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James William Millikin, called "Jim", was born in Tennessee in September 1828. He came to Pope County, Arkansas as a young man and married there between 1850 and 1853 Frances "Jane" Davidson, who was born about 1839 in Mississippi. In 1860, they lived in Independence, Pope County, Arkansas with three children. Although he owned no slaves, James William joined the 15th Northwest Arkansas Infantry in 1862 to fight for the Confederacy in the Civil War. He was taken prisoner at the Battle of Elk Horn (Pea Ridge) and traded within two days, according to military records. He was also among the 30,000 Confederates who ultimately surrendered at Vicksburg, Mississippi (See Civil War records). Between 1865 to 1868, they lived in Missouri for a short time, as two of their children were born in Missouri in these years, but they shortly were back in Arkansas. By 1870, in North Fork, Pope County, they had five children at home. They are listed in Yell County, Arkansas in 1880 with seven children at home. His wife Frances "Jane" died before the 1900 census and James W. Millikin was a widower in the home of his son Elias Nathaniel on the 1900 census. He passed away before the next census.
The children and grandchildren of James William and Frances Jane Millikin:
1. John W. Milliken was born about 1854 in Pope County, Arkansas. John probably died young, as he was not listed with the family in 1870.
1. Rebecca Jane Milliken was born 30 January 1858 in Pope County, Arkansas. She grew up there and married Aaron O. Prince there in May of 1877. He was born in 1854 in Pope County, the son of Mark and Catherine Brewton Prince. In 1880, Aaron and Rebecca "Prints" were in Pope County with a baby son, John. Aaron must have died before 1900. In that census, Rebecca is listed as Rebecca Nowlin, head of household. Her three sons John, Mark and James are listed as Nowlins also, but this is a mistake. A niece, Minnie Milliken is living in her home, and next door is John W. Milliken, Rebecca's uncle. There is also another Rebecca Nowlin listed on this census, in Lee, Pope County. She is married to W. L. Nowland. Among the six children listed in their home are John, Mark, and James. It is possible that Rebecca was enumerated twice. In 1910, "Jannie B. Nowlin", a widow of 52, lived with her son Mark Andrew Prince in Convenience, Pope County, Arkansas. Rebecca died on 10 December 1910, probably in Pope County. She is buried at the Atkins City Cemetery in Pope County. According to the census, she had nine children and three living in 1900. Her three known children:
- 2. John T. Prince was born in August 1879 in Pope County. He died 18 March 1904 and is buried at Brock Cemetery, Victor, Pope County, Arkansas.
- 2. Mark Andrew Prince was born 10 January 1885 in Hector, Pope County, Arkansas. He married Ella L. Burkhead in about 1907 in Arkansas. She was born 24 July 1888 in Arkansas. In 1910 they lived at Convenience in Pope County with three small children, his brother James, Minnie Milliken, a cousin, and his mother "Jannie" (Rebecca Jane) Nowlin, a widow. Next door is Thomas B. Nowlin, a step brother. In 1918, Mark filled out a draft card listing his birth and next of kin, Mrs. Ella Prince, wife. By 1920, Mark and Ella still lived in Pope County and had seven children in the home. Listed in Lee, Pope County, by 1930, they had eight children at home. Mark died 15 December 1932 in Pope County and is buried at Atkins City Cemetery in Pope County near his mother. Ella passed away in Pope County 19 August 1942 and is laid to rest beside him. The children of Mark and Ella Prince: Arley Lee who married Dorothy M. Karnes, Taft George, Frances G., Roy D., Lillie M., Mamie, Lou Madie who married Iris L. Boggs, Callie J., Eugene, and Melvin. Many of these children lived in California.
- 2. James F. Prince was born 15 Jan 1888 in Pope County. He married Katie M. Scribner about 1916. She was born in Arkansas on 18 April 1893. When he filled out his draft card in 1918 in Pope County, James was the father of a child and worked for M. P. Hanks on a farm. In 1920, the family lived in Moreland, Pope County with two young daughters. James and Katie moved to California and she died there in April 1964. James died 3 April 1969 in Merced County, California. Their three known children are Laverne, Agnes, and Aaron Ervin Prince.
1. Andrew W. "Andy" Milliken was born 8 August 1858 in Pope County, Arkansas. He married on 12 June 1884 to Josephine C. "Jessie" Younger. She was born December, 1859 in Arkansas. They would raise a family of nine children. In 1900 they lived at Convenience in Pope County with seven children. In 1910, they lived at Lee, Pope County and listed six of nine children alive. Soon after, Andrew and Josephine moved to McKey, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, where they are listed in 1920. Andy died on 18 August 1927 in Sequoyah County and was interred at Drakestand Cemetery in Sallisaw, Sequoyah County. In 1930, Jessie Milliken lived with her son George in Sequoyah County. We do not know a death date for her. Their children:
- 2. George Washington Milliken was born 3 May 1885 in Pope County, Arkansas. Before 1916 he married Fannie R. Nichols, who was born 21 May 1895 in Arkansas. George and Fannie had five daughters, all born in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, where they lived in McKey, very near his parents. In 1930, his mother Jessie Younger Milliken lived with his family, as she was a widow. George died 24 March 1954 in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. Fannie lived many years more and died on 2 January 1988 in Sequoyah County. Their five daughters were: Gertrude M., Perdita (Perlita?), Evelyn, Vita Mae who died as a child in 1923, and Orletta, who married Glen Elwood South.
- 2. Frances Jennie Milliken was born in March 1887 in Pope County, Arkansas. She and her sister Cassie were twins. She married Fred H. Grinstead about 1910 in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. He was born 25 November 1886 in Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana. In 1920 they lived at McKey with two children. In 1930, they lived at Claremore, Rogers County, Oklahoma and had four children at home. Fred died 18 January 1953 in Los Angeles County, California. We do not have a death date for Frances Milliken. The four children are: Noel B., Neva Joan, who married Neil L. Byram, Silvia, and Donald Reginald.
- 2. Catherine "Cassie" Milliken was born in March 1887 in Pope County, Arkansas, a twin to Frances Jennie. She married about 1910 to John A. Anthony, who was born 25 July 1889 in Pope County, Arkansas. They were in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma for the 1920 census and were listed next door to her twin sister's family, the Grinsteads, and they had twin children, a girl and a boy. By 1930 they had moved back to Pope County, Arkansas and had their twins in the home. The children were: Hawley L. Anthony and Aga L. Anthony, born 11 June 1911 in Arkansas.
- 2. Mary M. Milliken was born in March 1889 in Arkansas. She was listed on the 1900 census but we have nothing further on her. Through counting the deceased children reported on the 1910 census, we find that Mary was deceased between 1900-1910.
- 2. John H. Milliken was born 4 may 1892 in Arkansas. On his draft registration card in 1918, he said he was born in Russellville and lived in Sallisaw, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma at the time, married. On the 1920 census, we find a John "Millteon"? age 27, born Arkansas, with wife Mary, age 24, born in Arkansas.
- 2. Bebick E. Milliken, a daughter, was born in May 1894 in Arkansas. She was deceased by 1910.
- '2. Dora B. 'Milliken was born 3 November 1896. She married William Clarence Nichols in 1918 in Oklahoma. He was born 25 February 1899 in Oklahoma. Although not yet found on censuses, records show that they lived in California. They had one known son, Billy Ray Nichols, who was born in 1925 and died in 2004 in Bakersfield, Kern County, California. Dora B. Milliken died 20 December 1972 in Bakersfield and William Nichols died 6 June 1980 in same. Their son is buried at Greenlawn Memorial Park in Kern County, but we have no record for their grave location.
- 2. Albert D. Milliken was born 26 August 1903 in Arkansas. He married about 1923 to Winnie R. Adams, who was born 5 April 1905 in Oklahoma. In 1930 they were listed on the Sequoyah County, Oklahoma census with three children. According to a son's obituary, the family moved to California in 1943. Winnie Adams Milliken died 5 Mar 1984 in Kern County, California. Albert died 7 June 1995, in same. Their three children were Jewel J., Harrel L., and Charley B., who was born in 1928 and died in 2006 in Kern County, California.
1. Mary L. Milliken, born about 1864 in Arkansas, is reported to have married a Thomas A. Tinney after 1800. No record is found for them yet.
