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Born in Bulgaria, Youliana Lyoubenova graduated with an MBA from EU in 1999. She started at the Hewlett-Packard (HP) Brussels office that same year and has been with the innovative company ever since, growing from a process engineer to a worldwide process manager and working with many talented people from all five continents. Below, Youliana reflects on how working for a multinational offers endless possibilities.
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Julian Edelman suffered a torn ACL on the Patriot's opening drive against the Detroit Lions yesterday, and he'll miss the entire season. Edelman caught 98 balls for 1,106 yards last season. He's been a security blanket for Tom Brady for a few years now. Who could forget the play he made in the Super Bowl that saved the Patriots, ultimately leading them to become Super Bowl champions.
This could be considered a big loss for the Patriots, and while it's never easy to lose your leading receiver, the Patriots will be just fine without him. The Patriots have such a deep roster, and one player isn't going to stop them from being dominant. They've never let losing a player stop them before, so why would they start now?
Let's not forget who's still the quarterback for this team. While speaking of the injury to Edelman, Tom Brady said, "We've got great chemistry together, and he's an incredible player, but someone will have to step up." He's right, someone will have to step up, but it won't be a problem.
When Tom Brady was out for the first four games last season, Jimmy Garoppolo and Jacoby Brissett stepped in and filled the position. Both Garoppolo and Brissett did a great job of keeping the team afloat while Brady was out. We're talking about replacing arguably the greatest NFL quarterback of all time, and they stepped in and balled like it was no problem.
I feel like losing Edelman is much less of a blow than not having Brady. It wasn't a problem replacing their quarterback, and it won't be a problem replacing their leading receiver. Patriots players step up, it's what they do.
Who Steps Up With the Loss of Edelman?
Let's get the obvious out of the way first. Rob Gronkowski is back and healthy. We know that when Gronk is healthy, he's going to ball. Gronkowski is going to play well every game. He'll step up, but he always steps up, even when they don't need him to.
The trade for Brandin Cooks looks even better now. Cooks is a guy who can simply out run most people. He's had over 1,100 receiving yards each of the last two seasons. I don't expect any step back from him. He takes the top off the defense. He's always a threat to make a big play. Cooks can take some of the load for Edelman, but he plays a different style than Edelman does. He's going to be a heavily used weapon for Tom Brady, but the receivers who really need to step up, are Danny Amendola and Christ Hogan.
Amendola and Hogan will get a lot more looks now that Edelman is out. Hogan was solid last season, making the most of his opportunities. He caught 38 passes for 680 yards. His opportunity will increase, so look for him to have a big season. Amendola had an okay season, catching 23 passes for 243 yards. I expect both receivers to have an increased amount of opportunities, which will lead to increased stats.
There are plenty of other weapons available to Tom Brady also. Dwayne Allen, Malcolm Mitchell, James White, Rex Burkhead, etc. I don't think it ever really matters who's on the field for Belichick. He's going to win regardless.
Tom Brady and the rest of the New England Patriots are going to come in and do their thing as if nothing ever happened. They didn't have Gronkowski for a long period of time last season, and what did they do? They won the Super Bowl. I expect the Patriots to put the loss of Julian Edelman past them, and play their way to another 12+ win season just like they always do.
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What a wonderful, wonderful day, and what a spectacular way to close out my time in Seattle, as I am set to take a 7:45 train back to Vancouver tomorrow morning. This blog is going to be a bit heavy on the images and light on words, because I am a tired kitten and feeling a bit like I'm still on the boat.
After Robyn got back from her water taxi adventure, we decided we were too tired to dress up and instead went to Japonessa, a sushi place, a little underdressed in our distressed jean shorts and low key shirts. They didn't seem to care, though, as we were easily let in to a little table in the corner. I was pretty tired I honestly couldn't make much sense of words, so the vast menu was a bit of a challenge. Instead of just ordering a couple of rolls, Robyn and I decided to share edamame and a $60 plate of the chef's selection, as it guaranteed us a mix of nigiri and sashimi. (I love them both and we didn't want to pick.)
All the nigiri had wasabi between the rice and the fish, which I found dampened the experience a bit. I don't mind wasabi, but I really wanted to experience the fish. I did, however, get to try uni (that is, sea urchin) for the first time. It's very crisp. Robyn loves it, but I can take it or leave it. Was definitely neat to know I tried something new, though!
Robyn left this morning, back to the airport via public transportation (she's so good at navigation!) and then onward back to Yellowknife, while I had booked a tour to see whales via Viator. Excellent, excellent decision. The company is the Victoria Clipper (though my boat was a San Juan clipper for the islands it goes through), who ferries you on to Friday Harbour with a naturalist on board, and they stop for wildlife viewing even when it isn't officially the whale watching part. For example? We slowed down for porpoises and a humpback whale on the way!
The naturalist also gives an excellent amount of information – that is, you get a lot of interesting facts, but it isn't talking, talking, talking all the time. Once at Friday Harbour, you can disembark and spend the day there or, if you booked whale watching like I did, you stay on the boat and they find out from other boats and shore watches where the orcas might be. We actually ended up crossing the border into Canada to see them, but we saw a whole bunch of orcas. There are three pods that frequent the area, and we saw some of two of them (Jpod and Kpod) swimming together, including J2 (nicknamed "Granny") with her sons. Granny is about 105 years old, apparently! Markings are distinct, so they can tell which whale is which. One Lpod whale was also in the group of swimmers.
After that, we stopped in Friday Harbour for just over an hour. It was hot and I didn't feel like doing much shopping, so after drifting through a few stores, I found a place where I could buy ice cream and got myself a blackberry ice cream in a waffle cone. Delicious!
Then it was back on the boat for the 2.5 hour ferry back to Seattle, where I got to go on the bow and have an up close look at sea lions – so close we could hear them growling at each other like a bunch of Wookies! Then it was back to Seattle, where I'm in for the night. Tomorrow is up early. Wish me luck – I am not overly fond of morning!


