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Have a fab day!
I agree. Kemi looks Chic! i am also digging that Nubian look on Modele.
Something about Sasha's look just aint right. I cant place a finger in it tho.
Ooo i think Im first too...whao!
And i'm second!!!!!!!! Yipppeee!! brb
I meant to say place a finger 'on' it not "in"
THe new True Love looks juicy!!! Can hardly wait!!!
thank God you finally updated i have been stalking this page like crazy but it was worth it have a blessed week
kemi's dress looked nice and simple..but i wasnt feeling the flower stuff on the dress...it played it down...dunno about her shoes either...she looks ok, but was definitely not the best dressed for me.
Thou i can't really see the full length of Oluchi's dress, i know it's doing it for me already...i love it!
Good stuff.Glad to see Tatiana back on her feet again. And hey, Raz is single.
there's one thing i know...NIGERIANS CAN DRESS MAN!!!
and erm...bella...why did you change your background color to pink na??!! kinda reminds me of pepto-bismo....too much pink...akkhhhh..
Nope, I dont like how Kemi dressed. The dress wasnt that bad but the shoes were horrible. She should have worn open toe sandals or pumps to go with it either in black, gold or turquoise blue/red to add some spice to her look, the slip ons just look too drab.
I was feeling Oluchi's dress though, wish I could see the whole of it, still love what I saw, the color especially...
just wondering...why were the NEA awards hosted in the US?
innocent Q, so pls no attacks.
I totally agree with Adewale Ayuba. Suprisingly enough, that man looked good!!!!
i disagree... Kemi's dress was not best dressed...however yeah Adewale Ayuba looked sleek...
i disagree... Kemi's dress was not all that... However Adewale Ayuba looked sleek
Wow...Look at Olu Jacobs looking so distinguished and grey..Aging very well....
don't think that Kemi was best dressed what happened to LADYBRILLE.
Though the pixes were small so could no do close scrutiny but it was enough to see "THAT KEMI's SHOES SHOULD HAVE STAYED UNDER THE BED".
Ayuba - Hot
Lol @ Anon 4.27 - I was wondering the same especially when there were so many artists there who are actually Nigerian based meaning they all flew all the way to US?!
I am waiting for the day they will come and do UK music award in Nigeria.
I would say that i like Ladybrille's & Tatiana's outfit.
Kemi Adetiba's is good.
Bella... i like your new template/background colour, it's different, nice
love Kemi, but defintely not best dressed, am shoe gal and her shoes werent cutting it, and sunglasses on a red carpet, hell to the no.. still love her though!
Ladybrille, was looking hot;-)and Oluchi always safe, but safe is good!
Sasha would pay money to style her.. such potential right now though its most likely to look oversytled over tried, but i see her trying!
I agree with you on the Adewale Ayuba comment. Nice!
To the anonymous asking...
NEA show cases Nigerian Entertainment based in America, and the lucky ones in Nigeria that we in the US love. It was more like a people's choice award because people had a chance to go online to vote for their best. I guess the name should have been... Nigerian-American Entertainment award.
I don't work for them but if you go to their site... www.nea2008.com, you'll see what i mean.
See how Nigerian pple play themselves out. Why did the awards have to take place in the US? Doing it in the UK will even be better cos that place is like "Nigeria outside of Africa"; they have enough Nigerians there.
love the new background.
El dee is the best best for men. Ayuba's outfit looks weird, especially with the brown shirt underneath.
I'm not about the pink background or kemi's shoes. Sasha is not a particularly slim girl so the chunky shoes, chunky dress just makes her look plain chunky and almost short. I understand what the person saying she looks like she's trying too hard means.
Ayuba looks nice. Well done on updating. I love it.
my best dressed is Ladybrille
wow new template. super cool or what.
Hey Bella!!! loving the pics. Wish I took some myself. Anyways I think LadyBRILLE is the BEST DRESSED. When I saw her, I was speechless! I love the dress, the haircut, EVERYTHING!!!
As for the guys...well. I kinda felt everyone dressed da same...lol. But I loved Keno's unique-ness!!
As an NEA attendant, I like, everyone else that commented was expecting more actors and actresses. now that I read the comments, I understand the focus of the show.
But regardless the SHOW was amazing!! Everyone dressed to impress and killed it!! so BIG UPS to N.E.A!!
I def. wish they do a show in LONDON, that would be HOT!!
I see my DJs Dee Money and 3k in that picture with Blak J. Nice pictures.
Nice photos. I don't agree Kemi Adetiba was best dressed. I prefer Ladybrille. I like her outfit, hair and make-up. I'm rocking a low cut at the moment so I'm feeling her look.
PS: I like the new template Bella, it makes me think of strawberry ice cream :-)
They Ok. Kemi just killed her fab dress with those slip ons...seriously! Sasha? I dont know. Reminds me of those girlish belted frocks l used to wear when l was a kid.
Oluchi's dress looks great on top. Nice!
And why US as the venue? na wa O
Kemi's dress is cute but her legs are not'hot' for such a dress. Those are not legs to be flaunted, I think. Ladybrille turns out better dressed than Kemi.
Thanks Ms. Bellanaija for your refreshing update.
Sasha wasnt looking right! maybe it was d wrong pose..LADYBRILLE..hawt!!!
Adewale Ayuba won it mehn..see d odaz..gulsh!
my best dressed vote goes to tatiana! she never dissappoints..
ladybrille looked classy and fab 2....
kemi, not bad....
& sasha...what was she thinking?
Kemi killed it with that dress- uber fab. Oluchi looked STUNNING!! Ladybrille understandably everyone would love the dress as it is this summers and lasts naijas bridesmaids favourite dress with all that rouching- plus the BIG clutch overwhelmed her outfit.
Kemi's dress was nice as stated earlier but the shoes and them shades on the red carpet was just not working at all... she should have rocked that dress with some strappy sandals .. not those razz glitter shoes and please who wears shades on the red carpet ... that's so ghetto .... As for Sasha.. the whole outfit and hair was wrong..... Final verdict ..Kemi and Sasha ... could have done better.. hot ghetto ass mess...
Wonder why Ayuba superlative dress sense should surprise anyone who is no stranger to Naija's entertain
ment "industry".The Guy sure knows how to look cute.....and,may I add
he is ALWAYS clean.Cheers
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Lucien Clergue
French photographer
Brief biography, in most instances from the Union List of Artist Names® Online:
Clergue had his first public exhibition in 1954, and in 1956, be began his "Nudes of the Sea" series, for which he became famous. They represent a novel approach to photographing the body, focusing on abstract patterns of skin and water, and how light and shade plays across the surface. He worked with Paul Elaurd, Pablo Picasso, and Jean Cocteau on several projects during the 1960s. In 1980, he was named "Knight of National Order of Merit" in France.
