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PEPFAR Community Grants Program provides direct funding to Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) located in districts heavily affected by HIV in Mozambique. Implemented in Mozambique since 2008, each year the program invites interested organizations to submit applications for funding. Since the beginning of its implementation, many organizations were founded, including REDES and JUNTOS. These organizations were PAS and PEPFAR partners for more than 10 years implementing HIV/AIDS prevention activities for girls in secondary schools. They were crucial partners at the time as they were organized by regions, North, Centre and South, and they would choose one province to get all together for mass students activities, including science and health fairs in the schools. Both organizations were created and lead by Peace Corps Volunteers.
Currently, Community Grants Program is implemented by the United States Department of State through the PEPFAR Coordination Office (PCO).
Community grants program currently funds 19 community-based organizations, which receive up to 1.5 million meticais ($25,000) per organization to develop community-led monitoring activities. These are planned, coordinated, executed and monitored with the involvement of the Civil Society Platform for Health (PLASOC- M), which also is supported by the PEPFAR Community Grants Program for their capacity building.
The supported organizations carry out various activities at the community level, which include:
- HIV counseling and testing
- Supporting adherence to ART in the community
- Promotion of campaigns to reduce stigma and discrimination and gender-based violence, among others.
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Community-led Monitoring (CLM) is an accountability mechanism for the national HIV response, led and implemented by local community-led organizations of people living with HIV (PLHIV), networks of Key Populations (KPs), or other affected groups. In Mozambique the CLM began in COP 20 and the funded organizations documents the experiences of beneficiaries of HIV services in a routine and systematic manner, using data routinely collected from clinic users by trained, paid clinic monitors. These data focus on the accessibility and quality of HIV services. These data are analyzed by communities and used to develop community-led interventions at the facility, district, provincial and national levels to correct the problems uncovered by community-led monitoring, ultimately leading to improved HIV outcomes.
The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) guidance for the Country Operational Plan for FY22 (COP 21) states that it is a minimum program requirement that HIV affected populations are provided continuous, quality, client-centered services, and that independent, routine, national community-led monitoring efforts to improve the accessibility and quality of services are part of the HIV response. Towards this end, PEPFAR Coordination Office finances Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) and other civil society groups to initiate, lead, and implement community-led monitoring (CLM). Technical assistance, including training on methods and tools as well as other needed support, are provided to all recipient organizations.
The main activities of the CLM includes:
- Qualitative data collection (Observation at Health Facilities and patient interviews, focus group discussions, individual testimonies and door-to-door interviews);
- Conduct community education sessions around the Health Rights of PLHIV;
- Convene smaller groups to sound out concerns/claims regarding barriers to care and treatment;
- Participate in health committees (community) and co-management committees (Health Unit);
- Collaborate with Health Unit staff to ensure presentation/discussion of patient-reported complaints and seek resolution of complaints that meet the needs of patients and PLHIV.
PEPFAR Community Grants NOFO 2022 and Resources
COP22 – PEPFAR Community Grant Proposal Preparation Workshop Resources (available in Portuguese)
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
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President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
PEPFAR Community Grants Program
Notice of Funding Opportunity
Section A. Funding Opportunity Program Description
Assistance Instrument Type: Grant
Funding Opportunity Title: PEPFAR Community Led Monitoring – Mozambique
Funding Opportunity Number: MAPUTO-PCO-FY23-01
Federal Assistance Number: 19.029 — The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Programs
Type of Award Grant
Total Funding Amount: $600,000 USD (FY2023 PEPFAR)
Funding Flow: (Lowest Value: $50,000)
Funding Ceiling Heights: (Highest Value: $100,000)
Anticipated Number of Awards: Up to 12
Period of Performance: Up to 24 months
Type of Solicitation: Open Competition
Eligibility Category: Non-profit Mozambican Community Based organizations (CBOs) which includes Faith-Based Organizations (FBOs), group of persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) or Affected by HIV and networks of Key Populations (KP) + people with disabilities
Questions Deadline: 11:59 PM 07 August 2022
Application Deadline: 11:59 PM 14 August 2022
Anticipated Award Signing October 2022
This notice is subject to availability of funding.
- PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The U.S. Embassy in Mozambique/Bureau of African Affairs at the U.S. Department of State (DOS) announces this an Open competition for organizations interested in submitting applications for the projects that support Community Led Monitoring.
Projects which may be funded will cover the following Geographic Regions:
PEPFAR-supported HIV treatment (AJUDA sites) in Maputo Province, Inhambane Province
Gaza Province, Nampula Province, Manica Province, Sofala Province and Tete Province.
Note: Projects will be in these provinces with districts and health facility sites determined by the applicant during the application phase. The list of the health facilities can be found in the US Embassy website: https://mz.usembassy.gov/our-relationship/pepfar-us-presidents-emergency-plan-for-aids-relief-2/pepfar-community-grants/ .
Organizations can select up to 4 Health Units each. A proposal for 4 Health Units is eligible for 50,000USD per year and for 2 Health Units is eligible for 25,000USD per year. Funder will ensure that sites will not overlap with current organizations supporting community led monitoring activities at the same health facility or in the same communities.
The selection committee will endeavor to fund organizations in each of the selected provinces.
Should there not be a proposal submitted from one of the provinces listed above, the discretion will fall to the PEPFAR Coordination Office to determine which additional organizations to fund.
The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) guidance for the Country Operational Plan for FY23 (COP22) states that it is a minimum program requirement that HIV affected populations are provided continuous, quality, client-centered services, and that independent, routine, national community-led monitoring efforts to improve the accessibility and quality of services are part of the HIV response. Towards this end, the PEPFAR Coordination Office intends to fund Non-profit Mozambican Community Based organizations (CBOs) including Faith-Based Organizations (FBOs) and group of persons living with HIV/AIDS or Affected by HIV/AIDS and networks of Key Populations + individuals with disabilities to initiate, lead, and implement community-led monitoring (CLM).
HIV community-led monitoring (CLM) is an accountability mechanism for HIV responses at different levels, led and implemented by local community-led organizations of people living with HIV, networks of key populations, other affected groups, or other community entities.
Community-led monitoring (CLM) is a process initiated, led, and implemented by local community-based organizations and other civil society groups, networks of key populations, people living with HIV, and other affected groups or other community entities that gathers quantitative and qualitative data about HIV services and develops and advocates for solutions to the gaps identified during data collection. The focus is on getting input from recipients of HIV services, especially key populations, and underserved groups, in a routine and systematic manner that will translate into action and change. CLM is central to PEPFAR’s person-centered approach because it puts communities, their needs, and their voices at the center of the HIV response.