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Asian Indian and Pakistani Religions in the United States. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science,
558 (July), 178-195.
Keyword(s): Asia, Hegemony, Identity, Integration, Migration, State, Transnationalization, US
Question(s) addressed by the author and working arguments
Research on Asian Indian and Pakistani Religions in the United States. American religion is the product of immigration, and the change made in the U.S. immigration law in 1965 continues to affect American society, culture and religion. Immigrants from India and Pakistan were admitted in significant numbers for the first time as a result of that change. Adherents of all the religions of the Indian subcontinent are now in America, creating a new religious landscape. New modes of rapid communication and modern mobility create transnational communities and networks that intimately link the United States with India and Pakistan and instigate transformations in all three countries.
Conceptual references to transnational – transnationalism
i) In the new transnational context, South Asian religions are becoming world religions in new ways, resulting in significant changes in India and Pakistan.
ii) In this transnational context, religions of the Indian subcontinent have become world religions in new ways that call into question rubrics of analyses developed in relation to earlier immigrant groups. "Ethnicity" and "nationality" are categories of social description that require some revision to account for the current transnational reality.
iii) Transnational networks make it increasingly possible for the United States to receive religious leaders and religious messages from India and Pakistan.
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Few people recognized the profound effects that post-1965 immigration would have on American religion and society. Immigration from India and Pakistan will continue for the foreseeable future. Asian Indians and Pakistanis will continue to establish religious organizations and to build temples, mosques, gurdwaras, and churches. Their religions will gain increasing visibility, and some will become more active in attracting participation and support from the society at large.


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I used to wonder why people would want to get so drunk they black out.
You hear it on the radio, all the pop singers singing their party anthems. Don't think, just drink, don't stop, dance 'til you drop, and wake up tomorrow with a fresh tattoo, someone else's clothes and no memory of the previous night.
Why do we want this? Why have fun that we can't remember? I think I'm beginning to understand. I'm not there yet, but I can empathize.
We aren't becoming the hangover generation because we like being drunk. We're the hangover generation because we're afraid of being sober.
Sobriety brings awareness, reflection, introspection, and all the ugly truths that these uncover.
Drunkenness could bring anything.
The lost weekend could be anything you can imagine. Maybe you did a triple handstand. Maybe you pissed in Brad Pitt's pool. Maybe you had the best sex of your life. Who can say you didn't?
But whatever it was, it has to have been better than all those shitty weekends you do remember, right? Why would I get so wasted if if wasn't worthwhile?
Even the hangover headache has its purpose, because on some level, we believe in a kind of endorphin karma. If I feel this bad now, I must have felt that good then. And wasn't it worth it, if at some point, for just a moment, life felt meaningful again?
I now understand the joke, "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." I'd thought the joke was just in the wordplay, but there's a deeper truth in there. We're looking for a way to forget, to take away our self-awareness, and if one method takes an ice pick up the nose and the other takes a few fifths of Jack, well…it's an easy enough decision to make.
Listen to those songs again: Do you hear it? Under the ecstasy, the undercurrent of desperation, fear, denial? It's the first stage of a generation's grief, realizing they're never going to be any happier. That life is all there is. That the American Dream is one you don't wake up from.
We're discovering that the ladder we've been climbing–the ladder that was supposed to bring happiness and fulfillment–is pasted to the inside of a hamster ball. We climb as fast as we can, and the scenery changes, but no progress, no promotion, no change in our external world does a thing to change what's inside, to satisfy the ravenous emptiness that chases us down dark alleys.
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This week on "Madrid district to district": Chamberi District
Chamberi is one of the most traditional and genuine districts of Madrid. It's formed by six neighborhoods, and most of them are residential. But because of its central location in the Spanish capital, it hosts many commercial areas, with many shops, bars and restaurants. It also houses some Spanish State organs, museums, beautiful buildings, squares and streets that invite us to have a walk on them.
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CRAIG — Early voter turnout in Moffat County is strong and may even be on track to exceed the number of voters who participated in the 2016 presidential election, Moffat County Clerk and Recorder Lila Herod said Monday afternoon.
As of Monday morning, the Colorado secretary of state reported that 3,238 people had voted in Moffat County.
Of those, 779 were unaffiliated, 396 were registered Democrats, and 2,035 were registered Republicans. Additional votes were cast by people registered with third parties.
By the secretary of state's tally, more men (1,633) had voted than women (1,603) so far, and as of 2 p.m. Monday, more than 50 percent of active, registered voters, representing 13 precincts, had cast a ballot, said Elections Coordinator Tori Pingley.
Pingley noted that her office was receiving a high volume of questions about the secrecy sleeves, usually enclosed with ballots. To reduce printing costs, the sleeve was not included this year, she said, adding that, "the instruction sheet is also your secrecy sleeve."
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Colorado voters can register to vote through Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6.
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|Eilat, its harbor, and the surrounding mountains
|Coordinates: 29°33′N 34°57′E / 29.550°N 34.950°E / 29.550; 34.950Coordinates: 29°33′N 34°57′E / 29.550°N 34.950°E / 29.550; 34.950
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Eilat (Hebrew: אֵילַת (help·info); Arabic: ايلات) is Israel''s southernmost city, a busy port and popular resort located at the northern tip of the Red Sea, on the Gulf of Aqaba.
Home to about 47,700 people, Eilat is part of the Southern Negev Desert, at the southern end of the Arava, adjacent to the Egyptian village of Taba to the south, the Jordanian port city of Aqaba to the east, and within sight of Saudi Arabia to the south-east, across the gulf.
Eilat''s arid desert climate and low humidity are moderated by proximity to a warm sea. Temperatures often exceed 40 °C (104 °F) in summer, and 21 °C (70 °F) in winter, while water temperatures range between 20 and 26 °C (68 and 79 °F). Eilat averages 360 sunny days a year.
