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Key men return after Covid outbreak as Bayern head to resurgent Cologne
14 January 2022 | 12:03 pm
Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich will be back to near full strength at resurgent Cologne on Saturday with a host of first-choice players now out of Covid isolation.
The logo of German first division soccer team Bayern Munich is seen on an official football shirt of Germany's most successful soccer team in Troisdorf near Bonn, western Germany March 9, 2016. Photo: Reuters
Bayern's lead in the table was trimmed to six points last weekend when a makeshift team lost 2-1 to Borussia Moenchengladbach.
Second-placed Borussia Dortmund can further reduce Bayern's lead before kick-off in Cologne if they beat Freiburg on Friday.
"It will be a difficult game, especially with the form Cologne are in at the moment, they are a team that are physically very strong," Bayern winger Serge Gnabry said of Cologne, who are sixth in the league table after three straight wins.
Nevertheless, Gnabry expects Bayern to win.
"If we impose our game, we'll eventually break them down," he said.
When the clubs met last August, Bayern were 2-0 up in Munich only for Cologne to draw level with goals by Mark Uth and Anthony Modeste before Gnabry grabbed a late winner.
Covid ravaged Bayern's squad in early January, but only defender Lucas Hernandez is still isolating of the nine players who tested positive.
Manuel Neuer will be back in goal while wingers Leroy Sane and Kingsley Coman, who penned a new contract until 2027 on Wednesday, could also return.
Cologne last beat Bayern back in 2011, but are only two points from the Champions League places, eight months after narrowly avoiding relegation.
"I hear too much talk about us not having a chance against Bayern," said Cologne coach Steffen Baumgart.
"I have a good feeling. We need an excellent performance."
Cologne striker Uth has scored five goals against Bayern, yet has tasted victory against them just once, with eight defeats.
"I'd like to score fewer goals and win more often," he said.
Portugal left-back Raphael Guerreiro is a doubt for Dortmund at home to Freiburg having barely trained all week after a knock.
Star striker Erling Haaland is reportedly set to reveal his future plans in the coming weeks, with Manchester City and Real Madrid leading the race to sign him.
Wolfsburg host Hertha Berlin Saturday with both clubs desperate to halt their slide towards the bottom three.
"I don't care whether we win dirty or beautifully with bells and whistles," said Wolfsburg boss Florian Kohfeldt.
They won their first four league games last August, but Wolfsburg have since lost their last six, ramping up the pressure on Kohfeldt, who replaced Mark van Bommel in October.
Likewise, Tayfun Korkut became Hertha coach after Pal Dardai was sacked in November, but has failed to stabilise results.
Last Sunday's 3-1 defeat at Cologne came after Hertha's impressive 3-2 home win over Dortmund and a 4-0 thumping at Mainz before Christmas.
One to watch: Anthony Modeste
Bayern's Robert Lewandowski is the Bundesliga's top-scorer with 20 goals, but Modeste is fourth in the goalscoring charts having netted 12 goals this season, including four in recent wins over Wolfsburg, Stuttgart and Hertha.
Back in Cologne after an unhappy move to China, Modeste, 33, is once again deadly in front of goal, especially on the end of crosses.
The Frenchman burst into tears after scoring a late winner against Stuttgart before Christmas on the third anniversary of his father's death.
65 – consecutive Bundesliga games in which Bayern have scored. They will claim a new record with a goal at Cologne.
Eight – Bayern's consecutive wins over Cologne against whom they have not lost in 15 games since February 2011. Thomas Mueller, 32, is the sole survivor from the Bayern team which lost 3-2 at Cologne 11 years ago.
Six – straight games against Cologne in which Lewandowski has scored. Only against Schalke (11) and Wolfsburg (eight) has he netted in more consecutive games.
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Augsburg v Eintracht Frankfurt, Arminia Bielefeld v Greuther Fuerth (1630)
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Immigration bill: Theresa May defends plans to create 'hostile environment'
Home secretary defends proposals in Thursday's flagship bill following claims that they will be unfair and unworkable
Alan Travis, home affairs editor
Thu 10 Oct 2013 04.24 EDT First published on Thu 10 Oct 2013 04.24 EDT
The home secretary, Theresa May, has defended plans to create a "hostile environment" for illegal migrants to Britain, as immigration lawyers warned her that a system of identity checks for all, including British citizens, would have to be introduced to enforce the government's moves to curb access to privately rented housing and to tackle alleged health tourists.
The warnings come as she publishes her flagship immigration bill on Thursday, which will require immigration checks to be carried out before anyone can open a new bank account, be issued with a driving licence or access routine health treatment.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, May said: "Most people will say it can't be fair for people who have no right to be here in the UK to continue to exist as everybody else does with bank accounts, with driving licences and with access to rented accommodation. We are going to be changing that because we don't think that is fair."
The Home Office bill will include measures spanning six other Whitehall departments including justice, transport, business, health, local government, and work and pensions, and is designed, in May's words, to "create a really hostile environment for illegal migrants". "What we don't want is a situation where people think that they can come here and overstay because they're able to access everything they need," May has said.
The Home Office confirmed the bill would:
• Require private landlords to check the immigration status of their tenants.
• Require temporary migrants, such as overseas students, who have only a "time-limited" immigration status, to make a contribution to the NHS. A £200 levy has been mentioned as an option.
• Require banks to check against a database of known immigration offenders before opening a bank account.
• Create new powers to check the immigration status of driving licence applicants and to revoke the licences of overstayers.
• Introduce a "deport first, appeal later" policy for thousands facing removal who face no "risk of serious irreversible harm" from being sent back, and reduce the grounds for appeal from 17 to four.
On Today, May declined to give any estimate of the scale of "health tourism" in Britain but confirmed the bill included a health levy on overseas students and other categories of short-term migrants. She gave no figure for the levy and said the Department of Health would publish detailed proposals in the next few weeks. She denied it would cost more to collect the levy than the amount it raises.
"We will be asking for a surcharge; there will be a sort of levy on people who are going to be coming here, to be staying for a while, to contribute so people can feel it is fair," she told the BBC. "One of the things the NHS has always been quite bad at is charging people who they should be charging, people who don't have the right to free access to the NHS and recovering those costs from them."
May did not spell out how the identity checks to establish the immigration status of those applying for health treatment, housing, bank accounts or driving licences would be carried out. But she did say that private landlords would have access to a helpline similar to that currently used by employers to help them carry out the checks.
The bill will also restrict the ability of immigration detainees to apply repeatedly for bail if they have already been refused it and create stronger guidance for the courts on the use of human rights laws to prevent deportation, particularly the right to family life.
There are also plans to make it easier for the Home Office to recover unpaid fines from companies who employ illegal migrants, and local authorities may face fines for letting social housing to tenants without a direct connection to a local area.
However, leading lawyers, landlords, immigration welfare charities and housing organisations have warned that the bill will lead to a real risk of increased homelessness, including of families, and widespread discrimination.
The Immigration Law Practitioners' Association (Ilpa) has told May her plan for millions of private landlords to face "proportionate" fines of up to £3,000 if they fail to conduct checks on the immigration status of new tenants and other adults living in their properties is unworkable.
The lawyers say the combination of the new housing and health checks with existing checks carried out by employers and educational colleges amounts to a system of identity checks for foreign nationals in Britain.
"What this means in practice is a system of identity checks for all, since it is necessary for British citizens or people with permanent residence to prove that they are lawfully present in the UK if and when checked," says the immigration lawyers' official response to the Home Office consultation.
"British citizens, European economic area nationals and third country nationals alike would be required to produce identity documents at many turns in a scheme that would be intrusive, bullying, ineffective and expensive and likely racist and unlawful to boot," says the Ilpa response.
The lawyers say the scheme is discriminatory because landlords are likely simply to say they aren't satisfied with a tenant's identity documents and refuse them accommodation. They also point out that somebody's immigration status is not necessarily straightforward, with the proposals taking no account of those who do not yet have leave to remain in Britain but have an outstanding application that clearly meets the immigration rules.
The Residential Landlords Association has told the home secretary that there are potentially 404 types of European identity documents that landlords may need to know about to operate the scheme. They also warn that some landlords will simply refuse to house migrants for fear of falling foul of the new rules.
Habib Rahman, of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, predicted that "these measures will divide society, creating a two-tier Britain, a return to the days of 'no dogs, no blacks, no Irish' and of ill people with no access to healthcare walking the streets of Britain. This bill is a travesty and must be stopped."
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Richard Cornu est un compositeur français de musique de films.