These organizations will document the experiences of beneficiaries of HIV services in a routine and systematic manner, using data routinely collected from clinic users. These data will focus on the accessibility and quality of HIV services. These data will be analyzed by communities and used to develop community-led interventions at the facility, district, provincial and national levels to correct the problems uncovered by community-led monitoring, ultimately leading to improved HIV outcomes.
Technical assistance, including training on methods and tools as well as other needed support, will be provided to all recipient organizations.
Objectives and Expected Outcomes: The Recipient agrees to perform the program and meet the specific objectives below:
- Education on health-related rights and duties for People Living with HIV and Key Population;
- Listening and monitoring of patients’ barriers and concerns identified on access to health services;
- Improve patients’ literacy on stigma and discrimination;
- Independent evidence-based advocacy based on findings from community-led monitoring.
A.3. Expected Results
Expected results include the following:
- Improve the quality of services provided at the health facility;
- Create demand for humanized health services;
- Reduce stigma and discrimination at affected communities;
- Increase the proportion of PLHIV on treatment retained in Anti-Retroviral Treatment at the health facility.
A.4. Main Activities
To achieve the goals and expected results, the program should include the following:
- Implement 5 cycles of CLM, including quantitative and qualitative data collection (patient interviews, health provider interviews and health facility observations):
- Data collection: Collect information at facility and community level
- Analysis and translation: Translate data collected into actionable insights
- Engagement and Dissemination: Bring information to the attention of facility, national, and funding decision-makers
- Advocacy: Advocate for changes and policy and practice
- Monitoring: Monitor implementation of promised changes
- Conduct community education sessions around health rights for PLHIV including Key Population;
- Convene smaller groups to hear concerns/grievances regarding barriers to care and treatment;
- Participate in the health (community) and co-management (facility) committees to discuss about the identified grievances and advocacy and follow up purposes;
- Collaborate with health facility staff to ensure presentation/discussion of grievances reported by patients and to seek resolution of grievances that meet the needs of patients and PLHIV;
A.5. Performance Indicators
The following are required indicators.
- Output 1: Reach to patients at the health facilities and communities (numbers of unique patients reached with sessions)
- Output 2: Number of barriers/grievances identified during education sessions, health facilities observations and health provider’s interviews
- Output 3: Number of actions taken, and the results obtained based on grievances identified
Other indicators will be developed according to the national CLM program guidance, which is currently being finalized.
Section B. Federal Award Information
Organizations can submit one application in response to the NOFO. If more than one application is submitted by an organization, only the first application received will be reviewed for eligibility and funding.
The U.S. Government may: (a) reject any or all applications, (b) accept one application, and (c) waive irregularities in applications received.
The U.S. Government may make award(s) based on initial applications received, without discussions or negotiations. Therefore, each initial application should contain the applicant’s best terms from a cost and technical standpoint. The U.S. Government reserves the right to enter discussions with one or more applicants to obtain clarifications, additional detail, or to suggest refinements in the project description, budget, or other aspects of an application.
To maximize the impact and sustainability of the award(s) that result from this NOFO, U.S. Embassy Moçambique retains the right to execute non-competitive continuation amendment(s). The total duration of any award, including potential non-competitive continuation amendments, shall not exceed 54 months, or four and a half years. Any non-competitive continuation is contingent on performance and pending availability of funds. A non-competitive continuation is not guaranteed, and the Department of State reserves the right to exercise or not to exercise this option.
Section C. Eligibility Information
C.1. Eligible Applicants
The PEPFAR Community Grants Office welcomes applications from independent and local/community civil society organizations:
- registered Non-profit Mozambican Community Based organizations (CBOs) including Faith-Based Organizations (FBOs) and group of persons living with HIV/AIDS or Affected by HIV and networks of Key Populations + people with disabilities
- Key Populations include men who have sex with men, transgender people, sex workers, people who inject drugs, and people in prisons and other enclosed settings.
The following are NOT eligible to apply in response to this NOFO:
- For-profit and commercial firms;
- Government institutions or multilateral bodies.
- Civil Society Organizations, which are not Community Based or are not representative of a community or significant segments of a community. For example: trade unions, professional associations, internationally affiliated organizations with branches in many different countries, etc.;
- PEPFAR Implementing Partners (including those that may be civil society organizations themselves) currently working on service delivery at the site level, this includes implementing partners who sub-contract/sub-grant to local civil society organizations.
Section D. Application and Submission Information
Applications must be submitted by 11:59PM on August 14, 2022 via SoCaPX using the following link: https://communitygrantsmoz.com/
Please see the manual on how to send application via the SoCapX platform on https://mz.usembassy.gov/our-relationship/pepfar-us-presidents-emergency-plan-for-aids-relief-2/pepfar-community-grants/
Please refer to the NOFO Guidance on https://mz.usembassy.gov/our-relationship/pepfar-us-presidents-emergency-plan-for-aids-relief-2/pepfar-community-grants/
D.1. Content and Form of Application Submission
Any prospective applicant who has questions concerning the contents of this NOFO should submit them by email to email@example.com or via SoCaPX Live chat using the following link: https://communitygrantsmoz.com/ by 11:59PM August 07, 2022.
Proposals that do not meet the requirements of this announcement or fail to comply with the stated requirements will be ineligible.
Application must have the following format:
- The proposal clearly addresses the goals and objectives of this funding opportunity;
- All documents are in English;
- All budgets are in U.S. dollars;
- All pages are numbered;
- All documents are formatted to A4 paper, and
- All Microsoft Word documents are single-spaced, 12-point Times New Roman font, with a minimum of 1-inch margins.
Complete applications must include the following required documents listed below and proposals must be submitted using the attached template. You can also access the template https://mz.usembassy.gov/our-relationship/pepfar-us-presidents-emergency-plan-for-aids-relief-2/pepfar-community-grants/
D.1.1 Application Requirements
Complete applications must include the following:
- Proposal Narrative
- Completed and signed SF-424 and SF-424A
- Scope of Work
- Performance Monitoring & Evaluation Narrative and Plan and Timeline
- Detailed Budget
- Budget Narrative
- Key Personnel Summary
- COVID Contingency Plan:
- How will COVID contingency costs be built into the budget? For example: how much do you plan to pay for protecting equipment?
- What COVID precautions will be required for in-person activities? For example: people wearing masks, Limit the number of people attending in-person meetings.
- Besides the considerations above, all measures taken must strictly follow the Measures indicated by the Country Ministry of Health Regulations.
