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Where is the development economics research happening? The geographical distribution of NEUDC research
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Yesterday I posted a round-up of the research presented at NEUDC, a major conference on development economics. Although most economic research aspires to uncover principles relevant across multiple contexts, empirical research happens at a place and time. I mapped out the distribution of research presented at NEUDC, fully recognizing that this makes no claim to be representative of the profession as a whole.
Below, I charted the number of studies per country (for all countries that had at least two studies). If a study used data from multiple countries (up to four), I counted each of them. If a study used a data set that spans 30 countries, I didn't use it.
As you can see, there is a LOT of research from India, and a fair amount from Kenya and Mexico.
Beyond those in the chart, there was one study presented each with data from Argentina, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, DRC, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Guatemala, Iran, Iraq, Kyrgyz Republic, Liberia, Malaysia, Nepal, Nicaragua, South Sudan, and Sri Lanka.
As you can imagine from the chart above – but I made a chart so you don't HAVE to imagine – there's no clear link between income per capita and research concentration.
Why do you think we observe so much more research happening in India, Kenya, and Mexico? At a casual glance, with both India and Mexico, many papers seem to draw on existing data, so the availability of administrative data may play a role. In Kenya, there seems to be a higher proportion of experiments. Of course, Kenya was an early adopter of impact evaluations with the work of Michael Kremer and subsequently many others.
What other factors might play a role?
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Very interesting! These findings are consistent with what we find in 3ie's impact evaluation repository, which is not all economics, but is all development. See numbers reported in our blog post below. I can't seem to copy in picture of the heat map, but there is one in the post. Full-length article coming soon.
"The top 10 countries are India (390), China (281), Mexico (247), Kenya (233), Bangladesh (197), South Africa 194), Brazil (193), Uganda (173), Pakistan (105), and Peru (105). For some countries, the number of impact evaluations has more than doubled from what we found in IER 2012. These include Brazil, Cambodia, Cameroon, Costa Rica, Malawi and Mozambique. We also found impact evaluations for a few countries that did not have any in IER 2012. These are Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Saint Lucia, Somalia and Yemen. Meanwhile, we continue to notice a lack of impact evaluations in regions like Central Asia and Central Africa." http://blogs.3ieimpact.org/is-impact-evaluation-still-on-the-rise/
We explore the geography of development impact evaluations further, based on an earlier version of the IER, in this open access article: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/19439342.2015.1034156
Why does China feature more prominently in development impact evaluations than in development economics? There is a large number of public health studies conducted in China.
The population hypothesis is relevant generally, but does not explain the geographic distribution of impact evaluations of peacebuilding interventions. http://www.3ieimpact.org/en/publications/3ie-evidence-gap-map-report-se… We found in the peacebuilding evidence gap map that Liberia has the most studies. I call that the "Blattman effect" :-)
Very cool findings, Annette! Thank you for sharing. I look forward to the full article as well!
Hello Dr. Evans,
Can you also please share the breakup of the studies, by methodology? Even a broad RCT-Non RCT breakup would do.
I'm afraid I don't have those data; I recorded the countries while doing the summaries. I tried to mark RCTs, so you could sum up an RCT / non-RCT, but it's possibly that I didn't catch every one. (And then there's the question of how to categorize lab experiments and lab-in-the-field experiments.)
I will say that I was quite struck while summarizing the work at how many non-RCT papers there were: Lots of interesting historical analysis, event studies, panel data analysis, descriptive work, and more.
Population size could be one factor. When you talk about India, each of its separate states are equal to or larger than the population size of many of the other countries on the list. It would also be interesting to see the breakdown of states where research is conducted in India. I'm sure you will find that some states are easier to do work (data accessibility, relative political/civil stability, etc). But I once thought the same thing about the amount of research that is done in India. I've come to the conclusion that since a large percentage of the world's population and a large percentage of the world's poor lives in India, its probably not too harmful to have so much research concentrated there. This of course disregards issues of external validity and generalizability, but I think population size could be a good justification.
Yes, very good point on population.
Thanks Dave. In answer to your question, one factor is the English language. Particularly in Africa, but perhaps also in India.
Another explanation is the institutionalization of Evaluation systems. Mexico, by law, has an M&E system since 2001, including an independent evaluation unit @coneval The system increases the demand for evaluations, including impact evaluations.
Thanks David, very accurate. I would have guessed India and Kenya in general to take spots 1 and 2. As you mentioned Michael Kremer's work drew people to work in Kenya. I think similarly Banerjee and Duflo's work attracted a lot of young scholars to work in India.
At least for India, I can think of a number of reasons for why we see this:
1) Bigger sample size for less money. Exchange rate works in your favor if you are coming with grant money from the developed world.
2) Easy to travel.
3) No major language barriers. English is the medium of communication in all big cities.
4) Lots of good NGOs to collaborate with.
5) In the last 10 years, several Indians with US PhDs have gone back making it feasible for you to collaborate with some of them.
6) Funding opportunities that were made available by IGC-India Central also incentivized people to work on India.
7) Presence of JPAL and IPA.
8) Presence of World Bank and IFPRI.
9) Funding opportunities from 3ie for India.
10) Last but not the least, India's rich cultural and socioeconomic diversity.
Yet only a handful of studies where an author is based in the country being studied.
Hi Dave, many thanks for the summary from NEUDC. The explanations given on the reason for the country concentrations for development economics research seem plausible. I am particularly struck by the stretch India provides for the next on the league chart, Kenya. Besides the reasons given, could it also reflect (maybe to a limited extent) the increasing number of Development Economists associated with India?
Several probable reasons are context-specific:
1) For India and Mexico, the interest is due to their emerging country status. For India, the political transition and policy experiments by the government open vistas for research on several policy impact studies. Also, heterogeneity across regions and populace opens lots of diverse issues of development economics to explore.
2) For Mexico, the Trump effects, viz., border effects due to NAFTA factor and other development outcomes due to US policy drives lots of works
3) For Kenya, it's an emerging African nation with M-PESA kind of experience which makes her a special case to research upon.
In general, these nations ave loads of growth and development problems which could give insights and hence papers are written on such countries' problems.


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...was special. Every day with my kids is special (well, almost every day). I felt very loved and appreciated, so thank you to my sweet boys!!!!! I was showered with gifts from both of them.
Grant made these at school for me...
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and a card (that truly cracks me up)!!!
Since you can't read it, allow me... "I love you when you take me to Mexico to see my great-great-grandfather."
I have just laughed and laughed over his words for three reasons. 1) I took him to NEW Mexico. Not Mexico. 2) While there, he saw his great-grandfather. Not his great-great-grandfather.
3) I only took him once ~ had no idea it meant so much to him. It's funny he picked this, out of all the other things I do for him, to put on my card. What a nut. Yet it still doesn't top the year Gabby said, "My mommy is almost pretty."
******And as you might have imagined, Mom and Aunt Jessica, there are drawings of wind turbines all over it.
Grant also gave me a store-bought card, and I gotta say, I laughed OUT LOUD at this one! Really loud!
I also received an iphone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I know, I know - I'm getting into the ballgame quite late, but hey - - - - what did you expect?
The Mother's Day celebrations don't end there! Grant lost his first tooth the night before! So what if I cried a little?
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This event, of course, meant that the Tooth Fairy would be visiting our house for the first time. Man, oh, man! She came, alright!!!!!!! This morning, Grant HAPPILY awoke to this beneath his pillow...
Yip - it seems we had TWO Tooth Fairies visit us last night. One of them left what she thought was a very sizable gift of $3 since the first tooth is worth extra, ya know? Imagine her surprise the following morning when she learned that her partner had also visited Grant that night and left a WHOPPING $10!!!!!!!! So in case you didn't add that up already, Grant got $13 from the Tooth FairIES last night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can you spell r.i.d.o.n.c.u.l.o.u.s??? I think the tooth fairies that are assigned to our house will have to communicate better, huh?
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|The exact origins of the Nauruans are unclear since their language does not resemble any other in the Pacific region. Germany annexed the island in 1888. A German-British consortium began mining the island's phosphate deposits early in the 20th century. Australian forces occupied Nauru in World War I; it subsequently became a League of Nations mandate. After the Second World War - and a brutal occupation by Japan - Nauru became a UN trust territory. It achieved independence in 1968 and joined the UN in 1999 as the world's smallest independent republic.
