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Reporter Paula Rhoden of the Prescott Daily Courier tells the story of Joel Kobren, whose bipolar disorder drove him to a suicide attempt and whose recovery connected him with the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA), where he is now a leader in the self-help movement for people with depression in Arizona.
Kobren encountered DBSA after his nearly-lethal attempt led to discovering the nature of his mental and emotional challenges:
Finally, after 58 years, doctors diagnosed him with bipolar disease, a diagnosis that truly changed his life. Kobren said he was no longer an "underachiever" who could not keep a job or maintain a relationship; there was a real reason for his "mood swings."
As part of his therapy, Kobren started looking for a self-help group. He said "suicide survivor" groups were really grief groups for families and friends of people who committed suicide … Kobren said he could not find what he really needed — a depression group. Kobren's search led him to the national Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance.
Kobren is now involved, along with Henry Willey, president of the DBSA Yavapai County Chapter and others, in developing a statewide DBSA organization that they hope, in turn, will develop chapters throughout Arizona, each with its own peer-led support group.
Peer groups allow people to talk to others dealing with depression or bipolar disease, and learn what may or may not work, Willey said.
"DBSA is not a 12-step program and it is not a therapy group. It is just peers helping peers … Personally, I have been bipolar since elementary school but was not diagnosed until I was 35 years old. I have been through everything."
Kobren said, "DBSA gave me the avenues to fulfill the goals I set as part of my recovery. As an organization, it has opened doors and been very welcoming. At the same time, there is no pressure. DBSA does not expect anything from me. It just opened the next door for me to go through when I am ready."
SPNAC readers can search for a DBSA support group near them at this site.
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Sunday, March 14, 2010
3 choreographers working with dancers of Cloud Gate 2 to make "Spring Riot" happen on stage
By Nancy T. Lu
Huang Yi, a choreographer who shows promise of becoming the "enfant terrible" of Taiwan's modern dance scene, will be the youngest talent among a creative trio to headline Cloud Gate 2's forthcoming dance concert, "Spring Riot."
If the very short video clip of his latest dance creation "Floating Domain" (See photo taken by Liu Zhen-xiang) says anything, it is that Huang at 26 is bursting with amazing creativity and energy. He is simultaneouly preparing to participate in a contest in Denmark.
Huang after the recent success of his high-tech "SPIN 2010" puts his imagination and wizardry to work for Cloud Gate 2, turning dancers into room occupants, walls, or even tables and chairs at will. With Bach's music playing in the background, a confined space morphs with surreal effect. Pointing a finger is all it takes to begin the magic process.
Everyone's room experience, whether solitary or shared, was what Huang basically tried to latch onto when he started creating his new choreography. His own humble family background gave him no choice but to cope with life in a cramped and shared space. Books, the Internet and creative work helped him break free from the suffocating surroundings. Necessity was the mother of invention. He embarked on flights of fancy. Suddenly his world simply opened up and knew no boundary.
Meanwhile Cheng Tsung-lung's "Crack" reorganizes and consolidates the choreographer's experiences in digging into narrow openings or breaks encountered in life to bring out the emotional garbage. The 34-year-old Cheng cited particularly the painful turning point of an adolescent romance, comparing it to a crack on a pavement. Composer Pan Rong-sheng has come up with a combination of electronic and high-tech sounds, even including the old record platter's scratch, to go with Cheng's choreography.
Choreographer Ku Ming-shen caught sight of a long white shoreline from the plane during a trip to Hualien and Taitung. She found it beautiful but lacking in expression. But once on the ground, Ku saw up close water pushing and crisscrossing, breaking up and coming together, splashing and bubbling in all directions, after the waves had rolled in and slammed the coast. Ku realized that from such a picture in nature could be drawn a parallel in human interaction. In Ku's piece, "Endless Shore," the dancers simply stand still or they clash in their moves.
The Cloud Gate 2's"Spring Riot" will be presented at the Novel Hall for Performing Arts from April 21 to 25, the Zhong Zheng Hall of the National Chiao Tung University in Hsinchu on May 1, the Zhi De Hall of the Kaohsiung Cultural Center on May 8 and the Chiayi County Performing Arts Center on May 15.
For ticket information, try Cloud Gate (tel. 02-27122102) www.cloudgate.org.tw/cg2 or National Theater and Concert Hall Box Office (tel. 02-33939888) www.artstickets.com.tw
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The Sick Green turtle caught by local fishermen on April 29, 2011, named Prince William, because he was caught during the royal wedding!
On Friday, April 29, 2011 around 2pm, LaMCoT was brought a sick Green turtle. Local fishermen found him floating in the channel between Lamu and Manda Islands. The turtle was attempting to dive, but kept floating back up to the top of the water. This is one sign pointing to a sick turtle; when they cannot sound (dive and stay down) in the water, which means there is a problem. There was a good amount of algae growing on the top of his shell as well, another sign that he was floating for an extended period of time and exposed to direct sunlight.
The group of ten fishermen put him in their boat, and brought the turtle to the beach outside of Peponi hotel, where the LaMCoT office is located. These fishermen were given compensation for this turtle. LaMCoT has been working hard for years to increase the local community's awareness of the endangered status of marine turtles, and to do this, they created a compensation scheme, to keep fishermen from killing the turtles for the meat, to bring them instead to LaMCoT for tagging and treatment is necessary.
This male green turtle is about 60 years old. He was immediately cleaned, measured, and tagged. He was adopted and rightfully named him Prince William, as he was brought to LaMCoT when the royal wedding was being aired on TV!
Prince William was severely dehydrated from not being able to stay underwater. We put him in a freshwater tank, as freshwater allows turtles to absorb water faster than if he was put in saltwater. It was crucial that we immediately began to rehydrate him. Thrice a day Prince William was given rehydrating salts and fed seaweed to sustain him. It is a very possible probability that he ate a plastic bag, which is keeping him from breathing properly. This creates an air bubble, making him float. Luckily, the turtle was defecating, which means that he was not completely blocked up, and has a much higher chance of survival.
After monitoring Prince William from Friday to Monday, May 2, 2011, LaMCoT decided to send him to the Watamu Turtle Watch for further treatment. Good luck Prince William!
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The Sheik was a 1921 silent movie produced by Famous Players-Lasky, directed by George Melford and starring Rudolph Valentino, Agnes Ayres and Adolphe Menjou. It was based on the bestselling romance novel The Sheik by Edith Maude Hull.
Lady Diana Mayo (Agnes Ayres), part of the British ex-patriate community in Algiers, loathes the idea of marriage because she believes it means the end of independence for women. Against her boyfriend and brother's wishes she is making a month long journey into the desert alone. As they discuss her plans Diana notices a commotion going on at the next door casino and asks what is going on. She is told it is a party being thrown by a wealthy and important Sheik and no one but Arabs may enter. Annoyed at being told what to do, and curious as to what's going on, Diana borrows an Arabic dancer's costume and sneaks into the party.
At the party women are being gambled off like coins. Spotted an Arab tries to bring her to the front of the crowd but she resists causing much commotion. Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan (Rudolph Valentino) takes notice and intervenes; realizing the woman is white. He realizes she is the woman he had spotted earlier as he entered and amused he sends her out of the party. After she leaves Mustapha Ali (Charles Brinley) tells the Sheik she is the woman he is to guide into the desert tomorrow. The Sheik hatches a plan; telling Mustapha to lead her to him and his caravan.
