After winning the New York Republican primary, Donald Trump reminded America that he is nuts by giving the nation a looney victory speech.
Trump took the stage and told America that he was not going just make America great again. He was going to make America great again, legitimately.
Donald Trump has been laying low since his Wisconsin loss, and Trump’s speech was useful because it reminded the country that the Republican frontrunner is completely nuts.
At one point, Trump started ranting about one of his rich friends who was building a big building in New York. Trump promised that nobody was going to mess with America anymore. Trump continued by claiming that Obamacare will die of suicide. Donald Trump vowed that local communities will take care of education while completely ignoring that states and localities already are taking care of education.
In case anyone had forgotten, Donald Trump gave a quick little speech that reminded every single voter in the United States that he not sane. Trump said that he expects to have big weeks coming up because the states on the upcoming primary calendar are in big trouble. Trump also anointed himself an expert on the economy and jobs.
Donald Trump ended his speech by ranting about the Republican delegate system, and letting everyone know that this reality TV star belongs nowhere near the White House.
Mr. Easley is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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Download: Table Top Racing v1.0.11 [Money Mod] Apk | 132 MB | Mediafire
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From the co-creator of Sony’s blockbuster PlayStation franchise ‘WipEout’ comes ‘Table Top Racing’, a fast and furious combat racing game featuring console quality graphics and gameplay. ‘Table Top Racing’ pits all manner of crazy cars and automobiles against each other in a world of table top race tracks and over-sized obstacles.
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Affiliation: University of Missouri-Kansas City
- Testing the performance of the ENRICHD Social Support Instrument in cardiac patientsJoseph Vaglio
Mid America Heart Institute at St Lukes Hospital, Kansas City, MO, USA
Health Qual Life Outcomes 2:24. 2004..Validity and reliability of the ESSI, however, has not been formally tested in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)...
- Pharmacotherapy for obesity: a quantitative analysis of four decades of published randomized clinical trialsC K Haddock
University of Missouri Kansas City and Mid America Heart Institute, St Luke s Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri 64110, USA
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 26:262-73. 2002..This article provides the first comprehensive meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials of medications for obesity...
- Smoking and health outcomes after percutaneous coronary interventionC Keith Haddock
Mid America Heart Institute, St Luke s Hospital, and University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO 64111, USA
Am Heart J 145:652-7. 2003..This study was designed to describe the impact of smoking on health status and mortality after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)...
- Modified tobacco use and lifestyle change in risk-reducing beliefs about smokingC Keith Haddock
Department of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Am J Prev Med 27:35-41. 2004..Strategies examined included switching to low-yield cigarettes, replacing cigarettes with cigars, switching from cigarettes to smokeless tobacco, adopting a healthy diet, and engaging in regular exercise...
- Which pediatric residents assist and arrange follow-up for patients and parents who use tobacco?C Keith Haddock
University of Missouri Kansas City, Mid America Heart Institute, Saint Luke s Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri 64110, USA
J Adolesc Health 36:531-3. 2005....
- An analysis of messages about tobacco in military installation newspapersC Keith Haddock
Department of Psychology, University of Missouri Kansas City, 4825 Troost Ave, Suite 124, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA
Am J Public Health 95:1458-63. 2005..We sought to gauge the relative attention that tobacco control receives in military newspapers by comparing coverage of tobacco use with that of other health topics of importance to the military...
- The validity of self-rated health as a measure of health status among young military personnel: evidence from a cross-sectional surveyChristopher K Haddock
School of Medicine, University of Missouri Kansas City, 2411 Holmes Street, Room MC M03, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA
Health Qual Life Outcomes 4:57. 2006..Limited information is available to date that examines what relationships exist between self-rated health, health status and health related behaviors among relatively young, healthy individuals...
- An analysis of messages about tobacco in the Military Times magazinesC Keith Haddock
Department of Informatic Medicine and Personalized Health, School of Medicine, University of Missouri Kansas City, Western Missouri Mental Health Center, Kansas City, MO 64108, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 10:1191-7. 2008..These findings may partially explain the recent significant increase in smokeless tobacco use among military personnel...
- Banning cigarette smoking on US Navy submarines: a case studyHarry A Lando
Department of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Tob Control 24:e188-92. 2015..This is especially true in closed environments and submarines may be deployed for months at a time. The current case study describes the successful implementation by the Navy of a comprehensive ban on smoking aboard submarines...

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It’s the one time on holiday where windy weather and getting wet are welcome.
Take to the water with Skyscanner’s selection of surf spots, as windsurfing and kitesurfing expert Gareth Bayley introduces 6 of the best places to get on your board.
El Médano, Tenerife
Only 10 minutes drive from Tenerife Sur airport, El Medano is a wind and kite surfers’ paradise, featuring year-round cross-onshore winds from the left and water temperatures where you can get away with board shorts and rash vest (if you’re hardy) or a shorty wetsuit (if you’re a wuss). Water temps are around 17 C in mid-winter and 25-26 C in summer.
The wind is strongest and most reliable in summer, but the wind stats are pretty good all year round, thanks to a north-east trade wind strengthened further by a thermal effect. In summer, leave your big kites and sails at home; kiters here tend to use just 7m kites or smaller, and the windsurfers are looking at between 3.5m and 5m sails. Travel: find cheap flights to Tenerife
El Medano Bay – suitable for any level with a mixture of chop and small waves. The wind tends to fill in as the morning progresses, and then remains steady throughout the day, with surfers out right until sunset. El Médano is not the easiest place for learners, but there are schools right on the beach for both kitesurfing and windsurfing, with fully qualified instructors.
Cabezo – further upwind, featuring waves and only for the more advanced rider.
Like Tenerife, there’s very good and reliable wind in Fuerteventura, and off-water fun aplenty if the wind should drop, although Fuerte is so blessed with wind that it’s become a fixture of one of the major kitesurf world tours. Travel: find cheap flights to Fuerteventura airport.
Sotavento Beach – wide and long with a lagoon for learners to pick up the sport. On the outside, a mixture of chop and waves pulls in the more advanced.
Sotavento is around 40-50 minutes from Fuerteventura Puerto del Rosario airport.
Flag Beach – the other main location on Fuerte for wind. Situated in the north east.
**Cabarete, Dominican Republic north coast**
Another legendary spot in the Caribbean for wind and kitesurfers, with a chilled out beach atmosphere in which to recover from tricks gone awry. This is very much the place to mix a Caribbean holiday with your wind pursuits. Cabarete’s wind is most reliable in the summer months. Find cheap flights to the Dominican Republic
Kite Beach – this imaginatively named kite spot can get busy due to its relatively smooth waters protected by a reef but there is plenty of space to spread out in Cabarete, including at Bozo Beach a bit nearer to town, but featuring chop and small waves. If you get bored quickly, then there’s always a guided downwinder you can take.
Cabarete is about 30 minutes drive from the nearest airport, Puerto Plata. It’s quite a bit further to the next airport, Santo Domingo, around three-four hours drive away.
There’s a good range of accommodation for any taste and budget. And there’s a great variety of bars and restaurants on Cabarete’s main beach drag.
If the wind drops, you can always explore inland, cheaply hiring a car or motorcycle in Cabarete.
Aruba, a Dutch dependency located off the coast of Venezuela, has some of the most reliable wind stats on Earth. Not a big island, you nevertheless need to hire a car if you’re going to get the best out of the two wind spots, at either end of the island.
Fishermen’s Huts – this area provides off-shore wind and therefore flat water conditions. For a small fee, someone will keep an eye on you and bring you back in if you can’t stay upwind. Time is divided between kitesurfing (morning and late afternoon) and windsurfing (day).
Boca Grande – located at the other end of the island, the cross on-shore winds, chop and small waves at will keep you entertained for days. It’s not a huge bay for launching, but once you’re on the outside, there’s the whole Caribbean to play in.
Aruba is also great for diving, on wrecks as well as reefs. And for the ultimate dive sensation, head to Aruba’s sister island of Bonaire, the entire coast of which is a designated marine park, and rightly so. The water temperature is always balmy, so surfers can leave their wetsuits at home.
Aruba is the perfect place for a couple or family who want to be doing different things on their holidays. Beach bums can head to the brilliant (and cooler to the touch) coral sand beaches outside the main hotels. Watersports nuts can head off to the windsurfing, kiting and diving. And all can get together again in the evening, for the laidback but delicious Aruban cuisine.
Travel: Find cheap flights to Aruba
Red Sea, Egypt
There are a number of places around the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba, perfect for windsurfing, kitesurfing and diving.
Dahab – the "Goa of Egypt" but with plenty more wind averaging over 300 days a year of sailable weather. Dahab is laidback, friendly and always sunny, and along with Sharm el-Sheikh and Hurghada, is also world renowned for good diving. Travel: find cheap flights to Sharm el-Sheikh (just 1 hour away.)
Sharm el-Sheikh – not quite as windy as Dahab, but Sharm’s still got it. The main reason to come to Sharm, however, is to sample the world famous diving, including on the "Thistlegorm", the wreck of a World War 2 freighter complete with its wartime cargo. Plenty of dive schools here to choose from, as well as charter boats to join going out to the main sites on day trips or longer liveaboard excursions. Travel: find cheap flights to Sharm el-Sheikh, just minutes away.
Safaga – South of Hurghada, but with a much quieter vibe. Again, great wind statistics and different conditions for all levels. And did we mention the diving? Again, world class.
Moon Beach – for something a little bit different, try Moonbeachretreat.com, equidistant from Sharm el-Sheikh airport and Cairo International Airport. Moon Beach is a get away from it all kind of place, tucked away on the east coast of the Gulf of Suez, near Ras Sudr. There, you can try kitesurfing, windsurfing and yoga for when your limbs fail you. The Moon Beach team arrange windsurfing from your doorstep. The kitesurfing is run out of a resort twenty minutes up the road. The wind of course is great and reliable. No diving, though. Travel: find cheap flights to Cairo
**Tarifa, Spain **
The European Mecca of windsurfing and kitesurfing, Tarifa needs little introduction. Situated west of Algeciras on Spain’s Atlantic coast, Tarifa benefits from the effect of winds funnelling through the Straits of Gibraltar from the east (the "Levante") and the west (the "Poniente").
In summer, the Levante can get quite mental, occasionally hitting Force 10! But in general expect more manageable wind and a relaxed but hip off-water life, centred around the funky and compact Tarifa old town.
The water is a mixture of chop and small waves. Water temperatures are high in the summer, so you only need board shorts and rash vest. In the autumn and winter, you’re going to need a full wetsuit.
Off the water, there’s plenty to see and do, so hire a car and make some trips to fishing villages, mountain towns and the sherry capital of Jerez.
Next time, we’ll be looking at the best canoe and kayak holidays.