'1. Malinda' Milliken was born 28 September 1866 in Missouri. In 1882, probably in Pope County, Arkansas, she married Eliga M. Yates. They probably married in Pope County, as both families lived there. His name is given as Elijah on censuses, but on his gravestone is Eliga. By 1900, Eliga and Malinda were living in the Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, with eight children who were all born in Arkansas, including the baby, who was six months old. In 1910, they are listed with their ten children in Waldron, Grady County, Oklahoma. By 1920, listed as "Linda Yates", Melinda is listed as divorced and has three of her children in her home in Lindsay, Garvin County, Oklahoma. We cannot find her on the 1930 census yet. She died on 22 July 1938 in Oklahoma. She is buried at the Bradley Cemetery in Grady County, Oklahoma and she is on a double stone with Eliga Yates. Three of her children married Akins, the relationship of these Akins is not clear. Three of her children married Hedges.
- 2. Mary Levina/Levisa Yates was born 9 January 1884 in Arkansas. She married Rawleigh Akin in 1902 in Indian Territory. He was born 18 December 1881 in Tennessee. In 1910 they lived in Mosley, Murray County, Oklahoma with three children. In 1920 they were in Harris, Johnston County, Oklahoma with a family of four. Mary died 23 May 1962 in Oklahoma City, and Rawleigh died there in January 1967. Their children were Maud or Mandy, Andy, a boy with unreadable name (C****l?), a son named J. D., and Mildred.
- 2. Hattie Mae Yates was born May 1886 in Arkansas. She married John B. Akin in 1904 in Indian Territory. We do not know if he and Rawleigh Akin were brothers or some other relation, but it is probable. His parents were William Brown Akin, a native of Green County, Kentucky, just next to Adair County, and his wife Mary McFarland. John was born 29 July 1880 in Tennessee. He and Hattie and their two children were in Mosley, Murray County, Oklahoma in 1910, living next to her sister Mary, who had married Rawleigh Akin. In 1918 John filed his draft registration card in Creek County, Oklahoma, where he worked as a teamster. By 1920, they were living in Lindsay, Garvin County, Oklahoma with two teenage daughters. Next door was Hattie's mother, "Linda Yates" and her brother Andrew. In the 1930 census, they were listed in Chandler, Grady County, Oklahoma. A daughter and son in law were living with them, Allie and Charley Whitlow. We do not as yet know the death dates of Hattie or of John Akin. Their two known children are Allie and Ruby.
- 2. John Andrew "Dude" Yates was born 2 September 1888 in Russellville, Pope County, Arkansas. Between 1910 and 1913, he married Mary Etta Akin, the daughter of Henry Thomas Akin and an unknown spouse. By 1917 they had two children and lived in Grady County, Oklahoma, where he filed his draft registration. Mary Etta died on 26 January 1918 in Grady County. In 1920 Andrew was living in Lindsay, Garvin County, Oklahoma, next to his mother. He was a widower with two young children, Carrie Belle and James, who was called "Jimmie" and also "Ace". John Andrew Yates died soon after the census in 1920 and was laid to rest at the Bradley Cemetery in Grady County, where Mary Etta also lies.
- 2. James Elijah Yates was born 27 September 1890 in Russellville, Pope County, Arkansas. He lived with his parents in 1910 and in 1918, when he registered for the draft in Grady County and said that he was single but supported his mother and father. He died in 1957, as is on his gravestone at Bradley Cemetery in Grady County.
- 2. Rebekah Bessie Jane Yates was born 9 December 1892 in Arkansas. She lived with her parents through the 1910 census but is not found after.
- 2. Jessie Novella Yates was born in February 1896 in Arkansas. She married H. H. Adkins (could this be Akin/Akins as well?) before 1920 in Oklahoma. He was born about 1895 in Texas. On the 1920 census, they were living in her mother's home. Mr. Adkins either died or they parted, for in 1922 Jessie married Lawrence Argyle Hedges. He was born 2 March 1899 in Indian Territory, the son of Sherman Jackson and Theodocia Belle Holder Hedges. In 1930 they are in Naples, Grady County, Oklahoma, listed next door to her brother Elgin, below. We do not know death date for Jessie, but in 1967 Lawrence Argile Hedges married Laura Estell Warden in Wichita, Texas.
- 2. Elgin Pryor Yates was born on 25 June 1897 in Arkansas. On 3 April 1918 in Grady County, Oklahoma, he married Effie M. Hedges, the daughter of Sherman Jackson and Theodocia Belle Holder Hedges. She was born on 6 May 1902 in Oklahoma. On the 1930 census Elgin and Effie lived in Naples, Grady County, Oklahoma with their four children. Included in the household are Effie's mother and second husband, Docia and James McCune. Next door is Elgin's sister Jessie, married to Lawrence Hedges, Effie's brother. No death dates are known for the couple. Their four known children are Leford, Leon, Cecil, and Lucille.
- 2. Victor B. Yates was born in November 1899 in Arkansas. He last appeared on the 1910 census; no further information is known yet.
- 2. Esther Lee Yates was born 20 May 1902 in Grady County, Oklahoma. On 7 January 1918 in Oklahoma, she married Frank Hedges, the son of Sherman and Theodocia Hedges. Frank was born 14 December 1896 in Dennison, Grayson County, Texas. In 1920 Frank and Esther lived in Bradley, Grady County, Oklahoma, same household as his mother and stepfather, Mr. McCune. They had a baby son. In 1930, they were in Chickasaw, Grady County, where Frank was a tinner in a shop. Frank died in June, 1965 in Oklahoma, but we have no date of death for Esther. Their son was Raford R. Hedges.
- 2. Emory Martin Yates was born 9 September 1905 in Oklahoma. He died in November 1974 and is buried at Bradley Cemetery in Grady County, Oklahoma.
1. A. Samantha Milliken was born about 1868 in Missouri. We have seen a report that she married a W. L. Torrigan in Pope County, Arkansas in 1886. The bride's name on this record is "Martha S. Millikin, born 1869" and this certainly could be our Samantha but as yet we have no proof, and we cannot find them on a census.1. Elias Nathaniel Millikin was born in April 1872 in Arkansas. He more formally went by the name of Nathaniel, as he is listed as such on several records. His grandson, James William "Bill" Millikin, said E.N.'s nickname was "Bee" or "B". On 21 May 1893 in Russellville, Pope County, Arkansas he wed Maggie Cordelia Saylors. She was born 25 February 1877 in Arkansas, the daughter of William J. Saylors and Martha "Mattie" Jane Downs. By 1900, Nathaniel and Maggie had two children and lived in Center, Pope County, where Nathaniel worked at the saw mill. His widowed father, James William, lived with them at that time. In 1910, they were located in McKey, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma with five children, and they remained there through the 1920 census. At that time, seven of their nine children were at home, including their recently widowed eldest son, James William. Elias Nathaniel or "B" died 28 December 1928 in Rogers County and was laid to rest initially near Verdigris, Oklahoma but was later moved to Woodlawn Cemetery in Claremore, Rogers County, Oklahoma by his widow, Maggie. In the 1930 census, Maggie still lived in Verdigris, Rogers County, Oklahoma with four of her children at home. On this census, it is interesting that Maggie reported that her mother was (half) Cherokee and her father was "Mixed", the only census that did so. Maggie told her grandson, Bill, she was proud of her Cherokee ancestry. It is assumed that her husband wouldn't allow her to report her Native American ancestry when he was alive because of negative social connotations. It is likely she did so after "B" died in an attempt to qualify for government subsidies awarded to members of the Cherokee tribe. Maggie moved to Hays, Kansas where two of her daughters married. Eventually Maggie Saylors Millikin moved back to Claremore, Oklahoma where she lived next door to her oldest son until her death on 27 August 1959. She was buried next to Elias Nathaniel "B" at Woodlawn Cemetery.