Filmographie
 1950 : Le Tampon du capiston de Maurice Labro
 1951 : Station mondaine (court métrage)
 1951 : Le Roi des camelots d'André Berthomieu
 1952 : Le Crime du Bouif d'André Cerf
 1952 : Les femmes sont des anges de Marcel Aboulker
 1957 : Une fée... pas comme les autres de Jean Tourane
 1958 : Le Dos au mur d'Édouard Molinaro
 1958 : La Passe du diable de Jacques Dupont et Pierre Schoendoerffer
 1958 : Voyage en Boscavie (court métrage)
 1959 : Le Gendarme de Champignol de Jean Bastia
 1960 : Les Distractions de Jacques Dupont
 1961 : Les Nouveaux Aristocrates de Francis Rigaud
 1961 : La Proie pour l'ombre d'Alexandre Astruc
 1962 : L'Éducation sentimentale d'Alexandre Astruc

Autres
 1949 : Champagne, cigarettes et muse.. ., opérette mise en scène par Henri Crémieux

Liens externes

 http://www.unifrance.org/annuaires/personne/377995/richard-cornu
 http://data.bnf.fr/14089276/richard_cornu/

Compositeur français de musique de film
Date de naissance non renseignée (XXe siècle)

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Emirates has announced that it is to start flights to Mashhad, its second destination in Iran.
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To Cite: Vahedi H, Khosravi A, Sadeghi Z, Aliyari R, Shabankhamseh A, et al. Health-Promoting Lifestyle in Patients with and without Diabetes in Iran, Health Scope. 2017 ; 6(2):e39428. doi: 10.5812/jhealthscope.39428.
Background: Diabetes is among the prevalent chronic non-communicable diseases, which in recent decades has dragged much attentions toward improving care of patients in Iran.
Objectives: The current study aimed to compare the health-promoting lifestyle of patients with and without diabetes.
Methods: In the current study, 150 patients with diabetes and 150 patients without diabetes referred to the Imam Hossein subspecialty Clinic in Shahroud in 2014 were enrolled. Data collection tools included a 52-item lifestyle questionnaire and a 22-item nutritional behavior and dietary habits questionnaire. Data were analyzed using ANOVA and conditional multiple logistic regression.
Results: The mean score of nutritional behavior in patients with and without diabetes were 20.9 ± 3.9 and 19.9 ± 4.1, respectively. Over 75% of the patients with diabetes had not passed the training course. The results of multivariate model showed the odds of having diabetes in people with obesity was 2.6 times more than that of the people with normal weight. Interpersonal relationship, stress management, physical activity and nutrition scores in patients with diabetes were significantly lower than those of the patients without diabetes (P < 0.05). Negative relationship was observed between physical activity and diabetes (odds ratio (OR) = 0.916; 95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.850-0.987).
Conclusions: Patients with diabetes need more attention and care to manage diabetes to change their lifestyle to adjust with their conditions. Stress management, improved interpersonal relationships, physical activity and diet in this group can have a role to control the disease.
With the epidemiological transition of diseases in recent decades, the prevalence of non-communicable diseases including diabetes is rising in the developing countries and in the Middle East (1). Diabetes is a chronic disease which inflicts short-term and long-term complications on the individual (2).
The studies in Iran report prevalence of diabetes in the general population 3.5% to 4.5% and in the population over 30 years even up to 14%, and in all provinces its prevalence is higher in females than males (3-5). According to the report of deputy of health at Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, the prevalence of diabetes in the over 30 years rural population is 6.25%.
Diabetes causes various complications related to some vital organs in body. In fact, diabetes is the most common cause of kidney failure, blindness, non-traumatic amputations and neuropathy (6, 7). Experts believe that the recent outbreak of type 2 diabetes is not characterized by changes in the genetic and ethnic characteristics of individuals in the community, but changes in the lifestyle of people and modernization of the society have the greatest impact on the increased incidence of diabetes (8). Lifestyle is a highly important factor related to development and control of diabetes in patients (9). Lifestyle includes behaviors such as eating habits, sleep and rest, physical activity and exercise, weight control, smoking and alcohol use, immunization against diseases, coping with stress and the ability to use family and community support; optimum lifestyle can prevent many diseases and is a way to improve the health, quality of life and coping with stress (10, 11). Physical inactivity is associated with an increased prevalence of diabetes and metabolic syndrome (12). Regular physical activity is lower in females than in males, and its amount also decreases with aging. Low level of activity is related to many diseases and conditions such as loss of muscle strength and flexibility, weight gain and obesity, impotence, premature mortality (caused by cardiovascular diseases) and non-insulin dependent diabetes (13).
A study in North of Iran indicates a positive effect of lifestyle on type 2 diabetes (14). Marker et al. (15) believe that patients with diabetes have an inappropriate lifestyle. de Groot et al. (16) showed that patients with diabetes had incorrect lifestyles, inappropriate diet and no exercise. Results of researches in Iran showed that self-management interventions, increasing physical activity, improving diet, family-centered empowerment and training programs were effective in improving lifestyle and diabetes control (17, 18). Another study found that 95.5% of patients had intermediate-risk lifestyle (19).
Lifestyle interventions such as physical activity, proper diet, self-care, awareness raising and people empowerment and the quality of life improvement play roles in decreasing the morbidity and mortality associated with diabetes (20, 21).
Since diabetes is a chronic disease which imposes heavy costs on the healthcare system, awareness of the relevant factors in different populations is necessary and makes it possible to plan for feasible preventive and therapeutic measures (22, 23). According to the above mentioned relationship of lifestyle and control of diabetes complications (17, 18), and since there were no studies on the relationship between individual health aspects of life-style and diabetes in Shahroud, the current study was conducted.
The study aimed to compare the health related lifestyle between the patients with and without diabetes in Shahroud, Northeast of Iran.
In the current study, 150 patients with diabetes who referred to diabetes clinic of Imam Hossein hospital in Shahroud were selected and each patient was matched for age with a patient without diabetes selected from specific clinics. The controls were selected from the same age range with five years tolerance. Simple random sampling method was employed to select the subjects. Out of the 840 registered patients with diabetes (prevalent cases) in the diabetes clinic, 170 patients were selected according to their medical records. Of these selected patients, finally 150 patients were interviewed and completed the questionnaire. For every case, an age matched patient without diabetes was selected form the admitted patients in imam Hossein hospital as control. The controls were selected from orthopedics, urology, ear, nose and throat (ENT), cardiology, dermatology, internal medicine, and surgery clinics.
The patients with active medical records of diabetes were selected for the case group. Active medical record was defined as a patient with diabetes that had at least one visit to diabetes clinic in the past year. The protocol of this study was approved by the ethical board review of Shahroud University of Medical Sciences (No. 9209). Subjects signed a written informed consent after explaining the goals to them.
Blood pressure was measured using a mercury sphygmomanometer on the right arm, in sitting position after five minutes rest, by a trained nurse. Blood pressure was measured twice with an interval of three minutes. Hypertension is defined as systolic blood pressure ≥ 140 and/or diastolic blood pressure ≥ 90 mmHg or current use of antihypertensive medication (24). Smoking was defined as smoking one or more cigarette per day. The history of cardiovascular and kidney diseases and stroke was measured interviewing and assessing the patients' medical records. Body-weight was measured to the nearest 0.05 kg by a digital scale. Body height was measured by means of a tapeline to the nearest 0.001 m. After measuring the weight and height of patients, the body mass index (BMI) was calculated by dividing weight (in kilograms) on the square of height (in meters). Overweight was defined as a BMI greater or equal to 25 kg/m2, and obesity was defined as a BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2 (25).