The city''s beaches, coral reef, nightlife and desert landscapes make it a popular destination for domestic and international tourism.Contents
The geology and landscape are varied: igneous and metamorphic rocks, sandstone and limestone; mountains up to 892 metres (2,927 ft) above sea level; broad valleys such as the Arava, and seashore on the Gulf of Aqaba. With an annual average rainfall of 28 millimetres (1.1 in) and summer temperatures of 40 °C (104 °F) and higher, water resources and vegetation are limited. "The main elements that influenced the region''s history were the copper resources and other minerals, the ancient international roads that crossed the area, and its geopolitical and strategic position. These resulted in a settlement density that defies the environmental conditions."History
The origin of the name Eilat is not definitively known, but likely comes from the Hebrew root A–Y–L (Hebrew: א. י. ל.), which is also the root for the word Elah (Hebrew: אלה), meaning Pistacia tree. Like numerous other localities, Eilat is mentioned in the Bible both in singular (possibly construct state) and plural form (Eilot).Antiquity
The original settlement was probably at the northern tip of the Gulf of Eilat. Archaeological excavations uncovered impressive prehistoric tombs dating to the 7th millennium BC at the western edge of Eilat, while nearby copper workings and mining operations at Timna Valley are the oldest on earth. Ancient Egyptian records also document the extensive and lucrative mining operations and trade across the Red Sea with Egypt starting as early as the Fourth dynasty of Egypt. Eilat is mentioned in antiquity as a major trading partner with Elim, Thebes'' Red Sea Port, as early as the Twelfth dynasty of Egypt. Trade between Elim and Eilat furnished frankincense and myrrh, brought up from Ethiopia and Punt; bitumen and natron, from the Dead Sea; finely woven linen, from Byblos; and copper amulets, from Timna; all mentioned in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea. In antiquity Eilat bordered the states of Edom, Midian and the tribal territory of the Rephidim, the indigenous inhabitants of the Sinai Peninsula.Israelite period
Eilat is first mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in the Book of Exodus. The first six stations of the Exodus are in Egypt. The 7th is the crossing of the Red Sea and the 9th–13th are in and around Eilat, after the exodus from Egypt and crossing the Red Sea. Station 12 refers to a dozen campsites in and around Timna in Modern Israel near Eilat. When King David conquered Edom, which up to then had been a common border of Edom and Midian, he took over Eilat, the border city shared by them as well. The commercial port city and copper based industrial center were maintained by Egypt until reportedly rebuilt by Solomon at a location known as Ezion-Geber (I Kings 9:26). In 2 Kings 14:21–22 "All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah. He rebuilt Elath, and restored it to Judah, after his father''s death." And again in 2 Kings 16:6: "At that time the king of Edom recovered Elath for Edom, and drove out the people of Judah and sent Edomites to live there, as they do to this day."Eilat''s north beachRoman and Muslim periods
During the Roman period a road was built to link the area with the Nabataean city of Petra (in modern-day Jordan). The remains of a large copper smelting and trading community which flourished during the Umayyad Period (700–900 CE) were also found between what is now Eilat''s industrial zone and nearby Kibbutz Eilot.
In the writings of medieval Muslim scholars, such as Al-Waqidi, it is told that Muhammad made a treaty with Eilat''s (Ayla) population, Jews and Christians. In the treaty, Muhammad offered protection to the Jews and the Christians, preserving their self-rule over the city, in exchange for an annual tax. Another reference to the Eilat in Islamic texts is believed to appear in the Quran, sura 7:163–169. In these Ayats appears a story about "a town by the sea" where the Jewish residents were tested by God to check if they truly observe the Shabbat. Once they didn''t, they were turned into apes. The Darb el Hajj or "Pilgrim''s Road", from Africa through Egypt to Mecca, passed out of Sinai from the west at Umm Al-Rashrash, the modern Arabic name for Eilat, before skirting the sea and continuing south into Arabia. A British police post was established in this area in 1906.
An Islamic village of 250–400 residents flourished at the northern edge of modern Eilat during the 7th and 8th centuries. It was excavated in 1989 to make way for an industrial area.After the establishment of the State of IsraelEilat region showing historical locations
The area was designated as part of the Jewish state in the 1947 UN Partition Plan. The Arab village of Umm Al-Rashrash was taken without a fight on March 10, 1949, as part of Operation Uvda.
The Timna Copper Mines near Timna valley were opened, a port was constructed, the Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline laid, and tourism began. Construction of the city and the Port of Eilat began shortly after the end of the war. The port became vital to the fledgling country''s development. After the 1948 Arab–Israeli War Arab countries maintained a state of hostility with Israel, blocking all land routes; Israel''s access to and trade with the rest of the world was by air and sea alone. Further, Egypt denied passage through the Suez Canal to Israeli-registered ships or to any ship carrying cargo to or from Israeli ports. This made Eilat and its sea port crucial to Israel''s communications, commerce and trade with Africa and Asia, and for oil imports. Without recourse to a port on the Red Sea Israel would have been unable to develop its diplomatic, cultural and trade ties beyond the Mediterranean basin and Europe. This happened in 1956 and again in 1967, when Egypt''s closure of the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping effectively blockaded the port of Eilat. In 1956, this led to Israel''s participation alongside Britain and France in the war against Egypt sparked by the Suez Crisis, while in 1967 90% of Israeli oil passed through the Straits of Tiran. Oil tankers that were due to pass through the straits were delayed. The straits closure was cited by Israel as an additional casus belli leading to the outbreak of the Six-Day War. Following peace treaties signed with Egypt in 1979 and Jordan in 1994, Eilat''s borders with its neighbors were finally opened.Future development plans
In July 2012, Israel signed an agreement with China to cooperate in building the high-speed railway to Eilat, a railway line which will serve both passenger and freight trains. It will link Eilat with Beersheba and Tel Aviv, and will run through the Arava Valley and Nahal Zin.
