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___ Provinces of the Republic of South AfricaOfficial sites of the nine Provinces, their capital cities as well as tourist guides, newspapers and other information.Destination South Africa, this page invites you to a virtual travel to the 9 provinces of South Africa. Here you will find comprehensive information about all the provinces' geography, economy, people, culture, environment, government and history. You will have access to newspapers from South African provinces and you will find travel and tourism information. |
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Flag of South Africa Note: External links will open in a new browser window. South Africa Government Online The South Africa Government Online South Africa Tourism South Africa, official site of the South Africa Tourism Board. State Capital Cities: Pretoria (administrative) Bloemfontein (judiciary) Mangaung Local Municipality; (the city's name in seSotho is Mangaung). Cape Town (legislative center) Maps Map of South Africa Detailed Map of South Africa. Map of South Africa Provinces South Africa's Provinces Map. Map of Africa Political Map of Africa. |
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South Africa's Provinces
Eastern Cape | Free State | Gauteng | KwaZulu-Natal | Limpopo | Mpumalanga | Northern Cape | North-West | Western Cape |
The Eastern Cape is located on the south eastern seaboard of South Africa and is the second largest province with an area of 170 600 sq. km, home to 6 300 000 people more than 80% of them speak IsiXhosa. |
Eastern Cape Coat of Arms Capital: Bhisho Other Cities: Port Elizabeth Port Elizabeth City Guide. Area: 170 600 sq km (13.9% of country's total) Population: 6.4 million (14.4% of the total) Languages: isiXhosa (83%), Afrikaans (9.6%), English (3.7%) |
Eastern Cape Eastern Cape Provincial Government. Maps Map of Eastern Cape Eastern Cape Map Newspapers online Dispatch Online Eastern Cape and South Africa News The Herald Regional and national news. |
& Culture National Arts Festival Grahamstown One of Africa's largest and most colorful cultural event. Guides Eastern Cape Tourism Board Education Rhodes University Grahamstown. University of Port Elizabeth The only South African university situated in a nature reserve, founded 1964. University of Transkei - Unitra Founded 1976. |
Free State Province was formerly the Orange Free State (Afrikaans: Oranje Vrystaat) |
Free State Coat of Arms Capital City: Bloemfontein Bloemfontein Online Area: 129 480 sq km (10.6% of country's total) Population: 2.8 million (6% of the total) Languages: Sotho (62%), Afrikaans (14%), Xhosa (9.5%) |
Free State Provincial Government Official site of the Free State Administration. Free State Legislature Online Map Clickable Map of Free State Map of Free State Newspapers online Die Volksblad News (Afrikaans) IOL Free State News Independent Online's Free State news. |
& Economy Bloemfontein Chamber of Commerce and Industry Guides Free State Tourism Tourism in the Free State. Southern Africa Places Provides information on Free State. Education University of the Free State Bloemfontein. Central University of Technology |
With over 17 000 sq km the smallest of the nine provinces. In the seSotho languages 'Gauteng' means 'Place of Gold'. |
Gauteng Coat of Arms Capital City: Johannesburg Johannesburg The official City of Johannesburg website. Other Cities: Pretoria, The Jacaranda City Area: 17 010 sq km (1.4% of country's total) Population: 8,8 million (20% of total) Languages: isiZulu (21.5%), Afrikaans (14.4%), Sesotho (13.1%), English (12.5%) |
Gauteng Provincial Government The Gauteng Government website. Map Gauteng Regions Map Gauteng Map Newspapers online Beeld Johannesburg Mail&Guardian National newspaper. Pretoria News Independent daily newspaper, first published in 1898, Pretoria. Rekord Pretoria news in Afrikaans. Sunday Times Weekly newspaper. The Star Regional news. |
& Culture Pretoria Art Museum Business & Economy Johannesburg Chamber of Commerce & Industry Guides Gauteng Province Gauteng guide by the Gauteng Tourism Authority. Johannesburg Travel & Tourism Information. Education Rand Afrikaans University Johannesburg Universiteit van Pretoria University of Pretoria, founded in 1908. University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg World Heritage Cradle of Humankind Gauteng Site about amazing finds that have led leading palaeo-anthropologists and archaeologists to suggest that humankind first appeared in this corner of Africa and from there spread out to populate the world. |
The garden province, home of the Zulu nation, situated south of Mpumalanga province in the southeast of South Africa, bordering the Indian Ocean, Mozambique, Swaziland, and Lesotho. |
KwaZulu-Natal Coat of Arms Capital City: Pietermaritzburg Other Cities: Durban eThekwini Municipality, the official web site of Durban. Area: 92 100 sq km (7.5% of country's total) Population: 9.4 million (21.6% of total) Languages: isiZulu (80.59%), English (13.6%), isiXhosa (2.3%), Afrikaans (1.5%) |
KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Government KwaZulu-Natal Tourism Authority Map Map of KwaZulu-Natal Newspapers online Daily News Independent daily newspaper. The Mercury High Road Good News from KwaZulu-Natal. The Natal Witness KZN and South Africa News (note: requires registration) |
Guides Durban A guide to Durban. Pietermaritzburg's Friendly Tourism Office A guide to Pietermaritzburg and surrounding areas. Tourism KwaZulu-Natal KwaZulu-Natal Tourism Authority. Education University of Natal Durban, Pietermaritzburg, founded 1910. |