The health-promoting lifestyle questionnaire consists of 52 items in six areas of nutrition (8 items), physical activity (8 items), health responsibility (13 items), stress management (5 items), interpersonal relationships (8 items) and spiritual growth (10 items). Reliability and validity of this inventory is confirmed in Iran (26) and its reliability was reported 0.82. A researcher-made questionnaire was used, which included 34 items that sought awareness and attitudes of patients about diabetes; the reliability of the questionnaire was 0.71.
The independent variables in the study were health-promoting lifestyle (with six dimensions), knowledge and attitude about diabetes, and questions about history of high blood pressure, stroke, cardiovascular diseases and kidney diseases and demographic variables (gender, education level and marital status). Four valid questions about knowledge and four valid questions about attitude toward diabetes were used. These questions were designed according to the surveillance system protocols (27). The total score for knowledge ranged between 0-8 and for attitude was 1 to 20. The score greater and equal to 7 and 15 respectively showed the desirable knowledge and positive attitude.
The collected data were analyzed using SPSS ver. 16. First, by contingency tables, distribution of explanatory variables (independent) was divided into two groups. According to the matching of cases and controls on age, conditional logistic regression model was used. In this model, the effects of life-style, smoking, knowledge, attitude, hypertension, BMI, educations, marital status, along with matched variable of age were used to prevent bias in case-control due to the matching.
In the current study, 150 patients with diabetes and 150 patients without diabetes participated; 27.3% were male, 10.7% were smokers and 31.3% had obesity in the group with diabetes and in the group without diabetes 39.3% were male, 10.7% were smokers and 13.3% had obesity. The mean duration of involvement with diabetes was 7.59 ± 5.97 years and the mean of age was 46.6 ± 16.4 years.
Table 1 presents the univariate comparison of some baseline variables between diabetic and non-diabetic groups. As indicated, there was a significant difference between the two groups in terms of gender, marital status, education levels, hypertension, history of cardiovascular disease, history of kidney disease, history of stroke, daily physical activities, training experience in the field of diabetes, BMI, knowledge and attitude (P < 0.05).
Comparison of health-promoting lifestyle subscale scores between the patients with and without diabetes is presented in Table 2. As indicated, the mean score of interpersonal relations, stress management, physical activity and nutrition scores in patients with diabetes are lower than that of those without diabetes (P < 0.05).
aIndependent variables: gender, marital status, education levels, history of hypertension, cardiovascular disease and kidney disease, training experience in the field of diabetes, body mass index, knowledge, attitude and dimensions of health-promoting lifestyle.
In a multiple logistic model, independent variables such as gender, marital status, education levels, history of hypertension, cardiovascular disease and kidney disease, training experience in the field of diabetes, BMI, knowledge, attitude and dimensions of health-promoting lifestyle were assessed. The odds ratio for diabetes in people who had completely positive attitude in the field of diabetes was 7.6 times higher than those of the ones with a negative attitude. Chance of having diabetes for subjects with obesity was 2.6 times higher than those of the ones with normal weight. The odds of having diabetes for those who had a relatively positive attitude about diabetes were 0.13 times higher than those of the ones with positive attitudes toward diabetes. Also the model showed negative relationship between physical activity and diabetes (P = 0.021) (Table 3).
Based on the findings of the current study (in terms of health-promoting lifestyle subscales) stress management, physical activity, nutrition and interpersonal relationship scores in patients with diabetes are significantly lower than those of patients without diabetes. Another study showed that improving lifestyle reduces the incidence of diabetes (28). Therefore, with respects to positive impact of life-style on the control of complications of diabetes, it is necessary to pay more attention to this issue.
Most of the participants of this study were females (gender ratio = 2), which was consistent with the findings of some studies (17, 29-31) but was inconsistent with the results of other studies (14, 32, 33). In the current study, design and method used to select patients from a subspecialty clinic showed that females had more visits and received care services.
The proportion of married people was more prevalent in patients with diabetes than the ones without diabetes, which was consistent with the results of some other studies (4, 30, 31, 34). In univariate analysis a significant relationship was observed between marital statuses in the two groups, but in the multivariate model, the marital status was not related to diabetes condition.
Education level based on years of education in patients with diabetes was lower than that of patients without diabetes; a significant difference was observed between the two groups in terms of education levels. It was in line with the results of Kheirjoo et al. and Shojaeizadeh et al. (14, 34), but not with those of some other studies (14, 31). Probably, higher education makes the importance of health clearer to people and encourages them to take health-promoting measures.
Obesity in patients with diabetes was more than ones without diabetes and the difference was statistically significant, which was consistent with the results of Shojaeizadeh et al. (14).
Mean level of knowledge in patients with diabetes was higher than that of the patients without diabetes, which was consistent with the results of Shamsi et al., and Hosseini et al. (4, 17), but inconsistent with the results of Goodarzi et al. and Bayat et al. (30, 31).
The score of positive attitude towards diabetes control was higher among people with diabetes than people without diabetes. Results of Hosseini et al. (17) also showed higher scores of attitude in cases than controls. In a study by Goodarzi et al. (30) the attitude of the participants was also positive, which was consistent with the current study results. Shamsi et al. (4) pointed to lower scores of patients with diabetes compared to those of the controls, which was not consistent with the current study results. One possible reason for the positive attitude of patients with diabetes toward diabetes control was the hardship and pains experienced by such patients during their disease and this makes them aware of its serious consequences.
The mean scores of dimensions of health-promoting lifestyle in the accountability aspect and spiritual growth and self-actualization were not significantly different in the two groups, which were not consistent with results of Kheirjoo et al., and Asadnia et al. (34, 35).
The mean score of health-promoting lifestyle in physical activities and nutrition dimensions in the two groups had significant differences, which was consistent with the results of some studies (14, 31, 34, 35). Patients with diabetes are recommended to be more active and have proper diet to improve their health-promoting lifestyle.
The mean score of health-promoting lifestyle in interpersonal relationships dimension in the two groups showed no significant difference, which was consistent with the results of Kheirjoo et al. and Asadnia et al. (34, 35).
The mean score of health-promoting lifestyle in stress management dimension in the two groups showed significant differences, which was consistent with the results of other studies (14, 35) but inconsistent with results of Kheirjoo et al. (34). Perhaps stress management and self-management training measures could help to manage stress and control the disease in patients with diabetes.
However, age adjustment of the two study groups can improve the statistical efficiency. Hospital based selection of controls can inflate the study estimation because it can be different from normal population.
Patients with diabetes need more attentions and care to manage diabetes and need interventions to change the lifestyle to adjust with their conditions. Stress management, improved interpersonal relationships, physical activity and diet in this group can have a role to control the disease.
Funding/Support: The present work was supported by Shahroud University of Medical Sciences (project No: 9209).