World's smallest island country; situated just 53 km south of the Equator; Nauru is one of the three great phosphate rock islands in the Pacific Ocean - the others are Banaba (Ocean Island) in Kiribati and Makatea in French Polynesia
|Oceania, island in the South Pacific Ocean, south of the Marshall Islands
|Geographic coordinates:
| total: 21 sq km
land: 21 sq km
water: 0 sq km
Size comparison: about 0.1 times the size of Washington, DC
|Land Boundaries:
|0 km
|30 km
|Maritime claims:
| territorial sea: 12 nm
contiguous zone: 24 nm
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
|tropical with a monsoonal pattern; rainy season (November to February)
|sandy beach rises to fertile ring around raised coral reefs with phosphate plateau in center
|Elevation extremes:
|Natural resources:
|phosphates, fish
|Land use:
| agricultural land: 20% arable land 0%; permanent crops 20%; permanent pasture 0% forest: 0%
other: 80% (2011 est.)
|Irrigated land:
|0 sq km (2012)
|Natural hazards:
|periodic droughts
|Current Environment Issues:
|limited natural freshwater resources, roof storage tanks collect rainwater but mostly dependent on a single, aging desalination plant; a century of intensive phosphate mining beginning in 1906 - mainly by a UK, Australia, and NZ consortium - left the central 90% of Nauru a wasteland and threatens limited remaining land resources
|International Environment Agreements:
| party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Whaling
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
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| noun: Nauruan(s)
adjective: Nauruan
|Ethnic groups:
|Nauruan 58%, other Pacific Islander 26%, Chinese 8%, European 8%
|Nauruan 93% (official, a distinct Pacific Island language), English 2% (widely understood, spoken, and used for most government and commercial purposes), other 5% (includes I-Kiribati 2% and Chinese 2%) note: percentages represent main language spoken at home; Nauruan is spoken by 95% of the population, English by 66%, and other languages by 12% (2011 est.)
|Protestant 60.4% (includes Nauru Congregational 35.7%, Assembly of God 13%, Nauru Independent Church 9.5%, Baptist 1.5%, and Seventh Day Adventist 0.7%), Roman Catholic 33%, other 3.7%, none 1.8%, unspecified 1.1% (2011 est.)
|9,591 (July 2016 est.)
|Age structure:
| 0-14 years: 31.93% (male 1,336/female 1,726)
15-24 years: 16.09% (male 779/female 764)
25-54 years: 43.33% (male 2,085/female 2,071)
55-64 years: 6.29% (male 236/female 367)
65 years and over: 2.37% (male 89/female 138) (2016 est.)
|Median age:
| total: 26.1 years
male: 26.5 years
female: 25.5 years (2016 est.)
|Population growth rate:
|0.52% (2016 est.)
|Birth rate:
|24.4 births/1,000 population (2016 est.)
|Death rate:
|5.9 deaths/1,000 population (2016 est.)
|Net migration rate:
|-13.2 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2016 est.)
| urban population: 100% of total population (2015)
rate of urbanization: 0.19% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)
|Sex ratio:
| at birth: 0.83 male(s)/female
0-14 years: 0.77 male(s)/female
15-24 years: 1.02 male(s)/female
25-54 years: 1.01 male(s)/female
55-64 years: 0.64 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.63 male(s)/female
total population: 0.89 male(s)/female (2016 est.)
|Mother's mean age at first birth:
|22.1 note: median age at first birth among women 25-29 (2007 est.)
|Infant mortality rate:
| total: 7.9 deaths/1,000 live births male: 10.2 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 6.1 deaths/1,000 live births (2016 est.)
|Life expectancy at birth:
| total population: 67.1 years male: 63 years
female: 70.5 years (2016 est.)
|Total fertility rate:
|2.84 children born/woman (2016 est.)
|Contraceptive prevalence rate:
|35.6% (2007)
|Health expenditures:
|3.3% of GDP (2014)
|Physicians density:
|0.71 physicians/1,000 population (2010)
|Hospital bed density:
|5 beds/1,000 population (2010)
|Drinking water source:
| improved:
urban: 96.5% of population
total: 96.5% of population
urban: 3.5% of population
total: 3.5% of population (2015 est.)
|Sanitation facility access:
| improved:
urban: 65.6% of population
total: 65.6% of population
urban: 34.4% of population
total: 34.4% of population (2015 est.)
|HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
|HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
|HIV/AIDS - deaths:
|Obesity - adult prevalence rate:
|45.1% (2014)
|Children under the age of 5 years underweight:
|4.8% (2007)
|Education expenditures:
|School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education):
| total: 9 years male: 9 years
female: 10 years (2008)
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|Country name:
| conventional long form: Republic of Nauru
conventional short form: Nauru
local long form: Republic of Nauru
local short form: Nauru
former: Pleasant Island
etymology: the island name may derive from the Nauruan word "anaoero" meaning "I go to the beach"
|Government type:
|parliamentary republic
| no official capital; government offices in Yaren District
time difference: UTC+12 (17 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
|Administrative divisions:
|14 districts; Aiwo, Anabar, Anetan, Anibare, Baiti, Boe, Buada, Denigomodu, Ewa, Ijuw, Meneng, Nibok, Uaboe, Yaren
|31 January 1968 (from the Australia-, NZ-, and UK-administered UN trusteeship)
|National holiday:
|Independence Day, 31 January (1968)
|effective 29 January 1968; amended 1968, 2009, 2014 (2016)
|Legal system:
|mixed legal system of common law based on the English model and customary law
|20 years of age; universal and compulsory
|Executive branch:
| chief of state: President Baron WAQA (since 11 June 2013); note - the president is both chief of state and head of government
head of government: President Baron WAQA (since 11 June 2013)
cabinet: Cabinet appointed by the president from among members of Parliament elections/appointments: president indirectly elected by Parliament for a 3-year renewable term; election last held on 11 June 2013 (next to be held in 2016)
election results: Baron WAQA reelected president on 11 June 2013; Parliament vote - Baron WAQA (independent) 13, Roland KUN (Nauru First) 5
|Legislative branch:
| description: unicameral parliament (19 seats; members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by majority vote; members serve 3-year terms)
elections: last held on 9 July 2016 (next to be held in 2019)
election results: percent of vote - NA; seats - independent 19
|Judicial branch:
| highest court(s): Supreme Court (consists of a chief justice and 1 judge) judge selection and term of office: judges appointed by the president to serve until age 65
subordinate courts: District Court, Family Court
|Political parties and leaders:
|Democratic Party [Kennan ADEANG] Nauru First (Naoero Amo) Party Nauru Party (informal) note: loose multiparty system
|Political pressure groups and leaders:
|Woman Information and News Agency (women's issues)
|International organization participation:
|ACP, ADB, AOSIS, C, FAO, G-77, ICAO, ICCt, IFAD, Interpol, IOC, IOM, ITU, OPCW, PIF, Sparteca, SPC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UPU, WHO
|National symbol(s):
|frigatebird, calophyllum flower; national colors: blue, yellow, white
|National anthem:
| name: "Nauru Bwiema" (Song of Nauru)
lyrics/music: Margaret HENDRIE/Laurence Henry HICKS
note: adopted 1968
|Diplomatic representation in the US:
| chief of mission: Ambassador Marlene Inemwin MOSES (since 10 February 2006)
chancery: 800 2nd Avenue, Suite 400 D, New York, NY 10017
telephone: [1] (212) 937-0074
|Diplomatic representation from the US:
|the US does not have an embassy in Nauru; the US Ambassador to Fiji is accredited to Nauru
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Revenues of this tiny island - a coral atoll with a land area of 21 square kilometers - traditionally have come from exports of phosphates. Few other resources exist, with most necessities being imported, mainly from Australia, its former occupier and later major source of support. Primary reserves of phosphates were exhausted and mining ceased in 2006, but mining of a deeper layer of "secondary phosphate" in the interior of the island began the following year. The secondary phosphate deposits may last another 30 years. Earnings from Nauru's export of phosphate remains an important source of income. Few comprehensive statistics on the Nauru economy exist; estimates of Nauru's GDP vary widely. The rehabilitation of mined land and the replacement of income from phosphates are serious long-term problems. In anticipation of the exhaustion of Nauru's phosphate deposits, substantial amounts of phosphate income were invested in trust funds to help cushion the transition and provide for Nauru's economic future. Although revenue sources for government are limited, the opening of the Australian Regional Processing Center for asylum seekers since 2012 has sparked growth in the economy. Revenue derived from fishing licenses under the "vessel day scheme" has also boosted government income. Housing, hospitals, and other capital plant are deteriorating. The cost to Australia of keeping the government and economy afloat continues to climb.
|GDP (purchasing power parity):
|GDP (purchasing power parity): $150.8 million (2015 est.) $139.7 million (2014 est.) $127 million (2013 est.)
|GDP (official exchange rate):
|GDP (official exchange rate): $150.8 million (2015 est.)
|GDP - real growth rate:
|8% (2015 est.) 10% (2014 est.) 4.5% (2013 est.)
|GDP - per capita (PPP):
| GDP - per capita (PPP): $14,800 (2015 est.) $13,700 (2014 est.) $12,500 (2013 est.)
note: data are in 2015 US dollars
|Agriculture - products:
|phosphate mining, offshore banking, coconut products
|Industrial production growth rate:
|Labor force:
|Labor force - by occupation:
|note: most of the labor force is employed in phosphate mining, public administration, education, and transportation
|Unemployment rate:
|23% (2011 est.) 90% (2004 est.)
|Population below poverty line:
|Household income or consumption by percentage share:
| lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%
| revenues: $57.8 million
expenditures: $51.8 million (2010 est.)
|Fiscal year:
|1 July - 30 June
|Inflation rate (consumer prices):
|Inflation rate (consumer prices): 8% (2015 est.) 5% (2015 est.)
|$125 million (2013 est.) $110.3 million (2012 est.)
|Exports - commodities:
|$143.1 million (2013 est.) $41.2 million (2012 est.)
|Imports - commodities:
|food, fuel, manufactures, building materials, machinery
|Debt - external:
|$33.3 million (2004 est.)
|Exchange rates:
|Australian dollars (AUD) per US dollar - 1.352 (2016 est.) 1.3291 (2015 est.) 1.3291 (2014 est.) 1.0358 (2013 est.) 0.97 (2012 est.)
