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Panelists say dozens of committees give conflicting direction to beleaguered agency.
Four years after the 9/11 commission recommended that Congress create a "single, principal point of oversight and review," 86 congressional committees and subcommittees oversee the Homeland Security Department. That's about 80 too many, in the view of several officials with expertise in DHS operations.
"Congress has protected its prerogatives and privileges at the expense of oversight," said Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., at a forum on Wednesday sponsored by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington think tank. Since the start of the 110th Congress, Homeland Security officials have testified at 359 hearings and conducted 4,300 briefings for congressional committees -- most for committees other than the House and Senate homeland security panels.
With so many committees exercising jurisdiction over various aspects of Homeland Security's mission, the department is put in the impossible position of having to satisfy competing and sometimes conflicting demands from Congress, said Rogers, ranking member of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Management, Investigations and Oversight. In addition, the demands of reporting to so many committees have put an untenable administrative burden on the department, he said.
"You don't just show up for a hearing; it takes a tremendous amount of preparation," said Paul Schneider, DHS deputy secretary. He said during his first 10 months on the job, he was called to testify nine times. Several times his office sought to provide another witness with greater expertise on a given subject, but those requests were denied, he said.
The department wants and needs oversight, Schneider said, but the current congressional structure significantly hinders management. Schneider is no stranger to working with Congress. During four decades of federal service -- most of it at the Defense Department, along with a stint as senior acquisition executive at the National Security Agency -- he developed an appreciation of the importance of effective oversight. But in the case of Homeland Security oversight, he said, "I think any five people in this room could come up with something better than what we've got."
John Gannon, the first staff director for the House Select Committee on Homeland Security, the precursor to the current House committee, said the creation of the Homeland Security Department was the most significant transfer of political power in government since the1947 National Security Act created the Defense Department.
The inability of Congress to streamline its own operations to reflect changing national security requirements has significantly hurt the department's mission, according to Gannon. "It's a leadership issue" shared by both the White House and Congress, he said.
In September 2007, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff described the burden of such fractured oversight in a 16-page letter to Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee, at King's request.
"Literally thousands of congressional requests -- from many different committees and subcommittees for hearings, briefings, reports and other information -- consume a very significant amount of DHS senior leadership time, which must be balanced with meeting operational mission demands," Chertoff wrote.
DHS doesn't keep track of redundant hearings, but they are frequent. As one example, Chertoff cited 2006 department testimony on worksite enforcement before five different congressional committees: the Senate Judiciary Committee panel on immigration, border security and citizenship; the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee panel on regulatory affairs; the House Ways and Means Committee; the House Small Business Committee panel on workforce, empowerment and government programs; and the House Education and Workforce Committee.
In 2007, Homeland Security was required to provide more than 530 reports to Congress. "Easily well over 100 reports annually require an average of more than 300 man hours to produce," Chertoff wrote, with many others consuming "a bare minimum of 100 hours prior to transmittal." And that doesn't include the time spent responding to several hundred audits and investigations conducted by the Government Accountability Office since 2004.
A 2004 white paper published jointly by the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Business Executives for National Security found that by comparison, the Defense Department, which is much larger than Homeland Security, answers to 36 congressional committees or subcommittees, with more than 80 percent of oversight falling to six of those.
"Complaints by Congress that the DHS is not doing enough to implement policy priorities relate back to erratic congressional oversight and conflicting demands on DHS directorates," stated a policy paper by Jena Baker McNeill, an analyst at the Heritage Foundation.
"The current system is not based on sound management principles. Instead, it imposes confusing and burdensome priorities and directives to the point that congressional oversight threatens the DHS mission," McNeill wrote.
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All modern nation-states have periods of what we call difficult history, periods that reverberate in the present and surface fundamental disagreements over who we are and what values we hold. Like the Civil War and its aftermath, these histories complicate the kind of positive patriotism that schools traditionally seek to develop. Educators are sometimes reluctant to tackle these difficult histories in the classroom — and when they do, their instruction may be inadequate. See, for example, the Southern Poverty Law Center's recent research into how schools, standards, and textbooks address American slavery (Shuster, 2018).Sparkle Sneakers Trainers Midnight Scale Leather Ash on Slip Impuls 3 3 Layer Black Black Layer Minnetonka Layer 3 Minnetonka Minnetonka twcxSc0qCF
Our goal is to advance a new agenda for research and practice in history education. We believe that it is possible and essential to teach controversial historical events and topics in the classroom. The December 2017/January 2018 issue of Kappan shows how teachers are successfully taking on this work. We hope to continue the conversation by providing a framework for thinking about why certain histories are difficult.
Difficult histories in education
Difficult histories present a challenge to parents and students, as well as teachers and administrators, in part because the organizing purpose of history as a school subject has been to create citizens, not just teach about the past for its own sake.
Though all nations have difficult histories, the challenge of addressing them in and outside the classroom is relatively recent. When modern history emerged as a school subject in the late 19th century, it was seen as part of the broader nation-building efforts of the time, emphasizing the triumphant narratives of the nation-state (Ramirez, 2012). According to historian David Thelen (1998), the modern practice of history was designed "to invent narratives and persuade peoples to interpret their personal experiences within national terms" (p. 373). More than any other subject, history promised a shared vision of a cohesive national past for generations of citizens. This kind of history "served to provide stories that [linked] individuals to the nation — to make the nation seem a logical or desirable or inevitable fulfillment of experiences for diverse individuals" (Thelen, 1998, p. 397).
Yet the events of the 20th century — world wars, genocide, and other mass violence, imperialism and the lingering effects of colonialism, along with deep intellectual shifts within the areas of history and the social sciences — gradually diminished the appeal of the nation-state as the primary focus of historical narratives and undermined the kind of patriotic history that schools sought to teach. Thelen (1998) argues that these developments eroded the "authority and identity of nations from both transnational and subnational directions" (p. 373). Transnationally, political and economic globalization and the development of a universal human rights discourse all diminished the authority of the nation-state as the sole guarantor of rights and liberties. Within the nation, the empowerment of women, as well as ethnic, religious, and other minorities, created room for alternative historical narratives that challenged national histories. In addition, the student movements that spread across Europe and the United States put social history, Black history, and women's history at the forefront of people's minds (Novick, 1988).
The dilemma of how best to represent national histories in this new context lies at the heart of the "history wars" fought in recent decades over the content of the history curriculum. These debates focus on which episodes to include and how they should be taught. A robust body of scholarship has analyzed these debates and the changes in the history curriculum over time and across national contexts. Missing from this scholarship, however, is a critical appraisal of the terms of the debates themselves: What is difficult history, and what makes it difficult in the first place? Why does one period provoke debate and controversy, while another does not?
Education scholars have proposed a number of related terms to describe these histories, such as Ash Scale Sneakers Leather Slip Impuls Sparkle Midnight on Trainers sensitive pasts (Van Boxtel, Grever, & Klein, 2016), violent past (Cole, 2007), difficult knowledge (Britzman, 2000), and traumatic pasts (Psaltis, Carretero, & Cehajic-Clancy, 2017). This variety of terms and definitions, sometimes used interchangeably, indicates the complexity of the matter at hand.
Particular events are not "difficult" for all students in the same way, nor do they stay difficult in the same way over time.
Elizabeth A. Cole (2007) sees teaching the violent past as a form of reconciliation, a method of transitioning from war to presumably consolidated democracy. Examples include historical accountability movements in Latin America, truth commissions in Rwanda, and purges of government officials in Eastern Europe. However, difficult histories do not always involve a reconciliation of two opposing sides.
Deborah Britzman (2000) coined the term difficult knowledge to describe a psychoanalytic and trauma-based approach centered on questioning the self and the world, but such a term is of little practical use to teachers and education researchers who lack experience with psychoanalysis. The fact is, not all difficult histories induce melancholia or trauma, even if they make some people angry or resistant.
Carla Van Boxtel, Maria Grever, and Stephan Klein (2016) have used the term Leather Sneakers Ash Sparkle Impuls Trainers Slip Scale Midnight on Midnight Impuls Leather Sparkle Ash Trainers Sneakers Slip on Scale sensitive pasts and argued that students should take the perspective of historical actors and walk in their shoes, so to speak. Others caution that to encourage identification puts too much emphasis on our present perspective and risks trivializing what history has to teach about individual actions in difficult times (Wineburg, 2001).
Terrie Epstein and Carla L. Peck (2017) use the term difficult histories to denote the type of violence dominant groups enact on marginalized ones. They argue that any period of violence or bloodshed that causes emotional pain or trauma can be a difficult history. While some violent events are more difficult than others, and many histories in the curriculum, such as slavery, the Civil War, or the Holocaust, remain difficult to teach and learn, we have yet to encounter a framework for understanding why this is so. Thus, we believe there is value in defining the shared characteristics of difficult histories.
Defining difficult history
Schools tend to organize our study of history around periods of conflict. A glance through any U.S. history textbook covering the 19th century shows a steady succession of conflicts leading up to the Civil War. Similarly, the 20th century is dominated by war: The first and second World Wars (we often refer to the years between as the "inter-war years") give way almost immediately to the Cold War and the Korean War. Conflict, along with its causes and consequences, provides the narrative structure for understanding our national past.
Although history instruction is frequently centered on conflict, not all violent history provokes the kinds of controversies and divisions that cause teachers to shy away from them or face challenges from inside and outside the classroom when teaching them. So what it is that makes difficult history difficult? We propose five criteria that can guide our thinking about how difficult histories are taught and learned:
1. Difficult histories are central to a nation's history (whether or not they are so recognized by political elites). Periods or events that are parochial or only loosely connected to the national past may also be important, but they do not need to be integrated into the national storyline.
2. Difficult histories tend to refute broadly accepted versions of the past or stated national values. They are often dissonant with the narrative template that characterizes the overall memory of a national past (Wertsch, 2002), or they contradict such national values as tolerance or equality.
3. Difficult histories may connect with questions or problems facing us in the present. That is, they are relevant to the world around us.Leather Slip Trainers Sparkle Ash Scale Impuls on Midnight Sneakers
4. Difficult histories often involve violence, usually collective or state sanctioned. Even when it is not state sanctioned, this type of violence may be committed by citizens of good social standing. Violence approved by the state or enacted by groups of supposedly upstanding citizens cannot be easily dismissed as aberrations or exceptions.
5. Partly as the result of the other four conditions, difficult histories create disequilibria that challenge existing historical understandings. To integrate these periods or events into an existing historical understanding may require people to change their assumptions or beliefs. Such a process comes at a cost, either individually, in adjusting our relationship to the nation and state, or collectively, in the national story we tell.
Consider the forced removal of Native Americans from Eastern states to reservations in the Midwest that occurred in the 19th century. This event is central to understanding the Westward expansion of U.S. territory (criterion 1), as well as such contemporary issues as poverty, land rights, and human rights related to Native American tribes (criterion 3). These events involved disturbing acts of collective and state-sanctioned violence (criterion 4) in ways that conflict with both stated national values and broadly accepted tenets of U.S. history (criterion 2). Finally, the policies of forced removal reveal that principles like equality under the law, universal human dignity, and personal liberty are historically contingent, and they require us to include racism as an explanatory variable in understanding past events (criterion 5).
Although these criteria offer us a way of determining which events might be difficult to teach and learn, particular events are not "difficult" for all students in the same way, nor do they stay difficult in the same way over time. The forced removal of Native Americans would hold different implications for a White, U.S.-born student from California and a Cherokee student in Oklahoma. An episode that might disorient a White student might simply confirm the narratives the Cherokee youth learned within her family or tribal community. Additionally, we should expect that the salience of this event would change over time. Discussing these events in 2018 might present new or different complexities — in the wake of recent activism over water rights at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation — than they did just a few years ago.
What makes difficult history difficult is not how it confirms or complicates a particular student's prior historical understanding but the degree to which it challenges or undermines the dominant societal narratives. Even if the Cherokee student finds this portrayal consistent with her historical understanding, she will grow up in a context where these experiences are sometimes drowned out by positive depictions of Westward expansion. And although contemporary national narratives and moral frames condemn the treatment of Native Americans, the legitimacy of U.S. territorial boundaries is rarely contested, thus creating dissonance for those who have been historically dispossessed.
A second example provides an East European context — the participation of Polish citizens in the murder or extortion of Jews during the Holocaust. The Poles were victims of the Nazis and the Soviets during World War II, and they put up the largest and most robust underground resistance during this time. Polish national identity thus hangs on a tale of heroes and victims during a period that eradicated one-third of Poland's urban population (criterion 1). The revelation in the early 2000s that some Poles were also opportunistic oppressors who actively participated in the murder and plunder of their Jewish neighbors challenges, complicates, and ultimately rewrites what students believe about themselves and their national community (criterion 2). Though not state sanctioned, such violence was perpetrated by respectable men and women (criterion 4).
The historians (and teachers and artists) who exposed this shameful past have been threatened with prosecution by the Polish government under a new law that criminalizes mentioning Polish complicity in the crimes against Jews during the Holocaust (criteria 3 and 5), with some even receiving death threats (criterion 5). Still, physical traces of the past don't automatically disappear (criteria 2 and 3). Fragments of Jewish gravestones used as building material are evident all over the country, with shadow imprints of mezuzah cases (small vessels that contain a sacred text placed on the doorframe of Jewish homes) over thousands of doorframes across Poland.Ash Trainers Slip Leather Sneakers Scale Impuls on Midnight Sparkle
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A coherent historical understanding would need to explain both Westward expansion and its inconsistency with core American ideals, to explain Polish citizens as both victims and willing collaborators. Of course, some might prefer to ignore or dispute a difficult history rather than modify their understanding of the past in order to accommodate it. Our framework does not assume that an altered historical understanding results from encountering these histories, only that the dissonance that a difficult history creates is significant enough that existing understandings prove insufficient. Even if one does attempt to make sense of the difficult history, there are a variety of coherent understandings that could result.
There is much at stake if difficult histories are left unexplored, as demonstrated by these and many more examples. This is a particular concern in post-conflict societies, but it is also important for pluralist democracies, including the United States. Recent events in Charlottesville offer a stark reminder of the consequences of leaving difficult histories underexamined or presented in partisan terms.
Yet teaching the difficult past in its full complexity carries risks as well. While addressing difficult histories can be fundamental to the development of historical understanding, they complicate one of the traditional functions of history education in modern nation-states — to communicate a shared understanding of a national past to new generations. Ultimately, we want young people to engage with difficult histories without reinforcing ethnic, religious, and cultural divisions on the one hand, or undermining social cohesion on the other. Our hope is that such robust engagement might enable our young people to grow up with the ability to approach the past on its own terms, and a willingness to revise their historical understandings as new information emerges.
Britzman, D.P. (2000). If the story cannot end: Deferred action, ambivalence, and difficult knowledge. In R.I. Simon, S. Rosenberg, & C. Eppert (Eds.), Between hope and despair: Pedagogy and the remembrance of historical trauma (pp. 27-57). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Cole, E.A. (Ed.). (2007). Teaching the violent past: History education and reconciliation. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Davidson, J.D. (2017, August 18). Why we should keep the Confederate monuments right where they are. The Federalist. http://thefederalist.com/2017/08/18/in-defense-of-the-monuments
Epstein, T. & Peck, C.L. (Eds.). (2017). Teaching and learning difficult histories in international contexts: A critical sociocultural approach. New York, NY: Routledge.
Novick, P. (1988). That noble dream: The 'objectivity question' and the American historical profession (Vol. 13). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Psaltis, C., Carretero, M., & Cehajic-Clancy, S. (Eds.). (2017). History education and conflict transformation: Social psychological theories, history teaching and reconciliation. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
Ramirez, F.O. (2012). The world society perspective: Concepts, assumptions, and strategies. Comparative Education, 48 (4), 423-439.
Shuster, K. (2018). Teaching hard history: American slavery. Montgomery, AL: Southern Poverty Law Center.
Thelen, D. (1998). Making history and making the United States. Journal of American Studies, 32 (3), 373-397.
Van Boxtel, C., Grever, M., & Klein, S. (2016). Sensitive pasts: Questioning heritage in education. New York, NY: Berghahn Books.
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The U.S. economy surged forward in June with 288,000 new jobs, and the nation's unemployment rate dipped to 6.1 percent, its lowest level since September 2008.
That marked the fifth straight month of job gains above 200,000 or more, according to the Labor Department.
Employment gains for April and May were also revised upward. April's previously reported gain of 282,000 jobs was boosted to 304,000 and May jumped from 217,000 jobs added to 224,000. That made for a total upward revision of 29,000 jobs.
"I think this report fundamentally continues the trend that we've seen over the last couple of months," said Robert Kleinhenz, chief economist with the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp. "There's still room for improvement, but we are moving ever closer to a more normal labor market."
Thursday's employment report pushed the Dow Jones industrials above 17,000 for the first time. The Dow ended the day at 17,068 in a shortened holiday trading session.
All told, the U.S. economy added nearly 2.5 million jobs over the past year at an average rate of 208,000 jobs a month, the fastest year-over-year pace since 2006.
June's jobless rate of 6.1 percent was down from 6.3 percent the previous month and well below the year-ago rate of 7.5 percent. But Kleinhenz cautioned that a broader reading of last month's unemployment rate — which takes into account part-time workers who would like to be working full time and discouraged job seekers who have abandoned their search — was actually 12.1 percent compared with 12.2 percent in May.
Job gains were widespread last month, led by employment growth in professional and business services, retail trade, food services and drinking places, and health care.
Professional and business services — which includes everything from technical consulting to architectural and engineering services — added 67,000 jobs in June. Retail trade boosted its payrolls with 40,000 new jobs and health care employment increased by 21,000 jobs.
Other notable job gains came in transportation and warehousing (17,000), financial activities (17,000), manufacturing (16,000) and wholesale trade (15,000).
"Transportation and warehousing was up by 3.1 percent year over year and wholesale trade was up 2.4 percent," Kleinhenz said. "Those are two very important segments for us locally because of our significant international trade."
The numbers bear that out.
A recent LAEDC report reveals that the Los Angeles Customs District maintained its top position in the U.S. last year with a two-way trade value of $414.5 billion. The customs district includes the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach as well as Los Angeles International Airport and Ontario International Airport.
The twin ports handled 14.6 million containers last year, a 3.4 percent increase over the previous year. That's expected to rise 5.5 percent this year and 5.8 percent in 2015.
Another factor that plays in Southern California's favor is its motion picture and sound recording industry.
Nationally, that sector shed 40,600 jobs last year, primarily because of a decline in film and video production employment.
But despite runaway production, Los Angeles County has seen year-over-year increases. The latest figures show that employment in that industry rose 8.7 percent in May to 127,700 jobs compared with 117,500 a year earlier.
The nation added 186,000 construction jobs over the past 12 months for a 3.2 percent gain, and Donnie Potter is seeing some of that activity firsthand. Potter is the president and operations manager for Clean Up America, a family-owned business that specializes in construction and demolition debris recycling.
Each day, Clean Up America's facility in Los Angeles sorts more than 60 tons of construction and demolition material, and 83.6 percent of the stuff is diverted for recycling.
"It's been a little slow this year but we just picked up a Crenshaw corridor light-rail project that will run along Crenshaw Boulevard from the 10 Freeway to the 105 Freeway," Potter said. "That's about 8.5 miles. It's a little tight right now compared to last year, but I see some large public projects coming down the pike."
California's most recent employment report revealed that the state added 18,300 jobs in May. That put California's total job count just 1,800 jobs shy of its July 2007 pre-recession peak of 15,449,800 jobs. California added 340,200 jobs year over year as of May, which was eclipsed only by Texas, which added 383,100 jobs over the year. California's unemployment rate dipped to 7.6 percent in May, its lowest level since August 2008.


