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Downtown BR's new parking kiosks still not working; city waiting on license plate readers to activate them
BATON ROUGE - The new parking kiosks in downtown Baton Rouge were installed October, but they haven't been activated yet. The tall, black boxes are...
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Baton Rouge nonprofits collaborate to tackle issues related to gun violence
BATON ROUGE - As homicide statistics in East Baton Rouge Parish soar to unprecedented rates, officials and community leaders are teaming up to unearth the root of the problem and take action to solve it.
Several organizations working with city-Parish officials to implement these plans are 100 Black Men of Baton Rouge, C.H.A.N.G.E (Communities Healing and Nurturing Growth through Edification), as well as a host of groups participating in Project Safe Neighborhoods.
WBRZ's Nadeen Abusada spoke with a representative of one of the groups on Tuesday (Feb. 2) to find out exactly what community leaders are doing to reduce crime.
Santeria Tate of C.H.A.N.G.E. explained that the group is creating opportunities to have face to face meetings with members of the community and listen as they express themselves about gun violence, crime, and what changes they'd like to see in their neighborhoods.
It's during these discussions that members of C.H.A.N.G.E. will point out ways every citizen can play a role in reducing acts of violence.
"We are launching a campaign to reduce gun violence and promote safety," Tate said before describing once such campaign that was carried out during the last week of January.
Tate said volunteers with C.H.A.N.G.E. went to Baton Rouge's Brookstown area to meet with residents and discuss ways to to reduce gun violence.
According to Tate, the meeting was a success.
"The response from the community has been extremely positive," she enthusiastically told Abusada. "People in the community do want to see change happen, they just need help."
She explained that residents knew the volunteers were only there to help and so they wanted to collaborate.
"Our biggest thing," Tate said, "is to connect with our community."
It's this community-first perspective that seems to be making the organization's efforts successful, Tate explained. She said C.H.A.N.G.E. hopes to bring similar community forums to both Eden Park and South Baton Rouge.
A community meeting centered around efforts to reduce gun violence will take place Tuesday (Feb. 2) in Gus Young Park (4200 Gus Young Avenue, Baton Rouge) from 11 a.m. until 11:30 a.m.
During the forum, city leaders will discuss a new neighborhood outreach and communication effort to promote gun safety in high impact crime areas of Baton Rouge. The project is funded through a federal Project Safe Neighborhood grant.
Members of the public are invited to attend the event.
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'With its extraordinary, complicated anatomy confronting the audience, Nicolls played a soundtrack of her own composition that was contemporary and innovative without sacrificing the generous, arching drama of classical style. …. The depiction of the absurdity to be found in combining the roles of pianist and mother could not have been delivered with more acuity than it was in Nicolls' physical work.
Touring to: Oxford Contemporary Music (North Wall, 28 Nov), Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury (3 Dec), South Street Arts Centre, Reading (4 Dec), Barber Institute, Birmingham (19 Feb), Colchester Arts Centre (20 Feb), York Concerts (27 Feb), and Cheltenham Festival (date tbc).


This is a great holiday show, good old family fun. I highly recommend the performance. Each year we have attended the event and were happy we did. Spend your Weekend night with the folks at the Pine Mountain for Holiday song and laughs.


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Шейх-Магоме́д Ширвани́евич Вака́ев () — российский чеченский дзюдоист и самбист, чемпион России по дзюдо, серебряный призёр чемпионата России по самбо, обладатель Кубка России по дзюдо, обладатель Еврокубка по дзюдо, победитель и призёр многих международных турниров, мастер спорта России международного класса. Выступает во второй средней весовой категории (до 90 кг). Тренируется в Школе высшего спортивного мастерства «Самбо» под руководством Ибрагима Аюбова.

Спортивные результаты
2005 год
 Международный турнир «Евразия», Оренбург — ;
 Мемориал Хусейна Исаева, Грозный — .

2007 год
 Мемориал Хусейна Исаева, Грозный — ;

2009 год
 Мемориал Хусейна Исаева, Грозный — ;
 Международный турнир «Босфор», Стамбул — ;
 Первенство России среди молодежи до 23 лет, Владикавказ — ;

2010 год
 Чемпионат России по самбо, Ярославль — ;
 Международный турнир на призы Владимира Путина, Хасавюрт — ;
 Еврокубок, Оренбург — ;

2011 год
 Мемориал Хусейна Исаева, Грозный — ;
 Еврокубок, Стамбул — ;
 Чемпионат России по самбо — ;
 Чемпионат Европы по самбо, София — ;

2012 год
 Кубок России, Грозный — ;
 Чемпионат России по дзюдо, Кемерово — ;
 Мемориал Хусейна Исаева, Грозный — ;

2013 год
 Еврокубок, Будапешт — 5-е место;

Примечания

Литература

Ссылки

 Шейх-Магомед Вакаев
 Шейх-Магомед Вакаев
  Чемпионат Европы по самбо среди мужчин

Дзюдоисты по алфавиту
Самбисты по алфавиту
Дзюдоисты Чечни
Чемпионы России по дзюдо
Самбисты России

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in Shelikof Strait, 33 mi. N of Afognak; Kodiak I. 0.2 mile wide.
so named in 1926 by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS), "from the (island's) resemblance (to an alligator) from certain directions."
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Varicose veins are a common problem that affects as many as half of all adults over the age of 50. Despite their prevalence, not everyone that suffers with these bulging vessels understands what the condition is all about. To help you separate the fact from the fiction, check out these three common myths about varicose veins and the truth behind them.
Myth #1: Varicose veins are nothing but ugly, swollen vessels.
While it may be true that varicose veins are unsightly, they are also a visible symptom of an underlying vein condition. Varicose veins often occur as a result of a disorder known as chronic venous insufficiency or CVI. This condition develops when tiny valves inside the veins stop working properly, allowing blood to reflux and pool inside the vessel. The results is a weakened, swollen vein that becomes varicose over time.
When CVI is the reason behind your varicose veins, it is also important to know that the condition can worsen if it is left unchecked. You might begin to develop symptoms along with your varicose veins, such as pain and swelling of the lower leg. Skin changes can also occur, due to the increased pressure inside the veins. If the condition is not treated, you may find some of those skin changes, including discoloration and thickening, may become permanent.
Myth #2: Only little old ladies get varicose veins.
If you have any of these risk factors, the best approach is to take preventative steps as soon as possible. If you are sedentary or have gained weight, develop a daily exercise plan that will get the muscles moving and the veins working more efficiently. If your job requires long periods of sitting or standing, make sure to take regular breaks to exercise the legs and get the blood pumping. You can also talk to your doctor about whether compression stockings – special socks that promote healthy blood flow in the lower legs – might be a good choice for you.
Myth #3: There is nothing you can do about your varicose veins.
Despite their unattractive appearance and even their discomfort, many varicose vein sufferers are resigned to the fact they will have to live with their bulging vessels forever. This could not be further from the truth. Today, there are many minimally-invasive vein treatments that effectively eliminate varicose veins and their painful symptoms.
At the Vein Center of Florida & South Baldwin, we offer a variety of vein treatments that allow us to tailor your procedure to your specific condition. Choice of treatment often depends on the size of the varicose veins and their location. With state-of-the-art technology and tried-and-true treatment options, we can help you get rid of those uncomfortable veins without putting a major crimp in your daily routine.
Varicose veins are not something you simply must suffer with. Contact the Vein Center of Florida & South Baldwin today at 800-910-8346 to find out which vein treatment is the right one for you.


Gloria Steinem once said, "The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off."
I know I've just pissed off some single dads who on more than one occasion have written me to tell me that it's "the feminists" who are responsible for their custody woes.
I never know what that means. You might as well say, "my mom bakes the best apple pie, but her elephant's muffler is about to go."
How does sexual equality have anything to do with the family court system? One notion that cannot be dismissed outright is the belief that courts and judges are gender-biased; that the system too often sides with single moms.
Are judges gender-biased? I decided to pose this question to two of them, both men.
Justice Harvey Brownstone of the Ontario Court of Justice sits at North York family court. He's been a family court judge for 13 years.
"We're not in the vengeance business," he told me "We are in the justice business and all we're concerned about is the best interests of the child. All judges have to take that approach. Parents have no rights; children have rights. Parents have obligations."
The problem with the family court system, according to Brownstone, is not that it's gender-biased, but that the system is ill-equipped to handle the complex psychological nuances associated with single-parent issues.
"Judges are not psychologists," he says. "People need counselling, need to learn how to communicate in a child-focused way. You've got to love your child more than you dislike your ex-partner. Your children need peace more than you need to be right."
And the criminal court system?
Harvey Salem has been a judge in that system for 17 years. "There is no gender bias," he states. " If a man calls the police and reports that he's been assaulted by his ex-wife, she will be arrested. Politicians have taken away discretion from police and crown attorneys."
He adds, "I only ever convicted 10 per cent of my cases."
Salem didn't look to convict the men who make up 98 per cent of all domestic assault cases. Rather, what he wanted was to "hear the accused apologize, and agree to go in for treatment."
If the perpetrator said those words to Salem, the charges were often dropped and he (or she) had no criminal record.
Here again, the implication is that the best interest of the child is paramount and having a father in jail is not in the child's best interest. If there is a bias, it is towards the rehabilitation of the accused.
Not all judges take that approach. There are kooks in every stratum of society, including the judicial community and that's another reason single parents need a good lawyer. They know who the kooks are.
Both Brownstone and Salem said the same thing: gender bias does not rule the court system; the best interest of the child does.
In the years I spent negotiating with my son's mother over access to our son at the Jarvis St. court house, (the late) Justice Lynn King never rejected any reasonable request I put forward.
I can understand if this column has pissed you off, but maybe it will set you free to do what you should be doing: reinventing your relationship with your ex while putting together a workable plan without using the court system.
It's in your children's interest to have a dad who is focused on their happiness, rather than (on the perception) that you got screwed.
Peter Ehrlich's column appears every other Monday. Contact him at peter@peterehrlich.com.