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|Electricity - production:
|25 million kWh (2014 est.)
|Electricity - consumption:
|23.25 million kWh (2014 est.)
|Electricity - exports:
|0 kWh (2013 est.)
|Electricity - imports:
|0 kWh (2013 est.)
|Electricity - installed generating capacity:
|5,000 kW (2014 est.)
|Electricity - from fossil fuels:
|100% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
|Electricity - from nuclear fuels:
|0% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
|Electricity - from hydroelectric plants:
|0% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
|Electricity - from other renewable sources:
|0% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
|Crude oil - production:
|0 bbl/day (2015 est.)
|Crude oil - exports:
|0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Crude oil - imports:
|0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Crude oil - proved reserves:
|0 bbl (1 January 2016 es)
|Refined petroleum products - production:
|0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - consumption:
|400 bbl/day (2014 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - exports:
|0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - imports:
|394.8 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - production:
|0 cu m (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - consumption:
|0 cu m (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - exports:
|0 cu m (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - imports:
|0 cu m (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - proved reserves:
|0 cu m (1 January 2014 es)
|Carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy:
|200,000 Mt (2013 est.)
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|Cellular Phones in use:
|total: 6,800 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 73 (July 2012 est.)
|Telephone system:
| general assessment: adequate local and international radiotelephone communication provided via Australian facilities
international: country code - 674; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean)
|Broadcast media:
|1 government-owned TV station broadcasting programs from New Zealand sent via satellite or on videotape; 1 government-owned radio station, broadcasting on AM and FM, utilizes Australian and British programs (2009)
|Internet country code:
|Internet users:
|total: 5,100 percent of population: 53.5% (July 2015 est.)
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|1 (2013)
|Airports (paved runways):
| total 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (2013)
| total 30 km
paved: 24 km
unpaved: 6 km (2002)
|Ports and terminals:
|major seaport(s): Nauru
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|Nauru maintains no defense forces; under an informal agreement, defense is the responsibility of Australia
|Military branches:
|no regular military forces (2012)
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|Transnational Issues
|Disputes - International:
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Our Tuesday Bluegrass Sessions. The sessions are hosted each week by a local bluegrass musician with friends or a band. Following the host band, Bluegrass musicians from the Asheville area gather on stage to jam in an open session. Occasionally, we feature a touring band that will perform prior to the open session and help co-host the jam. It's always a great evening of music and community.


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A Life More Ordinary
March 02, 2007
So I know my recent entries have been heavy on the photos and light on the...how you say?...wuh-urds? Yes, not so many words. But! This is merely a direct result of me and my boring, boring life where nothing ever happens.
Behold! The biggest news stories of the past two weeks or so:
1) We are shopping for replacement windows, which means I have been talking a lot about "sashes" and "sculptured colonial muntin grids" and "I'm sorry, but your quote here appears to have an extra zero on the end and...what? Oh. Okay. I see." and "Please call a doctor, for I think I just had a stroke."
2) I finally, like just two days ago, bought my plane tickets to Austin for SXSW. Which I am speaking at, holy God.
3) I think I am allergic to my watch.
And...that's pretty much it. Oh, except that I took a lot of photos, but you already knew that.
Shirt by Old Navy, ego trip courtesy of illiterate offspring.
No idea. No fricking idea.
Anyway, while I would LOVE to stay and chat about what a nickel allergy does to one's knuckles, Jason has the day off today so we can get our cars inspected and pick up the new sofa cushion inserts we ordered because our current ones did not survive my pregnant weight gain intact. Oh! And then we have to go buy Ziploc bags. Freezer size.
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Authorities: Woman attempts to abduct child at Omaha park
The Douglas County Sheriff's Office is looking for a woman who attempted to abduct a young child at a park Saturday evening.
A woman told deputies she was at Brookhaven Park near 110th and Harrison streets with her two kids around 5:15 p.m. when a woman she did not know approached her asking to hold her 2-year-old son.
Video: Woman attempts to abduct child at Omaha park
The mother said she told the woman no, but the woman grabbed the 2-year-old as he slid down the slide and attempted to leave with the boy.
Deputies said the mother ran after the woman, punched her in the face and grabbed her son back. The woman then fled into the neighborhood on foot.
According to the mother, a man approached her after the incident and her told the woman attempted to do the same thing with his child. Deputies have not confirmed this report.
The woman is described as white, 5 feet 2 inches, medium to heavy build. She had dark auburn hair and was wearing a black jacket and blue jeans.
The mother told deputies the woman appeared to have been drinking. She said the woman may have an injury to her left check, below her eye, after she hit her.
Anyone with information pertaining to this case they should contact Douglas County Crime Stoppers at 402-444-6000.


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Shirtless Harry totally did it with Kimberly Stewart
While Twi-Hards are melting down over #RobstenIsBrokenForNowButNotForever, One Directioners are losing their sh-t over these shirtless shots of Harry Styles holding a baby in Barcelona. 1D is currently on tour and were enjoying some down time at their hotel. Seriously, if I were 20 years younger, that would totally work for me. F-ck, why am I lying? It sorta works for me now. He's SO cute.
Kimberly Stewart obviously felt the same way. They supposedly hooked up last month when Harry met up for dinner with Rod Stewart and family in LA. Click here for a refresher. Rod was asked about it recently on Chatty Man and basically confirmed it to Alan Carr, noting that Harry's car was parked in the driveway the next morning and then backtracking but then saying Harry's a lovely fellow and then catching himself -- "Bollocks I've let the cat out the bag now" -- which pretty much means that, yes, Harry totally did it with Kimberly Stewart. Click here to see the video. Of Rod, I mean, not of Harry doing it with Kimberly Stewart, sadly.
Here she is yesterday grocery shopping with her daughter.
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Monarchs Open CAA Play At Towson Monday
By ODU Athletics
Jan. 2, 2011
OLD DOMINION MONARCHS (9-3/0-1) VS. TOWSON TIGERS (4-7/0-1) Jan. 3, 2011
MONARCH PROBABLE STARTERS F 35 Ben Finney, 6-5, Sr, Portsmouth, VA., 10.7 ppg/ 5.8 prg F 20 Chris Cooper, 6-9, JR., Dumfries, VA. 4.6 ppg./ 5.5 rpg C 21 Frank Hassell, 6-9, RS-Sr. Chesapeake, VA. 12.3 ppg/ 9.5 rpg. G 24 Kent Bazemore, 6-5, RS-Jr. Kelford, NC. 12.3 ppg/ 5.0 rpg G 3 Darius James, 6-0, Sr, Virginia Beach, Va. 6.5 ppg/ 3.0 apg
OFF THE BENCH F 33 Keyon Carter, 6-8, RS- Sr. Rivieria Beach, FL. 8.9 ppg/ 5.8 rpg G 15 Trian Iliadis, 6-3, JR., Perth, W. Australia 7.7 ppg/ 1.9 rpg G 22 Marquel De Lancey, 6-0, JR., Alexandria, VA. 2.6 ppg/ 2.1 apg F 1 Nick Wright, 6-8, RS-SO ,Suffolk, VA. 1.8 ppg/ 1.5 rpg. G 2 Josh Hicks, 6-1, RS-FR. Winston-Salem, NC. 1.7 ppg./ 1.0 apg C 40 Anton Larsen, 7-0, FR., Copenhagen, Denmark 5.0 ppg./2.0 rpg
ODU ON TV/RADIO ODU Radio: ESPN 94.1 (Ted Alexander, Cal Bowdler, Rick Kiefner)
ODU leads, 23-1
The Monarchs defeated Towson three times last year, including the CAA quarterfinals. The Tigers' only win over ODU was a 67-56 decision in 2001-02
in the ODU Fieldhouse.
