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Investor Never Lost Faith In Hartford
April 16, 2006 -- Jeffrey B. Cohen -- Hartford Courant
Lawrence R. Gottesdiener was part of a group of boys who grew up on a mostly Jewish street in a New London neighborhood not far from Ocean Beach.
It was a close-knit neighborhood where doing well in school mattered, but so did sports. He and his friends played endless games of football, basketball and baseball - and, friends recalled, there were times when Gottesdiener was among the last guys picked when the teams were chosen.
"He was a grinder," said Stuart "Stuie" Hendel, who used to call Gottesdiener "Fats" and has known him since he was 3 years old. "He wasn't the skinniest kid on the block, but he worked and worked, and, when he was 15, all of the sudden he became the fastest kid."
Now, Gottesdiener is the most significant real estate developer in Hartford, with a half-billion dollars' worth of holdings in the city, a third of his Northland Investment Corp.'s $1.4 billion national portfolio. Until now, he has made his money largely by buying what other people didn't want.
Somewhere along the way, though, his passion for undervalued real estate turned into a passion for what he thinks is an undervalued city. He is not shy in admitting that he wants to be the guy who changes Hartford once and for all, and he thinks a key to doing that is bringing major league hockey back to the city.
But as Gottesdiener moves from the realm of what he knows - building buildings - to the league of what he doesn't - building a sports franchise - even he admits that the idea has some of his trusted investors on edge.
Gottesdiener is unapologetic and undaunted, although many still view the idea of the NHL's coming back to Hartford as a quixotic quest. He has set his mind on hockey and a new arena to house it. He says he is pushing himself - and the city.
"If you're not in the game," he said, "you're out of the game."
Eight Hundred Cards
There was a time when Gottesdiener, Hendel and other boys in their New London neighborhood got into baseball cards big time. They played a flipping game, throwing the cards to the ground until two colors matched. The player who made the match got to take the whole stack beneath.
One day, the group of boys decided to hold a card-flipping extravaganza, recalled Hartford writer Rand Cooper, who grew up near Gottesdiener and Hendel. All the boys dreamed of big winnings that day, but Gottesdiener and Hendel had a plan.
"They had formed a card corporation," Cooper recalled. "We ran into these guys, and they were so heavily capitalized, they had like 800 cards in their corporation ... and they just completely cleaned us out. I didn't have the resources. I walked out at the end of the day, groggy, empty-handed, and Stuie and Larry had, even at age 11, pretty impressive capitalization.
"And a fairly ruthless attitude toward the competition."
The card monopoly was only one of several enterprises Hendel and Gottesdiener would undertake. Another one of their joint ventures was a plan to sell calendar ads to area colleges. It was a deal that another friend, West Hartford orthodontist Barry Rosenberg, said made the two high school students three times as much money in a matter of weeks than most kids make in an entire summer.
Cooper, who lost his cards to the young corporation, still keeps an eye on Gottesdiener's progress. He remembers the developer as the funny one, a gifted talker, the guy who gave other guys nicknames like Monster, but not necessarily a future sports figure.
"Even within our 11-year-old pecking order, there are the guys who are picked first ... and there are the guys who end up hiking the ball," said Cooper, who grew up just blocks from Gottesdiener's Admiral Drive home. "As I recall, Larry was a frequent hiker."
But he's not surprised by Gottesdiener's success, or his newfound ambition.
"We joke down at the JCC where I play basketball about what we would give up to be able to slam dunk once," said Cooper, who now, like Gottesdiener, has reached middle age. "It's poignant and absurd to see all these guys who are still in some ways 13 when they get into the gym."
"Larry is still 13," Cooper said. "But he has a half a billion in real estate to back it up."
A New Hartford
Gottesdiener made his first real estate play in Hartford in 1997. The Whalers had just left town, and the collapse of the Hartford franchise led to the collapse of someone else's deal to buy a downtown office building known as Metro Center. He was looking to get into Hartford, and he was looking to buy low.
"We moved in, we cut the price, and we bought it," Gottesdiener said.
The building, he says, was a risk. It was empty and it was in a market that ranked almost last in desirability of office space. The public unveiling of Adriaen's Landing was still more than a year away.
"On the other hand, we stole it," he said, explaining that he paid $10.75 million - or $16 a foot - for a building that, newly constructed, would cost $250 a square foot to build. "We told our investors ... you have to be prepared to lose your money. We're either going to make a fortune or we're going to lose a ton."
Gottesdiener thought it would take four years to fill the building, but Northland worked hard and got lucky, leasing the majority of the building to a major corporate client within nine months, and making a lot more than its money back.
"When he made his first move into Hartford with Metro Center, a lot of people thought he was nuts," said Robert Danziger, who founded Northland and ran it from 1970 to 1995. "People in the industry said, `I don't care if it's an empty building, there's no market there.'"
"In real estate, you have to have the vision, you have to have confidence in your vision, and you have to have the ability to persuade others to come along with you," said Danziger, who sold Northland to a group of partners who, in 1996, sold it to Gottesdiener. "You obviously don't want to put up all the money yourself. So they must be persuaded that they want to follow you. And he clearly has that talent."
Before getting into real estate, he worked as a used car salesman in Meriden, a lawyer, and a real estate apprentice in Boston. He made his first move in 1991 - a $25 million portfolio of six apartment communities in Houston and Austin. His father was his first investor.
In Hartford, once he had Metro Center in his portfolio, Gottesdiener upped the ante. In 1998, Northland came up with the idea for Hartford 21 - a luxury apartment complex with retail space on the site of the former Civic Center mall.
It was a new way to think about downtown - home not only to shops and offices, but to high-end residences. It was a $160 million plan that needed roughly $40 million in state funding and significant city financial incentives to work.
For part of that, Gottesdiener had to have a visit with Mayor Mike Peters, who vividly remembers the meeting. "We were both in each others' faces," Peters said.
Peters told him that they were close to a deal, but that the city had a process to follow. Gottesdiener didn't like that one bit, and he let Peters know it.
"Sometime it rubs the wrong way," Peters said of Gottesdiener's negotiating style. "But at the end of the day, you find you're in agreement with him. At least I did."
Not everyone does. Recently, when the state was looking for a developer to be Front Street's newest rainmaker, Gottesdiener made the state a pitch:
He would develop Front Street, Gottesdiener said. If you like me, pick me, he said. But he's not going to go through the state's beauty contest of selection, recalled officials who were there.