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ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- The Brandeis women's basketball team matched its offensive output from each of the previous two games in the first half today, and the Judges had three players score in double figures, but it wasn't enough to overcome the four players from host Rochester with at least 10 points as the host Yellowjackets earned a 72-58 home University Athletic Association victory.
With the loss, the Judges' sixth in a row, Brandeis falls to 7-11 overall, 1-6 in the UAA. Rochester keeps pace with Washington University and Emory at the top of the conference standings at 14-4, 6-1 UAA.
The Judges got of to a terrific start. With the game tied at 7-7 just over six minutes into the game, Brandeis scored nine unanswered points, five of which came from junior guard Janelle Rodriguez (Peabody, Mass./Peabody Veterans) on a 3-pointer to start the run and a jumper at the 11:07 mark to make it a 16-7 lead. Brandeis forced two turnovers and got three offensive rebounds in the run. The Judges were still ahead, 20-14, after an Erika Higginbottom (Millbury, Mass./Worcester Acad.) hoop with 8:47 left when the UR offense got back on track.
The Yellowjackets outscored Brandeis, 22-8, the rest of the way before halftime. The hosts claimed their first lead at 23-22 on a Danielle McNabb bucket off an offensive rebound at the at 6:42 mark, and never looked back. The Judges still trailed by one, 29-28, on a Higginbottom lay-up at the 3:11 mark, but UR'S Ally Zywicki answered, and Breanna Madrazo scored a 3-pointer and a steal and lay-up to give the 'Jackets a 7-0 closing run and 36-28 halftime lead. Those two Rochester players scored eight first-half points to lead all players, while Rodriguez had seven to pace the Judges, who had scored only 28 point in losses at Washington University and Emory in their previous two contests.
Brandeis clawed back within five points on an early 3-pointer by sophomore guard Hannah Cain (Gloucester, Mass./Gloucester), but after Jackie Walker answered from downtown for the 'Jackets, the Judges were unable to get any closer. Walker scored 12 points and Paige Aleski had 11 after the break to help keep the visitors at bay as UR led by as many as 17 points before the 72-58 victory.
Brandeis, who had just one double figure scorer in its previous two contests, put three starters in double digits in this one. Dean led the Judges with 14 points, eight in the second half. She hit 7-of-12 overall from the floor. Cain and Rodriguez each finished with 12 points. Cain was 4-for-15 from the field, 1-for-3 from deep, and hit 3-of-5 from the line, Brandeis's only free throws of the game. Rodriguez was 5-of-13 overall, 2-of-4 from deep. Cain also led the Judges with six rebounds, while Higginbottom had a team-high three assists. Brandeis narrowly lost the battle of the boards, 37-35, while grabbing 18 offensive rebounds. After shooting below 20 percent in their last two games, the Judges hit 38.5% today (25-65).
Rochester was led by 18 points from Walker and 15 off the bench from Aleski, who outscored the entire Brandeis reserves on her own (15-8). Aleski was on fire from 3-point range, hitting 4-of-6. Zywicki added 12 points and registered a double-double with 10 assists. Madrazo finished with 10 points as the 'Jackets put up the second-highest point total against Brandeis this season. Amy Woods pulled down a game-high 10 rebounds. Rochester hit 45.6% from the floor (26-57), 40.9% from beyond the arc (9-22) and 73.3% from the line (11-15), where they outscored the Judges by an 11-3 margin.
Brandeis returns from a four-game UAA road trip next weekend when they host the two teams they visited this weekend. Emory will be in town next Friday at 6 p.m. followed by Rochester Sunday at 2 p.m. The 'Jackets will head to NYU on Friday night to kick off a stretch of five of their last seven on the road.