The next morning the Sheik sneaks into Diana's room and disables her gun as she is sleeping. She wakes almost catching him but he escapes into the garden. There he sings the first lines of Kashmiri Love Song which Diana hears. He then leaves.
Diana and her brother venture into the desert. At her insistance her brother finally leaves her side, she promising to see him in London next month. Once he is gone Mustapha sends the signal; and the Sheik's caravan attacks, capturing Diana. Diana is upset and tries to escape; but is unable to. The Sheik tells her to obey his orders; with her replying she is unused to taking orders. He tells her she will learn and demands she dresses like a woman (she had been in a pant suit) for dinner.
Diana reluctantly agrees. During dinner in the Sheik's sumptuous tent, Diana tries again to escape from the Sheik, this time into a raging sand storm. The Sheik runs after her, saving her from certain death, and tells her she will learn to love him. The Sheik is then told by a servant that the horses have escaped into the storm and he is forced to leave Diana. When he returns, he finds Diana alone in her sleeping quarters. The Sheik initially thinks of forcing himself upon her, but instead is moved to shame for his thoughts by her crying and her prayers.
Feeling bad for upsetting her the Sheik demands her every comfort be met and allows her some basic freedoms. A few days pass and the Sheik announces his friend is coming to visit him, a man from the Western world. Diana is dismayed at being seen in Arab dress to a Westerner. The Sheik tells his staff to return her western clothes to her; which he allows her to wear. Raoul St. Hubert (Adolphe Menjou) comes to visit, while Diana's spirit is nearly broken. He befriends her and reprimands the Sheik for his treatment of her. The Sheik feels badly, but refuses to change his mind. However after overhearing Diana's concern for him he realizes she may be warming up to him and is elated. He gives Diana her gun back, telling her he trusts her and to protect herself from the Caravan of Theives, who have been roaming around the area.
As Diana and her servant are out on a trip the Sheik and Raoul again discuss his treatment of her. The Sheik reveals he is in love with Diana; and Raoul convinces him to let her go. The Sheik reluctantly agrees and tells Raoul to take her back with him to France. Meanwhile Diana and the servant are resting on their journey; she drawing 'I love you Ahmed' in the sand. They are then attacked by the rival caravan and Diana is captured.
The Sheik recieves the news and goes to find out what happened. He sees Diana's message in the sand and realizes she loves him too. He gathers up his army and goes to attack the rival tribe.
In the rival tribe's village the Rival Sheik Omair (Walter Long) is trying to rape Diana. However after almost being killed by 'the Jealous one' (his first wife) he is unsuccessful as Sheik Ahmed and his army have fought their way into the village. After a long fight between the two Sheiks' Omair is dead and Ahmed is gravely injured.
Back in Ahmed's village the tribe waits outside for news on his condition. Raoul is nursing him back to heatlh when Diana enters. She is told he is sleeping; so she sits and holds his hand. She remarks to Raoul about the size of his hand being big for an Arab, to which Raoul replies that Ahmed is not a real Arab. His father was British and his mother Spanish. They died in the desert and the baby Ahmed was rescued by the ruling Sheik of the time. That Sheik raised him as his own and sent him to school in France. After his death Ahmed returned to rule as Sheik.
Ahmed wakes up and Diana confesses her love.
Fed up with Metro Pictures Valentino, without any consultation from his friends or lawyers, signed a contract with Famous Players-Lasky. Jesse Lasky boasted on how cheap he had gotten Valentino for; for The Sheik Valentino recieved a salary of $1,250 a week...much less then many stars of the time.[1] Despite the paltry salary Lasky had personally sought a vehicle for Valentino's Famous Players debut; and on the advice of his secretary picked The Sheik.[1]
The Sheik shot the desert exterior scenes in Oxnard, CA; as well as the Guadalupe Dunes of Santa Barbra County. Each 'camp' covered nearly half a square mile of sand and had over 200 people 'living' there. All the extras wore yellow ochre for a brown face effect. [1]
The scenes of the tribes fighting were filmed at the Famous Players-Lasky Studio. The rival village was built on the backlot of the Studio at Selma St and Vine St. The palm trees used were later planted at the Ambassador Hotel in Hollywood. [1]
At the time of the release anti-miscegenation laws made it illegal for two races to marry. A kiss between a white woman and a man of color would not be allowed on film. The only way to make the Sheik's love of Diana 'acceptable' was to portray him as a European towards the end of the film.[1] Though the portrayl of Arabs is stereotypical; Valentino tried his best to distance the character from a stereotypical portrayal of an Arab man. Asked if Lady Diana would have fallen for a 'savage' in real life Valentino replied, "People are not savages because they have dark skins. The Arabian civilization is one of the oldest in the world...the Arabs are dignified and keen brained."[2]
The rape scene was one of the film's most controvesial. In the novel Diana falls in love with the Sheik BECAUSE he raped her; and he softens to her because he has finally broken her.[1] In the movie the Sheik insinuates to Diana why he brought her there; and the audience later sees him kissing her forefully though any actual rape is not depicted. Once The Sheik returns to the tent from saving the horses he sees Diana crying; and sends her servant to comfort her. These scenes were racy enough to make the a morality board ban it in Kansas City.[1]
The Sheik premiered in Los Angeles on October 21, 1921. Critical reception was mixed with many critics feeling the toned down rape scene ruined the original message.[1] However it was a major success with audiences; smashing attendace records where it debuted. In its first week of release it set attendance records at two of New York's major theatres, the Rialto and the Rivoli. The New York Telegraph estimated that in the first few weeks 125,000 people had seen the film.[1]
Lasky declared the last week of November 'The Sheik Week' and had the film premiere at 250 theatres in the US on November 20, 1921. The film ran for 6 months in Sydney, Australia; as well as 42 weeks in at one theatre in France. [1] It was the first Valentino film to show in his native Italy.[1]
Within the first year alone the Sheik exceeded $1 million grosses.[1] The film cost $200,000 to make.[1]
Male AudiencesEdit
Male movie goers instantly loathed the Sheik; most refusing to see it or laughing out loud at the love scenes. Many men would walk out during the film. Many men felt threatened by Valentino's style of lovemaking; and blamed Valentino personally for the censored script and style of acting throughout the movie. Many called him effeminate for the long flowing robes of the character.[1]
An extended rant was led by 'Dick Dorgan' via Photoplay writing several articles denouncing Valentino. Dorgan accused Valentino of being exactly like Theda Bara and too pretty for a male. Dorgan even wrote a song against Valentino; calling it "A Song of Hate!".[1]
Female AudiencesEdit
Female movie goers could not get enough of Valentino. Women of all ages would scream, swoon, and faint at the screening. Francis Marion dubbed it The Shriek due to the female reaction.[1]
Cultural InfluenceEdit
The Sheik became the movie that defined Rudolph Valentino's career much to his annoyance.[1] The film was also the picture that propelled him into superstardom. Ironically the first releases had the title credits as, The Sheik...starring Agnes Ayres.[1]
The Sheik became so popular that the word became known as a 'young man on the prowl'. The object of a Sheik's desire was dubbed 'a Sheba'.[1]
The Sheik became widely copied over the years. Burning Sands, Tents of Allah, Felix the Cat Shatters the Sheik, and Rex Ingram's The Arab which starred Ramon Navarro. The Shriek of Araby, and a Baby Peggy short Peg O' Movies spoofed the film. Much later Elvis Presley's film Harum Scarum drew from The Sheik as well.[1]
The popular song "The Sheik of Araby" was written for the novel; but popularized by the film. "Kashmiri Love Song" was also popularized once again by the film (having originally been released in 1902). Jimmy Buffet mentioned the Sheik in "Pencil Thin Mustache". Chapter one of Art Spiegelman's graphic novel Maus is called "The Sheik," and contains a number of references to Valentino and his most famous film.