In the end, the state went with someone else.
NHL Dreams
On a chartered jet last week, Gottesdiener looked relaxed, in wide-legged blue jeans, a white T-shirt, a blue-striped button-down, and shoes with no socks. He was on his way to St. Paul, Minn., to find out how one state lost its NHL team, got a new one, and built it both a new arena and a new statewide franchise.
With his press person, his acquisitions and development manager and his attorney watching, Gottesdiener gave careful answers to why hockey, why Hartford, and why now.
"I'm from New London, my grandfather was a mailman in Hartford 40 years, my mother grew up in the city," said Gottesdiener, who is 47 years old and divorced and has three children. "There's definitely an emotional connection that I have. And I'm not sure that's smart. You're not supposed to get emotional. You're supposed to be about money."
"But we're trying to change Hartford permanently," he said. "We're not trying to come in and make money. We're not doing yesterday's Constitution Plaza, to come in and make our development fee and leave."
Gottesdiener originally said he'd consider building an arena first and then getting a team. But he has changed his strategy, hired a broker and is now shopping for an NHL franchise, convinced it is the only way to make the deal work.
Although Gottesdiener's original $250 million idea called for a new arena outside of the immediate downtown area, he said he would also consider building on the Civic Center site itself, provided he can knock down the Church Street garage.
The hurdles are many.
First, Gottesdiener would have to find an NHL franchise to buy - and move. The Pittsburgh Penguins, the only team definitely up for sale, is working on a deal to remain in Pittsburgh.
Other cities are also interested in hockey, including Kansas City, which has a new, 18,500-seat downtown arena ready to open in the fall of 2007.
Then, Gottesdiener would need to convince other owners in the NHL that Hartford is worth a second chance.
Gottesdiener would also need to persuade local and state officials to buy into the plan. A new arena could cost at least $250 million and would require heavy public subsidy. He also admits that he has yet to gauge the corporate support for the dozens of high-end boxes that a new arena would need.
Even Hendel, one of Gottesdiener's early business partners, says the "grinder" is "going out on a limb."
"Hockey has had a lot of problems lately, and given the players' strike, they lost a whole season, you're taking risk," he said. But, then, Gottesdiener may be on to something, he said. "Larry could be buying low, too."


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"I'll be 9, which is almost 10, which is practically a teenager…so don't call me little…"
That is how some of the conversation at our house has gone recently.
"Whoa! Slow down there partner, you're still 8 right now, and you will never have the chance to be 8 years old again, so make sure you REALLY enjoy these next couple of days. And when you turn 9, don't rush into teenager. Enjoy being 9; it only comes around once in a lifetime."
As I rapidly approach my collision course with the half-century mark, I truly understand the quote "Youth is wasted on the young."
While retail outlets and cities have donned the Christmas lights, garland and wreaths, we decked our house out in pink and purple twirling decorations featuring the daughter of the werewolf and the son of Medusa. We were decorating for a Monster High party, playing the hits from the Monster High movies, as we worked. No Christmas carols for us, yet.
I had to laugh when my daughter asked me if I knew how to work the iPod and then stood amazed that I had put together such a great playlist for the party. (I may not know the current music scene all that well, but I do know my daughter, and I have been dragged to plenty of Kid's Bop dances.)
We laid out a table for a group of 8-year-old girls that featured "Ghoulia's Pepperkakor Concoctions", "Draculara's Veggie Tray", "Howleen's Dogs", and Abby Bomidable's Chillers (Koolaid fruit punch). We built marshmallow catapults to "feed the Yeti" who kindly blew in for the weekend extravaganza. The feature was a Jinafire (daughter of the Chinese Dragon) doll cake, although during the party Mom almost forgot the fire part—lighting the candles and singing Happy Birthday!
It was an amazing day of friends, smiles, laughter and hugs. After the last guest left, my husband and I met in the kitchen for a big HIGH FIVE. We had pulled it off, and our little girl…oops…practically-a-teenager was happy.
After the kid's party, the family arrived and there were more presents, laughter and a delightful meal out with family.
After the cleanup, the tearing down of boxes, the un-rearranging of furniture, the doing of many dishes, the house was quiet—even quieter because of the newly fallen snow that damped all the noises from outside. Peaceful and happy, I put my daughter to bed.
"Stay for a little while," she said sleepily, and I held my practically-a-teenager until she fell asleep.
Life is precious. Celebrate it. If you have a birthday, be thankful for it. Each birthday comes around but once in a life time. Don't rush headlong in to each holiday or vacation or next stage of life just because you think you should. Don't be so quick to plan your future—plan FOR it yes—but don't map it out. Enjoy each day for the gift that it is, no matter how old or how young you are. Hug the people you love while you can. Listen to the muted quiet of the snow. Be thankful for the little tiny blessings that surround us every day, because these are things that truly make life worthwhile—even if you are nine, which is almost ten, which is practically a teenager.
© 2015 Michele Arduengo. All rights reserved.

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Jim O'Brien's first-half strike was enough to earn City a crucial three points in the League One relegation battle...
Coventry City were 1-0 victors in the crucial relegation battle in League One against Colchester United at the Ricoh Arena.
A first-half goal from skipper Jim O'Brien was enough for the Sky Blues after they squandered a hatful of chances to make the win more comfortable.
The game didn't start in the manner of a relegation six-pointer as City strolled the ball around nicely against the U's who kept things nice and compact early on, provoking the Sky Blues to try their luck from distance without really threatening goalkeeper Sam Walker.
But the hosts got the opener on 35 minutes from a well worked move inside the box, as Chris Stokes got free on the byline and slid an inviting ball to O'Brien, who hit a beautiful finish while off balance into the bottom right corner from 12-yards.
Tony Mowbray's men were in total control of the first-half and almost had a second just before the break, when O'Brien crossed for Nick Proschwitz who headed into the side netting at the near-post.
But Colchester started the second-half a completely different side and George Moncur looked certain to equalise as he cut inside and curled an effort towards the bottom left corner but Lee Burge made a great save to keep the Sky Blues in front.
Burge was forced into action once more just a minute later as Gavin Massey got the ball on the left-hand side inside the area and hit a firm right-footed effort which the stopper did very well again to claw around the post.
But City should have had a second when Adam Barton's wonderful ball released Proschwitz and he took it round the 'keeper in the area, but from a slight angle he hit the foot of the post.
