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Child Abuse May Make Bipolar Disorder Symptoms More Severe
New research published in Lancet Psychiatry indicates people with bipolar disorder who were abused or neglected as children are likely to experience more severe symptoms and a notably higher risk of suicide.
“Our findings have important implications for clinical practice, as they suggest that a history of childhood maltreatment could be used as an early indicator of high risk for poor outcomes among individuals with bipolar disorder,” said study author Jessica Agnew-Blais, a postdoctoral researcher at King’s College London in England.
“This information could be valuable for identifying patients with bipolar disorder who may benefit from greater support and treatment,” she said in a college news release.
For the recent report, the team of researchers reviewed 30 studies. From their evaluation, they were able to establish an association between neglect or physical, sexual, or emotional abuse as children and an increased likelihood to have more severe manic, depressive, and psychotic symptoms compared to those who were not abused.
The researchers also noted that individuals with bipolar disorder who were abused as children had a higher risk of anxiety disorder and substance or alcohol abuse disorders.
According to the report, those who were abused as children developed symptoms of bipolar disorder more than four years earlier than non-abused counterparts. They were also almost four times more likely to develop post-traumatic stress disorder and were twice as likely to attempt suicide.
“These findings lend support to the notion that maltreatment can affect neurobiological processes associated with progression of the disorder,” Agnew-Blais said.
The researchers say more research is needed to establish further how a history of childhood abuse or neglect could affect treatment of bipolar patients.

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The Belgian Russian Business Club organised a fascinating talk in September given by Danny Thorniley, President of DT-Global Business Consulting at ING Bankâs headquarters in Moscow.
In his speech, Danny gave a realistic review of the Russian situation, saying that 66% of his clients have indicated that they will continue to invest in Russia. Large companies, he said, complain about the state of the Russian economy, but this is in comparison to what the situation was a few years ago, when Russia was in the first three worldwide in terms of profitability. Now Russia is in the top 30% of companies around the world, bad news for CEOs who are âhooked on the cocaine of hyper Russian profits.â Compared to their performance in other countries, however, multinationals are still enjoying good profits in Russia.
Danny traced the present economic crisis back to January 2013, way before the Crimea crisis started. He saluted the Russian Central Bank for its good stewardship of the economy, and mentioned that the bank made it clear as far back as 2012 that if there was to be another global economic crisis, the rouble would not be propped up excessively. The bank proved true to its word. Oil is never going to go back up again to the heights it previously commended, Danny said, and predicted a range of $48-$60 per barrel. Medium term growth, as predicted by the World Bank would, however, be roughly 2.4%. Sanctions are unlikely to be intensified by the EU, Danny mentioned, although US sanctions are unlikely to be lifted, because whoever wins the next US elections, Congress will be Republican. The rouble will continue to experience volatility, just like the currencies of all developing markets.
ROI, Danny predicted will not be great but it wonât be bad either over the next 5 years. There will be more opportunities to source locally, which seems to be very much the name of the game at the present time. Because of its cheap and highly qualified labour force, Russia could actually become an export base. Foreign companies, however, will need to realise that if their goods have been in demand in Russia because Russians were always prepared to pay a premium for well made goods, now it will need to be explained in details exactly why the goods are better than home produced equivalents. In other words, selling in Russia will become more difficult; more like selling in other countries. Danny pointed to the Russian regions as possible grounds for expansion, and also to CIS countries, but pointed out that as good as things may be in Kazakhstan and a few other countries, Russia still accounts for roughly 85% of total business from the Russia/CIS region.
Other highlights of the evening included a farewell speech by Luc Truyens, who is leaving his post as General Director of ING bank in Moscow, to take up a similar position in Austria. Luc will be missed by all in Moscow, and not only because of his superb management skills at ING.

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Ouya CEO Julie Uhrman has confirmed that the Ouya console will release on a yearly basis.
Speaking to Engadget, Uhrman likened the company's approach to that of the mobile industry. "Our strategy is very much similar to the mobile strategy," she said.
"There will be a new Ouya every year. There will be an Ouya 2 and an Ouya 3," she added. "We'll take advantage of faster, better processors, take advantage of prices falling. So if we can get more than 8GB of Flash in our box, we will."
Uhrman also said that all new Ouya iterations will be backward compatible.
The Kickstarter funded Android console will launch in June for USD$100, it was confirmed earlier this week. Double Fine - the studio responsible for The Cave has confirmed it will develop titles for the platform.


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Objectives: The benefits of SBRT in pain control await confirmation in 2 large North American trials (RTOG0631 and CCTG SC24) but SBRT is already commonly used to improve local control. We hypothesized that systemic therapy may influence the efficacy of spine SBRT in controlling pain and increase the risk of vertebral compression fracture (VCF).
Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the clinical data of 155 patients treated with SBRT between June 2009 and June 2016. In the current analysis, we included the 127 patients for which SBRT was administered in a context of oligometastatic or oligoprogressive disease (either alone or postoperatively). Outcomes were calculated actuarially and comparisons were performed using log-rank tests (significance set at <0.05).
Results: The mean age was 64 (range: 22.67-81.82). Forty-nine patients (39%) had cancers considered radio-resistant (kidney 16%, thyroid 9%, melanoma 3 %) and 63 patients had breast (26%), prostate (14%) or lung (13%) cancers. Prior to SBRT and surgery, 33%, 63% and 3% had stable (SINS 0-6), potentially unstable (SINS 7-12) and unstable vertebrae (SINS 13-14). Postoperative SBRT was administered in 41%. Pain was present in 78% of patients prior to SBRT. Forty-two percent of the patients received systemic therapy during or within 7 days of SBRT. The median BED10 was 48. Median local recurrence free survival, distant progression free survival and overall survival were 20.5 months, 9 months and 25 months, respectively. There were 14 VCFs. No case of radiation myelopathy was reported. On univariate analysis, patients who were receiving systemic treatment were significantly at a higher risk of developing VCF (p=0.014) or pain recurrence (p=0.001). SINS score, Bilsky scale and pre-SBRT stabilization surgery were not significantly associated with VCF, local recurrence or pain.
Conclusions: In our single center retrospective review, we observed that patients on systemic treatments prior to spine SBRT were are high risk of developing VCF and pain recurrence/progression. These results suggest that pain response analyses in ongoing trials need to take into account concurrent systemic treatments as a potential confounding factor. Patient and clinician expectations as to the risk of VCF may also need to be modulated.

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Munchkin Card Game : Marvel
Munchkin: Marvel Edition - an all-new Munchkin game that fuses the classic card game fun of monster-slaying and role-playing with the most iconic characters from the Marvel universe.
Munchkin Warhammer 40,000: Kill-O-Meter
The Emperor requires accurate information about the strength of his allies and his enemies in order to plan effectively. Now you can provide that information with the two-sided Munchkin Warhammer 40,000 Kill-O-Meter.
Munchkin Warhammer 40,000: Savagery and Sorcery
Munchkin Warhammer 40,000: Sorcery and Savagery is a 112-card expansion featuring one of the most iconic pairs of antagonists in the entire Warhammer 40,000 universe: Space Wolves and Thousand Sons.
Munchkin: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Using the much beloved and extremely popular Munchkin game rules by Steve Jackson Games, Munchkin Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles blends the humor and gameplay of Munchkin with the enemies and "team-up" themes of the iconic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics. I
Murder on the Cosmic Express
You are the Captain aboard the Interplanetary Cosmic Express Cruise Line when it is discovered that the President of the Cosmic Express Lines has been murdered. The Captain must examine the evidence, interrogate the prime suspects, and figure out who the Murderer is!