No. 10 Missouri defeated ODU, 81-58 last Thursday in Columbia, MO.which ended ODU's four-game winning streak. Mizzou had five players in double figures led by Marcus Denmon
with 22. The Tigers hit nine treys. ODU was led by Frank Hassell with 12 points and Marquel De Lancey with a career high 10 points. Chris Cooper added a career high tying nine points along with
nine boards. ODU shot .479 (23-48) from the floor but commmitted 21 turovers. Missouri shot .500 (29-58) from the floor.
Blaine Taylor 2 Wins Away Blaine Taylor is two wins away from becoming the all-time winningest coach at ODU.
THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW Ben Finney became the 45th Monarch to join the 1,000 career point club vs. UMES. .544 field goal percentage vs. ECU is this years best. ODU blocked 10 shots vs. Georgetown, 8 vs. High Point and Dayton The Monarchs held Georgetown and Clemson to 19 first half points. ODU has outrebounded all 13 opponents. ESPN.com and SI.com named Bazemore As one of the nation's top defenders. Frank Hassell shot .667 (16-24) from the floor at the Paradise Jam. ODU is averaging 7,470 a home thus far. Alumni day is against Towson on Jan. 29 at 5 p.m.
NEXT GAME Jan. 5 Northeastern 7 p.m. Jan. 8 George Mason 2 p.m.
Blaine Taylor 2010-11 ODU 9-3 197-106 at ODU Total 339-171 (.667 )
ODU TEAM RANKINGS IN THE CAA Scoring Offense 6th 68.8 Scoring Defense 3rd 62.2 Scoring Margin 3rd +6.6 Free Throw PCT: 10th .635 FG PCT: 8th .444 FGPCT DEF: 4th .414 3PT FG PCT: 8th 356 3PT FG DEF: 7th .356 Rebounding: 2nd 41.6 REB Margin: 2nd +12.3 Blocked Shots: 2nd 4.8 Steals: 5th 6.9 Assists: 3rd 13.8 Asst/TO Ratio: 5th 1.0
INDIVIDUAL RANKINGS IN THE CAA Scoring: Hassell 15th 12.3 Bazemore 15th 12.3 FGPCT: Hassell 6th .551 REBS: Hassell 3rd 9.5 FT PCT: Bazemore 12th .750 3PT FG PCT:Iliadis 6th .447 Assists: James 11th 3.0 Steals: Bazemore 1st 2.2
STRONG PERFORMANCE IN NON-CONFERENCE PLAY CAA teams have combined for a 73-50 record against non-conference foes. The CAA is 3-4 against the ACC (ODU over Clemson, VCU and
UNCW over Wake Forest), and has two wins over the Big East (Drexel over Louisville, JMU over South Florida), 8-6 vs. the Atlantic 10
with ODU beating Xavier, Dayton and Richmond, as well as VCU's win over UCLA.
FIVE CAA TEAMS IN TOP 100 OF RPI According to RPIratings. Com, ODU was 13, Drexel 15, George Mason 69, JMU 78, and VCU 79. The CAA ranked #10 among the nation's
32 Division I Conferences.
CRASHING THE GLASS ODU is out-rebounding foes by 12.3 per game, while Drexel is at 12.6 per game. Drexel ranked Second nationally in rebound margin and ODU was third as of Dec. 20th.
ODU WINS PARADISE JAM TOURNAMENT: Old Dominion knocked off Xavier, 67-58 on Nov. 22 to win the Paradise Jam Tournament in the Virgin Islands. Senior forward Frank Hassell paced the Monarchs with 16 points and eight rebounds Against Xavier. Senior Ben Finney was named tournament MVP and was joined by Hassell on the All-Tournament team. ODU posted victories over St. Peter's, and Clemson in the tournament.


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Silversea's Singles Savingsby Pat Hagan, Singles Editor | June 14, 2004
Good news for solo cruisers! Ultra-luxury Silversea Cruises, recognizing that a growing number of men and women are cruising alone, either by choice or necessity, is offering specially reduced single supplements on a limited number of suites for 2004 and 2005 voyages, priced at just 110% to 125% of the published, per-person, double occupancy fare.
Silversea's award-winning, all-inclusive shipboard environment is the most comprehensive in the industry. All beverages are complimentary, including select wines, champagnes and spirits, and gratuities are also included in the fare. The crew-to-guest ratio is almost one-to-one, so single cruisers can enjoy highly personalized service.
- Oct. 20-Nov. 3, 2004 – Silver Wind's "In the Wake of Columbus" 14-day transatlantic cruise from Barcelona to Barbados with port calls at Cadiz (Spain), Casablanca (Morocco), Canary Islands (Spain), and Cape Verde Islands (Voyage #2429). Rates for single travelers start at $6,045.
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True Charm Conquers All
Titles that set out with the purpose of giving players a virtual life are nothing new. They are, after all, not only a consequence of the power games have to immerse their fans in fantastic worlds, but also of the increasing amount of content software can carry. Fantasy Life is, simultaneously, a lot alike and really different from most works that fall under that niche: the similarity lies in the fact that it loads itself with so much to do that full completion is hard to envision, but the distinction is the defined goals the game is quick to establish. This is a universe on which one can spend endless hours, but – at the same time – where there are clear objectives to pursue.
That blend is achieved smartly, for Fantasy Life brings together role-playing elements – the game's core – with a focus on collecting furniture and doing other seemingly mundane activities that is easily comparable to Nintendo's stellar line of Animal Crossing games. It works both ways, because those who are usually bothered by the lack of focus of open-ended titles will have a shiny finish line to chase, and anyone who loves the loose freedom of the genre will get a bundle of that independence along with a structured adventure to tackle.
It all begins when the main nameless character has to make a very important decision: select the life he wants to pursue. When he arrives in the castle to voice his choice, the infant-looking king expresses his concern over events that have been plaguing the land of Reveria. As it turns out, the sky seems to be falling apart, and its pieces – tellingly named Doomstones – are causing major damage and also mysteriously affecting the creatures of the areas on which they fall. Naturally, noticing the energy and enthusiasm of the soon-to-be hero, the king tasks the youngster with the investigation of those occurrences.
And that, right there, is the point when the game opens the way for its two facets: its RPG adventure, which is the main storyline; and its life system, which is what turns Fantasy Life into a unique product. Starting from that very early moment, gamers can take the wheel and decide whether they want to focus in advancing in their selected career, or go after the quests that make up the solving of the riddle behind the sinister stones. It is a very intense sense of freedom, and it makes everything seem like a huge explorable open-world that can be experienced in many different ways.
The game offers twelve career choices. It is indeed a large number, but – for practical purposes – they could be easily divided in three groups. Firstly, there are the lives that gravitate around combat: Paladin, a regular sword-yielding soldier; Hunter, a bow specialist; Wizard, a user of elemental magic; and Mercenary, a slow unit that deals a large amount of damage. Secondly, there are those that harvest resources from the land: Angler, Woodcutter, and Miner. And, finally, there are lives whose goal is to use resources and loot to craft new items: Blacksmith, Carpenter, Tailor, Alchemist, and Cook.
Thankfully, due to the total combat ineptitude that the harvesting and crafting classes posses, and smartly, since it gives players the chance to truly go through everything the game has to offer, it is possible to mutually belong to any number of lives. Inside each of those careers, players can level up in rank according to the class-specific tasks they are able to complete, which allows the use of new and more powerful weapons or tools, and the learning of new class-related techniques.
The option to freely switch between classes turns out to be brilliant in two ways. For starters, it supports the heavy collaboration between each skill. For example, a very rare piece of lumber found by a high-level woodcutter can be employed by a carpenter in the making of an epically mighty shield that will be used in battle by a master paladin; on the other hand, that piece of wood could simply be used in the crafting of a bed that will look just perfect on your newly acquired seaside hut. Fantasy Life fills players' hands with a multitude of choices, and it is up to them to have fun in whatever way they see fit.
The second direct effect of being able to play all of the roles is that it is possible to, while traveling through the wonderful land of Reveria, have up to fourteen lists of numerous quests of distinct natures: one for each of the twelve classes, one related to the main quest, and one consisting of requests made by NPCs. Players can pretty much freely choose what they want to do, where they want to go, and whether it is time to upgrade their interior decoration, climb up the ladder in a certain class, go after treasure to buy that fancy piece of real estate, or save the world.
It sounds overwhelming, it comes off as ridiculously impossible to manage, and it is numerically astounding. However, not only does Fantasy Life make it all seem like a relaxing pleasure, but those hundreds of quests also serve as the sweet excuse players will have to spend hundreds of hours in Reveria.
And that is precisely where Fantasy Life truly shines. Players will desperately look for a reason to put their adventure gear on and face the dangers of the world, and the game will give them about a few dozen pieces of motivation. That eager want for a purpose to explore Reveria is easily explained by one undeniable fact: few, maybe zero, games out there are as unbelievably charming as Fantasy Life.
