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Thursday, May 26, 2011 2:00 AM
Hospitalists cover inpatient care from admission through discharge
Dr. Uma Rao jokes that not too long ago if you asked a hospital visitor about her specialty they would say a "hospitalist" was the person in charge of hospitality and greeting visitors. But with nearly 20 hospitalists on duty daily at Community Medical Centers' three hospitals, more and more people know she's the physician who coordinates care.
She handles patient care — from admission to discharge — inside the hospital so that primary care physicians can focus on treating their patients outside the hospital. "I always tell people I'm an inpatient physician rather that a hospitalist," Dr. Rao says.
She's one of about 50 doctors in the Community Hospitalist Medical Group and in one of the fastest growing specialties in internal medicine. The specialty started in the mid-1990s as a way to help primary care physicians manage their time between busy medical offices and treating hospitalized patients. And having experts in-house helps expedite care for hospital patients.
"We're here for daily rounds, to follow up immediately on lab work and X-rays or to handle an emergency situation or acute change in a patient. That's the beauty of hospitalists," explains Dr. Nichole Wiley, a Community hospitalist. "We're the doctor that's always available to coordinate care or order necessary tests and lab work. It benefits the patient with shorter hospital stays and lower medical care costs."
And since hospitalists' "office" is the hospital they become very familiar with hospital staff, policies and activities and often support enhancements of the hospital environment and procedures. The Community Hospitalists Medical Group recently gave a substantial gift towards the expansion of the Clovis Community Medical Center, a project that will double the hospital's capacity and create all private patient rooms.
Studies have shown that where hospitalists have been in place for many years, it takes fewer doctors to manage patients and there's more uniformity in medical care, especially on the timing of medication, lab tests and when to start an IV. Also patients and their families report higher satisfaction with their hospital experience on surveys of hospitals with a well-established group of hospitalists.
"Before hospitalists if there was a sudden change nurses would have to call the primary care physician and they would give orders over the phone based on what nurses would tell them about a patient's medical condition," says Dr. Wiley. "There's no substitute for being on site with the patient."
Dr. Rao agrees, "I think patients and their families feel a sense of comfort when you're right there and you see them every day."
Dr. Nichole Wiley, a hospitalist, sees patient Mike Fagoni at least once a day on her rounds at Community Regional.
Mike Fajoni, 61, who spent more than a week at Community Regional Medical Center recovering from pneumonia and starting cancer treatments, certainly likes the attention he gets from daily visits with Dr. Wiley. "This is pretty hands on," he says. "That's an excellent thing. I can't get away with anything when she's around. She's like mamma. I've been in other hospitals and it wasn't like this. I see Dr. Wiley at least once a day. She answers all my questions."
Dr. Wiley loves the immediacy and challenge of hospital medicine, of being able to become an expert on complex cases.
Dr. Rao, who tried private practice for six years before becoming an in-hospital-only physician, said that was the draw for her too. "There's an excitement to being able to turn a patient's health around immediately," she said. "You can fix the problem and there's that satisfaction. And once the shift is done you also have a sense of peace leaving the hospital, knowing that your colleague is taking over for the next 12 hours. In outpatient medicine you are it for the patient 24/7 and you worry when patients leave an office visit if they're going to get worse."
Erin Kennedy reported this story. She can be reached at ekennedy@communitymedical.org.


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Parts I and II of this post went over some of the rules for parenting coordination, in particular some of the points of contention raised in the brief Sotero opinion, and that come up frequently in cases in Broward and Palm Beach counties also. Now the issue is how important are the rules, or rather how important is it if for the focus to not be on the legal rules once parenting coordination sessions start. I don't think there is much disagreement with the idea that it is good to make the ground rules for parenting coordination clear at the beginning, in a Court order if there is one, and in a Parenting Coordination agreement between the parents and the parenting coordinator, so that everyone is clear regarding confidentiality, how the process works, fees, the goals, etc.
However, instead of or perhaps in between the worries and concerns regarding the rules, or legalities or what's fair to one parent or the other, there have to be moments when there's a focus on finding some small steps one or both parents can take to bring about even minor improvements or decreases in conflict, or increases in the period of time between difficulties. The small step might be something that has worked in the past, or a small adjustment that brings about a change in the way things unfold. This may sound far fetched as a way to improve a highly conflictual situation, but if you're in a situation where it seems the conflict goes on and on, and nothing has worked, it might be worth going along and giving something else a try.
One of the hallmarks of a parenting coordination approach, I believe, is that it's not really an "insight" oriented process. It's not psychoanalysis where you'll focus on your childhood, your "psyche", etc., but one issue worth considering is whether one or both parents is holding onto the conflict between them, because there is some alternative that is worse. It can also be important in parenting coordination when progress seems stalled, for all of the participants to remember that the primary focus is on what's good for the children, even though a solution or compromise, or taking a few days to think about an alternative, might not feel good for one or both parents at that moment.
The above is mostly focused on situations where there is very high conflict and things aren't working very well. Parenting coordination is also useful where the parents simply want additional help working out the details of a Parenting Plan, time-sharing, etc, in a forum that allows time to address these topics in more detail. Parenting Coordination is a forum where there's also an opportunity for the Parenting Coordinator to bring in any professional experience or opinions he or she has regarding time-sharing schedules, for example, that tend to work best for children the age of the children in the case, or to try to drawn on any available research results that can help the parents come to a decision about what is best for their children. In some respects, it's going to a "specialist" in Parenting Plans.
I think a lot of it comes down to the relationship you'll have with your Parenting Coordinator. You'll want to develop a positive relationship where you're working together for the most part, moving forward – there are always some problems, sidetracks along the way. You'll also, though, want the Parenting Coordinator to feel free to let you know when he or she disagrees with you, and thinks something else might work better for you and the children.


The taste-based method for curing teeth grinding. A Bruxism biofeedback method using bad tasting material. How Does this method work?
Bruxism Exercises – Will it Help My Bruxism?
A list of short, simple exercises you can do if you are feeling physically and mentally tense, plus an exercise to help prevent daytime bruxing.
How to prevent teeth grinding with a series of breathing, relaxation, meditation and guided thinking exercises.
Stress: you don't just take it to heart; you take it to your teeth as well.


I spent nearly 2 1/2 hours talking on the phone with "M", a retailer who's expanding into manufacturing (she's so brilliant I almost feel I should be paying her). As is usually the case, we swing off on tangents, kvetching over DEs. As a retailer, "M" has had ample opportunity to see what problems new designers can create for themselves on the sales and marketing end of things. Here are some of her comments (so it's not just my opinion). The biggest problem are unrealistic expectations and inappropriate priorities.
"M" says that DEs who don't have a sales rep are more likely to rely on mail pieces to sell their products. While you do have to start somewhere, DEs don't realize that glitzy piece-mailers and catalogs are a turn-off to retailers because it's not what they need. Many promotional pieces are designed as though they were intended to appear in Vogue magazine but those are unhelpful because the retailer needs to know the particular features of a product in order to sell it. An art piece cannot convey that. Simple line sheets with feature content is your best bet. DEs have a similar problem with hang-tag design. "M" mentions that not only do most consumers read hang-tags, they read them avidly. Your hang tags should educate the consumer and retailer regarding the benefits of your product. Retailers also dislike glitz because they know they're paying for it since the cost is rolled into your pricing and they resent paying for something they didn't want or need. Similarly, they'll wonder how much of the product's price is directly related to one's failure to prioritize spending in other areas they don't know about. "M" says a DE could load the pretty stuff onto a web site -retailers are rarely motivated to visit- but that it's fine for marketing to consumers. Just remember that if you sell on web to consumers, you can't undercut your wholesale accounts. You can't sell products at a lower price than your retailers. You are allowed to put your stuff on sale but the benefit needs to extend to your buyers; the discounting must be a planned event and not because you're short on money this month.
Selling at market has changed because many retailers are not buying at market anymore. "M" says that most buyers have filled 95% of their OTB (open to buy) before they ever get to market which means they're relying on reps or the DEs to come to them first. They just go to market to validate what they've already bought and to make sure they haven't missed that one hot item. For this reason, more retailers are receptive to a first approach from designers at the store level. By the way, if you sell the stuff yourself and get a sales rep later on, make sure you keep your previous accounts as "house accounts" and have those listed in your representation contract with the rep. Otherwise, you'll end up paying your rep 10% for these clients you managed quite well on your own. Unless of course you'd like the rep to assume the duties of servicing that customer.
Eventually you'll need a rep and it'll take time to build credibility so you shouldn't expect much until after several markets because the sales rep is not going to move other products they represent out of the way and put yours up front; it's the opposite. Your stuff will be in the back until the rep meets with a buyer who'd be more inclined to take a risk on you. "M" says switching reps frequently is a red flag to buyers. You have to give the rep time to sell your products. Once you gain credibility by filling your purchase orders, the rep knows you're able to weather the vagaries of manufacturing and your product line will gravitate forward in the booth. If you fail to deliver your products as promised and on time, it makes the rep look bad to the buyer and could affect sales of other lines the rep sells. Developing credibility takes time, over time. For this reason, acquiring house accounts (before you get a rep) can lend credibility to reps and buyers.
I'm referring to my typeface site when I say that I don't like the idea of sales. It seems to me that the customer would hesitate to pay full price later on cause they would just wait on a sale and doesn't SALE just scream, nobody's buying?
I just wanted to clarify since I made the original comment.
I have seen smaller companies that, for one reason or another, often have old styles of merchandise from previous seasons. These companies would hold sales or sample sales to clear out their merchandise but would not actually allow their retail accounts the chance to purchase these items.
As a retailer, I don't mind if a company provides a promotion or sale so long as they extend the same courtesy to the retailer, but don't leave the retailer out when they could have helped you clear out excess merchandise and enjoyed a better price as well.
We have about 90 retailers for our products, and we do both of these things (we choose not to sell directly to consumers). We have a yearly anniversary sale, before which we provide product to our retailers at a discount. Then we spend money advertising the sale, and driving biz to our retailers.
And when we want to clear old inventory, like discontinued fabrics, we discount them to our retailers. Often they will use these as either demo products in the stores, or as loss-leaders to pull people in.
Both of these strategies work really well for us.


