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That's a question i ALWAYS asked myself. How can someone who suffers agoraphobia move home? In the past this would have been my biggest nightmare. Why would I want to move somewhere completely strange? To leave behind each familiar room, my safe place, the place where I can find comfort and relax?
I Have been living with my parents since about 2004, I have been house bound in their home and gone through the worst of my illness there. You would think it would be a place of bad memories that I would be happy to leave behind. But it is also the place where, at the height of a panic attack, i could calm myself. Its my safe place. If I am anxious I have everything I need round about me and I know how to cope. No one likes change, but I think of anxiety sufferers we definitely dislike it more than 'normal' people would. I remember a change of curtains or a shift of furniture would be enough to set me off in a panic. Its that old chestnut... control!
Since meeting Gerry, I have been keen to find my own place. For lots of reasons really, wanting our own space, a bit of privacy, but mostly I saw myself approaching 30 and living with my parents and decided this is not what I wanted at all! I want to be an independent woman (far more comfortable using the word 'girl') I have pushed the boundaries with my agoraphobia. I am comfortable at home when left alone etc, and i felt it was time to move. We had been house hunting for a while but when I found out I was pregnant the search got more serious.
I have had a flat of my own since 2006. I don't know if I have ever discussed this on here before but I will explain briefly. I got my flat through the local housing association when I was still suffering quite badly with anxiety. It was a cosy little one bedroom place and I made myself go round everyday to decorate. After a few months the work was done and it was time to move in. I just didn't seem to want to. I never moved my clothes or private things in, only furniture. Looking back its pretty obvious I just wasn't ready for it. 4 years later the flat had gone to ruin. A total dump if I'm honest and moving there now just didn't seem to be an option. I wanted better. Also since it was only one bedroom i wanted bigger for when the baby comes.
But talking to a midwife she discussed how the baby will be sleeping in my room, ideally for the first few months anyway. So after lots of thought it was decided I would give it a go.
Last week Gerry and I started working on the flat. Day and night we have ripped everything out and started from scratch! The dump I didn't want to live in turned into a beautiful home, one which we would both be happy to live in. And so on Sunday came moving day! I have been buying home things for months for a new home and a new baby. I have talked excitedly about all the things I would do and what it will be like when we finally had our own space. but yesterday was Sunday and that old faithful anxiety came to visit.
I knew it was going to be a little difficult. Moving house is stressful for anyone, but I haven't slept anywhere other than my parents place for years. I was alone for most of the day and so my mind had too much time to wander and imagine all sorts of horrible outcomes. Gerry had told me he would stay with me but instead of finding comfort in this, i found it stressed me out even more. What if i cant calm down? I cant just run away and leave him there! When he finally arrived at the flat I had a bit of distraction. We were still doing odd jobs, building pieces of furniture etc and so i was kept occupied. Then I finally sat down to just sit and watch tv and the anxiety returned. I cant say I ever got to the stage where I panicked and thought 'ok i want to leave, i cant do this'. but there were definitely a few wobbly moments when I wondered if I would ever feel comfortable.
Thankfully that feeling did go away and at 1am i got into my new bed. After reading for a while I feel asleep and slept fine. I thought I would be buzzing when I woke up thinking 'yes i did it!' but if anything the anxiety just returned. Gerry had left for work and so i was on my own and was thinking 'what now'. My morning routine at my mums couldn't happen since i wasn't there and so I was a bit uneasy. Luckily a friend popped by for a visit and distracted me long enough to get back to normal and continue my day. The thoughts i have had are always the same. What if i become house bound here, what if i cant visit my parents, what if the short drive to their house becomes difficult. What if i don't see my nephews as often, what if I never settle in, what if i visit my mums house and that is no longer comfortable for me. What if the place where I calm myself no longer calms me. And on and on and on. Mostly my head just felt messed up. All over the place. I'm neither here nor there, where should i be. But I am hugely relieved to say that tonight I feel much better. I have told myself to CALM DOWN, CHILL OUT. I realised that anyone must feel this way when moving house. They leave a home and move to an address and they don't have the luxury of being able to visit their old place, but i do. And if i need to visit everyday i will ha. I will go with the flow and take each day as it comes. I am where I want to be, doing what I want to do. I have a beautiful home of my own and a place for my baby. I have peace and quiet. I have the maturity and Independence I have craved for so long.
And so i sit here MUCH calmer and my head is far more settled. In saying that, Gerry is working tonight and i will be on my own so who knows how it will be, but I know ill stick it out and each night will get easier.
Today I am 6 months pregnant and I cannot believe how quickly it is going. A little TOO quick! Although I have now been pregnant for half a year, its still a big thing to get my head around, another huge change. But a welcome one. I do feel like my life is really going to start when baby arrives and I cant wait to meet the little one. I am blooming and i suppose this is when i will REALLY start to grow, so its good that the move is over and all the major work is done.


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Kansas City shooting a hate crime, authorities say
Though white supremacist Cross hasn't been formally charged in slayings, officials say motive 'unquestionable'
OVERLAND PARK, Kansas (AP) — The Army veteran and retired trucker with Ku Klux Klan links accused of killing three people outside a Jewish community center was never one to keep his hatred for himself, though there is scant evidence he had ever resorted to violence before.
Frazier Glenn Cross of Missouri, a known white supremacist, has not been formally charged in the slayings, but officials said more information about charges was expected Tuesday. Federal prosecutors were moving to put the case before a grand jury.
Police suspect Cross fatally shot two people Sunday afternoon in the parking lot behind the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City, then drove to a retirement community where he shot a third person. He was arrested in an elementary school parking lot.
"We have unquestionably determined through the work of law enforcement that this was a hate crime," Overland Park Police Chief John Douglass said, refusing to elaborate on the evidence.
Cross, a former Ku Klux Klan leader who was once the subject of a nationwide manhunt, was jailed on a preliminary charge of first-degree murder.
Douglass said the suspect made several statements to police, "but it's too early to tell you what he may or may not have said" during the attacks. He also said it was too early in the investigation to determine whether Cross had an anti-Semitic motive. The Jewish festival of Passover begins Monday evening.
SITE, a U.S.-based terror monitoring group, described the suspect as a known and vocal anti-Semite who frequently calls for genocide against Jews.
Police said the attacks happened within minutes. The gunman shot two people in the parking lot behind the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City. He then drove a few blocks to a retirement community, Village Shalom, and gunned down a woman or girl there, Douglass said. Officers arrested him in an elementary school parking lot soon after.
The gunman shot at but missed two other people and never entered any buildings, police said.
The victims were identified as Dr. William Lewis Corporon, who died at the scene; his 14-year-old grandson, Reat Griffin Underwood, who died at Overland Park Regional Medical Center; and 53-year-old occupational therapist Terri LaManno, a Catholic who was visiting her mother at the retirement complex near the community center.
All three were Christians.
Rebecca Sturtevant, a hospital spokeswoman, said family members told her Corporon took his grandson to the community center to try out for a student singing competition. Reat was a high school freshman and an Eagle Scout.
Cross is also known as Frazier Glenn Miller. A public records search shows he has used both names, but he refers to himself on his website as Glenn Miller and went by the name Frazier Glenn Miller in 2006 and 2010 campaigns for public office.
Cross lives in a small single-story home bordered on three sides with barbed wire fences just outside the small southwest Missouri town of Aurora, some 180 miles south of Overland Park. A red Chevrolet bearing two Confederate flag stickers was parked outside.
An AP reporter knocked on the front door of the house early Monday but no one answered.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, said it reached his wife, Marge, by phone and that she said authorities had been to their home.