In the 1920s, Mr. MacDowell, a gifted astrologist, immediately detected a supernatural being upon entering his new house in Scotland. He gathered eminent mediums of his time for an extraordinary séance, and they have seven hours to contact the ghost and investigate any clues that it can provide to unlock an old mystery.
In Mystic Vale, 2 to 4 players take on the role of druidic clans trying to cleanse the curse upon the land. Each turn, you play cards into your field to gain powerful advancements and useful vale cards. Use your power wisely, or decay will end your turn prematurely. Score the most victory points to win the game
Mystic Vale: Vale of Magic
The Vale of Magic Expansion adds new advancement and vale cards to the base Mystic Vale game, giving players more card crafting options and exciting new possibilities for powerful combos!
Mystic Vale: Vale of the Wild
Vale of the Wild adds a large variety of new advancement and vale cards to the base Mystic Vale game. Players can start the game with new leader cards in their deck. Leaders grant abilities that can be upgraded to become even more powerful!
In Nessos, you must embody Greek heroes who imprison mythological creatures into sacred amphoras in order to offer them to the gods. If you capture enough, you will reach the rank of gods' chosen One! But beware for Charon the terrible roams and will by all means try to make you take a one way trip to Hell!
A game about building nightmares so terrifying you’ll see half of them in your dreams afterwards. Create monsters that will make your opponents gasp in horror. Achive victory and become the Master of Terror!
In Nobjects, a die and a card that shows six topics determine what you need to draw for other players to guess, but you're not drawing with pencils, chalk, or other materials. Instead, you draw solely with your fingers on the table, creating a picture with invisible lines that others try to put together in their heads to guess. Whoever recognizes the term will then become the artist for the next round.
On the warmest nights of the year, the otherwise quiet waters are filled with shimmering lights as the dormant noctiluca awaken. Only the most skilled divers can navigate the waters to collect these mysterious glowing creatures and deliver them to healers across the land. Can you catch the embers of the sea?
Oh My Goods!
Restock due Wednesday 20th February; In Oh My Goods!, first released as Royal Goods, players are European craftsmen during the Middle Ages who produce tools, barrels, glass windows, and many other goods. Only if you make clever use of your production chains will you have the most victory points at the end of the game.
One Deck Dungeon
Adventure calls...but you don't have four hours or the desire to set up hundreds of pieces. One Deck Dungeon lets you jump right in, bash down doors, roll dice, and squash baddies with style.
One Deck Galaxy
Your civilization has reached the stars, and your population is hungry for discovery. Explore, colonize, research — but be sure to build up your strength to be ready for the dangers that await!
The Key is missing, and it is up to the players to find it! The team leader tries to communicate with the other players, proposing clues by indicating their degree of affinity with the object that the team must find. One Key is a family game for all kinds of players, a light game that offers a co-operative experience based on the association of ideas and deduction.
One Night Ultimate Alien
In One Night Ultimate Alien, strange, extraterrestrial beings have infiltrated your small village, bringing fearsome technology and an insatiable appetite for both Villagers and Cows. Fortunately, the village has many powerful inhabitants whose goal is to save it from the alien invaders.
One Night Ultimate Super Villains
One Night Ultimate Super Villains is a standalone game in the One Night series that's perfect for the whole family to enjoy, challenging you to capture the baddies and save the world! Super Villains can also be combined with the other entries in the series — One Night Ultimate Werewolf, Daybreak, Vampire, and Alien — to create even more fun and chaos.
One Night Ultimate Vampire
In One Night Ultimate Vampire, the sun has just set, and vampires have descended on your sleepy little town, slowly turning the villagers into even more vampires. Fortunately, the village has several residents with special powers, with most willing to help eliminate this fanged menace!
One Night Ultimate Werewolf
One Night Ultimate Werewolf is a fast-paced game where everyone gets to be a different role. In the course of only one night and the following morning, the players will determine who among them is a werewolf...hopefully.
One Night Ultimate Werewolf Daybreak
One Night Ultimate Werewolf Daybreak is a fast game for 3-7 players in which everyone gets a hidden role, each with a special ability. Can be played by itself or in combination with One Night Ultimate Werewolf.
Orc-lympics Card Game
In Orc-lympics, players draft a team of orcs, elves, halflings and other fantasy Olympians, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. They then enter these Olympians into a series of seven events.
Orc-lympics Card Game (Special Offer)
Stock due Tuesday 4th June; In Orc-lympics, players draft a team of orcs, elves, halflings and other fantasy Olympians, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. They then enter these Olympians into a series of seven events.
Pack O Games #12: Dig
Number 12 in the Pack O Game series. In DIG, each player is a dog that will run throughout the Yard, dig up bones and attempt to return them to the matching colored Dog Bowl with the greatest efficiency.

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Battle Mode is a multiplayer mode in all Mario Kart games. In Super Mario Kart to Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, Battle Mode was only available in multiplayer. In Mario Kart DS and all games after that, Battle Mode could be a single player mode with computer players or a multiplayer mode with or without them.
Balloon Battle is a type of Battle in which players have three Balloons and if they lose all of them, they are out. In Super Mario Kart to Mario Kart: Super Circuit, this was the only battle mode available. Balloons can be lost by getting hit by an Item, falling into a pit (where possible), getting hit by certain stage obstacles (in Mario Kart Wii), or getting hit by a Mushroom boost, the last of which causes the player that used the boost to steal the other player's balloon. In Mario Kart DS, the rules were the same, however you start with one balloon but you have four in inventory you can blow up whenever. In Mario Kart Wii and Mario Kart 7, this is different. The game is separated into 2 equal teams with a 3 minute time limit (2 in 7). Each time you hit someone on the opposing team, you get one point plus an additional point for defeating an opponent who has no balloons. If you lose all 3 of your balloons, you lose a point and are respawned with 3 balloons. At the end of the time limit, the team with the most points wins. In Mario Kart 8, Balloon Battle returns to the rules it originally had.
Shine Thief appeared in Mario Kart: Double Dash!!. The object of it was to collect the Shine and keep it until the time runs out. If the player falls off the cliff or takes damage, he or she will drop it.
Bob-omb and the player gets points for hitting opponents with them. The player can have up to five Bob-ombs per character. After receiving three or four points, the player wins.
Only appearing in Mario Kart DS, this mode involved nine Shines appearing all over the stage, to which the player must collect as many Shines as possible before players with the least amount of shines are eliminated via the time limit, and the game continues until only one player remains. The time limit is 60 seconds in the first round and 30 seconds for every round afterwards.
This mode was introduced in Mario Kart Wii. In this mode, players are split into 2 equal teams with a 3 minute time limit, and coins are scattered all over the battleground. Players can pick up coins by running over them. More coins will fall from the sky periodically until a certain amount is on the field, then they will stop falling (unless coins go out of bounds, in which case they will disappear and reappear at a random spot on the field). Getting hit by a Banana Peel or a Fake Item Box causes the player to lose 3 coins, while falling into a pit, getting hit by any kind of shell, a Bob-omb, a POW Block, or run over by a Mega Mushroom causes him to lose half of his coins (with a minimum of 3). Getting hit by a Star or a Mushroom causes the rammer to steal 3 coins. At the end, whichever team has the most coins wins the round. The battle game returned in Mario Kart 7, but with a time limit of two minutes and it can be played by themselves. As it reappeared in 7, it is the only battle mode to appear in multiple Mario Kart games other Balloon Battle.