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Field Hockey Back on Top as Conference Champions
Endicott field hockey beats rival UNE to capture championship glory.
The Endicott field hockey team punched their ticket to the NCAA tournament care of a 1-0 victory over the University of New England (UNE) in the 2018 Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) championship game. It is Endicott's third conference championship and the first since going back-to-back in 2011 and 2012.
"I couldn't be more proud of this team. We lost 10 contributing players from last year's team and when many people were questioning how we would rebuild, we came back stronger than ever."
After battling UNE through nearly 64 minutes of scoreless play, Gulls junior elementary education major Julie Champigny buried a shot to the back of the cage, her ninth goal of the season and her first since scoring in a win over UNE back on October 2. Taylor Farrin, a sophomore athletic training major, needed only three saves to record her ninth shutout of the season.
The Gulls outshot the UNE 26-7 and held a 15-2 advantage on penalty corners, but were tested throughout the game by a Nor'easters team that came in as the four-time defending CCC champions. Endicott outscored UNE 6-2 in their three wins, including two shutouts, over the Nor'easters during the 2018 season.
"From end line to end line, we were asked to make big plays and our team responded," said 12th-year head coach, Jodi Cipolla. "UNE did a great job defensively to make our attack work hard for a chance to convert. Our defense turned away some great scoring opportunities from their attacking unit."
With a 17-4 overall record and the CCC's automatic qualifier into the NCAA tournament in their pocket, Endicott will now wait for the postseason bracket to be released. Endicott is ranked fourth in the most recent NCAA New England East regional ranking and has a marquee win over MIT, the conference champions out of the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC). MIT was ranked No. 13 in the country when Endicott beat them 6-0 on the road.
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Player Perspective
"Each and every one of us knew that we were champions from the start of the season," said senior elementary education major Cameron Molinari. "We just had to prove it through hard work, passion, and determination."
Senior account major, Maggie O'Reilly said, "Collectively, as a team, we had a goal in mind and didn't let up from it all season."
"This year's field hockey team achieved the program goals they established back in August," said Brian Wylie, Ph.D., Assistant Vice President and Director of Athletics. "They were centered on teamwork, persistence, and will. We are so proud of what they have accomplished."
Interim President, Dr. Kathleen Barnes said, "Today, we witnessed an incredible accomplishment by a talented group of women. Our students, families, alumni, and supporters created an exhilarating championship environment and it was incredibly impactful! Congratulations to Endicott field hockey on winning today's CCC championship. You have made our campus community proud!"