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The Minnesota Department of Health offers these basic guidelines for caring for a sick person in your home. Following these suggestions can protect you and other household members from getting sick.
Prevent the spread of infection
Cleaning your hands frequently is the best way to prevent spreading infection. This is especially important after touching the ill person or items in their room that have nose or mouth secretions, vomit, feces or urine on them.
- Clean your hands with liquid soap and water. (Bar soap can spread germs; if you only have bar soap, do not share the bar with the ill person.) OR
- Clean your hand with an alcohol-based hand rub if your hands do not have dirt or food on them.
- Do not touch your eyes, nose or mouth before you wash your hands. Viruses can enter your body through these body areas and make you sick.
Be sure the sick person drinks enough fluids
Preventing dehydration is the most important thing you can do for the sick person.
- Adults need at least 2 – 3 quarts of fluids per day. Young children need about 1 quart per day.
- Give clear liquids such as broth, juice (half-strength for children), tea, sports drinks, or oral rehydration formula. (To mix an oral rehydration formula mix these ingredients together: 4 cups water, ¼ teaspoon salt, 3 tablespoons sugar. If desired, add lemon, lime or mint for flavor.)
- Limit caffeinated drinks to 1 - 3 cups per day because large amounts of caffeine can increase urine output.
- Give cool drinks if the ill person has a fever.
- The ill person may not want to or may be unable to take fluids — but you must help them. Give fluids – one drop at a time if necessary. Start with one teaspoon of fluid every five minutes. If they do not vomit after 30 minutes, give two teaspoons. Continue to double the volume every 30 minutes until they can take fluids on their own.
Know the signs of dehydration
- Dehydration can be deadly if not treated, so know the symptoms of dehydration:
- Thirst
- Flushed face
- Dry mouth
- Rapid and deep breathing
- Fast and/or weak pulse
- Sunken, tearless eyes
- Dry, warm skin
- Little or no urine output
- Dark-colored urine
- Dizziness made worse when standing
- Rapid increase in heartbeat upon rising to a sitting or standing position
- Cramping in the arms and legs
- Sleepiness or irritability
- Headache
- Lack of elasticity of the skin (When the skin is pulled up, it takes longer than usual to go back to its normal position.)
- In infants, sunken fontanel ("soft spot" on top of head)
- Decreased alertness or change in consciousness.
Know when to call a health care provider
Watch for worsening illness and call a healthcare provider immediately if the ill person:
- Has difficulty breathing or chest pain
- Has gray/blue lips or skin.
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Donald E. Brown, M.D. co-founded his third software company, Interactive Intelligence, in October 1994 and has served as Chief Executive Officer since April 1995 and President since inception. Dr. Brown also serves as Chairman of the Board, a position he has held since July 1998. Dr. Brown has been a director since inception.
In March 1988, Dr. Brown co-founded Software Artistry, Inc., a developer of customer support software that became a public company in March 1995 and was subsequently acquired by IBM Corporation in January 1998. At Software Artistry, Dr. Brown served as Chief Executive Officer and director from inception through September 1994. Dr. Brown's first software company was acquired by Electronic Data Systems, Inc. in September 1987.
Dr. Brown graduated from the Indiana University School of Medicine in 1985. He also holds two additional degrees from Indiana University, an M.S. in computer science and a B.S. in physics.
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This article explains how to create and work on courses. The explained concepts follow the course life cycle and we refer to technical terms from that description. For creating courses or working at existing ones Artikulate must be configured to work on a course repository. If that is done, you can open Artikulate and use the internal course editor as explained in the following.
There are two possible ways how to create courses:
When creating a course from a skeleton, usually one wants to maintain a course prototype (=skeleton) that than is used to provide courses for different languages.
Currently, the Artikulate team uses a special course skeleton (called "basic course skeleton") to coordinate creation of basic language courses. The basic course skeleton contains units prototypes and phrases for the topics
The goal is to cover basic vocabulary from different areas that are important when learning a new language.
In order to create a new language course, open the course editor (the top-left tool button). Then you have to perform the following steps:
After this you should see the course with the phrases in English as they are in skeleton. Save your changes by pressing OK button at the top of the screen. You can see that now all the phrases are in English and they are tagged as "unknown". This means that they still need to be translated into appropriate language.
Once you have created a new language course and updated it with course skeleton you can start translating your phrases.
You can now proceed with editing other phrases. Remember to save all changes to the course by pressing the "OK" button at the top menu bar.
In order to create a new language course independent of skeleton you need to follow the intructions below.
When you are done with the course creation save your changes by pressing OK button at the top of the screen.
To add the recordings you need to follow similar instructions as for translations.
You can now do more recordings but you will need to save your changes before exiting the program by choosing the OK button on the top of the screen.
To tag phonemes you need to follow similar instructions as for translations and recordings.
You can tag more phrases but you will need to save your changes before exiting the program (OK button on the top of the screen).
Artikulate uses language specifications (called "phonology") that define lists of available phonemes for a language. In short, a phoneme is a natural sound of a language. (For a detailed explanation see e.g. [1].) We need such a phonology for every language to be able to tag phrases by the sounds that are specific to this language. Using phoneme tags for phrases enables users to select specific phonemes that they want to improve and hence allows a more focused training.
The already available languages can be found in the subdirectory data/languages.
For creating a phonology, the following steps are needed:


