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8 Ways to Give Gratitude this Thanksgiving
Ways to Give Gratitude this Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is our next up-and-coming holiday, so it's time we started thinking about ways that we can show our gratitude to others this year. After all, it's called Thanksgiving for a reason.
Thank You Cards
Sending thank you cards is arguably a dying art. It's one, however, that we should desperately be trying to save. A handwritten thank you note can be such a wonderful thing to receive, especially when it comes from an unexpected source. Consider these thank you card ideas for this Thanksgiving season:
Make a list of people who deserve thanks. Look for these folks in the monotony of everyday life. The mail carrier who delivers your mail no matter the weather, your trash service men, a family member or friend who often shows you kindness. Whoever they are, write a thank you note to them. It will mean more than you can even realize. If you have children, get them involved in this activity as well. Prompt them with some suggestions of who you chose to send thank you notes to; this should get them thinking about those in their lives who may usually be overlooked.
In addition to personal thank you notes, consider coming up with a generic thank you note to keep in your wallet or purse to hand out to anyone who shows you or someone else kindness, consideration, or helpfulness. When the retail worker is especially friendly to you, hand them a note before you leave the store. If you see someone doing something kind for someone else, hand them one. Not only are you showing your own gratitude for those who show kindness, but you are encouraging further acts of kindness. You can even include this on your card: "Please pass this on to someone you see showing kindness during this season!"
Those Who Serve
The first responders in your community work crazy hours, sacrifice time with their families, and put others before themselves. If anyone deserves a "Thank you," it's them. To thank your first responders, consider dropping off a baked good to their office while on your way to your own Thanksgiving celebrations. Baked goods are a wonderful treat to give; they cost very little to make and are handmade, making them delightfully personal gifts. First responders, like many others, are working on a holiday reserved for family and friends, and they have committed to this career because of their devotion to their community. Send a small "Thank You" their way!
So many men and women serving in our Armed Forces spend the holidays away from home, missing precious time with friends and family, and often enduring loneliness and many other issues relating to their service. There are also so many veterans who have returned home to fall on hard times and are currently fighting their own battles, often related to their service. What better way to give back this season than sending something their way to let them know that they are appreciated and cared about. Click here to find a link to Operation Gratitude, an organization that works for both active and inactive military members. The name couldn't be more fitting, am I right?
Teachers: Get the Kids Involved!
It's no secret that teachers are not compensated properly for the work they do for the future of our country: the education of our children. It's traditional to give your child's teacher a gift around Christmas time, but consider doing an additional gift on the holiday reserved for gratitude. For this one, however, mix it up! It's great for a parent to pick out something special for a teacher on Christmas, but for a teacher, have the child in your life come up with the idea of how to show their teacher that he or she is appreciated. This gift does not have to be anything big or expensive. Even giving your child 5 dollars at the dollar store and helping them choose the gift for their teacher would be suitable! For a little extra "thanks," have your child write a thank you note on one side of a card's interior, and write your own note on the opposite side. It's important for our teachers to know that we are grateful for their hard work!
Give your Time
Whatever your circumstances, there is something you can do to help spread gratitude this season. Find a local organization that runs on volunteer work, and offer your time to them as a way to help. Giving your time costs you absolutely nothing, but can do a world of good for an organization working to help others. Your local food bank, homeless shelter, soup kitchen, or animal shelter are all great organizations that you could choose to volunteer at!
Make a Little Extra
During this season, consider occasionally making a little extra when you're fixing tea, coffee, cookies, or dinner. Invite over an elderly neighbor or lonely friend, or bring it to them. Enjoy a little bit of it with them, even if it's only for fifteen minutes, it can make a world of difference to someone who is facing loneliness at a time reserved for loving those closest to us. Once again, it costs you very little, but it could make a world of difference for someone who may be struggling more than you know.
Donation in Lieu of Host Gift
Before you head to your own Thanksgiving celebration this year, you may be thinking about what gift to give to your host or hostess as a thank you for putting on the dinner. Consider giving a donation to a charity you know that they support in their name & giving them a receipt or note with it, explaining the gift. If your host is an animal lover, consider donating to your local no-kill shelter; if they are passionate about the outdoors, consider giving to the National Park Service. Chances are, they will cherish this gift much more than the bottle of wine you would've brought instead, no matter how much they love wine. ;)
Make Care Packages for the Homeless
Although the homeless are in need all year 'round, it is often even more difficult during the winter, for a number of reasons, from loneliness to the bitter cold. Consider making up small boxes or bags with necessities inside and carrying them in your car to hand out when passing a homeless person by a store or in the street. Many necessities can be purchased at the dollar store for a very little total, but they could make a world of difference to someone encountering the struggles of homelessness and poverty. Some things to include in your packages are:
-Hat -Gloves -Socks -Toothbrush -Toothpaste -Bottled Water -Soap/Shampoo Combo -Deodorant -Comb -Tissues -Toilet Paper
Give Kindness
The last thing you can do for others during this Thanksgiving season is the easiest, least expensive, and arguably, the most important. Work hard to be kind and considerate of others during this time. The holidays can be immensely stressful; the stores get busier, people are stressed out, and there is so much to be done within the next month or so. However, putting the effort in to keep your frustrations at bay, being understanding of others (even if you may want to be upset), and conducting small acts of kindness all can make a huge difference to the way others feel this holiday season. You never know what another person is dealing with in their own life, so try to combat rudeness with a politeness, fight impatience with patience of your own, and give a smile when someone else gives you a frown. Hold the door open for others, compliment the woman whose scarf you adore, and ask the retail worker what their holiday plans are. A little extra kindness can make a world of difference. It will make you feel better, and, chances are, it will make another person reconsider their mood.
All in all, this season is about so much more than shopping, turkey, and pies. Help yourself and others get into the true spirit of the season by giving back to your community in whatever way you can, even if it's just the flash of a smile to a stranger. Spread gratitude this season!


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Brexit has been compared to the appeasement of Nazi Germany in the 1930s by a leading supporter of the Remain campaign.
Lord Malloch-Brown, the former foreign office minister who heads the Best for Britain group, made the comments after billionaire George Soros announced a campaign for a second Brexit referendum.
