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The Brazilian football team has been preparing at Barnet's training ground ahead of the friendly against England tomorrow. The squad includes veteran player Ronaldinho, who helped knock England out of the 2002 World Cup, and Chelsea's midfielder Oscar.
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Former Brazilian football star Ronaldo, one of the most marketable players in his pomp, is reportedly set to move to London to study advertising.
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The two struck up an unlikely partnership while working together on sporting promotions, including for Brazil's hosting of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics, and established a joint ad agency venture, 9ine.
The former Real Madrid, Barcelona and Inter Milan forward told Brazilian newspaper Meio e Mensagem: "Learning from Martin Sorrell will be perfect. I won't leave him alone. I'll be asking him questions the whole day, just like a striker. He's going to have to tell me everything."
Team GB kick off campaign against NZ
The British women's first game is against New Zealand on July 25 in Cardiff - two days before the opening ceremony in London. They then play Cameroon in Cardiff on July 28 followed by Brazil at Wembley on July 31.
Team GB's women footballers to face Brazil
Great Britain's women have been drawn against Cameroon, New Zealand and Brazil in the group stages of the Olympics football tournament.


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Do Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan want to turn Medicare into a voucher program?
In their attacks against Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney's running mate, the Obama campaign and Democratic allies have been repeating a familiar word: vouchers.
During a campaign event in Davenport, Iowa, on Aug. 15, 2012, President Barack Obama said, "I've strengthened Medicare. I've made reforms that save millions of seniors with Medicare hundreds of dollars on their prescription drugs. We're closing the doughnut hole. I've proposed reforms that will save Medicare money by getting rid of wasteful spending in the health care system. Reforms that will not touch your Medicare benefits.
"And Gov. Romney and his running mate have a different plan. They want to turn Medicare into a voucher system. That means seniors would no longer have the guarantee of Medicare -- they'd get a voucher to buy private insurance. And if it doesn't keep up with costs, well, that's the seniors' problem. It was estimated that Gov. Romney's running mate, his original plan would force seniors to pay an extra $6,400 a year."
We wondered whether Romney and Ryan really "want to turn Medicare into a voucher system."
"Voucher" is a word Democrats have used over the years to criticize a variety of Republican privatization proposals, such as efforts to help private schools. Republicans don't like the word and try to avoid it. Frank Luntz, a Republican consultant specializing in "message creation and image management," boasts on his website that he "moved the public debate from 'school vouchers' to 'opportunity scholarships.'"
In the context of Medicare, Republicans prefer to call it "premium support" -- the one Ryan himself has used from day one when talking about his own proposals. A Romney-Ryan spokesman told us the campaign considers it a "premium support" plan, not a voucher plan.
Both sides are acting in self-interest, said Ben Zimmer, executive producer of the Visual Thesaurus and Vocabulary.com and language columnist for The Boston Globe. "I can understand Republican willingness to embrace this alternative term, just as I can understand Democratic eagerness to remind voters of the dreaded 'v-word' at every turn," Zimmer said.
In this item, we will sort through the claims and see whether it's reasonable for Obama to call the Romney-Ryan plan for Medicare a "voucher system."
We'll start with the dictionary. Merriam-Webster defines a voucher as "a written affidavit or authorization … a form or check indicating a credit against future purchases or expenditures; a coupon issued by government to a parent or guardian to be used to fund a child's education in either a public or private school."
Ryan's plans
The initial Ryan plan that used "premium supports" was released in early 2011 and was approved by the GOP-controlled House before dying in the Senate, where Democrats called it radical and argued that it shifted too much of Medicare's financial burden to beneficiaries.
Under Ryan's original plan, Medicare would have changed from a program that pays doctors and hospitals fees for particular services to one in which beneficiaries would be paid an amount by the government that they could use toward private insurance premiums. This would have affected people who today are under 55 only. The private plans would comply with standards set by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, which administers the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program.
Ryan has since offered updated versions of the plan, the first in conjunction with Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and then as part of his fiscal year 2013 budget proposal.
Ryan's most recent plan is similar to his original one, with one key difference. The newer version allows beneficiaries under 55 a choice -- they can use their payment to buy private insurance or for a plan that acts like traditional Medicare. The amount a beneficiary receives would be based in part on the second least-expensive plan available on the exchange.
But note that Obama said, "Gov. Romney and his running mate have a different plan." Is the most recent Ryan plan also official policy for the Romney campaign?
In an interview with a Green Bay, Wis., television station on Aug. 15, Romney said, "Paul Ryan and my plan for Medicare, I think, is the same, if not identical -- it's probably close to identical." Based on this, we'll evaluate Obama's claim based on the most recent Ryan plan.
A history of 'premium support'
When Ryan unveiled his plan, Democrats poked fun at him for avoiding the term "voucher." At a hearing on the plan, Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., said, "My Republican colleagues don't like the sound of 'voucher' to describe their plan, so they've made up a new term called 'premium support.'"
Actually, that term has been around since a 1995 paper co-authored by two health policy experts, Henry Aaron, of the Brookings Institution, and Robert Reischauer, a former Congressional Budget Office director who was then at Brookings. "Premium support" also was used in a Medicare overhaul proposed by the bipartisan Breaux-Thomas commission in 1999 and in the 2010 Rivlin-Domenici proposal from the Bipartisan Policy Center.
Each of these proposals had somewhat different details, but what they broadly shared is changing Medicare from a program in which the government pays the bills directly to one in which the government gives money to the beneficiary, who spends it on an insurance plan.
In their 1995 paper, Aaron and Reischauer proposed that Medicare "pay a defined sum toward the purchase of an insurance policy that provided a defined set of services" -- an approach they billed as a "middle ground" between a separate national health care system for the aged and a "pure voucher system" within a "lightly regulated marketplace."
Aaron -- who no longer supports the idea of premium support, saying the cost-control provisions of President Barack Obama's health care law serve the purpose he intended -- reiterated in a blog post earlier this year that there are several key differences between a voucher program and premium support.
For a proposal to qualify as premium support, Aaron wrote, it's crucial to peg the beneficiaries' payment to the actual rise in health care costs so people don't end up having to pay more because of inflation. Voucher plans that don't do this "are virtually guaranteed to become increasingly inadequate," he wrote.
So does the Ryan plan meet the definition of premium support? While his original plan was pegged to overall consumer prices, the most recent Ryan plan is pegged to the lower end of health care premiums. That's closer to the Aaron-Reischauer definition than his first plan was, though the fact that it's tied to the low end rather than average costs suggests that payment size could still lag typical health care prices.
The notion that there's a substantive difference between "premium support" and "vouchers" receives some support from free-market supporters. Michael Tanner, a health care analyst for the libertarian Cato Institute, said that the original Ryan plan, "leaned more toward a voucher," whereas Ryan's second plan was "clearly premium support."
Robert Moffit, a health policy analyst at the conservative Heritage Foundation, agrees with Aaron that there's a distinction between "voucher" and "premium support," though he draws the opposite conclusion, arguing that the Obama campaign's use of the term "voucher" is not justified, since the Ryan plan includes more regulation than for, say, airline vouchers for food and drink.
Looking at linguistics
The differences between vouchers and premium support may matter to health-policy professionals, but not necessarily to a general audience. And while the 1995 Aaron-Reischauer paper may have offered a detailed definition for "premium support," language tends to evolve over nearly two decades.
In recent years, the definitions of "premium support" and "vouchers" have become almost indistinguishable, with plans such as Breaux-Thomas and Rivlin-Domenici using "premium support" to describe policies that weren't identical to those from the 1995 paper. Reischauer made this argument when he told PolitiFact that he thinks the Obama campaign "is on firm ground" using the term "voucher."
Even more convincingly, the 1995 paper didn't say that premium support wasn't a voucher -- it said that it wasn't a "pure" voucher. This means that "premium support" may be seen as just one type of voucher, not the opposite of a voucher.
Aaron told us he agreed with that reasoning. Take away the requirements listed in the 1995 paper, he said, "and you have a bare-bones voucher." Adhere to these requirements, he said, "and you have premium support. That means, I think, that premium support is a type of voucher."
Our ruling
We agree that in the world of policy wonks, there are distinctions between "vouchers" and "premium support," having to do with the type of inflation adjustment used and the degree of marketplace regulation imposed. Compared with his original plan, Ryan's most recent plan does move closer to fitting the definition of pure premium support. But substantively, it's still somewhere in between the two approaches.
But the Romney-Ryan approach pretty much matches the dictionary definition of "a form or check indicating a credit against future purchases or expenditures." We think that describes the general way Ryan's plan would work. For a political discussion aimed at voters rather than policy wonks, we think Obama's use of the term "voucher" is close enough to earn it a rating of Mostly True.


