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Human rights activist, Femi Falana, SAN, on Wednesday challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to stop the militarisation of the electoral process in the country.
Some aspirants, who failed to secure the APC ticket to contest elective positions in Ebonyi, have urged the APC leadership to probe the deployment of funds released for all elections in the state.
The All Progressives Congress, Oredo Ward I, has suspended former governorship aspirant of the party, Gen. Charles Airhiavbere, over alleged anti-party activities.
President Muhammadu Buhari has picked Boss Mustapha, secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), to chair the committee for his inauguration on May 29.
With the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in control of more than two-thirds of the members of the Upper Chamber of the National Assembly by virtue of the recent elections, agitation for who will emerge the next Senate President appears to have begun.
Some hoodlums who masked their faces on Saturday disrupted electoral process, when they reportedly set ablaze electoral materials at Usagbe Primary School, Ogbido, Etsako West local government area of Edo State.
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Adams Oshiomhole, has expressed concern over alleged invasion of some polling units by suspected thugs in Edo.
Adams Oshiomhole, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has commended the people of Delta state for voting against the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the presidential election.
With less than 72 hours to the Saturday’s governorship and state houses of assembly elections, there is uncertainty about the participation of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Enugu State.
A pro-Buhari group, the Presidential Support Committee (PSC), Southeast Zone, has handed a 48-hour ultimatum to the Adams Oshiomhole-led National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to rescind the suspension of Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha, from the party.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday said that the votes of the Akwa Ibom people allegedly stolen during the presidential and National Assembly elections of February 23 would be reclaimed.
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has promised that the Federal Government will pay special security attention to Delta State during the March 9 governorship and House of Assembly elections, stressing that nothing would be left to chance in preparation for the polls.
The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Pastor Usani Usani, says he has not been suspended by the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The Peoples Democratic Party in Edo State has accused Governor Godwin Obaseki of resorting to blackmail, intimidation and harassment of traders in the state with a view to forcing them to vote for the All Progressives Congress in Saturday’s House of Assembly elections.
The All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in Imo State, Hope Uzodinma, has challenged the state Governor, Rochas Okorocha, to stop insulting people of the state.
A public affairs analyst, Odoh Michael, has said rather than discourage the presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar from going to court, he should be stimulated to approach the court, because it would deepen Nigeria’s democracy.
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has accused the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, of trying to destroy the party in the South East.
The EFCC has responded to a US government agency report which said the Buhari administration condones corruption and impunity.
Nigeria’s duo of Aruna Quadri and Bode Abiodun will be facing the biggest battle of their career this season as they lead their Portuguese club – Sporting into the second leg semifinal of the ETTU Cup against star-studded French side – GV Hennebont.
Super Eagles Alex Iwobi has stated that he and his teammates are not taking the 32nd African Cup of Nations qualifier against the Pirates of Seychelles lightly and are focused on securing the maximum points.
A supporter of President Donald Trump pleaded guilty on Thursday to mailing crude bombs to prominent Democrats including former president Barack Obama and former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
Super Eagles captain Mikel Obi is not ready for a return to the national team despite playing regularly for his English Championship side, Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr has revealed.
Hope has rekindled for the actualisation of the Train 7 of the Nigerian LNG Limited as the federal government and the shareholders of the gas-processing and liquefaction company will today in Abuja, sign the Nigerian Content Plan (NCP) worth $1 billion for the project, which has been on the drawing board for 12 years.
The Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, has ordered the closure of three tertiary institutions in the state following a protest which turned violent in Ilesa.
Manchester United star Paul Pogba says it is his "dream" to play for Real Madrid and failed to reassure Red Devils fans he is seeking a move by saying he is happy "for now".
British Prime Minister Theresa May has issued a stark warning to lawmakers that if they do not back her Brexit deal, there is the possibility the country “will not leave the EU for many months, if ever”.
An Ado Ekiti High Court on Tuesday sentenced two men – Adedayo Oluwayemi (27) and Daramola Seyi (23) – to death by hanging for robbing a night club in Ado-Ekiti at gun point.


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A little afraid of heights, Chenab Khakh ’20 waited until late in her Cornell career to climb McGraw Tower’s 161 steps and take in the “mesmerizing” view from the top.
The landscape below was one she first came to know during two years of elementary school in Ithaca, while her mother did postdoctoral work at Cornell. After the family moved to Long Island, she’d treasured memories of the university’s green campus, the subterranean Cornell Store and playing in Stewart Park on the shores of Cayuga Lake.
“It all came together for me, how important Cornell and Ithaca are to me and my family,” Khakh said of the scene. “It’s been such a pivotal place for us.”
On Dec. 21, Khakh added another indelible and slightly dizzying Cornell memory: graduation.
She was one of more than 540 graduates to participate in the university’s largest winter recognition ceremony yet, attended on the winter solstice by more than 2,000 guests in Barton Hall, according to the Office of University Commencement Events.
When their names were called – to cheers and shout-outs from family and friends – the graduates walked in caps and gowns across a stage decorated with red and white poinsettias and green ferns. Each received a certificate (to be replaced later by an official diploma) from the college or school dean, and shook hands with President Martha E. Pollack.
Pollack called the event one of her favorites each year, permitting individual recognition that is not possible during the much larger Commencement ceremonies in May. The same process then, she joked, would take more than nine hours.
In thinking about what pithy advice she could offer such a diverse audience, Pollack said, she concluded that the most memorable commencement speeches delivered the simplest messages.
Hers, in a word: “read.”
“What I’m asking you to do when I ask you to read is to carry out with you the Cornell ethos of seeking truth and valuing knowledge, of embracing diversity and bridging difference,” Pollack said. “Carry it out with you tomorrow, and the next day, and the day after that.”
Pollack urged the graduates to read widely – fiction, history, journalism, poetry and biographies – to see the world from different points of view.
“Read to understand what’s in the world that you can’t see, can’t touch, can’t experience on your own,” she said. “If you do that, the Cornell education you began here will truly never end.”
Jesus Ruiz ’20, the senior class president, who expects to graduate in May, told the December graduates that their journeys are only beginning.
He recalled signature Cornell scenes: the smell of old books in library stacks, daily chimes concerts and watching sunsets from Libe Slope. And he remembered a professor imploring him and fellow students to follow their passions and enjoy their journeys.
“The path to success is not a straight, uphill slope,” Ruiz said. “Instead, the path to success is very much like the paths across this campus – a bumpy road with dips and peaks.”
Perhaps no graduate understood that better than Jonathan Thompson ’10, M.Eng. ’19, who earned a master’s in mechanical engineering. Three years ago, he received a frightening diagnosis, learning that a brain tumor was the cause of headaches and a seizure he had suffered.
After successful surgery and treatment, Thompson, of Pennington, New Jersey, returned to Cornell for a year of graduate school to advance his career, joking that he considered it “the longest business trip ever.”
“I am thankful to God that I have been able to walk across the platform today,” Thompson said.
His ordeal made this graduation “even more special” than when he earned his undergraduate degree from Cornell, said his mother, Michelle Thompson.
“We’re so proud and thankful,” she said.
After the recognition ceremony, Thompson planned to return to a campus lab to put some finishing touches on a project.
The ceremony concluded with graduates – who earned roughly 280 bachelor’s degrees, 250 master’s degrees and nearly 20 doctorates – swaying from side to side as they sang the alma mater.
Khakh, whose generation is the first in her family to grow up in the U.S., will maintain her Ithaca roots next spring through a job with Cornell’s Office of Engagement Initiatives. The Biology and Society major plans to pursue a career in medicine and public health, but will enjoy a little more time with friends finishing their studies – and more breaks at the Cornell Dairy Bar.
But she’ll heed Pollack’s advice for when the time comes for graduates to pack up their apartments, eat a last Cornell ice cream and move on to life’s next step.
“Wherever you go, remember what you learned in Ithaca,” Pollack said. “And remember to bring a book.”