Mr Soros, who is reported to have given about £500,000 to the group set up by anti-Brexit campaigner Gina Miller last year, said action was needed as withdrawal from the European Union was "immensely damaging" for the UK.
Lord Malloch-Brown said Britain needed to stay close to the EU because appeasement, which was a 1930s government policy of pursuing agreement with Nazi Germany in the hope of avoiding war, showed how badly things could go wrong when the UK tried to isolate itself from the continent.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "Britain's history as an island nation adjacent to mainland Europe is when we try to, sort of, pull away from Europe's problems and close ourselves off to them; they have a horrible habit of infecting us anyway.
"Appeasement in the 1930s, you name it. For centuries Britain has ignored events on continental Europe at its peril."
He said Mr Soros's reputation as the "man who broke the Bank of England" in 1992, when the financier bet against sterling on the money markets, was an "unrelated issue" to the anti-Brexit campaign.
"He broke the Bank of England as a financier because the British pound was overextended. It wasn't credible. He broke the pound, not the Bank of England, I should say.
"He is someone who has devoted decades to an extraordinary global philanthropy which has fought for democracy and open values."
Best for Britain, which campaigns to keep the UK open to EU membership, is expected to publish its manifesto calling for a second referendum on 8 June.
Announcing the campaign in Paris, Mr Soros, 87, said: "Brexit is an immensely damaging process, harmful to both sides.
"Divorce will be a long process, probably taking more than five years. Five years is an eternity in politics, especially in revolutionary times like the present.
"Ultimately, it's up to the British people to decide what they want to do. It would be better, however, if they came to a decision sooner rather than later. That's the goal of an initiative called the Best for Britain, which I support.
"Best for Britain fought for, and helped to win, a meaningful parliamentary vote which includes the option of not leaving at all. This would be good for Britain but would also render Europe a great service by rescinding Brexit and not creating a hard-to-fill hole in the European budget.
"But the British public must express its support by a convincing margin in order to be taken seriously by Europe. That's what Best for Britain is aiming for by engaging the electorate. It will publish its manifesto in the next few days."
He said he feared the EU could be heading towards another major financial crisis triggered by austerity and populist political parties intent on tearing the bloc apart.
"The EU is in an existential crisis. Everything that could go wrong has gone wrong," he said.
However, Mr Soros said he was convinced it was the ideal time for the EU to reform itself and prepare the ground for the UK staying inside the bloc.
"The economic case for remaining a member of the EU is strong, but it will take time for it to sink in," he added.
"During that time the EU needs to transform itself into an association that countries like Britain would want to join, in order to strengthen the political case.
"Such a Europe would differ from the current arrangements in two key respects. First, it would clearly distinguish between the European Union and the eurozone.
"Second, it would recognise that the euro has many unresolved problems and they must not be allowed to destroy the European Union."
Theresa May is committed to leaving the EU's single market and customs union after Brexit, which will officially take place on 29 March next year.
However, a transition period is currently set to last until 31 December 2020.
Additional reporting by Press Association

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What a happy new year this has been already! There is nothing like ringing in the new year surrounded by family and friends. Those pictures will be coming soon...but for now, here are a few pics from our family time at The Melting Pot in Okc. Fondue is a family tradition, but we just didn't have the right moment for it...so we tried a variation on our tradition. What a success! When they brought put those dessert platters, people started cheering. It was so fun to be together, in so many ways. Here's to a new year full of blessed family time!
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Jeremy Clarkson sounded very impressed with Moses Mabhida during the Top Gear Festival which took place in Durban from the 16th to the 17th of June.
"I saw the Cape Town stadium and the Johannesburg one (FNB Stadium/Soccer City) during the world cup. They were beautiful but this is the most beautiful stadium I've ever seen", Clarkson said.
A tweet from Jeremy Clarkson afterhe Top Gear show;
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"As the SA Daily News stated on Monday 18 June: "Some say…this was fantastic!"
You may have seen many of the emails and letters of praise and thanks for the Top Gear Festival. I can't remember an event (and I have been involved with a large number!) that has received such adulation.
Frequently when on site, when you're buried in a problem or an issue, it is difficult to step back and just appreciate what we collectively built and staged. Considering the ambitious scale of the event it is a huge credit to you all, that it was such a mega success.
I hope in the last couple of days you've had a chance to reflect on the amazing job you all did and how the team pulled together. I hope you have a deep sense of pride; it was an incredible world class event staged by a fantastic team.
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I love spas more than chocolate (well, okay not really but I do love spas). It's one of those places I go to alone because I really don't want to make small talk while having a facial or a foot massage. I know several girls who take their gang along and create a fun girls day out. While that's great once in a while, I still prefer time by myself. After all, isn't spa time all about me-time?
I discovered a hidden gem at the Shangri-La Hotel, Dubai the other day. Chi, the spa is truly one of the best spas around Dubai. For this month, they have a selection of body massages and facials for both men and women. They've also introduced a new element on their listing- the Pumpkin Spice Body Peel and Wrap. Doesn't it sound perfect for this season and just about divine?
I opted for the Rebalancing Retreat; this menu item combines a brightening facial and a deep tissue back massage. The best part about my experience? This was the first time I signed up for a back massage.
My friends had been recommending back massages for months. I didn't give in at that time because I didn't have the time and I was a bit apprehensive of the whole experience. I heard how wonderful it feels and how the 'knots' would disappear making people feel much better but I ignored all that and went on with my life. I'm so glad I stumbled upon the Rebalancing Retreat.
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In "Settling Syria," we argued that the conflict in Syria would likely end in a negotiated settlement. The only question was when. It was thus not too surprising when, earlier this month, John Kerry, the U.S. secretary of state, and Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, proposed holding an international conference with leaders from both sides of the conflict who would come together to form a transitional power-sharing government. That government, they hinted, could possibly include Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Leaders from both the Syrian government and the opposition have responded with ambivalence. Assad has affirmed that he will not step down -- a precondition to talks for some opposition groups -- and that he is skeptical about the initiative's chances for success, given the divisions within the opposition. Presumably, he is also reluctant to sit in a room with a United States that is plainly hostile to his remaining in power. Even so, he recently put forward five names for a possible negotiating team.
