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Video-Interview with IRC-Fellow
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With Daha-Wassa a Promising New Theater Company Enters the International Stage
At the Crossroads of History and Cultural Debate
Notes of a Traveller and Conference Participant of Performing Tangier 2016
"Sometimes you only have to listen…"
About the sonic entanglements of our colonial past
Stefan Donath, December 10, 2019
I met meLê yamomo in June 2019 to talk about the very successful premiere of his sound-performance Echoing Europe – Postcolonial Reverberations at Ballhaus Naunynstrasse in Berlin.1 In the performance, that will return to the stage from 16-19 December, 2019, the spectators enter the grand ballroom radiating the representative aura of the 19th century. Technical objects such as phonographs, turntables, radio or tape devices are displayed on tables covered by white table cloths. The spectators move through the hall as if in an exhibition. From a safe distance, meLê yamomo and its co-performer Pepe Dayaw observe the interested appraisal of the objects. They wear suits reminiscent of uniformed museum guards. Later, when the spectators have taken their seats, they enter the stage area and start to use the machines by playing sound recordings from various Berlin archives. In the concrete performance situation, these sound recordings from the colonial period in Southeast Asia produce noticeable tensions. What do we hear in these recordings today? What does it mean to listen to these "trophies of a colonial sound appropriation"2 today? What do they mean for the construction of our image of Europe? Who do they belong to? What cultural appropriations are manifested in the re-staging of these sounds? In what ways do the technical devices overcome the volatility of sound building a bridge to the historical past? And what strategies of reappropriation of those sounds are pursued by and linked with the personal stories of meLê and Pepe?
I had the chance to see the performance and was very impressed by the critical reflection and differentiation of 'music' and 'sound' as colonial projects. Above all, I was interested in meLê's artistic work because I had only encountered him in an academic environment as a former IRC Fellow. Numerous topics opened up in our conversation. In the following interview, we speak about the critical handling of archives, the different levels of impact of science and art, re-evaluating the critical potential of the arts as the recomposition of new utopia.
Official advertising poster of Echoing Europe – Postcolonial Reverberations
©meLê yamomo3
In your works as "artist-scholar", you engage with topics of sonic migrations, queer aesthetics, and post/de-colonial acoustemologies. You are doing both: you teach as Assistant Professor of Theatre, Performance, and Sound Studies at the University of Amsterdam, and you create performance/theatre and sound/music. Where does your interest for sound come from?
I did my PhD in the context of the Global Theatre Histories project of professor Christopher Balme at LMU in Munich, Germany. My proposal was about a history of European opera in Southeast Asia. I collected a lot of archival documents from Southeast Asia. There was so much material that no one has ever written about! However, when I looked at my dissertation, it felt like what I was doing was simply contributing to this historiography of European opera. It's as if I was just adding a footnote to this big history. I realized that this was not what I wanted to do.
What did you want to do?
I asked myself: Am I just contributing to this existing one-sided colonial history? When we talk about an imperialist history of opera, we assume that there is only one way to listen to it. When these musics and performances arrived to what is now Indonesia (what was then the Dutch Indies), or the Spanish Philippines, the British Singapore and Malaysia, conventional or even hegemonic historiography assumes there is a universal way of listening to this music. That is what I wanted to problematize.
This is why your research became a sound research?
Yes, because by resisting the universality of music in the European sense, I opened my research to something else. I did not want to write about the history of opera, but about the history of listening. I am still working with the same archives, the same material, but my questions shifted.
In what direction?
This has a lot to do with Spivak's question: Can the subaltern speak? Sure, there was Aida performed in Manila. But what was the local audience hearing? Where do I find materials in which they explain about what they heard? These questions illustrate two problems: 1) History often takes the form of a written medium. Histories that are not written disappear in history; 2) One of the problems is also literacy. Because who can write? And in what language? In Southeast Asia most of the colonized cannot write in the language of the colonizer. Or in many cases, they cannot write at all. Western epistemology is premised on written knowledge. This is why acoustic epistemology, or acoustemology, is so important for me; because sound materials are also sources of knowledge. In consequence, I stepped back from music and focused more on sound. I wrote about these ideas in my book about music and theatre in nineteenth-century Asia Pacific. In Echoing Europe, I reflect further on these topics performatively in relation to the colonial sound archives.
As an academic you have different ways of working. You collect material, you rearrange it and put it – mostly in a written form – in a new frame. What was your interest in changing perspective again and negotiating the debate on these topics on stage?
As an academic, I am part of the practice of creating or developing understandings: Epistemologies. And within this world, within the structure of epistemologies – this knowledge making and knowledge production – I see my job as having to break things apart.
In the way of really deconstructing something that is already there? Or do you mean, also in a way of destroying…
Exactly. To me, science is exactly like this. It's like looking through a microscope to see the tiny parts. You take them apart, you comment on these parts and describe how they operate. This is what academics do: idenitify the parts that you do not see. For example, how patriarchy works, because such social structures arrive to us as invisible systems. We look and analyze microscopically, pointing out what is the problem and then we critique them. That is what I do when wearing my academic hat. But what I feel is missing in the academic context is something that the arts can do: How to make the parts a whole again. To me, an artist is someone capable of seeing these disassembled parts and creating a new whole out of them. I do think about arts as a rehearsal for utopia: When science has taken things apart, an artist can recompose a new utopia.
In your performance Echoing Europe what were the parts you were putting together?
Art has the capacity to make an understanding of the world we live in. We assemble the (fragemented) world in very specific ways. But I'm also reflecting on how art can be instrumentalized within an agenda. In Echoing Europe, I'm interested in finding this balance. On the one hand, in the performance, I opened up this idea of silence and speaking as two sides of one whole. How there is violence in this, too. How, for example, certain bodies are allowed to speak and certain bodies are not allowed to speak. In Echoing Europe, the museum guard characters, both people of color, are tasked with watching over and protecting the displayed museum objects. These recordings are from a certain culture that were brought to Europe. But who is allowed to speak about them? The people from where these recordings come from are culturally more connected to these objects, but they are often not allowed to speak about them. In the performance, there is this huge imbalance made noticeable through the physical absence of the museum director while he is practically simultaneously white- and mansplaining everyone in the museum through his orders, certain hierarchical structures and ways of displaying the objects. Even in his absence he is so present. And you have the security personnel who may have more connection to these objects, who are constantly being silenced.
Pepe Dayaw and meLê yamomo © Zé de Paiva
I read in an interview about Echoing Europe with Deutschlandfunk that you said what is defined as music is still decided in the West.4 How did you mean it?
The idea of music is very problematic in how certain musical practices have been defined. I use the term "sound studies" for its more democratizing framework. I find possibilities in it for a transcendental epistemological approach to auditory cultures. In the same way that performance studies is also re-thinking the idea of theatre. When I was a student of theatre, we read James Brandon's The Theatre of South East Asia. In it, he labeled certain performative practices as "proto-dramatic forms". Such framework is implicitly stating that drama is the highest form of theatre. This is analogous to calling certain sound practices "noise". This is even found in academia until today: you have musicology and you have "ethno-musicology". If you want to study Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven, you go to musicology. If you want to study everything else, you study "ethno-musicology". It is an extremely colonial practice. And these practices are transported to the post-colonial spaces. In the University of the Philippines, for example, you now have Filipinos studying ethnomusicology who go back to their villages to find case studies for their dissertations. They would ask their uncles and aunts, what kind of traditional music do you have here? And then their uncles and aunts would say, we don't have any. And they'll later hear them singing and be like "yes, that!" but to them it's not music. Obviously, music is a very fraught term and you wonder to what extent these aunts and uncles in their villages were thinking that they don't call it music because they think of it as something else. Very similar dynamics and power hierarchies operate in today's music industry working with labels like "world music". There is violence in this. In the 19th century in Singapore, for example, the British complained about the 'noise' of the Chinese funerals. They are noise to the British but these are sound practices of another culture. At the core of this problem is in the power relationship of who defines what music is throughout history?
There were very different colonial times. In addition to the Dutch and Spaniards, and later the British, there was also an US-American era. But it was the European colonizers who were bringing 'their' opera to Manila. They were also making sound recordings with the local population that they brought back to Berlin, where – until today – you can still find the world's most extensive archives, in which sound recordings were stored as trophies of a colonial sound-appropriation…
Actually, there are two important archives founded at the end of the 19th century/beginning of the 20th century: The Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv and the Lautarchiv at the Humboldt Universität Berlin. These two archives have two different intentions and also two different ways of presenting themselves assembling very different kinds of recordings and sound samples, such as songs, prayers, speeches, folk tales, a linguistic collection etc. Often it is not possible to apply a category.
Why were these sound recordings made?
What happened is two things: Carl Stumpf, the founder of the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv, encouraged European travelers to record sound and music, but there was also the question of how these recordings can be preserved. Stumpf asserted to do it in Berlin, so that's why many of these materials came here. It was the end of the 19th century and many ideas like the theory of evolution, for example, were still very important science at that time. Comparative musicology was actually Ethnomusicology following a Darwinian thinking. What people like Stumpf wanted to do was collect as many musical recordings as possible, but it's already framed within an agenda. And that agenda is to prove that "European" music is more superior than the rest. They assume that because in diatonic harmony is so complex which is not present in non-European music then they conclude that they are less evolved.
Produced by Kultursprünge at Ballhaus Naunynstraße gemeinnützige GmbH. First production financed with funds from the Land Berlin, Senate Department for Culture and Europe. [↩]
Quote from the program of the performance. See also: http://ballhausnaunynstrasse.de/auffuehrung/66636798. [↩]
The photo is a collage by meLê yamomo, based on the original photo: "Bewoners luisteren naar een platenspeler te Batavia" (c.1915, unknown photographer, from the KITLV collection). Metadata available here: https://digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl/view/item/844060 [↩]
From a report on Deutschlandfunk, 16.5.2019 by Christoph Möller: https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/sound-performance-echoing-europe-der-klang-des-kolonialismus.807.de.html?dram:article_id=448881. [↩]
Tags: Echoing Europe, International Research Center, Interweaving Performance Cultures, meLê yamomo, music, Sound, Sound studies, Stefan Donath


