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Dr. Mike Roizen is the chief wellness officer at the "famous Cleveland Clinic," where the rich and famous get examined and treated. He is the author of You: The Owner's Manual: An Insider's Guide To The Body that Will Make You Healthier and Younger, among other books, and over two hundred peer-reviewed scientific articles. He also served on FDA advisory committees for sixteen years.
Category: Nutrition
Building Natural Immunity
Many wise parents have made the decision not to vaccinate their children. They know that vaccines are full of toxins that can cause many serious side effects. It is also becoming apparent that vaccines don't even work, and worse, can actually spread disease.
Cooking The Whole Fish
My mother and I both loved Paris and several times had the pleasure of being there together—either meeting there or traveling there. However we met up, we never let the opportunity go by without a visit to our favorite restaurant, La Boule D'Or, in the 7th arrondisement.
Wise Traditions 2017
The 18th annual Wise Traditions conference of the Weston A. Price Foundation is coming up next month, November 10-13 in Minneapolis Minnesota. If you are looking to learn a lot in the company of a community of like-minded individuals, this is the place to be.
Pancake Batter
One of the most versatile and successful recipes from Nourishing Traditions is the pancakes. Freshly ground flour (spelt, emmer or soft winter wheat) soaked overnight with equal parts of yogurt or kefir serves as the base for delicious, light tasting and highly digestible pancakes.
Gizzards, The Gateway Organ Meat
Have you ever wondered how animals without teeth chew up their food, especially hard foods like grains? They actually have an internal grinding apparatus, called the gizzard.
Milk and Water Kefir
Kefir grains are a wonderful way to culture raw milk because they are not temperature sensitive—for yogurt and other cultures, the milk needs to be heated and kept warm for the culture to work.
Find Real Food App, Part II
In my last blog, I introduced the Weston A. Price Foundation's Find Real Food app, the online version of our Shopping Guide. The Shopping Guide and App are unique in many ways.
Find Real Food: The Ultimate Healthy Food Grocery Shopping Guide
Many years ago, a member of the Weston A. Price Foundation named David Morris, came to us with the idea of a shopping guide, which would only list foods that met our Wise Traditions guidelines. He even went out and found the funding for us to print the first issue—that was in 2003.
State of Illinois Still Poisoning Male Prisoners with Soy Diet
Early in 2005, we received a telephone call at the Weston A. Price Foundation office from an Illinois prisoner, Larry "Rocky" Harris. Mr. Harris had a tough, desperate-sounding voice, and something told me I needed to listen carefully. Larry is a "prison lawyer" who helps fellow prisoners write grievances and complaints and advises them as to their legal rights.
Bringing Up Baby, Part IV
"Food before one is just for fun." That's the philosophy for feeding programs that place a few raw vegetables on your baby's high chair tray; other groups do stress the important nutritional requirements for babies and toddlers, but follow this with recommendations to feed rice cereal and pureed vegetables. Dear parents, your growing baby needs much more than vegetable slices or rice cereal!
Bringing Up Baby, Part III – Baby-Led Weaning??
Recently I visited Whole Foods in Washington, DC and went upstairs to the cafe area to eat my lunch (cheese and homemade pate) before shopping. A woman with a baby of about eight months old came in and sat at the table next to mine. She ate a meal she had purchased at the deli. But what did baby in her high chair get? A few pieces of green pepper and cucumber on the high chair tray. When she left, those vegetable slices were scattered on the floor, with no evidence that baby had eaten much of anything.
Bringing Up Baby, Part II
In my last blog I began a discussion of infant feeding practices, addressing the question of when to begin solid food. In this instance, my views are in accord with those of conventional organizations, namely that for the majority of babies, four to six months is the right age for beginning foods other than breast milk or formula (that's homemade baby formula, based on raw milk).
As for what to feed baby, here I am mostly in disagreement with conventional advice.
Bringing Up Baby, Part I
A recent online discussion that took place at NourishingOurChildren.org has made me realize the need to reiterate our (mine and those of the Weston A. Price Foundation) recommendations for infant feeding.
An Open Letter To Donald Trump
Dear Mr. Trump,
Congratulations on your election to the U.S. presidency. You campaigned on a slogan of "Make America Great Again," proposing to create more jobs for ordinary Americans.
This is a laudable goal but unfortunately, it is not enough to make America great again.
Nourishing Fats: Why We Need Animal Fats For Health And Happiness
I'm happy to report that my new book, Nourishing Fats, will be out this coming January (2017). The book began as a few notes and a hasty table of contents jotted down over a dozen years ago, after many conversations with my mentor, Mary G. Enig, PhD. We agreed on the need for a popular book addressing the subject of saturated fats, one that would do more than acknowledge the notion that they "might not be so bad," but explain why they are essential to life. Needless to say, the inspiration for this book, and the basic knowledge on fats and oils, came from her. Nourishing Fats is dedicated to the memory of this courageous biochemist, who sacrificed research grants and a prestigious career in order to warn the public about the dangers of trans fats.
Bitter Pills
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Glennon Doyle Melton, an author who shares her struggles on coping as a mother at momastery.com. I got a bit of flack for making the connection of the typical American "healthy" diet with her difficulties, but in fact the Internet is teaming with moms sharing their heartaches dealing with depression and lack of energy as they try to care for children (often very sick children)—and with far fewer resources than Doyle Melton enjoys. These problems—in both the moms and the children—could be greatly alleviated by embracing a nutrient-dense diet that contains lots of butter, cream, whole raw milk, egg yolks and old-fashioned foods like liver and cod liver oil, and getting rid of processed foods, even so-called healthy processed foods like granola and almond milk. My remarks were not meant to be critical in any way, but to indicate a solution—the right diet really can help kids and their parents to be healthy and happy.
All Those Baseball Injuries
An article in the Washington Post (July 14, 2016) discusses the punishing major league baseball schedules, noting that players believe there is a relationship between "consecutive days played, game times, travel—and injuries." They point to the one hundred sixty-two-day schedule, instituted in the early 1960s, as a factor in the greater number of injuries in recent times.
Why Is Glennon Doyle Melton So Unhappy?
I had never heard of Glennon Doyle Melton until the Washington Post published an article about her, September 8, 2016. Ms. Doyle Melton is attractive and slender, lives in an upper middle class neighborhood, has a husband (although they are now separated), three good-looking children and more-than-adequate finances. She is the author of an extremely successful blog, momastery.com, which gets seven million readers per week, and two best-selling books, Love Warrior (Flatiron, 2016) and Carry On, Warrior (Scribner, 2012).
Feeling Tired All The Time? Chronic Fatigue
I learned a very interesting fact recently, one that can give us guidance on how to overcome the modern phenomenon of chronic fatigue: about 70 percent (!) of the body's energy goes toward digesting our food. So the obvious first step in treating a condition of constant tiredness would be to consume food that is easy to digest.


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December 12th, 2010 (10:31 am)
Yuletide stories due in eight days! I have my assignment, I know what I'm writing, and I've got more than a thousand words in (though Ghod knows how long it'll be by the time I'm done). But what have I been spending most of my writing time on? 70 pages of original screenplay. I don't even know any more.
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'Jack Reacher' Hits $22.5 Million Overseas
on December 30, 2012
Jack Reacher opened in another 25 markets this holiday season, including the UK and France, making an estimated $18.1M from 2,195 cinemas in 32 countries over its 2nd weekend. The film is estimated to have opened at 1stplace in the box office rankings of 5 countries. The International cume now stands at $22.5M.
· The UK came grossed an estimated solid $5.5M from 445 locations over 5 days, taking the 3rd place in the local Box Office. This is 50% above Valkyrie, 8% above Knight and Day, 22% above Collateral and 35% above Bourne Legacy.
· France opened at a very good $4.4M from 480 locations taking the 2nd place in the local Box Office. This is 88% above Valkyrie, 3% above Knight and Day, 7% above Collateral and 32% above Bourne Legacy.
For other territories, the grosses were as follows:
· Taiwan's opening is estimated at an excellent $1.4M from 66 cinemas. Estimated ranking is at #1. This is 225% above Valkyrie, 38% above Knight and Day, 151% above Collateral and 22% above Bourne Legacy.
