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Friday 25 November
The Life and Times of Aberdeen's International Brigaders
Neil Cooney, Nina Londragan and Tommy Campbell
7 p.m. Town House, Broad St, Aberdeen, AB10
Tuesday, 6 December
Connolly, 1916 and Scotland
Steven Coyle and Keith Stoddart
Chair: Colin Mack, Paisley TUC
7 p.m. Paisley Town Hall
in conjunction with the 1916 Rising Centenary Committee – Scotland
Thursday, 23 February
Happy Lands Film on the 1926 General Strike
7.30 p.m. Volunteer Rooms.
High St, KA12 0BA
Tuesday 7 March
The Caterpillar Occupation:
Richard Leonard, John Gillen,
John Brannan
Chair Elaine Smith
Blantyre Miners Welfare, Calder ST
Tuesday 14 March
James Connolly, Jim Larkin and the 1907
Belfast Dockers Strike
Tommy Campbell,
7 p.m. Augustine Church Centre, 41 George IV Bridge
Tuesday 4 April
Robin Page Arnot: Historian of the Scottish Miners, Communist and Revolutionary Leader
Tom Kirby
7 p.m. Lochgelly Centre, Bank Street, KY5
Tuesday 2 May
Ten Days that Shook the World
Tam Kirby
DVA. 10 Constitution Street, DD1 1LL
Tuesday 6 June
Bertold Brecht
Sandra Trotter
7 p.m. Tam O'Shanter
113-117 Queensberry St.
Dumfries DG1 1BH.
Tuesday 4 July
Class Struggle and Pre-Capitalist Society
Paul McFarlane
7 p.m. Augustine Church Centre, 41 George IV Bridge
Artists - local musicans and poets - gave freely of their time & talents to put on a musical social in commemoration of the International Brigaders on this 80th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War. Thanks to the artists and also to UNISON Glasgow City who gave Hope not Hate Scotland and the International Brigades Memorial Trust the use of their city centre premises. As well as great acts, the political message of left unity in the face of austerity and anti-fascism was to the fore, the same values which inspired and motivated many of the volunteers to travel from Britain to fight for democracy in Spain 80 years ago.
Paul Sheridan and Chris Cruickshanks from the Wakes,
Declan Welsh, solo vocals and guitar
Calum Baird, solo vocals and guitar
Pauline Bradley, solo vocals and guitar
Stephen Wright, solo vocals and guitar
Colin Poole, poet
Jim Monaghan, poet
Commemoration of the International Brigades going to fight Fascism in the Spanish Civil War, held on Saturday 10th September 2016 at the La Pasionaria statue on Glasgow Quay.
Organised by Hope not Hate Scotland & the International Brigades Memorial Trust
Sandra Trotter from UNISON Trade Union translates.
Laying wreaths in honour of the International Brigaders from Glasgow, by Jennifer McCarey the Chair of Glasgow TUC and the Campbell Family who's grandfather left Glasgow to fight in Spain.
Outdoor music celebration by Paul Sheridan, vocalist & lead guitar of The Wakes, a Glasgow folk rock band.
ANTI-FASCISTS and trade unionists came together in Glasgow on Saturday to commemorate the International Brigades with speeches and music before laying wreaths.
Vera Dehle Thaelmann, granddaughter of renowned German communist and anti-fascist leader Ernst Thaelmann, led the tribute at the La Pasionaria statue, saying the German-speaking brigade members had named their battalion after Thaelmann because of his "unwavering courage" in the face of nazi persecution and imprisonment during the Spanish civil war brought the brigaders close to him.
She said the nazis feared her grandfather due to his ability to "mobilise working-class communities against fascism."
Even though the nazis kept him in solitary confinement for 11 years, she said they "couldn't break him" and "he is in our hearts and in our actions" to struggle for a better world.
Ms Thaelmann said the struggle that the International Brigades led against fascism 80 years ago is just as relevant today, highlighting the anti-refugee policies of many EU states and warning that fascism and racism feed off desperation in times of austerity.
She called for unity against the far-right to honour the legacy of the International Brigades in their struggle against fascism.
From Morning Star Monday 12 Sept 2016 http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-dd2d-International-Brigade-heroes-honoured-in-Glasgow#.V9bQJvorKUk
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Chair's Opening Comments:
Denise Christie
Jackson Cullinane
Head of Unite Scotland's Politics, Research and Campaigns Unit
Bernadette Keaveney
Morning Star Circulation Manager
Readers and Supporters Groups
Tony Kierney and Sandra Trotter reported from Dumfries RSG. Arthur West reported from Ayrshire RSG
Reporting: a Voice for the Movement
Zoe Streatfield, Morning Star Scottish Reporter
Building sales in the Trade Union Movement
Tom Morrison, Secretary Clydebank Trades Union Council and Communications Officer for West Dunbartonshire Unison
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is the classic working class novel, written by Robert Tressell who was himself a house painter & sign writer. The novel concerns Frank Owen and his fellow workmate house painters, and various characters who hold elevated positions in the Capitalist system. Just what this system is and how it operates, is something which Frank Owen explains to his fellow workmates with famous examples such as "the Great Money Trick" and "the Oblong". Such was the book's usefulness to building class consciousness that often in the trade union movement it could be referred to as THE book.
Stuart Moir, lecturer at Edinburgh University and former motor mechanic, guides us through this book of books. Central to his talk is the question whether this 100+ year old book is still relevant i.e. whether socialism is still needed in the modern day? Stuart gives fascinating insight into the main themes of the book, who the author was and what did he wish to communicate through this work?
The Morning Star meeting was recorded in Dundee 2016 as part of the Our Class Our Culture series of Scotland-wide events. The Morning Star is the only daily Socialist newspaper, and thus is the only daily media source that reflects the politics of this classic book.
THE name of Tony Chater, whose funeral takes place in Luton today, will forever be linked with the battle to defend the political and organisational integrity of the Morning Star.
The paper became a battleground in the 1970s and early 1980s where differences within the Communist Party of Great Britain were played out.
Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) conferences held discussions on the paper's content, its political orientation and the responsibility of party members to support it.
A self-styled Eurocommunist minority was hostile to the priority given by the Morning Star to trade union activities to raise workers' living standards, terming it "economism."
The paper's generally positive attitude toward the Soviet Union, despite various criticisms, also attracted hostility, although it was well known that the Soviet Communist Party bought several thousand copies of the Morning Star each day.
The difficulties of publishing a left-wing daily paper in a hostile capitalist environment spawned countless ideas of how to overcome this, but, as the Eurocommunist trend gained traction within the party leadership, these were distilled into a single demand that the editor should go.
Chater incurred the wrath of the party leadership by inviting Communist Party industrial organiser Mick Costello to respond in the paper to an article in the Marxism Today journal that attacked the shop stewards movement as corrupt.
This culminated in an invitation to Costello to return to the Morning Star as industrial correspondent without discussing his redeployment with the party's general secretary Gordon McLennan.
The executive committee ordered Chater and his deputy David Whitfield to stand down and be replaced by diplomatic editor Chris Myant and editorial assistant Frank Chalmers respectively.
Chater and Whitfield were supported in their refusal to do so by many party organisations and by the People's Press Printing Society (PPPS) management committee, which, then as now, stewarded the assets of the paper and had responsibility for appointing the editor.
The Morning Star and the management committee wanted to head off what was already looking like an all but inevitable split by seeking discussions to allow co-operation based on respect for the paper's autonomy, but the party leadership was intent on resolving a political question by administrative methods.
Both men and other party members on the management committee, including its chair Ken Gill and chief executive Mary Rosser, were expelled from the party in 1985.
Party individuals and organisations that sided with the paper and its management were expelled, suspended or reorganised, resulting in a loss of thousands of CP members.
Despite the disciplinary onslaught and CPGB leadership's efforts to change the paper's management through mass attendance to vote at annual PPPS shareholder meetings, the majority, comprising an alliance of Communists, Labour Party members, militant trade unionists and international solidarity groups backed Chater and his comrades.