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Not sure if your child is vaping? It can be hard to detect, but these tests can help
Updated: 10:15 PM EST Jan 31, 2019
Sheree Paolello
WEBVTT EVERY ONE OF THESE MASON HIGH SCHOOL KIDS. >> IT'S A PROBLEM. EVERYBODY'S JUULING, EVERYBODY'S VAPING SHEREE: HAS FRIENDS WHO ARE GETTING AN ELECTRONIC BUZZ. >> AT THIS POINT, YOU FEEL LIKE YOU'RE MORE IN THE MINORITY IF YOU AREN'T SHEREE: IT'S GOING ON AT PARTIES. AT SCHOOL, ON THE BUS. BEFORE A GAME. >> I PLAY LA CROSS AND HOCKEY AND 95% OF THE KIDS ON THE TEEM DO THAT STUFF. SHEREE: NONE OF THESE KIDS SMOKE. BUT THEY'RE WORRIED ABOUT THEIR FRIENDS WHO DO. WHY? WHY DID YOU AGREE TO DO THIS WITH ME? >> HONESTLY, I HATE SEEING MY FRIENDS DOING THAT. AND IT'S GOING TO HURT THEM IN THE LONG RUN, BECAUSE I KNOW PEOPLE WHO STARTED JUULING AND SOON AFTER STARTED SMOKING MARIJUANA. >> A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T EVEN KNOW THAT THEY HAVE NICOTINE IN THEM UNTIL RECENTLY, WHEN THEY'RE ALREADY HOOKED. SHEREE: THE PROBLEM IS MOST PARENTS HAVE NO IDEA WHAT'S GOING ON. UNLIKE CIGARETTES THAT SMELL VAPESOR A JUUL POD, THAT LOOKS LIKE A COMPUTER JUMP DRIVE, AND HAS THE SAME AMOUNT OF NICOTINE AS AN ENTIRE PACK OF CIGARETTES, ARE EITHER ODORLESS OR SMELL LIKE CANDY. >> I'M GENUINELY CONCERNED THAT 3-4 YEARS DOWN THE ROAD THAT WE HAVE A LOT OF KIDS WHO HAVE ADDICTION PROBLEMS THAT WE DID NOT SEE COMING. SHEREE: LAUREN GENTENE, THE PRINCIPAL AT MASON MIDDLE SCHOOL, HAS MADE IT HER MISSION TO EDUCATE PARENTS AND HER STAFF. SHE STARTED SEEING THE PROBLEM ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO AND SAYS. IT'S ONLY GETTING WORSE. >> WE WOULD FIND THAT A KID WAS CHARGING THIER VAPE IN CLASS ON A CHROME BOOK AND A TEACHER JUST HAD NO IDEA THAT'S WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE. SHEREE: BUT NOW THERE'S A TOOL EVERY PARENT CAN USE IF YOU THINK YOUR TEEN IS BLOWING YOU SMOKE. WE FOUND THESE AT HOME NICOTINE TEST KITS ONLINE. THEY RANGE FROM AS LITTLE AS 99 CENTS TO $16.99 AND PROMISE TO DETECT NICOTINE IN YOUR CHILDS URINE OR SALIVA, NO MATTER HOW FAINT. THEY'RE FAST AND EASY AND CLAIM TO BE 99% ACCURATE. DO YOU LIKE THAT IF IT WERE A CONCERN FOR YOU YOU'RE ABLE TO DO IT? >> ABSOLUTELY. SHEREE: EVEN THOUGH BLAKE'S MOM ALISSA MAHONEY ISN'T WORRIED ABOUT HIM OR HER OTHER TWO KIDS RIGHT NOW SHE KNOWS THERE'S A LOT OF PEER PRESSURE AND OTHER KIDS ARE DOING IT A LOT. >> I HOPE THAT PARENTS WILL USE THEM AND CHECK IN. YOU'RE WORRIED ABOUT YOUR KIDS ' ' SAFETY AND IF YOU REALLY ARE, THAN MAYBE IT'S A GOOD IDEA. SHEREE: ANOTHER OPTION FOR ALL OF YOU PARENTS, WHO WANT TO STAY ONE STEP AHEAD. I DIDN'T FIND ANY LOCAL PHARMACIES THAT CARRIED THE AT HOME NICOTINE TEST KITS. BUT AN ONLINE ORDER ARRIVED AT MY DOOR WITHIN DAYS. IF YOU WANT SOMETHING MORE IN DEPTH OR MORE DISCREET I ALSO FOUND A LOCAL LAB THAT WILL TEST URINE, BLOOD, OR HAIR FOLLICLES. IT'S CALLED ANY LAB TEST NOW,
Doctors call it an epidemic: teenagers vaping and and using juuls to get high. Teachers and administrators say they can't keep them out of the classroom or school bathrooms. Students at Mason High School tell us it's happening at parties, on the bus, even before games.Blake Mahoney, a sophomore at Mason, is one of four high schoolers who sat down with WLWT Anchor Sheree Paolello for a candid conversation. He plays lacrosse and hockey and says, "95 percent of the kids on the team do that stuff." These students are frustrated and surprised at how many of their friends are getting an electronic buzz. Sophomore Anna Kinasewitz admits, "At this point you feel like you're more in the minority if you aren't (juuling)." What's most concerning for these teenagers is the addiction and the unknown. "I hate seeing my friends doing that. And it's going to hurt them in the long run because I know people who started juuling and soon after, started smoking marijuana," Mahoney said. His friend Luke Hutchinson, who is a senior and editor in chief for the high school paper has the same concern. "A lot of people didn't even know that they have nicotine in them until recently, when they're already hooked," Hutchinson said.The problem is most parents have no idea what's going on. Unlike cigarettes, which smell, vapes and juul pods -- which looks like a computer jump drive and have the same amount of nicotine as an entire pack of cigarettes -- are either odorless or smell like candy. Lauren Gentene, principal at Mason Middle School, has made it her mission to educate parents and her staff. "I'm genuinely concerned that three to four years down the road that we have a lot of kids who have addiction problems that we did not see coming," she said. Gentene started seeing the problem about two years ago and said it's only getting worse. "We would find that a kid was charging their vape in class on a Chrome Book and a teacher just had no idea that's what it looked like," Gentene said. But now there's a tool every parent can use if they think their teenager is blowing them smoke. WLWT found At Home Nicotine Test Kits online. They range from as little as 99-cents to $16.99 and promise to detect nicotine in your child's urine or saliva, no matter how faint. They're fast and easy and claim to be 99 percent accurate. Blake Mahoney's mom Alissa, who is also a teacher at Mason, said she'd absolutely use an At Home Kit on any one of her three kids if she thought they were vaping or using a juul."I'm really concerned because I don't know that a lot of the parent's realize how bad they are," she said.Even though Alissa's not worried about her kids now, she knows there's a lot of peer pressure and other kids are doing it a lot. WLWT didn't find any local pharmacies that carry these At Home Nicotine Test Kits yet, but we ordered them online and they arrived within days. If parents are looking for something more in depth or they don't want their child to know they're testing them, WLWT also found a local lab that will test urine, blood or hair follicles. It's called Any Lab Test Now in Forest Park. It's another option for parents who want to stay one step ahead.
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Doctors call it an epidemic: teenagers vaping and and using juuls to get high.
Teachers and administrators say they can't keep them out of the classroom or school bathrooms.
Students at Mason High School tell us it's happening at parties, on the bus, even before games.
Blake Mahoney, a sophomore at Mason, is one of four high schoolers who sat down with WLWT Anchor Sheree Paolello for a candid conversation.
He plays lacrosse and hockey and says, "95 percent of the kids on the team do that stuff."
These students are frustrated and surprised at how many of their friends are getting an electronic buzz.
Sophomore Anna Kinasewitz admits, "At this point you feel like you're more in the minority if you aren't (juuling)."
What's most concerning for these teenagers is the addiction and the unknown.
"I hate seeing my friends doing that. And it's going to hurt them in the long run because I know people who started juuling and soon after, started smoking marijuana," Mahoney said.
His friend Luke Hutchinson, who is a senior and editor in chief for the high school paper has the same concern.
"A lot of people didn't even know that they have nicotine in them until recently, when they're already hooked," Hutchinson said.
The problem is most parents have no idea what's going on.
Unlike cigarettes, which smell, vapes and juul pods -- which looks like a computer jump drive and have the same amount of nicotine as an entire pack of cigarettes -- are either odorless or smell like candy.
Lauren Gentene, principal at Mason Middle School, has made it her mission to educate parents and her staff.
"I'm genuinely concerned that three to four years down the road that we have a lot of kids who have addiction problems that we did not see coming," she said.
Gentene started seeing the problem about two years ago and said it's only getting worse.
"We would find that a kid was charging their vape in class on a Chrome Book and a teacher just had no idea that's what it looked like," Gentene said.
But now there's a tool every parent can use if they think their teenager is blowing them smoke.
WLWT found At Home Nicotine Test Kits online. They range from as little as 99-cents to $16.99 and promise to detect nicotine in your child's urine or saliva, no matter how faint.
They're fast and easy and claim to be 99 percent accurate.
Blake Mahoney's mom Alissa, who is also a teacher at Mason, said she'd absolutely use an At Home Kit on any one of her three kids if she thought they were vaping or using a juul.
"I'm really concerned because I don't know that a lot of the parent's realize how bad they are," she said.
Even though Alissa's not worried about her kids now, she knows there's a lot of peer pressure and other kids are doing it a lot.
WLWT didn't find any local pharmacies that carry these At Home Nicotine Test Kits yet, but we ordered them online and they arrived within days.
If parents are looking for something more in depth or they don't want their child to know they're testing them, WLWT also found a local lab that will test urine, blood or hair follicles.
It's called Any Lab Test Now in Forest Park. It's another option for parents who want to stay one step ahead.


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Focus/Shapes That Move: Feminist Film Collectives in Britain from the 1970s To Now
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In this special focus, we bring into the foreground the collaborative power of those who have contributed to shaping new futures in Britain using the medium of film.
Riding the wave of the politically radical sentiments that characterised the late sixties and seventies, new filmmaking formations bloomed, making possible the candid and creative documentation of life as it is experienced by female and non-binary people where it would not have been within traditional hierarchies of film and broadcasting.
Over past decades, cooperatives, workshops, political movements, common interests and brave broadcasting commissions have provided scaffolding to organise around the moving image, with a great variety of political objectives, aesthetic approaches and ways of embodying gender. With this presentation of films, we honour the work of those who have mobilised to bring about change with and in the moving image, such that the act of filmmaking itself becomes an act of solidarity.
Feminist film in Britain does not have one unified trajectory, and this programme retrieves from the archive a broad cross-section of important work produced in formal or informal collective filmmaking arrangements of female and non-binary filmmakers and allies. The conversations between these quite wide-ranging films are intended to complicate any coherent designation of "feminist film" in favour of a more complex historical narrative and the natural emergence of an intersectional prism - one that explores race, class, age, immigration, gender, sexuality, labour and the many other of the multiple facets of a British life as it has been captured through a feminist lens over the last fifty years.
The programme is divided into six compilations that draw together some of these themes.
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PRAISE THE LORDE
The Light Cinema 3 / 9 June / 19:50 - Get Tickets
The great contribution of Audre Lorde's intellectual irreverence to the thinking of her contemporary and succeeding generations was profound. This compilation explores her influence in Britain, serving as a primer for those who have yet to be introduced to her brilliance, and an homage for those who have.
The films in this programme include, among others, such evocative works as Sonali Fernando's 'The Body of a Poet: A Tribute to Audre Lorde' and Jamika Ajalon's 'Memory Tracks', and will be introduced by Annalisa Toccara of Melanin Fest.
ANOTHER MOTHER
Curzon Cinema 1 / 11 June / 16:45 - Get Tickets
The role of Mother is one of the most densely overdetermined feminine archetypes. In this pairing of films, we encounter a different view of maternity: one that emanates outwards from subjective experience and gives space to the complexity of what it means to be a woman, a parent, and a human being - all at the same time.
This compilation is comprised of two subversive ethnographies, inlcuding Joanna Davis & Mary Pat Leece's feature-length, 'Bred and Born', preceded by Janey Walklin's 'From A to D'.
A BRITISH STATE OF BEING
Showroom Cinema 1 / 10 June / 15:45 - Get Tickets
Who belongs on this island in the ocean? The thread of identity that relates to Britishness is as divisive as it is unifying, and here we present a selection of films that tugs at some of the frayed edges of the tapestry of nationality - its past and its present.
This selection is co-curated with Sheffield exhibition collective Reel Femme, and includes works that bring us from the past into the present, featuring filmmakers such as Onyeka Igwe, Jade Jackman, Rehana Zaman and others.
OPERATE HEAVY MACHINERY
The Light Cinema 3 / 10 June / 19:15 - Get Tickets
History has not always paid due recognition to the women who have been vital cogs keeping the machine turning. Here we honour the powerful women of the North - their mobilisation, resilience and innovation in the world of work.
This selection of films will be introduced by Julie Ballands of the North East Film Archive/Yorkshire Film Archive. It features work by important Northern film collectives, such Sheffield Film Coop, Leeds Animation Workshop and WiTCH.
The Light Cinema 3 / 7 June 2019 / 19:15 - Get Tickets
Turning normative gender and sexuality on its head, we find the world looks different from this angle. The films of Flip the Script both celebrate and galvanise of the power of the LGBTQI+ community to interrupt binaries, disrupt the strictures of the status quo, and liberate the world from its own constraints.
The selection of films in this block, at once political and celebratory, includes work by filmmakers as Campbell X, Sandi Hughes and Vera Productions.
FILMS FOR REBEL GIRLS: DREAM SCREENS
To shine a light forward into the future, we co-present a selection of feminist short films for young people together with Pavilion's Art School for Rebel Girls – an ongoing arts project fostering confidence, creativity and collaboration between young women in Leeds. Including films by Lis Rhodes and Jo Davis, Martha Rosler, Leeds Animation Workshop and others.
The Shapes That Move programme will also feature a talk by central contributors the the feminist canon in the UK - both its production and its preservation.
TALK: SHAPES THAT MOVE: ARCHIVING THE FILMS OF FEMINIST COLLECTIVES
Crucible Adelphi / 9 June / 11:00 - Get Tickets
Collectives give marginalised groups the opportunity to work outside of the mainstream and produce films that document their community. Who is best placed to archive that work, and how should it be exhibited? Members of filmmaking collectives represented in Doc/Fest's Shapes of Movement focus discuss the production and continued life of their work with some of those who champion it through archiving and exhibition.
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Dr Suay Ozkula (University of Sheffield)
Terry Wragg (Leeds Animation Workshop)
Rehana Zaman (Liverpool Black Women Filmmakers)
Chrissie Stansfield (Sheffield Film Coop)
Campbell X (Club des Femmes)
Finally, we invite you to celebrate the programme with us by putting on your dancing shoes, and joining us for the Shapes That Move After Party.
SHAPES THAT MOVE: THE PARTY
Theatre Deli / 9 June / 22:00-02:00 - Get Tickets
Shapes That Move is a wide-lensed, intersectional feminist focus in our film programme, that brings to the foreground the collaborative power of those who have turned the act of filmmaking into an act of solidarity. Our afterparty, curated by Jade Jackman and Aleksandra Bilic, features a live stream DJ set by Nesa Azadikhah from Deep House Tehran, and live DJ sets from Nadine Artois of Pxssy Palace, Manuka Honey and Sippin' T. There will also be a chill out room featuring films from the curators, Jess Kohl, Laura Kirwan-Ashman + more, plus a genderless nail bar by Fuego Nails.