Serbian popular singer Dragana Šarić aka Bebi Dol had a hit song called Rudi dedicated to Valentino back in 1983. In the song he is referred as "the Sheik's son".
The Sheik has been rereleased several times over the years. Most noteably it saw rerelease in 1937 and 1938 worldwide. This release cut the rape scene due to the Hays Code. It was released by Paramount Video in 1987. On June 25, 2002 Image Entertainment released it on DVD along with The Son of the Sheik titled, The Sheik/The Son of the Sheik: Special Edition.
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 Leider, Emily W., Dark Lover: The life and death of Rudolph Valentino, p. 154
- ↑ Leider, Emily W., Dark Lover: The life and death of Rudolph Valentino, p. 172


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NEC Wants More Than 'Big in Japan'By Sharon Linsenbach | Print
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With new product launches and a new North American distribution agreement, NEC aims for a bigger presence in the United States.
It's the biggest hardware and software vendor you've never heard of. Its large-scale integration (LSI) chip and embedded DRAM technology drives Nintendo's Wii gaming console, and the company's Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) helps law enforcement -- real and on prime-time TV shows like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: New York and CSI: Miami -- catch criminals.
But the company is often overshadowed by bigger names like IBM, Sun and Hewlett-Packard. Stumped?
We're talking about NEC, and with a new channel chief, a new strategy and a distribution deal with Synnex, the vendor is set to make a U.S. comeback.
"We hear this a lot: 'NEC?! You guys are still around?!' We've honestly fallen off people's radar," says Steve DeBonis, the new channel director for NEC's new IT Platform Group (ITPG). NEC reports worldwide revenues of about $40 billion, and while DeBonis says Europe and Asia are huge markets for the company, their US revenue is a mere $1 billion a year.
"Yeah, we're big in Japan and in Europe -- but it doesn't mean anything here," DeBonis says. "There's dissatisfaction with the market penetration outside those areas, and we have to change that," he says.
Getting back on VARs and customers' radar means a completely revamped channel strategy to rectify past missteps, a focus on reaching and recruiting more VARs and NEC's new distribution partnership with Synnex, announced June 17.
DeBonis says the partnership with Synnex came after a lot of soul-searching. NEC has had a group of VAR partners with varied capabilities all targeting different market needs, but no broadline partners that could expand NEC's product reach and increase the company's importance in the eyes of larger numbers of VARs and their end customers. That's where Synnex comes in, DeBonis says.
"I want to generate relevance, and the way we are going to do that is through a core group of a distributors' top VARs," he says.
But while many other vendors chose larger distributors like Ingram Micro, Arrow, Avnet and Tech Data, NEC chose Synnex for its growth opportunity and individualized attention, he says. Synnex, he says, is making a huge play for the enterprise data center space by beefing up their salesforce and aggressively pursuing vendors like NEC.
"Where could we go and be a contrarian? I don't want to be 6 percent of a distributor's mindshare, I want to go and be their No. 3 vendor," says DiBonis.
"Synnex really wants to grow in the enterprise space, and their enterprise model isn't as mature, and we see in them the ability to help us get to a variety of different partner types," he says.
Bob Stegner, Synnex's senior vice president of marketing, North America, says the enterprise space is ripe for NEC's products, and that while many of Synnex's current VARs will eagerly sell NEC's products, that won't stop the distributor from recruiting more.
"We have a lot of higher-end VARs serving customers that are a great fit; NEC products will go right into their portfolio," Stegner says.
Synnex will distribute NEC's lines of state-of-the-art data center, storage and disaster recovery products through highly skilled VARs focused, DeBonis hopes, on higher-end enterprise customers. He says there's a great opportunity for VARs to use an a la carte strategy to fill gaps in their product lines or coverage areas with NEC technology, but that there are also huge opportunities to put together solutions solely from NEC's product lines.
Of course, these new products aren't much good for the channel without support. DeBonis says for the first time NEC is making an incredible effort to implement resources, personnel and infrastructure to support its channel strategy.
With a team of about 10, DeBonis says he feels this time the company's going to get it right by recognizing and acknowledging past mistakes and learning how to avoid them.
"This is the first time NEC's put together a serious channel team, and I told them numerous times, 'We can't look in the rearview mirror anymore.' We cannot obviously ignore our legacy partners, but at the same time, we can't be beholden to what has gone on here in the past,'" he says.
Stegner says he feels NEC's name recognition (or lack therof) will work in the company's favor. On one hand, he says the fact that DeBonis and others are showing a real, solid commitment to changing the way NEC works with the channel will ensure a healthy rebound in U.S. markets.
"The fact they haven't been involved in the channel for awhile doesn't mean they won't have a great 'bounce back.' They are finally getting the channel. They're not just putting their toe in the water, they're jumping in," he says.
On the other hand, what name recognition NEC does have will ease their entry into VARs portfolios and end-customers, too.
"It's not like they're an unbranded product. It's really recognizable, and while that itself won't win the deal, it'll get you in the door," he says.
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Hello and welcome back........ Not only am I a huge Aviation fan, I also am a huge Rail fan. In my younger days I used to catch a train home from Strathfield to Campbelltown NSW.
My choice was catch the electric train straight away or wait 30mins and catch a EMD? Diesel that would fly through stations at 3 seconds flat
I chose the Diesel, the best part was I often went into the second cab (engine) where the guard used to sit, but now the guard was required to sit with the driver thus leaving the second engine empty. Not sure if you were allowed (would not dare touch anything) but the sound was electrifying, something I will never forget.
This video is a similar train that I used to catch (EMD)- I used to nickname them a bullnose diesel because of the light in the middle.
Make sure you click 720p and change to fullscreen, the sound is incredable. Massive thanks to Rod Williams for the video.


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This is a slightly-confessional piece I wrote for a college assignment. We picked poems and wrote responses. I chose to get too personal with mine.
"Esta Noche" by Mark Doty
In a dress with a black tulip's sheen
la fabulosa Lola enters, late, mounts the stairs
to the plywood platform, and begs whoever runs
the wobbling spot to turn the lights down
to something flattering. When they halo her
with a petal-toned gel, she sets to haranguing,
shifting in and out of two languages like gowns
or genders to please have a little respect
for the girls, flashing the one entrancing
and unavoidable gap in the center of her upper teeth.
