text: Korean Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Warning - avoid Hello English Academy Speak Korean Now! Korean Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Warning - avoid Hello English Academy Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Job-related Discussion Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message ValoraJoined: 24 Apr 2003 Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 12:02 pm Post subject: Warning - avoid Hello English Academy I worked for this school for three months before I quit. My reasons for quitting were the following: 1. I was lied to, when I accepted the job before going to Korea I was told that I only had to work 25- 30 hours per week maximum. When I got there I was told I had to work 45 hours a week because one of the other teachers had quit. I couldn't get any extra pay or overtime pay for this. Another teacher told me that they had pulled the same stunt with her as well. 2. I was told that I would have 3 days training and rest before I started so I could acclimatize myself to Korea and lose some of the Jetlag. I had to work 9 hours after I arrived and that Saturday without pay in the rain. 3. I was told that I would have 1 kindergarten class in the morning and seperate classes in the afternoon. After I arrived I was told that I had to switch kindergarten classes every week. There was no discipline with the students at all and the classes were a nightmare. I spent most of the time telling students to sit down, stop hitting each other, etc. I actually had one student throw a chair at me and two others bit me. The administrators of the school did nothing, not even to have the children sit outside the class for a while. 4. I was promised an apartment of 300 - 450 sq feet on my own. I wound up sharing a 300 sq foot apartment with another teacher. My roommate said it was actually bigger than the last dump they stuck her in. They also promised me cable or satelite TV, but no matter how often I asked it never was hooked up. They gave me every excuse they could think of. 5. The materials and curriculum were terrible. We were required to spend 30 - 60 each day with the kindergarten students memorizing a story book. Each book was memorized for a month so that they could take it home and 'read' it to their parents. We also had science with the 5 and 6 year olds. The experiments contained dangerous chemicals and according to the instructions were designed for 5th and 6th graders. 6. I was insulted on more than one occasion. I was told to my face that I'm ugly, not pretty and fat. For the record I've asked around and I'm none of those things. 7. I became very ill when I arrived in Korea (sinusitus). I had to go to a specialist 3 times a week for over two months and I was on 3 or 4 antibiotics at once. I went to these appointments after my classes were finished at 6:00 because the doctor closed at 6:30. My school docked me 2 days pay a month because I wasn't sitting at my desk staring at the wall those nights until 6:30. 8. The school also charged me double for insurance and never paid my overtime or reduced my hours. These are just a few of the problems I dealt with in this school. The school I worked at was near Migeum station on the Bundang line. This school lost or fired 13 teachers in a 12 month period. The junior director Gary is a major jerk and is extremely insulting. I strongly recommend avoiding this school, I have talked to several former teachers and none of them had anything positive to say about this school. There are much better schools in this neighborhood. Good luck to all Valora Back to top chronicprideJoined: 16 Jan 2003 Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 10:55 am Post subject: Warning - avoid Hello English Academy Thanks for the heads up. As for beef #1, you should have a contract to back you up on your hours. #2-8, welcome to the Korean way of doing business. Check your culture at the door. Do you have email addresses or contact numbers of the director or teachers to hear their side of the story, re: 13 teachers leaving in a 12 month period? I think that hearing more than one story of the parties involved should suffice prior to warranting a blacklist. 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I saw this posted on draft insider several days ago and never really got around to mentioning it here. It now seems likely that Jones will reach the 25th pick, and might even slide well into the 2nd round.
I won't tell anyone how to do their job, but I think Jarvis Jones would be a great pick at #25. I know it won't happen. The reason Jones was even playing at Georgia was because of a judgement call Pete Carroll and his medical staff made.
Yes, he is not likely to have a 10 year NFL career. The risk of him doing nothing is relatively high. But I think if you get 4 years of cheap pass rush production, you've won that pick in a big way, even if those are the only years you get. Jones has lasted 2 years already when people told him he should quit. I think he could make it another four. I think four is all it would take to justify the pick, even over some great alternatives. I'm not ignoring the risk, but weighing it compared to the alternatives. Jones is special as a pass rusher and more complete of a LEO prospect than Irvin.
As far as the morality argument, Jones will be playing in the NFL. The only question is for who and how much. I'd rather have it be for us. I know he won't be a Seahawk, but I think things like risk and lack of longevity can be made up for if a player is special enough, and I think Jones is special enough.


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Glutamine in Preventing Peripheral Neuropathy in Patients With Multiple Myeloma Receiving Bortezomib
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01783522
Recruitment Status : Terminated (Research Cancelled)
First Posted : February 5, 2013
Last Update Posted : December 12, 2013
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|Condition or disease
|Chemotherapeutic Agent Toxicity Multiple Myeloma Peripheral Neuropathy
|Drug: glutamine Other: quality-of-life assessment Other: placebo
|Phase 2
I. Estimate the objective effect size of glutamine compared to placebo as a prophylactic intervention to prevent bortezomib-induced peripheral neuropathy in multiple myeloma patients 4 months after their first dose of study drug.
I. Estimate whether glutamine delays or prevents the onset or worsening of any neuropathy as determined by National Cancer Institute (NCI)-Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) v4.03 criteria.
II. Determine if glutamine may improve adherence to bortezomib therapy.
III. Assess response rate (RR) and clinical benefit response rate (CBR) according to uniform international response criteria and modified European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) criteria.
IV. Determine if glutamine may improve quality of life (QOL) at 4 months.
OUTLINE: Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms.
ARM I: Patients receive glutamine orally (PO) twice daily (BID). Courses repeat every 28 days for 4 months in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
ARM II: Patients receive placebo PO BID. Courses repeat every 28 days for 4 months in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|9 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Double (Participant, Investigator)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Placebo Controlled Study to Estimate the Effect Size of Glutamine as a Supplement to Prevent Bortezomib-induced Peripheral Neuropathy in Multiple Myeloma Patients
|Study Start Date :
|February 2013
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|November 2013
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|November 2013
Experimental: Arm I (preventative nutritional supplementation)
Patients receive glutamine PO BID. Courses repeat every 28 days for 4 months in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Drug: glutamine
Dose of 15 grams twice times daily (to equal 30 grams a day) for a period of 4 months.