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Oludunsin has a career objective of devising methodologies and providing information that directs management and policy towards sustainability
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Oludunsin holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Geography from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria (2008) and an Erasmus Mundus Master of Science in Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation for Environmental Modelling and Management (GEM) from Lund University, Sweden and ITC, University of Twente, Netherlands (2012). After one year of compulsory national service for all Nigerian graduates, he worked with Lime Associates in Nigeria as a researcher in 2010. He also worked as a volunteer researcher with his MSc. thesis supervisor (Alexey Voinov) after the completion of his MSc. program at theLund University, Sweden and ITC, University of Twente, the Netherlands in 2012. Oludunsin did his Doctorate degree at the University of Potsdam and the Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Muencheberg, Germany. Oludunsin's research interest and previous research experiences are in the field of Land cover/use issues, bioenergy potential assessments, remote sensing and GIS (Geographical Information Systems), Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), Sustainability Assessments, Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA), Participatory research, Energy transition indicators, Energy efficiency assessments, and Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) and Life Cycle Sustainability Assessments (LCSA).
Oludunsin is a recognized future research leader in areas of energy transitions, landscape ecology, sustainability, life cycle sustainability assessment tools, approaches and frameworks. Oludunsin has devised and applied methodologies for holistic life cycle sustainability assessment of bioenergy systems at local, regional and global scales. His works are increasingly being cited in literatures. He has published severally in high impact journals and has presented his work orally across Europe, North America, Africa and Australia. He has further demonstrated global leadership potentials through his receipt of several awards, fellowships and grants among which are the Young Scientist Summer Program Fellowship of the International Institute for Applied System analysis (IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria), EU Marie Curie Sklodowska Innovative Training Network CASTLE (Careers in Sustainability Excellence), Top 30 under 30 Wall of the International Association of Impact Assessment, Yale Sustainability Leadership Forum Scholarship, Foreign Scholar Travel Award, US-IALE Travel Award and the NASA-MSU Award of the International Association of Landscape Ecology (IALE) etc. Oludunsin is a current grant holder of the prestigious AXA Research Fund Future Research Leader in Energy Transition Fellowship. His current research applies life cycle sustainability assessment methodologies for evaluating the bioenergy and climate change mitigation potential of organic wastes and wastelands in Sub-Saharan Africa (with Nigeria as a case study).
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a month ahead of the schedule that he had given to the Allies.
the Russians, for the Soviet troops and for the Russians.
Now we are coming to Berlin, finally.
by now, the power of the Soviet Army was overwhelming.
Even the most desperate German resistance could not stop it.
in the Soviet attack on Berlin.
Against less than 800,000 Germans.
a half times greater than what Wehrmacht had.
for the conference in Potsdam.
This is Cecilienhof Palace, the site of the Potsdam Conference.
on arrival, he discovered that the situation was different.
Harry Truman did not have the glamor of his predecessor.
he did not go with Stalin through the war.
existed between Stalin and Roosevelt.
After this conference, Truman never met Stalin in person again.
results of elections in Britain became known during the conference.
stayed at the conference in his place.
here was Europe in July 1945.
Soviet control over Eastern Europe, Stalin said, was needed for its security.
It was a legitimate sphere of interest of the USSR.
and Baltic states were flooding Europe.
The conference defined the occupation zones in Germany.
This is the zones in 1947.
Not only Germany, but also Austria was divided.
Germany in the end lost about 25% of its pre-war territory.
Denazification, democratization, this was all agreed and discussed.
Nazi criminals were to be put on trial.
The Allies decided to dismantle some of German industries.
Military industries were to be dismantled and destroyed completely.
chemicals, machinery, these industries were to be limited.
And the standard of living in Germany was not to exceed the European average.
The Soviet Union got a lot of what it demanded.
with Konigsberg, was moved to the USSR.
Konigsberg was a ruin and its population left it.
bases in the Turkish Straits and the Mediterranean.
The Allies did not go along with all Stalin's demands on reparations.
a port and a military base in north China, and a railway to it.
It also got the control of Mongolia.
These are the borders, the new borders in the Far East.
You can clearly see the southern part of the Sakhalin Island and the Kuril Islands.
a new powerful weapon was successfully tested by the Americans.
Stalin received the news calmly.
American experiments with a nuclear weapon.
Soviets had already started their work on their own nuclear weapons.
During the conference, right at the end, ultimatum was sent to Japan on surrender.
another feature of the post-war world.


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HARARE, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- Harare International Airport will be renamed after President Robert Mugabe with effect from Nov. 2017, a Cabinet minister has said.
Transport and Infrastructure Development Minister Joram Gumbo told state media that the airport will be renamed Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport after the International Civil Aviation Organization approved the proposed change of names.
""The International Civil Aviation Organization has approved the change of name. The process has started and by end of November we will have renamed it,"" Gumbo said.
This will be the second time in post-independent Zimbabwe that an airport has been named after a person, the first one being Bulawayo Airport which was upgraded from domestic to international and renamed Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport after the late Vice President Joshua Nkomo.
The only other public airport bearing the name of a person is the Mount Hampden Airstrip.
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This is a list of singles which topped the Irish Singles Chart in 1969.

Prior to 1992, the Irish singles chart was compiled from trade shipments from the labels to record stores, rather than on consumer sales. Note that the chart release day moved from Saturday to Friday at the beginning of September.

