ephemeral Pleasures. ← Unexpectedly touching and hilarious: Small Mouth Sounds Shadow Theatre’s Lungs →	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line1171
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__label__cc	0.59647	0.40353	Like a House on Fire From Fanlore Fraser/Kowalski Fanfiction Title: Like a House on Fire Author(s): Beth H. and Kellie Matthews Date(s): 2002 Length: 582KB Genre: slash Fandom: due South External Links: at Kellie's website, at Beth's website, at due Slash Click here for related articles on Fanlore. 1 Reactions and Reviews Like a House on Fire is a Fraser/RayK Bayliss/Kowalski story by Beth H. and Kellie Matthews. Reactions and Reviews Do I really need to keep recommending stories Kellie Matthews has a hand in writing? Probably not, but this one deserves special mention. Set after the end of the series, Ray returns to Canada after a long, complete absence from Fraser's life. What I loved most about this story was the reversal of some DS fanfic standards. For once, it's Fraser life that is slowly deteriorating, and it's Ray who is the stabilizing force that is needed to make things right. Loved it, loved it, loved it. [1] Why this must be read: Because Kellie and Beth wrote it! Duh! No, seriously, it is a wonderful story. It is set about 2 years after COTW and Fraser has gone back to Canada -- without Ray. Ray is still in Chicago working as a cop. They keep in touch, but have sort of drifted apart as friends do who are separated. Ray gets a chance to go to Canada (taking a prisoner there) and goes to see Fraser and wouldn't you know they immediately get involved in a case together. Plus, they soon realize that they have a lot of unfinished business between them -- like long denied feelings, but will fate and their jobs keep them apart again? This is an amazingly rich and realistic story, wrought with emotion and yes, humor. I love it more every time I read it. [2] Set about 2 years after COTW and Fraser has gone back to Canada -- without Ray. Ray is still in Chicago working as a cop. They keep in touch, but have sort of drifted apart as friends do who are separated. Ray gets a chance to go to Canada (taking a prisoner there) and goes to see Fraser and wouldn't you know they immediately get involved in a case together. Plus, they soon realize that they have a lot of unfinished business between them -- like long denied feelings, but will fate and their jobs keep them apart again? [3] Whenever I think about this story I get excited all over, which is pretty impressive seeing as I've read it nearly as often as I've read Pride and Prejudice. It's got a lovely mix of everything: angst, humor, and an original premise that really works for me. The vast majority (read: all the fics I've ever read but this one and Blueprint) of post-CotW fic wherein Ray returns to Chicago while Fraser stays in Canada have Ray losing his shit about being all alone until he feels compelled to track Fraser down and (awkwardly) declare his love. Of course, knowing Ray as we do that makes perfect sense, but this story shows us another very possible reality: Fraser, lacking the support network he spent three or four years building and no longer having snotty supervisors to butt heads against, finds himself at loose ends and starts to let himself go. Meanwhile, Ray, having a solid support network for the first time in a very long time (maybe ever), has settled down and matured into the responsibility of his job and his life. When Ray goes to Canada to testify against a Canadian criminal caught in America, Fraser realizes just how far he's sunk (which: this is Fraser, so his definition of 'sunk' and our definition of 'sunk' aren't exactly on the same level) and is forced to confront himself about what that means regarding his life and how much he misses his time in Chicago. Fraser and Ray are just fabulous in this story: time has passed and they've changed a little (something that doesn't happen often enough in fanfic), but they're still the boys we know and love. They're backed with a whole town of interesting original Canadian characters, cameos from all of our DS favorites, and a long, engaging plot. One of the absolute best DS fics ever written. [4] Long, plotty, lovely. I'm strapped for words, because they've used all the good ones. Go and read. [5] Very long but totally engrossing post 'Call of the Wild' story. Two years after the last episode Fraser and RayK have partly fallen out of touch. After escorting a prisoner to Canada, RayK decides to look up his old friend and is shocked to find Fraser isn't as happy and as comfortable to be back home as everyone expected. Slowly they confront their feelings of unhappiness and dissatisfaction of lives without each other as they hunt for an arsonist with apparent links to Zoltan Motherwell. [6] Why You Should Read This: I’m newer to the due South fandom, and this came recommended to me. While most post-series stories in due South fandom focus on Ray moving up North to Canada to live with Fraser, this one takes a decidedly different tact. Instead, Fraser has moved up to Canada, while Ray stayed back in Chicago. Ray gets a chance to head North on a prisoner-transport case, and gives Fraser a surprise visit. Fraser, as we find out, has let himself go a bit, as he’s languished at a boring new assignment in small-town Canada. His care and feelings for Ray, while at the same time being so reserved because he’s gained some weight, makes him feel so much more real as a character. Ray and Fraser dance around each other for a while, even through a Chicago-related case that happens in Fraser’s small town, and the payoff is spectacular. If you’ve ever wanted to read a feel-good first time fic in this fandom, this is the one. This is an epically long read, but it’s honestly one of the absolute best fics in all of due South fandom. [7] ↑ JR.'s Parlor, 2006? ↑ 2004 rec at Crack Van ↑ Whispered Words; WebCite ↑ Epic Recs, 2007 ↑ Slash Story Recommendations - due South, Highlander, Various Fandoms, Archived version ↑ Due South Recs by primekaos, 2004 ↑ Slash World, 2016 Retrieved from "https://fanlore.org/w/index.php?title=Like_a_House_on_Fire&oldid=1303911" Due South F/K Fanfiction Content is available under Fanlore:Copyright.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line1175
__label__wiki	0.713287	0.713287	International Premiere Garo - Under the Moonbow Directed by Keita Amemiya Hosted by Director Keita Amemiya Keita Amemiya Natsumi Ishibashi, Atom Mizuishi, Masei Nakayama GALACOLLECTION http://garo-project.jp/GEKKOU/ Genre Animation , Action Lurking among us are the Horrors, ancient enemies of our kind. Holding the line against them, down through the ages, are the Makai Knights. Assuming the aspect of Golden Knight Garo, Raiga Saezima has vanquished one such demonic creature, but his magical armour has been tainted with evil. Furthermore, a Knight of the dark has materialized, and taken hold of Mayuri, so dear to Raiga. If he hopes to rescue her, Raiga must board a mysterious train destined for the netherworld. As he advances through the cars of this train, Raiga comes ever closer to confronting his own hidden truths… Since the 1980s, Keita Amemiya has left his mark in countless corners of the universe of tokusatsu — Japanese science-fantasy cinema and TV — and beyond, in anime, video games and manga. A prolific director of films and TV, he’s equally celebrated as a renowned designer of uncanny characters, creatures, and costumes, and never lacks for surprising innovation and a self-aware flair that stands out in his field. His special touch can be found in several KAMEN RIDER series, and in his own original creations, like the legendary ZEIRAM and the enchanting anime TWEENY WITCHES. For the last decade and a half, though never without a number of projects on the go, Amemiya has focused on his ever-expanding world of GARO, an ongoing chronicle of otherworldly conflict. Entirely accessible to newcomers to the franchise, the latest entry GARO – UNDER THE MOONBOW is a prismatic refraction of Amemiya’s striking imagination, resplendent with Gothic gravitas and gritty techno-punk, mystical symbolism and elegant antique fantasy. – Rupert Bottenberg The Fable Kan Eguchi Equal parts slam-bang action thriller, lurid yakuza melodrama, and off-kilter dark comedy, THE FABLE becomes a bedtime story for the hapless henchmen in a skilled assassin’s path when the situation in Osak... The Prey Jimmy Henderson In the Cambodian jungle, undercover cop Xin must outrun his hunters and stop them before they stop him dead in his tracks. Rock-solid, high-quality action from the team behind the Fantasia 2017 hit <b>JAIL... Cambodia 93 mins Lim Kyoung-tack Desperate to rescue her sister, her rage growing exponentially, ex-con and martial-arts champion Inae will show little mercy to Eunhye’s abusers. A visceral South Korean vengeance thriller, with an action-...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line1176
__label__wiki	0.590944	0.590944	Gender Assignment at birth, A Challenge For Parents Health, IVF / FERTILITY CARE Biggest Assignment as a Parent- Raising a child with Genital Ambiguity The decision to have a baby is the first step in a lifelong commitment of love, time, and financial resources and dealing with a baby with sexual ambiguity is devastating and painful . Sexual ambiguity is a complex issue. An accurate diagnosis is essential and may take some time. Sex of assignment must be based not only on the underlying diagnosis and karyotype but also on the potential for adult sexual function, fertility, and psychological health. For these reasons, input from several specialties, including endocrinology, genetics, neonatology, psychology, urology, and an ethicist, is important. All members of the team must communicate adequately with each other. Parents must fully understand the medical recommendation for sex assignment and required therapy. They must wholeheartedly agree and support the assigned sex to avoid ambivalence, which can lead to gender confusion and psychological trauma for the child. Parents may be dealing with two major categories of children presenting with this problem: Virilized 46, XX females –females look like male Under virilized 46, XY males- males look like female The most common cause of sexual ambiguity in newborns is congenital adrenal hyperplasia secondary to 21-hydroxylase deficiency. Adrenal gland is situated above the kidneys and secretes several hormones. As a general rule, gonadal tissue containing Y chromosomal material is at higher risk for development of malignancy. When infant is born with ambiguous genitalia, and the sex of the infant is uncertain, what next ? Accept the truth, cooperate with medical professionals as further testing is necessary to determine the infant’s sex. Explain all the relevant history during pregnancy that may help in a diagnosis. Reference to more commonly understood birth defects may be useful. Several days may be necessary to complete the testing and a team will participate to make an accurate diagnosis and a considered recommendation. Completion of the birth certificate should not be postponed, and sex assignment should not be delayed. Accept the sex assigned by Medical team. What can cause genital ambiguity in newborn? Is it preventable? Drug ingestion, alcohol intake, and ingestion of hormones during pregnancy can lead to such a situation. Hence Maternal history is particularly important. Progestational (androgenic) therapy used for threatened abortion or androgens for endometriosis during pregnancy should be avoided as far as possible. If the mother has signs of excessive androgen or parental family history for occurrence of ambiguity, neonatal deaths, consanguinity, or infertility it can lead to sex disorders. What is the extent of problem? The most common cause of a virilised female is congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH). Virilisation may also be caused by maternal ingestion of androgens or synthetic progesterone during the first trimester of pregnancy. The measurement increased ACTH in blood is useful for making a diagnosis. These babies have female chromosomes with male outlook, however they do have ovaries and uterus like any other female child. An undervirilized male (previously called male pseudo hermaphroditism) refers to a male with female external genitalia. The abnormality may range from various grades of feminisation to a completely female phenotype. Such disorders result from deficient androgen stimulation of genital development and most often are secondary to testosterone biosynthetic defects. These boys have male chromosomes with female outward looks. How the condition is diagnosed? What are the tests done? The diagnosis of the origin of sexual ambiguity can rarely be made by examination alone, it is always combined with a series of tests. Tests are directed to determining the presence or absence of palpable gonads (presumably testes), the presence or absence of a uterus, and the karyotype to allows classification of the infant as a virilized female, an under virilized male, having a disorder of gonadal differentiation, or having one of the unclassified forms. Certain forms of CAH may cause dehydration, hypertension, or areolar or genital hyperpigmentation. Turner’s stigmata may be present, including webbed neck, low hairline, and edema of hands and feet. Radiographic studies are necessary to find out structural abnormalities like the presence of gonads and other reproductive structures. Pelvic ultrasound examination by qualified and experienced personnel should be performed as soon as possible to look for a uterus. The presence of gonads, fallopian tubes, and a vaginal vault may also be determined. If necessary, a genitogram may be performed to see the lower reproductive organs like presence of vagina and its extent. Because 21-hydroxylase deficiency is a common cause of sexual ambiguity, the level of 17-hydroxyprogesterone (17-OHP) should be assessed in all such infants who do not have palpable gonads. Screening of newborns for CAH with measurement of a 17-OHP level is now mandated in all 50 of the United States and in many countries throughout the world. A karyotype is essential and must be obtained expeditiously. Buccal smears are absolutely contraindicated because they are inaccurate. In many laboratories, a karyotype can be completed within 48 to 72 hours. Defects in testosterone synthesis can be diagnosed by low testosterone levels with defect in its synthesis pathway (from the level of enzymes block either in the adrenal or in testicular pathways). What is the role of parents in upbringing? The decision about sex assignment must be carefully made, taking into consideration each “level” of sex determination. Sex assignment also depends on fetal sex hormone exposure, the potential for adult sexual function, and psychological and cultural considerations. It is vital that parents completely understand and support the decision because ambivalence about sex of rearing may result in gender confusion and psychological trauma. Virilized females are usually assigned a female sex. They have normal ovaries as well as uterus and vaginal structures and, with surgical correction and steroid replacement, can have normal sexual function and achieve fertility. However, severely virilized females should be assigned a male sex. Undervirilized males are often infertile, and sex assignment has usually been based on phallic size. Adult social and fulfilling sexual function should be the primary goals of gender assignment. If male sex assignment is contemplated, a trial of depot testosterone (25 mg every 3-4 weeks) for 1 to 3 months indicates whether phallic growth is possible. In patients with gonadal dysgenesis and Y chromosomal material, gonadectomy is necessary, and fertility is not possible. Internal duct structure is also frequently deranged. Small phallic size usually leads to a female sex assignment. True hermaphrodites who have a unilateral ovary and uterine structures may have spontaneous puberty and normal fertility and may be raised as females. External genital size and structure may allow male assignment, but more commonly, external genitalia are poorly virilized, and affected infants are assigned a female sex. What are the future prospective regarding marriage, child bearing etc.? Parents must understand that having normal sexual performance does not correlate with reproductive ability. However, physicians always give preference to sexual ability than childbearing probability. Our aim in parenting is to give the child a sexual identity which may contradict the genetic makeup and at places may force us to sacrifice the gonads for future life. We have much to learn about gender identity and must consider which decisions may be made later than previously thought (e.g., surgery). Some surgical interventions are cosmetic, and some affected patients have expressed the wish to make the decisions in adolescence or adulthood. This field challenges many of our perceptions of sex and gender and our role as physicians. Although the infant with genital ambiguity presents a medical and social emergency, decisions should be made carefully, cautiously, and with all necessary biochemical and anatomic information available. Most important, the multidisciplinary team approach must involve the parents in an open and honest discussion of the options. In the end, it is the parents who come first in decision making on sex assignment. A male child be with complete androgen insensitivity should be raised female. Complete androgen insensitivity usually does not have suspicion of ambiguity in the new born period or early childhood. Affected children grow as normal females until puberty. They feminize with normal breast development at puberty because high levels of testosterone are aromatized to oestrogen, but they have no pubic or axillary hair and no menses because they lack uterus and ovaries. Gender identity is usually female. Patients come to medical attention because of lack of menses in adolescent period. The diagnosis is therefore frequently made when patients are in their middle to late teens. If diagnosed early the testes should be removed to prevent cancer and oestrogen therapy should start early. This therapy helps in developing the vagina and performance as a female is not compromised. Undervirilized males traditionally, infants with 5-alpha-reductase deficiency were raised as females until puberty, then continued life as males, and, in some cases, achieved fertility. More recently, however, the condition has been recognized early in life, and affected males are now raised from infancy as boys. Virilized females are usually assigned a female sex. They have normal ovaries as well as Uterus and ovaries and, with surgical correction and steroid replacement, can have normal sexual function and achieve fertility. However, severely virilised females should be assigned a male sex. They can perform sexual function as a male but cannot reproduce as they don’t have male gonads. Patients with Y-related chromosomal or genetic disorders that cause mal development of one or both testes are said to have gonadal dysgenesis. They present with ambiguous genitalia and may have inadequate virilisation, uterus and vagina may be present in such children. The Y-containing dysgenetic testes are at risk for developing cancer and must be removed better reared as females. How to deal with infertility in such cases? Fertility potentiality is decided by karyotyping, presence of gonads and presence of uterus and vagina. Accordingly, they can go for gamete donation programme or surrogacy. The decision has to be taken after discussion with the couple. https://www.femelife.com	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line1182
__label__wiki	0.872286	0.872286	The Song of Sway Lake By: Josh Bell On the road to nowhere. The song in The Song of Sway Lake is an actual song, a custom composition for the Sway family that becomes the source of an intergenerational struggle. At an expansive vacation home on the upstate New York lake named for his family, young Ollie Sway (Rory Culkin) is determined to find the ultra-rare (and ultra-valuable) 78-inch record of “Sway Lake,” performed by a jazz legend at Ollie’s grandparents’ wedding. Following his father’s suicide (by jumping into the frozen lake), Ollie has fixated on the record, which is part of a large collection kept at the family home. Ollie brings along his creepy Russian friend Nikolai (Robert Sheehan) and breaks into the house, but he doesn’t expect that his grandmother Charlie (Mary Beth Peil) will show up soon after, also in mourning (Ollie’s father was her son) and also in search of the elusive record. Director and co-writer Ari Gold handles the conflict between Ollie and Charlie in a meandering, indirect manner, and it’s not entirely clear why the two resent each other so strongly. Ollie alternately broods and attempts to woo local girl Isadora (Isabelle McNally) in a manner that borders on stalking, while Charlie alternately broods and berates her long-suffering housekeeper Marlena (the late Elizabeth Peña, in her final role). Meanwhile, Nikolai becomes disturbingly obsessed with the Sway family history, in particular Ollie’s long-dead grandfather Hal, a Navy captain who wrote long romantic letters to Charlie (which are dramatized in voiceover by Brian Dennehy). The plot proceeds elliptically, with dreamy interludes featuring naked bodies (possibly Charlie and Hal in the past) swimming in the lake, and some gorgeous scenery courtesy of cinematographer Eric Lin. It’s hard to get a handle on the characters’ motivations, and harder still to care about whether any of them will achieve their goals, especially when they’re all such sour, unpleasant people. Culkin and Peil do their best to bring some authentic melancholy to their characters’ vague discontent, but they mostly end up pouting and wailing. Sheehan turns the already grating Nikolai into a caricature, and his weird fixation on the Sways never really makes sense. Gold and co-writer Elizabeth Bull aim to convey a sweeping sense of family history, starting with a vintage-style commercial for Sway Lake that showcases the family as wealthy patrons in the 1950s and continuing with the hushed voiceovers from Charlie and Hal, but the story feels constrained, stuck in the musty, closed-off Sway estate. Set for no apparent reason in 1992, the movie is suffused with nostalgia, but it rarely evokes the feeling of any particular era, instead settling for a general fondness for the “good old days,” whatever that may mean to someone. Ollie and Charlie both pine for some indeterminate time in the past, and there are fleeting moments when the movie captures that sense of regret and longing. Those moments are rare, though, and far more often the movie seems lost in its own haze of ethereal confusion. Director: Ari Gold Writer: Ari Gold, Elizabeth Bull Cast: Rory Culkin, Mary Beth Peil, Robert Sheehan, Isabelle McNally, Elizabeth Peña Previous: First Man Next: Ophelia	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line1183
__label__wiki	0.787234	0.787234	Home Drama Like Crazy – Trailer, info, image gallery and release dates Like Crazy – Trailer, info, image gallery and release dates Stephen Payne Aug 2nd, 2011 @ 11:49 pm EDT A British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she’s banned from the US after overstaying her visa. Anton Yelchin (aka Chekov in the 2009 Star Trek) plays the American student and Felicity Jones (Miranda in the 2010 The Tempest) the British student. The film is due for a theatrical release in October. Poster; Jacob (Anton Yelchin) and (Felicity Jones) © 2011 Paramount Vantage A love story is both a physical and emotional tale, one that can be deeply personal and heartbreaking for an audience to experience. Director Drake Doremus’ film Like Crazy beautifully illustrates how your first real love is as thrilling and blissful as it is devastating. When a British college student (Felicity Jones) falls for her American classmate (Anton Yelchin) they embark on a passionate and life-changing journey only to be separated when she violates the terms of her visa. Like Crazy explores how a couple faces the real challenges of being together and of being apart. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Picture at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and of the Special Jury Prize for Best Actress for Felicity Jones, Like Crazy depicts both the hopefulness and the heartbreak of love. Directed by Drake Doremus. Written by Drake Doremus and Ben York Jones. Cast Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones, Jennifer Lawrence, Charlie Bewley, Alex Kingston, Oliver Muirhead, Chris Messina, Finola Hughes, Ben York Jones and Jamie Thomas King. Rated PG-13 for sexual content and brief strong language. [jwplayer config=”Custom Player_640″ mediaid=”21295″] US and Canada release October 28, 2011 (limited release) UK release Febuary 3, 2012 Website: http://www.likecrazy.com Like Crazy – Jacob (Anton Yelchin) and (Felicity Jones) © 2011 Paramount Vantage Like Crazy – Poster; Jacob (Anton Yelchin) and (Felicity Jones) © 2011 Paramount Vantage Like Crazy – Jacob (Anton Yelchin) and Anna (Felicity Jones) are conflicted young lovers separated by visa problems © 2011 Paramount Pictures and Indian Paintbrush Productions, LLC Like Crazy – Sam (Jennifer Lawrence) is no villain as the other woman © 2011 Paramount Pictures and Indian Paintbrush Productions, LLC You might also be interested the the film’s review, you can go to it by clicking here Charlie Bewley Jamie Thomas King Oliver Muirhead Previous articleThe Help – Bryce Dallas Howard with the woman’s view of civil rights Next articleThe Help – Emma Stone and Viola Davis generating Oscar buzz REMEMORY (2017 Movie) – Official Trailer – Peter Dinklage, Anton Yelchin Star Trek: Beyond, Review – Is three the new even? Star Trek Beyond – Cast on the movie and their friend Anton Yelchin Star Trek Beyond – Trailer with Rihanna song, “Sledgehammer” Doctor Who Christmas Special 2015 Gallery with Alex Kingston and Peter Capaldi Doctor Who Series 9 Christmas Special – River Song returns, but… Like Crazy – Film Review Oct 27th, 2011 @ 7:49 pm EDT at 7:49 pm […] You might also be interested the the film's trailer, image gallery and release dates. You can go to it by clicking here […]	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line1184
__label__cc	0.605192	0.394808	Benzinga Pro's 5 Stocks To Watch Today Jayson Derrick Benzinga May 21, 2018 Each day, the Benzinga Pro news team highlights several stocks with Trading Idea potential. Be the first to see them by becoming a Benzinga Pro user! Fibrocell Science Inc (NASDAQ: FCSC) stock gained 15 percent Monday morning in reaction to the autologous cell-based therapeutic company's announcement of interim results from an ongoing clinical trial. The company's Phase 1/2 clinical trial of its FCX-007 gene therapy for recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa was "well tolerated up to 52 weeks post-administration" with no product-related adverse events reported. Avenue Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: ATXI) gained more than 3 percent. The therapeutics company said its first pivotal Phase 3 trial of IV tramadol achieved its primary endpoint of a statistically significant improvement in Sum of Pain Intensity Difference over 48 hours (SPID48) compared to a placebo. General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) gained more than 2.5 percent after the conglomerate giant reached an agreement to merge its transportation unit with Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp (NYSE: WAB). As part of the agreement, General Electric will receive $2.9 billion in cash and hold a 50.1 percent ownership stake in the new entity. Acacia Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACIA) gained nearly 4 percent -- a move that may be attributed to easing tensions between the U.S. and Chinese governments. A trade war between the two countries is "on hold," which may bode well for Acacia who derived 30 percent of its revenue from China's ZTE. QUALCOMM, Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM) was trading higher by more than 1 percent after the company announced a partnership with Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB). As part of the new partnership, Qualcomm and Facebook will work together to deliver high-speed internet connectivity with Facebook's Terragraph technology through Qualcomm's 60GHz technology. 23 Stocks Moving In Monday's Pre-Market Session The Week Ahead In Biotech: PDUFA Dates, IPOs And More See more from Benzinga Credit Suisse On The Timeshare Sector: What's Not To Like? For Spotify's Stock, Raymond James Says 'Stream On' The Latest From China: Qualcomm-NXP Semiconductors Tie-Up 'Looking More Optimistic' © 2018 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved. Why Mallinckrodt Stock Is Sinking Today Better Buy: Sirius XM Radio vs. Netflix Better Buy: NXP Semiconductors vs. Texas Instruments 3 Soaring Biotech Stocks With More Fuel in the Tank Here's Why Avrobio Rose as Much as 19.9% Today Here’s what smart rich people really do with their nest egg Before You Buy TherapeuticsMD, Inc. (NASDAQ:TXMD), Consider Its Volatility Read This Before You Buy Regions Financial Corporation (NYSE:RF) Because Of Its P/E Ratio What Investors Should Know About Steel Dynamics, Inc.'s (NASDAQ:STLD) Financial Strength If You Had Bought Akoustis Technologies (NASDAQ:AKTS) Shares Three Years Ago You'd Have Made 55%	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line1185
__label__cc	0.684212	0.315788	USAS - Americas Silver Corporation NYSE American - NYSE American Delayed Price. Currency in USD +0.1700 (+6.80%) Previous Close 2.5000 Bid 2.4900 x 800 Ask 0.0000 x 900 52 Week Range 1.2400 - 2.8300 Market Cap 210.141M EPS (TTM) -0.3230 Zacks•16 days ago 5 Best Stocks of the Top ETF of June The mining corner of the materials sector led the broad market rally in June with SILJ leading the way. New Strong Sell Stocks for June 6th Here are 5 stocks added to the Zacks Rank 5 (Strong Sell) List today. Business Wire•2 months ago Americas Silver Corporation Announces Results of Shareholder Meeting Americas Silver Corporation is pleased to report that shareholders voted in favour of all items of business including the election of each of the nominees listed in its management information circular dated April 18, 2019 at its annual and special meeting of shareholders held on May 15, 2019. Americas Silver Corporation (USAS) Reports Q1 Loss, Misses Revenue Estimates Americas Silver Corporation (USAS) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of -700.00% and -34.37%, respectively, for the quarter ended March 2019. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock? Americas Silver Corporation Reports First Quarter 2019 Financial Results Americas Silver Corporation today reported consolidated financial and operational results for the first quarter of 2019. Americas Silver Corporation (USAS) Earnings Expected to Grow: Should You Buy? Americas Silver Corporation (USAS) doesn't possess the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely earnings beat in its upcoming report. Get prepared with the key expectations. Americas Silver Corporation Provides First Quarter Production and Cost Update Americas Silver Corporation today announced production and operating cost results for the first quarter of 2019 on a consolidated basis and individually for its Cosalá Operations and Galena Complex. Americas Silver Announces Creation of a Precious Metal Growth Company Americas Silver Corporation (USA.TO) (NYSE American: USAS) (“Americas Silver” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce the closing of the acquisition of Pershing Gold Corporation (“Pershing”), originally announced on September 28, 2018 (the “Transaction”), and a financing package to fully-fund the development of the Relief Canyon Project (the “Project”). Americas Silver Releases Highlights from El Cajón and Zone 120 Pre-Feasibility Study Americas Silver Corporation (USA.TO) (NYSE American: USAS) (“Americas Silver” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce the results of a Preliminary Feasibility Study (“PFS”, “Study”) and initial mineral reserve estimate prepared internally by Company personnel for a combined operation at its 100% owned El Cajón and Zone 120 silver-copper deposits (“EC120”, “Project”) located near Cosalá, Sinaloa, Mexico. Americas Silver and Pershing Gold Announce Completion of CFIUS Review and Expected Closing of Transaction Americas Silver Corporation (USA.TO) (NYSE American: USAS) (“Americas Silver”) and Pershing Gold Corporation (PGLC) (PGLC.TO) (7PG1.F) (“Pershing”) are pleased to announce that the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has completed its review of the companies' previously announced business combination transaction (the “Transaction”) and that CFIUS has determined that there are no unresolved national security concerns with respect to the Transaction. Americas Silver and Pershing Gold expect to complete their business combination transaction on or about April 3, 2019, subject to customary closing matters. Americas Silver Corporation Reports Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2018 Financial Results and Provides 2019 Guidance Americas Silver Corporation today reported consolidated financial and operational results for the fourth quarter and year-end of 2018. Americas Silver Corporation (USAS) May Report Negative Earnings: Know the Trend Ahead of Q4 Release Silver Mining Stocks Outlook: Near-Term Prospects Dim Americas Silver Corporation Provides Fourth Quarter and Annual 2018 Production and Cost Update Americas Silver Corporation today announced production and operating cost results for fiscal 2018 on a consolidated basis and individually for its Cosalá Operations and Galena Complex. Americas Silver And Pershing Gold Announce Respective Shareholder Approvals For Business Combination TORONTO, Jan. 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Americas Silver Corporation (TSX: USA) (NYSE American: USAS) ("Americas Silver" or the "Company") and Pershing Gold Corporation (PGLC) (PGLC.TO) (7PG1.F) ("Pershing Gold") are pleased to announce that their respective shareholders have provided the requisite approvals in respect of the previously announced business combination transaction (the "Transaction") between the two companies. Americas Silver shareholders approved a special resolution to amend the Company's articles of incorporation to create a new class of non-voting preferred shares, and an ordinary resolution to authorize the Transaction and issuance of shares thereunder, as described in the management information circular dated December 4, 2018. Pershing Gold shareholders voted at their meeting to approve the Transaction as well as other related resolutions described in its proxy statement filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on November 30, 2018. Americas Silver Corporation (USA.TO) (NYSE American: USAS) (“Americas Silver” or the “Company”) and Pershing Gold Corporation (PGLC) (PGLC.TO) (7PG1.F) (“Pershing Gold”) are pleased to announce that their respective shareholders have provided the requisite approvals in respect of the previously announced business combination transaction (the “Transaction”) between the two companies. Americas Silver shareholders approved a special resolution to amend the Company’s articles of incorporation to create a new class of non-voting preferred shares, and an ordinary resolution to authorize the Transaction and issuance of shares thereunder, as described in the management information circular dated December 4, 2018. Americas Silver Provides Updates on the Pershing Gold Transaction and the San Felipe Property Option Americas Silver Corporation (USA.TO) (NYSE American:USAS) (“Americas Silver” or the “Company”) is pleased to provide an update on developments for the pending merger transaction (the “Transaction”) with Pershing Gold Corporation (“Pershing Gold”) announced September 30, 2018, including details of the special meeting of shareholders (the “Special Meeting”), and to provide an update regarding its option agreement on the San Felipe property. Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc. (“ISS”) and Glass, Lewis & Co., LLC (“Glass Lewis”), two leading independent proxy advisory firms1, have recommended that shareholders vote in favour of the Transaction at the upcoming special meeting with respect to the resolutions outlined in the Management Information Circular (the “Circular”). Americas Silver Provides Pershing Gold Transaction and General Corporate Updates Americas Silver Corporation (USA.TO) (NYSE American: USAS) (“Americas Silver” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce developments in the pending merger transaction (the “Transaction”) with Pershing Gold Corporation (“Pershing Gold”), including details of the special meeting of shareholders (the “Special Meeting”), and a general corporate update. On September 28, 2018, the Company entered into a definitive agreement to complete a business combination with Pershing Gold. The combination will add a shovel-ready, gold-silver development project in Nevada that adds significant precious metal growth to the Company’s production profile. Investor Expectations to Drive Momentum within Profire Energy, MMA Capital Management, Crawford, Natural Gas Services Group, Brookfield Infrastructure Partners LP, and Americas Silver — Discovering Underlying Factors of Influence NEW YORK, Nov. 14, 2018 -- In new independent research reports released early this morning, Market Source Research released its latest key findings for all current investors,. Americas Silver Corporation (USAS) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of -1400.00% and -54.66%, respectively, for the quarter ended September 2018. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock? Americas Silver Corporation Reports Third Quarter 2018 Financial Results Americas Silver Corporation (USA.TO) (NYSE American:USAS) (“Americas Silver” or the “Company”) today reported consolidated financial and operational results for the third quarter of 2018. This earnings release should be read in conjunction with the Company’s Management’s Discussion and Analysis, Financial Statements and Notes to Financial Statements for the corresponding period, which have been posted on the Americas Silver Corporation SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com, on its EDGAR profile at www.sec.gov, and are also available on the Company’s website at www.americassilvercorp.com. Americas Silver Corporation Provides Updated Mineral Reserve and Resource Estimates Americas Silver Corporation is pleased to provide updated Mineral Reserve and Resource estimates for its two 100% owned assets, the Galena Complex in Idaho, USA and the Cosalá Operations in Sinaloa, Mexico, including the San Rafael, El Cajón, and Nuestra Señora mines, and the Zone 120 deposit. Canadian silver miner strikes deal to buy Colorado gold company for $52M A Canadian silver miner is acquiring a Lakewood-based gold company and plans to jump-start an open-pit gold mine in the deserts of Nevada. Americas Silver (NYSE: USAS), based in Toronto, struck a $52 million, all-stock deal this week to acquire Pershing Gold Corp. (Nasdaq: PGLC) and create a North America mining company worth an estimated $160 million. The transaction includes a $4 million loan to Pershing Gold funding the start of work on the Relief Canyon gold mine in Nevada, which Pershing has been pursuing for several years. PR Newswire•10 months ago Americas Silver Corporation and Pershing Gold Corporation Announce Business Combination TORONTO, Sept. 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Americas Silver Corporation (TSX: USA) (NYSE American: USAS) ("Americas Silver") and Pershing Gold Corporation (PGLC) (PGLC.TO) (7PG1.F) ("Pershing") are pleased to announce that they have entered into a definitive agreement (the "Agreement") to complete a business combination (the "Transaction") and create a low-cost, precious metal growth company in the Americas. Diversified portfolio of precious metal assets in the Americas: Combines two producing polymetallic mines in Mexico and Idaho that are expected to produce approximately 7.0 million silver equivalent ounces with an attractive shovel-ready, precious metal development project in Nevada with the potential, demonstrated by a feasibility study, to add approximately 91,000 gold ounces annually.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line1186
__label__wiki	0.580354	0.580354	Oil & Auto Bentley Defines Future of Luxury and Performance at Auto Shanghai The FINANCIAL -- Bentley’s EXP 10 Speed 6 makes its debut today in China at 2015 Auto Shanghai. The concept shows the future direction of luxury and performance using the finest materials and advanced hybrid technology. EXP 10 Speed 6 is a British interpretation of a high performance two-seater sportscar. From the racing success of the company’s early years to the international motorsport success of today, ‘speed’ is part of Bentley’s DNA. This inspiration is expressed throughout the EXP 10 Speed 6, where iconic Bentley design cues are fused with progressive craftsmanship techniques and modern technologies, according to Bentley. Wolfgang Dürheimer, Chairman and Chief Executive of Bentley Motors, comments: “Following on from its global debut last month in Geneva where it was the star of the show, the EXP 10 Speed 6 is now here in China, our second biggest market, to share our vision for Bentley’s future. This concept showcases modern automotive design, highly skilled British handcrafting, the finest materials and advanced performance technology. This is not just a sports car concept, this is a Bentley sports car concept – a bold vision for a brand with a bold future. “In China, Bentley is the leading luxury car brand. With the updated style, luxury and performance features across the Bentley range for 2015, we are confident that our Chinese customers will continue to demonstrate great passion for our brand.” New style and technology for luxury grand touring Bentley is unveiling a suite of new luxury design upgrades and features to its Continental family of grand tourers in Shanghai. The Bentley Continental GT is refreshed with a complement of new exterior design features, aimed at sharpening the on-road presence of the iconic Grand Tourer. A new front bumper combines with a smaller radiator shell and new, more pronounced fenders to lend a more assertive and confident stance to the front of the car. Enhancing the GT’s iconic silhouette further, three new paint colours are available. The upgrades continue inside the luxury cabin of the Continental range with a new and contemporary interior including new seat patterns, brightware elements, driver instruments, steering wheel and gear paddles. New material options and hide colours complete the refresh. Onboard WiFi, providing connectivity to all handheld devices in the car is also now available across the Continental family. The mighty 6.0-litre twin turbo W12 engine receives a power and torque increase, from 575 PS (567 bhp / 423 kW) and 700 Nm (516 lb.ft) to 590 PS (582 bhp / 434 kW) and 720 Nm (531 lb.ft), to maintain the model’s reputation of effortless performance. The power upgrade is accompanied by improvements to fuel economy and efficiency. Luxury of choice extended on Flying Spur The Flying Spur, Bentley’s best-selling model in China, is on display in Shanghai showcasing additional features and offering even more bespoke choice. The exquisite cabin of the Flying Spur gains modern and tactile new features for 2015 to maintain Bentley’s reputation for interior style and usability. Complementing the feature upgrades are new paint colours in the hues of Marlin, Camel and Jetstream – as per the Continental GT – and the addition of Shortbread and Camel hides to the extensive range of leathers. Pinnacle luxury with enhanced efficiency The updated Mulsanne also joins the line-up at Auto Shanghai. Tailored for the driver, the Mulsanne is the flagship of the Bentley range with its exquisite blend of effortless driveability and unrivled luxury. For 2015 the Mulsanne receives efficiency upgrades through new engine hardware, with its 512 PS (505 bhp / 377 kW), 1,020 Nm (752 lb.ft) 6¾-litre twin turbo V8 engine now 13% more efficient. Changes have also been made to the gearbox calibration of the Mulsanne, focusing on smoother, relaxed gear changes that promote a comfortable and refined driving experience. New paint colours, hide and veneers options are also available across the Mulsanne family. Bentley’s international GT3 racing programme expands in 2015 The 2015 season will see the continued growth of the Bentley international motorsport programme, with Works-supported teams racing in six different series across four continents and customers taking their Continental GT3s to an ever-expanding selection of new countries and GT races. Bentley’s Continental GT3 takes a break from 2015 season preparation to join the new Bentley model range at Auto Shanghai. Bentley entered into the GT Asia Series last year with Bentley Team Absolute Racing and enjoyed a promising start. This season, the calendar has been expanded to incorporate 12 races across Korea, Japan, China, Malaysia and Thailand. The Continental GT3 is Bentley’s purest expression of speed. The racecar explores the potential of the Continental GT in its most extreme form, exploiting the performance and endurance DNA in every road-going Bentley. New for Spring in the Bentley Collection and on sale at the Bentley boutique in Shanghai are women’s leather jackets plus new season’s scarves and women’s handbags in two iconic styles – Barnato and Continental. Previous Article Cadillac CT6 to Offer Plug-In Hybrid Electric Technology Next Article Saudi Aramco: Stakeholders work toward a National Power Association	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line1188
__label__wiki	0.82739	0.82739	by John Threlfall \| Apr 2, 2014 \| Alumni, Award, Faculty, Graduate, Writing \| 0 comments Spring has sprung and there’s no better way to mark the return of the leaves than with some exciting book news from Department of Writing graduates. (Get it? Books, leaves, pages . . . ah, never mind.) Arleen Paré First up is news that recent MFA Arleen Paré is launching her second book of poetry this month. Lake of Two Mountains. Published by Brick Books, Lake of Two Mountains is described as “a portrait of a lake, of a relationship to a lake, of a network of relationships around a lake. It maps, probes and applauds the riparian region of central Canadian geography that lies between the Ottawa and the St. Lawrence Rivers.” Paré’s first book, Paper Trail, won the 2008 Victoria Butler Book Prize and was shortlisted for the 2010 Dorothy Livesay BC Book Prize in Poetry. She’ll be launching Lake of Two Mountains alongside authors Jane Munro, Joanna Lilley and Karen Enns at 8pm Tuesday April 29 at Open Space (510 Fort Street). The event will be hosted by Kitty Lewis, with a Q&A session will be facilitated by Sara Cassidy. Garth Martens The first book of poetry by Garth Martens was also recently released. His Prologue for the Age of Consequence (House of Anansi) offers an elemental world both beautiful and severe, where characters assume a collective status both emphatically human and radically mythic. While his Prologue is about Alberta’s tar sands industrial project, and the men who work in them, these are poems of great philosophical ambition with a startling ethical and psychological reach. Gillian Wigmore Better still, Martens will be launching his book alongside fellow Writing alum Gillian Wigmore, who will whose debut book Grayling is described by no less than retired Writing professor Jack Hodgins as “a spirited journey story I found as irresistible as the powerful river that carries us through the beautiful and treacherous northern landscape.” Grayling is released through the venerable Mother Tongue press. Join both Martens and Wigmore for their launch celebration at 7:30pm Thursday, April 3, at Russell’s Books (734 Fort Street). Aaron Shepard Also on deck for his debut novel is MFA alum Aaron Shepard. He’ll be launching When Is A Man on April 8. Described by publishers Brindle & Glass as “an original debut novel that is meditative, raw, and exuberant in tone, Shepard’s When is a Man offers a fresh perspective on landscape and masculinity.” You can read our full interview with Shepard here before joining him to celebrate the release of When is a Man at the reading and launch party from 7-9pm Tuesday, April 8 at the Copper Owl, 1900 Douglas Street in Victoria. The event will be hosted by Writing professor David Leach. Shepard will also be participating in the At the Mike: Fiction Night! (alongside guest authors M.A.C. Farrant and Margaret Thompson) at 7pm Tuesday, April 15, at Russell’s Books, 734 Fort. Marjorie Celona Congratulations go out to Writing grad Marjorie Celona for making the prestigious Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award shortlist—which is the richest story prize in the world! Celona is up against five other writers—including two Pulitzer Prize winners—for this hefty £30,000 prize. (But the runners-up will receive £1,000 each, so that’s okay too.) The winner will be announced on April 4. For those keeping track, Celona’s first novel Y was heralded as a stunning debut back in 2012. D.W. Wilson Further congratulations to Writing grad and novelist-on-the-rise D.W. Wilson for making the Amazon First Novel Award shortlist with his Ballistics (Hamish Hamilton Canada). Wilson has continued to earn fans and critical acclaim alike since the publication of his short story collection Once You Break A Knuckle—which includes the “The Dead Roads”, the story that earned him the 2011 BBC National Short Story prize. Alongside Marjorie Celona, Wilson was also selected for 2013’s prestigious Waterstones Eleven list in the UK. More prize-winning news from the Department of Writing: MFA candidate and filmmaker Connor Gaston just won “Best College Short” at the 2014 Phoenix Film Festival in April for directing the 2013 Writing 420 class project, ’Til Death. This is the fourth prize for ’Til Death, which continues to attract attention wherever it screens. Writing grads are well represented among the nominees for the forthcoming 2014 BC Book Prizes. Two alum are both nominated for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize: Arno Kopecky made the shortlist for The Oil Man and the Sea, as did Jane Silcott for Everything Rustles. Meanwhile, Ashley Little has been named in two different categories: the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for her novel Anatomy of a Girl Gang and the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize for The New Normal. Finally, Catherine Greenwood is up for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for The Lost Letters. (Also noted in the fine print were faculty member Lynne Van Luven and instructor and alumnus Steven Price as judges in the non-fiction and fiction categories, respectively.) The winners will be announced at the 30th Annual Lieutenant Governor’s BC Book Prizes Gala on Saturday, May 3, at the Renaissance Vancouver Harbourside Hotel. British Columbia’s Lieutenant Governor, the Honourable Judith Guichon, OBC, will be in attendance. Melanie Siebert Acclaimed Deepwater Vee poet, MFA grad and occasional Department of Writing instructor Melanie Siebert was announced as the winner in April of the inaugural poetry prize from the online Lemon Hound with her poem “Thereafter.” Noted poet and prize judge Rae Armantrout had this to say about Siebert’s poem: “Every sentence in ‘Thereafter’ is interesting . . . . It’s as if we’re listening to the voices of the damned (‘Dante’s goddamn mike was open’) and they’re our voices, just skewed enough that we notice what we’ve been saying all along . . . . In this poem our own language comes back to bite us. If only we could wake up.” Visit Lemon Hound to read Siebert’s poem. While we’re talking about literary prizes, we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention that our Writing grads are all over the 2014 PRISM International Poetry & Fiction Contest winners list. The first place Fiction winner is Cathy Kozak and the first place Poetry winner is Jordan Mounteer. First runner-up in Poetry went to alum Kyeren Regehr and the Fiction runner-up went to Leah Jane Esau. And second runner-up in the annual PRISM Creative Non-fiction Contest went to Writing grad Jenny Boychuk for her piece, “Notes on Breath”. (Judge and Can-lit biggie Timothy Taylor described Boychuk’s piece as “A difficult set of family relationships is unwoven and revealed in the process of an episodic meditation on breathing.”) Cara-Lyn Morgan Speaking of Writing MFA alum Kyeren Regher, she has also been selected as the only Canadian represented in the U.S.-based collection Best New Poets 2013. (Of course she’s one the best—she came from UVic!) Other first books for Writing grads: Cara-Lyn Morgan just released her book of poetry What Became of My Grieving Ceremony with Thistledown Press, and Colin Fulton‘s book of poetry Life Experience Coolant was recently published by BookThug. Finally, current Writing undergrad Sheldon Seigel has been named as one of the 10 finalists for the infamous 3-Day Novel Contest organized by Geist magazine and Anvil Press. Siegel is among the five Canadian finalists for the 2013 prize—and he was also profiled as a contestant on CBC’s Canada Writes site, where he shared some humourous insights in both his entrance and exit interviews. We’re sure Sheldon Seigel is just hiding his bloodshot eyes as a result of writing a novel in 3 days As Canada Writes reports, “the last time we spoke with Sheldon was in early September when he had just finished his first writing marathon. Sheldon was zonked, but happy. He called the experience ‘horrendous, spectacular, cathartic, shocking, and enlightening.’ We thought we would ask him now, with time and some perspective, how he feels about being shortlisted: ‘… I’m still shocked that I survived the contest weekend. I have since read my story and found it to be surprising. Perhaps that is because I don’t remember writing half of it! It was indeed a wonderful and horrible experience, one that paid incredible dividends in terms of literary growth and a stronger bond with my dog.'” You can also hear an interview with Seigel on this episode of CBC’s All Points West. The winner of the 3-Day Novel Contest will be announced later this week.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line1190
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__label__wiki	0.863281	0.863281	Which is the best host for small business owners, and which should you avoid? Read our reviews to find out and see what customers have to say. Media Temple GreenGeeks HostPapa Cloudways FastComet Pagely Pressable Pressidium Host VS Host Bluehost vs DreamHost iPage vs Bluehost HostGator vs DreamHost HostGator vs GoDaddy iPage vs GoDaddy iPage vs HostGator SiteGround vs HostGator Coding a website can be daunting, especially without development experience. Whether you are new to website building or are a developer looking to save time, a user-friendly site builder will make your life simpler. Adobe Spark BoldGrid CityMax IM Creator Simbla Strikingly WebsiteBuilder.com Set up your own online store with just a few clicks. Our team of experts have reviewed the best e-commerce builders to date - benefit from the detailed breakdown and learn which suits you best. 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Claire Broadley Claire is the founder and CEO of Red Robot Media, a UK-based content agency. Her areas of expertise include online privacy, the internet, and consumer technology. Google is currently the leading search engine by a large margin, but it owes a lot to AltaVista. In the early days of the web, AltaVista broke ground in search technology. It pioneered many techniques that search engines still use today, and was the first tool to index the full text content of web pages. Peter Morville/ Flickr. CC BY 2.0 When AltaVista was in its prime, Google didn’t exist. But Google didn’t take long to dispose of its rival and force it into the arms of Yahoo. The demise of AltaVista is a cautionary tale for any successful online business. Despite being a pioneer, and far more advanced than its competitors, it proved fallible when its users deserted it. The Web Before AltaVista When Tim Berners-Lee first created the web, he compiled a Virtual Library. It was a manual record of all of the websites that users had published. (An archived copy is still available online.) Various search engines offered lists of the content available online, compiled using user submissions and manual indexing. Naturally, manually created directories had a limited lifespan. Once the web began to explode in popularity, there was no way they could cover every site. All search engines or directories had a shared problem; they all showed different results. And they couldn’t automatically find new websites, either. W3Catalog was the first search engine to automatically harvest website data and format it in a searchable database, but it relied upon other directories for its listings. There was a clear opportunity for a new competitor to offer a complete search database, compiled through automated scanning. Ironically, the search engine that eventually filled this position did so almost by accident. Enter AltaVista.Digital.Com AltaVista was officially launched in 1995 by Digital Equipment Corporation, which was known simply as ‘Digital.’ Digital was the original owner of the domain that you’re reading now; www.digital.com. That’s why AltaVista’s original URL used a subdomain of it: altavista.digital.com. ThisDayInTechHistory has a screenshot of its original homepage design. AltaVista was not created to take the internet by storm, or tap into a booming commercial opportunity that its developers had spotted. In fact, AltaVista was essentially a test case for one of Digital’s supercomputers, the AlphaServer 8400 TurboLaser. With its 64-bit processor, it could search very large databases very quickly. A search engine was an obvious demonstration of its might. Tony Johnson, Stanford University AltaVista’s name came from the scenic views in Palo Alto, where Digital was based. Louis Monier created the web crawler tool, Scooter. He was a computer scientist at Digital’s Western Research Lab. Scooter completed its first complete web crawl in August 1995, returning around 10 million pages to the primitive AltaVista index. Paul Flaherty is credited with coming up with the idea for AltaVista, while Michael Burrows is credited for writing the indexer itself. After being tested with Digital’s 10,000 employees, the AltaVista search engine was rolled out to the general public on December 15th of the same year. The Rise of AltaVista AltaVista quickly became a hit with web users. It indexed around ten times the number of pages that competing search engines could handle. Visitors could suddenly access more content than ever before, simply because AltaVista was better at indexing the furthest reaches of the web. And it gave them more control over results, too. The launch of AltaVista was a noted event in the media in 1995, largely due to the power of Digital’s AlphaServer hardware. The New York Times noted that AltaVista enabled users to carry out “highly targeted searches”, and referred to AltaVista’s tech as a “super spider.” At first, there was some uncertainty around whether AltaVista would continue to be provided free to the general public, or whether users would be asked to pay. But Digital saw AltaVista as a useful demo of its computer hardware capabilities; a marketing tool. AltaVista’s popularity as a search engine was secondary to Digital’s goal of showing what its server could do. Brent Payne/ Flickr. CC BY 2.0 However, Digital underestimated just how much users would love AltaVista. On its launch day in 1995, the new search engine saw around 300,000 visitors. One year later in 1996, it was serving 19 million visitors each day. And by 1997, it was attracting 80 million visitors daily. By 1998, it required 20 multi-processor servers to carry out all of the search queries it received. AltaVista Firsts AltaVista’s rocketing popularity was not just because of the quality of its results. It was a groundbreaker in the search engine sector, and it introduced many advanced features that other search engines had not even thought of when they launched: AltaVista was the first search engine to allow users to search for things using natural language. This meant that typing, for example, “What is a server”, would return search results about servers, not the words “what”, “is”, and “a”. It was the first search engine to attempt to create a complete index of the web using its own data, rather than a curated directory of listings or partial results compiled from different sources. Its crawler, Scooter, was capable of indexing full text pages, making AltaVista the first searchable full text database of the web. It broadened the use of boolean operators in search. Like some competing search engines, it supported AND, OR, and NOT. But it also supported two additional operators: NEAR and ( ) (parentheses). It allowed searchers to limit the amount of results that were returned from one domain. That cut back in noise and duplicate pages in results, which was important in an age where duplicate content on the web was commonplace. It was the first to allow multi-lingual search. It launched mirror sites in Malaysia and Spain in 1997. It was the first to allow people to search for images, video, and audio alongside text content. It was the first tool that could translate entire websites to (and from) English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, and Russian. It did this using its Babel Fish translator, which would later become part of Yahoo. AltaVista’s Demise AltaVista’s relationship with Yahoo started in 1996, when it began to provide supplementary results for Yahoo’s search portal queries. From this point, AltaVista entered a turbulent phase that eventually resulted in it being acquired by its key rival. The first big shift was Digital’s sale to Compaq in 1998. All of Digital’s hardware was rebranded with the Compaq name. Around this time, Compaq also paid somewhere between $2.3 million and $3.3 million for the domain altavista.com, depending on the source you believe. (The actual figure was a closely guarded secret.) Christiaan Colen/ Flickr. CC BY 2.0 Compaq’s Internet Services division decided that it would try beat Yahoo at its own game by diversifying its features. It turned AltaVista into a more complex web portal, doing away with the simple search form that users had enjoyed before, and replacing it with an increasingly cluttered homepage. This move away from AltaVista’s streamlined search experience made AltaVista more similar to its competitors. Users gradually began to switch to a newcomer, Google, for the simple search they missed. In 1999, 83% of AltaVista was purchased by CMGI, owners of the Lycos search engine. It was valued at around $2.3 billion, and an IPO was on the cards. But by 2001, its IPO was canceled and staff were laid off as CMGI reportedly struggled to make AltaVista profitable. Around this time, Google surpassed AltaVista’s popularity with users, processing more search queries than its rival for the first time. AltaVista began to backtrack on its portal layout experiment and return to a simple search form, but the damage was already done. The ailing AltaVista brand was acquired again in February 2003 for just $140 million by Overture. Then, Yahoo acquired Overture four months later, which marked the beginning of the end for the AltaVista name. All of the search technology that had been built up under the AltaVista brand was absorbed into Yahoo search in 2011, just as its search results had been co-opted by Yahoo 15 years earlier. Yahoo closed AltaVista quietly in 2013. The Legacy of Altavista AltaVista arguably never had a fair shot at reaching its full potential. It was an accidental success story for Digital, which saw it as a marketing tool rather than a useful service in its own right. With hindsight, it’s easy to see how popular web search would become. But AltaVista was the victim of poor strategic direction at the height of its success. By the time AltaVista was considered a serious search tool, its focus was changed to a portal, and users didn’t like it. And while acquisitions and financial struggles had been playing out for AltaVista, Google started to gain ground. Additionally, Google foresaw a problem with spam and low quality search results. Its 1996 search engine BackRub was based on a primitive version of PageRank. This approach gave it an important advantage as spam on the web increased. Many experts believe that Yahoo was rather hasty in its decision to close AltaVista without fanfare. It was criticized for having a similar attitude towards GeoCities, too. But by the time AltaVista was closed in 2013, the internet community had moved on; the people that mourned its demise almost certainly didn’t use it for search any longer. AltaVista was considered a dinosaur of the web by the time Yahoo closed it down. But it was hugely important in changing users’ expectations of search. And while lacked the right strategic direction to give it an edge over Google, it paved the way for modern search engines and proved that it was possible for one single website to index (almost) the entire web. You are here: Home > Digital.com About Us: Check Out Our Behind The Scenes Story > Altavista: The Rise & Fall of The Biggest Pre-Google Search Engine Previous: Remote Jobs at Digital.com Next: Babel Fish: The Original Instant Translator For Languages POPULAR WEB BUILDERS GATOR Website Builder GoDaddy GoCentral More Builders... POPULAR WEB HOSTS InMotion Hosting More Web Hosts... 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__label__wiki	0.807055	0.807055	Synthesis and in Vitro Characterization of Novel Dextran–Methylprednisolone Conjugates with Peptide Linkers: Effects of Linker Length on Hydrolytic and Enzymatic Release of Methylprednisolone and its Peptidyl Intermediates Suman Penugonda Anil Kumar, University of Rhode Island Hitesh K. Agarwal, University of Rhode Island Keykavous Parang, University of Rhode IslandFollow Reza Mehvar To control the rate of release of methylprednisolone (MP) in lysosomes, new dextran–MP conjugates with peptide linkers were synthesized and characterized. Methylprednisolone succinate (MPS) was attached to dextran 25 kDa using linkers with 1–5 Gly residues. The release characteristics of the conjugates in pH 4.0 and 7.4 buffers, blood, liver lysosomes, and various lysosomal proteinases were determined using a size-exclusion and/or a newly developed reversed-phase HPLC method capable of simultaneous quantitation of MP, MPS, and all five possible MPS-peptidyl intermediates. We synthesized conjugates with ≥90% purity and 6.9–9.5% (w/w) degree of MP substitution. The conjugates were stable at pH 4.0, but released MP and intact MPS-peptidyl intermediates in the pH 7.4 buffer and rat blood, with faster degradation rates for longer linkers. Rat lysosomal fractions degraded the conjugates to MP and all the possible intermediates also at a rate directly proportional to the length of the peptide. Whereas the degradation of the conjugates by cysteine peptidases (papain or cathepsin B) was relatively substantial, no degradation was observed in the presence of aspartic (cathepsin D) or serine (trypsin) proteinases, which do not cleave peptide bonds with Gly. These newly developed dextran conjugates of MP show promise for controlled delivery of MP in lysosomes. Synthesis and in Vitro Characterization of Novel Dextran–Methylprednisolone Conjugates with Peptide Linkers: Effects of Linker Length on Hydrolytic and Enzymatic Release of Methylprednisolone and its Peptidyl Intermediates. Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 97(7), 2649-2664. doi: 10.1002/jps.21161 Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/jps.21161 https://doi.org/10.1002/jps.21161	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line1198
__label__cc	0.665516	0.334484	School of Continuing and Distance Education Quality objectives Get in your best shape wit insanity workout and attract nice people. Reaserch Projects Teaching & Research Facilities Services, Products & farms College Of Education And External Studies Distance Studies Extra Mural Studies Academic/Student Partners and Linkages School of Continuing and distance education to participate in the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking INTERNAL QUALITY AUDIT -APRIL 2016 Prof. Harriet Kidombo, Dean School of Continuing and Distance Education addressing stakeholders at CCU New masters programmes workshop Staff Training on Turnitin and ORCID Softwares PPM PhD students listening keenly during their orientation at CCU Dean, SCDE Prof. Harriet Kidombo addressing PhD. PPM students during their orientation at CCU 994 GRADUATE DURING THE UoN 54TH CONFERMENT OF DEGREES AND AWARD OF DIPLOMAS 15Th Internal ISO Quality Audit held at the school of Continuing and Distance Education Director CESSP visits Kakamega Extra Mural Centre Prev Next Pause Play 1 2004 8. Distance Education Strategic Plan For The Faculty Of External Studies 2 2004 Student Support Services 3 2004 12. Workshop On Inclusion Of The Disabled 4 2004 Hybrid Method Analysis Of Electromagnetic Transmission Through Apertures Of Arbitrary Shape In A Thick Conducting Scree In this paper a hybrid numerical technique is presented, suitable for analyzing transmission properties of an arbitrarily shaped slot in a thick conducting plane. The slot is excited by an electromagnetic source of arbitrary orientation. The analysis of the problem is based on the "generalized network formulation" for aperture problems. The problem is solved using the method of moments(MOM) and the finite element method(FEM) in a hybrid format. The finite element method is applicable to inhomogeneously filled slots of arbitrary shape while the method of moments is used for solving the electromagnetic fields in unbounded regions of the slot. The cavity region has been subdivided into tetrahedral elements resulting in triangular elements on the surfaces of the apertures. Validation results for rectangular slots are presented. Close agreement between our data and published results is observed. Thereafter, new data has been generated for cross-shaped, H-shaped and circular apertures. 5 2004 A Hybrid Finite Element/Moment Method For Solving Electromagnetic Radiation Problem Of Arbitrarily-Shaped Apertures In A Thick Conducting Screen 6 2004 "Written Requests In Kenyan English: An Illustration Of L1 Adaptation In L2 Acquisition", Occasional Papers In Language And Linguistics, Vol. 2, Pp 104-123 7 2004 Gichuhi, Wanjiru, Sarah Bradley And Karen Hardee. 2004. Provision And Use Of Family Planning In The Context Of HIV/AIDS In Kenya: Perspectives Of Providers, Family Planning And Antenatal Care Clients And HIV-Positive Women. Fresh blood lymphocytes from nine health donors have been compared with samples from the same donors, recovered after period of 2 to 21 months storage in liquid nitrogen, for the capacity to respond to a range of mitogens in vitro. A microculture assay was used, requireing aliquots of only 25,000 cells. The mean levels of 14C-thymidine uptake for fresh and frozen samples were closely comparable when the cells had been stimulated by PHA, Pokeweed or mitomycin-C-treated allogeneic lymphoblastoid cells. Lymphocytes from six East African donors, frozen by a very simple technique, were recovered after 3 or more years storage in liquid nitrogen. Five of the samples were in good condition as judged by cell viability and the capacity to form spontaneous 'E' rosettes with sheep erythrocytes. These five samples also responded extremely well to PHA, PWM and mitomycin-C-treated allogeneic lymphoblastoid cells using the microculture assay. This study extends the range of applications of cell banks in which small aliquots of blood lymphocytes are stored in liquid nitrogen for periods of several years. 8 2004 The Effect Of Economic Crisis On Youth Precariousness In Nairobi: An Analysis Of Itinerary To Adulthood Of Three Generations Of Men And Women. 9 2004 Should Micro-Finance Institutions Worry About The Rate Of Interest On Loans They Charge To Small And Micro-Enterprises? The Accountant, Fourteen patients received oral premedication of temazepam in soft gelatin capsules before minor surgery. The plasma concentrations of temazepam and its sedative, anxiolytic and amnesic effects were measured for 24 hours. Absorption was rapid and peak concentrations occurred 49 minutes after administration. Clinical effects were evident at 30 minutes and persisted for about 4 hours. The decline in plasma concentration was biexponential with a distribution half-life of 1.24 hours. The end of the distribution phase coincided approximately with the termination of its clinical effects. A relationship between plasma concentration and effect was observed; concentrations above 300 ng/ml produced measurable changes in tests of mental function. Patients had recovered fully from the effects of temazepam after 24 hours. This dose of temazepam is reliable and effective as premedication before surgery 10 2004 "Legal Frameworks For Marine Pollution Control And Ports Management In Eastern And Southern Africa", Paper Presented At IMO/UNEP/NEPAD Workshop On Marine Pollution Control And Ports Management, Whitesands Hotel, Mombasa, Kenya, 26th Oyieke H.A. and Misra A.K: 11 2004 Physical Alteration And Destruction Of Habitats In The Marine And Coastal Environment Of Eastern Africa: Legal And 12 2004 "The International Legal And Institutional Framework For The High Seas University Of Nairobi, Kenya) 13 2004 "Development Co-operation Report: 2002 (Kenya)", A Publication Of The United Nations Development Programme, (UNDP 14 2004 "Country Programme Action Plan 2003", A Publication Of UNDP 15 2004 "Draft Reviewed Nairobi Convention; Draft Reviewed SPAW Protocol; Draft Outline Of New Land Based Sources Activities Protocol To The Nairobi Convention (prepared For Ad-hoc Legal And Technical Meeting, Nairobi Convention. November 2003, UNEP, Nairobi. 16 2004 Infant Feeding Alternatives For HIV Positive Mothers In Kenya. (Field Article In) Field Exchange (ISSN 1743-5080) For The Emergency Nutrition Network, Issue 22, July 2004, Pg 26 -29. 17 2004 "Policy, Regulatory And Organizational Framework Concerning Dam And Other Water Infrastructure Decision Making In Kenya," Paper Presented At The Ministry Of Water/UNEP Workshop, Hotel Intercontinental, March. 18 2004 "The Role Of Administrative Dispute Resolution Institutions And Processes In Sustainable Land Use Management: The Case Of The National Environment Tribunal And The Public Complaints Committee Of Kenya," Paper Presented At The Colloquium Of The IUCN Academ 19 2004 'Policy, Legal And Institutional, Reforms As A Strategy For Promoting Sustainable Management Of Biodiversity In Eastern Africa." Paper Presented At The RPSUD Workshop On "Biodiversity Research For Livelihood Support And Food Security", Nakuru 15/17th Nove 20 2004 'Gaps And Inconsistencies In The Environmental Management And Coordination Act, 1999," Prepared For The Workshop On "Community Based Natural Resources Management For Sustainable Livelihoods, 24th March. 21 2004 Evaluation Of Geophagia As A Pathway For Internal Exposure To Ionizing Radiation 22 2004 Natural And Artificial Radioactivity Levels In Sediments Along The Kenyan Coast Radiation Physics And Chemistry 23 2004 Assessment Of Quality Of Trace Element Measurements By EDXRF Technique: A Statistical Approach Radiation Physics And Chemistry 24 2004 Agnes W. Muthumbi, Ann Vanreusel, Gerard Duineveld, Karline Soetaert And Magda Vincx. Nematode Community Structure Along The Continental Slope Off The Kenyan Coast, Western Indian Ocean. 25 2004 Commentary On Article By Ludeki Chweya “The State And Rural Development: Transcending The Centralization-Decentralization Debate" 26 2004 Civil Society In The New Dispensation: Prospects And Challenges 27 2004 Rainfall Characteristics As An Indicator Of Drought In Semi-arid Kitui District Of Kenya (revised) Oral infection with Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) is a frequent and well documented complication in immunosuppressed individuals including patients on immunosuppressive medication. We report the development of severe oral infection with HSV type 1 in a 34 year old woman with type 1 diabetes mellitus and end stage renal disease (ESRD) following cadaveric renal transplantation at the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh. The role of acyclovir in therapy and chemoprophylaxis is discussed. 28 2004 Flow Routing In River Yala Using The Muskingum Technique (revised). 29 2004 An Investigation In The Factors Influencing Pupils' Academic Performance In KCPE: Case Of Mutonguni Division In Kitui District 30 2004 An Event History Analysis Of Factors Influencing Entry Into Parenthood In Nairobi African Population Studies 19 (2): 42-62 31 2004 The Effect Of Economic Crisis On Youth Precariousness In Nairobi: An Analysis Of Itinerary To Adulthood Of Three Generations Of Men And Women. 32 2004 Comparing Maternal Health Indicators Between Teenagers And Older Women In Sub- Saharan Africa: Evidence From Demographic And Health Surveys 33 2004 Determinants Of Transitions To First Sex, Marriage And Pregnancy: Evidence From South Nyanza, Kenya. 34 2004 Other Proximate Determinants Of Fertility. 35 2004 P.Bocquier A, Khasakhala And S. Owuor The Effect Of Economic Crisis On Youth Precariousness In Nairobi: An Analysis Of Itinerary To Adulthood Of Three Generations Of Men And Women. 37 2004 Reproductive Preference Implementation Index: An Examination Of Demographic And Health Surveys Data From 60 Developing Countries. 38 2004 Monica Magadi And N. Taffa And F. Onyango Comparing Maternal Health Indicators Between Teenagers And Older Women In Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence From Demographic And Health Surveys. 39 2004 : Kenya Country Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Needs Assessment Report On Child Health, Maternal Health And Health Systems 40 2004 Chapter 6: Kenya Demographic And Health Survey: Other Proximate Determinants Of Fertility: Kenya Demographic And Health Survey, 2003 Report 41 2004 Kenya Country Needs Assessment Of Progress Towards The Achievement Of Millennium Development Goals (MDG) And The International Conference On Population And Development Goals 42 2004 Research Methodology And Communication: Participants Course Book And Trainers Manual 43 2004 Anti-plasmodial Flavonoids From The Roots Of Erythrina Abyssinica. The ethyl acetate extract of the stem bark of Erythrina abyssinica showed anti-plasmodial activity against the chloroquine-sensitive (D6) and chloroquine-resistant (W2) strains of Plasmodium falciparum with IC50 values of 7.9 ± 1.1 and 5.3 ± 0.7 lg/ml, respectively. From this extract, a new chalcone, 20,3,4,40-tetrahydroxy-5-prenylchalcone (trivial name 5-prenylbutein) and a new flavanone, 40,7-dihydroxy-30-methoxy-50-prenylflavanone (trivial name, 5-deoxyabyssinin II) along with known flavonoids have been isolated as the anti-plasmodial principles. The structures were determined on the basis of spectroscopic evidence. 44 2004 1-Tetralinyl Group For Asparagine Side-chain Protection And Application To Boc- Solid-phase Peptide Synthesis Of Mesotocin 45 2004 1-Tetralinyl Group For Asparagine Side-chain Protection, And Application To Boc Solid-phase Peptide Synthesis” 46 2004 Organic Chemistry 2 (SCH 202) 47 2004 Badamana, M.S., J. W. Wakhungu And R. O. Mosi (2004). Enhanced Productivity Indexing Of Goats. Bull Anim. Hlth, Prod. Afr.(2004), 52,31-38 48 2004 East Africa In Transition: Images, Institutions And Identities 49 2004 African Renaissance And The New Partnership For African Development (NEPAD): A Critical Analysis Of The Obtaining Situation 50 2004 Higher Education And Its Role In Poverty Eradication; The Kenyan Experience 51 2004 Challenges And Temptations For The African Elite 52 2004 Assessment Of Injuries In Physical Education Lessons In Kenya Science Teachers College, Kenya: 53 2004 Genetic Variation In The Predacious Mite, Amblyseius Swirskii ( Acari: Phytoseiidae): Analysis Of Specific Mitochondrial And Nuclear Sequences. 54 2004 Birch A.N.E., Wheatley R.., Anyango B., Arpaia S., Capalbo D., Getu E. Degaga, Fontes E., Kalama P., Lelmen E., Lovei G., Melo I. S., Munyekho F., Ngi-Song A., Ochieno D., Ogwang J., Pitelli R.., Shuler T., Setamou M., Sithanantham S., Smith J., Van Son N We surveyed the phytoseid mites in four different geographical zones of Kenya: Zone I, upper highland and tropical alpine (2400-4400m): Zone II, lower highland (1800-2400m); zone III, midland (800-1800m); Zone IV, tropical, hot and humid( 0-800m ). A total of 107 species was found. In the sub family, amblyseeinae there were 14 species in the genus Neoseilus , one in Aspereroseius Chant, one in Paraphytoseius Swirski &Schechter, five in typhlodromips De Leon, five in Transeius Chant & McMurty, one in Graminaseius Chant &McMurty, 11 in Amblyseius Berlese, one in Arrenoseius Wanstein, two in Typhlodromalus muma, seven in Ueckemannseius Chant &McMurty, one in Ambylodromalus Chant &Mcmurty,, 20 in Euseius Wanstein, one in Iphiseius Berlese, one in Phytoseilus Evans and one in Gynaseius Ehara & Imano. In the subfamily Phytoseiinae Berlese there were four species in the genus Phytoseiius Ribaga. In the subfamily Typhlodrominae Wanstein, there were four species in the genus Kuzinellus Wainstein and 27 in Typhlodromus Scheuten 55 2004 I-Tetraliny Group For Asparagine Side-chain Protection, And Application To Boc-solid-phase Peptide Synthesis Of Mesoticin,' 56 2004 Njagi L.W., Mbuthia P.G., Bebora L.C., Nyaga P.N., Minga U.M. And Olsen J.E. (2004): Carrier Status For Listeria Monocytogenes And Other Listeria Species In Free-range Farm And Market, Healthy Indigenous Chickens And Ducks. E.A. Medical Journal 81(10):529 57 2004 Njagi L.W., Mbuthia P.G., Bebora L.C., Nyaga P.N., Minga U.M. And Olsen J.E. (2004): Sensitivity Of Listeria Species, Recovered From Indigenous Chickens, To Antibiotics And Disinfectants. E.A. Medical Journal 81(10):534-537 58 2004 Comparative Evaluation Of Five Widal Test Kits Used In Kenya For The Serological Diagnosis Of Typhoid Fever 59 2004 Appraisal Of The Village Chicken’s Potential In Egg Production 60 2004 Comparison Between Fluorybridization (FISH) And Culture Method In The Detection Of Pasteurella Multocidain Organs Of Indigenous Birds. 61 2004 Comparison Between The Carrier Status Of P. Multocida On Farm And Live Traded Market Indigenous Birds 62 2004 Ease Of Transmitting P.multocida Between Indigenous Chickens And Ducks Through Contact Transmission 63 2004 Maina, A.N; Mbuthia, PG; Ngatia, TA; Waruiru, R; Bebora, L.C 64 2004 S. Brooker, S. Clarke, JK Njagi, S. Polack, B. Mugo, B. Estambale, E. Muchiri, P. Magnussen, J. Cox (2004). Spatial Clustering Of Malaria And Associated Risk Factors During An Epidemic In A Highland Area Of Western Kenya. Trop Med & Int. Health 9 (7) 757 We conducted a longitudinal study among 827 pregnant women in Nyanza Province, western Kenya, to determine the effect of earth-eating on geohelminth reinfection after treatment. The women were recruited at a gestational age of 14-24 weeks (median: 17) and followed up to 6 months postpartum. The median age was 23 (range: 14-47) years, the median parity 2 (range: 0-11). After deworming with mebendazole (500 mg, single dose) of those found infected at 32 weeks gestation, 700 women were uninfected with Ascaris lumbricoides, 670 with Trichuris trichiura and 479 with hookworm. At delivery, 11.2%, 4.6% and 3.8% of these women were reinfected with hookworm, T. trichiura and A. lumbricoides respectively. The reinfection rate for hookworm was 14.8%, for T. trichiura 6.65, and for A. lumbricoides 5.2% at 3 months postpartum, and 16.0, 5.9 and 9.4% at 6 months postpartum. There was a significant difference in hookworm intensity at delivery between geophagous and non-geophagous women (P=0.03). Women who ate termite mound earth were more often and more intensely infected with hookworm at delivery than those eating other types of earth (P=0.07 and P=0.02 respectively). There were significant differences in the prevalence of A. lumbricoides between geophagous and non-geophagous women at 3 (P=0.001) and at 6 months postpartum (P=0.001). Women who ate termite mound earth had a higher prevalence of A. lumbricoides, compared with those eating other kinds of earth, at delivery (P=0.02), 3 months postpartum (P=0.001) and at 6 months postpartum (P=0.001). The intensity of infections with T. trichiura at 6 months postpartum was significantly different between geophagous and non-geophagous women (P=0.005). Our study shows that geophagy is associated with A. lumbricoides reinfection among pregnant and lactating women and that intensities built up more rapidly among geophagous women. Geophagy might be associated with reinfection with hookworm and T. trichiura, although these results were less unequivocal. These findings call for increased emphasis, in antenatal care, on the potential risks of earth-eating, and for deworming of women after delivery. 65 2004 Luoba AI, Geissler PW, Estambale B, Ouma JH, Magnussen P, Alusala D, Ayah R, Mwaniki D, Friis H. Geophagy Among Pregnant And Lactating Women In Bondo District, Western Kenya. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2004 Dec;98(12):734-41. Geophagy was studied among 827 pregnant women in western Kenya, during and after pregnancy. The women were recruited at a gestational age of 14-24 weeks and followed-up to 6 months post-partum. The median age (range) of the women was 23 years and median parity 2. At recruitment, 378 were eating earth, of which most (65%) reported earth-eating before pregnancy. The preferred type of earth eaten was soft stone, known locally as odowa (54.2%) and earth from termite mounds (42.8%). The prevalence remained high during pregnancy, and then declined to 34.5% and 29.6% at 3 and 6 months post-partum respectively (P < 0.001). The mean daily earth intake was 44.5 g during pregnancy, which declined to 25.5 g during lactation (P < 0.001). A random sample of 204 stools was collected from the women and analysed for silica content as a tracer for earth-eating. The mean silica content was 2.1% of the dry weight of stool. Geophagous women had a higher mean silica content than the non-geophagous ones (3.1% vs. 1.4%, P < 0.001). Faecal silica and reported geophagy were strongly correlated (P < 0.001). 66 2004 Clarke SE, Brooker S, Njagi JK, Njau E, Estambale B, Muchiri E, Magnussen P. Malaria Morbidity Among School Children Living In Two Areas Of Contrasting Transmission In Western Kenya. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2004 Dec;71(6):732-8. Research in malaria-endemic areas is usually focused on malaria during early childhood. Less is known about malaria among older school age children. The incidence of clinical attacks of malaria was monitored, using active case detection in primary schools, in two areas of western Kenya that differ in the intensity of transmission. Clinical malaria was more common in schools in the Nandi highlands, with a six-fold higher incidence of malaria attacks during the malaria epidemic in 2002, compared with school children living in a holoendemic area with intense perennial transmission during the same period. The high incidence coupled with the high parasite densities among cases is compatible with a low level of protective immunity in the highlands. The malaria incidence among school children exposed to intense year-round transmission (26 per 100 school children per year) was consistent with reports from other holoendemic areas. Taken together with other published studies, the data suggest that malaria morbidity among school age children increases as transmission intensity decreases. The implications for malaria control are discussed. 67 2004 Mukoko DA, Pedersen EM, Masese NN, Estambale BB, Ouma JH. Bancroftian Filariasis In 12 Villages In Kwale District, Coast Province, Kenya - Variation In Clinical And Parasitological Patterns. Ann Trop Med Parasitol. 2004 Dec;98(8):801-15. As part of a larger study on the effects of permethrin-impregnated bednets on the transmission of Wuchereria bancrofti, subjects from 12 villages in the Coastal province of Kenya, south of Mombasa, were investigated. The aims were to update the epidemiological data and elucidate the spatial distribution of W. bancrofti infection. Samples of night blood from all the villagers aged i 1 year were checked for the parasite, and all the adult villagers (aged >/= 15 years) were clinically examined for elephantiasis and, if male, for hydrocele. Overall, 16.0% of the 6531 villagers checked for microfilariae (mff) were found microfilaraemic, although the prevalence of microfilaraemia in each village varied from 8.1%-27.4%. The geometric mean intensity of infection among the microfilaraemic was 322 mff/ml blood. At village level, intensity of the microfilaraemia was positively correlated with prevalence, indicating that transmission has a major influence on the prevalence of microfilaraemia. Clinical examination of 2481 adults revealed that 2.9% had elephantiasis of the leg and that 19.9% of the adult men (10.8%-30.1% of the men investigated in each village) had hydrocele. Although the overall prevalence of microfilaraemia in the study villages had not changed much since earlier studies in the 1970s, both prevalence and intensity varied distinctly between the study villages. Such geographical variation over relatively short distances appears to be a common but seldom demonstrated feature in the epidemiology of bancroftian filariasis, and the focal nature of the geographical distribution should be carefully considered by those mapping the disease. 68 2004 Malaria Morbidity Among School Children Living In Two Areas Of Contrasting Transmission In Western Kenya. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2004 Dec;71(6):732-8 69 2004 Regional Variations In The Use Of Contraceptives In Kenya 70 2004 ICPD+10 Kenya’s Progress In Implementing The International Conference On Population And Development Programme Of Action 1994-2004 71 2004 Germano Mwabu, Joseph Wang Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions / table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} Olfactory acuity differs among animal species depending on age and dependence on smell. However, the attendant functional anatomy has not been elucidated. We sought to determine the functional structure of the olfactory mucosa in suckling and adult dog and sheep. Mucosal samples harvested from ethmoturbinates were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively. In both species, the olfactory mucosa comprised olfactory, supporting and basal cells, and a lamina propria containing bundles of olfactory cell axons, Bowman’s glands and vascular elements. The olfactory cells terminated apically with an expanded knob, from which cilia projected in a radial fashion from its base and in form of a tuft from its apex in the dog and the sheep respectively. Olfactory cilia per knob weremorenumerous in the dog (19±3) compared to the sheep (7±2) (p < 0.05). In the dog, axonal bundles exhibited one to two centrally located capillaries and the bundles were of greater diameters (73.3±10.3_m) than those of the sheep (50.6±6.8_m), which had no capillaries. From suckling to adulthood in the dog, the packing density of the olfactory and supporting cells increased by 22.5% and 12.6% respectively. Surprisingly in the sheep, the density of the olfactory cells decreased by 26.2% while that of the supportive cells showed no change. Overall epithelial thickness reached 72.5±2.9_m in the dog and 56.8±3.1_m in the sheep. These observations suggest that the mucosa is better structurally refined during maturation in the dog than in the sheep. 73 2004 Ammonia Removal From An Aqueous Solution By The Use Of A Natural Zeolite 74 2004 Anthocyanin Sensitized Nanoporous TiO2 PEC Solar Cells Prepared By Sol Gel Process This study investigated the effectiveness of three physical-chemical methods namely; pH adjustment, precipitation with alum and the use of polyelectrolytes. In the treatment of diary wastewater from Brookeside milk processing plant. It also investigated the drainability of the sludge produced by each of the three methods. Laboratory tests were carried out in three different batches, one for each of the three methods. In the alum method enough alum was added to the wastewater samples to cause precipitation by sweep floc. In the pH adjustment method, the pH of samples were lowered to the iso-electric point of the casein proteins of approximately pH 4.5 leading to their precipitation as a result of solubility changes. The polyelectrolytes method involved the use of two polyelectrolytes, Sudfloc 3820 and Sudfloc 3860 each of which was used to coagulate the dirty wastewater. For each of the three methods, the samples were taken in one-litre beakers and subjected to Jar tests to determine the optimum dosages. After one hour of settling the supernatants were decanted and subjected to standard Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) tests, turbidity and pH measurements. The settled sludge was subjected to drainability studies. Results showed the treatment of dairy wastewater by the three physical-chemical methods to be effective. There were COD removals of between 60% and 90% and turbidity reduction of over 90%. The use of the sudfloc polyelectrolytes was found to be the least demanding in terms of effluent quality control as no pH adjustments of either the wastewater or the effluent was required. The use of polyelectolytes produced the least volumes of sludge and also the better drainability and solids concentration. Sudfloc 3820 was found to achieve better results than Sudfloc 3860 in terms of COD reduction and the drainability of sludge produced although both achieved the same drainability studies. This study showed that each of the three physical-chemical methods can be used effectively to remove the white colour of dairy wastewater as well as the bulk of the proteins and fats, hence, enabling the discharge of the effluents into natural waters to be of good assimilative capacity. 75 2004 Advanced Materials-Anthocyanin Photo Electrochemical Sensitized Nanoporous TIO2 Solar Cells Prepared By Sol-Gel Process 76 2004 Effect Of Morphology On Electron Drift Mobility In Porous TiO2 77 2004 The Effect Of Quartz And Mullite Phases On Strength Of Triaxial Porcelain 78 2004 The Effect Of Quartz And Mullite Pahses On Strength Of Triaxial Porcelain The effect of quartz and mullite crystalline phases on the strength of triaxial porcelain in the system quartz-feldspar-kaolin composed of 20%wt silica and feldspar/kaolin ratio of 5:8 has been investigated. It was found that secondary mullite crystals enhanced both the compressive strength and elastic properties of porcelain by the interlocking mechanism. Excess glass formation decreased the fracture strength of porcelain as a result of the combined effect of circumferential cracks around quartz grains and the microcracks within the quartz grains. The circumferencial cracks due to the difference in the thermal expansion coefficient mismatch between the glassy and the quartz phases, whereas the microcracks were due to a- to b- quartz phase inversions. 79 2004 Temperature Dependence Of The Thermal Conductivity Of Grog Modified Kenyan Kaolite Refractory Thermal conductivity values, in the temperature range 300 – 1200 K, have been measured in air and at atmospheric pressure for a Kenyan kaolinite refractory with 0% - 50% grog proportions. The experimental thermal conductivity values were then compared with those calculated using the Zumbrunnen et al [1] and the Litovsky and Shapiro [2] theoretical models. The experimental values for samples prepared without or low percentages of grog increased with temperature as predicted by both the theoretical models. On the contrary, the conductivity values for the sample containing ³ 40% decreased with increase in temperature in a manner consistent with the Eucken law. 80 2004 FRACTURE STRENGTH OF POROUS CERAMICS: STRESS CONCENTRATION VS MINIMUM SOLID AREA MODELS In this study, we have reviewed recently published strength-porosity data of porous ceramics, and compared these data with those computed from both the minimum contact solid area (MCA) and the pore stress concentration effect (SCE) models. We observed that the theoretical data (MCA model) matched better the experimental results of ceramics in the low volume fraction porosity range (P < 0.25) range, whereas in the volume fraction porosity range (P > 0.25), the SCE model better predicts the experimental results. 81 2004 Atina. J.O..Ogutu E. O The Prevalence Of Hepatitis A,B & C And HIV Seroprevalence Among Patients With Acute Icteric Hepatitis At The Kenyatta National Hospital East African Medical Journal April 2004 Issue Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, P.O. Box 19676, Nairobi, Kenya. OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of hepatitis A, B, C and HIV seropositivity among patients with acute icteric hepatitis. DESIGN: Cross-sectional descriptive survey. SETTING: Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi. SUBJECTS: Eighty four patients aged above six months with a history of jaundice not exceeding six months were recruited. There were 47 males and 17 females with an age range of eight months to 67 years and a median age of 25 years. METHODS: History was obtained physical examination done and blood taken for determination of bilirubin, ALT, AST and ALP levels. Sera that had disproportionately greater transaminase than ALP elevation were assayed for IgM anti-HAV, IgM anti-HBc, HbsAg, anti-HCV and anti-HIV antibodies. RESULTS: Evidence of hepatitis A, B, and C was round in 41.7%, 26.2%, and 7.1% of the patients respectively, 13.1% of the patients were HBsAg carriers while 30.1% of all patients were HIV positive. Thirty two patients did not have evidence of hepatitis A, B, or C infection and this group was significantly associated with HIV infection (p = 0.003). CONCLUSION: Hepatitis A was the commonest overall type of acute icteric hepatitis seen at the KNH, and among patients aged 15 years and below. Hepatitis B was the leading identified cause of acute hepatitis among those aged over 15 years. Hepatitis C accounted for 7.1% of acute icteric hepatitis 30.1% of all patients and 50% of those admitted with acute hepatitis were also HIV positive. 82 2004 Antigravity In A Composite Spacetime Model 83 2004 Analysis Of Van Der Waal Equation Near The Critical Point 84 2004 Book Review Of Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist & Antoine De St. Exupery's The Little Prince, In 'Wajibu: Journal Of Social And Religious Concerns', Vol. 19, No. 1(April coming soon at the webstie 85 2004 'Globalisation: What's In It For The Kenyan Woman?' 86 2004 A Legal Analysis Of The Real Estate Agent In The Changing Political Arena In Kenya Over the last six years there has been a tremendous development of infrastructure projects in virtually all corners of Kenya. This has taken the form of Road Improvement Project, Water and sewerage improvement project and the Electricity Transmission Improvement Project as envisioned in the Kenya Vision 2030. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the principles of compulsory land acquisition and way leaves in the three sectors in Kenya by looking at the current legislative framework governing the entire process of acquisition. In considering the process, the paper explores the various provisions of the relevant act which governs the particular utility envisaged for improvement project component in the Kenya Vision 2030. A critical evaluation of the procedures adopted is outlined in each case and the general public apprehensions towards such acquisitions. The second part of the paper focuses on suggestions on the choice of valuation methodology in making claims for compensation for land for various infrastructure projects in Kenya. This is borne out of the fact that there appear to be very little standardization in the methods adopted by the various bodies. The paper cites several cases under the Electricity Transmission Improvement Project where a large proportion of way leaves are dealt with at local level, with little consistency. Coupled to this is the public concern that electricity lines have potentially serious health effects that continue to attract research and media interest. The paper concludes with a description of the various cases on how to improve compensation paid to those affected by compulsory acquisition in cases of land and way leaves. 87 2004 Kimwele C & J. Graves (2004)A Molecular Analysis Of The Ostrich (Struthio Camelus) Primary Sex Ratio. The Kenya Veterinarian. 88 2004 Molecular Forensic Identification Of East African Wildlife Game Species 89 2004 Gakuu. C. M. (2004). 90 2004 Wabacha, J.K., Mulei, C.M., Kyule, M.N., Zessin, K.H., Mbithi, P.M.F And Munyua W.K. And Maribei, J.M. (2004). Helminthosis In Smallholder Pig Herds In Kikuyu Division, Kiambu District, Kenya. 91 2004 Wabacha, J.K. J. M. Maribei, C. M. Mulei, M. N. Kyule, K. H. Zessin, W. Oluoch- Kosura. (2004). Characterization Of Smallholder Pig Production In Kikuyu Division, Central Kenya 92 2004 Wabacha, J.K. J. M. Maribei, C. M. Mulei, M. N. Kyule, K. H. Zessin, W. Oluoch- Kosura. (2004). Health And Production Measures For Smallholder Pig Production In Kikuyu Division, Central Kenya 93 2004 Wabacha, J.K. J. M. Maribei, C. M. Mulei, M. N. Kyule, K. H. Zessin, W. Oluoch- Kosura. (2004). Health And Production Measures For Smallholder Pig Production In Kikuyu Division, Central Kenya. Prev. Vet. Med. 63:197-210 94 2004 Wabacha, J.K. J. M. Maribei, C. M. Mulei, M. N. Kyule, K. H. Zessin, W. Oluoch- Kosura. (2004). Characterization Of Smallholder Pig Production In Kikuyu Division, Central Kenya. Prev. Vet. Med. 63:183-195 95 2004 Wabacha, J.K., Mulei, C.M., Kyule, M.N., Zessin, K.H., Mbithi, P.M.F And Munyua W.K. And Maribei, J.M. (2004). Helminthosis In Smallholder Pig Herds In Kikuyu Division, Kiambu District, Kenya. The Kenya Veterinarian. 26:29-33 96 2004 Handbook Of The Principles Of General Veterinary Surgery 97 2004 Ngecu, W.M., Nyamai, C.M. And Erima, G. 2004. The Extent And Significance Of Mass-movements In Eastern Africa: Case Studies Of Some Major Landslides In Uganda And Kenya. Environmental Geology, Vol. 46, Pp 1123-1133. 98 2004 Nyamai, C.M. 2004. SGL 201: Principles Of Mineralogy, Lecture Series. Nairobi University Press, Pp 119. 99 2004 SGL 201: Principles Of Mineralogy (Lecture Series) 100 2004 Unwanted Pregnancy And Sexually Transmitted Infection Among Young Women In Rural Kenya 101 2004 The Potential Of Renewable Energy Resources In Kenya 102 2004 Financing Micro, Small And Medium Enterprises In Kenya (Micro-Finance Option) Distance Learning programme enhances equitable access to higher education in Kenya. The Bachelor of Education (Arts) by distance learning was initiated at the University of Nairobi nearly two decades ago to enable teachers upgrade their skills for improved service delivery. Learners in this programme are expected to finance their education from own resources. However, the rising cost of living delays completion of the programme by up to 30%, as resources are diverted to cater for immediate family needs. Data from the School of Continuing and Distance Education (SCDE) and University of Nairobi Enterprises and Services Limited (UNES) for 2006 show that out of a total enrollment of 6,740 learners, only 4,467 (66%) were actively pursuing the course; implying that about 2,273 (33%) were inactive mainly because of financial constraints. The situation is attributed to limited financing programmes at the national level. Although HELB was established to further higher education, limited financial support from the exchequer makes it difficult to provide assistance to learners outside regular academic programmes. The study was guided by the following objectives: assess the impact of socio-economic, academic and professional background of learners on ability to finance B.Ed (Arts) by distance learning; establish various modes of financing adopted by learners; explore the challenges faced under the programme and coping mechanisms; evaluate the effectiveness of various funding strategies in terms of accessibility, affordability and adequacy, as well as determine the cost-efficiency of the B.Ed (Arts) by distance learning. In addressing the objectives, both quantitative and qualitative methods were used. These included a survey, in-depth interviews and desk review to source requisite primary and secondary data. The survey covered 673 learners; drawn using stratified simple random sampling procedures; while in-depth interviews were held with eight officials from financial institutions. Also interviewed were nine officials from the SCDE. Key informants were those directly involved in higher education financing initiatives and management of distance learning activities Quantitative data were processed and analysed to produce frequency distributions, cross tabulations with Chi Square statistic to test hypotheses and binary logistic regression to determine the net impact of each predictor variable. In addition, qualitative data were organized in line with the objectives. This was followed by description to produce interim reports; areas that required additional information were identified and gaps filled. The final step involved systematic analysis and interpretation of interim reports, which were then integrated with quantitative output. The study found that affordability of the B.Ed (Arts) by distance learning was statistically associated with learners' gender, total number of dependants, average income and highest education level. Further analysis showed that learners financed distance learning through loans from commercial banks; personal savings; donations; support from family members and bursaries. Others included proceeds from disposal of assets; dividends from stocks as well as fundraisers. Loans from SACCO societies and commercial banks were the formal sources of funding. Impediments to effective participation in the DL included meagre incomes, inadequate time to engage in Income-generating Activities (IGAs), high cost of residential fees; and inadequacy of learning materials. In addressing the issues, learners adopted a number of coping mechanisms such as disposing off properties, suspending personal development projects, venturing into IGAs such as operating nursery schools, grocery shops, cyber cafes, welding workshops and farming among others. On its part, the University allowed learners to take up the optimal number of units they could afford, creating provision for special papers; linked up with other institutions such as African Virtual University (AVU) to source for cost-effective learning materials. The University also engaged in IGAs including facilitation of seminars and training. Further findings showed that B.Ed (Arts) by distance learning was relatively more cost efficient than the regular mode. This arose from effective cost management practices and distance learning methodologies adopted. Based on the findings, the study recommended that the HELB Act be amended to cover distance learning learners; that annual budgetary allocations to HELB for loans and bursaries should be increased; and that a database on gender, total number of dependants, level of income and education level should be developed and used to decide on the degree of financial support to learners. Other recommendations emphasized on formulating a national policy on financing distance learning learners; strengthening Constituency Development Fund (CDF) programmes; improving networking with stakeholders; creating special funding grants at the university and establishing a revolving fund. In further research, the study recommended the need for study on the role of employers in financing distance learning; the impact of e-learning on affordability of distance learning; factors encouraging drop out and deferment of studies and the cost-benefit analysis of the distance learning. 103 2004 Review Of Natural Resource Management Policy Studies In The East African Highlands Department Of Agricultural Economics And ICRAF 104 2004 Survey Of The Arthropod Complex And Monitoring And Management Of Homopteran Pests Of Citrus (citrus Spp) And Their Natural Enemies Citrus production in Kenya is hindered by several constraints. These include pests and diseases, inadequate disease-free planting materials, drought, low soil fertility and poor orchard management in order of decreasing importance. This study was undertaken to determine important pests of citrus and their natural enemies, to monitor the seasonal fluctuations of major homopteran pests and to evaluate the efficacy of various pesticides on homopteran pests in the farmers’ fields. To determine important pests of citrus, a survey was conducted using a structured questionnaire administered to 63 citrus farmers drawn from three major agro-ecological zones present within Bungoma and Machakos districts. This was followed by an on-spot assessment of insect species on randomly selected citrus trees in each farm. To monitor the seasonal population fluctuations, four randomly selected farms in two locations, Upper midlands (UM) and Lower midlands (LM) zones were used. In each farm, four citrus trees were marked for monitoring homopteran pests and the natural enemies fortnightly for two seasons. In the same zones, three orchards were used to evaluate the efficacy of selected pesticides on the homopteran pests. Pesticides used included Metasystox (Oxydementon methyl), Confidor (Imidacloprid), DC Tron (petroleum spray oil) and a mixture of Metasystox and DC Tron. These were applied as foliar or soil drench and in two regimes fortnightly or monthly applications. Homopteran pests were counted fortnightly in the experiment. A hundred and seventeen insects species were found associated with the citrus plants. Eighty-seven of them were pests while 30 were their natural enemies. The most important pest species were citrus whiteflies, citrus psyllids, aphids, blackflies, scale insects, leafhoppers, and leaf miner. All were widely distributed in the three agroecological zones. The natural enemy complex comprised of the spiders, coccinellids, chrysopids, mantids, tachnids, syrphids and reduviid bugs. However, important and conspicuous natural enemies were the spiders and the coccinellids. Farmers relied on their own knowledge to make pest management decisions; hence the pest control strategies applied were inadequate. Monitoring showed that homopteran pest populations varied with seasons and location. Whitefly, aphid and citrus psyllid populations significantly fluctuated with seasons (P<0.05) whereas aphid, blackfly and citrus psyllid populations significantly varied with location (P<0.05). The insect pest load was heaviest during the vigorous flush growth periods, which were preceded by rainfall and the loads were light during the hot and dry months. Treatment schedules significantly reduced the pest populations and the natural enemies (P<0.001). Metasystox schedules had the least populations, particularly in the UM zone. Their effect was, however, not different from Confidor and DC Tron schedules, which effectively lowered homopteran pest populations. Soil drench and foliar methods of applications did not differ nor did the fortnightly and monthly regimes of applications in their effect on homopteran pests. The findings have shown that citrus are associated with many insect species. Some of the pests observed are known vectors of diseases pointing to the need for effective pest management to prevent the spread of diseases. The rich diversity of natural enemies dominated by the spiders and coccinellids indicates that the pests are under some form of natural control. Natural enemies require conservation to play a significant role in suppressing pest populations. Flush growth identified as the critical period for protection of citrus should be the target of any pest control strategy to prevent increases of pest populations. Pesticides demonstrated to effectively reduce pest populations in the farmer’s fields could be used as a component of an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) strategy of citrus pests. Monthly schedules of Confidor or DC Tron as soil drench and foliar applications, respectively, would help optimise the use of synthetic pesticides while conserving natural enemies. An IPM strategy utilizing scouting and judicious use of insecticides among other components would help citrus farmers to deal effectively with insect pest problems in their orchards. Farmers need training on insect pest and natural enemy identification as well as effective use of pesticides to help bridge the knowledge gap identified in crop protection practices among them. 105 2004 “Approach On The Changes Of Teachers’ Concepts On Education And The Orientation Of Teacher’s Role” Research On The Reform Of Elementary Education Curriculum 106 2004 Kenyan Literature: A Call For Discourse The article sets out to investigate the question of the identity of Kenyan literature in the context of East Africa, Africa and the Commonwealth. It argues that this literature appears to reflect as it seeks to create and define a national culture because, despite Kenya being a mosaic of peoples and cultures, symbols of nationhood, defined boundaries and memories of the colonial experience continue to shape and mould its sense of national being. Its literature therefore needs to be discussed in the context of exploring its national sensibility, discussing how the nation produces it and how it narrates the nation. This discourse would assist the nation understand itself, unravel the aesthetic ideal the literature embodies, and, hopefully, galvanise the nation for a unity of purpose arising from yearnings for harmonious social relationships the aesthetic ideal embodies. 107 2004 Explore Chemistry, Form 3 108 2004 Analysis Of Fluoride In Locally Available Beverages: Comparison Of Direct, Oven Diffusion And Hexamethyldisiloxane Diffusion Methods 109 2004 Selenium Status Of Livestock In Koibatek District, Kenya 110 2004 Kihurani, D.O., Nantulya, V.M. And Masake, R.A. (2004): Skin Reactions In Horses Infected With Trypanosoma Congolense. Eight horses exposed to both Trypanosoma congolense- infected and non-infected tsetse flies ( Glossina pallidipes) were examined daily for a period of 12 weeks. Three types of skin reactions were observed. These included local inflammatory skin reactions, which developed 1-2 days after the tsetse bites, and were evident in 5 infected horses and one uninfected. As these initial swellings regressed, further skin reactions (chancres) developed in the 6 horses bitten by T. congolense infected tsetse. The chancres were observed 6-12 days post-infection. In addition, 3 infected horses developed a third type of skin reaction, namely urticaria, on days 51, 67 and 71 post-infection. Histological examination was done of skin biopsies taken from all three types of skin reactions and they revealed different cell types. These were predominantly neutrophils in the initial skin reactions, lymphocytes in the chancres, and eosinophils in the urticaria. The skin lesions observed in the T. congolense infected horse have not been well documented elsewhere, particularly with regard to the histological picture. The first two lesions also occur early in the course of infection, while all three are of brief duration, hence are often missed. 111 2004 Does Education Pay Dividend? Earnings And Returns To Education In Kenya 112 2004 The Labor Market Effects Of Globalisation In Kenya 113 2004 The Decline In Primary School Enrolment In Kenya 114 2004 Poverty In Kenya: A Review Of Quantitative An D Qualitative Studies 115 2004 A Review Of Of The Regulatory Fram Ework For Private Healthcare Services In Kenya 116 2004 Poverty And Employment In Kenya 117 2004 A Review Of The Health Sector In Kenya, KIPPRA Working Paper No. 11 118 2004 Globalization And Labour Market In Kenya 119 2004 Healthcare Financing Through Health Insurance In Kenya: The Shift To A National Social Health Insurance Fund 120 2004 Peace And Anti-Racism Education: A Case Study Of Umtapo Center Human Capital Externality and Returns to Education in Kenya 121 2004 Gatari M.J., Boman J., Maina D.M., Pettersson J.B.C., Application Of Cd109 Source In Evaluation Of Background Industrial Aerosols In Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa. - 2004 122 2004 Gatari M.J., Maina D.M., Air Pollution Problems In The Perspective Of The Kenyan Situation, Regulation And Awareness. 123 2004 Gatari M.J., Kimani W., Boman J., Maina D.M., Pettersson J., Zakey A.S., "study Of Trace Metals In PM10 At Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) Station On Mount Kenya, Kenya, East Africa". European Aerosol Conference At Budapest, Hungary, 6 - 10 September 2004. 