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Affiliations: University Hospital Gent
Gent, Belgium,
American University of Beirut
Beirut, Lebanon
Correspondence to: Stijn Blot, RN, MA, Burn Unit, University Hospital Gent, De Pintelaan 185, B-9000 Gent, Belgium; e-mail: email@example.com
To the Editor:
In his prospective observational study concerning
hand hygiene, Khatib et al1 focused on hand washing and
the use of gloves while manipulating patients receiving mechanical
ventilation. We agree that hand hygiene is a cornerstone in the
prevention of nosocomial infection; nevertheless, we want to add some
information to the article by Khatib et al.1
In our ICU, the use of gloves is recommended whenever contamination of
hands is possible. Gloves have to be removed between separated tasks on
one patient and certainly between different patients. Indeed, using
plasmid profile typing, Patterson et al2 described
transmission of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus by an incorrect
use of gloves.
Concerning the hand washing technique, Khatib et al1 did
not mention how long the washing procedure must take. This is an
important aspect because, even when using disinfecting soap, the
washing procedure must take at least 2 min to be effective. Because of
the high degree of urgency in critical care settings, achievement of
this optimal standard of hygiene is not always possible. Therefore, in
our ICU, hand hygiene is achieved by use of cutanous antiseptic
(isopropyl-alcohol 70° + glycerin). Also, when gloves are worn, this
disinfectant must be applied between separated tasks on one patient and
between tasks on different patients. Because hand washing
is too time consuming, it is indicated only when hands are visibly
dirty. Furthermore, we recommend the use of surgical masks when
manipulating patients receiving mechanical ventilation to avoid
hand-nose contact.
This, together with a reduction in antibiotic load, has led to an
impressive reduction in antibiotic resistance in our ICU.3
Stijn Blot and colleagues present some comments about our recent
publication (July 1999)1 on the practice of hand washing
and the use of gloves while managing patients receiving mechanical
ventilation in the ICU. Their major concern is the duration of hand
washing. They believe that an effective hand washing with disinfecting
soap should take at least 2 min. They add that this might not be
achieved regularly because of the high degree of urgency in the ICU.
They highlight their experience with the use of cutaneous antiseptic,
and they recommend the use of surgical masks.
Our study was aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of warning labels
permanently attached to mechanical ventilators in improving the
practice of hand washing and the use of gloves by respiratory care
practitioners (RCPs) in the ICU. We evaluated the occurrence or
frequency of hand washing rather than the practice of hand washing
itself. Consequently, we felt no need to elaborate about the practice
of hand washing in our ICU. However, we feel that this letter forum
could be a chance to elaborate on the issue. As intended in our study,
we focused our observations on RCPs. Their scope of services includes
blood gas measurements, bronchodilator therapy, endotracheal tube
management (eg, suctioning and tube fixation), mechanical
ventilator management (eg, applying settings as ordered,
checking settings, and alarm levels, assessing lung mechanics), as well
as manipulation of breathing circuits (eg, changing
breathing circuits and heat and moisture exchangers). Although RCPs do
intubate patients in our ICU, these encounters were not considered part
of the study, which was focusing only on patients who are already
intubated and receiving mechanical ventilation. As such, there was not
a real sense of urgency in the above-mentioned services that prohibited
our RCPs from adequately performing hand washing (at least 1 to 2 min
with antiseptic solution) and using gloves. As for Blot and
colleagues' recommendation to use surgical masks, we feel that this
could be a good practice; however, it was not an objective of our
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As crude oil swells, volatility-hungry traders turn to refined products
* Crude oversupply limits scope for profits
* Strong gasoline demand offers rare arbitrage options
By Ron Bousso and Libby George
LONDON, Nov 24 (Reuters) - In a world overflowing with oil, traders are looking to once-secondary markets such as gasoline and diesel for profits, as limited supplies and rapidly changing demand offer the volatility they thrive on.
In recent months, surprise shutdowns at relatively small refineries or extreme weather conditions have led to spikes in prices of gasoline and other products - allowing traders to cash in by filling the shortage or making a bet on paper price movements.
The rise of huge refining hubs in Asia, the Middle East and on the U.S. Gulf Coast has also led to the birth of long supply routes for products that rarely existed before.
This stands in contrast to crude oil, where a rising glut in supplies has suppressed much of the physical gyrations that traders make their money on.
The oil overhang, however, has sparked red-hot growth in demand from consumers lured by low prices. This has exacerbated regional imbalances between oil refineries that produce diesel, gasoline and jet fuel and the demand centres where they are consumed.
Limited supply of gasoline relative to global demand is now expected to lead more frequently to price spikes and new arbitrages, said Michael Dei-Michei, analyst at Vienna-based JBC Energy. Continuación...

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Rachel is a 16-year-old born and raised in NYC. She enjoys singing, debating, travelling and writing. Her favorite subjects are English and Science; she wishes to pursue a career in either of them in the future.
"Since your GPA went down, no more cell when you're doing homework. Put it on the counter now…" This was my situation with my parents recently. Like any other teenager, I was not only angry, but frustrated. It was not the fact I had to give up my cell, rather that my parents demanded it from me instead of asking it. It even made me want to rebel. Is that the case for other 'delinquent' teens? What if the cause of most teenaged rebelling was rooted back to how a situation was handled?