Miners' leader Arthur Scargill told the Manchester section of the PPPS AGM that the Morning Star's crime had been to defend "the working class and socialism."
the Morning Star's crime had been to defend "the working class and socialism.
Chater and a number of supporters then set up the Communist Campaign Group (CCG) as a means to keep these expelled members together and, in 1988, believing that the CPGB was about to give up the ghost, set up the Communist Party of Britain in what they called a "re-establishment congress," claiming the mantle of the party set up in Britain in 1920.
To this end, the CPB adopted the same party programme and rules — with one exception. It reinstated the recently dropped rule that all members should buy and support the Morning Star.
The CPGB lingered on for another three years before dissolving itself into a short-lived talking shop known as Democratic Left.
Chater had been a loyal party member since joining while still at grammar school in Northampton shortly after the end of the second world war.
He studied chemistry at Queen Mary College, London, gaining a First and, while studying for his PhD, met his future wife Janice who was reading chemistry and maths.
They went to Canada where he had a research studentship at a government experimental farm in Ottawa, studying what happens to proteins in leaves in freezing conditions.
Chater then received a British Council grant to study radioactive techniques in research in Belgium before returning to teach first in Norwich and then at Luton Technical College.
He stood as a parliamentary candidate for the CPGB four times in Luton before taking up full-time work for the party in its press and publicity department in 1969, working alongside Nora Jeffrey.
Five years later, he and Morning Star editor George Matthews swapped jobs, with Chater taking up the helm at the Morning Star at a time of acute class conflict.
The release of the Pentonville Five from prison, the jailing of the Shrewsbury pickets and the Grunwick dispute in the 1970s gave way to the women's occupation of Greenham Common, the Falklands war, the 1984-5 miners' strike, the Wapping dispute and the carnival of reaction that was Tory rule under Margaret Thatcher and John Major.
The Morning Star under Chater gave voice to the workers' cause, to the peace activists and to all fighting for human rights
The Morning Star under Chater gave voice to the workers' cause, to the peace activists and to all fighting for human rights, despite internal Communist problems.
He encouraged the development of closer political working with the left of the Labour Party, including Michael Foot, Tony Benn, Dennis Skinner, Ken Livingstone, Eric Heffer and a young parliamentary entrant in 1983, Jeremy Corbyn.
Labour's annual conference agreed that same year to "support our media," urging the movement to back existing titles Labour Weekly, Tribune and the Morning Star.
Close working with Foot helped to secure a brief breach in the ban on the Morning Star receiving government advertising as prime minister Harold Wilson ordered that ads should be placed.
Former parliamentary correspondent Roger Bagley recalls that senior civil servants failed at first to comply, saying: "It must have been like something out of Yes Minister with the civil servants refusing to authorise them until Wilson laid down the law.
"Mind you, Wilson was crafty, so the first ads were about the government incomes policy that the paper opposed."
Chater gave the go-ahead for Bagley to break the strict embargo on the Queen's 1982 Christmas Day message in response to the government's decision to give her a speech that went beyond the usual platitudes to a pro-war stance.
"The Queen is set to plunge into political controversy with a Christmas Day message glorifying the Falklands conflict," the Morning Star splash opened, setting off a political storm.
Three years later, during the Wapping dispute, industrial correspondent Mick Costello blew the whistle on Rupert Murdoch's plot to engineer a strike by print workers as a means to sack them without compensation, having got his hands on a letter from Murdoch's legal advisers.
Costello had first met Chater when they both worked at the party's King Street HQ.
"I knew him as a consistent propagandist for the fight for peace and against the dangers to it from aggressive military alliances — in the first place Nato," he says.
However, he worked most closely with him at the Morning Star, where "he did not tolerate the use of shoddy or loose terminology that might dilute the paper's clear editorial approach to news and comment.
"Tony ensured that the team at the paper kept to the political path charted by the Communist Party programme Britain's Road to Socialism, with its strategy for building a broad anti-monopoly alliance rooted in the leading role played by the working class," says Costello.
"I will remember him for his rigorous thought, hard work, uncompromising commitment to principles, devotion to the fight for peace and socialism and also for rows with him and then sharing a joke and a pint."
David Whitfield, who was Morning Star features editor and deputy editor under Chater's editorship during the 1970s and '80s, recalls him as "single-minded and steadfast" in defending his strongly held views.
"He was convinced the trend of Eurocommunism aimed to destroy both the Marxist party and close the Morning Star as a daily campaigning focus and voice of ordinary people. He put himself stubbornly in its path, often at great personal stress to himself.
"And it is largely down to Tony Chater's focus that the Morning Star continues to publish daily."
And it is largely down to Tony Chater's focus that the Morning Star continues to publish daily
Whitfield says that, "in lighter moments, Tony Chater would chuckle that his strategy was Sitzfleisch," which translates as "buttocks" and was deployed by Albert Einstein to explain his refusal to leave a problem until it was resolved, but this was rendered by Chater as "the one with the fattest arse sits longest."
He insists that Chater could not be provoked. He would just become more stubborn.
"It took personal courage. Tony Chater was not at all an aggressive man. Indeed, he was sensitive, gentle and patient with those of lesser experience, political imagination, learning, reading or mettle. He could be charming, witty, always erudite and generous."
Many commentators speculated, with the reduction and then cancellation of Morning Star sales in the Soviet Union, that the paper would go out of business in 1991 or shortly afterwards.
However, sacrifices by staff and supporters, assisted by new sales and influence in the trade unions and the Labour Party, especially since Jeremy Corbyn's election, have confirmed that there remains a material basis for the Star's existence.
As Chater said in 1985 when the paper changed to tabloid format, "the Star will continue not just to report events but to be a weapon in the hands of the movement to shape events — in favour of ordinary people.
"The Star is a mobiliser, educator and agitator."
The Star is a mobiliser, educator and agitator
Communist Party general secretary Rob Griffiths, who got to know Chater when they worked together in the CCG and then in the CPB leadership, says that his "commitment to working people and class politics rescued the Morning Star from those whose class collaboration would have destroyed it.
"He also helped devise the 're-establishment' strategy which saved the existence of a Communist Party anchored in the labour movement and implacably opposed to imperialist militarism and war."
Chater retired in 1995 and stepped back from activity, spending his time with family and reading voraciously, looking over his life, especially his political involvement.
"Tony spent 21 years as editor. A large part of it he enjoyed, but it got too much towards the end. The disappearance of the Soviet Union really upset him," says his wife Janice.
"He reviewed everything. He was reading and reading. I wouldn't like to say he regretted everything, but he said that there had been some bad mistakes.
"In his latter days, he suffered from vascular dementia which robbed him of the ability to concentrate. It was very sad to see. He had a very good mind and it just went towards the end."
As well as wife Janice, Tony Chater leaves sons Martin, John and Simon and a number of grandchildren.
Morning Star political editor
Congratulations to the folks who recreated the Kinder Scout Trespass today (Sunday 24 April 2016) to fund raise for the Morning Star daily leftwing newspaper! The original action in April 1932 involved many of our readers then - led in large part by Benny Rothman of the Young Communist League (YCL) of Manchester. It still remains one of the most successful acts of civil disobedience in modern British history
As a notable act of resistance, it helped spark the modern movement for rambling. It has been interpreted as the embodiment of "working class struggle for the right to roam versus the rights of the wealthy to have exclusive use of moorlands" to shoot grouse.
Well done all!!
To coincide with the annual Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC), which took place in Dundee this year, The Morning Star Readers Group and the 1916 Rising Centenary Committee (Scotland) organised a joint evening of music and songs about James Connolly's life and times. The music was performed by a talented duo of musicians called Jimmy Ross and Finlay Allison. Keith Stoddart opened the proceedings by welcoming the assembled delegates and visitors. He then introduced the historian, Stephen Coyle, who spoke about James Connolly's connections with Dundee, and the city's proud record of providing practical support for the cause of Irish freedom during the War of Independence.