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Stickup Kid - Future Fire (2013)
California's Stickup Kid has never been a band to fill a certain mold. The progression from The Sincerest Form of Flattery to the 2012 EP, Nothing About Me, was very noticeable. One thing was for sure, they always played fast. The first single off of their debut Adeline Records LP, Future Fire, presented a new approach on their sound that made complete sense coming from Nothing About Me. After two more songs were released, I began to think that Future Fire was going to be a whole new, revamped Stickup Kid. This record was a huge surprise, but in the best way.
"Lost" starts the record off a bit slower than what most people are going to be expecting. The vocal harmonies are absolutely beautiful, as well as the instrumentals. Future Fire welcomes you with one hell of a ballad, which eventually turns into the aggressive Stickup Kid you know and love. Then an assortment of catchy, bouncy riffs lead you right into "The Depths of Me," a track that contains the vibes from Nothing About Me, but on a much larger platform. This is also the first of many humongous choruses on the record. "What's Missing" has some very interesting guitar riffs that surfaced thoughts of Third Eye Blind. Already, every song on the record sounds completely different, but at the same time, it still feels like Stickup Kid.
"Good People in a Place I Hate" has a darker sound to it. A very heavy bassline roars throughout the verses, leading into a very loud, catchy chorus. It seems the song just continues to build more and more, until finally going out with a huge bang. What can I say about "Keeping My Distance"? It is probably one of the best songs this band has ever written. It's just simply an incredible song that contains a chorus that you will be humming for hours after your first listen. "Chariot" feels like a 90s punk rock anthem; it's a very fun track. Little intricate things like palm mutes, and little riffs in between vocal parts give this song so much character. Following "Chariot" is "Through the Night". I think my dad described this song best when I decided to show it to him. He stated, "If there was a punk rock song on Grease, this would be it." It's truly an accurate description. It may sound weird, but it works.
Track eight, "Gotten Away", is extremely experimental for the band. Most of this record is completely new for Stickup Kid, but this song is by far the most different. It's a beautiful thing when a long song keeps your attention the entire time, and "Gotten Away" does just that. It also really shows off the abilities of the vocalist. "This is Over" has one of my favorite choruses on Future Fire. It's your normal rock song with a Stickup Kid twist. Next up, and bringing the undeniably catchiness back to the table, is "Wasted". As soon as the song starts, you're bobbing your head along with the guitars. "Tailwind" closes Future Fire very tastefully. It's nothing too crazy or different, but it feels very big and loud, making for a perfect closing track. It also harbors one of the catchiest bridges that has ever graced my ears. "Tailwind" is an incredible farewell from Future Fire.
There are two very shocking things about Future Fire: Stickup Kid's progression, and how the album flows so well when the songs sound so different from one another. Every single chorus on this record sounds huge. There wasn't one time when I wanted to skim through a track. Future Fire keeps your attention, and with that rewards you with 11 super catchy, super different tracks. This is a huge step for this band, and the pop punk or punk rock genres alike. As a whole, this record is incomparable to any other. Most bands play it safe when releasing a record that could either make or break them, but Stickup Kid decided not to do so. They tried something different – 11 times at that. Plain and simple, Future Fire is one brilliant punk rock record. Be sure to pick it up through Adeline Records on July 9.
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Baroness Dido Harding's speech to the CBI Annual Conference
Baroness Dido Harding talks about the achievements of NHS Test and Trace, and the focus to improve the service so that we're better able to live with COVID through the winter and beyond
Speech by Baroness Dido Harding, Interim Executive Chair of the National Institute for Health Protection
If it is okay, I will start as you suggested by looking back a second. Clearly, this is a very difficult point for the country, on the weekend the Prime Minister alongside Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance were really clear that this second national lockdown is not what anyone would have wished, but it is necessary to protect our NHS capacity and protect lives. And if we look back I would like to talk briefly about what has been achieved in the last 6 months.
I know that it is hard to see it, but the picture of the country coming into this activity, coming into this second set of national measures, is very different to the last one. Our schools and universities are open, the NHS is not yet overwhelmed, and we have the data and insight to see what is coming so that we are able to act earlier.
As a country we are trying to balance the health of the population with the health of the economy, and society's and individual's needs, as Mathew just said, in terms of educating our children and our own mental wellbeing. These are clearly incredibly difficult decisions, and I have quite a large job, but those decisions are not for me, those are decisions outside of NHS Test and Trace. Those are ones for our elected leaders both nationally and locally to take.
Let me step back a step. COVID-19 is the greatest public health challenge we have faced in modern times, and NHS Test and Trace has been built in an extraordinarily rapid way to address that. We have built a system the size of Asda, from scratch, in 5 months. We are working around the clock to keep expanding and improving it.
To give you a sense of the scale, we have built a network of NHS, private and not-for-profit laboratories to take testing capacity from 2,000 tests a day in March to over 500,000 test a day today. Historically, this is more per head than Germany, Italy, Spain and the US. It is the largest diagnostic network the UK has ever seen, and I suspect it is the fastest growing public service we have ever built.
Yesterday we hit our target of 500,000 tests a day, from over 600 locations. So (I'm an ex-retailer), we have opened 600 shops in 5 months. We've now processed close to 32 million tests. We have also built the largest outbound call centre in the UK. So our contact-testing services are dealing with 7 times the volume it was 7 weeks ago, and so far we have contacted 1.4 million people and have asked them to isolate.
And we also have a digital wing, so you know we launched the COVID-19 app which has now had 19 million downloads in its first month, so 40% of the eligible population of the UK have it on their phones and that is a better performance than any other country where downloading isn't compulsory.
And the response from business has been extraordinary to the app: over 700,000 QR posters are up and about across the country. None of this would be possible without public, private, national and local partnership. So we are, as a nation, throwing everything at this, and this is a combination of national insight and firepower with local intelligence and experience.
We have tripled the size of our local health protection teams to trace the virus and support businesses, and public sector employers locally when there are outbreaks. And we have got increasingly integrated teams which have developed some very strong relationships with local leaders and local businesses. But – and it is a big but – there is clearly more that we need to do.
This virus is incredibly difficult to deal with. And it is deadly, with millions of people carrying the virus around the world but not displaying any symptoms. Every country is grappling with the same problem, and despite everyone's best efforts and all of the work of our team in the NHS Test and Trace to be the second line of defence, after Hands, Face and Space, the virus is spreading far too rapidly and too widely.
So if that's where we are now and we look ahead as we go into another a really challenging period for us as a country, it is time for the organisation that I lead to take the next big leap forward. As lockdown slows us from the virus, we will be focusing on improving NHS Test and Trace, so that when England emerges from lockdown we are better able to live with COVID through the winter and beyond. We are thinking about that.
The work we have got to do is in 4 main areas.
The first one is scale. As I said, we built this extraordinary thing in 6 months but it needs to be substantially bigger and it will keep growing. We have been innovating and investing in new technologies, so these new mass testing, rapid testing technologies will give us the potential to scale testing much further. We have pilots in hospitals, schools and universities, which are showing some positive results already. As we announced last night into this morning, we will be working with Liverpool, the first city to deploy testing as a combination of the traditional swab testing and the new rapid turn around lateral tests that are quite like pregnancy tests.
So we have got to scale up testing, and as we find more and more positive cases we've got to scale up contact tracing as well. We are already the largest outbound calling centre in the UK, but it's got to get bigger as we find more people with the disease, and we've got to get faster. Our turnaround times for both testing and contact tracing are improving, but this is the ultimate perishable good. We need to find people who have been in close contact with people who have got the disease within 24 to 48 hours. So there is a big job of work for my team to do to keep speeding up. And we can only do this as I have said through partnership.
This is about working in partnership with the public and the private sector, with national and local organisations and with everyone in the country. And I'm sure that many people watching this have read that Stan McChrystal's book 'Team of Teams', this is the ultimate team of teams – we are actually 60 million people on the team. We have all got to change our behaviour just a little bit to come forward with the testing to isolate when we are told to. That's how you break the chains of transmission.
And the fourth area we are working on is how we get even better at using the data in the analysis to drive insight in action we can stamp on outbreaks faster and faster. We know so much more than we did 6 months ago about how the disease is spreading. We've got the data from Test and Trace, we've got the data from waste water. We've got data from all these surveys using the testing capacity we have built. We are all learning how to use that to stop it spreading.
And I know that it is really tough and horrible for everyone as we head towards Thursday. But I am actually quite hopeful that we have more tools in the armoury than we had before. As a society we have learnt about the first line of defence, washing our hands, keeping our distance and wearing our face mask. Test and Trace did not exist in March. It is a scale organisation the same size as Asda and it will get even bigger. And so our second line of defence is growing, and technology will help us through a combination of vaccine, mass testing and better treatment. There is a lot for us actually to be optimistic about that we will crack this.
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(1902–98). French-born Brazilian architect Lúcio Costa is best known as the creator of the master plan for Brazil's new capital at Brasília. He also was active in the National Institute for Historical and Artistic Patrimony in Rio de Janeiro, which carried out the restoration of historic buildings across the country.
Costa was born on February 27, 1902, in Toulon, France. He lived in England and Switzerland before moving to Brazil and attending the National School of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro, from which he graduated in 1924 with a degree in architecture. He then entered into a partnership with Gregori Warchavchick, a Russian-born architect and early advocate of modern architecture in Brazil. In 1931 Costa was appointed director of the National School of Fine Arts. His efforts to reform the school's outdated architecture curriculum inspired a generation of students who subsequently became the leaders in the development of modernist architecture in Brazil. These students included Oscar Niemeyer, who joined Costa's architectural firm in 1934.
The Ministry of Education and Health building in Rio de Janeiro (1937–43), for which Costa received the commission, was designed by a team that included him and Niemeyer and had the Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier as a consultant. This structure, notable for its system of movable sunshade louvers, was a milestone in the introduction of modern architecture into Brazil and is considered one of the finest modern structures in Latin America. Costa and Niemeyer designed the Brazilian pavilion for the New York World's Fair of 1939.
After an international competition was held to select a design for the city of Brasília, Costa's plan was chosen in 1957. His plan took the form of a straight line of administrative and public buildings intersected by a curved strip of residential blocks and houses. Costa's plan provides a monumental framework for the many public buildings erected by Niemeyer in Brasília. Costa died on June 13, 1998, in Rio de Janeiro.