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Terry set up the BA (Hons) Criminology in 1994 and was the first course leader of this successful course. Terry teaches on a range of core and optional modules on both the BA (Hons) Criminology and MA Criminology.
Head of the Criminology division from 1998-2000.
Chair of the School of Social Sciences Research Ethics Committee (SREC) As Chair of SREC Terry is responsible for overseeing the ethical approval of undergraduate and taught postgraduate students' research across the School.
Deputy Chair of the College of Business, Law and Social Sciences Ethics Committee (CREC). The CREC approves ethics applications for doctoral and staff research projects.
Member of School of Social Sciences Research Committee.
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Terry has taught and researched in the sociology of crime and gender and crime respectively for 25 years, originally at the University of Portsmouth and since 1991 at Nottingham Trent University.
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Terry is a qualitative researcher and has a particular interest in social science research ethics.
She has supervised doctoral research in the fields of prostitution and domestic violence.
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Terry's Research interests include:
- Social research ethics
- Gender and violence
- Rape and sexual assault (including policing and support services)
- Domestic violence (including policing and support services)
- Prostitution (including policing and support services)
- Honour based violence
- Gender and offending behaviour
- Sociology of crime
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Terry Gillespie and Kristan Hopkins Burke were successful in their bid in 2011 for an NTU SPUR award, working with a second year BSc. Psychology with Criminology student on a research project exploring the nature of honour based violence and the local multi-agency response (report published December, 2011 and available in the NTU Boots library).
Terry, Kristan and Christopher Crowther-Dowey are currently engaged (since 2012) on a joint project with the Nottingham Drugs and Crime Partnership (joint police and city council initiative) examining young people's perceptions of domestic abuse and healthy relationships in an economically deprived area of Nottinghamshire. The Firebreak Project aims to evaluate the impact of a range of interventions, focusing on an inter-generational and community 'firebreak' in order to aid desistance from domestic abuse.
As part of this ongoing project we bid for a SPUR student and were, again, successful with a student from BA Criminology working with us over the summer of 2013 recording interviews with young people.
External activity
- Member of Professional Ethics Committee, British Society of Criminology, (2013-).
- Member British Society of Criminology.
- External Examiner for BA Criminology, Manchester Metropolitan University (2014-).
- External Examiner for M.Res. University of Derby, (2014).
- External examiner for BSc. Criminology at Teesside University (1999-2003).
- Associate Editor on the Internet Journal of Criminology.
- Reviewer ESRC research proposals, together with book and journal articles.
- Secretary and Convenor roles for the British Sociological Association Violence Against Women Study Group (1990-2008).
Sponsors and collaborators
- Nottingham City Council
- Nottingham Drugs and Crime Partnership
- Equation (formerly Nottingham Domestic Violence Forum)
Journal Articles:
Griffiths, M.D., Miller, H., Sparrow, P. and Gillespie, T., (1998). Internet usage and "Internet addiction" in students and its implications for student learning. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 15, pp. 89-91.
Gillespie, T., (1995). Feminist research: reclaiming objectivity. Research Policy and Planning, 12 (2), pp. 23-25.
Lupton, C. and Gillespie, T., eds., (1994). Working with Violence. Basingstoke: Macmillan.
Book Chapters:
Gillespie, T., (2000). Virtual violence?: Pornography and violence against women on the Internet in J. Radford, M. Friedberg and L. Harne, eds., Women, Violence and Strategies for Action. Buckingham: Open University Press, 2000.
Gillespie, T., (1996). Rape Crisis Centres and Male Rape: a face of the backlash in M. Hester, L. Kelly and J. Radford, eds., Women, Violence and Male Power. Buckingham: Open University Press, 1996.
Gillespie, T., (1994). Under pressure: Rape Crisis Centres, Multi-Agency Work and Strategies for Survival in C. Lupton and T. Gillespie, eds., Working with Violence. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994.
Gillespie, T., Hopkins-Burke, K. and Mellett, J., (2011) Honour based Violence and the Multi-Agency Approach in Nottingham: response of local agencies to honour based violence. Nottingham: Nottingham Trent University.
Gillespie, T., Hopkins-Burke, K. and Mellett, J., (2011) Honour based Violence and the Multi-Agency Approach in Nottingham: response of local agencies to honour based violence. Nottingham: Nottingham Trent University.See all of Terry Gillespie's publications...