124 2004 Clothing And Footwear In African Industrialisation 125 2004 Industrialising Kenya: Building The Productive Capacity Of Micro And Small Enterprise Clusters 126 2004 E-commerce In The Garment Industry In Kenya 127 2004 The Clothing And Footwear Industries In Kenya 128 2004 Universal Access To Communication Services In Rural Kenya 129 2004 University Involvement In Upgrading Entrepreneurial Networks: The Case Of Nairobi’s Small Clothing And Footwear Producers 130 2004 Upgrading MSE Clusters: Theoretical Frameworks And Practical Approaches For African Industrialisation 131 2004 Gastrointestinal Diseases Causing Pig Mortality In Kenya – A Ten Year Retrospective Study. 132 2004 Building Geospatial Data For Multiple Purpose Applications: The Role Of Standards, Paper Presented For Presentation At The African Association Of Remote Sensing Of The Environment(AARSE) Conference, Nairobi, Kenya, October 18-21, 2004 133 2004 Olago, D.O. And Odada, E.O. (2004). Palaeo-research In Africa: Relevance To Sustainable Environmental Management And Significance For The Future. In: R. Battarbee, F. Gasse And C. Stickley (Eds.) Past Climate Variability Through Europe And Africa. Kluwer Separation of midgut membrane proteins from the tick, Ambylomma variegatum, using a nonionic detergent (Triton X-114), resulted in two protein fractions, namely DET (detergent) and AQ (aqueous). In immunoblotting analysis with polyclonal antibodies against these fractions, 4 proteins (Mr approximately 27,000, 67,000, 86,000 and 95,000,) and 2 proteins (M, approximately 54,000 and 67,000) were detected in the DET and AQ fractions, respectively. Three of the DET fraction proteins Mr approximately 27,000, 67,000 and 95,000 were glycosylated since they bound to the lectin, concanavalin A. In 2-dimensional gel electrophoresis, the AQ and DET fraction proteins were found to be acidic in nature. In a series of bioassay experiments, rabbits were first immunised with both DET and AQ fractions and then infested with ticks. The egg batch weights of these ticks were reduced by 50% compared to control ticks. Furthermore, there was a significant reduction in the hatchability of eggs laid by ticks fed on rabbits previously immunised with both DET (14%) and AQ (33%) fractions. Based on the egg hatchability, the reproductive capacity of ticks was reduced by 77 and 48% by DET and AQ fractions, respectively. 134 2004 Odada, E.O., Olago, D.O., Kulindwa, K., Ntiba, M. And Wandiga, S. (2004). Mitigation Of Environmental Problems In Lake Victoria, East Africa: Causal Chain And Policy Option Analyses. Ambio, 33 (1-2): 13-23. February 2004 135 2004 East African RiĞ Alley Lakes 136 2004 Electrochemical Study In The Use Of Surface Modified Electrodes To Investigate The Interaction Of Copper Pesticides With Acidified Soil 137 2004 Gakuya, D.W., Mbaria, J.M., Mbithi,P.M.F. And Munenge, R.W. 2004. Evaluation Of The Bioactivity Of Some Traditional Medicinal Plants Using The Brine Shrimp Lethality Test. The Kenya Veterinarian 26: 8-11. The purpose of this experiment was to evaluate the bioactivity of extracts of Chrysanthemum cineraraefolium Vis., Albizia anthelmintica A Brgn, Maerua edulis (Gilg) De wolf and Myrsine Africana L. Which are using tratitioanll as anthelmintic as using brine shrimp lethanitly test serial dilutions of 1000 ug/ml and 10 ug / ml of the extracts were put in five test tubes. Ten (10) brine shrimp larvae were immersed into each of the test tubes and the number surviving after 24 hours counted and the percentage mortality and LC for each extract was determined. Cl cinerariaefolium extract (pyrethrins) was active (LC 1000 ug/ml) of 18ug/ml. The methanol extacts of Maerua edulis, Maera subcordata and Myysine Africana were not active (LC 1000 ug/ml) the results indicated that C. cenerareafolium and A. Anthelmintica extracts have bioactivity and is the basis for their use as anthelmintic by pastoral communities. Brine shrimp lethality test was found to be a simple and rapid test and is thus recommended for similar studies. 138 2004 Gakuya, D.W., Mbithi, P.M.F., Maitho, T.E. And Musimba, N.K.R. 2004. The Potential Use Of Plant Anthelmintic For The Control Of Livestock Helminthoses In Kenya. The Kenya Veterinarian 26: 14-26. Helminthoses is a major constraint to livestock production in Kenya. The control of these infections by the use of synthetic anthelmintics is constrained by a number of problems that include; lack of foreign exchange to import them, development of anthelmintic resistance, lack of finance to purchase them, unavailability and misuse due to lack of appropriate information. The use of plant anthelmintics would be a rational alternative to bridge these shortfalls. In some tropical countries, research work has been carried out to validate this possibility. In order to integrate plant anthelmintics in the overall helminth control in Kenya, there is a need to document research findings on indigenous knowledge, through carrying out experiments to determine efficacy, toxicity and optimum dosage rates. In addition, isolation and identification of active ingredients using current laboratory techniques will be a critical milestone. 139 2004 THE POTENTIAL USE OF PLANT ANTHELMINTICS FOR THE CONTROL OF LIVESTOCK HELMINTHOSES IN KENYA.The Kenya Veterinarian Vol. 26, 2004 D.W. Gakuya,1 P.M.F. Mbithi 1, T.E. Maitho2 and N.K.R. Musimba3 Department of Clinical Studies, 2. Department of Public Health, Pharmacology and Toxicology 3 Department of Range Management, University of Nairobi. Kenya. Abstract Helminthoses is a major constraint to livestock production in Kenya. The control of these infections by the use of synthetic anthelmintics is constrained by a number of problems that include; lack of foreign exchange to import them, development of anthelmintic resistance, lack of finance to purchase them, unavailability and misuse due to lack of appropriate information. The use of plant anthelmintics would be a rational alternative to bridge these shortfalls. In some tropical countries, research work has been carried out to validate this possibility. In order to integrate plant anthelmintics in the overall helminth control in Kenya, there is a need to document research findings on indigenous knowledge, through carrying out experiments to determine efficacy, toxicity and optimum dosage rates. In addition, isolation and identification of active ingredients using current laboratory techniques will be a critical milestone 140 2004 EVALUATION OF THE BIOACTIVITY OF SOME TRADITIONAL USED MEDICINAL PLANTS USING THE BRINE SHRIMP LETHALITY TEST.The Kenya Veterinarian Vol. 26, 2004 141 2004 • “A Place To Call Home”: Temporary Asylum In Australia―Lessons For South Africa 142 2004 • Refugee Status Imtaxaan In Kenya: An Empirical Survey 143 2004 • Legislative Changes To The Temporary Refugee Regime In Australia: Three Steps Forward? 144 2004 • Refugees And Their Interpreters: Lessons From The Kenyan Experience 145 2004 • Refugee Status Determination In Australia: Breaking The Rules? 146 2004 • Asylum Law: Temporary And Permanent Protection Programs In Australia―Solutions Or Created Problems? 147 2004 A Place To Call Home Temporary Asylum In Australia―Lessons For South Africa 148 2004 Analysis Of Public Health Risks From Consumption Of Informally Marketed Milk In Kenya Despite an unfavorable policy environment against informal milk markets, these market account for most milk sales in Kenya. Convenient delivery and lower prices are the principal benefits for poor consumers. Current milk handling and safety regulations in Kenya are derived from models in industrialized countries. These may not be appropriate for local market conditions. An important step in targeting policies better is to collect quantitative and qualitative information about milk-borne health risk under different market situations. Preliminary results of assessments of milk quality and handling practices of informal milk market agents and consumers in central Kenya show very low apparent prevalence of zoonotic health hazards in milk from smallholder herds o[that contribute most marketed milk. Higher bacterial counts were associated with longer market chains and distance to urban areas. Most (up to 80%) of samples did not meet national bacterial quality standards. Over 96% of consumes boiled milk before consumption mainly to lengthen shelf life but also for health reasons. The most important health risks were judged to be from antimicrobial residues found in up to 16% of milk samples tested. 149 2004 Testing For Antibodies To Brucella Abortus In Milk From Consumers And Market Agents In Kenya Using Milk Ring Test And Enzyme Immunoassay Over 85% of all milk sales on Kenya pass through informal channels. The extent of the risk posed by the sale of this raw milk to human health in respect to brucellosis is unknown. This paper presents the results of a study on the occurrence of antibodies to Brucella abortus in milk from households consuming raw unpasteurized milk and market agent selling the same. Four hundred thirty four (434) raw milk samples from consumer households and 508 from informal market agents were collected between January 1999 and January 2000 from Nakuru /Narok and Nairobi/Kiambu. Milk agents sampled included co-operative societies, milk collecting centers and self-help groups, milk bars, shops and kiosks and mobile traders on foot, bicycle or motorized transport. In addition, 147 samples from the formal market chain (pasteurized) were collected. All the samples from the samples were screened for antibodies to Brucella abortus using ELISA and Milk Ring Test (MRT), except for the formal milk that was tested using ELISA only. Five percent of the consumer household samples and 4% of the samples form informal milk market agents tested positive on ELISA. There was poor agreement between the two antibody surrogate tests (Kappa =0.40, 95% confidence interval =0.19-0.60). ELISA detected 3.2% more samples from consumer households and 0.4% from informal market agents than MRT. Of the formal market samples, 16.4% were positive. Ways of reducing the risk of contracting brucellosis from drinking raw milk are proposed. 150 2004 Mugamagngi, I.K., Legge, P. L., Barongo, J. O. And Mathu, E. M. (2004) OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence, clinical characteristics, management methods and prognosis of testicular cancer at Kenyatta National Hospital. DESIGN: Retrospective case study of testicular cancer patients over a fifteen year period. SETTING: Kenyatta National Hospital, a referral and teaching hospital. PARTICIPANTS: All histologically confirmed testicular cancer patients recorded at the Histopathology Department of Kenyatta National Hospital between 1983 and 1997. RESULTS: The mean age was 34.8 years with a peak incidence in the 30-44 year age group. History of cryptochirdism was obtained in 10.26% of the patients. Thirty one patients (79.49%) presented with painless testicular swellings, eleven (28.08%) with pain, nine (23.08%) with scrotal heaviness, six (15.38%) with abdominal swellings and one (2.56%) each with gynaecomastia and eye swelling. On examination 32 patients (82.05%) had testicular masses, ten (25.64%) had abdominal masses, seven (17.91%) had supraclavicular and cervical lymphadenopathy, and one each (2.56%) had gynaecomastia and eye mass respectively. More than eighty nine per cent had germ cell cancers with seminoma accounting for 67.35%, teratoma 12.24%, embroyonal carcinoma 8.16%, rhabdomyosarcoma 6.12% and malignant germ cell tumour, orchioblastoma and dysgerminoma each accounted for 2.04%. Three patients (7.7%) had orchidectomy and radiotherapy and chemotherapy, sixteen (41.03%) had orchidectomy and radiotherapy, six (15.38%) had orchidectomy and chemotherapy, ten (25.64%) had radiotherapy and chemotherapy, three (7.7%) and two (5.13%) had only chemotherapy and radiotherapy respectively. No cisplastin based chemotherapy regime was used. Follow up was effected for eighteen patients (46.15%) and seven patients (38.89%) were alive after five years. CONCLUSION: Prognosis with current regimes was poor with survival of only 38.89% after five years. Cisplastin based chemotherapy with up to 90% cure rates should be included as a component of testicular cancer management at Kenyatta National Hospital. PIP: This retrospective study was undertaken to determine the prevalence, clinical characteristics, management methods and prognosis of testicular cancer at Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi. All histologically confirmed testicular cancer patients recorded at the Histopathology Department between 1993 and 1997 were analyzed. The mean age was 34.8 years with a peak incidence in the 30-44 year age group. About 10.26% of patients had history of cryptochirdism. The clinical symptoms presented were painless testicular swelling (n = 31, 79.49%), testicular pain (n = 11, 28.08%), scrotal heaviness (n = 9, 23.08%), abdominal swelling (n = 6, 15.38%), gynecomastia (n = 1, 2.56%), and eye swelling (n = 1, 2.56%). On examination, 32 patients (82.05%) had testicular masses, 10 (25.64%) had abdominal masses, 7 (17.91%) had supraclavicular and cervical lymphadenopathy, 1 had gynecomastia, and 1 had an orbital mass. More than 89% of patients had germ cell cancers with seminoma accounting for 67.35%, teratoma for 12.24%, embryonal carcinoma for 8.16%, rhabdomyosarcoma for 6.12%, and malignant germ cell tumor, orchioblastoma, and dysgerminoma each accounting for 2.04%. The various methods of treatment include orchidectomy and radiotherapy and chemotherapy in 3 patients (7.7%), orchidectomy and radiotherapy in 16 patients (41.03%), orchidectomy and chemotherapy in 6 patients (15.38%), and radiotherapy and chemotherapy in 10 patients (25.64%). No cisplatin-based chemotherapy was used. 18 patients were followed up, of whom 7 were alive after 5 years. Prognosis with current regimens was poor, with a 38.89% survival ratio in 5 years. Hence, cisplatin-based chemotherapy with up to 90% cure rates should be included in the testicular cancer management in this hospital. 151 2004 E.M. Mathu And Josphat K. Mulwa (2004) 152 2004 M. Hoshino, Y. Katsurada, K. Yamamoto, H. Yoshinda, M. Kadohira, K. Sugitani, J.M. Nyangaga, N. Opiyo-Akech, E.M. Mathu, W. Ngecu And J.I. Kinyamario 153 2004 The Potential For Cruise Tourism In Kenya "in ANATOLIA,Published In Ankara, Turkey. Air transportation plays an important role in the social and economic development of the global system and the countries that seek to participate in it. As Africa seeks to takes its place in the global economy, it is increasingly looking to aviation as the primary means of connecting its people and goods with the world. It has been suggested that Africa as a continent needs to move toward a system of hubs to optimize its scarce resources. Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya is one of the airports in the Eastern region of Africa that is seeking to fill this role. This paper discusses the prospects for success and the challenges that it will need to overcome, including projections through 2020 for the growth in passenger and cargo traffic. Key Words: African aviation, hub-and-spoke, traffic forecasts 154 2004 The Role Of Tourism In The Conservation Of Cultural Heritage In Kenya, Published In Hong Kong, China. 155 2004 Tropical Urbanism With Riverrine Focus: Settlement Formation And Distribution In Lower Grand Falls, Upper Tana River Catchment In . 156 2004 Irandu, E.M. (2004b): The Potential For Cruise Tourism In Kenya 157 2004 Ankel Dinkel, Ernest M. Njoroge, Anja Zimmermann, Marcus Walz, Eberhard Zeyhle, Ibrahim E. Elmahdi, Ute Mackenstedt, Thomas Romig (2004) A PCR System For The Detection Of Species And The Genotypes Of The Echinococcus Granulosus Complex, With Reference To This study was carried out to evaluate the effect of 95% ethyl alcohol in PAIR technique. Animals naturally infected with Echinococcus were randomly divided into two groups. In the test group, cysts (n=7) were punctured, drained and injected with 95% ethyl alcohol, while in the control group, cysts (n=9) were only punctured and drained. The procedure was done under ultrasound guidance. Ultrasound showed collapsed endocysts after cyst puncture in both groups. One month later, there was decrease in cyst size, increased echogenicity and complete or partial detachment of the endocyst. Postmortem examination of the cysts in test group showed gross degeneration with marked fibrosis of the surrounding liver tissue. Incision of the cysts revealed turbid yellow cystic contents and degenerated endocysts. Microscopically, only debris and dead protoscoleces with detached hooks were seen. In the control group, the cysts appeared grossly intact but flaccid. Incision of the cysts showed clear fluid with intact endocysts. However, microscopic examination of the cyst fluid showed that the protoscoleces were dead with detached hooks. In the test group, histopathology showed host cell reaction consist of infiltrated, adventitial layer with neutrophils, eosinophils and plasma cells. In addition, the liver tissue was destroyed and replaced with young fibroblasts and mesenchymal cells. In the control group, histopathology showed detachment of the laminate layer of the cyst from the adventitia, and inflammatory cells in both the adventitia and the liver tissues. However, the degree of inflammation was markedly less in the control than in the test group. The findings suggest that puncture alone may be sufficient to kill the protoscoleces, possibly due to the detachment of the endocyst from the host wall. 158 2004 Ernest M. Njoroge & Eberhard Zeyhle (2004) (Eds) International Archives Of The Hydatidosis Volume XXXV. 159 2004 C.K. Mbae, S.M. Githigia, E.M. Njoroge, J.K. Magambo & R..Otieno (2004). The Prevalence Of Gastrointestinal Nematodes In Small Ruminants In Semi-Arid Turkana District Of Kenya. 160 2004 Mbae, C. K., Githigia, S. M., Njoroge, E. M., Magambo, J. K., Otieno, R. O (2004). The Prevalence Of Gastrointestinal Nematodes In Small Ruminants In Semi-arid Turkana District Of Kenya. A study was undertaken in the semiarid northern Turkana district of Kenya to estimate the prevalence of gastrointestinal nematodes in small ruminants. The study involved 1106 sheep and goats of various ages. The study was conducted between January and August 2001 and covered both the dry and wet seasons. All the animals were shedding nematode eggs throughout the study period. Faecal shedding was higher in young animals compared to adults and the infection was heavier in sheep. The faecal egg counts were significantly higher during the wet season for both sheep and goats. Haemonchus contortus was the main nematode encountered in coprocultures (goats 73%, sheep 62.8%) and postmortem total worm counts. Other nematodes encountered included Trichostrongylus axei, Trichostrongylus colubriformis, Bunostomum trigonocephalum, Oesophagostomum columbianum and Trichuris ovis. This is the first report of B. trigonocephalum in small ruminants in the semiarid areas of Kenya. In conclusion, gastrointestinal helminths may be a potential constraint to the health and production of small ruminants in the Turkana district. H. contortus is the main nematode species affecting the small ruminants in this area. 161 2004 Monthly Antibiotic Chemoprophylaxis And Incidence Of Sexually Transmitted Infections And HIV-1 Infection In Kenyan Sex Workers A Randomized Controlled Trial. JAMA. 2004 Jun 2;291(21):2555-62. Monthly antibiotic chemoprophylaxis and incidence of sexually transmitted infections and HIV-1 infection in Kenyan sex workers: a randomized controlled trial. Kaul R, Kimani J, Nagelkerke NJ, Fonck K, Ngugi EN, Keli F, MacDonald KS, Maclean IW, Bwayo JJ, Temmerman M, Ronald AR, Moses S; Kibera HIV Study Group. Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya. rupert.kaul@utoronto.ca Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are common in female sex workers (FSWs) and may enhance susceptibility to infection with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). To examine regular antibiotic prophylaxis in FSWs as a strategy for reducing the incidence of bacterial STIs and HIV-1. Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial conducted between 1998-2002 among FSWs in an urban slum area of Nairobi, Kenya. Of 890 FSWs screened, 466 who were seronegative for HIV-1 infection were enrolled and randomly assigned to receive azithromycin (n = 230) or placebo (n = 236). Groups were well matched at baseline for sexual risk taking and STI rates. Monthly oral administration of 1 g of azithromycin or identical placebo, as directly observed therapy. All participants were provided with free condoms, risk-reduction counseling, and STI case management. The primary study end point was incidence of HIV-1 infection. Secondary end points were the incidence of STIs due to Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Chlamydia trachomatis, Trichomonas vaginalis, Treponema pallidum, and Haemophilus ducreyi, as well as bacterial vaginosis. Analysis of herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) infection was performed post hoc. Seventy-three percent of participants (n = 341) were followed up for 2 or more years or until they reached an administrative trial end point. Incidence of HIV-1 did not differ between treatment and placebo groups (4% [19 cases per 473 person-years of follow-up] vs 3.2% [16 cases per 495 person-years of follow-up] rate ratio [RR], 1.2; 95% CI, 0.6-2.5). Incident HIV-1 infection was associated with preceding infection with N gonorrhoeae (rate ratio [RR], 4.9; 95% CI, 1.7-14.3) or C trachomatis (RR, 3.0; 95% CI, 1.1-8.9). There was a reduced incidence in the treatment group of infection with N gonorrhoeae (RR, 0.46; 95% CI, 0.31-0.68), C trachomatis (RR, 0.38; 95% CI, 0.26-0.57), and T vaginalis (RR, 0.56; 95% CI, 0.40-0.78). The seroprevalence of HSV-2 infection at enrollment was 72.7%, and HSV-2 infection at baseline was independently associated with HIV-1 acquisition (RR, 6.3; 95% CI, 1.5-27.1). Despite an association between bacterial STIs and acquisition of HIV-1 infection, the addition of monthly azithromycin prophylaxis to established HIV-1 risk reduction strategies substantially reduced the incidence of STIs but did not reduce the incidence of HIV-1. Prevalent HSV-2 infection may have been an important cofactor in acquisition of HIV-1.  The following popper user interface control may not be accessible. Tab to the next button to revert the control to an accessible version. Destroy user interface controlAntibiotic chemoprophylaxis and HIV infection in Kenyan sex workers. [JAMA. 2004] Destroy user interface controlEvidence-based global health. [JAMA. 2004] [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 162 2004 Sexual Patterning And Condom Use Among A Group Of HIV Vulnerable Men In Thika, Kenya. Sex Transm Infect. 2004 Dec;80(6):435-9. Sexual patterning and condom use among a group of HIV vulnerable men in Thika, Kenya. Ferguson A, Pere M, Morris C, Ngugi E, Moses S. Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba and Strengthening STD/HIV Control in Kenya Project, PO Box 19676, Nairobi, Kenya. alanf@stdhivkenya.org Background/aim: A composite sample of 37 peer educators and 215 members of self help groups of male informal sector workers in Thika, Kenya, targeting HIV/AIDS prevention, were interviewed about their sexual behaviour, using a customised template, as part of a broader survey on gender attitudes and peer pressure. Details on each sexual partner reported by each man over a 12 month recall period included type of partner, months during which sexual relations took place, and condom use. The men reported 471 sexual partners over the recall period, with a range of 0-16 partners, and an average of just under two partners. 8% of men had had no sexual partner, half were monogamous, and 3% had multiple partners with whom they used condoms exclusively, leaving 39% at varying degrees of risk. Condom use increased significantly with reduced intimacy of partner. 16% of men reported having at least one liaison with a female sex worker and two thirds of such liaisons were exclusively protected by condom use. Younger, single men had significantly more partners, but were more likely to use condoms. Duration of membership in self help groups was strongly associated with exclusive use of condoms with casual or FSW partners. Recorded attitudes corresponded somewhat with practice, but the data showed large gaps between the two, and low levels of gender sensitivity. There is some evidence that group membership has resulted in increased condom use and partner reduction, but there are doubts as to the extent to which the "ABC" strategy can be successful in stemming the HIV/AIDS epidemic. It may be necessary for interventions to target contextual issues, particularly gender relations, if the approach is to be more successful. 163 2004 Associationsof Sexual RiskTaking Among Kenyan Female Sex Workers After Enrollment In An HIV-l Prevention Trial Associationsof Sexual RiskTaking Among Kenyan Female Sex Workers After Enrollment in an HIV-l Prevention Trial G. Yadav, R. Saskin,f§ E. N. Ngugi, # J. Kimani, 11F. Keli, 11K. Fonck; 11 K. S. MacDonald, ti J. J. Bwayo,II M. Temmerman, The Kibera HJV Study Group, S. Moses, II and R. Kault§lI Background: Female sex workers (FSWs) often lack the ability to negotiate safer sex and arc at high risk for mv-I infection and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Methods: Seronegative FSWs were enrolled in an STlJHIV-! prevention trial in Nairobi, Kenya. Demographies and sexual risk taking were assessed every 3 months. Predictors of reduced risk taking were defined using multivariate logistic regression. Results: Foul' hundred sixty-six FSWs were enrolled and followed for just over 2 years each. A spectrum of sex work was apparent: FSWs working in night clubs were younger, charged more for sex, and used condoms more frequently; FSWs working from home were older, charged less, and used condoms the least; and those working in bars were intermediate. Increases in reported condom use were most significant and sustained for FSWs working from home and charging less for sex and were poorly maintained for bar-based FSWs. Selfreported lower condom use, higher client numbers, and alcohol use were associated with higher STl rates. Conclusions: Home-based FSWs and those charging less for sex used condoms the least at baseline but showed the greatest and most sustained improvements over time. Potential response heterogeneity Received for publication December 8, 2003; accepted May 6, 2004. From the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; [Dcpartrnent of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ~Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto. Ontario, Canada; §University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; BOepart. men! of Community Health Sciences and Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; 1jDepartment of Medical Microbiology, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya; #Department of'Communiry Health, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya; and "International Centre for Reproductive Health, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. University of Ghent. Ghent, Belgium. Members of The Kibera HIV Study Group are listed under ACknowledgments. Supported by The Rockefeller Foundation (2000 HE 025), the European Cornmission (DG Vlllf8, contract no. 7-RPR-28), the Canadian Research Chair Programme (to R.K.), the Ontario HIV Treatment Network (to K.M.; Career Scientist), and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (to S.M.; Investigator Award). Reprints: Rupert Kaul, Clinical Science Division, Medical Sciences Building #6356, University of Toronto. Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S IA8 (e-mail: rupert. kaul@utoronto.ca). Copyright i\:i 2004 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins I Acquir Immune Defie Syndr • Volume 00, Number 0, Month ° 2004 in FSW subgroups should be considered in the design of Hlv-I prevention Key Words: female sex workers, male condom, prospective, Africa, (J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2004;00:000-000) Female sex workers (FSWs) play an important role in the dynamics of the HIV -1 epidemic in Africa. Factors including gender inequality, economic disempowerment, and lack of resources and education combine to place these women at an enormously increased risk of acquiring HlV-I infection. 1.2 Infected FSWs may also act as "core groups" in the HIV-l epidemic, with male clients serving as bridges into the general population.v" For these reasons, many HIV -1 prevention programs have focused specifically on FSWs5 and have often been very successful in reducing high-risk sexual behavior and/or rates of sexually transmitted infections (STls) and HIV-l infection.v"? However, there is a broad spectrum of commercial sex work, with varying levels of sexual risk taking and prevalence ofHIV-J infection among different FSW subpopulations. I I It is therefore possible that the uptake or durability ofHIV-l risk reduction interventions will vary, depending on the demographics of the subpopulation targeted. It is important to carefully document and evaluate the efficacy of prevention programs in different situations and populations, 12 because resources allocated to HIV-l prevention fall far short of what is necessary. J3 In 1998, a trial of antibiotic prophylaxis for acquisition of both STls and HIV -1 infection was initiated in a cohort of HIV -l-seronegative sex workers from the Kibera district of Nairobi.14•15 A risk reduction program was provided for all enrolled FSWs, and this was very successful in reducing rates of high-risk behavior and STIsY However, self-identified FSWs in this cohort practiced sex work in a number of very different environments, as has- been reported for sex worker cohorts elsewhere in Africa. II Therefore, tile purpose of this study was to determine whether baseline factors could be identified that predicted a greater or more sustained response to the risk reduction intervention (ie, increased condom use and/or Yadav et of / Aequir Immune Oefie Syncfr • Volume 00, Number 0, Month °2004 reduced client numbers), with the aim of improving our understanding of how prevention strategies can be targeted to better address the needs of vulnerable FSWs. Recruitment into this HIV/STI prevention trial was mediated through a previously established network of FSW peer educators 10,16 from May 1998 to January 2002. The study design and baseline findings have been reported previously.v'" Sex workers were defined as women who reported receiving money or gifts in exchange for sex during the month before initial screening. FSWs attended the clinic every month and were administered the study drug as directly observed therapy. All study subjects were provided with HIV -I prevention services that included peer and clinic risk reduction counseling, the provision of free condoms, and prompt treatment of symptomatic STls. Two standardized l-hour risk reduction counseling sessions were provided to all women at enrollment, and subsequent clinic-based counseling was provided based on the clients' perceived needs and self-reported risk behavior. Peerbased risk reduction counseling was also provided to all study participants through a series on monthly cohort "barazas" and smaller community meetings. This peer-based counseling followed a previously described model.'? with the addition of counseling regarding the need to negotiate consistent condom use with regular clients and boyfriends in addition to their more commercial clients. I I A behavioral questionnaire was administered at baseline and at 3-month intervals to assess risk-taking behavior. Ethics approvals for the study were obtained from institutional review boards at Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya, and the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg Manitoba, Canada. Laboratory Methods All women underwent complete physical examination and STI testing and treatment at enrollment, every 6 months, and whenever clinically indicated. Cervical swabs were obtained for Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia trachomatis polymerase chain reaction assays (Amplicor PCR Diagnostics, Roche Diagnostic Systems. Ontario, Canada) and for N. gonorrhoeae culture. If a genital ulcer was present, a swab of the @ ulcer base was taken for M-polymerase chain reaction detection of Haemophilus ducreyi, herpes simplex virus, and Treponema palliduin (Roche Molecular Systems, Ontario, Canada). Trichomonas iaginalis culture was performed using In Pouch TV (Biorned Diagnostics, San Jose, CA), and blood specimens were obtained for mV-I and syphilis serology. Any infections identified were treated according to the Kenya National STl Treatment Guidelines. In addition, monthly urine specimens were collected at the time of directly observed study drug administration, stored at -20°C, and tested for N. gonorrhoeae and C. trachoma/is by polymerase chain reaction assay after study completion. All FSWs undergoing HIV-I counseling and testing completed a baseline clinic questionnaire and had ongoing access to medical care through the clinic, whether they agreed to participate in the randomized trial. For enrolled FSWs, selfreported condom use, weekly client numbers, and hormonal contraceptive use were recorded at baseline and every 3 months. Condom use was reported on a scale of 0 to 5, where o represented no condom use and 5 represented condom use with all clients. All other demographic and behavioral data were collected only at the time of enrollment. Women were divided into 3 groups based on their place of work 14 as follows: group 1, work only from their own or client's home; group 2, work from a nightclub or disco; group 3, work in a local bar or lodging. Baseline (enrollment) associations of sexual risk taking, prevalent STls, and HIV -1 infection were examined using a table for either l-way analysis of variance (for continuous variables) or l test (for dichotomous variables) in SPSS version 10.0 (SPSS, Chicago, IL). The impact of baseline demographic and behavioral factors on subsequent changes in risk taking and STI rates was then prospectively modeled using multivariate Poisson regression and logistic regression models for correlated data (generalized estimating equations; PROC GENMOD, SAS for Windows version 8.1, SAS Institute, Cary, NC). Variables included in the model were those previously associated with increased risk taking in other FSW cohorts and those associated with differences in risk taking in the baseline analysis (P < 0.05). These were place of work, charge per sex act (dichotomized into charge for sex more or less the cohort average), daily alcohol consumption, ever smoking, and age at enrollment. Rates of condom use were analyzed only at visits where women reported at least 1 weekly client (ie, they were still active in sex work). Cohort Characteristics and Follow-up Four hundred sixty-six HIV -l=-seronegative FSWs were enrolled in the trial from May 1998 to January 2002. Participants were encouraged to remain in the trial for at least 2 years, after which time they were free to choose to continue in the trial or to exit the trial and attend the clinic as needed for routine medical care. The mean duration of follow-up was 760 days, for a total of 969.6 person years of follow-up, and the mean number of visits was 23.9. Risk-Taking Behavior at Study Enrollment When grouped according to place of work, significant differences were observed between FSW subgroups with respect to several behavioral and biologic variables at baseline (Table I). Women working out of their homes or their clients' ffl@~! e]004 Lippincott Williams & I-Vilkins 164 2004 THE UPTAKE OF ALTERNATIVE ECONOMIC ACTIVmES AMONG FEMALE'SEX WORKERS AND IMPACT ON SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR: INSIGHTS FROM, AN ACTION RESEARCH PROJECT IN NAIROBI, KENYA The growing rate of HIV infection particularly among women in 'subSaharan African region suggests the need tor a. broader framework for prevention and care efforts. In particular, the socio-economic context that draws women into commercial sex is a key factor to be addressed. In this context, the Strengthening STDjAIDS Control in Kenya Project, in collaboration with Improve Your Business-Kenya, a small enterprise development organisation, initiated an operational research in February 1999, to assess the eftecnvecess of alternative economic activities support for women engaged in commerdal sex work in the slums of Nairobi as an HIV prevention strategy. The rnajoritv of the women had been in commercial sex work for more than 3 years and reported having an average of 4 different commercial sex clients per day with whom close to a. quarter used condoms only sometimes. Corroborative data from previous studies have shown female sex workers in Nairobi to be 50-80% HIV infected. In view of their risk of HIV infection, the women expressed the need for support for alternative income sources to enable them exercise more control over their sexual behaviour or exit sex work altogether. The financial support for the study was provided by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). 165 2004 Social Health Insurance Scheme For All Kenyans: Opportunities And Sustainability Potential. Enos Njeru, Robert Arasa & Mary N. Nguli. 49p. ISBN 9966-948-18-x. (ttp://www.ipar.or.ke/dp60dp.pdf). This study set out to examine the policy position in Kenyan health care financing, with regard to implementation of the proposed social health scheme (NSHIF) and its performance potential. The specific objectives were to: examine the existing social scheme (NHIF), its role and challenges in health care financing; establish whether or not Kenya has the key pre-requisites for introduction and sustainability of a social health scheme and to provide recommendations on the way forward. This was largely a desk study, supplemented with limited primary data from key informants. The analysis indicates that: i) For a universal social health plan to be sustainable, favorable economic indicators and availability of essential infrastructures are critical prerequisites. Resources must be available, government must be in a position to afford high subsidies, the population must be ready to pay high premiums and the supply of health services must be adequate to cater for the expected increase in demand; ii) Countries that have successfully embraced social health plans introduced their schemes carefully and gradually (overtime) in terms of coverage; iii) Kenya compares unfavorably with these countries in terms of prerequisites for sustainability of a social health scheme, due largely to a poor economy, high poverty levels and shortfalls in facilities and services. The study concludes that Kenya lacks the key prerequisites for introducing and sustaining a universal social health scheme. The scheme can hardly be supported by the current status of the economy and healthcare infrastructures. The study recommends: i) Expansion and development of health care infrastructural capacities through subsidies and tax concessions for those investing in health care and providing subsidized services, particularly to the poor and rehabilitation of the GoK facilities; ii) Increasing the health budget from 7 per cent of government expenditure to above 10 per cent and directing more resources and efforts towards preventive/promotive and primary health care (P&PH); and iii) Other recommendations include subjecting the proposed scheme to an actuarial evaluation and comprehensive policy plan in order to determine the attendant and corresponding premium and benefit levels and pursuing a phased approach in the implementation of the scheme. 166 2004 Policy Brief: Social Health Insurance Scheme For All Kenyans: Opportunities And Sustainability Potential. Enos Njeru Robert Arasa & Mary Nguli. ISBN 9966-948-18-x. 167 2004 Combating HIV/AIDS In Kenya: Priority Setting And Resource Allocation. Christopher Onyango & Enos Njeru. 64p. ISBN 9966-948-06-6. The HIV/AIDS pandemic has emerged as one of the leading challenges to global public health and development. Sub-Saharan Africa, in particular, has become the epicenter of the pandemic, with over 29.4 million people currently living with the virus and more than 2.4 million people having succumbed to the disease. In Kenya, the agonies of the HIV/AIDS to individuals, families and societies are overwhelming. Much of the hard-won gains in economic growth, life expectancy and child survival have been wiped out. Besides, many sectors, including education, agriculture, industry and health are staggering under the burden of the disease. These sectors lose trained professionals and have to contend with higher costs of production and delivery of services. In Kenya, the Sessional Paper No.4 of 1997 on AIDS lays down the contemporary long-term framework for response to the pandemic. After declaring AIDS a national disaster in 1999, the government established the National AIDS Control Council (NACC) to guide implementation of the National HIVIAIDS Strategic Plan 2000-2005, within the framework of the multi-sectoral approach. But despite these efforts, successes have been far too few and on too small a scale to reverse the pandemic. This study looked into the priorities and allocation of resources among alternative HIV-related interventions within the framework of the AIDS strategic plan. It also examined the link between the national HIV/AIDS Programme, the macroeconomic framework and the participatory role played by various actors in HIVIAIDS-related activities. Finally, the study assessed the impacts of alternative patterns of resource allocation with regard to reduction of HIV prevalence, programme coverage and future expenditures averted. The study entailed the use of both qualitative and quantitative analysis. HIV related demographic, behavioral and financial data, gathered by the National AIDS Control Council during the year 2002 was heavily used. In particular, we used the GOALS simulation model to assess the consequences and trade-offs of HIVIAIDS resource allocation options. The study also investigated the policies, planning and budgetary commitments to HIV/AIDS-related priorities using secondary data sources, complemented with primary data collected mainly through in-depth interviews with key informants based in Nairobi. The study established that the costing of the multi-sectoral HIVIAIDS strategic plan lies outside the center of the national budget allocation decisions and the Mid Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF), despite the existence of a strong institutional framework and enabling policy environment. Further, our analysis showed that given available resources, there is great potential to improve the national response to HIV/AIDS by increasing expenditures on preventive measures and treatment and care services as opposed to policy development and management in the coming years. The study therefore strongly recommends, among others, the need to fully integrate the HIV/AIDS strategic plan into the national framework of the poverty reduction and economic recovery strategies in order to achieve a more comprehensive and effective response to the pandemic. An effective way of mainstreaming HIV/AIDS and supporting an effective multi-sectoral response to illY/AIDS will be through ensuring that HIV/AIDS is adequately addressed as part of the poverty reduction agenda and economic recovery strategies, the objective being to get HIV/AIDS routinely mainstreamed into government planning, programming and budgeting processes (ERS and MTEF). This will ultimately result in HIV/AIDS being mainstreamed into sector strategies. 168 2004 Policy Brief: Volume 10, Issue 13, 2004. Combating HIV/AIDS In Kenya: Priority Setting And Resource Allocation. Christopher Onyango And Enos Njeru. ISBN 9966-948-06-6. 169 2004 Policy Brief: Volume 10, Issue 9, 2004. The Impact Of HIV/AIDS On Primary Education In Kenya. Enos Njeru & Urbanus Kioko. 170 2004 Policy Brief: Volume 10, Issue 12, 2004. Gender Aspects In HIV/AIDS Infection And Control In Kenya. Enos Njeru, Peter Mwangi And Mary Nguli. 171 2004 Funding The Fight. Budgeting For HIV/AIDS In Developing Countries. Edited By Teresa Guthrie And Alison Hickey. BOOK CHAPTER Pp 13-52, By Urbanus Kioko & Enos H.N. Njeru. 172 2004 Policy Brief: Volume 10, Issue 8, 2004, The Sociology Of Private Tuition. Indeje Wanyama And Enos H.N. Njeru. This paper discusses the issue of private tuition mainly at primary educational level within various contexts, including governance. The paper notes that even though the practice ofprivate tuition has been in existence for quite some time, very little, if any, research has been undertaken to explain its nature, extent and implications for the education system. Besides, nothing is known about its overall socio-economic setups at the international as well as the national levels. Technically, private tuition is not allowed in Kenya. However, there is ample evidence to show that the practice is taking place on a very large scale. The most affected is the mainstream system, with some of its teachers engaging in the practice. The emphasis on examination as a basis for staff recruitment and promotion has further aggravated this problem. Indeed, even some Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoES&T) officials - who are supposed to articulate Government Policy on Education - take their children to private tuition classes. This is because they too, have to equally compete for the limited places at higher levels oflearning and this can only be achieved through good performance in National Examinations. This paper focuses on the genesis of private tuition and schooling in comparison to public education, as well as the factors that sustain the behind-the-scenes private tuition system, leading to consumers of education (pupils and parents) demanding for private tuition services, and those that lead to producers (tutors, including teachers and other entrepreneurs) producing and supplying the commodity - private tuition. This study was limited to a desk review ofpertinent literature and selected key informant interviews. The study's key findings indicate that socio-economic inequalities continue to be pervasively manifest in the practice ofprivate tuition; quality service is not guaranteed as long as private tuition continues to get no official recognition; and while private tuition constitutes a serious financial burden to the low income households, strong support for it comes from both parents and students. The study recommends urgent recognition ofthe integral role played by private tuition in the management and delivery ofeducation services, hence strong evidence that banning private tuition is unlikely to achieve the intended levels of compliance, especially on the part ofthe producers and consumers. Such recognition should therefore pave way for stakeholder dialogue between parents and education managers, while incorporating the expertise and views of education scholars, to improve equity in education financing without compromising quality. It is further recommended that a study of a larger primary data-based scale be carried out to facilitate an authoritative authentication of the findings, and, in effect, be used to guide the way forward in terms of formulating an effective policy on private tuition and related planning and implementation issues. 173 2004 Gender Aspects In HIV/AIDS Infection And Control In Kenya. Enos H.N. Njeru, Peter Mwangi & Mary N. Nguli. 42p. Men are expected to be physically strong, robust, and daring, the world over. Some of these expectations translate into attitudes and behaviours that become unhelpful or lethal with the advent of AIDS. Others, to the contrary, represent valuable potential that could be gainfully tapped by AIDS programmes for enhanced effectiveness. Extra challenges for HIV prevention therefore arise from societal expectations that allow men to take risks; have frequent sexual intercourse (often with more than one partner) and exercise authority over women. These expectations among others encourage men to force sex on unwilling female partners and to reject condom use among other risky behaviours regarding HIVIAIDS infection and prevention. Changing the commonly held attitudes and behaviours should be part and parcel of the efforts to curb the AIDS pandemic. On the other hand, due to their lack of social and economic power, many women and girls are unable to negotiate relationships based on abstinence, faithfulness and use of condoms. This paper points out these inequalities and offers policy options that could reduce vulnerability of both men and women to HIV/AIDS. The data used in this presentation was obtained largely through desk review, with limited primary data collected to supplement the secondary sources. The study confirms the continuous spread of HIV/AIDS despite the government's efforts to combat the pandemic and attributes the trends of prevalence and infection to, among others: increase in cases of violence against women; negative attitudes and socio-cultural practices; and power imbalances between men and women. The study recommends: transformation of gender roles through gender mainstrearning; policy shift primarily targeting men as the dominant sex in sexual relations; law on prostitution to be enforced; those found guilty of crimes of sexual violence to face very stiff penalties; laws should be enacted to facilitate women's ownership ofland and other property; generate comprehensive gender disaggregated data to help design better policies for addressing the gender gap. 174 2004 Policy Brief: Volume 10, Issue 7, 2004. Funding The Fight Against HIV/AIDS: Budgetary Analysis Of Kenya The Abuja Declaration, adopted at the Africa Union special summit on AIDS in 2001, called upon African governments to allocate 15% of their national budgets to health spending, with more emphasis on HIV/AIDS programmes. This commitment echoes the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS), which calls for an increase in spending on HIV/AIDS programmes to US$ 7-10 billion by 2005. The declaration of commitment by the Africa Union calls for minimum spending that provides coverage of essential prevention, care, and mitigation services in an effort to reduce the spread of the epidemic. In Kenya, despite the government's commitment to fight the pandemic, very little information is available on the actual expenditures on HIV/IDS activities. The objective of this study was to track HIV/AIDS expenditure and analyse the budget from an HIV/AIDS perspective. Understanding how the financial and other national resources are used towards realization of the national objectives as outlined in the HIV/AIDS related strategic goals in each country, will help the planners to choose pertinent, useful and attainable interventions. 175 2004 Funding The Fight. Budgeting For HIV/AIDS In Developing Countries Edited By Teresa Guthrie And Alison Hickey. KENYA CHAPTER: Pp 13-52. Co-authored By Urbanus Kioko & Enos H.N. Njeru. Cape Town: AIDS Budget Unit, IDASA. 176 2004 The Impact Of HIV/AIDS On Primary Education In Kenya. Enos H.N. Njeru & Urbanus Kioko, 32p. ISBN 9966-948-16-3. Since the first case was reported in Kenya in 1984, HIV/AIDS has been rising steadily, with the increase being widespread between and within the ages 15-49. Given that the population in this age bracket forms the key reproductive and vital manpower, HIV/AIDS has therefore had serious consequences for various sectors ofthe economy, including education. Evidence shows that the pandemic is affecting the supply, demand and quality ofeducation, and its capacity to respond to new and complex demands. Existing literature indicates that research specifically addressing the actual and likely impacts of the HIV/AIDS pandemic on primary education is largely undocumented. This creates, a need for further understanding to faci:litate formulation ofappropriate interventions to effectively mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS on the demand and supply of primary education in Kenya. The purpose ofthis study, therefore, is to provide data that will contribute to critical needs in development of pertinent basic planning tools for education and policy managers within the government, particularly focusing on the impact of HIV/AIDS on demand, supply and quality of educational services in primary schools. The study entails a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the impact ofHIV/ AIDS on primary education, based mainly on secondary data sources and key informant interviews with officers from the Ministry ofEducation, Science and Technology, Ministry ofPlanning and National Development, Central Bureau of Statistics, Teachers Service Commission, and National AIDS Control Programme. Among the key findings is the glaring contrast of the status of education between Kenya without HIVIAIDS and Kenya with HIVIAIDS. The study shows that under Kenya without AIDS, the number of school age children would increase to 9.27 million by 2015, as contrasted to 7.9 million under Kenya with AIDS projections in the same period. Under Kenya without AIDS, the required number of primary school teachers would be 266,052 in 2010 as opposed to 229,412 teachers under Kenya with AIDS. Overall teacher deaths increased from 1,216 in 1997 to 2,133 in 2001, while teacher mortality, among primary school teachers, rose from 191 in 1997 to 336 in 2001. The study recommends that: (i) MoES&T should consider posting teachers to districts most affected by HIV/AIDS and give priority for admission into teacher training colleges and other incentives to candidates from the affected districts; (ii) MoES&T should ensure that all teachers have access to adequate knowledge ofthe aetiology ofHIV/AIDS and wherever possible, the infected teachers have access to anti-retroviral therapy; (iii) MoES&T should ensure that the potential consequences of HIVIAIDS are factored into the education plan as accurately as possible; (iv) Government should develop effective strategies to promote primary school enrolment for the needy children among those affected by HIVIAIDS; (v) Government should work out effective strategies to improve enrolment for orphans; (vi) Government should facilitate sustained enrolment of children, especially girls, and ensure that they complete schooling beyond the primary level; (vii) MoES&T should institutionalise an effective data collection and reporting system on teacher absenteeism and morbidity, with a view to disaggregating the teacher work and deaths statistics by cause, gender, age, and regional backgrounds. 177 2004 The Sociology Of Private Tuition. Indeje Wanyama & Enos H.N. Njeru, 41p. ISBN 9966-948-87-2. 178 2004 Policy Brief: Social Health Insurance Scheme For All Kenyans: Opportunities And Sustainability Potential The health sector reforms that have hitherto taken place (including introduction of National Health Insurance Fund, free health services, cost-sharing, exemptions and waivers, etc) have all aimed largely at addressing affordability and access to health care services. Spending to promote access to health care is crucial, given also that Kenya is a signatory to the WHO Abuja Declaration. The latter requires member countries to spend at least 15 per cent of their national incomes (GDP) on health (Kenya spends 9 per cent). Many Kenyans therefore continue to have no access to or cannot afford to pay for their health care needs. It is due to the failures of the past programs, that the National Social Health Insurance Fund (NSHIF) was conceptualized for implementation, with a view to enabling more effective provision of health cover to all Kenyans, at both in- and out-patient service levels. In contrast to the private/commercial health insurance plans where premiums are actuary based (higher risk individuals pay more for their medical cover), a social health plan s contributions are based on members ability to pay but access to services depends on individuals health care needs, hence a socialized concept, with emphasis on community spirit of solidarity. 179 2004 Discussion Paper No. DP060/2004 : Social Health Insurance Scheme For All Kenyans: Opportunities And Sustainability Potential. Health is a basic need for all, regardless of race, nationality, social class, age, sex, etc. In Kenya, just like in many other developing countries, the health situation has been deteriorating in spite of the government having since independence directed her efforts tow;rrds tackling the twin problems of affordability and access to health care services. Beyond this, the policy position is also clear on the need to address equity and sustainability of quality health care delivery. The health sector reforms that have hitherto taken place (including introduction ofNHIF, free health services, cost-sharing, exemptions and waivers, etc.) are all largely aimed at addressing affordability and access to health care services, especially among the poor. The latter often find themselves in poverty traps that deny them access to social services, consequent upon which they benefit least from health, education, food security, knowledge and information services and other basic human rights components. This negates the policy endeavors relating to promoting poverty reduction through economic growth, access to minimum quality health care by removing barriers arising from social differentiation and concomitant stratification on basis of gender, social class, knowledge and limited or even zero participation of the underprivileged in prioritization and provision ofthe national service infrastructure. Past policy priorities and measures have not been effective in addressing these concerns, which relate positively to health care access potential for all. Spending to promote access to health care is crucial, given also that Kenya is a signatory to the WHO Abuja Declaration (25th April 2000). The latter requires member countries to spend at least 15 per cent of their national incomes (aDP) on health (Kenya spends 9 per cent). The high cost of health care limits access to the services for many Kenyans, given that 56 per cent of the population lives below the poverty line (on less than one dollar a day) among whom 30 per cent live in absolute poverty. The Second Report on Poverty in Kenya reveals that 40 per cent of the poor did not seek medical care when they fell sick, mainly due to inability to meet the cost of medical care, while 2.5 per cent were constrained by distance to a health facility. Unaffordability, therefore, remains a key challenge facing the poor against access to health care. Many Kenyans therefore continue to either have no access to or cannot afford to pay for their health care needs. It is due to the failures of the past programs, that the National Social Health Insurance Fund (NSHIF) was conceptualized for implementation, with a view to providing a 180 2004 Discussion Paper 047, IPAR - Funding The- Fight Against HIV/AIDS: Budgetary Analysis Of Kenya's HIV/AIDS Activity Prioritization And Financing The Abuja Declaration, adopted at the Africa Union special summit on AIDS in 2001, called upon African governments to allocate 15% of their national budgets to health spending, with more emphasis on HIV/AIDS programmes. This commitment echoes the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on illVIAIDS (UNGASS), which calls for an increase in spending on HIVIAIDS programmes to US$ 7-10 billion by 2005. The declaration of commitment by the Africa Union calls for minimum spending that provides coverage of essential prevention, care, and mitigation services in an effort to reduce the spread of the epidemic. In Kenya, despite the government's commitment to fight the pandemic, very little information is available on the actual expenditures on HIV/AIDS activities. The objective of this study was to track HIV/AIDS expenditure and analyse the budget from an HIV/AIDS perspective. Understanding how the financial and other national resources are used towards realization of the national objectives as outlined in the HIV/AIDS related strategic goals in each country, will help the planners to choose pertinent, useful and attainable interventions. 