Other Names:
Other: quality-of-life assessment
Ancillary studies
Other Name: quality of life assessment
Placebo Comparator: Arm II (placebo)
Patients receive placebo PO BID. Courses repeat every 28 days for 4 months in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Other: quality-of-life assessment
Ancillary studies
Other Name: quality of life assessment
Other: placebo
Given PO
Other Name: PLCB
- Degree of Peripheral Neuropathy (PNP) [ Time Frame: at 4 months (after 4 courses) ]The Neuropathy Impairment Score -Lower Limbs (NIS-LL) is the objective measurement of PNP symptoms. The degree of PNP will be graded according to the National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (NCI-CTCAE) v4.03. The CTCAE is a 0-5 scale that assesses severity of neuropathy related to cancer therapy with higher scores meaning more symptoms A difference of 2 points between groups is considered significant. This measure will be performed at baseline and at 4 months.
- Adherence to bortezomib treatment [ Time Frame: At the end of every month (course) for 4 months ]Adherence to bortezomib treatment will be assessed by comparing cumulative body surface area adjusted doses administered during the first 4 cycles between placebo and glutamine groups.
- RR (complete remission [sCR+CR+very good partial remission [VGPR]+partial remission [PR]) [ Time Frame: At the beginning of each month and at the end of month 4 ]RR (sCR+CR+VGPR+PR) according to uniform international response criteria and CBR (RR+MR according to modified EBMT criteria) will be assessed with SPEP, 24h UPEP, serum urine immunofixation, and serum free light chain assay at the start of each cycle and after completion of the 4th cycle.
- Quality of life [ Time Frame: At baseline and at the end of month 4 ]Quality of life will be measured on the 27-item Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (FACT-G) plus the 11-item neurotoxicity sub-scale (FACT/GOG-Ntx) at the start of each cycle and after completion of the 4th cycle. Higher scores represent better quality of life.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients with a diagnosis of multiple myeloma who received bortezomib at a dose of 1.3mg/m2 SQ weekly
- No evidence of severe pre-existing peripheral neuropathy, NCI-CTCAE v4.03 =< 2
- Performance status =< 2 on the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance scale
Exclusion Criteria:
- Concurrent use of thalidomide, vincristine, platinum compound, or other agent known to cause significant neuropathy (concurrent lenalidomide will be allowed)
- Hospitalization with clinical evidence of active infections as manifested by recurrent fevers, positive blood culture results, or requiring intravenous antibiotic therapy
- Inadequate liver and renal function with liver transaminases 3x the upper limit of normal
- Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) according to Cockcroft-Gault < 30 mL/min
- Uncontrolled congestive heart failure
- Uncontrolled mood disorders
- Fasting blood glucose >150mg/dL or blood sugar (non-fasting) >200mg/dL if no history of diabetes. Uncontrolled diabetes with HgA1C greater 7% with last evaluation.
- Seizure disorder
- Monosodium glutamate (MSG) allergy or soy allergy
- Life expectancy of shorter than 3 months based on clinical laboratory parameters and the investigator's opinion
- Uncorrected Vitamin B12 or folate deficiency on last evaluation.
- Use of over the counter (OTC) supplements other than one multivitamin tablet a day
- Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01783522
|United States, Ohio
|Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
|Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44195
|Principal Investigator:
|Beth Faiman
|Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
|Responsible Party:
|Beth Faiman, Principal Investigator, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01783522 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
NCI-2011-01866 ( Registry Identifier: CTRP (Clinical Trial Reporting Program) )
|First Posted:
|February 5, 2013 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|December 12, 2013
|Last Verified:
|December 2013
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Multiple Myeloma
Neoplasms, Plasma Cell
Peripheral Nervous System Diseases
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Hemostatic Disorders
Vascular Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Blood Protein Disorders
Hematologic Diseases
Hemorrhagic Disorders
Lymphoproliferative Disorders
Immunoproliferative Disorders
Immune System Diseases
Neuromuscular Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Antineoplastic Agents


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Well, cinch down your hat; Mr. Dale Neese of Cheyenne, Wyoming made lots of noise-the most that had ever been accomplished by a single shooter. No one had ever hit more than one of the BIG DOG (longest distance-775 to 830 yards) targets before-first Dale tied by hitting one; then broke the tie with a bang on a second can and to finish off the vocal statement, hit a third target that day! Eleven shots were taken to accomplish this feat. The distances were confirmed with a Simmons laser range finder
|and the angle from bench to target can be dramatized as to steepness by the GPS unit indication of an elevation difference of 600 feet!\
Get this, his rifle is an off-the-shelf Remington BDL, topped with a Leupold 6.5-20x40 in the .300 Ultra cartridge; hand loaded, using a Sierra 150 grain SPT ProHunter (#2130) Yes, our flat base and lead-tipped hunting bullet. Remember this is at 830 yards and not on level ground-GREAT SHOOTING!!! This record has been announced and published in the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle and a letter acknowledgment on the official letterhead from the sponsors of the shoot. Shooters from several states attend these Colorado activities-admission to watch is free; view information about the twice yearly event at www.acsol.net/~firedept.dynamite.html.
Mr. Neese says he only shoots Sierra bullets in his center- fire rifles; we at Sierra know why and are not surprised.
|RPM of a Fired Bullet
by Robert Treece


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aKademy 2005 Logo Contest Launched
The KDE project is looking for a great new logo for our biggest event of the year: The KDE Developers and Users Conference 2005, also known as aKademy 2005. This logo will be seen everywhere including websites, on t-shirts and in magazines. kde-look is hosting the contest to find the new aKademy logo.
All logo entries must
Please Note
The images must not violate any other artists copyright. If you use some artwork that you did not create (e.g. the KDE gear) then you must list the artist and the license or your entry will be disqualified.
The first place winner will receive the privilege of seeing their logo being used for the most publicised KDE event of the year and a t-shirt featuring their logo (provided by the aKademy 2005 committee).
Kenneth Wimer, Tink Bastian, Antonio Larrosa and Skullbooks
March 7th 2005 (10 days).
Logo Ideas
The aKademy is taking place this year in Málaga, Spain. A reference to this in the logo image would be appreciated although it is not necessary.
The name of the conference in Spanish is "Congreso de Desarrolladores y Usuarios de KDE : aKademy 2005"
Colour Palette Ideas
The colours of the Spanish, Málaga, or Andalusian flags. Málaga is located in the Spanish Autonomous Community, Andalusia.
The new KDE color palette.