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Thursday, 12 Jan 2012
You would have thought by now you know all that needs to be known about the Tegra 3, but NVIDIA made more surprise feature announcements of the SoC at CES 2012. Find out what Prism Display Technology and DirectTouch offer to the Tegra 3 and the tablets using them.
Tuesday, 20 Dec 2011
Equipped with the CoolStream technology, the GeForce GTX 570 Battlefield 3 Limited Edition incorporates full support for NVIDIA 3D Vision and NVIDIA Surround technologies.
Wednesday, 14 Dec 2011
NVIDIA announces that it will provide the source code for the new NVIDIA CUDA LLVM-based compiler to academic researchers and software-tool vendors.
Wednesday, 30 Nov 2011
ASUS has gotten the upper hand in the quad-core tablet race with its Transformer Prime tablet already available for pre-order in North America, but Acer and Lenovo are planning to close the gap in early 2012.
Monday, 28 Nov 2011
Japanese website 4Gamer has revealed a detailed roadmap for NVIDIA's upcoming 28nm Kepler GPU desktop offerings and highlights NVIDIA's strategy bottom-to-top strategy for releasing these GPUs.
Thursday, 24 Nov 2011
The Tsubame 2.0 system, a heterogeneous computer, was listed as the greenest petaflop-class supercomputer on the recently released Green500 list.
Tuesday, 15 Nov 2011
If you think ARM processors are solely for powering your mobile computing devices, think again as a NVIDIA Tegra 3 based, new hybrid supercomputer will coming your way soon.
Wednesday, 9 Nov 2011
Codenamed "Project Kal-El", the Tegra 3 processor offers up to 3x the graphics performance of Tegra 2, and up to 61% lower power consumption, incorporating the vSMP technology which kicks in a fifth CPU when less power is required.
Tuesday, 1 Nov 2011
Jon Peddie Research (JPR) announced for the 3rd quarter of 2011, Intel's market share of graphics shipments is 60.4%. AMD maintained its share while NVIDIA's slid.
Thursday, 27 Oct 2011
TSMC announced that its 28nm process is in volume production and production wafers have been shipped to customers. TSMC is the first foundry to provide such capabilities.


There was a time on Sunday afternoon when I was thinking to myself that one of Ghana’s biggest clubs, Hearts of Oak could and should be doing better that taking such a decision.
I refer to the club’s decision to appoint little known Japanese American Kenichi Yatsuhashi as the new head coach on a two year contract.
In fact, to say that I was shocked would be an understatement.
One of the first questions I was asking myself was whether there were no more indigenous coaches with the requisite experience that could do the job.
Don’t get me wrong; I don’t know Yatsuhashi well enough to even judge him, but that is the whole point.
No one knows much about him and that is worrying.
My thinking is that if a Ghanaian club has to go out of the country to look for a coach, then they should get a coach with enough experience on the African continent at the very least.
But what do we have here?
According to the information we have, he has previous stints with the Aspire Academy and holds many licenses and certifications including a USSF A and National Youth coaching license, a CONCACAF International Coaching license, an NSCAA Goalkeeping diploma, and a KNBV Advanced diploma.
He is also said to be a qualified referee.
I don’t know what informed the club’s decision to hire him and perhaps the club has seen what we all don’t. In fact we are told, although it is yet to be confirmed that the new coach will earn something in the region of $1800 a month.
As we all know, David Duncan was doing a good job at the club the season before last before he was surprisingly sacked.
Mohammed Polo was brought in and that was where the club really began to retrogress.
By the time Herbert Addo took over, it seemed too late to reverse the club’s sinking fortunes and he was ultimately sacked.
Can Vanli was brought in to do a fire fighting job, as well as supervising Edward Ansah’s work as acting coach.
What beats my mind is why Vanli was not retained after the season ended.
Wherever Hearts of Oak finished on the league log, with reference to the various Disciplinary and Appeals Committee, the club avoided relegation and so I was thinking that the club would retain his services. That was not to be.
Yusif Abubakar has coached Hearts of Oak before and even though he was unable to prevent Heart of Lions from being relegated, I think he would have been a good fit for the job.
It was not surprising that the club wanted to sign Tom Strand after the young Swede took Medeama SC to FA Cup glory, but the Yellow and Mauves refused to release him.
After such a development, I would have thought that some of the other promising coaches on the local scene would have been given a look in. The name Tony Lokko readily springs to mind.
There are other coaches who are doing well locally and could have been approached.
The hiring of Yatsuhashi seems shrouded in mystery and I can only hope that the club knows what it is doing.
I wish him well, but he has to bear in mind that he is in for a huge culture shock.
What I believe though is that this hiring doesn’t fit in with Hearts of Oak’s profile as a big club but rather a seeming indication of the club’s gradual fall into mid table obscurity.
Only time will tell if I am proved wrong and honestly I hope that turns out to be the case. Otherwise this could turn out to be an embarrassing installment in a growing mess at the club.
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Fairly new to the scene, but already way ahead of his game, Remco Beekwilder is taking the world by storm.
Fairly new to the scene, but already way ahead of his game, Remco Beekwilder is taking the world by storm. The Dutch dj/producer has been releasing EP’s steadily on imprints such as Monnom Black, self reflektion and Binary Cells over these past three years, while also playing gigs all around Europe. With his energetic and deep sound, clearly rooted in techno, Beekwilder has already marked his own place in the scene.
His monumental LSD EP got released on Dax J's Monnom Black label and shows his diversity and capability as a producer, with four tracks that reflect his artistry perfectly. Beekwilder’s 10th Planet EP (June 2016) on stranger's self reflektion label gained huge support from artists (Dax J, Marcel Dettmann, Luke Slater, Rebekah, and Dave Clarke) and fans alike. Basement Tools EP on the same label got support from artists like Ben Sims, Paula Temple, Ø [Phase] and Slam amongst others. In February of this year he released the State of Return EP on Binary Cells, which was categorized by Hard wax as ‘Excellent, spaced out, metallic techno pressure’.
Next to producing Beekwilder has been playing at different organisations and places in Europe like Reaktor Unpolished, Soenda, Kompass Club and Tresor. Gaining more support with every show he plays.