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Pacific Coast Business Times: Marijuana industry boosts demand for tri-county industrial space
Santa Barbara, California – Published 11/16/2018
By Annabelle Blair
Demand is growing in Santa Barbara County for industrial spaces and especially facilities for the burgeoning marijuana industry.
Industrial space rates are up, almost neck-in-neck with office space rates, in an interesting twist for the commercial real estate market, reported the Radius Commercial Real Estate team at the 2019 Real Estate and Economic Forecast in Santa Barbara on Nov. 13.
Tech office rates are rising, while rates for traditional commercial spaces remain solid, said Gene Deering, Radius's newest partner, whose promotion was announced at the event.
But overall economic growth is still stymied by a lack of political will to build more housing in coastal communities, said a leading California economist.
When it comes to industrial space, the increase is driven by emerging millennial workplace trends, especially in the budding tech sector, which embraces open co-working spaces with large windows and roll-up doors.
This is accompanied by less demand for office space, which means more workers per square foot and a higher demand for parking, Deering said.
Demand for industrial space has been rising across the region with Ventura County markets such as Simi Valley also reporting strong demand for locations and limited opportunities for new supply.
Santa Barbara County is a strong player in the marijuana market, with 10 percent of the state's commercial sales this year related to cannabis farming, production and research and development. Virtually all of the transactions are in cash and a lack of traditional financing creates a challenge for the industry, reported Radius Partner Brad Frohling.
When a cannabis retailer on Chapala Street in downtown Santa Barbara closed, Frohling said, there were about 20 other cannabis businesses vying for the three permits available for retail in the area. The demand was so strong, he said, cannabis retailers were looking to pay exceptionally high rates for spaces.
While the question remains on whether or not the marijuana industry will be ultimately sustainable in the region, he said, it's definitely bumping up land values for properties meeting the appropriate growing criteria in both the north and south county areas.
In terms of permits and businesses, Santa Barbara County is leading the state, according to data from the California Department of Food and Agriculture.
"Don't be surprised in a couple years if people say, 'You guys (Santa Barbara County) are the dominant cannabis player,'" Frohling said.
In terms of commercial real estate transactions and volume, both are slightly lower in Santa Barbara County this year due to the mudslide disasters, Frohling said, but not by a lot.
This year's 52 transactions were worth a total of $181.9 million.
The numbers are down from last year's in terms of both volume and transactions, with decreases of 38 percent and 31 percent, respectively.
Frohling pinned the decreases in part on a disconnect between sellers and buyers on property values as well as rising interest rates, which he pointed out are still quite low.
Also discussed at the event was the ever-present need for more housing across the state.
"Economic development in California boils down to roofs, roofs and more roofs," said keynote speaker and economist Chris Thornberg of Beacon Economics.
He added that rent continues to climb as recent wage increases are driven by tight labor markets, where less-skilled workers who don't hold bachelor's degrees are being paid more. This is good for landlords, who can continue to raise rates until the supply catches up with the demand, he said.
Another consistent message on looking into the future of real estate in 2019 was land values, which are taking hits from high construction costs, rates and the regulatory environment, Frohling reported.
Low unemployment rates are also bumping up the cost of construction labor, Thornberg said, which hampers building projects — including housing in a circle of upward spiraling rent prices.
In East Ventura County, the recent fires are a humanitarian issue, not an economic one, Thornberg told the Business Times.
During the presentation, he noted that past fire recovery efforts in California cities have shown that people and businesses are resilient.
He told the Business Times that slow-growth policies are responsible for Ventura County's sluggish economy.


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The annual New York City Marathon saw some courageous participants this year. Among the racers was a team of disabled veterans who completed the race using their handcycles.
Nonprofit organization Achilles International brought together a group of army veterans who, despite their disabilities, were actively involved during the event. Former U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Travis Wood was one of the participants in the marathon. Using his handcycle, he was able to finish the race within about an hour and 35 minutes.
Wood was severely injured by three anti-tank missiles in 2007, which left him disabled. He has lost a leg and his left foot as well as suffered damage to several body parts including his small and large intestines and parts of his right lungs. His spinal cord was also broken in several places and he received third degree burns to his right side.
Several other disabled veterans joined Wood in this year's race, including Ezequiel Sepulveda, a former Corporal of the U.S. Marine Corps. Sepulveda suffers from Inclusion Body Myositis or IBMI, an inflammation of the muscles, which was caused by contaminated water at Camp Lejeune in Afghanistan.


Sumita was a renowned film actress who had worked in both Bengali and Hindi cinema.
Her real name was 'Manjula' but on a suggestion of director Bibhuti Laha, she changed it to 'Suchorita' for his film 'Khokhababur Pratyabartan' (1960).
She was known for her role as 'Renu' in Rajesh Khanna and Amitabh Bachchan starrer 'Anand' (1971).