And when the cellophane drop goes black,
a new spot coronas her in a wig
fit for the end of a century,
and she tosses back her hair—risky gesture—
and raises her arms like a widow in a blood tragedy,
all will and black lace, and lipsyncs "You and Me
against the World." She's a man
you wouldn't look twice at in street clothes,
two hundred pounds of hard living, the gap in her smile
sadly narrative—but she's a monument,
in the mysterious permission of the dress.
This is Esta Noche, a Latin drag bar in the Mission,
its black door a gap in the face
of a battered wall. All over the neighborhood
storefront windows show all night
shrined hats and gloves, wedding dresses,
First Communion's frothing lace:
gowns of perfection and commencement,
fixed promises glowing. In the dress
the color of the spaces between streetlamps
Lola stands unassailable, the dress
in which she is in the largest sense
fabulous: a lesson, a criticism and colossus
of gender, all fire and irony. Her spine's
perfectly erect, only her fluid hands moving
and her head turned slightly to one side.
She hosts the pageant, Wednesdays and Saturdays,
and men come in from the streets, the trains,
and the repair shops, lean together to rank
the artifice of the awkward or lovely
Lola welcomes onto the stage: Victoria, Elena,
Francie, lamé pumps and stockings and always
the rippling night pulled down over broad shoulders
and flounced around the hips, liquid,
the black silk of esta noche
proving that perfection and beauty are so alien
they almost never touch. Tonight, she says,
put it on. The costume is license
and calling. She says you could wear the whole damn
black sky and all its spangles. It's the only night
we have to stand on. Put it on,
it's the only thing we have to wear.
I always felt cheated for people not letting me be myself. When I was five, my parents dressed me up in a papery blue shirt and neat kakhi shorts and took me to church. I could handle the first hour. I sang in the choir and watched Bible characters move around on the felt boards in Sunday school.
The second hour, when I sat through adult church, was unbearable. The shorts would chafe my legs and I always had to go to the bathroom and the chairs were too hard and I didn't like standing up so long for the hymns. I felt stifled.
I'd squawk and kick and breathe heavy to get my parents' attention until my Dad would hiss at me to be quiet and deal with it. I always looked forward to unclipping my bow-tie and changing out my Sunday best for my Aladdin tank top and purple shorts. They were much more comfortable.
When I turned seven my parents left our house in New Mexico and started doing deputation to raise money for missions work overseas. We lived in a big van with shutters and a TV in the back, moving from city to city, speaking at church services, staying with relatives in the area. I'd wake with the sunlight bleeding through the shutters, my face pressed against the window.
Every week my Dad drove the family to more early morning services, old diabetic deacons and good-natured twentysomethings who would pinch mine and my brother's cheeks. I never knew which state we were in or where we would go next. My home waited overseas in some hazy ideal full of the alien and the strange.
And when I got there it didn't feel like home at all. It was just another place. We lived on the edge of a large rice patty and I dressed in a school uniform that itched in the heat. I sat around during lunches not talking to anyone because I wasn't really there. Why should I make temporary friends? After a few months of language school, my parents packed up and took us to another island, where my Dad flew airplanes and we climbed trees in the backyard after school.
Years later we came back to America and stayed with my grandparents. I grew two more chins and read Animorphs and The Neverending Story in the elementary school hall while my classmates made fun of me, called me fat and a faggot for reading. It was my first cold winter, so my parents bought me a thick green jacket padded with down. I wore it every day. Buttoned it up so my paunch wouldn't show so much.
Winter changed to spring, and then to summer, and I still wore that coat. I wouldn't take it off. I could laugh and not worry about anyone seeing my belly. I'm pretty sure I mowed several acres lawn wearing that coat. But then it started to smell bad. Something had started growing in it. After careful inspection, my parents had to peel it off me and throw it away.
In my mind, I still look just like I did the day they threw out the coat. You aren't born with an identity. You wrap it around yourself as the years pass. You take one off, put another one on. Maybe you're a feminist or gay or a jock or a Republican, or a log cabin feminist who just happens to play football. Maybe you're a jerk no matter what label you assume. Maybe you're the nicest guy anyone will ever meet, encased in a woman's body. Or maybe, like me, you're still the same shivering, awkward kid from fifth grade who read too many books, who just wants a coat to hide inside.


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PowerShell…I'm sure we've all heard of PowerShell by now and most likely know it's a scripting language of some sort…. Now as there is a fair amount I want to cover on PowerShell, I've decide to split the blogs into two parts, so in this part we are going to be looking at some of the PowerShell basics, with Part 2 covering managing Server 2012 with PowerShell as well as any new features.
I guess we better start with the big question "What is PowerShell?"
Well PowerShell is an object-based management environment. I'm sure many of you are familiar with VBscript and the likes, but PowerShell is more than just a simple command line to perform specific tasks. PowerShell can also manage Server Roles and Features, as well as being used to provision manage and report on various objects, directors and components.
As an administrator what exactly does this enable me to do?
Well quite simply some of the below:
The final bullet point there "unavailable settings", this is pretty much how I first came about using PowerShell.
Going back to Exchange 2007, most of the tasks/maintenance I wanted to perform within an Exchange environment was simply not available to me from the GUI, which meant I had to take to the Exchange Command Shell (PowerShell).
This allowed me access too many many features simply not available via the GUI.
Actually speaking about the GUI, all the GUI is effectively doing is building the PowerShell script as you select different options, and then executes the final PowerShell command. Those of you familiar with Exchange 2010 will notice when you finish a task via the GUI, it provides you with the PowerShell output.
This is not just Exchange, this is the same for Server 2012. Everything you do via the GUI is effectively just building a PowerShell script "underneath" which you can't see. Once you click OK or Finish, it executes the script in the background.
Let take a brief look at the PowerShell Syntax…
Command-lets (cmdlets) are named with a verb-noun combination. For example:
You use cmdlet parameters to modify actions and provide configuration information.
Parameters include:
Both of the above would return the System EventLog.
Now let's look at Cmdlet Aliases….
Some of the "built-in" aliases allow for backward comparability and you also most likely already know the commands. For example:
I'm sure we've all used the cd, dir, ls etc.. commands before, and they still work as they are set as Aliases.
You can also create your own aliases, in this short and sweet example I will set Michael as an alias for get-date.
Effectively I will be executing the following:
Very simple.
Server 2012 comes with Microsoft's latest PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE).
This is available as a download (previous versions), and can be access from the Server Manager.
Upon launching the ISE you will notice down the right, pretty much every cmdlet you can think of (and is available).
In the example below I run the simple cmdlet I ran above (Get-Date) and (Set-Alias), but the ISE is more than a "help" for PS cmdlets.
If you select script on the right you now have an editor available for you.
This means the ISE is now a one-stop shop for writing and executing PowerShell scripts.
Select the Green Play button or press F5 to run the script
Personally I always use the ISE if I need to write any PS scripts.
Apart from the ISE, you can also use the built-in "Help" of PowerShell.
You can access this at any time by simply running Get-Help
As an example:
Get-Help also has different parameters to help adjust the amount of help you wish to be displayed.
The parameters are:
As well as the above you can also use other cmdlets to help assist:
"Tab completion" – What is this? Well simply put if you are typing out a command, you can press tab to "auto-complete"/"cycle through" a list of related commands.
*Handy Tip* – Shift Tab scrolls back (only recently found this out!). Handy for if you are using tab to cycle through available commands and you accidentally go past the command you needed.