· The Netherlands are estimated at a good $1M from 75 cinemas.
· Belgium made an estimated very good $779k from 50 locations, coming in at #2 in the local Box Office.
· Portugal's opening added a solid $289k from 52 locations, taking 2nd place at the Box Office.
Continued runs included the following:
· Turkey's 2nd weekend is estimated at $295k from 134 cinemas. The drop is at 33% and cume is now at $882k.
· Hong Kong dropped a mild 29% from its opening with $228k from 30 cinemas pushing the cume to $867k.
· Singapore is estimated to made $235k from 26 cinemas in its 2nd weekend, pushing the cume to $933k.
· Malaysia added another $201k from 72 locations to its cume which is now at $933k.
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Hardware is slow. That is, in the time it takes to get information from your average device, the CPU could be off doing something far more useful than waiting for a busy but slow device. So to keep from having to busy-wait all the time, interrupts are provided which can interrupt whatever is happening so that the operating system can do some task and return to what it was doing without losing information. In an ideal world, all devices would probably work by using interrupts. However, on a PC or clone, there are only a few interrupts available for use by your peripherals, so some drivers have to poll the hardware: ask the hardware if it is ready to transfer data yet. This unfortunately wastes time, but it sometimes needs to be done.
Also, some hardware (like memory-mapped displays) is as fast as the rest of the machine, and does not generate output asyncronously, so an interrupt-driven driver would be rather silly, even if interrupts were provided.
In Linux, many of the drivers are interrupt-driven, but some are not, and at least one can be either, and can be switched back and forth at runtime. For instance, the lp device (the parallel port driver) normally polls the printer to see if the printer is ready to accept output, and if the printer stays in a not ready phase for too long, the driver will sleep for a while, and try again later. This improves system performance. However, if you have a parallel card that supplies an interrupt, the driver will utilize that, which will usually make performance even better.
There are some important programming differences between interrupt-driven drivers and polling drivers. To understand this difference, you have to understand a little bit of how system calls work under . The kernel is not a separate task under . Rather, it is as if each process has a copy of the kernel. When a process executes a system call, it does not transfer control to another process, but rather, the process changes execution modes, and is said to be ``in kernel mode.'' In this mode, it executes kernel code which is trusted to be safe.
In kernel mode, the process can still access the user-space memory that it was previously executing in, which is done through a set of macros: get_fs_*() and memcpy_fromfs() read user-space memory, and put_fs_*() and memcpy_tofs() write to user-space memory. Because the process is still running, but in a different mode, there is no question of where in memory to put the data, or where to get it from. However, when an interrupt occurs, any process might currently be running, so these macros cannot be used -- if they are, they will either write over random memory space of the running process or cause the kernel to panic.
[Explain how to use verify_area(), which is only used on cpu's that don't provide write protection while operating in kernel mode, to check whether the area is safe to write to.]
Instead, when scheduling the interrupt, a driver must also provide temporary space in which to put the information, and then sleep. When the interrupt-driven part of the driver has filled up that temporary space, it wakes up the process, which copies the information from that temporary space into the process' user space and returns. In a block device driver, this temporary space is automatically provided by the buffer cache mechanism, but in a character device driver, the driver is responsible for allocating it itself.


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(Reuters) - Here are the main events in the phone-hacking scandal leading to News Corp's Chairman Rupert Murdoch withdrawing his bid for British broadcaster BSkyB and closing the 168-year-old News of the World tabloid.
2000 - Rebekah Wade is appointed editor of Britain's best-selling Sunday tabloid, News of the World. Aged 32 and the youngest national newspaper editor in the country, she begins a campaign to name and shame suspected pedophiles, leading to some alleged offenders being terrorized by angry mobs. She also campaigns for public access to the Sex Offenders' Register, which eventually comes into law as "Sarah's Law."
2003 - Wade becomes editor of tabloid the Sun, sister paper to the News of the World and Britain's biggest selling daily. Andy Coulson, her deputy editor since 2000, becomes editor of the Sunday paper. Wade tells a parliamentary committee her paper paid police for information. News International later says this is not company practice.
November 2005 - The Sunday tabloid publishes a story on a knee injury suffered by Prince William. That prompts complaints by officials of the royal court about voicemail messages being intercepted. The complaints spark a police inquiry.
January 2007 - The News of the World's royal affairs editor Clive Goodman is jailed for four months. Private investigator Glenn Mulcaire is given a 6-month prison term. Goodman and Mulcaire admitted conspiring to intercept communications while Mulcaire also pleaded guilty to five other charges of intercepting voicemail messages.
— After the two were sentenced, editor Coulson resigns, saying he took "ultimate responsibility," though he says he knew nothing of the offences in advance.
May 2007 - Coulson becomes the Conservative Party's director of communications under leader David Cameron.
June 2009 - Rebekah Wade becomes CEO of News International. She marries, for a second time, becoming Rebekah Brooks.
July 2009 - The Guardian newspaper says News of the World reporters, with the knowledge of senior staff, illegally accessed messages from the mobile phones of celebrities and politicians while Coulson was editor from 2003 to 2007.
September 2009 - Les Hinton, chief executive of Dow Jones and former executive chairman of Murdoch's newspaper arm in Britain, tells a committee of legislators any problem with phone hacking was limited to the one case. He says they carried out a wide review and found no new evidence.
February 2010 - The House of Commons Culture, Media and Sports Committee says in a report that it is "inconceivable" managers did not know about the practice, which the legislators say was more widespread than the paper had admitted.
September 2010 - Members ask parliament's standards watchdog to begin a new investigation into the hacking allegations at the Sunday tabloid and its former editor Coulson.
January 2011 - British police open a new investigation into allegations of phone hacking at the tabloid. Police had said in July 2009 there was no need for a probe into the allegations.
— The News of the World announces it has sacked senior editor Ian Edmondson after an internal inquiry.
— Coulson resigns as Cameron's communications chief.
April - News of the World chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck and Edmondson are arrested on suspicion of conspiring to intercept mobile phone messages. They are released on bail. The News of the World admits it had role in phone hacking.
July 4 - A lawyer for the family of schoolgirl Milly Dowler, murdered in 2002, says he learned from police the teenager's voicemail messages had been hacked, possibly by a News of the World investigator, while police were searching for her. Some may also have been deleted, to make room for more, misleading her family into thinking she was still alive. Police later say that they have also been in touch with the parents of two 10-year-old girls killed in the town of Soham in 2002.
July 5 - News International says new information has been given to police. The BBC says it related to e-mails appearing to show payments were made to police for information and were authorized by Coulson.
— The list of those possibly targeted includes victims of the London suicide bombings of July 7, 2005, and the parents of Madeleine McCann, who disappeared in Portugal in 2007.
July 6 - PM Cameron says he is "revolted" by allegations.
— Murdoch appoints News Corp executive Joel Klein to oversee an investigation into the hacking allegations.
— UK's Daily Telegraph says the News of the World hacked the phones of family of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
July 7 - News Corp announces it will close down the News of the World. The July 10 edition was the last.
July 8 - Cameron announces two inquiries, one to be led by a judge on the hacking scandal, another to look at new regulations for the British press. Cameron says he takes full responsibility for employing Coulson as his spokesman, defending his decision to give him a "second chance."
— Coulson is arrested on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications and suspicion of corruption. He is bailed until October.
— The News of the World's former royal editor, Goodman, is re-arrested in connection with a police operation looking at alleged payments to police by journalists at the paper.
— Police search the offices of the Daily Star tabloid where Goodman freelanced. The Star is not connected to News Corp.
July 10 - Rupert Murdoch arrives in London.
July 11 - Murdoch withdraws News Corp's offer to spin off BSkyB's Sky News channel. This opens the way for the government to refer News Corp's bid for the 61 percent of BSkyB it does not already own to the competition commission, which will carry out a lengthy probe.
— Allegations surface journalists at News Corp papers targeted former PM Gordon Brown. Police confirm to Brown that his name was on a list of targets compiled by Mulcaire.
July 12 - John Yates, assistant commissioner at London's Metropolitan Police, criticized for deciding in 2009 not to reopen the earlier inquiry, tells a Home Affairs Committee hearing he probably did only the minimum work required before his flawed decision.