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The US Middle East envoy gave a positive assessment of the start of the peace talks, using the words “productive” and “cordial” and saying there was “good faith and seriousness of purpose”. George Mitchell also revealed that further talks in the Middle East are planned.
He said: “They agreed to meet again on September 14 and 15 in the region, and roughly two weeks thereafter … every two weeks thereafter. Of course, continued interactions at other levels between the parties, and also yet others involving the United States, will take place between those meetings.”
Mitchell said both leaders agreed on a goal of reaching a deal within a year, with the aim of resolving all of the core issues.

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We are excited to share great news with you. Today, the famous Kazakh singer Dimash Kudaibergen met with the winner of the Dombyra-Dastan competition Nurdaulet Sagatbek. Dimash Kudaibergen is a real star of the world stage and…
What a happiness, that we live in our peaceful and hospitable house!
For 20 years, our country has achieved great results from the day of adoption of the Constitution on all-people’s referendum, held on August 30, 1995.
Constitution is our history, guarantor of legitimacy, liberty, stability, great desire and ability to work for good of our native land!


text: The main attraction in this park, Caro I Street, is the Monument of the Heroes, erected in 1928-1933. The main block has two 3.5m tall figures and a statue of the goddess Victory. There are inserted portraits of King Ferdinand and Queen Mary and, with Trajan and Decebal(us) on the rear. There is also a crypt with the relics of fallen heroes of the WWI. A rose Park (12 ha) was opened in 1912 as an English style park area.

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Family is an interesting concept. It’s the people who surround you. It’s the people who share your genes and DNA. But what about the people you choose to become part of your family? Is that just descendants from a common ancestor, or does that include friends?
Baygirl by Heather Smith is a fantastic example that family is the people around you who love and support you and in return you chose to love, forgive, challenge, and encourage. The novel is told from the point of view of Kitty, a baygirl in Eastern Newfoundland, who moves to St. John’s with her parents when her father loses his job as a fisherman.
This novel was another one from the CBC’s Must Read list of young adult fiction. And it pulls a punch, literally (well, at least for some of the characters). We see how Kit deals with and increases the number of people in her family. Her Dad is an unemployed and depressed drunk. Her Uncle is a recovering alcoholic widower. Her Mom is a hardworker who tries her best to hold the family together. Her Nan is a saint who loves all of her family. Then Kit adds in members to her own family: the bizarre elderly man, Mr. Adams, from the Yorkshire Dales who lives next door and constantly drinks tea, and Elliot, the French-speaking, poetry writing geeky boyfriend. Throughout the novel, Kit learns to let people into her life, she learns to accept help, and most importantly she learns how to forgive.
I loved this novel because it was set in Newfoundland, where I’m heading for vacation in a few weeks. I also loved this novel because the characters were not perfect. I liked that despite all of the anger, fear, hate, and sadness, there were beautiful moments that show life is good. Although some people do not have the best family (who are related), it doesn’t mean you can’t create your own family.
If you are looking for a great young adult fiction summer read that is Canadian, Baygirl is the book for you! This novel is heartwarming, aggravating, and delightful all in one. If you don’t believe me, click here for what the CBC list has to say.
“Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.” (Ephesians 4:32)
“I always wondered – how does one forgive the person who has caused them to live their life walking on eggshells? This is the question I wanted to explore when writing Baygirl. This is why forgiveness is Kit’s biggest dilemma.” (Interview with Heather Smith)

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text: As a young aimless Latino punk rocker, Jaime Hernandez, along with his brothers Gilbert and Mario, self-published the first issue of Love and Rockets in 1981. It was picked up by Fantagraphics Books in 1982 and ran 50 issues before the brothers took a break to pursue solo projects. Jaime’s titles have included Love Bunglers, Maggie the Mechanic and God and Science. Love and Rockets was revived in 2000 and continues today. He has won numerous Harvey and Eisner awards, and well as a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His other work includes illustrations for magazines like The New Yorker, album covers, and the award-winning novel This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz.


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Cassandra Khaw’s Nothing But Blackened Teeth is a gorgeously creepy haunted house tale, steeped in Japanese folklore and full of devastating twists.
A Heian-era mansion stands abandoned, its foundations resting on the bones of a bride and its walls packed with the remains of the girls sacrificed to keep her company.
It’s the perfect venue for a group of thrill-seeking friends, brought back together to celebrate a wedding.
A night of food, drinks, and games quickly spirals into a nightmare as secrets get dragged out and relationships are tested.
But the house has secrets too. Lurking in the shadows is the ghost bride with a black smile and a hungry heart.
And she gets lonely down there in the dirt.
Effortlessly taking the classic haunted house story and turning it on its head, Nothing but Blackened Teeth is a sharp and devastating exploration of grief, the parasitic nature of relationships, and the consequences of our actions.
Cover art by Samuel Araya
Cover design by Peter Lutjen
CASSANDRA KHAW is an award-winning game writer, and former scriptwriter at Ubisoft Montreal. Khaw’s work can be found in places like Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed, and Tor.com. Khaw’s first original novella, Hammers on Bone, was a British Fantasy award and Locus award finalist, and their forthcoming novella, Nothing But Blackened Teeth, will be published by Nightfire in October 2021.
“Beautiful and brutal and heartbroken. Absolutely recommended.” —Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author of Every Heart a Doorway
“Brutally delicious! Khaw is a master of teasing your senses, and then terrorizing them!” —N.K. Jemisin, New York Times bestselling author of The Fifth Season
“Delicate and disgusting…Each page holds an image more finely drawn and disturbing than the last.” —T. Kingfisher, author of The Twisted Ones
“This book burns and crackles and slithers, its prose as beautiful and deadly as its horror. Cassandra Khaw is a master of the terrifying tale.” —Sam J Miller, Nebula-Award-winning author of Blackfish City
“Nothing But Blackened Teeth reads like the ghost-punk noir you never knew you needed. It’s sharp, playful, and nasty as hell.” —Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts
“Khaw’s got a sterling premise, enduring lore, and the fresh talent to voice it.” —Josh Malerman, New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box
“This is Hill House for this century, this is Belasco House with people we’ve known since third grade, and it’s got a smile so wicked you might just have to grin along with it. I know I did.” —Stephen Graham Jones, USA Today bestselling author of The Only Good Indians
“Reading Cassandra Khaw is akin to watching a nightmare ballet, full of beauty and elegance, pain and fragility, and breathless terror. Nothing but Blackened Teeth is mesmerizing. Don’t miss it!” —Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of Red Hands
“Khaw’s tale seems to come at you straight, setting up your story expectations, but then twists the knife at the last minute, leaving you reeling, but wanting more.” —Richard Kadrey, New York Times bestselling author of the Sandman Slim series
“Khaw is a prose wizard who has quickly become an auto-buy for me. This story of a wedding at a malevolent manor is as unexpected and delightful as her poetic approach to horror, and I loved every sharp, delicious twist of it.” —Kevin Hearne, New York Times bestselling author of the Iron Druid Chronicles
“Compulsively readable….This was a wonderful haunted-house story.” —Kij Johnson, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards
“This book is so magnificently rotten it writhes with literary maggots, and deserves a place of honor among its peers in horror.” —C. S. E. Cooney, World Fantasy Award-winning author of Bone Swans: Stories
“The kind of story you lose sleep over.” —Brian Evenson, author of Song for the Unraveling of the World


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MeerKAT telescope gets R800m for 20 new dishes
The investment in the MeerKAT extension is split roughly into two equal contributions of R400 million by SA and Germany.Staff Writer
Crucial step in SKA construction complete
A consortium tasked with planning the assembly, integration and verification of the radio telescope has completed its work.
SKA gets ability to monitor sky in unprecedented detail
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope has received a data processing boost.
SA debuts MeerKAT radio telescope
After a decade in design and construction, the 64-dish radio telescope is now officially ready to complete science operations.