The good thing about PowerShell is it's not just limited to the Exchange environment, or basic Server environment. By importing other modules it allows you to then manage those via PowerShell
For example:
(No clues for guessing what the above import)… Of course these Roles need to be installed before you can import the module, so if you don't have Hyper-V installed, guess what import-module Hyper-V won't work.
Get-Module allows you to see which modules are currently loaded, as in the example below i'm importing the Active Directory module.
Finally in this blog i'm going to cover off PowerShell Remoting.
As the name kind of suggests, it's effectively allowing you to connect to a remote computer, run the command, and then bring the results back to your computer.
The goals of Windows PowerShell remoting are:
The three ways to use Windows PowerShell remoting are:
You are most commonly going to use either a one to one, or one to many remoting.
In the example below I am going to connect to MRSVR01 and return the system event log
And that pretty much wraps up Part 1 for the basics, Part 2 will go on to cover the "new" features in PowerShell V3.0, as well as managing AD DS….


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Les Hodge | A garden where the wild things grow
Our country garden has evolved mostly out of elimination as the choice of plants has been dictated by the eating and nocturnal habits of the native wildlife that either inhabit or visit it.
In other words what the animals don't eat has survived to form our wild garden.
The kangaroos keep the larger grassed areas eaten down so no lawn mowing there, while the possums take care of natural pruning to make sure trees don't grow too high, and the holes the echidnas dig well and truly make up for the ants they consume.
Once we accepted to live with and enjoy the antics and damage these little creatures bestow upon us instead of our plans for a neatly manicured garden, it was a satisfying compromise.
Why worry about something you have no control over?
We have planted silver birches and contorted willows as well as blackwoods and snow gums to create shade and natural mulch which forms with the accumulation of fallen leaves.
Under the trees we planted drifts of bulbs to add spring and summer colour.
Unfortunately the grape hyacinth bulbs were dug up and devoured by the little potoroos, but this enabled the self-seeding forget-me-nots to take over.
By necessity we have developed a wild/meadow style of planting in which shrubs and brightly-coloured self-seeding flowers are combined with the trees to produce an appealing picture.
While maintenance is minimal and the result is visually pleasing, the plants were chosen with one important feature, they had to be unpalatable to native animals.
We have also discovered that areas such as these require less preparation than more conventional gardens and lawns, and that rich soil is not needed as most of the plants like to be lean and hungry.
Weeds that grow don't have to be removed immediately as they tend to not look out of place so much but pull them out before they seed and spread.
Our wild garden, or controlled chaos as my wife sometimes describes it, is now established after many years of experimenting with plants so it's a simple matter of just mowing the grassed pathways and the occasional pruning.
So there are benefits in living with nature.
Your local nursery can advise on what plants can be used for wild and meadow gardens.
Cymbidium Orchids
Winter will see the arrival of in-flower cymbidium orchids in supermarkets and nurseries to catch the eye of impulse buyers.
Cymbidiums are the most easily-grown of the 'potted orchids' and are specially bred to produce graceful spikes of long-lasting flowers of many colours.
To keep your 'must have' orchid healthy, water as required, maybe once a week in winter and probably daily in the middle of summer.
Cymbidiums respond to a general fertiliser after they finish flowering in spring and summer. Change to a fruit and flower fertiliser in late summer.
June 3: (not June 5 as previously advertised) The North-West Lilium Society's annual lilium bulb sale at the Latrobe Memorial Hall from 11am to 1pm. A great opportunity for gardeners to obtain quality bulbs not generally available.
June 19: Australian Plant Society meets at the Max Fry Hall, Gorge Rd, Trevallyn at 7.30pm. Speaker is Christine Howells on 'The Flora of Central Australia'. Visitors most welcome.
June 20: The Launceston Horticultural Society meets at the Windmill Hill Hall, High Street, Launceston at 8pm. Visitors welcome.
June 21: The Launceston Orchid Society meets at the Newnham Uniting Church Hall, George Town Road, Launceston at 7pm.


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CAPE ELIZABETH — Mary "Aunt Mamie" Sarah Burns, 89, of Cape Elizabeth, died peacefully, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013 in the Gosnell Hospice House Garden surrounded by her family and the Gosnell staff.
She was born in Portland on June 30, 1924, the daughter of Edward L. and Mary F. Levesque Delaney. Mary attended Sacred Heart School and was a 1942 graduate of Cathedral High School.
Following high school, Mary went to work for New England Telephone & Telegraph Company. Her career with the telephone company lasted over 30 years. Mary lived out of state briefly and worked in another field for a short time before returning to the phone company. She retired at age 57.
She was a longtime communicant of St. Bartholomew Church; a lifetime member of the Telephone Pioneers of America and the Cape Elizabeth Garden Club. Mary loved flowers and enjoyed gardening at her home. She was a very fussy well-organized housekeeper. She enjoyed cats, especially "Capt. Coon."
Mary was fond of the beach and loved spending time at the ocean. As a younger woman, she enjoyed traveling to the beaches of the Caribbean and Florida. She often spoke fondly of her trip to England.
Mary was predeceased by three brothers, James, John and Robert Delaney; and two sisters, Catherine Lorello and Dorothy Larsen.
Mary is survived by a brother, Edward Delaney of Philadelphia, Pa.; 19 nieces and nephews, including Paul Larsen of Raymond; 40-great nieces and nephews and six great-great-nieces and nephews.
Visitation was held Tuesday Aug. 6, 2013 at Conroy-Tully Crawford South Portland Chapel, 1024 Broadway, South Portland. Prayers were recited Wednesday at the South Portland Chapel followed by a 10 a.m. Mass of Christian Burial at Sacred Heart/St. Dominic Church, Mellon Street, Portland. Interment was at Riverside Cemetery, Cape Elizabeth.
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13 women have joined together in the Made to Crave study to explore where God fits into our healthy lifestyle pursuits. Does God really care what I eat or whether I exercise? Isn't this something I can handle on my own? We are just talking about food here aren't we?
Yes this does seem to be one area we can handle all on our own. Pretty straight forward – eat to live. Or is that live to eat?
If you lean toward the latter, it may be time to shine a little spiritual light into this part of your life. God has a reason to be in every part of our lives, even those parts we think we are handling just fine on our own.
See when what you eat, how you feel physically or how you see your body become a central focus in your life, you are using up God's time. He has plans for you, things for you to do every day. You only have so much time to accomplish his work and you need a strong, healthy body to do it. You don't have time to be obsessed with wondering if your pants make your behind look big. Nor can you be effective if you feel like a slug after 2:00 every day.
God wants each of us to have strong, healthy bodies and he will help us find victory in this area of our lives if we will ask him to. Let's take some time this week to get our clocks set on God's time!
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A Wave of Change for Single Use Plastic in North Wales
by Hannah Earp, School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University
The Bangor University hub of Capturing our Coast, a national citizen science project funded by Heritage Lottery Fund, in collaboration with Keep Wales Tidy, organised a screening of the award winning adventure documentary, 'A Plastic Ocean'. The event was a huge success with over 300 people from all generations turning out to increase their understanding of the plastic pollution problem.