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In an anonymous grantee perception survey and an external qualitative evaluation of the foundation's work conducted its last year of grant making, a number of grantees indicated they will miss Beldon's non-monetary support – as a sounding board for ideas, strategist, problem-solver and advocate with other foundations – almost as much as its funding.
"There are a lot of organizations that are going to miss the money from Beldon, but there is actually more trepidation about how to replace the role Beldon played in the marketplace. If Beldon cut funding significantly, but still played the other roles that it plays, the anxiety about them leaving would go down."
- Beldon Grantee
As a foundation with an ambitious policy agenda and limited time frame, Beldon needed to be more than a grantmaker. Beldon founder John Hunting strongly believed that marshaling the foundation’s non-financial resources – its expertise and experience, convening power, influence with other funders, and the capacity to broker relationships among grantees – was key to creating lasting change.
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Building trust with grantees. Beldon worked closely with core grantees to tackle the internal and external challenges they faced. This level of interaction created a sense of trust that many grantees say allowed them to be more open with Beldon about specific problems. Beldon helped broker relationships among different groups and facilitated collaboration among grantees. The foundation also provided formal opportunities for cross-pollination, including an annual two-day grantee retreat. These gatherings helped combat the isolation many advocates experience and allowed them to learn from each other’s work and from skills-building and strategy sessions.
Helping grantees expand their donor base. One of Beldon’s most valued roles among grantees was its help expanding their donor base, both through fundraising training and Beldon’s own outreach to other funders. Five years before its exit, Beldon began offering grantees intensive fundraising training. The foundation also gave followup grants that allowed core groups to develop and implement multi-year strategies to diversify their funding streams. As a result, most are well-positioned to continue their work.
Engaging other funders. A key part of Beldon’s mission was to bring more funders to the table. Its success accomplishing this goal was due in large part to the foundation’s hiring of experienced program officers with good reputations in their fields and the funder community.
In its state-based work, Beldon cultivated local and regional funders by seeking their advice, sharing what the foundation was learning from its grant making , and co-funding some of their projects. However, Beldon carefully avoided pressuring other foundations to support its strategies. The idea was to demonstrate the viability of new approaches and let other funders determine if these programs might be worthwhile investments for them as well.
The role of Beldon’s board. Beldon benefited from a board of directors, handpicked by John Hunting, who were experts in environmental advocacy and philanthropy and shared the foundation’s commitment to bringing change. They were also active practitioners - including several other funders, in particular the executive directors of the Bauman Foundation and John Merck Fund – who became funding partners and helped reach out to other foundations.
Helping to shape the conversation. Above all, Beldon sought to become a useful resource for other foundations. It is widely seen as playing a catalytic role in the funding community – helping to shape the conversation among fellow grant makers about effective strategies, trends in the field, and opportunities to increase the impact of grant making. As a foundation that worked across three different fields – environment, health and nonpartisan civic engagement – Beldon was able to build bridges, share insights, and make connections between people and ideas. And by demonstrating the viability of certain grant making strategies, particularly promoting collaboration among advocates and introducing more sophisticated nonpartisan civic engagement tools and tactics, Beldon inspired some others to test the waters.
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One of the most interesting things that Kevin shared was his relationship with ‘Glee’ co-star Jenna Ushkowitz. The two won many hearts through.
That sentiment struck a chord with audiences that few predicted. The first airing drew That was the first of many chart hits that were soon to come. The pilot starred a smorgasbord of colorful characters. Fox initially ordered a episode first season, beginning Sept. It was later given 22 total episodes. It was a traditional pilot, and it had to be reviewed. It got people talking, and it freed up so many kids who were trapped and felt invisible.
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Glee star Jenna Ushkowitz has announced her engagement to partner David Stanley. The Glee actress, who played Tina Cohen-Chang in the musical series, took to her Instagram page to share the lovely news with her one million followers. Fans and friends were thrilled for the couple, with the post raking up thousands of likes and comments in just a few hours. The happy news comes just weeks after Jenna shared a touching tribute to late Glee co-star Naya Rivera, who tragically passed away after a boating accident.
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The Glee star was previously engaged to rapper Big Sean, went public with her relationship in April and he put a ring on in Oct. And here we have another Glee star with a recent heartache. Overstreet’s Sam Evans might be going strong with Mercedes on the show, but his real-life child with actress Kevin Sage ended in early April And, around the same time as their funeral-kitty went public, Sage was seen out with another young Hollywood hottie with great relationships – Zac Efron.
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!Rachel is dating Finn!! The deep, rather intimate conversation went down on the debut episode of Kevin McHale and Jenna Ushkowitz’s Glee recap podcast.
The year-old actress took to Instagram to share the joyous news and her incredible diamond ring with her one million followers. The Broadway star’s milestone was met with a flood of congratulatory comments from friends and fans. While her Glee co-star Kevin McHale commented on David’s post, who shared the same image along with the caption: “Yes”.
David’s proposal comes just weeks after Jenna paid tribute to her Glee co-star Naya Rivera , who accidentally drowned while out boating with her four-year-old son Josey. She penned: “There are no words and yet so many things I want to say, I don’t believe I’ll ever be able to articulate exactly what I feel but There are no words and yet so many things I want to say, I don’t believe I’ll ever be able to articulate exactly what I feel but You shined on stage and screen and radiated with love behind closed doors.
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By Dailymail. In regards to hiding his sexuality on social media he said: ‘If somebody was a big fan and following everything I was doing [on social media], like the people I interact with on Twitter on a daily basis, I think there was zero surprise. People knew. He then Kevin finally came out of the closet in words Thursday when he tweeted his admiration of the new Ariana Grande song.
Glee star Jenna Ushkowitz has announced her engagement to partner ‘DOUBLE SOON TO BE MARRIED ENGAGED COUPLES DATE SOON ASAP’. while Glee co-star Kevin McHale exclaimed, ‘I WILL NEVER HAVE.
In a recent Instagram post , McHale revealed that Ushkowitz was actually his date for the night. Meghan Doyle, Matthew Hodgson and Dante Russo, who all worked as part of the miscellaneous crew of the series, were also in attendance. Michele, who is close friends with Tobin, shared some photos on Instagram taken a day before the nuptials and during the actual wedding day. According to Brides.
Although the lovebirds kept the ceremony traditional, the pair decided to give their wedding day dessert a little twist. I thought he was kidding when he had the ring in front of my face. Search News Search web. Christian Saclao. Story continues. Our goal is to create a safe and engaging place for users to connect over interests and passions.
Glee star Kevin McHale confirms that he’s gay as he says ‘I think there was zero surprise’
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Riley called the Wicked star “old”, but more importantly “a old person.
Jenna Noelle Ushkowitz, born April 28, , is a year-old American stage and She was dating The Vampire Diaries star Michael Trevino; she confirmed that Along with co-star Kevin McHale, she sung Let It Be as a duet and Make You.
Artie was one of the stronger characters in its mixed bag. He was awkward and mumbling, but clever and compassionate, with a lethal deadpan sense of humor. It would have been easy for him to be the show’s moral compass, full of zingers and life lessons — a punching bag-cum-spirit guide who helps the popular, able kids self-actualize — a role marginalized characters often fill on TV. But Artie, under McHale’s supervision, made mistakes and grappled with ability, romance and ambition in complex ways.
To most people, McHale is still that sweatered teenage geek, even though he’s now 30 years old, a successful TV actor, in a happy relationship with his boyfriend, and occasionally posts photos like this on Instagram. But McHale has no animosity towards his alter-ego. He’s “indifferent” to being conflated with the character he spent the first half of his twenties playing, he explains over the phone.
In his view, Artie gave him everything. I’m only in the position of getting to do what I want now, because people watched me and watched Glee. It’s a moment in his career, when you’d think he might. Resent the tall shadow over him cast by Artie and Glee, that is, as he attempts to stake his claim as an artist who sings his own songs, rather than Broadway and Top 40 covers on TV. But McHale simply isn’t thinking about it on those terms. He isn’t attempting to “reinvent” himself in this chapter, and his songs don’t feel like it.
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Jenna was born in Seoul, South Korea. Three months later she was adopted and raised in East Meadow, New York. Her adopted family is of Polish descent, thus her last name, ‘Ushkowitz. She herself was on Glee, and has compared to a “real Rachel Berry”. She graduated from Marymount Manhattan in with a B. Some time ago, she was romantically linked by the press to McHale, but both of them denied it; however later on, Ushkowitz revealed that she did have a crush on McHale.
Join the two former Glee stars and best friends as they take you behind the scenes (with all the Glee Tea) and break down Showmance: Glee Recap Edition with Kevin McHale and Jenna Ushkowitz PodcastOne Rachel is dating Finn!!
So fill up you slushie cup, scroll through our gallery and help us decide who’s worth of Class Couple status. Much like her driven alter ego Rachel Berry, Michele is living out her happy ending. A little more than a year after their March Napa vows attended by fellow Gleeks Darren Criss and Becca Tobin , the triple threat, 33, is expecting their first child. As a source tells People , “They’ve always wanted to be parents.
Two-and-a-half years in, the actor is still, uh, reveling in life with son Revel James Makai Morrison and model wife Renee Puente. News earlier this year. We live very peacefully. We have our own routines and separate spaces to retreat to within our home, but then we’ll have coffee together in the morning and meet for a meal. You keep my tank and my heart full,” he wrote last November , it seems to be in the offing.
Having officially come out in April , the actor and podcaster insists he was never really hiding his sexuality. People knew,” he told Marc Malkin. His three-year romance with actor Austin P.