- 2. James William Robert Edmond Lee Alva Millikin was born on 17 August 1894 in Arkansas. He was married twice, first to Lula Corley. She was born 9 December 1898 in Indian Territory and married James on Christmas Eve of 1914 in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. The young couple suffered terrible misfortune, though, for their first child, Leland, born 15 January 1917 in Sequoyah County died of Spanish Flu on 7 December 1919 there. Lula herself died of Spanish Flu during childbirth on 1 January 1919, two weeks after the death of Leland. The unnamed infant son died as well. All three of them are buried at Drakestand Cemetery in Sallisaw, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. In two weeks, James had lost his entire family, and on the 1920 census he is listed in his parents' home in McKey, Sequoyah County. In 1924, he met and married Elva Adaline Brown, the daughter of John and Phoebe (Wilson) Brown, natives of Indiana, and the school teacher in Sallisaw. She was born 24 August 1898 in Washington County, Arkansas and earned her teaching certificate from the Normal School in Tahlequah, Oklahoma (now Northeastern State University). The 1930 census shows James and Elva living in Verdigris, Rogers County, Oklahoma with three young children. Elva died 6 September 1954 in Claremore, Rogers County, Oklahoma from complications due to tuberculosis. James passed away there on 23 December 1972. They were both buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Rogers County, Oklahoma. Their three children are Edmond Leon, James William "Bill", and Maggie Dorla Dean Millikin.
- 2. Lonnie B. Milliken was born on 12 November 1897 in Arkansas. By 1920 he was married to Minnie E. Coble and they lived in McKey, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. She was born 2 July 1897 in Missouri. Lonnie died in April of 1928 in Claremore, Rogers County, Oklahoma, leaving Minnie and three young children. She remarried to Luther D. Brazeal and they had three more children. Minnie died in 1980 in Rogers County. Both Lonnie and Minnie are buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Rogers County, Oklahoma. Lonnie and Minnie's children were William Monroe, and two others unknown.
- 2. Authur Day Milliken was born 22 October 1902 in Indian Territory. He died in September 1958 in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona; he was buried back in Rogers County, Oklahoma at Woodlawn Cemetery amongst family. He was married to a Hendrickson and to Evelyn Gee, who was born 24 February 1914 in Russell County, Kansas and died 24 November 1985 in White County, Illinois. Authur had at least three children.
- 2. Harvey Theodore Milliken was born 25 February 1904 in Indian Territory. He married Edith Dixon. Edith was born 15 December 1910 in Conway, Laclede County, Missouri. Harvey died 9 November 1963 in Claremore, Rogers County, Oklahoma; he was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Rogers County, Oklahoma. Edith died 26 Mar 2009 in Claremore and she was buried at Woodlawn with Harvey Milliken. They had at least three children.
- 2. Sherman Andrew Milliken, born 4 November 1907 in Indian Territory, married Marie Pearl Arrowood in 1928. Marie was the sister of Imogene, who married Sherman's brother Floyd. The Arrowood family were Cherokee Indian. She was born 17 Septenber 1908 in Oklahoma, the daughter of James Andrew Arrowood and wife Mertie Josephine Tackett. Sherman and Marie are listed on the 1930 census in Claremore, Rogers County, Oklahoma, on which Marie is reported as part Cherokee Indian. He died 27 April 1981 in Claremore, Rogers County, Oklahoma and was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Rogers County. Marie was born 17 September 1908 in Oklahoma and died 15 April 1995 in the same. She is buried at Woodlawn with Sherman Milliken.
- 2. Floyd Ernest Milliken was born 27 March 1910 in McKey, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. On 6 September 1928 he married Imogene Arrowood. She was born in 26 August 1913 in Oklahoma, the daughter of James Andrew and Mertie Josephine Tackett Arrowood, a Cherokee Indian family. Her sister Marie married Sherman Milliken, the brother of Floyd. Imogene Milliken died 23 March 1974 in Oklahoma. Late in life, Floyd married Agnes Josephine Jean Faught Brown, the widow of Herbert T. Brown, and they lived at her ranch in Rogers County. Floyd died 30 September 1990 in Rogers County, Oklahoma. Floyd and Imogene were buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Rogers County. They had two children, James W. and Phyllis, who married Herbert Cable.
- 2. Edith Mabel Millien was born in 1912 in McKey, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. She died in 1993.
- 2. Neva Genova Milliken was born 20 January 1916 in McKey, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. She wed Raymond Mai on 13 July 1940. He was born in Kansas on 17 January 1914 and died in Kansas on 31 December 1967. Neva passed away on 16 October 1993 in Russell County, Kansas.
- 2. Reba Milliken was born in 1921 in Oklahoma. No further records have been found.
1. Sarah L. Milliken was born about 1875 in Arkansas. We have seen a report that she married an unknown Yates, but no records are yet found.
1. Louisa F. Milliken was born about 1878 in Arkansas. No further records are yet found for her.

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Indices of the dental caries intensity in individuals with different clinical variations of psychophysiological disadaptation
Keywordscaries, intensity, psychophysiological state, young age, disadaptation responses
AbstractThe role of psychological characteristics of the personality in the emergence and development of dental diseases has been substantiated by a number of studies of domestic and foreign scientists, in which features of the emotional and personal sphere of patients with different resistance of hard dental tissues and periodontium to diseases were considered. The purpose of the study was to study the indices of caries intensity in people with periodontal disease in various clinical variants of psychophysiological disadaptation. Materials and methods. Determination of the intensity of dental caries (DMF index) was carried out among 90 young people (aged18-44 years) with periodontal diseases and considering their psychophysiological conditions. Results. While analyzing the values of the DMF index in patients in the experimental groups, it was eatablished that in group I, the mean DMF value (5.42 ± 0.18) indicated a low intensity of the carious process, which was 1.3 times lower than the mean values of the DMF (7.10 ± 0,19) in individuals of group II, whose values of DMF indicated a moderate intensity of caries.
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The positivity rate is now at 7.7% in the State of Minnesota as communicated to us at the Stearns County Public Health Zoom conference last week. In the latest comparable numbers to last year's metrics, we are now at 152.3. Another way to look at this as we did last year was to rank our positivity rate in the county. As reported last Thursday in a ranking of Stearns County school district positivity rates of 1 being the highest rate, Melrose remains this at number 4. Although the positivity rate did increase from last week’s number of 146.7, this was the smallest increase we have had this fall.
Our numbers continue to be low in our buildings. With the MEA break we hope that many of our students took the opportunity to spend time if needed to rest and get better. Although we may finally start to see the numbers plateauing in our area and across the state, the local, regional and statewide hospitals are near or at capacity. This is not just a school issue that we are dealing with but a community one as well. If you did not see the letter to the editor in last week’s paper from Dr. Morris, I was able to get permission to reprint it below.
Our numbers from last week:
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To the editor
George Morris, MD, incident commander for CentraCare's COVID-19 Response, St. Cloud
“There are no beds.” It’s a phrase that has become far too commonplace inside emergency departments and hospitals as physicians seek to find higher levels of care for their patients. What does it really mean? We are in a dire situation.
As COVID-19 continues to rip through our communities – especially where vaccination rates remain low – our ability to care for patients in the way they are accustomed, is no longer the norm. The number of COVID-positive patients hospitalized across the state is quickly nearing peak numbers we experienced in the fall of 2020. Roughly 85% of those hospitalized are unvaccinated. Many are under age 50.
A still-raging virus, coupled with frontline staff who have left healthcare because they are just plain burned out, is creating a perfect storm. Hospitals are full. Dedicated staff are exhausted. Each day, it is becoming more and more difficult to find a bed for the COVID-positive patient who needs high-flow oxygen or the heart patient who needs a stent or the car accident victim. Patients wait. Their loved ones wait. There are no beds.
This is our reality. We are 20 months into a pandemic and 10 months into the availability of a lifesaving, medical miracle. It’s time to end this pandemic with the one thing that makes a difference: the COVID-19 vaccine.
Healthcare resources are running low. Tensions are running high.
Our commitment to our communities is what keeps us going. But we need a commitment from you: Get the vaccine.
We are here for you. We will fight for your life. But we will likely be forced to make difficult choices if things don’t change.
Please help us. Our plea is for everyone – ages 12 to 112 – to get vaccinated.
And it is our prayer that you or your loved one never has to hear the phrase, “There are no beds.”