Retro Battle Courses
|Mario Kart DS||Mario Kart Wii||Mario Kart 7|
|N64 Block Fort||SNES Battle Course 4||GBA Battle Course 1|
|GCN Pipe Plaza||GBA Battle Course 3||N64 Big Donut|
|N/A||N64 Skyscraper||DS Palm Shore|
|N/A||GCN Cookie Land||N/A|
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Impact of genetic abnormalities on survival after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in multiple myeloma.
ABSTRACT We analyzed the prognostic impact of the most frequent genetic abnormalities detected by fluorescence in situ hybridization in 101 patients with multiple myeloma, who underwent allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) after melphalan/fludarabine-based reduced conditioning. The incidences of abnormalities in the present analysis were as follows: del(13q14) (61%), t(11;14)(q13;q32) (14%), t(4;14)(p16.3;q32) (19%), MYC-gain gains (8q24) (21%), del(17p13) (16%) and t(14;16)(q32;q23) (5%). None of the patients had t(6;14)(p25;q32). The overall complete remission (CR) rate was 50% with no differences between the genetic abnormalities except for patients with del(17p13) who achieved less CR (7 vs 56%; P=0.001). Univariate analysis revealed a higher relapse rate in patients aged >50 years (P=0.002), patients with del(13q14) (P=0.006) and patients with del(17p13) (P=0.003). In multivariate analyses, only del(13q14) (HR: 2.34, P=0.03) and del(17p13) (HR: 2.24; P=0.04) significantly influenced the incidence of relapse, whereas for event-free survival, only age (HR 2.8; P=0.01) and del(17p13) (HR: 2.05; P=0.03) retained their negative prognostic value. These data show that del(17p13) is a negative prognostic factor for achieving CR as well as for event-free survival after HSCT. Translocation t(4;14) might be overcome by allogeneic HSCT, which will have implication for risk-adapted strategies.
Article: The t(4;14) translocation and FGFR3 overexpression in multiple myeloma: prognostic implications and current clinical strategies.[show abstract] [hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Multiple myeloma (MM) is a heterogeneous plasma cell disorder characterized by genetic abnormalities, including chromosomal translocations, deletions, duplications and genetic mutations. Translocations involving the immunoglobulin heavy chain region at chromosome 14q32 are observed in approximately 40% of patients with MM. Translocation of oncogenes into this region may lead to their increased expression, contributing to disease initiation, disease progression and therapeutic resistance. The t(4;14) translocation is associated with upregulation of the fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 (FGFR3) and the myeloma SET domain protein. Patients with t(4;14) demonstrate an overall poor prognosis that is only partially mitigated by the use of the novel agents bortezomib and lenalidomide; as such, an unmet medical need remains for patients with this aberration. Preclinical studies of inhibitors of FGFR3 have shown promise in t(4;14) MM, and these studies have led to the initiation of clinical trials. Data from these trials will help to determine the clinical utility of FGFR3 inhibitors for patients with t(4;14) MM and may pave the way for personalized medicine in patients with this incurable disease.Blood Cancer Journal 01/2012; 2:e89.
Article: Long-term follow-up of a comparison of nonmyeloablative allografting with autografting for newly diagnosed myeloma.[show abstract] [hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Before the introduction of new drugs, we designed a trial where treatment of newly diagnosed myeloma patients was based on the presence or absence of HLA-identical siblings. First-line treatments included a cytoreductive autograft followed by a nonmyeloablative allograft or a second melphalan-based autograft. Here, we report long-term clinical outcomes and discuss them in the light of the recent remarkable advancements in the treatment of myeloma. After a median follow-up of 7 years, median overall survival (OS) was not reached (P = .001) and event-free survival (EFS) was 2.8 years (P = .005) for 80 patients with HLA-identical siblings and 4.25 and 2.4 years for 82 without, respectively. Median OS was not reached (P = .02) and EFS was 39 months (P = .02) in the 58 patients who received a nonmyeloablative allograft whereas OS was 5.3 years and EFS 33 months in the 46 who received 2 high-dose melphalan autografts. Among patients who reached complete remission in these 2 cohorts, 53% and 19% are in continuous complete remission. Among relapsed patients rescued with "new drugs," median OS from the start of salvage therapy was not reached and was 1.7 (P = .01) years, respectively. Allografting conferred a long-term survival and disease-free advantage over standard autografting in this comparative study.Blood 06/2011; 117(24):6721-7. · 9.90 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation in multiple myeloma is limited by prior reports of high treatment-related mortality. We analyzed outcomes after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation for multiple myeloma in 1207 recipients in 3 cohorts based on the year of transplantation: 1989-1994 (n = 343), 1995-2000 (n = 376), and 2001-2005 (n = 488). The most recent cohort was significantly older (53% > 50 years) and had more recipients after prior autotransplantation. Use of unrelated donors, reduced-intensity conditioning and the blood cell grafts increased over time. Rates of acute graft-versus-host (GVHD) were similar, but chronic GVHD rates were highest in the most recent cohort. Overall survival (OS) at 1-year increased over time, reflecting a decrease in treatment-related mortality, but 5-year relapse rates increased from 39% (95% confidence interval [CI], 33%-44%) in 1989-1994 to 58% (95% CI, 51%-64%; P < .001) in the 2001-2005 cohort. Projected 5-year progression-free survival and OS are 14% (95% CI, 9%-20%) and 29% (95% CI, 23%-35%), respectively, in the latest cohort. Increasing age, longer interval from diagnosis to transplantation, and unrelated donor grafts adversely affected OS in multivariate analysis. Survival at 5 years for subjects with none, 1, 2, or 3 of these risk factors were 41% (range, 36%-47%), 32% (range, 27%-37%), 25% (range, 19%-31%), and 3% (range, 0%-11%), respectively (P < .0001).Blood 06/2011; 118(7):1979-88. · 9.90 Impact Factor

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Wausau teacher resigns after prostitution sting
WAUSAU – The Wausau School District says a teacher has resigned after he and seven other men were arrested in an online prostitution sting last month.
District Superintendent Kathleen Williams says the teacher submitted a letter of resignation Tuesday. She says the School Board will take official action next week.
She and Wausau Police Lt. Matt Barnes declined to identify the man. Barnes says the suspects were given tickets that carry $2,000 fines but they weren’t charged.
Barnes says the men responded to online ads and thought they were soliciting prostitutes.
Williams says there was never any indication that students’ safety was at risk.
These are the first citations issued in Wausau after the council approved a new ordinance allowing police to give tickets instead of recommending criminal charges.


Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry has extended her current health orders until Feb. 5.
The orders, which prohibit events, social gatherings with those outside of one's own household and sports, among other things, were first put in place on Nov. 7.
Henry said a number of people made exceptions for themselves over the holiday break, which has led to new cases and clusters.
"If 10,000 people make these small concessions for themselves, that increases all of our risk exponentially," she said.
The extended orders came with news of another 761 new cases of COVID-19 and eight further deaths due to the disease.
Of those cases, 96 are in the Interior Health region, which also accounts for one of the deaths reported Thursday.
Henry noted that the province has changed how new cases are reported, with figures now coming directly from labs in the province. The change is expected to produce "slightly higher" case counts as the transition takes place.
"Every case is still counted and every person who tests positive is informed as soon as possible," she said.
