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It may come as a surprise, but The Honeymoon Capital of the World, Niagara Falls – is the top city Canadians have been actively searching on Google since the start of 2016.
Meanwhile Costa Rica, Cuba and Iceland have emerged as the top trending countries for travel related searches within Canada this year.
Along with what’s trending in travel, according to Google searches, representatives from Google Canada and Google Travel gathered in Toronto yesterday (March 8) to launch Google’s new mobile travel destinations feature, which allows users to find flights, hotel information, photos, prices, the cheapest upcoming travel dates, suggested itineraries and the ability to filter results based on interests all within the search field, and to share insights on some of the main changes in how Canadians are researching and booking travel.
“We asked over 600 Canadians: how do you feel about travel, do you intend to travel in 2016 and tell us a little bit more about leisure travel in general,” said Zahra Kanji, strategy and insights lead, Google Canada. “Not only are 52% of Canadians planning to travel, they’re looking to take roughly two leisure trips this year.”
According to the survey, the top reasons why participants planned to travel in 2016 are: to visit family and friends, to learn, explore and discover, and to relax and disconnect from work.
Canadians spend roughly 30 days planning their vacations, and often turn to mobile devices in the process. The average trip is 8.6 days long and booked 39 days in advance.
Pictured at the event are (l-r) Stefan Frank, project manager, Google Travel; Laura Creighton, strategy and insights lead, Google Canada; Kanji; and Kim Rellinger, travel and tourism lead, Google Canada.
- Travel Trends on Google searches
- Trending travel questions in Canada (since January 2016): How to travel the world for free?; Where should I travel?; Where to travel with the low Canadian dollar?; How to plan a trip?; How to plan a trip to Europe.
- The top 10 trending cities on Google related to travel, searched in Canada since January: Niagara Falls; Whistler; Lake Louise; Mont Tremblant; Playa del Carmen; Saint-Sauveur; Banff; Cozumel; Roatan; The Azores.
- Top 10 trending countries on Google related to travel, searched in Canada since Jan. 2016: Costa Rica; Cuba; Iceland; Thailand; Dominican Republic; Indonesia; Greece; Bahamas; Cambodia; Nicaragua.
- Top 10 trending countries on Google related to travel, searched in the US since Jan. 2016: Seychelles; Greece; Bermuda; Scotland; Brazil; Portugal; Argentina; Germany; Jamaica; Barbados.
- Top travel trends: 69% of Canadians visit travel sites monthly – over half of those do so on their mobile devices; Canadians spend an average of 43 minutes on travel web sites per month – even if they aren’t immediately planning on going anywhere; 58% of Canadians begin researching online before they decide how or where to travel; Canadians search for travel more than other discretionary categories, including restaurants, clothes and shoes, concerts and festivals, and stocks and investments; Mobile searches for travel increased 36% year over year; Before leaving the house, Canadian smartphone users check for their phone (and keys!) more than they do other things like their wallet or jacket; 64% of Canadian smartphone users pick up their phones in the middle of a conversation to find more information about something that was said; 80% of mobile searches are in a location (work, home or school) where a PC is likely to be available.


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How can retail investors find which is the best small-cap fund to invest in 2023? Let me share the process & come up with the best small-cap fund for 2023
How can retail investors know the best small-cap fund in 2023?
Let me share the complete process and answer to that question to help you find the best small-cap fund to invest in 2023 using ValueResearchOnline and CRISIL.
Before going to the list, first, let me define what small-cap funds are, according to SEBI.
The top 100 market cap companies are large caps. The following 150 companies are based on the Market cap in the mid-cap universe. They are ranked from 101 to 250. I also have the Best Mid Cap Fund to invest in 2023
Then the companies from 251 to 500 based on the market cap are small caps. They are making it 250 companies in the small-cap index. The definition helps us compare the fund’s returns based on the benchmark.
Top Small Cap Funds For 2023
We will use the process to come to the best small-cap fund for 2023 from the 3, 4, and 5-star rated direct small-cap funds by ValueResearchOnline, and sort them based on 1-year return.
There are multiple funds with assets under management (AUMs) with more than ten thousand crores, including SBI small cap fund, Nippon India small cap fund, Axis small cap fund, HDFC small cap fund, etc. These funds are to be avoided as they have a vast AUM.
In a small-cap fund, if you have significant assets to manage, it can be tough to switch stocks and sectors. Similarly, too few assets can mean a higher expense ratio. Hence both large and small AUMs are to be avoided. So we will consider only AUM between 1000 to 10000 crores.
Let’s go through each of the remaining funds to understand if a fund can outperform consistently or not.
The following three direct funds do not have a more extended performance history.
- TATA small cap fund
- Canara Robeco small cap fund
- Invesco India small cap fund
So we avoid them as well.
Quant small-cap funds have a stellar performance and outperformance on a seven-year, five-year, three-year and one-year basis.
ICICI Prudential fund, DSP small fund caps, and HSBC small caps fund have similar outperformance. Kotak Mahindra, a small caps fund, is also outperforming, though with a negative return on a smaller time frame, but still, it is better than small-cap S&P BSE 250. So we are keeping these funds.
Best Small Cap Funds 2023
Now we have to select these funds based on CRISIL ranking.
As per CRISIL, Quant and Canara Robeco, small-cap funds are ranked first. And we have Quant small cap fund in our list as well.
ICICI Prudential small cap fund is ranked a little lower on CRISIL but is ranked 02 and on our list.
Further drill down of this list is impossible, so now we will be seeing the portfolio of each of the funds in our inventory to avoid some of the funds.
We see that only two funds, ICICI Prudential and DSP Small Cap Funds, that have a decent asset under management, and good consistent returns over time, invest predominantly in the small-cap companies.
Considering the expense ratio, we have ICICI Prudential as the best small-cap fund to invest in 2023. However, the DSP Small Cap fund is also good.
This review is neither a sponsored one nor an endorsement that you should invest only in the funds mentioned above.
I have shared the complete process to find the best-performing small-cap fund for 2023. Feel free to apply your choice of criteria that gives you comfort while investing.
Make sure to invest in direct funds. And finally, don’t invest in mutual funds because someone has recommended it to you, including me. Instead, always apply your investment logic to each of your investments.

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The story of W. B. Yeats and Georgie Hyde-Lees begins on the eve of World War I, when the ghost-mad poet admits the young woman to a secret society. This triggers a years-long courtship between one of history's most famous poets and the brilliant woman that shared and drove his obsessions.
Living on her own for the first time in London, Georgie spends her days tending to wounded soldiers and her evenings pursuing ghosts, sometimes accompanied by Willy Yeats, the man she expects to marry. But none of the people surrounding Georgie - her mother, her friends Dorothy Shakespear and Ezra Pound, an injured sergeant in the hospital ward, or the beautiful Iseult Gonne--can consider the ancient Willy Yeats as a credible partner for her. As the war intensifies and the proof of an afterlife continues to elude them, can Georgie and Willy's relationship hold?