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|Title:||Enhancement In strain hardening magnesia composites after autogenous healing||Authors:||Ho, Christabel Jia Wen||Keywords:||Engineering::Civil engineering||Issue Date:||2021||Publisher:||Nanyang Technological University||Source:||Ho, C. J. W. (2021). Enhancement In strain hardening magnesia composites after autogenous healing. Final Year Project (FYP), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/154463||Project:||EM-04||Abstract:||Strain Hardening Magnesia Composites (SHMC) has the capability to recover and enhance its mechanical properties after the self-healing process. SHMC have great self-healing potential and existing research shows very strong recovery after healing cycles. However, the recovery of the mechanical properties of SHMC has not been systematically researched. This paper investigates the enhancement of mechanical properties through the MgO-based strain hardening composites (SHC) with self-healing capabilities. Pre-loaded samples are cracked to specific strain levels of 0.5%, 1% and 1.5% which will then be put through healing regimes of wet-dry cycles with the different dry cycles of Lab Ambient Air, 0.5% CO2 and 10% CO2 for 15 cycles. Recovery and assessment of mechanical properties were done by resonant frequency tests, microscopy crack width measurements and uniaxial tensile test. Results show the effects of pre-strain levels and CO2 concentrations on the sample. Higher CO2 concentrations were able to show a high recovery rate and higher sealing of crack openings. Both the influence of pre-strain levels and CO2 concentrations affect mechanical performance. Findings show that higher pre-strain levels and higher CO2 concentrations were able to achieve higher ultimate tensile strength and strain capacity. Higher pre-strain levels induce more multiple cracks across the area of the sample which allows for healing to be evenly distributed across the sample. Higher CO2 concentrations enable higher reactivity and carbonation processes to heal the sample. With the high pre-strain levels and CO2 concentrations of the RMC-SHC, the mechanical properties show significant enhancement.||URI:||https://hdl.handle.net/10356/154463||Fulltext Permission:||embargo_restricted_20231222||Fulltext Availability:||With Fulltext|
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Fahad Razak, Arthur Slutsky and David Naylor are physicians and professors in the University of Toronto’s Department of Medicine. Katharine Smart is the president of the Canadian Medical Association; Alika Lafontaine is its president-elect.
We are now more than two years into the pandemic and Canada’s health care systems remain in crisis. Across the country, from British Columbia to the Atlantic provinces, emergency departments are working at reduced capacity. Some have ground to a complete halt. And it is only August – traditionally a slower period for hospitals and an opportunity for health care workers to recover before the typically higher pressures of wintertime.
This unprecedented situation is just the latest pandemic-triggered crisis, with each one having exploited pre-existing vulnerabilities in our health systems.
In the first wave, the long-term care sector experienced devastating viral spread and severe staff shortages. The result? Canada had one of the highest mortality rates among LTC residents of any wealthy country.
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Starting in late 2021, the huge Omicron BA.1 wave resulted in some of the highest vaccine-era death rates among the elderly and other vulnerable groups, along with health care staffing disruptions from personal and family illness. The current Omicron BA.5 wave has only deepened that staffing crisis, with shortages of thousands of health care professionals, unsustainable amounts of overtime, accelerating retirements and worsening burnout. It’s a depressing cycle: Shortages beget burnout, burnout begets staff shortages.
The BA.5 wave has also reinforced a central lesson of the pandemic: Even without a surge of intensive-care unit admissions related to COVID-19, massive disruptions can occur in health care delivery. This is exacerbated by the pent-up demand for services that the pandemic disrupted. In Ontario alone, the estimated health care backlog – from routine checkups and childhood immunizations to diagnostic tests and surgeries – has grown to almost 22 million services.
Health system leaders are rightly racing to find solutions wherever possible, but the problems are long-standing, systemic and daunting. Structural and human-resource challenges decades in the making will take years to address, even under the most optimistic scenarios. In a sustained pandemic, there is little prospect – and no ethical rationale – for attempting the mass importation of health care professionals. Moreover, the infrastructure needs for both acute and long-term care will take years to address. Some temporary shoring up of capacity may be feasible. However, with health care systems dangerously close to the brink, it is utter folly to ignore the reality that this winter may well see new COVID-19 waves, along with the resurgence of seasonal viruses such as influenza. We must double down on simple public health measures that can reduce the burden of respiratory viruses and keep our health care system working, right now.
For example, high-quality masks are a low-burden and effective intervention to slow spread of all seasonal viruses. Masks should be used in indoor public settings wherever broad mingling occurs. Effective and affordable technologies are now available to greatly improve indoor air quality, and must be wisely and widely deployed.
The current limited testing for COVID-19, meanwhile, has left Canadians navigating the pandemic in the dark. In the months ahead, wastewater testing to track community spread should be standardized, intensified and reported transparently. Rapid testing for multiple viruses should also be widely available to monitor individual spread of COVID-19 and other viral pathogens. Particular attention is needed to detect the presence of COVID-19 and seasonal viruses in high-risk settings such as long-term care.
We must also somehow recapture the early magic of Canada’s vaccine rollout to address our now woeful booster-dose rates, and rapidly deploy any new-generation vaccines that offer durable advantages to keep Canadians maximally protected.
Most importantly, leaders must stop minimizing both the consequences of COVID-19 and the problems in the health care system. The first step in crisis management is recognizing the problem. An understandable rise in public frustration, fatigue and discord must be addressed through clear messaging on what needs to be done and, most importantly, why.
Winter is coming. Without clarity and candour on the part of leaders, and without some low-burden and urgent measures to mitigate the spread of multiple viruses in the near future, Canadians face the real prospect of more disruptions to their health care services, and long-term damage from a continued exodus of demoralized health care workers.
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Hailing from Kingston Jamaica, Shalone A.K.A. Dwayne Bryan is an up-and-coming artist on the verge of a meteoric rise. Already under his belt are performances with artists like Ludacris, Young Jeezy and T.I. He has prominent features on tracks with Nore, Grafh, Busta Rhymes and Joell Ortiz. My dudes over at Smoke Stack Recording put this together and this track is blazing just as hot as “That Kush” he’s smoking. Drop by the official Shalone website HERE and make sure you also check out all of Smoke Stack’s other videos at http://www.smokestackrecordings.com.

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text: Muteness or mutism is defined as an absence of speech while conserving or maintaining the ability to understand the speech of others. Mutism is typically understood as an inability to speak on the part of a child or an adult due to an observed lack of speech from the point of view of others who know them. Such observers commonly include a mute person's family members, caregivers, teachers, and health professionals like doctors or speech and language pathologists. Muteness may not be a permanent condition, depending upon etiology (cause). In general, someone who is mute may be mute for one of several different reasons: organic, psychological, developmental/ neurological. For children, a lack of speech may be developmental, neurological, psychological, or due to a physical disability or a communication disorder. For adults who previously had speech and then became unable to speak, loss of speech may be due to injury, disease, termed aphasia, or surgery affecting areas of the brain needed for speech. Loss of speech in adults may occur rarely for psychological reasons.

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People helping people is what good people do during desperate times. It gave me hope and pride to see that California Governor Newsom will use FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) funds to reopen restaurants in order to deliver three healthy meals a day to seniors in need. The program will get people back to work and also generate revenue for municipalities throughout the state. It’s the country’s first program of its kind during the coronavirus crisis. www.Covid19.ca.gov This is healing – one step at a time.
Wednesday, April 22, was Earth Day and indeed one we will remember. The irony of it all is mind-blowing. The world has come to a halt as people are staying home to avoid spread of Covid-19, factories are operating at a minimum, and traffic is virtually no where to be seen. As a result, air quality in Los Angeles ranked among the highest in the world. Skies are bluer, flowers seem to be blooming longer, and wildlife is coming out of the woods and venturing into the city. Mother Nature has her way of guiding us, doesn’t she?
We’re bombarded 24/7 with so much news, but we also need balance to lift us up. In the best way ever, I found that balance when Jacqueline shared with me “Cocktails with a Curator,” a virtual museum mini tour at the Frick Collection in Manhattan in New York City.
In the midst of the pandemic, Xavier Salomon, Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator at the Frick Collection, brainstormed a brilliant Friday “cocktail hour” for the next several weeks while “We’re all home during this time of difficulty and crisis.” But before he gets started from his apartment in NYC, he recommends a cocktail for viewers to make at home to relax, sip and enjoy as he describes in fascinating detail the history and mysteries of one selected painting in the collection. While I wasn’t quite up for a Manhattan when I tuned in for the 16-minute film, I happily lingered over a fresh-brewed cup of coffee enraptured as Salomon discussed “St. Francis in the Desert” -- that eerily parallels where we happen to be today.