Keith then introduced the musicians who described the events surrounding the Easter Rising and its aftermath in word and song. They performed a range of well-known songs about the period, and included two of their own songs about Margaret Skinnider who was the only women to be injured in the Rising, and the Limerick Soviet. Arthur Johnstone, the acclaimed folk singer performed several songs of struggle later in the evening.
Among the trade union members who attended to show their support for the event, were the following: Eddie McGuire Chairperson, Musicians Union Scotland; Denise Christie Scottish Treasurer, Fire Brigades Union; Sean Hoyle RMT President; Phil McGarry, RMT Political Officer Scotland ;Mark McHugh Scottish Organiser The Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union; Ronnie Draper, General Secretary, The Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union; Assistant General Secretary - Peter Bunting, Irish Congress of Trade Unions; Brian Campsfield (NIPSA) President Irish Congress of Trade Unions; Tommy Morrison, Clydebank Trades Council, and representatives from the Education Institute of Scotland, Unite, Scottish Pensioners Forum; Glasgow, Fife, West Lothian, Edinburgh and Midlothian Trades Councils. The Campaign for Socialism, Communist Party of Britain, Scottish Labour Party, Scottish National Party and the Socialist Workers Party were also represented. A particularly welcome guest was Jorge Luis Garcia, Political Counsellor from the Cuban Embassy in London.
Keith Stoddart of the Morning Star Reader's group stated:
"In this centenary year of the Rising, it is especially important to recognise the key role played by James Connolly, the leading socialist and trade union organiser, who is the most obvious of the Scottish connections to the that pivotal episode in Irish history. It was right and fitting that so many high ranking members of the labour and trade union movement, should show their support for the event".
The badge was especially produced by Dundee Trades Council, to highlight James Connolly's links with the city.
A conference in memory of Dr Alan MacKinnon, a leading peace campaigner in Scotland


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When copying in WinRE (Windows Recovery) it may appear to hang with the circle spinning. This is normal and means you have to wait. I would copy and paste in smaller amounts so it won't hang so long.
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It would be better if you could Startup Repair Win8 via F8 Advanced Boot Options to copy via Explorer in Windows.
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Some Vaio's have Factory Recovery on the F8 Advanced Boot Options choice to Repair My Computer. However you said that it will not respond which means the OS is seriously damaged.
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The strong aroma of smoked meat and barbecue wafted out of the colorful Piggly's concession stand Wednesday afternoon and through the Benton Franklin Fair & Rodeo.
Customers lined up to get a taste of the Sawyers' family recipes, which were crafted in Pasco 50 years ago and have been perfected through four generations.
A red and yellow plaid billboard with giant pictures of everything from a turkey leg to fried zucchini loomed over them.
At a nearby table, covered by a rare spot of shade, Craig Sawyers reminisced about how his family's company has grown in the half-century since his grandpa first started serving hamburgers and hot dogs around the Tri-Cities.
"It's been nothing but family recipes and secrets through the years," he said, dressed in a Piggly's apron. "We don't stray too far off from those recipes."
Piggly's was first started in Franklin County in 1964 and has developed into a fixture at fairs and events on the West Coast. They are celebrating their 50th year at the Benton Franklin Fair with oyster cookouts and giveaways.
The barbecue joint is a mobile concession stand that offers a wide variety of foods, including burgers, jumbo onion rings and polish dogs. One of their most popular items is a two-pound turkey leg.
The company's website says it is one of the largest award-winning concession companies on the West Coast.
The business has been so successful that the Sawyers family even opened a restaurant in Mesa, Ariz., that serves carnival-style cuisine.
Craig Sawyers, 55, took over the company from his grandpa and dad in the early 1990s when they retired, he said.
His family apparently had one of the first food trucks to roam the Tri-Cities.
Sawyer went to Pasco High School and Columbia Basin College, he said. He worked as a welder locally before taking over Piggly's.
Now, Sawyers and his crew of around a dozen employees travel to events and are almost done with their summer fair circuit, he said. His sons, Zach and Riley, are part of the business, as well as his wife, Janine, who runs the restaurant in Arizona.
The Piggly's clan just came from a fair in Lynden and will go to Walla Walla after they leave the Tri-Cities. They caravan their trailers from state to state, bringing along the concession stand, which takes about 10 hours to set up, Sawyers said.
"We definitely get to see the life and the towns," Sawyers said. "It's kind of like the gypsy lifestyle."
The company buys a lot of local products, including meat, from wherever they end up, Sawyers said. They get custom sausage from Texas and a special rub from a family owned business out of Los Angeles. He purchased meat from the URM Cash & Carry in Kennewick for this year's fair.
"We always have a couple hundred pounds of beef spinning," Sawyers said.
Sawyers is gearing up for the monthlong state fair in Arizona, where he lives, he said. But he and his family are appreciative they get to celebrate their 50th anniversary in Benton County with friends.
"This is probably one of the best five-day fairs in the entire state of Washington," he said.
Fun Fair events
10 a.m. -- Kid Zone opens.
Noon -- Davis Carnival rides open.
7 p.m. -- Horse Heaven Round-up starts in the rodeo arena.
7:30 p.m. -- Montgomery Gentry on the main stage.
Free with admission to the fair, reserved seats additional $10.
Fair hours -- 9 a.m. to 11 p.m.
General admission -- $13 ages 13 and older, $5 seniors and kids 12 and younger. Parking is $8.
More fair coverage: www.tri-cityherald.com/benton-franklin-fair
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The Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds
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Employees' Retirement Fund, outperfoming benchmarks by 114 and 115
basis points respectively, for the period ended June 30, 2017.
The two funds comprise more than 90 percent of the CRPTF.
Propelled by solid performance results of 25 percent and 23
percent in the Developed and Emerging Markets International Stock
Funds, respectively, as well as a Mutual Equity Fund return of 19
percent, the overall CRPTF finished the fiscal year with net assets
of $32.4 billion, a $3.3 billion increase from the previous year and
a new all-time fiscal year-end record.
Over the course of the fiscal year, the CRPTF made commitments of $925 million,
$775 million for nine Private Investment Fund opportunities and $150 million to
three Real Estate Fund investments.
Additionally, the Office of the
Treasurer issued a Request for Proposals for general investment
consulting services, and Treasurer Nappier seleced two firms,
including one dedicated to the Connecticut Higher Education Trust
The Connecticut Horizon Fund ("CHF"), an initiative of Treasurer
Nappier to provide the Office access to a wider number of women and
minority-owned, Connecticut-based and emerging investment management
firms, has $1 billion in assets in its fund-of-funds public market program, a $155 million
private equity allocation and a $170 million alternative investment
allocation. As of June 30, 2017, the public market program totaled
4 managers and 36
sub-managers. Emerging firms represented the largest allocation of
total assets at 72 percent; minority-owned firms represented 42
percent; women-owned firms followed with 28 percent; and Connecticut-based firms
were at 19 percent of total assets.*
Additionally, there were 3 private equity managers and 20 sub-managers; including 8
minority-owned, 3 emerging, 1 women-owned and 8
Connecticut-based. In the separately managed
Fund-of-Hedge Fund mandate within the Alternative Investment Fund,
there were 2 managers and 25 sub-managers; the breakdown includes 21 emerging firms,
13 minority-owned firms, 7 Connecticut-based firms, and 5
women-owned firms.*
*Total exceeds 100 percent
because some investment firms are owned by individuals who represent
more than one demographic category.Expansion of the
diversity of firms with which the Pension Funds Management division does business continued
during the Fiscal Year. Overall, minority-owned, women-owned,
Connecticut-based and emerging firms, 35 in all, comprised 26.3
percent of the firms with which the division did business; these
firms earned fees of approximately $38 million, representing
more than 39 percent of
all fees paid by the division.