The law center said the suspect has been involved in the white-supremacist movement for most of his life. He founded the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and was its "grand dragon" in the 1980s. The Army veteran and retired truck driver later founded another white supremacist group, the White Patriot Party, the center said.
He was the subject of a nationwide manhunt in 1987 for violating the terms of his bond while appealing a North Carolina conviction for operating a paramilitary camp. The search ended after federal agents found him and three other men in an Ozark mobile home, which was filled with hand grenades, automatic weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition. He ran for U.S. House in 2006 and the U.S. Senate in 2010, espousing a white-power platform.
SITE said Monday that the suspect is a prominent member of the Vanguard News Network and has posted thousands of messages — including frequent calls for genocide against Jews — on the neo-Nazi forum's website. His most recent post was Saturday.
Copyright 2014 The Associated Press.

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Hey everyone! Hope your holidays were awesome! Santa got me what I wanted so I'm pleased haha! Though it was hectic this christmas, 12 of us all staying in my tiny house and 2 young kids. Wow.
Anyway, my Mum does pickles every year for gifts, lime pickle, picalilli, beetroot etc. This year I got a couple of jars!! Both quite large, one is pickled garlic (I use garlic a lot in cooking so very useful!) and some pickled ginger slices. Now these babies are HOT, helped clear my sinuses of my cold xD But sooooo very tasty!


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One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Australia is set to launch a new initiative centred on the Linux-based XO laptops the nonprofit organisation distributes.
The organisation, which formed in 2006, has a focus on distributing the XO laptops, which are produced by the global OLPC organisation, to low socio-economic status (SES) primary schools in Australia. The US-based One Laptop Per Child project launched in January 2005. The OLPC XO-1.75 laptop is based on an ARM processor and runs 'Sugar' — an easy-to-use operating system based on the Linux kernel and designed to be kid-friendly
OLPC Australia CEO, Rangan Srikhanta, says that the organisation is pioneering a new initiative to build an educational ecosystem around the laptops. The program, One Education, is due to launch on 1 May and involves two student certifications that indicate a child is either qualified to use an XO laptop and offer support to other users — XO Champion — or qualified to offer support, fault diagnosis and repair — XO Mechanic.
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The XO Champion certificate covers safety, storage, software use (including using the applications bundled with the laptops and connecting to networks), basic troubleshooting and school attendance — "it's basically understanding the XO and being good peer supporter," Srikhanta says.
The XO Mechanic certificate indicates that a student can change batteries, run hardware tests, reinstall the laptop's operating system, and replace a keyboard, screen, touchpad, wireless card and motherboard.
"We've taken all the lessons we've learned all the programs we've run and we've wrapped it into a story people can engage with," Srikhanta says. The One Education launch will be accompanied by a picture book — The Little Green Machine — which sets out the organisations vision of an XO-facilitated ecosystem of educators, other adults, and children.
Unlike the early days of the organisation, OLPC laptops distributed by the nonprofit are now bundled with mandatory teacher training, which is conducted online. Laptops are shipped to schools on a classroom by classroom basis. "So if one teacher completes the training we ship to their class," Srikhanta says. "That gets another teacher to complete the training then we ship to her class."
OLPC Australia charges $400 per XO and the One Education program, with disadvantaged schools able to access donor-supported discounts of $300 per laptop. Bundling training and charging for the distribution of the laptops has enabled OLPC Australia to scale rapidly and ensures that there is genuine buy-in from schools, instead of the XOs just gathering dust, according to Srikhanta.
For teachers the organisation is offering 15 hours of online training, which qualifies an educator for XO Certification. Further training is available for 'XO Expert' certification, which qualifies a teacher to train others to become XO Certified.
Srikhanta says that the training programs targeting children is a way of creating local sustainability, through building a knowledge base, as well as a way of integrating the XOs in the educational process. "The XO features so highly in the kids' psyche and they want to come play with the green machines [and] the teachers see this as a great segue to getting them to come to class more, engaging more being, a very productive member of the classroom. So all of a sudden we've embedded it deeply into the school's psyche so if a principal changes or a teacher changes [the programs can continue]."
"There's this richness that exists in parallel to the XO," Srikhanta says. "The XO is a very important component to this, but what we've tried to hit home is it's not the only component. Could we swap it out for an ASUS EEE PC or something else? The answer is no. The moment you pick up the XO you know it's for kids and it's been designed to be repaired by kids, which I think is such a crucial element.
"For some corporations, support is the most lucrative part of any contract. What we see from OLPC's perspective is it's probably the most crucial component in terms of social empowerment and enablement. It's the best opportunity we have for kids to actually be learning something out of this program. The beauty of it is if we don't even open the XO if we take the battery out already we can have a whole term of lessons about taking the XO apart."
"With the XO Mechanic program the kids are actually enticed to actually repair the machines," Srikhanta says.
"When we ship we ship 25 XOs or the number [a classroom needs, OLPC includes] spare keyboards spare screens spare batteries and then a screwdriver set. So the kids can then complete the XO Mechanic program. This is for the whiz kids and the future engineers of the world."


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The bailout machinery moves into high gear.
Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke meet Congressional leaders Thursday night, presenting massive plans to stabilize U.S. financial institutions.
The bailout machinery moves into high gear.
Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke meet Congressional leaders Thursday night, presenting massive plans to stabilize U.S. financial institutions.
The meeting, held at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, includes House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank, Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid, other Senate and House leaders from both political parties and Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox. The Bush administration wants to make sure Congress is behind the idea before it moves ahead on the plan, Steve Liesman reports.
"What we are working on now is an approach to deal with the systemic risk and stresses in our capital markets," Paulson tells reporters.
The plans include the creation of a giant facility to buy mortgage-backed securities; the price tag may be as high as $500 billion.
What You Were Reading:
The US Treasury plans to re-create the Resolution Trust Corporation, Charlie Gasparino reports. The RTC was created in 1989 amid the savings and loan crisis to liquidate assets of those institutions.
"This will bring real trust back into the market," Donald Marron, chairman of Lightyear Capital, told CNBC. "It would free up real, spendable capital in these organizations. They can use that to make loans, to make transactions and to build confidence in the system. This is a confidence crisis."
Central banks around the world announce they will buttress money markets by infusing billions in cash. The Federal reserve says it will authorize a $180 billion expansion of temporary foreign currency swap arrangements.
Ahead of the Securities & Exchange Commission's ban on naked shorting, which goes into effect Friday, Calpers (the California Public Employees Retirement System) says it will no longer loan out shares of banker-brokers Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to short sellers. Across the Atlantic, Britain's Financial Services Authority bans all short selling in financial stocks until Jan. 16, 2009.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average surges more than 200 points as trading heads into the final hour; analysts cite the RTC concept and anti-short bans, which sent bank stocks soaring.
AIG is to be removed from the Dow 30 blue-chip index on Sept. 22 and replaced by Kraft Foods.
What the Experts Were Saying:
Marc Chandler of Brown Brothers Harriman dissects the Fed's liquidity plan with Bob Pisani and Rick Santelli.
Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson is working on an RTC-type solution to the financial crisis, reports CNBC's Charlie Gasparino.
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LONDON, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Gael Monfils moves up seven places in the ATP rankings and tightens the rankings-points difference for No. 9 Richard Gasquet and 10th-ranked Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
Monfils defeated Gasquet 6-4, 6-4 in Sunday's final of the Open Sud de France for his second win in Montpellier, France. He won the title there in 2010 and was runner-up in 2012
Monfils lost to Gasquet in the second round in 2013 when Gasquet went on to win the event.