Hope your hand heals up soon!!!
Apologies for my lateness in greeting you but I've been late all my life, I was even born three weeks overdue.
Apologies for my lateness in greeting you but I've been late all my life.
You might have noticed by my recycling that I am lazy too. Hope you had a fine time.
Happy birthday. Trust you had a good day even though you were at work...watching tv!
Happy birthday dude, sorry I'm late I've bee non me hols! Hope you enjoyed your day.


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Feb. 07, 2018 | 03:40 PM
Sahel leaders appeal for funds for anti-militant force
(L-R) Mauritania's president Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz, Niger's president Mahamadou Issoufou, Mali's Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, Chad's Idriss Deby and Burkina Faso's Roch Marc Christian Kabore attend a Sahel G-5 heads of State meeting on Febuary 6, 2018 in Niamey. Leaders of five Sahel countries met with France's defence minister on February 6, 2018 to discuss funding for an unprecedented joint force to combat jihadism in their vulnerable region. / AFP / BOUREIMA HAMA
Tieman Hubert Coulibaly
Florence Parly
Five countries in the Sahel have made a pitch for further funds for a joint force to fight extremism in their fragile region.
It would operate alongside France's 4,000 troops, deployed across the Sahel, and the U.N.'s 12,000-strong MINUSMA peacekeeping operation in Mali.
This has provided support for two initial operations, which have taken place in the volatile "tri-border" area where the frontiers of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso converge, and to set up a headquarters, located in Sevare, Mali.


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Q: Access selected text (not value) of a select element with Vue Just trying to access the selected text (not value) of a select element via Vue:
var App = window.App = new Vue({
  el: '#app',
  data: {
    style: '5'
  },
  computed: {
    calctitle: function() {
      return this.otype.text;
    }
  }
});

Just an example style object:
$item = new stdClass();
$item->value = 5;
$item->text = 'Name 1';
$style = array($item);
...

Here i try to create a binding because if i don't cannot submit the form because the option value is "[object Object]", but i need the real int value.

{{calctitle}}

<select v-model="style" name="style">
    <option>Choose style</option>
    <?php foreach ($style as $item) : ?>
        <option value="<?php echo $item->value; ?>"  v-bind:otype="{value: <?php echo $item->value; ?>, text: '<?php echo $item->text; ?>'}"><?php echo $item->text; ?></option>
    <?php endforeach ?>
</select>

A: I don't think you'll be able to do it with a computed, since you don't store the selected option anywhere, only its value.
Instead, you can create a data item and use the change event on the select to pull the selected option and set your data value from its textContent.

new Vue({
  el: '#app',
  data: {
    selectedText: '',
    style: '5'
  },
  methods: {
    updateFromSelectedText(event) {
      const options = event.target.options;
      const selectedOption = options[options.selectedIndex];

      this.selectedText = selectedOption.textContent;
    }
  }
});

{{selectedText}} and {{style}}

<select v-model="style" name="style" @change="updateFromSelectedText">
    <option>Choose style</option>
    <option value="1">One</option>
    <option value="2">Two</option>

</select>

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Amber Jackson, is a mother and grandmother who has been trained to help other mothers with their concerns, and connect parents with resources available within the County.
Carmen Loeffler, RN, BNS, oversees the Maternal Child Health program and works in coordination with Amber Jackson in visiting families in Marion County.
Amber and Carmen set up appointments for visits with the parents before the baby is born, and after mother and baby are home.
If you have any questions call the Health Department at (620) 382-2550.


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Airbnb's New Logo is an Absolute Home Run
By Allan Chochinov - July 16, 2014
And we are not intending a pun in the title at all. The thing is perfect.
We were excited to attend the press preview of Airbnb's new identity last week in Tribeca and have to say that the new marque is pretty brilliant. Co-founder and friend Joe Gebbia kicked off his remarks with a shout out to Core77 as "the first site to ever write about Airbnb"(!)—back when it was "Air Bed and Breakfast"—and then took us through the evolution of the brand to its new birth this morning.
The heavy lifting was done by DesignStudio, a London-based shop who basically embedded themselves at Airbnb HQ for months (and is now led in SF by immensely thoughtful founding partner Paul Stafford).
All we can say is that if they wanted something completely universal, instantly memorable, drawable, customizable, and hackable by every homeowner, front lawn sign maker, and (we're guessing soon) restaurant and shop window, DesignStudio and the folks at Airbnb have hit it out of the park... and, well, right through your bedroom window.
They're launching a Create Airbnb site today to let you make your own version, so we figure by tomorrow this logo will have worked its way around the world into myriad interpretations and some pretty smart embodiments...especially since this is such a beloved brand with countless fans with Photoshop, phones, tablets, and painting apps in their arms.
Ready, set, go. And congrats to the team.
Ed. Note: Additional thoughts on Bélo here
Allan Chochinov
Allan Chochinov is a partner of Core77, a New York-based design network serving a global community of designers and design enthusiasts, and Chair of the new MFA in Products of Design graduate program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Allan lectures around the world and at professional conferences including IDSA, AIGA and IxDA, has been a guest critic at various design schools in including Yale University, IIT, Carnegie Mellon, Ravensbourne, RMIT, University of Minnesota, Emily Carr, and RISD. He has moderated and led workshops and symposia at the Aspen Design Conference, the Rockefeller Center at Bellagio, Compost Modern, and Winterhouse, and is a frequent design competition juror. Prior to Core77, his work in product design focused on the medical, surgical, and diagnostic fields, as well as on consumer products and workplace systems. He has been named on numerous design and utility patents and has received awards from The Art Directors Club, I.D. Magazine, Communication Arts, and The One Club.
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automation anywhere logo is better than airbnb
It looks identical to a company called Automation Anywhere.
Couldn't even finish reading the headline, before I was deciding if boobs or a nut-sack was staring back at me. Have to wonder if this really is a home-run and how everyone seemed to miss it.
TKeystone
Totally tits, literally and figuratively.
I'm sorry, but it looks like a weird amalgamation of every single sexual organ.
zacg
I suggest you all look up Automation Anywhere and their logo (which came first). Straight copycat design.
Wow - it's amazing to see how unflinchingly designers defend their fellow designers.
This is just bad work. Awkward logo. Try-hard branding.
This is a case study in how strong group-think is in many design/product organizations. Obviously no one had the (pun intended) balls to stand up and say that the logo looks like two varieties of genitalia.
Looks like boobs.
JMeriwether
Not impressed with the Airbnb live stream event at all. By the end, it had become one big infomercial promoting merchandise and a harsh grab at free advertising. Congrats to Airbnb on getting a logo and overhauling the site, because they needed that, but if they wanted their customers to do more promoting for them, they really should have just been honest about it. (They also should have had someone design a better logo... the color is awful and the design has been labeled a "sexual Rorschach test" by Gizmodo.) Dressing it up as some big peace/love/unity thing and expecting the customer not to notice what they did, well, I guess they think we're stupid. (Or their ad/marketing/design firms do.) If they wanted us to help promote the brand, they could have just asked. Most of us wouldn't mind, as long as we'd previously had a great experience with them. However, pretending they're doing more than that is a major turnoff.
manuel toscano
It's definitely cute, but I don't fully understand the unchecked acclaim coming from Core77. It could be easily argued that this type of treatment enhances the separation between Air and BnB, which would be effective if this was an airline. The shape of the logo also appears more romantic then architectonic, making it a little more ambiguous then it needs to be. Identities are ultimately tested both by time and the ability of the organization to put it in the right branding context. We should all be a little more subdued and patient, especially when judging new identities, before we go ahead and immediately declare them a "home run".
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Пятидесятническое движение в США — часть всемирного пятидесятнического движения. Движение не представляет единства ни в богословских, ни в организационных вопросах, распадаясь более чем на 300 самостоятельных союзов. Общая численность верующих оценивается в 15 — 20 млн человек.