In bright, beautiful prose Alice Miller charts the early years between Georgie and Yeats, bringing to life not only these characters, but the uncertain world in which they live: the ever-present war; the secret societies; the fears and the promises, large and small. This is a story about faith and love, lost and found and fought for, and the small moments on which whole lives hinge. How, Miller asks, do we know when faith or love is certain and to what degree are they defined by how far we are willing to chase them?

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Twenty five percent of 13-18 year old children in the US have had an anxiety disorder, serious enough to be diagnosed and require intervention. Anxiety is even more common in kids with Asperger’s syndrome and autism. No steadfast rule places anxiety disorders in the purview of teens – even toddlers can have anxiety serious enough to obstruct socialization, learning, sleep, and development. There are several types of anxiety disorders, from obsessive compulsive disorder to panic disorder.
Many parents, teachers, and even doctors may still cluck at the idea of anxiety in children. How bad can it be, really?
Well, if you haven’t experienced life with a child who has a true anxiety disorder, it’s hard to imagine how debilitating this is. From being unable to participate in normal activities, to being blamed for creating it, anxiety disorders isolate and traumatize children who experience them along with their families.
When my own child exhibited an anxious, avoidant demeanor before he was a year old, it was confounding and frustrating for our whole family. His anxiety was poorly tolerated by most our friends and even his young peers – who fell away one by one – and by family members too. Happy events like birthday parties and holiday gatherings, group picnics at parks or playgrounds, or usually fun spaces like a children’s museum or school zoo field trip became white-knuckle, tension-drenched agonies. His anxiety would escalate to panic and bolting, or even seizures. More than once at family gatherings, he endangered himself: Fearing the host’s large dog at a Thanksgiving celebration (which the family refused to partition) he secretly retreated to their frigid attic, where he remained in his shirt sleeves for nearly an hour before found in tears and confusion. On another occasion I found him in the act of shutting himself into his grandmother’s car trunk. At age four, he had figured out how to use the dashboard controls to open it. He wandered outdoors in frozen weather, tucked himself into basements, or did whatever he needed to do quell anxiety in busy noisy settings. After a couple of close calls, and with little support from family and friends to keep him in sight, we were forced to withdraw. Our world became smaller and smaller, after it was clear that only a few family members and friends were willing to welcome us on terms my son could manage. School environments were rife with anxiety triggers in his case as well, making each year a new challenge.
A top developmental pediatrician suggested an SSRI for him when he was barely three years old. We deferred, not having any idea what the long-term effects may be (that was in 1999, and these are still unstudied). We later tried a slew of psychiatric medications, which either triggered heavy side effects, or produced lackluster progress.
For many youngsters I meet in my nutrition practice, anxiety often persists into school and teen years. I meet the kids who have not succeeded with prescription medications, have not outgrown anxiety experienced in early childhood, or are so young that parents do not wish to medicate them.
Happily, there are nutrition-focused options that may help. Many of these are discussed in detail in Special Needs Kids Go Pharm-Free. It’s important to get professional assessment from a pediatric mental health professional, to discern whether your child is managing anxiety, depression, or both, before trying any nutritional or pharmaceutical intervention. Different neurotransmitter pathways may need emphasis, depending on your child’s presentation. These tips below focus on anxiety. I’ve picked these out of the many pharm-free possibilities because they have been favorite performers in my practice. For nutrition-focused tools with potential to intervene on depression, hyperactivity, focus, attention, and more, see Special Needs Kids Go Pharm Free. As always, consult your health care providers before diving in. Ask questions, seek guidance; do not take this information alone as medical advice for your child. Most of all, if your child is currently using a psychotropic medication, speak to your prescriber before using nutritional supports or making changes to the medicine.
Top pick #1: Inositol Inositol is a naturally occurring molecule that is classified as a sugar-alcohol. Our bodies make a supply of it from glucose; it’s needed for many biochemical pathways and intracellular messaging systems, including those that affect mood. It’s also needed to make phospholipids, which are crucial for normal cell membrane construction – and that is crucial for normal cell function. Cell membranes gate-keep chemical messengers that go in and out; if the membrane structure is rigid or altered, messaging falters, and this can be true for the messengers that create calm chemistry. Using inositol may help cell membranes, and the chemical messenger receptors upon them, work better.
Inositol is in many foods, including bananas, cantaloupe, oranges, grapefruit, and lima beans. We may normally eat about a gram of it each day. A healthy human bowel has ample bacteria in it that produce inositol too. Interestingly, kids on the autism spectrum have been found to not have the same bowel microflora profiles as typical peers. Even more interesting – something I’ve repeatedly witnessed in my practice – treating these bowel infections improved features of autism, in at least one trial. More findings are emerging that bacteria in the gut can indeed drive anxiety or depression. So, changing gut flora can help – more on that below.
Given in multi-gram doses, inositol has performed robustly for anxiety disorders like obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and panic disorder, and has also done well in some trials for depression. For just one example, click here; more links are here. In my opinion, this is a stand-out option for children with anxiety disorders, OCD, and panic disorder. The trick is using the right dose, in the right form, and to move into the therapeutic range gradually. Since high doses are needed, gastrointestinal side effects like diarrhea or bloating and gas can occur at first. Avoid these by starting very low (1 gram) and going slowly up (as high as 12 grams/day in split doses, or 18 grams/day for teens at above 120 lbs). Give a high potency probiotic (20 billion CFUs or more) with each inositol dose; give with snack or food. You can also use antifungal herbs concomitantly to help control GI symptoms and keep unwanted yeast in check during inositol usage. Give these herbs away from inositol and probiotic.
Pros: Inositol is easy to use. It dissolves easily in water or juice, and has mild sweet taste. No toxicity or side effects are reported, excepting GI discomfort.
Cons: May trigger GI distress if given too much too fast. Children with poorly controlled yeast or other bowel infections should treat those before using inositol.
Tip: Buy only a pure inositol powder, with no fillers or other nutrients, from a reputable source, not capsules, which are inconvenient for the dosages necessary. Kirkman Labs, Standard Process, and Solaray offer pure inositol without fillers. Be sure your child has a good multivitamin with B group in it, which will help the inositol work better.