Artist ID number in the Union List of Artist Names®: ULAN 500115463.
The ULAN link above leads to a cataloging authority record at the Getty Research Institute.
Objects related to Lucien Clergue:
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The Detroit Literacy Coalition (DLC) expresses its heartfelt thanks to all its community supporters and constituents who voted in the YELP Foundation Gives Local grant contest!!! The DLC is so grateful to all of you who voted to help us win the $2000 grant prize. This grant will go a long way toward the purchase of instructional materials, support of staffing needs and advancement of our goal of a literate Detroit one learner at a time.
The Workforce Development Agency, State of Michigan, Adult Education Department has awarded Detroit Literacy Coalition a grant for 2016/2017 year under the Adult Learning WIOA Core Programs to support adult literacy programs for those in instituionalized settings. The funds will support women in the Naomi's Nest facility in Highland Park, Michigan and men in the Community Treatment Center East (CTCE).
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From the first waterfall we will rappel down 165ft from the top into the beautiful and pristine canyon below. We have 4 rappels, 3 of which are along side or right in waterfalls, and one dry rock face and a new "monkey drop!". Then a short trek out of the canyon on a jungle trail, jump back in the 4x4 vehicles and head back to the base camp. (minimum age : 8 years, younger children may go tandem with a guide.)
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
This is part two of a two-part series on the growing possibility of cooperation between Israel and Saudi Arabia. If you have not done so already, we recommend first reading The Unspoken Alliance: Israel and the House of Saud - Part I
Experts say Saudi Arabia is not being entirely forthcoming when it comes to relations, or even just strategic cooperation, with Israel.
"On the one hand, Saudis feel threatened by Iran's nuclear program and Tehran's hostile rhetoric, so they might turn a blind eye to an Israeli strike [that uses Saudi airspace to reach Iran]," argued Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Caryle Murphy. "On the other hand, supporting an Israeli attack on a fellow Muslim nation would provoke an outcry among Muslims."
Dr. F. Gregory Gause, a professor of political science at the University of Vermont and a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Doha Institute, discounted the possibility of overt cooperation, but added that "some in the Saudi top echelons would certainly be happy with an Israeli strike, [while] others are more cautious about the potential consequences for Saudi Arabia, with Iranian threats to retaliate against the Gulf states and American interests there".
Gause was also skeptical of any meaningful cooperation between Israel and Saudi Arabia: "I don't see any short-term possibilities here. [However,] it is possible that, in the wake of the fall of Bashar al-Assad (if that happens), there might be some covert communications about a campaign against Hezbollah," which is widely viewed as Iran's regional agent, one of whose missions is to undermine Saudi allies in Lebanon and further afield.
American analyst Mitchell Bard believes a reluctance to talk to Israel is dictated by Saudis' general tendency to opt for cooperation only in matters that concern the regime's survival. "The Saudis will side with Israel only if it helps them to stay in power. Communications on any other levels are very unlikely, due to the anti-Semitic nature of the kingdom," he stated, noting that drawing closer to the Jewish state would only be feasible if the Saudi authorities were pressured by the US or in the case of a younger and more liberal administration coming to power.
Indeed, with a school curriculum that promulgates hatred towards Jews, normalization of ties between Saudi Arabia and Israel seems a distant hope.
In 2011, the Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom reported that Saudi schoolbooks continued to promote anti-Jewish sentiment and encouraged war against the so-called "pigs and apes", a common Muslim reference to Jews.
The report found that the danger of such a curriculum was acute because of its global reach. "Five million Saudi students are exposed to [it] in Saudi classrooms each year. Moreover, as the controlling authority of the two holiest shrines of Islam, Saudi Arabia is able to disseminate its religious materials among the millions of Muslims making the hajj [Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca] each year… [Whereas the country's] oil wealth… enables it to disseminate its textbooks far and wide".
Radical religious materials are distributed by a vast Saudi-sponsored network to Muslim schools, mosques and libraries throughout the world. The curriculum "is followed by most of the 19 international academies founded in major world cities by the Saudi government, each of which is chaired by the local Saudi ambassador," the report continued.
Saudi support for extremism, however, is deemed to be counter-productive.
"This [radical] approach backfired," said Murphy, referring to terrorist activities against Saudi and foreign targets that began in the mid-1990s and intensified in the 2000s.
Dr. Joshua Teitelbaum, a leading expert on modern Middle Eastern history at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University, agreed, saying that the government in Riyadh has since learned to be very cautious about support for extremists.
"The Saudis are against hardliners, because after seizing power, they always try to depose such totalitarian regimes like the Saudi royal family," he argued.
Yet, despite changing its stance on Islamists, Saudi policy towards Israel remains intact. But Murphy rebuffed the claim, insisting that the kingdom was among the first Middle Eastern countries open to talk to Israel.
To back it up, the journalist referred to the peace plan promoted by then-Crown Prince Fahd bin Abd al Aziz (1981) and years later by the current leader Abdullah (2002).
The initiatives – both endorsed by the Arab League – stated that Saudi Arabia was willing to formalize relations with Israel (and even encourage other Arab states to follow suit), if Israel withdrew from the territories conquered in 1967 and established an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip with Jerusalem as its capital. The plans also called on the Jewish state to solve the issue of Palestinians who fled the country during the 1948 war (the so-called "Palestinian refugees"), as well as cease all settlement activity in what it called the "occupied territories".
"Israel hasn't done anything to address these issues," argued Murphy. "For the past 60 years it has been the same problem, nothing has changed".
Teitelbaum disagreed and stressed Saudi reluctance to negotiate. "The Saudis pushed for serious Israeli concessions. It was a take-it-or-leave-it plan. While Israel wanted to negotiate the terms, the Saudis were reluctant to do so," he noted, charging that Saudi Arabia would probably be the last country to sign a peace treaty with Israel.
Teitelbaum's comments are backed by several historical instances. In 2002, former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said he would go to the Arab League summit to discuss the plan, but was never invited. The Saudis were also reluctant to visit Jerusalem despite multiple invitations from the Israeli side.