See also
1969 in music
Irish Singles Chart
List of artists who reached number one in Ireland

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An Interview with Airways
Posted on September 18, 2017 April 3, 2018 by Astr0mag
Airways is a 4 piece indie rock band based in Peterborough, UK. The band consists of Jake (singer/guitarist), Alex (guitarist), Jamie (bass) and Brian (drums).
Though they formed in 2015, Airways have already acquire quite a bit of success. They've toured with bands such as Nothing But Thieves, they've played festivals in both the US and the UK, this May they released their EP "Starting to Spin", and now they're preparing for their winter tour across North America and Europe.
We were able to talk to Brian about the EP, the upcoming tour, and much more! Here is what he had to say:
Tell us a little bit about your EP "Starting to Spin".
Our debut EP "Starting to Spin" came out this past May. It took us nearly 2 years to craft our sound and decide on the best songs to release first. We thought that these 5 songs were all different in their own way but connected. We're big fans of bands that have a very diverse sound so we tried to capture that. No one likes playing or listening to the same song over and over again.
What's your writing processes like?
It's really different for every song. Jake is a fantastic writer and the main reason I moved to England was because of his melodic wizardry. I think it's very easy to rip off melodies from things you've heard before but Jake's got his own, whitty style that can't be compared to much. Sometimes we will work more in the studio on a song whereas sometimes it happens in the rehearsal room.
Since the EP's release, do you feel like Airways' sound has evolved?
The sound has matured like crazy. The EP was actually finished in November 2016 so even before it was released we had new songs that we thought were better. I think it's important for every band to progress with their fanbase. "Starting to Spin" was a great first step for us – you won't expect what's coming next.
What made you decide on naming the EP "Starting to Spin?"
The whole EP is based around a night out drinking. We didn't really mean to do this but when we decided on the 5 songs it was obvious. "Starting to Spin" just felt like the perfect name to us.
What's your favorite song off of the EP?
This is an extremely hard question. Personally, "Reckless Tongue" is probably my favorite. However, they've all been a favorite at some point. Leave it to the fans to decide!
What's your favorite song to perform live? Least favorite?
This is too hard! We picked these songs because of how much we love them all.
Who are your musical influences?
We all have different influences, but as a band I would say: Arctic Monkeys, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Queens of the Stone Age, Led Zeppelin… the list goes on.
What band/ artist do you hope to collaborate with in the future?
We definitely want Snoop Dogg to do a verse on One Foot eventually. That would be fantastic.
Are there any bands you've gotten to play with that we should check out?
We just did a UK tour with a band called "Dead!". Really nice guys and they know how to rock.
What are you looking forward to the most on this tour?
Personally, I've been waiting to tour the US with Airways since the day I joined. I could not be more thankful to Nothing but Thieves for giving us the opportunity. Looking forward to reconnecting with old friends, playing our biggest tour yet, and seeing Nothing but Thieves live every night.
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What can we expect from Airways in the upcoming year?
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Marouane Fellaini and Nacer Chadli have been rewarded for their heroics in the 3-2 win over Japan and start for Belgium against Brazil in Friday's World Cup quarter-final.
Belgium were trailing 2-0 to Japan when Fellaini and Chadli came on for Dries Mertens and Yannick Carrasco, with both going on to score in a dramatic last-gasp triumph.
Roberto Martinez was expected to make changes after he hinted as much in his pre-match news conference, lauding the impact both players have had on Belgium's World Cup squad, not just their goals against Japan.
Elsewhere in the Belgium team, Kevin De Bruyne is to be deployed as part of the front three with Romelu Lukaku and Eden Hazard.
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The Manchester City star had previously been used deeper in midfield, limiting his influence in the final third.
Brazil's starting XI was more or less known already, with coach Tite not hiding the fact Fernandinho was to start in place of the suspended Casemiro and Marcelo would return following a back injury.


A small workshop is organized in honor to our colleague and friend Federico Valenciano, on the occasion of his upcoming retirement. It will take place on the 9th of June. During this workshop some colleagues and co-authors will present a paper. In addition, after the workshop there will be a lunch. If you are interested in attending the workshop please confirm your participation.


The company that earned the no-bid contract to build the failed Obamacare website also runs the Army's disastrous Human Terrain System in Iraq and Afghanistan, which has been accused of fraud, sexual harassment and racism.
The much-maligned Human Terrain System (HTS), launched in 2007, sends academics from social science fields like anthropology and linguistics into war zones to help soldiers understand the local population. The Army spent $58 million on the program in 2013, down from $114 million in 2011.
CGI Federal, the U.S. arm of the Canadian CGI Group and the designer of the failed Obamacare website, attempted a failed turnaround in HTS during the Obama administration. The young company, which employs Michelle Obama's former Princeton classmate and Christmas guest Toni Townes-Whitley as a top executive, received eight figures from the Army in 2013 for the project, records reveal.
Oberon Associates, a CGI Federal subsidiary that joined the CGI portfolio in 2010, earned the $227 million contract to run HTS in 2011 in a deal that insiders said reeked of cronyism due to former HTS director Colonel Sharon Hamilton's rumored friendship with an Oberon co-founder.
The HTS contract was one of CGI's first big gets in the United States, as CGI Federal was only formed to bring the CGI Group into the federal contracting business in 2009.
CGI Federal received a more than $45.5 million modification this year to continue work on the Federal Terrain System.
"They took over in 2011. There were high hopes that CGI Federal could turn it around, but there's a hearing going on now into fraud, waste and abuse," John Stanton, author of "General David Petraeus' Favorite Mushroom: Inside the US Army's Human Terrain System," told The Daily Caller.
HTS team members were found to have engaged in instances of fraud, sexual harassment and racism in 2009 and 2010, prior to CGI's takeover, according to recently released documents. An Army internal investigation found program supervisors inflating overtime and comp time pay, and members even admitted to filing for hours that they didn't work.
"My supervisor is the laziest, most incompetent human being I have ever met," according to one internal Army complaint from a member of the program.
"Sexual harassment is prevalent and sexist behavior is an everyday occurrence; I was sexually harassed in the field repeatedly; sexual comments and jokes are rampant; nearly every female in the program faces some form of sexual harassment," according to another complaint.
CGI's management of the program failed to sufficiently turn things around, with Stanton noting that the problematic behavior continued.
The program's failures have not escaped notice on Capitol Hill.
CGI Federal did not return a request for comment.


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Correctional Officers Work in the "War Zone"
Alcatraz Island (home to a federal prison until 1963)
On June 2, 2013, The Bakersfield Californian published an extremely profound and honest account written by Will Adams ("WILL ADAMS: For a correctional officer, the workday is just another day in the war zone").
Adams has been working in corrections for 25 years for the Kern Valley State Prison in Delano, California, first as a correctional officer, followed by a promotion to the position of sergeant lieutenant, and now as a correctional counselor II specialist. In his newspaper commentary, he simultaneously described the horrors and vital importance of the correctional profession. It's clear from Adams' words that those, who remain in corrections for as long as he has, deal with daily events that most of us will never encounter, and probably many of us could not handle if we did.
An excerpt from his entry published in The Bakersfield Companion reads:
"During our shift in the war zone [prison], we witness violence, death, loss, suffering and depravity that is unimaginable to most people. We do not have the luxury of stopping to vomit or pause to cry. Every moment must be regarded as precious time for interdicting drugs, gangs, weapons, vice rape and murder… It is isolated, contained and controlled by my family in green. It does not spill out into the streets of our cities. We keep the war zone behind the walls and in our heads. It effects our families and friends, but they do not see or truly understand it…And so, we carry our burden through our career, retirement and then to the grave."
In his account, Adams also describes the staggering statistic that approximately 31% of correctional officers in the United States suffer from PTSD (posttraumatic stress disorder). He is referring to a study conducted by Caterina G. Spinaris, Ph.D., Micheal D. Denhof, Ph.D. and Julie Kellaway, Ph.D. (released by Desert Waters Correctional Outreach, 2012) entitled "Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in United States Corrections Professionals: Prevalence and Impact on Health on Functioning".
The study also referenced PTSD prevalence statistics for other professions from other studies conducted between 2005 and 2011. For example:
3.5% of general population
13.2% of emergency management personnel
14.3% of post-9/11 New York fire fighters
12-20% of "Operation Iraqi Freedom/Enduring Freedom soldiers"
Although the results are yielded from different studies at different times, generally speaking it suggests the PTSD rates are highest among correctional officers compared to these other professions.
Why Would I Want to Work in Corrections?
If you have been thinking of becoming a correctional officer, or working in another area of corrections, you may be having second thoughts after reading the above. It's true—not everyone can hack the job. But consider some of these comments from a recent Indeed.com Department of Corrections discussion board:
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A brief profile of noteworthy accomplishments, of a "work career" well lived.
Even in the early years, Ernie always displayed an above average desire to succeed in his work environment.
He started his professional career in Wisconsin as a Plant Foreman, and later joined Harnischfeger Corporation in Escanaba as a Machine Shop Foreman and Production Control Manager.
Shortly after the closure of P&H, Ernie and family moved to the greater Grand Rapids area, where he accepted employment at Stiles Machinery, the "World's largest supplier of Industrial Wood Working Equipment".
Ernie's career at Stiles spanned some 25 years before his retirement in 2011.
Ernie held a variety of management roles in his career, from Facilities Management to Purchasing; he became the National Parts Manager for Stiles and was later promoted to the position of Corporate Director.
His responsibilities afforded him the privilege of extensive U.S and World travel to Europe and Asia where he insured the company's success through Customer Care Management and relationship building.
Ernie also started and built a small automobile related Business Enterprise, which he has operated since 2003.
He is also a semi- professional artist having sold many of his creations, a "hobby" he has enjoyed very much.
I would be remiss if I did not also include that Ernie found time to study and become a licensed minister and fulfill the duties of an Assistant Pastor at a local church.
I can recall that he always credited his English teacher Evelyn Klug with his communication skills, Mrs. Cote his History teacher for his interest in reading historical events and lifestyles and John Gustafson his Art teacher for his guidance and patience.
My husband and I are in the process of selling our Grand Rapids holdings, and moving to the "Esky area", a long anticipated and greatly looked forward to "homecoming".