181 2004 Bridging The Qualitative-quantitative Methods Of Poverty Analysis 182 2004 Water Supply And Sanitation In Soroti Catholic Diocese, Uganda: Water Supply And Sanitation Project 183 2004 Molecular Genetic Analysis Of FIH-1, FH, And SDHB Candidate Tumour Suppressor Genes In Renal Cell Carcinoma. 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The Effect Of Organic Matter Content And Turning Cycle On Municipal Solid Waste Windrow Composting Journal Of Civil Engineering Research And Practice. October 2004. 189 2004 Mavura, W. J. And Tiffani Bailey (2004). Fluoride Contamination In Drinking Water In The Rift Valley, Kenya And Evaluation Of The Efficiency Of A Locally Manufactured Defluoridation Filter. Journal Of Civil Engineering, Jomo Kenyatta University Of Agricul 190 2004 Nyangeri E, N. (200). History Of Water Development In Kenya From 1895 To 2003. Flows From The Past: A Trans-disciplinary Conference On The History Of Water In Africa. The North West University: Vaal Triangle Campus (Vanderbijlpark, South Africa) In Cooper 191 2004 Nyangeri, E.N. (2004) Kenya Experience In Ecological Sanitation. The African Network For Ecological Modernisation Of Urban Environmental Infrastructure (Afri-Net). Kenyatta University, AVU Hall. 30th September 2004. 192 2004 Nyangeri E.N. (2004). Kenyan Strategic Country Report And Water Scenarios. Open Prinwass Workshop. Library. Wing Seminar Room, Queen Elizabeth House (Center For Development Studies), Oxford 30th June-1July 2004 193 2004 Nyangeri, E. N. (2004). Final Prinwass Project Workshop. Deakin Room, St Anthony 194 2004 Nyangeri, E,N. (2004) Floods And Catchment Management Workshop 2nd Regional Workshop On Capacity Building In Flood Management. Nile Basin Capacity Building Network For River Engineering (NBCBN-RE). Milimani Hotel, Nairobi, 3rd- 6th May 2004 195 2004 Statistical Applications In Eco-Geographic Studies 196 2004 COMPARATIVE EFFICACY OF PYRETHRUM MARC WITH ALBENDAZOLE AGAINST SHEEP GASTROINTESTINAL NEMATODES The efficacies of pyrethrum marc and of albendazole against experimental sheep gastrointestinal nematode infection were compared. Sheep were infected orally with 10 000 larvae (Haemonchus spp. (60.1%), Oesophagostomum spp. (13.9%), Trichostrongylus spp. (13.2%), Cooperia spp. (8.3%), Nematodirus spp. (3.5%), Strongyloides spp. (0.8%) and Ostertagia spp. (0.2%). Faecal egg count reduction in albendazole-treated sheep was 100% by day 4 following treatment, compared to 37.03%, 31.3%, 38.9% and 51.8% on days 4,6,8 and 10 in pyrethrum marc-treated sheep. These reductions were statistically significant on days 8 and 10 post-treatment (p<0.05). The potential for using pyrethrins for helminth treatment is discussed. 197 2004 Fluoride Levels In Water, Animal Feeds, Cow Milk From Kiambu And Thika Districts In Kenya. Ken Vet 27: 65 198 2004 Mitema, E. S. (2004). Prudent Use Of Veterinary Drugs: Impact Of Safe Animal Products For Increased Activity. Ken Vet J. 27: 1-2 199 2004 Mitema, E. S. And Kikuvi, G. (2004). Surveillance Of Overall Use Of Antimicrobial Drugs In Humans Over A Five 200 2004 Rethinking Youth Employment Strategies: The Road Ahead 201 2004 Wagaiyu, E.G., Mulli, T.K. , Ngatia, E.M., Macigo, F.G., Gathece, L.W. And Mutara, L.N. Oral Health Status Of An Elderly Population In Nairobi, Kenya. AFRICA JOURNAL OF ORAL HEALTH SCIENCES. Vol. 5 No.2 June/July 2004 Department of Periodontology/ Community and Preventive Dentistry, School of Dental Sciences, University of Nairobi, P.O. Box 19676 - 00202, Nairobi, Kenya. OBJECTIVE: To determine the influence of oral hygiene habits and practices on the risk of developing oral leukoplakia. DESIGN: Case control study. SETTING: Githongo sublocation in Meru District. SUBJECTS: Eighty five cases and 141 controls identified in a house-to-house screening. RESULTS: The relative risk (RR) of oral leukoplakia increased gradually across the various brushing frequencies from the reference RR of 1.0 in those who brushed three times a day, to 7.6 in the "don't brush" group. The trend of increase was statistically significant (X2 for Trend : p = 0.001). The use of chewing stick as compared to conventional tooth brush had no significant influence on RR of oral leukoplakia. Non-users of toothpastes had a significantly higher risk of oral leukoplakia than users (RR = 1.8; 95% confidence levels (CI) = 1.4-2.5). Among tobacco smokers, the RR increased from 4.6 in those who brushed to 7.3 in those who did not brush. Among non-smokers, the RR of oral leukoplakia in those who did not brush (1.8) compared to those who brushed was also statistically significant (95% CL = 1.6-3.8). CONCLUSION: Failure to brush teeth and none use of toothpastes are significantly associated with the development of oral leukoplakia, while the choice of brushing tools between conventional toothbrush and chewing stick is not. In addition, failure to brush teeth appeared to potentiate the effect of smoking tobacco in the development of oral leukoplakia. Recommendations: Oral health education, instruction and motivation for the improvement of oral hygiene habits and practices; and therefore oral hygiene status, should be among the strategies used in oral leukoplakia preventive and control programmes. 202 2004 Mutara L.N., Ngatia E.M., Macigo F.G., Gathece L.W., Wagaiyu E.G., And Mulli T.K. Oral Health Seeking Behaviour Among The Elderly (45-80 Years) In Kenya. JOURNAL OF ORAL HEALTH SCIENCES.Vol. 5 No 2. June/July 2004 203 2004 Kasilima Y.S., Wango E.O., Kigondu C.S., Mutayoba B.M. And Nyindo M.(2004). Plasma Bioactive LH And Testosterone In Male New Zealand Rabbits Experimentally Infected With Schistosoma Mansoni. Acta Tropica,92,165-172 Although a relationship between Lapiat and post-Lapita ceramic traditions has long been suspected, a systematic and detailed examination of the similarities and differences has not been previously made. An important first step is to determine the nature of change from one to the other by examining pottery from sites which have the full ceramic sequence. My analyses of the assemblages from Manus and New Island demonstrate continuity between the two traditions. 204 2004 From Surveying To Geospatial Engineering: Proposal For New Degree Programmes At The University Of Nairobi: Paper Presented At The 5th African Association Of Remote Sensing Of The Environment (AARSE) Conference, Nairobi, Kenya, October 18-21, 2004 205 2004 GIS/GPS For Facility Mapping And Management 206 2004 Towards An Environmental Information System For Monitoring And Managing Vacant Land Within A Dynamic Urban Environment. 207 2004 Quality Of-life In Male Cancer Patients At Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi. East Afr Med J. 2004 Jul;81(7):341-7. BACKGROUND: The quality of life of cancer patients is likely to be influenced by psychological reactions of the cancer patients yet there are no documented issues related to quality of life in cancer patients in Kenyan hospitals. OBJECTIVE: To investigate issues which affect the quality of life in male cancer patients. DESIGN: Prospective cross sectional study. SETTING: Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya. METHODS AND SUBJECTS: Cancer patients above 12 years of age were interviewed during the course of their stay in the hospital, specifically to gather information on; semi structured questions and a modified Beck's 24 item depression inventory with a view to solicit for their reaction on issues which pertains to quality of life. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Age group, level of education, tribe, geographical place (province) of birth, chief complains, main concerns, views on doctors, contact with psychiatrist and psychologist, the anatomic site of cancer, treatment given and responses on modified Beck's depression inventory. RESULTS: Forty two patients were studied, their age range 13-72 years, mean 43.2 and peak 13-26 years. Forty seven per cent of cases had no formal education. The cancers were gastrointestinal tract 33%, blood and lymphoid tissue (26%), bone and muscle (11.9%), skin (9.4%) and genitourinary tract (4.8%). Treatment given was chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery. Ninety three per cent were unable to cope. Chief complaints were pain, inability to work, feeling miserable and concerns were families, health and work retardation. Modified Beck's depression score was 20%, with major issues being; work retardation, insomnia, weight loss, and anorexia. Most affected were, age group 27-35 years (and least 13-26 years), uneducated, living in Nairobi (city), having carcinomas, treatment with combined surgery and radiotherapy. Low education level and residence in Nairobi coped poorly. Radiation therapy group appeared to cope better than other modalities. CONCLUSION: The issues affecting the quality of life of male cancer patients stated were pain, inability to work, poor coping with cancer and psychological reactions of work retardation, insomnia, weight loss, fatigability and depression. Gambling, suicidal ideas and social withdrawal were minimal. Other concerns were families, health and work. 208 2004 ; “The Psychological Responses Of Female Cancer Patients At A Referral Hospital In Kenya”. 209 2004 “Transfusion Haemosiderosis In Spite Of Regular Use Of Desferrioxiamine-Case Report” 210 2004 KAHINDI J.H.P., N. K. KARANJA , D. ODEE & F.B. MWAURA (2004). The Diversity Of Biological Nitrogen-fixing Systems In Kenya. J. Trop. Microbiol. 3: 3-13. 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Extracts of the plant were subjected to tests for antimalarial, antibacterial and antifungal activity. The toxicity of the extracts was assessed using the brine shrimp lethality bioassay. The root extract gave the highest in vitro antimalarial activity against a mulitidrug resistant strain, Plasmodium falciparum VI/S (IC50=39.24 mg/ml). The stem and leaf extracts had insignificant antiplasmodial activity. The leaf, stem and root extracts had bacterial or fungal growth even at very high concentrations of 10 mg/ml. The LD50 values of the stem and leaf methanol extracts against the brine shrimp larvae was 365.60 and 66.5 mg/ml respectively. The in vitro anti malarial activity of the root extract in part supports the ethnobotanical use of the plant to manage malaria. KEY WORDS Clematis, Ranunculaceae, antimalarial, brine shrimp, antimicrobial 211 2004 Nitrogen Transformations In A Long Term Maize Bean Cropping System Amended With Repeated Applications Of Organic And Inorganic Nutrient Sources 212 2004 Bukachi F. Ventricular Long Axis Function: Amplitudes And Timings 213 2004 Nishiyama Y, Moriyasu M, Ichimaru M, Iwasa K, Kato A, Mathenge SG, Chalo Mutiso PB, Juma FD.Quaternary Isoquinoline Alkaloids From Xylopia Parviflora.Phytochemistry. 2004 Apr;65(7):939-44. From the quaternary alkaloidal fraction of the bark and the root of Xylopia parviflora (Annonaceae), four isoquinoline alkaloids, xylopinidine, dehydrocoreximine, N, N-dimethylanomurine and N-methylphoebine were isolated along with the known compounds, pycnarrhine, lotusine, 6,7-dimethoxy-2-methyl-isoquinolinium salt, 1,2-dehydroreticuline, (-)-phellodendrine, (+)-tembetarine, (-)-litcubine, (+)-magnoflorine, tetradehydroreticuline, (-)-oblongine, (+)-menisperine, (+)-N-methylcorydine, stepharanine, (+)-xanthoplanine, dehydrodiscretine, jatrorrhizine and palmatine. 3,4-Dihydro-6,7-dimethoxy-2-methyl-isoquinolinium and N-methylpurpuerine were isolated as natural products for the first time. Their structures were determined on the basis of spectroscopic evidence. 214 2004 Ichimaru M, Nakatani N, Takahashi T, Nishiyama Y, Moriyasu M, Kato A, Mathenge SG, Juma FD, Nganga JN.Cytotoxic C-benzylated Dihydrochalcones From Uvaria Acuminata.Chem Pharm Bull (Tokyo). 2004 Jan;52(1):138-41. Two new C-benzylated dihydrochalcones, isochamuvaritin (1) and acumitin (2), have been isolated from the African medicinal plant Uvaria acuminata, together with the previously reported benzylbenzoate (3), uvaretin (4), isouvaretin (5), diuvaretin (6), and uvangoletin (7). The structural elucidation of compounds 1 and 2 in spectroscopic studies is described. C-Benzylated dihydrochalcones, especially 1, 2, 4, and 6, showed considerable cytotoxicity toward human promyelocytic leukemia HL-60 cells. 215 2004 Redundancy Rules In Kiswahili. A simple gas chromatographic assay utilising alkali flame ionisation detection is described for the estimation of cyclophosphamide as its trifluoroacetate derivative from plasma. Examination of five patients following intravenous cyclophosphamide gave values of 8.9 h (SD 2.7) for the half-life and 0.061 liters/h/kg (SD 0.011) for whole-body clearance of the drug. 216 2004 A Transformation Of Kenya Through Industrialization 217 2004 Integration And Outputs Of Research, Science And Technology In Kenya’s Development 218 2004 An Assessment Of The Presence Of Escherichia Coli In The Roof-collected Rainwater From Some Areas Around Nairobi One of the sources of feacal contamination of rainwater harvested from roofs is wind-blown dust containing particulate matter from animal faeces, or through direct defecation. Since the primary habitat for Escherichia coli (E.coli) is the gastro-intestinal tract of mammals and birds (Atlas 1984), it\'s a good indictor of feacal contamination (Hazen, 1988). This study aimed to investigate the presence of E.coli. In rainwater samples collected from roofs in some areas around Nairobi, which have different levels of livestock density. Forty four of the 89 samples collected tested positive for the presence of E.coli from Ngong Division, which had a cattle density of 1446 per square Kilometre was, 55%, but it was not significantly different from both Kikuyu Division: cattle density of 166; both of which had 34% of the samples testing positive to E.coli (p=0.3094). It was concluded that rain water harvested from roofs for human consumption in the study area should be treated before use. 219 2004 Relative Occurrence Of Fasciola Species In Cattle, Sheep And Goats Slaughtered At Dagoretti Slaughterhouse In Kenya A cross sectional survey was carried out in Nairobi\'s Dagoretti slaughter house, where routine postmortem meat inspection was done. All liver flukes detected in cattle, sheep and goats were collected and transported to laboratory for analysis to determine the relative occurrence of Fasciola gigantica and Fasciola hepatic in slaughtered cattle, sheep, and goats by observing their size and morphology. The study showed that all the liver flukes collected in Dagoretti were F. gigantica. A total of 1584 cattle, 989sheep and 954 goats originating from five out of the 8 provinces of Kenya were slaughtered at Dagoretti slaughter house, over the study period. 147 (9.3%) cattle, 8 (0.8%) sheep, 4 (0.4%) goats were shown to harbor liver fluke infection. It was concluded that fascioliasis is prevalent in cattle, sheep and goats of Kenya. This may be a cause of great economic losses at slaughter as a result of condemnation of infected livers 220 2004 The Potential Role Played By Various Livestock Intermediate Hosts In The Transmission Of Hydatidosis In Kenya A study was conducted to determine the potential role played by cattle, sheep, goats and pigs in the transmission of hydatidosis in Kenya. The fertility and viability status of the hydatid cysts collected from these livestock intermediate hosts, at slaughter, were used in this evaluation. A cross-sectional survey was carried out in Nairobi\'s Dagoretti slaughterhouse and Ndumbu-ini, pig abattoir during routine post-mortem meat inspection. All hydatid cysts detected in cattle, sheep, goats and pigs were collected for laboratory analysis to determined by microscopic examination of harvested hydatid cysts fluid for the presence of protoscolices using the 0.1% Eosin Exclusion Test. Out of the 300carcasses of sheep, goats, and pigs examined, 7%, 8% and 5% harbored the cysts, respectively. Hydatid cysts from goats showed the highest fertility (87.5%), followed by those from cattle (81.4%), pigs (80%) and sheep (57.4%). Hydatid cysts from sheep showed the highest viability (100%), followed by those from goats with 85.7%, cattle with 68.6% and pigs 50%. Sheep and goats are the animals most commonly slaughtered for parties and other festivities where meat inspection is hardly carried out. Due to this as well as the high rates of fertility and viability showed by their cysts, sheep and goats may play a greatest role since all of the fertile hydatid cysts from this species were viable. These results indicate that in any hydatid disease control programme, sheep, goats, should be the livestock species included, if satisfactory control Hydatidosis is to be achieved in Kenya. This is because, only fertile and viable hydatid cysts are capable of transmitting hydatidosis to definitive hosts. 221 2004 Characteristics Of Southwestern Marsabit Pastoral Production System And Prevailing Constraints To Young Stock Health. 9th Biennial Scientific Conference Kenya Agricultural Research 222 2004 Public Debt Constraints To Financing Pro - Poor Growth 223 2004 Politiques Intérieure Et Nouvelles Disciplines De LÓMC: Expériences De Quelques Pays Africains 224 2004 The Forgotten Meru Mau Mau: Resurgence Of A Social Movement 225 2004 The Effect Of Quartz And Mullite Phases On Strength Of Triaxial Porcelain 226 2004 Fracture Strength Of Porous Ceramics: Stress Concentration Versus Minimum Solid Area Models 227 2004 Introduction To Unix 228 2004 Advances Of Numerical Weather Prediction Over The GHA Region 229 2004 On The Influence Of Urbanization On The Water Budget In Nairobi City: A Numerical Study The impact of the growth and development of the City of Nairobi on the water budget is simulated using a high-resolution limited-area numerical model. The water substance fields are modelled with full physics in a control experiment. Five sensitivity experiments are then performed by altering the land-use/cover over the domain of study to assess the influence of the city, forests and terrain undulations on the water substance fields. Results showed that the highest evaporation occurred in areas of the study domain with open grasslands/scattered bush-land's vegetation types and the least at the city centre. Deforestation would lead to a substantial increase in the loss of water effected through evaporation despite a reduction in transpiration. The observed rainfall amount and frequency were highest in the high ground portions to the northwest of the study domain. Numerical analyses showed that the urban heat island had a destabilizing effect on the flow, which enhanced convection that resulted in increased rainfall downwind of the urban area. Further growth and expansion of the city of Nairobi would increase the area and amount of rainfall received. Deforestation would decrease rainfall amounts. Massive reforestation would increase the observed rainfall. There has been a decrease in soil moisture at the current location of the city centre; the decrease is bound to increase with the expansion of the city. The City of Nairobi has resulted in a large decrease in the soil moisture through converting the natural fabric to concrete/asphalt material. Deforestation would result in a marginal decrease in the soil moisture. Further growth and development of Nairobi City would modify the water substance budget appreciably. 230 2004 (eds/contributor). Soil Fertility And Land Productivity. A Guide For Extension Workers In The Eastern Africa Region. RELMA Technical Handbook Series 30. Nairobi, Kenya RELMA/Sida, ISBN 9966-896-66-X, 146 + Xiv Pp. A model for the establishment of a four-dimensional regional geodetic reference datum is presented. Starting from the three-dimensional integrated geodetic network model, formulations for the establishment of a four-dimensional regional datum are developed. Astronomic latitudes, astronomic longitudes, gravity values, gravity potential differences, gravity differences, and GPS-vectors are considered as observables. The estimated parameters defining the datura are point coordinates, deflections of the vertical and geoidai undulations, and velocities and accelerations on the positional coordinates. The network datum is considered observed over several epochs with parameters estimated from previous epochs being introduced into later epochs as stochastic prior information parameters. 231 2004 Effects Of Soil Management Practices And Tillage Systems On Surface Soil Water Conservation On A Sandy Loam In Semi-arid Kenya. Soil & Tillage Research 75, 173-184. 232 2004 Promotion Of Marejea Cultivation In The Ruvuma Region Of Tanzania: Experiences Of The Catholic Missionaries At Peramiho Mission Centre. In (eds) M Eilitta, J Mureithi And R Derpsch. Green Manure/cover Crops Systems Of Smallholder Farmers: Experiences From 233 2004 Green Manure/cover Crop Technology In Eastern And Central Uganda: Development And Dissemination. In (eds) M Eilitta, J Mureithi And R Derpsch. Green Manure/cover Crops Systems Of Smallholder Farmers: Experiences From Tropical And Subtropical Regions, Kluw 234 2004 SESSION III–IRRIGATION, DRAINAGE AND WATER HARVESTING-The Effects Of Grass Strips On The Terrace Development And Crop Yield 235 2004 Promotion Of Marejea Cultivation In The Ruvuma Region Of Tanzania: Experiences Of The Catholic Missionaries At Peramiho Mission Centre 236 2004 Legume Research Network Project: A Sythensis Report Of Phase 1 (1994-2000) The Legume Research Network Project (LRNP) was started in 1994 (by then known as the Legume Screening Network) to evaluate suitable legume species for different agro-ecological environments and to subsequently incorporate the “best bets” into the existing farming systems. Initial Network activities included the screening of about 40 legume species, among them, green manuring species, food legumes and forage species. The screening trials were conducted in 11 sites across the country especially where soil infertility had been identified as a major constraint to crop production. The Network extended its activities to include research on legume residue management, integrated nutrient management, livestock feeding and cowpea screening trials. Each site had the task of bulking seeds of promising legume species. The Network members are from KARI, University of Nairobi (UoN), Environmental Action Team (EAT, an NGO based in Kitale) and Community Mobilisation Against Desertification (C-MAD, an NGO based in Rongo near Kisii). The main collaborators are the Ministry of Agriculture, and Rural Development staff, and the farmers from different regions of Kenya. The following are the major highlights of phase 1 activities: ♦ Promising green manure (GM) legume species: The most outstanding green manure legume species across Network sites based mainly on biomass accumulation are Mucuna pruriens, Lablab purpureus, Crotalaria ochroleuca, and Canavalia ensiformis. ♦ Inoculation of best-bet legume species: The rhizobia inoculation study concluded that inoculation of best-bet legumes in the study sites was not necessary but further systematic studies to characterise the native rhizobia and to determine their levels in the soil should be undertaken. ♦ Response of legume species to phosphorus: Three Network sites participated in this trial, namely Kakamega, Kisii and Gatanga. In Kakamega and Kisii, legumes did not respond to application of P. In Gatanga they responded to application of P at the rate of 20 kg ha-1 but did not respond substantially to application beyond this rate. ♦ Potential benefits of GM legume technologies for improved maize yields: Incorporating mucuna biomass (4 - 11 t DM ha-1) into the soil for maize production increased maize yields by 120%. The additional labor required for digging mucuna into the soil was compensated by increased maize yields. Returns to labour were higher in mucuna (US$ 11.50) than in maize only plots (US$ 8.00). Besides, farmers in Gatanga and Kisii Network sites reported that additional labour required for incorporation of legume biomass was minimal because incorporation and land preparation for the companion crop were done simultaneously. ♦ Potential for soil moisture conservation: In a semi-arid site Machakos,mucuna on the surface as mulch gave better yields than incorporating it in the soil probably because of the moisture conservation effect. A farmer in Embu reported that soil moisture was retained for a longer time in plots where mucuna was grown than in plots without mucuna. ♦ Potential for soil improvement: Integrated Nutrient Management (INM) at three sites, Kakamega, Embu and Mtwapa, mucuna and crotalaria were evaluated in field studies that involved the combinations of green manure, FYM and inorganic fertilisers. Higher maize yields were obtained by combining green manure legume with FYM and inorganic N. ♦ Potential for feeding livestock: Livestock feeding studies at, Mtwapa and Katumani showed that performance of cattle and goats improved when fed on legume forage. In Mtwapa, dairy cows fed on mucuna and lablab forage had a daily DM intake of about 9.2 kg cow-1, which was similar to cows fed on Gliricidia sepium forage, a proven fodder tree for the coastal Kenya. Milk yield (6.5 kg day-1) was only 8% less than that produced by cows fed on gliricidia forage. In Katumani, goats supplemented with Neonotonia wightii gained on average 16.37 g while those on basal diet alone lost 23.81g daily. 237 2004 Lost And Reclaimed: A Case Study Of Gully Rehabilitation In Central Kenya Highlands Using Low-cost Measures Gully control and reclamation activities using low-cost measures were carried out in early March 2001 at Gatanga division, Kenya. The study area was selected on the basis of previous work carried out in farmers fields by the Legume Research Network Project (LRNP). The project’s main objective is to introduce green manure legume species that perform well in different agro ecological zones of Kenya mainly for the purpose of soil fertility improvement and erosion control in smallhold farms. Area studied is characterized by a mean annual rainfall of about 1100 mm with a bimodal distribution, deep red soils, steep slopes and intensive landuse. Field activities were carried out in one of the farms which had literally been abandoned due to gully erosion. The length of the gully was 130 m with an average width and depth of 1.62 and 1.4 m, respectively. Work involved planting of grasses (mainly Brachira humidocola) and mucuna (Mucuna pruriens) on the floor and sides of the gully. In addition ‘macro-contour lines’ were constructed in the farm which involved planting lines of mucuna, sesbania (Sesbania sesban) and napier grass (Pennisetum purpureum) along the terrace embankments. Through photographs taken over a 3 year period, evidence is given to show that the gully has completely healed and that the farm has been brought back to productivity. 238 2004 Woyengo, T.A., C.K.Gachuiri, R.G. Wahome And P.N. Mbugua. 2004. Effect Protein Supplementation And Urea Treatment On Utilization Of Maize Stover In Red Maasai Sheep. South African J Anim Sci 34:23-30. 239 2004 Kuria, S.G., M.M. Wanyoike, C.K. Gachuiri And R.G. Wahome. 2004. Indigenous Camel Mineral Supplementation Knowledge And Practices On Manyatta Based Camel Herds By The Rendille Pastoralists Of Marsabit District, Kenya. Livestock Research For Rural Developm 240 2004 Kuria, S.G., R.G. Wahome, C.K. Gachuiri And M.M. Wanyoike. 2004. Evaluation Of Forages As Mineral Sources For Camels In Western Marsabit, Kenya. South African J Anim Sci 34:180-188 241 2004 Kuria, S.G., C.K. Gachuiri, M.M. Wanyoike And R.G. Wahome. 2004. Effect Of Mineral Supplementation On Milk Yield And Calf Growth Of Camels In Marsabit Of Kenya. Journal Of Camel Practice And Research 11:87-96. 242 2004 Economic Evaluation Of Increasing The Energy Value Of Zea Mays Stover By Urea Treatment. 243 2004 Prevalence Of Domestic Violence Among Clients Seeking Emergency Department Services In A Private Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya. J Obstet Gynaecol Eastern Central Africa, 17:9-18, 2004. 244 2004 Baseline Survey On Oral Health, Feeding Patterns And Nutritional Status Of The Old People In Dagoretti Division, Nairobi District. 245 2004 Hereditary Ectodermal Dysplasia: A Case Report. 246 2004 Oral Health Status Of An Elderly Population In Dagoretti, Nairobi. 247 2004 Management Of Dental Waste By Dental Practitioners In Nairobi, Kenya. L.A. Osamong, L. W. Gathece, B. K. Kisumbi, R. J. Mutave 248 2004 Effective Communication Methods Of Dental Health Education. 249 2004 Inpatient Surgical Audit At The University Of Nairobi Dental Hospital. 250 2004 Selection Of Direct Posterior Restorative Materials By Dentists In Nairobi 251 2004 Muriithi K, Mwiti C Njeru E, Waweru M, Positioning Research To Support Community Effort To Reverse HIV/AIDS Among Youth In Maragwa And Kirinyaga Districts 252 2004 Reasons Underlying Patients' Decisions To Change Oral Health Care Providers 253 2004 POSITIONING RESEARCH TO SUPPORT COMMUNITY EFFORT TO REVERSE HIV/AIDS AMONG YOUTH IN MARAGWA AND KIRINYAGA DISTRICTS – KENYA 254 2004 J.D. Mande, P.K. Gathumbi, P.M.F. Mbithi (2004). Synovial Osteochondromatosis In Osteoarthritic Hip And Stifle Joints Of Adult Dogs. Aim of the study: This study was conducted to document herbal medicines used in the treatment of Malaria as well as the existing knowledge,attitudes and practices related to malaria recognition, control and treatment in South Coast, Kenya. Methods: Data was collected using semistructured questionnaires and interviews. A focused group discussion held with the community members, one in each of the study villages supplemented the interview and questionnaire survey. Results: The respondents were found to have a good understanding of malaria and could distinguish it from other fever types. They were also aware that malaria was spread by mosquitoes. Malaria prevalence was high, and affected individuals an average of four times a year. Community members avoided. Mosquito bites by using mosquitonets, clearing bushes around their homesteads and burning plant parts. To generate smoke. They prevented and treated malaria by taking decoctions or concoctions of traditional herbal remedies. Forty plant species in thirty-ﬁve genera distributed in twenty-four families were used as antimalarials in the study area. Five plant species, namely; Heeria insignis Del. (Anacardiaceae), Rottboelia exaltata L.F (Gramineae), Pentanisia ouranogyne S. Moore (Rubiaceae), Agathisanthenum globosum (A. Rich) Hiern (Rubiaceae), and Grewia trichocarpa Hochst ex A. Rich (Tiliaceae) are documented for the ﬁrst time in South Coast, Kenya, for the treatment of malaria. Conclusions: The plants documented in the current study are a potential source for new bioactive compounds of therapeutic value in malaria treatment. The results provide data for further pharmacological and toxicological studies and development of commercial antimalarial phytotherapy products. 255 2004 J.K.Gikunju, T.E. Maitho, P.K. Gathumbi And S.E. Mitema. Toxic Effects Of Fluoride In Rats Exposed To Different Fluoride Sources. 256 2004 Further Characterization Of Efficacy And Safety Of Medicinal Plant Extracts Used To Treat East Coast Fever (Theileria Parva) Infection In Cattle 257 2004 Synovial Osteochondromatosis In Hip And Stifle Joints Of Adult German Shepherd Dog 258 2004 Selective Control And Rate Enhancement Of Reactions Involving Catalytic Reduction Of Organohalides And Reduced Form Of Myoglobin In Microemulsions, Pure Appl. Towers are typical structures that can be found in many urban and rural landscapes the world over. From their basic design, they are usually exposed to severe environmental loads. It is therefore prudent to carry out periodic maintenance that includes checking that they are correctly aligned. This paper describes a method that was used for the re-alignment of a guyed tower in Limuru, Kenya. Angular and distance observations, made from two observation points detected a vertical misalignment that was larger than the acceptable tolerance of l/400. An iterative re-alignment procedure was then applied, resulting in an acceptable final misalignment of 1 / 520. 259 2004 Human Rights, Poverty And Tuberculosis, Healthline-Nairobi 260 2004 Rheumatic Disorders In Kenya: Spectrum Of Disease, Healthline- Nairobi 261 2004 Gout In Patients Attending A Rheumatology Clinic In Nairobi, Kenya, Healthline -Nairobi 262 2004 Oyoo, GO URI: Http://www.ajol.info/index.php/eamj/article/view/8775/1904 Http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/38249 Date: 2004 Show Full Item Record Files In This Item Icon Name: Impact Of HIVAIDS ... Size: 14.54Kb Format: PDF View 263 2004 Mbogoh, S. G. (2004). Socio-economic Aspects Of Tissue-Culture (Tc) Banana Production In Kenya. A Contributed Paper Presented At The Rockefeller Foundation Regional Marketing Workshop, Nairobi, Kenya, April 2004. University Of Nairobi And Africa Harvest ( Department of Pathology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Red blood cells and lysate products (erythrolysate) are observed consistently in lymph draining acute and chronic inflammatory reactions and from tissues subjected to trauma or surgical procedures. Using hemoglobin as a marker for erythrolysate, we have measured hemoglobin in lymph up to the 10(-6) M range in a number of pathophysiological states. Data demonstrate that erythrolysate alters the pumping characteristics of lymphatic vessels. To test the effects of erythrolysate on lymphatic pumping, bovine lymphatics were suspended in an organ bath preparation with the vessels cannulated at both inflow and outflow ends. By raising the heights of the Krebs reservoir and the outflow catheters appropriately, a transmural pressure that stimulated pumping activity could be applied to the vessels. With a fixed transmural pressure of 6 cm H2O applied to the ducts, sheep erythrolysate depressed pumping activity between 40% and 100%, with dilutions containing between 10(-8) and 10(-5) M hemoglobin. Although the active principle in the red blood cells has not been characterized, evidence from precipitation purification experiments suggests that hemoglobin is an important component. Once suppressed, pumping could be restored in many but not all vessels (often to control levels) by elevating the distending pressure above 6 cm H2O. The relation between transmural pressure and fluid pumping is expressed as a bell-shaped curve, with pumping increasing up to a peak pressure (usually 8 cm H2O) and declining at pressures above this level. By comparing pressure/flow curves, we were able to ascertain that hemoglobin shifted the lymphatic function curve to the right and, on average, reduced the maximum pumping capability of the vessels. We speculate that the presence of erythrolysate/hemoglobin in lymph may modulate the ability of lymphatic vessels to drain liquid and protein from the tissue spaces. 264 2004 Martin Upton, S. G. Mbogoh And J Rushton, 265 2004 Lucy Ngare's M.Sc. Research And Thesis On The Potential Socio-economic Effects Of Adopting Herbicide-coated Maize Seed As A Technology In Striga Weed Control: Student Graduated With A Master's Degree In 2004. 266 2004 Multiobjective Optimization Of The Trade-offs In Smallholder Dairy Farming Intensification 267 2004 Clinical Trial Of Intraoperative Laser Radar Imaging In Hip-joint Replacement Surgery 268 2004 Non-invasive Intraoperative Imaging Using Laser Radar System In Hip-joint Replacement Surgery 269 2004 A Non-invasive Registration Technique In Hip-joint Replacement Surgery Using Laser Radar Imaging 270 2004 9. C.M. Mutero, C. Kabutha, V. Kimani, L. Kabuage, G. Gitau, J. Ssennyonga, J. Githure, L. Muthami, A. Kaida, L. Musyoka, E. Kiarie And M. Oganda. A Transdisciplinary Perspective Of The Links Between Malaria And Agroecosystems In Kenya. Acta Tropica (2004 Abstract The study reported data from 507 post-mortem records in the Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Nairobi, Kenya. The records were from carcasses obtained from the peri-urban area of airobi during a 20-year period between 1990 and 2009. Approximately 80% (393/507) of the calf carcasses had their diagnosis made through post-mortem examination, while the rest (114/507) were incon-clusive. Just less than half (48.3%) of the calf carcasses presented had their age specified by the owners compared to 51.7% whose age was not specified. For calf carcasses whose age was specified by the owners, those indicated as more than 3 months were one-and-a-half times as many as those below 3 months old. The proportion of female carcasses (53.8%, 273/507) presented for post-mortem were slightly higher than the male carcasses (46.2%, 234/507). Diseases or conditions of the respiratory system were the most common 17.7% (97/507) while gastrointes- tinal tract (GIT) was second and affected 16.1 % (88/507) of the cases. Another small number, 3.3% (18/507), died from bloat giving the total cases associated with GIT as 19.4% (106/507). Severe calf malnutrition and septicaemia were the third most reported causes of calf mortality in similar proportions at 14.3% (78/507) and 14.4% (79/507), respectively. Other minor causes of calf mortality were tick-borne diseases 8.6% (47/507), helminthiasis and poisoning, 2.9% (16/507) and 1.8% (10/507), respectively. 271 2004 Publisher's Acknowledgement 273 2004 Spontaneous Occurrence Of Leptomonads In Human Bone Marrow Aspirate - Case Report 274 2004 MALOIY, G.M.O., RUGANGAZI, B.M. And ROWE, M.F. (2004).Heart Rate And Energy Expenditure During Rest And Exercise In The Domestic Donkey And One-humped Camel. Abstract: Serum acid phosphatase was measured in patients with enlarged benign and malignant prostate before and after rectal examination. Amongst the patients with benign glands, rectal examination did not produce any significant false elevation of the enzyme. Rectal examination, however, caused a rise in the enzyme level in a few untreated cancer patients and in cancer patients who has become refractory to hormonal therapy. This rise would help rather than mislead in the diagnosis of malignant prostate and also in the identifying treated patients who had become refractory to treatment. Thus, when serum acid phosphatase is properly determined, elevated levels should always arouse suspicion of malignant prostate or other lesions associated with high enzyme level even is such determination was preceded by rectal examination. There appears to be no merit in the teaching that the determination of serum acid phosphatase should be delayed after rectal examination. 275 2004 GIS For Highway Engineering In Developing Countries. 276 2004 Mulaku, G.C. (2004): Accurate Mapping: The First Step To Better Spatial Information Management By African Utilities, Paper Published In The African Journal Of Science And Technology, Vol.5, No. 2, June 2004. 277 2004 Kiema, J.B., Karanja, F.N. And Mulaku G.C. (2004): From Surveying To Geospatial Engineering: Proposal For New Degree Programmes At The University Of Nairobi: Paper Presented At The 5th African Association Of Remote Sensing Of The Environment (AARSE) Confe 278 2004 Mulaku, G.C. And Siriba D.N.(2004): Building Geospatial Data For Multiple Purpose Applications: The Role Of Standards, Paper Presented For Presentation At The African Association Of Remote Sensing Of The Environment(AARSE) Conference, Nairobi, Kenya, Octo 279 2004 Mulaku, G.C. (2004): The Role Of A Professional GIS Association In Kenya: Keynote Paper Presented At The Kenya ESRI Supported GIS User Group Symposium, University Of Nairobi, Kenya, August 21, 2004 280 2004 Supervision To Sila Martha (MSc.) On Efficacy Of Steinernema Karii And Heterhorhabditis Indica In The Management Of The Sweet Potato Weevil (Cylas Puncticollis) In Kibwezi – PASSED. 281 2004 Supervision To Kasina, J.M. (MSc.) On Evaluation Of Plant Extracts, Intercropping And Companion Crops As IPM Components For Thrips (Frankiniella Occidentalis Perganda) And Megalurothrips Sjostedti (Tryborn) On French Beans (Phaseolus Vulgaris) – PASSED 282 2004 “Development And Implementation Of Management Strategies For Sweet Potato Weevil Cycles Appearing In Eastern Kenya”. 283 2004 Employee Handbook For Rwanda Tea Board Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 / Style Definitions / table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} This study was conducted in two seasons of2002 at Tigoni, Central Kenya to determine effectiveness of insecticides; neern extract and mineral oil in managing potato aphids and their associated virus diseases. The treatments were arranged in randomized complete block design (RCBD) with four replications. In each season, the number of aphids in five randomly selected plants per treatment was recordced in situ. Virus symptoms (i.ncidence) were scored and expressed as a percentage to the total plant population per plot. Forty-five days after emergence, 10 plants each from guard rows and inner rows were randomly selected and serologically assayed for Potato Virus Y (PVY) and Potato Leaf Roll Virus (PLRV) using DAS ELISA test. Results showd that three aphid species Aphis gossypii (Glover), Macrosiphum euphorbiae (Thomas) and Myzus persicae (Sulzer) colonized on the variety with A. gossypii being the most dominant while M. persicae was least. Higher aphid population coincided with the short rains experienced in one of the seasons. Synthetic insecticides (Bifethrin and dimethoate) were the most effective among the treatments in reducing aphid infestation while the neem extract and mineral oil (DC- Tron) had no significant (P<0.05) difference. However, mineral-oil treated plots recorded the lowest PVY incidence while bifenthrin-Ireated plots had the lowest PLRV incidence. It is suggested that a combination of synthetic insecticides and mineral oil could playa major role in reduction of the aphids and their associated vectors. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 284 2004 Urological Foot Prints In Kenya: "That Water May Flow": A Story About Male Genital Cancer And Dysfunction The main thrust of my Urological research has been on genital cancer (penis, prostate and testis), torsion of the testis and erectile dysfunction. This lecture will focus on these although I have also researched on many other Urological topics in this locality including chronic prostititis (Magoha, 1996), Scrotal gangrene (Ayumba and Magoha 1998), renal transplantation (Rowe and Magoha 1987, Magoha and Ngumi 2001) and autologous blood transfusion (Magoha et al 2001 among others. The immediate environmental impact of my research works on genital cancer and dysfunction has resulted not only the free flow of water, but the free flow of knowledge from one doctor to another within this country and beyond. These are my Urological footprints in Kenya which I hope have made modest but significant contribution to the surgical history of this country and locality 'that water may flow'. 285 2004 Phytochemical Investigation And Anthelmintic Activity Of Dombeya Rotundifolia, Hochst. M.Pharm Dombeya rotundifolia (Hochst) is a shrub (or tree) and grows in woodland, wooded grassland and rocky mountain slopes from Ethiopia southwards to Kwazulu Natal, South Africa. It is widespread in Kenya and has many traditional uses. Roots are boiled and the soup used to treat rheumatism. Roots are pounded, soaked in water and the macerate given to children with diarrhea. Its stems and roots are used as an anthelmintic and to treat syphilis. It is also used to treat heart problems, nausea in pregnant women, headaches, haemorrhoids, dyspepsia, regulate the menses, to hasten the onset of labour and as an abortifacient. Dried entire plant is used in South Africa for treatment of diarrhea and in Tanzania for intestinal upset and to rid evil effects of witchcraft. It is also used to treat abdominal pains, intestinal ulceration, headaches, haemorrhage and as a tonic. Phytochemical studies were carried out on the methanol, chloroform, hot water and cold water extracts of Dombeya rotundifolia. All the extracts contained cardiac glycosides. The methanol, hot water and could water extracts contained saponins. None of the extracts contained alkaloids and anthraquinones. Fractionation of the chloroform extract yielded two compounds which were identified as lupeol and -sitosterol by spectroscopic methods. The extracts delayed the normal hatching of strongyle eggs while killing the eggs at high concentration. Many of the un-hatched eggs below the concentration of 5000 g/ml had developed and the larvae could be seen inside the shell but some were dead showing that the extracts retarded development of the eggs. The calculated LD50 for egg hatch assay was 2570 g/ml, 500.9 g/ml, 2709.4 g/ml and 1762.9 g/ml for the hot water, cold water, methanol and chloroform extracts, respectively. The calculated LD50 for the larvae mortality assay was 635.9 g/ml, 657.0 g/ml, 96.9 g/ml and 4195 g/ml for the hot water, cold water, methanol and chloroform extracts, respectively. The extracts killed the hatched larvae at high concentrations. The calculated LD50 for the larvae development assay was 1689.6 g/ml, 765.4 g/ml, 4909.8 g/ml and 3062 g/ml for the hot water, cold water, methanol and chloroform extracts, respectively. This showed that the extracts prevented the normal development of the larvae from Larvae1 to Larvae3 (adult stage). The most active extract in egg hatch and larvae development assay was the cold water extract, while methanol extract was the most active in larvae mortality assay. The hot water and could water extracts relaxed the isolated rabbit ileum, an effect similar to that of adrenaline, supporting the use of this plant to treat diarrhea. The methanol and chloroform extracts had no effects on the isolated rabbit ileum up to a dose of 40 mg (2 mg/ml). No extract had activity on guinea pig ileum. All the extracts had broncho-constrictive effect on guinea pig trachea. The chloroform extract had a marked negative chlorotropic and inotropic effects on the isolated rabbit heart. The methanol and the water extracts had no effects on the heart up to a dose of 20 mg. Starting with a tissue bath concentration of 0.5 mg/ml, both methanol and hot water extracts caused contraction of isolated rat uterus with activity at a concentration of 2 mg/ml being comparable to the effect of oxytocin 0.1 i.u/ml and acetylcholine 0.5 g/ml. Both chloroform and cold water extracts had no noticeable effect on the uterus upto a dose of 2 mg/ml. The oxytocin-like contractions of isolated rat uterus caused by methanol and hot water extracts supports the use of this plant decoction as an abortifacient. The extracts had high activity against Artemia salina showing they may have good pestcidal and cytotoxic activity. The LD50 of methanol, chloroform, hot water and cold water extracts were 470.7, 323.3, 30.2 and 38.5 g/ml, respectively. The LD50 of lupeol and -sitosterol was 116.2 and 95.9 g/ml, respectively. In this work, the isolation of any compound from Dombeya rotundifolia is reported for the first time. The compounds lupeol and -sitosterol were isolated from the stem bark. The present work shows there is a scientific basis for the traditional use of the plant Dombeya rotundifolia as anthelmintic, antidiarrhoeal and abortifacient. 286 2004 Excelling In English Book 3 (Teachers This integrative review on the teaching of reading in Kenyan primary schools provides a foundation for the growing movement there to improve reading education. In gathering sources for this review, we took an inclusive historical stance. Thus, we did not dismiss research reports that lacked traditional indicators of quality such as being published in peer-reviewed journals. We used multiple methods to find relevant research and associated documents, including two trips to Kenya. The review is organized by six topics: (a) language of instruction, (b) reading instruction, (c) reading materials, (d) reading culture, (e) assessment, and (f) teacher development. The review concludes with six proposals for policymakers, educational researchers, and teacher educators for the development of reading instruction based on what we learned in reviewing the literature. The first proposals are intended specifically to address the teaching of reading in Kenya, but they may be relevant to other sub-Saharan nations. The final proposal encourages others to conduct similar reviews to make possible a handbook of reading in Africa. 287 2004 Excelling In English Book 3 (Teachers' Guide) With Phyllis Mwangi, Charles Gecaga And Muchiri Mukunga. Nairobi: Kenya Literature Bureau 288 2004 Henry . Mutoro (with Ephantus Irandu): Tropical Urbanism With Riverine Focus: Settlement Formation And Distribution In The Lower Grand Falls Dam, Upper Tana River Catchment. 289 2004 Widowing And Remarriage. East Africa In Transition. Nairobi 290 2004 EGC 500: Research Methods In Counselling 291 2004 EPS 402: Educational Statistics And Evaluation 292 2004 EGC 501: Research Statistics And Data Processing 295 2004 STC/GCD 517: Psychological Assessment 296 2004 ESTIMATION OF AZEOTROPIC COMPOSITIONS OF THE ETHANOLWATER SYSTEM BELOW 760MM Hg PRESSURE 297 2004 PHYSIOLOGIC MANIFESTATIONS OF STRESS FROM CAPTURE AND RESTRAINT OF FREE-RANGING MALE AFRICAN GREEN MONKEYS (CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS) Adrenal gland weights, stomach mucosal lesions, and morning serum cortisol and prolactin levels were measured in 15 juvenile and adult male African green monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops) that were shot by a hunter, euthanized after 24 hr of captivity, or euthanized after 45 days of captivity and intermittent blood sampling. Hormone levels were measured in seven additional males that had been in captivity for 7 mo. Mean serum cortisol concentrations were significantly lower in free-ranging wild monkeys at the time they were shot than in the monkeys after 1 day in captivity. Cortisol concentrations were significantly higher in wild-caught monkeys on the day after capture than they were in the same animals after 18 and 26 days of captivity. Cortisol concentrations were also significantly higher in the wild-caught monkeys 18 days after capture than in the laboratory-habituated monkeys in captivity for 7 mo. Mean prolactin concentration was significantly lower in the wild-caught monkeys on day 2 after capture, and the levels increased gradually to 45 days in captivity and was highest in monkeys that had been captive for 7 mo. 298 2004 Meta-GA Multi-Window Human Eye Detection 299 2004 Hassan Saidi, Adari G Primary Breast Sarcoma; A Case Report East Afr. Med J. 2004; 81: 375-377 BACKGROUND: Kenya has a soaring rate of road traffic fatalities. Available evidence suggests significant alcohol-relatedness to trauma. We know little about the prevalence of alcohol-related injuries in Nairobi. OBJECTIVE: To determine the extent and pattern of alcohol use in subjects admitted following road traffic accident. DESIGN: A descriptive hospital based survey. SETTING: Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH)- a university affiliated hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. RESULTS: The overall incidence of alcohol use was 26.3%. This was higher in males (29.6%) than females (9.1%). Use was 24.4%, 31.0%, 28.6% and 13.6% in the 16-25, 26-35, 36-45 and 46-55 age groups respectively. The mean ages, pre-hospital times and ISS were similar for the AUG and NAUG. The incidence of males, weekend injuries, night collisions, and pedestrian involvement was 94.4%, 69.4%, 41.7%, 77.8% in the AUG and 83.2%, 35.6%, 19.8% and 61.4% in the NAUG respectively. The incidence of head and extremity injuries in AUG was 27.8% and 50% respectively compared to 11.9% and 66.3% in the NAUG. Treatment costs were higher for the NAUG. CONCLUSIONS: The results suggest a high incidence and potential alcohol-relatedness to road trauma in Nairobi. The study calls for objective evaluation of the extent, interactions and effects of this modifiable trauma factor. 300 2004 Evaluation Of Variety Resistance As Amangement Srategy For Thrips (megalurothrips Sjostedti Trybom And Frankliniella Occidentalis Pergrande) On French Beans (phaseolus Vulgaris L.) French bean, phaseolllus vulgaris l. is a major horticultural crop in kenya mainly grown for fresh export market. A major contraint in succesfull production of the crop is pests and diseases. thrips are considered as one of the major inscect pests attacking mainly flowers and causing losses of above 60percentage A lot of pesticides use and hence pesticide resideu has been attributed to thrips control. In view of the introduction of maximum pesticides level by importing countries, there is need to develope intergrated thrips mangement strategy with less pesticide use . Towards this goal, nine french beans varieties were evaluated for resistance to thrips (megalurothrips sjostedti frankliniella occidentalis)during the period (november 2001 to april 2002). This was done in two planting phases using randomised complete block design in four replicates. It was evident from the study that there significant diffrences in resistance to thrips by varieties. monel variety was found to be the most susceptibleand impala the least.Frankliniella occidentalis was more abadunt than megalurothrips sjostedti during the study period. The ratio of M . sjostedti to F. occidentalis on flowers was 1.5and 1.7 during the 1st and 2nd planting respectively. 301 2004 Effects Of Steinernema Kari And Heterohabditis Indica Against The Sweet Potato Weevil (Cylas Puncticollis). 302 2004 Major Insects Of Crops In Kenya 303 2004 Universities And Trade Unionisms . In “ Re- Invigorating The University Madate In A Globalising Environment 304 2004 Effects If Four Biopesticides On The Spider Mite Tetranychanus Evansi Baker And Pritchard In The Laboratory 307 2004 EVALUATION OF VARIETAL RESISTANCE AND PESTICIDES AS MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES FOR THRIPS (Megalurothrips Sjostedti Trybom And Frankliniella Occidentalis Pergande) ON FRENCH BEANS (Phaseolus Vulgaris L.) 308 2004 EFFICACY OF Steinernema Karii AND Heterohabditis. Indica NEMATODES IN THE MANAGEMENT OF THE SWEET POTATO WEEVIL ( Cylas Puncticollis) IN KIBWEZI 309 2004 NGAU., P. And MWANGI, I.K. (2004 Ed) District Regional Development Plan: An Integration Plan For Sustainable Development. Nairobi: UNCRD Africa Office. UNCRD Textbook Series No. 11. Vertex epidural haematomas (VEDH) are rare and difficulties are encountered in diagnosis and management. This is a case report of a patient with a vertex epidural haematoma who presented with signs of severe head injury with upper limb decerebrate posture. We discuss the challenges of radiological investigation and neurosurgical management of VEDH. 310 2004 MWANGI, I. K. Comment. Regional Development Dialogue, Vol. 25, No. 1, Spring 2004 Pp14-17; On WANYANDE, P. Decentralization And Local Governance: A Conceptual And Theoretical Perspective. Regional Development Dialogue, Vol. 25, No. 1, Spring 2004 Pp1-13. 311 2004 KOSURA, W. AND MWANGI, I. K. Methods Of Data Collection. In NGAU, P. AND KUMSSA, A. (2004 EDS) RESEARCH DESIGN, DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS: A TRAINING MANUAL. Nairobi: UNCRD Africa Office. UNCRD Textbook Series No. 12. Chapter 7.pp97-113. 312 2004 MWANGI, I. K. Preparation And Administration Of Data Collection Instruments. In NGAU, P. AND KUMSSA, A. (2004 EDS) RESEARCH DESIGN, DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS: A TRAINING MANUAL. Nairobi: UNCRD Africa Office. Chapter 9. Pp.141-175. 313 2004 MWANGI, I. K. AND MBECHE, I. M. Field Operations For Data Collection. In NGAU, P. AND KUMSSA, A. (2004 EDS) RESEARCH DESIGN, DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS: A TRAINING MANUAL. Nairobi: UNCRD Africa Office. UNCRD Textbook Series No. 12. Chapter 10. Pp177-187 314 2004 An Algorithm To Determine The Mass Transfer Rate From A Pure Liquid Surface Using The Volume Of Fluid Multiphase Model An algorithm to determine the mass transfer rate from the surface of a pure liquid in conjunction with the volume of fluid (VOF) was developed. The algorithm determines the liquid/gas interface by using information of the volume fractions of individual phases in the flow field obtained from the VOF method. It then solves the species equation in the gas phase. It is assumed that the carrier gas at the liquid/gas interface is saturated with vapour. Four test cases were designed to evaluate the algorithm. Concentration profiles obtained from these test cases were compared with results from available analytical solutions. The algorithm was then implemented to determine vapour emission from a two-phase stratified flow inside an axisymmetric funnel representative of an automotive fuel filler pipe. 315 2004 Rosemary K,M(2004), 'Developing Policies And Practices For Mainstreaming HIV And AIDS In Institutions Of Higher Education',in UNESCO Manual 316 2004 Borana Bonesetters: Integrating Modernity And Tradition In A Northern Kenyan Pastoral Community 317 2004 The Socio-economic Impacts Of Human African Trypanosomiais And The Coping Mechanisms Involved In Its Control In Western Kenya. Paper Presented At The Annual EANETT Workshop 29th November-1st December, 2004, Khartoum, Sudan. 