Situated at the North Eastern corner of South Africa, Limpopo shares borders with Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The former Northern Province has been renamed Limpopo Province in February 2002. Home of the Northern Sotho (SePedi) 57%, the Tsonga (Shangaan) 23%, and the Venda 12%. Afrikaans speakers make up 2.6 per cent while English-speaking whites are less than half a per cent. |
Limpopo Coat of Arms Capital City: Polokwane ( Pietersburg ) Area: 123 910 sq km (10.2% of country's total) Population: 5.3 million Language: SePedi (57%), followed by XiTsonga (23%) and TshiVenda (15.9%) |
Limpopo Provincial Government The site also provides information about Limpopo Province. Map Map of Limpopo District Map of Limpopo |
Guides Limpopo Tourism and Parks Board (LTPB) Provides some general information about Limpopo. |
Mpumalanga lies in the east of South Africa, north of KwaZulu-Natal bordering Swaziland and Mozambique. |
Mpumalanga Coat of Arms Capital City: Nelspruit Area: 79 490 sq km (6.5% of country's total) Population: 3.1 million Language: IsiSwati (30.8%), followed by isiZulu (26.4%) and isiNdebele 12.1%) |
Mpumalanga The Mpumalanga Provincial Government Website. Map Map of Mpumalanga Newspapers online The Lowvelder - Die Laevelder Mpumalanga and South African news. |
Guides Mpumalanga Tourism Authority The official provincial website providing Tourist Information on Mpumalanga. Mpumalanga Explorer Mpumalanga Explorer provides some information about the province and Kruger National Park. |
Situated in the north-western part of South Africa, the Northern Cape is the largest province of the nine provinces, about trice the size of Germany, but it's the province with the smallest population. The Province is home to 840 000 people, most of them speak Afrikaans, about 70% of the population is urbanised. |
Northern Cape Coat of Arms Capital City: Kimberley Kimberley information page. Area: 361 830 sq km (29.7% of country's total) Population: 840 000 Language: Afrikaans (68%), followed SeTswana (20.8%) |
Northern Cape Northern Cape Provincial Government. Map Map of Northern Cape News IOL Northern Cape news Independent Online's Northern Cape news |
Guides Northern Cape Tourism A guide to Namaqualand, Green Kalahari, Kalahari, the Diamond Fields and more. |
The Province in the north of South Africa is home to 3,7 million people of whom 2,2 million live in functional urban areas. In terms of population, the largest urban area is Kleksdorp, with 423 000 people. The second largest nodal point is Potchefstroom. |
North-West Province Coat of Arms Capital City: Mafikeng Other Cities: Potchefstroom Potchefstroom City Council. Area: 118 797 sq km ( 9.5% of country's total) Population: 3.7 million Language: SeTswana (65.4%), followed by Afrikaans (7.5%) |
The Platinum Province Online Official site of the North-West Province Government. North-West Province - State of the Environment Report 2002 Map North-West Province map Clickable search map of the North-West Province. Map of the North-West News IOL North West Province News Independent Online's North-West Province news. |
Guides Tourism North-West Tour and travel guide to the North-West Province. North-West Parks and Tourism Board Parks, Game and Nature Reserves in the North-West Province. Education University of the North-West Potchefstroom University Native Royal Bafokeng Nation |
The Western Cape is situated on the south-western tip of the African continent. In total the Western Cape includes an area of 129 386 sq km. There are approximately 4.5 million people, living in the province, the majority of whom are Afrikaans-speaking. The other official languages are English and Xhosa. |
Western Cape Coat of Arms State Capital City: Cape Town Cape Town Official site for the City of Cape Town. Area: 129 370 sq km (10.6% of country's total) Population: 4.5 million Language: Afrikaans (55.3%), followed by English (19.3%) and isiXhosa (23.7%) Sponsored Link: Cape Town Travel |
Western Cape Administration Cape Gateway is a single point of access to government information and services for the citizens of the Western Cape. Map Western Cape Clickable search map of Western Cape. Western Cape map News Die Burger Cape Town, regional Afrikaans newspaper. Cape Argus Regional news. Cape Times Daily, published since 1876, Cape Town. CityVision Western Cape news. Independent Regional news. |
Guides The Cape Official web site of the Western Cape Tourism Board. Cape Town The official Cape Town Tourism site with travel, accommodation, and event details for visits to Cape Town. The Garden Route The Garden Route of Western Cape. overberginfo.com Comprehensive information about the Overberg region on the Southernmost tip of Africa. Overberg Tourism Official web site of the regional tourism office for the Overberg region. West Coast A guide to Cape's West Coast. Education Khanya- Technology in Education A project to empower educators to use appropriate and available technology to deliver curriculum. University of Cape Town - UCT Founded in 1829. Universiteit Stellenbosch Stellenbosch, founded in 1918. University of the Western Cape Established in 1959 as an ethnic college for "coloured" students, today a national university. |
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There's a lot to be said for an organization that not only depends on volunteers to develop its distribution and continually work to improve it, but acknowledges the contributions of those who participate in its growth.