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Ministry of Defense of Finland: The Department of Defense website is currently undergoing a denial-of-service attack. We are currently investigating.
Ukrainian military downed Orlan-10 drone with electronic warfare measures in Luhansk region
A major power outage has knocked out internet connectivity across much of Puerto Rico; real-time network data show national connectivity down to ~54% of ordinary levels; incident comes amid reports of a fire at the Costa Sur power plant
Russian media watchdog introducing "Coercive measures against Google". To affect six of its services, including search and services of Google Play, YouTube, YouTube Music, Google Chat and Gmail
Roskomnadzor demands that Google restores Russian state agencies' websites in the search engine
Kremlin spokesman Peskov admits he uses VPNs to bypass the blocking of sites and applications banned in Russia. "It's not prohibited"
Colombo, Western Province
Confirmed: Real-time network data show Sri Lanka has imposed a nationwide social media blackout, restricting access to platforms including Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube, and Instagram as emergency is declared amid widespread protests
The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation asked universities "by April 4" to transfer content from YouTube to VK.Video and Rutube services, the corresponding letter was published by Southwestern State University
7 Abril 2022Helsinki, Ministry of Defense of Finland: The Department of Defense website is currently undergoing a denial-of-service attack. We are currently investigating. Luhansk Ukrainian military downed Orlan-10 drone with electronic warfare measures in Luhansk regionPuerto Rico A major power outage has knocked out internet connectivity across much of Puerto Rico; real-time network data show national connectivity down to ~54% of ordinary levels; incident comes amid reports of a fire at the Costa Sur power plantMoskva, Moscow Russian media watchdog introducing "Coercive measures against Google". To affect six of its services, including search and services of Google Play, YouTube, YouTube Music, Google Chat and GmailMoskva, Moscow Roskomnadzor demands that Google restores Russian state agencies' websites in the search engineMoskva, Moscow Kremlin spokesman Peskov admits he uses VPNs to bypass the blocking of sites and applications banned in Russia. "It's not prohibited"Colombo, Western Province Confirmed: Real-time network data show Sri Lanka has imposed a nationwide social media blackout, restricting access to platforms including Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube, and Instagram as emergency is declared amid widespread protestsMoskva, Moscow The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation asked universities "by April 4" to transfer content from YouTube to VK.Video and Rutube services, the corresponding letter was published by Southwestern State UniversityKyiv, Kyiv city Leading internet provider Kyivstar in Ukraine has cut off many of its subscribers with unpaid bills outside active combat areas as of 1 April. The company cites the need for payment to repair war-ravaged infrastructure and pay taxSan Francisco, California New Delhi: Twitter has deleted thousands of pro-Russia accounts in India for being part of an 'organized influence network.'Brussel, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest Google Tracking cyber activity in Eastern Europe as TAG has observed COLDRIVER campaigns targeting the military of multiple Eastern European countries, as well as a NATO Centre of Excellence via Russia linked groupCupertino, California Apple and Meta provided customer data to hackers who masqueraded as law enforcement officials and submitted forged legal requestsBudapest [email protected] reveals that Orbán's foreign ministry has been compromised by an ongoing Russian cyberespionage campaign. They even hacked the encrypted channel also transmitting confidential NATO & EU materialKyiv, Kyiv city A powerful cyber attack targeted ISP Ukrtelecom. So far, it has been repulsed, and services are already being resumed, - the State Special Communications Service saidKyiv, Kyiv city Ukraine's national internet provider Ukrtelecom has confirmed a cyberattack on its core infrastructure. Real-time network data show an ongoing and intensifying nation-scale disruption to service, which is the most severe registered since the invasion by RussiaUzhgorod Security Service of Ukraine says it has shutdown 5 enemy bot farms with a capacity of over 100,000 fake accounts They operated in Kharkiv, Cherkasy, Ternopil, Poltava, and Zakarpattia Oblast, the accounts were registered on various social media, SBU saysFlorida Elon Musk:Starlink, at least so far, has resisted all hacking & jamming attemptsMoskva, Moscow Anonymous: Russian Central Bank hack is confirmed and will be released soon via DDoSecrets[.]com #OpRussia Washington, District of Columbia The FCC has added AO Kaspersky Lab to its list of 'communications equipment and services deemed a threat to U.S. national security'Washington, District of Columbia U.S. intelligence analysts have concluded that Russian military spy hackers were behind a cyberattack on a satellite broadband service that disrupted Ukraine's military communications at the start of the war last month, according to U.S. officialsWashington, District of Columbia Russian cyber actors targeted US and international ICS/SCADA and energy facilities, attempting to cause damage to systems and supply chains. Today, @FBI & @DoJ announced criminal charges against four MCAs, most from FSB Center 16, for targeting civilian critical infrastructureWashington, District of Columbia Indictment by @TheJusticeDept of Russian gov actors' (from MoD Research Institute and FSB) work over the years to compromise global energy infrastructure. The efforts to compromise safety systems of oil refineries in Saudi and US are disturbingWashington, District of Columbia State Dept offering $10 million for info on Russian government hackersWashington, District of Columbia New alert from @CISAgov, @FBI, and @ENERGY: It documents historical cyber activity of Russian state-sponsored cyber operations. and assesses that there is an ongoing threat to the U.S. energy sectorLondon, England The UK NCSC assessed that it was "almost certain" that FSB's Centre 16, also known as "Energetic Bear", "Berserk Bear" and "Crouching Yeti", conducted a "malign programme of cyber activity" targeting critical infrastructure and IT systems in Europe, the Americas, and AsiaBrussel, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest Stoltenberg: "Today, NATO leaders agreed to reset our deterrence and defense for the longer term, to face a new security reality." Alliance to boost forces on land, air and sea, especially on its eastern flank, and strengthen cyber and collective defenseOxford A 16 year old living in his mother's house in Oxford, England is suspected to be the mastermind behind many of the hacks conducted by hacking group Lapsus$, per multiple sources involved in various investigations of the hacking group. Full story to followKyiv, Kyiv city Due to the mass attack on communication providers, Ukrzaliznytsia's online ticket sales and telephony services are currently temporarily unavailableMoskva, Moscow Russian media watchdog Roskomnadzor blocked Google News in Russia Moskva, Moscow Reports of issues with Telegram


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Twyfelfontein ou /Ui-//aes é um importante sítio arqueológico na região de Kunene, nordeste da  Namíbia. Possui uma das maiores concentrações de desenhos rupestres da África. As gravuras e desenhos, cerca de 2.500, muitos destes grafados em ocre vermelho, datam em torno de 2.000 anos e relatam, de forma extensa, coerente e com alta-qualidade, das praticas rituais e da vida das comunidades de caçadore-coletores que na época vivam nessa região. Gravadas e desenhadas nas rochas, há ilustrações de rinocerontes, elefantes, girafas e avestruzes, além de pegadas de animais e humanas. Vestígios arqueológicos encontrados, indicam que, na região, já existia presença humana, desde a Idade da Pedra, por volta de 6.000 anos atrás.