James Maddison came on Proschwitz shortly after that and City missed another glorious chance when Maddison and Stokes combined on the left and he teed up Frank Nouble inside the box who smashed an effort well over when unmarked.
Maddison, who impressed when he came on, went so close to a second after a wonderful chop gave him half a yard in the area and he smashed a left-footed effort against the bar.
But the points were City's after five minutes of added time and the victory was the Sky Blues' first at home since the 2-1 win over MK Dons back in February.
Coventry City: Burge, Willis, Pennington, Johnson, Stokes, Ward, Fleck, Barton (Phillips 72), O'Brien (Odelusi 77), Proschwitz (Maddison 67), Nouble.
Subs: Charles-Cook, Martin, C.Thomas, Jackson.
Colchester United: Walker, Wynter (Briggs 67), Khumald, Gilbey (C), Eastman, Massey, Moncur, Murphy, Brindley, Lapslie (Szmodics 67), Porter (Healey 76).
Subs: Lewington, Bonne, Sembie-Ferris, Harney.
Referee: D Webb
Yellow cards: Johnson
Attendance: 8,933
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Role of Her in Healthcare Settings Term Paper
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¶ … Healthcare Managers and Leaders Can Use Electronic Health Information and Information Technologies to Improve the Quality
Using and Managing Information and Information Technologies in Healthcare
IT's role within the healthcare industry
In current times, technology actually plays a significant role in all industries and in our individual lives too. Healthcare is certainly one of the most significant industries where technology plays an important role. This induction is accountable for improving as well as saving millions of lives all over the world. Information technology has made important contributions to our world, through its relevance to the medical industry. Given the increased utilization of tele-health services, electronic medical records (EMR), smart phones and tablets, both patients and doctors are seeing the advantages brought about by these novel technologies. Medical technology has advanced because of the introduction of physicians to new devices to utilize in hospitals as well as in private practices to connecting physicians and patients several miles apart via telecommunications. In the current world, it is not unusual for patients to have video conferences with their doctors so as to save money and time usually invested on traveling to different geographical locations or immediately sent health data to any physician or specialist in any part of the world (Healthcarebusinesstech.Com, 2014). The hospital information system is intended to enhance the efficiency and management of the hospital services as well as management. A number of hospital systems have simplified hospital procedures like patient care, security, and doctor appointments among others. The increasing need and demand for such kind of software in the healthcare industry has attracted major concerns to this particular area.
Current HIPPA regulations that Healthcare IT are required to abide by While technology in the healthcare world continues to advance, rules and regulations regarding its utilization ought to be created, and modified to adapt to the new techniques of care administration. Regulations such as HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) and its Privacy and Security Act aim at the concerns regarding the privacy of patient data, together with the steps that ought to be taken to sustain confidentiality in our increasingly connected digital world. Healthcare administration and medical workers should be cautious when choosing to apply new technologies and products in their services, and must make sure that every technology is "HIPAA" prior to accepting it in their execution. Other programs such as the 2010 Health Care Reform Bill outline the measures that hospitals together with other care providers should take during the incorporation of medical technology into their services (Healthcarebusinesstech.Com, 2014).
What is needed to manage Health Records?
A health record is simply a private collection of relevant facts regarding someone's health history, with the inclusion of all past and current conditions, sicknesses, and treatments, with stress on the particular occurrences that affect the patient in the current period of care. The data recorded in the health record is developed by all healthcare experts offering care and is utilized for continuity of care. Electronic Health Record (EMR) system manages such records in digital form. The minimum tasks an EMR is meant to do, is to assist doctors in practicing better medicine as well as improve the bottom line. Some of these important tasks are, (in addition to other tasks):
Recognize and sustain a patient record: Recognize and sustain one patient record for every patient.
Manage the demographics of patients: Capture as well as sustain demographic data. Where suitable, the information ought to be clinically applicable, reportable, and traceable over time.
Manage lists of problems: Develop and sustain patient-specific lists of problems.
Manage lists of medicine: Develop and sustain patient-specific lists of medicine.
Manage history of patients: Capture, evaluate, and manage medical surgical/procedural, social, and family history, patient-reported or externally existing clinical history of the patient.
Manage clinical records and notes: Develop addend, fix, validate, and close, as required, directly-entered or recorded clinical records and notes.
Capture external clinical records: Incorporate clinical records from the external sources.
Offer care arrangements, rules, and procedures: Offer organizational rules for patient care that is suitable to support order as well as clinical records (AAFP, 2015).
How to abide by meaningful use requirements
Public health executives at the national, state, and local levels that attempt to maintain public health's end of significant use requirements encounter numerous issues like funding and quick development of its abilities. Nonetheless, Lenert & Sundwall (2012) suggest a means to conform to meaningful use requirements. Their solution would entail the change of public health data management actions, specifically those that interface with the health care system, to cloud computing. Cloud computing possess several variants; however, its basis is a movement of software platforms away from installations on a desktop or server within a local provision to remote hosting, potentially at numerous locations, connected by the internet. "In our view, the choice which is quite appropriate for public health is Platform as a Service (PaaS)" (Mell & Grance, 2011).
PaaS permits users to have a common collection of programs that also include software authoring devices and databases. Users have a complete version of their surroundings, whereby they could develop customized programs according to their convenience and needs. The operating and other networking features are simply replicas of each other, reducing issues with unsuited configurations and minimizing the degree of competence required to attain inter-functionality.
What administrators need to know to The need of the times is that the health services need to become efficient while becoming economical. Towards which, the EHRs need to be interoperable, accurate, consistent across different stakeholders (including other important software implements in the industry like CPOE (computerized physician/provider order entry), and e-prescriptions) and confidential. 8-11(Zeng, Reynolds, & Sharp, 2009). At the same time, the administrators need to assure cost-effective systems that will ensure a more cost-efficient health service across the U.S.
Consequently, the Administrators need to focus on ensuring that patient data is secure, protected adequately and confidential even while being accessible, Meaningful Use of inputs, helping the cause of coordination among clinics, hospitals, healthcare professionals and laboratories for exchange and dissemination of information.
It follows that the administrators abide by the regulations of the federal agencies regarding HIM (Health Information Management). Since system administrators can act as the bridge between various stakeholders, they can and should take leadership initiatives in creating, designing, implementing and facilitating the execution of health information platforms with utmost regards to security and confidentiality.