The loveliness is so dense that it oozes from every single corner. It begins with the involving soundtrack, which was handled by the gifted Nobuo Uematsu, the man responsible for the tunes that drive the emotional weight of most Final Fantasy games into the stratosphere. His work here lives up to his credentials. Faced with a world that is far more light-hearted than what one usually finds on the Square-Enix flagship franchise, his music is able to convey both the whimsical and the slightly dramatic with perfection.
Then there is Reveria itself, which is as adorable as a virtual planet can be. From the outset, and without having to wait for the story to progress much, it is possible to go pretty much anywhere, and the sights to behold are many. This is a land that pairs up a traditional medieval kingdom, a port town with Caribbean motifs whose ruling is shared by aristocrats and pirates, and a desert land bursting with magicians, and it makes all those strange pieces fit together through its simple graphics that are sustained by a masterful art style. In between those places, players will explore everything from natural reserves, volcanoes, plains, floating islands, deserts, and countless caves.
All of those locations are filled to the brim with hordes of enemies whose design was carefully constructed, making them seem right at home in this borderline fairy-tale world. Although some are indeed threatening due to the absurdly high level they possess, almost none of them come off as dangerous or evil in their looks. They lean more towards goofy. And that light nature goes right along with one of the greatest things about Reveria: the fact that, despite the threat of the falling sky, this is a place with no real enemies. There is absolutely no one with a demeanor of cartoonish evil; these are all regular, yet incredibly amusing, people living in a fantastic world.
What truly lays down the bricks that make up this wonderful land are the dialogues that give heart to these characters. They can be truthfully touching (without ever coming close to cheesiness) and laugh-out-loud hilarious. And that quality is present literally everywhere; it is in the minor characters that take care of shops, in those who frequently ask players to do sidequests, in the main storyline participants, and in the numerous carefully developed people that are available to be recruited to the player's party when they set out for adventure.
Nowhere is that trait clearer than on the butterfly that serves as your main companion during the game. She is able to be warmly friendly, easily lovable, sharply sarcastic, truthfully helpful and brilliantly mocking all at the same time. It would be no exaggeration to dub her the greatest sidekick to ever grace a game.
For all of its qualities, there is one reality that holds Fantasy Life back from achieving everything its concept and charm could have allowed: this is a somewhat flawed game. Getting to the end of its storyline is so easy it demands almost no effort, and a large number of the quests involved in it are just a matter of heading to a certain location (which is almost always highlighted on the map) and talking to someone. This means that Fantasy Life is a game that is very heavy in text. Given the dialogues are invariably great, it is not an inherent issue, but it is a characteristic that might turn off some people.
Additionally, it is disappointing to realize that, in a game whose core allure is the variety of professions to choose from, many of them are similar to a certain degree. The five crafting lives (tailor, carpenter, blacksmith, alchemist, and cook) all involve the same mini-game that is merely presented in a different skin depending on the item one wants to create. The same applies to the harvesting careers of mining and woodcutting, which offer the same commands and techniques, albeit with different goals; and the battling jobs, which present an equal shortcoming.
The various professions are also the source of a minor annoyance. In order to go up a rank in a certain occupation, players must validate their completed quests with the guild's master. However, in spite of the fact the main character can simultaneously be engaged in all 12 careers, only one of the licenses can be carried at a time. Therefore, to report completed tasks to a specific master, players must either be holding that job's license or else they will have to go back to the town's office, pick up the required document, and only then head to the guild's leader.
It is a silly limitation that makes no sense at all, because players can perform activities or do quests pertaining to any profession regardless of the license they are currently carrying (for example, a character holding a hunter license can mine at will as long as he has also been certified as a miner).
The game's greatest problem, however, lies in the structure of its quests. Fantasy Life has very clear inspirations in the universe of MMOs, which ends up translating into tasks that can have a heavy focus on sheer grinding. Although that is not true about the main quest, it is an unshakable fact that is attached to the job-specific goals and general sidequests. Although they are cleverly presented in different ways, most gravitate around going to a precise location and either killing a certain number of foes, searching for elusive item drops, gathering specific resources, and sometimes using what you have collected to build something through the crafting professions.
It is a never-ending, and somewhat repetitive, cycle of going out into the world and grinding your way to the finding of something special. It sounds shallow, and to a certain level it is pretty hollow, but the bottom line is that it all works. Somehow Fantasy Life escapes nearly unscathed through all of its major stumbles and minor issues to come out on the other side as this delightful game that can be awfully hard to put down simply due to the fact that you will want to spend more time in Reveria, and the game will happily oblige by throwing hundreds of quests onto the players laps.
Sure, the quests might be repetitive and involve a lot of grinding, but they are an excuse to go out there and explore some more and – maybe – even discover some interesting new place full of fun characters and creatures. How does Fantasy Life manage to muster such magic despite its problems? It all comes down to its overwhelming charm and the pure joy of getting a taste of what can be found in its world. It is irresistible, and at the same time a weird sort of guilty pleasure. In this case, true charm truly conquers all, even the most glaring flaws.


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University Science Faculty Ventures into Entrepreneurship
April 2013 No. 409
University Science Faculty Ventures into Entrepreneurship
David B. Audretsch, Taylor Aldridge and Venkata K. Nadella,
Audretsch Economic Research, Bloomington, IN [115] pages.
Under contract number SBAHQ-11-M-0212.
How is university research effectively transformed
into technological innovations, businesses, employment,
and economic growth? One approach to this
public policy question is to examine the entrepreneurial
activities of university science faculty who
have benefited from federally funded research.
This study surveys university scientists about their
entrepreneurial activities, employing a database of
scientists funded by grants from the National Science
Foundation (NSF).
The Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 was instrumental in
making federally funded research at universities a
center of the innovation process. Simply put, the
Bayh-Dole Act allowed universities or inventors to
take ownership of inventions developed with federal
funding. Most of the previous research measuring
technology transfer from universities has been based
on databases from the universities' offices of technology
transfer. One limitation of this research is its
inability to measure business startup activity by university
In this study, data from the National Science
Foundation are used as the source for identifying
technology start-ups by university scientists. Rather
than relying on information from university offices
of technology transfer, this research uses the NSF
database to conduct a direct survey of university scientists
on their entrepreneurial activities.
Overall Findings
Entrepreneurship by university scientists is much
more prevalent than information from university
technology transfer offices tends to indicate. About
13 percent of scientists receiving NSF grants started
a new firm.
Not all academic scientists create start-ups, but of
those that do, 30 percent start with a patent. Factors
that are even more important in the propensity of a
scientist with an NSF grant to start a business are
the size of the grant, whether the scientist is tied into
the business community, and whether the scientist
had other outside funding. Compared with scientists
who do not start a business, twice as many of the
scientists who do start businesses have served on the
boards of directors of other businesses. The research
also finds that scientists are more likely to start a
business if the head of their academic department
has an entrepreneurial orientation.
Outside funding and years as a tenured professor
are major factors correlated with the survival of
businesses started by scientists who have received
NSF grants.
Policy Recommendations
Policymakers seeking to support innovation through
startups by university scientists should consider
encouraging activity that is more likely to lead to
scientific start-ups, such as scientists serving on
boards of other firms and having matching funds
from other sources.
Encouraging university department heads to be
more entrepreneurial may also pay dividends.
Scope and Methodology
The report surveys scientists that received NSF funding
from 2005 to mid-2012 in the fields of civil,
mechanical, and manufacturing innovation; environmental
biology; computer and network systems;
physical oceanography; particle and nuclear astrophysics;
and biological infrastructure. The researchers
used email addresses from NSF's database, and
received survey responses from 1,899 scientists (a
20.75 percent response rate). The average age of the
scientists sampled was 50.3 years old. The online
adaptive survey collected information about the scientist
and the business venture.
Econometric models using the survey results were
used to find the determinants for scientists starting
businesses and leading to surviving businesses.
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At the National Pork Industry Forum last week, pork producers approved a resolution reaffirming the industry's position that producers should be able to select a sow housing system, including gestation stalls or individual maternity pens, which best promotes employee safety and animal care while ensuring a reliable supply of pork for consumers.
"Pork producers, working with veterinarians, understand what it takes to provide the best care and welfare for their animals," says Karen Richter, a farmer from Montgomery, MN, and National Pork Board vice president. "The National Pork Board builds its animal and well-being programs on the foundation of what are best for the pig. By adopting this resolution, producers are reaffirming their commitment to choose what type of housing is best for their animals."
The National Pork Board provides educational programs and materials that focus on how producers can best ensure the well-being of their pigs. The programs offer methods that help producers take an objective look at each animal's well-being, independent of the size of farm or the specific type of housing.