There are three types of parents: authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive (Frick-Horbury, 2001). Authoritarian parents are commanding, believes in harsh punishments and plenty of restrictions. In fact, American teens have "ten times as many restrictions as mainstream adults, two times as many as active duty U.S. Marines, and even two times as many as incarcerated felons" (Marano, 2007). These strict boundaries from authoritarian parents can cause the youth to become belligerent, irate and insecure (Frick-Horbury, 2001). "I would go to my parents more often for constructive criticism if they don't always dictate what I should or should not do," N. Joeng, sophomore.
Dictator…you heard it before during some fights with your teen. Sometimes after these arguments, you might chalk up the rebelling to be an inevitable 'phase'. However, being a 'dictator' may cause the lack of communication between parent and child, even possibly encourage mutiny (Mahoney, 2009). Infantilization can be the cause of most of the rebelling (Marano, 2007). Infantilization is a term which is more commonly known as "babying". Most teens are expected to act like adults, scolded when we do not, though are still treated as children.
Permissive parenting can also be quite harmful to your child as well. A permissive parent is very lenient, and has inconsistent punishment methods (Frick-Horbury, 2001). A child to a parent like this would likely lack maturity and restraint. He/she would be incredibly independent, displaying a lack of a close relationship with their parent which could cause intimacy problems later in life (Frick-Horbury, 2001).
"Most parents' restrictions are to protect you; it shows how much they care," Y. Bao, BHS junior. True, parents only want the best for their kids, and teens do already have many freedoms, but it is not more freedom we need, rather to be treated like we were an adult (Marano, 2007). Freedom without responsibility can cause chaos. Au contraire, responsibility without freedom can cause MORE conflicts in your household because there would still be Infantilization and no benefit for your teen; "people who can't pass a high school history test will never give up trying to past the written test for the DMV" (Marano, 2007). This is because your teen will never stop trying to get not more freedom, but equal treatment to an adult. Your teen will get through the trials if the reward is of parity.
"As you get older, you would need to learn some lessons on your own. You won't always be there for your kids. Ease the rules slowly as they get older. Trust you did a good job in raising them. Just remember, communication is key," Kimberly Eng, St. Francis Prep senior. Kelly Mahoney had experience with mental health counseling and working with disturbed teens and agrees. "Being open with your kids can open lines of communication and respect." Still worried about letting your teen go little by little? Well, in Psychology Today, they did a test for adults and teens based off of what makes an adult and found that teens are or nearly as capable as adults in the 14 areas of teaching.
So do not worry: we're smart. Remember that you DID do a good job in raising us and that though we may soon grow up and move out, we'll always have you to thank for making us who we are.
Works Cited
Brown, S., Sessions, J., & Taylor, K. (2004). What Will I Be When I Grow Up? An Analysis of Childhood Expectations and Career Outcomes. Leicester: Department of Economics, University of Leicester.
Frick-Horbury, D. (2001). The Effects of Parenting Styles and Childhood Attachment Patterns on Intimate Relationships. Journal of Instructional Psychology.
Mahoney, K. (2009). Top 7 Ways to Be an Effective Parent. Retrieved April 8, 2009, from About.com: http://christianteens.about.com/od/parentresourcecenter/tp/betterparent.htm
Marano, H. E. (2007, May 29). Trashing Teens. Psychology Today Magazine , pp. 2-4.


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One of the first things we generally cover in intro microeconomics is the determinants of demand– i.e. the factors that influence how much of a good we are willing and able to purchase. The price of a good is obviously one of these determinants, but so are the prices of what economists call "related goods." related goods are broken down into two categories:
- Substitutes- roughly speaking, goods that are consumed instead of one another
- Complements- roughly speaking, goods that are consumed together
More precisely, economists define substitutes and complements in terms of the relationship between the price of a related good and the demand for the good in question. By this definition, the demand for a good decreases when the price of a substitute decreases (and vice versa). Conversely, the demand for a good increases when the price of a complement decreases (and vice versa). While this definition isn't wrong per se, I'm surprised that few (if any) textbooks address how this relationship applies when substitutes and complements enter the world in the first place. After all, it stands to reason that substitutes entering a market decreases demand for an item, and complements entering a market increases demand for an item. (Hence the existence of iTunes and the Apple app Store, for example.) In order to reconcile this with the textbook explanation, I usually have to dance around some story about how a price of an item is technically infinite if a product doesn't exist, which then implies that a product entering the market at a finite price is a form of a price decrease (which makes the official definitions apply).
Ok, now I'm even boring myself, but I think about this more than is reasonable and therefore wanted to put it on the Internet. Now what was my actual point…oh, right- sometimes it's not obvious whether goods are substitutes or complements, and I am often reminded of this when I make up exam questions that I think are obvious and then have students students complain when they lose points. (I actually had a student rather convincingly argue that lemons and limes are complements because lemon-lime soda is a thing.) Therefore, it's often helpful to work backwards from the data to infer whether goods are substitutes or complements. Take Broadway musicals and movies made from them, for example- substitutes or complements? On one hand, they might be substitutes because people don't want to watch the same story twice. On the other hand, however, they could be complements because the widespread release of the movie could make people more interested in going to New York to see the musical. Even though I didn't know which way the relationship would go, I wasn't expecting to see this from the data:
(You can see more on the topic here.) So I am to believe that Chicago and Chicago are complements but The Producers and The Producers are substitutes? (Yes, I realize that the chart shows revenue and not demand specifically, but revenue seems like a reasonable proxy in a way that quantity of tickets does not because revenue accounts for price changes.) The article that this chart comes from gives more detail and, at a rough level, rules out the possibility that the differences are attributable to how long the musical had been out prior to the movie or when during the year the movie came out.