Top Pick #2: Homeopathic Aconite A pretty perennial called Buttercup is used to make this famous homeopathic remedy for panic. As is true for most homeopathic remedies, the source substance is dangerous and should not be mistakenly used for home treatments of any sort. Homeopathic Aconite is useful acutely, that is, in situations where a child is blanched and frozen with irrational and grandiose panic, particularly one that includes a fear of death. It isn’t to be used daily unless you are working with an experienced naturopathic doctor or homeopath who has instructed you to use this remedy specifically for your child. But, given a situation that needs quick intervention, it can be quite effective – say for a classroom anxiety that freezes your child in his tracks, or extreme irrational fear about getting on an airplane. It may gently nudge your child out of a wide-eyed, frozen panic. If lactose in the pellets is verboten, obtain a tincture from a professional homeopath; begin here to locate a trained homeopath. A very low potency daily dose may be the trick for your child. Aconite is not the only homeopathic remedy a professional might pick for an anxiety disorder, but it is a standout for acute situations.
Pros: Widely available, inexpensive, easy to administer
Cons: Over-using any homeopathic remedy can exaggerate symptoms you are targeting for treatment. Use only for emergent symptoms; stop once symptoms improve, unless your homeopath instructs otherwise. Consult an experienced provider for more guidance. A helpful book for safe home use of homeopathic remedies is Everybody’s Guide To Homeopathic Medicines.
Tip: Homeopathic remedies must be given away from foods, drinks, tooth-brushing, strong aromas, or any substances in the mouth.
Top Pick #3: GABA promoters GABA is Gamma Amino Butyric Acid, one of the brain’s most prevalent neurotransmitters. Its abundance is second only to glutamate. It has an inhibitory or calming effect; it shuts down the excitatory effects of glutamate. If GABA isn’t doing its job, the flow of exitotoxic chemistry in the brain can escalate to seizures, and in fact, many seizure medications target GABA chemistry. Besides anxiety disorders, low GABA has been noted in Parkinson’s disease, addiction, cognitive impairments, bipolar disorder, depression, and headaches. Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) is needed to make it, which is why some see improvement in seizures and anxiety with high doses of B6.
We produce GABA in the brain from glutamine, a common amino acid in food. Eating GABA itself as a supplement may or may not work well, since it doesn’t typically cross the blood brain barrier – but in children with leaky gut issues, it can make a nice difference. Chewables are available. Meanwhile, GABA promoting herbs and amino acids may help raise GABA levels and lessen anxiety. Here are some possibilities that have been successful in my practice, to ease anxiety through GABA promoters:
– Your child should use a high quality, high potency multivitamin and mineral supplement that supplies pyridoxine (vitamin B6) and /or pyridoxal-5-phosphate (P5P), as well as magnesium, iron, and the full B vitamin group. Examples are Kirkman Labs Thera Response or Klaire Labs VitaSpectrum.
– Valerian, bacopa, skullcap, ashwaganda, rhodiola, gingko biloba, and passion flower may enhance GABA activity. These may bind the same receptor site as benzodiazapene drugs. Tinctures, capsules, teas, and tablets are widely available. Consult a naturopathic doctor (ND) for correct dosing; I use these in my practice for children as well. It may be well worth the time and trouble to find a provider with naturopathic training, as these herbs can be impressively effective with little to no side effects.
– Some children may be able to tolerate glutamine as a supplement, the precursor amino acid for GABA production. I have not found this to be the case in my practice. Though it is a widely touted tool for GABA promotion (and gut health), children who are challenged in converting glutamine to glutamate to GABA may experience heightened agitation, anxiety, or even seizures with glutamine supplements. Mercury disrupts this conversion, so if you have reason to suspect your child has had mercury exposures, then you may not have success with glutamine. Autoimmunity to the enzyme that converts glutamate to GABA may also make glutamine supplements a nasty misfire, with escalating anxiety.
– The amino acids taurine, alanine, and theanine may either promote GABA or oppose glutamate. Toxicity for these is low, and research on them abounds – for one example, click here. Taurine is typically started at 200mg per dose for children, and up to as high as 600mg or even 1000mg. Theanine is usually given from 50-200mg. Consult a naturopath for dosing instructions for your own child.
- GABA itself is available in chewables, drops, capsules, or even as a topical lotion. I have clients who find rubbing GABA lotion at temples to be an effective soother for anxiety or sleep. You can buy GABA blended with other nutrients, herbs or amino acids, but start with just GABA to see if this may help your child. Though many argue this won’t be absorbed into the brain, individual responses vary, and it can be quite effective to ingest GABA itself.
Pros: Herbs and amino acids can be easily administered to children and safely used, with guidance from an experienced practitioner. Side effects are minimal.
Cons: Psychiatric MDs are not trained in the use of natural tools like supplements, foods, or herbs. Some may make extra effort to study it, but most who are prescribing drugs are likely to be inexperienced here. Ask your prescriber what their training is on this. A good naturopathic doctor (ND) specializing in pediatric or family practice is a good bet to get dosing guidance. Don’t mix these with psychotropic medication, unless your provider instructs you to do so – amino acids and herbs may synergize or negate effects of some medications.
Tip: Use herbs from organic sources with high standards for screening for toxins, including heavy metals. See chapter Chapter 7 of Special Needs Kids Go Pharm-Free for more information on the quality of supplements and herbs. My preferred brands include Standard Process MediHerb and Gaia Professional. I also trust Rebecca’s Apothecary here in Boulder, which sources all their own herbs meticulously and has staff always present to answer questions.
Top pick #4: Carnosine This is probably one of the fastest, easiest, most straightforward options to test for a child, especially if anxiety is combined with explosive behavior or rageful outbursts. Not to be confused with carnitine, the amino acid famous for body building supplements, carnosine is a di-peptide found in protein-rich animal foods like chicken, beef, or egg. It is a strong antioxidant, and may have a protective effect on receptors in the brain that impact excitotoxicity and seizures. It has been clinically reviewed for use in autism, and has shown promise in reducing social anxiety while improving cognition. Carnosine may boost GABA and is also of interest for mitigating seizure activity. Carnosine is a newer amino acid tool than taurine, alanine, or theanine for quelling anxiety, so less research exists on this. A usual starting dose is 250 mg, and up to 1000mg/day. A supportive high potency multivitamin is once again a good idea, especially for zinc and vitamin E. Toxicity is very low; it leaves the body rapidly.
Pros: Easy to give in capsules, which are widely available; or, open capsules to mix with food or fluids. Easy to quickly see a result; usually within a two to three days, a child will show a response once the dose is correct.
Cons: Cost. Liquid carnosine is available for younger children, but more expensive. I prefer to suggest capsules for mixing in to liquids, as a budget measure.
Tip: Give in the morning or after school, rather than at bedtime, to observe effects on anxiety.
Top pick #5: Antifungal therapy How many hundreds of kids have I met with intestinal candidiasis, or other candida infections, that went unnoticed – from within ears and sinuses, to lungs and urinary tract? Reams of websites, books, and even some peer review exist on this conundrum that mainstream pediatric practice has yet to appreciate. Harboring excessive Candida or fungal microbes disrupts behavior, appetite, stooling, mood, focus, and attention. If your child has a history of antibiotic use or had hard to treat thrush as a baby – even if only briefly – consider this possibility. The nearer your child’s antibiotic exposure to birth, the more likely s/he is to harbor Candida to a disruptive degree.