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The screening was kick-started by a talk from local charity, Keep Wales Tidy, about campaigns aiming to combat plastic pollution in Wales. The documentary then took the audience on adventures across the world's oceans, illustrating the vast scale of the issue, the plight of remote islands being swamped by plastic debris, and the impact of plastics on human health. The documentary also highlighted positive steps being made to combat plastic pollution alongside small changes every person could make to reduce their plastic footprint.
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Attendees at the event were also given the opportunity to take part in activities to increase their awareness of marine plastic pollution. These included estimating how long day-to-day items, such as water bottles and polystyrene, take to break down in the ocean as well as competing on The Sustainability Lab's recycling game. Three other local organisations; Underwater Wales, The Snowdonia Society and the RSPB were on hand to share their experiences of local plastic pollution.
Wave of change
The evening's message had a huge impact on the audience and inspired many to pledge to make changes to their daily plastic habits, recorded on the event's "Wave of Change" wall. For example, one audience member pledged to "… buy fresh food not in plastic" and another to "… get a non-plastic toothbrush and cotton buds". Furthermore, thirty people met up the next morning to collect 24 bags of litter from Dinas Dinlle beach.
Dr Siobhan Vye, Capturing our Coast North Wales Project Officer said:
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PANS publishes the achievement made by He's research team.
The research team led by Researcher He Xiao of School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, ECNU, have made progress in the research of Density Functional Theory (DFT) and present the revM06-L functional. According to He and his colleagues, revM06-L can be widely used in theoretic research of chemistry and condensed-matter physics.
"Revised M06-L Functional for Improved Accuracy on Chemical Reaction Barrier Heights, Noncovalent Interactions, and Solid-State Physics", the research paper covering their achievement was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS).
He Xiao (center) and Wang Ying(Left), Jin Xinsheng, two other authors of the paper.
Over the past 30 years, Kohn−Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) has become the most robust and popular electronic structure method for chemistry and condensed-matter physics. However, the accuracy of KS-DFT depends on the quality of the exchange−correlation functional, and an exact functional is unknown. Much effort has been devoted to the development of better approximations to the exchange−correlation functional. Useful functionals should be accurate and economical to use, because the high performance-to-cost ratio is the leading driver of the widespread use of KS-DFT. Particularly well positioned on the performance-to-cost scale are functionals that depend only on local properties, which are called local functionals, especially by chemists.
To achieve higher across-the-board accuracy and to improve the accuracy for chemical reaction barrier heights, noncovalent interactions, and lattice constants, He and his Colleagues reparameterized the M06-L functional by fitting to a larger database including both molecular and solid-state data. The resulting functional is named revM06-L, which gives both smoother potential energy curves and improved overall accuracy, especially for chemical reaction barrier heights, noncovalent interactions, and solid-state physics.
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Louisville, KY — Auto Value and Bumper to Bumper saddle up to welcome 50 Kentucky Horsepower Corvette Giveaway grand prize winners and guests from across the United States and Canada to Louisville, KY for four days of derby fun.
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Game 3 of the NL Division Series
Nats (1-1) vs. Los Angeles Dodgers (1-1) at Dodger Stadium
The Nationals broke out offensively to take Game 2 behind Jose Lobaton's huge three-run homer. Now both teams pick back up for Game 3 in Los Angeles after a quick turnaround and a long flight across the country.
The Nats aim to take a series lead with lefty Gio Gonzalez (11-11, 4.57) on the mound. Gonzalez flew to L.A. early, before the rest of the Naitonals, so the travel shouldn't affect him as much as others.
Gonzalez, though, will look to bounce back from a rough start his last time out. He lasted only 3 2/3 innings on 100 pitches against the Diamondbacks on Sept. 28.
Gonzalez does have a strong history against the Dodgers working in his favor. He has a 1.69 ERA across 32 innings since he joined the Nationals before the 2012 season. And this year he was the only Nats pitcher to beat L.A. during the regular season with six innings of one-run ball on July 20.
Pitching for the Dodgers will be rookie Kenta Maeda (16-11, 3.48). The Nationals will be seeing him for the first time, which could present a challenge.
Washington's lineup has a few changes in it for Game 3. Bryce Harper has been dropped down to the cleanup spot with Jayson Werth back in the two-hole. Manager Dusty Baker has made an adjustment now that the Dodgers are starting a right-hander.
First pitch: 4:08 p.m.
TV: MLB Network (free preview*)
Radio: 106.7 The Fan, ESPN
Starting pitchers: Nats - Gio Gonzalez vs. Dodgers - Kenta Maeda
CF Trea Turner
LF Jayson Werth
2B Daniel Murphy
RF Bryce Harper
3B Anthony Rendon
1B Ryan Zimmerman
SS Danny Espinosa
C Jose Lobaton
LHP Gio Gonzalez
LF Howie Kendrick
3B Justin Turner
SS Corey Seager
RF Yasiel Puig
1B Adrian Gonzalez
C Yasmani Grandal
2B Charlie Culberson
CF Joc Pederson
RHP Kenta Maeda
*MLB Network has a free preview for customers using these providers: AT&T U-verse, Cablevision, Comcast XFINITY, Cox, DIRECTV, DISH Network, Frontier, RCN and Verizon FiOS through Tuesday.
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While there's no confirmation on whether "Friends" suggests a new album from Bieber is coming in the near future, one of the goal producers, Poo Bear, recently told Billboard that "it's time for a new body of work". The output of objective, the most recent installment of the pop star, the date of November 2015.
Over the electro-pop hitmaker's dance floor-ready production, Biebs sings about friendship following a breakup. BloodPop (a.k.a. Michael Tucker) co-produced "Friends" with Skrillex, while "Sorry" co-writer Julia Michaels returned for this new, upbeat number. It is yet unknown whether the track is a standalone single or the first offering from the singer's fifth studio album. "And if it ends, can we be friends?".
"This single is the first Bieber has released since his goal album track, 'Company.' Earlier this year, he collaborated with David Guetta for the track, "2U", and Luis Fonsi for the hit song 'Despacito". Major Lazer and MØ ), following it up with 'Let Me Love You, ' (ft.
E! News reports that the 23-year-old released a brand new single, titled "Friends", on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017.
Warning: It might get stuck in your head instantaneously.
Bieber announced in July the cancellation of his objective world tour due to "unforeseen circumstances", according to a statement at the time.
Will his fans stay loyal and be receptive of his new song, 'Friends, ' after he cancelled his tour? "Me taking this time right now is me saying I want to be SUSTAINABLE." he continued while citing broken relationships. Only time will tell.


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Investing in Women and the People of Africa
Upon taking office as Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2007, I said that I wanted to be judged by the WHO's impact on the health of two populations: women and the people of Africa. We, the WHO, are of course concerned with everyone's health, but within the broad compass of global health these two large groups of people have been at a particular disadvantage. For reasons of history, geography, climate, and ecology, the people of sub-Saharan Africa ("Africa" from here on) bear the greatest burden of ill health and disease. In many societies around the world, women are still denied the same opportunities as men to participate in decisions that affect their health and the health of their families. For many African women, the two kinds of disadvantages coincide. I therefore concluded in 2007 that supporting women and the people of Africa would be two powerful ways of working towards greater health equality worldwide.