Currently, there are plans to vacate and dismantle Eilat Airport due to the plans for Timna Airport, and develop the area. Hotels and apartment buildings, containing a total of 2,080 hotel rooms and 1,000 apartments will be constructed on the site, as well as 275 dunams of public space and pedestrian paths. The plans also set aside space for the railway line and an underground railway station. The plan''s goal is to create an urban continuum between the city center and North Beach, as well as tighten the links between the city''s neighborhoods, which are currently separated by the airport.
In addition, there are plans to move the Port of Eilat and the Eilat-Ashkelon pipeline terminal to the northern part of the city, as well as to turn it into a university town of science and research, and brand it an international sports city. All these projects are part of a plan to turn Eilat into a metropolitan area of 150,000 people and 35,000 hotel rooms.Climate
Eilat has a hot desert climate (BWh with hot, dry summers and warm and almost rainless winters in Köppen climate classification). Winters are usually between 11–23 °C (52–73 °F). Summers are usually between 26–40 °C (79–104 °F). There are relatively small coral reefs near Eilat; however, 50 years ago they were much larger: the corals have been dying as a result of water pollution.
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In 2007, over 200 Sudanese refugees from Egypt who arrived in Israel illegally on foot were given work and allowed to stay in Eilat. Eilat''s population includes a large number of foreign workers, estimated at over 10,000 working as caregivers, hotel workers and in the construction trades. Eilat also has a growing Israeli Arab population, as well as many affluent Jordanians and Egyptians who visit Eilat in the summer months.Education
The educational system of Eilat accommodates more than 9,000 youngsters in eight day-care centers, 67 pre-kindergartens and kindergartens, 10 elementary schools, and four high schools. Ben Gurion University of the Negev maintains a campus in Eilat. The Eilat branch has 1,100 students, about 75 percent from outside the city. In 2010, a new student dormitory was funded and built by the Jewish Federation of Toronto, the Rashi Foundation, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the municipality of Eilat. The Eilat Field School on the outskirts of Eilat offers special hiking tours that focus on desert ecology, the Red Sea, bird migration and other aspects of Eilat''s flora and fauna.HealthcareYoseftal Medical Center
Yoseftal Medical Center, established in 1968, is Israel's southernmost hospital, and the only hospital covering the southern Negev. With 65 beds, the hospital is Israel''s smallest. Special services geared to the Red Sea region are a hyperbaric chamber to treat victims of diving accidents and kidney dialysis facilities open to vacationing tourists.TransportationEilat Port
Eilat is connected to the rest of Israel and internationally by air, road and sea.
Eilat has two main roads connecting it with the center of Israel.
In the 1970s tourism became increasingly important to the city''s economy as other industries shut down or were drastically reduced. Today tourism is the city''s major source of income, although Eilat became a free trade zone in 1985.TourismEilat PromenandeEilat Coastline at NightKings City Amusement parkCoral World Underwater ObservatoryEilat Sports Center. Design by Moti Bodek Architects
Eilat offers a wide range of accommodations, from hostels and luxury hotels to Bedouin hospitality. In recent years Eilat has been the target of millitants from Egypt and Gaza causing a reduced tourist inflow to the region. Attractions include:
Skin and Scuba diving, with equipment for hire on or near all major beaches. Scuba diving equipment rental and compressed air are available from diving clubs and schools all year round. Eilat is located in the Gulf of Aqaba, one of the most popular diving destinations in the world. The coral reefs along Eilat''s coast remain relatively pristine and the area is recognized as one of the prime diving locations in the world. About 250,000 dives are performed annually in Eilat''s 11 km (6.84 mi) coastline, and diving represents 10% of the tourism income of this area. In addition, given the proximity of many of these reefs to the shore, non-divers can encounter the Red Sea''s reefs with relative ease. Water conditions for SCUBA divers are good all year round, with water temperatures around 21–25 °C (70–77 °F), with little or no currents and clear waters with an average of 20–30 metres (66–98 feet) visibility.Museums
Eilat has been utilized as a location by many films and television production teams, most notably in the early 90s as a tropical locale for season 2 of the Canadian production Tropical Heat. It was also used in Rambo III.Archaeology
Despite harsh conditions, the region has supported large populations as far back as 8,000 BCE. Exploration of ancient sites began in 1861, but only 7% of the area has undergone serious archaeological excavation. Some 1,500 ancient sites are located in a 1,200-square-kilometre (460 sq mi) area. In contrast to the gaps found in settlement periods in the neighbouring Negev Highlands and Sinai, these sites show continuous settlement for the past 10,000 years.Notable personsShahar Tzuberi
In 2007, a suicide bomber attacked a bakery, in the Eilat bakery bombing, which killed three civilian employees. This was the first suicide bombing to take place in Eilat, although other terror attacks have been carried out.
In 2011, terrorists infiltrated Israel across the Sinai border, attacking an Israeli civilian bus and an Israeli civilian car on Highway 12, a few miles from Eilat. The attack became known as the 2011 southern Israel cross-border attacks. In order to prevent terrorist infiltration of Israel from the Sinai, Israel built the Israel-Egypt barrier, which is a steel barrier backed by cameras, radar and motion detectors at the country''s southern border. The fence was completed in January 2013.Neighborhoods
Eilat neighborhoods are Arava, Ganim A, Ganim B, Hadekel, Ha''eshel, Mizpe Yam, Maar''av Sheva also known as West7, Midbar, Ophir, Shahamon, Tse''elim, Urim, Ye''elim, Zofit Elite, and Zofit Tachtit.International relations See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Israel Twin towns – sister cities
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Eilat has streets named after Antibes, Durban, Kamen, Kampen and Los Angeles as well as a Canada Park.
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Australian travellers spent an extra $2.2 billion in Queensland last financial year, a strong indication the State's tourism industry is on the road to recovery.
Minister for Tourism, Major Events, Small Business and the Commonwealth Games Jann Stuckey said Tourism Research Australia's National Visitor Survey showed Australians spent almost $14 billion visiting Queensland in the year to June 30 2012.
"This is 19 per cent, or $2.2 billion more than the previous financial year. All up, 18.4 million Australians spent 76.8 million nights in Queensland during the period, both up 10 per cent on the year before," Ms Stuckey said.