A survey conducted in 2012 by University of Missouri Extension economist Ron Plain found that 17.3% of sows spend a portion of gestation in open pens. Plain surveyed pork farms with 1,000 or more sows and received responses from 70 farms, which combined own about 3.6 million of the nation's 5.7 million sows.
Plain's survey also found that 20.2% of sows on operations with 1,000 to 9,999 sows, 18.9% on farms with 10,000 to 99,000 sows and 16.4% on farms with more than 100,000 sows are in open pens for some portion of gestation. When asked about plans to put more sows in open pens, the largest farms indicated that 23.8% of their sows would be in them in two years; farms with 10,000 to 99,999 sows would have 21.3% of their pigs in such pens; and farms with 1,000 to 9,999 sows would have 20.7%.
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By comparison, a recent National Pork Board producer survey found that farms producing fewer than 5,000 hogs per year (approximately 200 sows or less) were more likely to use some form of open housing.
"Regardless of the system, what really matters is the individual care given to each pig," Richter says. "And we will continue to rely on science-based standards and our own long history of leadership in animal welfare to ensure that all animals are treated humanely."
The National Pork Board has responsibility for Checkoff-funded research, promotion and consumer information projects and for communicating with pork producers and the public. Through a legislative national Pork Checkoff, pork producers invest $0.40 for each $100 value of hogs sold.
Importers of pork products contribute a like amount, based on a formula. The Pork Checkoff funds national and state programs in advertising, consumer information, retail and foodservice marketing, export market promotion, production improvement, technology, swine health, pork safety and environmental management.
For information on Checkoff-funded programs, pork producers can call the Pork Checkoff Service Center at (800) 456-7675 or check the Internet at www.pork.org.
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Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter
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Pioneers of nuclear-age policy analysis, Albert Wohlstetter (1913-1997) and Roberta Wohlstetter (1912-2007) emerged as two of America's most consequential, innovative and controversial strategists. Through the clarity of their thinking, the rigor of their research, and the persistence of their personalities, they were able to shape the views and aid the decisions of Democratic and Republican policy makers both during and after the Cold War. Although the Wohlstetters' strategic concepts and analytical methods continue to be highly influential, no book has brought together their most important essays--until now.
Edited by Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) research fellow Robert Zarate and NPEC executive director Henry Sokolski, Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter demonstrates not only the historical importance, but also the continuing relevance of the Wohlstetters' work in national security strategy and nuclear policy. It is the first book to make widely available over twenty of Albert and Roberta's most influential published--and unpublished--writings on:
• methods of policy analysis and design;
• nuclear deterrence through survivable, controllable and therefore credible strategic forces;
• nuclear proliferation and the military potential of civil nuclear energy;
• spiraling arms-race myths versus the real, observable dynamics of strategic competition;
• the revolutionary potential of non-nuclear technologies of precision, control, and information; and
• the continuing need for prudence and pragmatism in the face of changing dangers.
In addition, Nuclear Heuristics provides readers with an introduction to the Wohlstetters' work by editor Robert Zarate; and short commentaries on Wohlstetter writings by Henry S. Rowen (2005 WMD Commissioner and former Assistant Secretary of Defense), Alain C. Enthoven (former Assistant Secretary of Defense), Henry Sokolski (2008 WMD Proliferation and Terrorism Commissioner and former Pentagon official), Richard Perle (former Assistant Secretary of Defense and emeritus Defense Policy Board chairman), Stephen J. Lukasik (former Director of the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency, now DARPA), and Andrew W. Marshall (Director of the Office of Net Assessment).
Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter is a must-read and an indispensable resource for policy makers, military planners, and strategic analysts, as well as for students who aspire to these positions.
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by Carl Wennerlind, Assistant Professor of History
Harvard University Press, 2011
Modern credit, developed during the financial revolution of 1620¬–1720, laid the foundation for England's political, military, and economic dominance in the eighteenth century. Possessed of a generally circulating credit currency, a modern national debt, and sophisticated financial markets, England developed a fiscal-military state that instilled fear in its foes and facilitated the first industrial revolution. Yet a number of casualties followed in the wake of this new system of credit. Not only was it precarious and prone to accidents, but it depended on trust, public opinion, and ultimately violence.
Carl Wennerlind reconstructs the intellectual context within which the financial revolution was conceived. He traces how the discourse on credit evolved and responded to the Glorious Revolution, the Scientific Revolution, the founding of the Bank of England, the Great Recoinage, armed conflicts with Louis XIV, the Whig-Tory party wars, the formation of the public sphere, and England's expanded role in the slave trade. Debates about credit engaged some of London's most prominent turn-of-the-century intellectuals, including Daniel Defoe, John Locke, Isaac Newton, Jonathan Swift and Christopher Wren. Wennerlind guides us through these conversations, toward an understanding of how contemporaries viewed the precariousness of credit and the role of violence—war, enslavement, and executions—in the safeguarding of trust.
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ABSA - Branch
Absa Group Limited is one of South Africa's largest financial services organisations, serving personal, commercial and corporate customers in South Africa. The Group interacts with its customers through a combination of physical and electronic channels, offering a comprehensive range of banking services, (from basic products and services for the low-income personal market to customised solutions for the commercial and corporate markets), bancassurance and wealth management products and services.
Alba Easy Lounge
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American Express
American Swiss
Bidvest Bureau De Change
Its credentials in foreign exchange services go back more than 150 years. The bank is a member of the internationally diversified Bidvest Group and has held a full banking licence since 2000. Bidvest Bank serves its growing customer-base via 90 branches in all major centres in South Africa.
Big Five Duty Free
Cape Farm & Gift Emporium
Cape Farm & Wine Emporium
Capi Electronics
Capitec ATM
CNA @ Airports
C N A @airports stores are franchised to Airport Retail Concessions, a specialist airport retailer and together we bring to the busy, rushed airport consumer practically everything they might need under one roof.
With books, music, stationery, magazines, toys, photographic, communication and computer consumables, cards, gifting solutions, CD's & movies, travel accessories, souvenirs and confectionery available in an easy to shop environment, we offer our customers of all ages an entertainment and lifestyle experience like no other.
Cosmic Candy
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Electro Electronics & Sound
South Africa and are proud to announce a partnership with Samsung South Africa
incorporating a store-in-store concept within all Electro's existing airport sites.
Electro recognised the need to create an interactive electronics offering to all airport
customers and as the leading cellular brand Samsung, was the obvious choice.
A brand new store-in-store Electro/Samsung store opened its doors to the public on
December 14th 2015 at Cape Town International Domestic arrivals terminal. Situated next to
ABSA Bank. The look & feel of the store is that of the New Samsung stores, offering the
current range of Samsung cellphones, tablets, accessories and headphones.
In addition, Electro offers the very latest branded accessories for all computer, video,
cameras, GPS, travel and more. Brands such as Skull Candy, Sennheiser, Klip, Nikon, Sandisk,
Lexar to name but a few.
Electro's vision is to build on our valuable partnership with Samsung and roll out Electro / Samsung
store-in-store concept stores in all South Africa's leading airports and Casinos in the country.
For more information or enquires visit www.electrosa.com or email email@example.com
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Express Hair & Skin Cape Town
Too often travelers feel harassed and rushed, have to sit in overcrowded waiting areas or lounges or try find a seat at the busy restaurants. You now have the convenience of having a hair cut, head massage or simply a wash and blow as well as stock up on your hair products, whilst sipping a complimentary coffee and reading the newspaper waiting to board your flight.
No more weekends and free time spent at malls, rather have it done at the airport on your travels, and arrive at your destination, appointment looking and feeling great. People working at the airport are now afforded the same opportunity with numerous specials on offer to them.
We strive to consistently deliver a quick first class, friendly service, and we strive to ensure that all people connected with our business have an enjoyable and beneficial experience.
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Goodbye Malaria
All our merchandise is locally made, using crafters that have been developed, up-skilled and trained to make beautiful goods, allowing us to showcase the extraordinary talent here in South Africa.
We truly seek to inspire people to join the fight against malaria, spread the word that elimination is possible and attainable and invest back into these talented crafters
By purchasing our merchandise, you are not only supporting local talent, you are also aiding in the fight against malaria.
Together we can say goodbye – tchau tchau – hamba kahle – au revoir –adios to Malaria.
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Lere Shoeshine
Link Pharmacy
Love Cape Town
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Mila Moji
Our store and brand continues to grow as we pride ourselves on a high level of customer service and satisfaction. We stock only high-quality merchandise and we are open every day Monday through Sunday; servicing local and international customers in South Africa. Milamoji interacts with its customers through a combination of physical and online channels, offering a huge range of plush products and toys. We offer competitive pricing. Don't be fooled by cheap imitations, which imitate designs of our high quality emoji pillows. Unless you see that it's sold by Milamoji, it's not the same!