However, this posturing is nothing new. During Jimmy Carter's tenure, the Saudis tried to sabotage the Israel-Egypt peace treaty after receiving the sought-after sophisticated aircraft from the US. A similar situation occurred during the debate over the sale of AWACS radar planes. Initially, the Saudis announced a peace plan and then, when the deal was sealed, some of the country's clerics called for a jihad against Israel.
Analyzing the root of the problem, Gause pointed at Arab public opinion as a determining factor: "[Saudi Arabia and Israel] certainly share common enemies, and have a common great power ally. But there are also lots of things standing in the way. Saudi public opinion is as anti-Israeli as the public opinion in other Arab states. There is no real up-side politically, in terms of the domestic scene, for any Saudi leader to move toward Israel publicly. The one thing that could change that somewhat would be an Israeli-Palestinian final status agreement based on the two-state solution. That might open the field for a Saudi embassy in Israel. But that seems very far off right now."
With no peace in sight and the Iranian nuclear threat constantly looming, Israel might soon confront another issue -- Saudi Arabia's atomic ambitions.
A senior Saudi defense official noted in January 2012 that "we cannot live in a situation where Iran has nuclear weapons and we don't ... If Iran develops a nuclear weapon, that will be unacceptable to us and we will have to follow suit."
Murphy sees this stance as driven by necessity, not choice. "Saudi Arabia doesn't want a nuclear bomb and has been advocating a nuclear-free Middle East for quite a long time. The Saudi leaders prefer to invest their money in other more important fields but if Iranians end up obtaining a bomb, the kingdom will probably follow suit," she stated, conceding that Saudi Arabia doesn't have the necessary human resources (including scientists and engineers) to carry out such a project.
However, if the kingdom is so prone to panic attacks over Iran's nuclear drive, why didn't it pursue the nuclear arms race, given its money and influence?
"I think that the American connection is the answer," said Gause. "Saudi proliferation might lead to a break between Washington and Riyadh, and the Saudis would think many times over before taking that course. It might happen, if Iran does weaponize, but so far the Saudis do not seem to be taking any public steps to develop their own nuclear infrastructure".
Bard shared Gause's view, but added that the Saudis were also afraid to provoke the ire of Jerusalem.
But what if Israel does attack and even manages to eliminate Iran (at least temporarily) as a regional nuclear player? Would it untie Saudi hands, prompting them to pursue their own hegemonic ambitions more aggressively? Experts are divided.
Teitelbaum believed dis-empowering Iran would definitely bolster Saudi hegemony in the Gulf (something that the US and Israel would probably support). While Bard argued the kingdom was more interested in its own survival rather than hegemonic ambitions.
Whatever the case, the removal of the Iranian threat (if it does happen) might force Saudi leaders to look for another "punching bag". This could be Israel.
But there is a ray of hope.
In April, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that a Saudi general "hesitatingly and conditionally" courted Israel in an article published in the American military magazine Joint Force Quarterly.
The prince-general Naef Bin-Ahmed Al-Saud "praised President Shimon Peres" and called for "encouraging Israelis, Palestinians and other Arabs to get to know each other at least initially over the Internet while discussing sports, photography and other common interests - including peace prospects."
The paper also quoted him as saying that "Saudi Arabia… wants very much to learn the lessons of last summer's protests in Israel, as well as those of the riots in Britain in August… The Kingdom's leadership has been observing developments in Israel as a test of social media's effectiveness in organizing non-violent protest to create significant shifts in security and economic policy".
Will it pave the way to any communication between Riyadh and Jerusalem? Time will tell...
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Diagnosis: Congenital spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia
Synonyms: Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita
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At the San Diego Business Journal Annual Innovation Award event, ai-one was named a finalist in the technology category. The award was presented at the prestigious event on June 18th at Scripps, attended by several hundred leaders in San Diego's tech, medical, software and telecom industries. ai-one received the award for its leading edge technology in machine learning and content analytics, as evidenced by the release this year of the new Nathan API for deep learning applications.
The award was accepted by ai-one COO Tom Marsh and partner for defense and intelligence, Steve Dufour, CEO of ISC Consulting of Arizona.
Ai-one's Artificial Brain' Has a Real Eye for Data SDBJ
TECH: Software Can Dig Through and Decipher Information
Software writer ai-one Inc. doesn't just promise code. The company promises to pull new perspectives and second opinions from seemingly inscrutable data.
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I've been reading John Michael Greer's Archdruid Report for a few months now and I thought his book would be pretty esoteric, but it's actually brilliant in its simplicity and a much-needed wise and reasonable voice for the peak oil community. He covers all the usual information about what peak oil is and how it will impact society and create a descent into a pre-industrial state of affairs, but here he departs from the brethren to discuss why the peak oil community is failing to lead society towards helpful approaches to dealing with this predicament (emphasis on predicament as opposed to problem to be solved implying with technology.) This collective failure of the imagination he attributes to Western society having provided only two stories The Myth of Progress and The Myth of the Apocalypse. And these stories run deep. The Myth of Progress came out of the Enlightenment and sold everyone on the idea that if we simply acted rationally in our own interest the world would progress linearly to a golden age of everything. The other is the Myth of the Apocalypse, which says that we did live a golden age of harmony with each other and the planet, but we took a wrong turn and it's been one blind alley of misguided depravity after another. Classic Greek tragedy vs. comedy looks like. The brilliance of Greer is that he takes the trouble to explain these social mindsets from the beginning so by the end of it you are like yeah how obvious. What actually made the myth of progress work was abundant cheap energy making possible all these fabulous visions of opulence for all and now that it's not going to continue we are all like doomsday is coming, we bad. This was popular thinking in the '70s too, but then we cut back on oil consumption by 15% and the world did not end giving us a new opportunity to continue our myth of progress. Here he explains how short term political policies of the Reagan years and the manipulation of oil prices brought us to where we are now, when we could have done something about it when Carter was telling us to cut back. He describes various coping strategies these dual myths have prompted, in response to peak oil, including the lone cabin in the woods survivalism to the creation of lifeboat communities or earnestly campaigning for a political leader who will install policies that will save us, (but no one in their right mind would vote for because it interferes with our myth of progress). He then proceeds to describe very basic skills that we would do well to cultivate having to do with growing food, making things for ourselves, low energy transportation and reviving community governance and self reliance. He points out that it doesn't have to be all back to pioneer living and using hand tools, we can use advanced technology too if we set it up beforehand to cover basic tasks and not attempt to float this bloated high energy lifestyle that we think of as normal, because we just aren't going to have time or enough fuel to do that. That normal was an aberration of having stumbled on the energy dense, dead dinosaur deposits of oil. We had that opportunity to transit more slowly, but just because we missed it doesn't mean instant catastrophe. Due to adjustment factors he describes as part of his catabolic collapse theory, this deindustrialization will take several generations. So don't sweat it just get your mind around it and proceed in an orderly fashion to the nearest practical skill building class. Quite affirming, I would say, for all us appropriate technology flickerati. I sure hope this book becomes the peak oil spiritual bible, because if Kunstler continues to hold sway it's just going to make it more difficult. - Amanda Kovattana
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While some people may think Cinco de Mayo marks Mexico's independence day, the holiday actually commemorates the 1862 Battle of Puebla, when the outnumbered Mexican army defeated the French during the Franco-Mexican War.