"The Newman Government has a target to double overnight visitor expenditure to $30 billion by 2020, and the survey results show we are on the way to achieving this.
"It's fantastic to see Australians have supported Queensland by holidaying in the State. Holidaymakers and Australians visiting friends and family made up almost three quarters of Queensland's domestic visitors in the year to June 30."
Ms Stuckey said Queensland holidaymakers were the strongest market, with 5.2 million people taking a break at home in the year to June 30, which was an increase of 10 per cent.
More than 4.7 million Queenslanders stayed with friends and relatives during the year, an increase of 32 per cent.
The State's major tourism regions, including Tropical North Queensland, Brisbane, the Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast have all shown good results during the period.
Tropical North Queensland was the standout, with visitor expenditure in the region up 19 per cent to $1.8 billion for the year to 30 June.
Visitor expenditure on the Gold Coast during the period was up 13 per cent to $3 billion; Brisbane was up 14 per cent to $3.2 billion; and the Sunshine Coast remained steady at $1.7 billion.
Ms Stuckey said expenditure figures weren't available for the Whitsundays, but results indicated visitor numbers were up 17 per cent to 590,000 for the year to 30 June.
"The Newman Government recognises tourism as one of the four pillars of the economy and understands the fundamental role it plays in providing regional services, jobs, investment and growth throughout the State," she said.
"It is important to get tourism back on track if we are to get Queensland back on track, and this survey shows we are certainly heading in the right direction."
National Visitor Survey information for Queensland regions can be found at www.tq.com.au/research
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Mario Kart 7 – 3DS Reviews – The Armchair Empire]]>
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December 4, 2011
– Lots of racing to be had
– Online component is pretty darn good
– 3D is put to good use
– "Nintendo Fairness" in 150cc category
– Being dumped to the opening menu screen!
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After Mario Kart Wii I was kind of done with the series. It suffered from an extreme case of Nintendo Fairness where any lead was diminished by a series of calamities that could quickly drop the player from first to last in a matter of seconds. Then the roles reversed and it was the player that got to use all the devastating power-ups
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which had the potential to catapult the player back to 1st only to drop to 5th a moment later. Some enjoyed the constant jockeying but the game never rewarded skilled driving. For me, the long term appeal of the game was over in a matter of days.
Mario Kart 7 does a lot to make up for the missteps of Mario Kart
Wii as evidenced by the fact I've been playing it for weeks now. The 150cc races all suffer from Nintendo Fairness to some extent though if the palyer is knocked to 8th place there's very little chance of getting back into the race. Really then it's Nintendo Unfairness. The AI seems to mysteriously know the precise moment to drop a lighting bolt (shrinking everyone) to send the player flopping off a ramp and into the abyss. It happens far too often to be a coincidence.
Coin collecting is the route for unlocking vehicles upgrades but to unlock the extra characters like Wario, you have to test your patience with the 150cc races and win gold. That gets old pretty fast.
The 100cc races — medium — is where skill is rewarded. Even getting whammed by a series of power-ups might not be enough to bring the pack within striking distance of 1st place if the player is far enough out.
Nintendo did a great job packing the game with other ways to race, including ghost race data and local and online multiplayer racing. There just doesn't seem to be a shortage of challenges.
And I've gone this far without mentioning the actual racing. Let me fix that right now. It's pretty darn good. And the added underwater and hang gliding sections add a little more nuance to the driving. Though I do need to complain about the hang gliding. If the player attempts to take shortcuts, the game will actually count that as running off the road. One track in particular is bad for this because it's clear a big chunk could be ducked around but the moment the invisible line is crossed, the player is dropped back onto the track by Lakitu.
As an apology for Mario Kart Wii, Mario Kart 7 gets high marks indeed, and it definitely has the depth and longevity to remain in constant rotation on my 3DS.
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Power. Taylor's journey to join the Crimson Tide has been well-chronicled. Here we'll focus purely on his potential for his final two collegiate campaigns. While the young man has tremendous athleticism for his size, it's his power that will make him a difference-maker for Kirby Smart. Natural tensile strength in his glutes, hams and lower back make Taylor a force to be reckoned with in the trenches. Regardless of where he lines up, Taylor will be difficult to move for opposing SEC offensive linemen. He also features:
— Strong hands. Taylor was able to get his mitts on the breastplates of JUCO offensive linemen with ease and toss them aside in one motion on his way into the backfield. He's got freakish quick-twitch power in the upper body, able to snap his hands into would-be blockers and control them.
— Plus speed. He'll be able to pursue and make plays to the sideline once he gets himself into tip-top shape. His athleticism is off the charts for a player his size and he'll make plays all over the field for the Tide.
— Experience. No stranger to the trench wars of SEC football, Taylor comes in battle-tested and aware of what it takes to contribute at this level. He knows this is his chance to shine and he has all the tools to make an immediate impact.
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Technique. Sometimes being so gifted can be a blessing and a curse. Taylor has tremendous upside but to harness all of his raw power he'll need to focus on developing his technical skill. As Bama fans saw last year, not having enough skilled interior pass-rushers can be tough to overcome, so there'd be no better shot in the arm to the Tide defense than having Taylor develop his skill level so he can come in and make a three-down difference for the defense. Taylor would be best served dropping weight so he can get himself in position to contribute in passing situations, provided he can develop a go-to move and a counter off of it.
Focus. If he can hunker down and tap into his talent, there's no limit to what Taylor can do on a football field. He's a special talent that has all of the raw tools to develop into a high draft choice in 2017. A major plus pickup for Nick Saban if he can put it all together.
TJ Gaynor was a 2-time, All-Pac-10 offensive lineman at Stanford. During his time on the Farm, he played for a long list of great coaches, including Hall of Famer Bill Walsh. After tryouts with the 49ers and Lions, Gaynor spent time as a high school coach and as an analyst for Rivals.com and Scout.com. He is Go Big Recruiting's senior recruiting analyst. Follow him on Twitter: @risingstarpreps


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The ABCs of Anosognosia for Hemiplegia
Abstract & Commentary
By John Caronna, MD, Professor of Clinical Neurology, Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Caronna reports no financial relationships relevant to this field of study.