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Lysenko: No soldiers killed in last day
No Ukrainian soldiers were killed in the Donbas conflict zone over the last 24 hours, National Security and Defense Council spokesman Andriy Lysenko said at a briefing in Kyiv on Thursday, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
"Over the last day, no Ukrainian soldiers were killed or injured as a result of military clashes," Lysenko said.
As reported earlier, the Ministry of Defense said that as of February 1, 2015 a total of 1,750 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed since the beginning of the Anti-Terrorist Operation in the Donbas conflict zone. The operation started last April.


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Optimism grows in Philippines despite corruption
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ASIA BRIEFING: The government is also in a good position to provide stimulus to the economy because it does not need massive borrowings
THIS WEEK’S Asia Briefing comes from the Philippines, where the headline in the Philippine Daily Inquirer newspaper last week was “P-Noy bullish on economy”, a sign of how things are looking up since the top ratings agencies upgraded the Philippines lately.
The Philippines has one of the more frustrating economies in southeast Asia. On paper, the country should be wealthy, but it has never taken off as a tiger economy in the same way as….”

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More than 3,000 Google employees have signed a letter that's circulating in the company demanding that the tech giant end its involvement in Project Maven, a Pentagon program that could be used to develop drone technology.
The project, the workers argue, runs counter to the company's stated mission and motto.
"By entering into this contract, Google will join the ranks of companies like Palantir, Raytheon, and General Dynamics," wrote the employees, who include senior engineers. "The argument that other firms, like Microsoft and Amazon, are also participating doesn't make this any less risky for Google. Google's unique history, its motto 'Don't Be Evil,' and its direct reach into the lives of billions of users set it apart."
"We believe that Google should not be in the business of war...Building this technology to assist the U.S. Government in military surveillance--and potentially lethal outcomes--is not acceptable." --Google employees
The letter (pdf) comes weeks after reports surfaced that Google was implementing Project Maven, an artificial intelligence surveillance tool, to interpret video imagery--likely in order to improve the targeting of drone strikes. Some Google employees condemned the company's involvement in a recent company-wide meeting, before circulating the letter, according to the New York Times.
"We believe that Google should not be in the business of war," wrote the employees. "Therefore we ask that Project Maven be canceled, and that Google draft, publicize, and enforce a clear policy stating that neither Google nor its contractors will ever build warfare technology."
Google has said the technology it's developing is "non-offensive," while former chief executive Eric Schmidt, who still sits on the board of Google parent company as well as the Pentagon advisory board, claimed in November that the military would use artificial intelligence like Project Maven "to help keep the country safe."
The Google employees issued a clear rejection of Schmidt's suggestion, writing, "This contract puts Google's reputation at risk and stands in direct opposition to our core values. Building this technology to assist the U.S. government in military surveillance--and potentially lethal outcomes--is not acceptable."
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New Delhi: Monetary Motion Job Pressure (FATF), the worldwide watchdog for terror funding might take away Pakistan from the punitive “grey list” in its upcoming overview assembly.
Sources advised IANS that the FATF is “satisfied” with Pakistan’s efforts to crack down on terror funding and cash laundering, although Pakistani terrorists have been regularly infiltrating into India via the Line of Management (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir.
China, the US, the UK, Australia, Japan and some different nations, on the FATF’s three-day overview assembly in Beijing, avoided passing any antagonistic remarks towards Pakistan, sources stated.
Pakistan was positioned within the ‘grey list’ in 2018 and was supposed to finish its compliance by October 2019. The gray record financially penalized Pakistan at a time when it was already dealing with an financial disaster.
Sources stated China is especially advocating for its exit from the ‘grey list’. The Imran Khan authorities has additionally been lobbying arduous, utilizing a number of channels and platforms within the US, UK and Europe, for a reprieve.
Nonetheless, one of many fundamental causes for this variation within the stance among the many key gamers in FATF, sources stated is the current West Asia disaster following the US offensive towards Iran, killing its Revolutionary Guard Corps commander and spy chief Qassem Soleimani.
After Tehran retaliated by hanging at two US army bases in Iraq and capturing down a Ukrainian aircraft killing over 170 civilians, together with 70 Canadians, the US realized that it “needs an ally who will do their bidding for the right price in the region”.
Pakistan’s army has supplied to play an even bigger position within the Center East on the behest of the Donald Trump administration. “Islamabad is willing to work against the US adversaries for a price but India will never meddle in the Middle East. So Islamabad has its own advantages,” sources stated.
In addition to, America wants Pakistan in its negotiations with the Taliban for a peace deal in Afghanistan, one other supply stated.
If the FATF exonerates Pakistan, it’s going to encourage the ISI-sponsored banned outfits to proceed its cross-border terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir, Indian officers concern.
Final 12 months, the FATF had warned Pakistan and threatened to place it within the blacklist for non-compliance of its situations. However now, there isn’t any likelihood of blacklisting Pakistan, sources stated.


Veteran Nebraska homeschoolers remember the legal battles of the early 1980's. Although it took long stretches in jail, Nebraska believers finally won the freedom to teach their own children in their own homes, pursuant to a "Rule 13" school exemption.
Although Nebraska permits religious believers to be excused from public school attendance, there are some families with sincere religious objections to the very appearance of state control of their religious homeschool program. When one such family informed HSLDA this fall that their conscience would not permit them to comply with Rule 13, we helped them document their religious beliefs, explaining their objections to Rule 13. They then sent this documentation in instead of the official Nebraska Department of Education forms.
An attorney for the department wrote back to say the family appears to be "misunderstanding the law." The father had expressed that Nebraska's forms "violate my religious belief by establishing that the Department of Education is an authority over my home," but the department attorney answered, "I would certainly hope that you would agree that these minimal filing and informational requirements are quite unobtrusive, and neither overburdensome nor over-reaching."
HSLDA encourages families to use their state's existing paperwork if they can do so with a clear conscience. While most religious homeschoolers in Nebraska are able to use the Rule 13 forms without trouble, some families cannot. We hope to work with the department of education to accommodate these sincere religious objections to Nebraska's paperwork.
— Scott W. Somerville


text: Renowned US scientist explains COVID-19 vaccine’s development at QU-BRC lecture Mar 12, 2021 0 2107 12345 Tribune News NetworkDohaQatar University’s (QU) Biomedical Research Center (BRC) organised a lecture on ‘SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine design enabled by prototype pathogen preparedness,’ presented by one of the biggest names in COVID-19 research.Dr Kissmekia Corbett, a research fellow in the Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Vaccine Research Center (VRC) in the US, presented the lecture, which aimed to highlight the developmental stages of the COVID-19 vaccine.Dr Corbett led the collaboration between the NIH and Moderna to develop and evaluate the Moderna mRNA vaccine in preclinical and clinical trials. She works under the direct supervision of Dr Barney Graham, deputy director of the VRC, and Anthony Fauci, director of the NIAID.During the lecture, Dr Corbett revealed the different stages of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine development, illustrating the utilised approaches that made the candidate vaccine available for phase one clinical trial, which occurred 66 days after the emergence of the pandemic. Relying on the knowledge from the MERS vaccine development, the Viral Pathogenesis Lab at VRC-NIH demonstrated the ability of the mRNA vaccine to induce potent antibody response in preclinical settings (using mice and monkeys), before the vaccine was tested in phases 1-3 clinical trials. Answering questions, Dr Corbett recommended the vaccination of pregnant and nursing mothers when it is available, noting that phase three clinical trial is still undergoing for this group.Dr Hadi Yassine, section head of research at BRC moderated the seminar. Dr Yassine participated in coronavirus vaccine development at NIH before joining the university. Pages 12 RELATED ARTICLES QU webinar explores link between gum disease and COVID-19 severity Mar 12, 2021 0 1556 QFFD, Kenyan ministry sign pact to provide education to 250,000 children Mar 12, 2021 0 1785 Qatar Airways Cargo and QDB join forces to support Qatari exports Mar 12, 2021 0 1726 Qatar calls for continued documentation of violations, crimes in Syria QNA Geneva Qatar has called for the need to continue to document violations and crimes in Syria and welcomed all efforts at all levels to ensure accountability for all those responsible for violations and crimes ..


