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Healthy living 'cuts dementia risk' for older Brits
HEALTHIER living means fewer older Britons have dementia, a study reveals.
By David Pilditch
10:07, Mon, Feb 8, 2016 | UPDATED: 10:27, Mon, Feb 8, 2016
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The chances of over-65s developing the disease fell 22 per cent over 20 years
A Cambridge University team found the chances of over-65s developing the disease fell 22 per cent over 20 years.
About 850,000 Britons have dementia but the study suggests this is up to 300,000 fewer than previously predicted.
Scientists found that two decades ago, dementia affected 8.3 per cent of over-65s compare to 6.5 per cent now.
Research suggests that healthier behaviours may have helped reduce dementia risk in later-born generations
Dr Matthew Norton, head of policy at Alzheimer's Research UK
The research was led by Professor Carol Brayne, of the Cambridge Institute of Public Health, and looked at dementia prevalence in three parts of England, comparing it with results from a similar study two decades ago.
Professor Brayne said: "Later-born populations have a lower risk of prevalent dementia than those born earlier in the past century."
In a supporting paper, she and colleagues added: "Such reductions could be the outcomes from earlier population-level investments such as improved education and living conditions, and better prevention and treatment of vascular and chronic conditions.
"This evidence suggests that attention to optimum health early in life might benefit cognitive health late in life."
Professor Brayne said the same patterns were emerging across Europe.
She said: "In a review of dementia occurrence in five studies in the UK, Sweden, Spain and the Netherlands between 2007 and 2013 that used consistent research methods and diagnostic criteria, we found none that supported headlines about dramatic increases in dementia.
Scientists found that two decades ago, dementia affected 8.3 per cent of over-65s
"They report stable or reduced prevalence - despite ageing populations."
Professor Brayne will present the results at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Washington this week.
Scientists believe medical progress and better education has also helped halt the progress of dementia.
Rates of smoking, a major risk factor, have more than halved since 1974, and the prevention and treatment of high blood pressure and cholesterol, which also increase the risk of dementia, have improved.
But charities battling dementia fear that with more people living longer the disease posed "Britain's leading health challenge".
Dr Matthew Norton, head of policy at Alzheimer's Research UK, said: "Although the proportion of older people with dementia has not increased according to these studies, age is the biggest known risk factor for dementia and with an ageing population in the UK, current estimates show the overall number of people with dementia is still projected to rise.
Experts say we still need greater public awareness of the risk factors for dementia
"Encouragingly, this research suggests that healthier behaviours may have helped reduce dementia risk in later-born generations.
"Current trends in risk factors such as obesity and diabetes mean we should not be complacent, but measures to help people adopt healthy lifestyles now could have a real impact on the numbers of people living with dementia in the future.
"We still need greater public awareness of the risk factors for dementia, and policymakers as well as charities have a key role to play in improving people's understanding of what they can do to potentially reduce their risk.
"Evidence suggests that a balanced diet, regular exercise, not smoking or drinking to excess, and keeping blood pressure and cholesterol in check can all help to lower the risk of dementia.
"The risk factors for Alzheimer's disease and other dementias are complex and not yet fully understood, but it's likely that our risk is influenced by a mix of lifestyle and genetic factors.
"Currently there is no sure-fire way to prevent dementia, so it's vital that we continue to invest in research into preventions, as well as better treatments and improved diagnosis for those cases that cannot be prevented."
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Jeremy Hughes, chief executive of the Alzheimer's Society, said: "Regular exercise, low alcohol consumption and not smoking significantly reduce the risk of developing vascular dementia and possibly Alzheimer's disease too.
"People are increasingly aware of this, especially if other members of their family have developed the disease."
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Last night, when I was helping the girls get ready for bed, Kiki just looks at me, and out of the blue says "Sometimes I wonder why is there life? Why are there people? What if they never existed? What if there were never dinosaurs?" I thought for a moment and then said, "I don't know, maybe there would just be a bunch of planets floating around." Then she says "Maybe there wouldn't be any planets. Maybe just a bunch of rocks." Then she thought for a minute, wheels turning, and said "And the one person that knows is not even alive anymore. He's in Heaven." More silence and then, "Or I think that might be the one thing no one can answer."
Not bad for an almost eight year old girl. . .
These are the kind of questions and conversations I wish they'd have when I'm around. She and Boo are sharp, K.
What a wonderful demonstration of how we need to come to Christ; with a child-like faith. Putting aside our political and world views to just "know" that there is someone, - "God" - that He has all the answers and He holds it all together. We have a creator and a Savior and He desires a relationship with ME! He calls to the child and requires our child like faith and constantantly reminds us of His unfailing love.
I love the missing teeth smile. And, yes, the tweens are known for their incessant talking, no?


Over years popular TechCrunch blog had grown from reporting about startup news to a huge and dynamic network of technology news media. Being alive since 5 years, Michael Arrington brought up his baby to become one of the most trusted and relevant source of news over Internet. TechCrunch and Arrington are now synonymous with breaking news, especially about startups. Apparently AOL sniffed the potential of the blog network's future and revenue and is ready to take over TechCrunch for an undisclosed price.
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong announced in the annual TechCrunch Disrupt that AOL would be taking over TechCrunch, but no disclosure about the price of deal was done. Some of the credible sources are citing that the price of the acquisition is $25 million, yet rumors are doing rounds about much higher price.