318 2004 Jane Dwasi And Judy Oglethorpe, HIV/AIDS And Ecoregion Conservation (Island Press The decision to pay out earnings or retain dividends has been a subject of debate for many scholars. The effect of dividend on the firm value and cost of capital have been covered in attempt to resolve the dividend puzzle. This research paper tests the applicability of constant dividend model by companies listed at the Nairobi stock exchange. Data was collected from annual reports and share price schedules obtained from Nairobi stock exchange and Capital market Authority for a population of 20 companies that paid dividends consistently from 2002 to 2008. The data was then analyzed by re-computing the dividends that should have been paid if the dividend constant model was applied. This recomputed figure was later compared to the dividend as paid out by the companies thought the years of study. Paired sample t-test statistic was also performed to determine whether there is a significant difference between the two dividend figures. The findings of the research established that the dividend model was not employed by the companies listed at the Nairobi stock exchange. Most firms instead adopted stable and predictable policy where a specific amount of dividend per share each year was paid periodically. In some years there was a slight adjustment of the dividend paid after an increase in earnings, but only by a sustainable amount. The study shows that the relationship between the stock market prices and the dividend paid from the constant dividend model is uneven from one year to another and where there was a relationship it was insignificant. Though a share would be highly priced, a high dividend per share was not always declared. 319 2004 Hassanali J, P. Kibet.Deciduous And Permanent Tooth Anomalies Arising From Deciduous Canine Tooth Bud Removal In Infancy Among The Maasai. African Journal Of Oral Health Sciences. East African Medical Journal Vol 4 No. 3 233-235 (2004) OBJECTIVES: In order to introduce a comprehensive intervention system to improve health, there is need to establish a profile of the Maasais' current knowledge, attitude and practices of predisposing environmental, cultural and other factors which may lead to considerable health risks. DESIGN: A descriptive retrospective cross-sectional study. SETTING: Oletepesi and Elangata Wuas of Kajiando District. SUBJECTS: Maasai community in Oletepesi and Elangata Wuas regions of Kajiado District of Kenya over a period of two years. RESULTS: Previous awareness to primary health care and knowledge has been through education and training by AMREF Nomadic Health Unit. Factors such as limited availability of water, health care delivery and dry arid environment with poor infrastructure as well as some persistent harmful cultural practices predispose the Maasai community to common health problems in children and adults. CONCLUSION: With community participation, there is need for an integrated approach to these health risks. The Ministry of Health together with AMREF have incorporated a comprehensive intervention system to address the commonly occurring diseases such as malaria, diarrhoea and pneumonia and address adults and children problems differently. 320 2004 Dossajee H., J. Hassanali;Morphometric Analysis Of Cerebral Cortex In The Developing Baboon. European Journal Of Anatomy 8(1): 29-34. (2004) 321 2004 Pokhariyal G., C. Muturi, J. Hassanali, S. Kinyanjui;Simulation Model From Dental Arch Shapes. East African Medical Journal 81, 599-602 (2004) OBJECTIVE: To develop a simulation model for dental arch shapes. DESIGN: Analysis of measurements of dental casts to determine a general second degree equation for the dental arches. SETTING: Department of Human Anatomy and School of Computing and Informatics, University of Nairobi. SUBJECTS: The measurement of dental casts, 30 (15M and 15F) each from three Kenyan ethnic groups (Maasai, Kalenjin, Kikuyu), aged 12 years. RESULTS: The arches change their shapes from a parabola to an ellipse, governed by the boundary conditions at the position of the canine tooth, based on the general second degree equation for the conic sections. CONCLUSION: The simulation model graphically confirms the change from parabolic to elliptic shapes of dental arches with boundary conditions at the canine. This could be used to show the changes in dental arches for other ethnic groups. 322 2004 Kanya J.I., Adele J.N., Mamoundou F., Overholt W.A., Ochora J., Osir E.O. (2004) Diversity Of Alternative Hosts Of Maize Stemborers I Trans-Nzoia District Of Kenya. Environmental Biosafety Research. 3: 159-168 323 2004 Fitt G.P., Andow D.A., Carriere Y., Moar W.J., Schuler T.H., Omoto C., KanResistance Risks And Management Associated With Bt Maize In Kenya; In: Hilbeck A., Andow D.A. Eds. Environmental Risk Assessment O 324 2004 An Assessment Of The Presence Of Escherichia Coli In The Roof-collected Rainwater From Some Areas Around Nairobi. 325 2004 Endoscopic Variceal Band Ligation – A Local Experience 326 2004 Factors Affecting The Performance Of Marketing Communication Tools: A Case Of Selected Dairy Firms In Kenya This study focuses on the marketing communication tools pursued by selected milk processing firms in Kenya. The theory articulated in this article suggests that marketing communication tools and factors affecting their performance are two important considerations. Taking this as a standpoint, the author predicted the use of similar marketing communication tools whose performances are influenced by the same factors. An empirical test of this theory using data collected from the milk processors operating in Nairobi yields data consistent with the view that the milk processors use similar marketing communication elements and their performance are influenced by similar factors. 327 2004 Evaluation Of Geophagia As A Pathway For Internal Exposure To Ionizing Radiation Twenty variceal banding sessions were performed in eight patients between February 1995 and September 1996. A total of 69 rings were used to band the varices and at each session between two to six rings were used. Two of the eight had active bleeding and both underwent variceal banding to successfully arrest their bleeding as inpatients. Sixteen other variceal banding sessions were performed on an outpatient basis to obliterate their varices. Four of the eight patients had had sclerotherapy before and varices were still present. No acute or long term complications were noted. In one patient, variceal banding could not be performed as he developed stridor upon placement of the overtube. All the patients had advanced varices (Grade III or IV) and extended for more than 15 cms in the oesophagus. Endoscopic variceal obliteration remains the treatment of choice for patients with portal hypertension with variceal bleeding. Variceal banding is associated with a superior outcome when compared with sclerotherapy; the variceal kill time is shorter, infective complications less, rebleeding occurs less commonly and transfusion requirements are lower. 328 2004 Application Of Remote Sensing In Delineating Geological Structures Ideal For Groundwater Development 329 2004 From Surveying To Geospatial Engineering: Proposal For New Academic Programs At The University Of Nairobi. Surveying is a profession that finds itself increasingly at major crossroads today. This fact is perhaps best vindicated by the increasingly less number of students who are opting to study surveying as their first-degree choice at university level. The number of postgraduate students is also relatively low. In an effort to address this stark reality as well as re-engineer itself, the Department of Surveying, University of Nairobi is in the process of launching new academic programs at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. This paper traces developments in the curriculum review process at the Department of Surveying, University of Nairobi that began almost a decade ago. A review of the basic principles in curriculum development is presented. The objectives of the above new programs are outlined together with their respective regulations. The course structures for both the undergraduate and postgraduate programs are then presented. A proposal for implementing the new programs is finally outlined before conclusions are drawn. 330 2004 Development, Survival And Availability Of Gastrointestinal Nematodes Of Sheep And Pastures In A Semi-arid Area Of Kajiado District Of Kenya 331 2004 Occurrence Of Peri-parturient Rise In Trichostrongylid Nematode Egg Output In Dorper Ewes In A Semi-arid Area Of Kajiado District Of Kenya 332 2004 Epidemiology Of Gastrointestinal Helminths Infections In Dorper Sheep In A Semi-arid Area Of Kenya 333 2004 Gastrointestinal Nematode Infections In Dorper Lambs In A Semi-arid Area Of Kajiado District Of Kenya 334 2004 Epidemiology And Control Of Gastrointestinal Nematode Infections In Dorper Lambs In A Semi-arid Area Of Kajiado District 335 2004 Catley A, Okoth S, Osman J, Fison T, Njiru Z, Mwangi J, Jones BA, Leyland TJ. Participatory Diagnosis Of A Chronic Wasting Disease In Cattle In Southern Sudan. Participatory Approaches to Veterinary Epidemiology Project, Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods Programme, International Institute for Environment and Development, 3 Endsleigh Street, London WC1H 0DD, UK. andy.catley@oau-ibar.org In southern Sudan, livestock keepers identified a chronic wasting disease in adult cattle as one of their most-serious animal-health problems. Participatory-appraisal (PA) methods and conventional veterinary-investigation methods were used to characterise the chronic wasting disease and identify linkages between indigenous knowledge and modern veterinary knowledge. The local characterisation of chronic wasting encompassed trypanosomosis, fasciolosis, parasitic gastroenteritis and schistosomosis (as both single and mixed infections).A standardised PA method called matrix scoring had good reproducibility when investigating local perceptions of disease-signs and disease causes. Comparison of matrix-scoring results showed much overlap with modern veterinary descriptions of cattle diseases and the results of conventional veterinary investigation. Applications of PA methods in remote areas with very limited veterinary infrastructure are discussed. The validation of data derived from PA is discussed by reference to the low sensitivity of 'field-friendly' diagnostic tests for important cattle diseases. 337 2004 Knowledge, Attitude And Practice: An Ethnographic Assessment Of Cervical Cancer In Women In Kiambu District, Kenya. Thesis For The Degree Of Master Of Arts In Anthropology, University Of Nairobi, 2004. Institute of African Studies, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya. This article assesses knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding cervical cancer among rural women of Kenya. One hundred and sixty women (mean age 37.9 years) who sought various health care services at Tigoni subdistrict hospital, Limuru, Kenya, were interviewed using a semistructured questionnaire. In addition, three focus group discussions (25 participants) were held, five case narratives recorded, and a free list of cervical cancer risk factors obtained from a group of 41 women respondents. All women were aged between 20 and 50 years. About 40% knew cervical cancer, although many still lack factual information. A history of sexually transmitted diseases (61.5%), multiple sexual partners (51.2%), and contraceptive use (33%) were identified as risk factors. Other factors mentioned include smoking, abortion, and poor hygiene standards. High parity, early sexual debut, and pregnancy were not readily mentioned as risk factors. We propose a folk causal model to explain the link between these factors and cervical cancer. Lack of knowledge constrains utilization of screening services offered at the clinics. Consequently, respondents support educating women as a way to tackling issues on cervical cancer. It is recommended that an integrated reproductive health program that addresses comprehensively women's health concerns be put in place. 338 2004 Kaimenyi, JT. (2004) Oral Health In Kenya. International Dental Journal 54: 378-382. This paper gives general information on the location of Kenya, its demography, economy, organisation of health services, general health policy, health financing, oral health infrastructure, problems that hamper health financing and proposals on how to solve these problems. Further, a summary of health status of the Kenyan people is given based on the results of studies. The mean DMFT for the rural and urban populations is low and there is no evidence of an increase or decrease. Similarly, the prevalence of periodontitis is low (1-10%), with no increase. Ulcerative lesions are rare (0.12%). The most common birth defects are cleft lip and palate. Oral cancer is very low, accounting for 2% of all malignancies. Comparative studies have not demonstrated any dramatic change in the frequency of oral cancer for the last 25 years. Oral candidiasis is the most prevalent oral lesion amongst HIV/AIDS patients. In June 2003, Kenya formulated a National Oral Health Policy, which gives direction on how to improve the oral health status of the citizens. 339 2004 Financing Pro-poor Growth In Africa: Seminar Report 340 2004 Adoption Of Fodder Legumes Technology Through Farmer-to-farmer Extension Approach 341 2004 Factors Influencing Farmer-to-farmer Extension Of Forage Legume Technology Forage legumes have been introduced to farmers in Central Kenya between 1980 and 2002 through various Institutional and Projects’ efforts. The adoption rate of these forages among farmers has been found to be rather low, with the NDDP reporting only 1.9 % of farms surveyed and an ICRAF report indicating that the technology was only reaching 1 % of smallholder farms. An evaluation of adoption of Calliandra and Desmodium was conducted to identify farm characteristics affecting the likelihood of sharing of Desmodium and Calliandra technologies as well as to characterise the spread or diffusion of the technology from the original contact groups and the effect of distance from those groups. Three groups of farmers were approached. A first generation who received planting material from the distributors, a second generation who received planting materials from the former, and a randomly selected group of farmers at various distances from the first contacts. Informal discussions were held with the farmers and formal questionnaires filled. Out of the 133 first generation farmers contacted 64.7% still had Desmodium and 89.5% still had Calliandra. More farms in the contact sub-locations had the plants than the sub-locations further away. The small sample size of those with the forages could not allow effect of distance to be worked out. Tobit estimates of effects of farmer attributes influencing sharing of planting materials shows that the status of the household head in the community positively affected the likelihood of giving out planting material. The technology has a rather slow spread as indicated by percentages of farms with the forages. For better adoption and spread proponents of the technology should have the technology introduced to farmers who have substantial positions in farmer groups or have been bestowed community responsibility. 343 2004 Mbugua, S.M. And Gathumbi J.K. (2004). The Contamination Of Kenyan Lager Beers Fusarium Mycotoxins. Journal Of The Institute Of Brewing 110: 227-229. Abstract in Bellamy, M. and B. Greenshields (eds), Issues in Agricultural Development: Sustainability and Cooperation. IAAE Occasional Paper No. 6. Dartmouth Publishing Co. Ltd, Aldershot. 344 2004 Kinama, J.M., Ong, C., Stigter, C.J., Ng 345 2004 Kinama, J.M., Stigter, C.J., Ong, C., Ng 346 2004 Stigter, C.J., Kinama, J., Zhang, Y., Tunji, K.O., Zheng, D. Nawal, K.N And Ahmed. A. (2004). Agrometeorological Services And Information For Decision Makers: Some Examples From Africa And China. Paper Presented At The International Symposium On Food Prod 347 2004 Stigter, C.J., Mungai, D., Ong, C., Kinama, J.M And Otengi, S.B. (2004). Testing Alley Cropping Contour In Semi-arid Areas On Flat And Sloping Land: Soil And Water Conservation, Competition, Yields And Economic Factors. Experts For Collection Of Case Stud 348 2004 Kinama, J.M. (2004). Indigenous Technical Knowledge And Rural Development In Eastern Kenya. South African Rural Development Quarterly. Vol2, 04, ) Oct- December 2004. ISSN 1812-299X. A Quarterly Publication Of The Rural Forum 349 2004 Borehole Site Investigations In Volcanic Rocks Of Lolmolok Area, Samburu District, Kenya A systematic approach has been applied in the selection of suitable sites for borehole drilling in a quest to provide adequate water supply to a rural pastoral community in Lolmolok area. The study area lies in samburu district in Kenya and is bound by latitudes 0°56’21”N and 0°57’58”N and longitudes 36°34’42”E and 36°36’35”E. The geology of this area is comprised of tertiary volcanics. Basalts, which have weathered into residual black cotton soil, are underlain by phonolitic lavas and tuffs. The systemat-ic approach for the exploration of groundwater was followed to enable selection of an optimum drill site(s) within a quadrant with three-kilometer radius identified by the pas-toral community. The approach consisted of the following multi-steps:- (i) Hydrogeological reconnaissance of the whole area, mapping different groundwa-ter potential areas on the basis of aerial photo interpretation; (ii) Geophysical field surveys involving very low frequency electromagnetic (VLF-EM) and Vertical Electrical Sounding (VES). (iii) Processing and interpretation of the data acquired in the field, which led to selection of suitable drill sites, indication of potential yield and depth of aquifers. This paper describes the success of combined geophysical survey techniques in siting boreholes whose yield ranges between 5 m3/hr and 10 m3/hr. 350 2004 Development Of Geothermal Energy Resources In Kenya-A Collective Responsibility Between University And Industry Kenya is the first and so far the only country in the African continent to generate electricity from geothermal resources. Currently the power output from geothermal resources stands at about 57 MWe. This output is expected to rise with the planned commissioning of other power plants in Olkaria and elsewhere. Geothermal energy is reliable, environmentally sustainable and the least cost source of base load power for Kenya. The least cost power development plan (KPLC, 2001) has proposed that the geothermal sources provide approximately an additional 500 MWe of base load electric power over the next 20 years (Omenda, 2001; Mwangi, 2001). It should be noted that the Rift System in Kenya has a potential of producing 2000 MWe of geothermal energy that can be generated using conventional steam condensing turbines. This power generation can even exceed 3000 MWe when combined cycle and binary systems are used (Omenda, 2001). For these reasons, exploration for geothermal resources is quite active within the Kenya Rift System and the potential to be exploited is quite substantial. Geothermal resource exploration has largely been undertaken by the Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) and the Ministry of Energy. There has also been an input from international organizations and consulting companies. Nevertheless, there has been low level contributions by the local universities in geothermal resource studies and research works. In other countries such as U.S.A, New Zealand, Iceland, Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, just to mention a few, geothermal resources have been collaboratively studied and researched on by both the university and the industry and there is no satisfactory reason why this cannot be emulated in our continent. This paper therefore outlines some of the areas where collaborative work can be undertaken by both the industry and the local universities. Some of the areas include feasibility studies, exploration, construction and installation, production, research and development. This is essential for better knowledge dissemination, improvement and training for posterity. 351 2004 Omoke, K.J. (July 2004) Reviewed: Air Transport And The Growth Of Tourism In Kenya. 352 2004 Omoke, K.J. & Moronge, J.M. (2004)SGP 206: Geography Of Resources; Course Materials For Teaching B.ED Science. Faculty Of Science, University Of Nairobi. 353 2004 Omoke, K.J. & Moronge, J.M. (2004)SGP 203: Practical Geography; Course Materials For Teaching B.ED Science. Faculty Of Science, University Of Nairobi. 357 2004 Market Segmentation And Micro And Small Business Growth. The Case Of Furniture Manufacturers In Mombasa. Despite the significant role played by micro- and small –scale enterprises (MSEs) in Kenya’s economic development, the furniture sub-sector has over the years experienced constraints that have limited it from realizing its full potential. This paper uses data from a clustered random sample of 60 furniture manufacturers from Mombasa District to identify market segmentation strategies used by these MSEs, and to establish the effects of these strategies on business growth. A chi-square statistical method is used to analyse the data. Results reveal that a 62% of the respondents employed market segmentation in their businesses, and that the business owners’ education level and the age of the business significantly influenced the market segmentation strategy employed. Further, the segmentation marketing strategy leads to growth in a firm’s market share. The results also indicate that the most commonly used segmentation variables include: income, benefit sought, and social classification. The implication of this result is the critical importance of empowering the MSE owners with knowledge of market segmentation that would facilitate the production of furniture items that are determined by consumer demand. Key words: segmentation, micro and small business, growth 358 2004 Poverty, Property Rights And Socio-economic Incentives For Land Conservation: The Case For Kenya. African Journal Of Economic Policy 11:1(35-68) 2004 359 2004 Prescription Audit Carried Out At The Pharmacy Practice Centre Of The University Of Nairobi Between June And November 2004 A retrospective descriptive study was carried out from June to November 2004 in a retail pharmacy situated at the School of Pharmacy, University of Nairobi within the Kenyatta National Hospital complex. The objective was to evaluate prescribing habits and to determine the frequency of prescribing of commonly used drug classes in a hospital. The average number of drugs per prescription was 2.20  1.16. The prevalence of prescribing was 28.6% anti-infective drugs, 21.1% musculoskeletal agents, 16.6% respiratory system drugs, 8.1% cardiovascular system drugs, 7.2% central nervous system drugs, 7.1% gastrointestinal system drugs, 4.3% minerals and vitamins, 2.1% ear, nose and throat drugs, 1.1% endocrine drugs, 2% skin preparations, 0.9% anticancer drugs and 0.74% eye preparations. The prescribing habits evaluated were compared to the legal requirements in Kenya and to recommended international practice. The information gathered may serve as a basis for rational use of drugs. 360 2004 Training And Capacity Building For Performance Improvement , A Paper Presented In The Training Workshop For Members Of Ministerial Service Reform Committee And Works Improvement Team For The Ministry Of Planning And National Development A cross sectional study of 115 patients admitted at the Department of Orthopedics, Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya was carried out to determine the prevalence and antibiotic susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from infected wounds. The prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus was 33.0 %. The drugs tested and their corresponding sensitivity was amoxycillin (13.2 %), co-amoxyclav (39.5 %), oxacillin (55.3 %), erythromycin (44.7 %), gentamicin (60.5 %), ciprofloxacin (62.2 %), minocycline (86.8 %), cefuroxime (57.9 %), and clidamycin (84.2 %). These results show the sensitivity profile of Staphylococcus aureus and can be used to choose suitable drugs in the management of wounds for hospitalized patients. 361 2004 Analysis Of Instructional Effectiveness Of Asynchronous E-Learning Environments In Kenya. Paper Presented At Winners Of The Sabbatical, Postdoctoral Fellowship And Hiv/Aids Challenge In Africa Research Grants 20-21 December,2004 Axum Hall, Addis Ababa Hil 362 2004 Training Needs Analysis: Steps In The Needs Analysis; Essential Components Of A Training Assessment: Sources Of Information For Training Needs Analysis; Methods Of Collecting Data For Need Analysis; Work Places As Learning Organizations; Evaluation Of Tra 363 2004 Gathuma,J.M., Mbaria, J.M., Wanyama, J., Kaburia, H.F.A,Mpoke, L. And Mwangi, J.N.(2004).Efficacy Of Myrsine Africana, Albezia Anthelmintica And Hilderbrantia Seplosa Herbal Remedies Against Mixed Natural Sheep Helminthoses In Samburu District, Kenya.Jour 364 2004 Chema,S. And, Gathuma, J.M. (2004). Kenya: The Development Of Private Services And The Role Of The Kenya Veterinary Association .In: Veterinary Institutions In The Developing World: Current Status And Future Needs.OIE Technical And Scientific Review, Vol. 365 2004 Samburu, Turkana Healers (2004). Efficacy Of M. Africana, A. Anthelmintica And H. Sepalosa Herbal Remedies Against Mixed Natural Sheep Helminthosis In 367 2004 Towards Using Seasonal Rainfall Forecasts For The 2005 Management Of Human Wildlife Conflicts In Kenya 368 2004 Ethnoveterinary Practices In Eastern Africa 369 2004 A. Yenesew, M. Induli, S. Derese, Jacob O Midiwo, M. Heydenreich, M. G. Peter, H. Akala, Julia Wangui, P. Liyala And N. Waters. Anti-plasmodial Flavonoids From The Stem Bark Of Erythrina Abyssinica. 370 2004 Kitaa JMA, Mulei C, Mande JD And Wabacha JK. Clinical And Laboratory Diagnosis Of Ehrlichial Infections In Dogs: A Review. 371 2004 Mande JD And Kitaa JMA. Microbial Profile And Antimicrobial Susceptibility Of Isolates From Dogs With Otitis Externa In Kenya. 372 2004 Geography Of Resources 373 2004 Practical Geography 374 2004 Spatial Organisation 375 2004 Handbook Of The Principles Of General Veterinary Surgery 376 2004 Categorizing Wounds To Improve Clinical Management And Prognostic Outcome 377 2004 Explore Geography Learner The study found out that Masinga Dam has adversely affected the public health in the communities around the dam. malaria was the most prevalent ailment followed by typhoid fever. Bilharzia has also increased since the dam was constructed. 378 2004 Explore Geography Learners Book: Form 2, Teachers Guide. 379 2004 Probability Modelling Of Climate Data. Importance Of Mathematical Modelling Of Biological And Biomedical Processes 380 2004 Seasonal And Intra-seasonal Patterns Of African Tropical Aerosols And Their Influence On Kenyan Rainfall. 381 2004 Adult Literacy And The Place Of Kiswahili, 2004. Proceedings On Language Curriculum Development. , Kenyatta University 382 2004 Participatory Governance For Human Development. Third Kenya Human Development Report. I Was A Contributor Giving The Sociological Input. BACKGROUND: Malaria control in Africa relies primarily on early effective treatment for clinical disease, but most early treatments for fever occur through self-medication with shop-bought drugs. Lack of information to community members on over-the-counter drug use has led to widespread ineffective treatment of fevers, increased risks of drug toxicity and accelerating drug resistance. We examined the feasibility and measured the likely impact of training shop keepers in rural Africa on community drug use. METHODS: In a rural area of coastal Kenya, we implemented a shop keeper training programme in 23 shops serving a population of approximately 3500, based on formative research within the community. We evaluated the training by measuring changes in the proportions of drug sales where an adequate amount of chloroquine was purchased and in the percentage of home-treated childhood fevers given an adequate amount of chloroquine. The programme was assessed qualitatively in the community following the shop keeper training. RESULTS: The percentage of drug sales for children with fever which included an antimalarial drug rose from 34.3% (95% CI 28.9%-40.1%) before the training to a minimum of 79.3% (95% CI 71.8%-85.3%) after the training. The percentage of antimalarial drug sales where an adequate amount of drug was purchased rose from 31.8% (95% CI 26.6%-37.6%) to a minimum of 82.9% (95% CI 76.3%-87.3%). The percentage of childhood fevers where an adequate dose of chloroquine was given to the child rose from 3.7% (95% CI 1.2%-9.7%) before the training to a minimum of 65.2% (95% CI 57.7%-72.0%) afterwards, which represents an increase in the appropriate use of over-the-counter chloroquine by at least 62% (95% CI 53.7%-69.3%). Shop keepers and community members were strongly supportive of the aims and outcome of the programme. CONCLUSIONS: The large shifts in behaviour observed indicate that the approach of training shop keepers as a channel for information to the community is both feasible and likely to have a significant impact. Whilst some of the impact seen may be attributable to research effects in a relatively small scale pilot study, the magnitude of the changes support further investigation into this approach as a potentially important new strategy in malaria control. 383 2004 Some Ideas On Registration Of Surveyors From The System In South Africa 384 2004 J. P. O. Obiero And Fuchaka Waswa. 2004. Dryland Farming Technologies. Book Chapter Under Review. 385 2004 INTEGRATING SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT AND ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING SYSTEMS: A SURVEY OF SUPERMARKETS IN NAIROBI 386 2004 Major Heretofore Intractable Biotic Constraints To African Food Security That May Be Amenable To Novel Biotechnological Solutions 387 2004 Perception Of Infertility In Two Communities In Kenya. Sekadde-Kigondu C, Kimani VN, Kirumbi LW, Ruminjo JK, Olenja J. Gynecol Obstet Invest. 2004;57(1):58-9. NTRODUCTION: Family Health International developed a simple checklist to help family planning providers apply the new medical eligibility criteria (MEC) of the World Health Organization (WHO) for the use of the intrauterine device (IUD) contraceptive method. METHODS: One hundred thirty-five providers in four countries participated in focus groups to field test the checklist. Before participating in a discussion about the checklist, each provider was given a copy of the checklist, its instructions and hypothetical client scenarios. Providers used the checklist to answer questions about the client scenarios in order to determine if they understood the checklist and if they would correctly determine IUD eligibility for women in updated categories of eligibility on the basis of the checklist. RESULTS: Providers found the checklist easy to use and thought that it would enhance identification of eligible IUD users. Nevertheless, many providers relied on prior knowledge of IUD eligibility rather than the checklist recommendations. Providers only correctly determined eligibility for new categories of IUD use 69% of the time. CONCLUSIONS: The IUD checklist is a useful job tool for providers, but training and effective dissemination of the WHO MEC should precede its introduction to ensure that it is correctly used. 388 2004 Prevalence And Economic Importance Of Fascioliasis In Cattle, Sheep And Goats In Kenya A 10-year (1990-1999) retrospective study using post mortem records was carried out at veterinary Department Headquarters Kabete to determine the prevalence and economic importance of fasciolosis in cattle, sheep and goats in Kenya. Records from abattoirs from 38 districts in 7 provinces of Kenya were examined. Fasciolosis prevalence was calculated using an average weight of (3kg) for cattle and (0.5kg) for sheep and goats. The monetary loss occasioned by condemnation of Fasciola infected livers was calculated using and a market price of US$ 2.0 per Kg. Out of 5,421,188 cattle, 1,700,281 sheep and 2,062,828 goats slaughtered, 427,931 cattle (8%), 61,955 sheep (3.6%) and 48,889 goats (2.4%) were infected with Fasciola. The highest prevalence was recorded in Western province (16% for cattle, 10% for sheep and 9% for goats). The lowest was in Coast province (3.5% cattle, 0.74% sheep and 0.5% goats). The economic loss due to condemnation of infected livers from cattle, sheep and goats was estimated to be US$ 2.6 million, US$ 61,955 and US$ 48,889 respectively. It was concluded that fasciolosis is prevalent in cattle, sheep and goats in Kenya and is a major cause of economic loss, as a result of condemnation of infected livers. 389 2004 Relative Occurrence Of Fasciola Species In Cattle, Sheep And Goats Slaughtered In Dagoretti Slaughterhouse In Kenya 390 2004 Molecular Characterization Of Streptomycin Resistance In Escherichia Coli Isolates From Food Animals In Kenya 391 2004 Cardiovascular Risk Factor Profile Of Black Africans Undergoing Coronary Angiography. Kamotho C,Ogola E N,Joshi M D,Gikonyo D { BACKGROUND: Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a growing epidemic on the African continent. It remains uncertain whether the risk factors identified as contributing to CAD in white populations contribute to a similar extent to CAD incidence in black populations. No data of the local population exists that is based on the coronary angiogram (CA). OBJECTIVES: To analyse the relationship of conventional cardiovascular risk factors with presence of CAD in black Africans. DESIGN: This was a dual-armed study, consisting of retrospective and prospective comparative arms. SUBJECTS: Black Africans who underwent coronary angiography. SETTING: Nairobi Hospital, Cathereterization laboratory. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The conventional risk factors: age, male gender, hypertension, obesity, smoking, diabetes mellitus, dyslipidaemia, alcohol use and interventricular septum (IVS) hypertrophy, as a marker of LVH. RESULTS: One hundred and sixty nine patients fulfilled the inclusion criteria; 144 in the retrospective arm and 25 in the prospective. The larger retrospective arm showed that the group with CAD, compared to the normal group, was significantly older, with a higher mean age of 54.4 years compared to 49.8 years (P=0.005); had significantly more males, with a male to female ratio of 5.5:1 compared to 2.3:1 (P=0.045); had a very significantly larger proportion of diabetics (38.5% compared to 12% 392 2004 Coronary Artery Disease And Symptoms Of Depression In Kenyan Population. Njenga FG, Kamotho CG, Joshi M.D, Gikonyo DK, Wanyoike M. BACKGROUND: Depression and heart disease are replacing the traditional enemies of Africa such as infectious diseases and malnutrition as the increasing causes of disability and premature death. Little is known about the co-morbidity of heart disease and depression in Africa. OBJECTIVE: To describe the prevalence of depression in Black Africans with and without Coronary Artery Disease as documented on coronary angiography at the Nairobi Hospital. DESIGN: Prospective comparative study. SETTING: A private not for Profit 210 bed hospital, catering for fee paying middles class clintele. RESULTS: Of the eighteen patients with an abnormal angiogram, the highest score on the BDI was 9 while the average was 2.11. Of the seven with normal angiograms, the highest BDI was 5, and the average was 1.71. There was no statistical significance in these differences. CONCLUSION: While African scientists must continue to concentrate on the urgent medical priorities of today (AIDS, malaria, measles, etc), cognisance has to be made of the other emerging epidemic, of the co-morbidity of coronary artery disease and depression. That no significant difference in depression score between the two groups was found could be due to a number of reasons including the small sample size achieved in this first study of its kind in Kenya. 393 2004 J.K. Wabacha, C.M. Mulei, M.N. Kyule, K. H. Zessin, P.M.F. Mbithi, W.K. Munyua And J.M. Maribei (2004). Helminthosis In Smallholder Pig Herds In Kikuyu Division, Kiambu District, Kenya. Kenya Veterinarian 26:29-34. A study was conducted in sixty-two randomly selected herds in Kikuyu division, Kiambu District in Central Kenyan Highlands to obtain prevalence, spectrum and intensity of gastrointestinal helminths in pigs kept by smallholder farmers. Faecal samples from a total of 598 pigs of various age-group categories (piglets, weaners, growers and adults) were taken during a period of a 4 months in 1999 ad examined for helminthes eggs (EPG) using modified McMaster technique. Gastrintestinal helminth eggs wewre observed in 57 (91.9%) of the herds. The Helminths observed were Strongles (35.1%). Ascarids (10%), Trichuris (4), Strongloids (3.2%) and Tapeworms (0.3%). The overall prevalence of the helminaths was 43.5%. the prevalence among the various age groups differed significantly (p<0.01) with the highest prevalence in the weaners (55.6%) and the lowest in the piglets (22.9%). The prevalence of Strongles and Strongloids differed significantly (p<0.01) among the age groups. The highest prevalence for Strongyles was in the growers (41.7%) and the lowest in the piglets (22.9%) while the highest prevalence for lowest in the adults (0.8%). The prevalence of Ascarids differed significantly (p<0.01) among the age groups with the highest prevalence in weaners (27.8%) and the lowest in the piglets (3.6%). The prevalence of Trichuris worms was significantly (p<0.5) higher in the weaners than in the piglets. The high prevalence of the Gatrointestinal helmnths observed indicates the need to control these parasites due to their detrimental effects on productivity and also due to their public health significance. 394 2004 J.K. Wabacha, J.M. Maribei, C.M. Mulei, M.N. Kyule, K.H. Zessin, W. Oluoch-Kosura (2004). Characterisation Of Smallholder Pig Production In Kikuyu Division, Central Kenya. Prev. Vet. Med. 63: 183-195. A longitudinal study was carried out in Kikuyu Division (a peri-urban area in central Kenyan highlands) between January 1999 and December 1999 to estimate the baseline parameters on reproductive performance of the sow, as well as health and productivity of grower and preweaning pigs of smallholder herds. Data were collected on 155 breeding pigs, 795 grower pigs and 801 preweaning piglets in 74, 50 and 40 smallholder herds, respectively, using record cards that were updated during monthly visits. The sow-level medians were: weaning-to-service interval 3 months; interfarrowing interval 6.4 months; number of live-born piglets 9.0; and number of piglets weaned per litter 7.5. The piglet crude morbidity incidence risk was 29%. The cause-specific incidence risks for the important health problems encountered in preweaned piglets were diarrhea (4.3%), pruritus (17.1%), and skin necrosis (4.2%). The estimated crude mortality incidence risk to 8 weeks of age was 18.7%. The cause-specific mortality incidence risks to 8 weeks of age for the important causes of mortality were overlying (9.9%), savaging (2.4%), unviable piglets (2.0%) and unknown (1.9%). Overall, 78.8% of the total live-born piglet mortality occurred during the first week postpartum with 69% of these deaths being caused by overlying. The grower-pig crude morbidity incidence risk was 20% and the cause-specific incidence risks of the important health problems encountered were gut edema (1.3%), pruritus (21.1%), and unknown (2.3%). The crude mortality incidence risk was 3.8% and the important causes were gut edema and unknown causes (cause-specific mortality incidence risks of 1.3 and 1.6%, respectively). The median weight:age ratio and average daily weight gain for the grower pigs were 5.1 kg/month of age and 0.13 kg/day, respectively. For preweaning pigs, the median average daily weight gain was 0.13 g/day. 395 2004 J.K. Wabacha, J.M. Maribei, C.M. Mulei, M.N. Kyule, K.H. Zessin, W. Oluoch-Kosura (2004). Health And Production Measures For Smallholder Pig Production In Kikuyu Division, Central Kenya. Prev. Vet. Med. 63: 197-210. 396 2004 J.K. Wabacha, J.M. Maribei, C.M. Mulei, M.N. Kyule, K.H. Zessin, W. Oluoch-Kosura. Evaluation Of Relative Cost-effectiveness Of Alternative Health Interventions Against Sarcoptic Mange And Gastro-intestinal Helminthosis On Smallholder Pig Herds In Kikuyu 397 2004 E.G.M. Mogoa, J.K. Wabacha, P.M.F. Mbithi, S.G. Kiama. An Overview Of Animal Welfare Issues In Kenya. 398 2004 M.J. Njenga, J.K. Wabacha, T.O. Abuom, S.M. Ndurumo, P.N. Gitonga, G. Kirui. Ambulatory Clinical Exposure Of Final Year Veterinary Students 2003/2004. 399 2004 A.G. Thaiya, S.M. Ndurumo, J.K. Wabacha. Suspected Nitrate/Nitrite Poisoning In Stall-fed Dairy Cattle Resulting From Consumption Of Amaranthus Plants. 400 2004 J.M.A. Kitaa, C. Mulei, J.D. Mande, J.K. Wabacha. Clinical And Laboratory Diagnosis Of Ehrlichial Infections In Dogs: A Review. 401 2004 T.O. Abuom, J.K. Wabacha, D.N. Karanja. Disseminated Intravascular Coagulopathy Secondary To Klebsiella Mastitis In A Bovine. 402 2004 Ambulatory Clinical Exposure Of Final Year Veterinary Students 2003/2004. 403 2004 Community Governance In Animal Health Service Delivery For Social Economic Empowerment: Policy Alternative On Animal Health Service Delivery In Turkana And West Pokot Districts Of Kenya. 404 2004 Germano Mwabu, Joseph Wang'ombe And Tania Zaman, Introduction, To Improving Health Policy In Africa, Ed. Germano Mwabu, Joseph Wang OBJECTIVE: To assess the relationship between maternal factors and child nutritional status among children aged 6-36 months. DESIGN: Cross sectional descriptive survey. SETTING: Urban slum settlement in Nairobi, Kenya. SUBJECTS: This study included a random sample of 369 households of mothers with children aged 6-36 months at the time of the study. RESULTS: Maternal factors which showed a positive significant association with at least one of the three child nutritional status indicators (height for age, weight for age and weight for height) were birth spacing, parity, maternal education level and mothers marital status. Child spacing and parity emerged as the most important predictors of stunting among study children. Maternal nutritional status was also shown to be positively associated with child nutritional status. Maternal ill health had a negative effect on child nutritional status. CONCLUSION: Maternal factors are an underlying cause of childhood malnutrition. 405 2004 Germano Mwabu, Joseph Wang'ombe And Tania Zaman, Linking Research To Health Policy, In Improving Health Policy In Africa, Ed. Germano Mwabu, Joseph Wang 406 2004 Germano Mwabu, Joseph Wang'ombe, Benjamin Nganda, The Demand For Medical Care In Kenya: An Application Of Quantile Regression, In Improving Health Policy InAfrica, Ed. Germano Mwabu, Joseph Wang 407 2004 Rachel Gesami, Germano Mwabu, Joseph Wang'ombe And Aloys Ayako, The Effects Of Cost-Sharing On Health Services Utilization In Kenya: Evidence From Panel Data, In Improving Health Policy In Africa, Ed. Germano Mwabu, Joseph Wang 408 2004 Germano Mwabu, Joseph Wang'ombe, Bejamin Nganda And Octavian Gakuru, Financing Medical Care Through Insurance: Results From A Facility And Household Survey In Kenya, In Improving Health Policy In Africa, Ed. Germano Mwabu, Joseph Wang 409 2004 Joseph Wang 410 2004 Development Of A Tuneable Diode Laser Absorption Spectrometer For NO2 Measurements 411 2004 Malaria In Pregnancy: Changing Service Providers Practices For Better Outcomes(Submitted To The American Journal Of Tropical Medicine And Hygiene). The book is a biography of the author. He begins with fundamenbtal question whether we can determine our destiny or we are just fulfiling what has already been ordained. He then explains how he has grown over the yeas experiencing changes. 412 2004 Improving Women\ 413 2004 Karani, Anna. Sustaining Nursing Leadership In The 21st Century And Beyond. Kenya Nursing Journal, Vol.32 No.1, June, 2004. { Abuse of substances of dependence have risen dramatically and spawned major health problems in Kenya. We conducted a study on the effects of post-basic psychiatric training on nurses 414 2004 Karani, Anna.First Aid Awareness Among Paediatric Accident Victims At Kenyatta National Hospital. Kenya Nursing Journal, Vol.32 No.1, June, 2004. 415 2004 Maina, Philomena, Karani, Anna, Et Al.Problems Encountered By Middle Level Nurse Managers In Ensuring Quality Nursing Care In Kenyatta National Hospital. Kenya Nursing Journal, Vol. 32 No.2, December, 2004. 416 2004 Kibui Lawrence; Karani, Anna, Et Al.Needs Assessment On Training Of Mental Health Nurses In Counselling At Mathari Hospital, Nairobi. Kenya Nursing Journal, Vol. 32 No.2, December, 2004. 417 2004 Kipturgo Matthew And Karani, Anna. One Level Nurse Movement In Kenya. Kenya Nursing Journal, Vol. 32No.2. December, 2004 418 2004 Kangethe, Simon; Karani, Anna And Wambua, Kyalo Planning & Implementation Of Innovative Medical Education. Amazing, No 019, December, 2004. 419 2004 Kibui Lawrence; Karani, Anna, Et Al Needs Assessment On Training Of Mental Health Nurses In Counselling At Mathari Hospital, Nairobi. Kenya Nursing Journal, Vol. 32 No.2, December, 2004. 420 2004 Maina, Philomena, Karani, Anna, Et Al Problems Encountered By Middle Level Nurse Managers In Ensuring Quality Nursing Care In Kenyatta National Hospital. Kenya Nursing Journal, Vol. 32 No.2, December, 2004. 421 2004 Karani, Anna Sustaining Nursing Leadership In The 21st Century And Beyond. Kenya Nursing Journal, Vol.32 No.1, June, 2004. 422 2004 Global Knowledge And The Information Society: Illusion Or Reality For Developing Countries? OBJECTIVE: To study infections complicating ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt surgery in children with non-tumour hydrocephalus at the Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi. DESIGN: A retrospective survey. SETTING: Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi between January 1982 and December 1991. SUBJECTS: Three hundred and forty five patients who underwent V-P shunt placement for non-tumour hydrocephalus. RESULTS: Three hundred and forty five patients underwent V-P shunt placement for non-tumour hydrocephalus. There were 107 infection episodes involving 85 patients. The ages of these patients ranged from three months to 12 years. Most of the patients had congenital hydrocephalus. The infection rate was high (24.6%) although comparable to infection rates reported for clean surgery in the hospital. Fever, septic wounds and features of shunt malfunction were the main presenting features. Bacteriological studies confirmed Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase negative staphylococci as the two most commonly isolated micro-organisms. CONCLUSION: This study emphasises need to reduce infection rate in ventriculoperitoneal shunt surgery at the Kenyatta National Hospital. Definitive surgical treatment for hydrocephalus was in most cases delayed and this problem was also observed during revision of infected shunts. Late presentation was often due to ignorance and the fact that many patients went for traditional forms of treatment first before going to hospital. 423 2004 An Integrated Regional ICT Policy For The East Africa Community (EAC): Impact On A Possible Information Revolution. 424 2004 A Novel Framework For E-Commerce Diffusion And Adoption And Supporting Digital Documentation Options 425 2004 A Conceptual Framework For Sustainable E-government Lead Researcher: IUCEA Co-ordinated Project Funded By UNECA: VarsityNet 2003-2004 426 2004 Health Informatics: Implications Of Evaluation Models For Developing Countries. Importance Of Mathematical Modelling Of Biological & Biomedical Processes. Eds. Livingston L.S., Mugisha J.Y.T. & Kasozi J. 428 2004 FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ON PRIVATE SECTOR INVESTMENT IN URBAN PUBLIC TRANSPORT SERVICES IN EASTERN AFRICA. Kenya National Chamber Of Commerce And Industry (KNCCI), Regional Workshop, Nairobi, 1 429 2004 Njenga, J. M. And Tsuma, V. T. (2004). Sudden Death Following Rupture Of The Middle Uterine Artery, In A Bovine Dystocia. Kenya Veterinarian 26: 27-28. 430 2004 Survey Of Management Accounting Practices In Kenya, The human body louse, Pediculus humanus, showed eighteen midgut proteins ranging between 12 and 117 kDa, when analysed by SDS-PAGE electrophoresis. Seven of them (12 kDa, 17 kDa, 29 kDa, 35 kDa, 40 kDa, 55 kDa and 97 kDa) were major bands based on their intensity of staining. The immunization of rabbits with a midgut extract elicited the production of protective polyclonal antibodies. These antibodies reacted strongly with all major midgut proteins as well as with 63 kDa and 117 kDa proteins when tested by the Western blot technique. The analysis of the proteins revealed that the 12 kDa, 25 kDa, 29 kDa, 35 kDa, 45 kDa, 87 kDa and 97 kDa proteins are glycosylated and none of them contained a lipid moiety. By electroelution, the proteins of 35 kDa and 63 kDa were purified. On trypsinization, the proteins of 35 kDa and 63 kDa produced four major fragments (F1, F2, F3, and F4) when resolved on a 18% SDS-PAGE. The F1 fragment of the 35 kDa protein reacted with the polyclonal antibodies by the immunoblot technique. 431 2004 Human Sexuality: Meaning And Purpose In Selected Communities In Contemporary Kenya. OBJECTIVE: To explore the knowledge, attitudes and practices of dairy and non-dairy farming households in Dagoretti in regard to the risk posed by bovine brucellosis and determine the prevalence of the disease in urban dairy cattle. DESIGN: A cross sectional study. SETTING: Urban and Peri-urban dairy farming and non dairy farming households in Dagoretti division, Nairobi. SUBJECTS: Two hundred ninety nine dairy farming and 149 non dairy farming households. INTERVENTION: Segregated focus group discussions, administration of a household questionnaire and collection of unboiled milk from dairy and non dairy farming households were the instruments used to gather data on the practices, attitudes, perceptions and prevalence of bovine brucellosis. RESULTS: Three hundred and ninety three milk samples were collected and analysed for the presence of antibodies to Brucella abortus in an indirect ELISA. The apparent prevalence of bovine brucellosis from milk was estimated at 1% for the samples collected while in dairy farming households the prevalence was 1.1% [0.2, 3.4%] and 0.7% [0.4%] in non dairy farming households.. Thirty percent (90/296) of dairy respondents and 22% (32/147) of non-dairy respondents knew of the existence of brucellosis. Risk of contracting brucellosis was very low considering that milk is boiled together with other ingredients used in making tea and porridge. However, 31% (93/296) and 22% (31/143) of dairy and non dairy farming households respectively made traditionally fermented milk without first boiling the milk. This practice may predispose this group to brucellosis. CONCLUSION: The low prevalence of bovine brucellosis requires constant surveillance in case the prevalence rates do change. Education of dairy farming households who are more at risk of contracting brucellosis on the transmission pathways and risk factors is required in order to lower further the prevalence of bovine brucellosis in Dagoretti. 432 2004 KIMANI V.N 2004: Human Sexuality: Meaning And Purpose In Selected Communities In Contemporary Kenya. The Ecumenical Review. (WCC): 4; Pp. 404-421, 2004. 433 2004 Kimani V.N 2004: Ngecha Today: Chapter 9 Of The Book: NGECHA: A Kenyan Village In A Time Of Social Change; Edited By Carolyn Pope Edwards & Beatrice Blyth Whiting, University Of Nebraska Press And London. Pp. 245-264, 2004. 434 2004 Mutero CM, Kabutha C, Kimani V, Kabuage L, Gitau G, Ssennyonga J, Githure J, Muthami L, Kaida A, Musyoka L, Kiarie E, Oganda M. A Trandisciplinary Perspective On The Links Between Malaria And Agro-ecosystems In Kenya, ELSEVIER, ACTA TROPICA; 89 Pp. 171-18 An ecosystem approach was applied to study the links between malaria and agriculture in Mwea Division, Kenya. The study was organized into five phases. Phase I had two components including a stakeholder workshop conducted with community representatives and other key stakeholders, and the collation of data on common diseases from outpatient service records at the local hospital. Phase I aimed at an a priori needs-assessment in order to focus the research agenda. Workshop participants directly contributed to the selection of two villages with rice irrigation and two non-irrigated villages for detailed health studies. In Phase II, various Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) tools were used to gather more detailed qualitative information from the study villages. The qualitative results indicated that Mwea residents considered malaria and lack of clean drinking water to be their most important health problems, and this was corroborated by local hospital records. Phase III consisted of a comprehensive household survey developed with inputs from Phases I and II. Phase IV involved a comparative evaluation of entomological and parasitological aspects of malaria in the villages with and without rice irrigation. The malaria parasitological survey found an average Plasmodium falciparum parasite rate of 23.5% among children up to 9 years of age. Results of the entomological evaluation showed a 30-300-fold increase in the number of the local malaria vector, Anopheles arabiensis, in villages with rice irrigation compared to those without irrigation yet malaria prevalence was significantly lower in these villages (0-9% versus 17-54%). The most likely explanation of this 'paddies paradox' in Mwea appeared to be the tendency for A. arabiensis in irrigated villages to feed overwhelmingly on cattle. The results suggested that zooprophylaxis was potentially a practical option for long-term malaria control in the rice irrigated areas, in spite of the large number of A. arabiensis. Phase V consisted of end-of-project workshops for the dissemination of research results and participatory decision-making regarding follow-up actions. Owing to the utilization of a transdisciplinary and participatory approach to research, it was possible to identify opportunities for maintaining zooprophylaxis for malaria in Mwea, through the integration of agroecosystem practices aimed at sustaining livestock systems within a broader strategy for rural development. 435 2004 A Transdisciplinary Perspective On The Links Between Malaria And Agroecosystems In Kenya. Mutero CM, Kabutha C, Kimani V, Kabuage L, Gitau G, Ssennyonga J, Githure J, Muthami L, Kaida A, Musyoka L, Kiarie E, Oganda M. Acta Trop. 2004 Jan;89(2):171-86. 436 2004 Perception Of Infertility In Two Communities In Kenya. Sekadde-Kigondu C, Kimani VN, Kirumbi LW, Ruminjo JK, Olenja J. Gynecol Obstet Invest. 2004;57(1):58-9 437 2004 Studies Of Degradation Of 2,4-D And Metribuzin In Soil Under Controlled Conditions The paper shows that in the analysis of a queuing system with fixed-size batch arrivals, there emerges a set of polynomials which are a generalization of Chebyshev polynomialsof the second kind. The paper uses these polynomials in assessing the transient behaviour of the overflow (equivalently call blocking) probability in the system. A key figure to noteis the proportion of the overflow (or blocking) probability resident in the transient component,which is shown in the results to be more significant at the beginning of the transient and naturally decays to zero in the limit of large t. The results also show that the significanceof transients is more pronounced in cases of lighter loads, but lasts longer for heavier loads. 438 2004 Mineralization Versus Degradation Of 2,4-D In Tropical Soil 439 2004 Mwongozo Wa Kitumbua Kimeingia Mchanga. A Study Guide On S. A. Mohamed's Play, Kitumbua Kimeingia Mchanga. 440 2004 Kamusi Ya Tashbihi, Vitendawili, Milio Na Mishangao 441 2004 Mayai Waziri Wa Maradhi Na Hadithi Nyingine 442 2004 Musaleo! 443 2004 Computer-Based Medical Diagnostic Decision Assistant Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 / Style Definitions / table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} 444 2004 A Model For Introducing And Implementing E-learning For Delivery Of Educational Content Within The African Context, Elijah I. Omwenga, Timothy M. Waema, Peter W. Wagacha, African Network Of Scientific And Technological Institutions (ANSTI/UNESCO) 2004 445 2004 Computer-based Medical Diagnostic Decision Assistant, Chepken K. Christopher, Elisha Opiyo, Peter Waiganjo Wagacha 449 2004 A Model For Introducing And Implementing E-learning For Delivery Of Educational Content Within The African Context In Africa, where we have enormous and varied challenges in accessing higher education, there is need for relevant and customized content that is specific to our needs and challenges. Most of the models that exist to address these challenges have their limitations in terms of flexibility, time and space constraints and hence the need to address the mitigating factors. A blend of different types of information and communication technologies can be used in innovative ways in order to resolve some of these limitations. 450 2004 Research Assistant To Dr. Ezeala Fidelis-Harrison On A Research Project, 451 2004 Reviewer For Decision Sciences Institute Conference Papers. 452 2004 Conference On Regional Security Issues In The Age Of Globalisation 453 2004 Studies On Biodegradation Of 2,4-D And Metribuzin In Soil Under Controlled Conditions The world is today faced with the global pandemic of HIV/AIDS that has evolved rapidly since it was first described. The pandemic has been termed the greatest development challenge for sub Saharan Africa and is rapidly evolving in the Asian continent. The pandemic ha had a significantly negative impact on individual families through loss of loved ones, communities by increasing the burden of caring for the ill, and countries through reduced productivity. As we look forward to the 21st century, the human population is reminded that even in an age where drugs to treat most ailments are available, human behaviour and individual aspirations are critical in the control of disease. Factors that affect human and social behaviour, such as poverty, discrimination and disenfranchisement have to be addressed on a global basis if the HIV/AIDS epidemic is to be controlled. The HIV/AIDS epidemic presents special challenges and new frontiers for public health interventions and research. HIV/AIDS has revealed the gaps in the understanding of how human behaviour is motivated and how it can be changed. In this publication we present a review of some of the programs that are specifically targeting the youth with HIV/AIDS prevention activities in the countries of This publication records the stories of men and women in Eastern Africa, who have tremendous commitment to the work they do even with minimal resources, because they have a vision for the youth of the African continent. It is a story of innovation, creativity, determination and partnership between adults and youth, communities and governments, countries, aid agencies and NGOSs. 