Em 2007, a Organização das Nações Unidas para a Educação, a Ciência e a Cultura aprovou-a como o primeiro sítio de Património Mundial da Namíbia.

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Nintendo to shutter Club Nintendo rewards program
The game and console maker says it will offer a revamped rewards program to US-based customers "at a later date."
Jan. 20, 2015 6:31 a.m. PT
Former CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology columnist who has covered everything from HDTVs to computers to Flowbee Haircut Systems. Besides his work with CNET, Don's work has been featured in a variety of other publications including PC World and a host of Ziff-Davis publications.
Club Nintendo is going away and will be replaced by something else. Josh Miller/CNET
Game maker Nintendo has decided to discontinue its Club Nintendo rewards program.
The closure, announced Tuesday, suggests that Nintendo is seeking to modify the customer experience for gamers. Nintendo's console, the Wii U, has been stumbling in the US market, trailing far behind both Sony's PlayStation 4 and Microsoft's Xbox One. While Nintendo has acknowledged that its console hasn't achieved the same level of success as its predecessor, the Wii, the company has stuck to its model, believing that more first-party titles and the console's combination of dual-screen game play and motion will help it turn the tide. Most game analysts think otherwise.
The game maker launched Club Nintendo in the US in 2008, allowing customers to earn digital coins and receive loyalty rewards for buying the company's hardware or first-party games. Nintendo also asked its club members to fill out surveys, which would earn them additional coins. Based on the number of coins collected, members could buy a wide range of goods, including digital downloads, ringtones and T-shirts.
US-based Club Nintendo members will no longer be able to earn coins after March or redeem coins after June 30, Nintendo said. The company has provided similar, but not identical, rules in other countries where Club Nintendo operates.
While Club Nintendo was a favorite among hardcore fans, it never took off among the average consumer who simply wanted to play games on the company's consoles. Indeed, the only market in which Club Nintendo was especially successful was Japan, where the company still has a dominant presence in the gaming space. According to Nintendo of Japan, Club Nintendo has 6.2 million members. Nintendo of America has not provided user data.
Nintendo's issues are diverse, but among them it's easy to single out as significant the Wii U's heavy reliance upon first-party titles and its focus on casual gamers who are increasingly turning to mobile apps to get their gaming fix.
Despite discontinuing Club Nintendo, the game maker believes that offering some kind of rewards program to loyal customers is important. Therefore, Nintendo said Tuesday that it will announce a replacement for Club Nintendo in the US "at a later date."
"Nintendo of America is adding dozens of new items to the Club Nintendo rewards catalog to help members redeem the last of their Coins," a company spokesperson said. "Nintendo has the best fans in the world, and we thank them for participating in this free loyalty rewards program. Nintendo of America will be announcing a new customer loyalty program at a later date."
Update at 11:14 a.m. PT to include Nintendo's statement.


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Their old site left so much to be desired from. It was outdated and the church staff has issues with updating.
The new site is HTML/CSS and in the CMSMS Content Management System. The news and event listings are the same editable listing with two different CSS-styled views. The slideshow on the front has been done using jQuery and an HTML list with CSS styling. The site has browser fixes for optimum display in IE7.
It's pretty sad when you read a magazine for the ads. It's worse when you catch an ad with a spelling error. Can you catch the one below (no, I didn't design this)?


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4 Jake's Wayback Burgers
5 Muscle Maker Grill
6 Stanford's Restaurant & Bar
8 Sarpino's Pizzeria
9 Twin Peaks
10 Nothing Bundt Cakes
11 Lazy Dog Café
12 The Wing Warehouse
14 Crumbs Bake Shop
15 Eddie V's Prime Seafood
16 Costa Vida Fresh Mexican Grill
17 Zoup! Fresh Soup Company
18 Specialty's Café & Bakery
19 American Deli
20 Chop't Creative Salad Company
21 Anthony's Coal Fired Pizza
22 Flat Top Grill
23 Filiberto's Mexican Food
24 Bru's Room Sports Grill
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31 Another Broken Egg Cafe
34 Chronic Tacos
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37 Stevi B's–The Ultimate Pizza Buffet
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Construction beaten by Tottenville in final
By Joseph Staszewski Posted on June 12, 2014
By Joseph Staszewski
The Red Hawks left more upset with how they lost than the fact that consecutive city titles eluded their grasp.
Top-seeded Construction turned in a less than stellar performance in a 13-3 defeat at the hands of No. 3 Tottenville in the PSAL Class A softball final Sunday at St. John's University.
Construction made two of its six errors in the opening frame and watched the Pirates score five times on their way to avenging Tottenville's title game loss last year.
"I know we are a better team than that," Red Hawks senior ace Britney Rodriguez said. "We just fell short. We didn't come out the way we're supposed to."
It was her own wild throw to first from her knees that set a bad tone in the opening frame, but Construction Coach Marco Migliaccio said his squad should have picked its leader up.
Instead, Tottenville (19-1) scored five times on three hits in the first inning. The Pirates added six more runs in the third to make it 11-0, while pounding Rodriguez for five hits including a two-run homer by freshman catcher Jamie Holmes.
Holmes and her Tottenville teammate, senior shortstop Jillian Regan, combined to go 7-for-14 with six runs scored and five RBIs. Migliaccio recalled when his team turned in a similar performance in a 13-1 loss to Bayside in late April.
"Horrible flashbacks," the coach said. "Those two innings were just unbelievable, totally unexpected. That first inning, it set the tone."
His team did attempt to rally in the fourth when it loaded the bases with no outs. Construction's Nicole Ovelheira delivered a two-run single and Amy Pirozek later scored on an error to make it 11-3 with no outs.
A pop-out, ground-out and Ovelheira being thrown out on a close play at home ended any hope of more runs. Construction (18-2) managed just four hits against Tottenville starter Gilizia Mendoza.
"I had the feeling that, if we would have gotten a couple more hits, it would have brought everybody's spirit up and would have helped us," Pirozek said. "It didn't work out."
While the end wasn't the storybook conclusion they had envisioned, seniors Rodriguez, Pirozek, Daniela Isabella and Karina Aquino leave behind careers that will never be forgotten at the Ozone Park school.
They helped propel the Red Hawks from a Class B team to one of the city's best softball squads. Construction reached at least the semifinals each season and won the Class A title last year. By doing so, they became one of just two teams to beat Tottenville in the final during the last 11 years and own a 3-2 record against the Pirates in the last three years.
"This is not how I wanted it to end," Rodriguez said. "I wanted to end with another championship, but I have a strong team behind me. They all pick each other up and we tried out best."
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I had a thoughtful post scheduled for today.
Then I learned of the deaths of Robin Williams, Lauren Bacall, and Arlene Martel, who played T'Pring in the "Amok time" episode of Star Trek: TOS.
And now I'm just sad and can't do thoughtful or intellectual or relevant.
So, although I want to post something new and original tonight, I'm sort of wallowing in sadness.
Sad owl is sad. And me, too.
Tomorrow, yes. New and original.
But tonight...RIP, people who have made my life more meaningful because of your art.
Here's a post. Share my sorrow, or cheer me up. But this is what I can do tonight.
Happy Rain God Day in Droughtistan.
I can totally relate. August is a very up and down month for me every year. Today was a struggle for me.
It is always really weird when famous people die. Because you feel like you know them, sort of, and you take their existence for granted, like the way you assume McDonalds will always be around. When they die, it is a reminder that ANYONE can die. I mean, I have lost family members before and I do know it can happen. But to me, when a famous person dies, it is a huge reminder of my own mortality. Does that even make sense?