Another important role that administrators should involve in is the education and training the consumers in accessing personal information, ways to ensure security and confidentiality of their data and their rights (as provisioned by federal laws) I instances of data theft or unauthorized access. The focus of such training is to ensure the right diagnosis and treatment at the right time to the right person by the right service provider (healthcare professional).(Zeng et al., 2009)
Administrators thus, need to ensure interoperatability among the various information systems by following standardized and common terminology, nomenclature, structure and communication protocols. (Zeng et al., 2009)
Administrators will help the cause of HIS and IT through HIM (Health Information Management) by recognizing that at present there is a low adoption to EHRs, both at the consumer as well as service provider level (like hospitals, physicians and dispensing units). The main constraints thereto are high implementation costs and security and data safety concerns (Zeng et al., 2009)
Dealing with Medical Records
Health data managers shall be challenged to re-construct the means through which they manage procedures in the medical record division given the move to EMR. Numerous earlier health data systems issues could be resolved and productivity improved with imaging. The digitized documents shall permit simultaneous access to readily accessible, readable, and significant data for patient care, investigations, audits, and correspondence. The change from manual to digital documentation, however, brings several challenges. The health data managers need to supervise the transition carefully, expecting the requirements for new data and creating the necessary methods to generate them, and applying new technologies as they emerge. The present conditions are right for development in health care digital data systems. Pressures and modifications in structure in the healthcare industry need better management tools. Acknowledgement of HIS (full form) as a management tool is quickly growing amidst the health care provider society. The technology needed to recognize the EMR and improved decision support systems are available. All modules required to achieve the ends are available- - they just require coming together. With the alterations in the health care organizations, view of and requirement for information systems, medical documentation experts should draw on their skills and experience and make the change from record systems managers to health care data systems managers (Gross & Cassidy, 1992).
Managing age-old health information such as; missing documents, lost test results/imaging, missing records
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Updated 1 January 2014 re. Bad Press about Hospital and Bad Timing for surgery
Once I signed on the surgical dotted-line, I found myself on a treadmill in the days leading up to the mastectomy. It wasn't just a matter of turning up and hoping for the best, there was a list of things I had to complete before The Day. It was all designed to keep me distracted and nervous as I ran around like a hamster on a wheel, trying to complete the mastectomy obstacle course.
To show you how stressful it was, a tooth abcess (a health condition that always flares up when I'm under undue pressure) developed the week before surgery. My cheeks even started resembling the proverbial hamster's. I was hoping the bacterial infection would mean I could postpone surgery, but alas, no such luck – it cleared up a few days before surgery.
1. Pre-assessment visit
Before you go into hospital for any surgery, there is a pre-assessment visit which involves a blood type test in case you need a transfusion, a urine test, and a test for MRSA. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a bacterium responsible for several difficult-to-treat infections in humans. If the test is positive for MRSA, it is too dangerous for surgery, you are sent away with industrial-strength antibiotics for several weeks and surgery is rescheduled.
When I went in for my pre-assessment, I was both hopeful and yet dreading that I would test positive for MRSA, because that would mean a delay to surgery. No such luck.
To show you how nervous and apprehensive I was about everything, when it came to the urine test, I was given the container for the sample, and told to drink loads of water and then go to the loo to collect the sample. I obediently drank loads of water and went to the loo … phew, what a relief! Only to realise … doh, I hadn't collected the sample!
2. Pre-surgery shopping list
Bring two sports bras (without underwiring), the list from the hospital read. I dutifully went out and bought two new bras. In the end I never used them. If you don't use bras, don't bother getting any for post-mastectomy wear.
I also bought cough sweets for any sore throats after surgery. Wet wipes in case I couldn't wash. I never used any of them.
I got my underarms waxed. I don't know why I bothered – I don't think the surgeon would have stopped operating if he'd seen a hairy underarm. It must be a girly thing.
3. Bad Press about the Hospital – I tempt Fate
I almost forgot … the week when the surgery was due, a damning article turned up in the press about mistakes (chaotic and dangerous care) that had been made in the hospital.
I didn't know what to do: pull out of surgery?
I read the article and it didn't have anything to do with mastectomies. I'd also spoken to 5 people about my surgeon and they all praised him and said he was one of the best in South-East England. So I decided that the bad press was a blip. If only I'd listened to my misgivings!
It didn't help that a friend of mine who's an astrologer pointed out that there was an eclipse a few days after surgery, and the eclipse's Mars was on my Ascendant, which is not a good thing as Mars is a malefic.
I threw my hands up in despair – if it hadn't been for the fact that I had to have the surgery within six weeks of the trans-arterial chemoembolisation, I may well have rescheduled surgery for a more propitious time. But I made the decision to go ahead.
You probably think I'm bonkers and supersititious, but in view of the disaster that happened, my recommendation to anyone with eclipse Mars on natal Ascendant, and shown an article on problems in the hospital, is don't. Don't tempt fate. The Universe may be trying to tell you something.
[you're probably thinking: but loads of people had surgery on that day, how come it was OK for them? Answer: because Mars wasn't on their Ascendant, and an eclipse Mars at that]
I was beginning to feel as if the cards were stacked against me, but having spent two years trying to get rid of the tumour and not succeeding, I felt I didn't have any choice in what to do next. I was on a roller-coaster and couldn't get off. Maybe it just goes to show: we try to control our futures, but in the end we are in the hand of Fate.
[I'm not even sure if this post comes under the heading of TMI, reading this must be like watching a car accident about to happen. For those who are about to have a mastectomy, don't worry, most people get through it without any problems – mine was a very rare case. For those who don't have cancer, I hope reading this blog has been informative. I guess for you it's a case of: there but for the Grace of God … .]
4. What's in fashion for surgical wear
I was kitted out with a pair of compression socks in fetching dark green, designed to prevent blood clots. They were so tight I thought my eyes would pop. And they were put on me by one of the male nurses.
I was told I could keep my knickers on for the surgery. You mean some people don't? Perhaps they were Scottish?
5. The anaesthesia
The anaesthetist visited me the morning of the surgery. I told him that I was a nervous patient with some bad experiences of minor surgical procedures and that I had BAD VEINS and was slightly needle-phobic. He assured me he knew what he was doing.
When it came to the time for surgery, they wanted to pop me down in the wheelchair, but I refused being made to feel an invalid anymore than I was, and walked down to the theatre.