Elsewhere in the province, there have been 94 new cases in Vancouver Coastal Health, 484 in Fraser Health, 23 in Vancouver Island Health and 64 in Northern Health.
In hospital, there are 372 patients with COVID-19 across the province, including 74 in critical care.
Of B.C.'s 56,015 cases, 47,374 have recovered while 970 have died. Another 8,848 people are under active public health monitoring due to exposure to confirmed cases.
On the vaccine front, a total of 41,064 people have received at least one dose of either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines.
Henry also said two more cases of the U.K. variant have been found, both household contacts with the first case discovered in the province.


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Operative Markers – A good Fantastic Method To be able to Safeguard Against Autorevolezza?
In response to public concern, the utilizes of Surgical Masks now span considerably outside of the health-related and overall health treatment arena. The outbreak of these kinds of airborne conditions like influenza has fueled an at any time-growing desire for experience masks. Even so, stories display standard masks offer small protection, as microbe-bearing particles are in a position to move through them fairly simply.
Not too long ago, makers of surgical masks have been quite occupied developing a style of encounter mask called a “respirator”. They supply a a lot increased stage of safety as the stringent filter is impregnated with a germicide that disinfects any particles it touches including microbes. They are in use domestically in the U.S. as well as internationally throughout thousands and thousands of healthcare offices, hospitals, and clinics.
N99 Surgical respirators with a sealing adhesive give significantly larger antimicrobial defense than conventional N95 Masks which safe to the face with an elastic band. When applying the face mask, it is critical to merge ease and comfort and functionality. If a surgical mask does not provide a increased stage of security then respirator need to not be utilised.
www.accumed.com/face-mask-medical-surgical-mask-face-mask-for-sale-online.html is no lengthier a mystery that airborne diseases and bacterial infections are listed here to remain. Now the the massive question is what could potentially come about if the avian flu mixes with swine flu, and are we geared up as a culture to respond? As the H1N1 virus has already been discovered in dogs, cats, pigs, horses, cows and of system… Individuals!
There is an each developing danger this mixture could be likely on outside the U.S. in developing countries with minor regulation or guidelines for planning these sorts of meats items securely. No matter what, whether its this new H1N1 or the avian flu virus, the prolonged-time period strategy for survival involves guarding individuals from contracting airborne bacterial infections in the very first location.
There is concern amongst wellness care professionals recently that as the likelihood a microbe will arise which spreads a very contagious airborne an infection to the standard community grows each and every day. This probability exists today just as it did in 1918 when the lethal Spanish flu pandemic wiped out an approximated 50 million individuals.
Surgical Masks typically characteristic a loose-fitting filter which is applied to the confront and secured with either elasticated ear loops or ties. The primary operate is as a actual physical barrier to avert make contact with with droplets of fluid, and not so significantly to stop airborne particles or damaging microbes.
N99 Respirators generally secure to the encounter employing a latex-cost-free adhesive, and have a much tighter mesh which filters out practically all airborne particles. Also, they get rid of gaps close to the nose and sides of the confront. This adhesive does not allow any air to be inhaled with out passing by means of the N99 grade filter. It is tremendous straightforward to breathe by means of them, and must be strongly deemed when planning for any variety of pandemic.
For this purpose it is suggested to include Surgical Masks with microorganisms efficiency of ninety nine% or increased in preparing for these kinds of an outbreak. Among other things to keep handy incorporate healthcare gloves, hand sanitizers, and such things to maintain market a cleanse and sterile surroundings. Getting these sorts of precautions are the best way to combat the unfold of airborne disease.Others

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Open Meeting Law covers more than the meeting
Probably most people have an idea of what the Minnesota Open Meeting Law is all about.
It means that meetings of governmental bodies (school boards, city councils, county commissions, etc.) are to be open to the public. The voting public has a right to know what their elected officials are doing.
But it covers a lot more than that. For instance, it states that committees of these governmental bodies are covered by the same law. It states that the public needs to be informed of when these meetings take place. It states that any documents that are viewed by the governmental body must also be available to the public.
The law also covers when, and how, a meeting can be closed. There are very few reasons to close a meeting, because the spirit of the law is that almost everything our elected officials do should be done in the open, where we can see it.
The law also states that before a meeting is closed, the board or commission must state why it is being closed. They must state the law that allows them to close it.
Then in many cases they must keep a recording of the closed meeting, and at the next open meeting they must report what they did at the closed meeting, including any findings that they made. Any actual votes or decisions can’t be made at the closed meeting, but must be made at an open meeting so that the public sees why that decision was made.
We feel that the Winnebago City Council fell short of this spirit of the law by not giving a full report of their closed session dealing with the city administrator. A more detailed description of that session was called for.
The reason the press keeps a wary eye on the government is because the public needs to know what their elected officials are doing.
Closed meetings can become a slippery slope for governments and should only be done in the proper manner, and only when necessary and allowed by the Open Meeting Law.


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Race season is officially over here in the city known for its race history. As a good Brazilian I do enjoy the race – especially when we have amazing Brazilian drivers competing, hello Tony and Helio – but besides the race itself (and the beers and burgers) I love seeing the tourists in town, the buzz, the fashion industry throwing the coolest events and just seeing everyone gathering together makes the city look and feel so alive!!! We started the night having Josef Newgarden (who took 3rd place in Indy 500 historical race) over at Saks taking pics and giving out autographs.
Then I met my plus one Maria and headed to Napolese where Simon Mall and GQ Magazine were hosting a cocktail party before the big show! May I add I’ve been to quite a few fashion related events in the city and have never seen an event put together so well and so tastefully. Kuddos for the marketing team, I’m blown away!
Still at Napolese they were doing live sketches of what people were wearing! Fantastic guys, such a cool idea!! And cheers….
Afterwards we all headed to the mall where the fashion show was being held. Upon arrival I was directed to my seat and Simon mall equipped myself and other local bloggers with iphone lenses to take shots of the show along with lots of gifts and other goodies….blown away part II !!!!
And guess who provided desserts?! Nothing less than The Cake Bake Shop (emojis please!!)
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It’s all BCBG Max Azria from Indianapolis store. Adelia Sequined Embroidered Cutout Dress; Veera High Heel Leather Sandal; Chanel Calfskin Quilted Medium Bubble CC Flap in Black; Miranda Frye earrings. And for the hair I came in to work with a flat french braid mohawk style then Kelly my co-woker/girlfriend re-vamped it to this awesome hairdo! We puffed up the braid and pinned with bobbi pins and she pulled a couple strings of hair back to hide the elastic. FUN FUN FUN!!
Huge thanks to Simon Mall for making me a part of this event. I enjoyed every minute of it! Beautiful party, beautiful clothes/models and gifts (man, the gifts!) everything was thought out and we could all see it! Congrats and I can’t wait for next year’s race season!!!


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BRUSHTON - Enbridge St. Lawrence Gas has not installed a portion of its natural gas pipeline behind St. Marys Church in Brushton so that it can perform a study to determine whether human remains are buried there.
The area where the pipeline was planned to go may have been part of the former St. Marys Cemetery, which was used through the late-19th century. Due to failures in record keeping, there is no proof that the remains were ever removed from the old cemetery to St. Marys current cemetery on the Gale Road, which some say happened years ago.
While the area has been clear cut and all foliage taken down, Enbridge Assistant General Manager Jim Ward said Monday that no digging has occurred yet.