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Vanessa Fox announced yesterday that Google Sitemaps has been renamed Google Webmaster Central. It’s not just a change of name, but rather a new platform to help webmasters maximize the crawl of their websites and also to make it easier for them to communicate with Google.
Google seems to be making serious efforts to improve communication with webmasters. Note that Vanessa Fox recently started a thread on WebMasterWorld where she invites members to ask question regarding Google crawling and indexing issues.
Our whole team is looking at better ways to communicate with webmasters, and the creating and submitting Sitemaps is just one small piece of that overall communication.
Google Webmaster Central comes with a new blog, a new Google Group, and new tools. New tools include a enhanced Crawl Report, Query Stats, Preferred Domain, an option that allows you to choose if you want to display the www. version of your site in the SERPS or the one without.
I invite you to read Rand’s Google Webmaster Central in-depth review to learn more about these new tools and see how they can be useful for your site(s).
I personnaly think some of these tools are very useful, for example the crawl report can help you spot urls that timed out when Google tried to crawl them or the “Preferred domain” option.


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The aquarium has become a popular passion that can be one part of style and design, with around millions of fish tank fans and tropical fish in many countries. Beginning in the 1850s (when modern aquariums had been first developed as brand-new curiosities) the ranks connected with aquarium maintainers had harvested as more sophisticated developments which includes those from lighting and also filtering systems were developed to keep fish in the fish tank healthy.
It is advisable to complete UV aquarium sterilization into your fish tank, but understand that you have to use UV fish tank sterilizers in addition to normal fish tank filters and need to be the very last step of the screening method. The important thing is aquarium normal water passes the aquarium separate out before moving through the ULTRA-VIOLET aquarium sterilization unit. In this manner, a normal aquarium filter minimizes solids so that when normal water passes through the aquarium’s ULTRA-VIOLET sterilization unit later, it is usually purified for the best results.
Sterilization of UV aquariums will kill algae, viruses, germs and parasites using ultraviolet lights. This sterilization operates very well in cleaning fish tank water for pure ailments. Ultraviolet sterilization does a superb job so there are a number connected with companies out there that use this method to purify drinking water on a business oriented scale and even to get rid of algal growth in outside pools.
Aquarium tank plants provide life within aquariums as well as water with regard to fish. Aquarium plants put beauty to the aquarium create it look beautiful whilst completing empty space within the aquarium. The most important thing to remember having plants is to form a stunning background, leaving room with regard to fish to swim without having to be disturbed and visible.
It is important to plan for plants within aquariums is to form a stunning background, the type is large, the grass is best placed at intervals in lanes, while the furry ones look better when they are grouped into smaller clumps, which makes them seem like bushes branched out.

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In a few islands of prosperity, Americans are flourishing. This is where -- and why SLIDE SHOW
Census Bureau data released today shows how five of America’s wealthiest counties have gotten wealthier while most of the rest of the country endures foreclosures, joblessness and recession.
As the Occupy Wall Street movement has zeroed in on the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans who dominate politics, the geography of American wealth and poverty displays a slightly more complicated picture. Some of the country’s richest counties are flourishing as bastions of the upper middle class or just plain rich — but not necessarily of the super rich. These are already well-to-do areas where median income has grown since the recession began in 2007. In this sample, only one, Rockland County, N.Y., is partially fueled by Wall Street money.
The others, selected for geographic and economic diversity, embody the contradictions of a country that often rejects government rhetorically while embracing it practically.
In Loudoun County, Va., many are benefiting from ever more privatized government and military spending by the federal government.
In Wyoming, Gillette County makes much of its money from the extraction of low-sulfur coal made commercially profitable by the Clean Air Act.
Fayette County, Ga., and Rockwall County, Texas, are wellsprings of the Tea Party movement. Though the government funded the mortgages in their suburbs and paid for the highways that connect them, many residents in these areas persist in believing that their success has little to do with government.
In so many ways, we all pay for America’s few economic bright spots.
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You would probably assume that a real estate’s value would always go high with time, even if there were a few market variations along the way. Yes, it is an appreciating investment, unlike buying a car. However, it is not entirely true, and there are numerous reasons why your home value can go down even when real estate is on the rise. The main reason is the age of the structure. An old and outdated home could hurt your listing value. Are you shocked to see your home value in Zestimate? Here is how you can increase your home value.
Zestimate considers the beauty of your home
Yes, the real estate market is too shallow and primarily depends on outward beauty. Your hardwood floors, landscaped backyard, granite countertops, and every other aesthetic factor would have a positive effect on the Zestimate value. The most common rooms to invest in aesthetic and unique factors are the living room and kitchen. According to recent studies, the cost of remodeling the kitchen would have 80% returns in terms of an increase in home value. For instance, if you spend $23,000 in remodeling your kitchens like updating your appliances, flooring, sinks, countertops, and others, it would increase your home value by $18,000.
Zestimate counts the number of usable rooms
Do you have a dilemma between adding a den and a bedroom? If you wish to increase your home value in Zestimate, always go for the bedroom with an attached bathroom, if possible. Among the variables taken for calculating the home value, the number of usable rooms and the number of bathrooms is important.
The usable square feet inside the home become a valuable factor. The price of the home, on average, is $130 per sq feet. Break down a few walls and add more space to your room. However, remember that if you plan to resell it immediately, a major home renovation would not be a wise choice. The cost of a major renovation would be higher than the increase in the resale value. For instance, adding a bathroom would need nearly $48,000, but it would increase $29,000 to your home value.
Show Zestimate that your home is different
Your home value depends on the neighbors’ home too. How advantageous is your home than the ones around you? The best way to add this differentiating factor is by making it energy efficient. The buyer should feel that he would be saving money by choosing your home over others in the long run. Zestimate and 70% of rest estate experts say that making your home energy efficient would add value to your listing. Top ways to improve your home’s energy efficiency are energy-efficient lighting and appliances, solar panels, new and efficient windows and doors, and any landscaping changes that would decrease the utility bill. Changing ten windows in your home with vinyl windows would cost you $17,000. It would add $12,000 to your home estimate, and you will be saving money along the way on your bills.
Updating your appliances would also make your home energy efficient. A decade-old heating system is prone to add more to your utility bill. If you plan to make landscaping changes, remember that it is not efficient if you are planning to sell it immediately. A mid-range asphalt shingles installation would cost $22,000, and it would boost your home value by $15,000. It amounts to 68% of the investment.
Safety matters to your listing value
The neighborhood factor is very important. If your home is in a safe neighborhood, it will boost your Zestimate value. However, there is no plausible way to increase the safety of your neighborhood as an individual. However, you can always increase the safety of your house with a smart gadget. The top ways to increase safety are smart lock, smart camera, smart fire detectors, etc. Such modern devices would attract young buyers.
How to pay for these renovations?
It would be a grave mistake to take a second mortgage to pay for these renovations. Remember that most of the home projects do not give 100% ROI immediately. So, it is best to avoid credit cards, loans, and other methods of borrowing. It is best to save money and use it on the home project. It might sound like a stretch, but you need not re-do your entire house in the same month. Create a plan and start with small changes. Are you planning to make your home energy efficient? Start with replacing windows. Later, save enough money and plan to buy new appliances.
Your realtor might tweak your interest, saying that renovations could increase the value of your home. Yes, it would; but, how much would it add to the value? It is best to hire a reliable realtor who understands how to increase your home value and whether it is the right time to sell your property.
Is it wise to believe these home estimator tools?
Every month, millions of people use Zestimate. Although it is not a proof document, it allows homeowners to get an overview and make informed decisions. Moreover, it will help you choose the right renovation method. Some renovations might be too insignificant and would not change the value of your home, but might cost a huge chunk of your bank account. Thus, these tools stand as a part of your decision-making skills. If you are looking for a professional opinion, hire a realtor to understand your home’s value. However, these online tools are easier to use and free.
Buying a house or selling one is a large move, no matter how rich you are. Thus, it is important to take caution while making every move. Thus, using estimator tools is a good precautionary plan to avoid any stupid costly mistakes. It could help you understand how much loan you can look forward to, but it is not professional proof. You need to hire a professional appraiser for the same.