I thought I would point this out not only because it could make for an interesting classroom discussion but also because we tend to make a lot of assumptions about how goods are related when we discuss intellectual property protection, and it's important to remember that these relationships aren't necessarily obvious or even consistent, as evidenced above. Or, put more simply, why assume when you can actually go to the data and find out for real?


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Is Networking Working?
The word itself, networking, was enough to send shivers down my spine a couple of years ago. The mere thought of walking up and start talking to people I didn't know was utterly terrifying and forcing myself to do it felt like completely violating my natural instincts.
Focus on….. Philippa Mitchell of Wikaniko
Philippa Mitchell is an independent distributor with Wikaniko, a British cooperative marketing company that aims to encourage and enable people to be both greener and healthier through making economic and eco-friendly changes to products they use every day.
A Mumpreneur is born Part 4: The big idea that went wrong
If you have read my mumpreneur story so far (Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3), you will know that I got to a point where I felt I needed to find a business idea soon. I had no money of my own, and my husband is also an accountant, so I was going to have to come up with a plausible business plan, or else he would not want to invest in it. He is the scariest of Dragons, and is very risk averse.
Focus on ….. the Complaining Cow Helen Dewdney
This week's mumpreneur profile is a complaining cow who found her niche and turned her blog into a buisiness. I just love the name of this blog! So this week I give you Helen Dewdney, the Complaining Cow.
A Mumpreneur is born part 3
This is my mumpreneur story – republished from Motivating Mum. I gave you part 2 last week – now the story continues…
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Turtle Tots is an innovative and unique swimming programme, which begins during pregnancy with aqua-natal yoga, and continues once the baby is born with specialist baby and toddler swimming classes.
The classes have also been written in conjunction with experienced personal trainers to promote fitness through pre-natal and post-natal pregnancy exercises. Every movement can be adapted to suit individual ability levels and the classes provide an excellent toning work out for mums and mums-to- be. Of course all of our swimming classes for babies and toddlers are open to dads as well, who also love to come along, as they are so fun and enjoyable!
A Leap of Faith
by Lara Zimmern
Have you ever made a completely illogical decision but knew intuitively that it was absolutely, beyond a shadow of a doubt the right thing to do? And despite the fact everyone around you was telling you that you ought to stick with what you are doing and you are marginally mad, you still felt compelled to change everything to make this happen?


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Would you believe me if i told you that a man took me away for the night at a swanky little b&b on the river….
a married man mind you….
oh…he's married alright….
i saw the ring on his finger to prove it.
and i left my babies with this man's mother..
who happened to be in town for the weekend.
I know…hard to believe that i'm that type of women..
to actually steal away with a married man…
but i am….
and i actually felt really good about it.
Did i just say the word steal?
because i don't really do that..
not me….
errrr…i mean…not really…
what's an extra shower cap and some mini lotion
from the cart that was in the hall…..
so i'm a thief…
a thief that just had a night away with a married man.
Oh..i can see the headlines now…
car crashes into tree outside of home.
oops…i think that happened to tiger woods didn't it…not me.
i just stole some lotion and a shower cap….while staying
overnight with a married man.
and it was a great night in case any of you were wondering.
I'm sure you want details….
but you'll have to just play it out in your head.
back to normalicy…..
{oh…and before you tell me that normalicy is not a word…don't worry..i make up my own words}
I've been knee keep in gift boxes….
wrapping them…
and just wanted to share with you some pretty darn cute tags i
found on etsy the other day…
i'll be using them to wrap the gifts for the inspired evening this saturday.
double gulp.
i can't believe it's already happening.
deep breath.
um….yes….that is an empty wine glass.
totally empty.
I'm not having one single glass of wine this week…
because i bought a new dress…
and it's a size to small….
and i thought ..
maybe…just maybe…
if i didn't have my nightly glass {or two…} of wine
that i might be able to fit in my new dress.
I'll let you know how that works out.
Let me just finish my current glass of wine before i get started on my goal.
oh…and if you feel like it…i'm a guest over { here…on tuesday} if you care to grab your glass of wine and meander over.


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Badly Designed Ship and Poor Food
Sail Date: March 28, 2016
Reviewed: 1 year ago
Traveled As: Couple
Room Type: Suite
The ship is designed so that all the action is reduced to 3 floors. During sea days these floors become quickly packed with people and found the areas to be crowded and tightly closed. The service at most places was terrible. The food in the main dinning areas was poor and forget about eating at the buffet. The food in the buffet areas was the worst. Food in the specialty restaurant was good and would recommend purchasing a specialty restaurant package over the drink package.
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|Cabin / Stateroom
|Cabin design was ok and the bathroom was actually larger than on most ships. The room was very noisy due to the kids area on the 15th floor. Often the kids would be active till midnight.
|Embarkation and Disembarkation
|Ship Quality
|Poorly designed ship. Compared to other ships it was actually difficult to find bathrooms. Most times the bathrooms were very busy and dirty.
|Destinations and Excursions
|Onboard Activities
|It was difficult to find activities during the sea days and in the evenings unless you had a show scheduled.
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|Food and Dining
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|Barcelona, Spain
|Tangier, Morocco
|Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands
|Santa Cruz De Tenerife, Canary Islands
|Funchal, Madeira
|Malaga, Spain
The ships ports were excellent and would recommend any of these ports. Try to only schedule this ship if you will have good weather and can enjoy the outdoor pool area. Don't expect much in the way of onboard activities. Buy the specialty dining package.