So for those going out to celebrate the Mexican victory, experts from the Long Beach bar and restaurant scene offered a couple of drink recipes they'll be preparing Sunday that also can be easily replicated at home.
"You want to have a duration of the celebration, so in my opinion it means drinks that will let you have a nice long celebration rather than something really strong, like taking direct shots of everything," said Luis Navarro Jr., owner of Lola's Mexican Cuisine.
With that in mind, he recommends Lola's sangria. "It's super easy to make at home," Navarro said.
The drink is usually made with wine, a little brandy and chopped fruit.
Navarro also recommends adding the fruits to the sangria mixture overnight to let it absorb the flavor.
It's completed with a splash of orange juice to sweeten it up a bit.
The restaurant also serves a strong margarita, a classic Cinco de Mayo drink.
Lola's is made using 2 ounces of agave wine blended with their margarita mix, which is made by mixing lime juice and agave nectar. The total mix should be about 9 ounces, which is then put into a shaker with ice.
"You want to really get the ice to mix and the water to mix with the ingredients," Navarro said.
From there it's as simple as rimming the glass with kosher salt and pouring the drink.
It's made by muddling four cucumber slices, adding half an ounce of agave nectar, 1 ounce of lime juice and 2 ounces of reposado tequila. It's all shaken with ice and then strained over ice. It's topped with a small splash of ginger beer and one cucumber slice as a garnish.
The restaurant also will serve a Paloma, a classic drink with a flashy twist.
The Agaves version is made by mixing half an ounce of agave nectar with 1 ounce of grapefruit juice, 1 ounce of lime juice, 2 ounces of reposado tequila and a pinch of salt. The mix is then shaken with ice and strained into a glass with ice and topped with grapefruit soda.
"I like to use Jarritos (Mexican soda) just because it gets a really good taste," said Michael Parada, the restaurant's bar manager and head mixologist.


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Now that Punxsutawney Phil has predicted an early Spring, we can start getting excited for all the lovely pastel hues that come along with the sunny season. Besides being a beneficial sleep aid, antiseptic, and stress reliever, lavender is also a lovely, feminine hue that has the power to look gorgeous on nearly everyone. We saw the pretty purple shade on the runways at Chloé, Nina Ricci, Christian Dior, and more, and now, just ahead of the early Spring, we've rounded up 12 of our favorite pieces that are begging to be added to your warm-weather wardrobe.


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Sponsoring Republican Sen. Kurt Schaefer, of Columbia, says the legislation would protect against proposed gun control laws at the state and federal level.
The Senate passed the same measure earlier this year. If passed by the full House, Missouri voters would need to approve the constitutional change.


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theBand-Aid.com is a new site that offers resources to musicians. Basically, we make it easier for them to do all the things necessary to be successful as a band. Many bands are great at creating music and writing songs, but when it comes to booking shows, creating a street team, keeping fan lists, sending out newsletters, making flyers, writing up contracts, contacting venues, promoting shows, (breathe)... you get the idea - those are the things that creative types either don't have the time for or aren't very good at... or both. That's where we come in.
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Iraqi, Coalition Forces Develop Job Opportunities for 'Sons of Iraq'
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 27, 2009 – As the Iraqi government and coalition forces finish transferring all "Sons of Iraq" civilian security group volunteers to Iraqi control by April, the focus now is on their transition into jobs and educational programs, officials said.
"We're all working together for the same purpose: to bring these young men back to the government, back to their country, and to continue to build a stable and secure Iraq. What you see is a result of this partnership. Things are falling into place," Army Maj. Gen. Michael Ferriter, deputy commanding general for operations, Multinational Corps Iraq, said.
Since late 2008, responsibility for more than 70,000 Sons of Iraq members across six provinces has transferred from the coalition to the Iraqi government. The transfer of the remaining members in three provinces -- Ninevah, Kirkuk and Salahuddin -- will be completed by April 1, Navy Lt. Cdr. Jeffrey Butcher of Multinational Corps Iraq said.
"At the same time, we are working closely with the government of Iraq to place [Sons of Iraq] members in meaningful jobs in the various ministries and private industry," he said.
The hiring process already has begun in Baghdad, home to more than 47,000 of the Sons of Iraq -- roughly half the national total. There, the Iraqi government has collected assessment forms from the men, describing their education, employment preferences, age and work skills.
"From that data, the government is going to be able to decide where those Sons of Iraq can go," Butcher said. "If they have prior background in the military, then they may be perfect candidates for security jobs -- the Iraqi police, as well as the army, national police, border patrol and diplomatic protection."
"Iraq's prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, has made the employment process a top priority for the national government," he added.
Maliki's Executive Order 118-C mandates that 20 percent of the Sons of Iraq will take jobs in the nation's security forces.
The other 80 percent are expected to enter employment within the government's ministries. Butcher said the ministries eventually will be able to draw their new hires from federal employment centers located throughout the country and operated by the government's Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs.
"We're working by, with and through the government of Iraq to get those employment centers running," Butcher said. "We've equipped them with some of the necessary [information technology] equipment, and we're working with the government to create them as part of the Ministry of Labor's network. The goal is to use the centers to be able to employ and work with the ministries to get the [Sons of Iraq] in there, in accordance with their skills and inclinations."
The Ministry of Education, in particular, has stepped up as a prospective employer for the men. The ministry expects to have about 10,000 positions available in Baghdad, many of them security-related, in the men's local school districts.
For Sons of Iraq interested in entrepreneurship, more diverse opportunities are available. "The main goal is to place them in the ministries, but we are also working within some coalition programs that we have currently to assist the men," Butcher said.
Those programs include Iraqi Business Industrial Zones, which help set up Iraqi small businesses on coalition installations, and the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program overseen by government contractor KBR, which currently employs 60,000 Iraqis.