The Monfils win Sunday was his fifth ATP title but first since October 2011. He'd lost five straight finals appearances since then. The championship lifts him from 30th to No. 23 in the rankings.
With Gasquet seeing a net loss of rankings points this week, he is just 65 points ahead of Tsonga.
Other ATP winners last week were Fabio Fognini, whose championship at the Royal Guard Open Chile moves him to a career best No. 14 ranking, and Marin Cilic, whose repeat win at the PBZ Zagreb Indoors keeps him at No. 37. Cilic owns 10 ATP titles, four of them coming at the Zagreb Indoors.
The ATP contests three tournaments this week, including the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament, which features defending champion and No. 4-ranked Juan Martin del Potro and four other Top 10 players. The others are No. 6 Andy Murray and seventh-ranked Tomas Berdych, along with Gasquet and Tsonga, who could meet in the semifinals.
No. 5-ranked David Ferrer, another defending champion, leads the field at the Copa Claro in Argentina. Kei Nishikori and Felecia no Lopez, who played in the finals of last year's U.S. National Indoor Tennis Championships in Memphis, are seeded 1-2 in the event this year. Nishikori was a 6-2, 6-3 winner in the title match last year.
The ATP Top 10, listing player's name, home country and rankings points:
1. Rafael Nadal, Spain, 14,330
2. Novak Djokovic, Serbia, 10,580
3. Stanislas Wawrinka, Switzerland, 5,710
4. Juan Martin del Potro, Argentina, 5,370
5. David Ferrer, Spain, 5,280
6. Andy Murray, Great Britain, 4,795
7. Tomas Berdych, Czech Republic, 4,540
8. Roger Federer, Switzerland, 4,355
9. Richard Gasquet, France, 2,950
10. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, France, 2,885


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A law that would make Vermont the first U.S. state to enact mandatory labeling of foods made with genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, received final approval from state lawmakers on Wednesday and now heads to the governor's desk.
The Vermont House of Representative passed the bill 114-30. Last week, the Vermont Senate, by a vote of 28-2, approved the measure, which requires foods containing GMOs sold at retail outlets to be labeled as having been produced or partially produced with "genetic engineering."
"Vermont's leading the nation on this, giving consumers basic information about the food that they are eating," said Falko Schilling, a spokesman for the Vermont Public Interest Research Group, which backed the bill. "This is a model that the rest of the country can look to moving forward."
The Vermont bill also makes it illegal to describe any food product containing GMOs as "natural" or "all natural."
Unlike bills passed last year in Maine and Connecticut, which require other states to pass GMO labeling laws before they can be enacted, Vermont's contains no such trigger clause. The law would take effect July 1, 2016.
Backers said they expect Gov. Peter Shumlin to sign it. There was no immediate comment from the governor's office.
Vermont's effort comes as the developers of genetically modified crops and the $360 billion U.S. packaged food industry push for passage of a bill in Congress that would nullify any state law to require labeling of foods made with such crops.
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, more than two dozen states are considering GMO labeling bills.
Some of the most widely-used U.S. GMO crops are corn, soybeans and canola, staple ingredients in packaged foods.
Backers of the Vermont bill said they expect the biotech industry to sue to stop enactment, and the bill includes the formation of a fund that could pay legal bills. Consumer groups say labeling is needed because of questions about the safety of GM crops for human health and for the environment.
Last October, a group of 93 international scientists said there was a lack of empirical and scientific evidence to support what they said were false claims by the biotech industry about a "consensus" on safety. It said more independent research is needed and studies showing safety tend to be funded and backed by the biotech industry.
GMO crop developers such as Monsanto and their backers say genetically modified crops have been overwhelmingly proven safe.
Carey Gillam, Reuters
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The recent retirement of Will Brice's No. 10 jersey at the University of Virginia drew a host of local folks, family and friends, to the special occasion at halftime of the Cavaliers' ACC clash with the University of Miami.
Much like news of Will's honor, that came as no surprise. When I first heard of the honor, some folks, who were unable to attend in body, I know were there in spirit.
Those three special folks are Will's father, the late Laurie Brice, and his maternal grandparents, Brown and Sue Wylie.
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WASHINGTON – Justin Bieber still leads the pack when it comes to Twitter followers, with more than 39 million. Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, President Obama and Rihanna round out the top five, according to the website Twitaholic. But you don't have to be a celebrity to get more followers.
In the first study of its kind, researchers at Georgia Tech University evaluated a half-million tweets over 15 months and came up with tactics that can bump up your Twitter popularity.
First off, it's not all about you: While people talked about themselves in 41 percent of the tweets studied, the researchers found that tweets full of information attract 30 times more followers than self-centered notes.
Second, keep it positive. Most users don't personally know the people they follow, so negative news about your life is a turn-off.
Finally, hashtags may be everywhere, but the study found that high "hashtag ratios" mean fewer followers.
The full study can be found here.
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Financing Development:
Aid and Beyond (2007)
Aid alone cannot finance development; new actors and fresh sources of finance are essential complements to it. This highly stimulating book takes a deep look at the changes in the "international development finance architecture". It finds that the emergence of a multiplicity of new financing options is good news for developing countries, but that it raises challenges for donor and recipient alike. While policy makers in developing countries need to make the most of new funding opportunities, traditional donors need to reposition themselves in the system.
This volume is the first of an annual series designed to support the OECD Global Forum on Development.
Did you know?
> While official aid has quadrupled between 1980 and 2004, it has fallen as a proportion of total developing country inflows.
Part I. The Evolving Architecture of Development Finance: A Global Perspective
Chapter 2. Resources for Development in Africa
"It is one thing to welcome debt cancellation and another to consider that lending is a bad thing in general."
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Chapter 3. After Gleneagles: What Role for Loans in ODA?
This chapter contributes to the "grants vs. loans" debate on ODA policy and makes a proposal. Cancelling of poor-country debt does not mean that the best way to give aid is through grants only. A switch from concessionary loans to grants may limit resources to the poorest countries, worsen their incentives for fiscal discipline and efficiency and raise the burden of adjustment from exogenous shocks. Aid through loans may often prove superior, provided that it maintains debt sustainability. A scheme for soft loans with higher interest rates and cancellation provisions if bad shocks occur would minimise moral hazard and strengthen debt sustainability.
Chapter 4. Innovative Approaches to Funding the Millennium Development Goals
Despite post-Monterrey donor initiatives, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) remain underfinanced even as the 2015 deadline for their achievement approaches. Ideas and proposals for new finance sources abound. In evaluating them, their revenue potential, speed of availability and political feasibility have particular importance. Judged by these criteria, it is unlikely that global taxes will be introduced in time. The International Finance Facility, and regional approaches to taxation of air transport, perhaps in combination, may stand a better chance. The most straightforward way to avoid under-funding of the Goals is to raise ODA further.
Part II. Implications for Policy Making in Recipient Countries
"Of even greater concern than [the] inadequacy of of information is the apparent reluctance of the Ghanaian government and most donors to acknowledge the potential value of private flows for social and economic development"
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Chapter 5. New Actors in Health Financing: Implications for a Donor Darling
The new multiplicity of financing options has provided alternatives for developing countries in financing their achievement of the MDGs, and it has also brought major challenges. This Chapter, drawing on the experience of Ghana's health sector, shows both. New sources of finance may have increased the overall financial envelope, but they have also brought monitoring and co-ordination challenges. Developing countries need stronger information systems to forecast flows and to plan with them. For more effective finance, they also need co-ordination mechanisms that include the new funders. Finally, in order to take ownership of their own development process, developing countries must find ways to improve inter-ministerial co-operation and to address mismatches between budgets and spending, as well as capacity gaps.