On the other side of the war, opposition leaders have questioned the very purpose of the conference. George Sabra, the leader of the Syrian National Council, one of the opposition factions, remarked that "it is not clear what this conference is about," citing the lack of an agenda or a list of countries attending. For its part, the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, another major faction, is set to meet in Istanbul this Thursday to discuss whether it will join in.
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Lindsay is one of three teachers who have founded the Doyle Academy of Irish Dance. Lindsay is a qualified dance instructor under the Commission of Irish Dance in Ireland and is highly skilled in all technical aspects of Irish dance. Her competitive titles include three time Canadian champion, ranking 4th in North America, as well as placing 7th in the World Championships of Irish dance.
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Shannon is a very accomplished dancer who has an unwavering passion for Irish dancing. Shannon is a five time Canadian Champion; she has been ranked second in North America and has placed ninth at both the All-Ireland Championships and World Championships.
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The JCRC, in conjunction with the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, hosted Dr. Ernest "Rip" Patton, Jr., a veteran of the 1961 Freedom Rides organized to end segregation in interstate travel – specifically passenger bus service. In conjunction with Facing History, Dr. Patton spoke to the Minnesota National Guard, St. Cloud State University, Fairview Alternative High School in Roseville and participated in a panel discussion following the October 11 Guthrie production of Appomattox.
The Battle of Antietam on September 22, 1862, was a significant if incomplete Union victory providing President Lincoln with the confidence and credibility to issue the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation freeing African American slaves in the Confederate states. At the end of the Civil War, the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments were ratified ending slavery, providing citizenship for African Americans and providing male African Americans with the right to vote. Approximately one hundred years later, particularly in the South, few African Americans were voting and segregation was ubiquitous in hotels, restaurants, barber shops, bathrooms and practically all public accommodations. (Indeed, the United States Supreme Court as early as 1960 [Boynton v. Virginia, 364 U.S. 454] had outlawed segregation in bus terminals and busses where the Interstate Commerce Commission had also through administratively rule made segregation illegal.) Thus, African Americans were fighting for dignity and the right to eat, sleep and live where they please – like all Americans.
Dr. Patton personified the struggle. As a 21 year old Tennessee State student, Patton was a drum major in the University marching band when, in 1961, he became involved in the Nashville Movement. Patton arrived in Montgomery, AL, on Tuesday, May 23, to help reinforce the riders meeting at the home of Dr. Harris after the May 21 firebombing and siege of Montgomery's First Baptist Church.
Patton took part in the May 24, 1961, Greyhound Freedom Ride to Jackson, MS, where he was arrested and later transferred to Mississippi's notorious Parchman State Prison Farm.
Patton was one of 14 Tennessee State University students expelled for participating in the Rides. Following the Freedom Rides, he worked as a jazz musician, and later as a long-distance truck driver and community leader. For the past three years, Patton has served as the Freedom Rider on an annual university sponsored Civil Rights tour of the Deep South.
At St. Cloud State, Dr. Patton met with students. Prof. Kyle Ward described Dr. Patton's impact as follows:
"It was an incredible opportunity to have Dr. Patton come to the St. Cloud State University campus to talk to our students. His experiences, insight and comments on the world today were very beneficial for our students as well as enlightening. I thought it was even more interesting to see how many students not only came to this event but also to see a number stay after and have more personal conversations with Dr. Patton about a variety of topics.
On a personal note, I was extremely pleased at how many Social Studies majors came to hear Dr. Patton talk. Knowing that students working towards this major will be able to pass on his stories and message to hundreds of their future students is fantastic. And that these future teachers will be able to start out their lessons on the Civil Rights era by saying, "when I listened to and met a Freedom Rider..." I think it will add special significance and help explain the importance of having Dr. Patton come to SCSU to talk."
Dr. Patton also spoke to a group of Minnesota National Guard personnel including Major General (Adjutant General) Richard Nash and Chaplain (Col.) John Morris, head chaplain of the Minnesota National Guard. Col. Morris spoke poignantly about growing up on an air force base in Biloxi, MS, where he father was stationed. The base was desegregated per President Harry Truman's Executive Order of July 26, 1948, desegregating the military while life outside the base in Biloxi and throughout Mississippi and, indeed, the South, was segregated leading to a duality in life.
Another facet of programming with Dr. Patton was a joint effort with the Guthrie Theater and the play Appomattox in which Dr. Patton participated in a post play discussion with a panel and the audience. Appomattox is a marvelous play addressing so many critical issues at a time when nearly fifty years after the passage of the Voting Rights Act the right to vote is again at the center of American politics. The Guthrie's commitment to Christopher Hampton's recounting of 1865 and 1965 dovetailed exquisitely with the JCRC's focus on the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation in coalition with the Minnesota African American Museum and many other groups. It is striking that at the centennial (1962) of the Emancipation Proclamation, African Americans in a large swath of our country were denied their right to vote and access to public accommodations, often through the use of intimidation and violence.
That arc of history made the post-play discussion with Dr. Patton, Christopher Hampton and Angela Pierce, Shawn Hamilton and Joe Nathan Thomas so compelling. It was remarkable to see and hear Rip Patton – the Freedom Rider – in conversation with Christopher Hampton – the playwright – and his interpretation of American history and the cast now seeing the interface of, in a sense, history and historian and their reaction to it. And all for the benefit of the audience who applied their own experiences to this moment. It was theatre within theatre representing a tremendous time of learning.


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ESA technology transfer support:
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Companies and organisations from ESA European Member States and Canada are invited to submit their interest in providing support to the ESA Technology Transfer Programme Office (TTPO), and are also invited to submit ideas as to how such support should be implemented.
TTPO plans to place a contract, by open competitive tender, for assistance in its encouragement and support of technology transfer within ESA Member States from space technology developers to other industrial and commercial sectors. The goal of this activity is to maximise the level of technology transfer from space with quantifiable results.
The contract has an anticipated ceiling price of €4.2 million over a duration of anticipated 3 years planned to start May 2012. The Invitation to Tender (ITT) for this contract is envisaged to be published on EMITS in late 2011.