Remember the last day to submit your logo is March 7th 2005 so don't wait start working on your images now.
Finally the digiKam Contest is still running for your super-impose template ideas.
* Be 300 dpi.
Can a svg-file have a resolution? What does 300dpi help you if you don't specify a physical size?
* Must include a transparent wallpaper based on your logo that is a 1024 x 768
Maybe its just my bad mood this morning, but I think you're setting the barrier for creating logos quite high, considering people do this for fun.
Anyway, good luck!
By me at Fri, 2005/02/25 - 6:00am
Re: requirements
I've gotta agree with that. Why require a wallpaper? If one logo is clearly better, a wallpaper can be made based off of it fairly swiftly. Now, if there were a lot of time to work on the logo, that would be a different matter, but the deadline is barely a week away.
By jameth at Fri, 2005/02/25 - 6:00am
Re: requirements
An image that needs to be printed on posters, flyers, t-shirts etc. need a high resolution to look good. Images on 72 dpi screen resolution won't work, it will look good on screen but not in print.
Just because people do something for fun doesn't mean that they can't deliver high quality work. I have seen some excellent artwork in KDE, and AFAIK that is subject to requirements also.
By Tink at Tue, 2005/03/01 - 6:00am
do we know
Do we know any of the details of the conference yet (outside of its location obviously)?
By Ian Monroe at Fri, 2005/02/25 - 6:00am
please send us any additional information (please)
Greetings, added a link to page at http://www.svgx.org
By Michael Bolger at Fri, 2005/02/25 - 6:00am
What email address do we send our final design too??? Thanks.
By Terry at Fri, 2005/03/04 - 6:00am
Re: submiting???
By Anonymous at Fri, 2005/03/04 - 6:00am


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Helen Clark: Speech at the 2013 Lambie-Dew Oration on "The World We Want: Health & Human Development in the 21st Century"Oct 15, 2013
Helen Clark, UNDP Administrator
"The World We Want: Health & Human Development
in the 21st Century"
The 2013 Lambie-Dew Oration
For Sydney University Medical Society
Sydney University, Australia
I am pleased to join you at the University of Sydney for this year's Lambie Dew Oration. My thanks go to the Sydney University Medical Society for inviting me to give this address.
In my lecture this evening, I will reflect on the intersection of health and development – a matter of great interest to me as a former Health Minister in New Zealand, and now as Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and Chair of the UN Development Group.
Right now, governments, international organisations, and civil society around the world are discussing what the next global development agenda might look like. The target date for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is 2015, and there is general agreement that new objectives and goals should be set.
How health is framed in that agenda matters greatly, especially to people who are most susceptible and vulnerable to ill health: a pregnant woman in Africa who has neither pre-natal care nor a skilled birth attendant to assist delivery; a child anywhere who is exposed to second-hand smoke; or someone here in Sydney who may fear seeking an HIV test because of concern over how family or the health care provider might respond.
More broadly, the framing of health in the global development agenda matters to all of us. This agenda will help shape health priorities for years to come, informing how medicine and health care are practised, organised, and financed.
Health reflects the social, economic, cultural, and physical environments in which we are born and raised, and in which we live and work. Health reflects the choices we make collectively in our communities, our countries and our world. That is why health is inseparable from development.
These are the basic premises which underpin the contributions of my agency—the UN Development Programme (UNDP)—to health. While UNDP is not a specialized health agency, we do work in the health sphere, and we believe that health is central to development. Through our core work on human development—not least on governance, human rights, gender equality, and poverty reduction—we too can make significant and sustainable contributions to improving the health of the world's most vulnerable people.
Health and Human Development
So what do we mean by "health"? What is "human development"? And how are they related?
The preamble to the Constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO), agreed in 1946, defines health as "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." That definition stands to this day. It reminds us that good health is built on broad foundations and denotes far more than the absence of illness.
Two years later, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was agreed at the United Nations. It declares that: "Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and his family." The right to health has since been enshrined in global and regional human rights treaties and in many national constitutions.
The 1978 Alma-Ata Declaration adopted at the International Conference on Primary healthcare, expressed the need for urgent action by all governments, all health and development workers, and the world community to protect and promote the health of all people. It was the first international declaration underlining the importance of primary health care.
These documents unequivocally situate health as a universal human right. As such, health features prominently in the human development paradigm, the guiding framework for UNDP's work. That paradigm owes much to the lifetime contribution to development thinking of Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, who noted that health deprivation is the most central aspect of poverty.
The very first UNDP Human Development Report in 1990 declared that "people are the real wealth of nations". It defined human development as the process of enlarging people's choices, freedoms, and capabilities to lead lives they value. Human development aims to promote long, healthy, and creative lives.
This definition of development challenged the traditional thinking which had equated it with economic growth, as measured by gross domestic product (GDP). Neoliberal growth models had become received wisdom in many quarters – seeing health variously as a by-product of economic growth, health care as a private commodity, and frowning on state intervention. Such notions have less traction today. While their influence persists, they are unlikely to be serious inputs to current development discussions. Within the human development paradigm which we at UNDP champion, good health is regarded as both a precondition for exercising one's choices and freedoms, and as an outcome of that freedom.
Evidence supports these conceptual foundations, demonstrating how profoundly health can impact human development. The HIV pandemic provides the starkest example. Even in low-level epidemics, the economic impacts of AIDS are devastating at the household level. A 2011 UNDP study in several south-east Asian countries provided evidence of how AIDS drives families into poverty. AIDS, like other chronic conditions, is a widespread cause of impoverishment, undermining human development progress. Beyond its economic impacts, HIV and AIDS continue to engender stigma and discrimination, which threaten human dignity, human rights, and human development.
Conversely, the impact of economic downturns on health can be similarly profound in many cases. The collapse of the Soviet Union was accompanied by a sharp and devastating decline in life expectancy. Increases in HIV infection and a resurgence of malaria followed Greece's macroeconomic crisis and the response to it. ,
The relationship of economic status to health, however, is not always straightforward. In Africa, HIV disproportionately affects wealthier countries and wealthier individuals. Economic collapse and hyperinflation in Zimbabwe were accompanied by a decrease in HIV infection, not an increase. The current understanding of HIV dynamics takes us beyond absolute wealth and poverty as direct drivers of HIV outcomes, to a framing of AIDS as a disease of inequalities, with overlapping gender and economic dynamics which create fertile ground for HIV-related risk behaviours.