— In the United States, John Rockefeller, chairman of Senate's commerce committee, calls for an investigation to determine if News Corp had broken any U.S. laws.
July 13 - News Corp withdraws its bid for BSkyB. The move pre-empts a planned vote in parliament that had all-party support for the bid to be dropped. The company statement leaves the door open to a new offer at some point.
— Tom Crone, legal manager at News International, leaves the company, a source familiar with the situation says.
— Cameron gives details of a formal public inquiry into the affair, to be chaired by senior judge, Brian Leveson.
— News Corp's Australian arm launches investigation to see if any wrongdoing took place at its editorial operations.
July 14 - Rupert Murdoch eventually accepts request by parliament to answer questions on July 19 over the alleged crimes at the News of the World. James Murdoch also says he will appear. Rebekah Brooks agrees to appear, but says the police inquiry may restrict what she can say.
— Police arrest a ninth suspect who media name as Neil Wallis, the former deputy editor of the News of the World.
— FBI says it will investigate allegations News Corp hacked into phone records of victims of September 11 attacks.
— Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, part of his empire, Rupert Murdoch says News Corp handled the crisis "extremely well in every way possible" making just "minor mistakes." Says his son James acted "as fast as he could, the moment he could."
July 15 - Brooks resigns as chief executive of News Corp's British newspaper unit. Tom Mockridge, CEO of the company's Italian pay TV arm Sky Italia, will replace Brooks.
— Les Hinton also resigns as chief executive of Murdoch's Dow Jones & Co., which publishes the Wall Street Journal.
July 16/17 - A direct apology from Rupert Murdoch is carried in all UK national newspapers under the headline "We are sorry."
July 17 - Brooks is arrested as part of an investigation into allegations of phone hacking and bribing police, sources familiar with the situation say.


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Starting out in the financial analysis industry can take some time. If you are looking to find a job in the financial analysis field, whether you are looking for your first job, or hoping to change professions, you will want to consider a few things as you begin your search.
Customize your resume – It is important to have a good resume that is customized to the job for which you are applying. This means that you will want to have your resume highlighting your education, experience, and skills that pertain to financial analysis. Including information that is not relevant to the job can only chance that your resume will be ignored.
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Greetings all SS'ers. First post, been lurking and gathering info here for awhile. I've decided to take on an SS full rigid project from an old bike I've had since 95. It's a 95 Schwinn HighTmber 100year anniversary edition. Not sure what that means, and I cant find any info related to this bike. It's an aluminum frame with rigid fork.
My question is to those that know this bike if it's worth dumping
serious money toward making it an SS. I wanna keep the paint
and decals stock. It has a lot of sentimental value over the last
20 years of me and my son sharing this bike on many rides
Or should I just go purchase a dedicated SS frame?
And for a bonus, shoot me some component ideas if you have the
time. I'm a 5'10" 210lbs. rider.
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Have you ever been to a favorite things party? I have ALWAYS wanted to go to one! So, when my cute friend Dani invited me to her Favorite Things Party I was so excited!! Dani and I met in cosmetology school years and years ago. I always say that hair school friends are like sisters. They have seen you at your worst, you have been through it all together (including every hair color), and you most likely have ruined each others hair and/or nails at one time or another. I can go years without seeing my girls and we can always pick up right where we left off!
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Unravel: Technical Review & Analysis
Welcome one and all as we are transported into a familiar but sad world with the latest release from EA and Swedish based team of 14 Coldwood Interactive.
But this is not simply another Indie game but a passion from the developers to create a story, world and experience over just platform for platforming's sake. With the games rather mortal undertone's resonating from the opening beautiful pre-rendered cinematic the game does not dwell on long intros or leading you by string to your next target.
Instead it slowly incorporates simpler challenges with on-screen prompts to get you accustomed to the games core mechanic and then use this for all the logical puzzles that follow. Being comprised of a ball of yarn slowly unravelling as you wander, explore, swing and generally leave your mark across this sun bathed Swedish landscape that is lovingly realised here. The main character, painstakingly named "Yarny" sets of to mend broken bonds and heal hearts. All the time leaving a trail of where he has been, what he has touched and is always tethered to this, if I was an arty type I would describe this as such " The intrinsic bond between the character and his travels, tied back and held back by prior choices is a metaphor of life and consequence. With ever chose and action possibly affecting the next, with your path through live visible for all to see. But luckily I am not so it all means that the constant Yarn that is being unravelled needs to be replenished by handy nearby balls that you can grab as you venture further.
This also means that you can run out of Yarn needing back tracking if you take the wrong route, this also is woven (ok sorry last one I promise) into the puzzles with you strands needed to create pivot points or pulley systems to overcome the given obstacle. Then nature comes in from wildlife like crabs being used as bait or a ferry service. Water is another hurdle to overcome and if caught in the tide will mean instant death and restart from the last point.
But the way the puzzles are presented and increase make it a very engaging title that leads you early on while you get your bearings and then very quickly leaves you to work them out for yourself. It gets the balance right of capturing some old school platform timing, momentum and skill within its artistic vibe. The constant trial of each new lateral conundrum hooks into your competitive spirit making you want to move forward, from the trial these are never that taxing but they are sure to increase in both complexity and exigency as the games levels open up, all these "Zones" are accessed through pictures in the main house as you work through each memory to bring back the happiness and good time feels.
Visually the game was when shown at E3 2015 a stunner with its 2D in a 3D world not new but the gorgeously rendered scenery really stood out then. And here on the XboxOne we are presented with a 1080/60 as its core metrics which does look lovely in play. Surprising for some this game is built with Sony own PhyreEngine, probably best known for Journey or Flower. But the team have modified this a great deal to realise their vision of this daydream inspired world. But unlike some of the other games the dreaded texture Filtering is not an issue here, offering up a very clean display from the oblique angles that you regularly view your surrounds from. As the engine also incorporates physics with black box solutions from Nvidia and Havok it means although it is a Sony engine it is Free for use across platforms and one of its benefits is that being designed for the PS3 and its SPU's it is accustomed to multi-core and therefore threaded design making it ideal for modern CPU use, whilst also being multi-platform so both consoles and PC can share as much code as possible allowing simpler game design and creation.
With the aesthetic being one of real world design the familiar look of Pikmin meats Little Big Planet is immediate. But the quality of the textures, animation and post effects are its biggest win, highly important in a game you spend so close to the detail. With the 2D scrolling reminiscent of older parallax scrolling days to create a 3D effect, here full 3D geometry is used both in the foreground and background, even if you may not be able to see the detail as it is filtered with a Bokeh Depth of Field pass and its CoC is very good and gives the objects both scale and clarity helping it look like toys being controlled under a squinted eye, the return to childhood is ever present in the games DNA.
With the smooth update allowing the controls to feel fair and responsive even though it is never a fast reflex based affair at any times so far it only helps the games sell. Using a broad and bright colour spectrum with corrections used in various stages to accentuate mood it never lets itself down from swaying grass to looming waves, hungry hedgehogs to snapping crabs it all works and blends superbly. Animation although not a vast game of characters within the levels or at one time is just as well done, with high key frames and blending along with idle animations as you gaze in awe of your new surroundings, or dust yourself down from a heavy fall, it gives Yarny the charm of his own even if at times when unwound and emaciated he can look a little scary and zombielike. The intelligent use of techniques within the engine allowing it to create such impressive visuals at these levels. Splitting the water into separate geometric bodies for instance convinces whilst lowering the computation needed for its physics calculation, the particle system allows taps to pour water and fill small puddles to ghostly images to appear in the distance of the children in question. As far as Indie platformers go it really is of a very high level as much from its Artistic design but the team's use of the engine means that it displays a high quality usually associated with a Nintendo title and has the same family friendly aroma alongside it.
Sound wise it again relies heavily on the ambient sounds of your surroundings all channelled through your chosen sound system to feel like you are lying in a field or by the sea-side in the height of summer. This is backed up with a folk music melody used to describe the word in place of any words, the ranges from strings, pianos completing the earthy toned soundtrack that is a perfect accompaniment for the green and organic vibe; you can just relax and admire the view as it bubbles along and sooths your soul.
