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The New Psychiatry: The Essential Guide to State-of-the-Art Therapy, Medication, and Emotional Healthby Jack M. Gorman, M.D.
May 1997
The New Psychiatry: The Essential Guide to State-of-the-Art Therapy, Medication, and Emotional Health by Jack M. Gorman, M.D.
Reviewed by Paul V. Buday, Ph.D. J.D., William Zaccagnino, and Rupert B. Hurley, NAMI Literature Committee
The New Psychiatry: The Essential Guide to State-of-the-Art Therapy, Medication, and Emotional Health is an excellent book for educating a consumer and others. Books describing mental health care for the general public and psychiatric patients are increasingly common, but this one stands out. Dr. Gorman's objective is to get psychiatric knowledge to patients and family members and to help them get good medical care, procure well-defined goals of treatment, and determine whether these goals are being reasonably met. To paraphrase an old slogan, "An educated consumer is a psychiatrist's best patient."
Gorman's basic thesis is what he calls the "New Psychiatry." His phrase captures the rich evolution of psychiatry over the last 50 years in medications, psychiatric theory and care, and in the greater precision of diagnosis. He maintains this new and needed image of psychiatry and its practitioners is predicated upon several concepts; among them: reasonable attempts should be made by psychiatrists to study all treatments scientifically and patients must be informed about the degree this has been done; patients have the obligation to insist upon a good basis for consuming prescribed medication; psychiatric care can help many people but not all; and psychiatrists must provide individualized care in an empathetic and respectful manner. This is refreshing to hear from a practicing member of the profession.
Gorman divides his text into four principal sections: Considering Treatments, The Treatments, The Illnesses, and Special Topics. Each section is subdivided into various issues, and all is presented in an informal style--as if the author were discussing the subject with a patient or one of his or her family.
Chapter 4, "Medication," is especially illuminating for the laity. Dr. Gorman briefly explains at the cellular/subcellular level the modus operandi of the various classes of psychiatric drugs--from antidepressants to the antipsychotic--and the basis for untoward effects which commonly supervene. Chapter 12, on schizophrenia, contains thorough information; its descriptions of positive and negative symptoms are carefully drawn.
While Dr. Gorman provides a wealth of information, there a few points that readers may differ with. Contrary to his comments on p. 323, stimulants like dextroamphetamines do not appreciably speed up all biological processes to thereby increase metabolism and cause weight loss. This specific drug and the amphetamines as a class act as weight-loss agents by a central elative action and by depression of the hypothalamic appetite center ("appestat"). Further, a physical withdrawal syndrome does occur when amphetamine-like stimulants are withdrawn from addicted patients. Still further (p. 324), the reader may be left with the impression that in treating attention deficit disorder (ADD), methylphenidate (Ritalin®) acts as a cerebral stimulant; but it does not. A third point pertains to Dr. Gorman's comments on marijuana. While he specifically offers no endorsement of the drug, his comment that marijuana "is a minor problem compared to alcohol or cocaine" may allow a person prone to substance abuse to too easily rationalize the use of marijuana.
The quality of the information in Gorman's work far outweighs these few points. This well-written book is formulated by an expert, and its prose runs smoothly. The author completes the book with lists of mental health associations; suggestions for further reading; a list of the tables displayed; a list of psychiatric drugs by generic and trademark (brand) names; and a thorough index.
This is a refreshing, instructive book that brings a wealth of complex information together in one place in a most understandable manner. It is highly recommended to consumers, their loved ones, and the paramedical and social workers who labor daily in the brain-disorder trenches.
The New Psychiatry: The Essential Guide to State-of-the-Art Therapy, Medication, and Emotional Health, by Jack M. Gorman, M.D. St. Martin's Press, New York, 1996. 410 pages.


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Installing Civilization V Mods
Civilization V Mods You Need To Play
To install Civilization V Mods, you're going to need a copy of Civilization V. Not a problem, obviously, but there's a catch. Even though the Mac version has been released, guess what, Macshirts: user created Mods are not supported by the Mac version of Civilization V:
"Unfortunately, user-created mods … would require us to build custom versions of the full application ourselves in order to support a limited number of specific mods and still leave others unsupported. Similarly, modding tools are implemented with Microsoft .NET, and would present a significant porting challenge involving total rewrites. Bottom line: There is no way to create a Mac experience that allows for a good end-user experience for user-created mods. Believe us—we tried."