Framing AIDS as an issue of inequalities again brings one back to a broader definition of human development – a definition which explicitly takes into account not just wealth, but also how wealth and power are distributed, and how they interact with inequalities between men and women. Those who claim that the new pandemics of non-communicable diseases, such as diabetes and cardiovascular conditions, are solely the result of individual lifestyle choices are repeating the same mistake made in the early years of AIDS. Once we understand that choices themselves are inequitably distributed, we understand that the lack of social justice, combined with development deficiencies, create the conditions in which ill health can proliferate.
Economic growth has not, in itself, been a reliable predictor of health outcomes. Between 1960 and 2005, many of the world's poorest countries, such as the Central African Republic, Haiti, and Madagascar, saw significant improvements in life expectancy, despite experiencing overall economic contraction. The implication is that many gains in life expectancy over recent decades have been driven by factors other than simply wealth creation, such as health-promoting policies, uptake of new technologies, and more and better investments in health.
Thus while economic growth which generates higher living standards and better services may be an enabler of health, it is not destiny. Policy choices matter across a number of issues and sectors – including finance, governance, trade, agriculture, housing, urban planning, education, and the law. These shape the extent to which health is prioritized, and how effectively and efficiently resources are transformed into health investments. They also shape the decisions people make about their lives, including about their health.
The nature of the link between health and development then will depend on the extent to which we choose to make health a development objective. This is one of the fundamental questions driving the framing of health in a new global development agenda, and also why these discussions are so important. If we want synergies between health and development to be optimized, we have to choose to make it so.
Health in the current global development agenda
The world did choose to include health in the current development agenda. The United Nations Millennium Declaration of September 2000 committed world leaders to combating poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, unclean water and poor sanitation, environmental degradation, and discrimination against women. The Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs, followed on from this Declaration. Each of the MDGs has targets and indicators. It is taken as a given that better health is central to human well-being, and that health contributes to economic and social progress.
Three of the eight MDGs explicitly address health outcomes. They are MDG 4 on infant and child mortality, with a specific target to reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate; MDG 5 on maternal health, with specific targets to reduce by three-quarters the maternal mortality ratio and achieve universal access to reproductive health; and MDG 6, on combatting HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other major diseases, which includes specific targets to have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV, and have halted and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria, and other major diseases – with tuberculosis also specified in the targets.
The MDGs, with their time-bound, clear, and measurable targets, have succeeded in mobilizing action and directing resources to improve health and human development. In the context of HIV and AIDS, TB, malaria, and maternal and under-five mortality, the decline by nearly 32 per cent in the burden from these MDG-related disorders between 1990 and 2010 is considered to be greater than pre-MDG trends would have produced.
Child mortality, for example, has declined remarkably around the world—a 47 per cent decrease since 1990. A greater proportion of children survive to their fifth birthday than ever before.
The scale-up of HIV antiretroviral therapy has been unprecedented. A little more than a decade ago, practically no one in low- and middle-income countries had access to HIV treatment. At the end of 2012, 9.7 million people in these countries were on treatment.
In addition, preventive measures have got traction. Globally, HIV incidence has declined by 33 per cent since 2001, with a 34 per cent decline among adults in sub-Saharan Africa.
Yet despite the progress on the health MDGs, the gains have not been uniform or in many cases fast enough to meet the ambitious targets which were set. Maternal mortality has declined by almost one-half since 1990, but change has not been fast enough to achieve the 2015 target of a 75 per cent decline. The world is also off-track in ensuring universal access to reproductive health. Only around half of all women in poorer countries receive the recommended amounts of reproductive health care. Similarly, at the current rate of progress, the goal of reducing child mortality by two-thirds will only be reached by 2028, according to a recent UNICEF report.
Global progress can mask worrying trends at country level. In Eastern Europe and Central Asia, HIV treatment coverage rates are the lowest in the world. In some countries in the region, new HIV infections have increased rapidly, especially among marginalized groups such as men-who-have-sex-with-men and injecting drug users and their sexual partners. In this region, as in others, we have seen some countries take steps which discriminate against these groups in their legal frameworks and perpetuate stigma around them. Apart from violating basic human rights, these steps have the unfortunate consequence of undermining HIV responses.
Worrying trends in policy environments are compounded by trends in funding to combat HIV. After an unprecedented decade of investments, external HIV assistance has flat-lined in recent years. The stagnation in funding is all the more grave because ambitions for treatment have been raised higher. Recent changes in WHO treatment guidelines have increased the number of people eligible for treatment from sixteen million to just over 28 million. At the same time, people who develop drug resistance must transition to the second- and third-line regimes, which are more expensive. Drug-resistant TB is alarming in some countries, and drug-resistant forms of malaria are appearing, too, particularly in South East Asia.
Any complacency around threats to health is dangerous. Reversals in progress are possible, and new diseases—and new forms of existing diseases—do not respect national boundaries. Therefore, how we sustain progress and address these concerns in a new development agenda is crucial.
Health in the post-2015 development agenda
A global conversation is under way on what a renewed development agenda should look like beyond 2015. UNDP has been an active contributor to and facilitator of these discussions, particularly by ensuring that the voices of the poor and marginalized are heard. To that end, we have worked with sister UN agencies to organize a series of consultations. Already, national consultations have taken place in 88 countries. Eleven global thematic consultations have been held on issues ranging from health, population dynamics, inequalities and governance to education, environmental sustainability, and conflict and fragility. Virtual platforms and social media are being used to include people far beyond official circles.
Feedback from the more than a million people engaged in the consultations is contained in a report launched recently, and is available both publicly to the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development. This group is comprised of representatives of seventy member states, including Australia, and is tasked with proposing a set of sustainable development goals next year for review by the General Assembly.
The broad contours of a post-2015 development agenda are taking shape. Some general principles have emerged—namely, that a new agenda builds on lessons from the MDG experience, maintains and accelerates MDG progress while addressing issues not explicitly covered by the MDGs, and includes a set of concrete, measurable goals. There is also broad agreement that a new agenda should be anchored in human rights principles, and should be universal—in other words, the agenda would apply to developed and developing countries alike.
