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Website design and development in Nunhead
Website design in Nunhead
Website design is required for website development, there can't be website development without an effective and comprehensive website design, if you're looking to develop a new website there's many factors you must consider in that design such as meta tags, website content, website structure, how pages your website will have, what you want your website to achieve, AI integration on your website, internal backlinks in your website, pictures, website AMP, font the text will be, colour theme your website will have and many more factors that will have positive or negative impacts on your website development, customer conversion rate, search engine optimisation, website functionality and your websites ability to adapt and change to new Google algorithms and updates. It's really important your website has a solid and well thought out design to ensure the development stage is as structured and fast as possible to get your website up and running.
Website development in Nunhead
Website development is the implementation of website design it's putting the design of your website into reality. Unlike website design, website development in Nunhead requires a wider variety of skills such as coding using various languages, such as Java, Python, C#, PHP, Objective-C, SQL and C. The understanding of basic SEO principals and how they work, such as strong website content, topic specific titles and metatags and an understanding of how to obtain quality, high DA, niche relevant backlinks helps a lot. A strong understanding of how to structure the web pages in a way that bots can scan them and register the information on search engines, website design and development work hand in hand to ensure a high website conversion rate and first page rankings on Google, due to an improved user experience on your website and a higher rate of identification in the search engines.
Reasons to use skengs.com for website design and development in Nunhead
There's many great reasons to use our company for your website design and development requirements in Nunhead but so we don't make you lose interest we'll give you the main points.
- Our team have an outstanding understanding of SEO, this mean once we've created your website we'll ensure its content is optimised in a way that will ensure your website ranks above your competition, on the first page of Google, this is really useful as you'll see a quicker return on your investment in your website and you'll get better brand recognition due to the enhanced SEO content that will be integrated into your websites design and we won't make the common mistakes many website design companies make of using third party SEO providers that will spam your website with a high volume of low quality, low DA, non-niche relevant backlinks, harming your rankings on Google, potentially permanently due to the high spam score it will give your website.
- Our team take care of everything your online business and website requires, from choosing the correct domain, to connecting your social profiles, to providing SEO for your website, this will save business owners a lot of money, as they don't have to outsource any work to other SEO providers which can increase costs significantly, furthermore as everything is dealt with by us it's much easier to manage and pass over to you when you no longer require our services or if you choose to use an alternative service provider.
- Our team have a wealth of knowledge and experience in website design and development, this means you are guaranteed to have a great website design and development process because we understand all the steps we can take you through each step and give you regular updates so you know how your website is performing.
- If you're a local business in Nunhead looking for local website design and development services, then you should choose us, if we can rank websites on a local level how much more could we help you rank online for the keywords you desire. For local businesses offering their services to customers in Nunhead, we can make up to 30 to 50 web pages depending on your service requirements, for example a tuition company in Nunhead may want up to 50 web pages with titles such as maths tutor Nunhead, English tutor Nunhead, Science tutor Nunhead, GCSE maths tutor Nunhead, 11 plus maths tutor Nunhead and so on. This means you have a specific page for each keyword you'd like to target and this will drive more traffic to your website, this is a very important factor that should be included in your websites design.
- Affordable website design and development in Nunhead is one of our main priories, we don't just provide a quality website design and development service but we also ensure our customers aren't paying premium prices for local website design and development requests. This means you'll see greater value in our online marketing services as not only will you be paying a fair price for your businesses online marketing, you'll see fast results to ensure you make your money back and invest more in marketing and SEO for your website.
- Time. We'll design and development your website within a week. Skengs.com will design and develop your website within a week of starting your project which means you can start promoting your website and ranking it online quicker than you might think.
As previously mentioned we take all our customers though the website design and development process, this means you'll understand exactly what stage your websites design and development campaign is at and we'll also give you the relevant tools to monitor your websites design and development such as Google analytics and google search console. This is really important as it helps businesses see the value in our service and invest more in our website design and development services. We'll also provide a summary right now for you with some useful tips for those adventurous entrepreneurs who want to some of our website design and development methods out for themselves and not use a professional online marketing service providing website design and development with an integrated SEO service as standard.
We'll provide a clear business description in your website design and development package in Nunhead
Having a clear business description is useful for a variety of things including, helping customers to understand the service or product you're offering them, helping Google bots and other search engine bots to identify what your website is offering and ranking you online, creating various internal backlinks on your website that will direct customers to other pages on your website, giving your site more organisation and greater SEO performance. Each individual page for your local or national SEO requirements will be optimised to rank for a specific keyword, if you're a builder in Nunhead for example, you'd have 30-50 pages the target different aspects of your services, an example would look like this, Builder in Nunhead, painter in Nunhead, house extensions in Nunhead, loft conversion Nunhead and so on, they different keywords we'll target will depend on the keyword research carried by skengs.com or the different services your business offers ideally you'd want each service you provide to have its own page targeting a specific keyword. So hopefully you can now understand the importance of having a clear and coherent business description has on your websites ranking and online performance.
Skengs.com think of an excellent domain name for your website
If you're a builder promoting your local services in Nunhead we'd choose a domain name such as builderNunhead.com or Nunheadbuilder.com if you are a painter it would be the same painterNunhead.com or Nunheadpainter.com and so on for whatever niche you require website design and development. Having a domain name is important for SEO but also for ensuring potential customers can identify what your website is offering them, ensure you have a clear domain and keep it as short as possible to ensure better brand recognition and better rankings, your domain can also be your business name however it doesn't have to be, especially for local companies not branching out it's better to include the area you're targeting in the actual domain name.
Skengs will build you a brand new website with an excellent site map
Ensuring the structure of your websites sitemap is optimised for SEO is so important to ensure it can be indexed correctly on Google, this is included in our websites design and development services package we provide for clients in Nunhead. Having a good sitemap means each page on your website will be recognised and seen by customers typing that phrase or keyword into the search engines.
We include a contact feature or page in your website design and development
Information collection is an important part of a website design, this can be done in a variety of different ways however a simple contact page is one of the most common ways to gather customer data so you can market your services to potential clients, most customers aren't looking to buy services or products straight away, many are trying to get more information about how your service works, so having a contact page on your website is one of the quickest ways to get in touch with potential customers.
Having a review page is important to include in your websites design.
Having a review area, or page on your website is great for creating trust in customers, we'll always have an area where you can showcase your clients and reviews to potential customers. Many search engines now include good reviews as a part of how they rank your website online so the more reviews the better!
Ensuring your website design has a clear objective and layout
Skengs.com ensure the design of your website has a clear objective such as collecting customer information, getting payments, raising brand awareness. This is an important aspect of your websites design and will affect how your website is developed and subsequently the functionality of your website.