- Additional Attachments:
- Recommendation letters from program partners (CPCS – Conselho Provincial de Combate ao SIDA and/or previous donors)
- Official permission letters (SDSMAS – Serviço Distrital de Saúde da Mulher e Acção Social)
- Signed Consortium Memorandum (If applicable).
For more details on the proposal narrative, please refer to the guidance document on https://mz.usembassy.gov/our-relationship/pepfar-us-presidents-emergency-plan-for-aids-relief-2/pepfar-community-grants/
D.2. Required Registrations:
All organizations applying for grants (except individuals) must obtain these registrations. All are free of charge:
- NCAGE/CAGE code
- SAM.gov registration, including unique entity identifier (UEI)
Step 1: Apply for an NCAGE number
NCAGE application: Application page here: https://eportal.nspa.nato.int/AC135Public/scage/CageList.aspx
Instructions for the NCAGE application process:
For NCAGE help from within the U.S., call 1-888-227-2423
For NCAGE help from outside the U.S., call 1-269-961-7766
Email firstname.lastname@example.org for any problems in getting an NCAGE code.
Step 2: After receiving the NCAGE Code, proceed to register in SAM.gov by logging onto: https://www.sam.gov. SAM registration must be renewed annually. Registering in SAM.gov will generate a unique entity identifier (UEI).
D.3. Funding Restrictions
The following activities and costs are not covered under this announcement. Please refer to this link https://mz.usembassy.gov/our-relationship/pepfar-us-presidents-emergency-plan-for-aids-relief-2/pepfar-community-grants/ for a full list of activities that are not funded under this funding announcement.
- Direct support or the appearance of direct support for any religious organization, to include repair or building of structures used for religious purposes;
- Duplication of services immediately available through municipal, provincial, or national government;
- Expenses made prior to the approval of a proposal or unreasonable expenditures will not be reimbursed;
- Charitable or development activities;
- Lobbying for specific legislation or projects;
- Projects intended primarily for the growth or institutional development of the organization;
- Projects seeking funds for personal use;
- Projects that require a participation fee.
D.4. Other Submission Requirements/ Attachments: Please download the attachments listed below on https://mz.usembassy.gov/our-relationship/pepfar-us-presidents-emergency-plan-for-aids-relief-2/pepfar-community-grants/
List of attachments:
- Attachment 1: NOFO Application Guidance Document
Attachment 2: SoCapX Application guide
Attachment 3: SOW including Performance M&E Plan and Timeline Template
Attachment 4: Budget Guidance and Template
Attachment 5: Key Personnel Summary
Attachment 6: COVID19 Contingency Plan
Attachment 7: SF424 and SF424A
Attachment 8: PEPFAR-supported HIV treatment (AJUDA sites List)
- Attachment 9: Platform Application Instructions (PDF 1.35 MB)


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Holy Wells Today
compiled by Mark Valentine
Other Well Ceremonies
The well-dressing which has survived in Derbyshire was originally much more widespread. I would be interested to hear of any other customs, not necessarily ‘dressing’ , which are still followed today, involving wells or springs.
Two Staffordshire villages have in recent times held ‘dressing’ events; Endon, which is usually around Spring Bank Holiday weekend, and Newborough, which member Chris Fletcher informs me is in danger of finishing, since parish finances can’t cope!
The local horticultural society has in the past staged a dressing ceremony at the Holywell, Cambridgeshire, holy well, on Midsummer’s Day. Bernard Schofield in is Events in Britain (Blandford Press, 1981) records a continuing Well Blessing custom at Bisley, Gloucestershire on May 24th.
When a well dating from at least the 14th century was uncovered under the Devon and Exeter City Library, Cathedral Close, Exeter, two divers took part in the investigation and excavation of its 45 feet depths. The archaeological unit of the city were hoping to make some finds in the accumulated silt, and also to resolve the tradition that a number of wells are linked by tunnels across the city.
(Source; Exeter Express & Echo, October 27th, 1984).
The Return of St Withburga?
BBC TV’s ‘Look East’ regional programme reported on 3/1/85 that St Withburga’s Well, in the churchyard of East Dereham, Norfolk, was reputed to be ‘running stronger and fresher than it has for centuries’ following attempts by the town’s mayor to have the saint’s remains returned to Dereham from Ely Cathedral.
St Withburga, an 8th century hermit, died and was buried c.743 at Dereham, but fifty years later her remains were found to be uncorrupted; they were therefore enshrined in the church. The well is said to have miraculously sprung up on this occasion. In 974, the body was stolen on the orders of Brithnoth, abbot of Ely, and with the approval of King Edgar and Ethelwold, Bishop of Winchester. It was re-interred at Ely, on the pretext that the saint would have wished burial near her sister, St Etheldreda.
The television feature implied that the renewed vigour of the well was seen by local people as a sign of the saint’s approval for the mayor’s campaign – a remarkable testimony, if so, to a lingering respect for the well’s powers. It was also reported that a spectral figure of a lady, seen in the churchyard recently, might also be connected.
The mayor, in an interview, said the theft of the relics had deprived Dereham of prosperity for more than a millennium; it could once have become the capital of Norfolk, but had never recovered from the loss. The return of the saint’s bones would be a symbolic gesture. The matter is now before an ecclesiastical court.
There are several similar traditions connecting the removal of saint’s bones with the miraculous emergence of sacred water, e.g. St Ethelbert, Marden, Herefordshire; St Winefred, Woolston, Shropshire; apart from, of course, the more common legend of saints founding wells whilst still alive, usually by striking the ground – e.g. Sir John Schorne’s, North Marston, Buckinghamshire; St Milburga, at Stoke St Milborough, Shropshire; St Thomas A Becket’s, Otford, Kent. Legends accounting for the foundation of wells are a research strand worth pursuing.
Reference: hagiographic details on St Withburga from The Oxford Dictionary of Saints by David Hugh Farmer, Oxford University Press, 1978.
New Life for Old Wells
I am grateful to Janet & Colin Bord for the following report;
‘It is always heartening to learn that a former holy well has been rediscovered and brought back into use. We were visiting a country house near the village of Llangwm in Clwyd recently, and we were discussing the water supply. The owner informed us that they had had an erratic supply of spring, water, until he determined to find a better supply, and while working on the problem he rediscovered the village holy well, Ffynnon Wnnod, which was on the hill just above the house. The name relates to the former dedication of the church to saints Gwnnod and Nathan. The well may have lost its reputation as a holy well because it later became known as Fron Fach Spring, and then it must have become altogether disused, because it had become overgrown until it was no more than a damp patch on the edge of a field. He dug it out, found a good water supply, and piped it down to the house. He also left an access to the well, which he covered with a lid specially made and carved, and he and his wife planted flowers around the well. Although the water is now being used for domestic purposes and not for baptism or cures as it probably was originally, at least the well has been saved from extinction.’