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When World War II erupted in the Marvel Universe, thousands of courageous soldiers stepped forward to answer the call of duty and stand up to the tyranny of Axis forces, not the least of which were Nick Fury and his Howling Commandoes, the costumed super soldier, Captain America and Margaret "Peggy" Carter, whose war time exploits later inspired her niece Sharon to join the espionage organization S.H.I.E.L.D..
When the Nazis took over Europe, Peggy decided she had to do something to help fight them. She left her wealthy American family, sought out and joined the French Resistance. Carter quickly became a valuable member of the organization and her missions for the group introduced her to first and greatest love Steve Rogers, better known to the world as Captain America. In the March one-shot "Captain America and the First Thirteen," writer Kathryn Immonen and artist Ramon Perez transport readers to World War II to show that Cap and Peggy's relationship was a complex and complicated one. We spoke with Immonen about the project, which is part of a series of one-shots that celebrates Captain America's 70th anniversary by spotlighting the Sentinel of Liberty's allies and enemies.
CBR News: Kathryn, One of your earliest comic works is the graphic novel "Moving Pictures," an intrigue-filled story about a female protagonist protecting art treasures during World War II, so I imagine telling a story about Peggy Carter's exploits during World War II was kind of like working in familiar territories. What was it like telling a Marvel story set during World War II?
Kathryn Immonen: I would also say that "Moving Pictures" had about as much to do with being asked to do this one-shot as you would imagine, which is to say, rather a lot. Having said that though, it did present some singular challenges. I wanted to do something a little old-fashioned, for lack of a better word. Cap is a little unique in that there is a body of WWII stories with the character that were actually published at the time, but there's a lot about the, let's say "flavor" of the material that presents some obstacles -- and smoking is the least of it. So, it was fun to try to figure out ways for Cap to get his metaphorical jabs in. Beyond that, though, and this is very similar to the approach I took on "Moving Pictures," I've got nothing to say about the events of WWII. And by that I mean, what could I possibly contribute to anybody's understanding of an event, or a series of events, that in so many ways defies parsing. But, I've got a lot to say about the relationship between two people at a time of crisis.
When Peggy first appeared, Sharon Carter was actually her younger sister causing some of the backstory of Captain America and his related characters to be changed and updated because of Marvel's sliding time scale. So I wanted to ask, has Peggy's background changed at all for "Captain America and the First Thirteen?" Is she still an American teenager who's joined the French Resitance?
No on 1 and yes on 2. But she's not a teenager in this story. This one-shot takes a look at Cap and Peggy's early relationship and really focuses on what they were like together when they were both missing a crucial piece of the puzzle. Here, you've got two people bound together over deeds, not words, and really being privileged to know only the best parts of each other in the worst of circumstances. But you don't have to look too carefully at the story to see that Peggy is fully aware that they both have to bury a certain amount of emotion. And that there are things she does which are not available to the man she loves.
Which of Peggy's personal qualities do you find most intriguing as a writer?
I would say she's not been particularly fleshed out (although I like that one of her most endearing qualities seems to be that she's handy and impulsive with a firearm) so for me, the choice was really to see her as part of the continuum of women who were part of the French Resistance or the British SOE. They were well trained, as brave as anything and paid as dearly as their male counterparts particularly under the Nacht und Nebel edict. But again, that is a research hole that you can fall down and never climb out of. So really, the question is maybe just, what kind of woman would Captain America fall head over shield for? And I think we make a pretty strong case in this one-shot!
How would you describe the dynamic between Cap and Peggy in this one-shot? What are their impressions of each other?
Slightly, okay maybe more than slightly, combative; which is not to say that they're fighting and bickering with each other, but they both have obligations to organizations which have the same goal but which employ very different strategies and tactics.
Structurally, it's a pretty straight up "mission" story. Cap and Peggy are in it together, up to their necks in it but they're sure not playing by each other's rules.
Who are some of the other important supporting players in "Captain America and the First Thirteen?"
It's got a fetching assortment of impetuous Nazis, dispassionate Doctors, deadly women with deadlier senses of humor, Frenchmen who can really drive and V.I.Ps which stands for Very Important blue-Prints.
How would you describe the tone of this one-shot? Is it more of an all out action story? A war story? An Alan Furst style historical spy thriller? Or is it a little bit of all three?
That sounds nice. Let's go with that.
What does Ramon Perez bring to this book as an artist?
I was at TCAF a couple of years ago and Ramón, offhandedly (or so it seemed) mentioned that he'd like to work with me and I immediately mentally filed it in the "Please, Please Make That Happen" drawer. I was so happy that an opportunity came up so quickly. There's such a classic feel to a lot of what he does and he inks with such strong blacks and directional light that there's often the possibility for a real undercurrent of tension verging on horror, which is kind of perfect for this. And we both agree that this is all about the girls, so that's pretty terrific.
Finally, do you have any upcoming work, comic or otherwise, that your fans should be on the lookout for?
"Wolverine and Jubilee," issue one of which is in stores now ! And a Hellcat story with Stuart [Immonen's husband, artist Stuart Immonen] in "X-Men: To Serve and Protect." But also, Stuart and I are trying to get "Russian Olive to Red King" done this year as well as get the second volume of "Centifolia" together, which will be heavy on the comics and include a lot stuff we've done together. And we've got a story in the second volume of "Outlaw Territory," which I think is finally coming out this year. And then, as per usual, as per most folks, a couple of things in the pipeline which are so embryonic as to be thoroughly unmentionable.


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L&T bags orders worth Rs 10 bn
The projects would be executed by L&T's heavy engineering division at its manufacturing units at Powai, Mumbai and Hazira, Gujarat.business Updated: Jun 20, 2008 13:49 IST
Engineering and construction heavyweight Larsen and Toubro (L&T) has bagged orders worth Rs 10 billion for supplying high-tech equipment and systems in the first two months of this quarter, the company said in Mumbai on Friday.
Major local contracts include orders to supply power plant equipment to Coastal Gujarat Power Ltd, a Tata Power subsidiary, and critical reactors to HPCL Mittal Energy's Bhatinda refinery project.
Export orders include supplying coke drums to Kuwait National Petroleum, high-pressure heat exchangers to Petroleo Brasileiro of Brazil, ammonia converters to UHDE in Germany and reactors to PTT Asahi Chem Co in Thailand.