Synopsis: Anosognosia is an important, but often neglected, part of the neurological examination in a patient with stroke.
Source: Vocat R, Staub F, Stroppini T, Vuilleumier, P. Anosognosia for hemiplegia: A clinical-anatomical prospective study. Brain 2010;133:3578-3597.
The term anosognosia was introduced by babinski to describe unawareness of hemiplegia, a phenomenon that he thought was caused by sensory deafferentation.1 Anosognosia occurs in other conditions such as hemianopia, cortical blindness, hemineglect, prosopagnosia, amnesia, aphasia, and dementia. Unawareness of hemiplegia is the most common form of anosognosia and occurs most frequently after damage to the right parietal lobe.
Vuilleumier has proposed that denial of hemiplegia is the result of a combination of disturbances, including not only sensory deafferentation, neglect, and phantom sensations, but also deficits in putative belief and check systems that prevent verification of experiential evidence of motor deficit.2
In the present study, Vuilleumier and associates evaluated the incidence, clinical presentation, time course, and neuroanatomical correlates of anosognosia for hemiplegia. Fifty-eight patients with right hemisphere stroke and significant left hemibody motor deficits, were examined using a comprehensive neuropsychological battery at 3 days, 1 week, and 6 months after stroke onset. Fifty patients (22 women, mean age 65 ± 14 years, all right-handed) were examined in the hyperacute phase (mean 2.7 days, range 1-5); 44 patients were examined in the subacute phase (mean 8.3 days, range 7-12); 19 patients were examined in the chronic phase (mean 223 days, range 180-273). Only 14 patients participated in all three evaluations.
Anosognosia for hemiplegia was frequent in the hyperacute phase (32%), declined by almost one-half at 1 week (18%), and was present at 6 months in only 5%. The phenomenon correlated with the severity of other deficits: loss of proprioception, spatial neglect, and disorientation. Proprioceptive loss was the most determinant factor in the hyperacute period; visuospatial neglect and disorientation were more determinant in the subacute phase. Patients with both proprioceptive loss and neglect had a higher incidence of anosognosia for hemiplegia than those with no or only one deficit.
Personality and emotional traits did not reveal any association with anosognosia. However, certain behaviors closely related to the definition of anosognosia for hemiplegia (confabulation, passivity, and unconcern) were noted in the hyperacute but not the subacute stage.
The location and extent of brain damage were delineated in each patient, based on either a CT or MRI scan obtained after the first week post-stroke. Damage to the insula (particularly its anterior part) and adjacent subcortical structures was determinant for unawareness of motor deficit in the hyperacute period. Additional lesions in the premotor cortex, cingulate gyrus, parietotemporal junction, hippocampus, and amygdala were associated with persistence of anosognosia for hemiplegia in the subacute stage.
These results suggest that anosognosia for hemiplegia reflects a multicomponent disorder, due to lesions affecting a distributed set of brain regions that can lead to several co-existing deficits in sensation, attention, bodily representation, error monitoring, memory, and others, with different combinations in different patients. The authors, therefore, propose a "two-factor theory"2 or ABC hypothesis2 of anosognosia for hemiplegia, according to which impairments in components necessary for "Appreciation" of the deficits (e.g., proprioception and spatial attention) might or might not cause unawareness of hemiplegia depending on the severity of addition dysfunction in "Belief" and "Check" components related to self- and reality-monitoring and verification processes.
For most of us, the examination of a patient with hemineglect by a senior neurologist is a well-remembered highlight of neurology student clerkship or residency training. If the examiner had a flair for the theatrical like the late Fred Plum, then the patient-physician encounter became the source of endless anecdotes, told and retold by his trainees.
Recently, physicians have recognized that patients with right hemisphere strokes are much less likely to receive rTPA than those with left hemisphere strokes. The reasons are twofold; patients with hemineglect fail to recognize the signs of left hemiparesis resulting in prehospital delay; likewise, physicians may not detect anosognosia because of a lack of standardized scores for neglect.4 Gurol et al have pointed out that the NIH Stroke Scale is biased toward left, i.e., dominant, hemisphere deficits.5 Ostrow and Llinas, therefore, have proposed the Eastchester Clapping Sign as a screening test for neglect in the acute stroke setting.6
Vocat et al have provided an exhaustive review of the phenomenon of anosognosia for hemiplegia and a prospective assessment of a large group of stroke patients with the disorder. The ABC combinatorial rule is clinically useful and explains the present of anosognosia for hemiplegia in some patients, despite a minor loss of proprioception and an absence of hemineglect. In such cases, the primary deficit is in "Belief" or "Check" components. The authors have provided clinicians with useful insights about the multifactorial determinants and temporal evolution of anosognosia for hemiplegia following stroke.
1. Babinski J. Revue Neurologique 1914; 27:845-848.
2. Vuilleumier P. Anosognosia: The neurology of beliefs and uncertainties. Cortex 2004;40:9-17.
3. Davies M, Davies AA, Coltheart M. Mind and Language 2005; 20:209-236.
4. Di Legge S, Fang J, Saposnik G, Hachinski V. The impact of lesion on acute stroke treatment. Neurology 2005;65:81-86.
5. Gurol ME, Steib CD, Davis PH, et al. Ann Neurol 2008;64:S14-S15.
6. Ostrow CW, Llinas RH. Eastchester clapping sign: A novel test of parietal neglect. Ann Neurol 2009;66:114-117.


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"During his time as president of NAWG, David helped move the wheat industry forward, grew its presence on Capitol Hill and improved its relationship with the media and other farm organizations," said NAWG CEO Chandler Goule. "As president, David wanted to ensure voices from all wheat farmers were heard, so he made monthly visits to wheat states to get a better understanding of what is and isn't working for growers.