Amidst a sea of mindless "What's In My Bag?"and "Outfit Of The Day" YouTube videos lies a powerful PSA that may help young women in abusive relationships break their silence.
Entitled "How To Look Your Best The Morning After," 30-year-old Beauty Guru Lauren Luke educates her overwhelmingly young female audience on how to cover up fresh-looking cuts and bruises. Of course, the marks that appear on Lauren's face are simulated, but for many women, the physical marks are all too familiar.
According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, domestic violence is one of the most chronically underreported crimes. Only 25% of all physical assaults, 20% of all rapes, and 50% of all stalking perpetrated against females by their partners are reported to the police. For the small number of cases that do get reported, on average, a woman will be assaulted by her partner or ex-partner thirty-five times before reporting it to the police.
The "How To Look Your Best The Morning After" video is part of the "Don't Cover It Up" campaign sponsored by Refuge, a U.K. national charity. According to its mission statement, Refuge is committed to a world where domestic violence is not tolerated or ignored, and where women and children can live in safety.
Luke's video has already garnered 600,000 views since its posting on July 1. In her interview with Refuge, Luke explains why she agreed to post the video for her 440,000 subscribers and the rest of the world to see: "A lot of women follow us on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, so I just wanted to get the point out there and let everyone know that there's somewhere you can go if you need some support."


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An Indigenous approach for responding to gender violence
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Joyce Fossella is from the Lillooet Nation. Val Joseph is from the Kwakwaka'wakw Nation. Both work as part of the Warriors Against Violence Society, an organization in Vancouver that responds to gender-based violence using a holistic approach that is grounded in Indigenous cultures and in the context of the ongoing reality of colonial violence and trauma from the broader society that impacts Indigenous people. They speak with Scott Neigh about their experiences, about the connections between interpersonal gendered violence and legacies of colonial violence, and about the work of the Warriors Against Violence Society.
In mainstream settler Canadian society, gendered violence is everywhere. It is mostly committed by men and it mostly targets women and trans people – not exclusively, but mostly. And it is mostly committed not by strangers but by somebody you know – someone in your family, a romantic partner, a co-worker, a friend.
Before colonization, gender, kinship, and relationships, like so much else, worked very differently across the many Indigenous nations of Turtle Island. But five centuries of colonial violence against Indigenous people, which has been tied all along to inflicting gendered and sexual violence, have made a deep impact. Even just within the last century, violence imposed by the Canadian state in the form of residential schools; the "Sixties Scoop" as well as more recent harm to Indigenous families from child welfare systems; forced disconnection from language, land, nation, and culture; and the everyday harms of racism, have all done considerable harm. These days, gendered violence is a significant issue in Indigenous communities, just like it is everywhere else in this country. And in Indigenous contexts, it can frequently be linked to life histories and family histories of colonial trauma. This distinct history and context, as well as the deep roots of Indigenous cultures that continue to survive in the face of colonization, mean that working to change gendered violence in Indigenous contexts is most effective when it is firmly grounded in this history, in a holistic approach to the problem, and in the relevant Indigenous cultures.
This is the sort of approach that the Warriors Against Violence Society has developed over its years of work. Originally, the group was focused exclusively on working with men who had engaged in violent and abusive behaviour. Today, however, they work with both men and women, with perpetrators and survivors – and of course with the many people who are both. Their program offers participants a wide range of tools for navigating their lives. It offers a safe space for people to talk about their experiences of harm and trauma, and a place to begin coming to terms with harms that they themselves have caused. Sessions might include learning about tools like journalling or identification of triggers. They might involve conversations about sexuality. They might include gathering medicines, introducing elements of traditional culture, or discussing spirtiuality.
The organization says of its work, "We believe there is a need to restore the traditional Aboriginal values of honour, respect and equality. The Circle of Life includes elders, lifegivers, men, and youth. All have a right to live in non-violent families and communities."
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6 unbelievable stories of unclaimed lottery prizes
You will hardly believe it, but it still happens that a jackpot prize is not claimed by the winner. And maybe you are asking yourself: what happens with all the money? There are billions of euros in unclaimed lottery winnings. Most of the unclaimed prizes are small. Powerball has a $4 prize for picking just the Powerball correctly and with EuroMillions you need to match two numbers to win a prize of approx. €4. But some of the secondary prizes can be worth €1 million or more. Some people don't even realize that there are secondary prizes. And even if they do know, people still forget to check their tickets once they hear there is no jackpot winner. There have been massive jackpots that nobody came out to request.
Four different ways lottery prizes remained unclaimed
1. Nobody ever showed up to claim the jackpot
A huge gain of £64 Million (approximately €52 Million) was not claimed in 2012. This has become the largest ever unclaimed jackpot of the EuroMillions lottery.
The winning ticket was bought in the Stevenage and Hitchin areas in England. But after few days looking in the neighbor towns for the lucky person who bought the ticket, no one responded. The time passed and the deadline for the application eventually expired.
2. The ticket mysteriously disappeared
A curious story happened in August 2007. The winning ticket for EuroMillions lottery would bring £6.9 Million (almost €8 Million) to its holder. It is believed that the ticket was purchased in the Devon area, in the UK, but, unfortunately, no one claimed the prize in six months and the deadline was missed.
Nevertheless, after the announcement in the media, the winner was finally found. A man, named Nick shared his story on the web (however, many people had doubts about its truthfulness): he said he was staying for 1 month in the UK, where he bought his lottery ticket, and then went back home to the US. He found out that he won, but wanted to keep it secret for a while before getting his prize. So, he was keeping his lucky lottery ticket under his PC keyboard and when he finally decided to claim the winnings, he realized that the ticket disappeared.
3. The winner realized he won only four years later, watching a TV show
It is perhaps one of the most incredible stories about unclaimed lottery prizes and it happened in Australia. In 2001, Robert Clemett, was watching a TV programme about unclaimed winnings when he realized that they were talking about him! Four years before he took part in fact in an Oz Lotto draw, exactly on September 23rd, 1997. He was sure that they were talking about his golden ticket worth 3.3 Million Australian dollars (€2 Million), because he saw the winning numbers were the same he used to pick every time!
Later, he stated that he did not remember to check the results of the draw, because he was in a stressful moment of his life. So, he finally tried to claim his prize through a legal battle that went on for almost 17 years, but in vain. Indeed, the judge affirmed that the five winning digits written down in Clemett's receipt book weren't a valid proof to support his claim.
4. The winning ticket was too damaged
One of the biggest unclaimed lottery prizes in the US is the $63 Million (more than €51 Million) worth ticket of the SuperLotto Plus Jackpot that in February 2016 became officially valueless. The lucky winner had 180 days to claim the prize, but nobody came forward to make the claim.
Only after the 180 days period a man named Brandy Milliner came forward to sue California Lottery, affirming he did attempt to make a claim. In response, he was told his ticket was way too damaged to be used for the purpose of proving that he was the winner of the jackpot and a payout would be impossible.
Today Brandy Milliner still hasn't been successful in claiming the jackpot but he continues pursuing in any way possible to get his prize.
Of course, unclaimed jackpots represent few rare cases and big winners almost always collect their prizes. But keep your eyes and ears open. And if you decide to make a claim for a jackpot or another big prize, better think carefully about it. Claims of lost or damaged tickets can't do the trick. You have to be more creative and smarter to fool the lottery. So we give you a wise lesson: if you buy a lottery ticket always keep an eye on the results. Believe us, you don't want to miss a millionaire jackpot!
It didn't always end bad
1. The winner almost threw away the ticket
There are cases that almost became part of the history of unclaimed prizes, but fortunately a small twist changed everything, like it happened to a woman from the American state of Michigan that almost lost a prize of $2 Million (approximately €1.6 Million) on April 2018.
It all started with her birthday, when her husband gave her a ticket of Multiplier Spectacular (a game that belongs to the Michigan lottery) as a gift. Days later the woman thought she hadn't won anything and she was about to throw away the ticket when, luckily, her husband took it, went to a local retailer and found out that they won a big prize. The lucky couple decided to remain anonymous, but declared that with the money they would pay their children's college tuition.
2. It took weeks for the winner to realize she had won
The Russian National Post Office in Voronezh region (South of Russia), was looking for a citizen, who, in the period between the 23rd of October and the 3rd of November 2017, had purchased a winning ticket of the "Russian Lotto". A jackpot of 506 Million rubles (approximately 6.6 Million euros) was drawn on the 5th of November 2017, but the lucky winner hadn't shown up for 2 weeks after the drawing. In November 18th it turned out the lucky winner was Natalia Vlasova, a 63-year-old woman, who said she used to check draws results on her own, but that time she decided to rely on her daughter, who checked the results and mistakenly thought they didn't win anything.
Almost 2 weeks later Natalia wanted to check them again and she couldn't believe that they actually won a jackpot!
If you play lotto with EuroMillions.com, then it's easier to stay updated with results. After each draw, all players that win something receive in fact an email notification. This is why we recommend you to believe in your luck and pay attention to the emails you receive. Maybe one day, it will let you know that you are our new EuroMillionaire!
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I no longer offer therapy or counselling as have retired from individual work.
I continue to offer training days and experiential professional development as well as CPD support groups for counsellors. Generally the fee is £65 for a day which includes hot drinks and soup.
eARTh creativity and relaxation days are priced according to time and facilitation or accommodation variables. From £15 for a half day with little facilitation through to a retreat with full facilitation, accommodation and board.
Please see relevant pages for these sessions.
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The Swiss Cytometry Society has been founded in the 1990ies as a scientific association with the aim of creating a network and a platform for diagnostic laboratories and research groups in Switzerland interested in this technology and its applications.
More recently, the Swiss Cytometry Society has shifted its focus on clinical flow cytometry in Hematology and Immunology.
The society promotes high-level continuing education in this fast moving field and organizes bi-annual meetings attracting technicians, clinicians and scientists involved in clinical flow cytometry. In addition, the society has a program for external quality control by sending out fresh patient material to interested laboratories associated with the SCS. Furthermore, collaborations and projects are initiated and fostered within the society.
The SCS is a not only a platform for scientific topics, but also facilitates networking for its members, creates opportunities to interact with invited faculty, as well as with industrial sponsors.