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2020 candidate Tulsi Gabbard has spoken out against the US government's plans to extradite and punish WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange, calling it a "blow to transparency and a blow to a free press."
Speaking to MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Thursday, Gabbard defended the prior administration's decision not to attempt to extradite Assange. Despite his administration's record use of the Espionage act against whistleblowers, Barack Obama opted not to pursue charges against Assange, claiming it would create a dangerous precedent for journalists.
Assange Arrest: The message is clear. To journalists and all Americans, if you try to take away our power, you will pay a high price. pic.twitter.com/tEgVt6t6Tm
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"This is a threat to journalists," she told Matthews, "but it's also something that threatens every American, because the message that we are getting, that the American people are getting is: Be quiet, toe the line, otherwise there will be consequences."
Assange was dragged from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London by British police on Thursday morning, and later found guilty of skipping bail back in 2012. He is due to be sentenced next month and could face a year in prison. Separately, the US Justice Department has indicted Assange on "conspiracy to commit computer intrusion," with US Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning in 2010.
The WikiLeaks founder received little sympathy from Gabbard's fellow lawmakers, Republican or Democrat. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer flogged the dead horse of the 'Russiagate' conspiracy, accusing Assange of "meddling in our elections on behalf of Putin," a sentiment echoed by Intelligence Committee chair Richard Burr (R-North Carolina), who said that WikiLeaks "effectively acted as an arm of the Russian intelligence services for years."
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Progressive figurehead and 2020 contender Bernie Sanders kept quiet on the whole affair, while failed 2016 candidate Hillary Clinton told an audience in New York that "it's ironic that he may be the only foreigner that this administration would welcome to the United States," before chuckling at her own joke.
President Donald Trump, who told campaign rallies "I love WikiLeaks" in 2016 now seems to be ready to wash his hands of Assange. Asked about the arrest on Thursday, Trump told reporters "I know nothing about WikiLeaks. It's not my thing."
If extradited and found guilty, Assange faces five years in prison for the US charge. However, his lawyers are concerned that the Justice Department may tack on additional charges, and have vowed to fight the extradition process tooth and nail.
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LG launches germ-killing autonomous robot
Martyn Landi, PA Technology Correspondent
Tech giant LG has launched a new autonomous robot which uses ultraviolet light to disinfect surfaces amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
The Cloi UV-C robot uses ultraviolet C (UV-C) light to disinfect touchable surfaces in communal spaces in around 30 minutes.
Officially unveiled during the first day CES digital event on Monday, LG said the device is designed to operate in hospitality, retail, corporate and educational settings as a way to irradiate high-touch, high-traffic areas.
It is the latest example of technology firms responding to new needs created during the pandemic, and follows LG's introduction last year of a battery-powered face mask which the company labelled a wearable air purifier.
The LG CLOi UV-C Robot use UV lamps to protect against infectants. These CLOi robots go around high touch, high traffic areas and use UV lights to help reduce exposure to harmful germs. #LGCES2021 @LGCommDisplays pic.twitter.com/901bPsfHJ7
— LG Electronics (@LGUS) January 11, 2021
LG said this latest robot had been created at a time "when hygiene is of the highest priority for hotel guests, students and restaurant customers".
The new robot is also programmed to reduce human exposure to UV rays, with motion detection sensors in place which activate a safety lock and stop the robot when it senses people within a five-metre radius.
The robot's progress and controls can also be accessed via a connected mobile app.
Elsewhere at its CES press conference, the Korean tech firm unveiled a range of new home appliances, including new smart fridges and washing machines, as well as a new line of high-end LCD televisions.
CES is normally held every January in Las Vegas, with thousands of exhibitors and more than 170,000 attendees coming to see a wide range of new gadgets unveiled.
However, the event has moved entirely online for the first time in 2021 as the world continues to deal with the coronavirus pandemic.
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Robert graduated from Western Michigan University with BS in Biology with minors in Sociology and Psychology. He joined the Navy in 1967 and acquired additional medical training as a Hospital Corpsman. Robert attended Kalamazoo Valley Community College for more classwork in preparation to enter an MBA graduate program at Western Michigan University.
Robert's interest in the medical field led to a 30-year career at Pharmacia and Upjohn (PNU). He started as an Animal Technician in the Research Division while attending school and has held positions in Quality Control, Human Fertility, Psychopharmacology, and Urology. His current position is in Clinical Research, as a Senior Clinical Specialist, where he monitors the clinical research process in the study of urological medications. His work in biology has provided opportunities for travel to countries in North and South America and Hawaii.
Robert attributes a good learning environment and spiritual guidance provided by the faculty, staff and parents at Covert High School to his success as a parent and biologist. As a researcher in the field of Biology, Robert has received numerous Certificates of Achievement.
Robert Terrentine presently lives in Kalamazoo with his wife Bonnie and their children Melita, Timothy, Alecia, and Travis. Robert's enjoyment of his family, church, and community has motivated him to participate and volunteer for activities associated with each for which he has been publicly recognized.