The new wedding transportation car, dubbed “VIP Transporter”, will be ready to take you to and from your wedding within two hours of it arriving.
The vehicle is built for the same purpose, to transport guests to the ceremony as well as their cars and vehicles.
The car is powered by two electric motors and weighs just 1,500lbs, which makes it lighter than a typical limousine.
The luxury wedding transportation vehicle, dubbed VIP Transporter, will be able to transport up to 1,000 guests to your big day in under two hours.
The company, dubbed The VIP Transporters, was founded by former Uber and Lyft drivers, and their car has already been used at weddings in Singapore, Malaysia and New Zealand.
The vehicles are powered by a combination of lithium ion batteries and lithium polymer batteries.
According to the company, the cars can handle up to 5,000 passengers at a time, and can go up to 70 miles per hour in a cruising speed of up to 30mph.
The car can also accommodate up to 10 guests in a single seat, which means that the VIP Transporter can transport up 10 guests with ease.
In addition, the vehicle is designed to accommodate up 3,000 lbs of cargo and is equipped with an automatic seatbelt system.
The VIP Transportation car has a seating capacity of up 810 people.
This vehicle is the latest in a long line of new luxury wedding transport cars, and is the first to be designed to cater to the growing demand for wedding transport services.
With so many companies offering wedding transportation services, this car could be a big boon for those looking to cater their wedding.
You can learn more about VIP Transports at their website.
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NEW YORK, NY -- Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of the Broadway hit "Hamilton," has been honored with his own famous caricature at the world-renowned Broadway watering hole, Sardi's on Tuesday. Miranda is now one of 227 portraits hanging on the walls of the famous restaurant, which includes caricatures of Chita Rivera, Rosie Perez and John Leguizamo.
Members of the Miranda family and "Hamilton" cast members Phillipa Soo and Leslie Odom Jr. attended the ceremony. Miranda's mother, Luz Towns-Miranda, told the Associated Press the walls in Sardi's were Broadway's version of the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
"This is Broadway's equivalent," Towns-Miranda said. "Basically, he's being honored by Broadway."
"Hamilton" is currently up for a record-setting 16 Tony Award nominations, including Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score.
Miranda has received a Grammy Award, Pulitzer Prize, and a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant.
Miranda told the Associated Press that the Sardi's caricature is different from his previous honors because, "you can enjoy this with the best baked Alaska in town..."

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An Italian company that makes engine and transmission components is planning a $15 million expansion of its Sanford facility and adding 65 jobs to build three new fuel systems for Chrysler cars.
Magneti Marelli Powertrain Systems USA said today that it will expand its existing 250,000-square-foot facility on Nash Street in Sanford.
The company will add jobs in all three areas of production: die-casting, machining, plastic molding and assembly, plus support areas, including maintenance, logistics and engineering.
The company, which is part of an Italian company, Magneti Marelli Holding S.p.A., currently employs 290 people at its plant. The expansion is expected to be complete by the end of the year.


Let’s face it. Having a bad alternator isn’t exactly a good sign for your car. The alternator problems eventually lead to a dead battery, and if not given proper attention.
However, it normally takes about 2 hours to fix or replace an alternator. The exact time for the process can be different depending on your car, truck, or van’s make, model, and sometimes its year.
All You Need To Know About Replacing An Alternator
Our customers often ask us the duration needed to replace the car alternator and if they can do it themselves. If you want to change the alternator on your own, the process can take longer than 2 hours. Moreover, alternator replacement can be costly.
What Is A Car Alternator
Instead of going straight to the duration needed to fix an alternator, let’s see what a car alternator is.
A car alternator is the car component that powers your car’s electrical systems and charges the car battery. It converts the engine’s mechanical energy into electrical energy.
You can understand it this way your car battery will quickly die if there’s no alternator, so you cannot start your car. Moreover, it also has the biggest role in keeping your car components powered, such as the air conditioning system, radio, and headlights.
A bad alternator means you have to get it repaired ASAP to keep your car running.
How Long Does it Usually Take to Repair/Fix an Alternator?
Fixing an alternator can take different times, depending on scores of factors like how serious the issue is, your car’s make and model, and the overall skill and experience of the mechanic who is fixing it.
If we talk about the average time, a mechanic typically replaces a car alternator in 1-2 hours maximum. But the level and complexity of the issue and repair can also affect the time needed.
If your car model has the alternator in a quickly accessible area, like the engine’s top, then the fixing or replacement will be completed quicker than otherwise.
But if your model has the alternator in a not so easy to access area, like below the car engine, the fix can take longer than 2 hours.
The Cost To Replace An Alternator
Alternator cost depends on a car’s model and make, but it usually ranges between $100-$400. The labour cost for changing an alternator can be up to $200. Thus you can safely assume that fixing or replacing an alternator can cost you around $500 to $1000.
Signs of A Bad Alternator that You Can’t Just Ignore
The Dashboard Warning Light Is On
Modern car models have a dashboard warning light that turns on if your car alternator or charging system has any issues. So, you should never ignore it.
Odd Or Grinding Noises
A broken or damaged alternator will make an unusual noise, like squeaking, grinding, or whining, which means the alternator has some problem or its components are damaged.
A Dead Battery
Your car battery continues to die every now and then? Keeps happening even after you got it replaced? Then it’s totally a sign that there is an issue with your alternator.
If your car alternator isn’t giving proper power to your car’s electrical system, the issue could further start causing problems with the power windows, air conditioning, and radio.
Flickering or Dim Lights
A broken or dead alternator makes the interior and headlights turn on, flicker, or dim. If that’s the case, then there might be an issue with your car charging system.
Bad Pulley Or A Sliding Belt
An alternator has a rotor inside it that has the power source of the engine. The motor, when spinning, turns the belt with its rotation. The moving belt, along with alternator rotation, also drives the air conditioning and hydraulic pump.
Alternator pulley or belt problems mean your alternator has a fault. There may be other problems, but usually, it’s the alternator.


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Chronicles of Vengeance is an RPG crafted in the big open Fantasy world with elements of survival. The game takes place during Retaliation and the plot intersects with new elements. COR is a new project which will be released in 2017, presumably to steam.