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The .NET Framework is Microsoft's new computing platform that simplifies the design, development, and deployment of computer applications. Developed particularly to facilitate the creation of Internet applications and distributed Internet applications, the .NET Framework features the .NET Framework Class Library (FCL), a systematic class framework to be used for the development of system tools and utilities as well as application software. This chapter assesses the significance of the .NET FCL and discusses accessing it from Visual Basic code.
Although programmers using languages like C++ have been using frameworks for system and application development from the very inception of their language (the Microsoft Foundation Class Library, or MFC, for instance, is a framework for developers of Windows applications using C++), comprehensive frameworks or class libraries are comparatively rare in Visual Basic programming. For the most part, programmers of previous versions of Visual Basic depended on two major sources to extend the Visual Basic language: the Win32 API, and ActiveX servers exposed through COM automation.
The Win32 API is a procedural library that allows the developer to create programs that run under Windows and take advantage of core Windows operating system services. The Win32 API has been enhanced on a regular basis since it was introduced to support Windows NT 3.0, and it now consists of several thousand functions and constants located in a number of dynamic link libraries (DLLs). Because it is a loose collection of functions, there are'nt necessarily any consistent conventions in naming functions or in designating function parameters. The function-based style of programming using the Win32 API has a number of limitations:
Although a collection of Win32 API functions may be interdependent, at the same time each function tends to be a more or less independent entity that is called in isolation from other functions in your program. This tends to make the Win32 API as a whole difficult for all programmers to learn and master.
The Win32 API originally was developed as a set of functions that would be called primarily from C code. Although the Win32 API can be called from Visual Basic code, writing code that relies heavily on calls to external DLLs has always been something of an adventure in Visual Basic. Much of the challenge centers on the fact that the type systems used by C and Visual Basic are not completely compatible, so that Visual Basic data types have to be converted to data types expected by C language routines.
To get some sense of the difference in style between the function-based, procedural programming that characterizes the Win32 API and the object-oriented programming that characterizes the .NET Framework, Examples 1-1 and 1-2 contain the source code for a console mode routine that launches the application responsible for handling the data file whose name the user enters in a text box. Example 1-1 is written in Visual Basic 6.0 (although it could have run under any version from VB 4 through VB 6) and relies extensively on Win32 API calls, and particularly on calls to the registry API. Example 1-2 is written for Visual Basic .NET and relies on the .NET Framework Class Library, and particularly on its Registry and RegistryKey classes.
Example 1-1. Launching an application using the Win32 API
Option Explicit Private Declare Function RegCloseKey Lib "advapi32.dll" ( _ ByVal hKey As Long) As Long Private Declare Function RegOpenKey Lib "advapi32.dll" _ Alias "RegOpenKeyA" ( _ ByVal hKey As Long, ByVal lpSubKey As String, _ phkResult As Long) As Long Public Declare Function RegQueryValue Lib "advapi32.dll" _ Alias "RegQueryValueA" ( _ ByVal hKey As Long, ByVal lpSubKey As String, _ ByVal lpValue As String, lpcbValue As Long) As Long Private Declare Function RegQueryValueEx Lib "advapi32.dll" _ Alias "RegQueryValueExA" ( _ ByVal hKey As Long, ByVal lpValueName As String, _ ByVal lpReserved As Long, lpType As Long, _ lpData As Any, lpcbData As Long) As Long Public Declare Function WinExec Lib "kernel32" ( _ ByVal lpCmdLine As String, ByVal nCmdShow As Long) _ As Long Public Const MAX_PATH = 260 Private Const HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT = &H80000000 Private Const ERROR_SUCCESS = 0& Public Const REG_DWORD = 4 Public Const REG_SZ = 1 Public Const SW_SHOWNORMAL = 1 Private Sub Main() Dim strFile As String, strExten As String Dim strProgID As String, strExe As String Dim lPos As Long Dim hKey As Long, lStrLen As Long strFile = InputBox("Enter Name of File to Open: ", _ "Open File", "") If strFile = "" Then Exit Sub ' Get file extension lPos = InStrRev(1, strFile, ".") If lPos = 0 Then MsgBox "Filename must include an extension." Exit Sub Else strExten = Mid(strFile, lPos) End If ' Get programmatic identifier If RegOpenKey(HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, strExten, hKey) <> _ ERROR_SUCCESS Then MsgBox "File extension not found." Exit Sub End If lStrLen = 0 Call RegQueryValue(hKey, "", "", lStrLen) strProgID = Space(lStrLen) Call RegQueryValue(hKey, "", strProgID, lStrLen) RegCloseKey hKey ' Get associated application strProgID = Left(strProgID, lStrLen - 1) & _ "\shell\open\command" If RegOpenKey(HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, strProgID, hKey) <> _ ERROR_SUCCESS Then MsgBox "Open command key not found..." Exit Sub End If lStrLen = 0 Call RegQueryValue(hKey, "", "", lStrLen) strExe = Space(lStrLen) Call RegQueryValue(hKey, "", strExe, lStrLen) RegCloseKey hKey ' Launch application and pass its filename as a parameter lPos = InStr(1, strExe, " %1") If lPos > 0 Then _ strExe = Left(strExe, lPos) strExe = strExe & " " & strFile Call WinExec(strExe, SW_SHOWNORMAL) End Sub
Example 1-1 is a relatively long program, largely because of the intricacies of working with the Win32 API. We need, of course, to declare all registry-related functions with their parameters, as well as all constants that we intend to use. In addition, each registry access requires that we do the following:
Open the relevant registry key.
Determine the length of the string we want to retrieve.
Set the string buffer to the appropriate length.
Retrieve the registry value.
Adjust the string containing the registry value by removing its terminating null character.
Close the open registry key.
In contrast, the VB.NET program in Example
1-2 is considerably shorter
and simpler. In contrast to the numerous
Declare and
Const statements
in Example
1-1, the program only needs to use the
Imports statement
to indicate which namespaces it will access. Registry access is also significantly
simpler. The program relies on two classes: the shared Registry class, which
provides access to
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT (HKCR), one of the
top-level registry keys; and the RegistryKey class, which represents a registry
key. As a result, once the program obtains a reference to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT,
registry access consists of the following steps:
Open the appropriate subkey by calling the top-level key's open method, passing it the path to the subkey to be opened.
Retrieve the newly opened key's default value.
Close the open registry key.
Example 1-2. Launching an application using the .NET FCL
Option Strict On Imports System Imports Microsoft.Win32 Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic Public Module modMain Public Sub Main() Dim strExten, strProgID, strExe As String Dim oProgID, oOpenCmd As RegistryKey Dim strFile As String = InputBox("Enter Name of File to Open: ", _ "Open File", "") If strFile = "" Then Exit Sub ' Get file extension Dim iPos As Integer = InStrRev(strFile, ".") Try strExten = Mid(strFile, iPos) Catch MsgBox("Filename must include an extension.") Exit Sub End Try ' Get Programmatic Identifier Dim oHKCR As RegistryKey = Registry.ClassesRoot Try oProgID = oHKCR.OpenSubkey(strExten) strProgID = CStr(oProgID.GetValue(Nothing)) oProgID.Close() Catch MsgBox("File extension not found.") Exit Sub End Try ' Get associated application Try oOpenCmd = oHKCR.OpenSubkey(strProgID & _ "\shell\open\command") strExe = CStr(oOpenCmd.GetValue(Nothing)) oOpenCmd.Close() Catch MsgBox("Open command key not found...") Exit Sub End Try ' Launch application and pass its filename as a parameter iPos = InStr(1, strExe, " %1") If iPos > 0 Then _ strExe = Left(strExe, iPos) strExe = strExe & " " & strFile Call Shell(strExe, AppWinStyle.NormalFocus) End Sub End Module
In place of the function-based programming using the Win32 API, COM automation represented a clear step forward. COM was a more or less object-oriented technology that held out the promise of language independence; as long as a language understood the Component Object Model, it should be able to access and take advantage of COM components.
Example 1-3 shows a VB 6 program written using COM automation that, like the programs in Example 1-1 and Example 1-2, launches the application responsible for handling the data file whose name the user enters in a text box. Like the VB.NET program in Example 1-2, it is a short and fairly simple program that relies on the WScript object available from the Windows Script Host object model.
Example 1-3. Launching an application using COM automation
Option Explicit Private Sub Main() On Error Resume Next Dim lPos As Long Dim strFile As String, strExten As String Dim strProgID As String, strExe As String strFile = InputBox("Enter Name of File to Open: ", _ "Open File", "") If strFile = "" Then Exit Sub ' Get file extension lPos = InStrRev(strFile, ".") If lPos = 0 Then MsgBox "Filename must include an extension." Exit Sub Else strExten = Mid(strFile, lPos) End If ' Initialize WSH Shell object Dim oShell As WshShell Set oShell = New WshShell ' Get programmatic identifier strProgID = oShell.RegRead("HKCR\" & strExten & "\") If Err.Number <> 0 Then MsgBox "File extension not found." Exit Sub End If ' Get associated application strProgID = "HKCR\" & strProgID & "\shell\open\command\" strExe = oShell.RegRead(strProgID) If Err.Number <> 0 Then MsgBox "Open command key not found..." Exit Sub End If ' Launch application and pass it filename as a parameter lPos = InStr(1, strExe, " %1") If lPos > 0 Then _ strExe = Left(strExe, lPos) strExe = strExe & " " & strFile oShell.Run strExe, 5, True End Sub
Despite its substantial popularity, COM suffered from a number of limitations:
COM itself offered a model for binary code reuse; it did not offer a model for source code reuse. An implication of this is that, although COM offered interfaced-based inheritance (a feature that predominantly advanced programmers were interested in), it did not support code-based inheritance.
Although COM offered the promise of a language-independent architecture, reality often fell far short of the promise. The root of the problem was the fact that seamless interoperability with COM presupposed that each language was able to create and manipulate common automation-compatible data types. This, however, was not the case. As a result, although COM made some real advances in the area of language independence, it also had some real weaknesses.
COM was extremely complex, and for the most part only C++ programmers were able to work with COM directly. For VB programmers, the Visual Basic environment masked much of the complexity of COM. The inevitable result was that Visual Basic failed to give the developer full control over COM when it was needed, and many Visual Basic programmers often lacked sufficient familiarity with COM to take advantage even of those features that they were able to control.
In addition, COM did not offer an integrated class library comparable to the .NET FCL. Instead, the developers of each application or operating system service were free to implement whatever object model made sense to extend their application. As a result, there are major gaps in the functionality made available through COM automation, and there is not a good deal of consistency across object models.
The .NET platform and the .NET Framework Class Library were developed in an effort to address these weaknesses of COM.
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In carrying out its responsibilities, the Indirect Cost Group:
- Liaisons with Office of Management and Budget and other Federal Agencies in implementing the Office of Management and Budget regulations under 2CFR 200.
- Establishes and approves indirect cost methods and other cost allocation plans used to charge costs under Federal awards through desk audits and site visits.
- Issues Department delegations to State Education Agencies for local education agency indirect cost oversight after approving methodologies.
- Negotiates and settles liabilities resulting from excessive indirect cost reimbursements.
- Resolves indirect cost issues in audits.
- Provides technical advice and support to Cooperative Audit Resolution and Oversight Initiative (CAROI) Teams, Office of the Inspector General staff and Contract and Grant personnel.
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The recent opening of Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg's new Autism and Empathy website has started me thinking about the whole empathy question in regards to autistic people again. In my first post about autistics and empathy, I mentioned Theory of Mind issues as one of the possible reasons why there is a perception that autistic people lack empathy. With what I had read about Theory of Mind at the time, I'm now reexamining the concept and wondering if I had gotten it slightly wrong, especially in light of the recent challenges that other autistic writers have made to the prevailing ideas about autistics and Theory of Mind.
The prevailing idea about autistics and Theory of Mind goes something like this: having good Theory of Mind means that a person is able to determine the contents of both one's own mind and the minds of others; conversely, autistic people are unable to determine or reflect on the contents of other people's minds. In short, the idea is that autistic people are unable to understand other people's minds and know that others think differently than they do. This idea was put forth in Simon Baron-Cohen's 2001 paper on the subject, and I'm sorry that I didn't unpack it a little further before writing my first post about empathy and autistics. Now that I have, I again have to say: what a load of bullshit.