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Since 2020, cryptocurrency has experienced an unprecedented rise in value and mainstream adoption. However, while this was to be expected from celebrated tokens like Ethereum and Bitcoin, it was not expected to be the case for meme coins like Dogecoin (DOGE). Contrary to what its critics have said, though, Dogecoin has continued to reap the benefits of the crypto boom.
Metaverse had quickly become the buzzword of 2021 in the crypto industry. With Facebook recently rebranding to become “Meta”, their acquisition of Oculus VR, and the recent [failed] move to create their own digital currency called “Libra”, it is becoming evident that big tech companies intend to double-down on digital experiences in the coming years. At the forefront of this new frontier are virtual worlds called “metaverses.” As corporations look to profit from the next big boom in the 2020s and 2030s, let’s explore what a company built entirely around imagination and experience like Disney could do with their metaverse.
Starting Monday, November 29th 2021 thru Tuesday November 30th 2021, Voyager will offer new customers an additional $15 in Bitcoin on top of their regular $25 Bitcoin sign-up reward, giving $40 total in Bitcoin just for joining the popular and high-reward crypto exchange. This makes their sign-up incentive one of the largest in the industry, and does not even take the 12% interest that customers earn on their crypto into account.
Whether you’re new to crypto this year or a bonafide veteran, you’re probably welcoming a bit of extra crypto as part of your Hanukkah gelt (money) stack this holiday season. With big gains in 2021 across to board, and massive growth in crypto tech via the likes of the Metaverse, NFTs and DeFi, there are many interesting areas in this exciting new space to invest in. With 2021 coming to a record close, and 2022 positioned as another record year for the cryptocurrency industry, we explore the top eight ways to get some free or low-cost crypto this season.
With Bitcoin and Altcoin prices back on the rise, FOMO is real, as newcomers are trying to navigate the world of crypto, and seeking ways to dip their toes in. What many don’t realize is just how quick an easy it is to get started investing in cryptocurrency with limited to no budget at all. Within a few minutes time, and following a few steps below, you can also get your hands on some free Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies.
Like any new frontier, the pioneers of decentralized finance have blazed a new trail through the world of traditional finance, sometimes leaving bodies in their wake. There have been some enormously successful endeavors, others that never even left the ground, and others yet that have fallen somewhere in-between. Re-writing what has long been viewed as the norm is difficult and challenging work. Luckily, there are companies like Apricot Finance leading the way in this new generation of accessible and much needed financial services.
A new player just entered the game with the goal of leveling the playing field and bringing cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology, DeFi and FinTech to the masses. Tecient is a full fledged in-house public relations, communications, and marketing team headed by a diverse team of industry experts from various fields. The group will create custom PR strategies that encompass each of their clients unique stories while engineering growth, developing a complete corporate brand playbook, revamping communications, and matching a company’s messaging to their core values and goals, all with hyper focus on the tech world. With the web3 space growing at hyper speed there is a deep need for creatives that understand the sector’s nuances, complex jargon, and tech concepts that can bridge the gap between technical and creative.
Over the past 24 months, cryptocurrencies and anything blockchain related have been all the rage. If you happened to have some free cash burning a hole in your pocket, maybe you’d be tempted to jump into one of the latest hyped coins or better yet, grab a few NFTs. You’d not only be supporting a unique and individual token but you’d be buying a piece of digital history as the world starts to accept the legitimized worth of digital currencies. While there is a massive draw to the space, there is also ample room for manipulation of the global interest in NFTs.
When the Market Place 2.0 releases, users will be able to integrate their user profiles for even more transparency but to take that to an entirely different level, the STARL team is also adding in use of The Graph, an Ethereum based indexing protocol, for all SATE contracts. SATE’S are non-fungible, transferrable digital assets representing satellites and any other virtual estates of the STARL Metaverse. By implementing The Graph into all SATE contracts, it allows for a greater collection of data related to each individual SATE including properties, bid history, pricing history, auction details, trades, and more all in one easy to view page. With the addition of The Graph, the STARL team is taking further steps towards complete transparency while allowing users the ability to bring up the complete history and all related information for any SATE contract with a few keystrokes.
Earlier this week, Electroneum (ETN) announced a long-awaited update to their blockchain that, among other things, introduces core network changes that fundamentally shift the maturing cryptocurrency’s roadmap towards a future of increased transparency as it seeks to scale in the face of growing regulatory concerns in the crypto industry.


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On the early-morning train to Belfast to meet Anthony Quinn, I fall asleep. Somewhere between Dundalk and Newry I wake up and find myself in a different country. The fields and hills are dusted with white. Snow has drifted into low-lying corners. Mist swirls among the hedges. This is neither the Republic nor Northern Ireland. It's Border country at its most enigmatic and elusive: the setting for Quinn's atmospheric crime novels Disappeared and Border Angels.
You might wonder whether the world needs another slice of Nordie noir. We already have Stuart Neville and Brian McGilloway, Adrian McGinty and Matt Maguire, all providing murderous mysteries from Ulster. In his first two outings, however, Quinn has created a distinctive milieu for his fictional anti-hero, Insp Celcius Daly of the Police Service of Northern Ireland. Read these books and you'll never think of rural Armagh in quite the same way.
Tall and trim and softly spoken, Quinn grew up on a farm in Tyrone. He used to be a market gardener, and he still lives in the foothills of the Sperrin mountains with his family, a couple of polytunnels and a collection of chickens. Is that why fretful fowl put in regular appearances in the books?
Quinn smiles fondly. “They give the story a bit of lightness,” he says. As, apparently, they do in real life. “The hens are a big part of our family. One black hen in particular we took to Sligo on holiday with us one time. It caused a lot of hilarity – but she had to come with us, because we were afraid of the foxes. She stayed around the house, and when we came back from the beach she was there waiting for us. She made it seem very homely.”
Animal husbandry is just one of a range of skills that feed into Quinn’s fiction. After taking an undergraduate degree in English at Queen’s University Belfast he did a master’s in social work. “I worked in that field for 10 years, and did a lot of work in the mental-health field with ex-paramilitaries – and also with victims of the Troubles,” he says. “And you could see how people were haunted by the past and how it was affecting their lives.”
Untold stories of the Troubles
When he got a job as a journalist with the Tyrone Times and Mid-Ulster Mail, in 2005, Quinn thought he'd be processing the uncontentious stuff of everyday life: flower arranging and court reporting. The reality was somewhat different. "The phone kept ringing with stories of people trying to come to terms with grief – the untold stories of the Troubles," he says. "People who had had their own personal tragedies and injustices, and felt that they were being sidelined by the peaceful, harmonious society dreamed up in the Good Friday agreement. I discovered that the whole social landscape is a lot more fractured than that. There's a lot of hurt and pain."
One of the most striking features of Quinn’s novels is his compassionate approach to his characters. Whether he’s writing about an eastern European sex worker or a dissident Republican living on a ghost estate, he creates a rounded person first and foremost. “I want each character to be at least likeable,” he says.
Which is not to say that he condones the misappropriation of peace-fund money or the smuggling of dodgy diesel. Not to mention the use of remote rural locations for hiding the bodies of innocent people, or the shameful busyness of rural brothels – all of which feature in the storylines of Disappeared and Border Angels. But, as he points out, in Northern Ireland the line between good and bad has always been particularly blurry.
“The fact that ex-paramilitaries – or freedom fighters, if you prefer – are in power, that they have this political set-up around them, adds depth to the books. We’re all human, and during the Troubles so many of us were caught up in extraordinary situations. People managed as best they could. There’s good and bad on both sides; and that shading is very important.
"One of the biggest influences on me is Graham Greene. He was very good at bringing out the darkness in everybody as well as the light. PD James and Ruth Rendell are also influences. But I would say that Stuart Neville and Colin Bateman have influenced me in more subtle ways, in that they first took on writing about the Troubles and using detective fiction to do it. They knocked away my inhibitions in that respect."
Why did Quinn choose Co Armagh for the Daly stories? “It’s Lough Neagh, really,” he says. “It’s a hidden part of Northern Ireland. It’s almost a hidden lake in itself. Because the waterline has descended over the years it can’t be seen from the roads, even. So you have this very large body of water that’s like a void in the middle of the country.