See also Living with a Holy Well, an article in Source (New Series) by Janet and Colin Bord.


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When coworkers treat each other badly, it’s not just morale that can suffer – so, too, can the company’s bottom line. That’s the conclusion of a recent study by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School on the effects of incivility at work.
The study surveyed 775 people across a variety of industries and company sizes who were targets of incivility on the job. Examples of uncivil behaviour included sending a nasty and demeaning note, making accusations about a lack of knowledge, undermining credibility in front of others and shouting at someone.
Respondents described their reactions to such incidents in the chart below. Only one-fourth were satisfied with the way their organization handled the situation, suggesting that leaders need to make some changes.
“Be aware there is a high cost to workplace incivility,” says Christine Pearson, professor of management at UNC and author of the study. Many instances of uncivil behaviour go unreported, she adds.
“In IT, especially, there is a tendency to look the other way if the instigator is especially valuable on the technical end,” Pearson notes. But it’s in leaders’ best interests to listen to employees who report such problems and to take action. Particularly in IT, where demand for workers so greatly exceeds the supply, Pearson warns that those affected can easily get fed up and find another job.
When Incivility Strikes
For 775 people surveyed who were targets of rudeness at work, the result was more than just hurt feelings:
• 28 per cent lost work time avoiding the instigator
• 53 per cent lost work time worrying about the incident or future interactions
• 37 per cent believed their commitment to the organization declined
• 22 per cent decreased their effort at work
• 10 per cent decreased the amount of time they spent at work
• 46 per cent contemplated changing jobs to avoid the instigator
• 12 per cent actually changed jobs to avoid the instigator
Source: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


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Direct thrombin inhibitors and factor xa inhibitors can influence the diluted prothrombin time used as the initial screen for lupus anticoagulant.
Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2013 Jul;137(7):967-73
Authors: Olah Z, Szarvas M, Bereczky Z, Kerenyi A, Kappelmayer J, Boda Z
Context.-Lupus anticoagulant (LA) is a heterogeneous group of antiphospholipid antibodies. Among others, diluted prothrombin time (dPT) is a sensitive screening test for LA; however, the interpretation of LA tests is difficult in patients treated with anticoagulants. The effect of different types of anticoagulants on the result of LA tests, particularly on dPT, has not been studied extensively. Objective.-To determine whether the direct thrombin inhibitors lepirudin and argatroban and the predominantly factor Xa inhibitors enoxaparin, danaparoid, and fondaparinux could interfere with LA screening based on dPT. Design.-Each drug was added to normal and LA-positive plasmas in clinically relevant concentrations. Each sample was tested for dPT. Samples with factor Xa inhibitors were investigated before and after addition of heparinase. Mixing and confirmatory tests for LA were not performed. Results.-In the presence of lepirudin or argatroban, dPT increased notably and the dPT ratio exceeded the cutoff value even at subtherapeutic concentrations resulting in false positivity. With increasing factor Xa inhibitor concentrations, a linear increase of dPT ratios and false-positive results were also demonstrated. Although heparinase could almost completely neutralize the anti-Xa effect of all investigated factor Xa inhibitors, dPT ratio returned to the basal level only in case of enoxaparin. Conclusions.-Here we provide evidence that both the direct thrombin and indirect factor Xa inhibitors influence dPT assay for LA, causing false positivity. This should be considered when interpreting LA results during anticoagulant therapy. However, dPT seems to be a reliable test for LA screening under enoxaparin therapy after neutralization by heparinase.
PMID: 23808469 [PubMed - in process]

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NASA astronaut, Terry Virts, recently tested a new camera that seems to provide more detailed material from space.
Virts was exploring water tension in microgravity as he dissolved an effervescent tablet in a floating ball of water, which is captured in great detailed and high-resolution in the video.
The station received high-definition cameras, 3-D cameras, but also a Red Epic Dragon camera that is capable of recording images with six times more detail than either of the previous cameras, NASA reported.
The higher resolution images allow researchers to gather more information based on videos produced at the space stations.
The camera is ideal for capturing dynamic events like vehicle operations near the station, like docking and undocking.
It is the same model that was used to record theatrical releases such as "The Hobbit" trilogy and television programs.


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Author Kaitlin Lee's New Book 'Torn Apart' is the Thrilling Tale of a Family Living Through the Turmoil of the Civil War
Recent release "Torn Apart" from Newman Springs Publishing author Kaitlin Lee is an exciting story that follows a family through their experience of the Civil War.
DOWNING, Wis., January 24, 2020 (Newswire.com) - Kaitlin Lee, a senior in high school who started this project as part of a school project, has completed her new book “Torn Apart”: a gripping tale focused primarily on Elizabeth, who gives her perspective of the world falling around her when her family is separated in the bustle of war.
Published by Newman Springs Publishing, Kaitlin Lee’s realistic story will keep readers focused until the end as the war unravels, and Elizabeth faces more hurdles than she ever thought she would.
The struggles in Elizabeth’s life have been trivial, but everything changes with Lincoln’s election. As states quickly begin seceding from the Union, and Civil War is declared, Elizabeth finds herself caught up in a collapsing country. Her worries extend further than just her own troubles, especially once her family is pulled into the fight. The adventurous girl always finds herself in new and exciting situations, but luck never seems to be on her side. For Elizabeth, it is one disaster after another, but her resilience keeps her grounded as she deals with unimaginable suffering. Elizabeth’s family, much like her country, is being torn apart.
Readers who wish to experience this powerful work can purchase “Torn Apart” at bookstores everywhere, or online at the Apple iBooks Store, Amazon, or Barnes & Noble. For additional information or media inquiries, contact Newman Springs Publishing at 732-243- 8512.
About Newman Springs Publishing:
Newman Springs Publishing is a full-service publishing house for serious authors. Each title produced by Newman Springs Publishing undergoes every step of the professional publishing process, including editing, layout, cover design, circulation, distribution, and publicity. All titles are made available in both eBook and print formats. Newman Springs Publishing distributes to tens of thousands of retail outlets throughout North America and internationally. All manuscripts in any genre are welcome to be submitted for review; If the manuscript meets the necessary criteria and is accepted for publication, Newman Springs Publishing will work closely with the author to bring the book to the retail market for a relatively inexpensive initial investment.