Abstract: Abstract Background Globally, diarrhea is a leading cause of child morbidity and mortality. Although latrines are integral for reducing enteric pathogen transmission, several studies have shown no evidence that latrine ownership improved child health. There are a number of explanations for these results. One explanation is that latrine access does not equate to latrine use. Latrine use, however, is difficult to accurately ascertain, as defecation behavior is often stigmatized. To address this measurement issue, we measure latrine use as a latent variable, indicated by a suite of psychosocial variables. Methods We administered a survey of 16 defecation-related psychosocial questions to 251 individuals living in rural Ecuador. We applied latent class analysis (LCA) to these data to model the probability of latrine use as a latent variable. To account for uncertainty in predicted latent class membership, we used a pseudo-class approach to impute five different probabilities of latrine use for each respondent. Via regression modeling, we tested the association between household sanitation and each imputed latrine use variable. Results The optimal model presented strong evidence of two latent classes (entropy = 0.86): consistent users (78%) and inconsistent users (22%), predicted by 5 of our 16 psychosocial variables. There was no evidence of an association between the probability of latrine use, predicted from the LCA, and household access to basic sanitation (OR = 1.1, 95% CI = 0.6–2.1). This suggests that home access to a sanitation facility may not ensure the use of the facility for every family member at all times. Conclusion Effective implementation and evaluation of sanitation programs requires accurate measurement of latrine use. Psychosocial variables, such as norms, perceptions, and attitudes may provide robust proxy-measures. Future longitudinal studies will help to strengthen the use of these surrogate measures, as many of these factors may be subject to secular trends. Additionally, subgroup analyses will elucidate how our proxy indicators of latrine defecation vary by individual-level characteristics.


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The culprits behind the deceptive attack ads in Washington state might get away with it
By Daniel Walters
Don't be fooled by fake progressive Glen Morgan, a conservative activist from Thurston County who sent out mailers like these to liberal voter across the state. He maintains it wasn't his intention to deceive.
Washington state Democrats know the name Glen Morgan well. After all, he's the Thurston County conservative activist who took the state's messy campaign-finance regulations and turned them into a weapon.
He's the one who fired off a barrage of complaints to the state's Public Disclosure Commission, identifying scores of alleged campaign violations — some petty, some serious — costing local Democratic organizations across the state tens of thousands of dollars in fines.
Meanwhile, a lot of things immediately seemed suspicious about the mailers sent out last month telling voters "Don't be fooled by fake progressive Jessa Lewis ('D' Spokane)" and urging them to write in "real progressive Joe Pakootas" for the 6th Legislative District.
To start with, Joe Pakootas, who ran against Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers two years ago, wasn't running a write-in campaign. The mailer quotes progressive activist group Fuse Washington as urging voters to support Pakootas — failing to mention it's from Fuse's 2016 voter guide, and for a completely different race. In fact, this year, Fuse does endorse Lewis, calling her a "clear choice" and "a fierce advocate for affordable health care."
But maybe the biggest tell came from the small print at bottom of the mailer. The guy responsible for the ad, representing a political action committee calling itself the "Conscience of the Progressive?"
Glen Morgan.
Other similar mailers went out in tight races throughout the state, with conservative Morgan donning the guise of a liberal to argue that progressives shouldn't vote for Erin Frasier in the 19th Legislative District, or Connie FitzPatrick in the 26th, or Tye Menser for Thurston County commissioner — because none of them were progressive enough.
The outrage was loud and swift. It even made the Rachel Maddow Show, called out as a sleazy ploy to divide the Democratic vote. By Wednesday of last week, 31 complaints about the mailers had been sent to the Public Disclosure Commission (PDC), including from Fuse Washington.
"This is a new scam that we have never seen before," Fuse Washington spokesman Collin Jergens says. "Hopefully, the PDC will come down hard on Glen Morgan to make sure that nobody ever tries to pull a dirty trick like this again."
But it's quite possible Morgan will get away with it: Because while Washington state law is strict in certain accounting and reporting requirements, it's relatively loose on placing restrictions on flat-out deceptive or dishonest statements.
Technically, Washington state has laws against certain false statements in political advertising, including false claims about some endorsements. But both the PDC and the state Attorney General's Office say that since those laws were updated in 2009, there hasn't been a single person prosecuted or fined under them.
"Everybody is worried about Russia," says state Rep. Marcus Riccelli, a Democrat from Spokane's nearby 3rd District. "I'm worried about manipulation at the homefront here."
Untroubled "Conscience"
This year, there have been plenty of deceptive political ads in the Inland Northwest: Sometimes the ads cherry-pick a few moments over a long career to bolster a wildly false claim, like Idaho gubernatorial candidate Brad Little's primary ad calling Rep. Raúl Labrador — one of Congress' foremost immigration hawks — a "liberal" on immigration.
Other times they get essential parts of an ugly premise wrong: One ad from U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers sought to accuse her opponent, Lisa Brown, of voting for legislation that would have put a dangerous sex offender, Donnie Lee Fisher, out on the streets. But an Inlander dive into the legislative record showed that high-risk sex offenders wouldn't have been released with any of the versions of the bills Brown voted for.
(McMorris Rodgers acknowledged earlier this year that she regretted the tone of the ads, at least.)