"One of the goals is to get more Iraqis hired into that program," Butcher said. "KBR is working through us in order to get some Sons of Iraq into these programs."
Coalition and government authorities also are enlisting the aid of "employment assistant managers" -- local, well-connected individuals who work with the sheiks and in the local industries and can help place Sons of Iraq in long-term positions.
Sons of Iraq in rural areas have a variety of options available to help them build an agricultural base if they so choose, Butcher said. These programs include microgrants to start a business and purchase work materials, like tractors and seed. A U.S. Agency for International Development economic growth program called "Tijara" -- Arabic for trade -- offers small-business programs and agricultural training. "If that's a route that the [Sons of Iraq member] wants to go, we can use that as a training solution," Butcher said.
Because many government ministries require employees to hold a primary school certificate, many of the Sons of Iraq may need some type of literacy training or education.
"We've helped establish a lot of vocational technical centers, and we want to work through these centers and a lot of the educational programs they have to get these guys skilled and trained in trades … like plumbing, masonry, welding, generator repair and heating, ventilation and air conditioning," Butcher said. "If they don't have the necessary skill sets, then that would be the doorway into that type of ministry position."
Literacy education also is a priority, with the Sons of Iraq benefiting from a national literacy training program recently announced by Maliki. Last summer, a pilot program in Kirkuk province's Hawijah district provided 486 Sons of Iraq with the equivalent of a primary school certificate.
"We learned a lot from that program, and we can use it to help set up similar programs here in Baghdad and elsewhere," Butcher said.
Coalition authorities attribute the momentum of these programs to the enthusiasm of the Iraqi government. "They understand the significance of what the [Sons of Iraq] have done for the country, and what they've done to create a peaceful security environment," Butcher said.
"We are very impressed with the Iraqi government's attention to the Sons of Iraq," he continued. "They have the ball and they're running with it."
(From a Multinational Corps Iraq news release.)
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Post-season honors have been presented to two members of the Hope College softball team for accomplishments on the field of play and in the classroom.
Senior shortstop Brooke Nienhuis of Zeeland (West West HS), pictured above, has been named to the Central All-Region team by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) and junior outfielder Laura Tjepkema of Dorr (South Christian HS), pictured left, has been named to the Capital One Academic All-District team.
Nienhuis has been named to the NFCA All-Region third team honoring NCAA Division III players in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylavnia and West Virginia. This spring Nienhuis was named to the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) all-conference first team. She batted a team-leading .442 and established a conference record for hits (30).
Tjepkema is an education major with a special education emphasis who has maintained a perfect 4.0 grade point average. She was also named to the All-MIAA first team and batted .358 for the season. The Capital One program recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances athletically and in the classroom. Tjepkema becomes eligible for Academic All-America consideration.


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"More than just a book of interconnected stories, The Red Garden is the history of a small mountain town told through the trials and tribulations of the people who founded it and their succeeding generations. Hoffman takes the reader from Blackwell's unhappy and unlikely beginning up to the present day, and in each story the Red Garden is a central character. I loved my visit to the village. The characters are rich, the setting vivid, and your heart aches for all the sorrow that the Red Garden has seen."
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In exquisite prose, Hoffman offers a transforming glimpse of small-town America, presenting more than three hundred years of passion, dark secrets, loyalty, and redemption in a web of tales where characters' lives are intertwined by fate and by their own actions.
The Red Garden introduces us to the luminous and haunting world of Blackwell, Massachusetts, capturing the unexpected turns in its history and in our own lives. From the town's founder, a brave young woman from England who has no fear of blizzards or bears, to the young man who runs away to New York City with only his dog for company, the characters in The Red Garden are extraordinary and vivid: a young wounded Civil War soldier who is saved by a passionate neighbor, a woman who meets a fiercely human historical character, a poet who falls in love with a blind man, a mysterious traveler who comes to town in the year when summer never arrives.
At the center of everyone's life is a mysterious garden where only red plants can grow, and where the truth can be found by those who dare to look.
Beautifully crafted and shimmering with magic, The Red Garden is as unforgettable as it is moving.
About the Author
Alice Hoffman is the author of more than thirty bestselling works of fiction, including Practical Magic, a major motion picture; Here on Earth, an Oprah Book Club selection; the highly praised historical novel The Dovekeepers; and, most recently, The Museum of Extraordinary Things. Her books for teens include Green Angel, Green Witch, Incantation, The Fortelling, and Aquamarine, also a major motion picture, starring Emma Roberts. Visit her online at alicehoffman.com.
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"An absorbing portrait of a town, told through its unforgettable people…masterful."
-People, four stars
"[A] dreamy, fabulist series of connected stories... These... tales, with their tight, soft focus on America, cast their own spell."
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"Hoffman's writing is so beautiful it's almost painful to read... Hoffman makes the magic she writes about feel so real, as though I could at any moment, find myself in the town of Blackwell and the mysterious garden that bears only red fruit."
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"The Red Garden is recommended to readers who enjoy, in addition to beautiful prose, magical realism and different narrators over time... Alice Hoffman is an author not to be missed."
-Historical Novels Review
"Alice Hoffman, herself a shining star among American novelists, possesses the stunning ability to express the numinous in the most prosaic language. Somehow, without elaborate wordplay, she manages to communicate a yearning interpretation of the life we all live, opening the reader's eyes to the otherworldly riddles that make things appear just a trifle askew—when we notice them, that is. And Alice Hoffman certainly notices them. One secret of her ongoing appeal, year after year, book after book, is her keen perception. And in The Red Garden, Hoffman delivers a body of stories that explores the depths of reality as well as its enduring quirkiness."
-Book Page
"In gloriously sensuous, suspenseful, mystical, tragic, and redemptive episodes, Hoffman subtly alters her language, from an almost biblical voice to increasingly nuanced and intricate prose reflecting the burgeoning social and psychological complexities her passionate and searching characters face in an ever-changing world."
-Booklist, starred review
"Hoffman has done it again, crafting a poignant, compelling collection of fairy tales suffused with pathos and brightened by flashes of magic. Her fans, as well as those of magical realism in general, will be enchanted."
-Library Journal, starred review
"Fans of Hoffman's brand of mystical whimsy will find this paean to New England one of her most satisfying."
-Kirkus Review
"The novel moves forward in linked stories, each building on (but not following from) the previous and focusing on a wide range of chracters....The result is a certain ethereal detachment as Hoffman's deft magical realism ties one woman's story to the next even when they themselves are not aware of the connection. The prose is beautiful, the characters drawn sparsely but with great compassion."