However, before PC fanatics started shouting Haw-HAW, Mac Users aren't completely screwed1. If you purchase your copy of Civilization V via
All this is a long winded way of saying if you want to install Civilization V Mods and more importantly, play them, you're going to have to use the PC version, and that's what we'll be covering here. But hey! At least Beatles songs are available on iTunes, right?
System Requirements
* Windows XP SP3
* Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8Ghz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 2.0Ghz Processor
* 8 GB free disk space
* 256 MB ATI 2600 XT/nVidia 7900 GS video card, or Core i3 integrated graphics
* DirectX 9.0c-compatible sound card
* Windows Vista SP2/Windows 7
* 1.8 GHz Quad Core Processor
* 8 GB free disk space
* 512 MB ATI 4800/nVidia 9800 or better video card
Installing Civilization V Mods
Mods are fully supported by Civilization V. Even so, they aren't fully endorsed. As you'll see below, Firaxis goes out of their way to remind you that you install them at your own risk, that they can't guarantee mods won't frack up your machine, etc etc etc. The point: they aren't actually part of the official game, and quite few players have experienced some problems getting them to work. We'll show you how to deal with that.
Step One
Open Civilzation V, and from the main screen menu, select the Mods browser:
Step Two
Remember those MODS MIGHT KILL YOU warnings we discussed above? You're going to see it now.
That's not scary at all, so go ahead and click "accept".
Step Three
This one's easy. In the next screen, select "Browse Mods" to review the Civilization V mods you've already installed, or look around for new goodies to play.
Step Four
Now you'll be taken to the Civilization V Mods manager. From the Menu along the top, select "online" to review a giant list of mods available for download.
In this section, you'll see a cascading list of Mods. Those you've already downloaded will be noted. The rest will show they're available for download, like so:
Select the one you want by clicking the "download" button. You'll be taken to another warning screen, but like above, click accept and move on with your life.
Step Five
Now, wait for the download to complete (you'll see a giant, shiny green "Completed!" bar confirming the download. Then from the top bar menu, select the "installed" tab.
In this section, you'll see a list of the mods you've downloaded. Select the one (or ones) you want, and click the "Install Mods" button.
Now all you need to do is check the circle next to the installed mod in order to enable it. Now back at the main menu, where you'll select Single Player. Once there, select "Setup game" or "Custom Setup", depending on the mod. Ta-Da! Dunzo! Now you're ready to play.
FINAL NOTE: If you're not using Steam, or for some other reason, you've had to download the mod manually rather than selecting it from the Mods Browser, after initial download you'll need to manually move it over to your Civ V mods folder (most likely, My DocumentsMy GamesSid Meiers Civilization VMODS). After that, unpack it in the same folder, then go into the Mods Browser and follow the instructions above. You shouldn't have any problems.
Civilization V Mods You Need To Play
We cannot recommend Legions highly enough. Just how dramatic an update Civilization V is to the venerable series is open to debate, but no one disagrees that the one-unit-per-tile rule represents a gigantic break with the series' conventions. Commentary on this change have been largely positive, but if you're like me, you're probably more interested in the non-military aspects of empire maintenance, and rather miss the Stacks of Doom style combat of past Civ games.
Legions brings them back to Civilization V by removing the one-unit-per-tile restriction. Overall modifications to Civ V include:
Removes the 1UPT (one unit per tile) limit.
Legions mod is completely modular and can be run concurrently with other mods.
Attack I promotion- +15% when attacking.
Attack II promotion- +15% when attacking.
Attack III promotion- +15% when attacking.
City Defense promotion- +25% when defending a city.
Defense I promotion- +15% when defending.
Defense II promotion- +15% when defending.
Defense III promotion- +15% when defending.
Shock promotions now give a standard +10% to combat instead of +20% on open terrain.
Unit maintenance is reduced by 25%.