The Inlander asks Morgan if he has any pangs of unease or queasiness about his latest tactics. Does his own conscience prick him?
"I don't feel any guilt over it," Morgan says. "Would I do it again? Probably not."
Instead, in our conversation last week, he lobbed several new inflammatory accusations against Jessa Lewis that he didn't bother to put in his mailer.
Morgan won't even agree that his ads were intending to be deceptive. He sticks to his story: He says he was inspired by his progressive friends who were dissatisfied with the options. They wanted a choice, he argues, and he's just helping inform progressives that they have one.
But to believe that, you'd have to believe him when he explains why one of his PACs is called "the Conscience of the Progressives."
"I don't think that's deceptive," Morgan says. "My name is all over that. I'm not saying I am a progressive."
He's just saying he's serving as a conscience for progressives, he insists.
"I'm not the conscience of the conservatives," Morgan says. "I'm sure as heck not the conscience of the Republicans."
But to buy that, you have to also believe Morgan wasn't trying to trick people into thinking he was a progressive when he named one of his other PACs, "Real Progressives in Thurston County," and when he chose the email email executivedirector@waprogressivevotersforchange.com.
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Jessa Lewis
You'd have to believe Morgan read the Inlander's story about how Lewis' personal experiences with a sexual assault, an unplanned pregnancy, poverty and homelessness converted her from a mainstream conservative to a "progressive Democrat," and decided that the takeaway was that she'd once voted for George W. Bush and Dino Rossi.
Either way, some people were fooled, at least initially. Fuse Washington received angry messages from members who thought Fuse had sent out the mailer.
"Do not EVER mail me another lying flyer again," one emailer complained to Fuse.
Right to Lie
In its complaint to the PDC, Fuse Washington leans heavily on one passage of Washington state law in particular, one prohibiting "a false claim stating or implying the support or endorsement of any person or organization when in fact the candidate does not have such support or endorsement."
But Morgan makes two Clinton-esque arguments in response: First, the endorsement wasn't technically false because Fuse had endorsed Pakootas, albeit for a different race in a different election year. And second, Pakootas isn't technically a candidate this year, so the passage doesn't apply.
There's a larger challenge, however: The current version of the state law barring certain kinds of false statements in campaign ads has never been tested. Earlier versions of the law, however, were struck down twice by the state Supreme Court.
The law had been used to punish deceptive advertising about a physician-assisted suicide initiative, which featured exaggerated claims like "your eye doctor could kill you." But in a 1998 ruling, the state Supreme Court concluded that was unconstitutional.
The law was revised. But after the PDC fined a candidate for falsely claiming that a state senator had "voted to close a facility for the developmentally challenged," the court again concluded that the state's law punishing false advertising was unconstitutional.
"The notion that the government, rather than the people, may be the final arbiter of truth in political debate is fundamentally at odds with the First Amendment," Justice James Johnson wrote in his 2007 opinion.
A dissenting justice, however, worried it represented "an invitation to lie with impunity."
So the law was revised again. Washington state still has a provision against ads with "false statement of material fact about a candidate for public office," but the bar has been set extremely high — the lie has to be ugly enough to be defamatory and it has to be made intentionally or with a reckless disregard for the truth.
There's no guarantee the provision against false endorsements would survive a court challenge: The U.S. Supreme Court has also generally protected the constitutional right of politicians or political activists to lie — including, even, false claims of military service.
"It's a brilliant trap," Lewis says. "If I try to say, 'No, look at how progressive I am,' then I give them a ton of fodder to say 'she's out of touch.'"
In many ways, it's left up to the media outlets, like this one, to fact-check deceptive ads. But sometimes the fact-checks themselves can become fodder for deceptive ads.
A McMorris Rodgers' TV ad this year, titled "Truth," panned over an Inlander fact-checking article that the campaign had digitally altered to remove sentences critical of a previous McMorris Rodgers' ad.
Not only that, but by spending a lot of time fact-checking deceptive statements, journalists can get tangled up in the very debate that a dishonest politician or activist wants to advance.
Morgan admits to the Inlander that he may have been wrong about Lewis not being a progressive. But Lewis argues that this admission, too, is calculated.
"That's the thing: It's a brilliant trap," Lewis says. "If I try to say, 'No, look at how progressive I am,' then I give them a ton of fodder to say 'she's out of touch.'"
Even after the election, the damage done by dishonest advertising can remain. Matthew Howes, the small business owner of a local pizza joint, was running for Spokane City Council last year when he was hit with a negative attack ad.
But the ad didn't go after his politics. It went after his business, claiming his pizza joint had been dinged with 24 health-code violations since 2005. The ad was roundly condemned — not only were many of the code violations for minor issues, but a number of them were from before Howes owned the restaurant.
Still, Howes lost the election. But the consequences weren't just political. Howes says he saw the business at his pizza joint take a hit. And today, Howe says, the impact, whether from the ad or simply from his run for office, has continued to linger.
"It's been a tough year," Howes says. "The economy is way up, and I'm still feeling the effects."
It was crazy, he says. The ad had come from "Spokane For Honest Government," a PAC funded primarily by the local fire department union.
"What did they really have to gain by bashing a local little restaurant?" Howe says. "It's sad that, for a $40,000 a year job, they're willing to wreck a man's reputation that they built for nine years, 10 years."
Spokane For Honest Government was made to pay a $7,000 fine before the election: But that was for other public disclosure violations made two years earlier. No complaints about the pizza ad were filed.