Chapter 6. Integrating Global Programmes with Country-led National Programmes: Evidence from Ghana
This Chapter examines the extent to which global programmes (GPs), as new actors in development finance, align with the principles of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness in Ghana. It finds that global programmes' funding priorities correspond well with objectives set out in national plans and strategies, although there is a perception that in some cases the availability of GP funds leads to a distortion in national priorities. Government is taking increasing ownership of funding proposals and project development, but significant capacity gaps remain. Harmonisation between GP co-ordination mechanisms and other donor-recipient co-ordination systems remains a major challenge, particularly in the health sector. GP co-ordination challenges are greatest when inter-governmental co-ordination structures are weak. Finally, views on predictability and sustainability are highly specific to GPs.
Chapter 7. Different Countries, Different Needs: The Role of Private Health Insurance in Developing Countries
Provided it is carefully managed and adapted to local needs and preferences, private health insurance (PHI) can complement and help overcome the limits of traditional health financing options in low-income and middle-income countries. Those countries may be grouped in three broad regional clusters that share similar characteristics and policy challenges with respect to the role of PHI. Latin America and Eastern Europe already have developed insurance industries but face important market and policy failures. MENA's and East Asia's projected strong growth of PHI needs to be accompanied by efficient regulation. Finally, in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, PHI will play only a marginal role in the foreseeable future, while scaling up small, non-profit insurance schemes is of critical importance.
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British Transport Police (BTP) officers are urging the public to do their level best to stay safe when using crossings.
The call comes during the latest phase of Operation Look, a week of action which will see extra patrols at a number of crossings.
BTP recorded more than 3500 offences at crossings during 2014/15, with more than 2500 offenders identified and dealt with.
While the majority of those offences are committed by motorists, BTP officers also want to make sure pedestrians and cyclists are aware of the dangers too.
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]]>Main Page]]> | Risk Factors | ]]>Symptoms]]> | ]]>Diagnosis]]> | ]]>Treatment]]> | ]]>Screening]]> | ]]>Reducing Your Risk]]> | ]]>Talking to Your Doctor]]> | ]]>Living With Infertility]]> | ]]>Resource Guide]]>
A medical risk factor may increase or decrease your chances of getting a disease or condition. Although a person with specific risk factors may be at an increased risk, anyone can develop infertility. Having one or more of the risk factors listed below does not necessarily mean that you will develop infertility. If you do have specific risk factors, talk with your healthcare provider about what you can do to lower your risk.
Woman over 35 are more likely to have fertility problems. The ovaries become less effective in producing eggs that can be successfully fertilized.
Disorders of the reproductive tract and/or infection and trauma are more likely with advancing age.
Many medical conditions influence the risk of infertility.
Many of the drugs listed below are extremely important for treating serious and chronic conditions. Do not cut back or stop your medications on your own. Discuss your concerns with your healthcare provider. In some cases, the following drugs may increase your risk of infertility:
These medications have received lay-press coverage as possible causes of infertility. There is very limited evidence of a causal effect in humans. You should notify your doctor if you are taking these medications on a daily basis, and discuss possible withdrawal from these drugs.
Very high or very low levels of body fat often affect hormone levels, which can alter ovarian function.
Excessive exercise is often associated with low levels of body fat but may influence fertility through other means as well.
Smoking cigarettes and passive exposure to cigarette smoke may reduce fertility.
Caffeine consumption, in the form of coffee, tea, or soft drinks, has been linked to infertility in some studies.
Alcohol consumption, even in moderation, appears to reduce fertility.
Many work activities, such as standing for long periods of time or being chronically exposed to dust or loud noises, increase the risk of infertility. Other evidence suggests that the risk of infertility may be higher in women who frequently switch from working day shifts to night shifts. Job-related exposure to high temperatures, chemicals, radiation, pesticides, and other toxic substances have also been linked to infertility in women.
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists website. Available at: http://www.acog.org/ .
American Medical Association webiste. Available at: http://www.ama-assn.org/ .
American Society for Reproductive Medicine webiste. Available at: http://www.asrm.org/ .
International Council on Infertility Information Dissemination, Inc. website. Available at: http://www.inciid.org/ .
RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association website. Available at: http://www.resolve.org/site/PageServer .
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There is an answer to the age-old question of which came first, the chicken or the egg.
It's definitely the egg—at least when it comes to breakfast. Few morning menus are without them. But these days, chicken and another popular poultry protein, turkey, are increasingly popping up on a.m. menuboards at quick-service and fast-casual restaurants.
"Chicken and turkey are gradually making inroads, although change is going to take time," says Dave Mulholland, director of brand sales for U.S. Foodservice, a Chicago-based national food distributor. "Breakfast is more habitual than any other meal."
Breakfasts served at most quick serves generally feature eggs—usually scrambled or fried—along with pork products (bacon, sausage, and ham), and, typically, some type of carrier, such as a bun or English muffin.
"A lot of menu development is copycat when it comes to breakfast," says Eric Giandelone, director of foodservice research with Mintel International, a Chicago-based consumer product and market research firm. "The traditional notion of breakfast is pork-centric and egg-centric, so not too many chains have risked going beyond that."
Fast feeders generally lagged behind in breakfast development during the recent economic slump, but 2010 has been a year for breakfast innovations.
"A lot of operators are getting up to speed with menu offerings," Giandelone says, "so in a couple years, when they are more comfortable with their menus, they will look to alternatives such as chicken or turkey."
Most customers already view chicken and turkey as better for you, Mulholland says.
"Any time you incorporate turkey or chicken, it is going to be perceived as a healthier dish," he says, "and that is something an increasing percentage of the public is seeking."
One region of the country where chicken has not been a stranger to breakfast is the South, where chicken and biscuits and chicken and waffles have long been favorites. Fried chicken on a biscuit has been available for years.
"Chicken biscuits are grab-and-go, packaged versions of traditional Southern Sunday suppers," says John T. Edge, director of the Southern Foodways Alliance, an institute of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi.
"Long before McDonald's started stuffing McMuffins, we were stuffing biscuits with patty sausage, bacon—and yes, sometimes fried chicken—wrapping those bundles in tin foil, and selling them from country store counters," he says.
The roots of quick-service breakfast biscuits date to 1972, when two Hardee's franchisees, Jack Fulk of Charlotte, North Carolina, and Mayo Boddie of Norfolk, Virginia, began baking made-from-scratch buttermilk biscuits to sell to morning commuters.
There is some debate whether Hardee's officials were pleased or not with this unauthorized move, but the idea caught on and eventually spread to other franchisees.
"It has been served continuously in Southeast markets since then," says Brad Haley, executive vice president of marketing for Hardee's parent, CKE Restaurants Inc.
By the mid-70s, some small, Southern quick-service concepts had started experimenting with the tradition of putting meat in a biscuit. The chain now known as Biscuitville was serving biscuits stuffed with country ham before 1975.
In 1977, Fulk and former KFC president Richard Thomas launched Bojangles' Chicken 'n Biscuits, which featured Cajun-spiced fried chicken and Fulk's recipe for biscuits, making breakfast important from day one.
Then Bojangles' decided to place the chicken in a biscuit, and the quick-service breakfast chicken biscuit was born.
"I don't know the exact year, probably in the late '70s, but the Cajun chicken filet biscuit was already on the menu when I arrived in 1984," says Eric Newman, executive vice president at the company. "It is by far the highest-selling biscuit we have."
The Bojangles' chicken biscuit uses a marinated chicken filet that is breaded and fried.
Making biscuits from scratch requires skill from early rising employees.