454 2004 Determination Of Organochlorine Pesticide Residues In Soil And Water From River Nyando Drainage System Within Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya 455 2004 Chemodynamics Of Pure And Formulated Endosulfan In Tilapia Species Under Laboratory Conditions 456 2004 G. Owour, S. Mukoya-Wangia, P. Mishenga . S.O. Onyuma, P.M. Mshenga, And Paul Gamba.2004 .: A Social Capital For Agricultural Productivity, The Casde Of Small Holder Maize Farmers In Siaya, Kenya.Accepted For Publication In Egerton Journal (2004) Understanding how individuals with a high degree of HIV exposure avoid persistent infection is paramount to HIV vaccine design. Evidence suggests that mucosal immunity, particularly virus-specific CTL, could be critically important in protection against sexually acquired HIV infection. Therefore, we have looked for the presence of HIV-specific CD8+ T cells in cervical mononuclear cells from a subgroup of highly HIV-exposed but persistently seronegative female sex workers in Nairobi. An enzyme-linked immunospot assay was used to measure IFN-gamma release in response to known class I HLA-restricted CTL epitope peptides using effector cells from the blood and cervix of HIV-1-resistant and -infected sex workers and from lower-risk uninfected controls. Eleven of 16 resistant sex workers had HIV-specific CD8+ T cells in the cervix, and a similar number had detectable responses in blood. Where both blood and cervical responses were detected in the same individual, the specificity of the responses was similar. Neither cervical nor blood responses were detected in lower-risk control donors. HIV-specific CD8+ T cell frequencies in the cervix of HIV-resistant sex workers were slightly higher than in blood, while in HIV-infected donor cervical response frequencies were markedly lower than blood, so that there was relative enrichment of cervical responses in HIV-resistant compared with HIV-infected donors. HIV-specific CD8+ T cell responses in the absence of detectable HIV infection in the genital mucosa of HIV-1-resistant sex workers may be playing an important part in protective immunity against heterosexual HIV-1 transmission. 457 2004 Self-Help Groups, A Social Capital For Agricultural Productivity 458 2004 Self-Help Groups, A Social Capita;l For Agricutural Productivity: He Case Of Smallholder Maize Farmers In Ukwala Division, Siaya District, Kenya 459 2004 Combining Stated And Revealed Preference Methods: A Dairy Adoption Case Study Of Western Kenya The study was carried out in seven districts in western Kenya to determine factors influencing the adoption of dairy technologies. This paper looks at the complementarity in the analysis derived from the revealed preference (RP), and stated preference (SP) methods in the determination of these factors. The binary choice probit model was used for the RP method, while the ordered probit model (OPM) was used for conjoint analysis, an SP method. The SP methods are based on hypothetical choice behaviour and were used to place a value to each of the cow attributes (milk yield, disease resistance, feed requirement and price). Unlike the SP methods that have been criticized because actual choice is not observed, the RP methods, common in most adoption studies, are based on actual choices, hence the complementarity. The PPE, ethnicity, cultural values, education, income and extension influenced adoption. In some households, other reasons other than the economic reasons of rearing dairy influenced adoption, thus unfolding a unique adoption process. The willingness to pay (WTP) showed that externalities in the form of lack of information, ethnicity and farmer priorities reduced efficiency in resource use for dairy. The SP method is good at targeting interventions by explaining the households’ observed behaviour, thus it gives feedback signals on efficiency of resource use and apportions the stakeholders’ effort in dairy adoption. The interventions are addressed in the perspective of the resources available. 460 2004 Methods Of Quality Control. 461 2004 Equipment For Small-scale Milk Plants. 462 2004 Studies On The Microflora In Suusac, A Kenyan Traditional Fermented Camel Milk Product The purpose of the study was to determine the lactic acid bacteria (LAB)and yeasts associated with the traditional fermented camel milk product (suusac) of the Somali community in Kenya. The traditional method of suusac production was studied by use of questionnaire and documented. The microbial content profile and changes during fermentation were then determined. From 15 samples of traditionally fermented suusac, 45 LABand 30 yeast strains were isolated ~d identified using API 50 CHL and API 20C AUXidentification systems, respectively. The total viable microorganisms, LAB,coliforms, and yeasts and molds were enumerated. The isolates were investigated for their functional roles in the fermentation process, namely, acidification, flavour/aroma production and proteolytic activity. Fermentation trials with single and mixed strain cultures were investigated to assess their acidification and flavour-producing properties. The traditional production of suusac involves spontaneous fermentation of camel milk in smoked gourds at ambient temperature for 1-2 days. The milk is not subjected to heat treatment prior to fermentation. The isolated LAB species were identified as Lactobacillus curvatus (8% of total isolates), Lactobacillus plantarum (16%), Lactobacillus soliuarius (8%), Lactococcus raffinolactis (4%) and Leuconostoc mesenteroides subsp. mesenteroides (24%). The isolated yeasts were Candida krusei (20%), Geotrichum penicillatum (12%) and Rhodotorula mucilaginosa (8%). In traditional suusac, LAB counts averaged 6.77 logrocfu Zml, while yeast counts were relatively lower (2.05 log.ocfuZml]. Low coliform numbers were encountered « 1 log cfu /rnl]. The LAB produced considerable acidity and majority (60%) were homofermentative. The primary functional role of the LAB was fermentation of lactose to lactic acid, resulting in acidity levels ranging from 0.46-0.67% lactic acid equivalent. All the LAB isolates recorded high proteolytic activity, except for L. raffinolactis, which did not exhibit any proteolytic activity. The LAB showed varying degrees of diacetyl production. Of the LAB, L. curvatus recorded the highest diacetyl flavour score, corresponding to >30 mg diacetyl/ 100 ml of milk. The yeast isolates showed limited carbohydrate-assimilating capabilities, but played a role in flavour development and proteolysis. G. penicillatum produced diacetyl (3.1-10 mg/lOO ml), although it did not exhibit any proteolytic activity. C. krusei exhibited some proteolytic activity, although its diacetyl-producing capacity in camel milk was minimal (0.5-3 mg/ 100 ml). C. krusei also played a role in mixed starter fermentation of camel milk by increasing the activity of the LAB cultures and improving product flavour. The use of C. krusei + 1. plantarum (1: 1) and C. krusei + L. curvatus (1: 1) reduced the fermentation time by half as compared to the use of the cultures individually. 463 2004 Food Hygiene & Safety And HACCP In Practice Training For Four Kenyan Fresh Produce Exporter 464 2004 Wanyande, Peter, 2004. NEPAD And Security In The IGAD Region. Security In The Age Of Globalization. 465 2004 Wanyande, Peter, 2004. Challenging The Political Order: The Politics Of Presidential Succession In Kenya. In Bahemuka And Brockington (edited) East Africa In Transition, Images, Identities And Institutions. This paper analyses the politics of presidential succession that occupied the time resources and energy of the political class since the opening up of the political space in the late 1980s and earlyb1990s. The paper has three major arguments. First it argues that the changes that were sought constituted a major challenge to the established political order as it sought to dislodge those in power and to make the government responsive to the citizens. This was being done in a context in which political leaders consider it illegal to challenge those in authority. Secondly the paper argues that those challenging the political order by seeking the presidency faced an uphill task precisely because they were up against a well-established political machine in the name of the Kenya Africa National Union (KANU). Finally the paper argues that the politics surrounding presidential succession gravitated around two major interests, namely ethnic and class interests. 466 2004 Wanyande, Peter, 2004. Decentralization And Local Goverance: A Conceptual And Theoretical Discourse. This article is a contribution to the debate on the concepts of decentralization and local governance. It discusses some of the major theoretical and conceptual issues that may impact on the practice of decentralization and local governance in Africa. The discussion begins with a conceptualisation of decentralization and local governance and the linkage s between the two, by critically examining some of the assumed linkages between the tow concepts. In particular the article questions the assumption that decentralization will necessarily lead to good governance at the local level This is followed by a discussion of some of the factors that account for the weak support that governments in Sub-Saharan Africa give to decentralization and local governance. In this regard the article identifies some of the challenges to decentralization and local governance that have to be addressed in order to make the process more efficient. The bulk if the discussion takes a more theoretical perspective. 467 2004 Decentralisation And Local Governance: A Conceptual And Theoretical Discourse. Regional Development Dialogue 468 2004 Wanyoike J G. A Case Of Reproductive Technology In Africa: Wanyoike J G. Journal Of Obstetrics And Gynaecology Of Eastern And Central Africa. Volume 17 No 1:1-80 February 2004 OBJECTIVE: To determine the incidence of post-caesarean wound infection. DESIGN: Prospective descriptive study. SETTING: Maternity unit of Kiambu District Hospital in Central Province of Kenya. SUBJECTS: All women undergoing caesarean delivery during the study period. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Overall incidence of post-caesarean wound infection, relationship between incidence and socio-demographic characteristics, pre-operative labour events, intrapartum events as well as HIV status. RESULTS: The caesarean delivery rate was 7.8%. The overall post-caesarean wound infection rate was 19%. The incidence was 32% among single women as compared to 16% among married women, but this difference is not statistically significant. Among the 35% of women who laboured for more than 12 hours, the incidence of wound infection was 33% compared to 15% among those who laboured for 12 hours or less (p < 0.01). Rupture of membranes (ROM) for more than 12 hours was associated with high incidence of wound infection than among women in whom ROM was 12 hours or less (38% and 14% respectively, p < 0.001). Also duration of operation exceeding 60 minutes was associated with much higher incidence of wound infection (71%) compared to when the operation lasted 60 minutes or less (16%, p < 0.001). The incidence of post-caesarean wound infection does not appear to be significantly affected by HIV status or whether caesarean delivery was emergency or elective. CONCLUSION: The overall post-caesarean wound infection rate is quite high. Prolonged pre-operative duration of labour, prolonged ROM and long duration of operation are associated with significantly higher incidence of wound infection. This should be seen against a background of a relatively low caesarean delivery rate and high incidence of prolonged labour. Strict labour management policies need to be inculcated in labour wards in District Hospitals in order to ensure timely caesarean delivery interventions, and hence, reduce post-caesarean wound infection rates. 469 2004 Kioko, W. M., 'The Gender Question In Kenya's Judicial Reforms: The Challenge Of Access To Justice For All' In Sihanya, B., (Ed.) Judiciary Watch Report; Analysis Of Judicial Reforms In Kenya 1988-2003 (Nairobi: International Commission Of Jurists 470 2004 2004 "IS CKRC ACT ULTRA VIRES THE CONSTITUTION?", 471 2004 2004 "THE KENYAN JUDICIARY AND THE LINK WITH THE AFRICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN AND PEOPLE'S RIGHTS, AFRICAN UNION, THE AFRICAN COURT OF JUSTICE AND NEPAD: Integrated Approaches Towards Upholding The Rule Of Law And Promoting Human Rights", In Odhiambo M & K 472 2004 Change Management A Natural Partner Of Information Technology In Power Up With Information Technology, Catherine Getao And Marcel Werner (Eds) Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE / Style Definitions / table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:justify; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} 474 2004 Land Use, Ecology, And Socio-economic Changes In A Pastoral Production System. Journal Of Human Ecology, 16: 83-89. A study was conducted to determine dietary characteristics of sheep and Grant's gazelles on Kapiti Ranch, Kenya. The dietary botanical composition was determined using the microhistological technique. Plant species in the diets were categorized into grass, forb and browse classes. Shannon-Wiener and Morisita's similarity indices were used to express dietary diversity and overlap respectively. Diets were simulated based on microhistology results to give 50 gm samples, then analysed for crude protein, neutral detergent fibre, acid detergent fibre, cellulose, lignin, and in vitro dry matter digestibility. Sheep were predominantly grazers during dry and wet season while Grant's gazelles were mixed feeders, with a higher preference for grasses during the wet season and an equal preference for both grasses and browse during the dry season. Diets of Grant's gazelles were more diverse than those of sheep for both seasons. Degree of dietary overlap between the animal species was highest during the wet season. There were significant differences (P<0.05) in dietary nutrient content between the animal species, within seasons. Dry matter digestibility was significantly higher (P<0.05) for both species during the wet season. Neutral detergent fibre, acid detergent fibre, lignin and cellulose were significantly higher (P<0.05) during the dry season. Sheep diets were significantly higher (P<0.05) in crude protein during the wet season, whereas it was significantly higher (P<0.05) in the diets of Grant's gazelles during the dry season. Study findings indicate that, sheep and Grant's gazelles are compatible for efficient use of vegetation on Athi Kapiti plains. Integration of the two ruminants can make unique and important contribution to food production and income generation opportunities in areas with vegetation composition similar to that of Athi Kapiti plains. 475 2004 Indigenous Knowledge: The Basis Of The Maasai Ethnoveterinary Diagnostic Skills. Journal Of Human Ecology, 16: 43-48. 476 2004 M. Okoti, J. C. Ng This study was conducted in the northern part of Kenya, in Kakuma division, Turkana district. Kakuma is a semi-arid area under nomadic pastoralism as the main activity. The presence of a refugee camp has attracted many people from within the Turkana community and also the outside community. The study aimed at documenting the effects of emergent land use changes on vegetation resources and the socio-economic environment in Kakuma. Data on vegetation density and cover was collected. Socio-economic data was collected from the local Turkana population and the settlement camp. The data was analysed using SPSS computer package and descriptive statistics. There was a significant difference (P<0.05) in vegetation cover and density with increasing distance away from the settlement camp. The mean tree crown cover was low near the settlement camp (6.2%) but high away from the settlement camp (57.7%). Mean tree density was high near the settlement camp (13 individuals/ 100m2). Shrub crown cover was low (0.9%) in the areas that had settlements. The need for fencing and building materials was the main cause of low shrub cover. The density of the shrub species generally increased as one moved away from the settlement camp (17 individuals/ 16m2). Herb species cover and density was high near the settlement camp(68% and 202 individuals/ 1m2 respectively) but this comprised mostly of species unpalatable to livestock like Tribulus terrestris and Portulaca oleraceae. The study revealed that droughts and livestock raids in the previous years had set in motion social and ecological changes. The loss of livestock through raids and droughts encouraged sedenterization. This affected the cultural patterns and has had an effect on the rangeland condition. Lack of mobility concentrated livestock in specific areas, thus depleting the forage resources and creating conditions for soil erosion. Trading activities between the refugees and the Turkana had both positive and negative impact on the economic, social and cultural setup of the local community. The increase in population around Kakuma and the settlement camp has set in motion changes that have affected vegetation and social structures. The immediate social and economic returns from the exploitation of resources have overridden the long-term benefits. In regard to this there is a need for education on the impacts, both short-term and long-term, of the various activities on the vegetation, livestock resources and also the pastoral lifestyle. Key words: Pastoralism, Settlement, Land use, Environmental impact. 477 2004 Simonsen PE, Meyrowitsch DW, Mukoko DA, Pedersen EM, Malecela-Lazaro MN, Rwegoshora RT, Ouma J, Masese N, Jaoko WG & Michael E (2004) The Effect Of Repeated Half-yearly Diethylcarbamazine Mass Treatment On Wuchereria Bancrofti Infection And Transmission I DBL-Institute for Health Research and Development, Jaegersborg Alle 1D, 2920 Charlottenlund, Denmark. pesimonsen@dblnet.dk The effect of eight half-yearly treatment rounds with diethylcarbamazine (DEC; 6mg/kg bodyweight) on Wuchereria bancrofti-specific circulating filarial antigen (CFA), a marker of adult worm infection, was followed in 79 individuals who were CFA-positive before start of treatment. Half of these were also microfilariae (mf)-positive. Microfilaraemia decreased rapidly after onset of treatment and became undetectable after four treatments. Circulating antigenaemia also decreased progressively, but at a much slower rate. After two, four and eight treatment rounds, the mean CFA intensity was reduced by 81, 94 and 98%, and the prevalence of CFA positivity was 85, 66 and 57%, compared with pre-treatment, respectively. CFA clearance rates were negatively related to pre-treatment CFA intensities, and were higher among pre-treatment mf-negative individuals than among pre-treatment mf-positive individuals. Even among patients who had pre-treatment CFA intensities above the upper measuring level (32000antigen units), and who continued to have intensities above this level after treatment, a decrease in post-treatment CFA intensities was obvious from a continuous decrease in ELISA optical density values. Repeated DEC therapy thus appears to have a slow but profound and persistent macrofilaricidal effect, which in the long run may be beneficial to populations undergoing DEC-based control interventions by reducing the probability of future morbidity development. 478 2004 Beattie T, Kaul R, Rostron T, Dong T, Easterbrook P, Jaoko WG, Kimani J, Plummer F, McMichael A & Rowland-Jones S (2004) Screening For HIV-specific T-cell Responses Using Overlapping 15-mer Peptide Pools Or Optimized Epitopes. AIDS, 18:1-4. MRC Human Immunology Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. The IFN-y enzyme-linked immunospot (ELI-Spot) assay is often used to map HIV-specific CD8 T-cell responses. We compared overlapping 15-mer pools with optimized CD8 epitopes to screen ELISpot responses in HIV-infected individuals. The 15-mer pools detected responses to previously undefined epitopes, but often missed low-level responses to predefined epitopes, particularly when the epitope was central in the 15-mer, rather than at the N-terminus or C-terminus. These factors should be considered in the monitoring of HIV vaccine trials. 479 2004 Sabina Wakasiaka, Job Bwayo, Jeckonia Ndinya-Achola, Gloria Omosa, Walter Jaoko, Wambui Waruingi & Hilda Ogutu (2004) Kenya AIDS Vaccine Initiative HIV Vaccine Peer Leaders Training Manual 480 2004 “Women And Constitution Making In Kenya”, FES Publication 481 2004 Stakeholders Seminar On Engendering The Constitution And The Constitutional Review Process: Report Proceedings Held At Silver Springs, 20th March … 482 2004 Macharia, C.W., Kogi-Makau, W. And Muroki, N.M. Dietary Intake And Care Practices Of Children In Kathonzweni Division, Makueni District, Kenya. East African Medical Journal, Vol 81 No. 8: 402-407. (A Comparison Of Beneficiaries Of A World Vision Kenya Pro Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, UK. Previous attempts to determine the interactions between filariasis transmission intensity, infection and chronic disease have been limited by a lack of a theoretical framework that allows the explicit examination of mechanisms that may link these variables at the community level. Here, we show how deterministic mathematical models, in conjunction with analyses of standardized field data from communities with varying parasite transmission intensities, can provide a particularly powerful framework for investigating this topic. These models were based on adult worm population dynamics, worm initiated chronic disease and two major forms of acquired immunity (larval- versus adult-worm generated) explicitly linked to community transmission intensity as measured by the Annual Transmission Potential (ATP). They were then fitted to data from low, moderate and moderately high transmission communities from East Africa to determine the mechanistic relationships between transmission, infection and observed filarial morbidity. The results indicate a profound effect of transmission intensity on patent infection and chronic disease, and on the generation and impact of immunity on these variables. For infection, the analysis indicates that in areas of higher parasite transmission, community-specific microfilarial rates may increase proportionately with transmission intensity until moderated by the generation of herd immunity. This supports recent suggestions that acquired immunity in filariasis is transmission driven and may be significant only in areas of high transmission. In East Africa, this transmission threshold is likely to be higher than an ATP of at least 100. A new finding from the analysis of the disease data is that per capita worm pathogenicity could increase with transmission intensity such that the prevalences of both hydrocele and lymphoedema, even without immunopathological involvement, may increase disproportionately with transmission intensity. For lymphoedema, this rise may be further accelerated with the onset of immunopathology. An intriguing finding is that there may be at least two types of immunity operating in filariasis: one implicated in anti-infection immunity and generated by past experience of adult worms, the other involved in immune-mediated pathology and based on cumulative experience of infective larvae. If confirmed, these findings have important implications for the new global initiative to achieve control of this disease. 483 2004 The Extent And Significance Of Mass-movements In Eastern Africa: Case Studies Of Some Major Landslides In Uganda And Kenya The East African region has experienced major landslides in recent years. These landslides have caused many fatalities and injuries, loss of many hectares of productive farmlands and destruction to infrastructure such as roads, railways and bridges. The warm and wet climate of the landslide-prone regions causes rapid weathering and produces a regolith weaker than the underlying rock with an interface between the two layers. This interface serves as the most common plane along which landslides are initiated once it becomes saturated. Landslides in the region are associated with steep topography, human activities such as deforestation, overgrazing, and unplanned farming on steep slopes and are induced by earthquakes and high intensity of rainfall. The landslide-prone areas are agriculturally very productive and the inhabitants depend on agriculture for their livelihood. The areas also contribute substantially to the national food reserve. The landslides are therefore a burden to the economies of the individual farmers and national governments of the region. 484 2004 Assessment Of The Potential Impact Of Climate Change On Fisheries In Lake Victoria Using The Predictor Rule. 485 2004 Using Multi-Agent Systems For Efficient Network Resource Allocation With Quality Of Service Guarantees In Computational GRIDs 486 2004 Issues In Grid Computing In The Context Of Education 487 2004 Multi-Agent Systems For Efficient Quality Of Service Routing In Grids 490 2004 Swahili Text-to-Speech System 491 2004 2. Tait R.B., Mumenya S.W., Alexander M.G., And Hourahane D.: Textile Concrete Provides Special Architectural And Permanent Shuttering Opportunities. 1. Singh C. B. . August . . 492 2004 A Political Risk Analysis. Commissioned By The World Bank, 2004 493 2004 An Evaluation Of The USAID Programme Of Support To The Kenya National Assembly, 2004. Commissioned By The USAID. 494 2004 Creating Incentives For Pro-Poor Change. An Analysis Of Drivers Of Change In Kenya. A Study Commissioned By DFID, Kenya. 2004. 495 2004 An Evaluation Of The National Economic Consultative Forum Of Zimbabwe: Commissioned By The African Capacity Building Foundation. 2004 496 2004 Evolution Of Social Ideals In Meja Mwangi’s Novels Of 1980's-1990's 497 2004 Linearly Representable Nonstationary Sequences In Hilbert Spaces. 498 2004 Quasistationary Sequences In Hilbert Spaces 499 2004 Refereed Module On Calculus 11, 500 2004 Obondo A.A, And Mwanda O. W., (2004): OBJECTIVE: To establish the magnitude of psychiatric disorders among leprosy patients in western Kenya. DESIGN: A cross-sectional descriptive study. SETTING: Busia and Teso districts in western Kenya. SUBJECTS: A sample of 152 male and female, adult leprosy patients. RESULTS: The prevalence of psychiatric morbidity (PM) was 53.29%. The PM was positively correlated with physical disability and marital status but not with age, sex, education, type of leprosy, or duration of the illness. The prevalence of psychiatric morbidity was lower among Kenyan leprosy patients compared to studies carried out in India (56% to 78%). It was high compared to the rate of psychiatric morbidity in those seeking medical help in primary health care centres in Kenya, which was recently estimated to be 10%. CONCLUSION: The prevalence of PM in leprosy patients in western Kenya was lower than that in studies carried out in India. This could be attributed to de-institutionalisation and re-integration of leprosy sufferers back into their local communities. Since the rate was more than double that in the general Kenyan population and seemed to be related to presence of physical disability, an appraisal of psychiatric services offered to these patients is needed. 501 2004 Mwanda W. O., Abdallah F. K., Obondo A.A., Musau F., 502 2004 Stability Indicating Ion-pair HPLC Method For The Determination Of Risedronate In A Commercial Formulation Aluoch, A., Tatini, R., Parsons, D. M., Sadik, O. A. A simple, rapid, and reproducible analytical procedure has been developed for the assay of risedronate in pharmaceutical dosage forms. The method is based on ion-pair liquid chromatography with UV detection. 2 Separation is performed on an Eclipse XDB C-18 (4.6 x 150 mm(2), 3.5 mum particles) column, using 5 mM tetrabutylammonium phosphate as counter-ion in the mobile phase. The proposed method was extensively validated according to ICH guidelines for the assay determination. A linear relationship was found in the concentration range studied from 50 to 150 mug risedronate sodium per 25 muL injection. The method precision was below 1.2% relative standard deviation (RSD) (n = 9). The mean recovery of risedronate from commercial tablets was found to be in the range of 99.3-100.6%. The limit of detection (LOD) and limit of quantification (LOQ) of risedronate were found to be 30 and 100 ng, respectively. Since the method is stability indicating, it is also well suited for shelf-life studies of risedronate pharmaceutical preparations. 503 2004 "Normative Framework For Patent And Plant Breeders' Protection: Trade Theory And Development Policy" Article To Be Published In The University Of Nairobi Law Journal. J. O. Midiwo, A. Yenesew, B. F. Juma, S. Dereses, J. A. Ayoo, A. Aluoch and S. Guchu There are several described medicinal plants in Kenya from a flora of approximately 10,000 members. Strong cross-medical information from the 42 ethnic groups points to the high potential of some of these species. The Myrsinaceae are well established ethno-anthelmintics and anti-bacterials. They are harbingers of long alkyl side chain benzoquinones which clearly have a protective function from their histochemical disposition. The main benzoquinone in the sub-family Myrsinodae is embelin while for the Maesodae it is maesaquinone together with its 5-acetyl derivative; the distribution of these benzoquinones by their alkyl side chain length or the presence/absence of a 6-methyl group is in accord with morphological sub-family de-limitation. The benzoquinones showed anti-feedant, anti-microbial, phytotoxic, acaricidal, insecticidal and nematicidal activity. Many other benzoquinones of medium and minor concentration were also isolated and characterised. Some plants belonging to the Polygonaceae which are widely used as ethno-anthelmintics have been studied. The common anthelmintic anthraquinones were obtained from all five Rumex species while the naphthalenic acetogenin derivative, nepodin was more selectively distributed. The leaf of Polygonum senegalense is up to 17% surface exudate; about thirteen non polar flavonoid derivatives (chalcones, dihydrochalcones, flavanones and a flavone) have been isolated from it. From the internal aerial tissues of this plant, the major flavonoids were common flavonoids, quercetin, kaempferol, luteolin and their glycosides. The only unique compound isolated from this plant was 2prime-glucosyl-6prime-hydroxy-4prime-methoxydihydrochalcone whose aglycone, uvangolatin is part of the exudate mixture. Other leaf exudate plants studied include the stomach-ache medicine, Psiadia punctulata (Compositae) from which novel methylated flavonoids, kaurene and trachyloban diterpenes have been found 504 2004 Odero TMA, Onyango 505 2004 Clients' Perception Of Health Workers And Impact On Health Services Offered A Kombewa Demonstration Health Centre Objective: To study the clients' perception of health workers in relation to the services provided at the centre, thus defining the relationship between the client and the health worker and the impact of this relationship on the services provided. Study Design: A Series of Focus Group Discussions (FGDs), interviews and observations were carried out in three (3) stages: i.e baseline (T1), intervention (T2), and evaluation (T3) after nine (9) months. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected at all three levels. However, the study has laid more emphasis on the results of the qualitative data of the study. Study population and setting: The study population were rural women who received health services from Kombewa Rural Health Centre. Sampling: A selection of the women receiving the health services from the health facility within a five-kilometer radius who had consented to participate were identified. The were selected and grouped according to the following age groups: 12-20, 21-35, and over 35. Results: Indicated that the initial relationship between health workers and clients were very poor, but tremendously improved after the Health Workers for Change (HWFC) intervention at T2 and improved further at evaluation after nine months (T3). Conclusion: The clients' perspective of the health workers has an impact on how the health services are used. The poor interpersonal relationship between the clients and the health facility staff led to lack of compliance with treatment and delayed seeking of health services among the women. The health workers also developed negative attitude towards their clients, which made them lax in attending to them. The situation started improving with the initiation of HWFC intervention, where the health workers explored their situation and that of clients, which made them positive towards those that they served. 506 2004 ODUOR- OKELO, D., KATEMA, R.M &CARTER, A.M. (2004) Placenta And Fetal Membranes Of The Four-toed Elephant Shrew, Petrodromus Tetradactylus. Plcenta 25:803-809. 507 2004 CARTER, A.M., ENDERS, A.C., KUNZEL, ODUOR- OKELO, D. & VOGEL. P.(2004) Placentation In Species Of Phylogenetic Importance: The Afrotheria. Animal Reprod. Sci. 82-83: 35-48. 508 2004 Probability Modelling In Forestry Research The gross anatomy of the pulmonary arterial system of the giraffe with comparative data from other Artiodactyla. 509 2004 Human Rights PIP: This research report studies several biochemical and histochemical aspects of cervical carcinoma and explores their use in follow-up of patients undergoing radiotherapy. Material came from 19 patients with invasive cervical carcinoma admitted to Kenyatta National Hospital. A control group consisted of 20 women matched for age who attended clinics at the hospital but were not suffering from any malignant disease; control tissue for histological examination was obtained from 3 women who had undergone hysterectomy for uterine fibroids. Biochemical assays for alkaline and acid phosphatases in patients with cervical carcinoma show an increase in alkaline phosphatase in carcinomatous tissue (35.7 umoles/hr/mg) as opposed to normal tissue (7.2). Acid phosphatase values were only moderately raised. Assays of the same enzymes in blood showed a less marked difference between patients and controls (ranges of 7.5-20.8 and 3-14, respectively). When examined histochemically, increased alkaline phosphatase activity was observed in connective tissue, epithelium of the glands and blood capillaries of tumor tissue. 1 section containing normal tissue bordering carcinomatous tissue demonstrated normal alkaline phosphatase activity in the normal tissue and increased activity in the tumor tissue. In summary, there is increased enzyme activity around the tumor areas, but values for serum levels show an overlap of normal and abnormal cases and are therefore not predictive. Results demonstrate a clear difference in activities of these enzymes in carcinomatous tissue and normal tissue, which may be of value in follow-up care. 510 2004 Muasya T.K., R.O. Mosi, J.W. Wakhungu And A.M. Okeyo. 2004. A Study Of The Reproductive Performance Of The Dairy Cattle Heard At The University Of Nairobi Veterinary Farm, Kanyariri. 511 2004 Development Of Livestock Production Systems In Africa. 512 2004 Artificial Or Natural Insemination: The Demand For Breeding Services By Smallholders. Different types of breeding services are available to the Kenyan smallholder farmers. An important question is whether farmers choose the service, or they are constrained in their choice. Assessing the demand for breeding services is crucial for planning purposes since it will help in identifying the constraints faced by smallholders in the aftermath of agricultural liberalisation policies of the 1990’s. Household and community surveys were conducted in March and April 2004 in three different farming systems of the Kenyan Highlands. The study of 300 smallholder cattlekeepers found that while 54% prefer artificial insemination (AI) to natural (bull) service, 81% actually use natural service, suggesting a sharp contrast between actual use and expressed preferences. Even in intensive dairy systems (represented by Ndia division in Kirinyaga district), the majority of smallholders use natural service. Farmers prefer AI service in view of its ability to maintain and/or upgrade their dairy herd but main constraints to use of AI services are low availability and perceived high costs. This study shows that the observed high use of natural service over AI recorded in previous studies may not reflect farmers’ choice but the unavailability of the Demand for breeding services by smallholders alternative service types, cost considerations, information gaps and misinformation amongst farmers, historical reasons among other constraining factors. Some recommendations for breeding policy reform are made. 513 2004 Development Of Dairy Goat Industry In Kenya: A Case Study 514 2004 A Poster Presented The Global Forum On Agricultural Research (GFAR) Conference, Dakar, Senegal. 22-24 May 2003. [poster] 515 2004 J.A. Orwa, L.K. Keter, S.P.A. Ouko, I.O. Kibwage And G.M. Rukunga. Influence Of Manufacturing Practices On Quality Of Pharmaceutical Products Manufactured In Kenya. Dombeya rotundifolia (Planch) belongs to the Sterculiaceae family and is wide spread in Kenya growing at an altitude of between 900 and 2250m [1]. It is used in traditional medicine in the treatment of rheumatism and diarrhea [2] syphilis [3], heart problems, hemorrhoids, dyspepsia, to regulate the menses and to hasten the onset of labor [4], to manage abdominal pains, intestinal ulceration, headache and haemorrhage, as a tonic and to cause abortion [5-6] Some general phytochemical and pharmacological studies have been carried out on D. rotundifolia. It has notable anti-bacterial and anti infalammatory activity, and has been found to contain cardiac glycosides, saponins and tannins. It does not contain cyanogenic glycosides and alkaloids [6] the ethanol leaf extract are bacteriostatic against staphylococcus aureus. Ethanol and water extraxt and antibacterial activity against Bacillus subtilis and S. aureus [6-7]. There is no report on previous isolation of compounds from this plant 517 2004 "Education In A Globalising World"Paper For The First International Conference On The Right To Education Organised By The European Association For Education Law And Policy In Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 26-30, November. The identification of five novel compounds, pseudo-erythromycin A-6,9-hemiketal, 8,9-anhydro-pseudo-erythromycin A-6,9-hemiketal, 8,9-anhydro-pseudo-N-demethylerythromycin A-6,9-hemiketal, 5-O-beta-D-desosaminylerythronolide A and 15-nor-erythromycin C, in mother liquor concentrates of Streptomyces erythraeus is described. The pseudo-erythromycin derivatives are characterized by a 12-membered macrocyclic ring as a result of C13––C11 trans-lactonization. The five compounds have very little antimicrobial activity. 518 2004 "Climate Change Adaptation And Mitigation: Exploring The Role Of Land Reforms In Africa" Paper For The Second Colloquium Of The IUCN Academy Of International Law, Held In Nairobi, Kenya, 4-7 October. 519 2004 "Integrating Climate Change Considerations In National Development Policies And Programes Paper For A Workshop On Dialohue With East African Legislators On Climate Change And Sustainable Development, Safari Park Hotel, Nairobi, April 23-24. 520 2004 Mbeche, O. O., And J. O. Malo, " Household Travel And Activity Diary: An East African Experience In Transport Survey Methodology", Eastern And Southern Africa Geographical Journal, Submitted In May 2004 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 / Style Definitions / table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} This study was conducted in two seasons of2002 at Tigoni, Central Kenya to determine effectiveness of insecticides; neern extract and mineral oil in managing potato aphids and their associated virus diseases. The treatments were arranged in randomized complete block design (RCBD) with four replications. In each season, the number of aphids in five randomly selected plants per treatment was recordced in situ. Virus symptoms (i.ncidence) were scored and expressed as a percentage to the total plant population per plot. Forty-five days after emergence, 10 plants each from guard rows and inner rows were randomly selected and serologically assayed for Potato Virus Y (PVY) and Potato Leaf Roll Virus (PLRV) using DAS ELISA test. Results showd that three aphid species Aphis gossypii (Glover), Macrosiphum euphorbiae (Thomas) and Myzus persicae (Sulzer) colonized on the variety with A. gossypii being the most dominant while M. persicae was least. Higher aphid population coincided with the short rains experienced in one of the seasons. Synthetic insecticides (Bifethrin and dimethoate) were the most effective among the treatments in reducing aphid infestation while the neem extract and mineral oil (DC- Tron) had no significant (P<0.05) difference. However, mineral-oil treated plots recorded the lowest PVY incidence while bifenthrin-Ireated plots had the lowest PLRV incidence. It is suggested that a combination of synthetic insecticides and mineral oil could playa major role in reduction of the aphids and their associated vectors. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 521 2004 Mbeche, O. O., "Accessibility Modelling For A Developing Economy: The Case Of Inter-regional Traffic Flows In The Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya" Journal Of Civil Engineering Research And Practice, Vol. 1. April 2004. 522 2004 Mbeche, O. O.,"An Energy Use Model For A Secondary City In A Developing Country 523 2004 Efficacy Of Copper Needles For The Control Of Gastrointestinal Nematodes In Goats 524 2004 Gastrointestinal Parasite Infections Of Sheep And Goats In A Semi-arid Area Of Machakos District, Kenya A survey of gastrointestinal parasite and liver fluke infections of small ruminants was conducted for 18 months on two farms in Kathiani Division of Machakos District, Kenya. The effects of host species, season and age on the prevalence and intensity of helminth and coccidia infections were determined. Faecal parasite egg and oocyst counts revealed that the overall prevalences were : strongyles (51.6%), liver flukes (Fasciola) (31.5%), coccidia (28.0%) and tapeworms of Moniezia spp. (2.5%). In both host species, Haemonchus (58.0%) was the most prevalent nematode followed by Trichostrongylus (29.0%) and Oesophagostomum (13.0%). In sheep, a total of eight species of Eimeria were identified, the most prevalent being E. ovina (47.4%) and E. ovinoidalis (32.3%). In goat samples, seven species were identified, the commonest being E. ninakohlyakimovae (45.9%) followed by E. arloingi (26.1%). The prevalence of strongyle and liver fluke infections, and oocyst counts in sheep were significantly (p<0.05) higher than in goats. Rainy season prevalence of strongyle and coccidia infections were significantly (p<0.05) higher than for the dry season, while the dry season prevalence of liver fluke infection was significantly (p<0.05) higher than for the wet season. The prevalence and intensity of cocidia infection were significantly (p< 0.05) higher in young than in adult animals. 525 2004 Gruessner S, Omwandho C, Klingnueller V, Tinneberg HR. Partielle Unde Komplette Reduktion De Uterinen Perfusion Beim Schaffeten OBJECTIVE: To study re-association pattern of human placental eluate immunoglobulins with acid treated isologous and third party trophoblast derived placental microvesicles. DESIGN: Laboratory based experimentation. SETTING: Biological Sciences Department and Discipline for Reproductive Medicine University of Newcastle, Australia and the Department of Biochemistry, University of Nairobi, Kenya. RESULTS: Placental eluate immunoglobulins re-associated with isologous and third party acidified microvesicles in three distinct patterns. I: eluate immunoglobulins re-associated more strongly with isologous and third party acid treated placental microvesicles, II: eluate immunoglobulins re-associated strongly with isologous but weakly with third party acid treated placental microvesicles, III: eluate immunoglobulins did not show preferential re-association with isologous and third party acid treated placental microvesicles. CONCLUSION: Two types of antigenic epitopes I and II may be expressed on the human placentae. Type I antigens may be present on all human placentae while type II epitopes may be paternally derived hence unique to each pregnancy. Also, immunoglobulins produced to placental microvesicle antigens may be directed to some but not all antigenic epitopes expressed on the human placental trophoblast. 526 2004 Susanne E. M. Gruessner, Volker Klingmueller, Charles O. A. Omwandho, Rainer M. Bohle, Hans Rudolf Tinneberg. Detection Of Vascular Responses To Hypoxia In The Pre-term Ovine Fetus: A Preliminary Study Using 3 527 2004 Susanne E. M. Gruessner, Charles O. A. Omwandho, Thoma Dreyer, Renate Blutters-Sawatzki, Alfred Reiter, Hans R. Tinnerberg, Rainer M. Bohle. Management Of Stage I Cervical Sarcoma Botryoides In Childhood And Adolescence Rhabdomyosarcomas are the most common soft tissue sarcomas in childhood. The botryoid variant arises in infancy from the vagina or urinary bladder and extremely rarely from the uterine cervix. Treatment regimes range from local excision of the tumour to radical hysterectomy with adjuvant multidrug therapy and/or radiotherapy. In cases of minimal cervical invasion, the less invasive local excision in combination with adjuvant chemotherapy has resulted in excellent survival rates with complete functional preservation of the bladder, rectum, vagina, and ovaries. We present here a 30-year literature review and a case report of a cervical sarcoma botryoides in a 5-year-old girl. CONCLUSION: based on the literature review and our own observation, we recommend minor surgical approaches in combination with chemotherapy as the treatment of choice for early stage I cervical rhabdomyosarcoma. Copyright 2004 Springer-Verlag 528 2004 Gruessner S 1, Omwandho C. A. O. 1, V. Klingmueller 2, Bohle R. 3, Tinneberg H.R 1. 2D 1 Universit 529 2004 Jaeger M, Grussner SE, Omwandho CO, Klein K, Tinneberg HR, Klingmuller V. Cranial Sonography For Newborn Screening: A 10 Year Retrospective Study In 11, 887 Newborns.[Article In German] We retrospectively analyzed the results of a sonographic cranial screening study, performed between 1985 and 1994 to determine the incidence of intracranial hemorrhage and cerebral anomalies based on obstetrical risk factors. In the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the University Giessen, Giessen, Germany, 94.6 % (n = 11,887) of all children born during the study period were included and underwent sonographic cranial screening within the first 10 days after birth. Cerebral abnormalities were found in 653 (= 5.5 %) cases, and peri-/intraventricular hemorrhages (PIVH, grade I-IV) in 303 cases. Periventricular leucomalacia, porencephaly, subarachnoidal hemorrhage and hydrocephaly were rare ( 530 2004 Charles O. A. Omwandho, Susanne E. M. Gruessner, Timothy K. Roberts, Hans R Tinneberg. Intravenous Immunoglobulin (IVIG): Modes Of Action In The Management Of Recurrent Pregnacy Loss And Selected Autoimmune Disorders. Recurrent pregnancy loss has been associated with autoimmune responses to membrane phospholipids and alloimmune reactions against paternally derived molecules on the trophoblast. The problem is psychologically and economically stressful as it undermines the capacity of some couples to reproduce and participate effectively in the day-to-day economic activities. This article reviews the adoption of intravenous immunoglobulin as a form of therapy for the clinical management of recurrent pregnancy loss and of selected autoimmune disorders. Side effects, contraindications and safety of use are discussed. 531 2004 S. Gressner, C. A. Omwandho, V. Klingmueller, R. M. Bohle (2004): Effect Of Intermittent Uterine Occlusion On Hemodynamic Changes In Pre-term And Near Term Ovine Twin Fetuses 532 2004 Gruessner S, Omwandho C, Klingm 533 2004 Gruessner S, Omwandho C.A.O, Klingm 536 2004 Elisha T. O. Opiyo, Erick Ayienga, Katherine Getao, Bernard Manderick, Okello-Odongo, Ann Now 537 2004 ODHIAMBO J.O, 2004, Towards A Rainwater Model Village, A Paper Presented To The Annual Water Experts Conference In Arusha Tanzania, Annual seasonal droughts of 2-4 months occur in Kusa limiting access of households to safe drinking water. This compounds the health and socio-economic disasters through increased water borne diseases rated at 10% morbidity and 63% mortality and marginalizing economically the resource poor through drudgery and wastage of time in water fetching activities. The introduction of rooftop rainwater harvesting 5 m3 storage tanks has redressed the trend in 30% of the households owning these systems that harness the 900mm annual rainfall on 80-100 m2 individual roof catchments. A study carried in the area through structured questionnaires, group discussions and literature survey revealed that the tanks operated at reliability and satisfaction levels of 44-59% when the guttering system covered 25% of the available roof area and 80-100% for coverage of 100 % for daily demand levels of 100 liters. An assured supply of domestic water at homestead level resulted in a state of water security leading to increased use of water per capita thereby improving personal hygiene for the rural community. Morbidity and mortality rates from water borne diseases reduced from 10% to 9.8% and 63% to 31% respectively for households with rooftop-tank systems. The study showed that well sized roof-tank combinations and appropriate demand managed strategies are effective measures for ameliorating household water supply to mitigate against drought caused health and socio-economic disasters in the area. 538 2004 Squamous Odontogenic Tumour-like Gingival Proliferations Occurring With Dentigerous Cysts And Amelogenesis Imperfecta To determine the range of ablative surgery and rehabilitative procedures performed on maxillofacial structures. DESIGN: A retrospective descriptive study. SETTING: University of Nairobi Dental Teaching Hospital. SUBJECTS: Patients operated on at the institutions theatre, and followed up at the University of Nairobi Dental Teaching Hospital Oral Surgery Outpatient Clinic during the period February 1996, August 1998. RESULTS: Forty four patients underwent ablative surgery during the study period. Complete records were available for 38 patients, 27 females and 11 males aged 10 to 79 years (mean 32.6 years). Surgical procedures performed included: partial mandibulectomy, marginal mandibular resection, subtotal maxillectomy, sequestrectomy and enucleation. Six (15.8%) patients who underwent mandibular resection had rigid bone plating. Five (13.2%) patients who had maxillary involvement were given surgical obturators post-operatively with one receiving a complete denture after full recovery. A total of 22 (57.9%) patients who would have reaped benefits from prostheses therapy received none. Individual patient follow-up periods ranged from seven days for two patients who had cyst enucleation to two years for three cases with ameloblastoma, and two cases with squamous cell carcinoma. CONCLUSION: It is concluded that prosthetic rehabilitation of patients undergoing extensive surgery at the University of Nairobi Dental Teaching Hospital is largely inadequate 539 2004 Owino J., N. J. Muthama & S. Marigi (2004): 540 2004 P. Baki , SPH 201: Mechanics II, A Peer Reviewed Physics Lecture Module For Distance Learners. 541 2004 P. Baki, Looking For Secrets In The Stars, Society Magazine, East African Standard, Saturday, August 28th (2004). 542 2004 District Focus For Rural Development In Kenya: Its Limitations As A Decentralization And Participatory Planning Strategy And Prospects For The Future, IPAR Discussion Paper No.46 543 2004 Neighbourhood Associations And Governance In The City Of Nairobi, Kenya: A Case Study Of Their Performance And Prospects For The Future, IPAR Discussion Paper No.49 544 2004 Matatu Industry In Kenya: A Study Of The Performance Of Its Owners, Workers And Their Associations And Potential For Improvement, IPAR DP No.55 545 2004 Efforts To Improve Road Safety In Kenya 546 2004 Tuberculosis Of The Thoracic Spine Managed By Trans-thoracic Decompression, Rib-grafting And Chemotherapy. 547 2004 Congenital Syphilis In A Nairobi Maternity Hospital. To assess adverse pregnancy outcome associated with maternal syphilis and congenital syphilis rate based on FTA-ABS-19s-IgM. 548 2004 Prevalence Of Domestic Violence Among Clients Seeking Emergency Department Services In A Private Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya 549 2004 An Assessment Of The Presence Of E. Coli In Roof-collected Rainwater From Some Areas Around Nairobi. Kenya Vet. 73: 79 This study was conducted to evaluate the control of trypanosomosis in camels in Turkana district of Kenya using participatory approaches. Lapur division of the district was conveniently selected as the study area considering logistics and security concerns. Four main animal camps (adakars) formed the study units. Key informants from each adakar were selected for participatory research processes. Participatory mapping, semi-structured interviews, pair-wise comparisons and matrix scoring were the participatory methods employed. Five camel diseases in order of their importance, were identified, namely, camel trypanososmosis, tick infestation, non-specific diarrhoea, mange and harmorrhagic septicaemia. Twelve groups of the lay key informants agreed well on the presenting signs of theses diseases. Although trypanocides were considered by the informants to be reasonably available, the most preferred method for the control of camel trypanosomosis was the use of indigenous remedies. These indigenous remedies included the oral administration to sick camels with variety of herbs mixed with soups from goat, wildcat, bird or donkey meat. The results from this study revealed that camel trypanosomosis is an important disease in Turkana district. The prices of the available modern trypanocides in the management of camel trypanosomosis appeared to hamper the effective control of the disease. However, the efficacy of the widely used indigenous remedies remains undetermined. 550 2004 The Prevalence Of Hydatidosis In Slaughtered Livestock In Kenya. Kenya Vet 27: 73 - 77 551 2004 The Microbiological Quality And Some Physico-chemical Aspects Of River, Tap And Recreational Water Samples From Nairobi City (Keya) Kenya Veterinarian 27: 61-64. 552 2004 Bett, B., Machila, N., Gathura P.B., McDermott, J.J. And Eisler,M.C. (2004). Characterisation Of Shops Selling Veterinary Medicines In A Tsetse Infested Area Of Kenya. Preventive Vet. Med. (Accepted) 553 2004 I-Tetralinyl Group For Asparagine Side-chainprotection And Application For Boc-solid Phase Peptide Synthesis Of Mesotocin The Rose-Bengal plate test (RBPT) was performed on 488 patients with flu-like symptoms from Narok district. There was poor agreement between RBPT results from four health facilities in Narok and from the central veterinary laboratory (CVL). Agreement was poorer for the three rural dispensaries than for the District Hospital. On the other hand, for tests conducted at the CVL, there was good agreement between RBPT, serum agglutination test (SAT) and complement fixation test (CFT) results, indicating that all these tests were probably performing well. Better training and quality control and the use of white rather than a clear background surface for judging agglutination results are recommended to improve the performance of test results in Narok District health facilities. 554 2004 With Judith Bahemuka: "Culture And Communication: Traditional Modes And New Technologies", History Of Humanity Vol. III, UNESCO. 2004. The role of pastoralist women in conflict resolution and management (study funded by SIDA though IMPACT) 555 2004 With Judith Bahemuka: "Culture And Communication: Traditional Modes And New Technologies", History Of Humanity Vol. III, UNESCO. 556 2004 What To Do With Informal Sector 557 2004 Informal Financing Mechanisms In Urban Areas In Kenya 558 2004 Ethnoveterinary Practices In Eastern Africa. Ethnopharmacological relevance: Traditional medicines play an important role in the management of chronically painful and debilitating joint conditions, particularly in the rural Africa. However, their potential use as sources of medicines has not been fully exploited. The present study was carried to find the medicinal plants traditionally used to manage chronic joint pains in Machakos and Makueni counties in Kenya. Materials and methods: To obtain this ethnobotanical information, 30 consenting traditional herbal med-ical practitioners were interviewed exclusively on medicinal plant use in the management of chronic joint pains, in a pre-planned workshop. Results and discussion: In this survey, a total of 37 plants belonging to 32 genera and 23 families were cited as being important for treatment of chronic joint pains. The most commonly cited plant species were Pavetta crassipes K. Schum, Strychnos henningsii Gilg., Carissa spinarum L., Fagaropsis hildebrandtii (Engl.) Milve-Redh. and Zanthoxylum chalybeum Engl. Acacia mellifera (Vahl) Benth., Amaranthus albus L., Balanites glabra Mildbr. & Schltr., Grewia fallax K. Schum., Lactuca capensis, Launaea cornuta (Oliv. & Hiern) O. Jeffrey, Lippia kituiensis Vatke, Pappea capensis Eckl. & Zeyh. and Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br. are documented for the first time as being important in the management of chronic joint pains. Conclusions: The findings of this study show that a variety of medicinal plants are used in the management of chronic joint pains and the main mode of administration is oral. Keywords: Ethnobotanical survey; Medicinal plants; Chronic joint pains; Rheumatoid arthritis; Akamba; Machakos-Kenya 559 2004 Githiori John, Mbaabu Mathiu, James Mbaria, Leina Mpoke, Jacob Miaron And Patrick Omari, (2004). Authors, Ethnoveterinary Practices In Eastern Africa. Published By Community-based Livestock Initiatives Programme (CLIP); ISBN 560 2004 Ngatia T.A., P.W.N. Kanyari, P.M. Mathiu, K.K. Srivastava, S.T. Wilson And A. Oyejide (2004). Postmortem Observations On Ostrich Chicks In A Commercial Farm In Kenya. Bulletin Of Animal Health And Production In Africa. 52: 59-62. 