While much debate remains to be had on the details of a new agenda, poverty eradication has emerged as a 'central imperative.' In his recent report to the UN General Assembly, the UN Secretary-General has called for the eradication of extreme poverty within a generation. This echoes similar calls by the World Bank, as well as by UNDP's new Strategic Plan which directs us to support countries to achieve poverty eradication and to reduce inequalities and exclusion.
The Secretary-General's report also calls for a focus on improving health in the new development agenda. This call echoes the priorities which people have expressed directly through the UN's consultation process on the post-2015 agenda.
The more than one million people worldwide who engaged on future development priorities through the My World survey ranked good education and better health care as their top two concerns.
Within health, many of the key proposals to date have outlined a single, outcome-oriented health goal whose overarching objective is 'ensuring healthy lives'. Such an orientation helps keep a focus on the ultimate objective—health and well-being—rather than on specific prescriptions on how to get there, while also allowing countries the flexibility to respond to their unique health priorities.
Most of the proposals for the components of a health goal cover the following themes to varying degrees: safeguarding and accelerating progress on the health MDGs; responding to new global health threats such as non-communicable diseases; achieving universal health coverage; and addressing health inequities and the social determinants of health.
Let me unpack each of these elements and describe the ways in which UNDP is making—and can continue to make—strategic contributions to advancing the health and development agenda.
1. Tackling the Unfinished Business of the Health MDGs
First, to my knowledge—and relief—no one is seriously considering dropping the objectives of the health MDGs. Most proposals retain some version of MDGs 4, 5, and 6 within a health goal. This is important – we have to maintain progress on these vital issues and avoid slippage. This is as true in Australia as anywhere else. On 5 July this year, the New South Wales Ministry of Health reported that in this state 409 new cases of HIV infection were recorded in 2012. This compares with 330 new cases in 2011—a 24 per cent increase. HIV is not just an issue somewhere else. It is an issue here, in my own country, and elsewhere, which requires on-going attention and action.
In 2010, UNDP developed an MDG Acceleration Framework which has now been applied with the support of UN Country Teams in more than forty countries. It drives efforts across sectors to overcome the bottlenecks preventing progress on reaching MDG targets. To date, the framework has been applied to the HIV targets in three countries: the Dominican Republic, Moldova, and Ukraine. These are prime countries for UNDP engagement, as the epidemic is concentrated among marginalized groups, and approaches based on improvements in law and policy and in human rights are critical to turn the tide on HIV.
In Moldova, for example, where rates of sexual transmission of HIV have increased from sixteen per cent of cases in 2000 to 86 per cent of cases in 2011, the acceleration action approach helped HIV resources to "follow the epidemic", identifying opportunities to decentralize services to reach the most affected groups, such as injecting drug users and their sexual partners. The Framework also helped identify opportunities for sustainable national financing of the response through proposals to embed HIV services in the national health insurance scheme.
The MDG Acceleration Framework has also been extensively applied in countries to MDG 5 on maternal health. Evidence from this exercise confirms that barriers to reducing maternal mortality and providing universal access to reproductive health services lie both inside and outside the health sector. Within the health sector, these obstacles include overstretched governance systems which are struggling to allocate and manage the limited resources available; an inability to train, deploy, and retain skilled health personnel where they are most needed; and supply chains which break all too frequently.
In Uganda, the acceleration exercise identified the priorities of improving transport links and water supply to health centres, alongside the need for incentives aimed at retaining health workers in remote areas.
Maternal mortality rates are also generally highest among adolescent girls. Social mobilization is needed to emphasize the vital importance of girls' finishing their schooling and not having children while they are children themselves.
With UNDP support, the MDG Acceleration Framework has been applied creatively to emerging health priorities not reflected in the current MDG agenda. Tonga, for example, is using the framework to develop innovative and prioritized solutions to address an epidemic of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), drawing links with poverty, nutrition, and gender—all elements of human development.
2. Prioritising tackling NCDs
Indeed a second key component of a future health goal must be responding to NCDs. Nearly eighty per cent of global NCD deaths are now estimated to occur in developing countries. The socio-economic consequences are striking. A report by the World Economic Forum and the Harvard School of Public Health suggests that over the next twenty years, NCDs will cause a cumulative economic output loss of US$ 47 trillion globally. As an estimated three quarters of health care spending is attributable to NCDs, many millions of people could be pushed below the poverty line if the cost of services is beyond their reach and if there is inadequate social protection.
Without doubt, addressing NCDs is a priority for all countries. In Australia, for example, if weight gain continues at current levels, by 2025, close to eighty per cent of all adults and a third of all children will be overweight or obese. In some countries, major NCD issues are already a reality: in 2010, 93 per cent of the people of Nauru were considered to be overweight and 71 per cent obese.
The good news is that these trends are not irreversible. Different policy choices can be made. Australia, for example, led the way in the war on tobacco when it passed the world's first plain-packaging laws, and then fended off a hard fought battle with the tobacco industry, which mounted a vigorous challenge to the law in the High Court. Yet the fight over plain-packaging of tobacco here is not over. Other legal challenges have been mounted through the World Trade Organization, and under a bilateral investment treaty with Hong Kong. Australia's courage, however, can embolden others to take such measures. As Minister of Health in New Zealand more than two decades ago, I well recall the entrenched opposition I encountered when we enacted progressive anti-tobacco legislation, and that battle continues today as New Zealand aspires to tobacco free status by 2025.
Along with sister UN agencies, UNDP is supporting countries to implement the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control— particularly with respect to assisting Parties to the Convention to develop multisectoral, national tobacco control strategies, establish national co-ordinating mechanisms, and reduce tobacco industry interference in setting and implementing public health policies with respect to tobacco control. UNDP can work with actors outside the health ministry, such as customs and import duties officials and ministries of finance regarding tobacco taxes; intellectual property specialists to address trademark concerns; law enforcement officers to implement laws on smoke-free places; and civil society organizations to promote transparency and accountability in policymaking.
In the South Pacific, UNDP and WHO have supported assessment of the impact of trade agreements on rates of NCDs and their risk factors. Health and trade officials came together to identify strategies to align trade agreements with public health needs. Encouraged by this process as well as the implementation of the MDG Acceleration Framework, Tonga has recently raised its excise rates on carbonated drinks and tobacco.