Website AMP and phone compatibility is always incorporated into your website design and development service
All our website design and development campaigns come with a mobile optimised version of your website, this increases your websites online visibility and SEO, ensuring your website has AMP is an integral part of modern website design and ensures your website will achieve better rankings in Google. Having poor mobile compatibility can also affect user experience as the percentage of people using mobiles to search for information the need to have a website compatible with all mobile phone and tablet devices.
Ensure you use a company that understands how to incorporate SEO into your websites design and development: A company like skengs.com
Every aspect of your websites design and development should consider the effects it will have on your websites SEO and search engine rankings, use a company that specialise in SEO in addition to website design and development, in order to establish a clear and coherent website structure and content plan that will optimise your website for SEO. This will mean you see a quicker return on your online marketing investment while seeing the benefit having a website can bring to your business.
Skengs use new, unique and shareable content in your websites design and development
The type of content you decide to include in your website will have a significant effect on your conversion rates, online rankings, SEO, your websites ability to relay information to customers and how quickly your content will be shared. Content produced should be useful and shareable as part of your websites design, content marketing and how you'll inject new content into your websites structure in a SEO friendly way is really important. Content should answer some if not all of the client's questions and should allow them to understand how what service your providing, how your company is going to provide that service and how much the service will cost.
A secure hosting platform like Amazon or WordPress is essential to website development success
A secure hosting platform that is trusted by search engines helps boosts your websites SEO and will have greater trust in search engines, it's also easier to include a HTTPS tag in your websites URL, which will again increase customer trust and search engine rankings.
A clear, SEO friendly design us essential to achieving success in your websites design and development
A clear design is really important, ensure your website is easy to navigate and that customers can find what they are looking for quickly, you can do this using different methods, content is king and after the recent Google updates in 2019, having excellent content on your website is even more important, business in Nunhead should ensure their website has useful shareable content that their customers can understand and relate to.
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The reason all The Avengers 2 stories at this point have likely been bullshit is because there was nothing on paper. It's difficult to get a scoop without evidence, and while unnamed sources might leak particular bits of info, the info may quickly turn false. So when you read that actresses are being eyed for the role of Ms. Marvel, it's a rumor that should be taken with every grain of salt in the world. But at least today, there is an outline for The Avengers 2. Obviously, a lot changes over the course over the entire filmmaking process, and Joss Whedon's first outline for the film might have no resemblance to the finished feature.
Hit the jump for more. The Avengers 2 opens May 1, 2015.
EW—who has named Whedon one of their Entertainers of the Year—has revealed what's going on with the very tired creator:
We met with him just days after he had submitted an outline for the 2015 sequel The Avengers, and as he was in the midst of preparing to shoot the pilot for what could be his next television series: S.H.I.E.L.D, a spy-fi drama tracking the ongoing adventures of the secret agents and superhero wranglers of Marvel's movie world. If ABC he picks up the series, Whedon will remain involved as exec producer, and frequent collaborators Jed Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen (Dollhouse, Dr. Horrible) and Jeffrey Bell (Angel) will serve as lead showrunners.
So just to recap: Whedon has joined Marvel President Kevin Feige in basically overseeing every Marvel's Phase Two, keeping an eye on the S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series, and working on one of the biggest movies of 2015. No pressure.
Evidence to the contrary, Whedon is only human, but even he was a bit surprised when he found a personal connection with the Hulk. He tells EW:
"What was most astonishing to me about making that movie was how personal it was," he says. "I literally had the I'm-always-angry revelation during production. I had this certain amount of back-burner simmer of rage that I was completely aware of, but apparently I wrote it for Bruce Banner, going (to myself): 'I think this is what a guy like this might go through!' Interesting! What guy, Joss? 'I don't know! Some guy. I can't think of anyone in particular, or why this is coming to me…' Really, Joss? Really?"
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Men's eating disorders get increased attention
Food was cathartic for Max Sala, something that held his life together and at the same time tore it apart.
As a child he ate for comfort, arriving for his freshman year of high school, as he put it, "significantly overweight."
Then Sala, now 19 and a student at UC Davis, started losing weight and couldn't stop. Sometimes he would go days without eating. Other days he would ravage his family kitchen in the middle of the night, gorging himself, and then purge. Purging, he said, was "like a breath of fresh air."
To this day, Sala still struggles with an eating disorder, a subtype of anorexia that includes binging and purging.
Men like Sala account for a far larger portion of eating disorders than clinicians realized even a decade ago. One recent Canadian study suggested as many as one in three cases of anorexia are male, while past estimates have hovered around one in nine. A 2007 Harvard study found nearly a quarter of study participants with anorexia and bulimia were male, around double traditional estimates. In that study, 40 percent of those with binge eating disorder were male.
In the 17th century, one of the first medical descriptions of anorexia included case studies of both a man and a woman, but recent history has largely cast eating disorders as a female affliction.
"If we continue to act as though eating disorders do not occur in men, we are missing a vast population of need," said Athena Robinson, a Stanford psychologist who studies eating disorders in both sexes.
Not just for women
Most researchers and clinicians generally agree that eating disorders occur at a higher rate among women, but viewing disorders as an exclusively female issue has serious consequences, say those who study male disorders.
Ignoring the prevalence of disorders among men creates a stigma that may prevent them from seeking help and a bias that might prevent clinicians or family members from recognizing a disorder in men, resulting in more of those men slipping under the radar.
Researchers say the societal pressures on men to look a certain way - lean and muscular like the leading men of advertising, cinema and sports - are akin to those on women. But stigma and gender bias makes diagnosing male eating disorders difficult; a guy who spends hours at the gym perfecting his physique, for example, is viewed as normal.
Roots of disorder
"Even males with eating disorders think of anorexia as a female problem in which the main goal is to be thinner," said Alison Darcy, a psychiatry research associate at Stanford who has been among those leading a charge to gain greater recognition for male disorders.
Sala believes his eating disorder was in part rooted in the teasing he suffered as a boy over his weight. Transitioning to high school was another source of anxiety and stress.
He channeled those feelings into a "disparagement" of his own body, as he put it. Being thin - and purging - became a comforting addiction. As a teen, he was in and out of treatment centers, though it was often difficult to find one that treated men.
At Stanford, Darcy became interested in male eating disorders when she noticed an increasing number of adolescent boys at Stanford's eating disorder clinic. That interest led to a small, in-depth study of adolescent boys with eating disorders. The study, to be published next year, points to a possible need for different approaches when diagnosing men; many diagnostic standards were developed primarily with women in mind.