Units in cities no longer get additional hit points, to adjust for the ability to stack defenders in cities.
Yay for Stacks Of Doooom! Legions is available right now from the Mod Browser in Civilization V.
True Start Location
Not quite as packed-to-bursting as the classic Rhye's And Fall of Civilization mod for Civ IV, True Start Location is still pretty cool. It provides you with map that approximates Earth really accurately, and starts all cultures in their real life locations. There's even a version for all map sizes (in case you feel like selecting a HUGE map.)
This one's a manual download. Get it here.
Queen of the Iceni
The Celtic Empire was added to Civilization IV via the Warlords expansion pack, and players quickly discovered they were one of the single best things about the game. So What The Hell were they thinking, leaving them out of Civilization V? Queen of the Iceni corrects this tremendous injustice by adding the Celtic Civilization to Civ V. Boudica, based on her art from Civ IV, returns as leader of this empire. In addition, new unique units, traits, and functionality have been added. It's an impressive mod, and should tide you over until Firaxis finally gets around to adding them in an upcoming expansion pack.
You can find it in the Mod Browser in Civilization V
R.E.D. Modpack
Among the biggest gripes about Civ V (and let's be frank – there are many, well deserved gripes), one of the most frequent is the ridiculously uneven scale of combat units. Spearmen tower over tanks, and Renaissance ships dwarf modern battleships. The R.E.D. modpack aims to rectify this by bring units into something resembling a more realistic scale. They don't make them true scale – you want to actually be able to see your units – but they no longer look as appallingly lazy as they once did.
Additional Resources:
The forums at Civ Fanatics are, full stop, the place to go for any questions you might have.
The Civilization Wikia is also full of useful information.
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When I was a little girl, my grandfather worked as a longshoreman for the New York Port Authority. For most of his career, he worked the night shift. This meant that from Monday through Friday, he was rarely ever around at dinner time. As a result, my Nonna usually kept weeknight meals simple, since it was only her – and sometimes me – dining in. Nonna was a big fan of bean dishes and she made them often. They were easy, nutritious and cheap. And my Nonna was nothing if not frugal, as most World War 2 wives were. Cucina povera was her specialty.
I've already shared Nonna's recipe for Pasta e Fagioli, or "Pasta Fazool", as we affectionately call it. But another pasta and beans dish that we ate a lot of back then, was Pasta e Lenticchie, or pasta with lentils. Although a lot of recipes portray both dishes as soups, neither dish is intended to be one, but rather a thick, wet, sloppy stew, with just enough liquid in them to sop up with a hunk of crusty Italian bread. read more >>


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S. Fred Singer Interviewed on KUSI San Diego on Global Warming
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The American Economic Association (AEA) takes pride in celebrating its founder Richard T. Ely. This pride is strange, given the character of Elys thought, which is revealed in The Independent Review article The Shaping of a Future Presidents Economic Thought: Richard T. Ely and Woodrow Wilson at The Hopkins by Gary M. Pecquet and Clifford F. Thies, as well as the Econ Journal Watch article Richard T. Ely: The Confederate Flag of the AEA? by Clifford F. Thies and Ryan Daza. In this podcast, Thies is interviewed by the economist Lawrence H. White and explores Elys ideas, values, and impact. Thies is the Eldon R. Lindsay Chair of Free Enterprise and Professor of Economics and Finance at Shenandoah University.
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Originally aired 11/23/09 on the BBC. Fred Singer, Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and author of Hot Talk, Cold Science, provides a skeptics perspective on global warming and discusses the controversial emails from University of East Anglias Climate Research Unit.
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
Pretty Pink, Baby Blue
I posted photos of this lady a while back and ran into her again the other day in Midtown. I asked her about her style and she told me that she just likes to have fun. I really like her playful display of matching colors and accessories and her wonderful glasses. She is truly original.
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I dream about this kind of freedom!!
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is that a unicorn on that lovely lady's hat? love it!
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Yeah, she definately has fun!
And see: she drives Mercedes as well.
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As the Speaker called on all the MPs to support the Gongo la Mboto victims, Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda asked all Tanzanians, in and outside the country, and development partners to support the government in coping with the problem.