3. Universal health Coverage
The third feature of how health is being framed in a new development agenda is universal health coverage, or UHC. The goal of UHC is to ensure that all people obtain needed health services—educative, preventive, curative, and rehabilitative—without financial hardship. Universal health coverage helps us think beyond vertical disease silos and towards strengthening health systems to deliver quality, affordable health services.
Universal health coverage is also a critical investment in human security and development. Some 150 million people are pushed into poverty each year because of out-of-pocket health care costs. This is avoidable – Mexico's national health insurance programme for example, contributed to significant declines in maternal and child mortality, while also reducing out-of-pocket spending, especially for the poorest households. If the aim is to eradicate extreme poverty – as I hope it will be – universal health coverage will be a central means of doing so.
One way in which UNDP is already contributing to universal health coverage is through its role in a number of countries working with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. We help strengthen the capacities of health systems in a number of countries around reducing rates of HIV, TB, and malaria, and providing treatment to all who need it.
Yet universal health coverage cannot be a panacea for addressing the many health challenges that the world faces. Affordability and access to health services must be addressed, but so must be the social determinants of health.
4. Addressing the Social and Economic Determinants of Health
This is the fourth and final key feature of how health should be framed in a new development agenda. Health inequities are found everywhere—within countries as well as between countries. They follow social gradients, such as income, education, occupation, sex, race and ethnicity. These gradients are driven, in turn, by economic and social policies and political choices. These choices create conditions in which people engage in risk behaviours, such as smoking or poor diets, and in which they struggle to access health care. While the structure of a health care system is an important input into the level and distribution of health, health inequities persist even when health care is free and available.
People affected by poor health or at high risk of poor health may face, for example, difficulties in securing or maintaining suitable employment or housing. Pension schemes and various forms of insurance may be out of reach, especially those that exclude people deemed "high-risk"—or that fail to provide adequate benefits in the face of early illness or death.
Ultimately what determines the distribution of health is beyond the health system, or outside what we consider as 'medicine'. The biggest gains in life expectancy in the twentieth century occurred before the widespread availability of such biomedical wonders as vaccines and antibiotics. For most of human history, TB was conceptualized as a disease of deprivation and poverty, not as a problem of a lack of medicines. In England during the Industrial Revolution, one in four deaths resulted from 'consumption'. The setting was conducive to a sustained epidemic, as a result of overcrowding, poor nutrition, and an absence of workplace health and safety regulations. It was not until those conditions improved that the tide turned. Two-thirds of the decline in TB mortality occurred well before the introduction of effective treatments.
We see similar examples today in the fight against HIV. Recent studies in various sub-Saharan African countries have provided compelling evidence that giving modest cash transfers to poor girls can reduce their risk of contracting HIV significantly, possibly by reducing the incentive for "transactional sex." This impact, at least in the short-run, is on a par with the impact of male circumcision – which the WHO estimates can reduce the risk of heterosexually acquired HIV infection in men by around sixty per cent.
Overall, action on the social determinants can change risk behaviours which lead to poor health, and can also help people access health services. In 2010, UNDP established and supported the work of a Global Commission on HIV and the Law. The Commissioners, who included the Honourable Michael Kirby of Australia, released their report in July last year. It showed that many of the inequalities and much of the discrimination which impede effective HIV and AIDS responses are entrenched in bad laws and policies.
Laws which criminalize HIV transmission, exposure, and non-disclosure deepen the stigma surrounding, and negatively affect both testing and treatment services and the relationship between patients and health service providers. Laws which fail to protect women from domestic and sexual violence contribute to women's greater vulnerability and risk of HIV infection.
The Commission also noted that evidence-based laws and practices firmly grounded in human rights are powerful instruments for challenging stigma, promoting public health, and protecting human rights. Recently, for example, Guyana rejected a bill criminalizing HIV transmission on the grounds that it was "bad public health policy." In Pacific Island countries, thanks to constructive engagement between government, civil society, and networks of people living with HIV, we are seeing a realisation of the importance of human rights for more effective HIV responses.
Addressing the social determinants of poor health requires multisectoral action which complements efforts in the health sector. For example, in many contexts, large infrastructure projects can create conditions in which HIV finds new footholds. The construction and operation of mines, dams, and roads, for example, create opportunities for labour migration and expanded sexual networks. Working with partners in East and Southern Africa, UNDP is helping to co-ordinate multiple sectors to reduce the negative HIV, health, and gender impacts often associated with large capital projects. Together, UNDP and partners are supporting Ministries of Environment to mainstream these issues into social and environmental impact assessments.
How do these broader considerations of health and human development affect people here in Australia and more broadly?
Human development is not something to be advanced only in poor countries. It is relevant wherever poverty, inequity, discrimination, and exclusion persist, and wherever some groups experience disproportionate burdens of disease.
Partnerships are vital in tackling the health dimensions of human development. Health is impacted by what happens across many sectors.
Health outcomes result not only, or often not even, from individual choices, but rather from collective choices relating to economies, the environment, social and cultural norms, and much more. These factors also shape the conscious and subconscious choices people make about their health: whether they smoke; how much alcohol they drink; whether they can afford fruits and vegetables; whether they have adequate knowledge; or what their sexual relationships are like. These broader choices and circumstances have profound health consequences from Sydney to Shanghai and South Sudan.
Those here tonight who are perhaps in the early phase of a health career, will almost certainly face challenges unimaginable to previous generations. Globalization and increasing interconnectedness, for all their benefits, do expedite the spread of deadly new diseases. New viral and bacterial strains will continue to emerge, and some of them will be stubbornly drug-resistant. The global food and drugs trade has already challenged existing oversight and enforcement mechanisms at national and international levels, as tainted goods have sickened those who consumed them—sometimes halfway around the globe.
Climate change too poses tremendous health challenges worldwide, far beyond those associated with escalating weather hazards and rising sea levels, which disproportionately affect the poor. Studies suggest that climate change could expose an additional 2 billion people to dengue fever transmission by the 2080s. Malaria, which is strongly influenced by climate, is already responsible for the loss of almost 700,000 lives annually, and is projected with global warming to spread its range further after decades of contraction, while rates of malnutrition and under-nutrition, which contribute directly to child mortality in developing countries, are also expected to worsen. According to WHO, global warming since the 1970s caused over 140,000 extra deaths annually by 2004, while the direct costs to health could reach US$2-4 billion by 2030.