This is not an area to dwell on and as you have seen throughout parts in the video it stick very close or at the 16ms target throughout play in both these levels, throughout the trial only 1 area that looks to be taxing the engine more with streaming causing only very small dips but they never over step a 33ms time and are so brief and infrequent that I would guess that majority of players would never notice them when they do. And it is great to see a game target such high standards and achieve them, I know some may argue it is not doing much but that is not the point. It means the team have kept the target goals in mind throughout development and not allowed the contents of its presentation to affect its solid performance which is commendable, 16ms is a very small window.
I have enjoyed my play of Unravel, as I am a totally honest reviewer I do stress that like all reviews they are a subjective piece in many regards. The entry price of £15($20/20Euro) or £1.50 less if you have an EA access subscription is very good and it would most certainly offer up a decent amount of enjoyment for that price and at all times the productions values seem to come from a much larger team than the small one that put this together. That said I do not feel it will be long time returner and you may return to some parts when done but most of the impact will be lost once you have completed the puzzles for the first time. If the full game offers up multiple routes or secret zones and sections could extend this further but we will have to wait for the full release on the 9th February to find that out. In the meantime you can relax and "unwind" with this trial on PC or XboxOne to tide you over till them.


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Saga ~ Divination, Kindness
I'm trying to pick up my Goddess 365 work again, starting today. Ultimately, I'd like to get back on track with everything…including daily writing. Today's goddess is one that I have never worked with, named Saga. Saga is of the Norse pantheon and an attendant to Frigg, her themes are foresight, divination, inspiration, femininity, kindness, tradition and psychic abilities. Saga's symbols are a cup, fishes and water.
As an attendant to Frigg, Saga is a student of the universe who is consistently instructing us about the value of keen observation. Of interesting note she is directly connected to the astrological sign of Pisces which governs artistic expression and empathy.
Another source, cites that Saga could often be found near a waterfall and stream with her golden cups drinking the fresh water and gossiping with Odin. Both sources credit her with connections to the arts, words and divination.
Today, tend your sacred journals to honor Saga. Write about your path, where you see yourself going, where you have been and similar topics today. Saga, lives in those words, guiding you to write them, to inspire you now and in the future. Invoke any of her attributes today by simply observing. Today I have marked to be mindful of interactions, words and the world around me.
For my affirmation card today, I've pulled the Empress. This card goes along brilliantly with Saga.
"I see the sacred in all beings and myself"
In this affirmation I can see the blending of my day of observation and honoring the divine in those around me, all the while, not forgetting myself to be included. Today will be a beautiful day filled with many realizations, joyful acknowledgements and the magick of words. May your day be blessed!


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Roasted Garlic & Chicken (Foil Wrapped)
- Canola or olive oil nonstick cooking spray
- 2 chicken breasts, boneless, skinless
- Black pepper to taste
- Seasoning salt to taste (optional)
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 6 garlic cloves, peeled
- 1/2 onion, sliced thin
- 1 1/2 medium sized carrots (or 1 large), sliced thin
- 1 medium potato, peeled and sliced thin (sweet potato can be substituted)
- 1 tomato, sliced
- 1 teaspoon dried chervil or any other herb du jour (herb of choice)
- 2 tablespoons dry white wine, champagne, apple juice, or chicken broth
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place a 2 1/2 foot long piece of foil in a 9"x13" baking pan. Coat top of foil with nonstick cooking spray.
2. Lay chicken breasts in middle of foil. Sprinkle tops with pepper and seasoning salt to taste if desired. Add olive oil to small cup. Peel garlic cloves and dip in oil. Drop 3 garlic cloves evenly over each chicken breast.
3. Lay onion slices over the chicken. Then spread carrots over the onion and potato slices over the carrots. Top with tomato slices.
4. Sprinkle top with chervil. Drizzle remaining olive oil over the top, then drizzle with wine.
5. Fold foil over to wrap chicken and vegetable mixture up well. Bake for 1 hour. Cut into center of chicken to make sure chicken is cooked throughout. To double this recipe, make two foil wrapped chicken and vegetable packages. They will both fit in the 9"x13" baking pan. They will still bake for 1 hour. To serve, make sure every portion has a chicken breast and a sampling of the various vegetables. Drizzle some of the juices over the top.
2 servings
Nutritional Information:
Per serving: 321 calories, 31 g protein, 33 g carbohydrate, 6.5 g fat, 68 mg cholesterol, 4 g fiber, 110 mg sodium (seasoning salt is optional). Calories from fat: 19%.
©2003-2006 WebMD Inc.


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Starting late last night, women all over America began posting the colors of their bras on Facebook in their "status" box, all because someone had the brilliant idea that this was a good way to "raise awareness" for breast cancer.
I find this troubling on several counts.
First of all, ladies, what happened to the days where lady-like discretion was valued? Since when has it been acceptable to declare to the public (which, despite the fact that you may be sitting by yourself in front of the computer, most of us have hundreds of people on our friends lists, most of whom we are not terribly close to) what you are wearing underneath your clothes? Like a friend of mine said, you wouldn't email your friends (especially your male friends) or call them up and tell them what color bra you're wearing. That would be called sexual harassment. At least in that case, there would be a level of privacy. These seemingly "harmless" games add up to the stumbling blocks that Jesus tells us comes from Satan.
Secondly, I'm all for having fun while working towards educating the world (I mean, I AM a teacher at heart), but really, what educational purpose does posting the color of your lingerie on Facebook serve? So your friends might ask you what it's for. Most people's answers would probably be limited to, "Oh, it's to raise awareness for breast cancer." And? What about breast cancer? What are the latest numbers? What can we do to be more proactive? Most people wouldn't go into all that, and thus, how is this raising awareness? We all know breast cancer is out there. Now I also know what color bra you're wearing today. Let's educate, ladies, not entice.
Thirdly, there's something bothersome about men knowing what their friends' wives are wearing as lingerie. I have to admit, when I first heard about this, I thought, "Oh, cute." But then I started thinking about the men I might run into during my day today. Men who are friends of mine of Facebook. Men who I don't want envisioning me in my underwear! And really, I've seen some distasteful "comments" from men following the bra color postings of our sisters such as, "Make sure it stays in the car! Wouldn't want it hanging out!" Why are we giving men a venue to respond in this way?
I'm not a mom yet, but I am a youth leader. I also volunteer as a peer counselor at a crisis pregnancy center. I care deeply about the young women in my life, and the young men (and older men) in their lives. Sometimes, as youth leaders, we wonder why we feel like we're talking to brick walls when we discuss the sacredness of femininity, of modesty, mystery, and beauty with our girls. All these subtle messages we send out to our girls that modesty is "old-fashioned," that being lady-like is "prudish," and that beauty means "flaunting what God gave ya" is harmful to the development of our girls' identities. We need to be helping our young people grow up gracefully, not with the mindset of "do what it takes to get what you want" and "a little bit of fun won't hurt ya."
In the end, that's all this "awareness effort" was. It was sexy and provocative without really crossing the line. But that line was crossed for me when somebody decided it would be "fun" to encourage women all over the country to share a part of themselves that really doesn't need to be in a very public arena. Let's have fun, ladies, but let's also be smart about it. I mean, there were some people posting colors without even knowing what it was for! Can we use the brains the good Lord gave us?!
Scriptures say that everything is permissible, but not everything is beneficial. I think this is a clear-cut case of such a circumstance.
And, as my friend Annie said, "How much money did sharing a color raise for breast cancer research?"
I think I was born in the wrong century.


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According to the Federal reserve reports, the total outstanding debt of the consumers which includes automobile loans, recreational vehicle loans, personal loans and most importantly the credit card debt, has fallen by 3.34 billion dollars for the 7th consecutive month.
According to another recent report on the credit card customers, the average consumer credit card debt in America has declined by 1100 dollars to reach 3793 dollars over the past year. Reports suggest that amongst the credit card holders and customers, 23% carry over their credit card outstanding balances month over month. The average credit card balance for such customers is around 10,000 dollars on the card accounts. This represents a significant drop from the numbers reported last year. Around the same time last year, the percentage of credit card customers who had a debt of more than 10,000 dollars carried over from one month to the next exceeded 30%. This definitely shows a drop in the overall credit card debt amongst the customers.