История

Соединенные Штаты Америки являются родиной современного пятидесятнического движения. Датой рождения движения принято считать 1 января 1901 года, когда студенты библейской школы Ч. Ф. Парэма пережили крещение Духом Святым. Мощный толчок к развитию пятидесятнического движения дали собрания на Азуза-стрит в 1906 году.

Последовавшее десятилетие привело к созданию первых пятидесятнических объединений: Ассамблей Бога и Пятидесятнических ассамблей мира. В это же время доктрину крещения Духом Святым принимают ряд общин и союзов Движения святости. Это основанная в 1886 году Церковь Бога, афроамериканская Церковь Бога во Христе (основана в 1897 году) и Пятидесятническая церковь святости (основана в 1911 году).

Долгое время пятидесятники Америки оставались изолированными от других евангельских групп. Лишь с начала 40-х годов XX века происходит их постепенное сближение с другими фундаменталистскими церквами США.

Послевоенные годы движение характеризуется т. н. «пробуждением исцеления». Массовые собрания, проводимые евангелистами У. Бранхамом, О.Робертсом, А. Аленом, Г. Линдси, Т. Осборном во многом подготовили почву для возникновения харизматического движения.

В 1948 году крупнейшие американские союзы «белых» пятидесятников создали межденоминационный консультативный орган — Пятидесятническое Братство Северной Америки. Союз принимал активное участие в подготовке Всемирных пятидесятнических конференций. В октябре 1994 года организация была реформирована в союз Пятидесятнических/Харизматических Церквей Америки. В настоящий момент союз объединяет большинство пятидесятников и харизматов из США и Канады. Основные цели объединения — братское общение и поощрение сотрудничества.

Во второй половине 1990-х годов американские пятидесятники оказались затронуты т. н. «Браунсвилльским пробуждением» или «Пробуждением в Пенсаколе», начавшемся в 1995 году в поместной общине Ассамблей Бога в городе Браунсвилль, (Пенсакола, Флорида).

Численность верующих
Точную численность пятидесятников в США назвать трудно в силу разных причин. Это и отсутствие единого административного центра, и взрывной рост афроамериканских харизматических церквей, и тот факт, что значительное число городских «белых» харизматических церквей не входят ни в одно объединение и часто позиционируют себя как «неденоминационные церкви».

Авторы «Энциклопедии Религии и Общества» (1998 год) указывают диапазон от 10 до 29 млн человек. По данным Pew Research Center в 2006 году в США проживало ок. 15 млн пятидесятников (или 5 % населения). Весьма авторитетная Всемирная Христианская Энциклопедия насчитала в 2001 году 16 млн пятидесятников и харизматов, отметив продолжающийся рост общин.

Исследование Christian Research называет цифру 20 млн верующих (2006 год). Справочное издание «Операция мир» содержит информацию о 21,68 млн пятидесятниках в США в 2010 году и указывает ежегодный прирост в 1,1 %.

За последние два десятилетия пятидесятническое движение в США увеличилось во много раз. Благодаря этому, пятидесятники стали третьей (после католиков и баптистов) религиозной группой Америки.

По данным Pew Research Center 56 % американских пятидесятников являются «белыми»; 20 % — афроамериканцами; 18 % — латиноамериканцами; 1 % — азиатами. Остальные 5 % американских пятидесятников принадлежать к смешанным или другим группам. Свыше половины пятидесятников США (52 %) проживают на Юге страны; 19 % — на Среднем Западе; 17 % на Западе и лишь 12 % в северо-восточном географическом регионе. Согласно тому же исследованию, 56 % прихожан пятидесятнических церквей — женщины; мужчины составляют 44 %.

По данным Ассоциации статистиков американских религиозных групп, в 2000 году пятидесятники являлись крупнейшей религиозной конфессией в 8 округах Америки — в Асотине, штат Вашингтон; в Витленде, штат Монтана; в Джозефине, штат Орегон; в Итоне, штат Мичиган; в Линне, штат Орегон; в Мак-Дауэлле, штат Западная Виргиния; в Полке, штат Орегон и в Уилере, штат Орегон.

Основные деноминации

Традиционно, американских пятидесятников делят на классических (пятидесятники двух благословений и пятидесятники трех благословений), пятидесятников-унитариев, радикальных пятидесятников и харизматов.

Крупнейшей пятидесятнической деноминацией Северной Америки остается афроамериканская Церковь Бога во Христе. Основанная в 1897 году, она объединяет 5,5 млн прихожан и 15 тыс. поместных церквей. Ассамблеи Бога сообщают о 3 млн прихожан в 12 600 церквах (2011 год). Старейшая пятидесятническая церковь Америки — Церковь Бога (Кливленд, Теннесси) объединяет почти 1,1 млн верующих. Международная церковь четырёхстороннего Евангелия насчитывает 354 тыс. членов. Общины Международной пятидесятнической церкви святости посещают 330 тыс. верующих.

Среди других объединений классических пятидесятников следует назвать: Пятидесятническую церковь Бога (100 тыс.), Церковь Бога пророчеств (90 тыс.), Объединённую святую церковь Америки (50 тыс.), Церкви «Открытой Библии» (45 тыс.), афроамериканскую Церковь живого Бога (42 тыс.), Церковь Бога по вере (35 тыс.), Пятидесятническую баптистскую церковь свободной воли (28 тыс.), Христианскую церковь «Новый свет» (28 тыс.), Конгрегациональную церковь святости (25 тыс.), Елимское братство (21 тыс.), Ассамблею веры (17 тыс.), Святую церковь Америки «Гора Синай» (8 тыс.), Миссию апостольской веры (Портленд, Орегон — 5 тыс.), Церковь Бога (Горная Ассамблея — 5 тыс.), Международную пятидесятническую церковь Христа (5 тыс.), Независимые ассамблеи Бога, Объединенную пятидесятническую церковь во Христе.

Весьма заметную группу в США составляют пятидесятники-унитарии. Большинство из них сосредоточены в трех крупнейших объединениях: Пятидесятнических Ассамблеях Мира (1,65 млн верующих, в т.ч. 1,3 млн членов), Объединенной пятидесятнической церковь, международной (810 тыс. верующих, в т. ч. 646 тыс. членов) и Всемирной церкви нашего Господа Иисуса Христа библейского пути (250 тыс.). Помимо указанных, в США действуют и другие союзы пятидесятников-унитариев: Ассамблеи Господа Иисуса Христа (50 тыс.), Церковь Христова Крестный путь (50 тыс.), Церковь Господа нашего Иисуса Христа апостольской веры (30 тыс.), Пятидесятнические церкви апостольской веры (25 тыс.), Апостольская преодолевающая святая церковь Бога (15 тыс.), Первая церковь Иисуса Христа (10 тыс.).

Крупнейшими харизматическими объединениями являются: Братство баптистских церквей полного Евангелия (крупнейшая церковь черных харизматов), Братство церквей полного Евангелия (2,8 млн верующих в 8,3 тыс. церквях; крупнейшая церковь белых харизматов), Часовня на Голгофе, Ассоциация церквей Виноградника (189 тыс.). При этом, значительное число поместных харизматических церквей не входит ни в одно объединение.

Растущую группу американских пятидесятников составляют латиноамериканцы. При этом, если ранее испаноязычные церкви входили в крупные союзы (г.о. Ассамблеи Бога), то в последнее время наблюдается процесс формирования новых национальных союзов — пуэрто-риканских, мексиканских, бразильских, гватемальских.

С середины 80-х годов XX века десятки тысяч пятидесятников из стран бывшего Советского Союза иммигрировали в США. Большая часть русскоязычных пятидесятнических церквей входят в Объединение Славянских Церквей ХВЕП Америки, Союз ХВЕ Америки и Славянское отделение Церквей Ассамблеи Бога. Крупнейшей поместной церковью является Славянская миссионерская церковь «Вифания» (5 тыс. прихожан).