"Some of the findings have been quite surprising," she said. For example, many "boys didn't endorse a desire to lose weight," but instead desired to build up lean, muscular figures. They seemed more likely to focus in on specific parts of their body. Of course, for some, like Sala, thinness is a desire, too.
Darcy's findings indicated that boys are more likely to point to a specific life event as a cause for their disorder, like the beginning of high school for Sala. Bullying and the pressures of athleticism are also major factors.
Focus on females
A major frustration, said Darcy, is that eating disorder research is gender-biased, with many studies still focusing exclusively on women and girls.
"We're missing a vital opportunity to understand disorders in males," she said.
Ken McCraney, 63, of San Jose, has been battling an eating disorder for decades. Anorexia set in during his early 20s; he still struggles to explain why. He recalled always having a "fear of fat." When his wife lost her job, though, that turned not eating into an obsession. He heavily restricted calories, some days not eating anything at all.
"Once I started not eating, it became hard to eat," he said. "Anorexia is like a narcotic. You just get so caught up in it."
Still, he said, "I didn't think I had a problem."
In his 30s he started seeing a therapist, but it wasn't until 2010 that he said he really got serious about seeking help. His body was shutting down: he had suffered kidney stones, liver troubles, sleeping issues, seizures and lost his teeth, all due to malnourishment.
At a residential treatment center, though, he often had trouble connecting with other patients. Not only did the treatment seem geared toward young women, he was the sole man in the eating disorder program. Most other patients were young women "barely out of their teens."
Permanent damage
McCraney's body is permanently damaged from his disorder. When he does eat - which is still a mental struggle - his body can now only handle eating the blandest of foods.
"It can happen to all kinds of people," he said. "Not just young women."
For Sala, help came much earlier in life. His mom recognized there was an issue right away. He was in and out of treatment centers and therapy throughout high school with varying degrees of relapse and success. As a senior in high school, things started to get a little better, but the stress of beginning college made his problem even worse.
He missed part of his freshman year while at a residential treatment center in Wisconsin and he spent the summer in other programs locally.
Now in his second year of college, he hopes to become a psychiatrist and focus on adult eating disorders.
It's been several months since he binged or purged. It's still a day-to-day struggle, he said. He sees a therapist regularly, thinks a lot about his body and slowly realized that the disorder wasn't really fulfilling.
Finally, he said, he understands "food is not the enemy. It's what we do with it."
Common eating disorders
Anorexia nervosa: Anorexics attempt to maintain a weight that is far below average for their height or weight. There are two subtypes of the disorder. In the restricting type, the person greatly restricts calories to reach their desired weight. In the binge-purge type, the person regularly binges on large amounts of food and then purges in conjunction with restrictive eating.
Bulimia nervosa: Bulimics regularly engage in excessive overeating, usually in secret, and then later attempt to undo the effects, either through purging or excessive exercise.
Binge eating disorder: Those with binge eating disorder indulge in excessive amounts of food, often with a sense of lost control, but do not regularly attempt to compensate for their binge.


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The Student Life staff at USD is responsible for all of the areas listed to the left. We believe strongly that learning takes place in a variety of educational contexts and so have provided numerous opportunities for students to become actively engaged on the campus. Through all of these various venues, students add to the vitality of campus and at the same time develop practical skills and gain personal insight. The development of student's leadership capacity is a major goal of the University of San Diego. Active participation in student life is a vehicle for gaining invaluable leadership experience as well as receiving direct leadership training.
We encourage you to search our website for areas of interest. If you have any specific questions and/or would like to speak with our professional staff in any of these areas, feel free to call the Division of Student Affairs at (619) 260-4588.
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How to Treat a Tourist Right Near the Empire State Building
Sometimes you're lucky and your tourists want to do the same things you do: seek out fun, exciting food in fun, exciting places. But sometimes they want to do nothing more than than wait on line for Magnolia cupcakes, go skating in Rock Center, and visit the American Girl Place. And, of course, visit the Empire State Building.
Fair enough, it is an impressive building. But the neighborhood poses more than a few challenges to showing off the best bites the city has to offer. As a reminder from our last How to Treat a Tourist Right, there are some special criteria to keep in mind when picking places to show off to guests:
- The food must be consistent—I have to trust it'll be great every time.
- It should be interesting and exciting to me, not just the tourist.
- It shouldn't break the bank. My guests usually come with a pretty ample travel budget, but my editor's salary doesn't leave much room for a tour guide expense account.
- The destinations must make me look like the coolest, in-the-know tour guide out there.
So here's a four-stop afternoon-into-evening walking and eating tour for you and your tourist that shows off the full range of the food and drink around the Empire State building. It includes a new hot spot, a tiny hole in the wall, and a champion of high class carnivory. In other words: the New York your guest really wants to see, but doesn't know to ask for.
The Breslin
Go to The Breslin in the Ace Hotel for lunch and feast on one of the best burgers in New York (and certainly one of the best lamb dishes in the city). The dining room is less crowded at lunch, so you'll stand a much higher chance of actually hearing each other at the table. And the monster burger will give you the strength you need to put up with the crowds lining up outside the Empire State.
If you're planning to hit up the Empire State Building after lunch, go ahead and get a burger for yourself—you won't want to share, despite the mammoth size. But if you're coming from your visit or you just want to head out for more bites soon afterward, you may be best advised to share. This is a serious meal and you have a long day ahead of you. It's also the most expensive stop on this list, but totally worth the splurge.
Do take some time to catch up with your guest in the Ace Hotel lobby. The drinks aren't great, but the atmosphere sure is. And celebrity sightings happen from time to time.
Gourmet Palace
Take some time to walk off the lamb burger and go see the sights, then head across the street from the Ace to enter a completely different world. I'm talking about Gourmet Palace, the best Indian taxi stand on 29th Street.
You're here as much for the anthropology as the food. Gourmet Palace is one of several Indian cafes that cater almost elusively to the city's Indian cab drivers looking for a quick, cheap meal between fares. They're not the best ambassador of Indian cuisine in New York, but the chicken meatball and egg curry (pictured above) and the daal will do you well as you sit down for some quality people watching. Cabbies run in and out from services at the mosque below your feet, with hurried, jocular conversations over plates of curries and kebobs. It'll take all of a minute or two after sitting down in a booth for your tourist to wonder where they really are and ask what just happened to the New York City outside the doors.
After all that cultural displacement your tourist is going to need a drink, and there's no better way to keep the culture shock going than with a trip to the bar at the NoMad. Daniel Humm's new restaurant is the latest darling of the neighborhood, and with a list of 30 cocktails (to say nothing of the gorgeous lounge), it's an excellent place to grab a drink and an impressive sight for a tourist looking for a piece of glamorous New York.