Doctors are being cautioned to carefully consider their prescribing practices in light of new research in the Australian Journal of General Practice which shows testosterone is being prescribed to men who do not have extremely low testosterone – pathological hypogonadism – and without appropriate hormone tests taking place.
In the research Factors associated with the initiation of testosterone replacement therapy in men Family Planning NSW, used data from the 45 and Up Study1 run by the Sax Institute, to look at what types of men were being prescribed testosterone replacement therapy.
FPNSW Medical Director Dr Deb Bateson said the research tracked the experiences of more than 100,000 men and older men living in urban areas were more likely to have testosterone prescribed than any other group.
"These older men, living in cities were more likely to have testosterone prescribed, although there is no evidence low testosterone is more prevalent in cities and about 60% of men starting this therapy had not had their testosterone levels confirmed with appropriate testing," Dr Bateson said.
"These results suggest testosterone is being prescribed to men who are not proven to have extremely low levels of testosterone even though we know there are few health benefits of this therapy for men who simply have slightly lowered testosterone levels due to ageing.
When prescribed correctly testosterone therapy can help improve erectile dysfunction, depression and hot flushes for men with extremely low testosterone levels. However, for men who are simply experiencing lowering levels and moderate symptoms including low libido or general malaise the benefits of testosterone therapy are low.
Dr Bateson said men were encouraged to consult reputable sources (for example, Andrology Australia) for information on the benefits and harms of testosterone treatment.
1 45 and Up Study is an ongoing cohort study in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Participants were randomly sampled from the Department of Human Services enrolment database, which provides near-complete coverage of the population. A total of 266,942 participants completed the baseline questionnaire (between January 2006 and December 2009) and gave signed consent for follow-up and linkage of their information to routine health databases including the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) and PBS database.