"Baking biscuits is a very specialized job for a fast food chain," Haley says. "It is not like dumping fries in a fryer. There is real baking going on, and people are hard to find and train to do it right. A great biscuit just enhances the chicken."
It took another chain born in the South, Atlanta-based Chick-fil-A, to bring breakfast chicken biscuits to other regions of the country. The chain, which began its growth in malls, started serving breakfast after its first freestanding store opened in 1986.
Today, Chick-fil-A is in 38 states.
But the fried chicken biscuit truly became a national breakfast item in early 2008 when McDonald's rolled out its Southern Style Chicken Biscuit.
The entrée featured an all-white-meat chicken breast patty served on a biscuit that is par baked or, in some markets, made daily from a mix.
"We are interested in other protein options for breakfast, and this was a good fit," says Ashlee Yingling, a spokeswoman for McDonald's Corp.
The suggestion for the biscuit came from an operator in Atlanta.
"It started as a regional idea, but as with many ideas, like sweet tea, we looked at the bigger picture," Yingling says. The chicken biscuit went into tests in several markets, and it did well with all demographics, leading to its addition to the national menu.
The biscuit has added "significantly" to McDonald's breakfast menu, which accounts for about a quarter of restaurants' total sales.
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(Laurence Abensur-Hazan is a founder and current President of Etsi ("my tree" in Hebrew), the Sephardi Historical and Genealogical Society based in Paris. A graduate notary and lawyer, she is currently a professional genealogist in Paris. She works on the French naturalisation of Jews from the Ottoman Empire and on the Alliance Israelite Universelle Archives. Three years ago she published "Les Pontremoli, deux dynasties rabbiniques en Turquie et en Italie".)
Infofile on Genealogical and Historical Research
on Jewish Families
from Izmir (formerly Smyrna), Turkey
By Laurence Abensur-Hazan (Mrs)
According to historical sources, there was a Jewish population living in Smyrna before CE, as well as in many other places of the Aegean region. For instance, the famous city of Sardes keeps the trace of an antique synagogue. Unfortunatly, the city of Izmir does not keep such antique proofs of a Jewish presence. The traces that can be found are much more recent.
The Synagogues
The oldest traces are the beautiful synagogues which can be visited, or at least seen, in the bazar quarter.
Following is the list of the still existing synagogues :
The two most recent synagogues used today for the important ceremonies are this last one and the new synagogue located in Alsancak where the main part of the Jewish Community of the city now lives. The others are regularly used for daily prayers by some men.
There were many other synagogues or oratories founded by various families, but they all disappeared. Abraham Galante has given the list of the main family oratories in his book.
The still existing synagogues are in good state. The interiors are beautiful and there are often some marble slabs with the names of the donors. The Beth Israel synagogue, for instance, contains some slabs with the names of Yuda Leon Hodara ben Esterula, Ishak (Ferdi) Yafe ben Mazaltov. Some other slabs also bear a date : Binyamin Navaro ben Sara (30 Adar 5741 = 6 March, 1981), Yusef Pesah cen Ben Tamar (11 Sevat 5741 = 16 January, 1981)
The Cemeteries
The oldest Jewish Cemetery was the one of Barhi Baba which was probably founded in the 17th Century but it was unfortunatly destroyed during the 20th Century to build a park.
The Barhi Baba Cemetery was used until the second half of the 19th Century. According to Abraham Galante, the burials were stopped in this cemetery in 1885.
The remains have been transferred the 28 June, 1921, probably in the Gurt Cesme cemetery.
The three current cemeteries that one can visit are :
The Archives
Jewish Community Records
P in Izmir
Some records are still kept in the Izmir Rabbinate, now located in the modern quarter of Alsancak.
The records generally are not very old and there are no documents dating before the 1900's.
The Rabbinate keeps Marriage Registers (entitled "Cazamientos") from 1909 until today, written in Judeo-Spanish, Latin characters. Some of them, initially written in Solitreo (or Chatzi kulmus : Judeo-Spanish written with old Sephardic Characters of Rachi type), have been transcribed in Latin Characters.
There are also Birth Registers (entitled "Livros de nacimientos") for the same period.
The most interesting record which permits to find data about persons sometimes born at the beginning of the 19th Century, is a kind of Census, probably established around 1906. It is written in Solitreo and contains for each family mentioned in alphabetical order, the first name and surname of each person, his birth date and place, his occupation, his father and mother's first names with the mention of his or her eventual decease by the mention z"l in Hebrew letters, his family link with the family chief. This Census is composed of around ten books and only one volume has been transcribed in Latin Characters (those with the surnames beginning by F, P and S). A copy of this census is kept in Jerusalem by The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People.
Sometimes, one can also find some copies of certificates (in a register entitled "Actos") established for people originating from Izmir, but living abroad and who needed such documents for administrative reasons.
Officially, there are not Death or Burial records about the period before 1930-1940, when the new cemetery began to be used. An index of the stones of the Jewish Cemeteries of Izmir has been made by Minna Rozen's team from the Tel Aviv University, but it is not yet available for public consultation.
P in Jerusalem
An important collection of records from Izmir are kept at the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, located in the Sprinzak Building in Givat Ram Universityhttp://sites.huji.ac.il/archives There are two collections of records coming from two Izmirli families : the Levy and the Eshkenazi. The first one contains essentially documents about the Levy family. They are written in Ottoman Characters and do not seem very useful for the persons who are not members of the Levy family.
The second collection, from the Eshkenazi family, is very useful for all the families from Izmir. It contains Ketubot Registers between 1819 and 1933. Dov email@example.com, who is a specialist of these records and who can do research for interested persons, has established an alphabetical index of the grooms and brides mentioned in a part of these precious records (see the Bibliography).
There are also some registers mentioning the gifts done by the members of the community to the various synagogues of the city, especially the Bikur Holim synagogue.
Records from the Beth Din of Izmir are also kept, as well as various letters about many subjects (for instance, orders of books from Leghorn by members of the Izmir Community).
A copy of the Census in Solitreo kept by the Rabbinate in Izmir can also be found there.
We have also to mention the collection of ketubot from Izmir kept at the Jewish National and University Library (JNUL) as well as the newspapers, also located in Jerusalem. Regarding the ketubot, it is possible to see the photographies of the documents, but there is no alphabetical index. A general catalogue of all the ketubot kept at the JNUL is now available on Internet at http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/ketubbot.
The newspapers which were published by the Jewish Community of Izmir and that one can find, for instance, at the JNUL today are the following :
A very precious place in Jerusalem is the Ben Zvi Institute which keeps too valuable collections of newspapers which can complete those of the JNUL, as well as a collection of ketubot. Its library also contains several books about the Izmir community.
Other Jewish Records
A very valuable source to study this community is the Alliance Israélite Universelle Archives (AIU)http://www.aiu.org kept in Paris. The institution of the Alliance was created in 1860 and founded several schools in the Mediterranean countries. The Alliance boys school of Izmir was created in 1873, and the girls school was founded in 1878. Many Jewish children attended these schools, meaning that, in general, most children born from 1860 attended the school at least for some months.
Some lists of pupils can be found in these records, as well as many letters written by the directors of the schools, the teachers or other persons (pupils, parents…). Two articles about this matter have been published in the quarterly review Etsihttp://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/1321.
Consulate Archives
The Jews who had a foreign citizenship (so, who were not Ottoman) were generally registered in the consulate of which they had the nationality. In Izmir, many families were Italian and they were registered at the Italian Consulate which still keeps four registers entitled "Registri dei nazionali". The oldest register kept there was opened in 1871. So, the registrations that can be found are not prior to this year. But, the persons mentioned in the inscriptions can be born at the begining of the 19th Century.