In July of this year, Debian lost one of its more celebrated developers, Joel "Espy" Klecker, to Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy. Debian, true to its philosophy, has recognized Joel's vast contributions by dedicating the Debian 2.2 release to his memory. (The written dedication can be viewed at ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/dedication-2.2.txt.)
The distribution itself is beginning to display the same kind of generosity. Debian's reputation has been further from the "novice-user" category than many distributions; this is slowly beginning to change. From installation to usage to tweaking, Debian 2.2 is a release that is fun for the techies and, well, much less of a Waterloo for novice Debian users.
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While not all users have DSL, the network installation of Debian proves itself to be sturdy and straightforward, even when using a command-line interface. Within a half hour, the installation was complete. This is probably the most significant change in Debian: easy download and installation via FTP.
The user is offered a choice of simple or advanced installation: the former provides a quick installation of some of the more commonly used packages through a selection of application types (e.g., C++ Development, GNOME games, etc.); the latter allows the more seasoned Debian user to select individual packages. dselect (which, as of this writing, is to be usurped by a new installer in future releases) provides dependency checking and simplifies additional package retrieval and configuration.
Generally, dselect takes care of configuring most packages, allowing the user both the option of keeping the .deb packages and of setting up a running system. In an FTP download, the pertinent network configuration takes place prior to installation for obvious reasons. For some "non-free" packages, the user will be required to download additional software from sites hosting the original software first, such as the case of Real Player or IBM's JDK, and then obtain the remainder of the package via apt-get before configuration can take place. It's a bit detailed but worth it for the software. In addition, there are some packages that aren't permitted to be distributed in anything other than source packages. These require building; the process was, in the case of Pine, clearly laid out in the README. The resulting packages are then built into .deb files installable by dpkg.
I'm a bit on the lazy side and don't like wasting good prewritten code. There are some scripts included with Fetchmail that preclude much of the headaches that some associate with setting up a mail client. These scripts are found in </usr/doc/fetchmail/contrib> and prove extremely useful to those new to, or uncomfortable with, MTA's.
Debian has a long-lived reputation for stability that has made it attractive to companies like Storm, Libranet and Corel, all three of which have capitalized on Debian's lack of easy installation. It's apparent that those who are installing Potato from a CD are likely to run into problems with, among other things, disks that have errors on them. I haven't heard if this is strictly the case with official CDs; if not, Debian may want to look at putting QA restrictions on those producing unofficial versions of the installation media. The network installation has improved tremendously, however, both in speed and security of the download.
The 4.x series of XFree86 is not included in this release, but the developers are in the process of adding it to the next release, or so I've been told. This would be a marked improvement; the current version of 3.3.6x is, at best, erratic. Xservers don't work (and don't not-work) with any kind of consistency. There are still issues with GLX (and the drivers thereof) for certain cards. RIVA-based cards (G-Matrox, among others) are rumored to be wanting more of the support provided in the XFree86 4.x series. To be fair, this problem is not specific to Debian.
The selection of packages in 2.2 is rivaled only by that of SuSE Linux and predictably runs the same risks—so many choices, so many dependencies and so many package conflicts. The choice is good, but several of the packages are in need of updating. This is especially obvious in the vast numbers of libraries included, many of which are present for nothing more than backward compatibility. (Anyone willing to volunteer to fix this?) The variety in the kinds of applications included is stellar, from math and science applications to games, editors and GUIs. The "corporates" don't have much to rejoice about in Debian, but there are certainly lots of tools and toys for developers, graphic artists, academics and hobbyists.
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Lord Jesus I pray for Tamika to be healed from the inside out,from the top of her head, to the soles of her feet. I loose the blood of Jesus over her spirit,soul,and body. Lord give her Daughter strength to endure and keep the Faith. He sent his word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.(Psalm 107:20). For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord.(Jeremiah 30:17a). In Jesus Name. Amen |
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In the fall in small towns and neighborhoods across the country, attention still turns to the local high school football field. These young men on the gridiron hold the hopes and dreams of a new generation of heroes and capture the imagination of an entire community. Family and friends gather to watch and cheer and stomp as the young men in their prime test their skills and stamina on a game in four quarters.