Internations, the world's largest expat community organization, has published their latest survey ranking the best cities to live in for 2018, and our fair metropolis has ranked sixth this year.
Taking into account a series of factors, the group asked its members to rank 72 cities around the world, considering elements such as quality of life, work-life balance, ease of getting settled, cost of living and housing quality.
In the category of easiest place to locate housing, Kuala Lumpur ranked first, and in the category of affordability, it placed sixth (with 86% of the respondents finding it easy, with a 52% global average).
Of the 72 cities, KL ranked fourth easiest to get settled in, with 88% of the respondents saying that the city is uncomplicated and easy to navigate.
This year's top three cities are Taipei, Taiwan; Singapore; and Manama, Bahrain; most of the top ten was dominated by Asian cities.
Top three worst cities? Riyadh and Jeddah in alcohol-free Saudi Arabia, and Rome, Italy.
Counting our blessings every day, here.
This article, Kuala Lumpur ranked sixth best city to live for expats in latest survey, originally appeared on Coconuts, Asia's leading alternative media company. For more Coconuts stories, you can download our app, sign up for our newsletters, or follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.


The year 2017 was packed with events. It began, as usual, with our participation in the international electronic waste recycling convention, the IERC conference in Salzburg. Then came the IFAT EURASIA fair, held in Istanbul in mid-February, an event that saw Forrec attract a steady customer flow and gain new leads from both Turkey and several middle eastern countries.
In March Forrec attended the sixth edition of the Dubai-held BMR, the international conference on recycling in the Middle East (held alongside the WETEX fair, also in Dubai, where Forrec has exhibited for some years) and three fairs in Eastern European countries (Poland, Bulgaria and Russia). The latter saw good visitor attendance, demonstrating that waste treatment is an ever-more topical subject that demands discussion and assessment.
Recycling-Technik in Dortmund was a big challenge as it was a new event for Forrec, held in an area bristling with competitors and attended by a well-informed public. The result? Establishment of excellent links and huge interest in the presented product range.
November kicked off with ECOMONDO, a not-to-be-missed fair for Forrec. This event has always brought us success, and the steady flow of long-standing partners and new contacts showed that this year was no exception. The show POLLUTEC in Lyon together with our French agent company Decoval and at the end of November came two conferences in CAMBODIA and MYANMAR. These offered a great opportunity to present Forrec to the municipalities of these two countries, both of which are enjoying exponential economic growth.
Two key events were held in December, one in Chile (FITGA), the other in Brazil (WASTE-EXPO). They highlight a growing awareness of environmental issues in South America and, above all, openness as regards the technologies supplied by Forrec.


Forex online trading has many features that attract more potential investors compared to other financial market in the world, and leverage is one of them.
With forex you can usually get much higher leverage than with stocks, letting you earn more potential profits in relation with the amount you originally invested.
Leverage in forex online trading means the amount of money you are allowed to borrow from the broker when you open a position. Typically, when you buy 100 shares of a company trading at $10 per share in the stock market, you are required $1000 to open the trade.
Some stock brokers would let you borrow 50 to 80 percent of the total stock value, requiring only $500 to buy shares. Of course, the broker will charge interest for the loan.
On the other hand, forex leverage, as one experienced trader puts it, "is similar but on steroids".
A typical forex broker will let you borrow 99 percent of the total value required to open a trade and you only need to come up with the remaining 1 percent while a forex broker will not charge you interest on the borrowed amount.
Also, in the case of stock trading you will be liable to pay up $500 (or more) you borrowed in case of a loss. In forex online trading, your broker will close out all open trades as soon as your account available balance reaches zero.
Let's explain this with a practical example. If you are required to deposit 1 percent of the total transaction value as margin and you intend to trade one standard lot of USD/CHF, which is equivalent to US$100,000, the margin required would be US1,000. This way your margin-based leverage will be 100:1 (100,000/1,000). For a margin requirement of just 0.25 percent, the margin based leverage will be 400:1, using the same formula.
However, margin-based leverage does not necessarily affect one's risks. Whether a trader is required to put up 1 or 2 percent of the transaction value as margin may not influence his or her profit or losses, as he can always attribute more than the required margin for any position.
Risk is an important factor when it comes to leverage. It is the investor's responsibility to use the leverage in a smart way and control risks. If you have proper risk control and don't overuse the buying/selling power given by this forex tool, you can take the highest leverage and never be worried that your account balance goes to the negative side.
Altogether, A trader that wants to succeed in forex online trading should always be aware of the amount of leverage he is trading and what it exactly means.