Other persons were French citizens and were registered on the lists of the French Consulate. The archives of this consulate are not kept in Izmir today. Some old lists of French citizens, especially some Jews, are kept by the French National Archives in Paris and by the Centre des Archives Diplomatiques located in Nantes.
There were also some families like the Palacci or the Leon who were protected by the Nederlands. The consulate of this country could probably help the researcher to locate the archives of the 19th and the 20th centuries.
Generally, the Consulate Archives are very useful especially to find the maiden names of the women which are generally not mentioned in the Community Archives.
Various Sources elsewhere
P in Paris (France)
One of the most interesting source is the Naturalization Files kept by the French National Archives. This kind of record can be found for the persons, generally who lived in France (in some cases, the naturalization can be obtained by persons who worked for the French interest, but in an other country) and who requested the French citizenship. The files currently available for a free consultation are those dating more than 60 years.
For the more recent files, it is necessary to request an authorization.
The files generally contain detailed information about the naturalized person, but also about his close family (parents, wife, children, brothers and sisters). They often contain the translations of birth or other certificates whose originals were written by the Rabbis or the local authorities. One can find several translations of birth certificates established by the Turkish Rabbinates, or Ottoman certificates containing sometimes a physical description. A more detailed article about the Naturalization of the Ottoman Jews has been published in Etsi, the bilingual Sephardi Historical and Genealogical Reviewhttp://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/1321.
Many of the unfortunate Jews from Izmir who lived in France during WWII were deported by the nazis. Information about them can be found in the Shoah Archives recently available for public consultation at the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine or at the French National Archives. Theses archives especially those coming from the Drancy Camps have been microfilmed. Each individual file contains the Civil Status information about the person concerned.
Another useful source is the Nominative Census which mention, for each family, all the members or the persons living with the family chief. They are available for Paris, for instance, for 1926, 1931, 1936 and 1946 (there was no census in 1941 because of WWII). They are kept at the Paris City Archives.
The Civil Records (birth, marriage and death certificates) are, of course, a precious and basic source of data but they cannot be consulted freely, excepted for the death certificates (any date) and the birth and marriage certificates dating more than 100 years.
The Cemeteries are also a source to locate the members of one family who were often buried in the same one. The two Parisian cemeteries where an important part of the Jewish French population is buried are located in Bagneux and Pantin.
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The same kind of sources presented in the previous part can certainly be found in other countries where emigrated the Jews from Izmir (Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Australia, Israel, United States…). Other infofiles could certainly give details about these countries.
The main libraries of the Occidental Countries can keep collections of old newspapers or old books, generally written by Rabbis.
The Judaica auctions are also today a possible source of genealogical or historical information, because it is possible to find ketubot, books or other kind of records recently discovered and offered to sell.
The families coming from Turkey, especially those who did not leave the country, can also own some valuables records concerning their families as well as others (newspapers, letters, ketubot, old photographies…).
Ottoman Records
Many people wonder if it is possible to obtain some data from the old Ottoman Records. We heard about this matter that it was necessary to proof that one can read this script before to be authorized to consult the archives, which are mainly kept in Ankara.
For the most recent Birth Certificates, for instance, it seems possible to obtain from the Civil Records in Izmir, a translation in current Turkish if one can give a precise name and date.
We present an extensive bibliography not only devoted to the genealogical research about Jews from Izmir, but also about the culture and the history of this community.
- Abensur-Hazan Laurence and Roos Eliane, "Généalogie rabbinique Hazan", Chronique de Paléographie hébraïque, in Revue du Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Tome 9, n°35, automn 1993, pp.18-20[in French]
- Abensur Philip and Abensur-Hazan Laurence, "Les listes nominatives dans les archives de l'Alliance Israélite Universelle", in Etsi, Revue de Généalogie et Histoire Séfarades, volume 3, n°10, October 2000, pp.3-7[in French, with English Summary]
- Abensur Philip and Hazan Laurence, "Les archives du Rabbinat d'Izmir", in Revue du Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Tome 11, n°42, Summer 1995, pp.8-9[in French]
- Abensur-Hazan Laurence, "La Boz del Pueblo : une source pour la généalogie des Juifs d'Izmir", in Revue du Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Tome 13, n°49, pp.13-15[in French]
- Abensur-Hazan Laurence, "Sources en Israël pour la généalogie des Juifs d'Izmir", in Revue du Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Tome 13, n°50, été 1997, pp.10-11[in French]
- Abensur-Hazan Laurence and Missistrano Claude, "Sources pour la généalogie des Juifs de Turquie", compte-rendu d'atelier, in Actes du 5ème Congrès International de Généalogie Juive, Paris, 1998, pp.305-314. [in French, with English Summary]
- Abensur Philip, Abensur-Hazan Laurence, Cohen Dov, Missistrano Claude and Pimienta Sydney, "Paléographie séfarade", compte-rendu d'atelier, in Actes du 5ème Congrès International de Généalogie Juive, Paris, 1998, pp.449-451. [in French, with English Summary]
- Abensur-Hazan Laurence, "How To Research Families From Turkey and Salonika", in Avotaynu, Volume 14, n°1, pp.28-30[in English]
- Abensur-Hazan Laurence, "La reconstitution de cinq générations à travers les archives du Consulat d'Italie à Izmir", in Etsi, Revue de Généalogie et Histoire Séfarades, volume 1, n°1, Spring-Summer 1998, pp.10-13[in French, with English Summary]
- Abensur Philip and Abensur-Hazan Laurence, "Les données généalogiques dans les archives de l'Alliance Israélite Universelle : mythe et réalités", in Etsi, Revue de Généalogie et Histoire Séfarades, volume 3, n°8, April 2000, pp.3-7[in French, with English Summary]
- Abensur-Hazan Laurence, "A propos de la nationalité italienne des Juifs d'Izmir", in Etsi, Revue de Généalogie et Histoire Séfarades, volume 3, n°9, September 2000, p.14[in French, with English Summary]
- Abensur-Hazan Laurence, "Bibliographie sur la généalogie juive dans l'Empire Ottoman", in Revue du Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Tome 11, n°43, Autumn 1995, pp.10-13[in French]
- Abensur-Hazan Laurence, "Les Pontremoli, deux dynasties rabbiniques en Turquie et en Italie", Paris, 1997[in French]
- Cohen Dov, "List of 7300 names of Jewish brides and grooms who married in Izmir between the years 1883-1901 & 1918-1933", List n°1, Summer 1997-5757[in English]
- Hazan Laurence, "Les archives du consulat d'Italie à Izmir", in Revue du Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Tome 11, n°42, Summer 1995, pp.10-11[in French]
- Taranto Leon B., "Ottoman Empire Sephardim : Historical Migrations and Genealogical Resources", in Sharsheret Hadorot, journal of Jewish Genealogy (edited by The Israel Genealogical Society), Volume 14, n°1, Autumn 1999[in Hebrew and English]
- Taranto Leon B., "Ottoman Empire Sephardim : Historical Migrations and Genealogical Resources - Consolidated List of References and Recommended Publications (Dec.1999)", in Sharsheret Hadorot, journal of Jewish Genealogy (edited by The Israel Genealogical Society, Volume 14, n°2), Winter 2000[in English]
History and Culture
- Abensur-Hazan Laurence, "Le Pourim Sarahoussa : Pourim de Saragosse ou Pourim de Syracuse ?", in Etsi, Revue de Généalogie et d'Histoire Séfarades, Volume 2, n°5, Summer 1999, pp.8-13[in French, with English Summary]
- Abensur-Hazan Laurence, "La fièvre dengue à Smyrne en 1889", in Etsi, Revue de Généalogie et Histoire Séfarades, volume 2, n°7, Winter 1999, pp.3-7 [in French, with English Summary]
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Five thousand young Jews from around the world taking part in the Masa Israel Journey program on Sunday evening joined bereaved family members and Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers in commemorating Yom HaZikaron – Israel Memorial Day - at the Yad Lashiryon Memorial at Latrun (the IDF Armored Corps' Memorial Site) outside of Jerusalem.