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Amanda's cornbread dressing
Amanda Pierce of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
3-4 packages cornbread mix in a 9x13 pan (greased)
1/2 pound cooked sausage (mild or hot)
1 small onion, chopped
1/2 cup chopped celery
About 2 cups of warm chicken broth (depending on how moist you like it)
Sage, salt, and pepper to taste (start with 1 tsp each)
Preparation the day before baking:
Bake the cornbread. Then chop up your onion and celery and then sauté them in a very small amount of oil until tender. Next, cut your sausage into patties and place the patties into boiling water. Cook over medium heat for at least an hour. Once the patties have cooled, crumble the sausage into small crumbs. Now put your cooked sausage, celery, and onion in refrigerator. The cornbread can be left out but it needs to be covered.
Directions for the day of baking:
Crumble the prepared cornbread in a large bowl. Then take the sausage, celery, and onion out of the refrigerator. Microwave them for one minute to warm. Now add to cornbread. Next add in sage, salt, and pepper, then stir. Then add hot chicken broth a little at a time and stir. Add broth until as moist as you like it. Taste to see if it needs more seasoning. Now poor this into a greased 9x13 baking pan. Bake at 400 degrees for about 45 to 60 minutes until the top is golden brown. This is a great recipe for Thanksgiving. Enjoy!