Mr. Ward said initially the company was approved to install the pipeline in the area directly behind the church. However, after finding out that human remains could still be buried there, the company stopped work, skipped over this area and continued on toward Bangor.
The company received the information about the cemetery from a resident, Mr. Ward added.
With the new information, it casts a little doubt, he said of whether the remains are there. They could not provide proof that the bodies had been moved.
Fr. Chris Looby of St. Marys and other Brushton residents said they believed the bodies had been moved to the Gale Road cemetery back in the 1940s. However, no paper documentation has been found to prove that.
No remains were dug up, Father Looby said Thursday. Theyve [Enbridge] been working back there for the past couple of months and they didnt find anything, which tells me I was right – the graves were moved years ago.
To figure out whether the area designated for the gas pipeline contains human remains, Mr. Ward said in a letter that the company plans to use ground-penetrating radar.
If any indications of remains are found, we will adjust our construction plans to ensure that no grave sites are disturbed, the letter states.
Having to change the course of the pipeline could affect the timeline for the project, he said. However, Mr.Ward noted that Malone is still scheduled to have natural gas by the summer.
Joyce Ranieri, who served as Moira historian for 13 years and also did a tombstone transcription project for the old and current St. Marys Church cemeteries, said Monday that throughout her research she was also unable to find proof that the cemetery was moved.
During the time she was transcribing the headstones at the old cemetery, Ms. Ranieri said some were still standing upright in the ground and looked as if they were in the same position they wouldve been in to mark a grave.
In order to disinter a body, you have to have a burial permit, she said, adding that a funeral home has to be present as well.
Ms.Ranieri noted that interment records as well as disinterment – digging up and reburying a body – records are all filed with the village or town clerk. She said that she was unable to find any disinterment records for the old St. Marys Cemetery, but that does not mean they do not exist.
It wouldve been very expensive, Ms. Ranieri said of the disinterment process.
While it has been noted that part of the cemetery was bulldozed over and the stones pushed back at one point to clear for a parking lot by the church, Ms. Ranieri said that it was common years ago for this to happen to old cemeteries.
It was not an unusual thing, she said.

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From September 27 to November 10, the Armenian Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) in the South Caucasus was exposed to a genocidal assault at the hands of Azerbaijan and Turkey. The entire world watched while the aggressors committed many crimes and indiscriminately shelled the indigenous lands of Armenians.
Turkey also sent Azerbaijan mercenaries from Syria with known affiliations to Islamic radical groups. This was confirmed by a recent United Nations report, as well as by the testimonies of many Syrian mercenaries and reports by international media outlets.
Together with Azerbaijani military forces, they perpetrated war crimes against Armenians. They murdered civilians, injured journalists and targeted homes, forests, hospitals, churches and cultural centers, among other non-military targets. They used white phosphorus and cluster munitions in violation of international law. At least 90,000 Armenians were forced to abandon their ancestral lands in Artsakh as a result.
The war finally halted after 45 days as a result of the Russia-brokered agreement imposed on Armenia.
According to the agreement, there would be “an exchange of prisoners of war and other detained persons and bodies of the dead.” However, even after the signing of the agreement, multiple videos emerged showing Azeri military members and their partners beheading, mutilating and dismembering captured Armenian civilians and prisoners of war. These gruesome crimes were filmed and proudly posted on social media by Azerbaijani soldiers themselves.
On December 7, for example, Azerbaijanis uploaded yet another video of a beheading on one of their many Telegram channels. In the video, a soldier of the Azerbaijani special forces is seen beheading an elderly Armenian civilian while his fellow soldiers videotaped the war crime. The elderly Armenian man was begging for his life.
As these ISIS-like crimes were being committed against Armenians, Turkish and Azerbaijani soldiers participated in a military “victory parade” in Azerbaijan’s capital city of Baku on December 10. The parade, organized to celebrate the countries’ joint “military victory” over Artsakh, was attended by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev.
During the “victory parade,” Erdogan delivered a speech in which he praised Enver Pasha, one of the planners of Ottoman Turkey’s 1914-1923 Christian genocide, which cost the lives of around 1.5 million Armenians and at least one million Greeks and Assyrians. The Ottoman military march was also played during the event.
Erdogan referred to the 1918 Islamic Army of the Caucasus created by Enver Pasha and led by the Ottoman commander, Nuri Pasha. The Islamic Army of the Caucasus was responsible for the massacres to eliminate the non-Muslim population of Baku, mainly Armenians. Erdogan said:
“Today is the day when the souls of Nuri Pasha, Enver Pasha and the brave soldiers of the Islamic Army of the Caucasus are blessed.”
Erdogan also confirmed Turkey’s support for the recent Azeri assault against Armenians. According to the official website of Turkey’s Presidency, “Turkey, with all its institutions and organizations, supported Azerbaijan’s fight from the very beginning, underlined President Erdoğan, further stressing that it will continue to stand by the brotherly Azerbaijan with all its capabilities.”
During his speech Aliyev claimed that the Armenian capital of Yerevan, Armenia’s Lake Sevan and the Syunik (Zangezur) region in southern Armenia are “historic lands of Azerbaijan.”
This was not the first time Aliyev referred not only to Artsakh but also to the Republic of Armenia as “Azerbaijani lands.” In 2018, for instance, Aliyev referred to the same Armenian regions as “historic lands of Azerbaijan.” “Azerbaijanis’ return to those territories,” he added, “is our political and strategic goal, and we need to work step-by-step to get closer to it.”
Meanwhile, the Russia-brokered agreement appears not to provide security for Artsakh. On December 11, Azerbaijan violated the agreement by launching an attack against Artsakh’s Hadrut district. Aliyev, however, blamed Armenia for the attacks, threatening to “break its head with an iron fist” and added, “This time, we will destroy them completely.”
Dr. Anahit Khosroeva, a genocide scholar and historian based in Yerevan, said:
“The recent Azeri attack against the villages in Hadrut breaks my trust in the agreement. Russian troops did not immediately stop the attack. People in Artsakh’s capital, Stepanakert, think that the safety of their city is at risk, as well. There is massive diplomatic uncertainty concerning the agreement. How effective it will be and how committed Russian troops will be to protecting the security of Artsakh remains to be seen.”
Khosroeva also criticized the dominant media narrative concerning the war against Artsakh:
“The international media adopted this incredibly misleading narrative which tries to put equal blame on ‘both sides’. Can they not see the difference between the perpetrator and the victim? Who started the war and who committed an ethnic cleansing campaign is obvious: Azerbaijan and Turkey. Yet, much of the international media stuck to this unethical and false narrative and whitewashed Azerbaijani crimes, which misinformed the world community and has cost so many innocent lives.
“For 45 days during the war, our cities were bombed incessantly. But the international community did not care. They just watched as Azerbaijan, Turkey and jihadists massacred our people. At the very least they should now try the perpetrators in international courts for their crimes.”
Khosroeva noted that the UN Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect is clear about the definition and punishment of war crimes:
“The UN says that lists of war crimes can be found in both international humanitarian law and international criminal law treaties, as well as in international customary law.
“According to the 8th article of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, several acts constitute war crimes such as ‘willful killing; torture or inhuman treatment, including biological experiments; willfully causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or health; extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly; compelling a prisoner of war or other protected person to serve in the forces of a hostile power; willfully depriving a prisoner of war or other protected person of the rights of fair and regular trial; unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement; and taking of hostages.’ Azerbaijan and Turkey committed all these and more against Armenians during and after the war.