Treating a Candida infection with antifungal herb, medication, or high dose probiotics is another of my most favorite ways to see anxiety drop in a child. It often works. The stronger the antifungal tool, the faster it works. Using a low carb or low sugar diet will work slowly. Probiotics alone can work a little too slowly too. Antifungal medication (if the child’s MD will allow it) or potent antifungal herb tincture for 2-4 weeks at a minimum is a usual measure. I follow this with high potency mixed strain probiotic, to the tune of as much as 60-100 billion CFUs per dose, of mixed strains for Lactobacillus and Bifido species. This direct strategy may trigger die off of harbored yeast, which means a brief period of worsening behavior or anxiety; but it should pass within a week to yield a calmer, happier, and literally rosier child. There are many herbal tinctures that are effective against fungal burdens, and I use these often in my practice. They can be quite potent, so use them with guidance.
Pros: When indicated, this measure works fast (within a week or two), and may also improve many other challenges your child is probably having: Picky appetite, constipation or diarrhea, bloating, gas, acne/rashes, bedwetting, or stool accidents.
Cons: May require a strong prescription like Diflucan from your doctor, if herbs and probiotics don’t do the trick. But, I have witnessed strong herb blends to work better than medication in some cases.
Tip: Though this doesn’t always happen, prepare for initial die-off reaction and some bumpy days. Ease the excretion of dying yeast from the body with Epsom salts baths. If your child uses a probiotic, give this a few hours away from the antifungal herb.
Find more tips and strategies in Special Needs Kids Go Pharm-Free. If your child has autism, find even more specifics on leveraging nutrition, diets, and supplements for autism spectrum disorders in Special Needs Kids Eat Right. If you still feel as if you need help, please don’t hesitate to schedule an appointment here.
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He gave me the nickname of “Taviuk”, some
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bring him good luck. The day before it was all
over Puts and Calls were still his game.
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the morning sun streaming through the window,
missing a glimpse of divine light, a glimmering
iridescent halo hovering over a lone tug boat
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After wrestling with a tangle of tubes
like an octopus surrounding its prey,
he was bound down to his bed
like a prisoner who might escape.
His emaciated body was tenderly
bathed by an angelic nurse who
washed genitals that had once
loomed so large to my child’s eye.
I remembered his shampooing my hair,
carefully avoiding getting soap in my eyes,
eyes that were now tearfully blurred.
As soon as I could see out of the
windshield he taught me to drive
his treasured Model-A Ford.
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Goldberg has been talking up another potential return to WWE, suggesting that he could have an interesting match with anybody on the current roster.
The Hall of Famer was last in action at this year's Royal Rumble, where he was beaten by Drew McIntyre in a WWE Championship match.
Last August, the 54-year-old confirmed that he has a two-fight-per-year contract with WWE running through 2022, meaning he will likely be in action again this year.
Goldberg is confident that whoever he faces, he'll be able to put on a show and he even specifically picked out Big E as the man he wants to share a ring with soon.
"Let’s be perfectly honest, a different era of Goldberg would match up against anybody," he told WWE's The Bump when asked if he could still entertain the fans.
"The question is: could this era of Goldberg match up with anyone and have it be interesting? I think the answer is absolutely, yes."
'Bill' went on to explain why he'd specifically like a match with Big E, recalling an incredible story about the first time they met.
"Big E could bring stuff out of me that I’d want to do just to make Big E proud of me, right?
"So the story goes with Big E and I, that the only match I was ever late for, or I ever missed in WCW, was a match that I called in and told them I couldn’t catch the plane because I was at a signing and I had to stay until everyone was taken care of.
Big E was one of the kids I stayed for, OK? So, I will never forget his face, I’ll never forget that day.
"And the fact that I made a positive impression on somebody like that, that’s been so successful at what they do, it’s an honor and a privilege for me.
"So, getting in the ring with him would be a different situation but it’d be really cool in its own way."
That's absolutely brilliant! We'd quite like to see Goldberg vs Big E just to bring their story full circle!
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This title is the only guide to the United States health care system for nurses immigrating to this country as well as foreign-educated nurses who are already here.
The contributors provide a wealth of insight on how to address the challenges of being a foreign-educated nurse in the United States. Nurses can learn what is expected of them, how to prepare for the journey to the United States, and how to adapt to their new communities. The book can help foreign-educated nurses understand the health care system as well as their rights and roles within that system.
Written in simple, accessible language, the guide will address the topics and issues that foreign-educated nurses care about, including living in the United States as a foreign-educated nurse, nursing practice in the United States, and the U.S. health care system.
Key topics discussed:
- • Preparing to leave the home country
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Doctors affected by President Trump's recent executive order barring many individuals from seven nations from entering the United States rushed to enter the country after a federal judge on Friday issued a restraining ordering blocking the ban.
Lawyers for the Department of Justice (DOJ) have filed an appeal to lift the restraining order.
Background on travel ban
The executive order blocked individuals from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen from entering the United States for 90 days (with exceptions for naturalized U.S. citizens). It also suspended refugee resettlement from all countries for 90 days and from Syria indefinitely. Trump and members of his administration say the ban will help prevent terrorism in the United States.
The ban affected thousands of travelers coming to the United States to see family, attend school, and work in high-demand fields—including health care. In the days after the ban went into effect, several doctors and researchers who are residents of the seven affected countries said they had either been barred from boarding flights headed to the United States or that immigration officials forced them to leave the country after they arrived.
Latest legal developments
On Jan. 29, U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly issued a temporary stay on a portion of the order, ruling that refugees or visa holders held at U.S. airports under the policy could not be deported. However, the stay did not apply to individuals who remained abroad.
Washington and Minnesota subsequently filed a lawsuit challenging the ban in federal court in Washington. On Friday, U.S. District Judge James Robart issued a nationwide restraining order halting the enforcement of the travel ban entirely, BBC News reports.
Lawyers for the DOJ on Monday filed an appeal with 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco to reverse the restraining order. The court has scheduled oral arguments for Tuesday afternoon, but in the meantime, refugees and individuals with valid visas from the seven affected countries can enter the United States, the Associated Press reports.
Rushing to enter the country
Several health care professionals affected by the ban were able to enter the country over the last week.
At least one doctor—Amer Al Homssi, a medical resident at Christ Hospital in Chicago who was born in Syria and holds a United Arab Emirates passport—was able to enter the United States before Robart issued his restraining order. After being stranded abroad after the travel ban, Al Homssi filed a separate federal lawsuit challenging the executive order, on Tuesday a judge determined that his visa was still valid. He returned to Chicago on Thursday.