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Criticism of former Senator Chuck Hagel for not backing the 2007 US “troop surge” in Iraq demands an explanation of why that relatively small reinforcement was not the main driver for reversing Iraq’s descent into violent chaos. In fact, when proposed in late 2006, there was widespread doubt about its potential [...]
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I’m pleased that President Obama is reportedly enlarging his list of possible candidates for senior national-security posts to Republicans, notably former Sen. Chuck Hagel, as reported by Josh Rogin, the Cable Guy, on yesterday. As has been pointed out by more than one commentator over the last few years, Obama’s [...]
- The Changing Distribution of World Population
- Gains and Losses of Irregular Migration
- Forced to Flee. Displaced with a Dream. Time for Action.
- African Politicians Asked to Develop Legal Instruments to Fight Climate Change
- India’s Electric Mobility Needs Enabling Infrastructure to Pick up Speed
- The Adaptive Age: No Institution or Individual can Stand on the Sidelines in the Fight Against Climate Change
- Nature-Based Climate Solutions Opportunity for Latin America
- Travel Tourism Must Transform to Survive, Thrive
- Fostering Jobs, Entrepreneurship, and Capacity Development for African Youth: The Time for Disruption Is Now!
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With a four-fight win streak in his back pocket and a number one contender fight against Martin Kampmann coming up at UFC 154 on Nov., 17, 2012 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Johny Hendricks is only one win away from fulfilling the ultimate mixed martial arts (MMA) goal:
Competing for a world title under the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) banner.
The two scrappy 170-pounders will step inside the Octagon in just under two weeks to determine who will get the next shot at competing for the promotion's welterweight title, which will be unified immediately after their bout in the headlining title fight between Georges St. Pierre and Carlos Condit.
"Big Rigg" spoke to BJPenn.com to discuss his upcoming bout against "The Hitman" and gave his predictions on the much-anticipated title fight between "Rush" and "The Natural Born Killer."
"There are a couple of questions, first and foremost how strong is GSP's knee? I'm hoping that it's 100% because then it's going to be a great fight. If his knee is 100% then we have to ask how strong Condit's takedown defense is. If GSP can take him down then it will be his fight all the way, but if his knees aren't good and he hesitates to take the shot then Condit is pretty deadly with his knees. If it turns into a stand-up battle I would have to give the edge to Condit."
Before St. Pierre and Condit handle their business, Hendricks looks to earn his shot at vying for UFC gold as he takes on the always tough and durable Dane, Martin Kampmann:
"I'm definitely preparing for a three round fight with Kampmann. I would never go into a fight thinking I'm going to knock anyone out. I always dream about it, but in reality I go into each fight expecting it to be a hard three round fight. If I don't train for that then I'm kidding myself because you never know how a fight is going to go. I could hit him with everything I have and he might not go down. He's not going to quit, he's going to take a lot of punishment especially considering there is a title shot on the line. In my mind I'm expecting to see the best Kampmann we've seen and for him to fight harder than he ever has."
Of course, should St. Pierre come out on top and if Dana White can make a ‘super fight' happen between "Rush" and current middleweight kingpin Anderson Silva, Hendricks or Kampmann will probably have to sit out for a lengthy period of time to contend for the belt.
Then again, the waiting game will be much shorter should Condit prove victorious.
Anyone agree with Hendricks' comments? Can Condit outstrike St. Pierre on the feet? Or will "GSP" turn it into a wrestling match?
Will Hendricks get past Kampmann for his first-ever shot at UFC gold?

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Lauren London (Born name Lauren Nicole London) is one of the famous person who hold multiple sector as her profession. Lauren who is best reckon as film and TV actress, hip-hop model, and television personality was born in the year 1984, December 5. Coming forward in the media field through the help of music video, she has been successful in turning her career from music video actress to film actress. She is best known for her remarkable performance in ATL film which was released in the year 2006, along with TV shows 90210, BET Comedy-drama, The Game and Entourage.
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Lauren London, who was born and raised in Los Angeles is the daughter of African-American mother and Jewish father. She attended Palisades High School and has attended several auditions for films, music video and commercials at very early age, which simply shows her great interest in the media field. Later in her life, she appeared in number of commercials followed by dozen of music videos to the artist such as Tyrese, Ludracis, Pharrell and Snoop Dogg.
Lauren London made her television debut from the show Everybody hates Chris in the year 2006 and in the same year she made her debut in the movie from ATL. The Christmas, I Love You, Beth Cooper, Next Day Air, Good Hair, Madea’s big Happy Family and Baggage Claim are her movie credits. Likewise, Entourage, 90210, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Single Ladies, Reed Between the Lines, The Game and The Real are her TV credits. Coming to this far, she has managed to remark herself as successful lady whereas she has been successful collecting huge amount of $6 million as her total net worth.
Covering her body facts and personal life information, Lauren London has been blessed with wondrous body figures. Having played in number of music videos in the past, her warm presence and immense beauty has been appreciated and admired millions of people. Having perfect figure, she has number of photos on internet showing her flawless body and wearing only bikini. Lauren London height stands as 5 feet 2 inch while Lauren London body measurement is 35-26-25 inches. She has not went under any surgery while she has the weight of 119 lbs.
Regarding Lauren London's relationship, it’s quite messy. There’s no doubt that she has been approached by many men in the past but Lauren relationship with the king of hip-hop artist Lil-Wayne is one of the hot topic in the internet. Disclosing her relationship with the media, she states that she met Lil when she was only 15 years old, the couple first met in the year 1998 when Lil was struggling to get success. Being together for so many years, the couple ended their relationship in the year 2009. In the September of 2009, the news spread that Lauren got pregnant with Lil son, the news was true and she states that Lil was there all the time supporting her during that crucial stage. Later she gave birth to the handsome son Cameron Carter. In addition, she added that she tried to carry on the relationship but she can’t and her son’s father is a very loving and kind person however he will remain as only friend to her. She is currently in relationship with rapper Nipsey Hussel.