Indeed, the wheels of the PDC spin slowly. That's the case with the Morgan mailers, too.
"Even if the PDC comes down hard on Glen Morgan and gives him a big fine, it's going to be little consolation if his tactics have helped elect [Jessa Lewis' opponent] Jeff Holy and others around the state," says Jergens, the Fuse spokesman.
Last week, Fuse sent a letter to the PDC, urging them to refer the case immediately to the state Attorney General's Office. A year earlier, the Attorney General's Office would have been able to swoop in and take control of the case themselves, but that power was taken away this year by the Legislature. The change was part of a suite of reforms this year aimed at addressing the huge backlog caused by a flood of PDC complaints.
The guy who'd filed many of those citizen complaints clogging up the system?
Glen Morgan. ♦
danielw@inlander.com
The original print version of this article was headlined "Dirty Tricks, Clean Getaways"
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When you care for someone seriously ill, you learn all kinds of skills you never thought you'd need. One of those is changing the sheets when the bed is occupied.
One of my favorite resources is the book "The Complete Bedside Companion: A No-Nonsense Guide to Caring for the Seriously Ill," by Rodger McFarlane and Philip Bashe. In the section titled "Turning, Maneuvering, and Lifting," they say, "The first time you [change the sheets] correctly, you'll feel like the magician who has yanked the tablecloth out from beneath a fully set dinner table without disturbing a single spoon." And hilariously, that is true!
They also emphasize, as they do throughout the book, that the person in the bed is still a person. That person is deserving of our respect and love through a tough time when they've lost their independence and ability to care for themselves. Make sure to communicate what you are doing even if you aren't sure they understand. Also maintain your friend's privacy by closing the doors and windows, and using a privacy sheet if necessary.
This is easiest to do in a bed with sides that you can pull up, to make sure your friend is secure. Prepare the clean sheets and a place for the old sheets before you get started so you can do it all quickly. Make sure that the old sheets do not touch your clothes or the new sheets. If they are soiled or there is an infection risk, make sure to wear gloves.
TIP: use a draw sheet, which is a sheet folded into thirds and placed under your friend, across the bed on top of the top sheet, from mid-thigh to the shoulders. This allows you to slide your friend to reposition limbs, or in this case, to roll from side to side.
Stand on the right side of the bed and using the draw sheet, carefully roll your friend towards you. Many patients are frail so be careful not to pull on shoulders and arms. Ask your friend to hold onto the bedrails for safety.
Walk to the other side of the bed and pull out the tucked-in sheets. Then roll everything from the outside edge in until there is a roll along the side of your friend's body from the top of the bed to the bottom.
Make the bare half of the bed, including chucks (if necessary) and a new draw sheet. Roll it all out until there are two lines of sheets against your friend's back from the top of the bed to the bottom.
Carefully turn your friend back, over the two lines of sheets, and onto the clean side of the bed.
Remove the old sheets and put them into a basket/laundry bag, and finish making the bed.
Cover your friend with a new top sheet and a blanket, being careful not to tuck the sheets too tightly over your friend's feet.
And, like magic, you've done it! The first time is a little nerve-wracking but after a while, it becomes more routine. Good luck!


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The National Economic Council (NEC) has also, today, May 17, 2018, authorised the initial transfer of $650 million dollars to the NSIA from the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Dividend Account, as seed funding for Presidential Infrastructure Development Fund (PIDF).
This initiative aims to eliminate the risks of project funding, cost variation, and completion that have plagued the development of the nation's critical infrastructure assets — such as the 2nd Niger Bridge, Lagos to Ibadan Expressway, East-West Road, Abuja to Kano Road, Mambilla Hydroelectric Power — over the last few decades.
This commitment by the President and NEC, allows all State Governments to own an economic interest in the project companies that will be professionally developed and managed by the NSIA.
The investments will yield returns, which will diversify revenues to States, improve the fiscal sustainability profile of the Federation and ensure Nigerians benefit from modernised Infrastructure for decades to come.
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B.C. Residential Tenancy Act Tips — when can a landlord raise your rent?
If you're relocating to Metro Vancouver from out of B.C., you might notice rules and regulations are a little different here. For example, places like Alberta do not have any rent controls as of yet. But British Columbia does.
In this article, we'll be tackling an important question — when can a landlord raise your rent in B.C.? We hope arming you with knowledge from the B.C. Residential Tenancy Act will allow you to make informed decisions. So before you move into the Metro Vancouver area, we should review some rental tips!
So, you've just moved in — when can a landlord raise your rent?
So let's say you've moved into your new home in Metro Vancouver. A couple of months pass and the landlord says the price of rent is going up. Is this legal?
Landlords must wait 12 months after the date the current rent rate was given. This applies even if there is a new landlord or even a new tenant moves in.
Landlords must give rent increase notices to tenants three full months in advance. So for example, if notice is served on January 1, the rent increase would begin on May 1. The three full months would be February, March and April. In B.C., rent increase notices must be served in written form.
You can find more details here. Be sure to click on the actual rent-increase form on the page and look at the terms and conditions.
By how much can a landlord increase my rent?
So you've told the landlord he's got to wait at least a year since the last rental bump before he can increase your rent. He says he'll come back a year after your moving-in date. So he does that. But when he comes back, he says the rent has doubled. What do you do then?