См. также
 Протестантизм в США
 Пятидесятники
 Список пятидесятнических деноминаций

Примечания

Литература

Ссылки
 Сайт Пятидесятнических/Харизматических Церквей Северной Америки

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PARALYMPIC RESULTS
Australia claim Asia-Oceania wheelchair rugby crown
Australia, Japan and New Zealand finished atop the podium at the 2013 IWRF Wheelchair Rugby Asia-Oceania Championships. 25 Nov 2013
Australia's wheelchair rugby programme has fielded one of the world's top teams over recent years.
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In the bronze-medal game, New Zealand defeated host nation South Africa, 65-33.
Despite nearly every member of their team suffering from serious food poisoning, Australia still managed to leave the 2013 IWRF Wheelchair Rugby Asia-Oceania Championships on Sunday (24 November) with the gold medal.
Australia defeated Japan 55-48 in the final in Pretoria, South Africa, qualifying themselves for next year's World Championships in Odense, Denmark.
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The Joy Is Contagious at the Ethnic Dance Festival
By Janice Berman ,
If there were a thousand words in this review, it still couldn't encompass the number of unique descriptions, titles, place names and styles that make up the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. How terrific.
It's the one time every year — this is the Festival's 35th — that even seasoned dancegoers encounter work they've never seen before, but would love to see again. Saturday's afternoon show at the Lam Center spotlighted 10 troupes, all resident in the Bay Area, and all showing music and dancing that's definitely from out of town: the Andes, Tibet, the Philippines, Peru, India, Mexico, Bali, the Middle East, and Senegal.
There are two more weekends of shows, each with different companies. If you go, pick up a copy of the attractive program, which costs $2, benefits the festival — which is in need of dough — and will add immeasurably to your understanding and enjoyment of the goings-on. Which are pretty wonderful. It's rare that you get an opportunity to see companies, chosen by audition, performing for love of their community and their homeland, and their joy Saturday afternoon was contagious.
Colectivo Anqari's parade of musicians and dancers in the 19th-century Mistiskuri tradition from Bolivia and Peru kicked things off in festive form. Wearing bright shirts and woollen caps with earflaps (ch'ullus; maybe you've seen the headwear on the ski slopes), the musicians drummed and played panpipes called sikus. The twirling dancers wore flowered hats and skirts of red and pink. Directed and choreographed by Luis Valverde, the dancers and musicians flowed down the aisles and onto the stage.
Chaksam-Pa, based in California for 25 years, performed a Tibetan purification dance, adapted for the stage as a blessing. Rarely seen outside Southeast Asia, Ache Lhamo opera is on the UNESCO Performance Heritage list. The male singers wore flat blue masks, bearing suns, moons, and wish-fulfilling jewels; drums and cymbals accompanied their high-pitched chants. The women dancers, in sumptuous robes and headdresses bearing sacred images, curved their arms gracefully and moved gently.
Parangal Dance Company offered a show-stopping Philippines wedding celebration from Mindinao. Created by Eric Solano, in a series that included dances for women in silk robes, with sinuously curving wrists; a secret meeting between the engaged couple; an intense martial arts fight with knives and poles and kicks, including elements contributed by Indonesian, Malaysian, and Chinese immigrants to the Philippines, and an amazing performance of the traditional bamboo pole dance called Singkil, where dancers' ankles dodge the slamming poles in the nick of time. Capping it was the bride's arrival under wraps, in a sedan chair. She was revealed in a glory of white and gold brocade to her waiting prince and subjects beneath canopies of turquoise and fluttering flags, and everyone danced on to a happy ending.
For something completely different, El Tunante, from Peru, presented a couples' dance, La Marinera Nortena, choreographed by Nestor Ruiz, that included two pairs of charming children as well as their elders. The marinera, Peru's national dance, has three styles, and this one, from the north, is both dignified and warm, accompanied by a vocalist, Marina Marchena, and two drummers. Elements similar to Spanish flamenco-style dance are noticeable throughout, executed by high-stepping men in boots and barefooted women.
Two venerable guest artists from India, kathak master Pandit Birju Maharaj and Saswati Sen, led off a performance by the Tarangini School of Kathak Dance, whose swirling, stamping, graceful students, swathed in gold and purple, have studied the art form for 10 years or more. The piece they danced, Mere Dholna, My Beloved, choreographed by Anuradha Nag, is set to a Bollywood love song.
Ballet Folklorico Mexicano de Carlos Moreno's Guerrero, dance and song from the coast, included dances evoking bullfights, ballrooms, vultures, and finally — intriguingly — iguanas, where the men dancers slithered acrobatically across the floor like break dancers. The music, or Son, derives from indigenous, African and baroque Spanish music; the choreography is by Carlos and Lisa Moreno.
Gamelan Sekar Jaya, from Berkeley, presented wonderful music, with a rather minimal amount of Balinese choreography titled Tari Gabor that left this onlooker wanting more.
Honoring glitz and glamor, according to the program, Shabnam Dance Company, led by Shabnam Sirvani, a group of modern bellydancers, dazzled. Swathed in pearls and golden costumes and chandelier earrings and, once, a headful of lighted candles, flexing their bare midriffs and other integuments, they were sinuous, sexy and athletic all at once. Furthermore, they played the drums called tablas, traditionally reserved for men.
The afternoon romped toward a close with De Rompe Y Raja Cultural Association, whose Afro-Peruvian roots encompass the intricate footwork called zapateo, along with the zamacueca and a marinera in an Afro-Peruvian dance party, Ritmos Negros Del Peru, or Black Rhythms of Peru, choreographed by Gabriela Shiroma, a lively urban mixture of street parade, dance, and song evoking a free people. The instruments included the box drum, or cajon; the quijada, or donkey jaw, with loose teeth shaken or scraped, and the cajita, a box with a lid that's sometimes lit inside, like a church collection box, and is slammed open and shut.
The loudest drumming of the day and the most exuberant, knees-up dancing came last, with Cheikh Tairou M'Baye and Sing Sing Rhythms, from Senegal, West Africa. Now based in Oakland, this vivacious drum and dance company of Wolof griots, or storytellers, was born in Medina, Senegal, in 1987. A suite of dances choregraphed by Cheikh Tairou M'baye and Babacar M'baye celebrated newborn children (Barra M'baye), improvisations to rhythm (Bak) and honored Senegal's best dancer, who was also a great cook (Thiebou Djeune). The title refers to Senegal's national dish of marinated fish; the dancing was supremely tasty, and the audience dove right in, clapping along.
Janice Berman was an editor and senior writer at New York Newsday. She is a former editor in chief of Dance Magazine.


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Quotable Church History: "If I had to add a single sigh to my salvation…"
This is the eighth in a series on famous quotes from church history. We're looking at who said these famous words, in what context, and whether it's biblical.
By the late 1700s, the Reformed church in the Netherlands had largely become anemic. Unbelief and liberal theology ran rampant. There were few gospel preachers and only scattered handfuls of true believers. Instead, what dominated was the type of religion emphasizing Jesus as the good example for a moral life. Doctrine was sidelined, along with the creeds and Reformed confessions.
This was the story in the tiny village church of Ulrum coming into the 1800s. Ulrum is located in the north-west of the Dutch province of Groningen (one of the two most northern Dutch provinces). In 1826, Ulrum received a new pastor in the person of Petrus Hofstede de Groot. De Groot was the typical minister of his day. In one place he summarized his belief: "Christianity is no doctrine, it is power, spirit, and life, for the enlightenment, warming, sanctification, and perfection of man." His message was moral improvement. While some delighted in the pablum he offered in his weekly preaching, others in Ulrum saw the sad reality. Several Ulrum members refused to make a public profession of faith with de Groot as their minister. Thankfully, de Groot's ministry was short: he left to teach at the University of Groningen in 1829, only three years after arriving in Ulrum.
De Groot handpicked his successor. Hendrik de Cock was his good friend and a like-minded preacher. He arrived in Ulrum in October 1829. At first his preaching was much the same as de Groot. However, he did make some changes. For example, prior to his arrival, Ulrum consistory meetings were never convened or closed with prayer. De Cock introduced prayer at the beginning of the first meeting of the year and prayer at the end of the last meeting of the year. It was a small step. Nevertheless, despite being a minister and quite religious, de Cock was really no different than de Groot at this time: both were missing the gospel, and both were lacking in true faith.
One of the members who had refused to make profession of his faith with de Groot was a working-class brother by the name of Klaas Pieters Kuypenga. In due time, de Cock urged Kuypenga to come by the Ulrum manse for an hour a week to receive further instruction. Kuypenga agreed. But what happened was remarkable. Kuypenga became one of God's instruments to bring de Cock to true faith in Jesus Christ. During one of their sessions, Kuypenga remarked to his pastor: "If I had to add a single sigh to my salvation, I would be eternally lost." This language stunned de Cock and it put the proverbial stone in his shoe — he couldn't stop thinking about what this meant. In due time, God would providentially bring other factors into play so that de Cock would become a Christian and start preaching like one. De Cock would go on to challenge the liberalism of the Dutch Reformed Church and be instrumental in a reformation known as the Secession (in Dutch: Afscheiding) of 1834.
One would think it rather obvious that Kuypenga spoke biblical truth to his pastor. Galatians 3:10 says, "For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse…" Adding anything from our works to Christ's work would place us under a curse. Or one could think of Isaiah 64:6 which insists that even our so-called righteous deeds are like unmentionables in the sight of God. Furthermore, Romans 3:28 reminds us that "one is justified by faith apart from works of the law." We have nothing to contribute to our salvation except for the sin which made it necessary. The moment you seek to add something to the perfect work of Christ, you are holding to a different gospel, a false gospel which will damn you. Klaas Pieters Kuypenga had been trained by the Holy Spirit to speak his truth.
It wouldn't be the last time God would use a regular church member as a powerful instrument to bring reformation. He did something similar with Abraham Kuyper and a lady named Pietje Balthus. Both Hendrik de Cock and Abrhaham Kuyper were exceptionally learned men, scholarly pastors — and yet God used these "little people" to turn their worlds upside down for the gospel. These episodes in church history illustrate that 1 Corinthians 1:27-29 continues to hold true:
But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong. God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.
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Die Felsritzungen vom Gallow Hill (; Cup-and-Ring-Markierungen A und B) liegen auf dem Gallow Hill nordwestlich von Tealing in Angus in Schottland.