As per the Federal Reserve report, the nation's credit card debt has fallen for the 24th consecutive month and in August the difference is 4.99 billion dollars. Other debts including vehicle, student and auto loans have climbed up meanwhile by 1.65 billion dollars. After increasing by 888.59 million dollars in July, this is the 4th consecutive month during which the non credit card debt has increased. The fact that the non revolving debt which excludes outstanding non-credit card debt has increased suggests that the consumers feel more confident with the auto industry and the overall economy. There are still serious issues as far as the home market is concerned, along with the climbing unemployment rates.
The consumer report also suggested that 23% or nearly a quarter of the credit card customers have increased motivation to pay down their credit card debt and the customers are in fact, paying more than the minimum payment that is required on the credit cards every month. As per new laws the credit card issuers are also obliged to show the credit card holders, how long it will take to pay off the outstanding debt on the credit card if they continue to pay the minimum payment due on the card every month. The new laws also make it mandatory for lenders to apply the payment on the balances that bear the highest interest rates. A whopping 47% of the credit card customers actually concerns over the ability of lenders to slash credit limits, impose an annual fee or to cancel the credit card accounts altogether.


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The Institute had completed 7 Research Projects during 2008-2009. There are 19 on-going research projects, which were initiated during the year 2008–2009 and are in different stages of completion. Also, 3 new research projects are being taken up during the year 2008-2009. There are 11 on-going research project funded by the outside agencies. The most prominent among them are the National Family Health Survey (NFHS), District Level Household Survey under Reproductive and Child Health project (DLHS-RCH) and YOUTH in India. The Institute has undertaken one new project funded by outside agency
National Family Health Survey-4: (Click to see Website)
In 2014-2015, India will implement the fourth National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4). Like its predecessors, NFHS-4 will be conducted under the stewardship of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, coordinated by the International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, and implemented by a group of survey organizations and Population Research Centres, following a rigorous selection procedure. Technical assistance for NFHS-4 will again be provided by ICF International, USA with the major financial support from the United States Agency for International Development and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.
In addition to the 29 states, NFHS-4 will also include all six union territories for the first time and will also provide estimates of most indicators at the district level for all 640 districts in the country as per the 2011 census. NFHS-4 sample size is expected to be approximately 568,200 households, up from about 109,000 households in NFHS-3. This is expected to yield a total sample of 625,014 women and 93,065 men eligible for the interview. In these households information on 265,653 children below age 5 will be collected in the survey. Data will be collected using Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) on mini-notebook computers.
NFHS- will provide updates and evidence of trends in key population, health and nutrition indicators, including HIV prevalence. Moreover, the survey will cover a range of health-related issues, including fertility, infant and child mortality, maternal and child health, perinatal mortality, adolescent reproductive health, high-risk sexual behaviour, safe injections, tuberculosis, and malaria, non-communicable diseases, domestic violence, HIV knowledge, and attitudes toward people living with HIV. The information will enable the GOI to provide national and international agencies to monitor and evaluate policies and programmes related to population, health, nutrition, and HIV/AIDS.
Media coverage of National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) 2015-16 : News
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National Family Health Survey-3: (Click to see Website)
The third National Family Health Survey, 2005-06 (NFHS-3) is currently in the last phase. NFHS-3 is carried under the stewardship of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW), Government of India. The International Institute for Population Sciences has been appointed as the nodal agency responsible for coordinating the project. Macro International, USA is providing the technical assistance for the project, and USAID, UNICEF, DFID, the Gates Foundation, UNFPA, and Government of India are funding the NFHS-3. Along with fertility, mortality, maternal and child health, family welfare and many process indicators, NFHS-3 also provides information on several new and emerging issues such as adolescent reproductive health, high risk sexual behavior, HIV prevalence amongst adult men in the group of 15-54 years and women in the age group of 15-49 years. The survey provides state level estimates of demographic and health indicators by urban/rural residence. NFHS-3 also provides all the demographic and health indicators for eight cities of Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Indore, Kolkata, Meerut, Mumbai and Nagpur, and their slum and non-slum areas.
National fact-sheet and state level fact sheets for all the 29 states in India, presenting key indicators were published by December 2006. NFHS-3 National Report in two volumes along with key finding report was published in October 2007, and the survey findings were disseminated in the national seminar. NFHS-3 state level reports for 29 states are published. NFHS-3 state level findings were disseminated in 22 states during April 2008 to February 2009.
Four subject reports on the topics of "A Profile of Youth in India", "Health and Living Conditions in Eight Indian Cities", "Nutrition in India" and "Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in India" are prepared and disseminated in seminar in New Delhi on September 11, 2009.
III District level household project under Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) project & Facility survey-3, India
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The District Level Household and Facility Survey (DLHS) was initiated in 2007 with a view to assess the utilization of services provided by government health care facilities and people's perception about the quality of services. The DLHS-3 is the third in the series of district surveys, preceded by DLHS-1 in 1998-99 and DLHS-2 in 2002-04. DLHS-3, like other two earlier rounds, is designed to provide estimates on important indicators on maternal and child health, family planning and other reproductive health services. In addition, DLHS-3 provides information on important interventions of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM). Unlike other two rounds in which only currently married women age 15-44 years were interviewed, DLHS -3 interviewed ever-married women (age 15-49) and never married women (age 15-24).
The sample size among the districts in the country varies according to their performance in terms of Ante-Natal Care (ANC), institutional delivery, immunization, etc. and it was fixed based on information related to such indicators from DLHS-2. For low performing districts, 1500 Households (HHs), for medium performing districts, 1200 HHs and for good performing districts, 1000 HHs were fixed as sample size.
The survey used two-stage stratified random sampling in rural and three-stage stratified sampling in urban areas of each district. The information from 2001 Census was used as sampling frame for selecting primary sampling units (PSUs). In rural areas, all the villages in the district were stratified into different strata based on population /HH size, percentage of SC/ ST population, female literacy (7+), etc. The required number of villages from each strata were selected with probability proportional to size (PPS). In selected primary sampling units (villages), household listing was done and required numbers of households were selected using systematic random sampling.
For larger villages (more than 300 HHs) segmentation was carried out. In case of 300 to 600 HHs, two segments of equal size were made and one was selected using PPS. For PSUs having more than 600 HHs, segments of 150 HHs were created depending on the size and then two segments were selected using PPS.
In case of urban areas, numbers of wards were selected using PPS at first stage. In a selected ward, one enumeration block from 2001 census was selected again using PPS. Procedure for segmentation, household selection, etc., was same as in the case of rural PSUs.
The uniform bilingual questionnaires, both in English and in local language, were used in DLHS-3 viz., Household, Ever Married Women (age 15-49), Unmarried Women (age 15-24), Village and Health facility questionnaires.
For the first time, population-linked facility survey has been conducted in DLHS-3. In a district, all Community Health Centres (CHCs) and District Hospital (DH) were covered. Further, all Sub-centres (SC) and Primary Health Centres (PHC) which were expected to serve the population of the selected PSU were also covered. There were separate questionnaires for SC, PHC, CHC and DH. They broadly include questions on infrastructure, human resources, supply of drugs & instruments, and performance.
DLHS-3 covered about seven lakh sample households from 612 districts of the country.
Progress :-
The progress of DLHS-3 is listed below:-
Expected date of completion : - Remaining State reports will be ready on or before 31st March 2010.
IV. Youth in India: situation and needs study
The Institute in collaboration with the Population Council, New Delhi had successfully completed a pioneering research to document young people's transition to adulthood in six states of India, namely Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Jharkhand and Bihar.
The specific objectives of the study are:
1. To identify key transition facing youth, including education and livelihood opportunities and experiences
2. To provide evidence at state level on the magnitude and patterns of sexual and reproductive practices in and outside marriage, and related knowledge, decision-making and attitude among youth.
3. To identify the key factors underlying their sexual and reproductive health, knowledge, attitudes and life choices.
4. To disseminate findings in a variety of forums and to a range of stake-holders and make recommendations for programming for youth.
5. To provide opportunities to and build capacity of researchers interested in pursuing research on issues pertaining to youth
Both qualitative and quantitative approaches were used covering behaviors and experiences of young people on a number of issues; ranging from schooling, marriage and sexual behavior. Gender role attitudes and relations with parents were also be studied. The MacArthur and Packard Foundations provided the funding for this project.