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The backlight is uniform across the display, and now features automatic brightness so it can react to environmental lighting.
The new ergonomic design brings the battery inside the device, shifting the centre of gravity into the palm of your hand. At it's thinnest point it measures an impressive 3.4mm.
It weighs just 194 grams, 10 grams less than the best-selling Kindle Paperwhite.
Another major breakthrough is that it's first waterproof Kindle, so you can read in the bath or swimming pool without fear of destroying your precious e-reader. It has a rating of IPX8, which means it can withstand immersion in up to two meters of freshwater for up to 60 minutes.
Perhaps the coolest feature is that the new Oasis has Audible built-in, letting you listen to a collection of audiobooks over Bluetooth headphones or Bluetooth speaker (there's no headphone port or integrated speaker).
With Whispersync, Amazon saves and synchronises your last read page, allowing you to pick up instantly where you left off whether you're reading or listening.
Unlike the original Oasis, the all-new Oasis has a battery life measured in weeks, not hours, lasting an impressive six weeks. It includes a fast-charging capability that allows it to go from no battery to fully charged in less than two hours.
The all-new Kindle Oasis is available for pre-order today from Amazon.
Prices start at £229.99 for the 8GB model, raising to £259.99 for the 32GB model, and £319.99 for the 32GB model with unlimited, lifetime, cellular connectivity.
The new Kindle Oasis will start shipping on 31st October.
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It's Friday, which means we have four fun, weekend craft ideas for you! From using scrap fabrics to a DIY bathing suit, check out our list!
- DIY rag rug – all you need for this rag rug is a non-skid rug mat and as many 1″x5″ fabric strips as you can find.
- A baby quilt for the non-quilter (or the quilter who wants a less time consuming project), from Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Store's blog.
- A wine bottle tiki torch – a simple yet unique decoration for future outdoor parties!
- Bathing suit – It might still be cold out, but it's never too early to start summer crafting, especially if that crafting involves a cute, new bathing suit! Sew Mama Sew has a great blog, with a step-by-step tutorial and a free pattern for making your own bathing suit.


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UPDATE: Trump Backpedals On Wall Stipulation To Avoid Government Shutdown
Trump, in an attempt to weaponize the politics behind one of his most controversial policies, as a stipulation of the budget renewal due by the 28th of April (ironically the 100th day of his presidency), required funding be allotted for building a wall on our southern border. On the evening of the 25th, possibly in avoidance of an endless stream of merciless irony by the media, decided to push the financial aspects of his plan forward until September, as confirmed by White House officials.
We are now back to his previous message, which was that Mexico will "somehow in some way" fund this border wall, despite 2 previous Mexican presidents stating quite the opposite in no uncertain terms. With the responsibility shifted to the American public for finance, it is a strange wonder that amidst this addition to the discretionary budget, he has vowed likewise to decrease the corporate tax rate from 39.6% to a mere 15% for wealthy business owners, while simultaneously raising the military discretionary budget by almost 10%.


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You can't. In order to retrieve any information about a job you have to already know the job number and user name. Both of those APIs you mentioned have to have the qualified job name passed to them in order to retrieve any information about a job.
One way to get this information, though, is to execute a WRKACTJOB to print, copy the spooled file to a work file, and then parse the work file looking for the job name. However, this will only work if the job name is unique.
Here are the specifics of the QUSLJOB API.
In the job name section of the the qualified job name, it appears that you could provide the name of the job you're looking for, and specify *ALL for the user name and job number components. Or, if you are looking for a job name and a specific user name, you should be able to provide those two, and specify *ALL for the job number component. All of the matching jobs would be written to a user space, which you could access (via another API) to find the job(s) that you're looking for and proceed accordingly with what you want to do.
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The name of the job to be included in the list. The qualified job name has three parts:
Job name CHAR(10). A specific job name, a generic name, or one of the following special values:
* Only the job that this program is running in. The rest of the qualified job name parameter must be blank.
*CURRENT All jobs with the current job's name.
*ALL All jobs. The rest of the job name parameter must be specified.
User name CHAR(10). A specific user profile name, a generic name, or one of the following special values:
*CURRENT Jobs with the current job's user profile.
*ALL Jobs with the specified job name, regardless of the user name. The rest of the job name parameter must be specified.
Job number CHAR(6). A specific job number or the following special value:
*ALL Jobs with the specified job name and user name, regardless of the job number. The rest of the job name parameter must be specified.</i>
Since this API requires a user space, you could create some modular service programs to manage working with a user space, so that you could re-use them with other APIs.
The Retrieve Job Information (QUSRJOBI) API does require a fully-qualified job name, but the List Job (QUSLJOB) API only needs job-name. It doesn't need user-name nor job-number.
It will return a list of all jobs that have the specified job-name. The list will be in a user space.
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This campaign is part of a three-year (2014-2017) project funded by the European Union (EU) and implemented by CESVI, and Italian Ngo and aimed at "enhancing environmental sustainability, resilience to climate change and improved livelihoods for vulnerable communities in Limpopo Province through sustainable ecotourism development". Like many other rural communities in South Africa, the African Ivory Route communities in Limpopo – the country's poorest province – have limited access to livelihood opportunities. Traditional activities such as dry-land crop and livestock production are directly dependent on, and extremely vulnerable to, annual fluctuations in rainfall and longer-term climatic changes — and in many cases result in significant impacts to the environment, to the extent that they are not sustainable. The result is that communities are trapped in conditions of extreme poverty.
Many of these communities, extremely poor but living in nature-rich areas, in their effort to sustain livelihoods contribute to the degradation of the environment and the decimation of wildlife. This poses a significant challenge to the long-term sustainability of ecosystems and protected areas.
Ecotourism has the potential to offer complementary and more sustainable livelihood opportunities — to assist the transition by rural communities from livelihoods based on direct use of natural resources to those based on employment. Sustainable ecotourism in healthy ecosystems provides livelihood opportunities for rural communities while promoting sustainable development.
Ecotourism development in the framework of this ecotourism project has been pursued and achieved through a multi-stakeholder partnership enabling different actors to operate synergistically. This includes the public sector to provide an appropriate enabling environment (e.g. policies, strategic planning, framework infrastructure); communities to proactively participate in local environmental protection, thus providing suitable conditions for attracting and hosting visitors; and a private operator to ensure efficient delivery of management and marketing services.
The project is implemented through a set of interlinked actions: improvement of standards of accommodation for guests; improved services for staff; introduction of renewable energies to assure environmental sustainability of the services offered; increasing the environmental standards with introduction of waste management and recycling; introduction of environmental management and environmental certification (Green Line Certification); training of AIR staff; promotion and marketing of the tourism products that the AIR has to offer; social and environmental promotion by linking the AIR camps with the surrounding communities and institutions; and support for the improvement of the institutional partnership set up at the founding of the AIR, particularly looking at the community cooperatives — owners of the camps.
To date, the EU AIR project has yielded seven new safari tents and new staff accommodation at Mtomeni Camp, and renovated tourist accommodation by introducing en suite bathrooms and showers in 15 guest units, including the renovation of communal ablutions in three other camps — Baleni, Fundudzi and Modjadji.
Waste management and recycling stations were introduced in all of the eight AIR camps. Renewable energy and eco-installations have been deployed across the camps, including: 2 borehole solar pumps; 24 solar geysers (with a total of 2,640 litres of water heated with the sun); 8 water filtering systems; 1 water harvester; water pressure meters to control use of water and reduce waste; 65 solar panels with a total capacity of 5,850 watts; 66 batteries for a total capacity of 5,185 Ah; 198 LED lights; 10 solar telephone recharging stations; 8 solar fridges.
These renovations have collectively 'greened' the AIR product, aimed at drawing more local and international visitors alike, and have contributed to the overall sustainability of the ecotourism economy involving the AIR communities.
Cesvi, established in 1985, is a secular, independent association, working for global solidarity.
In the values guiding Cesvi, the moral principle of human solidarity and the ideal of social justice are transformed into humanitarian aid and development, reinforcing an affirmation of universal human rights.
Cesvi believes strongly that helping the underprivileged in developing countries, or those in difficulty due to war, natural calamities and environmental disasters, does not help only those who suffer, but contributes also to the well-being of all of us on the planet, our "common home" that needs to be looked after for the sake of future generations.
In the acronym Cesvi, the words cooperazione e sviluppo (Cooperation and Development) underline the fact that Cesvi bases its philosophy on the idea of giving the recipients of aid a leading role, working together for their own natural benefit. It is for this reason that Cesvi is strongly committed to making sure that international aid does not become mere charity, and nor is it influenced by the donors' self-interest.
Cesvi mission to people in need around the world can be divided into three main categories:
– Immediate help to ensure survival and to overcome emergencies;
– The rehabilitation and reconstruction of systems destroyed by war or natural calamities;
– Cooperation programs and projects for the development of underprivileged social groups and poor communities.
The European Union
The European Union is made up of 28 Member States who have decided to gradually link together their know-how, resources and destinies. Together, expanding over 50 years, they have built a zone of stability, democracy and sustainable development whilst maintaining cultural diversity, tolerance and individual freedoms. The European Union is committed to sharing its achievements and its values with countries and peoples beyond its borders.