Separately, Kamal Fadlalla, a second-year internal medicine resident at Interfaith Medical Center in New York City, was able to enter the United States on Saturday following Robart's order. Fadlalla had been stranded in his home country of Sudan, where U.S. officials would not allow him to board his flight back to the United States. Upon his arrival in the United States, Fadlalla said it felt "great" to be back in New York and called his experience over the past week "shocking." But Fadalla was focused on returning to his patients. "I'll be happy to see all of them," he said.
New York's public advocate Letitia James (D) was on hand to welcome Fadlalla at the airport, saying, "I believe in freedom and I believe in individual liberties and I believe this doctor, who has done much for central Brooklyn, needs to be celebrated and he needs to know that America is a safe harbor."
Other doctors and researchers who were able to enter the United States under the Robart's nationwide restraining order include:
- Samira Asgari, an Iranian researcher who was set to move from Switzerland to the United States for a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School working under a Brigham and Women's Hospital rheumatologist to research tuberculosis; and
- Amene Asgari, an Iranian mathematician (not related to Samira Asgari), who will conduct research at Harvard and Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Cleveland Clinic resident still unable to return
Meanwhile, Suha Abushamma, a first-year internal medicine resident at Cleveland Clinic, remains stuck in Saudi Arabia despite Robart's order, which only applies to individuals who had their visas canceled. In Abushamma's case, her visa was withdrawn voluntarily—although she has filed a lawsuit claiming she was coerced into doing so.
Lawyers representing Abushamma filed the suit in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, seeking a writ of habeas corpus and an order permitting Abushamma's reentry to the United States. The suit claims, among other allegations, that Abushamma was "misled and coerced" into withdrawing her visa.
The judge in her case has asked the government to provide "proof" as to why Abushamma's visa should not be reinstated and scheduled a hearing for Feb. 15 to determine if she should be allowed back into the country.
The Cleveland Clinic is scheduled to hold a news conference Tuesday at 1 p.m. to provide an update on Abushamma (Heisig, Cleveland Plain Dealer, 2/7; Liptak, New York Times, 2/6; Ornstein, ProPublica, 2/6; AP/CBS News, 2/6; BBC News, 2/6; Morice, Cleveland Plain Dealer, 2/5; Matthew, AFP/Yahoo News, 2/5; Schabner, ABC News, 2/5; CBS Chicago, 2/2; Chaffin, Financial Times, 2/5; Allen/Gans, Boston Globe, 25; Asgari, Twitter, 2/6).
Navigating the first 100 days of the Trump administration
Since Donald Trump won the presidential election in November, health care reform has since quickly risen to the top of the GOP's policy agenda—and heath care executives are grappling with a new sense of uncertainty.
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This painting and poem express a train of thought begun when I started to explore the idea of princesses in our culture. Years ago as a graduate student, I studied gender and women’s issues in the Middle East. I could never get around the paradox at the heart of the issue: that women’s sexuality and femininity represented power that needed to be restrained and covered, resulting in the second-class status of women in many regions. I find traces of a twin attitude subtly at play in our own culture when we read about women outpacing men in education, work, even in terms of weathering the recession and the raised voices asking, “What about our troubled boys and men?” In counterpoint to this, women continue to make 77 cents to the dollar that men earn and violence and human trafficking involving women are greater problems than ever.
Many activists continue to worry about the future of girls and the effect of the “Disney Princess” culture, suggesting the trend will produce grown women who are slaves to consumerism and low self-esteem, seeking an unattainable ideal. They indicate the existence of a direct line from the princesses to the Twilight craze, to the fashion-obsession of Sex and the City.
Whatever the answer is (and I do want to emphasize the ambiguity and complexity of the matter), the “Army of Princesses” represent a threat that shifts between the power of girls and the power of consumer culture. In his twisted mind, the Norway killer Anders Breivik also reacted to the threat of Sex and the City, which for him represents a lifestyle in which “men are not men anymore, but metro sexual and emotional beings that are there to serve the purpose as a never-criticizing soul mate to the new age feminist woman goddess.”
Are there neck-twisting contradictions here? I believe so. This painting is an expression of the question and not the answer.

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There exists now no process installed for inmates to please have their particular Twitter pages reinstated.
One key factor to remember: any time zynga takes along an inmate’s profile, it isn’t merely censorship regarding the resident. Anyone whom said to the visibility or posted link toward the shape miss that material if the account is dangling.
Facebook’s Unique Administration Methods
In February, EFF publicly needed Facebook to overhaul the way it manages inmate users. Mostly, you expected that fb “stop censoring inmates without initial assessing whether an essential ToS infringement have happened (instance pestering a victim or performing a criminal business).” We also urged fb in order start up creating e-mail bills for inmate put-down requests, to let replicas of those takedown needs can be obtained through public information demands. Nearly 28,000 visitors finalized a Care2 application further demanding an end into the censorship.
By March, prisons happened to be met with the latest number practices from facebook or twitter:
- The “Inmate profile put-down need” webpage continues retitled, “Report an Inmate’s levels.”
- Zynga these days requests information about the inmate’s crime, the day the inmate ended up being constrained, plus the big date after the resident is expected to be released.
- Facebook now demands prisons to add in hyperlinks to “applicable laws or appropriate power relating to inmate social websites connection.”
- If you have no law barring resident usage of social media marketing, consequently prisons must definitely provide “specific reasons giving zynga accessibility this inmate poses a life threatening protection danger.”
According to messages presented to EFF with the constant monster, which verify these adjustments, Twitter in addition has started creating e-mail invoices and forwarding prisons explanations associated with the strategies the business has taken pertaining to each described levels.
Assuming myspace stays to those steps, subsequently this is exactly a significant, although imperfect, triumph for inmate address.
Under this brand-new program, facebook or myspace would however respect inmate put-down requests from Alabama and Louisiana prisons, since each county has actually a laws about magazines preventing inmates from having accounts on social websites. However, modifications departments in states including Oregon, California, and sc will not be able to request takedowns without demonstrating a genuine community safety issues.
CDCR would be extremely furious if it got word of the alteration, an interactions specialist sent Facebook this communication:
As soon as the deal am established it been given international interest, I’ve incorporated just a couple of different content lower. I’m positive that it will win as much consideration whenever we really have to declare about the settlement no longer is are upheld by fb.
You commend fb for erect good from the thinly veiled threat. But CDCR’s issues tends to be overblown. The office says regarding the 74 takedown requests it recorded just the past year, every single one ones is pertaining to harassment of subjects. Without a doubt, CDCR workforce offered EFF with surprising types of inmate misconduct on Facebook, including one resident whom allegedly uploaded risks against a witness exactly who made evident inside the case. With matters like these, CDCR must not are having issues articulating a safety risk and Facebook will probably still take out blogs that violate the ToS
Precisely what this brand new program may shield happens to be instances when inmates incorporate Twitter simply to keep in touch with their loved ones, improve consciousness for their purity campaigns, or engage in discussion over open public plan. Facebook claims it will eventually nonetheless promote its bar on third party use of records, but says it doesnt take down prisoner “pages” (in the place of “profiles”) involving businesses.