CHICAGO — February is National Children's Dental Health Month (NCDHM), and to honor the occasion, Give Kids A Smile (GKAS) programs are planned nationwide throughout the month and all of this year to share critical dental health care and education with children in need.
Today, at the GKAS Kickoff event in Arizona, more than 500 children from the Mesa Public School District received free dental care and learned why it's important to take daily care of teeth and gums through demonstrations with hand-held models of teeth and over-sized toothbrushes. Volunteers from the Arizona Dental Foundation and the A.T. Still University-Arizona School of Dentistry & Oral Health organized the event and provision of care, with some volunteers dressing up in kid-friendly themed costumes to lend spirit to the morning. Colgate, Dexis and Henry Schein Dental are the national sponsors of Give Kids A Smile Day.
The GKAS program began in 2001 in St. Louis, and the American Dental Association launched it nationally in 2003 as a way for dentists to join with others in the community to provide dental services to underserved children. Initially a one-day event in February, coinciding with National Children's Dental Health Month, the program has since grown to local and national events year-round.
Dentists and other team members volunteer their time and services to provide screenings, treatments and education to children throughout the United States. Throughout 2015, approximately 350,000 children will benefit from more than 1,500 events, all because of the efforts of 40,000 or more annual volunteers.
Give Kids A Smile is part of the ADA Foundation. For more information about how Give Kids A Smile Programs are organized across the country, please visit ada.org/givekidsasmile. To learn about mouth healthy habits, please visit MouthHealthy.org, which features fun quizzes, slideshows, videos and articles about dental health topics for every age and stage of life, plus the ADA Dental Symptom Checker.
Editor's Note: Reporters are invited to follow the ADA on Twitter @AmerDentalAssn.


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This conveyor is the ideal solution for factories needing to maximize employee ergonomics in order to help reduce instances of employee musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) like carpal tunnel, tendinitis, and various types of muscle strains.
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We are able to offer appointments with our on call doctor at Probus Surgery for those patients who need to be seen urgently. This may be a telephone call in the first instance. However, please be aware that these are emergency appointments and even though you have been given an allotted time, you may be required to wait.
Please give the Receptionist as much information as possible about your condition.
The Receptionists will endeavour to keep you informed should our duty doctor be called out or run late due to an emergency, but we would very much appreciate your patience if you are not seen on time.
We would ask that a home visit only be requested by patients who are too ill to travel to the surgery, not only because home visits consume a lot of valuable doctor's time, but also because we have better facilities for examining and treating you in the surgery.
You will be asked the reason for your request and it would be helpful to give the Receptionist as much information as possible.
Lack of transport is not an acceptable reason for a home visit.
Where possible please phone before 10.30am giving name, address, telephone number and some indication of illness.
If you require urgent medical advice please telephone the usual surgery number 01726 882745. There is always an available Duty Doctor.
If you need to speak to a doctor for advice over the telephone it is best to ring Probus Surgery either mid-morning or early afternoon. If it is urgent advice you require and the emergency doctor is not available to take your call they will telephone you back as soon as possible.
Please give as much information as possible to the Receptionist who can pass this information onto the doctor.
If you would like to speak to a specific doctor we can leave a message for them to telephone you after their clinic, however this may not be on the same day. Please note telephone advice is not always suitable and you may be asked to make an appointment.
You can now book appointments online. To enable you to book these appointments please visit either Probus or Grampound Surgery and complete an application form providing us with a unique email address, bringing with you some form of identification. We will then set you up to access the system.
These slots are for ROUTINE APPOINTMENTS only. If you feel you will require longer than 10 minutes please phone the surgery on 01726 882745.
We are able to book some appointments up to one month in advance, some a week ahead, others a day ahead and some can only be booked on the day. If you know you need a routine review appointment, please book this in good time - or even before leaving the surgery after your previous appointment. This helps ensure we can offer various day and time options.
We aim to offer everyone an appointment at a time that suits them, and constantly re-evaluate our patients' needs. However, Mondays are always very busy, despite having approximately 120 appointments available, so we would ask you to bear this in mind when you ring.
It is also important to let us know in good time if you no longer require an appointment, so that this slot can be offered to another patient.
The Receptionist team at Probus and Grampound Surgeries can answer in the region of 330 calls a day, the majority of which are patients wishing to make an appointment to see a GP. Please do not be alarmed if the Receptionist asks the reason for your attendance as this information allows the Receptionist to allocate the most appropriate resource to suit your need.
We rotate between Monday, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, providing at least two late evening clinics per week. Each of our partners work these clinics rotationally and appointments are available from 6.30pm. These appointments are only bookable in advance.
We are working in partnership across the local area and appointments are available at several locations across Cornwall where you may not see a clinician from this practice. The clinician will have access to a summary but not your full notes so appointments are better suited to new conditions or single issue enquiries. The practice will receive a full summary of your consultation and any actions resulting from it the next morning.
Urgent medical care continues to be provided by NHS 111 during these late clinics in accordance with the wishes of the Primary Care Trust.
Test results are usually back at the surgery within 48 hours. The doctor reviews all results and the Receptionist or GP will contact you if any abnormalities are detected which need discussion or a repeat test arranged.
If you have not heard anything you can usually assume that the test results have come back as normal. However you can telephone our Receptionist staff, if you wish, after two working days to confirm this.
It would be helpful if you could delay such calls until after 11am on any weekday.