This story was reported in partnership with the California Data Fellowship, a program of USC's Center for Health Journalism. Staff writer Ian Wheeler and staff photographer David Crane contributed to this report.
Third in a four-part series that examines emergency room use in Southern California.
Emergency departments at three hospitals stood out in all of California as the ones that were the most visited in 2016.
For Dr. Alp Arkun, the emergency department of the future goes back to the past, when heart attacks, falls, broken bones and traffic accidents made up the bulk of patients who were rushed through the doors, and physicians spent their time on the fast, life saving practices they were taught.
"We're seeing a lot preventative visits if you will, not necessarily, 'hey take care of my high blood pressure,' but they may be here for something else and we discover they have high blood pressure and we recommend something," said Arkun, Chief of Service of Kaiser Emergency Department at Fontana and Ontario.
In San Bernardino County, a region that has seen growth in both population and the number of people gain health insurance, Kaiser Fontana and Kaiser Ontario have the highest emergency departments visits in California, according to state data which combined their visits.
In 2010, Kaiser Fontana had 87,316 visits to their emergency department. In 2016, that number increased by 65 percent to 143,783 visits, having added totals from Kaiser's new Ontario facility, which opened in 2011.
At the same time, nearby Arrowhead Medical Center, a public hospital in Colton run by the San Bernardino County, saw a 27 percent decline in emergency room visits, from 127,257 in 2010 to 93,283 in 2016.
But unlike many medical facilities, Kaiser was ready for the boost in membership, Arkun said.
"We had a huge onboarding of physicians and nurses and staff and I think the organization was prepared pretty well for the onslaught of new membership.
What also increased in the emergency department was the number of nonmembers, Arkun said.
"We have the highest non-member rate," he added.
Indeed, 40 percent of visitors to Kaiser Fontana's emergency room in 2016 were non-members. In Ontario, non-members made up about 20 percent of emergency department visits.
Arkun said the increased visits likely stressed the entire health care system across San Bernardino County, including the other hospitals in the area. Patients still received care, he noted, and the number of uninsured patients fell as well.
But in general, San Bernardino County's challenge is having enough primary care physicians.
"When you have new insurance and you can't get to a physician and you can't get to primary care, you're going to go the emergency departments," Arkun said. "It's a lot of what we were seeing before. Patients are seeking care more, fortunately and more easily with the ACA.
The overall health system is getting taxed and all emergency departments are finding themselves making difficult choices, because everything is about resources, Arkun said.
Which is why the emergency department of the future needs a rewind.
Near downtown Los Angeles, one of the busiest emergency departments in the nation takes in some of the area's most severe injuries: Gang-related gunshot wounds, burns, injuries from multi-vehicle crashes on busy freeways nearby.
Those are just some of the cases rushed through the doors of Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center's emergency department.
In addition, when despair is high and there is no other place to go, those from Skid Row and people from immigrant communities also come to the hospital, once nicknamed the "Great Stone Mother," because of its size and art deco style.
With nearly 130,000 visits to its emergency department in 2016, the hospital nearly topped the state.
Still, even after the Affordable Care Act passed, LAC+USC saw fewer visitors compared to 2010.
"I completely expected the increase because of an unmet need," said Dr. Michael Menchine, an emergency physician at County-USC Medical Center and an associate professor at USC's Keck School of Medicine.
"We'll see the drop in emergency department visits, but I honestly think that's a decade away," he said. "The local clinics have to increase their capabilities. The patients need to know where they are. It's not exactly obvious where the primary care doctors are in the community, whether they are trustworthy.
The hospital sees a high number of both Medi-Cal patients and uninsured. At least 2.9 million people statewide remain uninsured, according to the California Health Care Foundation.
Many of them are undocumented people who do not qualify for federal or state subsidized health insurance. Los Angeles County offers some local, subsidized care for them.
"Again, it's just one of those things that the uninsured have the same fears of being stuck with a big bill as they always have," Menchine said.
Menchine too has felt the same frustration as people on Medi-Cal who can't find a primary care physician or a specialist.
"I could tell story after story after story of a patient who comes to an ER with an orthopedic injury," he said.
These patients have broken their arm, have been treated at the emergency department, then ask primary care physicians for referrals to orthopedist, only to "run into the wall," because there are not enough specialists who take Medi-Cal.
He said the system in place needs improvement.
The hospital too has its own resources to direct people with non life threatening illnesses to other programs to receive preventative care. But Menchine acknowledged that the hospital is so big, even patients get discouraged when it comes to using other resources that could help them avoid the emergency department.
The original hospital opened in 1923 and decades later expanded to LAC+USC. It holds several distinctions, including as having the world's busiest emergency departments.
It's one of 13 statewide that is a "level one" trauma center, operates one of three burn centers in Los Angeles County and serves as the host facility for the U.S. Navy's Trauma Training Center, according to published reports.
In 2014, the hospital opened The Wellness Center inside the original general hospital where organizations such as the American Diabetes Association offer classes in diabetes prevention and management.
Menchine said it's been a challenge to direct patients to the center, because it's at another side of the hospital, far from the main entrance of the emergency department, where people continue to come in.
The hospital recently noted that and placed a navigator inside the emergency department, so that patients who leave are given information on how to access primary care and other prevention care at the Wellness Center.
Changing habits, expanding care in the community, and encouraging more prevention will help alleviate the high numbers of visits at the emergency department, Menchine said.
"Over time, the clinics will pop up and the people will get used to going to clinics and we'll see a dip in emergency medicine," he said.
The third busiest emergency department in all of California sits within a 2,200 square mile area, near where Los Angeles County's border hugs the western tip of the Mojave Desert.
With more than 400 beds, Antelope Valley Hospital is the largest in the region and also one of the most isolated, said President and CEO Michael Wall.
"We're the safety net hospital," Wall said.
Indeed, a look at the data show that the hospital bears a lot of visits, before and after the Affordable Care Act. It posted the third-highest number of visits in all of California in 2016.
In addition to more visits, the hospital also has endured turmoil in recent years, including a drop in patient confidence and credit rating.
That started to turn around last year.
Wall, considered a 30-year veteran in the healthcare field who oversaw operations at at St. John's Health Center/John Wayne Cancer Institute in Santa Monica and at Northridge Medical Center, was hired in early 2017.
Late last year, Moody's Investors Services lifted the hospital's credit rating from "negative" to "stable." The rating was raised due to a change in the governance structure, increased stability and stronger cash flow, according to published reports.
Dr. Lawrence Stock, vice chair of the emergency department at Antelope Valley Hospital, said the high number of visits to the emergency department have always been there, both before and after the Affordable Care Act.
In 2010, there were 112,352 visits to the emergency department. By 2016, visits had climbed by 12 percent, to 125,862.
He said the Antelope Valley's population of 500,000 people are growing older and have multiple chronic conditions such as heart disease or lung problems. The hospital also sees a high number of pediatric emergency visits, because there's no children's hospital nearby.
With a new board and CEO installed, Wall said more people are coming in for medical services.
The health profile of residents in the area also contributes to the high number of visits and admissions, Wall noted.
Additionally, 30 percent of residents are on disability, and about 42 percent are unemployed.
Despite its distance from urban areas, Antelope Valley Hospital and those across California will have to evolved to deliver care differently as the health care landscape changes.
"I think all of healthcare delivery will run differently," he said. "We've got a 50 year old plan we're going to have to replace.


When it comes to celebrate, we humans never back down. We start decorating everything, starting from our houses or workplaces. We use different ways to make sure that our decoration is speaking for itself and spread the message that this celebration is for some special reason. Lights are the soul element when we talk about decoration, a proper lighting alone is considered as a proper decoration. When we put outdoor patio string lights, the view of the house or the place immediately changes to something much more attractive and beautiful. Patio strings light are the old time favorite lighting style which used for any happy event or moment which demands celebration.
In outdoor patio string lights, small light bulbs are used and are covered together under a clear PVC material, in this arrangement the bulbs are at equal distance from each other connected with thin wires to complete the circuit. These long rope like lights can be made as long as the demand is, as the structure/design of these lights are flexible enough to provide the freedom to choose. Patio light not only gives the freedom to choose the length of the string, but also the freedom to choose the design, colour, bulb's shape(which resembles cat, fish, dog, flower, etc.), pattern of on/off, etc. These lights are also traditional christmas lights and can also be used during summer holidays.
In these kinds of lights, led bulbs are used which have got very interesting property to generate colour itself. That is, these bulbs don't need any kind of colour paper or layer on themselves to give out different colours. These LED bulbs when given an input of current produce different colours and the moment the current is switched off, the bulbs become colourless. LED rope lights are quite better option because of its power consumption too. These bulbs consume very low electricity and more specifically they consume 1 watt/foot which is very economical. These lights have got a long life and hence are bit more expensive than traditional patio lights.
This is another kind of the patio lights also the traditional one which is being used from 19's, when LED wasn't famous. In this type the bulbs don't emitt out colours by themselves, rather they just emitt white lights and the covering of the coloured paper or the layer of a colour makes that white light colourful. In terms of power consumption incandescent outdoor patio string lights are not the favorable one. As these lights consume 3 watt/foot, which is 3 times more than the LED. But as the life of these lights is shorter than LED, so the price to buy these lights is also low, which is quite useful for one-time lighting.
So whenever we need to light up the staircase, garden, pool, walls of the house, driveway, shed, etc. outdoor patio string lights is the right way to do so.


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Escondido Marine Sgt. and Wife Honored at White House
U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Colin Archipley and his wife, Karen, were among those honored by the "Champions of Change" program for their work with a small business and non-profit that benefits veterans across the country
By Monica Garske	• Published August 27, 2014 • Updated on August 28, 2014 at 11:43 am
An Escondido couple who runs an organic farming business that benefits U.S. military veterans was recognized for their good work by the White House on Wednesday.
Combat-decorated U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Colin Archipley and his wife, Karen Archipley, were among 12 veterans and their families honored by the "Champions of Change" program in Washington, D.C.
The program was created by the Obama Administration as a way to recognize individuals and organizations that empower and inspire their communities.
Together, the Archipleys run Archi's Organic Farming Enterprise, a certified organic greenhouse operation in Escondido that grows basil, kale, herbs and other fresh produce using hydro-organic farming techniques.
In the process, the couple has helped create jobs within their community.
Working with Cal Poly Pomona, the couple created the Veterans Sustainable Agriculture Training Program (VSAT), a program that helps train U.S. military vets for new careers in agriculture and family farming as they transition out of the military and into civilian life.
The intensive, six-week course includes training in hydroponics, drip and micro irrigation, environmental control, soil biology, composting, greenhouse management and more.
Graduates of the VSAT program have been able to start careers as successful farm owners and workers, restaurateurs and owners of food companies, according the Archi's Acres website.
Through VSAT, Sgt. Archipley said they have been able to train approximately 250 service members, many of whom have gone on to start their own businesses.
Sgt. Archipley said the process of transitioning out of the military can be difficult, but having his own business has given him a new focus and mission in the private sector, which includes helping others.
"It's part of something greater. You're building this business, you're putting people to work, you're adding to the community," he explained from Washington, D.C.
He called the experience of serving his country and then going into business for himself a "unique American story."
"We're privileged by the opportunities that this country provides," he added.
Karen said farming and agriculture was therapeutic for her husband after he returned home from his third tour overseas. As they were thinking of a business they could start and grow together, farming became their answer.
"Agriculture allowed Colin to come back and decompress, and at the same time, earn a great living," Karen explained.
The couple said their family farm and VSAT program was very much embraced by the San Diego community. Over the years, Karen said they have worked closely with Camp Pendleton and MCAS Miramar to introduce their agriculture program to transitioning military service members.
"San Diego is just so supportive of veterans," said Sgt. Archipley.
The couple said being recognized by the White House was an honor, and more than they could've ever imagined for their business and agriculture program.
"It's euphoric. To be recognized is pretty exciting for us," said Sgt. Archipley. "We'll continue to do what we do, if we get recognition or not because that's where our heart is. But to be recognized by the White House – it's just such an honor."
"We're reinvigorating the family farm across America, and doing it organically," Karen added.
To learn more about the Archipley's work, visit their website.