Die Cups und Ringmarken A liegen auf einem flachen Boulder als Teil einer Nord-Süd orientierten Böschung. Sie weisen 16 Schälchen () auf, zwei davon sind umringt.

Die Cups und Ringmarken B liegen in einem Aufschluss () auf einem flachen Sandsteinfelsen. Es sind 16 Schälchen. Zwei Schalen mit dreifachen Ringen, gehen ineinander über. Eine Schale mit drei ovalen Ringen umschließt ein Rondel mit zwei Schälchen.

Literatur
 Evan Hadingham: Ancient Carvings in Britain. A Mystery. Garnstone Press, London 1974, ISBN 0-85511-391-X.

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Injuries are a leading cause of death and disability around the world. Injury incidence is often associated with socio-economic and physical environmental factors. The application of geospatial methods has been recognised as important to gain greater understanding of the complex nature of injury and the associated diverse range of geographically-diverse risk factors. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to provide an overview of geospatial methods applied in unintentional injury epidemiological studies.
Nine electronic databases were searched for papers published in 2000–2015, inclusive. Included were papers reporting unintentional injuries using geospatial methods for one or more categories of spatial epidemiological methods (mapping; clustering/cluster detection; and ecological analysis). Results describe the included injury cause categories, types of data and details relating to the applied geospatial methods.
From over 6,000 articles, 67 studies met all inclusion criteria. The major categories of injury data reported with geospatial methods were road traffic (n = 36), falls (n = 11), burns (n = 9), drowning (n = 4), and others (n = 7). Grouped by categories, mapping was the most frequently used method, with 62 (93%) studies applying this approach independently or in conjunction with other geospatial methods. Clustering/cluster detection methods were less common, applied in 27 (40%) studies. Three studies (4%) applied spatial regression methods (one study using a conditional autoregressive model and two studies using geographically weighted regression) to examine the relationship between injury incidence (drowning, road deaths) with aggregated data in relation to explanatory factors (socio-economic and environmental).
The number of studies using geospatial methods to investigate unintentional injuries has increased over recent years. While the majority of studies have focused on road traffic injuries, other injury cause categories, particularly falls and burns, have also demonstrated the application of these methods. Geospatial investigations of injury have largely been limited to mapping of data to visualise spatial structures. Use of more sophisticated approaches will help to understand a broader range of spatial risk factors, which remain under-explored when using traditional epidemiological approaches.
Injury is a leading preventable cause of death and disability around the world (Peden et al. 2002). Previous epidemiological studies have demonstrated that injury incidence is often related to external socio-economic and physical environmental factors (Muller et al. 2005; Poulos et al. 2007). Unlike many non-communicable health-related conditions, the incidence of many injuries can also be directly linked to specific places (e.g. body of water, road intersection, junctions) (Dai et al. 2013; Lai et al. 2011; Zhang et al. 2015). Therefore, to better understand injury causation, it is important to account for the interplay between social and environmental risk factors in relation to their geographic (or spatial) distribution (Bell and Schuurman 2010). Geographic Information System (GIS) tools and geospatial analysis methods can be used to investigate these spatial risk factors, which have been under-explored in traditional epidemiological studies (Beale et al. 2008; Ostfeld et al. 2005).
Geospatial methods have a long history of use in public health, including for epidemiological research (Auchincloss et al. 2012; Lawson 2001). Within this area, termed spatial epidemiology, investigations can be characterised by three broad categories of enquiry: (i) mapping; (ii) clustering/cluster detection (hotspot analysis); and, (iii) ecological analysis (Elliott and Wartenberg 2004; Lawson 2001; Lawson et al. 2016; Singh et al. 2015). These categories are interrelated, and may overlap in some cases, so they should not be considered as distinct components (Elliot et al. 2000; Lawson et al. 2016).
Mapping has primarily been used to describe disease incidence in a spatial context and subsequently, to formulate aetiological hypotheses by identifying areas of high-risk (Elliot et al. 2000; Lawson et al. 2000). The choice of map depends largely on the spatial resolution of the available data. In public health, this data tends to be based on specific point features (e.g. residential addresses or coordinates of disease location) or aggregated by areal features (e.g. state, county, local government area or postcode.) To represent point data, a point map is commonly used, in which each individual case is represented by a single point on a map relative to its geographic location (Waller and Gotway 2004). This is useful when study aims include understanding how individual cases are distributed across space. To represent attribute information associated with individual cases, other types of point maps can be used such as graduated colour maps where a range of colours (e.g. blue to red) indicate a progression of numeric values. Where areal data is available, the choropleth map is commonly used, in which different colour patterns are applied to regions representing a class of values (Waller and Gotway 2004). Other types of maps, such as classed symbol maps, are less commonly used.
Most commonly, disease data is available as aggregated summaries for areal features such as postcode, census tract or counties (Beale et al. 2008). Statistical techniques are then applied to estimate area level risks, and those estimates are mapped to understand the spatial distribution of risk. The most common summary measures of occurrence are frequency, incidence rates, standardised mortality ratio and relative risk (Beale et al. 2008). When counts or rates are large, their distributions follow statistical assumptions inherent in linear models. However, if the counts or rates are small, as is the case in some areas, the application of appropriate smoothing techniques are required to address the small number problem (Waller and Gotway 2004).
Clustering/cluster detection refers to the uncovering of "unusual" aggregation of disease incidence (Fritz et al. 2013; Lawson 2001). These methods are applied to investigate how health outcome data relate spatially by identifying: (i) the presence of any clusters, in which case global (general, non-specific) methods are used; and, (ii) the location of clusters in space, for which local (focused, specific) methods are used (Lawson 2001; Lawson et al. 2016). Usually, global methods generate an autocorrelation parameter that defines the nature of the spatial pattern whereas local methods identify the specific locations of clusters, also known as hotspots. Many clustering/cluster detection methods have been developed based on different statistical models specific for point and/or areal features within the two broad categories of global and local (Fritz et al. 2013). Such methods are underpinned by different statistical approaches, so each method could provide different clustering/cluster results for the same set of data (Waller and Gotway 2004).
A review that summarised the clustering/cluster detection methods most commonly applied in epidemiology identified Diggle and Chetwynd's bivariate K-function, Mantel-Bailar's test and the Potthoff-Whittinghill method as the most preferred global methods and spatial scan statistics as the most preferred local method (Auchincloss et al. 2012). A more recent summary reviewed cluster methods applied in epidemiology for point data and identified that the K-function is the most commonly used global method followed by methods based on the nearest neighbour statistics such as nearest neighbour index (NNI), nearest neighbour hierarchical (NnH) and Cuzick Edwards test (Fritz et al. 2013). The study also reported the most common local method to be spatial scan statistics (Fritz et al. 2013). Other methods have also been used in broader public health applications such as kernel density estimation, Moran's I, Local Indicator of Spatial Autocorrelation (LISA), Getis Ord statistics, and Tango's maximized excess events test (Auchincloss et al. 2012; Fritz et al. 2013). Each clustering/cluster detection method has its own strengths and weaknesses and may not be appropriate to all datasets because each dataset differs in spatial resolution (point or areal), spatial coverage (area covered by dataset) and spatial intensity (distribution of outcome of interest) (Fritz et al. 2013; Waller and Gotway 2004).
Ecological analyses examine the spatial distribution of disease incidence in relation to explanatory factors (Lawson et al. 2016). These types of studies use spatial statistical models to investigate the relationship between exposures and disease at an aggregate level (Elliot et al. 2000; Lawson et al. 2016). Importantly, traditional statistical models may not be appropriate for the analysis of spatially dependent data because of their inability to address or account for spatial autocorrelation and/or spatial heterogeneity. Spatial regression models have therefore been developed under both frequentist and Bayesian approaches, with common methods used in epidemiological studies being Conditional Autoregressive Models (CAR), Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) and the Besag York and Molliè (BYM) approach (Auchincloss et al. 2012; Chaney and Rojas-Guyler 2016; Rezaeian et al. 2007). These methods differ in their complexity of computation, approach towards capturing spatial heterogeneity, and in how they quantify the uncertainty associated with parameter estimates (Auchincloss et al. 2012).
While the principles of geospatial analysis have broad relevance to injury epidemiology, their application to injury data is still relatively novel (Bell and Schuurman 2010; Cusimano et al. 2007; Singh et al. 2015). One possible reason for this could be that geospatial analysis requires spatially referenced health and determinant data at a population level (Beale et al. 2008; Bell and Schuurman 2010). With widespread use of global positioning system (or GPS) technologies over the past decade, these data have become increasingly available and can now be linked to injury data sets. In addition, wider accessibility to GIS for the management, analysis and presentation of spatial data has also increased in the last decade, with capability now (at least partially) incorporated into standard statistical software (e.g. STATA (StataCorp 2015)) or available through open source platforms (e.g. QGIS (QGIS 2015), GeoDa (Anselin et al. 2006), SatScan (Kulldorff et al. 1998), CrimeStat (Levine 2000)). Given the increase in availability of both spatially-referenced injury data and GIS software, it is timely to consider how and when geospatial methods have been applied to injury epidemiology studies.
A previous review summarised the history of GIS in relation to injury prevention (Bell and Schuurman 2010), but that review did not include details about the actual geospatial methods used in the published literature. Therefore, the aim of this study is to summarise the application of geospatial methods to unintentional injury as found in epidemiological studies published since 2000. The focus is on the type of analysis and/or data representation approach used, rather than on the injury incidence estimates per se. The intention is for these new review findings to help inform future research agendas in injury prevention.
The publication search was guided by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines (Additional file 1) (Moher et al. 2009). As the aim was to summarise the geospatial analysis methods reported in each study, some items of the PRISMA statement were not applicable (e.g. there was no formal assessment of risk of bias), nor was a quality assessment of the reviewed studies undertaken given the focus was on the adopted analysis methods only.
The focus of the review was restricted to unintentional injury studies given the strong link between the occurrence of such events and a specific single geographic location (e.g. a road intersection, body of water). A comprehensive list of MeSH terms and free text keywords relating to geospatial methods and unintentional injury incidence were used to develop a search strategy (Additional file 2). Nine electronic databases were searched: Medline, Academic Search Complete, CINAHL Complete, Engineering Source, GeoRef, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, PsycINFO, SPORT Discus with Full Text, Web of Science.