But even more is going on there. Parents volunteer to work in the concession stand or assist in the parking lot or the ticket booth, or they just serve as chaperone to a herd of younger kids flexing their social muscles as they crawl all over, around and under the stands. The school marching band performs their best to a steady drumbeat of excitement. The cheerleading and pep squads show-off their well-rehearsed routines and occasionally break into pure unrehearsed infectious enthusiasm for their home team. Grandmas and grandpas, aunts and uncles arrive in their sensibly warm clothes and team colors to take it all in with a show of support for their families.
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Women's Visitation
"Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen." – Matthew 28:19-20
In addition to the general Monday night visitation, We offer a visitation program just for women! Visits are made to new members, new mothers, the sick, the elderly, and those in need of encouragement. Preplanned and outlined visits are scheduled for Thursdays from 12:45 P.M. until 3 P.M.
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"…To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke… to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house…" – Isaiah 58:6-7
Many of our women help provide meals for funeral dinners, new mothers, and families in times of crisis.
Letters of Love
"Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord." – 1Corinthians 15:58
Letters of Love is our greeting card ministry. It is designed to bring encouragement, enlightenment, peace, and joy to our church family through hand-made cards. Our ladies meet the last Thursday of the month at 6:00 p.m. in one of their homes to design cards and hand-written letters filled with scriptural messages appropriate for the recipient.
Sewing Ministry – Hearts & Hands for Missions
Our ladies meet in the church library for the quilting ministry. The quilts are stitched by talented volunteers and then donated to missionaries to be used in needy places around the world. Currently, the quilts are being sent to Mexico for use in a children's home. Check the church calendar for meeting dates.
"The aged women likewise, that [they be] in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, [To be] discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed." – Titus 2:3-5
We desire for the women in our church of different generations to come alongside each other and nurture the souls of another by putting Titus 2:3-5 into practice. We desire to pair young believers with older, mature believers who can assist in spiritual growth and development, as well as educate in home-making skills and successful living. The MOMents program currently fosters this special relationship.
Celebrating Motherhood
Our Women's Ministry cherishes motherhood and the important role a mom plays in the lives of her children. To celebrate this special relationship, we host mother-son and mother-daughter events semi-annually. These events typically involve a brunch, tea, or luncheon, a devotional, and activities geared for moms of all ages and their children.
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We studied Fos expression in the central nociceptive pathways at different sedative levels in order to clarify the central mechanism of propofol's nociceptive action. Sprague–Dawley rats received propofol (PRO) or pentobarbital (PEN) and were divided into two groups with different doses of drug administration (light and deep sedative levels) based on the electroencephalogram analysis. Rats at each sedative level received heat stimulation to their face and Fos immunohistochemistry was performed at various brain sites. We also infused lidocaine into the jugular vein to test whether PRO directly activated nociceptors distributed in the vein. Fos expression in two major ascending pain pathways (lateral and medial systems) and descending modulatory system were precisely analyzed following intravenous (i.v.) administration of PRO or PEN. Many Fos protein-like immunoreactive (Fos protein-LI) cells were expressed in the trigeminal spinal nucleus caudalis (Vc), parabrachial nucleus, parafascicular nucleus, a wide area of the primary somatosensory cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, amygdala, periaqueductal gray, solitary tract nucleus, and lateral hypothalamus following heating of the face during PRO or PEN infusion. The number of Fos protein-LI cells was significantly greater in many Central nervous system regions during PRO infusion compared with PEN. Fos expression was significantly greater in the Vc and Periaqueductal gray following greater amount of PRO infusions compared, whereas they were significantly smaller in the Vc in the rats with PEN infusion. The Fos expression was significantly depressed following i.v. infusion of lidocaine before PRO administration. The present findings suggest that PRO is involved in the enhancement of Vc activity through direct activation of the primary afferent fibers innervating veins, resulting in pain induction during infusion.