Our judging panel has been revealed! We're excited to have these industry bigwigs bring their expertise and experience to the hackathon.
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Mantispidae zijn een familie van insecten die behoren tot de orde netvleugeligen (Neuroptera). De familie omvat wereldwijd ongeveer 400 soorten.

Kenmerken
Ze worden gekenmerkt door de bouw van het voorste potenpaar dat zich ontwikkeld heeft door grote vangpoten. Ze doen hierdoor denken aan bidsprinkhanen wat ook in de wetenschappelijke naam terug te vinden is; mantis verwijst naar de bidsprinkhanen. De vleugelspanwijdte bedraagt 1 tot 5,5 cm.

Voortplanting en ontwikkeling
De eieren worden meestal afgezet op boomschors. De uitgekomen larven voeden zich meestal met spinneneieren.

Verspreiding en leefgebied
Deze familie komt wereldwijd voor in de tropen en subtropen in halfdroge bossen en struwelen.

Taxonomie
De Mantispidae zijn onderverdeeld in de volgende onderfamilies:
Calomantispinae
Drepanicinae
Mantispinae
Mesomantispinae
Symphrasinae


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Award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa spoke to the University of Nevada, Reno, community about the representation of the Latino community in news and self-confidence on Tuesday, April 10.
Through her work, Hinojosa has been praised for sharing the stories of those who live in America and are facing the ever-changing political and cultural platform in the U.S.
For a majority of her talk, Hinojosa focused on the representation of Latinos in media. She retold the story of a conversation she has with late Nobel-prize winning author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel: a story she had once told a Trump Advisor in a viral video from the MSNBC "AM Joy" show.
The talk concluded with Hinojosa emphasizing the importance of believing in yourself and finding the power to never doubt what one is capable of accomplishing.
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Jackie Phillips
Jackie Phillips, 85, of Worland, died April 24th, 2020.
Jackie was born August 13, 1934, in Ten Sleep, WY, and was the daughter of Vivian Bader and Jack Whaley. Jackie was married to Chester Phillips, December 20th, 1952 in Billings MT.
Jackie and Chester worked and moved throughout Wyoming and Montana until finally settling in Jackson Hole, Wyoming in the mid-sixties. Jackson Hole is where Jackie found her heart and soul. Jackie loved socializing, hunting and fishing with Chester, and raising her family in Teton County. Jackie raised three children, Chet Jr., Melody, and Denise in Jackson and shared her love of Wyoming and the outdoors with them.
Jackie's sense of humor and wit have been her most notable qualities and her love of storytelling and game playing was legendary. Her magnetic personality brought many grandchildren, great-grandchildren, extended family and adopted family to her home throughout the years. Jackie loved playing "Heads Up" with her grandchildren and "Apples to Apples" and would stay up late playing during holidays and vacations.
Jackie was predeceased by her husband, Chester, her brothers, Keith Whaley and Fred Whaley, and sisters, Louis Anne Whaley, and Nancy Osborne. Jackie is survived by her three children; Chet Phillips (Debbie), Melody Garcia, and Denise Phillips; 5 grandchildren; 1 great-grandchild; several siblings, cousins, nieces and nephews.
Services will be announced at a later date. Donations can be made in Jackie's name to New Hope Humane Society, 700 15 Mile Rd, Worland, WY 82401. Arrangements have been entrusted to Veile Mortuary.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions of leadership behaviors at the middle level by principals and superintendants.
The sample population of 17 superintendents was drawn from a four county region in southeastern Pennsylvania (28% response rate), and they completed the Leadership Practices Inventory about the principals who reported to them. Fifteen principals also completed the LPI.
Responses from superintendents and principals were generally in agreement with one another about the frequency and rank order use of the five leadership practices. Encouraging was the leadership practice seen as most frequently engaged in by both groups, followed by Modeling, Challenging, Enabling and Inspiring. The economic status of the school was not found to influence the frequency or pattern of engagement in leadership practices by principals.


Please join Eljiah J. McCoy Midwest Regional U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Regional Director, Dr. Christal Sheppard, as she joins Madison Women in IP (MadWIP) for a discussion on intellectual property. The discussion will include topics such as the America Invents Act, community outreach, as well as current and ongoing USPTO projects.
MadWIP is hosting this program for women intellectual property professionals. Please register prior to June 5, 2017.