Just in front of the operating theatre was a small receiving room, with a trolley. By everyone's pointed glances, I was supposed to lie down on it. I shot a look at the exit and gauged how far I could run before I was rugby-tackled, and decided there was no escaping the mastectomy. The moment had come.
The anaesthetist took one look at my veins, and even though I protested, chose a little one that had never been used before, on the back of my hand. Now, the back of the hand is a very sensitive place for needles. The best practitioners with needles have been nurses or phlebotomists, not doctors, because doctors just don't have the experience, so I dithered on the verge of asking for a nurse to do the deed. The needle he held was the size of a drinking straw. Before I could pull away, he had the needle in, in one smooth gesture, and it was almost painless. I realised then I was in the hands of a genius with needles.
"What's that you're injecting?" I asked, breathing again.
"A painkiller. And this is the anaesthetic to knock you out," he said, pressing down on a syringe filled with milky fluid (the sort they use in movies to knock out elephants). "You might feel a little discomfort and heat."
"Ah. If that's the anaesthetic, how come I'm still talking to you?" I asked nervously, after most of the white fluid had emptied itself into me.
What if I was the rare individual who didn't succumb to the anaesthetic?
"That's because it takes about two circulations around the body before it works."
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There's no need to ask "What is the cloud?" anymore. Everyone in Kansas City has heard of the cloud, and everyone has an idea of what it means – access to information via the Internet, instead of saving files directly onto your computer. So that's all well and good, and everyone talks about how great the cloud is. But a lot of people miss what the truly important question is:
What does the cloud mean for YOUR business?
At Hanebutt, we don't just provide access to cloud services. That on its own is not enough to truly leverage the power of the cloud. Instead, we are focused on Cloud Consulting – working with you to learn what the right solutions are for YOUR needs, and then ensuring you know how to take advantage of them in the right ways to get the most out of them. It's not just about adapting services to your business; it's about adapting your business to the power of your technology.
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Leaked Images Provide First Look at Purported Rear Shell of 'iPhone 6c'
The pill-shaped LED flash design and two rows of speaker grilles are also found on the iPhone 5s, indicating that the iPhone 6c could have the same internals as the two-generation-old smartphone with a plastic shell. The smartphone would likely be positioned at the low end of the iPhone lineup as Apple's free smartphone, alongside the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and next-generation iPhones released later this year.
Apple did not refresh the iPhone 5c when it launched the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus last year, leading to speculation that the plastic smartphone might be discontinued from the smartphone lineup. Last week, however, it was reported that Apple is planning to release three new iPhones later this year, including the iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus and 4-inch iPhone 6c.
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As much as I like the feel of the "C" models, there is no space in the current product line for this.
I disagree - small iPhone, "normal" size iPhone and huge iPhone. I know people with 4s's that haven't upgraded because of the size of the iPhone 6.
Candy-like or not, they look nice. :)
Well, this should make all the 4" phone lovers happy- except they wanted more updated specs. I seriously doubt that will happen. This makes sense to use 5S internals - I hope it starts at 32Gb.
I wonder if there will be any color changes.
If they're using the 5S internals, why not just buy a 5S now if you're waiting on this? They're both 4 inch phones but one uses quality materials like aluminum. So silly.
yea, hot pink for all of the teenage girls :rolleyes:
...or guys who wanna look fabulous! :)
Interesting that they'll keep the same size/shape of the 5c, yet call it a 6c ...
Apple hasn't called it anything yet. 6C is what the tech press have dubbed it.
Just please, Apple, please don't ever release it with only 8GB! 16GB should be the minimum for this, and 32GB minimum for all other models!
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So i read the boards and read about the vet starving himself and the anger at the government. ???
I was a grunt, a tool, i terminted 19 targets and unkown combatants in misc encounters and firefights.
I' m highly functional ambulatory with central pain fused C23, L345, T issues.
I'm not fucking going to starve mysef, may eat my sidearm someday but wtf? What am i missing. I was a "soldier" conceded no ground to the enemy expected none.
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So what am i missing? How does one say so fucking what? I did my job and was good at it, was on both ends of the long gun but srvived. Why do so many look back with "insight" they see as malice, and why does this SO fucking piss me off? All that i am is all gone, Vietnam the cause, but they've also sent mr to Lao, China, East berlin, Russia. It was my fucking job and frankly i loved it?
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426 § 336. Mount MoRIAH.
Nro and nkäää, was situated out of the city, Matt. 27:33. Mark 15: 22. John 19:17. According to Eusebius and Jerome, it was to the North of Zion. Hence the hill, which is now situated in the middle of the city of Jerusalem, and on which is shown to the pilgrim the pretended tomb of the Saviour, cannot be the Place, where he was buried. What is said in opposition to this conclusion, viz. that the city as it now exists, is built in a different place from what it was formerly, can be admitted only so far as this, that the hill of Zion and Bezetha are excluded from it, but it does not prove, that the city has extended North and West, more than it did originally, and thereby taken in the hill of Calvary, which could not be well done, on account of the vallies. This statement in respect to Calvary solves some difficulties in the account of the resurrection of Christ. *
Many of the gates of the city are indeed mentioned, but the situation of almost all of them is difficult to be precisely ascer'tained.
§ 336. Mount MoRIAH.
Mount MoRIAH, on which, agreeably to the last wishes of king David, the Temple was erected, about the year 592 after the departure of the Hebrews from Egypt, was an abrupt ascent, the summit of which was so small, that it did not extend base sufficient for the courts and appendages of the sacred edifice, Josephus, Jewish War V. 5, 1. It was with the view to remedy the evil, which was thus occasioned, by giving a greater extent to this eminence, that Solomon raised a wall of square stones, along the vallies, which encircled it, and filled up the intervening space between the wall and the acclivity of the hill with earth, Josephus, Antiquities, XV. 11, 2.
After the Captivity, the Hebrews continued gradually to increase the extent of this hill for many ages; they moved back the wall on the North, and on the South and West also erected walls of immense square stones from the lowest parts of the vallies, so as at last to render the top of the hill a furlong square. The smallest altitude of the walls was four hundred and fifty feet, the greatest, viz. in the southern direction, six hundred.
Josephus, who makes these statements, is not always consistent
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with himself; but, on this point, we do not wish at present to enter into a discussion. Compare the History of the Jewish War W. 5, 1. with the same Work I. 21, 1. V. 5, 6. and Jewish Antiquities VIII. 3, 9, XV. 11, 3, XX. 9, 7.