Passing the figures
Although we all applaud these brand-new policies, the audience is annoyed that facebook or myspace is refusing to discharge studies around the few inmate takedown needs this has gotten.
Twitter produces the informatioin needed for federal government desires for materials removing off their region, not within the United States.
Other companies has in reality presented information about domestic materials reduction needs, contains one wherein The Big G denied a consult through the Georgia section of Corrections to eliminate videos revealing misuse of inmates.
Advancing, facebook or twitter will need to adopt transparency and show exactly how many needs it obtain each and every year and just how it takes care of these needs. Information on line censorship doesn’t have location at an organisation that believes connections happens to be a person great.


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Dr. Marlin Mickle's Ortho-Tag Inc. is one of two tech companies launched through Pitt research in 2011
PITTSBURGH (November 2, 2011) ... The number of University of Pittsburgh innovations that has moved from the lab to commercialization increased by 31 percent in fiscal year 2011, resulting in 105 licenses or options to industry and two start-up companies for Pitt technologies. This increase in commercialization activity also included 37 U.S. patents that were awarded to the University in 2011 and the submission of 257 new invention disclosures by Pitt faculty, according to Pitt's Office of Technology Management (OTM).
The OTM released its annual report Oct. 12 at Pitt's 7th Annual Celebration of Innovation reception. The event celebrated OTM's 15 years in operation and honored researchers whose innovations were licensed/optioned in 2011.
More than 400 Pitt researchers submitted invention disclosures in FY 2010-11, among them was Marlin Mickle, the Nickolas A. DeCecco Professor in the Swanson School of Engineering, whose research led to the 2011 start-up company, Ortho-Tag, Inc. The company designs radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology for tracking and monitoring prosthetic joints. The tiny tags, attached to implanted prostheses, allow orthopaedic doctors to obtain specific information about a joint by waving a wand over the prosthesis to capture recorded data.
Another business, LINC Design LLC, was started by Linda van Roosmalen, a former visiting professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology in Pitt's School of Health and Rehabilitation Science, along with Michael Turkovich, a bioengineering doctoral student at Pitt. They developed a new barrier system to contain wheelchairs and restrain wheelchair-seated passengers when they are traveling in large accessible transit vehicles. Their technology formed the basis of LINC Design.
The launching of Ortho-Tag and LINC Design raises the total number of start-up companies established from Pitt technologies to 80 since the OTM's inception in 1996.
Other notable inventions featured in the 2011 annual report included a way to give asthma sufferers an alert to a possible attack, a better way to diagnose gastroesophageal reflux disease during infancy, and software that calculates cancer mortality risks by studying demographic, geographic, and work history.
The OTM facilitates the development and commercialization of Pitt innovations, helping innovators patent their intellectual property, market it to potential outside partners, execute commercial licenses/options, and launch new companies.
Click here to read OTM's FY 2010-11 annual report.
Contact: Paul Kovach

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Calm/Assertive Procedures like this one give kids two choices and two choices only. Kids can either:
1. Be cooperative
2. Suffer the consequences of not being cooperative
Either way, we can be calm and empathetic because we do not allow this third option to exist:
3. Do whatever you want, develop bad behaviors, and become a person people don’t want to be around
The possibility of allowing choice C is what makes us angry, excitable, and sometimes irate because we love our kids and we know where kids who get to use choice C often end up.
Calm/Assertive Parenting Procedures like this one take into account all possible ways that kids will try to get to choice C. We stop those channels to C and reroute back to either choice A or B. We do this all without ever trying to control that which we cannot control.
Here We Go…
This CAPP is different from previous CAPPs because it is to be used for adults to calmly set and enforce healthy limits with each other, not with kids.
It is inevitable: grandparents will often have very different ways of interacting with kids than those kids’ parents have. It can be very difficult for both sets of adults to come to an agreement on how to handle kids in a variety of different situations because often the values that adults have as they relate to kids can be wildly different. This difficulty can be compounded by the existence of long-standing animosity between parents and their adult children stemming from resentment from the adult children’s early experiences in life. Painful and sometimes relationship-ending situations can develop from this dynamic.*
*Note: If parents and grandparents have the same or very similar outlooks on how to deal with children, or if you are trying to hold kids accountable by reading a book together (I love “Parenting with Love and Logic” ) or following my blog 😊,this CAPP is not for you. Work together as a team and stop reading this.
What Not to Do
Because trying to simultaneously hold kids accountable with wildly different value structures and methods is so difficult, toxic, or impossible, do not try to “mix” parenting styles and values together. Don’t try to “work as a team” with people who do things completely different than you insofar as kids are concerned.
What to Do: Setting the Limit
Let the other set of adults know that instead of trying to figure out how to blend two different ways of working with kids, you will be doing something different to set clearer limits with kids, and with each other, preserve adult relationships, and have more fun together as a family. Doing things this new way will allow each adult set to work with kids their way while minimizing conflict and respecting different value structures as they relate to kids.
Emphasize that neither adult set will criticize or say anything to the other adult set about their values or methods of parenting or grandparenting. One adult set will take the lead and completely own the management of the children throughout the entirety of that situation. How this is done is important. If parents are in the room from the outset of a time when behaviors are being managed, they will have exclusive domain over all limit setting for the children. They will be 100% responsible for their children’s behavior. Grandparents will have nothing to do with disciplining their grandchildren.
For example, when having dinner in public or in a dining room with all three generations, grandparents should situate themselves in a seating position whereby they can ignore children if need be, and enjoy their meal, and whereby parents can take the lead in parenting. To be clear: grandparents should have nothing to do with dealing with behaviors when parents are present from the outset of any family situation.
On the other hand, when grandparents are the only adult set present in a room or in a house at the outset of a behavior management situation, they become the ultimate and only disciplinary force in the lives of their grandchildren. If parents are in another room at the outset, or if they are not in the house or in the public area, they will have nothing to do with disciplining their child(ren).
If the adult sets can set limits with each other about who handles what and when, kids realize very quickly that the ultimate authority figures in their lives are the adult family member currently in front of them.
Remember, this CAPP has nothing to do with how to deal with negative behaviors from kids. If you are so inclined, feel free to go to my blog, if my work fits in with your value structure (https://www.ervineducationalconsulting.com/category/parents-blog/). All this CAPP does is allow parents and grandparents clear, simple parameters about who deals with discipline.
Since this CAPP involves two sets of adults simultaneously and calmly setting limits with each other, share this CAPP with the other adult set. Discuss it and strategize for how to avoid possible problems.