The orders were bagged against competition from Italian, Japanese and Chinese manufacturers, the company said in a statement. It has in the past supplied critical reactors and high pressure heat exchangers to refinery and petrochemical majors in the US, Canada, Europe and China.
The projects would be executed by L&T's heavy engineering division at its manufacturing units at Powai, Mumbai and Hazira, Gujarat.
L&T is upgrading its Hazira unit; it's also setting up a new unit at Oman, its senior executive vice-president MV Kotwal said in the statement.


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Continually voted the U.K's number one city to live in Bristol offers a vibrant mix of old and new. From it's ancient roots to becoming the capital of Street Art, Bristol has to be experienced to be believed.
Join us on College Green for a tour through Bristol's old town and beautiful harbourside where local historian and artist Duncan McKellar will guide you through 1000 years of Bristol's history!
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£8 adults £4 children £20 family ticket
Stroll along the route of the Saxon town walls taking in Pirate haunts and the highlights of Bristol's Street art. See Long John Silver's Inn and Robinson's Crusoe's first port of call. Observe evidence of Blitz damage, storm the Norman castle and listen for Underground rivers.
This unique walking tour will tell you all you need to know about Bristol's fascinating past with the added bonus finishing in a timeless smugglers tavern for a barrel of Rum!
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This gentle 2 hour tour includes the best of the city's history, Street Art and architecture:
- See Long John Silver's Inn, Robinson Crusoe's first port of call and Blackbeard's favourite haunts.
- Be amazed by Bristol's stunning buildings and incredible paintings.
- Immerse yourself in the fascinating world of Street Art, history and Pirates!
£8 adults £4 children £20 family ticket
Tours run on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays.
Tours leave from outside the Cathedral main entrance at 11:30am. Each tour lasts approximately 2 hours and covers a distance of 2 miles.
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Remember to bring your camera to capture brilliant paintings from three generations of international Street Artists including world-famous work by Banksy.
Local artists and historians will share their knowledge, passion, and enthusiasm for this wonderful city.
You will even see work by the tour guide himself!
This unique walking tour will introduce you to all aspects of this magical city leaving no stone upturned. There is no better way to get an instant feel for all aspects of Bristol, leaving you with plenty to revisit and lots of ideas for your remaining stay. You will feel like a local ready to bring friends and family back with an insider's knowledge of the cities delights from Street Art to the best restaurants in town.
Tours leave from outside the main entrance of the Cathedral on College Green at 11.30am on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday throughout the year.
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The Executive Director is responsible for directing the administration of our memory care community within authority of state regulations by performing the following duties personally or through subordinates.
- Directs and coordinates activities of life enrichment program planning and implementation, culinary operations, interior and exterior integrity of the building, marketing efforts, and nursing and health care services.
- Maintains census and prepares competitive analysis reports.
- Works in collaboration with all disciplinary team members to coordinate every aspect of resident care.
- Direct hiring, scheduling, and training of personnel and ensures managers are familiar with and adhere to state regulatory standards.
- Maintains continued education requirements for all staff (including self), as required by professional licenses and state regulations.
- Develops, monitors, and participates in the Manager on Duty (MOD) call rotation.
- Maintains accurate resident charts and state required documentation and is prepared for state survey and health inspections at all times.
- Ensures Plan of Correction is properly completed, corrected, and returned in a timely manner and within identified time frame.
- Completes all incident report investigations and report's findings according to state regulations and company policies.
- Monitors and communicates landscaping, property maintenance, capital improvement, and kitchen needs on an on-going basis.
- Manages petty cash funds and ensures all managers work within established budgets.
- Coordinates complete move-in process for all new residents.
- Addresses all issues and/or concerns of resident's family members and ensure prompt resolutions for overall family satisfaction.
- Responsible for overall safety of residents and the facility.
- Maintains high staff morale and fosters a supportive work environment.
- Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints, and resolving problems.
- Budgetary responsibilities include reviewing financial and budget transactions, assisting with budget development, and budgetary control.
- Responsible for the overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of all community operations.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Must be 21 years of age or older.
- High school diploma or GED; and minimum four (4) years' experience working in a personal care, health or aging related setting; and Minimum two (2) years' experience in a leadership or supervisory position; or Associates degree from an accredited college or university; and two (2) years' experience in a personal care health or aging related setting; including one (1) year in a leadership or supervisory position; or Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university plus one (1) year experience in a health or aging related setting ; or a state specific training for an assisted living facility administrator where the curriculum addresses in detail the knowledge and skills necessary to manage a nursing home of an assisted living facility.
- Flexibility to work evenings and weekends when necessary to meet the needs of our residents.
- This position requires local travel and occasional out of town travel.
- Ethics - Works with integrity; Upholds organizational values.
- Delegation - Delegates work assignments; Matches the responsibility to the person; Gives authority to work independently; Sets expectations and monitors delegated activities; Provides recognition for results.
- Leadership - Exhibits confidence in self and others; Inspires and motivates others to perform well; Effectively influences actions and opinions of others; Gives appropriate recognition.
- Change Management - Develops workable implementation plans; Builds commitment and overcomes resistance; Prepares and supports those affected; Monitors and evaluates results.
- Business Acumen - Understands business implications of decisions; Demonstrates knowledge of market and competition; Aligns work with strategic goals and profitability.
- Cost Consciousness - Works within approved budget; Develops and implements cost saving measures; Contributes to profits and revenue; Conserves organizational resources.
- Strategic Thinking - Develops strategies to achieve goals; Understands organization's strengths & weaknesses; Analyzes market and competition; Adapts strategy to changes.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Required to stand and walk regularly, occasionally sit, lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
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Online shoppers are getting antsy. They're spending less time thinking about purchases before buying — or leaving a site — and drastically shrinking marketers' opportunity time. We explore the latest trends in online personalization — and how to keep up.
We spend a lot of time talking about personalization in marketing. That's because it's both the most profitable way for our customers to leverage artificial intelligence and the most challenging. A new paper by Seth Earley, published in IEEE's November/December issue of IT Professional, lays out some of these challenges and addresses how best to overcome them."AI-Driven Analytics at Scale: The Personalization Problem" touches on many of the issues our customers face every day, including maximizing data scientists' time, developing use cases in a timely fashion, and even using a Signal Layer to help expedite the process. It also cites a new study that examines exactly how much time companies must apply their personalization insights in a real-time setting.