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Geologic history of Earth, evolution of the continents, oceans, atmosphere, and biosphere. The layers of rock at Earth's surface contain evidence of the evolutionary processes undergone by these components of the terrestrial environment during the times at which each layer was formed. By studying this rock record from the very beginning, it is thus possible to trace their development and the resultant changes through time.
The pregeologic period
From the point at which the planet first began to form, the history of Earth spans approximately 4.6 billion years. The oldest known rocks—the faux amphibolites of the Nuvvuagittuq greenstone belt in Quebec, Canada—however, have an isotopic age of 4.28 billion years. There is in effect a stretch of approximately 300 million years for which no geologic record for rocks exists, and the evolution of this pregeologic period of time is, not surprisingly, the subject of much speculation. To understand this little-known period, the following factors have to be considered: the age of formation at 4.6 billion years ago, the processes in operation until 4.3 billion years ago, the bombardment of Earth by meteorites, and the earliest zircon crystals.
It is widely accepted by both geologists and astronomers that Earth is roughly 4.6 billion years old. This age has been obtained from the isotopic analysis of many meteorites as well as of soil and rock samples from the Moon by such dating methods as rubidium–strontium and uranium–lead. It is taken to be the time when these bodies formed and, by inference, the time at which a significant part of the solar system developed. When the evolution of the isotopes of lead-207 and lead-206 is studied from several lead deposits of different age on Earth, including oceanic sediments that represent a homogenized sample of Earth's lead, the growth curve of terrestrial lead can be calculated, and, when this is extrapolated back in time, it is found to coincide with the age of about 4.6 billion years measured on lead isotopes in meteorites. Earth and the meteorites thus have had similar lead isotope histories, and so it is concluded that over a period of about 30 million years they condensed or accreted as solid bodies from a primeval cloud of interstellar gas and dust—the so-called solar nebula from which the entire solar system is thought to have formed—at about the same time.
Models developed from the comparison of lead isotopes in meteorites and the decay of hafnium-182 to tungsten-182 in Earth's mantle, however, suggest that approximately 100 million years elapsed between the beginning of the solar system and the conclusion of the accretion process that formed Earth. These models place Earth's age at approximately 4.5 billion years old.
Particles in the solar nebula condensed to form solid grains, and with increasing electrostatic and gravitational influences they eventually clumped together into fragments or chunks of rock. One of these planetesimals developed into Earth. The constituent metallic elements sank toward the centre of the mass, while lighter elements rose toward the top. The lightest ones (such as hydrogen and helium) that might have formed the first, or primordial, atmosphere probably escaped into outer space. In these earliest stages of terrestrial accretion heat was generated by three possible phenomena: (1) the decay of short-lived radioactive isotopes, (2) the gravitational energy released from the sinking of metals, or (3) the impact of small planetary bodies (or planetesimals). The increase in temperature became sufficient to heat the entire planet. Melting at depth produced liquids that were gravitationally light and thus rose toward the surface and crystallized to form the earliest crust. Meanwhile, heavier liquids rich in iron, nickel, and perhaps sulfur separated out and sank under gravity, giving rise to the core at the centre of the growing planet; and the lightest volatile elements were able to rise and escape by outgassing, which may have been associated with surface volcanic activity, to form the secondary atmosphere and the oceans. This chemical process of melting, separation of material, and outgassing is referred to as the differentiation of the Earth. The earliest thin crust was probably unstable and so foundered and collapsed to depth. This in turn generated more gravitational energy, which enabled a thicker, more stable, longer-lasting crust to form. Once Earth's interior (or its mantle) was hot and liquid, it would have been subjected to large-scale convection, which may have enabled oceanic crust to develop above upwelling regions. Rapid recycling of crust–mantle material occurred in convection cells, and in this way the earliest terrestrial continents may have evolved during the 300-million-year gap between the formation of Earth and the beginning of the rock record. It is known from direct observation that the surface of the Moon is covered with a multitude of meteorite craters. There are about 40 large basins attributable to meteorite impact. Known as maria, these depressions were filled in with basaltic lavas caused by the impact-induced melting of the lunar mantle. Many of these basalts have been analyzed isotopically and found to have crystallization ages of 3.9 to 4 billion years. Research has shown that Earth, with a greater attractive mass than the Moon, must have undergone more extensive meteorite bombardment. According to the English-born geologist Joseph V. Smith, a minimum of 500 to 1,000 impact basins were formed on Earth within a period of about 100 to 200 million years prior to 3.95 billion years ago. Moreover, plausible calculations suggest that this estimate represents merely the tail end of an interval of declining meteorite bombardment and that about 20 times as many basins were formed in the preceding 300 million years. Such intense bombardment would have covered most of Earth's surface, with the impacts causing considerable destruction of the terrestrial crust up to 4 billion years ago.
An exciting discovery was made in 1983 by William Compston and his research group at the Australian National University with the aid of an ion microprobe. Compston and his associates found that a water-laid clastic sedimentary quartzite from Mount Narryer in western Australia contained detrital zircon grains that were 4.18 billion years old. In 1986 they further discovered that one zircon in a conglomerate only 60 km (about 37 miles) away was 4.276 billion years old; 16 other grains were determined to be the same age or slightly younger. In 2014 American geochemist John Valley and colleagues discharged lead atoms at one of the zircon crystals discovered in western Australia's Jack Hills and discovered that the crystals are more than 4.4 billion years old. This mineral is the oldest dated material on Earth. The rocks from which the zircons in the quartzites and conglomerates were derived have either disappeared or have not yet been found. The ages of these single zircon grains are at least roughly 100 million years older than those of the oldest known intact rocks.