What to Do: Intervention #1
Of course, this will take some time, and most adults will make the mistake of “jumping in” in a way that is not a part of your new plan. As a way to calmly remind the adults not to go outside of the boundaries already set up, if an adult accidentally takes the disciplinary lead when they should not, have a sound, word, or phrase that will cue the adult to kindly and calmly cease and desist on butting in when he or she shouldn’t, in accordance with your new plan. Some adults choose “Whoa, Nelly” or “Gadzooks” or even “White Sand Beach” to allow everyone’s brains to drift to a happier and less stressful place and time.
When the agreed-upon cue is used, it is just a signal to go back to the agreed-upon lane that we decided we would agree to stay in.
What to Do: Intervention #2
If an adult continues to try to be in charge of discipline even after the cue is given, only one phrase should be uttered:
“We can all remain together as long as we can follow our plan.”
That is the last and final intervention that should be given. If all adults don’t get back to the plan, any adult amongst the two adult sets can enforce the consequence.
What to Do: The Consequence
Initiate the consequence by saying the following script. Say the first two words slowly, with empathetic sadness:
“Oh, noooo. Ugh. We have to end our (day/night) together because we aren’t following the plan. We love you all so much. Let’s get back together soon.
Then, in silence, leave the house or public area. If you are part of the adult set who owns the home you are currently in, leave the room, and if you are the parents, take your offspring with you.
Doing these interventions exactly as described and then carrying out the consequence without adding any extra words tells all present that you have will enforce the limits that you set, and that you love your family too much to allow the existence of different value structures to hurt your relationship with those you love.
Better to be a bit uncomfortable for a moment than to be miserable every time you get together with your offspring!
If the legal guardians, usually the parents, become so offended by the actions of the other adult set (usually the grandparents) the legal guardians should go straight to consequences. They should take their children and leave wherever they are. If they are home, they should take their children to another room. Once children are removed, grandparents should be asked to leave.
If the tables are turned, and the non-legal guardians (usually the grandparents) are so offended by the actions of the legal guardians (usually the parents) the non-legal guardians should remove themselves from the location immediately.

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Every journey begins with a single step. The adage certainly applies to your journey toward good health. Start increasing those steps to 2 miles a day, 5 days a week, and you will reap the benefit of walking. Walking will give you more energy, help you lose weight and improve your overall health.
Walking is perhaps the easiest way to get in shape and stay in shape over the long haul. Many doctors recommend walking to patients attempting to lose weight and regain their health. Walking is easy. There is no special equipment needed beyond a comfortably pair of shoes. Best of all walking will cost you nothing beyond time out of your day. In fact, you can incorporate walking into your regular routines with little extra time. And aren’t you worth the investment to reap the benefit of walking?
Walking Improves Circulation
Circulation is key to long term health. Good circulation keeps your blood flowing properly and increases your heart rate which helps keep your arteries healthy for a strong heart. Walking will allow you to work the major muscles in your arms arms and legs. It is a relaxing way to burn calories. Walking strengthens bones and improves balance and coordination. Grab a friend or your puppy and take a stroll around the neighborhood.
Walking Lowers Blood Pressure
Walking is aerobic exercise, meaning you take in more oxygen by breathing faster and deeper. You raise your heart rate and, thus, burn calories. Walking not only helps you lose weight, but can lower your blood pressure and blood sugar. By incorporating a regular walking routine into your daily life, you’ll notice the benefit of walking almost immediately.
Walking Reduces Cholesterol Levels
Obviously weight loss has a great impact on your overall health, including lowering your cholesterol. Through diet and exercise, you will lose weight and bring down your cholesterol numbers. Recent studies have shown that walking alone helps reduce your LDL. The aerobic benefit of walking includes getting your blood pumping, which moves LDL out of your arteries.
Walking Keeps Your Brain Active
One key benefit of walking long term is increased blood flow to the brain. When you walk, blood is pumped to all of your major organs. Your brain reaps the same benefit of walking as your heart and lungs. By walking every day you’ll you’ll keep your brain sharp and improve your concentration at work or school. What a great benefit of walking.
Walking Reduces Feelings of Depression
Taking a walk in the park or even walking on a treadmill will increase your endorphins, as most aerobic exercise does. As you walk, the stress and tension in you body will begin to dissipate. You will find that walking will enhance your mood allowing you to enjoy a relaxed and happy sense of well-being.
The Benefit of Walking - Considerations
Before beginning any fitness program, you should always check with your doctor, especially if you have an existing health condition, suffer with obesity, or have been diagnosed with arthrithis. Once cleared, begin by walking 15-20 minutes at a pace rapid enough to feel some exertion. Try that 3 times the first week and build up your pace, duration and number of times you walk per week. Soon you will be able to take a daily walk with ease. Make sure that you are wearing proper fitting shoes and that you keep your body well hydrated during your walks. Try to walk early in the morning or late evenings when the whether is most conducive to being outdoors.


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BY SUSIE CURRIE — Developers for the Cafritz property in Riverdale Park have been granted the rezoning required to bring the county’s first Whole Foods – as well as nearly 1,000 residential units and four acres of retail space – to one of the last wooded stretches of Route 1.
The 36-acre parcel just northeast of the East-West Highway intersection had been zoned as residential, allowing for up to 250 single-family homes. On July 9, the Prince George’s County Council voted 7-2 to extend the boundaries of Riverdale Park’s mixed-use town center (MUTC) zoning to include the property. That designation allows for a much higher density of residential units, in addition to retail and commercial space.
In the Cafritz plan, the retail space alone is more than four times the size of Hyattsville’s recently completed shopping center on Route 1.The Shoppes at Arts District Hyattsville, at the intersection of Jefferson Street, has 37,000 square feet of retail on three acres.
At 35,000 square feet, the proposed Whole Foods will be nearly as big. But it represents only a fraction of the project’s 162,000 square feet of retail space. Plans also include 22,000 feet of office space and 995 residential units.
The ambitious plan has been the subject of intense controversy among local residents. Opponents cite traffic and environmental concerns, as well as long-term impacts on the existing infrastructure, such as roads and schools.
Supporters claim the project would attract business, make the area more walkable and boost the local economy. Any potential school overcrowding, they say, would be alleviated by Hyattsville’s new elementary school. It’s scheduled to open in August 2013, whereas groundbreaking for the Cafritz project is expected no earlier than January 2014.
The College Park City Council voted against the plan, while Riverdale Park’s supported it unanimously. Hyattsville and University Park also voted to support the change, but by much thinner margins.
In February, after hours of impassioned hearings, The Prince George’s County Planning Board unanimously approved the rezoning request. When it came before the District Council, as the County Council is called when it votes on zoning issues, the issue proved so divisive that the vote was delayed for three months as the council heard hours of testimony and received stacks of documents on both sides.