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Mugg & Bean
Menu items are specifically designed to meet the needs of just about everyone looking for a friendly informal dining experience available at all hours and in very convenient locations across the nation.
Nedbank - ATM
Where you have a banking need, Nedbank has the advice, service and product, or a combination of any of these to exactly match your particular requirement.
Obey Your Body
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Ocean Basket
Ocean Basket is South Africa's favourite chain of seafood restaurants. There's one near you, where you will find friendly people, a home-from-home feeling, and great value for your hardearned bucks. Some Ocean Baskets have a fresh-fish deli too, and you can order to eat in or takeaway, whatever grabs you.
One thing's for sure. You will find only the freshest seafood at Ocean Basket. Plus, some nice wines to make a great meal even greater. Ocean Basket is for all da family, cos children love good seafood as much as you do. Come on in and have a whale of a time!
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Primi Caffe
Parents and kids alike will be thrilled to find the "Primi Pods" kiddies area in front of the pizza section where youngsters are entertained by professional caregivers and chefs who teach the kids how to make pizzas, bake biscuits and even(hopefully) how to appreciate veggies!
Designer and manufacturer of exclusive platinum and diamond jewellery, Shimansky is respected worldwide for superb quality, cutting edge design, and superior workmanship. Clean and contemporary, unique and timeless, Shimanskys' designs are inspired by the special moments in peoples' lives. We understand that the experience of buying fine jewellery should be as uniquely personal as the milestone it celebrates. For this reason, we pride ourselves on offering an unforgettable jewellery buying experience, the Shimansky Experience. With unrivalled individual service and attention to detail we trust you will treasure the memory of the moment of buying as much as you treasure the jewellery piece itself.
It all began in 1967, when founder and executive chairman, Allen Ambor, invested R4000 to open
the Golden Spur in Newlands, Cape Town. It fast developed a reputation for tasty, nutritious,
value-for-money meals. (A Spur burger cost just 40 cents in those days.)
From these early beginnings, Spur has grown into an internationally recognised brand
with over 237 local and 28 international restaurants. You'll even find a Spur in the United
Kingdom, Australia and Mauritius.
So what's our winning recipe? Well, we start with a warm, relaxed, family-friendly environment. We add generous portions of great tasting food, and a hearty helping of quality. Then all we need is you!
Standard Bank - ATM
From our head office in Johannesburg, we have developed and refined our universal banking competencies while playing a central role in developing the sophisticated South African financial sector, in what is today a successful developing economy. Our deep roots in South Africa provide a strong base for our continued growth into emerging markets in Africa and globally, and position us well to realise significant opportunities for clients doing business in these markets.
Steers is all about the burger and handmade chips. Aside from the wide range of beef, chicken and vegetarian burgers, together with the favourite king steer burger, one will also find that our menu has a wide range of other famous favourites, such as our flame-grilled basted ribs, hero steak rolls, creamy ice-creams and milkshakes.
We use only the freshest ingredients and classic taste combinations to make the best burgers in town. Just about everything we serve is made to order. The burger is at the heart of everything we do and is always 100% real.
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Tax Refund
Who can Claim? Non-resident foreign passport holders, older than 7 years of age, on a temporary visit to South Africa are able to claim a VAT refund, provided that VAT was levied by the supplier, and the supplier is a VAT registered vendor, who issued you with a tax invoice that complies with the requirements of the Scheme.
South African passport holders (irrespective of country of residence) and South African residents are specifically excluded from the Scheme.
The Cross Trainer
The Cross Trainer is the leader in the market when it comes to this seasons hottest lifestyle clothing and kicks – from Soccer Fan wear, to ladies, men's and children's ranges.
True Story
Our range covers ties for all occasions. Silk, micro fibre, and polyester. Our shirts are in crisp cotton, of the highest quality, and affordable. Waistcoats, cravats, cufflinks, bow ties, scarves and accessories complement the range.
Vida e Caffe
The concept was born out of the heritage of a truly european espresso bar, a reaction to the insipid coffee shop culture that is prevalent in our daily lives. Vida e Caffè is a simple, focused concept that delivers an authentically european experience in espresso and coffee drinking.
Vida e Caffè as a concept has existed, in one form or another, for centuries. Walk down any street in Lisboa, Porto, Rome, Paris or Barcelona, and you will see the sidewalk cafés that have been our inspiration. A shrine for the wonderful bean and the drinking of it in its purest form; the espresso. The simplicity of the interior, the focused menu, and the nature of the service, have all been designed with european street culture as the foundation. The Vida e Caffè espresso bars aim to deliver the highest quality coffee and pastries, prepared to european standards. Our menu is based on the fare typical of a street café in Lisboa, a slice of Europe on African streets.
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We also offer motivated and enterprising South Africans the opportunity to become independent players by becoming Vodashop franchisees. Full operational training and support is provided, as well as advertising support. In the words of Shameel Joosub, managing director of the Vodacom Service Provider Company:
The franchising route has played a major role in helping us build the effective distribution we have. The Vodashop channel has been a key part of the Vodacom success, and a strategic decision to create the Vodashop franchise channel has bred success for both parties. The passion, commitment and drive of the franchisees has elevated us to where we are today.
So if there isn't a Vodashop near you yet, rest assured there will be soon.


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Yo! Just got my PS3 a week ago. It's actually brand new, but bought in olx for a good price.katuGs wrote:Sa Wakas!!! nahanap ko rin ang forum na para sa mga Playstation users.. ^_^
Got my PS3 superslim last march'16, 2nd hand lang TEXT SPEAK VIOLATION pero well maintained at mganda yung package na games na included; (nba2k16, gtaV, farcry3, TLOU, ufc3, atbp).
since grade school days pa matagal ko na gustong magkaroon ng sariling console, but unfortunately, we dont have that budget at ayaw ng parents ko (my mom was a teacher) na ma-hook sa computer kasi "nakaka bobo" daw eto ng pag aaral (hehe).
Until nag work ako, playing computer games (PC,PS Xbox) pa din ako -- nag rerent lang sa mga cafe's and shops. Thinking kelan kaya ako makakabili ng sarili kong unit. bumigay na PC ko sa bahay kaya wala na din ko mapaglaruan sa bahay at hindi nman ako na sasatisfied sa paglalaro sa tablet.
Hanggang sa dumating sa point na sinabi ko; maybe its time na bumili na ako ng playstation kahit 2nd hand lang. some of my co-workers before nag encourage sa akin na instead na ps2 (yes, ps2 pa balak ko noon) ang kunin ko, mag ps3 na lang ako dahil mas madaming games at marami pa akong makaka trade na ps3 users din.
YUP, 2nd hand lang ps3 ko pero im proud kasi 1st time ko magkaroon ng sariling console at galing yun sa backpay ko at pinag trabahuhan/pinagpuyatan ko... I salute gamers here na sa sariling kayod galing ang pinambili.
Still noob user here pero hope joining here will add knowledge sa games at sa iba pang info. and hopefully good friends.. thank you at pasensya sa mahabang kwento ko.. happy gaming! ^_^
Well, our parents don't really understand how nice some games are. It's a bit normal, I guess.
My first console was a DS Lite, given to me by my grandfather. I just started grade school by that time. Then I got a PSP, but I can't remember where I got it from. Due to some 'issues', those were sold. When I was a 4th/5th grader, my uncle bought me a DS Lite. Then a few months after that, I won a PSP from a raffle.
When the DS Lite was given to me, that was during the time when the 3DS was about to be released. So I spent 2 years "outdated", until my grandfather noticed that my DS Lite was entirely different from the consoles (3DS) my cousins had. And, yet again, he bought me a 3DS, and that was during my first year of high school.
I got another console - the successor to the PSP, the PS Vita - last December. I used my Christmas allowance given to me by my grandfather to buy the console.
But I never had a home console until a week ago. Before, I used to just play WWE with my friend's PS2 back at the 1st grade, or play Guitar Hero or Mario Kart with my cousins' Wii.
To be honest, it took me 2 years. 2 years before I was able to convince my mom to buy me a PS3. During that time, I suddenly wanted to buy a PS3 because I had recently discovered the Tales series during that time. I played Abyss in my 3DS and fell in love with it, so I'm trying to play all the Tales games I can. Before, I never bothered asking for a home console. PS2, Wii, Xbox? Nah. I don't have much games to play there. But the PS3? A 100% yes, ever since I discovered the Tales series.
I only got into olx ever since I started selling stuff there. And one day, I started saving money, till I got half the money to buy the PS3 from an ad I saw. When I did, I told my mom about it. She agreed to pay the rest to buy the console. And I got it.
I'm still a high school student, and I didn't get any allowance till recently. I think it's great that most of you guys have salaries to buy your own games, though.
Wew, that's one heck of a storytime lol.