Luckily, B.C. has rent controls that prevent this type of thing from happening. That means landlords cannot bump your rent higher than the provincial benchmark (explained below), except in certain situations.
As of now, the government limits rental increases to the cost of inflation, plus 2 per cent. However, this can change depending on the year. Be sure to check this tenancy guide regularly to get updates.
You do not have to pay a rental increase that is higher than the legal amount. If your landlord insists on doing so, you can ask the province to order him or her to comply with the law.
But what do you do if you've been paying a rent increase higher than the legally allowed amount? The province says you can deduct the amount you overpaid from future rent payments. You'll probably want to attach a note explaining this in the bill as well.
Protect yourself! Learn about B.C.'s rental laws, and research your landlord!
Obviously, we can't go over all the details regarding rent increases in one blog post. For example, there are exceptions that allow landlords to increase rent beyond the provincial benchmark. You'd best learn about them by reading this detailed guide.
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What social media table do you sit at?
Just like in the high school lunchroom – as famously depicted in the movie Mean Girls – social media users tend to segregate themselves into cliques of like-minded people: Lurkers, Quizzers, Informers, Ultras, Dippers, Ranters, Approval-Seekers, Virgins, Ghosts, Deniers, Changelings, Peacocks, Inquirers, Informants, Helpers, Class Clowns, Go-Getters, Thought Provokers, Entertainers, and more.
As you wander into the social media cafeteria, it can sometimes be challenging just to decide which table you are going to sit at.
But for the social media managers among us, there is only one option, says Nate Moll, Social Media Specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
There are many different types of students on campus, he said, and he tries to reach them all through the university's social channels.
Nate works with four other people out of an office on Bascom Hill, but they get around campus a lot and are assisted by a campus community of social media enthusiasts – called UW Social – who manage more than 750 accounts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn, YouTube and more.
"It's a well oiled machine and it's really strength in numbers," he said.
What we want as marketers is not always what our customers want, he noted, so it is important to find common ground.
Quoting Steve Jobs, he said: "People don't know what they want until you show it to them," adding that you have to use social listening to find out what that is.
UW-Madison is a huge, diverse campus, and Nate has to cover every angle, from football games to world-renowned research.
What is his "secret sauce" for sorting it all out? That's simple, Nate said, it is talking to people.
Every Thursday at 6 p.m., for example, Nate takes his smartphone down to the Union Terrace shooting the scenery and interviewing people on Periscope, using the hashtag #Terracescope.
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Fri., December 06, 2019
Former Secretary of State John Kerry extols Joe Biden's foreign policy experience
Chief diplomat in Obama-Biden administration says it's crucial to lead on world stage
Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry gives a stump speech Friday for Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden during a bus tour stop at the Usher's Ferry Lodge in Cedar Rapids. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks Friday with Kathy Bowersox of Shueyville during a bus tour stop at the Usher's Ferry Lodge in Cedar Rapids. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)
CEDAR RAPIDS — Joe Biden has been telling campaign crowds that his foreign policy experience sets him apart in the expansive field of Democratic candidates for president.
That argument has been joined by a voice new to this primary but familiar to caucus seasons past, and is one that speaks from experience on the worldwide stage.
John Kerry, who won the 2004 Iowa Democratic caucuses and served four years as U.S. Secretary of State, joined Biden at a campaign event Friday in Cedar Rapids.
Kerry, who was secretary of state from 2013 to 2017 under President Barack Obama and then-Vice President Biden, said he decided to endorse Biden because of his ability to win tough elections and his foreign policy experience.
"That's the experience that we need going into this. And if you haven't been on that kind of a stage, if you don't know what it's like to prepare to talk to not just Americans but the billions of people around the world who are watching, that's a different game," Kerry told Iowa reporters in Cedar Rapids. "When you combine what it takes to get elected with what it's going to take to govern in this much more complicated world than ever before, I think he brings a unique skill set and abilities to the table."
Kerry said that type of experience is especially vital in this election. He was critical of President Donald Trump's foreign policies and suggested the next president will need to lead on the world stage — in addition to leading the nation.
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At Singapore's StoryDrive Asia, Content: Selling It and Protecting It
StoryDrive Asia opens with a dual focus on copyright and technology issues, and a roster of international speakers.
Singapore's imposing Jurong Town Hall facility at the Trade Association Hub is the site of this year's StoryDrive Asia conference, opening Monday (November 19). Image: Porter Anderson
'A Look Behind the Scenes'
An annual a co-production of the Frankfurter Buchmesse and the Singapore Book Publishers Association (SBPA), StoryDrive Asia opens Monday (November 19), as a platform for content, learning, networking and business across content industries, providing updates and new insights into the publishing business and associated industries.
Particularly relevant this year is the conference's two-fold focus, looking at the drive and concerns raised by widely impactful arenas: content and its protection in copyright and technology's opportunities and pressures on the business.
Both mornings of the two-day StoryDrive Asia conference will be introduced by the event's co-producers, with Claudia Kaiser, Frankfurter Buchmesse vice president for business development focused on Southeast Asian and South Asian markets, and Peter Schoppert, president of the Singapore publishers association.
In a prepared statement, Schoppert is quoted, saying, "Reading is still a big thing, but what do we read, and how do we read? Digital is taking over more and more parts our lives, machines are doing many of our jobs already—how can our own publishing industry benefit from these developments?