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text: CyberPsychology Cyberpsychology @ NSU The Psychology Department @ NSU is excited to host the 24th Annual CyberPsychology, CyberTherapy & Social Networking Conference! CYPSY24 took place June 24-26, 2019. More information can be found at: www.interactivemediainstitute.com/cypsy24. Cyberpsychology @ NSU is the result of the natural progression of cross-cutting research collaboration between psychological and computer scientists who seek to better understand the human element that drives the entire technological fabric that dictates how our world currently operates. As a social science contributor to the Center of Excellence in Cyber Security at Norfolk State University, Cyberpsychology enjoys a unique place within the university's Cybersecurity Research Complex--a multipurpose research and training facility located at the McDemmond Center for Applied Research (MCAR), housed across the street from NSU's main campus, just minutes away from downtown Norfolk, VA. Donations for CyberPsychology are greatly appreciated! Your charitable donation is tax deductable* and will go to help support CyberPsychology academic, research, and outreach activities. Click the image below to link to our support page. * consult your tax attorney regarding charitable donations in your jurisfication Research Complex The Research Complex has dedicated capabilities for social, behavioral, and STEM research with a distinct focus on advancing the scientific understanding of human functioning and behavior as a result of human-computer interaction, computer-mediated communication, and technology's influence on everyday life. CyberPsychology Lab Grand Opening


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Photos of reconstructed landscapes based on her collective and personal experiences of her home country of Israel. Shirley Wegner integrates photography, installation, art, painting and site-specific work to create these mental landscapes which seem real but are actually constructed through a multi-layered process using mundane, everyday materials.
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Therapists always try hard to be optimistic when discussing their pediatric client's future. Why not? Kids have amazing potential, and we aren't fortune tellers; there are so many things that can go right.
As therapists, we also should share the reality of how bad choices create unfortunate consequences. Among them are the long-term results of falls, especially head injuries. Kids fall, kids trip, kids walk into things. All kids, and for much of early childhood. The hypermobile child will have more episodes of injury, often has greater injury occurring in each episode, and frequently experiences a slower or less complete recovery from injury. This isn't a criticism of parents, kids, or even acute medical care. It is the reality of living with a condition, often a syndrome, that has effects beyond just loose joints.
This can include connective tissue disorders that create weak skin, ligaments, and tendons, decreased pain registration, delayed protective reactions when falling, and cognitive or behavioral complications that make learning and controlling actions more difficult. Hypermobile kids often spend more years in an unstable state in which they need assistance and supervision. And more years when they are vulnerable to serious injury. A head injury or a spine injury isn't an "unfortunate" event. It is frequently a life-changing event. The course of education and employment can be forever altered. For the worse.
In a clinic or school setting, your therapist is bound to guidelines that indemnify them and the facility. While they cannot control what happens at home, you should know what to do to make your home safer for a child with hypermobility. It begins with your environment, then you change your responses, then your build your child's ability to incorporate safety awareness into their day.
- Create a safe but accessible home. This expands on "baby proofing" to include railings set at a height that allow your child to push up rather than hang on them. Removal of loose rugs and adding padded floor surfaces in common areas, especially areas where they are climbing or running. Bathrooms are the location for many injuries once children become independent in toileting or bathing. Instead of supervising them forever, create a safe place with hidden grab bars (there are toilet paper holders and towel racks that are actually grab bars) and non-slip flooring. Place needed items within easy reach without climbing.
- Teach safe movement from the start. Children that learn how to move versus children that are passively moved will have more safety awareness. For children that still need a lot of help, narrate your moves and weave in safety messages. It will sink in. Finally, don't allow unsafe moves, even if they didn't hurt themselves. Tell them to try it again the safe way. Children are unable to anticipate the results of their actions. This is why we don't let 12 year-olds drive or let 5 year-olds cross the street alone. Sometimes the reason they do things our way is because we said so. Until they are old enough to understand the "why".
- Share your thought processes with children as soon as they can wrap their heads around things. Even kids in preschool can follow along with the idea that too many "boo-boos" will stop them from being able to play. Older kids can learn that the right chair helps them stave off fatigue until they finish a game.
- Ask your therapists for specific safety advice, and then carefully think through their answers. The truth is that some therapists are more safety-aware than others. I have been told that I am one of the most vocal therapists on a team when regarding safety issues. Perhaps it is because I spent 10 years working in adult rehab, treating patients for problems that started decades before I met them. I have seen what overuse and poor design has cost people. By then it is often too late to do much more than compensation and adaptation. I am committed to prevention with my pediatric clients. The cost is too high not to say something and say it loud.
For more information and ideas about helping your child with hypermobility, read Is Your Hypermobile Child Frequently In An Awkward Position? No, She Really DOESN'T Feel Any Pain From Sitting That Way and Should Your Hypermobile Child Play Sports?


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At present, only those with Type 03, Type 04, Type 09, Type 10, Type 73, or Type 75 certificates are required to document professional development in order to renew their certificates.
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You are, however, required to keep your certificate registered with the county in which you work and/or live. To check the status of your certificate, visit the Illinois State Board of Education's Educator Certification System (ECS).