Pinda was winding up the second meeting of the 10th Parliamentary meeting in Dodoma yesterday.
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Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations
Knopf, 1991 - Biography & Autobiography - 333 pages
Like hisThe Embarrassment of Richesand the bestsellingCitizens, Simon Schama's latest book is both history and literature of immense stylishness and ambition. ButDead Certaintiesgoes beyond these more conventional histories to address the deeper enigmas that confront a student of the past. In order to do so, Schama reconstructs -- and at times reinvents -- two ambiguous deaths: the first, that of General James Wolfe at the battle of Quebec in 1759; the second, in 1849, that of George Parkman, an eccentric Boston brahmin whose murder by an impecunious Harvard professor in 1849 was a grisly reproach to the moral sanctity of his society. Out of these stories -- with all of their bizarre coincidences and contradictions -- Schama creates a dazzling and supremely vital work of historical imagination. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Synchrotron radiation is now an established tool in many areas of physical and biological science. The ALS Doctoral Fellowships will allow beginning researchers to work at the frontier of synchrotron radiation research and to help advance state-of-the-art applications.
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Brandon caught Regice shortly before Ash challenged the Battle Pyramid for the last time. Regice battled Ash's Pikachu but although it put up a feirce fight, and almost defeated Pikachu, it was eventually defeated by Volt Tackle. Regice is arguably the weakest of Brandon's legendary Pokemon as it is the only one that has been defeated on screen.
Regice appeared again in A Pyramiding Rage, where it defeated Paul's Lairon in seconds, despite its type disadvantage and battled his Ursaring before being recalled.
Regice was also used to battle Regigigas, but was confused by the Colossal pokemon's Confuse Ray and went on a rampage along with Regirock and Registeel. When the evil pokemon hunter J attempted to capture Regigigas, Regice, Regirock, Registeel and Brandon were all turned to stone in order to protect it. After J left due to her client cancelling the deal, the Regi's and Brandon were revived by Regigigas and stayed at Snowpoint Temple in order to rebuild it and guard Regigigas.
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Hi Cork!
February to October for a change in status is about average -if there is such a thing as average! I've come across soldiers reported as missing on the day of action who turn up as prisoners or dead either the following day or even as long as two years later (missing presumed dead but were actually POWs).At rollcall following an action, the remaining Companies would answer a verbal register called out by the NCOs. A silence after a name indicated absence, and his mates would give an explanation if they had one. "Injured and taken to such and such clearing station", or "Shot in no-man's land" etc. If the explanation was tenable and obvious then that reason went straight on to the register and went up the paper trail.where army clerks ultimately did the bueaurocracy. PoWs were slightly diferent in that the roll call would note 'taken prisoner' if that was the case and mates could vouch to that. The PoWs lists were then refered back to army command through both diplomatic contacts and through the Red Cross so that prisoner names were refered back to their home countries fairly quickly. Prisoners were often allowed to write home fairly early on captivity. I have come across a few instances where a prisoner gave a false name out of shame, and prefered his family to presume him dead than a prisoner.
PS try some punctuation in your next posting - easier for an old bloke like me to follow!
Posted 13 January 2012 - 12:51 pm
Hello Ron - thank you for the info and the welcome message . Should have mentioned that he took a right pasting before capture , - IE - badly disfigured left side of face and lost left arm ! Must have spent a long time in hospital and there fore a long time before been reported a POW . You're right , it is A crying shame those records were not preserved , - they would have been worth their weight in gold to researcher's . Thanks again , regards cork commrade
Hello Cork Commrade, and welcome to the Forum!
Units were supposed to report casualties "after an action", I think on one of various subdivisions of Army Form B103. Units also made a weekly Field Return, Army Form B238, every Sunday which gave details of all men joining or leaving the unit, with reasons. Its main purpose was to confirm the number of rations required for the following week but it is a pity that none of these were preserved, as they would have proved invaluable to researchers after the loss of most of the soldiers' records in 1940.
Therefore, GHQ should have known of a man being killed, going missing or taken prisoner within a week of the event, but at times of major actions (e.g. 1 July 1916) the paperwork might have taken a while to catch up.