§337. OF THE TEMPLE of Solomon.
THE summit of Moriah, the extent of which had been increased, as has already been seen, by a wall built around, and which was encirled on the Eastern, and probably on all sides with a gallery or portico, was divided into the great or exteriour court, norr; roix-ror, and the interiour court, non nxror otherwise called the court before the Temple ran go -ps -xriri, called also the court of the priests, or oxrï, 1 Kgs. 6:36. 7: 12, 2 Kgs. 23: 12. 2 Chron. 4:9. 20: 5. Ezek. 40: 28.
Whether these two courts were separated from each other by a wall, or merely by a sort of latticed fence or trellis, does not clearly appear, for the description of the Temple, as it is given in 1 Kgs. 6: 1–38. 7: 13–51, and 2 Chron. 3: 1–4, 22, is a very concise one. This, however, is evident in respect to this subject, that the new court, so called, rigorr; orri, mentioned in second Chronicles 20: 5, was not a third court, but the second or interiour one, newly repaired.
There were various buildings, and apartments, nio, in which provisions were kept, also the vases and other utensils, which belonged to the Temple ; and some of which, were occupied likewise by the priests and Levites, while they were employed there, in the fulfilment of their sacred duties, 1 Chron. 9: 26, 33. 23: 28. 28: 12. 2 Chron. 31:12. Jer. 35:2, 4.36:10.
THE ALTAR in the interiour court or the court of the priests was built of unhewn stones, for Moses expressly forbade any others to be used; it was covered, like that in the Tabernacle, with brass, although it was not built with the same dimensions, it being twenty cubits long and broad, and ten high, 2 Chron. 4: 1, 10.
The vases, and other utensils, belonging to this ALTAR, were much more numerous, than in the Tabernacle, 1 Kgs. 7:40–47. The very large BRAzen Lavea, called the molten sea, Pxan no was an hemisphere, ten cubits in diameter, five deep, and thirty in circumference. It could contain three thousand baths, and was
adorned on its upper edge with figures, that resembled lilies in bloom. But, although it held the large number of baths, which have been mentioned, it was commonly supplied with only two thousand, 2 Chron. 4: 3–5. 1 Kgs. 7. 26.
It was enriched with various ornamental figures, and rested on the back of twelve oxen, three facing to the North, and three to the East, and the others in the opposite directions.
There were, in addition to the brazen sea, ten smaller, brazen lavers non: nintz, which were also set off with various ornaments, five on the North, and five on the South-side of the court. They rested on bases and wheels of brass, were each four cubits in circumference, and held forty baths. The flesh of the victims, that were sacrificed, was washed in these lavers, 1 Kgs. 7: 27– 39. 2 Chron. 4:6.
§ 338. The SANCTUARy of Solomon's TEMPLE.
The sanctuary, noz, Hori, no ori, 6 voog, was sixty cubits long, twenty broad, and thirty high, with the exception of the part called the SANCTIssimum or Most Holy, the height of which was only twenty cubits; so that there remained a room above it of ten cubits in height. The windows, Boops boops; or, appear to have been latticed, 1 Kgs. 6: 2–4. . . In front of the Sanctuary, was the Porch, toovaos, boon, an hundred and twenty cubits high, twenty broad from North to South, and ten long from East to West, 1 Kgs. 6: 3. 2 Chron, 3:4. Two columns of brass were erected near the entrance of this Porch ; each twelve cubits in circumference. The one to the North was called To: JACHIN; the other, which was to the South, was called Tza BoAz. The height of the shafts of these columns was eighteen cubits; of the capitals, ninro, five cubits; and of the base, thirteen cubits, making the whole altitude thirty six. If in first Kings 25: 17, the capitals are said to be only three cubits in height, the reason of it probably was, that their altitude had been diminished, in the repairing, at some time, of the Temple. These pillars were profusely ornamented with carved representations of leaves, pomegranates, &c, were hollow within, and * .
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the brass, of which they were made, was a hand's breadth in thickness, 1 Kgs. 7: 15–20. 2 Chron. 3: 15–17. A gallery extended along the sides of the Sanctuary, with the exception of the Eastern, which was three stories high, was constructed of beams and planks, and to which there was an ascent on the South side, by a flight of winding stairs, Doo?, 1 Kgs. 6: 5, 6, 8. The Sanctuary itself was constructed of square stones, but was covered with boards of cedar, within and without, in which a variety of ornamental figures were carved out, and which were over-laid with laminae of gold. The passage into the Porch, Trgovaos, was very lofty and broad, but it was merely an open entrance, without any door. The entrance into the Sanctuary, on the contrary, was closed by a valve or folding door, made of the oleAstER or wild olive, which was ornamented with specimens of carved work in the shape of cherubim, palms, and flowers, was covered with gold, and turned on golden hinges, 1 Kgs. 6: 33–35. The door, that opened into the sanctissimum or Holy of Holies, which was a pentagon in point of form, was adorned and enriched, in the same way, with that of the Sanctuary, 1 Kgs. 6: 31, 32. Both doors were covered with a veil of linen, wrought with embroidery, 2 Chron. 3: 14. -* Within the Sanctuary was the Altar of incense, overlaid with gold, ten tables, also overlaid with gold, and ten golden candlesticks, five of each on the North, and five on the South side. On these tables were placed not only twelve loaves, but also an hundred golden cups. The other vessels of the Sanctuary likewise were more numerous, than in the Tabernacle, 1 Kgs. 7: 48–50. 2 Chron. 4: 19–22. The Ark of the covenant was deposited in the Holy of holies. Its position was such, that the staves, by which it was carried, and which were somewhat long, touched the veil; from which circumstance, it may be inferred, that the door of this apartment stood open, 1 Kgs. 8:8. 2 Chron. 5:9. Near the Ark, were two cherubim, made of the wood of the wild-olive, and covered with gold. Each of which was ten cubits high, and each extended one of its wings over the Ark, to the middle of it, and the other to the wall, 1 Kgs. 6: 23–28. 2 Chron. 3: 10–13, o
430 339. of the TEMPLE of ZERUBBABEL,
Note I. The description of the Temple of Solomon, which is given in the Books of Kings and Chronicles, is silent on many points, which, in the age, in which those Books were written, could be learnt without difficulty from other sources. In various places also, the account appears to have suffered from the carelessness of transcribers. Hence the statements, in first Kings, 6– 7, chs. and second Chronicles, 3–4, chs, do not every where agree. It will, therefore, be readily seen, that, it is not possible to give, in every respect, a perfect idea of this edifice. When viewed, as the work of very early times, and in reference to the notions, which then prevailed, Solomon's Temple may be considered magnificent, but it ought not to be compared with more recent specimens of Architecture.