These challenges are great, they are growing, and they do not respect national boundaries. They will demand expanded partnerships across multiple sectors, governments, development partners, and others to be tackled. More than ever before, we need to unite health, development, and broader government actors if we are to sustain the human development and health advances of recent decades.
At UNDP, we believe that by working collaboratively with others, and by keeping health close to the heart of our mission, we can be a contributor to tackling these challenges.


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Last night's episode, wonderfully titled "Dog Dean Afternoon", answered our fangirl cries for a return to the monster-of-the-week episode, and campy sense of humor, that made Supernatural a fan favorite. It all began with a recap of almost everything funny from the last nine seasons: Chuck (#NeverForget), "Changing Channels", Dean's fear sickness, all the goodies. Res definitely has the urge to watch her old favorites on Netflix now. With an opening like that, you know the rest has to be good.
Next week: Convenient store Cas is best Cas. And some douchebag that Res vaguely recognizes as a douchebag from another show arrives to make everyone's life hell.


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In Stock. Following a year of studying Mexican folk music, Reed created this work which is subtitled A Mexican Folk Song Symphony for Concert Band. Set in three contrasting movements, the entire work musically portrays a religious festival. The variety of textures is evident from the beginning of the first movement entitled "Prelude and Aztec Dance." The second movement, "Mass," is more somber and reflective. "Carnival," the last movement, is joyous and invigorating. A hearty time-honored work. (21:58) This title is available in SmartMusic.
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"Greg Tanner was on time, thorough, professional, courteous and gave me a fair price for the job done. He also suggested ways to help me save on the cost of the repair. Overall, I was very pleased with Greg and his company and would recommend him to my family and friends." -- Englishtown, NJ Read More
If you have ever had a issue with your homes plumbing or HVAC system you know that it can be a real challenge. If fact you can say that it impacts many of the creature comforts that you hold dear. No warm baths, toilets that dont flush and a home that is freezing cold or burning hot does not make for a happy home.
Give the skilled Long Beach Park HVAC Professionals a call today and have them provide you with the quality services that you need for your home to ensure that you are comfortable, happy and safe. FS Plumbing & Heating your skilled professionals for all of your homes needs.
Plumbing related problems can attimes be very irritating. That is when you should turn to a Long Beach Park plumbing professional who can take care of various problems such as frozen pipes, leaks, etc. Here are some of the most common reasons for hiring them.
Servicing Or Maintaining A Boiler Or Furnace
Most of boilers and furnaces require maintenance at least once a year. A plumbing professional can help you with this. He can adjust electrodes, alter the filters and nozzles, and change thermo-couplings to ensure your boiler or furnace stays in good working order.
Clean Your Water Heater
A hot shower is part of our daily routine. Millions of us take hot bath and showers without even knowing the importance of a water heater until it breaks down. A Long Beach Park plumbing professional can clean and drain the water heater and adjust the heater temperature so that your water heater remains in good condition and reliably provides you with hot water.
Fix Leaky Taps
Leaky taps waste a lot of water and you may find this very irritating. In such cases you can hire someone to either fix or repair the leak or change the tap.
Cleaning And Maintenance Of Drains
There are many instances when your Long Beach Park drains get clogged. An immediate fix is required in such cases. A professional can repair, maintain and replace the drains to ensure waste water flows smoothly.
It is very difficult for anyone to live without a good heating system during the winter season. The services of a good Long Beach Park heating and air conditioning firm who are competent in their job is vital to help us through this long period of cold.
A good heating service provider must be able handle a complex job independently, without frequent input from the client, and irrespective of the size of the space to be heated. If it is a small residential house, the people residing there must not be disturbed by contractor's needs, once the terms of the contract are agreed to by both sides. If the heating is to be done at a large commercial building the client or their men may not have time to spare to assist the contractor. So the contractor must be able to execute his part of the contract on his own.
Secondly, the heating people must have vast experience in their business. Each job is different from the others, so experience adds up quickly. A new building is easy for aLong Beach Park heating and air conditioning contractor to handle. In the matter of an old building that is not the case. The contractor must be able design the system to find solutions for all the problems offered by an old building. It is not an easy task. Another important aspect is that energy efficiency must be maintained no matter how old the building may be.
A heating equipment contractor must have a thorough knowledge about all the brands of hardware sold in the local market and be well aware of the best sources for procurement of every brand. Then only he can recommend the best equipment suitable for the client at the best price. The contractor must be flexible in his approach to the client.
Properly maintaining the drains and sewer pipes in any structure, no matter what its age, is very important to making sure that you have clean, potable water and waste water disposal. When it comes to newer structures, owners rarely have to worry about drain clogs or pipe breakages. Modern materials such as PVC pipes are less likely to break or corrode, and new homeowners can often go several years before worrying about maintaining their sewers and drains. For older homes, however, this is not often the case. Older clay and iron pipes can crack, break, corrode and become clogged with grease and tree roots, in addition to other dangers.
There are many people who would much rather own an older home because an appreciation for more traditional architecture and lower potential purchasing prices. Along with these benefits, however, come many disadvantages that come along with owning an older home. One of them is the quality of the sewer and drain pipes in the home. The older the home, the more likely it is that you will have to have drain cleaning services, and even sewer replacement, in the near future.
Cast iron pipes in older homes are subject to corrosion and scaling, which can lead to major problems and require complete replacement of your sewer. The cost of replacement depends on the length of the pipe that is affected by corrosion, and in some cases simply having the iron drain cleaned properly will solve your problem and cost much less money. But never put off having your iron sewer drain pipes inspected by a professional if you suspect that they are suffering from corrosion or scaling.
Additionally, older homes often were constructed with clay footer drain tiles and main sewer lines that can crack and break over the years. Tree roots are especially a problem when dealing with clay pipes, since they can find their way into minute cracks and clog or break your drain over the years. Luckily, most drain cleaning companies nowadays are equipped with drain snake augers that can effectively cut through tree root obstructions and leave things running like new again.
Remember, if you do decide to purchase an older home, it will come with additional maintenance requirements that could call for extra diligence on your part. By having a drain cleaning professional check your sewer lines for any potential costly problems, you could end up saving yourself a good deal of time and money in the future.
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Laura Fenn-Spiteri, who lived in Babylon Village for 35 years, died November 2, 2005 after a battle with Aplastic Anemia, a rare blood disease similar to leukemia. She was 46 years.