As regards missing men being reported as POWs, this could take some time, as Geraint has said. The only case known to me is of an officer who was reported missing on 27 May 1918 (third phase of the Kaiserschlacht) but whose family did not hear that he was still alive and a prisoner until September.
Posted 13 January 2012 - 01:39 pm
Hello Corisande - That is a good idea about the war diary , will have to do new post a.s.a.p I haveseen his MIC and cant understand how he could be put on reserve ! Refer to my reply to ron above . Probably an oversight on the clerk's behalf . He came home and lived with his sister ' my great grand mother ' for a few years before dying of his wounds . I see you have an interest in the RDF , my other great grand uncle - Private Patrick O' RIORDAN - no 9838 - 1st batt RMF - K I A on the
It is worth your while getting hold of 2RMF War Diary for that period.
Someone on the forum may have it (it does not seem to be available online at TNA). Try a specific post on it in Ireland sub-forum here
It is unlikely to name him, but will refer to their casualties on a day by day basis
You presumably have seen his MIC which shows a transfer to Z Class Reserve
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Hello Tom - Not sure about that . he had a brother ' Patrick ' and two sisters ' Mary and Nora ' . Fathers name was Timothy , They do not seem to appear on the 1901 census ,but are on the 1911 census as living with 'Mary ' and her husband Timothy MURPHY IN 11 cattle market avenue , cork city . Do they match the person you are thinking of ? Regards cork commrade
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In astronomical terms it counts as a near-miss. Friday afternoon February 15 an asteroid called DA 14 will come within a few thousand miles of Earth. It's an unprecedented event and scientists are excited. Dr. Julie Ziffer is an astronomy lecturer at the University of Southern Maine who specializes in the study of asteroids. She said although DA 14 is coming close to Earth, don't panic, there's no chance of a collision.
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USM's Dr Julie Ziffer is giving a public lecture tonight on Thursday, February 14 at 7:00 pm at Southworth Planetarium in Portland titled Close Encounters of the Asteroid Kind.
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February 17 at 7 pm. This is the life story of the man who organized the March on Washington in 1963. Bayard Rustin was in many ways an outsider: an independent thinker, a civil rights activist and later a gay rights activist. Rustin learned about non-violent resistance for social change in India working with Gandhi, and he later worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 2003, NR.For more information about this film click here.
February 24 at 7 pm. Timothy Treadwell spent 13 summers camping in Alaska where he could observe and film wild bears in their natural habitat. His last trip ended in disaster. Was he a naturalist and educator helping to protect the bears, as he claimed, or a misguided social misfit? Renowned director Werner Herzog uses much of Treadwell's footage to construct this documentary. 2005, Rated R
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March 10 at 6:30. Should governments keep secrets, or should all information be made public? This documentary film details the creation by Julian Assange of the controversial WikiLeaks website, and the subsequent leaking of US military secrets provided by Pfc. Bradley Manning. 2013, Rated R.
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Board seeks answers about cycling event
The UCI World Road Cycling Championships will take place in the Richmond region three years from this week, but Henrico County officials need more information before formally committing to climb aboard for the ride.
Officials from Richmond 2015 – the nonprofit organization that will host the nine-day international event – asked Henrico's Board of Supervisors during a Sept. 11 work session to contribute a total of $1.4 million to the championships during the next three years. But supervisors and County Manager Virgil Hazelett, while pledging support for the event in general terms, bristled at the request because it lacked the specifics they were expecting.
"It is clear to me that we do not have sufficient information," Hazelett said. "My main concern is the cost. I don't have a comfort level yet in what's going to happen."
Richmond 2015 has established a budget of $21.4 million, its CEO, William Flohr, told the board. The City of Richmond has committed a $2 million contribution, he said, and presentations to officials in Hanover and Chesterfield counties followed the visit to Henrico. The organization arrived at its $1.4 million request of Henrico by following the regional funding format that was used for the Greater Richmond Convention Center, to which Richmond contributed 50 percent, Henrico 35 percent, Chesterfield 13 percent and Hanover 2 percent.