Peter Schoppert
"We need to present some solutions for these questions, and StoryDrive Asia is the platform to do that."
Looking specifically at the opening programming Monday—devised by Frankfurter Buchmesse's director of international business development, Katharina Ewald, in coordination with Frankfurt's Kaiser and Publishing Perspectives—Schoppert says, "IP and how to leverage it continues to be hugely important for publishers and authors in Singapore and all over the region.
"We're of course working with organizations like WIPO [World Intellectual Property Organization] and IPOS [Intellectual Property Office of Singapore], and this year, we really look forward to having Tani Wong from the International Licensing Industry Merchandisers' Association with us to give us yet another perspective and best practices on how to make best use of IP content.
"But we also need a better understanding of technologies like blockchain and what machine translation is actually worth—which are covered here as well."
Claudia Kaiser
Noting that audiobooks are featured on the first of the two-day event, Kaiser says in a prepared comment, "We see a huge growth in audiobooks internationally, and the genre has great potential here in Southeast Asia, too. So we want to have a look behind the scenes here.
"And the question that's shaking us all up right now is: what do we do if machines do the jobs we used to do? We want to present some takes on this, from different perspectives."
Of special focus on the second day, Tuesday (November 20) is Kaiser's leadership of a major session on women in writing and publishing. She says, "The #MeToo debate and movement has reached so many parts of the World. We need to understand what it's like in Southeast Asia and create more cooperation among women in the industry."
Katharina Ewald
Also part of the context here is an initiative kicked off at the 2017 iteration of StoryDrive Asia, exploring how to develop a publishing community for the full breadth of the far-flung ASEAN region.
"At last year's StoryDrive," Schoppert says, "we staged a discussion among the participants on what we could do to create more attention for content from South East Asia internationally, and to stimulate cooperation within ASEAN.
"Hard work has actually yielded results which we want to share, and we'll also present new initiatives like the World Book Capital 2020 and other opportunities used by Southeast Asian players."
At StoryDrive Asia 2017 Image: SBPA, Andrew JK Tan
A Programing Overview: Day One
Stanley Lai
In keeping with its emphasis on core topics from the fields of copyright and technology, StoryDrive Asia will be opened on Monday with comments from Stanley Lai of IPOS.
In welcoming the program's participants again this year as he did last year, Lai will be stressing that the country's rich traditions in cultural development, as well as its small size, "reminds us that we cannot afford to be an inward-looking or insular community."
And he'll be followed by the morning's keynote speaker an executive who knows this well, Tani Wong, who's the managing director of LIMA China's offices in Hong Kong.
Tani Wong
LIMA has entered a new partnership with the Frankfurter Buchmesse in which the two organizations will work together to co-host high-profile events in Southeast Asia and in the Middle East.
Wong's commentary at StoryDrive will help publishers work through concepts of brand-creation and partnerships that foster greater reach and effectiveness for intellectual property (IP) in the ASEAN region's widening world marketplace.
Wong will then be followed by one of the best known of speakers in international copyright in world publishing, Copyright Clearance Center's Michael Healy, CCC's executive director of international relations.
In a presentation called "The Question of Ownership in a Modern World," Healy will be looking at questions including:
Who are the owners of tomorrow's copyright if the idea, the story, the text, the format, the image, the look and feel comes from various positions?
When content and technology intertwine, and the creative work is done by machines, who will get the credit?
It is soon time for a complete new take on copyright and creation?
Rights and licensing return to the stage in the next presentation of the day when Neil Walker, a senior account manager with the UK's-based the IPR License platform, the first fully transactional rights and licensing marketplace for publishing.
Walker's focus, as featured in coverage of IPR License's work, will be on development of an IP strategy online, from subscription models to streaming strategies, including merchandising and cross-media sales.
Blockchain, still a topic finding its feet, of course, is part of the program, as well, and the conference will hear from Huang Yushan, executive producer of Singapore's Digital Blowfish in a "quick learning" session about the technology's implication for content producers.
Day One of the conference also features presentations on:
Machine learning, with Tan Dan Feng, co-founder of Singapore's Select Centre, and chairman of the annual Singapore International Translation Symposium
Asian World Book Capitals, a discussion ahead of the 2020 Kuala Lumpur UNESCO World Book Capital events of Kuala Lumpur, with Azzah AR, a community consultant with the Malaysian Writers Movement; Shake Faisal of Shake Books, Malaysia; and Malcolm Neil, publishing consultant working in the Australian market
A final "Quick Learning" session on the art of the book proposal with Mindy Pang, marketing manager for the Asian division of the international publisher Marshall Cavendish, based in Singapore
A Programing Overview: Day Two
Day Two in the StoryDrive Asia programming will stress the technological elements of the industry's evolution at this point, opening with a presentation, "The Creative Artificial Intelligence Revolution: What to Do When AI Does Everything," with Seda Röder, founder of Sonophilia of Austria.
A presentation on innovations in art book publishing then brings to the stage Liu Guang Han, deputy editor in chief with Guangxi University Press in China, and Anca Rujoiu, curator and manager of publications for the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art in Singapore.
Publishing Perspectives will be moderating a discussion on voice and its impact on the booming audiobook market with Remesh Panicker, an actor who works as a voice artist in Singapore, and Martin Møller, editor-in-chief with Swann Audio's studio operations in Denmark.