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Equipment frenzy at TOC Europe
An exhibition is always a good opportunity for showcasing new equipment – and that was certainly the case at this week’s TOC Europe exhibition in Antwerp.
Bromma’s latest addition to its Green Zone spreader fleet productivity suite was on display at the exhibition - Bromma Work Order is designed to enhance everyday maintenance planning.
Cargotec introduced the ASC+ model of Kalmar stacking crane at this year’s exhibition - the first of a new range that will emphasise modularity. The crane platform supports use of multiple main components and is adaptable to local requirements.
The company also showed off its prowess in automation capability with SmartPort which is a collection of pre-integrated process automation from Cargotec, Navis and other strategic partners.
Also at TOC this week, Gottwald Port Technology launched the Gottwald Model 2 Harbour Crane specifically designed to meet the needs of smaller terminals in maritime and river ports. The Demag Cranes subsidiary also introduced a new crane type – the G HRK Rubber-Tyred Portal Harbour Crane. The crane combines great mobility combined with the benefits of a drive-under portal solution.
The Terex Corporation introduced its new port solutions group called Terex Port Solutions at the exhibition. The group will combine Terex and Gottwald Port Technology products into a single source for port businesses and will offer Terex Gottwald branded products in future.
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The GT4 South European Series inaugural season will come to an end at the Autodromo do Estoril in Portugal.
The oldest purpose-built Portuguese track opened in June 1972 and was designed by Ayrton Lolô Cornelsen – who signed also the Jacarepaguá, Brazil, and Luanda, Angola, racetracks, among others – and will welcome next weekend the series supported by Betano.
During its long history, staged the Portuguese Formula 1 Grand Prix between 1984 and 1996, and many historic moments took place there, as the F1 title decision with the smallest margin – Niki Lauda was the 1984 World Champion with 0,5 points advantage to Alain Prost, although the Frenchman win in the race – or Ayrton Senna’s first win in the most important FIA category – 1985.
In the beginning of the century, it staged the FIA GT and racing machines as the Lister Storm, Chrysler Viper, Ferrari 550 GTS Maranello, or Ferrari 575 GTC Maranello got the honours in the 4,182 kilometres and eighteen corners circuit, allowing to the Portuguese fans to see exotic cars from the category greatest brands.
Later, the International GT Open kept the GT racing tradition in the “Autodromo” and now GT4 South European Series receive the baton to allow the Portuguese fans to watch great racing machines in action.
The on-track action will be intense. Miguel Cristóvão and Francisco Abreu effectively sealed the Pro-Am Cup title at Algarve with two race wins, but the Veloso Motorsport Mercedes-AMG GT4 duo is willing to close the season with some more silverware.
However, Mariano Pires and César Machado will do everything to prevent their compatriots of repeating Algarve circuit double win.
This year’s leading actors of the competition supported by Betano, though, will have strong opposition from the GT4 European Series regulars Bullitt Racing Mercedes AMG GT4s. Stephen Patrick will line up alongside Andy Meyrick, a former Bentley factory driver, and Ian Loggie will share the duties once again with Callum McLeod, who has in his name European F3 Open and British Formula Ford titles.
The Am Cup crown is yet to be decided and will have as title contenders Francisco Carvalho and CO Jones. The Portuguese driver returns to the GT4 South European Series sharing a Porsche Cayman GT4 with Fábio Mota, who is doing his debut in the series. Carvalho has fifty points, thirty-six adrift from class leader CO Jones when there is fifty points to fight for.
In the GTC Cup, Marmaduke Hall and Edward Moore took the class honours in the previous event at Algarve, but the Tockwith Motorsport pair has been showing a strong pace during the season, battling with more recent machinery for the overall positions.
The British youngsters will have as class opponents the Plemar Sport’s Ginetta G50 GT4, and Jemma Moore, who will drive the second Tockwith Motorsport Ginetta G50 GT4 entry.
HOW TO WATCH
As usual, both races will be broadcasted live on the series’ social platforms - Facebook and Youtube. The first race will take place on Sunday, November 24th, at 9h55 (GMT) and the second at 16h20 (GMT) later in the day.


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Here’s the regional breakdown, straight from the report:
- The PHSI in the Northeast remained at 90.6 in April and is 2.1 percent below a year ago.
- In the Midwest the index decreased 3.2 percent to 98.5 in April and is 5.1 percent lower than April 2017.
- Pending home sales in the South declined 1 percent to an index of 127.3 in April but is still 2.7 percent higher than last April.
- The index in the West inched backward 0.4 percent in April to 94.4 and is 4.6 percent below a year ago.
NAR uses a large national sample of signed residential property sale contracts to build its monthly pending home sales index. The sample size typically represents about 20 percent of transactions for existing-home sales.
The index level was benchmarked to 100 in 2001, which was the first year to be examined. Existing-home sales in 2001 were in the 5 million to 5.5 million range, which is considered normal for the population in the U.S.