Standardised inclusion and exclusion criteria were formulated (Additional file 2) and independently applied by two authors to scan the title and abstract of all search results. Any publication deemed potentially eligible was included for full text review.
To address aetiological questions (provide aetiologic cues about the relationship between the spatial distribution of injury incidence and explanatory factors at the aggregate level).
There was a large number of studies initially included that were subsequently identified as not reporting injury data. In particular, there were a large number of road transport studies that reported data in terms of crashes, collisions or accidents rather than reporting the frequency or rate of the injuries sustained during such events (Blazquez and Celis 2013; Zhang et al. 2015). Only studies where injuries were clearly identifiable were retained (as opposed to those with a focus on potential injury-causing events). Original peer-review studies, published in 2000 to 2015, were included.
Studies that investigated intentional injuries, such as suicides or violence, were not included. We have excluded studies focused on assessing spatial access to trauma centres because our aim is to summarise methods used for epidemiological investigation rather than those associated with healthcare resource planning.
First author and year of publication: to identify specific studies and to assess the use of geospatial methods over time.
Injury causes: to categorise each study as being focussed on one or more of the following external cause categories—road traffic, falls, drowning, burns, poisoning, natural disasters, and others (including combined causes).
Data coverage: to identify the source of the data and its geographic location.
Name of the GIS package used to analyse the spatial data.
Study classification: Studies were classified into one or more of the three broad categories of spatial epidemiological approaches, and relevant details of the methods applied in each category were extracted.
Mapping studies: To be classified in this category, studies had to report one or more maps representing raw injury data or results derived from statistical models applied to that injury data for descriptive purposes. The information extracted from each paper included data relevant to the type of map (e.g. point, choropleth, classed symbol), the summary measure considered (e.g. incidence rates, standardised mortality ratio) and any smoothing technique (e.g. empirical Bayes method, BYM) applied.
Clustering/cluster detection studies: To be included in this category, studies had to apply one or more methods to the injury data to test for clustering (as a measure of spatial autocorrelation or spatial heterogeneity or spatial dependency) or to identify clusters (also known as hotspots). Information regarding each method in terms of its spatial resolution (point or areal), and approach (global or local) were extracted.
Ecological studies: To be classified in this category, studies had to apply one or more spatial regression methods to address aetiological questions with the question clearly stated in the study objective. The applied method, as well as the dependent and type of explanatory variables used in the analysis, were extracted.
Studies were grouped by injury cause categories, publication year and geospatial analysis approach/es. Summaries of the extracted data were tabulated and summarised in text.
From more than 6,000 publications identified, 67 studies met all criteria for inclusion (Fig. 1).
The majority of studies were concerned with road traffic injuries (n = 36) (Chakravarthy et al. 2010; Cinnamon et al. 2011; DiMaggio 2015; Dissanayake et al. 2009; Durkin et al. 2005; Eksler and Lassarre 2008; Eksler et al. 2008; Erdogan 2009; Haynes et al. 2005; Haynes et al. 2008; Hijar et al. 2003; Hosking et al. 2013; Hu et al. 2008; Huff et al. 2012; Jones et al. 2008; La Torre et al. 2007; Lassarre and Thomas 2005; Lateef 2011; Lawrence et al. 2015; Mohan et al. 2015; Morency and Cloutier 2006; Nagata et al. 2011; Nunes and Nascimento 2012; Nunn and Newby 2015; Paulozzi 2006; Poulos et al. 2012; Razzak et al. 2011; Schuurman et al. 2009; Silva et al. 2011; Slaughter et al. 2014; Spoerri et al. 2011; Statter et al. 2011; Sukhai et al. 2009; Unni et al. 2012; Weiner and Tepas 2009; Yan-Hong et al. 2006). Other studies considered falls (n = 11) (Bamzar and Ceccato 2015; Chan et al. 2012; de Pina et al. 2008; Dey et al. 2010; Lai et al. 2009a; Lai et al. 2009b; Lai et al. 2011; Morency et al. 2012; Towne et al. 2015; Turner et al. 2009; Yiannakoulias et al. 2003), burns (n = 9) (Edelman et al. 2010; Fouillet et al. 2006; Goltsman et al. 2014; Harlan et al. 2013; Heng et al. 2015; Mian et al. 2014; Niekerk et al. 2006; Stylianou et al. 2015; Williams et al. 2003), drowning (n = 4) (Dai et al. 2013; Maples and Tiefenbacher 2009; Sharif et al. 2012; Shenoi et al. 2015), occupational (n = 2) (Breslin et al. 2007; Forst et al. 2015), aviation-related (n = 2) (Grabowski et al. 2002a, 2002b), poisoning (n = 1) (Nkhoma et al. 2004), natural disaster (n = 1) (Peek-Asa et al. 2000) and dog-bite (n = 1) (Raghavan et al. 2014).
Mapping was the most common approach applied to the geospatial data, being reported in 93% (n = 62) of the included publications. Clustering or clustering detection methods were used in 40% (n = 27) and spatial regression methods for ecological analysis were applied in only 4% (n = 3) of studies. As Table 1 shows, some studies used >1 approach, so the percentage of studies using each approach does not sum to 100%. The majority of studies (n = 46, 67%) reported only one analysis approach, most commonly mapping, but 18 (27%) used two approaches and three (4%) studies reported all approaches.
The year of publication for the included studies, overall and by combination of categories, is presented in Fig. 2. There was an overall trend towards increased use of geospatial methods, especially clustering, since 2008, demonstrated by the increasing number of studies that applied both mapping and clustering/cluster detection methods.
Of the 62 studies identified as using mapping (Table 2), the injury cause categories most frequently investigated were road crashes (n = 33), falls (n = 10), burns (n = 9), drowning (n = 4), occupational (n = 2), aviation-related (n = 2), dog-bite (n = 1) and natural disaster (n = 1). Of the mapping studies, 15 studies presented dot maps of specific injury locations, 50 studies presented summary measures of aggregated data in choropleth (n = 47) and classed symbol (n = 3) maps. Three of the included studies presented two types of maps (dot and choropleth) so the sum of this group is not equal to the total number of studies (n = 65 types of maps, n = 62 studies). The choropleth and classed symbol maps represented different types of summary measures: incidence rate (n = 27), relative risk (n = 10), frequency (n = 8), and standardised mortality ratios (n = 6). One study mapped more than one summary measure, namely, incidence rate and relative risk (Williams et al. 2003), so again, the sum by summary measures (n = 48) does not equal the total number of studies (n = 47) presented choropleth maps.
Table 2 summarises the types of maps and summary measures within the included studies. Most studies presented multiple maps as figures within the manuscript, representing the different variables under investigation. In thirteen studies, different smoothing techniques were applied to address small number problem. Methods used were an empirical Bayes model (n = 5) (de Pina et al. 2008; Erdogan 2009; Lassarre and Thomas 2005; Silva et al. 2011; Yiannakoulias et al. 2003), Bayesian model (n = 4) (Eksler and Lassarre 2008; Eksler et al. 2008; Turner et al. 2009; Williams et al. 2003), BYM (n = 3) (DiMaggio 2015; Heng et al. 2015; Poulos et al. 2012) and Poisson regression model (n = 1) (Spoerri et al. 2011). The most commonly used empirical Bayes method (Clayton and Kaldor 1987) determines the extent of smoothing from the underlying structure of data including the crude standardised mortality ratio, its precision and the underlying relative risk distribution. In contrast, the BYM approach (Besag et al. 1991) takes into account both spatial effects (spatial dependency) and heterogeneous effects (spatial independence) to estimate smoothed rates.
Table 3 summarises the characteristics of the clustering (global) or cluster detection (local) methods that were applied in 27 studies. Overall, the injury cause categories investigated were road traffic accidents (n = 15), falls (n = 6), burns (n = 2), drowning (n = 2), occupational (n = 1) and poisoning (n = 1). In total, eight different clustering/cluster detection methods were used, with 13 studies using >1 method. Four methods (NNI, NnH, Moran's I, Geary's c) were applied to test for clustering and four methods (Kernel Density Estimation (KDE), spatial scan statistics, LISA and Getis Ord statistics) were applied to identify clusters or hotspots.
The most frequently used hotspot analysis method for point data (n = 10 studies) was KDE (considered to be a cluster detection method because of its ability to provide evidence of hotspots) which is mostly used for exploratory analysis of hotspots through a density map. The strength of KDE is that it provides evidence of hotspots in the visual form but the results of KDE methods are largely dependent on the bandwidth (search radius) parameter settings. (Fritz et al. 2013) This method was most commonly used in road traffic injuries (n = 7) followed by falls (n = 2) and drowning (n = 1). A commonly used clustering method for point data was NnH (n = 4), which determines clusters as standard deviational ellipses based on model parameters such as the specified threshold distance and minimum number of points to be included.
The most commonly applied method for aggregated data to test for spatial autocorrelation (n = 13 studies) was Moran's I (Moran 1950) for which a value >1 indicates presence of spatial autocorrelation. Widely applied hotspot analysis methods for aggregated data, namely the LISA and Getis Ord statistics, were applied in four and five studies respectively (Chaney and Rojas-Guyler 2016; Jerrett et al. 2010). Spatial scan statistics, the most common method in broader epidemiological studies (Auchincloss et al. 2012), was applied in four studies with rarer injury events such as poisoning, occupational or work-related injuries. The strength of spatial scan statistics includes their ability to adjust for confounding variables, population densities and more importantly multiple testing (Auchincloss et al. 2012; Kulldorff 1997).
Three studies applied spatial regression methods to address aetiological questions. Spatial autoregressive models based on CAR (n = 1) and GWR (n = 2) frequentist approaches were applied to investigate social and environmental factors associated with road traffic mortality (Erdogan 2009) and drownings (Dai et al. 2013; Shenoi et al. 2015). One of the drowning studies (Shenoi et al. 2015) applied a CAR spatial regression model to estimate the influence of sociodemographic and environmental variables (e.g. ethnicity, number of pools by single family and multi-family buildings) on the number of childhood swimming pool submersions. Similarly, GWR was applied in another study (Dai et al. 2013) to investigate the influence of social and physical characteristics (e.g. housing density, number of pools, open water bodies, median income) and drowning densities. The road traffic mortality study (Erdogan 2009) applied GWR to investigate relationships between neighbourhood characteristics (e.g. length of roads, number of different types of vehicles) and death rates. The common rationale behind the use of spatial regression methods is to minimise the effect of spatial autocorrelation, as was illustrated by the included studies. A particular advantage of the GWR approach is that it is a local regression technique that allows aetiological relationships to vary from location to location, making it easier to interpret the results (Brunsdon et al. 1998).
Geospatial methods are valuable for understanding injury outcomes because they can be used to recognise patterns of occurrence, identify priority areas for prevention measures and provide more accurate modelling of clustered data that is inherently correlated (Cromley and McLafferty 2011; Ostfeld et al. 2005). While the benefits of geospatial methods have been widely known in broader public health applications for disease surveillance and data exploration in a spatial context (Auchincloss et al. 2012; Martinez et al. 2016; Rezaeian et al. 2007), this review shows that their use in the context of investigating unintentional injuries has been far less common.