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Nielsen gets 10th shutout, Sporting KC blanks Crew
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP)—Claudio Bieler converted a penalty kick in the first half for his first goal in nearly two months, leading Sporting Kansas City to a 3-0 victory over the Columbus Crew on Saturday night.
Sporting moved into the Eastern Conference lead, three points ahead of New York and Montreal, who both play on Sunday. Columbus (9-14-5) dropped to 1-1 under interim manager Brian Bliss, who replaced the fired Robert Warzycha on Monday.
Bieler scored on a penalty kick in the seventh minute—his first goal since July 15—to put Sporting up 1-0, after Will Trapp brought down Benny Feilhaber in the penalty area, and also provided the assist on Saad’s goal in the 41st, a hard shot to the far post from the left side of the area.
Sapong’s header in the 55th off a long diagonal pass from Uri Rosell made it 3-0.
Nielsen didn’t have to make a save until the 78th minute, when he stopped Jairo Arietta’s low shot.
- Chile beats Peru 2-1 to reach Copa America final
- UEFA eases restrictions on club spending
- Czech football great Josef Masopust dies at 84
- Wright-Phillips sparks the Red Bulls rally, 3-1 over NYCFC
- Spanish league appeals FIFA switch of 2022 World Cup dates
- Iwabuchi lifts Japan to semis with 1-0 win over Australia
- Sporting KC beats Rapids 2-0 in Chance Myers' return
- Paraguay again eliminates Brazil in Copa America quarters
- Dutch FA terminates Hiddink's contract as coach
- Goalkeeper Petr Cech joins Arsenal from Chelsea
- Fanendo Adi leads Timbers past Sounders, 4-1
- Argentina leads final 4 in Copa America semifinals
- FIFA election monitor urges Blatter to commit to going
- Earthquakes beat Galaxy 3-1 in California Clasico
- Finlay, Crew earn 2-2 road draw with Real Salt Lake
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Hmmm, perhaps the cover should have given me some inkling as to what I was letting myself in for when I picked up T.E. Hodden's book to read. This is the second book of Hodden's that I have read, but it was nothing like the first; in fact, it probably couldn't have been any more different if it tried.
My initial reaction to "A Little Trouble" was "A Little Perturbed". I'm not sure what the genre of this is in the new vernacular, but to an old-school reader like me, it was simply Science Fiction. When we meet the principal character in A Little Trouble, Ed Reaper, he is preparing for Christmas, with his living "toy" companions. These companions are living, furry,toys but are also co-workers in the organisation Ed works for; DREAD!
Ed, his companions, as well as a next-door neighbour, and her nine-year-old daughter are about to be pitched into battle against one of many alien forces who wish to take over the earth for their own nefarious purposes. To complicate matters, Ed is also forced to deal with his dead father who has come back to join forces with the alien invader, known as The Madness, and create a world in his father's vision.
The interactions between Ed and his Father were definitely one of the more interesting aspects of this book. Hodden addresses many of the issues that come up when someone seeks to force their interpretation of utopia on an unsuspecting population. I always like it when an author questions issues relative to today's society in a science fiction/fantasy setting. This was exceptionally well done and added greatly to the book's appeal.
The whole idea of little, furry, toys being living creatures and helping Ed and his team to fight The Madness took a while to get my head around, but in many way ended up making the story much more fun and light than it could have been. The companions each have their own distinct personalities and this makes the characters and the story flow well.
If this is your genre, you will love this story. It has everything you need in a good, rollicking, fantasy tale; heroes, quests, evil beings, battles, great courage, humour and an affirmation of the human spirit. I really enjoyed the book and would recommend it to anyone who wants an adventure with a bit of fun.
Why not 5 Stars? Firstly, although I did enjoy the book and I do love reading outside of my comfort zone from time to time, A Little Trouble really is not my preferred genre and there were times when I had to force myself to accept some of the things Hodden introduced into the story. Secondly, there were a few too many editorial issues in the book, that could be tidied up. I heartily give this 4.5 stars though. It was a different and a fun read.
I admire the author for producing two excellent books (that I've read so far) that were so completely different. Authors can often become stuck in a genre and their books become formulaic. I suspect this will not happen to Hodden. A good job and a good read!
You can check out this book here: http://amzn.to/1NPnccQ

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THERESIENSTADT COMPOSERS We all know that where words fail music can speak yet it is still remarkable to think that during times of unimaginable horror the musicians held in Theresienstadt
We all know that where words fail music can speak yet it is still remarkable to think that during times of unimaginable horror the musicians held in Theresienstadt were able to garner any creativity at all, let alone enough to compose works as meaningful and moving as these. However, they did so to promote survival and signify hope for a better world one that so many of them did not get to see, and as such, more so perhaps than with any other music, it is our duty and privilege to give these works a voice now and long into the future, so that generations current and future can enjoy them and reflect upon them.
This concert features two young artists hand-picked by Julius Drake; BBC New Generation Artist and Kathleen Ferrier Prize winning mezzo soprano Ema Niklovska and multi-award winning baritone Konstantin Krimmel.
Ilse Weber Ich wandre durch Theresienstadt | Ade, Kamerad! | Wiegenlied
Viktor Ullmann Berjoskele from Three Jewish Songs | Five Love Songs of Richarda Huch | Three songs on poems by Friedrich Hölderlin | Three songs on poems by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer | Little Cakewalk
Gideon Klein Wiegenlied
Pavel Haas Four Songs on Chinese Poetry
Adolf Strauss Ich weiss bestimmt, ich werd dich wiedersehen!
Carlo Taube Un niño judío
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Empathy, Elon Musk, And Electronica : See / Read / Listen To This: Issue #11
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Movie | Netflix)
If you could permanently erase painful memories of an ex-lover, would you do it? Consider your answer now, then watch this masterpiece from Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman. It has a bit of everything you want in a great movie: heart-tugging emotion, laugh out loud humor, astonishing visual effects, and tremendous performances by the two leads, Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet. I can’t recommend it enough, it’s one of my favorite movies ever.
Brene Brown on Empathy (2:53 on Youtube)
This beautifully animated little video from the RSA, narrated by Brene Brown, dives into the distinction between empathy and sympathy and provides a few useful reminders of why empathy is much more challenging, but also much more rewarding. Dr. Brown also gave a famous TED talk on a similar subject, well worth watching, that can be found here.
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (Short Video Series | Free)
This free web series from Jerry Seinfeld is exactly as advertised: he takes one of his famous comedian friends in a nice car to get coffee. Along the way, they talk about their shared history, the art of story and joke telling, and more. It’s a light show, easy and mindless to watch, but for some reason I find it quite relaxing. I often put it on in the background while I’m doing other things, almost like a radio show, and usually find myself chuckling a few times per episode. For fans of the TV show Seinfeld, the episode with Julia Louis-Dreyfuss is particularly endearing.
The Four Day Week: Less is More (~6 Minutes)
I love reading about simple social innovations that can have outsized impacts, so I was immediately taken by this article about the four day work week. To my surprise, the shortened work week has already been tried out in a number of cases, usually with resoundingly positive results. For example, in Utah, changing to four hour days for most public/government employees resulted in happier workers, happier customers (e.g. people could go to the DMV after work, since it was open later), and lower carbon emissions.
Elon Musk Believes We’re Probably Characters in Some Advanced Civilization’s Video Game (~5 Minutes)
The title of this article is not hyperbole, despite how ridiculous it might sound. Even stranger, though, is the fact that this isn’t some wacko conspiracy theory, but rather a serious philosophical position with serious academic backing. I, for one, find at least the premise not only plausible but likely, although I’m not sure I share the same conclusion as Musk. For a quick five minute rundown of this mindbogglingly interesting debate, check out this article from Vox.
Nestle, Europe’s most valuable company (!!), boldly wants to redefine themselves as a scientifically driven “nutrition, health, and wellness company”. On it’s face, this is laughable, considering they’ve spent the last century selling candies and chocolates, but upon deeper inspection their audacious plan is worth taking seriously, if only because they have the scale and resources to make it a reality. Personally, I’m skeptical, but from a business and public health perspective it’s an intriguing idea.
This track from Montreal producer Kaytranada meshes together funk, soul, r&b, and electronica to create something greater than the sum of it’s parts. Syd, from the fantastic group “The Internet”, contributes lovely vocals If you enjoy this song, Kaytranada’s entire album – 99.9% – is well worth listening to.
More Perfect: The Political Thicket (Podcast)
For any fans of Radiolab, I recommend listening to Jad Abumrad’s new show “More Perfect” which focuses exclusively on the Supreme Court and their effect on society. In this episode, they explore the Supreme Court case that effectively “broke” two justices and set the Court on a completely new, politicized, path. Great sound design and an interesting story that focuses as much on the characters as the consequences, can’t ask for much more.
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Gulf Coast Quilt Trail
Quilt Trails are located in all 50 states with over 8000 Barn Quilts hanging as public art. Originally they were hung on barns but now they hang everywhere.
Follow our map and participate in a scavenger hunt from inside your car or take a walking tour.
Come to one of our DIY painting parties and paint your own Barn Quilt to hang on your home or business.
Barn Quilt Trails have become the largest grassroots public arts movement in our nation’s history. The first Quilt Trail Block was painted in 2001 in Adams County, Ohio. The first Barn Quilt in Florida was painted in 2013 in Trenton.
The size of each blocks/squares varies from a 2′ X 2′ to 4’x4’ to 8’x8’ and some even larger. Our Quilt Trail will link with the Florida Quilt Trail and other national Barn Quilt Trails.
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Malaria Journal published a few days ago an article comparing the costs of treating children and adults for malaria at a Nigerian hospital based on clinical diagnosis versus treating only when microscopy was positive for parasites. Normally we would pass abstracts from such articles on to members of our listserve (see link at right), but comments from a colleague in Nigeria gave pause.
He rightly pointed out that normally any research that helps us consider the factors involved in proper malaria diagnosis and treatment is welcome as we move toward universal coverage and elimination. His concern was that the researchers, who conducted their study in 2009, had not followed national malaria treatment policy and guidelines, which had been promulgated in 2005 based on the alarming growth of resistance of malaria parasites to the common, though cheap, antimalarials such as chloroquine and sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP).
First the cost findings from the team at Bowen University Teaching Hospital (aka Baptist Medical Center, Ogbomosho) –
- For children, testing all but treating only Giemsa positives was $6.04/child
- Empiric treatment of all children clinically diagnosed was $4.49/child
- For adults, treating only Giemsa positives was $4.84/adult for treatment option one and $4.97/adult for option two
- Empiric treatment for adults was $4.14/adult for option one and $4.63/adult for option 2
In spite of the cost findings, the researchers did point out the drawbacks of empirical or clinical diagnosis in terms of accuracy and potentials for promoting drug resistance and called for scale up of rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) to address these concerns.
The treatment regimens in this study included …
- Pediatric patients: artesunate (6-9 tablets of 3 mg/kg on day one and 1.5 mg/kg for the next four days) plus amodiaquine (10 mg/kg on days one to two and 5 mg/kg on day three in suspension)
- Adult option one: four and one-half 50 mg artesunate tablets on day one and nine additional artesunate tablets over the next four days, plus three 500 mg sulphadoxine/25 mg pyrimethamine tablets
- Adult option two: four and one-half 50 mg artesunate tablets on day one and nine additional artesunate tablets for the next four days plus nine 200 mg tablets of amodiaquine at a dose of 10 mg/kg on day one to two and 5 mg/kg on day three
National treatment guidelines specifically stress use of artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) for basic, uncomplicated malaria treatment.These guidelines are undergoing further revision with a stronger emphasis on ACT use based on RDTs and microscopy where available and recognition of the dangers of monotherapy drugs like chloroquine, SP and even artesunate itself.
The researchers from Ogbomosho are rightly concerned about cost issues, and being a private/NGO university and hospital, they do witness the direct effects of medication costs on patients that health staff in the public sector may not see.
This is still no excuse for not following national treatment guidelines when these drugs were available for their procurement in 2009. Now with the advent of the Affordable Medicine Facility malaria (AMFm) in Nigeria all health facilities, especially NGO hospitals like Ogbomosho, have no reason not to buy and dispense the correct medicines.
To re-emphasize this point, a press release from November 2010 clearly states –
“The Federal Government has directed all medical doctors and other health officials in the country to henceforth start using Artemisinin-based Combined Therapy (ACT) for the treatment of malaria disease in the country. Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, gave the directive yesterday in Abuja during the ministerial press briefing on Affordable Medicines Facility (AMF) for malaria programme. According to the minister, the spread of malaria had become so critical that everyone in the country was now involved.”
We hope health workers in all sectors get the word! Hopefully national authorities will step up their efforts to disseminate guidelines to all front line health workers whether in public, private or NGO sectors.