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Grabów est une gmina (commune) rurale (gmina wiejska) du powiat de Łęczyca, dans la Łódź, dans le centre de la Pologne.

Son siège administratif (chef-lieu) est le village de Grabów, qui se situe environ  (km) au nord-ouest de Łęczyca (siège du powiat) et  au nord-ouest de la capitale régionale Łódź (capitale de la voïvodie).

La gmina couvre une superficie de  pour une population de  en 2006.

Histoire
De 1975 à 1998, la gmina est attachée administrativement à la voïvodie de Konin.
Depuis 1999, elle fait partie de la voïvodie de Łódź.

Géographie
La gmina inclut les villages et localités de :

Gminy voisines
La gmina de Grabów est voisine des gminy de:
 Chodów
 Dąbie
 Daszyna
 Kłodawa
 Łęczyca
 Olszówka
 Świnice Warckie

Structure du terrain
D'après les données de 2014, la superficie de la commune de Grabów est de  carrés, répartis comme telle :
 terres agricoles : 91 %
 forêts : 7 %
La commune représente 20,05 % de la superficie du powiat.

Démographie
Données du  :

Annexes

Liens internes
 Liste des gminy de Łódź

Références

 Chiffres de population officiels polonais 2006

Liens externes
  Site officiel de la gmina

Gmina dans la voïvodie de Łódź
Powiat de Łęczyca


Marty's Place has 4.5 acres of pastoral beauty with expansive views of Saratoga Passage, Camano Island and Mount Baker. We are located on a high bluff above the water.
Master Whidbey's Bedroom is our master suite and the most luxurious bedroom in our house. It has a private balcony with a view of the grounds and the water beyond.
Love cooking? Marty's Place is for you. We have a gourmet kitchen with a wooden island to prepare your food, two ovens, two dishwashers, two sinks and all the pots and pans you will need to make magnificent meals for your family.
We have beautiful, pastoral views of the garden, the corral or the water from all of the bedrooms and other rooms in the house. You can see always our our beautiful grounds or the stunning view.
Enjoy our stone firepit on the bluff overlooking the water. If it is too cold to use the firepit, you can relax around the fireplace in the living room and still enjoy the view through our panoramic windows.
Our large wraparound porch is the perfect place to relax and enjoy the view. Sitting in the chairs under the skylight, you can look out over the lawn to the water, Camano Island and Mt. Baker.
Did you know that you can visit Langley, WA and stay at Marty's Place at Strawbridge Farm with your electric car?
Do you play the piano? Marty's Place has an antique upright Steinway piano made in 1930. You can play for your family in the living room in front of the fire while looking out over our beautiful view.
We know how hard it is to leave your pets at home, so your dogs and cats are welcome at Marty's Place with prior approval.
Marty's Place has a propane BBQ grill adjacent to the garden for our guests to use.
We have a short trail through the woods at Marty's Place. As you walk along the path, surrounded by tall trees, you will encounter some surprises along the way.
The downstairs of our house is accessible to those with limited mobility. The ground floor can be reached by a wide ramp from the driveway, and all of the downstairs rooms, including the full bathroom, can accommodate wheelchairs.
House through the Apple Tree, "Luxury Master Suite with Private Bath" and "Entertainment, Internet and Home Office" photos Copyright © 2014 by RA Stine.


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Nélson Alexandre da Silva Veríssimo (born 17 April 1977) is a Portuguese former footballer who played as a central defender, currently a manager.

Formed at Benfica, he totalled 221 Primeira Liga games with that team, Académica de Coimbra, Alverca and Vitória de Setúbal (Taça de Portugal winner in 2005), as well as 149 in the second division for Alverca and Fátima. He earned 36 caps for Portugal up to under-21 and B-team level.

As a manager, Veríssimo held several roles at Benfica, including twice being caretaker manager of the first team, and two spells in charge of the reserves. He also led Estoril in the top flight.

Playing career
Veríssimo was born in Vila Franca de Xira, Lisbon District. During his professional career, the youth graduate at S.L. Benfica (having joined the club's youth system at the age of 12, he only appeared in four first-team games during his short spell) represented F.C. Alverca – the first of his spells being while they acted as the former's farm team– Académica de Coimbra, Vitória de Setúbal, C.D. Fátima and C.D. Mafra.

Signed for Fátima by Rui Vitória, Veríssimo's four seasons at the Estádio João Paulo II involved their only three seasons in the Segunda Liga; their only national title, the 2008–09 Segunda Divisão won against Leonardo Jardim's G.D. Chaves; as well as a run to the fourth round of the Taça da Liga in 2007–08 via a penalty shootout win over FC Porto.

Coaching career
Veríssimo rejoined Benfica immediately after retiring, being appointed assistant coach with the reserves in the second division, first under Luís Norton de Matos, then former teammate at the club Hélder Cristóvão. In January 2019, as Bruno Lage was named caretaker manager at the main squad, he assumed the same position in the secondary team; he returned to the latter's technical staff shortly after, now permanently in charge of the main squad.

When Lage resigned in July 2020, after Benfica fell into second place behind FC Porto in the closing stages of the season, Veríssimo took interim charge of the first team; he won 3–1 at home to Boavista F.C. on his debut.

After the appointment of Jorge Jesus as manager of the first team, Veríssimo was named manager of the reserves, replacing Renato Paiva. In December 2021, after Jesus was sacked, he was again named interim of the main squad, leaving Benfica B as leader of the Portuguese second league. He led the team into the Final of the Taça da Liga, losing 2–1 against Sporting CP. Benfica remained trophyless, and Veríssimo guided the club to the Champions League quarter-finals, losing to Liverpool 6–4 on aggregate and a disappointing third place finish, qualifying to the third qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League.

After leaving Benfica at the end of the season, Veríssimo was announced as the new manager of G.D. Estoril Praia on 2 July 2022, replacing Bruno Pinheiro. He was dismissed the following 24 February with the team 15th after 21 games, albeit seven points outside the relegation play-off place.

Managerial statistics

Honours
Vitória Setúbal
Taça de Portugal: 2004–05

Fátima
Portuguese Second Division: 2008–09

References

External links

1977 births
Living people
People from Vila Franca de Xira
Sportspeople from Lisbon District
Portuguese footballers
Association football defenders
Primeira Liga players
Liga Portugal 2 players
Segunda Divisão players
S.L. Benfica footballers
F.C. Alverca players
Associação Académica de Coimbra – O.A.F. players
Vitória F.C. players
C.D. Fátima players
C.D. Mafra players
Portugal youth international footballers
Portugal under-21 international footballers
Portuguese football managers
Primeira Liga managers
Liga Portugal 2 managers
S.L. Benfica B managers
S.L. Benfica managers
G.D. Estoril Praia managers
Association football coaches
S.L. Benfica non-playing staff