Road traffic injuries were the most common category of injury causes investigated through geospatial methods. A possible reason for this could be the long-standing and well-managed injury surveillance systems for road traffic injuries that routinely collect data on the precise location of injury (e.g. specific road intersections). In addition, because there is a well-recognised and significant public health burden from these injuries, especially for fatal cases, they have long been a high priority for injury data systems development and prevention (Ameratunga et al. 2006). Outside of road traffic injuries, the use of geospatial methods has been more limited, mainly used in research of falls, burns and drowning injuries. This might be because of low counts of these injuries in a spatial context. There were some injury cause categories that were notable for their absence in the published spatial epidemiology injury studies, including injuries associated with sport and recreation, an area that could be expanded through future research.
Over the past 15 years, there appears to have been an increasing application of geospatial methods for investigating unintentional injuries, demonstrated by the growing number of published studies using these methods, particularly since 2008. This is likely due to recent advancements in geospatial methods and the development of GIS, which has now made it possible to capture, store, manipulate, analyse, manage and present all types of spatial or geographical data (Fotheringham and Rogerson 2013). It may also reflect the increased availability of routinely collected injury and determinant data that includes a spatial reference, as is now common from government and private organisations.
This review has demonstrated that mapping has been by far the most common spatial analysis approach adopted in injury epidemiological studies. Maps offer the advantage of presenting a clear visual representation of data showing regional or spatial variation in burden or injury risk (Martinez et al. 2016). Maps of standardised mortality ratios, relative risks or other similar statistical measures presented in the reviewed literature are useful for describing the spatial pattern of injury risk. However, basic mapping approaches may misrepresent spatial patterns because estimated standardised mortality ratios or other similar statistical measures do not take into account varying population sizes resulting in apparently large standardised mortality ratios in areas with small populations (Clayton and Kaldor 1987; Lawson et al. 2000). To some extent, this problem can be addressed by applying smoothing models to the risk estimates that take the overall distribution of rates into account (Rezaeian et al. 2007). Widely accepted models such as the empirical Bayes (Clayton and Kaldor 1987) and BYM (Besag et al. 1991) methods, were applied in very few of the included studies that involved small geographic areas with few cases (de Pina et al. 2008; DiMaggio 2015; Heng et al. 2015; Lassarre and Thomas 2005; Silva et al. 2011; Yiannakoulias et al. 2003).
It is fundamentally important that injury epidemiological studies begin to define spatial patterns statistically to determine whether observed clustering patterns occur by chance, or if there are statistically significant clusters that require further investigation (Pfeiffer et al. 2008). Many clustering/cluster detection methods have been developed over the past two decades based on different statistical approaches such as distance based, nearest neighbour, and scanning local rates for point and aggregated data (Auchincloss et al. 2012; Fritz et al. 2013). Our review identified that, in the context of unintentional injury research, very few clustering methods have been applied. Nonetheless, it is evident that the application of these methods has increased over the last eight years, mostly for road traffic injuries, but also falls and drowning. The statistical method regarded as having the best statistical power Tango's maximized excess events tests (Pfeiffer et al. 2008) has yet to be applied in the context of unintentional injuries. Compared to their application in broader public health studies, other methods such as K-functions and spatial scan statistics were also not common in injury studies.
There were differences apparent in the choice of geospatial methods for clustering/cluster detection in unintentional injury studies when compared to broader public health research, suggesting that unintentional injuries might be different in terms of their spatial contexts and, hence, need to be treated differently. It is beyond the scope of this particular review to assess this more formally, but it is certainly worthy of future research attention. There are no established guidelines to suggest which method is most appropriate for what type of injury data. Largely, it appears the choice of method is dependent on what has been readily integrated into common GIS packages. Each clustering/cluster detection method will produce a different result for the same dataset and that result will also vary based on parameter settings (Fritz et al. 2013). This means that identifying the appropriate method along with parameter settings for a particular dataset is challenging and requires multiple testing. Further research in this area would be a valuable contribution.
Health outcome data routinely collected by private and government agencies is often only available as aggregated summaries for well-defined geographic areas. In such cases, spatial inferences can be made at the aggregated level in relation to socio-economic and environmental risk factors for clues to aetiology (Beale et al. 2008). The increasing availability of routinely collected injury data in the form of aggregated summaries lends itself to potential opportunities for ecological studies (Beale et al. 2008). Statistical challenges for this type of analysis include taking into account variability and potential error in rates, due to unequal population distributions and spatial autocorrelation (Elliot et al. 2000). The included studies that applied spatial regression techniques demonstrated how these methods can help to address statistical challenges associated with aggregated data by geographical regions (Dai et al. 2013; Erdogan 2009; Shenoi et al. 2015). These studies also analysed a diverse range of factors (e.g. neighbourhood, environmental characteristics) which may not be possible to assess at an individual level.
Geospatial methods play an important role in understanding the influence of complex social environments on injury outcomes that will help to develop population level injury prevention strategies (Bell and Schuurman 2010). In addition, they can help to identify which populations/sub-groups are consistently at greater (or lower) risk to inform the targeting of prevention efforts in those areas. This review has demonstrated that there is a move towards the use of more sophisticated geospatial methods from more traditional perspectives with the increasing availability in health and determinant data and also advances in GIS and other technologies. Continued advancement in this area would be well served by a detailed review of the quality of the geospatial methods currently adopted in injury epidemiological studies.
A large number of the considered studies in the initial data selection phase investigated crash, collision or accident data without referring specifically to any injury incidence data. Some of these studies also appeared to have used the terms crash/collision/accident and injury interchangeably. This made it challenging to identify the studies that investigated injury data specifically. To address this, decisions to exclude a study were made only after agreement by two authors to help reduce the potential of excluding a publication in error.
In the reviewed literature, different terms were used to describe the application of geospatial methods in epidemiological studies (e.g. spatial epidemiology, spatial analysis, geographical variation, mapping, and geographical epidemiology). There is a possibility that some relevant keywords (eg. space-time) were missed in the search strategy because of the multidisciplinary nature of this area and the use of many colloquial words by those who work in the area. Moreover, it is possible that searching of other databases, such as the transport research international documentation, may have identified some additional relevant papers. However, given the extensive study selection process the studies identified are likely to be a highly representative sample of papers published in this area. If papers were missed, they are most likely from the category 1 studies (i.e. mapping of descriptive data), with no clear methodology indicating application of spatial methods. There is less likelihood that a study from category 2 or 3 (cluster or ecological methods) will have been missed, as authors of those studies would likely use the more familiar terminology in formal publications. Therefore, the major findings are unlikely to be influenced by any missed publications.
It should be noted that although we have categorised the studies into three distinct categories of spatial epidemiological approaches, this was to simplify the presentation of these results and understanding by a non-technical audience. In reality, these categories occur more along a continuous process rather than as discrete steps (Colantonio et al. 2011; Elliott and Wartenberg 2004; Lawson et al. 2016). Many studies used multiple categories and methods and the boundaries between them were not always clear. For example, the most comprehensive studies began by mapping raw data, further explored the data using one or more cluster detection methods and then applied one or more spatial regression methods to understand the relationship with predictor variables (Dai et al. 2013; Shenoi et al. 2015).
The aim of this review has been to provide an overview of the types of geospatial methods applied to unintentional injury epidemiological studies. This study does not provide detail of the analytical processes or steps involved in cluster detection or the spatial regression methods identified. The interested reader is advised to consult key references for specific methods that have been presented throughout the paper (including (Anselin 1995; Brunsdon et al. 1998; Fritz et al. 2013; Getis and Ord 1992; Kulldorff 1997; Marshall 1991).
This review has demonstrated that the application of geospatial methods to investigations of unintentional injuries has increased over recent years, but is still relatively uncommon. The majority of studies applying geospatial methods have focused on road traffic injuries. However, other injury cause categories, particularly falls and burns, have also started to make use of geospatial methods in recent years. Mapping was the most commonly used approach for visual display of injury incidence rates. Where applied, cluster detection methods have identified statistically significant spatial dependency within the injury data under investigation. In such cases, the use of spatial regression techniques are needed to minimise the effect of spatial autocorrelation. Geospatial methods are rapidly emerging as an accessible tool for injury researchers to better understand complex injury aetiology but to date, few authors have made use of their full potential in the major injury cause categories.
This study was led by HS as part of his PhD studies, supervised by the co-authors. HS, LF and CF designed the study. HS and LF developed the search strategy and screened/selected papers for inclusion. HS extracted results data with revision and input from LF and HT where content was unclear. HS led the manuscript writing with all co-authors contributing content to the draft versions. All authors have read and approved the final version.
HS was supported by a Federation University Australia Postgraduate Scholarship. This work is part of his PhD work, under the supervision of the co-authors. CF was supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Principal Research Fellowship (ID: 1058737). The Australian Collaboration for Research into Injury in Sport and its Prevention (ACRISP) is one of the international research centres for the prevention of injury and protection of athlete health supported by the International Olympic Committee.
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Aaron Morrill
Aaron is a writer, musician and lawyer. Aaron attended Berklee College of Music and the State University of New York at Purchase. Aaron served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador. He received a J.D.... More by Aaron Morrill