Note II. Cherubim, Donz, were figures of a wonderful form, which sustained the chariot of thunders or throne of God. They had four faces, and as many wings and hands; and their feet, which projected down strait, had hoofs, like an ox, Ezek 1 ch. Cherubim of such a form could not be fully represented on embroidered work, and it would seem, from the account, which is given of them, that the golden cherubim, which spread their wings over the Ark of the covenant, were different in shape from those, which have now been described. Perhaps, therefore, this class of beings existed in different forms. The meaning of these symbolick representations, I have explained in my Treatise on Hermeneuticks, Ś 20. p. 59, 60.
§ 339. Of the TEMPLE of ZeRubbabel.
This TEMPLE was commenced under the direction of Zerubbabel, after the return of the Jews from the Babylonish Captivity, in the year 535 before Christ. The work had no sooner been begun, than it experienced an interruption of fifteen years, but was resumed again in the year 520 before Christ, and completed in the year 515, Ezek. 3:8,9. 4: 4–24. 5:1–6, 21.
According to the pacREE, which was given by Cyrus, (Ezra 6. 3, 4,) its height and breadth were sixty cubits each; and we may, therefore, suppose the length, which was either never mentioned, or has fallen out from the Text, to have been, (in order to maintain the proportion,) 120 or 180 cubits. But the old men,


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Mother's Day Special| Reinvent Yourself and Love Your Life
It is never too late to get started rather than never get started at all.
I adopted that approach to reinvent myself.
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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life. – Jean Shinoda Bolen
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 9, 2010) — There are 830 children in out-of-home care who are available for and awaiting public adoption; 357 of them do not have an identified adoptive family. Almost 1,800 children who cannot be reunited with families due to abuse, neglect and other safety and welfare issues have the goal of adoption according to the University of Kentucky College of Social Work's Adoption Support for Kentucky (ASK).
The award-winning adoption support program, formed in 2002, is in the limelight once again, as the organization was recently awarded a 2010 Adoption Excellence Award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for its "extraordinary contributions in providing adoption and other permanency outcomes for children in foster care."
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National awards are important, but ASK's mission remains the same.[IMAGE2] Saunders grew up with adopted siblings herself and knows how important ASK's support is. Adoptive families serve a vital role in permanency planning to protect the best interests of adoptive children, often making tremendous sacrifices.
"We've always listened to what adoptive parents said they needed," she said. "We have dedicated people involved with ASK who are passionate about the program."
The Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services' Department for Community Based Services Adoption Services Branch Manager Mike Grimes and his team nominated ASK for the national award.
"Participants embraced [ASK's] mentoring and support with enthusiasm, fueling the creation of parent-led support groups throughout the state," he said in his nomination letter. "Whether at the initial stage of adoption interest or far past finalization, ASK has created an all inclusive setting to fortify families who have generously opened their homes to deserving children."
ASK utilizes a comprehensive approach when developing support methods, which include phone calls, emails and face to face meetings. Participants are offered information on policies and procedures; education and on-going training; a lending library and access to statewide resources.
"Our adoptive parent leaders, some who have remained foster parents themselves, are incredibly committed to ASK and are always available to help," said Saunders. "Most people in the state can get to a support group within an hour from their home," Saunders said.
Families whose children face overwhelming medical or behavioral issues can turn to ASK for the most current information and advocacy while benefiting from the collective knowledge and support of the groups. To further enhance its services to families, ASK meetings also qualify as on-going training hours necessary for families to continue providing foster care.
ASK's mission directly coincides with November's National Adoption Month focus.
This year's initiative targets adoption professionals by concentrating on ways to recruit and retain parents for the 115,000 children and youth in foster care waiting for adoptive families. ASK's programming plays an essential role in supporting and retaining these families.
The bottom line is that resource parents need help. "It's hard to find training and support, but the biggest thing is childcare," explained Saunders. "ASK provides that as well, so parents can take the time to gain the support and training they need."
Formed in 2002, ASK is the only support group of its kind in Kentucky. The goal of ASK is to encourage adoption retention by identifying and addressing the challenges of adoptive families.
The program began with 11 adoptive parent leaders who aimed to unify and support families. Within one year, the success of ASK was evident and soon after, sixteen leaders were in place providing over 190 groups.
"We pay our parents for 20 hours a week, but they give us so much more," said Saunders. "And we don't have much of a turnover rate. They love their jobs."
In 2007, a collaborative effort between College of Social Work faculty and staff led to a study to determine the program's effectiveness. The study concluded that ASK is helpful in providing current information on adoption policies, providing emotional support, information exchange and helping to avoid adoption disruptions. Adoption Support for Kentucky has experienced tremendous success and has grown considerably from 981 support group attendees in 2003 to nearly 4,100 in 2010.
ASK currently conducts 362 support groups yearly and to date has welcomed over 18,000 attendees to various groups and trainings. ASK and Saunders have been recognized for their exceptional achievements in supporting families with state and national awards, including Saunders' Award of Excellence in 2006, the Betty Triplett Award in 2008 and the 2010 "Parent Group of the Year" award by the North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC).
"The Training Resource Center is so excited that ASK received the 2010 Adoption Excellence Award," said TRC Associate Director Jessica Day Fletcher. "It is the hard work and commitment of Carrie Saunders, Seth Krusich and the adoptive parent liaisons that made this award possible. It is well deserved recognition of the tremendous support and training this program provides to adoptive parents and those considering adoption."
The United States Department of Health and Human Services established the Adoption Excellence Awards program in 1997 to recognize outstanding accomplishments in achieving permanency for America's children waiting in foster care.
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I just acquired an approximate 1880's Tyler Desk Company, St. Louis Missouri roll top desk in Boise, Idaho. I got it back to my small shop and I think I have all the pieces, but have to make sure this week. It is in really good shape for being over 130 years old. I am guessing at the age because what I have found out on the internet is that the Tyler Desk Company burned down around 1892. So I am going with that. I plan on making this my first blog entry of my limited wood working work I have been doing, because I think this will be a nice piece when I get done. Still not sure what I am going to do as far as restoring, but the tambour need fixed as the thin brass or copper metal piece that was used to tie the pieces together broke. All I can find out on researching is that they were held together with cloth, mine has a small 1" wide thin strip of brass holding them together. A little more research on my part before i tackle that.