County Councilmember Eric Olson (District 3), who represents the district containing the property, voted against it.
Before the vote, he said that “a mixed-use property or a new town center was never envisioned for this property,” which is “more than 90 percent wooded” and has “limited transportation access.”
Rather than ignoring the current zoning, he said, “we must follow the zoning ordinance and we must have more respect for our communities than to say that we will take development at any cost.”
There had been whispers of the organic-market chain coming to the area since at least 2006, when the Cafritz family first began floating development plans at community meetings.
Discussion intensified in May 2011, when Whole Foods signed a lease. Chip Reed, a lawyer representing the Cafritz family, said that the company has committed to opening the store by January 2015. It will be the centerpiece of Phase I, which includes 100,000 square feet of retail and 100 townhomes.
The property is owned by Calvin and Jane Cafritz. Calvin’s father, Washington developer Morris Cafritz, acquired it in 1954. The last major development of the site was in 1942, when the National Capital Housing Authority built tract houses for federal workers at an aircraft factory.

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Powerful Patens in the Anglo-Saxon Medical Tradition and Exeter Book Riddle 48
By Megan Cavell
Neophilologus (June 2016)
Abstract: This article discusses Exeter Book Riddle 48 in light of its proposed solutions. While commonly solved as either “chalice” or “paten,” I argue that the riddle points toward the latter solution (OE husel-disc). This riddle is usually read in relation to its counterpart, Riddle 59, which scholarly consensus solves as “chalice” (OE calic or husel-fæt). However, Riddle 48 should be analysed in its own right, especially given evidence from the medical tradition that prescribes writing on patens and performing psalms and other prayers over them in order to cure sickness. It is to this practice and to the psalms that Riddle 48 gestures in its use of the term galdorcwide (incantation), as well as the direct quotation that appeals to God to heal the speaker.
Introduction: Like many of the riddles in the tenth-century Exeter Book, Riddle 48 has had its fair share of proposed solutions. Although it is most commonly interpreted as a sacramental vessel—either a chalice or paten—it has also been read as a book or finger ring, and analysed briefly in relation to coins, bells and brooches. While all of these readings acknowledge the high-status nature of the object depicted in Riddle 48, this article argues that evidence which supports solving the riddle as a husel-disc (paten) can be found in the Anglo-Saxon medical tradition.
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Julianne Moore Returns to Gotham Awards After Last Year's Win!
The 54-year-old actress won the Gotham award last year for her brilliant work in Still Alice!
Also joining Julianne at the show were Sarah Paulson and Mariska Hargitay, who both presented an award on stage, as well as attendee Lake Bell, and nominee for Best Actress Blythe Danner for her work in I’ll See You in My Dreams.
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Boxing: Dagenham’s Adams impresses on England duty
PUBLISHED: 13:00 10 October 2019
Dagenham’s Billy Adams celebrated a win on England duty at the weekend.
Reigning Southern Area 56kg Youth champion Adams took on Welsh rival Billy Unsworth in Cannock, Staffordshire and began strongly.
Holding the centre of the ring well against a seasoned opponent who had just returned form the European Youth Championships, Adams landed shots to the head and body of Unsworth in the first round.
The Welsh boxer tried to push Adams back in the second round, but the Dagenham youngster counter-punched with excellent footwork to avoid the heavy punches coming his way.
That left Unsworth with it all to do in the final round and he showed plenty of strength, determination and commitment to try and force victory.
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But Adams went up a gear and stood his ground, holding the centre of the ring and counter-punching intelligently, walking his opponent down.
An appreciative crowd saw Adams emerge as a clear winner at the conclusion of the well-fought contest, which allowed England to level the match score at 7-7. But Wales came out on top in the final bout of the night to claim victory.
Dagenham's Dan O'Sullivan said: "This was good preparation for Billy, a regular England representative who has been selected to box in a Multi Nation competition at the end of October in Germany.
"In his present form we are hopeful he will bring back a gold medal to Dagenham."
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By Mohammad Abbas
Israelis occupation authority broke into 250 years old masjid AL-BAHR in Tiberias with an aim to turn it into a museum which will violate their agreement of 2002 with Palestinian authorities and community that guarantee maintenance of the mosque. This will not be the first time this agreement is violated. Many other mosques (A place of worship for Muslims ) in the ‘lost cities of Palestine’ were turned into museums, night clubs and bars by the Israeli authorities where 21% of the Israeli citizens are Muslim Palestinians or the so-called “Arab-Israelis” they also face institutionalized discrimination at the hands of the state.
Built in 1743, by a Muslim ruler of Teberias ‘Al-Zaher Oman’ in the city of Jaffa, the small mosque located in the northern side of the slope park, on the sea wall promenade in earlier times was used by the fisherman and sailors frequenting the port of Jaffa and by nearby habitants of surrounding area. Muslim sailors used to pray in the mosque before departing. It is said that the wives of sailors living in Jaffa used to come regularly to the mosque and pray for the safety of their beloved once .During the 1948 ethnic cleansing known as ‘Al Nakba’ which means ‘disaster’ occurred when more than 7,00,000 Palestinian Arabs- about half of prewar Palestine’s Arab population fled or were expelled from their homes. Overnight, Jaffa- The heart of Palestine stopped beating, which once serves as the cultural centers of Palestinian life. An entire way of life was lost.
Since, then the mosque Al-Bahr or ‘The sea mosque’ located on a sea shore in Jaffa city of old Palestine has been abandoned by the Israelis authority. No Muslims are allowed to enter in it even to clean it. The mosque was renovated in 1997, but is still not open to visitors.
Now the Israelis authority wants to convert it into a museum. Just like they have demolished hundreds of Palestinian mosque, cemeteries, and other religious sites by violating the agreement of 2002 with the Palestinian authority that allows the mosque to stay. Till now no action has been taken place against the Israelis authorities for continuously violating the agreement. If nothing has been done to protect the mosque and other holy places these acts of desecration of holy sites by Israelis authorities will erase every Palestinian symbols in the city and this is rarely reported by international media.


FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WNCN) – A tanker hauling 8,800 gallons of gasoline overturned Saturday night on Fayetteville’s Murchison road, spilling gas on the roadway.
The Fayetteville Fire Department said it received a call of an overturned vehicle just before 10 p.m. near the intersection of Murchison Road and Bernadine Street.
While crews were on the way to the scene, emergency officials learned the overturned vehicle was a tanker truck.
Upon arrival, fire crews learned the truck had been hauling 8,800 gallons of gasoline.
The flammable liquid was leaking following the incident.
The FFD Hazardous Materials Response Team responded to help clean up the spill.
By Sunday morning, most of the spilled gas had been cleaned up but private contractors were brought into assist.
No injuries were reported.