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Two Handles
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. (James 3:7-9, ESV)
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A host of rare genetic diseases that are more common in Finland than in other European countries may have arisen because Finnish people descended from a small band of ancestors some 4000 years ago, scientists report in the 15 October Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Finns tend to suffer from a different set of genetic diseases than do most other Europeans. For instance, Finns rarely develop cystic fibrosis or other inherited disorders that are relatively common among other Europeans, but they are prone to some 30 other genetic disorders, including aspartylglucosaminuria (AGU), a condition that arises from a defective enzyme. AGU afflicts some 150 Finns, but only 30 others in the rest of the world.
This pattern of disease susceptibility suggests that Finns ancestral gene pool was small and was cut off early on from the rest of Europes. But despite such tantalizing signs of a genetic bottleneck, "until now there had been no clear genetic evidence of reduced genetic variability," says lead author Svante Pääbo, a geneticist at the University of Munich in Germany.
Pääbo and his colleagues now have that evidence. Sampling DNA from 54 Finns, Pääbos team found that Finns have much less genetic variation than other Europeans do in three small regions of the Y chromosome, which is found only in males. In addition, Finns have reduced variability in DNA from mitochondria, subcellular energy-producing machines inherited from the mother. Tracking genetic similarities in both the Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA gives a good thumbnail sketch of "the whole [genetic] picture," Pääbo says.
The findings "more firmly document" a Finnish population bottleneck, says Markku Linnoila, a psychiatrist at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Pääbo says he will next try to backtrack through time to determine how many original Finns there were.


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GM's Board Approves Sale Of Hughes Unit to Raytheon
The $9.5 Billion Agreement Signals End of Post-Cold War Consolidation
General Motors Corp. unveiled the long-awaited sale of the defense businesses of its Hughes Electronics Corp. unit to Raytheon Co. for a rich $9.5 billion in stock and debt. The sale is part of GM's exit from businesses other than making cars and trucks. GM cast the transaction as part of an effort to "unlock" the value of its nonautomotive operations.
Besides selling its defense businesses, which had total 1996 revenue of about $6.3 billion, Hughes Electronics will transfer its Delco Electronics business to GM's...


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Can we say "HEAT WAVE"? Throughout much of the country this week, temperatures have sky-rocketed, sending the mercury soaring. Eighty degrees, ninety degrees, even one hundred degrees! Summer is here, and it's here with a vengence! At the same time, energy prices are continuing to rise. … [Read more...]
Installing Replacement Windows Increases Comfort, Enhances Pest Control
The quality of education received at an institute of higher learning is dependent upon many things. One of those things is the comfort of the faculty, staff and students. Windows can play a pivotal role in comfort according to a recent article in The News Gazette. With old, single pane leaky … [Read more...]
Understanding Payback: How Vinyl Replacement Windows Pay for Themselves
"Home replacement windows pay for themselves!" It's a common phrase you'll hear time and again while shopping for replacement windows. But how true is it? How does payback work? How much money will you save, and how quickly can you recoup the cost of having replacement windows … [Read more...]
Installing Replacement Windows: A Do It Yourself Job?
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This wedding focused on a very simple, elegant color scheme of Tiffany blues and whites. The photo above is a GREAT example of the power of a creative use of paper. When Allison decided that she couldn't fit floral pomanders for the aisle into her budget, I suggested she try to make tissue ones! Aren't they just so charming? Perfect, and I think they truly mimic fresh flowers in this image!
Above, the girls with their fragrant, textural white bouquets. Below are the guys with their simple, elegant calla lily boutonnieres.
Sarah's bouquet was fully of big fluffy blooms... hydrangea, stock, etc... along with the more elongated stems of calla lilies. I love the pin that we used on the handle, it was a vintage family piece... really makes for a special personalized touch! All photos courtesy of Sarah Rimel Photography.


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Primary Care Physicians
Stroke survivors unaware of therapy options for spastic muscles, survey findsNovember 08, 2013
Many stroke survivors don't know about the therapy options that can address spastic muscles, which is a common and often disabling condition, according to a recent survey.
Some Medicaid doctors to receive reimbursement rates that equal Medicare'sMay 09, 2012
Physicians providing primary care services to Medicaid beneficiaries will see a federal payment increase to bring Medicaid payments in line with those of Medicare payments, government officials announced Wednesday.
MedPAC wants to undo doctor payment system, lower rates to them and other providersOctober 10, 2011
A chief Medicare advisory committee has recommended that Congress repeal a 10-year-old physician reimbursement system and then reduce payments to specialists and other healthcare providers to pay for the change.


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Hello Fabulous wonderful friends.
I hope your week goes well and good.keep warm and safe the weather in the UK is rubbish as usual.
Anyways I have a yummy nail art for you today.
I was munching on a piece of Galaxy Chocolate from the Christmas tub of Celebrations chocolates and thought..hmm I am gonna try create this on my nails.
Here is the items used to create my yummy Chocolate nail art.
- Born Pretty Super Matte polish.
- Benecos polish in Sweet nougat.
- Revlon polish in Hot Chocolate.
- Technic clear top coat polish.
- BC polish in 24ct Gold.
- Technic nail art pen in Gold.
- Marker pen in dark brown.
- Small dotting tool.
- Galaxy sweet wrapper (from the celebrations tub)
I started with a base coat of the Revlon polish then I went over it with the benecos polish once dry I applied the Matte polish then while drying I used the dotting tool to gently scrape the chocolate lines/segments.then went over the lines using the marker pen.
I painted the gold using the BC polish and tidying it with the nail art pen on the thumb index finger and middle finger.
I cut out 2 small Galaxy logos from the wrapper and used the clear top coat and stuck them on the nails carefully.then I cut another small piece of the wrapper on stuck it on the ring finger.
Yum all done and good enough to eat! :D
Hope you enjoyed this nail art as much as I did eating the contents of the wrapper hehe.
Back soon with more nail art and much more!
Have a great week.


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Remember this?
The new front panel is now on!
The back panel too:
I broke out the Cyclo polisher today and started with Nuvite F7 to get the swirls from the DeWalt polisher out.
Below the window line has had one pass with the Cyclo and Nuvite F7, while next to the window has only had the variable speed polisher.
I have invented a new diet while polishing. I will call it the Psyclo Diet.
It mainly involves standing in the right place at the right time.
All you need is some Nuvite and your own Airstream.


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4801 . Which of the following has been found useful in keeping cholesterol level down?
4802 . Which Directive Principle is based on Gandhian ideology?
Promotion of cottage industries
4803 . The tendency of liquid drop to contract and why does it occupy minimum area?
Due to Surface tension
4804 . After howmany years does Halley's comet appear once in a period?
76 years
4805 . At which Harappan site have traces of a horse been found?
4806 . When was the Reserve Bank of India taken over by the Government?
4807 . Who was the first woman Chief Justice of a High Court ?
Leila Seth
4808 . What is the ready source of energy available for athletes?
4809 . Which is the time required for the Earth to return to a given point in its orbit with reference to fixed star?
Sideral year
4810 . By whom was the Fourth Buddhist-Council held?
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4811 . After a no confidence motion is admitted to the Lok Sabha, who decides a date for the debate?
Lok Sabha Speaker
4812 . Which metal was first discovered by man ?
4813 . Who said 'At the stroke of midnight, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom' ?
Jawaharlal Nehru
4814 . When it is 12:00 noon in India, what would be the time in San Francisco (USA)?
8 : 30 p.m. of previous day
4815 . Which rulers held a religious assembly at Prayag every five years?
4816 . Of which purpose was Nationalisation of banks done?
Consolidating the economy
4817 . Urine of a diabetes patient contains more than average quantity of which thing?
4818 . How many times was the term of the Lok Sabha extended upto 6 years?
4819 . Which activity occupies the largest area of the world?
Pastoral herding
4820 . Which was the first scholar, who read Ashokan edicts?
James Princep
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4821 . Besides water and light which is more essential as a raw material for photosynthesis?
4822 . Which can impose reasonable restrictions on the Fundamental Rights of the Indian citizens?
4823 . Denatured spirit is a mixture of ethyl alcohol, methyl alcohol and which other thing?