The reaction to Tall Tall Shadow (Secret City), Basia Bulat’s third full-length, has been exceedingly positive, a happy circumstance for a performer who made her thus-far moderate fame on the folk singer/songwriter circuit and is now looking to switch things up. Bulat’s first two albums, adept enough affairs, traded mostly in the light arrangements and soft dynamics of contemporary folk music. If her talents extend beyond many of her peers (notably her staggering facility on a wide range of stringed instruments from the dulcimer to the charango), her aesthetic palette as presented on her first two albums was largely traditional. Tall Tall Shadow, by contrast, opens with the stomping, gradual crescendo of the title track, an immediate announcement of increasing speed and volume that sustains for the rest of the record. It’s a sonic gamble for Bulat, who for the first time finds herself pushing her aesthetics into more energetic territory. Still, the song structures and modes are of a piece with her previous releases, making Tall Tall Shadow a furtherance rather than a divergence from her previous work. Bulat will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our new feature on her.
Bulat: I don’t think I’ve ever cried as hard reading a book as I did while reading the final chapters of Just Kids. I don’t even know what else I could say about this book except that I loved it so.
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The deputy head of Hong Kong’s securities watchdog has dismissed speculation that the new chair of the China Securities Regulatory Commission will hinder the launch of the China-Hong Kong mutual-recognition scheme for funds.
Under the scheme, announced in January by Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission, qualified SFC-authorised funds domiciled in Hong Kong will become “recognised Hong Kong funds”, while Chinese counterparts will become “recognised mainland funds”. These funds could then buy and sell directly into each other’s markets.
Soon after the announcement, the CSRC named Xiao Gang chairman, sparking rumours that Xiao – viewed as more conservative than predecessor Guo Shuqing – would slow the mutual fund programme.
However, SFC deputy CEO Alexa Lam, speaking at the FT Asset Management Summit in Hong Kong last week, brushed off these concerns.
“I haven’t got any indications from the CSRC that [the launch] will slow,” Lam said, insisting that Xiao is in full support of the programme. “The reason is very simple: the CSRC understands that if they are to get to ready for the renminbi to become a widely accepted and used currency, they have to liberalise their financial markets, [and] they know Hong Kong is probably the best place [to] start [the programme].”
She also discarded chatter that mainland Chinese fund houses are not keen on the scheme, as they view it as direct competition to their qualified domestic institutional investor (QDII) programme. (In fact, some argue that certain asset managers, which claim the Chinese funds industry is overcrowded, are even considering lobbying the CSRC to slow the programme.)
Lam says the mutual-recognition scheme is simply another way for China to open its financial markets gradually in a way that keeps mainland regulators comfortable.
Similar to the renminbi qualified foreign institutional investor (RQFII) scheme, which limits the number of firms partaking in the programme, “the mutual fund platform will not open overnight to everybody”, Lam adds. “They will do it bit by bit.
“At this point, we are at the first stage, which is a technical exercise involving the mapping of the two regimes,” she says, noting that as Hong Kong is under a common law framework and China under a civil one, the two regulators are discussing different ways of protecting investors. The regulators will later outline qualification parameters and guidelines.
Lam did not comment on a timeline, although she did say both regulators have formed a group focused on this scheme that meets frequently in Beijing and Hong Kong.

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Google always make interesting & beautiful doodle to celebrate the important events and anniversaries of famous people by honouring them with a Google Doodle. Today, on 19th February 2013, Google make very beautiful doodle for 540th Birth Anniversary of Nicolaus Copernicus. Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance mathematician and astronome who first came up with the theory that the earth moves around the sun, […]
On Friday 8th February 2013 Google is celebrating Ghazal King late Jagjit Singh’s 72nd birthday. And on this occasion Google’s doodle is dedicated to Jagjit Singh. Google is giving a tribute to India’s best known ghazal singer by a doodle to pay respect to him. Doodle shows Jagjit Singh sitting […]
Its Robert Moog’s 78th Birth Anniversary & Google has come out with another captivating doodle today. To pay the tribute to Robert Moog, Google presents an interactive Moog Recordable Synthesizer on its homepage.
To celebrate the 100th birth anniversary of famous French Photographer Robert Doisneau, Google has posted a collection of four of his most famous photographs in the form of a Google doodle.
Veteran Bollywood writer-filmmaker O P Dutta passed away last night following a bout of pneumonia at the Kokilaben Hospital in suburban Andheri. O P Dutta, who had worked on films like Refugee, Border and Umrao Jaan, breathed his last around 2 am last night.
Computer prodigy Arfa Karim Randhawa, who was the World’s Youngest Microsoft Certified Professional, died at the age of 16 in a hospital in Lahore, Pakistan. Arfa Karim Randhawa was born on 2 February 1995 & died on 14 January 2012 after a heart attack following an epileptic fit.
Today is the 176th birthday of Mark Twain’s. Google is celebrated this occasion with a nice doodle which depicts a famous scene from one of Twain’s most famous novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Samuel Langhorne Clemens who is better known by his pen name Mark Twain was born on November 30, […]
Assamese litterateur writer & Jnanpith Award winner Mamoni Raisom Goswami aka Indira Goswami popularly known as Mamoni Baideo passes away. Indira, who had taken the initiative to bring the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) to the negotiating table, passed away at a hospital here after prolonged illness. She was an […]
Today is 144th birth anniversary of Marie Curie, the whole world will remember for her drastic contribution in the field of Science. Marie Sklodowska Curie was born on 7 November1867 was a polish- french physicist-chemist. She was daughter of secondary teacher, recieved general education in local schools. Marie Curie was married to […]
Today is the 100th birth anniversary of Mary Blair & Google is back with another interesting doodle. Google is celebrated Mary Blair’s 100th Birthday with a cool Google Doodle.


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New York City police arrested a relative in the death of a child nicknamed Baby Hope whose body was discovered in a picnic cooler in 1991.
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Words by Jason Baker, Director of Campaigns, PETA Australia
Every fur coat, lining or piece of trim represents the suffering of dozens of animals, whether they have been caught in the wild and slaughtered or confined to farms. Furriers also often intentionally mislabel items, and fur in Australia can come from animals (including cats and dogs) who have been beaten, boiled, hung, electrocuted or skinned alive on Chinese fur farms.
Following an ongoing campaign by PETA Australia that included e-mails from activists, designer Aje. has confirmed that it is both fur- AND angora-free!
Aje.’s decision to join the long list of Australian designers who have pledged not to use fur is another great victory for animals who are tortured for their skin, and we are very pleased to hear that the label has taken this compassionate stance.
More information on animals used for fur is available on the PETA website.