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How to Think Differently about Diversity in Nonprofit Leadership: Get Comfortable with Discomfort
It would be an understatement to say that the past few months have been uncomfortable. The national election was downright ugly, and it exposed just how naïve those pundits were who "dared ask whether the United States had finally begun to heal its divisions over race"... more
Looking Back to 1965, Looking Ahead to 2015
This weekend, the movie Selma opens nationwide. The film's release doesn't just launch the latest awards-season buzz; it connects directly to the movement moment we're in, and kicks off a year where we'll be marking several 50-year milestones that harken back to... more
Understanding "Hong Kong People!"
Growing up, my dad often introduced himself as being "Hong Kong people." The first thing he wanted you to know was his name; the second thing was that he was from Hong Kong. Being from Hong Kong was an enormous source of pride for him, and he frequently... more
Obamacare: The Potential in Service to Social Change
This past week, the Building Movement Project Team had the privilege to hear from several leaders in Los Angeles about how the implementation of Obamacare is being leveraged by forward-looking organizations, both service and organizing, as an opportunity for movement building.more
Detroit Accountable Community Governance Event
In July, 2012 William Copeland and Rayven Roberts represented EMEAC at the Accountable Community Governance Convening held by the South by Southwest Experiment in Jackson, Mississippi. This event, to be held at The Commons on Thursday, August 30th from 6-8pm, will serve as a community report back. But furthermore will be a discussion about what does Accountable Community Governance look like in Detroit. more
Featured Movement Builder: Center for Popular Democracy
Building Movement Project recently launched our Movement Building Portal- a series of resources for folks who end up on our site looking for information on social movement and how to build them. Part of that project included highlighting some groups who we think are doing great work building movements and making social change in their communities. This week, we'd like to highlight the Center for Popular Democracy as one of those groups. more
Movement Building Resources
At Building Movement Project, we work to strengthen the role of US nonprofits as they build a movement for progressive social change. While our focus is working with other organizations to help them integrate social change activities into their work, we have compiled a group of resources that may be useful for those coming to us who are looking for information about movement building in general. Most of what you'll find here is historical in nature, and is meant to provide you with a background in social movement history, as well as connect you to other people and organizations whose primary focus is on movement building. more
Current Movement Building Organizations
There are some groups we'd like to highlight that are currently building movements in their communities. Head to their websites for more information about what they're doing and how they're achieving change. more
Key Readings and Other Resources on Movement Building
Our Movement Building Portal is meant to give you a brief outline of social movements in the United States and point you to groups currently dedicated to movement building. On this page, you'll find some important texts on social movements and movement building theory that we think will be useful for more in-depth study.more
History of Social Movements in the United States
The history of the United States provides rich examples for social movements and movement building. Here are some resources that you might find useful for a historical outline of modern social movements in the US.more


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"Alone Again (Naturally)" is a song by Irish singer-songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan. It was released in 1972 at the same time as (but not on) the album, Back to Front. In total, the single spent six weeks, non-consecutively, at #1 on the United States Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. Billboard ranked it as the No. 2 song for 1972. In Casey Kasem's American Top 40 of the 1970s, "Alone Again (Naturally)" ranked as the fifth most-popular song of the decade (Debby Boone's "You Light Up My Life" was #1). "Alone Again (Naturally)" also spent six weeks at number one on the Easy Listening chart. The track reached #3 in the UK Singles Chart.
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The Agilent 33220A function / arbitrary waveform generator uses direct digital synthesis (DDS) techniques to create stable, low-distortion output signals so you get accurate results. The 33220A provides easy access to standard sine, square, ramp, triangle, and pulse waveforms plus you can create custom waveforms using the 50 MSa/s, 14 bit, 64 K-point arbitrary waveform function. The variable-edge pulse function, along with PWM gives you unmatched flexibility for your design, verification, and test applications. The 33220A also includes USB, LAN and GPIB interfaces standard and comes with free Intuilink software to enable simple generation of custom waveforms with your PC.
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Ever thought of where stormwater ends up? Poorly-managed stormwater can damage your property and the wider environment – but, managed properly, it can be good for your garden. Stormwater is the water that runs off surfaces such as houses, roads, driveways, footpaths. In urban areas, it runs down drains into stormwater pipes or channels and […]
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I was planning to go with a friend in 2017 for a goat hunt, probably in September or October. We are Spanish bowhunters, and quite young. We wouldnt like to spend large amounts, but at the same time we are looking for a nice place with healthy goat population and the wildest landscapes and conditions. Not looking for comfort. As this trip of a lifetime may require a great investment for us, we need to be sure that we have big adventure, we hope that nothing goes wrong because our chances of being able to pay another trip like this are very reduced.
So I was wondering if any of you guys could kindly help me to find an oufitter affordable but great person and with a nice hunting area. We dont really mind if it is AK, or Kodiak Island or Canada..
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Academic Advising
Academic advising is available to guide students through their academic careers, to ensure that requirements for the major are fulfilled, and opportunities for achievement are met. To be successful in the Computer Animation and Game Development Program (CAGD) we encourage you to meet with your program advisor, Professor Clarke Steinback Ph.D.
To move forward into a career in the computer animation and game development industries a successful academic experience with objectives and goals that are discussed and achieved is a crucial step. Advising is not required during the Fall semester but is encouraged in order to follow a plan to maintain these goals and objectives and to complete them in a cohesive manner.
To receive advising regarding General Education requirements please visit Academic Advising.
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Mandatory advising takes place each academic year in the Spring Semester. Advising must be accomplished prior to the Fall registration deadline or a hold will be placed on the student's account and registration will be impossible until the mandatory advising requirement has been met.
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Please visit the following link to make an appointment: Appointment Scheduling
After clicking on the above link, click on the "Book Now" tab on the right side of that page. Open dates for advising appointments are highlighted in the calendar as a darker shade of gray. Select an available time and follow the prompts to complete the scheduling of your advising appointment.
A reminder will be sent to your email 24 hours before your appointment is scheduled. If you wish to cancel your appointment there will be a link in your email to do so.