More programming from Ewald on the second day includes:
Schoppert speaking on technology and education with Indra Wijaya, co-founder, managing director of FromLabs, and Joel Loo, founder and CEO of Common Town, both in Singapore
Publishing Perspectives' moderation of an examination of audience-outreach today—that rapidly growing requirement that publishers reach readers—with Sarah Neem, owner of the Moon Bookstore in Singapore; Josep M. Mas, CPO of BtwinBooks, a bundling play in Singapore; and Neil, the consultant from Australia
A centerpiece debate on women in publishing and writing, led onstage by Frankfurt's Kaiser and featuring Marissa Chen, editorial and buying consultant with Singapore's Moon Bookstore; Amalia Bakti Safriti of IKAPI and the National Book Committee, Indonesia; Lim Li Kok, Asiapac Books in Singapore; and Azza RA of Malaysia, who self-publishes
Closing the second day's program will be Kaiser's presentation with Safriti of IKAPI on progress toward an ASEAN community of books, following the successful introduction at Frankfurt this year of a full program of the Buchmesse's ASEAN Forum, as covered here by Publishing Perspectives.
In 2017's StoryDrive Asia, Kaiser, with Schoppert, Frankfurt, and the Singapore publishers association, began exploring ways to deepen ties and widen interactive regional cooperation to create such a community and while there's still a lot to be done, progress has been made, as this report will explain.
On a festive note, the StoryDrive Asia delegates will be joined by members of the publishing community to celebrate the publishers association's 50th annversary with the launch of a special series of books that review the first half-century of development involved.
Follow hashtag #StoryDrive18 for news from the conference as it happens, and Publishing Perspectives for reports from the program.
More from Publishing Perspectives on Singapore is here, and on the Frankfurter Buchmesse-Singapore Book Publishers Association StoryDrive Asia here.
Tags: copyright, Copyright Clearance Center, digital publishing, Frankfurt Book Fair, intellectual property, IPR License, LIMA, Singapore, Singapore Book Publishers Association, Southeast Asia, StoryDrive Asia


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The CSX Parmele Sub (the Old Atlantic Coastline Branch) is a branch railway line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It dispatches at Parmele and heads south towards Greenville. In Greenville, the tracks intersect with the old Norfolk Southern Railway, now the Carolina Coastal Railway. The track passes through Winterville, Ayden and Grifton. The terminus is a grain elevator north of Kinston.

See also
 List of CSX Transportation lines
 Wilmington and Weldon Railroad

References
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Parmele Sub Railfan Guide
CSX Florence Division Timetable

CSX Transportation lines
Rail infrastructure in North Carolina

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The LSPU Hall is Reopening! Danielle Hamel 2020-12-10T13:56:33-03:30
The LSPU Hall is Reopening! We are excited to welcome you back!
The LSPU Hall will open its doors to the public on December 20, 2020. Visit our Events page for a list of upcoming events.
All performances will be contingent on the Province's regulations and will have strict protocols and procedures to ensure that we practice and meet all public health guidelines.
At this time all ticket sales will be booked over the phone during Box Office hours (Monday to Friday, 12pm-5pm). There will be no in person or online sales until further notice.
If required, the box office will take cash or debit by appointment only. Please call in advance to arrange a time.
Seats will be booked in bubbles by a member of box office staff.
Seats cannot be changed or moved once booked, or during the event.
Booking tickets over the phone will allow our staff to collect contact tracing information and to ensure we have physical distancing between you and other patrons/bubbles in the theatre.
Accessible seating can be booked over the phone.
Should the event be cancelled due to circumstances related to COVID-19, patrons will receive a full refund.
Your tickets will be emailed to you at the time of purchase as a mobile/e-ticket or print at home ticket.
Please save the ticket on your mobile phone or print the attached PDF to bring with you to the theatre.
If using e-tickets or print at home tickets is not possible, patrons can pick up tickets at the box office on the night of the performance.
There will be no advance ticket pick up.
For all performances, following current provincial guidelines, every second row will remain empty.
When calling to book tickets the box office staff will also block off three seats on either side of your group to ensure physical distancing between bubbles/patrons in the same row.
The image below is an example of how seating will work. The actual seating plan for each show will change based on size and number of bubbles/cohorts.
COMING TO THE HALL
Patrons are required to wear a mask at all times when moving through the building as per NL Public Health guidelines.
Masks can only be removed once you are seated in the theatre.
Please respect physical distancing and stay 6 feet apart from others while moving around the building.
Hand sanitizing stations will be available throughout the building and will be clearly marked.
We ask patrons to stay home if:
they are experiencing any COVID-19 symptoms
they have been outside Newfoundland and Labrador in the last 14 days
they live or have been in contact with anyone who's travelled outside Newfoundland and Labrador in the last 14 days
they have tested positive for COVID-19
they do not pass the COVID-19 self-assessment found at gov.nl.ca/covid-19 on the day of the event
If you cannot attend due to COVID-19 or COVID-19 symptoms, a full refund will be offered to the patron and to members of their party. Please contact the LSPU Hall Box Office in advance or within 24 hours of the missed performance.
Understand that an inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 exists in any public place where people are present. By attending this event, you voluntarily assume all risks related to the exposure to COVID-19 and agree that you will not hold RCA liable for any illness that may result.