Development of the atmosphere and oceans
Formation of the secondary atmosphere
Earth's secondary atmosphere began to develop at the time of planetary differentiation, probably in connection with volcanic activity. Its component gases, however, were most likely very different from those emitted by modern volcanoes. Accordingly, the composition of the early secondary atmosphere was quite distinct from that of today's atmosphere. Carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, water vapour, and methane predominated; however, free oxygen could not have been present, since even modern volcanic gases contain no oxygen. It is therefore assumed that the secondary atmosphere during the Archean Eon (4 billion to 2.5 billion years ago) was anoxygenic. The free oxygen that makes up the bulk of the present atmosphere evolved over geologic time by two possible processes. First, solar ultraviolet radiation (the short-wavelength component of sunlight) would have provided the energy needed to break up water vapour into hydrogen, which escaped into space, and free oxygen, which remained in the atmosphere. This process was in all likelihood important before the appearance of the oldest extant rocks, but after that time the second process, organic photosynthesis, became predominant. Primitive organisms, such as blue-green algae (or cyanobacteria), cause carbon dioxide and water to react by photosynthesis to produce carbohydrates, which they need for growth, repair, and other vital functions, and this reaction releases free oxygen. The discovery of stromatolites (layered or conical sedimentary structures formed by sediment-binding marine algae) in 3.5-billion-year-old limestones in several parts of the world indicates that blue-green algae existed by that time. The presence of such early carbonate sediments is evidence that carbon dioxide was present in the atmosphere, and it has been calculated that it was at least 100 times greater than the amount in the present-day atmosphere. It can be assumed that such abundant carbon dioxide would have caused retention of heat, resulting in a greenhouse effect and a hot atmosphere.
What happened to all the oxygen that was released? It might be surprising to learn that it took at least 1 billion years before there was sufficient oxygen in the atmosphere for oxidative diagenesis to give rise to red beds (sandstones that are predominantly red in colour due to fully oxidized iron coating individual grains) and that 2.2 billion years passed before a large number of life-forms could evolve. An idea formulated by the American paleontologist Preston Cloud has been widely accepted as an answer to this question. The earliest primitive organisms produced free oxygen as a by-product, and in the absence of oxygen-mediating enzymes it was harmful to their living cells and had to be removed. Fortunately for the development of life on the early Earth there was extensive volcanic activity, which resulted in the deposition of much lava, the erosion of which released enormous quantities of iron into the oceans. This ferrous iron is water-soluble and therefore could be easily transported, but it had to be converted to ferric iron, which is highly insoluble, before it could be precipitated as iron formations. In short, the organisms produced the oxygen and the iron formations accepted it. Iron formations can be found in the earliest sediments (those deposited 3.8 billion years ago) at Isua in West Greenland, and thus this process must have been operative by this time. Iron formations dating to early Precambrian time (4.6 billion to 541 million years ago) are so thick and common that they provide the major source of the world's iron. Large quantities of iron continued to be deposited until about 2 billion years ago, after which time the formations decreased and disappeared from the sedimentary record. Sulfides also accepted oxygen in the early oceans to be deposited as sulfates in evaporites, but such rocks are easily destroyed. One finds, nonetheless, 3.5-billion-year-old barite/gypsum-bearing evaporites up to 15 metres (about 49 feet) thick and at least 25 km (15.5 miles) in extent in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. It seems likely that the excess iron in the early oceans was finally cleared out by about 1.7 billion years ago, and this decrease in the deposition of iron formations resulted in an appreciable rise in the oxygen content of the atmosphere, which in turn enabled more eolian red beds to form. Further evidence of the lack of oxygen in the early atmosphere is provided by detrital uraninite and pyrite and by paleosols—i.e., fossil soils. Detrital uraninite and pyrite are readily oxidized in the presence of oxygen and thus do not survive weathering processes during erosion, transport, and deposition in an oxygenous atmosphere. Yet, these minerals are well preserved in their original unoxidized state in conglomerates that have been dated to be more than 2.2 billion years old on several continents. Paleosols also provide valuable clues, as they were in equilibrium with the prevailing atmosphere. From analyses of early Precambrian paleosols it has been determined that the oxygen content of the atmosphere 2.2 billion years ago was one hundredth of the present atmospheric level (PAL).
Fossils of eukaryotes, which are organisms that require an oxygen content of about 0.02 PAL, bear witness to the beginning of oxidative metabolism. The first microscopic eukaryotes appeared about 1.4 billion years ago. Life-forms with soft parts, such as jellyfish and worms, developed in profusion, albeit locally, toward the end of the Precambrian about 650 million years ago, and it is estimated that this corresponds to an oxygen level of 0.1 PAL. By the time land plants first appeared, roughly 400 million years ago, atmospheric oxygen levels had reached their present values.
Development of the oceans
Volcanic degassing of volatiles, including water vapour, occurred during the early stages of crustal formation and gave rise to the atmosphere. When the surface of Earth had cooled to below 100 °C (212 °F), the hot water vapour in the atmosphere would have condensed to form the early oceans. The existence of 3.5-billion-year-old stromatolites is, as noted above, evidence of the activity of blue-green algae, and this fact indicates that Earth's surface must have cooled to below 100 °C by this time. Also, the presence of pillow structures in basalts of this age attests to the fact that these lavas were extruded under water, and this probably occurred around volcanic islands in the early ocean. The abundance of volcanic rocks of Archean age is indicative of the continuing role of intense volcanic degassing, but since early in the Proterozoic Eon (2.5 billion to 541 million years ago) much less volcanic activity has occurred. Until about 2 billion years ago there was substantial deposition of iron formations, cherts, and various other chemical sediments, but from roughly that time onward the relative proportions of different types of sedimentary rock and their mineralogy and trace element compositions have been very similar to their Phanerozoic equivalents (that is, rocks laid down during the Phanerozoic Eon [541 million years ago to the present]); it can be inferred from this relationship that the oceans achieved their modern chemical characteristics and sedimentation patterns from approximately 2 billion years ago. By the late Precambrian, some 1 billion years ago, ferric oxides were chemically precipitated, indicating the availability of free oxygen. During Phanerozoic time, the oceans have been steady-state chemical systems, continuously reacting with the minerals added to them via drainage from the continents and with volcanic gases at the oceanic ridges.
Time scales
The geologic history of Earth covers more than 4.5 billion years of time. Different types of phenomena and events in widely separated parts of the world have been correlated using an internationally acceptable, standardized time scale. There are, in fact, two geologic time scales. One is relative, or chronostratigraphic, and the other is absolute, or chronometric. The chronostratigraphic scale has evolved since the mid-1800s and concerns the relative order of strata. Important events in its development were the realization by English engineer and geologist William Smith that in a horizontal sequence of sedimentary strata what is now an upper stratum was originally deposited on a lower one and the discovery by Scottish geologist James Hutton that an unconformity (discontinuity) indicates a significant gap in time. Furthermore, the presence of fossils throughout Phanerozoic sediments has enabled paleontologists to construct a relative order of strata. As was explained earlier, at specific stratigraphic boundaries certain types of fossils either appear or disappear or both in some cases. Such biostratigraphic boundaries separate larger or smaller units of time that are defined as eons, eras, periods, epochs, and ages.