“There’s a mystical sense to it, but also a kind of darkness. The gruesomeness of the bogs and the blackthorn hedges – and the sense that in these little parishes where murder has happened, loose little bits of the past are still floating around in the darkness. There’s a haunted sense that I wanted to come through.”
Disappeared places an elderly British spy – who is suffering from Alzheimer's – at the centre of a web of unresolved intrigue. Rejected by a raft of UK publishers as being "too immersed in the Troubles", the book was first published in New York, where it attracted a raft of praise that eventually brought it back across the Atlantic and on to books-of-the-year lists at the Daily Mail and the Times in 2014.
Quinn admits that his second book, Border Angels, set out to smash at least one crime-fiction staple. "I wanted to do something different from what you always see in detective fiction, which is a serial killer attacking females. So at the start a woman is often killed and then the supercop comes and works it all out." In Border Angels it's the woman, Lena Novak, who is clever and resourceful, while Daly is often bumbling along in her wake.
With its cast of Latvian migrants and local smugglers the book may seem like an outlandish mix – a fanciful tapestry of past and future. But that, Quinn says, is how things are in Border country these days.
“The Border is very porous now that the bridges and roads have been fixed again,” he says. Meanwhile, even the quietest towns are changing dramatically. “Of all the borough districts in all of the UK, Dungannon has the largest influx of migrant workers. People who had been trafficked were also found in a house in Dungannon recently. These things do happen in small, out-of-the-way country places.”
WB Yeats turns to murder
Alongside his series of contemporary crime novels Anthony Quinn has embarked on a series of historical adventures featuring famous figures from Irish history. The first of these, 'The Blood Dimmed Tide', finds WB Yeats on the trail of a murderer.
“It was a wee bit of a holiday for me, from the darkness of the Celcius Daly books,” Quinn says. “Yeats is kind of like a Sherlock Holmes of the supernatural.”
It's a complete accident that the book, published by No Exit Press, has appeared just as the high-profile "Yeats year" kicks off. But Quinn's not complaining. Instead he's at work on a second volume, 'Blind Arrows', about Michael Collins and the financial skulduggery around the war of independence.
Border Angels is published by Head of Zeus. Disappeared will be out in paperback in April


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American Mothers, has accepted an invitation to join other global organizations in reporting on the status of mothers at the European Economic and Social Committee June 24 and 25 in Brussels, Belgium.
American mothers will collaborate with organizations representing Mothers in the
UK, France, Belgium, Sweden, Zambia, Colombia, Republic of Southern Korea, Democratic Republic of Congo and Lebanon.
American Mothers is proud to be furthering the work and value of mothers, sharing best practices and creating greater understanding of the international needs of mothers and their children.
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I watched Free! ep 6 and screamed when Haruka ALMOST kissed Makoto.
Ahh, it's always like that. The scene where it looks like it will happen but in the end it's only a teaser.
Damnit!! And Makoto's lines... are you proposing to Haruka, Makoto?? XDD
God, this anime surely makes me crazy with many other scenes loading in my head when watching it!
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Paramus, NJ -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/20/2013 -- Editor’s note: Healthy Kidney Publishing’s founder Robert Galarowicz is back again with how to slow down kidney disease with foods in a video format and below! Read on to find out what he has to say about slowing down the progression of kidney disease. Or watch a his youtube.com video by click the link … Slow Down Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)
Recent research has known show that by lowering uric acid levels in chronic kidney disease … people can significantly and drastically slow down the progression of kidney disease.
Medical researchers and doctors have somewhat known about this from smaller studies that have been published in the past. But this recent research has shown a definitive benefit with large scale studies.
What is Uric Acid?
Uric acid is a chemical substance created when the body breaks down something called purines. Purines are found in some drinks and foods. The amount of purines will vary depending on the food or fluid source.
Chart below categorizes common foods and fluids according to their purine content.
Beer, liquor, wine
Soft drinks that contain sugar or high fructose corn syrup
Fatty foods such as fast foods
Organ meats, such as kidney, liver, from any animal source
Bacon, venison, veal
Anchovies, sardines, herring, mussels, codfish, scallops, trout and haddock
Chicken, beef, and pork
Lobster, crabs oysters and shrimp
Lunch/deli meats, especially high-fat versions
Fluids, such as water
Low-fat and fat-free dairy products, such as cheese and yogurt
Eggs (in moderation)
Rice, noodles, pasta and potatoes
What Uric acid does is dissolve in the blood and travels to the kidneys. The kidneys filter it out from the blood and it passes out in the urine. If a person’s body produces too much uric acid or doesn't remove enough of it, people can get sick. The medical term for a high level of uric acid in the blood is called hyperuricemia. In kidney disease uric acid may build up to toxic levels causing damage to the kidneys.
In a large retrospective study that was presented at the November 2013 annual meeting of the American College of Rheumatology and reported in the November 2013 issue of Family Practice Newsletter, showed patients who achieve a serum (blood) uric acid level of less than 6 mg/dL demonstrated a 37% reduction in progression of renal disease.
Dr. Gerald D. Levy, lead investigator of the study, said during a press briefing, "There are numerous studies showing that people with kidney disease can develop hyperuricemia," "Some of them will also develop gout. There are a few small studies showing that in humans, people can reverse hyperuricemia with urate lowering therapy and make an impact in renal disease. We wanted to see if this is true."
The study included 111,992 Kaiser Permanente Southern California patients with a serum uric acid (SUA) level of 7 mg/dL or greater from Jan. 1, 2002, to Dec. 31, 2010. Kidney disease patients with a minimum of 12 months of health plan membership, including drug benefit prior to the index date, were studied. The primary outcome of the study showed at least a 30% worsening of renal function, starting of dialysis, having a GFR of less than 15 mL/min, and undergoing surgery for a kidney transplant.
To watch a free video of over 7 ways to improve kidney disease click the link – Chronic Kidney Disease Diet
About Robert Galarowicz
Since early 2006, Robert Galarowicz has been teaching people on using a highly therapeutic kidney diet, and kidney safe supplements like herbal remedies to avoid dialysis and live a better quality of life. His passion into kidney diseased started when he was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease (CKD) at 22 years old. This led to dialysis and since living with a kidney transplant. Robert’s burning passion about kidney disease led to him becoming a nutritionist and naturopath. After spending years researching and studying about kidney disease, Robert used these discoveries personally and with hundreds of clients. The results were astounding and he created “The All Natural Kidney Health & Kidney Function Restoration Program.” For more information, please visit: http://www.healkidneydisease.com
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Thank you to everybody who participated! I'll do it again sometime later this spring so stay tuned. For those of you just dialing in to this blog I'm going to be taking a few days -- maybe even a week -- off from updating here but I'll be back at it soon. Until then, feel free to ask me anything.

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DIRECTIONS are awaited from the DPP in the case of a Southill man charged in connection with an alleged shooting incident last year.
Jason Freyne, 21, of Maigue Way, Carew Park, is accused of possession of a handgun and of ammunition without a lawful purpose at Maigue Way on September 19.
At an earlier hearing at Limerick District Court, Judge Eugene O’Kelly was told that when Freyne was charged with one of the offences, he had replied: “that’s nothing got to do with me and you can shove your charge sheet up your hole”.
Freyne appeared before the court again this Tuesday via video link from prison. He had granted consent to bail in the High Court but had been unable to take it up, solicitor John Devane told the court.
Mr Devane said that given that his client had been in custody since September, the judge might consider marking the matter peremptory against the state.
Sgt Donal Cronin said a file on the matter had been sent to the DPP on December 10 but that directions were not yet to hand.
Freyne asked the judge why he was “in jail for something I didn’t do”.
He was remanded in custody to appear again via video link on January 21 for DPP’s directions.
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Can you grow up in Westchester County and not be considered comfortable financially?
Upstart Democratic Congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says yes, and the Yorktown High School graduate's brutal honesty remains a cornerstone of her campaign strength.
The 28-year-old Ocasio-Cortez is blasting cynics questioning her working class roots as "a girl from the Bronx," following the revelation she moved to upscale Westchester County when she was age 5, as reported here by Daily Voice.