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The government last night confirmed its intention to force all new state-funded faith schools to admit a quarter of pupils from outside their religion under reforms now going through Parliament.
See also... School bans Christian chastity ring but allows Muslim and Sikh symbols
But today Mr Johnson will say this is just a "start" and give a strong hint that he may go further and require England's existing 7,000 schools to take children of families with different beliefs.
The plans, which he will set out in a speech to a conference of local authority children's services chiefs in Brighton, are likely to infuriate many Christians, Jews and Muslims, who maintain faith schools should be allowed exclusively to take children from their own believers.
Mr Johnson will say: "Young minds are free from prejudice and discrimination - so schools are in a unique position to prevent social division."
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Biggest Gang in New York? In the wake of the shooting of five Dallas police officers, BBC Three investigates why tension is rising between America's police forces and ethnic minorities. Shot on the streets of New York, the film follows 'Cop Watchers' - men and women who track the NYPD in a cat-and-mouse game to try and film arrests and possible cases of brutality. NYPD officers also speak out, alleging systemic racism and a policy of targeting ethnic minority communities in order hit their arrest quotas.
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Fox News says I'm an 'anti-Christian bigot'
Hey, at least they spelled my name right. Apparently I'm an anti-Christian bigot for having the temerity to criticize Tim Tebow, using Scripture no less. Which, fine. But what amuses me is that the commentator also paints Kurt Warner with the 'anti-Christian bigot' brush—yes, the same Kurt Warner who was previously the highest-profile evangelical Christian in the NFL. Purity is tough, man.
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Welcome to the big leagues! :D
Also, I like how they quoted The Denver Post, where I work, but didn't link.
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I like the more cake like version, not the heavy fruit paste held together by a glutenous gluing of scant flour, salt and powder.
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January 26, 2015 — Press Item
Today's Budget and Economic Outlook report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office shows how much progress we have made over the past few years to bring down budget deficits – yet it also reminds us how much work is left to tackle our long-term, structural debt.
January 20, 2015 — Press Item
This evening, President Obama laid out a vision of an America that prioritizes a strong and growing middle class.
December 3, 2014 — Video
House Democrats Announce Additional Make It In America Legislation, Urge Action on Critical Priorities
June 13, 2014 — Press Item
This week, the House considered the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill.
Hoyer: House Republicans' Permanent, Unpaid-For Tax Extender Bills Exacerbate Deficit, Undermine Comprehensive Tax Reform
June 12, 2014 — Video
June 10, 2014 — Press Item
While the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill considered by the House today includes a number of positive provisions, I could not support it in its current form because it guts federal support for a number of important transit and housing programs.
August 29, 2013 — Press Item
"Federal recognition for all legally married same-sex couples for the purposes of tax filing has been long overdue.
December 18, 2012 — Press Item
"I continue to be encouraged by positive signs of negotiation between the President and the Speaker. However, Speaker Boehner's decision today to schedule a partisan vote on a 'plan B' is not helpful. America needs a big and balanced plan to reduce our debt, not more hollow political votes. While it is a good sign that talks continue, we need to keep the focus on negotiations to move the country forward.
December 17, 2012 — Press Item
Wanted to make sure you saw today's op-ed by Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) and House Committee on Science, Space and Technology Ranking Member Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX) in Politico about the need for a balanced solution to our deficits. To read the op-ed, click here or see below:
December 13, 2012 — Press Item
It think it's a positive sign once again that the President and [Speaker] John Boehner are sitting down. I've talked to both of them. They both want to get to an agreement. ... Nobody's walking away from the table. The stakes are very high here, the hopes of America are keen on us getting to success, and failure is going to have real consequences, so I'm very hopeful that [Speaker] John Boehner and President Obama … are talking [about] a way to get us to an agreement that Congress can consider and hopefully pass so that America will have the confidence that we have placed ourselves on a fiscally-sustainable, credible path for the long-term. I think that's what America wants.
Thank you very much Mr. Speaker. I thank my friend for yielding. I want to thank the Chairman of the Rules Committee for his efforts as well. Ladies and gentlemen of this House, we talk a lot, correctly, about creating certainty, alleviating uncertainty – alleviating angst among our people and among our economy. We have an opportunity to bring certainty to a large segment of America that they will not receive a tax increase on January 1.
"Everything's on the table. That doesn't mean we're for what's going to be on the table, but we need to have a full consideration of the whole gamut of things that are creating this issue and that can solve this issue. We need to not go over the fiscal cliff. We need to come to an agreement, and the President, I think, is working hard to get there."
Approaching the Fiscal Cliff: More Calls for Balanced Solution, Preventing Middle Class Tax Increase
December 11, 2012 — Press Item
As we get closer to the deadline to reach a solution to the fiscal cliff, a growing number of Republicans have publicly supported the idea of passing middle class tax cuts now to protect families and small businesses from a tax increase on January 1 while negotiations continue on higher tax rates for the wealthiest two percent in our country:
When I say everything needs to be on the table… I want everybody to put their cards on the table and tell me what they're going to do. … Now there's some things we are absolutely not going to do… we're not going to voucherize Medicare, we are not going to privatize Social Security. We believe very strongly that we need additional revenues if we're going to get our country on a fiscally sound basis.