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We recognize that a diagnosis of cancer can be a life-changing event, with the journey from diagnosis to survivorship, and perhaps to end-of-life care, filled with fear, challenges, and uncertainties.1-3 The value of patient navigation provided by a highly experienced, knowledgeable, and compassionate oncology nurse can best be described by sharing comments and stories from patients who were fortunate to have been connected with a cancer nurse navigator (CNN) as their cancer journey began.4-6
Being connected to and supported by a CNN when newly diagnosed with cancer creates for the patients and families a profound sense of security and safety and helps to decrease fears and anxiety, thus allowing patients to effectively hear and process the tremendous amount of information coming at them.2,3 Informed and personalized decision making becomes more comfortable as the CNN begins to outline what patients may experience as well as serve as their guide to support their unique journey. Having a CNN shepherding a patient’s care across the continuum using the clinical expertise embedded in an evidence-based nursing practice is paramount to assure excellence in service and to optimize a patient-centered experience.1,7-9
We all know that long after treatment is completed, and again as cancer survivors’ care is ongoing, patients remember how we treated them, how we made them feel, and how we treated their family and/or loved ones. Imagine the sense of comfort that patients treasure, knowing that they are personally connected to a CNN who, as their comments illustrate, made their experience so memorable, an experience that will not be forgotten. Because this experience and connection were so powerful, one can reasonably assume that patients realized a deeper and more meaningful sense of hope and healing, enabling them to move forward with living beyond cancer, always mindful that the connection with the CNN would continue. The CNN is readily available and will, at defined intervals, follow up to address the patients’ needs and concerns and provide encouragement to optimize whole-person well-being.
The literature is robust in outlining the definition and value of providing patient-centered care.10,11 Likewise, most, if not all, healthcare organizations today tout a care model that embodies patient-centered care. Interestingly, when reviewing what organizations define as patient-centered care, there is some consistency; however, most often significant variation exists, which likely results in patients having a different experience depending upon where their care was provided and by whom.
A nurse navigation program has the potential to be recognized as the hallmark model for patient-centered care. The principles of patient-centered care as outlined in 1993 by Gertels and colleagues10 and in 2001 by the Institute of Medicine4 are embodied in a nurse navigation program. CNNs partner with patients and families through the care continuum, respect and honor patients’ values and preferences, coordinate and integrate care, provide information and education, ensure that communication is seamless, evaluate and intervene to provide physical comfort and emotional support, and coordinate care transitions and continuity of care.
To ensure this patient-centered care model is provided consistently to every patient regardless of where navigation begins, it is imperative to standardize the role of the CNN, with a consistent job description, standards, competencies, and educational preparation.12 The intent of standardizing the CNN role is to define an evidence-based model with the most important dimensions of care outlined in the framework to ensure that patients are evaluated consistently for care needs that the evidence has identified as making a difference. Key dimensions of care, including patient education, advocacy, identifying and removing barriers, psychosocial management, and navigating and coordinating care across the continuum, have an impact on patient outcomes. The intended outcomes can be measured with confidence and validity only when the navigator’s role and key interventions are provided to every patient regardless of disease state. The degree of care is dependent upon the individual needs of the patient and family, with the CNN having the expertise to assess and plan the care needs accordingly. By having a consistent framework, organizations can measure, quantify, and validate the impact of the navigation program.
Data that demonstrate return on investment speak to administrators. We are aware that administrators support navigation programs in theory; however, they are aware that these programs are expensive and must be justified, thus the need to drive consistency in practice.
As reiterated in recent literature, the variance in navigation programs and lack of standardized procedures continue to challenge researchers in this field of study. Identifying key components relevant to effective navigation programs is essential.13 There is also a gap in comparing patient outcomes prospectively between patients who do use navigation services and those who do not use or have access to navigation services. Again, this has merit only if variance in the role is eliminated.12,13
Likewise, nursing clinical practice must be evidence based, with a clearly defined and outcome-driven, measurable clinical pathway. Data must include patient satisfaction and, more importantly, quality-of-life (QOL) outcomes due to the interventions of the CNN. Using a tool such as the National Comprehensive Cancer Network distress thermometer to evaluate distress at defined intervals would be invaluable in identifying patient stressors that need to be managed to impact QOL positively and ensure whole-person care.3,14,15
By being standardized and evidence based, the navigation model will accelerate in terms of need and demand for the following reasons. Patients today are seeking out cancer programs with CNNs because they have heard from family or friends or perhaps on the program’s Web site about the role of the CNN, and they want to have a navigator with them to support and coordinate all aspects of their care. As administrators want to differentiate their cancer programs from competitors, grateful and loyal patients singing the praises of the CNNs will result in increased administrative support for a navigation model. Second, a consistent navigation model will support excellence in the patient-centered experience and could serve as the prototype of coordination for accountable care expectations. Finally, cancer care accrediting bodies such as the Commission on Cancer are incorporating standards that outline expectations for patient navigation.7 In the Cancer Program Standards for 2012, standard 3.1 outlines expectations for the patient navigation process. This standard must be fully implemented and will be surveyed in 2015. By providing standardized, evidence-based care, organizations will satisfy the accreditation requirements, most likely with commendation.
Ever mindful of the resource challenges we are all facing, grateful patients oftentimes become generous donors to an organization’s foundation. Cancer patients often wish to “give back,” and do so in many ways, eg, volunteering or serving on a patient advisory council. Many times we miss a golden opportunity to ask for a charitable donation to the foundation as tribute to the excellent cancer care received because of the CNN. We also have the opportunity to share patient stories that will touch the hearts of those who may not have been touched by cancer personally but wish to become a donor to support a navigation program because of the positive impact it has on patients and families.
Patient stories and comments are powerful and compel us to pursue the development of navigation programs. The following story, titled “The Nurse and the Navigator: I Should Have Known,” was written by a breast cancer survivor. The story captures poignantly the sole purpose this paper is intended to convey: every patient deserves to experience a patient navigation program, through a consistent, standardized, evidence-based clinical practice, delivered by an experienced, knowledgeable, and compassionate oncology nurse. As you read this story, take note of how the author describes the soul-touching difference in her experience because of the CNN and the care team. I have read her story many times, and each time my emotions are triggered in yet another way that draws me to the absolute reason we need to have navigation programs in every cancer program, to best serve the patient in providing whole-person care.
The Nurse and the Navigator: I Should Have Known
You see, I should have known. I’m a nurse and worked with cancer nurse navigators. I should have known. Here is my story.
On a fateful Friday afternoon, Dr W., a radiologist, saw me after a second mammogram and asked if I wanted to do an ultrasound with biopsy that very afternoon because he wanted more information about what he saw on the mammogram. I wasn’t particularly alarmed because with a history of fibrocystic breast disease and many negative aspirations, I merely thought this would be another procedure that would turn out negative. However, I watched his eyes and the monitors and saw the expression in his eyes change as the big black spots appeared on the screen. I knew that something was amiss. As he took the biopsies from the middle of the blackness, my thoughts began to turn to the possibility that I soon could be one of those 1 of 8 women who have the diagnosis of breast cancer sometime in their lifetime. He asked if I wanted to be called on Saturday when the information came in or wait until Monday. Of course I opted for Saturday.
My husband had no idea of what had been happening that afternoon. When I recounted the events, I concluded with, “I won’t be surprised if the diagnosis is cancer when Dr W. calls tomorrow.”
The call came at 8:30 Saturday morning. Dr W.’s message was, “I have some good news and some bad news. Which do you want to hear first?” I opted for the bad news, which was that the biopsy was positive for cancer. I honestly have no memory of what the good news was. I couldn’t hear over the roar of the diagnosis of cancer. He said he’d contact Dr K., a breast surgeon, and I could talk with her immediately about treatment options. I thanked him, held myself together until I could hang up, and then my husband and I hugged and cried. Immediately I went into my denial mode, thinking that of course it was detected early because I’ve had regular mammograms, and everything would be simple.
By Monday, I was driven to get the treatment started immediately. I called the only person I knew who could help me, Jean McD, Director of Cancer Services, and told her I was coming to see Dr K., the breast surgeon, immediately. Jean asked about setting me up with a cancer navigator and I said absolutely No!! I wanted to see the surgeon TODAY, and I wanted to get treatment started immediately. Jean knew just what to say to me, and what to do. While I was driving to the Women’s Center, I was trying so hard to say the words “I have cancer” out loud, without crying. I knew I needed to hold myself together to talk to people and to get help. I yelled, whispered, hit the steering wheel, and probably scared off drivers on 94 West who had to assume the woman in that car was crazy. And they would have been right!
When I got to the Women’s Center, Pam L., a cancer nurse navigator (CNN), intercepted me, took me back to her office, and began to scrape me off the walls and ceiling to talk with me about my findings and possible interventions. Pam magically found 2½ hours to be with me that day to talk through what the journey could be like and what I needed to know to take the first baby steps. At no time did Pam ever get flustered, or act as if she had anything else to do that day. She was interrupted, exited for a few minutes, and came back, as if I were the only patient in the world that day. Her knowledge of cancer and of how she could best handle me and my reaction was so calming and caring. At the end, she asked if I needed to see Dr K. that day or Tuesday. Dr K. was at another hospital but would come over later in the afternoon to see me if I couldn’t wait until Tuesday.
I opted for Tuesday, because I was in a good space after talking with Pam, and she had given me lots of things to think about to organize my questions when I met with Dr K. the next day.
I should have known. As a nurse, I should have known that nurses are there to do the caring and the physical/psychosocial support, and to educate patients so they can better care for themselves. I did know that; but in my drive to quickly get this destructive creature out of my breast as soon as possible, I wanted to see the surgeon and get moving. Pam, as a trained CNN, very gently and calmly took me under her wing and started to navigate the journey with me, as a partner. I was a much more organized and calm patient when I met with Dr K. the next day. Pam created this sense of empowerment in me that, yes, I could get through this, and she would be there as my advocate every step of the journey.
But it didn’t stop there. I was not an easy patient. Life was very complicated for me at this time, and I had no time for cancer to appear in my life. Our granddaughter was going to be born in 3 weeks. I was leaving my position and interviewing for another. And somehow, pre-op procedures, surgery, and treatment had to be shoehorned between many unchangeable commitments. Dr K. gave my scheduling problems to Pam to solve, and she solved them efficiently and always with a smile. Pam was there for my lumpectomy and subsequent mastectomy, and she listened as I complained continually about my drains!
My journey ended up being not as simple as I had told myself it would be that first weekend after Dr W. had given me the diagnosis. For example, the lumpectomy found more cancer that hadn’t shown up on the diagnostic testing, more lymph glands were involved than initially thought, and the final blow was that, after the second elective mastectomy, cancer cells showed up in the pathology report in spite of 12 weeks of chemotherapy. Pam was there for me through all of these developments. Sometimes she would call me first and let me know the unexpected results the day before I met with Dr K. Other times, Dr K. called first, followed by a phone call from Pam to make sure I understood and to help plan the next steps. Chemo had some unexpected turns. Pam was always there checking on me and working with Dr Q., a medical oncologist, and the nurses in the infusion center just as she did when surgery was the primary treatment. And she followed me through radiation. If I had faced all these unexpected outcomes alone without Pam as my navigator, I promise you I would have been overwhelmed with stress and would have come through this journey traumatized and discouraged. Today I am stable, happy, and full of gratitude for my luck in having a navigator to truly lead me through this experience.
And now that I’m through the 11-month journey, Pam and Dr K. are now starting a program for survivors to help people like me attend to the hard work of life after treatment. Dr N., my radiation oncologist, once said to me that the hardest parts of the journey are when you get the diagnosis and when the treatment ends. I am assured now that I won’t be dropped, that I will have a navigator with me for this next chapter in the journey, and that I will be a better person for this.
My sorrow comes from knowing that not all patients have access to this level of care and navigation. Thanks to Jean McD, the Director of Cancer Services, I found Pam immediately. Other patients are picked up after surgery, or when they are in an acute crisis. I know that there are not enough Pams for everyone to be helped at the very beginning of treatment, but there should be. It is only right that everyone who goes through this journey have access immediately to the careful planning, advocacy, and organization that a navigator can provide. Physicians can’t do this work alone. It takes a village. It’s been beautiful to watch the intimate teamwork that Pam and the physicians draw on to coordinate, guide, and navigate patients through the long months of treatment and survivorship.
I should have known. I’m a nurse and know what beautiful work nurses can do. But in my distress, I just wanted to see Dr K. immediately to get surgery scheduled. I didn’t know all the presurgical procedures that were necessary. I now know firsthand the beautiful work that Pam and other nurse navigators can provide to patients. I am a stronger person today because Pam was there. If she were not there, I would have fared much less well. I should have known!
In summary, a diagnosis of cancer can be a time of transformation for a patient and her family. Supporting this challenging transformation, a cancer nurse navigation program will balance the art and science of patient-centered care to ensure a sense of hope, healing, and security regardless of the outcome.
Disclosures: Jean A. McDonald, RN, MS, has no conflict of interest or financial interest to disclose. Patty Abella, RN, BSN, has no conflict of interest or financial interest to disclose.
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This month's magazine has five articles by D. K. Christi, some of which I think have a general interest.
Most interesting to me is the following. I have NEVER used a camera except for the occasional throw-away camera.
The Spotlight recently asked me to do a roving reporter segment on New Year's Resolutions. I had to learn how to use a camera, take the pictures and interview the people - on the spot in the mall.
It was three challenges all around and I accepted the assignment with the idea that learning new things is a good thing - and it was.
Now, I know how to take photographs, sort of. Those photographs are in this addition of Spotlight News Magazine.
I am proud to write for this good news magazine and hope you enjoy the stories around my town and reaching out.
It does detract from marketing my new novel, Bamboo Ring, for which I would be delighted to receive offers of reviews - it is now available at all online print and ebook sites - everywhere - so exciting.