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[Policy Recommendations] Achieving Equity in Multidisciplinary Pain Treatment and Support Systems for Pain Management (March 31, 2023)
Today, the Health and Global Policy Institute (HGPI) Project for Chronic Pain Measures has presented policy recommendations titled, “Achieving Equity in Multidisciplinary Pain Treatment and Support Systems for Pain Management.” These recommendations are based on findings from desk studies and interviews with people living with chronic pain, healthcare providers, academia, and specialists in related fields. For more details, please find the PDF document attached at the bottom.
It has been reported that chronic pain affects 22.5% of the adult population in Japan, which is approximately 23.15 million people. And it has been estimated that chronic pain costs the Japanese economy approximately 2 trillion yen per year, mostly due to economic losses from the impact of chronic pain on the working population. Among elderly people, there are many cases in which people are certified as requiring long-term care or support due to chronic joint diseases. As Japan transitions to a super-aging society and begins to face tighter conditions surrounding social security funding and personnel shortages in healthcare and long-term care, the need to advance measures for chronic pain grows urgent.
In 2020, the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) revised its definition of pain for the first time in 41 years. The new definition emphasizes that pain does not always correspond to tissue damage, that it is highly personal, and that it is impacted by the emotions and experiences of the individual. In light of these characteristics, recent reports have shown that in addition to conventional, biological approaches, multidisciplinary interventions provided by various specialists based on the biopsychosocial (BPS) model can be effective for pain management. In Japan and a number of other countries, treatment guidelines for chronic pain recommend a wide range of interventions other than pharmacotherapy. These include educational interventions, psychotherapy, exercise therapy, and integrative medicine or complementary therapies like acupuncture and moxibustion, yoga, and meditation.
However, many of the interventions described by those guidelines are only available at a few facilities in Japan, such as the country’s 38 university hospitals that have been designated as “multidisciplinary pain centers.” Action must be taken to further promote said interventions, such as by ensuring multidisciplinary pain center operations are sustainable or through collaboration with community health services. Our policy recommendations summarize current issues related to pain treatment and support services and, based on those issues, outline steps that must be taken and discussion points that must be addressed to establish a system that rapidly delivers multidisciplinary treatment and support.
■ Overview of “Achieving Equity in Multidisciplinary Pain Treatment and Support Systems for Pain Management” policy recommendations
- Reinforcing education and awareness raising to foster public understanding toward concepts related to pain
1.1 Introduce education and training programs before and after graduation for all disciplines in health, medicine, and welfare as well as for healthcare-related private sector services
1.2 Reinforce education and awareness raising efforts that foster an appropriate understanding of pain among the public
- Building systems that deliver specialized treatment and integrated care
2.1 Reinforce secondary care by creating independent departments that specialize in pain medicine, establishing a specialist certification, and training personnel to lead specialized treatment
2.2 Strengthen primary care through which parties most affected receive the integrated treatment and support they require by linking comprehensive care and consultation services with various community resources
2.3 Establish systems for collaboration across specialties, departments, facilities, and systems to provide a foundation for multidisciplinary treatment and support
- Establishing a system that builds evidence for a broad variety interventions and rapidly disseminates them
3.1 Reinforce multidisciplinary research systems that conduct specialized research related to pain
3.2 Establish a data infrastructure to facilitate efforts to verify effectiveness for various interventions
3.3 Clarify methods of evaluating new human technologies as well as for completing processes like obtaining insurance coverage
- Formulating policy guidelines that are based on the perspectives of those most affected to achieve equity when providing a broad range of evidence-based interventions
4.1 Adopt the eleventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) in a timely manner and build a foundation for reinforcing treatment and support systems that address pain as a disease
4.2 Reconsider the definition of “medical practice” and the scope of benefits offered by public health insurance and establish systems that will serve as a foundation for implementing a biopsychosocial model that supports people living with chronic pain
4.3 Hold multi-stakeholder discussions and formulate a Basic Act on Chronic Pain that is based on the needs of people living with chronic pain
Hearing participants (titles omitted; in Japanese syllabary order)
Mariko Asaeda (Vice-Representative Director, the Goodbye Pain Patient Support Organization for Intractable Neuropathic Pain)
Masako Ikawa (Dental Surgeon, Department of Oral Surgery, Shizuoka City Shimizu Hospital)
Masako Iseki (Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine)
Takahiro Ushida (Director and Professor, Multidisciplinary Pain Center and Institute of Physical Fitness, Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation, Aichi Medical University)
Fusao Kato (Director, Jikei Center for Neuroscience of Pain, The Jikei University School of Medicine)
Masaki Kitahara (Clinical Professor, Pain Clinic, Yokohama City University Medical Center)
Hironori Kuga (Director, National Center for Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Research, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry)
Eriko Satomi (Chief, Department of Palliative Medicine, National Cancer Center Hospital)
Yumika Shirase (Professor, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University)
Takuya Numasawa (Director, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Hachinohe City Hospital)
Sei Fukui (Clinical Professor, Pain Management Clinic, Shiga University of Medical Science Hospital)
Takako Matsubara (Professor, Graduate School of Rehabilitation, Kobe Gakuin University)
Koji Mori (Professor, Department of Occupational Health Practice and Management, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan)
Shoji Yabuki (Professor, Endowed Chair, Department of Pain Medicine, Fukushima Medical University)
Kazuho Wakazono (Representative Director, the Goodbye Pain Patient Support Organization for Intractable Neuropathic Pain)
*Please note that these recommendations were compiled by independent health policy think-tank HGPI based on hearings and desk research. They should not be taken to represent the opinions of any specific advisory board member, any related party, or any organization to which those parties are affiliated.