After explaining the usual "too much data, too little time" conundrum, Earley shares an alarming statistic. The amount of money spent via online transactions will increase by 26 percent to $2.1 trillion in 2017. Yet the amount of time consumers will spend making those purchase decisions will shrink to just 4.9 to 6.9 minutes, depending on which device they're using. This is down from a range of 5.5 to 7.6 minutes in 2016 (Source: StatIsta, 2017). Thanks to the increase in mobile device usage for online shopping, Earley points out, "Online retailers have more data for analysis and personalization insight, but the cycle time in which it can be applied is rapidly diminishing."
While this is certainly true in personalizing customer engagement, the same can be said for inventory management, pricing, risk management, fraud detection, and many other areas. The time between generating insights and acting on them is shrinking.
Companies must get faster and more precise when it comes to analyzing everything from basic demographics to sentiment and likelihood to recommend. They must quickly identify which content will be most effective in engaging customers with an omni-channel strategy, identifying the right tone, message, channel, product recommendation, and more for each customer in a matter of minutes. Even the best recommender engines, however, will miss details buried in the insights. Earley says these nuances will be "lost in translation from development to production or from data science teams to production analyst teams."
As a company that builds such solutions and implements a Big Data platform for some of the world's largest enterprises, we see the disconnect between development and production first-hand. Most companies are still struggling with simply identifying key insights and applying them to real-world use cases, such as identifying which customers are most likely to accept a given offer. Once a company gets that use case figured out and running consistently, it starts over with another use case, such as figuring out which customers are about to switch to a competitor.
There are two issues with this:
Companies that do this are not working "at scale." Each use case is bespoke, and for each one, data scientists are starting at the beginning, identifying data sources, doing all the data prep work, and repeating every step in the entire process, redoing much of the exact same work they did for the first use case.
These companies are missing specific insights. While they may identify a handful of factors that contribute to a given use case, the insights they discover for one use case are not being carried through to subsequent use cases. An airline, for instance, might look at past purchase behavior to determine whether a customer is about to attrite. And the scientists may find patterns that could be indicators of attrition (such as being forced to sit in a middle seat, missed connections, lost luggage, or excessive delays). These indicators could be used for additional use cases, such as predicting which customers are about to call your customer service center, but discoveries from one use case don't necessarily make it to the next — even though each insight might hold predictive qualities for multiple use cases.
So how do companies combat this and ensure their insights are consistently accurate, pulling in even the smallest details to help make a given prediction? Earley explains that the answer is standardization of processes and reuse of components and models. The best place to start is with a platform that can provide a taxonomy of insights that provides visibility into where each insight came from and how it's currently being used. Such visibility allows everyone in the organization to get on the same page and helps companies break down department or function silos that are all too common in most enterprises today. Earley suggests building a "factory model," designed from the ground up to deliver benefits at scale. In other words, these insights should not just be searchable, but reusable, like interchangeable parts in an assembly line.
We call these reusable components and models Signals. "The objective of a preprocessing approach," he explains, "is to process the data independent of its future use and then apply artificial intelligence and machine learning in the signal layer to drive business application functionality."
The Signal Layer sits in a company's technology stack between the data layer and the application layer. It allows use cases to access its Signals, which are being constantly refreshed based on insights from new data. The Signal Layer hosts not only the Signals, but also the science and technology required to build those Signals.
Earley goes on to describe how a platform approach, "with a combination of systematic feature engineering and automated and system-assisted model building" can help companies create hundreds of predictive models faster and more efficiently than ever before. That's because scientists need to go all the way back to the raw data layer to build each use case. But with a platform approach, they only have to return to the Signal Layer, where 80% of the work (namely data preparation) is already done. In addition, such a platform democratizes a company's data science capabilities across the enterprise, making insights available to anyone who needs them.
Opera Solutions' flagship product, Signal Hub, is a platform that does exactly what Earley explains, using artificial intelligence to build Signals, storing and refreshing those Signals in a Signal Layer, and making them available to anyone in the enterprise, for any use case. Signal Hub also includes a unique Workbench that allows data scientists to quickly develop new models and use cases, as well as a Knowledge Center, which allows business users and scientists alike to explore each Signal, finding its origins and examining the specific insights that helped create it.
To learn more about how Signal Hub can help your organization keep up with the rapidly changing demands and attention spans of consumers, download our paper, "Personalized Marketing at Scale."
Laks Srinivasan is co-COO at Opera Solutions.


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You may have heard that frogs are in trouble, with about a third of the world's species currently threatened by a disease called chytrid fungus. But you might not know that you can easily help.
FrogWatch USA helps scientists collect data by using volunteers to count these amphibians. You can do it even if you live in a big city, and kids can participate too.
The problems began in the 1980's and were so widespread that researchers realized they'd need a lot of data — and there weren't enough scientists to go around. That's why the FrogWatch program was started. "It was recognized that having lots of different people out there collecting data… would really make a difference," says Rachel Gauza, FrogWatch USA national coordinator at the Association of Zoos & Aquariums.
What Does a Frog Watcher Do? They Listen.
Why not count actual frogs? One reason is that it's often a lot easier to hear them than to see them.
"Some of our smallest species can put out some really impressive calls," says Gauza. "One of the most highly reported species on the East Coast is the spring peeper. They're so little they could sit on a quarter, but they put out this really high-pitched loud peep and they're in these large aggregations tucked down into vegetation— it can be deafening."
Another reason is that when you listen, you don't have to actually enter the habitat, says Gauza: "It's nice because it's not invasive. You can collect the data without disturbing things." There's no risk of interfering in the breeding process or spreading disease, which is especially important because one of the strains of the chytrid disease is thought to have originally been introduced by humans from frogs in the pet trade and medical industry.
And for some species of frogs, listening can be more accurate than looking, as one recent scientific discovery showed. A new species of leopard frog in Staten Island was discovered because a researcher heard an unfamiliar call. Although the frog sounded different, it was so similar in appearance to other species in the area that DNA testing was needed to confirm that it was a distinct species.