4824 . What is the administrative capital of South Africa?
4825 . During the 1857 Revolt who captured Gwalior from the Scindhia ?
Rani Lakshmibai
4826 . Who was the first to receive the Nobel prize?
Rabindranath Tagore
4827 . Which tax is not levied by the Union Government?
Profession Tax
4828 . During rainy seasons why do doors made up of wood swell up?
Due to imbibition
4829 . Arakan Yoma is the extension of the Himalayas located in which country?
4830 . In the history of the freedom movement of India, the year 1930 is associated with which event?
Dandi March
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4831 . The Fundamental Right to Property has been deleted by the which Amendment Act?
4832 . Why are Clear nights cooler than cloudy nights?
Because of radiation
4833 . Manav Seva Award has been instituted in the memory of which person?
Rajiv Gandhi
4834 . Which is most prone to earthquakes?
Young folded mountains
4835 . Who was not the member of the Cabinet Mission which visited India in 1946 ?
Lord Mountbatten
4836 . Indian Army's School of Artillery is located at which place?
4837 . What is the growth movement in plant due to light called?
4838 . What is the maximum number of elected members in a State Assembly?
4839 . Of the floating iceberg in the sea, how much is the portion remaining above the sea level?
4840 . At which place is the famous Kailasha Temple located?
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News and info
Find out about the latest in the Marlborough area from these places
Marlborough News Online
For the best roundup of local news and what's on.
Marlborough Tower and Town
Monthly magazine for Marlborough's community and churches
Wiltshire wide business news
The Ocelot
For an irreverent take on the entertainment scene, check out The Ocelot. Use the gig guide, send your searching questions to Agony Boy, and more. Available free throughout Wiltshire and by paid subscription.
News, online radio n stuff for the youngsters
Marlborough Town and Country, is a full colour community lifestyle magazine, delivered to 5000 households in Marlborough and surrounds every month.
Marlborough Wiltshire is an online guide to our great little town.
The local paper, Wiltshire Gazette and Herald has a leisure section every week.
Also listen to BBC Radio Wiltshire and Heart FM for Wiltshire
You can get more information from some of the following:
Wiltshire Gazette & Herald Marlborough news
Dance and Theatre Wiltshire – what's on and creative industry opportunities
Village websites and newspages
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Range anxiety. We all suffer from it at one time or another. I'll be picking up the bike from Newcastle and it's 300 km to home. More than the range on the DS (unless I ride at 40 km/h).
My partner is convinced that I'm either going to be pushing or someone is going to charge me hundreds for a recharge. She suggested that I should call ahead and arrange charging. Not a bad idea. My favourite stop on the highway is a place called Myalla Magic in Buladelah. Good food and coffee, but they don't know me at all. So I rang them just now and spoke to Shelley.
Hi!, I'm Jason, I'm going to be riding an electric motorcycle up the Pacific Highway in a couple of weeks and I'm looking for somewhere to recharge while I have lunch."
"No problem, what do you need?"
"Just a 240 volt powerpoint where I can plug in an extention cord."
"No, we've got a shed out the back where your bike will be safe and there's a power point in there, just ask for Shelley when you arrive or if it's Sunday, call ahead and I'll leave a note for the weekend staff"
My god! How easy is that!
Problem solved, anxiety over. This electric vehicle thing might be easier than I thought.


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Action Alerts
Sign a Petition to Protect Food Assistance
Mar 20, 2015
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps) reduces hunger and food insecurity for millions of children, seniors, veterans, people with disabilities, the unemployed and those working low wage jobs trying to make ends meet. SNAP lifts people out of poverty, improves nutrition and health, responds quickly in times of disaster or recession, supports local economies, and improves well-being. Yet, this extremely efficient program is often the first to be reviewed when Congress is considering cuts.
U.S. Representatives and Senators who serve on the Budget Committee are in the midst of a budget reconciliation process, which means they can reconsider spending priorities, and can potentially cut funding for programs such as SNAP and other nutrition programs that are critical to food insecure Americans. If this were to happen, charities would be overwhelmed and our country would see more hunger and poverty.
Anti-hunger advocates across the nation are joining forces to tell Congress not to take meals away from Americans struggling with hunger by making disastrous changes to SNAP. Take action now to tell Congress to protect food assistance programs that work.
Please take a moment to visit the Food Research and Action Center's (FRAC) website to sign their petition telling Congress you don't support a budget that will increase hunger in America. Add your voice to this important effort.
Thank you for taking the time to help protect programs like SNAP that are proven to reduce hunger!


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Tag: Power grid
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Blackouts: How often do we want them?
Winter 2003
Living in a subdivision where the power lines are strung on poles in our back alleys, we have had more than our usual share of power outages this summer. This has been blamed on the rapid expansion of the neighborhood squirrel population because o...
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It's Labor Day Weekend, I got the green car thirteen years ago this weekend. Wow. Some things are the same, some things are different, some things are stunning.
I finally gave in and set up "Google Reader," and I like it! It's really cut down on my staring at the computer half bored and half trying to remember which bookmarks I've checked lately.
Right this minute, there's an older lady on TV sitting at a desk that looks a lot like a news desk. She's holding a big v!be, one of those monsters with the rotating beads and all that, right there on TV. Gah, did I say something about stunning a few lines back? This outdoes it.
That baby blanket that I mentioned a few posts ago is past the halfway point now, and I like how it's turning out. I wondered how the corners at the ends of the center stripe were going to work out -- they look a lot better than I thought they would. It's good to be on the downhill side, even if I do have until February.
This lady on TV, I'm thinkin' I like her. She's taking calls and right now, she's explaining head (I didn't use the usual verb in front of that, so the Go0glers can just think that's a car part or body part instead of an activity). She's tellin' this guy who's never done it how to go about it, bless her heart. Wow.
I really thought I had more to write, but now I can't remember... The TV is polluting my mind...
More later. _\,,/
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I've encouraged so many people to start "CVSing", but there's always that initial out-of-pocket cost. So I'm going to get you started with a $5.00 giftcard! (Don't worry if you're already a "CVSer"; you're allowed to enter too!) To enter, leave me a comment letting me know you'd like to try your hand at the art of "CVSing". If you're an old hat, tell us about your CVS savings to help encourage those who still haven't jumped on the bandwagon! Post the giveaway on your blog for a second entry. (Just leave a 2nd comment letting me know you posted.) If you don't have a blog, tell (or email) 3 people about this giveaway, and I'll enter you a second time too! (Leave a 2nd comment telling me who you told [sister, aunt, friend]). Please make sure I have a way to contact you.
I'll be randomly picking a winner next Saturday, August 9!
Greet way to get started if you haven't started CVSing or if you need some extra "pay the taxes" cash!


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Clinical Experiences
A major component of MSN preparation for nurse practitioner students involves clinical practica in which the nurse practitioner student is supervised on site by duly licensed and approved clinical preceptors. Clinical settings provide the student with opportunities to gain competencies required by individual courses and program completion
Eligibility Requirements for Placement in Clinical Settings
Pre-enrollment in clinical courses: MSN students must meet with their faculty advisor in advance of to plan their clinical placement. Local students attending classes on site will work with faculty to identify and select a clinical site that meets individual and program clinical goals. Students enrolled in the MSN distance program will initiate the process by identifying clinical preceptors in their own locale and forward information and potential preceptor curriculum vitae to the program director to review. All clinical preceptors must meet academic expectations and licensing requirements.
Registered Nurses in any clinical program are required to obtain licensure as Registered Nurses in the jurisdiction of their clinical placement.
Memorandum of Understanding
A formal memorandum of understanding (affiliation agreement) is required between CUA and the health care agency where students are assigned. Students using a new clinical setting must submit the necessary information for a new setting a few months in advance to the Office of the Dean.
Documentation and Certification Requirements
Individual health care agencies require licensure, health and criminal background check requirements of students placed within their setting. Students are responsible for providing required documentation of their health and certification requirements in advance of any clinical rotation by uploading it to https://portal.castlebranch.com/HC54.