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President Donald Trump recently skipped an opportunity to throw out the first pitch at the World Series – and missed out on a chance to one-up his archnemesis former President Barack Obama in the process. Trump was reportedly a good baseball player in his youth, and while age has certainly diminished the old throwing arm, he only had to throw the ball with a little heat on it to beat Obama.
New York state politics has had its fair share of elected officials with athletic skills to show off over the years. Former Gov. Mario Cuomo kept his throwing form in good shape long after his brief minor league baseball career. Former Buffalo Bills player and Republican Rep. Jack Kemp of Buffalo was a go-to quarterback in the GOP congressional conference for decades. He later teamed up in the political sphere with former teammate Ed Rutkowski, who served as Erie County executive and a state parks deputy commissioner under then-Gov. George Pataki.
Here’s today’s roster of New York’s athletically inclined elected officials.
Assemblywoman Rodneyse Bichotte
The Brooklyn Democrat has a junior black belt in taekwondo – one of several martial arts she practices. Considering her adeptness at kicking, punching and using nunchucks, Republicans better think twice before proposing hostile amendments on her bills in 2020.
Suffolk County Executive Steven Bellone
In the homestretch of his 2019 reelection campaign, the 50-year-old has kept up appearances on the running circuit by participating in the Oct. 27 Suffolk County Marathon, where he posted a 4:48:55 time in his sixth marathon since 2014. Gives a whole new meaning to political endurance.
New York City Councilman Robert Cornegy Jr.
At 6 feet, 10 inches tall, the Brooklyn Democrat holds the record as the tallest elected official in the world. He played on St. John’s University's 1984-85 Final Four basketball team and then professionally in Israel and Turkey. Making moves in City Hall may be his forte nowadays, but his height guarantees a spot on any pickup team.
State Sen. James Tedisco
The sub-6-foot-tall lawmaker was a standout basketball player at Union College, where he averaged 25 points per game and had a single-game high of 49. He may not cut through the lane like the old days, but he’s still a perimeter threat who can shake and bake.
State Sen. James Skoufis
After honing his table tennis skills by using a cassette case as a paddle, the future Hudson Valley lawmaker became a top 2003 Junior Olympic player. If you want to shark some games after hours, then you’d better get the Skouf in on the action – when he’s not too busy showing off for constituents at community events.
Rep. Antonio Delgado
After playing forward for Colgate University in the 1996 NCAA tournament, the Schenectady native moved on to occupy the political center as a freshman lawmaker representing the Capital Region and the Catskills. It’s the perfect place to put to use all he learned from his basketball days playing in the Patriot League.
State Sen. John Liu
Ironman John Liu can run, swim and ride a bike long distances. His pilot’s license means he’s also a threat by air. If he adds some punch to his honorary fifth-degree black belt and some demolition skills, he could go toe-to-toe with former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Assemblyman Edward Braunstein
After playing midfielder as a Division I soccer player for the University at Albany, the Queens Democrat can boast some solid kicking and running skills. Nowadays, he lets off steam by tearing it up on the basketball court in lawmaker pickup games.
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Adobe Capital, the venture capital arm of impact investing firm New Ventures, is out to prove that the path to growth, and competitive venture returns, in Mexico runs through social ventures.
Adobe has raised $21 million in the first close of its second fund aimed at filling the “missing middle” financing gap for small and mid-sized social ventures in Mexico and Latin America. The fund aims to raise a total of $40 million.
“We wanted to prove that this kind of mechanism in developing countries is a good strategy for investors,” Rodrigo Villar, the founder and managing director of New Ventures, told ImpactAlpha.
“The market is moving fast,” says Villar. “The are a lot of new accelerators. Universities are taking action. Some parts of the government are getting involved.” With Adobe’s second fund, New Ventures has its own proof point for the potential for impact investing in Mexico.
Read the full article by Dennis Price about social ventures on ImpactAlpha
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Fellini's first colour film is an homage to his real-life wife, Giulietta Masina who gives a superb yet nuanced performance in this stunning cinema classic. Giulietta plays her namesake, a bored, timid and unfulfilled wife who, suspecting her husband's infidelity, enters a surreal fantasy journey of self-discovery filled with dreams and fantasies. Much of her fantasies involve her sexually liberated neighbour Suzy, played by Sandra Milo (Fellini's lover in real life!! - those Italians can be so adult' about things!) Fellini becomes Felliniesque - and for the 1st time, in colour! emphasised as always though by a delightful whimsical Nino Rota score.
Federico Fellini's 8 1/2, his 1963 semi-autobiographical story about a worshipped filmmaker who has lost his inspiration, is still a mesmerising mystery tour that has been quoted (Woody Allen's Stardust Memories, Paul Mazursky's Alex in Wonderland) but never duplicated. Marcello Mastroianni plays Guido, a director trying to relax a bit in the wake of his latest hit. Besieged by people eager to work with him, however, he also struggles to find his next idea for a film. The combined pressures draw him within himself, where his recollections of significant events in his life and the many lovers he has left behind begin to haunt him. The marriage of Fellini's hyper real imagery, dreamy sidebars and the gravity of Guido's increasing guilt and self-awareness make this as much a deeply moving, soulful film as it is an electrifying spectacle. Mastroianni is wonderful in the lead, his woozy sensitivity to Guido's freefall both touching and charming--all the more so as the character becomes increasingly divorced from the celebrity hype that ultimately outpaces him. --Tom Keogh
Federico Fellini's epic 1980 fantasia introduced the start of the Maestro's delirious late period. A surrealist tour-de-force filmed on soundstages and locations alike, and overflowing with the same sensory (and sensual) invention heretofore found only in the classic movie-musicals (and Fellini's own oeuvre), La citta delle donne [City of Women] taps into the era's restless youth-culture, coalescing into nothing less than Fellini's post-punk opus. Marcello Mastroianni appears as Fellini's alter ego in a semi-reprise of his character from 8-1/2, Snaporaz. As though passing into a dream, the charismatic avatar finds himself initiated into a phantasmagoric world where women - or an idea of women - have taken power, and which is structured like an array of psychosexual set-pieces - culminating in a bravura hot-air balloon that decisively sticks the anti up into climax. A great adventure through the looking-glass, as it were, of Fellini's own phallic lens and life-long libidinal ruminations, La citta delle donne sharply divided critics at the 1980 Festival de Cannes, some of whom had merely anticipated a nostalgic retread of the earlier Mastroianni works. What they were greeted with, and what remains today, is, in the words of Serge Daney, a victory of cinema. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present La citta delle donne on Blu-ray and DVD in Gaumont's glorious new HD restoration. Special Features: HD Restoration of the Film, presented in 1080p on the Blu-ray Newly Translated Optional Subtitles Substantial Booklet Containing Writing on the Film, Vintage Exerpts and Rare Archival Imagery
At three brief hours, Fellini's cynical, engrossing social commentary, La Dolce Vita, stands as his timeless masterpiece. A rich, detailed panorama of Rome's modern decadence and sophisticated immorality, the film is episodic in structure but held tightly in focus by the wandering protagonist through whom we witness the sordid action. Marcello Rubini is a tabloid reporter trapped in a shallow high-society existence, as extraordinarily played by Marcello Mastroianni, a man of paradoxical, emotional juxtapositions: cool but tortured, sexy but impotent. He dreams about writing something important but remains seduced by the money and prestige that accompany his shallow position. He romanticises about finding true love but acts unfazed upon finding that his girlfriend has taken an overdose of sleeping pills. Instead, he engages in a ménage à trois, then frolics in a fountain with a giggling American starlet (bombshell Anita Ekberg), and in the film's unforgettably inspired finale, attends a wild orgy that ends, symbolically with its participants finding a rotting sea animal while wandering the beach at dawn. Fellini saw his film as life affirming (thus its title, "The Sweet Life"), but it's impossible to take him seriously. While Mastroianni drifts from one worldly pleasure to another, be it sex, drink, glamorous parties or rich foods, they are presented, through his detached eyes, as merely momentary distractions. His existence, an endless series of wild evenings and lonely mornings, is ultimately soulless and facile. Because he lacks the courage to change, Mastroianni is left with no alternative but to wearily accept and enjoy this "sweet" life. --Dave McCoy, Amazon.com
Fellini's most acclaimed work, 8 1/2 won two Oscars Â® including Best Foreign Film. Fellini is unanimously voted by film critics - and notably, by filmmakers - as one of the greatest directors of all time. And Fellini's 8 Â½ is revered as the most important European film ever made and film buffs' ultimate film of all time! MARCELLO MASTROIANNI is Fellini's alter ego, Guido, a successful filmmaker who, embarking on his next film, discovers he has a complete director's block: he has no story to tell ! Harassed by his producers, his mistress (SANDRA MILO) and his wife (ANOUK AIMEE) while struggling to find the inspiration for his film, he increasingly retreats in dreamy recollections of his life and lovers, until fantasy - personified by the heavenly beautiful CLAUDIA CARDINALE - his memories and reality merge in the director's mind and on screen - in an astonishing, masterful spectacle which culminates in an electrifying triumph of optimism. As Guido, Fellini's alter-ego says at the end of 8 Â½: Life is a party, let's live it together Special Features: New unique intimate interview with Sandra Milo the film's co-lead and off-screen real life companion' of Fellini. Filmed especially for this CultFilms release Interview with Lina Wertmuller, Fellini's Assistant Director on 8 Â½. Filmed especially for CultFilms. Lost Sequence documentary on the making of 8 Â½ with interviews with cast crew and Fellini himself: the focus is on one of film-lore's great mystery! Where a massive sequence was shot with all the cast, but not included in the film, and it was never seen again. Tribute to Fellini's speech on receiving his Academy Award Oscar
Welcome to a bittersweet world of episodic adventures and strange encounters. Welcome to a sordid nocturnal world of ruthless callous boyfriends and stray movie stars looking for seedy kicks. Welcome to the harsh unforgiving streets of a crumbling Rome where hope can still prevail and dreams cradle the lost. Welcome to the world of Cabiria a feisty loud outspoken and somewhat na''ve prostitute waiting for a miracle and one of the most unforgettable and endearing characters of European cinema. Eventually remade in Hollywood as Sweet Charity Nights Of Cabiria is a often humorous poignant unflinching and vivid portrait of one woman's picaresque existence and her perseverance through adversity. Starring Fellini's wife Giulietta Masina as the irrepressible protagonist Nights Of Cabiria marked Fellini's last foray into gritty neo-realism before venturing into the surreal satire and dream logic of La Dolce Vita and Eight And A Half.
The amusing and entertaining adventures of a recently released mental patient and his band of misfits, discover conspiracies to concur while looking for love.