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- Title
- Modulation of neuronal activity in CNS pain pathways following propofol administration in rats: Fos and EEG analysis
- Journal
Experimental Brain Research
Volume 179, Issue 2 , pp 181-190
- Cover Date
- 2007-05-01
- 10.1007/s00221-006-0779-x
- Print ISSN
- 0014-4819
- Online ISSN
- 1432-1106
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- Sedation
- Nociception
- Trigeminal
- Rat
- Propofol
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Ieko Kubota (1)
- Yoshiyuki Tsuboi (2) (3)
- Emi Shoda (1)
- Masahiro Kondo (2) (3)
- Yuji Masuda (4)
- Junichi Kitagawa (5)
- Yoshiyuki Oi (1)
- Koichi Iwata (2) (3) (6)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Anesthesiology, Nihon University School of Dentistry, 1-8-13 Kandasurugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 101-8310, Japan
- 2. Department of Physiology, Nihon University School of Dentistry, 1-8-13 Kandasurugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 101-8310, Japan
- 3. Division of Functional Morphology, Dental Research Center, Nihon University School of Dentistry, Tokyo, 101-8310, Japan
- 4. Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Biology, Institute for Oral Science, Matsumoto Dental University, 1780 Gobara, Hirooka, Shiojiri, Nagano, 399-0781, Japan
- 5. Department of Physiology, School of Life Dentistry at Tokyo, Nippon Dental University, 1-9-20 Fujimi-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 102-8159, Japan
- 6. Division of Applied System Neuroscience Advanced Medical Research Center, Nihon University Graduate School of Medical Science, 30-1 Ohyaguchi-Kamimachi Itabashi, Tokyo, 173-8610, Japan


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The QFD process for this study used a matrix like the one shown in Table 2-1. The primary evaluation criteria are the six Strategic Objectives.2 The R&T Challenges to be prioritized appear in the left-hand rows.3 Each panel, as a group, scored each R&T Challenge with respect to the individual Objectives, based on its relevance and impact. Possible scores are limited to 1, 3, or 9. As is often done in QFD exercises, a nonlinear scale is used to magnify the differences in technologies to help delineate the most critical ones. A score of 1 implies that the Challenge has little or no relevance to the Objective. A 3 implies that the Challenge has moderate relevance and impact. A 9 implies that the Challenge has major relevance and impact.
The steering committee assigned each of the six Strategic Objectives a weight of 1, 3, or 5 to convey its relative importance to U.S. civil aeronautics research. The committee believes that the first two Objectives, capacity and safety and reliability, are the most critical because of their broad impact on the air transportation system as a whole, the vital importance of safety, and need to meet growing demand, and assigned them a weight of 5. The next two Objectives, efficiency and performance and energy and the environment, directly affect certain stakeholders and indirectly affect the public as a whole through their secondary effects on capacity and safety and reliability. They are considered to be slightly less important overall and are assigned a weight of 3. Finally, synergy with national and homeland security and support to space are assigned a weight of 1. Neither of these Objectives falls directly under the purview of civil aeronautics. Even so, security and the space program are important to the nation, and all other things being equal, civil aeronautics research that also provides benefits for these two Objectives should be of somewhat higher priority than comparable research that does not provide benefits for them.
The weight for each Strategic Objective (1, 3, or 5) is multiplied by the relevance and impact score (1, 3, or 9), which describes the impact on that Objective of research in a particular R&T Challenge. The sum of those products for each R&T Challenge then becomes the national priority score for that R&T Challenge. That score is a measure of the relative overall value to the nation of conducting research to overcome that particular R&T Challenge.
Every R&T Challenge that has a high national priority does not necessarily become a high priority for NASA's civil aeronautics research program. To determine the NASA priority scores, each R&T Challenge is given a Why NASA? score, which is multiplied by the national priority score to arrive at a NASA priority. The Why NASA? score for each R&T Challenge is the average of the scores (1, 3, or 9) in the four Why NASA? columns on the right-hand side of the QFD tables. These scores evaluate each R&T Challenge in terms of the following:
Supporting infrastructure
Mission alignment
Lack of alternative sponsors
Appropriate level of risk
The scores used to assess priorities are based on the current situation, which will change. For example, this study did not attempt to predict how NASA expertise and facilities in various areas might degrade or mature, how NASA's aeronautics mission might be redefined, how the priorities of other research organizations might change, or how advances in the state of the art might change the risk associated with specific R&T Challenges. Changes in any of these factors will change the Why NASA? scores, which will directly change the NASA priority scores.
Supporting infrastructure refers to whether NASA already possesses the facilities, resources, and expertise to conduct research related to an R&T Challenge. A score of 1 implies that NASA has little or no relevant infrastructure. A score of 3 implies that NASA has infrastructure that is relevant but not unique. That is, industry, academia, or non-NASA federal agencies possess similar infrastructure or could obtain it easily. A score of 9 implies that NASA has infrastructure that is both relevant and unique.
Mission alignment refers to whether research related to the R&T Challenge falls under NASA's charter, as defined in the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 (As Amended). Relevant portions of the Space Act appear in Box 2-1. A score of 1 implies that the Challenge has little or no relevance to any item in the charter. A score of 3 implies that it has some relevance to and impact on one item in the char-
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The QFD matrix used in this study (see Table 2-1 and the QFD matrices in Chapter 3) is a simplified form of the table (sometimes called a house of quality) that is used in a standard QFD assessment. The QFD matrix for this study has also been rotated 90 degrees from the orientation normally used to display a QFD table. The Strategic Objectives in this study take the place of the customer requirements that appear in a standard QFD table, the R&T Challenges take the place of key product and process characteristics, and the Why NASA? composite score takes the place of risk level. The national priority scores are equivalent to the absolute importance rankings in a standard QFD table, and the NASA priority scores are equivalent to risk-weighted importance. |
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Each Challenge is designated by the letter of the Area to which is belongs and by its NASA priority ranking in that Area. Thus, the R&T Challenge with the highest NASA priority in the aerodynamics and aeroacoustics R&T Area is designated A1. If two Challenges in that Area were to tie for second place, they would be listed alphabetically and designated A2a and A2b, and the next highest priority Challenge would be designated A4. |


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Studies show that non-verbal communication represents over 55 percent of all communication. If that estimate is accurate, then positive body language is essential to nursing communication. Because we have a patient-nurse professional relationship, our conversations must be therapeutic, goal-directed and aimed at helping patients heal. Those conversations not only include what we say but how we say it.