This was the first time that many of the overseas participants participated in such a ceremony in Israel.
Economics Minister Naftali Bennett, Chairman of The Jewish Agency for Israel, Natan Sharansky, Director General of The Jewish Agency for Israel, Alan Hoffmann and Knesset members attended the event.
"3,800 years ago, right here in Latrun, the Prophet Joshua fought the battles to conquer the Land of Israel. Later the Maccabees fought near here, and in 1948 the terrible battles of Latrun were fought," Bennett said in his address. "We are all a part of this 3,800-year chain which will continue to go on."
Bennett spoke of late IDF Lt.-Col. Emmanuel Moreno, with whom he served in the elite Sayeret Matkal commando unit and who was killed in the Second Lebanon war.
Sharansky told the audience that while a prisoner in Soviet prisons, he tried to estimate the date of Yom Hazikaron. "I thought about the three Israeli sportsmen who had visited Russia and had bravely met with us. They told us that Israel was a place of great joy," Sharansky said.
"I later heard that one of the three was killed in the Yom Kippur war. But, mostly I thought about Yoni Netanyahu," Sharansky said. "The fact that the State of Israel was prepared to send its soldiers to rescue Jews all over the world gave me great strength."
Noting that "Yoni was 29 when he was killed and I was 29 when I was arrested," Sharansky emphasized that "Every time that I felt that I didn't have the strength to keep resisting the authorities, I thought about Yoni Netanyahu and it gave me the strength to keep going."
Sharansky noted that participants of 200 Masa programs were present at the event. "One Masa participant once told me that in Israel he feels loved not because of his views, but because he was a part of a real family. We can only enjoy our lives here in Israel due to those who gave their lives to keep us safe and they can only live on if we keep them alive in our memories."
The courage of Argentinian oleh Damian Rosovsky, a fallen soldier from the Golani Mountain Brigade was among the stories and videos screened at the event.
Rosovsky, who made Aliyah in 1989, was killed at age 20 in the Beit Lid double suicide bombing on January 22, 1995. Rosovsky, who served as a medic, saved the life of another soldier who was wounded in the first blast before he himself was killed in the second explosion.
"We feel that we have lost a limb," wrote Rosvsky's comrades-in-arms of his death. "Our understanding commander who always taught us how to be the best we could be is now gone."


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aKademy 2005 Concludes on Sunday
The 2005 KDE conference aKademy in Malaga, Spain, ends on Sunday 4th of September. Up to now the conference has been hugely successful with more than 250 visitors. The Users and Administrators Conference and the Developers and Contributors Conference have both concluded, the Coding Marathon is continuing for two more days. A press conference was held this morning and the press release sums up the event so far.
People left to right: Vanessa Delgado, Mirko Boehm, Antonio Larrosa, Matthias Welwarsky
The Beach Party on Saturday night will be the grand finale of this event before the conference participants will depart on Sunday. Until then there is a little more time left to continue improving KDE in night long sessions in the computer lab with free coffee available for everyone.
The press conference held by KDE e.V. and the aKademy organisers this morning informed the local media about this event, the KDE project itself and free software in general. A number of articles will appear in the national and local Spanish press in the following weeks.
Keep on the good work Vanessa
Hi Vanessa!
We (geeks community) have beautifull women too! Congratulations Vanessa ;)
By CJ at Fri, 2005/09/02 - 5:00am
Re: Keep on the good work Vanessa
Yup. And one day we will grow up finally and stop commenting about a woman's visual appearance instead of her other qualities. (OTOH, i remember the comment about Aaron Seigo's eyes the other day, so there's *some* balance already...)
By planetzappa at Sat, 2005/09/03 - 5:00am
Re: Keep on the good work Vanessa
I think we need more women commenting about the visual appearance of the men :)
By rinse at Sat, 2005/09/03 - 5:00am
Re: Keep on the good work Vanessa
Well, I'm not a woman. But Antonio Larrosa is not too bad! ;-)
By Steve Bergman at Mon, 2005/09/05 - 5:00am
Nice Presentations
Really, really, really enjoying watching and listening to all the videos of the presentations. Thanks a bundle!
By segedunum at Sat, 2005/09/03 - 5:00am
Thanks Guys!
I'd like to say a big thank you to everyone involved in organising the conference. Getting the KDE team together is like hurding cats, so I know it can't have been easy! Your hard work is much appreciated.
By Richard Moore at Sun, 2005/09/04 - 5:00am
Re: Thanks Guys!
Thanks. It will be really hard to top that next year, but we'll try :-)
By Matthias Welwarsky at Mon, 2005/09/05 - 5:00am
I'm very happy with all of you!
This year's aKadmy was the first time for me to get in touch with KDE. I can´t imagine a more interesting way of being introduced to you, wonderful people as you are, as by means of such a great event. Simply by reading about you wouldn't have brought me half of the impression that I have now. I'm impressed by your "working spirit" and by your ability of combining "work" and "fun". I'm very thanful for having had this great oportunity to meet you . Also I want to thank the Linux-Malaga team, that were the ones that actually called me to help in this conference. Last but not least I want to say that I'm already a great admirer of yours, I love your philosophy and I would be very happy to keep in contact with you. To inform you also that I'm open for doing some work for KDE with great pleasure, since I agree very much with what you are doing. Just contact me in the case. Nice greetings to all of you. In love, Vanessa.
By Vanessa at Mon, 2005/09/05 - 5:00am


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Court interpreter training planned for Milwaukee
Madison, Wisconsin - April 9, 2013
The Director of State Courts Office is accepting applications for interpreter training to be held in Milwaukee on Saturday, April 27 and Sunday, April 28 at UW-Milwaukee.
While Spanish interpreters are most often requested by the courts, increased efforts are being made to recruit qualified interpreters for many other languages, particularly those spoken by incoming refugee populations. Individuals fluent in Arabic, Burmese, Farsi, French, Khmer, Russian, Somali and Tibetan as well as more rare languages such as Chin, Karen, Karenni (Kayah), and Mon are encouraged to apply. A limited number of scholarships may be available for some non-Spanish languages.
Training sessions are intended for individuals who are interested in learning the fundamentals of court interpreting and are designed to give participants an overview of the needs and expectations of the court with emphasis on ethical conduct, legal terminology, court procedure, and basic legal interpreting skills. Small group practice exercises will help to develop interpreting skills. This orientation is intended as an introduction to the complexities of court interpreting, rather than as an in-depth training. Faculty includes judges, attorneys, and certified court interpreters. A $175 fee covers the sessions, lunches, and materials. Each session will run 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on two consecutive days. The deadline for submitting an application is April 15, 2013.
Applications are sought from individuals who are currently interpreting in court proceedings or administrative hearings regularly. The court system also seeks applications from working interpreters in other fields who want to broaden their experience to include legal settings and to bilingual individuals who wish to learn more about the court interpreting profession. Participants who attend orientation, achieve minimal testing levels, and meet other requirements will be placed on a public roster of interpreters used by courts, law enforcement agencies, lawyers, and law-related agencies.