When it's time for dinner, and you want quality food without midtown prices, there's one answer: K-Town. Koreatown may be this part of Manhattan's greatest treasure: a dense cluster of bars, restaurants, and karaoke with a thriving nightlife and enough kimchi to feed a small army of midtown lunchers. It's impossible to choose just one spot in K-Town (hell, you could spend a day here on one block), but if you have to: consider Arirang for noodles and seafood pancakes. Sure, your tourist may want Korean barbecue, which is fine if you've eaten light all day and they're paying, but these soothing, intensely chicken-y noodles and light, slightly chewy pancakes offer a different, unexpected side of Korean eating that'll sit far better after a food-heavy day.
Bonus Stop: Pocha 32
"Nobody goes to Koreatown for the food," a Korean friend told me. "They just go to drink with friends and sing karaoke." While I don't quite agree with that first part, I'll certainly admit that the K-Town experience just isn't complete without a couple bottles of soju and some wonderful/terrible K-pop. For a divey but lovable time with your guest, try Pocha 32. Here's what our Korean food correspondent Chris Hansen has to say: "Pocha 32's food has lapsed slightly over the years, but it's worth a visit for the wonderfully divey atmosphere that features soju bottle caps hanging from netting on the ceiling and inebriated patrons slumped over in their chairs." This, friends, is exactly how you want to end your night under the glow of the tallest building in the greatest city in the world.
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By KEVIN RECTOR | The Baltimore Sun | Published: August 3, 2013
BALTIMORE — The automatic distress signal came in to the Coast Guard about 10:30 p.m. Thursday: A D.C. Air National Guard pilot had ejected from a fighter jet some 35 miles off Chincoteague Island in Virginia.
As a rescue team sprang into action, another fighter pilot was flying a damaged F-16C Fighting Falcon back to the D.C. air guard's headquarters at Joint Base Andrews in Prince George's County. Two others were circling the site where the fighters had collided.
One jet was lost, to the likely tune of more than $20 million, and another was damaged. But by early Friday, the pilots were accounted for.
"We are extremely fortunate to have lost only metal," said Brig. Gen. Marc Sasseville, commander of the 113th Wing of the D.C. air guard.
The two pilots clipped wings during a routine training exercise. The rescue went on for several hours late Thursday and early Friday, as the Coast Guard deployed a MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from its air station in Elizabeth City, N.C., south of Virginia Beach.
At first, the Coast Guard team followed the distress signal toward the downed pilot. The pilot had ejected with a small life raft and was bobbing in the ocean as the other pilots maintained communications from their jets streaking across the sky above.
The downed pilot lit a flare that could be seen for almost two miles, Coast Guard Petty Officer David Weydert said. As the Coast Guard team got closer, the two jet pilots still flying relayed information from their downed companion.
The Jayhawk arrived at the crash scene about midnight, Weydert said, and the team immediately began to assess the waters around the small raft to see if debris from the jet would endanger a rescue swimmer, Weydert said. Not seeing any debris, the team proceeded with the rescue, dropping Petty Officer 1st Class Bret Fogle down a line to the water.
Fogle made contact with the downed pilot on his raft, who was in good condition. Both Fogle and the pilot were hoisted back into the Jayhawk, which wrapped up the rescue about 12:30 a.m. and headed to Joint Base Andrews, Weydert said.
The National Guard has not released the names of any of the pilots involved in the training exercise.
By the time the Coast Guard team made it to Andrews, the pilot of the damaged plane had already returned safely.
Both pilots were taken to the Malcolm Grow Medical Clinic and Surgery Center on the base, the National Guard said. The one whose jet was damaged has been released, officials said. The one who ejected was transferred to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for treatment of minor injuries.
"Our partners here at Joint Base Andrews and the Coast Guard did a fantastic job of supporting us through this unfortunate circumstance," Sasseville said in a statement. "The military has some of the best and most highly trained people in the world, which reduced the potential magnitude of this incident."
Sasseville said training is the "foundation" of the National Guard's work, and the collision will be studied to improve operations. The cause is under investigation.
The 113th Wing is tasked with defending Washington, sending fighters overseas, and transporting troops and cargo in domestic emergencies.
The F-16C is considered the workhorse of the Air Force. Lockheed Martin, the builder, calls it "the most technologically advanced fourth-generation fighter in the world."
According to Air Force records of "Class A" mishaps — those resulting in a death, the loss of an aircraft or at least $2 million in damage — the last crash involving an F-16C occurred in Fresno, Calif., in December, when a pilot lost control of a jet during a training exercise.
The pilot ejected and survived, and the jet crashed in a desolate area of government land and was destroyed, according to an Air Force report on the incident. The Air Force put the cost of the lost jet at $21,405,503.
In fiscal year 2012, there were 23 Class A flight incidents, two of which involved F-16Cs.
In July 2012, a jet flown by a pilot on a deployment sortie near Misawa Air Base in Japan lost thrust and crashed. The pilot survived after ejecting. The bill: $32,610,492.
In May 2012, a jet flown by a pilot conducting close air support training with another aircraft experienced an engine failure and crashed near the Utah Test and Training Range west of Hill Air Force Base. The pilot ejected and survived; the cost was estimated at $23,869,281.
In fiscal year 2011, at least five F-16Cs crashed in the United States, South Korea and Afghanistan, four of them in the span of a month, according to Air Force records. Air Force officials characterized the spike as an "anomaly."
Information on the extent of damage to the aircraft that was able to return to base was not immediately available, a National Guard spokeswoman said.


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DETROIT – Fisker Automotive, the struggling government-backed hybrid sports car maker, on Friday terminated most of its rank-and-file employees in what sources said was a last-ditch effort to conserve cash and stave off a potential bankruptcy filing.
Fisker, which raised $1.2 billion from investors and tapped nearly $200 million in government loans, has 'at least' $30 million in cash on hand, according to a source familiar with the company's finances.
The company's flagship vehicle, the $100,000-plus Karma plug-in hybrid, quickly won accolades for its styling and cachet with celebrities, including pop star Justin Bieber and actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who is also an investor in the company.
About 160 workers were fired at a Friday morning meeting at Fisker's Anaheim, Calif., headquarters, according to a source who attended the meeting. They were told that the company could not afford to give them severance payments.
Fisker confirmed in a statement that it let go about 75 percent of its workforce but did not specify the number of workers affected. It called the move 'a necessary strategic step in our efforts to maximize the value of Fisker's core assets.'
'Unfortunately we have reached a point where a significant reduction in our workforce has become necessary,' Fisker said, adding that it was still searching for a strategic partner.