Well, I recommend that you try the Tales series. The series has a lot of games with great gameplay and storyline. So far, I've only played 4 Tales games. I haven't bought the Tales of PS3 games yet, though, currently focusing on the Persona series, another series I recommend.
Anyway, good day to you guys.


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Earlier tonight I was making some modifications on a web site I helped build and needed to verify that some things were not being stored in the cache. At the time I was testing the site with Mozilla Firefox version 3.5.7 and needed a quick way to open cache history and verify one specific file was not cached. Below is a brief explanation of how to use Firefox to verify its own cache and steps on how to verify a file in cache and then delete that same file from the Firefox cache.Details


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All over the country, people are waking up to a frightening fact:
Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are hidden in our food.
The American Medical Association has told our government regulators to safety-test these GMOs before they end up in our food, but the Food & Drug Administration refuses. They continue to go by a legal fiction, created by a former Monsanto lawyer and lobbyist, that GMOs are "substantially equivalent" to normal foods. That Monsanto lawyer, Michael Taylor, is now President Obama's Food Safety Czar at the FDA!
Doctors with the American Academy of Environmental Medicine advise their patients to avoid GMOs. They are already seeing health problems in their patients that they fear may be linked to eating GMOs, including allergies, gastrointestinal disorders and autoimmune diseases.
But, anyone trying to avoid eating GMOs has a problem: GMOs aren't labeled.
We have a right to know what we're eating! Please pledge to join the campaign to label GMOs in your state. These groups can help you plug in:
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Citizens for GMO Labeling
Right to Know GMO
March Against Monsanto
Moms Across America
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By: Shannon Sand, SDSU Livestock Business Management Field Specialist
U.S. trade policy, the new farm bill, and domestic and global economic conditions were much discussed topics at the 2013 Range Beef Cow Symposium. Roger Bernard, Informa Economics, indicated that Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) would remain a contentious trade issue during the next year. USDA revised its mandatory COOL regulation in May 2013 to comply with an earlier World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling which held that the mandatory COOL law created a less favorable treatment of imported animals than like-kind domestic animals due to record keeping and verification costs. Canada and Mexico, who filed the original WTO complaint, subsequently requested a WTO panel examine whether USDA's final rule meets the U.S.'s WTO obligations. A U.S. District Court upheld the revised legislation when domestic groups sought a preliminary injunction that would suspend the labeling program. At this point, Canada has readied a list of products it would place tariffs on in retaliation should the U.S. not modify the current COOL rules. If the WTO rules that the U.S. law is not consistent with its WTO agreement, the retaliatory tariffs could cost the U.S. approximately $1 billion dollars annually, according to Bernard. Mexico has also reportedly prepared a list of U.S. products on which to place tariffs; however, it has not been published yet.
Bernard indicated the livestock disaster programs were among the least controversial issues in the new farm bill and that both political parties saw a need to continue with a disaster program. Certainly, the recent Atlas blizzard in South Dakota pointed to the need for consistent and continuous livestock disaster assistance programs. Since the symposium, the farm bill has been passed with the inclusion of the livestock indemnity program. While implementation details are still being finalized, the bill passed provides livestock producers with a payment equal to 75% of the market value of the applicable livestock on the day before it died when losses are in excess of normal mortality caused by adverse weather.
The chasm that existed between the proposed House and Senate farm bills was also discussed, particularly the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The Senate version called for a $4 billion cut over 10 years and the House version called for a $40 billion dollar cut over 10 years. The bill that passed in February cuts SNAP by $8 billion dollars over 10 years, roughly one percent.
Biofuel production in the U.S. has primarily been corn-based ethanol and has increased corn prices in recent years. Although the decrease in corn production in 2012 has also contributed to higher corn prices, ending stock projections increased significantly after harvest of the 2013 crop. Bernard expects there to be further increases corn production, which will ease feed costs for livestock producers.
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Ithaka Releases "Sustainability at a Glance" Briefing Papers
October 14, 2009
Ithaka has just released "Sustainability at a Glance" -- three new briefing papers on the topic of the sustainability of online educational resources. Each briefing paper is written for a different audience: One for curators, archivists and librarians; one for university librarians; and one for digital project managers.
These three briefing papers are a follow-on from Ithaka's earlier Case Studies in Sustainability, funded in part by the NEH.
This sustainability work is of particular importance to digital humanities projects, addressing the critical question""how do you sustain a digital humanities resource once the grant runs out?"
Please spread the word and, as always, do get in touch if you have any comments or feedback.


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Americans have high hopes for a manufacturing renaissance — the idea that rising overseas labor costs and falling domestic would be bring jobs back to the U.S.
But as Goldman Sachs' Jan Hatzius has noted, there isn't much evidence that this is actually happening.
Marketwatch's Steve Goldstein just gave us more evidence that this renaissance may be just a myth.
It's pretty simple: a chart showing total nonfarm payrolls versus manufacturing payrolls. The lines are going in the wrong direction. And manufacturing jobs are actually falling faster than other jobs:
Manufacturing lost 3,000 payrolls in March.


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Pericarditis in Children
What is pericarditis in children?Pericarditis is inflammation or infection of the pericardium. The pericardium is 2 thin layers that surround the heart. Normally, there is a small amount of fluid between the layers of the pericardium. When it becomes inflamed, the amount of fluid may increase. This is called pericardial effusion. If the amount of fluid increases quickly, it can affect how the heart pumps blood. This condition is called pericardial tamponade.
What causes pericarditis in a child?
In children, pericarditis is most likely to happen after surgery to repair heart defects. Other causes may include:
- Viral or bacterial infection
- Autoimmune disorders such as lupus or rheumatoid arthritis
- Other rare causes, such as injury, medicine, or cancer
What are the symptoms of pericarditis in a child?
These are the most common symptoms of pericarditis:
- Chest pain, often described as sharp
- Low-grade fever
- Irregular heartbeat
- Shortness of breath
- Feeling the heart beat (heart palpitations)
- Fainting (syncope)
Children may not be able to describe that they have "chest pain" or be able to explain exactly how they feel. Sometimes a child may only be irritable, have no appetite, or be tired.
The symptoms of pericarditis can be like other health conditions. Make sure your child sees his or her healthcare provider for a diagnosis.
How is pericarditis diagnosed in a child?
The healthcare provider will ask about your child's symptoms and health history. He or she will give your child a physical exam. The provider may hear an abnormal heart sound called a rub, when listening to your child's heart with a stethoscope. A rub is an abnormal sound caused by irritation of the pericardium. Your child may need tests, such as:
- Blood tests. A complete blood count (CBC) and other tests to check for inflammation and infection.
- Chest X-ray. An X-ray of the heart and lungs.
- Electrocardiogram (ECG). A simple test of the electrical activity of the heart. Changes may occur from pericarditis.
- Echocardiography (echo). A test that uses sound waves (ultrasound) to make moving pictures of the heart and heart valves.
- CT scan or MRI. These are imaging tests that show the heart structures and function.
How is pericarditis treated in a child?
Your child's healthcare provider will likely refer you to a pediatric cardiologist. This is a doctor with special training to treat children with heart problems.
The goal of treatment for pericarditis is to find and eliminate the cause of the disease. Treatment may include:
- Medicine. Medicine can ease pain and inflammation. Antibiotics can treat an infection caused by bacteria. Medicine also can help the heart work better.
- Removing extra fluid in the pericardium (aspiration). The fluid may also be looked at to find the cause of the pericarditis.
- Surgery
What are the possible complications of pericarditis in a child?Pericarditis may come back and may become long-term (chronic). Heart problems may occur, including cardiac tamponade.
When should I call my child's healthcare provider?Call your child's healthcare provider if your child's symptoms get worse, including chest pain and trouble breathing.
Key points about pericarditis in children
- Pericarditis is an inflammation or infection of the covering of the heart.
- Pericarditis is most often caused by an infection.
- Chest pain is the most common symptom of pericarditis. A child may be irritable, feed or eat poorly, and be tired.
- Treatment of pericarditis includes medicines for inflammation and pain. Antibiotics may be used for infections from bacteria.
Next steps
Tips to help you get the most from a visit to your child's healthcare provider:
- Know the reason for the visit and what you want to happen.
- Before your visit, write down questions you want answered.
- At the visit, write down the name of a new diagnosis, and any new medicines, treatments, or tests. Also write down any new instructions your provider gives you for your child.
- Know why a new medicine or treatment is prescribed and how it will help your child. Also know what the side effects are.
- Ask if your child's condition can be treated in other ways.
- Know why a test or procedure is recommended and what the results could mean.
- Know what to expect if your child does not take the medicine or have the test or procedure.
- If your child has a follow-up appointment, write down the date, time, and purpose for that visit.
- Know how you can contact your child's provider after office hours. This is important if your child becomes ill and you have questions or need advice.
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