"All I said yesterday was … we need a balanced package and we need to all come to the table honestly, realizing we have differences of opinion, but also realizing this is a math problem. It shouldn't be a philosophical problem or ideological or partisan problem, it's a math problem. We have to get America on a fiscally sustainable path and in order to do that, we're going to have to have a balanced package. We're going to have to look at additional revenues."
Today, I signed the discharge petition filed by Rep. Tim Walz that would bring to the Floor an extension of tax cuts for 98% of Americans and 97% of small businesses. These middle class tax cuts were extended by the Senate in July, and the House ought to take action immediately to provide certainty to families and small businesses that their taxes won't go up on January 1.
Democrats remain committed to reaching agreement on a balanced solution to the fiscal cliff. President Obama's proposal would cut the debt by $4 trillion over 10 years, ask our nation's wealthiest to pay their fair share, and make strategic investments to create jobs and grow our economy. While Republicans have taken the positive step of putting a proposal on the table, it lacks the specifics needed to meet the challenge we face. Why didn't they include specifics? Because their math doesn't add up. A significant amount of revenue is needed, which can't be reached by continuing tax breaks for the wealthy, as Republicans insist on doing.
November 30, 2012 — Press Item
With time running out, it is imperative that Congress take action before the fiscal cliff hits to prevent tax increases on middle class families and turn off the damaging and arbitrary spending cuts of the sequester. Going off the cliff isn't an option. It will take a balanced solution, and for the first time it looks like some Republicans are starting to agree.
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Juzo Itami's rapturous "ramen western" returns to Canadian. screens for the first time in decades, in a new restoration. The tale of an enigmatic band of ramen ronin who guide the widow of a noodle shop owner on her quest for the perfect recipe, Tampopo serves up a savory broth of culinary adventure seasoned with offbeat comedy sketches and the erotic exploits of a gastronome gangster. Sweet, sexy, surreal, and mouthwatering, Tampopo remains one of the most delectable examples of food on film.
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Washington, Jan 19 (ANI): US secret diplomatic cables released by the whistleblower website 'Wikileaks' have revealed that an influential German thinktank had advised the US to adopt a policy of "covert sabotage" of Iran's nuclear facilities, including computer hacking and "unexplained explosions".
The Guardian quoted Volker Perthes, Director of Germany's government-funded Institute for Security and International Affairs, as telling US officials in Berlin that carrying out undercover operations would be "more effective than a military strike" to dismantle Iran's nuclear ambitions.
A diplomatic cable sent by the US ambassador to Germany, Philip Murphy, in January 2010, records that Perthes said a policy of "covert sabotage (unexplained explosions, accidents, computer hacking etc) would be more effective than a military strike, whose effects in the region could be devastating".
Another cable dated December 14, 2009 showed the advice of Perthes, a leading western expert on Iran, was given much importance by politicians and officials, including Condoleezza Rice, the former US Secretary of State.
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The news of a sophisticated computer worm, Stuxnet, infiltrating the Natanz nuclear facility last year, thereby delaying Iran's programme by some months, had found place in international headlines. Recently, media has disclosed that tuxnet was a joint US-Israeli operation.
On Monday, Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, had blamed the US for the cyber-attack that apparently shut down a fifth of Iran's nuclear centrifuges in November.
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Evaluating the efficacy of a community engagement method to improve provider's depression management skills and adoption of quality improvement
The Foundation's initiative, Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change, was designed to use research and evaluation to test hypothetical solutions for reducing racial and ethnic disparities in health care settings and actual disparity reduction outcomes in ongoing programs.Underserved African American and Latino communities have lower access to appropriate care for depression, poor resources to implement practice quality improvement (QI) programs known to improve outcomes, and often confront historical issues of distrust. However, African Americans and Latinos improve more in outcomes after participating in a comprehensive depression treatment program than comparable Whites. In order to improve depression care in underserved communities, effective interventions are needed at three levels: evidence-based treatments, QI strategies, and community-based implementation strategies that can be applied across the diverse services agencies supporting underserved clients. Community engagement promotes organizational and community member participation and leadership in goal setting, program development and implementation, and evaluation by shifting the authority for action to the community. This project will evaluate the effectiveness of a community engagement approach to improve depression management skills and adoption of evidence-based depression quality improvement programs among health care providers, such as physicians, nurses, and case workers. It will also identify facilitators and barriers that lead to differential uptake of the intervention by providers and evaluate differences in provider depression management skills on patient depression outcomes.