"David constantly worked to get NAWG's priorities and messaging out by participating in weekly interviews, testifying on behalf of the organization to Congress, and took every opportunity to talk to members and agency officials on the importance of reauthorizing the farm bill. While David will be missed, I know he will continue to do important things for the state of Kansas. David's leadership will have a lasting impact on the organization and we wish his family and him all the best.
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Unspecified vulnerability in the MySQL Server component in Oracle MySQL 5.5.x allows remote authenticated users to affect availability via unknown vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-0117, CVE-2012-0486, CVE-2012-0487, CVE-2012-0488, CVE-2012-0491, CVE-2012-0493, and CVE-2012-0495.
[1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2012-366304.html
[2] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-0489
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The junior high schools that we studied are located in Tokyo. We interviewed school nurses at five schools and in this chapter, we analyze data on these five schools to supplement the results of the survey data.
1. Characteristics of each school
1) Profiles of each school
There are considerable differences in the roles played by the nurse's office in each school. The following introduces some of the conditions of the junior high schools that cooperated in this study(Table 57).
a. School A
This school is located in an area where household incomes are slightly below average and there are many one-parent households. Many of the students in this area tend to have irregular lifestyle habits, stay up late, and skip breakfast. As such, most of the students visit the nurse's office because of physical problems or to avoid attending class. The school nurse is busy giving each student individual care and coping with frequent visits.
The school nurse is involved with several grades. School nurses try to communicate with other teachers. However, they spend too much time with teachers, they worry that they spend less time with students. Nevertheless, in spite of her busy schedule, her caring attitude is apparent in her relations with students. To ensure that the nurse's office functions properly, the nurse's office should be well-integrated in the organization of the school.
b. School B
This is an ordinary school integrated into the local community. Junior high school is considered to be the last step in compulsory education. In this school, the nurse's office is intended to function as a place where students can visit whenever they need some time for self-reflection and a sympathetic ear.
As such, students regard the nurse's office as a place they can visit whenever they wish and it is also a place to receive first aid for accidental injuries and treatment when they do not feel well.
The school nurse is always calm and full of curiosity and her personal touch is apparent everywhere. She is actively involved with several grades and makes an effort to understand the entire school. According to the school nurse, the nurse's office is meant to educate students to help them understand themselves. She keeps the nurse's office open and wants to keep it impartial and available for anyone who needs to visit.
c. School C
The number of students in this area tends to increase year by year because this is a new, developing residential area. Since this area has not been completely developed, parents have strong expectations and desires for the school.
Students freely make use of the nurse's office as a multipurpose room. School staffs and parents visit whenever they need to.
In this school, the school nurse values meetings with students and tries to look for anything that signals a problem. On the other hand, she manages the nurse's office without giving too much thought to her role as a coordinator.
Since students enter puberty at this time, the school also tries to systematically address relevant health issues during the three years of junior high school. Because the school nurse and staff have a mutual understanding, the school nurse has a sense of fulfillment and approaches her work in an energetic manner.
d. School D
There appears to be many problems due to the large number of students at this school. Students have to go to the teachers' room to get a card to visit the nurse's office. Students frequently visit the nurse's office for injuries or illness.
The nurse's office stresses emotional and psychological health and the nurse tries to the communicate with each student individually. However, the nurse's office tends to accept so many students that it becomes a meeting place for students.
There is little trust between the school nurse and teachers. For this reason, it is difficult for them to share common ground and a sense of solidarity.
Ideally, the school nurse and teachers should understand each other and systematically cooperate on issues by making the best use of the school nurse's role and the functions of the nurse's office.
e. School E
This is a quiet school with ties to the local community. However, both parents and students tend to think that school grades are most important and students tend to show poor physical strength, flexibility, and psychological health. Students visit the nurse's office when they are injured or ill.
The school nurse is experienced enough to understand what is happening at school and she can fully communicate with the school staff. The nurse's office functions as a place to communicate and receive various kinds of information and is also a reassuring place.
The teachers are positive and systematically cooperate. It appears that the school nurse will be able to use her abilities to manage the nurse's office and conduct health education.
2) Expectations to the nurse's office
Every school has a separate room called the nurse's office. The issues that each school faces can be seen when we examine the incidents that take place there in the nurse's office.
The role of the nurse's office is prescribed by the School Education Law which states that "the school nurse is in charge of protecting students".
Students think of the nurse's office as a place where they are not evaluated by school grades and where the school nurse values them as individuals. They disclose their troubles, worries, conflicts and the pains of adolescence to the school nurse. However, each year, the problems and issues they face are becoming increasingly complex and school nurses worry about how to give them advice. Above all, it is hard for school nurses to deal with the complex psychological and emotional problems. It is necessary for them to share their responsibility in the school and in a more systematic manner. School nurses should also work with school counselors in the future.
Additionally, we hope to see an improvement in the quality of school nurses, as well as in health education with an emphasis on preventing hurt and illness, by increasing the number of school nurses.
The nurse's office is increasingly utilized as a multipurpose room and the school nurse is expected to support the emotional health of students in addition to functioning as a specialist on health education to encourage students to be more positive and independent.
2. Diversity of Nurse's Offices: Looking at Each School
Conditions at the nurse's office vary according to each nurse's way of thinking, the teachers' views, and the circumstances at each school. This section examines each school by 1) functions of the nurse's office, 2) relationship with the school nurse and the nurse's office, and 3) images of the school nurse and the nurse's office.
Characteristics of each sample are shown in Table 58. Studies were conducted under the same conditions in each school from the seventh to the ninth grades, and we can see there was not a great disparity among the grades. As for working mothers, there were not many full-time housewives among mothers in School A.
1) How the nurse's office functions
Before examining the extent to which the nurse's room is used, we examined background conditions such as the health of students and whether or not students had problems. Students visited the nurse's office mainly for treatment of an injury. The frequency of use is affected by their physical condition.