The mass termination triggered a lawsuit seeking class-action status from angry former employees. A lawyer for the fired employees said he expects the company to file for bankruptcy 'sooner rather than later.'
A Fisker representative could not immediately answer questions on the company's financial position. In the past, the automaker has declined to comment on the possibility of a bankruptcy restructuring.
The layoffs, which hit departments including engineering, public relations and marketing, are the latest symptom of Fisker's cash crunch. In late March, Fisker put its entire U.S. workforce on furlough. It also hired law firm Kirkland & Ellis to advise on a possible bankruptcy filing.
Fisker asked 53 senior managers and executives to stay on board, primarily to pursue buyers for the company's assets, according to the source who attended Friday's meeting in Anaheim. The remaining Fisker executives also are continuing negotiations with the U.S. Department of Energy.
Friday's class action is one of several challenges Fisker has faced over the past month. In March, company founder Henrik Fisker abruptly resigned, citing 'several major disagreements' with top management.
Fisker has not produced a car since July and has been seeking a financial backer to help finish the development of the Atlantic and produce it at a Delaware plant.
(Additional reporting by Nick Brown in New York and Paul Lienert in Detroit; editing by Jeffrey Benkoe and Matthew Lewis)


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Carolyn Campbell is an associate dean at the U of A's School of Business.
She is a talented, highly acclaimed visual artist, married to a good man and mother to teenage boys who get along like gangbusters.
She is, in other words, successful by any measure.
So why is she all stutter-fussed when I arrive at the doorstep of her Laurier Heights home? After all, we've met before.
Carolyn was a member of the Mayor's Arts Visioning Committee, and I watched her deliver nuanced opinions with poise and polish.
Yet she's all pupils-dilated today. Hey, I think I know what's going on.
"Carolyn, are you a bit neurotic?"
She responds with a laugh. A shrill laugh.
Really, I get it. Having one's home written up in the local newspaper is a bit like open-mic night. In front of an entire town. Of judges.
We settle in the kitchen. I like it. I especially like the vintage kitchen table and the complementary Arborite countertops. The floor is vinyl and white. And Carolyn seems abashed and explains how they plan to change this, that and the other thing.
Jeepers. This kitchen has soul. It's bright and inviting with touches of sweet nostalgia.
Its display walls are painted a deep grey, the better to show off the original art, which adorns pretty much every wall in the home.
Much of it is Carolyn's original work. But like most artists, she's traded with others over the years and displays their work, too.
She was extremely shy as a kid and spent much of her time doodling, drawing and painting. Her grandmother started her on the artist's road.
Steve proudly tells the story of how Carolyn, while still in high school, was commissioned to do a painting for former Oilers defenceman Paul Coffey.
Steve's impressed. I'm impressed. Carolyn shrugs. Not a hockey fan.
Steve and Carolyn first met on a ski trip. He purposefully sat down next to her on the bus. He was 19. She was 21. Recently, they celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary.
The boys, Connor and Brendan, are twins, aged 15. They are what is called mirror twins. So their appearance is identical, with a smattering of opposites.
The family home is 2,380 square feet with four bedrooms and four bathrooms. The upstairs master bedroom and the boys' bedrooms are spacious.
On the way up, we come across one of Carolyn's paintings. It's about three metres in height. The dining room features another of her large canvases. This one, more than two metres square, is a gorgeous portrait in pencil and muted acrylic.
"All 5b pencil," she says.
The Campbells moved into the house in 2000. It was originally built in 1960.
They did some minor renovations and hired a painter. Carolyn wasn't shy in choosing the colours, which are striking yet perfect backdrops for the visual art.
The downstairs rumpus room is where the home really lets its hair down. For years, the basement was largely unfinished. The twins played hockey downstairs and broke the odd window.
Now, there is a large, comfy-looking sectional facing a big-screen TV. Yonder is some exercise equipment and over here is the jam space.
A guitar rack holds an acoustic guitar, as well as a couple of electrics and a bass. A big-old amp sits next to the drum kit.
The boys jam regularly and allow dad to sit in on guitar or bass.
Carolyn has her own studio downtown. She recently took a sabbatical and painted to her heart's content. You can see her art on display at the Peter Robertson Gallery.
I'm fortunate. I got to see Carolyn's work, in her home.
I've been in places where the art and decor feel like museum displays. The Campbell home is not that place. It feels warm and welcoming; like a working piece of art.
Truth is, I wasn't nervous a bit. Not for me, or Carolyn.
Scott can be reached at email@example.com for comments or suggestions for future features on unique or beautiful homes in the Edmonton region.


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In my previous blog about the foreign policy initiatives and achievements of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, I wrote about his 3 unique and epoch-making initiatives. They are :
1 – Forum for India-Pacific Islands cooperation [ FIPIC ]
2 – Indian Ocean Outreach Programme [ IOOP ]
3 – India-Africa Forum Summit [ IAFS ]
In that blog I particularly wrote about his first initiative; FIPIC. But briefly, I also wrote about India Africa Forum Summit, IAFS . I wrote that technically, though India Africa Forum Summit, IAFS was started in 2008 by previous UPA government but in all probability, I consider it to be Prime Minister Narendra Modi's initiative. Here are the reasons for my thinking.
First IAFS was held in 2008 from April 4 – 8 in New Delhi. It was attended by only 14 Heads of State / Government.
Second IAFS was attended by 15 Heads of State / Government. One more than the previous one. It was held in Adis Ababa, Ethiopia from 21 – 25 May, 2011.
Third IAFS was held in New Delhi from 26 – 29 October, 2015. It was attended by 51 of the 54 countries. 41 Heads of State / Government participated and 10 remaining countries were represented by high power delegations. Thus the total number of countries attending 3rd India-Africa Forum Summit 2015 comes to 51. Only 3 countries could not attend. Singapore and UAE attended the summit as observers. Thus the total number of countries attending the summit comes to 53.
It is historic. It is momentous and unprecedented. It is epoch-making. 3rd India Africa Forum Summit 2015 is the 2nd largest congregation of Heads of State / Government ever held in India. 2 Kings , 26 Presidents , 6 Vice Presidents and 7 Prime Ministers of 41 African Countries , the President of the African Union, 10 African countries represented by high power delegations along with Singapore and UAE as observers attended this 3rd India-Africa Forum Summit. Total number comes to 53.
Now few facts about the history of summits involving African nations.
1 – JAPAN : Japan was the 1st country to hold regular summits with African nations since 1993. It is once-every-five-years summit and is always held in Japan.
It will now be once-every-three-years summit.