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Great Ship - Not So Good Food and Lots of Lines
Sail Date: November 29, 2014
Reviewed: 2 years ago
Traveled As: Couple
Room Type: Balcony
Boarding was quick and easy. I would say it took less than 10 minutes from parking lot to ship. Way better than other cruises we have been on. As for the ship - it was really so nice and had an amazing amount of entertainment. The choices seemed endless of things to do and the shows we were able to see were really very good and we typically walk out of all cruise shows within five minutes (although the particular headliner show we walked out of). We were unable to see the aqua shows as we had rough seas most of the week so they were unable to perform but we heard it was amazing. We had a great time in the adult show in Studio B. It was hilarious. The 70's dance show in the promenade was so fun and I can't say enough about the Cruise Director, Ricky, he was awesome. What wasn't so awesome was the food..... BLECH. And I really mean BLECH. My thin husband likely lost weight as he just simply decided by the fourth day that there wasn't anything on the boat worth eating and it was always cold.. Even the lobster was severely overcooked and cold and they either gave us fake butter for the lobster or the lobsters tasted horrible? We even at a specialty restaurant (Serenity) and it wasn't much better. Carnival's Burger Joint (by Guy Fieri) and their burrito bar so far blow the Oasis food out of the water. Anyway, we have always said that "it is hard to mess up breakfast" but even it was horrible. The last morning we ate in the dining room as I had to eat fried eggs every morning as all other eggs were powdered, the waffles were cold, soggy rubbery things that were absolutely inedible and so on. But to my surprise even the dining room served powdered eggs and cold hash browns that looked like the ones at McDonald's and the bacon was pure fat. I pushed the plate away once again and ate rolls/toast for yet another meal. I ate so much bread and I try never to eat it but it was some of the only edible stuff we found (with the exception of the Park Café salad and roast beef sandwich (which got boring fast) Some people on the ship said that the food was what they expected and some fully agreed with us that it was horrible but I didn't hear anyone say once that it was good. One gentleman was so disgusted that he said he was giving up on RC and he was a diamond platinum member or something of the sort as he thought all the food was horrible to the point as he called it "mystery food". With all this said.....I think the actual ship and entertainment/sports were so good they ruined us for other ships but the food was so inedible that we can't go again. Quite a quandary.
Oh..... and as everyone says.... be prepared to wait in line. And then wait in more lines. You really need to make reservations for the main shows and then still get there more than 15 minutes early or they let the stand-by line in. If you want a good seat.... be prepared to wait 45 or more minutes. You even have to make reservations for "My Time Dining". Doesn't that sound counter intuitive? Or is it just me? If you don't make the reservations for My Time Dining... be prepared to wait an hour or more.
I can say that from what we experienced, the staff and crew were nothing but friendly and helpful and never once had an issue at any time.
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|Pretty much the standard balcony room although the balcony itself was much nicer than other ships we have been on as it was deeper so you didn't feel so confined and they had a taller and larger table than on other ships so it was nice to eat at and play a game. As for the bed..... it was pretty bad. RCI really should have replaced the beds when they were in drydock less than two months ago. The bed has a cheapy mattress similar to a pull out couch and it has been used for five plus years now and gave my husband back problems.
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|Philipsburg, St. Maarten
|20,000 people get off of ships at this port daily and have roughly the same schedule. Creates havock at the port and throughout the island as traffic becomes a nightmare to the point that you can't get a cab to a beach that isn't very far or you risk not getting back to teh ship on-time. Staff on the boat suggested if we went to any beach other than the one right in Phillipsburg that we should leave 2.5 hours to get back in case there were any accidents on the single lane roads that wind through the mountains.


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I have implemented a first version of plugable expressions as discussed in: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=109903957300001&r=1&w=2 and the end of http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=109901879000001&r=1&w=2. I use them in the refactored JXTG but in a way that (hopefully) is completely invisible for the user. I would like to get your feedback on the approach, intefaces, implementation etc. So that we can improve it and move it to the core as a standard interface for expression usage when it is good enough. Src === The code can be found in (in trunk): src/blocks/template/java/org/apache/cocoon/components/expression/expression tests in: src/blocks/template/test/org/apache/cocoon/components/expression/expression A FOM like context (slight modification of TemplateObjectHelper in scratchpad): src/blocks/template/java/org/apache/cocoon/environment/environment And some test: src/blocks/template/test/org/apache/cocoon/environment/environment Background ========== Expression languages (EL), mainly JXPath and Jexl are used in various parts of Cocoon, e.g. in JXTG, CForms, various input modules etc. The ELs often are used on some kind of Cocoon object model. It would be easier to use Coocoon if expressions would be used in the same way everywhere in Cocoon and it would simplify maintainance if there was just one implementation. Couldn't we just decide to use one EL everywhere? This has been discussed in the threads cited above. While most people would prefer having just one EL we could not agree on which one. Also JXPath makes much more sense on DOM and Jexl on Java beans. Design ====== The design this far has some focus on my needs for using it in JXTG. It is inspired by JEX written Dmitri Plotnikov (JXPaths main author) http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta-commons-sandbox/jex/ and http://www.plotnix.com/jex/index.html. As JEX just consists of a two year old initial code base and doesn't support Jexl, I thought that it was better to build our own stuff. Compared to JEX my design is simpler. There is e.g. no locale support as that IMO should be handled by a separate convertor component. And I have not differed between compiled and interpreted expressions. ExpressionContext ----------------- To make it possible to use several ELs at the same time as in JXTG there is one concrete ExpressionContext class that are used by all ELs. It is a Map of variable bindings but also has a contextBean property and supports parent contexts. ExpressionContext is similar to JexlContext, not because I found it especialy elegant (I don't), but rather because the needs from Jexl constrained the design a bit if I wanted to avoid to much work in the adapter, (better