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TRIPOLI, March 9 (Reuters) - Libya's oil output has fallen to 620,000 barrels per day, a drop of about 80,000 bpd since clashes erupted around some of the country's major export terminals, the head of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) said on Thursday.
Mustafa Sanalla told Reuters that production by Waha Oil Co, a joint venture between NOC and foreign partners, had been entirely halted. Waha pumps oil to Es Sider, one of two ports that the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA) lost control of last Friday to a rival faction.
A port official at Ras Lanuf, a neighbouring terminal that the LNA also withdrew from, said that production by another NOC joint venture, Harouge Oil Operations, had also been affected, without giving details.
Libyan oil officials say staff at Es Sider and Ras Lanuf have been reduced to a minimum since a faction known as the Benghazi Defence Brigades (BDB) seized them in clashes, and that the area is effectively a military zone.
The BDB say they have handed the ports over to a Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG) force sanctioned by the U.N.-backed government in Tripoli, and that they would allow oil to flow.
However, the clashes are a new challenge to Libyan efforts to boost output, which had more than doubled since the LNA took over the Oil Crescent ports in September and ended a long blockade.
Es Sider and Ras Lanuf have a potential joint capacity of 600,000 bpd, but had been exporting a fraction of that partly due to damage in previous violence.
National production earlier this week had been relatively stable at around 670,000 bpd.
Brega and Zueitina, two other ports on the stretch of coastline southwest of Benghazi known as the Oil Crescent, remain under LNA control.
Waha Oil Co is a joint venture between the NOC, Marathon Oil Corp, Hess Corporation and ConocoPhillips. Harouge is a joint venture between the NOC and Canada's Suncor. (Reporting by Ahmed Elumami; Writing by Aidan Lewis; Editing by Mark Trevelyan and Alistair Bell)


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The American Revolution: A History
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"An elegant synthesis done by the leading scholar in the field, which nicely integrates the work on the American Revolution over the last three decades but never loses contact with the older, classic questions that we have been arguing about for over two hundred years."—Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers
A magnificent account of the revolution in arms and consciousness that gave birth to the American republic.
When Abraham Lincoln sought to define the significance of the United States, he naturally looked back to the American Revolution. He knew that the Revolution not only had legally created the United States, but also had produced all of the great hopes and values of the American people. Our noblest ideals and aspirations-our commitments to freedom, constitutionalism, the well-being of ordinary people, and equality-came out of the Revolutionary era. Lincoln saw as well that the Revolution had convinced Americans that they were a special people with a special destiny to lead the world toward liberty. The Revolution, in short, gave birth to whatever sense of nationhood and national purpose Americans have had.
No doubt the story is a dramatic one: Thirteen insignificant colonies three thousand miles from the centers of Western civilization fought off British rule to become, in fewer than three decades, a huge, sprawling, rambunctious republic of nearly four million citizens. But the history of the American Revolution, like the history of the nation as a whole, ought not to be viewed simply as a story of right and wrong from which moral lessons are to be drawn. It is a complicated and at times ironic story that needs to be explained and understood, not blindly celebrated or condemned. How did this great revolution come about? What was its character? What were its consequences? These are the questions this short history seeks to answer. That it succeeds in such a profound and enthralling way is a tribute to Gordon Wood's mastery of his subject, and of the historian's craft.
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When you move to a new place, no matter what age you are, it can be daunting. When you move into an independent living community, sometimes it can be emotionally overwhelming as well. So, what can you expect during your first week of your move? Below are some thoughts on this and what you might feel or need to address:
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By Michel Cousins Tripoli, 29 September 2013 Rebuilding Libya's ability to ensure its security – internally and externally – is seen as the key issue for the government at present. It is because of the lack of security that the eastern oil terminals are blockaded, that Libya's oil production is down. It is why there have been power cuts and [ Read More ]
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By Maher Chmaytelli Sep 29, 2013 Libya's oil production exceeded 700,000 barrels a day, nearly 45 percent of installed capacity, on higher output from the western region, said Oil Ministry Measurement Director Ibrahim Al Awami. The Hamada oil field resumed operations this weekend, adding 8,000 barrels a day to the North African nation's crude production, he said in a telephone [ Read More ]
September 26th, 2013 By Mick Krever, CNN "Libya is not a failing state," Prime Minister Ali Zeidan emphatically told CNN's Christiane Amanpour in an interview that aired Thursday. "The state of Libya doesn't exist yet." "We are trying to create a state, and we are not ashamed of that," he said. "The outside world believes that Libya is failing, but [ Read More ]
Sept. 26, 2013 Libya wants to see members of the former regime of Moammar Gadhafi returned from countries where they found shelter after the war, the prime minister said. Gadhafi died after falling into rebel hands in the waning stages of Libya's civil war. The colonel and several members of his regime were suspected of committing war crimes during the [ Read More ]
By Libya Herald staff Tripoli, 25 September 2o13 A multi-sector British trade delegation organised by the London-based Libya-British Business Council (LBBC) has been in Tripoli for the past four days meeting with Libyan officials and businessmen. The group, led by former British Ambassador in Tripoli, Sir Dominic Asquith, comprised 10 companies includes ones that have an established presence in Libya, [ Read More ]
26 SEPTEMBER 2013 One hundred Libyan students have won bursaries provided by the Italian government to study in Italy during the 2013/2014 academic year. The students will be arriving in Italy between October and November. Along with the head of the Libyan Graduates Association in Italy, Salah Zarough, and the association's board of directors, they have met with Italian ambassador [ Read More ]
25 September 2013 The Libyan people are moving towards building their own modern democratic State, the country's Prime Minister today told the United Nations General Assembly, while also urging continued international support, particularly from neighbouring countries. "I should reassure the international community that Libya is moving steadily and confidently with a solid will and a genuine desire towards the establishment [ Read More ]
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By Mariam Sami & Saleh Sarrar Sep 25, 2013 Libya's Zawiya port exported its first crude cargo this month after flows were restored from oilfields that supply the terminal. The nation, which canceled deliveries from several other ports because of protests by guards, shipped a 700,000-barrel cargo from the terminal yesterday, Mansur Abdullah, the oil movement coordinator at the Zawiya [ Read More ]