Probably Fellini's most acclaimed work 8 ½ won two Oscars including Best Foreign Film and is one of the great films about moviemaking perhaps the reason it is filmmakers' and film buffs' ultimate film of all time. A film director (a magnificent Marcello Mastroianni) is struggling to find the creativity required to deliver his next movie and consequently is being hassled by industry figures as well as his wife (Anouk Aimée) and his mistress (Sandra Milo). In order to escape his tormentors the director retreats into a world of memories dreams and fantasies. The result is a dazzling array of themes and images which make 8 ½ the quintessential Fellini movie. Special Features: Exclusive 50 min documentary on the famously lost ending of 8 ½: Lost Sequence Interview with Assistant Director Lina Wertmuller and Theatrical Trailers
Made in 1978 for Italian television, Orchestra Rehearsal is possibly Fellini's most satirical and overtly political film. An allegorical pseudo-documentary, the film depicts an Italian television crew's visit to a dilapidated auditorium (a converted 13th-century church) to meet an orchestra assembling to rehearse under the instruction of a tyrannical conductor. The TV crew interviews the various musicians who each speak lovingly about their chosen instruments. However, as petty squabbles break out amid the different factions of the ensemble, and the conductor berates his musicians, the meeting descends into anarchy and vandalism. A destructive crescendo ensues before the musicians regroup and play together once more in perfect harmony. Abounding with its director's trademark rich imagery and expressive style, Orchestra Rehearsal marks the last collaboration between Fellini and the legendary composer Nino Rota (due to the latter's death in 1979) who provides one of his most beautiful themes in the film's conclusion. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: Brand new 2K restoration from original film elements, produced by Arrow Films exclusively for this release High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation Original 1.0 mono sound Optional English subtitles Richard Dyer on Nino Rota and Orchestra Rehearsal, the film scholar talks about the great composer and his last collaboration with Fellini Orchestrating Discord, a visual essay on the film by Fellini biographer John Baxter Gallery featuring rare poster and press material on the film from the Felliniana collection of Don Young Reversible sleeve featuring two original artwork options FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Adrian Martin
""My ambition has always been to restore fantasy to the cinema "" revealed renowned Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini. And so he did in this feverishly brilliant succession of grotesque and macabre images which make the fantasies of his films 8 and Juliet of the Spirits seem as child's play. Fellini Satyricon is a spectacle in colour recreating the bawdy and lecherous days of Nero's reign in ancient Rome. It immerses you in a universe unconcerned with human dignity and obsessed with
Fellini's film is an adaptation set in contemporary Rome of Poe's Never Bet the Devil Your Head published in 1841. Poe's work is a brief comic satire of the transcendentalist movements that were then popular in Europe and America. Fellini's work takes two elements from Poe's story: First the plot of a drunk who confronts a mysterious stranger on a bridge and bets him his head; the man fails to see that the stranger is the devil who subsequently wins the bet. Second Fellini takes the name Toby Dammit, Toby being an English slang term for ass in Poe's time. (1) In short Toby Dammit is a dammed ass. Included is the 2008, Toby Dammit cinema version restored under the personal supervision of its renowned cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno. Screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, where it was widely acclaimed by the press as a lost Fellini masterpiece.
Some people don't give a damn about your daughter's welfare.... Broderick Crawford takes the role of Augusto in this finely sculpted drama about an ageing con man and his two young sidekicks Roberto and Picasso who swindle the local's out of their money. But Augusto's young accomplices have dreams dreams that are far removed from the lives they lead now. Augusto however still sees his future as a petty theif swindling enough to pay for his nightlife and a better lifestyle. Little could he know though that his own existance would take an unexpected twist as he accidentally bumps into his daughter someone he hasn't seen for some time and who he discovers is having a tough time trying to make ends meet to finish her studies. Surprisingly he finds his attitude changing as it becomes apparent that for the first time in his life his daughter needs his help and maybe he can do something for someone else! In the absence of his partners in crime he joins another group of swindlers but events turn sour and his new partners prove less than charitable toward Augusto when their money goes missing and in retribution leave him a broken and beaten man....
The winner of the first ever Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film available on DVD for the first time! Giulietta Masina (the late Federico Fellini's wife) stars as Gelsomina who is sold by her mother into the employ of Zampano (Anthony Quinn) a vicious strongman. They join up with a travelling circus where Zampano encounters his old rival tightrope artist The Fool (Richard Basehart). The Fool befriends Gelsomina and presents her with an uplifting view of the world as oppo
Federico Fellini's darkest film cracks through the myth of Giacomo Casanova. As played by Donald Sutherland (M.A.S.H, Don't Look Now), the notorious womanizer is presented as a pitiable and terrifying figure. Casanova craves respect as a scholar and yearns to pursue his interest in alchemy. A sex scandal lands him in prison, but an escape to Paris provides him a new lease of life. Yet every Court in Europe and its attendant patrons and hostesses will only entertain him if he lives up to his reputation in theritual displays of sex and courtship which form part of the daily life of 18th Century Europe. Fellini had dealt with the theme of the frustration of human desires in La Dolce Vita and 8 Â½. In Casanova, the nobleman's search for happiness achieves tragedy, a painful reflection of the human condition. Fellini's Casanova is celebrated for its production values and costume design, for which Danilo Donati won Academy and BAFTA awards, and is made memorable by Nino Rota's unusual haunting score. This twilight work is one of the greatest films of the 1970s. Sutherland's performance is the most astonishing piece of screen acting since Brando's in Last Tango in Paris - Time Out A spectacular visual fantasy which succeeds in capturing the emotional and moral void at the heart of the Casanova myth ... a beautiful, indulgent private fantasy - Film4
A film of rare visual daring and imagination in which each frame is meticulously and attentively designed Fellini's Casanova is one of the Italian maestro's most sumptuous productions. In an astonishing piece of screen acting Donald Sutherland portrays Casanova in his waning days engaging in various amorous and political adventures with an air of bored detachment as he travels through a disease-ridden Europe. Imbued with a romantic pessimism the film debunks the myth of Casanova as a great lover and instead presents him as an ordinary man swept along by extraordinary circumstances. Featuring a compelling and complex score by long-standing collaborator Nina Rota Fellini's Casanova also boasts Oscar-winning costume design by Danilo Donati. Shot entirely on the lavish soundstages of Rome's Cinecitta Studios the film is popularly viewed as the directors elegiac farewell to a bygone era of Italian Cinema.
In this wonderfully affectionate and satirical 1986 film italian cinematic maestro Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita 8 1/2) celebrates the legacy of Rogers and Astaire - and sends up tacky television - with this touching tale of two elderly dancers who model themselves on cinem's greatest dance duo and who reunite after 30 years for one final TV dance spectacular. starring two of Italy's greatest acting talents: Cannes `best actress' winner Giulietta Masina (Nights Of Cabir
La Dolce Vita (1960): Marcello Mastroianni plays a playboy reporter on the hunt for scandal amongst Rome's high society in this classic Italian film directed by Federico Fellini. Both drawn to and repelled by the decadent lifestyle that provides his living he finds himself torn between his passion for a starlet (Anita Ekberg) and his desire for a Bohemian life like that of his friend (Alain Cuny)... Giuliette Degli Spiriti (1965) I Vitelloni (1953): Five young men linger in post-adolescent limbo dreaming of adventure and escape from their small seacoast town. They while away their time spending the lira doled out by their indulgent families on drink women and nights at the local pool hall. Federico Fellini's second solo directorial effort is a semi-autobiographical masterpiece of sharply drawn character sketches. An international success and recipient of an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay I Vitelloni compassionately details a year in the life of small-town layabouts struggling to find meaning in their lives. Criterion's DVD also includes an exclusive documentary featuring interviews with late actor Leopoldo Trieste and other actors technicians and scholars; the original trailer and newsreels from the time of the film's release; a collection of stills posters and memorabilia; and more. 8 1/2: (1963) One of the greatest films about film ever made Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 (Otto e mezzo) turns one man's artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema. Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastrioanni) is a director whose film -- and life -- is collapsing around him. An early working title for the film was La Bella Confusione (The Beautiful Confusion) and Fellini's masterpiece is exactly that: a shimmering dream a circus and a magic act. The Criterion Collection is proud to present the 1963 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign-Language Film - one of the most written about talked about and imitated movies of all time -- in a beautifully restored new all digital transfer. Disc Two features Fellini's rarely seen first film for television Fellini: A Director's Notebook (1969). Produced by Peter Goldfarb this ""imagined documentary"" of Fellini on Fellini is a kaleidoscope of unfinished projects all of which provide a fascinating and candid window into the director's unique and creative process.
Eschewing the path of glorification Fellini's Casanova seeks to humanize the man behind the myth by presenting him as just a normal human being swept up by extraordinairy circumstances. Rather than depict the great lover as a romantic compassionate man Fellini sought to present him as a pompous sex machine therefore stripping the character of his literary majesty. For his tremendous efforts Danilo Donati won an Oscar for Best Costume Design and the film just missed
Five young men linger in post-adolescent limbo dreaming of adventure and escape from their small seacoast town. They while away their time spending the lira doled out by their indulgent families on drink women and nights at the local pool hall. Federico Fellini's second solo directorial effort is a semi-autobiographical masterpiece of sharply drawn character sketches. An international success and recipient of an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay I Vitelloni comp
La Dolce Vita: Marcello Mastroianni plays a gossip columnist (the term 'paparazzi' derives from a character in the film) who aspires to be a more serious writer but knows he never will be, because like society, he is fascinated by the decadent hedonistic pursuits, which are seemingly everywhere. The Vatican was appalled by the film, but the public adored it, relishing the images Fellini fed them, most notably the now infamous scene of Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg frolicking i...
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Systemically Administered Brain-Targeted Nanoparticles Transport Peptides Across the Blood-Brain Barrier and Provide Neuroprotection
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Although growth factors and anti-apoptotic peptides have been shown to be neuroprotective in stroke models, translation of these experimental findings to clinic is hampered by limited penetration of peptides to the brain. ...

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