designs are certainly welcome). Also the ExpressionContext is only a data object. In JXPath there are a set of "evaluate expression" etc methods on the context but I preferd to focus on the "CompiledExpression" scenario needed for JXTG furthermore I don't like having two ways of acchieving about the same thing. ExpressionFactory ----------------- The expression factory is modeled after the SourceResolver. Typical use is: ExpressionFactory factory = (ExpressionFactory)this.lookup(ExpressionFactory.ROLE); ExpressionContext context = new ExpressionContext()); context.put("a", new Float(1)); context.put("b", new Float(2)); // Geting a Jexl expression Expression expression = factory.getExpression("jexl", "a+b"); assertEquals(new Long(3), expression.evaluate(context)); // Letting the EL be part of the expression string expression = factory.getExpression("jexl:a+b"); assertEquals(new Long(3), expression.evaluate(context)); expression = factory.getExpression("jxpath:$a+$b"); assertEquals(new Double(3), expression.evaluate(context)); // Using the default EL expression = factory.getExpression("$a+$b"); assertEquals(new Double(3), expression.evaluate(context)); this.release(factory); The available ELs and the default EL are configured in the relevant *.xconf. I only used release on the factory object as I didn't found any use for that for Jexl and JXPath expressions. Expression ---------- The Expression interface looks like: public interface Expression { public Object evaluate(ExpressionContext context) throws ExpressionException; public Iterator iterate(ExpressionContext context) throws ExpressionException; public void assign(ExpressionContext context, Object value) throws ExpressionException; public String getExpression(); public String getLanguage(); public void setProperty(String property, Object value); public Object getNode(ExpressionContext context) throws ExpressionException; } evaluate, iterate and assign should be rather obvious. getExpression and getLanguage is mainly for making reasonable error messages possible. I'm less certain about setProperty that I mainly added to be able to handle the lenient property for JXPath, but it is not certain that properties should be part of expressions, maybe they should be part of the factory instead. I like the getNode method even less and would like to get rid of it. I introduced it as JXPath both has a getNode method that returns the raw object pointed to and a getValue that does some extra work on it, (like the irritating xsl:value-of stuff on DOM). Now Expression.evaluate basically does JXPath getValue and Expression.getNode does JXPath getNode. I would prefer to get rid of the Expression.getNode method and have Let Expression.evaluate basically call JXPath getNode. But I don't know enough about the consequances for e.g. JXTG, any opinions? JXPath and Jexl --------------- I have implemented a JXPath and Jexl variant of the intefaces. Questions ========= * Is the design reasonable? * Does it work for other ELs? * Is it efficient enough? Especially considering ExpressionContext adaption and component lookup. * What about getNode getValue in JXPath? * The JXPathExpression contains some JXPath bug/inconvenience workorounds from JXTG, are they still needed, could they be fixed in JXPath? * etc /Daniel
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Two black men accuse ABC of racial bias over "The Bachelor"
By Tim Ghianni
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Two black men who said they were "lookin' for love" and auditioned last summer for the popular ABC reality television show "The Bachelor" sued the network on Wednesday, saying they were rejected because of their race.
"They were tossed aside because of their race," said Byron Perkins, one of a trio of prominent civil rights attorneys representing Nathaniel Claybrooks, 39, and Christopher Johnson, 26, in the suit filed in U.S. District Court in Nashville.
The suit says ABC has never put a single person of color - whether African American, Hispanic or Asian - in the central role of "The Bachelor" or "The Bachelorette."
The popular shows chronicle the search for a mate as the man or woman dates more than a dozen contenders. Each season ends with a final choice of a partner.
The two men said at a press conference they tried to audition for "The Bachelor" last summer in Nashville.
"I heard about a casting call," said Claybrooks. "I said to myself 'I'm single ... (I can try) to look for someone I could be compatible to in life ... lookin' for love.'"
He said when he arrived at the auditions, the interviewers spent 45 to 60 minutes with "the white men in front of me" while they gave him only 15 to 20 minutes.
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Matt Prior has no time for tales of the woes of his Australian foes. With less than two weeks until the Ashes begin series, England's wicketkeeper has turned solipsistic.
"Firstly, we don't know what is going on in the Aussie camp," Prior insists, "we don't know the details and we don't know the politics. Secondly, it doesn't affect us at all."
Australia may have changed their coach at the 11th hour; their captain has only just returned from injury; and they may be mired in alcoholic imbroglios, but experience has taught Prior how necessary a world of Ashes pain is to school a cricketing intelligence.
The 31-year-old tells a story that helped form his Ashes soul and may explain why this England side are overwhelming favourites to win a third successive Ashes series for the first time in 32 years.
"The big thing I've learnt from playing in the Ashes," begins Prior in the atmosphere of a confessional. "Well, I'll give you an example... In 2009, we go 1-0 up and we go to Headingley with two to play thinking we are one win away from winning the Ashes. Next thing we were all out for 102 and beaten in three days. That was a great example of taking your eye off the ball for one second and getting burnt.
"One of the toughest things about the Ashes is that there are so many things going on off the pitch and away from your team that it can pull you away from concentrating on your own things if you're not careful."
The England players who take the field for the first Test at Trent Bridge on 10 July have 99 reasons to stay careful. That is how many Ashes appearances the likely XI have between them. Australia's likeliest line-up have 54 – with almost half of those belonging to the creaking Michael Clarke. And Prior believes that could make the difference.
"There were a few of the guys involved in that [Headingley] performance who will know the risks of getting your focus wrong. That is one of the challenges that a player involved in the Ashes must avoid. The important thing is that we focus on our preparation for the Essex game."
Prior will play for an England XI at Chelmsford this Sunday in their only Ashes warm-up. One man who won't be there is Nick Compton, who has paid for his recent scratchy form Prior is now England's undisputed No 1 wicketkeeper but knows the agony of being dropped. "Nick will be hurting. When you are left out it is a horrible feeling. You feel a little bit lost."
One player Prior is convinced will not be a little boy lost is Compton's replacement, Joe Root. "It was inevitable that he would end up opening. The start he has had has been phenomenal. One of his strengths is his mental strength and temperament."