text: Different owners within a retail park in Romania: practical aspects Share this 9 MAR 2017 By: Florina Toma Claudiu Stan Shopping centers, including retail parks, are viewed in Romania today as commercial and entertainment hubs, where shops operate together in an integrated way to offer consumers an enhanced shopping experience. Whilst this integrated feel may be fairly simple to achieve when the retail park is owned by a sole owner, who can implement uniform treatment across all tenants in terms of business activity, opening and closing times, configuration of stores, etc, achieving the same outcome when a retail park is owned by two different owners may prove more challenging. Retail parks are usually designed to work as one block, including the internal roads and parking areas. The decision to sell part of the retail park to another party, such as an anchor tenant, will mean that the retail park is operated by two different owners. Such a decision should be taken only after careful consideration of two aspects which could impact on the future operation of the retail park, namely: (i) management of the retail park and (ii) operation of common areas. Management of the retail park In order to ensure the integrated operation and management of the retail park, as well as regulating any other aspects arising out of the relationship between the two owners (including the granting of any other rights of use or imposing restrictions/specific covenants), the two owners should consider entering into a neighbouring agreement establishing guidelines for problem-free "cohabitation" in the retail park. Such an agreement will usually regulate the overall activity in the retail park (for example, shopping hours, delivery conditions, etc); the management and operation of the common areas used within the retail park (such as access roads and car parks); and the payment of service charges incurred in relation to these common parts or the conditions under which construction or repair works may be undertaken. The neighbouring agreement can also regulate the marketing activities and the day-to-day administration of the retail park. One of the owners may take responsibility for the administration of the retail park or both owners may decide to appoint a professional management company. The neighbouring agreement can also lay down certain personal rights for the owners such as the terms and conditions applicable to the right to access and use of the car park owned by the other owner. Restrictions should be included with regards to the usage right, such as those preventing the blocking, hindering, limiting or affecting in any way the use of the car park. The parties can also impose conditions with regards to maintenance, repair or reconstruction works on the car park (for example, to perform such works only outside the operating hours of the other owner, to send a prior written notice with regards to such works or to not affect or make unavailable more than a certain percentage of the car park through such works). The parties can also agree to include taxes on the land on which the new owner's car park is located in the service charges payments. The observance of this obligation to pay the service charges or of other duties under the neighbouring agreement can be secured by a guarantee which can be provided either as a cash deposit or as a bank letter of guarantee. Nevertheless, the unitary management of the retail park can be limited in time. Thus, the neighbours can agree that after a certain time period lapses, the management and operation of the retail park can be split between the owners. In this case, the neighbours will have to put in place practical measures to ensure the effectiveness of the separate management and operation, such as installing separate meters and connections for the lights used in each of the properties and/or on the common parts, such as the access roads. In order to preserve the commercial concept of the retail park the parties to the neighbouring agreement can impose certain limitations on the permitted use of the neighbouring properties (for example, to use the car park only for purposes of parking small vehicles or trucks used by visitors or clients, to observe the use of a specific building (for example, DIY/hypermarket store, etc). However, such restrictions should usually be limited in time due to potential breaches of competition legislation. Obligations generated for each of the owners by their activity in the retail park have to be mirrored in the neighbouring agreement for the other owner as well. The neighbouring agreement (or at least specific rights provided therein) should be recorded in the land register in order to make them enforceable against third parties (for example, subsequent owners). Operation of common areas Access and parking are essential for conducting activity in a retail park. Commercially, such spaces become common areas for the use of both owners, their tenants and customers. Legally, specific scenarios must be put in place for the operation of the common areas. To identify the best approach, the following scenarios are worth exploring: Each of the owners to hold an abstract quota of the ownership right over the common areas and reciprocal servitude rights over the other's quota. In this scenario, each of the owners will be entitled to use the entire common areas (whilst observing the permitted use) and to freely dispose of its own quota. Although no disposal may be made without the other owner's consent, the disadvantage is that either owner can request the split of the car park at any time. The new owner has exclusive ownership, whilst the initial owner has a servitude right over the common areas (both for the use of the common areas and for prohibition to build on or alter the common areas). The servitude is a right in rem, meaning that it will be registered in the land registry, it remains attached to the common areas (irrespective of the subsequent owners or successors), it is enforceable against third parties and is not limited in time. In this scenario, the initial owner will be able to use and access the common areas directly and immediately without any third party cooperation and will also be able to ground a potential claim (or injunction) directly on the servitude right. However, the new owner could hinder the use of the common areas by the initial owner (for example, by instituting barriers for access in the car park). The new owner has exclusive ownership, whilst the initial owner has a usufruct right (non-exclusive use) over the common areas and servitude rights (both for the use of the common areas and for prohibition to alter the common areas) after the expiry/termination of the usufruct. Similar to the servitude, the usufruct right is also a right in rem. However, the usufruct is limited in time to a maximum of 30 years and can be unilaterally terminated by the new owner if the initial owner abusively uses/damages/deteriorates the common areas. In this scenario, the initial owner will be able to use and access the common areas directly and immediately without any third party cooperation and will also be able to ground a potential claim (or injunction) directly on the basis of the servitude right. The initial owner will also be entitled to conclude various acts in relation to the common areas. Another important aspect to be considered is the access of the new owner's shopping unit to public roads. In order to ensure such access, the new owner will usually seek to obtain a servitude of way right over the internal access roads owned by the initial owner for access and passing, and a negative servitude prohibiting building over the inner access roads. The servitude and/or usufruct rights can be implemented either through the neighbouring agreement or through separate specific deeds. Given that these are rights in rem over real estate assets, which are registered in the land registry, the neighbouring agreement and/or the separate specific deeds need to be concluded in the form of a notarized deed. The proper creation and implementation of the various arrangements between the owners of a retail park is a key element for the operation of a retail park. That is why all such aspects have to be thoroughly considered. Here, as in so many cases, "prevention is better than cure".


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Clinical trials are research studies that evaluate the safety and effectiveness of new therapies and diagnostic tools, including chemotherapy drugs, bone marrow transplantation techniques, and imaging technologies. Other types of clinical studies may help doctors compare the effectiveness of additional aspects of your child's care, or determine the causes of a particular disease.
If your child is eligible to participate in a clinical trial, he or she may have access to new therapies that are not yet available elsewhere. Our clinical research team is highly experienced in selecting children who are mostly likely to benefit from a particular investigational therapy. They can guide you through the process of selecting the most appropriate clinical trial for your needs.
Here you can find a partial listing of Memorial Sloan Kettering's current clinical trials for pediatric lymphomas. To learn more about a study, choose from the list below.


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As of the 2009 U.S. Census the average American commute was about 25 minutes, with 7.5 percent of Americans traveling 1 hour or more to and from work.
An increase in commute times has paralleled the movement of people from urban to suburban areas since the 1950s. It also has mirrored a rise in obesity and other related health problems.
A new study (see cite) in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine investigates whether there's any link between longer commutes and health obesity.
The study collected data on 4,297 commuting adults who had a comprehensive medical examination between 2000 and 2007 and lived in one of 12 Texas metropolitan counties (11 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and Travis County).
The authors found that problems were most commonly associated with commutes 16 miles or longer.
For example, adults who commuted 16 to 20 miles were 52 percent more likely to be obese, and 33 percent less likely to get the weekly exercise considered healthy for Americans. Here's a table (click to enlarge) showing the study's principal results:
All told greater commuting distances were associated with lower physical activity and lower function of ones heart, higher body mass indexes, larger waist circumference and high blood pressure. It's enough to make one want to work from home.
In their paper the authors suggest that commutes increase the level of sedentary behavior in a person's life, which has been shown to have adverse effects on health. Time spent driving may also displace physical activity.


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Rates of Malnutrition Soar in Liberia as Action Against Hunger Expands Programs
Despite the halt in fighting in the capital Monrovia, civilians remain trapped in a city of chaos. The humanitarian situation is deteriorating further each day in Monrovia while the continuous fighting in other regions of the country threatens to re-ignite on the outskirts of the capital at any moment.
The humanitarian aid organization Action Against Hunger / Action Contre la Faim (ACF) has opened a second therapeutic feeding center in the Mamba Point area, following the opening of a first center in Sinkor in June-both are located in the city of Monrovia. The organization is currently caring for 200 severely malnourished children. In addition, supplementary food is being distributed to 1100 moderately malnourished children from four sites. Many of these children are living in camps at the periphery of Monrovia where around 25,000 displaced people are living in alarming condition.
For several months, our teams have witnessed a dramatic deterioration in the nutritional situation of the civilian population. Already between March and May the percentage of malnourished children recorded in the camps had increased by 75%. By mid-June, another evaluation in Monrovia of 2142 children revealed that 858 were malnourished.
At the same time, Action Against Hunger is preparing to increase its activities in the provision of safe drinking water in the capital, particularly in certain buildings in the city center where there is no access to water and which have been identified as priority areas. Executive Director of Action Against Hunger - France, Benoît Miribel, will be in Monrovia from Saturday 19 to Tuesday 22 July, and will be available for interviews in English.
Liberian Capital in Chaos - Civilian Population Trapped in Fierce Fighting
Violent shelling in the Mamba point area, in the heart of Monrovia, has caused 100 deaths, with hundreds of people injured.
Faced with the political inaction of the international community, the Monrovian population is losing hope. It is plain to see that a humanitarian catastrophe has been unfolding over the last four days, but is being met by general indifference.
'Due to the violence of the fighting, the Monrovian inhabitants are hiding away at home, surviving on the little they still have there. The situation is even more disastrous for displaced people, who have already lost everything and have arrived in the capital with only the clothes they were wearing. The situation for the Monrovian population is agonising - no food, no water, no access to medical care, especially those who have been injured in the ongoing fighting,' says Frederic Bardou, Action Against Hunger Head of Programme from the capital.
Action Against Hunger protests against this general indifference and condemns the absence of concrete and immediate measures by the international community to protect the civilian population.