2 – CHINA : China was the second nation to hold summit with African nations since 2000. Like Japan, it is also once-every-three-years summit.
3 – THE EUROPEAN UNION : The European Union started holding summit with African nations since 2004. It is also once-every-three-years summit.
4 – INDIA : We are the 4th country and started our summit in 2008. The India-Africa Forum Summit will be once-in-a-five-years summit as proposed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
5 – UNITED STATES OF AMERICA : The US is the 5th and last country to hold such summit. She started holding the summit since 2014. It was the biggest till date as leaders of 35 African countries attended the summit.
3rd India-Africa Forum Summit 2015
Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted dinner in honour of visiting dignitaries. It was held at Pragati Maidan.
All the leaders and first ladies were in attendance in ethnic wear gifted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Plenary Session of the summit was inaugurated next day after the dinner, i.e. on October 29, 2015. Before the plenary session all the visiting dignitaries were ceremonially welcomed at the venue, Indira Gandhi Sports Complex.
Before and after the Summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had one-on-one bilateral meetings with all the 41 visiting Heads of State / Government.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi met 19 leaders for one-on-one meeting on October 28, 2015. They were : ROBERT MUGABE [ President Zimbabwe ] / JOHN DRAMANI MAHAMA [ President Ghana ] / MSWATI III [ King Swaziland ] / BONI YAYI [ President Benin ] / MUHAMMADU BUHARI [ President Nigeria ] / UHURU KENYATA [ President Kenya ] / YOWERI KAGUTA MUSEVENI [ President Uganda ] / BETHUEL PAKALITHA MOSISILI [ Prime Minister Lesotho ] / OBIANG NGUEMA MBASOGO [ President Equatorial Guinea ] / ISMAIL OMAR GUELLEL [ President Djibouti ] / SALVA KIIR MAYARDIT President South Sudan ] / ISSOUFOU MAHAMADOU [ President Niger ] / IDRIS DEBY ITNO [ President Chad ] / JACOB G ZUMA [ President South Africa ] / CARLOS AGOSTINHO DO ROSARIO Prime Minister Mozambique ] / PATRICE EMERY TROVOADA [ Prime Minister Sao Tome & Principe ] / ALI BONGO ONDIMBA [ President Gabon ] / ALFAHA CONDE [ President Guinea ] / MOKGWEETSI ERIC KEABETSWE MASISI [ Vice President Botswana ]
He met 10 another leaders for bilateral meetings on October 29, 2015. They were : MOHAMMED VI [ King Morocco ] / HAGE G GEINGOB [ President Namibia ] / ABDEL FATTAH AL-SISI [ President Egypt ] / IBRAHIM KEITA [ Prime Minister Mali ] / HAILEMARIAM DESSALEGN [ Prime Minister Ethiopia ] / MANNUEL DOMINGOS [ Vice President Angola ] / MOHAMED BILAL [ Vice President Tanzania ] / SHEIKH MOHAOUD [ President Somalia ] / IKILILOU DHOININE [ President Comoros ] / MAURITANIA
After the end of the summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met remaining 12 African leaders on October 30, 2015. They were : OMAR EL BASHIR [ President Sudan ] / ERNEST BAI KOROME [ President Sierra Leone ] / HERY RAJAONARIMAMPIANIA [ President Madagascar ] / ANEROOD JUGNAUTH [ Prime Minister Mauritius ] / INONGE WINAAT [ Vice President Zambia ] / ANANSTASE MUREKEZI [ Prime Minister Rwanda ] / SALVA KIIR MAYARDIT [ President South Sudan ] / MACKY SALL [ President Senagal ] / JOSE MARIO VAZ [ President Guinea Bissau ] / AJALSATON NJIE SAIDY [ Vice President Gambia ] / GASTON SINLIMWO [ Vice President Burundi ] / ELLEN SIRLEAF [ President Liberia ]
Apart from above mentioned African leaders, Prime Minister Narendra Modi also met NKOOAZANA DLAMINI ZUMA, Chairperson African Union.
On 29th, after the plenary session, the President of India invited all the visiting dignitaries for dinner party at Rashtrapati Bhawan. Rashtrapati Bhawan was decorated and illuminated for the grand memorable occasion.
It is sad and deplorable that a foreign policy initiative of such magnitude and gigantic proportions was largely neglected by national media, print and electronic both. [ Hindustan Times is perhaps the only exception. ] It is the 2nd biggest and largest diplomatic event ever hosted by India. Let me tell about 2 other such big events held during Indira Gandhi's regime.
The 7th NAM Summit was held from 7 – 12 March, 1983 in New Delhi. Participating countries 140.
The 7th CHOGM Summit was held from 23 – 29 November, 1983 in New Delhi. Participating countries 42.
Thus 32 years after hugely successful 7th NAM Summit 1983 , the 3rd India Africa Forum Summit 2015 is the 2nd largest congregation of Heads of State / Government ever held in India. I repeat : 2 Kings , 26 Presidents , 6 Vice Presidents and 7 Prime Ministers of 41 African Countries , the President of the African Union, 10 African countries represented by high power delegations along with Singapore and UAE as observers attended this 3rd India-Africa Forum Summit. Total number comes to 53.
But it was ignored by the media and the cause is animosity towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It is a sad state of affair in our country. When it comes to Modi, even the pretension of balance is dropped and discarded. The bias is obvious and open, the daggers are drawn and the bellicose media is waiting for the kill. Alas!!
But history will not be cruel. It will be kind and judge this event in a proper light and will apply unbiased yardsticks. Years after 2015, when Narendra Modi will not be around, when the dust will settle down and the bias will evaporate and the historian will sit down to chronicle the Narendra Modi era of India, the 3rd India Africa Forum Summit 2015 will be seen and will be mentioned in a different way.
So over to the future with no regrets.
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The price of oil and gasoline recently rose to levels not seen since the 1970s. When prices rise at the pump, people respond by looking for ways to conserve gas and save money. (As an added bonus, such efforts are good for the environment, too!) In the 1970s and 1980s, Americans made changes in their lifestyles, and for their efforts, energy consumption dropped substantially. More efficient major appliances, such as air conditioners and refrigerators, coupled with fuel-efficient cars and changes in living habits were hugely successful. In the decades since, household energy use, thanks to those revamped appliances, has remained lower. Unfortunately, American oil consumption has risen along with the lowered household energy usage. This rise can be attributed almost solely to the use of vehicles, both transport trucks and, mainly, personal vehicles. People drive more often, they drive farther distances, and about half of new car sales are gas-guzzling SUV's and light trucks.
Americans proved two decades ago that they could take measures to save on both energy and its costs. We've collected here some actions drivers can take to reduce their personal gas consumption today.