Kinesics is the study of non-verbal communication. This includes body movements such as nodding, smiling and expressions. Additionally, proxemics comes into play – the amount of physical space between you and the person you are speaking to.
5-Step Body Check/Reality Check
1. Face
It's no secret that the face conveys emotion. An excellent emergency nurse told me this week that one of her patients asked, "Are you upset with me? You look angry." This nurse said she was absolutely not upset with the patient, but because she was rushed, she had not paid attention to her facial expression while in the room. She had let her own experience spill over onto the patient.
Patients see our hearts though our eyes. It takes an incredible amount of nursing professionalism to appear relaxed, make eye contact and help our patient know - for that brief moment – we are "with them." And that we see them not just as a label, but as a human being.
2. Shoulders
Many people carry their stress in their shoulders. The more frustrated, rushed or tired you are, the more you may have a tendency to carry your shoulders high and tight. This posture is not only unhealthy, but will produce frequent back and neck pain.
Tip: Take frequent, slow cleansing breaths. As you exhale, drop your shoulders into a relaxing posture. Slowly move your head back and forth two to three times, as if shaking your head "no." Gently stretch your neck and then shrug your shoulders tightly to your face 2-3 times. Each time you do, take a slow deep breath and drop your shoulders as you exhale. Your patients will read your correct posture as non-aggressive and non-confrontational.
3. Hands
Make sure your hands are open and relaxed. In some cultures, it is rude to have your hands out of sight. Palms should be relaxed and facing the patient openly as much as possible. Try to not fidget with pens or equipment unnecessarily. Your movements should be smooth, rhythmic and purposeful. As you complete tasks with your hands, explain to the patient verbally what you are doing.
Tip. Hands can have a healing touch. If you have developed a quick rapport with the patient, a soft touch to the shoulder or hand – even a pat on the back – conveys confidence and reduces anxiety in most people. If in question, always ask permission before touching a patient.
4. Hips
Make sure your hips are facing towards the patient. Where your hips are pointed it is where your attention is focused. This kind of body language in nursing will let your patients know that you are listening and engaged in their needs, swivel your hips toward them as squarely as possible when speaking. If in a standing position, men may find this position aggressive, so adjust to a slight angle that is not confrontational. If possible, sitting is usually the most relaxed and open posture, with your knees pointing towards the patient.
5. Toes
Where are your toes in the room? Proxemics is how much space is between you and the person you are talking to. What are you conveying to the patient by where you are standing in the room? Body spacing and posture according to Edward Hall, author of "The Hidden Dimension," are unintentional reactions to sensory fluctuations or shifts. These also include subtle changes in the sound and pitch of a person's voice.
The following summary shows how social distance between people correlates with physical distance as do intimate and personal distance:
Although hospital rooms are not always condusive to appropriate proxemics, when you are discussing personal information with a client, strive to be close to their personal space. The conversation is more intimate for sharing and you can better observe facial expressions. This is not to say you can't stick your head in a patient's door to let them know you will be with them shortly. However, if you need to offer or request information, you should take the time to move closer to the bedside to show respect and open communication.
Tip: The same idea is true for the nurses' station. If possible, you want to get your toes out from behind the nurses' station and pointing towards whoever needs your attention.In a busy work environment, positive body language is difficult and takes practice. But if you will make an effort to correct any poor body language habits, you will find your nursing communication to be smoother and more efficient. Positive body language rarely costs time. In fact, it is a time saver and makes for happier, more relaxed patients. This in turn makes for happier and more relaxed nurses.
Want to be more confident in talking with your patients? Use body language in communication as a nurse. Remember to use properly because patients can see your mood through actions.
Hall, Edward T. (1966). The Hidden Dimension. Anchor Books. ISBN 0-385-08476-5.
Maybe if nurses weren't under the gun so much of the time to perform high volumes of complex care with ever-more-demanding patient loads, they would smile more. Get real.
Debra if you can't do both, something is wrong. I have been an ED nurse for 36 years in busy trauma centers for the most part and my patients got my full attention as I took care of them and their families. You can reassure as you hook up O2 and start an IV etc. Without these sick vulnerable people, you would not have a job. We were taught in nursing school to minister to the whole person. That should always be our goal.
Nursing is so much more than performing tasks. I have seen nurses give a bath like they were detailing a car! I think the article was informative and smiling is always a good thing.