The chronometric scale is of more recent origin. It was made possible by the development of mass spectrometers during the 1920s and their use in geochronological laboratories for radiometric dating (see above). The chronometric scale is based on specific units of duration and on the numerical ages that are assigned to the aforementioned chronostratigraphic boundaries. The methods used entail the isotopic analyses of whole rocks and minerals of element pairs, such as potassium–argon, rubidium–strontium, uranium–lead, and samarium–neodymium. Another radiometric time scale has been developed from the study of the magnetization of basaltic lavas of the ocean floor. As such lavas were extruded from the mid-oceanic ridges, they were alternately magnetized parallel and opposite to the present magnetic field of Earth and are thus referred to as normal and reversed. A magnetic-polarity time scale for the stratigraphy of normal and reversed magnetic stripes can be constructed back as far as 280–260 million years ago, which is the age of the oldest extant segment of ocean floor.
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Ocean, continuous body of salt water that is contained in enormous basins on Earth's surface. When viewed from space, the predominance of Earth's oceans is readily apparent. The oceans and their marginal seas cover nearly 71 percent of Earth's surface, with an average…
Atmosphere, the gas and aerosol envelope that extends from the ocean, land, and ice-covered surface of a planet outward into space. The density of the atmosphere decreases outward, because the gravitational attraction of the planet, which pulls the gases and aerosols (microscopic suspended particles of dust, soot, smoke, or chemicals)…
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The different devices and equipment used to take the medications are confusing and often are used incorrectly. Many people buy the cheaper "rescue" medicine for emergencies and forgo medications used to help manage the disease. Some patients may think they are better and stop using medicine altogether. The result is a trip back to the emergency room. It can be difficult for patients even with insurance. A study by the Midwest Health Initiative released three years ago followed patients with Medicaid and private insurance. Researchers found that in the city, 90 percent of patients treated in the emergency room for asthma did not follow up with a primary care doctor within 10 weeks. Nearly 80 percent did not fill their prescriptions. In the county, 76 percent did not follow up with a doctor and about the same never got their medicine. Karen Tobias, 46, of Pagedale, says she works hard to make sure her daughter, 9, makes it to her doctor appointments and takes all her medications. Tobias feels that she is doing everything she can, yet her daughter still has been to the emergency room three times this winter. "Every time the weather changes, she gets sick," Tobias said. "I miss work, and she misses school." Her daughter's pediatrician and pulmonologist need to change her medications, and she needs to add an allergist to the list of doctors she sees. Healthy Kids Express Krieger argues that a case management approach would save money and lives, and similar efforts such as the St. Louis Children's Hospital's outreach into hard-hit schools with their mobile medical van have shown results. The Healthy Kids Express van began visiting schools in 2009 in the Normandy School District and parts of the city -- focusing on schools with high rates of poverty and hospitalization for asthma. The van's health care team sees about 600 children a year, often more than once a month, and tests how well the children are controlling their asthma and taking their medications. The health care team works closely with parents and pediatricians in developing care plans. The program also involves training teachers and school nurses. Children visited by the van are missing fewer days of school and reducing their hospital trips by 25 percent. They show better technique with their inhalers and know more about their disease. "Parents want to do the right thing for their children, but the system is so fragmented, and it's so complex," Meadows said. "If they can be guided and recognize what is most important and work on those goals first, we can make a dent." At Christian Hospital in north St. Louis County, nurse and asthma educator Alishia LaPorte began a program this year that targets uninsured patients treated for asthma in the emergency rooms at the hospital's main campus on Dunn Road as well as its facility in Florissant. Each day, LaPorte gets a list of those patients. She calls or writes each one. If they can't pay for prescriptions, she helps them apply for financial assistance programs offered by many drug companies. LaPorte connects them to primary physicians at the hospital, which sees it as cost-savings measure to provide the doctor visits at little or no cost. She's also available by phone to answer questions. "I am able to save a lot of patients from coming into the ER by walking them through their asthma action plan," LaPorte said. "We look to see if we can turn things around at home." Wanting to replicate the success that efforts to reduce lead poisoning have achieved, the city health department won a $533,000 grant from the Missouri Foundation for Health to target asthma. The money helped increase from two to 20 the number of staff who have a role in asthma education and reduction and start a home assessment program that involves checking for asthma triggers inside homes. A similar program is about to begin in St. Louis County with funding from the Environmental Protection Agency. The home assessments can be a powerful tool, according to results in southeastern Missouri, where county health departments teamed up with Southeast Missouri State University seven years ago. About 100 homes are checked for triggers each year, said John Kraemer, a biology professor who studies indoor air quality and health at the university. Those who participate have 80 percent fewer emergency room visits than those who don't. "We have a lot of data to show that it is helpful to patients," Kraemer said. In St. Louis city -- where health department efforts also have included adding educational programs in private and parochial schools and assessing day cares for asthma triggers -- hospitalizations of children for asthma have dropped 6 percent among the Medicaid population over the past 10 years. 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Jakarta (Indonesia), 20 January 2011 - On 14 December 2010, the National AIDS Commission and UNODC held the final roundtable event in a long-running series of a harm reduction advocacy programme with members of Parliament. This final roundtable focused on policy and on strategic steps that are needed to improve the quality of and access to services for drug users.
In his opening remarks, Mr. Marzuki Alie, Honourable Speaker of the House of Representatives, mentioned that "in order to accelerate the national HIV programme's success, the House of Representatives and other stakeholders must work together". He also pointed out that "the most significant contribution that Parliament could make would be to increase the national budget on health, in order to sustain the HIV/AIDS programme''.
Other speakers included Mr. Indradi Thanos, Deputy of Law and Cooperation of the National Narcotic Board, Mr. Subuh, Director of Communicable Disease Control of the Ministry of Health and Dr. Nafsiah Mboi, Secretary of the National AIDS Commission. "The involvement of other agencies and cooperation across sectors is vital because the HIV/AIDS programme cannot be done solely by the Ministry of Health," said Mr. Subuh. In his address to the roundtable he added that "we cannot forget that policy synchronization and resource mobilization is important to scaling up the program; the 2009 programme coverage was 25 per cent which is far from the expected result".
Mr. Thanos supported the need for an increased national budget over the long term and the integration of HIV prevention work into other agencies' programmes. The important role of the National Narcotic Board was acknowledged with Mr. Alie's presentation calling on the Board to focus their budget strategically. Dr. Mboi underscored these points stating: "For progress to be achieved it is essential for parliamentarians to mainstream HIV/AIDS issues into the Regional Representative Council's priorities."
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