From Wetlands to Your Backyard
That discovery also shows there are frogs to be found even in the biggest city, and there are several sites in New York City that are monitored by FrogWatch volunteers. Frog habitat is not always pristine wilderness. "It doesn't always have to be this natural, beautiful wetland," says Gauza. "In many cases, stormwater ponds are the only available amphibian habitat there is. If that's what they have, that's what they'll use. It could be right in your backyard or a neighborhood park or at the end of your cul-de-sac where the stormwater collects."
Frogs also breed in spots where most of the year you don't even see water. Places where water collects only in the spring, called vernal pools, are actually excellent frog habitat, since fish can't survive to compete with the tadpoles.
Nalini Mohan of the Bronx Zoo trains some of the volunteers in New York, and says that FrogWatch is a great way to expose kids to nature and science. "Children are really good at distinguishing the frog calls, sometimes even better than adults," she says.
The data is collected with measurements that are very specific and simple, she says, and there's training for all of it, both frog calls and the weather data that volunteers record. "They do a lot of activities to learn the calls," she says, "and we bring a fan and show them the different windspeeds." Because the data is collected at night, it's a great activity for families and scout troops.
You can find training sessions at the FrogWatch website. If you're not sure about participating, Gauza says, "we encourage people who are just interested in learning about frogs and toads to go."
"It really opens people's eyes to what is around," says Mohan. "Frogs are really good ambassadors for wildlife."'
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In the executive suites today, the concept of corporate culture is the new black. It seems that everyone is talking about the importance of culture, the impact of culture, and of course, the need for culture change.
The recent seismic shift in the global economy, along with rapid technological, political, generational and regulatory changes are impacting every industry with wave after wave of disruption. There is no let up, the changes just keep coming. And one common response in the executive suite is: "We need a culture change. We need a more _______(fill in the blank: agile, accountable, customer focused, innovative, etc.) culture to survive and thrive."
The problem is, very few executives, not to mention culture consultants and academics for that matter, really understand what corporate culture is and even fewer understand the real levers for reshaping or changing culture. As a result, attempts are made at culture change using the hierarchical approach of top-down communications, cascading "culture workshops" and publishing new "Values Statements". Lots of activity, some interesting Powerpoint slides, but very little change.
On the cover of my recent book, Leverage: The CEO's Guide to Corporate Culture, is my favourite statement about corporate culture:
Few concepts in business contain so many powerful truths, and at the same time so much crap as corporate culture.
Corporate culture is anything but HR fluff or academic theory. It's a business issue as real and meaningful as product quality or cash flow. Corporate culture can be a significant business risk, or a valuable asset. And there is no single culture but in fact nearly every company is a collection of strong subcultures, sometimes aligned with the overall business strategy, mostly looking out for themselves.
How I first experienced and understood what really drives culture:
Early in my career, back in the late 1970's in fact, I was a young consultant working on improving customer service for a large regional department store retailer. The company was losing market share to other retailers and the overwhelming cause seemed to be poor customer service. After all, they had the same merchandise, similar pricing, similar large mall locations, similar store lay-outs, similar sales staff and were a well-known regional brand. But customers weren't buying and focus groups unearthed the fact that customers didn't feel anyone was there to serve them and it was hard to interact with floor staff.
So, a decree came from the top: Improve customer service. And the HR department got the job. New training in customer service was designed and made mandatory. Hiring profiles were changed to recruit and hire "more extroverted, people-friendly" floor staff. Managers were measured and bonuses given on customer service scores. The President made a video talking about the importance of customer service. Customer Service became the number one corporate value and featured on plaques and wall posters throughout the company.
And still customer service was poor! Insight: Maybe it's not the floor staff that's the problem, but the corporate culture!
Culture might be made visible by "how people behave", but the drivers that cause and promote certain behaviours are very much buried on the internal business processes that are a part of the working of the company. So to understand why customer service remained poor, we had to look beyond people and training to how work really got done in the stores.
First we talked with sales clerks and floor staff and heard: "We know customer service is important and we'd really like to spend more time with customers, and the new training has been excellent, but we don't have time. The supervisors demand we report stock levels and inventory on certain items, and it takes up a lot of time."
Next we talked to department supervisors and heard: "I really wish we could focus more on customers, but the buyers ring us at all hours of the day for stock reports on key items and we have to give them the data so they can reorder."
We then asked the merchandise managers about the issue and heard: "Of course customer service is important, but we get penalised depending on overage or shortages of key stock items and the only way to get the information is from the stores."
We then sat in on a couple of senior executive meetings and discovered that the majority of the time and the agenda was focused on what stock is selling and what is not. Not one discussion in the entire meeting about customer service!
For me, two important things emerged from this experience:
- First, organisations are shadows of their leaders and what the senior team focuses on is what tends to drive behaviour from top to bottom.
- Second is that the business requirement for flash stock reporting and inventory checking drove behaviours that were actually counter to better customer service. Replacing the entire floor staff with professionally trained retail sales people still wouldn't have mattered because the time available for customers was taken up by random and frequent stock checks.
They didn't have a culture of poor service, they had a culture of excessive focus on merchandise stock levels and a leadership team which said one thing and did another! Yes customers received poor service, but it wasn't caused by poor service behaviours.
Over the past 35 years of helping senior leadership teams improve business performance and reshape culture, I have tried to avoid using huge culture surveys with lots of questions, in favour of a more detective like approach to looking for root causes. More often than not, the root cause resides in the work practices, policies and management requirements that cause people to behave in certain ways in order to comply.
A more recent case study in culture change and the importance of investigating work practices and company policies as key behaviour drivers comes from the successful reshaping of Walgreens from a seller of drugs and prescription filler to a customer-centered, prescription information and support culture. One of the keys was to free up management time from paperwork and reports to coaching and supporting staff.
Next time you think culture change is just about people change, you might want to take a closer look!
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Service & Calibration
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- Standard Service as per our schedule.
- Squareness checks & adjustments.
- UKAS Re-verification using equipment traceable to UKAS Laboratories.
- 'CHE' Calibration with equipment traceable to National Standards.