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But it was clear during last week's work session that at least some county officials felt slighted by the organization's decision to approach them now to assist with an event that may have quickly outgrown its original scope – and by the implication among some in the public that the county was not being a regional partner.
During a steady and pointed line of questioning, Brookland District Supervisor and board chairman Dick Glover expressed as much, suggesting that Richmond 2015 officials had dropped the ball by waiting more than 18 months to meet with the full Henrico board.
He implied that if the organization had involved Henrico from the beginning (in late 2010), the county would have felt more like a true partner and less like a bank account.
"I am very disappointed that this is almost two years after [the process began] that the Board of Supervisors of Henrico County has been approached," Glover said. "I feel like you've left us out of the picture, and now you're coming to us with not enough information."
Varina District Supervisor Tyrone Nelson was similarly unimpressed.
"You came to us and gave us nothing today," Nelson told the organization's contingent. "I think it's a healthy promotion for our region, but you're asking us to spend a million and a half dollars that are not in our budget. We each have capital improvement projects [awaiting funding] in our districts, and I've got people in my district ready to shoot me because we don't have a new school yet."
Nelson also suggested that if the county were to donate the requested $1.4 million, it should receive more than just one of the 12 races scheduled for the nine-day event – particularly if Richmond's $2 million donation is enough to earn it nine races. (Hanover and Chesterfield also would receive one race each by contributing to the event, Richmond 2015 organizers said.)
Flohr, who joined Richmond 2015 in April, conceded that the organization might have done some things differently before his arrival, in retrospect.
"It perhaps should have been a regional effort," he said, "and we're trying to make it into a regional effort now."
Economic impact debated
Henrico stands to realize a $42 million economic benefit from the event, Flohr said; some 450,000 spectators are expected to attend the races. Flohr told the board that Henrico would receive an additional $832,000 in hotel and lodging taxes during the nine-day period, but Hazelett questioned his math, saying that the county typically receives about that much during the month of September, when the occupancy rate is about 60 percent.
"We can't double that [amount] in nine days with only 40 percent vacancy available," Hazelett said.
The race proposed for Henrico is the initial time trial for men and women, which might begin in Short Pump and travel east to its conclusion in the city. That race would be televised live on a national network, Flohr said. But though Henrico would receive commercials during the broadcast and the opportunity for other exposure, Flohr could provide no specific details. The organization must purchase TV time from a network and has not yet completed the negotiation process, he said.
Tuckahoe District Supervisor Pat O'Bannon told Flohr that the board would need to see a specific list of the benefits it would receive for a $1.4 million donation before determining how to proceed.
Hazelett expressed serious concerns about the costs associated with heavy police and security needed to protect the 1,000 cyclists – some of whom will represent nations with volatile political climates – as well as spectators and citizens.
Those costs, combined with shutting down more than 60 intersections for the race, could total nearly $500,000, Hazelett said – money that he said should be deducted from any donation Henrico makes.
To date, Richmond 2015 has financial commitments from five corporate partners totaling more than $2 million, but Flohr declined to name those companies. He promised Hazelett and the board that he would have specific details and answers to their questions by the first week of October, however.
The UCI event, which began in 1927 and has been held annually since (except for a seven-year period during World War II), will be held in The Netherlands this year, Italy next year and Spain in 2014. The United States has hosted it only once, in Colorado Springs in 1986.
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A depressing week of cloudy skies is finally behind us and a fun weekend in Henrico is ahead! If the rain has you down, the 2016 Greater Richmond Holistic Expo at the Richmond Raceway Complex is the place for you. Nourish the mind, body, soul and emotions in a friendly, supportive – and dry! – environment. Music is also great for the soul – Rumble Seat Revival will perform an evening of 20s tin pan alley jazz tonight and HATTheatre will present the anti-bullying musical "Masquerade" this weekend. Another musical, "The Wiz," is playing at the Henrico Theatre this weekend as well. For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
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Collection name : Tyneside songster, containing a splendid collection of local songs by popular authors in the Northumbrian dialect.
Song in which local characters attempt to extract free drinks from people by posing as childhood acquaintances.