Clinical procedures have been separated into sections:
- Before clinical rotations
- During clinical rotations
- After clinical
Policies on treatment of information regarding health history and past criminal history, health-related behavioral standards is available in the Graduate Announcements under Policies and Regulation
Before Clinical Rotations
Pre-registration for Clinical Courses
Students must pre-register for clinical practicum courses, MOUs must be in place between CUA and the healthcare agency prior to beginning clinical rotation.
Documentation Requirements
Prior to starting clinical courses, there are requirements that the student must complete and document. Students submit this documentation to portal.castlebranch.com where it is reviewed.
Background Check
Criminal background checks must be completed prior to the start of clinical coursework. Evidence of past or present criminal behavior identified through the background check or through other documented evidence of criminal behavior may lead to administrative sanctions up to, and including dismissal from the School of Nursing. The procedures for conducting criminal background checks are located in the sidebar.
9 Panel Drug Screen
All students are required to submit a 9 panel urine drug screen (THC, Cocaine, PCP, Opiates, Methamphetamine, Methadone, Amphetamines, Barbiturate, Benzodiazepines) before commencing clinical rotations.
The drug testing is done via the Castlebranch site. When logged onto the Castlebranch site, Drug Test appears on the To-Do List. Print the document from the site and go to a LabCorp location. Note: Not all LabCorp locations perform drug testing, please check before going to a location. No previous drug tests may be submitted.
Students must submit documentation of current immunizations before the beginning of clinical rotations. The required immunizations are found on the immunization form. The polio vaccine is required.
Certification of Clinical Readiness (Health Clearance)
The Certification of Clinical Readiness identifies any health related conditions that may impact on the student's ability to work in the clinical setting. Documentation is done at the beginning of each academic year.
Annual PPD
Annually, all students must submit documentation of PPD status. A PPD test is valid for one year. All PPDs must be valid through the entire academic year. Documentation is done at the beginning of each academic year. The form must be submitted annually.
Flu Shot
You are required to have a flu shot to participate in clinical rotations. Please submit the School of Nursing form and provider receipt.
CPR Certification
All students must have current CPR that is certified by the American Red Cross or American Heart Association for 2 man rescue and for child and infant rescue. Internet CPR certification is not acceptable.
All submitted requirements must be valid for the entire academic year.
Health, Basic Life Support and Licensure Requirements
Students must report, immediately in writing, any changes in health status which impact their safety, the safety of patients or those whom the student encounters, or which significantly affect their progression in the program to the pertinent Dean.
Students are expected to comply with all agency requirements for placement in the clinical setting. These include documentation of health and immunization requirements and current cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) certification and may include drug/toxicology screening.
Failure to comply with these requirements may result in withdrawal from clinical courses with resultant effect upon the progression in the program.
Submit Copy of License
Licensure: Registered Nurses in any clinical nursing program are required to maintain licensure as Registered Nurses in the jurisdiction of their clinical placement. Students are required to upload a copy of their license into Castlebranch site.
Expectations for Professional Attire When In Clinical Placements/ Practica
Students are representatives of the SON and CUA and must present themselves as ambassadors of their program. Prior to the beginning of a clinical experience, all students are required to contact the preceptor/mentor in order to obtain information regarding site specific attire. NP students should be professionally dressed and wear their CUA ID badge, lab coat, or other clinical site-specific attire (e.g. scrubs). APHN students must dress appropriately to the code of the agency where they are placed.
During Clinical
Clinical Attendance
- Clinical/Lab attendance is mandatory.
- Unexcused absences will not be accepted. The composite course grade will be lowered by one (1) grade level for each unexcused absence (i.e. A to A-). Excused absences are those defined in the course syllabus.
One excused absence, while accepted, will necessitate a make-up assignment at the discretion of the faculty. Failure to complete the assignment will lower the composite course grade by one (1) grade level (i.e., A to A-). Further excused absences may affect the student grade and possibly progression in the program.
4. The student is expected to notify the appropriate persons, as identified in specific courses, of an emergency requiring an absence or tardiness prior to the beginning of the clinical/lab experience. The student is responsible to be aware of the specific requirements for each course and to follow those procedures.
5. Habitual tardiness to clinical/lab, defined as more than one occurrence, will result in lowering of the composite course grade by one level (i.e., A to A-) for each occurrence.
The faculty and administration in the SON consider attendance in class and at clinical necessary to master the body of knowledge needed for safe clinical practice and adequate preparation for licensure. Students are expected to be both prompt and well prepared when they attend clinical and classes.
Clinical Incident
A clinical incident is any injury, unprotected exposure to a pathogen, or accident which occurs during a clinical practicum/placement. Promoting student and patient safety is the first priority in responding to a clinical incident.
All students are required to carry health insurance. It is helpful if students keep health insurance coverage information with them during clinical practice and if they submit information about coverage along with their health history information.
Students are encouraged to keep notification information current on Cardinal Station so that correct and prompt notifications of family members may be made in the case of serious incidents.
Clinical Incident Procedures
- Any injury requiring immediate, emergency care should be treated at the nearest emergency facility. Please notify the faculty member as soon as possible; the faculty member is responsible for contacting the clinical coordinator and then the Office of the Dean as soon as possible to report the incident and to ask for help, if needed, for the student.
- When a student is exposed to a blood or body fluid pathogen, the agency clinical coordinator/supervisor, agency employee health, and the School of Nursing administration are to be notified immediately. If an employee health department is available, follow hospital/agency guidelines for immediate treatment. If an employee health department is not available, contact the nearest emergency department for immediate treatment guidelines. Students are responsible for treatment costs incurred.
- Institute any necessary treatments that should be carried out on site.
- Students should contact their own health care provider or the University Health Services for recommendations for follow-up treatment.
A School of Nursing report and agency incident report must be completed by faculty and the injured party. Copies of both should be given to the injured party, and Office of the Dean. The agency should be provided with a copy of their incident report. The SON incident report should document the date, type of incident, individuals present, response/treatment, notification and documentation sequence and any additional information which may be pertinent.
The incident report will be maintained in a confidential file stored in the Office of the Assistant Dean.
HIPAA Adherence
All students are expected to comply with the requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) as applied to clinical education.
Failure to adhere to these expectations may result in immediate removal from the clinical settings and additional academic sanctions including course failure and if necessary dismissal.
Specifically, it is expected that all students in SON arrange to complete training on HIPAA prior to participating in clinical practica or rotations; if this training is not provided by the clinical agency as part of the orientation process, the student is expected to complete the CUA HIPAA tutorial (http://counsel.cua.edu/employment/publications/)
Students are expected to maintain the privacy of individually identifiable health information (IIHI ).
Liability Insurance
Transportation to Agencies
There are a limited number of clinical agencies available to students where public transportation is available. If a student does not have a means of transportation, it is the student's responsibility to discuss this matter with faculty prior to registering for a clinical course in order to discuss what options are available.
Unsafe Practice
Unsafe practice is defined as behavior which threatens, or has the potential to threaten, the safety of a client, another student, a faculty member, or other health care provider in the clinical placement.
Unsafe Practice Procedures
A request for investigation of a SON student's fitness for the practice of nursing may be instigated by any person, This request is submitted to the Associate Dean for the involved clinical program. Removal of a student from clinical due to immediate or imminent concerns about unsafe practice automatically warrants further investigation.
The Assistant Dean will review the request and supportive evidence. If the request is based on actual behavior or observations and is of sufficient concern, the Assistant Dean will either (a) recommend direct administrative action to the Dean of the SON or (b) request a review for Fitness for Practice. The purpose of the review is to provide additional information to guide the administrative decision regarding student placement and progression in the clinical setting.
Until a decision is made by either of these two routes, the student will not be allowed to attend the clinical practicum or experience.