They are qualities Australia will need in urnfuls over the next few months – not that Prior will be paying any attention.
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Commanders: M. Anderson - MOD London; EW Dawson - RNEC Manadon; RF Edmonds - RAF Scampton; SR Munro - MOD London; PN Payne-Hanlon - Defiance; A. Smith - MOD Bath; AJD Somerville - Staff of FOST; AM Willmett - Dryad.
Surgeon Commanders: NS Bevan - Tamar; MV Morgan - MOD London; JJW Sykes - IAM ALverstoke.
Chaplains: SM Rae - Dartmouth BRNC; JK Watson - RM Condor.
Retirements: Commander FW Bumford; Commander HF Dean; Commander JJ Wray-Bliss.
General Sir John Waters, to be Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, from 5 April, in succession to General Sir Brian Kenny.
Lt-Gen Sir Michael Wilkes, to be Adjutant General in the rank of General, from 17 May, in succession to General Sir David Ramsbotham.
Maj-Gen HM Rose, to be Commander United Kingdom Field Army in the rank of Lieutenant- General, from 26 April, in succession to Lt-Gen Sir Michael Wilkes.
Maj-Gen RP Craig, to be Commander Medical United Kingdom Land Forces, from 26 March, in succession to Maj-Gen AC Ticehurst.
Maj-Gen FB Mayes, to be Director General Army Medical Services, from 1 April, in succession to Lt-Gen Sir Peter Beale.
Maj-Gen CBQ Wallace, to be Commandant Staff College, from 5 April, in sucession to Maj-Gen HM Rose.
Brigadier MIE Scott, to be General Officer Commanding Scotland in the rank of Major-General, from 6 April, in succession to Lt-Gen Sir Peter Graham.
Brigadier JF Deverell, to be Director General Army Manning and Recruiting in the rank of Major-General, from 16 April, in succession to Maj-Gen JFJ Johnston.
Colonels: JS Field - to BMATT ZIMBABWE; OT HAll - to be Comd Sup HQ EDIST.
Lieutenant-Colonels: GK Geddie RAOC - to CVD ASHCHURCH; RC Goodall RRW - To be CO ITB STRENSALL; P. Parfitt R SIGNALS - to be CO 33 Sig Regt.
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Definition of crèche
1 : a representation of the Nativity (see nativity 1) scene
2 : day nursery
3 : a foundling hospital
4 : a group of young animals (such as penguins or bats) gathered in one place for care and protection usually by one or more adults
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one of the first cities to establish crèches so that poor women with children could work outside of the home
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She wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a cratch. That may not sound like a familiar translation of Luke 2:7, but back in the 1300s, the substitution of cratch for manger probably wouldn't have raised any eyebrows. Back then spelling was imprecise, and several different words and spellings, including cratch, cracche, crache, and crecche, were used to describe a trough for holding feed for livestock or to identify the manger where Jesus was laid. By the late 18th century, crèche (which we borrowed from French and now sometimes spell without the accent mark) had displaced those older forms, and the word had lost its former "manger" meaning, coming to refer instead to a representation of the Nativity scene itself.
Origin and Etymology of crèche
French, from Old French creche manger, crib, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German krippa manger — more at crib
First Known Use: 1792See Words from the same year
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Definition of crèche for English Language Learners
: a set of statues that represents the scene of Jesus Christ's birth and that is displayed during Christmas
: a place where young children are cared for during the day while their parents are working : a day care center
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A dark stormy night, a mysterious stranger, and an empty house by the sea have long been stock elements in the suspense game, but this quirky piece is more likely to slow the pulse than to quicken it. Tantalising for all the wrong reasons, it cruelly whets the appetite for an offbeat psychological drama - and instead delivers a joke with a don't-hold-your-breath punchline.
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Research shows that children as young as five have negative stereotypes of elderly people, believing them to lack competence. But these same children were overwhelmingly positive about the older adults in their own family. This shows that as people spend time together and learn more about one another, stereotypes and uneasiness can disappear. This is the power of intergenerational connections. How can you help your own kids gain understanding and respect for people of all ages? Read on!
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We use a powder, it can be hidden in a small amount of juice, say 1 tablespoon, or it can be hidden between two layers of applesauce. I use Now brand magnesium citrate, a loose powder, but I think mag glycinate is better.
Some folks use Natural Calm, it's a flavored powder that's supposed to taste pretty good.
A homeopathic preparation wouldn't be the same as actual magnesium. I don't know when it would be useful, but I wouldn't just use it as a substitute.
I also have the NOW brand. On my bottle it says that you *must* dissolve in 8oz of water (the full dose). Do you think that's not necessary? I was going to put some in capsules for dd but didn't want to after I read that.
Mag Glycinate powder sounds good though.
Well, apparently I never read the instructions. I've been dissolving 1/2 tsp in about 2 tablespoons of orange juice along with some other powder. Hmm... DD is still falling asleep at night, she has trouble falling asleep without magnesium (tested that that was still the case several months ago) so while maybe I'm losing some effectiveness, _some_ is being absorbed. Darn. I have a bunch of bottles of this because we go through quite a bit of magnesium around here and the kids respond to mag citrate fine, so I bought this instead of the glycinate that I get for DH. Darn. But I think I'm going to finish these bottles.
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I don't dissolve mine (I sandwich it between apple sauce). I simply can't imagine why it would matter. My NOW mag citrate is a hard pill. Why would a powder need to be dissolved first. It makes no sense. I may call them and ask.
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