561 2004 Ngatia T.A., P.W.N. Kanyari, P.M. Mathiu, And A. Oyejide (2004). Some Postmortem Observations On Unhatched Ostrich Embryos In A Selected Locality In Kenya. The Kenya Veterinarian, 26: 55-58. 562 2004 Mathiu P.M., P.M. Mbugua And J. Mugweru (2004). Biological Activity Screening Of Some Kenyan Medicinal Plants. 563 2004 Mbaabu Mathiu (2004). Using Neem To Improve Animal Health And Productivity In The Arid And Semi-Arid Lands(ASALs). 565 2004 Leina Mpoke And Mbaabu Mathiu (2004). Traditional Animal Health Care As Part Of Indigenous Knowledge (IK)practices In Kenya. 566 2004 A Training Manual For Church Leaders 567 2004 Public Opinion Poll For The Urban Water And Sanitation Sub-Sector Reforms, GoU/GTZ 568 2004 D.W Gakuya, P.M.F. Mbithi, T.E Maitho And N.K.R. Musimba (2004). Potential Use Of Plant Antihelmintics For The Control Of Livestock Helminthoses In Kenya. Kenya Veterinarian Vol. 26 Pp. 14-26. Anthelmintic activity of the water extracts of Albizia anthemintica bark and Maerua_edulis root was evaluated in mice that had been experimentally infected with the instestinal nematode heligmosmoides polygyrus. The mice were randomly allocated into six treatment grops and once control group. Groups 1,2 and 3 were given and one dose of water extratss of a. anthelmintica at 5gm/kg, 10gm/kg and 20 gm/kg bodyweight respectively in a divided dose on day 17 post-infection. Groups 4, 5 and 6 were given water extracts of M. edulis at a dosage of 5 gm/kg, 10gm aand 20 gm bodyweight respectively in a divided dose. Group 7 was the control and was concurrently gien a double oral dose of 0.2ml pf physiological saline each. Mortality of some mice was observed in four groups after treatment. Five days after treatment, faecal worm egg count reduction was determined. The results showed a percentage faecal H. polygyrus egg count reduction of 72%, 69%, 50%, 42% in groups 2,6,3 and I respectively. Seven days after treatment there was a reduction I worm counts at postmortem of 68%, 36%, 20%, 19%, 16% and 14% in groups 1,5,2,3, 6 and 4 respectively compared to untreated controls. These results indicate that the plant extracts had anthelmintic activity and support the use f these plants as anthelmintics. 569 2004 E.M. Njoroge, E. Zeyhle, J.K. Magambo, P.M.F. Mbithi And J.M. Gathuma. (2004). Evaluation Of Cost Of Ultrasound Surveys For Cystic Echinococcosis In Goats In A Nomadic Pastoral Community. International Archives Of The Hydatidosis Vol. 35 Pp. 100-102. A study was carried to evaluate the cots of performing ultrasound surveys I goats in a nomadic set-up. The cost of ultrasound examination was determined by calculating how much money was required to perform a scan per goat. This was based on purchase price of portable ultrasound equipment, clippers/shavers, electric cables, and electric generator. It was also based on recurrent expenditure on items that are used during ultrasound examination. A total of 472 animal were examined I ultrasound, out of which 15 were identified to have cystic echinococcosis. In 12 (80.0%) animals, the cysts were thin-walled unilocular (TCE1) while in 3 (20.0%0 animals, they appeared as thick-walled unilocular structures (TCE4). Calcification appeared as hyper echoic ring in the cyst wall in 1 (6.7%) animal. Multiple unilocular cysts (TCE3) separated by the liver parenchyma were imaged in 13 (86.7%) animals. Single miltiloculated cysts (TCE2) appeared in 1 (6.7%) animal while multiple multiloculated cysts were observed in 1 (6.7%) animal. Cost of ultrasound examination per goat was found to be US$ 0.714. The technique could determine the presence, size, nature and exact location of the Echonococcus cysts. Although the initial cost of ultrasound equipment was high, the running costs were inexpensive compared to other diagnostic tests. The cost of ultrasound examination per animal was however inversely proportional to the number of animals scanned. 570 2004 J.K. Wabacha, C.M. Mulei, M.N. Kyule, K.H. Zessin, P.M.F. Mbithi, W.K. Munyua And J.M. Maribei. (2004). Helminthosis In Smallholder Pig Herds In Kikuyu Division, Kiambu District, Kenya. Kenya Veterinarian Vol. 26 Pp. 29-33. 571 2004 E.M. Njoroge, P.M.F. Mbithi, T.M. Wachira, J.K. Magambo And E. Zeyhle (2004). Ethyl Alcohol: Is It Necessary In The P.A.I.R Technique? International Archives Of The Hydatidosis Vol. 35 Pp. 149-150. The study was carried out to evaluate the effect of 95% ethyl alcohol in the pair technique using sheep and goat modes. A total of 6 animals (4 sheep and 2 goats) were used in this study. The animals were randomly divided into two groups of 3 animals each (2 sheep and 1 goat). In the first group (test group), 7 cysts were punctured in vivo, cyst fluid drained and injected with 95% ethyl alcohol while the second group (controls) 9 cysts were only punctured and cysts fluid drained. The procedure was done under ultrasound guidance. The animals were then monitored for one month. Ultrasound showed that in both groups there was collapse of the endocysts after cyst puncture. One month later, the cysts showed decrease in size, increased echogenicity, and completed or partial detachment of the endcoyst. Post mortem examination showed that in 95% ethyl alcohol group (test group), the cysts were grossly degenerated with marked fibrosis of the surroundings liver tissue. Incision of the cysts revealed turbid yellow cystic fluid and degenerated endocysts. On microscopic examination of the cyst fluid, the protocols were dead, with detached hooks, in the puncture only group (control group), the cysts appeared grossly intact but flaccid. Incision of these cysts showed clear fluid with intact endcoysts. However, microscopic examination of the cyst fluid showed that the protocoleces were dead with detachments of hooks. A histopathological examination of the test group showed marked host cell reaction consisting of infiltration of the adventiatl layer with neutrophils, eosinophils, and plasma cells. In addition, the liver tissue was severely destroyed and replaced with you and disorganised fibroblasts and mesenchmal cess. In most necrotic areas, the laminate layer could not be collected together with adherent liver tissue and the adventiatil layer appeared completely degenerate and was replaced by acute inflammatory cells. In the control group, there was detachment of the laminate layer of the cyst from the adventitia. Additionally inflammatory cells were observed in the adventitia and the liver tissues. However, the degree of inflammation was markedly less than in the test group. Inflammatory cells were identified only in small parts of the liver tissues while most of the tissues were intact with hepatocytes being predominant in an organised appearance. The findings suggest that puncture alone may be sufficient to kill the protoscholeces, possibly due to detachment of the endocyst used; more studies need to be carried out to verify the necessity for using ethyl alcohol in PAIR techniques. 572 2004 D.W. Gakuya, J.M. Mbaria, P.M.F. Mbithi And R.W. Munenge (2004). Evaluation Of The Bioactivity Of Some Traditional Medicinal Plants Using The Brine Shrimp Lethality Test. Kenya Veterinarian Vol.26 Pp. 8-11. 573 2004 J.D. Mande, P.M.F. Mbithi, Et Al (2004). Pathophysiology And Clinical Management Of Degenerative Joint Disease. Kenya Veterinarian Vol. 27 Pp. 42-44. 574 2004 Mogoa E.G.M. And P.M.F. Mbithi (2004). Pain And Its Management In Animals. The Kenya Veterinarian Vol. 27 Pp.10-14 Pain is a perception, an unpleasant experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage. It is usually caused by mechanical, chemical or thermal stimulation of specialised paid receptors (nociceptors) in tissues. In routine veterinary practice, such acute insulsts causing intense stimulation encountered include tissue trauma including surgery, burns and fractures. As veterinary practitioners, we are ethically obliged to prevent paid and suffering where possible and alleviate it, should it occur, as it contributes to increased morbidity and mortality. In order to do this, we needed to be able to assess pain in animals and manage it appropriately. Paid assessment can be made based on anthropomorphism behavioural responses of the patient and clinical signs. The behavioural and physiological responses that accompany paid such as vocalisation, withdrawal reflex guarding of the affected area and increased activity of the sympathetic nervous system are measurable. Pain control in animals can be achieved through limitation of neciceptor stimulation, interruption of peripheral transmission, inhibition of noceceptive transmission at the level of the spinal cord, modulation of brain pathways by systemic administration of analgesics or, though balanced or multimode analgesia by simultaneous use of a number of the above strategies. Although the selection and techniques of administration of individual analgesic drugs vary, local and opioid analgesics, non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, tranquillisers and other combination therapies when used appropriately can control paid and alleviate suffering in animals experiencing pain. This paper looks at paid and its management in animals. 576 2004 Principles Of Veterinary Surgery 577 2004 Capture And Sampling Of Thompson’s Gazelles For Gastrointestinal Parasites In Marula Ranch In Kenya Thompson’s gazelles are an important part of wildlife in Kenya and their meat is utilised for human consumption. Gastrointestinal (GIT) parasites however, may be a limiting factor to their management and utilisation. A survey of the prevalence and intensity of gastrointestinal parasites in Thompson’s gazelles was conducted on a game ranch in October 2003. 31 male and female gazelles were captured using net screens. Fecal samples were collected directly from their rectum. Nematode EPG, presence of fluke eggs, cestode eggs and coccidial oocyts were determined on each sample using a modified McMaster technique. All the 31 captured gazelles were shedding strongyle-type nematode eggs and coccidial oocyts. Trichuris eggs were found in only 1 out of 3 fecal samples from the young males and in none of the samples from 6 young females and 22 adult gazelles. Fluke and cestode eggs were not found in any of the samples. Fecal cultures revealed predominance of Haemonchus, Gazellostrongylus and Trichostronglus in fecal samples from the captured gazelles. 580 2004 Breeding Snap Bean For Smallholder Production In East And Central Africa, Pages 49-51. Annual Report 2004. 581 2004 2004. Breeding Snap Bean For Smallholder Production In East And Central Africa, Pages 49-51. Annual Report 2004. 582 2004 Coping With Drought: Strategies To Improve Genetic Adaptation Of Common Bean In Drought Prone Areas Of Africa.Africa. CIAT Occasional Publication Series No. 38. CIAT, Cali, Colombia. 583 2004 Participatory Plant Breeding: Case Of Common Bean Improvement In East And Central Africa (Chapter Submitted To Editor). 584 2004 Selection Of Climbing Bean Lines Tolerant To Common Bacterial Wilt, Bean Common Mosaic Virus And Web Blight. Bean Improvement Cooperative 47:309- 310. 585 2004 Resistance In Common Beans (Phaseolus Vulgaris L.) To Pythium Root Rot Caused By Pythium Spp. 586 2004 Screening And Participatory Evaluation Of Germplasm For Aluminium Resistance In Low Fertility Acid Soils In East And Central Africa. 587 2004 Progress In Bean Improvement For Low Soil Fertility In Africa. 588 2004 2004. A Strategy For Creating Wider Impact For Bean In Africa. 589 2004 Creating Wider Impact For Bean In Africa: Case Study Of Kenya. 590 2004 Rationale For Working With Farmers. 591 2004 Analysis Of Quantitative Data In Participatory Breeding Experiments. 592 2004 Germplasm Issues In Participatory Bean Breeding In Africa. 593 2004 Decentralized And Participatory Breeding Strategy For Beans In Africa:its Role And Potential For Institutionalization. In: Sperling, L, J. Lancon And M. Loosevelt (Eds). Participatory Plant Breeding And Participatory Plant Genetic Resource Enhancement. An 594 2004 Decentralized And Participatory Breeding Strategies For Bean In Africa: Evolution And Potential. In: Sperling, L, J. Lancon And M. Loosevelt (Eds). Participatory Plant Breeding And Participatory Plant Genetic Resource Enhancement. An Africa-wide Exchange 595 2004 Genetic Analysis Of Some Metric Traits In Small-seeded Bean (Phaseolus Vulgaris L.) Line Crosses 596 2004 Performance Of Crushed Coconut Shell Dual Media Filter Paper This paper reports the detailed results of a study of the impact of the Health Workers for Change (HWFC) workshop series on clients' perceptions of health services, relationships within the health centre and relations between the health facility and the district health system. The study was carried out in three stages: baseline, intervention and evaluation over a period of 20 months. Data, both qualitative and quantitative, were collected at three levels: client, facility and system. Results indicate that relations between health workers and clients improved a great deal after the intervention while those between the facility and the system remained to a large extent unchanged. The paper concludes that, with external support and help, especially from the health system level, health workers can work towards improving health services and their job satisfaction, which can lead to better health worker-client relations. 597 2004 Anaerobic Treatability Of Sugarcane Mill Wastewater. 598 2004 Comparative Field Evaluation Of Mbita Trap, CDC Light Trap And The Human Landing Catch For Sampling Of Malaria Vectors 599 2004 Research Design, Data Collection And Analysis 600 2004 District Regional Development Plan: An Integration Plan For Sustainable Development. Nairobi 601 2004 Gitonga, N.P., Kitaa, J.M.A. And Mbuthia, P.G. Systemic Mastocytosis Associated With Liver Failure In A Ten Year-old German Shepherd Dog. 602 2004 Njenga, M.J., Wabacha, J.K., Abuom, T.O., Ndurumo, S.M., Gitonga, P.N. And Kirui, G. Ambulatory Clinical Exposure Of Final Year Veterinary Students 2003/2004. 604 2004 O.N. Njagi, R. Entzeroth, P.N. Nyaga, A.J. Musoke. Monoclonal Antibodies Identify Two Neutralization-sensitive Epitopes In Besnoitia Besnoiti Endozoites. Parasit. Res. (2004) 94: 247-253. According to the statements made by a number of scholars, in the 80's East African Anglophone novel, which once received a nickname of "social documentary", began to lose gradually its social commitment. Many of the writers known previously as the most active supporters of the social trend, moved their attempts to other literan areas - criminal novel ("Weapon of hunger" by Meja Mцangi, 1989), love story (Yussuf Dawood's "Off my chest", 1988), even children's literature (books for children in Gikuyu, written by Ngugi wa Thiong'o). However, in the late 80's and early 90's East African Anglophone novel stepped onto a new level of social trend, moving from "social documentary" to "social epic". The authors now are trying to sum up the historical experience of East African countries over a large time span, and to that effect appeal mostly to elaborate and spacious literary forms, such as epic novel. These authors, although chosen one and the same literary form, are showing clearly their inclinations towards different styles of writing. For example, Tanzanian author Moyez Vassanji in his novel "The gunny sack" (1989) makes a rather convincing attempt to replant on East African soil the method of "mythological writing", previously used by such author as Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The novel definitely appeals not only to local reader, but to a wider international audience; on its pages the author manages to restore not only the fate of several generations of Indian family, but even the slightest details of their mentality, using myth as one of the basic means for changing the dimensions of time and space, according to the logic of the narration. The development of Kenyan novel in the early 90's confirms also one of the main tendencies in modem literature - bridging between "elite" and popular fiction. The first attempt of an epic novel in Kenyan Anglophone literature was, oddly enough, made by the veteran of Kenyan popular fiction David Maillu in his "Broken drum" H991). The novel hardly aims the widest reading public - nevertheless, stylistically it bears distinct features of popular fiction, such as crime story, romance, etc. Popular novel in East Africa also shows certain inclination towards urgent social themes, but the authors inevitably uses the artistic means they feel most happy with - that is, the style of popular fiction. For example, the "clash of cultures" - the experience of young Africans studying abroad - is presented in the form of a picaresque ("Times beyond" by Omondi Makoloo, 1992) or love story ("The girl from Uganda" by Tengio Urrio, 1993); feministic problems are spiced with sentimentalism ("Judy the nun" by P .Waweru, 1990); the thoughts on the hardships of younger generation are guised in Bildungs roman ("The plight of succession" by a Tanzanian Prosper Rwegoshora, 1990). At the same time, some authors, who have been ploughing successfully the field of pop fiction for a few decades, show their interest in more elaborate literary forms ("Dedan Kimathi: the real story" by Samuel Kaluga, 1990). All the mentioned facts do not allow us to state that the division into popular and elite novel will disappear within the foreseeable future. However, the most interesting developments seem to take place precisely in the field of bridging between these two branches of East African fiction. 605 2004 L.W. Njagi, P.G. Mbuthia, L.C. Bebora, P.N. Nyaga, U. Minga And J.E. Olsen. Carrier Status For Listreria Monocytogenes And Other Listeria Species In Free Range Farm And Market Healthy Indigenous Chickens And Ducks. E.A.M.J.( 2004): 81:39-43. 606 2004 L.W. Njagi, P.G. Mbuthia, L.C. Bebora, P.N. Nyaga, U. Minga And J.E. Olsen. Sensitivity Of Listeria Species, Recovered From Indigenous Chickens To Antibiotics And Disinfectants. E.A.M.J. (2004): 81:44-47. 607 2004 E.S Bizimenyera, P.N. Nyaga And J.O. Oloya: In-vitro Disinfectant Sensitivity Tests On Bacteria Isolated From Commercial Poultry Hatcheries In Kenya. Bull. Hlth. Prod. Afri. (2004): 52: 271-274. 608 2004 Comparison Between Fluorybridization (FISH) And Culture Method In The Detection Of Pasteurella Multocidain Organs Of Indigenous Birds. 609 2004 Comparison Between The Carrier Status Of P. Multocida On Farm And Live Traded Market Indigenous Birds 610 2004 Ease Of Transmitting P.multocida Between Indigenous Chickens And Ducks Through Contact Transmission 611 2004 G.P. Pokhariyal, C.A. Moturi, J. Hasssanali S.M. Kinyanjui Simulation Model For Dental Arch Shapes In Humans, " East African Medical Journal 81, 599-602 (2004)) This paper investigates the possibilities of applying emerging management theories and techniques to constitutionally created offices in Kenya and East African region. The benefits from application of these theories, particularly in the judicial services are highlighted. 613 2004 Screening Cowpea (Vigna Unguiculata (L.) Walp). Genotypes For Resistance To Septoria Leaf Spot In Kenya. 614 2004 Syagga, P.M 2004),Informal Land Densification In Urban Areas In Kenya. Paper Presented At Symposium On Governance Of Informal Urbanisation-Valuing Informal Land Management,15th-16th July,2004 Arusha,Tanzania The objective of this study is to inveigate the real inequality perspective of land ownership and use in Kenya. The study demonstrated that there are varying degrees of inequality in land ownership, access and use in Kenya in terms of land tenure, land size and land potential.The study recommends a review of the constitution,legal and administrative frameworks so as to provide for equitable,transparent and accountable land management and administration. 615 2004 2004: Edited, The Second World Urban Forum Kenya Country Report: Ministry Of Lands And Housing(68 Pages). 616 2004 The Second World Urban Forum Kenya Country Report: Ministry Of Lands And Housing(68 Pages). 617 2004 “Oral Poetry In East Africa: Perspectives And Insights 618 2004 Dustbin 619 2004 Rest 620 2004 The Summit 621 2004 Challenges In Managing Urban Slum Projects 622 2004 The Role Of Rural Factor Markets In Reducing Poverty, Risks And Vulnerability In Rural Kenya: The Case For Kakamega And Vihiga Districts. Under The Broader 623 2004 "Small Scale Enterprises In Kenya. How Important Is Access To Credit?" In. Wohlmuth K., A. Gutowski, T. Knedlik, M. Meyne And S. Pitamber (eds.). African Entrepreneurship And Private Sector Development. Africa Development Perspectives Yearbook 2002/2003. 624 2004 "Uteuzi Wa Moyoni" In "Maya-Waziri Wa Maradhi Na Hadithi Nyingine" Wamitila K. W.(mh) Longhorn Publishers. 625 2004 Transverse Fluctuation Dissipation Theorem In An External Magnetic Field 626 2004 Transverse Fluctuation-dissipation Theorem In An External Magnetic Field: Quantum Domain 627 2004 T.A. Woyengo, C.K. Gachuiri, R.G. Wahome And P.N. Mbugua. 2004. Economic Evaluation Of Increasing The Energy Value Of Zea Mays Stover By Urea Treatment.. 637 2004 Woyengo T.A., C.K. Gachuiri, R.G. Wahome And P.N. Mbugua, 2004. Economic Evaluation Of Increasing The Energy Value Of Zea Mays Stover By Urea Treatment. KARI Conference Proc., 2004 638 2004 Kuria, S.G., Wahome R.G., Gachuiri, C.K. And Wanyoike, M.M. 2004. Effect Of Mineral Supplementation On The Plasma Mineral Profiles In Camels In Marsabit District, Kenya. Int. J Agric And Biol., 8: 168 -171. 639 2004 Kuria, S.G., Gachuiri, C.K., Wanyoike, M.M. And Wahome R.G., 2004. Effect Of Mineral Supplementation On Milk Yield And Calf Growth Of Camels Marsabit District, Kenya. Journal Of Camel Practice And Research 11:87- 96. 640 2004 Kuria S G, R.G. Wahome, Gachuiri C. K. And Wanyoike M M, 2004. Evaluation Of Forages As Mineral Sources For Camels In Western Marsabit, Kenya. South African Journal Of Animal Science, 34:180-188. 641 2004 Kuria S G, Wanyoike M M, Gachuiri C K And Wahome R G 2004. Indigenous Camel Mineral Supplementation Knowledge And Practices On Manyatta Based Camel Herds By The Rendille Pastoralists Of Marsabit District, Kenya. Livestock Research For Rural Development. V 642 2004 Woyengo T.A., Gachuiri, C.K. Wahome R.G. And Mbugua P.N. 2004. Effect Of Protein Supplementation And Urea Treatment On Utilization Of Maize Stover By Red Maasai Sheep. South African Journal Of Animal Science, 34:23 643 2004 Wanyoike, M.M. And Wahome, R.G., 2004. Cattle Production Systems In Kenya: Research And Development 644 2004 Books Or Chapters In A Book 31) Wanyoike, M.M. And Wahome, R.G., 2004. Cattle Production Systems In Kenya: Research And Development. In: Cattle Production In Kenya-Strategies For Planning And Implementation, K.A.R.I., Nairobi. ISBN: 9966-879-57-9, Pp85- 1 645 2004 Cattle Production Systems In Kenya: Research And Development 647 2004 Small-scale Farming Systems 648 2004 Evaluation Of Athletes’ Knowledge Of HIV/AIDS: The Case Of Kenyatta University, Nairobi-Kenya 649 2004 Analysis Of Postgraduate Research In The Department Of Physical Education, Kenyatta University, Kenya. 650 2004 Assessment Of Injuries In PE Lessons In Kenya Science Teachers College, Kenya 651 2004 Koigi-Kamau R, Kimani, R, Ndirangu, NW. Guidelines On Antenatal HIV Testing. The Nairobi Hospital, 2004. Kamau RK, Osoti AO, Njuguna EM. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, P.O. Box 1%76-00202, Nairobi, Kenya. BACKGROUND: Cancer of the uterine cervix is the most common female cancer in Kenya. Despite being preventable, it is often diagnosed when it is already late. For this reason, only palliative therapy is provided. Hence, it is expected that their daily routines and that of their caregivers are severely disrupted. OBJECTIVES: To determine the extent to which diagnosis and treatment of inoperable cervical carcinoma affects quality of life (QOL). DESIGN: Cross-sectional descriptive study. Setting Radiotherapy Department at the Kenyatta National Hospital. SUBJECTS: Women undergoing radiotherapy for inoperable cervical cancer. RESULTS: There is high prevalence of profound disruptions in nearly all domains of QOL. In the social domain, between 33% and 44% had the perception that family members and friends had withdrawn social support. Reduction in various economic facets was reported by 47.4%-52.6%, with 44.7% reporting a fall in the overall living standards. There were significant changes in the sexual domain, as a result in which 28.3% reported marital discordance. In the personality domain, decreased self-esteem and self-projection in life occurred in 30.9% and 36.2% respectively. On functional outcomes (EORTC QLQ-C30), only 32%-41% reported not being affected in the various facets of emotional function. Physical functions were affected in 19%-79%, role functions in 69%-75%; symptoms in 49%-80%; cognitive functions in 46%-56%; social functions in 63%-71% and financial aspects by 63%. On global QOL, 53% and 47% respectively reported high level disruption in overall physical health and overall QOL. CONCLUSION: Severe deterioration of QOL occurs as a result of diagnosis of inoperable cervical cancer and subsequent therapies. For this reason there is need to establish severe disease and end-of-life research and management services that would ensure better coping with cancer for patients and for home-based caregivers. PMID: 17633581 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 652 2004 Njenga, F.G., Kang 653 2004 African Institutions To Take The Lead In Development Of GM Mosquito. Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1:{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions / table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} Integrated vector management (IVM) for malaria control requires ecological skills that are very scarce and rarely applied in Africa today. Partnerships between communities and academic ecologists can address this capacity deficit, modernize the evidence base for such approaches and enable future scale up. Community-based IVM programmes were initiated in two contrasting settings. On Rusinga Island, Western Kenya, community outreach to a marginalized rural community was achieved by University of Nairobi through a community-based organization. In Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Ilala Municipality established an IVM programme at grassroots level, which was subsequently upgraded and expanded into a pilot scale Urban Malaria Control Programme with support from national academic institutes. Both programmes now access relevant expertise, funding and policy makers while the academic partners benefit from direct experience of community-based implementation and operational research opportunities. The communities now access up-to-date malaria-related knowledge and skills for translation into local action. Similarly, the academic partners have acquired better understanding of community needs and how to address them. Until sufficient evidence is provided, community-based IVM remains an operational research activity. Researchers can never directly support every community in Africa so community based IVM strategies and tactics will need to be incorporated into undergraduate teaching programmes to generate sufficient numbers of practitioners for national scale programmes. Academic ecologists at African institutions are uniquely positioned to enable the application of practical environmental and entomological skills for malaria control by communities at grassroots level and should be supported to fulfil this neglected role. 654 2004 Allomonal Effect Of Breath Contributes To Differential Attractiveness Of Humans To The African Malaria Vector Anopheles Gambiae. 655 2004 Mshinda, H., Killeen, G.F., Mukabana, W.R., Mathenge, E.M, Mboera, L.E.G., Knols, B.G.J., 2004, Development Of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes In Africa. Lancet Infectious Diseases, 4 (5), 264 -265. 656 2004 Allomonal Effect Of Breath Contributes To Differential Attractiveness Of Humans To The African Malaria Vector Anopheles Gambiae 657 2004 Development Of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes In Africa 658 2004 Waruiru, R.M., 2004. The Influence Of Supplementation With Urea-molasses Blocks On Weight Gain And Nematode Infection Of Dairy Calves In Central Kenya. Vet. Res. Commun., 28: 307-315. 659 2004 Waruiru, R.M., Mutune, M.N. & Otieno, R.O., 2004. Efficacy Of Copper Oxide Needles For The Control Of Gastrointestinal Nematode Infections Of Goats. 660 2004 Maina, A.N., Mbuthia, P.G., Ngatia, T.A., Waruiru, R.M.& Bebora, L.C., 2004. Staphylococcus Aureus, Listeria Species And Parasitic Lungworm Infection In Marketed Indidenous Chickens 661 2004 Antenatal Couple Counseling Increases Uptake Of Interventions To Prevent HIV-1 Transmission. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2004 Dec 15;37(5):1620-6. Farquhar C, Kiarie JN, Richardson BA, Kabura MN, John FN, Nduati RW, Mbori-Ngacha DA, John-Stewart GC. Centre for Clinical Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya. Background. There is conflicting evidence regarding the effects of breast-feeding on maternal mortality from human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection, and little is known about the effects of breast-feeding on markers of HIV-1 disease progression.Methods. HIV-1-seropositive women were enrolled during pregnancy and received short-course zidovudine. HIV-1 RNA levels and CD4 cell counts were determined at baseline and at months 1, 3, 6, 12, 18, and 24 postpartum and were compared between breast-feeding and formula-feeding mothers.Results. Of 296 women, 98 formula fed and 198 breast-fed. At baseline, formula-feeding women had a higher education level and prevalence of HIV-1-related illness than did breast-feeding women; however, the groups did not differ with respect to CD4 cell counts and HIV-1 RNA levels. Between months 1 and 24 postpartum, CD4 cell counts decreased 3.9 cells/ mu L/month (P<.001), HIV-1 RNA levels increased 0.005 log(10) copies/mL/month (P=.03), and body mass index (BMI) decreased 0.03 kg/m(2)/month (P<.001). The rate of CD4 cell count decline was higher in breast-feeding mothers (7.2 cells/ mu L/month) than in mothers who never breast-fed (4.0 cells/ mu L/month) (P=.01). BMI decreased more rapidly in breast-feeding women (P=.04), whereas HIV-1 RNA levels and mortality did not differ significantly between breast-feeding and formula-feeding women.Conclusions. Breast-feeding was associated with significant decreases in CD4 cell counts and BMI. HIV-1 RNA levels and mortality were not increased, suggesting a limited adverse impact of breast-feeding in mothers receiving extended care for HIV-1 infection. 662 2004 Association Of Levels Of HIV-1-infected Breast Milk Cells And Risk Of Mother-to-child Transmission. J Infect Dis. 2004 Nov 15;190(10):1880-8. 2004 Oct 07. Rousseau CM, Nduati RW, Richardson BA, John-Stewart GC,Mbori-Ngacha DA, Kreiss JK, Overbaugh J. 663 2004 Infant Feeding Practices Of Women In A Perinatal HIV-1 Prevention Study In Nairobi, Kenya. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2004 Jan 1;35(1):75-81. Kiarie JN, Richardson BA,Mbori-Ngacha D, Nduati RW, John-Stewart GC. 664 2004 Farquhar C, Kiarie JN, Richardson BA, Kabura MN, John FN, Nduati RW, Mbori-Ngacha DA, John-Stewart GC. Antenatal Couple Counselling Increases Uptake Of Intervention To Prevent HIV-1 Tranmission. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2004;37:1620-1626. 665 2004 Handbook On Paediatric AIDS In Africa For Medical Students, Doctors And Primary Care Workers 666 2004 Strategies To Improve HIV Test Acceptance And Uptake Of Interventions In PMCT Sites HIV testing in the antenatal clinic is an entry point for interventions to prevent mother to child transmission. It is therefore crucial that all women learn their HIV status during pregnancy. The approach used may influence the uptake of testing. HIV testing at the Kisumu District Hospital was initially offered using and ‘opt-in’ approach whereby in-depth counseling is instituted and women are required to request for the test as a separate component of their care. 667 2004 High Antenatal Hiv Testing Does Not Translate Into Increased Nvp Uptake. In International Conference On Aids And Stds In Africa (icasa) Nairobi , Kenya 668 2004 Education And Development, Hilltop Press Ltd, 2004 This analysis attempted to capture the key economic and financial trends in the budget in the 1995/6 year and to provide the rationale for them. These trends were linked to fundamental requisites for development and sustainable growth. 669 2004 DMCN/UNEP (2004) Coping With Floods In Kenya: Vulnerability, Impacts And Adaptation Options For The Flood-Prone Areas Of Western Kenya. Final Report Prepared By The Drought Monitoring Centre, Nairobi (DMCN)-April 2004-Member Of The Scientific Team Which P 670 2004 Odingo, R.S. (2004) Climate Change Impacts And Adaptation In Kenya. . 671 2004 Odingo, R.S. (2004) Importance Of Adaptation Studies For Climate Change And Vulnerability. . 673 2004 Kenya's Climate Change Technology Needs Assessment Report, May 2004 - Prepared Under The Auspices Of The United Nations Framework Convention On Climate Change (UNFCCC) - Review Editor. 674 2004 Coping With Floods In Kenya: Vulnerability, Impacts And Adaptation Options For The Flood-Prone Areas Of Western Kenya. 675 2004 Kenya's Climate Change Technology Needs Assessment Report, 676 2004 Drought And Development Policy In Africa; Scenarios Of Climate Change And Implications For Food Security In Africa 677 2004 Opportunities And Barriers For Climate Change Policies In Developing Countries And The Contribution Of The IPCC. 678 2004 Climate Change Impacts And Adaptation In Kenya. 679 2004 Importance Of Adaptation Studies For Climate Change And Vulnerability 680 2004 Ininda, J.M. And Okoola, R.E., 2004: Weather Analysis (Distance Learning Lecture Series: Unit: SMR 204). Published By University Of Nairobi. Kindly check later 681 2004 Luka Kandie Kiptui, Exchange Rate Pass-through To Domestic Prices In Kenya: 1972-2004, University Of Nairobi, 2005 682 2004 Justus Nyameyio Agoti, The Impact Of Dividend Announcements On Firm Value: An Event Study Of The Case Of The NSE, University Of Nairobi, 2004 683 2004 Andati Samuel Obulemire, Duration Dependence In Stock Prices: A Duration Analysis Of Bull And Bear Markets On NSE, University Of Nairobi, 2004 684 2004 Understanding The Structure Of Interest Rates In Kenya, KIPPRA Discussion Paper # 40 685 2004 Security Risk And Private Sector Growth In Kenya, KIPPRA Special Report #06 686 2004 Stock Market Development: What Have We Learned. 687 2004 Nduati R, Mbori-Ngacha D, Oyieke J, Maina K, Kamenga C . High Antenatal HIV Testing Does Not Translate Into Increased NVP Uptake. In International Conference On AIDS And STDs In Africa (ICASA) Nairobi , Kenya 2003N. Rutenberg1, M. Siwale, C. Kankasa, R. N 688 2004 R.W. Nduati , D. Mbori-Ngacha, J. Oyieke, M. Mwangi, I. Inwani, S. Yonga, G. Nyamongo, J. Kariuki. Challenges Of Up-scaling PMTCT Into Routine Public Health Services In Kenya. 689 2004 R.W. Nduati1, D. Mbori-Ngacha, S. Kalibala, S. Ogola, J. Oyieke, G. Nyamongo, G. Scott, L. Muthami, N. Rutenberg. Efficacy Of PMTCT Services In A Routine Care Setting. 691 2004 A Model For HIV Infection And Its Application 692 2004 The Performance Of One Type Step-wise Group Screening Designs 693 2004 Rostom R. S, 2001: Remote Sensing And GIS: Powerful Tools For Decision Makers. Opening Remarks, GIS Workshop For Decision Makers, RELMA & ICRAF, Nairobi, Dec. 2001 694 2004 A Local Approach Methodology For The Analysis Of Uncracked Tubular Joints. Journal Of Civil Engineering Research And Practise, Volume 1, No. 2, October 2004. Between June and December 1992 forty AIDS patients as defined by the CDC criteria, admitted to the medical wards of the Kenyatta National Hospital, were studied to determine the prevalence and pattern of peripheral neuropathy. Their mean age was 33 +/- 3 years with a range of 16 to 55 years. Clinical and laboratory assessment were carried out both to confirm peripheral neuropathy and exclude other causes of peripheral neuropathy apart from AIDS. All the patients had nerve conduction and electromyographic studies done. Eighteen patients were asymptomatic while fourteen had both signs and symptoms. The commonest symptom was painful paresthesiae of the limbs (35%) while the commonest sign was loss of vibration sense (60%). When symptoms, signs, and electrophysiological studies were combined, all the patients fitted the definition of peripheral neuropathy. The commonest type of peripheral neuropathy was distal symmetrical peripheral neuropathy (DSPN) (37.5%). PIP: In Kenya, physicians evaluated 40 AIDS patients admitted to Kenyatta National Hospital during June-December 1992 to determine the prevalence and types of peripheral neuropathy in AIDS patients. 75% were 21-40 years old. 18 (45%) of the 40 AIDS patients had symptoms of peripheral neuropathy. Symptoms included increased sensitivity to stimulation (43%), hyperpathia (15%), and muscle or limb weakness (13%). 26 AIDS patients had signs of peripheral neuropathy, especially impaired sense of vibration (60%). 14 of these patients had both signs and symptoms. Electromyographic and nerve conduction velocity revealed peripheral neuropathy in 16 (40%) AIDS patients. The types of peripheral neuropathy included distal symmetrical peripheral neuropathy (37.5%), polyneuropathy, and mononeuritis multiplex. When the symptoms, signs, and electroneurophysiological test findings were considered, all 40 AIDS patients had evidence of peripheral neuropathy. 695 2004 Determination Of Stress Characteristics At Connections Of Welded Members Using Finite Element Method. Journal Of Civil Engineering Research And Practise, Volume 1, No. 1, April 2004. 696 2004 WTO & Towards An Asian Union; Trade And Aid Linkages To Development With Reference To Africa 697 2004 Ensuring Africa Benefits From Extractive Industries 698 2004 T.A. NGATIA, P.W.N. KANYARI, P.M. MATHIU, K.K. SRIVASTAVA, S.T. WILSON And A. OYEJIDE. (2004). Post-mortem Observations On Ostrich Chicks In A Commercial Farm In Kenya. Bulletin Of Animal Health And Production In Africa, 52:59-62 Ostriches of various ages, unhatched embryos and chicks found to have oedema during post-mortem examination are described here. Unhatched eggs and chicks originated from a commercial farm, where there was a complaint of poor hatchability of eggs and high chick mortality. Of 35 embryos examined, 29(82.9%) had severe subcutaneous oedema either generalized (23) or localized(6). Of 311 chicks, 232(74.6%) had oedema of varying degrees of severity. In 10 chicks, the oedema was subcutaneous and severe, in 5 it was only serous effusions in body cavities and in 217, it was manifested as wetness of subcutaneous tissues. Adult and juvenile ostriches originated from three farms, where they were kept as pets. Of 22 birds, 16(72.7%0 developed a general sickness and 10(62.3%) of them died. Post-mortem examination revealed emaciation and either subcutaneous oedema or serous effusion in body cavities. Additional lesions included combinations of steatites, haemorrhages and pneumonia. The sick birds responded to improved diets that were also supplemented with multivitamins and minerals. 699 2004 G.O. MATETE, P.W.N. KANYARI, T.A. NGATIA, D.P. KARIUKI And S.G. NDUNG 700 2004 NG 705 2004 OTARA AM, KOMBE Y, KARANJA JG, CHESEEM E, ODERO M, KARAMA M, MUTSUMI J, AGWANDA R. Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS) In Rachuonyo, Nyanza Province Of Kenya. Journal Of Obstetrics And Gynaecology Of Eastern And Central Africa. 17: 1, 34-40, February 200 OBJECTIVE: We compared 12-month continuation rates, menstrual bleeding patterns and other aspects of acceptability between users of Cyclofem and users of Depo-Provera. METHODS: The life-table method was used to calculate quarterly continuation rates. In all, 360 Kenyan women were randomly assigned to one of the two contraceptives. User-satisfaction questionnaires were administered at 6 and 12 months or at discontinuation, whichever occurred first. RESULTS: The 1-year continuation rate was 75.4% for Depo-Provera users versus 56.5% for Cyclofem users (p<.001). Main reasons for discontinuation included difficulty making clinic visits (45.1% for Cyclofem vs. 40% for Depo-Provera), menstrual changes (14.1% vs. 12.5%) and nonmenstrual problems (15.5% vs. 12.5%). None of the Depo-Provera users and 8.5% of the Cyclofem users claimed frequency of visits as the main reason for discontinuation. In all, 70.6% of the Depo-Provera users were amenorrheic after 12 months, as were 20.8% of the Cyclofem users. CONCLUSIONS: The 1-year continuation rate was higher for Depo-Provera than for Cyclofem. There was no important difference in discontinuation rates because of menstrual problems; the difference mainly reflected the frequency of visits required. 706 2004 CHESEREM E, KOMBE Y, OTARA AM, KARANJA JG, AGWANDA R, KARAMA M, MUTSUMI J. Genital And Reproductive Morbidity In Women With Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS) In Rachuonyo, Nyanza Province Of Kenya. Journal Of Obstetrics And Gynaecology Of Eastern And C 707 2004 BUKUSIEA, COHEN CR, NGUTI R, MUNGAI JN, WAIYAKI PW, KARANJA JG, HOLMES KK Evaluation Of "Femexan" Rapid Test For The Diagnosis Of Bacterial Vaginosis In Kenya. Journal Of Obstetrics And Gynaecology Of Eastern And Central Africa. 17: 1, 57-61, February 200 708 2004 Selenium Status Of Livestock In Koibatek District In Kenya OBJECTIVE: To compare a topical quinolone antibiotic (ciprofloxacin) with a cheaper topical antiseptic (boric acid) for treating chronic suppurative otitis media in children. DESIGN: Randomized controlled trial. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: A total of 427 children with chronic suppurative otitis media enrolled from 141 schools following screening of 39 841 schoolchildren in Kenya. Intervention Topical ciprofloxacin (n = 216) or boric acid in alcohol (n = 211); child-to-child treatment twice daily for 2 weeks. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Resolution of discharge (at 2 weeks for primary outcome), healing of the tympanic membrane, and change in hearing threshold from baseline, all at 2 and 4 weeks. RESULTS: At 2 weeks, discharge was resolved in 123 of 207 (59%) children given ciprofloxacin, and in 65 of 204 (32%) given boric acid (relative risk 1.86; 95% CI 1.48-2.35; P < 0.0001). This effect was also significant at 4 weeks, and ciprofloxacin was associated with better hearing at both visits. No difference with respect to tympanic membrane healing was detected. There were significantly fewer adverse events of ear pain, irritation, and bleeding on mopping with ciprofloxacin than boric acid. CONCLUSIONS: Ciprofloxacin performed better than boric acid and alcohol for treating chronic suppurative otitis media in children in Kenya. 709 2004 General And Inorganic Chemistry Book For First Year Distance Learners OBJECTIVE: To determine the bacteriology and antibiotic sensitivity of the bacterial isolates in chronic maxillary sinusitis patients seen at the Kenyatta National Hospital. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. SETTING: Kenyatta National Hospital, ENT department. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Seventy-three patients had bilateral sntral washout done and the lavage submitted for culture and anti-microbial sensitivity between January and June 1996. RESULTS: Antral lavage yielded secretions in 63% of patients but bacteria were cultured in only 28.8% of the specimens. The isolates included Streptococcus pneumonia (22.2%), Staphylocococus albus (18.5%), Staphylocococus aureus (11.1%) and Enterobactericiae (11.1%). Anaerobic bacteria were cultured in 22.2% of the specimens. Of the commonly used antibiotics, there was high sensitivity to erythromycin, cefadroxyl, chloramphenicol and amoxicillin and poor sensitivity to ampicillin, cotrimoxazole and perfloxacin. CONCLUSION: The bacteriology of chronic maxillary sinusitis at Kenyatta National Hospital is generally similar to that found elsewhere. The bacteria are susceptible to relatively affordable antibiotics like amoxicillin, erythromycin and cefadroxyl. 710 2004 Formulation Of An Ammonium Soil Conditioner 711 2004 Synergistic Formulation Of Alphacypermethrin And Dimethoate Number KE/P/04/00412 712 2004 TEACHING HISTORY AND THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE; PROPOSAL FOR ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACH 713 2004 Assessment Of The Outcome Of Lower Limb Amputations As Seen In Kenyatta National Hospital This study was designed to assess the outcome of lower limb amputations as managed at the Kenyatta National Hospital. A prospective analysis of consecutive patients who underwent lower limb amputations at the Kenyatta National Hospital between July 1st, 2003 and June 30th, 2004 was performed. Data on the management and outcome were collected using questionnaires administered to the patients while admitted and in the follow-up clinics. The main outcome measures were the duration of hospital stay, duration of wound healing, need for operative revision, need to convert to a higher amputation level, degree of mobility and the thirty-day postoperative mortality. A total of74 patients (46 males) underwent 77 lower limb amputations. The mean age at operation was 44.4 years (range 7 months - 96 years). Ninety one percent were major amputations; 42 AKA ( 3 bilateral), 24 BKA and 4 hip disarticulations. Open amputations comprised 23% of the total. Extremity gangrene due to peripheral vascular diseases was the main indication for amputation (55%). Anaemia was the most common co-morbid condition (27%) followed by diabetes (18%), while stump infection was the commonest complication (33%). The thirty-day mortality rate was 13.5%. The healing rate for BKA was significantly less than for AKA, with a 21% rate of eventual conversion of BKA to AKA. Most of the patients (70%) were ambulating on crutches The average duration of hospital stay was 29.3 days. There was no patient who was using a prosthetic limb during the study period. 714 2004 Jae Sung Lee, Jong Suk Lee, Jae Don Yoon, Sung-Mok Beak, Kefa O. Bosire, Yong Soo Lee, Jung-Ae: Production Of Lignin Peroxidase By Phellinus Igniarius And Cytotoxic Effects Of Ligin Hydrolysates Derived From Wood Biomass On Cancer Cells. J. Appl. Pharmaco Asiatic acid (AA) is a pentacyclic triterpene found in Centella asiatica. In the present study, the mechanism of anticancer effect of AA on skin cancer was investigated. AA decreased viability and induced apoptosis in human melanoma SK-MEL-2 cells in a time- and dose-dependent manner. AA also markedly increased intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) level and enhanced the expression of Bax but not Bcl-2 protein in the cells. In addition, AA-induced activation of caspase-3 activity in a dose-dependent manner. Pretreatment with Trolox, an antioxidant, significantly blocked the induction of Bax and activation of caspase-3 in AA-treated cells. Furthermore, Ac-DEVD-CHO, a specific caspase-3 inhibitor, and Trolox prevented the AA-induced apoptosis. AA did not elevate p53 nuclear protein levels that are present in a mutant form in SK-MEL-2 cells. These results suggest that AA-induced apoptosis may be mediated through generation of ROS, alteration of Bax/Bcl-2 ratio and activation of caspase-3, but p53-independent. These results further suggest that AA may be a good candidate for the therapeutic intervention of human skin cancer. 715 2004 Open Source Software Adoption In Kenyan Tertiary Education: Opportunities, Challenges And Methodology 718 2004 Getao K.W., Ayienga E. Opiyo E., Okelo- Odongo W., Manderick B., Nowe A. Using Multi-agent Systems For Efficient Quality Of Service Guarantees In Computational Grids 719 2004 Getao K.W., 2004; Computer Education In Kenya 720 2004 Kiama S. G., J. N. Maina, K. D. Weyrauch, D. K. Mwangi (2004). The Morphology Of The Pecten Oculi Of The Ostrich, Struthio Camelus. The pecten oculi is a structure peculiar to the avian eye. Three morphological types of pecten oculi are recognized: conical type, vaned type and pleated type. The pleated type has been well studied. However, there exists only scanty data on the morphology of the latter two types of pectens. The structure of the vaned type of pecten of the ostrich, Struthio camelus was investigated with light and electron microscope. The pecten of this species consists of a vertical primary lamella that arises from the optic disc and supports 16-19 laterally located secondary lamellae, which run from the base and confluence at the apex. Some of the secondary lamellae give rise to 2 or 3 tertiary lamellae. The lamellae provide a wide surface, which supports 2-3 Layers of blood capillaries. Pigmentation is highest at the distal ends of the secondary and tertiary Lamella where blood capillaries are concentrated and very scanty on the primary and the proximal ends of the secondary lamella where the presence of capillaries is much reduced. In contrast to the capillaries of the pleated pecten, the endothelium of the capillaries in the pecten of the ostrich exhibits very few microvilli. These observations suggest that the morphology of the pecten of the ostrich, a flightless ratite bird is unique to the pleated pecten and is designed to meet the balance between optimal vision and large surface area for blood supply and yet ensuring it is kept firmly erect within the vitreous 721 2004 A Three-dimensional Cellular Model Of The Human Respiratory Tract To Study The Interaction With Particles A novel triple co-culture model of the human airway barrier was designed to simulate the cellular part of the air–blood barrier of the respiratory tract represented by macrophages, epithelial cells, and dendritic cells. When epithelial cells (A549 cells) were grown on filter inserts with pores of 3.0 m in diameter in a two-chamber system, they formed monolayers with polarization into apical and basolateral domains. The epithelial cell cultures were then supplemented with human blood monocyte–derived macrophages and dendritic cells on the apical and basal aspect, respectively. The single-cell cultures as well as the triple co-cultures were characterized in terms of a number of typical features, for example, morphology of cell types, integrity of epithelial layer, and expression of specific cell surface markers (CD14 for macrophages and CD86 for dendritic cells). The interplay of epithelial cells with macrophages and dendritic cells during the uptake of polystyrene particles (1 m in diameter) was investigated with confocal laser scanning and conventional transmission electron microscopy. Particles were found in all three cell types, although dendritic cells were not directly exposed to the particles. More investigations are needed to understand the translocation pathway 722 2004 Investigations On The Seismicity Of Kenya Using The University Of Nairobi Seismic Network 723 2004 Kigamwa P.Psychological Manifestations And Heart Disease East Afr Med J. 2004 Dec;81(12):609-10. Review. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE / Style Definitions / table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} Provision of management education through distance education is gaining significance in Britain and other developed countries. Although distance learning in developing countries is widely used in other aspects of education such as teacher training, it has been given scant consideration in the education of managers. This study investigated the possibility of using this method as an appropriate means of providing management education to Kenyan managers. It is felt that although much effort has been put into manpower training, affirmed in various national policies, the providing institutions are inadequate and appear not to meet the demand. In suggesting distance learning as a supplementary method, a survey of practice in the UK is used to demonstrate the relevance and the extent of application from which several lessons can be drawn by the Faculty of External Studies, University of Nairobi. The main critical success factors are efficient management of the various sub-systems in a distance learning institution, and the extent to which inherent limitations of distance learning are overcome. 724 2004 Njenga FG, Nicholls PJ, Nyamai C, Kigamwa P, Davidson JR. Post-traumatic Stress After Terrorist Attack: Psychological Reactions Following The US Embassy Bombing In Nairobi: Naturalistic Study. Br J Psychiatry. 2004 Oct;185:328-33. 725 2004 Kiima DM, Njenga FG, Okonji MM, Kigamwa PA. Kenya Mental Health Country Profile. Int Rev Psychiatry. 2004 Feb-May;16(1-2):48-53. 726 2004 Temperature Dependence Of The Thermal Conductivity Of Grog Modified Kenyan Kaolinte Refractory 727 2004 Livestock Versus Wildlife Ranching In Kenyan Rangelands: A Case Study Of Laikipia District Ranches. 728 2004 "The Years On: The International Criminal Tribunal For Rwands Constributions To International Criminal Law: In Volume 31-34 Eastern Africa Law Review Pp. 76-100 We describe the technique of splenic aspiration in 113 patients presenting with splenomegaly. It was used initially to establish a diagnosis, and in those patients with kala azar, to follow the response of the parasites to therapy until 'parasitological cure'. In all 671 aspirations were performed. No complications occurred in the 69 patients with active kala azar, who collectively had more than 600 aspirations. One patient in a moribund condition had a fatal haemorrhage. The aspirate suggested a lymphoma, confirmed at autopsy. In 68 of the 69 patients with active kala azar, the diagnosis was established at the first aspiration. The essentials of the technique are the use of a small calibre needle (21 G), and speed, the needle being in the spleen for less than a second, with the consequent procurement of a few drops of material only. 729 2004 "Towards Constitutional Protection Of Socio-Economic Rights In Kenya: Any Lessons From The South African Expereience?. 730 2004 Universal Jurisdiction For International Crimes, The Public Good And The Changing Face Of State Sovereignty" In Volume 2 University Of Nairobi Law Journal Pp. 116-140 731 2004 (With Kivutha Kibwana) "Kenya" In Christof Heyns (ed) In Volume 2 Human Rights Law In Africa Kluwer: The Hague 1178-1202 732 2004 "A Preliminary Comment On Th Independence Of The Kenya National Commission On Human Rights" 733 2004 On The Independence Of The Kenya National Commission On Human Rights: A Preliminary Comment 734 2004 A Preliminary Comment On The Independence Of The Kenya National Commission On Human Rights 735 2004 Trophic Ecology Of Some Common Juvenile Fish Species In Mtwapa Creek, Kenya Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1:{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions / table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} Macrophytes have been shown to perform important ecological roles in Lake Naivasha. Consequently, various studies regarding the impact of biotic factors on the macrophytes have been advanced but related studies on environmental parameters have lagged behind. In an attempt to address this gap, sampling on floating species and submergents was carried out in eight sampling sites in 2003 to investigate how they were influenced by a set of environmental factors. Soil texture (sandy sediments; P < 0.05, regression coefficient = - 0.749) and wind were the most important environmental parameters influencing the distribution and abundance of floating macrophytes. Combination of soil texture and lake-bed slope explained the most (86.3%) variation encountered in the submergents. Continuous translocation of the floating dominant water hyacinth to the western parts by wind has led to displacement of the submergents from those areas. In view of these findings, the maintenance and preservation of the steep Crescent Lake basin whose substratum is dominated by sand thus hosting most submergents remain important, if the whole functional purpose of the macrophytes is to be sustained. 736 2004 Ecohydrology To Guide The Management Of A Tropical Protected Area 737 2004 Bathymetry Of Lake Bogoria, Kenya Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1:{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions / table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} Macrophytes have been shown to perform important ecological roles in Lake Naivasha. Consequently, various studies regarding the impact of biotic factors on the macrophytes have been advanced but related studies on environmental parameters have lagged behind. In an attempt to address this gap, sampling on floating species and submergents was carried out in eight sampling sites in 2003 to investigate how they were influenced by a set of environmental factors. Soil texture (sandy sediments; P < 0.05, regression coefficient = - 0.749) and wind were the most important environmental parameters influencing the distribution and abundance of floating macrophytes. Combination of soil texture and lake-bed slope explained the most (86.3%) variation encountered in the submergents. Continuous translocation of the floating dominant water hyacinth to the western parts by wind has led to displacement of the submergents from those areas. In view of these findings, the maintenance and preservation of the steep Crescent Lake basin whose substratum is dominated by sand thus hosting most submergents remain important, if the whole functional purpose of the macrophytes is to be sustained. 738 2004 Spatial Distribution Of Suspended Particulate Matter In Mtwapa Creek And Funzi Bay, Kenya Surface water concentrations of inorganic nutrients and suspended particulate matter (SPM) components from Mtwapa and Shirazi creeks in Kenya were measured and compared. This was aimed at assessing the contribution of phytoplankton carbon, particulate organic carbon (POC) and detritus on the total SPM pool, and the influence of sewage discharge on these components of SPM. The results obtained were compared with those from Ramisi, an estuarine system. Using PCA and cluster analysis, three clear clusters of stations were obtained. The two creek systems (Mtwapa and Shirazi) were separated into two distinct clusters. The cluster comprising five stations in Mtwapa and four in Shirazi was characterised by high levels of POC: phytoplankton carbon ratio and to a lesser extent by pennate diatom stocks. All stations from Ramisi estuary were clustered together and were characterised by high concentrations of phytoplankton carbon, centric diatoms, dry weight, POC and detritus. A third cluster, comprised of two stations in Mtwapa, was characterised by high numbers of dinoflagellates. From the results obtained, detritus forms the main source of POC in the three sites; it accounts for a mean of 61% ±20 in Ramisi, 97% ±0.7 in Shirazi and 65% ±29 in Mtwapa. These high detritus levels are expected because of the allochthonous supply of particulate material by the river in Ramisi and the contribution from mangroves, which fringe the banks of the estuary and the creeks. 