We are often under intense pressure to perform a variety of distracting duties. Streamlining our work and making us more accessible to patients should be a priority, but high volumes of unecessarily complex documentation often take their toll. When I can, I try to be as relaxed and pleasant to my patients as possible. I have my best days when I have the time to do breathe and do this. We went into nursing to care, not make data collectors happy. Alas, that seems to be our primary job these days.
If posing for people with a contrived facial expression and stance is societies concept of a good nurse, we are going in the wrong direction. Remember, it should be substance over form. Not the other way around. A pseudo-image will not reflect knowledge and skill. It's no wonder some patients and family members expect us to jump when they snap their fingers to do what ever they want, but have no concept of the essential functions we must be ever preforming to ensure the best possible outcomes for their lives. We are NOT advertising props to promote sales in a hospital. We are trained to saves lives. My mind is focused on much more important issues than if I happen to be smiling or not! GET REAL!!


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Growing up in a working class family deep in the heart of the Michigan auto industry, I always thought of myself as immune to the arrogance of extreme wealth, as if somehow I were innately more humane in my treatment of others. Any fantasies of prosperity were inevitably accompanied by images of my effervescent generosity as I scattered cash and gifts and opportunities like a veritable Johnny Appleseed, planting seeds of future abundance along every path I trod. Then one day, the dream came true. I joined the upper one percent, and I wasn't even trying.
It happened years ago, as a graduate student, beginning with a generous grant from the Ford Foundation, then another from the National Science Foundation and then a Fulbright Award. All told, these pots of money – to study access to medicines in the rainforests of Madagascar – were cumulatively significant, well into the six figures once some smaller grants were thrown in. It wasn't enough to nudge me into the upper crust of my homeland but once in Madagascar, my economic status soared. In a country where the average annual income was less than $250 for a life spent working round the clock, my pot of gold amounted to more wealth than the entire village combined possessed, give or take a few thousand acres of pristine paradise (which they gave, and we took, as a U.S.-funded national park swept in to save their "global" resource).
And so it was that I set off to demonstrate that I was simultaneously "one of them" – by way of my working class origins – and at the same time, "the good rich" – by way of my noble generosity and the power to bestow it. Assuring the village elders that I would provide employment to as many people as possible in exchange for their gracious tolerance of a whacky white woman moving in to pry into their daily lives and take a lot of pictures, I hired my staff. I hired a young woman to cook for me (having flunked out of Girl Scouts, cooking over an open fire every day seemed like a bad idea), another to wash and iron my clothes (yes, really; somehow the thought of wearing wrinkled cotton seemed more preposterous than having a full-grown woman press them with a cast iron pan filled with burning embers, and as long as I could afford to pay her to wash them with fistfuls of sand in crocodile infested waters, I could outsource this risk to life and limb). And I hired a slew of young men with strong backs to haul all my crap across the mountains and build me a new mud home complete with concrete floor and corrugated metal roof. The total cost was minuscule – six hundred for the house, another two hundred for the sacrificial beast to bless it, and about thirty a month for my domestic staff. Thirty five a month went to my high-school educated research assistant who came from a distant city, and I was set.
It wasn't long before villagers came to me asking for small loans; nothing I couldn't manage, and nothing I found the slightest bit unreasonable. A few dollars for medicine, some money for chickens, a loan for a pig. No problem. But the more I loaned, the more people showed up asking for more until one day I realized a parade of total strangers had been knocking on my door – alerted to the easy-loan cash I was doling out, people from villages far and wide crossed rivers and hiked over mountains to get to me. After a momentary tirade about not being such a sucker, I finally stopped loaning money except to those I knew.
But still, there were problems. Not only were people viewing me as first and foremost "rich," (well first and foremost, "white" but those categories tend to overlap in certain parts of the world) but I was also discovering how easily I could buy my way out of any discomfort – paying someone to pick and pound and roast and brew my coffee by dawn, carry my twelve-pound laptop over the mountains because it was much too heavy, heat gallons of water so I could shower in comfort, build me an outhouse so I had some privacy. On and on it went until I resented any discomfort I couldn't purchase away, just as I resented being viewed only as rich. But irony does have a way of bringing us down to size, just when we think we've got it conquered.
When a bird epidemic wiped out all the poultry, not even my immense wealth could buy me a chicken dinner. And when malaria struck and I wasted away in my damp rainforest hut – the mourners howling outside my window awaiting my pending death so they could divvy up my stuff – no amount of money could get me over the mountains and to urban healthcare before I'd expire. The geographical isolation and decrepit infrastructure were enough to deny access to healthcare for even the wealthiest. And when my father sadly did die, no amount of wealth could bring me the news until days later, for the same isolation cut off communication to rich and poor alike (this being the primitive days before cell phones).
Upon learning of my father's death, the village elders gathered, and brought to me their gift – money. Just as with every death, where the gift of cash is offered to the surviving family as a gesture of caring, and to mitigate the funeral costs, so too was this same gesture extended to me. I protested – I cannot accept this money from you! But I immediately regretted my behavior. To turn away the offering was a great indignity, so with humility and gratitude I accepted the worn, tattered bills, amounting to nothing to me, but a great deal to each of those who gave it.