Seven years later, it is clear that there have been substantial improvements in the health of these overlapping populations, but the gains that have been made are nowhere near enough. In Africa, maternal and infant mortality were cut by more than 40 percent between 1990 and 2012, falling, respectively, to 480 per 100,000 live births and 63 per 1,000 live births. However, the rates of decline in these key indicators have been slower than in other WHO regions of the world; consequently, the levels observed in 2012 were still higher than for any other region.
Over the same period in Africa, the drop in neonatal mortality, which is closely linked to the health of mothers and young children, was even smaller (just 29 percent). Therefore, while these indicators of maternal and child mortality are moving in the right direction—downwards—they show that the health of African women and infants is falling behind that of individuals in other regions.
An important underlying reason for these persistently high death rates is that mothers and children in Africa still have relatively poor access to essential health services. Considering some of the services that are important for families, WHO statistics show that Africa has, by standard measures, the greatest unmet need for family planning, the lowest use of contraceptives, and the lowest percentage of births attended by skilled health workers. Falling ill is costly. To pick just one example, only one in five people in the world enjoy a form of social security that covers for wages lost due to illness; but in Africa the proportion is less than 1 in 10 according to the World Health Report 2010. The challenge for most national governments, but especially those in Africa, is to raise enough funds for social protection, to reduce the reliance on direct, private payments to finance services, and to improve the efficiency and equity of public spending.
High death rates among children are accompanied by high birth rates—a characteristic of countries in the earlier stages of demographic and epidemiologic transition. The typical woman in Africa still gives birth to 5 children, twice the global average. Even with relatively high mortality rates, the difference between births and deaths means that Africa's population continues to grow faster than any other region. Consequently, Africa is likely to have more than 2 billion inhabitants by 2050, more than double the number in 2010, mostly living in densely crowded cities.
With health problems dominated by infectious diseases, and by maternal and childhood illnesses, Africa's health agenda has been guided over the past decade by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). MDG numbers 4 (children), 5 (women), and 6 (communicable diseases) are unfinished business, but Africa's young populations are getting older as well as larger, so that chronic, non-communicable diseases are adding to the burden of ill health. With limited resources, African nations must make some careful choices to get the best returns on health spending.
But the story of health must be told not only in terms of demographics, epidemiology, and financing, but also from a cultural perspective. Here too, the people of Africa, especially women, are at a disadvantage. Compared with other regions of the world, Africa has the highest reported prevalence of sexual violence, mostly directed against women. As a 2014 study by Abrahams et al. points out, the full extent of the problem, and its consequences, are not yet understood. However, it is clear that violence has a wide range of serious health consequences—along with the physical injuries there are unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections, and mental illness.
... it is clear that there have been substantial improvements in the health of these overlapping populations, but the gains that have been made are nowhere near enough.
Violence lies at one end of a pernicious spectrum, and the health of many more women is compromised in less severe ways. For example, although early marriage is on the decline, tens of millions of girls still marry in their teenage years. Once in the home as housewives, the domestic chores come with occupational hazards. When cooking over open fires or on traditional stoves, women are exposed to an assortment of pollutants every day. WHO data shows that, in 2012, household air pollution was responsible for an estimated 1.8 million deaths among women worldwide. During pregnancy, exposure to harmful pollutants raises the risks of low birth weight and stillbirth.
With so many different kinds of health risks, on so many different levels, the challenges facing women and the people of Africa are daunting. The possible solutions are as numerous as the challenges, but I want to emphasize two in particular. Neither is new but both are vital: investing in women, and investing to achieve universal health coverage.
Women: from Vulnerability to Empowerment
Although women are vulnerable in many ways, they can also be powerful agents for change, not only for their own benefit, but for their families' benefit as well. A large body of evidence shows that support for women often generates greater income and better health in households and communities. For instance, Khandker and Samad's recent review of 20 years of microfinance in Bangladesh found that borrowing by women raised household spending by one and a half times as much as borrowing by men, increased the female labor supply by nearly three times as much, and boosted school enrollment. A key point about microfinance is that even small loans can give women the freedom to work—escaping from household chores—and the power to create more educational opportunities for their children. When women have more money, wherever they are in the world, they commonly spend it on ways to improve family health.
These small-scale finance schemes—where they work—should be seen as contributions to a bigger plan. There is a strong argument for directing government and donor funding towards the health of women and children at a national level. In our own recent analysis of maternal and child health investments in 74 countries, the WHO concluded that an increase in expenditure of just US$5 per person per year up to 2035 could yield far greater value in health and social benefits. By acting on this Global Investment Framework we could prevent an estimated 32 million stillbirths, and the deaths of 147 million children and 5 million women, with substantial benefits for economic productivity.
Although these investments focus on women and children, they stand to benefit everyone. This is because interventions to support family planning and immunization, child nutrition, and the control of malaria and HIV/AIDS, among others, are all steps towards universal health coverage.
Africa: Towards Universal Health Coverage
The cost of the Global Investment Framework is an extra US$30 billion annually. In terms of global health spending, this is a small amount of money, but the sources do have to be identified. Who will provide such a large amount of money? For the poorest countries, support from foreign donors is still vital, but as development assistance for health flattens, African nations will need to raise more of the money themselves. As described in the WHO report "The Abuja Declaration: Ten Years On," of September 2000, 189 heads of state adopted the Millennium Declaration designed to improve social and economic conditions in the world's poorest countries by 2015. Subsequently, a set of eight goals was devised, drawing on the Millennium Declaration, as a way of tracking progress. Three of these relate specifically to health; two more have health components. In April 2001, heads of state of African Union countries met and pledged to set a target of allocating at least 15 percent of their annual budget to improve the health sector. At the same time, they urged donor countries to 'fulfill the unmet target of 0.7 percent of their GNP as Official Development Assistance to developing countries.' This drew attention to the shortage of resources necessary to improve health in low-income settings. At that time, the median level of general government health expenditure from domestic resources in African Union Countries was approximately US$100 with a thousand-fold difference between the minimum (US$0.38) and maximum (US$380). The World Health Report 2010 indicates that if African governments spent 15 percent of their budgets on health, as promised in the Abuja Declaration in 2001, they could together raise around US$30 billion per year, for Africa alone.
... besides direct spending in service delivery, investment is needed in public health infrastructure, in methods of minimizing waste and in promoting efficiency in national health services.
The good news is that according to the International Centre for Tax and Development, the governments of African countries are, in general, increasing their tax revenues. However, the poorest countries still face a huge task in trying to increase domestic health spending—especially those with low GDP per capita, with large informal sectors that are difficult to tax (agriculture and others), and with small volumes of taxable goods.
In spite of these challenges, researchers from the WHO and other organizations note that more than 20 African countries have made specific plans to reach the Abuja target, and each country is finding its own best mix of financing methods. The aim is not just to raise funds but also to ensure protection against the financial risks of paying for health services through forms of prepayment and pooling. As outlined in the World Health Report 2010, Ghana uses a tax-based system to fund national health insurance, especially through a 2.5 percent national health insurance levy on value-added tax, which is applied to goods including alcohol and tobacco. Rwanda uses community-based health insurance, with contributions from households, government, employers, and donors, and has demonstrated how maternal and child health services can be scaled up in just a few years. With the help of external donors, Tanzania doubled public health expenditure during the early 2000s, channelling funds into the integrated management of childhood illness, insecticide-treated nets, vitamin A supplements, immunization, and breastfeeding.