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The Glamis Castle Waltz part 07
Composer: Gabriel, Virginia
Medium: Lithograph
Date: 1870
The Waltz is thought to be the 'Queen of all dances'. It was introduced to Britain in about 1790 by Baron Newman, and its freedom of expression through gliding and whirling movements immediately became the rage. It was considered to be very scandalous as the dancers held each other very close, their bodies and even their faces touched whilst they danced. Waltzing was actually banned by the church in Germany. It initially became very popular with the upper classes in Britain and then, through public balls, with the middle classes.


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Diplomatic efforts delay Syria vote in Senate
Russian-led diplomatic efforts to get Syria to dismantle its chemical weapons program could remove the need for a congressional vote of approval for U.S. military strikes.
WASHINGTON — Diplomatic efforts to dismantle Syria's chemical weapons program have headed off — for now — the push for congressional approval of U.S. military airstrikes, sparing President Obama a potentially embarrassing rebuke of his foreign policy agenda.
Obama said in a Tuesday night address to the nation that he had asked Congress to delay action to see if a diplomatic effort led by Russia to secure Syrian weapons could succeed.
After Obama's address to the nation Tuesday, Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Robert Menendez, D-N.J., said the threat of military force "is necessary to keep on the table" and said senators were working to amend the resolution to reflect recent diplomatic efforts. "The diplomatic door has opened ever so slightly and while I have doubts about this 11th hour offer, it would be wrong to slam the door shut without due consideration."
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., acknowledging that the urgency to act had dissipated, said Tuesday afternoon, "There is a large view that we should let that process play out for a little while."
In a meeting with Senate Republicans earlier Tuesday, Obama asked the GOP to give him time to work the diplomatic process. "What he wants us to do basically is give him room," said Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., underscoring the skeptical view on Capitol Hill of Russia's efforts. "I think the general response is: 'Can you trust someone who used to be the head of the KGB?'" Heller said, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was the country's head of Federal Security in 1998-99.
Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., said Obama encouraged the Senate to keep working on the resolution to authorize strikes against Syria because he maintained that it forced the international community to increase pressure on the Assad regime. "He believes that the efforts that are now forming in the international community is a direct result of the credible threat of use of force," Cardin said.
Obama had asked Congress to approve the use of military force in Syria in response to the Syrian government's alleged use of chemical weapons, and the Senate was expected to vote on that resolution this week. With the vote suspended, it is not clear when — or if — the Senate will vote on using military force.
Armed Services Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., said after the speech that Congress should continue efforts to approve the resolution in tandem with diplomacy to keep pressure on the Assad regime. "I believe Congress can best support the goal of a diplomatic solution by approving a resolution that authorizes the use of force if Syria refuses to give up its chemical weapons," he said.
"Well, clearly diplomacy is always a better outcome than military action," House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, told reporters Tuesday. "But I will say that I'm somewhat skeptical of those that are involved in the diplomatic discussion today."
A bipartisan group of senators including Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Chris Coons, D-Del., are crafting an amendment to the joint resolution that would authorize the use of military force only if the international diplomatic effort fails.
The amendment would include specific, tight deadlines for the United Nations Security Council to approve a resolution and for inspectors to verify that Syrians surrendered all chemical weapons. The president would be authorized to use force only if those conditions were not met.
While senators across the aisle cheered signs of diplomatic breakthroughs, opposition in the Senate outpaced support for the resolution in its current form. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., announced his opposition on the Senate floor, saying "a vital national security risk is clearly not at play."
Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., who voted "present" in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, also announced his opposition Tuesday. Markey won Secretary of State John Kerry's former Senate seat in a special election earlier this year. On Monday, six senators, five Republicans and one Democrat, announced their opposition.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., indicated the Senate will continue to debate the use-of-force resolution to keep pressure on Syria to hand over its chemical weapons. "We have to make sure the credible threat of military action remains. The only reason Russia is seeking an alternative for military action is that the president of the United States will act if they do not," he said.
But after Obama's speech, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said on Fox News that opposition in Congress could be insurmountable if the resolution comes up for a vote. Paul previously estimated the Senate could pass the resolution, but that it would fail in the GOP-led House. "I think even the Senate is in question now," Paul said, following a wave of nearly a dozen new votes against the resolution in recent days. "I don't think (Obama) can overcome that," he said.
Rep. Scott Rigell, R-Va., who led a House effort to force Obama to seek a congressional vote, told MSNBC that Obama's decision to ask Congress to delay a vote was "a wise call" because "I think the reality is the votes just weren't there."
"After this impassioned plea, I cannot imagine (President) Obama not launching military strike if diplomacy fails, regardless of what Congress does," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., tweeted after the speech.
Obama acknowledged in his meeting with Republicans the political perils of seeking force against Syria, noting that polls showed Americans are against the attack and probably weren't going to change with a single televised address, said Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill.
"He said, 'I'm good, but I'm not that good,'" Kirk said. "I took that as a good dose of political reality. The politics on this is upside-down."


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When I do that the monitor works great and it's fine and all, problem is whenever I reboot, it goes back to 1360x768 and the mode that I added is not there anymore. I have to add it every time; is there any way to save the settings?
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After almost two decades of decline, 2009 is on track to mark the first year that coupon use has increased in the U.S. since 1992.
Coupon clipping for the millennium isn't just for detergent and cereal. Retailers of all stripes, from Walgreens to Neiman Marcus, have latched onto the coupon to entice consumers to spend. And the Internet and mobile devices are making coupons more widely available.
"Coupons are just more accessible to more consumers than ever before," said Todd Hale, senior vice president of consumer and shopper insights at Nielsen Co. "Without question, the economy has caused consumers to make pretty significant shifts in where they shop and how they buy and use promotions."
Retail sales this holiday are expected to be no better than 2008, which ranked as the worst season in four decades. The difference this year: Merchants are better prepared to protect profits and have reduced inventories going into November and December.
Sparse shelves mean retailers aren't forced to take the massive markdowns that prevailed last year. That puts the onus on consumers to work harder to find a good deal, leading shoppers in droves to discover coupon sites.
Searches on Google for "printable coupons" and "online printable coupons" more than doubled this year, and Yahoo Inc. reported that "coupons" ranked first on its list of economy-related searches for 2009. Of consumers surveyed by the National Retail Federation, 42 percent said they plan to use a coupon for their holiday shopping.
At Coupons.com, one of the first and largest online coupon sites, consumers printed coupons worth $313 million in 2008. The site surpassed the 2008 annual figure in June 2009 and expects a total of $1 billion in printed coupon savings by the end of the year.
Dozens of Web sites and blogs have cropped up dedicated to tracking retail and manufacturer coupons, gathering coupon codes for online deals and hosting forums in which shoppers share coupons and analyze the best and worst deals. Deal sites that once relied on members to share coupon finds with each other now have relationships with retailers eager to reach recession-weary consumers.
"It's a great channel for retailers to boost sales, especially as more shoppers move online," said Brian Nickerson, director of shopping for Internet Brands Inc., which operates Bargainist.com.
Asa Candler issued the first known coupon in 1894 when he gave away vouchers for a free Coca-Cola at his new drugstore. Coupons gained widespread popularity during the Great Depression, and coupons reached their heyday in the advertising boom of the 1950s and '60s. Coupon use peaked in 1992 with 7.9 billion coupons redeemed, according to Inmar, a coupon processing firm. The practice has declined steadily since to 2.6 billion coupons redeemed in 2006, where it remained until late last year.
As housing prices fell and unemployment rose, consumers rediscovered coupons. Redemptions jumped 10 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008 and kept rising: 17 percent in the first quarter, 33 percent in the second and 29 percent in the third, according to Inmar.
When 2009 ends, the firm projects coupon redemptions will have gained 20 percent to 3.2 billion and remain strong even as the nation emerges from the recession.
Newspaper circulars still dominate, accounting for about 90 percent of the coupons distributed and more than half of those redeemed, but the Internet is rapidly making inroads.