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While on the run following a botched heist, the Guardians of the Galaxy encounter a mysterious being known as Ego (Kurt Russell), who claims to be the long-lost father of team leader Peter Quill (Chris Pratt). As Quill learns more about his past, the Guardians battle foes old and new. James Gunn returns to write and...more
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Equipping Seminars: Pastors spend much of their time giving: time, knowledge, counsel, and emotional energy to those in need. Very little time is given to them ensuring they are being filled by the gospel of Jesus Christ. The Equipping Seminars will focus on refreshment, discipleship training and leadership development.
Refreshment C.S. Lewis Institute-NEOH hosts seminars that give pastors an opportunity to simply rejoice in the gospel of Jesus Christ in their lives. The purpose of these events is solely to refresh these pastors and give them opportunity to build unity and relationships with other area pastors for encouragement and accountability.
Discipleship Training Discipleship Training We are commanded by Christ to "make disciples of all nations…" In that command is the whole vision of the church and those who are leading it. However, the organizational demands take time, the vision of disciple-making becomes clouded and could even be relegated as a task reserved for those with that giftedness. It is only when disciple-making is restored to the position that Christ gave it that the church will once again be effective and energetic in ministry to the communities that these individuals are placed. Pastors will be challenged to engage discipleship biblically in these seminars and will be given tools to address specific disciplemaking needs.
Leadership Development Pastors are often expected to operate as CEOs of a small business, faced with leading a board, a staff and a group of people who anxiously await their say on movement. In these seminars, pastors will hear from established and successful leaders from the Christian business community, organizations and churches.
Resource Library Pastors need to have a place where they can immerse themselves in and meditate on the Word of God. They need to be fed so they can feed others. The office at the church cannot be that place all the time. CSLI NEOH has made our Fellows Library upstairs a quiet place for pastors to engage in quiet moments of study and prayer without interruption.
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Firside Junior is a happy and healthy place to learn and the school is known for its positive atmosphere and approach.
Our mission is to help every child do his or her best, so that they may become the best they can be.We want every pupil to be able to realise his, or her, aspirations and help them become positive and active citizens. We cultivate and nurture attitudes of support, respect and care in all our activities and relationships and for all our children. Equally important is learning. We set high standards in everything we do and strongly believe in the importance of the core skills of reading, writing and mathematics.
We believe that education is an experience that all children should enjoy to the full. We therefore offer a broad and balanced curriculum with many opportunities for learning outside the classroom including residential trips.
We are proud of all the fantastic achievements that our pupils make each and every day: each one is celebrated. When you visit our school, you will see from the children's smiles and the clear enjoyment of learning, what a great school Firside is.
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Russell Jones, M.D.
Associate Professor
Administrative Responsibilities
- Medical Student Clerkship Director
- Assistant Residency Program Director
Board Certification
- Emergency Medicine
Medical School
University of Cincinnati Medical School
University of Michigan/Saint Joseph Mercy Hospital
Blog on Radiology in Emergency Medicine
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Steve Anderson, editor of Workamper News/Workamper University, and Terry Cooper, "America's RV Expert" of Mobile RV Academy, have joined forces and are now rolling out a new RV Technical Program to run over a 10-month period in 2010.
Registrations starts Jan. 7 with the program beginning Feb. 4.
This entire program is designed for those individuals who want to do preventative maintenance, installs and repairs on their own rigs, according to a news release. By enrolling in this program, the consumer will save nearly 50% off the retail value of 10 different areas of learning. All courses can be completed at one's own pace during that 10-month span of the program.
"Cooper has been doing RV technical training courses for Workamper University over the past six months, building a substantial library," Anderson said. "This library of courses is now being directed toward all the Workamper subscribers plus non-subscribers. Anyone choosing to enroll in this 10-month program will receive access to that library with 50% off retail value savings and receive additional bonus benefits each month throughout the program. More details will come at a later date."
The public is invited to attend a free tele-conference titled, "5 Keys to the Rewarding RV Experience That You Love," that is scheduled for Jan. 7 to listen and learn about all the details of the entire program plus the subscriber bonuses.
For more information, contact Workamper News at www.Workamper.com or call (800) 446-5627. Office hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. CST Monday through Friday.


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DOI: 10.1055/s-00000076
Seminars in Speech and Language
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Warlaumont AS, Oller DK, Dale R, Richards JA, Gilkerson J, Xu D.
Vocal interaction dynamics of children with and without autism.
In: Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society, 2010:121–126
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In addition to being fascinated by Abraham Lincoln, I'm also keenly interested in the rest of the presidents of the United States and their life stories. An exhibition being held in Cooperstown, New York at the Fenimore Art Museum has caught my attention.
Titled "Of, By and For the People: The Art Of Presidential Elections", the exhibition opened last month at the museum. The exhibit features rare folk art from 19th century presidential campaigns. The artwork comes from other museums and private collections from around the country, and includes pottery, needlework, paintings, and other items.
The image I've posted here is obviously of Abraham Lincoln from the 1864 election when Andrew Johnson was his running mate. It was painted by Issac Weatherby of Iowa City, Iowa and is part of the Putnam Museum. The banner is one of the centerpieces of the exhibition in Cooperstown.
I'm a bit disappointed in the Fenimore Art Museum webpage about the exhibition. It would have been nice if it would show more than this banner and one other piece of art. No mention is made just how many artifacts are on display, so I don't know if it's worth seeing or not. I just thought this banner of Lincoln is beautiful and I wanted to share.
The exhibition closes December 31, 2008.


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This post is a continuation of a series. Please look at the end of this post for more information
We will take the same example explained in previous post and expand it. When a user clicks the Print button the system required to show a preview popup window. That popup window should also contains two buttons (Print – to show Print dialog, Cancel – to close the popup).
Another point to note here is, normally when we print we required to print some part of the page. Normally we don't print header, footer, left menu, right sections (which are common across the pages). We required to print only the important information which are mostly between the sections mentioned.
To achieve this, we required to declare a div control with some Id. This control should be the container for the information which is required to print. When we write the printing information to the popup window, we can only write the innerHTML of the div container declared (In our example, we are print only the news and not header, footer, menu etc.,).
Include a Javascript on the page
and modify the print button (43th line - previous post example) to call the Javascript function

Print
The output of clikcing the print button will be as following figure
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download the source code here
The other links on How to print Web Page Using Javascript:
- Web page printing using Javascript
- How to show Preview before Printing a Page using Javascript
- Appling style for the Print Preview using Javascript
- Removing unnecessary contents from the Normal page when Preview for Print
- Using window.onafterprint(), window.onbeforeprint() Javascript functions (IE Only)
- How to print Content Page Information from Master Page using Javascript
- Printing different parts of page using Javascript when Master Page, User Controls used
- Printing Single Page GridView with Preview
- Printing Multi Page GridView with Preview - 1
- Printing Multi Page GridView with Preview - 2
- Adding & Removing GridView columns in the Print Preview using JavaScript