Publication and dissemination of fact Sheet: The key indicators of the study are being prepared in a fact sheet for the respective states. The fact sheets for all six states have been printed and disseminated. Some of the findings have been widely disseminated in various news papers and television programs.
State Reports: The report for all the six states of India, namely, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan were printed and disseminated at the respective state capitals. A separate dissemination was also done for media in each of the state. On average 150 persons including programmers, policy makers, researcher in government and non-government sectors, NGOs, health officials etc. participated in each of the state level seminar. A national report was prepared and available for researcher.
National report is available at http://www.iipsindia.org/pdf/India%20Report.pdf.
Unit data are available in CD for researchers and can be obtained on sending the data request form. For state level reports write to
V Strengthening state plans for human development (SPHD)
Seminar organized at IIPS
The International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) with financial assistance from UNDP, New Delhi and UNFPA, New Delhi organized a two-days seminar on 'Exploring Key Measurement Issues in Millennium Development Goals in Districts in India" during 12-13 December, 2008 at IIPS, Mumbai. A total of 125 delegates attended the seminar. In all, 24 papers were presented in six technical sessions. Dr. N. Tumkaya, UNFPA country representative, India, was the Chief guest and Dr. Ashish Bose delivered the key note address at the seminar. The seminar addressed number of methodological issues for measuring and achieving the MDG targets and came up with policy recommendation for Indian programmes.
VI. Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS)
The main aim of the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) is to establish systematic surveys to monitor adult tobacco use and to evaluate progress in implementing tobacco control interventions under the Bloomberg Global Initiative to reduce tobacco use. Since there is no standard global adult tobacco survey that consistently tracks prevalence of tobacco use (smoking and smokeless as well), exposure to secondhand smoke, cessation, risk perceptions, knowledge and attitudes, exposure to media and price and taxation issues, which are critical measures for tobacco control program and policy development. The project is sponsored by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India and WHO SEARO, New Delhi with technical support from CDC, Atlanta, U.S.A and Research Triangle Institute (RTI), North Carolina.
Under the overall umbrella of the GATS project mentioned above, the main aim of the GATS-India is to carry out an Adult Tobacco Survey in India at regional levels which include all the 29 states and union territories of Chandigarh and Pondicherry covering about 99.92 percent of the total population according to the 2001 Census of India. The major objectives of the survey are to obtain sufficiently reliable estimates of prevalence of tobacco use (smoking and smokeless tobacco as well), exposure to secondhand smoke, cessation etc., for both males and females at the national level and for each of the six regions classified by place of residence of the respondents (urban/rural).
The specific objectives of GATS-India are as follows:
Like other large scale surveys conducted in India, entire country has been grouped in the following 16 groups. Each group will be assigned to one Research Agency for conducting fieldwork. In addition, keeping in view the weather condition prevailing during the data collection (October 2008 to February 2009) , fieldwork has been phased out. Around 17 states/UTs will be included in first phase and around 16 states/UTs to be covered in second Phase. It may be mentioned that Uttar Pradesh and Assam which a sample size of around 5000 in each state will be covered in two phases, an identified portion in each phase.
The total target sample size at national level is 70,802, including 42,647 in rural areas and 28,155 in urban areas. With the assumption of target sample size of average 30 completed interviews per Primary Sampling Unit (PSU), GATS-India will cover 2,366 PSUs nationwide (1,423 rural and 943 urban). It has been decided that this survey would be conducted on digital formats through HP iPAQs handheld devices. It has been considered by the Government and agreed that though handheld devices are being used for the first time on large scale surveys in India, it would have several advantages.
Data collection work for GATS-India is already completed in all the 31 states/UTS. The National fact sheet and national report is expected to be ready by April 2010.
VII. ENVIS Centre on Population and Environment Funded by Ministry of Environment and Forests Co-ordinator: Prof. R.B.Bhagat
The Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India, under the Environmental Information System (ENVIS) programme has set up an ENVIS Centre on Population and Environment at IIPS. The centre is in existence since 2004. The centre collects, collates and disseminates data on various aspects of population and environment relationship such as population growth and land use, urbanisation and air pollution, household environment and morbidity and mortality etc. The centre maintains a website http://www.iipsenvis.nic.in connected to NIC server. It also brings out a quarterly bulletin on population and environment. Apart from regular activities of web based dissemination and publishing of bulletins, the centre has published a book on Population and Environment Linkages and an e-book containing extensive abstracts for about 500 research articles in the areas of population and environment.
Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI) Project
Although adult health and ageing is a subject that is
increasingly being investigated, there are currently no
comprehensive and internationally comparable survey data
in India that cover and connect the full range of topics
necessary to understand the economic, social,
psychological, and health aspects of adults and the
ageing process. Longitudinal Ageing Study in India
(LASI) is designed to fill this gap.
LASI focuses on the health, economic, and
social well-being of India's elderly population. LASI is conceptually comparable
to the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) in the United States and is
appropriately harmonized with other health and retirement studies, including its
sister surveys in Asia – such as the Chinese Health and Retirement Longitudinal
Study (CHARLS) and the Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging (KLoSA) – thereby
allowing for cross-country comparison. LASI also takes account of features
unique to India, including its institutional and cultural characteristics.
LASI will be a
national landmark in scientific research that will allow
a better understanding of India's adult health problems
and population ageing processes and will inform the
design of appropriate evidence-based policies for adults
and older people. We will build on the success of the
LASI pilot survey and implement the first two waves of a
large-scale, national and state representative panel
survey on the health, economic status, and social
behaviors of older people in India, with sufficient
statistical power to test hypotheses in subpopulations
of interest. LASI data will advance scientific knowledge
and inform policymakers in India and elsewhere. Our
public, internationally harmonized data will allow for
cross-national comparative research studies on ageing.
The Longitudinal
Ageing Study in India (LASI) is a full–scale, national
biennial survey of scientific investigation of the
health, economic, social, and determinants and
consequences of population ageing in India. LASI is
envisioned as a nationally representative sample of
60,250 older adults in age 45+ and above including their
spouses (irrespective of their age) in 30 states and 6
union territories in India that will be conducted every
2 years for the next 25 year. Internationally
harmonized, de-identified panel data will be collected
enabling cross-state analyses within India and cross-
national analyses of ageing, health, economic status,
and social behaviours. This research lays the foundation
for national and state-level policy and to develop
much–needed mid–and long–term policy solutions to
address the challenges presented by increasing disease
burden and population ageing in India—and in other
developing countries, Asia more broadly, and wealthy
industrialized countries as well.
The LASI team in
IIPS successfully conducted the 2010 LASI pilot survey
in the four states of Karnataka, Kerala, Punjab, and
Rajasthan to test survey tools and protocols and to
learn lessons for the main wave. The analysis of LASI
pilot data revealed insightful evidence on reported and
measured health status, social network characteristics,
income and consumption, retirement, and pensions.
information on LASI.
IX. Study of global Ageing and Adult (SAGE) - India 2007
The International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai in collaboration with the World Health organization, Geneva is undertaking the Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE), 2007 in India. SAGE is part of global longitudinal study implemented in six countries – China, India, Ghana, Mexico, Russia and South Africa. In India, SAGE is being conducted in six states – Assam, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. SAGE will cover a sample of 10600 households across the six states.
SAGE will follow-up the same PSUs and the sample households covered across these six states in the World Health Survey (WHS), India, 2003. SAGE is expected to run for up to 10 years with follow-up waves for every two years.
The primary objective of SAGE is to assess health and well-being of the elderly persons in age 50 and above and their social determinants. SAGE aims to gather evidence base on socioeconomic background, health state description, burden of disease, health care utilization, quality of life and well-being. Besides these self-reported information based on interview, SAGE adopt improved health measurement techniques by using a range of biomarkers-blood pressure, lung-function, vision, grip strength, time walk, a battery of cognitive tests, anthropometry and blood test for anaemia, diabetes, heart disease, and hepatitis-B.
SAGE Field work and data entry have been completed during 2007-08. Currently, data processing is underway and the report for first wave is expected to be completed by June 2010.
Funding for SAGE is being provided by the World Health Organization, Geneva and USAID, New Delhi.