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A Thing of Beauty by Peter Fiennes describes ‘Travels in Mythical and Modern Greece’ and places the Greek Gods in the context of modern-day Greece.
Here at Greece Travel Secrets we’re suckers, of course, for travel books about Greece. Our shelves are sagging with them. They include classics like Patrick Leigh Fermor, Lawrence Durrell, and Henry Miller, to more recent must-read titles like Eurydice Street and Wild Abandon. To this list can be added A Thing of Beauty by Peter Fiennes, an evocative and informative book whose sub-title sums it up: Travels in Mythical and Modern Greece.
Peter Fiennes used to be the publisher of London’s Time Out, the magazine and book publishers, and as such he says he says he spent years trying to create the perfect guidebook. Speaking as a guidebook author, I know that’s a laudable but impossible task.
He’s also an author, his books including Footnotes: A Journey Round Britain in the Company of Great Writers (shortlisted for an Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award), To War with God: The Army Chaplain who Lost his Faith, and Oak and Ash and Thorn: The Ancient Woods and New Forests of Britain. This last was chosen by The Guardian as a Best Nature Book of the Year.
You would therefore expect his new book about Greece to shine when it comes to the nature writing, and it certainly does, though that is only one part of its multi-faceted appeal.
It’s for anyone interested in the Greek Gods and their myths, the Greek countryside and wildlife, Greek politics and history, climate change and sustainable living, whether there’s any hope in the world today… and just how many Greek salads can one man eat? If you’re interested in more than one of those topics, it’s definitely the book for you.
It’s the theme of the Greek myths which holds the book together, though, as the author travels around the country visiting the places where some of the more famous myths are said to have taken place.
Beginning in Athens and ending in Epirus, via a drive around the Peloponnese, the author retells those myths as well as talking to present-day Greeks – some in pre-arranged meetings and others by chance – and asking everyone the question he’s most curious about: is there hope?
It’s a serious question although the book itself is far from sombre, as the author has a light touch and is extremely funny in places.
In fact A Thing of Beauty begins not in Athens but in Nottinghamshire in England. At Newstead Abbey, to be exact, the ancestral home of George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, better-known to the world as Lord Byron, poet and Grecophile.
The author’s travel plans were scuppered, or at least delayed, by the outbreak of Covid. But it’s thanks to this that we get a hugely entertaining chapter about Byron and his family, filled with salacious details, leading up to his love affair with Greece. Well, he’d had every other kind of love affair, why not with an entire country?
And while Covid is initially an impediment, it turns out to add what was probably an unexpected dimension to A Thing of Beauty. After all, it’s not in the least bit far-fetched to look upon the pandemic as a curse brought down on mankind by the Gods above, Greek or otherwise. This is another theme the author skillfully weaves into the tapestry of his story.
Renting a car, and leaving his wife and son behind after a few family days, the author drives around Greece visiting such places as Eleusis, Corinth, Mycenae, Epidavros, Olympia, Delphi (where he encounters an online Oracle), Messolonghi (where Byron, or at least his heart, is buried), and ultimately to the wilds of Epirus, a majestic landscape threatened by voracious oil developers and by fracking.
While dealing with the immortal and almighty Gods, the author proves himself to be all-too-human, and very self-deprecating with it. He manages to get lost several times while hiking during A Thing of Beauty, stumbles across German nudists on a beach (not quite literally), and when he has at last treated himself to a decent hotel for the all-important visit to Delphi, he ends up in the worst room in the building, with the smell of tobacco and the sound of conversation – which is seldom whispered in Greece – both wafting in from a ventilation shaft of some kind.
For me the book builds to the best part, towards the end, where the author visits Epirus. Here he meets up with an ornithologist contact, Julian Hoffman, who lives in Prespa, and we’re treated to sightings that show just how rich parts of Greece are in birds and other flora and fauna. Even the ornithologist is impressed ('Good Lord!') by what they see in the Ambracian Gulf, a stone’s throw, literally, from the airport at Preveza which brings holidaymakers in by the charter-flight planeload throughout a normal summer.
In this section I learned where I’m definitely going to eat if I ever find myself in Mitikas, just outside Preveza: the Doctor of Hunger steakhouse, it has to be. It’s also in Epirus, at the Monastery of Rodia, that the author and his ornithologist companion meet an eccentric elderly Greek man named Costas, who for some reason seems to be gathering cyclamen. As they’re about to leave, Costas hands them a bunch of cyclamen and tells them with great feeling: ‘Remember what men are here for. It is to share stories about the things that matter.’
It’s a wonderful summing-up of what’s important in life, and Peter Fiennes should be proud of himself that in A Thing of Beauty he has done just that. He’s shared stories about things that matter.


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The 1950’s and 60’s was indeed a colorful time in history. During this period, it appears that color-phobia wasn’t much of an issue as homeowners used vibrant hues liberally. After all, it was a post-war era and there was much to be happy about.
A look back can be comical or maybe even nostalgic, but there is no doubt that this period influences today’s interiors as we continue to be inspired by classic streamlined furniture and bold hues.
These photos of present-day interiors are reminders that fun colors aren’t just for kids.


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