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31 Walker Avenue, Suite 110
Pikesville, MD 21208
Dr. Brenda Faulk is a trusted Pikesville area veneers dentist. Our professional team is dedicated to providing you with quality results in a comfortable and pleasant atmosphere.
You won't have to feel embarrassed any longer by crooked, chipped or discolored teeth. With your new dental veneers, you'll be thrilled to show off your healthy teeth and beautiful smile.
If you're concerned about dental treatments, soothing nitrous oxide (laughing gas) is one of a number of options available at Faulk Dental Associtates PA to help reduce your dental anxiety. Pikesville, Maryland, area dentist, Dr. Faulk, wants your dental visit to be as comfortable as possible.
Faulk Dental Associtates PA is a trusted Pikesville area provider of Invisalign® for teens provider. We know that as a parent, the oral health and happiness of your teenager is important.
We're here to serve your family's needs, and ensure that your teens get the best results from their Invisalign® clear braces. You'll be thrilled with your teenager's straight teeth and confident smile.
Distinguished Pikesville area mini dental implants dentist Brenda Faulk, D.D.S. can provide you with the highest quality results. At Faulk Dental Associtates PA, we use state-of-the-art materials and techniques that make them less invasive and more affordable.
You deserve the best treatment available to replace missing teeth. Whether you're missing a single tooth or experiencing pain from slipping dentures, mini dental implants can be a faster way to regain your beautiful smile.
Brenda Faulk, D.D.S. is proud to be a trusted Pikesville area Zoom!® teeth whitening dentist. Our patients love the short amount of time the tooth whitening treatment takes as much as they love the results.
You'll be able to relax in our comfortable surroundings. In just about an hour, you'll have a sparkling white smile!
3201 Rogers Avenue, Suite 201
Ellicott City, MD 21043
With sedation dentistry, you'll feel like you slept through your appointment with Ellicott City area sedation dentist Dr. Teresa Adams. You'll likely remember absolutely nothing about your treatment, except waking up to your successful results. Dr. Adams commonly hears her patients say, "I remember taking a pill and the next thing I remember is waking up with my teeth fixed."
Don't let untreated dental problems get you down. Rebuild your confidence with a beautiful new smile. From simple treatments that make a big difference, to more extensive work, unveiling the smile you were meant to have can have profound life-changing effects. Serving the Ellicott City, MD area and offering dental implants, Dr. Adams can help you develop an affordable treatment plan you'll feel good about.
At Soft Touch Dental Care, serving the Ellicott City, MD area, Dr. Teresa Adams offers Electronic Dental Anesthesia (EDA) to help greatly reduce the sensation of an injection. The EDA is a battery-operated device that sends mild electrical impulses through a finger pad that Dr. Adams holds against the tissue surrounding your tooth. This produces a pulsating, tingling sensation which effectively masks the discomfort of an injection.
Most major credit cards are accepted at Soft Touch Dental Care in the Ellicott City area. Types of cards accepted include Visa, MasterCard, and Discover Card.
A negative self image can be detrimental to many facets of your life. Ellicott City area dentist Dr. Teresa Adams understands the positive life-changing power that a healthy and beautiful smile can bring to you. Here at Soft Touch Dental Care, we don't want you to be embarrassed any longer. Why not take your smile - and even your life - to a new level of self-confidence and beauty?
8503 Greenbelt Rd, Suite T4
Greenbelt, MD 20770
If you're looking for dentures that look great and last, look no further than Zebrowski Dental Care located in the Greenbelt, MD area. Robert Zebrowski, D.D.S. will assess your needs and fit you with durable, comfortable, natural-looking dentures - at a price you can afford.
Dr. Robert Zebrowski at his Greenbelt area dental implants practice offers extensive experience restoring your dental implant crown.
Our dedicated team uses state-of-the-art materials and techniques for stability and longevity. You'll enjoy the comfort and confidence of natural-looking teeth.
If you're interested in natural-looking bridges and dentures, look no further than Robert Zebrowski, D.D.S. who practices in the Greenbelt, Maryland area. Using modern materials and techniques, Dr. Zebrowski can achieve the natural look you seek. You will be very pleased with the comfortable, long-lasting results.
Dr. Robert Zebrowski has a gentle touch and provides comfortable cleaning for a whiter smile. Offering dental implants in the Greenbelt, Maryland area, Dr. Zebrowski assures you that a bright, healthy smile is the result of regular, preventative, professional dental cleanings.
Greenbelt area restorative dentistry at Zebrowski Dental Care can produce natural-looking results. If you have a damaged or missing tooth, we can help.
Our highly skilled team will assess your need for a crown, bridge, implant or other procedure to restore or improve your smile. Our goal is to provide quality dental care for your life-long oral health.
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10710 Charter Dr # 320
Columbia, MD, 21044-3260
Ashton Dental Group
5850 Waterloo Rd # 250
Columbia, MD, 21045-1943
Fein, Richard A D.D.S.
10025 Gov Warfld Pkwy # 207
Columbia, MD, 21044-3329
Gillis, Edward R D.D.S.
10203 Tanager Ln
Columbia, MD, 21044-3943
If dental implants are what you need to best replace your missing teeth, you should select a implant dentist with in-depth knowledge of and prior experience with all aspects of the treatment. It is important to know that dental implant treatment consists of two components: a surgical phase and a restorative phase.
Traditionally, a dental surgeon, like an oral surgeon or a periodontist, performs the surgical component. A general dentist, or prosthodontist and laboratory technician, performs the restorative component.
As implant dentistry has become more sophisticated, the restorative dentist, at times, also has become the one that places the dental implant. However, each clinician involved in implant treatment must be aware that the type of final restoration a patient wants dictates the position, size, and number of teeth implants within the jaws.
For each unique missing tooth situation, there is an equally unique way to use implants to replace teeth. However, all of the treatments can be placed in two categories: removable or fixed prostheses.
Implant dentist use removable implant dentures when a patient is missing all of his or her teeth. Fewer dental implants are necessary when used in conjunction with a removable denture.
Conversely, more implants are necessary when used in conjunction with a fixed bridge. Fixed bridges feel most like your natural teeth and are usually more desirable than removable dentures.
Mastering new surgical and restorative techniques as they are developed is the mark of an excellent implant dentist as well as overall dental implant dentistry. A implant dentist's meticulous attention to fine detail conveys a feeling of confidence to the patient. The implant dentist should be committed to restoring full function to the missing teeth as well as recreating natural-looking teeth. These are the qualities a patient should look for in a implant dentist to place and restore their implants.
By Laura Minsk, DMD
Implant dentistry is a safe, predictable method for replacing missing teeth. "Immediate dental implants" or the placement of tooth implants at the time of extraction is a great method of implant placement. This method can be considered when a single upper front tooth is traumatized, when one or two teeth have advanced decay, or when the remaining roots are too short to support a crown. The purpose of this method of tooth replacement is to maintain as much bone volume as possible. This means preserving bone height and width. The benefits to the patient after restoration of dental implants are a beautiful, natural-looking tooth without cutting down healthy adjacent teeth and being able to eat in comfort without the fear of having the tooth loosen or fall out.
An implant dentist can easily determine if a person is a candidate for the immediate dental implants method of replacing missing teeth. They will examine the teeth adjacent to the involved tooth for periodontal disease and take a traditional dental X-ray. Impressions of the teeth will aid in determining one's prognosis. Additional X-rays may be necessary to determine the exact bone width and height, as well as the root position.
Implant placement is performed with local anesthesia. The remaining root is removed and the gum tissue is gently displaced from the surrounding tissue. The dental implant site is prepared with small drills. Special equipment is used to gently place the tooth implant into the prepared site, after which the gums are replaced over the implant with sutures. A temporary tooth replacement is placed in the space where the tooth was removed. Post-operative discomfort is minimal. The sutures are removed in a week, and oral hygiene is resumed.
In the upper jaw, bone grows and adheres to the tooth implant within five to six months, while the immediate dental implants in the lower jaw require three to four months for proper bone formation. After healing, there is a series of visits when an implant dentist will make a tooth that will be attached to the implant. Within a few weeks after receiving the implant-supported crown, patients consider the restoration as their own tooth, rather than an implant.
Implants require good oral hygiene, dental maintenance, and periodic evaluation by a dentist. For further information regarding placement of tooth implants at the time of extraction, look in PubMed, searching the following key words: placement of implants at time of extraction, dental implants, immediate implants.
By William Becker, DDS