“Given Erdogan’s statements about Enver Pasha, it seems that Erdogan pursues an annihilationist policy that aims at completing the Armenian Genocide which his Ottoman ancestors started.”
Journalist Lika Zakaryan was in Stepanakert during the war and reported on it daily. “During the 45-day war,” she said, “people in Artsakh expected the world to do something to stop Azerbaijan and Turkey – to take concrete actions but not to stay silent, and stop calling on ‘both sides to de-escalate.’ They waited for the world to make the perpetrator and aggressor, Azerbaijan, stop its attacks. But it never happened.”
Zakaryan is also concerned about the agreement:
“I do not think it can provide full security for Artsakh,” she said. “No peacekeepers can provide it when in some places there are only 30 meters between Artsakh and Azerbaijan. I think the biggest risk concerning the agreement is the giving of Karvachar and Lachin districts to Azerbaijan, which turns Artsakh into an enclave.
“Azerbaijan remains a major threat to us. People here are scared of a second Armenian genocide, an even more suffocating blockade, and a new war. And until Azerbaijan is brought to account for its war crimes, these possibilities will remain.”
Turkey and Azerbaijan’s genocidal assault against Armenians are mainly propelled by two reasons:
1) The traditional Turkish/Azeri genocidal hatred against Armenians and Christianity, and
2) Turkey’s goal of pan-Turkist expansionism, which Turkey also calls the “Red Apple” doctrine.
One month before Azerbaijan and Turkey attacked Artsakh, the Director of Communications of the Turkish presidency, FahrettinAltun, shared a video of what he called the “Red Apple” anthem on his Twitter account on August 24. He wrote:
“For us, the Red Apple means great and strong Turkey. It is the sacred march of our nation that made history from Manzikert to July 15. The Red Apple is a great plane tree that provides shade for the downtrodden to refresh. The Red Apple is what the entire humanity has longed for from Gibraltar to Hedjaz and from the Balkans to Asia.”
The video presents the Turkish military and Erdogan as heirs to the medieval Turkic Seljuk dynasty, as well as to the Ottoman Empire.
“The Red Apple image, one of the most important symbols of Turkish nationalism, symbolizes a goal and purpose for Turkish states. It refers to a place to be reached, or a town to be conquered. It sometimes expresses the ideal of establishing a state, sometimes the ideal of world domination, and sometimes the ideal of Turkish unity…. Red apple is a symbol of jihad carried out especially towards Western countries during the Ottoman period.”
“As a trait of the Turkish state tradition, Red Apple represents the idea that the Turkish state should rule over other states and nations across the world. After oral literature, it [i.e., the Red Apple doctrine] was first passed to written sources through the Oğuzname [the name of several documents about the myths of the Turks]. According to a Turkish tradition, which is also mentioned in the Oghuz and Göktürk [Turkic tribes in the Central Asia] inscriptions, it is believed that the Turkish khan [ruler] is the khan of not only the Turks but of the whole world and that conquests were made in accordance with this principle.
“They [Turks] believed that God entrusted the world sovereignty to the Turks. It is seen as a very effective motif in the state tradition of the Huns, Göktürks and Seljuks [Turkic tribes from Central Asia]. According to Oğuzhan [the king of the Turkic people in Central Asia], the sky is the tent of the state and the sun is the flag. This idea included not only Turks’ thoughts of state administration, but also the very old principles of the Turkish religion.”
Turkic peoples are not natives of Asia Minor or the South Caucasus. They are originally from Central Asia and invaded the region starting in the eleventh century. Armenians, however, are an indigenous people of the land and have resided there for millennia. Throughout the centuries, however, Armenians have been assaulted by Turkic peoples several times. Among the greatest of these assaults were the 1071 Seljuk Turkic invasion of the Armenian town of Manzikert in the Greek Byzantine Empire and the 1914-23 Christian genocide by Ottoman Turkey.
According to “Red Apple” ideology, the presence of Armenians in Artsakh and Armenia is viewed as a barrier preventing a Turkic Islamic corridor among Azerbaijan, Turkey and other Turkic Muslim countries. Hence, Turkey and Azerbaijan appear to aim at erasing Armenia from the map. To this end, they commemorate the perpetrators of the Christian Genocide by Ottoman Turkey and claim the historically Armenian lands, including Yerevan. The Turkish government remains proud of its history, filled with many crimes against Armenians and other Christians, and thus continues committing further crimes against the descendants of the genocide survivors.
However, Erdogan’s regime will not stop at Artsakh, as Turkey’s imperialist agenda does not only target Armenians. Erdogan has publicly announced his regime’s neo-Ottomanist goals for years. If Turkey and Azerbaijan achieve their expansionist goals in the South Caucasus, they will continue targeting and trying to expand their influence and even territories through parts of Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, which the Ottoman Empire occupied for centuries. Turkey already occupies northern Cyprus and northeast Syria, which the international community ignores. And reports have recently surfaced that Turkey is allegedly preparing to send jihadist fighters from eastern Syria to Jammu and Kashmir to help Pakistan.
The unprovoked aggression by the Turkish-Azeri armies against Armenians once again demonstrates that the Turkish state sees the Armenian Genocide as “unfinished business.” Enver Pasha, whom Erdogan praised in Baku, was one of the leaders of the Ottoman Committee of Union and Progress, also known as the “Unionists,” who planned and perpetrated the Armenian Genocide.
Prominent sociologist OhannesKılıçdağı noted in an article he recently penned that for both the pan-Turkist ideology represented by the Unionists and the Kemalist ideology that established Turkey, wiping out Armenia remains a goal. Kılıçdağıwrote:
“For both the Unionists before Kemalism and the Unionists continuing their existence under the name of Kemalism, Armenia is a ‘road accident’ or a ‘historical accident’ that should have never happened. It was the result of an unexpected ‘last minute’ resistance of the exhausted Armenians after the genocide. I think that eliminating this road accident is still alive as a target for Turkey’s military and civilian government mechanisms.”
Given Turkey’s and Azerbaijan’s hostile statements and murderous aggression against Armenians, it is not an overstatement to say that the security of the rest of Artsakh and Armenia is at risk. A full century after the Armenian Genocide, Armenians are still exposed to a genocidal assault by Turkey and its ally, Azerbaijan. And sadly, the world is still standing idly by.
About the author: Uzay Bulut is a Turkish journalist and political analyst formerly based in Ankara. Her writings have appeared in The Washington Times, The American Conservative, The Christian Post, The Jerusalem Post, and Al-Ahram Weekly. Her work focuses mainly on human rights, Turkish politics and history, religious minorities in the Middle East, and antisemitism.
Unhappy Iran Battles for Lost Influence in South Caucasus
Events that might not matter elsewhere in the world matter quite a lot in the South Caucasus. Given a recent history of conflict, with all the bad feelings that generates, plus outside powers playing geostrategic games, and its growing importance as an energy corridor between Europe and Central Asia, the region is vulnerable.
This has been worsened by the two-year-long Western absence of engagement. In 2020, Europe and the U.S. were barely involved as the second Nagorno-Karabakh war broke out between Armenia and Azerbaijan, leaving about 7,000 dead. With tensions now on the rise between Azerbaijan and Iran, Western uninterest is again evident, even though this might have wider ramifications for future re-alignment in the South Caucasus.