This song is taken from a chapbook entitled 'The Tyneside Songster'. The importance of this collection is in the format. Chapbooks were similar to the cheap press of today. These poorly printed books and broadsides catered for popular tastes, being sold by chapmen in the country and booksellers in the town. Usually sold for no more than a penny, the production of these little books and broadsides were extremely profitable for most printers. Sold in bulk the material required little proof-reading, was widely plagiarised, and badly printed.
This is an example of a later chapbook and follows the style of earlier songbooks such as 'The Newcastle Songster', published by J. Marshall in the early nineteenth century. By the time this book was published chapbook production had decreased dramatically and although the songs printed in the book could be found in many other forms, it is rare to find a songbook in this style from such a late date. A number of the songs from the book can be found elsewhere on the FARNE site and for this reason we have chosen only to include songs that are not included in our other collections. The book was followed up in later years by similar productions in the Evening Chronicle.
Collection description : Popular Tyneside songs published in chapbook form.
Melody used : Moon behind the hill
First line:One neet when wakin' doon the Side
Subject heading : drinking
Keywords : drinking & deception
Period : 1861-1900
Height : 22 cm
Width : 14 cm
Page numbers: p.9
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The government has been asked to take immediate measures to rescue over 600bn/- lost annually due to post harvest loss of various crops countrywide.
Speaking at the closure of a weeklong mango processing and entrepreneurship training, Association of Mango Growers (Amagro) executive officer Ahmad Mkopi said such measures would include provision of training on food processing, infrastructure construction, capital and a conducive environment for small scale producers to work.
The seven-day training was organised by Small Industries Development Organisation (SIDO) and it attracted 25 food processors from four coastal regions. The regions are Dar es Salaam, Coast, Morogoro and Tanga.
Explaining he said lack of food processing knowledge has made many farmers fail to process their crops hence losses.
According to him, most farmers lack knowledge on crop processing, hence they leave a big chunk of the harvest unprocessed which ends up in rotting.
Poor infrastructure, he said, has also led to delays in transportation of crops from farms to the markets.
Mkopi said that lack of capital was another hindrance to preservation, leading to huge post harvest losses.
"The government and the private sector should increase lending to the agricultural sector to enable the farmers purchase modern equipment for farming and food processing and preservation," he noted.
Tanzania produces over 1.2 million tonnes of various fruits but between 40 to 60 percent is lost due to diseases and decay in farms because of lack of facilities to process them. Currently Middle East, Australia, the Philippines, the Netherlands, Europe and Asia, are major importers of mangoes from Tanzania.
"We believe that the initiatives established by SIDO towards introduction of this training will enable the sector to minimise the post harvest losses," he said.
Tanzania currently producers more than 372,000 tonnes of mango but only exports 2 percent of the processed crop (mostly grown by Amagro farmers), and the rest is sold in the domestic market.
For her part, Sofia Ndunguru, a mango farmer, appealed to SIDO to avail packaging materials for magoes products for the same to safely reach the market.
She said lack of packaging materials is one of the challenges they face in the marketing mangoes.
"This is a serious problem, there is a shortage of packaging materials. There is a need to have more manufacturing firms of the materials as well as importers," she said.
SIDO Director General Mike Laizer urged the trained processors to train other mango producers so as to create multiplier effect in the sector.
"You have to be good ambassadors, educate your friends who did not get a chance to attend the training so that we reduce the amount of crops lost," he said.
Dar es Salaam Regional Commissioner Said Meck Sadik who was the chief guest said time has come for the government to start issuing seed and fertiliser subsidy to mango growers.
"If the government wants to develop this industry it should start supporting mango farmers as it is doing in cotton and cashewnut farming," he stressed.
He said that Dar es Salaam Region is ready to allocate land for construction of a mango processing plant.
AMAGRO was established in 2001 and has over 110 members who are growers of high quality commercial mangoes in Tanzania.


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Some times ago I wrote a few materials about Yphyrion, a city set in a light steampunk ambience. I decided to give it a shot on a map, close to some late 19th century style (at least inspired of it though I may do some things different). Map is 3898x5433px. First step with a WIP (though almost done) of the whole city layout.