Commute Wisely
There are a number of ways to save gas and money on your commute.
— Join a carpool, taking turns driving. Find out whether there is a park-and-ride lot in your area where you can meet your group. In many areas, carpooling gives you access to faster moving high-occupancy vehicle lanes. Sometimes these lanes have lower tolls as an incentive.
— Leave the car at home. Take public transportation, walk, run, roller-blade, or ride your bike. Or try a combination of the above.
— If you are a two-car family, use the more fuel-efficient car for the longer commute. Better yet, have a family carpool and use only one car.
— If you are able to work flexible hours, commute outside of rush hour when you can drive at a faster pace and thus more efficiently.
— Work from home (telecommute) a few days a week.
Rethink the Errand Run
Do you find yourself hopping in the car several times a day to run a quick errand? There will always be those last-minute errands, but a bit of planning and organization can reduce the frequency with which you zoom off to the store.
— Set up a central errand list, such as a chalkboard in the kitchen, and have everyone in the household add their errands to it. Then choose an errand day and try to do everything at once.
— Keep a running list in the car, your purse, or your pocket, and add those errands to the central list.
— Run errands while on the way home from school or work.
— Shop online rather than driving from store to store trying to find a particular item.
— Do your errands on foot, bike, by public transit, or with a friend.
— If you have an SUV and a car, use the smaller car for driving in cities or towns, so you do not waste gas driving around looking for a space big enough to fit your large vehicle.
— Don't let the car idle. Idling uses gas, and the larger your car the more gas you waste while idling.
Drive Efficiently
Sometimes just the way you drive makes your car use more gas, so learn to operate your car for maximum fuel efficiency.
— Don't pump the gas pedal when you start the car.
— Drive at a fuel-efficient 55 mph.
— Avoid driving in a stop-and-start fashion, which consumes more gas. Stop-and-start driving at high speeds (constant accelerating, passing, tailgating, and braking on the highway) can consume as much as 33 percent more fuel than steady driving.
— Remove heavy objects from the back of the car and the trunk that you don't need. The more weight in your car, the more fuel your car will use.
— When transporting large items, put them in the car or the trunk, rather than on the roof, to reduce drag, which makes your car have to work harder and thus use more fuel.
Stay Tuned
Your car is more likely to get the maximum miles per gallon if it is kept in tip-top shape and if you follow the manufacturer's recommendations for oil and other maintenance items.
— Get regular tune-ups. A well-tuned vehicle is a fuel-efficient vehicle.
— Check your tire pressure regularly to be sure they aren't low on air. Your car will use more gas if your tires are not adequately inflated.
— Replace your fuel filter annually and change or clean your air filter regularly. Cars run more efficiently and get better gas mileage when the filters are clear.
— Buy high-octane gasoline only if your car specifically requires it (check the manual).
— Use the exact grade of oil recommended by your car's manufacturer. Variations can affect your fuel economy. Look for oil that has the "Energy Conserving II" label.
— If you have a flexible fueled vehicle, buy ethanol, methanol, or gasohol whenever it is available.
Buy a Fuel-Efficient Vehicle
If you are buying a new vehicle, educate yourself about the fuel efficiency of the cars on the market. Some smaller cars don't get much better mileage than some SUV's. The best way to get a fuel-efficient car is to do the research and learn how much money you can save in gasoline costs, even within the same class of cars, by choosing an efficient vehicle. Your savings at the pump can easily run to hundreds of dollars annually, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.
— Check out the Department of Energy's annual report on the fuel economy of the cars for each year.
— Don't buy an SUV or light truck unless you truly need one. Many are expensive-to-run gas guzzlers. Some do not meet the safety standards of cars and minivans, and because of their weight and high center of gravity, these vehicles can be more difficult to maneuver and park than cars. Studies have shown that SUV's cause and get into more accidents than cars because of their poor maneuverability.
Buy an Alternative-Fuel Vehicle
The automotive industry is slowly making alternative-fuel vehicles available on the market. More of these vehicles are in the testing stages and should become more common in the coming years. For now, you can get a federal tax credit of $500 to $4,000 if you buy a new hybrid, alternative-fuel, or electric vehicle. In some states you can use the carpool lane with your hybrid even if there is just you behind the wheel. Among the choices in the alternative market are:
— Hybrid vehicles. These cars use a combination of an electric motor and an internal combustion engine. While there are only a few models currently on the market, a dozen others are in the works, including full-size pickup trucks.
— Flexible fueled (or flex-fuel) vehicles. These run on unleaded gas combined with ethanol or methanol, both of which are alcohol based. Fuels available include E85 (85 percent ethanol, 15 percent gas) and M85 (85 percent methanol, 15 percent gas).
— Natural gas vehicles, including bifuel natural gas vehicles. These run on compressed natural gas (CNG). Bifuel vehicles have two fuel systems between which the driver can choose; one running on CNG the other on gasoline.
— Propane vehicles, including bifuel propane vehicles. These vehicles are fueled by propane (a.k.a. liquefied petroleum gas). Some have two fuel systems, as with the bifuel natural gas vehicles (above).
— Battery-electric vehicles. These essentially nonpolluting cars are limited by the range the car can go before it needs to be plugged into an outside source and recharged. This problem could be solved if there were more recharging stations and the user wasn't limited to a home-charger.
— Diesel vehicles. The old-fashioned diesel engines ran on petroleum-based fuel and, while fuel-efficient, were highly polluting. The availability of biodiesel, a fuel derived from vegetable oils or animal fats and usable in almost any unmodified diesel engine, changes that. Vehicles using biodiesel get high gas mileage and have low emissions. Learn more at biodiesel.org.
— Fuel cell vehicles.These are in the testing stage and probably will not be available until around 2010. Fuel cell vehicles run on hydrogen gas, so no oil is involved. They are nonpolluting and release no harmful greenhouse gases. Because they lack the large internal combustion engine of today's cars, fuel cell vehicles offer flexibility in car design and technology, opening the way for electronic steering (eliminating the steering wheel) and a whole new arena of design innovations. To learn more about this exciting technology, check out the section on fuel cell vehicles at fueleconomy.gov.
Learn more ways that you can live a greener lifestyle at NWF's Get Green.
ENN would like to thank eNature.com for their permission to reprint this article.


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Born: December 25, 1940, Wierzbnik-Starachowice, Poland
Henry's Jewish parents lived in a Polish town in which their families had lived for 150 years. The Jewish community enjoyed good relations with their Polish neighbors; the local Polish population refused to cooperate when the government encouraged a boycott of Jewish businesses during a wave of antisemitism that swept Poland in the mid-1930s.