Catholics have long been staunch defenders of God-given religious liberty. Today, such liberty is threatened in our country by government intrusion. Both the federal and state governments have made attempts to inhibit – and even to make illegal – efforts by Catholics and Catholic institutions to operate according to their faith.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for a third consecutive year has called on Catholics across the United States to observe a Fortnight for Religious Freedom from June 21 until July 4, a two-week period of prayer and action, to address many current challenges to religious liberty, including rulings that could redefine marriage, and religious liberty concerns in areas such as immigration and humanitarian services.


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Alfred Johannes Loose (* 15. August 1908 in Cöpenick, Kreis Teltow; † nach 1938) war ein deutscher Hitlerjugend-Führer.

Leben und Wirken
Loose wurde 1908 in Köpenick bei Berlin als Sohn eines Stabsarztes geboren, der 1916 im Ersten Weltkrieg umkam. Nach dem Besuch des Realgymnasiums absolvierte Loose eine kaufmännische Lehre. Anschließend arbeitete er als Angestellter bei einer Berliner Treuhandgesellschaft. Seit seiner Jugend betätigte Loose sich in Kreisen der extremen politischen Rechten. Auf diesem Weg fand er Ende der 1920er Jahre Anschluss an die NSDAP und ihre Jugendorganisation, die Hitler-Jugend (HJ). Von 1931 bis 1932 war Loose Berater für Jugendvolkfragen im HJ-Gebiet Groß-Berlin.

Im September 1932 wurde Loose als Nachfolger von Elmar Warning zum HJ-Gebietsführer von Berlin ernannt. Um 1933 wurde Loose von Baldur von Schirach mit der Leitung der Verwaltungsabteilung in der Reichsjugendführung betraut. In dieser Eigenschaft arbeitete er das Karteiwesen der HJ aus. Im Juni 1933 wurde er in den Rang eines HJ-Obergebietsführers erhoben.

Laut einem Bericht der Auslands-SPD (Sopade) wurde Loose am 15. Juni 1934 durch Schirach seines Amtes enthoben, da er sich ohne Genehmigung des Reichsjugendführers ein Gehalt von 1000 RM pro Monat und seinen Freunden ähnlich hohe Gehälter gezahlt hatte. Nach einer anderen Quelle (Kathrin Kollmeier) wurde Loose anschließend unter Vermerk in der Warnkartei der NSDAP aus der HJ und der Partei ausgeschlossen und in ein Konzentrationslager eingewiesen.

Literatur

 Baldur von Schirach: Die Pioniere des Dritten Reiches, Essen 1933.

Einzelnachweise

NSDAP-Mitglied
Person der Hitlerjugend
Geboren 1908
Deutscher
Mann
Gestorben im 20. oder 21. Jahrhundert


This year Positive Partnerships is working with the Nepalese community. We recently held our first event and it was great to see so many parents in attendance. They were a really engaged group and asked many insightful questions around diagnosis and support services. A local father came to share his story of understanding autism and going through the process of diagnosis with his daughter. The sharing of his story generated great discussion around the individualities and strengths of young people on the spectrum and the strategies that can help children to cope, learn and be part of their community.


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By Jody Armstrong, Tisdale, ZZ
You see them all around like they're the new "fad" or something, but what isn't shown is the horrible effects of them on our bodies, our minds, and our lives. Everyone says that "the drugs will kill you", but in my experience, they will kill you, if you don't do it first.
I didn't even no him, talked to him maybe twice in my life. I was younger, why would he want to talk to me? That's exactly what I was thinking while we had a random conversation over the internet. He asked me if he could tell me something in all honesty. Being the person that I am I said sure. He told me he was a drug addict and that he was going to commit suicide. Until then I had lived a fairly stable life with no huge conflicts except for what I should wear each day. He told me if I told anyone it would only make him hurt other people as well as himself and I knew I'd be first on his hit list. What was I supposed to do? I was only 14, he should have known better than to tell me something like that. I was sick for that entire week, each night talking to him trying to convince him to go to therapy. The day before he was to end his life I came up with enough courage to tell my heath teacher who took me to a counselor. In my school if you are seeing a counselor you are considered to have serious issues. I didn't want to be there anymore than she wanted me there, but I was there to help him and she was there to help me help him. It took a lot of talking and painful testimonies to finally get him in rehab. I thought everything would go back to normal and I could go on pretending like nothing had happened, but the rehab clinic released him within a week and now my safety was in danger. He started verbally sexually harassing me and eventually hit me once, in a playful, but painful way. His foster parents finally gave him up and he moved to a city three hours away. I have never seen him since. For everything he put me through I should have the right to never want to see him again, but somehow deep down I really still worry about him every single day and want to see him again. About 6 months after he left he told me over the internet that I saved his life. He gave me some of the best advice I have ever received. He said that life is a food chain and when you do something, good or bad, to someone it affects the people around them, which affects the people around them and so on. He told me not only did I change his life for the better, but his siblings and parents too and so on. As of this day he has plans for his future, he plans on having kids and being drug free, he is also planning on fighting for our country in Iraq soon. I will never forget him or what I went through, but all of that was worth the 2 words he called me at the end of our last conversation. Guardian Angel.
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Destiny21 SILVER said...
on Apr. 2 2010 at 2:55 pm
Destiny21 SILVER, Wendover, Nevada
Giving up doesnt mean your weak. sometimes it means your stronger to let go
i love I have had myself two Guaridan Angels and I am olny 13. i love them with my life my first Guardoan Angel Is my turn to save her. and my second is an awesome guy friend who saved me and stiil looking out for me from doing something stupid


Israeli police stopped an ATV-driving duo on Route 60 yesterday, as a pair of kids raced down the southern Israel highway on a toy ATV at 20 miles an hour.
The driver and his cousin – members of Israel's Bedouin community – were let off with just a warning.
A police dashboard cam captured the chase.


Running into a similar issue. The size and weight of my 10" tablet makes it difficult to accommodate, have yet to find a way to mount it where I'm happy with it, and nav is what I bought it for. Thinking of buying an 8" now, but having 2 tablets seems a bit excessive.
My old iPad mini was the perfect size, I switched because I wanted Android, I should have just stuck to the size I knew worked instead of wanting even more screen. Perhaps I'll give the mount another look.
I used larger tablet maybe twice and like other found that space and mounting were an issue. I suppose it depends on your vehicle but for me a tablet is just too big.
nope, I even wear reading glasses when print gets too small. A large screen is always nicer but space is limited in a Wrangler. You can also get phone that work just fine for cheap.
I run Backcountry Navigator on it, and have HERE offline road maps on it for a back-up to my Garmin street gps if need be. I think the RAM mount cost more than the tablet if I recall correctly.
I think 8" tablet is as big as I would want to go, but whatever works.
So I'm an idiot when it comes to this stuff, with that said, you are saying all I would need is a cheap phone? Then download something like Maps.me onto it? You don't need cell service to load the maps onto it and the phone will work like a normal gps off line??? This seems too good to be true but I'm on my way to Walmart if this works.
So I'm an idiot when it comes to this stuff, with that said, you are saying all I would need is a cheap phone? Then download something like Maps.me onto it? You don't need cell service to load the maps onto it and the phone will work like a normal gps off line??? This seems too good to be true but I'm on my to Walmart if this works.
Yes, Just make sure the phone has GPS cabalities and you have access to WiFi to download your maps. You probably know somebody who has upgraded their phone recently and the old one is just laying around collecting dust. You could go to Walmart, spend about 50 bucks and get one for a prepaid plan, just make sure it has GPS. You don't have to buy the plant to make it work.
If you're using it only for mapping 16meg is a lot of memory. If you need more get another phone and have two different phones for different areas or different types of mapping. I have been doing this for years.
It is no different than using a tablet that does not have cell service.
I can't quite recall now. I've had it for 3-odd years. I think it was the A10 tablet. Cost me about $200.
OK, probably similar as the one I have (Tab2 A10) , am looking for a refresh. Was wondering if it was a Tab 4 perhaps and how fast it is. The Tab 2 seams to be slowing down a lot.
I find that most tablets after a year of solid use need a factory reset to be done on them. Not hard to do but will erase everything you have stored and will be just like it came out of the box. Over time Android does add files as app updates are applied and sometimes the old data files remain wasting space. BE WARNED anything you have stored on tablet will be lost. You can backup to Google before reset. All apps downloaded and installed also OS updates will have to be done after reset.