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Shareware: Thanks for the Memories
Shareware. Now there's a word you don't hear much these days. In a nutshell, shareware is proprietary software provided to users without payment, usually on a trial basis. By "trial basis" I mean that either the software is crippled by missing functionality or by a limited number of uses or by a set period of time. By whatever mechanism, shareware is built on the try-before-you-buy model.
Shareware became wildly popular in the late 1970s and on into the early '90s, spurred along by the ledgendary (at least in the world of shareware) Bob Wallace with his PC-Write wordprocessor, Jim Button with his PC-File database, and Andrew Fluegelman with his PC-Talk communication program.
But then the Internet and Web came along, challenging a lot of things -- including the shareware model -- in the process. Still, shareware hung in there, thanks in partto the Association of Shareware Professionals, an organization found in 1987 provide independent software developers support and guidance in marketing their software.
"Back then, the Association of Shareware Professionals was a small band of independent underdogs who defied the traditional software distribution channel, and created the try-before-you-buy model," says Mike Dulin, the organization's current president. Amazingly shareware developers persisted, enabling the origanization to evolve into an international group of 1,000 software developers who are pioneering cloud computing, software as a service (SaaS), smartphone development, and desktop/laptop development on all popular computing platforms.
As time passed, however, even the die-hards acknowledged that the "shareware" moniker was becoming a bit of an albatross, so the organization began adopting the short version of "Association of Shareware Professionals" -- "ASP" in other words.
But "shareware" has proven hard to shake, so the organization has stopped kidding around and officially changed its name to the Association of Software Professionals.
"With fewer and fewer developers calling their applications 'shareware', software buyers have become confused about the meaning of the term," explains Rich Holler, ASP's Exeuctive Director. "And since nearly all software developers today, from the smallest micro independent software vendor (mISV) to the largest software publisher, offer trial versions of their programs, the term 'shareware' has become less useful."
This makes sense to me. Shareware is a marketing method. ASP's members develop and market software. And the ASP will be called the Association of Software Professionals as it moves into the future.
Nevertheless, it is the passing of another era, which always gives pause. Now remind me: Is there shareware for the iPad?


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Car owners are bombarded continually by radio and TV commercials, mail circulars, Internet advertisements, and other means, from companies that claim to offer cheap car insurance.
It may be cheaper, but cheaper isn't necessarily better. Why? Because when a person has a claim, there's no agent to help with the process.
"We try to sell ourselves as 'added value,'" local State Farm Insurance agent Becky Walsh said. "We tell people that we are here for them."
A Hillsboro couple recently found out about the difficulties of submitting claims without an agent's assistance when they were involved in a car accident. An uninsured driver collided with their car on an icy street on March 1. The woman suffered minor knee injuries in the crash.
They had a national brand of car insurance with no local agents. Going through the process of filing claims and getting a settlement proved to be a drawn-out, time-consuming affair. They are self-employed and had to cancel several business appointments to deal with the situation.
The company had one "go-to" person, but the couple had to deal with three different offices — one for car damages, one for physical injuries, and another one for compensation for loss of income and other miscellaneous expenses.
They got a reasonably quick settlement on their car, which was totaled, but other claims took longer.
The couple was required to submit many forms. Some medical bills were sent to the company by fax machine. The bills were faxed to the wrong place and had to be resent. Some information needed to go to Texas and some to San Diego.
They spent a lot of time communicating back and forth with the company. Some of it was done online. Every time they logged in, they had to enter a large 20-digit claim number.
"It was very tiring, and everything is not yet settled," the woman said.
The couple is considering buying insurance for their replacement vehicle from a local agency after all their claims are settled.
Marion County has a large number of insurance agents that sell car insurance. They are known to go out of their way to help clients.
Walsh gave such an example. She said one time a couple from out of state had a car problem while in the area. They were insured with State Farm Insurance and contacted her. She helped them by taking them to Wichita to rent a vehicle.
Jerry Cady of Jerry Cady Agency agreed that it definitely pays to have an insurance agent who can intercede on a client's behalf. He said there have been instances where he visited clients whose injuries from a car accident landed them in the hospital. He went to them to get the information to submit the claim and make sure the bills were paid.
Jayson Hanschu of American Family Insurance noted that, as a local hometown agent, he is a part of the communities he serves.
"I want to see this county, these communities, my friends and neighbors succeed," he said.
He regards himself as a caring voice that is available 24/7.
"As their (my clients') agent, I have a stake in assuring their recovery from the unexpected," he said. "It's not just a job, it's my career, my life. To me, that is why a local agent you know and trust is of utmost importance."


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NAPLES (Reuters) - A government-appointed 'trash tsar' took charge of a waste crisis in Naples on Wednesday after residents sealed off a suburb with barricades to stop it becoming a dumping ground for mountains of garbage.
Images of the historic port city wallowing in its own filth have shocked Italians and embarrassed the ruling centre left coalition of Prime Minister Romano Prodi, which also holds office at the local and regional level in Naples.
On Tuesday, Prodi gave former national police chief Gianni De Gennaro four months to find a solution to Naples' waste crisis after almost every waste dump in the southern city was declared full at the end of last year.
Naples has been in an official 'state of emergency' since 1994 when the first trash tsar was appointed to clean up waste disposal, which is controlled by the local mafia, the Camorra.
Fourteen years and 2 billion euros ($2.94 billion) of public money later, the city is still searching for a solution. A huge incinerator supposed to open at the end of 2007 may not come on line until 2009.
Authorities want to reopen a dump in the suburb of Pianura, which has been closed for 11 years, to take the estimated 110,000 tons of garbage rotting in the streets and in the surrounding region.
But locals declared the suburb a no-go area for garbage trucks and it has been blocked to traffic since Saturday.
The area looks like a war zone, with improvised barriers manned during the day by peaceful locals and at night by menacing gangs of youths who regularly clash with police, two of whom were injured on Tuesday evening.
"It's worse than Kabul," Gianfranco Fini, leader of the right-wing National Alliance party, said on a visit to Naples on Tuesday when residents applauded his arrival.
"I have a sense of sickness and feel great solidarity with Neapolitans."
A few trucks were allowed into the suburb on Wednesday to deliver food to shops. A rally was due to take place in the city centre at 5 p.m. (11:00 a.m. EST).
Prodi's office has hinted the government may back down from its initial insistence that the dump must reopen.
The final decision will rest with De Gennaro who arrived in Naples on Wednesday. He will have to confront both residents and local officials who are blamed for ineffectiveness, corruption and, in some cases, links to gangland criminals who make fortunes out of waste transport and illegal disposal.
Prodi said a short-term solution would be to truck Naples' waste to other parts of the country, a policy which would be resented by some in the rich north. Long-term, the region will have three incinerators, he said.
Illegal dumping and burning is blamed for poisoning the soil, water and air of large zones around the base of Mount Vesuvius and causing high instances of some forms of cancer.
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Lenny Kravitz has the best relationship with his ex-wife Lisa Bonet and often invites her and her partner to spend quality time with him and their actress daughter Zoe.
The rocker opened up about his friendship with the former "The Cosby Show" star during a recent taped interview with Oprah Winfrey.
He explains, "We were very young and it was wonderful. And we had Zoe, which is, I see now what it was all about.
"It was really all about bringing this beautiful child to the planet. And also sharing the love that we had. Zoe's mom and I now are best friends. It's interesting 'cause that's how the relationship started.
"It makes you feel really good when you can do that. When we're all together now – her man, her kids, Zoe, me – we're all together and we're one big happy family. It's beautiful and it just shows you what can be done."
Kravitz's interview aired Oprah's OWN network on Sunday night.


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According to FuelFix, Halliburton is set to hire 200 workers in the Permian Basin in West Texas and New Mexico.
The Current-Argus reported that Halliburton spokeswoman Emily Mir said in late December there will be job opportunities throughout the Permian, including in Artesia.
As the oil industry begins to see a small upswing, local businesses are crossing their fingers that local economies will see a positive effect as well. While the rest of the industry is still struggling to recover from rock-bottom oil prices in early 2016, hitting $28.36, the lowest price since 2003.
Yet innovation and greater efficiency have helped to trim the excess cost from drilling, making oil profitable at a lower price. In June of last year, Forbes reported the breakeven price in the Permina was $61, far above the price of oil at the time. However, that estimate was drastically lower in an IHS Markit study, citing $50 as closer to the mark.
We at IHS Markit found that the Delaware Basin's multiple company sub-plays are delivering impressive economics at a $50 per barrel reference, and we attribute that to two primary considerations—early entrance into the play and extensive geologic knowledge," said analysis author Sven Del Pozzo, CFA, director of energy company and transaction research at IHS Markit.
Most experts now agree that drilling is profitable in the area at anywhere from $45-50.
Shannon Carr, development coordinator with the Department of Development in Carlsbad, New Mexico, attributed growth in the region to the new OPEC agreements to cut production. She also told the Current Argus "Our incoming president is pro-energy and pro-gas, which is great," Carr said. "The industry is very complicated and hard to predict, but the prices are right and the companies are looking to expand." So it's possible that the hiring spree by Halliburton may be extended to other companies throughout the oil and gas industry. Carr is hopeful that the increase in activity will translate into a recovering Carlsbad economy, hopefully replicated throughout other areas where drilling activity has significantly decreased.
Halliburton's stock has increased steadily over the last year, and currently sits at $56.53 per share, up from a January 2016 low of $29.11.


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