X. Concurrent Evaluation of National Rural Health Mission
Funded by Ministry of Health and family Welfare
Co-ordinators : R.B.Bhagat, Usha Ram, D.A. Nagdeve. H. Lhungdim, Abhishek Singh and Manoj Alagrajan
The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), launched by the Honourable Prime Minister on 12th April 2005, seeks to provide accessible, affordable and quality health care to the rural population with special focus on 18 states including Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and North-Eastern states. The Mission aims to achieve infant mortality rate of 30 per 1000 live births, maternal mortality 100 per 100 thousand live births and total fertility rate (TFR) 2.1 by the year 2012. To achieve these goals, Mission envisages increasing spending on health care from 0.9 percent of the GDP to 2-3 percent of the GDP during 2005-2012. The Mission has undertaken several architectural corrections of the health system to enable and promote policies that strengthen public health management and service delivery within the country. It also envisages revitalizing the health systems through decentralized management at the local level and addresses issues related to sanitation and hygiene, nutrition, safe drinking water, women and vulnerable groups, and regional disparities in health care provisions. The Mission is likely to be completed by the year 2012.
The objective of the Concurrent Evaluation is to assess the reach of NRHM activities to the rural communities. The aim is to get various indicators about implementation of health care programmes which will be helpful to policy makers and programme managers in effective implementation of NRHM. The concurrent evaluation has been carried out in all States and UTs covering 197 selected districts in the first round of evaluation. IIPS has been appointed as Nodal Agency of the Concurrent Evaluation of NRHM.


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This Privacy Policy describes the personal information we collect about you, why we collect it, how we use it, and when we share it with third parties. Our Privacy Policy also describes the choices you can make about how we collect and use your information. If our information practices change, we will post an updated Privacy Policy on our website. You can tell if the Privacy Policy has changed by checking the revision date that appears above. You will be bound by any changes to the Privacy Policy when you first use the Website after such changes have been first posted. You may exercise your choices about how we collect and use your information consistent with this Privacy Policy at any time.
What Does This Privacy Policy Cover?
This Privacy Policy covers Company's treatment of personally identifiable information ("Personal Information") that Company gathers when you access the Website through Facebook® and/or create an account with the Website. This Privacy Policy only governs information collected on the Website. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Company does not own or control, or to individuals that Company does not employ or manage. The Website contains links to other sites. The Company is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites. When linking to another site you should read the privacy policy stated on that site.
What Information Does Company Collect?
We may collect personal information from you, such as your name, email address, postal address, phone number, credit card number, gender, birthday, personal interests, etc. when you access the Website through Facebook® , create an account on the Website, contact us by phone, contact us with a question or concern, or participate in a contest, promotion, or survey. In most cases, the information you've provided to your Facebook® profile will be provided to us when you access the Website through Facebook. In addition, when you contact us through the Website or via Facebook, we may collect your Internet Protocol (IP) address, your operation system type, your browser type, and your activity on our Website, etc. We may maintain a record of your product interests and the purchases you make. We may combine all of this information with information about you that we acquire from our joint marketing partners, from unrelated third parties, and from any of our related brands.
How Do We Use Information We Collect?
What Information is Shared and With Whom is it Shared?
Intra-Company: Company shares all information with its wholly owned subsidiaries. Agents: We employ other companies and people to perform tasks on our behalf and need to share your information with them to provide products or services to you, such as credit card processors. Unless we tell you differently, Company's agents do not have any right to use personal information we share with them beyond what is necessary to assist us. Third-Party Offers: We provide information (for example, postal addresses, email addresses and telephone numbers) to certain outside companies and marketing partners so they can let you know about products or services that might be of interest to you. If you do not wish to receive these offers, please send an email with your request to firstname.lastname@example.com. Third-Party Advertising: see below. Legal Disclosures: If we are required to disclose customer information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, in response to law enforcement inquiry or in compliance with applicable laws, we will make such disclosure. We also reserve the right to share information with legal authorities and other companies for purposes of fraud protection. Business Transfer: In the event, the ownership of all or a part of our business was to change, customer information would likely be transferred to, or licensed for use by, the new owner.
Do We Use Third-Party Advertising?
We use third-party advertising companies to serve our ads across the Internet and sometimes on our Website. These companies collect anonymous (i.e., non-personally identifiable) information about your visits to the Website and your interaction with our products and services in order to serve more relevant ads. These targeted advertisements may appear on the Website or on other websites that you visit. The anonymous information is collected through the use of pixel tags, cookies, or other techniques.
How does the Company use Interest-Based Advertising?
We work with third-party companies that use tracking technologies (including cookies and pixel tags) on our Website in order to provide tailored advertisements on our behalf and on behalf of other advertisers across the Internet. These companies may collect information about your activity on our sites and your interaction with our advertising and other communications and use this information to determine which ads you see on third-party websites and applications.
How do I access or change my information?
You can access your purchase history, name and email address when you login into the Website. Currently, you don't have any way to change your personal information with us except for during the check-out process when you purchase a trip or services. If there is an urgent problem, please feel to contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com and we will try to help out.
What Are Cookies and Do We Use Them?
Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and tell us how and when pages in our site are visited and by how many people. We use cookies to enhance visitors' experiences, to learn more about their use of the Website and to improve quality. Most browsers have an option for turning off the cookie feature, which will prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, as well as (depending on the sophistication of your browser software) allowing you to decide on acceptance of each new cookie in a variety of ways. We strongly recommend that you leave the cookies activated, however, because cookies enable you to take advantage of some of our Website's most attractive features. Ads appearing on the Website may be delivered to users by our advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Company and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Is Personal Information About me Secure?
Company endeavors to protect your information to ensure that it is kept private, however, Company cannot guarantee the security of user account information. Anyone that has access to your Facebook® account will be able to access your account with Company. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors, may compromise the security of user information at any time. You agree not to hold Company accountable for any such breach.
Does This Privacy Policy Apply to Social Media Sites?
These terms, in addition to our Terms of Use and Participant Terms and Conditions, apply to users of social media sites managed by us and hosted by third-party providers (e.g., Facebook.com, Twitter.com, LinkedIn.com, etc.) ("Social Media Hosts"). Any suggestions, materials (including without limitation, images, photographs, videos, and sound recordings), ideas or comments submitted to us ("Submitted Materials") shall be deemed as not confidential. By providing Submitted Materials you grant us an irrevocable and unrestricted license to use, modify, reproduce, transmit, display and distribute such Submitted Materials for any purpose whatsoever, and you represent and warrant to us that no such Submitted Materials violate or infringe upon any copyright, trademark, or any other intellectual property or other rights (including but not limited to defamation or invasion of privacy) of any person or entity. All such Submitted Materials are subject to the DMCA notice-and-take-down procedure described in our Terms of Use. We ask users of our social media sites to be respectful of the larger community by complying with the terms and policies of each Social Media Host. We appreciate and encourage users to contribute comments that are respectful and further discussion on our social media sites, but ask that users avoid making comments that might be considered:
We reserve the right to remove comments or content on our social media sites that fit into any one of the above categories, or for any other reason, to preserve the integrity of our social media sites. We may block further posting on our social media sites by any individual who violates this Privacy Policy, our Terms of Use or Participant Terms and Conditions. We claim no liability in any way connected to the use of or access to our social media sites.
Do We Have Specific Terms For Mobile Services?
Yes, you can find the complete Mobile Terms of Service HERE. We may provide certain services and advertise to you via your mobile device. If you provide the Company your mobile number when you create an account on www.juscollege.com website (the "Website"), add mobile number to your account on Website at any point and/or access the Website through Facebook®, you expressly consent to allow the Company to communicate with you via SMS message, Apple® push notifications or similar means for informational and/or promotional purposes. The following terms apply, in addition to and as part of the Terms of Use, Participant Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy, to users of the Mobile Services:
You may request removal of your mobile number from receiving promotional and/or informational purposes by sending an e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com and explain that you want to delete your mobile number. Please note that information may remain in our records after deletion of your account.
What Choices Do I Have?