This training is part of the Director of State Courts Office Interpreter Program, which aims to improve interpretation and translation in the courts. For more information on these training sessions, and to register, visit the court system Web site at http://wicourts.gov/services/interpreter/orientation.htm
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Published December 19, 2012
Getting a mortgage is tough enough these days, but the battle is even more tough for self-employed home seekers.
"In today's challenging credit market, for people who are trying to qualify for a mortgage, the borrower that seems to be scrutinized the most are the self-employed/ sole proprietor," says Tony Auffant, senior mortgage planner at Benchmark Lending in Melville, N.Y."When it is most usual for financial professionals to advise the self-employed to write off as much of their expenses as possible in order to show less income on their taxes, this reduces the taxable income needed to offset liabilities, such as a mortgage payment."
To help self-employed buyers better navigate the mortgage application process, experts offered the following tips and mistake to avoid.
Mistake: Not showing enough income
One of the benefits of being self-employed are the many tax deductions to lower taxable income. While that means you'll pay less taxes it also means you'll show less net income, which can hurt your chances of getting a mortgage. "If you take too many deductions you will leave yourself with too little income on paper to pay that mortgage," warns Bob Walters, chief economist at mortgage lender Quicken Loans in Detroit. "If you can't show it, it doesn't count."
Mortgage experts suggest meet with your accountant to figure out the right mix of deductions and income to allow you to meet lending standards for a good rate. "Maybe you'll have to take fewer deductions for a few years and pay a little more taxes to have the income to qualify for the home," says Patti Frank, vice president at American Mortgage Group, a mortgage firm in Southampton, N.Y. Another option is to buy a lower-priced home that doesn't require as much income.
While they are far and few between, Frank says there are still some lenders that will work with self-employed borrowers and issue loans without verifying the income. In that instance, you'll need someone well versed in those kind of loans to sell you to the bank, says Frank. "It's not going to happen for a lay person walking into the bank trying to get that type of loan," she says.
Mistake: Not being self-employed for two years
In order for self-employed homebuyers to get a mortgage, lenders tend to require at least two years of self-employment. If you don't have the two years, you'll be required to provide the lender a net profit, with a current year-to-date profit and loss statement as well as the most recent year's self-employed income tax returns, according to Auffant.
The mortgage application process is filled with paper work, but even more so for self-employed individuals. "The documentation is more arduous than with a W2 borrower," says Walters. "It can become pretty intense from a documentation standpoint."
Mistake: Not being able to document large cash deposits
A self-employed person's income can often times come in monthly, or bi monthly which means they are usually making large but irregular deposits in the bank. While that's ok if it's part of the income the person claims comes tax time, it could cause a problem if an undocumented deposit of a large amount of money is made during the mortgage approval process.
"Any deposits going into a borrower's bank account has to be part of their regular income or match what is common or usual activity in that account," says Auffant.
Read more: http://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/2012/12/19/tips-for-self-employed-homebuyers-navigating-mortgage-process/#ixzz2GNoW0Y9H


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Council should make the most of developer's desire to spend $250 million
Takapuna beach is one of the jewels of Auckland, a long, scenic crescent of sand in the lee of nearby Rangitoto. It is beautiful and popular, for walking as much as swimming, and has ample public access from an adjoining grassy slope. It is almost perfect but for one thing: the nearby commercial centre has its back turned to it.
Somehow, in the early development of Takapuna, the shops spread shoulder to shoulder along Hurstmere Rd and ignored the possibilities behind them. The result was that an area overlooking the beach reserve became retailers' backyards and public carparks which it largely still is. In fact it is now a much larger carpark served by a road that sweeps past the beach.
In recent years some of the Hurstmere Rd properties have been redeveloped with a plaza or an alley that opens to the beauty behind them, but nothing in the scale of a project reported in the Weekend Herald. Takapuna resident John Copson plans a multi-storey retail and apartment block extending 100m back from Hurstmere Rd to present a big glassy face to the beach and the public reserve.
The buildings might be higher than city planners would prefer but otherwise it is the sort of development urban designers have long advocated to make better use of the amenity and enhancing connections between the commercial and public spaces. The planners, however, have designs of their own for the area which include a realigned road that would slice through the commercial properties and render the project uneconomic.
The advent of a united Auckland Council has been promising for Takapuna. The previous North Shore council had been moving its urban centre to Albany and Takapuna was looking forgotten. Now it is one of the key metropolitan centres in the Auckland Plan for the next 40 years.
But the new planners appear to have a different vision of the area. Rather than aiming to merge commercial and public activities, they want to clearly separate them, and they want the public space to be much larger and flatter - more suitable for "events".
The council's "transformation projects manager", John Dunshea, told the Herald its plans were preliminary and nothing has been decided. It may be too soon for Mr Copson to be despairing of his scheme but he cannot be blamed for putting no more money at risk while the planners toy with conflicting possibilities.
The people of Takapuna and the wider city have been waiting a lifetime for the commercial centre to turn and face their waterfront. Mr Copson's scheme offers the possibility of shops, cafes and pavement leading to the grassy slopes that run down to the beach and the water. The planners seem more concerned to keep the existing scale of commercial activities and flatten the slopes for unspecified purposes. But at least the planners envisage an underground carpark, which would be needed in Mr Copson's scheme too.
This dispute is not yet a stalemate. The Devonport-Takapuna Local Board chairman, Chris Darby, has urged Mr Colson to apply for a resource consent. Mr Copson says he wants to meet the planners' objectives but he is having difficulty getting them to engage with him.
If the planners do not yet have their ideas sufficiently formed to have useful meetings with him, they should get busy. They should make the most of his desire to spend $250 million to turn so much of Takapuna towards the water. The opportunity has been a long time coming. It might not come again.


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Each module with CMP beans must have the following files:
ejb-jar.xml – The J2EE standard file for assembling enterprise beans. For a detailed description, see the Enterprise JavaBeans Specification, v2.1.
sun-ejb-jar.xml – The GlassFish Server standard file for assembling enterprise beans. For a detailed description, see The sun-ejb-jar.xml File in Oracle GlassFish Server 3.0.1 Application Deployment Guide.
sun-cmp-mappings.xml – The mapping deployment descriptor file, which describes the mapping of CMP beans to tables in a database. For a detailed description, see The sun-cmp-mappings.xml File in Oracle GlassFish Server 3.0.1 Application Deployment Guide.
The sun-cmp-mappings.xml file can be automatically generated and does not have to exist prior to deployment. For details, see Generation Options for CMP.
The sun-cmp-mappings.xml file maps CMP fields and CMR fields (relationships) to the database. A primary table must be selected for each CMP bean, and optionally, multiple secondary tables. CMP fields are mapped to columns in either the primary or secondary table(s). CMR fields are mapped to pairs of column lists (normally, column lists are the lists of columns associated with primary and foreign keys).
Table names in databases can be case-sensitive. Make sure that the table names in the sun-cmp-mappings.xml file match the names in the database.
Relationships should always be mapped to the primary key field(s) of the related table.
The sun-cmp-mappings.xml file conforms to the sun-cmp-mapping_1_2.dtd file and is packaged with the user-defined bean classes in the EJB JAR file under the META-INF directory.
The GlassFish Server creates the mappings in the sun-cmp-mappings.xml file automatically during deployment if the file is not present.
To map the fields and relationships of your entity beans manually, edit the sun-cmp-mappings.xml deployment descriptor. Only do this if you are proficient in editing XML.
The mapping information is developed in conjunction with the database schema (.dbschema) file, which can be automatically captured when you deploy the bean (see Automatic Database Schema Capture). You can manually generate the schema using the capture-schema utility (Using the capture-schema Utility).