exposure to different things, ideas, career options, etc. In addition, we encourage them by asking questions, doing research, and reading. We also have family game times where we play a variety of board games that not only teach them sportsmanship but how to play with others. In addition, they all have library cards and belong to a book club at Barnes and Noble. We make reading fun by having a healthy competition on the number of books read. We also encourage all of our grandchildren to learn something new each day even if it is a new word.
The purpose of Color Me Purple is to help children understand that a) there are many different ways to be smart, and b) there are probably many more smart kids in their classes and schools than they ever imagined. To enhance the story and make it more meaningful for mature readers and the adults in their lives, there are 18 text boxes, or aside explanations of the concepts and theories behind the story.
The first three of these topics — Introduction to Smart and Related Terms, Thinking and Questioning, and Multiples Intelligences are introduced on the Tips page of this blog. In the coming week, I will introduce the remaining 15 topics on that page as well.
Have fun exploring intelligence in it's many forms and colors!
She went on to explain the fine line between encouraging and discouraging her 10-year-old son's intrinsic interest in piano: "I'd noticed that he'd been spending a lot of his free time messing around at the piano whenever he had a spare moment, plunking out songs that he was attempting to sight read from music we happened to have laying around, or just playing by ear. I suggested to him that we set up piano lessons, and he agreed to give it a try. But, when songs were giving him trouble, he quickly became frustrated, and wanted to give up and quit. It became a battle for me to try to convince him to keep practicing.
"That's when I realized that he was no longer playing JOYFULLY as he had been when he was playing for HIMSELF rather than playing to please someone else. As much as I value the important life lesson of developing grit and perseverance, I also want to value and honor my son's desire to do what makes him happy, and I want to be sure that I am helping to nurture his talent rather than squelch it! One day he approached me calmly and explained to me that he LIKES playing the piano but that he does NOT LIKE taking lessons. He promised that if I would let him quit piano lessons he would continue playing on his own, for fun. So that's what we did.
When I was a child, we didn't have the opportunity to learn a second language. We also didn't have any children in my small-town school whose native language was anything other than English. I suffer today from a lack of confidence in tackling any language other than English as well as from a clear lack of ability to speak or comprehend any other language. Sad, but true.
I'm thrilled that my grandchildren are being introduced to Spanish at a young age. And, I'm thrilled that some elementary schools are offering immersion programs in Spanish. I wish there were more such programs as well a wider variety of children's enrichment programs that introduce the languages our grandchildren will encounter in our world of global communications.
Abuelita dice que es bueno ser inteligente is for all the children of Spanish-speaking families. It is also for all the children learning Spanish in school or through a special private-language camp or program. The book is identical to the original book, Grandma Says It's Good to Be Smart.
I thank Joe Ketarkus for translating the story when I took a mocked-up version of the book to Peru in 2008, and working on the final translation for the published book this year. Thank you to Rosa Medina and Nuria Vega for reading and commenting on the Spanish-language version as native speakers. And thank you to my husband Paul for the patience and skill it took to change the words in the illustrations to their Spanish counterparts. That was a challenge I could not have accomplished without his steady hand and help.
Together, Joe, Rosa, Nuria, Paul and I are happy to be reinforcing the importance of reading, exploring, questioning, imagining, and being proud of one's every new interest and accomplishment to many more children through the publication of this edition of the book. Enjoy.


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Total amount of water use.
Annual TN and TP loads.
lawns, Number of FL Yards.
of streets with bike routes.
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Romney and Ryan don't approve of fiscal policy stimulus (unless it's tax cuts for the wealthy), and Ryan would take away the ability of the Fed to respond to unemployment as well. Basically, they are telling us that if a recession hits and they have their way, nothing will be done. Not a thing. No fiscal policy response (except perhaps austerity to make it worse), and no monetary response (except, if Ryan has his way, interest rate increases based upon a misunderstanding of how the economy works -- that would also make things worse). So it wouldn't just be the "you're on your ownership society" of Randian dreams, Ryan would have monetary and fiscal authorities making things even worse than they already are.
Ryan is not a well-informed policy wonk with new, exciting ideas. He's a policy idiot. Don't let this guy anywhere near the policy levers.


JHS strives to match people with animals that fit their lifestyles. We take our mission to care for these animals very seriously, and that includes taking the time to find loving and responsible homes. We offer a wide selection of cats, dogs, puppies & kittens. If you don't see the pet you're looking for, we encourage you to continue to check regularly with all animal shelters and rescues.
Due to the number of animals that we receive and find homes for every day, we can not guarantee that specific animals listed on our site will be available when you visit. We are also unable to hold animals via phone, fax, or email. The best way to find a new furry companion is by visiting us in person...after all, you might be about to meet your new best friend!
Come in with your family and look around (fyi - no adoption will be started within 15 minutes of closing time).
After the meeting, go over what information we have on file about the pet and his/her past experience.
Finish the process by having a conversation with our adoption staff.
Most of our pets can go home the same day.
The standard adoption fee is $100 for dogs over 4mos of age. Cats and kittens are $90. Puppies less than 4 months of age are $120 and HERO PETS are $160.
These fees includes the animals spay/neuter, age appropriate vaccinations including rabies and de-worming, and a heartworm test for dogs over 6 mos of age. The fee also includes a microchip. Microchips help us reunite lost pets with their owners and insure that if lost, your pet will get home to you.
You can print you Dog Adoption Application or Cat Adoption Application and bring it with you to the shelter! You can also fax the application to us at 417-623-5343 or copy/paste and e-mail it to customerservice@joplinhumane.org. If you do not hear back from us within 4 hours, please call 417-623-3642 x 100. If we do not answer, leave a message with your name and contact information and let us know when you e-mailed or faxed the information.
We reserve the right to decline any adoption based on the information provided, lack of information, inability to reach references, refusal by applicant to complete required pet/family meets, or if we feel the pet is not a match for the person's lifestyle.
No pets may leave the shelter until they are altered and have received their rabies vaccine. If you are traveling from a distance, we strongly advise calling to be sure the pet you are traveling to adopt is available and ready to leave.
We generally do not "hold"pets that are available to leave. Please understand that no animal can be help for any reason without an approved application.
If you are traveling from a distance and wish to have the pet held until you arrive, you must fill out and return the application, and confirm that your application has been approved. Applications can be e-mailed or faxed back to us for approval.
We generally only adopt one pet per adoptive family. Exceptions may be made for pets that came in as a pair, littermates (if approved for littermates) or special, unique circumstances. Under no circumstance will more than two pets be adopted at the same time.
JHS does reduce or waive adoption fees for a variety of reasons: Too many cats or kittens in the building, older and special needs pets that have a harder time finding homes, etc. Adoption Promotions are a fun way to engage the public and bring in potential adopters. Shelters remain the #4 way people obtain their pets.