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Area dignitaries participate in the May 1 groundbreaking for the Harmony Community House, including Bud Erny, Town Marshal Bob Parr (hidden), Town Councilman Don McCollister, Kathleen Weissenberger, Council President Janice Gooch, Councilman Elmer Pollard, Suzanne Erwin, State Rep. Andy Thomas, Jim Pell, Leslee McDonald, Bob Thompson (hidden), Donna Mullenix, Judge Robert Pell and John Pell.
The Harmony Town Council held a groundbreaking ceremony at noon, May 1st, at the site of the Harmony Community House. The new building will be constructed on the now empty plot near the intersection of Border Street and U.S. 40. The Council received a $480,000 Focus Fund Grant to cover most of the building costs. The town will provide the remaining 10 per cent. Council members, committee members, and the citizens of Harmony have spent 15 years working and saving to bring this project to the point of breaking ground.
Several dignitaries and residents attended the event including State Rep. Andy Thomas (R-Brazil), Clay Circuit Judge Robert Pell (formerly the Town of Harmony attorney), Kathleen Weissenberger (Director, Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs), Bud Erny, (Erny and Associates Architects, Vincennes), Larry Neidigh (Owner of Neidigh Contractors, Bloomington), Jeff Pruitt (WTH, Huntingburg), John and Rosie Pell (former owners of the land), Jim and Shirley Pell, Alice Sawyer, and Judy Maurer.
Town Council President Janice Gooch welcomed everyone and introduced the out-of-town guests. She led the group in the "Pledge of Allegiance." Elmer Pollard offered a prayer of thanks and asked for guidance on the building project. Mrs. Gooch gave a short history of the project and said, "I am proud of the community and all who have helped make the community house possible. Come back and use the facilities when the building is done."
She thanked everyone for coming and invited all in attendance to stay for refreshments. Linda Chaney, Chaney's Diner and Deli, served a variety of sandwiches, cookies, coffee, tea, and lemonade.
Larry Neidigh predicted noticeable changes to the area very soon. As lowest bidder, Neidigh Construction Corporation was awarded the contract for the building at a special meeting on April 21st. Crown Electric and B&S HVAC will participate in the contract. Neidigh Construction did the police station and library at Ellettsville and several projects at ISU in Terre Haute. His latest project was the Alpha Tau Omega house near Lincoln Quad on the university campus.
Kathleen Weissenberger is the new director of Community Affairs for the Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs (OCRA), formerly known as the Indiana Department of Commerce. The agency approved the grant to build the community house. The grant monies come from the Department of Housing and Urban Development but are administered through OCRA. The Town Council submitted the application months ago and saw the first drawings for the project last August. Bud Erny of Erny and Associates did the drawings and revisions to meet the Harmony budget.
Debbie Bennett, WTH Technologies, helped to write the grant for the town of Harmony. WTH will oversee how the monies are spent with Jeff Pruitt acting as the Grant Administrator for the project.
The Harmony Community House will have a banquet hall with fireplace, kitchen, smaller meeting room, storage, restrooms, and good parking. It is hoped that a deck can be added at a later date. The structure will give people of the area a place to hold special dinners, wedding receptions, meetings, voting, and other events. The structure's target completion is set for November.
Council members attending the ceremony were: President Janice Gooch, Don McCollister, Elmer Pollard, Leslee Mc Donald, Clerk-Treasurer Donna Mullenix, and Assistant Clerk-Treasurer Suzanne (Parr) Erwin. Also attending were Town Marshal Bob Parr and Storm Sewer Committee Member Bob Thompson.


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Rivane Neuenschwander, a still from the video The Tenant, 2010.
Image courtesy of the artist, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York;
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo; and Stephan Friedman Gallery, London.
Video is so ubiquitous in the Lower East Side that it's become a ludicrous cliché. I find most of it boring, self-indulgent, and annoying in that it's so damn controlling. Yet video was by far the best thing I saw yesterday. In an otherwise lightweight and simple-minded mid-career survey of Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander (b. 1967) at the New Museum, there was a lovely, mesmerizing and funny video, The Tenant (2010). The video tracks a soap bubble as it meanders through a deserted apartment. What really makes this simple video fun, and even dramatic, is a soundtrack that subtly plays with our expectations.
Also at the New Museum was the first U. S. retrospective of the eccentric Surrealist/Beat painter, performer, poet, and writer Brion Gysin (1916- 1986). His recent claim to fame is that he never achieved the fame of his most prominent collaborator, William S. Burroughs, or of the many people he influenced (John Giorno, Brian Jones, David Bowie, Patti Smith, and Keith Haring, among others). It goes to show it's possible to be influential without being very good. It's frankly a pretty lame and repetitive show. About the only thing with any guts is his wall-sized, collage-like, films.
Lesley Heller (54 Orchard Street) has a show of Israeli videos by young (20's and 30's) artists curated by Lilly Wei. Stills of the videos are on the gallery walls, and you can request to see whichever you want. Some of the most powerful are by Oded Hirsch.
Oded Hirsch, still from the video 50 Blue
As to the other LES galleries, Roberta Smith observed there's a lot of Abstract Art being shown. (BTW, this is yet another confirmation of the uncanny phenomenon that some subject, medium or style seems to predominate in the galleries at any one time. It's as if there's a theme for the day or something, and this time it was abstraction.) But her article strangely left out what is probably the most relevant show, Creeds, Colors and Combinations at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, 21 Orchard Street. Work by Louise Despont in particular offers a fresh approach to abstraction with her intimate, complex drawings that relate to Indian Tantric drawings but without the hippy, psychedelic connotations.
Louise Despont, Winter Drawing, 2009,
Graphite, colored pencil and ink
on antique ledger book page,
24 x 18 inches
Despont will be the next show at Nicelle Beauchene, so we'll get to see how her works hold up in quantity.
Rightly praised by Roberta Smith is Markus Linnenbrick's disorienting environmental installation at numberthrityfive Gallery, 39 Essex Street.
NOTE: Small A Projects, 261 Broome Street, is now the Laural Getlen Gallery - same gallery, it's just that the owner, like Stephan Stoyanov (formerly Luxe) 29 Orchard St, decided to eschew cleverness and use their own name. Maybe numberthirtyfive will follow suit soon.


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Reference project La Chapelle au Mans
La Chapelle au Mans
- 4 units
- Nordex N131
- 12,0 MW Total Capacity
- Commissioning 2019
- Project Development, Construction, Operation Management
The first wind park built in the Saône et Loire department.
Historically, La Chapelle in Le Mans is the first park built in the Saône et Loire department.