I still have that money, so worn from the many people who handled it before me – in exchange for some rice, some wages, a chicken, some moonshine or sex – and it is priceless. It is the stark reminder that no amount of wealth can save us from death, from arrogance, or from our own ultimate isolation. And the stark reminder that no amount of poverty can take away one's dignity, generosity, or humanity when it is called for.
I'm no longer in that one percent, and now in my own homeland, I struggle again with the same concerns of so many others throughout the world. I may know my dinner will be provided tonight, if not by my own hands, then by the speedy delivery of a pizza. And I may know where I will sleep tonight, not in a cold mud hut, but a warm and comforting bed beside the sea. But I no longer know that my home and meals will be provided as I age, that I will be healed if I fall sick and lack access to needed medicines because insurance won't provide it, that the resources I once used recklessly because they were abundant will be mine for the taking once they turn scarce and out of reach.
Wealth has a way of making itself at home in whatever world we live in. But how that wealth is distributed does change the way we view our place in the world and the place of others who have or do not have it. As comedian Louis C.K. said, now that he sits in first class, he likes to think he would give up his seat to the war veteran sitting in coach, but he never does, finding comfort in the fantasy of doing so. We all want to be better people, yet when given the chance to do so, we often stumble over our own desires and interests and end up even more generous to ourselves.
May we all find ourselves sitting in first class some day, in some way. But most of all, may we all know the humility of what it is to be truly poor, unable to buy ourselves out of our discomforts. Only then can we know the vulnerability of our own powers, and the power of our own vulnerabilities. Therein lies our future, no matter what our past.
Thank you for making such a mature and powerful case for our better nature to prevail.
May your year be blessed and I look forward to reading you, again and again.
No truer words have been spoken.
Excellent story. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Mango Sherbert -- the beggars, oh, the beggars! Now there's a post. I'm looking forward to catching up on your posts about Turkey.
Divorced Pauline -- wow, that sucks. But freedom's always worth the price, which is usually quite high.
Lezlie -- this is the first time my writing's been compared to a parable in the Bible! Will you be my agent?
And to everyone else whose chimed in, thank you. Many far too generous in your praise, but I'm not complaining!
--i.f. stone
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Posted By: trishDate: Tuesday, 19 January 1999, at 3:52 p.m.
In Response To: Re: Hi, Val - don't count on Luck - Eat Right for Your Type!!! (Vef)
Hi, Val,
I guess we all do things differently! I do not eat avoid foods when I am well, so I certainly would not eat them when I was sick. I feel like that's the time you need the HB foods the most.
Maybe now that you're feeling better, you can stick more closely to the diet.
It's hard for me to tell if you've tried everything and you're frustrated...OR if you're finding it too hard to "go all the way" and are frustrated by that. I think you've been around this board for awhile now, if I'm not mistaken. Why do YOU think you're having such a hard time?
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Delaney expects near-term earnings per share will be weak. The analyst expects EPS to reach between $2 and $2.60 a share in 2015 or 2016, however. He also expects Jabil to "generate $2.00-$2.50 in FCF both this year and next (a 16% CY14 FCF yield) and it is the least expensive EMS stock on 2015 EV/EBITDA (trading at 3.5X)."
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Hello. This is my first blog entry in Bluffton. I am a regular on the Island Packet blog and there is one particular blogger there who said all of us on Hilton Head were dumb Southerns. Yesterday he said the Bluffton Today bloggers were much nicer and sophisticated. I know many of you and you are nice people. But I challenged him to post some of his inflamatory stuff in Bluffton and the good folks there would be just as offended.
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I know these waters intimately and I know how good the fishing can be but this video shows things I've never seen before. When you watch this, pay attention to the size of the bull trout that comes up for a dry fly(?). Simply beautiful. I've had small bullies under a pound take a dry but not a bull as long as my arm.
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PHARR SAN JUAN ALAMO, TEXAS (KVEO NEWS CENTER 23) — There was unexpected surprise at PSJA Memorial high school as HEB representatives surprised principal Judith Solis in a big way. Mrs. Solis was selected as a top five finalist for the high school division of HEB's Excellence in Education competition and it was an honor that she had no idea she had won, "Speechless, I feel happy. I am proud because I always challenge the kids to be their very best and I push the teachers to be their very best.. It's kind of like a little cherry on top. I am very proud and honored."
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GRANTS PASS, Ore. — On May 20th, Josephine County voters defeated a levy funding the jail and youth services with 53% of voters voting against the measure. Monday, city of Grants Pass officials met to take a closer look at the newly certified results and to see how county voters in the city voted.
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A leading option to continue funding the 30 jail beds is a fee of about two dollars added to city residents' monthly utility bill.