House opens 1 hour prior to showtime. You will be given an arrival time based on the row you are sitting in. Please arrive in that window to avoid congestion in the lobby.
No latecomers will be admitted to the theatre. Please arrive with enough time to be seated before the show.
There will be no intermissions for all shows.
Washroom access will be available but capacity will be restricted based on the room size.
The bar will only be open prior to the performance and drinks must be purchased directly before moving into the upstairs theatre. We are suspending the use of the LSPU Hall reuseable cups until further notice. At this time, all drinks purchased from the bar can be brought directly upstairs into the theatre.
Staff/ushers will escort all patrons upstairs into the theatre one bubble at a time.
We ask you to leave the Hall one row at a time once the event is over, starting with the front row to maintain social distancing. Patrons on the right side of the theatre will leave through the side stage exit. Patrons on the left side will either leave through the main exit, or through the balcony exit, or down the lift. Staff/ushers will be on hand to help guide patrons to the appropriate exit. Please refer to the seating map below.
We ask that you leave the building as soon as the show is over – loitering is not permitted.
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Smithton é uma vila localizada no estado americano de Illinois, no Condado de St. Clair.

Demografia
Segundo o censo americano de 2000, a sua população era de 2248 habitantes.
Em 2006, foi estimada uma população de 3117, um aumento de 869 (38.7%).

Geografia
De acordo com o United States Census Bureau tem uma área de
4,3 km², dos quais 4,3 km² cobertos por terra e 0,0 km² cobertos por água.

Localidades na vizinhança
O diagrama seguinte representa as localidades num raio de 16 km ao redor de Smithton.

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This was driving me crazy! The HD videos which were created in Pinnacle Studio HD were crashing Windows Media Player. I could preview the videos in Studio HD and even YouTube, but the created Mpeg-2 files would just start playing and then generate the above error message. I tried updating my video drivers and my audio drivers, but nothing helped.
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Quill—injury; save Fort DC 20; frequency 1/round for 6 rounds; effect 1d4 Con damage; cure 2 consecutive saves. The save DC is Constitution-based.
Three times per day, a peluda can fire dozens of spearlike barbs in all directions. All creatures within 15 feet take 6d6 points of piercing damage (Reflex DC 20 half) and are subject to its poison quills. The save DC is Constitution-based.
A peluda's back and tail are covered in sharp black quills. A creature that strikes a peluda with a melee weapon, an unarmed attack, or a natural weapon takes 1d6 points of piercing damage from the peluda's quills and risks being poisoned. Weapons with reach do not endanger an attacker in this way. Any creature that grapples a peluda takes 3d6 points of piercing damage and risks being poisoned on its turn each round.
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Peludas have a voracious appetite, gorging themselves on all manner of beasts drawn to the rivers, marshlands, and wild plains where they live. Much like a snake, these creatures can unhinge their lower jaw to swallow larger prey after pulverizing it with blows from their massive tail. They prefer to do so, however, after roasting their meal with their fiery breath. Peludas fear nothing smaller than themselves and routinely bring down larger prey even at a short distance with volleys of their poisonous quills. Their dangerous hide also acts as a defense to ward off gigantic predators like rocs or even true dragons, making peludas an unappetizing—and poisonous—meal at best.
Although most peludas prefer the cool darkness of reedy marshlands—especially sparsely forested bogs, as their quills can make navigating dense overgrowth frustrating—peludas occasionally venture further inland to enhance their diets, feeding on the livestock, crops, and people of rural communities. They see these excursions as nothing more than brief hunting sorties, often with the opportunity to cruelly ruin the fragile works of lesser creatures. Peludas lay small clutches of eggs that never result in more than two or three young at a time. Ensuring that such limited numbers of offspring reach maturity presents a significant challenge for these violent creatures, as just as many of these young, bald peludas fall to the tempers of their parents as to attacks from interlopers or other beasts.
Peludas often lair in caves, either caverns half-submerged in bogs or cool rents in the earth. While not exceptionally intelligent compared to other dragons, peludas possess a heightened survival instinct and a penchant for collecting interesting shards of metal from tools, armor, and weapons taken from their victims. They also swallow shiny coins, gems, and jewelry, believing it helps strengthen their quills and the potency of their fiery breath. Occasionally a particularly cunning tribe of savage humanoids—typically lizardfolk or orcs—finds a way to assuage the temper of a peluda that lairs nearby, elevating the creature to the status of a local liege or deity. Whether the tribe believes in the dragon-kin's lordly status varies from community to community, though all pay the more powerful creature deference and many provide offerings of captives and wealth. Although peludas rarely have any actual affection for such servants—and more than one tribe has been scoured from the land in a random fit of flaming temper—all revel in the submission of weaker creatures and the gifts of gold and food they bring, as such deeds act as a balm to their typically fragile draconic egos. As nearly all peluda dwell on the fact that they lack the fearsomeness and power of true dragons, they do all they can to exhibit their ferocity and might. While the destruction they cause and the subservience of weaker creatures indulges peludas' fragile delusions, any suggestion that they are not every bit as mighty as their draconic peers—especially from those they view as lesser creatures—throws them into a rage few provokers can hope to survive.
Ecology from Pathfinder Adventure Path #33: The Varnhold Vanishing. © 2010, Paizo Publishing, LLC; Author: Greg A. Vaughan.


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