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Very nice and organic forms, also all the different structures and sizes already talk to me. Great start!
I like the street chaos that starts in the middle and then explodes radially into more ordered streets.
My First Map: Amelia's Grove
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Splendid Borders as always! And no Vectors, this time not even Vorro can complain about that
Impressive. What's the scale?
Thank you guys. Scale is something like 1:15000
Sorry, I wasn't very clear. What is the scale in relation to pixels (1px=?)?
Not sure to understand what you're asking for. Is it about map's size? It's 3898x5433 at 300 DPI so it's 13''x18'' (33x46cm)
Thus 1px is roughly 1,2m or three feet, right?
edit: sorry, 1,2m =~ four feet, not three.
re-edit: all x2, since the pics posted are half-size apparently. That makes much more sense.
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The foundations for leadership are established in the first two courses and applied throughout the remainder of the program. This leadership course will cover values and ethics, visioning, organizational transformation, and building support for mission and purpose. The Introduction to Organizational Assessment course will enable you to understand a systems approach to organizational leadership that drives performance excellence. As a result, the MOL program enables students from diversified areas of undergraduate study to enhance their ability to successfully lead organizations with a variety of missions.
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text: In Silicon Valley, Eric Ries has the stage -- and the crowd is going wild Magazine features 18 June 12 by Ted Greenwald This article was taken from the July 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online. He's gathered his troops in a brightly lit conference room, where members of four Intuit departments are seated in front of 300 colleagues - plus 1,500 more watching via webcast -- to hash out some problems. Each team will take five minutes to present its dilemma, then special guest Eric Ries will come up with a solution. Arun Muthukumaran, a group manager of Intuit Payment Solutions, kicks off proceedings. He describes a feature that could dramatically increase the number of small businesses that sign up for the company's payment services. But implementation would burn up 20 employees' time for a month. What if customers don't bite?Ries, dressed in a blazer, pastel shirt and black denim, suggests a test: rather than building the service and trying it out on customers, create a sign-up page that merely promises to deliver this groundbreaking capability. Then present it to some prospective clients. Compare their enrolment rate with that of a control group shown the usual sign-up page. The results will give the team the confidence to proceed or toss the idea into the circular file. No one would actually get the new feature yet, of course, because it hasn't been built. "I guess we could piss off a few customers instead of thousands," Muthukumaran says. Laughter ripples through the crowd.Ries glances at his watch. "It's 4.18pm on Monday," he says with a grin. "On Wednesday at 4.18pm, I expect an email telling me how it went." The team members exchange glances that are equal parts bemusement and worry: they make software, not concepts. They build code through painstaking cycles of design, programming and testing. Customers depend on their products and trust their brand. And this guy expects them to offer a feature that doesn't even exist? Nevertheless, the other employees are exhilarated. The room breaks into fervent applause.It's something Ries is getting used to. At 33, he is Silicon Valley's latest guru. In the four years since he first posted his theories about running startups on an anonymous blog, his campaign to replace the typical product-development approach -- build it and they will come -- with a system based on experimentation has become a juggernaut. Ries's book The Lean Startup, published last summer, has sold 90,000 copies in the US. His blog, Startup Lessons Learned, has 75,000 subscribers, and his annual conference attracts 400 entrepreneurs, each paying more than $500 (£300). 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By repeatedly cycling or "iterating" through a "build--measure-learn loop" -- a method Ries calls "validated learning" -- the Lean Startup develops a verified perspective that enables it to identify and fine-tune the mechanism that will keep the company growing, aka its "engine of growth".Or, failing that, it can "pivot" to a new strategy. This, Ries insists, is the quickest, most efficient route to "product/market fit" (a phrase from Silicon Valley kingpin Marc Andreessen), defined as the moment when a product achieves resonance with customers. Never mind that this approach is a mashup of ideas culled from programming, marketing, manufacturing and business strategy, leavened with hard-won insights that have circulated among Silicon Valley veterans for years. Ries makes no effort to hide his sources, and his presentation preempts his critics' complaints. "Lean", he explains, does not mean cheap; it means eliminating waste by testing ideas first. 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