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Cisco Unified MeetingPlace, Release 7.0 -- How to Install and Manage Licenses
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Main page: Cisco Unified MeetingPlace, Release 7.0
Up one level: Maintenance Page
If you purchase license SKUs with your Cisco Unified MeetingPlace order, then your order comes with a Product Authorization Key (PAK). You obtain a license file by providing the PAK and the MAC address of your server in a form on Cisco.com. Through the Administration Center, you upload the license file to Cisco Unified MeetingPlace to install all purchased licenses in that order.
Note: The new licenses take effect immediately. You do not need to reinstall or restart the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace operating system and application when you add licenses.
Determining the MAC Address of your System
- Log in to the Administration Center.
- Click Maintenance > Licenses > Install Licenses.
- The MAC address is listed in the Host ID (MAC address) field.
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Obtaining the License File
The license file contains all the purchased licenses in your order.
Before You Begin
- Find the Product Authorization Key (PAK) that came with your order.
- Go to http://www.cisco.com/go/license.
- If prompted, log in with your Cisco.com user ID and password.
- Enter the PAK from your Cisco Unified MeetingPlace order.
- Confirm the order information and click Continue.
- Fill out all the required fields on the registration form. In particular:
- Make sure that your e-mail address is correct, because the license file will be e-mailed to you.
- Enter the MAC address of your Cisco Unified MeetingPlace server.
- Click Submit.
- Cisco Systems sends you an e-mail containing the license file.
- Save the license file to a location where you can access it from the Administration Center.
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Installing the License File
Before You Begin
Complete Obtaining the License File.
NOTE: You must install the license file while in Active mode.
- Log in to the Administration Center.
- Click Maintenance > Licenses > Install Licenses.
- Select one of the following radio buttons:
- Upload new license file -- Choose this option to delete all previously installed licenses before installing the license file. Select this option only when uploading licenses to your system for the first time, or in the unlikely event that you must install an entirely new set of licenses.
- Append incremental license file -- Choose this option to keep all the previously installed licenses and to add additional licenses from the license file.
- Enter the fully-qualified filename in the License file to use field or click Browse to search for the file.
- Click Install License.
Troubleshooting Tips
If the Application Server hostname is longer than 32 characters, you may not be able to install licenses. If this occurs, use the net command to change the hostname. Note, however, that changing the Application Server hostname requires a system restart and may require other configuration tasks. See the net command description.
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What to Do Next
Proceed to Displaying Licenses to verify license installation.
Displaying Licenses
Complete this task to display the number and types of licenses that are installed on your system, which licenses are enabled, and any further license limitations that are specific to your system.
- Log in to the Administration Center.
- Click Maintenance > Licenses > Licenses Summary.
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Downloading Licenses
Use this task to back up your license files.
- Log in to the Administration Center.
- Click Maintenance > Licenses > Licenses Summary or Install Licenses.
- Click Download License.
- In the File Download dialog box, click Save.
- Navigate to the directory where you want to save the exported file.
- Click Save.
- If the Download Complete dialog box appears, click Close.


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This American Land "Invading Crayfish, Underwater Robot, Grizzly Destroyers" Segments in this show include a look at robotic underwater gliders that investigate mysterious "dead zones" off the Pacific coast. Also, young students in Oregon learn how destructive crayfish were transported across the Rockies for science experiments in their own school, and a landfill gets a second career as a solar power station.G
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Does everybody need a Full HD TV?
Blu-ray discs demand a 1920x1080 pixel resolution, but for anyone without a Blu-ray player – and no plans to get one anytime soon – spending out on resolution that you won't use is a waste of money.
Step forward this deliciously dependable 42-inch HD-ready plasma. It may have a list price of almost £600, but we've seen the TX-P42X50B selling for under £400 online – and that makes this one of the bargain TVs of 2012.
Why do we dare to make such a pronouncement about an HD-ready TV? In truth we've had our eye on Panasonic's more basic plasmas for some years, and this is merely the latest in a very long line of plasma TVs that treat both dodgy and high-quality sources seemingly equally.
That makes it ideal for this in-between age of TV where Freeview HD only contains four hi-def channels, and all are broadcast in 720p quality.
Most games played on the Xbox 360 or PS3 are rendered in 720p quality, too, or upscaled – at least for now – making the TX-P42X50B technically absolutely fine for most households.
As adept with DVD as any TV we've seen this year, the major downsides of the TX-P42X50B for movie fans will be both its lack of Full HD resolution for Blu-ray discs, and the absence of any streaming movie apps.
VIERA Connect is missing from the TX-P42X50B, but you'll do well to find any smart-ness on TVs under the £600 mark.
However, it's not like the TX-P42X50B is living completely in the dark ages; digital media can be played from a USB stick as well as from an SDXC Card – and this is one of the few TVs around sporting the latter.
That's a bit of a boon for photographers, though arguably anyone seriously into imaging should head for a Full HD set.
A possible drawback for some will be the TX-P42X50B's drab styling. Though perfectly acceptable just a few years ago, its combination of a 61.5cm depth (and a little more if you count the speakers that protrude out of the rear), 32mm-wide black plastic bezel and generally industrial gloss black design won't suit everyone.
Also available
While the Panasonic TX-P42X50B is joined in the X50 Series by the 50-inch Panasonic TX-P50X50B, these two plasmas comprise the Japanese brand's only two HD-ready plasmas – and also the only two that aren't 3D-ready.
On the next rung up the VIERA ladder is the 42-inch Panasonic TX-P42UT50B (£600), which is something of an upgrade: it's adorned by 1080p Full HD resolution, VIERA Connect smart TV apps and active shutter 3D.
Other 42-inch plasmas in the stable include the Panasonic TX-P42ST50 and Panasonic TX-P42GT50, both of which sport Full HD resolutions and contrast-boosting filters, though Edge LED TVs are also available.
Consider the 42-inch Panasonic TX-L42ET5B, a polarised 'passive' 3DTV that includes a stunning four pairs of 3D glasess as well as VEIRA Connect apps, or the active shutter alternative, the Panasonic TX-L42ET50B.
Meanwhile, the step-up 42-inch Panasonic TX-L42DT50B and high-end, dual-core-processor laden Panasonic TX-L42WT50B impress, though both cost considerably more than this plasma.