A 2012 article by Mills et al. indicates that the reward for improving the coverage of these services was an accelerated reduction in child mortality. As Dr. L.G. Sambo described in his keynote address at the 2012 Conference of Ministers of Finance and Health in Tunis, it is widely recognized that besides direct spending on service delivery, investment is needed in public health infrastructure, in methods of minimizing waste and in promoting efficiency in national health services.
There must also be more investment in research, because as the World Health Report 2013 points out, we do not know how to achieve universal health coverage everywhere. Tanzania, for example, has been progressive in many ways, but a better understanding is needed to fill remaining gaps in health services: as various studies on the nation's health care system reveal, children are not fully vaccinated throughout the country, primary care for non-communicable diseases like hypertension and diabetes remains weak, and the need for mental health services has not been properly assessed.
Besides identifying specific research questions, African countries also need ways to capitalize on discovery, for the benefit of private business as well as the general public. In this context, the African Union Commission's proposal for implementing the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plan for Africa (PMPA) is a welcome initiative, as described by a 2014 article in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization. The goal is to scale up investment in Africa's pharmaceutical manufacturing capacity, especially for generic essential medicines, while aligning objectives for industrial development and public health.
The health of people in Africa, and the health of women everywhere, present big tests for universal health coverage, and big tests for the WHO. But we have built momentum around initiatives to support both populations: the WHO has affirmed in "Women and Health: Today's Evidence, Tomorrow's Agenda" that the value of investing in women is beyond dispute, and as Dr. L.G. Sambo has pointed out, nearly all the countries in the world have made a commitment to achieving universal health coverage. The World Health Organization shall use its energies to add to this momentum. As Africa's health ministers affirmed in Luanda this April, to achieve universal coverage is critical, not only for health, but as an integral part of social and economic development across the continent.


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Shri Satpal Ji Maharaj is well-known as a social reformer. During his extensive Padyatras(tours by foot) in the northwestern Himalayan region of Garhwal, Maharaj Ji came to know about the endemic problems of the area and has been actively advocating various social welfare programs to promote literacy, employment and a fair deal for women ever since. His task, as he sees it, is to "restore respect for the past, find solutions in the present and devise a proper course of action for the future". He is trying hard to unite all sections of society under the banner 'One Nation, One Flag, One Spirit'. He urges people not to rely on the Government to solve their problems, but to break through their mental barriers and caste prejudices to uproot communal hatred, in order to work together for the sake of society as a whole.
Years of tireless effort and extensive touring of India, Nepal and Bhutan led to a series of padyatras (a long march with a spiritual and/or social purpose).


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Book Review : Lady Maggie's Secret Scandal by Grace Burrowes1
April 12, 2012 by thebookslayer
Release Date : May 1st
Lady Maggie's Secret Scandal by Grace Burrowes
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Recommend : If you enjoy Historical Romances then give this book a try. You don't have to read the other 4 books to enjoy this book. It can stand alone or enhance the last 4 books of the series.
I fell in love with the Windham's from the very first book The Heir . Maggie is the oldest of the Windham daughters. She also has been firmly put on the shelf for several years and therefore has learned to live a peaceful life in her own home with her own money. Her Grace, Maggie's stepmother, fears she will never find love and as with all her other children, for she considers her husband's child from another mother her own, she tries her hardest to play matchmaker. However this story is not put into play by Her Grace but Maggie herself and a secret she is trying desperately to keep contained.
Evie, the youngest sister, and Maggie are desperately trying to find Maggie's reticule so that they may both go to Her Grace's for the family tea get together. Try as they might they are unable to find it and have to head out without it. As they enter their parents house men who were meeting with their father are exiting. Maggie manages to get her shawl intertwined in Mr. Hazlit's flower attached to his pocket with a pin. While trying to untangle them, Maggie gets her hair stuck in his lapel. Mr. Hazlit, or Benjamin ends up taking her hair down and that sparks ignite which sets everything into motion.
"His dark eyebrows rose, and for one instant, Maggie had the satisfaction of seeing Mr. Benjamin Hazlit at a loss."
That is just the beginning for Maggie and Benjamin. She returns home and continues to look for her reticule but still can't find it. Now she can either keep looking herself or turn to a private investigator to help her find it in time to keep her secret from coming to light. But it isn't as simple as Maggie would like. She expects Benjamin to preform this service for money without knowing all the facts but quickly finds that he is going to require more of her than she wants to give. An innocent request turns into playing with fire. Will they be able to find her missing reticule without getting burned in the process?
"Mr.Hazlit?" She took another sip of tea.
"Miss Windham?"
"If you waggle your fingers at me, or-heaven forbid-snap them, I will bite you."
"Where?" Something lurked in his eyes, something….playful?
"Where what?"
"Where would you bite me?"
God help her, he'd dropped his voice to that smoky register she'd heard out in the rose arbor.
This book has the whole Sherlock Holmes feel to it. Lucas and Ben working together to solve this mystery.
Mr. Benjamin Hazlit and Mr.Lucas Denning Private Investigators at your service!
What I loved about this book:
I loved that Ben, who we meet in the first book, gets his happily ever after. I love how we watch his and Maggie's relationship bloom. There was tons of humor mixed with anticipation.
I loved Lucas Denning's, or Deene, character. When Evie and him happen upon each other the clever insults fly. I can only hope this means another great novel with these two characters actually admitting that there is more to them both than meets the eye.
I thought this book brought out more of Her Grace's strong and loving character. You can see how much love she has for all her children, even those she didn't give birth to.
Favorite Quotes:
"Were I them, I'd be snuggling up to Deene before many of his peers. There he goes now, and God help that twit on his arm. She looks like she went poaching for hares and got a boar in her gun sights."
"Naughty, Helene." Maggie hid her smile by pretending to search in her reticule.
"Sometimes, baby sister, your powers of observation border on rudeness."
"There was something behind his smile, something Maggie suspected a woman would call concern and a man wouldn't deign to put a label on even under threat of torture."
"I've taken a sudden notion to appreciate mature females," Deene was saying. "Though if her brothers ask, I'm being protective in their absence. Hold my drink."
"He's struggling a bit," His Grace said. A neutral answer that applied to most men between toddlerhood and senescence.
"Mark me on this, Hazelton. I have daughters, daughters-in-law, granddaughters, and one duchess. I have made a study of the fairer sex out of sheer self-preservation, as any wise man will."
It is simple-devote yourself to her happiness, and you will be rewarded tenfold.
"The Portmaine family motto is, 'We thrive on impossible challenges.'"
Deene arched a blond eyebrow. "You just manufactured that for present purposes. You're from the North, and your family motto is probably something like, 'Thank God for friendly sheep.'"
I really enjoyed this book. I thought it had plenty of romance and quite a bit of mystery to keep me on the edge of my seat guessing what would happen next.
Thank you to Netgalley for providing me with this ARC to review.
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Ah, there's nothing like a good historical romance every once in awhile. 🙂 Sounds like this one was fun! Glad you enjoyed it.Wendy @ The Midnight Garden


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