739 2004 Mbai, K. (2004). Artificial Insemination In Goats In Kenya. CAIS Magazine, Nov. 2004, Pg. 21-22. Mwaura F, K M Mavuti and W N Wamicha. . : 740 2004 The Importance Of Indigenous African Languages In East Africa In Transition. Nairobi: 741 2004 Maua Jwenye Jua La Asubuhi (A Play: Book Version) Nairob 742 2004 A Discussant’s Comments On Catherine Ndungo’s “Kiswahili : A Tool For Regional Integration And Cooperation 743 2004 Wabacha, J.K., J.M. Maribei, C.M. Mulei, M.N. Kyule, K.H. Zessin & W. Oluoch-Kosura 2004. Health And Production Measures For Smallholder Pig Production In Kikuyu Division, Central Kenya. Prev. Vet. Med. 63:197-210 744 2004 Oluoch-Kosura, W. 2004 745 2004 Mwangi, I. And W. Oluoch-Kosura 2004 746 2004 Effects Of Land Tenure On Agricultural Productivity, And The Environment: A Case Study Of Suba And Laikipia Districts 747 2004 Indices And Manifestations Of Poverty: Informing Anti-poverty Policy Choices Kenya has entered the 21st century with over 50% of its population classified as absolutely poor in that they live on less than a dollar a day. Per capita income is lower than at the end of the 1960’s. Income, assets, and access to essential services are unequally distributed. The country has made important economic reforms, improving macroeconomic management, liberalizing markets and trade, and widening the scope for private sector activity in the hope of improving economic growth and welfare for Kenyans. Yet, despite these reforms the country has experienced little growth and poverty continues to afflict an ever-larger segment of its citizenry, especially in rural areas. Recent debate on the reasons for limited impact of economic reforms on poverty reduction has been of a “top-down’ nature, where analysts consider a policy reform as an external shock and ask how its benefits and costs work their way through the economy to the poor. Increasingly, researchers are recognizing that macroeconomic and sectoral issues are only part of the basis for growth and poverty reduction. What is missing is a “bottom-up” perspective, which starts from the capabilities of individuals, households, and communities. What are their productivities, their environment and how do economic and social developments play out on the ground and how can these developments be influenced? Poverty is a complex, multifaceted concept reflecting a low level of well-being (World Bank 2000). The human well being itself is a multidimensional continuum from extreme deprivation (poverty) to a high attainment or experience of standard of living. 2 In economics use is commonly made of income or expenditure flows as proxies for welfare. This approach is appropriately contested within the social sciences, since well being is experiential, value laden, context and situation dependent and reflects social and personal factors. Poverty is therefore more than lack of material needs, since material sufficiency alone does not guarantee well being. While measurement of poverty is a critical empirical and policy concern, an important phenomenon that has gained currency in recent work on poverty analysis is that of poverty dynamics and poverty traps: who climbs above it, descends below it or oscillates around it – because poverty dynamics is the more fundamental policy concern. Identifying the right policy mix to help a given poor subpopulation depend on an accurate understanding of rural poverty dynamics. 748 2004 Shaping The Future Of African Agriculture For Development: The Role Of Social Scientists Food security remains a key challenge to the development efforts of most poor nations. This study investigated the significance of gender (denoted by number of male, female and children in a household) and social amenities in the food security equation. Frequency of food-related illnesses in a household was used as proxy for food security situation, while the entitlement/food utilization side of the equation was represented by the number of male and female children in the household, main source of domestic water, distance to nearest health center, means of transport accessible, household sanitation and level of awareness on basic food preparation and handling methods. Both descriptive and econometric models were used for analysis of primary data from a random sample of 100 farm-households in Yala division, Siaya district of Kenya. This study was conducted in February 2004. Results of this study indicated that majority (74%) of the rural households were experiencing poor food utilization, and were thus generally food insecure. The study also revealed that gender and social amenities were significant in the food security equation. Specifically, there was high correlation between food-related illnesses and use of untapped water, more male children than females in a household, long distance to health centers, lack of quick means of transport, unsafe food disposal and poor food storage habits. In order to improve the food utilization and thereby security for the rural farm-households, the study recommends improvement in the provision of social amenities for both male and female household members equitably. 749 2004 J.C. Njanja, J.M. Gathuma, G.K. Gitau, F.M. Njeruh And R.K. Ngugi (2004). Characteristics Of Southwestern Marsabit Pastoral Production System And Prevailing Constraints To Young Stock Health. 9th Biennial Scientific Conference Kenya Agricultural Research 750 2004 Short Communication: Chemical Composition And Feed Value Of Spiny And Spineless Cacti (opuntia) To Livestock 751 2004 Seasonal Botanical And Chemical Composition Of Sheep And Goat Diets On A Common Range In Eastern Africa The botanical and chemical composition, intake and digestibility of local sheep (Ovis aries) and goat (Capra hirtus) diets were evaluated over the wet (growing) and dry (dormant) seasons. Diet botanical composition was related to the vegetation composition on the range. Commiphora riperia and Acacia tortilis were the most dominant tree species, while Duosperma kilimandscharicum and Premna hildebrandtii were the most dominant shrub species. Enteropogon macrostachyus, Cenchrus ciliaris and Chloris roxburghiana were the most abundant grass species, while Brepharis integriifolia, Commelina benghalensis and Macrotylomma axillare were the most dominant forb species. Grasses increased towards the end of the wet season and the beginning of the dry season, while the forbs decreased. Eragrostis caespitosa, Cenchrus ciliaris, Eragrostis superba, Enteropogon macrostachyus and Themeda triandra were the most dominant grass species in sheep diets during both seasons, accounting for over 82% of the diet. Acalypha fruticosa, Grewia similis and G. bicolor were the most important browse species in goat diets in both seasons, while Eragrostis caespitosa and E. superba were the most common grass species during both seasons. Overall, goat diets comprised 81% browse, 17% grass and 2% forbs during the wet season; and 82% browse, 15% grass and 3% forbs during the dry season. Whilst the goat diets had higher (P < 0.05) Crude Protein (CP) content than sheep diets during both seasons, the sheep diets were lower in lignin content than goat diets during the wet season. Overall, the goat diets were lower in Neutral Detergent Fibre (NDF) and Acid Detergent Fibre (ADF) than sheep diets during both seasons. There was no difference (P < 0.05) in digestibility between the two animal species. However, it was higher (P < 0.05) during the dry than the wet season. Although sheep and goats are commonly herded together in east African rangelands, they have differing abilities to utilise forages. These differences must be taken into consideration in grazing management decisions, and selected grazing areas should be able to cater for the forage requirements of both species. 753 2004 The Somali And The Camel: Ecology, Management And Economics The Somali are one of the multi-state communities of Eastern Africa. Somalia is their main state, but they also occupy a large part of Djibuoti, northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia rangelands, loosely referred to as arid and semiarid lands (ASAL). Unpredictable rainfall, long periods of drought, limited water, and inadequate knowledge and technology of water resource management characterize the ASAL. There is also rapid population growth, coupled with low or declining real incomes, low nutritional levels, serious environmental degradation, and the externalities of modernization and economic development (Darkoh, 1996). Somali pastoralists are a camel community mainly because of the dry and harsh environment they live in; pastoralists, by definition, being those who primarily derive their living from the management of livestock on rangelands (Prior, 1994). There is no other community in the world where the camel plays such a pivotal role in the local economy and culture as in the Somali community. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO, 1979) estimates, there are approximately 15 million dromedary camels in the world, of which 65% are found in the northeast African states of Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan and Kenya. The Somali community (in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia) has the largest population and highest density of camels in the world, and to the same extent this animal also pervades the Somali culture. Historically, the geographical area that is now Somalia may have been a focal point in the introduction and dispersal of the domesticated dromedary (Abokor, 1993). The possession of a certain amount of livestock and of physical strength are the primary requirements for survival and success in the demanding environment of Somali pastoral nomads. The climatic and geographic conditions prompt the Somali pastoral nomads to pursue animal husbandry with constant movement from place to place in search of better pasture and water. This economic system in part determines social relations and institutions and creates a division of labour whereby tasks essential for survival are allocated to particular groups of people. The camel is an important livestock species uniquely adapted to hot and arid environments (Schwartz, 1992) and therefore contributes significantly to the food security of the nomadic pastoral households. This unique adaptability makes it ideal for exploitation under the ASAL conditions. The contribution of camels to the human welfare of developing countries, including Kenya, is generally obscured by a combination of several factors, which tend to underestimate their true value. Firstly, the estimates of camel populations are usually inaccurate due to lack of regular census. Secondly, their products seldom enter a formal marketing system; thus their contribution to subsistence and the national economy tends to be grossly underestimated. As a consequence, less attention has been given to camel improvements for many years when planning national development. For example, the major livestock development effort in Kenya between 1969 and 1982 (funded by the European Community) aimed at developing range areas completely ignored the camel (Njiru, 1993). In Somali occupied northern Kenya, camels are raised under traditional management systems. However, the changing socio-economic and environmental conditions are leading to a change in pastoral production systems from mainly subsistence towards market orientation. Generally, there are few practical, result-oriented studies on camel production. Wilson and Bourzat (1988) stated that the vast amount of research in the last two decades has contributed little to increased productivity. This has been attributed to the fact that most studies have had little general application to the practical aspects of camel production under pastoral production systems. Pastoral camel production is under pressure because of multiple changes in the production environment. Increasing human population pressure on pastoral grazing areas and the economic implications resulting from diseases and lack of veterinary services are some of the factors that adversely affect traditional camel production. Additionally, reproductive performance is low in camels due to late first parturition, long parturition intervals, and high calf mortality. Improvement of the reproductive performance and reduction of animal losses by management measures that are applicable to a mobile system appear to offer possibilities of increasing camel productivity and capacity to support the increasing human population. An adequate understanding of traditional camel production practices forms the foundation upon which improvement and innovations could be based. Using Moyale District as a case, this study was carried out in order to understand the status of traditional camel production systems of the Somali camel keeping pastoralists. 754 2004 Kyambi JM.Issues Involved In Pre-operative Consent.East Afr Med J. 2004 Jul;81(7):329-30. 755 2004 The State And Rural Development: Transcending The Centralization-Decentralization Debate, " Differentiation of bloodstream-form trypanosomes into procyclic (midgut) forms is an important first step in the establishment of an infection within the tsetse fly. This complex process is mediated by a wide variety of factors, including those associated with the vector itself, the trypanosomes and the bloodmeal. As part of an on-going project in our laboratory, we recently isolated and characterized a bloodmeal-induced molecule with both lectin and trypsin activities from midguts of the tsetse fly, Glossina longipennis [Osir, E.O., Abubakar, L., Imbuga, M.O., 1995. Purification and characterization of a midgut lectin-trypsin complex from the tsetse fly, Glossina longipennis. Parasitol. Res. 81, 276-281]. The protein (lectin-trypsin complex) was found to be capable of stimulating differentiation of bloodstream trypanosomes in vitro. Using polyclonal antibodies to the complex, we screened a G. fuscipes fuscipes cDNA midgut expression library and identified a putative proteolytic lectin gene. The cDNA encodes a putative mature polypeptide with 274 amino acids (designated Glossina proteolytic lectin, Gpl). The deduced amino acid sequence includes a hydrophobic signal peptide and a highly conserved N-terminal sequence motif. The typical features of serine protease trypsin family of proteins found in the sequence include the His/Asp/Ser active site triad with the conserved residues surrounding it, three pairs of cysteine residues for disulfide bridges and an aspartate residue at the specificity pocket. Expression of the gene in a bacterial expression system yielded a protein (M(r) approximately 32,500). The recombinant protein (Gpl) bound d(+) glucosamine and agglutinated bloodstream-form trypanosomes and rabbit red blood cells. In addition, the protein was found to be capable of inducing transformation of bloodstream-form trypanosomes into procyclic forms in vitro. Antibodies raised against the recombinant protein showed cross-reactivity with the alpha subunit of the lectin-trypsin complex. These results support our earlier hypothesis that this molecule is involved in the establishment of trypanosome infections in tsetse flies. 756 2004 "New Dimensions Of Regional Security In Africa: The Case Of IGAD", Mwagiru M. (ed), African Regional Security In The Age Of Globalization, Nairoi: HB Foundation) 757 2004 "Civil Society And Consolidation Of Democracy In Africa: Current Trends" 758 2004 Ludeki Chweya, 759 2004 "The Role Of Governance And Civil Society Of Africa's Development: A Critical Review", 760 2004 Gitau, A. N And L. O. Gumbe. Alleviating Soil Hardpan Formation For Conservation Farming - Case Of Semi-arid Kenya. Euro- Asia Journal Of Applied Sciences. Vol. 2 No. 3 (ISSN; 14SO-202X). 761 2004 Gitau, A. N And L. O. Gumbe. Alleviating Hard Pan Formation In The Semi-arid Kenya Soils For Conservation Farming. In: Proceedings Of A Regional Workshop On Conservation Agriculture And Rainwater Harvesting.1st Nov., 2004 Ethiopia, Addis Ababa. CD-ROM. Pp 762 2004 Gitau, A. N And L. O. Gumbe. Triaxial Testing Of Agricultural Soil. In: Proceedings Of The 2004 CIGR Internaional Conference-Beijing, P.R. China. 11th Oct. 2004. CD-ROM. Paper No. 10-1 14A. 763 2004 Co - Generation In The Sugar Industry 764 2004 ‘An Upsurge In Early Childhood Mortality In Kenya: A Search Of Explanations’ Journal of African Health Sciences (11) 1&2: 9-20. 765 2004 Maternal Health Care Utilization In Teso Journal of African Health Sciences (11) 1&2: 21-32 766 2004 Covariates Of Age At First Marriage And Birth In Kenya: A Hazard Model Analysis. A Paper Submitted To The Editor, Journal Of Health And Population In Developing Countries. CB# 7411, 1107 McGavran-Greenberg, University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill, Cha 767 2004 ‘Maternal Care Utilisation In Teso District’ This study seeks to document recent trends in early childhood mortality in the country and to offer some plausible explanations for the upsurge in the trends. Data and information from various sources are used in this paper to achieve this purpose. The results obtained show that infant, child and under-five mortality rates had declined in the 1960s and 1970s but were taking un upward trend since early 1990s. This situation is attributable to a combination of factors, including increased poverty, adverse effects of economic hardships and cost recovery programs associated with structural adjustment programs, increased childhood malnutrition, decreased use of certain maternity care services, decline in the coverage of child immunisations, inability of the public health system to provide services, and the HIV/ AIDS epidemic and the recent ethnic clashes that rocked some parts of the Rift Valley, Coast, Nyanza and Western province. In order to reverse the upward trend in mortality, there is an urgent need to intensify efforts to reduce poverty, to enable most people to have adequate food supply, improve the public health sector so that it can deliver health care to all people; to make greater efforts to raise the living standards of rural populations and improve the quality of housing, sanitary and sewerage conditions in urban slums. In addition, concerted efforts must continue to be made to contain the spread of HIV/AIDS, to assist AIDs orphans and to eliminate completely and to avoid recurrence of ethnic clashes and cattle rustling. 768 2004 Health Systems Research: A Training Manual 769 2004 Comparative Field Evaluation Of The Mbita Trap, The Centers For Disease Control Light Trap, And The Human Landing Catch For Sampling Of Malaria Vectors In Western Kenya. The mosquito sampling efficiency of a new bed net trap (the Mbita trap) was compared with that of the Centers for Disease Control miniature light trap (hung adjacent to an occupied bed net) and the human landing catch in western Kenya. Overall, the Mbita trap caught 48.7 +/- 4.8% (mean +/- SEM) the number of Anopheles gambiae Giles sensu lato caught in the human landing catch and 27.4 +/- 8.2% of the number caught by the light trap. The corresponding figures for Anopheles funestus Giles were 74.6 +/- 1.3% and 39.2 +/- 1.9%, respectively. Despite the clear differences in the numbers of mosquitoes caught by each method, both the Mbita trap and light trap catches were directly proportional to human landing catches regardless of mosquito density. No significant differences in parity or sporozoite incidence were observed between mosquitoes caught by the three methods for either An. gambiae s.l. or An. funestus. Identification of the sibling species of the An. gambiae complex by a polymerase chain reaction indicated that the ratio of An. gambiae Giles sensu stricto to An. arabiensis Patton did not vary according to the sampling method used. It is concluded that the Mbita trap is a promising tool for sampling malaria vector populations since its catch can be readily converted into equivalent human biting catch, it can be applied more intensively, it requires neither expensive equipment nor skilled personnel, and it samples mosquitoes in an exposure-free manner. Such intensive sampling capability will allow cost-effective surveillance of malaria transmission at much finer spatial and temporal resolution than has been previously possible. 770 2004 Helminth Parasites In The Intestinal Tract Of Indigenous Poultry In Parts Of Kenya. A study was carried out on 456 indigenous poultry intestinal specimens from various towns in Kenya to determine the occurrence and distribution of helminth parasites in the intestinal tract of the birds. Of the specimens examined, 414 had parasites whereas the remaining 42 had none, which is an infection rate of 90.78%. The main species of helminths found in the intestines were Raillietina sp. (47.53%), Heterakis gallinarum (21.33%), Ascaridia galli (10.03%), Strongyloides avium (9.96%), Choanotaenia infundibulum (4.61%), Cotugnia digonopora (3.6%), Capillaria sp. (1.5%), Trichostrongylus tenius (1.04%) and Syngamus trachea (0.40%). Most helminths were present in both the mid- and hindguts. Syngamus trachea and C. digonopora were only found in the foregut and midgut, respectively. Although chickens from which the specimens were collected appeard healthy, the high prevalence of helminthiasis observed shows the poor level of helminth infection control practiced by the indigenous poultry keepers in the country, which might affect the health status of the birds and their growth rates. Poultry keepers should be encouraged to prevent, control and treat such cases. 771 2004 Local Experience On Conduct Of Acute Toxicological Studies: Presented In Seminar On Procedure Of Evaluation Of Pesticides: Toxicology Ecotoxicology And Efficacy. Analysis of ﬂuoride in a variety of beverages was carried out using three different methods inconjunction with a ﬂuoride ion selective electrode. The three methods gave comparable results for 26samples of fruit juices. However, 68% of the juices were found to contain ﬂuoride levels higher than theWHO recommended limits (0.6 - 1.0 mgl-1). Soft drinks (sodas) and beers were found to contain values lower than 0.6 mgl-1. The amount of ﬂuoride in tea infusion was found to increase both with increase inboiling time and amount of tea leaves used. Chocolate and coffee infusions were found to contain 4.3 mgl-1and 4.0 mgl-1ﬂuoride, respectively. 773 2004 Othieno-Abinya NA, Abwao HO, Maina JM, Nyabola LO, Opiyo A, Njuguna E, Ndege P, Musibi A.Non-Hodgkin's Lymphomas At Kenyatta The National Hospital Nairobi In The 1990's.East Afr Med J. 2004 Sep;81(9):450-8. OBJECTIVES: To determine the clinico-pathologic and prognostic factors, treatment and outcome of non-Hodgkin's lymphomas as seen at the Kenyatta National Hospital in the 1990s. DESIGN: Retrospective study of patients with non-Hodgkin's Iymphoma. SETTING: Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya, between January 1990 and January 2000 inclusive. SUBJECTS: Patients aged 13 years and above, with non-Hodgkin's Iymphomas. RESULTS: Case records were available for 207 patients, 146 males and 60 females, with one having had gender not clarified. Fifty two per cent of the patients were aged less than 40 years and 18.4% over 60 years. Forty one per cent were not properly classified histologically, seventy patients out of 190 evaluable (36.8%) had stages IVA and IVB disease at diagnosis. Twenty five out of 77(32.5%) tested positive for HIV infection, none of them being of the indolent variety. Up to 57.1% of cases of Burkitt's lymphoma tested positive for HIV infection. Cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine and prednisone, (CHOP) chemotherapy was given to 68.7% of the patients with complete remission rates of 55.6% for those who got a minimum of six courses of chemotherapy. Only 15.3% of 105 patients evaluable were followed up for 36 months and above, the majority of patients having been lost to follow-up. Poor performance status at diagnosis correlated with shorter follow-up durations (p<0.05). CONCLUSION: A good percentage of the patients were not comprehensively characterized pathologically. Standard treatment was offered to the majority of patients, and those who could afford to purchase the medicines stood good chance of achieving complete remission. Poor performance status at diagnosis correlated with shorter follow-up durations and early stage disease correlated with longer follow-up durations. Overall, the outlook for NHLs treated at KNH in the 1990s appears to have improved tremendously. 774 2004 MMM AFRICA! (KISWAHILI). 775 2004 Mohammed H.A. Liyongo Songs: Poems Attributed To Fumo Liyongo, Published By Rrdiger Koppe Verlag, Cologne, Gernany2004 776 2004 Opening A Can Of Worms: A Debate On Female Sexuality In The Lecture Theatre 777 2004 Can Waste Paper Be Used As Feed Supplement For Ruminant Livestock? 778 2004 Microvascular Growth, Development And Remodeling In The Embryonic Avian Kidney 780 2004 Current Stereological Methods For Simple Quantification Of Biological Structures,: A Short Review. 781 2004 Breeding Snap Beans For Smallholder Production In East And Central Africa: In Bean Improvement For The Tropics 783 2004 Trade Main Streaming And Facilitation In Africa: Case Of Kenya. United Nations University, United Nations Centre, Tokyo. 784 2004 High Resolution, So What? Hargeisa City, Somaliland. August 2004 A retrospective study of the hospital records revealed that 39 cases of mandibular fractures presented at Kisii District Hospital during a two-year period. 27 cases were due to interpersonal violence while road traffic accidents and accidental falls accounted for 9 and 3 of the cases respectively. The male ratio was 2.9:1. Majority (26 cases) of the patients were aged between 20 and 39 years. The commonly involved fracture site was the left body of the mandible accounting for 20 of the fractures. 785 2004 Gichuki Muchiri. 2004Conservation Tillage And Food Production In Semiarid Tropics Of Africa: Kenyan Case Study. Paper Presetted In The Annual Meeting, Of American Society Of Agronomy, SEATTLE U.S.A. 786 2004 Gichuki Muchiri. 2004. Conservation Tillage Equipment Productivity Quantified. A Case Study In Semiarid Smallholder Agriculture In Eastern Kenya. Unpublished PhD Thesis Submitted For Examination. University Of Nairobi. There have been very few studies in Kenya on aerosols despite the global demand on aerosol ground studies in the perspective of climate and the human well being. Therefore, atmospheric aerosol studies became the basis of the work covered in this thesis which describes aerosol studies in Kenya and development of an energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometer (EDXRF). Atmospheric aerosols are composed of both the particulate and gas phases and they contain chemical compounds and elememts that are harmful to human health. Their particle size range is related to sources and this determines their impact in the ambient aatmosphere. Anthropogenic activities mainly contribute fine particles mass (PM 2.5) and natural proceses contribute both fine and course (PM (10-2.5)) particle masses. PM10 (PM 2.5 + PM (10-2.5)) are inhalable into the human respiratory system and the fine particles have a marked impact on climate. PM10 particles are efficient in transporting micronutrients between ecosystems, soiling and destroying buildings. Any policies meant to protect the environment by controlling atmospheric aerosol particles will need back up knowledge on particle sources and their physical and chemical characteristics. The five sampling campaigns covered under this study were conducted in Nairobi city, Meru and Nanyuki towns and on the slopes of Mount Kenya at about 2000m and 4000 m above the sea level. The multi-elemental analyzing capacity of EDXRF and statistical treatment of data are indispensable tools in aerosol source identification. These techniques were used in all the published results. The results revealed the dominance of local and regional biomass burning and local soil dust emissions. Traffic emissions were more pronounced in urban centers, with high concentrations of Br, Pb and Mn in Nairobi but with minor contribution at the remote sites on Mount Kenya. Marine influence was seen superimposed in the soil dust emissions and agricultural activities were also identied through elevated concentrations of Ca, Cl, K and S in the same source. Nairobi turned out to be a more polluted city in comparison to Dar es Salaam, Gaborone and Khartoum in Africa. The developed EDXRF spectrometer will play a major role in environmental studies in Kenya. Longterm measurements of Kenyan aerosols are recommended to better understand the total picture of aerosol particles including seasonal variation. 791 2004 Gatari M., Wagner A., Boman J., Elemental Composition Of Tropospheric Aerosols In Hanoi, Vietnam And Nairobi, Kenya. 792 2004 Application Of Cd109 Source In Evaluation Of Background Industrial Aerosols In Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa. - 2004 793 2004 The Civil Society And Democratization Process In Kenya, In Mushi, S., Mukandala, R., And Yahya-Othman, S., (eds) Democratic Transition In East Africa. Nairobi: East African Education Publishers. 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The review sheds light on the safety, and application of these products in medicine, the food industry and other areas, especially those where genetic modification may represent a cheap, faster, credible, viable alternative in achieving sustainable development among resource-poor communities. 794 2004 Kanyinga, K., Mitullah, W., Odhiambo., Wojciech, S., And Salamon., 2004. 'Dimensions Of The Non-Profit Sector In Kenya 795 2004 Contributed Chapter Three - 796 2004 `Participatory Governance And Poverty Alleviation In Local Authorities: Lessons And Challenges’, In Journal Of Regional Development Dialogue [RDD] . 797 2004 `The Non Profit Sector In Kenya’ In Salamon, L.M. And Wojciech Sokolowski [eds] From Global Civil Society: Dimensions Of The Non Profit Sector, Vol 11. 798 2004 `Making Institutions Work For The Poor In Kenya: A Search For Institutional Strategies’ In Judith M. Bahemuka And Joseph L. Brockington, East Africa In Transition: Images, Institutions And Identities. 799 2004 `Gender And Democratization In Kenya: The Unbalanced Equation’ In Samuel S. Mushi, Rwekaza Mukandala And Saida Yahya-Othman, Democracy And Social Transformation In East Africa. Nairobi-Kampala-Dar-es-Salaam 800 2004 `Kenya’s Decentralisation Through Devolution Of Power: Advances And Limits’ In Oxhorn, P; Tulchin, J.S. And Selee A.D [eds] Decentralisation, Democractic Governance And Civil Society In Comparative Perspective. Baltimore: The J 801 2004 Gender And Employment Dimensions Of Poverty: Policy Issues, Challenges And Responses In East Africa. Geneva: ILO, Policy Integration Department, National Policy Group. 802 2004 Policy Brief On `Policy Issues And Challenges In The Kenyan Metal Products Sub-Sector. University Of Nairobi, IDS 803 2004 `Kenyan Exports Of Nile Perch: The Impact Of Food Safety Standards On An Export-Oriented Supply Chain. Washington DC: World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3349. 804 2004 `Local Democracy In Nairobi, Kenya’ In `Democracy At The Local Level In East And Southern Africa: Profiles In Governance – Policy Summary'. Stockholm: IDEA 805 2004 `A Review Of Fragmented Urban Development In Kenya’ In KAAD Africa Publications Volume 1V: Worlds Apart: Local And Global Villages: From Villagisation To Globalisation In One Generation. Nairobi: Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Occasional Working Papers. 806 2004 Local Governance And Poverty Alleviation In Africa 807 2004 J.M Njenga And V.T Tsuma (2004).Sudden Death Following Rupture Of The Middle Uterine Artery, In A Bovine Dystocia. The Kenya Veterinarian 26: 27-28. 808 2004 J. M. Njenga And V.Tsuma.Sudden Death Following Rupture Of The Middle Uterine Artery, In A Bovine Dystocia.In The Kenya Veterinarian Vol 26(2004): 27-28 A case of dystocia resulting in rupture of he middle uterine artery and subsequent death in a cow is reported 810 2004 Assessment Of The Potential Impact Of Climate Change On Fisheries In Lake Victoria Using The Predictor Rule 811 2004 Distribution And Abundance Of The Nile Perch, Lates Niloticus (L.), In The Uganda Portion Of Lake Victoria 812 2004 Al-Busiri And Muhammad Mshela: Two Great Sufi Poets 813 2004 Mary Njeri Kinyanjui And Dorothy McCormick 2004 "Industrializing Kenya: Building The Productive Capacity Of Micro And Small Enterprises Clusters" SEPT Working Paper No. 15. Leipzig: University Of LEIPZIG ISBN 3-934693-14-8 814 2004 Mary Njeri Kinyanjui And McCormick, Dorothy 2004, "E-Commerce In The Garment Industry In Kenya: A Preliminary Review Of Usage, Obstacles And Policies", In McCormick, D. And Rogerson, C. (editors), Clothing And Footwear In Africa Industrialization, Johanne 815 2004 Mary Njeri Kinyanjui With Ligulu, Peter And McCormick, D., 2004 "Policy And Footwear In Kenya 816 2004 Industrializing Kenya: Building The Productive Capacity Of Micro And Small Enterprise Clusters 817 2004 E-Commerce In The Garment In The Garment Industry In Kenya: A Preliminary Review Of Usage, Obstacles And Policies 818 2004 Policy And Footwear In Kenya In McCormick 819 2004 The Evolution Of Modern Human Behavior In East Africa Genetic evidence suggests an African origin for modern human ANATOMY, and archaeological evidence suggests a subSaharan African origin for modern human BEHAVIOR. Testing the latter hypothesis requires a reliable, precise and accurate chronology for the first appearance of innovations considered hallmarks of the origin of modern human behavior, including ground bone tools, art, ornamanentation, sophisticated stone tool technologies and resource exploitation patterns, and systematic trade over long distances. These innovations are conventionally associated with the transition from the Middle to the Later Stone Age. This transition may be earlier than the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in N. Africa and W. Eurasia, but this is difficult to prove because most chronometric techniques that can be used in this time range (40-100,000 years ago) are highly unreliable, particularly radiocarbon dating. Advances in techniques of radiogenic argon dating (40Ar/39Ar) by single crystal laser fusion dating of volcanic tephra make it possible to obtain accurate and precise dates on eruptions as young as 2000 years old. The central and southern Rift Valley regions of Kenya have many Middle and early Later Stone Age sites with stratified volcanics. The primary sources of traded obsidian are in the central Rift and the southern Rift sites often have excellent bone preservation. Several archaeological sites with multiple stratified volcanic horizons have now been sampled in both areas of the Rift. In the southern Rift, test excavations have been conducted at four sites that have MSA and/or early horizons. Each site has two to four volcanic layers stratified within the archaeological deposits. Argon dating will be performed by Dr. Alan Deino at the Berkeley Geochronology Center, USA. Amino acid racemization of ostrich eggshell provides an additional means of dating archaeological sites. Dr. Gifford Miller of the University of Colorado, Boulder, has dated the top of an 8-meter thick Early LSA to MSA sequence to 32,000 BP. The shell also produced a radiocarbon date of 29,975 BP. The MSA/LSA transition occurs approximately 7 meters below this date, and one meter below a volcanic ash. The late MSA and transitional horizons have high frequencies of traded obsidian. The results of chronometric dating on the tephra from the transitional industries at two of these sites should make it possible to test the hypothesis for an east African origin for modern human behavior. We thank the Office of the President for research clearance, the L.S.B. Leakey Foundation, the University of Illinois Graduate College and Research Board, and the National Museums of Kenya, for financial and/or logistical support for this research. 820 2004 Lemudong’o: A New 6 Ma Paleontological Site Near Narok, Kenya Rift Valley Lemudong’o is located on the western margin of the southern Rift Valley approximately 100 km west of Nairobi (Fig. 1), an area deeply incised by three major permanent river systems. Stratified lavas, air-fall and water-laid tuﬀs, alluvial, and fluviolacustrine sediments, and paleosols of Late Miocene to Late Pleistocene age crop out over a w25 50 km area. Wright (1967) reconstructed three paleolakes and shoreline facies, assumed to be Plio-Pleistocene in age, in the vicinity of an isolated Basement Complex inselberg. Radio- metric dating demonstrates the paleolake deposits exposed at Lemudong’o are Late Miocene in age. During archaeological surveys and excavations in this region in 1995-96 (Kyule et al., 1997) and 1999–2002 (Ambrose et al., 2000; 2002; Hlusko et al., 2002), 55 new archaeological sites (Acheulean, Middle Stone Age, Later Stone Age, Neolithic and Iron Age), and several paleontological occurrences were discovered. Here we describe the preliminary results from research at the Late Miocene fossil site of Lemudong’o. The most productive Late Miocene paleontological site in the area is exposed in Lemudong’o Gorge, GvJh15, GvJh32 (Figs. 2 and 3). Lithologic units include paludal (marsh) and lake margin claystones, lacustrine diatoma- ceous silts and claystones, and coarser alluvial deposits with interstratified tuﬀs. Similar ex-posures occur within tens of kilometers, though their correlation to the Lemudong’o strata is not yet confirmed, and fossils are scarce and taxonomically non-diagnostic. Lemudong’o Gorge is a fault-controlled, deeply incised gully system bounded on the east by the Enkoria fault (Wright, 1967). Fossiliferous sedi- ments are exposed at two localities approximately 500 m apart. Locality 1 (Lemudong’o 1, GvJh15, coordinates: 1(18.19S, 35(58.74E, approximate elevation 1600–1620 m) was discovered in 1994, and is located in the upper reaches of the main gully. It contains the higher levels of the depo- sitional sequence, and the main fossiliferous horizons. Locality 2 (Lemudong’o 2, GvJh32, coordinates: 1(17.98S, 35(59.04E) was discovered in 1999 and includes lower strata and a poorly- exposed horizon with sparse, generally non- diagnostic fossil material. No significant unconformities occur in the main sedimentary sequence. 821 2004 Cultural Heritage Management: A Review Case For The Antiquities And Monuments Act (CAP 215) Laws Of Kenya (1983) 823 2004 Late Presentation Of Patients With Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma 824 2004 Methodological Issues In Measurement And Valuation Of Disease States: A Case Study Of Schistosomiasis Mansoni In Kenya. Doctoral Thesis, LSHTM, University Of London, UK. 825 2004 Mogoa E.G.M. (2004): Anaesthesia In The New Millennium: New Drugs, Routes, And Delivery Systems. The Kenya Veterinarian (27), 49-51. Researchers in both human and veterinary anaesthesia continue searching for better and safer anaesthetics substances which can cause damage and even death if given in incorrect doses or concentrations. Apart from looking for newer drugs, research is going on to find better routes of administration and drug delivery systems. The anaesthesia of millennium will focus on the development of substances that mimic the proteins and peptides made by the body. Newer delivery systems include patches, ionotrophoretic techniques and transmucosal delivery are being tested and/ or being practiced. This paper highlights on some of the developments and the possible future directions in anaesthesia 826 2004 Mogoa E.G.M., Omiti J.M., Tsuma V.T., Bwanga C.O. (2004): Some Constraints And Opportunities In The Privatization Of Animal Breeding Services In Kenya. The Kenya Veterinarian (27), 45-48. 827 2004 Mogoa E.G.M. And Mbithi P.M.F. (2004): Pain And Its Management In Animals. The Kenya Veterinarian (27), 10-14. 828 2004 Patterns Of Injuries In Road Traffic Accident Fatalities Seen At The Kenyatta National Hospital Few people can be ignorant of or unmoved b~ the enormous increase in the mortality and the morbidity caused by trauma caused by RTAs. The number of road traffic accidents has increased in recent years to pandemic proportions. The health, medical and legal problems posed affect all branches of surgery and medicine and fatal results are particularly relevant to the pathologist. In Kenya, it is estimated that over 13,000 accidents occur annually, killing 2,600 people and seriously injuring another 11,000. In terms of economic losses up to 14 billion shillings are lost annually not withstanding the human and emotional suffering (32). This study was carried out at the Kenyatta National Hospital. It was a descriptive cross sectional study that attempted to document the patterns of injuries, determine the cause of death, correlate the fatalities as seen in pedestrians, drivers and passengers, determine the proportion of those who die on the spot and those that die while undergoing treatment; and determine injury severity scores. One hundred (100) autopsies were performed after obtaining an informed consent over a period of 25 weeks. The study involved 81 males and 19 females with an age range of 4-80 years and a median age of33.5 years. 45% arrived at casualty dead while 55% were admitted for a period ranging between 1-730 days with a mean of 14 days. Vulnerable groups were Pedestrians 62%, passengers 24%, drivers 9%, cyclists 4% and one case was not specified. Head injuries were commonest accounting for 76%, followed by chest injuries 70%, abdominal injuries 60%, lower limb injuries 57%, upper limb injuries 35%, neck injuries 29% and pelvic injuries 16%. The commonest cause of mortality was head injury 57%, followed by chest injury 33%, abdominal injuries 17%, other secondary injuries 8% and lower limb injuries was least accounting for 5%. Majority 48% had a severe injury severity score (ISS) ranging 50-75, 44% had moderate score of between 25-49 and 8% mild scores of up to 24. 829 2004 Rites Of Passage: Controversy Over The Role Of Initiation Ceremonies For Cultural Identity Among Some Kenyan Societies: The Case Of The Abagusii Community Of South Western Kenya Many communities mark transition from childhood to adulthood with elaborate rites of passages. For some of these communities, these rites involve circumcision for boys and clitoridectomy for girls. There is now a worldwide outcry against such practices, the loudest being that against clitoridectomy. This article attempts to show: (a) that the communities which perform such rites still continue to believe that these rites bestow upon the individual a certain specific social identity without which the individual cannot be allowed to perform certain specific roles as a member of that community, (b) why the practice of bestowing this identity is attracting controversy in modern societies and, finally, (c) how the controversy could be resolved by identifying the educational role such rites of passage are meant to perform among the communities that practise them. 831 2004 Simulation Model For Dental Arch Shapes In Humans This article reveals that the concept of education as a process of growth is a difficult one. Philosophers are, therefore, justified in being weary when pondering over its meaning, both in theory and practice. By way of conclusion, the article appreciates the complexities inherent in the growth theory of education, summarizing its major strength and weaknesses. Then it cautions educational planners and practitioners to be weary when, and if, they translate the theory into practice, so that they utilize the strengths inherent in the theory whilst paying attention to the dangers of its inherent weaknesses. 832 2004 Design Of Speech Database For Unit Selection In Kiswahili Text To Speech System When developing a Concatenative Text to Speech System [1, 3, 4] (i.e. a form of synthesis where waveforms are created by concatenating parts of natural speech recorded from humans) it is necessary that all the acoustically and perceptually significant sound variations (allophones) in the language are recorded so that they are played back each time the system synthesises speech. Improvement on the system is made by assuming that co-articulation (mutual influence between adjoining sounds) does not extend beyond phone-phone boundary [1]. In this case all possible phone-phone combinations are read and recorded. Each unit of the two phone combination is referred to as the diphone. Synthesis is then based on concatenation of the diphones thus taking care of the overlap in the phone-phone boundary. An even better system can be realised when each diphone is captured within the context of several words and synthesis carried out by using the best selection from the recorded words. It is clear then that this procedure must use proper selection of the sentences from which the diphones are to be captured. In other words, such sentences must be phonetically balanced; implying that they must have the same phone distribution as used entirely in the language. 833 2004 Some Essential Features In Developing A Text To Speech System In Kiswahili This paper discusses the important aspects to be considered when developing A Text To Speech System (TTS) in Kiswahili. These include linguistic features such as the phoneset, stresses and intonation. The choice of the standard dialect is also discussed. TTS features such as the text normalisation and the lexicon for Kiswahili are discussed. 834 2004 Poverty And Health: Implications For The Nurse Midwife The gene Q13L coding for the Capripoxvirus group specific structural protein P32 was expressed in Escherichia coli using plasmid pGEX-2T as a fusion protein with glutathione-s-transferase and purified on glutathione sepharose affinity chromatography column. The protein was then employed for diagnosis of sheeppox, goatpox and lumpyskin disease, by a latex agglutination test (LAT) using the purified P32 antigen and guinea pig detector antiserum raised against the P32 antigen. The LAT and virus neutralization test (VNT) were used to screen one hundred livestock field sera for antibodies to Capripoxvirus, in comparison the LAT was simpler, rapid and 23% more sensitive than the VNT. In addition the LAT was found to be specific for Carpripoxvirus because it did not pick antibodies to Orthopoxvirus and Parapoxvirus. The LA test can be taken for a simple and quick diagnostic tool for primary screening of Carpripoxvirus infection and will reduce the reliance of diagnostic laboratories on tissue culture facilities. Keywords: Carpripox, latex agglutination test, attachment gene J. Trop. Microbiol. Biotechnol. Vol. 3 (2) 2007: pp. 36-43 835 2004 Maltohexaose Production By A Recombinant Bacillus Halodurans α-amylase: Proteins isolated from the midgut of Glossina pallidipes were used to immunize rabbits and their efficacy as vaccine candidate(s) against the fly, and their potential to block transmission of Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense assessed. Two fractions, detergent (DET) and aqueous (AQ) fractions were separated using a non-ionic detergent (Triton X-114) and a series of bioassay experiments carried out using serum obtained from rabbits immunized with either of the two fractions. The mortality rates of tsetse flies fed on serum from rabbits immunized with DET and AQ was 56 and 35%, respectively, as compared to 20% mortality in controls. The DET antigen(s) caused considerably higher mortality (chi(2)=1.194, P<0.05) than that on controls. These findings suggest that midgut proteins contain antigens that are lethal to tsetse flies, and are potential candidates for the development of anti-tsetse vaccine. When flies fed on serum derived from DET immunized rabbits were fed on T. b. rhodesiense infected blood, only 20% of them picked the infection. Very few flies (20%) fed on serum derived from DET immunized rabbits had infection of T. b. rhodesiense. In the control flies 45% of them had infection in the midgut with a higher and actively motile parasite load. Assessment of fecundity indicated significantly higher (chi(2)=2.117, P<0.05) larviposition for the control flies when compared to the AQ group of flies (chi(2)=1.054, P<0.05). Significant differences in abortions and pupal weights were also observed. These results suggest that midgut proteins contain antigens with potential for use in development of vaccine to block transmission of trypanosomes through tsetse. 836 2004 Hashim SO, Delgado O, Hatti-Kaul R, Mulaa FJ, Mattiasson B.Starch Hydrolysing Bacillus Halodurans Isolates From A Kenyan Soda Lake.Biotechnol Lett. 2004 May;26(10):823-8. Fourteen obligate alkaliphilic and halotolerant bacterial isolates, exhibiting extracellular amylase activity at 55 degrees C and pH 10, were isolated from hot springs around Lake Bogoria, Kenya. From 16S rDNA sequence analysis, nine isolates shared 100% identity with Bacillus halodurans strain DSM 497T, while the rest shared 99% identity with alkaliphilic Bacillus species A-59. PCR of the intergenic spacer region between 16S and 23S rRNA genes (ISR-PCR) divided the isolates into two groups, while tDNA-PCR divided them into three groups. Bacillus halodurans DSM 497T had a different ISR pattern from the isolates, while it had a tDNA-PCR profile similar to the group that shared 99% identity with alkaliphilic Bacillus species A-59. All isolates hydrolysed soluble starch as well as amylose, amylopectin and pullulan. The amylase activity (1.2-1.8 U ml(-1)) in the culture broths had an optimum temperature of 55-65 degrees C, was stimulated by 1 mm Ca2+, and was either partially (16-30%) or completely inhibited by 1 mM EDTA. Activity staining of the cell-free culture supernatant from the isolates revealed five alkaline active amylase bands. 837 2004 Baliraine FN, Bonizzoni M, Guglielmino CR, Osir EO, Lux SA, Mulaa FJ, Gomulski LM, Zheng L, Quilici S, Gasperi G, Malacrida AR.Population Genetics Of The Potentially Invasive African Fruit Fly Species, Ceratitis Rosa And Ceratitis Fasciventris (Diptera: T A set of 10 microsatellite markers was used to survey the levels of genetic variability and to analyse the genetic aspects of the population dynamics of two potentially invasive pest fruit fly species, Ceratitis rosa and C. fasciventris, in Africa. The loci were derived from the closely related species, C. capitata. The degree of microsatellite polymorphism in C. rosa and C. fasciventris was extensive and comparable to that of C. capitata. In C. rosa, the evolution of microsatellite polymorphism in its distribution area reflects the colonization history of this species. The mainland populations are more polymorphic than the island populations. Low levels of differentiation were found within the Africa mainland area, while greater levels of differentiation affect the islands. Ceratitis fasciventris is a central-east African species. The microsatellite data over the Uganda/Kenya spatial scale suggest a recent expansion and possibly continuing gene flow within this area. The microsatellite variability data from C. rosa and C. fasciventris, together with those of C. capitata, support the hypothesis of an east African origin of the Ceratitis spp. 838 2004 Population Genetics Of The Potentially Invasive African Fruit Fly Species, Ceratitis Rosa And Ceratitis Fasciventris (Diptera: T 839 2004 The Problems Of Low Back Pain In Africa Discussed in this paper are 227 African patients seen in a private clinic in the period August 1982 to March 1987. During the same period 2201 patients were seen. This constitutes 10%. Most of the sufferers were in the third to fifth decades. The male to female ratio was 1:1.7. The housewife, farmer and the professions of secretaries, teachers and nurses constituted the majority. Under our set up the single most useful investigation was a rediculogram. The various methods of conservative treatment are discussed. The operative methods deployed are also discussed as are indications 840 2004 Mungai, D.N. And Nyakang 841 2004 Mungai, D. N., C.K. Ong, B. Kiteme, W. Elkaduwa, R. Sakthivadivel, 2004. Lessons From Two Long-term Hydrological Studies In Kenya And Sri Lanka. Agriculture, Ecosystems And Environment 104 (2004) 135 842 2004 Mungai, D.N., B. Swallow, J. Mburu, L. Onyango And A. N. Njui (Eds.), 2004. Reversing Environmental And Agricultural Decline In The Nyando River Basin. Proceedings Of A Workshop, Kisumu, Kenya, December. Department of Periodontology/ Community and Preventive Dentistry, School of Dental Sciences, University of Nairobi, P.O. Box 19676 - 00202, Nairobi, Kenya. OBJECTIVE: To determine the influence of oral hygiene habits and practices on the risk of developing oral leukoplakia. DESIGN: Case control study. SETTING: Githongo sublocation in Meru District. SUBJECTS: Eighty five cases and 141 controls identified in a house-to-house screening. RESULTS: The relative risk (RR) of oral leukoplakia increased gradually across the various brushing frequencies from the reference RR of 1.0 in those who brushed three times a day, to 7.6 in the "don't brush" group. The trend of increase was statistically significant (X2 for Trend : p = 0.001). The use of chewing stick as compared to conventional tooth brush had no significant influence on RR of oral leukoplakia. Non-users of toothpastes had a significantly higher risk of oral leukoplakia than users (RR = 1.8; 95% confidence levels (CI) = 1.4-2.5). Among tobacco smokers, the RR increased from 4.6 in those who brushed to 7.3 in those who did no	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line1201
__label__wiki	0.573152	0.573152	AFC Flag Expedition, 2009 Naadam, Day 2 By foxstudio on July 12, 2009 • ( 5 Comments ) The day was cloudy and cool, really rather nice. It could have been 90F in the shade. We left for the horse race site and spent two hours in traffic that was almost indescribable. A cross between Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride, bumper cars without anyone actually making contact and a free-for-all race to get to the valley. Over here we would describe it as “a solid line of cars”, but the word “line” doesn’t remotely apply. The road had been blocked so that both lanes ran in one direction, but people were on the shoulder and off on parallel dirt tracks, all weaving in and out to gain advantage. It was kind of like….a wacked-out horse race. Our guide, Osoo, estimated that around one third of the population (2.7 million) of the country was present at the race. There were literally thousands of cars on a two lane road all trying to get to the same place. We arrived and some of us took up station on the top of the hill. Others braved the packed flat area adjacent to the track. With the long lens, I got some pretty good pictures. It was a festive day and the vibe was great. It was like a convival country fair with about 900,000 fairgoers spread out over a large valley. This was the second to the last race. It was for five year stallions, 25 km. The jockeys ranged in age from 5-12. The horses had already trotted or cantered the 25km to the starting line before the race and then they galloped the whole 25km back to the finish line. There were a lot of support vehicles, including an ambulance. There were also vets ready if needed. Without further ado: Crazy traffic Horse race crowd The dust cloud shows the horses almost to the valley The lead horses approach the finish Running for the finish Orange passes white and red near the finish line Second large group coming in We never found out who won, but it was an exciting finish and the crowd was roaring. The fastest horses finished in 30-40 minutes, the slowest took about an hour. Horse race crowd with racers gers in background Ovoo; on highest point; a old animistic custom Time to go back. Traffic not quite as frantic, but still pretty wild. Lots of herders with their animals along side the road. Sheep and dust We had picnic lunch in the van and then went back to the stadium. Unfortunately, the archery and ankebone competitions were over. But a couple of the archers were still at the archery field, including the winner. Winning archer, his wife and a fan Another archer was giving a demonstration and, for 1000 tugrik, about 80 cents, you could shoot an arrow. Couldn’t resist the chance to try that, of course. Archer doing demonstration I got to shoot the bow and arrow; about 40lb. pull Then it was back to the wrestling in the national stadium. It was packed and then it started to rain. Hard. For over an hour. So there were rain delays and still eight wrestlers competing when we had to go. Wrestling; the average height of a Mongolian may be 5'2", but there are plenty of big guys, too On our way out, we passed someone who was allowing people to pose on his horse for pictures. They really do start them young in Mongolia It was back to the hotel to rest for an hour or so, then dinner at …..BD’s Mongolian BBQ, which suited me just fine. Then off to the Naadam concert, performed by the Mongolian State Grand National Orchestra. And grand it was. They are definitely ready for their first world tour. There are 65 members, playing mostly Mongolian instruments like the morin khur, or horse-headed fiddle, but also some western instruments like trumpets. Almost all the music was by Mongolian composers, but they also did an enthusiastic version of “The Barber of Seville” and, for the encore…..”We Are The Champions” by Queen! Off to Gun Galuut. Need to pack and get breakfast. Next post will be the 21st or 22nd. Bayartai! Visit the AFC site here Categories: AFC Flag Expedition, 2009, Mongolia, Mongolia 2009, Mongolian Culture Tagged as: AFC Flag Expedition, horse race, Mongolia, Mongolian State Grand National Orchestra, Naadam Back from the Mongolian Countryside! Susan, you look so at ease with the bow and arrow! Love the wrestling pictures, and all of them really. Despite the cloudy Humboldt-esque skies, there is so much color there! I feel like I went there! That was wonderful. markscease says: bayatla, Great journey and you managed pictures I couldn’t after two Naadams. Reading your posts from MN, I was gladdened to see you managed to catch Mongolia as it is. The holiday season seems to brighten up the scenery, but you caught the dust clouds and the traffic along with the bright colors and pageantry of Naadam. Thanks for your effort. Mark Scease http://welovesaipan-bigsoxfan.blogspot.com/ Тухэриг says: Winning archer and his wife are buryat’s I think… foxstudio says: Could be. You are more in a position to know than I am.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line1207

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