Table 59 shows the percentage of students who answered that they did not suffer any of the symptoms at all. On the whole, it appears that most of the symptoms that students cite, such as not being able to get up in the morning, feeling sleepy, and being unable to concentrate are caused by lack of adequate sleep hours. There was little variation among schools, but many students at School B enjoyed physical health while students at School A had many students who were not physically healthy.
Under such conditions, the nurse's office has recently become a place to solve student problems and schools are now considering the introduction of school counselors. The problems faced by students are factors that influence the frequency of the visits to the nurse's office. Table 60 shows the percentage of students who are very worried or a little worried about each of the items listed after entering junior high school. In general, a higher percentage of students are worried about classes, how to study, and their future rather than about personal relationships. We also compared the conditions of students in each of the schools. In School A, students had poor physical health and many problems about not understanding their classes or knowing how to study. In School B, many students enjoyed good physical health, but were worried about entrance examinations, about their grades not improving no matter how hard they studied, and about entering the school of their choice. In the case of School C, a medium-sized school, students indicated many problems with group relationships, such as not being able to get accustomed to the atmosphere of the class and a stressful atmosphere at home. At School D, a large school, students indicated many problems with relationships, such as not being able to get along with teachers and not being able to get accustomed to the atmosphere of the class. At School E, students have relatively few problems, but did feel that their parents did not understand them.
To what extent do students actually visit the nurse's office? Table 61 shows that frequency of visits by each school. School B had the highest percentage(76.8%) of students who do not visit the nurse's office, followed by School E, School C, School D, and School A. As seen in Table 59, students at School B have the best physical health and the lowest use of the nurse's office. In contrast, students at School A are in poor physical condition and tend to visit the nurse's office most often. At School A, 5.1% of the students visit the nurse's office at least once a week; at School B, 0.2%; at School C, 7.1%; at School D, 8.6%; and at School E, 1.0%.
In actuality, how does the nurse's office function? Table 62 shows the reasons for visits by students. In each school, more than 90% of the students visit when they are hurt or ill. At School D, where students have many problems with personal relationships, they visit the nurse's office when they are troubled or when they want to avoid their classes. At School C, where students indicated relatively few problems, students rarely visit the nurse's office except when they are injured as in School B.
Summarizing the characteristics of the nurse's office by school, we see that in School B and School E, the nurse's office functions as a place to receive treatment for injury, and at these schools, few students visit once a week or more. In School A, students use it as a refuge when they feel sleepy, or when they do not want to attend class. In School C and School D, students visit the school nurse when they have a problem, and for them, the nurse's office is a place to receive counseling. Furthermore, in these schools, there are many students who visit the nurse's office at least once a week.
2) Relationship with the school nurse and the nurse's office
Whether or not students visit the nurse's office depends on the physical health of students and whether they have problems. However, when students use the nurse's office as a place to receive counseling, they seem to be influenced by the relationship with the school nurse. Here we examine their attitude toward the school nurse through their feelings of psychological closeness and trust in her.
Table 63 asks students if they think the school nurse knows them and to what extent. In School A, a high percentage of students, 19.5%, think that the school nurse probably does not know them. In contrast, in the four other schools, this percentage is below 10%. In terms of the size of each school, School A has 300 students, the smallest number of schools. In contrast, School D has 650 students, but the percentage answering that the school nurse probably does not know them is the lowest at 5.8%. In School C with 500 students, 57.8% of the students think that the school nurse knows them, and School D with 650 students has the highest percentage of 58.0%.
At both of these schools(School C and School D), which are large, the nurse's office functions as a counseling center. Apart from the question of whether the school nurse actually knows the students or not, we can see that the size of the school does not determine how the students perceive their relationship with the school nurse.
Students tend to choose the school nurse as a counselor depending on whether they think she will keep their secrets. In School A, 15.9% believe that the school nurse will keep their secrets; in School B, 13.8%; in School C, 31.7%, and in School D, 34.0%; in School E, 17.5%. In School C and School D, a high percentage of students use the nurse's office as a place for counseling in practice. Whether the nurse's office functions as a place for counseling is influenced by closeness to the school nurse and the students' trust in her, irrespective of the size of the school(Table 64).
Even if students do not want to visit the nurse's office at present, when do they think they want to visit? Table 65 shows when they want to visit the nurse's office. According to this table, besides when they were injured or ill, students want to visit the nurse's office when they lack sleep and when they do not feel like attending classes. By school, students in School C and School D generally feel inclined to visit the nurse's office.
Also, for students who do not currently visit the nurse's office, the nurse's office has become a place for various activities such as counseling, gathering information, and taking a rest.
3) Images of the school nurse and the nurse's office
What is the image of the school nurse and the nurse's office and how does it change according to the type of school nurse? Table 66 shows what students think of the types of school nurses. Students think of the school nurse as a person who is knowledgeable about health issues, is cheerful, and does not scold students about their studies.
At School A, where students frequently visit the nurse's office and where it functions as a refuge, 70% see the school nurse as a person who is knowledgeable about health issues, is cheerful, and who does not scold them about their studies. At School D, where students frequently visit the nurse's office and use it as a place for counseling, students see the school nurse as someone who is cheerful, knows a lot about health, is someone they can easily talk to and does not scold them about their studies and who is good at listening to their problems. At School B, where students do not often visit the nurse's office, and functions as a place for medical treatment, more than 70% see the school nurse as someone who is only knowledgeable about health issues. In conclusion, when the nurse's office functions as a place to receive counseling, the school nurse is regarded as a person whom they can easily talk to about many issues.
Lastly, Table 67 indicates the image that students have of the nurse's office. Generally, the nurse's office is perceived to be clean and quiet. By school, School A where the school functions as a refuge, students tend to see the nurse's office as clean and quiet. At School D, where the nurse's office functions as a place to receive counseling, they also see it as a cheerful and comfortable place in addition to being clean. On the other hand, at School B, where the nurse's office is not visited much and where it functions as a place mainly for medical treatment, students see it as a clean and quiet place. Compared with the four other schools, a higher percentage of students see it as a hospital.


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