In the event of a review for fitness for practice, the Assistant Dean will constitute a Review Committee chaired by the Assistant Dean, and comprised or two additional faculty members plus one alternate. Typically, the additional committee members are drawn from the SON Committee on Admissions, Progression and Graduation.
The Review Committee will receive all available information about the report; this typically includes a written report of the practice concern, specifically the name of the student, the behavior that allegedly affects the respondent's fitness for practice, and the name of the individual submitting the request.
The Review Committee, through its chairperson, shall notify the respondent by mail, certified, return receipt requested, within five business days of receipt of the complaint.
Such notification shall contain:
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On January 28, anime director Miyazaki Hayao spoke at a leprosy symposium about how he learned about the disease, how this influenced the making of the film Mononoke Hime (Princess Mononoke), and how he supports efforts to ensure that the hardships and prejudice leprosy sufferers faced are not forgotten.
When Miyazaki Hayao was developing the historical setting for what became his 1997 film Mononoke hime (released overseas as Princess Mononoke), he wanted to shift focus from the typical samurai and aristocrats to more marginalized people. He studied Kamakura period (1185–1333) emaki, or picture scrolls, about the pilgrimage of the priest Ippen, which depicted him preaching to commoners, including social outcasts, beggars, and leprosy sufferers. This only deepened his desire to make such a film, but he found himself blocked creatively.
While he was thinking, walking around, and taking notes, he arrived at Tama Zenshōen, one of 13 national sanatoriums established in Japan for people with leprosy (also known as Hansen's disease). The care facility in Higashimurayama, western Tokyo, is just a 15-minute walk from the celebrated director's house. Recalling the people he had seen in the emaki, he says, "It was like I was rooted to the spot, unable to turn around and go back home."
Miyazaki Hayao speaking at the International Symposium on Leprosy/Hansen's Disease History as Heritage of Humanity on January 28, 2016.
Miyazaki spoke about what he learned at Tama Zenshōen on January 28, 2016, at a symposium organized by Sasakawa Memorial Health Foundation leading up to World Leprosy Day on January 31. He talked about how he got to know the long-term residents—former leprosy patients—as well as the background to his inclusion of characters who appear to suffer from leprosy in Princess Mononoke.
Beside the sanatorium is the National Hansen's Disease Museum, which Miyazaki also visited many times. He was shocked by the displays of everyday items, including special currency that could only be used within individual facilities around the country. People with leprosy were originally taken to these facilities by force and could not return home. Miyazaki regularly went to bow his head where the bones of thousands of patients were preserved, and his walks around this area became a kind of ritual for him.
The Princess Mononoke characters in question are metalworkers by trade, hired to make weapons. They appear heavily wrapped in bandages. Although the English translation uses the word "lepers," this is not stated explicitly in the original. Instead the word gōbyō is used, which Miyazaki believed was the word used during the time period of the film to refer to a disease thought of as karmic recompense for sins in a previous existence. In his speech Miyazaki said, "I felt clearly that I had to represent these people who suffered from a disease thought of at the time as gōbyō and yet strove to live their lives fully."
While it is never stated directly, however, it is made relatively clear what disease they are suffering from. As he had not discussed the film with his new friends at the sanatorium, Miyazaki was concerned about how they would react when they saw Princess Mononoke. To his relief, however, the representation pleased them.
Hansen's disease has long been a cause of social stigma around the world, leading to sufferers being isolated in colonies and special facilities through much of history. In the 1980s, it became curable through treatment, and bodies including SMHF have been working to achieve its elimination. In 1991, the World Health Organization set the goal of eliminating leprosy as a public health problem—defined as less than one case per 10,000 population—and there has been steady progress since.
Miyazaki Hayao at the press conference following his speech.
Tama Zenshōen, along with other Japanese facilities, was established in the early twentieth century. At one time, it had over 1,500 patients, but there are fewer than 200 residents today. Their average age is 84.5. Until 1996, leprosy patients in Japan were isolated from society and were not allowed to have children; in 2001 people affected by leprosy won a formal apology and assistance from the government, as well as a pledge of further measures to help them regain their honor and dignity.
Now that leprosy is becoming a disease of the past, there is a danger that its history of individual lives and battles with prejudice will be forgotten. With the support of the local government in Higashimurayama, the Zenshōen residents association and others are working to preserve a green space and old buildings as a place where people can learn about that history and human rights issues.
Playing a part in this "Human Rights Forest" preservation effort, Miyazaki was among those who donated money to restore the dormitory for single men in 2003. A nursery school was also opened on the Zenshōen grounds in 2012 as part of efforts to make the most of its 350,000 square meters of land. Miyazaki commented, "After the last of the patients has passed away, it will be important for Higashimurayama to use this precious green space for many different facilities, including the Human Rights Forest."
Following Miyazaki's opening address, the International Symposium on Leprosy/Hansen's Disease History as Heritage of Humanity continued until January 30 with the participation of researchers and former patients from some 20 countries.
(Based in part on a speech given by Miyazaki Hayao on January 28, 2016. Photographs by Ōtani Kiyohide.)
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Obama Handing the Peoples' Internet to Communist China
By Judi McLeod
There's not even the slightest shadow of a doubt about to whom President Barack Obama is handing-off the Internet at midnight tonight if the four Republican attorneys general making an 11th-hour bid to block him do not succeed in the lawsuit they filed yesterday.
Obama is handing control of the Internet over to the United Nations International Telecommunications Union (ITU). ITU is run by the Peoples Republic of China.
"Already under fire for seeking to usurp new powers to control the Internet, the United Nations International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is facing intense criticism after appointing a Chinese Communist to lead the controversial UN agency starting next year. (The New American, Oct. 27, 2014.)
"Even more alarming, perhaps, is that the new ITU boss claims censorship is in the eye of the beholder. On October 23, at an ITU summit in Busan, South Korea, member governments and dictatorships overwhelmingly selected Houlin Zhao of mainland China — where the dictatorship operates among the most Orwellian censorship regimes on Earth, currently working on overdrive to spin and conceal the uprising in Hong Kong — to serve as the UN outfit's secretary general. Zhao joins a growing roster of Chinese Communist operatives in charge of powerful UN agencies.
"Considering the largely totalitarian-minded member regimes within the UN and its telecommunications agency, which has openly sought to seize control over the World Wide Web, analysts said the fact that a Communist Chinese figure will lead it was hardly surprising.
"However, the decision is likely to have an unintended side effect: It will now become much more difficult for the ITU and its member regimes to advance their plot for global regulation of the Internet by the UN. Already, Western governments have resisted ITU calls for planetary controls over the Web. With Zhao's appointment — heavily influenced by behind-the-scenes scheming from Beijing, as Communist Chinese propaganda outlets readily admitted — such a plot becomes even more controversial. It may even kill the globalist dream of UN Internet controls entirely."
Unfortunately the nightmare comes true at the stroke of midnight tonight.
ITU's self-acclaimed mandate is "connecting the world", but it pushes global warming/climate change memes when holding symposiums worldwide.
"Entrepreneurs and small-and-medium sized enterprises, or SMEs, provide up to 70% of global employment, and we need their expertise, innovation and investment to achieve our common goals of sustainable, economic and social development" Zaho told attendees at the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day:ICT Entrepreneurship for Social Impact, in Geneva, Switzerland on May 17 this year.
"Republicans in Congress, though, have long-objected to the transfer, which they called a "giveaway" to the rest of the world. They argue that handing over control to a non-government entity would give countries like Russia and China the ability to control online speech – something supporters categorically deny. (FoxNews.com, Sept. 29, 2016)
"The AGs from Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma and Nevada asked a judge late Wednesday to step in and stop the transition to an international oversight body, after GOP lawmakers failed to stall the move as part of a short-term spending bill.
"Trusting authoritarian regimes to ensure the continued freedom of the internet is lunacy," Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement. "The president does not have the authority to simply give away America's pioneering role in ensuring that the internet remains a place where free expression can flourish."
"Paxton was among the four Republican AGs who filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas, Galveston Division.