John Cardillo, a host of Newsmax's "America Talks Live," shared a picture of Ocasio-Cortez’s childhood home in Yorktown Heights, claiming she lived there until she went to attend Brown University. (The winner of the Congressional primary actually attended Boston University.)
“This is the Yorktown Heights (very nice area) home @Ocasio2018 grew up in before going off to Ivy League Brown University,” Cardillo tweeted. “A far cry from the Bronx hood upbringing she’s selling.”
Ocasio-Cortez fired back at Cardillo, saying she did not attend Brown University or any other Ivy League school. “Try Google," Ocasio-Cortez said.
Since her upset win, Ocasio-Cortez has received national -- and international -- media coverage. She appeared on NBC's "Meet the Press," on Sunday and on CBS's "Late Show With Stephen Colbert."
Asked about President Trump, who tweeted about her upset win, Ocasio-Cortez pointed out he's a native of Queens, and her district includes part of Queens as well as the Bronx.
"I don't think he knows how to deal with a girl from the Bronx," she told Colbert.
Ocasio-Cortez explained in a statement to DailyMail.com on Sunday that her family scraped together money for a small home in Yorktown Heights, so she could go to public school there, but that her father and other family remained in the Bronx.
She lived in the Bronx's Parkchester apartments before moving to Yorktown Heights to attend a better public school than what was available in the Bronx at that time, according to her campaign website.
The self-proclaimed Democratic socialist is running as a Democrat in New York’s 14th Congressional District, which encompasses the Bronx and Queens, after defeating 10-term U.S. Rep. Joseph Crowley last week.
“My mom scrubbed toilets so I could live here & I grew up seeing how the zip code one is born in determines much of their opportunity,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote, noting that she grew up partially in a working-class neighborhood.
"A major part of my story, and what I've shared with my neighbors throughout this campaign, is that I grew up between two worlds,' Ocasio-Cortez said.
"At a young age, my entire extended family (aunts, grandparents, etc) chipped in on a down payment for a small home in Yorktown so I could go to public school there. My mom was as a house cleaner for other people in the town so we could get by," she said.
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Wait With Me by Amy Daws
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
It is no secret how much I loved Amy's writing and this book was just another hit from her.
What happens when an Author has a terrible case of writer's block? She finds a tyre shop where she can get some inspiration obviously LOL! I know it sounds crazy but that was basically the story line for this Author's story.
Romance author, Kate Smith can't simply find her writing mojo she has the perfect space in her house but words aren't flowing. After taking her car for service and having to wait in the customer centre she suddenly is hit with divine inspiration, its like the words keep purring out of her system and she is back on the driving seat. However there is one tiny problem, she has ran out of cars to bring to the tyre depot and she is basically having to sneak in the centre to be able to continue writing, not only that, there is a hunky mechanic who has suddenly taken an interest in her and who she seems completely impossible to ignore.Miles is a HUNK but he has a soft side to his persona. After his last relationship he can't deal with lies and is not ready to commit. But he is suddenly paying attention to the lady writing inside the customer centre, she is an enigma but the attraction is undeniable.
What was so amazing about this book, was that even though is a work of fiction, Amy basically based this story in her own experience, NOT everything is based on her personal life, she is happily married with a beautiful child, but the idea came from something real and social media went completely bonkers with the whole scenario.
I enjoyed this book so much and although The Harris brothers are still my favourite series, this story was so original and so easy to read with plenty of laughter, romance and an emotional side to it, I could not put the book down and did not want to stop reading such an original plot.
Well done Amy for making something of your own into a winning product.
5 STARS Jo&Isalovebooks
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Congress passed a bill this week that may cap the interest payday loan providers may charge families that are military 36 %.
The effort that is nationwide a striking resemblance to neighborhood tries to money mart loans near me control predatory financing, a training that places borrowers in an almost inescapable spiral of financial obligation.
вЂњI think it is reasonable to state the tide is actually switching from the excessive interest levels together with predatory financing methods which have took place days gone by,вЂќ said City Council user Kevin Hyde, whom introduced first-of-its-kind legislation to cap neighborhood, short-term loan rates of interest at 36 % year that is last. вЂњCongress, in a few sense, validated that which we did.вЂќ
The bill Hyde introduced to City Council had been initially directed at military payday loan providers. Hyde вЂ” whom can also be legal counsel with Foley & Lardner вЂ” said studies through the U.S. Department of Defense initially inspired the legislation, so Congress wasnвЂ™t exactly using its cues from Jacksonville.
The DOD report rated the prevalence of payday financing in a place as its eighth concern that is top determining which armed forces bases to shut. Payday loan providers often target armed forces users because their paychecks are little enough to keep them in need of assistance, but constant sufficient to provide payments that are regular based on Lynn Drysdale, a lawyer with Jacksonville Area Legal help. She focuses primarily on predatory financing situations and testified for the congressional panel on army payday lending a couple weeks ago.
вЂњMy function was to come and state, вЂI represent sailors and solution users. This is simply not some (meaningless) report, IвЂ™m suggesting just exactly just what IвЂ™ve seen,вЂ™вЂќ said Drysdale. вЂњI became here to give just exactly what really occurs regarding the street.вЂќ
Drysdale said sheвЂ™s seen predatory payday lenders charge 390 to 900 per cent interest levels due to their loans. Payday loan providers usually need direct deposit banking information to cover back once again the loans вЂ“ causing numerous borrowers to defend myself against more loans to make certain their payments donвЂ™t bounce and incur more fees.
вЂњ(Another) main factor is users of the military are governed by the consistent rule of army justice,вЂќ she said. вЂњIf you donвЂ™t spend your financial troubles, it may influence your chance of development . and so they (payday lenders) make use of the string of demand as an assortment supply.вЂќ
Hyde stated the ordinance that is local ultimately amended to incorporate payday financing to everyone else, instead of just the armed forces. It passed City Council, but had been struck straight straight down in court early in the day this present year. The court ruling discovered JacksonvilleвЂ™s town did n’t have the appropriate capacity to control a national organization вЂ“ including Advance America money Advance Centers Inc., the organization that challenged the ordinance. Advance America provides loans that are short-term Jacksonville and for the country.
Hyde stated he вЂњwould be surprisedвЂќ if the bill that is national most of a challenge. The legislation, HR 5122, continues to be awaiting Pres. BushвЂ™s signature before it may be enacted. The bill, this yearвЂ™s Defense Authorization Act , includes numerous provisions вЂ“ the part concerning the rate of interest cap is simply one of those.
The national limits on payday lending might eventually extend to those outside the military, according to Drysdale like the Jacksonville efforts.
For the time being, Hyde said he intends to ask the Duval Delegation to register legislation changing the part of Florida legislation that forbids town from regulating a nationwide company. If it state legislation is changed, JacksonvilleвЂ™s payday financing limitations could be allowed.
Payday loan providers have actually argued their loans provide a need, assisting individuals without credit get quick money for emergencies.
Some loan providers have publicly taken care of immediately the DODвЂ™s many report that is recent Congress. Advance America went a full-page ad in the Florida Times-Union the other day announcing the organization will вЂњrespectfully and voluntarily avoid making any more payday advances to active, full-time people in our armed forces.вЂќ


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Mac Tonight; the coolest fast food mascot of the 1980’s. I planned this as a minifig(ish) scale model, but after seeing my Arrested Development Frozen Banana Stand I saw an opportunity to double the top of the banana to attempt a crescent moon shape. I’m glad I got to get another cool MOC out of the shaping! 🙂
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Proto Man is the older “brother” of the titular character of the Mega Man video game series. I’ve always thought he was awesome with his shades, yellow scarf, and general aloofness. I’ve been wanting to create a large version of Proto Man for a while, and drew inspiration from Mike Nieves’ Proto Man and MOKO’s Masked Rider. I hope I honored their builds with this one.
Proto Man stands over 14″ tall.
Tony Stark. Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist. He also has a pretty slick suit.
Built for Iron Builder; the piece for this round is the dark red cone.


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Stephen had excruciating back pain which was dismissed as simply a back problem by his GP. Months later a hospital doctor arranged an x-ray and this and other tests resulted in diagnosis of prostate cancer metastasized to bones in November 2009. He has had radiotherapy and hormone treatment.
Stephen is a retired government lawyer, with male partner and one adult son. Ethnic background is White British.