1933-39: In the years before I was born, my father owned an iron and coal factory. The Germans occupied Wierzbnik on September 5, 1939. While some Jews fled, most, including my parents, remained.
1940-44: The Nazis established a ghetto in May 1940. I was born there eight months later. In 1942 my father, learning the ghetto was to be emptied, arranged for me to be hidden in a Catholic convent in Cracow. Perhaps because the convent was bombed, I was put out on the street--I was 3. A woman picked me up and took me to an attic above a candy store. It was dark and I was alone. The only person I ever saw was this woman who fed me and taught me to make the sign of the cross. I didn't know my own name or why I was in an attic.
Henry was discovered by a Jewish social worker and taken to Israel. He was reunited with his father eight years later, and settled in Ecuador. In 1980 he moved to the United States.
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October 30, 2012
A Flutter of Butterflies by Michael Braby with Penny Olsen
This enchanting look at historical depictions of Australian moths and butterflies uses resources held by the National Library of Australia. Nine artists are featured ranging from 1770s to the present. Some pictures are for scientific study and some are for pleasure. Each artist has their own chapter, a short biography and a discussion of their work. Find out about the early history of Duntroon, fall in love with the Spotted Jezebel, or just enjoy the lovely pictures. Michael Braby is a leading authority on the topic but the book is aimed at general interest level.
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The basement is clean and empty - woohoo! That makes Part 6 the last getting-ready part. Every part from now on will be a something-actually-got-done part.
Because I am, in a word, obsessive, there will be pictures of the empty basement at some point, followed by pictures of the framed basement. The framing started this morning - there's a bunch of men with power tools and lumber in our basement right now. Once it's done, that will be Part 7!
Lots of boring pictures:
Future bar room
Future living room
Future entertainment center
Future office
Future bathroom
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"All the options from here are bad, I am afraid" is how MEP Daniel Hannan describes the way forward in Europe in this FOX News interview. In one of the clearest and least status-quo-hugging explanations of what has occurred (gentile and bloodless coups in Italy and Greece), the 'cruel and irresponsible behavior' of European leaders stuns him and all in the name of the 'wretched single-currency'. When asked why they (the EU leaders) just don't get it (channeling Upton Sinclair's now infamous quote), Hannan replies "It is remarkably difficult to make a man understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it" as he makes it clear that the vested interests in keeping the Euro going (well paid and powerful government jobs for example) means they are prepared to inflict this shocking poverty on the Mediterranean countries. Summing it up nicely: until they leave the Euro, the Greeks have got no light at the end of the tunnel, making the point that Greece's least painful option is to Default, Decouple, and Devalue.
Starting from around 0:55, the European Member of Parliament begins his less than sanguine discussion:


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Very funny and very Canadian! Brisk and highly readable, this political satire won the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour in 2008 and Canada Reads in 2011. This post is timely because a CBC TV series based on it, with the same name, is airing in just a few days! Now I almost wish I hadn't cancelled my cable! 😦
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Angus McLintock is the most unlikely politician to hit Parliament Hill! This quote from the book describes his larger than life character: "you cannot be bought, you have no desire for re-election, you have no interest in higher office, you don't care what people think of you, you actually do what you say." How refreshing is that!
Angus, a big burly Scottish engineering professor will do just about anything to escape teaching English to Engineers – even running for political office. Still mourning the death of his wife, he agrees to embark on an unlikely political campaign which should have been doomed to failure. Throw in a little love story, a monstrous hovercraft, some drams of good single malt, and a few games of chess and you end up with a novel that has a little bit for everyone. And if you want to carry on with Angus, there is a sequel called The High Road which came out in 2010.


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Bariatric surgery shouldn't be one of the first options considered by very obese children and teens -- but there's a wide gap in effective treatments between lifestyle intervention and surgery, according to a scientific statement from the American Heart Association.
Treatment options are currently limited for children with "severe obesity" -- a newly defined class of risk that comprises about 6% of children and adolescents, according to Aaron S. Kelly, PhD, of the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis, and colleagues.
Further innovation is needed to fill this "unacceptably large" gap between behavior- and drug-based interventions and bariatric surgery for youth with severe obesity, according to the statement published online in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
"Even highly intensive lifestyle interventions generally have left subjects still markedly obese, albeit with modestly improved cardiovascular and metabolic profiles," Kelly and colleagues noted.
"Alternative approaches are needed for youth who medically qualify for bariatric surgery but are not interested in this option, for youth who lack the family support or emotional maturity for the surgery and resulting change in food intake, and for children too young for surgery but with severe obesity and severe comorbidities," they wrote.
It's important to identify the origin of a child's obesity because it's not always as simple as eating too much, Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, director of Mount Sinai Heart at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, told MedPage Today.
There could be environmental factors that play a role, genetic factors, or behavioural factors, Fuster said.
"We also have to identify earlier those children who might be at risk of becoming overweight," he said. "I really believe the school systems should be involved in this."
The authors of the scientific statement defined "severe obesity" in children and adolescents as having a "BMI greater than 120% of the 95th percentile or an absolute BMI greater than 35 kg.m2, which ever is lower based on age or sex."
Kelly and colleagues noted a growing consensus that severe obesity be treated as a chronic problem, but pediatric studies in the area of behavior modification are very limited.
The short-term data (6 to 12 months) tend to suggest that ongoing treatment is associated with better outcomes, but "the feasibility and acceptability of continuing care over longer periods of intervention are not known."
Studies evaluating the efficacy of drug therapy for severely obese children are also sparse, Kelly and colleagues said, even though two new drugs for weight loss were approved last year.
But neither phentermine plus topiramate (Qsymia) nor lorcaserin (Belviq), the two newly approved diet drugs, along with naltrexone with bupropion, which is currently being tested, have been studied in children, Kelly and colleagues said. Orlistat is the only FDA approved weight-loss drug for children over 12.
One of the main risks associated with obesity is heart disease. The writing group said that more longitudinal data are needed tracking such metrics as vascular structure and function, inflammation markers, insulin resistance, and impaired glucose intolerance in severely obese youths.
It's also important to improve utilization of "early-life weight-gain trajectory" data in an effort to better identify those children at risk of developing severe obesity.
In addition, more safety and efficacy data are needed regarding pharmaceutical and surgical interventions.
"The task ahead will be arduous and complicated, but the high prevalence and serious consequences of severe obesity require us to commit time, intellectual capital, and financial resources to address it," they wrote in conclusion.
Authors disclosed relationships with Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Novo Nordisk, Ethicon Endosurgery, and Takeda Pharmaceutical.