The drumbeat of Iranian activity against Azerbaijan has been consistent in recent months. Iran is getting increasingly edgy about Israel’s presence in the South Caucasus — hardly surprising given Israel’s painfully well-targeted assassination and computer hacking campaigns against nuclear staff and facilities — and especially its growing security and military ties with Azerbaijan, with whom Iran shares a 765km (430 mile) border. Iran has also voiced concern about the presence in the region of Turkish-backed Syrian mercenaries, who were used as Azeri assault troops last year.
Much of the anger has been played out in military exercises. The Azeri military has been busy since its victory, exercising near the strategic Lachin corridor which connects the separatist region to Armenia, and in the Caspian Sea, where it has jointly exercised with Turkish personnel. Iran, in turn, sent units to the border region this month for drills of an unstated scale.
This week, the Azeri and Iranian foreign ministers agreed to dial down the rhetoric amid much talk of mutual understanding. Whether that involved promises regarding the Israeli presence or a pledge by Iran to abandon a newly promised road to Armenia was not stated.
Iran’s behavior is a recognition of the long-term strategic changes caused by the Armenian defeat last year. Iran has been sidelined. Its diplomatic initiatives have failed, and it has been unwelcome in post-conflict discussions.
It is true that Iran was never a dominant power in the South Caucasus. Unlike Russia or Turkey, the traditional power brokers, it has not had a true ally. Iran was certainly part of the calculus for states in the region, but it was not feared, like Russia or Turkey. And yet, the South Caucasus represents an area of key influence, based on millennia of close political and cultural contacts.
Seen in this light, it is unsurprising that Iran ratcheted up tensions with Azerbaijan. Firstly, this reasserted the involvement of the Islamic Republic in the geopolitics of the South Caucasus. It was also a thinly-veiled warning to Turkey that its growing ambitions and presence in the region are seen as a threat. In Iran’s view, Turkey’s key role as an enabler of Azeri irridentism is unmistakable.
Turkish involvement has disrupted the foundations of the South Caucasian status quo established in the 1990s. To expect Turkey to become a major power there is an overstretch, but it nevertheless worries Iran. For example, the recent Caspian Sea exercises between Azerbaijan and Turkey appear to run counter to a 2018 agreement among the sea’s littoral states stipulating no external military involvement.
The Caspian Sea has always been regarded by Iranians as an exclusive zone shared first with the Russian Empire, later the Soviets, and presently the Russian Federation. Other littoral states play a minor role. This makes Turkish moves in the basin and the recent improvement of ties between Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan an unpleasant development for Iran — fewer barriers to the Trans-Caspian Pipeline threatens the Islamic Republic’s ability to block the project.
This is where Iranian views align almost squarely with the Kremlin’s. Both fear Turkish progress and new energy routes. The new Iranian leadership might now lean strongly toward Russia. With Russia’s backing, opposition to Turkey would become more serious; Iran’s foreign minister said this month that his country was seeking a “big jump” in relations with Russia.
The fact is that the region is increasingly fractured and is being pulled in different directions by the greater powers around it. This state of affairs essentially dooms the prospects of pan-regional peace and cooperation initiatives. Take the latest effort by Russia and Turkey to introduce a 3+3 platform with Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, as well as Iran. Beyond excluding the West, disagreements will eventually preclude any meaningful progress. There is no unity of purpose between the six states and there are profound disagreements.
Thus, trouble will at some point recur between Iran and Azerbaijan, and by extension Turkey. Given the current situation, and Iran’s visible discontent, it is likely it will take some kind of initiative lest it loses completely its position to Turkey and Russia.
Author’s note: first published in cepa
Right-wing extremist soldiers pose threat to Lithuania
It is no secret that Lithuania has become a victim of German army’s radicalization. Could this country count on its partners further or foreign military criminals threaten locals?
It is well known that Germany is one of the largest provider of troops in NATO. There are about 600 German troops in Lithuania, leading a Nato battlegroup. According to Lithuanian authorities, Lithuania needs their support to train national military and to protect NATO’s Central and Northern European member states on NATO’s eastern flank.
Two sides of the same coin should be mentioned when we look at foreign troops in Lithuania.
Though Russian threat fortunately remains hypothetical, foreign soldiers deployed in the country cause serious trouble. Thus, the German defence minister admitted that reported this year cases of racist and sexual abuse in a German platoon based in Lithuania was unacceptable.
Members of the platoon allegedly filmed an incident of sexual assault against another soldier and sang anti-Semitic songs. Later more allegations emerged of sexual and racial abuse in the platoon, including soldiers singing a song to mark Adolf Hitler’s birthday on 20 April this year.
It turned out that German media report that far-right abuses among the Lithuania-based troops had already surfaced last year. In one case, a soldier allegedly racially abused a non-white fellow soldier. In another case, four German soldiers smoking outside a Lithuanian barracks made animal noises when a black soldier walked past.
Lithuania’s Defence Minister Arvydas Anušauskas said later that the investigation was carried out by Germany and that Lithuania was not privy to its details. The more so, Lithuania is not privy to its details even now. “We are not being informed about the details of the investigation. […] The Lithuanian military is not involved in the investigation, nor can it be,” Anušauskas told reporters, stressing that Germany was in charge of the matter.
Ms Kramp-Karrenbauer, German defence minister, said that these misdeeds would be severely prosecuted and punished. Time has passed, and the details are not still known.
It should be said Germany has for years struggled to modernize its military as it becomes more involved in Nato operations. Nevertheless problems existed and have not been solved yet. According to the annual report on the state of the Bundeswehr made in 2020 by Hans-Peter Bartel, then armed forces commissioner for the German Bundestag, Germany’s army “has too little materiel, too few personnel and too much bureaucracy despite a big budget increase.” Mr Bartels’ report made clear that the Bundeswehr continues to be plagued by deep-seated problems. Recruitment remains a key problem. Mr Bartels said 20,000 army posts remained unfilled, and last year the number of newly recruited soldiers stood at just over 20,000, 3,000 fewer than in 2017. The other problem is radicalization of the armed forces.
Apparently, moral requirements for those wishing to serve in the German army have been reduced. Federal Volunteer Military Service Candidate must be subjected to a thorough medical examination. Desirable to play sports, have a driver’s license and be able to eliminate minor malfunctions in the motor, to speak at least one foreign language, have experience of communicating with representatives of other nationalities, be initiative and independent. After the general the interview follows the establishment of the candidate’s suitability for service in certain types of armed forces, taking into account his wishes. Further candidate passes a test on a computer. He will be asked if he wants study a foreign language and attend courses, then serve in German French, German-Dutch formations or institutions NATO.
So, any strong and healthy person could be admitted, even though he or she could adhere to far-right views or even belong to neo-Nazi groups. Such persons served in Lithuania and, probably, serve now and pose a real threat to Lithuanian military, local population. Neo-Nazism leads to cultivating racial inequalities. The main goal of the neo-Nazis is to cause disorder and chaos in the country, as well as to take over the army and security organs. Lithuanian authorities should fully realize this threat and do not turn a blind eye to the criminal behaviour of foreign military in Lithuania. There is no room to excessive loyalty in this case.
Lithuanian foreign policy: Image is everything
It seems as if Lithuanian government takes care of its image in the eyes of EU and NATO partners much more than of its population. Over the past year Lithuania managed to quarrel with such important for its economy states like China and Belarus, condemned Hungary for the ban on the distribution of images of LGBT relationships among minors, Latvia and Estonia for refusing to completely cut energy from Belarus. Judging by the actions of the authorities, Lithuania has few tools to achieve its political goals. So, it failed to find a compromise and to maintain mutually beneficial relations with economic partners and neighbours. The authorities decided to achieve the desired results by demanding from EU and NATO member states various sanctions for those countries that, in their opinion, are misbehaving.