For Armelle DEVILLARD, Mayor of this village of 255 inhabitants, "this project has encountered no opposition". This can be explained by the meetings and information days organised by VSB on the spot, the installation of machines along a communal road and the financial spin-offs for the area".
Composed of 4 wind turbines 180m high at the end of the blades, the park was financed up to 150 000€ through a participative financing with the Enerfip platform.


Aww, baby! The pettiness is strong!
After a week of viral previews from Irv Gotti’s toxic trip down memory lane about Ashanti, the R&B star is really giving us something to talk about. On the latest episode of Drink Champs, the Murder Inc. co-founder recounted the pain of his ex Ashanti moving on to rapper Nelly. Instead of responding, TMZ reports Ashanti stepped out with Nelly again onstage at the My 2000s Playlist concert in Oakland.
The former couple was already scheduled on the same line-up, but no one expected a reunion. The surprise duet was a perfectly petty opportunity to rub salt in Irv’s (obviously unhealed) wound. Hours after Ashanti’s solo set, she rekindled her chemistry with Nelly to perform their 2008 hit, “Body On Me.” The “Country Grammar” rapper collaborated and dated Ashanti on and off for nearly 10 years.
Ageless Ashanti was as stunning as ever Friday night in a skintight leotard showing off those thique thighs. If the best revenge is living and looking good, Ashanti doesn’t need to say another word. Nelly twisted the knife a bit more with a joke referencing Irv’s viral Drink Champs confession. ”
I got floor seats to the next game,” he joked onstage.
Irv’s ‘Drink Champs’ Confessions
While Ja Rule remained neutral considering that he considers Ashanti a sister, Irv recounted the heartbreaking moment he spotted Nelly and Ashanti as a couple.
“I can get past you wanting to be with Nelly,” a seemingly drunken Irv says in the clip, adding, “listen, at the time it happens, any man is hurt… the chick you f*cking in love with is with this n*gga… you wanna hear how I found out? I was at home … listen to this sh*t. This is God wanting me to find out. I was at home. NBA package, I like watching sports. ‘Oh my God, what’s this commotion going on in the stadium?’ ‘We just found out what the commotion is. Nelly just walked in with Ashanti.’”
Now that the episode is out, everybody is talking about Irv’s commentary on Ashanti. The singer hasn’t shared much about their relationship, but Irv went all-in. The media mogul admitted that he was in love with Ashanti even though he was married at the time. He also claimed that their affair inspired their smash hits like “Happy.”
Does anybody take a break-up with their girlfriend harder than a married man?
The cringe-wrthy confessions concerned Ja Rule and even host N.O.R.E. Both asked why he seemed stuck on Ashanti after all this time.. Irv claimed he was more hurt about the songwriter leaving the label than ending their relationship, but Twitter isn’t buying it. Reading the inscription a watch Ashanti gifted him, mentioning their sex life, bragging about the hotter women he’s with now, and gloating about selling her masters doesn’t sound like Irv’s not hurt.
Ashanti is back like she never left, but fans won’t see her in the upcoming Murder Inc. documentary. Irv, who transitioned from producing music to producing movies and television, invited her to appear in The Murder Inc Story. The “Foolish” singer is still on good terms with labelmates like Ja Rule, but immediately refused to reminisce on her past for the project.
Check out more reactions to Ashanti’s reunion with Nelly after Irv’s Drink Champs interview.
Do you think Irv Gotti is really over Ashanti?
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"Discovering, experiencing and developing one's own resources is the most important"
Through the Living Workshop methods, you get loose, dare to create without demands for results, are inspired to come up with new solutions, feel like experimenting and gain insights into your own and others' resources
By taking part in a creative workshop
- you practice the ability to shape your experiences and memories
- you train yourself to experience your feelings and get to know yourself better
- you become familiar with different materials and tools and can find the form of expression that suits you best
-you learn to live here and now - conscious presence in the moment
… and above all you have fun!
I offer workshops in free creativity, mixed media, painting, iron wire art, jewelry, creative writing, textile art and various creative forms of expression through the Living Workshop method.
We can use scrap, paper, textiles, iron wires, beads, glass, paints, metal, wood and work with sound, words, movement, role play
I use recycled materials whenever possible
Popular workshops are
-making dream catchers, stories and myths, scrap workshop, crazy jewelries, creative writing.


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Homemade Asparagus Quiche
This asparagus quiche is made with fresh asparagus and creamy goat cheese. It’s a perfect dish to serve for brunch, lunch or dinner.
Quiche is a savory pie with a custard filling made from eggs and milk or cream. You can add other ingredients to your quiche for flavor. Common favorites are meats, such as ham, bacon or sausage, cheese, and vegetables. This broccoli cheese quiche is one of my easiest and most popular recipes.
This asparagus and goat cheese quiche is easy to make, using either a homemade or store-bought pie crust. It’s a perfect main dish for Easter brunch, Mother’s Day breakfast, or any spring meal.
If you are serving quiche for breakfast or brunch, I recommend serving a fresh fruit salad on the side. These strawberry muffins or blueberry cream cheese danish would also be a pretty addition to your brunch table. For lunch or dinner, add a salad, such as this avocado kale salad, to round out your meal.
How to Make Quiche
There are four simple steps to make this asparagus quiche: make the pie crust (or use store-bought), sauté the vegetables, make the custard, and assemble the quiche. Each step is easy and will only take a few minutes of your time.
1. Make the pie crust
To make asparagus quiche, the first step is to make your pie crust. If you are using a frozen store-bought crust, leave it in the freezer until you are ready to use it. Not ready to make a crust? Use my crustless quiche recipe.
Making pie dough is simple and only takes a few minutes. I usually use my food processor, but you can also make the pie dough by hand or even use a stand mixer. You’ll find full instructions for how to make the pie crust in the recipe card at the end of this post.
Once your pie dough is made, you’ll roll it out and fit it into your pie dish. You can use your fingers to crimp the edges of the pie crust.
Put the pie crust in your refrigerator while you prepare the quiche filling. You do not need to pre-bake your pie crust before adding the quiche filling.
2. Sauté the vegetables
Chop your onion. I used a sweet yellow onion. Green onion would also be delicious.
Cut off the tough stems of your asparagus. To know where to cut, take one asparagus spear and hold it on either end with your hands. Bend the asparagus until it snaps. The point where it breaks is the point where you want to cut all of your asparagus. Discard the tough bottom ends of the asparagus spears.
When I chop the asparagus, I like to leave the tips a little longer and chop the rest of the asparagus into smaller pieces.
Cook the chopped onion and asparagus in a skillet until they soften slightly. Remove the pan from the heat when the asparagus is crisp-tender, but not mushy.