As stated previously, you can always opt not to disclose information, even though it may be needed to take advantage of the Website and services and products we offer. However, if you access the Website through Facebook®, then you will automatically create an account and it will contain information made available through Facebook. You may request deletion of your Company account and/or removal of your mobile number by sending an e-mail to email@example.com and explain that you want to delete your account. Please note that information may remain in our records after deletion of your account.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
The Company may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. You can determine when this Privacy Policy was last revised by referring to the "Last Updated" legend at the top of this page. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will become effective upon posting of the revised Policy on the Internet, accessible through the Website. By continuing to use the Website following such changes, you will be deemed to have agreed to such changes. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, as it may be amended from time to time, please do not continue using the Website. To the extent that an arbitrator or court of applicable jurisdiction determines that applying any changes to this Privacy Policy would render this an illusory or unenforceable contract, such changes shall be applicable on a prospective basis only, with respect to events or circumstances occurring after the date of such changes, to the extent necessary to avoid this Privacy Policy being deemed illusory or unenforceable.
Your California Privacy Rights
California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits our customers who are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please write to us at the following address: JusTours, Inc. - California Privacy Rights Legal Department
How do I Contact the Company?
For questions about our privacy policy, to make choices about receiving promotional communications, to update your personal information, or to place an order, you can contact the Company by email, telephone, or postal mail:
JusTours, Inc.
7885 W Sunset Road
Suite 100
Las Vegas, NV 89113
Questions or Concerns
If you have any questions or concerns regarding privacy on our Website, please send us a detailed message at firstname.lastname@example.com. We will make every effort to resolve your concerns.


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One of the most prominent figures to emerge from the early days of the 'Troubles' in Derry has passed away.
Patrick Doherty, known as Paddy 'Bogside' died peacfully at his home in Westland Street in the early hours of this morning after a period of illness. He was in his 90th year.
Born in 1926, Mr Doherty came to prominence as vice-chairman of the Derry Citizens Defence Association (DCDA) and played a major role in the events of August 1969 that culminated in the Battle of the Bogside and became a major figure thereafter in Free Derry.
From the outset of 1969 tensions in Derry between nationalists and the RUC had been very high. The tone for what was to follow that summer was set when in January and again in April when the RUC entered the Bogside and carried out attacks on people and property. A seminal event in this era was the attack on Sammy Devenney by the RUC in his home that April. Mr Devenney later from the injuries he sustained in the incident.
As the annual Apprentice Boys of Derry march approached in August tensions were at boiling point in the city. In July the DCDA was established and on August 10 its leadership met with the Apprentice Boys to request they cancel or re-route the march. When the request was refused the die was effectively cast for violence.
The loyal order parade which passed through Derry City centre and the edge of the Bogside was considered highly provocative by the nationalist population. Plans were put in place by the DCDA to prevent clashes between nationalists, the RUC and marchers. However, if this failed, there were other plans in place.
Also on August 10, a public meeting called by the DCDA was held at Celtic Park and was addressed by republican, nationalist and labour leaders in the city. The position was made plain and that it was if the RUC or loyalists attempted to enter the Bogside there would be resistance. Women, children and elderly people were then evacuated from the district and barricades were erected on the edge of the area.
On August 12, as the Apprentice Boys parade passed through the city centre on the outskirts of the Bogside, lines of RUC men faced nationalist youths. Leaders of the DCDA such as Paddy Doherty, John Hume and Eddie McAteer attempted to control the crowd but their effort were not successful and the first stones were hurled at the RUC. After a stand-off lasting several hours, serious rioting broke out along the Strand Road and the order was given to the RUC to baton charge. Their efforts were quickly repelled at William Street and another stand-off emerged.
The second stand-off was broken at 7pm when the RUC supported by loyalists breached the barricade at Rossville Street and began to break house windows as they went. At first nationalists retreated but quickly turned around and drive the RUC back up the street.
On August 13 a DCDA press conference saw Paddy Doherty and Dr Donal McDermott issue an appeal for 'able bodied men' to come to Derry and assist in the fighting. By this stage the headquarters of the DCDA was Paddy Doherty's house in Westland Street.
For the following three days the Bogside was catapulted onto TV screens across the world as the RUC repeatedly attempted to get into the Bogside but were beaten back at every attempt. The Battle of the Bogside as it became known ended on August 14, when on request from the Stormont administration, British troops entered Derry to relieve a battered and beleaguered police force.
The formation of a united front against the unionist system of misrule made the front page of the paper a month before on Tuesday, July 15, 1969.
Under the headline 'Move to bring peace to the streets of Derry', the report said: "As Derry looked yesterday like getting back to normal after a weekend of violence in which 89 people were injured and heavy damage was caused to property, moves were being made to seek a solution to the city's troubles and to create some sort of organisation which could play a part in bringing peace to the streets.
"Last night a meeting was held of the Citizens Action Committee, the leaders of the various Tenant's Associations and the leaders of the various political parties."
In his book 'War and an Irish Town', activist and journalist Eamonn McCann describes how after the formation of the Citizens Action Committee as it was initially called, Paddy 'Bogside' stepped forward to address a crowd in the city centre.
"About five thousand people came on a wet day and sat down in the square to hear speeches. The emotional and political keynote was set by Paddy Doherty, a tough-minded and rigorously honest right-winger, when he asked the crowd, rather in the manner of a retreat priest inviting the congregation to renounce the devil:
'Are you, the people of this city, irresponsible?'
'No' thundered the fervent reply.
'Are you, the people of this city, communists?'
'Are you, the people of this city, under the influence of any political organization?'
'Will there be bloodshed in this city tonight?'
'Thank God!'"
Testimony laying out the increasing tension in Derry was recorded by the 'Derry Journal'.
Exactly one month later and in the wake of the Battle of Bogside the 'Journal' of Friday, August 15, 1969 again captured the events of the previous three days on its front page and aptly summed up what had taken place in the heart of the West Bank of the Foyle. The headline read: "British troops on the streets of Derry.'
The news report began by saying: "Batoned, tear-gassed and shot at for three days, Derry's Catholic population remained resolute and determined to defend their homes and property to the end, though yesterday afternoon all the portents looked grim.
"But just before 6 o'clock British troops appeared on the streets and within two hours police had been removed from key positions in William Street and the city gates to be replaced by military personnel.
"It became evident early that the troops were being received in a friendly fashion by the Catholic population and with the disappearance of the RUC and B-Specials from key points, tension eased considerably."
Mr Doherty also became involved in the Credit Union movement in his native city.
The first recorded credit union in the UK was formed in Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1960. Inspired by the formation of the first credit unions in the Republic of Ireland, six individuals pooled their savings and formally established the Derry Credit Union.
As Derry became embroiled in the growing conflict the city centre basically became a bombed out mass of derelict sites. In the early 1970s the vision of Paddy Doherty helped establish a group known as the North West Centre for Learning and Development. Its main aim was to try to tackle at base level the perennial long-term unemployment rate within the city.
The first project undertaken by the group was the refurbishment of properties at 3-5 London Street. The North West Centre for Learning and Development soon became the Inner City Trust and attracted support from across the community.
From these beginnings and making use of government funding the Inner City Trust was soon involved in the redevelopment of a range of bombed out sites in the city centre.
Following the initial presence in London Street the Trust moved to work on sites in Shipquay street, Bishop Street and Society Street and began on refurbishment projects there too. It is estimated that at one point over 300 people were working for the Trust on construction projects.
The scope of the project however soon moved beyond the reconstruction of buildings in the city centre and the Inner City Trust also soon became involved in wider education projects. Derry Youth and Community Workshop. Established in 1978 which aimed to bring people back into the workforce by providing training in new skills as the traditional industries in the city began to disappear.
However the construction projects were not left to the side either and in its most ambitious project up to that point the Inner City Trust built the O'Doherty Fort which is now of course the home of the Tower Museum.
Next came the Craft Village which remains one of most well recognised and attractive places within the city's walls. Other projects included the revamp of the Foyle Arts Centre on Lawerence Hill and even a project on Rathlin Island. All the while the Trust did not employ the training school method simply building something and then knocking it down again. The young people who mastered their trades their were able to take their skills directly onto construction sites.
If you stand at almost any given vantage point in the city centre today it is a fair bet you will be looking at something constructed by the Inner City Trust-the brainchild of Paddy 'Bogside' Doherty.


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