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St Stephen's Anglican Church, Bellevue Hill
The Baker's Well
The title of this podcast Riding on the Clouds is taken from the Bible. The theme of this podcast is Revival. The purpose is to explore what the bible says about Revival and to seek for how this impacts us in our present time. The main speaker is Rev Richard Lane from Sydney, Australia.
This first episode introduces the subject of revival with reference to some words of the late JI Packer. The Rev Dr Jim Packer died in July 2020 and this opening episode is largely composed of a tribute written by Leland Ryken to the late JI Packer. While this may not appear to be linked to the theme of revival, this first episode is tightly linked to the following two episodes which expand upon the meaning of the podcast title 'Riding on the Clouds' and explain that link. As well, the teaching of Jim Packer on revival will form the substance of discussion in later episodes and so this tribute is all the more fitting. The main speaker presenting the podcast is Rev Richard Lane, an Anglican minister in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, Australia. This podcast follows on from YouTube devotionals which Richard presented for his church members during the lockdown period. The writing and influence of the late JI Packer had been discussed in those later episodes and so this tribute also continues that presentation although it is introducing a new theme, namely, Revival.
This second episode continues a discussion about the title of this podcast 'Riding on the Clouds'. The discussion is between Richard and Emily and was recorded on 10th August 2020 along with the first episode. The date itself serves to provide insight into the gracious hand of the Lord, while the subject of grief and its connection with Revival is further explored. Excerpts from the book 'A Grief Sanctified' by the late JI Packer are read as the subject of Christian hope is presented in the midst of a world in which we experience grief. This hope is an implicit component of Revival which at its heart is the bringing of comfort to those who mourn for the kingdom of God. The main speaker is Rev Richard Lane who is an Anglican minister in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney.
In this episode Richard sets out the format for exploring the theme of Revival. The general shape will involve History - Commentary - Bible. In this episode that begins in NSW in 1864, then moves to the commentary of the historian, Dr Stuart Piggin, before closing with part of a sermon by Ray Ortlund on Isaiah 64:1.
In this episode I look at various definitions of Revival (Brian Edwards, Iain Murray, JI Packer). I then turn to Stuart Piggin's definition in his book 'Firestorm of the Lord'. I examine Stuart's discussion of the way Revival is connected to the concept of being Awake as described in Scripture in a passage like Mark 13.
This episode begins with Ray Ortlund Jnr's definition of Revival, and the plea and argument that Ray makes with respect to seeking for Revival. The historical segment of this episode is centred on the lead up to the Welsh Revival of 1904 and the prophetic word of Dean Howells in the 1902 December issue of Y Cyfaill Eglwysig (which was a monthly Welsh language religious periodical of the time).
Episode 6: Christmas Edition
From Moab to Bethlehem, Wilcannia to Eastwood, this is a Christmas 2020 episode with an Australian flavour. Richard returns to JI Packer's work on the ESV Bible and begins with a discussion of the ESV 'word-for-word' approach in its translation and illustrates this by looking at Ruth 1:6 (return to Bethlehem). After this, the move is to the poet-preacher Wilfred Mailler who served as an Anglican minister in Wilcannia in the early 1900s and who also turned to Bethlehem when he wrote a poem entitled Christmas Eve. Mailler's mother was the first cousin of The Australian poet, Henry Kendall. The episode closes with a classic Australian story about the origins of the Granny Smith apple in Eastwood, as well as returning to the manger, to Moab and Balaam's Ass.
"We do not preach ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake"
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A subsidiary of Advanced Energy Resources, Inc., AER Lighting is a lighting company that works with some of the largest property owners on a national scale. While evaluating their current methods of collecting audit data, generating proposals, and measuring job status, AER Lighting knew that inefficiencies existed. With the goal of increasing efficiency throughout the entire cycle of a retrofit project, AER began looking for innovative solutions.
After an evaluation of various audit and quotation software platforms, AER was able to increase the number of projects won, increase efficiency, and decrease the number of hours spent on transcribing notes and generating proposals.
Founded in 2013, AER Lighting knew that there was one simple measure that property owners could exploit to reduce overall energy consumption, improve efficiencies and upgrade property in a cost-effective way: LED lighting. Targeting facilities such as large commercial buildings and multifamily properties, AER offers full service retrofits from lighting design, to installation, to rebate procurement.
As AER took on more retrofit projects, it became apparent that the methods used to collect and transpose audit information and subsequently prepare customer proposals were problematic. Upon further review, it became obvious that the paper and pencil method of data collection coupled with Microsoft Excel was inefficient, error-prone and was hindering growth.
Realizing that there had to be a better option than tracking job status via spreadsheets, text messages, emails and phone calls, AER began to look for an option that would allow them to collect audit data in the field and cut out the process of copying hand written notes to Excel. Having used other lighting audit and proposal software that proved too cumbersome, AER was looking for a superior tablet based software that would include a low learning curve for their auditors to efficiently audit facilities and generate quotations.
AER auditors' previous experience with software left them leery of screen designs that were too cumbersome or lacked that required functionality thus forcing them to re-create projects in Excel. These "half-measures" generated little or no time savings for the team.AER selected SnapCount as their lighting retrofit software due to its ease of use and full lifecycle (audit through implementation) capability. AER found SnapCount to offer a multitude of features and capabilities that competitive software could not offer such as allowing multiple auditors to work on the same facility, incorporate photos into the proposal, and powerful solution editing.
Utilizing SnapCount's audit and quotation capabilities, AER tripled the speed in which audit data was collected and turned into a professional proposal. This was due in part to the elimination of a transcription process of hand-written notes to an Excel spreadsheet to create a custom proposal. Using a tablet-based audit software, auditors could conduct audits at a quicker pace, and generate a proposal with a few simple clicks.
Armed with a quicker method of collecting audit data and generating a proposal, AER found themselves with a competitive advantage. Using SnapCount, AER increased their win rate by 60%. Customers were amazed at the speed in which AER could turn an audit into a professional proposal, with a greater level of detail than the competition.
Upon implementing SnapCount, AER experienced a reduction in errors within audit data of 75%. This reduction was enabled by accurate identification of fixtures and by eliminating the data transcription process from hand-written audits. Collaboration ability within SnapCount also allowed AER to have team members other than the initial auditor review an audit and correct any errors.
"When looking at retrofit software, I have a way of thinking that there are two types of development; software people developing lighting applications, or lighting people developing software applications. SnapCount was developed somewhere in between, with software people that are willing to listen to lighting experts to create the best platform possible. There is a low learning curve, and they have excellent US-based support. There are many choices you can find with a simple Google search, but at the end of the day, there is only one choice for AER: SnapCount." – Brian Sokolow, Vice President of Sales and Operations.


Individuals who are injured in the workplace have the right to pursue workers' compensation for their medical bills and other costs. There are many different types of workplace injuries that can occur due to a wide range of causes including construction accidents, slip and falls, repetitive stress and vehicle collisions.
In a recently reported case, a man suffered a serious injury due to an equipment mishap. He became trapped when the heavy construction equipment he was operating rolled over him. One of his arms was severely hurt in the accident, but no other injuries were reported.
The man was working on a project at the Arroyo Trails Park with the Channahon Park District in Illinois. A reporter at the scene of the mishap said the worker was trapped underneath the equipment for nearly thirty minutes before rescuers were able to free him. He was later transported to a Chicago area hospital.
Several local agencies are investigating the incident in collaboration with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Individuals who are injured in workplace accidents are entitled to seek workers' compensation. Often in construction accident cases it may also be possible to pursue a personal injury claim against a negligent third party. Contact the experienced attorneys at Briskman Briskman & Greenberg to learn more.