- Issue of Calibration Certificate.
Generally if we find small problems with the machine whilst servicing i.e.(blocked air bearing) we would normally rectify this within our preventative maintenance service schedule. However, the customer would be advised of major issues and quoted for any rectification work.
Repair & Overhaul
We realise when your machine breaks down it can be a major headache that's why we keep a comprehensive selection of spare parts in house, also in some instances we can provide loan equipment whilst we repair a faulty item (if it can't be repaired on site). We have full bench repair/test facilities at CHE.
CHE specialise in full machine overhauls and have performed many full re-wire, re-pipe and upgrades onsite and in our workshop, bringing new life into older CMM's that may have been poorly maintained in the past. This is also followed up with advice to customers on day to day maintenance and air filtration issues etc.
Machine Relocation
Together with our specialist transport partner we have decommissioned and moved many machines around the UK and Worldwide. Air suspension curtain sided trailers ensure your CMM gets to its new location in good condition and rest assured CHE will have used the manufacturers shipping brackets (as necessary and where available) to hold the machine in position. All machines are fully protected with packing throughout. International transportation may have bespoke crating supplied to satisfy export requirements.


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Wagenaar, Alexander C.
Professor Emeritus, Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics
1329 SW 16th Street, Room 5235
PO Box 100177
Gainesville, FL 32610-0177
- Ph.D. in Health Behavior, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
- M.S.W. in Program Evaluation and Research, University of Michigan
- B.A. in Sociology (Honors Program), Calvin College
For Dr. Wagenaar's full vita, click here.
Professional Biography
Dr. Wagenaar is Professor Emeritus of Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics at the University of Florida College of Medicine. His second book, Public Health Law Research: Theory and Methods (with Scott Burris of Temple University School of Law), was published by Wiley in 2013. In addition, he has published 180 scientific articles on social and behavioral epidemiology, public health policy, legal evaluations, community intervention trials, alcohol and tobacco studies, traffic safety, and injury control.
In 1987, Professor Wagenaar received the Exceptional Leadership Award from the American Public Health Association. In 1999, he received the Jellinek Award for lifetime achievement in research on alcohol. In 2001 he received the Innovator's Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and in 2004 was named by the Institute for Scientific Information as a Highly Cited Researcher, an honor limited to less than one-half of one percent of published scientists worldwide. Other scientists have cited his journal articles more than 10,000 times. In 2009 he received the Prevention Science Award and in 2016 the Nan Tobler Award, both from the Society for Prevention Research, in recognition of his three decades of investigating and advancing the methods and outcomes of prevention research.
- Alcohol tax policy
- Drunk driving
- Injury prevention
- Health effects of laws
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- Staras, S.A.S., Livingston, M.D., & Wagenaar, A.C. (2016) Maryland alcohol sales tax and sexually transmitted infections: A natural experiment. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 50(3):e73-e80.
- Komro, K.A., Flay, B.R., Biglan, A. & Wagenaar, A.C. (2016) Research design issues for evaluating complex multicomponent interventions in neighborhoods and communities. Translational Behavioral Medicine, 6(1): 153-159. DOI: 10.1007/s13142-015-0358-4.
- Lynne-Landsman, S.D., Kominsky, T.K., Livingston, M.D., Wagenaar, A.C., & Komro, K.A. (2016) Alcohol sales to youth: Data from rural communities within the Cherokee Nation. Prevention Science, 17:32-29. DOI: 10.1007/s11121-015-0579-2
- Wagenaar, A.C., Livingston, M.D., & Staras, S.S. (2016) Effects of a 2009 Illinois alcohol tax increase on fatal motor vehicle crashes. American Journal of Public Health, 105(9): 1880-1885.
- Shenkman, E., Muller, K., Vogel, B., Nixon, S.J., Wagenaar, A.C., Case, K., Guo, Y., Wegman, M., Aric, J., & Stoner, D. (2015) The wellness incentives and navigation project: Design and methods. BMC Health Services Research, 15:579-591.
- Wagenaar, B.H., Sherr, K., Quinhas, F. & Wagenaar, A.C., (2015)Using routine health information for well-designed health evaluations in low- and middle-income countries. Health Policy and Planning, 1-7. doi: 10.1093/heapol/czv029
- Livingston, M.D., Komro, K.A., & Wagenaar, A.C.(2015) The effects of survey modality on adolescents' responses to alcohol use items. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 39(4), 710-715.
- Rossheim, M.E., Thombs, D.L., Wagenaar, A.C., Xuan, Z., & Aryal, S. (2015) High alcohol concentration products associated with poverty and state alcohol policies. American Journal of Public Health.
- Delcher, C., Wagenaar, A.C., Goldberger, B.A., Cook, R.L., Maldonado-Molina, M.M. (2015) Abrupt decline in oxycodone-caused mortality after implementation of Florida's prescription drug monitoring program. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 146:e260.
- Komro, K.A., Wagenaar, A.C., Boyd, M., Boyd, B.J., Pettigrew, D., Tobler, A.L., Lynne-Landsman, S.D., Livingston, M.D., Livingston, B., Molina, M.M. (2015)Prevention trial in the Cherokee Nation: Design of a randomized community trial. Prevention Science, 16(2):291-300.
- Komro, K.A., Burris, S. & Wagenaar, A.C. (2014). Social determinants of child health: Concepts and measures for future research. Health Behavior and Policy Review, 1(6), 432-445.
- Prevention Trial in the Cherokee Nation, Interactive Effects of Environment and SBIRT- Admin Supplement for Postdoctoral Fellow
- Prevention Trial in the Cherokee Nation, Interactive Effects of Environment and SBIRT
- Wellness Incentives and Navigation (WIN) Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- Evaluation of Policies to Improve Social Determinants & Reduce Child Health Disparities
- Public Health Law Research
- Maryland Alcohol Tax Analysis
- Social and Health Effects of Changes in Alcohol Prices: A Research Collaborative
- Alcohol Contextual Influences: Effects on Health Disparities and Mortality
- The Etiology of Alcohol Use and Consequences Among Multi-Ethnic Urban Youth
- Smoke-Free Policy Effects on Alcohol-Related Traffic Crashes
- Alcohol Tax Evaluation