3. Make the custard
Making custard might sound fancy, but all you have to do is whisk together eggs, milk, salt and pepper. I prefer to use whole milk in my quiche, but you can also use lowfat milk or cream.
4. Assemble the asparagus quiche
Put the vegetables in the bottom of the prepared pie crust. Scatter crumbled goat cheese over the veggies. Pour in the custard, and bake.
Can I make quiche ahead?
If you are serving this asparagus quiche for brunch, it is best assembled and baked the day of. You can do a few of the steps the day before to save time:
- If you are making a homemade pie crust, you can make the pie crust and roll it out up to one day ahead. Wrap it with plastic wrap and refrigerate the unbaked pie crust until you are ready to use it.
- You can sauté the onion and asparagus up to one day ahead. Refrigerate them in an airtight container until you are ready to assemble the quiche.
- You can whisk together the eggs, milk, salt and pepper and refrigerate in a bowl, covered, overnight.
How to store and reheat quiche
To store leftover baked quiche, let it cool and then wrap it with plastic wrap or put slices of quiche in an airtight container. It will last for up to 3 days in the refrigerator. To reheat baked leftover quiche:
- To reheat a whole quiche, cover it loosely with foil and put it in a 350 degree oven until it is hot through the center.
- I usually reheat slices of quiche in the microwave, but you could also reheat them, covered, in your oven at 350 degrees.
- If you are short on time, you can skip the homemade pie crust and use a store-bought crust. My favorite are the whole wheat pie shells made by Wholly Wholesome, which I find in the freezer section at Whole Foods. They’re made with just a few, recognizable ingredients. (This post isn’t sponsored, I’m just sharing because I love and use these pie crusts often to save time.)
- If you don’t care for goat cheese, you can substitute feta, cheddar, mozzarella or your favorite cheese.
- You can add more veggies to this quiche. Try chopped fresh spinach or mushrooms.
- If you want to add meat to your quiche, cooked bacon, ham or sausage would be good choices.
- Start checking on your quiche after it has been in the oven for 25 minutes and loosely cover it with foil if the crust is browning too quickly.
- Asparagus is also delicious when prepared in the air fryer, try my Air Fryer Asparagus recipe.
More Breakfast and Brunch Recipes:
- Spinach Quiche
- Egg Casserole with Hash Browns
- French Toast Casserole
- Broccoli Cheese Quiche
- Easy French Toast
Asparagus Quiche with Goat Cheese
For the crust: (see note)
- 1 1/4 cups flour, I used 3/4 cup white whole wheat and 1/2 cup all-purpose
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, cold, cut into cubes
- 3-4 tablespoons ice water
For the filling:
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 1 small sweet yellow onion, chopped
- 1 pound asparagus
- 5 eggs
- 3/4 cup whole milk
- ¼ teaspoon kosher salt, or to taste
- 1/8 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 2 ounces goat cheese
Make the crust:
- Place flour, sugar and salt in the bowl of a food processor fitted with the steel blade. (You can also make the pie dough by hand using a pastry blender.) Pulse a few times to combine. Add the cold butter cubes and pulse until the butter pieces are the size of peas. Add 3 tablespoons of ice water and pulse until the dough starts to come together. If the dough is too dry, add up to 1 tablespoon more ice water to help the dough come together.
- Transfer dough to a lightly floured work surface and use a rolling pin to roll it out into a 12-inch circle. Wrap the dough halfway around the rolling pin and transfer to a 9-inch pie dish. Gently press the dough into the pie dish and trim excess dough around the edges. Fold the edges of the dough under, and crimp as desired with your fingertips.
- Place the pie crust in the refrigerator while you prepare the filling.
Make the filling:
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Trim the bottom ends off of the asparagus by holding one spear of asparagus at each of its two ends and bending it until it snaps. Trim the remaining asparagus spears by cutting them with a knife to the same length as the first. Discard the bottom ends. Cut the asparagus tops off into 1-inch pieces, and chop the rest of the asparagus into 1/2-inch pieces.
- Heat the olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add the onion and cook, stirring occasionally, until it begins to soften, 2-3 minutes. Add the asparagus and cook for 2-3 minutes more, until the asparagus is crisp-tender. Remove the pan from the heat.
- To make the custard, in a medium bowl, whisk together the eggs, whole milk, salt and pepper.
- Place asparagus and onion in the bottom of the pie crust. Crumble the goat cheese over the top of the vegetables. Pour the custard over the filling.
- Bake quiche for 35-45 minutes, until the eggs are set in the center and a tester comes out mostly clean. Check on quiche starting at 25 minutes and tent with foil if crust is browning too quickly.
- Let quiche stand for 5 minutes before serving. Serve warm or at room temperature.

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The U.S. dollar traded marginally lower against the yen in Asia yesterday, hit by weak U.S. data and a worsening outlook for the world's biggest economy, dealers said.
The U.S. dollar was quoted at 88.08 yen in Tokyo afternoon trade, down from 88.27 yen in New York late Wednesday. The euro fetched US$1.2725 and 112.10 yen, down from US$1.2743 and 112.62 yen.
Concerns about the U.S. economy grew after government data showed retail sales had fallen more than expected in June for a second straight month.
Sentiment worsened further after the Federal Reserve revealed minutes from a June meeting of its policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC).
They showed that board members had cut their growth forecast to 3.0-3.5 percent this year, down from the 3.2-3.7 predicted just months ago, and that the Fed was weighing new measures to keep the faltering U.S. recovery on track.
The minutes may cause players in Asia to remain bearish on the U.S. dollar due to heightened expectations that U.S. rates will remain ultra-low for the time being, said Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking forex dealer Hideaki Inoue.
But no sharp currency drops are expected, he said.
"While negative for the U.S. dollar-yen, the FOMC minutes weren't outside the range of expectations," he told Dow Jones Newswires.
Pessimists may be gaining force among Fed board members in the face of a sagging housing market, high jobless rate and weak capital, Credit Suisse said in a note.
The U.S. dollar was mixed against other Asian currencies, rising to 46.31 Philippine pesos from 46.27 Wednesday and to 9,046.25 Indonesian rupiah from 9,040.00, while falling to NT$32.13 from NT$32.14. The greenback was flat at 1.3759 Singaporean dollars and 32.30 Thai baht.

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It has been interesting over the last few years to watch the concept of 2012 emerge into mass consciousness and grow into the household word it is today. Given its popularity there are now a wide range of perceptions as to what meaning the 2012 date holds. As it has become more popular, I find it interesting but not surprising that it has assumed the projection of a destructive apocalyptic future. This is most clearly illustrated by the current blockbuster film “2012″ which I watched for the first time yesterday more out of curiosity than anything else.