"The U.S. government has been in charge of domain names for more than three decades, thanks to a Commerce Department agency's oversight of an obscure, but powerful, Los Angeles-based nonprofit called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
"If the transfer takes place – as it is set to do on Oct. 1—the suit argues people will "lose the predictability, certainty, and protections that currently flow from federal stewardship of the Internet and instead be subjected to ICANN's unchecked control."
"The suit argues the looming transfer violates the property clause in the U.S. Constitution which prohibits handing over government property without Congress' approval. The suit also claims the handoff would violate First Amendment rights and says ICANN, the nonprofit owners in control, would be unchecked and could start to censor speech.
"Plans to transfer control over functions—like the directories that help web browsers and apps know where to find the latest weather, maps and Facebook posts – have been in the works since the 1990s.
"Momentum grew following the Edward Snowden leaks about U.S. government surveillance, and the Commerce agency said it would cede oversight. Since then the administration has tried to fast-track the transfer as a sign that the U.S. government isn't policing the internet—and has disputed the warnings from Republicans and others.
"In a blog post last month, Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information Lawrence E. Strickling said the transition marks the "final step" of a commitment that dates back nearly two decades.
"He said the new model will maintain "the stability, security, and openness of the Internet that users across the globe depend on today."
"The new lawsuit also claims ICANN "has a documented history of ignoring or operating outside of its governing bylaws."
"Nothing protects the Plaintiffs from additional occurrences of ICANN oversight failures," the suit says. Mark Grabowski, an internet law professor at Adelphi University in New York, agrees.
"There is currently nothing prohibiting ICANN, post-transition, from eliminating or transferring what are essentially the Web addresses for U.S. government and military websites," Grabowski wrote in InsideSources.com.
"He added, "A company owned by or located in Russia or China could end up managing whitehouse.gov, fbi.gov or army.mil. Losing control of these web domains would put our nation's security at risk."
"Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who aggressively campaigned against the transfer, called it a "a profound disappointment" when a measure stalling the move was left out of the latest government spending bill. He called the Obama administration's actions "dangerous and indefensible."
"Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who aggressively campaigned against the transfer, called it a "a profound disappointment" when a measure stalling the move was left out of the latest government spending bill. He called the Obama administration's actions "dangerous and indefensible."
Short of an 11th-hour miracle the Internet as we know it is over at midnight tonight.
With the stroke of his infamous pen, President Barack Hussein Obama, is handing over the American taxpayer supported ICANN—in place since 1998—to the control of the Chinese run ITU.
Mainstream media and social media, who had four years to get ahead of the curve, are making it sound as if the handing over of the Internet is no big deal, and for them, it is not.
Only Congress and the courts can stop it, and they have only until midnight tonight to do so.
First Amendment rights don't exist in countries like China, Russia and Iran who will be the stakeholders in the conglomerate of "international stakeholders" that ITU will be certain to empower as the new Praetorian Guard of the Information Highway.
The new regime that will be governing internet access for the world masses will already be in place for Hillary Clinton, who has vowed to get rid of Alex Jones' InfoWars and Breitbart, if the Democrats and global elitists elect her to the 2016 presidency.
It is vital to remember that once Obama has turned ICANN over to the ITU, there is no getting it back.
In a world fraught with government corruption and voter fraud, communication on an independent Internet is the only effective weapon dissenters and the Clinton tagged "deplorables" have.
Canada Free Press (CFP) scoured the worldwide web over the past week looking for the full story of ICANN's coming transfer over to the United Nation's obscure but power obsessed ITU.
No one does a better job of explaining what it happening than Stefan Molyneux of FreeDomainRadio.com. Molyneux does a great job explaining how we stand to lose the Internet forever. He explains how Obama used the excuse of the NSA scandal to turn control of the 'Net over to foreign powers.
Here's hoping the four attorneys general who filed yesterday's lawsuit won't let a spiteful America-hating Obama drop a black curtain over 'the Peoples' Internet'.


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I figure it was time to share a little bit of insight on who I am as a person to those of you who don't know me personally (or for those of you who want to know more, but don't feel like reading the long blogs I've written in the past). For those of you who haven't read my previous blogs: I really started this whole blog out of emotional survival after my thyroid cancer diagnosis in 2013… I felt that this was an authentic way to not only help myself cope with the circumstances I have dealt with and openly and honestly share my experiences I've had in life, but to also hopefully touch someone's life or inspire them in some small way. As I have continued to write more and more over the years, I have realized that I can almost always look back on my past and see that the outcomes in situations in my life were meant to be, even if I couldn't see that at the time. Realizing this has given me a whole new perspective on my own life and the world around me. It has given my writing and my life a real and meaningful purpose. I hope that when people read my entries, that they can feel me in every single one of them. Although I occasionally enjoy writing random and silly blogs (hence why I allowed my fur babies to share their thoughts on Bad Dog Diaries), I don't want any of my entries to be made without a purpose. I want them to inspire you, make you laugh, make you think or help you realize that you're not alone. I don't want them to just be words on a screen to some people. I will link you to some of my previous blogs throughout this entry… but here's a little (okay, A LOT) on me…
Hi! I'm Lindsey (but I love being called Linds. I can tell who really knows me when they call me that… I find it endearing for some reason). I am from Tennessee and I am 32 *cue gasp*. My birthday is on Aug. 25th for any of you who want to send me a gift… (j/k!) I love the Lord… I am in a wheelchair due to a disability called Spina Bifida… You can read more details about that here. I am married to wonderful man… You can read the story of us and how we met here… I am currently Ms. Wheelchair Tennessee 2018 and it has truly been a life-changing experience. If you go to: Adventures of Ms. Wheelchair TN 2018 , you can read about my experiences during my reign so far. I love, love, LOVE music… You can read why I love music so much and why it is important to me here. I love people and I love trying to make a positive difference in people's lives. I have learned a lot about myself over the past few years… I have learned that I am extremely open with people… especially when I feel like my experiences might be able to help them. I have started to learn what I can handle and what I will put up with. I have also realized how much I've grown in the past few years as a person, especially once I allowed myself to focus on becoming a better version of myself after my cancer diagnosis. That being said, I am one of those people who, if you show me some kindness, love and true support and friendship, you will get it back from me 10,000x's over. I am extremely passionate (which is usually a good thing, but not always). I am an extremely sensitive person and little too self-aware at times. I am a little too honest sometimes too, but I never intentionally say things to hurt people, only to help them see things from a different perspective. I'm a people-watcher. I'm pretty OCD. I am as girly as they come and I am a bit of an old soul at heart. I love makeup and getting all dressed up. I love animals, but I especially love dogs. I *might* be a little bit spoiled (by my husband), but I appreciate every bit of it. I love traveling and meeting people from all walks (and rolls) of life. I remember people way too easily (it's kind of scary at times how good my memory is) and I love expanding my horizons and challenging myself.
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I think that pretty much sums me up for now. Hopefully you have learned a little bit more about me from this. As always, please feel free to share your thoughts on my websites and blog entries! I love feedback, because it helps me stay focused, it helps me grow and helps to continue leading me in a positive direction and it helps me figure out new ways to help others through their own life journeys. Most importantly, it helps me find new ways to SHINE.
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Captain America: White
For Steve Rogers, the hardest thing about being a man out of time is being a man without a best friend.
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- Artist
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- Jeph Loeb
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- trade paperback
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- 9780785133766
- Genre
- Superheroes
- 9780785133766
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- Marvel Comics
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- Captain America
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For Steve Rogers, the hardest thing about being a man out of time is being a man without a best friend.
As Captain America comes to terms with his loss, he longs for the black and white moral simplicity of World War II: Bucky Barnes charging fearlessly into battle at his side. The Howling Commandos right behind.
Odds against them, lives on the line, taking the fight to the greatest evil of all. The Eisner Award-winning team of Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale (DAREDEVIL: YELLOW, SPIDER-MAN: BLUE and HULK: GRAY) revisit the glory days of Captain America and Bucky in a classic tale of a friendship forged in war.
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