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by Rev. Rick Robinson
Everyone has some kind of trouble to deal with. What if there was a reality show called "Trouble Swap!" I bet you can think of a few people you would not like to swap your trouble with. There are even more people suffering in silence that you know nothing about. There are people right now that may wish they could have you as the other contestant on "Trouble Swap!"
Is that hard to believe? Do you feel like nobody cares what trouble you're in, and everyone ignores the trouble you are having as though it were trivial? When you call the counseling center, does your call get put on hold with the 1965 song by The Fortunes "You've Got Your Troubles (I've Got Mine)" playing.
Each trial we go through brings with it the opportunity to testify to the reality of God's presence in our lives, or the opportunity for us to blow the testimony of His gospel. Our real problems come when we refuse to trust in the reality of God's presence and power.
Are we intellectually dictating to God what we intend for Him to make of us, searching through the Bible to back up our demands? No–we must learn the discipline of submitting our intelligence (whatever we have) and our reasoning to Jesus Christ. The reality of God's presence is not dependent on the evidence of a situation, but on His word. The unseen solution is much greater than the seen situation.
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
You can see the unseen is greater than the seen by looking at this passage using the original Greek words. Faith is pistis–meaning conviction of the truth, assurance is hupostasis—meaning firm foundation, conviction is elegchos—meaning proof and things is pragma—meaning an accomplished fact. If you read Hebrews 11:1 in that light, this is what it says.
Now conviction of the truth is the firm foundation of things hoped for, the proof of accomplished facts not seen.
How beautiful and simple that is. We must have God's word alive in us and walk in His light to deal effectively with our problems. Otherwise, you may as well hope for the best on a show called Problem Swap. The choice is yours. Are you spending time in God's word to increase your conviction of the truth (faith) or just hoping for the best?
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
This is from the New American Standard Bible, some versions read "by the word of God." The word of Christ is a phrase that means hearing and learning about Jesus–which is the purpose of the word of God. In other words, conviction of the truth comes by learning about Jesus. Jesus Christ is everything to me. My eternal hope and my strength for the problems I cannot swap away. The Apostle Paul knew he could not swap away, or even pray away some of his problems.
Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me—to keep me from exalting myself! Concerning this I implored the Lord three times that it might leave me. And He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness." Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.
I am not saying we should not pray about our problems–we should. Many of them are self inflicted, and many may not be as bad as they seem, especially in light of the wide array of trouble swap contestant wannabes. One thing that all problems have in common is that God has allowed them. When things do turn around for us we must not then have an "I'll take it from here!" attitude with God. Complete reliance on Jesus Christ is the standard of living for the Christian. We must strive not to walk in the light of our experience, (or someone else's) but in the light of God's word.
Do you have this almighty Christ, or just the attributes and experiences of a believer? There must be total abandonment to Christ for us to obtain true peace through our problems. Jesus loves you and gave his life for you that you can have an eternal relationship with him. Don't let your problems cut you off from the solution God has provided. Religion by itself, will display attributes only as deep as experience can take you–but a relationship with Christ will show you the unseen is much greater than the seen.
Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Just as it is written, For Your sake we are being put to death all day long; We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered." But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.


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To monitor a person's diabetes and to help treatment decisions. It can also be used to diagnose type 2 diabetes.
HbA1c Test
When first diagnosed with diabetes and then at least twice a year
A blood sample taken from a vein in the arm
Some of the glucose in your blood binds to haemoglobin (the protein that carries oxygen in your red blood cells). This combination of glucose and haemoglobin is called haemoglobin A1c (HbA1c). The amount of HbA1c formed is directly related to the average concentration of glucose in your bloodstream. Red blood cells live for 2–3 months, and because of this, the amount of HbA1c in your blood reflects the average level of glucose in your blood during the last 2-3 months. If your diabetes is not well controlled, your blood glucose levels will be high, causing higher HbA1c levels.
How is the sample collected for testing?
Your blood may be taken from a vein in your arm or, in some cases, a drop of blood from a finger-prick may be used.
Is any test preparation needed to ensure the quality of the sample?
No test preparation is needed.
How is it used?
The test for HbA1c shows how well your diabetes has been controlled over the last 2-3 months. Even though you may have some very high or very low blood glucose values, HbA1c will give you a picture of the average amount of glucose in your blood over that time period. The result can help you and your doctor understand if the measures you are taking to control your diabetes are working.
In the past the test has only been used to monitor blood glucose control in patients already known to have diabetes, but recently the World Health Organisation (WHO) have recommended that HbA1c can also be used to diagnose type 2 diabetes in people who were not previously known to have the condition.
When is it requested?
The Department of Health recommends that everyone with diabetes has HbA1c measured at least twice a year. HbA1c may be measured more frequently in those who have just been diagnosed with diabetes, in those whose blood glucose remains too high, or when a treatment plan changes. The test can also be used to diagnose type 2 diabetes. Please speak to your healthcare professional about local guidelines that may be in place, as there maybe variations in local procedures., and there are certain groups of patients in which HbA1c cannot be used to diagnosis diabetes.
What does the test result mean?
If you have diabetes and your HbA1c is below the target of 48 mmol/mol it is likely that your diabetes is well controlled. If your HbA1c rises above 48 mmol/mol, you are at increased risk of developing long term complications such as eye disease, kidney disease or nerve damage. It is worth noting that some people can find it difficult to get their HbA1c down to 48 mmol/mol without experiencing frequent episodes of hypoglycaemia (low blood sugar), and if this is the case, the target HbA1c may be higher than 48 mmol/mol.
HbA1c used to be given in percentage units, but this changed in 2009. More information about the new way of reporting test results can be found here.
Is there anything else I should know?
If you have an abnormal type of haemoglobin, for example if you suffer from sickle cell disease , accurate results will depend on the method used to measure your HbA1c. If you have haemolysis or heavy bleeding, your test results may be falsely low. Finally, if you are iron deficient, this may raise your HbA1c result.
Is there a home test for HbA1c?
Are all HbA1c tests the same?
On This Site
Tests: Glucose, Microalbumin
Conditions: Diabetes
Elsewhere On The Web
Analyte Monographs alongside the National Laboratory Medicine Catalogue (AMALC): HbA1c
A change in reporting your HbA1c results, Information for People with Diabetes
World Health Organisation: Use of Glycated Haemoglobin (HbA1c) in the Diagnosis of Diabetes Mellitus
Diabetes UK
NHS Choices: Diabetes


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Alumni Home Coming Brochure
Western State Colorado Unv. Summer internship
I performed a variety of design needs for the college. Tasks included: updating department info handouts, creating business cards, working in brand guidelines of the school and other clubs, producing an Alumni homecoming brochure, working with Peace Crops prep program to design various materials, documenting and editing photography, web training, video filming and editing.