Calling for sanctions and demonstrating its “enduring political will”, Lithuania exposed the welfare of its own population. Thus, district heating prices will surge by around 30 percent on average across Lithuania.
The more so, prices for biofuels, which make up 70 percent of heat production on average, are now about 40 higher than last year, Taparauskas, a member of the National Energy Regulatory Council (VERT) said.
“Such a huge jump in prices at such a tense time could threaten a social crisis and an even greater increase in tensions in society. We believe that the state must take responsibility for managing rising prices, especially given the situation of the most vulnerable members of society and the potential consequences for them. All the more so as companies such as Ignitis or Vilnius heating networks “has not only financial resources, but also a certain duty again,” sums up Lukas Tamulynas, the chairman of the LSDP Momentum Vilnius movement.
It should be said, that according to the Lithuanian Department of Statistics, prices for consumer goods and services have been rising for the eighth month in a row. According to the latest figures, the annual inflation rate is five percent.
Earlier it became known that in 2020 every fifth inhabitant of Lithuania was below the poverty risk line.
Pensioners are considered one of the most vulnerable groups in Lithuania. In 2019, Lithuania was included in the top five EU anti-leaders in terms of poverty risk for pensioners. The share of people over 65 at risk of poverty was 18.7 percent.
In such situation sanctions imposed on neighbouring countries which tightly connected to Lithuanian economy and directly influence the welfare of people in Lithuania are at least damaging. The more so, according Vladimir Andreichenko, the speaker of the House of Representatives of the Belarus parliament, “the unification of the economic potentials of Minsk and Moscow would be a good response to sanctions.” It turned out that Lithuania itself makes its opponents stronger. Such counter-productiveness is obvious to everyone in Lithuania except for its authorities.
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- Surface Renewal (SR) analysis requires measurements taken at high-frequency as input.
- A modified SR method is suggested requiring measurements taken at low-frequency as input.
- A SR flux correction is proposed forcing the closure of the surface energy balance.
- The SR method performed reliably for estimating sensible and latent heat fluxes.
A new procedure based on surface renewal (SR) analysis has been derived to estimate the latent heat flux (Î»E) under unstable conditions. Traditional application of SR-based approaches requires measurement of the scalar concentration taken at high frequency. However, the SR-based approach proposed (Î»ESR-LST) requires the following measurements taken at low frequency (half-hourly); the land surface temperature (LST), the horizontal mean wind speed, the mean temperature and relative humidity of the air and the available net surface energy. After estimating the sensible heat flux (ÎSR-LST), for a period of few days the procedure simultaneously calibrates Î»ESR-LST and forces the closure of the surface energy balance (SEB) equation in a generalized form by imposing that the slope of the linear regression analysis comparing (ÎSR-LSTÂ +Â Î»ESR-LST) vs. the available net surface energy is one. Therefore, the intercept of the linear regression analysis estimated the sensible and latent heat fluxes that the SR-LST method cannot explain, such as the role of low-frequency circulations. The procedure has been tested for a case where the soil water content did not limit the development of the vegetation and where the EC method produced an imbalance of 19% of the available net surface energy. The assumptions made for deriving Î»ESR-LST were tested and found to be reliable, and the procedure enabled the following; (1) closing the SEB equation with a correlation comparable to that obtained using the Eddy Covariance (EC) method; (2) producing latent heat flux estimates that overestimated moderately (14%) Î»EEC and; (3) proposing an approach to estimate the actual sensible heat flux on the basis that most of the imbalance partitions into sensible heat flux. The equation of Penman-Monteith and the residual method cannot be recommended because they produced a large overestimation of the latent heat flux.
Journal: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology - Volume 236, 15 April 2017, Pages 135-144


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Mental health and the housing crisis: getting it right for private renters
6 April 2023
The housing crisis in the UK has led to a significant increase in rents, but how is this impacting renters’ financial and mental health? Now that the median monthly rent in England is £800 (£1,475 in London) many renters are struggling to keep up. Research from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation shows that private renters are twice as likely as homeowners to suffer from anxiety.
The cost of high rents
Individuals on low-incomes, and those who rely on benefits to make ends meet, are particularly affected by high rents. The added pressure can be overwhelming. Our research has shown that the situation can be even more challenging for people with mental health problems. Often, the burden of managing rent payments can exacerbate their condition.
Our Where the heart is report’s survey found that 63% of respondents cited changes in mental wellbeing as reasons for falling behind on rent payments. Employment changes were the second most common cause, with 50% of respondents indicating it as a factor.
“There is a local housing allowance for rent but it’s around £300 per month… there is a lack of affordable housing and you can’t find a private rental for less than £450 a month.” Expert By Experience
“Private rents are extortionate for sometimes poorly maintained or unsafe properties and there’s no chance of getting council property.” Expert By Experience
Support while privately renting
The UK government has acknowledged the crucial role of affordable housing in maintaining good mental health, but there is still more work to do to address the ongoing crisis for those of us with mental health problems. While the government’s current focus is on increasing the supply of affordable housing in the long term, more needs to be done in the short term. Without this, individuals with mental health issues risk falling behind on their rent payments.
People with a mental health problem are 50% more likely to live in rented housing than those without. For these people, the continued record rises in private rents, and the subsequent unaffordability of housing, means that many are finding themselves priced out of quality affordable housing.
For those receiving benefits while privately renting, the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates are key to offering sufficient housing support. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) uses LHA rates to calculate Housing Benefit for tenants renting privately. However, as our No one left behind report shows, there is a significant gap between prevailing rents and the amount that people claiming Housing Benefits receive, which varies across the UK. In England, the median monthly gap between LHA rates and rents is £100, rising to over £200 in parts of London and the south east. This lack of support leaves people with limited options.
To address this, the UK and devolved governments should increase LHA rates to cover the 50th percentile of local rents. This would mean someone in receipt of LHA should be able to affordably rent a property that costs within the bottom half the market (instead of just the bottom third, as it is now). The government should also abolish the Benefit Cap, which can prevent people from receiving full housing support. This would help people with mental health issues receive the housing support they need without arbitrary limits on the amount of support available.
Reforming welfare support to address income shocks
While these reforms to LHA rates would be welcomed, there is still more that must happen to address the root causes of people with mental health problems struggling to meet the increasing cost of housing. People with mental health problems can experience income shocks due to the intermittent nature of employment caused by their condition. This can make it challenging to avoid and resolve arrears, especially when facing increased rent and housing costs.
While the welfare system is intended to support people in times of need, recent changes to entitlements under welfare reform have presented challenges for people experiencing mental health problems. Reductions in benefit entitlements, including under-occupancy penalties and council tax benefit reform, have resulted in reduced payments for housing costs. Tenants are now required to cover any shortfall between benefit payments and their rent.
Getting it right for renters
To address these challenges, the UK and devolved governments should review and reform welfare policies to better support people with mental health problems. This should include increasing benefit payments to cover housing costs, and simplifying the notification and application processes to make it easier for individuals with mental health problems to access the support they need.
Housing is a human right, but the challenges faced by private renters are clear. These challenges are especially acute for those of us experiencing mental health problems. The government should commit to making housing more affordable, along with reforming housing support, to ensure that we can all afford a place to call home.

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