As I anticipated it was an expensive movie with amazing special effects, poor acting that modeled stereotypical American roles and carried forward a theme which has been developing for some time. The amazing special effects were devoted to depicting as realistically as possible the utter destruction of our planet and almost everyone on it. There were graphic allusions to 9/11 with images of crumbling skyscrapers with people jumping or falling out of them while others are crushed by rubble or tidal waves. The poorly developed shallow characters go through a non-stop frantic nearly impossible adventure to be one of the privileged few survivors. In the movie, high tech arks are built for the elite while everyone else is left to die, not too surprising either. The transformation the planet goes through is entirely physical with the same underlying consciousness being carried into the “new world”.
As I watched this movie, I noticed that there was a part of me that loved it even though it was a lousy negative movie. What I loved was the disaster and how well the imagery depicted it. I began to question why I would find enjoyment in watching such a realistic depiction of my planet being ravaged and my fellow human beings dying violently? What dawned on me was that this was the part of me that sees the dysfunction and pain of this world and secretly longs for the whole mess to finally be over. This is the part of my psyche that is invested in the world of materialism, struggle and work. The old paradigm which constitutes a life devoid of meaning, compassion and loving-kindness. Why wouldn’t I want “that world” to be over? It is the death wish of the ego that is cut off from life, spirit and meaning.
I began to see this recurrent theme of disaster and destruction in a new light. A reflection of the dying paradigm we find ourselves in today. The death throws of the materialist world and so why wouldn’t that look like massive explosive violent destruction on a material level? The outward images of destruction also represent the incredible inner turmoil so many are experiencing right now as the inner conflicts that are at the source of what is playing out in the world continue to be illuminated. For me, 2012 isn’t a date it is a wake up call for the psyche. It is an evolutionary threshold and if we wish to evolve beyond this point an expansion or elevation in consciousness is required so that we can embody the incredible power we have in healthy non-destructive way. If not, that power can destroy us much like in the movie except we are not victims but the architects of our own destruction brought about by our resistance to awakening.
What this movie represents is potentially a valuable tool if we look at what it is reflecting inside us. An invitation to go inward and address the inner conflict and destructiveness that is at the root of our own shadow side. If consciously faced on an inner level this incredible destructive force can be transformed into light, into awakening, into the very power of true transformation. Our practice in my view is to find a middle path, not indulging in it unconsciously but also not turning away from it in denial. When we embrace the light while denying the darkness, the darkness eventually takes us over. Ultimately demons cannot be overcome by force or by avoiding or fleeing from them because they are created by separation and resistance. They can only be dissolved through acceptance, compassion and direct conscious engagement because they are a part of us which has been cut off. We then free the power that they hold and reclaim it for our growth and realize there never really was a demon just a part of us screaming for attention.


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Myocardial Oxygen Extraction
The amount of oxygen delivered to the myocardium is greater than the amount that is actually taken up (oxygen consumed) by the myocardium to support oxidative metabolism. Typically, the myocardium extracts approximately 50% of the oxygen supplied by the arterial blood. This oxygen extraction is determined by the ratio of oxygen consumption to coronary blood flow as described by the Fick Principle. Oxygen extraction is, by definition, the difference between the arterial and venous concentrations of oxygen (CaO2 – CvO2) and therefore has the units of mL O2/100 ml blood.
Compared to most organs of the body (see table below), the oxygen extraction of the heart is relatively high. The oxygen extraction of the heart is typically 10-12 vol% (mL O2/100 ml blood).
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Theoretically, the maximal amount of oxygen that can be extracted is 20 vol %. In reality, however, the maximal oxygen extraction is around 15-16 vol % because of the kinetics of oxygen dissociation from hemoglobin. Therefore, the heart is extracting one-half to two-thirds of the physiologically available oxygen under normal operating conditions. Because of this, the heart must tightly couple oxygen supply and demand in order to ensure adequate tissue oxygenation. In the absence of coronary artery disease (CAD), coronary blood flow increases almost proportionately to increases in myocardial oxygen consumption (MVO2) thereby preventing tissue hypoxia and functional impairment. Local regulation of blood flow adjusts coronary blood flow to the metabolic demands of the contracting myocardium.
In the presence of CAD, coronary blood flow may not supply adequate oxygen to meet the metabolic demands of the contracting heart. This will increase the oxygen extraction and decrease the venous oxygen content. This leads to tissue hypoxia and angina. If the lack of blood flow is because of a fixed stenotic lesion in the coronary artery (because of atherosclerosis), blood flow can be improved within that vessel by 1) placing a stent within the vessel to expand the lumen, 2) using an intracoronary angioplasty balloon to stretch the vessel open, or 3) bypassing the diseased vessel with a vascular graft. If the insufficient blood flow is caused by a blood clot (thrombosis), a thrombolytic drug that dissolves clots may be administered. Anti-platelet drugs and aspirin are commonly used to prevent the reoccurrence of clots. If the reduced flow is because of coronary vasospasm, then coronary vasodilators can be given (e.g., nitrodilators, calcium-channel blockers) to reverse and prevent vasospasm.

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Although Americans aged 45 and older value dental coverage benefits, only four in 10 older Americans have dental insurance from an employer, private and/or supplemental plan, finds a new survey from WellPoint.
A federal judge on Friday slapped UnitedHealthcare with an injunction only hours before the insurer was set to drop thousands of physicians and patients from its Medicare Advantage network in Connecticut, Medical Economics reported.
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Hospital and healthcare system executives lobbied Capitol Hill this week and asked for the end to what they described as "arbitrary" funding cuts to the Medicare and Medicaid programs, AHA News Now reported.
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This second annual report will focus on the status of our quest to affirm sexual freedom as a fundamental human right. The report will continue and expand the discussions begun in 2010.
“This report will help the advocacy organizations, lawmakers, media, and researchers sharpen the questions that arise when working towards equal rights and protections for all people regardless of sexual practice, sexual orientation, or gender identification as they go about ordering their sexual lives”, said Jeffrey Montgomery, one of Woodhull’s founders.
Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance first commissioned the material in 2009, inviting submissions from diverse and nationally recognized contributors. The Report offers the first cogent and modern exposition of the current state of sexual freedom in this country. It illustrates what has been accomplished and what still needs to be done to bring about universal sexual freedom, including but the end of repression of, and legal discrimination against, individuals who assert their fundamental right to personal sexual autonomy.