I am a Holistic Physical Therapist. I first came to know Bowenwork in 2012 while working as a hospital-based PT and sustaining an injury that nearly ended my career. After going through nine months of traditional therapies with minimal progress, a colleague told me about the gentle, healing power of Bowenwork; It changed my life. After two months of treatment, I returned to work part-time. Another two months later I was back full-time. I realized that I needed to learn this technique so that I could help others heal when traditional therapy wasn't adequate for them either.
Education is key to supporting my clients to become proactive in their healing journey. I am excited to teach clients and practitioners to address their whole person—mind, body, and spirit.


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Will 5G Be The Straw That Breaks Your Back? Health Woes from 1G-4G Exposure Aren't Only About Cancer
TOPICS:5GBN FrankTelecomWiFi
By B.N. Frank
Research has determined that exposure to all sources of cell phone and wireless WiFi radiation – 1G through 4G – are biologically and environmentally harmful. Of course, everyone tolerates exposure differently. The same is true for other toxins. This has never not been true. So of course eliminating all sources of cell phone and wireless WiFi radiation is what is best for the health of humans, animals, and nature. But that's not really possible. Besides – having a cell phone to turn on and use only in emergencies is not such a horrible thing.
The best we can all do is reduce our use and exposure to wireless technology. Unfortunately, the "Race for 5G" promotes and forces hundreds of thousands if not millions of radiation-emitting small cells to be installed anyway AND satellites being sent into space to blast 5G at us from there. The first 5G moratorium request from doctors and scientists was issued in 2017. In 2018 5G technology was installed in some New York neighborhoods anyway and residents and their pets immediately started experiencing symptoms from exposure. This was reported on social media by Dr. Naomi Wolf. More health issues have been reported since then in additional locations where 5G has been turned on (see 1, 2, 3).
Of course – this isn't surprising. In February 2019 even the telecom industry admitted they have NO scientific evidence that it's safe. Regardless, misinformation about 5G being harmless has been reported by many publications including the New York Times who coincidentally partnered with Verizon for a 5G Journalism Lab in 2019. Because of reporting misinformation, one NYT reporter is now being accused of violating a truth and accuracy code by the Press Council of Ireland.
In December 2019, another 5G moratorium request was submitted to President Trump. Regardless, the American "Race for 5G" continues because of many elected officials and government employees. American and worldwide opposition continues to increase though. Some cities and countries have also banned it.
Activist Post reports regularly about 5G and other sources of unsafe technology. For more information, visit our archives and the following websites:
5GCrisis
The 5G Summit
Electromagnetic Radiation Safety
My Street, My Choice
Scientists for Wired Tech
TelecomPowerGrab.org
Wireless Information Network
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Well, the 80+ bobwhite quail eggs that i set a few days ago are starting to hatch. So far, I got 10 of them out.
I also have 8 khaki Campbell ducklings that have hatched already too. Not a bad run from an incubator that kept overheating.


The Prime Minister and Members of Parliament from the Western Province have been given 48 hours to respond to the demands of the mine affected villages or the Ok Tedi gold mine will shut down.
Representatives from the Community Mine Continuation Agreement held a conference yesterday in Port Moresby saying their cries have hit brick walls and it is high time the people stand up and make their point clear.
They demand that the Sixty-three Point Four percent stripped off PNGSDP by the National Government be paid in full to CMCA and mine landowners.
They said the demands laid out represented over one hundred thousand people from the mine affected villages from the North, Middle and South Fly including the mine landowners.
They demanded the Prime Minister and their local MPs and Governor to provide them the Sixty-three Point Four percent as they claim is compensation money, the national government and investors owe the people of Western Province.
They said they have lost confidence in the Provincial and National Government because they have not provided the much needed services over the years and through the mine life.
The 48 hours ultimatum will be effective as of next Monday.
Starting today, the leaders will carry out awareness in Daru, Kiunga and in their respective communities.
On Wednesday a meeting will be hosted to gain the views of the all the communities and an action plan on how the mine will be shut down will be executed.
They have given an open invitation to the Prime Minister, their three local MPs and Western Province Governor, Ati Wabiro, to participate in this crucial meeting.
They will also hold talks with the mine workers' union.
Also in the interim, they demanded an immediate transfer of the 2.5% shareholding plus any other outstanding commitments of 2006 and 2007 CMCA reviews granted by NEC decision Number 272 of 2006.


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It's Mens Shed Week and we celebrated with a lunch of Pumpkin Soup, Hot Beef and Pork Rolls followed by Scones and slice.
The Men thoroughly enjoyed the chance to sit and chat over lunch. It was a celebration of another year of good work, good friendships and good fun.